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TIMELY TOPICS.
- Statistics show that the wheat trade of
California, Oregon and Washington Ter
ritory with Europe give employment an
nually to more than four hundred sail
ing vessels going around Cape Horn.
The average passage for each vessel is
about 16,000 miles, in an average time
of a little over four months.
The Japanese government constituted
a mixed commission of native and Euro
pean scholars, with the object of finding
the way es expressing the immense mass
of Japanese written symbols in Europe
an letters, and of fixing rules for spell
ing Japanese words in our alphabet
They have so far succeeded that they
have compiled a Japanese dictionary
printed in Roman characters.
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Soldiers guilty of desertion during the
Civil war, who afterward voluntarily re
turned to the army, and finally were
honorably discharged at its close, were
not considered as being entitled to ar
rears of pay or bounty. A recent de-
• cision of Second Comptroller Maynard
changes all this, and such soldiers will
hereafter be considered as having as
valid a claim to such compensations as if
they had never deserted.
Mrs. Laura de Force Gordon, who
shares with Mrs. Lockwood the honor of
being admitted to practice law before the
United States supreme court, is the pi
oneer in securing the admission of
women to the California bar. She and
Mrs. Faltz secured the repeal of the State
law which provided that only men should
become lawyers, and they afterward se
cured a mandamus compelling the law
department of the California State uni
versity to ( open its doors to them. Mrs.
Gordon was admitted in 1879, and her
first case was the defense of a man ac
cused of murder, in which she made a
jury speech and secured her client’s ac
quittal.
The Indian chief, Red Cloud, Is evi
dently a born aristocrat. He is the only
chief who refuses to allow his children
to attend school. His contempt for labor
is almost inexpressible. It was lately
suggested to him that his men should
learn to cultivate the soil and support
themselves. To this he replied that the
.instructor of agriculture furnished by
■the guVemaieiii Was by no means satis
factory to the noble red man. “He
comes here and wants our warriors to
work. What we want is for the great
father to send us white men to plant our
corn, hoe it, reap it and put in barns,
which they should build us. We are
warriors, and don’t work. Only squaws
work, ”
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California and Oregon are liable to the
- ravages of three species of locusts, the
most dangerous of which is the great
Rocky mountain locust, whose attacks
several years ago came near starving out
the people of two or three Western
States. The locust is remarkable for its
power of flight, and travels in dense
swarms high up in the air, darkening
the sun, or filling the sky with the
glistening light of their wings. Obser
vers have stood on the highest peaks of
the Rocky mountains.and,straining their
eyes upward, seen the sky filled with
clouds of these tiny insects, so high up
as'to be barely discernible. After de
vastating one region, they rise into the
air to look for fresh fields and pastures
new.
■ Some of the opium dens in the large
cities are owned by Americans, it is now
said, while seemingly the enterprises of
the Chinamen who conduct them. The
practice is to bring men in through the
enticements of fellows who pretend to
be like the victims, bent on seeing the
vices of the town. Pretense is made of
4 inouiring out a den, and of difficulty in
gaining admission. Then the two smoke,
and when the dupe is unconscious his
pockets arc rifled. He discovers his loss
on awakening, but his companion pre
tends to have been plundered too, and
they conclude that to make any report
to the police would expose them to ridi
: cule. In thia way robberies arc- com-
• mittod in the mock opium resorts very
i extensively.
About the most curious item of news
. coming from “the other side” is the for-
* mation in Dresden of a society of paint
ers who oppose the wearing of the mod
ern garb, and are to wear nothing but
ancient costumes. The society consists
of some eighty members, all of whom
took their oath never to put on modern
habiliments again, and as the Germans
are famous fur not only binding them
selves by all sorts of oaths, but for
sticking to their compacts, the streets
- and lager beer saloons of Dresden must
occasontdiy present a curious appear
ance. The figures of the old masters
collected in the famous gallery of that
city serve as patterns of dress to the new !
association, and the strange costumes
that are to be met with look like so many
suddenly animated pictures which have
just jumped out of their frames.
The average American probably does
not realize how dangerous a great crowd <
is, remarks a city paper. In this coun
try, even in rough neighborhoods, thou
sands of people often get together in
close quarters without harm. (So orderly
x. . is e very body that the fear of death is
• ‘ the last thing one thinks of when he
starts out to see a great spectacle. In
Europe, however, a large crowd is sel
dom collected without some one being
hurt or trampled to death. So simple
an incident as a gathering to give a sere
nade to Nilsson in Stockholm resulted I
in the death of seventeen persons and
serious iuiuries to twenty-nine others.
