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SOUTHERN NEWS.
he erection of a large paper-ifin h a!l .
h commenced at U. Va.
I
he factory at Atlanta, tin., nor ea*
ica fruio piO to I .SO bales of. jmtton
\ J week.
II lie Young Men’s Christian Assoeia
-8 of Mobile. Ala., has 4<K> numbers,,
whom seventy-live are ladies.
Bhe re are movVixty-four legal distil*
in the "Nashville district. Whisky
, Hie in .January, llo.ObO gatlons.
nWlie Columbus *(Ga.) Enquirer says
St the Eagle and* Phu'nix Maaui'ue
tOTing Cetnpany made $2f>4,44<5.37 last
w.
ill The library of the Hon. A. 11. Stepl-
I, of Georgia, contains between .8.000
m 4,()o(j volumes. /They cost about
■ood
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Gretna (La.) Courier says that out
|B voting population of 2,ti11? in Jof
■B-n paiis , l.tlilTs-an not write .Ue ir
B names. >
of Alabama: I*l7, St.Steph-
Territorial): ISIS, Cahawba; 1819.
Bitsvilte f State); 1820. t-ahawb;,;
■ Tuscaloosa: 1842, Montgomery.
the Swiss colonv in Grundy
Tennessee, is in danger of ex-
on aeeount of defective land
K and multiplied suits resulting.
H capitalist from Route. Georgia, is
B to have purchased recently in At- |
jflta twenty-two houses and lots and
■By building lofs, upon* which he will
K build.
Ml i-t tiio'Ctght that over 100,000.000
■t of pitch-pine timber and lumber
W be shipped from the port of Darien,
Hi., this year. A little over 50,000.000
Pt was shipped last year.
()f the fifty-eight men who framed the
• institution and declared the imlepen
lenee of Texas, March 2, 1&IG, one is
till living: Dr. Charles B. Stewart, o
Montgomery county.
The Diirien (Ga.) Timber Gazette ray
that within a few years nearly two doz
en murders have been committed in Mc-
Intosh county, and only one murderer
has been hanged.
Alabama penitentiary convicts, are
|k the most part hired out to miners
H farmers, most of them at s•"> per
The sum of $40,000 has been
intu the State trea-ury within two
■
IHb uii r. .•*. subordinate granges were
IHe-enti and in the State J range of North
lette: was r rad from the
of the National Grange, in
lie states “that the business of
■ office is increasing very rapidly.
is said that in winter in a Louisiana
Bmy millions of swallows feed, on a
- ol willow called by the I’reneh
■ How trees. The French and Creoles
■ the swallows in making j ul.dos, a
of rieo and meat, fish or
■ie.
Him MeYidijrii (Miss.fr Mercury reports
Hi, negroes are leaving the prairie bolt
HAlabama in considerable numbers,
Wl passing through Meridian en route
:p he Mississippi and Western
jßuSiamt,
Robert Toombs; Jeff. Davis wrote me
| my picture to put in his book along
I ;h some others. I wrote hint that I
uld not be found in such company. I
!l bet him SoOO that his book does not
near by the Ist of April, nor while I
t*.
It is estimated that it will only take
out twenty years to consume the orig
and pine forest of Georgia, and .it is
ought to be lime for the adoption of
Ime effective measure of protection.
Kite Macon Telegraph and Messenger es
ftnates the consumption during 3880 a
I liidle over 250.000 acres.
( Experiments have been successfully
fiade in Oconee county. S. C., in plant
fig cotton “in cheeks.” laying oil rows
ree feet each way. The land was
[•/lowed both ways, making the work
I’ one with the hoe very light. The chief
dvantage is the saving of 1
vation.
There are now in attendance at the
Diversity of Georgia 17d student-,
-’he finest of the university buildings is
|ae Moore buildimr, which was erected
I -.id donned to the State for the univer
sity by the city of Athene, at a cost of
20,000. The physical department on
L e second floor contains an amphithea
| capable of seating 200 students. The
loom can easily be darkened when re
i uired for experiments necessitating the
xclusion of light.
f
Kew Orleans Times: Judge Roman,
v n his charge to the jury in the Burton
;aae, took aner departure, or rather re
turned to correct principles. In speak -
ng to the jury about the selection of a
foreman, he said: “That foreman you
vourselres will select.” This right of
juries to select their own foreman is a
wry important one, which judieiul en
croachment has almost completely sup-,
pressed. Jud e Roman, is entitled to
credit for his eflhrts to restore'thi- right.
