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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1874.
VOL. XVI—NO. 104.
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Dim 8m—I promised to write you a
Mir from Vast Virginia, and I moat
amply with my promise toAay, aa it will
he to only ujljulrttertty I-will haws j and
,«t I ate MR to do so, aa I hare a oongh
i, my thwt, or, aa IWPranahman read it,
“aeowfamy htm.” Von have had a cold,
III. Editor, and eaa aympatbiaa with that
fMBat otinMpraaribte stupidity which
walk wear peae human beings at anoh
tltnrn irhtn we feel. that the quotient of
the loflniteiy small, diwidad by the infl
ntaHely great, would ba the proper rep-
retentatlva of the breadth and aoope of
oar ideas. Bat I promised to write yon
.boat West Virginia, and not about my.
•ait, ao wtthont more ado will commence.
If one of poor readers will take a map
of Meet Virginia and atari from Clarke-
bug,' cn the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad,
ia Harrison eonnty, and trace the road
laid on the aaap from that place through
the couatieeof Lewis and Braxton to tha
‘roper edge of Nicholas county, ho will
property leasts me between the Bircb
mountains on the north, and the Powell
moahteina an tha soatb, on the bank of
what ia known aa the Big Biroh river, a
liranok <4 Blk tiear. To-morrow I go np
tha Bin* river to its head, about fifteen
miles from here, and than through Add!
sen, tha eonnty seat of Webster county,
to a mountain known oe Point mountain,
•bout twenty mi lee farther on. Aa news-
pqNt 'Ua*rmP a * dant * nothing of
getting a d«y ahead of Ueee, I will Uke
year asteheoe With me to that mountain
todayr ; The .gestatal Shape of the State
wiH be familiar to an yottimadera—* fen
with the baalle—e UUU narrow rtrip of
land ending at Wheeling, and almost
etowdad oflt at apace by tha two great
fltates'nrtMo and Pennsylvania on the
weet and emrtte swat. Coming now to the
body of the fan, we And four-fifths of tha
State. lying north of the Greet Kanawha
river—a splendidly watered oonntry, it
being almost impossible to cross the line
of the rivers at any pleoe for ten miles
eoeaaeativaly without finding either
large, bold creek or river. A circle of
thirty4ve mUee in diameter drawn around
As Point mountain, with it aa e centre,
will give tee course of all the rivers in
this State norteof the Greet Kanawlm,
tbs only amo saute of it being the Gayan.
dotte river. Standing on Point moan,
tain, with surface to the west, there riaea
hash of ha rang# upon range of moun
tains—Kioh mountains, Cheat mountains,
Shaver’s, Greenbrier, Alleghany, Middle
Pork, Norte Pink, Shenandoah, in this
State, and still further beck, beyond where
the eye can reach, ia the Old Dominion
State, the Bine Ridge mountains and
many smaller ebalna. Returning now to
the oiyele we have drawn around Point
mountain, doe oast of us, about ten miles
beyond the oirole, the north fork of the
•oath branch of the Potomao heads and
flows northeast hundred* of miles, by
Washington. Seven or eight mileeweet
of this the Greenbrier river heeds and
flows southeast over one hundred ruilee,
until it emptiee into the New river.
Within five miles the Cheat river beads
and flows north and weal over two bun
died mi!e% until it empties into the Mo-
nongabela. Pollosrlng our eirele round
to the northwest, we find the Tygart’
Valiev. Buehanan and west fork of tha
handing within the cir
tog away north, via Pitta-
)bio rt»C. Naxt we come
Little Kanawha, due
ateptying into the Ohio
_ A little eonth
this tee Xlk, river rises and flows sontli
west lido tbs Great Kanawha at Charles,
ton. One south the Gsuley and Williams
rivaia rise, end flow into the Kanawha
•bout thirty miles above Charleston.
When one glanoes at the large number
of riven tiring in this mountain, •P*
consider* tee varying oourses that they
take, and the thousands of miles that sep
arata their mouths, he is tempted to be
lieve that it must have been such a rock
aa this that gave forth water to the Chil<
drea of Israel, at the insfauc* of the ear.
