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VOLUME VIII. Church Directory. METHODIST.—-Douglasville—First, thi rd Mid fifth Sundays. Salt Springs—Second Sunday, ard Saturday before. Midway—Fourth Sunday, and Satnrdav !»»-. tore. W. R. FIOTE, Pastor Baptist—Douglasville, first and fourth Bun days. Bev. A. B. Vaughn, pastor. Masonic, Douglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A. M., meet a on Saturday night before the first and third Sundays in each month. J. B. Carter, W. M. ( W. J. Camp, Secy. County Directory, Ordinary— H. T. Cooper. Clerk—S. N. Dorsett. Sheriff—Henry Ward, 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. SUI'ERIOS COURT. Meets on third Mondays in January and Ju!) *nd holds two weeks. Judge—Hon. Sainson W. Harris. SoL Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Beid. 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 cases on the docket are called. In monthly session it meets on fourth Mondays in each month, Judge—Hon. B. A. Massev. Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Bobarta. Bailiff—D. W. Johns. ordinart’s court Meets for ordinary purposes on first Monday, and for county purposes on first Tuesday in each month. Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper. JUSTICES COURTS. 730th Diet. G. M. meets first Thursday in each month. J. L Feely, J. P., W. H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K. Hunt, L. 0. 736th Dist. G. M., meets second Saturday, A. Il Bomar, J. P., B. A. Arnold, N. P., 8. 0. Yeager, L. C. 784th Diat. G. M. meets fourth Saturday. Franklin Carver, J. P.. 0. B. Baggett, N. i., J. C. James and M. 8. Gore, L. Os. 1259th Diet. G. M. meets third Saturday. T. M. Kami!ton; J.P., M. L. Yates, N. P., 8. W. Biggers, L.C., S. J. Jourdan, L. C. 1260th Diet., G. M. meets third Saturday. N. W. Camp, J. P., W. 8. Hudson, N. P./j. A. HUI, L. C. 12715 t Diet. G. M. meets first Satnrdav. C. 0. Clinton, J. P. Aiberry Hembree, N. P., 1272ud Diet. G. M. mee*s fourth Friday. Geo. W, Smith, J. P., C. J. Robinson, N. P., * , T*. C. » 1273rd Diet. G. M. meets third Friday. Them. White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N. P., W. J. Harbin, L.C. Professional Cards. * i ii « i ■ in »<*w UM, mi i..— a, ■ ,—**— —!■ i ROBERT A. MASSEY. ATTORNEY AT LAW DOUGLASVILLE, GA. (Office in front room, 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, State an Federal. Office on Court House Square, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. WM. L ROBERTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE. GA. Will practice in all the Courts. All lega tmsineM will receive prompt attention. Ofiicv la Court House. C. T>. CAMP. ATTORNEY AT LAW. DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Will prAct’cc* in alt the courts. All bxuinesf tntruakul tv him will receive prompt attention. B. G. GRIGGS, ~~ ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOU 31. AS VILLE, GA. Will practice in all the courts, State and Federal. JOHN mTeDGE” ATTORNEY AT LAW. Douglasville, ga. W ill practice in all the courts, and promptly attend to ail business entrusted to his oare. i. i ja»es. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DOUGLASVILLE, GA. Wdl praeUie lu Ute courts of Douglass, Campbell. Carrell, Paulding. Cobb, Fulton and •djeuiins counties. Prwuiui attention given to ail busineaa J. H. McLarty, ATTORNEY AT LAW. . DOVGLASVUXK, GA. Will practice in all the owta, both Slate and Fed« >•< t u.-n» « ty, JOHN V. EDGL attorney at law. DOUGLASVILLE, GA. <- I A JOB PRINTING NEATLY DOKE AT THE “STAR” OFFICE 11 tp omm W aU L LBilll SWIIU - . .. _... . . • ... - -- -■ _ , ■I’.TX.w - --„ .. .*> —-w«■ - in i . i , ,i i ——f lll <w/i» CITY PILOTS. People Who Make a Business of Showing People Around. Willing to Exhibit the Elephant, but Not to Lead a Spree, In European cities guides, who make a business of taking strangers about to see and experience things, are almost as plenty as flies around a sugar hogshead in summer. They haunt steamer wharves, lurk about depots, infest ho tels, and obtrude themselves at every turn when one goes unattended on a hunt for new experiences. Not only are the real guides very frequently great rascals, but their occupation is often falsely as sumed, as a means of beguiling confi dence and betraying to financial damage Uy the most thorough-paced scoundrels. Hence, European guides are viewed with no little