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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY. MAKCH 18
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NEWS OF GEORGIA.
Mr. Dick Gravely and Miac Molllo Block, of Gor
don count?, were married on the road in Gordon
count? recently.
Oglethorpe Echo: On Monday night a* Dr. R. J,
Willingham waa going borne and aa he pawed Mr,
Lcatcr'a gate, on Church atrect, ho saw romethlng
en the sidewalk resembling a cat. He kicked at it,
hut it did not move, at d he detoimined to catch it
Aa be atooped to pick it up it atarted off with the
doctor in hot pursuit. After an exciting race the
doctor came up with a half grown opouum, fat and
fine. Now, who says Lexington ain't a good town
to lire in?
Waynesboro Herald: A few days ilnce while Mr.
H. W. Jones waa having a storm pH dug lu his
yard a toad waa dug up at a depth of seven feet.
The clay in Mr. Jones's yard commences at a depth
of two or three inches and is bard and eloae and
could only bo dug with picks and grubbing hoc*.
A Oaineaville Arm shipped over 12 000 dozen egga
to eastern markets in the month of February. This
was not a fifth of the eggs shipped by all the other
houses of the city combined. This, at the least
would give for tho town a shipment of 60,000 doz$n
o? egas for the past month, or 720.C00 during a year
The merchant get an average of fifteen cents per
dozen for there eggs the entire year, which would
foot up the enormous sum of f100,000 annually
The Athens Banner stvs a lovely young lady in
an adjacent county waa engaged to a promising
young merchant, to whom she waa devotedly at
tschia. But upon learning that ho was au infidel
she broke the engagement, saving that she c >ulcf
never be haopy with a man who denied the exist
once of a Huprerao Being.
Carroll Free Press: Captain Fain has bad him a
cyclone pit dug under his house, with an entrant:
from the outside. It is 8x8 feet, and will have i
shelf all around the sides, and will be utilized in
the summer. «a a cellar for keeping things c<ol. 11
will be covered over with heavy timbers. The cer
tain thinks in tbeae days of cyclones, that it would
be well for all td he prepared for aucb occasions by
having a sccuye place to go to.
Piedmont Press: Wonders will never cease.
Jackson, of Fourth county, brought to our office
* - ' ■Br*
few days ago a portion of an eggshell, on tho inner
aide of which was plainly printed the name of a
bis little al
while eating boiled eggs at breakfast. Tho
plausible theory comes from an lotjlJJgeut clrisen
of the gentleman t
tho nest, aud while the shell was lo Its fresh
semi plsriic condition tho letter* touching tho egg
were photographed upon the inner coa'ltig thereof.
The Athens Banuer say Mr. John H. Newton of
that city is the largest land owner lu Georgia.
Tba Oglethorpe farmers are tearing down their
fencea by the mile and getting ready for tho stock
law.
The Athens Banuer haa tho following la a most
entertaining column of gossip under "Through The
City:”
A party who was lu Thb Constitution oflico ono
day lately, says ho saw Mr. Hemphill bslauco up
r „ - , sum 1241 were for
now weekly subscribers. Was there over a southern
paper with such a prosperous career, or moro do
•arvedly so, either?
According to Colonel A very. Mr. Paul If. Hay no
has a poem on the cyclone, which he call* "the
untranslated blasphemies of hell." That’s vigor
oaf talk, but a cyclone is a big wind.
Lawkencxvill*. March lO.-Baturday afternoon
a Mr. Upchurch, of this county, endeavored to
croas Red land creek, which at tho time was deep
and swift. Ue had his wife aud four children with
him. Almost as soon as he hsd gotten at the edge
of the water the awlft curreut shifted tno ho se’s
head down (bo creek. The wagon bo4 at the same
time was removed from tho frame of the wagon
and turned over, throwing Into the turbulent
waters the whole family. Thohmbaud asved three
children and hit wl/o, who dived into the raging
wafers twice for the fourth child, which weut
waiers iwico inr iud iuunu uunu. -uiui ««»»»
under the water and wss lost and has not been
serii since, though the creek has been dragged for
miles. The horse and wagon we re burled down
the current two hundred yards almost
The current was so swift that it tore the
shoes off tho Isdles' fo*t, and yet the husband
thought there would be no difficulty in crossing.
Hitaron, Match 10.—Thera was found near this
place a blank book containing the family rcoord of
tho Barnes family. The name F.ll Barnes seems
most conspicuous The book is supposed to have
been blown from Trann«8»Ji«, «on«ir. during
rjclone, as tho name Tranquslla district, Jones
the cjciono, as tho uamo Tranquej
county, appears in several places,
JoNRsnoao,March 10 —A test cast on the constitu
tionality of the prohibition law was made here to
day. A barber had been giving away liquor to his
customer*. Ho was Rrroated and tried. Ill* conn
selmade several points agslust tho corotl'utlonal-
Jty of tho law. Judge llammond promptly over-
ruled them all. Tho cate will not bo appealed,
CUSfMtNci, March 11 —The farmoraiu tho vicinity
of the Friendship church have oignulxed an agri
cultural club with a membership of one hundred
and twenty. They have contracted with Mr. K T.
Jones, ef Canton, Oa., for their guano at a consld
arable reduced price. Their object is to work for
the bene 111 of tbe club aud the formers generally
They intend to make their farms self sustaining
far as poasibls. Our president, W. N. Hems, is
• club.
LaxiNUTON, March 10.—Fruit trees are beginning
to bloom.
The fire around the political pot In Lexington Is
being kindled and tho twit will soon begin to boil
From present Indications candidates will bo nu
tnerous. The best Information we can get (mints to
this county being a McDautal comity In the next
gubernatorial convention. The peoploate pleased
wrtih u iMVArtinr.
with "Hemy" as a governor.
Savannah, March 10 —George Wilson, aged four
teen, son of G. G. Wilson, was dangerously injured
at tho Htrmltago mills whlto fooling aroutid the
tnaebiuery. In some way ho shifted the shafting
to a "gummer" wheel, which, for the time, was not
In tin, and Jerked it over The tnochlno writhe
2.600 pounds and/ell partially on Wilson, bracking
bis right arm in throe places, fearfully lacerating
the hand, making two gashes in his head, bruising
bis side aud tejui lug him internally. IliscoudiUou
is serious.
