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Newspaper Page TextFARMS AND FARMERS. Short Talks With the Men Who Guide the Plow. QUESTIONS ONFARM TOPICS ANSWERED Wheat Sowing, TJmlng Land. Etc. Wheat should be seeded down now as quick ly as possible, except towards the gulf and Atlantic borders. In thesa more southerly localities sowing may be deferred for a month longer. Do hot forget that wheat calls for a rather compact soil, except near the surface— •ay for two inches deep. These two inches of •urface soil cannot be made too fine for it. A disc harrow run a number of times in different directions does the work admirably. A' wheat crop is often injured by turning under a large quantity of weeds or vinos, which prevents the undersoil from compacting. Indeed, it may be regarded upon the whole as good practice not to plow deep for wheat. After once breaking, let the harrow complete the preparation. Tho manure applied should be also near the surface; the harrow will cover it sufficiently deep. Success hinges a good deal upon tho regular distribution of the seed and tho uniformity of tho depth to which they are covered. Both of thesb ends are reached better by drilling ma chines than by the ordinary hand sowing and plowing or harrowing in. A good machine will space tho seed properly. It can be ad justed to sow a certain amount of seed to an acre. It will also put the seed in the ground at a perfectly uniform depth. This should be from one to one and a half inches; never over two inches. At greater depths the seed will Come up, and ordinary observation would not detect any difference, perhaps, in the crop, but careful and repeated experiments have shown that when planted deep tho yield is smaller. The regular spacing of the seed is of equal im portance. If possible each plant ought to have exactly the same amount of soil, air and light. How seldom, or never, is this attained from ordinary hand sowing. If one is partial to broadcasting, by all means get a broadcast sower. With proper care and adjustment these can be made to do very nice work, and do it rapidly. We must make up for the poverty of our exhausted land, for our less manageable labor, and for the sharp com petition of these latter days, by nicer and more thorough work. The time has come when wo must quit slipshod, helter-skelter ways. Extremes are not often to be recommended, but in the case of wheat they are in one re spect. The crop is so uncertain and unreliable In our climate that it is best to sow a good breadth of ordinary land without manuring it, or else sow a very few acres manured very heavily—tho extensive or the intensive. Ob jection to tho first *is the amount of seed and Os labor required. Both may be economised. Thin land does not call for heavy seeding— three pecks per acre will answer. On corn or cotton land cut up and beat down tho stalks and cover seed with dis. harrow without pre vious breaking. One hand and two horses can put in six or more acres a day. The roller following will go over the same ground in a day. Land well cultivated through the summer does not require additional breaking for an ordinary {wheat crop. It lias •bout the right compactness of which we •poke above,and needs only the surface stirring Which the harrow will give. Heavy yields per acre are not to be expected under such methods, but as the outlay is small and land abundant , the profits may be as great and the risk no greater than under tho opposite method. When one has high, well drained land adapted to wheat, it may be more profitable perhaps to break deep, manure heavily and Prepare thoroughly and sow only a few acres. ’ho thorough preparation and high manuring •re expected to give the crop such vigor as to enable it tojlwthstand adverse circumstances —and this they will do to a certain extent. Under such treatment wheat will make a par tial crop, when! under adverse seasons, that which is unmanured would make a total failure. The intensive method saves •eod to some extent, labor also, but increases expenditure on manure account. If one contemplates liming his land, tho present is a good time to make the application. The effects of lime are not ap preciable for some months after it is applied. For summer crops it should be applied in au tumn oi - early winter, for fall crops in spring Or early summer. As limo tends of itself to •Ink down in the soil, it should never bo plowed in, but simply scattered on the surface, in our hot, dry climate moderate doses only •ro to be recommended. Five to ten bushels per acre is ample. The best form in which to nso it is a good marl. Twenty to forty bushels per acre of a rich marl might be applied. The next best form of lime is the air-slaked, of this five to ten bushels per acre will be enough, phosphates contain a good deal of lime, enough perhaps for ordinary crops when they are lib erally applied. Direct applications of lime are generally made, not to supply plant-food, but as an amendment to the soil, to develop its hidden resources. Heavy clays and lighter soils ♦hat arc filled with vegetable matter are most benefitted by it. As a rule also, regions farthest north in the cotton belt are more likely to receive benefit from liming than those farther south. Try an application of lime on a small scale, and note results next summer. One had better go rather slow in this matter. It is too late now to expect much from lime on the present winter’s grain crop. But land limed now ought to show its effect a little on next summer’s crops, and still more on grain Crops succeeding them. It is useless to apply lime to wet, undrained land ; but wet lands that have been recently drained are quite apt to be improved by liming. There is usually an excess of vegetable acids in the soil of such lands, which limo will correct. If any of our teaders have experience in liming land, will theA not kindly give it to The Constitution. W. L. J. FAKAI QUESTION BOX. J. F. B. Evinston Station, Fla: I have about a ton each of cotton seed meal, acid phosphate and •table manure, which I wish to use in eorme tion With four tons of hard wood asiies on my Irish po tatoes, cucumbers and cabbage next December and January. Please say in your next when to mix, and Whether the cabbage and potatoes need more ashes than tho cucumbers ? Mix phosphate and stable manure at once. Dampen the manure and mix thoroughly with phosphate, placing the mixture under shelter in a pen and tramping |it firmly. When ready to apply mix other substances with manure and phosphate mixture. One object in composting tho manure and tho phosphate bow, is to get the manure thoroughly disinte grated so that it may be evenly mixed with the other substances, and be uniformly distributed on the land. Ashes make an excellent manure for vegetables—potatoes need them, however, snore than other vegetables. Cabbages are rank feeders and call fur full supplies of all ♦he valuable ingredients of manure, and are, therefore, benefitted by ashes, but not to tho fame extent as potatoes. Both po'atoes and cabbages call for more ashes than cucumbers do. J. R. V., Kincheon, Ala.: 1. When Is the best time w break stub 1 j laud? Have coat of weeds and Crass on it. 2. Which is the best plan, stea l or trg> : The land is on the swamp; landy, light oil, with go xl clay foundation. 1. The time to turn under weeds, etc., varies With nature of soil. In close clay soils decom position goes on more slowly than in open •andy soils. Hence, with the former vegeta ble may be plowed in much longer in advance of a growing crop which is to appropriate its products, without danger of lose by leaching, THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1887. than would be advisable with a loose sandy soil. Where clay soils abound, the old middle Georgia rule of turning under stubble and weeds the first thing after Christmas is about as good as any. With lighter soils it may be deferred till tho middle or last of February, and instead of breaking broadcast, bed up and let the beds remain. On light soils it is well to have the beds settled by rain before plant ing time. Hence the practice in some locali ties of planting on old beds (last year’s) without rebeddtng— only putting some fresh dirt on top of tho old bed. Your land is not proba bly light enough, however, to require this prac tice. Still, bedding in advance and freshening the surface of beds with a harrow at planting time, would doubtless w ork well in your case. 2. A large plow by all means. A small plow will choke up in heavy weeds and grass. A heavy two-horse plow with high throat is the implement needed. The sulky plow, the best of all. Tho depth of furrow need not bo great. A large plow can be made to run only three or four inches deep, and that would bo enough on the land described. It is probably never good practice to bury vegetable matter deep in tho soil. The surface soil is that in which baking and crusting occurs. Keep it therefore loose and friable by supplying it liberally with vegetable mold. Moreover, the tendency of plant food is to sink downwards in tho soil. Start it, therefore, near the surface. There is some pith in tho statement that the soil is made right side up. It is only by slow degrees that the subsoil can be safely brought to the surface. W. 11. .1. Milo, Ala.: You will find enclosed speci mens of a clover, which grows in this county, one of your subscribers desires to know botanical name, will you please give it. “Richardsonia Scabra” is the name of plant sent. It is variously called Mexican, Spanish, and Florida clover. It is not a true clover, but is a valuable forage plant. It is said to boa native of South America, and probably of Mexico also. Edinburg, Miss I notice several articles publish ed in The Constitution telling how to prevent wevils from injuring corn. I will give an 1 nfallible plan: The egg is deposited in the corn be Ore it is gathered ; therefore you should gather y. ur corn as soon as it is dry. When early gathered it will create a great heat, which destroys the egg. Try It. J. M. Shvey. J. W. N., Utica, Miss : Plense inform me whether lespedezes will keep sound when stacked in field. Some of my neighbors, who have tried it, say it will not. 1 have about- fifteen tons, put up in stacks, well tramped; stacks about twelve feet in diameter. Will it stand the winter rains. Have never seen it stacked, but presume it is like clover about shedding rain. Has less power to do this than grass or straw. But if stack is built properly, swelling out from the foundation for some distance upward before it is drawn in, and the upper fourth of the stack built up with straw or grass, we have no doubt it would stand the weather very satisfactory. Any kind of forage can be kept in stacks if the “drawing in” is properly done and the stack well capped with straw or fodder. But the cap should not be only a couple of bundles just at the top. It should extend outward so as to overhang the stack, reaching to its side. A. S. D.: I have a fine mare, badly diseased in her front feet. I was told it was caused by wearing shoes too long, when very young. She will be six in the spring. Do you think her hoofs are con tracted? I was told so. She walks on hard ground like her feet was very sore. She docs very well when the ground is soft. When standing, bears as little weight as possible, on front hoof, Icontiuually changing. Can you tell me what will cure her? Symptoms rather indicate a case of chronic founder. This is a slight inflammation of tho layer between the horny part of the hoof and the bone in center of foot. In such cases the animal stands on his heels as much as possible, drawing tho hind legs forward under the belly and extending the forelegs forward to relieve the toe. It is very difficult to cure. The horse should be kept off hard roads as much as pos sible and a leather shoe placed between the iron shoe and hoof to serve as a pad and lessen the jarring of tho inflamed part. Horses thus affected may do good service on a farm as plow animals, having to walk only on soft ground. There may bo such a thing as contrac tion of the foot, but it is not common. Tho remedy is to have tho shoe nailed on, on one side of the hoof only. W. K. W., Winona, Mias: Please tell mo howto treat a four-year-old horse that is lame from an en largement just above the hoof and below the first joint. I think it grows. At first he did not limp. If the swelling is hard, it is probably "ring bone,” a rather difficult disease to cure. But as your horse is young, you might try the fol lowing: Clip the hair over the