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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 13.1883.
GEORGIA NEWS
•’H«« 1'albotton reached iu tvolinV 1* eagerly
•Died by the Standard. from which question it is
presumed an answer is desired, and in prescribing
for Talbotton, other towns iu 'he state might stand
op and listen. Emigration must be Invited, as the
first step itt the grow*! of any community, and that
Invitation must mean that the new comer will be
allowed the full benefits of all to which hit energy
and talents entitle him. Schools must be cstat-
Uihed of good grade and competent Instructors, no
that the education of children may be conducted
under parental supervliion. Home Institutions
must lie patronised in order to give employment to
local labor. The manufacture of as many staples
as possible -j»ust be fmter-d, so as to keep at home
the suma of money now sent abroad. Ihe
poor must work to live, and bo made
to feel that tho Hclf-Mi*tAli.ing
cltisen la tho hlgheat and best type of mauho.«f.
The rich must continue to work in order (bat they
may not lose their energy, and as an example to
thoaewhoara likely to Imitate them. Low grog-
cries, thebaneof every >m*H community and the
curse of so many families, must be driven out of
cxlatenoe. Enterprise must usurp tho place of
•loth, bopo drive out despair, and Industry leave
no room for Ihrlftlessiiu*#. This will furnish our
towns the key to success, and Tiib CoN<riTVTioN
would be glad to see Talbottoa enabled to k ep her
place at the head of the procession. Tho Dublin
Post brings In the find practical answer:
Late Saturday night (he Jolly worshippers at the
Shrine of Bacchus hung around Mahlos’s asdic
clatter of the glands played die dozniogy in the
closing exercises of the last bar room In Dublin.
When the lights were out and the door* close the
assembly dispersed to their various homes taking
with them and bugging chaw to ihelr hearts, as did
iEurusafu r the *a«.kof Troy, 'heir Penates In the
Shape of private Jugs and bold**, with whieb io»e-
tabllsh allheir (trodden ine wor-l.lpof a divinity
denied to them in public temples. Hun my w*
quiet and on Monday morning die sun dint hi
level rays athwart the strata and by ways of Dub
lilt to flud for the find dine In all Iii» j ninny log to
abiding plane for die sale of rum wittiln die limit*
of the town.|
Hparta Isliraealitc; Frank Travis, a well-known
Colored man about Hpurla, died of typhoid pneu
monia oil last riuudsy night, lie went Inuring
and fell Into the creek nud this was the cud of the
■Ransom Turner is the oldcnt man. Iu Murray
county—103 yistrs.
friends of that institution. Surely, if this editorial
n fleets the sentiments of the cltixensof Aihens.lt
is time that the planters of Georgia should consider
whether their sons cannot be educated at other In
the position and — -----.-t---
Georgia. I am peniuaded, however, that this edito
rial does violence to die intelligent peopleof Ath-ns,
who have twice Invited the society to hold its con
vention in their city.
The remarks of the Athens Banner, however, are
practically re-echoed by the Hartwell Sun, which
says
says that W idle McCullough, of the Nation school,
is using a slate bis grandfather ciphered on fifty
years ago. It is a large slate and la in a good state
of preservation. The Tbomasville Times has feasted
Jtaeyes upon a citizen, Mr. J. K. Adams, who has a
chair In use by his family that is 125 years old, and
Is now in the hands of the fifth generation. Mr.
John L. Finn, of Thomasvllle, donated to the mu
seum department in the llbraiy a piece of cloth 200
years old. It is a slip cut from quite a Urge piece
given him by his aged mother, while nortn last
The city of Albanv refuses to entertain the Geor- iun ,mer. T he cloth U distinctly traceable 200 years
M» Thl. piece be* been ,hj tall, for .h.« pe-
town
m*ny deadheads to attend then* ui> cd"K* who «jo
not know the difference between a sub soil plow
ai.d n hotel elevator. About all that is aceompll-h-
ed is to foist into notice some le* ther-head uandi
date for governor or Monitor who has
fleation* for *«< h office.
riod. It is remarkaoly well preserved, the colors
btdngy crfcetly bright, while tbo texture does not
how material car. From Columbus the Times
real quail- j announces the deposit in the library at that place
by Mr. G. If. Waddell of a dictionary published in
•utof pla-
Fairbiirn News: Tiioso who remember the days
of the ‘ patrnler" will doubt'ess rmoictiize l»i the
following oil" of the pH«*n which slave owners
iHsiii d to their negroes before the war w hen one of
them h»d leave of alienee from Ilf* inaMcr's pretn-
l-es-ai any rate, that's w hat IH*, and it is a g -nil*
In piu», p|< k< d up on the ► .recti of Fair burn a
short time since:
Abram Ihn leave to para and re-pah* until Monday
morning, Novi in her, 27tli, 1RVJ
Iu the days of slavery
have a pa-s »fgue«> by his master when he
from home: or if caught without It he
up by the pa dolmen, whipped i
vent away
was taken
ud tobi
darkey
Augusta News: Tuesday evening last the train
going notth on Iho Air Lino railrosd was boarded
at HparUnburg by a young* ouple from the coon try,
who took a plaou In the middle of the car. the lady
anting next to the window. Thu train had been
moving but a very few minutes when ihe lady sud
denly Jurap«'d up and screamed, "My Lord, l in all
•flrel" Boib husband and wife "piled out" into the
aisle, (be lady with her dry goods at a prominent
“ ' * * * d rubbing herself, aa-
friglitened husband.
car. Ever) body wa* looking tor fire, and ever>body
saw everything but fire. After the lady calmed
down It came to tight tlmt she had t ecu sitting w 1th
one foot upon the ledge through winch the healing
pipes mo. Tho register Immediately under being
open she received a startling and unexpected hot
blast, whleli siirnrlsod her and entiM-d tho confusion
which followed. Thu iff
with an overcoat Is going „
The man who stopped tho train will never be km
Tho mania for gamt.llug moves the Dfopnlch
say that llawkinavlllo was never so addicted h
aa uow, though ho admitted that long y
hud set 1 n husliiMM houses in tho town wlllio|x
doom on Sundays, and gambling at Ihe fayo tables
going on aa il may bo seen any 8utiday in
French and HpatiUh quart* m Iu New Orleans,
remark retnlud* ua of the admhwloii of a young
merchant, who was considered the lurkic-t of
the young men whnpatronizi'd the wheel of fortune
during Ita thirty days atay In HawklnsvlUo.
was on hand every nlilit, and bis favorite figure
waa the atar. Occasionally he would quit many
dollars ahead of tho wheel—once or twice aa m
As elgh'y dollars. But lie lias owned up that
Mtual lone* on the wheel foot up four hundred
And forty-three dollars I The young man who
lows himself lured by tho hope of winning
body’a money has reached a datigetoiis point in
eareei. If bo be engaged In business,
ft ha what It may. It la bound to softer
for Jack of thought and attention. Ilia min
beoomcaabsorbed In the game, and hit bind tic
must run Itself. When ho Duds himself losing
beoomes rcekloas, and when lie wins he lx mines
excited, And, let the result ho what It nitty, lie
Cornea gradually unfit for business, and In ten
yeaia or 1cm time ho cannot eoiircuirate
thought! upon any lino ol duty or apply himself
toy occupation.