J The reason for the difference betwren ,
| Continental and American crowds may
possibly be found in the fact that the
American carries his habit of self gov
ernmentalways with him.
This is how Chicago strikes a New
• ■ • England womau who writes about it to
the Hartfoid the city gives
an cx|wes*ion of mixed vulgarity and
magnificence, F*»r one example, in the
hotel w here wo atop(ied the floor of its
gaudy barber shop was partly inlaid
with silver dollars, Between 600 and
7W ttt the e la. ; .>e coin* w< tv ce’areteu
» is wmbto b-<«eka This inrxpreasHilv
vulgwr ©rn»?avi»lation b looked
■nrith awe by thousands of ratata
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ample of depraved taste that America can
show. All the more when the hotel that
- can afford to pave one of its floors with
silver dollars apparently cannot afford
to furnish the bedsteads of some of its
’ bedrooms with comfortable pillows. No
bolster, and very small flat pillows that
( bring the head almost on a level with
the mattress is a discomfort that some
have to bear at a first-class hotel, even
when paying the regulation high prices.
If you ask the chambermaid if that is
the general rule in the hotel, she replies:
‘some of the rooms have larger pillows.’
And this hotel explicitly advertises that
it is a ‘homelike haven,’ where every
comfort will be provided for the ‘weary
traveler. ’ ”
The Moscow Cathedral.
The great Moscow Cathedral, lately
completed, has cost more than $11,000,-
000, and will accommodate 10,000
worshipers. It is, says the London, Times,
one of the most remarkable churches in
Europe:
/‘Not many cathedrals can boast of
having been built in a lifetime, but there
are Russians still living who saw the
French army depart from Moscow, to
commemorate which event the church of
St. Saviour has been erected. In less
than three months after the retreat of
the foe a decree went forth from Alex
der I. that a memorial temple should be
built, and five years later the founda
tions were laid, but not on the present
site. The emperor accepted plans
which, had they carried out, would have
given to Russia the highest building m
the world—namely, 770 feet, on the
Sparrows Hill, between the routes of the
entrance and departure of Napoleon; but
the undertaking for a while collapsed,
and the architect and building commit
tee, after expending or misappropriating
upward of 4,000,000 roubles, were
banished and their estates confiscated.
The (Emperor Nicholas adopted new
plans, and chose the present site,
which has ccst, with embankments,
and terrace, etc., upward of £IBO,OOO,
and where, at the outset, a nunnery had
to be removed and 70,000 cubic feet of
earth to be displaced before, on July 27,
1829, the laying of the foundations was
commenced. The building continued
slowly to rise for twenty years, and in
1858 the scaffolding was removed, this
latter item alone having cost 177,000
roubles, or upward of £40,060 (reckon
ing the rouble, that is, at 3s, as through
out this article). A quarter of a century
has buen expended on fittings and deco
ration. The style is ancient Russian or
rather Graeco-Byzantine, the most strik
ing feature of which, to a western eye,
on the exterion is the five copper cupa
los, for the gilding of which were re
quired 900 pounds of gold, their total
cost being upward of" £170,000. The
domes are surmounted by crosses, the
centre one, nearly thirty-nine feet high,
standing 340 feet from the ground. The
building covers an area of 73,000 feet.
The bells, as usual in Russia, arc of pon
derous weight. The largest, or ‘holy,
day’ bell, weighs twenty-six tons, or hall
as much again as ‘Great Paul’. Even
the second, or ‘Sunday’ bell, is within a
ton’s weight of our bantling; while the
smallest of the ‘everyday’ bells descends
to about thirty pounds. The cost of the |
peal was upward of £13,000.”
A Terrible Tale of the Sea.
An account of what Captain Morland
calls one of the most remarkable escapes
on record appears in the Times of India. If
this story be true, an Arab seaman, Ab
doola bin Ahmed by name, lived without
either food or water for eighteen days
and drifted upward of 500 miles in an
empty tank before striking the coast of
Cutch. A large bugla, the Jabrce, I
owned in Bombay, foundered off Ras-ai-
Had while on the voyage to Muscat. The
crew numbered sixty souls, and there
were forty passengers on board, seven of .
whom managed to climb into an empty :
water tank that had been washed off the
deck as the bugla sank amid the “whist- ■
ling of the wind and the apparition of
men and spirits in the sea.” Here in
this tank the seven men lived for ten
days without either food or water;
but after the tenth day oue person died
daily, the bodies being flung overboard.