swelling, and rub in for eight or ten minutes an ointment of ono drachm of brimodido of mercury to an ounce of lard. Tie the horse’s head so he can not reach the part with his mouth. The next day wash off and grease with lard. After a week, make another similar application. If the swelling abates but docs not disappear en tirely, a third application may be made. Conyers, Ga.: I see inquires about the cultivation of broom com. I have a new variety and will fur nish the seed at one dollar p r peck and write full particulars as to planting, cultivating, gathering, cureing and preparing for market. I raised $23 worth of this corn on one-half acre of laud this year and will have a sample on exhibition at tho state fair. With the same work it will pay double what cotton will. Truly yours, J. M. Bentlev. Orange I’reserves, Denton county, Tex., October 16, 1887. Someone asks for receipt for orange preserves. Here is one copied from an old book. Do not know how good it is, as I've never tiied it myself: Take any number of oranges with rather more than their weight in white sugar, slightly grate the oranges and score tliem round with a knife, but not cut deep; put them in cold water for three days, change the water three or four times a day, tie them up in a cloth, boil until they are soft enough for the head of a pin to penetrate Hit skin. While they are boiling, place tiie sugar on the lire with rather more than a lialf pint of water to each pound; let it boil for a minute or two. Hum strain through muslin. Put the oranges in the syrup till it Jellies, and is of a yellow color. Try the syrup by cooling some: it must not be too still. The syrup ue :d not cover the oranges, but they must be turned so each ; art gets thoroughly done. Was coeoanut cake recipe with out layers ever given? I asked for it, but have miss ed it. Prince Yturbide and Carlotta's Bing. Paris Letter to tlie Philadelphia Telegraph. I see by the American papers that young Prince Auguste Yturbide is now in the United States. I remember me.'ting his cousin, prince Salvador Yturbide, at Long Branch, I think, in the summer of 1873. He was then u very young man and exceeding ly handsome, with splendid black eyes and a thoroughly Spanish aspect. Though only just of age, he was already married to a Viennese lady of rank, the Austrian royal family extending its pro tection to him as to ids cousin, Prince Auguste, the latter being 'I e adopted son and promised heir to Maximilian when the ill-fotjd archduke assumed the Mexican crown. Among Prince - ilvivlor’s treasures was a curiously wrought nn I ma sive gold ring, the gilt of Hie un fortunate Empress Carlotta. One of the belles of the fast s< t of that period at Long Brunch ex pre - -.<■ 1 g: gu t admiration of tins the jo’lure drawing it from ids finger, gallantly “placed it at her disposal,” after the tisual formula of Spanish politeness. The lively girl took him at his word, thanked him enthusiastically, and wont offwlth the ring. Tlie prince, in great tribulation, so ight out tho gentleman who bad introduced him to tho damsel, and begged him to obtain for him the return of the ring, us be would never dare to present himself before the Imperial family of Austria will out it. Bit Hie young lady on being approached on the subject, positively re fused to give up the trinket in • uestlon. “If tho prince did not mean to give it to me, why did he say that he did?’’ was her very pertinent response. I forget how the matter ended, but the prince was probably, at all events, cured of a very silly and un meaning formula of i-panleh poll tenet* DURING THE WEEK. The Week’s Synopsis of General and Local News CONDENSED FOR OUR WEEKLY FRIENDS Tuesday, October 18.—The Princess Mand and Princess Louise, daughters of the prince of Wales, are sußering from tho measles The ginhc uc of Mr. P. E. Wells, of Lee county, Ala., was destroyed by fire, together with five bales of cotton, with no insuiaticcV petition has bce.i presented to tho oidinary of Lumpkin county, praying for the order ing ot an election on ti e liquor question The Kent and Lake View hotels, together with several cottages, were destroyed by lire at Lake View, caus ing a loss of $560,000. In the City.—-Four men supposed to be pick pockets, were given cells in the city prisonAn unusually large number of drunks were booked at police headquartersL. C. Bandman, the trunk makers, made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Wednesday, October 19.—A disastrous fire oc curred in Syracuse, N. ¥., entailing a loss of $350,000 The office of the Evening Democrat, a news paper publislied iu Little Rock, Ark., was totally destroyed by fire Mrs. Annie Lachs, the lady who threw a pancake at Mrs. Cleveland while in S:. Louis, was fined SSO and cost. She appealed her cftse Great preparations are being made in Macon for the reception of lion. Jeffers in Davis and wife, who are to visit tlie state fairThe large cotton and woollen mills of tho Park mount manufacturing company at Lenni, la., were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $50,0 0. In the City.—Seven pickpockets, under the leadership of the notorious John Cannon, who has a record from Maine to California, were arrested by Detectives Buchanan and Simpson. Papers were found on the person of Cannon that satisfied tl.e officers that they had arrested the right parties, Thursday, October 20.—A gas explosion oc curred in the Bijou theater at Pittsburg, Pn., injur ing a number of peopleWilliam'Walker, a heavy importer of dress goods in New York, has failed for slso,oooArgument before the court of appeals in the Sharp case has been postponed until some t.nn November The stockyaids and a fine hotel were destroyed by fire in Wichita, Kan., causing a $150,- 000 loss. In the City—ln tl e crush at the Kimball house the sheriff of Elbert county was relieved of his watch, but he detected the thief before he got out of sight and secured his watchT. J. Edwards, a merchant at Fido, Ga., was relieved of a purse con taining sixty-four dollars Charles Cochran and Joe Baldwin, two pickpockets, were given cells at police headquarters, Friday, October 21.