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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9 1886.
M. RICH & BROS.
54 lud BO Whitehall St., Mlanla, Ga.
Tell you that their great closing out
sale ends positively on Satur
day ofthis week. All
Kinds of dry goods, fancy goods, nov
elties, carpets, rugs, oil cloths,
shades, curtains, etc.
At prices below any former offer. They
have room below for only a few
of their many bar
gains. By their prices vou can form
an idea of what they pro
pose to offer!
BOO Muck jcncyi at COc! ...
400 dozen children’. henry school hose ata
250 U*}V shirt waists at 35c, formerly sold
at 00c!
323 dozen heavy linen towels 23x13 at 1 >c!
Allzrphjnxt 7c!
All Oermantown wool at 15c a hank!
Their rc*ular gents’ $1 shirt at 75c!
All dress goods at less than cost!
Doable width all wool tricots at 40c!
Turkey red table linen at 25c!
8.000 yards checked nainsook at Be!
3,500 yards corded pique at3|e!
3.000 yards Victoria lawn at -lc!
A full size white bed spread at 50c!
In- their Carpet Department.
10 pattern* fine tapestry IriiMels at 30c, form
erly 7ac a yard!
J3 pieces extra super ingrain cnrjKits at .jOj,
worth 73c!
31 pieces ingrain st 30e worth 30!
J2 roils hemp carpet at 11 Jc a yard!
Smyrna rugs 3x0 feet at $3 each, worth $7!
23 bioyrna rugs 21x3 foot at}.'i each,worth $1.30!
100 brut sells rugs, lull size, at $1 each!
M thread mats all colors, 00c each!
30 large oil cloth mats 30c each!
Iftpait* silk chenille turcomnn curtains at $13
per pair, reduced from $18!
CO pair tureunion curtains at $4.23 per pair,
with poles, chains and hooks complete,
worth not less than $7.30!
24 pairs handsome anthjuo laeo or scrim cur*
tains at $2.30 per |>air worth *4!
24 pairs Nottingham curtains at *2 per pair,
worth $3!
24 pairs at $! |»er pair, worth $1.73!
24 pieces lace wrim for curtains at 12lc a yard!
!O0 pairs beautiful dado shades with best spring
fixtures ut 73c each, c.omploto, full 7 feet
long!
300 pal is new hollnnd shades, all colors, at 40c
each, with patent fixtures complete!
3,000 wood curtain poles, with all fixtures, 23c
each!
3Vc mean business. Will sell everything in
enr store at corresponding low prices, hut this
srerial sale closes positively on Saturday of
this week.
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Cenaumsg the AlBsnao-Puttiag the Blaeie
on Peer Keren. Who Mia sea u Often as
He Hits-Life in the Baehwoode.
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Kver* thing's all friz up. I been busy two
days bakin’ on ono side and freezin’on tother
and a scufflin' for room-once at the fire. Hits
been a powerful good time to stick your feet
to the fire and do nothin.
I been er doin' er nothin’ ever sence this
cold spell sot in, and as pap says, its the hard
est work ever I done.
Old Mire Frcahours lowed "Idleness is the
workrhop of the Devil." 8he was a hintin at
me hut 1 never taken It to myself.
"flit t#ic almanick, Betsy, says sho,"and see
what the weather 1ays. Some of you'nns
will bev to read it. I can't read. I haint got
no lamin’. I can't tell nothin' about tbo al-
roanick but the signs. I watches for the sign
to git in the arm go as to plane my beans, but
taint nigh bean plantin' tlraeyit.and ef it keeps
on a freezln* this away taint a-gwlne to tie
shortly. Things Is a gittin' powerful curia
here of lata . Some or ’em was a savin' at
the store tbev knowed the occasion of this ver
spell er weather, and that thar terrible big
freeze here tother week, too. The men folks
was a readin' of it outen the paper over here
at the Cross Koads, and lowed a
man up here at Atlanty, Georgy, some’rs was
the occasion of it all." "Why, how's that?"
says old Miss Green. "They lowed," says old
Mira Frcahours, "they lowed as how he had a
way of fetchln’ on a freezin’ spell whenever
be seed fit—like, for ninstance, this evenin’
cf he tuck a notion he wanted it to freeze to
morrow, all be had to do was to run out an'
hike his jicf up on top of a ladder and stick
out a little cold rag." "I say it!" says Sister
Green. "And you don't tell mo. Sister Frosh*
ours, that that little rag was the occasion of
all this settlement a freezin' tip here tother
week?" "That’s what they ray," says she,
and they say he's been up to them tricks all
this time, and jis now ketebed up with."
"IIcv they kotch him ?" says Sister Green.
'Ah, laws no, 'oman: he’s too sharp for that;
bo sticks out tho cold rag and runs back to his
fire afore they have time to ketch him, and he
don't keer bow cold it gits nor how many folks
be freezes."
"Well," says Bister Green, "ho better keep
hisself powerful those in this settlement."
