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DOUGLASVILLE, GEOj
♦ISDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1836-
DUMBER 39.
CHURCH DIRECTORY,
METHODIST—DcmGLAsvrrxE—First
third and fifth Sundays, §j
Saz,t Springs—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
-Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur-
day before. W. R, Foote, Pastor.'
BAPTIST—Douglabyilne—First and
fourth Sundays. / Rev. A. B. Vaughn
uastor.
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.
DESCRIPTION OF THE STATUE IIS
NEW YORK HARBOR,
The Gift of . the People of France to
People of America.
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MASONIC.
. ‘ Douglas vide Lodge, No, 389,- F. A.
M., meets rn Saturday night before the
first and third Sundays in each month.
J. R. Carter, \V. M., W. J. Camp, Sec
retary. >
- COUNTY DI RECTOR Y.
Ordinary—II. T. Cooper.
Cl.erk : - S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
1 Deputy, Sheriff— G. M. Souter.
Tftx,Receiver—E. H. Camp. . •
Tax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey/
■Coroner—F. M. Mitchell.
/ SUPERIOR COURT.
Meets crn third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon Samson W: Harris. /
Sol. Ueul.—lion. Harry Ml Reid.
Clerk-—S. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
-• i . COUNTY COURT.
Meets in quarterly, msion on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August and
November and holds until all the cases
on --the docket are Called. In monthlv
session it meets on the fourth Mondays
in each month.
Judge - it on. R. A, Massey.
Sqh.Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff- 1). W. Johns,
ordinary’s court.
Meets for ordinary purposes on first
Monday, and for county purposes on first
Tuesday in each month. 0
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
, fj ' JUSTICES’ COURTS.!
- 780th Dist. G. M. meets first. Thursday
in each month. J. I. Feely, J. p„ tv.
H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Hunt, L. C’s.
736th Dist. (J. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J. P B.A. Arnold.
N. I’., B, C. Yeager,- L. C.
784 Dist. G. M, meets fourth Saturday
Franklin Carver, J. fig C. B. Baggett,
N. P., J. 0. James and M. S. Gore, L.
C’s. , p I I ;,, , m
*'//} %59to .Dist. G. M. meets third Satnr-
ySay/i.-'JT. M. Hamiltoii, J. P., M L
■Ya|es, IN. P.,‘ S - W Biggers, L. C , SI
J. Joufdan, L. C
1260th Dist. ,G. M. meets -third Satur-
day. JN; W. Camp, J. P., W. g. Hud
son, Nj P., J. A. Hill., L; C- -
1 &74st /Qist. -G. ML meets first Satur
day/ /p.. . C, Clinton, J. p Alberry
Hembteo, N. P.. , L. C.
1^73il Dist. (j. M. meets fourth Fri-
^aja^^fil^drge W.. Smith, J. P., (.'. j
■ Roqmson’; N. ’p,-. —L. C. ’
i27gd Dist, Gr. M. meets third Friday
Thomas White, 1 P., "^.“"Sdwgn, Nr
P W. J. Harbin, L. C. m
Professional Cards.
ROBERT A. rVSASSEY^
ATTORNEY AT LAW
.DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dprsett’s Building..,
Will practice anywhere except in the County
Court of Douglass county.
w. a. jamesT'jg
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
p Will practice in all the courts, Slate an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WM. T. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT 1.AW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
_ Will practice in all the Courts. A’ll Jega,
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
C. I> CAMP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
" . DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts. All business
intrusted to him will receive prompt attention.
B. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOU3LASVILLE, GA.
Will praotice in all the courts, State and
Federal.
JOHN M, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
H Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business eutrusted to his care.
J. S. JA$E$,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
, , DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
* Will' practice in the courts of Douglass,
Campbell, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
adjoining counties. Prompt attention given
to all business.
^ETMcLARTi,
A.TTOEMEY AT LA W,
:^OUQLA&VII,LD/ GA.
Will praeti|o in ajiitlie courts, both State and
Federal. Cmlecti(>ha.a specialty.
JOHN V, EDGE.
attorney at law,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
TOByRINflNB"
NEATLY DONE
THE
OFFICE
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The unveiling of Bartholdi’s great statue
of “Liberty Enlightening the World,” at
Bedioe’s Island in New York harbor, October
28, makes tke following description of the
magnificent gift of the French people to the
American people both timely and interesting:
This new wonder of the wbrld, now placed
in position on its pedestal, on Bedioe’s Island,
the sito selected in New York harbor by
General William T. Sherman, as authori/ed
under the act of Congress, February, 1377,
deserves more, than a! passing comment, be
ing the largest statue of the ancient or mod
ern world. Some idea of its. magnitude
may be obtained from the following facts:
Looming up 80-’> feet above tide-water, the
height of the stature is Bit feet, 2 inches,
that of the pedestal 91 feet; and the founda
tion 52 fefet, 10 inches.
