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Newspaper Page TextVolume XXXVIII.—No. 2- ALBANY, GA.. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1883. Price $2.00 Per Year. rh0 AlliVT X*wS, established 1843,The A L- *\XT AUTXKT1BU, established 1877, C<m>ol> stated Sent. 9.1880. Daily News and Aomruu u publish- u.ofcry morning (Monday excepted/. • Weekly News and Adyextiskk.every Ntuniav morn ms- WEEKLY ADVERTISING RATES. The consolidated circulation of the News axd o?"l«y““ r oe«^r “HI sSSH** 3 ’*** j eltow fercr is still spreading .circulation vest; Georgia. Oar bool •pection. The felloiring __ lie re for are proportionately lower than tl «per, and wilt be books are open for in- rates of advertising aan those of strictly eh erred mini 1 W tW 3 w 1 M 2 M s M ell 61 00 62 00 63 00 63 50 65 50 W 00 610 615 *.... z 00 0 50 5 00 25 y 25 1200 18 25 s ... a 00 5 25 00 6 00 12 00 15 50 22 22 4 ... 4 00 0 50 8 50 V 75 15 00 io OU 28 30 3 ... 00 7 75 10 00 11 50 lti 0U 22 50 34 46 6 ... 6 00 y 00 11 50 13 25 21 00 20 00 40 52 x CO S 00 10 25 13 00 15 00 24 00 20 50 45 60 ¥ CO 12 50 17 25 21 75 25 50 41 00 50 50 SO 102 1 col 16 00 22 50 28 75 34 25 54 50 68 00 Its 137 Trsesient advertisements must be paid for in* advance. All advertisements must take the run of the pa* per unless otherwise stipulated by contract, and then the following additional charges will be re quired: Iuside, generally, : : 10 per cent Inside, next to reading matter 23 ** ** In Local readinacolumns 30 “ “ Editorial notices other than calling attention to new advertisements and local dodgers, 20 cents per line for first insertion and 12*4 for each sub equent. dills •'••’advertising are due on the first appcar- iuceot suscrtlseaent,or when presented.except when other wise con traded for. I! M. MCINTOSH A CO. SCRAPS. A fall soot—The contents of a stovepipe. All society dancing U now (lone flat-footed ; not on the toes.—[Ex. Rural housewives have begun to dry herbs that will never be used. The rate of taxation in New York city for next year will be 2 29 per cent. It is the season for optlonated old gents togntlier poisonous mush rooms. A daughter o f Gen. Winfield Scott isjthe wife of a Virginia gentleman named Winfield Scott. A Mrs. Knapp, of Philadelphia, a .summer visitor at Deal Reach, N. J., lias erected a life-saving station at that point at her own expense. In a population of 1300,000, New York city lias 01,052 teal estate own ers. It further appears that, while the real estate annually increases in value the owners become fewer. London speculators are buying up our trade dollars. Within a week .$200,000 in these disgraced coins have been shipped to England. It is aaid that these purchases are made in the expectation that congress .will soon make trade dollars a legal tend er, or direct their demption at face value. Captain ZautlVet, of the steamship Britannia, which narrowly escaped wreck in an Atlantic cyclone last week, complimented his passengers by declaring that even during the height of the storm there was “no praying nor hysterics, nor any other EDITORIAL NOES. Mobs than 250young ladies are be ing educated at the colleges in Rome. Yellow fever is spreading at the Pensacola navy yard, though the city fortunately continues healthful. at Pensacola, and a number of deaths are reported at Tucson, Arizona. The Oriole festival to take place at Baltimore on the 11th inst. promises to be the grandest pageant ever given in that city. Advices from Brunswick made mention of a storm raging at sea dur ing Sunday. No damage was done that we could learn of. Jay Gould’s great hIiow, golton up for the delectation of Ihe English no bility, has taken place, On Saturday afternoon at precisely half-past three tomfoolery,” Evidently Ihe mi.mop- 0>clock the eeremon ' v of driving the ary was abroad whenever Captain ’ * ° Zanflret came around. The grip-cars on the Brooklyn bridge don’t work, and there are suspicious persons who say that the bridge trustees, some of whom are heavily interested in elevated rail ways don’t want them to be suc cessful. Their failure would aflbrd a speedy opening to what has all along been contemplated, namely, the running of elevated railroad trains ^ over the bridge. Among ihe stories of the Count dc Chambord’s last sickness, related by Vienna correspondents, is one to the ctfect that his passion for hunt ing remained so 6trong that he re cently had his couch wheeled out into the park, that he might there, propped up with pillows and his gim steadied by an attendant, shoot a stog”which was caught and led up to him for the purpose. While'Patrick Meanc was walking the other day in East Thirteenth street. New York, he found a little tin box, the contents of which rat tled when it was shaken. After vainly trying to open it lie set the box on the curbitotic and struck it with a stone. It vauished at once with a loud report, and with it three of Meane’s fingers. When he was ex amined at the hospital his legs were found to be full of fragments of tin. The box had contained fulminate of mercury. A Lady in London this season gave a reception and invited one of the members of the Chinese legation He came very early and happened to be scitod alone directly under an immense Japanese parasol that was suspended from the centre of the ceiling. Kate Field was the next per son to arrive, and seeing the foreign figure thus seated she supposed him to bo a part ot the decorations and paid no particular attention to him She was somewhat astonished and hardly able to maintain a sober coun tenance when she was led up and presented to the distinguished gentle men from the east. Windows with sashes which draw up are regarded with horror by the hrench, who call them gullotine win dows and have almost entirely aban doned their use. A few of the old casements, however, are still left in France, and one of them lately caused a tragedy in Havre. While looking out of such a window in a house in the Rue de 1’Hospital an old woman named Bassel was caught by the falling frame which descended squarely upon her neck, pinioning it to the sill and choked her to death, before the horrified spectators in the streets below could reach her. A writer describes the poen system of Mexico. The mexicans, he t-ays, especially, the less favored classes, are inveterate gamblers, who risk » u , every cent they can get iu gaiUJs of chance. This failing re sults in many of them becoming serfs. A man borrows a small sum —say $2 or $4—with which to try his luck at the gaining table. He loses and is unable to repay the money. He is arraigned, the dept is proved, and he is sentenced to work for the leuder until the amount of his obli gation is paid. By the time he has liquidated the original debt, be has contracted tnrec or four others, and lie belongs to the creditor’s horse or cow. His death does uot concel his debts; his wife or his children must labor till the money ia returned. Astronomy. Arkansaw Traveler. -V‘>iSo yeris studyin’ liggers, is yer,” said a negro to his son who had just come from school. “Yes, sir.” “Knows near ’bout all de figgers in de book, I reckin’.” “I don’t know, sir. I know a good many of them.” “What’s else is yer been study in'?’’ “I’ve been studyiu’ astronomy.” “What’s dat, chile?” “It tel's about the stars and moon and sun.” “What is yer foun’ out ’bout de sun ?” “That it is nincty-fliye millions of miles high.” The old man east his eyes up, squint ed, and replied: “Dat book’s a liar, fur de snn ain’t more den two hours high. Take dat hoe*an’ see how low yer ken make Jese weeds.” 1 As a tonic to enrich the blood, give strengtL and restore health, alter an attack of fever, nothing equals Farm er s Pills. Weedon & Dent, Prop’rs, j25.-2 T w3m . Eufaula, Ala. Our enterprising neighbors in Sum ter county will issue bonds, authoriz ed by an act of the Legislature for the purpose of building a new court house. Mobile, Atlanta and Nashville are making connections with the Alaba ma coal fields, the greatest js the world. Alabama is destined to be come the Southern Pennsylvania. Frank James, the noted o.itlaw, has been acquitted, though remanded un til the October term of court to an swer other indictments. The verdict was a genuine^surprise and muoh in dignation is manifested. It is lumored that owing to tin action of the Czar, who is endeavoring to ntiReat the present ruler of Bulga ria in order to place his own nominee on the throne, the other European powers are all on the alert, and war between Russia and Germany is ap prehended^ Mr. John Swinton, ot the New York Sun, when before the United States Senate committee on labor and education, said, in refering to the rap idity with which fortunes are now ac cumulated, that the time was not far distant when there would be the first billionaire on this planet. Upon our local page we five complete a review as pos.-ilile of the services and sermons at the vari us places of worship iu our city Sun day. We have endeavored to do am ple justice to all denominations. The News and Advertiser is not sectar ian. Like the sun it shines tor all. ST. CHOLERA’S SHRINE. JBSsernant’a Festival That Costs Fifty Thousand Lives-Wheretbe Cholera Infection Is Nurtured, and How It la Disseminated. golden spike which completed the Northern Pacific railroad ami perma nently joined the Northern Pacific coast with the Atlantic coast was con cluded in the presence of a large crowd, amidst the booming of cannon. In his charge to the grand jury in Nashville, Judge Allen said that “cer tain vile and infamous newspapers had made attemps to intimidate or break down the courts and juries by gotting up public sympathy for crim inals. But he said the number of this character were few, which was indeed gratifying when it was known that the journalistic field was so large. This, however, never affected him, and he hoped it would not affect him, and he hoped it would not af- tlie jury.’’* The Judge ia right One of Mr. Henry Villard's self- invited guests, a certain Lord Onslow, has been making a swine of himself. Whereupon the World says: “The British peerage contains a larger pro portion of snobs, cads, rakes, liber tines, bruisers,drunkards, noodlessand blackguards than can be found out side a rat-pit. * . * * * America is the last country in the world in .which a man should be se lected for honor merely because he has a title. The reverence for a title is a sentiment w^ich is spreading with uncomfortable rapidity, and in stead of being saddened we are al ways delighted when the adulation bestowed on a British peer merely because he is a peer is checked by the discovery that social homage has been paid to a titled ass.” A statue to LaFayetle was un veiled at Lepuy, France, on Thurs day, in Lie presence of an iumeuse throng of people. Mr. Morton, the United States Minister to France, de livered an address, in which he aaid he was rejoiced to be present and as sist iu this tribute to the memory of the Marquis de LaFayetle. He de sired to express the interest of the government and affection felt by the citizens of the United States for the patriot who, next to Washington, had awakened the gratitude of all Ameri can hearts as an ardent lover of liber ty. He had ever advocated the supre macy of the law, and his struggle was for the establishment ef constitu tional freedom. Would that he could now sec the noble result of hie work. Senator LaFayette, in a brief address, returned thanks to the memorial com mittee and the eminent men present for the honor conferred upon the memory of bis ancestors. A glass hen,now on exhibition at the Louisville Exposition, is thus describ ed by a reporter of the Courier- Journal: “‘Axford’s glass hen’ha- brought more chickens Into existence than all the old heus in the country with their "finical’ ways, in the last two years. Pretty little chicken* chirp as they burst from tie shell, over which no motherly hen has ever brooded. Only the kindly hand of na ture, sctntifically applied, has pro duced life. Axford’s Incubator beats the mother hen. If the hen is direlict in her duty, a dozen eggs will produce half the number of chicks. ‘The glass hen’ never fails, or hardly ever, to bring a chick for every egg. Every stage of the incubation is depicted in the electric light of the dark room until the moving chicken in the shell is discovered. If you wait long enough you’ll see the little chap break out of prison and commence to ‘peep!’ ‘peep!’ just like the old gen uine, old fashioned chicken in the mother nest. The inventive genius of the age in this discovery has robbed the ‘seltiu* hen* of all interest. She is no account along side of her scientific glass sister, who can produce more chicks to the dozen eggs than the most ambitious ‘Dominicker.