They say Zack Singleton started that tale
here jis to see what old Bliss Fresh ours and
them would say. Hack's a sight. Ho don’t
mean no harm ; he's a-gwine to bnvo his fun,
don't keer who pays for It. But Zack’a a good-
hearted feller, and ho ain't alters a jokin': he
knows how to bo serious. Ho was a tollin'
here tother day shout one time he was In town
atandin' in a store and a little gal come in. She
was about twelve year old; wore a shabby but
clean frock of blue check homespun, patched
till it looked like a bed quilt. Sho stole in
quiet like and nobody seed which way she
romo. front. She looked all around sorter
skmdlikea fawn that's been runnin’ from
the hounds. She run her hand down
in a meal bag and drawed out
a empty bottle—a pint whisky flask—and
axed tn a pitifol voice: "Don't you want to
buy a bottle?" "No,'4 says tho storokoepor.
'Don’t you know nobody'at wants to buy wnolo
passln ?" says she trying to show him the bot
tle, lmt he wrote on and never looked up at
her. Sho stood aminutc looking mightly uis-
appol'ntt d, then turned and walkod out.
“That's old 'Sour Mash’ Side well’s gal
'Scrap,' says a man who had stept in to sell
some cotton.
"She's little to her ago and they call her
'Scrap,' her daddy Is kuowed fur an* nigh as
'Old Sour Mash,’ on account er tho moan
whisky ho drinks. Scrap, she's Httlo but
she's old and she's got a name aa long as the
doclaratiou cr Independence, Sumo lows hit
was wbjit weighted her down, snd stunted
her growth, iter name Js Gtrashy Ann Hor
nin' Glory, Glarlssy Jane Starch-Knocker,
])cidmoney Klis tuc-swect, nml they call her
"Sr.ian" for short."
Zac k lowed he walked out to seo which way
she went, and found her in a whisky saloon
srlliu' her bottles, then watched to see what
she douo with tho luonoy, and sectl her buy a
calico frock, and git in a waggin with sotno
folks and leave town.
Downs pestered, aud couldn't sleep good
that night for tliJokin' about her. To think of
a child selling whisky bottles—aud a little girl
at that a tender llttlo girl all by herself a
gwiue into a whisky |shop whar even n decent
msu is ashamed to ho kctchcd- to seo her soil
enough empty bottles to buy a calico frock,
when tho whisky they held would have bought
a silk ono, or bcttcr’n that, would or fed and
clothed her for a year—tho very thought ol It
kep him awake. He axed urouud about her
anu found out that sho had boon n savin’up
thnn Lotl)<* aa her daddy would empty 'cm,
nml one day stole off from homo unbeknownst
to him and tuck 'em to town ond sold 'em.
She begged him time aud agin to buy her a
coat to wear to mootin', and ho would promise
every time to git it, and would come homo
with a luittlo of whisky and no frock. She
patched aud patched her old frock and washed
it clean—took tho bottles In a meal bag and
slipt off with one of the neighbors and went to
town. Tho waggin broko down and tkrowed
'cm in the night a gittin homo. Her mammy
had been dead a year or so, and she was tho
oldest mil and the old man 'pended on her to
cook his vittles, and aho had been gono
ail day, and the chiilun was a
ctyin’ and the old man was mad, too mad to
listen to anything the said, and picked up a
cheer and laid her out in tho floor. He soon
seed what ho had done and It sobered him in
aminutc. They say a man ain’t never so
dtirak butjvhat a thing of that sort will fetch
him to bis senses. ‘Scrap’ was his oldest and
his t’avor-ite chile, and aence hit wife died he
had 'pended on her for everything. 8he had
it all to do. cook, and wash, and keep the chll-
ittn clothed, two little fellers (that was alien
at her heels—and It made poor
little 'Scrap' old fore her time. She waan't
like tother chilun of her |igo--ahe was solemn
as a ru wit woman. She had boon good to her
(teddy; dtunk or aober.she alien tried to please
him in everything and this waa the first day
>hu had ever let him mias her from her post.
She aimed to git back iu time to cook his sup-
pi r— it wasn't her Ikult that she didn't come
sooner-but he was mad—and look what he
had dour! The blood streamed ou the floor,
lie tried to lift her and it
made him sick. He turned to
the neighbor and said: "I'vo kilt my chile.
Gcd knows I uever aimed to do it—help mo!
help me! help me!- for God's sake do some
thing for her nuick; don’t let her die! Oh!
don't let her die! 1 can't live a minute when
•he's gone. I'll blow my bmins out the min
ute the breath leaves her body—I can’t and
won’t stand it.” Then he tried to lift her
again and was too weak—bent over her aud
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week.)
called and begged her not to die—begged her
.—to call him "dadd^" des "
to apeak—to call him "daddy” ties one time
moii—told her to live and
would promise her never to drink
vuotber drop; told her she
bad been good, too good to him—aud if she
would speak oue time, jea one time, and for
give him be would never let one drop of whis-
ay go in his mouth again. Uis head dropped
heavy on her.
