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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1880)
Uncle Eset’s Wisdom. There is no victory so cheap and so C >mplete as forgiveness. If you suspect a man wrongfully you license him to defraud you. Luck is the dream of a simpleton; a wise man makes his own good fortune. Wealth in this world is just so mach baggage brain to be taken care of, but a culti¬ vated is easy to carry and is a pleasure. never-failing source of profit and Gratitude is a debt which all men owe and which few pay cheerfully. has Impossibilities are scarce. Mankind not seen more than half a dozen of them since the creation. there Happiness consists in being happy— is no particular rule for it. About all that cunning can do for a man is to make him incredulous. Too great economy in youth leads to avarice in old age. All prudes were once coquettes, and only changed because they were obliged to. Experience has a very poor memory and true charity none at all. A fair compensation for honest ser¬ vice is the best present you can make a man, and the best gift he can receive. Doing nothing is the most slavish toil ever imposed on any one. True eloquence is the power of com¬ ideas. pletely impressing others with our The charities which a man dispenses after his death look suspicious. prosperity Adversity links men together, while is apt to scatter them. Some men seem to have a salve for the woes of others, but none for their own. The Thunderbolt. The name thunderbolt, which is still in use, even by good writers, seems have been introduced in consequence the singular effects produced when ligiitning strikes a sandhill or sandy soil. It bores a hole often many feet in length, which is found throughout lined with vitrified sand. The old notion was that an intensely hot, solid mass, whose path was the flash of lightning, had buried itself out of sight., melting the sand as it went down. Jt is quite possible that this notion may have been strengthened by tlie occasional observa tion of the fall of aerolites, which arc sometimes found in the holes they have made, still exceedingly hot. And at least many of the eases in which light¬ ning is said to have been seen in a per¬ fectly clear sky is to be explained in the same way. Another remarkable peculiarity, long ago observed, is the characteristic smell produced ing ship. when In lightning old times strikes it a build¬ or a was sup¬ posed know to be sulphurous; nowadays we it to be mainly due to ozone. fact, all the ready modes of ozone, which are ns yet at the of the chemist, depend upon tions of electricity. 15ut, besides which is formed from the oxygen ol air. there are oiten produced nitric am mon iu and other compounds, from the constituents of air and of ous vapor. All these results can be <.t.eeu on a s uai. scale in the Rttl-Klillng Extraordinary. A correspondent the following: of the Fancier Ilollin Chronicle sends wood, near Manchester, was the scene of a rather novel rat-killing match the other day, between Mr. Benson’s fox dog, Turk, and Mr. Lewis’monkey, the for $85. The conditions of match were that each one had to kill twelve rats, and the one that finished thorn the quickest to be declared the winner. It was agreed that Turk was to finish his twelve rats first, which he did, and in good time too, many bi ts being made on the dog alter he had finished them. After a few minutes had elapsed, it now came the monkey's turn, and a commo¬ tion it caused. Time being called, the monkey was immediately put to his twelve rats, Mr. Lewis, Ids owner, at the same time putting his baud in his coat pocket and handing the monkey a peculiar hammer. This was a surprise to the out lookers; but the monkey was not long in getting to work with his hammer, and once at work he was not long him. in You ixnupieting the task set before may talk about a dog really being quick in at rut-killing hut he is not it with the monkey and hi3 hammer. Suffice it to say, the monkey won with ease, having time to spare at the finish. Many key persons present thought the the mon¬ would worry the rats in same way as a dog; but the conditions said to kill, and the monkey killed with a ven gence, and won the $95, besides a lot of bets for his owner. Perils of Coal Mining. At the recent meeting of the Social Science association at Saratoga a report wa« made by Joseph D. Weeks, editor the Iron Age, on behalf of the on casualties in coal mining, a lo called which public attention terribly has fatal just bv the recent altv in Pennsylvania in England. The report states lost one man was each 84,0,10 tons of