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LAW CARDS
T. D. lllHGHT VVER, F. A. Bosh
HIGHTOWER & BISII,
Attorneys at Law,
Lumpkin, Ccorgia
Jsu. 1, 1884.
WIXITGM F. CLARKE,
Attniicy at I aw,
Lumpkin, Georgia.
Will pr»' tie* in Ste«nrt Com t v.
Spavin) *' ten: ion gi mi to collections
Lumpkin, (la., M«y. 5. 1883.
K. ( --u' . SIMMONS
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMUR’CUT, G.\.
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This Judicial Circuit, iu file Supreme
Court of the State of Georgia, and
in th« District Court of ibe United
States, and in all other court* by
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JCEMCAL CARDS
W. A. GREGORY,
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Lumpkin, Ceor£*a.
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Fraetieia® Physiciaas,
LUMPKIN, - GEORGIA.
Office Sautii Side Public Square
Oct20 ly
J. A. TIK1KNT0JCJI!.,
Practical Dentist,
JIM PK J X, G EOltGI A.
Will do all kinds of l>rnt«l Work
.in a neat hi d suLstantia manner.
Oct .23 ly.
LUMLKIN HOTEL,
JOHN YAnilUOIJfiH,
It 01*111 KTOB.
This old and well-known Hotel is
stiff open U> tbe public aud offers su
perior inducements to Irsvele/s and
drummers. With an experience of
20 years the Proprietor thinks lie
knows how to look after the comfort
of his guests. Table furnished with
the best the market affords Poii fl¬
atten tion Hi;d reasonable charges.
.Stock fed at 25c rer meal each.
Lumpkin, Ga., Sept. 1,1883 tf
Livery and Feed Stables,
LUKPRIN, GEORGIA
A. F. HOLT, PROP.
• The undersigned is prepaired to
famish the public with any kiud of
team desired at reasonable prices.
HACK LINE
I will also run a Fine, Comforta
hie Hack between Lumpkiu and
Cutlibert, leaving Lumpkin every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
returning same dais and making
connections with morning and even
ing train. Only skillful drivers ein
ployed.
Ct^Cash iu advance will be inquir¬
ed tor passage and packages.
{©"Drovers will fiud a 1 rge aud
commodious lot for their stock.
A F. HOLT.
Lumpkin, Sept. 1st, ly
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1884.
For The Independent.
HISTORY OF A LIFE.
Intelligence end Reason and Fassion
Displayed by other creatures
than M an.
“The Svideu sxd the Fly.”
Shakespeare’s idea of “the man
who hath io music in himsrlf," re¬
flects but a part of those mental
traits which constitute the ensemble
of the pe-sm who does not love pets.
’I be d<)ttie«tio»»ion of animals, ami
the , cultivation , of affections _ naturally
eiigcn.lere t thereby, antedates the
discovery of the laws ot harmony
ami the iuvcntiou of musical nota
tion
No doubt the man who was under
a life sentence of solitary confine
meat in the Bastile, found generous
coinpanicnship in the spider which
lie dally fed with tender, charitable
care ; and at the same time the high¬
er and nobler inst.t.c'.s of bis nature
were cultivated and mote highly de
velopod, and the miseries of his en
viroumcuts were solaced and rmuiio
- ated.
The terrors of curin', the glo >m
despondency of life long incarce
ration in a dark, dank cell, found
s 'tne mitigation in the companion
ship of a little voiceless, but grateful
creature.
So the New Yolk editor whose
midnight meal is divided with two
ugly ti es, finds a charming delight
t’l the exercise- of human charity,
which the poet thought such a rari¬
ty ; and lit- also finds rest and relax¬
ation from the stress of prolonged
nentai labor.