The neighbor pulled him offand tried to talk
kind to him. He stood up, staggered, then
iu»h(d plum wild out of the door. At the
neighbor lifted the body of the poor little
"M-iap” on the bed a pistol shot sounded loud
through the night air. "Old Sour Mash"
was tiue to his word, Brwv Hamilton,
Diphtheria and l trerated Bora Throat
Are directly reached by Darby's Prophylac
tic Fluid, used as a gargle. Taken in
ternally it acta as an iutcrnal disinfectant, al
laying inflammation and purifying the foul
and fertirt breath so poisonous to the air. Ex
posed in the sick room it keeps the atmosphere
wholesome. A small iiuantity in the vessel
receiving the discharges from the throat and
bowel* will destroy the couUgious matter.
Subscriber, Boswell, Gs.: Are therelikely to
be many cyclones the coming sea*ou?
According to the weather wi*e, ihi* will be an off
year. In this part of the country there will be no
weather disturbances to speak of.
Header, Athene, Tenn.—How high are the
clouds from the earth?
Hca>urcments of the heights of cloud* have been
made at the Upvala observatory during last sum
mer. The results are approximately m follows:
Stratus, 2,000 feet: nimbus, or rainrlouu, from 3.000
to 7,200 feet; cumulus, from 4,300 to l»,000 feet;
cirrus, 22,400 feet. Cloud measurements arc always
somewhat uncertain, but theto figures are con
sidered faJrlycxact.
Subscriber, Darien, On.: Please give me a
condensed biography of Gough, tbo temperance
orator.
John B. Gough, who has been lecturing re
cently, and has been for forty yean one of the most
popular public speakers in the country, may be
said to have become such by accident. He owe*
his success as an orator to tbo unfortunate habits of
his early life, which were spiritually tragical. Eng
lish by birth, be is the son of a British soldier, who
after serving in the Peninsular war, retired on a
small pension to the village of Sandgate, where his
wife taught school. There John was born, and
stayed until, at the age of 12. be was Induced by a
tradesman to emigrate to America. After working
for some time on a farm In Oneida county, In New
York, be came to New York city and learned the
trade of bookbinding. When be was 17 bis mother
and airier Joined him; but the former died
within a tew months. About this time be
formed a habit of drinking, which so erew upon
him that he soon became a sot. He c<■ <! rot no
employment on account of bli Intemj rm- \ and
finally drifted into the lowest grogg*. of the
fourth and sixth wards, whe^ ho san .mgs and
told coarse stories In return for lie, and small
coins. At twenty-two he foun t, as m 1 vagabonds
woman foolish enough to mai.y him, and
opened a bookbJndery of his own. In which ho
failed from his propensity to get Into tho gutter.
All kinds of evil fell upon him: ho had delirium
tremens again and again; his wife nml child died;
he became a physical, mental and moral wreck.
A kind-hearted Quaker, seeing him ono night stag
gering through tho bowery, nnd struck by his
wretchedness, took him home with him, aud in
duced him, when sober, to take the pledge. At a
total abstinence meeting, Gough related
experience so eloquently and dra
matically, that ho leaped luto
reputation as a tcmperaifce orator, and was Invited
to speak everywhere. Ever since he has labored
zealously;fo the cause, though of late ycun ho
has *poken on other subjects and has always
drawn foil houses. He is a natural orator, with
remarkablo mimetic and dramatic talents, and
has won fame in Britain as well as here. He has
spoken more than 7,000 times, and now, in his 09th
year, he seems to have lost little of hte power over
uis audiences, who are Invariably enthusiastic,
lie hss gained a liandsomo Independence by his
labors, and his "Autobiography" is reported to have
brought him 120,000, For more than thirty years
his home has been near Worcester, Massachusetts,
He has frequently threatened to retire from the
platform, but he has never been able to withdraw
from the fascinations it usually exercises over
those who have won their laurels there.
Reader, Dahlonega. Ga.: What is the story
of the Black Hole of Calcutta?
About tho middle of tho last century a prince in
India, named f-'urajah Dowlah, rebelled aguinst tho
English. lie took possession of Calcutta, and acted
with great brutality. His success so elated Hurajati
Dowlah that ho beentne drunk, but promising to
spare the lives of Ida captives, he ordered them out
of his presence and continued his debauch. Tho
guards then marched the English, 146 In number, to
tho Black Hole, a placo used by tho garrison for
a prison. It waa only twenty feet square
and hod no ventilation save that which
was afforded by a few port-poles near tho ceil-
lug. The priranent, thinking at first that tho
guards were Joking, made light of tho order to
enter tho hole, but they were at length undeceived.
All were forced into the narrow place acd tjipdoors
were bolted and barred. It tva« during thesummer
solstice, and tho heat was Intolerable, even out of
doors and in tho shade. The unhappy prisoners
were soon stifled by the oppressive atmosphere, and
then began a struggle for breath and llfo in which
the weak succumbed to the strong. Toward mid
night ono of the Englishmen offered tbo guard n
bribe to be let out, but the mocking answer waa
that the nabob could not ibo seen until morning.
To add to the suffering of tho prisoners tho natives
held lighted torches at tho port-holes, and placed
water Just beyond the reach of tho unfortu
nates, who, by climbing on tho piles of
dead bodies within, could reach tlio embrasures.