suspicion, and experienced travellers are shy of them. Here in New York the guide has been but little known as a professional. A sightseer from the West, a sensation-seeking Briton, or a clergyman on a Taimagian hunt for iniquity, could always get a pri vate detective to bear him company and give a certain measure of protection, but the service so rendered was looked upon as outside the regular line of duty, and was expensive. Rather more expensive, perhaps, was the readily tendered guid ance of the well dressed and very affable men who could always be found lounging around first-class barrooms and hotel corridors, waiting to show strangers the way to “a private club of gentlemen,” as an appropriate finish to an evening of seeing the sights, or in daytime, to show where they had “just won a prize in a lottery.” But the time has come when a regular business is made of furnishing guides. An up-town detective agency has made a special feature of this sort of business. Speaking of the new departure, the su perintendent said: “We have often, as detectives, been called upon to conduct about the city str,angers who were desirous of seeing the sights—points of interest in the town you know —and the growing frequency of such requirements has led us to make a feature of it in our business. We have at present, regularly employed, seven persons -two of whom are ladies—ad mirably qualified for this service, andean call upon others equally capable, as oc casion requires. It might be supposed that we would be mostly in demand to steer sightseers to and through vicious and disreputable places. Such, however, is not the fact. There is really very lit tle of that. Strangers want to see the navy yard, High Bridge, the greatest ele vation of the elevated road, the Central Park, Grant’s tomb, the aristocratic res idences, the view from the top of Field’s building, Castle Garden, and a thousand other things that they have heard or read of, and are interested in, but of which New Yorkers generally know lit tle and care less for as curiosities. Then, if they arc women, the strangers want to go shopping to our finest and most fa mous stores. And they want to go to places of amusement, with our guides to tell them what is worth going to see, and what is proper and what is not, and where they can find what they are look ing (or. “Fellows who are more or less round ers at home want to see the metropolitan elephant, and we enable them to do so, guarding them as far as possible against imposition or personal damage. But we will not take anybody to a gambling house, nor will we undertake to steer any one through the lurid sinuosities of a howling toot, with the accompanying fights and other appropriate bric-a-brac of that nature. Our guides are not al lowed to take commissions from store keepers on sales of goods to persons they arc taking about, and will do their duty faithfully and thoroughly as a matter of business, at office rates, without any per sonal presents. The price we charge for a guide, male or female, is 40 to 50 cents an hour for day work, $1 an hour for night work before 12 o’clock, and $1.30 an hour after 12 o’clock. AU expenses for transportation, meals, theatre tickets, ’Ac., are, of course, borne by the person engaging the services of the guide. Our guides art' required to dress in good style, anti among them they speak fluently seven different languages. We expect to do a great deal with foreigners just as soon as our business becomes known, as it will be among them."—FtM-i Saa. The annual appropriation fbrthe Queen of England is £385.000, or about sl,- 933.000 From this sum all the cost of the royal household is paid, which in clude* the expenses and salaries of near ly 1,000 omeem and servants. The amount set aside for Queen Victoria’s personal use, or privy purse, us it is called, is £BO.OOO. er $300,000. OTO TO ALL. DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY JUNE 15. 