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VOLUME VIII. ■■ ■ : . ! > ■ . . I Church Directory. METHODIST.--Douai,isviLLE—First, th r And fifth Sunday ’. BaltSprimob .second Sunday, and Satur before. Midway—Fourth Sunday, and Saturday I fore. W. R, BIOTE, Pastor i Baptist—Dougiaxville, first and fourth Sun days. Boy. K. B. Vaughn, pastor. Masonic, Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A. M.,meets on Saturday night before tlie first and third Sundays in each month. J. R. Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Secy. County Directory, Ordinary—H. T. Cooper. Clerk—B. N. Dorsett. Sheriff—Henry Ward. i Deputy Sheriff—G, M. Souter. Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp. Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer. Treasurer—Samuel Shannon. Surveyor—John M. Huey. Coroner—F. M. Mitchell. ■UfBBIOB COURT. Meets on third Mondays in January and Jul} and holds two weeks. Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris. 801. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid. Clerk—S. N. Dorsett. Sheriff—Henry Ward. COUNTY COURT. Meets in quarterly session on fourth Mon days In February, May, August and November and holds until all the eases on the docket are called. In monthly session it meets on fourth Mondays in each month, Judge— Hon. R. A. Massey. Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberta. Bailiff—D. W. Johns. OKDINAHY’S COUBT ' Meets for ordinary purposes on first Monday, *nd for county purposes on first Tuesday in each month. Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper. justioks coubts. 780th Diet. G. M. meets first Thursday in each month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K. Hunt, L. C. i 788th Diet. G. M., meets second Saturday. A. R. Botnar, J. P. f B. A. Arnold, N. P., 8. C. Yeager, L. C. 784th Diet. G. M. meets fourth Saturday. Franklin Oarver, J. P., 0. B. Baggett, N. P., J. C. James and M. 8. Gore, L. Cs. 1259th Dis!. G. M. meets third Saturdav. T. 1 M. Hamilton, J.P., M. L. Yates, N. P., 8. W. Biggers, L.C., S. J. Jourdan, L. C. 1260th Dist.. G. M. meets third Saturday. N. W. Camp, J. P.l W. 8. Hudson, N. P., J. A. I Hill, L. C. 12715 t Diet. G. M. meets first Saturday. C. C, Clinton, J. P. Alberry Hembree, N. P., 1272nd Diat. G. M. meets fourth Friday. Geo. W, Smith, J. P., 0. J. Robinson, N. P., 1273rd Dist. G. M. meets third Friday. 'IW. White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P., W. J. Harbin, 1.. 0. Professional ATTORNEY AT LAW DOUGLASVILLE, GA. (Office in front roum, Dorsett’s Building., Will practice anywhere except in the County Court of Douglass county. w. a. James, ATTORNEY AT LAW,| Will practice in all the courts. Slate an Federal. Office on Court House Square, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. WM. T. ROBERTS. ATTORNEY AT LAW. DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the Courts. AU legu bnaincM will receive prompt attention. Office m Court House. 4 ***** * a c. r>. CAMP, ATTORNEY AT LAW. DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice in all the courts. All business intrusted to him wiU receive prompt attention. B. G. GRIGGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. WiU practioe in aU the courts. State and Federal. JOHN M. EDGE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. DOUGLASVILLE, GA. WiU practice in all the courts, and promptly attend w aU bnaineas entrusted to his care. Zs7j*»es7 ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will practice tot the courts of Douglasa, Oampbe’i. Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and adjoining eonnute. Prompt attention given to all tasineM. j. h. McLarty, attorney at law. JX)VULASVU4.<R, GA. Will praclKT In ail the court*, both State and ftatemi. Ctebecitona a specialty, JOHN V? EDGE. attorney at law. POOQLASVm.It, OA. Urmtngham. England, still make* fttatleck muskets tor use in the in tamr of Africa, where pemwion cam V aut farm of fixed ammunition would ©ftea’ be taMtoWte to obtain. while powder can always be made and flinta picked up to the desert Wrauo Star. HUNTINGJJEOPARDS. How the Savage Animals are Utilized in India. The Ferocious Cheetah Trained by Native ß to Run Down and Capture Antelopes. It was here that I witnessed the only instance I ever saw of the black buck be ing run into and killed by the cheetah, or hunting leopard. Many consider this a low kind of sport, but I think it is quite equal to partridge shooting, besides being a