coal raised in antkrecite region in 1669, and in one for 105.000, a much greater tality than in England, the greater danger of explosions and undations in the latter country. Ohio the figures, confessedly give one death to 149.253 tons o? raised in 1874, and in 1878 one death 255.000 tons raised. While dents are unavoidable, there is no that a great majority of the e'ome from the carelessness e>f who will not hesitate to open a lamp surrounded by fire damn to light Pipe The peril from the tailing ol ing mid slate is greater, however, any other, being about forty per of the total; and of these the hem s the least, b. cause they lu -so result mon. Those ar- too often the forget fulness, rashness or neglect. fault again, workmen are more at eiployera. In fact, carelessness miners to neglect are common incredible. among degree which seems A WOMAN’S CHECKERED CAREER. Knci _ . of a i.on* tAfr Filled with Remark wt lreL Ab, jah bmith is dead._ Thu3 en^s _\ a eareer strangely interesting be vaned lights and shadows— nta L?le romance. On the high forti neo rock of Gibraltar there was born to !!!?„ summer not) of e r 1793, .2V., s8 an i heiress, Ganneclifit, upon whom m the witii much ceremony and pomp was oes.owed the cbristian name of Isabella, mis infant is she who, at the age of eighty-seven, ha • been given a last rest ing-place passed the at Mou.repose. life Four years in of the child-heiress of iiannecuni, and a dreadful epidemic that scourged “ the rock ” left her doubly an were orphan; lost to both her, and lather by adoption and mother she beeame a member of a certain noble Spanish family, who gave much more care to all else than moral or mental cuiture. She was in possession of her father s large estates, and with every attention given to her whims and will fulness her development was rapid even for that clime; at twelve she was mar ried, at thirteen was a mother, and at seventeen a widow with four children, Her husband was Jose De Sa Manos, a Spanish gentleman of leisure, the victim ol a duel entered into upon her account, Not long subsequent to the death of De Sa Manos three of his four children died; relative thus was his widow left with but one in the world. This was a daughter, christened Inez, who, in ac cordance with the written will of her father, was consigned to the care of a Catholic sisterhood in Paris, for instruc tion such as he deemed meet. To the daughter and went all the father’s property, Donna Isabella was once more “afloat in the world,” with no tie lo bind her to the prudent life that should have been hers. The season of 1815 was a brilliant one at from Gibraltar, all and visitors were there over the world—among others Captain of George W. Walker, the owner an American trading vessel, and brother of Commodore Walker, of the United States navy. At a ball given by the American consul Captain Walker met Madame De Sa Manos, and, despite effect, numerous that warnings from friends to the she was the “ greatest flirt in Gibraltar,” her within two weeks he carried off* as his bride. Turning all her convertible property into gold, she sailed with her new ‘lord for Philadel pliia. llis rank in his country was high, he Winthrops being directly connected with the and others of the first fami lies of New England; and he was pos sessed of much wealth, having a rarely excellent trade between New York Philadelphia married life and Southern ports. The of Captain and Mrs.Walker was. however, not all sunshine. It ex tended over twoscore years; the first fourth of which the lady was exceed iugly glad in the constant company of her husband, sailing with him on overy voyage, and * becoming feo far the master of navigation that according to her boast of after years, she was on one occasion, with the gallant captain seriously ir. ured and below deck, able to save his vessel from the fury of a gulf storm, But the time came when she tired of sea life, and, while her husband continued to sail, she deemed it much more agree able to shine in social circles at Sar atoga and Niagara in the summer and at Washington and other of centers when reached the snow the came. Rumors Walker intrigue tides ears of Captain home, when and fair fre would bring him quent and bitter were the seen -3 of do mestic shone with infelicity. At Washington attracted she the circle that the foremost men of the nation. “Andrew Jackson.” said she. “has pleaded with me for favor, and more than one Sena or has prayed me to notice his cause . Martin Van Buren time and again sin gled me out in crowded drawing-rooms imploring me to give him a monopoly of my society. 