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.* . .... : * j fice is fully prepared to do kind of Commercial job woi ’ may be needed. A)l nicel ded, and at prices that will com - pete with any city. Cal 1 and loot at ohr samples and get our. prices and you ydll leaye^.our, orders^ COT-’TO f f © m * titfii jLIS aSk COTTON FACTOR, MACON, cm! w •"B © p a o m o B S* m co N © 55 a a 1 2 «• §5 si 85 PhosphorSsHeht Infection.—The National Democrat: - X J-UJOpilUACD'OCIIU XU1C15U.UJJ.* XUO rj discovery has been made that the j The annual report of the First phosphorescence frequently exhib- > Assistant Postmaster General, the crustacea is infectious. J. S. Cl'cykson, shows that 2)770 A. French naturalist, M. Giard, lately traced the pbosporescent light on talitrus and other crusta cea to bacteria in the muscles, which Showed signs of disease. On inoculating healthy individuals, the Same luminous appearance was produced. The. disease runs a reg- HO ‘JstOQVW & Mdii0 o "NOXXOO ular course^. and the crustacea died in three or four days, the phospho rescence lasting a little after death. Electricity Direct from Work.— The accomplishment of a hitherto apparently impossible feat—that o? transforming mechanical work directly into electricity—is claim ed by Prof. Braun, of Lubiugen. He winds nickel wires into spirals, and as each spired is elongated or compressed a current of considera ble strength is generated. This is increased by putting-a number of spirals in circuit. Such positive results have been obtained that the experimenter is hopeful of conitinoting a useful generator on this principle. Theory of Hypnotism.—Dr. Pinel, of Paris, has found that hypnotic patients obey the phono graph as readily as the living speaker. He therefore discards the theory of animal magnetism, and believes that the real cause of the phenomena manifested in the few “sensitives” is a disordered mental state. Indestructible Literature.—Fire proof and time-proof, books/1 with leaves and. covers.of sheens of as bestos, Ihd’pHtitih^ in gold or sil ver letters, have been suggested. A Remarkable Trade.—The abundance of remains of the mam moth is almost incredible. Mid- dendorfif reckoned that at least 100 pairs of tusks had been put upon the market yearly, during the last two centuries, and from personal observation Nordenskjold is in clined to regard the estimate as too small. . It ±hus ; appears that in the recent mbtlerii trade the |tusks of more than 20,000* of these animals of past ages Have jjbeeh collected. A Military fNovelty.—A vgeta- ble cartridge shell, which is en tirely consumed in firing, has been brought out in France. The cart ridge has scarcely half the weight of .one with a metal shell, the cost s considerably less,; and the in convenience of removing the shell af ler each shot is avoided. Electric Power.—The utilization and distribution of electric power are stated by Mr. F. S. Pope to have reached by faT the greatest development in Switzerland and the United States. In the former country electricity is transmitted to considerable distance? for large motors. At Solothnrn a manufac tory of machine screws is driven by an electric motor of 50-horse power) which derives* its energy from a turbine wheel more than five miles away on a mountain stream. At Derendingen; ,a de laine mill of 36/000 spindles is driven by a pair of electric motors of 280-horse power; operated by a turbine wheel twelve miles distant. At Lucerne 120-hprse power is sim ilarly carried half H mile/ and 250 horse power a quartet of a mile. In the United States no electric motor of more than 60-horse pow is known to Mr. Po£e, but there are as many as 6#(J0 small motors in use, a favorite size being 10- horse pofor. It is predicted that in cities electric motors will” soon practically supplant the steam en gines of less than 50-horse power. fourth-class postoffices were estate lished during the last fiscal year, against 3,364 for the previous year. There ware 1,147 postoffices dis continued dqring the same time) making the total number of post- offices in operation on July 1, 1889, 58,599,. of - which, number 2,683 were Presidential offices. The increase in the whole number of postofficgs iri operation at the end of the fiscal year was 1,623 in excess of ihe previous year. The whole number of appointments of postmasters for the year is shown to have been 20,030, of which 8,854 were on resignations and commissions expired, 7,853 on re movals, 553 on deaths of postmas- ersj 2,770 on establishment of post- offices. By the annual adjustment of the salaries of postmasters,which took effect July |$ 1889) 46 offices of the third class were reduced to At the annual Meeting of the Carriage Builders’ National Asso ciation held at Syracuse, N. Y., the most important report made was that on the timber supply. In the report of the ‘committee atten tion was called to the second growth in white ash, the scarcest of all the woods used