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Volume XXXYIL—No. 46.
ALU ANY. GA.. SATURDAY. AUGUST 4. IS83.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
This thing jf negro bucks assaail
ing white ladies is becoming alarm
ingly prevalent in Georgia- There is
only one sore way of stopping it.
Ever}' man knows how to do it.
James Cabey, the Irish informer
was shot and killed on. board the
steamer Melrose, white she was be
tween Capetown and Port Edward
Cape Colony, by a fellow passenger
named O’Donnell.
The proceedings of the Legislature
on Monday were unimportant. Mon
day is generally a dull day in (he As
sembly, ami as there were no bills of
great importance before either house,
the proceedings were not of much gen
eral interest.
A TERRIBLE DUEL.
GEORGIA NEWS'.
New Orleans Forty Tear* Ago.
Hun be to the Death."
“JETSAM.”
When days are brie lit and hope is high,
When nun and wind are sweet,
The little ripples dart and fly
Ami gladden at my feet.
And t-lnps far oif go sailing by
In sonic white-winged Meet.
.My heart is light; I laugh and sing
n.s l»y ni)>c!f J g •;
My thouuhlH, like gulls, on lazy v mgs,
Alov e freely to ami fro.
I lack not then for anything
Which nature cun bestow*.
Doo days began last Sunday, if we *
are not mistaken. It would have been .'
a very appropriate thing for I he Leg- j
islature to have made the dog law the J
special order for Monday, after having '
prayed over it all day Sunday. We j
love to see deliberative bodies go al
things right, even if they
complM) anything.
never ac-
But i f agai at that dimmest verge
Which joins the sky and amt sf-a.
Some huge, dark hand begins to urge
The waters wraihfully.
They sweep, in swifUy rising surge.
Through m3' eternity
And yet to-morrow to the sand
The little lord will tome;
To-morrow will be Kurin ami bland.
«»’er wrenihsof perished form
And weed and shell flung up In land.
Will meet me us I roam.
O soul of mine! thou art at set
By which I love to stay—
A brofcon-edged eternity
TV 1 lift me when I p'ny,
Why should I shun ihe agony
Which gives m. joy to-da)’?
O s'-ul of mine! thou hidesr well
'I lie seciels of thy brtvn-l;
1 only know by weed or shell
The distant and the best.
I bless the tide whose pulses lei I
1 hat after htorm is test.
How Money Came info (Imp.
United States I conoinist.
What is money? How tlitl it
come into use? Obviously it is :i
tool—an instrument—nothing else.
It is not an object sought for its own
sake, to be kept ahd used. It is ac
quired solely tor the work it does—a
mere machine. The dollars which
a man carries about in his pocket are
distinctly intended to he set to work,
ami that work is solely to be given
away in exchange for something else.
Money is the t>ol of exchange, the in
strument of obtaining for its present
possessor some commodity or service
which is desired, lint how did the
neeesity'T'arise for inventing such a
"Tool ? Many,economists answer that
cif value was needed, a con-
j^JjpSwwiyliicli would enable men lo
f^T&liyjbre* with each other the several
vtiTues or worths of the commodities
they handle. The farmer required to
know how many sheep lie ought to
give for a cart.Thus money was devis
ed to meet this want. Hut this is an
i entire mistake. A measure which
Should tell accurately the worth of
0110 commodity compared with that
of another was a want created by
civilization as it developed itself. A
far more urgent need made its ap
pearance at an earlier period.
Money got over the greatest diffi
culty which the social life of men
encountered. Human beings, unlike
almost all animals, were formed lo
make different eouimmliiies for each
other. How were they to be ex
changed? How could the men who
mutually wanted each other’s goods
he brought together for exchanging ?
A farmer was in.want of a coat, but
the tailor had no dc.-ire fo obtain a
call ; he was in want of shoes. Here
were two sellers and two buyers, yet
neither could procure what he need
ed. Money came lo the rescue. The
farmer «*old his calf to the butcher
for money, and with that money he
procured the wished-ior coal. The
tailor repeated the process with the
shoemaker. Thus money solved the
difficulties. Four exchanges were
brought together instead of two, and
two articles were sold and two
bought with money ; ami by this em
ployment of a common tool for ex-
t hanging, the greatest principle of as
sociated human life was established—
the division of enjoyments.
It is plain that the money lirst
bought the call and then traveled on
to buy the coat. It circulated ; it re
mained permanently in no hands.
It fill tilled the one service—to ex
change, to place two different articles
in different baud'*. Each man who
obtained the money intended to pass
it away in turn. Thus the Concep
tion, tool, comes out transparently.
It perforins its function by substi
tuting double barter for single; the
farmer firs; barters bis calf for
money, and then barters away the
>ame money fora coat. This roncep-
t 011 of money dives into its essence;
that money is a tool must never be
left out o? mind; it governs every
thought, every word about money.
If money was never thought of but
as a tool, the world be saved a vast
amount of idle speaking and writing.
The quarantine physician of Phila
delphia reported to the board of
health on the 29th, that Patrick Kelly
a seaman of the brig Julia Blake, died
of yellow fever last night, at the hos
pital at Lazaretto station, lo which
place he had been removed from a
vessel. A brig which was bound
from Ilavauna fur this port, loaded
with bones in hags is detained at
quarantine and will be throughly fum
igated and the cargo removed before
being permitted to pass up the river.
She will probably be detained for
three weeks.
A TKi.KCJham, dated Washington,
Jul}’ 30, makes the following showing
New Orleans Tinaw-Democrai.
A fatal but rather novel duel
occurred in New Orleans over forty
years ago. The young men were.
Henri Delegrav* aua Alphonse lii
vlerc, and the cause of the duel was
the success of the forntor I11 wooing
Mine. C’eh-stin. Riviere sought out
Delagrave uud found him iu a gam
bling saloon.
