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PERRY, GEOKGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST
Sensational Unwritten
Augusta Chronicle.
I Arthur’s life was attempted
Shortly after the assassination of
Garfield.
A fear days after the president
had received Guithau’s fatal bul
let, a Cincinnati Enquirer report
er called at the Residence of John
P. Jones, where Arthur was dom
iciled, and asked for an interview.
It was midnight, and Mr. Arthur
had retired, but the scribe was in
vited to a smoke and chat in the
library by the bonanza king. They
were scarcely seated when a bul
let, following a sharp report,
whizzed through the journalist’s
hair and imbedded itself in the
opposite wall.
The editor was on his feet in a
moment, ready to pursue the vil
lain, but th'Q senator interposed.
“Do nothing of the kind,” said
Senator Jones, in an agitated
whisper, “Make no alarm. That
Villain could not be caught now,
iand no one must hear of his at
tempt, lest others shonid be led to
imitate it.”
“What do you mean?” asked the
other in suaprise.
“I mean this: That man thought
he was shooting at the Vice Presi
dent of the United States, who by
Veckless newspaper publications;
haS'been led to believe is indirectly
responsible for Garfield’s fate.
Mr. Arthur must never hear of
this, and above all the public must
never hear of it. I consider that
Mr. Arthur’s life is in your hands.
If you publish this incident other
icranks will repeat to-night’s at
tempt. I trust to your honor to
keep this event a secret.” The in
feident never saw the light of the
public print.
The authenticity of the forego
ing is established; The Washing
ton correspondent of the Philadel
phia heard the occurrence narrated
by the jbritfnalistic participant, in
Senator Jones’ presence, who cor-
foborated it, and added these fur
ther historical facts.
At the time Mr. Arthur's friends
had great difficulty in keeping
from him the threatening letters
Which poured in upon him: He
Vvas deeply distressed by the un
fortunate position in which he
fouiid himself, and we dreaded the
result if he discovered that hun
dreds of letters Were addressed to
him charging him with Garfield’s
assassination; arid,threatening him
with a like fate. T Weil remember
receiving at that time a confiden
tial letter from Murat Halstead,
edifdf of the Cincinnati Coiririleh-
cial, in .which he warned me that
he had credible information that
seven irien in Boulder county, Col
orado, had solemnly pledged one
another to go to Washington and
take Arthur’s life. I told Mr.
Arthur tidthitig of the matter, but
1 wrote to Mr. Halstead thai
had no fear of the Bouider county
desperadoes, or other men who
took the trouble to register solemn
oaths and all that sort of thing,and
. that the Vice President’s only
danger was at the hands of just
Such cranks as Guiteau, who would
not indulge in prefatory threats,
and whose presence would lie an
nounced only by the knife thrust
br pistol report. Of that stripe
was the man who fired into my
window that night when he thought
Arthur and I were together talk
ing.
I *-*< jg[j— :
Giles Moss, fin Aged negro
. Atlanta Constitution.
The people of this state do not
Appreciate the necessity of a well
regulated system of savings banks,
for if tjiey did, our laboring peo
ple and small wage earners would
now be enjoying Better banking
facilities for keeping and accumu
lating their money than they now
have.
In 1864 there were seventy-one
savings banks in New York state,
wifo$99,000,000 of deposits. In
1888, twenty-four years later, the
New lork Sitni ^ j Atlanta JonmiU;
*3 delivered; en an average, five j A genMeinan living in Atlanta
addresses every week in the year,” | teUg a wonderfn i story .
said the Eev. T. DeWitt Talmage; « W j£ n j wa3 in Alabama, - be-
a few evenings since. “Each of
these must bri ah original produc
tion, for the reason that the news
paper men follow ihe up so closely.
