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E. MERTON COULTER
THE ATHENS DAILY BANNER.
ATHENS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23 1882
VOL. in.
NO- 8ft
WHERE THE OUXFABR NEEDLE POINTS.
I beg to aUte that the reason why
the needle points in the.northerly di
rection is that the earth in iuelt is a
magnet, attractiog the magnetio nee
dle as the ordinary magnets do, and
the earth is a magnet as the insult
of certain cosmica! facts, much affect*
ed by the action of the snn. These
laws base periodicities, alt e! which
hare not as yet been determined.
The inherent and ultimate reason of
any fact is untrue, as gravity, light,
heat, etc., is not known,'further than
it is in harmony with all facts of na
ture. Even an earthquake is in per
fect harmony with ana the direct re
sultant ot the notion of forces sctiog
under general laws. A condensed
explanation in regard to the needle
pointing to the uorthward and sduth ■
ward is as follows: The magnetio
.pole* of the earth do notoomcide
With, the geographical poles. The
axis of rotation makes an angle of
about twenty three degrees i with a
line joining the former. The north
ern magnetic pole is at present near
the arctic circle on the meridian ol
Omaha. Hence the needle does not
everywhere point to the astronomical
north, and is constantly variable
within oertain limits. At San Fran,
cisoo it points about seventeen degrees
to jibe east or north, anu {at Calais,
Me., aa much to the west. At the
northern magnetic pole, ^balanced
needle points with its \«rih end
downward, in a plumb line. At San
Fraxcisco it about dips sixty three
dweet; and at the southern magi
neuo pole the south end points directs
ly down. WSgiactioa of the earth
upon a magnetic needle at its sur
face is of about the same force as t 1 at
ol a bard steel magnet, forty inches
long, strongly magnetised, at a dis
tance of one foot.
The foregoing is I he accepted ex
planation of the fact that the needle
points to the northward and south
ward, Of course no ultimate reason
can be given for this natural faet in
nature.—Protevsor Patterson ot Uni.
ted States Coast Survey.
An Act.
To make penal the intentional point
ing or aiming of fire-arms at an
other whether loaded or unloaded.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly at Georgia, and it Is
hereby enacted by authority of the
same. That, from ami after the pas
sage of this act, any person who shall
intentionally point or aim a gun or
pistol whether loaded or unloaded, at
another, not in a sham battle by the
military, and not in self-defense or in
defense of babita'ion, property or
person, or other instances standing
upon like fooling of reason and jus
tice, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be
punisned as prescribed in section
4,310 of the revised code of Georgia
of 1878.
SeetionS. Repeals conflicting laws.
Approved, September 27th, 1881.
Tne night One.
A New Yoik clergyman, in a ser
mon on courtship and marriage, snid
he believed that 'there is a mate for
everyone if they will but wait till the
’ right one comes along.’ The lemale
portion of his congregation who have
passed two score years snid they nev
er heard such nonsense, and that the
■nan didn't know what be was talking
about. If the tight one doesn't come
along before a woman reaches forty,
the chances are nine in ten that be is
snowed under, or dead, or, worse still
has married the wrong wotnau.
"The Bnorting wild ass of the Si
erras’’ is the elsgant expression the
Hartford Times applies to Joaquin
Miller. Joaquin may well be proud.
It is a big thing to attain to sufficient
importance to be called such a name
as that.
GEOBUIA NEWS.
Perry is on the eve of a building
boom.
Mra. W. T. Respnis, of Pike ooun>
ty, is dead.
Gen. Longstreet i< taking time to
fix up hit hotel in Gaiuesville for the
summer season.)
D. Webster Davis, postmaster at
Darien, died In that city on Wednes
day, after a brief illness.
A worthy citizen of Barnesville,
named Harvey Ditchings, was recent
ly found dead near the foundry.
Rome it to have an oil mill and ler.
tilixer company. A oompauy has
been organised with a capit^ of *30,-
A man named A. C. Broaeli was
arrested in Maeon and carried to
Jones county to answer the charge ol
murder.
James Blnodworth, of Grffiin, Is
reported to have fallen heir to a leg
acy of fifteen thousand dollars, left by
a relative in England.