As he neared Delagrave, the latter
turned to coufrotit him, when Ri
viere, with a.voice that seemed to
come tioui behind the door of the
tomb, said : “Delagrave, we cannot
live on this globe together'; it is 110I
large enough f*»
Delagrave, quiet, putting his cigar
ette, in a cold and impressive tone
replied: “Yes; you annoy me. it
would be better if you were dead.”
Riviere’s face Hushed, and reaching
forward, lie laid the back of his
hand gently against Delagrave^
check. The game was at once inier-
rupied. The siap, which was so
light it did not even crimson the
the young man's check was enough
t«. call for blood, and leaving the
lion-e he sought an intimate frieud ;
to him lie opened his heart. “It
must he a battle to the death.’’ Such
wan the enmity between hiiueelfard
Riviere only a life could wipe it
out.
The old doctor, who had grown
tip, it might he said, on the field,
shrugged his shoulders and remon
strated, but at last acquiesced and
said: “Wrv well, then, it shall he to
the death.” *
TO THE DUELING GROUND.
Few people know what sort of a
party it was driving down the shell
road bordering Bayou St. John. Two
cariiages stopped just 011 the bridge
leading to the island formed there
by the bifurcation of the bayou, and
four gentlemen alighted. Savalle, a
well-known chaiacter here forty
years ago, accompanied Riviere, and
old Dr. Rocquet was with Delagrave
The seconds had met previously and
arranged everything. Delegrave, as
he stepped from the carriage, looked
of Ihe strength and malleability of the »>•?«*« «? P«*
tols, but seeing none he was a little
greatest government the world ever
saw. True the government would he
di-concerted. After walking about an
hundred yards from the carriage the
better off if Washington never saw j party stopped and Ihe doctor motiou-
Arlliur and his Cabinet again, but they j ef| ** ie,n *** «P|u*oacli closer. When
,7 . . they h.ul done so, he called them by
were ror the li " ,lre I ufiiue and said. ••Gentlemen, we
and for appearance sake, shouH, like | haVe dis-cn«*ed tiiW matter nearly all
the figure heads of any other boat, be of last, night, and both Mr. Savalle
placed at the prow: 'The executive I ll,u ^ myself leel satisfied that there is
branch of the United States Govern
solution to the di (Terence between
j .011 but the d«H»h of one.” The two
eminent ; s abroad. The President j „ u( |ded. -Theref-re,” the doctor
and every member of the Cabinet are | went on, “we have agreed to make
out of town, and the ship of state is i the arbitrament as fair as possible,
■ .„ 1 *.iin 1 and let fate decide.’’ He took out
dinting idly along in the shallow chan-! .. .
“ J 0 a black morrocci ease, and from it
nel of routine. The trusty janitor at J prof j llctM | a pill-box communing four
the White House is acting President. < pallets. -One of these,’’ said he, “con-
Aesistant Secretary French has charge
of the treasury ; Assistant Secretary
Davis, of the State Department; Chief
Clerk Tweedales. of the War Depart
ment: Admiral Nichols, of the Navy;
Gen Hazen, of the Post Office, and the
chief clerk is in charge of the Interior
Department. Tne government clerks
are having a picnic. There is no dan
ger of a Cabinet meeting, and the
government at Washington still lives ”
Tele-
It would seem that the
graph strikers are about to carry tli- ir
point with another company. A
dispatch, dated Washington,July 28:h,
says the ‘•Baltimore and Ohio Tele
graph Company, through its agent
here, to-day submitted to its opera
tors individually a proposition to in-
crase their salaries, if they would e-
turn *o work at once, in the foliowring
iati«»: Those receiving $10 and $50
each per mon'h, an increase of $25 pe»
month; those receiving $60 and above
per mouth, an increase of $15 per
inonIII. No guarantee, however, wa<
offered that these prices would con
tinue. There was nothing written
but the list of proposed increase, the
other part of the negotiation being
carried on verbally. The Baltimore
and Ohio operators politely referred
the company’s agent to the Brother
hood which they said was now’ man
aging the affairs, and under whose
orders they were acting. The Broth
erhood here has received no com
munication from the company.”
The Efllcleticy ol Prayer.
The Jersey City Journal in a re
cent issue says : “A venerable darkey
Baptist preacher, or exhorter, beat a
a lawyer in a Georgia court the
other day very handsomely and pi
ously. Tne colored preacher had
' *<ued a white man tQ recover $25,
’' which he alleged was due to him.
The defence was a •‘set-off,” the
white n.an claiming that he didn’t
owe the sooty person anything. The
defendant’s Uwcr is a Methodist,
and in his plea he took occasion to
say that while there were some good
men among negro preachers, is a
class they were very great rascals,
and Baptist negro preachers were
worst of all. The negro plaintiff's
counsel was a solid Baptist, and in
his reply he earnestly defended the
moral character of his client, the
plaintiff, and this so excited the old
preacher Jtiiat lie suddenly, in open
comt, raised his hands and eyes
heavenward, fell upon his knees,
^and exclaimed, ‘Let us join in praiV
Tire courl, lawyers and bystanders
looked 011 in amazement, while the
old darkey prayed most earnestly at
the top of Iijs voice. The jury found
for the plutlitiff judgment for the
full amout-claimed, and the white
Methodist lawyer will he cautious in
future how he provokes a Baptist
miniUor to get in his prayers in a
trial in court
JkkferSox Davis and his daughter
were seen by a reporter who visited
a seashore camp-meeting near Biloxi
the other day silting bare-headed
under a tree, listening to a sermon.
Both father and daughter ioined iu
singing.
The Tarboro Southerner, a North
Carolina paper, says of the sister of
President Arthur, who resided at the
White House last season, referring
probably to Mrs. McElroy, that she
once taught school In that State at the
reudence of Mrs. Dr.. Cobb, in Edge
combe connty.
