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G. W. M. JAIUM, Editor and Proprietor.
volume iv.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
There are 1,100 blacks and 115 whites
n the Georgia penitentiary.
The Mississippi State Grange favors
the repeal of the agricultural lien law.
The Atlanta City Council has voted
$15,000 for the purchase of a site for a
city park.
Centenary Methodist church, at Rich
mond, Va., will have a chime of bells
to cost $7,000.
A company, with a capital of SIOO,
000, has been organized to introduce the
electric light at Columbus, Ga.
Commissioner Hawkins of Tennessee
is making arrangements for experimen
tal tests in the effect of commercial fer
tilizers on the crops in every county in
the State.
_ Some Chicago capitalists are negoti
ating for the purchase 13,000 acres of
land in Sequachee county, Tenn., .13 an
investment. It is well timbered and
rich in coal.
The marble quarry near Calhoun,
Tenn., has been leased, and 100 steam
drills will be operated there. A railroad
will be built and other preparations
made for extensive quarrying.
The Atlanta Constitution discovers in
the fact that the Eagle and Phoenix
mills of Columbus, Ga., last year earned
25 per cent, on their capital stock, one
of the most overwhelming political tri
umphs for the youth.
The Georgia railroad has compromised
with Henry Hill, whom the passenger
conductor put off near Madison last
summer for not wearing his coat in the
ladies’ car. Ttlie road paid $5,000 for
this treatise on etiquette.
Sturgeon fishing in the waters around
Georgetown, S. C., has become a large
and profitable industry. About 100 men
are employed in the business, and large
quantities of sturgeon meat are shipped
to Charleston in kegs every week.
A short time since a bar-room was
found bid in a pen of cottonseed near
Athens, Ga. It seems the proprietor
kept a barrel secreted in this pen, with
rubber tube leading therefrom, and when
a customer wanted his jug filled it was
easily drawn. It was reported to a rev
enue officer and broken up.
Constitution: Columbus is
about to turn her attention to building
a canal. According to all accounts it
won’t be a difficult job. With canals
in Augusta, Columbus, Macon and At
lanta, Georgia will have sufficient im
proved water power to run all the cotton
mill in the United States. But, really,
we don’t want all. We will he satisfied
with just half.
Columbus (Ga.) Times: There were
four bales of cotton brought to market
yesterday from the plantation of Col. F.
Terry, who lives near Waverly Hall,
Harris county, that was grown and
gathered in the year 1860. baled with
ropes, and have been reposing in his gin
house ever since. He was offered 47)
•ents for it in 1865, but would not sell
because he thought the revenue tax of 3
cents per pound was unjust, and he said
he had rather burn the cotton than sub
mit to such injustice by the government.
He had at the close of the war upward
of 100 hales of cotton, and still has a
few more left.
How the Snake Gets a New Suit.
“ Some people think that snakes only
shed their skins at certain seasons of the
year,” said the keeper. “ That’s a mis
take. If they are well fed and kept
right warm they change their coats
about every eight weeks through the
yea*.” “Does it pain them?” “Nota
bit of it. You see the skin of a snake
does not increase in size as the reptile
grows, as with us. While the old skin
is getting smaller by degrees, anew one
is forming underneath, and the other
gradually gets dry. When it is ready to
shed, it loosens around the lips, and the
reptile mbs itself against the earth or
the rock in the cage, and turns the up
per part over the eye and the lower part
over the throat. Then it commences to
glide around the glass case, all the time
rubbing itself against something until
the entire skin is worked off. Sometimes
this takes three days ; occasionally they
get rid of the incumbrance in a lew
hours. I don’t believe they have a bit
of intelligence. For ail I feed them and
care Lr them, they would as lief bite me
as any stranger. I can handle a good
many'of them safely, but it’s ofcly the
knack of the thing—not that they won t
bite, hut that they can’t get the
chance.” -
PeddtjEK. —“’Mornin’, Mr. Waggles.
Hinjoyin’ yer mornin’ pipe hafter Inst
night’s storm ? I heard you and your
wife havin’ high words ns I passed at Id
o’clock.” Mr. Waggles fa reprobate) -
“High words, wos it? More like low
langwidge, I calls it.”