—Two trains came together on the Erie railroad, demolishing several carsand fatally injuring the conductor of one and the fire man and two train hands of the other. The con ductor and fireman will die ... A negro named Mc- Cutchen shot and killed a white man named Riles in Columbia, 8. C., in a dispute over a contract. The negro escaped, but the county is being scoured for him Mr. Sube Lumly, a young man near Maci n, had Ids arm caught in a gin anti horribly mangled while cleaning the cotton seed from it. Saturday, October 22.—Andrew Fletnming, colored, was hanged at Tallulah, Louisiana, for the murder of Demp Benyc n, another negroA disas trous fire occurred in Marinette, Wis., destroying two entire blocks, consisting of twenty fine stores, entailing a loss of something over s2oo,oooßishop Kopp, new prime bishop of Brestan, took the oath of civil allegiance to the emperor, the first instance of such an oath being taken since tho Cuttcrkampf, The southern Forestry congress will meet in Huntsville, Ala., on tlie 26th instant. In the City.—A white man named J. L. McWil liams, who lived a few miles from the city, was killed at the Mitchell street railroad crossing, being struck and run over by one truck of a flat car which was being switched upon the tracks of the Central railroad at that point The photographs of the seven pickpockets arrested Thundty, were taken by the chief of police to place in the rogue s gallery at police headquarters. MARRIED IN GEORGIA. In Columbus—Mr. W. 11. West to Miss Ella An drews. In White Sulphur Springs—Mr. John W. Parks to Miss Mattie McGehee. In Atlanta—Mr. Henry W. Mathews to Miss Cora Laws: Mr, J. E. Clowers to Miss Minnie Flynn; Mr. John W. Hollingsworth to Miss Kate B. Ozborn. In Columbus—Mr. Charles Browne to Miss’Grace Jackson. In Macon—Mr. George Lumpkin to Miss Daisy White. In Thomas ion—Mr. John T. Allen to Miss Moy nl6 A. King. In Sparta, Mr. Robert Hairison to Miss Minnie Brinkley. In Atlanta, Mr. W. B. Penfield to Miss Virne Richards. DEATHS IN GEORGIA. In Atlanta—Mrs. M. M. Trabert; Mrs. Dollio N. Vignaux; Mr. E. F. Muy; Mr. D. M. Hanes; Mr. M. L. Cody. In Girard—Mr. Berry’ Layfield. In Macon—Mr. William B. Johnson; Mr. A:-a Thompson. In Columbus—Mrs, R, H. Smith. In Washington—Dr. 8. G. N. Ferguson In Sparta—Major J. P. Gobert. In Greenville—Mrs. Dr. R. F. Hall. InColumLu-i Rev. William Amos. In Atlanta—Mr. E. F. May; Mr. Joel P. R *ynobis. OUR OWN COLUMN. W. A. Greene, Butler, Ga.: I bought a Premium High-Arm Machine of you several months ago, and It is all you claim for it. It is a i good as the best. R. W. White, Yellow’ Creek, Ga.: I received your Premium Low-Arm Machine in due time that I ordered a few days ago. My wife hi.s given your machine a fair trial in every way, and we find it to be perfect in every respect. It works weil through thick and heavy goods, and is just as represented by you. We are well pleased with it. How It Panned Out. The exposition cost very nearly $200,000. The to tal income, including floor space, sale of privileges and gate money, was $209,000, leaving a profit of $9,060. On one day the gate receipts am u del to SIB,OOO. During the week the Richmond and Dan ville carried 90.000 people to the ex|>osltion, and the streetcar line 60,0)0. As many of these were chil dren, the gate receipts, of course, did not represent that number of full tickets. Leaving out the cost of the building and grounds, the real profits of the exposition itself will so )t up $37,000. —■ • Ho Wore It as a Shoulder Protection While Carrying Coal. From the Norwich Bulletin. Some. Norwich boys found a woman’s bustle last week, and being inspired by some lower power, put It in a coal-carrier’s basket in place of the can vas shoulder pad he had teen accustomed to use. When the coal-carrier went out tlie next morning with his first load of al his eye fell upon the strange tiling for which he had n ) name. ‘That is this, Moike?” he said to the driver; and although both of thorn wore family n.e.i, they were sorely puzzled. Mike replied: “Sure, I dunno. I never seed the likes of It be fore Not finding hh shctilder protector the coal-carrier saw In it a novel substitute for it, and he said: “Begorra, Moike, 1 have it! This Is a patent shoulder piece the bo«s has got me!” and he put the old bustle on his shoulder, ami iimling that it v.k* a fair fit, tied the string an.mid his nc k. He worked with the new protector all day to the amusement of ali who rec•> aiizcd the bustle in ;- i< h high me. Pat noticed that the new protector made Mm a so irce of con -iderablc curiosity, but he did not learn the truth until he showed it to the bot-s in the evening, when thanking Mm for the gM, he “I he inventor of this meant well, but he never they cut like a knife; but, begorra, the thort is a good one, and I can make oneoz it that’ll wor ruk!” His employer informed him that he had boon s ib- JecUMtoa practical Joke; that his •boulder pro tector was a bustle that had seen its day and been laid away. Mike, the driver, smiled, and said; “Its never seen a greater day than this. Twenty tons or coal have Loen ento it. I’ll bet a Lett ;r man mver wore one than Pat Donegan.” ACCUSED OF MURDER BY A GHOST. Important Discoveries in a Virginia Mystery Made Through an Apparition. From the Bt. Louis Globe Democrat. The death of Lem Mercer, a farmer, who for many years had been a resident of Pleasant county, M est Virginia, his demise occurring about ton days ago, has had tlie effect of reviv ing, in a most decided manner, local interest in a most horrible murder, which, some thirts iive years ago,produced a tremendous sensation all along the upper Ohio valley, from Wheel ing to Parkersburg, a distance of nearly ono hundred miles. The crime in question was committed in Wetzel county and the victim was John Gam ble, a prosperous citizen, who resided with his family n few miles from the town of New Mar tinsville, then as now, the county seat. Gam ble was of a speculative turn of mind and fre quently visited New Martinsville to dispose of livestock or whatever else he had to realize upon. At such times, aftetftinding a customer, Gamble would have several hundred dollars in his possession, and there were frequent pre dictions, fram the careless manner inwliich he displayed his money when under tlie inlhience of liquor, that some day there would be a tragedy and that he would bo the victim. One day late in tho summer of 