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VOL. X.
MAIMED BY CABS.
HOW CRIPPLED RAILROAD EMPLOYES
ARE CARED FOR.
Victims Who Are Brought In from All
Parts of the Country Plucky
Men Who Undergo Painful
Surgical Operations.
[Philadelphia Times ]
The daily average number of accidents,
alight and serious, on the railroads of this
country is seven or eight '.ost of them
are caused by the carelessness which is
bred of familiarity, but a few, one out of
every eight, are almost unavoidable. Tin
class of men which suffer most from
these accidents is the brakemen on the
freight lines and the übiquitous tramp
who is stealing a ride. I luring the past
year there were some eighty cases of ae< r
dent to railroad employes ot various lines
admitted to the I niversity hospital and
fifty more admitted to the I rc-oylerian
hospital, besides many to the l.piscoj.al,
German ami Pennsylvania In -pital ■
These cases range in trivially and seri
ousness from a crushed finger • r toot to
compound fractures of the limbs and skull
or injury in some more or less terrible
form l'be cases are brought from all
parts of the country to 1 Lilad. iphia.
From wherever the lenns, Ivanin Phi a
delphia A heading, and the I'hiladeb ua
M ilmington A Baltimore Hu ■■ extend and
ramify, thence all accidents are quickly
conveyed to the beds tliecorp,,rations have
in one or other of the great hospitals of
this city.
The assistance of the nearest medical
man to the scene of the accident is called
in; the patient is temporal i y treated; he
is tenderly laid on a be i or matters' in the
first train con ing here; the hospital in
thorides are mi> ised that a > ■ wi. r.
at a certain time; the ambu aiic ■ mo- ;s
the train, and in a few minutes the suf
ferer is in a comfortable bed, with all that
modern skill and invent.on and kind
heart- can devise for the alleviation of Ins
anguish.
What happens to those men who are
irremediably maimed? In every ca-e
where the employe bears' a good record
with the company he serve-, s..me em
ployment is given him that lie can fulfill
without the necessity of the limb or the
limbs lie has lost 'i bus signalmen, gate
men, station clerks and m< .engers are
recruited from the ranks of the halt and
maimed. The courage most m best, men
display under the most distrrs ng circum
stances is enhanced by th kn -vh ge that
they will be cared lor when they Im , die
hospital. No matter how terrih e the
operation to lie undergone, the men dis
play a stoical resignation and give them
selves up to the treatment of the surgeons
with a simple faith worthy of emulation.
“The railroad men are our be-" > atients. ”
said a doctor fit the Presbyteria . bos; ital
yesterday. “They never com, la n.
There is one whose arm had to be ampu
tated. I suppose the company will do
something for you when you go out?"
he continued, addressing the man.
“Oh, yes, sir. I suppose they will make
me a signalm ,m or switchman. I can do
that with one arm. ’’
“Hbw were you hurt?”
“Coming from 1 rankford to Phila
delphia o. a freight tr in, sin I was sit
ting on lhe top of a car i> ■ the brake.
T here were forty-six cars we had ireen
signaled to stop and 1 bad put on my
brake and was slipping down between tl>
cars The engine pulled up pretty sud
denly and before I could get out I tho
way the twenty or more < ar- behin I r u.-
came up with a erk, knocked nn off my
feet and crushed my arm between the
buffers. "
“Here is a man who got his foot run
over, said the doctor.
“i t was at a switch, sir. ” said the man.
“I thought 11 ad my foot our of the way,
but- 1 hadn't ”
“So now he will have to do without his
big toe and the first Joints of some ol lie
others, ” said the physician. “But that
won’t disable him. He will be able to
walk nearly as well as ever. Here area
< ouple of cases, one of a crushed arm, the
< ilier a crushed leg. In b. th cases tin.
men were thrown down and lhe wheel of
■• car went lengthwise ov -r t’-e Htnli-
t aring and lac rating the i.eshy part ;
tle limbs, but. by a mere miracle, i.ot
1 leaking the bones, a though they were
1: id open to view. These men will re
cover the use of their limbs.
“Oh, yes, we have much more rious
r ises sometimes, but the ma,ori: <f them
do not amount to much more tl i these
1 at you have set n. and we aiw:. , our
I -st to obviate an amputation. You see,
a limb means something very important
l. a lai oring man. I have known cases,
though, where a man has received con
siderable advancemen by such an ac
re dent We bad a case las: < rin;r of a
man whose arm and l*eg had to be ampu
tated. When be went out of the hospital
1 was made station master nt a small
t< wn on the 1 ennsylvania rotci. He was
a card man before the accident, and had
very little chance of rising. But the com
j nies are, as a rule, kind to their men
w ,o are hurt while on duty. ”
Attenuated Yellow Fever Virus.
[Chicago Herald.]
Word comes from Brazil that Dr. Dorn
inigas Freire, who has been experiment
ii g with a v.ew to ascerta n'ng the effects
of vaccination against yellow fever, has
b; n practically illustrating his theory
u on himself and some hundreds of wharf
laborers and British seamen. It is noted
that not one of the men thus operated
upon by attenuated virus has been stricken
with the fever, though it has been pre
valent among their unvaccinaied compan
ions.
The Expense of Official Life.
[Chicago Herald. |
Hamilton Fish was secretary of state for
lit years. In that time it c-.-.-l him
fl ,000 a year beyond his income to live
and entertain. It cost Evarts *l?.')00 a
ye..r more than his salary, while Fr
liii...huysn. is said to lie out ■ 40,000 in
four years under Arthur. What makes
it s . very expensive for the secretary of
st is thn lie has to entertain the foreign
lere’iOM frequently.
Indians and Whites.
