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VOL. X.
WATTERSOXON RANDALL
‘‘The Host Has Kights No Less
Than the Guest,”
Say* the Former, Speaking of HU
Conduct Toward the J.alter, ho
la about to Viall Louisville
Scathing Kemsika.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 27. Hon. Henry
Watterson, in a leader in tin- morning's
Courier Journal, defending his recent attack
on Mr. Randall and discussing the ethics of
Mr. Randall's Southern visit, mik s the fol
lowing personal remarks;
“The host has rights no lees than the guest
One of these rights is that the guest shall at
least k»*ep a civil tongue in his head. If
Mr. Randall had any of the sensibilities of a
gentleman, or if he were a man of a large
build and mold, he would thtk
admonition no leas out of courtesy than of
prudence. But curiously enough, although
a> last ween himself and Mr. Watterson, it
is he, and not Mr Watterson, who
lias lost his and has fallen
to calling names; Mr. Watterson is accused
of living in a freiwy of pass in and of per
petrating the direst crimes because be has
dared to rhftlknge Mr Randall’s godship and
describe him for exactly what he is—a i'hila- I
delphia ward politician <»f considerab:<‘ ex
perieuce .and force without breeding or ac
comphshments. and if a God at oil. a small
cast iron God made in the image 4f the Su- ]
preme Being, worshipped by Peru aylvania. ,
Our esteemed contemporary a-a that ’itr
‘outcry’ against the coming of Mr Randall i
subject* us to the suspicion of b «g afraid of 1
him. This is true; but promising that there
are but two things about Mr. Randall -his
breath and his grammar - that wo even were
afraid of, we suppose we shall have to bear
the general aspersion. ”
In the same paper is a long com munication
over an assumed signature, which backs
Watterson up in hia attack on Randall and
includes this paragraph: “Mr. Randall is
held up by many for a La binet or other
official position under the incoming adminis
tration. As ft business man he no doubt jios
a high order of talent, and give him a
(XMdtion abroad with a fair op ning for hia« j
peculiar capacity, he will lie a success; but as ’
an advisor in the Cabinet nothing more sui
cidal Could befall Mr Cleveland and the
Democratic party. The mission Os Cleveland
is to stand by the principles iqxyn which he was
elected and lead the business of the United
{states into the highest tide of pr sperity
which these principles contemplate and which
is but their legitimate result. Sam Randall
would be an impediment on the highway,
which would ditch the whole tram if tried
unless overruled by Clevelmid and other
wiser and better Democratic counselors In
that event, he would be but a disturber
there as he has been for years pfu-.t in his oili
ciftl action.”
The anonymous writer is editorially identi
fied as having been a Kentucky Senator and
having “stood for forty years in the most
honored relations to the people. In other
words, it is the Hou. John W. Stevenson.”
Mr. Watterson's attack on Rami ail has
been condemned by almost the entire State
pmss and the Democracy of this city. Mr.
Watterson’s following in Kentucky is mainly
rural, and the effect ot Randall's coming u>
Louisville promises to be sensational. The
Board of Trade is making preparations to re
ceive him handsomely He will have a warm
reception when he makes his public address
on Monday night.
HIS BROTHER’S SLAYER.
The Fatal Ending: of a Chrlatmas
Drunk In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. C7. While Po
lice Officer Bi rnard Lyons, of Gloucester,
New Jersey, knelt in prayer during the cele
bration of ( ’hristmas services at the Catholic
Church there, Thursday, his ten-year 44
nephew, John, ft son of his brother, Thomas,
rushed in and asked him to come out. “Papa
has been hit iu the head,” sobbed the boy,
“and is bleeding ” The policeman started on
a run for his brother’s house. “No, he’s at
uncle William’s,” panted the boy In a
few minutes they reached the dwelling
of William Lyons, the youngest of three
brothel's. The policeman found his brother
Thomas lying with his head in a pool •>( blood
and be was dead. In the kitehen, William
Lyons, whose hand struck the fatal blow, sat
in a stupor, so drunk was he that he was
neither conscious of his crime nor of the cries
of his frantic wife, who witnessed the deed.
When policeman Lyons had raised the dea l
body of his brother Thomas from the door
step in his line of duty he arrested Lis brother
William. A Christmas spree was the cause
of the fratricide. William Lyons, who
is a laborer, began to drink at the
L'ginning of the week and * -.ch time
he came home, was more abusive
to his wife, and elder brother Thomas, who
lived but three doors away, wh called in
periodically to protect his sister-in-law.
Early yesterday morning William came
home and was surly with drink. He liegan
to abuse his wife ns soon as he saw her. “( all
in that d d Tom Lyons,” he said. “By
(j__ t you'd better go there and stay; I’ll
turn you out.” He started to rx ute the
threat, and tried to push his wife out of the
door. She clung to the door frame. The
man became furious and bent he r savagely
in the face. Thomas Lyons heard the
screams and rushed to his brother’s house.
He pulled the husband away and began t<i
expostulated with him. “I’ll have no more
of your interference,” shouted William and
delivered a straight blow with his fist, which
struck Thomas in the ne<*k The latter reeled
and fell, striking his head on the stone door
step and died there. The slayer, exhausted,
stumbled back into the kitchen and fell into
a chair. The wife rushed screaming to the
dead man's house, where his son John wai
sent on the errand which brought Bernard j
Lyons to arrest his youngest brother for
murder. His eldest brother Thomas Lyons;
was forty-five years c’.<l and leaves a wife
and four children. T 7illiam came from Ire
land three years ago
Prince of roiititerfelterft Arrested.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 27.—Henry Oglesby,
equally as well known by half a dozen other
aliases, was arrested here yesterday with
>3,000 in counterfeit notes of the Third Na
tional Bank of Cincinnati in his pockets. The
detectives approached him on the street an-i
put a pistol before his face before he was
aware of their presence. It is believed he hai
plates and $200,000 in counterfeit bills con
coaled in a ravine in the southern suburbs.
