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COLUMBUS
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), r. CAIHOUN, I
EDITOR AMD)
PROPRIETOR.;
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1874.
YOL. XVI.—NO. 110.
bt urai mumnmsT.
^ oak with nighty arms at retched
If It'; ««W Wf«* «*• UwtHoi tkj,
iktabnlM hand* a every blast
Writ* i» thi Ir claud car* riding paat;
with what ■Rguidoaot Titanic grace
l2ok*»«»e bXndi*** heaven* In tha faco,
n TU-A. i, a towering hand toward tha earth
JJ J it bad bean crowned U* king at birth.
at eii! a gnarled awall end knotted limb
f _Tk, 4 an organ chanting Nature’* hymn,
HTiaber ahrlllaat and her deepen chorda
V |(b czpreMivenasa t-o deep for worda
SrnaeraliOM that have cone and gona
ukeabadowa of Its brancbei on the lawn—
y ,«.!»•)■»• tbtt ttall PM «.IJ
ims not IU tong tha ages' story tall,
Kkiotby basrt and til Its tamo*t<«ll
artth Nature's freabnesa drained by potent roots
JL- bor deep hr a»t into IU tender ab ot*
■III ii| iu le fleta glimmer I., their sheen
Va4 dame like fairy myriads in the green!
Brink, aoul 1 the lit®, the spirit and uealgn
£ yonder oak, for they are wiadom's wine.
t giant hath lu soul and apoech,
jt tha Infinite to teach.
- it got ther as Ood’s ambo led thought
'-lag the wiadom which lu grandeur wrought,
thawing the sooreta which the aephyrs steal,
Orgmeuing the arcana thunders pe .1—
n.craning. Uke n *nge nod pr phet too,
2 all Omnipotence hath doae and yat ahall do f
Rambles in'West Virginia.
Ur RaphMl a. Imh, Jr.
BmoH Bim, Nicholas Count;, )
Ww Vnonru, April 5, 1874.)
H,Uler Colvmbut Enquirer-Sun:
My holt wee engeged in making a bar.
nl—h« laid to bold ooal tar. I am in-
olined to think, tbongb, it waa intruded
to hold what ia known in tbia oonutry as
"(f.biiter oonnty honey,” or "whiskey,"
the sale of it being forbidden by the laws
h»ra (While on the snbjeot of Webster
aunty, by way of parenthesis, one from
that oonnty propounded to me the follow
ing startling question : “Waal, stranger,
■ill yon tell me what yonr Llnooln skin
post f” I was somewhat amazed, but
fond he referred to an India robber over-
OMt which I had on, which ie known hare
by that name.)
Beturning to men and protection, my
hast, to make the barrel, had out down a
poplar tree, ont off a log the right length,
then with n oross-ont saw he and his son
ii.lsw bad aawed ont the planks, split
them np, and taken them to n bench and
drawing-knife in hie house and shaped
them ont. His hoops were formed of
white oak saplings, ont down and split np.
He said it wonld take him and bis aoo-in-
itw two days to finish the barrel. How
ha was erer to gat the barrel off Ihe
mountain, nnleas be took it to the aide
aid rolled it down, I cannot tell.
The great and wonderful wealth of all
this eonntry and the Kanawha region oon-
i in Ua unsurpassed deposits of ooal,
alt, and oil. Tha ooal ia principally of
tha ktads known as oannel, bituminous,
hid splint ooal. This subject is ao fa-
milisr to the reading public of tha United
Staten, that I do not feel justified in giv-
iag more than n faw general foots and sta
tistics.
First, as to tha oannel ooal:
These seams vary from fiya feat down,
and exposures are found in vary many
ghees throughout the ooal fields. It is
universally associated with some other
kind of ooal, usually bituminoua—a very
fortunate oiroumstaooe, as the "bearing
in" ean be dona in this latter, leaving the
whole of the oannel available. The gene,
ral dip of the ooal aeriea ia abont north
west, twenty feet to tha mile. The best
eannel ooal in the world is found at bog
head, Scotland. It ooonrs in the higher
part of the Bootoh ooal field, and its range
does not extend more than three or four
miles. In thioknaas it varies from one to
thirty inohes, and at the present rate of
conaumptioo, 8,000 to 10,000 tons per sn-
aatn, cannot last many years. Next to
this D, undoubtedly, the oannel ooal fields
of West Virginia, both in their easy ac
cessibility and the quality of the cost.
The Boghead oannel ooal produces 15,-
120.feet of gas per toft. The West Vir-
fiiuia esnuel eoal, from the mines at Pey-
tona, on Cool river, produces 13,201) feat;
tad the next best eannel eoal eo far din-
covered in the world is the Psnnaylva .it
gw coal, whioh prdduoea only 0,850 feat.