On account of the espionage I
cannot make use of an original
idea iribre than once. Still I do
not feel a material strain for this
work. The reason why I indulge
in so much metaphor and simile is
number of banks had increased to > Grit I natnally think in figures dr
preacher near [Rochester,- who is
Baid by his congregation to have
prophesied emancipation, * last
.year’s earthquake; and other im
portant events, now declares that
he has been delegated by Heaven
to lead ail his people' back to Afri
ca, where they are to evangelize
all the dwellers of that land; that
he converses daily with the angel
Gabriel, and that' the hour for de
parture is near at hand; The re
sult is that the negroes of Boch-
cster are in an intense stats of ex
citement.
I'eed generously, and do not
turn farm stock out to pasture too
early, j s bad for fire animals
only one hundred and twenty-one;
while the deposits airiounted to
$500,000,COO. This represents, to
a large extent, the accumulated
savings of the workingmen and
■Women pf that state, and the
showing is one whiiih well deserves
emulation by the people of Geor
gia*
, The first thing necessary; how
ever, is for the state to provide
thought and a safe system of sav
ings banks* in which the earnings
of the laboring people will Be
guaranteed against losS. Several
costly experiences have no doubt
tended to very much decrease the
amount of deposits which should
have gone to our savings banks,
The recent Atlanta defalcation
bore heavily oh those who could
less afford to sustain the loss than
the depositors of any other bank
in the city; and these losers; and
many others who will be frighten
ed by their experience; will nat
urally be afraid of savings banks
hereafter, for iii such instances
many people do not stop to con
sider causes, but results.
It is the duty of the State to see
that a system is*provided around
which every restriction will be
thrown, which will make such
banks thoroughly safe and relia-
ble;
This is a very important hut
which onr next legislature ought
to crack.
• r——r-
A skilled Chinese wood-worker
has arrived in New York to take
charge of the fancy work of the
new Chinese town ball now being
built in Mott street. He is said to
be the most skilled Chinaman of
his profession in the United States;
and he can make chairs, tables,
cabinet cases and even houses
without the aid of a single nail
American cabinet makers, accord
ing to this expert’s opinion, could
not earn their tobacco money in
China, as most of their work,
while grand to the eye, was coarse
iii construction. Any skillful
Chiflese wookworker he said, could
make a bedstead that would be
worth $i0;000 in China, but it
wouldn’t pay tb make such a one
here, as it would trike! three years’
time, and no Americriii Would be
Willing to pay such a price for a
bedstead except as a curiosity;
Jn china he said, bedsteads are as
valuable as ornaments, as pianos
are herd:
Many reasons are alleged as
grdunds for a divorce, bat a New
York woman has lately advanced
the most novel one. She stated in
her petition that her husband was
tdd fond of going to picnics. He
refused to take her on one occasion
because, he said, he did not ap
prove of woMeri going to picnics;
but she found but afterward that
he had taken several girls to that
one. She averred that she had
drawn the lirie at seven.
Speech—in fact, they, crowd upon
me so fast that I am obliged to
interpret them to myself before
uttering the thought I wish to ex
press. This interlectual labor
never causes me to loose a wink of
sleep; My sermons are dictated
to a stenographer some ten days
in advance of their delivery, and
are always on their way to my
readers before my Tabernacle au
dience hears them.
“Not long since I paid a visit to
the Mercantile Library iii New
York. In looking over the files of
newspapers I saw a four column
article about a wonderful cane
which I possessed. The writer
went on to say he saw me one
pleasant evening sitting in Union
square twirling a cane in ihy
hand. Now, the fact is that I
never was in Union square in my
life; and never have I carried a
cane. Brit I must compliment the
author on the ingenious tale which
he wove from his imagination
about the imaginary cane;
“The fact is that a man who oc
cupies my position and who talks
as often in public cannot help giv
ing hints to a Close observer of his
iririer iife. These facts are seized
upon by bright newspaper men
and woven into very entertaining
fetories. JBiit I do not object to
the use of my name in connection
with this kind of fiction. It is
usually harmless and always
pleasing.
At Aix-ia-Chapelle there is a
newspaper mdleiuri, foiinded by
Oscaf Yok Forckenbeck, which
contains files of specimens of more
than 17,000 different newspapers
in the tvbrld, and it is daily re
ceiving copies of the reiriainder
from all quarters 6f the globe.