United States Detective Bauer has been in
pursuit of Oglesby since August last. Oglesby
is declared to be the prince of counterfeiters
in the United States and has killed at ieasl
two men who have attempted to arrest him,
Hrooki A: Dickwon Dissolved.
New York, Dec. 27.—The theatrical fine
of Brooks & Dickson is to be dissolved and
organized on a new basis. They have foui
or five companies on the road, a part oi
which will be continued, but just how and
by whom does not seem clear. Mr. Jacot
Nuuuemacher, of Milwaukee, is inderstood
|o be associated with the firm. [
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MINING SHARPS.
WESTERN STORY-TELLERS THAT AS-
SAYERS HAVE TO DEAL WITH. |
A Specimen of Silver Ore Worth #IB,OOO
pei Ton —A AlvvicHii >perii»ien From
Colorado—The Mistake a
Sm intiler Made.
,New York Suu.]
“Some big liars come into the assayer's
office once in a while,” a down-town i
assaycr said incidentally in a talk about
mining property, "but I think the two
! iegist liars 1' have ever seen came into
my <>.,■<■ last summer, not together, thank
goodnfss for if they bad 1 would have
kicked them out for supposing that 1 |
might l>e an infertml fool. Instead I ■
lisleiiie to each, and Hi.u gave him a
pitee of my mind, 'rite first was about
bi years of age. sharp-featured, long-1
Inured, and with the appwu'auce of a
western miner, lie carelessly unwrapped,
■a newspaper from a tump of silver ore,
mid asked tn a business-like way to have
■it assayed. 1 picked up the lump and
said oil-hand There's no need of having i
hat assayed. Its 75 per cent, silver ut
, first .lame.' And it was. Il was about
: as rich a specimen as 1 had seen in some
time. It was worth at least SIB,OOO a
I ton,
" ‘But I want it assayed,’ he said.
I 'l’ve got a drift of ore like that six feet
I wide, and I want to sell it. I don’t want
I to lie'al.’out it. and I ■ want to know just
i what it is worth.
“About four days after the assay four or
i five respectable old gentlemen came into
the ■ .re together, and one ol them un
wrapped a piece of ore, and said: ‘Will
you plea's assay this lor us? We are
thinking of buying a silver mine, ami this
is some of the ord. What do you think it
is worth?’
" UX< nse me, but 1 have assayed this
ore wM'ljin li'eMays,' T skid.
“ Ch-e-.s,' the spokesman of the party
•■:ii<r*ftj>iiaiihgly. ‘We uuderstahd that
t has been assayed, but we thought it
would be safer to have il assayed for us
particjilarly. How much did you make 11
out to be worth?'
nJ**”. 'Twelve or lift eeu thousand dollars r,
I said, not wishing to be too partiett
Tirt'e.t'first, 'lll see.’
“ While 1 was looking over my record
book ■ I noticed the gentlemen looking
knowingly al one another.
“ ‘lt was |ls,ooo,’ I remarked, turning
towanl them. It didn’t start them a bit.
“ 'That’s pretty rich, isn’t it?’
“ "Where's the miner 1
asked.
" tn Colorado. We haven drift there
six ftX't wide.'
"•( olorado'" I exclaimed. 'That ore
neverims seen Colorado. That's from
some .'lexical! ntilie.
“I knew what 1 was talkingals.iit when
1 said that* l.ecsuse I <an pi< k out Color
ado orc from 3,000 specimens. I can pick
out or. from the Comstock lode anywhere
you put it. After gening a few more
parti(-uiars about the man who wanted to
•elf the mine, I said: “Gentlemen I don’t
want you taken in by anybody, and espec
ially by one of those western mining
sharps Instead of taking my word for
tliis a-say. go to somebody else, and I’ve
no doubi you'll bud many who will be as
hones 1 with you a- I intend to'lte, and
have your ore assayed. Take some of
this iliist with you and set- if it be like
your ..re.'
" ‘But we can buy this mine for only
$5(1,000.' the fust speaker said.
“ ‘lf you can find a mine where the ore
is all like that, 1 said, ‘l’ll find men who
will give you .»'50,000,0i>0 for it. That
isn t a true specimen, and, besides il isn t
Irom Co'orudo. it’s a rich find from
s me old mine in Mexico.
“The. looked rather glum and went
out. I really pitied them. The next
nay the western man came, in to see me.
1 gave it to him hot. ‘Look here,’ I said,
‘we've had .just about enough of such fel
lows as yon are around hen-. When you
come on here to sell a mine, don’t try to
palm oil’ Mexican ore for Colorado ore
1 a ! :e my advice, and don t show that lump
o any miner, because he will know it in a
m.iiu..e, .Xowskip.’ ’
“I have never seen the old gentlemen
since. I guess they found somebody who
told them the truth as I did.
“The Olla; chap w.is a short, dumpy
lei! ov 11. wanted to have everything
v. ry secret. He had a piece of ore that I
knew w.is Mexican, ami it was a long time
Ixifoie i eotild get anything out of him.