Prof. M. F. Mauiy, jr., in his report on
tha eannel fields v of Elk, Gswley, New,
Kanawha, Big and Little Ooal rivers, re
ports the average thickness of 10!) expo-
tores of seams to be 4 feet 6j inohes of a
clear oannel eoal. A party of geologists,
who have within the last ten days made a
carefel geological survey of this particu
lar eonntry, report on the bead waters of
Hoddie-tbe-Peg creek, about nine miles
south of this, a seam of oaonel eoal six
feat thick above a bituminous bank of six
to seven feet. To farm soma idea of iLe
value of this land, whenever s railroad
each year, as the anthraoite ooal fieida of
Pennsylvania becoms more and more ex
pansive to work, this eoal will contend -in
the Ess'ern markets with its harder and
heretofore oheaper brother.
I aee by the annual report of the Penn
sylvania Oeutral Bailroad Company for
last year abont an equal amonnt of each
kind waa taken over. In 1871, 8,41(1,206
tons were mined in Pennsylvania alone.
The report of tha Engineer Depart
ment to the Secretary of War iu 1872 con
tain! tbs following statement: " The
bitumons coals of tha Great Kanawha
ooal fields are equal to tha beat bitumi
nous found in PennaylvanU.”
tri spurt coat.
ia abundant, and ptr it, or in admixture
with n small quantity of bituminous, is
the moat valuable eoal present—the neams
ranging an high aa twelve feet thiok, aa at
Sebastopol or Paint oraek. It ia of supe
rior quality—its valua being due to its
firmness and solidity, whioh enablea it to
be handled, ebifted and stored with very
little loss. It burns well, leaving bat lit-
tla ash; has both high oalorifio power and
intausity. It la usually remarkably free
from aulphur (Iron pyrites) and ether im
purities; baa little or no teodnnoy to
olinker, and ia free from the danger of
firing by spontaneous combustion.
SALT.
The saliferous formation nodarliaa the
whole ooal field. Before the war the pro
duct averaged 3,000,000 bushels annually.
Tbe brine is obtained from borings 1,000
to 2,000 feet deep, tbe msjority of whioh
are to be found at the Kanahwa Salines,
on both sides of tbe river, from tbrse to
eight miles above Charleston. It ip nan-
ally pumped out and evaporated in vats,
bat at tbe Burning Spriug Furnaoe, ao
much gas is ejected with the water, that
no pomp ia necessary; and being bnrnt in
the furnaoe, necessitates only half tha
eoal that would otherwise be used. Tbe
salt ia particularly valuable for ita cura
tive qualities, being free from the bitter
ealts of lime and magnesia. Before tbe
war, all pickled beef and pork tor govern
ment use was required to be eared with
this salt. As to tbe ooat of its produc
tion, tbe best and most reliable informa
tion I have been able to obtain ia con
tained in a letter of J. P. Hall, for many
years interested in salt making, and ibe
owner of Snow Hill Furnace. He says :
"About $75,000 will ereot a uaw furnaoe,
of the capacity of 500,000 buabala par
annum. Salt can be made on auoh a fur
nace for about lOo. a bushel in bulk, or
16c. in barrels ready for shipment. It
can be freighted by tow boats and barges
to Cinoinnati for abont 8o. per bushel.
The average price in that oity for tan
years past has been 38c. Allow 9o. per
bushel for oommissions and contingen
cies (a large estimate), and it leaves a net
profit of 10c. per bushel."
PXTBOLXUR.
It will be remembered that I stated the
dip of the ooal bed in this oouotry waa
northwest at an angle of about twenty
feet to tbe mile. When we reaohed tbe
oounties of Wert, Bitcbie and Wood, in
the northwest part of tbe State, commen
cing at Burning Springs in Wert oounty,
leant 100 persona in half an hoar. I do
not believn that B'a mother-in-law eonld
have had n alight attack of influenza,
withont tha fact being dnly reported. A
system of espionage and information
ootrld not b* devised eqnal to this which
baa grown np, by what we will call the
principle of natural selection. Commo
dore Maury made himself famous by pro
viding the sailors of all the world with
uniform Log-books, ao that their reports
might be oolleoted and systematized.
I anggeated to one of these drummers
that eqnal fame and honor awaited him
who would apply tha same system to
drummers' reports.
Tha Helen D'Este Troupe gave a repre
sentation of Luorexie Borgia. Thrilling,
exciting to the last degree. In tha third
aoene where Lneresia anatohes the poia-
onied dagger from the table, plaoed dose
to the throat of the oroaohing Dnke of
Ferara, (turn tbe Gdfla of the Gallery
0 ime a voice “like a falling atar,” "Let
bim have it!” Tha effeot was eleotrioal.
Tha deepest tragedy became the merriest
faros.
Let na go through a eoal mine—a little
hole in tba ground. Strong boots are ne-
oeasary, and high ones. Our guide oar-
ries two lamps—one in his hat and one in
hia hand, whioh every now and then ha
tarns npside down and knooks on his boot
to make tbe oil ran faster. Why does it
not explode ? Tbe entranoe to the mine
ia n narrow alley just large enongh for an
iron traok about two feet and a half wide
to be laid and for a dump oar to run on.
These cars hold a ton and a quarter.
