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WEDNESDAY ....MABCH 24. 18-5
Mbs. Sabtubib, General Grant’s
daughter, who resides in Europe, has
arrived at her father’s io New York,
whither she was called because of
the condition of General Grant’s
health. The general is reported to
be gradually Improving in comfort
though bls mouth, is thought to be
no better.
Wi see it stated that the frost and
cold weather has ruined the fruit and
early vegetation In some of the sec
tions of the south. We are sorry to
know It; for vegetables and fruits are
great blessings. But hereabout the
blizzards, and frost, and cold snaps,
and backwardness -and all weatber
signs not good—have set gardens
back, made all early crops look blue,
and prevented even the fish from
biting. Do let us have a change I
Old Pbobs—we scarcely know who
he is tn these disjointed times—is
trying to solace us with the idea ot
“shifting” winds land warmer weath
er. The warmer weather has not yet
been realised, but we have faith that
the warm wave will be struck before
the 4tb of July. It is always safe In
this latitude to predict warmer
weather anywhere between February
and May—even up to July. Let it
come, the present temperature has
worn endurance threadbare.
Ths heads of the departments are
all working men and they do not
tolerate drones about them. The
idea of keeping non-workers about
about them is not agreeable. Hence
we see it stated that all of them are
giving notice to “Bupe»" to find
something else to do. Mr. Manning
and Mr. Lamar seem to have set
this reform ball in motion, Mr.
Vilas, it is said, is looking carefully
about hie department, to see how
many ornamental figures he may be
able to let go.
Thb last from the British on the
Boudan is a little gloomy. The
Mahdi is extending his lines and the
Arabs are being more and more
drawn within the influence of hie
fanaticism, If that is the proper name
to give it. We can see nothing but
the pluck of England and her money
power.fpower to give encouragement
to her friends, to look for success In
Africa. The situation in Asia, on the
Afghanistan frontier, with the Rus
sian complications, tnougb serious,
are not, as we regard them, so full of
trouble as the Soudan problem. T
P|peh published away up some
where tells us of a Mr. Johnson, from
about Guilford Courthouse, N, 0„
who has a "skillet” which has been
in use in his family over one hundred
years. That is pretty good, but our
fellow-citizen. Judge Milford, can
beat it. He had left over after the
war over a thousand skillets that had
never been, when lant heard from,
used in anybody’s family, or “toted”
by anobody. The judge was famous
for skillets, and if a war ever breaks
out again in our beat, we intend to
get one of his and “tote” it. The
most ot the gravy of our early life h
traceable back to North Carolina
“skillets” and “spiders.”
HENKKAL HENUY U. JACK-ON
Has been confirmed minister to
Mexico. We are glad of this, be
cause of the modesty of the desire
and the pre-emnient fitness ot the
man for the place. Forty years ago
we heard Captain Jackson make a
rousing speech at the Lowell ware
house-then Hall <& Ruses’ ware
house—to the companies which had
assembled here to form regiments to
go to Texas. Captain Jackson was
elected colonel, and so proper was
his deportment as such all through
the Mexican campaign, that he re
turned more loved than he wits when
be staated, and has ever since been
one of Georgia’s favorite sons. Yes,
we are gratified that the general has
the mission, because he wanted it,
and the want was in no sense an un
reasonable one.
Bill Aar is, or has recently been,
in Texas. He thinks it a great state
in the raw, and doubtless it is. If
what he says about it is true, and It
sounds like truth, it is a good place
tor those who have no other or better
home. By working hard, and not
oaring tor social considerations, dis
tinctions, or other vanities of life,but
be content to stick your pants in the
tops ot your boots, wear slouch hats,
and do or take anything that passes
along, a man that escapes being
caught up with a short turn, may do
well. He gives a rosy account of the
money that lies tnere about in spots,
loose, amid a folk who have no mort
gages on their ranches. He mentions
the town of Sherman, with a little
8,000 population, and a banking
capital exceeding in amount the en
tire banking capital of Georgia. Dal
las is about the same, and all the
smaller towns in the state with banks
and money intplenty. Seventy-five
thousand dollar courthouses are com
mon things, even in the cattle coun
ties, where litigation ought to be
light and lawyers scarce. But if the
rose is not too thickly plastered over
the canvas of the glowing picture,
why do those chaps, who are sur
rounded by such piles ot money, steal
a fellow’s oow, horse or mule, or even
cut his throat for a small purse? We
don’t believe We want to go to Texas,
or to advise any of our friends to go,
except some fellow or two who wants
a postoffice. That ought to be a good
place to get postoffioes, and this is
hot a very hopeful one, according to i
our experience. “Go west,” “pdet
offioe aftekAra,”
WAB TIMES.
