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CONYERS WEEKLY.
VOLUME VI.
jp; BACH ELOR OF MANY.
W the ladies I plainly wish
I'sone thin?
say: pretenses; I’m fifty, if a
to an of no
^ •JSSmedrftl** vain. ,or
as is in
the brightest eyes, and all their
rer see
gfSmunilton, If its aim is hurting
^seethe reddest lips, Tm proof against
jl smiles; think I’m not the man for any
tier wiles.
roman s
my own buttons, my stockings I
[ sgw on
women's hands around my room are not
knitted, netted things, no traveling
otoo
a?s, comforters, no painted
lacjbes, no caps.
U- the things that I require; bo, ladies,
Kch"attentions lakeyrvrwirls spent on me are simply
and give your gifts, bo
Est remember? 1 * you please, that I am
not the man.
beard there’s twenty-one old maids con
refpi-ettTschool-girls dever^dews five 'or six that wish with
who insist I “must
fsay S “^ e romantic,” when I’m only
I’m
tired or cross.
, i a dies, all attentions from this date I hone
fon^favor tb:4 I ask is to be left in
^consider one thing sure as anything can
Ill not marry any girl, and none shall marry
[me.
ftt's just exactly what he said about a year
Ljf laperfecf you could show but see his rooms, they are
I Ipainted netted things, and knitted .... things, and
plaques and screens,
lootoaraphsof lliringnueens: famous men, and Beauty’s
liieon [sweet the he irthstone sits his wife—she’s
and good, I know.
Id if you tell him of the words he said a
I j year ajo, “Oh, that’s
answers you. without a blush :
[the usual relieves way; single word old bachelor’s
i one a
may sav; right angel along they
len the comes marry
any day.” —Harper's Magazine.
OS’ POISONS IN THE HOUSE.
In the popular mind a poison is gen
ally regarded as a substance with such
(werfully noxious properties that if
’en a minute quantity be received into
i0 xly system with such it will violence speedily that act upon the
ie issue will be fatal. While probably idea
the
I Qperfeet to some definition extent correet, of it is quite an
that class of sub
ances capable of destroying life, some
which act rapidly, some slowly; some
which are dangerous only in large
)ses, pallest some quantity. deadly even if taken in the
People, as a rule, are perfectly aware
the poisonous properties of arsenic,
jttiol, P' an( sugar > many of lead, more hemlock, substances labur- of
pilar a
nature; but none the less must
r regard as poisons in the true sense
f the word such familiar and much
sex substances as carbonate of soda,
irtanc acid, elder flowers, etc. In the
•nner case the effects produced are al
ftt immediate and violent; while in
16 atter the action is slower, or
r a
" er Quantity is necessary to produce
® same effect upon the vital organiza
I*;present, however, we have no 3n
F i°n of discussing poisons in their
I,®^pect. t0 int our purpose in this
P° °ut the existence
l ‘ °“ evei 7 house of poisons which
PDnoM forms are lurking in dis
f, and doing injury to many, while
H r Presence may be quite unknown
™ never eyen suspected.
nrS Ubted ° l ! Se . lythe commonest skeleton
fiselv 18 arsen ’ c - The law has
I Ut r ? 8tnct 'ons on its sale, for
verr tomakT 118 ^ substancc
luirod is re "
kulars of a record of the full par
ho eve ry sale, and only persons
sunnll/ ,
D S Wn ^°. the veQ der kre to be
to but b^s reference only
arspnin- ^ Ure and simple; for
afactm-r fti?R r y With im P«“ty sell a man
ta e preparation of which any
krsenj„, Si T n med lnto
lP« ’ or
ion It enters, and so we find it
every-day
k 1 ?rin° !nblBati . Q “ Produce beautiful
ribbons °
and ard b and colored
^ a ll'Daijpra " ® a rd- Its presence in
Teen We jo ’ t Xtre ® s P e lel cially of a bright
5 an 0 5 y to common bnd such that wall it
'’’orations kf 6 from and
Den U hare made , which experi
* r °ve that gradually clearly
fom th ese 0 0red surfaces, vaporizes and dis
eiI iinate«; ,,
a many
* the occnn antS cases ' t° the injury
ois °n-Lden ^ ho have breathed the
f Wali.p. air ’ ®^»ht green patterns
rded ln should therefore be
with “ n the , re
om the greatest of suspicion,
iau T is d„p that their
1 an thenar,pJ^L 'l esceciaHv’-h hould P ?^ 30110113 materi
at ntbe f care be taken
s Quito t stalls of bed-rooms
but ft-ep . m lL
the da S senic-poisoning
Bot confined m ar
u ^ presence in our
Independent in All Things.
