The Weekly Defiance (Atlanta, Ga.)
October 24, 1882

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Jf. JBKOIT.V, A. »F. JSVXMTI, Manager NEWS GLEANINGS, Selma, Ala., has sixty artesian wells. Nashville has a total indebtednes fo $1,526,277.78. Six editors will hold seats in the next Georgia Legislature The city tax in Tallahassee, Florada, is but seven mills on the $lOO. Gadsden, Alabama, has doubled its population in the last twelve months. Georgia’s surplus crop of sweet toes will reach 400,000 bushels Wah Hing and Tin Sing, two China men, have embarked in the grocery bus iness at Nashville. Florida is making preparations to re ceive an unusually large number of new settlers this winter. The Georgia prohibitionists have nominated legislative candidates in twenty nine counties. A meteor fell a few days ago near Grange City, Florida, killing a colored women, whom it struck. The waterworks at Hot Springs, Arkansas, are completed, and are said to be the best in the State. Annie/Hubbard, who murdered her child in Colbert county, Ala., goes to the penitentiary for ten years. The Vicksburg Commercial says la borers were never in such demand in the valley of the Lower Mississippi as now. A complaint comes from several por tions of Florida that the orange crop is' .gM&jflk'nut bad, and will be short about «BRlird. ashes of a common weed, known Home in Florida as sickle weed, are almost pure potash, being as strong as ‘baking soda. It that the orange crop of xF lorida will this year be worth nearly double"that of 1880, which brought over $672,000. A West Indian has purchased ten acres af ground near Tampa, Fla., which be will plant in mulberries for the pur pose of raising silk-worms. The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers complain that, with a population of from 15,000 to 18,000, they can count upon but one mail per week. A cow fell into a pit near Cedar Key, Fla., and remained there forty T wo days without food or water. When discov ered the animal presented a pitable pict ure of pelt and bones, but was still able to walk. Hr. W. H Bennett, an eccentric citi citizen of Meridian, Miss., died a day or two ago; and his estate, valued at soo,ooo- was left to a negro cook, cut ting oft his wife and heirs. The will is to be contested. Georgia’s corn crop is the largest since 1859, and will reach 30,000,000 bushels. The oat crop reached 8,000,000 bushels, and the wheat crop 5,500,000 bushels. It is thought 1,000,000 bales of cotton will be raised. Mr>.. Ann 1 alley, of Spottsylvania county, Va., aged seventy years and in robust health, became impressed with the idea that she would die at a certain hour on a certain day. She prepared for the anticipated event, and, true to her premonition, her death came. Goldsboro, (N. C.,) Messenger: A pe culiar and frightful disease has appear ed in Northampton and other counties m the northeastern part of the State. It is called yellow chills or hemorrhagic fever, and is generally fatal in its re sults. Persons affected turn yellow and vomit blood. New Orleans will experiment with mesquite wood for paving streets It is a native of Texas, partakes almost of the hardness of iron, is very durable, and it is believed will make a better street than granite. It grows abun dantly in Texas, and can be easily and cheaply transported. Afi-s. Lizzie Walley, convicted at Nashville and sentenced to a term of three years in the penitentiary for al leged cohabitation with Owen Prentiss, ex-city editor of the World, is said to’ be a neice of the distinguished Codfed erate General Bragg. It is hinted that I rentiss will be released on bend, and the case against him will never come to a trial. At Columbus, Texas, about twenty boys, whose ages range from ten to six teen \ears, about six months ago organ ized a band of robbers, and since tha time have been engaged in stealing. Th®? undertook to rob a freight car, w hich led to their discovery. They had a cave abross the river where they de- The Weekly Defiance. posited their plunder. These boys are sons of respected citizens, and had no object in theiving other than to gratify a desire for adventure, which they had formed from reading dime novels, a number of which were found in their headquarters—the cave. A writer tetffee Industrial Review advises the of the bamboo in the Though’capa ble of growing mi the inlands, it is said to be especially Viited to and valuable for low-lying, tnarshy regions, such as fringe the Atlantic and Gulf States. Its uses are numerous. As a timber for building and construction purposes, for tools, implements, etc., it is well known. As an article of food its young shoots serve as substitutes for vegetables, and are pronounced as deli cious. Bamboo curry and chow-chow are excellent. The growing plant is invaluable also as a defense against ma laria, sweeping fires and cyclones. Dominie Stimson’s WIL Yesterday’s meeting of the Baptist ministers was opened with prayer by Father Stimson, of Kansas. Father Stimson is eighty years old. and has preached for fifty years. Stories are told of him in which those who expect ed to raise a laugh at the old Dominie found the tables turned against them selves in the most unexpected manner. One runs as follows: Father Stimson owned a good horse, but the keeping of the beast was some what of a drain on the Dominie’s pock et. and he was in the habit of dropping a hint to his parishioners once in a while that a little hay would be accept able. One day a church member asked him to bring Mrs. Stimson to dinner. “Certainly,” said Father Stimson, “and, as it’s having time, I guess I’ll put some hay on the wagon when I go back home.” “All right, Father,” replied the church member, “but bring a one horse wagon.” Father Stimson took his wife to sup per in a wagon with an ample hay-rick that would hold a hay-stack. See here,” said the parishioner, as he helped Mrs. Stimson out of the hay rick, “you-said you were going to bring a one-horse wagon, and now you’ve appeared with the most capa cious hay apparatus I ever saw. “Oh, Ive brought the one-horse wagon,” said Father Stimson, but the hay-rick—that’s a two-horse Lay-rick.” lie drove away after supper with twenty-two hundred pounds of hay. Father Srimson was the lirst to use Gospel tents in the West. He put them up himself. A fellow who passed him oik 1 morn’ng as he was hard at work on his tent called to him in a lou I voice: Hu-lo there! Are you going to have a circus?” “Yes,” said the preacher, continuing hi-, work without looking up, and I’m looking for a baboon. Don’t you want to hire yourself for one?” Ihe preacher was Chaplain in the Ninth ?ew York Cavalry in the war. The Colonel was fond of leading the soldiers through deep puddles at the regular drill, and the Chaplain one day rode around the puddle, and thereby fell out of the regular order. The Col onel noticed it, and at the close of the drill, when the officers came together, said, with a sneer: “If Captan Stimson is afraid to ride through muddy water lor fear of sow ing his clothing, 1 will carry him across the puddle myself.” “Thank you,” the Chaplain said; “but as the Government provides horses, 1 don t see any reason why I should ride on a jackass.”—A’. F. Hun. The Expensiveness of Modern ’Warfare. The cost of modern warfare is so great it probably deters nations from getting into s jr.ons troubles, and for that reason aids in making arbitration popular Some idea of the expensive ness of the bombardment of Alexandria in July last may be gathered from the cost or each round fired by the iron-clad fleet. Every round fired from the eighty-ton guns on the Inflexible cost $127.50 per gun. The twenty-five-ton guns, of which the Alexandra carries two, the Monarch four and the Terne raire lour, cost $35 per round per gun. The eighteen-ton guns, of which the Alexandra carries ten, the Sultan eight, the Superb sixteen, and the Temeraire four, cost $26.25 per round per gun. The twelve ton gun of which the In vincible carries ten, the Monarch two, and the Sultan four, cost $lB per round per gun. The Penelope, which alone carries nine-ton guns, has eight of them, which were di charged at a cost of $13.75 per round per gun. The Mon arch ami the Bittern each fired one six and one-half-ton gun, the cost being $8.85 jer round per gun. The Beacon and the Cygnet have two sixty-four pounders each, the cost of discharging which was $4.50 per round per gun. The Penelope carries three forty-pound ers, the Beacon two forty-pounders, and the Bittern two forty-pounders, the cost of discharging which was $3 per round per gun. In addition to this there is a sum to be calculated for the firing of the smaller armaments of the Cygnet, Condor and Decoy. Be-ides the dam age done to public and private buildings in Alexandria by the bombardment, Egypt will have an enormous bill to pay for" missiles ana powder expended by the fleet in causing the destruction on shore.— Exchanae. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 24, 1882. TOHCS OF THE DAY. Eight ladies have clerkships in the Oregon Legislature. Oscar Wilde fias cleared about $15,- 000 out of his lectures alone. It is said that there are one million more paupers in England than voters. A crayon portrait of Garfield has been, by suggestion of the Queen, placed in Westminster Abbey. Gkn. Grant has given it out at Philadelphia again that he has no inter est in politics or in the present cam paign. It is said that the Rev. Joseph Cook is to be the editor of the new Congrega tionalist paper which is to be started in Boston. The engagement is announced of Miss Mabel Bayard, daughter of Senator Bayard, to Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of Boston. Miss Norton, the young American prima donna, is meeting with a great and increasing success at the Grand Opera house, Paris. Matthew Arnold has discovered that the great want of the French is moral ity of the Germans civil courage, and of the English lucidity. It is said that the invention and sub sequent improvements of the American plow made a’saving on last year’s crop in this country of $90,000,000. Some one has suggested that Saturday replace Thursday as Thanksgiving Day. The idea is not a bad one, as the combi nation of two holidays would be a satis factory combination to most people. Mr. Henry Villard, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has of fered to endow Oregon University with $50,000 if the State will increase its an nuallegislative allowance from to $5,000. The steam yacht for Jay Gould, to be completed by spring, will be constructed of iron and’steel, and have steel boilers. It will be 210 feet long, 27 feet beam, and 16 feet deep, and will have 1,500 in dicated horse power. The fastest long run by railway ever made west of Chicago was that by the Burlington special train which brought the Vanderbilt party from Burlington— -207 miies—at the average rate of fifty nine miles per honr. By the death of Sir George Gray, Mr. Gladstone now sits at the Privy Council as the senior commoner, having kissed hands on his appointment forty-one years ago last September, when the queen had been only four years on the throne. The late Daniel Cook, of San Fran cisco, left a fortune of about $1,500,000. He was as poor as poverty itself in 1858, but between that time and his death, at the age of forty-five years, acquired from books an education, and from mines piles of gold. Mr. Tilden .is described by the Yonkers Gazette as greatly enjoying the newspaper reporta of his feebleness, while he takes two carriage drives a day, usually an hour’s walk, and frequently-a ride of some distance. His eye is bright, and his mind clear and quick. The wampum belt which Wm. Penn gave the Indians in part payment for the territory now known as Pennsylvania, afterward reclaimed and held as an heir loom in the Penn family in England until 1856, is in the museum of the His torical Society of Pennsylvania. Abdul Kerim Fasba El-Zahar, who is shortly coming to this country to make arrangements for the emigration of certain of Arabi Bey’s followers, is one of the most noted Oriental scholars. He was graduated at Cambridge University, England, and he has translated Homer into Arabic. An English artist has coma over to make studies for a painting of the battle in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864—Far ragut’s great victory. The painting is a private commission, but, when com pleted, an engraving will be published at London, and the work itself may be ex hibited in America. Estimates of the damage done at Alexandria during and after the bombard ment vary widely. Claims made by the owners foot up to nearly $17,500,000; but it is said that an eminent authority has expressed a willingness to rebuild and refurnish the entire property de stroyed for $6,250,000. A villain, who claims to be an officer in the British army that invaded Egypt, made a cold-blooded confession to the London* Vanity Fair. After some Egyptian wounded fired on our men,” he says, “I ordered every wounded man to be bayoneted. No end of officers and men were killed in that way.” Alexander H. Stephens declared in a recent speech at Macon, Ga., that the rheumatism which has disabled him from walking for the past twelve years, was contracted during his imprisonment fc*Tdtt Warren after the war. I was put in a dungeon low down,” he says, “damp, dripping with water walls five feet thick. I was there three months. That,’’ he added, “is a part of my war record.” Anna Dickinson writes to the Phila delphia Press to say that she has been slandered by the report that she had declared against woman’s suffrage. “No one but a fool would believe the story,” she adds. She may have remarked that there was too much voting, but if venal men have the right, venal women should enjoy the same privilege. The life com panions of male brutes “should have on hand a staff of protection and defense.” A Connecticut thread manufacturing company had planned to exhibit at the Boston fair the old fashioned way of spinning and weaving cotton in the South, but have struck an unlooked for snag. Their Georgia agent writes them “I had arranged with one negro man and four negro women to go to the IF>s ton fair to spin and weave, and should have been there now, but some fool circulated a story that they would be sold when I got them to Boston, and all thunder couldn’t convince them to the contrary.” In several provincial districts of Fin land a religious sect has appeared, based upon the fundamental principal of ‘fe male supremacy and male subjection.” Husbands and lovers bind themselves by oath to wear whatever yoke their part ners choosa to place upon them, and fiirtb4©ore t*> make uurse.i vtxl confession once a week of all delinquen cies, A woman who has been chosen by her sister rulers to exercise unlimited authority within the community, allots the penalties, which are promptly in flicted by resolute matrons. Fruit Juices. There is often a decided objection to the use of our coarsest fruits, especially in sickness, or when the stomach or bowels may be in a sensitive state, on account of the irritation of the angular and sharp seeds, and peel er skin. Like the hull of the wheat—or hulls, as there are five different layers, which should be removed, in most if net all cases, from the flour—these seeds and rinds are often sources of irritation to the sensitive coats of the stomach, cann ing many forms of disease, particularly in the hot weather. It is exceedingly fortunate that these juices do not re quire digestion like the solids, but, like water, enter the system unchanged, there to he assimilated, of course afford ing nutrition, with no use of the digest ive apparatus, or but slight effort, that of absorption. (If desirable, these juices may be prepared at this season, thoroughly scalded, canned like fruit, kept from the air and in a cool place, and used in the following spring, when such are exceedingly valuable, especially for those having debilitated digestion.) It is very plain that if they demand no digestion, still containing all of the nourishment of the berry, securing rest for the stomach, the dyspeptic, etc., may well use this juice as a substitute for solids, for sueh a part of the time as will allow rest, time for the digestive organs to recuperate and become suffi ciently strong to perform their usual amount of labdr. I will here remark that their use all the time, instead of at the last meal, or when the appetite may be particularly imperfectjwould tend to debilitate the stomach, since, like all unused organs, the time would come when it would lose the power of action. As a general principle, the substitution of these for solids for one or two meals at moot, using the simplest form of solids, as the raw egg, or boiled rice, would be as much as would be advisable, save in extreme cases, when such nourishment for a week or less would be a choice of evils. Milk should not be regarded as of this dass, since it is solidified before diges tion. It is not a proper drink between meals, since it requires digestion like solids. When there is much feverish ness, with some appetite, the more acid juices, like that of the strawberry or the currant, may prove of great value with out sugar, for that is a “heater.” These tend to reduce feverishness, though, if too acid, they may irritate the stomach, producing the canker. The fresh juice of the apple—not fer mented juice, or cider —is very appro priate and useful, the apple containing more nourishment than the potato. These juices may be used with great propriety when the appetite seems wan ing, or when but little food is indicated, for nourishment is obtained without labor.—Gotaenjßtde. W hen we asked bur girl to marry us she said she didn’t mind--and wo have since found out that she didn’t.