BOW NEOESHITY BEOAMk THB MOTH SB OV
MANY QUAINT IHVESTIONH.
M. M. Folsom, of Americus, Ga.,
contributed the following to the last
'SSUe of the Valdosta Ttmi st
Ihe days of my childhood were
spent amid stirrlngecenes and troub
ulous times. Southern ports were
blockaded by federal gunboats and
rhe frontiers beleagured by northern
armies.
Did you ever see a “Georgia but
ton?” Those shirt buttons were queer
looking things. With their own
hands our industrious mothers spun
the thread, and needles were needles
in those days. Provided with needle
and thread they selected the sits for
the proposed button and began sew
ing in and out and round and round
until, by a simple operation, the
button was made and sewed on fast.
The button was made altogether of
thread, and possessed a decided ad
vantage, it never came off. It lasted
just as long as the button-hole.
Home-made tumbieis were an In
gentous contrivance, A round bottle,
white if It could be obtained, was se
lected, and a stout cord was wrapped
once around it. One person held one
end of the cord, another held the
other, and mov> d the bottle, quite
rapidly, until the glass became hot,
when it was plunged Into cold water,
which canted the bottle to break tn
two quite smoothly. Queer tumblers
they were, with theii sharp edges;
but they did splendid service.
Out In the interior onu may still
find an old fashioned spinning
vtieel. Ab, me! How sweet was the
hum of the old wheel as the old
shadows crept slowly eastward, and
the “swisti, swish, swish,” of the
cards kept time to the dreamy
music.
And the old “Georgia loom,” with
its queer looking baerns and we|i
worn treadles. The Click” of the
shuttle and muffled “bang" or the
beam, have lulled me to sleep many
a time, as my dear old mother
worked with uminug energy to fur
nish "coperas and checked” for my
little breeches.
In the manufacture of hats there
was a wide field tor the exercise Os
their inventive minds. The tender
shoots of the saw palmetto, platted
in round, square or ‘■notubedy’’
strips, was most frequently brought
into requisition. But then there
were cloth hats made of that same
homespun by cutting conical pieces
of cloth, sometimes of different
colors, and sewing them together,
the points meeting at the top of the
crown and the brim made separately.
These iuuny hats were worn by some
of the last conscripts, and gave lhetn
the name ot ''flop-eated-meltah.”
dboemat era wore exempt and they
showed wonderiul skid in tbe man
ufacture of shoes. The hides were
> tanned with red oak bark, ami tin
shoes were made for use and not for
show. When anyone was so fastid
ious as to desire black shoes, tic
shoemaker employed a solution oi
vinegar and rusty nails to blacken
the leather.
b jap was made from the ashes of
oak and hickory. Negroes and boys
were sent to the woods where they
cut and piled great heaps ot oak and
tired them, guarding the ashes Care
fully from the ruin until cool, when
they were taken home, thrown into a
hopper and leached, tbe lye being
used for soap making and for “set
ting” the dye in coloring home-made
cloth.
Going to Deaumau’s bay and other
points for salt, was a picnic for tbe
boys. They dug pits in the sandy
beach, boiled down the brine wmeh
'arose in them, and then returned,
after having made a sufficient quan
tity to supply tbe neighborhood. _
But some times the suit gave out,
and they hadn’t time to go to the
coast, so they just scraped off the soil
of the dirt-floored smuke-bous s and
boiled that down. True, it was rather
dark, but it was “salty.” There wan
one thing that we could never find a
successful substitute for. That was
coffee. We tried corn, wheat, rich,
bran and other things. Okra seed
made the best imitation ooilee, but It
was a poor substitute. It is amazing
to think of these elumsey efforts and
curious contrivances; but there is a
pathetic side of the question.
Why She Didn't Murry Him
‘■Yes, I live pleasatUy enough with tnv
husband,’' she said, “but I believe I should
have niairled Augustus, it all the girls
hadn't made fun of him, and said he’d be
bald as a pumpkin In a year or two."
Young men take warning, and use
Parker’s Hair Balsam. Cleanses tbe scalp,
restores color, removes dandruff.
wedAsuu.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
Ticket* only S 5. HhMr«>a iu Proportloß, .