He came very near causing the
death of one of Ins pets one night,
by taking a piece of bread iu his
oioutl too hurriedly, on which was
1 etched die hungry flv. They wen
used to living handled and were un
suspicious ; henee the narrow escape
ol this one, of being ground to atoms
hy a ravenous, abstracted editor, who
ex reseed great sympathy aud grit f
for his wounded friend.
l'his recalls the writer's experienci
witb a spider. Last May while on a
collecting tour, I noticed a brown,
cylindrical tube on the under side of
a bending tree, which proved to bn
;he nest or incubator of the mason
wusp.
Ia atempting to secure it, it was
broket), and a number i f spiders
dropped Irom the ceils upon the
ground, and among them was one of
such brilliant and peculiar markings,
that it immediately ntlructed my at
tent-ion.
This wasp boil Is its nest of con¬
crete abode, comprising sevc.'ul cells,
i-aeh one of which, on being complet¬
ed, receives an egg, and the cell is
then completely filled with spiders,
put in a state of asphyxia, or sus
pended animation, by the sting of
he wasp The cell is then hermeti¬
cally sealed with an abundant, sup¬
ply of living food for tLo young lar
vie.
This wasp is or e species of the
great family of Ichneumon flies which
feed upon the tissues of living in¬
sects, nnd dns one particularly feeds
utl'y upon spiders. The aliestbised
c n iition of the spiders will bo con¬
fined to aa in lifnnte period, at least
until the growing larva has consum¬
ed them, (md is lolly developed and
ready to undergo its filial muiumur
pilosis.
The spider, although the natural
enemy and devuurer of ad kinds of
insects, is no uia’cb lor libs terrible
ichneumon, which designedly flies
iu the spider's web slid sets up a
roaring buzz, on purpose to entice
the spider from its ctiicealel am
bush.
Oti hearing the roar of its wings,
and feeling the tremors imparted to
his web, the spider rushes out upon
its foe, which bad OLty counterfeited
detention by tlie web; when the
wasp seizes him, transfixes him with
its deadly etiLg, tears out of the
puny wvb and flies away with
p, f -jpivic im •
Although the spiih r is armed
deadly f-egs, his weapons are
eldest) ugainst tbe hard, chitruous
armature of his mortal antagonist,
which quickly punctures the
hMy of the spider in ra iny places
A Weekly Newspaper, Published ia the Political. Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County.
with its sharp still*;, whose poison
briugs on sleep which kuows no
waking.
The particular spider spoken of,
attracted attectiou not only by its
bright colors, hut by its attempting
to escape by crawling ; something
very uuttsini', because th"v suffer
complete paralysis from the fearful
poison of the wasp, and remain in
that asphyxiated condition for sever¬
al months.
It was a very Imge specimen, and
had perhaps “played possum,” si inn
lating death while in tbe ditches of
j;g f Hrocious e nem V , and had prol.a
blv thereby tseaped complete inocu¬
lation by its dreadful poison. It was
taken np carefully, plared in a little
box nnd carried home for farther ex
animation.
Its body was a brgbt, canary yel¬
low color, banded transversely with
crimson and black ; its limbs were
banded alternately with white and
black, and it belonged to the family
of diadem or geometrical spiders.
On reaching home it. was placed iu
a ventilated box with a glass lid, so
that its movements could be watch
ed. A moistened leaf was put in the
box, and it, sipped the water eagerly,
and seemed greatly revived ; alter
which a flv was enclosed, which was
capture t by repeated efforts, and
partially consumed
In a few days it. had so far regain¬
ed its strength and activity, that it
beg in casting about for a suitable
pises to spread its gauzy snare, seem
mg to disdain the idea of being kept
an invalid ; and was yearning to
build him a habitation of his own, to
begin house-keeping on his own ac
count, and become a gentleman of
independent, leisure, with nothing to
• to but to wait for something to turn
up. to give him employment.
He sootn became tractable and do¬
cile, and watt lied with a discerning
i ye every litt’e niovi-ment. of my
hand about liis cage, and was quick
to detect it I had a fly for him, as
they were given to him through a
little hole iu the box.