Al length lie said 'i ni a commercial
traveler and while I was in Mexico this
-liniinei 1 struck an old trail over the
mountains that, I thought, would take me
by a short cut to where 1 wanted to go. 1
took it, but it was the roughest ground I
ever struck. About noon I was almost
overcome, and I dropped off my mule
near a shady place to catch a nap and
test. My mule, that was wandering
about, awoke me after a while by nearly
stepping on me. lt> pulling my blanket
off the hump tiiat had served
as a pillow, 1 noticed that the
rock sparkled. It struck me all at once
that il v,..s silver, and I locked around to
ee if there were any other rocks
like thiit. I don’t know whether you’ll
believe it, but a short distance off the trail
the ground was covered with them. I
picked up about twenty pounds and
packed them on my mule and started for
be nearest settlement, I didn’t say any
thing to anybody in that neighborhood,
and I didn't dare to have the ore assayed
until I got to 1.1 Paso But 1 inquired
i .bout the price of land, and found I could
buy that piece of ground for about
15,000. I’ve come on here to raise that
and then start a mine. What do you think
the ore is worth?’
“I took the fellow all in and said: ‘Did
| you pick this off the ground?’
“ ‘i ertainly,’ he replied.
“ ‘Was it iii this condition?’
“Os course,’he answered, although he
> was beginning to be frightened.
“ ‘Then you are the biggest liar I have
I ever . cen. I said very decidedly.
“T,.: l-l ow winced, and I continued:
i’o’, don’t know anything about ore, and
; you don't know anything about. Mexican
land. This pre came from some mine
more than twe .ty feet under ground, and
1 it isn't t ecessary to buy Mexican land be-
■ fore starting a mine. You tell your story
well, but you’ll have hard work to find
anybody who will give you $15,000 for
. Mexican land. Get out.’
“There's a great difference, you know,
in the appearance of ore that has lain on
the surface any length of time and that of I
ore just dug from underground. The lat- I
ter is more crystallized, for one particular.
T he surface pickings are what we call ths
: results of a blow-out. Two drifts, com
ing together, peak-shaped, are gradually
pro ected out by the washing away of the
. earth. Water gets in the crevices, and,
after a while, the peak breaks into pieces,
which are scattered over the surface. If
that other chap had surface ore he might
have been believed, except that part about
the land, which was way uff. ”
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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1884.
CONDENSED NEWS.
Board iu private faiuihea in Now Orleani
1b now sl2 a week.
| Tex as claims to liftve the best exhibit at
the New Orleans Exposition.
Senator McPherson thinks the South
thould be reprt>sente<l in the Cabinet.
1 The St. James Catholic Church at Bay
■ City, Michigan, burned. Loss, $9,000.
It is given out that Senator Garland will
be Attorney General under Cleveland.
Capt. Walter Pease, of Enfield, Con
necticut, diet I yesterday, age I 1(X) years.
I Senator Lamar does not think it will be
an unbearable loss if no Cabinet officer should
be chosen from the South.
A m ysfkrious and fatal fever has appeared
at Annupuhs, Nova Scotia, baffimg medical
skill
1 The West African Conference, sitting
at Berlin, Las adjourned until after the holi
days.
Graham & Scihutt's furniture factory, .
B >! ■’ nbre, burned. Loss. ; urturfthed, •
$14,000.
; G. J. & W. Wilson, ba-nhu-a. Ottawa, i
I Illinois, failed. Assets Uh); liabilities
$ H>2,00().
11. 1> Lyman's resignation as Second As- '
sistant Postmaster General will take effect on !
the 31st inst,
Capi aex Henry J. Bishop, of 1 the Unite ! ]
States Marine ('orps, died at Brooklyn of
pneumonia yesterday.
Thomas Godley, a wealthy mill owner of ,
Marrmotte, Michigan, caught in ft sib>w !
storm and frozen to death.
Mrs. Otto Riford, at West Randolph, t
Vermont, burnetito death, her clothing ignit
ing from a stove while asleep.
An attempt to resume by the Nlauville
Mills at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, proved a
failure. The strike continues.
The Union Oil Company’s "Imilding at '
Newark, New Jersey, burned, caused by the |
explosion of a tank. Loss s3d,Olh>.
The South American Trade Commission ifi i
at New < Means from which phu e they start
for Central American in two 'weeks.
SisiEß I hEKESA, ft Sister at St. Mary’s
Convent, Wilkesbarre, 1 < misylvania, ami
niece of James G. Blaine, is reported dying.
Five hundred employes of the Pittsburg
Iron Works Company accepted ft reduction
of twelve and a half per cent, and continued
work.
Two trains, passenger and freight, collided
at Xenia, Ohio, on the Pan-handle Railroad.
The engines were badly w recked, but no one
was hurt. /
A New Orleans Grand Jury has indicted
the leading participants in the Loreauville
election killing affair in Iberia Parish, laju
isiana.
The employes of Sandford & Son’s large
carpi t nulls at Amsterdam, New York, have
struck in consequence of a ten per cent, re
ductii >n.
H. M. Welde, Boston, baa pleaded guilty
to embezzling several tliousand deUarsTroin.
C. A. Bi w urngX: Co., while acting asftheir.
bookkeeper.
Senator .Tones says the South is a part of
the United States and intimates his belief
that Pit‘-j leut-olect (,'leveland will so regard
it in selecting his Cabinet.
The petition of Mrs. Eureka Storey, of
Chicago, praying that the will of her hus
band dated August 16, 1879, be admitted to
probat*.*, has be<m denied.
The Scranton Bank, ut Beranton, Alissis
sippi, failed. It was owned by P. J. Sar
razin, of New' Orleans, and conducted by 11.
F. Kreb-, Sweedish Vice Consul.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a.
circular requiring imported rags to be boiled
in w<iter from two to four hours, or submit
ted to the action of sulphuric acid gas.
Passenger train No. 4 on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railway jumped the track ut Bre
men, Il irunu, and the dining car was con
sumed by lire. Two persons' were seriously
burned.