The tank drifted on toward the coast of
Cutch qt the rate of twenty-eight miles
a day. The sixth man died while within
sight of land, and the seventh managed i
to crawl ashore at Jackao, in Cutch. He i
saw a Pit’s (a saint’s) place with a flag, j
but it was deserted. “And as 1 was.” :
he says, “quite naked, 1 apologized my
self to the Pit and appropriated his flag '
to cover myself.” lie also found a pot
of millet; but this, on account of nis '
parched throat, he could not touch until
he had moistened it with sea water.
Thus lefresbed, he was able to find a hu- j
man habitation, where he was kindly i
: treated, and where he was laid up for a j
j long time with fever. The tank and the •
• corpse were found in confirmation of his |
! story.
Intelligence in Animals.
The London Field tells of a pair ol
swallows that built a nest inside of a ’
school room where more than 100 chil
dren were in di.ily attendance.
A goose was seen fluttering on the
surface of one of the Wisconsin lakes.and
I investigation proved that a forty-two
i pound turtle had it by the leg. Both
were drawn into a boat.
When ostriches are breeding they are
very savage, yet ueolley dog will tame
them completely, and at the cape of
j Good Hope the dogs do the work of
herding with great sagacity,
1 A dog belonging to Charles Porter, of
Parkersburg, W. Va.. goes regularly to
’ the postofUce and brings back the mail,
gets the milk from the milkman daily, ’
1 and has delivered a deposit at the bank
■ correctly.
An immense Newfoundland dog, be-1
[longing to a gentleman of San Francisco, j
snapped at a chili who was plaguing |
him. The child's mother upbraided the ■
: dog. who slunk away, but soon returned |
with a tw, and, with very extravagant :
ca pern, laid it at the feet of the child.!
Then it hurried to its mistress for a '
caress. I
John H. Osborn, of Belleville. N. J.,:
tried breeding quail in an immense wirt i
cage. The thin! day after the female
hail begun sitting she died on the nest ;
The co- k was greatly distressed. Ht
dragged the dead bird to a corner and I
buried it, leaving only the long feath-1
ers. on one wing exposed. This done he j
returned to the nest and sat on the eggs |
»ad eventually succt®ded in bringing out!
a brood of ten young quail. The you no
. birds are uow alive. —Torfc
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i GENERAL GRANT’S LAST DAYS,
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1 General Badeau’s Account of Scene*
j and Conversations at the Bedside.
s From General Adam Badeau’s account
j of the last days of General Grant, in the
t Century, we quote the following: “On
i Easter Sunday he seemed a little easier,
5 though there was still no hope. I went
. into his room and found him able to lis
, i ten and even to utter a few words with
-5 out much effort. I had been greatly
. struck by the universal watching of a
’ nation, almost of a world, at his bedside,
t . and especially by the sympathy from
r former rivals and political and even per
j sonal adversaries; and I recounted to
him instances of this magnanimous for
getfulness of old-time enmities. When
. I told him of the utterances of General
r 1 Rosecrans and Jefferson Davis he re
- plied: ‘I am very glad to hear this. I
> would much rather have their good will
, than their ill-will. I would rather have
1 the good-will of any man than his ill-
i will.’
“On the 3d of April several newspa-
> pers which had followed General Grant
i with a persistent animosity down to the
very beginning of his illness, recalled in
touching aud even eloquent words that
> twenty years before he had captured
Richmond on that day. I told this to
my chief, for I had been with him on
that other 3d of April. I said the nation
was looking on now, watching his battle
' as it did then, and that his fight with
i ' disease was as good a one as that he had
i ' made with the rebels twenty years be
i fore. ‘Ah,’he answered, ‘twenty years
ago I had more to say. I was in command
i then.’ ‘But even then,’l replied, ‘it took a
year to win; perhaps you may win still.’ He
brightened up at this and told the physi
cians the story of General Ingalls’ dog.