His intelligence and training ad¬
vanced rapidly, and before many
days he learned to station himself at
his little window wl en hungry, and
watch my movements with much ap¬
parent anxiety. A fly would seme
times alight upon the glass top of
the box, when ho would spring at it
with great dexterity, only to find
hitn*-eit baffled and dashed rudely to
tlie bottom of the box, to his utter
astonishment and chagrin.
A few futile efforts of .hat kind
taught him the nature and proper
ties of glass, and what experience
taught him lie engraved upon the
tablet of his memory ; for alter that,
a fly might walk upon tbe glass with
impunity, without an attempt at mo¬
lestation He would simply glare at
the fly fiercely and sullenly with Lis
eight great crimson eyes. He could
distinguish the buzzing ol u fly in
my fingers several feet distant, and
would peer through his little wiu
dow iu an ecstacy of delight and take
it fram my hand.
A tuning fork was sounded upon
the table n.-ar his cage to iuntete the
roaring buzz of the fly, and his agile
and alert movements showed that lie
was completely deceived, and disap¬
pointed of his accustomed prey. But.
this did not last long, as he very soon
be/an to distinguish the sound of
the tuning fork from that of the real
fly, and bis education advanced a
step further.
He began to grow more impatient
every day of bis confinement-, but at !
ihe sam-i time more gentle nnd do
mestic, until I began to remove the
glass and teed him openly in the box.
soon began to touch and caress
1 1dm with my fiujjers,^ which be re
' sealed a little at first, but bo'ore
j many days, would sit upon my thumb
and eat his meal con>entediy.
I put i, medium sand grasshopper
in Liis cage one da;;, which he retreat
. ed from at first, but. hunger finally
I impelled him to make an attack, just
j as it made does with spring, human like beings. flash When of
he his a
; light, he seized the hapless hopper
aud sunk his deadly fangs into his
j quivering Ash. Then began a fear
fill struggle, as the hopper struck
out rapidly with his powerful legs,
bristling with jagged spines, atnl
leaped from side ip side, from hot
tom to top, wilh lightning-like rapid
itv, his captor clinging to his back.
The struggle for a while seemed
doubtful as to which would be the
winner, but soon the deadly venom
of tlie spider did its work, and the
quivering, twitching body ot the hop¬
per sunk quietly jin repose and death
Like bigger things, which hav*
larger braius, and fewer eyes, and
formulate grtat ponderous codes ol
moral laws, to violate them when
they please,—this little thing became
the victim of the seductive passions
of his appetite, and gave way to glut
tony. When he had fully satiated
his hunger upon the grasshopper, he
retired to a corner of the box, wound
himself into a ball and lay in a state
of stupor for several days, refusing
to notice the buzzing of a temptin'?
fly, even when placed in bis cage.
I concluded to remove him, aud
give a more comfortable home with
larger playing ground, and took ad¬
vantage of his lethargy to make the
transfer. A funnel was made of stout
paste board, the mouth of which was
slit into many thin stri s aud bent
inward, until the ends came just
close enough together to allow him
room to go in aud out at his pleas¬
ure. I placed him carefully in his
conicil room and tacked the small
end of the funnel to the window
frame, at right angles to the wall
My table stood just underneath
IT a bouse and I watched for him to
make his appearance at the little
door. Two days had passed before
1 saw him, and then lie came timid¬
ly and languidly to take a* peep at
what was going on. I offered him n
flv, which he took somewhat reluc¬
tantly, and soon dropped it, and re¬
tired within his parlor for another
nap of twenty four hours. When
another day had passed he made bis
app-arauce again, and seemed livelv
and hungry. I did not offer him
anything this tim«, hut wa’clied him
to see w hat he had in view, as he
appeared somewhat restless.
[ l’o bo concluded next week ]
• —i
The Current of Rivers.