Oglethorpe Frho: Not long ago the largo heart)
hut small Matured I'uoy Mule, of » raw ford, mile
on a you i g tody In itila e unty who imu some
playful little brothers, rwn after •T’liueh"
•rated himself In Iho parlor beside the fair one,
of the little ton-year-olds sent In a polll** itivlti
"that little fellow toeotnentitam! play with tin
The undher went to hi* teveiie, however, and ex
plslned to her hopeful that I'otiy wssayoiinii ni. t
The little fe low was not railsflcd though Mini woe
this young man started for home ho was rougretu
lated by the trichina* being oiip nf the "swi-ctcM
little follows he ever saw." N-» doubt he hnd heuid
his shier make Ihe sumo remark.
uncommon f<_ „
la- found away from home without a ermit. and If
he succeeded in i-reaplng the patrolmen nil went
w«.,l; but il M.im-tlm* s happened Unit be had tc
male his heels ftiisw* r tor a pars; hence that beau
ilf ilatid soul-stirring *
"ftnn, nto
Bhorlcr college. Rome, uow lias on its school m
Dd pti|4la, being a considerable I net ease over tli
number of last year. T he scholar* and icachuis
living In theeullege building number M.
Greciirsboro Journal: Jordln Itolvlti, a w
known uolond mail of Ihl* county, made Ust >
IH) husiftds of corn, ten bales of mii»n, and <d
pnsiueeoii a oite-liorse fariii. JoMln sets hi- n
All vxample worthy of imitation. There |» n
more huuic-raK d meat iu l|«»ii»t*>it county ban
bugktllliig seaxui.
among the hors** with them «»•> one valued
1300-a racer. I hw turnout remiudeil our litlze
of ante bellum d»)s.
*I>eK*lb News: t'olonel W. L B I’nvoby ws« in
Iowa Saturday, and lia ided in lii-eoiiou rvintri f
*«2 lie ha t Lmr and one half sacs In coil,
from which he gathered 7.4JM pomms mint cot to
On oneaim* bo un «». &"0 |n»iiihIh ITiic Ulan.I guwn
and fiom It gathered 2 M2 lauiuda of mc«I eoltn
On the other ihrve and one half acre* lie used *.Tkt
pound* of guano io the acre He diH-su'i know lm
much eoni he made, a* ho ha* not y. t tliilsb.
R lherlng It. Parties wishing toe intmtuieaie wl
e«*oloticlon busineiwcaiisildnsa him at No I i'a
Rock, Jaekwm avenue, ilomitilon of Arabia. Dili,
hours, I a. m. until 12 p. tu.
Mrs. uciieral Toomb* had a>tnrkeof pwrsljal*
Oouple of days since, but she Is now nunc what bet
ter. The hearts of all Georgians go out to this noble
lady In heraffiletioua.
Echo: Sheriff Mark Young report*
hUnoKS aidyiog of an unknown dlM-**e
first sign they *how of btdug aiek U the r* (umI «
eat. and f *rH»mc twoor three weeks will keep >hi
up until auuigh eommeneva, whm they die ins
fewda>s. He tat* he ha* M*eu hog* die of tin
cholera and the inptoms that hh sw ine now bnvi
do not resemble th t dinwn* in the least, lie hsi
loot 19 or 2 >, some of which were fattening*, and he
Will Hie tor some one to tell him what themtlady
Baud now toenre It We hear of many lug. dying
tn theoouutir of chdera, but we expect tuauy of
them are effected with tnla new dlscaH*.
The Perry Home Journal sayatliat more than otte
third of the families fu Perry keep cows, and the
market for milk and home-made butter l« very
nearly supplied by the product*of the town dalrh*.
There are a number of excellent Jersey cows in
Ferry, and there ismorethati one from which four
gallons of milk have been token la one day.
The refusal of Albany to entertain the state agri
cultural soriety ba» faded forth a variety of com
menu The Athens Banner *j*>ke of It as "aalntsty
rebuke to the large army of convention tramp*’
who, "m-H Invited, intrude th«-m-elvea upon stran
gen*” That i-aper •*>»: "We think the people of Al
bany are entirely Ju*ti(latde. and dewrve a vote of
thanks fo* the manly example In rv»i ting such an
iufsmous imrwwltl.oi upm their In pltalily." He
plying to there atme-una, Hon. T.»m Hard. man.
president of the society says. In a recent letter:
It I* true, so-ee^itlea in Geon ia. rs.'mn’rd h» a
nnsiltsliiy whbh alw* * cha’arterttes «.eorfi*n»
have (• f iVIr « wn vulltlofl opened * thHr h«n-. a
And rsf-ee " blit It !• li*n true 'h tr In a laree
m*p>rpy of I*u- e* the w mb) r* have (a* ’her piv-
fer to dot paid tb* Ir hotel bill .
published in »he iitv whereou. .
wra'et—in wh«w »* *•*r»l ».f t'U*t are f-
regr» t ha«
tve*sliv !'
valixstde
(under the Uw%
rdito-UI. attetr.|
men whose pain
-gla)-should in a lending
ninoteul# *nd r. p-o^rh the very
'age U so much dc*iml by the
\lhile ail till- reading in very spicy : , ^tlll It must i jyjrj f>y Calepini. The book oelongs to Jud. e George
b* 1 said for the society that it* member* give their J jj Hooper, of OpelikAAtld is highly prized, not only
time, talents arid experiments to tho people free, j f Qt its antiquity and Inlriuslc worth to clavie
i| a little courtesy In return would certainly not j ncholan, but because It ha* been In his family since
its publleatlon.belug handed down from one gener
ation to another to the present one. It ha* never
been out of the po**cF*ton of the Hooper family,
He aho left a copy of Hogarth ot London IfiOl,fully
MluHrAted, with note*. This In also a rare work,)
although not *o old a* the dictionary, it is almost
cqualtv highly priz'd.
Fort Valley Mirror: On Monday night la*t Robert
Fairfax, colored, was sitting In his house toying
with a pistol, when the weapon accidentally dia
charged. The ball unfortunately struck a Huh? ne
gro b y, William Koblnson, in the tight leg just
below the knee, inflicting a painful won d Dr.
Boss was immediately sent for. and under hi* skill
ful treatment the boy is doing well.
