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Daily globe., 1883-07-29

The corner stone OF the hrst Jewish syn
agogue in Memphisw as laid last week.
The salaries of all the clergymen of the
United States are about S6,O60,OOO a year.
Adam was not polygamist, although in
his day he married all the women in the
world.
1t is estimated that in the state of New
York there are 10000 children who never
attended Sunday school.
The dog tax nets the government about
$16,000,000, and the commissioner of
agriculture says it costs $5O,00O,O0O to
feed them.
She sang: II want to be an angel" and
he swore she was one already. To this
see blushingly demurred. Then he mar
ried her. Demurrer sustained.
presentment has been made to Bishop
Potter against the Rev. R. Heber Newton,
charging him with preaching false doctrine
and with violation of his ordination VOWS.
At the annual breakfast of the London
Tract society the Rev. DR.. J. Murdock, of
India, said that there were 330,OO0,000
idols there to its population of 250,0OO,OOO.
Mr.. Bright is expected to review the re-
cent action of the house of lords, and
especially OF the bishops, in reference to
the rejection of the deceased w1fe's sister
bill.
81 will do as 1 please" Not if you are
Christian, for if you are that, your body
and mind and money and influence and all
you are and have belong to Christ, and you
must do as He pleases.
The American Tract society reports re.
ceipts in all of 1884,, 900 and expenditure of
$S86,280 the past year. the American
| Bible society had an income for general
purposes of $59S,641 during the same
time.
The water of the holy we'll at Mecca has
been found on analysis to contain 579
grains of solid matter to the gallon, and is
seven times worse than the sewerage of
London. This explains the prevalence of
cholera among pilgrims.
The Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission.
ary society of the west is to send petition
to the Queen Of England and Empress OF
India, petition1ng her to abolish child mar.
riage in India. The petition will have
many thousand signatures.
Personal liberty ceases when it reaches
point where another is injured. This
point is reached by the liquor seller the
moment he locates and opens his dram
shop. The neighborhood becomes less de.
sirable and property less valuable.
A traveller through the Merv oasis discov.
cred seven Jewish families who have been
established there for an unknown period
of time, and who have preserved intact
the costume, religion and language OF
their ancestors, who we're probable Chal.
deans.
In Delaware, Ohio, college, thirty stu
dents have been suspended for drunken
ness and billiard playing. A few days
ago some of the boys put an OK in Presi
Daily globe., 1883-07-29
SUNDAY GLOBEL ETS.


Pope: Immodest words admit of no de-
Tense.
HOOKER: The life of a pious ministe
is visible rhetoric.
FRANKLIN: Never leave that till to-mor-
row which you can do to-day.
ALFRED DE MUssET: 1t is easy to prom
Use, and, alas! how easy to forget.
WILLIAM PENN: Be sure that religion
cannot be right that man is the worse for
having.
BURNS: A mind that is conscious of it's
integrity scorns to say more than it means
to perform.
JEFFREY; Opinions founded on pre-
judice are always sustained with the great
est violence.
JANE POTTER: National antipathy is the
basest, because the most illiberal and IL
literate of all prejudices.
WENDELL PHILLIPS: Every step of pro-
gress which the world has made has been
from soaffold to scaffold, and from stake
to stake.
THOMAS ADAM: Nothing but the blood
of Christ can wash out the foul stains of
my life, and that will do it. As sure as sin
10 death, Christ is life.
RoRAoE MANN: The devil tempts men
through their ambition, their cupidity, or
their appetite, until he comes to the pro-
fame swearer, whom he catches without any
reward.
GsoBoB MAoDoNALD: Teach your child
to obey, and you give him the most pre-
cious lesson that can be given to child.
Obedience is the grandest thing in the
world to begin with.
SrBBNE: I asked hermit once in Italy
how he could venture to live alone in a
single cottage on the top of mountain a
mile from any habitation. He replied
that Providence was his very next door
nelghbor."
s. H. Cox: Of all the dark catalogue of
sins there is not one more vile and execra-
bic than profaneness. 1t commonly does,
and loves to cluster with other sins; and
he who can look up and insult his maker
to his face needs but little improvement
in guilt to make him finished devil.
CHAPIN: Profaneness is brutal vice.
He who lndulges in it is no gentleman. 1
care not what his standing may be in soci-
ETY.. care not what clothes he wears, or
what culture he boasts. Despite all his
refinement the light and habitual taking of
Gods name betrays coarse nature and a
brutal will.
PASCAL: Let any man examine his
thoughts and he will find them ever occu-
pied with. the past or the future. We
scarcely think at all of the present; or, if
we do, it is only to borrow the light which
is given for regulating the future. The
present is never our object. The past and
the present we use as means; the future
only 8 our end. Thus we never live, we
only hope to live.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