Haas ancestor that I find laid down vu
genealogical tree. In this section
oonntry there are soaroely any bottom
lands, often not exceeding thirty to forty
yards, often none at all, and the general
fas* of tha country might be described
a suooaasion of steep hills, intersected
everywhere with stream* of water. On
the main line of travel from oonnty seat
to oonnty seat than ia ganerally a wall
permit travel j and to some eounty seats,
ante aa Addison, where I am going to
morrow, than ia only one pika wagon
road, ao that I have had to ooms the half
a circle around it in order to get a road
drive a boggy than on. Outsids of
these roads than are very faw oonntry
wagon roods. It is seldom tits farmers
have any wagons, ail their provisions and
things obtained from outside being packed
moles or horaea, or carried on their
ahonldara. Last summer, when In this
oonntry, I mot one of tha formers from
Webster eouatj on the top of Blk moun
tains, with a sate of wheat on bis shoul
ders, that he acid he had earrihd thirty
mUss, and waa going to mill with it. Last
week I had occasion to leave the main
road and go for three days on horseback
in the eonntiy. I employed a guide, and
found that the principal roods wa took
were tha beds of the creak. In one ride
of right mile* in u settlement an Little
Biroh river we weded np the river at two
places' a ooupte of bundled yards, and
crossed the river, finding it no lam than
twenty-two times. Tha pates along tha
banka won often only twelve to fifteen
inehea wide, and sometimes forty to fifty
feat above the bed of the creek. As my
guide said, .“When you go up that path
be sure to balance yonr quid of tobaooo
on the right aide, or you will fall off aura."
On some of the streams wa found little
grist mills run with a turbine wheel, the
fall of water being obtained by simply
running a wooden trough up stream come
twenty or thirty feet. My guide arid
they put the corn in, and went home to
sleep until it waa dona, and that one man
need to keep a number of chickens about
his mill, but tha mill ground so slowly tha
ohiokens starved to death waiting for tha
grist. As a mis aaoh family lives in a
hollow, and .they have wooden sleds,
white in winter they nae by going np tha
hill-side and outting wood, placing it on
these sleds, and letting it slide to the bot
tom. The state of poverty and degrade
tion of the iuhabltanta of these mountain
conn tries off from the main rood it is
diffloult to give yonr readers a fair idea
of. No negro in the South would live as
theydo. There is soaroely ever more than
one room. One hat I went into lay in a
hollow, with a miserable drain running
by the door; the house was ten by about
twelve, made of logs piled one on the
other; no cement or other stoppage be
tween the eraeks, no door. In thie house
was a rather fin* looking, healthy young
woman and three children, the youngest
an infant two week* old; in the fire-place
were the remains of a first tears waa a
fine aleat outside, a bitter oold wind, and
ioides hanging from every twig of the
forest around. There waa one low baneh
in the room, no bed, but, aa a substitute,
some planks fastened against the ride of
the house, and on tease lay a miserable,
dirty shred of n blanket and a calico qnilt.
I did not see any other piece of clothing
in the hnt exoept tee filthy piece of home-
span in whieh she was dressed. When we
entered tee and her infant were lying in
a anger trough on tha floor in front of the
fire, and the two alder ehildren, three and
five years old, were squatted on the hearth
at aaoh side of her. A sugar trough ia
section of a tree, abont three feet long,
by twelve to fourteen inehea wide, hoi.
lowed ool, that ia need throughout thie
whole section of eountty every spring to
catch the sap of the sugar tree. Abont
the middle of February a hols la bored
with an anger into one of these trees,
and a *pigt of eane or rider inserted.
The sap ran* out, and is oanght in these
troughs, then boiled down, and the pro.
dnot ia called sugar. It ia a dirty, black
looking substanoe (as they prepare it),
with a sweat taste.
At one house where I stopped for din
ner the result was this. I asked: “Can
get dinner here for my horses and self
and guide." Beply: “Waal, stranger,
can give your horses com, but we are plum
run out of meal, and have got nothing to
eat in the honse.” “You have eggs and
milk, have yon not?" “Yea." “Wall,
that will do.” So off we got, had tha
horses fed, aud the boat asked if we oonld
eat “hand-ground com meal.” Of eonrse
we could. When one is truly hungry be
iB not an epioore. But making a virtue
of necessity, I explained that “hand
ground oorn meal” was tha beat kind of
meal; the stones move so slowly that
does not heat and kill the grain, aa
some extent always takes place in large
mills. So my host sent his son-in-law up
in a loft for a gallon of corn. I then
went out to see how it waa done. On
wooden benoh at the oorner of tee hooee
recta the netker mill-stone, abont (he aize
of a good-sized grind-stone; on the top
of this, faBteoed with a pivot, tbs upper
mill-stone, and to this, at the outer edge,
a long pole, that goes throngh a beam
tea eaves of tea house. The son-in-law
took-bold of this polo with hia'right hand
and riartod the upper millstone a spin
ning round; with his left be tad'the mill
a faw grainsbf oorn at a time. In twenty-
five minutes ho had ground the gallon
•ora. 1 ground some too, bnt I am not
an expert in this line of business. First
I went fast, then slow; then when
would feed with my left hand, I thought
it neoessary to stop the right. Without
•applying ril the details, but leaving
something to the imagination of yonr
readers, Irepeat I am not an expert.
The doctrine of protection ia carried
its fullest limit in this family, with the
they pull it up by the roots, and leave it
the ground for the ontaide shell to rot
tittle. When in proper eondltion it la
broke. The breaking prooaae eonsiste of
bench with four straight pieces of wood
with sharp up edges, like the lower blade
a pair of scissors; four upper blades
correspond, fastened with pivote, and a
piece of wood aoroas the top, near the
point, for tea breaker to hold in his hand.