The great curiosity of the collec
tion is No. 46 of the Texas Demo
crat,, published at Houston oh
March 11; 1864, when the exigen
cies of war time made it necessary
to print on wall paper.
Greystone; Mr. Tildeh’s expeh-
sive Hudson river residence; has
been in the market for two years,
with no buyer. It cost him $25,-
000 a year to keep it up, and no
one has been found willing to fob
low suit. The estate probably
cost Mr. Tilden $300,000, but could
be bought for half that sum
Henry Ward Beecher’s place at
Peedskill is another elephant pf
which the family much desire a
riddance. Jay Gould’s grand es
tablishment bn the Hudson costs
him $1,-000 a Week;, and when he
dies will probably be added to the
list of elephants.
Ex-Auditor of Indiana. Mr.
James H. Bice, is about as well
posted a politician as there is in
that state. He says that Indiana
is going to be very close, but that
sh'6 will give a small majority for
Cleveland and Thufm'ari; The'
democrats' are not looking fora
very big majority, but they cer
tainly Intend to have a majority;
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED.
To : the Epiros-^PIease inform your react-
era that I have a positive remedy fertile above
nani'ect dtaeas'e. .By its; timely .use thdusands of
hopeie'ss cases have been; .permahenfly cured.
X shall he glad to send two bottles of my reme
dy free to. any of your readers vrlio have con
sumption if they, will send me their express
and post office address. Respectfully;
t A. SLOCUM. M. C-, ISlfearl st-.NewYorJr-
tween Porter’s Gap and Miller-
ville,” said he, “I came to a country
place where a man was driving
ten or twelve geese febiri a branch
toward a cotton patch. ‘For heav-
en ? s sake,’ said I, ‘what is it
you have on the necks of those
geeie?’” S
“Those are gourds, full of water.
1 drive the geese into that cot
ton patch and keep them there all
day weeding out the cotton.
There is no water in the cotton
patch, and 1 have to give them
water in this way to keep them
there.
Those griese will weed out more
cotton in a day than two people
would. They will eat the weeds
and grass, but they won’t touch
the ‘cotton.’”
“But how do they, get ihe water
out of those gourds under their
necks?”
“They drink out of each other’s
gourds. Each,gourd has an open
ing in the side, so that another
goose can put his bill into the
gourd, and drink. If you stay
here long enough you will see it
yourself.”
I Waited there half a day to see
that performance, and finally I saw
it. The geese, did just as the man
said they worild. When a goose
got thirsty he walked up to. his
neighbor and coolly drank out of
the. gourd on his neck.
“That story ig good enough to
print?’’
Yes; but don’t put my name to
ifc It is strictly true, and I don’t
mind telling it to people who . know
me, But I dont want to riife ihy
reputation on it wife a stranger,
The story was repeated to anoth
er gehtlSmari, who said:
“That is the trouble with a good
many of the people in this country.
They leaye the geese to weed oiii
their cotton, sb to speak) while
they do something else.”
ri#' ycritt' Sub&'rijtftioii he
.
It is reported that a Virginia
art collector has made an offer of
$100,000 florins for the Corvinus
goblet which King Matthias Co'r-
yiflus of' Ifufigary presented in
1463 to the town of Wiener-Neus-
tadt, and which is displayed in the
museum of antiquities there; The
Silver vbssel, which Weighs be-
tWeen'five'and six pounds, is d
fine specimen of the silversmith’s
art of the close of the middle ages.
It was presented to the town by
the king of Hungary as at mark of
his respect for the deYotidafof its
inhabitants to the cause of their
sovereign/ Emperor Frederick HL
ft is predidrecl that Cleveland
Will carry New York by fifty
thousand majority.