A mass meeting of National Liberals at
Berlin lauded Prince Bismarck in a series of
resolutions, and declared the Reichstag un
worthy the Empire and opposed to the peo
ple’s will.
Wm. Sumrall, of Gallman, Mississippi,
was called to his door by three negroes and
asked to nad a letter. While b« was doing
so they shot him and robbed' hw' house of
$1,500 and escaped.
John Manning and wife, of Newport,
Rhode Island, deserted their nine-year-old
girl, going to New York. The little girl slept
iu a vacant lot two nights and was in u terri
ble condition when found by the police.
The New England Society celebrated its
seventy-ninth anniversary by a banquet al
Delmonico’s, at which toasts were responded
to by General W. T. Sherman, T. De Witt
Talmage, Charles Francis Adams, etc.
Fourteen thousand rebels were sent by
El Mahdi to reinforce Osman Digma, but on
bearing of the arrival of British troops at
Kati, they were halted at Berber, where
they now remain to oppose the British ad-
vance.
J. R. Williams, lawyer and land agent,
who absconded from David City,* Nebraska,
last October, after forging $20,000 in notes,
is arrested at Woodstock, Ontario. He
refuses to return unless extradition papers are
procured.
The contest of the will of Miss Carrie J.
Walton, who gave the greater part of her
fortune te the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals of New York, has so ex
cited the mother of the deceased that the case
has been continued two weeks.
The American delegate at the West Afri
can Conference, pressing the proposal for
neutrality of the regions under consideration,
was brusquely and disagreeably replied to by
Baron De Couriet, in behalf of France, who
refused to accept the principle of neutrality
in any form.
The explosion of a gasoline tank in the
cellar of the Odd Fellows’ Block, South
Framingham, Massachusetts, while being
filled, almost wrecked the building, seriously
burning Bradley Childs, who was filling the
tank. Two boys sitting in front of the build
ing were blown across the street.
Pretty cold up in the Northwest. On the
23d inst. the thermometer stood below zero ae
follows; Neche, near the Manitoba line,
43; Crooksten, Minnesota, 36; Omaha, Ne
braska, 2i2; Huron, Dakota Territory, 27;
Pierre, Dakota Territory, 22; Jamestown,
Dakota Territory, 32; Mandan, Dakota Ter
ritory, 40; Glendive, Montana Territory, 45.
The Student’s Answer.
[Argonaut “Storyettes.”]
A student undergoing examination in
the principles of mechanics, was a-ked:
“Why will not a pin stand on its point?”
He returned the following answer: “In
j the first place, a point is defined by Euclid
i as that which Luth no parts, and no mag
itude, and how can a pin stand on
that which hath no parts and no inagni
tude? In the second place, a pin will not
stand on its head, much less, therefore,
will it stand on its point. Thirdly, and
lastly, it will if you stick it in hard
enough. ”
Whitehall Times: Man can preach
with more effect to a large congregation,
, than he can reason with himself.
TWANGING THE BANJO.
Gln*t with a Milker and Master of the Pop
ular Instrument.
[San Francisco Call.l
i “Jt is said that you are tlio pioneer
banjo-umker and teaelier of tin- city,”
Bald the reporter to a jolly, red iaeixi little
man, with slightly gray hair and a stoop
in his-shoulders, “and as the .banjo i.<
coining into use as one of the most popu
Ittr instruuicuts of the day. 1 have come to
have a talk with you on the subject. "
“tjuite right; quite right. 1 have been
here sine- 55, but. I declare, the present
era. -for banjo music beats auvthing 1
evot saw. Not only here, either, but all
I over the country they have taken the
thing up. in some cases to the exel sion of
pianos and other instruments, especially
accompaniments for i-ahads, that it is a
wonder il has not ita-i a run tike :b.s be
lore. TJie trouble was, though,
that people did not like the idea of
- playing on an instrument that was so
, strongly ussociated witli darkey lite ill the
’ south, and with negro minstrelsy in gen
oral. Tune has wrought a great ehatigi
I ,in the notions of the peujtlehi this regard,
I and the humble banjo has been elevated
'to the rank of the guitar. Besides, llu
| ban jo, us it is manufactured, is not an in
a strumeul to be sneezed at or coughed
down when it is in the hands of a player
■ who knows how to get music out of it.
Anotlmr tiring about the ban jo: Almost
any one w i lit an ear for melody can pick
up a tolearblw fnir knowledge of it in a
| few w< eks. with any kind of application.
That is why so many people who don t
1 want to spend two or three years learning
I tile piano have beeunto twang the ban jo
l-have pupils all ,>vur the city from Tar
flat to vol> hill. I make the banjo for
them after they have taken a few lessons
and kn w what kind of an instrument
’ they want, high-priced or low, maple
j frame or mahogany, nickle frame or sit
I ver hoop. ’’
A list of the pupils was shown, and it
' was found to be long, including, as tin
teat Iter remarked, persons of all grades in
i life it wasn matter of note theta large
I numb r of well known young ladies in so
cit'iy liitve shown themselves to ba
devoted to the art of playing this one®
conlt mptuously treated instrument.