Ha elands on tee leftside of the machine,
graspe the upper blades with hia.right
hand, holds a bunohof flax iu his left,
rriaee tee upper blades, inserts tha bun oh
aud cornea down <m it with oil his
force. He looks as if he was half crazy,
and repeats this operation abont sixty
timwi in a minute. Than the flax ia ready
for bring scutehed. (I suppose that ia
the way to spell it) Thie operation is
performed by the sontoher, still holding
the baneh of flax straw in hia left hand,
and taking a long wooden knife in hia
right hand (about twenty inohes long),
the bunch of flax is pat over • scutching
board (an upright board, similar to those
on negro cabins) in the yard, and held ao
as it will slope downwards. He oats the
bnneh of flax with his wooden hnife
against tee board, between eaeh blow
living the flax a shake. If this operation
s thoroughly performed all the straw or
outaido husks of tee flax straw will fall
off, leaving tha long, straight fibres of the
centre,called flax, and a number of shorter
fibres of inferior quality, called tow. The
next process is to separate the tow from
tee flax, which is done by mesas of a
"hackling” board. This oonsists of a
number of sharp nails driven into a pieoe
of board about six inches square. A
leather string is atlaohad to the upper end
of this, end fastened, when used, to a leg
of a bench we were silting on. Drawing
the flax and tow rapidly through this, the
flex will remain in the band and the tow
oolleot around the upper edge of the
haokiing bo.rd. The spinning wheel for
wool and cotton and for flax was also in
the honse, and the loom; so that they did
everything, from growing the flax to
making it into dresses Bo much for pro
tection aa applied to the women's work.
Now for the men.
(to bi oohtimoed.]
rcientiVic’hotkr.
—Prof. Abel, who has bean condueting
series of experiments with gun cotton
end other explosives, arrives at many
novel and surprising results. The course
of experiment ia described as follows:
A loose yarn of gun cotton, if geutly
Mt on fire by a spark, smoulders slowly
away, bnt burns rapidly if lit by * Hume.
A charge of ootton in blasting a mine or
quarry, or in a rifle, explodes after the
manner of gunpowdei; but if fired by a
few grains of fulminate of mercury it
“goes off ” with terriflo violence, and oan
therefore be applied for bloating purpos
es on a tremendous scale. Another re
markable fact is, that gun-cotton oan ba
aa advantageously exploded when damp
as whan dry, and yet wlieu wet it resists
fire aa a wet blanket would. Bnt plaoe
with it a cake of dry cotton, and fire by
means of the fnlmiuate, aud tha shook
will be as terrifio as that above mention
ed. Moreover, the some effect can be
produoed under wtter, with the advan
tage that a water -tight oase to hold the
miterial isnot required. And as regards
■peed, it appears that an explosion ot gun
ootton travels nearly twenty-thousand
feat in a second.
-Although Ital* is already conneoted
with the transalpine world by at least
four railways—two over the Simmering
and Brenner Passes—the Mount Genie
tine, and the eoast road from Nioe to Ge
noa—there ia no direot rail communica
tion with Switzerland, Western Germany
and Belgium, It is for the purpose of
scouring this intercommunication that
the St Gotbard Tunnel aud its connect
ing line# are being opened. This great
work of opening a tunnel, eight miles
in length, beneath Mount St. Gothard, is
advancing rapidly, and by the aid of im
proved msohinery, aud the more power
ful modern explosive* — dynamite and
nitro-glyceriue—it is hoped that the bore
will be oompleted in the year 1880. From
a recent report of their work we learn
that the boring machine employed is the
Belgian one of Messrs. Dubluis and Fran
cois, which ia capable of giving from
three to four huudred blows a minute.
Tho proper direction of the bore, whiob
is straight throughout, is aeoured in the
following simple manner: As the work
advances, lamps are bung from the cen
tre of the root. These are kept inline by
means of a stationary telescope, fixed at
some distance from the mouth. As this
line of vision is constant, the lamps must
be vertically in line, or the fault will be
at ones recognized, and the correction in
the direotion of the bore may be made.
When completed, the length of this tun
nel will be 2800 yards over that of Mount
Genie.
—A Georgia planter has suoceeded in
securing a valuable return from ootton
plants, the seeds of which were germina
ted in hot beds, the plants being after
ward get ont, as are those of tobacco.
From a report of these experiments we
learn that long pits were dng, abont three
or four feet deep, into which were plaoed
rough boxes, resting ou planks, filled with
manure and soft earth. Into this rich
soil the seeds were planted in January.
At night, and during the oolder days, the
pita were covered with canvas. In April,
the neoal planting season, these proteoted
K ' int* were a foot high. Aa the tight
xes rested upon planks, the transplant
ing was effected by simply removing
these planks, With the plants, to the field,
and then stippling the plants into holes
dng for them; at the acme time raising
the box out, and tons tee roots ware not
disturbed. The result waa a yield of two
bales to the note, with no need of addi
tional manure, as with the young orop
planted in the usual way.
