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tea cna sas OF pike county. SCBSCIUPflON', *1.00 PER ANNUM. EDGAR L. ROGERS, BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA, Wishes everybody in this broad of ours a prosperous year into which we l ave Just entered, and I rise to thank my customers and friends for the kindly and liberal paatronage bestowed on me in years past. X feel proud of it and will renew my efforts to put in Finer Goods, BETTER STYLES and LOWER PRICES than I have ever done before. I have run iny stock down very low with an eye to giving; my patrons an entire array of NEW GOODS. With greater efforts on my part to please, I intend to iPRlAP IT OM flWI Until I shall merit and get The Lion’s Share of Piko county and surrounding country's lot: HING TRADE I shall kee p Every thin old myself ready tostartie comj in Prices! QOME AND^RY ME, You shall have Prompt and Polite Attention. Cut-rate prices and first-c;ass goods. Messrs. J. F. Howard and E. C. Elder are with me and are ever delighted to wait upon customers. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY! Osborn L Wolcott GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Manufacturers of ■ ; ; / Iff - K v j mm > j § \J \ i ■ i S*»Nn \ ■ij— "XP C^. ! m V t V i V \ CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS. FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER. Repairing done neatly, substantially and with dispatch. Home-made wagons war ♦anted. A car load of —. Tennessee Wagons Just Received, Best hand made harness always on band. We can suit you. Don’t lose your money by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made harness. Dealers in Rough and Dressed Lumber, Every kin l of House Material constantly on hand, and can make anything you want. Manufacturers, also, of ENGINES AND BOILERS, SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS. FARM MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS - Carry a full line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine Fixtures, Can mske or repair anything from a Baby’s Cradle to a Locomotive. IttffiBVf § kfty » HEADQUARTERS FOR Ctoriagm, Buggies aai ! WmAmGmOhSmS - 6,000 PLOW-HOES AT BOTTOM PEI0E8! Parne^ville, Ga. fik 4 VOLUME 1 ZEBULON, GA.. TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1880. Humanity. There is a soul above the soul of each, A mightier soul,which vot to each belongs. There is a sound made of all human speech, And numerous as tho concourse of all songs And in that soul lives each, in each that soul, Though all the ages are its lifetime vast, Each soul that dies, in its most sacred whole Receivcth life that shall forever last. And thus forever with a wider span Humanity o’erarches time and death; Man can elect the universal man, And live in life that ends not with his breath And gather gl ry that increases still Till Tune his ,;ks> with Death’s last dust shall till. —Ricliaril IVttfsOH Dixon. A Remarkable Experience. “If you want a story,'’ said a friend to a Ban Francisco Alta reporter, “come with me, and I will introduce you to a man who will relate to you a very strange one.” Tho reporter accompanied liis friend to tlie latter’s office, on California street, where he met the person alluded to. In appearance this man. the hero of one of the most incredible adventures ever heard of, was a corp-o. lie was oi’ medium height, slightly built, features of remark able strength, but with hollow cheeks, sunken eyes, and with not the slightest color in his face to let one know that the warm life-blood was coursing* in his veins. What added yet more to his ca daverous appearance were hair and moustache ns white as the driven snow; altogether an extraordinary man, who would be looked at and pointed at wher ever he wind. Bui tlo . ps’ou'dar appear ance was not natural to this man, else could ho never have lived to an ago of probably 45. It was a premature age ing, caused by intendty of agony, of suffering of the most awful torture. The reporter was introduced and the man –hook hands w armly—yet hardly that, either, for his hands were cold and clammy. After a little preliminary talk h<?said: “You are anxious to hear my story. I was about to tell my friend here the narrative of those sufferings which mode me what v,u perceive 1 urn. He asked mv ti-u pennilton to brim* you here, atul as arc a lover of strange thin-. 