We follow tbe railroad traok about nine
hundred feet into tbe hid. From eaoh
side of this track runs chambers, with
wooden nils. Tbe mine I visited waa
an eight-foot vein of wbat ia known as
gas ooal. The ooal is dug out in galleries
eighteen feet wide, leaving a pillar six
teen feet wide of ooal on each side to
rapport tbe roof; and each gallery's roof
is farther proteoied by leaving about six
inohes of ooal next to the fine clay above,
rad every aix feet the roofs of the gallery
are supported by posts of white oak.
One gallery we passed tbe roof had fallen
in, and my guide said be was then driving
the damp car. The force of the wiud
produced by Ihe falling wss so great as to
blow bim over the head of the malo, and
to turn the inulo over into the ditch.
When tba location of the railroad will
permit an opening to be made on the
northwest exposure, tbe mine druine it.
aelf, bnt when it is necessary to open it on
tbe nootbern exposure, then it baa to be
kept clear of water by a series of troughs
and pumps. Tbe one I visited had n
reservoir to catoh tbe water about four
hundred feet in. It was then pumped up by
means of oheap wooden pumps—which
coat from five to seven dollars each—to n
level eight' feet higher, whence by
trougha it ran ont of the mouth of
the mine. At the far end of oar rail*
road track, walking through slash a oon-
ple of inohes deep, we oome to the galle-
riea where the miners are at work. No
machinery was nsad in thin mine. In
each gallery two miners work, and they
lay on their sides and use a pick, striking
of Pomeroy and adjacent villages, whioh
stretobes along the river front that die,
tsnoe, rad extends book aa they say there,
ae far as you can see. A steep bluff ris
ing along the bank makes the distanoo not
over one hundred foot. Ooal, ealt and
iron are the controlling interests of the
town.
At Huntingdon, about fifty miles far
ther down, on the Virginia side, the ter
minus of tbe Chesapeake and Ohio Bail-
road, we will leave tbe boat. It has tak
en just thirty-six hours to come this 18U
miles, including ntoppsgea. Huntingdon
is emphatically a railroad town, that has
sprung up to 3,000 to 4,000 inhabitant!
in tbe laat three years, and if tbe Chesa
peake and Ohio Bailroad prospers is des
tined soon to inoreaae even more. It
lies on a bluff, and the railroad
earn run jnat to tho edge of
the bluff. Tbe freight ia there
nuloaded into ears that are let dopn and
palled up the bluff to end from tbe steam
ers in the river, by a wire rope run with
a steam engine. From Hnntiugton we
osu go by rail to Charleston, tbe oapitsl
of tbe State. It is a dreadfully dull place,
and you have to wade one buedred yards
through the mud to get to the ferry boat,
named the “Shoo Fly,” a miserable Uttie
stern-wheel steamer, wbore the wheel ie
turned by a band like we use on cotton
gins.
Betnrning from Charleston, to save
time we will take tbe steamer to Ports
mouth, Ohio, forty miles farther down,
and then by rsi 1 ‘hrough Ohio to Purkcre-
bnrg. Portsmouth is the greet centre ot
tbe women's crusade nioveineut. They
ovate to one German's liquor saloon aud
begged permission to sing and pray for
bim, that they might sll meet togethor iu
Heaven. He woul 1 uot bear to it, saying,
“You done pothered me too much now.
I do not want to aee anything of you
wben I get to Heaven." On tbe train I
saw abont fifty of them on a crusade to
a neighboring village, led by a minister.
At Hampden, Ohio, the feeling wss so
strong that a young boy abont eight years
old wss doing his very best to break a
champagne bottle by throa iug it down iu
the mod. We enconraged bim all iu onr
power, bnt when we left on the train tbe
bottle waa atill standing bis insatiate ire.
Everywhere is plaoarded in large letters:
“No liquor or beer oan be bad here.”
Aa tbia letter has already run out muob
longer than contemplated, I must close
here, Mr. Editor. If I ean get time be.
fore I leave the State, I wish to write yon
about "sauging"—bunting for ginseng
roots in the mountains—the principal
occupation iu the full of tbe mountaineers
of this and enjoining counties; and about
spring po|e mills ; also the banting, fish
ing and timber of this State. I will if I
ora, but I oan not promise, as I have to
drive 160 miles in the next five days over
rough mountain roads. Uutil then, that
I oommenoe my New York letters, I must
bid you and yonr readers adieu t
Raphael J. Moses, Jb.
AM IMMOUEMT GRANGER.
Haw Farmer Smith, or Mad Deo,
Outwitted o Money Lender.
From tbe Lexlnton (KUnrot to.)
A farmer —we will oil! him Smith fur
■bort—lives iu Madison oonnty, and would
be known, at least by repuWiion, to many
of our readers were bis right name given.
But tbe iuetdeut we now relit , though
eomiug to Ue in a reliable way, was known
to few outside of bis neighborhood.
Farmer South lived iu a quiet w»y, and
Wes supposed to have accumulated some
thing ahead besides hiving a pretty g md
farm. After hia second son bud beeu
married abont a year, be concluded to set
tle near tbe old man’s, if be could rent a
place.