The Augusta News, on the subject of manufac
turing towns In Georgia, rays: "IL W.
O’s" facts pan out all right again. He
has been ridiculed for claiming that Atlanta had
more shop*, factories nnd mills than any other city.
The official census figures sustain him. This is the
way with a good many other things. Thu boys
laugh at Grady's "fact*" and fight his conclusions,
but when the official returns come in ho always
comes out on top.
Lumnkin independent: On Saturday night last
while the rain was pouting down In torrent* Mr. It.
II. Voru* wa* engaged In turning off water at hi*
mill to prevent the dam from breaking. T ho water
began t<» rise in his lot where he kept bis sberx.and
fca.'ing that the old whl'e s eer w- ni l get drowned
he went In Ihe lot to drive him out, but the steer
wouldn't diive worth a cent nod swam out Into tin-
|Miiid. After getting out In the point
the steer got into the current at d
was drawn through the race over the dam to th»*
seething water* lielow. Hob thought that it who ni!
up with the steer and began to searen for him be
low the mill to try, If possible, to save his bide.
After a considerable search he found tho old fellow
c awIJng up Ihe bank twenty-five yapJs below tb-
mill, having been iliompcd and whirled around
until, loiisli like, he waneaNt upon the shore. The
only damage Incurred was one or two skinned
pieces made in passing through the gates.
cdWitha tear in its eye, the Courier says thatCa»
too*» raised more onions last year than ever before.
Tho bnekbouo ol winter in Georgia la broken—nl
'east Ills not quite a* SUIT as It was, but occasion
ally a Cherokee sneeze may be overheard in the
wiregrnsM region.
Beiricii News: A party of kln-folks gathered In
the lnwe' part of the county last w*ek, and their
joint weight wa* 3,397 pouml—ba-ket and all.
Fort Valley Mirror: It Is a fact not known to
many that a stenmboat once ascended the Flint
river as high as tho old "Agency" In Crawford
county.
A family of Fort Valley dressmaker* often hav
a* many a* tliirty flvo dresses t«> make,
Athens Banner: Every paper «e pick up recon
some big furmi' g operation Yet, at tbo same time
our cities are tlli.-d with young men limiting el-rk
ship* and the planter* are going Into bankrtipu y.
T he cx|H?rlence ol aome men show that there Is mere
clear money In the old red hlda of Georghi, to the
capital emp’oved. than III any branch of bilsine
where the right sort of manawem-nt la brought
t»ear. NVi all know Hist the life of a tiller of Ihe
soil Is the mint independent, for ho is hi* own
master and hast • bow and crlugo* to no »uperlnr.
In piuwi g up Brian) street, last evening, Mr. R. K
I tea VI-* hailed u* and gave the following report of
the crop «>f Mr. |{. A. Noon, one of the solid farm
era of Oconee. laist year he hiied two hands
and a half one of them being a eripnlo, and he ran
but ore plow with till* force he feu cod sod put
lu thorough repair a400 ae o plantation. HI* cron
when gathered presented the following yield:
bales of cotton, |AV>; bushels of com
bu*h«d* of oat*. tM; fodder and shucks,
i*l, fl.225. Ills ei tlre outlay Was ns foil*
palmier ketch you;
Run, nigger, run—you better git away."
Kiirmiui having d« rnou*tra'cd wliat can l*c done
with cotton, a Wilkes county farmer foil* embold
ened to tell wliat he ha.* been able to do with Corn.
Wilkes county 1* pretty low down iu the cotton belt,
and her people are Impioscd with Hie idea that to
have a little spar- money, it iv nocenaary to raise
cotton. One of their number, however, who had
long urged hi* friend* to plant more corn, out* and
wheal,has demonstrated that therein lies true agri
cultural economy. He says that last year he ha 1
the opportunity of cultivating thirty seres of old
red land that had been cultivat'd
so long that there were but two original
stump* In the field; nud It wa* very j*oor. lie con
cluded that he would plant It in corn nnd peas,
and that lie would keep an account of the expenses.
Hu did so, and lie lour will bn found the result*,
being what he made ou the thirty acres nud wliat
It coat to make it. Keating that some tnay think
that h-estimate* his corn too high, he states that
he I* selling select seed corn at S'2 00 p-r bushel,
ami can sell all he can spare at that price. In
chargl- g hi* expenses, ha charged the f.i-m H..7)
per day for every day ho plowed. All the work
was done at day labor prices—€0 to 7. r » cents per
day. Ho chanted the farm with f'.O.OO worth
stable manure that he took out of hi* own stable,
md It actually did not coat him anything; hut
barged It the same ns If ho had It to buy. The
r g into tbo salvage buslno-s. suit Is that h- got.*vjo Imslicla of corn for nothin
,-.r-in n..,.v..riw.w,or a clear profit of this inucli. He plowed the first
furrow the 'JUtli day of March,and by tho 2 tb
September, he had hizeorn all hoiVed; it being (1
and a half months from beginning to
following I* the expense account, together with tie
results: Expenses— t lowing. 175 fit); Wand
S-VMjOO; slalilu manure, tIO.OO, putting In manure
(V>0; pulling and hauling corn, &10.S0: pulling f<
der. f 19 fiO: picking peas 815 75; hoeing. 817>0; so
corn, 15.00; seed |a*as snd potatoes, 85,00—12:11
Re*ulU—620 bushels corn, I5V0.00; 75 bushels pt
875 00; 41 bushel* Irish potatoes. 812.00; 20 bushel
w potatoes, SIS 00: ft,910 pound* fo lder, 8*9 00,
shucks, 825.0U; 2 loads pmnukltia, S ».00-8V7l
Rceapiuilatlon—Products, |771.1C; expenses, 12:11.%
ch ar profit 8.VM75
The gathering of the elans In Darien was
epoch In the history of Georgia. Tim leading
rescntatlve of Iho elan, Gruhh, musing upon the
coining celebration In Bavannnh, Institutes a com
pArlanti between the haggard refugeca from the
debtors’prisoners who found homes in Bavannah
under Oglethor|ie, and Hie kilted clansmen who
Weiostotloncd at Dsilen as n bulwark against
"panlah aggreoslou. Tho aettiement of Havaui ah
according t«» th# Gazette, was one of pure phllan
trophy, blit for the settlement of Darien
erica General Oglethorpe selected Ihe bold and ml
venturous sons of tho el ana Mclntoth, McDouall
and others. It then rays
Ihirlen hi* held I to own, and there are manj' ttr-
ol one of ita printer*, aay* of bint that be "expccta
to follow the gable end of an old gray hone nnill
this year's crops are ‘laid by.''