in the con struction of carriages and wagons, The supply was being heavily drawn upon in other ^industries, and the outlook|with regard to was very discouraging. As to the old-growth'ash the situationjl-was but little better, although it was the fourth class, and 15 offices of the fourth class were raised to the third class, leaving 2,652 presiden tial offices in operation on July 1, 1889. The number of money or der offices in operation at the close of the fiscal year was 3,683, an in crease of 472 for the year. The number of money order stations in operation J uly 1, 1889, was 144, an* increase of 14 over the previous year. The number of postal note offices in operation at the end of the year was 557. The report shows that on June 20, 1889, there were 401 free deliv : ery postoffices in operation, an in crease of 43 for the year. In 45 other officesjthe free delivery ser vice hits been established" since June 30, i889. The number of It is stated that a Chicago wo man of uncertain age has embark ed on an Atlantic linei bound for the Island of Jersey to make an' offer of marriage to Gen. Boulan ger.. &he is wealthy and eccentric*, and the friends of the general are a little worried over the peril then- leader is shortly to be placed in. the previous year. This large in crease, it is said, is mainly due to the enactment of the law limiting the labor of carriers to eight hours a day. The number of pieees of mail matter ^handled by carriers during the year was 3,085,805,540, an increase of nearly 455,000,000 pieces. The amount received for local postage was over $9,500,000, aD increase for the year of nearly $2,000,000. The excess of postage on local mattes' over the total cost of the service $2,57S,979, an in crease over the previous year of $279,647. From the date of the establishment of the .free delivery system, July 1) 1863, until June 30,1874, tbe cost of service is shown to have exceeded the re ceipts from local postage. Since the latter date the balance on the credit side Has steadily increaeed ffom year to year. Col. J. F. Bates, the superintendent of the free delivery system, has recom mended to General Clarkson the extension of thle service to the places which have a population of 5,000, the postoffice of which pro duced a gross revenue for the pre vious fiscal year of at least $8,000, the separation as .far as possible, of the delivery a~d collection ser vice, and that a class to be known as “collectors” be created tci. per forin collection service only; that carriers who have become disabled in the Hne of duty, bg paid the le gal salary for a stated period after the incurrence of their disability, out of the regular appropriation for the service. The gross receipts of th ? e 2,683 presidential, offices for the year was $41,754^000, which, is an in crease of 8.5per eent. for the year. The aggregate of T the\. salaries of presidential postmasters for the year was $4429,100, representing to last for mahy generations were it not for the fact that it was so extensively used for the inferior finish of houses and for cabinet work. The large old-growth oaks of th.e South would m ake . an excellent Substitute fori ash,‘addin some respects would prove superi or to it. The supply of whitewood was very abundant dt tiie; present time, But like the old-growth ash, it was being cut up at a tremen dous rate for house-finishing pur poses. Basswood was found in nearly all the timber States of the Union, and, should necessity re quire, it would make a good sub stitute^ for whitewood.in the manu facture of carriages. For hickory, on the other hand, the most im portant of all 1/Carriage timbers, there was no good substitute in all the world. It grew only in a few of the States and a small part of Canada. White oak, important in the manufacture of j .Wagons, was one of the most abundant of all the tfipbereused. Like old-growth ash and whitewood, it was being extensively employed in carpentry and for a thousandjolher purposes, bat the supply was so great. that there was no occasion for alarm in that fact,; . * As to thejwaste';iof timber the committee report: “It seems in credible that there should be any place in this country where good timber was considered a nuisance, and the land worth more with it off than with it on. Yet such is the case ail through -the Bouth, in the heavily, wooded districts. Unclear ed land is worth only frpm $1 to $4 per acre, while cleared of its timber it sells from $10 to $15 per acre. This leads' to a destruction of the trees by .a method palled ‘deadening,’ by Shopping into the trees trees all round, thus killing structive policy! The extent to whichjthis is done is surprising. Thousand of acres j Of limber are thus sacrificed evry year, not in the South only, for in the State of Ohio we hayp seen as fine hickories as ever grew thus destroyed.” Wliy it Should be Used. Mr. W. L. Peek, of Conyers, Ga., writing on this subject and assign ing reasons why