The telegraph announces that the
body of Captain Mathew Webb, who
attempted to swim through the whirl
pool rapids at Niagara, on Tuesday
last, has been recovered near Lewis
ton. It is supposed that he was
killed by being forced against the
rocks at the entrance of the whirlpool
rapids by the force of the current,
which is terrific at that point. The
following account of his fatal swim
was sent to the Chicago Tribune:
“When told by Conway, the boatman
who rowed him to the spot where he
was to take the water, that he never
expected to see him again, Captan
Webb replied: ‘0, yes, you will—
you don’t know me. I am an English
man.’ After a few more words Capt.
Webb stood up in the bow of the
boat and dived head first into the
water. Then began the great strug
gle for life. A few vigorous strokes
and he was fairly in the rapids, going
breast on, his form a mere speck, as
seen from the great bluff above. He
weut like an arrow shot from a bow.
The first great wave he struck he
went under, but in a secoud appeared
way beyond. His efforts to strike out
in swimming form were weaker than
an infant’s against the seething waters.
The correspondent stood on the bluff
just below the curve of the rapids as
the Captain came down the river, the
fierce turbulence of which seemed
striving lo dash his life out. The
great waves seethed over him occa-
sioniy, but he always seemed ready to
meet them, llis great chest was
boldly pushed forward,and occ&sionlly
half of the magnificent physique of
the reckless adventurer was lifted
from the water, but he bravely kept
his position through it all, and seemed
pei tectly* collected and at home. In
a second more the voyager was lost
to view behind a projecting bank. So
the mad journey went on safely
through the tipper rapids. He pass
ed then through the lower ones. There
the waves dash higher, the water is
confined in a narrower space, and the
trip is in eveiy way more perilous.
How far he went alive no one will
ever know. He was seen by many
while passing this awful sea, bat ere
then he may have been de-id. His
body was borne onward, now rising
above, now sinking beneath the white-
capped waves. It was seen to enter
the whirlpool. The life of the. Cap
tains a positively fatal dose of prus
sic acid, the other three are hirni
less VVe have agreed that each
sha'I swallow two of the pills, am!
let destiny decide.” Savalle inclin
ed hi* head, ami said, as Ihe repre
sentative of Riviere, he agreed.
The two men were pale, almost
bloodlc-s, hot not a nerve -trembled
or n muscle contracted.
“Gentlemen,” said the doctor, we
will toss for tiie first pill.” Savalle
cried out ‘ tails” as the glittering
gold piece revolted in the air. It
fell in a bunch of grass, ihe blade*
of which, being separated, showed
the coin with the reversed head ol
the goddess of liberty uppermost.
“Mr. Delagrave. you have the first
choice,’’ said the doctor.
Reposing in the little box, the four
little globes seemed the counterpart
of each other. The closest scrutiny
would not develop 'the slightest dif
ference. Nature alone, through the
physiological atomic of the human
-toiiiiirh can toll of their properties.
In one case there rests the pall of
eternity, the stniggle for breath, the
failing of si»lit, the panorama of
years rushing in an instant through
—The morphine trade of Ameri
cas is f&id to be very large.
—The Newton county election on
the question resn'ted in a majority
360 for “fence,’’ or the present sys
tem.
—Near Win’erviile can be heard
now, and has been heard f«»r several
year.*, an- owl that cin “whoop” very
nearly like a man. Its whooping
has often been taken for an opossum
hunter.
—A few days since l wool Grifiiu’s
young men excavated the meal from
a large watermelon, and pasting the
rinds together very skillfully and
sent them as a present to a young
lady. They afterwards appeased her
wrath by sendmg an entire dray load
of melons.
—The lightning entered the tele
graph office in Athens, on the tele
phone line during the display of elec
tricity Tuesday evening and a flash
set on tire some paper that was lying
on the table. Lightning al.-o struck
two trees on the lower part of the
campus, ami tore them up fearfulty.
Sumter Republican: We learn
(hat Silas Smith, a very worthy gen
tleman of Macon county,lmd his resi
dence, kitchen and smoke liaiise,
with all his furniture and provisions,
destroyed by fire, one Jay laet
week. It leaves him in a deplorable
condition, as we lenru that he had 110
insurance
—Aiigu<>la CArwi/We: The Salz
burgers in Effingham county prayed
for ruin, and it caiue in abundant
-bowers. We have known prayers
to fail, and then again we have
known a destructive deluge to fol-'
low them. We-are trying to leave
the weather with the l^»rd.
—Capt W. II. Morgan reports
that the caterpillars are on Ihe plan
tations bordiring the Flint on the
Dott.y side. He thinks that they
cannot do much harm lo (he old crop
hi thirty days and by that time it
will he made ; but the top crop wil|
suffer very much. TIih opinion is
agreed to by those who have watch
ed the movement of the worm.
—An old conductor, has rcceutly
told the Athens Banner-Watchman,
that there is now very little danger
to passengers in railway travel, owing
to the substantial manner in which
the coaches were constructed: that
it was a mutter almost impossible to
smash up one of the sleeping cars.
The engineer, fireman and brakeineu
are always in danger, hut that it is
rare for passengers to get hurt, as
you could tumble one of the new
conches down a fifty foot embank
ment, and it wiltxuilv j ir the occui-
pauts. Every invention looks to the
safety of passengers. The best seat
to occupy is in the second coach
from the rear, not too near the end
of the stove.
IVEtPOSS OP WAR.
Erlrvatu** Invention for Murdering
tarn was gone.’*
tin* mind, the silence ami peace of
sleep forevermore, the cerements, the
buriaFcase, the solemn cortege, and
the close, noisome atmosphere of the
grave. All these were contained in
one of these little pellets. Dele-
grave, having won Ihe first choice,
Stepped forward and took a pill.
With a calmness which was frigid he
placed it on his tongue, and with
cup of claret handed him by the
doct »r, washed it dowrf.