18S6- Charged by a Bison. In William T. Hornaday’s “Two Years in the Jungle,” the following thrilling account of being charged by a bison is given. “After along chase,” he says, “we came up writh the bison, and saw him standing about eighty yards off. I i was armed with a .500 express rifle, and ‘ instantly fired, but unfortunately only ■wounded the animal. He dashed away. With a party of Irulars (natives), I fol lowed, and came upon him a mile farther on. The instant he caught sight of me, j he turned to charge, when I fired agaim and he galloped madly off into the forest. We followed down the side of the hill, and I was looking about, trying to make out where lie could have gone, when I caught sight of his nose not two feet from me. He had backed himself into a dense mass of creepers, and was lying in ■wait for me. “In half a second, with a snort like a steam-engine, he sent me fly- ! ing through the air. I fell on my back, j and was immediately struck a blow on my ribs that made them spring inward, ; as the top of a hencoop would with a heavy man sitting on it. I felt that my last hour had come. He struck me I I with his head again and again, some- ; times on my breast, back and sides, j sometimes on my thighs, while again he i only struck the ground in his blind fury, i I felt that nothing could save me. He i tried to turn me over with his nose, that . he might pierce me with his horns, and i getting one horn under my belt, he actu- ■ ally lifted me up bodily. Luckily it was j an old belt, and the buckle snapped. I siezed his horn and held on to it with all my strength. In trying to shake himself free, he took the whole of the skin off • the under side of my right arm with his horn. The whole of this time, no less ' than six Irulars—natives—had been calm- | ly looking on, and I heard one of them say: ! “‘Dear me! the bison is killing the gentleman!’ “Another said, ‘send for the sJiikaret to shoot it.’ “The shikaree was two miles away with, my tiffin basket! One of the Irulars now uttered a most diabolical yell. The bison threw up his head, then turned Lail and dashed down the hili' The next day I was carried into Coimbatore, where I was confined to my bed for a fortnight, my whole body being black and blue. Nevertheless, that bison’s head now adorns my dining-room.” Vandcrb it and His Pictures. Reference to the Vanderbilt pictures recalls a good story of the dead mil lionaire, who was more famous for good I nature than caustic wit. One day when ■ his gallery was open to visitors, along ' came a man with a glib tongue, lots of enthusiasm, and dirty hands. He posed critically before picture after picture, and j his soiled hands again and again came in contact with the rjch frames and even the < canvases. Mr. Vanderbilt looked on askance; he did not like to say anything harsh, yet he feared for his pictures. Finally the visitor turned to Mr. Vander bilt, who near by was conversing with personal friends while he furtively watchel the spotted hands and draped finger nails. “You have a wonderful gallery,” the man ejaculated, “a wonderful gallery, Sir; why, when I stooel before that pict ure—” he pointed to a sad-faced Madon na—“when I stood before that picture, Sir, I was so touched that the tears came rushing into my eyes like a flood—like a flood, Sir; I wept so freely”—he went on —“I wept so freely that I could have washed my hands in my tears, Sir: wash—” “Why didn’t you?” said the million aire calmly. The talkative man glanced at himsell in spots, subsided, and fled— New Yerk Times. ________ The Wrong Brother. A millionaire railroad king has s brother who is quit-’ hard of hearing, while he himself is known as having a very prominent nose. Once he went to New York and dined at a friend's'house, where he sat between two young ladies. The ladies talked to him very loudly and rather to his annoyance; but he said nothing. Finally one of them yelled a commonplace remark at him, and then said in an oniinary tone to the other; “Did yo i ever see such a nose in your life?” “Pardon me, ladies,” said our million aire, “it is my brother who is deaf.” Free and Independent. Mrs. Hendricks (the landlady)—Bles? me, Clara, look out of the window and see who is ringing so violently at the door. Clara—Why. ma, it’s Mr. Dumley. Mrs. Hendricks (with a sigh of relief— Thank gotainess, he has brought the money to pay his back board or he would never dare ring like that.