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\ OOUKTY ► jf$m * im* s i l h u< m «J • "W"W y|jt K-1 j£3j i . i2^V" ) vSTv? m i » 3 »|i 'S ■f ^3-11? ♦Y OOH MOTTO: MDUMTMY, KCVAOJT, AAV rnKnaruKASom. W V. MWIM, Miter tad Pr«|RlM<r.) j I. S. mi>UI«, Fa blither. NEWS GLEANINGS. There are but 795 Jews in Florida. Arkansas has but eight daily pers. West Virginia has a population of 618,467. The city debt of Memphis is about $4,000,000. Texas has nearly 2,400 convicts in her penitentiary. The Georgia lunatic asylum is full to The dogs of Georgia cost mere than her preachers. A largo cottonseed-oil mill is to be built in Madison, Ga. An unusually rich copper mine has been opened in Cabarrus count}', N. C. A fourteen-pound cabbage has been shipped from Americus, Ga. Georgia’s wheat crop this year will be the best raised in twenty years. The Richmond, Ya., water works are to be completed, and will cost 360,000. A gold-fish 101 inches long was recent¬ ly taken from a cistern in Macon, Ga. • Virginia will conic to the front this year with a remarkably large fruit crop. For the first time in seventy-five years, Putnam county, Ga., is without a sa¬ loon. Tennessee has 18,000 actos unimproved land, most of which is covered with fine timber. Two hundred and forty convicts are at work ort*thc Marietta & North Georgia railroad. Atlanta, Ga , is to have a watch man¬ ufacturing company, with a capital stock of $100,000. A South Carolina lady has made feath¬ er fans of the value of $1,500 for a New York firm. Of the 30,000.000 acres of land in Mississippi less than 5,000,000 are under cultivation. . . __ --- ^Southeastern Alabama is said to be improving more than any other porti on of f the State. Rome, Ga., has the reputation of bo Ing the pretiest and most nicely situated city in the south. A company has been organized at Au¬ gusta, Ga.., to ‘build a railroad from that city to Elberton, Ga. A farmers’ convention in East Ten¬ nessee adopted a resolution ' favoring compulsory education. Rome, Ga., has completed the survey of her proposed canal, and estimates the cost at $25,009 per mile. Moss Point, Miss., has a glass factory, shbe factory, five plaining fourteen saw mills. The postmaster at Vicksburg gets the largest salary of any postmaster in Mis sissippi. His pay is $2,700 per year. George Ra'n and Peter Bang, each 18 years of age, are to be hanged at Pas¬ cagoula, Miss., August 4, for murder. Near Lumberton, N. C., two girls named respectively Frances McNair and Jane Kellar fought over a young man, and the latter was stabbed through tiie heart. Southern papers point to the im¬ mense amount of farming machinery being sold as evidence of the prosperity of the South. A rich deposit of kaoline-has been dis in Macon eounty, Ala. The ma ¬ terial is indispensable in the manufae ’tore of fire brick. A company lias been organized in North Carolina to bottle juniper wrrter> famous as a gentle tonic.. The water is abundant near Albemarle. Tennessee has 25 copper furnaces that turn out 2,600,000 pounds of copper each. year. The state has also 18,000,000 acres of unimproved land. South Carolina protects the, birds by imposing a fine of 10 against every one convicted of robbing a nest. Thirty days’ imprisonment can lie added. A Norfolk, Va., girl became to in¬ censed because her sister gave birth to an illegitimate child that she strangled the infant to death. The parties belong to a good family and the murderess is in jail. The A then#, Ga , cottno factory pays an annual dividend of 12j per cent, hr* sides putting .a like per cent into a sink¬ ing fund for future repairs and addi¬ tions $ James Kirkland, of Ix*vy county,Fla , met with a horrible* death white out hunting recently. He stumbled and loll on a sharp stake, which pierced • i • through his hotly and held him until died. The Hebrew saloon-keepers of Little Reek, Ark., refuse to obey the new day law, claiming that the Christian Sunday is not their Sunday. Willie Morris became joyous at f. Wilmington, N. C., camp-meeting, and fell over Annie Williams while the bit¬ ter was kneeling in prayer, and broke her back. Augusta, Ga., will soon add 46,000 people to her population by taking in the new factories and Harrisburg, Hick villc and Bollersville, and the Sibley, King and Curry settlements. Thomas F' ifcrsoii, of Weldon, N. C., carelessly