beautiful sight. I shall therefore describe as well as I can what I saw. On arriving, with my friends, at the place of meeting in the jungle, we found a few rough-and-ready-looking natives in charge of three carts, or rather small two-wheeled platforms, drawn by two bullocks. On each vehicle sat, in an erect attitude, a beautiful leopard, strongly chained and with a hood over his eyes, similar to those used for hawks. We were soon under way and driving toward the herd of antelopes which could be seen grazing in the distance and which had been marked down beforehand. There was no difficul ty In getting the carts to within 120 yards of the deer. Then one of the chee tahs, a fine male was unhooded and set free. Its departure from the gharry and its decision in choosing the most covered line on the open plain for rushing on its prey were so instantaneous and rapid as to be quite marvellous. It seemed to vanish from the cart and appear simul taneously halfway toward the fine black buck it had sighted out for attack. When at about thirty yards from the un suspicious troop, they suddenly became aware of the deadly peril they were in. One and all sprang into the air with gal vanic bounds, and no doubt expected to escape easily by flight. But the hunting cheetah is, I suppose, for a hundred yards, by far the fleetest of all wingless things; and this one was soon in the midst of the affrighted throng, which icattered wildly and pauic-stricken in all directions, as their leader—a fine black buck—was struck down. in their midst. Thrirhe lay, alone, in hik death agony, in the deadly clutch of his beautiful and re lentless foe. We all ran as hard as we could, and were soon surrounding the strange group. w Neither animal moved, for lae buck was paralyzed by fear—his starting eye balls and dilated nostrils alone gave evi dence of life. The cheetah, on the other hand, with his body spread out over the prostrate form of his victim, seemed to strain every nerve in pressing liis prey against the earth as, with his long sharp fangs buried in its delicate throat, he con tinued the process of strangulation. He | was very motionless, but his eyes were fixed u|K>n us with a glare of extraordina ry ferocity that became intensified as his keepers rushed forward and seized the deer by the hind leg. The brute now growled fiercely, and, tightening his clutch, looked so extremely dangerous that I was far from envying those who . were in such close proximity to him. But they knew their trade. With a long sharp kuife they cut the deer’s throat and caused the warm blood to spout in tor rents into the face of the half-wild beast, whose whole frame now seemed to thrill with ecstacy. One of the operators, in the meanwhile, caught a quantity of the crimson life stream in a wooden bowl, and forced the steaming fluid under the very ; nose of the excited leopard, who quitting his hold, at once began to lap with avid ity. While engaged in this process the leather hood was swiftly; clapped over his eyes, and the collar with two chains at tached, was adjusted round his neck. While this was going on a third man had cut off one of the bucks hinds legs, and this the “lion’s share,’’ was held close to the bloody chaiace, which was no sooner emptied than the brute seized the meat thus provided with a vice like grip. Each ehdn was now grwstptxl by a differ ent man, who by keeping apart so that the tether n maims 1 taught, kept the leopard between them in such away that neither was within reach of his claws or j teeth. Then the third individual, who had ever retained his hold of the shank* bone of the leg of vinison, gently drew the cheetah to the little eart that had now been brought close up. As soon as the beast felt himself against the edge of his own familiar chariot he sprang light ly upon it and proceodetl to demolish his succulent wrmtH at his ease. I now in sp<'rt<\i the carcass of the deer, with a riew to ascertaining, if possible, how th® cheetah iuul been able so instsmtaneosly to strike down such a powerful animal immediately on getting up with it. I at once observed a single long deep gash in the flank, which was evidently caused by thedtcvsiT blow. But I could not im igine with wliat weapon the leopard had J been able to inflict this very strange looking wound, for the cheetah has « foot like a deg> aod his claws are net re- FAWNING TO NONE-CH ARITY TO A.L.L. DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. APRIL 13. 