The Rev. Mr.. Currie, laboring as a mis-
slonary among some Of the small and
scattered tribes of Indians in Texas, came
across an interesting relic, in the possess
ION of an old Indian warrior of the Greek
tribe-a silver medal presented to her hus.
band, by General jackson, with this in
scription:
"Andrew Jacks n,
President of the United States
To his faithful guide in the Seminole war,
JOHN BLOUNT."
This John Blount is historical charac.
ter in the record of the famous Seminole
war.
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called to the statement, he unhesitatinply
declared that he had no evidence of the
antiquity of man as stated, and that all he
saw was quantity of "stone chips,' etc..
indicating that Indians had manufactured
their arrows, etc., in the places stated on
rather extensive scale. This he did not
think matter worthy of public notice, as
it was nothing uncommon. Thus another,
of the numerous pre-Adamite stories has
been squslched, like all its predecessors
Some little time since as establishing the
existence of pre-Adamite man, wonderful
human footprints were alleged to have
been found i'll an ancient sandstone for
nation in Nevada, and some geologists, of
reputation, ready to invalidate divine rev.
elation, halfway endorse the assumption
but having some regard to their reputa-
ton as reliable scientists and geolopists.
this pretension is wholly abandoned, and
these strange footprints are now referred
to some old geological beast. But this
theory, though abandoned here, is kept
alive In Europe to strengthen unbelief and
inhdelity there. In late scientific French
publication, no less distinguished scien-
tist than M. Cartailhac, the leading
French authority on Prehistoric Archeolo-
gy reproduces and endorses the story of
the wonderful pre- Adamite footprints
found in an ancient sand formation in
Nevada. On such sandy foundation
rests the prehistoric theory and claims to
the existence of pre-Adsmite man in un-
fashionable antiquity.
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Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway.
Corrected up to July ], 1e6a.
Arrival and departure Of through passenger trains

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Minneapolis 81. PAuL
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21
Glass Shingles.

A manufacturing firm in Pitts
burgh has made new departure in
the use of glass, patent having re
Gently been granted to them for the
manufacture of glass shingles,
1t is claimed for this material that it
is more durable, stronger and more
impervious to rain than slate or any
other substance now used. The
manufacture of these shingles will
also be comparatively inexpensive
and they can be placed in position
by any ordinary workman.
They can be used for weather
boarding or siding houses, and will
be found especially serviceable for
Conservatives or hot housee, as
they can be made of transparent as
well as Of opaque or translucent
glass. These shingles have the ad-
vantage Of slate in several particu-
lars. In consequence of their shape
they lie solid on the roof, and they
will admit of persons walking on
them without danger of fracture, a
quality which slate does not possess.
They are interlocked so as to leave
no intersection between them, and
ore rivet holds each pair of shingles,
so they cannot be forced from their
places by wind or other atmospher-
ic disturbances. They are also
made SO as to have very little waste
material.
1t takes 300 states, each eight by
twelve inches, to cover what is tech
nically known as square of roof
Ia space measuring ten feet each
way) but $50 of thesa shingles will
suffice for the same space. States
lap on the ends in the roofing but
the shingles lap on the sides. It
has been proved by experiment that
of two adjacent houses, one covered
with slate and the other with trans
lucent glass, the heat of the room
near the roof of the former building
will exceed that Of one similarly sit
uated in the latter, dnring summer,
By thirteen degrees. Glass roofs
are also warm in winter.
Glass is otherwise q non-conductor
of electricity, and houses with these
roofs will need no lightning conduc-
tors. Although the kind of glass in
tended to be usedin these shingles is
non transparent, yet spaces for sky
light may be filled with transparent
glass. The exposed part of she
shingles are corrugated to increase
strength and carry off the water.
The firm will construct the shingles
in handsome diamond shapes, and
they can be supplied in any color re-
quired or of no color if . preferred
A roof wi h colored border and
opalescent body is said to be very
handsome.-Brick, Tile and Material
Review.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21
The Many Things Into Which
Paper is made.