1853 Gamble, who lived on the river shore almost directly opposite the little town of Sardis, came up to New Martinsville with some portable property of some sort or other, which he disposed of, realizing therefrom about S2OO. Mercer was in town that day, and tho two men, being well known to each other, soon got. to drinking together. Toward dark Gamble concluded that ho would start for homo, and as Mercer’s route also lay along tho river for a mile or so before he turned off to go through tho hills, ho told Gamble ho would accompany him thus far on his journey. The two men took one more drink together, and then started off along the river road, Gamble being more under the influence of liquor than his companion. Gamble was never seen alive afterward. Ho not arriving at his home that night his family and friends* tho next day caused an extended search to be made, hut all to no purpose. No trace of the missing man could be found. Mercer was questioned, hut ho insisted that ho left his companion at tho point their paths diverged, and that he had no knowledge whatever of hi.s fate. Thus matters rested for a week or two, when the body of the missing man was found lodged against some rocks in the. channel of tho river, twenty miles or more below tho point where Mercer claimed to have left him. No one could account for his death, and it was urged by some that, being intoxicated, ho had simply fallen over the precipitous bank of the stream, and that death by drowning had resulted. Others, however, insisted that a crime had been committed, basing their claim mainly upon tho fact that the remains wore partially disrobed and had been stripped of everything of value. Thus matters went on for two or three months, when events of a rather unusual ami sensational nature transpired. A party of young men in returning from a corn shelling beo came to tho brow of the immose hill which bounds tho town on tho east, where a halt was called. The hillside was very steep, and as there were two paths leading down to the river bottom, one direct but difficult and dan gerous, and the other, while a little longer comparatively easy, a dispute arose as to which should be taken. The dispute waxed warm and finally the party separated into two rival factions, each agreeing to take ono of the routes, and a wager being made, conditioned that the party last arriving on the court house square should buy a gallon of whisky. The party which took the longest hut less precipitous route came out on the river bottom about a mile below the town, and just south of the location of a swampy piece of land. Tho owner of this land had cut a deep ditch through the high bank of tho river to drain the hollow behind, and tho depression thus formed had assumed the shape of a small ravine, full of brush and small trees. A path ran along tho river bank, parallel with the stream, and thus crossed this ravine at right angles. This path was tho one taken l)y Mercer and (iambic on the night when the latter met iris death, and tho spot about the little ravine was an extremely lonely one at the houx when the belated party of corn-hu.-kers arrived upon the scene. The young men had been traveling at their utmost speed to avoid leaving to buy a jug of whisky, and by the time they came to the ravine one of their num ber, John Hineman, who was tho proprietor of a tavern and saloon in town, was so badly blown that he could no longer keep up. He told his companions not to risk losing the wager on his account, but to hurry on to the appoint ed rendezvous and thus win tho bet, and he would follow after he had become rested a bit and help to drain the jug tho others would have to fill. Hineman sat down upon tho edge of tholit tle ravine to rest, and tho remainder of the party hurried on to town. They had barely got beyond hearing when Hineman was star tled by a slight noise behind him, and on look ing around ho was horrified at. seeing a tall figure, robed from neck to heels in white, standing within a few feet of him. The frightened man managed to call out, “Who’s there?’’to which a muffled voice made an swer that it was tho spirit of John Gamble who had been murdered close by. Hineman managed to screw up courage enough to ask who committed the crime, when the “spirit” replied: “Lein Mercer.” The white-clad figure then stole slowly ami softly away, ami Hineman lost no time in getting upon his legs ami hurrying to town. He made his appear ance on the public square more dead than alive, but. after a pull or two at the jug man aged to relate to his companions what, had oc curred. The next morning a party visited the ravine, and after a thorough search of tlie lo cality, succeeded in discovering some articles which were recognized as belonging to tho murdered man. A Mean Revenge. From the Chlcago|Herald. A drummer had a spite at a hotel in Pales tine, Tex., and resolved on a terrible revenge. So whenhowentto (• UvcFton he “bagged” a lot of cockroaches, f ,r which the i.-laml efty is cc’e -nit d. Bringing a lot of the largest specimens, comm »n!y called by native Galve.-tonhms “deggerkxigurH,” the drummer took them to the hotel and turned them loose in the hulls and corridors. In about two weeks the hotel jwas swarming with them, and they got into the soups,prcscrve.iJams.uiobLss'sJn the milk everywhere,and worked|hard all day an 1 sat up all night to help that drammer get even. They have filled the hotel and gone to work on the private houses, and now Palestine is accursed with them. An Exchange of Eyes. From tho Chicago Tribune. A German, ono of whose eyes was severely affected, went to an oculist for treatment. An ope ration was necessary, and the eye was removed. While treating the socket previous to transplanting one from a rabbit, one of the visual organs of the latter being preparer] and laid uj on the table, a cat stole in, and before anyone could prevent had scizijl and eaten the rabbit’s eye. No other rabbit being at hand to furnish the eye, the oculist waited until his patient hud recovered from the statu of una.sth( sia necessary to thj operation, and explain ed the dilemma to him. “Yah, yah, de katz ate mine eye up; so, so, veil put an eye of dot katz in mine eye. Dot katz got mine eye, I vili hafdotkatz’s eye.” '1 he oculist did so for the sake of an