£oon thereafter the groans nml shrieks from tho
captives died away, and when morning dawned
and the doors were thrown open twenty-three half-
crazed, ragged and pallid wretoher crept forth over
the festering bodies of tbeir 123 comrades who had
gone down iu that nwAil struggle. Tbat Is what
tho Black llolo of Calcutta was. Tho imprison
ment of 146 human beings iu any kiud of a dun
geon of that size In a tropical climate would pro
duce similar results. A few mouths later Lord
Clive avenged these victims of Surnjah Dowlah’t
savagery by dispersing that prince's array, do pol
itic him from the throne tad substituting Mccr
Jcfilcr in bis place, and adding Bengal to tho
British empire.
Subscriber,Opelikn, Ala.: When tvan the
Bible translated Into Kngli-h, and when was it
first printed tn Englidt ?
Previous to 1382 portions of tho Bible were trans
lated by dlfibrettt scholarly divine*, but not till
that date was there a translation of the Old aud
New Testaments complete. Rev. Mandell Creigh
ton, M. A., In the "Dictionary- of English History"
(Cassell A Co.’s.) says: "The end of tho fourteenth
century saw the first complete version of the Biblo
into English, a work directed by John Wyellf. He
undertook the New Testament, and hls friend and
follower. Nicolas, of Hereford, began tho transla
tion of the Old Testament. Nicolas advanced in
hia work as far as the book of Baruch, when be was
called to account for a sermon he had preached at
Oxford. Wyellf. moat probably completed tho
unfinished work. It would seem that this transla
tion waa done by the end of 1382, and waa rapidly
disseminated among the people by Itinerant preach
ers. *The translation waa mado from the Latin ver
sion of 8t. Jerome, known as tho Vulgate. There
was a great difference In stylo between the work of
the two translators. Nicola* of Hereford gave a
literal rendering of the l4Uin in a stiff and bald
manner. Wyellf waa less a slave to the original,
and showed a power of forcible and idiomatic writ
ing which sets his translation as tho highest point
in the development of middle English prose. No
sooner waa the work done than Wyellf was aware
that it needed revision. This task ho at once began,
and it was carried on after his death by bis follow
er, John Purvey, who finished the revision in 13«,
and thereby gave uniformity and precision to tho
work.”
Subscriber. BlackviUc, S. C.: Can you ex
plain the origin of the saying "Hod ble*s you" to a
person who incc/cs?
The custom of saying "God bless you" to ono
who sneezed in supposed to have originated
about the year 750. There J> a tradition that in the
time of St. Gregory the Great the air was rillcJ with
a peculiar influence, and whoever happened to
sneeze immediately died. The pontiff promulgated
a form of prayer, aud a u i- h to be «aid by tbo«
who felt compelled to suee.-e. am! which, U was
expected, would avert the fatal effect*. According
to mythology’, the first sign of life mado by
Prometheus's artificial man was a sneeze.
The rabbia give the custom a very an
cient date, and, according to their tradi
tion, soon after the crcatlott Hod decreed that ev
ery living man should sueeze once only, aud at
tbat instant Uis soul should depart from hU body.
Jacob, however, did not like such a way of leaving
the world, and a«kcd God to make an exception In
hislhvor. Tills waa granted, and Jacob sneezed
without dying. When the princes of|Lhe temporal
powers of the world heard of this they ordered
their subjects, when succ.ing, to accompany It
with thanksgiving for the preservation of Ufo
and prayers for iu continuance. According to
Athtotle the men who believed that the seat of the
H>ul>as in the head or brain regarded Miucziug at
one of the most sensible aud mauifett operations of
tho head.
Subscriber, Lincoiuton, N. C.: When tho
Atlantic cables ware laid did the workmen go
down Into the sea?
No; in laying the At'antle cabtcs the men did not
"go down into the «ea." The cable wa* arranged
iu coils on the deck of a vessel, and as the ship
rieansrd from the Irish ootrt, where cae end wa*
festtxcd, the cable was rvvkd off aud played out
over the item, sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
When the ship reached this side, the other end of
the cable was made fact, aud the work was done.
R. T., Asheville, N. C.: Is it true that horse
hairs, after standing in water for a time, turn into
makes?
The Jden Js an old one, and is somewhat widely
entertained, but It Is absolutely without basis iu
fact. We may ray, further, as un incontrovertabie
statement, tbat there ia one way, and one only,
in which a snake or any other living being can
come into existence, and that is through genera
tive descent from a parental fcnake or other living
being of similar character to the demandant,
life from life," is the positive dictum of science, or
"all life from the egg” or germ, as other* expresa
it. It is quite impossible that a lifeless substance
can change into a living being, possessed of the
vital principle and the system of organs which are
necessary to life. As for the hair-snake story, ar ;
the statements of honest, but not very accurate
servers, thAt they have seen the conversion f»
non-life Into life, it fa supposed to be due to the
fact that a horra hair which is decomposing In wa
tcr is liable to be attacked by certain minute para-
sites. It fa quite possible for such parasites to cover
the hair from end to end, and by their movements
to give a motion to the hair as a whole, whore true
character it might need a mlscroscopc to discover.
Very many honest people have not learned how to
use their eyes, or the considerable sum of popular
fancies, which are afloat, would be largely re
duced.
