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Italy is estimated to be worth about
$11,775,000,000.
Dr. Oppel, the greatest German
geographer, says that 1,700,000 square
miles of the earth are still uninhabited
or ownerless.
The deposits in the savings banks of
New York State last year increased
more than $40,000,000 and the total
amount due depositors now reaches the
enormous aggregate of $329,358,273.
No figures could more strikingly show
the thrift of the million and a half
people who use these banks.
The States of Virginia and Tennessee
have for years been engaged in a legal
controversy over the town of Bristol.
The State line has been supposed to run
along the main street of the town.
There are two City Councils, two
Mayors and two sets of police. A set¬
tlement of the dispute appears as far
off as ever.
It is stated in the Atlanta Constitu¬
tion that the colored people of the
United States support seven colleges,
seventeen academics and fifty high
schools, in which there are 30,000 pu¬
pils. They have 1,500,000 children in
the common schools and 24,000 teach¬
ers. More than 2,500,000 of the race
can read and write.
Here is a sample of Russian methods,
instanced by the Atlanta Constitution :
Three years ago an educated and re¬
fined lady petitioned the Czar in behali
of the people. She asked for suffrage,
free speech and a legislative assembly.
The Czar was so touched by her hero¬
ism that instead of hanging her he ex¬
iled her to Siberia.
In Germany every servant girl is
obliged to own a little blank book for
stamps. Once a week the mistress
pastes in the book a two-penny-half
penny stamp, which is purchased from
the Government. When the girl gets
old, or should she fall ill, the stamps
are redeemed by the Government, so
that the girl has a small sickness ox
old-age fund. The custom was ordered,
by the Emperor about two years ago.
The ex-Queen of Hawaii has prob¬
ably laid aside a snug sum of money,
upon which she can live comfortably in
her retirement, While she was only
heiress apparent her income amounted
to about $1000 a month, and after her
accession to the throne further appro¬
priations and investments raised it to
perhaps $30,000 a year. She owns two
fine houses, and, as she is a thrifty wo¬
man, she has doubtless saved a neat
little fortune.
The story is told that explorers
along the Nile have unearthed a plow
of modern shape, a telescope and a
photograph camera, the evidence being
indisputable that the articles are at
least 6000 years old. This is a fairly
good story, comments the San Fran¬
cisco Examiner. It might have been
advantageously rounded out by adding
to the collection a nickel-in-the-slot
machine, a type writer and a telauto¬
graph, but then it will do as it is.
A corporation asks at the hands of
the Delaware Legislature a charter
empowering the company to net the
little State with electric railways and
to light the villages along the line.
The company hopes also to include the
Maryland counties of the peninsula in
a comprehensive railway scheme. This
latter plan would involve a good deal
of bridging, as the whole eastern shore
region is honeycombed with navigable
tidewater streams, and villages five
miles apart in air line are often fifteen
miles apart by road.
The statistics of immigration into
this country for the first quarter of
1893 show a falling off of more than
one-quarter from the record for the
same period of 1882, the totals being
98,004 last year and 70,038 this. The
falling-off is most marked, declares the
New York Post, from those Nations
which furnish the least desirable con¬
tributions, Russia sending only 3663,
against 16,509; Hungary 3077, against
10,410, and Poland but 939, against
8246. Sweden and Norway, England
■rad Wales show scarcely any change,
but Ireland has increased her contin¬
gent from 3805 to 6929. Germany is
nearly a quarter behind her record a
year ago, while Italy shows a slight in¬
crease.
FOX* ’RING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1893.
TRUTH. j
There’s n hand on the rudder that will not! j
flinch,
There's no fear in the rilot’s face
As He guides the worlds, like boats in a
storms.
Through the rocking seas of space :
And whether . they , make the harbor at last
Beyond the shoals and the swell,
Or sail forever a shoreless sea
I know that all is well,—
And I learn these things from tho heart of
the wood,
Prom the solemn soul of the sea ;—
Por never a bird in a wire-bound cage
Told all these things to me.
And the soul of man is a sunward bird
With winpjs that are made for flight,'
To pierce to the fount of the shining day
And float through the depths of night:
And I read these things in that Bible of God
Whose leaves are the spreading sky
And the legible face of the dark green sea,
With the eye behind tho eye.
For truth is not closed in the lids of a book,
For its chainless soul Is free ;
And never a bird in a wire-bound cage
Told all these things to me.