pointed an “empty” shot-gun at his three-year-old brother, but it wen off just the same, and the child was torn to pieces. The Savannah News calls attention to the fret that the execution of two white murderers recently in Georgia, shows that hanging white offenders for murder is by no means played out in the Empire State of the South. A peculiar accident caused the death of Richmond Pitts, at Cedartown. A stick ot wood fell from a wagon ou which he was riding, and catching be¬ tween the spokes in i f s revolution, knocked him off. The wheels then ran over his neck, breaking it. Mississippi has a-new law which re -quires all agents for fru't miseries situa¬ ted out of the State to pay $5 license in every county in which they do business and give a bond’and surety that the vines and trees sold will come up to the representation of the vendor. A mill owner in Clinch county, Ga., has found that the sawdust and chips from his taw mill yield fourteen gallons of spirits of turpentine, three to four gallons of rosin and a- large quantity of pine ta? per cord. It i» extracted by a sweating process, and the nev. lv-diseov e1tfJ9*tufitry will be generally worked by mill men. Laborers at work on a railroad near Jacksonville, Fla., moved a large flat stone while grading, which discovered a hole leading into the earth. A long pole failed to touch the bottom of the pit and a man was lowered into it with fifty foot-rope, but this also failed to find bottom. While he was being pulled up he dlscoved the skeleton of a man lying in a niche in the side of the cav¬ ern, which bad apparently been there for ages, as the Pones crumbled to dust as soon as touched. The pit is to be ex¬ plored. _____________ Full of “Specs.” The real old-faslrioned Yankee is still a fixture among ns, though some writers would make us believe that ho has been dead for years. There was a genuine specimen in the Erie depot yesterday, inter¬ and he was explaining to several ested “Father-in-law parties: lives here in Jersey City, and I’m on a visit like. Thought I’d bring along a few traps and things and get up a dicker or two. Any of ye like to invest in that ?” He put out the model of a rat trap and said: . “This trap not only catches the var mints, but it chokes ’em to death, throws the body out of that back window, and then resets itself. In the top is an alarm, to go off any hour you want and wake up the family. Here’s an apparatus on this side for grating spices. Any of you like to buy county he rights?” then plaoed before No one did, and them a vessel, about which he ex¬ plained: “This is how water-pail. By plac¬ a ing this iron cover on the bottom it be¬ comes a kettle. By inverting the cover half¬ you have a spider. The pail is a bushel mAsure to a grain. Once around it is pounds, exactly a and yard. I sell Its the weight county is exactly rights two for $50 each.” The next was a boot-jaok, which could be transformed into iii e-tongs, press board, stove-handle, nail-hammer had and eoveral other things. He an auger which bored four holes at once, a gimlet which bored a square hole; a washing machine which could also be made to serve as a tea-table, and one or two other things, and as he reached the last he said: “Gentlemen, I am full of speculations, I’ll invent anything; you want. I’ll sell anything I’ve got. I’ll take pay in nny thing you have, and I’ll give every one of you a eim”ee to make a million dol¬ lars. ” Safe a Light .. .. _ Railroad ,, . Cara. on It is proposed to forbid the use of oil on railway cars for light. This is wise, Many y set ious accident* have resulted from this habit. Ga» or the electric light will serve. The railroad bnt companies when life mtv object to the expense, mid safety are concerned the question of expense would not be considered. The ztszz —iVeic rvary co mfoi* so# eouvenienoe York Herald, WEST BOWERSVILL-i, GEORGIA. JUNE 24. 1882. t TOPICS OF THE DAI. .. Sergeant Maso* ia making shoes at Albany, N. Y. - The net debt ot New York, June 1, was $97,592,052. Mexico has repealed the duty on ex¬ ports of gold and silver. Pams i» counting on 100,000 Ameri¬ cans visiting that city this summer. Garfield's biograpy is selling in England at the rate of 2,000 a month. ' ..........