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO.. GA., FEBRUARY 1, 1884.
wall-papers. suspected; There it is to some extent
but even with our walls of
polished wood, or tapestry-covered, we
may be poisoned quite as readily, and
without the least suspicion, while" read¬
ing by a shaded lamp.
Lamp shades are frequently made of
stiff paper, the outer side of which is
green, but as being while the commendable easiest color for the
eyes; lessness is evident in the selection thought¬
of
the color, the same consideration is
certainly not shown in the materials
which produce that pleasant hue, for
in numerous instances the green pig¬
ment has been found to contain a large
amount of arsenic. The fact of itself is
sufficiently alarming; but when we take
into account the heat of the lamp,
which greatly assists in the ventiliza
tion of the arsenic, we see how danger¬
ous such useful articles may become to
persons in the room, and especially to
those who may be sitting close to
them.
danger An equally has unthought-of source of
been shown to exist in col¬
ored hat linings; and although we do
not believe that there is much cause for
alarm on this score, the following case
is interesting as showing that such dan¬
ger been really troubled does exist. A gentleman had
for several months with
a severe eruption on his forehead, and
at the same time one eye had become
almost useless. After consulting a
doctor he paid a visit to the country,
taking with him an easy wide-awake
hat. Before long a complete cure had
been effected; but on his return to town
the eruption re-appeared. In conse¬
quence, he paid another visit to the
doctor, and on entering the room placed
on the table the chimney-pot hat he
was in the habit of wearing, the bright
maroon lining of which at once caught
the eye of the doctor, of who all suggested mis¬
that it was the cause the
chief. A portion of the lining having
been cut out and examined, arsenic was
found in considerable quantity. On the
gentleman then giving up the use of the
hat, the eruption again disappeared;
but, to make quite sure, he went from
home with the hat, and on the second
peared, day all thereby the previous clearly symptoms proving reap¬ the
poisonous character of the the lining.
Here we have seen that presence
of arsenic is not confined to green col¬
oring materials, and it is sometimes
found, although much less frequently,
in red, brown and yellow cloths, and in
various colored portions of printed
fabrics, chintzes, carpets, ribbons,
gloves, Pasteboard etc. often covered
boxes are
with colored paper which contains
arsenic; but, perhaps, in this class of
goods the greatest danger arises from
confections, and the brightly colored
wrappers which, are used to make them
more attractive. Such deadly verdigris poisons
as red lead, vermillion and are
in general use for the production of
these colors and emerald green, a com
pound of arsenic and copper, is large¬
ly, sold for a like purpose, under the
innocent nameof “extract of spinach.” :r
Some time ago a case occurred of two
children being poisoned by watch, eating
sweet-meats in the shape of a
the face of which was a green paper,
the coloring material being found, on
analysis, to consist of this emerald
green, or Scheele’s green and the
whole amount of arsenic on the wa c
being estimated at eighteen fe of grains. place to
Here it may not out
draw attention to another source of dan
ger which our children are exposed often to,
namely, that from toys, whicn are
painted with poisonous material. The
subject is deserving of attention on the
part of parents, and it w ould be well it
they would never allow their children to
be in possession of colored articles
whose nature may be doubtful, for almost
^[Sh ChMget3h0ldOf mnStg °
to its month.
As poisoning ingredients of frequent ^
occurrence, lead and its various salts
rank next in importance used with to arsenic. safety
Lead is so commonly especially the
for domestic purposes, that
storage and transmission of water,
the dangers attendant upon it3 use are
apt to be neglected. Soft water acts
rapidly upon metallic lead, and many
instances have occurred of lead-poison- with soft
ing in new houses supplied has been foun a
or peaty water. It ,
however, that by allowing the wa e
run through new pipes or stand in new _
cisterns for some time, danger that may such
avoided, owincr to the fact
water acts only upon clean metallic
surfaces, and that lead, when expose
to its action for some time gets coated
with a whitish film of oxide or ear o -
ate any OfcS^’ further W action iu Ch o/SSwIter^Peopfe of the water, r P
entering new houses would therefore
well to let the water tap remain opt
for a day or two, and meanwhile bo -
n >w water from their neighbors for all
dietetic purposes, lor the same reus
leaden cisterns should J»ver _
scrubbed out. or the true surface of
lead in any way scratched or expose!.