For truth surges into the open heart
And into the willing eye,
And streams from the breath of tho steam¬
ing earth,
And drops from the bending sky
’Tis not shut in a book, in a church, or a
school,
Nor cramped in the chains of a creed,
But lives in tho open air and light
For all men in their need!
But the fish that swims in a goldfish vase
Knows not of the salted sea.
And never a bird in a wire-bound cage
Tend all these things to me.
’Tis the Voice that comes from the gilded
peaks,
From the hills that shoulder tho sky,
Through tho topless heights of a man's own
dreams
This Voice goes wandering by ;
And who roams the earth with an open
heart,
With an ear attuned to hear,
Will catch some broken cord of the sound
Whenever the Voice comes near.
But not past the prison of custom or creed
Will tho Voice or the Vision flee ;
Ami nover a bird in a wire-bound cage
Told all these things to mo.
—Sam Walter Foss, in Yankee Blade.
A CONFLICT IN A TUNNEL
EX HEBBEBT BUSSELL.
HAD taken my
I first-class ticket at
> the London ter¬
J II minus the railways, great of northern one of
I a and, hav
iu K » long night
•• journey to make,
l°°k e( l about for
Bgjjgsr “ " * partment, an empty intend¬ com
ing to swathe my¬
self in rugs and
go to sleep as soon as the train should
have started. I had but small diffi¬
culty in finding what I sought, and a
little well-timed liberality to the guard
secured me what I then considered the
additional privilege of being locked in.
It was about 6 o’clock on a late No¬
vember evening when we started; quite
dark, with a frostiness in the air that
speedily clouded the windows of the
carriage with hoary moisture, The
lamp in the roof of the compartment
burnt with a small, clear flame. I ex¬
changed my hat of latest metropolitan
build for a warm fur cap, raised my
feet on to the cushions of the opposite
seat, and in this posture drew a stout
traveling blanket about me, and com¬
posed myself to sleep.
I presume that I must have fre
quenly dozed off, for the roaring of
the train seemed to grow faint and dis¬
tant, like the subdued sound of surf
heard afar. But my nap was of short
duration, and I was soon wide awake
again, gazing out through a little space
which I rubbed clear upon the frosted
window pane.
On a sudden my eye was taken by
something stirring under the seat in
the far corner of the carriage. I
thought at first it might be a shadow,
caused to move by the oscillation of
the train. But, continuing to watch it
with a dull kind of curiosity, I was ex¬
tremely startled to perceive a man’s
head thrust out of the obscurity; a
pair of fierce-looking eyes glared at me
for a moment, and then, whilst I still
sat motionless with surprise, a man
scrambled out, and getting upon his
feet stood surveying me.
He was a burly-looking fellow, with
a coarse, ugly face, immensly square
shoulders and close-cropped hair. He
wore a loose, clumsily-fitting suit of
some gray material that looked sus¬
piciously like a prison dress. He was
without a cap, and I noticed that his
jacket was torn and his face a good deal
scarred. I gazed at this uncouth ap
paration in silence for a little while
with an expression, I do not doubt, of
considerable dismay; then I instinc¬
tively looked around me for some
means of communication with the
guard. The fellow understood my
gesture, and bis eye swiftly darted
around the carriage with an insolent
leer of satisfaction as he perceived that
the compartment was not furnished
with the usual appliance for signaling.
“All right, guv’ner,” said he in a
coarse voice. “No need to trouble yer
self. Yer surely don’t want to hlncon-
“TELL THE TRUTH”
venience the rest of the passengers by
delaying the train!”
“Who are you and what do you
want ?” said I, slowly clearing my
limbs of the folds of the rug which en
veloped me.
“Who am I, an’what do I want?”
he repeated. “That’s axking, sir,
. lhl > t it v However. J ain’t a-going to
tell you who I am, an’ as for what I
want, you’ll be finding that out before
very long.”
His maimer and the looks of the man
made me feel uneasy. Judging from
his appearance I guessed him to be
more than my match in point of
strength, and I was quite unarmed.
He turned and let down the frame of
the window against which he stood,
then thrusting his arm out tried the
handle, but found the door was locked.
He uttered an inarticulate curse be¬
twixt his teeth and pulled up the win¬
dow with vehemence.
