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_TH_E MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1886.-TWELVE PAGES. OVER THE STATE. I The Next Governor. « "“reS”” *■“ *H ■SS-i-Sss'KS:* ft;: .. of land in Morgan county. when s man has be.n seeking the office of ‘ Aoeasta artesian weUU now Ato Governor and been repeatedly set aside bv , nnci twenty feet deep. the people, he ought to retire. When Gov- ^‘'vsrfl'r 11 tre “ i“fe7r% Ur bS ‘^“number of new buildings ore go- ‘Si«NS£ to '»« W» £ tSeML 0 L“ 0 r D “nnot Sp-eit‘°S l “e >rieus by the colored bouthwestem Bap- hold that anr man haa a right to seek of- Association. . ce » even if he wishes to be judge of his ThA centennial of the Chatham Artillery, circuit, and no one should censure bin Savannah, will be one of the biggest long as he aeta honorably in trying to LtnurrevenU of the year. I tain it-Madisonian. A TURPENTINE FARM. The Dosing Stiuod And The Careless Ufa They beaut In Georgia. Uunnerlyn, Oa, Correspondent Nuhvlla Banner. It waa not long until I had bargained with a young man to take me to the ‘ ‘tur pentine farm” of Sharpe Bros., three miles away. My story might be more picturesque if I were to describe my driver as a long haired, ignorant apeciment of the "crack er,” who drove a twenty-dollar “bag of bones." But my story is intended to be truthful rather than startling, and troth compels me to describe him as being a nice- looking young fellow of twenty-two, neatly dressed, and lie drove a bright bay that would have done no discredits Tennessee. An hour after leaving the little way atation at which the train left me I was comfor table domiciled in the unpretentions home With for by the piece. After the first year the per cent of tho turpentine and rosin de decreases ao that the profit U mnch leas. One interesting question is, how long will the present supply of rosin pine hold out? It is certainly being destroyed, and that rapidly. Rraditreet's all bis hos- military events - - _ , r 'try dog trotted into Americas In less than nine months from this time LM°v and devoured two fine puppies the people of Georgia will be called upon Sconced to a hunter in town. to elect a Governor for the next two years. . r .-. ■■ — — lb “ l , . 0 f tho Baltimore and Ohio Governor McDaniel seems to have many pitality, however, I hod to insist on his M being stretched into tho State, “‘ends., hut it is a common expression that i taking me in. His excuse for not receiving in Savannah and Augusta are pro- “®. 18 . “®j»g»M®. owing to the fact of his , nio in household was that his wife was Offices in ba | being in the office for nearly two terms. It | unwell, and the work of the household de- of a hospitable native. There were 227 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’a daring the week, against 288 in the preceding week, and 273, nnd 243 in the corresponding weeks of 1885 and 1884, respectively. Ad ditional comparisons are given in the fol lowing table: the wzxic's rin.tjr.ra, united state and CANADA. Wort Prs- sndlug vlou* Correspond!!), wseks Fob. 12. week,—February 12. . .. .rj jqo ‘? oc “ 8 t° m an< l “'so a constitutional law in veloped upon his "little daughter." Of Savannah s Jiew directory c 6,4. - this State that Governors should only hold c °ure the existence of a little daughter that Loptriofion; whites 26.675; colored 18,817, E oSco f^r two term of two King a gain of 255 white, and of 294 It „ quito , nr# that years each. Ihowing a gam >"• ■ “ 1 1118 T u ite sure that tbs present incumbent lolored. would again be a candidate for the office, V Mr D. B. Hill, of Americas, who was but for the reason stated above, his friends L„«l« burned last week, while saving a will not, we think, press him for tha office, lolored girl from the flames, is able to be As there will be a vacancy in the office |" t ggffin. ‘he neIt thing will be to look for the corn- r Lyons, of Mecon, was in Jones-1 ln 8 man. We hear of two men only who u last Friday, and purchased the dwel- will bo candidates, viz: Hon. A O. Bscon „« wrs White for a widowed Bister, | nn< l Judge Simmons, both of Macon, Bibb khn will noon move to that place. I county. 8 , , . i the residence of Mrs Judge Simmons is one of Georgia’s best /u U Bt lcn1n J!