[Exchange. ]
The Indians are savages, of course, and
ci’ ization of a high grade is to be found
ii aubington, but Indian < ommis-io..er
Pre j asserts that there is more drunken
ne- and crime amonc the 200,000 inhabi
tacts of tl.e capital than among the 230,-
0' 0 unsophis'icated red men.
A Day That Loves You.
“ 1 ne of those October days, when to
br<; he the air is like drinking wine, and
ev<- , touch of the wind against om- s face
is :> caress; you have a sense of com
panionship; it is a day that loves you. ”
mup made of black beans and sir rry
Is o .e of the latest epicurean novelties,
it is said to be of Norweg.au origin.
MX 4 M
Bat. to dfe I
AN AFRICAN “CONJUR” DOCTOR.
An Interview with “Snakey *frake**—A
Voudou Physician's Outfit.
[Athens (GaA Banner.]
1 There lives near Athens an old negro
man. now verging on three score and ten,
known as " nakey . ake. " and who has
; long been rei-ogni < d as authority on the
ire, art by his race ake is a full
I blooded African in fact, be claims that
I ids iiiicesters were sreal “medicine men”
| in lhe blares kingdom, wiio handed down
I io him the secret know.edge that lie uow
I< n ire .s. 11,; o.d ue ru, witli his snow
white wool and ebon sain, b«s the eye of
-a hawk, and i . speirei, _of bis work, his
tone and Ii .i ainio-t convinces oue
that be is honest in Lis convictions.
“res. boss, Ise a con ,ur doctor, ” re
marked Snake. ake ;<> u i tanner-Watch
j man reporter, who s ■ ,in him out for an
i terview, “an am now in town to 'tend
i'U a euilud lady Who lias been bewitched
ya youn. : d wl.o luos her husband. It's
a bad ease o < n ;r. t o. fur she biled de
heart ob a rat:ies.:ake iu her coffee.au
uni de wa si..-tacule-i, think dar am
me corp-e work. too. abo it it. If dat
• m true, dar am mullin' k .n sabe her. ”
" What do yo i < all corpse work. ”
“Well, you now. da d_- little finger ob
‘ a boy i hi. i de ei e to f ol> a gal, or eben
I a lock ob hair from de head ob a grow’n
pussou dat am dead, if pn; where a Tibbin'
ire on kin step o er it tree times a day,
I tw.ee gnin'and oni e coming.dat pussou
am doomed to deal i. Ob course, you got
• ;do certain works ober de pieces, but
r am plenty ol n ggers who has larne-.i
tiou.di to coniur a pussou, but dey don t
now how to remove spoils. 1 kin cure
any k'.id of con piring unless its corpse
i work, an dat im always fatal when de
I ri, lit spells are used.
“Do you make much money .Jake?”
the repiorter asked.
“Not much now, boss, but I se seed de
lime when 1 niaue St > out ob one case. De
ole man gits in etiuff to l.b on. borne
l imine a chicken, some a bushel of corn
ain some a ball dollar. Ist kept right
I l us\ hunting up my truck and tending
: lolks. H hit. 1 |»eople sometimes send tor
i me, too, but i can't d > much wid dem.
I It takes a collar kind ob medicine fora
:.. o skin. 1 seds a great many ob dem
I.(tie e nur bags at . eeats a piece, but
, uey am wuss a half do! ar; ' and .lake pro
i meed a hnnd.u. of d cty little sacks from
I a s pocket, eaca suspended by a string to
lie around the neck
"What ar. hey filled with? ” we asked.
“ ar,ms tin , boss. Dar am de toof
ob de moceiisi . uake. de linger nail of a
gal child dot was born dead, nil kinds of
eon nr roots beat up, some blood from a
chieke i an heap ob udder tricks dal you
don i understand. I've got a spell on cm
too, for widout dat dey w.mid be no good.
A man wid o;.e ob • <m bags around his
< n kin nebber com to harm, unless a
i-log star be rising 1 eomd nebber larn
to get around dat dog star
>i,a % ey ■ ake tlieti began to g’low his
stock in trade. rent various of t e old
r tha: covered his body be brought
lor.h the most hideous objects—snake
- heads, woo), dirt}' bags tilled with a foul
‘•melling powder piecesol' withered flesh,
I ground glass and num other nauseating
I objects, explaining, with great pi de. the
1 . ciiltar use of < ach. Alain negroes be
.;i’. e firmly in this oudoo th ctor, and
- ; ion w liiie under lhe treatment of while
liysicia re. will stop t.ie use of his drugs
Ito sen ior "bnu.rey ake” to experiment
on them.
The Trt’.k of a Lifetime.
'J H lew II -n , ia The Q.liver.]
It has been estimated that a public
pen <■;• -a . s in o e Hour on an average,
what, if printed, woiid occupy fifteen
ctavo pages In . r.i nary conversation
I words ow lio n the iips quite as rapidly
I - in pu ic specca. in posing, then,
tliui ;il: the la., of oue day be estimated as
equivali- t to four hours consecutive
speaking a mu i -in one week wuat, if
printed, would lie a,i octavo volume of
; ji p.-, e.s. in one year lie spea s fifty
two -ueii volumes and in tn rty years
he would have an extensive library of
lei) volumes. It is amat rof re.,owing
that the ta.k of societ is not thus printed
and perp'tuaied. few men, if any, could
pass creditably tiirougii such a severe
test.
it is -i d I but t-w’if nt an evening party,
on on< ain re ot to a corner of a
room and c mime re d noting down the
talk of the com any. r.eing asked what
he was doing, h ■ pr lue d the verbatim
report of the couv, rs i c □ which had just
taken place. 1 ach speaker fc.t laraenta
bl , cha. rined al to- . uperticial aud
tri ing cbaraeior of ,i< utterances. 80,
doubtless, wo right-minded man
feel if some • of the phono rraphic
school we e wbti us plying his
pencil whenever > ■ speak.