Hearing of this, Mr. Thompson—again
we withhold the true name—thought there
might be a obauce to sell a cerium pluoe
on pretty fair terms. Mr. Thompson was
a inouey loauer, end nutfiiug suit, d him
so welt as good interest, bucked by good
security; end be w.ia moreover geuei.dly
considered a pretiy shrewd trader. He
rode over to see old man South, bnt the
farmer aaid be did uot feel able to buy—
ba might buy on a credit if ihe price whs
low enough aud ibe interest was uot too
high. Hia son “Jakey,” be said woul if
hive to pay for the furiu biiuself if tbe
trede waa made, but hia sou was a good
farmer, aud, be thought, it would he all
right—at least tbe iuud would be there,
and would lie good for what reiuuiued un
paid if bis sou should fail. Wbat seemed
to startle tbe old fellow was twelve per
oent. inter, at that Thompson wsn'ed.
Finally, however, after surest deal of
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Tobacco, Clears, Ac,
MAIER DORM.
If you want to enj->y a go >d nntoke, go to hie
Cigar Manufactory,
Letwcen Georgia Homo aud Sfoarogon Horn*.
W
C. LOPES,
Dealer In tend fflanwmcteircr ef rise
Cigars,
J*9 Near Ilnwl r*trw**t Depot.
and taking a course north, by ten degrees abont forty-five strokes to the minute,
east, to the mouth of French creek cn They cut out from undernesth a block
the Ohio river, about fifty miles, occurs a ' nine feet square About one foot of eoal
singular formation of eonntry, as if a gi- j with their pick. They then drive iron
gantic mole, with a back a mile wide bad
burrowed under the coal beds of this re
gion end forced the overlying strata to the
right and left into a roof-shaped bulge.
This celebrated break in tbe coal region
is the scat of all the oil wells, and the dis
placement of ihe strata oan bo distinctly
placed ou the su face from the Little Mns-
kingutn oil regiou iu Ohio, to tbe Burning
Springs run on the L.ltie Ksnahwa river,
known as the “Oil Belt.'* Tbe most pro
ductive wells are found on the inside or
eastern edge of this break where tbe un-
conformable joints between tbe vertical
and horiz «irai strata leaves the greatest
opportunity for a vacuum. In the great
oil excitement of 18(>4 and '5, when some
of tho wells in this couutry were first
op* ned and bored to a depth of 400 to 600
feet, they flowed for many weeks 250
to 500 barrels per day, then subsided to
100, then to 50, until reduoed to five or
six barrels p *r day under tbe pomp. Sat
isfactory results have lately been obtained
by deepening the old wells to 1,000 and
1,200 feet. The annual production of
this region of country is abont 100,000
barrels per annum. From Sand Hill there
is an oil pipe seven miles long, through
Volcano station to Petroleum station, on
the Baltimore and Ohio llailroad.
Through this the oil is forced by station
ary steam engines.
The price of genuine oil land within tbe
can be built through to tuke the coal . belt surrounded by productive wells, va-
•w.y, let us go into soma wilculations
An Here of coal eight-foot seitu will oou-
taiu 16,000 tons, snd the amount that can
be taken out by oarefal mining is 12,000
tons; The usual royalty paid on bitinni-
(uous ooal is too cents per ton by the tuin-
iag comp my, or £12 por acre. Oannel
coal is worth fully double tbe amonnt; so
that a seam of four feet six inohes of can
cel ooal above a bituminous vein of six
feet wonld yield a royalty of £2,42.* per
*cre. And yet this land can now be
rits f om £2,000 to $5,000 per tore, but it
is seldom paid, operators preferring to
pay a bonus of $500 to $1,000, and 1-5 or
1-8 of the production.
But I am afraid yonr readers will not
care to bear too much about facts—may
accuse me of being a second Oradgrind.
S j we will take a tour together. They
shall accompany me on tho trip I have
wedges into the ooal ^ eaoh side and at
tbe top, when the whole mass falls, which
miner No. 1 loads into tbe dump car.
Hinef No. 2 then outs under his nine feet
very quickly, as he has au open space and
a oorner to work on. As soon as this coal
is taken away they shove np tbe root with
a white oak post and lay another section
of their wooden rails leading to the main
gallery, where iron rails are laid. The
miners get from forty-three to fifty-five
oents a ton, according to the hardness of
the coal; for laying tbe traok, and pat
ting np the supports—tbe lumber being
furnished by tbe mining company. They
will mine of tbe two kinds of ooal respeo-
tively eight to five tons; and one mule,
with six dump curs, will haul out forty
tons per day from such s mine. Besides
the miners, the oompaoy whose mine I
visited employed a boss at $100 a month;
a olerk at $50 a month; a man to superin
tend tbe dumping of tbe o|rs at $45 a
month ; snd four mules and thirty dump
cars. They mined 200 tons a day at a ,
oost, including royalty, of eighty cents.
This ooal sells in New York at $7 50; the
freight and commissions amonnt to $6 45,
leaving $1 05 as the value at the wines—
a very good profit on a ossb staple artido.
OIL REFININO.