It is thought tiie embarrassment of
Tnppan, Bro. & Co., of White plains,
is only temporary. They have belli
the sympathy and confidence ot their
community,
Freddie MoCominons, a boy of
nhuul 13, living near Penfield, was
killed by a runaway mule, be becom
ing entangled iu the harness, ou the
14th inst.
There are eleven trestles between
the Chattahoochee river and Sweet
water creek, and not another one tor
the next fifteen miles going west on
the Georgia Paoific railroad.
Mr. Isaac Steel’s wife, of big
Sinn' y, fell dead at her homo on
Wednesday of last week, while walk
ing about, apparently in good health.
Her sudden death was a shock to the
entire community.
Thieves entered the stores of Can
tilena <fc Tyera and u. A McKinley
at Milner, an Wednesday night, with
the aid of a piece of railroad iron, and
robbed them of several hundred dol
lars, worth of goods.
Levi Taylor, colored late of Bo-
liugbroke, visited Col. J. J. Rogers’
potato hill at Barnesville. The col
onel had bell and wiro connection lie-
tween the Imuse and the hill, aud art
the enterprising nogro knew it he
was nobbed.
In Paulding county, nne day last
week, a negro man drove a yoke of
oxen and wagon into Brown’s lord,
on Puinpkinvine creek, and all were
drowned. The oxen were found a con
siderable distance below, lodged on
a fish trap. The body ot the nenro
has not yet been found.
An old negress, aged seventy years,
who has a broken arin, fractured thigh,
blind in both eyes, dumb, deal, of
scrofulous-ores, wilhno wool on the
top of her head, nor place lor the wool
to grow, knock-kneed, spevined, box-
ankled ,slab-sided mid otherwise af
flicted, was recently convicted in
Polk euperior court tor the murder of
her grandchild, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
Telegraph and Messenger: Rev.
P. W. Edge, of Jeffersonville, Twiggs
county was in the city yesterday, and
reported a genuine case of small pox
in the county, about eight miles from
Macon. The same case was reported
to Captain Massenberg on Friday,
and to Dr. P. It. Wright, by othev
persons from the locality. The sick
man says lie contracted the disease
in Macon, and that there aro several
other cases here. We could not find
Dr. Blaeksbcnr to ascertain the truth
of the report, but saw Dr. Wright,
who says if there is a case here he
does not know ol it.
DeKslb News. It is said that a
lady of this county, living in Cross
Keys district, gave birth to two chil-
dnn (twins) some lime in October,
1881. They were quite small,weigh
ing three and five pounds respective
ly, but perfeetly formed and appa
rently healthy. The strange part of
the matter is.that from the day ot
their birth until sometime In the
month ot December they showed uo
animation and scarcely 'any sigu ol
life beyond respiration, and appeared
prcoisely as if asleep. Daring all this
time they took no nourishment, ex
cept a very little sweetened milk
forced upon them, and all efforts of
the mother to get them to nurse prov
ed unavailing. At the end ol about
two mouths afhei their birth the twins
apparently waked up aud became as
lively as any children,. and are now
living and thriving. They were
weighed at the beginning and also at
the end of their long sleep, and their
weight was precisely the same eaeh
time.
READY FOR KING FROST.
A Glimpse or a splendid I’ast.'
Dcmerest’* Monthly: Five hundred
years hefore the birth of Christ there
was a city in Italy called Sybaria. It
waa a magnificent piece, and the
wealth and luxury of its inhabitants
was so great that the name Sybarite
exists to this day aa a pseudonym of
a devotee of sensual pleasure. It
was at eae time so populous thnt it
could send 800,000 men into tho field,
yet Us sunals urn lost and its great
men unknown. All the information
we learn about it is the fact of ifs
greatness, and that its ruins are to-day
under the bed ot a river in southern
Italy. It seems there was a quarrel
amongst the rulers of this inightv
city, ami the discontented joined with
their enemieaj' the Crotouintes, who
succeeded in capturing Bybaris, drove
out its inhabitants, and, to make its
ruin complete, changed the course of
n river so that it swept over the re
mains of the once mighty mqnioipili-
ty. To-day the mins are covered by
a bed ol slime and earth from sixteen
to twenty feet deep, and soon the
Work of bringing the remains to light
will be undertaken. It is believed
that the memorials of a very distant
past will bo brought to light equal
to, it not exceeding in interest, those
of Pompeii.