—At a recent meeting of the scientific
comruitteo of the Koval Horticultural So
ciety, Rev. M. J. Berkely called attention
to Professor Panceri’s paper on crypto-
gamio vegetation found within the egg
of an ostrich. From the report, wo learn
that the egg when recovered by Professor
Panceri was still fresh, the air-space not
having yet been formed. Having, how
ever, soon noticed the appearance of dark
blotahte within the shell,he broke it open
and discovered that the spots were doe to
the growth of a minute fungi. A case of
kindred character was mentioned by Mr.
now HIS SHIP GAME IS.
•
This sketch, from the pen of Don Piatt,
is equal to some of Dicken’s finest:
I ran across what first struck me as a
singular genius on my road from Spring-
field to Boston: This was a stout, blaok
whiskered man, who sat immediately in
front of me, and who indulged, from
time to time,in the most strange aud unao-
countable manenvrea. Every now and then
he wonld get np and hurry awsy to the
narrow passage which leads to the door in
the drawing room cars, and when he
thonght himself secure from observation,
would fatito laughing in tee most violent
manner, and continue the healthful exer
cise until he waa as red in the faoe as a
lobster. As we neared Boaton these de
monstrations increased in violenoe, save
that the stranger no longer ran away to
laugh, but kept his seat and ohuokled to
himself, with his ohin deep down in his
shirt ooliar, Bnt tee changes that these
portmanteau* underwent! He moved
them here, there, everywhere; he put
them behind hiui, in front of him on
eaoh aide of him. He was evidently get.
ting reedy to leave; but as we were yet
twenty-live miles from Bostou, the idea
of snob early preparations was ridiculous.
If we had entered the city, then the
mystery wonld have remained unsolved;
but the stranger at last beoama so axeited
that he oould keep his eeorst no longer.
Some ono must help him, and aa I was
the nearest, he eeleoted me. Suddenly
turning, as if I had asked a question, he
■aid, rooking himself to and fro in hie
ohair the meantime, and clapping his
leg* and breathing hard: “Been gone
three years!” “AhI” “Yea, been in
Europe. Folks don’t expect me for etx
months yet, but I got through and start
ed. I telegraphed them at last station ;
they’ve got it by this time.” As he said
this, he nibbed his hands, aud ehapsed
his portmanteau ou his left to the right,
aud tha one on the right to the left again.
“Got a wife?” said 1. “Yes, and three
children,” he returned, and he got up and
folded his overcoat snew, and hung it
over the baok of the seat. “You are
rettv nervous over the matter, ain’t you?"
said, wstohing his fidgety movements.
Well, I should think so," he replied; “I
haven't slept soundly for a week. And,
do you know,” he went ou, glaucicg
around at the passengers, and speaking iu
a low tone, “I am certain this train will
run off Ihs track and break my neck be
fore I get to Boston ? Well, the faot is,
I have had too mneh good luck for one
man, lately. The thing can't lest, 'taint
natural that it should yon know. I've
watohed it. First it rains, then it shines,
then it rains again. It rains so hatd you
think it’s nevor going to stop ; then it
shines so bright you think it’s always go
ing to shine; and just aa you are settled
iu either belief, you are knocked over by
ohange, to show that you know nothing
about it." “Well, according to that phil
osophy,” said I, “yon will oontinue to
have sunshine, because you are expecting
a storm." “it's curious," be returned;
‘but the only thing wliioh makes me
think that I will get th ougk safe is, be
cause I think I won't.” “Well, that's cu
rious," arid I. “Ye*,” he replied, “I’m •
machinist—made a dieoovery — nobody
believed in ii; spent all my money tryini
tobringit out—mortgaged my home—si
went. Everybody laughed at me—every
body but my wife—spunky little woman
—arid she would work her fingers off be
fore I should give it op. Went to Eng
land—no better there; came within an ace
of Jumping off London bridge. Wtnt in
to a shop to earn money enough to come
home with; there I met the man I want
ed. To make a long story short. I've
brought it30,000 home with me, and here
I am. “Good for youl” I exclaimed.
Yes,” raid he, “A'80,000; and the beet of
it is, she don't know anything about it.
I’ve fooled her so muoh that 1 just
oluded I would say nothing about it.
When I got my money, though, you bet.
ter bolieve I struck a bee-line for home.’