^soT 8nnd.y niK”, “®»‘ following Mr. jV.l.liur hreakinc ODen a trunk I " acon long been before the people as W SESjflL u5 for this office. He was Sue of lelonging to • _ e i_ v B the most prominent candidates when Got- leyeral articles 0 \ ernor McDaniel was elected, having beer I Frank Smith and Jack McCall, two ne- beat out by a little trickery Mr. Bacon’i woea. had ft “set-to on Monday night in chances seemed to brighten each day. H» bablin, in which Jack received two severe fc no - stirring among the people nta—one over the left eye ana the other I the different public gatherings in the throat—from a knife in the hands of I tbe State, and from the newspaper reports frank. _ _ I we judge that ho ia fast gaining votes. I The construction train on the Americns, Georgia has no better Democrats than Muj. Ireslon and Lumpkin railroad passed over Bacon. He is as true os steeL An opposi- trcstle Saturday that spans the road tion to Bacon may develop, but at present m Lumpkin to Scottsboro. This is the he has the inside track. His first time that a train of cars was ever seen I only failing seems to he [, Lumpkin people while standing npon I his continual candidacy. If he lets this Tie public square. chance slip his hope to occupy the guberna- At Davis A Argo’s store in Americns Mr. torial chair, we think, will be forever bloated. could keep honse made me more anxioas to stay there. The "little dangh er" prov ed to be a remarkable handsome, aark- eyed young lady of eighteen summers and 150 pounds. She seemed both able and willing to do the work of tbe little fami ly- There was an of comfort in this "cracker' home that made it attractive. It was i surprise to me, who had read so mnch of the absolute barrenness of the homes of the faimers of this section. It is true, the tars was plain, consisting chiefly of pork, rice, turnips, cornhread nnd biscuits and csffe; but this was certainly dispensed with no niggardly hand, nnd a more faatidions person than myself would hava been pleas ed. I nm ully convinced that mnch of the prattle about miserable table of the people of this section is by writers who know nothing whatever of the matter. 1 have been mnch among these people and believe represent them them fairly. The writers l this, os on some other subjects, write before they have studied it. Of the good thiugsjprepared by this "little daughter” I ate for several peaceful days, that will long be remembered. Bat I set ont to tell intine farm. I will have more States and Ter. 1B8S. Middle States «s New England 21 Southern.... fill Western 76 Fseiae and Territories 26 bavis opened a case of matches and pat The desire in Georgia is to right the wrong [hem on a shelf. During the night the rats | did to Mnj. Bacon in the last nominating lot into some of the boxes and ignited a I convention for Governor will have a ten" lew, which caught a bundle of paper near, dency to assist in his nomination and se- Indhad there had been any air, wonld have I cure hia final eleotion.—Haralson County Erased a big fire. Banner. I Daring the late cold weather a citizen of . nlrv , Waynesboro, who had "taken something” _ , . „ "keep warm, started for his room, but I C * ptur * «» Lar*rst Illl.lt Dla- —lisstii his way, and was found knocking tlllerlM.u the Couatrj. El the door of the Presbyterian chnrch, I On Friday night about 10 o clock, Collec- Irhicb ho mistook for the hotel, and loudly I f-rammell and Marshal O^letroo, accom- Bem&nding entrance. I panied by officers Chapman and Miller, of I In Jonesboro Monday morning, oa Bob I Atlanta, left the city, taking tho Zebulon ■ohnson, a son of Mr. Jack Johnson, was read, which they kept till Pitts’ mill was Intting wood, his little brother George at- reached, about five miles from the city, and Kempted to run between him and the wood, having cause to believe that an illicit dis- pnd the result was that the axe struck him tiDery was located some where near, they |nst above the temple, making a severe gosh I began to search for it, and succeeded in Which bled profusely. finding one of the largest and most com- While Mr. Lewis, who Uvea four miles pint® distilleries ever captured in this jelow Blnfton Spring, was driving a wagon division. oaded with rails one of them rolled