—JYev ftrt&k. OIL ON ANGRY SEAS. Using Oil to Lessen the Dan gers of Navigation. Successful Battling With Threatening Waves in Heavy Gales. The use of oil to lessen the dangerous effects of heavy seas has been approved by a few seamen while the majority ridi cule the theory, says the New York Jifatl and Express. A reporter who called at the Hydrographic office recently received data that would set the matter at rest. One of the officers in discussing the ques tion said: “The evidence of the value of oil in appeasing an angry sea increases daily, and justifies the Hydrographic office in obtaining all the facts on the subject. Mineral oil is not recommended, while the importance of carrying a supply of ani mal or vegetable oil, to be used in an emergency, cannot be overrated. Here are some cases that will be of interest to the shipping community. Capt. Hill, of ■ the bark Neptune, en route from Cien fuegos to Boston, experienced a heavy gale. The seas were tumbling over the ship, endangering the sailors’ lives as well as the ship and cargo. To try what I effect oil would have on the seas the cap i tain caused two hempen burlap bags made i three feet long and ten inches wide and ; roped with ratline stuff, to be filled half . full of oakum, and pqured two quarts cf : pine or wood oil in each one. The bags were hung from the catheads low enough to be just a-wash. The effect was simply , marvellous. Scarcely a drop of water I came on board after putting the bags out. ■ The reef was shaken out and the vessel < made two hundred and eighty miles in ■ twenty-four hours. This was on Janua | ry 29, 1886, in latitude 50 degrees north, . longitude 74 west. The bags were put i out at 8 a. m. and kept out for sixteen hours, in that time using about six quarts i of oil. During the same voyage, on Feb ruary 4, 1886, while in latitude 41 north, longitude 68.25 west, a terrible gale from the nort hcast caused the waters to sweep the deck fore and aft, and it was freezing Ki a great rate. The drip was lying to under lower maintopsail. In this in stance four bags were used, two forward at each cathead and two aft at each bumbkin. It had precisely the same ’ effect as in the previous case, and in my i opinion the bark and all on board were saved from total destruction by the use of oil. “Capt. William Peake, master of the schooner J. F. Krantz, was making a passage from Port Spain, Trinidad, to Boston. When fifteen miles east of Cape Hatteras he experienced a terrible gale from the north-northeast. The sails were blown away, men were washed away from the pumps, boats and othej utensils on the deck were totally wrecked by the heavy seas. The captain used two com mon wooden kegs filled with eight gal lons of linseed oil. A small hole for a vent was bored in the bottom and top of the kegs, so as to permit the oil to grad ually ooze out. The kegs were lashed to the quarters of the vessel. The oil vent was just large enough to allow not much more than a drop at a time to ooze out. The effect was all that could be desired. Scarcely a drop of water came on board, the men succeeded in pumping cut the vessel and clearing the decks of the de bris. The oil was used for sixteen hours from 2 a. m. to 6 p. m., and in that time about eight gallons, all told, were ex pended. The same captain also reports that during another voyage he was caught in a hurricane. He got a common can vas bag, made a small hole in the bottom, filled the bag with oakum, and then poured in a quantity of <f«nmon deck varnish. The bag was suspended from the martingale and allowed to just clear the water. He ordered the bag to be kept in position for twenty-four hours, and used in that time about four gallons of the varnish. From the position of the bag the varnish had but very little time to act on the combers before the seas reached the bows; still it had a marked effect on them so much so that the vessel was no longer boarded by the heavy seas, although they were running just as high. The crew were able to return to the pumps and other work without risk to life or limb. There are many other cases where the use of oil is credited with hav ing saved vessels, but what I have told you ought to be sufficient to satisfy the most incredulous of its efficacy. We are endeavoring to impress upon all seamen the importance of its use and before long those who ridiculed the idea will be in duced to believe in it.” The famous cedars of Lebanon arc taken cxre of by the authorities. There are 397 of them— twenty-two more than in 1810, and 373 more than in 1573, when they were counted by the German botanist, Ramvolff. Married with Rifle in Hand* A Columbia (Texas) letter describes a dramatic incident as follows: An excit ing and dramatic incident occurred here last evening. Sunday morning two men rode into town. Their remarkable ap pearance at once attracted the