18St> tractile. Turning then to the beast, as it sat on the cart, I inspected it closely, and saw that the dew-claw, which in the dog appears such a useless appendage, is rep resented in this brute by a terrible look ing talon exactly suited to the infliction of such a gash.— Our Indian Station*. Men and Beasts. s a class of people who progress . « meal something after tliis fashion: A long draught of coffee, tea, milk or water, as the case may be, begins the performance; this is followed by a mouthful of something solid; only a mouthful, however, for the stream if turned on again down the throat. A glass of water disappears; then the food is attacked and voraciously; again the stream. Once more attention is given, tc the food, but always the stream has the first consideration. We silently ask, and wonder how long the man can stand it. To say notliing of the utter disregard of the laws of health in thus eating and drinking simultaneously, it is an absurd spectacle. A tired, over-heated man drinks twice as much water as he needs, first, because he is so tired he doesn’t know what he is doing till he sees the bottom of the glass; and second, because his blood is at boiling mark, and the sudden chill is delightful, and he would prolong it till his capacity to swallow gives out. For the same reason he drinks rapidly, that the succession of chills may lower hu temperature as speedily as possible. And then he goes out to his stable: “John, be sure to give Black Prince no ■water just yet. Rub him down well, John, and cool him off slowly.”— Good Houtekreping. . Susan and Elizabeth. One of the daughters of Mrs. Eliza beth Cady Stanton gives an amusing ac count of the way her mother and Mrs. Susan B. Anthony work together on their “History of Woman Suffrage.” 338. Stanton is a stickler for the philosophy of the suffrage movement, and Miss An thony is punctilious about dates. The two dear old ladies often get into ex cited discussions over their subject, and dip their pens into their mucilage bot tles and their mucilage brushes into their ink bottles in their excitement over their work. They sit at opposite sides of a large double desk in Mrs. Stanton’s library, and occasionally they find each other so persistent in opinion that they sit back and stare at each other in a silence that is very near anger. Once in a while they will march out of the room by dif ferent doors, and there seems likelihood that their beautiful friendship of forty years is about to be broken, but after awhile they will be found peaceably at work again together. They never take time to do any “making up,” but cover their disagreements with the mantle of dignity and silence. Boston Record. Longevity. In order to live a hundred years, it has lieen announced that you must breathe all the out-of-door air possible, and breathe it deeply, and that you must take your sleep as nature indicates, eight or nine hours in the early part of the dark, which will allow you to be up and fully refreshed at sunrise. In addition to these important items of sleep and breath, it is further declared that you must not permit yourself to get angry or to fret or worry; but that, if you must, at once take a bath and some immediate slumber: that you must eat more vegeta bles and grains and fruits than m»-aLs, and dismiss wines and spirits, coffee and tea; that you must bathe often, wear loose clothing, and keep warm; and that you must control your appetites and pas sions, cultivate cheerful serenity, and be governed by the advice of your physician. —Basxir, How We Spoil Our Luugs. House air is almost always fillet with more or less dust. During the w inter, when the ventilation is imperfect, this is especially the case. The stove is a most common cause, as its heat dries up every bit of dirt in the room, and it is wafted about by currents of air, and stirred up by the skirts of women. Women proba bly do not know how much dust their skirts send into the air whenever they sweep over the carpet. It is invisible to the eye, except when the light of the sun shines on it. All this is breathed, and helps to spoil our lungs. Is there any help for it t At least one; and that is ventilation. Frequent and thorough ven tilation, especially when the rooms are swept and dusted, while it does not rem edy the evil, makes it less. A Miracle. “Jenny, do you know what a miracle kF •Teshn. Ma says if you don’t marry our new parson it will be a miracle.”