off, and, I About one mile west of Pitts’mill is a letting entangled in one of tbo wheels, waa body of woods - containing aboat 41k) acres, ihrown forward with some force, striking | and about the center of this was fonnd a Hr. Lewis on the head and cutting a goal (bout two and o-half inches long. | wun steam pipe and engine; li leet ot Urge | Sunday morning as Mias r little brother were Bn their wsy to church tho mule became evaporators for making syrup, frightened, began to bock and upset the 1 *h®7 hud been distilling syrup lorn, throwing Miss Cleo ont, tho wheels “*8®. qantities, though it had not bossing over her, cutting a severe gash in I been in operation for some weeks. About per head nnd otherwise injuring her. 125 7“J 8 ,rom U» distillery was a nest lit- r Th. barge belonging lo th, steam., ^n- hriSf wKn’bSSd with a view to^comfortas w“l poming. having on board 500 sacks of | con K „ nience . The officers foiled to learn it will later. nw • . .. . . „ ,1 Miuuuin, vruv ** its uiain/nti ui ui ui io* The last shipment of rails necessary to qu i ro a by the revenue laws.—Griffin News. implete the Americns, Preston and Lump-1 n railroad were received Monday. The I A PI.AGUtt of PIGEONS. ot 1 i turpei r of the e people and their life at another to say lime. Taking this as a sample a "turpentine farm” is about five miles wide and ten or twelve miles long. Of course these figures may vary, but I shall write of thisparticu lar one as though all were sUke. The first thing necessary to a “farm” is the right kind of pine trees, and enough of them, The rosin pine is the "long leaf,” and i might be said tho long-bodied, for I have seenjthem near eighty feet to the first limb. When the turpentine has fonnd a suitable body ot timer he selecU a place near the center on whieh to erect his “still” and pitch his camp. In a comfortable honse hnaa man ' BUSINESS FAILURES. If You Need AnytkinginMy Line. 1886. 64 1886. 27 42 1884. 32 67 34 In the principal trades the failures were as follows: General stores 51, grocers 35, boota and shoes 17, Uqaors 14, dry goods 12, clothing 12, lumberhnilders' materials, etc., 9, jewelers 9, drugs and chemicals 8, grain 7, furniture 0, hardware and agricul tural implements 6, bakers and confection ers 5, harness 5, iron and steel 5, tobacco and cigars 5, hotels and restaurants 4, men’s furnishing goods 4, produce and provis ions 4, crockery and glassware 3, fancy goods 3, plumbers 3., Among those reported embarrassed were: Gandy Belt ing Co., Baltimore, Md.; W. II. Rob ertson A Co., grocers. West Point, Mins.; Newport Cool Co., Newport, Ore.; Adams Tobacco Co., Montreal. Que.; Alexander Cbuituetn, dry goods, Stockton, Col.; F. W. Jansen A Sons, furniture, Quincy, Ill. Old Dominion Copper Co., Globe, Ari.; J W. Bailey, dry goods, St. Joseph, Mo.. Garfield Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of horse clothing, Chicago, IU. The total number of failures in the United Kingdom for the week ending January 27, 1886 reported to Kemp's Mercantile Gazette, was 118, as compared with 111 tml 82 in the corresponding weeks of 1885 and 1884. England and Wales reported 88, os com; with 89 and 60 in the weeks spec! Scotland hod 23 failures, os against 20 and 19, and Ireland had 7, as against 2 in 1889 and 3 in 1884. “Don’t Tail to See Me,” I am prepared to Furnish CARRIAGES! Buggies, Wag’oiiN, Harm’ss, BABY CARRIAGES, LAP ROBES, WHIPS, HORSE BLANKETS, PLOW GEAR, Etc., Cheaper than they have Ever been Sold. I. L. HARRIS, OS and 100 Cherry St,., Macon, Ga, BIRDS, BUTCHERS AHD BEAUTIES. Monday. 1 had been completed to within S half I Uncle Johns? Jordan Tells of n Pigeon hile of Lumpkin and there work haa been Itaost Thirty-Five Y»r> a t o. luspended to await the arrival of more Jnstone mile from Buobanan there are ri' »! >■ Proposed that an excuniiou be u,i„g two of Haralson'a oldest cilijens. riven from Amcncus to Ltunpkin tbit week. They art uncles Johnny and Tommie Jor- I Ileese Walker tha noted black desperado don. Uncle Johnny is now about sevsnty Pm been lurking in Americns for several I yean old. and haa lived within two miles reels. Several white people have seen of this place for nearly sixty jraro, and him, sail one gentleman, a snort while since I uncle