“And now, M. Riviere,” said the
doctor. Riviere extended his hand
and took a pill.
Like his opponent, he swallowed
it.
The two men stood looking one
anollitr in the face. There was* not
a qu ver to the eyelid, not a twitch
of a muscle. Each was thinking of
himself as well as watching his ad
versary. One minute passed. Two
minutes passed. Three. Four. Five.
“Now, gentlemen.*’
This was the fatal choice. Both
meu were ready lor the cast of ^ the
die. Savalla tossed the gold piece
aloft and the doctor cried out “head.**
“Heads’* it was and Delagrave took a
pill from the box, leaving only one.
“Now,” said the doctor, “M. Riviere,
the remaining oue is for you. You
will
PLEASE SWALLOW THEM. TOGETHER.”
The two men raised their hands at
the same time, and deposited the pil s
on their tongues and took a draught
of claret.
One second passed and there was
no movement. Then—“Great God 1*’
exclaimed Reviere, his eyes starting
from their sockets. He turned half
round to the left, raised his hand
above his head and shrieked a long,
wild shriek that belated travelers
even to this day say they hear on the
shell road near the island.
He fell prone to the earth,and save a
nervous contraction of the mnsclesof
the face, there was no movement.
Delagrave took him by the hand
as he lay on the damp grass, and
said, in a tender voice, “I regret it,
but it was to be.”
The funeral was one of the largest
ever seen in New Orleans, and for
weeks ihe cafes were agog with the
story ot the duel. The beautiful
widow, horrified at the affair, would
never see Delagrave afterward, and
is now a happy grandmere on Bayou
Lafourche, having married a wealthy
planter two years after the fatal
event.
Delagrave, weighed down with the
trials of an unhappy life, wrinkled
and tottering, strolls along Canal
street of a warm afternoon, assisted
by a negro servanL Having a bare
competency, he had never actually
suffered from want; but he shows
evidence of a great mental anguish.
The sight of a pill box makes him
shudder, and the taste of claret will
give him convulsions.
S. H. Howard, a colored man, who
died .in Brooklyn the other da} at the
age of 84 years left a fortune of
nearly $500,000.
The news from Italy i9 that the
kingdom is much excited over the
expected arrival of the horse Damas
cus, which has been sent a3 a present
by Mr. Garret, the Baltimore rail
way king, to Umberto, the Italian
crown-and-sceptre king. A magni
ficent stable has been prepared for
the animal, and a commission has
been given to Story, the sculptor, to
make a marble statute of him.
—Darien Gazette: On Tuesday
last Fortune James, colored, was
kTed by lightning while s amliug
near a well. There was also a wo
man who was washing near the
well, stunned by the same bolt. She
was engaged in washing clothes.. It
seems that James was standing un
der the centre branches of the tree
which was struck, and the lightning
rm down the tree and off the end of
the branch, striking him oil the
head and killing him aim »sl instant
ly. The woman >oon recovered.
Fortune James was the uncle of
Toney James, the negro who was
banged in Darien on the 29th of
June. It is not strange that a per
son should be killed by lightning,
but it is a striking coincidence that
both uncle and nephew should die
such sudden deaths, and within so
short a time of each other.
—An Athens letter of the 25th 9ays:
In ita session to-day Ihe Grand
Lodge of Good Templars elected the
following officers: C. T., J. G.-
Trower; (*., B. IL Patterson ; V. T-,.
Miss|Mary Christie; W. H. Hunt;
T., R. A. McMahan; Superintendent
of Juvenile Templars, J. S. Keith,
Representative to the Right Worthy
Grand Lodge, R. M. Mitchell; L. N.
L. Jackson.
The G. W. C. T. made the follow
ing appointments: W., J. W. Mitch
ell: D. W., Miss S. E. Newsome ; C,
J. T. Smith; J. G„ R. E. Quillian;
O. G^ W. B. Jackson; A. S,
W. J. Osier; W., George Ware.
The, platform declares this an or
der ready to extend a helping hand
to the weak and Tempted; that, while
having no quarrel with man and
man, we are engaged in a life-long
warfare with the traffic of the rum
seller; that to procure prohibition
the people mnst be educated in re
lation to its evils; that nothing less
than total prohibition will satisfy;
that we recognize all other temper
ance organizations as co-workers In
the good cause; and that we are in
favor of the majority ruling.
Washington Sptcial.
Some interesting experiments arq
about to be made showing the use
to which dyiiaini e may be pnt in
naval warfire. It half'what the in
ventors claim is true it would seem
as though Mr Chandler’s new steel
million dollar vessels will be worth
just about their weight iu old iron
when they aie completed. A gun
tnat can plant a hundred pound) of
dynamite ag«inst the side of a vessel
a mile nw.y and blow her into smith
ereens promLes to |*rove a danger
ous clement in naval practice. There
are several experiment* about to be
tried which promises this result.
One of these is the creation of Cap
tain Ericssen, the famous inventor
who gave the nation the Monitor
when it was so much needed, and
probably turned the trembling bal
ance in favor of a reunited country.
Another is by if Jersey-City inventor,
who promises Urge results.
tie lia-t been here some weeks ex
plaining his invention to the Navy
Department and arranging fora teat.
This is to .nke place off Sandy Hook
within a short time, and the result is
looked forward to wiui a good deal
of interest. The «plan is to load a
shell with a large quantity of dyna
mite of the most vigorous quality,
and throw this against the side of a
vessel with sufficient force to explode
if. To give this projectile sufficient
force, however to carry it a very
long distance and. insure its explo
sion, the inventor applies several prin
ciples which are of themselves very
important.
Fir-t, he places his powder, which
Is to drive the shell within that ar
ticle. This he arranges in succes
sive layers, and by various degress of
fineness and closeness of packing, he
,so arranges that instead of exploding
all at once, as does the ordinary
charge of powder, it will explode in
successive flashes as the 9hell travels
along the length of the gun. It is
claimed that by this system a much
greater speed can be had for the pro
jectile, and of course it can be thrown
.i much greater distance and with
greater accuracy. Still another im
provement is a plan by which it is
proposed to do away with the
“vent,” of the gun.