The Statue is constructed of copper sheets
8-10. of an inch thick.. The forefinger meas
ures 8 feet in length and 5 feet in circum
ference j the .seephd joint. The nail a
14 inches in length by 10 in breadth.
-lead i? 14 feet high; The eye is 2&
inchps.in width. The nose is 8 feetAinches
v ... BM - - —set^i.
long. The total weight of this stilpeiidoiis
figure is 440,()OH^apnds, of which iltytm
pounds are ccjpjj|r, the ■ remainder fteil®
wrought iron. /\;>
About forty persons can find standing
room within the head. A six-foot man stand
ing on the level Of the lips only reaches the
eyebrow; Fifteen people might sit around
the flame of the torch, which-elevation is
reached by w spiral staircase within the out
stretched arm.
The manner of properly fighting the
Statpe by means of electrjcity has been care
fully studied during the past three years, and
some of the most eminent electricians in the'-
country have been consulted. The svstem
adqgted embraces a powerful electric' light
from the torch, the. illumination of the
Statue itself, and small clusters of lights in
■the diadem. Thu means for procuring the
necessary plant was Voted by Congress.
While discussing our goddess, let Us turn
for a moment to heathen mythology, three
centimes before the birth of Christ. • The
elder Pliny informs us, that at the entrance
of the Port of the City of llhodos, there
stood the most celebrated statue of antiquity,
“The Colossus of Rhodes, ” a statue of Helios,
the Sun-God, made of brass; land 1Q5 feet
high, i osiing the sum of 3-.M lalents-, or about
$875,008. After being erected: it stood only
■26 years, being thrown down by an earth
quake 244 years before Christ, to remain on
the spot where it fell 000 years, being finally
sold to a speculator for old brass.
After the Grecian epoch we pass on to
modern times and find examples of Colossal
Art, yet nothing that compares dn magni
tude with the Bartholdi “Colossus of Lib
erty.”.
This Colossus of the Colossi of ancient or
modern art represents an-outlay of more
than a million Of francs ($31)0,0®), the indi
vidual subscriptions of the artizans of France,
and stands in its imposing'majesty higher,
than the e-iormous towers of the great
Brooklyn. Bridge,_ or the steeple of Trinity
Chureh—the loftiest church steeple in the
City of New York. The total cost of statue,-!
pedestal and foundation is nearly one million
dollars.
A word here is apropos as to its artistic
merit. The pose, stride and gesture, with its
classic face; are pronounced by art critics as
perfect; the drapery is both massive and
fine, and in some parts is delicate.and silky
m effect, as if wrought with a fine chisel on
the smallest scale.
The conception and execution of this great
work of art are due to the efforts of the emi
nent French sculptor Bartholdi, who has de
voted eight years of his life and a part of
his private fortune to the completion of a
5k - SOI >obly and generously supported by
the French people. . J
CAPTURED.
Merrlits s layer in the Toils,
Waco, Texas.—Detective M. E. Am-
111011 et is here from Hillsboro where lie
scored a good piece of work in the cap
ture of a murderer. There are some
people in Wac6 who remember a large,
powerfully built man, jvho spent most of
bis time here for two or three weeks,'
disappearing about a week ago. He
went under the name of W. g. -Yar
borough, but was known in some circles
as ‘lennessee” or VArkansaw.”^ Some
times he worked as a carpenter ;and at
other times he gambled. He had a habit,
toOj of getting drunk nearly every Satur
day. Boarding nouse keepers wifi also:
remember him by the facility for evading
payment of board bills. Detective Aiu-
monct soon sized up Yarborough, and
alter investigation, made up his mind
that'he was one John Coffee, a Georgia
moonshiner, jvlio killed United States
Deputy Marshal John Merritt, in Lula
Georgia, on the 6th of f March last/and
immediately fled to this state.
A BEAR EATS A CHILD.
The Horrible Fate of a Two Year Old Girl
In Cloveland. Ohio.
