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THE HOME JOURNAL, * ——And—- • TSie Great Farm, Industrial, and Stock Journal of the South bNE YEAR FOR $2.75 GASH ra ADYM&E. Sahlple copies of the.Southern Culti \ ’ ■ ; JOlilV H. HODGES, iProjirietor. Devoted to Home Interests and Culture. TWO job work: Seatly executed ^-AT THIS OFFICE.—— Vbt. xvm. 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 . ress; one —Subscribe for the Home Journal now. — PHI (< Miririe- sbta repribiiedris id its pp^bsitfori. 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! 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