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Editorial Brevities.
Titfe man who has no opposition
and enemies, has not force and inde¬
pendence of character enough to be
worth anything to any community.
It is a positive gain to hate the en¬
mity of some people.
The peach crop in this section is
ffio finest wo have had in several
years. Mr. T. C. Patrick has some
very fine varieties and is thoughtful
enough to remember that an editor
likes peaches.
More strangers are seen in Lump¬
kin mow during any one week than
during any year precoed ing the com¬
pletion of the A. P. & L. railroad.
They all leavo somo money here
which helps to build up the town.
If it was not for fire aud flood,
freshets and droughts, short crops
and prices, bull*headed' kickers and
croakeis, railroads could be built
quickly, cheaply, and satisfactorily.
But if we could overcome I be latter
#e could easily bear with the others.
Sh6uld tbo Gate City Guard, of
Atlanta, conclude to make' their pro¬
posed trip to Paris next Summer,
we would suggest that they go to
Mexico first and smell a little gun¬
powder so as to make a more warlike
appearance when they take their
Furopean trip. ’
The hiss of the serpent in his eoil
when ready to strike, is a dreadful
sound; but it gives the honrer warn¬
ing'and'opportunity for escape. But
the defaming andtraduciug hiss ofthe
two logged serpen t’in some one else’s
Sal’s is greatly more to be feared.
«—■•• - —
Ili'AMOiHr.ft that you cun bny a fine
breech-loading' shot gun, single or
double barrelled, ora breech loading
rifle,at The Independent ofllco, cheap
er than you cau get it from the tnan
u a tuers You can got a Stevens,
Remington, Pieper or Parker gun;
and they aro known and guaranteed
everywhere to bo first clas 3 guns,
made of the best material, fiuely fin¬
ished aud in the iiadsomest stjles.
It seems that the war-clouds on
the Mexican frontier are dissolving.
A tnrlis out that Cutting, about
whonvso nmoh has been said, is a
man of very little character, a vaiu—
boasting, turbulent fellow, who vio
lated faith with the Mexican authori¬
ties, and deserves the punishment
imposed upon him by tho Mexican
ceurt. He is full of libel, defamation
and strife, and is not worth a small
war, nor even a breach of good feel¬
ing between the two governments. .
The President is determined that
tho negro and the mugwump shall
havo a showing in the distribution of
offices. Mathews, the negro whom
tho Senate failed to confirm as com
miesioner of deeds for the District of
Columbia, since the adjournment of
Congress has been re appointed and
commissioned by President Cleve¬
land. Mr. Hodden, collector of cus¬
toms for the port of New York, has
been kicked out to make room for a
mugwump from the interior of tho
.State,
Bovs who want to run. away from
home and be tramps should
warning at the experience of Frank
Allen, of Lamar, Missouri. Frank
was fourteen years old, had a rich
father, a good home, some nice
and a kind stepmother. But
was too tame for Frank and a
•go'be ran away with a tramp named
George Hubbard, who told him he
eould make lots of money in (be
south. Frank came to the eunny
south, lived the life of a tramp, pick¬
ed cotton at times, and was a very
accomplished sort .of a vagabond.
Hubbard kept the finances in hand,
and is still keeping them. When he
tired of the boy, be let him go. Later
Frank was robbed by another 'friend’
and soon was taken sick at Memphis.
Be grew so bod off that he expected
to die. Then he had some one-write
to bis father. The father went at
once lo Memphis and took the re¬
pentant prodigal home.
Tho Slcxloan XronTble.
i
Thera has been so mnch talk o#
war witL Mexico lately tb*t a brfef
.resume of the incidents that caused
the complication of affairs between
tho United States and Mexico may
prove interesting to those of our
readers who do not take the daily
papers.
A. K. Cutting is a resident of Pa6o
del Norte, Mexico, and engaged in
editing a weekly newspaper m that
State. One Etnigdio Medina, also a
resident of Paso del Norte, proposed
to start another weekly paper in the
same town. This gave offence to
Cutting who denounced Medina as a
fraud and saying that the Spanish
newspaper which he proposed to is¬
sue was merely a scheme to swindle
adtertisers, etc: For this offence
Catting Was brought before a Mexi¬
can court for trial. Fearing to risk
a trial,Cutting agreed to a settlement
! of the case which in Mestico to called
a reconciliation, fjpon this being
done the court dismissed the case
and required Cutting to publish the
fact in his paper. Cutting did make
the publication and on the same day
of the reconciliation Went across the
Rio Grande to El Paso, Texas, and
published tho following card in the
El Paso Herald 1 .