Monday morning Rosa, a t wo year old
daughter of Henry Deernbiack, a saloon
keeper, met with a; horrible death; being;
almost eaten alive by a bear. The little,
one was playing in her father's back yard
and got through a fence into the yard of
a neighbor, a saloon keeper , named Ker
ris, who kept a bear chained in the rear
of his lot. The child ventured too near
the bear, which knocked her down and
Commenced devouring her body, which
was horribly mutuliited before she: could
i he rescued. The owner of the bear has
been arrested on charge of manslaughter.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The News of Interest Gathered Up in Para,
graphs.
MISSISSIPPI.
Fine iron ore is to be found on Pasca
goula river, and the finest pottery May
exists in large quantities at WeX Pasca
goula.
Seven conferences and a $10,000 resi
dence m Dallas, Texqs, in part conipen-
sate Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi, for
the change from this State to Texas.
About two hundred Mississippi boys
who applied failed to gain admission at
the A. and M. college for want of room,
every available place being occupied.
Sunflower county has only two teach
ers in the public school service who were/
able to pass the examination required by
law, and both of those were colored.
Panthers, are very troublesome to the
farmers'around Letherton. Mr. ’ T, J.
, Matthewson recently had fifty hogs killed
by them. Hunters have been after them,
and have succeeded in killing a number
•of them, •
A large Mexican lion was killed about
eighteen miles from Meridian last week by
an old Indian chief of the Choctaws by
the name of Kewance. It was - an enor
mous animal, measuring nine feet two
and a half inches from tip to tip and
nine inches between -the eyes.
ALABAMA.
A large number of the negroes of Lime
stone county, are making arrangements
to leave this fall for Mississippi and Ar
kansas. :
At a called meeting of the Hardee Light
Infantry, held in their armory in Selma,
that company changed its tactics from
Upton’s to zouave, - also its name to Alan
bama Zouaves.
Subscriptions in Eufajila to the St. An
drews Bay road have reached a few hua-
dred over $65,000. It will go above
$75,000. The country below is ripe for
the business and will come up heartily.
A two year old heifer belonging to Mis
E. T. Glenn, of Auburn, showed, symp^
tons of rabbies a couple of days agio and/
made it lively for every body she met.
She was caught and tied to a tree in a
safe place, and further deVelopes are now
awaited. This is the second aniiiutl of
the kind belonging to Mr. Glenn whiclj
has gone mad. The otherdied inji-eiH)
time after the symptqiis were observe;'
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^Run Acrw^ot is-t* a&ae'
Wester whose feet are sixteeh liichi
long and six and a half inches wide/
The Charlotte Harbor and Gulf City
railroad company; has been organized
witluu&pital stqcjr 0^, $!fg()J)00,. Vgrii
$20,000 to be paid in. aiid Urn bi'Jance
held as a reserve fund. ThL road is to
run from Charlotte hafber to Gfove-Clty
on Kettle harbor. /The $20; 00ft will
equip and build the eiwtjje road,
LOUIS&^A.
During the recent M| water in Lake;
Maurepas hundreds of cattle were drown
ed on the shore, and a large number of
deer that were driven from the, swamp
were ruthlessly slaughtered by the peo
ple
A meeting in opposition to miscegena"
tion has been called for Novenber 8th at
Trinity, Catahoula parish. General at
tention has been awakened throughout
she State, and this increasing evil is like
ly to be largely checked, if not entirely
stamped out.
VIRGINIA.
The crops are suffering from the
drouth.
The sumac trade has been nearly sus
pended since frost, and merchants are
experiencing quite a dull and- unsatisfac
tory fall trade, notwithstanding the great
ana long predicted boom which was to
strike about this time. It seems rather
an up hill business just now.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Catawba fair is in progress at
Hickory.
The Cape Fear Baptist association is
in session at Abbptsburg, Bladen Coun
ty. :
Durham coutny now has an “Inde
pendent Republican Anti-Prohibition”
ticket.
■' United States deputy marshals made a
raid last week in Randolph county and
they destroyed a still and fixtures, and in
Davidson county, about six miles from
the former place, they destroyed another
still and 600 gallons of beer.
SOUTH CAROLINA,
The farmers’ 1 convention will meet in
Columbia November 10th, and remain in,
session about three days.
The secretary of state has forwarded to
the clerks of court in all the counties
blanks for the general election, with in
structions for their use by managers and.
commissioners of election.
One of the famous Mason cottoh gins"
has been on exhibition in Columbia for:
some days, nil much admired because
of the efficient work it does, and of its
absolute freedom from danger. One of
these gins will be on exhibition at the
Georgia fair.