attention of every one. They were covered with mud and carried a perfect arsenal of rifles, pistols and knives with them. One was a man over sixty, with long, gray hair, and blood in his eye; the other was a man of thirty years, built like a giant and wearing a terrible scowl- on his face. They were father and son, William. Wof ford and Sam Wofford, from the back woods of Matagorda County. The old man said he was looking for his “darter Kate,” who had “lit out” with her cous in, Bill Wofford'. YYsterday the father and son located the runaway couple, who were occupying a small fisherman’s tent half a mile outside the town. When old Wofford found out the location of his erring “darter,” a large crowd of curious men and boys followed the terrible-look ing pair to the vicinity of the tent, as the old man kept constantly examining his gun and saying: “Sam, I’m go’en to kill him suah!” As they neared the tens the crowd fell back, while the old man and his giant son approached with rifles in hand. Suddenly the flap of the ten was violently thrown open from the is side, and there stood Bill and Kate, each holding a terrible Winchester rifle—one covering the old man, the other the son. Old gray head and Sam glared like two wild beasts on the brave lovers, and Bill called out: “Do you s’pose I’m go’n to give her up arter wc done tramped it together all the way from the Colorado to the Brazos? Not much; she mine’s, and you may stan’ there now and see us married.” The old man and Sam, undei, cover of the suggestive Winchesters, slowly moved back, all the time facing the boy Bill and his Kate, who had the drop on them. Meantime a courier had gone to town for a license and a preach er, and after nearly two hours, during which time Bill and Kate never took their eyes off of the old man and Sam, and threatened to kill either should he raise a hand, the preacher and the license wived. ) During the ceremony the bridegroom kept his rifle at a half-cock pointing tow ards his father-in-law. The preacher was so afraid they would open hostilities while he was there that he could scarcely finish the ceremony. After the marriage the old man delivered a terrible curse on both, said he would spare their lives now,’ provided they never set foot in Matagorda County. “If you do,” said he, as he shook his long, dirty, yellow locks and violently struck his rifle with one hand, “if you do, you're both on you dead soon as you cross the line, for when I’m gone Sam he’s there. You’ve got the whole world before you, ’cept Matagorda County. Now go!” With this philippic the old man and son departed forlorn, while Bill pulled down the flap of the tent. An Athlete on Exercise. I was talking with George Hanlon yes terday morning about the exercise such athletes as he recommend for the ordina : ry man to pursue in order to keep the muscles properly developed. He said: “I am down on gymnasiums for ordinary purposes. They overdo the thing. Too often they are presided over by men who only care for the members’ subscription and take but little heed as to his course of exercise. Heavy weight lifting I won’t tolerate. It is most pernicious in its effects on the body, and improves one set of muscles at the expense of another. What I recommend is the plain, old-Lish ioned rubber bands or tubes. Fasten them to the wall, about breast high, and then begin. There is no particular for mula to go through. Motions will sug gest themselves. /Another set of rubber can be fastened lower down and the legs exercised by them. I have peculiar no tions, too, about bathing. I don't be lieve in plunge or shower baths. I strip in a comfortable room. Wet a towel, wring it out thoroughly, and wipe the surface of the entire body. Wet it again but leave a little more moisture in it and rub the body again. Once more, with still more water on the towel, and then rub off dry. Our family has found that by all odds the best method.”— Chicago News. He was Competent to Speak* Bagley—My dear, I think I will take to the lecture field. There is a heap el money to be made in the business. Mrs. B. (scornfully)—lndeed! What line will you take? “I haven't determined. Something about animals would take—birds, for in stance.” “Birds, by all means, Mr. Bagley. Nighthawks, for instance, or o *ls—any thing, Mr. Bagley, that turns night into day as you do.”