A very slight declivity suffices to
give the running motion to water
Three inches per mile in a smooth,
straight channel gives a velocity of
about tnreo miles an hour. The
Ganges, which gathers the waters oi
the Himalaya Mountains, the loftiest,
iu the world, is at, 100 miles from its
month only 300 feet above the level
of the se i. and to fall 300 feet iu its
long course the water requires more
thati a month. Thegrett River Mag¬
dalena, in South America, running
for 1,000 miles between two ridges
of the Andes, falls only 500 feet in
till that distance. Above the dis¬
tance of 1,000 miles it is seen des
tending in rapids and cataracts from
the mountains. The gigantic Rio
ile la Plata has ro gentle a descent,
to tne ocean that in Paraguay, 1.500
miles from its month, large ships are
seen which have Railed against thu
current all the way by the force of
the wind alone—that is to say which,
on the beautifully ijclim-d plane ol
tlie stream, have been gradually lilt¬
ed by the soft wind, and evea against
the current, to an elevation greater
than our loftiest spil es - - Detroit fW
auk Tribune.
Explained.
‘I expected to find the Arkansavv
to be a much a wider stream,’ re
marked a newly arrived visitor.
‘It’s low now,’ repliutl a bystander,
j have been out in a boat when
I couldn’t see land on either side.’
‘Below hero in the bottoms, I sup
j j0 so.’
‘No, here.’
'Why tiffs town is on a bluff. Yon
don’t mean to say that you saw it
overflowed ?'
‘Oh, no.’
‘ibeu b»ng it, you could see land
on one side at least.'
‘No I couldn't, for it was at night,
you know.’
‘I’ve been looking for a fool. Come,
let's take a drink,
Postal cards cost the
51 cents aud I p; Is a thuqsan 1.
Soma Curiosities of Govern¬
ment.
Washington. Match 30.—Next to
the President of the United Stntes
the best-paid Federal official is the
Clerk of tlie Supreme Court.
The Slates of Colorado, Delaware,
Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Is¬
land, and Vermont have less than
one half the population of Illinois,
but have the same number of repre¬
sentatives in Congress—twenty-two.
Pennsylvania has a larger nuiu
bei of Post Offices than any other
State.
Not a clerk in the Pension Office
in this city draws less than $1,000 a
year salary, the average for the 1,173
clerk being $294 Even tbe copyists
get $900 a year. These clerks have
light labor and short h.,urs. The av
ernge salary of the Railway Post Of
fine clerks turonghout the country is
only $977 a year. These raeu work
hard, at the most trying labor, aud
have long hours.
Eight years ago North Carolina
had as m tuy representatives in Con
gross as New York. North Carolina
now has nine, or ana less than she
had in 1800, while New York has
tliii ty-four.
Thera are 419 typesetters, besides
apprentices, in the Governmout print
ing office.
Estima’ing Congress to be in ses
si n 200 days a year, tlie salaries of
Henatoie and Representatives aruouut
to about $10,000 a day.
The state of Nevada, which has two
■Senators aud one Representative is
Congress, bus not so large a popitla
lion bv 617 souja as the cry oi New
York Haven, Conti.
A number of the United States
Senate’s emp’ojees are put down on
the records as ‘skilled laborers,’ aud
draw pay at $1 000 a year, while
those who are merely ‘unskilled la
borers’ get $840 a year. Tbe dis
line!ion between the two is in the
kind of br*oms they manipulate. Tbe
‘.-.killed’ laborer uses a common
broom to sweep stone flagging, while
the ‘unskilled’ laborer wields a coarse
broom in sweeping carriageways.
During the past ten years the Gov¬
ernment has expended nearly $70,000
000 in caring for tlie Indians. The
total number of indians attached to
agencies is only 246,000, aud of these
60,000 in Indian Territory, 7,700 in
Wisconsin, and 5,000 in New York
are supposed to be at least partially
self supporting.
Last year the Post Offite Depart¬
ment used $11,000 worth of ink for
stamping aud cancelling letters.