Tommie about the asms length of ■topped and conversed with him for a short I time. Long before Haralson was on the Tfl, ■ ,,e goes heavily armed and says ho record u a connty of Geargia, theta two r lU surrender to arrest It is believed old pioneers traversed these hills and val- h»t the negroes are in sympathy with him leys. John Jordan waa on the first ....... ... f UTonto haunts, I grand jury that waa organized al I Buchanan, which wot aboat the year 1857, He narrates msny events which would in- I tercet our readers. Ons in particnlar is his n,l not only know of his fnvorito haunts, I fiat keep Lim posted and otherwise aid and I at him. I Mr JohnMo.'nl.w.iu „1I description of the old pigeon roost which Hr l) iX ,v u.„ “ Ajf 8 a d°K owned by WM three miles from Bncbanan,and f o th«hou«G was the land that lies directly between the f * P“7’’°o. and ahouhl no one answer (?* simply masters the sitaetiou by enport The pigeons made this their Braffins ■” V I routing piece in the tell and winUr ot 1850 I. J,i k " ,uou,h ; ‘o™ 8 wo thinkf The crop of acorns was very Lnhut the door 'blhbul^hbn "nSSm ,8r 8® ®“ d ns8r Christmas theso birds eom- r tnc uoor behind him.-Conyers menccd C0Ulln g to ^ C uauUy by the thousands. Their roost covered between fonr end six hundred acres of lend. Mr Mid South. Death or a Well Known Lady. | Bir_i.EiHiKvii.LE, February 16.—Yesterday I Jordan eayt that near aun down of each it*. Lizzie Stetson Sunford, wife of Judge I day these birds wonld corns flocking lb Sanford, of this place, was laid to 1 to their roosting ground. Tbs elemeuts place, r*t in the cemetery, her remains followed I were darkened, "as it by s cloud. They 17 * large concourse of friends. She haa I made a noise resembling the distaut than Kvn in 111 health for several weeks, bnt derings of a mighty storm. At dark all ■rath was not looked for so soon, and I the trees on this vest piece of ground were pneethe announcement of hcriuddcn de-1 covered with the festhcred tribe, and oc- ynews* a shock to friends and relatives. cssionslly the sounds of the limbs, which , „ . I had given away under their heavy load, • »kvo Woman > Horrible Heath. I could be heard, and also occasionally a tres J A negro woman, tiring on the Tom would give way under its heavy weight. idtoe, had her clothes to take fire When a tree or limb wonld thus give way, fuiir burning sedge near the house. She I the rising of tha birds from their fallen to the well, some 150 yards distaut, resting place would make a sound rescue -d inti) it. The well was about bling the p| u J>ged into it The well was about I bling "the murmurs of distant thunder JJJ* deep, anil bad in it about 25 feet of Nearly every chestnut tree was trimmed up <er. hhe clung to the curbing until I from bottom to top by an overload of bird-. | e , n ODt . when it w.u found tliut her I the chestnnt trees being more brittle thau th.v 1 - Wtro * iur ned off up to tho neck. I the others in the r. o.t. Mr. Jordan as HP NM off her body, bnt with this every tree in the roost seemed to be full I. fpainful burn the doctor thinks Thousands of thiso birds were killed by ■ will recover.—Waynesboro Citizen. I banters. People would come from distant I counties and camp, staying weeks sta lime, „ . F, R*«“ •" 4Jne. I #n( j ghoot them by firelight, but the num- t one is told aa coming from Alma ber seemed not to decrease. These birds I Thu pm I has sbont 200 head I kept np this place as a roost till spring, and b -klc {..° n “ * P'ace and a good msny I the people near were very apprehensive of p »ieburn. One day not tom ■- 1 ■ 1 v • ' ’Tf in U?» « 11 n ® ,7 nnt long ago he them remaining so I ng, on account of tbe i.le .1 ! I ®S“ ** w c ti'cD sheep side young planted cropr. This phenomenal * 11 i UlPlr IlMDis mil nnintin.i tl>., I _ » ‘ 1. _ W hi.lr. *1 j L ¥ u HTU hi< it* i youni tv lIwV? r pointing the hxiiio roost was rtnitad by thoUHanila of people looking as If out for a drill Ila | who delighted to sk ' ' ’ * ^ ’ ’, TT'‘ 1U 8 ■» if ont for a drilL Ila I who delighted to shoot in the feathered Ed to move, and the whole flock by firelight and to see them as they ‘ . “ °n«e. *’ "— 1 ‘ ' * ” I'o.Ii,," 1 < ? nc ®- , fit was some time came from their daily hunt for food. Mr. |to ,h.A C : rt r« 1 the bnr “ had got Jordan says they would go aa far aa forty l»in»t Ah «“ ’• *"'* tbey w, ' re 8tuck mil®* in a *l*y, bnt, all like a family of loved Utlht (Meal. Mi ll T , J w * 38 ” HUU * in A ui iutcu r> • iC n other n hiiU. —Amencan Ilccoi- oneji, wouM come to the roo«t At night in ________ j coantleAH n umber*.