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STTlSro^Z"- t , E. CAtBOWI, lW»B.j«l COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1874. VOL. XVI—NO. 104. gndad mod pike, kept, though, only In | lsra ■ year. The; grow theirown flax; it the moat moderate repair neoemar; to looks like line broom straws. In the fall lagrn*. bbssbbse mF* ^.(.teNWWfla^lmttMa Mate Van. frwtkHW »SfM * Ven,'nw*W|l we Usra Su b IMa, waea welt aware are mMWiWW,aM Late It met C - ■ aaiak, owe eoal,_aaa ot. deelre, here Inspire. ItmMMlnWfltt Virginia. 7HSSIS5: Biscu Bmm, Hicuolas Coonrr. ) Wm» Viaowu, April«, 1871.) filter CWtteiW* SUffufrer-Smt : 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, •it** —