The approaching election in this state
promises to be the quietest ever held in
South Carolina. There is no opposition ;
whatever to the democratic nominees for
state and county officers, and it is not
likely that the negroes will vote at all.
It is certain, too, that an unusually light
vote will be cast by the whites.
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The reqgH^^^Hps| SFftKe general
master wo^H^^^^^B-operation were re
ferred to tl^^^Hj|H.o-operative hoard.
A resoluj/^^^^^Bpted recommend
ing thate^ jmtgBlmfe * taken to assist-
fargipraui iJjjPffP^fMaeir lands.
The special committee on financial and
industrial depression submitted a long
essay op the causes that have led to this
depression and on the proper principle of
production and distribution.'
At its afternoon session, the general
assembly rene#ed the demands made for
leglslatioft at previous sessions on -the
subjects: of land, money, railroads, tele
graphs, etc., instructed the incoming
legislative committee to press the same
and wunowerctL ilia executive board to
appoirit a legiaj
DEATH OF MRS. STEWART.
sessions of c&nggg
ture to ; further.
The various
opposing coiiy:
of CijMese
for. the allegfd
PennsylvaniaW
railroad com;"
/ The comui-it'
tinned until
The gener
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■ phia'for t!
Stevens; 1
Ki^ghtso.
ihiittee to attend
y state legisla-
s of the order,
mittees report
he importation
ranee schemes
piployes of the
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The Widow of the Merchant Prince Passoa
Away.
Mrs. Cornelia M. Stewart, wife of the
late millionaire drygoods merchant, A.
T. Stewart, died suddenly Monday morn
ing at 10 o’clock, at her residence on
Thirty-fourth street and Fifth avenue,,
New York, of congestion of the lungs
and. heart troubles. On Friday she took
dinner with Mrs. Henry Hiltop and on
her way home contracted a heavy cold.
On Saturday she was so ill she was com
pelled to go to bed, and Dr. Milner was
sent for. On Sunday Mrs Stewart grew
worse, Dr. Milner remained at the house
all night. At half past nine o’clock
Monday morning, ex-Judge Horace Rus
sell called, at the Stewart mansion and
was informed that although Mrs. Stewart
spent a restless night, she was feeling
better and was able to sit up in bed
without great effort. A few minutes af
ter one o’clock, ex-Judge Russell was
surprised to learn from a messenger that
Mrs. Stewart was dead.
Mrs. Stewart was the eldest daughter
of James Church, a pioneer merchant of
New York City. She was born in 1802
and was married to Mr. Ste-wart in 1803
by the late Rev. Mr. Mitchell, Since
the death of her husband, she has led 1 a.
retired life. In person she was small and
of slender form.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A I/essen Evil—Hair Lifters—Where
They Coine From—Was Mak
ing Good Head way—Native
and Drummer, Etc. -
A Lesser-Evil.-'
“Ah, my friend,’!/ said the affable
stranger as he alighted and warmly shook
the hand of an honest Dakota farmer, “I
am glad to meet you. You have a fine
place here, good buildings and a well
cultivated farm | How is the wife and
little ones?”
“Tolre’ble.”
“Glad" to hear it. By the way, Mr.
Snoo/enberry, I see yon have no light
ning rods;'I want to sell you a couple
for jour house and—”
; “Be you a lightnin' rod agent I” cried
the old man with a look of relief.
“Yes, sir.”
“Gimme yer hand again, then—thank
goodness it’s no worse. Come into the
and sit down—I thought
house
you was another candidate for
county office! ”: —Eatellint Bell.
Ten minutes later a shrill cry cuts the
air:
“Tom!”
“Well, what you want,
“Where’s them chips?”
“Out here, I reckon.”
' “Well, you’d better have them in here
now, mighty soon, or you’ll see what
you’ll get.”
Tommy is busily engaged rooting his.
nose into the ground • ‘mumbling the
peg”wheh his sensitive nature is shocked
by a frantic yell of:
“You, Tom Smith!”
“What;you want?”
“You’ll see what I want if I come out
there with.a stick. ”
“Well, what’s your hurry for them
blamed old chips?”
“I’ll hurry you! never you mind! You
just keey right on, young man! I’ll tell
your father! you'll see!” -7 . /.. - :
’"I‘Well, I’m coming in just a minute.”
“You’d better, if you know what’s
good for you.”