It is skid that thb oldest man
living any where is James James, a
negro of Santa Bosa, Mexico, who
was bom near. X>orchester, South
Carolina, in i7§2. He was with
his master in the Bevolutionary
war, was forty years old when
Washington was elected President;
went to Texas When one hundred
and one years old, moved into
Mexico five years later, and now
at the ripe age of one hundred and
thirty-six, lives in a little hut, to
Which he is confined by rheuma^
tism, and is supported by contri
butions from the citizens of Santa
Bosa.
GeeS'e may be picked every, six
weeks in warm weather, but they
must be fed with a mess of meat
once a day. When they are pick
ed often, they dd not lay, as the
growth of new feathers weakens
and debilitates them.
“Has .coral jewelry gone entire
ly/but of fashion?” asked a New
York Telegram reporter of a bi
Broadway jeweler.
" f “The almost complete absence
of coral from the show windows,
he replied, “is a noticeable fact,
and it cannct be explained why il:
is so little worn by the present
generation. I feel confident that
if more coral jewelry were kept in
stock, it would, before long, be
come fashionable once more. My
reason is that coral is ‘becoming’
to nearly every one. Its brilliancy
makes the skin look whiter by con
trast, and with dark hair it har
monizes beautifully, while its ef
fect is also very agreeable when in
conjunction with blonde tresses.
“Like all fashion in gems, this
has' had its nps and downs; but it
is always in favor in some part of
the world. The taste for, it is al
most universal. But it has been
h long time since it reigned in the
fashionable world here; and it
would not be surprising to see it
come in agaih. . It il not so' many
years since it held a high place
and furnished a prominent indns-
try in France, the Empress Eu
genie, when she set the fashion
for the world; Was extremely par
tial to ornamentg of this sort, The
Bussian ladies of to-day wear thou
sands of dollars worth of coral,and
among the Orientals both sexes
delight to wear it. The. artistic
effects possible, by a ebiribinatiori
of gold and coral ate great; in
fact, there is almost unlimited
scope for the exercise of the jeweli
Sir’s taste and ability.”
How it is Regarded.
Mari
“There is no Cure tnit
ri&ge”!
How many a pompous old fraud,
with aii M. D. attached to his
name, has offered this time-dis
honored prescription to a pale,
firiggard girl, suffering from' the
ills df womanhood? How many a
wretched; hell on earth has brieM
started! for no marriage can be
blessed, either to husband or wife,
when taken is a pill. .Out upon
such quackery! There’ id a cure
for Suffering women—a curd that
mil make marriage the greatest of
larthly blqssfogi, and' home the
sweetest di Edens. Its riaMe is
Dr. PieriSefo Fafdnfo Ffe&tsri^tiom
Just try it, and led black
clouds of life roll away before the
glowing sunshine of returning
health and vigor. It is is the only
hiedicine for women sold by drug
gists under a positive guarantee
from! the manufacturers, that it
wilLgive' gafisfadBoti in’ every case
or rdofiey refunded: See mapper
There is something at once. en
tertaining and ihstriictive aboiit
the way in which the Boulanger-
Floquet duel is treated by the re
ligious press. That duelling is
wicked all agree; but in this par
ticular ease there was something
so deliciously appfojitiSte in the
finale, such a Satisfaction in poetic
justice, so complete a pricking of
the Boulanger bubble, with the
same sword thrdst that pricked the
Boulanger neck, that the D. D.’s
who edit onr church exchanges
seem inclined to consider that this
is one of the instances where
the wrath of man redounds to the
praise of God. tYatchffian,
df-Bdstoh, speaks its mind thus:
“French duels are proverbial for
their harmless character, being
so fougHt that generally bSydnd a
harmless scratch or, two, there are
no ‘honorable scafs’ to boast. But
General Boulanger’s adventure on
ihe field of hdRor came near 1 hav
ing a more serious result, not, in
deed, in the risk of his life, but
more rnesome still, of,his martial
honor. To the hazard of his .mili
tary reputation, the affair left him
open to the imputation of having
Been beaten in swordmanship by a
civilian. In the face of such
disaster, a wound in the fleck; iii-
quiring him to remain for a time
under a surgeon’s care, is a trivial
circumstance, indeed Pity the
code cannot be abolished altogeth
er. As long Is it survives we can
not think of anything more likely
fo bring ii iiito irio'caoas desuetude
than a fefc more such descents
from ; the’ gufclime fo the riegerfi'
lolls.”