HoMKRviLUt, ninth county, March 10.—Ktcha-
nab Lee, an old and respected citizen, has been
committed to the lunatic asylum.
I). J Corilns, whose cate has heretofore been re
ported,was couvlcted for bigamy and sentenced to I
years In the penitentiary. HolldtorUoueral Mabry
and lion. J. I. Hweet represented the prosecution,
and Mrsais. Whlulcgtoti aud Mattox the dob use
TbedllBcnltle* aud prosecutions heretofore re*
r ued and * listing betwevn tbe brothers, William
.and K. M. T. Hmlth, were settled
and Messrs. W. B N Crews, V —
Johnson, John J. Drawdy and lshsm 1'atteraon
eh cted commissioners. Properly conduct* d it will
prove of incaicuable benefit to tbe county. The
county was reported out of debt with several hun
dred dollars In the treasury.
f treasury.
W. a. Kcord, the newly elected clerk, lu place of
B K. Johnson, removed, discharged his duties like
a vetersu.
Calhoun, March 10.—The esao of ihe state vs.
Andy cherry, alias J. If. Barith, charged with the
murder of F. K. Neal in September last, was calltd
lavt Thursday for trial aud terminated by a verdict
of volunteer manslaughter agalust tho defendant.
The defeudaut will make a motion for a new trial
by bis attorneys. Cherry was ably defended by K.
J. Klker and W. C. Glenn. J. H. Harris, solicit tr,
'. R. Kauktn aud J. M. Neal conducted the pro*-
clement In this vkriulty. as it turns the flood gates
of intoxication loose upon tho town without re-
ttralat with all its attendant evils.
From the MJllcdgeville. Ga,. Chronicle.
Seventy dozen eggs were shipped from Ibis city to
Savannah last Mondsy. One enterprising dealer
shipped II fty dozen.
From the Albsny, Ga., News.
A secret for the young ladl Jscob is more likely
to fall in love with Rebecca if she bo drawing water
from tbe well to relieve tbe llock, than if she be
utliug on the well curb illrtlng with the young men
passing by.
From the Hartwell, Ga., Sun.
Ono of our big fat hens came to an untimely
death in a rather strange manner. She tried to fly
over the gardeu fence and got her head between
, however
vlug by drawing
As they say*of bungling executions, the
strangulation."
Gaiusville Ksgle: Governor MoDanlel will like
ly be h la own successor.
General Henry R. Jack»on has many friends who
are pushing hit name for congress from the first
district.
The Warrenton Clipper rays there was a g mile
man in Warreuton one day last week, a rtMdi nt o
Glare*ck c* unty, whole doubtless the worai burnt
person to hesllve, on record. He was burning off
a new ground **n his farm last year, and from over
beat or some other cause, fell in a U’ :>y be ride of
n burning lo* heap. While in thl* •mcomclous
condition one cf his legs was cnrfiv/ burntoffbe.
tween the ankle mid knee, and up to thekneejotnt
every particle c-f the flesh w s burned sway, leav
ing the bone pi r/ectiy naked. To- i nders of tbe
other leg were burnt to a crisp, *•;.«] between the
knee and fcot, the leaned skin ‘ ltt»a* tightly to tho
bone. hotwitJutanding his i
he contrlvm to make an bode*
shingles.
The 1129.h militia district ot
recent tkctlon, wentautl wbl--.>, and yesterday
Governor McDaniel Issued a pjouiamation outlaw
ing wblrky In tbat district a/ur April J2th.
William R. Tbompsou has been commissioned a
Justice of the peace for the 7G:h district of Jefferson
county, and Thoms* M Jones a commissioner of
rosdsand revenues of Wsrreu county.
Tbe followjng persons have been commissioned
postmasters: Jesse Wilder at Bain bridge, Isaac T.
Sellers at Blaine, Thomas J Marlin at Roby, Craw-
fold county. John A Hilton at Hirapton, Pierce
county, Thomas M. Henry at Bald Springs, JohnT.
Carter at Buzzard’s Boo >t, James H. Overstreet at
Calvary and Lee R. Harrell at Pull Tight.
Mrs. Loo Chong, nee Fulcher, who married the
Chinaman In Waynesboro some time ago, having
keen cruelly beaten by her husband, has returned
to her father.
Cummlug Clarion There is a l"dy living in this
county who recently quilted a quilt to a lining
that was considerably over one hundred years old
to county.
rnai waa uuiiaiuuiauj j oier uuu huuuiku 3 nia uiu,
having been spun and woven by her grand
mother in her youthful days. Tb ere is also a reel
for wludingthread, aud ptrl of a china tea
iur wiuuiug »uni««,»uu ui **»•••»**— ’
ice, each over ono hundred years old, owned by a
family in this county,
Mr. J. B. Goodwvn. of Cowcta'had the misfortune
The Waynesboro Citizen says that by this season
of the year usually, the pctch trees aro in full
bloom, while the present year many of them have
not put forth blossoms. This we take augurs well
for a good peach crop. But, wo will add, all the
peach crop never was mown to bo killed in
March. At this date of tho month, March 8tb,
1871, tho trees were almost In full foliage all
through middle Georgia, while to day not a leaf is
to be seen—only a fow buds appear on tho elms,
and other early budding treos. The season Is at
losst three werks behind tho year 1871.
Lumpkin Independent: John Dixon, the whit
man now In JsH awaiting trial for pointing a loaded
»hot|iin at a young man, is rather an odd charac
(or. Last Frida/ he concluded to quit eating witn
a view of starving himself to death, and did not
touch a mouthful during Saturday and Sunday.
.Sunday morning ho tiled to borrow a razor from
Deputy Bherlff Holder, to take*share, welch ro
quest was refused. Ho then wanted to borrow
a ttest was retusen. lie then wanton to norrow
Ir. Holder's knife, but Troy told him that
the only way that he could commit suicide in
i rtll was to butt bis Drain* out against tbe walls of
its cell. He continued hla fast, however, aud for
a while Hremm^latermlncd to starve hltaself to
death. His uuTT^Tjldoutly gave nu mtnd a pious
turn, and on Tuesday he sent fora preacher to
.... .Ilh klm ^ hv Up Umllh thn
Wrdaesday Dlxou professed to have been converted
aud wanted some one to baptlzo him. llo also
hroku his fast by oatlug a flap
jack, which he claims to have
been tho only food be had eaten in nearly a week.
twochanctH for Dixon toojeape tho chatnitang
Ono Is to try tho Insanity doJge,
otnr- *- — - A
and
starve
J. St Scott wa* ►hvrtff Awhile man was under
sentence of death and concluded to starvo hlrmelf.