Knowing that water thus acts upo
lead, it will not seem surpris “=
this metal should occasionall.v v,e io >
in considerable quantity m “ e ”* J
=£££££»;—
In like manner the artificial waters pre-i
pared in gasogenes, which are partly
composed of lead, have been found in
some cases to contain a considerable
and dangerous amount of lead in solu¬
tion.
frequently Again, in cleansing bottles, and shot de¬ is
made use of, a white
posit of carbonate of lead is thus in
many cases left upon the sides
of the bottle. This, would, of course,
be immaterial if only water or some
such liquid were to be kept in the bot¬
tle; but the chances are that it will be
used for holding some acid liquor—'
Beer, wine, vinegar, pickles, fruit, etc.—
and the result is that the carbonate of
lead is dissolved by such acid, obviously
to the detriment of the person who may
afterward consume the contents.
Here we may refer to the action of
vegetable acids upon brass or copper
pans; for, although the fact is general¬
ly known that poisoning may sometimes
occur from the use of such utensils, it
is not so generally understood that the
danger cool in lies these in allowing the the metal acid of liquor which
to pans,
is quite unacted on by such acids when
hot, but is readily attacked when cold.
Such are some of the most common
domestic poisons; but, alas! the list is
not by any means exhausted.
Hams are occasionally done up in
canvass loaded with yellow chromate of
lead, and some of this poison is conse¬
quently found adhering largely to used the in ham.
Arsenic has been the
preparation of violet and face powders,
while carbonate of lead, or the acetate
(sugar of lead), and sulphur, are
amongst hair-restorers. the common Arsenic, ingredients either of
some as
yellow orpiment or as arsenic white, is
mixed with sugar for the manufacture
of fly-papers; and vermin-killers usual¬
ly consist of a mixture containing the
well-known poison phosphorus.— Har¬
per's Bazar.
The Jumping Kind.
There was to have been a suit for as¬
sault and battery before one of the Jus¬
tices in the temple yesterday. charged A farm¬
er down in Springwells slapped was nis
with having the jaws of
neighbor, and two wagon-loads of wit¬
nesses were on hand to swear to this
and that. Both plaintiff and defendant
seemed to be determined men, and
their respective wive3 sat and glared at
each other like two old cats. Some of
the necessary formalities were sudden, being the
worked up when, all of a
wife of the complainant was taken with
the toothache. It wasn’t the kind which
growls and mutters around, but the
old-fashioned, jumping ache, and in
two minutes she was crying. Her tears
at once affected the wife of the defend¬
ant, and after a little she slid over and
whispered: thing—I’m sorry!”
“Poor
“Oh! such an ache!” sobbed the vie
tim.
“I brought along said some first peppermint she
and here it is,” the as pro¬
duced “What’s the phial. all this? asked the plaint
iff, as he came up.
“Why, wife ... suffering .
your poor is
terribly with the toothache, and I pity
her from the bottom of my heart.
“Who’s got the toothache, inquired .
the defendant, as he joined the group.
, ( nl George, nr ~pi hut but that’s that s too too bad' cad. Shan’t ftuan t
1 8?jSJraedabout this * be rfnliS- 5 ’ held “
ou. his hand and replica.
“ Sa Y Seabed \ yof
» • y fiar and F
hit {?“[ Si 5im „
'
P’ ”
, . t} whole business
. too-ether and have a
c ,. ' TVIollv J* £ eit y vour cloak
OI ^
And in spite of lawyers and specta
to .___ , .J* P Yr>rp«air>n of hi*
, , A a ; n tifF D aid all costs
o 1
rUf^mlant on the back and
hea e ' 1 -
c] ama '° n - •. d i
k G »
y® r ®’, a J women folks ston here
till George and , me have , a „ drink. ( i r ; 1J V”_ -
Bc^roi t
To o Lat e.
, . . nrivate confab as
’
the ^ t j t u t i ie j r backs to the
lr ' TriDUv Church.
-
“If you was Gould ’’ sa : d one
“jrnd I «‘Judge on.thebench, how
mu no* “How much would
Welk I Ann dunno, How much would
7°”,, , p
“\Ved ’ I d chip in with Jim Keene
‘ Urn-le Rufus and
,, - ,
an »■ $20 000. ’
^ TOU
“ ., t t ’ man but vou'd ° ^tfe <xet S left'
While you were ^tting upthe pool
liesnt
offer o » » -• Wall Street
e P • _
.
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. Alb „ nv rq. y.) paper tells of a
woman in that citv who waked her bus
d durincr ..f a st orm the other night,
, - d . do wish you would stop
^ <» n
A Tourist’s Adventure.