'lhe Sa eg o One Retail Houae.
L'xt? . i ■ Letter.]
There was neither warmth nor beauty
in the strange tbiexnere o tile garb of a
man whom, in on of the largest of our
dry go ds stor s, 1 saw emerge from the
busjiess office doub cd in girth since his
entrance a few minutes before. He wore
a heavy, am le oi rre.a, which was
bulged so irregularly round his middle
that he made quite a preposterous figure,
j The sudden corpulency was composed of
I si.u.OoU i;i m ore a ... < oin, packed in tings,
which were fastened by small chains to
his person. He was a messenger dis
patched with the previous twenty-four
hours' receipts to the Tank for deposit.
Jo- ’.re in i. a led to ...- burden in such a
manner that he would necessarily have
f -med a par; ■ f tire booty in case of
highway robbery, rind several followers
vre.uld have oveiuntiled him if he had al
ternate Ito abscond. The trecti of ■ew
Y ork are s a cely safer than a country
road for bearers of good plunder.
Superiority of Distilled Water.
Dr. A illeneo <>, in a paper read before
the Ac.idcmi” nes I” rices, stated that,
for drinking yurpos<re, he had found dis
tilled waler tar superior to mineral
waters, as rife sources o; the latter are
oil- n contaminated. He had used dis
t: . d water for three years, and found
that there is no foundation for the popu
lar notions ■ that it is disagreeable to the
tas'e. dinicult to digest, and do -s not con
tain air. It is easily tested, a solution of
n ate ’f silver giv s a precipitate when
added to ordinary drinking water, but is
dissolved in the distilled article.
Death Kate of ( olored Troop*.
According to the I nited States surgeon
general s annual report the death rate for
c -red troops has, for the first time since
their organization, fallen below that for
white troops. Their m .rtality from res
pired ory affections—usually pneumon a—
is more than four times as great as that of
white troops.
Danger Ahead.
[New York Graphic.]
TVe are in danger of having to much
culture in this country. An e sthetic bulf
co.ored pu ; rece tl. went mad in Boston
because In mistress dressed him in a
light green biaukut
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1885.
living High on a Paper of Needle*.
[The Bivouac.]
After the battle of Chickamauga, one of
“our mess" found a needle case which
bad belonged to some poor fellow, proba
bly among the killed. He did not place
much va ue upon lhe contents, although
there was a ; aper of No. 8 needles, sev
eral I uttons, and a skein or two of thread,
cut at each end aud neatly braided, so
that each thread could be smoothly drawn
out He put the whole thing in his
breast pocket, and thought no more about
it. But one day. while out foraging- for
himself and his mess, he found himself
near a ' ouse where money could have pro
cured a line meal of tried chicken corn
pone aud but. ruiilk, besides a small sup
ply to carry back to camp. But Confed
erate sold ers purses were generally as
empty as their stomachs, and. in this in
stance, the lady of the house did not offer
to give away her nice dinner. While the
poor fellow was inhaling the enticing odor
and feeling desperately hungry, a girl
rode up to the ga c on horseback, and
bawled out to another girl inside lhe
house:
“O, Cindy, I rid over to see if you
couldn't lend me a needle. I broke the
last one I had today, and pap says thar
ain’t nary notber to be bought' in the
country hereabouts. ”
Cindy declared .she was in the same fix,
and couldn't finish her new homespun
dress for the same reason.
I The soldier just then had an idea. He
retired to a little distance, pulled out his
case, and stuck two needles in the front of
his jacket, then went back and ottered
one of them, with his best bow to the
girl on the horse. Right away the lady
of the house otlered to trade for the one
remaining, and the result was a plentiful
dinner for himself, and, in consideration
of a thread or two of silk, a full haver
sack and canteen. After this our mess
was well supplied, and our forager began
to look sleek and fat The secret of hi.
success did not leak out till long after
wards, when he astonished the boys bj
declaring that he “had been living like s
fighting cock on a paper of needles ami
two skeins of silk. "
aaSS “K. H. V V.”
fltfundus I'l The Humbler.]
At a recent reception in New York a
distinguished member of the bar told a
.lory at the expense of a fellow advocate,
who was invited to some entertainment,
his invitation being accompanied with the
usual request, "r. a v. p. ” Never hav
ing before met the cabalistic initials, he
inquired what they signified. “Why,
don t you know?” was the reply. “It is
a direction as to dress; roundabout, shirt,
vest and pants.” “That's lucky," said
j he, “for I have everything but the round
about. ” A distinguished railroad man,
j who stood by. capped this with another.
On oue occasion he invited all the em
ployes of the road to his house to listen to
j a little talk by Peter < ooper and others.
I ust at that time there had been some dis
cussion as to a reduction of salaries, aud
the invite 1 were suspicious, especially as
they could not make out what what the
l“r. s. v. p ”iu the corner of the invita
tion meant. So they held a meeting, and
after much cogitating one man said
“Here, boys, I know what that means re
duction of salaries very profitable. They
will got us there, give us something to
eat and drink, aud we will be roped in
before we know it; don t let us go, ” and
go they would not until the superintend
' ent bad been seen, aud the matter ex
plained.
lie Wa* 'i'oo Reliable.
[Texas Siftings.]