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
•‘We do Hereby certify that wo aupervUe th*
•mngementa tor all tne Monthly aud Semi
iuuual Drawiuga of Tbe Louisiaua State Lot*
tery Uompauy aud in person inanage aud oou»
trot the Drawings tneiaaelvea, ana that the
saiuv are oouduoled with bounty, lalruoaa, aud
iu good faith toward au parties, and weautbor
lae the Uompauy to uae thia oertidcate, with
fao-atmilea of our alguaiurea attached, iu its ad
veriiaHvnauta **
Om m I as I ma ent.
Incorporated in 1868 for ‘l6 years by the Lagis*
lature for Educational and t bariiabie purpose*
—with a capita) of S1«000,000 —to which a resetv«
fund of over has ainee bean added.
By an overwhelming popular rote its franchise
was made a part of the present State Constitu
tion adopted December 2d, A. D., 18Tf,
The only Lottery ever voted ou and endorsed
by tbe people of any State.
It never scales or postpones,
Ite winkle (Humber Dm wings
take place monthly.
< MPLENIMD OFHORTUWITT T« WIN
FORTUNH. FOURTH CHAND DRAWING.
CLASS D. IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW
ORLEANS, TUESDAY, April, 14. 18S5-179th
Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PKIKE, t7d,004.
100,000 Tickets ut Five Dollar* Farh,
Fractious, in Firtha In pr«>portu»n
Lurr or rams
1 CAPITAL - Tfe.OlH’
1 do do M.OOO
1 do do lO.OOfi
2 PBLIEMOF fOUW).. 13.00 f
# do
io do io,ooe
30 do 10,060
i) do a00..,. ... ao.oGO
do 100...
too do 26.0«)
1000 do 26 ................. 26,000
APFROXIMATIOM YRIZBB.
t Approximation Prises of $T5u....f
2 do do 500.... 4.W0
9 do do JtA..., X 260
ISH7 Prises amounting t0....-...*-. ...S2M,SOC
Applications for rates to crabs abosid be mads
only to the office of ttea Company in Naw
Orleans.
For farther information write clearly, giving
tell address. POSTAL NOTtta, Express
Money Orders, or New York Exchange la onh
nary letter. Jurrancy by Express (all tnmiol
IS and upwards at our expense) address
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Or lease, Lra.
or H. A. DAUPHINt
fttSl seventh Washlnumn U, €
Make P. O. Money Orders payable and address
Registered Letters to
NEW OHLEANh NATION Al. BANK.
New Orleans La.
DAILY TIMES: COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25. 1885,
WESTERN R. R. OF ALABAMA.
The Quickest and Most Direct
Route to
New York, Philadelphia, Bal
tinawre, and Waaliingtan.
Close cohnecl.loue made with Piedmont
Air Line, Atlantic (Joa-it Line, Kennesaw
or Cincinnati Southern.
Trains it are as follows •
TIMETABLE MO.
TAKING EFFECT BUNDAY. MARCH, B. IM
bahtwabd tfcY li N'-.ti
Lv New Or lean*... H -.20 p m H: Ota a. m,
Lv. Moutftomary...! WO • m 3:00 p ml
Arr columbu. .... l.Ollpmj 6 *s i «:
L. Columba. ....I 8:46 »m 1 «
arr WnatPolat ..■ m 13:37». m
Arr Ail.nu *“ *•***■ *'
WKH'J W4IIH. MO. H Mo. M NO.
L.»t. A«i»nu...... 1780 pm 11:40 p m
■ Wm 4 Point. I 4:43 p m 3:07 > m
Arr 001umbu...... 7:3? pm 6:4"». m
7,v OolnmijU. 2;3opmjo.ofi pm
arr. Moa4gom«ry.. I« j m 6:80 » w
Arr Mobile 2pi6 a m 2:00 p m
Arr ken Orl«»n«_. ; 7:iA .m |7 ;80 p m
North. S«ntb.
MO, >1 MO. U NO. 80 MO. H-
1M pm 10:88 e m Wub'it'i IOiAOa m 0:10 pm
11:08 pm 13:30 a m ballimore »:06 > m taiio p aa
1:30 > m 8:10 pm PhllAdAl’. 6,01 a m' 8:46 pm
l:S0am>8:18 p m New Tork 3:40 emdAiUO p m
Pullman Nleepera on all tralan
53 between Montgomery and
Waxhiugtou without Change.