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ‘24, 1882.
TOPICS OP THE DAT.
Thurman is said to bo building his
fences for 1884.
Patti—Cincinnati Music Hall—twe
nights—sl6,ooo.
Fen military reasons England will op
pose the Channel tunnel.
Tiie Popo recommends that the pro
posed Spanish pilgrimage be abandoned.
Gen. Sheridan favors the compulsory
retirement of all officers sixty-two years
of age.
Cotton returns indicate for 1881 the
loss of 300,000 bales by ravages of the
caterpillar.
The English exports to America for
1881 were 20 per sent, less than those of
previous years.
Since Sullivan pounded Ryan he is
said to have had three offers of marriage.
He’s a great masher.
The appointment of policewomen on
the New York force is now asked for by
the woman suffragists.
Mrs. Garfield will not reply to Mrs.
Scoville’s letter, appealing in behalf of
the assassin of the President.
The address to the throne in the
House of Common has been adopted,
thus sustaining the government’s Irish
policy.
Thomas Nast, the well-known carica
turist, has a plethora of money, so we
are informed, and purposes retiring to
private lit*.
The Fire Commissioners of Boston
have ordered fire-escapes to be supplied
by all manufacturers employing five or
more hands.
The Prussian Budget is made to a sur
plus 01,45, 000,000. This is chiefly due
to the working of the railroads bought
by the State.
Potatoes are being imported from
Europe, and New York dealers are some
what disgusted. Such invasions inter
fere with “corners.”
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Cuba, just now, is undergoing a severe
drouth, to the great injury of the sugar
cane. We might spare her any quantity
of water and not suffer either.
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Belle Boyd, the Confederate corres
respondent, spy, and blockade runner,
lives now in Corsicana, Texas, and fre
quently delivers a lecture or two.
The insurance on Barnum’s baby ele
phant is $300,000. The insurance on the
average Congressman is $5,000. Differ
ence in favor of the babe, $295,000.
Great distress exists among the peo
ple of Sweden, the mildness of the
weather preventing the transportation of
produce by means of sleighs, as usual.
General Carr, against whom Gen
eral Wilcox preferred charges of a se
rious character, has been released from
custody, the President refusing to en
tertain the charges.
France seems not inclined to recon
vene the Monetary Conference April i,
owing to a desire to avoid another fail
ure in her efforts to secure a uniformity
of view’s on the part of the Powers.
The Government Printing Office, in
spite of the scarcity of money and the
agitation about the change of manage
ment, is at work at a tremendous rate
turning out books, pamphlets, and other
printed stuff by the ton.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, who has
submitted to a third operation for can
cer in the mouth, reports that his con
dition is now most favorable, and ex
presses great confidence that a perma
nent cure has been effected.
It arrears that, after all, the portrait
Hie temperance ladies had painted of
Mrs. Hayes to hang up in the White
House, will not be used for that purpose,
President Arthur feeling inclined to dc
as he pleases about the matter.
The State of Pennsylvania has beguu
suit aginst seventeen railroads because
of tlieir failure to return to the Auditor
their annual report within thirty days
after the expiration of the financial year.
The penalty for each road is $5,000.
Mr. Scoville proposes to lecture in
various localities on the subject “ Mod
ern Politics.” In these lectures ho will
refer incidentally to the Guiteau trial.
How’ever, it is generally believed the
public have bail enough of the Guiteau
trial. m
It seems that Egypt is advancing
somewhat in civilization. The present
“Failhfal to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.”
Khedive spends but $500,000 a year,
whereas his predecessor spent $10,000,-
000. He has but one wife, and grants
consessions to all religious denomina
tions.
Patti and Minnie Hauk both got
laryngitis during the Opera Festival at
Cincinnati, and that’s why things got so
terribly mixed up. All prima-donnas
get laryngitis once in a while, and those
who do not hereafter complain of laryn
gitis occasionally are not what you might
call great warblers.
Cereal estimates of the Department
of Agriculture of crops of 1881, as com
pared with those of 1880, shows a reduc
tion of 31 per cent, in corn, 22 per cent,
in wheat, 21 per cent, in rye, and 9 per
cent, in barley. The total value of crops
in 1881 is $1,465,000,000, against $1,361,-
000 in 1880.
