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8 T THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY. MAKCH 18 , 18^4- • TWELVE PAGES.« 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. i