I*' anti-helium times jpric* always se
lected their foreman. It is only within
the last ton or ftfteen years that the ju
diciary tins usurped this right of juries.
The building for the university for
colored people, which is in course of
erection at Helena, Ark., will have cost,
when completed, $30,000. The Pastors’
Inion, in whose hands the enterprise is
proceeding, expects to complete one
w ing, at a. cost of SIO,OOO, by October 1.
Ihe school was originally designed for
the education of teachers,
but its *coi>c will not be restricted to that
object.
In Florida the value per acre of dared
land i> $0 48, and of timbered land4*B.oll.
In Louiseiana cleared land is worth $14.-
Ji>, and timbered land 88.58. in iex as
cleared land is worth #B.OB, and timbered
land $4. In Arkansas cleared land is
•
valued at $11.78, and timbered land at
$8.48. In Oregon cleared land is worth
$21.71. and timbered $4.50. But in Neb
raska cleared land is worth $8.02, and
timbered land f25.-85 jier acre.
Speaking of the proposed reclamation
ol Fake Okechobco, in Florida, by drain
age, a process which is expected to add
12.000,000 acres of sugar lands to the
(State’s a mb! e wealth, the Macon (Ga.)
I’clegraph and Messenger say- the soil
“will be simply the residuum from the
crops of successive ages of deeomposd
grasses," wanting density and possessing
inflainability. If it will burn to the
limestone substratum, it ought to be
possible to utilize it for fuel.
A Petersburg (Va.) dealer -hipped 4o
Northern markets recently 100,000’
pounds of old iron and 40.000 pounds of
hones. Such shipments arc.said by a
Petersburg correspondent of tlie-ftich
mond Dispatch to be of frequent occur
rence, nod it is a mystery where sueii
large quantities ol old Don and bon eg
come from. After the war the i.imps
and lines around the city furnished large
supplies of both articles, but that source
was long since exhausted.
Before the Legislature of West Vir
ginia are the signatures of about 10(000
people, represent ng every pint of the
1 {State and every variety of religious
creed and faith, appended to petitions
praying for the submission to the people
of an amendment to the {state constitu
tion forever prohibiting the manufact
ure and sale of intoxicating liquiors ex
ci'pt for medicinal, mechanical and scien
tific purposes.
B. F. Crayton, a State Senator of
South Carolina, about five years ago
got a man and his wife from Castle Gar
den to work on his farms in Anderson
county. The next season he brought
out their children and eight etjier
•immigrants from Germany. The fol
lowing season he brought out fifteen or
twenty other families. He has at pres
ent about twenty of them in his employ
ment, and there are, perhaps, as many
more working for his neighbors. He says
they are the very class needed in South
Carolina, and there is room for thous
ands of them.
The Lime Kiln Club.
Sunflower Hopewell, Chairman of the
Committee on Commerce, said that his
committee had been asked to investigate
and report on the query from the Ohio
A- icultnral College: “Are we building
too many railroads?” One whole day
bad been spent in investigation, and the
committee had come to tlie conclusion
that the nation could stand only about
two more railroads.
“What day was it dat you investi
gated ?” asked the President.
* ‘Wednesday, sail. ’ ’
“I thought so. Dat mawnin’, a3l
was on my way down town, I noticed you
skippin’ into a saloon on Beauhien
street. I happened in dat naybnrhood
again arter dinner, an’ de Committee on
Commerce wav still playin’ ent-throat
enclier in de back room. At what stage
of de game did. you make up yer mind
dat dis kentry war’ about ready to quit
on de railroad bizuess?”
Sunflower would have looked ghostly
if it were possible for a oolored man to
to turn pale. He did the best he
could, and as Ms knoes knocked to
gether the President went on:
“Reason Swift an’ Decline Tompkins,
the odder two members of de committee,
will please walk up Leah.”
They came forward, with heads down,
and feet dragging, and Brother Gardner
said:
“I didn’t ’spect dat de best report
which dis committee could make would
have any pertickler effeck on de world at
l&rg*’, but de Club had a right to believe
dat you would do yerdootv in a straigbt
for\l manner. Asa penalty fur de way
de Club has been treated, you men
stall’ suspended from all rights an’ privil
eges for de space of six weeks. Do you
wish fur a wote of de Club on de mat
ter?”
They didn’t. Each one shuffled out,
got under his hat, and went down stairs
with a burden of sorrow strapped on his
back. - -Ft ee Press.
rutnam and Longfellow.
" When we were at Putnam,” the
man on the wood box mid, “do you
know ive forgot to go and hoc tbe don
where Putnam killed the wolf ?”
