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BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1875).
Death of a “Robber King.”
The Hungarian papers announce the
death, in the prison of Szamos-Ujvar,
of the celebrated bandit Rosza Sand or,
known in Hungary as the “robber
king.” He was boru at Szejeuiu iu
1813, and both his father and grand¬
father were robbers by profession. His
achievements, those however, soon eclipsed
of his family, and he was admired
as much as he was feared. * The reckless
conrage with which he attacked the po¬
lice and even military escorts, on the
high road in broad daylight, his gener¬
osity toward the^>oor, joado and kis j gallantry
toward women, him a s-ort of na¬
tional hero. Some thirty years ago few
people of the wealthier classes ventured
to travel in Hungary without paying
tribute. His bands were well armed
and organized, and the szegonjj le
yenuek , (poor fellow), as the bandits
were called in those days, found many
sympathizers and accomplices among
the peasantry. He was first imprisoued
in 1836, but escaped in the following
yeir by the assistance of his mistress, a
peasant woman named Kati, whose hus¬
band he had killed by blowing his brains
out with a pistol. During the revolu¬
tion of 1848, Rosza San dor was pardoned
by Kossuth, and he then organized a
free corps which did good service
against the government troops. After
the suppression of the rising,'Sandor
resumed his former career. He did not
again fall into the hands of the authori¬
ties until 1856, when he was betrayed
by one of his companions, whom he shot
as the soldiers were advancing to capture
him. After a trial which lasted three
years, Sa^or waa aentenced to be hsuf:
imprisonment for life. He remained
eight years in th© fortress of Knfatein,
and was then set at liberty in virtue of a
general amnesty. But be soon resumed
his old pursuits. In 1868 he attacked,
with some of his companions, a railway
train at body Felegybaza. The government
sent a of troops under Count Ged
eon Radav, to capture him ; and four
years Inter he was again brought before
the criminal tribunal, together with a
number of his accomplices, among whom
were several magistrates and high civil
functionaries. He was agaiu sentenced
to death, and the sentence was again
commuted to imprisonment for life.
The prisou to which he was then Rent, is
the one in which he died.— Pall Mall
Gazette.
Murder, not Suicide.
Danish statistics have recently made
a revelation with re pect to the safety
of life in that country which, with good
reason, has startled the whole natioD.
For the last thirty years Denmark has
held the very first place among all civil¬
ized countries with rc spect to its rate of
suicide, and the rate has been slowly in
creasing year after year. No one has
ever been able to give a probable reason
for this singular fact, but it seems that
the Danish statisticians have set them
selves to work out the mystery, and
they have now succeeded in proving
that a very considerable number of these
alleged suicides is not .suicide at all, but
murder. It was first noticed that, while
the rate of suicides decreased in the
metropolis and the other cities, it in
creased among the country population;
an observation which, of course, puzzled
everybody. the In the period from 1835 to
1845 number of suicides in the town
stood to the number of suicides in the
country in the period as forty five to seventeen, bnt
from 1865 to 1875 the pro
portioa had entirely changed, and the
numbers now stand as thirty to twenty
five. Next it was noticed that a very
great number of suicides occurred in
one particular class of the peasantry,
and this observation was no less puzzling
than the preceding, as evervbuuy would
think that, on account of its easy cir
cuinstances, just this class should com
prise the most long-lived persons. It
is in Denmark a common custom for a
farmer or farmer’s widow, who has no
direct heirs, instead of selling the farm
and moving with the money to another
place, to dispose of it in such a way
that he or she remains in the place and
receives an annual pension. The cus¬
tom is a kind of life insurance, and has
always been looked upon as a good
thing, because it often brought the farm
into the hands of an able man of slender
means, who. in no other war, could
have found full scope for his energy.
But the very great number of suicides
occurring among these pensioners arous¬
ed the suspicion of the statisticians, and
finally one of them, Mr. C. J. Wolff,
came out with the direct assertion that
the question was here not of suicide,
but of murder. The authorities took
occasion of this assertion to reiuvesti
gate two recent cases of suicides of thb
kind, and the result was in each c as
full evidence of a most atrocious murder,
Brains in Farming.
Otie of the great painters replied
sharply What to an impertinent question,
“ do you mix your colors with ?”
“ With brains, sir.”
The answer ilSbr cqntains the secret of all
successful work no good work can
be done in any profession or trade with
out brains. The clearer the thinking
the better ib* Work. One great hiu
drauce to successful fanning has come
from the desertion of- tue country by
young they had men turned of‘ibiiity nod enterprise. If
thought, aiul energy to
the cultivation of the soil instead of to
manufacture-, and trade, improvement
in fanning wM have kept pace with
progress iu or lines,
-
a his college graduate” who had completed
practicing law studies, concluded, instead of
law, to try what he could do
in farming. He to ,k a large dairy
farm, stocked with good Jersey cows.
Starting at his work with enthusiasm
and intelligence, he made himself famil
iar with the best books on the dairy and
on stock breeding.