A Ullitn Nuke Idiots.
N.Y, Herald.
Delegate Post of NVyomiug Ter
ritory, has introduced a bill in con
gress which is to bo hoped will not
be passed. It is called‘a bill to re
duce tho internal revenue tax on
o’garettee,’ but a more appropriate
title would be *n bill to m.iko luna
tics and idiots and forolber purposes’
—the 'other purposes’ being to fill up
the cemeteries and make millionaires
of the undertakers. Mr. Post must
bo an enemy to the human race. He
could not if he tried hit upon a more
certain method of killing off a large
portion of the rising generation and
of making idiots ot the one that is to
follow it. The cigarette annually kills
thousands and thousands of children
and young men, and those whom it
does nut destroy physically It mental
ly mins. The tax on them should be
increased, not reduced. It would be
well to place it so high as to put these
poisonous packages beyond the reach
of the small boy.
Rich lien who Are of Js'o Use.
It can hardly have escaped public
attention that the richest men of
America have no desire to perpetuate
their memory by leaving bequests for
the creation or aupporl of colleges,
libraries, museums, hospitals, or liter
ary, artistic, scientific or charitable
institutions ol any kind. They are
pertectly willing that the public
should do anything and everything
for their pecuniary advancement
while they live; but they show no
disposition to do anything for the
pnblio when the come to die.--Afem-
phit Apptal.
M. MYERS & CO.,
Would announce that thoy^va jnat received a full llnao|f^ v -^
Black & Colored Cashmeres,
and Faaaoy Brass Goods,
VQLMsiJrS dLtfB CLQ&MS.
In New Designs. Pull Line ot
Blankets, ‘(Quilts, Balmorals and Slipwls.
A complcti line ot jj .
WObLHN tnVDEIRwBAR,
A new lot of
NOBBY HATS,
MEN’S, IiAIJIES’, AND CHILDREN’S RUBBERS.
SHOES, i SHOES, SHOES,
OF ALL KINDS- HANDSOME STOCK OF
CLOTHIN* + &, 0VERCOAT8-
Come and scene and be oontlnoed. Respectfully, V •
:uac. nrrsRs c& ocx
■LEGE AVENUE, ATHENS, GA.
IN G-JHJOKGIA-
A Literal and Absolute Fact.
Special Bargains-!.
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00 44 44 44 44 60 00 worth 75 no
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100 1-4 Marble Bureau Suits 25 00 worth 85 00
100 Plain 44 44 20 00 worth 25 00 -
25 Parlor Suites—7 pieces 85 10 worth 50 00
20 44 44 Raw Silk . 50 00 worth 75 00
10 44 4 4 4 4 4 * all colors 75 00 worth 100 00
100MsrbloTables........ 5 00 worth 7 50
50 Bed or foldlngdoungea 12 50 worth
25 Hat racks 7 50 worth
25 44 44 Marble 10 00 worth
10 Pier and Mantel Mirrors 45 00 worth
15 09
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15 00
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VISITOKS CORDIALLY INVITED TO WITNESS
THE GRANDEST EXPOSITION OF FURNITURE
In tho south, and at prices beyond all competition. Don’t be induced to buy until yon get
my price*.
50 Elegant Walnut Basks—Vary Low.
This advertisement is not copyrighted. Other dealers permitted, through courtesy, to copy
U, oven at quotations a shade lower,
P. H. SNOOK
dcjG Atlanta, Ga.
ANDREWS, HITCH & CO.
DEALERS IN
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Gents Furnishing Goods
We lavo a large stock ot Clothing (n
Business and Dress Suits,
OVERCOATS, ULSTERETTES, &c.
Everything in the way of First Class Furnishing Goods.
Give us a call. Order* by mail promptly filled. ‘First-class Gtods at law Prices’ onr
motto.
ANDREWS. HITCH & CO.,
deed 16 WIIITE//ALL 8T., ATL.INTA.IGA.