1 knew Clay and Webster, and Benton and Calhoun and Randolph —all t’lem of tho great men of the day—I knew ‘ well ” Such boasts wove not base less; the lady to the day of her death retained a packet of letters in which words of admiration—and, indeed, sen timents even more decided—appeared, connected with the autographs of the men she mentioned as among her devo tees. And there were eloquent epistles Winfield wm-^ ?r° bcott appears Stt perhaps i lnS; not to advantage, m a billett that would have bettor become an ardent oounU-yswam. N. P. >\ illis, the poet, writes pleading for an interview, pouring out his “feel ings unspeakable” in a half dozen stanzas, the which, by published the by, are to be found in a subsequent volume of his poems. There are other letters from o her men of prominence in the PO itical. literary and social world ot a half eenturv ago, but there is no demand their publication. Not all of Mrs. JV try-; ajker’s she crossed time was the spent Atlantic in seven this coun- times before she was forty, acd m the first society ot London and Pans she was conspicuous many seasons. And she 1 made many conquests— harmless they were, ’ she ever averred, as m her latter days she recalled them. ; In 1854 Captain Walker died: but his widow remained free but three years, when she accepted the suit of Abvjaii {few Smith, of this city, and came from j \ork to become mistress of that celebrity’s home on Golden hill. marriage was an unhappy sawmill one. Smith by an explosion at his was seriously injured, chafing the home under J I broken u P , his wife restraints pnt upon lier by an invalid husband. While she was! yet Mrs. Walker she had made a “ dash” in street, and. leaving Golden hill, continued htr speculation m Erie,Read ing and Panama. “I would never touch til- oilier stocks.” she declared, “Ikucwwh&tl was about, and I did not come out a * lame duck;’ I doubled wv During fortune the in two years.” Mrs. I past twenty pait 1 years Smith has for the most thougt4 made her I home this city, not as the helpme of her husband, who died last year. The property that she held at her marriage she retained in her own right! ssgliai Without one of kin in all the world, she gave little care to the amenities of life as deserved by those with whom she had to do The daughter, Inez, died long years aga in a convent, ami save when recalling that daughter, or re counting Mrs. Smith social triumphs of the past, was seldom an companion; bad and with her better nature gone also, the beauty of face, statelit ness of form, and other grace that gave her prominence and power in days bygone. It was her boast that the leading artist of Franec had pleaded long and eloquently to have her sit to him; three times had her arm “and such an arm!”—been cast laster as a model for sculptors of re nown. But time had wrought a change; her features were shrunken, and other evidences there were innumerable that the beauty and power of other days had altogether passed.—Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman. -- " - Curiosities of Speculation. It is curious to note what men will do to make money. Some months ago there was quite a brisk speculation in ho P 3 , there being as usual two parties— the bulls and the bears—composed in this case of the farmers, who of naturally wished prices to go up, and the bre w ers, who just as naturally wished prices to decline. The contest rased furiously in this city and elsewhere for many weeks, as there was really a large well amount of money involved. A known circular, publishing the quota tions of hop 3 here, gave great dissatis faction not to the to b^llsr, weir because ideas; and, its prices the were up as commercial reporters had been in the habit of publishing circulars, it was re solved, at a mass-meeting of the farmers, not to subscribe for any quotations, paper that and pub lished the obnoxious a printed notice to this dailies effect was of this actually city. sent to all the great With the light or the wrong of tliiscon troversyit is not our purpose here to speak. Suffice it to say that hops can stir up a tempest in more than one way. Then again, some years ago, when it was proposed to put duties on tea and coffee, there arose a mighty speculator speculation in these articles. One was credited with holding about 60,000 in bags of coffee; and the speculation tea was equally important. At the time of the famine in Bengal, Hindoostan, some years since, there was great speculative activity here in rice, and some heavy losses as well as handsome gains were scored. It was trading on the distress edness of others, for tne inhabitants