Ho fasted thirty-one days when he became so ex
hatuud that he concluded to cat something. He
ate one tucal and 01* d. This should bo a warning
to long time fasten that wheu they commence fast
A BOSTON BVAUTY
Pnaendlss the Stroti la Qaalat Attire •• a
Wgger.
Borrow. Mau., March 11.—A blooming young
maiden of eighteen summers walked briskly up
Washington street, from the Boston and Maine
depot to Hanover street, this noon, followed by a
curious crowd of at least 600 men, women and bovs.
Her blushing face, red aaa full-blown peony, was
hidden in an Immense red calico son-bonnet, such
as our grandmothers used to wear, which was fun
nel shaped, and projected at least a foot from her
head behind. An appropriate veil of blue cam
brick trimming and a powdered wig completed so
much of this wonderful outfit aa waa expoied to
view, a Newmarket hiding beneath Its folds an
ancient dre»s. The gaping crowd followed her
till she dbappeared in a Hanover street photo
graph gallery and then waited vainly three hours
for her to reappear Your correspondent found
her in the studio, which is operated by her father
D. J Fallen, of Melrose. "My name is Martha J.
Fallen, sir." she said. "No. sir; I am not married
jih jei." 1 bis with a churning blush* "You #ee. I
have just hsd my picture taken. I wore that Jold
costume at an old folks’ concerts! home last night,
and father bet me $51 wouldn't dsre to walk up
here with it, and I took him up, aud there is the
t5," displaying the bill, "I never take a stump."
••No, she never takesa stump, I tell you," proudly
echoed tho father, who was standing by, "but 1
never thought she would do it."
Cyrlonra, Their Prrqaeaey, Etc.
It is now definitely settled that Mr James E.
Brown, of the Henry County Weekly, will he In
the race for senator in tbe 34th dts rict, and from
all reports be will go into the nomination with
strong following. The rotation^ rule has been
strictly obseivcd heretofore by the three counties
composing the district, and this being Uenry’i
turn her choice will be put forward and supported
as tbo regular nominee of the district seuatoral
convention.
Judge T. J. SJmmonx, of Macon, It being urged
strongly by hli friends in different parts of tho
state to run for governor.
Judge A C. Pato will mo for congress in the
third against Judge Crisp,
It is said that Hon. John C. Nichols, cf tbo first
district, will have no opposition for re-election.
Doubt and uncertainty are painful to tbe human
mind. From these it seeks relit f, oftimes In hastily
formi d opinions, rometlmes in dogmas, more rarely
In demonstrations. It is very partial to short
easy methods of explaining strange or mysteii *us
occurrences. Wbai, for instance, is more difficult
to groan than the changes of the westher, what is
easier than to refer them to the chauges of the
moon? That satellite turns the same face to the
tarth all tho time. Man has never seen but
one half of Da surface, aud that half is always tbe
tlou,
uiav unit ni iui, wm-n in eorjuiiu-
sometimej upon the edgo of It only,
moon,) and sometimes upon tho whole of it
(fail moon) And yet these small and varying
qualities ot the sun's heat, light reflected from tbe
moon, are accounted adt quote to explain the oc
currence of rains, storms, frosts, growth of plants,
shrinkage of meat, making of soan, etc. The sun,
flooding tbe earth with heat and light, is set aside
for the imle visitor of the shadowy night, when a
white obJ*ct becomes a ghost and ablaoa stumps
bear. The »un does not change, the moon
does, and change is tho nexus between causo and
effect.
Tho theological intellect Ignores tecondsry or
proximate causes, and refers strange phenomena
directly to divine agency—"God produced them,"
It says. This la perlec ly true Inaooraln sense,
it imjFi i uii ii I'Linu ij into m nwi aiu buiiru,
but Htoppiug there, shuts tflTall investigation. God
made the rainbow and set it in tbe Heavens aaa
token that his wrath was appeased, but surely he
will not be angry with us II we study the nature of
light and Uh rt ll*ctlons aud refractions in the tain
drops; which refiectionsand refractions in hia hand
paint the gorgeous arch upon tho canvas
ol the iky.
Another class, less devout perhaps than tlio
veils thne forces from their eyes, enhances their
nous electricity aud magnetism are tho eye rsh'
lug foieea of nature;electricity is tho Jupiter
Tonausof Iheearth aud as wollaa of the heavens.
Its power I* wonderful and many of the phenomena
of nature are wonderful also, why should not tho
wondeiful beget the wonderful. Wonder Is the
nexus between cause aud effect,
A third < lass, men of tcleuce proper, pnnuo an
exactly opposite course. They attempt first of all
to explain every new or -obscure occurrence by
reference to the best known forces of nature; only
after the effects of theioaro exhausted, is the pos
Mtblllty of new and hitherto utfknown causes en
tertained For thn last tbrvo hurdn d years they
have pR'XW'TYf from xnw? JFSjiu died the prop*
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
Ooi.ip of Thing* and Folk* Here end
There.
Thibe are about 3,000 Chinese in New York
sate.
Five suicides a day was the average in New
York lost week.
Cold weather has killed a great many
sheep in California.
In Dakota married women hold their own
real and personal property.
February will not again have five Fridays,
as it has ibis year, until 1912.
The largest city in Japan is Osaka, which
contains 1,585,695 inhabitants.
The English sparrow is coming out or the
tougbeat winter on record in very good shape.
The Albany Argos says that the ico is ten
feet thick In the Hudson river Just below that city.
New York city pays annually $9,200,000 for
pure milk aud Si,290,00} lor skimmed milk and
water.
New York City is to have a college for
women as soon as the necessary money can be
raised.
In the Isle of Jersey there are ten women
to one man. Tho leap year twelvemonth Is raid to
be a frightful affair in Jertey.
The electric lights on the heads of the
irks in a scene in a London theater require a
battery we ighing only one and a half pounds.
"If some men would treat their wives as
well m they do their servant girls there would be
fewer divorces,” rays the Indianapolis Timer.