D. T. N\, Rcil Oak. La.: 1. How mauy volet-
noes exist? 2. What Is their average height from
sea level? S. How large a volume of smoke aud
lava would they all be able to throw out? 4. What
is the cause of volcanoes?
1. It is impossible to say, with any degree of ac
curacy, the number of existing volcanic vents,
first, because It fa impossible to determine just
what shall be so reckoned among the many vents
of tbat character; and secondly, it is impossible to
say that all actual vents are known. Humboldt
fixed Jt at 407, of which 223 had been active within
a century. Of the latter about half were supposed
to be upon the Asiatic islands. It has since
been estimated that the Indian Archipel
ago alone contains over 900. For more
than 2,000 years Htrombol. in the
Mediterranean, ha-* been (.-distantly discharging
Java. The BsugJ, in Peru, 17,000 fee4 high, lias for
130 years been in continuous action, ejecting every
few miputesfiery cinders with explosions of tre
mendous violence. In other cases centuries elapse
between the eruptions of a volcano. Thus Vesu
vius, 3,9is feet high, that fa built up of volcanic
matter, had remained dormant for ages previous
to the beginning of our cm, when its discharges of
lava and ashes burned the cities of Pompeii nnd
Herculaneum. A single eruption of this mountain
in 1794, fa supposed to have yielded 46.000,000 cubic
feet of lava; and the one of Etna,10,87 l feet high, in
166t», more thau twice that amount.
The great eruptions from Skzpta Joktill,
In Ireland, which began in 1*73 and
continued for two years, gave rise to two lava
streams, one forty and one fifty mllc-t long, with n
breadth of seven to fifteen miles respectively. 2.
An average height can not be given, as volcanoes
differ so widely in elevation. The great volcanoes
of Hawaii rise with an average slope of five or six
degrees to heights spore than thirteen thousand
feet above the sealcvel. 3. This question fa beyond
the limits of man’s conception. The above statis
tics give you an Idea of what two or three promi
nent volcanoes con do, nnd you can form yourown
opinion of what several thousand could accom
plish. 4. The phenomena of volcanoes may bo
be-t understood by considering that there are
openings connected with spaces containing molten
rock, which fa forced upward iu the crater by tbo
action of steam or of permanent gasses, or in some
casts, probably, by movemeutsof the earth's crust
C. O. B. f Bridgewater, Vt., January 29, '60:
Editors Constitution: 1 will send a problem for
for come of the readers of Tin: Constitution to
solve# vJz; A and B arc two farmers, and own to
gether one hundred and twenty hens. They go to
market and take sixty, or one half of them. A
rolls thirty at the rato of two hens for ono dollar,
aud receives fifteen dollars. B sells hls thirty at
the rato of three for one dollar, aud gets ten dol
lars, making 823 received for tho sixty, or selling
five hens for 82. A selling two and B selling three
for a dollar. The next day B goes alone to market
am) takes the remaining sixty hens, and sells tho
lot|at the rate of five liens for 12, but he only
gets 824 for tho sixty, still, telling them at the samo
rato an tbo day before. When an<b*whore did II
hec one dollar In the (rode? I me ortho
J. R. Opelika. Ala: What states were first
admitted to the union, otu-ldc of the original thir
teen?
It was ten years after tho revolutionary war tlut
the act was passed (February 4,1791,) admitting the
fir»t new state, Kentucky, Into the federal hotiM?-
hold. A few days afterward (February 18) an act
was passed admitting Vermont. Five years after
(1796), Tennessee was admitted, then followed Ohio
in 1802; J.oulrann In 1812: Indiana in 1816; Mississip
pi in 1*17; lllinios in 1818; Alabama in 1819; Maine
iu 1820; Mfa-ouri in 1821; Arkansas iu 1836; Michigan
in 1K17; Florida ami Texas in 1813; Wisconrin In
1847; California in 1830; Minnesota in ISM; Oregon
iu 1839; Kama* In 1861; West Virginia in 1862; Neva
da in 1864; Nebraska in 1867, and Colorado in 1873
J. R. II., Tavares, Fin: 1. Do ships nso fresh
water? 2. What was the origin of the halo of cot-
ten.
<I.) Somo ships u*c fresh water and *omo have
apparatus by which the seawater can bo prepared
for the boilers. (2.) The balo of cotton grow out of
the necessities of transportation, and was original
ly fastened with ropes aud weighed, thirty years
ago. from 200 to 300 pounds. The introduction first
of tho hydraulic press and, sccoud, of Iron tics per
mitted the size of bales to be gradually Increased
until it pow runs from 400 to 300 pounds. It fa the
custom of tho trado to allow a
certain taro for hoops aud bagging,
ami the weight of the cotton fa then obtained in
pounds. In cotton statistics this is reduced too
uniform bale of 400 pounds, although tho export
statistics of this country are Riven In pound*. Egyp
tian cotton export* are reckoned in "cantors” of
ninety-eight pounds ench.aiul local Iudiau crop re
port* In "mounds” of about the same amount. Tho
average weight of "bales,” owing tdthese varying
weights change icawm by season. In tho last re
ported, l*84-K>, they were as follows; American,451
pounds; Brazil, 163 pounds:|Egyptian, 661 pounds:
Smyrna, 33o jounds; West lndicsandC.,r«0pound*;
East Indian, 390 i*>unds for Great Brilian and 383
pounds for the coutiueuL
J.R.C., HunUvilleT" Ala: Flea re publish
the poem entitled, "The Mother's Answer to
Roek Me to Sleep."