— Toledo American, Profitable Investments. The safest and most profitable invest ment that can anywhere be found at this time for money, the use of which is not needed for a few years, is in the purchase of well selected real estate. This general fact probably no intelligent man would dispute, though some men deny the application to particular cases when it does not suit their interests. It is well recognized that real estate falls faster, as a rule, and further when times are good, than any other kind of prop erty of real and solid value. The in trinsic value changes on 1 with the growth of a community or State, or the improvement of means of communication; so that for production or use in residence or in commerce the value may increase rapidly and greatly, but can decrease slowly and moderately. But the price, on the contrary, depends upon a markt t that is more variable than almost any other. At times real estate is who'ly unsaleable, no matter what its real value or its price may be. At other times it is the object of the wilde*t speculation, with a very little refruice to the present legitimate demand. As a consequence when real estate is not wanted, it sells for a song or not at all; but when it is wanted, there is scarcely any limit to its price. Hence, long headed men are always on the alert to get possession of real estate after every period of great depression; to such shrewd purchases the w hole or great part of almost every colossal fortune may be traced. We are just emerging from a period of unexampled prostration. '1 he price of real estate has fallen, as it usually does at such times, in greater ratio than that of almost any other class of property of substantial character. Now, if ever, the purchase of real t state may be considered certain to yield excep tionally large profits, if the property is j udicii>usly sei ec ted. Another fact, which, as a general one no intelligent man will deny, is that the advance in the |>rice, as a rule, is certain to be greater in Western than in Eastern real estate. Western States and cities are growing rapidly; Eastern slowly. Every man knows the fact, and immense volumes of statistics could be given to prove or illustrate it; and yet there are some men who refuse to admit the obvious consequence. New York City is growing in population at the rate of seven per cent, in five years, and the State at the rate of 7.2 jper cent., while Chicago or St. Louis gains 50 or 60 per cent., and Kansas 100 per cent., and yet some persons refuse to see that the value of property in the Western city or State is certain to increase in the long run, and, as a rule, more rapidly than the Eastern. New railroads and greater reduction in the rates of freight are con stantly adding enormously to the value of Western property, and as yet so potent are interested motives in blinding men, that there are some who still insist that real estate loans in Western cities and Stages, as a rule, are less safe than loans on Eastern property, where multiplication of roads is slow’, and tends mainly to divert residents and industries from cities that are already over-crowded.— New York Public. Slobbering Horses. Some horses will slobber nearly all they eat; others when they eat certain plants, usually in early summer, and others are never known to do so. Horses thus affected will, when their diet is much restricted, sometimes cease the habit. Clean timothy and red-top hay, and clean oats fed in the straw (clean meaning free from weeds or oth er plants,) will usually cause a con firmed case of slobbering to stop tem porarily. A little clover, clover-hay, rag-weed in the oats, and many other weeds, are liable to start it again, in fact, will be quite sure to do so. Thus it is clear that the tendency is constitu tional in the animal, that a cause that would excite slobbering in one animal will not affect another, and that it is excited by different plants which the horse u-es for food, either in the green or dry state. Besides, the habit is said to come from partial paralysis of the nerves of the face, or of one side of the face. Usually, however, it comes from some article of food, and it is more often caused by the second growth clover than anything else. Veterinarians have recommended astringents to be employed in solution, the mouth being washed with a decoction of oakbark, witchhazel, alum, etc., but no perma nent benefit comes from these applica tions. Partial relief has been experi enced by confining the horse to a diet of clover, as this excites the salivary secre tion most violently. After a few days a return is made to different food, with the hope that this sudden change would stop the -sivc secretion of saliva, which it J ways does for a while. —Aqrieiu The Fork. In the ancient world the fork for eat ing was unknown, and the well-bred sought to display as much delicacy as possible in the operation of conveying food to the mouth with the fingers, ft was a thousand years ago when the first mention of the joreh- tta was made in Italian literature, end it was then spoken of as introduced into Venice by a Byzan tine princess. It was at first not favora bly received, and for two centuries came little in f o use, either in Italy or the rest of Europe. No mention of a fork was made in the catalogue of the tabic fur nishings atthe w edding of Maria Sforza- Visconti as late as 1493. Still, the 15th century saw its use spreading in France, ami the 16th in Germany. It was nyC until the 17th that it was introduced in England. VOL. 11. NO 20. WIT AND WISDOM. —An exchange asks: “Whatif Pe troleum?” It is a very easy method of getting rid of fire-kindling servants. Marathon Independent. —A Baltimore belle has man led a policeman. His beat was in front of her house for over a year, and she no ticed that he never snored.—Philadel phia News. —ln 1859 eleven cars managed to ship all the peach crop of Delaware that was sent outside of the State by rail. To-day it takes sixteen engines, 400 cars and ninety-six men. —A correspondent wants to know “how we pronounce Ras-el-Tin?” We don’t pronounce it at all; we only write it. Do you suppose we read the papers to the subscribers?— Courier Journal. —The Egyptian war will give about a hundred paragraphers the opportunity to say that the Bedouins are no great sheiks, and that no matter how they are treated they will always Be-do-in some thing atrocious and inexcusable. War is, indeed, a great evil.— Siftings. —A Chicago lady who had gone into the country at the invitation of some relatives, wrote to her husband: “Dear Charley— When I left home I forgot to bring my slippers with me. Send them at once.” She received a telegram the next day to the following effect: “Ex press companies can’t spare the room to transport them. Buy a new pair.”— Brooklyn Eagle. —Courage.—“Suffering sisters.” ex claimed the speaker, energetically shaking the hair pins from her head in her excitement, “women will never ob tain their rights until they display more courage. Let me say to you, in the words of a famous Freueh orator, ‘Courage! courage! courage!* At this stage of the proceedings somebody threw a box of caterpillars upon th* platform and the meeting broke up in great terror and confusion. N. Y. Post. —A nouveau riche had his bouse robbed of several valuable pictures. Ha appreciated them because they cost him a great deal of money, and when he made his appearance in an art-shop ha was in a very excited state. “I want you to get my pictures for me.” ha said. “What do you mean?*’ replied the polite attendant “Why, I was robbed of them the other night, and I come to you for satisfaction, was tha answer. “But, my dear sir, we are not receivers of stolen goods, nor are we detective officers,” said the dealer. Then,” shouted the indignant million aire, “you had better take in your sien, ‘Oil-paintings restored.’ Boston Coi wrier. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —Prof. Storer, a blind musician of North Adams, Mass., has been appoint ed a teacher in the Royal College for the Blind at London. —Wilkie Collins is paying the pen alty for trespassing upon the capacity of that most abused organ of the hu man anatomy—the eye. His sight is failing, and he can no longer read or write. He is dependent upon an aman* uensis.— N. Y. Independent. —Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New York insists that he is an old man, and it is true that he suffers from physi cal weakness in his legs, which disables him seriously in walking; but he retains his old simplicity of manner and con versation, as well as vigor of mind. Chicago Journal. —Mr. and Mrs. Squibbs, of Sullivan County, Tennessee, were married about two years ago, and now seven, little Squibbses make it interesting for the fond parents. Three of them were born about a year ago, and the quar tets are but a week or two old. This squib is the eighth. —William S. Jett, the man who led the soldiers to the hiding place of Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Lincoln, and who, for his connection with the capture of Booth and Harold, has been immortalized in history, wss a few days ago sent to the Maryland State Insane Asylum a raving lunatic.— N. Y. Herald. —One of the most noted women in New York journalism is Miss Middy Morgan, who does the cattle reports for four New York papers, among them the Tribune and Times. She has acquired a fund of knowledge of cattle and horses, both on the farm and turf, which may be envied by the most experienced male sportsmen. —Mr. Mudford, who controls the Lon don Standard. is sometimes called the “irresponsible editor.” Though he owns no share in the paper, the late proprietor’s confidence in him was so great that he provided in his will that Mr. Mudford should have sole control of the paper while he lived, or as long as he might see fit to retain it. —lt is not generally known, says the Philadelphia Press, that Mr. Joseph Sailer, who has recently retired from the financial editorship of the Phila delphia Ledger, was not only the oldest editor in that position in this country, but the first to write a regular money article for any daily paper, as the Ledger was the first in this country to print a money article. —ln a little red cottage on the shore of a lake called the Bowl, near Lenox, Mass., Hawthorne wrote “The House of the Seven Gables.” Mr. J. T. Fields used to tell of carrying out to him there one hundred dollars in advance of work, but after accepting, Hawthorne’s sensi tiveness found the obligation irksome, and he handed it back. “Take it, Fields,” said he; “the house isn’t Ing enough to hold it.”