Mose Schaumlierg lias a pawnbroker es
tablishment attached to his dry-goods
empo lum, which, like all concerns, is
run for revenue only. One day Jim Pay
son applied to Aiose for a loan on a fine
diamond ring. .Much to Payson's sur
prise, Aiose refused to make any advance
o«i the ring. Afi r Payson had left, Gil
booty, who wis present, asked Mose:
“Why dido t you let Payson have the
money on teat ring, it is worth the loan
he » k'ii several times over. "
! “i eansche ’. asli too reliable. "
I “I don’t under land you. "
! “Veil, you sees an unreliable man don’t
come back no more to redeem vut he has
pie -ged, den 1 keeps clot forfeited pledge
ami 1 makes more den 400 pershent; but
ven a man va.su reliable, choost like dot
Schim Payson, den becomes pack, maybe
in a week, pays me mine money, and
goes otf mit his valuable broperty, and I
makes choost so good as noddings. Ven
you vants to make mouey dot bawnbroker
plshness in. you must only deal mit peo
nies vat vasli not reliable. Dose reliable
Peebles steals their broberty away from
you ebery dime. ”
Ar;c« e<l Civilization.
[E inburg Review.]
If we ask why the Chinese have re
mained in a strange immovable condition
for so many centuries, the answer is clear,
though it may seem nt first a little inade
quate. The i hinese have no imagination.
1 eople without imagination never change.
The < hinese are clever, cultivated, skill
ful craftsmen, admirable imitators, but
they' have no imagination, aud that ex
plains everything. They are perfectly
satisfied wi ll the dull routine of a monot
onous laborious life, so long as they have
enough, to eat and to buy opium, and to
gamble away a few cash now and then
with the dice or dominoes, or over the
glorious combats of two valiant crickets.
They are a practical folk, and so long as
things are pretty comfortable they do not
see the use of ' ain aspirations
Ijunh Wine.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
The Mantchoos, who conquered China,
make a kind of drink from the flesh of
; lambs, either by fermenting it, reduced to
I a kind of paste, with the milk of their
domestic animals, or bruising it to a pulpy
subs ance with rice. TVhen matured it is
put into jars and drawn off as needed.
Gerbilion says that the rich Mongols
leave mutton to ferment with their sour
milk before they distill it. This is un
doubtedly the spirit said tx> lie made from
the flesh of the sheep by the Tartars in
China, of which the emperors were so
fond.
Cost of the Great Kast.m.
(Ev change.)
The cost of building and launching the
Great Eastern was over $4,500,000. An
ouday of $3,650,000 broke the original
company before she was launched.
Another company took upthe work, spent
$000,004 and collapsed. Then a last
company, with a capital of $500,000,
fin sited and launched the leviathan of the
sea in 18S0.
Made Fa non*.
Oliver Wendell Holmes once made
famous the great jockey and rider, Budd
Doble, by referring to him aa lhe man
with the cold-in the bead name.
The Greatest Cold.
The greatest cold yet produced by man,
32k degrees below zero, was obtained by
two Uussiau pbj sicisU by Uic use ol liquid
oxygeu.
ONLY A GIRL.
(Rut Hall in Outing I .]
I heai'd a sharp ion e u\>-ty way.
And I catch tl. • gleam 0/ a cyclo iiright,
Just a glimpM) o a form in Q •.>.:<.••• jay,
Ami then, the dear boy! he is out of sight.
Ah. out Hii l away, ere t io sun i In.Ji,
While the early clou t. are all rose and
pearl.
Aud t ie air like a wine that is bright and
d ry;
Am] I ni--only a girl.
I think of the h- llows where leaves lie deal;
Os the gaunt trees’ shadow-. a,,am.st the
sky;
Os the cool, cl er; r stretch of blue ov erlioad,
And the low, lush meadow*, he rati les by
I look on the roe 1 with its duty t . ,
Where the wind-gu 1 < m ‘-v, t,.» v\ .1 . 0 an I
whirl;
And—yes, 1 may look for his coining back,
For I’m only a girl.
1 may watch ami wait all day f r the ring
Os his pretti playthings !: [i enhi'x
And. dressed in m\ jn 1 i mu o'» and sing
Over inv work till Ili >ai- the wl -1
Then 1 shall see theev< <>’ niv la i.
And he a cheek an 1 a j-> > i; <• irl;
An I well, ys• p ; ; Im a lutle glad,
That I m only a irl
A Scene in Actual Li <l.
(New York I etter.]
There are moving si hts in actual life
at even turn, a d with ad un ii rs which
depend on no prewired d.-vic >s lore feet.
William 11 \ ander 1 i a a 1 u p r
window pf his mans, u the other morning
with a face so g.um that 1 ended a friend s
attention to it.
“io you suppose it poss ble that he seri
ously feels lhe heavy hiss irom (he d< pre
ciaiiou in Ins own slocks and lie liimn il
ruin of one or two of his so.is through
speculation!” I asked
“Possibly he does, ” wrs the reply, “for
the shrinkage in his wealth cannot be less
than $30,0'0.0U0 if w. reckon from lhe
highest quotations of the past down to the
lowest of the present, iie-1 i he has ha-i
to actually part, with somewhere from
$5,000,0J0 to 87,000,000 1.0 ma e good
his sous’ disastrous ventures. lut 1 ok
across the street Theres a sig’at that
ought to make him (piite content with the
sous and the hundred millions which are
left to him. ”
I irectly opposite the block of Vander
bilt residences in Fifth avenue i a '.Oman
Catholic orphan asylum, st uling baeiv
from the famous street; anil <i >wn lhe in
clined walk toward the . aie < ame a
woman and a little boy. M hal lie was
a mo;,her in poverty an 1 h< a half orph
aned son, whom cruel late and ‘em ncenl
charity combined to lake aw i fr m her,
was apparent at a 1 r cc. The parting
was a breakage of tin two fond hearts,
lliat was clear, else the w mt; would not
have hugged the boy so dcajje ait'ly ma
ke have clung to her a- to I his< hope of
happiness. Then a sis’er, in the somber
garb of her order, emcigel from the
asylum, spoke* a few words the sorrow
ing ones, gently separa!. I tnem, .nt the
mother away, and led lac boy indoors.