At Poole’s, just across tbe Little Ka
nawha from Parkersburg, I visited an oil
refinery. In a large tank, abont seventy-
five feet above tbe oil works, looking like
a good-sized geometer, is contained the
crude oil. It is led thence by iron pipes
into tbe evaporator below. It is there
vsporized by application of beat, and the
vapor conducted through a large worm
passing through a tank o^water twenty by
twenty-five feet, and ten feet deep. Tn
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
A New Motor.—Tbe New York Express
says: A Mr. Kely, of Philadelphia, has,
appaieutly, discovered a power as supe
rior to steam as steam ia to the human
breath, capable of being bottled up after
generations—iu fact, the Vril described
by Bolwer in the "Coming lUce.” It in
a meobanioal arrangement for deoomp<
ing water, without vegetation, electricity
or herb ; and tbe mtrvellous power pro
duced (over ten thoumud pounds to a
square loch), is so much above steam
gauges, that he has to iuvent gauges now
to measure it.
—As an instance of the effect of heat
aud cold in expanding and contracting
the iron of the dome of the National
Capitol, it is staled that the colossal
statue surmounting it inclines four and
a half inuhes to tbe west in the forenoon,
aud tbe aauie distaooe to the east in the
afternoon. This fact has been.ascertain*
ed by fixing a plumb liue to the statue
and dropping it to the romnds bt low. As
the morning aun upon the east side of the
dome boated the iron aud caused au ex
pension on the side of tbe statue it wjb
thrown westward four and a half inches.
In the afternoon, when the snn upon the
west side heated and expanded that pat t
of tbe dome, tbe statue inclined to tbe
east a similar distance.
—Every one mast have felt the annoy
ance which we suffer when the bristles of
a hair-brush become limp and flexible;
and uuleis the bristles are of tbe very
best character, they mood deteriorate. To
remove this difficulty, an ingenious Yan
kee inventor has substituted wire, for
briatles ; snd at the same time by his in
genious mode of attaching tbe wires to
the handle, he gives them an elasticity
which entirely avoids that harshnebs
which wo would naturally suppose must
belong to a metallic brush.
—Tbe French Bishop of Canton has
i ust sent to Jardio d Acclimatation at
*eris a plant whose flower changes color
three times a day. If is spoken uf us nn-
Lawvers.
Joseph r rou,
Attorney at Law,
and Judge of County Court*
Practicoa lu all other Com u
Offlcw over alore of \V. 11. Koburta A Co., Broad St.
Ju2ft
SAMUEL B. HATCHER*
Attorney at Law.
ja‘20 office over w Ittlch A Kinaol's.
Bulldan and Arohlfof.
J. G. CHALMERS.
Haas. CariMBDr aa* RalUDr.'
Jobbing duo. at .bon not to..
0 , p b';s;,:^ *"■'** * *•»•-
Brawl Strwt, utt to 0. W. Bro-a's
(totaishtM, An.
WM. BROW, JR., * 00.,
Hsu. aa* M|t Falatan,
Old Oglatbor,. comer, (|ul north of poatoRot)
Colombo., (fordo.
Will ooatroot for Homo oad Ilea Palatine at
reMoaoblo prloo., >ud siuraatM aumhotloo
Kofor to Wu. snow, lr. [offt
Fetd f tor#.
j. m. McNeill,
Attorney aud Counaellor at Law*
Practice iu court* of Georgia an I Alabama.
INGRAM * CRAWFORDS,
Attorneya at Law,
Will practice iu tee Mute aud federal Court* of
Georgia.
pe* 4 Co.'« atora, northwest
Slair Sta. ja8
A. A. HOSIER,
Attorney end Counaellor nl Low,
tnlk, the prioe was agreed oust twenty Practice* iu 8tut« and Perietal Court* in Georgia
Ilia ilul .Inllsro nnu ait mi,l HUil AlllllMIUti
th tusiud «toilers, one-tif h o sh. and Doles
ut one, two, three uud four 3 ears, with
twelve per cunt, interest from date for
the remainder. The contruot was drawn,
snd they were shout to sign, when the
farmer suggestod that if he bhou d si uny
7" , ^ ° ' ‘ ‘7 * “ ” nu J Offlc No. 67 Bm*d Mm*,
nine get any more won j y than wos due ou j BW , | r ’ y g tore .
the notes Ue wunted to be ulloWed to psy Will praotice iu tho 8Uto and Fodoral
it, aud count off tbe twelve per ceut. I be S<, P 4
Office t-*6 Broad t., Coluniltua, Ga
Marx H Bi.Kirdman. Lori* F Garza as.
BLANDFORD A GARRARD,
Attorneys nnd Counsellors ot Low.
Wittioh 4 Kin-
Oourta.
RDDEBT THOIPMR,
Lira?, Role oad Inis-t RtaMeo,
Oeuvaoara, Noava or Kmouu flva.,
•ctao Oolanbas, da.
Jan. M. Burrell. Chao J. Bwirr.
