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About The Dalton argus. (Dalton, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1882)
VOL. IV.-NO. 47. I NEWS GLEANINGS. fcorgia has 2,500 fish ponds stocked I carp. jmmerviile, Ga-> will also have a on mill- ississippi has nearly thirty marriage ciations, ats sell at twenty-five cents per bush i Upson caunty, Ga. large cotton mill is to be erected in lapoosa county, Alabama. ugusta, Ga., is to have a library ding at a cost of $17,500. rohibition is an accomplished fact in y-t’.vo counties in Georgia. museum of Confederate relics is to istablished in Raleigh, N. C. ome, Georgia., .is shipping immense ntities of tan bark to Cincinnati. ne acre of ground in Harris county, , produced 135 bushels of oats this avagnah, Ga., shipped $75,000 worth urpentine to -foreign ports last Sat iy- iey West, Fla., receives about 100 ligrants each month from the West CB. 'ey West, Fla., has sixty vessels and r 700 men engaged in the sponge ness. factory at Augusta, Ga , has just •ped an order of 2,000 bales of goods Lfrica. large cotton seed oil mill is to be ited at Bailey’s Mill, Jefferson coun Florida. iastern capitalists are buying up all gold mines in tbe vicinity of Char e, N. C he cotton factory at Selma, Ala., declared a semi-annual dividend of jit per cent. lew Orleans, tlvnks of establishing a le Garden for the accommodation nmigrants. mammoth iron furnace is to be ted near Covington, Ya., by Euro i capitalists. company has been formed to oper a silver mine recently discovered Gaylesville, Ga. ie beautiful Confederate monument olumbia, S. C., was totally wrecked ightniug a few days ago. little boy at Charlotte, N. C , swal sd a quart and a half of cherries, s and all, and died in great agony, he first appearance of cotton as an cle of commerce was a shipment of ■n bales from Charleston, S. C., in a North Carolina during the past r sixty-threa new post-offices have a established and seventeen discon led. <ast Tennessee has a county in which r of the precincts are named Upper ?-th*ef, Lower Hog-thief, Fair Proifi and Never Pay. ichard Paulk, white, of Union coun 8. C., has been sentenced to one year he penitentiary or to pay a fine of 0 for marrying a negro woman. ohn Turner, of Savannah, Ga., after 'ing out eight years of a life -service murder in the penitentiary, has 'en his innocence and been released, ft Goldsboro, N. C , a man built a ee ’ usin S n ve cypress for posts. The . took root and are growing rapidly, f>'ig the fence slowly but surely sky tsckson county, Ga., is the only place the South where clay fit for jug mak ls found. Two factories are run in '"iinty, and the jugs are all made hand. grapes grown by the stockholders eorgiaWine Company, located ut hbert, will this year make 20,000 ns of wine, which is the present a< the company. ’ s estimated that the South has season paid to the North $55,000,- IX *' so - 00 °.000 for corn, $72,- ■f k° r Incats ’ an( f about $25,C00,- ■, Gutter, cheese, oats, apples, ■toes, etc. ’ M 'l'le of Tavans, Fla , eat alliga- V *8 and tenderloins in preference "h beef obtainable there. The prove to’ ft’ ’‘tolEpsents th. n no the® of a .... fi<‘—tVAl® T. "‘tick'’ O it was J , ( n -\cW ect ■ one c .lllft the siW-Bahat ®lje Dalton Slvgns. matter. There is only one like it in ex istence, and that is now being placed in i position at New Orleans. Vicksburg is still agitated over her harbor. The receding of the Mississippi river leaving only a lake of still water in front of the city where the river once flowed, has a threatening aspect to the prosperity of Vicksburg, and her citi zens are anxiously inquiring what is to be done to preserve the harbor. The heirs of Micajah Martin, de ceased, living in Troup county, Ga., will bring suit against the city of Atlanta to to recover 2021 acres of land in the very heart of the city. The Kimball House stands on part of the property. Martin bought the land when it was covered with brushwood, and never sold or deed ed it to anyone. The deeds are now in possession of the heirs. In Smith county, Virginia, a well dig ger dug 360 feet in to the earth before striking water, and then went through with a plunge into a subterranean’lake. Being hauled to terra firma again, he and his assistant let down a small boat, and, as the distance between the top of the water and the earth wMfe several feet rode over five miles before finding an outlet, of the lake, a spring in the side of a hill. The lake is a great won der. There is a weed in the South known as the wild coffee plant, which has caused the planter a good deal of trouble and annoyance, and has consequently been greatly despised, ft