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VOL. V.--NO. 40.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Danville, Va., has two cotton mill
ia operation and is erecting a third on .
Gov. Boynton’s bride is worth $50,-
000 in her own right- She is about 40
5 ears o d.
The firft cotton factory in Wisconsin
was opened a few days ago at Sheboy
gan Falls.
Mr J. H. Henderson, of Covington
c .untv, Ala, is sixty-three years of age
aid sine? 1845 has killed 412 deer
Gen Fitzhugh Lei added about $3,-
OhOto the funds of the Southern His
toricil Society by his recent lecturing
tour through the South.
The Key West, Fla., sponge fleet,
numbering seventy vessels and six hun
- red men, is out on a cruise. A larg
catch of sponge brings about {300,000
in o that city.
It is said that a Vermont farmer
sends m >re than an average of 2,000
p.Hinds of nutter to one hotel in Geor
gia every week during the year.
Within eighteen month* 650 miles of
railroa 1 have been under construction
i . Misstssip i, over »2’,<M>o,o’»o being
invested. Durinsr the fifteen years pre
vious only 79 miles of road were buil'.
J, T Va tSivth, of Texas, is carying
47.000 sheep from Ariz ona to Graham
o>untv,Tex. He paid 75 cents each, or
s32,'H’o for the whole lot.
Gen. E T. Sturdivant, of Orlando.
Fla. reeeirlv took sl9 worth of honev
ou' of on=> bee hive, and yet left honey
enough t<> keep th * colony in good spir
its and working dondition.
In every tobacco factory at Key West
there ia a “reader.” Cubans cannot
txlk without gesticulating, anl in order
to keep them rrom talking a person is
employed to read aloud to the hand?
during working hours.
A negro woman at Powder Springe,
Ga , stuck a kni e through her hus
band’s heart, and then aroused the
village by her yells over his dead b >dy.
Ti e bloody knife was found concealed
in her bosom.
Smith I-laud, in .Smith Lake, near
Ocala. Fla., containing eighty acres,
th rty five of which are in an orange
g r ove, sold a few days ago for *12,00 *
Five years ago it could have been,
bought for S7OO.
The Stw-mnee coal seam, of Tennes
see, covers an area of 3,000 square miles
in which there are 1,920,000 acres,
which, at a low estimate, will yield an
average of three thousand tons per acre,
or a sum total of fifty-seven billion
six hundred million tons.
Talbotton (Ga.) New Era : Capt. N.
P. Carreker presents J. W. T. Jone?,
Talbot’s antiquarian, with a couple of
oe rifled cwls, perched on petrified
limos. The feathers on the birds and
the leaves on the limbs lo ck perfectly
natural.
Fifteen years ago an enterprising
Mobilian brought a little Jersey cow to
that city, and was laughed at. To-day
the wealthiest men in Mobile own herds
of Jerseys, and it is estimated that
there are nearly 5,000 registered ani
mals and numberless grades in Mobile
county, worth near $500,000.
Tavares (Fla.) fishermen have institu
ted a new. and novel method es catching
fl h, which seems, however, to be very
successful. A fire is built on a board
across a long row-boat, and the fish,
attracted by the bright light, leap to
ward it, fall into the boat and are cap
tured.
Pice planting in South Carolina and
o-orgia is becoming precarious, and,
except in the cases of very rich men,
ir is thought that the industry in he
two ><ates will die out. Louisiana and
orida will become the rice States par
excellence. The coast planters of Geor
gia and South Carolina will have to
imitate Mr. Robert Gourdin—drain
t eia fields and convert them into mead
ows.
A Little Whirligig.
comrln- Wh ?- ligig of tiine man y strange
Y J ®f loi jsbipß are formed says the N.