“l ean teach almost: any young gentle
man or lady how to play the banjo in tv,
courses of ten lessons each, which is doing
Itetlur than most banjo teachers. I laugh*
l.ottii how to play in 1861. Well do I re
member the night she made iter first u|
pearancc as a ban jo soloist in .Maguire -
opera house. They made her play until
her lingers wore sore ami her voice Wa
lioar.o from singing. In those days hardly
an} one played the banjo oil the minstrel
stage. Now yon hear it everywhere
They si ll llu nt at all the music stores, and
the ;heavy demand has contributed not a
little to the present boom in the music
trade. 1 wouldn’t advise any one to buy
a ready made banjo, however. It’s just
like but ing ready made clothing or shoe
. The b< st article is that made to order by
. man who understands what a banjo shouh'
be and how to perfectly suit his customer
Besides, you often have to pay an out
ragdously high price from -aiu. to ,s7,t ft t
the ready-imide inst runienls -when $25 v
s3oSvnnlrt he a good price for them.
No one will hesitate about playing on
this simple instrument when it is know
that fashion and culture have placed upon
it the imprint of tluir approval. Tin:
banjo has 1 cen a popular instrument in
■first-class society in I'.nglaud for the pas
two or three years, i bad tin; liotmr - '
Belling an elegant concert banjo Io a mein
her of the princess royal party din-ini:
their visit to this city two years ago, and
giving hint a few lessons, front Ihi
geiilleman I learned that l.ady Randolph
( hurehill, l.ady Mandeville, and many
others of equal rank are skillful liun ioisl.,.
'Die carl of I tunraven, it is said, has tin
finest collection of I an,os iu the world, in
Chiding one worth $2,000, having a solid
gold hoop, tine rosewood neck, ivory
Irets, and decorated with broad silk rib
bons, on which art; painted ferns ami
leaves. The English players order al)
their banjos from America. The idea of
making them does notseem to have struck
the manulacturers of musical instruments
over there, or, what is more likely, they
don’t I.now In w. In making a good
banjo you must have the right kind of
wood, for one thing. My handles anil
.- rims are all given three years to season in
before they are used for making banjos.
I 1 have handles in my shop that were
sawed out fourteen years ago. If a ban jo
lis made .of wood not thoroughly seasoned,
| it will Warp and twist out of shape, Many
of ouiUtanjo makers don’t seem to under
stand this. ”
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How to Make Copying Ink.
IGiioago Times.]
Any common black ink or writing fluid
can be'tnade into good copying ink add
ing some sugar or other saccharine matter
to it. To prepare, dissolve one ounce of
lump sugar to one and one-half pints of
writing fluid. Within five or six hours
after writing letters or other documents
with this prepared ink they can be copied
by pressure on damp, unsized taper. If
old writing be wet with a weak solution oi
sulphate of iron, to which a small solution
of sugar syrup has been added, a faint re
production can be taken with firm press
ure upon unsized paper, with the result of
tendering the original much paler than la
fore, as the process simply dissolves the
original ink ussedand tratifersit. To copy
printing ink, dampen the surface with a
weak solution of acetate of iron and press
on any paper of absorbent nature.
POOLS DON’T GO.
Tlt« Hocking Valley Haitroart Iboas
SIOO,OOO by a Pooling Arrange
ment.
Clkvei.and, 0.. Dec. 24 —A dispatch last
night from the Hocking regions states that
i' the Hocking Valley Road has lost SIUO,<XM
i due it from the Ohio Central Road. A year
,or so ago the Hocking Valley Railroad
! formed a pool with the Ohio Central on the
’ coal business of the two roads. It was
i designed to be mutually advantageous,
but the Hocking, was to be the
gainer in the matter. The Hocking
j Valley strike came on and the profits of the
Central Itegan to grow fast—so much so that
at the end of the year they owed the Hock
, ing Valley a cool $100,(XK) profit under the
pot,ling arrangement. This sum was so big
that the Receiver of the Central did not care
to resume its payment and so h<- referred the
matter to Judge Baxter, of the United States
District Court, for instructions.
“Are these the profits yon owe the Hocking
Valley under a pooling contract?” asked the
Judge.
“Yea, sir,” said the Receiver.
“Well, then, don’t you pay a cent of it. It
Is no better than any other gambling debt of
which the law can take no cognizance, and
don’t you enter into any more pooling ar
tangemente while the Ohio Central is under
the jurisdiction of this court, and you its Re
ceiver.”
Thia was the view that the Receiver took
also, and when the Hocking officials renewed
their demands, he refused to pay a cent.
The Hocking people have had several disas
trous bouts with Judge Baxter but none so
disastrous as thia
A JOURNALIST’S SUCCESS.
Joe Fulitwr’s \ arious (‘areer- -Laborer,
Cabuian, Editor, CongreN.sman.
George Alfred Townsend.]
Joe Pulitzer has got 7,000 majority for
congress in this city, lie is of a rare tpye
.here, and it is generally believed that his
slock is Polish with one side Hebrew. He
claims, however, to be a Hungarian.
Ccr’-iinly his family did live in \ ienna
for some time, ami there Joseph visited
his mother until her decease, a few years
ago. lie must have had some education,
for he readily got hold of the English
langua. and is a very good speaker in it.
He must have had some business ex
pcricnce or derivation, for he has seized
U]>oii expedients and opportunities for
making money, and nearly everything ho
has taken hold of iiu has sold to advantage.
He docs not seem to keep anything very
long
I.uring the war he was a common
soldier, lie then settled at St Louis as a
i laborer, exon driving a cab. Intent on
getting ahead, he was employed by an
i emigration society to get up news for a lit
| tie sheet they published. The news in
this sheet recommended itself to the pro
. prielors of the principal German news
| paper in St. Louis, who employed Pulitzer
; to get thorn up similar news. His com
1 bined salutes were about $lO a week at
j this busin ss. iu time he was able to
i raise the money to buy an interest in the
German newspaper. Schurz and he had
a falling out about that time. Schurz
wanted power, Pulitzer wanted money.