He kept an account of all expenses
and receipts and of the proUt from each
cow, and did all his work by plans care
fully thought out. He has found farm
ing to be profitable. H.s butter sells
for double the average price, and is in
great demand, and inquiries about his
stock arc beginning to come from West¬
ern ami Southern Slates, no less than
from New England.
Brains can make farming pay, and
find in it a stimulus to enthusiastic
Record of American Trotting Horses.
The following shows tho progress
made by American trotting horses in
the last half century:
In the year 1820 the best mile heat
was about 3.30.
In 1830 tbo record was 2.40.
In 1840 the best record, made by
Dutchman, was 2 28.
lo 1850 ths best record, mads by
Lady Suffolk, was 2.26.
In 1860 the best record, made by
Flora Temple, was 2 . 183 .
In 1870 the best record, made by
Dexter, was 2.17j.
In 1876 the best record, made by
Goldsmith Maid, was 2.14.
In 1878 the best record, made by
Barns, was 2.13'.
Edwin Forrest has made his half
mile in 1.05.
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“Are 5 on the saleswoman of whom I
bought this handkerchief yesterday ?”
asked a purchaser at one of our dry
goods stores. “I am the saleadody
who served you, madam,” responded
the redneed empress in banged hair,
long watch-chain and ringed fingers,
who presided at the counter. “ Well,"
said the customer, “ I will take a dozen
more, and sb I wish to get them to my
send washer-lady them at once, I will get you to
to my carriage around the
corner. get to the My ooach-gentleman cannot
door just now, for the cart of
the ash-gentleman.— Boston Bulletin,
NO. 45.
A Singular Escape from Death.
A recent number of the Reading (Pa.)
Eagle says : Our Topton correspondent
“ H," says that on Saturday evening, as
the laborers of Joseph Fenstermscher’a
mine, about a mile from Toptan (where
Isaac Eck wa. killed by a bank-slide last
July), for were about to leave their work
the week, oue of them, named Jacob
Barrel, entered a drift iu the side of an
embankment thirty feet high, at the
bottom of the open cut, where he had
been at work during the day, to bring
out some tools which he had forgotten.
As he entered he saw the bank immedi¬
into ately the give way and oomo tumbling down
cut.. Instead of retreating, and
crushed thereby probably being caught and
by the falling earth, with great
presi uce of m : nd he rushed quickly
into the drift in the hillside, the en
trance of which was immediately closed
by the rushing mass of many tons of
earth and stone from alcove. So quickly
did he disappear that his fellow-work¬
men thought he had been caught bv the
land-slide and crushed to death. They
at once sot to work to dig up his sup
l ,ORed dend ***7- The mws spread
“» d a crowd , quickly iisetnbled
; f npln,1 ro p the Ins "unwinding, grief stricken neighborhood, wife, who
»ng
burned to |bo spot to learn t*e fate of
ber husband. The men threftpat the
' ir \ ra I >1< RTld when near > mouth
. the 1 drift, 1 oue of the u hoping
? ^ b arro ° v ?l , b bad * nd!o escaped through death, the bed le earth his
tbe b*tfe and called to rol. To
,
their delight he answered In is living
grave, “ I am.all right; oc
With out* _ liarl
renewed energy __ and
wor ^ f *5 hour, the men
r t m ° 7 ed ■««««»» «artb and rubbish to
«f^t ?* rro1 au to opening crawl out, large which enough he speedily to allow
d,d * 8ftfo ftnd nuhl l rt » nm j d tb <> w,ld
°beers of , hw , comrades and the crowd
? rol,ud the cut. He hivd been confined
in tho dnft about two hours and a half.
After thanking his epmrades and friends
or th ,^ r a«ln«w effort* m rescuing him
rom bis hvmg tomb, he accompanied
bl * overjoyed wife u> his home m the
llkt, ° vll,a K e of R'^wn, DOar Topton.
How lo Doted SearUd Fever.
It is important to detect, the disease
wheu it first shows itself, for the reason
that it may run rapidly to a fatal issue,
and because early precautions need to
be taken against its spread, inasmuch
as the patient may eommuuicate it from
the very first.
Scarlatina is characterized by very nu¬
merous red points on the skin about the
size of a pin-head—though large in some
places, but seldom as large as a lentil.
leaving These spots adjacent are closely skin wholly aggregated,
the free.
About os much of the surface is free as
is covered by the spots. Where the
skin is free, it has a natural pale color.
There are generally fewer spots on the
face the than on with the rest measles, of the body. which It is
reverse for it is
most apt to be mistaken. Around the
mouth and on the chin there are no
spots ; hence these have a very peculiar
pale look, In striking contrast with the
scarlet spots.
Moreover, the spots are not as much
elevated as they are in measles; indeed,
also they less may be entirely flat. Tliey are
indented.
Their nearly circular shape, their
being crowded together, with free apacee
bitween the aggregates, their tolerably
uniform distance from each other, and
their nearly equal size, help to distin¬
guish them from other eruptions ; but
the paleness of the mouth alone is often
sufficient to decide the matter at once.
Besides these indications, almost
always the back of the month and of the
tongue he are inflamed, and the glands of
neck are swollen.
The bloodhound is now employed by
Spanish fishermen to catch sharks on
the Cuban ooaat.