Alacon Telegraph. -
An old negro was carried i
Milwaukee, Wis., July . 24—
Charles A. Dana, editor of the
New York Sun, delivered Mk ad- Boff .Home , yesterday;
dress this evening at the Academy that had just completed e
of Music to the Wisconsin Edito 1 feinai-kable journey. He lo
rial Association. The hall was l° es by frost-bite, is a
crowded, and the veierati editor’s
discourse on journalism was war in
ly applauded. -
Mr. Dana said there were no set
maxims and rulel for journalists.
Doctors and lawyers ihight have
them, but there were very few
roles used by newspaper men,
Mr. -Dana then submitted the fol
lowing:
“First, get news, get 611 news,
and nothing but news.
‘Second, copy nothing from an
other publication without giving
perfect credit.
“Third, never fprint an inter
view without the knowledge and
"consent of the persofl interviewed.
’’Applause and laughter!]
“Forth, never print paid adver
tisements as news matter. Set ev
ery .one as an advertisement. No
sailing under false colors. [Ap
plause.]
“Fifth, nevei; attack the weak or
defenseless, either by argument or
ridicule, unless there is some ab
solute public^ necessity for so
doing. . , ; ' -. .
ixth, light for your opinions;
but don’t believe they contain the
whole truth or the only troth.
“Seventh, support your party
if yon have one, [loud Rpplanse and
laughter J but dpn’t think all gqqd
men arc in it and all bad men out
side. • ,,
“Eighth, above- all; know and be
lieve that humanity is advancing;
and that there is progress in hu
man life and hnman affairs [ap
plause], and gs.sai&fm God lives;
the future will be greater and bet
ter than the present or the past.
; Applause.] „ ...
That,” said Mr. Dana, “is a
pretty .good general ccide. It seems
-VIn — t—il'—nn I- -r.At— WrA7T ^
!s* . ■ .... .
Dr. Moffett’s TEETHHU (Teething Powders)
ip^ »ce’s Ballets are the orig-
§ jinai afid oifl# ^fluine Little Liver
; Pills. 25 cents a vial; 6 ne at a
Holtzclaw & Gilbxbt, Perry, Ga.
.
fori prppfoses Id Make
Governor’s Island; in her harbor,'
a beautif ul park; when she gets it,
6nd the prospect fl'oW is .that slid
Will get it. tfhe bill giving it to
Her is no# pending in congress,
with evefy prospect that it will
pass.
, The. National Woffleifl Christ
tiaii Temperance Uffion is .pre^ri
fog to celebrate Frances: E; Wil-
lard’l 51st birthday, which i§ Close
at h‘a ; nd, id an euthnsiaStic Man-
■i After fee coMpany die suf
ficiently woufl'd dp on, gfedii tda,'
there will b'e toasts, acfdrekseS, eu
logistic poeMe's, besides Sohgs and
fosfoamental music. That good
lady is well worthy of all these
honors and more.
to me it covers the cash very well.
T 1 : r ?-* V? S-b
Mean, hut of the Merry Sort.
At the Monad House, where do
man, save the hostler, has been
for some six wehki, 1 there whs
. . O' * ' ' ■' »-* *-
quite a commotion the other even
ing. One. of the young ladies
came running into the honse in
'IteathlesS her eyes
standing out iike a lobster’s.
“Girls!” she exclaimed, “come,
—come quick—don’t stop a mo
ment 1 ”
And she turned.about and ran
with her Might in^the direction of
the cherry trees,, and the whole
company followed at her heels.
Arrived at the- cherry orchard,
the leader poihfedjes.gerly into one
of the trees, at a dressed-up scare
crow!
“See!” she exclaimed.