— I GOINGITO THE SOUTH. A Great Army of Welcome Tramps in Their Services isl Taking Off the Sugar Crops and Building the Levees. j A recent letter from the Parish of Plaq uemines, La., to the New York Sun says: “The army of wandering laborers —like the wild birds which have their summer 1 and winter haunts—come to us about the first of November and go North about the first of April. Many people call them tramps, but they are a kind of wel come tramp, which is more, I suppose, than could be said for the real, sure- ■ enough tramp. We rely on this labor to take off our sugar crops and to build our levees, the latter work being usually done iat low water in winter. In February and March it comes in handy in planting cane i and digging the ditches and canals by which our fields are drained. Os course we get a good many no-accouht men, but by weeding the poor ones out we at last reach Darwin’s survival of the fittest ’ and get a pretty good gang organized. The nucleus of this army starts in Canada, is added to in New York and on the lakes, takes in a! large corps of recruits at Chicago, and i when it reaches Cairo commingles with the legions from the great Northwest and • California and sweeps on to New Orleans, j Its transportation is free. Some few work their way <>n the Mississippi river steamers, but the great majority beat their way on freight trains. Most of the i men have money to provide just food I ! enough to exist on, and as soon as they | reach the city they are distributed by la- j bor agents to the various plantations and | works needing hands—and then how ; i they do gormandize! You are not able > to tell what a man really is until he has been on place long enough to get over i the prostration caused by over-eating. The fare is not usually very tempting, but there is always a full supply of meat, '' bread, beans, rice, potatoes, coffee and molasses. A b’ankt*t and a little hay are also furnished, and the ban-acks, or cab ins, generally have a fireplace or stove, with fuel supplies. Take it altogether, it is B pretty rough mode of life, but the toen seem light hearted and contented. I often wonder if the millionaires who j come on Pullmans to the South in winter, and go on Pullmans to Saratoga in sum- i mer, really get more enjoyment out of life. You will find iu this army men of all nationalities, trades, and professions. Not a few doctors and lawyers have I seen putting cane on the earner, and not a few doctors of dentistry using a cold chisel chipping the huge teeth of a spur . wheel. And all these meh have histories. A man’s name, or the name he gives, is written on the time book, but it is never heard among these associates of a mo ment. The place he comes from or some i personal peculiarity christens him with the appellation he bears here and proba- ■ bly elsewhere. Frenchy, Dutchy, Pad dy, Scotty, and New York, Chicago, and Frisco are common nicknames, or if he is small Shorty it is, and an auburn tinge is sure to give the name of Reddy. > Now and then I hear some interesting fcicidenta from the lives of these wander ers. A foreman I now have told me of ■ how near he was to getting into trouble ; last summer in Sedalia, Missouri. He > reached there iu the morning and took a room at the Atlantic Ilot'l, and a few minutes later a stranger was given a bed in the same room. Mr. M said his • ‘ roommsite seemed to be a taciturn kind of a fellow, but otherwise noticed noth ing peculiar about him. After dinner he wished to see a friend off on the train and hastened to the depot. The train was a little late, and before it came in a policeman appeared and arrested Mr. M for murder. Though conscious of innocence, a stranger in a strange land, he could at best but feel uneasy. He was taken to his room, and on one of the beds lay his roommate in a pool of blood —dead! When the coroner arrived the dead man, who was lying face down ward, was turned over, and the examina tion commenced. It seems that an hour before that the man had been seen to take a hatchet from near the well in the yard up to his room. It was evident that he had tried with a dull pocket knife, which was found by his side, to cut the arteries of his wrist and then to cut his throat. He had also stuffed a silk hand kerchief as far down his throat as possi ble, and then had wounded his head by self-inflicted blows with the hatchet. The coroner found that none of the ghastly wounds was fatal, but that death was caused by the stoppage of the air channel with the handkerchief. A verdict of suicide, of course, released Mr. M from his