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A Sightless Tiger. A gentleman from Lula tells ns that a day or two ago a strange thing hap pened right in tha heart of the town. It is a well-known fact that tigers roam around in some of the mountains ot tbe Blao Ridge and every now and then the news goes abroad that one of these terriblo posts is found in the re cesses of Bcme mountain cave, or lap ping the water of a beautiful valley, and ever and anon they are boarded in their don, torn to pieces, hut come to life and help place themselves upon the vehicle of their captor, where they are silently carried off like a lamb led to the slaughter. One day last week the people of Lu la, who have been piling brush piles in that place, came to the conclusion that they were becoming a nuisance and decided to burn them. All at cnee the destroying torch was applied. Then the people stood off to watch the curling smoke go upward and waste in the dim distance and lis ten to tbe craokling limbs, while the lorests were protected by the great crowd of people from devastation by the forked tongues of the flames. In the canter was one pile three times as large as any other, and to a casual ob server at a distance, looked like a young mountain. On this pile all eyes were turned, becanso it was the larg est. After awhile there appeared a bluish light, which vied in beauty the lightning’s flash. Higher and higher it leaped, until it looked as if its every lunge would press against tbe skies. Fear at once took tbe place of admira tion, and every one fl-it a hesitancy in approaching the torrible spectacle, un til finally ono braver than the rest rushed in and began to tear down the pile Which had been consumed; and, to his utter amazement, found nine 1 gallon and one two-gallon jngs, which had been placed under the structure. Tbe jugs contained peach brandy. The contents of the nine bad been con sumed by tbe flames, but tbe other had not been touched. The finder is try ing his 1,-est to discover the owner, so that be Can return it, but that person age can not be found. That ‘-tiger” is dead, but it may be that its off sf gis teaming somewhere around, [Lula Correspondence in Atlanta C . tuition. Brief and Breezy, j in Chicago dead beat is said to be so a handsome living now by ad v i og for a wile and requiring that a pplicante inclose a stamp for re ] y. His mail has to be sent up in a w tieel-barrow. . Probably in no country are exam ple of lotgetivity so numerous and striking as in Russia. The latest pa triarch to come to notice is a woman who celebrated her 140th birthday seme weeks ago. She is still lively, brisk and cheerful, can read without specstaclos and lives exclusively on potatoes and milk. An English woman is responsible for the suggestion ‘.hat along with other improvements to theatre seats there sLould be an arrangement by which they can be sunk through a trap in the floor into a saloon below so that men can go out between the aots and see a man without treading on the toes of all the women seated near them. There is a project on foot to change the name of Elizabethtown, Ky., to Widowvilie; sixty-one bereaved wid ws live there, and only three hava able to secure husbands in the la w j "thirty five years. What makes the situation mote alarum'g : s the fact that there are only six widowers, and they appaar contented in their lonli nesa. Samuel Kaufman fork of Wrights viile, county, Pa., who is eighty-three years old, has written the Lord’s Pray er on a piece of cardboard, but a tjitle larger than a gold dollar, under a magnilyiDg glass every letter is as legi bio as if it had been written a quarter of an inch in size. The venerable penman used an ordinary steal pen in exeouting the work. A gentleman and lady are now stop ping at a Bar Harbor Hotel, who have had a queer experience. They met on the Atlantio ocean, he proposed in Sweden, was accepted in Russia, ask ed her father’s permission in England, the marriage settlements were drawn up in this country, they were married in Algiers, and are now spending their honeymoon in Bar Harbor. Mr. Schofield, proprietor of the ho tel at Talulab Falls, is dead. Every morning daring the corn planting season the farmers of Nebras ka go Out into a corn field larger than the whgle state of New Jersey. Every noon during harvest they go into din ner from a wheat field which contains 400,000 acres more than the whole state of Delaware, and every night Mary calls the cattle homo from a pas tnra larger than the state of Penusyi vania. Forty one years ago a young man of Rhode Island asked a young woman of the same state to marry him; sho said “no.” The young man went about his business, but he kept his eye on tbe woman and from time to time renewed his suit, she refusing of fer after offer. lie persevored, and his constancy was rewarded a short time ago, when she acceptod and fnarriod him. na was then 72 yoars old and she 61. Acting secretary of the navy, Com modore Harmony, is convinced that this country could take care of bereelt in a war with England or any other country, uesays, “Oor guns are as good as any in the world From what 1 can learn England h is had muoh dif ticulty with her guns We have been on tbe alert, and where the Europeans made mistakes in their manufac tnre of great guns, we have profited by their experience and avoided these mis takes.” At the