Preserved .at is a favorite article of food
among the Chinese. Look out fir canned goods
from China if you are not fond of preserved or
salted rat.
Paris ladies are now wearing blue gloves
As soon as tho streets become muddy the cable re
porter will send over the color of their stookings.—
New Orleans Picayune.
A Minnesota journal says that fbe pleasing
old country custom of placing a Kbcaf of o&ts upon
a long polo for rmall birds to feast on during the
holidays, was quite generally observed throughout
tbo western pm of that state.
Tnesouthern Presbytery has 2,010 churches,
of which 319 are Io ated fn Virginia, 2i7 la North
Carolina, 184 In Texas, 173 in South Carolina. In
Georgia, 131; Mktouii 129, with tho remaining
number icatiercd in other states.
The largest bell in the world is at Kioto,
Japan. It is 24 feet high and 1C inches thick at the
rim. it is boh tided by a suspended piece of wood
like a battering ram. which strikes it on tho out
side, and its booming can be heard for miles.
It is said that El Mahdi allows nobody to
approach him who does not come on alt-fours." U
may be inferred from this that he would treat tbe
American hog with a little more respect than is
shown by Prince Bl-mxtck.—Norrktown Herald.
It is expected that tbe net earnings of tbe
American Bell telephone company this fiscal year
will bo over $1,400,o:o. It has put out 176,700 in
struments in the last three years, but tho output
for February was leu than half that of February,
1883.
At one of the fashionable New York hotels
a magnificently dressed and radiantly healthy lady
comes down to the first table with eleven of her
children, leaving the remaining eight younger ones
to bo brought to the second table by three nurses.
Fact.
Timid lady going up the Washington mon
urnout olevator—Conductor, what if the rope breaks
that holds ua? Conductor—Oh, there area num
ber more attached as safety ropes. Timid Lady—
But if they all break, where shall we go? Conduc
tor— Oh, well. m*m that all depends on what kind
of life you have been leading before.
A Detroit gentleman recently returned
from Havana says that the Cubans have got all our
punched silver. He Assorts that while American
silver is abundant In Cuba, it is a good specimen
which bos less than three holes. It evidently c >mci
handy to havo neighbors not so smart as onrsrlvfs.
All sorts ot a poor stuff can bo worked off on tht m.
OBB of the largest oleomargarine manufac
turers In liio count*)’, a man who make* Abo«t
i-rtln* of-^iu,.. .•*-*» * vrnt^Jvtilch control it
They ha^ fi»cif» ntn^iieihod.t of investigation and 1
Inveuttd* Aplisnoes; the work cl one generation 2.EOO.OCQ pounds ot l.t,e\cry vVk -
tiansmit-JiV to tho next ta< been sdded U'B'pVnffftl
broadside containing the portraits of tbe femlly ot
H. B. Clawson, a prominent Mormon. He has had
four wives, three cf them living, and 28 children,
ifr. Clawson Is a merchant, and la a typical exam
ple of what a many cornered household esn do
with thrift and good discipline. The children are
fautfht fn work the moment the? are old enough,
but the subject of education »s we commonly » n-
deratand it teems not to have been considered The
son* have as a rule gone into business, auhough one
has become* dentkr and another an ary»t. The
question arke*. how sunng is the polygamiV eolrlt
among the children? A number of tbe daughters
are married, but thus far the second wife has not
appeared, and there Is Indeed little prospect of it.
Gath thus describes scenes at a famous
diary farm in Pennsylvania: "I was interested in
two things in this stable. In the first place, tbe
cream ft pa rat or, which is run by a steam engine,
revolves with enormous rapidity, and the cream
flow# out of one spigot and tbe skimmed milk out
of another. Then I observed tbe apparatus for
cleaning cows, which are carefully washed and
brushed oDce or twice a day bv means of
brushes operated by the engine. The cow
calf nr bull is brought forward and tied to the post,
and from above there brushes arc brought to her
body and carefully raise everv hair Tbe cattle
like it, but their tails have to be tied up in a beg
for not long aeo one of the bru«he* tore out a tall.
The texiperanire in the barn Is kept at 60 degrees
tbe year rouno, regulated oy the tbermometor.and
the DRru is lighted with the Brush liaht on every
Moor, and at midnight is as bright as day."
NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS-
It may not be very profitable, but it is quite in
teresting to study the beliefs of the lower races of
mankind. The widespread prevalence of polyga
my is not very astonishing, bat one marriage rota
tion existing between one woman and several men
at the same time, acd known polyandlz Is cer
tainly remarkable. This custom obtains in India,
Thibet and Ceylon. The custom is so contrary to
a natural Jaw that Jt can be accoun ed for only by
tho scarcity of women in the countries where it pre
vails In the very lowest races the institution of
marriages does not exist, love is unknown, and in
fact there is nc
* are largely icflaenced by their
environment in forming thrir religious beliefs.
In very not countries tbe natives look forward to a
paradise as a delightfully cool place. In cool coun
tries they long for a warm place after death. It
war on this account that the Greenlanders rubbed
their hands with satisfaction when they learned
from the misdonaries that hell was
pltco where they would hive no difflcul'y in
keeping warm. While the lower races very gen
erally do not believe that humau beings have souls
they credit inanimate objects with possessing them
It is impossible to trac3 tbo history of all of these
queer notions.
In England within the last ofty
yean. When Alfred introduced trial
by Jury be extended it to questions relating to per
son# a# well a« to property. It la amusing, therefore,
to find rome old writers declaring that the jury u
composed of twelve men, because twelve is a mystk
cal number, and supporting the aEs«rtion by refer
ring to tbe fAct that there are twelve hours in a day,
twelve mouths in the year, twelve sign# In thezodi-
ac, twelve chief points in the human body, twelve
tribes of Israel, twelve apostles, twelve gates of the
heavenly Jerusalem, and twelve labors of Hercules.