Ten minutes later the expectant mother
glances toward the woodpile. The empty
basket is there, and she catches a brief
glimpse of Tom and his partner , in in
iquity as they disappear far down the
Hair Lifters/
RATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
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'■’ At .'-AuguSffijJ 1 / #K^9 ! ®iKmitteenai.'i
Wright spent We'c^^^^Jauditing ancj
arranging the indc/^tednCss of the Ks ights)
of Labor. lie assures all bolding cairns
against the knights here that they will
be paid in full and immediately./ The
committeeman says he will call on the
mill presidents to-morrow and make an
honest endeavor to settle the'difference.
The directors, of the Augusta and Knox
ville railroad company have indorsed the
consolidation of Hie road into the Port
Royal and Western Carolina. The Stock
holders have been called together to pass
on this consolidation; which places undei
one management the roads Centering in
Augusta controlled by the Georgia Cen
tral. The substance of the steps in con-
solidati n are as follows:
The Port Royal and Augusta railroad
company consented to the abrogation of
the lease of the Augusta-and Knoxville ,
railroad; company, which was accepted
by the latter.
Then the Auguste and Knoxville rail
road; corcpauy entered into a compact
with the Greenwood, Laurens and Spar
tanburg railroad company, the Greenville
and Laurens railroad; company, the Sa
vannah Ysilley railroad company; arid the
Port Royal arid Augusta railroad com
pany.
SOUTH AMERICAN VOLCANOES IN
ERUPTION.
A TOWN DESTROYED.
A fire at Pocahontas, Va., destroyed
sixteen houses, including two hotels and
several business houses. George Barbe|§|
of Lynchburg, Va., perished in the
flames/ Several other persons are miss
ing. The fire is the work of an incendi
ary. Heavy rain saved the town. The
loss is $50,000; insurance iffiknown.
CUTTING’S LATEST SCHEME.
Cutting is at El Paso concocting a
scheme to enlist ten thousand men to in
vade Mexico for. the purpose of conquer
ing the three States of Chihuahua, Son
ora arid Durango,and erecting a republic,
Panama. —The volcano of Tunguragua,
in Ecuador, is continuously in iacrivity.
Lava pours from it at short//intervals,
while clouds of dust and ashes envelop
the summit. The villagers in the north
and south have experienced a. good deal
of suffering. -»
The L'lhinas volcano, in the south of
Peru, is showing;signs of activity. Al
though smoke has been issuing from tlie
volcano since the days of Columbus,: stil l
the inhabit ints of the locality are alarm
ed at the increase of the volume of it
CONDUCTORS’ NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
The mweteenth annsial convention of
the Raiiroad Conductors’ Association of
the United; States and Canada is in ses
sion at Baltimore. ' All ex-presidents and
ex-vice-presidents were present, and An-
drew Quintin and John Houghtaling, the
oldest conductors in the country, were
invited to seats on the platform. Mayor
Hodges delivered an address of welcome,
Iri the absence of A. C. St. Clair, who
was appointed' at last convention, Ed-
Burns, his alternate, delivered the annua]
address.
A RAILROAD SYNDICATE.
A syndicate has been formed in New
York /for; the purpose of paying off $3,/‘:
000.1:00 floating debt of the Richmond
and -A est Point tenninal company, and
carrying the debt so as to allow that,
company to take its property from the
Richmond and Danville system. It is
stated that: some, of the directors are, in
favor of paying the debt off altogether
by means'of assessing the stock ot re
questing contributions from; the stock
holders, but they disagree on this point.
Two Men Killed on the East Tennessee Rail
Road near Silver Creek Station.
On the Georgia division of the East,
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
about two and a half miles below Silver
creek station, Georgia, a terrible accident
occurred Monday morning at 8:15
o’clock. A rock train was run into by
freight No. 23, and an engine and several
;cars "were thrown from the . track and
badly broken up. -Two of the hands of
the rock train, Henry G. Babb and G. T.
Partridge, were killed. The former in-
stantly. The engineer and fireman of
the freight saved themselves by jumping.
The ear wheels ran over | tha thighs of
Babb-aud his neck was broken. Par-
Sg!%ceived several lacerating wounds
ad aud legs, and two ribs were
jwhich caused internal hemor-
Tom which he ‘died in about four
§ after the acciderit; Jack Pruitt, a,
ii^\) brakesman en the rock • car, wa*|
■badly hurt. Hi! right ankle was dis> -q
eated and’ crushed under,-bis;Tip torn off .,
and Several jgerii knocked out, leaving
hisifaee terribly siyolWi?; ./he. of/
clearing the track took several h'dijrs, de-’
laying both the north and south bound
trains abogt nine hours.