1 ... i'l la .; ih i; , !„ ........ in little audu .. ‘ I havt.- not always ”, , been uee. such , a Wrcu , li'.d , person as vmi sec me “ now. „„ 1 his • aye, which , . , weighs . . me. down , almost , , to toe ground, was the , result ,. ot ‘ concentration . of ...... infinite T into - a Euticrjug , . the short . , period . , of e a week. , T) )J . , 1 shim , . u'l when I tell you of my sufferings,bear with me. It is not often that men arc snatched from the jaws of death to ten how near they have been to it. “I am mi Englishman an 1 come of an old and wealthy family of Esse w I had a liberal education in mv youth, but never could re,., why I Aould tend mv years and j ; Drams to teaching . . a congrega tiou of coimlr,' id'os the truth of tho gospel, , and , so, turning . my hack , . on the ., surplice, . - T l insisted . . , . to J , on going sea. went. What will. „.v influence and my skill as a navigator i ud seam in —for which, indeed, I had u natural aptitude —I soon rose to a po ; dtfon of i nisi, f became second male of a flue ship. From that to mate was a short step, and a few years saw me chief pfiteer of one of the finest vessels sailing out of Lon don. It was in my 26: h year that my ship, the Osprey, owned by Fowler Brothers, was chartered to come to this ■ port for wheat. Wc arrived here safely, loaded wheat, and soon were outside of the Golden Gate heading for home. Everything went smoothly and nothing occurred to forewarn me of the terrible adventure the future had in store for me. “We were to the southward of Vel paraiso when 1 felt ill. It was a kind of faintness that would suddenly and with out warning come upon me, so that 1 often fell oti the deck and lay there until some one could come to iny a distance. This continue:] without my getting much worse, until we got down off the Mayel lanBta:--, in the Inti;., !, .f lar, or thereabouts. One day a gloomy, forbidding day, sueli as the luutiuer ten meets with down there, I had the afternoon wnbdi. and whs. .superintend ing one of my men who was fixing a rat-lino in (he weather .ni/*c«.l rigging. The follow was very clumsy, to say the lea t of it. I got aJiBoyial watching hi- awkwanlnov; more nn noyed, in fact than was war ranted, I thick, now tint 1 look back. But I was grow ing more and more irritable every clay, which was j.r-hahly owing to my faint ing spells. f ; Idcniy I hoc.one so ex cited that I in ;,e l into the mizzeu ging, and vr.v: into the u [i in a trice, i war about to pull the fellow' away from his job'"lien a lit canto on. A sudden mist clouded my eyes. My now left me; I reeled and fed from the top to the deck. In my descent I struck once or twice, which earned mo i<> turn over, with the result; that f foil on my head. When I recovered consciousness I was lying in a btuik in tho hospitable. Still there was a thick mi-t. before my eyes, I could, indeed, see everything so as to recognize-where I was, but somehow my eyes refused to move about, and I could only rturc straight Up at the deck. 1 tried to turn in my bunk, but 1 could nut; to raise my arm, but I could not; to sit up, but my muscles failed me. At last the truth struggled into my darkened mind. I perceived at last that. I was in a per fectly cataleptic trance. The strange part of it was that my mind was almost as active as aver. I knew all that was going on about me, and I felt au over whelming terror at uiy possible fate. “it was soon made known to mo. The Captain entered my room. I covdd hoar imlistiuetly,. as if it were afar off, his footsteps on the deck. Then the steward also came in, 1 heard them consulting together, ami both came to the conclusion that I was dead; that my nock was broken by the fall. “ ‘Tell Sails to come in and take his measure. We must bury him tomorrow while tin- flue weather lasts,’ 1 heard the Captain say, and presently the sailmaker came in and measured me for the last hammock 1 should ever sleep in. I could not feel him, but I knew by his motions what he was doing. 