— - Mrs. Garfield has been elected to succeed her husband as a trustee of Hiram College. The present Chief Justice of Alabama used to set type on a weekly newspaper for $5 per week. Ex-Senator Blaine is interested in the grtat coal monopoly in the Hocking Valley of Ohio. Goveror Crittenden, of Missouri, lias been made an LL. D. by the Mis¬ souri University. Vrnnor, Tico, and Couch, a trio of weather prophets, all predicted execrable weather for Juife. At Tombstone, Arizona, a purse of $2,500 lias been raised to pay for Indian scalps at $10 apiece. Costa RrcA-has accredited a lady— Madame Beatrice—as her Envoy Ex¬ traordinary at Washington. Nearly all the creditors of tho busted Mechanics’ Bank, at Newark, N. J.,liave been paid and the bank will reopen. A bill to forbid publishers and agents of school books serving on school com¬ mit tees has' passed tho Rhode Island Senate. ^ _ The census returns of Japan show a population of 85,353,991. Of these 18,- 423,271 oro males and 16,685,720 are _ *_____ The Chicago Jrtfcr-Ooean has discov¬ ered that the man who pays fifteen cents for a drink of whisky is swindled a clean ten cents’ worth. Tiie Ancient Ordflr of United Work men,. in annual sossion in Cincinnati, decided! to hereafter receive no members who are over fifty years of age. -—-- The world moves, An oil pipe lino has been laid across tlie Caucasus Moun¬ tains to deliver petroleum at a shipping point on tho coastof the Black Sea. Alexander in. has presented the German Emperor with tlie horses which were drawing the carriage of his father, the Czar, when ho was assassinated. The Spirit of the Times says James R, Keene offered fifteen thousand dollars for Henlopen, winner of the Juvenile Stakes, at Jerome Park, which was declined. It is conceded by those who ara posted on Congressional matters the present Bession, that the member who has tho strongest lungs is the greatest statesman. Says a cotemporary : Stories used to begin : ‘ ‘Once upon a time there lived—” Now they begin : «t < Veugoaneo, blood, death,’ shouted Rattlesnake Jim,” or words to that effect. The entire expenses at Yorktown cele¬ bration—per bill audited and allowed by Congress—amounting over $7,000, was for fine old wine and whiskies, cigars and fine-cut chewing tobacco. Intelligence from the South Coast of South AmericiT is to the effect that Ecuador is in the throes of revolution, Pent in anarchy and disorder, and Chili smitten by epidemics and cursed by brigandage. An ELECnffo light wire,buried beneath an asphaltum pavement at San Francisco, somehow lost its insulating envelope recently, and tho result was tlie asphaltj elcctrie fluid found its way into the which was soon in a lively sizzle an! fume. ___ Mb. Obobob to, E<« th. well-known writer on co-operation ami kindred subjects,has been commissioned hp the British Government to visit this cmintryunhO if Panada and report upon the chances offered he 0 jn^hnwit work ing people. Foreign Mission The Presbyterian in the Board has ithafnow spent #592,000 yonr . accepted thirty now ; nifwionariM mo9 tly young If men. Ex . • *** „„,v this year, it asks for an additional $100,000 mn ■ ™ ~ t r*rz'*— Some German nowsrmpers are vener able with age. The Frankfort Journal k isdit>l -a years old, the Magdeburg Zeitung if 253 years old, ami ninety-eight others over 100 years old, and most of these p pers are no more like a real live Amer kpu sheet than they were 100 years ago. -I- ---- * I' kl ^S------- The Memphis Avalanche keeps tho cueket of Judge Lynch’s court, and states that since January 1, sixteen per¬ sons have been hanged by mob law in tb) South, nineteen in the North and six ill"' the frontier States. This urobably cJjfv’s the executions by duo process of ( anon Fahtirb, who preached in West¬ minster Abboy a vermon on Darwin, took tins appropriate text; “And ho spake of trims, from tlie cedar that is in Lebanon even uujto tho liysop that springeth out of the wall; ho spake also of boasts, and of fowl, aud of creeping things, ami of fishes.” Bradstrert’s roport indicates a de¬ crease in the acreage and a reduced in the production of cotton, Tho weather has not been favorable to the growth of the plant in considerable areas of tho ©fintry, and tlie domoralizatlbn of labor in the flooded districts has retarded planting. „The Italian idea of Darwin is as fol¬ lows, from one of their papers: “We lopm from our English correspondent that Darwin, tlio famous apostle, ol - the apes, is dead. In Darwin's opinion men holy ;v. no^lie creatures of God, made of and stSril, aud called to immortality iu another life, ’ but- merely perfected • ' «•” That _ _ % tho dogs of Georgia bt^riumore th tithe n her of preachers, her wheat aud and that ratsajpm a corn, are among the curious Reductions from a talk with the Commissioner of Agriculture, who alt.) sees iu 1882 a bad year for cuts, whose pianos ns rat killers can billy be filled by black snakes, according to Congressman Hammond. jfovEMRNTS are being made in many tho erection of piominymts {q Garibaldi, Tho municipality of Genoa have subscribed 20,000 francs toward the erection of a monument, and that of Verona 10,000 francs for the same pur pofco. Tlio municipality of Rome have contributed 80,000 francs for the orec tionof a monument on Janiculum Hill. A drunk ami disorderly man was sen¬ tenced by an English magistrate to seven days at hard labor for trying at Leicester last week to shako hands with the Princess of Wales as she sat in kor car¬ riage, aud poked him away with her parasol. He was immediately released at the request of tho Prinoe aHjoPrineess. It is hard to heat an English magistrate in doing wliat ho thinks win please tho royal family. There seems to be as little economy tu the disbursement of public funds in New York now ns there was when the lamented Tweed built his court-house. Tho New York and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, which started on a plan of 200 feet abovo low water, aud an estimated C oBt of $7,000,000, has got down to oqly J;;£> feet above water, and up to an actual 00at of {15,000,090, and now the New York Legislature has a bill to appropriate $1,250,000 to complete the bridge. Tue trial at New Haven of the Malley boys and Blanche Douglass, charged with the outrage and murder of Miss Jennie Cramer, it is thought by those who have boon watching the proceedings, will not result in conviction, but rather in ac¬ quittal—not because the Malleys have been shown to be innooent, but because they, have not been indisputably shown to be guilty of the crime for which they aro indicted. And yet public opinion will nevertheless hold them responsible for Jennie Cramer’s death. A , XT New York lawyer has - F : Imps the largest fee ever won - ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States, taking off 50 per cent, specific duty on hosiery and knit goods importers $11,000,000 of the taxes p e vionsly paid. The lawyer gets halt— #5,500,000—a nice contingent fee. The manufacturers of hosiery in this country complain loudly of the injustice of the <l,«ion, U*. olf .,1 *. froB1 their work. ; ^ quickest . record made . . by The tune on a train of improved stock cars between Chicago and New York is just reported, T , thhtT speed from Buffalo was at the rate of* o. tlurty to io forty-five io ^ miles an hour. The shrink g 7 twenty ^ pounds 1 P«* f 7Z seventy to one hundred pounds. t AUcst ear* permit each animal tooecupy a sep arate stall. Tlie animal.-can also lie Jsi- ab ont without coming -a—s- T and watering the animals without un loading the facilities are ample. In ms dispatch to Minister Lowell on tho subject of tho relations between Great Britain and tho United States tc the various inter-ooean canal projects, Secretary of State, Frelinghnysen, hav¬ ing made his points of opposition ou the part of the United States to foreign in¬ tervention in tho matter of the Nicarag¬ uan Canal, as being contrary to the Monroe Dootrino of this country, rests his case, with an expression of confi¬ dence that the differences between the two Governments will be satisfactorily adjusted before the canal will bo biltlt. It is a serious iufringmeut on personal liberty when religionists aro prohibited from exercising the emotional as their conscience happens to dictate. Tho other Sunday, in Paterson, N. J., a gaug of Salvationist were parading the streets, marking time and singing loudly the following cuplet: “Right, left; right, left, The Lord ia right, and the Devil ia left." A captain and lieutenant of tho police force arrested tho Salvationists as dis timbers of the poaco, aud in court, when the case came up a number of Hallelujah lasses wore present, who knelt down in a circle and prayed fervently for the sonlsof the wicked policemen who had arrested their