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Journeying in S.bsria. Ti e entrancing interest and delight tnl perils of a midwinter j umey thn the heart of Atiatc are described in the New /oik Gtapb ic. The tour began lata in 0 'cember, owing to the tardiness of winter’s icy btra b, and the route lay from viad wot-t'-k 5 000 miles across ice bound risers smi snow bound roads to Ekai eiinbuig. A sledge, iu le and clumsy, bad been packed with deerskins, sheep skies, turlined mittens, dogskin socks, camel hair stockings, felt boota and aeqnisites for keeping the cold ont. The tourists sretohed themselves out ou these com'orteis, while yensbitks or drivers curled themselves up on the comfortless box seat aud the start was made. The posting sys em of Siberia is wonderful. All across the conti nent from the Pacific to the Ur”ls and between all important towns, at dis tances ▼arying from eight to twenty miles, are post e a ions, wiero, on pre sentation of his pass, the traveler can demand the use of his journey. If horses are not forthcoming the travel er can live, boaid free, at the station until the animals come. The :Oad is inaiked out by small tree branches aud 1 undieds of are employed at the beg nning of every w ntcr in thus searching out the way. The thermometer fell lower every day un'il it registed 62 degrees. On wsk ing in the morning the ice over the eyes had to be thawed out with the lingers before they could be opened In this way an average of over 150 miles a day was made. Iu nine weeks from Yladwostok Ekaterinburg was reached. It cost Ureu, oue of the travelers, his life, the journey having sown the seeds of consumption which he survived only a few months. Quaint and Curious. There is a clergyman in England named Straight, whose cura'e is nam ed Crooked. A natural curiosity in the shape of a kitten with seven feet and two tails has been born at Centreton, N. Y. Of the five children bom to a Cana da man, three have died on Good Fri day and been bnried on Easter Sunday. A Louisville man called on a hotel keeper in Bulitt oounty, Ky., the other day and paid 75 cents tor meals he had eaten fifteen years ago. Harry Sperry, while opening oysters at a restaurant in Norristown, Penn., found a handsome white pearl with dark markings, which he will have mounted. A barrel of Ohio river water which took the place of a barrel of Cincin nati whiskey traveled 11,000 miles and was kept in a store house seven years befo r e the fraud was dhcoverod. Near Yeovil, in Somersetshire, Eng,, a gigantic fossil ichthyosaurus, twen ty-two feet long, with a javr of three feet, furnished with large, conical teeth has been discovered. Anew use has been found for the nickel tive cent pieo --it Can be used aa a unit of measure in cilcalating by metric system. It is exictly two cen timetres in diameter, and weighs five grains. A little negro girl in Albany, Ga.J Is gradually turn ng white, tbe skin of her face and arms being now haid’y distinguishable in hne from a Canca sion child. MancbU' la seems to be a g >od pUc-* for bankers. The English consul at Neachawang explains the process by which <hoee who ta’ e care of otb r people’s money get r’ch. Wealthy inhabitants are alraid to let their wea lth be knowD, as it would be calmly confiscated by the government, which does n >t think its ci'ix os shou and have too much money E-iormous sums ate therefore deposited with bankets, and no teceipte ate taken from them, no interest is asked, and a tb 0 ,, death of 'be dep<sitor tbe heirs vf r er frequently do not know of the and thousands of taels bad been deposited and go to the bank. \ kfgk^rtt*? even refuse, rbould to restore what h *l>&ilde*ki !n OD trQBt ’ as a nW t, of course, make a convict hand* of other rulers imperial . —— A Condemned Mans pet. The keeper of Edward Deacons, t e condemned murderer of Mrs. Ada atom ol .Rochester, N Y. t saw him shed th-* first tears that have been men iu hi eyes, aßd they were all for the death of a rat. A month ago Deacona mv * rat in the corner of his cell. He threw a morsel of food in the corner. The next lav tbe rat came again, and was ted. At last be tamed the animal, and ; t beganto eat out ofbis hanl. D aeons was elated by his eoccess. and most of his time when awake has b en sent in teaching bis pet tricks o di eren kinds, and for the past week it bat remained constantly in Lis cell. Tbe prisoner taught it to walk a piece rf string lied tightly from one side o his cell to the other. It alto diew a toy cart, an,i Deacons was try iDg yesterday o catch another, and, as he said, ‘ have a span.’' Sunday Deacon’s keep tr entered the corridor where the cell ot tbe condemned is. The door was open, and a dog which accompanied h m sprang past the prisoner and in a second shook the life out of the rat. Deacons looked at the dog a moment, and sitting down on a bedstead e r ied like a child. During his entire trial and when sentenced he never manifested a partiole of emotion. Some of the Ingredients of Snuff. In the manufacture of snuff in this country, the fines* Virginia leaf tobao co is used, which is considerably modi fied by carrying the fermentation much f.r her h m is tobiceo intended frr smoking, and is simply ground and sifted. “In our factory,” said a New Yoik dialer to a Mail and Express reporter, “we have about sixty mills, resembling large coffee mills. The ground tobao oo falU upon an endless band of bio id canvas, which convoys it to fonr sets of mechanical s'eves. The snuff whioh passes through is reoe.ived upon an endless traveling band, which carries it thonce into a clote chest. The pa - roles which are too coa:se to pass through the sieve are r< ground. The immense yarieties of snuffs are formed by mixing together and grinding to* baccos of different gro tbs,and by va rying tbs lature of the same. "For tbe snuff known as Noaroco, forty parts of genuine S . Outer, South American, tobacco, forty parts of Geor gia and twenty parts of fe mented V > - ginian stalks in powder are n?el The whole is ground and sifted. Then ’wo end one-halt pounds of rote leaves are cut and mixed with powdered vii giuian stalks, and two and one half pounds of rosewood in fine powder, moistened with salt water, are aidid It is th?n worked up with ono pound of cream of tartar and wo ponnds of -alt of tartar and four ponnds of tible Sib. This 6nuff, which is highly scented, most be preserved iu lead and brings $4 per ponnd. Thd other brands of souft manufactured here are Bdon garo, large-grained Paris and Scotch Suuff, ranging in piice from three to ten dollars per pound.” Comm imicated. Editors Observer:—l see in the last issue of your paper a communica tion fiom Bel on, signed “Democrat ’* I am at a loss to kuow whether hs is a democrat from pr ; no:ple or just the name, (it may be that his mother, like m ny dear mothers who wanted to and qih their dear sons after some big mao like George Washington, just called them democrat,) but tny way Democrat’s judgment is weak. Who could suppose for a moment that i< weald injure Coggins to divide his op posit on; that is p-eposterous.. 1 will say there is no combination bitwsea Saddath and myself, nor anyone els<- to defeat Coggins or the democratic party, bat mr.st confess that the con cern that was held as a convention, was a fraud and a reproai h on tbe principles of democracy. Democracy is the people, democracy means a gov ernment in the hands of the people, aud the people should be oorsulted on all occasions like this that of selec*- ing a public servant, when the interest of the state is in danger, to stand and battlo for the right of the poor man, who wield the implements of husbandry and he who handles the yard stick and the incorporation and Georgia. Banks Couaty, All persons interested are hereby no tified that if no good oanse be shown to the oontr iry an order will be grant ed by the undersigned on the first Mon day in September next, establishing three new roads as marked out by the commissioners appointed for that pur pose. One oommtn -ing at or near the old Meeks field where John S. Cham bers now lives on tho Homer road, thence by the residence of Jrgse Pritoh ett to Messrs. Massey and Joseph Par* son*, intersecting the Pederal road at the old Groeerv place. And one c m meno ng near W. T. Massey’s resi dance; thence by the way of Massey’s Gin, and interesecting the road lead ing from the Homer road to the old Giocery place at cr near Jack Turk (00l ) Also one commencing near the residence of Dr H.PQ i lian, thonce by tbe rsidence of J. J. Pendergrass, W. C. Oliver and Taylor Armour and to intersect with the public road lead ing from Carneville to Harmony Grove, at the Wilson Bridge, in said county. Aug 4, 188 15 4w. T. F. Hill, Ordinary. To ail whom it nuy o mcern: monopolies, no v g ve ull a ohanoe to say who they want to fill this import ant position; and 1 am satisfied, and to the contrary no. Ce’tainly amn can canvass Backs county in as short s time as a candidate for congiess can <a .Tasa tbe 9 h district. I n?ed not trgue ny fiielity to the piinoiples of democracy in this county, that has been too well in the past histo ry of this county, aad no one but a designing imbecile or vile oalumn'ate would charge otherwise, to prove that zeal and fidelity for the graud pi’nci pies wbitb should actuate every heart. I make a proposition to the three eandi dates to agree to fair primaries in each district, and let the people settle the questi n, and let a!l submit to the ver diet of tbs people. It is the right of the people. lam willing to meet tbe o.hcr two gentlemen and airange, ■ot run to the e id. T. B Griffin. Legal Notice*. Georgia, Banks County: To all whom it may concern, Maiy E Kees •er. has in due form applied to the un dersigned for permanent letters of ad ministra’ion on the estate of Henry 0. Keesler, late of said county, deceased, and I will pass upon said epplication on the Ist Monday in Septembtr, 1888. Given under my hand and of ficial signature this 26th day of Ju y 1888. T. F Hill, Ordinary. 14 4w, Georgia. Banks Countv. —To ail whom it may concern: W. P. Ray, guaidiao of A (J. Anderson, applies to me for letters of demission from said guardianship, and 1 will puss upon his application on the Ist Monday in Sep tember next at my office in Homer, in said county. Given under my hand and official signature, May 31st, 1888. T. F Hill, Ordinary. Georgia, Banks Cos , born, administrator of Thos. Ausborn, nec’d, has in due form applied to the undersigned for leare to sell the lands belorgiug to the estate ot said dec’d , and said application will be beard on tbe Ist Monday in Sept. next. Aug 6, 1888. t. f. hill, 15 4w. Ordinary Georgia. Banks County, son, administrators of J. J. Wilson, ’ate of said connty, dec’d, has applied to me in terms of the law for letters of dismission from said administration. This is therefore to cite and admonish all concerned to show cause at the reg ular term of court of Ordinary of said county, to beheld on toe Ist Monday in November next, why said discharge should not be granted. Given under my hand and official signature Aug. 4, 1888. T. F. Hill. Ordinary. 15 3m. For dyspepsia and Liver Comp’aint you have a printed guarantee on each bottle of Shiloh’s Vitahzer. It always euros. For sale by W. B. Mason. Shiloh’s Cough and Consumption Cure is sold by us on a guarantee, it cures Consumption. W. B. Ma*on, Homer. Are you made miserab'e by indige s tion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Yellow skin, shiloh's vitaliz er is a positive cure For sale by VV. Mason, Homer. Hackmetaok, a lasting and fragrant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents.* For sale by W. B Mason, Homer. Itch, Mange and Scratches of every kind on hnman or animals cured in SO minutes by Wcolfovd’s Sanitary Lotion This never fails. Sold by Hardman <fe Sharp, Druggists, Harmony Grove, tm all whom it may ooncern: H. B A.is Whereas W. S. and W. G. Wil-