—Buchan An Banner. |A w,, l* Knlree. lonklm T °“ t ’ bb » Place, near Word, of Tratb and Naberneu. Pblladelp.l* Racofd. nkhn, last Katnrdav niohtl the Fkttwti a blood, killing. Tha negroes hail I Have you a bnainras tiiatonghtto.uo. Mi® there, and, oa is not nnosoaL vhis-1 eeed? Advertise it. , quaffed too freely. Along in the tiling in new. pa pars that * ord » passed betwew? Miles poaitiv® circuUtion will bu WI, W who hava lived in sap-1 bnoinoai b, the hair and i Straightforward stiver- i that have .lead, and the boss man'’ lives, while in cabins at conviont distances lives the “niggers"— regular "turpentine niggers’’—who were born and renrod to the life, and have never known anything else. The flrst to be done ie to "cut tbe boxes,” which is done in the winter. A turpentine box is a notch in the side of the tree near the ground, and is thirteen inches brood, six inches deep and holds between a quart and half a gallon of erode or virgin turpentine. Tbe cutting of these boxes ie the most picturesque if not the most interesting. It was a crisp, frosty morning when I started, in company with Mr. Sharpe, to the "boxing sqoed iT on the lower end of the term. The sun wee just gilding the frost-work on the loftiest pine bonghs, and an occasional bird ohirruped forth hia lit tle song. For yoa must know it ie early spring in South Georgia, even in February. It was 7:30 o’clock when wo reached the camps of tbs "boxers.” and a solitary negro was ready to go to work. There are thirty ia this squad, and aa they are paid by the box—11 cents per box—they con go to work when they please and quit when they wish. By 8:30 nearly the entire crowd wee ready, sad work began. It waa a mot- lay crowd. Every abode from verieat Afri- <an to the lightest mulatto waa there, and their jokes and jibes were as rough as their dress. Tbe "boss man" is armed with a thin board twelve inches square, ruled in narrow lines, for keeping count of the boxes, and astont hickory stick, sharp at one end, and having on it various mys terious marks. Tbit U the "gauge stick, I Each chopper is also provided with a gau( These thirty negroes can average 100 boxes per day each, and they have to be exactly counted and credited to the right man, How it is dons is the fnn of the thing. This board, carried by the-'boss man,' is a "tally board.” Each negro baa a num ber on that board and when he chops a box he call* out that number. These men are scattered over two or three acres of terri tory and some imea several call out at one time, and in such a peculiar aing-aoog style thatjthe nntrainsd ear has no ideer who call, but the "tally-man" rarley makes a mistake. “Mar six!” calls out a quiet- looking fellow in a rod shirt, at tbe same instant an immense fellow, with a throat iiko a fog-horn, yells out: “Three, oh three!" with e quick, rising inflection on the hut "three.” “Hi, oh! bosamsn, mark dat yaiier gal fer No. 9’” sings ont anoth er. And ao on and mnch more through tha day. The "turpentine nigger” haa no thought for tbe Morrow and ie happy. ‘Some ot these nig(,era,” said my friend, “have never been out of the piney woods- Tbey sre horn turpentine niggers, as their fath ers before them were.’’ When the boxing is done they will have cut 180,000 or 200,- 000 boxes, which will then be divided into "crops" 100,000 each, and each crop put into the hands of one men to '-raise." Ibis is done by first "cornering” the boxes ond then "chipping" the trees, en inch at e time, to aboat two or three feet shove the box. All this aennot be explained on paper without illustrations, but ie ell for tbe purpose of exposing more "face" for the turpentine to ran from. The sec ond year the face is worked higher up the tre e-sometimes fifteen feet About a week after the boxes ere "corn ered'* the clipping commences. Barrels ere scattered through the woods, and two men, working rack crop, fill them, after which they are hauled