\ anderbilt’s eyes rested on this incident;
but whether it. made his loss of millions
seem a trivial mishap 1 do not know.
The Lapj> and His 1.-.•indci r.
[Foreign Letter.)
The mountain Lapps of Norway have
learned to drink codec and wear stout
Norwegian cloth .but they ■1 as much store
by the reindeer as ever. A poor iamily
will have fifty and upward in a u ck, the
middle classes 300 to <oo, and the richest.
I.o<)a or more. The reindeer i.‘ a much
beloved by the La])]) as his ] , , by th<-
Irishman, and the reindeer often deep in a
hut iu much the same I i iii m. The
f .ap]) will whisper to his 1 :le *r when
harnessing him to his sleigh, and will
tell him where he is to go, and dec ares he
understands him, dhe rciiid er s much
like a slag, only smaller; all the jaiople,
animals a,;d trees in Lapla dan diminu
tive, the men are mostly uml 'i ive feci
high, and the womtn und< r sou. f< ct
nine inches, so great are Ike ligois of inc
climate in this as in ail court ,’s under
lhe arctic, aud the cows, si jeep aa 1 goa s
are small in proport: »n.
In summer ti c r indeer feeds upon
grass, nml give excellent mi?<, .n lhe
wit ter they feed upon mo -s v. > a they
scratch up under grea depths of now
with marve ous instinct. V\ Im winter
draws n-ar great numbers ar ..i ic i, a d
the de. aLs dried and mok<_d 1 » rove'e
food when the ground is covci d with
snow, and but few birds, Ji giar nig u,
partridges and caperca. zi ,: r >et with.
The ilesh is very nut; ,Lou mid after a
course of grass feedim it, is -u l, rising ho *•
soon the reindeer be omc fat an . piump
The skin m ikes their <ir -s an I boots,
ttie sinews their thread and ii 'h g lines.
t,nd the horns their spoons and domestic
u ten J Is.
AustriA’H Ileterogr••••on* reputation.
[New Yen Jimes.J
Probably no government in Fa rope has
more sub ccts or rul< tie in v illi more
diihcuity than the eabim tol ienna.
The i utheniac of G;o ■ ..1 ih t mats and
Wallachs of the lower Dana e. the Slav
of Dalmatia and tii • i < utino the prom
and warlike llum .i an Aa • > ars. tiie
Transylvanians, wh <e chiej ranked
among the sovereig of 1 uro]> barely
two centuries ago the Czech . of Bo
hemia. who formed a /rca: ami powerful
kingdom when the h i t of 'he llapsburgs
was still an obscure erman kui .’ht—ail
these and others besides are he'd together
by Austria like the '-s of a rickety
cask, which tly in ail directions lhe mo
ment the confining iioop is „arred by a
heavy blow from without.
Stirring Stagnant Waters.
lExchn: "v.
Recent havre. shown that
rapid motion lias a r 'niai’kab ■ i liect in
destroying the orga. i<- impurii lire in water.
This lends Mr. Matt. u IV ilhatiis to re
mark that the uteamboats on the Thames,
of which complaints have been made I e
cause they disturb tire bottom, are really
very valuable agents from a sanitary
point of view, for the violent agitation
they produce. The si earn lure which
agitate otherwise sin unit eni is must
also be regarded as great beuet tors.
Where Meteorites Originate.
[Exchange. I
Professor R. 8. Ball, astronomer royal
of Ireland, declares it to be his belief that
the masses of stone and iron which fall to
lhe earth as meteorites were originally
thrown out by tern st.al vol, anoes at are
mote period in our planet s geological
history. If so, the frire.rn ats must nave,
been projected beyond tile iu uence o, the
earth s attraction by ex ..si are giving
them the tremendous initial velocity of
six miles a second.
Doubling Tlielr Wealth.
Mulhall, the Englidi s'atistician. says
thai. while Englam. lias übl d her
wealth since 184a, rance has doubled
hers since 1856, and the I uited ' tales has
doubled theirs since 1 ,4.
Another Warning.
Smokers are war: ed by a celebrated
optician from reading and smoki - at the
same time. The blue of the smoke im
poses unequal work upon the two eyes.
MANIFEST DESTINY.
European Towers in America—Africa'sD®-
velopmeut—The Black Man.
[George Alfred Townsend.]
The Old AVorld already has large inter
ests in Amer,. a To the north of us is a
nation of-..one 5,000,00;) ol people, whe
receive their governors from England.
'1 o the south ol us is the most prominent
islnibl ;u merii-a, absolutely under the
dominion of Spain. Almost; every power
in Europe owns one or more islands on
the American coast. The laud called
Guiana is dis ided between the British,
Dutch, and French. It is not to be ex
pected Hint Arae: cans can reserve the
whole of South Ameri a for their own
operations, and suspend tte se operations
as long as they like.
We Lave 11'1)1" had an American colony
called 1 iberia on the African coast
Americans have been long the most prorn
i. ent d.s overers in Africa, and they have
been paid with American money. Africa
i. too vast a continent, ami we have too
huge an African population. Io resign for
our posterity ail trade and btisinesß in that
fully one fourth of the world's surface.