The inventor professes to “toocb
off” his charge ot powder by elec-
trici’y. He says that hv this he will
prevent the ’ loss of a considerable
percentage of the force of his pow
der.
Eric-en’s invention is a small boat,
which is to run mostly under water,
carrying a novel gun, which is said
to he able to throw a submerged tor
pedo a distance of several hundred
yards. The guu is to be located
some ten feet below thj surface of
the water, and it is claimed will pro
ject .the torpedo shell a distance of
some 400 yards through the water
against the side of a vessel with suf
ficient force to explode the load of
dynamite it carries. The torpedo
which it is to shoot is about twenty-
five feet long and i ighteen inches in
diameter. It is filled for nearly three
feet from the tip with dynamite, from
the explosion of whicli nothing in its
immediate vicinity; could escape.
When the guu is loaded the gun
ner ascends to a point above the water
and gets his aim by aid of what is
known as a “fl ig pin,” and fires his
gun with a battery. It is claimed
that ihe torpedo will slip along under
the water without making a ripple
and the first thing Ihe doomed vessel
knows >he is knocked into a cocked
hat. A test has been made which
shows that the gunner can hit within
a foot of the spot arrived at, which
is considered quite sufficient as to
accuracy. The vessel. Ericssen says,
can be operated without difficulty,
even if the whole deck above water
is »iiot away, as that portion is not
essential to its management or accu
racy. These novel instruments, com
bined wiih the “inuiticharge gun,*’
promises a revolution in gunnery and
torpedo ►ervice.
LIABILITY OF CARRIERS.
A Decision W hich Applies to Tele*
graph as Well as Railroad Co in
curiosities ol the Patent Office.
An English jonrnal pays flattering
tribute to American intelligence
when it remarks that “a good per
centage of the inventions are of
American origin. In that country ot
geniuses everybody invents.*’ Yet
there is a ridiculous side to the
question. Some of the applicants
for patents create a laugh at their
expense if they do not get the pro
tection of the government for their
inventions. One man claims protec
tion for the application of the Lord’s
Prayer, repeated in a loud voice, lo
cure stammering. Another asks pro
tection in behalf of a new and useful
attachment of a weight to a cow’s
tail to prevent her switching it dur
ing the milking operation.~ A lady
patented a hair crimping pin, whicli
she specified might also be used as a
paper cutter, a skirt supporter, a
child’s pin, a bouquet holder, a
shawl fastener, or a book mark. A
“horse refresher” is a hollow pit p6i-
forated with holes, and connected
with a flexible tube, with a water
reservoir in the vehicle, so that the
driver can give the animal a drink
without stopping. - The “snorer’s
friend*’ is a luxurins contrivance, to
be attached to church pew backs,
so that one may sleep through a dull
sermon in peace and comfort with
out attracting attention.
London Purple, the great poison for
aterpillar8, for sale cheap by
23-ltd2tw Welch & Muse.
Don't.
Don't go In boil with cold feet.
Don't sleep in the same undergar
ments that are worn during the day
Don’t sleep in a room that is not well
ventilated. Don’t sit or sleep in a
draught. Don’t lie on the back to
keep from snoring. Don’t try to get
along with less than seven or eight
boars’ sleep oat of twenty-four.
Don’t jump out of bed immediately
on waking in the morning. Don’t
forget to mb yourself well all over,
with crash towel or bands before H
dressing. Don’t forget to take a good
drink of pore water before breakfast.
Don’t take long walks when the stom
ach is entirely empty. -Don’t start to
a day’s work without eating a good
breakfast.' Don’t eat anything but
well cooked and nutritions foods.
Don’t eat what yon don’t want, just
to save it. Don’t eat between meals
nor enough to cause uneasiness at
meal time. Don’t eat the smallest
morsel ouless hungry. Don’t try to
keep np on coffee or alchoholic stim
ulants, when nature is calling
you to sleep. Do not stand
over hot air registers. Do not
inhale hot air, or fames of any
acids. Don’t fill the gash with soot,
sugar or anything else to arrest the
hemorrhage, when you cut yourself,
but bring the parts together with
strips of adhesive plaster. Don’t
wear thin shoes, or light-soled shoes,
in cold or wet weather. Don’t strain
your eyes by reading on an empty
stomach, or when ill.- Don’t roin
your eyes by reading or sewiDg at
dnsk, by a dim light, or flickering
candle or when very tired. Don’t
sing or holloa when your throat is
sore, or you are hoarse. Don’t
drink ice water when yon are
very warm, and never a glass fall
at a time, but simply sip it slowly.
Don’t take some other person's med
icine because yon are similarly af
flicted. Don’t battle in less than two
hoars after eating. Don’t eat in
less thsn two hours after bathing.
Don’t make a practice of relating
scandal, or stories calculated to de
press the spirits of the sick. Don’t
forget to cheer aud gently amuse in-
valids when visiting them. Don’t
call on yoar sick friend and and ad
vise him to take some other medi
cine, get another doctor, eat more,
cat less, sit np longer, go oot more
frequently; stay a week, or talk him
to death before you think of leav
ing.
Tbe Uses ofthe Strike.
Boston Journal.
He was a seedy and not over-clean
individual, and his breath was redo-
lent of ru m as he Btopped aud thos ac
costed a gentleman on the street yes
terday : “Say, mister, I want to bor
row a"dollar. Pay you to-morrow,
sure pop, soon’s I get a letter from
Hew York. Ought to have my
clothes fall of money, for I sent oa to
my partner in business—prominent
broker on'Wall street—to send me
on telegraphic order for a hundred
and a half, but blamed telegrapher
gone and struck and can’t get nothin’
through. Hard case, ain’t it? and
pecnliar? but no fault of mine, you
see. I’m square, hut dash bloated
monop’Iy! What they what to par’lyze
business interests of country for?