“And now you will make her happy,” said
I. “Happy!” lie replied, “why, you
don't know anything about it. She work
ed tike a dog while I have been gone,
trying to support herself and her obil-
dren deeeutly. They paid herthirteon
oents apiece for making coarse shirts
anil tlint’a (tin uxrov uhu'il lives half fht
exception of s faw cento’ worth of dye- Berkely, be having found Cladotporium
staff to color their olothee. I doubt if verbarum in the interior of an ordinary
they make purchases exceeding live do!-1 fowl's egg.
and that's the way she'd live half the
time. Bbe'|l come down there to the de
pot to meet me iu a ginghaiu dress, and n
shawl a hundred jears old, and she’ll
think she's dressed up. O she won't have
no clothes after this—O no, 1 guess not I”
and with these words, whioh irnpled that
his wife's wardrobe would soon rival
Queen Victoria's, tbe stranger tore down
the passage way again, aud gettiug iu hjs
old oorner, where he thought himself out
of sight, went through the strsuges: pan
tomime-laughing, putting hie mouth in
the drollest shapes, and then swinging
hi pise If baok and forth in the limited
spaoe, as if ho was “walking down Broad
way, a fall rigged metropolitan belle.
And no on till we rolled into the depot,
and I plaoed myaelf on the other oer, op-
posits tho stranger, who, with a portman
teau in eaoh hand, had descended, and
waa standing on the lowest step, ready
to jump to the platform. I looked from
his faoe to tho faces of the pooplo before
as, bnt saw no signs of recognition. Sud
denly he cried, “There they sie!” and
laughed outright, but in a hysterio sort of
a way, as he looked over the crowd. I
followed bis eyes, and saw some distance
baok, us if orowded out and shouldered
away by tbe well-dressed and elbowing
throng, a little woman in a faded dreo
and well-worn hat, with face almost paiu
ful in its intense but hopeful expressions,
glanoing rapidly from window to w indow,
as tbe ooaches glided in. She had not
yat seen the stranger; but a moment af
ter she ought bis eye, snd in another
instant he had Jumped to the platform
with his two portmanteaus; aud mulling a
bole in tbe crowd, pushing out tore and
there, and running one of bis bundles
plump into the well developed stomaoh of
a venerable old gentleman in epectaoles,
he rushed toward the place where she
was standing. I think I never saw a
face assume so many different expres
sions in so short a time ae did that of tbo
little woman while her husband was on
his way to her. She didn’t look pretty.
On the contrary,she looked very plain; bnt
some way I felt a big lump rise iu my
throat as 1 watched her. She was trying
to laugh; bnt Goil bless her, how com
pletely she failed in tlie attempt I Her
mouth got into the position, but it never
moved after that, save to draw down the
corners aud quivor, while sbe blinked he
eyes so that Iou.poot she only caught occa
sional glimpse* of the broad shouldered
fellow who elbowed his way so rapidly
toward her. And then, as he drew near,
and dropped those everlasting portman
teau*, aha ju-t turned completely round,
with her back toward him. and covared
bar faoe with her hands. And thus she
was when tee strong man gathered her up
in hia arms as if she had been a baby and
held her sobbing to hia breast. There
were enongh gaping at them. Heaven
knows; and I turned my eyes away a mo
ment, end then raw two boys in thread
bare roundabout* standing near, wiping
their eyaa and noses on their little coat
sleeves, and bunting out anew at every
freah demonstration on tea part of (be
mother. When 1 looked at the stronger
again, he had his hat drawn down over
his eyes; but his wife was looking up at
him, and it seemed as if the pent np tears
ot thorn weary month* of wailing were
streaming through her her eya-liil*.—The
Capitol.
TEo Eldest Inhabitant.
Judge Basil Harrison, ot Prairio
Rounds, Michigan, tbe original “Bee
Hantet” of J, Feuiinore Cooper's “Oak
Opening," ia now in the 103d year of hlH
age.
The above item suggests the following
takeoff on tha oldest oitiaen topioe from
the Pulaski Citizen:
It is fashionable in newepaperdom to
interview th* oldest inhabitant, and give
to the world the miraenloae yarns they
tell—miraonlous, because it is diffloult to
aonceive how • mind bowed down with
deorepitade and age oan study up tales
so marvelously life-like. We give below
tbe results of an interview with the oldest
lady in Gila* county :
“Gome in, aud don't stand thar and
star Uke a fool, tike you never seed any
body afore. Taku ohair. Galline, fetoh
tee man a gourd of water, and fetch the
>an; I know he’d tike to wash bit hands,
hey're awful ditty, my aakea 1”
“Thank yon, madam, for the ohair and
the delirious draught from your sostic
dipper, but the pan is unnecessary, since
I laved my extremities In the limpid
stream that gurgles from the hill-aide
down the way. Pdrdon, any seeming im-
S ertinenoe on my part, but I will rest un-
or laeting obligations to yon, if you will
divulge the most important events of
yonr life—a life which I am led to be
lieve, by repor', has stretched ont over
the waste or time to an extent not usually
alloted to man, and which has compre
hended events whioh, but for the vitnl
■park that still animates yonr phytic: I
frame, would belong only to the ut*d
past. Yonr Creator has eudowed—"
“Griline, fetoh the Bible and the bymn-
bouk. Drat e preacher what won't tea >
a text afore he comtnenoes. When I was
a gal, preaching was preaching, bnt these
tiiuea people have got queer notions. But
you might aa well go on with your sarmon
since you've commenced."