ADVERTISEMENT—A CARD.
El Paso; Texas, June 28,1886!—
To Enigdio Medina, of Paso del
Norte: In a latd issue of El Ceuti
nola, published in Paso del Norte,
Mexico, I made tho assertion that
Etnigdio Medina was a ‘fraud,’ and
that the Spanish newspaper he pro¬
posed to issue in Paso del Norte was
a scheme to swiudlo advertisers, etc.
This morning said Medina’ took the
matter to a Mexican court, when I
wub forced to sign a ‘reconciliation.’
Now I do hereby reiterate my origi¬
nal assertion that said Emigdio Me¬
dina is a ‘fraud,’ and add‘dead-beat’
to the same. Also that his taking
advantage of the Mexican law and
forcing mo to a ‘reconciliation’ was
contemptible and cowardly, and in
keeping with the odorous reputation
of said Etnigdio Medina. And should
said Etnigdio Medina desire ‘Ameri¬
can’ satisfaction for this reiteration,I
will bo pleased to grant him all he
may desiro at uuy fiure and in uDy
manner. A. K. Cutting.
When Cutting returned to Paso
del Norte he was again arrested and
upon trial by the court was sentenc¬
ed to pay a fine of $600 nnd to be
imprisoned for twelve months. Dur¬
ing tho progress of the trial Cutting
claimed the protection of the United
States authorities. Secretary Bayard
has twice demanded his release,
which the Mexican government has
refused. Ho has been granted an
appeal, however and bis case will go
to the supremo Court. It is claimed
in Mexico that Cutting was amenable
to the laws of that country uuder tire
constitution of Mexico and the inter¬
national treaty between Mexico and
the United* States.
The following press dispatch gives
the latest plwae of the affair.
El Paso, Tex., August 10.— Con¬
trary lo general expectations Cutting
has not yet been taken to Chihuahua.
The only visible change in his looks
since his incarceration is a slight
tinge of gray in his hair. He is en¬
joying good health, and since the
extra allowance for his support has
been made he manages to live very
fairly. He takes his present predica¬
ment calmly,and has the utmost con¬
fidence that something will turn up
to succor him. His theory is that
diplomatic relations will cease, and,
in that case, Mexico will back down.
Sooner than go to war, it will grant
him a pardon, he thinks.
Outsiders do not take such a san¬
guine view of affairs. They say that
Cutting is a doomed man. Should
the Uuited States take the final step
aud declare war, Cutting undoubted¬
ly will be the first man to bo put to
the bayonet. Oa the other hand, if
the government does not interfere
and tho prisoner is compelled to
serve out tho sentence imposed on
him he will never live to see its ex¬
piration, ns no American can do tho
work that will bo imposed on Cut¬
ting, cn the allows uce for food of
five cents a day. That he will be par¬
doned is generally disbelieved, as the
Mexicans have got their backs up.
Ft. Worth, Texas, August 11,—
The city was thrown into an intense
state of excitement this evening by a
rumor, how it started, no one knows
to the effect that the Mexican troops
in Paso del Norte had fired on the
El Paso, killing three Americans.
Groups of men gathered on the
street discussing tho situation, all
breathing a patriotic desire to shoul¬
der their guns and march against
the 'greasers. ’ The war spirit is on
tho iuerease in this city, and the
news about the Cutting case is await¬
ed with tho greatest anxiety.
Georgia Intelligence*.
—Georgia Central Railroad Stock
is'on a boom*.
—There is a marked fmptovemeflt
in crops throughout the State.
—Morgan county has $114,105
more taxable property this year than
last.
—Tobe Jackson made a bold at
tempt to break out of Fuhon jail on
Tuesday night.
*—There are at toast $100,000’wortlvof
Dew buildings-in course of construo
tion at New nan.
—J. H. Purnell, of West Point, has
shipped 8;000 crates of peaches to
market this season.
—Tobo Jackson, the CarteTsville
dynamiter, has been sentenced to'the
penitentiary for ten years.
—Gold ifc said to have been found
in a rich veih on a Methodist camp¬
ground in Warren county.