“What is it?” cried half a dozen
voices. “It is not, jt cannot be a
man!”
“No,” said the young woman in
subdued tones—“no, it is not a
man, but then it reminds one* so
strongly of a maxi; it is restful to
the eyes/’
“True,” murmured an elderly
female, “it i§ lovely, hot so much
in itself as what it suggests.—
Boston Transcript;
anci so badly crippled that he cai
scarcely Crawl. He was found on
the Houston road beyond G
ville, and has slowly been
into town for two or three
He <vas taken up and placed in
wagon by Superintendent.
and carried to the Home, where !
told the story of his travels.
Four years ago he left Jackson
ville to come to Macon. He was
without any moans find he under
took to crawl the entire distance.
His strength and condition would
not permit him to feoVer mote than
a quarter of a mile a day, and
crawling over the ground as he
did, he was often . compelled to
remain off the road for days and
weeks by reason of rain .and wet
weather. He lived on wliat was
given him, and sometimes being a
great distance between habitations
he suffered much for both water
and food.
l isf.a* ,,
was consumed
from Jacksonville to,Macon] aha
his first ride in dll that time was
in Superintendent. Harmon’s
-"-focm from the Hotisfon road fe
! Hbihe.
“Bind deeds never die.” An
old lady in Virginia goes into her
orchard every evening arid turning
her lace toward the north,^..prays
fervently for the recovery of Gen.
Sheridan! it seems that daring
sol-
the war her son] a ebr
dier, was the recipient of some
acts of kinduess .at the general’s
nds while a prisoner within the
federal lines, ihe boy iris badly
wounded, but lived long enough to
tell his mother, who had come to
him, how humanely he had been
treated, and this the old lady hai
never forgotten.
Just what punishment ought in
justice to be. meted out to Law
rence Bussell of Springfield, Mo.,’
is a question. He has been ar
rested for Shutting rip his 10 year-
old boy in a box four feet high]
and making him stand bent foyer
in it for five hours; iii so for tying
the. boy to a plank and smearing
molasses oyer his fac.e, so as to at
tract flies to torture liiriL
The discover^ of the pool of
Bethesda is announced Nothing
was known of the pool until quite
recently, when certain works car
ried on bjjr the Algerian monks
laid bare a large tank or
cut in the rock to a depth of
feet. The cistern is 55 feet Ion
from east to west, 12| feet
breadth, and lies under a church.
Askfer pooi lyin
adjoins the first. -
‘t'he largest umbrella iii fee
world has Been mSde atGLlaigow,
Scotland; for I king of East Afri
ca. it caii be opened arid shut in
the usual way, and wjien open is
tweqty-orie feet in diaifleterj the
if is also* twenty-one feet long.
It is lined with cardinal red arid
white, has a lot of stfaw tassels,’
gnd a b’ order of. crimson* satin;
The riario’py ifsSlf is made of In-
diaif straw, arid the tefo terminated
in a gilded cope;
The i
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The Piqueer-Brriss is being’ fdad
out of the party now.
dusted on
Fine wood ashes
shrubs are a protection against va
rious insects.
Mayer Fitler, of Philadelphia
had his fun at Chicago, but u -
had to pay for it. It ©
about §10;003 to be put in rn
tion for President. Ee
however, and he can pay
small ariioants without
poor!
As a rrile, donation
a terror arid an
hension to pastor-
Fisher; of Beno,' j
self an
of hl§ : pari
house ^recently
sufficient; aim
next winter, a , _
left behind them t>
glass dish
silver! “
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iP . . ,
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always seems,
Dp riot pefrrii
impose upon you with
imitation pf Dr. King’s New Dis-.
covery for Consumption, Coi
and Cqlds, but be . sure you get'
the . genuine... Because he
make More, profit, Kq riray tell
he bad sofoefoii ;j'U$t 0 “
just fee daike. Dori’t foi
but irihilt ripon getting E
New Discovery, which ifl
teed to give, relief iir al
Lung and Chest affectic
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