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-I HALLO OX rx A STORM. ’ " 1 A m ' UUNl ' '^ in KNU Kfc IN JVj i.nm, t i.i. It lacked ten minutes of four o’clock when the balloon was let go. After clearing the tree tops he opened the neck of the balloon to allow the gas tf> cjcDAnd, and scion after, having attained gn altitude of about eigh¬ teen hundred feet, he passed through ft layer of clouds and was carried in a northeasterly direction until he jeaehed Bttqkcr Hill, when the bal¬ loon changed it,s course, i u 'suing a northerly dirgclion. Ainu fifteen gibes from Bunker Hill he encoun¬ tered a terrific hail storm which he feared would give hini trouble, as some of the pebbles were a half inch in diameter, and might cut through the canvas. However, the velocity pi the wind was so great that he was ,*toop caryied beyond the reach of the Storm, and spying a wheat .field in the distance lie determined to effect a landing there. In this lie was un Htiecesftil, as ? when nearing the ground, a gust of wind struck the balloon carrying it u]iward in a northeasterly direction and bringing if in contact with a number of trees. ►Several large rents were the conse¬ quence. By this time the gas had begun to escape very rapidly, and tiie professor thought his chances for reaching terra firma in safety were were very poor. He had resigned himself to the inevitable when the balloon struck a large tree near the Macoupine creek, about three utiles from Carlinville. He succeeded in grasping one of the branches and disentangling himgelf from the rope and rings, and making the trail fast to the tree he descended, to he re¬ ceived and taken charge of by a delegation of some twenty citizens of Curl inv i He, who, haveing noticed the balloon as it passed that point, had followed its course on horseback. It was precisely ten minutes to five o’clock when the professor effected a landing, his vdyage as having occu¬ pied forty minutes. He described the course of bis voyge resembling the letter l T , and says he must have traveled nearly one hundred miles. A rather singular fact in connection with the Amazons’ voyage is that its course was not more than one hun¬ dred yards distant from that of the ill-fated l’atblinder.-—.V, L< uis O'lobe- Diiuoei'iit, •-- ----- A Wak Monstkk.—A ll the most terrible and deadly weapons of war have been thrown completely in „thc shade be the ne\y Gatling gun which was exhibited outlie 27th of .March at the otliees'of Sir \Vk««Amflstri’^ftgT tlx* manufacturer, in Sf. George’s, Westminster, before a number of experts. This fearful weapon is ca¬ pable of firing a thousand shots per minute and killing a man i u a horse at a mile range. It has a compact appearance, can he taken to pieces and easily carried about, can ho ap¬ plied mechanism to millitary and naval use, and the of it is simplicity itself; the revolving hand has two compartments, into which, as they whirl round, metal eartiidges drop the from a tall of oblong the barrel. ease fixed over cent ere At each turn of the handle fen shots are fired, and their dispensation is accomplish¬ ed by a sliding apparatus. The size pf shot in different calibre guns of this class ranges from musket balls to half pounders. By the use of tin’s implement three men can do the work of three hundred single men. A quarter of a million of dollars is said to have been spent on experi¬ ments necessary to prefect the gun, which is now declared by every mil¬ litary expert to be a complete suc¬ cess. --»-t m i » The Thin Partition Between Like ami Death.-— When we walk near know the powerful machinery misstep we that one single and thou? mighty engines would tear us to ribbons with their flying wheels, or derous grind jaws. us to powder So, when in their pon¬ we are thun¬ dering and there across is nothing the land but in half a rail-ear, inch an of iron flange to hold us upon the track. So, when we are at sea in a ship, thickness and there of is nothing between but the eternity. We a plank imagine then us and that we see how close we are to the edge of the Whether precipice. the But we do not see it. on sea or on the land the partition that divides us from eternity is something thinner than the oak plank or half an inch of iron flange. The within machinery us.’ of The life and death are that hold these heating powers their place are often thicker than of tition were pierced or ruptured, it would be jjist the same with us, as if a cannon ball had struck us. Death js the inseparably bound of up with bodies, life