This globe is becoming small under the
manipulation of man, and the time may
soon bo ai hand when real estate will be
high all over it. There is a growing ab
sorption of lhe races into each other,
which no superstitions can prevent Both
caste and religion are doomed to fade
away as nature works out her own among
her human children.
'I he t idled Mates possesses in her
in :ro population fullyh.Oim.OJi) of petple
more cii] ale and more, willing to till the
soil and enter the armies of the I nion
than the I est soldiers of India. That pop
u a'ion works both sexes the black man
can go to wnr. and the black woman till
the ground. We probably possess in our
own state within easy call for military
uses and for any foreign < mergency as
many men as the British have armed out
of the native population of India. So lhe
Sepoy argument cau scare Europe much
more than America. They have no com
pensating black population in Eu
tope to resist Asia or Africa. The
negro element we possess has never been
measured up to its capacity for war. In
lhe war, however, the United States en
listed black regiments, and they still exist
in our service, and experience seems to
prove Unit there is but little difference
i etweeu the human animal when trained
for w'.’ir, wlii’tlier he was originally a
prize tighter or a cotton-picker. The
huge armaments of Europe are a nuisance
without having some moral agency, and
to keep them merely in peace without the
ex osures of war is to break their morale.
It i rance, Germany, Austria and
liussin with the adjacent nations of the
continent, adopted a united policy upon
colonies there would be nothing left for
England but Io come in alliance with
them or try the mettle of her navy, (’er
tuinly Hie time is close at hand when the
whole world will have to go away from
home to vary its civi.ization. to nia ket its
products, aud to inspire self-reliance in its
statesmen and officers.
I‘ipes of Pence.
[lh’froit Free Press.)
A lady in Detroit, who does not. use to
banco in any form, lias a collection of
pipes which would do credit to a connois
seur. There are briar pipes from Switzer
land, meerschaums from Germany, clay,
porcelain and bisque pipes in every style
of manufacture, and Detroit pipes bear
ing imines engraied in Hie clay. The
quaintest, pipes, th se that are made of
brown or black clay, are designed with
the bowls cut in the shape of a Turk's head
or a horses, dog's or sheep’s face,
and are tied I gether in pairs by tri colored
narrow libbons and suspended to picture
frames and brackets. Occasionally this
lady gives a “pipe ] arty. ” It isa rather
funny ’ i vitatioii ” club, but by no means
stupid. Itn ■■ is burn dinsme of Hie
pi e- The ladies smoke ten-rose leaves,
sweet herbs and mildly revon 1 cigarettes
in their pretty tripes, ross their little feet
and tell j I stories, ala their male com
patriots, who would no doubt vote it a
very tame affair. The yellow cob pipes,
tied with red and yellow ribbons, are
favorite patterns with the lady smoker.
A Story from the Capital.
[Chicago Tribune.]
A story comes from Washington that
several mat)' script volumes of diplomatic
correspond' ci' nave been discovered at
Cuinbi iiiee, . d., which how that George
M iisLington and Alexander Hamilton,
while joining in the pub.ic expressions of
gratification at Lafayette s proposal to
leave rance and make this country his
home, they were secretly working through
Mr, Murray, the American minister to the
Netherlands, to pre ent his doing so.
They urged that every obstacle shotnd be
inter) used to his C ming. Washington
believed that JeGerson's political tenets
would ruin the nation, and for some
reason lie was convinced that, if Layfay
ette eaiue to America, tie would join him
self to Jefferson, and that, in such an
event, Hie. balai ce of parties would be
destroyed, and that the Frenchman’s
wonderful popularity would carry Jeffer
son on a tidal wave to the pre idency.
Curiosities of Medical Life.
[Exciiange.]
An English paper gives some of the
curiosities of medical life. One doctor
lunches at a castle where the household is
very large and his chances for a patient
excellent. He meets some of the best
company in England, and charges a guinea
for meh attendance. -A. very wealthy
an near a large city can not bear to be
I'loue at night, so an eminent city physi
cian gets $ J,OOO a year for lodging in the
In use. One young doctor has $3,000 a
year for looking aft r the health of an old
uidy. She has to be inspected three times
a day, but is “as strong as a horse, ” and
so perverse that he has great trouble with
her.
Something Gone Wrong.
[Detroit Post.]
Jones entered his office and sat down at
his desk in a very pronounced and em
phatic manner.
“What's the matter?” inquired bis part
ner. “Somethinggone wrong?"
“Wrong!” repeated the exasperated
man. “1 walke I the floor with a crying
baby from midnight until 6 o’clock this
morning, and as I left the house the first
person f met was Smith, who said with
an idiotic smirk: ‘Ah! old man. you look
ra her tough. Out with the boys again
last night? Some men make me sick. ”
A Misguided Cabbage.
* [Burlington Fret* Press.]
On opening a big cabbage grown at
Sodus, N. Y., it was found that within
an outside covering of large, thick leaves
were tightly embedded thirty-five small
and almost perfectly round cabbages.
Tlie modern cabbage doesn tseem to un
der-, tand that it is expected to evolve ci
gars, not garden truck.
George MacDonald: If I can put one
touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any
man or woman, 1 shall feel that I have
worked with God.
NORTH SEA “COOPERS.”
FLOATING PUBLIC-HOUSES WHICH
HAIL FROM GERMAN PORTS.
A Visit on Board a “Cooper,” and the
Skipper’* Reception The Curse
of the North Sea —l)i*hone*t
Smack ineu.
[St. Janies’ Gazette.]
