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8 THE SOUTHERN WORLD, OCTOBER 36, 1882. Southern gfiorld, Pakllsbed on the 1* t and UlhorHCh Month BY TUB SOUTHERN WORLD PlIBLINIIINti VO., ATLANTA, OEOKOIA. Incorporated—Paid up Capital, 088,000. D. C. BALENTINE, President and Manager T. B. CAKTMELL, Secretary and Treasurer. W. O. WHIDBY, Editor. £■& NEWMAN,’ {ContributingEditors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! One year, postage paid, flM Sutacrlptloiu can conunenoe at any time during year. Sample copies sent tree to all who send us their CIRCULATION, - - 20,000 COPIES. BATES OF ADVERTISING 1 Legitimate advertisements will be inserted at the following rates; Inside pages, each Insertion, per line - .25 eta. Outside page “ “ “ “ ■ -85 eta. Heading NoUces 80 eta. All advertisements charged by solid Agate measure ment, 14 lines to the Inch. No extra charge for cuts. The Houthern Would has the largest circulation and Is the best advertising medium In the 8outh. TO CORRESPONDENTS.—It Is our aim to make the Soutubbn World a medium for the diffusion of practical Information upon all Agricultural and Mechanical subjects, and to this end we Invito com munications upon all rural subjects, experimental results, crop news, domesUc economy, etc., and upon topics of Interest to Mechanics, Manufacturers and Miners. Address all letters to SOUTHERN WORLD PUBLISHING CO., Atlantis, Georgia. ATLANTA, GA., OCTOBEIi 15, 1882. WEATHER BULLETIN In the Cotton Belt ffom Sep. US to Oet. 0. Observer's Office Signal Service, U. S. A., Kimball House, Atlanta, Oa. Ther. Atlanta... Augusta Charleston..... Galveston Mobile Montgomery.. Memphis LltUe Book..., New Orlesns. Vicksburg...... Savannah. Wilmington.. Jl Iff it Max 82 on 1st noth 82 on .will 89 on 5th 87 on 3d 81 on noth 80 on 3d 88 on 4th 87 on 29th 88 on Until 85 on 29th 81 011 9th fxiw'ilMax 75° on 25th 75 oil 27th on 27th 81 on 25th 80 OH20III 77 on 26th 74 on 20th 73 on26tli 82 on 20th 80 on 26th 79 on 20th 67 on 27tb Average maximum of cotton belt from September ISth to October 9th—81°. Average minimum of cotton belt from September 25th to October 9th-62°. Note.—Average maximum means heat In the day ! average minimum, heat before day. RAINFALL. Atlanta .38in.great'atfall .11 on Sep. 27th ■— .1 In. " " .1 on •* 27th Augusta Charleston 12 In. Galveston 1.87 In. Mobile 82 In. Montgomery 15 In. Memphis 72 In. Little Bock S3 In. New Orleans 2.62 In. Vicksburg... 1.61 In. .7 on Oct. 6th 1 .43 on “ 8th .03 on " 1st .15 on Sep. 30th .22 on Oct. 1st .28 on * 1st 1 1.40 on " 1st .83 on " 1st .27 on Sep. 29th .02 on ** WMh Total rain fall In cotton belt 9.91 Inches. Greatest fall at oneplace-Ncw Orlcans-2.52 inches. Greatest fall ono day—October 1st—3.80 Inches. CIIABAOTEE or WEATHER—NUMBER OF DATS. Cltte*. Otar. Cloudy. fhtr. Atlanta 10 2 * Augusta.... 9 8 3 Galveston....... 6 7 3 1 ndlanola os 4 Montgomery 7 6 8 New Orleans 7 4 4 Pensacola 7 0 2 The Southern World ig ono year old to day. The sketch of “Plantation Life,” on our second page, is true to life. In another column will be found Hon. F. C. Furman’s address on “Intensive Farm ing.” It is an able presentation of the sub- jeot. Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, is an nounced to deliver the annual address at the North Carolina State Fair, at Raleigh, on the 18th Inst. De Kalb county comes to the front with some valuable facta about an intensive farm er in that county, and we will give it a place in our next. The average increase in the price of farm products in the past 60 years has been from 300 to 400 per cent, while the average de crease in the price of manufactured goods during the Bame period has been from 20 to 00 per cent The September report of the crope in Geor gia, by Hon. J. T. Henderson, Commission er of Agriculture, shows the estimated yield of cotton to be 87; of corn, 110; sugarcane, 109 ; rice, 101; sweet potatoes, 111; sorghum, 104; peas, 100. We acknowledge the receipt of a com pi 1 inentary to the fair of the McNairy county (Tcnn.) Agricultural and Mechanical So ciety at Purdy, commencing on the 17th inst. President Warren and Secretary Har ris have our thanks. We have seen thy working model of a car coupler belonging to Dr. John M. Rendle- man, formerly of Decatur, now of Iowa, that seems to be jnst the thing. It can