Ingalls was the chief quartermaster of
the armies operating against Richmond,
and had been a classmate with General
* Grant at West Point; they were always
j on intimate terms. ’He had a peculiar
dog that often came about the camp
fire at headquarters. One day during
the long siege General Grant said, ‘ln
galls, do you mean to take that dog into
Richmond?’ ‘I think I shall,’ said In
galls; ‘he belongs to a long-lived breed.’
“After this Dr. Shrady sat down to
write the bulletin for the morning.
“ ‘What shall I say, general?’ he asked.
‘How shall I tell them you are thismorn
. ing?’
“ ‘More comfortable,’ renlied the gen
eral.
“And the doctor wrote a line about
the physical condition of his patient,
and read it to General Grant, who ap
proved. I was still greatly impressed
by the public emotion, and I interrupted:
“ ‘General, why not say something
about the sympathy of all the world,
something to thank the people?’
“ ‘Yes,’ he exclaimed willingly, and
dictated these words: ‘I am very much
touched and grateful for the sympathy
and interest manifested in me by my
many friends, and by—those who have
not hitherto been regarded as friends.’
“Toward the last he stammered and
hesitated, evidently unwilling at this
moment to call anyone an enemy; and
finally made use of the circumlocution,
‘Those who have not hitherto been re
, garded as friends. ”
“Dr. Shrady wrote out the bulletin,
and read it aloud, when the general
added : “I desire the good-will of all,
whether heretofore friends or not.’
“I urged the doctor to stop just there,
to say nothing about physical details,
but give this Easter message from Gen
oral Grant to the world in his own
language. Mrs. Grant, however, wished
the word ‘prayerful’ to be used before
sympathy, and General Grant consented
; to the change.
“Another morning, only a day or two
after his improvement began, he said to
me, evidently with a purpose, that it
i was strange Ht>w undisturbed a man
i could be when so near death. He sup
posed he had been as near the other
: world as one could be and survive. His
. feeling had been at the time that every
moment might be his last; but he had
not suffered one particle of apprehen
sion, or fear, or even discomposure. He
evidently wished me to know this, fpr
we had once or twice in the winter
talked of religious beliefs. ‘Yet,’ he
said, 'at such a time it hurt, no one to
have lived a good life. ’ He had been un
distuibed—he repeated this emphatical
j ly—but he believed any one would be
more comfortable at such a moment with
a conscience that could not reproach
him. A good life would certainly con
tribute to composure at the end.
“The 9th of April came, the anniver
sary of Appomattox, and recovery was
still not assured. One of the sons had a
presentiment that his father would not
survive that day, but it would have been
hard to have General Grant surrender on
i the anniversary of his greatest victory.
Then came anothe- jubilee. His birth
day was the 27th of April, and by this
time he was so far restored as to be able
i to join the family for a while at dinner.
There were sixty-three lighted candles
on the tabic to celebrate the sixty-three
vears, which a month before no one had
hoped would ever be completed, and H e !
house was crowded with (lowers, “v- ;
S'fts of thankful friends. By the Ist of
ay he was so well that he sent for a
stenographer and began to dictate mat- :
ter for his book. * * *
“The secret of this partial recovery is I
not far to find. It was after the great
expression of public sympathy that '
General Grant began to improve, after ■
his place in the affections of the people
was restored or resumed that his whole
nature, moral and physical, became in
spired and renovated. For this it was
almoat worth while to have suffered—to I
have the world recognize his sensitive- ;
ness. and to receive himself its apprecia
tion in return. Few men indeed have I
known in advance so nearly the verdict
of posthumous fame. No death-bed >
i wi.s ever so illumined by the light of I
I universal affection and admiration.”
The Beefsteak in Rhyme.
The rule of the famous “Beefsteak
Club,” organized in En 'and in 1734, for i
the cooking of a beefsteak, was as fol- !
lows:
Pound well your meat until the fibres break; ;
Be sure that next you have, to br il the steak, ;
. Good coal in plenty; nor a moment leave,
] But tun it over this way and then that.
I The lean should be quite"rare—-not so the fat,
The platter now and thea the juice receive.
Put on your butter-place it ou ytmr meat— I
. Salt, pepper ; turn it over, serve and eat. 1
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German geologists estimate that the
Dead Sea will be a mass of solid salt |
a thousand years hence.
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THE STARTLING, SWEEPING FACTS
I FROM-r-
J. M. & M. B. WATSON
Spot Cash House,
Carries Conviction to an Honest Public. 11
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Is now perfectly jammed from basement to garret with new, fresh goods, arranged with artistic taste. We are
■ displaying a superb assortment for the inspection of all, which includes
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Nn IEIK IK smi 01 WELL-MADE MODS.