According to all accounts, Jeff Long, of Macon,
knows what is indecent when he reesit. Asa
proof of this, be is about to separate himself and
bis followers from the white republicans. When
such rumors as this get out, bow can it justly be
said that the negroes are not progroslng^
A correspondent writing fr*m Dubuqae, Iowa,
ssys that in tbit locality prohibition ia the law,
but cannot be enforced. Tbora who are opposed
to tbe lew wblrper ibat it will cost Dubuque citi
zens over Bl.tC0.0A0. berides a yearly loss of $14,000
in saloon license fees. This way of snmmarizing
the results is applied to other luge towns and
cities, and naturally it haa iti effect upon many
people. The opinion is expressed that
prohibition simply means free liquor
and private grog in river towns and none in coun
try towns, except in drug stores, which will be th
saloonsof the future in Iowa. The Donan bill, aa
the prohibition law is called, will undoubtedly
slop tbe liquor traffic in the rural regions, but It
is believed that tbe la ger cities will go on with
their rum mills as usual.
The row between the negroes and the white re
publicans Is not interesting to us as democrats, but
as f lends of tbe negroes, we are glad that at least a
few of them are tiied of IJcking the boots of the
while office-holders.
It teems that we are to have the same old fight
. , , _ between the sensible negroes and the white repub-
Mme ,o t the emotion. The lower , lcan offlw . hoWert . Bnt )n Ui* end, the
whites will succeed in throwing sand In the eyes of
the negroes, and we shall have the old spectacle of
so-called negro leaders toting out spittoons for
tho white republlciPt.
Genuine butter is a thtug of the past. Very little
of it is to bo found on sale in the largo cities, and
even wealthy people sometimes find it impossible
to get tbo real article. The method of making but
tor from swino is very simple. Leaf lard is run
through a hasher and then rendered at a tempera
ture of about 140. Next it is deodorized and cooled
in ice water for from tblrty-slx hours to four or five
days. Afterward it is drained off, melted, churned
and mixed with cream butter. The percentage of
butter used is from twenty to fifty,'.ordinarily about
forty. Oils are used to produce the desired color.
It is a settled fact that the live cow canuot compote
with tho dead bog ia tho matter of maklog butter.
Very few retailers admit that they are selling a sub-
s itutc. They take the covor from & tub of oleo-
margerino, lay it on the counter bottom side up
and ret the tub in it. That conceals tbo oleomar
garine braud on tho cover. Then they conceal the
brand on tho tub by putting a "best creamery but
ter" placard over it and they retail tho stuff for
butter.
Every problem
investigators ul like problems, and is thoroughl)
fifed. The rules of evidence are strict y enforced*
riaturo Is questioned and '*
lontd and cross questioued by ob
xncrlment, and uothluR which ex
n»i g can dd. i* left undone, n
under which to gsiher and nraort the facts,
courts of justice, the prosecution
m»y adopt one thccry
the defento another, m..
both, the final decision must nit on theevidonco
and the facta.
Now, tho ba-ti of all systematic Investigation of
Daptatu J.D Knight, senator from this the 6!h dis
trict, died at Ray's Mill, ten tnllesoiiilof Nashville,
mturday the Nth, at eight o'clock, ol ctmiumptlnn.
NVsrm weather catno too lato for tho senator, llo
irsvis a wife and several oui'g children to mourn
their lots, together wlih a hostel warm friends.
Gins N, March 11.—John Williams caught a trout
In his pond mtOMirlug twcuty-two inches aud
welghltiR pounds
Conyers. March K.—A little three year old negro
fell In a well with four feet of water, near tho old
fair grounds, and remained thero a quarter of an
hour before any one knew it. It kept from drown-
leg by trying to catch hold of thesUleot ihw well,
it was (thru out and is getting well,
NAMiYii.tr: 11-rrlen county. Match It.—Thero
ports through The Daily Constitution makes our
county rather more notorious than tho facts in the
caw will Justify. Without a word of justification
for the rioter#, I think the pteturo rather over
drawn. On Saturday the 1st, Dan Turner was in
Alapaha, got a little liaht, aud used some dlrtv
word# to a colored womau, which was reported to
Marshall McCray. Dan was arrested aud locked
up,aud aftrrward# released on bail, aud robered
down a little. Mondsy the writer waa at Alapaha.
and Dan was then cool, sober and peaceable. He
interviewed me •* to bis chance# in a suit against
tho authorith'# for friw imprisonment. 1 told him
1 mi ppostd tbelr charter gave tht-m authority to
put a boisterous mau lu the eeUbotmv. aud the
best plan was to keep ou ihe sober side of reason.
Herald he waa peaceable and quiet wheu arrested
and arkt-d for * hearing, which was refused: offer
ed a good bond, which wo* refused; offered Code
povit JihO, which was also refuted, ao.l was locked
ecutl'-:
of last of October and .
The recent heavy rains have swollen tbe Ooria-
Hauls and tbe back waters are visible from town.
N. 11 McGlnla, tbe itvery s’able man. lost a
f air of tine horse* today,by drowning. They were
t chtd to a two h *ne wagon, and taring driven by
vd up to a considerable depth acrov* ihe road. But
tar someone llvtug near at hand the driver would
hare periahtd with the horse# The wagon body
Hosted off aud he pulled by the check Dues to the
horses and got on one of them and was sitting there
bring bl» vi/ al organs to their utmost capacity with
the raging waters up to hticklu
Calhoun, March? —Judge Fain rendered a de
cision lu the cose of the state v*. J. M. Baltaw, who
was indicted by the grand jur? last week for mis<
demeanor, constituted by selling liquor by the gaf
"uh u DHiiiumuN'M, aim was locseu
up. tin Tuesday morning the 4'h, Dan and some
of his brothers aud relatives weut to Alapaha de
claring that ihey would get a warrant aud put
Marshall McCray in tbe hwkup They were thero,
aud collected about tn little rquads of three or
four, talking to tb»m»elvcs about what no one
knew These signs, coupled with tho previous
threat, esustd the alarm (perhaps timely ) Home
of tho citizens looked up and loaded their shoot-
lug Irons to defend their corporate powers. So
abiding
m-ru capricious no rules of action could be de
duced. But there is a deep seated consciousness
that she Is not. ^experience Is wholly agalust It.