A bany News: The Irish potato has been found
to be another very profitable crop. We found that
those who planted them on an extensive ucale last
year made from 30 barrels to 70 barrels per sere,
which netted them from 85 to |7 per barrel. Nothing
is m»re savory than a young and tender !ri»h
potato, and the eraand for tb» m last year was good,
where they were Introduced in ihe northern mar
kets at least
crop. Thej
in craps made of light material.
Land near the railroad In Brooks and Thomas
counties has advanced fu price at* rate that seem
fabulous during the last few months. All due to
truck farming. A gentleman in Quitman recently
paid $100 per acre for some land which he is plant
ing in LcConte pear trees and watermelons. He
says he has already been offered a godd profit on his
investment. Messrs. 8. W. and J. P. Brooks, of
Quitman, bought two or three hundred acres of
laud near town at from 87 to 810 per acre last year,
and now they would not take 8100 per acre forsome
of It.
Rome Courier: Mr. W. C. Winfrey, a compost
tor on this {taper, was born iu a house buUt and
. . "— **-- ' -f the
. Winfrev set his first
on the Courier, and has
years lu ail.
A gentleman in Rome .
that in 183i, when a r ►idem or Talbot county,
used to catch four or five hundred shad in i._
nlvht. on into*, when upon another geutl'rifci
mi Kg) Mol that that number of this spreie of ml
would now *ell lor IDS), or thereabouta. The
former aeqnir-sced. but said that Hey then would
defray* ihe exp* of carrying them to marke
Tills verlfl * the ad*ge that "lime has wrough*
woiiderou* change*."
PULI < !• AL NOIBS.
dents of those high spirited elans, living to day
In Mclnhwh county, whom the Hanoverian govern
non t wasotily tooKlnd tnsec abandon the eaiiM>oi
the exiled Fluarla .and depart forever from the
’“‘■“crlhfrs wra of the r»e
erlal out of whieb the
eom|Ni*rd. eerlslniy
Feotehmeti
vrljr seiller* of Georgia
IIUMlrl<>n«m< > ti of that
Glencoe, and the devotion of Flora tleDonab
the old wor’if, and In the new, the sfrge* of Hi
DitoHiiennd Fimierlea, Hu* battle of Bloody Mar*b
and Hie scent* and hardship*
Alta tea*'* lull k»" In Georgia, hid) the palm
wa dol to OglrHiortx*'* highland re«|.
II Hist I* stirring and ehlviHrlr In that
ir history. We don't know whai w|t] {><•
theprogemmeon the day the Savaunahlao* e«
brnie. Then* lias been no sort of recognlilon
Darien, oftlelal or otherw ise. th*t we know of. ai .
•oiitemimrary settlement We have thought It
vottM have been a m*kI lilea. however on that
•iv*»loii, not only to have Oglethorpe and tome
hlehl n-pmdueed. but al*o sonn* nsilve Pnvan
nahiaua lu o d lime KueD*h tlglits a d bur* I
Salzburg' rs fnnn Ktllnahant conn tv In ma*»
ie* and bread bats, and the descendants •>
the IHg*>lati<lcr*of M lnl *‘b In th Ir luninet* am
kilts ul'hntil nnv "breek*" ninth ver I’.nt If on
ud fellow -citizens nl G« on U’* great M-aptirt *n
•tned of HtHe Darien and iheCeaeendantaof thi
cattle reiving eon»enioorari'*a of their more peaee
il ancestrv. we will have to try and get up next
car a little w*>ijui ee. lennlil of our own.
The Georgia editor t* walking around In Ht<
okynrd In hla sliirt-slecvca, hand* lu hi* pocket*
ml whittling I oppo*lll ni to the featured harbin
ger* of spring. In the glade* of southwest tie
glathe Amerleu*R»*eorder rays: The spring poet
ha* bbw,«..med. They are generally Hie tlr*t vegi
tables that show up. Ill Hartwell Hie Sun ray
The blue bird's blltheaotn* carrolllig h* raids n|
pnwehlng springtime." And even away up In the
tain funnest of Dahtouega the-wool
that " on last Sunday the hut'ertlie* were o
thi bird* sang a* If soring was nt liand."
*an> sa t’ourler: A eon pie wen* married
•ba k near Talladtga. Ala., and at Aorloek the
ne iilght the b bit* elopetl with another fellow.
Amerleu* Recorder: On the plantation of one of
lervetl • n <d pnwpenm* voting farmer*
who 1* -oled for having matte a large amount of
y in a short 'line, grows a persimmon tree
hleh stonda by the road In a cotton field. la»i
b in the fork of a limb,
>n lx II wa* thrown into
eloMitoa limb that It
if had grown here. An envious neighbor
ding by and noticing the cotton boll in the tree.
fall there
1 hv some chance a eolh
ud »tuek *.* fast
bis perfimmon tr»*es!"
vllle |vays six hundre«l dollars poll tax.
I’ref. PcnnlnKton'a school at Spring Vale has ,V»
punlia.
itnam county had 137 marrlarea In IM*.
There are a good many shepherd dog# in rutnam
county,
Macon Telegraph: Mr. C. W. Fill*saved the Whle
from the fire at the Rap Us' church tr«»#rdav this
Ihle wa* pr»*sei»it*«! bv Mr*. Nancy M. Clark*,
ttherof Judge Richard II. Clark", to Rev mti-
1mm. In IKM. when *he ehnreh wa*
huHt. aril It ha* been used In the pulpit ever sin ee.
Fa onion Me«enger: A ite*ro Dvlng on Mr K
I.DHe's place caught rvceutly forty six opoasuma
»»ih.
laln.sviHe K*gle: Galn-mvllleha* In It* Inoor-
,r * ' n it* heir'eomhit.e»l hTah’^mlTia h£ht*
!!**t«el *u»» The vonng man whoealict on M*
I the . ih »» night, and mLr.Mvk ih
• up I
an <
**bo-o CHU n: A negro man who >
«o»* Mr* G'Nlhre'i Hti ■' "
"ty, *»• found tWi|,
of guano. 870: hand hire. 8142: feed of mub
8W)j total 9MJ Thna wo see a clear profit §1
fiom a one-mule farm Oconee la ono of *
proai'Cmu* lltitoeouuilea'lo Georgia*knxd
majority of Its farmers ruise their own mi pi
Heldsvillc RntefprNe: Mr Franklin showed oa
gravel on Monday last nearly aa large aa an ordi
nary hen egg. which he took from the bladder of a
boa recently killed Dr. Mell examined too stone
and pronounced it thelargest formstton of the kind
he hsd ever seen. The hog Irom which It waa taken
atom four years old. The gravel weighed two
and one-quarter ouneea.