“ Well,” the fat passenger said, “ I
have lava there, and I don’t take much
stock in’hat wolf business. 1 tried to
crawl into the den. I could lie dow non
my face aid put my head in, but, ns for
going dear inside, why, Putnam could
not have apieezed in. It is—”
“ But,” said the tall, thin passenger,
“ you mml remember that Putnam was
only a man—” lie paused and repeated,
timidly, “ le win only a man—”
“ Yes,” started the fat passenger, “he
was a man, hot lie wasn’t a snake."
The tall, thin passenger replied that
he only meant to suggest that a man
could go where a cow couldn’t.
The fat pa&eugu- said, “ Yes, he knew
that, but any man who would crawl
through a erark in the sidewalk after a
lost nickel wasn’t exactly the kind of a
uiau to tackle i wall in the dark.”
The tall, thin passenger began to sav
something about a rolf being perfectly
safe in tbe Mammoti cave, if some men
were trying to get. in after it, but tbe
train reached Boston just then, and that
dangerous diseussiui was abruptly
closed.
Next day, when w were running out
of Boston, wo pissei through Allston,
and lo ! the biggest sign in all the town
looked upon us Iron above tlie windows
of a grocery store: ’Henry W. Long
fellow, fine groceries”
“ I always did voider,” remarked the
-ad passenger, ‘ ‘ if longfellow made all
his money out of poifery ? ”
” I wonder,” said ihe cross passenger,
“if he stanzas higi as he does as a
poet ?”
“If you could hive crowded a few
more ases in there, said the passenger
with the goatee, “v<n might have start
ed a Government coital,”
“ Four ases is a nighty good hand,”
said the man on the wood-box, but no
body understood wh lie meant.
“That isn’t lvalh the poet Longfel
low’s grocery, is it ? ’’isked tlie tall, thin
passenger.
“ It’s his name,” uid the fat passen
ger. “ Let us soap itdoesn’t, teas him.”
“ That accounts foriiome of his versi
fications,” said the sa< passenger.
“ How’s that?”
“Ex ham meter,” was the chilling
reply.
“Arina, virumque fan fruit,” mur
mured the tall, thin passenger.
This sort of thing would have gone
on perhaps to the en.l of the run if the
conductor hadn’t cone along. We soon
heard the man on th -wood-box explain
ing to him that at the lost general dis
tribution of tickets he had been left out,
but—etc., etc. And as the conductor
only shook his head over the etc., etc.,
and glanced thoughtfully >fowr:d the
bell-cord, we hasten tip . to chip in and
help the man on the wi od-box out. He
said ho was glad we did, because the con
ductor wa3 just going to.— Bob Bur
dette.
How to Go! Rich.
Everybody wants to gst rich. Almost
anybody can become rici if he likes to
apply himself to the matter. Tho
trouble is that every one wants to get
rich at once aud without exertion. Many
seek to do this by spec fiction. If a
person bad obtained contrfi of 100,000
bushels of wheat on Saturday last, xvhicli
could havo been done by pi tting up a
margin of one cent per buslni, be would
have made .>B,OOO by Monday,and ■would
have received back his marge less the
broker’s commission. This wuxld be n
reasonable profit for a day’s work ut
doing nothing. If hi held on ill Tues
day $2,000 of liis profit would hive been
wiped out, aud probably by to morrow
he would have lost his margin anl every
thing else beside. Still people only
look on the gaining side of the matter,
and thousands are striving to get rich in
this way. One out of every thousand
will probably succeed. A gcntlettan ol
Detroit, who is worth over SIOO,OOO,
gives bis experience in getting rich and
the beauty of his plan is that 099 out of
1,000 can, by fair management, get rea
sonably “well off’,” while many will be
come rich. He says: “Young man, aive
one-third of your earnings. If you ;p:t
$0 a week, pretend that you got only $4
and put away'the other $2. On no ac
count touch that reserve fund to spend
a cent of it, hut when it gets big enoug.i
put it in a 10-per-oent. mortgage. Ten
per-cent. mortgages, with first-class
security, are not so hard to find as a per
son might think. Add the interest to
the reserve fund and keep on putting it
out on mortgages. This method is slow
but it is sure.” —Detroit Free Press.
Farlor Furniture.
