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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.”