1 will not describe how they laid me out on the cabin table and left me there, while Bails, close by, made my shroud. Stitch, stitch, stitch, Went his needle, seeming* to enter into my brain every time instead of the thick %anvas. I can distinctly remember that while I lay there the steward tried to close my eyes, but, thank God, they flew up every time and left the poor! consolation of seeing the preparations for my doom. “At last all Was finished. The canvas spread on the deck and I was laid in it. Then the sailmaker began to stitch me up. He had stitched up all but my face, when I heard him say he had lost his knife. A rigid search was made every where, but it could not be found, so Bails returned to work, and all that time I was thinking in my dull way what fools they well for not looking into my shroud for the lost knife. As I after ward learned it was next day at noon th '" 1 waa |>re|»n*ory car f J 011 being ai " ] dtot iM on a to over W(L The., men one by one «>ok a up forever, "V ^ the burml "service was mVem nwl ] by ilie UapUiu, . there was little delay, , 1 ’ then the plimk 1 was tilted, and l shot into the bitter cold water oil _ the Diego Ham ire/., It must have been the shock that brought me to my for, i sank down, , senses, as draggel lower by the shot at my feet, I felt my feeling and. action return. \t tin shim* moment my right hand, re li a - ,1 from its dread inertia, grasped what I instantly know to be a knife. Me chanically I forced the blade and ripped «? cai,vas s!m ” , ‘ 1 80 that the shot fell and I began to rise to the surface. In a ■■ f,:w 1 8n l'P 0W ' a " lwo « h sc.’rncd wars, I opened 1 my eves—for it is curious; fact that while ;• I lay a m a ,,f coaul the * nmWod 1 ° pCn ’ yH whou my feelings returned with the I dosed them at once—and saw. once more the light of day, which I had never expected to see again. I was an excellent swimmer, and had soon regained my breath and cast from me the canvas which imped -d my movements. Then f looked around over the waters, and aw that my miraculous escape had been all for nothing. The ship, looking like a great swan, getting smaller and smaller even ai I looked. There arose from my lips a frenzied curse against the God that had abandoned me thus, but almost im mediately afterward, as if to rebuke me Ibr my wickeduo s, J noticed a piece of wreckage floating toward me. Hope once more filled my breast, and I swam toward the piece of deckhouse, ns it proved to he, and clambering on top thisfe.v myself on my face and wept for very wretched ness. “Alone on the wide ocean, a piece of wo ad the only thing between me and < hi/i l (in d w(-;tk from my last terrible experience, what cine could I do but weep? Boon 1 began to feel an in tense hunger. By the lowest calculation l must have been comatose for three davs, ho for that time I had had no * n0 urMun) . nt . Til0 , Wck tnht that sud denly came down eat sfiod iny lli.r t, but tlioi-e wan nothing to eat, nothing to eat. I nearly went crazy as the (lay v.ore on. “At last night fell and a'ldwl the ter r ors of the blackness of darkness to the pgjjgs of hunger, I could never tell the horrors of that first night. It was a wonder T was not stark, staring mad when day broke. The second day passed like the first, Nothing to cut, something to moisten my lijis, l)ut no sail iri sight. The third day broke with an angry skv and angrier sea, and I saw that before the day closed n Capo Horn gale would be. raging with its attendant gleet and fold] I trembled then, for, even though I was almost dead and quite without hnpAl * wanted to live. By noon the sea had s eti tremendously, and it was with grew difficulty that I managed to keep on my raft, Bv> tho ale wri raging fit/ecly, NBi . I was expecting every moment to bo engulfed in or.o of the teirible abys ses into which my raft slipped fmi stantly. This was the most awful night I over spent— worse even than when I lay to alt appearances dead on the cabin table of the Osprey. Tho flying spoon drift cut mo to the bone. The greid waves rolled their crested phosphorescent heads high above me, who, sunk hi a black abyss, heard tho gale shrieking overhead. I felt soon that it could not last much longer. Numbed and weak as 1 was, I clung to my refuge with the energy of desperation, and waited bit terly for dentil. “Finally an immeuso wave highot than all that had gone before, raised its wild head to the skies and rolled down on me. “My time had come. I was swept like a child from my raft and carried on the crest of the monster ns I supposed, to death. But once again the hand