“Yes, sir,” said the Great Traveler, “I
have seen, with my own eyes, a wild
Indian take the scalp of a white man—
actually lift the hair from his head—and
it made my blood run cold.”
“That’s nothing,” said the Sceptical
Boarder, “that's nothing; fight here in
Lynn, on Market street, I have seen a
man actually take three men in succes
sion by the scalp and actually lift their
hair from their heads; ”
// /‘Why, the map must have been crazy
drunk or a lunatic, said the G. T.
“Perfectly sane and sober as I am,” re
plied the S. B.
■ “Well, who in the name of goodness
was he?” j
“lie was a barber,” solemnly said the
S. B. —Lynn Union.,
at first j road in the direction of a pool of mud
some and water in equal- parts called - the
“swimming hole.” .
The mother then comes out and skir
mishes around picking up her own chips,
arid as she does so her mind d wells 4ong
and fondly, on a time soon to come; and
as she bends over the basket 'she thanks
Heaven that that boy will have to come
home to sleep that night, and then a
smile comes over the sad face of the
weary woman, her heavy eyes light up,
her breath .comes quick arid short, and
her lips tremble with delight as she says
softly:
“Arid if he don't git one good, warm
in’ up than my name ain’t Mary Jane
Smith. ’ '—Detroit Free Press.
NORTH CAROLINA’S FAIR.
Exhibits Fine and Attendance liavge—Ex
cursion of Northern Editors.
,The twenty-sixth annual fair of the
North Carolina State Agricultural society
began at Raleigh on Tuesday. It was
opened by Governor Scales. The attend
ance was very large and the exhibits,;
particularly of cattle, were superb. The
state department of agriculture makes a
remarkably fine and complete display,
which fills a very large portion of the ex
position buildings and contains mariy
thousand articles, including ores and
mifierals, woods, gems, arid/all kinds of
crude products. Tuesday evening a large
nnnlber of northern editors arrived and
were welcomed by Governor Scales and
Mayor Dodd, of that city. They/met
with the- convention of northern-born
settlers in this state. Wednesday night
the city of Raleigh gave a banquetto the
northern editors.
Was Making Good Headway.
■ “Hello, Harry, where haye you been?’!
“Just been down to see my girl’s father
and ask him if I might marry her!”
•‘Why, that’s the third time you’ve
been to see the old man on that errand.”
“Yes.”
t“l)id you get any encouragement?”
■mLotg/gjUit.' The first time I went to
Pie iftl^^fgentlettiari he'cMled m a ser
vant and-had me thrown ©qii JJSSje second
|me he/ told me I was anTMnSjrtfaeBU
idlS aqd
' wfisrilt' ief‘
Weil, when I wro* higpfco-dsy h@T^u:
said he couldn’t think oqf4etting his
daughter marry me, and I might as well
give him a rest. ”
“Was that all?”
“Yes, I fee! greatly encouraged. I
think we’ll get married about Christmas. ”
RAILROAD EXTENSION.
The contract has been let for the build
ing of the first 27 miles of the Georgia
Central railroad’s extension from Good-
water, Ala., to Birmingham. The com
pletion of this gap with the Memphis
and Birmingham road, now building,
known as the Kansas City route, which
the engineers say will be finished by tbe
first of July next, will give the northwest
a direct short line railway connection
with the southeastern gulf coast. The
-Georgia Central company has bought
$60,000 worth of unimproved property
in Birmingham adjoining the recent pur
chase by the-Kansas City road, to be
used for a depot and machine shop sites.
J MERCHANT BULLED.
Thomas L. Miller, a prominent tobacco
dealer at Stephensport, Ky., was found
dead in bed at Basley’s Hotel, Louisville,
Ky., with a horrible wound just over his
right eye. He had been out seeing the
town till a late hour, and having money
he fell into the bands of a bad character
who got him into a game of cards and
then knocked him on the head. He got
to his hotel and went to bed and died
during the night. Charles Mull, a saloon
keeper, has been arrested, charged with
the crime.
ATLANTA’S NEW ROAD.
Where They; Gam© From.
The minister’s wife sat on the front
porch mending the clothes of one of her
numerous progeny. A neighbor passing
that way stopped, in for a friendly chat.
A large; work basket half full of buttons
sat on the floor of the porch. After
various .remarks of a gossipy nature the
visitor said:
§1 “Von seem to bo well supplied with
buttons,.:Mrs. Goodman.”