of Bengal depend almost entirely on rice to sustain life, and it was assumed that, when the crop failed in chat region and famine ensued, there would be a great demand for rice; but this was no worse than speculating in breadstuff’s, whereby the poor are often the chief sufferers. Again, at the* time of the Russo Turkish war, when Turkey was invaded, it was the signal for immense transac tions in opium, which now comes mainly from that country. And even now there is a large speculation anticipated in this in progress, based on an falling-off large in drug the next houses crop. here A number and in of Smyrna, Turkey, control the bulk of the stock, and have already realized large profits on their venture. Turkish prunes, at the time of the war alluded to, were also bought up largely by speculators, and for awhile proved profitable; speculation, but ultimately this article ot which few would think of in such a connection, proved the ruin of more than one strong house, fortunes have been made and lost in indigo speculations; and, lor that matter, this article has far more commercial importance than might at first be imagined. the Then potato-bug a few years ago, when we had invasion, there was a large speculation in pans green, and themarket advanced materially, partly owing to the large demand and partly through the exer tions ot speculators. Another curious J™"* whenTwi proved Sure A^UeulX Saiiv DrrDared wfth a al genius for statistics the’numbe/of esti f canary-birds in .. |T n : tpf i „ n( t the onantiiv of J d consumed Der real!?’made dav ami consider abl m in this strangegventure. f And yet the eases cited ho e are but a lew among many that might-be £ named where what would be n d curioU3 sor ts of speculations reall ay better than half the railroad or mining stocks that are foisted on a ....pHnirma Jctie MwSwtr' rmhlio —Frank Leslie's lllus l p _ _ Hot and ^ 0 i d Type It wou id asto nish some ot our best orator9 to see lheir spee ches verbatim t liberatim in the next day's papers. lt would disgust lhem a ] so; and they ald den0 unee the reporter. Nor ld anv sueb repov ti n? be fair to the ^ paper ' s readers. Only those who know otbiD 8, about a reporter’s what business said, tbinks j ie rep0 F rts just ' is They ^ d ^ kn ow th at he finishes sen tenc g which the orator , i n his hurry and excitement, has left unfinished; that he disentangles metaphors, bad sup presses repetitions, comets the gram mar . remedies slips of tongue, re4 . liti es errors in names and dates, £nd patches up half-remembered his effort quotations, in the orator, readin next day’s paper, thinks he did wcil , and so he did; but there is a difference between hot speech and type, and what would have very well in the former, would loosed anything hut well in the Yet the alterations are only just The to reader and to tne orator. thing we wou d r mark is, that reporters make one which mistake, the make a hundred, reporter of stinctiveiy, or as a mere nothing matter „ess, corrects and says Son Francises Chronwlc. - - The various theaters in , New v city employ 94,000 people. JOL s' ALISM. A Practical Artie 'or Tonnis'Ven Wlo Want to be El and Wield a Moral Inflaence, u the university of a cation for a posit! Won the Journal as an editorial writ It come3 from a young man who s he has been pur suing a special rse of study with a view of adoptin >urnaiism as a pro* fession. He b about finished this course and desi; to enter immediately upon his writefcy^i life-e The young gen tlemau from early moral youth his ambition am*'e 1 jen to wield a influence, sees no hopeofexer cisingthis ir -ce save as a journal¬ ist. He h&dKa 1 of science, of lan guage, styl^^ffc of pl y; has labored to form a hasfgSf-oi * t-e could use with effect; Tflfaav Sl gkt new paths, and endeavore^ n^jffjgj& jniowiedge new paths where he found historjJJJjSHeif of politi cal ^SbnKinable political economy he thinks averag^Jfcisttns him to discuss the of tne day intel ligently. interest, hisMpMpdge I$jaie|spg questions of socit of l social might^Jiot^prove econ omy amiss. As a journalist he would hiiir. ( ' J teep his life pur pose ever before In his paper he would introduce new features—to old ones he wouldgivethecharmofnovelty. In political discussions he would shun insignificant partyisms or personal re flections—everything principles save a fair presen tat ion of party and party in terests. As manager he would exercise judicious and economy, brain, as editor, untiring energy The young gentleman is no doubt honest and sincere in his statements, but they weigh nothing with an ex perienced newspaper