Evety oue's personal observation leads him to an
opposite couclusiou. The eegtoae follow each
other in ouicily aueco*slon; «o
' *"■ ins
scorn, iuu proper lies or koiu, stiver, iron, kbu,
liu aud copper have not changed within the mem
ory or record of men. But sorgo thing# in naturo
are variable: such as tbe meatn temperature or tho
mean rain fall of agiveu month in vlffecsut years,
the frequency of norms, and hundredsqj otheraof
Bko character And Just as soon as tbe element
of variability Is adnjlttcd. some men
loso their grasp ou th«Jldea of uniformity
lu uaturo; tlo-y do not stop i* Inquire whether tbo
variation is or 1# not rcstric Id within certain lim
its, ns tho sweep ot a peudiJum from one end of
itt arc to the other; or the a fperent courao of tbe
suu from lu summer to lu whiter solstice and back
sgalu-toiu summer, like i»,jit ptndulum vibrat
ing in the heavens. Thc* ,|l l*i 1 their anchor and
thetr rudder and aro swial ■* c ue winds of fancy
or speculation. A great G lift or a very cold win
ter or a very hot aumrL QC lifodluat*a that the
scsioos have radically chan |U d Repeated cyclones
polut to some new force in mturo, or it may lie
some new element In tbe atmosphere. Should sev
eral unuMial phenomena cemr about the same
period, the deeper the conviction grows that they
are beyoud tbe pale of rvengsized forces or laws.
This line of thought h#s been suyjasted by the
remark of yotir correspondent of tbe 28th of
February: "I cannot help believing that the world
i> just now undergoing radical atmospheric
changes," and the implications that i-y
cl« tie* are more numerous than foimorly in
cono«quencothereof. Thesugeeaion strikesusas
hasty. Science has detects as yet no changes lu
the order or constitution ot nature, during the last
throe thousand years, except same slow, rocular
chauges, which sa a rule tending in certain direc*
outbreak or deed of violence w*» atteraped by
any of «ho crowd. This was the state ot affairs
when Mayor Kitbv telegraphed the governor for ro
lufonvments This state of things continued the
remainder of the day. I have ht an! of no act of
violence or an attempt. I am willing to admit
that the indications looked a little uufav.rable,
and the parties equally ao. What the dcoign was
unable to aay, but the sets, taken by them
f* worth a pound of cure.
Columbus Run: C. K Cole, a white man'who
llvt s in the Jones building on Oglethorpe street,
was brutally attacked by three negroes at the foot
lot Wammsck's bill baturdsy night. He was
struck a blow with a brick on tne back ot the head
land received a wound Just over the eye which has
■the sppesrar ce of having taru made with a knife.
(on slcee
p*ctnt«r26, 1*83, at whuh time au act
uohiMttng the sale of liquor lu auy
iout Uceute frota the proper authority.
. . i was raised by a demurer to the it*-
dtetmmt upo-* th» Idea that no crime wo» all* g *1
Tbe dei
indictment Tbe I
validity of the act at ore inferred lo; and as Jucge
Fain drctdtd that it was no violation of law la
Georgia to sell liquor by the gallon without license.
hurt, and was unable to attend mayor’s court yes
terday morning. One of the negroes Lig* Smith,
was am start by Bailiff Owen and is in the lock up.
Tbe otberahave not been arrested. One of them
is named Henry Watt, but we could not learn the
|name of the other It Is thought that they have
B ^mother side of the river. •
taken rvfuge oa tbe other tide of the river.
Eastman, March 11.—At the ladies' fair held at
the Masonic hall Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of hut week, for the benefit of the Methodist church
and ps nonage, the gross receipts amounted to about
$150. The net proceeds, after disposing of other ar
ticles still on hand, will doubtless be not lets than
an equal opposite movement, and ,
constant nn au. Astronomical evidence, based
observations far back in the past demon
strata that the tarce of gravitation has
not varied a halt's breadth in
its nature or mode of action from a very remote
antiquity. The bulk of reliable scientific records
extends back. It i* true, only shout three hundred
yen*, but thete give us no bint of "radical
changes " One new force or factor, only known to
science, hat been introduced into tire world within
the historic period, to.wit: civil!#- d man. He has
tailed the foreii*. and haa given free play to tbe
winds, has laid bare the »tirfac* of the e#rth to
sun, aud agalu, as a consequence of this* 'be uni
formity of climates has been ('ecreased. floods in
risers, heat in #ummer aud cnid in winter
have been Increased-probably alsop^'
phenomena ate prcdmvd now by the same
forces, aud these forces set nactly iu the same
manner that they did when the forests wire undis
turbtd by the savage, and we must exhaust thtlr
agency before we call in something new.
Whether cyclone* are more numerous than form
erly, Da question of fact which cannot be decided
In the absence of authentic ro cords. That a greater
number have swept over Georgia, dur
ing the last ten, than dnrirg
tho preceding twenty or thirty years, is very proba
bly true: but they may be frvqaent in on# decade,
end then many decade a au; pass before they are
repeated again, lu other words, they may occur
iu groups at long Intervals. This la not stated as a
fact, but as a possibility.
* * subsequent article, the theory of cyclones,
will be discussed.
Kirkwood, March 8th, 1S8L
W. L. Jones.
A Mesttac sfCatrsM Sea Calk*.
Augusta, Ua., March 11,—At a meeting today
of the presidents of seven cotton fectorle* in and
near the city, D was resolved uut tbe cotton mill
owners throughout the south and west be iavited
to meet in Augusta on April 34, to consider some
plan looking to n decrease iff the production of
cotton goods.
pound# of neqtrallzed lard, 10 gallons of oenne ol!
dram) Jn'o a chum with 5t0 or 000 pounds of milk
and 60 ounces of coloring matter, churned aud
worked.
The annual rainfall in this country, accord
lng to tho Weather Signal, is lowest in Nuvr Mexico
(tn inches) and California (18 inches), and highest
lu Oregon (40) and Alabama {56). Tho annual
rainfall in the British JslaudR emuug the moan
tains is 41 inehea; on tho pinion 25 inches: 45
Inches of rain falls ou tho west side of Englahd, 27
ou the east side.
Pi.AiNriKi.D, N. J., ij having a great tem
perance revival. Within a week moro than 2000
persons, nearly trie f.iurih of tbeemiic populatlt u
have douucd tho red ribbon, Ihe enthusiastic
workers are dotetmlULd to keep on until thero is
tho vllis#o. On tho other hand, saloon keepers
are looking hopefully forward to warm weather for
the return of tho thirsty to their accustomed haunts.
Tub Memphis Scimitar says it can make
a paper without either tho Western Union
sifocidtul preiR. "J*awi» bless mo, chtlluu," mug
out an old tady from ono of thn Mississippi cow
counties iltting down to the first piano abe hsd
ever #een. and rattling sway like lightning— ’laws
tiler# me! I’vo beam tall as how it was so hard to
karu to play ou a planner, hut 1 find it just as
c—a—#—y! lUttle-ty, rattly bang ding (Jong." It
was cosy to her, but hard ou her victims.