The grand Jury of JcflVrson county, noting tho
decrease of crime in that county, attrihutca the
improved state of things "to the extermination of
whisky shops," and says:
Willi them cesspool* of vice, corruption and
crime removed, so are the chief cause* of nine-
tenths of the crimes committed. All law loving
law abiding citizens rejoice that these vile sink* of
moral and social corruption no Ion. or ll»uri*h iu
J. flerK <n county No longer do th* se rum shops
con taut iua re and debauch ihe youngotonrcounty
We thank God that lie hits, In Ills Infinite merry
and goodness enabled na to exterminate these
foul sources of corruption that retard all
1 and religious advaneemenv Let each and
ry good citizen of
work
k of Gibraltar" upon the prohlhi
lion piatfoim. 'Iheii. when i ‘
lone and when the places wc n»»w
*le«l by gen cat ton* yet nnbom. the.
enrih I*
l are oeeu
ill Ui .
up and call ua btc**ed
inntry In ihe prind
ti inperaneo ami whlskr shoo*, with all
ihelr train of bllabtlng cures, will be fore
l*bcd fn>m the soli of Jctlerem county.
'onrler: Romo now comes to the front
with an orange tree llmt "take* Hie cake." Mr* D.
M. llood hn* a hot bott«o tree that ha* grown thirty
beautiful owngu wNrh an* now full ri|H'ani
l toil on*. We kn wr whereof we sneak, for thi
jndtre pluekcd one for n* to te*t What other city
of Rome's latitude *
The Birmingham Age has been interviewing
ie of Ihe Iron kirga of that place, whorepu
late* the claim of < hattanooga to b*» considered
the Iron center of the south, and clalnv
Ingham that there is coal enough within six
lies to surprise the world; ami that these mines
0 now pulling out 3 000 tons of coal per day,
id the openings Increasing rapidly; here Mre
c within right miles cf BirminghNm, thirtee
feet thick, mined and put on car* nt a cost <
enty rents per ton. and at one furnace with
1 foot tine, it Is delivered iu the stock bonne i
enty-five rent* per ten. Coke l* made here at
fijv |»er ton, and far superior to coke made else
where. Neither Rising Fawn. South I'itUburgnoi
hattauooga ever have made. nor
or can make, Iron aa cheap ns Blrmlng-
ham by 81 5° an the ton." There are seven fur.
naceshere, five of them Immediately in Birmirg-
ham. and two of them within six rail* s of thecilv.
furnacea represent a capital of tLhOO OOO.
Chattanooga has one furnace representing a capital
only 810u.ron. 0»r product will be at a minimum
estimate of Alstons per day. Sloa* furnace with •
sixteen f«*>t towh, to *t day's work IPG tons. Oxmnor
furnace, thirteen fnotboah, best day’s work 70 tons
d making an average of sixty four tons per day."
Monroe Advertiser: Mr. Homer Hardin, of
RuaseilvDle diatr ef. haa made W0 ortktn gaU.v * of
p of excellent quality. He has sold sev
eral barrel* iu Forsyth, and It retail* at sixty fl .e
cents.
Rome fonder: Mr Rogers ha* about completed
«» building of a narrow gauge railroad 'mm *rney,
twelve m*le* below thUeDv, on the Georgia d|rM»n
the East Tcnnt wee. Virginia and G>orvlaniil-
d. to « p'lnt on the fhe'ok.e ratlresd near Tsy-
*vHles He i« al«oeo*.fctniet|ng a telephone line
read. Thi* f* attolh'-r »dd|ffon to rhe
f railroad* that are being eonatrnrtrd
me. and we arcgl-d to note thl»lp»pruve-
meet»icame It adds to the mteriM • f he city.
vllle Mt*r nry: A IDl’e rlrl of George
colon d. w8* burned to death last week,
howM *»♦ careful and not let their chil
dren play iu the fire or go near t .
Ington K tsr: l?arri«m <"*rk. a worthy eo’ored
mat* living ne*r''mi-.gton, t* g- ifg to wo*k thlrtv
in hi* f»«rm. t{,|« year. IUrri*on Is a hanl
>r man. 1*q '|*e |*»p tligent. and one of the
a*l»hle colored men tn the country, and we
shall to* glad to •*«* to m meee*-d. Th* re are t>n' few
•• fee rrntn who can work thirty hands,
time*. »uccv*fiiliy < n the farm.
Nlippkry, tricky, diahonest members of the
ti riff com mis'ion, In tho way tho Chicago Tribune
refers to Messrs. Hayes nml Oliver.
Tiik Nevada •.legislature is trying to get
along without a chaplain n sir matter of economy.
A bill to submit a prohibitory amendment
to tiic Pennsylvania constitution will soon be voted
i in the legislature of llmt Mate.
"Gbanmb" McOdire lives at Brattyville,
Ky.,at the age ot ninety-eight years. Fho retains
all her facultlLN, and delights in riding horseback,
Well done, Mr. Flower! exclaims the New
York World. Your victory for cheap quinine is
victory for bitmauity a* well os for common sense
and democratic priori pits.
RgrnKfiENTAmESpringer was right, accord
lug to the New York Star, when he said the repub
licans acted prrciM-ly hn though they regarded tax-
cn umr public benetit I mien*! of a public burden,
The Desert News, Mormon organ ut Salt
I.ake, thanked "tho mo*t high God - ’ on New
Year’H morning "that all the devices of the wicked
against our Indy church have been baffled,” the
Edmunds bill included. The Halt Lake Tribune
has to agree that its treason-preaching rival tells
the truth for once.
General Mandekhon, the newly elected
senator from Nebraska, U represented as an anti
ruilr«NtU mail.
Women’s sufTrago seems to have gone west
to grow up with the country. Tho strongest efforts
iu Hun direct lor utem to be made iu Kansas and
Oregon.
Kansas gerrymandering is complicated be
cause four congressmen at-large want to be put each
in a separate district, wiilch»haJIaI*ohuvea repub
lican majority.
lkTtoLAKY is not more unconstitutional, and
-earceW less dishonest, iu the eyes of the
Washington Ftar, than uro a good many of the
taxes projuacd in the house tariff LIU.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, ap
pears likely, to the Bprltigfield Republican, to b«
come a political bat; nisowmd alike by democrats
of the field and*republicans of the air, and respected
by none.
PERSONAL. IN ELLIOGNCB.
Prince Victor, the eldest son of the Prince
of Wales, is an Inveterate smoker of cigarettes.
Mrs. McKlkoy, the president's sister, likes
book a better than Washington society, aud.lt Is
raid, will KAin leave the white house.
Ouarlkh Dickens's granddaughter Mary has
been on the stage some weeks, playing a minor part
In Tom Taylor's Overland Route at the Haymarket
theater, London.
United States Senator-elect Manderson,
of Nebraska, served on the federal side iu the bat
tics of Nndivtlle, Franklin, Htono River, Mission
ltldge, Chlckatnauga nnd Atlanta.