BURRELL A RWIFT,
ttomeytand OMiiiRHlor* a* Law. Will practloo
hi the Court* of Georgia /Chattahoochee Clreultj
*toro,
proposition seemed ressonuidj «nongh to
Thompson, uud he could not object to its
insertion iu tbe oontrsut, uud so the do n-
ment was signed in diipliuute. The <i« -l
was to be ready, the notes draw n, and n..ii Alabama. OiBco over 0. A. Jtedd 4 Go.
the first paymeut made ou the foliowi.i ’ ?i r ® et j Columbus, Ga,
Saturday.
When the time arrived, both were punc
tually on hand, the find. $4,000 was paid,
and the notea were ready for signature.
•‘Mr. Thompson,” said Farmer gimtli,
"I’ve beeu tuinking about that interest,
and it seemed skerry, so I thought I'd
getber in some little njffuey I bad out, and
pay part of it, and”—piiiliug from hia
A. GAMMER,
Umy and Ral* R—Plea,
OeutaoiM St., Oanms, Ga.
P^cula, attontioa givaa te fmdiag aa* Sale
Ilorao* and Mulaa boardtd ia * table* by the
mouth or day. n*ttf| •
I*. T. DOWNING,
Attorney and Bellefttor.
U. 8. Oom'r dim! Rutriaicr lu B uikruptc;. Office
norajj on r hro»k«' Pro., -torn, Columbus, Ga.
PEABODY A BRANNON,
Attorneys at Law.
breast pookota roll of wuiu-y—“jiaiounnt omn or., j. Kssi, * Co.T Sr»a, B.ua g»..
that. 1
The moaey was ooaolsil, rail, with !
twelve per oent. off, the first note was
paid.
novlt]
Wert Pidb.
R. J. BORER,
Attorney aud Counsellor at Law,
CHAR. II. WILLI AMR,
Attorney at Law, ColawRae, Ga.
Will practice lu uuy ‘ .ourt
Office over Ac*** .1 Murriooh'a etoro. [novlt
Doctors.
DR. 0. B. LAW.
Office corner Broad atiri Hat dolph at reel*, Burra*'
liuthlliig.
Heftldence ou Toieyth, three dour* below Bt. Clair.
DR. J. A. UR RUIIART,
Office at 0. .1 Moffett'a Drug More, Broad atraat,
Kci ieuce 011 St. Clair, heteeou It road aud
Rop6 Frout St* , Columtui*. Or#
When Thompson had pocketed the mon- 1
ey again, Hrnitb said: “I've got a sou liv- , „ . _ , ....
in iu Missouri, Mr. Thump®.,u, «U<1 as ''^^llo'aa 1..™..balWi.,...
soon as he heird I was buy.n’ a farm for i
Jakey, he s L -nt me n little money”—puli,
mg a roll fr >in h a right side br eoues j
pocket—"and so whttevor it is we’ll ered- j
it it ou the note, if you hove no ob- !
jection." Again the money was counted,
aud wi'h the twunty-four per cent, off,
jnst paid the note to n cent.
"Well, that’s lu a k,’’ le-umod tho old
man; "and now, Mr. Tbotupson, the old j bh. COLSEY.
woman has "sen selling rt*U .mart of R„.| d , nce „„ d nffle raru.r of s, Cl.lr sad 0,1..
butter aud uiga, and some oh.eke is now thorp* -t» Office hoar*—'7 to 9 a. m., U to 9 r.
and tbeu, when they come Yuti d the 7 i« y p. a. «epa7 <11
country a buying, aud she told iue this I
loomin' that I better take what she h d,
uDl maybe it wou dn't ooina amiss. ’ A
roll was pruduo d from tbe left side
breeches pocket, and wheu counted, just
paid tbe third note after the thirty-iix per
oent. was deducted, stid Thomson said
uot a word, timith seemed to be cou-
si leriug for sonm iniiiut».s uud then,
raising his bead, suid, us though u hid .
den thought struck him : "Yon knotted
my darter, Sul, didn’t, ye? Le<siwi»e
you’ve seen b* r. ’ Sal w,»h a fine gal.
About five year* ago, at a hog-killin’ time,
one o’ my hinds took sick, uud whit does
Sal do but turn iu an 1 halp us, aud, I to 1
yon, she could sling a hog soross b*r
shoulder equal to ary mau ou the ground'
Well, you know, Sd iu Tried year before
last, and bar husbtud iltbbe 1—you
know Hibball—is doin’, they tell me, as
good a grocery busmens as any min iu
Kirkaville. Jakey h- went over to noe
Sal and Hibbell tue o her d «y, and they
was a talkin’ abont this hero internet busi
ness, aud Sal »&ys to Hibboll, says Him”—
"Never mind what they s»id, Mr.
Smith," broke in Thompson, "just hand
over tbe inouey you were going to say
they sent yon." And sure enough the
old man produced still another roll from
some secret pocket which, when coun'ed,
proved to be the ex tot amount ueotissury
to pay off tbe last note when the forty-
eight per cent, hud boon duly taken off.
Thompsou pocketed the money, went
straight to tho court-house, acknowledged
the deed, aud h nded it over with only
this renixrk : "You are the d %t old
rascal I ever saw!"