There is a woman living in Detroit who bin
not allowed her#jif to be seen b? moa for mauy
yean. 8ho lives in her hermitage ail alono, goes
to bed at 2 o’clock every afternoon and gets up at
roHultht to to out and make her purchases Her
name is Odell, aud it is said win u a girl she prom-
lied to marry a tchoolmato, but he was a Protest
ant while she was a Catholic, aud in the eyes of
their parcu is this formed an insufferablo barrier.
Tho match was broken off. end the girl rowed she
would never sgalu look oa the face of msn or al
low a man to look at hers.
Mr. W. II. Goodpasture, of Nashville, will
shortly make a trip to Holland, whero he will pur
chase for hlmiclf and brother a number of IIoDtein
cattle, which will be Imported to this country aa a
ncclcus for a magulflccut herd. He will alio pur
chase * largo number for other stoex raisers The
Holstein are iho most noted cattle for dairy pur
poM'i of any orUluatingou the continent of Europe
and Mr. Goodpasture rays they are unrivaled as
producer# of ta*ef.cheese, milk aud butter. Mer-
teat for butter on record, while Kcho
list iu quautiiy of milk given 1m a year.
Cancer very seldom appears in persons
under thirty. It mutlly come# between forty-
five and sixty. It is very rare iu tropical conn tries,
more frequent amoug the poor than among tbe
rtcb.amcng women than among men, and it has
becu noticed tbat»raong the TrappDts, Carmelite#
and Carthusian monks it la almost unknown,
ctrcunutauco sscribt-d to their atatinenr* from
meat, while It Is most common iu mid Europe,
where meat lsmost eaten, lu the Netherlands aud
IMztum it h*K iucreued of late years Immoral
iniluenccs t-tid toward its production wheu they
have a bid effect ou the digestive organs.
I)r. William A. Hammond thinks that
groat harm results from seudlcg chil
dren to school at too early an a?e. The ll tlo ones
should be only taught to observe, to gain i leas of
things. No child should bo sent to school before
the ase of tea years, and twelve is a better ago
Kindergartens attempt to teach children to us
their perceptions, but even these are not good. A
child mot to school at tea or twelve will know
more at the ago of fifteen than one sent at seven
year# Adult* use their perceptions too Utile, and
should teach themselves to observe.
Referring to some recent expert testimony
as to blood stains, the Microscope say*: * Human
Without speedy legislation to protect game in
tbe western states and territories, it is safe to pre
dict that in live years from now, at tho present rate
of destruction, there will be very fow elk, buffalo,
mule deer, or antelope left to hunt, Tho
hldo hunters are destroying game in
wasteful nod reckless manner.
As en instance of the wholesale destruction now
going ou it may be mentioued that in the past year
the hide hunters killed mire than 25.090 buffaloes
between mo Yellowstone and the headwaters of
tne party cannot afford’
The movement in tavor of Mr. Tilden justifies it
self to tbe judgment of every man who under
stands the difficulties iu which tho wculd-be
democratic leader* ia congress* have involved it.
Tons of mall matter in the course of a year fail
to reach their destination. Many packages have
no address or ouo that is illegible. Maov things are
stopped in tho malls becaus they are nen mailable,
for instanco, such things as hair oil, ointments
and other liquids, esplotives, grcaie, dead ani
mals, snakes, vegetables, candy, substances with
bid odor, edgo tools, unprotected gists, wedding
cake. etc. Theso things go to the dead letter office
unless called for soon. The owners of packages of
value are promptly notified that they had better
take their property away. Every day wedding
ctke and candy arc confiscated. A box of candy
addressed to a child was found a short time ago, to
contain $45 In gold, which was restored to tho j
owner. Among odd things recently found have
been a largo cactus weighing
one and a half pounds, a living horned toad, color
ed matter for adulterating beer, artificial eyes and
teeth, cigars and wine. The postal authorities aro
untiring in their efforts to restore articles o! value
found la tho malls io i heir proper owners.
In a recent at tide in the New York Independent,
Rev. Dr. Dorchester states that the average per
capita consumption of spitiU in this country sixty
years ago was five gallons a bend, and it is not
over two gallons a head now. This may astonish
temperance advocates, but it is nevertheless a fact
that within tho last sixty years
production of spirits has not grown as rapidJy
as our population. The uso of alcohol in the arts
has Increased enormously, and tbo consumption
per adult for drinking purposes Is probably much
lofS than half what It wai mo generation a ago. The
cause of this decrease is probably due In not
unequal shares to tbe influence
the temperance organization and
progress of beer driuklug. Thu fact is that the
bulk of ihe liquor drinking in this country is done
by foreigners. Intcaperauce is gradually ceariug
to bo an American vice.
According to a London dispatch a young Eng-
IDF man of distinguished family has become a con
vert to Buddhism, aud has gone to Simla to enter
upon bis novitiate. He will become the pupil of
one of the East Indian masters or adept*. These
adepts, it is claimed, have by a profound study of
nature through methods cf psychological training
unknown to tbo west, acquired a scientific know
ledge which places at their command natural forces,
the very existence of which the Occident ha# yet to
dUcover. It D oiserted that the adepts have solved
tho problem of the future life, pierced the events
oftheersmos and acquired positive Information
concerning man’s whence and whither.
A committee of the MUsissippl legislature in n
porting upon the convict lease system, rays that
crimes have been committed under the guise of the
more cruel and offensive than in the Fleet and
Marshalsc a, under the EnglDh system. The prison
system has been run without expense to the state,
this hra been done at tbr
ex ponce of tho lives of help
less, manacled . creatures, and tbe
profit can only be regarded as blood mon»y, Tho
committee recommends tbe greatest activity cn
the part of the superintendent in order to protect
convicts from cruel treatment. In regard to the
sucriettiug system the report says it is so horrible
that the committee deem it Improper to make pub
lic its horrors.