in vev structure our Struggle as he will to widen time the space, no man can at any go further from death than the thick ness of a sheet of paper. STEWARTS STOLEX BODY. I IVUixion Afijj, was Eaxen by IIai.k I' ami,sued 1 loos. The Philadelphia S'her publishes the death bed confession of one Ja cob Meyers, purpoting to have been made at New Orleans in January last to A. K Fenwick, a medical student, in which Meyers relates a story of having been for years in A. T. Stew art’s employ at New York at starva tion wages; speaks of hard-hearted treatment generally at the hands of his millionaire employer; the sicken ing and death of his half fed wife and all his children except bis son David; his leaving Stewart’s employ with the hope and determination at some time in the indefinite future of being revenged upon Stewart; how he watched for years for Stewart’s name in the list ol killed by every railroad accident and explosion or other disaster; how lie gloated over the fact of Stewart’s death at last; how, living in proximity to the grave of Stewart, the idea of stealing the body, with the aid of his son, and desecrating it, came upon him like a ITkslv; jjow ihoy. obtained* the body, but committed the fatal mis take of not procuring nu itidia rubber bag in which to remove the putrid mass; how they placed it in a cart and removed if to their residence, where their famished dogs rushed upon it, and by morning luid de¬ voured it; the illness of David on the following day, his slow and on^y par¬ tial recovery; their removal to New Orleans, where David died from the effects of the poison received from tile putrid corpse three months lie lore this confession was made; and last, the assurance that the remains, even had they not been devoured by dogs, would never have been found, as they were not taken as a specula fxm but for revenge 1 lie .V o - attempted to rente the story by inquiry of Judge Hilton, a ; New Y ork, but tlie only fact learned in corroboration of the confess on was that Mr. John Brown, an oh! usher or tloor walker, who had been in Stewart’s store since IN-IH, recol¬ lected that a Jacob Meyers was once in the employ of Stewart, hut there were very few other circumstances iu connect ion with Meyers recalled by Mr. Brown which served to verify the story, and Judge Hilton was in nowise disposed to give credence to it—ni fact, rather scouted it. •-CO*, — liiivTAL .unit) Kit of .t aim. m • JU li FA TUFF. In C’hiea* o on Sunday night Jas. lubin, a boss stevedore, murdered pwr’Jv~»*nto his own daughter. i t l and Re went turned home j x c a c < family out <>t the house during »■ heavy wife thunder storm, because his refused to go for beer for him¬ self and a friend who was with him. girl Subsequently his daughter of Mollie, a seventeen years age, ventured into the house, and he sent her out going to buy a valise, pack saying his that things he was to np and leave his family forever. She got the valise and returned, but neglect¬ ed to provide a key. This enraged and Tobin, and he tore the lock to pieces ordered Mollie to return the va¬ lise and bring back the money. She went into an adjoining room, but ho, suspecting his that followed, she was not obeying orders, dragged her hack by the hair, and threw her vio¬ lently upon the floor. He then jumped on her breast with his knees and "Oh, began pounding her, she crying, \Vhon father, do not kill me.” daugh¬ Tobin stopped maltreating his ter, a Mrs. Robinson, who resided in tlx* house and had been calling for help, assisted Mollie into the next room, but the blood came frothing to her lips and she died in a few minutes. Tobin was arrested, and denied having killed his daughter, but Mrs. Robinson ami his eight-year old son tell the same story of his brutal act. *---- *► ------- A vagrant ass, says the San Anto¬ nio flenthl , stood beside the track of the Sunset Railway at the depot this morning; an engine moved slowly of up; it stopped within a few feet the ass, and the engineer blew one of those terrible piercing; screams, such prolonged blast and ear a as maker a sleeping Millerite dream of the day of judgment. Did the ass scare? Not worth a cent! Did he shake the sloth from his limbs, erect his tail and speed away like the asses of Bassorah, faster tlian the lledoum coursers run hack to the chaparral? No he didn’t, lie turned one oar towards the engine just as a deaf man uses Ids tin ear-trumpet, and caught every particle of the SPELLIXG. school-boy days. The initiate shout ml hack in sing-song tone and orded : Double-n, double-o, double-d, e; R-u-double-f, f-double-e! to the great wonder and admiration of the greenhorns, And how we did spell in those days! Teacher (Hearing spelling lesson) Indivisibility! A. I, n-In ; d, i-di, Indi; v, i, s-vis, Indivis; i-i, Indivisi; b, i, 1-bil, Indi visibil; i-i, Indivisibiji; t, y-ty, Indi visibility! Screaming it out'at the .top of his voice, Teacher. Circumnavigation! B. (’, i, r-C’ir; e, u, m-eum, Cireum; n, a, v-nav, Circumnav; i-i, Circum navi; g, a-ga Cireumnaviga; t, i, o, n-tion, Circumnavigation! AndtPhum. the blunderheads and irnpibusoik Teacher. Aron! C. Big A; little a; r, o, n-ron; Aron! Teacher. Sharon! D. Big Slut; little sha; r, o, n-ron; Sharon! Switch. Whir-r-r-wi! - i Whir-r-r-ra! \Vhiiar-r-ra! , * I). Boo-Ikio-hoo-hoo! Tea eh er. E xcavate! E. E, x-Ex; c, a-ca, Exca; v, a, t, e-vate, Excavate! Teacher. Define the word! E. To hollow out! Teacher, Use it! E. The baby excavates when he gets hurt! Switch. Whir-r-r-ra! Whir-r-r-ra! Whir-r-r-ra! E. Boo-hoo-Jioo-hoo! 'read o". Forefather! I’’. F, a-Fa; t, h, e, r-tlier, Father; One father: F, a-Fa; t, h, e, r-tlier, Father; Two fathers: F, a-Fa; t, h, e, r-tlier; Father; Three fathers. F, a-Fa; t, h, e, r-tl.er, Father; Four , ,a ,, 111 ‘ ” - T w tell. Whir-r-r-ra! Whir-r-r-ra! W ir-i-r-ra! F, Boo-hoo! [ don’t—Boo-hoo! See how—Boo-hoo! a man can have— Boo-hoo! four fathers—Boo-hoo! any more—Boo-hoo! than four mothers! -----*-«*»►♦ — DAMS KIWIS 1CF. It. 17 Jill There : s no more doubt that drink ng ice water arrests digestion than there is that a refrigerator would arrest perspiration, it drives from the stomach its natural heat, suspends the flow of gastric juice, and shocks and weakens the delicate* organs with which it comes in contact, An ;i’>!e write!' on lmnunt diseases s iv : “Habitual ice* water dickers are uiial x cry ilahhy about the region of h sto nnch. T’ltev complain tSent tliei food lies heavy on that patient organ. They taste their dinner for hours after it is bolted. They culti¬ vate the list* of stimulants to aid di¬ gestion. If they are intelligent they ologist read upon has food and about what it—how the physi¬ to say long it takes cabbage and pork and beef and potatoes and other meats and esculents to go through the process of assimilation. They ivour at new bread, hot cakes, fried meat, imag¬ ining these to have been the cause of their maladies. But the ice water goes down all the same, and finally friends are called in to take a fare¬ well look at one whom a mysterious Rrovidenec has called to a clime where, as far as is known, ice water : s u .t used. The number of immortal beings who go lienee, to return no more, of on account of an injudicious use ice water, can hardly be es¬ timated.”— Ha’tiniore Stat. NLTV ADVEUTIS12MENTS. Miss AnnaR. McWhorter, Wrightsville, Ga.. Millinery Keeps on I and a nice selection of and Fancy Goods, such as Ladies’ Hats, Ribbons, Flowers aiul Trimmings, in endless variety; also a nice assortment of latest patterns, etc., all for sale as cheap its tiie cheapest. 1 am also prepared to cut, til and make Dresses at short notice. Call on my22-ty me before purchasing elsewhere. whistle ceased its notes, and all the echoes died away, the animal straightened out his neck, opened his mouth, and in a voice that deafened all the railroad men and caused roared; the freight "1 clerk can’t! to I drop his I can’t! pen, I can’t! be heat! be can’t! heat! be beat! be beat! I e-a-n-’t bc be-be-bc beat!” err a nos of oiuuxahv. G EORGIA— Johnson ( Jorxrv. Evan Jenkins applies to me for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate of Mary Jenkins, deceased. These are therefore to cite all persons concerned, to show cause, if » :l >' they have, wtthiii the time pre *in' granted to Evan .lenkuw.^uardian, in terms of the law. May 14th, two. TV. W. Mixon, iny22-4t Ordinary, STATE OF GEORGIA, ) Johnson County, t having Notice demands is hereby against given Lott to Walker, all persons late of said county, deceased, to present the same to me. properly made out. within the time prescribed by law; and all persons in¬ debted to said deceased are hereby re¬ quired dersigned to make- settlement with the un¬ in terms of the law. This May loth. 1S80. It. M. Wai.kkk. my22-0t Adm's Lott Walker, dcc’d. NEW STORE, New Goods, Biackshear & Haines. Blackshear’s Mill Ga. 1) FABERS IN GENERAL MER¬ CHANDISE, Such As BOOTS, SHOES. IIATS, CLOTHING, &c Ac., -Also a nice selec¬ tion of 33 -©-VX 7 " CALICOES, LINENS, STRIPES, OSNABURGS, HOMESPUNS