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T3ESB! POST.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, mi:
R. L. HICKS,
EDITOR Ml) PROPRIETOR.
Colonel Blount for Governor.
Telegraph *<V Mewnger.
Tlio Washington correspondent of
tho Atlanta Vomlitvlign put the
question to Mr. Blount tho other
tiny, “Whether lie would allow the
use of his name for the next, govern
orship?*’ He laughed and said:
It's too far ofl* yet to think about,
ntneh loss to talk about. To be
Governor of ihcBtato in an aspirution
worMty the ambition of any Georgian,
ami t »do not hesitate te say that I
should be glad to be Governor. As
to whether I will enter the race—-or
whether I could aticeced if I did,
those lire questions that areas yet
out of dale. I have many friends
who appear anxious to press my
name, but. 1 have two years of hard
work that I am under contract with
tho people of tho sixth district to
perform, before l can givo any
thoughts to preferment.
This was a very prudent response
on the part of our excellent imme-
<l : ato representative in Congress, lie
is content with the faithful discharge
of present dutiesf* and declines to
chunk up tho fires mulct the political
chaldron in Georgia, which has
hardly yet ceased simmering. Should
Mr. Blount, however, at the proper
time, bo brought forward by the
Democracy, ns its standard-bearer in
the next elect ion for chief magistrate,
ho would mako ns strong a ran a»
any man in tho State. But let those
matters “be.”
Decisive Battles Ol Tlio World.
Creasy's extremely interesting vol*
uiho narrating tho history of tho fif
teen decisivo battles of tho world,
those fow baltlos of which a contrary
event would lmvo csscntimlly varied
tho drama of tho world in nil its
subsequent scenes, is highly esteemed
by all readers of history, hfc has a
long timo been on Harper’s list ns
one of their standard books, at tho
prico of #1.H0. Now it is issit«d in
a very Immlfiomo cloth -bound volume,
by i lie American ilobk Exchange,
New York, at tlio nominal price of
M cents. It forms one of their
Acme Library of History, which in
eludes Macaulay’s England,$1.85 (to
duoed from $7.60). Gibbon’s Home,
4&.Q0 (reduced from $9.00), Rollin’s
Ancient History, $1.75; Froissart's
Ghronicles, $1.60, mid to which list
will soon bo added, at equally low
prices, Grotu’sGreoac.Groon’s (larger)
England, Mommsen's llomo, Mas
son's Guizot's France, Carlyle's
French Revolution, Schiller’s Thirty
Years War, and others. Catalogues
of the standard luw-prieod books of
the Literary Revolution will bo lient.
on application to tlio American Book
Exchange, Tribune Building, New
York.
The Choice Ol* Books.
A very elegant little volume with
the above title, by Charles F. Rich-
ardseu, is just issued by t he Ameri
can Heck Ku'hamn', Tribune Build
ing, Now York, at tho very low prico
of £5 neats; also a cheap paper edi
tion at the nominal cost of live coats.
It will dolightull who lovo 'good
Loota, and in its wise suggestions
will he greatly helpful to ail who
want help in choosing tho best books.
In its various chapters it trouts of
The Motive of wading, Tho reading
Habit, Wlmt Books to Read, The
Best Time to Road. How Much to
Road, Remembering what One Reads,
The Uso of Note Books, The Culti
vation of Taste, Poutry, The Art of
Skipping, Tlio Uso of Transaction.
How to Road Periodicals, Reading
Aloud and Reading Club, Wlmt
Books to Own, The Use of Public
Libraries, The True Service of Read
ing. The volume is remarkably rich
*iu striking, quotations from the
world's most famous authors mid
thinker#from Aristotle to Emcason,
including saeli names as Addison,
Bacon, Burns, Cato, Carlyle, Disraoli
Fcnelon, Gibbon, Hugo, Keats,
Lamb. Locke, Luther, Milton, Pot*
, rarch. Rnskin, Shakespeare, and
Thmvan. li a real literary tsvas-
nre house. 4
Perhaps I-toI-I-an.
.U’ntifci i 'torfitaluM,
James Redjmtii ay a thut ho is no
Englishman. In order that two
nations may bo relieved from all
embarrassment, we gladly state thut
Redpath is not an American.
Terlrble Ordeal In Philadelphia.
Pill LA DELPHI A, Jan. 20.— About 5
weeks ago Mrs, Wilson, who resides
with her husband, Solomon; Wilson,
at No. 933£ South street, was dan
gerously burned, Slie was standing
with her back to the fire, talking to
another woman, when the latter ex
claimed, “You arc on fire!" and ran
out of tho room, leaving tho door
open. The draft fanned the flame,
and although Mrs Wilson ran to the
hydrant in the back yurd slic # could
get no water, because the pipes were
frozen. She sped through tho back
street enveloped in flume, when for
tunately, a courageous neighbor saw
her, threw open her door,’and wrap
ped her in some loose carpet. A
scene of suffering ensued, all the
fleshy parts of Mrs. Wilson’s back
and limbs bciiigalmost roasted. Dr.