—It is feared that the city marshal
of Fairborn has-been lost in the high
weeds that threaten to overrun the
town;
—Already $10,000 has been spent
in trying to get Artesian water for
Waynesboro, and- still there iff no
water in sight.
—A. A. Oarson esqt, of Butler, has
been' appointed Solicitor General of
tbo Chattahoochee Circuit to succeed
Hon. T. W. Grimes, resigned.
—The six cotton factories at Au¬
gusta which have locked out all em¬
ployees throw 2,73S people out of
employment whose monthly wages
amounts to $47,140'.
—In the primary election in Sum¬
ter county last Saturday Hon. W. M.
Hawkos was nominated for State
Senate and Wright Bradv and E. G.
Simmons esq, for the Legislature.
—After tlie 26th of September the<
ordinaries of each county in Georgia
will be forwarded the necessary funds
and a list of maimed soldiers who are
entitled to receive money frortv the
( State.
—There aro between fifty nnd sixty
organizod military companies ill
Georgia ready for service in case of
war, tho total number of men in
these compnities aggregating 2,289,
of whom about 1,000 arc colored.
—Capt. Tote Smith, of Albtthy, is
a candidate for tho State ' Senate
Capt. Smith was Hie oilly congress,
man from Georgia who voted against
the commission bill, under which Hr.
Tilden was counted out of tho pres¬
idency.
—Governor McDaniel has issued
an executive order fixing tho State
tax for the currrcnt year, which will
bo three tenths of one per cent., and
an addition At one huff of oue-tentb
of one per cant, fur tho purpose of
building tho State Capitol.
Elborton, Ga., August 11—A ru¬
mor has obtained among the negroes
in this county that war will be declar¬
ed with Mexico and that a draft for
soldiers will be ordered by tho feder¬
al government. They are very mnch
frightened and excited about it and
are afraid to lenve tho county nudei
any pretext thiuking that they will
bo entrapped into- tho army.
—Augusta, August 10'—The mills
all dosed, to day as the Augusta
factory hands did not return to work.
The Knights of Labor are holding a
large meeting with repieseutatives
from other States offering aid. The
master workman to night made an
address counseling peace and good
order during the lockout. Many
oporativos are said to have left the
city. There is no prospect of a set¬
tlement.
—Filberton, Ga., August 11.—It is
rumored that ‘blind tigers’ are nu¬
merous in Elborton, and efforts are
beiug made*to broak them up. Three
parties have been arrested and are
now awaiting trial for selling whisky.
Judge Lumpkm has ruled that the
town authorities have no jurisdiction
over the matter, and tho cases are
consequently brougLt in the state
courts. The defendants have de¬
manded a jury and will bo tried in
tho county court. Much interest is
mauifested by the people in the re¬
sult of the trials.
—The Burke couuty colt exhibit on
Tuosday last was a grand success
Tho display would havo reflected
credit ou any of the old stock raising
oouuties of the country. There weru
some thirty colts on the ground and
many showed all the marks of high
breeding. There are several stallious
in and around Waynesboro of tlje
best blood of the stock raisiog West.
Tbe exhibit is ouly a side show of
what will take place at the annual
fair next November. Our people now
see how easy it will be for them to
raise their horsos, and we think they
will find it much more remunerative
than makiug cotton. There were
several mule colts on the ground and
one of them, belonging to Mr. Cry mes
attracted the attention of every one
on account of its splendid form aud
being ulso unusually large for its age.
General News Items
— Ex-Governor Stephenson, of
Kentucky, is dead.
—Cutting fears that he will le
assassinated by the Mexicans.
—A British ship arrived at New
Orleans quarantine on Tuesday with
several cases of yellow fever onboard.
—Galveston, Texas, received oi e
hundred and thirteen bales of cotton
of the new crop in ono day, recently.
—Forest fires now raging in the
northwest are doing great damage
to the timber interests of that sec¬
tion.
—Rollen M. Squire and Maurice
:B. Flynn, two prominent Democrats
of New York City, have been indict¬
ed by the Grand Jury which charges
them with conspiracy to defraud the
city government. Squire i6 Commis¬
sioner ot Public Wo:ks.
—The forthcoming convention of
anti saloon republicans at Chicago
promises to be one of the most for¬
midable temperauce.reform gather¬
ings ever held in the country. Kan¬
sas alone will send thirty-six dele¬
gates, and it is expected that every
state will be represented.