— PhUadalphia CalL NUMBER 19. CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. • In Antwerp, on Holy Innocent’s the children are allowed to dress Hl* men and women and run the house. ► Scorpions, spiders and various insects have been observed to lie motionless if at. person blows upon them, in a vertierf direction. The weight of a molecule of camp&or sensible to the smell has been compu&Ml by Bordernave to weigh 1-2,262, 000th of a grain. ' ' i The Mdngoon Pagoda is pne of ttcr most interesting sights in Burmah. anil in its unfinished state is the largest mass of brickwork in the world... The largest barn in the world 51? probably that of the Union Cattle pany of Cheyenne, near Omaha. ® covers five acres, cost $125,000 and a© commodates 3750 head of cattfe ... > - No spot in Mexico is sacred fn» smokers; in churches, on the jrailwsj cars, on the streets, in the theatre*— everywhere are to be seen men anrik women of the elite—smoking. Chinese children turn their backs <* the teacher when they recite. TTjcre * no catechising of childrens in Hass Chinese schools; they simply leara ar thing by heart and go up and repeat with their faces turned from the bl«d&» board and the teacher. The armorial device ®f the ritjr of Berne, Switzerland, is » Sxsa (the name itself signifying bear), anti tht animal is a favorite effigy thxoughoat the city. In addition many living beasr arc still kept and supported at public ex pense, At the time of the French revo lution the bears of Berne were carried a* prisoners to Paris. ‘ The population of London now ceeds every other city, ancient or iiiod-. ern, in the world. New York and al* its adjacent cities arc wt. equal to two-thirds of it. Switzerland and the. Australian colouiab each contain fewer souls, while Servia, Greece amd Denmark hare scarcely half tto-many; Yet at the be- • gining of the present century the popu lation of all London did not reach 1,000,- 000. ' . Beef is never seen at a Chinese oxen and cows capable of working the plow being accounted too valuable lo> the farmer to be consigned to thebutdter.’ Very severe penalties are attached to Hat slaughter of these animals. The punish ment for -the first offense is a strokes with a bamboo, and then tw» months in the wooden collar. Should love of beef or desire of gainiuducesi rejjetition of the crime, a second judicial flogging is followdd by exile for life from the province. ■yy., ii n ■ - n,,ii i , I The Inventor of the Circular Sair. In a lonely, secluded spot in the north west corner of the cemetery, near the ever-beautiful little village of Richmond, Kalamazoo County, Mich, the reader caa find on a pure while marble slab n ariy concealed from view by a large cluster <d lilac bushes, engraved the simple inscrip tion, “Benjamin Cummings, born 1772, dead A. D. 1843.”-j And who was Benja min Cummings? He was the inventor off the circular saw now in use in this coun try and in Europe. Nearly sixty yen* ago, at Bartonville, New York and Aras terdam, this man hammered out, at hwa. own blacksmith’s anvil, the first circtdae* saw known to mankind. Ife was a noted' ■ -pioneer in Rlchpiond; a first cousin ta» one of the Presidents of the United Statos a slave owner in Now York State; a lead ing Mason in the days of Morgan, afc* whose table the very elect of the gxrsd. State of New York feasted and freely of his choice liquors and wines; a yessel owner on the North River t»efore the days of steamboats; a captain, in th** war of 1812, where, after haring three horses shot under him, with, one stroke of his sword ♦he brought his superior officer to the ground for insult, and because he was a traitor and a coward; ami after having been court-martialed, iiNteud of being shot, he was ap]x>intcd Colonel * his place. In this lonely grave are the ashes of the man who nearly 70 years agat, at Albany, N. Y., took up and moved bodily large brick buildings, and, to th* wonder and astonishment of the woridb constructed a mile and a half of ths Eri* Canal through a bed of rock, and, vrih* also built, on contract, those first low. bridges over the same. He ateo aided ur the construction of the first ten miles cf railroad built in the United founded both the villages of Eaprreucr and Bostonviile on the Schoharie, near , Amsterdam. The study and aim of thfe man’s fife appeared to be to do which none other could accomplish, aotl when the object sought wm secured h* passed it as quietly by as he would H* pebbles of the seashore.— ArcAUect. a