Tbe five states of Dele ware, Colo¬
rado, Florida, Nevada, and Oregon
combined have not so great a popu
lation by ab >vo 100,000 souls as tbe
city of Now York. Yet New York city
has but eight Representatives in Con
gress, while the five States have six
teen, besides their ten Senators.
In the fiscal year ended JuneSO,
the Government’s disbursement lor
pensions reached a sum which ex
ceeds by sis millions ot dollars the
disbursements for all purposes in tbe
year 1860.
There are iu tbe railway mail ser¬
vice fifteen clerks whe draw tbe sala
ry ot $12 a year erch.
F. orn the live States cf New York,
Pennsylvania. Illinois, Massachu¬
setts, and Ohio, the Government de¬
rives one half of all its postal reve
nues.
Last year the Government paid
for several copies of Puck for use of
department officials.
The Government expended $41,228
6G last year for North American Eth
oology' for tbo Smithsonian Institu¬
tion.
It costs $30,000 a year to light the
Capitol and grounds.
More than one half of the internal
revenue receipts of the Government
comes from the ,our States of Illinois
New York, Ohio, and Kentucky.
To wait upon the 76 Senators there
are 242 employees, not cour ting po
lice, watchmen, and librarians.
Virginia now bus tbe same nuin
btr of Congressmen she had iu 1760,
when there were only 65 members of
the House.
There are several Post Officos in
tbo country at which the annual sala
' of the PostmaMer is only $1.
ry
Terms $1.50 Per Annum.
•Five umpired tud eighty nine do
Ura for wines, liquors, aud ,
waters for use of Board of
to Naval Academy,' is an item in
year’s expenditures of the
ment.
Tne Pension Office expends mori
than $60,000 a year investigating el
leged pension frauds.
At the Signal Service training
school, Arlington Heights, the stn
dents of rue eoro ogv, barometers,
and anemometers are compelled to
leave their study tubles id the exact
centre of the room, their bunks in a
certain position in a certain corner
aud their text books piled np in a
certain manner befoie retiring for the
night, these and a hundred more
similar regn'ations being prescribed
‘by or ler of the Chief Signal Officer. ’
Their Sunday dinner is coffee, bread,
and dried apples stewed.
After having expended more than
a hundred millions of dollars upon
its buildings in this Dslrict. the
Government- finds itself paying near
lv $6,000 a month for rent of private
buildings.
The Poet Offi :e Department uses
$80,000 worth of wrapping twine a
year.
The thirteen States of Arkansas,
California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida,^Nebraska, Neva¬
da, New HampsLire, Oregon, Rhode
Island, Vermont, and West Virgin
ia, with an aggregate population
which dees not exceed that of New
York alone, have twenty-six United
StateR Senators to New York’s two
California, wilh less than half the
population of Indiana, pays to the
Governinent more money for postal
service.
Among the expenditures of tb*
Government last year was an item.
‘For manufacturing medals, $25,498,
23.’
It costs the Government $187,000
a year to maintian lights and buoys
on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Mia
souri rivers
Two fifths of all the newspapeis
and periodicals sent through the
mails by publishers at pound rates
are mailed at New York city.
Nineteen thousand seven hundred
nd eighty-eight dollars of the pub
lie funds was recentlv expended for
‘machinery and experiments in the
manufacture of sugar ’
To supply public buildings throng!:
out the country with fuel, light-, and
water requires an expenditure of $1,
000 a day.
Seven hundred and fifty persons
are constantly employed by the
Houses of Congress (while in sts
ston) in nnd about the Capitol.
The Government has sold more
th in two hundred million dollars
worth of public lands in eighty
years.
In the last twenty years the Gov¬
has paid for interest on the
public debt the euorm ius sum of $2,
089,000,000 a sum which would de
fray all the expenses of the Govern¬
ment, excepting inteiest on the pub¬
lic debt, for neatly nine years to
at the prsent rate of expendi¬
ture; and f »r nearly thirty five years
expenses could be limited to what
they were in 1860.