* ” New York The temple of Juggernauts is in the town of Puri, about 350 miles South of Calcutta, on the East coast of Hindoe- tan. If it were on the West coast, near Bomba} r , cholera would be sent to Europe, and perhaps America, almost every year, unless the British Govern ment pleased, or was forced by other powers, to Interfere with these destruc tive follies. Tlie easiest way would be to suppress the temple-drummers. The people are nof naturally so anxious to go to Juggernaut, but about 3,000 emissaries, or drummers, of the temple are hired to go to almost every pro vince and district of Bengal in search of dupes. These they drum up from almost every, town and villeage. The differant bands of pilgrims number from twenty to three hundred or more persons, and at the time of the great festivals these follow each other so closely as almost to touch each other. AfcleasT five-sixths are * females, aiid ninety-five out of each 100 are on foot, but occasionally some big rajali or at nabob sweeps' along with forty or fifty palanquins, 300 bearers, and fifty aggnge-bearers, or with scores of ele phants and hundreds of camels or horses, in all the indescribable noise, confusion and dirt of Indian magnifi cence. Twenty-four high festivals Lake place at Juggernaut every year. At one of them, about Easter,* 40,000 devotees Indulge in opium nud hasheesh to a degree that shocks the observers. The great car-festival takes place In June, and lor weeks tieforeliand the pilgrims come trooping in by tlpms- aiuls every day. Day am! night, through, every month in the year, troops of pilgrims pour along the great Or- issi read to Juggernaut, and the vil lages lor 300 nules in every direction all have their pilgrim eucampments. They often travel frOtit 3,200 to 1,G00 miles, now a large portion of the way by railroad, hilt many walk or ride iu carts 300 to GOO miles, and are always forced by the drummers to make a full day’s march. Many a delicate child, girl, woman or man drops by the way- side, and all arrive at Juggernaut lame and their feet bleeding and bound up iu nigs. Then they rush into the sa cred tanks or into the sea, and come out washed, to dress in clean garments. They bathe every day, aud at the great festival 40,000 run together into the surf, ns Jeggernaut is quite near the Bay of Bengal. When the weather is tine the spiritual army can sleep outdoors, aud in the streets and ueighliorhood of Puri it sleeps at night ill hundreds and thous and , covered only by the one cotton ragment that clothes them by day. But, unfortunately, the natural drain age <»f the place is olistrneted bj' the sand ridges that run parallel to the coast, and not downward toward the sea. The chill of the night and the soaking of the dews are had enough, but the great ear-festivals Like place at the beginning of the monsoon or great rains, ami the water pours down from the skies in great solid sheets. Every lane and alley, and sand gully then.is invaded by torrents of water, and many weak aud dying pilgrims are wilted about; they are too weak to rise*ml n.any of them lie, ihrowiug their arms and legs around in agony. Some of them are rolled alxmt by the torrent until they have lost all their clothing, which is always mere wraps. Others lie quiet enough, having, apparently, died without milch struggling. Great lams of dead bodies are often formed behind which Ihe insufferable filth from thousands of other pilgrims ac cumulates The Bishop of Calcutta says: “The horrors are unutterable.” There are so-called corpse-fields alxnit the town where those who die daily and in tlie ordinary course of human events are thrown. Carrion birds are seen sit ting around, gorged; and wild dogs loung around tilled with the flesh of man. When the weather becomes too bail, these pilgrims who can afford it are forced in-doors into model loding houses. The town contains a resident population of 25,000 in C,393 houses, and 5,000 of these houses are arranged for the accomodation of pilgrims. The scene of agony and suffocation which take place iu these dens battle descrip tion. L>r. Mount examined the best pilgrim room, in which forty-five per- s ms had spent the previous night. It was thirteen feet long, eleven feet bread, aud six and a half feet high. •There were, of course, no beds, and each pilgrim had only as much room as he or she could cover lying down Iu another room, twelve feet by twen ty, eighty persons had slept. Each house Is built upon a sand or inud plat form four feet high. In the centre of this platform is a hole or cesspool, which receives all the household and the discharges of the residents. Some times tills cesspool has a drain to tlie street outside, though which a black, stinking ooze or pestiferous slime trick les into the street. Sometimes there is no drain, and all sleep around a deep open cesspool. The temperature of the room varies at night from S5 to 100 de grees, and those who live in temperate zones can from no conception of the suffocating stench which prevails. Here are also bred those malignant fevers which sometimes accompany and complicate cholera. Sometimes 1)0,000 people are crammed iuto these 5,000 lodgi.ig houses. The food of the pilgrims is also very bad. The temple kitchen has the mo nopoly of cooking for tlie vast multi tudes. When fresh it is not always absolutely unwholesome,although often made of poor rice and worse ghee or melted butter. But it is regarded as too sacred for the least part to be thrown away; all must be consumed. In the hot seasons large quantities soon undeigoacid and putrefactive decom position, and, in forty-eight hours much of it is a loathsomomiass, utterly unfit for human use, t must be eaten. The richer pilgrim^give this to the in digent, but it is dangerous even to the strongest man in the most rebust health, and most of the wayworn pilgrims reach the temple with some form of bowel complaint. This spoiled food is the sole nourishment of the large army of beggars that follow the pilgrim bands. But on the return jonruey the misery of the pilgrims reaches Its cli max. They have been plundered by the priests and landlords, and stagger along with heavy burdens of the holy food, which is either packed iu baskets or heavy earthen pots, or merely wrap ped up in more or less dirty cloths. Every stream is flooded in the rainy season, and they often have to sit for days on the hanks of rivers and brooks before any boat will venture to cross. Then corpses lie thick around, and their filth accounts for much of the cholera which haunts the precincts of many brooks, streams and rivers. One English traveler saw forty dead bodies on the banks of one small stream. Some drag their weary limbs along till they drop from sheer fatigue; others crowd into the villages and halting places, blocking up the streets after every avail able sleeping place has been crammed fall to overflowing; and every night thousands have no shelter from the pitiless, pouring nun. Miserable groups gather uuder the carts; those less fortu nate huddle under the trees; hundreds sit on the wet ground, without shelter, not daring to lie down, and rock them selves to a monotous chant through the long, dismal nights. It is impossible to cumpute the numbers who die going and coming from Juggernaut each year. Bisshop Wilson thought that 50,000 died, and Hunter calculated that one in every five sneumbed. Every year six times more die than fell at Waterloo. * “I scream with affright when a mouse comes in sight,’* said a girl to* her affianced one eve. “I scream when alone in the darkness at home, and thus the monotonous silence re relieve ; I scream when in bed, that should wake all the dead, if my sleep is disturbed by a horrid old dream, and when, after tea, you drop in and a9k me to stroll with you out iu the moonlight, Ice cream.’’ SPOOPENDVKE. He Wan la to Know Wbat His Wife IVould Do If lie Sbonld Die—She Tells Him. “My dear.” said Mr. Spoopcndyke, turning iu his chair and contemplat ing his wife with a solemn expres sion on his visage. “My dear, what would yon do if I were suddenly •silted away l»y the angels?* “Good gracious!” exclaimed Mrs. Spoopeudyke, dropping her scissors and looking up with a jerk *‘\Vlia! put that idea in your head ?” : “Don't you think they are just as -liable to come fishing for me as any one else?’’ demanded Mr. Sponucti- dyke, sitting up straight and rump ling his liiir ominously. “P’rap- you have got some kind of a notion that the rest of the world have a corner on this angel business, and that 1 am short on a rising market. What 1 asked wa-», what would you do if I should be called away with out any particular sort of wanting?” u You needn’t be afraid of that,” smiled Mr*. Spoopeudyke. “It is a great deal more likely that 1 will go before you do. Why, you are good for forty years yet, aud you know 1 am not very .-irong.” “Got it all fixed, haven’t you?’’ re monstrated Mr. Spoopeudyke, 1 straightening bolt upright and glar •ng at his spou-c. “Been making all the arrangements for the dissolu tion ot this family without consult ing anybody, haven’t ye? L tell ye, no mau knoweth when the last meanly hour coiuetli, and if you think your caudle's got any longer wick thau mine, you’re way off your nut, you hear?’’ “Yes, dear,’* murmured Mrs. Spoop eudyke, soothingly. “If vou should die, dear,'I think it would kill me.’* “Now you're talking.” grinned Mr. Spoopeudyke, somewhat molli fied by this concession on the pari of his wife. “You know the best oi us are liable to go any moment, and you can’t tell when I ain likely to be scooped up. Think you’d cry much?’ anil Mr. Spoopcndyke fold ed his arms and assumed an aspect of gre-tt resignation, as though lie al ready heard the bells ringing for him. “Why, of course,” replied Mrs. Spoopendykc, rather puzzled by ilic drift of the conversation. **1 should try to think that you were better oil. hut it would be n itur.il for mo t » shed tears.” “Just st»,*’ grunted Mr. Spoopeu dyke, “And if the natural teais didn’t hold out 1 suppose you'd chuck in a few artificial ones rather than not keep up your end of the stick. What makes you think I’d be better off?” he continued, a* he caugnt Ihe full force of the reflection that there might be some consola tion for his widow that lie had done a pretty clever thing by dying. “B«- glad, wouldn't you, to see me launch ed into the grave like a fence post? Bo a great deal of comfort to you to know that you would never see ine Again, or hear my voice any more?’’ ami here Mr. Spoopendykc broke down tinder his emotion and covered his face with his hands. “DonT you feel well, dear?’’ asked Mrs. Spoopcndyke, timidly. “L*h me make you a .cup of tea, ami you’ll soon get over your bad feelings.” Never mind,” whispered Mr. Spoopendye, in a broken voice. ‘I suppose you’d get the most expen sive mourning you could find and have it made up as becoming as tlie life insurance would permii, would you ?’’ “Ceitainly, my dear, if you wish it,” assented Mrs. Spoopendykc. Only I don’t think I could have it ready in time for the funeral. 1 could borrow a black dre>s until mine was don •, but—” “And suppose you could hire sonit- griel to help you through the allotted period of bereavement, couldn’t you?*’ hissed Mr. Spoopeudyke, for getting that be was theoretically dead, and bouncing off hi* chair. There would not be time to get on all the flounces and ruffiis between my death and burial, and you’d have to rent appropriate expressions oi profound melancholy. 14 that the way you want to be understood ? Couldn’t go to my fuucral unless you could outshine all Ibe other dod gasted widows in out set! That the idea you want to convey ? That the consolation you want to pervade my last hour with?” “No, dear,” cooed Mrs. Spoopeu dyke, somewhat at a loss to express herself, “What would you like to have me do?” Do?” roared Mr. Spoopcndyke, who had expected the prospective widow to burst into tears at the sug gestion of his demise. “What do I expect you to do? Go fishing! When the Trump of Immortality sounds for Spoopeudyke, and he re plies, ‘Lord, the remains are prepar ed for the sacrifice I* I expect you to get a lot of old hens together and have a candy pull! Understand it now ? Does that dying request con vey to your mind any intelligent idea of the last wishes of the de funct? Think you could carry out that bequest without getting the molasses all over the corpse?” “Yes, dear,” sighed Mrs. Spoop- endjke, struggling to keep the tears back, as in her imagination she con jured up the vesion of Mr. Spoopeu dyke lying in his coffin, his poor face all stuck up with treacle. Only I wouldn’t like to have a fire in the house when you are dead, be cause it would be so hot for the mourners, rnd, you know a corpse ought to be kept as cool as possible in this warm weather.’* So it ought, hadn’t it!’’ yelled Mr. Spoopendyke, rather startled by this practical suggestion that he might not keep long in. a warm house. “And the mourners ought to be kept comfortable if they are going to enjoy the proceedings!” he con tinued, remembering that in the enu meration of the reasons for not building a fire the feelings of the bereaved were cou-ulted before Ihe effect on the late lamented.’ ‘That busts that scheme. No candy pull over the remains of Spoopendyke. Can’t ye think of something else ?” I sav,*’ he howled, as a new and par ticularly bright idea struck him. “You might have a game ot ‘Aunt Sally’ with me! Set me up in a cor ner and throw sticks at me, and then yon could have in some ice cream for the mourners! That would keep all hands cool, and busts the hind sights off any funeral that ever come off in these parts! How does that strike you ? Think you could manage to put- up with my loss on a racket of that kind?” and Mr. Spoopendyke placed his hand to his ear as if anxious not to lose a word of his wife’s reply to this sensi ble proposition. “Wouldn’t you rather have me get some flowers, dear, and fill your l>oor coffin up with fragrance?** ask ed Mrs. Spoopendyke, looking up to him affectionately. “No!*’ roared’Mr. Spoopendyke, as the grim aspect of crosses, wreaths and anchors in tuberoses presented itself to him. “I don’t want any measly flowers. Think I’m going to He still in a box, while a lot of dod- gasted old women, headed by a prancing widow in a borrowed dress, march past and shy vegetables at me? Think I’m an opera singer, to hoist up in my coffin and bow every time a measly idiot fires a dandelion at me, and have some one in the back end of the church yeP ‘Speech F That your notion ol a funeral ? With your ideas about death all you want is a pair of silver handles and au autopsy io be a railroad accident!*’ ami with, this complicated illustration of his wife's views or immortality, Mr. Spoopcnthke slammed the door after him and went t*» the races. T don’t care,*’ murmured Mrs. Spoopeudfke, as he departed. “I don't care. At all (lie funerals 1 have ever attended they had flowers, and if we don’t have some when my poor husband dies, they’ll say we didn’t have any friends' or mouey. An\* way, I hope ho won’t dit, before I do, am! then he ll k»ow what trou ble it is to hunt up his own things, and what it is to be without any one to put them away for hitu,’ and with ibis sentiment. Mrs Spoopendyke put her husband’s razor strop “behind the clock and his pipe into the shoe hag, ami then sat down to wonder how she would look in mourning if she should ever be driven to the pinch. Champion of the World. Albany,. Ga. t SopL 10,1883. Editjr Neics and Advertiser: B.»ar with me if I briefly relate a never-io-be-forgolten incident of one of the Macon fairs. The boarding bouse for the night was crowded with occupants to senii- su(localion. The rooms were full, the back aud front porches were full, the passageways were literally crammed and jammed. As I pa-sed down and through Ihe hall to anything else than a bed of ro-es, I noticed in the centre of the passageway a peculiar, scared-looking individual prone on Iris back, aud yet already fast asleep and breathing much heavier than he shoiid have done to he a healths per son. Worn out and disgusted with the (lav’s doing-, I had just begun to settle m . self ior that short cat nap iuiatory to the deeper, awe ter slum ber, when I was startled to find that the peculiar individual, alluded to was making some in itcriai changes not laid down iu the programme for the evening. Gett ng well away fr »in his heavy breathing he soon began an exhibi tion of Iris powers as a champion -norer that immediately satisfied not only myself alone, blit his numerous hearers that we were now to be treated to a slnr performance with out an earthly parallel. Talk about describing his rich gilts as a snorer, why it would impoverish the miglitieM vocabulary ever instituted. I might have stood llie ^raigtfor ward, manly snoring of ihe fellow had lie not, at short intervals, given vent to ail inimitable, whistling as pirate or finishing touch both to his inha'ntions and exhilations. This wn9 too much for weak human na ture. I saw that a storm of indigna tion was fa-t gathering, and liable to break at any moment up »n the head of the man. I threw off the hearth rug, try only covering, and taking a chair I drew it cose that I might scan the features of this strange specimen of the genus homo. Pro foundly a-Jcep, ns he seemed to be, he still hid ihe inherent power to drive slumber from all lids save his own The lodgers from the adjoin ing rooms began to peer through partly open doors to ascertain the real caftse of the disturbance. One fair lady, heard bill not seen, sug gested a mammoth clothes pin for his nose as a sovereign panacea. An other alluded to a bucket of ice-cold water as ihe quicker remedy. Some of the gentlemen lodgers were for in stant strangulation or decapitation ai the only and sure cure. I succeeded, after much difficulty, in arousing him. 1 uld him gently of his un earthly, inordinate snoring, intimat ing that in view of the fast rising storm, it were prudent for him tc shift his quarters. With a stupid stare I can never forget he exclaimed with much indignation, “Do I snore?” Not exactly, I said, but for breaking window glass by spontaneous com bustion, as it were, tearing off clap boards and lifting roofs bodily, shin gles, rafters and all, yon are the champion and fairly entitled to the belt. That is the way with all sntor- ers, none of them will ever admit it S. CARRIED OVER NIAGARA. Remarkable Self-Possession of a Man Doomed to Sure Dcatls. At sundown yesterday a man was carried over the falls. Who he was is uot known. His dress and appearance indicated respectability, and after he got into the rapids his self-possesion was extraordinary* His boat was a very good one, decked over the bow, aud I should think would carry three or fourtons. No other than a person un acquainted with the current above the current above the rapids would venture so near them. I was on the head of Goat Island when I first discovered the boat, then near half a mile below the foot of Navy Island, and nearly two miles above the falls. There seemed to be two in the boat. It was directed toward the American shore—the wind blowing from the shore, and the sail was still standing. Being well ac quainted with the river, I regarded the position of the boat as extraordinary and hazardous, and watched It with in tense anxiety. Soon I discovered the motion of an oar, and, from the chang- o ing direction of the boat, concluded it %to forty-eight hours which formerly ELECTRIFIED LIQrOII. lloiv Whisky and Finn may b Given Ase Within a Feiv Hours. Ska Francisco Chronicle. The latest anti certainly the sirang- i est use to which electricity has been put is to a process of “giring age’’ to whisky ami wines. It 19 the discov ery of a Californian, who has suc ceeded in getting patents from the United States, aud has at the same time interested the Internal ilevenue Commissioner to such an extent that ! special privileges to experiment