to the “Mill.” The crude terpentine is nearly tha color of gum cam phor aa we bay it from tbe stores, and is sbont tha consistency of very thich sor ghum. Alter tbe boxing ia done the most important man on the turpentine form is tbe "wood rider.” It ie hie basineaa to go fr mi one crop to another end sea that all this cornering and chipping is properly done. When it ia remembered that these 1WMJ0O boxes, spread over a territory 5x12 miles, must be seen every week, it ia plain that bis place is not an easy ons. "It takes a foil, sound man with no soft spots to to make a woods rider" says tbe experienced nrpsntine man. Thera sis many interesting features a Writ the turpentine business, fa (bn first that An InterTlew with » Dealer in Dlrdi' Skins and Feathers, Pall Hall Gazette, “Nebody wonld guess,” says a bird deal er, "in looking at these combinations that they are nothing but parts of a lark's body from the refuse of a poulterer's shop, and that the other parta of the ornament hare grown on the back of a goose or a domeetio fowl. We get feathers from kitchens, and shops, and markets; thoy are sold by the pound, and can be dyed almoet any color. The material of these combinations—that ia to aay, those orna ments which are composed, not ot whole birds or a single part of a bird—is quite in expensive. It is only the workmanship— the dyeing and arranging—which makes them expensive. They ere mostly made up by women. A good deal of this work is done in Germany; we have a large ware house in Berlin, where we employ a great many women. Home of them are female convicts in the prisons not far from Ber lin. Other English singing birds are bard- hia lit- 'j used at all. Their plnmage ia mostly dark, oml conld not be dyed with advan tage. - "Most ot onr birds come from the East end West Indies. We have over 100 dill' erent kinds of hnmaing birds, of various size nnd coloring. These colibri are al moet always mnch worn. They are rath, er eipeneive, especially the son-bird and those in which the raby and emerald ool- or is predominant We sell them at a price varying from 5 to 60 shillings per dozen. Nearly every one of these belong to a different species.” With this a mul titnde of tiny birds was thrown on the ta ble, whoee magnificent coloring hod not suffered by their long age. The throat of one glittered as pure gold, rich purple edorned the winge ot another, a tiny coat reflecting all the col ors of the rainbow waa worn by a third. The wing fcathere of the warrior bird wero horny, like Hiegfried's natural coat of mail the ‘paff-lrggea’ oolibri'i legs were hidden in downy white; while many ot the little creatures, who find their food in deep, bell shaped flowers were diatingnished by a beak twice the length of their tiny bodies. Box after box end chest after cheat of birds of ell oolors were brought out, in thousands of thousands. "A great favorite of ladies is the tengars, the only bird which is nst- Is the place to look for or write to when you need anything in the above lino. Don’t buy from small dealers who chargo high prices, but send to mo, or call in person before purchas ing, and I will convince you that money can be saved by trading at headquarters. It won’t cost you a cent to bo shown through my establishment, If you can’t come, write for prices. I. L. HARRIS, 98 and 100 Cherry St., Macon, Ga. GROCERIES! Tbe undersigned have opened a large and complete atock ot Grocrios at 124 Til I nl Street, and respectfully invite all in need of Supplies, to call on Uem before purchasing elsewhere. The stock includes all the staples used by farmers, and haa been selected with apodal reference to their wonts. It nos been marked at PRICES TO SUIT TIIE TIMES, and planters will find it to their interest to consult them. WRIGHT & HILL, janl7dltAw6m 121 Third Street. must not be rest body of timber u bought by tbe tor this pontine man. It is not even leased—only the turpentine trees. For tbess tbs opera tor pays one cent per box the first year and SjiLdu I Uks- a pnetrote pmi ..... „ , itrnd U on its feet for some time, and tbe'woman was I mitil remarkable celerity. Let the donbters i nn l r °7.