Floods and Romance.
Jones—Talking about Chicago, I
am desperately in love with a girl
who lives there. I met her in Cin¬
cinnati during the flood.
Smith — What was she doing there?
Junes—She was visiting ; and the
way we becaw* acquainted was very
romantic. Who was out viewing tbe
waters and got her foot fast in the
stiff, sticky mud. She could not
move an inch, and I rescued her.
Smith—Oh ! I guess your attach
ment is only a romantic taney.
Jones—Fancy! Sly gracious 1 I
worship the very ground she walks
You may not believe it, but I
actually purchased the land where
our meeting look place aud hud it
fenced in.
Smith —The inhabitants must have
thought y m were a fool.
Jones—Ch ! no. Yon see my a lor
ed one is a Chicago belle, and
Smith — Mi! I see. They mistook
the footprint for a cellar.—
phia Call,
NO. 7,
lit SiNhSis DirvECI OUT,
M. CORBETT,
DEALER IN
DruMicin Meals,
PSRFUM3EY, FINE SOAPS,
Fancy and Toilet‘Arti61e».
CeU6-ly
CORBETT HOUSE,
M. CORBETT, Prep.,
Lumpkin. - Georgia.
Every Attention Given to the Ac¬
commodation <€■ comfort of G ucsts /
Oct. 1 i-l
a. M. SHERAM,
MANUFACTURER OF
PLARiTATIOA WAGONS,
Plow Stocks, Etc.
Blaclsmithino & Wagon Repaired.
Oct.20 ly
A. H. SIMPSON,
DE.OElt IN
Faslily Groceries,Mira,
STABLE DMT GOODS, SHOES, AC
Coffins, Burial Cases, Eedsteads,
Chairs E*c.
W. W. STOKES,
Dealer In
Fm k Fancy Groceries,
CAMIIFSGSDS, TOBACCO,
Cigars and Staple Dry Goods,
Oet IE Jy
W. A. GREGORY,
UEALt.lt IN
Fancy & Family Groceries,
imiZQ EGiV’S, &68FSCT1QN*
ARIES, S' APLE DRY GOODS,
Tobacco, Cioars, Knees, Tinware Etc.
Get 20
JI. M. & W. H. GRIFFIS,
—DKA LKR8 TV—
Family Groceries, Wiiiskies,
3332, ffINSS, TOBACCO, CI&ABS
Splendid Billiard and Fool Tables.
IKtf North Hidu Public Square,
w.s. onus,
dealer nr
Family Groceries,
Plantation Supplies,
Country Produce Etc,
South Side Public Square.
Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 1,1883.
FIES INSUEAHE.
Insure your dwellings, Furniture,
Merchandise. Gin Houses, and other
property. None but first-class Com
oanies represented. Rates low.
J. B. Richardson, Agent.
Sept.2-^th-1881-tf.
fsltemm & Miller,
—DEALERS IN—
COFFINS, CASKETS AND
Burial Cases
Can furnish any style of COFFIK
wanted at. reasonable prices.
Repository at Sheram’s Shops.
Lumpkin, Ga., Sen 1,
SHUTS CARRIAGE
Aud Blacksmith Shops,
Having pucchaved the above well
kuown Shops from Mr. D. W. Surles
I am now prepared to manufactnra
to order any kind of Waoons or Bc»
gujh that may be wanted. Skillful
mechanics are emj loved and the besh
of rnateri d will be used in all work.
Special attention given to repairing,
and all work promptly attended to.
Terms Cash.
O- A. SURLES.
Lumpkin. Ga,Feb. 1, 1884.
Globe Cotton Plantej
The Best Now Iu Use 1
Call and see its perfect work.
S S. EVEUEl’T, Agent,
Lumpkin, Ga. Jan. 26.