Well, ’bout dollat ? Wher in the thun
der is tat feller I was talkin’ to?
Gone! Well, that’s a nice way to treat
gen’Im’n’’—and he went off to work
his newly-inspired scheme else
where.
New Tork Son.
Tbe interesting question has arisen,
whether the telegraph companies
can be compelled to receive and
transmit messages notwithstanding
the strike of the operators ? A ques
tion as to the duty of railroads to re
ceive and tranamit freight was raised
daring the strike of the freight hand
lers in this city a year ago, and as
that question was carried into the
conrtk aud stoutly fought over then,
the decision that was finally render
ed is of interest now. Suits were
began at the request of merchants ot
this city, in the name of the people,
by the Attorney-General, to compel
the New York, Lake Erie and West
ern and the New York Central and
Hudson Biver Railroad Companies
to receive and transmit freight in the
ordinary and proper manner in
which they received and transmitted it
prior to tbe beginning of the freight
handlers’^ strike. Peremptory wdls
ot mandamus agaiust the companiss
were asked for, bat Judge Haight
decided in the Supreme Court cham
bers, on July 28, that the writs
could not be issued, and a few days
afterward dismissed the Attorney-
General’s petition for the writs of
madam us.'
On the 17th of January last, upon
appeal from Judge Haight’s decision,
the General Term of the Supreme
Court reversed it. The opinion of
the General Term was given by
Judge Davis and concurred iu by
Judges Brady and Daniels.
Iu his opinion Judge Davis said
the motion involved the question
whether the people of the State can
invoke the power of the courts to
compel railroad corporations to per
form their functions. Corporations
were in one sense trading or private
companies, being owned by the hold
ers of their stock and managed by
officers elected by their stockholders.
At the same time railroads were,
from the very object of their crea
tion, public highways. The court
of last resort had already determined
the character of railroads as public
highways, and bad declared that the
fact that railroad corporations may
remunerate themselves by tolls aud
fares does not affect tbe pnblic char
acter of the road.
“It is strangely illogical,” Judge
Davis said, “to assert that the State,
through the courts, may compel the
performance of every step necessary
to bring a corporation into a condi
tion of readiuess to do tbe very thing
for which it is created, hot is then
powerless to compel the doing of the
thing itself.” As lo the poiut that
ihe State is not injured by the refusal
of a corporation to perform iu duty,
and has therefore, no interest in the
question, be said it was no test that
the SUte suffers no direct pecuniary
injury, and added:
“The sovereignty of- the States is
injured whenever any pnblic func
tion vested by it in person, natur
al or artificial, for the common good,
is not used or misused, or is abused,
and it is not bonnd to inqnire whet her
some one or more of iu citizens bat-
not thereby received a special injury
for which he may recover damages
in his private suit. Nor do we think
the fact that injured individuals may
have private remedies for the dam
ages they have snsuined by neglect
of duties precludes the State from its
remedy by mandamus.
“According to the statement of the
case,” the opinion continued, “a body
of laborers, acting in concert, fixed a
price for their labor, and relnsed to
work for less. The respondents
fixed a price for the same labor, and
refused to pay more. In doing this,
neither did an act violative of auy
law or snbjecting either to any pen
alty. The respondents had a lawful
right to take their ground in re
spect to prices to be paid, and adhere
to it if they choose, bat if tbe con
sequences of-doing so were in ina
bility to exercise their corporate
franchise to the great injury of the
public, they connot be beard to assert
that such consequences must be
shouldered and borne by an innocent
public, who neither directly nor in
directly participated in their causes.”
Upon tbe qnstion wbetber nil-
road corporations can refuse or neg
lect to perform their pnblic duties
upon a controversy with their em
ployes over the cost or expense Of
doing them, the opinion said: “We
think this question admiU of but one
answer. The excuse has in law no
validity. The duties imposed must
be dischsrged at whatever cost. They
cannot be laid down or abandoned or
suspended without the legally ex
pressed consent of the' State. The
trusts are active, potential and im
perative, and mnst be executed until
lawfully surrendered; otherwise
pnblic highway of great utility is
closed or obstrncted without any
process recognized by law.’’
The court decided that a railroad
company may be obliged to exercise
its duly as a carrier of freight and
passengers, and that the demand of
the freight handlers for increased
wages did not justify the railroad
companies in neglecting to perform
their functions; that a railroad cor
poration cannot refuse to perform
its functions because of controversy
with its employes over the expense
of performing them.
Jefferson Davie and YI organ’* Hen.
The following letter from the Hod.
Jefferson Davis, was read at the re
union of Morgan’s men in Lexing
ton, Ky., on Tuesday list: “I sincere
ly regret my inability to be with you
as invited, being too much debilitat
ed by recent iliness'to bear the fa
tigue of the journey, and the excite
meat of so joyons an occasion. Yon
have justly appreciated tbe many en
dearing memories of my youth
which cluster around the place of
your meeting, and it would be most
gratifying to me to' exchange saluta
tions with the survivors of tbe gallsnl
Kentuckians who left their homes to
mVntaio st everv hazard the princi
ples embalmed in early history of
their State by the resolutions of 1798.
Tbe name of your association is elo
quently commemorative of daring
deeds performed, of dire sufferings
borne and barbarous indignities in-
fleted on men who had bravely strug
gled in unequal combat to vindi
cate tbe rights their fathers left them.
With my respects please present to
yonr association the heart-felt good
wishes with which I am fraterna
lly,’’ etc.
DEATHS Flton FRIGHT.
Several Curious Cases IFbere Nerv
ous Shocks Proved Fatal.
Lancuaxe of the Mustache.