The great sen tat ion of the day is tho new motor
This new motor Is limply the vapor of hi sulphide
of carbon. It lias been in practical uso in driving
machinery in New York City for the last six months,
but in co quiet a manner that the general public
knows nothing about it. Bi-sulphide of
cubon can be manufac'ured abundantly
at a cost of $3 per huudred weight Tbe fores ef
this vapor h Irresistible, and hcrAofore the diffi
culty has been in coutroillr g It. The inventor has
organized a company with $3,C00,0(.0 capital, acd
the motor will be speedily brought before the pub
lic.
It is now believed that collars and buttons will
have to go, and gentlemen will appear in ruffles
and frills. Many fashionable young men have al
ready appeared wearing a rutile attached to the
neckband of tbe ibirt. The ruffle isocly twolncbe
high, aud has twelve tucks. Ucoki and eyes, it is
ssld. will take the place of buttons.
The esteemed republican organs affect astonish-
blood cannot be told from dog's blood, except un-1 men\ when they are informed that Virginia and
der favorable condition*, and ,not Invariably | other southern states do not propose to submit to
then." Mr. Woodward of Washington rajs: "Tbe \ negro rale. They will bcccme familiar with the
average of all tbe mruuremcnts of human b’.cr.d I
have nude ii rather larger than the avenge of all
the measnremeuts of deg's bl**od. But ir i« not
rsro to find ipertm*- * ol deg's b.'ood I., which the
corpuscles rat ge so large that iheir average s z-* Is
larger than that of many samples of human blood."
When it tsnmcmbered that the me lurementnof
humau blood by so-called high autboride* vary
from 1 30!0 to 1-4630 of an inch, expert tes-iraony
oa tbe sasject takes on a serioua aspect, and juries
should receive It with groat caution.
The New York Graphic prints an illustrated
fact in the course ol the uext two or three hundred
years.
It is h&id that the custom cf having twelve men
on a jury, established by King Alfred io England,
waa borrowed by him from o a:d Breton law in
Ireland which referred aU disputes about land to
the decision of twelve men. At that time all per
sonal disputes were tried by "wager of battle" or
personal combat, a barbarism which was abolished
Death lutka in every pair of fancy colored how.
Not only tbe colored stockings, but ihe plain black
ones, too. are poisonous. Dark bluo Is a bad color,
and so Is red. Ftsblons la men's tccks change
even more rapidly than thoeo for stockings The
latest fancy is for digitated hose, which como in
all colors end are peculiarly absurd lu effect. It
Is a noteworthy fact that this new stylo Is observa
ble only in men's gooda No woman could be in
duced to make her feet appear larger than neces
sary, just in order to he in tho mode.
The whisky interest of Keutucky is very indig
nant because congress has refused to consider the
piece of Jobbery known as the bonded whisky
bill; but the whisky intercut needn’t tear Its shirt.
Tho able democrats y*£o are now eogsged lu ooifwM Um
OJlflSl# .^uiimn n*,lv rinnnt nfTYml
to neglc-ct i) profitable an addition to their pro*
gramme as the whisky a wind 2e. Let the whisky
men bo perfectly easy. The party wreckers from
the bounding west will take care of them.
The esteemed Savannah News, which takes a
feeble interest in modern affairs, Is talking about
the Tilden boom and oppcslngiL 8o fares wo
know, there is uo Tilden boom, but the almost
unanimous sentiment of tho democratic voters of /
the state aud country is that Mr. Tilden is tho only
man who can lead the party to victory.
Catharine Flannagan and Margaret niggloi,
who were sentenced to death at the Liverpool
assizes last week, will go down in history as the
Borglas ut England. For four years put these two
horrible women have been engaged in poisoning
their nearest relatives for the purpose of obtaining
the Insurance on tbelr lives. It wu developed at
the trial that certain Insurance agenti were willing *
to insure lives without tho knowledge of 1
tho person insured. They would havoj
the pereon pointed out and from a baity 1
glance would dtcide upon his state of health and *
mako out a policy for tho benefit of tho party pay
ing tho premium. Under a system so loosely con
ducted the two prisoners fouud no difficulty In
carrying on buiiness successfully for a time. Their
conviction aud execution will probably check tho
business of llfo Insurance ipeculation in England.
TiiEexplosive«compound called nltro glycorlne
wu discovered by Sobrcro, a pupil in the laborato
ry of Pclouze, a French chemist, in 1846. Bo dan
gerous was the explosive that for a long time peo
ple dreaded to use It for any purpose. About 1863
mining engineers fouud that nltro glycerine could
ho safely used u a blasting agent, when proper
cau tion wss taken. Of all tbe preparations of this
explosive dynamite is considered the best IU ex*
plosion is so rapid and violent that tbo air aboveit
hu no time to move away, but acu like a solid;
hence it will act downward when placed upon the
surface of a reck. Its uses are probably not half
understood u jeL
It is generally conceded that the weather hu
reached what the esteemed signal service peculiarly
calls tho "dew point."
With all hu money Brother Vanderbilt is not
supremely happy. There are too many editors and
they make too many efforts to amuse their readers.
Mr. Blaine hu once more entered the Bed sea of
politics. The announcement of thU fact hu earned
Mr. Cockling to gird up his loins.
It U generally believed that John Sherman hu
overlaid his presidential boom. There Is too much
spraddle about John.
Thf. democratic party seems to stand in need of a
head. We respectfully, but firmly, coll iu attention
0 Mr. Til dr n.
Three circuses and tbo republican party wUl go
on the road with whlto etaphanu this year.
A SBC RET.
1 told my secret to the sweet wild rotes,
Heavy with dew, new waking In the morn,
And they hsd breathed it to a thousand others
Before another day wa* slowly born.
"Oh. fickle roses!" said I, "you shall perish"’
Bo plucked them for my lady sweet to wear
In the pure sitance of her maiden bosom.
Tho curled luxuriance of her chestnut hair.
I told the secret toa bird new building *
Her nest at peace within the spreading tree.
And ere her children bad began to chatter
8he told it o'er and o'er right joyously.
"Oh, traitor bird!" I whDpered; " stay thy sing
ing;
Th on dost not know, there in thy nett above.
That secrets are not made to tell to others;
That tilence ia the birthright of trne love!"
I told the secret to my lore; my lady;
Bbeheldit c'o^ely to her darling breast!
Then as l clasped her came a tiny whisper;
And birds and flowers bnt fulfil tneir i
Iu telling secrets sweet u mine and thine."’ ,
-AU the You Bound.
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