close shave. Felt bonnets are again in demand. THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN, Best For « Sprain. Prof. Brinton says that the best thing for a sprain is to put the limb into a ves sel of very hot water immediately, then add boiling water as it can be borne. • Keep the part immersed for twenty min utes, or until the pain subsides; then apply a tight bandage and order rest. '< Sometimes the joint can be used in twelve hours. If necessary, use a silicate of sodium dressing. A Simple Remedy. Lard as an application for bruises is considered indispensable at our house. If put on as soon as possible it will usually remove all soreness and prevent discolor ation that follows such a hurt. If the braise ia severe it may not cure it en- ; tirely, but will help it in any case. A blow on the face followed by a black and blue spot is especially annoying, but unless so near the eyes as to settle black under them, lard will prevent such dis coloration. Try it when next you are so unfortunate as to get a bruise. Coffee and Indigestion. Observing physicians learned long ago that coffee is a hindrance . to digestion; but scientific evidence was needed, and so M. Lavid, according to La Medecin Practician, has been making experiments on dogs to determine the exact fact with the following results: “To a dog whi6h has eaten 210 grammes of meat he administered 30 grammes of coffee and 15 grammes of water. After three hours he killed the dog, and found the mucous membrane of the stomach pale, discolored, and pro foundly anaemic. The vessels of the in- i ternal superficies, like those of the peri phery, were contracted; 145 grammes of ; the meat remained undigested; the coffee then had retarded the stomach digest ion.” If coffee will thus delay the digestion of a dog, notably strong, especially in the digestion of meat, who will attempt to dispute that it must be equally injur ious to human stomachs? It is a well recognized fact that dyspeptics are ex ceedingly common in all nt nt ties where tea and coffee are frequently used, as in this country, England and Holland. No dog of common sense would continue the use of the fragrant beverage after be coming aware of the above fact; but how many tea and coffee topers will exercise as much sound judgment in reference to the matter as the average caninc?— Good Health. The Bright Side. There was never a night so dark that some would not speak of the dawn, and never a day so bright that some would not think of the midnight. It is well that the enthusiast be balanced by the conservative, perhaps, on the principle that a little shade improves the tone of almost any picture. It is, however, a thankless mission that the grumbler en ; ters upon, and his is a work that shadows his own mind and heart more than that of any other. Most of us see enough of the hard side of life, hear enough of the woe and weariness, adversity and ani mosity, disappointment and disaster in life, without Ixfing formally reminded thereof. The newspaper finds more readers when it announces a ship’s wreck than when it chronicles a launch. ’ Its column of obituaries is more sought for than its wedding announcements. A firm’s failure is read by a hundred per sons to one who would read of an “open ing”; and a man who steals SIOOO re , ceives more newspaper notoriety than a * thousand men who should deposit SIOO,- 000 each. It is the natural elasticity of the mind and heart that keeps the aver age man hopeful while the sad and evil ! tilings of life are running before his eyes or are being poured into his ears. There should be a systematic effort on the part j of all people to see the bright side, sjxiak of the hopeful things. When a majority of business men talk the dark side of I finance there is a panic; when a majority j of laboring men see the dark side of life there is a Nihilistic tendency. There is too much danger in every direction for any encouragement of the already too active tendency to see the evil in busi ness and society. Let us see the bright side and call other people’s attention to it.— Boston Traveler. Not Always Successfnl. Deacon Dewgood (retrospectively)— I remember so well, Mr. Goodman, the day that you were installed as minister of our little church. What a pleasant and successful affair it was! Minister—Ah, yes, deacon, much pleas anter and more successful than ssme other installments I can recall. Deacon—You refer to your previous charges, 1 suppose. Minister—No; I refer to my salary in stallments. Many of them have been far from pleasant or successful.