exf*criment, when,range to say, the o]>erat:on was successful and the cat’s eye worked i orfecty. One day the German met a friend who ai<l: “Hans. I hear dat yon huf a katzeye In your head in, how ish dot?” Hans explaim <1 the circmnstam.s and his friend said: “Oh, 1 see, dot katz got your eye and you got dot katz eye, yah, nnd how does dotkatz eye work? Can you see shust 0/gootas nilt de odcr?” “Yah, shoost so goot, aber at night ven J wants to s.Mc I-, d i V rdumter eye i.hubt Busavaku looking for rots.” Complications of Justice. From thclMUwaukee Sun.; “Jim Richards n, am yer guilty of feloniously an’ unceremoniously an’ premcditioiio ;.dy stealing ham We.’sei’s chickens wid-?ut Hikin’Ms permis sion? asked Judge Johnson. “N », n.h,” rej lie I the prisoner; “I never took ’em.” “But dcr chickens were found in yer i«osse.'sbm; spluin dat.” “Well, J didn't take • in; another nigger stoical'cm all, an’ hej.in me half of Wiethe got O' gwine ’long and foldin’ de lantern; but, jedge, you couldn’t hire a respectable nigger Hie me ter steal things.” “Release the prisoner,” cried the Judge; “ue has been a doin’ nothin* worthy of c<>n<lemi.a tion: it would be a check on de iilantiesob de world es dis court should say dat It was unlawful fer a man ter hire out to hold a 1 mtem for another man, whe*+cr the other man grecs ter jsiy htm Id chick ens, uie clothes or money.” BETSY AT THE FAIR. The Crowds Strolling About In the Rain. SCENES DURING THE GREAT CRUSH. Atlanty, Ga., October 20,1887. —I might as well try to toll you how many draps of rain fell yistiddy or how many folks was hero in Atlanty as to try to tell you what all I seed and hearn at tho exposition. The weather last week was so pretty, put mo in a mind oflndian summer when the tarripins all gits out on a log to sun theyselves, and it was the occasion of a powerful sight of folks a gwine out, but it tvas too pretty to last, nnd on a Monday it sot into rainin'. We seed more fine silk dresses and hats and things drenched in that rain as a little; —looks strange how smart folks will put on tho best they got and git it ruint at sieh a place as that. Our gang had on tho best we had, but we never said nothin’ about it and no body never knowed it. Thcfeathers in Cindy Roberson's bat made her look like a frizzled chicken under tho drip. They was sot up high in front on ac count of the fashion, and the wind Mowed 'em wrong-sidc-out’ards, and they dript in red streaks all over her face. Y till'd a thought she’d been in a fight; her own mammy wouldn't er knowed her. I wisht you could er saw ono of them high falutin Talladogy gals, she had a red bird with a green tail, she give live dollars for it, sot high up on her Sunday hat, and holt her head high as a bantiuu chicken, till about a hour alter the rain sot in the bird’s head drapt off, and it wasn’t long till tho green tail was gone, ami ther wasn’t nothin left of that ilvo dollar bird but a little red chicken feather. She lowed her feathers had fell and she was agwino homo, and off she put that very night, never waited to see the president nor his wile nor none of his kin’. All our gang was drabbled in mud knee deep, kaso wo walked out thar ami back. That night wo washed out our coat-tails and hung ’em to tho fire, and wore ’em next day rough dried kaso wo didn’t have no more clothes with us. Mol [Froshour’s black cotton lace died her coat black as ink. and Liz Hasher’s red kaliker frock faded in streaks and run into tlie white braid, mid wo was all plum sights. But wo taken it jolly. Ono of the Thateh orson gals lost her 'Cleveland badge. She tuck on powerful and had all her crowd a huntin’ for it. Air. Turnipseed ho aimed to go home a Tuesday night attcc lie seed tlie president, but ho staid to have his pietur’ struck for Cousin Pink long as tothor ono got ruint witli tlie cologne, lie left his overcoat at liis boardin' house a Monday, and when lie wont back for it, lie couldn't find the house and had to git Cap to go alter it for him. Pap he lost his hat in the crowd and lied to tie his head up in his bandanny handkorchcr tel lie got to town. But laws, nothin can’t set pap back. We seed a heap on a Monday in spite of tho rain. Wo went through tho main bnildin’ whar they got a little of over tiling. Tito folks was as big a as anything else a gazin’ around with ther necks strotclied. Some was a dartin from one thing to tothor not a soein of nothin good. Wo taken it sorter slow, nnd went up stars fust and looked at tho pictur’s. Folks most went wild over Geo. I. Seinoy’s kaso they was tho finest thar. You cant tell no body how a pietur' looks you got to see it for yourself. Hal Morrison's was mighty good. Mrs. Gregory had some fine ones up thar, one of Bill Arp looked like ho was a fixin’of his mouth to tell a joke. Them nigger pictures of W. A. Walker's was good—nnd Ijwtts powerful proud to see all them lino pictures flint John Maddox drawed—they say ho got tho pre mium on some of ’em. 1 could or stood and looked at pictur’s ail day but Calodony sho was a takin of a fit to see the. crazy quilts, and they had enough of ’em than to run a body distracted. Some of’em was tho prettiest f ever seed. They had some kaliker < ties, to >, ami Calodony lowed, “Betsy, our'n at homo is a heap pri ttier’n air’ll liero. If 1 had my ‘Wheel of Fortune’ mid ‘Pride and Glory of the South,' they would git the blue ribbin bend ami shoulders over air quilt liero.” It was hard to get. Cnledony away from them knit lace and embroidery and crochet things - she’d a been up thar tel yit if Cousin Pink hadn’t told her to come on down stairs to wlmr they give away coffee. Cal she’d drink one cup —(it belt about two thimbles full) and go oft and come brick and make tho man think she was somebody else and git another cup. Wyly & Green, they give away buck wheat cakes. Cal done them the samo way and nover had to buy no dinner—’lowed she was like old Miss Slack, she wasn’t a gwine to pay for nothin’ when sho could git it free. They give away lots of things; sody, face powdel - , cotton seed, all sorter pretty plotur’sand fans, and wo'uns had our arms chock full. Cousin Pink sho was a boldin’ of all our fans one time and tuckn seat by herso’f to wait for us, and sho lowed ever body come along holt out they hand for a fan. thought