A tall man, with sharp features
and thoughtful air, sat IN a small
study, and gazed gravely at d brown
object that lay at his feet.
ut is a paper railroad cross tie,"
he said.
The reporter raised it with some
difficulty. 1t was Of very close fibre,
and so highly polished that it resem-
bled rosewood. Its inventor tapped
1t with his nail, and said:
sit doesn't look much like paper,
does it?"
ut seems more like iron. Is it
possible that it is made of paper?'
ooh, yes almost anything can be
made of paper. A paper ball can be
rendered so solid that nothing will
lndent it but diamond tool. Car
wheels are now made of paper. It's
strength is astonishing. You can
suspend $50 pounds from Bank of
England note and it will not part.
Bath tubs, pots, plates, knives, forks,
cooking stoves, printing presses,
steam engines and chimneys are
made of paper nowadays, and there
is absolutely no limit to the uses to
which it may be put,
"Have paper cross ties ever been
used?"
Not yet. The cross tie is my
invention.
How did you happen to think of
swell, I didn't happen to think Of
it, exactly. L started out deliberate
" to invent a substitute for the
wooden cross tie or sleeper, and /
kept steadily at it until ] was sue
cessful. | thought of paper. There
are scores of mills in the country
where paper, straw, prairie grass, and
other hbrous substances are conver-
ted into straw board. The process
is simple. The straw is reduced to o
pulp and run out into boards.
These straw boards are sold all over
the country as substitutes for wood.
My invention utilizes straw board.
The cross tie is constructed Of
sheets or layers of paper or straw
board, laid one npon another, ce-
mented and compressed into molds.
1t makes perfect cross tie. 1t is
practically water and frs proof, as
it is manufactured under five hum
bred degrees of heat. Atmospheric
changes have no effect on it. 1t
can be made as cheap as wood at the
present time, and will last at least
twenty five years.-New York
Sun.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21
A Costly Painting.

Chicago can felicitate itself upon being
the unfortunate possessor of a painting
that cost ST 200, 900. It is done in oil,
and is no larger than awell-developed rose;
and, strange to say, this wonderful paint
ing is living and moving canvass rs it
were. 1t took over thirty years to COM
plete it; and when done it was not even
beautiful. AT night it Looks like sympho-
ny in crushed-strawberry style; time
Arthur ]. The owner would not part with
his work of art for love normoney; SO you
can see that he values it very dearly. He
was at one time a millionaire. He con-
ceived passion for an eminent artist by
the name of Al Cohol whom he engaged
to paint picture for him. The artist, be-
ing rather eccentric, concluded!not to paint
for BIS friend on canvass, but upon his
friends body, that he mighthave with him
a constant reminder of their friendship.
But Still more strange, he chose his en-
ployers nose for a background. Day after
day the millionaire sat for his artist friend,
and day after day q new streak of comedian
hue was added to the figure, until the sub
ject had grown old and gray, and his money
had slipped through his tigers, and was
gone forever. Of his million dollars he
had not a cent, but Of the picture they
could not rob him; that will stick to him
like a hungry girl to church festival.
The oil in which it was done was fusil-oil
and the brush was the touch of nature
And now, as he wanders off through the
back yard Of memory, how he must kick
himself; metaphorically, for making such
an old mule of himself We live to learn
that we may learn tolive.- Chicago Cheek.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21
-S-s>-t-n>-s'---->------
"Who Am =, Anyway 2"