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THE WEEKLY DEFIANCE PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY BY BROWN BURNETT. TUESDA F, 00T724J1882? SUBSCRIPTION; One Year... $2 (X Six Months 1 (X Positively no subscriptioi t•. n tor less than six months. _o VARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Clabt of Five to one address 6 2' Clubs of Ten to one address 12 (X Clubs of Twenty to one address 20 (X Money should be sent by money order oi register d letter, addressed to J. Brown it Co All communication* and papers should be addressed to The Weekly Defiance. ADVERTISING RATES. -Less than fivt user ions 75 cents a square for eaeh insertion For live or more insertions 50 cents a squart each insertion. Business notices 10 cents a ine each insertion. M>rriage and Fun era notices 25 ceuts each. Address THE WEEKLY DEFIANCE. HF* 34*4 Dbcatur street Editorial Paragraphs 0 Vote for Felton too. Rally for Col. Buck. Pay your taxes, and vote for Buck. The Defiance will come out as usual. r •.i +4} 1 ii..j B-u-c-k spells “Buck." Vote for him. •Vote for Atkins in the First and Buck in the Fifth. New York and Pennsylvania will give the usual Republican majority. After this week the manage ment of the Defiance will change in some respect. Hon. Jeff Long is in the field for Buck and Atkins. So are all true colored men. Five of the six colored persons condemned to be hung at Kast- were executed last Friday.

Nothing is more typical of dis truction than a glass “aggate” and! a Democratic “nigger?’

After this issue all persons in] debted to the Defiance will get] no paper, unless money shall be] forthcoming.

Mr. Davis, of the Athens post-1 office, has all his clerks democrats except one man, and he only gets] twenty dollars per month. We have employed the services] of friend Dudley for this paper] and will in our next issue give our| readers some of his old time chat.| We are at a loss to see how Mr I Speer can expect to receive the] support of colored men, since he] says in the mountains that he has] never appointed but one “nigger’’] and he was nearly white. Through the assistance of W.l A. Pledger, E. Seward Small and] Capt. Pleasant, the matter of re-1 prieve for the Eastman rioters] was broght to the Governor’s at-] tention, and cne of them re-] prieved. All of them doubtless] should have been.

Colored men who enjoy nil that they have, in the shape of liberty, as a boon from the Republican party, can’t afford to be luke warm, in the forthcoming Con gressional contest. Pay your tax-1 es and vote for Buck.

Mr. E. Seward Small, of East-1 man, Dodge county, was in the! city several days this week in the! interest of those poor prisoners] doomed to be hanged on the 20thl inst. He succeeded in getting al respite of thirty days for one oil them— lsaac Shipman. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? We notice since the recent guber r.atorial eleciion that all the In dependent Democratic papers are clamoring for the organized can didates for congress. During the gubernatorial contest some of the now ardent supporters of In de pendent candidates for congress supported Mr. Stephens, many of the ardent supporters of Gen.l Gartrell “cuss” and abuse RepubJ lican candidates for congress. We are at a less for data to decide! the difference between Demo-1 crats of different factions. Every] time you shake the bag and drop] him out, be he Independent, or] Regular, he is “moss back” just] the “same-e.” All that is in it.] bq office is sought. Let a man] take sides somewhere, and let his] fruits indicate what he is at heart.] This is right, and let men who] swore in the union league to sup-1 i>ort Republicans, leave off all] kind of men except Republicans.] JOHN HENRY BROWN. I On last Monday the question] ■was asked on every street corner,] ■‘‘Have you heard that John ■Brown was dead?” “Yes;” was ■the answer Poor John took sick ■about the first of the month and ■on the fifteenth expired. During ■these days he fought and strug gled with death as seldom men ■do, but death was too- much for ■him. His friends called on him ■and sympathized with him, and ■received the words from him that ■lie would soon be out. He lived ■and trusted in his strength to ■over-come the destroying fever, ■but it was too much for him. Ev-| ■ery hour it continued to grow on| ■him, and he grew weaker, yet be llievingand fighting against death,] ■He was born and reared here in] ■Georgia. He was at the time of] ■his death about 28 years of age J ■ln 1870, his father, Mr. Adami ■Brown, was killed on the W A| Rail-road, where he was serving] ■as a brakeman. John struggled] ■and gained whatever of education] ■he could. He went to Columbus,] [Ohio, and worked with Mr. Rob-| [ert Jones, druggist, for a long] [while and then returned to his| [native heath. For long months] [here he suffered with rheumatism! |but after while strong constitution] [pulled him through. But now| [reaching the outskirts of man! [hood the appreciation of hardships] |was more powerful. His strugJ [gles were great, the impediments] [were numerous, but as a maul [ambitious, determined and unreJ [tenting he pushed on and upward! He commenced without a doll liar a little newspaper, andhisun! [tiring efforts made his project a| [success. His writing was tearless] [and aggressive. lie gave no] [quarter to any class of men] [whom he thought the enimies] [of his race. He asked no favors of] [those with whom he disagreed! ■it was thought by many of] |his friends that his uncompromis-| |ing course was not politic, though] [he steered on in course not-] [withstanding. As a man none] [braver lived. He feared nobody! |lnsult him and he was wilder than] |the raging waters and winds, and! (those who thought they stepped] (on a worm or insignificant insect] [soon found an adder in the form! (they crushed. Athletic, stout and] (impulsive he moved with his| (friends, ready to fight their bat-| (ties and support their theories. In| |death, his eyes rested upon these] (with whom he had lived and[ (whom he loved, as thought he] (would like to stay for their sake.] As a colored man, he who] (would strike a blow for his race] (soonest and risk his life most fre-| |quently has gone. If the question] |were asked who had done most] (for the giving the Negro back-] |boneand nerve, the answer would] (certainly be John Brown. If] (asked who had for his years done] (most in every particular for the] (Negro in Atlanta, the answer] (would also be John Brown. He has gone. He had hisH [faults; with him they were] [buried. Who of us has them] [not? None, When the books] are balanced, his good acts put] opposite the frailties of this life,] it will be found that John Brown] was a man to be admired. Who] will take his place is hard to say.l That but few would dare be al John Brown is indisputable. Let] him rest in peace! HON. W. S. THOMAS, OF OHIO At a mass meeting at the City ]Hall, on last Tuesday evening, the ■above named gentleman was the jchief orator. The manner with which he handled the tariff ques tion and the relation between Jpublic schools, honest money and |the Republican party, challenged |the admiration of all who heard |him. His language was choice and lit made all colored men feel proud Ito know that the race can furnish |such talent as is found in him. |lle speaks in Forsyth to-day, and |we take occasion to suggest that |the noted Pledger, who will speak] |at the same time, will have to] |brush up his old eloquent box, if] Lot be will lose prestige on his] |own heath. We always wel [come men of whatever color fo| lour midst who come prepared to] (talk logical (ruths. Mr. Thomas] will speak during next week at] other points in the s state, and] wherever he goes we predict a] crowded house for him and Buck.] Col. A. E. Buck, our next Con gressman, -will soon pack his trunk for Washington, where he will sojourn during the wintry days in the Council of the Nation.! Pat your taxes. vote for Buck. TO OUR SUBSCIBERS If the subscibers of the De (fiance desire to have this paper (published any longer in this city, II beg of you to come up and pay (what you owe and renew your (susbeription at once. I shall do |my best to give you a good, new |sy, spicy and enteresting paper. |And it is for you to say at once, (whether or not you want the De (fiance published any longer. It (takes money to run a newspaper, (and if our subscribers will come [up and lend their aid and take |rhe propers interest in the paper |as they should, there will be no (trouble at all; and you will |then have a paper that you will (ever feel proud of. The Defiance (made its first appearance on the (13th of August, 1881. Since that (time it has never teased nor hesi jtated to speak for the rights and (privileges of our people. The De jtiance has always been found de bouncing the many outrageous (wrongs that are daily perpetrated |upon our race, There is not- a (society in this city but what (shounld feel themselves interested (in this enterprise; for it has done (much for the elevation and sue |cesss of them all. Remember, (citizens, that Atlanta is the capi tal city of Georgia and the (colored citizens pay over §3,000 (taxes on real estate, which is more (than any other county in the (state can say. So there is no ex cuse for not sustaining this paper; |and there is no city that needs |such an enterprise any more than Atlanta. It will be ashame and a [disgrace upon the societies and |the citizens of Atlanta if they allow the Defiance to die. Yours respectfully, A. W. Burnett. 