Prvor We h ave Gen. Roger A.
for R/’n u° \ wen ty years ago was looking
shin’ hmate rela tions of friend-
Orleans. th | he ancient nißj r of New
the El i DOW th® hashing leader of
terrible r orße Cavalry, who made such
>hakinl 1? the Union sor «*, »
side c haU< r Vl,h ve terans of the other
z Fitzhugh Lee and hissfaff
,la have gone home after such
:J, nber of champagne poured
f ' r «t»mn. ( ,i Cal,on ’ of th® other Bidc »
n,, , the
J a pic nie f , ment-eti to
">«• WMtn.id., I
i much a» they can
I Hespectfiilh-
Dnlton Skgm
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
The 'New' Yorkers have been seven
years trying to raise $250,000 for the
construction of the pedestal of Barthol
di’s great statue of “Liberty Enlighten
ing the World,” to be placed on Bedloe’s
island.
The Garfield Monument Committee of
the Society of the Army of the Cum
Herland have selected Mr. J. Q. A.
Ward, of New York, to design and
complete the monument at a cost not to
exceed $50,009.
Switzerland used to beat the world in
in the consumption of fire Crater, but
Belgium has forged ahead. There is a
drinking shop therefor every 12 persons
and eighty per cent of the hospital mor
tality is attributed by the physicians in
attendance to alcoholism.
The functions of the Signal Service
Bureau have been seriously crippled by
the failure of Congress to make a suf
ficient appropriation for its support
•ull reports will be resumed after July
Ist, when the annual appropriation
becomes r,vailable.
Charles H. Welling, who failed in
Ntw York in 1863 for S4OO, paying
nly 5 1 cents on the dollar, has recently
sought out his old creditors and paid
them nearly in full As he was under
no legal obligation to do so, the majority
of people who are familiar with the sac s
are overcome with amaz ment.
Six men and one woman in Philadel
pbia aaveorganized the “National Cre
ma*ion Society,” which is in substance
t sort of in-urance company Members
are admi'ted upon payments graduated
ccording to the expectation of life—
those 21 years old for $3 a year, those 30
at $4, and so on—and at their death the
-ociety will furnish coffin, hearse and
one carriage, pay all expenses and have
the person’s remains cremated.
The opium dealers have been laying
in large stocks of the drug in -‘flow of
the increase in the duty on July Ist
from 6to $lO a pound. It is estimated
that enough opium to supply the trade
for five years is already stored at San
Francisco, and large lots are received
constantly and will be until July Ist.
a San Francisco firm recently paid $98,-
4 f 0 in duties on -246,000 worth of opi
um received on one steamer
The new English decoration of the
“Royal Red Cross,” which is ro be con
ferred for special services in nursing the
sick and wounded of the army and
navy, consists of a cross, enameled
crimson, edged with gold, hearing on
the arms the words, “Faith, Hope an-l
Charity,” with the date of the institu
tion of the decoration, and in the center
he queen’s effigy. On the center of
the reverse the royal and imperial arms
appear in relief. The cross is to be a'-
*ached to a dark blue ribbon edged
with red, and worn on the leftshoulde*
The first cotton mill in California is
about to be built at Oakland, near San
Francisco. A large number of persons
have gone into the cotton growing busi
ness in Calif >rnia, th? southern half of
the State being climatically favorable
to the culture of cotton. It is said tint
there is a gain in weight of the crops of
20 per cent, and the shipping facilities
for the Asiatic market make the succ3s«
of a cotton mill very certain It is
claimed by Californians that sea island
cotton can be grown in the State
The special feature of the new obser
vatory at Columbia college will be i s
paper dome. There are only three oth
ers in the world. They are at the Troy
Polytechnic institute, the West Point
academy, and Beliot college, Wis., The
dome at Wen Point is the largest, but
that of Columbia will be the best in
constt uction and arrangement. The
inside diameter of the dome is 20 feet,
and its height 11 feet It is 8.32 of an
inch thick, and so light that the hand
can turn it. The method used in the
preparation of the paper is a taade se
cret, protected by patent.