The following is the poem requested by our cor
respondent :
rail me not back from the "ccholcss shore,"
To esres that oppress'd me In days of yore;
The dark, deep waters I’ve safely pass’d through,
To heaven's sweet rest, and wait now for you.
Grieve not tbat your brow be forrow’d with care,
Or that silver threads shine in your browu hair;
There's a crown In store, if you will but keep
The precepts taught when 1 rocked you to sleep.
Be not weary of toll.
Life, w hich at best fa
Waste not love and he, —..
And throw, in despair, your "soul wealth" away;
With her who caress'd and rock'd you to sleep.
Think of her. darling, at the throne of Gol:
There, with angels, a ceaseless watch she’ll keep,
As of yore she hush’d and rocked you to sleep.
Omnipotent eyes, with a love divine,
Have guarded your slumbers. Then why repine?
Oh. spend not womanhood in rad, sad dreams!
Waste not talents and years in fruitless schemes.
Sew the seed of good deeds, let others reap,
Then angels will sooth and rock you to sleep.
Or Interest to Athletes,
Jamc« Robinson, trainer of Athletes at Har
vard and rrinccton Colleges, writes from
Princeton, Jan. 24, ISssi, "For cuts, bruises,
strains, rheumatism and colds, I always use
Alcock's Porous Plasters for myself anb pupils.
Never have known them to fell in over one
hundred cases, They strengthen the muscles
and give instant relief. They are the only
external remedy used by our athletes."
They are going down to dinner. He—"May 1 sit
on your right baud, chr’ "8he—"Oh, 1 think you
tad letter take a chair.” He did.
The easiest, quietest and surest way to cure
a cold fs to use Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
There must be a future for Mexico. Sle
supports 20,00 public schools.
REDMOND, THE OUTLAW.
Redmond, the outlaw, who*c career in western
Ncith Carolina gave him such notoriety a few
years ago, fa now living in quietude and retire
ment, jurt ocrost the state Hue, in upper South
t arolina, smid the picturesque foothills of the Blue
Kififre mountain*. He was tried and convicted of
Illicit distilling, and rent for a term of year* to Al
bany penitentiary. Not long lince he was par
doned, through the efforts of .Senator Wade Hamp
ton. on the grounds of bad health. He now lives
In reclusion and peace In nn humble cabin house,
where he can look up towards the northwest, and
tee in the distance those blue
hills, among which he spent
*0 many years in bold defiance of laws which he
com filed restrictive of a freeman’s liberty to an ex
tent that should not be borne. To take his com and
convert it into that exbilerating beverage known
as mount.tin dew wav, fn-.a opinion, the natural
and Inalienable right of every American citizen.
Any law to the contrary was, in hls estimation,
not only unconstitutional, but not to be submitted
toby thoee who knew the value of true liberty.
It v as this view of the subject that made Redmond
the outlaw aud the desperado for which he became
noted far and wide. He could not see why a man
might not do as he chose with hls own.
In a recent talk with this notorious moonshiner
much was ktroed of his romantic and peril-crowd
ed career. He was bom within a half dozen miles
of where the city of Atlanta now stands in the
year 1*54, and fa, therefore, a young man yef. Soon
after the war he went to the mountains of western
North Carolina and began the precarious business
of an Illicit distiller. Many features of bis charac
ter *oon rendered him a conspicuous figure among
the member* of this strange, sequestered craft,who,
like P.edmond, bad ther own views of liberty, and
became dwellers among the picturesque glens and
rugged crags where tho sparkling and fiery dew
drop is bom. His boldness, quickness of move
ment, native shrewdness and withal a frankness
and kindness of heart, surprising to find in
one thus cngageddenrly won the confldcucejof those
about him and ftiE. - prep '*d them for becoming
bis faitbfol confederate • ich they aflerwardJ
were. Ensconced In t ’-rep recesses of the
mountains surroundi -j v si* by friends and
igilantsentinels, hoi - ursmanufactured that
"trahand H»rr»-re which gladdens the heart
ouUiaincti and scuds his blood surging
hi. „D his veins, while rare exhftcration tingles
along his excited nerves. He Manufactured it
regularly in great quantities, and steadily spirited
mu rU of It air ay beyond hls shelter-
lug fastnesses and distributed it among
thinly cotton planters and gay and
festive villagers of upper South Carolina His alert
and well drilled sentries, occupying eiovations In
the distance and )*olnts in the valleys far below,
kept their tireless watch for the raiding revenue
officers, ond when danger was apparent It was an
nounced by the hunter’s bom, echoing in mellow
tones among the peaks and crags by night, and the
graccfol curling of distant smoke signals by day.
With many narrow escapes, dangorotys adventures
and liankbip*, borne with a heroism worthy oi
any cause, these operations went on for years with
pxofit to the moonshiner.