The late Lord Beaconfield paid £4,-
000,000 for England’s 177,000 shares in
the Suez Canal. Owing to the recent
wild speculative mania in France, the
price of the shares was forced up to £l4O,
and if Her Majesty’s Government had
cleared out at that figure, it would have
realized £24,780,000, or a profit of £20,-
780,000. _
The Memphis Appeal says anew day
has dawned for the South, and that in
its light prejudices are vanishing, and
with them the hatreds and the narrow
ideas of the past, and that intelligence,
reason and common sense are ready to
make available the resources which
science and experience have brought
within reach.
About two-thirds of the counties in
Indiana have been authorized to take
observations of the weather, and as soon
as the instruments and supplies are for
warded by the General Government the
service will be inaugurated. Indiana
will be the first State to make these
observations by counties, although other
States are moving in the matter.
Alt, persons, incluiling officers of the
law, are opposed totLo brutality ,f
fighting, and the newspapers of the land
have a great deal to say against it, but
all newspapers take the pains to publish
detailed accounts of such affairs, and
with hardly a single exception, readers
are not satisfied until they know just
how each round came out, and who was
finally whipped.
Prof. Henry S. Vennor has published
a card in the Cincinnati Commercial
declaring that he is a success as a weather
prophet. However, instead of predict
ing weather a year in advance, he will
hereafter print a monthly paper at Mon
treal which shall contain predictions,
weather maps, etc., for the ensuing
month. Thus you see when a man
gets so he can’t tell tho truth, he turns
to editing a newspaper.
A brute, by name John Wilson, oi
Taunton, Mass., has been in the habit ol
tying a heavy rope around the neck oi
his grown-up daughter and dragging her
around after him. For this he was fined
ten dollars, and the girl paid it with her
own money. She is one of the Chris
tians who returns good for evil, although
when it comes right down to carrying
out the doctrine, it don’t seem to be just
the thing accordisg to tho common way
of thinking.
Illustrative of the destitute condition
of people in Southern Illinois, a cor
respondent writing from Saline County
says: “In this county nothing was
raised, not even grass. There are farm
ers who are as near stavation as they
well can come without actually starving.
They are living on anything they can con
vert into food to keep soul and body to
gether. Their situation might be im
agined, but one would have to see it to
fully understand it.”
At Lafayette, Indiana, an old soldier
named John Baker was married to Mrs.
Anna Smith, who had been nursing him
for some time past, and to whom he
owed considerable of a board bill. Baker
knew his death was but a few days dis
tant, and he wished to reward his kind
benefactress by leaving her the pension
which he had for several years been re
ceiving from the government. He died
the day following the ceremony, and the
widow, it is said, has, besides the
monthly pension, a claim for $2,000
iack pension.
Charley Wright, the colored boot
black, who saved two men at the recent
New York fire by climbing a telegraph
pole and cutting a wire rope, has re
ceived a medal from the American Hu
mane Society which makes him a col
onel in the life-saving brigade. Another
gold medal will he shortly given to him.
He has received in money SBO and the
Humane Society will present him with a
purse. He has saved eight persons in
the surf at Cape May, for three sum
mers past. His father is an African, his
mother a Sioux Indian.
Rev. Talmage’s charge that the father
of Robt. J. lugersoll, in life, fed and
clothed his family sparingly and “never
spoke a kind word to his wife,” has re
ceived the attention of Mr. John F. In
gersoll, of Waukesha County, Wiscon
sin, who has printed a most scathing re
ply. He says that his father was a min
ister on SSOO a year, ami had to iive
sparingly, that he was kind to his fam
ily, and as to Robert, while he did not
believe the doctrines the father taught,
was “as good and obedient boy as he
ever knew*.” Mr. Ingersoll endeavors
to shame the Rev. Talmage for going to
the grave as a ghoul, to tear up the
ashes of the white-haired dead.