Western Hailroad hleepera
truliia Ad aad 53 between
jaoutgeiaery aad Atlanta.
Train. SO, 81, 62 aaA 68, AluM aoaA
Cth train, to end.rem Mekiloaad MeV OrleaAa.
TnU h oonaaam at Maa<«aa>err will IrUa.toi
Selma and Butaula. delineation, mad. el
Opelika <rlU Kaet Alabama and Olnolnnali, abd
the Oolnrnbua and WeaMrn Hallreada. AU train,
axoapt 62 and 61 oonnaot at Ohahaw vltb Tuaka
jae railroad.
Train. No. Sand S ran daily aioopt Sunday..
CHAM. 11. ( ttOUWELL,
Ganeral Paaaenger Agent.
STOCK COMPLETE!
PIECE GOODS FOR
Spring 1885.
INCLUDIN'! THE
LEADING NOVELTIES.
AMERICAN AND FOftEluN GOODS
FOB MAKING
SUITS TO ORDER.
Stock Unrivaled 1
Prices Right I
A l-' IdVV
BARGAIN SUITS
LEFT, AT
CALL AND BEE UH.
G. J. PEACOCK.
Clothing Manufacturer,
6(4 66 Bmi 81. (Walm. • - to.
P. 8. All GOODS btrictly OAbH.
MAR L
TOR SALE.
A FEW HUNDREDJSACKS
„OFJ MARL,:
Ph.osph.atE
of LIME
FOR BALE. INQUIRE AT TH IB
OFFIOB. deolltf
PATENT 8
Oblalued. aud all PA IEN L'i BUsINESb
at lauded to tor MOJJEKAIE FKEs.
Our offloe ta opposite tbe U. ». Patent
Office and we cau obtain Tateule in leae
time than those remote trom Washlugion.
Bend MODEL OH DHAWING. We ad
vise as to patentability treeot charge; and
we make NO OHABQE UN LESS LAT
ENT 18 SEUUKED.
We retar, here, to the Vostmaster, the
Sup’t.ot Money Older Dl’v, aud to offi
cials ot the U. 8. Patent Office. For mt
ouiar, advice, terms and arefereuees ti
actual olluets iu your own .state or ooun
ty, write to
C. A. SN«W A CO.,
Opposite Patent Office, Washington. D, C.
S.H. TIGNEK,
DEALER IN REAL ESTATE
BARTOW, POLK COUNTY, FLA.
Will Buy or Sell Keal Estate. Corres
pondence solicited. Any luiormatlon given
in regard to health, climate, Ac.
tatilßwtl
APO|7L six eeDUi for po»»<.age, and
rniLLireceive free, a ooatiy box o. good*
which will help you to more mouey right away
than anything else in thia world Ail of either
sex succeed fiom drst hour The broad read to
fortune open before the workers absolutely anre
Atonoe address Thus A 00, Augusta, Maine
dect'dtfiDwwly
male and female academy.
CISSHTA, GE OH GIA.
The work of this School will begin again
JANUABY 5, Uißs(ffret Mouday).
Tuition 81.50, »a.50 and *3,50,
According to grads. Board o a ver more
Than SN. Per .Honth.
MUSIC' 1»:». PEK MONTH
LOCATION HUUBBVL.
W.E. MURPHEY,
Jaulwlt-amlwS ;Prlncipai.
Times Job OJo3.ce
BILL heads, shipping tags
J ETTEB HEADS, SHIPPING BOORt
NOTE HFADS, BEOEIPT BOOKS
□IBOULARB, BUSINESS (JABDI
HANDBILLS, POBIAL CARDS,
POSTERS, VISITING CARDS,
INVITATIONS. PICNIC TICKEi
FANCY SHOW CARDS,
And everything else In the Job Printing
line executed with neataeee and dispatch
WUI duplicate New York orders with e».
press charges added.
PIECE GOODS ARRIVED.
tWe offer special inducements this
week to cash buyers of Clothing, Hats
and Furnishings. Our Stock of For
eign and Domestic Piece Goods are
prettier, finer and more varied than
ever before. Workmanship unex
celled. Satisfaction guaranteed and
prices right. Gail and be convinced.
H. J, THORNTON,
NEW SPRING GOODS
KIRVEN'S.
Wool Combination Suitings, Choice Colors in Cashmeres,
Good All-Wool Cashmere at 50 cents.