Some of Pulitzer’s acquaintances were not
satisfactory to Schurz. He sold his in
terest in the German paper for a large
profit, and then, buying a small German
paper of no value, sold its news franchise
to Mc.Kec, who was afterwards convicted
in the whisky trials, lor a very respectable
amoilnt
He then essayed to get into politics, and,
I think, was in the state legislature, lie,
al any rate, was a member of the last con
stilulional convention of
Finally, be got hold of an evening paper
in St. Louis, and. being a good judge of
men, built it up to a piece of property
worth $10(1 a week. His enemies in
St. Louis beat him foa the slate legisla
ture badly. Keeping his property there,
he turned his attention to New York, and
was for years and years trying to get hold
of the broken down W orld. This paper
at Inst fell into his hands, when its
owners had mown sick and tired of pay
ing its bills, and of being deluded with all
kinds ol expectations of a big trade.
Pulitzer ha<l a younger brother, long a
reporter on The Herald, who had already
stal led a penny paper here, which now
has a large circulation, and is generally
well spoken of. The elder Pulitzer revo
lutionized the newspaper business in that
town by publishing an enterprising sheet
of eight pages for 2" cents, and advertise
ments for next to nothing, The Herald
and 'I he Tinies had to follow suit when
they saw what an inroad he was making
upon them. Justus he had gripped a
moderate success the passion for pub
lic consideration led him to run for con
gTess. Pulitzer is a Democratic man in
all abilities, does not talk much about
high purity, believes in the cohesive globe,
and h< i is at this moment as much in
quired about as any person in New York.
Potentiality of tin, Human Mimi.
(l»r. Paxton in New York Tribune.]
The potentialities of the human mind
are something wlm h a perfect environ
ment alone can develop. Every man hafi
some* good in him. 'The real mischiel
ol lite is that we predicate of the whole of
human character what, is true only of a
fractional part. The r<‘snlt i that two
biographies arc possible of every man, the
one a eulogy, the other a defamation.
W liolesale condemnation is as illogical at
it is absurd. As the author is greater than
bis book, ’■<» the man of genius is greater
than his whim. iJecause Johnson would
not enter a room except with his left fool
foremost, or Marshal Saxe abide the pres
ence of a cat, or Augustus Ca sar the
reverberation of thunder—they are not,
therefore, to be relegated to the coterie ol
fools. They are simply to be turned a lit
tie, and at the proper angle we will set
the divinity in each.
A I’rospiMitive Calico Boom.
[Detroit Free, Press.]
Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, has
been calculating what the effect on the
calico trade would be if the people of the
Congo, who are now clothed chiefly iu
sunshine, can be induced to weat
American and English print. He say
that if every inhabitant of the Congo
basin should have one Sunday dress every
year more than 800,000,000 yards of cot
ton cloth or calico would be required; il
two Sunday and four every-day dresses
w re used the enormous total of 3,800,
000,000 yards, of the approximate value
of $80,000,000 would be required. He
estimated that a trade of $130,000,000 an
nually could be secured, and said that il
was the easiest matter in the world to in
duce Africans to wear cotion, when the
basin of Congo would be more profitable
to England than even India.
Our Opium Paters.
[lnter Ocean Interview.]
Americans constitute about 68 per cent,
of the opium-eaters. This may be ac
counte d for iu more than one way. The
Germans and Irish find relief from theii
trouble- in the ane.thctic effect of beet
or whisky, while the American prefers an
agent whose effects, while e (ually power
ful, do not at first incapacitate him from
business Besides Ibis consideration there
is anotner; Americans, and those for
eigners who become Americanized, are
more, highly neurasthenic, that is, theii
nervous systems arc such that they beat
their pain badly and demand relief.
[American Agp-iC’flturisC. |
A horse’s head indicates his character
very much as a man’s does. \ ice is
shown in the eye and mouth: intelligence
in the eye and in the breadth between
the ears and between the eyes; spirit iu
the eye and in the pose, in the mobile nos-
Iril, and active ear. The size of the eye,
the thinness of the skin, making the face
bony, the large, open, thin-edged nostril,
the line ear, and the thin, fine mane and
i foretop are indication of fine breeding,
and accompany high strung, nervous or
ganization, winch with good limbs and
muscular power, insures a considerable
degree of speed in the animal. Spirit is
: shown by the mobile ear and open eye,
and vice by the uncertain, restless eye,
■ the ear laid back, and the air of distrust
* in strong contrast to the trustful honesty
! of the horse’s true nature.
The stupid, laz.y horse that driverg call
a “lunk head ” has a dull eye usually, a
narrow forehead, and contracted poll. He
is always a blunderer, forgets himself and
stumbles on smooth ground, gets himself
and his owner into difficulties, calks him
self, is sometimes positively lazy, but
often a hard goer. He needs constant
care and watchfulness <>n the driver s part.
A buyer of fine equine flesh should be able
to detect the good and bad qualities of the
animals he contemplates purchasing. This
valuable knowledge is only ac (Hired by a
careful study of the \arious parts of bora®
physiognomic,
0.111160.
It is doubtful, accordieg to reports,
whether the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will renew lie contract with
the Putlmin Palace Car Company.
Kvilroad t flieials seem to think that
the rot de ought to have the profits
which now go to the Pullmnn com
pany, and doubtless in a lew years
that giant corporation will be frozen
off the beet lines and run out of the
: business. Many roads now run sleep
j ere ot theirtown which are in every
respect equal to the Pullman palace
cars.
It seems from General Sherman’s
statement to a New York reporter
that the meetings of the Grand Army
*otlh< Republic are secret, and oath
j bound affairs, and that no man is al
- lowed to repeat out of doors anytniiig
I Baid there, and be charges tbat the
: person who reported what he said
about Jeff Davis violated bis pledge,
and should not be believed. The news
papers, too, are only trouble mak
ers in the eyes of General Sherman.