In 1879 Redmond removed from hls rccludcd fast
nesses snd far up on the Tennessee river, in Swaino
county, N. C., built him a home of logs. Soon
afterward*, having about him at his new homo
none of hls faithful retainer*, be was overtaken in
the mountains by a posse of revenue officers,
ordered to surra uder, resisted until shot down with
a dozen wound*; was taken to Anhcvlllo for im
prisonment, and fearing rescue of him by hfa con
federates was removed to Greenville, 8. C.; tried
for illicit distilling, sclHng nnd removing, and was
sent to Alflany for a term of four years. Being
irdoncd, ho now live* a life of quietude and pence
the backwoods of upper South Carolina.
Senator Colquitt uml Hls People.
The following letter appeared originally iu
the Ogdcntburg, N. Y., Advance, and has been
widely copied throughouttH« country:
Mr. Editor—I send you tbo following let cr from
United States Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, written
in response to some inquiries which 1 rent him con
cerning the state of feelliig in the south, tho condi
tion or tho negro, etc. 1 felt a deep interest in
these things, so many have said to me: "The south
i* a* rebellious a* ever at heart." Senator Colquitt,
like many democrat* in tho south,fa identified with
the party of most thorough reform, is a working
nal relation*. B. U.'Bsxford,
Pastor M. E. Church, Lisbon.
SENATOR (OLqilTT’s LETTER.
My Dear Sir:—I find your letter of tho 26th of
last month on ray table after an absence of two
weeks from this city. Pressed as I am by engage
ments and duties iucident to my official relations,
I cannot wit hold an answer to such inquiries a*
you make, or fall to give a gratfiea recogni
tion of the line spirit of your epistle. 1 must, how
ever, lc brief, and restrict my replies to limits
which I would be glad toenlarge If l had the time.
You say "there Is a general feeling hero that tho
"YOUR HEART’S BLOOD.”
THE FEARFUL FLOW OF HUMAN
CORE
Villainous Nostrum Dispensers and Their
Criminal Work—Tlie Pitiful Cries of
the Victims—Startling Develop
ments Unearthed—The Hor
rible Details In Full.
lilted community. "At heart," they
And who is it, among finite beings who d.
to para by and pan over one’s life, one’s nets, o
expressed and uniformly professed motives and
purposes, and arbitrarily ret up Instead of there
tho secret heart of the victim you mean to sacrifice
at all events. For more than twenty years the south
has, under such trials aud discouragements as
never before befell any people, kept a more general
peace in its borders and exerted a more determined
resolution to emerge from its lndcrerit«hle lo-res
and distress than can be paralleled in any pre
vious hi dory.
Don’t men sec at a glance that people that are *0
engaged in making cotton and corn, as wo are.
power, and "voted” inat tbat, what evident- ..
our cuemiis furnNh that we will soon "rain
1ngs?"
J ake tho measures brought forward In our lcgN
laturc«-take the bills introduced in congress by
exposed. Do men
s profess Iu regard
" i time “
Take our
where while men snd colored men HPHP8IPBIIP
platforms am! spoke together aud thou voted to-
mathcr to free the state from tho triple corse of !n-
mpcrancc, will you suspect such communities
■ there or meditating the ruin of anybody or any
good t/ifng. Then go to the census that even burn
ing bigot- cannot gainsay or ret aside, aud toll out
I us the tale of our labors aud expenditure for^the edu
cation of our young people, black as well as
white. Then write to northern friends who
have pitched their tent* among us and inquire of
them what their receotiontiasneen. Tel! all the
doubters,*all who regard us as hoj>ole«» political
aud social reprobates, that, solid as tbe south may
be, that u ill «li amount to too little if our strengta
fa not *utplcmented by northern vote* aud In
fluence. Let all there be of good cheer, for if the
country fa ever mined it will be by the help and
strength of the north and west. Rail, ra<J it fa, that
men are forced into such a dUctivdoti as thisj
vote is Intimidated at tho polls.’ If in all
Georgia (and let other states south answer for
thtnuelvcs) there was a solitary precinct at the
last elections at which the colored vote wa* intim
idated or oppressed, I am in titter ignorance of
where and when it was. I do know and testify
that a more 1*08001111 election than our lad in At
lanta was never held In the state, nor do l believe
iu the lnited Slates, nor one In which a more
nu oereod vote was east by all entitled to vote. In
the rim years of reconstruction there was groat
risk in a colored voter easting a democratic vote,
and case* of extreme and savage cruelty growing
out of it w ere of frequent occurrence. But as one
01 the signs of a better day came, we are proud to
ray that n ueb of this exclusive and bad spirit has
paired away.
I cannot give you without reference the exact
preponderance of the democratic vote over the re
publican in the rent U, but that it fa large and mot
decided uo well informed man will dispute. Fi
nally, my dear sir, let me urge you and all of our
northern brethren to regard us a* citizens of the
Unite*! Mates, men like roarer I re*, no better, no
worae. as men who believe in the right* of nrau. in
the rights of the general government, tu the rights
of the states aud m a common power and glory of
this vast country of ours. With kind reganfs. I
am your obedler.t servant, A. II. CoLqt rr."