DR. J. C. COOK,
i Uo nmUdoo lion**,
Druggists.
J. I. GRIFFIN,
Imported Drugs aud Chemicals,
C. B. PALMER, Licensed Apothecary
Uuti uour Mtiuw Virgiiti* Grocery,
4ar Phydcluo*’ l’ri*irlptloti* marina apoclalty.
due 17j Night bull to loll ot door.
JOHN L. JORDAN,
Drsccht,
Two door* l.triow Geo W. Brown’*,
It road r trout, < olumbu*, Ga.
* Night Boll riylit of aouth door. aepft
A. M. BRANNON,
W-ht Hide, Bu>ma 8ibrrt, Columbus, Ga.,
Wholesale uud Retoll Denier I
Drug* uud Medlelnes,
Toilet Artlelea and Perfumery.
—A writer in the Hartford Times tells !
how oysters inhabit the M mgrove woods
of (Juba. Ho flays: “No doubt the read- |
er will opeu his ryes at oysters growii g
on trees. Often have I seen the sneer of
nnbelief in the face <»f the ignorant when
the f ct h is been mentioned ; bnt gr >w
they do, and iu imneuse quantities, es
pecially in the southern part of tho island.
I have seen miles of treot, the lower
stems snd branches of which were literal
ly covered with them, ai d many a good
tn»*al have I enjoyed with very little
trouble of proenring. I simply placed
the branches over the fire, and when
opened I picked them out with a fork or
other wonderful evidence of Chinese art 1 pointed stick. 'Ihcse peculiar shell fish
in leading nature out of her customary aro indigenous in lagoons or swamps on
pAtbs. It appears, however, that it is, if the coast, and as far an tho tide will rise
not the‘same, at least not more remark- and the spray fly, so will they cling to the
able than a natural floral freak found in lower parts of tho W.jgrove trees, some-
Southern Australia. It is a beautiful tiroes four or five deep, tho Mangrove ba-
flower, similar to our well known morn- ing one of the very fo.v trees that flourish
ing glory, with five streaks of color on its in salt water.’’ ^
this the rap* is condensed, the w.terbe- "ft*-^•Te. 3 ’ TwS i -* Mil.rakee n.n„ ha, raplied for
ing kept constant!; changed ; thence it ia
conducted into another large tank and
jnst made. We will get off the cars of
the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad at j left to cook Wben cool, pumped into
Clarksburg and go to the Ho- ,till another, where it ia kept constant);
bought in Urge traoia at from 8:) cents to ' (el. About a dozen young uien are agitated as if boiling b; haring air forced
*1 25. It ia like a.dfan on a desert Wand there, who are the; ? Drummers! dram-' through. While in tbia atateitispuri-
uters!! drummers!!! From Cincinnati, fiej by being (rested with cbemiosls;
Philadelphia, Baltimore, end New York,
the; have been scattering over tbe coun-
tr; for Bixt; miles in ever; direction,
like a swarm of loousts. See them oom-
para notes. How mnch did A bn; 7 Ie
B’a father-in-law going to pi; bis debts,
Ao. f ‘it seems to me I must hare he»rd
with a bag of diamonds and a bag of
bread—the bread ia far tbe uioit valua
ble.
TBE DITUBIKotM coat..
Owing to the existence of tbe more im
portant and valuable splint and oannel
«oala in the field, tbia ooal has not been a
groat deal worked. Tha seams var; from
. faw inohes to terra ot eight feat, aod
then drawn off into another tank where
it ia stored until required to be shipped,
wben it ia barreled, tested and marked.
Taking tba boat from Parkersburg down
the Ohio river, I was aatonisbed abont
nine o'clock at night to go on dack and
aaa a Una of gas lights np and down tha
enquiries made and anewered, to at, river, aavan miles long. It ia tha town
Cotton Factories.
COLUMBUS MANUFACTURING CO.,
Sinn iliac iu rur* of
SheetInffM, Shirting*, and Sawing and
Knitting Thread.
Card* Wool au i Grind* Wheat aud Corn-
Offic- In rear of Wittich 4 Kiiiatri'*, Randolph at.
Jal8 X. II < JilLTOV, President.
MURCOGEE MANUFACTURING CO.
Manuftcturim of
SHEETINGS, 8 GIRTING 8,
YARN, ROPE, 4c.
UOLUMBUS, 04.
O. |» SWIFT, ProHirient.
W. A. SWIFT Secretary 4 Treasurer. octal ly.
Watchmakers.
C HCHOM laUlMJ,
Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler.
• Bucci'tHor to I*. Gutotr.ky,
lOi Blond ktrert,
jail fo Columbus, Ga.
C. II. LEQUIN,
Watchmaker,
J*U
Barbershops.
the color streaks aro pule blue. Toward
noon the; turn to a rich purple tint, P ,l,eDt on • £«'>• wbt-h. b; tha
which changes to a light pink during tho pressure of the thumb on a smalkrubber
afternoon. As tho <Uy declines the color P r f>ieotH a stream of ink through tho
fades, disappearing en iroty aftor aunse', holder into tbe face> of the fellow who is
when the flower closes and dies.-*>«>»- looking over yonr shoulder while you »ro
writing. It larks one esHential. however;
J 16 ' • makes no provision fur tho afterclap.