Few even among sporting people know
that tiere is a Shetland pony ranche in
this country At Leon Springs, Baxter
county, Texas, Baron Yon Rauh, an
old time sporting gentleman, has a
ranche acres, all under fence,
and stocked with beautiful Shetland and
spotted ponies His breeding stock con-
I sists of seven thoroughbred stallions,
' forty-five mares and 200 small spotted
poay mares. He is now raising a race
f striped and spotted ponies to please
children. He sells the increase to
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1883.
people all over the world, and cannot
supply the deman<l fast enough. On a
visit, the ranche seems like a kitten nur
sery on a large scale.
Under the Tavern Licence bill re
cently pissed by the Pennsylvania Leg
islature, all the licence money from
taverns, liquor retailers, eating houses,
brewers, auctioneers, patent medicines,
I cdlers and billiard room? goes to the
several counties instead of the State
Treasury lu Philadelphia these sour
ces yielded a revenue of $230,0< 0 last
year to the State, and it is stated by the
Bulletin of that city, that if the license
law is enforced the sum can be doubled.
I' would appear that this new law, by
which so much additional money is se
cured for local purposes, will have the
effect of interesting the different com
munities to see that the legal licences
are obtained, especially from the many
liqu r saloons which evade the law
That is one of the effective ways of
reducing the number of saloons.
A Country Dance In Vermont.
A letter from Burlington, Vermont,
says: Let us present ourselves at n
genuine country dance in Vermont. The
musicians have just come in and taken
the seats provided for them on a slightly
raised pl tform at one end of the long
hall. About fifty or sixty “couples” of
young people are scattered about through
the hall, some in merry groups, talking,
others, more bashful, clinging to each
others arms and waiting in silence for
the music to strike up. After the usual
prelude of shrilling and tooting, the
leader of the little orchestra nods to the
floor manager, who promptly steps for
ward and shouts, “Gentlemen, please
take partners for ,” as the dance
may be. If it is a waltz the expectant
swain awkwardly and blnshingly encir
cles the fair one with his arm and begins
to swig, -with a sort of rythmic apology
for the prematureness of the embrace.
She timidly places her hand in his and
undulates slightly in sympathy with his
impatience.
At last the leader of the orchestra looks
significantly around his little band of
artists, nods his bead upon his violin,
draws his bow with an emphatic gesture
and the music strikes in. About half
the couples in the room have caught the
rhythm of the music; the otheis swing
hopelessly round, changing ship and
bumping into each other, till something
like a conglomerated dead-lock ensues in
one part of the room, and the dancers
composing it disengage themselves and
wander away with many blushes to a
more open space, where they try it again.
Nobody seems to notice the little by
play. All are dancing or trying to dance,
and have enough to do to attend to their
own motions. Here is a couple, neither
of whom know how to waltz or have the
slightest idea of the magic (Wwer of
rhythm ; but that does not seem to. dis
turb them in the least. Round and
round they swing, executing the simplest
ki'd of a. circle with endless repetition.
Presently they both grow so dizzy that
they stagger against the wall and stand
there panting and perspiring till their
equilibrium and their breath is recov
ered, when they launch upon a new se
ries of revolutions.
But there are plenty of good dancers
on the floor whom it is a pleasure to
watch. They do not adopt the limp,
re-sthetical attitude and lazy lope of th
fashionable city waltzer, but go whirling
down the floor at a good lively pace and,
even where the crowd is thickest, carom
from couple to couple like billiard balls.-
The lady does not lay her cheek affe •-
tionately on the young man’s shoulder
nor stretch out her lily-white arm and
feathered fan in the direction of the polar
star, where it meets her partner’s at ai.
equally inconvenient and ridiculous alti
tude, but she dances in a natural position,
slightly inclined forward and supported
by her partner’s arm, while oiffe hand
rests firmly on his shoulder and the other
is clasped by his disengaged hand.