she was the gal that was a givin’ of ’em away. Cal says sho seen a 'Oman go up and grab a whole hand full of cards—thought sho was a gittin’ of sonio pretty piefurs nnd they never had no piotars on’em. Sho had a paper bag full of sody and nicturs and things that was giv to her, and tho bag busted and spilt’em all n tho mud and rain. She had two balloons, a ried’n and a blue ’n tied to her a sailin’ high over her head. Mol Freshotirs was plum greedy about gittin’ fans ami picturs and things and lowed: “I bet if I come here agin I fetch along a pillar slip or somo'n to tote all my things in.” I know in reason her and Liz Hasher and Becky Jane Rountree hn<l pody enough it ’twa.s sold to pay they way into th<s exposition. We got tired totin’ of our’n anti give it all to them. It was hard to keep our crowd together; some wanted to see one thing and some tothor. We all went around anti seed Miss Annie Den nis from Tolberton,Ga.,aml she showed us her things, over three hundred varieties of fruits and vegetables that she put up herself,canned, crystalized and evaporated, ami her jellies and pickles ami home-made crackers couldn’t be beat. We tasted her crystalizod figs, tho host things you ever seed, and she had fine embroi deries and paintings, ami Cal she axed her if sho worked nights and Bundays. Putnam county, Georgia, had more different kind of things as any we seed; over'thiii; that grows from u acorn and a dishrag gourd up to eighty-five kinds of trees, and ono linmjjcd and sixty-live kinds of roots and barks for medi cines, and Cal she lowed old Miss Green would er took a jeminy fit over all them “yarbs.” Floyd county laid lots of fine things, ami they was all showed off pretty. Rome sent a heap, and cver’body says it will git the pro minin. I tell you the fac’, wo seed so much and went so fast from ono thing to tother to try and see it all ami get tho worth of our money that wo can’t hardly tell you what county nor state nothin’ was in. Iky Roberson said he felt at home when he seed that possum in tlie ’sitnnion tree in Suintor county. Becky Jane Rountree ’lowed it, made her feel homesick to see all them big fat gourds and sweet ’taters and turnips and pump kins —but she can't tell you right now whar none of cm glowed. We was a lookin at the things from Tiillapoo v and Becky Jane she looked up ami axed, ‘‘what is that thing a hangin upthar.” It was a great big round gourd painted with gobi, ami Mr. Adair he most tiled a laugbin kaso she < omc from Alabainy and didn't know wiuit a “fat-gourd” was. Tlie biggest part of our crown come to see tho president, mid wasn't a thinkin about no gourds nor nutliin’. Well, I’ve done like Aunt Nancy, talked ami w< it <>n hero ami hain’t fold yon nothin’ about die president. Caludony mid Cousin Pink end them's a callin' of in" to come on, and (up Dewberry lie's a waitin’ for inc, so I'll have to wait till next time to tell you how wo ’uns seed the president umb r difficulties. Bicisv Hamilton. ♦' Apothem*!* of I’aper. From the Philadelphia record. Wc know it would come. The annonccment hna been miuie thut a pai»er coffin lium been Invent ed and put upon the market. A man may now build hiM holme of paper, eat hit dinner from P4»«*r piute t wip* his face with a paper handkerchief, buy Mb w ife a paper piano ami go to his grave in a j aper coffin. The coffin may pul ! for with a piece of paper death published on auother piece. There are few things more imeiul Hid a paper. a terrible fight. Eight Lions and their Trainer Battling-in m Cage-One Lion Killed. » London. October 18.—Early this morning; there was a fearful and oxciting battle in tho Jubilee Exhibition at Liverpool. DelmonicoJ thoniost plucky tamer of beasts, has been ! exciting the nerves of the visitors for a long time by trifling in a cage with three bigj forest Bonn. Five more lions, of a different] kind, but very big also, arrived from Africa! yesterday, and were put at once into the big’ cage with tho three already at home They had no training, but Helmonico went in* among (hem ami thrilled the crowd that filled' the menagerie by an’unuyually sensational per formance. When ho had done, Mlle, Kora, his j»artner, went in with the lions and took a little dog.i Tins was repeated four times during the day/ ami the live new lions were too much stunned' by the huge, noisy crowd about them and the repeated visits of tlie lady, gentleman, and: dog. to think of unythingelse. Their astonish-' immt had not worn off. ami they were still quiet when left alone for the night by the at tendants at 10 o’clock. Shortly after midnight, however, themenag-., erie was tilled with a frightful roaring and’ snarling, and a servant sleeping on the premi ses rmliin •. in to find the l>ig iron cage rocking,-, and the. < ight ln>ns lighting furiously rolled up into a huge dark ball from which the blood stained fur was living in all directions. Tho huge beasts rolled over and over, dashing mad ly against the sides of the cage, and biting pieces out of each with a ferocity that was sickening. All the sights organized to gratify man’s fondness fnr iighl ing would have seemed tho tamest child’s play in comparison. After a while it In camo evident thatthero were two distinct sides in tho battle, and tho new arrivals were pitted at unfair odds against the lions who had been in possession. Tho efforts of tho servant to separate them only in creased their fury, and at lasi he rushed off for Delmonieo, who was asleep near by in Edge lane. 'The tamer arrived half clad and found his lions bleeding fearfully but still fighting. 'l’he battle was narrowing down to a duel lie tween two of the biggest lions, which woro rapidly biting each other to pieces mi the mid dle of the cage. I tccasionally tho battle be came general, and for a tew seconds there would be a wild jumble of snarling lions with a sav-- ago crunching of let th to tell how the ilesh was being tom. The appearance of Delmonieo with a rod hot iron produced an effect, and all but tho two chief combAtants stopped fighting and crouched sullenly down, licking their bloody wounds and snarling encouragement to the two leaders. On these in their rage hot iron was useless, even when applied to raw Hesh. Tho lions re sponded to the burning sensation only by tear ing away at each of her nun e. fiercely. At last Delmonieo, f< . :ing he would lose his ; two greatest actors, took a resolution whichj would probably not ha\ e occurred to any other man if the existem e of I he entire animal crea tion, had been threatened. He entered tho cage half clad as ho. was and shut himself in. lie next opee.’M a door csmimuidcating with a second ami d < >vo into it liko so many sheep the six lions that h;id been looking on. Meanwhile tiio other lions were still although much weakcr. 