Mr. Isaac W. Cotton is a New Hamp¬
shire man, who is well known through
the Southern States, and the little ad¬
venture with which he met a few days
ago in the swollen waters of Steel
Creek, just beyond the MecklenbifP*^
line in South Carolina, will bo of inter¬
est to his friends in the South and will
startle his friends in the.North. Mr.
Cotton, accompanied by his son, is mak¬
ing his way to Florida all the wav from
New in buggy. Hampshire, through the country
a For many years past he
has spent his winteiy in Florida, but up
to this winter has always gone by rail.
His scheme of making the trip in a
buggy was adopted upon the advice of
(physicians, would who thought the overland
strip jhim do him good, besides giving
a fine acquaintance with the coun¬
try. Mr. Cotton and his son put out
(from New Hampshire about three
months ago, and found that the trip
fully came up to the recommendations
until they passed Charlotte and encoun¬
tered ling adventure Steel Creek, befell when them. a really start¬
The creek was greatly swollen by the
.late rains and was far out of its banks.
Mr. Cotton had crossed streams twice
that width in Florida, and, supposing he
could do it here the same way, he drove
into the swollen waters. He had driv¬
en in but a short distance when he dis¬
covered his mistake, but too late. When
he could see nothing but the heads of
himself, son and horse above the waters
he realized that trouble encompassed
him round about. The current of the
stream bore them swiftly along, and
men, horse and buggy quickly parted
company. Mr. Cotton caught the
branches of a tree and drew himself out
of the water. In a tree a little below
him he saw that his son had saved him¬
self in like manner. The horse and
buggy growing had disappeared in from sight. and It
was late the evening,
Mr. Cotton and his sou began to shout
for help and kept it up until a couple of
farm hands, attracted, by their cries,
came upon the scene. After considera¬
ble maneuvering the father and son
were rescued from the trees and con¬
ducted to the residence of a hospitable
farmer near by, where they were made
comfortable for the night.
besides Mr. Cotton lost his and horse and valise buggy,
two trunks a con¬
taining Jiis valuables. One of the
trunks was afterward found about a
mile below the scene. His valuables
were kept in a rough, carried unsuspicious ia the
looking the valise, and were It is hardly
foot of buggy. pos¬
sible that the valise will ever be found.
Mr. Cotton newly-found spent two friend, days at the and house
of his then,
getting a new rig, proceeded on his
journey, leaving instructions for the
forwarding of his remaining goods
should they be recovered from the
flood. Theie are a good many streams
between Steel Creek and Florida, but
if any of them are swollen when Mr.
Cotton drives up to the bank he will
needle be seen going through the the eye of a
rather than through water.
—Charlotte (N. C.) Observer.
Politeness in Arkansas.
Let me relate an incident 1 sunnose
place as Texas for a bully to go to, but
. personal 1 observation at both
points think Arkansas is a little safer
place for a gentleman than Cincinnati,
The tonisled P-eneral urbanitv of the neoDle as
me more than anything else,
This ig w j, at j p ropoae station, to illustrate. We
stopped at one and traveled
about forty miles by stage. On our re
turn the stage—a "large spring wagon rfien.
without top—was loaded with
They were of different types. One had
a bottle of whisky. One was a minis
ter. We came to a creek where a party
bad stopped to water their horses,
There were two women and a little girl, Sun
apparently and very faded poor. calico They dresses. wore The
bonnets
horse was poor, and the vehicle was as
shabby ana rough an old specimen as I
ever met with. One of the women had
unhitched the horge and i ed him back
t0 tj,e water, and had just turned to
come up the bank as we reached the
level after crossing,
Our driver stopped. A well-dressed
naan hopped out of assistance. the stage, and with
a bow offered his He led
tb e old horse up to the vehicle—I don’t
know what else to call it-hitched him
in> Msisted the woman to her seat, and
then, as she heartily thanked him, he
bowe d her head. good-day, lifting his
hat clear off his In a moment
be was in the stage again, and on we
went- After mv experience in the
North it struck me that this was all for
sport, and that the men would have
lots of fun about the affair. But I soon
^ ^ ^ ^ iaearnest AU re _
garded From that it as a matter of the course. end of For the
moment to
journey not one man uttered one sylla
ble about it Not a sneering remark
was made, no joke or pun, no remark
of any kind—not one single word! I
had to confess to myself that I never
saw more politeness than this.— Cor.
***
NUMBER 47.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—A volume in the public library of
Boston, Mass., contains the autograph
of Martin Luther .—Boston Post.
—Jim Wintersmith, the new Door¬
keeper of the House, is a son of the
famous Kentucky wag, Colonel Dick
Wintersmith .—Washington Star.