“Let’s try the door at your end,
guv’nor,” said he, coming along the
compartment. I hastily rose as lie ap¬
proached and backed away a step or
two while he lowered the window and
leaned out to turn the handle. The
door proved to be unlocked. People
to whom I have told this story assure
mo that it ought not to have been un¬
locked, ns the off doors of a train are
always locked. I believe this is so, but
the fact remains. He drew in liis head
again with the exclamation of satisfac¬
tion, leaving the door unfastened,
though the rush of wind created by the
passage of the train prevented it from
swinging open.
“Now, mister,” said be, gruffly,
measuring me from head to foot with
his little deep-set eyes as he spoke,
“you’ve got to change clothes with me,
d’ye see? I must have them togs of
youru.”
“You will do nothing of the kind,”
I answered, resolutely, though with my
heart starting to beat a trifle quicker.
“Come, now,’’said he, “don’t make
no fuss. Ye’d best chop quietly. ”
At that instant the locomotive gave
a long screaming whistle, and the train
plunged with a roar into a tunnel.
“Look here, now,” exclaimed the
fellow, putting on a most menacing
air, and leaning toward me with his
fists clenched, “if you don’t do what I
want then out you go through that
door.”
Without answering I again sat down
in the middle seat of the carriage. On
this the man stood looking at me for
moment as though undecided how to
act. Then, perceiving my silk hut
resting on the rack overhead, he took
it down and put it on. This impudent
act of the dirty villain so incensed mo
that, scarcely thinking what I was
about, I jumped up and snatched it
his head. In a second ho
round and struck me a blow full in the
chest with his heavy fist; I grappled
with him, and then began a fierce and
desperate conflict.
As soon ns I closed with the ruffian I
felt that his whole effort was to get me
close to the door and thrust me through
it. He was an immensely strong fel¬
low, but as clumsy as a bear. I, on
the other hand, was light and nimble,
with some small knowledge of boxing.
For all that I felt myself greatly out¬
matched in that hand to hand fight.
No sooner had I grappled with the vil¬
lain than he gave me a blow in the face
savage enough to have broken my nose
had he delivered with as much judg¬
ment as he did violence. But I had
taken him by the throat with both
hands, and I continued clutching his
windpipe with the tenacity of a bull
terrier. We twisted and wriggled and
bumped from side to side of the con¬
fined space, and all the while I felt him
drawing me in the direction of the
open door. At last I twined my foot
about his leg and threw him ; he fell
heavily, striking his head against the
cushioned seat, and down I came with
him, still clinging to his iron hard,
muscular throat, upon which my grip
seemed to make scarcely any impres¬
sion. We rolled about for awile, each
endeavoring to keep uppermost, and
when with his superior strength he got
above me and knelt upon my chest, I
thought he would murder me as I lay
in that almost helpless posture. But
instead he gasped out, “Will you
change clothes now?” and whilst he
waited for my answer I got my fist free
and struck him upwards under the chin,
knocking his teeth together with a click
like the snap of a rifle trigger and
nearly dislocating his neck; and then
I gave a heave up which threw him off
me, and a moment later we were both
upon our feet again aud pounding
away as before.
I -was beginning to feel that I could
not continue the struggle much longer,
and that, exhausted as I was, he would
be able to drag me to the door and
pitch me through it on to the line.
My opponent breathed hard and fast,
but showed no signs of giving in. On
a sudden the train gave a violent jolt,
that flung us both against the bulkhead
of the compartment; the flame of the
lamp leapt up, then flickered a moment
and went out. We continued fighting
in a darkness as deep as that of the
grave. Now that we were both com¬
pletely in the dark, I felt myself -more
on an equality with my antagonist.
My sole dread was that I should find
myself tumbling backwards through
the open door. He had hissed out,
amid horrid blasphemies, his intention
of leaving me dead in that tunnel,
where my body might lie undiscovered
for weeks. Dead men, he said, told
no tales, and he wasn’t going to lose
the -liberty he had that night regained.
But all at once I felt him relax his grip
of my body, and he called to me to let
go. Glad of a moment’s respite, I re¬
leased my hold of the fellow, though
standing on my guard meanwhile,
wary of some desperate trick upon his
part. After a little, finding that he
did not renew the attack, I spoke and
asked what he was doing, at the same
time groping about to try aud feel
him. I received no answer, neither did
niv hands come in contact with his
Body. At that moment the train em
• ;ged from the tunnel, and the gloom
hi which the carriage had been
plunged by the extinction of the lamp
gave place to a kind of faintness sift¬
ing in through the windows, sufficient
to have revealed the figure of the man
had he been still in the compartment.