with bonded whisky have been ac corded him. A scries of trials arc being conducted at a store 011 Wash ington street, between Montgomery and Sansouir, under tlie supervision of a deputy revenue collector. Thu process iu ques'ion is exceedingly sim ple, and, if nil is true that is Claimed for it, it will revolutionize the liquor and wine trade. It is nothing more than a quick and cheap method of rc- tiuiug, that being done in from twelve Cook vs. Hilling.. In the cigar case of one of our popular barber shops will be seen the cut of a fine specimen of a bon- vine, with the legend written in pencil maik beneath it, “Cook’s Bull.” This refers to the well known story of how this popular ware houseman once met with a most ludicrous adventure on the Palmyra road. This we notice has been adopted as a trade mark by him, and we perceive thatlt heads Ihe adver tisement of this firm in some of oor exchanges. The Selection of this trade mark reminds us of the follow ing story told by Josh Billings of one of his own experiences: “A few days ago I was driving in New York, and had got jnst along side of the Metropolitan Uotel when a man with a satchel and duster balled me. Ue said he wanted to talk to me a moment, and so I drove around on a side street, and we stood and talked. ‘“Now,” said the man,, “six years ago I was going down to my law yer’s office, in the town where I live, to sign some papers transferring a matter of (10,000. Suddenly some thing of yours that I bad seen in a pape- came into my head. I stopped short; thought a minute; went on to the office and bad the papers torn up acd did something entirely dif ferent from what I had intended. I saved by that (6,000. Now I don’t know anything about how you are fixed, but if money is any object to you, it there is anything you want, I am ready to divide wiibyou. What will yon take?’ “I took a drink. We stepped into the Metropolitan bar, and, after a little claret and ice, I asked the man what saying of mine it wa-> that he had saved his money on? He said it was something like this: ‘Never take a bull by the horns, but take him by tbe tail, because then yon can let go when you want to.’ “‘Yes,’ said that stranger, ‘I con cluded it was jnst as well to take him by the taiL I could bold on jnst as well, I could steer him jnst as well and let go when I d -d please.’ “The next day I was talking with Hazard, the druggist. I had been to my artist and had a picture mads re presenting a man hanging on to a bull's tail for dear lire, the motto being printed underneath. Hazard saw the picture and immediately wanted it for a trade-mark for his canned beef. He drew his check for (400 and took it. - ’ had but one. While constantly ap proaching nearer and nearer tlie rapids I could discover it was gaining the American shore, and by the time it Iiad got near the first fall iu the rapids, half a mile above Goat Island, it was di rectly above the island. There ft was turned up the river, and for some time the wind kept it nearly stationary. The only hope seemed to be to come di rectly to Goat Island, and whether I should ran half a mile to give an alarm, or remain to resist in case the boat at tempted to make the island, was question of painful doubt. But soon tbe boat was again turned toward the American shore. Then it was certain that it must go down ihe American rapids. I ran for the bridge, rallied a man at the toll gate, and we ran to the main bridge in time to see the boat just before it got to the first large fail in the rapids. Then I saw but one man—he standing at the stern with his oar changing the course of the boat down the rapids, and as it plunged over he sat down. I was astonished to sec the boat rise, with the mast and sail standing, and the man again erect directing tlie boat toward the shore. As he ciune to the next and to each succeeding fail lie sat down, and then would rise aud apply his oar in the intermediate current. Still there were hopes that he would come near enough to the pier to jump, but in a moment it was gone. Another,, that he might jump upon the rock near tlie bridge; but the current dashed him from it under the bridge, breaking tlie mast. Again lie ro6e on the opposite side. Takiug his oar, and pointing his boat toward the main shore, he cried: “Had I better jump from the boat? 1 We could not answer, for either seemed certain destruction. Within a few rods of the falls the boat struck a rock turned over and lodged. He appearci to crawl from under it, and swam with the oar in his hand till he went over the precipice. Without tlie power to ren der assistance, for half an hour watch ing a strong man struggling with every nerve of life, yet doomed with almost the certainty of destiny to as imme diate and awiul death, still hoping with very effort for his deliverance, caused an intensity of excitement I pray God never again to experience. GOULD'S GREAT SCHEME. Bow He Is Intriguing to Sell tbe Western Union I’lent to tbe Goverment. Saratoga (New York) Special. Gould’s combination for the sale of the Western Union Telegraph stock ot toe goveument is much lalkedabout, as financial men all know that Gonid intends to push this project with the incoming Congress, lie has pre pared a plan which will be made to look fair at least. Ill the first place ■here is a very good sentiment being worked up in favor of the govert- meiit adding Ihe telegraph to thr present postal facilities. The argu ment against the government build ing its own lines ir that its so doing would be a source of great injustice to the private capital already engaged in the telegraph business. Private capital could not compete with the government, and the consequent re' salt would be a great depreciation oi value of all telegraph stocks. Then 1 be proposition for the government to take the existing lines will be put in a very insidious way. No money is to be asked outright from the gov ernment. Neither are the tax-payer.