—The suppression of tho saloon in
Iowa has produced an extraordinary
increase of slight maladies requiring
alcoholic treatment, although the
death rate of the State is uo higher
than it was in tho golden ago of the
dram-shop. A druggist in a town of
3,000 inhabitants filled eighty four
liquor prescriptions'in one day; a d
in ohe county with no large town 5,
000 piut3 were sold for medicine dur¬
ing tho month'of June.
—Washington, August 11.—Ar
railgeiheuts are being made at the
Treasury Department for a large call
of bonds in addition 'to the usual
monthly call of four million dollars,
to meet the requirements of the siiik
iug fund. The exact date and
amount of the cull have not boen
determined. It will, however, be
issued in a few days. Thg amount
will be cither ton million or twelve
million dollars, most probably ths
former.
— Washington,- August 10.—The
President to duy appointed David
Magone, of Ogdonsburg, N. Y., to be
collector of customs fur tho port of
Now York, vice Heddeu reraoveJ.
Magone i s a lawyer by profession
lie wtis one of the canal commission¬
ers under Governor Tilden, and wt a
very prominent in tho investigat< n
of tbo canid ring frauds. Ho was
not an applicant for the collectorship
and had not beeu pressed for the
place. The President tendered him
tho office some time ag°i and be
made known bis acceptance yester¬
day. Tbo resignation of Colonel
Hedden was received by tbo Pres¬
ident to day. It bears date August
7th.
—Austin, August 11— Governor
Ireland today issued the following
proclamation for tbo relief of the
drouth sufferers:
‘Whereas, it lias been made known
to mo that on aeconut of tho unpre¬
cedented drouth which has prevailed
in the counties of Brown, Coleman,
Callahan, Eastland, Stephens and
others contiguous, many families are
suffering for the want of bread; now,
therefore, I, John Ireland, governor,
confidently call upon the people of
the other sections to contribute to
tbe relief of their distressed fellow
citizens by forwarding without delay
funds to the county judges of the
several counties asking aid.’
—A mystery exists at near New
Haven, Canuecticut, which may equal
the noted Preller murder at St. Louis.
Three brothers were strolling iu the
woods Saturday, when their dog be¬
gan to whiue around a shoe box,
which ho had found. The lid was
taken from the box. Inside the men
found the mutilated body of a man
who had evidently beeu-dead two or
three days. The head was not in the
box with the body; the legs and arms
were cut off iu as good shape as if it
had been done by a -buteber, and the
remains were wrapped iu tarred pa¬
per. Tho body was three quarters of
a mile from any house. The wildest
excitement prevails. There is do
clue to the mystery.
—Belfast, August 9 —During the
riotiug which occurred here from
Saturday evening to an early hour
this morning, eleven peroons were
killed aud 130seriously wounded. A
majority of injured persons have shot
wounds. The riotiug was renewed
to-day and a fierce encounter took
place between the soldiers and mob,
in which a number were wounded. A
soldier at close quarters fired at a
boy shattering his hand. The sol¬
dier was arrested. Reinforcements
of troops to the number of twelve
hundred havo arrived-in Belfast to
day. At noon the attempts to stop
the riotiug have been
and the violence of tbo mob it in
~6- •n.irir rioter. b„»
wounded, xuo police Keep up h
merciless fire upou tho mob.
MAKING BIG PICTURES.
Proces* of Fainting Panorama* of Battle
Sente*. Now So Popular.
The question is a natural one as to
how these great panoramas aro made.
Tills is about the p- ocess :
A hexagonal building of brick is con¬
structed with dimensions generally
about 150 feet in diameter and walls say
50 feet in length. A conical roof, with
skylight a .d cupola, surmounts the
walls.
A canvas ot cotton cloth is then
stretched inside the rough walls from
groun 1 to roof, but protected from
touching the walls by a wooden frame¬
work. which is so fitted to tire inequali¬
ties of the building as to leave a sym¬
metrical inside sur.ace on which the
cloth is stretched.
When complete there is a canvas, say
450 yards in length,by 50 in hoight, arid
containing 2500 cubic yar's of cloth.
This cloth is heavily sized with a heavy
coating of glue and whiting, and over
tins a prepared, coating of paint. The surface,
thus is then ready for the
artists.