“Yon minnpprehend me entirely, mad-
•. I simply came to ask your name and
age, and get you to tell me what you have
seen a lung tims ago, and what you heard
aud what happened.
“Lor rakea, why’nf yon ray so. My
name ia Lurinda Smith, and I'll be three
huudred and fourteen yearn old next
S raiuk I've seed a heap pf things iu my
sy, and I can't tell yon alt, but I remem
ber some things may be yon never hearn
of. I've been married thirty-niae times,
the last time 1 oounted up, aud tbo si-tool
marin boa been addin' upmy children for
three weeks. Sbe wee a little over s*v-
enteen hundreed lost week,, ana tome's
no tollin’ wb»r she is now. Sty first hus
band wu Julius Cat»ar’s carriage driver,
and I nnsaed Julias bi-self 1 was pres
ent when Pomps; tbe Great and Napo
leon Bonaparte fit on the Rocky Moun
tain*. And I send Lord Weilin'ton taka
George Washington prisoner. Lory my,
how Ueorge did curse aud aware, aud lie
/went right ati sight to Gineral Grant and
took the oath, and they «8ut him onto an
island what they called toe i-le of Elbow,
and he oeuie baok and fit the battle of
Watery and Moutalew the same day. I
had thirteen sons got drowned the name
day in the Potomao, and Lord Cornwall*
wouldn't give me their beck pay. A heap
of men got killed in that akrimniHge.
There waa Masasdoniaand Mark Auterny,
and Shilow and Sherman, and Bnna Via
tor, and Boregard, snd beBps of 'em.
and I noon they'd s been figbtin till yet,
bnt Martin Luther come up with hia rug 1
intent, and killed Liourgna and Bunker
Hili and tack Fuit Sumter, and had all
tha niggers marched out and give'em
guns, and told 'em to burn Moscow if it
took all summer. General Shakespeare
eat dinner at my house that day, amt Jay
Cooke and Victor Hugo, end Robinson
Ornso—say Mi-tor, what’s your burry, t
ain't got throngh tho first bundled years
yet Gome again, and I'll tell you all
about it. Lorzy my, how I remember
everything same as if it was yesterday.”
Fork Swallowing.
Under date of April 10 tbe Paris cor
respondent of tbe New York Time* write*
to that paper as follows t
“Every one will recall the case ot tho
Italian, Cipriani, who swallowed n fork,
and who bus been going from faculty lo
faculty exhibiting bimvilf ever since find
probably many tike himself _ are anxious
to know the ond »f the adventure. Tbo
last wa heard of UipriaUi was that be was
dying slowly, and was now » living skele
ton. When this news arrived a young
man, who is employed as a clerk in one of
our largo oouitiioruia] outabljehmontu, ox
prettied the opinion that Cipriani was
nothing bat a bungler. Tho oesophagus
was large enough, he said, to rea ive sub
stances of considerable hlze, and the ouly
thing needed was tho will to control tbe
muscles. A nervous man had a sort of
spasmodic movement whieh renders suob
experiments dangerous; but to a calm,
phlegmatic person the thing wes uncom
monly easy. ‘For example,’ ho contin.
ued, sitting at table after dinner with
soma twenty persons ; ‘for example, you
see that I push this fork down into my
Tobaooo, Clears, flto.
MAI EE MM.
iryon wool lo sajoy a gojd anioka, go to hit
Oitftr Manufactory,
iiotwuob Uooigia Home and Muscogee Horae.
J*®
Dress-Making.
hiss m. a. noLuiniwun,
c.
neater la and UaeaDwtarer at Fine
cigars,
Jan Near BmaU nrp.t Depot.
Lawyers.
JOSEPH F. FOB,
Attorney nt Uw,
atd Judge of County Courts
Practices In nil otuiir Courts.
OAcu om store ot W. 11. HoImtII k Co., Brand 8t.
Jftga
8AMVEL B. HATCHKBe
Attoraoy mi Law.
OUico over It ittioli k Kinsol'i.
J. H. HoNKUXp
Attoraoy uud Couooollor nt Low.
Practices in courts or Ueorgia and Alabama.
Office broad fct., (over liolsusd k Oo.’s.
Special attumlon given to oollootloua. jail
Builders and Arohltoota.
J. U. CHALEUA,
**«•»« Carpenter ami BwiMer.
Jobbtnx iluu. nt .borl nolle.
War* •>«» ■ tsKlOc.it.,«. furnlihri for all at.te
of buildings #
Broad Street, next to 0. W. Brown's,
J*® ('-olitmhits. fla.
Painters.
*«. snow, jit., a co..