In July last it was announced that a
German vessel, the Diedrich, had been at
tacked and plundered in the North sea by
a gang of pirates, supposed to belong to
English fishing smacks working on the
Dogger bank. The assailants, it was said,
rowed up in boats, boarded lhe i'iedrich,
assaulted and maltreated her officers and
crew, and made oil with a considerable
amount of loot The word “piracy”
was evidently an exaggeration, for it is
not pretended that the “pinites” were
armed. It was suggested, no doubt, that
they carried knives and bludgeons. But
bludgeons are no part of the stores of a
fishing-smack, aud every sailor carries a
knife ns a matter of course.
To those acquainted with the Dogger
bank the wfcole thing was clear at om e.
The Diedrich was admittedly a German
“cooper. ” The “coopers” are large
smacks of sixty or seventy tons measure
ment, liber lly rigged and fast sailers.
They come out from the German ports
with a cargo consisting principally of
cigars, tobacco, and spirits. But they
also carry scent, kid gloves, bangles, and
other such wares of Autolycus, which the
smacksmen purchase for their wives,
daughters, or sweethearts. There will
also be an assortment of sundries—cut
lery, combs and brushes, razors, and
boots, and with these other articles of a
distinctly objectionable character, such as
stereoscopic slides, the sale of which on
shore in England would be an indictable
offense. The prices charged are low, and
the goods, as a rule, are worthless. The
spirits are abominable. Only, a smacks
man in want of a drink will drink any
thing. The one genuine article a cooper
carries is her tobacco. This costs you 18
pence a paund. The favorite brand re
joices in the title of “Basing Hope, ” and
it would be cheap in Loudon at 4 pence
the ounce.
These coopers come out of the German
ports and cruise about, among the fishing
fleet. There is no secret as to their busi
ness. It is publicly indicated by a small,
square blue flag bung a third up the main
topmast. They are, in reality, coating
public-houses, and the flag in question is
their sign board. Now English fishing
smacks on the Dogger put down their
trawl at sunset and haul it nt sunrise.
During the day a fishing smack, as a rule,
lies to, drifting slowly to leeward and
hardly shifting her position on the fishing
grounds. It is during the leisure hour
of the day—generally after dinner —that
the visit to the cooper takes place. You
row up to her, and are welcomed by a
polyglot skipper, who commeuies pro
ceedings by handing round glasses of
liquor and then gets to business. Over
the business an altercation is by no means
uncommon, and it will sometimes get
beyond the length of mere words, if, on
the other hand, things go amicably, an
hour or two will be spent in drinking
Hamburg sherry, potato spirit, and other
such poison; arid then the men wdl rejoin
their smack, all more or less drunk and
loaded with rubbish.
There is nothing good on a cooper ex
cept her tobacco, and this is only because
cut tobacco can not easily be counter
leited or adulterated. The floating grog
shops in the coopering trade are the curse
of the North sea. The men waste money
on them which would tie better spent < n
shore, and in too many cases the skippe:
of a cooper is neither more or leas than a
receiver of stolen goods When tin
smacksmen have no money he will tempi
them to “truck’' the stores of their vessel
and many a valuable net, many fathoms
of rope, many anchors, and other su< li
gear, have been reported as lost, which in
reality have been bartered away for an
eighth of their value in exchange for Harn
burg spirits. No one says that this is
honest on the part of the smackmen I n
there is rough sense in a remark oft r
heard from the bench, that if there were
no receivers there would lie no thieves.
Peculiarity of Sei*mic Wave*.
[lnter Ocean.]
It is a remarkable peculiarity of earth
quakes, aud one which may yet shed a
light upon the mystery of these sei mic
disturbances, that they generally roll from
east to west like a wave. Within recent
years this singular trait of earthquakes
has been very conspicuous The dreadful
earthquakes which altered the configure,
tion of the island of Java was
followed by terreslrial disturbances
in Syria and Asia Minor, and now
the convulsion that has smote terror to
the heart ol Spain seems to have rolled
across to England, where several shocks
have .been distinct! > felt. In 1755 the
great earthquake which destroyed Lisbon
and upheaved the Tagus until it looked
more like a great tidal wave than a river,
was followed by shocks in England and
France. The American continent does
not seem to lie affected by these seismic
waves, but in the old world it does seem
to lie the rule that earthquakes start in the
in the east and roll westward.
Australian Sheep Dog.
(Exchange.)
According to English papers, the sheep
industry in Australia has brought out a
variety of the sheep dog remantable for
sagacity, but differing in many other par
ticulars from those of other countries. It
is related of them that they will hunt sot
stragglers miles away from the but, and
either drive them in or watch them, if
they happen to be exhausted, until they
gather sufficient strength to walk. It is
a common thing in traversing the graz
ing country to come upon one of the sa
gacious dogs on guard over a strayed or
broken-down sheep, and while placable
and gentle to a remarkable degree, as ■
rule, are then resentful of interference
with their charge, and tierce in the er
treme.
Florida’s Upas Tree.
[Chioapo Tinies
A veritable upas tree grows in the keys
south of Daytona, Fla. It is called the
machines!. Any oue taking shelter under
it during a rain, or sleeping under it
when lhe dew tails, is sure to be poisoned.
One who experienced it says: “it swells
a fellow all up, and makes him feel as if
he had been skinned and peppered. ” A
man who began making canes for the
New Orleans exposition from the wood
became poisoned and won’t touch it any
more
Good, if True.
[Chicago Herald-l
A genius of Franklin. Pa, has invented
an instrument which will record the effect
of spirituous potations on the drinker, lie
says the instrument will unerringly indi- I
cate the point at which liquor ceaseo to be
a atimulaut and becomes an intoxicant.