FLANNELS, And various otberthings too mimor ohs to mention, Liberal advances made to mnv22 ly planters. Sid. A. Pughsiey, Jr., AGENT AND SALESMAN — WITH — I. L. FALK & CO. 1 Clothiers, 4“2.» and 127 Broome street, New York. Cor. Congress and Whitaker streets, my22-tf Savannah, Ga, Z. SMITH T (Six Minus from Tknnem.k) On Wrightsvilie Road. Is now prepared to make and repair WA¬ GONS, CARTS. PLOWS, etc., ete. 1 keep constantly on hand u large stock of Plows a,xxc 3 - Cliairs which I am selling at reasonable rates. iny22-l y A. M. Mathis, Tennille, Ga. Blacksmith, Wheelwright Horseshoeing. All work entrusted to my care will re¬ ceive prompt attention. CSC 1 will be pleased to find my patrons who now need slock Horseshoeing, ns 1 am now prepared to attend to all stock. m\22 ly -------—------.If__» r - J. W. FLAHDEES, M. D. f fbician and iocsucliegr j Wrightsville, Ga. Special attention given to practice of Obstetrics and the treatment of diseases of Women. Office at his residence. my22-ly J. L. WALKER, M. D . General Practitioner, Wrightsvilie, Georgia. :o: Calls promptly attended day or night. may 22lv XXeixiry Ctirrell, Attorney - at - Law, Six Mii.ks Nokth of Wrightsville, 22-1 Georgia. niv y A. F. DALEY, Attorney at Law, Wrightsville, Will practice in Georgia. this and adjoining counties, and elsewhere by special en¬ gagement. ly W. A. Tompkins, NOTARY PUBLIC, WRIGHTSVILLE,GA. SJVtlTXX’S HOTEL, W. J. M. Smith, Act., Wrightsville, Georgia. Having lately is undergone prepared thorough re¬ pairs, the tlvis public Hotel with the finest to the accommo¬ market date affords. my22-ly DRY GOODS. . — M— A. I. HAINES, Wrightsville, Ga. - )o( - DEALER X LSI Dry Goods; Readymade Clothing Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Notions, Etc. --- Also keeps constantly on hand a lari c stock of GROCERIES, such as Sugar, Coffee, Flour, Bacon, IDLo., N. All of which will be sold at bottom prices. ■ I guarantee all articles sold to be as represented. :o: Thankful for past liberal patron¬ age, I hope by fair dealing to merit the same in future. Will sell to parties on time when properly secured. Liberal advances made to planters Respectfully, i V. I. HAINES. my22-ly — J 1 r rw •« J- "W. Brinson <fc Co. Druggists, Wrightsville, Georgia. Have on hand a complete stock of Drugs and all other articles usuall kept iu a iirst elunn Drug Store, times, 'yhicli they and are sdfing at prices to suit the and prescriptions are prepared to till all orders on the shortest possible notice. Dr. J. TV. Brinson continues to prac Ike his profusion in its various branches. Office at the 1 irdtr Store. niy22-ly Take Notice, Save Mone/ —BUY YOUR GOODS FUOM— iv HARRISON & BURNS, who are now’ offering their well selected stock of Dry Goods, Groceries and General Merchandise at prices to suit the times and as low as the lowest. If you want Clothing, Dress Goods, Boots, Sluies, Mats, Homespuns, Pants Cloth, Calicoes, Crockery, Glassware, Hardware, Sugar, Coffee, Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, or other Groceries, or anything else generally kept in a general store, cull on Harrison & Burns, southwest corner Public Square, TVrights vilie, Georgia, and they will take pleasure in serving you in sueh'a wav that you will feci if your duty and to your interest to call agaiu. fsUHigJicst prices paid for all kinds of Country produce in exchange for goods. and Thanking assuring the public for past patronage them all that in the future wiwill more than piese, We are respect HARRISON & BURNS. my 22-1 y HOW TO SAVE MONEY, BUY YOUR GOODS - From J. M. Wood, Wrightsville, Ca. He deals in dry goods and groceries, Such A co CALICOES, HOMESPUNS, D HILLINGS, JEANS, BOOTS & SHOES, Of all kinds, BACON, FLOUR, COFFEE, RICE, Ac., Ac., Also a nice selection ►-+» Millinery Goods, Such as. Ladies’ IIATS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS Of all description, And various other things too numerous to mention. Call and see foe yocr self. ly J- C. LiJV.Tx^XIL.TOLSr, Tennille, Gra,, DEALER IN Groceries,Liquors,Cigars > ToHacco, E-bo. I take this method of informing tX friends of Washington, Johnson and sajpb rounding Tenndle, counties I am yet at my old sttaucL any! at and will be glad to sc,t and all of them at any time. , HT'Cool Lager Beer always on draught. mv22-ly John A. Shivers & Son, Tennille, Ga. Arc now prepared to build, repair and overhaul Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, etc., etc. EP”We also make a specialty of One Iiorsc Wagons. my22-ly j