The d'rector-in-chiof on tho work of
Shiloh, Second Bull Run and the light
between tile Mondor and the Merrimac,
wasunemi- eutartUt of Paris, thirteen lie brought skilled
with him as co-laboreis
artists, each of whom was an experr.
They were the engaged fourteen already months named. in
producing Their [ anoramas visit battle-iield
habit is to the
selected for a painting, and to spend five
or six weeks in studying and sketching
it. The fi"ld is divided off into two sec¬
tions, and each artist takes a section.
He makes a sketch c f the surface of
the ground, the trees, the fences, the
buildings, and I he camera of the photo¬
grapher plays no insignificant part in
this preliminary work. These sketches
by sections are then ready for the can¬
vas.
First of a 1 tho sky is painted in dur¬
able colors, then buildings, t:io landscape, then
trees, foliage, etc. Then come
tho artillery wagons, dismounted can¬
nons, broken muskets, and all the wreck
which a great battle m ke i of the inani¬
mate machinery of war.
Tiieii are painted the war horses in all
colors and sizes and attitudes, living and
dead. Some look as largo as elephants,
and to the spectator out of all proportion
to their appropriate tho size, but this is a
necos-ity to lay foundation for tho
perspective. Last all, (lie painters tho
of creato
human warriors. For this purpose the
artists" ttiCmselves pose as models for
each ot er—in a bayonet charge, in do
fenso, in retreat, at rest, as wounded, as
soldiers dying, ns dead. Tho models of all theso
ou tho canvas were living
bodies, but the faces on the bodies woro
evolved from tlionrtista’ Inner conscious
n sa, aud each face in form and expres¬
sion must differ from every other face.
To enable all theso artists to work on
the canvas at one time, a railway track
is constructed upon which are placed
movable stagings of different heights, so
that all sections of tho work can bo
reached.
As each artist is unable to judge ac¬
curately, -when standing effect close of to tho can¬ and
vas, of tlie proper his lights
shader, the superintendent s anding on
llio platform directs where the tho spectators little will
stand, processes— a
more red in such a spot, a little less
brown in another, too much blue here,
not enough of green there.■
Ho lights ids battle on canvas very
much as the commandant of tho real
subordinates. fougtit his, viz. through ordors to hia
After tlie canvas has been completed,
then com s the foreground—tho blend¬
ing of real earth and gr.vs, ,-v.d trees and
rocks, ami straw-stacks and rail-fences
with shadowy ones, and lie beginning
and ending of each, so artistically done
that tlie beholder can hardly distinguish
the real from the imaginary line of separ¬
ation.
All the arrangement of theso material
objects are just as much tho work pf
artists as tho strokes of tho brush upon
the canvas. The foundation of that
steep hill upon which is a firing tree and
widu-spi ending branches, is a platform of
hemlock boards with about two Indies of
earth scattered on top. The roots of
that tree aro in a wash tub underneath a
wooden staging, and the moisture which
keeps the tree alive goes into the tub
underneath the staging, tlirough water
puts. \\ hen tho foliage at last suc¬
cumbs from lack of sunlight and
fresh air, as it will, sprays of aniline
dye are showered upon tlie leaves, to
make death look like life.
i...
Gold In Different ’ ""
Ei.rras.
Peculiarities in tho form of pold taken
from mining districts often gave a name
to tlie locality. Chunk Canyon, Slug
Gulch and Specimen Ravine aro examples.
A canyon in El Dorado county is called
Siring of Canyon. This is said to bo on ac¬
count the very singular form of tho
gold dust found iu that region. Much of It
resembles pieces of wire, ono anti two
inches in length, and some of it is as fine
as thread.
Observations of the form of their dust
orten led miners to make very valuable
discoveries. All gold, as is well known,
originally came from quartz. In its
natural stato in the quartz it is very ir¬
regular in form. Every rich ravine and
canyon had a gold-bearing quartz vein,
whose wearing away by tho elements had
loosened the precious metal, to bo washed
down by tho water among tho gravel and
sand.
When gold has been washed far from
its source tho attrition causes it to be¬
come fino and smooth. As tho miner
gold approaches the feeding quartz vein the
becomes coarser and more scraggy
till suddenly the pay gives out entirely.
Then it is certain that a rich quartz ledge
is in the vicinity, and in this manner
veins have been struck that havo yielded
many thousands of dollars in a few
weeks.