There is a spring and spirit, and en
durance and evident enjoyment about
these country dances which you will look
for in vain in the enervating and per
fumed air of the fashionable salon.
These young people will dance all night
long and be ready for another ball the
next night.
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Blockades no Longer Possible.
According to an official report lately
published in the Marine Feordnung'x
Waft, it is the opinion of German naval
authorities that f<>r the future an effec
tive blockade has become impossible.
Ti.e reasons given are that a fleet would
always be obliged at sunset to gain the
open sea, and to remain sufficiently far
off to prevent torpedo lx>ats issuing from
the harbor coming up to the vessels in
the darkness; and not even a single ship
c mid lx? left on guard insight of tjie port
without the risk, almost amounting to
certainty, of being sunk daring the night;
while tlie port would remain open not
only to light and speedy cruisers, but to
any ship whose entrance might be de
railed. Under such circumstances, the
probability of a few torpedo boats being
hidden along the const, would, it is
thought, be sufficient to paralyze the
action of the most powerful squadron
and prevent the possibility of any serious
operations.
It is foolish to strive with what we
cannot avoid; we are born subjects and
to obey God is perfect liberty; he that
does this shall be free, safe and quiet;
all his actions shall succeed to hw wishes.
A VETERAN OF NEW YORK.
The Late V? m. E. Dodec and Illa Bnaluesa
Career.
William E. Dodge, the noted merchant,
who died suddenly at his home in New
York, was au eminent representative of
the religious rich men who form a con
siderable and influential class in the
metropolis, sustaining its churches and
its charities, nor lacking to its popular
enterprises; and prominent in national
moral movements—not always so wise as
they are earnest.
Mr. Dodge was born in Hartford, Ct.,
September 4, 1805, and when a boy of
13 was brought to New York by his
father and made clerk in a wholesale
store on Pearl street, at a time when the
city had but 120,000 inhabitants and ex
tended but a little ways north of Canal
street.
Mr. Dodge thus began his business
life Very young; he was a diligent clerk,
and when he set up in the same line for
himself, with a partner, when 22 years
old, industry, economy, system and sound
judgment characterized his course. He
married a daughter of Anson G. Phelps,
and in 1833 became his partner in the
Firm of Phelps, Dodge A Co., importers
of metals, with which his whole subse
quent business life has been connected,
and which has made him wealthy, his
property being estimated at from 10 to
15 millions of dollars. Mr. Dodge was
a practical benefactor of his kind in the
unostentatious work of helping young
men out of bad circumstances and habits,
and he Wns also prominently before the
public in connection with a great num
ber of religious and reforming associa
tions, being president of the National
Temperance Society, during the wat
connected with the Christian commission,
a director of the Union Theological
Seminary, and of the Presbyterian Hos
pital, a trustee of Lincoln University,
vice-president of the American Board ot
Foreign Missions, and otherwise con
cerned in similar organizations too many
to catalogue here.
He was a Presbyterian, and his re
ligious principles were continually active
in his business, and he repeatedly sev
ered his relations with railroad and other
enterprises on account of them. But
recently in a letter written to a Sabba
tarian convention he related how he left
the direction of the Erie, then of the
New Jersey Central, and of other rail
roads because they began to run Sunday
trains. He resigned from the Union
League Club years ago on the ground
that the sale of wines and other liquors
was one of its sources of revenue. He
was a Republican in politics, but he
never held an office except that of mem
ber of the 39th Congress. He was for
some time President of the Chamber of
Commerce, and in this connection the
fact that his firm were compelled to pay
nearly $300,000 to the United States
Treasury for alleged false invoices will
be recalled.
It was asserted at the time that the
errors in the invoices were accidental and
without fraudulent intent, and that the
money was paid only to escape a tedious
litigation, and Mr. Dodge’s fellow-mer
chants fully accepted this explanation.