commanders. W. A. Fenner, writing from Sari An¬ tonio, Texas, says that “among the noted residents of the vicinity the Rev. W. H. Murray, ‘Adriondock Murray,’ as ho is called, is here, a fallen giant in¬ deed, with none so poor as to do him revercuco. When he fled from Boston uia fair-haired private secretary, n young lady, followed his fortunes and lias since lived with him. Last year her heart¬ broken father oamo for her, and aftor a despairing effort to get lior to return with him, which proved ineffectual, the poor old man, disgraced, broken in spirits, alone iu the world and almost penniless after his long search for her, blew out his brains at. the very threshold of Murray’s door. Only last Sunday— Sunday, mark you—I saw him at Han hands, Pndrq.RprjtqS} ludoadinr, load of cedar with ties his n\yn that a w agon he bail hauled from his little place f< i the street railroad company. Ho was without coat, vest or oollar, dirty and unshorn, and it would take a keen eye, ns a Boston man remarked to me, to de¬ tect in him tho idolized proauher *jf OHO o' tho proudest pulpits in the Hub.” They Hugged Him. Two sprightly and beautiful young ladies were visiting tlioir com in, another sprightly and beautiful young lady, who, like her guests, was of that happy age that turns everything into of fun and merriment. and They were constantly fond practical jokes, of pranks were with each playing all sorts other. All three occupied a room on the ground floor-, and cuddled up together in bed. Two of tlie young ladies attended at party, and did not get homo until 11:30 o’clock at night As it was household, late, they concluded not to disturb tlm so they quietly stepped into their room hrougli the low, open window. In about half an hour after they had left for tho party a young Methodist minister called at the house where lodg¬ they were staying and craved a night’s granted. ing, which of course was As ministers always have the best of every¬ thing! the old ladv put him to sleep in tlio best room, and the young lady (Fan¬ nie) who had not gone to tlie party, was intrusted with the duty of sitting up for the absent ones and of informing them of the change of rooms She took up her post in the parlor, and, as the night was sultry, she departed on an excursion to the land of dreams. We will now return to the young ladies who had gone to their room through the window. By the dim light of the moonbeams, as they struggled through the curtains, the young ladies wore enabled to descry the outlines of Fannie (as they supposed) ensconced in the middle of the bed. They saw more —to wit: a pair of boots. The truth flashed upon them at once. them in They the saw it all. Fannie had set room ^ them a good scare. determined They put their heads together and to tum t he tables on her. Silently they they disrobed and, stealthily as either cats, side of took up their positions on of theunconscious parson, laughing and pAr f pami ng »oh, what a man 1 Oh, w la t ft man I” They gave the poor, be wiidered minister such a promiscuous hugging aud tussling as few parsons are The noifle 0 f the proceeding awoke the old lady, who was comprehended sleeping m the an ^joining room. She B ituation in a moment, and, rushing to the room, she opened the door and ex claimed: • Itiaa . “ Gracious, girls it . is . a man 1 man, sure enough prolonged, 1 consolidated There was one “Sm the ^ oI through door, mid idi was over. The best of the whole joke is that the mm- . ister took the thing in earnest He would listen -vaArtSu* to no apologies the M jam* him and foldod ys official robes about silently glided away. VOL. X, NO. 25. PASSING SMILES. * LrrrF.Ra must indicted. lie wicked things. They are always Motto for tho milkman—to the pure all things are pure. “What is your favorite geni, Sarah?” Sanili replied demurely, “Agate.” Melo¬ drama. A couple of soldiers of the Salvation Army approached a Philadelphia broker recently and asked: “How is it with you, my friend ?’’ “ I am short on Read¬ ing, - ’ replied the broker. V(eat,tiiv dinner, Grp—“Look here—bring me some old man. The host you've got. - ’ Restaurateur —"Diner « (h Carte, M'oicut" Cud —“Cart be hanged! Dinner a lev carriage!" They say, “ ’tis darkest just before tlm dawn,” but the man who got up ot mid¬ night to hunt for a lono match on the corner of tlio wash-stand can’t see how it could be any darker. “I put outside my window a largeI kix tilled with mold, and sowed it with seed. What do you think 'came up ?” “ Wheat, ordered barley or oats ?” “ No—a policeman, who me to remove it. ” Tim discouraged collector again pre¬ his sented friend, that little matter. “ Well,” said “you are round again?” “Yes,” says the fellow, with the account in his liancl, “but I want to get square.” “Lames and gentlemen,” said an Irish manager to Iris audience of three, “as there Tlie performance is nobody here, this I’ll night dismiss will you all. lie of not performed, rowy-veuing. but ” will bo repeated to-mor- 1 A little boy entered the fish market the other day, and seeing for tiie first time a pile of lobsters lying on the coun¬ ter, looked at them intently for some time, when ho exclaimed: “Them s tho big¬ gest grasshoppers I ever soon.” What’s manna, To motheglln, Olo O’MHrgariiiG? ambrosia aud sich In odor bo fragrant, Olii In color ho rich Tlum’rt lo of O’AIargnrlne? TUuU’rt guilt guiltless » of juiaUives churning aud inllk-mAids’ and -lalry-walds’ smiles. wiles. Thou'rt guilty of naught but inscrutably ilos, Ole O’Margarine. “ If tins coffee is gotten up in a board¬ ing think house shall style have again good to-morrow morning, I I grounds for a divorce.” said a cross husband tho other morning. “I don’t want any of your saucer, - ’ retorted his wife, “and what I’ve sediment.” A ftfflna) who Intelv called on tho premier found him quiet, but not witht mt a gleam of his peculiar saturnine humor. “It is a strange ihing,” said he; “lmt people keep calling at this house, and asking child!” after mo—as though I had had a Mr. Maylum remarked to Erskine that Iris physician had forbidden Iris bathing at Brighton.. said .“You Ersldne. are malum pro hibilum,” Mr. Maylum, “he “Rut,” wife con¬ tinued says my ma,v bathe.” “All,” replied Erskine, “ she is malum in se.” “Ten dimes mako one Now dollar,” said sir. tho schoolmaster. ‘ go on, Ton dollars make one—what?” “They make one mighty and glad the these tcnolior, times,” re¬ plied the boy; who hadn’t got his last mouth’s salary yet, concluded that tho boy was about right. The Chicago Inter-Ocean full-grown having come to the conclusion that “a man who throws banana Christian,” pools upon the side¬ walk is no tlio Cincinnati Commercial anxiously inquires tho banana “ Well, peel what do you think of that throws a full-grown man upon tlie sidewalk ?” While Bishop Ames was member presiding began < over a conference in tho west a a tirade against universities, education, etc., tllmiking God that he had never been corrupted by thus contact for with few a minutes college. After bishop proceeding interrupted him a with the tho question: “Do I understand that the brother thanks God for liis ignorance?” “Well, yes,” was tlio answer; “you can rmt ‘it in that way if you want to.” “Well, all I have to say,” said tho bishop, iu his sweet, musical tones, “is, that tho brother has a great deal to thank God for.” Curing Sick Headache. A Vermont correspondent writes Mint after suffering from sick headache for twenty years, with frequent attacks of diphtheria, quinsy and erysipelas, she lias discovered the cause of ali her troub ¬ les. Eight months’ abstinence from meat has cured her of dyspepsia and all the ailments she lias suffered from, and her health is bettor than it lias been for many years. On a diet of vegetable# and cer¬ eals with fish and eggs occasionally, she is well and strong. Happy are they who find out their limitations, physical, do ruin in¬ tellectual and spiritual, in and vain endeavor not health and happiness a to digest something beyond their pow ora. The Harp an Irish Emblem, The earliest records we have of the Celtio raca g i ve the harp a prominent ncr thern races of Europe in the earlier cen turies of the Christian eta, and in the : opinion of many antiquarians was origi j aiaong them. The Irish harp was ; often an hereditary instrument, to be 1 preserved with great care and veneration, „„ a med by the bards and of the historians. family, alike the poet-musicians It wafl lollg ,m?,lem. ^ adopted by the Irish as a natio nal and has been sungof : by the most accomplished and patnotio gons o[ i re j au d since time out of mind. - A California man agrwd to giv. his s? was by mixmg brandy , gin, and wharicy together.