Gold dust buying in tho mining towns
was ear!v a days very profitable business in tho
of California. What was
called black sand composed principally
of iron, was always mingled to a greater
or loss degree with the dust when it was
brought to tho buyer. This had to be
blown out. aitd often the finest particles
of gold were blown out with it.
Titus in an office where a largo quan¬
tity of dust was bought much of the
fine gold wou'd bo scattered around the
room. Tho dustings of a buyer’s coun¬
ter and sweepings of his floor were often
worth hundreds of dollars a month.
Sometimes tho buyers were suspected of
cheating by in a more illegitimate manner
while slyly appropriating some of tho gold
examining they were shaking it around and
it iu the blow-pans.—[San
Francisco Post.
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Why Horace Couldn’t Sit Down.
“ Horace, why don’t you sit down?
You’ve hour." been standing there for over an
"Cawn’t sit down, Fweddie. Going
to the rccept on, you know.”
“Well, what of that? It's early
yet.” Just had eweased,
“ my twowsers
Fweddie. Do you think I’ve got s-s-e
softening of the bwain?”—[Life.
Too Much ot „ SwM
Jones: "How did you like your
****Z*?»1[ ^ disgusted wlth
Jones: “ You surprise me; I thought
,%T Tht „ ™
such a heavy swell on, we all got sick.”
—[Lowell Citizen.
nGHTHTG OPF HYDROPHOBIA;
i im.1. m ../n.t.r
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It is the first case I liavc overheard o'
a man's being able by mere will pow-i
to throw off this formidable and terrible
disease. The Oenet il apparently be
11 eves that hydrophobia is but a creation
to a certain extent of the imagina ion.
When he was a young man he wad
Surveyor-General D in Southern California
ring his residence there, tlirough the
purchase of land, he laid the foundation
for ids present fortune. II is favorite
sport at that time was the hunting ot
.wolves.
The hunters would go out armed with
lances and follow trained dogs. The
dogs would run down the wolves. Im
mediately following the attack one wolf
would always leave the dogs and com*
to attack the hunter.
Tlie General said one day when a woll
came towards the lance, with which he
could easily keep ( ff a d destroy any
wolf making an ordinary attack broke.
As his Iiinceiirnkc he Started to lack the
wolf under the jaw. His foot missed its
aim, and Instead was caught in thf
wolf’s mouth.
The wolr bit clear through his mocca¬
sin and wound, d him severely. So grim
was the grip of the wolf that he did not
oven release his told when killed. The
muscles supporting his jaws had to be
cut before his teeth could be relaxed
from his terrible grip.
When the General lelurned lo camp
as ho was alone during this experience,
lie was met by a cheerful companion,
who told him that the bite of an enraged
wolf was certain to produeo hydropho¬
bia. The wolf was undoubtedly in a
condition to communicate the rabies, as
tie had been worried to a great extent by
the dogs before lie attacked the General.
General Beale says that he did not
have any opportunity ot cauterizing the
wounds, and had attached no particular
importance to the bite until he had re¬
turned to camp.
There was liarlly a day T passed but
what his companion referred to cases of
hydrophobia resulting from wolf bites.
The result of this continued talk upon
the subject was to produce a great de
pression in General Beale's mind.
Within a short time he began to feel
sympion; of i.n approaching attack ol
hydrophobia. He had the most exlra
ordiua ry aversion to water. 11 was wit h
difficulty swelling that he could swallow’. A
came in his throat which threat¬
ened to close whenever lie sought to
drink. It was only by an extraordinary
effoi t of t* e will that he could force him¬
self to swaliow.
One day the General said to himseli
that unless he combated this growing
feeling he felt certain he would have an
attack of hydrophobia. So one morning
ho walked dcliliuintoly to a spring and
thrust his head into the water. He said
as he approached his head to the wa et
h j felt the most intense desire to jump
and scream mi l run away from it. But
he held himself right there and moved
his head up and down in the water until
he conquered this impulse and aversion.
lie followed up this practice until lie
felt the swelling in his throat g. ing
down and hi < aversion to water lessen¬
ing. He fel that ho was getting control
and this encouraged him. In a short
time all symptoms of the disease had
disappeared.
The General was firmly convinced that
If ho iiad for one moment relaxed his
will power during that trying time he
would have passed directly into a fit of
the Ho wildes has kind of hydrophobia.
never suffered from the bite of
the wolf since that time, although it oc
:urrel over twenty-five years ago.—
IN. V. World.