of the Almighty was stretched out to save me. I was dashed with inconceivable violence against something solid ns a rock. Hopes were Hunting all around mo. I grabbed several and then swooned. “I awoke and recognized the old hos pital of tho Osprey. Then 1 thought my burial and subsequent adventures were all a wandering fancy and that I had never left tho hospital. But I was soon undeceived. A kind face bent over me and I saw once more (bo features of my good captain. He should not permit me to speak nil that day, but on the next I was allowed to relate my story, which 1 did in a weak and quav ering voice, 1 can assure you. Then the captain told mo that after burying me, as they thought, they had kept on their course for two days, when they encountered a heavy head gale which, drove them back on their cmites again. They shipped a ter rible sea which carried away boats ami houses forward, hut it was the last exer tion of the gale, for afler that it died away. When (he waist was sufficiently clear of water to enable the men to walk there, (hey had discovered my body en tangled in ropes lying in (lie lee scupper. At first they thought, my corpse had been washed aboard again, as has Ik (hi several times done, but on lifting me up they saw unmistakable signs of life, and with great awe and wonder carried me into the cabin. As to my comatose sleep, the captain said he hud never seen any thing more, like death, lie lutd doubted if tint most skilful doctors could have discovered any life in me. He was con fident my neck had been broken. “In a week or sol gol around, and one day, looking in a glass, discovered to my astonishment that my hair was quite white. I! was two years before I got over my lerriblo experience at Capo Horn sufficiently to go to <oa again, but it lias left me what you sec me a man of 00 at 45. My ease was thought a very extraordinary one by medical men, and tlie medical papers described mv attack of coma, as they called it, very minutely, only quite differently from my exper ience. ” A Hitman Alumnae. Conuellsville, Penn., lias a freak who is of immense value to farmers in setting outtlicir crops and to tlie superstitious people who cut their hair and finger-nails at certain stages of tile moon. The freak is James li. ltothernWl, a carpenter, pos sessed of a peculiar birth-mark at the base of liis brain, it is naturally cres cent in shape and bluish in color. As the moon is turning tlie first quarter the, mark becomes a reddish hue, and the swelling of the flesh below it, extending diagonally across the neck to the right shoulder, is perceptible. The mark becomes redder as the moon grows older, and (lie flesh swells corre spondingly. When the moon is full tho crescent is of bright red, and (lie flesh assumes a horn-like roll over two inches in thickness at the largest part, gradu ally tapering to a point on the shoulder. As the birth-mark grows large as the moon becomes full, so it decreases in size as tlie moon wanes, and w hen'the moon is quite dark there is nothing to be seen but the bluish, crescent-shaped roark. Mr. Rothermnl suffer.-, no ineou vcnicnceby enlargement of flic nock, nor does he c.dnrc much pain. Tie needs no almanac to tell the change in the moon, simply placing his hand on the mark to tell its condition. While going to school the scholars and teacher often observed the changes in the birth-mark, and wondered at the remarkable regu larity with which they occurred. — (Jin cirinaM Enquirer. Latest Fail in Foot Gear. The latest fad in woman’s foot-gear is the rubber boot with fancy uppers of Jersey cloth in plaid or cheek patterns. The entire boot is lined with Canton flannel and is buttoned on the same as pair of walking slices. They are ex tremely stylish and combine both fort and warmth. Tim uppers are made in plain goods, so that there is tle difficulty in matching the dress terial.— Detroit Fret Prm. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. One hundred per cent of sugar is di gested. Paper is now used as a covering for lead pencils, instead of cedar. Electric prostration is a disease that affects those who work under strong electric lights. Nasal troubles affect the brain by pre venting the cerebral lymph from circu lating freely. The longest electric railway in the United States will soon he pul in opera tion in Topeka. Kan. Thu distance be tween the two termini is 11 miles. If you cut down a tree in the month of its growth, if you cut it right off at tlie butt and not trim it out any, in a few days that tree will be seasoned. Exhaustive practical tests have shown that the new magnesia covering for steam-heated surfaces is practically in destructible liv either heat or moisture. Tho power of a windmill has been suc cessfully applied to tho generationo of lec trioity for domestic purposes by Profes sor Blyth of the Glasgow Philosophical society. The development of alternate currents is said to bo greatly duo to the persever cnce of tho late Lucion Gaulard, who died .insane at the St. Aim lunatic asy lum, in Paris. Iron, when heated, beuds very readily under weight, so that it cannot be con sidered the best of material for fire-proof buildings. Stone,and especially granite, is very little better than iron to with stand the ravages of tire. Nicotine is one of the mwt powerful of the “nerve poisons” known. Its vir ulence is compared to that of prussic acid. If birds be made to inhale its va por in amounts too small tube measured, they are almost instantly killed. The Russian weather observing system is said to he the most extensive in the world. It has two prineip:^ observator ies and 255 subordinate stations. In ad dition, there are. many volunteer observ es, so that the 1 isf' report pqblished gives the milifall of 530 localitiesj^k t.^^^ds Ai. :' vi.i.-L. that the preservation of rails in use is not the resil'd of vibratory motion, or an electric action produced by the passage of the trains, but is due to tlie formation of a coating of magnetic oxide by the compression (| t the rust on the metal. Hydrogen is shown by experiments of Dr. B. W. Richardson to lie neither nniesthotic nor hypnotic, but if inhaled so as to lie taken up by the blood it quickly kills warm-blooded animals, but suspends life in cold-blooded animals for a long time before actually destroying it. According to La Gazette Gcogntpliique the Cordillera of the Andes are gradually sinking. In 1745 tho city of Quito was 9590 feet above sea level; in 1803 it was only 51570; in 1831, 9007, mid scarcely 9520 in 1907. This amounts to a lower ing of 70 feel in 122 years, or at,-the rato of about 7 1 2 inches per annum. Coral Reels Made inhabitable Islands. A most-remarkable growth _,of coral islands, allowing tho short tgfie required to transform reel's in the dbnse still water of tlie Pacific Ocean to (large bodies of land, says the Philadelphia' ./iV ■;;/• /, was reported by Captain Delap, of tin Ameri can ship York (own, which touched at Boston Island in March last, while bound from Philadelphia to Hiogo, Japan. The Yorklown has just arrived at Sandy Hook, with a large cargo of general mer chandise, and Captain Delap made close and careful observation not only of the island, but of tho natives also. The first visit to tlie island was made by Captain Duperry, a Boston explorer, in 1824. He named the, island after his native city. While there lie made an accurate survey of the Island ns well as tho outlying reefs, over which 1 lift sea made a clean breach at times. The largest island was without vegetation or life, and has been so marked on all navigator’s charts, When the York town approached the islands' the vessel was hove to, and in a short time was surrounded by copper-colored natives ol a friendly disposition, who brought with them such fruit as was common to the islands. Instead of reefs, as had been seen by Captain Duperry, there were 13 islands surrounding salt water lagoons, densely covered with vegetation and all inhabited. The group wm called Ebon Island, and was three miles long, having grown at least a mile in half a century. Three Germans were reported to have re cent I v arrived there from New Zealand. With the exception of the latter visitors, who were probably shipwrecked sailors, and Captain Delap, no white men are known to have, visited those islands since they were first discovered. He Left. “Do you like poetry, Nellie?” “Yes, George,” “Wiiat kind do you like lad?" “Well, fA whenever 1 a you walking 1 admire poetry of motion," ! PRINTED EVERY TUESDAY -AT— ZEBULON, - - GEORGI -BY PARRY LEE, A SPLENDID ADVERTISING AGENT The Bangs My Mother Sung. I hoar the songs they si tig today, But never one as sweet As those my mother snug to mo When sitting at her feet. My thoughts go bark to childhood years, When hope and I were young, And as of old I hear today, The songs my mother sung. ■ At twilight's hour I often dream ,; I I am a child once more; I seek the house where I was born, I pass the open door. There mother rocks beside th ) hearts Her little ones among, And life forgets its cares to hear The song my mother sung. O, long tho grass has grown above That loving mother's face, But still in faithful heart* she keeps Her old, her dear old place. 