* T - He v brother, Ike Winches- ke®P tbsir e,»s on the progteebof the od- reduce* the rote one-third each year there- L .All ? p ‘ * n< * • fight with knives en- verflserm who sre steady-goers, wet weather tl fu* One ties often famishes bar boxes. snantiingin the death of Winchester. dr 7- _ _ . I They average sbont two boxes to the In*. ----- New houses era growing in New York, The boxing, eomering, chipping and uip- - - | ping, as well so the barrel maxing, on pdd | like Jonah’s gourds. unity red,’’ proceeded our guide through tbe city catacombs, pointing to a oase of ruby-colored birds. "All otaer red birds ot this color are dyed. The Japanese E heseant ie also at present much used. It i. however, not killed on account of ite plnmage, bnt as game, like our own pheeaank The price of English pheasants’ feathers varies greatly; some years ego we have paid fifteen shillings for a pound, st present we get them at one ihilling and ail pence. From South Africa we get the mer les with the metallic shades; they are in expensive. The white Jsve sparrow, which we sell at fonr shillings each, is one of our most expensive small birds. And it is so ngly. white birds sre always expensive because they are rare. We sell the white pigeon st the same price SI the Java spar row. It is difficult to ssy whieh sre the favorite birds of this season. All kinds have been worn, bnt we bare to pleaee more bail then good taste, ts far as coloring to concerned. "The manner of killing the birds varies according to size. Tbey mast not be shot or wounded, for that wonld spoil their plu mage. They sre mostly netted; bnt the very email ones sre killed by send being blown at them by meant of s tube. Their bodies ore then cleaned, stuffed with cotton wool or tow, tbey are packed in large boxes, and that arrive here, where we get them at the monthly aale in Mincing Lane.” ^ * HALF A MILLION GARDENS* - Our Seed Warehouses, the largest In Hew Tort, ora AIWA op erilh-erery et>-\ pllonee for tho prompt and careful filling of orders. .r f.r. . !. 1. . ■■ I ,labU,l.:r,i :.t lit vJsrser OUT to the meet slim An la .{America. Annul Bales, 2N ill 111 oil Hants. I lor 1886. ot 140 piget. containing colored pints. dttctlpUont ind ISuttraliont OI tho M-wtM. BEST and RAREST SEEDS and PLANTS, Kill bo milled on receipt ol 6 cl s. (in stamps) lo cover pottage. PETER HENDERSON & GO. 35 W?SB2*- A Troy, N. Y., special says: On day last Mary Morris pat a pot of boiling water on the floor of the kitohen in her dwelling, leaving her 19-months-old babe creeping about the floor. She went into an adjoining room. Soon afterward the in fant began to aerram. Mrs. Morris nuhed back and fonnd it sitting in the pan of scalding water. She dressed tbe terrible ecslds and put tbe child to bed. She wes urged by neighbors to coll • physician, bnt refused, saying that she wonld trust that tbe prayer* of the family to save her baby’s life would be heard. On Thursday one of tbe neighbors asked Dr. Rogers to see the child, and he visited the boats. Much ■gainst Mrs. Morris’s will, he redressed the wound*, which he considered fatal. Tha infant lingered until to-day, when it died. Mrs. Morris said after its death : "My baby woe all right until the doctor laid hie heavy hande npon it Tbe Almighty beard our ptayenand would hava aavad oar baby but for the wicked man who sent that doctor to bar. I believe ia prayer, sad know God heard oum.” Come to Low Quarters. CORN, We ere receiving dsily carload lots of OATS AND BRAN. Parties who have stock to feed will do well to get onr prices. Wo are also offering GItOCKHI KS for leas money than they are now being sold to the planters, either for CixhIi or oil Time. It will pay yoa to get onr prices. feb7-eun£w6m WARE & OLIVER, Kill Third Street, Mneon, Gn. Never Known to Fail. ^ The^popalar Blood Purifier of tbe day to It lathe honest “tried and true" old Indian Care that baa stood the teat of time. It will core any Blood Disease or Skin Disease arising from impure blood. An excellent tonic and appetizer. Nothing equals it for female complaints. A purely vegetable preparation, containing no mer cury or other mineral poison. Sold by leading druggists. THE O. L O. CO,, Parry Go. octlwly .STHORNSWFLESH IkallrtM h>iptL«vf» Hoaum «i rtg War, u* mm*mm*t re,• Ann*M /WiJEr. * ’ It moU'r.t f%ru - -j liLiibAiiii bkoa.« Aiiitu, i tJL CUUE