House ond Sign Pointer*,
Old Oglethorpe corner, (Just iortb of portreffiorj
Columbus, Qrtorgla*
Will contract for House and Sign Pointing nt
reosonab!» pricui, and guarantee Mtlafactloii.
Mefer to M ui. aiiow, Sr. I«pr6
INGHAM A URAWPtRBft,
Attorney* nt Lan,
Will practioo In tbe ntate ond Federal Courts of
Ueorgia.
corner Broad and Bt. 1
Attoraoy nnd couuoolfor at loir,
Practice# in State and Federal Courts In Georgia
and Alabama.
^00i «' 120 Broad -t., tolumbue, On. JaO
Maui U. Blandford. Uocia V, Otuiu.
BUMBk'ORB A GARRARD,
Attorneys and Don mffiolloro at Law*
Office No. 67 Broad ntreet, over Wlttloh k Kin-
eel’s Jewelry Store.
Will practice In tbe State and Federal Courts.
14*. M. Knsnm. Coe*. J. twirr.
RVMRLL A BWIFT,
A t turueye and Oonusellors at Law. Will praotico
' ‘ * * -* 'ireult
i store
X* IV BOWHIG,
Attorney mwk InUelinr.
U,t.Oom'randjUgister Iu Bankruptcy. Office
noyttOJ ov«r Brooks’ l)ru+ ntore, Columbus, Ua,
FKARODY A BRANNON,
Attoraoy* at Law.
Bteax, Bn<u» 8t.,
Office ovxx J. Unrig A Co,
nor it] Want tin*.
H. J. NOftfiM,
Attorney nnd Coaanellor at Law,
■ coi n la ilo
_ ootT lyj
CHAR. H. WILLIAM*,
AUnrne^tt Law, Colmnbns, Go.
Will practice in any Court. ‘ „ /*
Office over Aoee k .Uurdooli'e store. *[novlt
Doctors.
Dll. HOMEY.
Husidsnce and Office corner of St. Clair end Ogle
thorpo ate. Office hours—7 to 9 A. M , U to l r. M.,
7 to U f. m. sepirf dtt
DR. %* R« LAW.
Office corner Broad aud Kaudolpb streets, Burros'
building.
Residence on Forsyth, three doors below St. Clair.
J*
DR. 3a A. VR4UMART,
Offioeat 0. J. NolTatt's Drug *■ tore, Brood street.
. Mv«l>ieuue on tit. Ulfdr, botwunu broad aud
sepS t rout tits., Columbia, Ua.
DR. J. V. COOK,
DruKUlsta.
throat beyond the constricted point.” He
did ao, in faot, but a .psamotlio action of
Ihe mnsclea made him lose his hold upon
tbe tines, and tbe fork disappeared, lie
was taken to the hnxpital, and since that
time he baa bad s a 11 -i - of doctors abont
him ail the time. Yet he was very gay,
and suffered no pain np to yesterday. A
little siokneaa of tha Hiomach was attrib
uted to the cotton of the metal poisoning,
the fork being, in composition, lightly
plated, and antidotes ware administered.
Yesterday morning a number of attempts
were made to draw out the fork in the
f roaence of tbe leading physicians of
aria, bnt *11 failed. This morning (be
patient begins to suffer, snd the doctors
say he will soon die unless tbe fork ia re.
moved. At tbe hoar I write he is under
the influence of chloroform, anil bis
stomaoh it being opened. Wbolher tho
young man will survive tbe operation or
not I mast teli you another day. ”
' —Sixteen years ago Tom Kenyon went
to Kansas City with a cent, and the other
day ha signed a oheok for $10 000. lie
signed with another man's name, and his
supply of freedom's ei, ha* been abbre-
J. I. GItIFFIN,
Imported Drug* and Chemical*.
V. B. FA I,HER, Licensed Apothecary
One door nbovo Virginia tirocurj.
JOHN Le JORDAN,
Drag* I nt.
Two doors Mow G«o. W. Brown's,
Broad tit ret-1, Columbus, tin.
Nlgbt Ball right uf soutbjlow. fcp6
A. M. RRANNON,
Wist Biot, Broad Brnarr, Oolumscs, Oa.,
Wlmlesnle and RfUII Dnalnr
Draff* and Medicine*,
Feed Store.
JOHN FITSeiBBOEE,
Wholesale and Retail btafar In Gay, uaU, Com
Bacon, Ao., OglBthorps tit., opposite
Temptraiice Hall.
J»1
Confectioners.
I. G. BTBUrFKR.
Candy MnnufMoturwr
AND DBALM II
All kind* of ComfMUoanry and Fruit*,
Stick Gundy is wa*.
charge for boxes. ja¥4
Livery and tale ntnblea.
ROBERT tHOMMO.V
Llwnry, kale and Eacfcaaffo Station,
OuLBTHoari, Boat* or Manoolvu Iff.,
*0 Colnabug, Qo.