NO. 236
'rej CI.LtBHJTED
I
sitters
HopJeHrr’f Ntotcub Bitter* f* t»’#» •rtiol«» for
'on. t Mhi ulttCH t * fat ing ei » r es. imlyor
*te* tl e bory an «h< or* the wind. It enahiee
'UrßjM'mt throw ft the denil ta’inv efl eta
; of nndt e fit’nu , rirea r»n<-ed vu or to th*
a ol (Vg< »tion. aronaee the when 'n
actKe re •wp hej»d»d apveti'e ani e,i cour
»v« a h»»lth*u! rtp<>Be. It* ingredient* are
•nd t’B c erentui” which codm! t tn ihe borty
end< reement of p rerne ol ev< ry c e ol st ol»
tny »r- moMt cfirv-noi it.
For ra e by til rih.jrißta and Dea’era
eererally,
I Ahb! FILFMI fr 11 Lblll
Bure cure for Bill <l. Bleeding end Iteh
tfiu Piles One box has eureit the worst
cnees of 20 yeare’ etsniilriz. No one need
suffer five minutes after uelnv Wlllfsm'B
Indian Pih Ointment. It ebeorbe fumorß,
j atlsye Itchlnu, acts as poultice, trlves tn
etrinf relief. Prepared only for Pllee,
itching of rhe private parts, nothtDK else,
Ron. J, M. Coffenbury, of Cleveland, eays:
j “I have used eccres o'Pile cures, and It
affords me pleasure to say tbar 1 have
never found anytlitrqr which irfvee such
'i' mediate and permenert rille' se Dr.
Wtiltsm’B Indian Pile Ointmmt.” Boid by
rhvk-nlsts and walled of. receipt of cries,
sl, Foiesleby Brann-n A Carson, B.
Carter. John P. Turner and Geo. A. Brad
ford, Columbus, Ga.
Dr. Fraxter’r Beot Bitter
Frazier's Boot Bitters are not a dram
ebi p beveraae, but are strictly medicinal
tn i very eenee. 'Jhey act strongly upon
the Liver and Kldnevr, ke>p the boweia
open and regular, make the weak strong,
bent the lunge, bulla upthe nerves, and
eb’snee the Mood and system ot every Im
purity. Bold by drUKtrtsre. *I.OO,
For pale by Brannon & Carson and Jno.
: I’. Turner, Ootumbns, Ga.
Dr Frailer’* Mag's Ointment
A sure rule ter Llttte Grites in the Hkfn,
Hon«b bitin. ite. It will remove that
rovvhneee from the hai de and face and
ntski you beautiful. Prtee fee. Bent by
msll. For sale bv Bi snr on A Careen and
John P. Turner, Columbus, Ga,
Mr*. Dr VlsUto»’« Periodica] Tea.
Mother Walton has prescribes this val
uable medlceitte tor a Brest many years
het private practice. It hse proved an
unieiitea specific In the treatment of tie
many disorders to which the fewak con
stitution le subject. It Is a sure cure tor
the monthly troubles tbatsomany w< men
si'ffer. Mailed on receipt nt price. JOc.
For s ale I y Prarncn A Careen and Jno
P. '1 timer, Columbus, Ga,
baratoca Pljrh Bock bprlnp Wster for
o. lr fr y pl’ drrjyptrfp n" I*9o# or*A w
MaU AbC l AG> UtkY-
CVSSKTA, GEORGIA.
The V. k<dtl ’ 1 hoi oo will begin acaln
JANUAID 5 l*B6lflte> Monday)
7 unn nsl BO H 2 SO * nil S 3 80,
Accotdit ir to cud . Board rev i more
Tl nn 88. Pi r fflonfh.
MUSIC ss:t. PER MONTH.
L.OI A JON HIAI T" pi.
W. E MCI I I BY.
t-r1 rjf -rir'wß Prlncppl.
MJOHOOhWm
OFFICJR AT
BREEDLOV & JOHNSOh'S Dreg Store,
Randolph btreet.
Residence with H. L>. WOODRUFF,
Or»wford, between Tic up and Pcistß f'net
I'J.'C i tt
li. E. E HIGGS,
Fhyucian tnd Surgeon.
OFFICE!
T. H.
Beside nee, Ja«kton B*. East Court H<»us«.
janP-ly
w7a.T|CNER. Ju
At 1 aw.
OFFICE IN GARRARD lIIIDNQ
COTUMBU% - - - GEOEGIA
Great B.rgalna
At Phillips'New Bhoe Store, 46 Broad st,
Ovluwbus, Ga. Stock all ww, fine and
heap. deTrAwif
IMPORTANT
TO
Farmers, Trucksters and Gardeners.
——o
I will furnish on hoard the Cars at Hora,
Alebuma, a very
Kich. Marl
IT MX iIOLI-A AS PKIC TOV
!
And a Very Low Rate of Freight
1s offered by the M> bile 4 Glratd B. K
By analysts of the State Geologist this
MARL contains from 6 to 8 per cent, ot
Phoephate with oth' r teiHllztns quallttee.
For c mpostii g and broadCMsilrg tor
graft fields, orchaids and lawns it will be
found!
A Valuable Stimulator
Tnls is not a Guano, but a RICH MARL
Anyc rder<> forweided to
R. J. ORR, Agent, Flora, Ala.,
Mobile A Girard Railroad, will writ with
prompt attention. decij-tr
noticeT
FORGIK r OTNTT—I Jarob
1 o* B rn3 ». fi ’»!d
onrt' ppd Bt"t* hereby ftp rMf* to the
rnbi-rof rry c^’ttirtnvHd rg*
Ppo’a, eb» ! ’ be »r d become f’om » #, er thf«
, de’e a pnWIo ot free trader w’th all of the
rights aod prtytlegM under the Htat te Id suoh
1 mm* made and provided. JXOOB BHODA«