campmeeting in Pcuglass Massachusetts, the other day, a man arose and said that he was a recently escaped convict from the Ilhode Island state prison, that he had determined to lead a better life, and that as a begin ning he should go back to the prison and serve the remainder of his term. The prison chaplain was present and heard him, and knowing something of human nature, helped the convict in his ood resolutions by telegraphing for officers and oaptnring him before he weakened. According to a recent writer, what Napoleon Bonaparte did with the enor rnous fortune he left somewhere when sent to st. Helena, has since remained a mystery. In 1812 he told Marshall Berthier, and also Bourrienne, his pri vate secretary, that he had nearly 100,000,000 francs, or $20,000,000 in our money, to his personal fortune. That he did not expend it is certain, for there was no occasion to do so. Then, as emperor, the national exche que received and honored his drafts. In ISOS, Napoleon, after having enrich ed all his family, had $15,000,000 of his ora. The money received from the united States for the Louisiana purchase he used in re equipping that grand army that fought and won at Austerlitz and Wagram. At least five million of that money was never accounted for by the emperor. Where <!id ha hide this enormous sum? He was by far the richest man in Europe in 1814, and not a trace of the money was left behind him. The French government thinks it has a clew. The result will bo watched for with the greatest interest. This fortune is made the basis of a fascinating and ingen ious romance recently issued under the title of “Napoleon Smith.’' The Arizona Weekly Kickor has this ooietv note. “Mayor Jim Gibbons and wife of Jerusalem Hill, are vacating in the mountains. These are the only two inhabitants who are able to take an outing this summer, and they couldn’t have gone if they hadn’t dodged a dozen creditors and borrowed $7 of us. We’ll bet four to one they beat their board bill when they get leady to return.’’ A Successful Farmer. Hogansville, Ga., Sept. I.—Once before I hare given to the public in yonr columns the success of Mr. Wm. x. Sims of this neighborhood, as a far mer. Since which time his advance ment was of so UDprecented a nature that I feci it my duty as a stimulant to onr farmers, and in jnsiice to Mr. Sims, to again give somk account of his successful management a!' his farm ing. On tbe 20th of this, month ho began to deliver cotton, and up to the 20th had put on the raijroad depot eight bales from a two torso fan* From a careful examinstio riduA over crop and by niindPl -dtTctmr lation, I put hiß yield this season at not less than eighty bales with two plows. Soch farming in old Georgia seems, no doubt, incredjble, bnt within a pleasant ritlo of three miles from Ho gansville can*be seen this farm, and I date say that there is not a practical fatmer to be *’onnc! who, after seeing the crop, worn ! estimate the probable yield at less. By Mr. Sim’s persever ance and good judgment he bas so managed his soils, improved his seed and mode of cultivation that he has reached certainly the maximum. \nd while this gradual but continual im provement has been going on, it has been done without the aid of money to lavishly invest in commercial manures; it has all been done by a scientific plan of management, rotating and Boil ing, assisted only except in a very limited way by commercial fertilizers. Mr. Sims was married at the age of twenty-one, fifteen years ego, with not over five hundred dollars of assets all told that he commenced to opperate with. To-day he has four farms, each as reasonably succeeefnl as his idividu al two-horse farm that we have estimat ed the yield, neceesary stock, and all else to operate them, and his property estimated and assessed at twenty-firs thousand dollars in the short space of fifteen years. Mr. Sims is not alone in successfnl operations as a farmer among hi 6 neighbors, but mast be ac knowledged the leader. The groat secret of such success lies in the fact that like any other busi ness tho closest attention is neceesary to attain to soch results. No matter when you go to the premises of Mr. Sims yon will invaiiably find him personally attending his affairs—it ab sent at all, he is gone to market with some kind of produce to sell. Gunnels, Power & Go., v— > —ARMON Y GROVE— A —- DEALERS IN Plantation Supplies. (^VwQ.V\,Q v We Keep in stock a full supply of good and fresh goods. We can not be surpassecMxQuality and Durability. We buy at lowest market figures; we defy competition in prices. We want only a living profit on our sales. Wa do not claim to be Vanderbilts, nor do we wish to accumulate their fortunes. We are receiving daily, a full supply of oar Customers every day wants £o“ Country Produoe Taken in Exchange at Highest Mirket Prices. Athens Music House, 114 Clayton Street, Next Door to Postoffioe, Athens, Georgia. Haselton & Dozier, I Proprietors, a Keeps always on hand the best makes of J | Qviawb Owvtovfc, . VIOLINS AND BANJOSJ And all kinds of Musical Instruments at the very lowest prices for Cash, or on the Installment plan. Written guranteeon all instruments sold. Special reduoed rates to churoh es and Sunday schools. Pictures and Picture Frames a specialty. All sizes and styles of Frame* made to order at short notice. Boy from us and save agents’ commissions. 16