- to pe called upon for a special assess ment to pay for the purchase. The terms of the proposed purchase are the same as those accepted by tbe English government when it bought tlie telegraph lines of Great Britian— that is, to pay for the lines out of the profits ol the future service. The mo ment the government took posses sion of the iinrs there would be no more expensive suits, no mote pur chases of competing linos, no divi dends upon a watered stock, so tlist the clear profits wonid be large. It is believed the government would be able to pay for the entire lines in twenty years upon a calculation based upon existing profits. It would take over 1100,000,000 to take in all the existing lines at their present ral- uatiou. Something of this kind will have to be very sharply poshed by Mr. Gould. He sees telegraph com panics on every band, and realizes that with the addition of each mile of lines the difficulty of his realizing npon his immense holding of West ern Union stock is increaled. If he can carry through his project ofsell- to the government, he will withdraw from speculation and sit down to en joy his modest fortune. To accom plish this last deal is now the one ob ject of his life. He expects, of course, to employ the usual means employed by men of bis kind. Members who are a little obslnate may be petsuad- ed after they have become stockhold ers in the great scheme^It is believed that Gould would no hesitate to place twenty-five or thirty millions of the slock in such a way as to carry the jnb through. No plan ol this kind could by any any possibility succeed if it involved the direct appropriation of a dollar of money; public opinion wonid pre vent (bat, but in the present shape tlia scheme will find many cham pions. The strike and all of its in cidents are said to be part of tbe pro gramme arranged to affect public sentiment. The fact of this power ful telegraph scheme will add intei- est to the usual excitement attendant npon the Democrats regaining the House. He Didn’t Dtseoara^e Worth a cent An honest old farmer walked slowly into our sanctnm this morning, and we, of coarse, invited him to take a seat. He looked about the room for a few moments and then said: “As I was in town to-day—brought in a load of hay, I thought I’d drop in and ask yon a few questions.” “All right, sir, and it I am able to answer them I’ll do so with pleasure.” “I see the President and some more of them Washin’ton fellers are having a spree out West.” “Yes.” “Now, what I want to know is does all their pay goon while they’re frolic- kin’about the country?” “It does, sir.” “It do! Well, then, if it do. I’ve lost as good a cow as ever cliawd a quid, far I bet her agin a Saxony ram that they didn’t draw no pay w hen they weren’t doin’ no work.” Well sir; I’m sorry to say you lost your bet.” “Yes, I feel kinder that way myself. You see, I based my bet on justice—no work, no pay. Bur I find I’ve been mistaken. I see there’s abigdifference made between big-bugs and common 1-eople. Beckon I’ll haye to drive Lil over this evenin';. But I think I can study up something before I git home to ‘hedge’ on and win tbe cow hack jiorjiin *’ required years to accomplish. Two blocks ol carbon wrapped up in flannel are inserted in the liquor to be purified y and these carbons are connected with the positive and nega tive poles of an ordinary brush elec tric machine. Electricily is then generated by the usuai means, aud the process of purification and re fining proceeds. The chemical ac tion upoti the liquor is 9 uch that all impurities are attracted to the nega tive carbon-covering flannel. The excess of fusil oil also finds lodgment here, and when the cloth is removed it looks as if it had bceti steeped for a day and a year in tar fat brine. It is asserted that the liquor does not lose proof during the process. Light wines require about two hours of • his.electncchurning; fortified wines are rendered mellow iu twelve hour**, and the hardest and deadliest sample jif alcoholic distillation is made com paratively harmless within forty- eight hours. If all that is claimed for the invention is founded on facts its proper importance upon the wine making industry can hardly be over estimated. It will then be no longer necessary to send casks of port on sea voyages around the world, and Eastern wine merchants need no longer have re course lo the prevaricatiou that French wine, having undergone a sea voyage, is necessarily better than the domestic product. Age, the great desideratum for California wine, can be produced by the acid of a dynamo- electric machine. Every saloon can own a little machine, turned by hand, dog or steam, and every person can be personally convinced that the liquor which is set before him electrically pure and old. “Give it a shock” will become as conimou as “a little water, please.” The sting will be taken out of many a temperance speech, and mania a potu will no longer he dubbed “horrors.” OUT OF A GRAVE Corioca Relics Unearthed From an Indian Mound—Bones, Skull, Teeth and Readu. Birmingham (Ala.) Age. One of the most remarkable Indian mounds ever discovered in this region was unearthed near Birmingham on Thursday last. The mound is a mile and a'half uorLli_oQhe city, on a town lot near Village Creek, aniong what are known :is the Pump House lands. This lot was_ recently bought by Mr. A. B. Cheek, of this city, from Mr. A. N. Hawkins, a deputy sheriff of this county. On Thursday, while a force of workmen were engaged leveling the lot to clear a site upon which to erect a residence for Mr. Cheek, the first evidence of a mound conLuing relics wjis found in the shape of a piece of l»ot, which was brought from it depth of a foot and a half to the surface'. Friday morning, with curiosity ram pant, Messrs. Cheek and Hawkins repaired to the spot and had more eager digging and archaeological fun. Their anxiety and perspirations were soon rewarded. Two feet below the spot from which the piece of pot was taken, the diggers come to bones, and by care fully removing the earth, disclosed the remains of two human skeletons. Both lay stretched full length on their backs, one with tlie head North and the other at right angles to tlie til’st the head close to the chest bones of the first and feet to the East. There was no evi dence of any coffin or burial’case. The first, tlie larger, was the skeleton of a human of more than average height and frame, while the other in bones and length suggested a creature of de licate mould.. Was the larger the skel eton of a man and the other that of a woman ? The larger skeleton is most remarkably preserved, having a set of teeth without the least perceptible sign of decay. Swung about the neck ot this skeleton was a quantity of beads made of what seems to be lire clay. Among these beads was found two pieces of copper, each about the size of a case of an ordinary watch. It \v»s suggested these copper pieces formed part ot a locket or charm that hung on tlie bc-ads when strung around the wearer’s neck. The bowl of a stone >ipe was the only other thing found lesides the two skeleton. He Could Have Sally If He Wanted Her. Detroit Free