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Show CLIPPED ANI CONDENSED. An old negro, living in Dalton, named Election Barksdalo claims to bo 100 years bid. He says ho remembers dis tinctly events commoted with the revolutionary war, aifd other prominent promi-nent historical occurrences of more than a century ago. The old man is still in very good health and seemshale and hearty. If the old darky tells the truth about his age he is certainly the oldest man now living in the state of Georgia. j ' The Mexican postoffiee department is about to adopt a novel device. A phonograph pho-nograph is to be placed in each principal princi-pal office in the country, for tho accommodation accom-modation of the numerous citizens who cannot read or write. The illiterate Mexican will go to the postoffiee, talk his message into the receiver of the phonograph, pho-nograph, and when the cylinder reaches its destination the person addressed will he sent for and the message will be repeated re-peated to him by another machine. The Irish bark Countess of DuQ'erin left Londondery iu ballast for Apala-. chicola, Fla., Nov. 22. 18SU. and arrived there on April 5, 1880, requiring 133 davs to make tho trip. At the end of three months she was not lifty miles off the coast of Ireland. This three months was a series of gales and calms. At one time she was as far north as Iceland. When she did get a fair wind she came through in thirty-five days. Long ago this vessel was given up as lost. |