McLean, whose services were called
• fit- ■
in, exerted himself to the utmost.,
applying the most approved rcinedies-
but so great was tho agony she endu
red that her reason tottered and her
life wus dospaired of.
Mrs. Wilson is tho mother of five
little children, all of whom were re
moved to the r’csidcnco of her brother,
Mr. .Tastier, while her husband and
friends gathered around her bed.
For long weeks she lingered, without
intermission of agony or apparent
improvement. Last Wednesday Dr.
McLean informed Mr. Wilson that
it would bo absolutely necessary to
transplant live flesh to the parts
where tissues had boon destroyed,and
Prof. Levis was called in who decided
in favor of tho operation. Although
her mind was wandering Mrs. Wilson
appeared to have some idea that a
puiiitln experiment whs impending,
and screamed to tlio doctor to take
away tho lancet, although lie had
not displayed, nor indeed at that
time spoken in her heaving of any
instrument,but her nervous exhaus
tion was so great t hut it was consider
ed unsafe to cut the flesh requir
ed from her own person.
Dr. Levis asked Mr. Wilson if lie
was willing to submit to tlio painful
process of the flesh from his arm.
“Gertuiiily,” suid Mr. Wilson, “if it
tako8'niy’tV , hoT6 i ?T|[ht-ifrhi; outfit off
from the shoulder, to suvo my wife,”
Mr. Wilson bared mid extended
his right arm, while Dr. Levis, with
his resistant, and Dr. McLean, cut
ten pieces of skin a quarter of un
inch square, from its upper surface,
and tsansplantod them into the buck
of Mrs. Wilson, During tho whole
operation Mr. Wilson never moved a
muscle nor showed a sign of the pain
that ho sulferod, while it required
the strength of six women to hold
Mrs. Wilson as tho delicate transfer
was mudo. After tho operation was
finished tho patient seemed more
oomfortallo/tho brain troubio.grad
ually subsfded, and she. is now in »
fair way to recover. The self-sucri-
II ing fortitude of Mr. Wilson is the
more romarkublo because of the
fact that for t wo yours past his health
has been failing.
Ella Higgins, tho young daughter
of a poor miner, at Duiini ire, Pa.,
desired to dross as well as her com
panions at a forthcoming party, and
therefore purchased sonic fineries at
a store, saying they were for li wife
of a neighbor, who would pay for
them. Tim merchant, on ascertain
ing how ho hud been tricked, made
arrangements to have the girl arrest
ed, When tho officer went to get
her, she was found hanging to a
beam in tljo garret of ber homo.
Advice to Defeated Candidates.
The following we enppy from the
Athens (Tcnn.) Post, simply to
show how campaigns are conducted
t here; Dilfinger met a defeated can
didate the day after the election,who
had previously been minions to shake
hands with him. Dilfinger, desir
ous of showing him that ho would
not slight him because of bis defeat,
eagerly rushed forward to grasp him
by the hand with the remark:
‘Well, let’s shake, old fel
low.’
‘Oh, go to the d—1, will you?’
repeated the candidate.
‘Why, wlmt’s the mutter, remark
ed Dilfinger, in astonishment.
‘Matter enough,’ replied the van
quished gentleman. ‘Llavn’t I been
shaking hands with every man and
nigger in the last six months, und
contracted the itch, fever and ague,
mumps, and every disease contigious
to tlio climate, until niy wife makes
me sleep in the woodshed, and my
children allude to me ns a deluded
fool!’ Do you think I am going to
make an ass of inyseit after being so
cussed ly defeated us I was lust Tijcs-
Dilfinger remarked with a wise
look: ‘Keep n. stiff upper lip, old
boy, and sliuke hands year in and
year out like Buck docs.
Why, it* is a well-known fact in
this community for the last six years,
that Buck lias been shaking iunds
with fifteen year old hoys, and every
one ortheni that was of age at (Jiis
election voted for him. You don’t
know how to electioneer; commence
at once on three year old infants,
and by the timo you acquire some
sense I hey may be old enough to vote
for von.