9 No other songs can bo so sweet As those we heard when young, When sitting at our mother’s knee— The songs our mother sung. —Ebcn E. Ji ex ford, in Free Press. HUMOROUS. A household word—“Dinner.” Sonny climbs—Boys ascending trees. A diamond on the rough—One on a oafer's neck tie. Always keeps resolutions—The secre tary of the society. Barbers have to listen to a good many “cutting” They call remarks. it “a duck of a bonnet” be- i cause there is so much bill to it. Can he shut up when it bores you, without giving any offense— 1 The book. First impressions are everything, par n ticulariy when one is collecting engrav ings. Unfortunately all good resolutions are not covered with mucilage. People do not stick to them. He—I am sorry, dear, your heart is not honest. She—Explain yourself, lie—Why, it is always on the beat. Bob—Wlint kind of slippers does your mother wear? Are they felt slippers? Rob—Well, I should rather icy they were l Mistress—Bridget, everything in the house is covered with dust. v> I can’t siana this 4 us nmi^ t liny l ionWce. Wy Xr'idget-La i..' Do .m-Tre ur u lion to it. Editor’s child: “What's the matter vith papa today, lie's it. aA awful bad aumor.” Editor's wife: “Yes my dear, The regular funny man of the paper is sick and your father is trying to keep the department going.” lie (trying to play a trump card)-- - As I passed your housj last evening I thought I hoard an angel' , sing, She (stiffly)—I was at the theatre last even ing. Mrs. Mulhooly and her twins were at our house visit ing the cook. j. Startling Prevalence of Leprosy. Leprosy has lately found its way into some some parts of Europe, Australia and into Natal. It was recently brought before the medical faculty of Paris; in Norway tho Government with sucIl,, good effect that in 30 years the number of lepers has diminished 75 per cent. In Queensland and Natal the actual invasion of leprosy drove the inhabitants to sum mon public meetings, which called upon the government to net at once and isolate the infected. The medicinal reports of the customs give some information as to I leprosy in China and at the open ports. Dr. MacGowan says that, according to | native writers there hav< been five epi demics of leprosy in China from the 15th century to the present. Fukien and Canton are, he says, the seats of tho mal ady. In 1871 leprosy, prevailed exten sively in Amoy, and in 1881 l)r. Munson reported that it had laid firm hold of tho people, while at Canton it was ia 1871 among il.<; people, J common and no doubt continues to be; so. At Holhow and in tho neighborhood a large amount of leprosy existed among the nat ives. In a medical| report of Shanghai it is said that it is only since direct traffic by sea and lurid with the south has become constant and I easy that leprosy has spread in the Whang-1 hoi district. Tho results of treatmentI relieved but did not in tire least tend tol cure tho disease. Hankow had an evi-| pre-eminence at that time in tho amount of leprosy. I)r. Dudgeon stated in Chi-J his report on Peking in 1875 that the uesc considered that leprosy arises from] three sources—climate, infection and de-l fective nutrition, five forms of the clis-j rec-l ease being met with. Tho Chinese ornmend isolation of lepers and attention! to diet. It does not appear to prevail tol a great extent among the natives round! about here or at Hankow, judging by the! reports of the hospitals where only a few! cases are treated and relieved each year.I And there would appear to bo many mere male than female lepers in China as, ini India.—,Vu» Vrauriato Clironielt. (ga Lost Control of Himself. “Was Mueer very excited when yot told him he was a beat?" AO “He must have been. Me paid mi the money lie owed me.”—[Life. A