He says of the newspapers:
"Somebody violated his oath in a
Gr ind Army poet in reporting an oc
cuttence there. What was said there
was published and spread broadcast
in the south, with the purpose and
intent of making trouble. The news
papers took it up, and have been
talking about it ever since. They
raked out and published theStepbene
lettei, I have had nothing to do with
it. The newspapers do more barm
than good iu this country. All the
trouble 1 have ever bad b»s come
brougb the newspapers. I won’t
talk about this mat er. 1 am here
tor a little social pleasure,and 1 wish
1 could take niv pleasure without
being bothered by the newspapers.”
East lnd*a Cotton.
Though the India crop is somewhat
abort this year, as reported, that
country steadily grows in importance
as a producer ot cotton. England
has appropriated large sums for the
construction of railroads bv which
crops can be brought to market, and
then by greatly quickened the pro
duction of ihe fleecy staple in that
country. Though on account ot the
increased demand throughout the
world for cotton goods, the aug
meuted supply of the raw material
i not likely to have an injurious ef
lect upon the Southern cotton trade,
yet the crop oi far off India will
riwuys a considerable effect iu
making up the gen< ral estimates
amt prices.
Already the exports of cotton from
I ia amount to nearly one fifth —in
1883 to 19.9 per cent—of the total ex
pons tiorn that country. The quau
lily i-spurted last year amount* din
value to more than eighty million
dollars, which Is largely in excess of
any (irevios year. Ibe increase of
1883 i,ver 1882, was nine and one half
P*r cent. Ihe causes of this increase
wep* the dial urbauces in Egypt, by
wuieh ihe Egyptian crop was smaller
II an ihe aveiage, and the tailing off
in the production of the United
8 zt: s. There is a permanent stimu
lus to the trade, however, in the in
ciensing demand lor Indian cotton
■>u the continent ot Europe, More
than bait of the Indian cotton wtiicb
goes to England is tesnipped for
manufacture in continental mills.
The average yield in India is from
titty to seventy-eight pounds pei
icit the net profit being shout $7
per acre.
Hard Words ot Mr. Moody About
tea. ee and Ja kson
litCBMOND, Va., Dec. 22, 1884.—The
auuouiiiJ iLi ri’ tuat’Alr. Moody, the
iVHiigelist, will pteach a series ot
seimouß here, beginning January 4,
i s i -ailed forth a card from Mr. B.
I) Core, which ia published here this
morning, tn which t re writer reviews
a sei mon delivered by Mr. Moody at
the n vival m< eilngs held in the hip
podrome in New York in April, 1876.
Mr. Core says: "Mr. Aloody on that
occasion illustrated lire character of
J sub Obrist ana the devil, he said :
'• Ih> iebei leaders Lee and Stonewall
Jackson, and the peerless patriot
Grant, are names which are familiar
to you all.” He then proceeded to
divist Lee and Jackson of every hon
orable characteristic. In their re
ligious characters they were worse
than the followers of Mahomet; in
their moral livss, the life ot Nero in
comparison was as white as the
driven snow ; iu a word, said he, by
every iilmtrutlon and animus
of th* ir lives and actions, they more
forcibly represented the character ot
ih> king of darkness than any names
wmcb my knowledge or the world’s
history enables me to call to mind
sinci Judas betrayed the Lord. He
■ hen proceeded to clothe Gen. Grant
n all tbu grandeur of a god, so far
as the extent of words could do it,
robbing be ven of its glory and God
ot his attributi s with which to adorn
his hero. Grant was bis ideal rep
r'seniative of Christ. To this, at
this time, 1 only have to say tbat
there lives not a Virginian with any
pretentions to respectability who is
not proud to claim a common citi
zenship with the immortal Lee and
Jackson, and proud that Virginia
bad such Christian heroes to offer to
the service ot their country. They
were our leaders, our representa
tives. We loved them in their lives,
and their memory is dear to us still,
and will ever be. We were parti
cepz crtmlnis with them, and Moo
dy’s abuse of them was equally an
abuseot each one of us who followed
these peerless patriots. The public
has attracted very general attention
in religious circles here.
F-irmers who h» ve planted oats will
be tar better off next spring than
those who have neglected to do so.
The amount ot enrn you buy is a big
item in vour account when you go to
settle. It is not yet too late, and you
can buy seed oats and sow them at a
great di-al less than you can buy corn
next spring.
JOHN 8. STEWART
--=jl Printer.
Randolph STKEICT, NEXT to
GEORGIA STEAM AND GAB PIPE COMPANY.
Job InintiDß c Every description executed
Ne&liy end Promptly.
MlgUt
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1
Fitters
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fr ver »i’d egne, liver ccnijißlnt, Inictlvity of
the kidney ai d bladder, conatlpation and other
organic inaladloe, Hontetter'a Htouaob Biitera
is a tried remedy, to whirh the medical brother
hood have lent their profearloual unctter, and
which an a tone, ’Jteuitlvr aim bouiuiioid
wpeeffio for disorders of the liver and
boweia ban an unbounded nouulartty.
tor Bale t-y Druggists ano _ ealera to whom
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Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itch
ing Plies. One box hue cured the worst
cases ot 20 yeai s’ standing. No one need
suffer five minutes after using William’s
Indian Pile Glut merit. It absorbs tumor®,
allays Itching, acts as poultice, gives Irr
, slant, reflet. Prepared only tor Piles.
Itching of the private parts, nothing else.