Slavs av Wivimn.— If llto mjpio
don't fail, says the Chattanooga
2)%tes, tno coming winter will be the
coldest experienced in this latitude
sinc'o tho country was discovered by
a man named Columbus. Tho squir
rels are laving up their winter c»>ul,
tho beavers are putting Loafers in
the basement of thou* lodges, the
bogs have killed all the drones and
lined their hives with sheet iron, the
musk nits uro flying South, wild ducks
uro committing suicide, tho goose
bono is black sixteen deep, editors
am soliciting wood in cxohuugo for
subscriptions, poor fatnilios are buy
ing an extra dog, und wo arc having
a now collar put on our overcoat.
Tho South bus at last gone to work
in tho right direction. She is paying
very Rule attention to polities—espe-
ciully national politics—and is put
ting in heavy licks to build up her
waate pkiott. There is wisdom in
this—’tis the only way to secure com
fort-, happiness mid independence.
—iMtort Vitm .'i.
A Ship that Cannot Sink.
New York, January 18.—Uncle
Rufus Hutch, with his iron steamboat
company, already has u rival in the
Fall River steamboat company. This
company Ims given John Roach, the
shipbuilder, carte blanche to build
them a non-sinkablc, lion-burnable
iron steamboat for frutile on the
sound. It is to be 395 feet long,
made entirely of iron, with a double
hull, divided into many watertight
and airtight compartments. In the
room of oLiai ^phTcermere writ
bo a thermometric dial Connecting
with every compartment in the ship,
and a fire in any one will be at. once
signaled on the dial and can be flood
ed by means of a system of pipes.
Tlnj vessel will bo absolutely unsitik-
ablo. She will attain u speed of
twenty miles an hour, be lighted by
electricity and carry 1,500 passen
gers.
Blaine ami Coukling have never
addressed each other oxcopt at sonic
dinner party, where they were com
pelled to talk across the conversation,
but after tho dinner they would pass
ii8 coldly as over. Grant is un enemy
of Blaine—thc.worst ho has got—and
a dangerous ono. He paid Hancock
oil in tlio flush of Hancock’s fortunes
fo^ditfering with him in 1807 anti
bringing criticism about his head.
Ho used the powerful medium of an
mtorviow, which ho could afterward
repudiate if it should work him any
injury, und so belittled Uuticoek and
disparaged him that lie broke down
that “superb cqniposo.” Tlio enemy
then run over Hancock and mude the
campaign a rout. Perhaps Grant 1ms
got a thunderbolt somewhere for
Bluno to mash him before bo can go
into Garfield's cabinet. It would
not snrpriso me at nil if Cunkling
should put it iuto.GL'nnt’8 head to
write Garfield a letter, either private
or public, protesting against. Blaine's
promotion. Anmn who went around
the world with Grant told me that
Blaine's entering into Garfield’s cab
inet would make n coolness between
Grunt and Garfield.
Says the Warrenlon Clipper: It
is a remarkable occurrence, that
while the body of the late Mr. Samuel
Hall was awaiting burial, Moses, a
colored man and former slave of the
deceased, approached the house to
see his old master once more before
they laid him away and before reach
ing the gate he was observed by sev
eral gentlemen to suddenly full, and
then make an effort to rise. They
hastened to his assistance, but upon
being raised life heaved a deep sigh
and breathed his lust. His heart
was observed to beat rapidly for a
few minutes, and life was over. His
colored friends say he had suffered
from heart disease a long while, anil
hud several times fallen, but recov
ered. An inquest was held, and it
was decided that the excitement
caused by hearing of his, muster’s
death and the expectation of seeing
him a corpse was too great—he sank
under it.
A Moving Palace.
Cedar I! a puis, Iowa, January 18.
—Tho new car for tho direct ore of
t‘*c Minneapolis and St. Louis Rail
way, costing $20,000, just built,
passed north for Minneapolis this
morning over the Burlington und
Cedar Rapids road. It is a perfect
moving palace, and President Wash
burn, of the Miuuea]x>hs and St,
Louis lino, has tendered it to Presi-
tlcut-elcct Garfield to hour him to the
white house on March 4th.
In a few short months the girls,
forgetting all about the cold weather,
will bo hunting around for picnic
grounds where there are »o fences to
climb, < . . < ) !
DUBLIN ACADEMY
3 lie exerciser, of this school will be re
sumed on the THIRD MONDAY in Jun-
uary. Length of Spring term 110 days.
HATER OF TUITION—RTO1XO TERM.
Primary Class $13 20
Intermediate Class, 17 (JO
Advanced Class 22 00
Incidental expenses .00 50
Music per month 05 00
No deduction for absence, except in
cases of protracted illness.
Board can bo obtained from first-class
families at from $8 to $10 per month.
J.T. SMITH, Principal.
MRS. HARDY SMITH, Music Teacher.
Dublin, Gu., Jan 11, 1881.
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tVe also keep the
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