1 Plenty of Music. Read what the Philadelphia hays; Of all the circuses traveling it [Ameiica, none furnish more musi Via Cincinnati Schedule in Effect Express, MsTT 2lst, 1882. 51 53 Leave Atlanta via R D R R 2 40 p m 4am Toccoa 7 10£, n 8a m Greenville 10 OS p m 1104 Arrive Charlotte 315 am 4 p m Leave Charlotte 400 am 4 40 Salisbury 553 am 6 21 Arrive Greenoborro 800 am 8 20 “Danville 10 17 am 10 12 [Arrive N, Danville “1020 am 10 15 Lve N Danville via V .M RR 1040 a m 10 30p m Lvnchburge 2 10 p m 12 35 a m Charlottesville 4 40 p m 3 10 a m Arrive Washsington 9 25 p m 7 40 a in A M B M Lve N Danville via R&D R R 10 35 1100 F M A M Burkville 215 4 22 Arrive Belle Isle 4 20 7 12 Richmond 4 20 7 20 Lev Richmond via RF& P R R 5 CO 8 OO Arr Washington via A&F R R 9 50 1 10 Lve Washington via B&P R R ]o 20 1 30 Baltimore P W B R R 11 35 3 Arr Philadelphia PW& B R R 330 630 New York via Feun R R 650 9 35 Boston 355 7 45 THOMAS S. SMITH, Silltltir it Pituts, Cm®, Trait- Marks, Copyrights, Etc., —FOR THE— BUM Stales, Canada. Ei iMFraiMJGoiw. Office, St. Cloud Building, cor. 9th F St., Opposite U. S. Patent Office, WASHINGTON, IX C. :O: Prosecutes Claims befcie the Wai Savy, Quartermaster’s, Poet Office’ Interior and Treasury Departments *nd Congress. ftejc* Attention given to the business >f postmasters, pension agents, Ju lian agents. Registers and Receivers >f Land Offices, Surveyors, Army and Savy Officers, Quartermasters, Rev enue Collectors and Mail Contractors. N. B.—Rejected Pension Cases made a Specialty. sept 9 1882,

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OUR AGENTS. B. R. Harris, Rome, Ga. Mi. hr A. C. Moore, Acworth, Ga. J.Q. GaHsett, Cartersville, Ga. H. R. Bennett, Fairburn, Ga., Wm. Newman, Bucket Station, Ga. J. C. Young, Cuthbert, Ga. K Williams, Marietta, Ga. A. L. Roberts, 21 Barnett st., Balti more. Md. Glenn Smith, Eastman. Ga. M. L Blalock, TaKassee, Ala. Rev. J. S. Flipper. Darien, Ga. Miss Maria Carrington, Newnan, Ga, J. H. Dismuke, LaGrange. Ga.’ Miss Georgia Valentine, Mont 1 gomery. Ala. I Manghum, Macon. Ga. LODGE MEETINGS. Pride of Georgia lodge, No. 1553, meets ev ery Monday night at 8 o’clock, cor. Broad «k Mitchell streets, No. 13. r A. B. Reynolds. N. G. E. 8. Jones. P. s. LOCAL MATTERS. 'fhe citizens of the Fourth Ward would do well to elect B F LONG Councilman. 1 lie only saloon kept by colored men, can’ be found at 63 Decatur street. Ice cold beer free lunches every day at 12 o’clock. .bid you ever see such a nice as-| sortment of clothing as A. O. M.l Gay has? No. never, but I will! give him a call. O. A. M. Gay, 37 Peachtree, has th el boss clothing house in the city, Gol at once nd examine his stock of the! very latest styles of men’s and boys’! clothing. Old Reli able, don’t forget Louis McCray’s! Saloon. Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Soupj every day, 63 Decatur street. Jf you want, to be treated gentle-8 manly, go to O. A. M. Gay’s and buy] your clothing. The best and cheades,t poods at Lie-! Herman Kauftman's,' 50 Whitehall! street. Young men, if you want to! purchase a suit that will fit to order,3 go to O. A. M. Gay’s for it. Don't forget to go to A. 0. M.| Gay's where you can secure the! latest styles in Hats and Gents’! Furnishing Goods. For good board go to Dansby’ &Go]*! den. 72 Decatur. Everything served!’ in tii'Uselass style. It u want to have a gay timefr go to A. O. M. Gay’s, No. 371 Peachtree street, where you can! e buy the cheapest clothing in thejt city. la Hello Captain ’’’—Good morning,l Jimmie.”—Where are you going in| v such a hurry?”—l understand that| our new Governor has ordered all! straw hats to be thrown away; so l| am on my way to O. A. M." Gay’s,S where I shall buy one the robbiest| sand prettiest hats in the city, “and|s dun you forget et Ip GEORGIA—Clayton County |q Mr. John Brown, you are hereby notified!, that I have tiled in the Ordinary’s oflice in!, said county my application for homestead, niyg li usband refuses to apply, which application! ll will be heard by said Ordinrry at the courtßn house in said county on the 20th day of Oct., 9 1 1882. Georgia Eubanks. |i. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE Smnauti Weekly ECHO A Fearless, Progressive, Out spoken Independent COLORED JOURNAL. Terms $2,00 pen year, G months $1,25. Address the Echo,” Savannah, Ga.l aug. 5, tf. FOR A GOOD SQUARE MEAL Hol aoi Goll Lnicte —CALL ON MR. and MRS. PULLIN. Everything kept in ample order. NO 991 WHITEHALL STREET. Meals at all hours. Boarders by the week or month, and everything served in first-class style. Gi\ eme a call before going elsewhere. 1 H. Davis. Proprietor. sept.lo—3m. Attention. For all cam paign docu ments and information concerning the canvass of the sth Congres sional District apply to H. A. RUCKER Custom Houae, Atlanta, Ga. PERSONALS. S Mr. A W Burnett was out yes terday. I “Doctor” Steele is a successful physician. Mr. Fred Lawrence is still with Adam Forepaugh. Guss Holland will be at the Skating Rink to-morrow night. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. Nelson McCombs is quite sick. S T Bell peeps around the cor oner. Holland says there is no gdanger, Bell. Fi V >ar^B went over to Macon Hast Sunday, He will return to- Imorrow. i Parks Woodward is running for [the cake and everybody wants him to have it. Hon. W 8 Ihomas, of Ohio, was ll t, r e Wee k, the guest of W A Pledger. S Mr. Bedford Harper, who has been suffering for a considerable time with dropsy, breathed his last on Tuesday the 17th inst I vv e with his many friends mourn! his loss. Hymenial. I On last Wednesday evening at jthe residence of Mr, and Mrs. IVoss Cary, in Athens, Ga., by IRev. W. D. Johnson, Mr. M. G [Mack and Miss Elanora Cary were! joined in holy wed-lock. Both pire favorably known, and we pre-| diet a smooth voyage on the main! of life for them. We were not! pi esent to do justice to the table] and to salute the bride, but God] knows we wish them good luck.l Falling Headlong Forty Feet. The Baltimore News thus describes loce of the most remarkable falls on record: “Amo g the performers in the! Itorepaugh Circus are a troupe ol IFrench male and female gymnasts,] One of their tricks is to fall altogether frum their apparatus, which is about forty feet high, when the audience! least, expect.