Nothing gives so dismal and inhospit
able an appearance to a sitting-room as
to have the chairs and sofa or conch cov
ered with stiff, unfriendly-looking linen,
but pretty furniture that is used con
stantly must be protected in some way,
and there are many coverings which aro
really ornamental. For instance, a
couch may be kept from fading by tak
ing a piece of Turkish toweling the re
quired length. Put scallops of flannel
on the edge, a border or centerpiece; or
simply a vine worked in Home bright
color aoross the ends make a pretty ad
dition to it. Tidies that are very ser
viceable may be made of brown linen
with an applique stripe of cretonne flow
ers or scroll. The easiest and most sat
isfactory way to prepare cretonne for
transferring is first to work the figure
that is to be cut out with the buttonhole
stitch, and then out around that. When
it is placed upon broadcloth or any ma
terial which does not require washing,
sew it with long stitches on the wrong
side, but when transferring to tlie linen
sew it firmly, so that it will keep its
place when washed. The tidies may be
finished prettily by putting fringe or
yellow lace across the ends; turn down a
hem on the sides and featherstitch with
worsted or working-cotton.
THINGS VIORTH KNOWING.
Strain meat fi viugs through a thin
‘•loth ; keep in a cool place, and you
have a cheap shortening for “every
day ” pastry.
Knur a blank l>ook with a thick cover
in the kitchen, and copy any bits of in
formation that may likely lie of use at
some time. Be sure and write a large,
clear hand.
Dipper-mohuds make excellent things
to kt ep salt in for kitehcu use. Out n
hole in the side largo enough to admit
the hand and to remove the seed; also
cut n small hole iu the handle to linn*
up by.
HorsEKKi'.i’Kus arc often greatly
troubled uml perplexed by mildew from
damp closets and from rust, By put*
ting an earthen bowl or deep plate full
of quick-lime into the closet, the lime
will absorb the dampness and also sweet
en and disinfect the place. Bats, mice
util many bugs that are apt to congre
gate in damp places have a dislike to
lime. As often as the lime becomes
slacked throw it on the compost heap if
in the country, or into the asli-bnrrel if
in the city.
An exchange gives the following re
ceipt to remove wrinkles : To one fluid
ounce of tincture of gum benzoin add
seven fluid ounces distilled rosewater and
one-half ounce glycerine. Bathe face,
neck and hands with it at night, letting
it dry on. Wash off iu tlie morning
with a very little pure white eaatile soap
and soft water. If the water is hard,
add a little dissolved borax. This is a
famous (’osmetic, and has been sold
under various names. It is an excel
lent remedy for tan, sunburn and
freckles also. The latter, it is said, may
be removed by using the following de
coction : Put a quantity of elder flow
ers into a jug, pour boiling water on
them, let the mixture stand twenty-four
hours, and strain through muslin. Wash
the face every morning with the decoc
tion. It is good also for sunburn and
to beautify the skin.
The following is an excellent method
of preparing boots to stand the snow
and water : Put half a pound of resin
and a pound of tallow iu au earthen,
pot, and melt and mix them well to
gether over a slow tire. Warm the
hoots well for some time beforehand, so
that they will be thoroughly dry,
and, while as warm ns may be found
convenient for handling, apply the hot
mixture with a brush until neither the
sole nor tlie leatbou will wbouib any
more. By using Caro the leather may
be made very hot without burning it,
and it should be warmed through that
the preparation may fill all the pores.
The resin gives the mixture au antiseptic
quality, preserves the leather, (md pre
vents the tallow from rotting the stitch
ing. For n polish, dissolve an ounce of
wav and a toaspooufnl cf lampblack in
a little turpentine. A day or two after
the boots have been treated to tho tallow
and resin apply tho polish, but not be
toro the tire. This gives tho exterior
a coat of wa x that will shine like a mir
ror.
The Smuggler’s Secret.
“No,” said the customs officer, “1
never smuggle, myself, although F came
very near doing it once. Yes, while I was
in the service; too. You see, I went over
the river one day to look after a matter
we had in hand, ami a very frank but
green-looking countryman sat down be
side me. Ho was fresh and asked many
questions, and 1 rather liked his open
hearted manner. At last he hitched his
chair close to mine and said: ‘Live
here?’ ‘Yes,’ says 1. ‘Good deal of
smuggling going on?’ lie asked. ‘Well,
considerable, f guess.’ ‘Now, how do
they do it? lie asked. ‘Siqrposing they
wanted to smuggle some silk, how would
they do it?’ ‘well, tho lady— ’ ‘Yes,
but if a man was fix do it?’ ‘Oh, wen
never smuggle silk. They take over
suits, and overcoats, and neckties.’
‘Yes, but suppose a man smuggled silk?’