Choice Htook Uingfiams una Calicos, Tut»l« Linens Towels
and Napkins. Now is the time to buy these Goods,
Handkerchiefs, Handkerchiefs,
Good Handkerchiefs, Fast Colors, at 30. up to the Best
Grades
10,000 Yards
More of those HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES at Astonishingly low prices.
Ladies' Underwear Department
Just (Opened. All tne Stock Fresh and at Popular Prices.
J. ALBERT KIRVEN.
EMBROIDERIES!
ATtTH£
TRADE PALACE
(IVEh $2,000,000 WORTH OF EMBROIDERIES
SEIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR NON-PAYMENT
OF DUTY.
-o:
The Entire Lit Thrown into the Auction Rooms and Bought by the Know
ing Ones for ascents on the Dollar.
GRAY ALWAYS ON THE ALERT FOB
Takes the Inside Track and Scoops in the LIEN’S SHAKE.
Wewill have these GOODS on Exhibition MONDAY aud all during the
WEEK end invito an Inspection ot them; they are without Exception tbe
Finest Assortment atitl the BEST VALUE that we have ever handled—see
them ui d puss your Judgment.
THEY ARE JUST HALF PKICE.
i’O Rflfl WORTH OF LACES OF EVfaßi
ipZjdUU STYLE, QUALITY A&D TEXTURE, FROM
5 Cent Torchon to the Finest Egypt ion at $2 50 and
$2 75 Per Yard.
#2,300 DOIsLAHS WOLWU OV
Parasols, Coachings and Sun-Umbrellas,
These GOODS are Marvels of Beauty, Design and Workmanship.
300 Dozen Gente’ H 'mstetcbe 1, Col I 280 Dozen G: nta’ Uni lundriedShtrtr
ored Bordeied H mdkerchiefs st 25 | ut 85 eei.te, Wamsutta Domestic and
oeuts, Worn: 40 cents. I 21 Linen Bosoms and Cuffs.
The KING of the Southern DRY GOODS
Market ta Coming this Week.
Lookout for a Slaughter, He Makes Thiags Liveb
FOR COMPETITORS.
C. P. GRAY & CO.
IMMENSE STOCK
——OF
Furniture,LCaruetings, Curtain-Goodsj
etc-,
REGARDLESS OF COST
1,000 Chairs, from 50 cents to $lO 00 I Moquet Carpets $1.50 pr yd. best quai
500 Bedsteads from $1 75 to 40 00 [ Tapestry Carpets 65c to SI.OO pr. yd.
100 Imitation Wai. Suits,slß to 40 00 | Body Brussels " 85c to $1.35 pr. yd.
100 Walnut Suits,from $25 to S2JO 00 I Rugs 76a to SIO.OO
15 Parlor Suits trom S4O to $l5O 00 | Straw Mattings 10c to 40c.
Oil Cloths, 40c to $1 25 per square yard.
Art Squars (Druggetts) including best Kiddemuster, ail wool $8.50 to sls
Will duplicate prices of any Market.
Upholstering Goods at your own Prices.
L. ROONE Y,
Up Stairs, 83 and 85 a ßroad St., Columbus, Ga.
ELEVATOR ALWAYS READY. tel&-w3m,
TMmtoMoliialteiißECi.
bls Old aud RHUbia Georgl i Ooaioany oantinaes to taxeFlre risks ot all kind.
Charter perpetual. DIVIDEND No. 25 FOB 1884. 33H per cent.
The PHtENIX, of Hartford, Conn.,
ROCHESTER-GERMAN, of New York,
AllMsoild BOompanlee, repreeeutediin, tblsuAgency. Nates! low. Dosses prompt, 1
t9d R- B. MURDOCK, A«rent
TIMES
JOB OFFICE
Can Supply Business Men With
ards! Cards! Cards!
CARDS'!
CARDS!
CARDS!
BILL HEADS!
Bill Heads!
Bill Heads!
Bill Heads!
NOTE HEADS!
Note Heads!
Note Heads!
Letter Heads !
Letter Heads !
Letter Heads!
STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNT I
STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNT I
STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNT
PROGRAMMES!
PROGRAMMES I
PROGRAMMES I
POSTERS ’
POSTERS!
POSTERS!
POSTERS and
HANDBILLS' HAND BILLS I HANDBILLS!
WORK NEATLY AND PROMTLY DONE
AND AT
LO'W' FRICKS
—-A.T
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