James A. Major.’ Neal, S. C„ Writes:
I hate read a great many papers and I think The
Constitution stands in the .up.- a ive d gr v. Tne
little office 1 keep cow takes eight cr nine copies,
•fid I will u«e my i .fluence to double the uumb.»r
without fee or reward.
I ton tbe white, thin whiskers and mus
tache of Unitor Camden, of We-t Virginia, are
always to be »een traces of tht constant chewing of
The enormity of the crimes committed by vil
lainous nostrum dispensers is simply appalling.
Tbe evil consists in the persistent efforts of the
proprietors of certain alleged blood poison reme
dies to entrap the unwary by fraudulent certifi
cates, causing the poor victim of blood poison to
Invest in their worthless compounds, who finally
awakes to the sad realization that hls money to all
gone and the ravages of tbe dread disease consum
ing hi* life. These same parties also expend thou
sands of doll :* annually In their vain hope of
convincing j r*le that iodide of potash, and other
drugs such 0 uter into the physician’s prescrip,
tion are deadly poison, and at the same time cry
ing aloud "Imitators!" when In fact, none are to bo
found, B.B. B,—Botanic B’cod Balm—contains,
among other valuable Ingredients, iodide of pot-
ash, and to convince those who may have any
doubt on tho subject, we submit the following
original certificates—not bought—proving Its won
derful efficacy. This company hold hundreds of
testimonials from those who owe their exlitenoo
to B. B. B.
Sparta, Ga., September 22. '85.—To the Constitu
tion, Atlanta; Were I to practice deception in a
case like this, I would think that my heart bad
become seared beyond recognition.
To bo guilty of bearing false testimony, thereby
imperiling the lives of m> fellow-men, would
place me beneath the dignity of a gentleman.
The facta which I disclose are indorsed aud
vouched for by the community in which I live,
and I trust they may exert the lnfiueuce intended.
For twenty long year* I have suffered untold tor
tures from a terrible pain and weakness in the
small of zny back, which resitted all modes and
manner of treatment
For a long time the horrifying pangs of an eating
cancer of my lower lip ha* onded to n\y misery and
suffering. This encroaching, burning and painful
sore on my lip was pronounced Epithelial Cancer
by the prominent phyrioiaii* in this sccliou, which
stubbornly resisted the best medical talent About
eighteen months ago a cutting, piercing pain loca
ted in the breast, which could not be allayed by
the use of ordinary modes of treatment.
These suflbrings of misery and prostratiou bo-
came so great that on the 18th of last Jnly a lead
ing physician said that 1 could not livo longer
than four days, and I had about given up in de
spair. The burning and excruciating ravages of
the cancer, the painful condition of my back and
breast, and the rapid prostration oi my wholo sys
tem combined to make me a mere wreck of former
manhood.
While thus seemingly suspended on a thread be
tween life and death, I commenced tho use of B.
B. B., the grandest blood medicine to me and my
household ever used.
The effect was wonderful—u was magical. Tho
excruciating pains which had tormented mo by
day and by night for twenty years wero soon held
in abeyance, and peace and comfort were rostered
to a differing man, the ca* cer commenced heal
ing. strength was imparted to my feeble fraato, and
when eight bottles had been ured, I was ono of tho
hapt lost of men, and felt about as well aa I ever
diet.
All rain* bad vanished, the cancer on my Up
healed, and I was pronounced cured. To those
who arc oJflictcd aud need a blood remedy, I urge
thetiscofB. B. B., as a wonderfully cffcctlvo,
speedy and cheap blood purifier.
Ali.rn Grant.
ROSADALIS
^^BOSADALIS Cures Scrofula.
©
ROSADALIS Cures Rheumatism.
ROSADALIS Cu es Syphilis.
{ROSADALIS Cures Malaria.
ROSADALIS Carr. Nervous Debility.
Al ROSADALIS Curci Consumption,
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veil you Ufa com ;*»*•••.
afivtw that exfat, *...1 »■
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Ingredient* pub-
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Georgia Plantation Wanted
I N * Xf HAKGK FOR 8T(X’K OF STAT.ONKRY,
Cl* K1031TIE8, Etc , about 91,800. Store about
20X40; lnrgo Show Winuow*. Rent 920). Price
huildlnirand lot 92.POO. t-end full do*? rip lion cyf
Plantation and loweit price to
K. E. THORPE,
Box 13, St. Augustine.
... ... Florid 1.
Mention ibis paper.Wfl—wky2t
“The Cheapest Furniture House
in Georgia.”
« will *ave money by rending for my catalogut
pricea before you buy forniture. Bfgceri stock
it prices. Every style of furniture, from 9
* — — * 1. cheaper than ever,
itirohouse. Write top.
You will save
and '
pwcsl prices. Eveiy style c
bedstead to 91,000 bureau. Cheaper than ever.
Estimate* for mnifahing enti ‘
H. Snook, Atlanta, Ga.
Mention this paper.
deo22 wky ly
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Man and Beast. Its sales fevday are
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and muscle, to the very bone. Bold
everywhere.
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