One-half of this sum went to the in
former and officers under the moiety
law, a procedure which deeply outraged
public sentiment and led to the abolition
of the practice of giving a moiety of the
sum recovered to the agents of the gov
ernment. Mr. Dodge leaves a wife and
seven sons. His fortune is estimated at
from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. He
gave away in charity over SIOO,OOO a
year.
The Complaints of Labor.
F. K. Foster, secretary of the Fedora
tiou of Trade and Labor Unions of Mass
achusettp, in his testimony lx fore the U.
S. Senate Committee on Education and
Labor, spoke of the black-listing system
in the New England mills, and said that
employees who had been prominent in
labor organizations during the strikes
were put on the black lists, and no ma - |
ter how good workmen they might be,;
they could not find employment after
ward. He cited the case of the strike in ■
the Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass., I
last year, in illustration of this system. |
To cure existing evils, Mr. Foster rec
ommended the following remedies as the I
most practicable and desirable at pres
ent: The establishment of a National
bureau of labor statistics; the establish
ment of boards of arbitration whenever
practicable;,the enforcement of the Na
tional Eight-Hour law; the abolition of
child labor, so far as possible, by legis
lation, repeal of all “conspiracy” laws
which interfere with the right of work
ingmen to combine for their own protec
tion, and the incorporation of their
unions like other corporations, and the
abolition of th convict labor contract
system. . ... ,
Senator Blair read a letter from the
witnesses now in attendance, saying it
was evident that the great prewure of
business in the Senate at this .ate stage
of the session, will not leave sufficient
time for them to present their views ful
ly. and therefore suggesting that their
examination lie postponed to some more
convenient season. The c< mmittee
thereupon agreed that it was im]x>ssible
at this time to give the witnesees the
necessary attention, and dismissed them
with the understanding that they shall
lie given precedence in the future hear
ing of testimony.
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We don’i wish to alarm the American
people, and we don’t wish to create a
panic in commercial circles, but we
tould like to say, from a profound cmi
victiou of eternal truths and imp* rutno
;Xsity, that “ now is the tone to
up clubs, ”
A COLD DAY.
How the Hawkeye Man HiiinnOne up Thnl J
He Dincovereii.
As we whirl out of New York, en iCG*
for Dundee, the thetmometer begins ‘
go down, though for why, nubqtf.i’
knows ; it’s cold enough up where it
But cold and colder grows the night,pm.l
by daylight a red-hot stove feels lik.7 ,yn
icicle, and the merry note of the ear »i7i;l
is heard in the land. And it isn’t a giu e
note, neither, too. Uneasy lies tlk loot
that wears a chilblain.
Even the fool who says, “ Is cold
enough for you?” now only look? id ’ Jou,
weeps with his nose and says n«*Lnig.
The brakeman, touched by t'l lo shiver
ing appearance of the gradual!?.‘‘reeziug
passengers, only hold the car open
a little longer than usual. . hiien the
train stops the chilled brakc*J let go un
easily and slowly, and then. x a concert
of wails and groans and sig-e’ Under the
cat that is enough to a night
watchman.
The train boy comkfi with a tray
of oranges. Everybody ladders. That
boy will be sun struck c.m? of these days.
The man who sits cl -tdst to the stove
(ays the rubber soles of - fils Arctics right
against its glowing siiW&L. Nobody com
plains. Anything tluG smells of the fire
tastes gwtl.
The fat passenger nmlies two or three
desperate efforts to 6it on his freezing
feet, but with a groan
gives it up, and puts ~’iem on his valise
and looks the picture, the tall, thin pas
senger remarks, of on over-fed iceberg,
or a fat snow man.
The fat passenger stifles a groan to
say that he hopes he may turn into a
snow man before lie lives to look like an
icicle on a Dr. Tanner diet.
The tall, thin passenger says no more,
hut sits with his shouldiTs drawn up to
his ears, his hands thrust deep into his
pockets, liis back bowed, drumming a
wild, weird improvization for two drum*
on the floor with liis feet.