man. Journalists are not turned out of universities ready made. Journalism is a profession which can only be mastered after long years of active service—on the same principle that to be a good lawyer, or a success ful minister, or a competent mechanic, one must have practical experience, and can attain patient prominence only after long years of labor. Young men on leaving college are apt to think they could shape the destinies of a nation if they could only get control of the columns of some newspaper. Perhaps a young graduate does get an oppor tunity to write editorials for some eoun try weekly. He launches a bolt, and then anxiously awaits the report. He generally pained and waits chagrined in vain, and is both to find out that his majestic utterances have attracted no attention whatever. Perhaps he gets a position on one of the big dailies, and with a proud heart he hands in to the managing editor a long article, over which he has spent several days and nights in writing and re-writing, only to be mortified almost to death by the matter-of-fact chief, telling him to cut that thing down to two stickfuls, even if he does not tell him the paper has no room for any such stuff. He may fur ther tell the young man, whose am bition is to wield a moral influence, that they want no opinions from him, they only densed, want news, and that in a con concise form. The conceit may urther be taken out of the young man yards, by being detailed to write up the stock or sent to get the points in a scandal case, and told that he must get his report into a half column and have This his copy doing in by eleven o’clock sharp, and doing the uncongenial work, it on jump, with no time to elaborate glowing periods and eloquent perorations, is anew expedience, and five to one be maxes a flat failure and is chagrined beyond measure bv being told that he has no aptitude for journalism, and is advised to seek some other voca tion. Journalism is drudgery—plod ding, dividual «, —. unostentatious , , ... drudgery. The in work which makes up a com plete newspaper attracts no attention from the public generally. Readers say this or that paper is a good one, with out once caring who did this or that to make it such. And this alone would be cruel to the unfledged writer who hopes to wield a moral influence. one of his articles appears he expects to be the feature of the paper, and disappointed insist if people do not talk it and on knowing who wrote it. A Humorist’s Devotiou to an Invalid Wife. TJle wife of Robert J. Burdette, the celebrated humorist of the Burlington Hawkeyc. has long been an invalid, and the husband s devotion to her bas been yenr touching. All his writing is done m her room and read to her before it is sent Pf ess ,- Indeclimnganmvita tion to attend a college society reunion recently, Mr. Burdette wrote : Mrs - Burdette’s health—if the poor little sufferer’s combination of aches and pains and helplessness mav bedesig nated by such a sarcastic appellation— has been steadily failing ail this winter, sea-girt and w e h j ive come down to island , , to see if old ocean and its breezes ma / the doctors and mountains and prairies have failed to do. And here we are waiting. “Her little so¬ r euc highness,” alone in utter (for heipiessness un¬ able 10 stand years she has been unable to walk), her helpless hands foldedin her lap; she must be dressed, earned about, countless cared for like a baby, suf fenng from pains and aches da y and fitffht, and I cannot ^eave her even for a few days. No one at Chau tauqua wiu feel the disappointment as , we do, for we haa planned to go there would be glad J f , sh enough ® to creep to Chau- 1 tauqua on myknees Her life has been a fountain I of strength tome. In her long years have never seen the 100 k of pain out of her eyes, and for more than halt so kmg I have s«m her sitting in patient helplessness, and I have never heard a complaining murmur from her lips while she has served as those who omy stand and wait, never questioning and never doubting the the wisdom hand and good- been °* Father wuose has upon her so heavily. life has The beauU lui patience of her been aeon f«ht rebuke to my impatience, and in sufferings I have seen and known a » d Wtejre the'“love that knows no fear.” and the faith that knows no Gloaming. Twilight downward soiily floateth; A.'I, once near, seems dim and far High alott now faintly gleameth, Pale and clear, the evening star. All in doabtfnl shadow quavers; Up and up the slow mists creep; Down the lake, ’mid deepest darkness, Mirroring darkness, lies asleep. On the eastern sky appearing, Lo! the moon, bright, pure and clear; Slender willows’ waving branches Sport upon the waters near. Through the playful, flitting shadows, Quivers Luna's magic shine; Through the eye this freshness stealing. Steals into this heart of mine. —From the German of Goethe. tTf MS OF INTEREST.'; A thief steals in a fit of abstraction. It is better to have loved a short gir 1 never to have loved a tall.