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NT,idcst and rosiest:* that he had got miths on the pres* ith the followingind........ 40Se •«•#«!«■ • • •« So nnber of the 1 xun 1,000•411........ 1,UUUo'clock before ; up and each o his own fire-ation of anoth-IEWS.re, editor of the went fishing one :e his leg* The teard of the acci-Sunday eveninga striking cxam-on following the ibbath. If Colo-been at church s broken his leg.” Sunday, as the is ascending the , he stepped on a sel, dropped by a ly-school, slipped, leg The next Wing containeda striking exam-on following self-hip. If the Rev.ning machine. They are then taken to a machine where, in a trice, theyare sawed in two in the middle, bywhich, of course, each long double headed match is made into two ordinary matches with a single head. These are gathered up in large boxes and put aside for a day or two for the heads to become more thoroughly dried. They are then taken to the boxing room, where a series or more of women and girls pack them in round boxes and square boxes of various sizes. The next process consists in giving the boxes the sanded surface for igniting the matches. This is done by little girls ten or eleven years old. Each girl has befoie her a pad saturated with glue and a shallow pan fi(led with common sand* She stamps the end of the box first on the glue and then on the sand, and the work is done. The operation is precisely like that of a mailing clerk post marking letters, instead that the children stamp with both hands instead of one. They soon become very expert and do the work with extraordinary rapidity. The factory here makes a very excellent quality of parlor matches. They make about five millions of matches a day. They have no difficulty in disposing of them, being generally behind in t.ieir orders. The enterprise is paying about 30 per cent* on the capital invested.THE OHIO MINERSchannel. The hopeful sought the chief, and tc had found the spot wh ters were united, and ta the valley he looked up ling streams. Of cot true to his promise, a consent, and the lovers happy.The Valley of the 1 beautiful indeed, and ic of the finest agriculti have ever seen. The S is as rich as could be c covered with the finest seen in Georgia. The ( (the birthplace of Dr Miller) is being thorouj and ditched, and will m the finest farms in the laWhile on the road i was called to the trac water spouts, which country several years seem more dangerous t clones.I saw in North Care capals cut in the moi said to be io feet deep wide, and running a dist one to two miles. Ex this track was destroyedThis section is said t rattlesnakes, though I seen a living one. I her man say that a man li county awoke a few : and felt something in hi upon examination, nrm
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Athens Banner Watchman

Athens, Georgia, US

Tue, Sep 09, 1884

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