The man with the sandy goatee strokes
that oniamental appendage with his
shivering hands so constantly that the
cross passenger asks him if he is trying
to warm them at it.
The cross passenger curls up in a knot
at one end of the seat, and had a fight
with the conductor rather than pull one
of his hands out of his warm pocket to
show his ticket.
The sad passenger shivers in pensive,
uncomplaining silence, like a clipped
terrier looking in at the kitchen window.
Once in a while lie thaws a hole in the
frost on the car window with his tongue,
and looks out with one eye at the deso
late wintry landscape flying past, and
then sighs, but he says never a word.
The man on the wood-box shudders a
little tv. ij lime anyone goes in or out,
but for the most of the time he shields
his face from the glowing heat with his
hat, and looks down at his smoking
shins wi h gi“at satisfaction. For once
he has the boss sent in the front row.
And he offers to yield it to no man.
The woman who talks bass sits bolt
upright, straight as a ramrod; her hands
are in her muff; her feet are twin blocks
of ice ; her nose is tipped with blue; her
ears are scarlet and her eyes are set.
Only one man had the temerity to ask if
she‘were cold. And then, without turn
ing her head, she answered him with
such an awful, icy croak, that it chilled
the warm life-blood in his throbbing
veins, and he is now riding on the front
platform trying to freeze himself to
death. , .
Brethren, as sure as you’re bom, it is
a cold day.
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The Adirondack Wilderness.
The urgent necessity for protecting
generally our present forests at the hi ads
of all important rivers, and especially oi
preserving in its natural condition, the
Adirondack wilderness, the chief source
of the Hudson, is now beginning to be
widely acknowledged. The Sclent'Jlc
| American draws this picture of som< > i
I the results which would follow acontinu
i ance of the old system of stripping the
i mountains by cutting down the forests:
j “There is no question that the gem ral
clearing of the Adirondack region of its
' protective forests would produce eff cts
of the moat disastrous character to the
valleys of the streams flowing tlmre
from; effects like those which, during
the past few months, have brought
death and desolation to so many Euro
pean river valleys. The rainfall <f the
Adirondack region is great; the dr in e
sloixis are steep; and without the ca
- and resisting influence of tlx ex
isting swamps and for< sts abont th ir
sources, the rivers which drain this ,
northern wilderness would show only
great and sudden alternations of flixxled
and empty channels, destructive at once |
to the agriculture of their valleys, to the t
manufacturing interests which duster (
along their bunks, and to the commerce ,
of the Hudson, the channel of which has (
already been seriously olistmcted by the j
detritus washed in from the unprotected ]
hill slojies oud other spaces stripped of ,
their original forests. ” j
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Postmasters. —A bill introduced in tin
United States House by Gen. Binghan
to readjust the salaries of Postmaster
tinder the two-cent postage law proposi>
that the salaries of Postmash-rs ot the
first class shall be gr.<uluated from 8.4.1 XX.
Ito 36 as receipts of their offio s varj
1 from 340,000 to claa
snlarii s to range from 1
receipts var . v . fro “*,f J «i /
third class <XIO to »10,000; I
ns receipts vsi.r j’„ /x ,n a basis of .
A YEAR.
READS LIKE A NOVEL
iv Tli» Mtory n "Prominent Cltizrn” Told on
Allunta Reporter#
1 » [From the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.]
I “In ante-war times there lived in
Meriwether County a don’t-care sort of a
fiegro named Jack Wilson, who could
neither read nor write. He hsl gained
his freedom in some way or other, and
gained his livelihoixl by acting as a sort
of director-general to famous horses in
his neighborhood. Jack became attached
to a servant girl who was owned by a
man named Gates, one of the wealthiest
men in Georgia, who owned thousands of
acres of land, and with his family lived
in lordly style.