Speculators in Cincinnati Opera
Festival tickets were gloriously stuck—
some to the extent of $1,500, and others
for less amounts, but all lost more or
less in their speculation. This is as it
should be. When a lot of men buy up
with a view to securing a “corner” at
the expense of the masses—extorting
money from those who can least afford
it—it is but justice that they should lose,
and that heavily. One Hebrew citizen,
who had bought reserved seats heavily
at a big advance, stood about the door,
late at night, offering his tickets at 35
cents apiece, and not one of them had
cost him under $7, and some of them as
high as $24. People, rather tliau pat
ronize him, shoved him aside and paid
$1 for general admission, went in and
stood up, so outraged were their feelings
over the affair. We never like to see
persons losing money, but sometimes it
is a good thing for the general public
for would-be oppressors to suffer se
verely the Luits of indiscretion.
A touching incident occurred at the
Midlothiai! mines in Virginia, the other
night. Superintendent Dodds mounted
a coal car,' and addressing the wailing
throng of women and children around
him, said: “My poor friends, it grieves
me to state to you that for the present
i.ur flcaictrioT the bodies of those yon
know and loved will have to be aban
doned. You know what fire in a coal
mine means, and it may take Jiegflis of
watching to subdue it. clcse
the pit now.” The speakers voice quiv
ered with emotion. When he finished a
beautiful little girl of fourteen years,
Annie Crowded the only daughter of one
of the victims, uttered a piercing scream
and rushed to the mouth of the pit, crying:
“Oh, do not leave my dead papa to burn
down there. Let get into the cage
and go down after him. Let me save
him.” The strong arms of the miners
held her back a& the fragile tiling tried
to make her the cage, and more
than one blackened face was made
blacker as the hand went up to wipe
away the tears. Men sobbed aloud and
turned away to conceal their emotion.
The little girl, finding her progress
barred, swooned at the mouth of the pit.’
Women’s Masculine Idols.
Every man who fills an effective pub
lic position has an especially good op
portunity of moralizing upon feminine
frivolity and frailness. A handsome
actor, a good-looking popular preacher,
a charming singer, finds the women go
down before him much as the ladies uo
before the hero of Patience. As very
High Church young ladies delight in
standing up out of reverence to very
young curates when they enter the
church, bo there are many women who
would be charmed to go down on their
knees when one of the heroes of society
enters a drawing-room. Good looks are
not always necessary, though as a rule
women prefer their idols to bo hand
some. Excessive notoriety will do in
stead. The men who, with no personal
charms—with, as in some recent in
stances, a jiositive unpleasantness about
them—go through society worshiped
a&d adored by the women, must indeed
be inclined to adopt the true Guy Liv
ingstonian view of the other sex. These
ladies who sneak after the man of rnusli-
room notoriety, imploring him to come
to their afternoons, begging him for his
photograph or a copy of his poems, or
an autograph letter, or a lock of his hair
—must appear to him very “poor little
beasts” indeed. But however he may
despise them, he can, to a certain extent,
understand their motives. They want
other women to see him talking to them,
to meet him at their houses, to be aware
that he has written letters to them and
given them hia photograph. The idea
these women entertain must he that they
obtain a second-hand distinction by be
ing associated in people’s mirds with
the idol of the hour. Women have from
all time regarded it as sufficient honor
for themselves to be the favorites of
great men. This is but a modern ren
dering of the old story. They have
made it the fashion to Bit in adorning
circles, around their hero, and gaze upon
him with meek eyes of wonder, much as
if he were a Persian prince, and they
his humble slaves. But there is none of
the charm of danger in this, and perhaps
not much excitement; for it is all done
in public, and has become a prominent
feature in the programme of most
drawing-room entertainments, -r-London
'World.
TERMS—SI.OO par Annum strictly t-Advance.
A Chicago GlrPs *ovc.
“Does your father keep a dog ?”
These words, uttered with the simple
earnestness shat showed how deeply their
full meaning was felt by him who spoke
them, fell from the lips of Ethelbert
Dooley as he looked tenderly in the fair,
spirituelle face of Rosalind Maliaffy.
They were at the matinee, and a dull
pain stole into the girl’s heart, as she
shifted the last caramel in the box over
to the starboard side of her pretty mouth.