has recently been discovered that the plant has its use, as rope can be made from it equal to the best hemp, and stronger and finer than jute. The discovery was made by a ne gro who needed a piece of rope, but could find none. On looking around his attention was attracted to'this plant, and he cut the stalks and treated them i i the same manner he had been accus tomed to soe hemp treated in Kentucky, and the result was a fibre of good length and of surprising strength, which the old man soon converted into rope. Human Progress. It is said that there is a certain fixed amount of cruely in every society, ml that the only difference is the f«nn in which it is expressed. Where people, for example, who are kind to animals, are frequently unkind, or at least not sympathetic, with those of their own kind. The venerable Henry Bergh, of New York, is charged with being willing to sacrifice the health and comfort of his own species to that of the quadrupeds he champions. The philanthropist that devotes his time to alleviating the wrongs of mankind is often accused of neglecting his family and allowing them to suffer, while the cold, selfish, cross, grasping, hard moneymaking man of the world, is at home an affectionate husband and a tender father. Whether this be true or not, it is in a degree' confirmed by tbe apparent advance in humanity already made at Yale College. There have been years in the history of that instiu tion \vhen “hazing” was practiced. But that has been abandoned of late. Instead of that Mr. Wm. M. Evarts’ son has introduced badger hunting—he hav ing procured a badger for that purpose —and rat-killing. He has a terrier • which is “death on rats,” and the other - day having procured a crateful of the ani mals from New York, he left them loose in the college yard. His dog killed • twenty-seven rats in six minutes, and the members of the sophomore class aban doned their recitations to witness the ’ slaughter. Now this is an advance on “hazing” ( and shows progress. , A Cat’s Angry Passions. Mr. H. P. Burkinroad, a merchant ol Wills Point, Texas, is the owner of an old cat and young kittens, which he ’ keeps in his store on Fourth street. - Some time ago a man drove up in front j of the store and hitched hi<* horses. The kitten was playing in the street, when it went near one of the horses and rubbed against its feet. The horse kicked the kitten, throwing it some distance on the s ground. This so angered the old cat I that she sprang upon the horse’s back ) and frightfully tore its skin with her t claws. The horse became so frightened at this unexpected attack that he tried to break loose. She then stopped until s the horse became quiet, then she re newed the attack. This was repeated several times, until the enraged feline ’ seemed to have wreaked her vengeance - on her large adversary, then she returned to the kitchen and licked and otherwise caressed the little sufferer. — Wl» Point Chronicle. g It was a spring night. The fire had gone out in the furnace, the thermometer stood at 30° above zero and the lovers 8 were the sole occupants of the parlor, i Presently her mother came to the head s of the stairs and in a voice like the scream of a steam whistle cried: “Amandy, come up into the sitting room ■ immejitly; I’m afraid you’ll catch your e death a cold down there.” But Amandy answered in soft, lute-like tones: “Don’t e make a fool of yourself, ma. Charley’s 1 keeping me as warm as toast” DALTON, GEORGIA, “SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1882, TOPICS OF THE DAY. There are 10,700 men on the police force of London. In five months eight persons have • been killed by the cable cars in Chicago. The Sultan is to grant Jewish refu gees from Russia tracts of land in Syria and Mesopotamia. At Mobile, Alabama, female violators of the law are required to work out their fines in the chain gang. A facetious contemporary suggests that Congress investigate the Western cyclones while they are at it. Arabi Bey is applying the Mouroe doctrine in Egypt by planting dynamite torpedoes along the Suez Canal. The person who has attracted consid erable attention the past year, may now be spoken of as the late Mr. Guiteau. ■».<»» Statistics of immigration show that very few of the foreigners who come to this country go to the Southern States. In the State of Mississippi there are 30,000,000 acres of land, of which less than 5,000,000 acres are under cultiva tion. London publishers bribe school teach ers with theater tickets and champagne suppers to buy and recommend the buy ing of their books. James Russell Lowell and Dr. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, according to the Washington Post, think of running for Congress next fall. - . Mrs. Langtry has begun to under stand something of American advertis ing. She took a special train from Ed inburg to London, at a cost of SSOO. The famous Dalrymple farm of Dakota is to be divided, Mr. George Howe, an oil prince of Pennsylvania, having bought 30,000 acres of it for SBO,- 000. The Belgium Government is soon to adopt pulverized meat for an army ration. One pound of the article is said to be as nutritious as six pounds of fresh beef. Gambetta, it is said, sufferers con stant fear of assassination, and his friend M. Camescasse, Perfect of Police, has given him a bodyguard to watch his house night and day. Col. Ingersoll, two years ago, was credited with having made $200,000 out of a silver mine, but if present rep-rts are correct, he to-day counts himseli out $50,000 on said silver mine. Chinese immigrants are arriving into British Columbia in large numbers, and the Chinese merchants of San Francisco predict tbe arrival of 40,000 of their countrymen before next October. Sixteen smallpox patients in San Francisco, while being convoyed in a boat recently, were all ups t and drenched with cold salt water. In spite of their exposure they all immediately recovered. The Jews in Russia and Roumania are emigrating to Palestine in large numbers, and largo sums are being subscried Io aid them in this movement. It is said that the majority are eager to eng ige in agi iculture. lon frozen by machinery is now being used largely in Southern cities, as it is cheaper than that from the North, ex cent at seaboard places. The retai price has fallen from $3 per hundred be fore the war to $1.50. If the expression of the press gener ally may be accepted as an indication, Anthony Comstock is getting himself in bad repute by ugly, spiteful work. He suppresses or tolerates the transmission of a publication as the fancy strikes j him. Uanenhower's plan tor removing to the United States tbe remains of Lieu tenant De Long and.comrades involves I an expenditure of $25,000, anj is not considered feasible by the Congre. s'.onal Committee, to whom the matter was re ferred. Nature calls a halt in the worrf of un derground telegraphy. It announces that the underground wires in Germany are turning out badly, and that the credit of several millions of francs re cently voted for extending the system in France will probably not be use I. “There is not in literature,” says the New York Tunes, “ a nobler or more pa thetic story ” than the diary of Lieuten ant DeLong. Stjll.it was a plain a>d very brief narrative of facts, it is the 1 reader’s appreciation of the surround- i ings that makes the story I THKBB mo tmi-I.Y llueo -railiVM* » schools” in Russia f'-r the instruction of employes, established because not very s long ago it was impossible to get Rus sians with education enough to be en trusted with the higher places, and even 3 at this day one-half of all the locomo tive engineers in Russia are Germans. A fruit grower at Griffin, Georgia, i has 60,000 peach trees in bearing condi tion, besides thousands of other kinds of fiuit trees. The peaches are ripening ’ faster than they can be sent to market, 1 though 300 pickers and packers are employed, and hundreds of bushels are- 3 cast aside as too ripe for shipment. The San Francisco Chronicle relates that while hunting for deserters from a } ' ship at Guaymas, a few days ago, the searchers discovered a man covered from head to foot with long, shaggy hair, of a reddish color. On their approaching him he commenced to run, and they r chased him, following him for a distance of a mile or more to the beach, where he jumped f rom rook to rock with the agil i- itv of a chamois and was soon lost to • sight behind a jutting point.. They af terward discovered the cave which lie inhabits, the floor being covered with skins, and the indications were that he ’ sul'l ist-'.' entirely on raw fish. Organ ‘ ized effoi ts will be made to capture him. —e O Some of the lowa and other papers are arguing that the cyclones in the 1 West are increasing in number and fierceness every year. In a certain sense this is probably true. That is, there arc years and seasons when they are more severe end frequent than at others. Between 1860 and 1873 those tornadoes were very rare, and between 1873 and 1880 there were only one o; two of a formidable character. Bu; during the last three years they have been intense and numerous. Doubtless a long interval of quiet will soon succeed these tempestuous years. But in an other sense they will always increase in destructiveness. As the State becomes populous, they will seem to be more fre quent, and