be used on the side of the car, or on top, and dispen ses with the necessity of going between cars to couple them. It is a life-preserver. We are indebted to C. H. Moise, secretary of the Sumter Park and Agricultural Asso ciation of Sumter, S. C. for a specimen of the Diploma given to exhibitors of that Assoc la tion. It is a very handsome document, and well worth preserving. The Association is live and progressive. The Chicago Screw Pulverizer is a satisfac tory labor-saving implement. It does its work well. 8ucli men as Hon. B. F. Cray ton, Anderson, S. C., W. G. Childs, Colum bia, S. C., Hon. B. C. Yancey, Athens, Oa., and Richard Peters, Atlanta, Ga., useitwith eminent success. Col J. H. Seals, editor of the Sunny South, recently delivered a lecture at De Give’s Opera House, in Atlanta, to a large audience, on “That Ugly Woman.” It sparkled with wit and humor, sentiment an<| sound doc trine. It is urged now that Mrs. M. E. Bry an give the pubiicsoon an opposition lecture ‘That Horrid Man.” Owing to the " fickleness ’’ of the mail, the paper on " Home Life in Florida "by Helen Harcourt, did not reach us in time for this issue. It will appear in our next Norman J. Colman, editor of Colman’i Ru ral World, of St. Louts, made an elaborate speech before the tariff commission in oppo sition to a tariff, except for revenue. The New York Graphic wants not simply to “pull down the vest,” but to pull it off altogether. Weobject to divesting man of the vest. It is a vested right and not a vestige of barbarism. Five le veil! The American Agricultural Association will hold its third annnal convention at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, commencing Wednesday, December I5th, 1882, and con tinuing three days. Addresses will be de livered and papers read by able agricultural ists and scientists and public men upon agri culture and kindred topics. The Commissioner of Agriculture, Statis tics, Mines and Immigration of Tennessee, has called a Convention of Land Owners in Tennessee at Monteagle Springs, in Marion county, Tenn., on the 17th inst. A large number of gentlemen from the Northern States are expected to be present to confer with the land owners with the view of mak ing investments and seeking homes. Montgomery, Ala., should feel proud of possessing a child so gifted as Lulu Porter, not 13 years of age, who as an elocutionist, will rank among many of those of riper years, and more enlarged experience. Her petite and graceful form, silvery tones and well-modulated voice wins at once the hearts other audience. And the applause they give the child-elocutionist is more a tribute to merit than an offering to charity. She is now in Atlanta and will give a reading soon to a large audience. According to the report of the Department of Agriculture, the crop of wheat in Great Britain will this year aggregate nearly 90,- 000,000 bushels, so that the British demand will considerably exceed 100,000,000 bushels. France will require from 40,000,000 to 50,- 000,000 bushels; Spain possibly 10,000,000. Germany’s crop is disappointing. Holland suffered from prolonged rains. In some sections of Russia crops are good, in others bad, the general average being below a good one. Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria and European Turkey are understood to have had good harvests. Farming In Hlaslsalppl. The Friar’s Point (Miss.) Gazette publishes a striking report from Clarksdale Grange of the crops grown by A. K. Bobo, of Coahomo county, Miss. 12 acres in oats yielded 497 X bushels of oats, and 12 tonsof straw worth $557.00. The cost of raising was $03.83, leaving a net gain of $493.67 or $41.13 11-12 per acre. 88 acres in wheat, (13 in clover) yielded 385K bushels of wheat, 38 jtona of straw and 26 tons of clover, worth $1,127.88. The cost of raising was $199.88, leaving a net gain of $928.00 or$24.42 2-9 per acre. No fertilizers used. The Mississippi Talley. We are pleased to notice that work has be gun on the Improvement of the Mississippi River, and trust that our next Congress will push on the work of placing such barriers in the way of floods that the people will be se cure from the disasters of overflows. The great Mississippi valley cannot be over looked. Its wants must be attended to. Says an exchange: “The Mississippi valley contains 1,238,043 