- it. The artists seem to] enjoy the performance, but a thrill of] terror runs through the spectators] and not a few exclamations of horror] are heard as they come down.” Thevj will be here with Forepaugh Nov. llth.l NOTICE! We are here and have opened a ■skating Bink in this city for the eu ■joyment of the ladies and gentlemen ■of Atlanta. We hope you all will ■patronize us and if you do, we will ■keep the Rink iiere ail the season. If ,J °t> of course we will be compelled to ■move it to some other city. They lire using Skating Rinks in all other ■large cities and why not have one in] ■Atlanta? Now come, young ladies] land gentlemen, let us strive to keep] ■'he Gate City” up with other largtj ■cities. Come and try your feet foil Iskates before our “Prize Skating”] Stakes place; then we can think, and] Isay too, that Atlanta has joined] |hauds with other large cities. The] Moors open at 2:30 o’clock in the after-1 noon, for ladies, and close at 5. Nol Igents admitted. Then the doors wills open at 7:30 o’clock p. m., for gents.f and close at 11 sharp. Admission isn only TEN CENTS AT M. CALHOUN’Sg HALL, Decatur Street. When ladies! and gents have learned to skate weliß they will all be admitted together. Rv J ASA DANIEL, I PROF. DICKEY. ax mucus, The Fashionable Taylor [has just returned from New York, after spend injr several weeks jn selecting the latest styles |of Fall Goods. Mr. Marcijs has the finest va I p ietv ol paterns you have ever seen. The young men should give him a call at once. sept 2 STEVENSON'S Billiari h Pool-Areaisi JUST OPENED With Four New Colender Tables, 32 DECATUR STREET. ROBERT STEVENSON, Propiiaor. I -A- CT. FHSTSOIT, Physician and Druggist. AND DEALER IN Drugs. Medicines and Chemicals, Toillet Articles, Con'ectjonerics, Fine Cigars and Tobacco 168 Whitehall St., corner Garrett ATLANTA, GEORGIA. RUFUS COOPER, The Old Reliable MERCHANT TAILOR. BuiU made to order. Repairing and clean ing a tpecUUy. 37J CGiitsuuy, 4th vii) tjig yard al Iliceuni-H ing election. M.M. BRANNAN. S W e are authorized to aimouce the i ame of a Z. A. Riee as a candidate for con leilinan 9 from thqjifih ward. FOR SENATOR S. B. HOYT js ti candidate for the llfjth Senatorial District. Election sth of Oclphcr. A NBW BKAUIIAff ZEU IML ZMZiller’s I No. 26 DECATUR, St. Meals at all hours. Boarders by the week’ t or mon th J This is one of ne itest Restau I ants in the city. Will serve reg ilar meals. 1 New Advertisements. Waisai CLAYTON STKE'ET, OPPOSITE GLINAKU HOUSE Athens, Ga., I Is the place to get your Boots and Shoes! made to order, Cheap for Cash. Repairing! neatly done. Don’t forget the place, Clayton! Street. oct!4—3m. fl MRS. R. COOK, MILLINERY, 67 Peachtree Street, DEALER IN Millinery, Honiton Lace, Fancy Goods! potions and Toys, Manufacturer ofl Hair Goode and Hair Jewelry alsol Wigs and Dresses for Masquerade! Bails. I I Hair Combings Made into Puffs. Braids, Etc. Man ufactures Wigs Braids, Curls, Puffs &C., &Q ATLANTA, GA. Special attention to the colored trade. Give her a call. sept 9 1882. IT. H. TAYLOR —DEALER .IN— SWINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS AND TOBACCO. 7 North Broad Street ATLANTA, GA. I. hcre v u will be kindly treated, and your ■patronage is respectfully solicited Aug-6 3m. T. R. TAYLOR. Iyour education will -COST AT— .¥OX VIE LE CO LLEG E, iON L Y S 6, O X L yI -0-0— I sb,oo per month, for Board I tuition, Fuel, Lights and Fur-1 inshed room. Term begins Sept I 4th. Send for Catalogue, J. 8. McCULLOCH, I President! •C H. C OX, Seal EDEraver, Manufacturer of Rubber Stamps, Stencils, SOCIETY BADGES AND REGALIA. Seal and badges for S. and D. of J. a specialty Will send send sample of the new and elegant Badge of the Order of 8. ana D of J n non recipient of 75 cents. P. O. Boq 396, Atlanta, Ga. (Remember If you should visit Macon, Ga., at any time, and would like to get a shave, just ask tor R. II Hart, the popular barber, you will find him always pleasant and ac commodating to strangers inly 22, tf. Fish, Oysters. Crabs aud Shrymp. -ON ICE- Charles Brown, No. 71 Peachtree street re ceives everything fresh daily and the best the market affords. Call and see him. septg PROF. HOLLINGWORTH’S STRING BAND. can b found at all times at 105 1-2 Decatur st. Also The Atlanta Cornet Band will furnish music at a reasonable price. Persons desiring to get a Band, brass or string, can secure the 6 Uee° ,lOlli gSWOrtl BULT LOVEJOY. FINE WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO CI GARS, &C. The best place in the city to get anything in uv line ol goods. Call and give me a trial md be convinced. No 56 Peachtree street. x Respectfully, Se Pt 3 BURT LOVEJOY. INEW BOARDINGHOUSE •*—»T-—— 112, DECA UR ST. J. B. Jones. Proprietor. HOTEL and RESTAURANT. I Meats nt all hours, and good Lodging Table supplied with the best the market af-J [fords. Givo-lhe Jones House a trial. I aug 19 3m. COLORED MUTUAL BENEFIT d ASSOCIATION HOME OFFICE |Verna Mississippi' J, W, Wilkins, President, Pays Lite Death and Marriage Bene fits, for both the married and single, BROWN BURNETT, AentsJ Atlanta, Ga. I [I.OOK-OUTI ft Finest Ant Mast Costly Ciras V7TT iT i EXHIBIT A T ATLANTA, October 26. SELLS BROTHERS Don’t forget the date, Oct. 26. $20,000 20.000 $20,000 POSITIVE SALE At the 0. K. Clothing House No. 30 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA GEORGIA Twenty Thousand Dollars worth of Ready Made Clothing and Gent’s Furnishing Goods, to be sacrificed at a mere nominal figures AT THEO. K. CLOTHING HOUSE £3TNo. 30! No. 30!! Whitehall Street. STEINHAM ER KREISLE. I A. G. RHODES, THE BOS KTALBT furniture dealer, [Keeps the Largest Stock, the [finest goods, the latest styles at |the lowest prices, and on the [smallest payment of any in South. I Bedroom suits a specialty. Lounges Seth Thomas Clocks, Fluting Machines, Pictures, Stove, niture VemeAber^ miS W 2B piCtU, e 5OO wt of fo J- We sell Exclusively On the instalment Plan. The. Doss Instalment furniture House No. 26 N\ Broad St, Atlanta, Ga. June 8 tf. More Popular Than Ever! —THE RECENT IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN THE— WHITE SEWING MACHINE Gray JM MACHINE ftffiiM fir Fife Years j A T L a warrflnt given to each purchaser, public are solicited to examine them before buying a machine. CT. 2D. <fc T. IF. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail Dealers, 59 Broad Street, Atlanta, G* ADD MUCH TO THE Man ricftut Qualities OB 1 THIS S LP R Rio R I CRPyp O o It is an ESPECIAL? Favorite of Ladies, TAILORS And OTHERS, '“posXs !,v™ l, l,e ,Mnv ros.es;, ovei other Sewing Machines- 7

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A North Carolina Venice* I suppose Morehead City is the only city in the world without a wheel in it. The main export of the town besides truck is fish, but the fish caught here embrace everything from a whale to a shrimp. Last year two or three whales were taken off this coast, and a whale is worth from $1,200 to $2,000. It is said that they get between the shore and the gulf stream, and in trying to Ixs* t out to sea are sickened by the warm water. They turn to shore again, and soon strand themselves. Along the bays and inlets mackerel are caught in large quantities in nets. But this wholesale fishing is neither picturesque nor inter esting. A pretty sport practiced along the shore is spearing flounders. A small row boat is put adrift. A man with a flambeau walks alongside up to his knees in water. In the bow of the boat sports men stand with slender gigs. Along the bottom, by the reflection of the light, can be seen white flounders buried in the sand. They remain perfectly still while the gig is poised above them, and never move until they are either speared or missed. The only drawback to this sport is that occasionally your torch bearer is stung by a stingaree. A stin garee is simply a long buggy whip, broken out with the small-pox and filled with steel springs, aquafortis and nee dles. When he hits you, lockjaw is the mildest possible result. The little colored contingent about Morehead makes its living by crabbing. With a little boat, hardly bigger than a tub, they go out in the surf, and flopping in and out like amphibia, soon oome in with a bushel or so of the ugliest looking and sweetest tasting things that swim the water. One other very important industry of this most interesting place is the raising of “ma’sh tackies.” The marsh tackey is a shaggy pony, hardly larger than the Shetland, light built and hardy. He lives in the water, and will not eat corn or hay. He is brought up on the marsh grass, which he eats between tides. They cost literally nothing, breeding in droves as wild horses. Each drove has its leader, who selects the eating grounds and decides when the tides are going out or coming in. Once every year the owners have what is called a “pony penning.” All the ponies along the coast, running into the thousands, are driven in by boats and cither branded or sold. They bring from $l5 to $3O apiece, and it is a tribute to their utter wildness that a “broke” pony, that is, one that can be ridden or driven, is called a “trained tackey,” and brings $7O. They are in great'demand in the middle part of the State, eating little and doing a heap of work. They run down to skin and bones before they learn to eat corn or hay, but then fatten rapidly and lose the ugly reddish color the salt water gives them. There are men wno buy them in large numbers, train them, and take them to the moun tains and get fancy prices for them. As I write there is a drove of tackies march ing in slow and sedate procession against the horizon. The leader, bearing his responsibility with dignity, picks the way carefully, and his company follow with a blind sense of confidence. Ths water, as it splashes about their legs, glistens like showered silver, and their red sides shine against the sun like bronze. On they go, as birds beat home ward in the twib*jht, growing smaller and more indistinct as they plod their steady way. At last they are but specks above the water, moving dnmb and pa tient to some well-desired goal.