“Ethelbert does not love me,” she
said softly to herself, while a look of
pain whitened for an instant with a
deathly pallor, the pure ingenue face,
and the shapely hand grasped more
tightly the dainty silk parasol that
served alike to keep off sun and wind
from the tithe form. “All gone,” she
murmured, sadly—“ every blamed one”
—feeling earnestly with her taper fin
gers in every corner of the empty box,
and then a look of sweet contentment
overspread her features, as she placed
her hand in the pocket of her sealskin
sacque, only to be succeeded by a dull,
dazed expression of grief and anguish.
She had lost her chewing gum.
“You look ill, darling,” whispered
Ethelbert, as the curtain went down at
the close of the first act; “try some of
these,” handing out a paper of peanuts.
With a glad look of love in her beau
tiful eyes, Rosalind turned to him and
said: “I can never doubt you again,
darling. I would follow you to the end
of the world. Chicago Tribune.
“Don’t You Believe Him.
The Arabs tell a story to show how a
.mean man’s philosophy overshoots itself.
Under the reign of the first Oalip there
was a merchant in Bagdad equally rich
and avaricious. One day he had bar
gained with a porter to carry home for
him a basket of porcelain vases for ten
paras:
As they went along he said to the man:
“My friend, you are young and I am
old; you can still earn plenty; strike a
para from your hire.”
“Willingly !” replied the porter.
This request was repeal’d again and
again, until, when they reach tie house,
the porter had only a single para to re
ceive. As they went up stairs the mer
chant said:
“If you wall resign the last para, I
will give you three pieces of advice.”
“Be it so,” said the porter.
“Well, then,” said the merchant, “if
any one tells you it is better to be fast
ing than feasting, do not believe him. If
any one tells you it is better to be poor
than rich, do not believe him. If any
one tells you it is better to walk than
ride, do not believe him. ”
“ My dear sir,” replied the astonished
porter, “I knew these things before;
but if you will listen to me, I will give
you such advice as you never heard.”
The merchant turned round, and the
porter, throwing the basket down the
staircase, said to him:
“If any one tells you that one of your
vases is unbroken, do not believe him.”
Before the merchant could reply the
porter made his escape, thus punishing
his employer for his miserly greediness.
F.ar and Brain.
The substance of the following state
ments with regard to the ear and brain
is from a paper in the New York Medi
cal Journal, by Dr. Andrews, surgeon
to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital,,
New York.
Ear diseases are much worse than
those of the eye. They are a principal
cause of deaf mutism. They are also
among the most frequent diseases of
childhood, being developed in diphtheria,
whooping-cough, scarlet fever, measles,
small-pox, fvphoid fever, influenza and
tubercular affections of the lungs.
' Indeed, a simple cold in the head or
sore throat rapidly spreads along the
mucous membrane of the nostrils and
pharynx to that of the ear. Says the
late Prof. Clark, of Harvard University,
“So important is proper “ten#>n to the
ear during and after acute exanthemata
(diseases attended with rash) tlpff a
physician who treats such cases, and
neglects to give this attention, cannot
be said to perform his duty to his pa-
But the most serious fact about these
diseases grows out of the very intimate
connection between tho car and the
brain. Most of the bony wall which
contains the internal ear lies in direct
contact with tlie membrane of the bram.
Some parts of the wall are so tlnn as to
be transparent. There are also open
ings through it for the passage of nerves
and blood-vessels, and often parts of it
are wanting through arrest of develop-
Hence, purulent inflammations of the
ear extend to the brain-—the
more so, the younger the child. These
may cause similar imflammation ot the
membranes, inflammation of large veins
and abscesses of the brain.
V.",irlv one-half of the latter are due
to this cause, chronic inflammation of
! the ear— showing itself perhaps only m
! a slight headache— being vastly more
dangerous than acute. — Youths Com
! vanion.
A young member of the bar thought
he would adopt a motto for himself, and,
after much reflection, wrote in large let
ters, and i>osted up against the wall, the
following, “Suum Cidque,” which may
be translated. “Let every one have his
own.” A country client, coming in, ex
pressed liimeSf much gratified with the
maxim, but added, “You don’t spell it
right.” “indeed! Then how ought it
to be spelt ?” The visitor replied, “Sue
’em quick.”
A blot may be erased, but with tht
erasure goes part of the original texture.
Character can never suffer a stain with-
I out some loss.
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