Pre*s. A Detroit lawyer who had business in one of die northern counties a short time since put in a night at a farm house. It was a log structure contain ing two rooms and such furniture as pioneers get along with. The family consisted of an old man, his wife, and a girl of twenty, who was lashing around barefooted aud had a fist like a sluggar. After supper the old woman took a seat in front of the lawyer and suddenly asked: ' Do you wear- sicli fine duds all the time?” “All the time, madam.” “Is - that a real diamond in votir shirt?” “It is.” “And I heard you tell the old man you had a horse and buggy at homer’ ''Yes, ma’am.” And that watch and chain are real gold, I suppose?” “Yes, tlie real stuff.” “Cost as much as $200?” “Yes, over $300?” “My stars! Why, you must get as much as $40 a month and board ?” she gasped ‘Madam, I sometimes make $50 per day,” he placidly replied. Shoo! Why, you are worth a thou- and dollars!” “Yes, ten times that.” “Stars aud stars?” There was an interval of silence she recovered from her amazement. Then she tiptoed to tlie corner of the house to 6ee if there were any eaves droppers. Coming back she walked up to the lawyer and dropped her voice to to a whisper and said: “Say • We’ve bin saving Sally these last two years for the boss of a saw mill four miles up the creek, but if yon are struck on her and she is struck on you, I’ll run the old man six miles through the brush after a preacher to do the splicing!” The lawyer had to decline on the grounds of having a wife In Detroit, and the old woman felt so bad that the husband had to rise at midnight and makea mustard plaster. Illzh Rock Spring Water. As a Cathartic aud Alterative, this water stands superior to all. In the treatment of Dyspepsia, Constipation, Torpid Liver and all diseases under the head of Liver and Stomach. The usual cathartic dose is one glass full taken before breakfast Sold by all first-class clru/gists. Ad dress orders to the Higb'K ck Spring " Mu* whaled VJ POWDER Absolutely Pure. A marvel of pore More Thi* powder never Tones. trength and wholesomeneaa. thon the ordinorr Undo, and cannot be fold in competition with the multitude ot low iit.short weight, olosi or phosphate powders, mrf «ujr in ROYAL BAKING rOWPER COu nor-Mwiv Now Took. Nrw Oxuuxs, August i, IS S. TO THE PUBLIC. OVE8THUTB FOR YOURSELVES! Fostoutcr-Geueral GnwhmaL haring j ut>- llshol. wlllul Uld maUcJou fslscu.-ud In re gard to the character ot The Lou’sianu State Lottery Company, the following focta are Siren to tbe public to prone his •taiement, thst we sre tngagrd In a fraudulent bualneu, to be fuse and notree: Amount of prises paid by Tho Louisiana State Lotter> Co.panj Horn January 1st, 1*79, to present date: Paid to Southern Expreaa Co. New a-uoi., <0 ’*° ■ 8 Kennedy, Preablent. ald to Nerw Or.cans National Bank, A. ftatdwin. President .. Paid to Union National Bank, S. charlar >n. Caebter. Pat to Citlxt na* Bank, PridtoGennudg National' B-nk,"" Pald J “to U Sl»Na re ^.rBWnk, • has. Pnlfraj, Cashier . Paid to Canal Bank, _ Ed, Toby, (huhier . * Paid to Matoal Nation*l B «nk, Joe Mitchell. G ahfot. * T ta' paid aa abev * . .i.” Paid in iiibu f a tier f i, oo i th«- rarlt.Uf offices of thr (‘••tni-a»y throughout the United 8t ieo... .o .4 , Total paid by ail ~o~ For rbe truth of t)»J abo-e f cts we m r tb pubUo *0 the offleen of be above n.-m- d r«r pormtiono, and for nr leg lit unit t» d y to tbe Mayor and Offleen f the ity 1 > « Orisons, to the State authon’ieoorL . foun.11. and also to tbe U 8. OffldaU of oui»»u. We claim to be leca', honeot mm 00 r ct » all our tranaactloiio. a- much » *» t i* »i- noo xn the country. On. stand'ng is ... . ed b*~all who will Inv otigatr,u> d «>u - 1, baa for yean foen old at onr Board of li. «k era, and owned by many of oarbe»t k. owt and respected citizens. M. A. DAUPHIN, Pruident. 13, 1 tl 88. 8* 64,45 57,* 61 ST. 00 ^-CAPITAL PRIZE f $TS,000.4pv ticket# only $5. Share* In propor tion Win State lotted to. ‘Wtdo hrrtly certify titt tel tuperviie tht arrangmenu for all tit Monthly and Semi-Annual Drawtnyt of The Louieiana Stale Lottery Company, and in pereon manage and control the Dratoinye Iheoueloee, and that the came are conducted toUh honesty, faimeee. and in good faith to- aarde aU par tier, and me authorize the Com pany to use this certificate, mthfae-emila of our signatures attached, m ,U adoertiee- mente.” S3 assays®xSTBSLll] a w a iKWjmami in law 'Ol ialmtore for Educational expital of ft, tow HdedT fUDd 0l ° Ver ^ *°° haaainer By an overwhelming opnlar vote t»* •'foe waa mmte a part of the p «L»tJ nth»n adoi te*' Dee mho 79 The only Lottery e ■ropUo/any State It never scales trr postpone* It« Grand Single Nnmbe> Drawing ake Discern n-hly. * D OPP»BTV«m M 9 * ,888 - 1 «“ CAPITAL PRIZE. $75,000. 100,000 tickets at Five Dollars t ach F actions in Fifths i proportion. list or nuzjca. C • *TTAJL RIZb. *75 0 1 do do *5 (> I- do do , .... , RIZES OF 600 * sO io. (i 2 LO ... ‘So ■0 do SO i ft' « d° 2° 00 d*» 10- .. ,o do 00 do 2 p ATPKOXUIATIOK PHilKh 9 Approximation • >z * O’ $ i» • .75 !f *1 0*0 do d,. «.. j . *6T Prizes, amounting to „ application for rater to ctu a u » id fo v^uroint: the ° a '* ° m " _ Fo 'tnrlberinfirm. toe write early, git .° Tall nddreM. M ke P. O Money nr lo *"*■ * We *“ cl *“kt™**Begute.ealitnn NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK New Ori. an., L>. •rtlnsry lett. n by Mull . r Axjm*.- to SI. A. DAUPHIN, New rleans. La. •rB A. DAUPHIN, •07 Ser.ncla afreet. Washington, D. C. •eplk-wid-wlm. JOB OFFICE folprapandlto.cofnpete with anr eeUblfohmeniin the SUte in job PRINTING ! In AU Its Branches. We keep op with tbe times, and have ax tkllird workmen and u good prewet as can be founu in tbe State, and guarantee satisfaction to thou? who fkTor na with their orders. A.* 11 line of ' PRIlIEIS'STATIOHEflY always on hand, and thoae who will call at our office can make their selections from a large *n- sortxnent. Just received, a new stock of papn for Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Note Heads, Statements- Account Fales, Etc., Etc. Also a genera assortment of ENVELOPES BUSINESS CARDS Orders by mail promptly attended to. H. M. McIPfTOXH 4c CO- MACON. GA. vacoit A First-class COMMERCIAUBusiness School COLLEGE, equal to any North or South Semi for Circulars fre*- W. McKAY, • Pi stcip-f. xi^&jssnsrjiautfr. IcUMbiO, Wttdjc S fwn. •"HbmMil r KTfcio warn

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly news and advertiser. (Albany, Ga.) 1880-1???, September 15, 1883, Image 1