^iik lute Louis Blanc has left $5,000 to
I’ariMinn children who have been deserted by their
pa re ii U. The deserving of each year Are to receiv
rings bank books with twenty dollars setdowu to
their credit.
Chief Maiikatawasiiee, in the White
Beaver lake district, becoming short of food, ate his
wife aud six children. It is raid to bo a common
practice among the Indians in that country, when
starving, to cat their children.
Herr Forster, tho most representative
Jew-baiter nfu r Herr Hfneckcr, nnd tho chief pro
moter of the celebrated petition to Prince Bis-
m trek agAlust the Jews, with a small band of ad
hercuts, has started for Paraguay to found a new
Deutschland, where synagogues are to be forbidden
aud bourns unknown.
Geo. W. Carle, tj»e novelist, has entered
tho lecture field. *
One of thedenders of the Delaware senate
is Dr. MuMAtd, and they say he draws well.
Kx-Carfkt rao Governor Ciivmrkrlaix, of
Hoiith Carolina. I* in Europe for his health.
Colonel James Cor lieu, u member of the
Tennessee legislature, wean his hair like a wouuti,
bang* and all.
Wasiiinoton Irving will have the next
centenary, lie wnu» born in New York, near the
>!d Dutch church, on April 3, 17S3.
As Albany barber says Mr. Tihlen has a
light beard and iseiuty to shave.
8m Monks MoNTErioRK, the oldest English
baronet, will bo one hundred years old on the 25th
of October next.
It is estimated that Senator-elect Tabor, of
ilorado, has*pent first #nd last in senatorial
catn|>aig*». 200,000 dollars.
Dr. Kvans, the American dentist, in Paris
ha* had Napoleon. Eugenie, the cmi>crorN and em
presses of Germany, Austria, and Ru*-ia, ami the
king* and queens of Holland and Belgium, as his
patients.
When Sir Howland Hill introduced his
penny pottage. Loro Lichfield, the postmaster gen
eral, raid: "Of all the wild and vhionary rehemes
whl h I have ever heard or read of, It is the mo»i ex
traordinary."
The London Daily News says: "On the
day of the Immaculate Conception the pope made
hi* will. " hl!o in good health ho wished to be
ready for all eventualities. The testament ha* been
combined to the deacon of the college of apostolic
proto notaries. aa<f it is raid that the pope has left
great part of his property iu furtherance of edu-
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
Th# LaUst Verna Atnt tb# *##th sad It# P#|b# C#«.
d«a##d fer Th# C#a#tit#tl#a.
\lrgtat*.:
Large quantities of walnut lumber are
being rbipped from southwestern Virginia to
northern and foreign markets.
West Virginia contains 52,000 persons over
10 years of sge who cannot read.
Virginia ranks seventeeth in the list offish-
producing states, the oyster, menhaden and shed
fisheries being the three brsn«bcs in which her
citizens are most c-xternively interested.
Washington and Lee University, Virginia,
have now 130 students.
A woman was knocked from a railroad bridge
In \V«Nt Virginia )a>t taturday, and fell a distance
of forty-five feet into a fr xen stream below, from
which >he was rese ed wl»h some difficulty, and
strange to raj was only tlighily K-ralched.
The Stonewall Jackson a>sociation of New
England has voted to send eleven delegates to the
uu veiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee at
Lexington, Va., iu June.
Shenandoah county, Virginia, boasts of ,a
lamb with six legs; also two very curious guinea
eggs—cue shaped like a gourd and the other like a
top.
Mr. Polk Millf.u has on exhibition at hisj
store in Richmond, Va., a Virginia par. ridge which
Is nearly white. The bird was killed iu Fluvauru^
county during the late snow nnd sent to Mr. Clifti
ford Biioges, who showed it to Mr. Miller while ifi
wan iu the th'sh. He seut the bird to Mbs Drewry,
of Chester field county, a good taxidermist, ami
under her directions the bird was stuffed, but it
wos so badly shot it could not be mount' d. Thu
head of the bird is Just like thAt of all hen i nr*
tridges, but the balance of the plumage In ilmost
white All old {autridge hunters know that tills
specimen f* of Hie rarer.!: aud, in fact, this i* th
only one that the oldest hunters hereabouts hav
ever seen.
Xortli Carolina.
Dr. Bbrnhum has resigned the presidency of
the North Carolina college atjMouut Pleasant,
the college will close iu April for the want of suilh
cleat patronage.
Miss Burr, of North Carolina, whose
gogement to Henator Davis has lust been
nounced lu Washington by a married sister,
thirty-five, a brunette, and of email figure.
Month Carolina.
An epidemic of mad dogs seems to be pre
alllug to a considerable extent in Greenville, An
derson and ether parts of tho up-country of South
Carolina.
The mad dog excitement is spreading
Anderson county, South Carolina.
The Newberry, South Carolina, cotton fac
tory is starting out admirably.
A colored child ut liock Hill, South Caro
lina, swallowed a toy china cup ou last Sunday
without harm.
There is considerable mad dog excitement
iua part of Spartanburg county, South Curoltua.
Florida.
A Hernando county, Florida, farmer nutde
last season from seven acres of land planted
sugar-cane, fifty-one barrels of syrup, five barrel*
of molasses, ten barrels of sugar, and sold 30,000
ulk.s of seed cane.
Judge Wilson's orange grovo in Polk
county, Florida, yielded this season one hundred
thousand oranges. t
Alnbnmn.
Birmingham (Alu.) Age: Joseph E. Brown
United ntates s'-uator from Georgia, is tho brainiest
man In American polities. Few there arc who
doubt this fact.
About 14,000 bales of cotton have been re
ceived in Opelika, Ala., this season—a larger
amouut than for the same date last season.
OrELiKA, Ala., is now peaceable and quiet,
and will doubtless remain so.
A glass manufactory will be started nt an
early day lu Birmingham, Alabama.
Montgomery, Alabama, is to have a crack
er factory capable ot turning out four hundred
boxes of cracker* daily.
The Alabama river is falling rapidly, but
still in splendid boating order.
There are about 10,000 acres 6f land in
Walker county, Alabama owned by various Indi
(duals. They are coal laud borderlug on tbe Gcor
gla Pacific road, and It ii understood that a come
pany is to be organized in this city Avlth the objec-
of purchasing and developing these lauds, since
the Georgia Pacific through Walker county has been
fixed fact,” a large quantity of mluura! lauds
esth A in i let
4*y la*t »*#•*%. I •!
burs t.* i l ev* and hi* ,
,'up*n tht»gr* nnd ^ TJ*- m«»* | At Mr. B F. Roughton’s store, in Warhlrgvn
* ’ * ~ county, there »* a pine to*! In the shape of an an-
h* VlTi YV,;"ih» 'l.iii'u, oY */rvfchIy I')* P»"toct; It bu the »h»uk, the i«t.t
tree a hleh lay near by. and bit cnraple e.
rbe old man D abroad. The Brunswick Apr«al Tbe ^andexsriUe Mercury, notidng the depart ur
»(»|'8 : *l
cation,''
BorcrxRiAr, the great French painter, is
described as the j )Ulest sort of a fellow—fat, and
about M years old.