A short time ago, says the Salt
Lake Tribune, a bright looking Dan
ISL boy stepped into a lawyers office
and said:
II want you to tell mewho I ann
layinga IS bill on the desk at the
same time.
The lawyer peeping alternately at
the boy and at the SIS bill, shaking
his head, replied
at seems to me you are a funny
boy2"
'Not.funny at all. You will find
it very serious matter
"Well, go ahead aud explain it,
"About twenty years ago. veal
thy Danish lady, being a widow,
came over to this country with her
two daughters. The father married
both the Widows daughters. Ono
year after the Norwegian's boy mar
ried the wealthy widow. The result
OF that marriage was another boy,
and, if lam sure, I am that boy.
The Norwegian's boy died. The
Danish widow was a widow again,
but the ole Norwegian married her
too. After that the old lady died, and
one year ago the old gentleman too,.
after he had made himself the owner
Of his third wifes property. Now,
when | claimed the property my sis
tiers said: Stop, you can't be the
heir at all You are our late hus-
bands grandchild. By her marriage
with him you became your mothers
grandchild too, and after she died
we became your mothers, and you
never can inberit the PROPERTY be.
fore we are dead. That's what nv
sister mothers say but 1 think that
can't be right, and there must be
some mistake in poIygarny. Now
sir, please to tell me what am-who
| ann
The lawyer TRUSTING his chain i'm
to his neck, answered pathetically ;
You are polyga-mistake p
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21
Georgia News From Abroad.

National Republican.
"Georgia's acres are not worked
as they ought to be-" said the Col.
to the man on the avenue yesterday.
"The capitalists will find it out
won't they 2"
"They would if they could have
heard Ben lie Fevre talk about it
last night. We were at the bouse
of Gen. Rosecrauz. Gen Beaver was
there too and he is interested in land
stories. lie Fevre is just returned
from a trip through Georgia and
Florida-He took wagon rides into
parts of Georgia not visited by travel
ers and he SAYS thousand Of acres that
yielded fortune before the war are
not.kept up anything like their best.
One plantation which had been sold
for $4,000 brought but $1,000 at q
recent sale and not far from Macon
he found what had beef a grand old
mansion house, with a ten acre lawn
and old oaks growing all around it
occupied by fifteen or twenty colored
families who had taken advantage of
it's vacancy and squatted there.
''Didn't they work the land 2"
'In potato patches and scraps of
weedy cotton but not enough to
amount to anything"
'Where are all the old planters 20
'Dead OF moved into town. The
younger generation went West and
it is left for outside capital to go IN
and bring the land back TO its pro-
ductiveness. lie Fevre says he was
on Cumberland island where once the
primest of sea-island cotton was
raised and where one plantation sold
for 100000. Not long ago one half
the entire island including the en-
tire plantation was sold for $50,
600 to an enterprisirg Pittsburg
man. When he went to look it over
he found bears, deer and wild tur-
key running over the land
"See here, colonel; are you sure
about the bears?"
ooh, yes; the bears catch the
pigs and make lots of trouble"
"All right, but 1 think l will quit
on the bear part Of the story
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21

They had been married only six weeks
when he came home from the store one
evening and found her in tears. She had
lost one of her diamond earrings
"Well, crying won't restore it dear" he
remarked, as he Kissed her on the chin.
"NoEo, but you see what an embarrass-
ing condition l amplaced in"
Certainly; we will advertise the loss in
all the papers"
''And offer a liberal reward"
eyes"
''rhe finder viii expect ut least twenty
five dollars?"
eyes"
That's what makes me feel $3.50 sad p
She cried, as she laid her beautiful head
on his shoulder. Those diamonds were
wedding present from father, and he
got 'em at the d-dollar store, and l don't
want tosee you swindled out of twenty -four
dollars !n-Prairie Farmer.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21
Prohibition in Walker

0NOAh GROVE WALKER Co., GA May 81,
Hon. {. R. PRMeLE, Sandersville: 0'''
Dear Sir-Yours of the 18th inst how
ing been missent has just reached me- and
hasten to reply. The local option law
mas been in'force in portions of Walker
county Tor eight years. Before it went IN
10 operationg there were eight whisky
establishments in the county. We had
court twelve to sixteen days in the year
County in debt and county taxes high. We
now have no saloons county taxes low and
before the burning of our Court house
money in the treasury while our Superior
Court holds eight to ten days in the wear
Our county is enjoying a degree of pros
perity that it has not at any time since the
war. This our people feel and know. The
business of my place has increased more
than fourfold and the same is true of other
places in the country. The people are so
well satisfied with the results of prohibi-
ton that not twelve months ago an cleo
ton was held in one of our districts and
the results was 'for restriction 81. "acinst
restriction /. In a moral point of view
the change is far more striking than in our
increasing prosperity. Churches and
academies of which any community in
Georgia ought to be proud, are now in
many instances standing on the very spots
once occupied by saloons, The election
above mentioned will show how our people
regard prohibition. Our people black and
white are almost unit on this subject.
Eight years ago one of my neighbors,
drinking man, was strenuously opposed to
restriction" after seeing the good results
of temperance and realizing them in his
own person he remarked to me ''Thank
God | am now free man. | can return
home sober. My wife and daughter always
kiss me Welcome. Instead of returning
drunk with a jug of whisky go home
sober and carry the necessities and even
the luxuries of life to my family"
This is the experience of thousands
wherever prohibition prevails. l have
written hastily.
Yours truly,
j. Y. Wood.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21