— Mod¬ Argo. It was the man that fell downstairs who spoke of his extended trip.— States¬ What is the difference bet ween a fixed and a meteor? One is a sun, the a darter. Minister Fairchild, of Wisconsin, who the United States in Spain, lias only one arm. The other he lost in battle. John C. Fisher, of Ottumwa, la., has some pear trees in his garden that for the last three years have borne two crons each season. Several undergraduates of the German university of Marburgh have been sen¬ tenced to three months’ imprisonment in a fortress for dueling. A good many Chinamen in San Fran¬ cisco have gone into the manufacture of brooms. There are now sixt?en broom managed by Chinese «n San Francisco. Two quartettes One were singers competing remarked for a prize. of the to the opposing club: “We are just going to take in that little prize; and don’t you four eet it!” “Life, liberty and the pursuit of hap¬ piness,” is an American’s inalienable birthright. He keeps up the pursuit of happiness, but very seldom catches him. —Keokuk Gate City. Each citizen of Edwards, Miss., is as iessed three dollars annually and for the smprovement of the streets, in de¬ fault of payment he has to work ?on the streets lor ten days. Boston has not to-day a single vessel on the way to that port from Calcutta. In 1857 there were ninety-seven arrivals there from that place. New York has absorbed the Calcutta trade. Wise men mingle innocent mirth with their cares as help either tc forget or overcome them, but to resort to intoxi¬ is cation for the ease of one’s mind to cure melancholy with madness. A little daughter of W. V. Stoy, of Lafayette, tied a balloon to the $18 neck¬ lace she wore. The jewelry sailed slipped over her head and the toy away with it. and it was seen no more. The Swiss government is to send as its contribution inscribed to Washington’s monument from the a suitably built stone William chapel escaped on the spot where Gessler. Tell from the tryant Clinching conjecture: Sissy—“ Oh, whatever is it, Charlie?” Charlie— “ I d’no; a cuttlefish, Is’pose!” coal!” Charlie Sissy— “But it’s as black as a “ Well, p’raps it’s a coalscuttle fish!” Captain Gerard de Nisme, of the roya Irish hussa rs, was killed in India by a gtone, dislodged by a coat on a hillside, striking h im 0 n the bead while he was taking his afternoon ride on horseback, Sir Alexander T. Galt, the Canadian statesman, surprised London recently by registering at a hotel as “ Sir A. T. Galt, and fifteen children,” the latter, mostly girls, creating a sensation in their the dining-room when ushered in by governess. American advertising'agents in Italy have made it necessary to put up no¬ tices to “post no bills” on the very walls of the remains of Pompeii, and when a tourist sees one of these notices the chances are that he’ll exclaim: they “Things in those days were about as are now.” More than 125,000 children die in France before reaching the end of their first year. One-fifth of the entire num - her are in Paris. In the arondissement of Nogent-le-Rol,where mercenary baby farming is common, there axe fifty-twc deaths in every 100 children under one year of age. The Russians have at iast figured out how much ammunition they used in their late war with Turkey. The in.* fantry tired 14,326,342 shots, the cavalry 1,917,026, total and of the artillery 187,793, These figures mak¬ ing a 16,431,161. indicate that in order that one man may be hit about 150 shots have to be tired Toison to be palatable Must be sugared till it’s nice, For poison, taken natural, Never would entice. And thus it is with people, awiul When they get so sweet, You may set it down with safety, They’re sugaring their dece t. —Steubenville Herald. A rurfiist Sing came newsSd into Tallahassee S-deS Fla., and - ' a a lot “ papers, w which v,i c h he he took took^rom from the tnemerx clerk with ; th. e w^s aston ^d newsmUe^^ when before^” 1 tfie merk asxeo had^^b^H L3£S5'8Der He Mt5 SmSSk for One never of the ]aome^ ^ misMumes 1 m * mixed ciims, observed ne^fiporntKid that the of whites Indian women, and lu 8a i~.ua ; r Y^^‘ r ^re^urorfied to^e^ha' ^ne^t totimmt the v»w.‘^1 !« j dian rn^n c*me carrying the babies habit, for lo. t..e nrs. tim .