~ 1 —"Do I nudorntand the course! for th* . ... 0
—\ now method of compounding drugs defendant ?" ankt-d a very fa'j'ul*' 1 ’, "tos iy LOUIS WELLS **... . 1
waa proposed to one of our driiugints a that he ia about to read hi« *ufhoiitiea an j „ ( , C
few days since. A well known bummer agHinut tbe decidon ju-tt prouoanoed Under GvergU II nw h»*i n g.
entered the store *nd asked for a pint of from the ben oh ?" "Uy no lueaim,” r«- ! i*rbera in *ttend*oc*.
whiskey. The proprietor saw the point, plied tbe eonniel afore«aid: "I w *s *
*nd was determined that the biunmer merely going to ahow to yonr honor, by a -ALEX A RAM,
shouldn’t see the "pint ” "I tonet have brief passage J waa about to read from j
it,” says tbe latter; "I’ve eaten tnore'n a the book, what ah intolerable old fool ed* TERRY. Barber,
pound of oampbor, and must have the Blaekstone must have been.” “Ay! ay!’ oraw^md at., uud*r lUukm House, Colunbu*, c«
whiskey to dissolve it." said the judge, not a little eluted. j duels
JOHN FITCGIBBOXR,
WbolN.lt anti UM.il LH-«i.r la ttat, tan, Own
ttioon, So, UaMhorpa at, hrkiMm
Confection* rs.
i. a. nmra,
c«»<ly KuKumiw
AM DtALBS Ul
H Usds of Goifbetleaerf aad MR,
■Uek Ossiy it eeafea.
N«» charge for bose*. JaM
Llvory
Restaurant*.
HARRIS Ctran REST A VR AMT,
■*. m e»a»« era»L
Th. last of Vortlfa aad IbeaMMie Ltenon aad
Ctx.ro- Moelo ai all !<*■».
d»<-H J. J BLAKNt.T- Peip'r.
Tin and Coppersmiths.
hr. vbb.
Hark*. In Tin, SkM* Irw,
brd.ro from abroad pnmyilf altw >w4 to.
W tie, iV« Bewl a rrot.
Fresh Meats.
j. w. JhS&SE
■tails Mw. * and 1., Markei Hwwae.
frMh Mmu et .Tory klad .ad Imo uoalttf,
J.tt alw.y. ou bud.
I.T,
ffrrak Maateaf
D*ntl*ts.
w. ». TI0MAR,
Oppe.lt. atreppw'. trail.lax* tUadalpk K
Breci.l aiwallea xivaa to lb. laxrUea of ArN-
aclal Troib, a. wall — w Opentln Iraaiutry.
x. w. um
0».r dawpbAJrotkW. itora.
W. T. r**L,
«ort»] ini Prrod it., OotemboM, Oe.
w.j. mu,
ropdl O.-rirl. Mom. HulMlnx. 0 • nmba.. Os.
Cun and Look»mlth*.
PMILlr ivur,
Gun and Lock^witb, Crawtord • tract, east fc
. JohDMoa * toroT, Colsmbn* Gn. jpg
WILLIAM RUMMER*
loot and Shoemakers.
Dealer In Leather nnd findings. Vest to 0. A.
Redd 4 Co.'*. Prosipt nod *tri*t ettsatlee gfvsa
to order*. Jell
Pleno Tuning, 4e.
E. W. RLAU,
Repairer nod Tuner ef
Grocers.
dam’lr. ana.
Denier In family Groceries, on Bryan strsst, 1
tween Oglethorpe 4 Jackson street*,
4p» No charge for drayng*.derf
J. H. HAM1UIDM,
Wheleeale mm* Ratoll G—ear.
1RHAM OtoTBR*
family Grocer and Dealer Ie Oeeetry Pwfow,
•eps nest to “Knqulr*r” OR**.
Hotels.
rLANTMBV MOTEL,
Mast to ColumbM Mi
Poiter* at all the trains
JalS MR*. W f gVIDWR, fmpr'w.
Tailor*.
O. A. KfEHME.
Merchant Taller and CsNer
A full stock ef French aad Ksglleh Bfundeletbs*
fMfiim. r-t and Yeetlns*.
•prin Ve. W Broad fimt
J. G.
Cutting and making In the letwt etflti. R^elr-
ing enri cletnlntr D aily does, at Pasenntrieprl**.
febiS| Orer J. R. Jehetee'*hot *toro.
HENRY RRLLMAN*
Cutting, Cleaali
Don* in the best sill*.
*pr24] Corner Crawford
Ja26
Ha MUFHa, CT. CLAin 8TK BT.
■nfimj
Press-making.
RIM M. A. MUU«I1
Ureai-Raking, Cat tin* and fjtl
Rcalesnc* naeshep la I