Even tbe mustache has Us story
to tell concerning the character of its
wearer. When it is ragged and, as
it were, flying hither and thither,
there is a lack of proper self-control.
When it is straight aud orderly the
reverse is tbe case, other things, of
conrae, taken into account. If there
is a tendency to curl at the outer ends
of the mustache, there is a tendency
to ambition, vanity or display. When
the curies turn upward there is geni
ality, combined with love of approba
tion ; when the curls turn down
ward there is a more sedate turn of
mind, not unaccompanied with
gloom. The reverse quality is well
indicated by the common portraits
of Shakespeare, who was S3 much
noted for cheerfulness and geniality
in life, as those qualities are manifest
ed in llis writings. It is worthy of
remark that good-tempered men
will, in playing with the mustache,
invariably give it on upward incli
nation, whereas cross grained and
morose men will pull it obliquely
downward
Globe.
The distinction between fright and
fear ought always to be borne in tniud.
Ferr can be measured by an effort;
fright has come and gone before the
brain has bad time to come to the con
clusion that an effort is possible. There
is no fear so strong in human beings as
the fear of death, and yet, “there
is no passion in the mind of man,”
says Bacon, truly enough, “so weak
that it mates and masters the'fear of
death. Revenge triumphs over, death;
love slights it;honor aspireth it. ” Pit-
ty, which is the “tenderest of pas
sions,” led many to kill themselves, for
compassion for Otho’s suicide. Even
tetdimm vita, mere utter weariness of do
ing the same thing over and over again,
will lead a man to defy bis inborn fear
of death. But what passion can guard
against fright?
A Jew. aeeordtngto LodovleusYives,
once crossed a narrow plank over a tor
rent in the dark, and, visiting the place
next day, saw the extremity of his last
night’s risk and died of—what? Not
of fear, obviously, because there was
nothing to be afraid of, but possibly of
fright. So, again, persons have been
known who always fainted at the scent
of certain flowers, notably that of the
May blossom, but it would be ridiculous
to accuse them of being afraid of haw
thorn.
Surgeon-General Francis, of the In
dian medical service, tells of a drum
mer who was suddenly aroused from
hiB sleep by something crawling over
his naked legs. He imagined it was
a cobra,and his friends collected by the
outcry thought so too, and he was treat
ed accordingly. Incantations, such as
are customary with the natives oil these
occasions, were resorted to. and the
poor fellow was flagellated with twisted
clothes on the arms and legs in view-
partly to arouse him, bnt principally to
drive out the evil influence (spirit) that
for the time being had taken possession
of him. With the first dawn of light
the cause of the fright was discovered
in the shape of a harmless lizard, which
was lying crashed and half killed by
the side of the drummer; but it was
too* bite. From'the moment when.he
believed that a poisonous snake had bit
ten him he passer! into an increasing
collapse until he died. The drummer
was not a strong lad, and the shock
was too much for him.
The most remarkable death from the
accident of fright wils that of the Duteli
painter, Penteman, in the seventeenth
century. He was at work on a picture
in which were represented several
death heads, grinning skeletons and
other objects calculated to inspire the
beholder with a contempt for the vani
ties ami follies of the day. In order to
do his work better he went to an ana
tomical room, and used it for u studio.
One3ultry day as lie was drawing these
melancholy relics of mortality by which
he was surrounded he fell off into ;
quiet sleep, from which he was sud
denly aroused. Imagine his horror at
beholding the skulls and bones dancing
around him like mad, and the skeletons
which hung from the ceiling dashing
themselves together. Panic-stricken,
he rushed headlong from a window oil
to the pavement below. He sufficiently
recovered to learn that the cause of liis
fear was a slight earthquake, but his
his nervous system had received so se
vere a shock that he died in a few
da;
ivs.
Fre
rederick I., of Prussia, was killed
by an accident of fear. He was one
day sleeping in an arm-chair, when
his wife, Louisa of Mecklenburg, who
had for 6ome time been hopelessly in
sane, escaped from her keepers and
made her wav to the King’s private
apartments, Breaking through a glass
door she dabbled herself in blood, aud,
in a raging fit of delirium, cast her-
selt upon ute King. The latter, who
was not aware of the hopelessness
of her lunacy, was so horrified at the
appearance of a woman clad only iu
linen and covered . in blood, that he
imagined, with a superstition charac
teristic of the age, that it was the
White Lady, whose ghost, according
to time-honored tradition, invariably
appeared when death was around the
house of Brandenburg. He was seized
with a fever and died in 6ix weeks.
More ridiculous tvas the death of
tile, Fre mil marshal, De Montrevo,
“whose whole soul,” says St. Simon,
“was but ambition and lucre, without
_yver having been able to distinguish
liis right hand front his left, but con
cealing liis universal ignorance witli
an audacity which favor, fashion and
birth protected.” He was a very snp-
stitions man, and one day a salt celler
was upset, at a public dinner, in his
lap, and so frightened was he that he
arose and announced that lie was
dead man. He reached home, and
died in a few days, in 1716, literally
scared to deatli by the absurd casual
ty of a saltcellar’s turning over.
A Match Faetorr.
Few if any people who are daily
in tbe habit ol using mulches have
ever thought how much of ingeijn
ity aud skill are expended iu their
manufacture. Yet the extent ofthe
match timber, 1 or as it is termed
lumber manufacturing business in
the United States and Canada, may
he fairly realized when it is stated
that one match factory alone paid
$4,000,000 in taxes dui-ing the' year
ending December 31, 1882, being at
the rate of one cent a box. That, tbe
manufactory had produced in one
year 100,000,000 boxes of matches.
The logs are bought in the first in
stance by the owners of one of the
numerous saw mills to be found
upon the river St. Lawrence and its
tributaries; and the mill owner dis
tributes tbe lumber after it is cut.
The wood used is pine and. spruce.