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IIow a Man line. Shopping.
“ You had better put them down on a
piece of paper,” said Mrs. S. on giving
her first < rder.
‘ Oh, no,” said Mr. S.’, “ my memory is
S°°d- Well,
“ then, a spool of CO Coa'.cs’
black thread.”
“Yes."
“ A yard of not too light and not too
dark calico.’’
“ Yes.”
“ A small hammer, a can of peaches of
tho I’a.ssadena -brand, a dozen small
peail buttons, two yards of cardinal rib¬
bon, silk on one side, satin on the
other.”
•' Yes,” said Mr. S.. thoughtfully.
lemons, " A pair of slippers for baby, a dozen
ouiiees a good sky-blue tooth-brush, a pineapple,
two of German yarn, an
ounce vial of homeopathic nux vomica
pellets, a-”
“ Wait a second,” said Mr. S., count¬
ing Ids fingers. bottle
•’ And a of vanilla extract and a
yard of triple box-plaited eropo Iisse
rueh'ngand three yaids of small-checked
nainsook and——”
But Mr. !S. had seized his hat and was
running What for the station.
the poor man brought home was
a yard of bed-ticking, three yards of
black crepe; a bottle of vinegar, eight
yards of nankeen, a scrub brush, a pound
of green yarn, sixly spools of coat
thread, a yard of very black calico and a
pint bottle of homeopathic pills.
“ There, my dear," throwing down his
package triumphantly, “ I don’t think
you'll find a thing missing. Who says a
man can’t do shopping?”
--
A Change of ’Coon*.
A negro, with an axe in Ills hands,
stood beside the highway skirting a
Mississippi swamp, and as wo came up
he said:
’’ Gem'len, he run'd right up dat ar’
gum-tree.”
•• What did?”
“A 'coon, sah. If you has got pistols
mobbe you kin fotcli him down fur me.
De. family am powerful hard up fur meat
jlst now."
Wo dismounted and took a survey.
An animal of some sort could bo dimly
made out hugging a limb high up. We
popped damage, away, but without doing any
and, as it moved along the
limb, the Colonel observed:
“That may be a ’coon, but I don't be¬
lieve it. I d sooner think it was a ’pos¬
sum.”
” Hu! but if dat ain’t a ’coon you kin
call dis vhil > crazy!” replied the man.
We rode away leaving him to chop the
tree down. It was about three hours
before we returned, and then we found
him seated on the fallen trunk. Begin¬
ning at tho his top ankle of his head and extend¬
ing to hones were bloody anil
scratches. His ga'ments were rent
tattered, his hands were covered with
blood, and he was trying to bind some
leaves on a bad wound on his left arm.
"For the land’s sake, but did the tree
fall on you I" exclaimed tho Colonel.
"No, sah; I warfell on by de anamiie.”
“Which was lb—a ’coon or a'possum?”
" Neither one. sah; it happened ter be
a wiid-eat!”—(Detroit Free Press. _
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Caught Another up the little meaning sound!
voice has breathed It clear;
And It so wandered round,
From ear to lip, from lip to ear,
Until it reached a gentle hoart.
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HEAVY GROCERIES,
Plantation & Family
Supplies.
Lumpkin, Ga June 1,-1880.
W. P. BURT,
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Fifteen ASVIER1CUS, successful GA. in
years practice Amer¬
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Write for terms nod prices. May 18.
The Augusta Chronicle
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AND THE
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For one year at $2,50.
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contains all the important news of the week,
and is filia l with interesting and instructive
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The price of tli 2 Weekly Chronicle is $125
a year.
TULLIS & JOSSEY,
Wholesale and Retail
GROCERS
—And Dealers In—
Planter’s Supplies,
FINE WHISKIES, BRANDIES,
WINES ETC.
COTTON AVENUE, AMERICUS.
July 10, I860.
Special Notice
BROWN & FRENCH,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
Staple Dry Goods
—AND—
PLANTATION SUPPLIES.
We also keep the Largest and Most
Complete Liue of
FINE WHISKIES. BRANDIES J WINES
o be found in the city. All of which
we sell very low for cash. The pat¬
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especially solicited. You can find
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site the Allen House, Americus, Ga.
March 6, 1886.
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CHEAPER THAN ANY HOUSE
m
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TRY THEM.
April 17.
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