A. GAMMRIa
Ltvory aad Ml* Iftakloa,
Ouuvnonn it, Ooionavn, Qa.
Particular attention given to Fading and Bale
by the
of Block.
Horses and Mules boarded In
month or day.
Restaurants.
HARRIS COUNTY RESTAURANT,
No. M Breed Street.
Tha boat of for. igu aud Domestic Liquors hiuI
Cigars. Meals at all hours.
der.lt J.J (ILAKKLY, Pmp’r.
Tin and Coppersmith*.
HR. FEE,
Worker Iu Tie, Meet I raw, Copper.
Orders from ab.und promptly atteti ted to.
J»T tio. «74. broad H net.
Fresh Meats.
J. W. PATRICK,
mail* No. a sad It, Me*A. 1 Reuse.
Froth Meats oi every kma auu bust •tueditj,
■ • i .... i. #
J. T. COOM,
Frank Meals of AU l&lffidn,
Dentists.
W. F. TIOMKR,
Opposite Strapper's ouii rag. Uaudolj lr^t
puc*ai aUi'Uiiou fcivcu 10 tt*« itusiuou of Aitl*
T. W. HUNTS,
pnatlnt.
Over Joseph A Brother's
W. T. POOL,
Dentist,
nov2:t| l»l Ureal ot., columbus, Oa.
-A»-
w.j.Foeu,
Beuttet,
sepftj Georgia Hoots Buiiuiog, Oo umbiit, Go.
Cun and Locksmiths.
PHILIP SUTLER,
Uuu and Lock-witb, CraWlord eiieet, cent to
Johouou'a corner, Ooiuutbns. no. ja6
WILLIAM KUOBfR,
Guu and Lockiaiiib aud dealcr^u Gunn lag Ma
terial*. opposite Lbquirer Office,
ialfl
Cotton Faotorloo.
COLUMBUS MANUFACTURING CO.,
' Manufacturers of
Shenttngii Shirtings, aad Sowing aud
Knitting Thrond*
Cards Wool and Grinds Wheat and Corn-
Office Iu regy of Wlttich k Kluiel's, Randolph at.
Jal8 B. II. CHILTON, Prasideut.
MVUCOGEtT MANUFACTURING CO.
Manufacturers of
0IURTINQ8, SniKTINGH,
YARN, ItOPl, Ac.
COLUMBUti, OA.
O. P. 8WJFT, President.
W. A. aWIFT, tiecretary A Treasurer. octal ly.
Watchmakers.
C. *CHOMUUHO,
Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Successor to L (Jiitowuky,
loft Broad street,
jail Columbus, Oa.
C. II. LKUUIN,
Watchmaker,
1714 Brood iitrent, Coliioit'U', (la.
Watches and Clock* repaired ia the best man
iu r aud warranted. jail
Barber Shops.
LOUIS WELLS' SHAVING SALOON,
(tiucceisnr to II. lient-*,)
Under Oeorglo linoi« Insurance Bolldiug.
Prompt and polite barbers la attendance.
Ja2ft
ED. TEDDY, Barker,
Ciawfmd fit., under Konkin House, Columbus, Ua.
Boot and Shoemakers.
XVM. MEYER,
Hoot and Bhoomnknr.
Dealer iu LvaUi. r aud Vin llbga. Next to t\ A.
Hi ild a Co.'s. Prompt aud strict at tout ton gi von
to orders. Jail
Plano Tunlna,Jkc.
E. W. BLAU,
Repairer aud Tui.er of PiaBuos, Orgai., aud
Accoidwiut. tifau Paiuilug also uof,r-.
Order* may he be i«ft at J. W. Pease A Ik mu o'*
Book ttoru.
Grocers.
DAM*L R. RISE,
Dealer In Family Groceries, on Bryan street, he-
twrou OgistLorpu A Jackfloii *treot».
AST No charge for dreyagt. dcc7
J. II. HAMILTON,
Wkalennln nnd Rclnll Gracer.
Junction of Franklin, Warren A Oglethorpe tits.
No charge for dray age. eeyl I
I£11 AM COOPER,
Family Grocer end DoJcr iu Country Pr. ilnre,
eepft next to ‘•Kn'jiiirtr” Office.
Hotels.
PLANTERS' HOTEL,
Next to ColumbuB Bank Balldlng.
I'oit r* at all the trains
jalS
MR*. W F tiNIDKK, I'ropr u-
Tailor*.
O. A. KOCRKE,
Merchant Tellof end Cutter.
A full .luck of Froneb .ml *n B ll.b linuJo'otln,
Cwlmr. enJ I'obvl.
SKI6 yo. lilt Broed turret.
Or.r J. K. Jubimoo'l b.t .tor.-
BERRY HOLMAN. ,
Cutting, Cleaning nnd Repairing
Do*, la tbe bMt.1,1.. ,,
•lull] Oust* CnvfoNsai rive* flu,
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