1 tehnonico’fiatlcmpts to separate them weto useless. They paid not the slightest. at( -ntion to him, and althoug in their struggles (hey d i-hed against him, they weic idently unconr.’ ions of his presence. Before Uio tamer could form any plan to separate, them the fight ended of itself. Tho Big fore t Hon, who 1 id been defending his home against, the live strangers, rolled over on' his bad', grow b tl faintly, and died as the other, siezt <1 him u ..tin by thr i.it. One of tho front leg . was gnawed o f completely, a hind leg was ebcw« d toa pulp, all of the manoaml most of the nock Win; bitten away ami tho body was covered with blood, was the entire cage. There was n >t on the d ad lion any unbitten whole piueo of \'m l,*i _v enough to have made a glove. ID* had fougl-i lor his rights just as long as he had becu a'do to work his teeth and claws. 'i’he victor seeuv'd at first inclined to dash at the tamer an I at tin* lions in the neighboring cage, but he changed fi. jniud under Delmon ico’s eye, and after a w< ak but triumphant roar over tlie body of his victim he retired into a corm r and moam d over his wounds. Although conqueror, In- wa not to be envied. Hismauo was gone ami bis body looked as though an aspccially wi» !;i d burro'. 1 , had been repeatedly dragged over it. Blood trickled from a hun dred ugly wound , aim there is little hope that ’he'will live. Curiously i nuugh. not one of tho lions had ils I til bitten oil in the fray, whichi seems to iml'cate that .some code of honor ex ists among lions wb » h prevents them from, making each other ridiculous, even in the deadliest combat. 'i’he otic i i x lions ill live, but they were so bitten thatonly two • ..dd be patched upto perform today, and ihcir m.mglci). appearance terrified .Mlb*. Kora’ I itt'e dog out of all recol lection ol his role. 'l’he loss if the second lion dii’M will be shout l.ic >. hi any case he will always remain a da uig d i < n. G. FRAN 1S THM -’S I AIRY TALE. A Now IlnliuchiaHoii to tho Effect that Lin* coin’s Body Has Bern Stolen. SpRINGKIEbn, HI . (>. toiler 18—GeorgO Francis Train has made the startling discovery that tho remains of Abraham Lincoln are nob in the sarcopbagii al tlie tomb here, as tho people of the nation ar L id, and believe, but* that they are in the h; ids of some unprinci pled shyloek, who is ho ding them for specu lation, and that inside of ten years they will< be. offered for sale to . -■in<; enterprising dlmo' museum man to In. carted around the country, as a curiosity. 'I hi.; afternoon Air. Train, in< company with Mrs. Belva A. Ijockwood and a number of radicaiin forim rs,who have been ut-1 tending the industrial reform convention, vis ited the tomb of the martyr preddent. At the monument there is an old man whoso duty it is to relate to .i ilors the history ot the sacred relics there, kept , and who never fails to relate tlie *«!•>: yof the attempt made* in 1878 to steal tiie body from the cusket. Mr. Train listened to the stor through, and then) informed tho narnilor that the stealing was a' job, and that the body that rested in Htjcurityj in tho grave of stone was not the remains of* Abraham Lincoln, but a duplicate and a sham.) The party was dumbfounded at the startlingl assertion, even from tin . startling man, and it’ was the chief topic of conversation during the 1 . remainder of the trip. A reporter called oui Mr. Train shortly alter he returned from thqj cemetery and asked what reasons there were* for believing Ute body in the tomb was not’ that of Lincoln. Ho replied that ho had every reason in the world, ex cept positive evid< nee, to prove that-i body-snatchers had removed the body of Un-’ coin, and replaced it with tho dummy which* was identified .by the guard of honor last spring! as being tho original. Mr. Train claims that the entire schenic for robbing tho grave waa< planned by detectives, Thu monument asso ciation was informed <*f the plot by a sccreti service man, who overheard the planing of tho scheme in a Chicago saloon. Ho claims tho detectives who wuio with tho members of thoj association the night of the robbery were in cah<»oiH with the robbers, and that the inem-. b' rs of tho monument as ociatkm present were** innocent, stool-pigeons. It is Train’s theory that two men who worn captured were paid for going to tho penitenti ary, ami that tho detectives were aware whent thed< ed was committed that they could nob 1,0 sent to prison for a longer time than ono year. It was done for the reward, and that would come by bartering the body. A gentleman pros' nt at the moment when Train made known his outl uulish theory, wan in tho secret Horvirc under General Henry B. Carrington during the. war, and says that tho i<l‘ ais worth inve ligating, and that tho facta sJi' ul<l be brought out. George Fram i, Train received the following tele ■,run tonight from Fulton Gardner, editoif <d the Western Newsman, No. 158South Clark street, Chicago; “Your paper No. 2 suppress ed on the stieet. Newsboys arrested; uolico, di tmying papers. What, will we do?’’ To which'Frain replied: “Congratulations; free sppocli Kui>pres-ed, and. of course, fire preHL' kill'd. Sheol checkmated. Relinquishment is possession.” Frightful Waste. Consumption carries of its thousands of vic*, tims every year. Yes, thousands of humaw lives arc being wasted that might be saved, for the fact is now established that in its early stages, is curable. Dr. Pierce’s, “Golden Medical Discovery” will if used in time, effect a [lennerneiit cure. It hosnoeoual a . a remedy for bronchitis, coughs and colds.. IU eiiicacv has been proved in thousands oft cases. All Druggists. 7

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The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, October 25, 1887, Page 7, Image 7