The Prince** Louise is said to be the most
expert fly fShor in faRada, and can play a salmon
better than her hn*band ran.
They say of Sena'or-e’ect Bowen, of Colo-
ile, that dutirg 21 dsy* of Ms canvass hts bill for
whisky snd rigsrs at the Windsor hotel, Denver,
wa* 82.7<A while hi* foundry hill was jtr*t 70 cents.
The English postmaster general is totally
hlftid, and Mr. George Jilchan*Mn. who ha* Just
been sppolnnd receiver snd accountant general to
the po*t-offii w \ 1-* totally deaf. Bur in the admiralty
there 1* an cffic-isl who t* to th dvaf and dumb.
Lord Keane, of Eng’and, in his will, wnich
was preved a »h-»rt time sgo. set a jetod and much-
needed example by expre«#iy stating that his fu-
reral reu*t pot e**t w.orc than two htmdr*d and
firtr dollar* (CV) "Mr fathers." he added, "cost
£$0i). which l consider a rhameful waste of taouey."
H Il*ni inti, •» ini^v >
have been sold lu Walker county.
An exchange says Senator George appeared
the senate the past week wearing sn elegant suit
Jeans sent him by tbe one of the thriving cotton
aud woolen factories of Mississippi.
A lamb with five legs is tt Pike county, Mis
sissippi, lusuH-iiAtuno,
Last year \V. M, Sloan, of Clay county,
Miss., aged 78 years, raised with his own labor
six acres of lau I, six aud a half bales of cotton,
eragiug iu weight 530 pounds.
I.onlslnuis.
Ex-Governor Warmouth. of Louisiana, has
been in Maine buying machinery for a beet root
factory on nis plantation.
In tltc past two years the production of rice
has doubled lu Louisiana.
Fink large tomatoes, fully ripe and of fine
flavor are sold at present in the Now Orleans mar
kets for twenty-five cents a dozen There -
green peas a* yet.
The Southern Underwriters’ Association
will meet in New Orleans on the 2nd of February.
Texas.
A movement is on foot in Galveston to erect
boarding housts for the newsboy*, bootblacks and
street urchins. The merchant* have beeu apj ealed
nnd are responding very liberally.
A French doctresa is creatiug a stir in Gal-
eston, Texas, and is drawing crowds by her
marvelous cures.
In 1882. Galveston, Texas, expended $1,800,
000 in improvements.
Galveston, Texas, has a population of
The Texas cattle drive for the coming
spring!* estimated at *220,000 head. Of them? not
m*)re than 1.0,000 will reach the open market.
The rest will be reserved for ranch purposes.
Texas lost quite a large number of sheep
during the late cold snap.
Tennessee.
The trial of M. Y. Polk, for defalcation os
•tote treoMirer, will form one of the mret interest
ing legal contests Tcunewee has ever experienced
Tit ere are CO,000 colored Baptisits in Ten
nessee, with 150 churches.
The Tennessee supreme court has decided
that a merchant canuot exerefo** the privileges of
selling fre«h meat at hi* store without taking out
regular butcher's license.
Mr. David Pearce, of the vicinity of
Athens. Teunesoee, fo within six month* of bis
hundreth birtn-day. and is still hale and heary.
There tire twenty widows within a section
of three mile* square. In Obion county, Tennearee.
Asa banking town Nashville is a great city.
She now has five national and ten faro bank*.
Kentucky.
Six thousand dollars have been refused for
sucking colt by Mcwenger Chfof. dam »y Allie
Tru*t, the property of Iraac Smith, of Lexington,
Kentucky.
The Madisonville (Ky.) Times fa of the
opinion that Kentucky would be better off If the
didn't have a *e**lon of legislature in *en year*.
Tin Kentucky association of Mexican war
veteran* wtU meet in Richmond. Kentucky, on the
22»! of February.
A Crittenden county, Kentucky, eports-
man claims to hare killed 25 partridges at one
shoot
GHOST STORIES.
A HAUNTED JAIL.
The jail in Suraex county, N. J„ is said to be
haunted. In tola place the alleged ghost, however,
confines himself to one cell. Tbiscell was occupied
by the murderer Fr< derick Grill for aome time be
fore he wa* banged. A number of prisoners have
beeu coiifi. ed in it, but all asked to be removed,
becaus< they besrd some one walking at night ia
the cell with heavy to ou, preventing them from
sleeping. Two perron* from the city, who knew
nothing about Grill, were recently plac’d in the cell,
and iu the morning bsked to be given another ccli
on account of thegnovly wauderer annoying them.
A few nfchtsK-zo the inmate* of the itii were
aroused by a loud ijoIm-. Upon investigation it
was discovered that a prisoner had toon put into
this cell and that he wo* throwing couls hi some
one who was walking up and down iu it. The
presett occupants of the cell are two chicken
thieves and they are the only prisoners who have
not been seriously annoyed. They declare that
they bear walking at night, but that it does uot dis
turb them.
A HAUNTED HOUSE.
New York Dispatch to tbe Milwaukee Sentinel.
The ghoul* have been playing more annoying
pranks In one of the French fiats in East One Hun
dred aud Twenty-fourth street than the other vis
itors in One Hundred and .Sixteenth street, where
there fo also a haunted home. A phyHcian was
called in haste Ia»>t night to attend a well-
known lady ho lives iu this home, lie found
her iu hjsterical convulsion*. The entire home-
hold was excited, amt the husband raid that at
about 10 o’clock the bell rang. The servant went
to the door and pulled the lever that throws bock
the catch to the outer door. Nob- dy entered and ,
tbe servant went down from the third lloor to abut
the door. As Hih waa going down the last flight of
stairs, the door closed with a loud bang aud the
sevaut scrcamtd aud turned to ruu back. As she
turned the second flight of st-drs she Lit a strong
current of air and the gas uishu halls was btowu
'i homnghly frightened the girl rau to her
mistress and bre-athlesHly toht her what had hap-
d. While she was talking all th- beds tu the
house were rung four or five time* in rapid succes
sion. The janitor attempted to light the gaa in tho
hall, but it was blown out as fast ns he could light
ir. 'Ihe hall chairs And the mars were thrown
about by iuvislole bauds, the belfo were rung in
rapid succession. and there was a
general r»w all through tho house
for nearly a half an hour. The servants were terri
fied and many • echred that they Would not sleep
in the house. Many of the la-lie* were badly fright-
time. The bells were ringing, but no one could bo
detected, neither wa* anyone found In thehsll.