will actually be more calam itous. MAN AND HIS HUTTONS. Ills IHethod nt Sewing Them on. and tbe Ditlirulties Encountered. [Now York Graphic.] Did you ever see a man in the solitude and privacy of his study attempt to sew on a button by himself ? It is, in all its details, one of the most interesting per formances in the world. First he hunts for a button. Generally, to secure it, he robs Peter to pay Paul, and cuts from another garment. This button may be much larger or much smaller than the | size he is wearing. Next he hunts a i needle. Probably he goes out and buys ' a paper of needles. He always chooses j the largest needles, having an impression that large needles will sew stronger than small needles. As to thread, he gets the coarsest he can find, and this he doubles. He would thread his needle. He takes his big needle in one hand and his coarse black thread in the other. He bites off the thread to a desired length. Then he I hies to twist it to a fine point. Gener ally in this he succeeds in making two, and sometimes three, fine points out of one end. Os course he can’t get all ’ these fine points through the needle’s 1 eye at once. He tries hard to make that j needle and thread get od friendly terms . with each other, but they won’t. They i don’t want to get acquainted. They do I not wish to have anything to do with i each other. Sometimes it is the needle ■ that kicks; sometimes the thread. Some : times he imagines he has really threaded his needle. It is an ocular delusion. The thread has missed the needle’s eye by half an inch. It is harder work than sawing wood. At last the needle is threaded. Now he tries to sew the but ton on without taking his trousers off. This proves a failure. He twists him self into an uncomfortable position, and ’ so would sew. But he can’t sew so. He runs the needle into himself, and the i contrary thread always insisting in foul ing or in doubling around the next but ton. Then one part of the doubled thread won’t work harmoniously with the other part. One part draws through the button’s eye first and leaves the other part behind. Then it gets hitched up, and the embassador swears. Or the needle breaks. And then he swears, jHe may not swear audibly. But the re ! cording angel knows what is going on i inside of him, and debits him with every j item. He sews hard. He has forgotten I all about the necessity for a thimble. , He jams liis thumb down on the needle’s head and it punctures his thumb or runs under the nail. By and by he sews the button’s eye full of thread. His big < needle won’t pass through any more. He must stop. He ends by winding the thread as many times as it will go under the button. And perhaps he leaves off ’ with two or three inches of thread stick ing outside. A woman can, through i many outward indications, tell when a 1 man has been trying to sew on a but- i ton. He doesn’t know the shibboleth of i needle and thread, and it catches some- 1 where every , time. At last the button < is sewed and nd i s oroud of his work. < The c ,ty of being cheertm, says r. contenMfHH-arv, is one which is at nil timesjn>inding upon us. We >.ave no i righfcP to be morose or sullen, or acciir, , 1 tomr ourselves to look on the dark -side of tilings. HeuHti of the Holemuity | I »<i ■>’ •?>'>!•< on < life can excuse us for 1 jiving wuy *<> w .'<c-ur>id unhappy I r < THAT I.ITri.E COAT. XT MKB. J. V. H. KOONS. There was a man, ’tis sad to tell, Lived in our famous city, Whom none that ever knew him well Could either lore or pity. He was no bigger than a mouse— I do not stretch the story; He had a tiny, old-time house, Illumined with his glory. He had a ooat, this little man, He tit exactly in It, No longer than a half a span, Nor wider than a minute; Tliread-bare and old and dirty blue, Yet all who ventured near him He’d squeeze into that coat—’tis true— Till folks were taught to tear him. It was the coat his father wore, Yea, father’s father s father; And yet he'd worry, tease and bore, Annoy, vex and bother All that he met about that coat And its eternal fitness For high and low of every note Who could its virtue witness. Now don’t you wish he could have seen The folly of this passion, And let his neighlxjrs choose Ix-tween His and some other fashion ? fag? - Curious Sce»<». A most respectable jury—every one of them a £SO freeholder—was impaneled at Clonmel, Ireland, to try a most im portant question. During the course of the trial the learned Judge had to retire for half an hour, promising to be back on the expiration of that time. The Judge then retired, and so did the jurors. In some time after, one of the jurors re turned, and stated in open court, to an