—More /lead Oily (N. C.) Cor. Atlanta Constitu tion. Why He Didn’t Explain. Some eight or teu years ago a silvery tongued chap who claimed to be a fruit tree agent swindled the farmers of this county in a shameful manner, and one resident of Nankin was so mad about it that he came to Detroit, searched the rascal out, and gave him abounding on the street. After he got through his work he told the fellow that he would lick him twice as bad if he ever put eyes on him again, and it was a threat to be remembered and nursed. About three weeks ago the Nankin man was travel ing in Washtenaw County, and as he journeyed along the highway he met a traveler who so closely resembled the fruit-tree swindler that he halted, and called out: “Here you are again, you bold-faced rascal!” “Yes, I’m here,” was the calm re ply- “Well, so’m I, and I’m going to lick you until you can’t holler! I said I’d do it, and I always keep my word. Climb down here!” The stranger “dumb” without a pro test, shedding his coat as he struck the ground, and a fight began. In about two minutes he bad used up the farmer and was coolly replacing his coat. “See here,” said the man from Nan kin, as he wiped his nose with a bur dock, “you fight better than you did eight years ago.” Well, I dunno. This is my first af fair with you.” “Didn’t I wallop you in front of the Detroit Post-office eight years ago?” No, sir! 1 was in Australia up to a year ago.” And you never saw me before?” Never!” And was never in Nankin?” “Never!” “Well, I’ll be hanged! Come to look at you I can see that you are not the man! Why on earth didn't you explain, or ask me*to? You must have thought me mistaken.” “Oh, yes, I knew you were mistaken; but I had just discovered that I had driven seven miles on the wrong road and was wishing some one would come along and give me two words of sass. I didn’t want any explanations about it. A rotten sweet apple will cure that black eye in three or four days, and salt and water will tighten your front teeth in a week or so. I feel fifty per cent, better, and I’m ever so mucli obliged. So long to you!”— Detroit Free Pres*. —Robert Burns once in a while hit hard at our weaknesses. Is he drawing your picture when he sings: But human bodies are »lc fools. For a’ their oolieaes and schools. That when no real ills perplex ’em They make euow themselves to vox ’em. Women and Water. “There's an end to all fishin’ for this season!” sighed the old man, dis i mally. Perch was just bitin* good i and bass was commencin’ fer to run, i but it’s all up now for good!” i “Why so?” i “See them three girls out there in a boat? When three gins goes rowin’ the i fish just pack up and slip out.” “How do you account for that?” “’Cause girls makes such a splashin’ and fuss and slam around so that even a whale couldn’t stand it Hear’em now!” There is a good deal in the proposi tion that girls “slam around” some under the conditions nominated, and a man who takes any interest in human nature can hoard a great deal of infor mation by watching three women get into a small boat. First, there is a series of squeals, supplemented by an edition of yells, closing with an abrupt dive and then an effort to sit on the same seat, and prolonged falsetto inquiries as to why the thintf tips over so. To the av erage woman the center of gravity is always over in the next country when she wants to get into a boat, and the idea of equilibrium never enters into her calculation, until the keel pops up above the surface to see what’s going on inside. As for rowing, the girl of the period regards it from a standpoint peculiar to herself, and inclines to the opinion that the oar-blades were made sharp because the water is hard and the order of the day. I claim that no woman can rows boat.” continued the old man. “You see that girl shove one oar in the water While she holds the other in the air, and abuses the other two for not steering straight. But they get come up with,” he chuckled. “'The other dav that same party was out tishin’ and they caught one crab, lhe crab know’ll they was g rls as soon as he got in the boat, and he just opened his nippers and them gals walked ashore. I ketched their boat about a mile below and that crab was sitting up on the midships thwart winking at himself for his luck and enterprise,” and the old man bent his attention on his fish-hooks, chuck ling audibly as the force of the reminis cence struck him. “No, sir,” continued the old man, glancing out on the river, “girls has no business in a boat, unless it’s pulled up out of the water. 'The other day a chap went out with a couple of women after cat-tails, and he let ’em row. Their course was down stream, but as soon as they dug their oars into the water the boat started the other way, and I’m blessed if it stopped until they reached the head of navigation and slid up a tree. I’d as quick trust a baby with a gun as a girl with a boat, if I had my way. There they go!” and he pointed to the disaster beyond. “When they wan? to change places they try to walk past each other on the same side, and that fetches 'em! The water is nigh on to two feet deep there, and they are sat isfied they are drowned!” Did you ever see a woman fish? Primarily she catches the hook in her dress, drops her hands in her lap, and says “pshaw!” Next she denounces the bait as “nasty,” refuses to touch it, and. then wonders why somebody does not “string it” on her hook for her. If by any mistake she gets her line into the water, she is sure that something is wrong with the sinker, and if she gets a nibble sho throws the whole business overboard, falls backward into the bot tom of the boat and squeals for help. Occasionally you will find one who holds on and captures her prey. Look out for such a woman. Intoxicated with success, she will swing her line around her head, tear a man’s jaw out with a hook, and all the time pity the fish.— Brooklyn Eagle. A Ghostly Purchase. Mrs. Jones was down town making some purchases one day lasi week, ami among other things boiight a luminous match-safe, which could be seen in the gloom of the darkest night, the manu facturers announced. It represented a face with open eyes and mouth, and looked simply like a china mask in the broad light of day. Mrs. Jones took it home, hung it up on the wall at the foot of the bed and forgot all about it. That night Jones came home late; he had been kept out on business by a custom er who wanted his goods invoiced, and he had told Maria not to sit up for him. About midnight he came in, remarked with chattering teeth that it was turn ing cold, or he had the ague, turned down the light which had been left burning for him, and tumbled into bed. The next moment he would have been snoring but he happened to open his eyes and he sat up in bed with one ter rific whoop of “Good Lord!” “Are you saying your prayers, Jeptha?” asked Mrs. Jones, sleepily; “you needn’t be so emphatic. Oh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h gr-a -c-ious g-o-o-dness! it’s a ghost!” she screamed as her eyes opened on the ghostly face at the foot of the bed. Never did two people make such time getting out of any place as they did in vacating that room. Then they sat down on the top of the stairs to consult as to the next course of procedure. “It was the ghost of my father,” said Jones, shaking like a leaf. “I recog nized the features instantly. Oh, Maria, what can it mean? It must be awful warning. I—l don’t feel well, Maria: I—l really don’t.” At this moment Bridget the valiant appeared. “Did I iver hear the loikes of this schramin’ J she exclaimed, as she ex plored her way with a kerosene lamp. “I’hat’s got yees now?” They told Bridget as well as they could, and that female answered com posedly: “The evil one will fly away wid yees yet; if it’s a ghost me own two eyes wad like to see it,” and she marched into the bed room, gave a wild yell, aud came out in triumph with the illumin ated match-safe in her hand; Mrs. Jones laughed hysterically, but Jones was downright mad. “Women are such fools,” he ex laimed, savagely; “bought the thing herself and hung it up, and then took it for a ghost; I’m thankful I’m not a Woman.”