Hon. j. M.Ooffenbury,ot Cleveland, says:
“I have used scores ol Pile cures, and it
affords me pleasure to say that 1 have
never found anything which gives such
immediate and p rmanent rellet aa Dr.
William's Indian Pile Ointment.” Bold by
druggists and mailed on receipt of price,
sl. For sale by Brannon A Oarson, B.
Darter, John P. Turner and Geo. A. Brad
ford, Columbus, Ga.
Dr. Frailer*, linot Bitter
Frazier's Root Bitters are not a dram
shop beverage, but are strictly medicinal
hi every sense. They act strongly upon
the Liver and Kidneys, keep the bowels
open and regular, make the weak strong,
heal the lungs, build up the nerves, and
cleanse the blood and system of every Im
purity. Sold by druggists. SI.OO.
For sale by Brannon <t Carson and Jno.
I’. Turner, Oolr.mbus, Ga.
Dr. Frarler’H Magic Ointment
A mre cuie tor Little Grub® m the Skin,
Bough Skin, etc. it will remove that
roughness from the hands and tace and
make you beautiful. Price 60c. Sent by
mail. For sale by Brannon <t Oarson and
John P. Turner, Columbus, Ga.
Mre. Dr Walton'. Periodical Tea.
Mother Walton has prescribed thia val
uable medlcelne tor a great many years
het private practice. It has proved an
unfailing specific tn the treatment ot tee
many disorders to which the female con
-tltutlon Is subject. It is a sure cure tor
’he monthly troublee that aomany women
suffer. Mulled on receipt ot price, 50c.
For s ale by Brannon A Oarson and Jno
P. Turner, Columbus, Ga.
Saratoga High Rock Spring Water for
, sale by ail driuzglete. mhUSsortAw
Proposals Wanted.
OEALED PROPOSALS are invited for doing
the city work for year 18H5, (January 1 to
December 31). as follows:
1. For making and t epairing carta and shotting
mnleft
2 For making and repairing harneaa,
3 For feeding the city milieu, the food bothfin
quantity and Quality to be such an the overaeer
of the street hand# shall require; and with the
privilege of Btoi lng ; ,tools and euch other prop
erty of the city an may be desired.
4 For making coffimj for paupers, the name to
be stained, ami head mid fuol boards and boards
fer covering the cd iiin to be included
' bhi t AA-fedi. it vm and t» imuianta, aa pre
sented by tt e nty pat kiUim jor a aptcified
• urn jor tiw j» ar; indiolm af< r Orpkana Asy
fum to be included. 9 bi* bid to include aur-
, gton’a dnasinflß, aa piaatera chloroform, lint.
bandasGH, vateut m. uicinea Ao., aid every
otler article or medicine ntceuaary for use by
c ty pLyician io treating diaeaaea or wounds,
all to be ot be«t quality,
6. For lumber, to be delivered Irom lumber
yard, or in qranltios at au< h plans aw xray be
deeUnaiea. Quality to be atrietly fire -clasa.
7. For publiahiUK proceeding* of council, of
ficially 11 required, or lull avnopaia or report#
of same; abo any ard all adv rtlaemento pvt
taining to municipal allalra, by ibt> Mayor, any
cemmittee r otlteer of council, itnlu< ing
Treasurer, Clerk, Marshal (rales,) Ate. and Chief
Rnsrineer of the Fire lepaitment. Also any
advtrtiremcnta by the Commissionera ol Ccm
moiaa, or Trustees cf I nblio Hohooia.
8. or all job woik, including all blanks and
tax hooka wbatßoever character, as well as
; binding, and job work ol any description may
be required, including the pubiteidig ii pam
pblet form oi 'JOO copi< a of annual reports of
com mitt* ee, addresa ot Mayor, etc, just made
to council and including the report of the Su
i perintendent of Public Nchoola, and ths annual
report of the Chief Engineer of the Fire De
par'ment to be made iu January next, hstt
»» ate of probable m ount ot work required will
be furnished on r<qiuat.
P:dK u.ay be <ia.iea in sny manner to suit bld
dirs, and must be banded in by neetii g of
Count 11 on Wcdneaday evening, December blot.
Connell reserves the rlgbt to reject sny or all
bids.
By order of Connoil
M M MOOBE
decl7 td Clerk Council.
Market Stalls to Rent.
WILL be rented at the Market House, at pub
lic outcry to the highest bidder, on Mon
day, January 5, all the Stalls in the Meat Market,
under the direction of the Committee on Market.
Quarterly notea with good auretiea will be
required M . M. MOORE,
dec!7-td Clerk t ouncil.
DR. JOHN NOR WOOD,
OFFICE A.T
BREEDLOVE & JOHNSON’S Drug Store,
Randolph Street.
Besldeuoe with H. L. WOODRUFF,
Grawford, between Troup sad Forsyla M'reet
sepßo-Bna
IMPORTANT
TO
Farmers, Trucksters and Gardeners.
0
I willifuruleh on boaid the .Cars at Flor®,
Alabama, a very <
Rich Marl
AT SIX BOLLAHS PEHIOV
CASH!
And a Very Low Rate of Freight
Is offered by the M< bile 4 Girard K. R.
By analysis of the State Geologist this
MARL contains from 5 to 8 per cent, of
PbospbnJe with otb.r lertllizlmt qualities.
For eotnpostii g and broadcai-'lrw for
irrnin fl-ide, iircbards and lawns it will be
found
AtValuable Stimulator.
This is not a Guano, but a RICH MARL I
Any orders forwarded to
' B. J. OHB, Agent, Flora, Ala.,
Mobile A Girard Railroad, will meet with
prompt attention. uevH-tf
NO. 212