astonished audience, that he had been to a christening, dritnk the child’s health, a speedy uprise to its mother, and that her son might be a much better man than its papa. This caused so much surprise that those who heard it re mained silent. He asked a learned coun sel to give ;him the song called “The Low-backed Car.” At this request the learned gentleman shook his head. The juror then said, “You won’t, won’t you? Then I’ll do it myself; ” and *so he did, in excellent style, and concluded amid the bravos of a crowded court. He then made a speech on the duties of a pater nal Government, and acquitted himself with equal credit, and was vociferously : applauded. He then demanded that the Judge should be sent for; and, this de- > mand not being acceded to by the crier, he stood up and called the learned Judge to come into court, on a fine of £SO. This he did three different times, and in the usual way. He then declared that as the Judge did not come he wouldn’t wait—he should go back to the christen ing ; and he accordingly left the jury box, and finally the court. In about half an hour he returned, and, not see- ; ing the Judge on the bench, he com- ' menced singing “Rory O’More,” after which he stepped into tbe jury-box, re- i Burning his seat among his fellows, ' who appeared quite “glum” at his an- ' tics; but he, seeming not to mind the wry : faces of his brethren, began to humasong. He then tried what he could do at the ' Kent bugle, and succeeded to admira tion ; but, just as he had concluded a ; splendid solo, the learned Judge made his appearance at the corner of the bench, where he stood listening, in mute astonishment, to the music of the : special juror, who was equally astound ed when he heard the cry of “ Hats off! Be pleased to keep silence I” In the meantime something was said to the Judge, who good-naturedly adjourned the court for the further hearing of the case until the following morning. “ Honor Am a Curus Thing.” Trustee Pullback, of the Lime Kiln Club, wanted to know if honor com pelled a colored man to accept a chai- i lenge to fight a duel. If not, what would honor compel him to do in case an ene my halted at his gate and dared him to come out of his hou e and get mashed? “Honor am a curus thing, Brudder Pullback,” replied the President. “In case you are a bettor shot dun your ine my it am honorable to meet him on de field an’ kill him. If you think he will be sartin to kill you it am honorable to excuse yourself on de ground of havin’ a game leg. If I made an inemy an’ he cums along to my cabin an’ spits on his hands and hops up an’ down an’ calls on me to come out an’ be pulverized, Ize gwiue to consider befo’ Igo out. If I’m ttHKhuNU tiii dat I km wallop him, Ize feel in honor bound to rush out 1 niiTriko his nose. If he looms up like a sideliill, an’ if he ’pears to hev lots of science, Ize gwine to send my ole wom an out dar to tell him dat if he doan’ fly out er dat she’ll get de hull purleeee force an’ put him whor de ctfives can’t bite him.” The Fall. Here is a boy’s composition on fall This is fall, because it falls on this sea son of the year. Leaves fall, too, as well as thermometers and the price of straw hats. Old topers, who sign the pledge in summer, are liable to fall when fall cider-making opens, for straws show which way the cider goes. Husking corn is one of the pleasures of fall, but pleasure isn’t good for boys, I don’t think. Old men want a little fun ; let them husk. A husky old man can go through a good deal of corn, sometimes. Digging taters is another of our fall amusements. The way I like to dig ta ters is to wait until they are baked nicely, and taen dig them out of. their skins. Most winter schools open in the fall. The best winter school I went to didn’t open until spring, and the first day it o]»ened the teacher took sick, and ’ the school house was locked u]> for the 1 season. Once in a while we ha ve a very Severe fall, but nothing like the fall of A<lam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Summer is misnamed. pride, for doesn’t pride go Lofore _ u tali? __ j t kn own TERMS; SI.OO A YEAR. HUMORS OF Till DAY. “Yes, Pre got a horrid cold,” said Mrs. Jenkinson. “ I’ve dosed and dosed uad I don't get one bit better. ’Pon my word I believe I’ve taken no less thiMa thirty-nine articles, and begin to feel like an Episcopalian.” They were discussing religious ques tions. Said Brown, “I tell you that if tbe other animals ,do not exist after death, neither does man. There is no difference between man and beast.” “If anybody could convince me of that it would be you, Brown,” replied Deacon Jones, demurely. “She’s a dear, good girl,” said a