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In our house everything stands on its own merit. No shoddy goods thrown out for a bait to get you in and then
make it up on something else. Each article stands on its own price. Our motto is
ONE PRICE TO ALL.
Your wife, your child, your mother and the balance of your kinfolks get the same price.
SEE EBICE LIST.
3,000 yds. Brocade Worsted, high colors, at s£c yd. Bedticking a specialty. We keep all grades, from
Fine, Beautiful Brotade Dress Goods at 15 “ the cheapest to the best, 61 to 17lets, yd
Fine Wool Cashmeres, desirable colors, at 10 “ Ladies’Jackets at “ 35 cts
Beautiful Calicoes, all colors, at 3| “ Fine yard wide Sheeting and Shirting, at 5 and'6c vd
Fine Table Damask, white and red, at 30, 40 and 50c yd. 7 *
Our Urplefwekf ®epkftn|ei|t 10 Complete,
Men’s Merino Shirts, 30, 40 and 60c each, i Men’s Fine Dress Shirts, 35, 40, 50, 75 and 90c
“ Alb Wool Red Flannel Shirts, 75c I “ “ Calico and Percale Shirts 50, 75 and $1 05
“ “ “ “ Drawers, 75c I Men’s and Boys’ Scarfs and Ties, all Silk, 15,20,25,35,50 c
Ladies’ Under Vests, cheap, 30, 35, 40 and 50c ■ Celluloid and Linen Collars, 10, 15, 20 and’ 25c
Celluloid and Linen Cnfls, 20 and 25c.
SHOES AT SLAUGHTERING PEICES.
Our Home-Made Soled Brogans, $1 50 I Solid Brogans Shoes, best $1 00 to 1 46
“ b “ Ladies’Fine Shoes, 1 501 Ladies’Fine Button Shoes $1 25,1 50 and 2 10
Children’s Shoes, from 45, 50, 55, 65 and 75c | Men’s and Boys’ Boots, all prices, $1 00, 1 25, 1 50, 2 50
We have io competition this season. Onr coston have quit Liokini around. We have get the prices
right and they cone and toy.
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BargainsJn Clothing—-All Fine, New and of the Very latest Style.
Men’s Suits, $3.75, ’OO, 8.00, 10,00, and 15.00.
NOBODY CARRIES THE HA.T WE DO-
Every Man and Boy gets a Fit both in Size and Price, from 25, 50, 60, 75,1.00, 1.25, 1.75 and 2.00.
A BIG DRIVE IN STOVES.
Fair lady, no longer burn and ruin your beautiful complexion, but read these slaughtering prices and nurcha-u a
stove. No. 6, 85.50; No. 7at $7.50,8.50, 10,00. - t
Thousands of articles not mentioned at low prices that will astonish you.
Yours truly,
IJ.M.& M. B. WATSON. ~
HO! HO!
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| Confectioneries! Confectioneries!
H. L. CLARK,
Under Masonic Hall, has the most com
plete line of
CoDtßctions
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—and —
Canned Goods
To be found in Ibouglasville,
Cheajer Ito i Ciieapesl.
■U.'.IL. ~LU!SS!S-i=!!?JJ.
He also keeps ever ready for his cns
tomers a
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FIRST-CLASS
BARBER SHOP
—AND-
RE STAUBANT
Where you will be’served with whatever
you want at short notice.
Call and See Me.
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Prohibition is Coming!
COME ON AND GET YOUR
WHISKY AND BRANDY
FROM
JOHN M. JAMES’
Registered Distillery No. 303
—at— I
SALT SZPZRTJSTQ-S, Q-Al.
I HAVE NOW ON HAND 37 BARRELS OF
CORN fM AND PEACH AND APPLE BRANDIES
OF MY OWN MAKE, ALL WARRANTED TO BE
100 PROOF!
I will sell the above Whisky and'Brandies
FOR OJLSU.
So Gib oo mH Cel Yonr Whisky for Christmas sei
FOR SICK FOLKS.
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Physicians wanting Liquors for Medicinal Purposes, can not do better than
to give me a trial.
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DO NOT DELAY, FOR I AM GOING TO
SELL OUT!
CALL ON, OR
John M. James,
Salt Springs, Ga.