square miles or 703,730,880 acres of the most fertile land in the world. A thousand miles in length and over two thousand In breadth it enjoys all manner of climates and is able to produce all the crops of the temperate and tropic zones. The farms in the Mississippi valley embrace 305,256,000 acres, of which 233,750,000 are improved land, of the value of $5,005,070,000. There still remain 487,000,000 acres which have not been touched, virgin soil; which, when it is open to cultivation and is producing crops, will more than double the productiveness of the valley.” With its head pillowed on the waves of the beautiful Ohio; its feet bathed by the billows of the Gulf of Mexico; its arms, the one taming the tumults of the stormy At lantic, the other grasping the peaks, of the mountains of the West; it is a mighty giant, possessing within itself all the material fora proud and august Empire, Let us hope then that a due regard for so valuable a part of our territory will induce the statesmen in our national councils to devise measures that will still further develop her resources and greatness. Onr Celestial Tiaitor. Comets have been regarded with supersti tious dread and terror by the ignorant for ages, and the advent of our present celestial visitor has not been an exception. There are not wanting even learned men who pre dict that it will run into the sun and pro duce darkness and disaster. This marvelous wanderer of the skies is pronounced more beautiful than the great one of 1858. A remarkable feature of the tail, is a nar row, dark rift running through its entire length. With a telescope this dark channel can be traced close up to the bright, plane tary head. The changes in color which the comet undergoes as it rises is very interest ing. When its head is just clear of the hori zon it shines with a reddish, flickering light, the upper part of the tail being light yellow. As the morning twilight begins to appear and the comet gets above the mists, all trace of redness disappears and the head exhibits a clear white light, while the tail assumes a silvery hue. The remarkably sharp outlines of the tail, especially on the southern side, attract the attention of all observers. The southern or lower edge of the tail is brighter than the other edge toward which it fades off, thus giving it the appearance of a gi gantic feather. At times faint flashes seem to extend for some distance beyond the end of the tail. The telescope shows a mass of nebulous matter surrounding the head, ap pearing to be banked up in front and parting and flowing back on each side to form the tail, as if the comet were ploughing its way through a luminous sea, leaving a great wake of light behind it. But in fact it is moving away from the sun tail first, and this makes it clear that the tall is the result of some re pulsive force exerted by the sun, which drives the material of the tail ahead of the solid nucleus, just as a strong wind drives the smoke of a steamship ahead of the ves sel. Prof. Geo. R. Cather, a well known scien tist of Alabama, discusses the general sub ject of comets in this issue, and in our next will give a continuation of this interesting subject. His views come emphasized with years of observation and study and will be found valuable and instructive. The fourth trade issue of the Augusta Chronicle and Comtitutionaliet of 10 pages is a handsome specimen of typographical excel lence, and the illustrations and exhibits pro fuse and cheering. Augusta is a solid city, and her prosperity is well deserved. The Chronicle and Comtitutionaliet is an old and popular paper, progressive and prosperous. The census of 1880 will fill thirty volumes of nine hundred pages. Ten thousand copies will be printed of the complete work, and one hundred thousand copies of a compen dium in one volume, and an extra ten thous and of the volumes on agriculture and popu lation. The printing will coet $1 000,000. Kansas has a population of 900,700, a gain of 37,254 over last year. This year she has produced 35,734,840 bushels of wheat, 157,- 005,722 bushels of corn, 4,450,400 bushels of rye and 21,046,284 bushels of oats. Care for Diphtheria. The Medical Prett says that Dr. Deuker, who, during twenty-four years of very ex tensive practice in the Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, has