The match lumber factory is divi
ded in'o departments, in which the
manufactured match boxes; cases,
called skillets; mateh sticks, called
splints, and the round, wooden match
boxes, which are less used now than
formerly. Match boxs are made
from a square piece of wood by one
turn of a machine which consists of
two collars, a borer and a side saw.
The machine makes twelve boxes
and tweuty-fonr lids per minute ont
of a piece of wood an inch aud Ihree-
qnarteie square. When the box and
lida are. made in the rough, they are
placed together in a hollow roller,
which is rev lived by water power,
anil in this way the.defecta are .re-
moved, arid the whole box is made
beautifully smooth owing to the
friction created within the wheel.
The match sticks or splints are cot
double the length of the ordinary
wooden match , and when sent - to
tbe manufactory they are dipped at
both ends, and cut in the center
when dry. These splints are made
from solid blocks of wood, which
have been previously steamed, by a
machine which makes from twelve
to eight sticks at a blow, and all the
blocks are three inches square. In a
day of ten hdurs no less than 46,000,-
000 splints are made at Fitch’s iac-
torjr.
A North Carolina girl bad her
hand completely severed from the
arm by an axe. The physician, not
being a condition to amputate the
arm above the wrist, replaced the
hand, secured it with silver stitches
and adhesive plaster, aiid having
bound both arm and hand to a
broad splint, ordered them to be
kept warm witli hot flannel cloth.
The third day pulsation could be
plainly felt in the hand which had
also changed color. Says the physi
cian in charge: “I removed the
sutures oil the fourteenth day, and
afterward she carried the hand in a
sling, and is now—three months'-
after the accident—able to extend
the fingers and grasp with nearly the
usual strength/’
Tht Public it rtquuUd carefully to noth cite
new and enlarged Scheme to be dtawn
Monthly.
3S5-CAPITAL PRIZE, ♦75,OOO,_0»Sr
Ttckrta only $5. Shares In propor
tion.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never vanes. A marvel of pure
trength and wholeeomeneae. Mpre economic*]
than the ordinary kloda, tad e*nnot be sold in
rtition with tbeSffitwdeot low* -.££ort
it, alum or phoephate powders, old aniy in
Stati Miry to.
“We do hereby certify that we tupervue
the arranycmentifor all the Monthly and
Semi-Annual Drawings of The Louisiana
State Lottery Company, and in
person manage and control the Drawings
themselves, and that the same are conducted
with honesty, fairness, and in good faith to
wards all parties, and we authorise the Com
pany to use this certificate, with fae-tmilee
of our signatures attached, m tte adeertiie-
mente.”
ROTAL BAKING POWDER CO..
noT-Udwlv NawToax.
for Educational
poms—with a capital of fl,00r,000-to wl
r*»®rye fund of over *560,000 haaa
added.
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cnise was made a part of the present SUte
ConaUlutloa adopted DeermMr Id, A. D.,
IV only Lottery ever voted mb tetri endorsed by I
ixoplettf any State.
It never scales or postpone*.
, Its Grand SlnKleNomberDrawtuRe
take Place moaililr.
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CmCULAE NO. 33.
OFFICE OF THE RAILROAD COMMISSION
OF GEORGIA,
Atlanta, G a Jane 28th, 1888.
JAMES M. SMITH. >
CAMPBELL WALLaCEJ
L. N. TRAMMEjlL, 5
> FBEII
INCREASED .
■eby ordered'that each railroad
ny in this State at each and every
LIGHT DEPOT FACILI
TIES.
)—It is hereb
company
freight station shall provide on or before
the first Hay of September next ample
and suitable depot or shed-room for the
reception and protection from theft or
damage by weather of all cotton or oth
er articles of merchandise that may be
oflered them for IMMEDIATE shipment
over their respective roads.
2d—Where depot room is rot now sufficient to
meet this regnireme* a t, cheaply cone
•traded wooden sheds may be supple
men ted to folly protect toe cotton or
other merchandise stored from damp
ness by contact with tbe ground, aides
* or overhead.
3—Railr* ads are not required to receive cot
ton or other merchandise and warehouse
tbe aame unless the articles offered aro
orders for immediate shipment.
a. c. briscoe, James m. smith,
Secretary. Chairman.
Iaw4w
MACON
COMMERCIAL
COLLEGE,
MACON, GA.
A First-class
Business School.
Equal to any North or South
Send for Circulars free.
W. McKAV, - Prhcipil.
JOB OFFICE
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apeto with>ny;esfzblbhmeni in
the State in
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In All Its Branches.
We keep op with the times, and have as skilled
workmen and as good praams as can. be found
In the State, and guarantee satisfaction to those
who fhvor ns with their orders, it.., 11 line of
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office css make their selections from a large as-
raent. Just received, a new stock of paper
for
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Letter Heads,
Bill Heads,
Note Heads, .
Statements.
Account Sales,
Etc., Etc.
Abo a genera assortment of
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AND
BUSINESS CARDS
Orders by^mail promptly attended to.
H. m. McIntosh a co.
emetJLAE 170- 38-
OFFICE OFTHE RAILROAD COMMISSION
OF GEORGIA,
ATliXTi, Ga., Jane 27th, 1S83.
JAMES M. SMITH.
LI WAL
CAMPBELL WALLACE,!
L.N. TRAMMELL. i
Commissioners.
CHANGE-IN CLASSIFICATION.
O N and afeer Wednesday. August 1st, 1882,
the following^changes in the Commission
s’classification:
tth Class.
Mowers, Reapers and
Blnders.knocked down
and boxed -L.C.L 2d Class.
Sam*. C. L. not less than
20,000 lbs*
Fish, pickled or salted,
in kegs or kits ....
rrunks, single
Trunks, in vests or
with mf*rchui‘lise,crat-
ed or strapped.
BELEASEis
. M Class.
i>,' Class.
1th Class.
6th Class.
. C. BRISCOE,
-t
w4w a
JAMES M. SMITH,
Chairman