—Mrs. Lippincott—“Grace Green¬
wood”-—will stay in Paris during the
winter, and has given up all idea of re¬
turning to America.— Chicago Journal,
—Pierpoint Potter, of Jamaica, N.
Y., now in his ninetieth year, still acts
as clerk to the and Queens keeps County Board of
Supervisors the records of
the bills audited. This is the fiftieth
year he has performed the same duty.—
N. Y. Times.
—Armand Heine, a wealthy banker
who recenly died in Paris, France,
made his first start in New Orleans, He
was the first man to ship cotton direct
from this country to North Germany.
He married Miss Cohen, of New Or¬
leans, who brought him a fortune of
$200,000.— N. 0. Picayune.
—When Weston started the other day
from Westminster Bridge, London, to
walk fifty miles a day for one hundred
days, to illustrate the physical advan¬
tages of temperance, a crowd of distin¬
guished and benevolent doctors Barons and eminent and fair clergymen ladies
gathered, to see him off, and he start¬
ed to the strains of a temperance hymn.
—Amanda Mackinder, of Geddes,
and Charles O. Bowles, of Syracuse. N.
Y., are the latest couple and marriage whose ac¬
quaintance, attained courtship aid of was
The through inserted the the “want” a newspaper. in
groom a
Syracuse newspaper, the bride,who was
a widow, answered it, and, everything
proving lovely, they were married,—
Syracuse Journal
—Rev. Mark L. Emory, a young
Methodist preacher, formerly pastor Sugar in
a Southern Ohio town, went to
Grove, Pa., a year ago and took bachelor, charge
of a church there. He was a
and soon became very popular with the
ladies. Two months ago he hired a
livery rig, drove out of town, and did
not return. He left debts behind to the
amount of four hundred dollars. His
effects were sold at auction four weeks
after his disappearance, and he now
writes to his former parishioners from
Toledo, O., that he was ruined by spec¬
ulation, and has been wandering half-crazed about
from place to place in a
condition. —Philadelphia Press.
HUMOROUS.
—What is it has a mouth and never
speaks, and a bed and never sleeps? A
river .—Portland Transcript.
—Oscar Wilde says his poems will be
read after Shakespeare has been for¬
gotten. That’s the proper time to read
them .—Hartford Post.
—“Got tough job on hand to-day,”
said Snooks to a friend on Canal street.
“Sorry, old fellow; what is it?” “Prom¬
ised to carve turkey at our boarding¬
house.— N. 0. Picayune.
—Old bills: “Two hundred and twen¬
ty-seven bills were introduced into
Congress the first day’s session. 4! “Just
think of it!” remarked Mrs. Simple;
“ isn’t it ridiculous? These Conoyess
men get salaries big enough, I should
think, to pay as they go. Two hundred
and twenty-seven bills! For things they
got last year, of course. For my part,
I think it’s positively scandalous.”—
Boston Transcript.
—A doctor is called in to prescribe
for a sick child, and having examined
the patient writes a prescription and
leaves instructions as to the treatment
of the little sufferer. On making his
visit the next morning the prince of
science is surprised to find the house¬
hold in tears. “My poor child,” sobs
the mother, “I never of thought croup!” that “Of he
would have died
croup?” echoes the doctor; “do you
mean to say the child had the croup?
Why didn t you tell me?”— Indianapo¬
lis Joui nal.
—Town mouse and country mouse:
Ethel—“Look—look, Marvel!” Dorothy Dorothy! There’s
Richard (country
cousin (—“Richard Marvel! Who’s
he?” Ethel—“What, never heard of
Richard Marvel? Parthenon!” Why, he’s the actor,
you know, at the He’s something Dorothy
“Oh! an actor, is he!
like Mr. Osbaldistone Smith.” Ethel
.—“Who’s Mr. Osbaldistone Smith?”
Dorothy—“What, never heard of Mr.
.Osbaldistone Smith!! Why, he’s the
greatest breeder of shorthorns in all
.Cumberland! !!”—London Punch.
—“How stupid 1 am!” said Birdie
McHennepin, languidly, respectable executing at
the same time quite a yawn
act. “That’s true,” remarked Gus De
Smith, rather impulsively. impertinent.” “Sir!” ex¬
claimed Birdie, “you are
f ‘but you yourself just now asserted
that you were stupid.” “I only said
ulantly. so without “Yes, thinking,” and said Birdie, pet¬
up to the time you
spoke I had only thought so without
saying it.” Hang crape on the door of
Miss Birdie. Another lover scratched
off the list of one of the Austin belles.
—Texas Siftings.