treated upward of two thousand cases of diphtheria, and tried all the remedies, both internal and external, em ployed in this affection, has obtained the best result from the following method, which he has employed for the last ten years. As soon as the white spote appear on the tonsils he gives cold drinks, acidulated with hydrochlo ric acid, and every two hours a gargle com posed of lime-water and hot milk in equal parts. Dr. Deuker affirms that when this treatment is commenced early it is generally and rapidly successful. Southern Display In Boston. At the second annual exhibition of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechan ics’ Institute, the display made by the Rich mond and Danville railroad was one of the finest ever seen in Boston, and the managers of the fair gave the praise just where it be longs, and it was unstinted. The Richmond and Danville Company had 3,000 square feet of spnee, counting in the display mode by the Georgia Pacific. The latter company had 260 different specimens of ores and coals in all, while the former was not so large. By comparison with what the Richmond and Danville showed at the Cotton Exposition, the exhibit was fully twenty times as large National Cotton Planter*’ Convention. The National Cotton Planters’ Convention will convene in Little Rock, Ark., to-mor row—10th.—An address will be delivered be fore the Convention by many distinguished men, among whom will be Senator Farish C. Furman, of Georgia, on his plan of growing five bales of cotton to an acre, and other kindred subjects; John C. Calhoun, Presi dent of the Calhoun Land Company, on the profits and merits of syndicate farming, a new departure for the South. Addresses will also be delivered on practical silk and jute culture and Mississippi Improvements. The Now England Cotton Manufactnrers’ Asso ciation will be represented by a delegation headed by the President of the Willimantic Linen Company, while the various cotton exchanges of tho country will all be repre sented. Governor Lowry and staff, and Col onel Ned Richardson, of Mississippi; Gov ernor Roberts and staff, of Texas, and ex- Governor Patton and other distinguished men will be present from Alabama. The State House is being profusely decorated, as a place for holding the convention, and the fair grounds are teeming with bustle and activity by the exhibitors getting their goods In place. The race men are exercising their horses. Exhibits have been pouring in at a great rate. The capacity of machin ery has been doubled to accommodate the demand for space. The most interesting ex hibit will be the plantation cotton seed oil mill, which exhibits for the first time, and destined to create a revolution in southern industries. The Sanitarian for October is a particularly rich number. Plumbing Fixtures:—Wash basins, bath tubs, water closets, etc., by Wm. Paul Gerhard, Sanitary Engineer, answera many questions which have been agitating housekeepers on the dangers of bad plumb ing and how to avoid them; Panama Canal Sanitation, by Geo. Halsted Boyland, M. D., showa the good effects of practical sanitation under the most trying conditions of climate, and should be read by all persons interested in such questions; New York Tenement Houses—their Victims and their Tyrants, by Geo. C. Bcoth, Is by no means limited in interest to New York, and is likely to sur prise many readers, by the terrible picture here drawn of the landlordism of a great church property; Horseback Exercise and Malaria, by J. W. Pinkham, M. D., admira bly illustrates the best way of curing "ma laria,” under a great variety of circum stances. The leading editorials are on the American Public Health Association, and the National Board of Health, and should be read by all sanitarians. The plan in prog ress for stamping out Yellow Fever in Brownsville, by a cordon confining people to the locality, is severely condemned, as being worthy of the age only when such a practice was common in the effort to stay the plague, three hundred years ago, barbarous in its tendency and promotlve of the epidemic. Besides these leading papers, there are many shorter ones, current news on sanitary sub jects, reviews of sanitary publications, and the important announcement that after Jan uary 1st The Sanitarian will be published weekly. A. N. Bell, New York.