“Yes, very well, indeed,”
“My gracious! if there ain’t two of the
same buttons that my husband had on
his last winter suit! / I’d know .’em any
where.!’?;:
/' “Indeed?'’, said the minister’s wife,
calmly, “I’m surprised to hear it, as all
these button? were found in the contri
bution box. I thought I might as well
put them to some use, so I-Z-what, must
you go? Well, be sure and call again
soon. -Mmiiant. Traveler.
The Atlanta/ Mississippi and Atlantic
railroad has attracted much attention
and has aroused enthusiastic inter-
interest. At a meeting of the. Sheflidd
company, a subscription of $25, OQO was
authorized, to be made to the road.
There is no sort of doubt but that t lie
country between Sheffield and Atlanta
will subscribe liberally.
Colonel A. S. Colgar, of Nasbvilie,
was elected president of the Sheffield
company.
HIGHWAYMEN AT WORK,
A YOUNG MOTHER’S DEATH.
Mrs. G. E. Chandler, of Columbus,
-Ga,,/died at Bamberg; 8. C., last night,
leaving an infant only five days old. She
had been married scarcely twelve months
and her death is extremely sad.
A special from Des Arc, Ark., says:
While County Treasurer Ward was going
home from his office a couple of men
seized him, threw a coffee sack over hjs
head, beat him badly and took hi*, keys
and robbed the office of over $11,600.
He was knocked senseless; and when
found his legs were tied together 7 . No
clue to the robbers.
The Native and the Drummer.
Coming in over the Monon Route a
few days ago a Chicago drummer sat
musing by the open window and wiping
perspiration and coal soot from his brow,
and, of course, occupy ng two seats.
Down in Indiana some place a native
came in the-smoker, and says:
“Shove along, stranger, an’ give a
feller a show. Been killing hogs and
feel all used up.”
Then the native sat, down, settled
himself comfortably, much to the drum
mer’s disgust, and resumed :
“Say, stranger, killing hogs is hard
work. Did you ever kill nny hogs?”
But the drummer did not condescend
to answer.
“By gosh, ” continued the irrepressible
Hoosier; “we filled toe biggest hog yes
terday that was ever killed in Injeany.
How much do you s.’pose that hog
weighed?'”.
Still no answer.
“He was so tarnal big that it took
’eight of us to lift him up to the ham-
stick, it .did, b‘ gosh. You liain’t no idea
how much/ that hog weighed, have you,
stranger?”
haven’t;” the drummer finally
blurted out; “how much did your plague 1
hog w-igh'”~ • 1 ‘ , *„ '•
; .“I don’t know; mister. We didn’t
weigh him?”—Chir.aijo Herald.
NINE MEN DROWNED.
Particulars have been received of. the
loss, off .Singapore, recently, of a boat
containing nine men belonging to the
bark Earl of Jersey, of Cardiff. The
men were attempting to rescue a boy
who had fallen overboard,; when their
boat swamped, and all were drowned,
Obedient.
The cheerful spirit and, the alacrity
displayed by the average American boy
ill obeying: maternal mandates would
have made our Puritan fathers weep
with ;ov could (hey have lived to witness
it. / :
The modern: mother says coaxingly:
“.Now. Tommy, run and get mother a
basket of chips.,’ .
/‘Don’t want to,” says Tommy prompt
ly- -///“’i
“But you must,” says his mother,with
some firmness.; -
‘■Why can’t someone elsedoit!” whines
Tommy.
“Because there is no one else here to
do it, N.o/w y6u run right along.” s
Thus commanded Tommy gingerly
picks uptbe basket and disappears, mut
tering something about haying to “work
like a sl.v’e ail the time. '/'
Five minutes later his mother goes to
the door and.c.ies out: /
/ “You, Torn: where's them chips?”
‘Yit-a s. purty soon,” is the reply. ,
“Lll ‘pret'.y soon you if you don’t
march yourself along here in mighty short
order!”
“All right,” is Tom’s ambiguous reply
as he sits down for a game of “rnumble-
the-peg”. with a neighbor’s boy who has
suddenly jjove in sight.