—JYw Fori Sun. NUMBER 10. STAGING IN THE HILLS Taking a Trip by Stage to the City of Deadwood. A Journey in the “Wild West” that is In vested with Many Novelties, The name of Deadwood, a city that is still in the “wild West” in spite of the rapid improvements thirty years have seen west of the Mississippi, is familiar to many people who know nothing what ever of it except that it lies somewhere out in the mining region. Traveling from the East, it can be reached within one hundred miles by rail; the remainder of the distance must be taken by stage. The railroad ends at Buffalo Gap. Six horses, carrying a stage [ coach with three seats in it, await the Deadwood traveler. If there are more than six passengers and any of them are inclined to obesity, there is apt to be a lack of comfort. If it is during the spring or autumn rains, there is much jolting and careful driving, and perhaps some seasickness I among the passengers. • In the bitter winter weather, warm . wraps, furs and heated soapstones art necessary. Perhaps the ride is most de lightful in the autumn, when there is gol den morn, and lazy winds and a cloud of purple haze in .the west. ; The one hundred miles are traveled in j thirty-six hours or thereabout. .Every ten miles the horses arc changed, and every twenty the drivers change. The stations are simply large barns where the horses arc kept. These are as well trained, and enter into their task with as much spirit and seeming delight as the horses of the fire department in cities. They grow to be familiar with every step of the journey and know their driver as children know a parent. The coach stops for meals at regular stations, three times a day. Quite an excited in terest is visible at all the towns passed, through. The coming of the stage, with its galloping horses, its air of mystery and restlessness and the charm of know ing it has c<nMe from the outside world, which, like Rasselas in his valley, every one envies to be in occasionally, is quite an event in the lives of the village people. Ca?sar in his commentaries, speaks of the inhabitants of inner Gaul gathering around the merchants when they came to trade, and asking questions innumerable. The merchants were often tempted to ex aggerate and sometimes to invent stories of the outside world, which temptation they often yielded to, and were eag' believed by the Gauls. So the H re coach driver after answering many < • - tiofis to suit himself amid the admi : gaze of the populace, with a flourish .’ his whip, a word to his horses, is go Gone for a wild ride over dangerous ro<; . now winding along a mountain pa now between rocks, now along a riv . bank, and again out into the level w j like stretch, that seems to reach in infii. distances on every hand. The drix , find their work to possess a strange fas cination. No stage driver ever feel -on tent to go hack to the tame life of a s i dweller. Each one of them has his i tation and is known by his peculiar < acteristics all along the route. In i : lower part of the stage, under the seats, is a place for baggage, much like the hold in a ship. The trip is worth taking, especially in spring or autumn, when the driver is glad to give a share of his scat for at least a few hours each day or night. Deadwood is a very pretty town h ■:li med in by mountains. It is in the ex ‘ treme western part of Dakota, not Lit from its boundary line. It is only JSO miles from the Yellowstone Park, ami is surrounded by mountains upon every hand. Some valuable gold and silver t mines are located near the town. — De* trait Free Press, The Farmer’s Rejoinder. The following anecdote is told of Sir William Johnson: “Do you know\ sir,” said SirWflliai angrily to a tenant with whom he differec on some agricultural question, “that 1 have been at two universities, and at two ; colleges in each university?” “Naw,” answered the farmer, “J ' i didn’t know it.” “Well, sir, it is sc “But,” asked the farmer, “what of that? I had a calf that sucked two cowl once, and I observed that the mbre he sucked the greater calf he grew.”— . ’ Louis Magazine. A Man of Nerve. “Know Jigbee? Os course I do; i. i 1 { what’s more, I know him to be a man 1 nerve.” “Nonsense! He’s as timid as a moils* * A man of nerve! Ha-ha! What in the world put such a notion as that into y<xir head?” I “Well, sir, I heard him contradict hi« : xnra wife the other day, and to I too, at that.”— Gbuago Ledger.