It was stated to-day that one of the occupants of
the house is a medium. Tho owner of tho property
Informed her that if any more ghosts aunoyeo the
otlnr occupants of the house she must find quar
ters elsewhere. Bhe declared in the most solemn
manner that she had nothing to do with the mani
festations, knew nothing about them, and, in fact,
waa attending a wedding at the time specified.
Every precaution ha* been tsken to keep tbe occur
rence secret for fear of creating a panic or injuri'-g
the property, for some who hav»- heard the story be
lieve tho house is really haunted and preparations
for keeping a careful watch to-night- have been
made.
A GHOST IN A NEW YORK FLAT.
"I want you to devote to-morrow to looking up
other apartments; I won’t stay in this houseatiolhcr
day—where there's "ghosts," was tho greeting a
loving nud tired husband aud father received upon
reaching his home In one of tho new flat* in One
Hundred aud bixteenth street according to the
New York Tribune. The husband ph-adr-d for an
rxpfonation, but b.ul reason to regret Ids non •sub
mission. she condnutd: "it's no ure talking to
don't attempt to dictate to mo; I tell you
n’t listeu to it. I’m going to move whether
you do« r not. I tell you the house i* haunted, nud
I'm going to pack up tonight ami rnovo in-moriow.
Why, tho children Rave been crying ail the alter•
i; mother is friglitened untilt-he’sneury dead,
ts for nr*—1 n il you I m going to move. Jf
. . lon't believe what 1 HI jr^u, go up-nair* and
a-*k the folks ou the next flat." 1 ne husband d'd
i. He found that 'he determination to move out
at onco was epidemic, snd ih.-re p orolsed to bo an
empty boure on the iandlo-d's hand the next day.
D appears that Th (today last all the people in
the hon»c were k a-tlcd by a loud rumbling sound,
f> Rowed by vltmitlnusof the chandeliers and rat
tling of the globes, 'heso disturbances begun
the women were finally induced to fen-go moving
another day. When the husbands returned homo
Friday night tnc women and children were all as
sembled in the upper part of the house, some cry
ing und others talking Incohi rcutlv. with ashen
<mu ii term nres and colorless lips. the manifesta
tions had occurred the second time. There was
more cerp-in ty than b.f-ne that tho house
home the/oli:>wlug day and tak<
A* he was engaged in writing Saturday he 1
tied by a report tike that of a can non, followed by
rumblings like those lieu d in a bowling alley;
these were »ccompnulcd by the swinging of tbo
chandellc ' *'—“**
minute* m
which made his blood i
by the tumbling of <
Ou Mindavnnd Monday tho same disturbances
occurred with undimitifohcd violence.
The inmates of one of the fiat* we e again Ap
prised yextenfoy Afternoon that tho “gho-ts" were
not in any hurry to depirL Tim loud report* ma
from n cannon, the runv-liugasof a bowling niley
aud the vibrations of he chandeliers were heard
•nd seen as dis-iuctly ah on Thursday last, and
though they caused a shudder and a chid lu those
who wlti'C’Hd these disturbances, they were pre
pared pariiy tn defeat the plans of the "ghosts."
i wo flat iroils were tied to a long string and sus
pended from the chandelier nearly to the floor.
Jhfo prevented the chandelier from snaking, but
the same noises were hea*d. Oil/remarkable iucl
that white the confusion startled th- wlmle house
from cellar to r-xif. the noises seemed to be confined
to one particular floor.
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS LOADED.
David Taylor, u lad whose home was in
Draqueim county, Mira, whllo examining hi* gun
Ddny ls*t week, rc#:e1 bi* foot on the hammer
1 looked in at the muzzle Ills head was blown
ff. He didn't know it was loaded.
Matthew Anger picked up un old gun at
riaqueuiinc, Dr .on th * 14th in-taut,and laughingly
pointed the weapon at a negro boy. A charge of
►hot went flying through tho boy’s hpad to the hor
ror of young Anger wboMuretutored bim- lf to the
authorities, lie didn’t know it whs loaded.
"The other day," says the Nevada, Cal.,
Transcript, "aGrass Valley b»v named Wilson
•Ickcd up a gun and after examination concluded
was not loaded. lie pointed it at a troy named
lOnlen and it went off th-charge just mining
latter's head. There should be a law for the
siippr- sdoti of people who don’t know hove to
handle an 'unloaded' gnu " Un didn't know it
loaded.
Michael Baran was courting bis girl, Miss
Dvorak, in Baltimore, last week. In play he drew
from hi* hip pocket a seven shooter. IN-intlsg the
••potr at V|*a Dvorak, h*' remarked, "I’m going
shoot you!" and pulled the trigger. Fortunate-
the weapon fatted to discharge. Brran then
-inted the revolver a*, hi* left breast and pulled
“In. The ball lodged somewhere lucide the ribs,
didn’t kn<-w it was loaded.
Gottleib Beck, an employe in the bakery
George Kober. iu New Haven, was shot a few
dAy* ago by William Rabanus, a boarder with
Kober. Rsbanu.* wa* going out shooting and on
iM>klng*t hls»Dti»i found »>he I In the barrel. He*
Hilled the trigger to see if it would explode, and *te
did not, roncl'tded it bad beeu fired before. He
►nt down siaira where Beck was sifting flour.
Ifobanus pointed th*-pistol in sport si ii ck, saving:
“*’our money or your life," Beck dropm-d tho
eriednnt: 'Oh. Oral. I (fidn'i know It was ioartod.’*
D «. Mai! houre and Hu brie extract'd tho ball fn-m
between th • shoulder blade*, ft entering at ihe ab
domen. Tbe • hvMrtan* think he will die ia a day
two. Hedidd tku
THB DARLING L TfLB DEVOTEE.
Her randy IDtle hat perched high
Above her bang- and frixzcm;
here whk a sparkle In her«n*
Like champagne when it fizzes.
Red ribbons gayly fluttered, while
Her silk* nu-f- a loud ru*tie:
Her fur-lined rlo-k wa« in the style,
A*. a bo, was her buttle.
Her dainty kid* were buttoned tight.
E’en t«» her eihow* dlmnled;
Her nrrf-imed kerchief, snowy whi t.
All lace, was sweet); crimpled.
And. oh her tiny feet neeoed out
t Ike timid mtre. enha c ng
The chsnn that efrebd her bout
Wi-n splendor too entranei.-g.
•Oh. I am r ing, ►ir." she raid,
"Cato our praverYn eting "
—II. c. Dodge iu WhltehsII Tlmca