Clay-Eaters,
I hare seen “sandhillers” in certain
parts of North and South Carolina, and
some within ten miles of Columbia, while
engaged in eating their dinner, and have
observed them cdnsuirie, with, evident
relish, large quantities of clay, and wliat’s
more; I have joined in their frugal repast
and partaken of some of the stuff myself,:
says a North Carolina doctor, in the. At
lanta Constitution. It is nearly tasteless,
but some of the clay-eating epicures pro
fess to enjoy it because of a delicate ila-
vor it possesses. | It is white, devoid of
grit and not unlike toe kaolih of which
plates and saucers ar'S’made. There' is
nothing disagreeable about this clay and
it may he taken into .the stomach with
impunity/Jl’is not ingfricius as anjirtich
dietf'indeed riiauyJcoritto/d;
^uresLongevitj/arid wards A.se^Mg^^
eases./ There are well ButheritijKwragL.
stances of woudei ful longevit^^2j/a/^-*
“clay-eatei s, ” and it Is well. un<Tefsto6u 1 ‘
by such of the faculty as ha ve studied toe
subject that none of the ‘ ‘sandhillers”
ever sutler witli indigestion or dyspepsia,
and Ihave never known one to die of eon
sumption ; in fact, foolish as it may seem,
I am constrained to believe that -this
strange habit exempts toe “clay-eaters^S
from many of the ailments to which the# est
of the human family are heirs. Of course
there is nothing very suceulent or nutri
tious about aslice/of clay, but it cer
tainly allays the gnawings of hunger.
This is done by distending the walls of
the stomach. It is not to be expected
that a clay diet will take entirely the
place of bread and meat, but it does this
to a certain extent.
In my country /practice, which occa- -
sionallv carries me out into the sandhills
(occasionally I say, for although the.«and-
hillers are the sickliest looking, most
cadaverbris and woe-be-gone beings “iri ,
the world, they are toe healthiest), I have
good opportunities to study their pecu
liar habits. : They can subsist on exceed
ingly limited quantities of meat: iri fact
they get very.; little to eat, and that fat
bacon, about thrice a week. They are
not lazy, but decidedly shiftless. /They
are troubled with few? wants) however,
and these are supplied easily./ /? j£f
“Do they e it only one sort of clay.?’//;
“As .a general thing, yes,” was th
reply, “but sometimes their table is gar
nished by a kind of yellowish marl,some- :
what scarce, which they consunie-wit li a
keen relish/ It is said to taste sweet, and
they use it as a dessert. They.howe'er,
draw the line at red clay. This not even
their ironclad stomachs can digest,.
‘Don’t you eat red clay?’ I asked a gawky
old fellow. ‘No, surree,’’ was his ani
mate:! response; .‘I have occasionally
had er brick in my hat, but I’ll beblamed
ef I hanker after making my bowels a
brickyard.’’’’
Origin of Some First Families of the
Metropolis,
A New York letter to the Cincinnat,
&■/!«< er says: The genealogical record
of some of the first families is threatened
by an exposure which may make /some /
wince, . but no true American/ will tjri/j
ashamed of an humble origin. In -fact
there is but little room for b lasting I
among the New York millionaires./ Pe
ter Gilsey began as a journe inan p'ano-
forte maker, aud rile founder of ( ooper
institute first appeSrs.iu the. directory as'
“Peter Cooper, machinist. ” The lire-
voorts were iriarket gardeners. Alder
man Carman, who left a round million,
was a house 'carpenter. A.. T. Stewnrt;
began by'teaching a small school. ? The
miiiionaire Y r ermilyes were the sons of a
sexton of a downtown Church., Cvrus
W. Field"iirst opened tia le as a dealer in
rags. Lawyer Hummel began as an er
! rand boy Jn the same office in whi h he .
S is now partner. William Libbev, for-
I merly of A. T. Stewart A- Co., and nowja
| retired millionaire, was the son of a N ew-
burgh carpenter.
I The first Astor that came to America
! was a butcher arid had a stall in Fly mar
ket, - Rufus Story, who is npw thehnil-
1 onaire veteran of Front: street,/ began
here as a hard-worked . boy in a cheap
grocery. Jay Gould was in. early life a
[/clerk iri a country store,, and. felt that he
was doing reniarkabiy well when he ped•
died maps in Delaware county. , Reader,
at will not do to,dispute toe day of smalt
things. Why, even the Spohords -were
s!io:mnkers. the Stevenses kept ta/efri,
and the Wolfes can be traced back tea
gin-mill. Let the genealogical fiend do
his worstYhe will still find that wealth,
like charity, covers a mutitudeot si. s
The island of Ch-loe, on tbe southwesi
coast o South America, has - 280 days-of
cold rain and sleet in the year el ca
tarrhs and pulmonary troubles .are tend
iu be very rar?' among Hy i>:ifive,dw -li. r?
in tUis remarkable climate.. ~ r "
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