I had a box of matches in my pocket,
and with a trembling hand I pulled it
out and struck a light. The place was
empty. With a long sigh of relief and
thankfulness, I sank exhausted into a
seat to wait until the train should pull
up at its first stopping place.
Half an hour later we came to a
standstill in the station of a large
town. I sought out the guard and
told him vviat had occurred, He at
once dispatched a porter for the sta¬
tion-master, and when that official
arrived the two of them heard my
story, and then searched the compart¬
ment thoroughly. But not a trace of
the villiau did they discover. My own
opinion is that, taking advantage of
the blackness, he had gone out upon
the footboard, there to wait until the
train should slacken speed sufficiently
to enable him to jump off with safety
and make .good his escape. Be this as
it may, 1 never heard more of the
i matter, although the memory of that
experience lingers as a sort of night¬
mare of my railway traveling; and
whenever I now get into a compart¬
ment by myself I take very good care
to first of all peer under the seats and
make sure that there exists the means
of communicating with the guard.—
New York Advertiser.
Selling a Menagerie.
The great Wombwell’s Royal Wind¬
sor Menagerie was recently sold by
auction in London, the animals bring¬
ing but indifferent prices.
Tho cockatoos went off at $2 apiece.
Some of the parrots brought higher
prices, one going at $15, this bird be¬
ing able to speak in two languages
with equal fluency. One parrot care¬
fully described, in four languages, each
signifying “Mealy Amazon,” aroused a
wild spirit of competition and was
knocked down at $17. Two vultures
were found to lie worth only $20,
The pelicans took no interest in the
sale, although many complimentary
things were said of him, and was sold
for $20.
When the cassowary was reached
prices had gone up, and he went for
$98; but they tumbled when the mon¬
key cage was reached, and these little
fellows were bought for $2 each.
The porcupines brought $15, the
civet cat $18, the Malayan hear $23,
ocelot $17, while tho jackals went for
§2 each.
The kargaroo was considered valua¬
ble and brought $75, but the sacred
Indian zebu sold for $11 only.
One of the “baby” lions was handed
around and caressed amid much growl¬
ing. A five months’ pair of these were
sold for $240, a four months’ pair for
$200.
The great lion, the piece de resist¬
ance of the auction, a magnificent
specimen, only brought $800, while a
royal Bengal tiger went for $625.
Two lions and a lioness brought
$1200, three leopards $875, and a hand¬
some jaguar — which the auctioneer
called a jag-u-ar—was knocked down
for $140.—New York Journal.
An Easy Way to Fumigate.
That well-known and popular Hud¬
son River navigator. Captain George
W. Horton, of the Citizens’ Line, said
to me recently: “The easiest and
cheapest way to fumigate a steamer, n
room, an office, or anything else is by
means of burning sulphur. We have
a practice on the Citizens’’ Line,” said
he, “of fumigating our steamers by a
perfect system. We have little stoves
specially constructed to burn sulphur
and after every trip we fumigate ten
room, giving each one the benefit of a
half hour’s experience with strong
sulphur fumes. The result is that every
insect that might possibly get into the
bedding, every mosquito on tho wall,
and all the minute bacteria and bacilli
that float in with the atmosphere or
are brought in with possibilities of
disease are absolutely exterminated.
“Taking our steamers’ ten rooms at
a time day by day, we are thus able in
a single season to keep them perfectly
cleansed and free from trouble of
every kind. If any good housewitehas
the misfortune to move into an apart¬
ment which has been occupied by un¬
cleanly persons, and desires to rid her¬
self of the little insects that make sleep
uncomfortable let her buy one of the
iron candlesticks, which she can find
at any hardware store, and a candle
made of sulphur with a wick running
through it. Let her set this candle in
the apartment, close it tightly and let
the sulphur burn until it is all con r
sumed. I will guarantee that insect
life will not survive the entertainment.”
—New York Mail and Express.
31.00 a Year in Advance,
NO. 14.
To our Murray friends we
wish to say, that we are bet¬
ter prepared to sell Furniture
at low prices than ever, aud
we will make it to their in¬
terest when they want Fur¬
niture, Carpets, Matting,
Laee Curtains, Window
Shades and Picture Mould¬
ings, to call and see us.
CHEROKEE FURNITURE CO.
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