St. Louis young man in reference to a Chicago fair one; “ I assure you, father, she is all soul.” “Yes,” replied his stern parent, the old prejuduce against the Garden City embittering his words; “I saw her footprints in the sand by the lakeside. You are right; she is all sole.” A bibulous parson was introduced to a lady who had been represented to him as quite a talented artist. He greeted her by saying : “I understand madam, that vou paint ?” She started, blushed deeply, and, recovering herself after a few seconds, said, with as much acidity of tone and style as she could command : “ Well, if I do paint, I don’t make any mistake and put it on my nose.” A good old lady, speaking in prayer meeting and giving expression to the joy and confidence she felt, said : “ I feel as ; if I was ready, this minute, to fall into I the arms of Beelzebub.” “Abraham! You mean Abraham !” hastily corrected a brother sitting near. “ Well, Abra ham, then,” was the response ; “ it don’t make any difference. They’re both good men.” “No, my daughter,”said a New Haven matron, “I cannot consent to your longer i keeping company with y«ung Jaykins. i He had the insurance to call me a dow i ageress, right to my face, the other ■ evening.” Why, ma, that isn’t anything I bad at all.” “It is lucky for tho ! young man that it is not. Had , he assumed to insulate me I would have pitched him over the baningsters.” “Oh, dear, ma, I wish you wouldn’t mix met aphors so,” and both women rushed for the dictionary to substantiate their lan guage, “I’m shaving myself most of the time now,” said the young man proudly, as he adjusted his head to the back of the chair. The barber gazed thought j fully at the gash in the left cheek, noted I the irregular Maltese cross in the chin, i observed the finely executed out-line map of the Hell Gate excavations on i tne left side, hovered over the piece of ear that was held in place with court ; plaster, and pityingly scanned the prize I collection of pimples and blotches which i ornamented tho neck. “Yes, I notice you are,” he said musingly, as he softly ; strapped his razor. On Monday of last week Fogg handed a letter to the office boy, telling him to drop it into the mail. This was early in the morning. In passing the boy’s desk in the afternoon Fogg saw the letter. “ I say, Johnny,” said he, “any time this week will do for that letter, you know.” Next day Fogg saw the letter still lying on the boy’s desk. Fierce he broke forth. He wanted to know what j in the substantive that adjective letter i was doing there. Why in the substan tive it hadn’t been mailed? “I didn’t I know you was in a hurry about it,” said the boy, “you told me any time this ; week would do. ” Deaf aud Dumb Barliers. A man dressed in a thin summer woolen suit and a dilapidated straw hat entered our sanctum. “Sir,” he said, “you see before you a reminder of the summer’s sun, so to speak. I am not from tho tropics, neither am I dressed for enjoying all the comforts of a trip in search of the North . pole. Excuse me, no North pole for <. me,” and his teeth chattered, while a quiver of icy chilliness seemed to run across his whole frame. “ Are you cold?’’ we asked. “ walk up by the stove and get warm.” «j --“No, sir, no I warm as the sportivtql African who swings his juvenile upon the equatorial line. I am needy, busted, broke, sir. You see before you a specu lator whose cart is keeled over and 4 broken, with the horses on a run so far ( ahead a greased streak of lightning can not overtake ’em. Four months since I started a barber shop. Now, thinks I, I’ll strike a new beat. So I just goes and hires four deaf and dumb tonsonal ■ artists and then put up notices that cus tomers coming to my shop would have u quiet shave by deaf and dumb barbers and no questions asked. The thing took on the start, but, when the confounded barbers pulled their slates and began writing out the usual questions, blow me if I didn’t discover that I was a ru ined man. Yes, sir, barbers is barbers ; and, when I closed my shop, busted up and started on a tramp, I just says to myself it’s no use. If dead men could be learned to handle the razor over a man’s face, the blamed things would have spiritual mejiums asking their vic tims the same old line of questions—Ah, thank yer, sir; ta-ta. With this dime I’ll send t* counter-irritant down my throat that’ll knock the thinness out of this aummer suit and give my stomach a cleaner shave than any barber ca ®- And as the shattered vase retired, the perfume of the roses remained m the factum until an open window re .hired the natural tone of the atmospheie. JI hife/iall J'iiiun. T .,n P # „u wo h-pw M’atwr* A. oat of