“The servant girl was a bright mulat
to, and Jack was a shade darker. They
made a match of it, and were married
under the order of things that existed in
war times. At the same time Jack had
a slave-wife in Virginia, but she was as
black as coal. When the war closed
and the slaves were declared free Jack
took his Georgia wife to be his partner
for life, and by living with her for a
stated period she became his wife accord
ing to law.
“As soon as he was married Jack
showed a sudden spirit of industiy that
astonished everybody. His careless hab
its were thrown aside and ho went to
work with a will. The wealthy Gab's,
his master, died, and the broad acres f< 11
to the possession of the heirs. Jack
still worked on the place, and was saving
and careful.
“The Gates family had lost everything
except their land. Hundreds of slavet
were freed by the new order of tilings,
and the vast and princely fortune wat
gone. The heirs could not adapt them
selves to the situation. Finally pr< seed,
they sold 50 acres of land to Jack; thei:
they wanted more money, and Jack
stood their security at the La Grange
Bunk, and when they were unable to pax
he would take up the notes at bank nnc
trade for a piece of the Gates plantation.
He worked with a vengeance and all hit
family worked. Old man Jack became
a noted ainl honoreel citizen of the conn
ty. He was industrious and prewperad.
In the meantime* his old master's chi},
dren continued to sell him parts of the
old homestead. Finally he owned it all
anel was rich.
“Three years ago he decieled that it
was his duty to provide for his olel
Virginia wife, so he seiut for her, and
she, with her children, camo to him.
She was given a house on the* plantation,
;nd is well provided for. Jae*k ownt
now tlie magi illcent place of al>< ui
1,500 acres in three? miles of White Sul
phur Springs, in Merlwetlwr County
He is 60 years old, anel lus chilelremare
settled around him, n> el all are* eontenk*
anel happy and industrious. He
or 16 mules, anel is noted for
best stock in the county. Hijfir
the La Grange Bank is
borrow all the moneyhe*W*»-.
simple note of hand.”
“How much is he worth ?”
“I should say about $.10,000, anel
every cent e>f it has been made since the
war. It is a remarkable story e>f how a
slave succeeds his master in the owiier
-hip of a vast landed estate. I passed
the place a few months ago anti the
Georgia wife came to the door to give me
a drink of water. Eve rything was n< at
anel cl *an about the place, the yard was
newly swept, the banis appeared filled,
and in the lots I saw piles upon piles of
manure carefully sheltered. It is a model
plantation. Why, I have seen on a
place 180 acres of corn under one fence.
“Is he educating his children ?”
“Yes, although he cannot read and
write, he sees the advantage of an educa
tion, and is giving his children the bene
fit of schooling. The story is a true one,
and shows what can be done right here
in Georgia by pluck and industry. Tlie
old adage is true : -There is more in the
man than there is in the land.
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What to Do.
Among the papers lately distributed by
... Partv of Action in the soldiers bw
a.*ks at Paris are some wh ch ena fe the
onng recruit to grasp the whole art of
volution down to the minutest (letai s.
There is one, for instance, which tells
h<? revolutionary soldier what he ought
to do immediately there is news of an in
nirrection. He must set tire to his bar
rack. To enable him to do this, he must
make for where the straw ot * n ;
flammable matter may be lying. In anj
"aS he must set tire to the niattressex.
For making a fire he must employ acon -
pound, if it is at hand, of petroleum an
alcohol, of petroleum simply, or use. a
candle, if no better means are availabk.
When the fire has oonara “®?* ££"£l
up, he must then turn on all the jets of
uas in the corridors and apartments. I
the midst of the confusion he must
either force the officers to join the revolt,
or slay the recalcitrants, so that no one
shall ‘remain standing. He must then
join the people in the street, and help to
b>mi th™ rinblic buildings begminng
with tlie police offices. Besides alcohol
ized petroleum he should be furnished
with a yet deadlier agent, winch is pe
troleiun essence saturated with white
, phosphorna.
On a New York Central Railroad .car
bou. d Ead, the other day, a newly
wedded party furnished
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