farmers should use cotton bagging, says: Now, as long as jute bagging only cost ns $5,000,000 a year we used it, but when a combine of a few millionaires deterniine'd to make $3,000,000 more out o! our neces sities, we determined to make our own white robe. . Let us see if it pays, or will continue to pay. It .will take about 125,000 bales to make the covering for a 7,000,000 bale crop, three- fourths of a pound to the yard. In discussing the question with cot ton brokers and manufacturers they agree that a diversion of that amount from former uses makes a shortage of 125,GOO bales, and that it makes up the price from one-eighth to one-half cent One eighth of a cent op a,.crop of 7,- 000,000 bales, 500 pounds each, is $4375,000 advance; one-fourth of a cent is $8,750,000; a half-cent advance is $17,500/000: and in the face of over a 7,250,000 bale crop, cotton has averaged about.one cent higher than last year, which is $35,- 000,000 advance on a crop of 7, 000,000 bales. Now, for sake of argument, let us put the advance by the use of cotton.bagging at one-fourth of a cent only, adding the amdunt . we have been paying forJjate, qnd we have a saving of $19,750,000 in the pockets of jthe farmers byjfhe use of cotton bagging. To Georgia it is a saving of about $1,760,000. One cent a pound advancefon Geor gia’s crop ts $4,500,000 which is more clear money than we farmers have had any time in the past fif teen years. This has been brought about by the Alliance lousiness move, and cannot^be attributed to any other cad.36—street strain or any one else. We also pay $3,000,000 a year for burlaps (jute) to Stick our fer tilizers, .grain, bran, flour, etc., when coStoii bags are much better. One year ago we asked the bag fac tory for cotton bags for guano, they would not do it. Now they affirm that these are just the thing. We are for cotton bagging because it creates a new demand and ad vances the price of cptton, leaves the money at home, gives employ ment to our poor, and' makes the South independent. We are for cotton bags for fertilizers, etc., be cause they will create a still great er demand for cdfeten, -and are bet ter for all purposes when fufi or empty. We are opposed to wood, wire, cloth or cotton stalk bagging; because neither creates any de mand for option, But ..lessens the consumption and reduces the price. Reporters in New York city on a recefit Sunday took a census of the worshipers who attended ser vice in the various churches, and the result showed-a total of 164- 526 persons, ofjwfiom 97,277 were women .and., 67,249 pien. The weather was unpleasant. A one-legged man whom the Seattle, Wash., police were after the'other day, took refuge in a cel lar, barred the door and defied the whole force. The fire department was called out and the Cellar pumped full of water. When it got up to the man’s chin fie sun rendered. | Since then he has es caped three times from jail. With a team composed of a black and and a roan,, and top buggy, P. Moyett, a resident • of San Fran cisco, left that, city last September an. increase of 5.4-per Cent. The : eri route for New York. One h un- aggregate of the estimates for com- dred and twenty days of steady pensafi^dh of .postmasters, clerksrin Jibstoffices, rents, fights, fuel, etc., fpr presidential offices, is $22,957*- 500; an Increase, pf $4237*420'. as compared with the" previous fear Eighteen tons daily on the London and Nor; through wear Six feet of earth I on e size. makes us all travel, at an. average of thirty milesa day, brought him. to St. .liouis. • From that place he went on slower, taking moro< time at saeh stopping place* . Mr. Moyett trill winter in Poughkeepsie, and go to New York early next spring. The Rochester Herald (Repub lican) finds, in . the report of a United States consul in Germany, that “nearly all the chairs used in the* postdffices. of that Country are of American manufacture, the. German government having bought them of a New York firm at prices less than they could be produced.' for in Germany.” The Buffalq Courier (Democratic) thinks that if this statement is correct, “it af fords one more illustration of the truth that high-priced labor turns out cheaper goods than low-priiCed labor.” POSITIVE BARGAINS. J. H. HERTZ, * i ' lier 4 : fi : MAQPN. GA* Will give his customers better goods, low er prices, and a larger assort ment to select from. Ilqt V'-wrSl TTn.d.erTNrea,r- To fit a boy three years old, or the largest sized man. J. ec. SJgBTZ, 574 and 576 Cherry Street, .. SiebN; &L IF YOU WANT? & FIKST-J GROCERIES; Hats, Shoes: If VllUUOf CONFECTiOTV!EF*iES; Fruits in Seb^on^ Ci : Tpi^jgbp, Etc; Examine my. stock before purchasing. . •' Besides a full stock of STAf«fi)AEDQpbl)S: I will always hav8 on hand somb at remarkably lb# figures! : M tUf ad- Lookout for changes in this ad vertisement. . - • V v . S. tS. SPBSKfcHT,, SHUSH; di:.. *3- 3. :II. BEfOEB. 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