notorious shrew and people sail
theT'd separate. in month--,hat
she'd henpeck Sam without mercy.
they lived on a farm and every-
thing went on smooth for about a
year until ii came to hog butchering
time, Sam got all ready to have the
usual part of the occasion. and just
as he was sharpenin' up the knives
Beckie came out ind said: "Sam:
I'm goin' home Sam protested in
his quiet way but it was no use, so
he said he'd get a man to row her
across the pond. 1t was about q
half mile over. She said.
''No ye won't yell row n1e over
yourself" Sam told her he couldn't
and Beckie fred up and said
Then I'll drown MYSELF SAM
said he'd go with her if she wanted
to do that so the boat was got ready
she got in aud they rowed out till
the water was twenty feet deep
Then Sam stopped and said: .Wali
Beckie, this is a good place for VI to
drown yerseifl" She didr,'.s open
her mouth: He waited while and
then said Come Beckie, Tn in
hurry to get back" She never
looked up. Sam put down the oars
caught hold of her and pit6hed her
in. She grabbed fof the boat but
he wouldn't let her get near it.
When she was almost done out she
said: Sam, let ME in that boat and
yell not hear anything more from
me not O. the way" So be pulled
her in and they went back home.
She changed her clothes and enter
tanned the guests. They'er How
nearly eighty and You never saw d
happier old couple-did you?
don't think they ever spoke of that
duckin' since the day she was goin,
to drown herself.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-06-21
The Two Platform

New York World
1t has become the fashion to say
that there are no issues between the
two gteat parties The remark is
made thoughtlessly and without an
examination of the subject. But
1t has been repeated so frequently
that many people have really per-
suaded themselves that an election
simply means which side shall enjoy
the privileges Of Office.
Two western political conven-
tons nave just been held-one in
Ohio by the Republicans, and one
in Iowa by the Democrats. The
Republican platform in Ohio indor-
ses the administration of President
Arthur and the action of Congress
in the case of civil service reform.
The Democratic platform condemns
the neglect to enforce the, rights of
American citizens abroad, denounces
the abuses in the civil service of the
government inaugurated and perpe-
tuated by the Republican party and
favors practical civil service reform
in all the branches of the govern
ment.
The Republicans declare boldly
for tariff for protection and an in
crease to the rate of 1867 of the
wool tariff which they have them
selves reduced The Democrats de-
clare in favor of tariff for Eevetiue,
by a gradual but persistent reduc-
ton of protective duties, and de-
nounce the tariff tink6ring of the
last Congress as the result of cor
rupt and disgraceful intrigues.
The Republicans of Ohio favor a
crusade against liquor and beer and
the enforcement of abstinence by
legislation. The Democrats of Iowa
oppose constitutional prohibition
and favor strong, well regulated H.
cense law.
The Republican platform lauds
the Republican Congress for the
picayune reduction of internal taxes.
The Democratic platform arraigns
the Republican Congress for the ex-
travagant increase of public expend-
lures.
In addition to this, The Democrats
of Iowa insist on the right and duty
OF the State to regulate RAILWAYS
through Legislative enactment, while
on the subject of railroads the Re.
publicans Of Ohio are dumb.
These two platforms show that
there are some issues between the
two parties. While they do not
cover Ill the points, they differ from
each other sufficiently to prove the
broad fact that the Republicans are
champions Of special privileges and
the Democrats the upholders of pop
ular rights.