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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. M. RICH & BROS. CLircCMAN’S T obacco REMEDIES B -1 THE CUNQMitN TOBACCO CAKE ■ATUItn-w l*mn» ilk* fmm »twUv mt m«m. Prie* UA rU. THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO PIASTER HQiSgSUjMn Ajiy—rSmgiW Boris*-wwmtt—.«r»rtUUtat GlINGMAN TOBACCO CURE GO. DURHAM. N. O.. U. R. A. A STANDARD MEDICAL WORK FOR VOtNfl AND MIDDLE-AGED HEN. ONLY II BY MAIL, POSTPAID. IU.VSYKAT1VK HAUPLH I'UIII! TO ALL KNOW THYSELF, A Orest Medical Work « Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and Physical Da Witty. Premature Decline In Mau, Errors of Youth, and the untold miseries resulting from lndlsoia Hon or exccsre*. A book for every man, young, middle a red audold. It contains lift prescrip tions for all racute and ehronto dlrearea. each one of which la invaluable. Ho found by the Author, who— experience for year* U *uch a* probably lever before foil to the lot of any tdmdeun. tOC |MT«, bound tn beautiful French muslin, emboae ill coTera, foil gilt, guaranteed to be a finer work In every arnse-than any other work sold In this connti? for 12.30 or the money >111 be refunded tn neve Instance. Price onlytl.Oflby mall, postpaid, n- lurtratlve sample fb'e to anyfaxly.. fiend uow, S Ckld mcdrl swarded the author by the National rdlcal At *< datum, to the President of which the on. P. A Blsrell. and aaenetat# officers of the Beard th» reader l* respectfully referred. The Science of Life should be read by the young 5»'„'V>miotl , .n, *nd l.y th.-.rmcteJ foe relict it wilt benefit alt—London Lancet. There la no tnrtnkr of aoeiety to whom the fjcirnc* of Life a ill not be useful, whether youth, parent, guardian. Instructor or clergyman.—ArfD- Bant. AddrmthelYwbody Medical Instttnfo, or Dr. \ U. I arkur. No. 4 bulfinch street, Boston, Mass. * a T 1)0 ®2 0,| uU*i on all dlrearee requiring Skill and export* iut t*hn>uic and ubatlnale dkvas- CMh.l haw 1 a8U,uiw UU1 of a-.! IJ C- A I «h.z jh)such M CAL *U THYSELF M»b ihlz wi» r. mart-dirnan wwlfMAwky aw—mAuemAtairemnnHiciiAttCAut BETSY’S BLIZZARD. getajr Relates War Wxpariaaoa With the CoJdRpeU- Cenaumsg the AlBsnao-Puttiag the Blaeie on Peer Keren. Who Mia sea u Often as He Hits-Life in the Baehwoode. /-u PURE m HONOR and TRUTH! ¥8ICfV^TOBSra , £ , ISM5t ygfcjr.jse STi* twmSwJS tcr K ** * *****’ 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 OUR KNOWLEDGE-BOX. [In this department we give brief and pertinent 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, ROSADALIS aye. Show it to }v>w veil you Ufa com ;*»*•••. afivtw that exfat, *...1 »■ S l’uiuriKa. g3-FOR RALE Aha nevtri—*nn tlie* wed fhur « Ingredient* pub- i»n every pack- y slciau. and he will : i lie itrongwt alter- os oxccJleni Blood f.L DRUGGISTS. 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. 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