— Detroit Post and Tribune, —lt is proposed honor the memory of Roger Williams by gaming after him the principal streeia in the several towns and cities of Rhode Island. USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Use your ashes in your orchard or keep them for the next potato crop, for which they will be found profitable.— N. Y. Herald. —Larger loads can be hauled with broad wheels, and if the meadows are so:t these wheels do not sink into the sod and cut it up as the present narrow tires will do.— Live Stock Journal. To mash turnips, pare and cut in small pieces and let them stand half an hour in salt water, then put into boil ing water and cook until tender; drain and pass through a colander and season well with butter, pepper, salt, and a tablespoonful of cream. St. Louis Globe. —For a good lemon pudding take one piut of sweet cream, beaten very light; mix the cream with' one coi.ee-eupof sugar, and grate the rind o! two large lemons, and add the juice of one lemon. Line a dish with paste, pour the mixture in, and bake in a mod erate oven. Exchange. —To remove freshly-spilled ink from carpets take up as much of the ink as pos-ible with a teaspoon; then j our cold sweet milk on the spot and take up with a teaspoon, as before. Keep pouring on ihe milk until it becomes only ly tinged with the ink: then wash with cold water, rubbing only a little. N. F. Tinies. —As early as the time of Alexander IL, of Scotland, a man who let weeds go to seed on a farm was declared'to be the King’s enemy. In Denmark farm ers are compelled to destroy all weeds on their premises. In France a man nay prosecute his neighbor for dam ages who permits weeds to go to seed which may endanger neighboring lands. —As one travels over our beautiful 1 country, and meets on every hand sturdy well to-do farmers, who began life with out a dollar, cleared their farms, and now are spending the evening of their days in peace and plenty, one can hard ly help thinking that worse things might befall a man than to be compelled to start life on a bush farm. Toronto Globe. —lf animals are allowed to get pinched with cold they will run down rapidly in condition. Exposure to one cold storm in autumn will take off more flesh than a week’s feed will make up. Sheep are especial su erers from rain, as their wool is a long time in drying. Bring your stock under shelter every night and do not turn them out during a storm.— M. J. Her ahi. —A quality of California redwood is its ready, absorption of water when heated, which for a time makes it al most fire-proof. The quickness with which fires are extinguished in San Francisco has often been remarked, and the celerity with wh ch blazing build ings are often transformed into charred remnants is greatly facilitated by the entire lack of the resinous element in the redwood lumber.— San Francisco Chronicle. —A convenience for almost ever wo man, but part’cularly for the one who hires her washing done by the dozen, is the movable skirt bottom. How many times it happens that the upper part is not soiled when the ruffle or hem is too dusty to be worn, and this, perhaps, aft er once wearing. The movable part is to be buttoned to the upper at the knee, or a trifle below, and it is allowable to have three of them to one upper. Use small buttons, and as close together as it is necessary to keep the skirt in place. Always tak e the precaution to examine each button before putting the garment on.— N. F. Post. The Last Man’s Club. The death of Robert Riddle, of No. 1,337 Hanover street, on Sunday, leaves but four survivors of the original Last Man’s Club, of this city, which was or ganized with fifteen members thirty years ago. Mr. Riddle was the presi dent of the club, which was organized by the following members of old Vig ilant Fire Company: James Gallaway, John Gallaway, William Kiddle, Robert Biddle, W. Owens, W. Kucher, Wil liam Wilkison, Anthony White, W. C. Fry, James Hennessey, Theodore Wil son, John H. Mcllwain, George K. Mc- Ilwain, John Koy, aud Theodore Adams, the last four being the only survivors. It was agreed when the club was or ganized that on the 2d of January of each year the members should all attend a supper, and that a Regular organization should be maintained until the death of all the members, the last survivor to take the club effects to his home as a me mento. Through thirty years this agree ment has been kept. At each supper plates were laid for all of the dead members, and each was toasted in turn. On Jan. 2, 1882, there were eleven empty chairs at the table. Mr. Riddle, who has just died, presided, and a wager was made that he would, as had all of the other presidents of the club, die before the other members. A president will have to be elected on Jan. 2 next. In view of the fate of the presidents of the club, candidates for the position are backward about announcing themselves. -Philadelphia Record. Practical Education. The Rural New Yorker, in comment ing upon the methods of education of the present day, says: “It was Charles Lamb who said that his idea of educat ing a girl was to turn her loose in a well chosen library. Of course he was think ing of a girl as a companion, not as a clerk or a lawyer. In our own case, some of the brightest and most intelli gent of the many delightful women we meet have never had a college educa tion, know nothing of mathematics, and not much of science; but instead, have dipped deep into good literature, and can take an intelligent interest in, and give a sound opinion upon, the great questions of the day.” If a man means what he says he will be deliberate in his speech, aud state his purpose in plain, simple fashion. Intending suicide, be will not make motions at himself with a razor in the presence of his family five or six times a day. Mr. Micawber’s style of speech is associated with his style of action. All difficult, vaporing, tragic, superlative words exhaust the speaker. His strength all goes out through his mouth, and he is thus left helpless to do anything. Lyman Beecher said that when he had not much of a sermon he always thumped the pulpit and “hollered.” The Economic Value of Sharks. The economic value of sharks is not confined to their oil. The negroes of the Guinea coast eat the flesh after it approaches the high state of excel lence so esteemed by epicures in hare, venison, etc. In the Mediterranean the young sharks taken from the old ones are esteemed, and the ventral portions of the adult sharks. Fifty thousand dollars* worth of shark fins are imported yearly from Calcutta to China, where they are in great demand for soup. On some parts of the African coast the shark is valued as a god and dubbed the Jon-Jon. Its mouth is the sure and only way to heaven, and three or four times a year a human victim is sacrificed to it. In some of the islands of the Pacific the teeth are greatly regarded as weapons, being bored at their bases and lashed upon swords, daggers and spears, forming terrible arms, the serrated edges lacer ating and tearing the flesh. As a pro tection from these the natives have a regular armor, made of cocoanut fibre, fine examples of which may be seen, as well as the weapons, in the arclueologi cftl collection at the Museum of Natural History, Central Park. The most form idable weapons are a pair of gloves or long gauntlets that cover the arms, and ate faced with long recurving teeth. These are worn only by the largest men, who in battle rush boldly into the throng, seize a victim in their arms, and literally tear him to pieces. The back bom s of sharks on our southern coasts are used as canes, a steel rod being run down through the vertebrae, and the diffe, but a friend told me of DR. WIL LIAM HALL'S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS. 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