‘Well, if it wasn’t a large roll, he would
place it under his coat.’ ‘Ah, I see, up
the back, eh ?' ‘No, that would show as
lie walked away from the boat; he would
place it under the side of his coat, put
his hand in tlie outside pocket, kind of
careless like, and hold up tho lower end
of the silk roll with tho pocketed hand.’
‘I see,' said my new acquaintance.
‘Now, I don’t mind telling you a secret,
for f know you won't let on.’ Here lie
whispered: Tin going to come back
with enough silk to make my wife anew
dress--can't afford to pay the duty,’ and
lie winked. Td advise you not to,’ said
1, but the boat had touched and he was
off. Coming back I congratulated my
self that lie was not on the ferry, but
just as the boat rounded to, who should
appear but my smuggler. ‘I got it
litre,’ he whispered, tapping liis coat,
‘but it shows a little, and it dropped
down twice. Now, see here, yon just
put your arm through mine,’ and he
pulled me toward his silk Hide. ‘Wo’ll
pretend to be talking very interested
like, and I'll bet they’ll never notice.’
And they didn’t, for that trusting country
chap just walked me right past my own
colleague* an slick a? vou please. I
hope bis wife liked tho dress.”— Detroit
Free Brett.
“Tins fashion of wearing no pi
exclaims the Boston Pont, “is ,
fraud. With gloves you can 1
or four strings tied aronnd .
with hard knots at the back,
would think it was a lot <
rings. ”
A romt year oF *“*’*
prayers at her
concluded, th
papa and map
mammas, nn
great sigh,
I do wish tl
themselves,
for thorn '
Koninaiilan isocimj, ~
The arts are as yet but slenderly culti
vated in Roiuminia, and the study of
music, in particular, cannot l>e said to
have advanced beyond tlie rudimentary
stage. Few Kounianinn ladies sing or
play with any degree of proficiency; and
my experience in Bucharest saloons, to
which musical performances arc admitted
as an element of social diversion, have
penetrated me with tho conviction that
there is not a single first-class pianoforte
in the whole city. Even executants of
real merit, like tho Princess Jon Oliika,
appear content to play upon second anil
third into instruments, whilst in tho
houses of wealthy Boyars, whoso names
are historical landmarks, limy bo found
objects bearing the aspect aud dignified
by the title of pianofortes, which, con
sidered as mediums for the production of
musical sounds, have no more affinity to
a Bromlwood or Hltietiiuer than a child's
toy tiildlq has to a Stradivarius or nn
Alnnti. “A little music” seldom enters
into the recreative programme of a llou
lunninn soiree, and its omission, there
fore, save the chatty Boyars and Boy
arkin, whose resources in tlie way of j>o
litieni and personal small talk are inex
haustible, from great deal of irksome
restraint and no little positive annoy
ance.
During the season every “personage’’
of society who can afford it, including
the Prince and Princess, gives one splen
did and sumptuous ball, at which you
are sure to meet, everybody that is any
body; and ten or twelveV/m/irie* (lames
dr par la vtootle throw open their salons
once a week (Sunday is the favorite “re
ceiving” night for these leaders of
fashion) to all that is distinguished and
illustrious by birth or official station,
native or foreign, iu tho capital. At
these pleasant reunions au impromptu
dance infrequently coucludes the even
ing; but interminable and never-flagging
canneries, lively or sentimental, consti
tute the chief feature of Roumanian
social gatherings, at which fragrant
cigarettes and exquisite tea are dr.
ritjucttr, while card playing, except
among the elder foreign diplomatists and
a few of the more old-fashioned territorial
magnates, finds but little favor. There
is plenty of piequet, preference, and
cayenne whist to lie had at the club, tlit
points being as a rule far less extravagant
than they aro at tho “Bebe” in Paris, or
at ouo or two exceptionally exclusive
el übs in Pull Mall. The ('• aud
Swiss Tinas.
lion t* Be Healthy.
If you want to do well, keep well, if
you possibly can. Do not let even your
education rob you of your health, ft. is
about tho worst thing you can do under
the whip and spur of a noble purpose,
and it is what vast numbers do to their
life-long regret. When a lino painter
took the butcher to see one of his pict
ures, he said, “Ayo, Maister Haydon,
it’s a grand picture, but I doubt whether
you could have done it if you had not
eaten my beef, ” And I think there was
a grain of truth in the remark. They
say that buße-ball is getting into the
hands of the gamblers, and that young
mn are shy of it of a good breeding.
I should bo very sorry to think so. It
is the handsomest gonio that over was
played, and one of the healthiest. Play
boso-bnM, and pull a boat, and got yonr
chance ir vacation at long tramps and
hard beds and rough, wholesome fare ;
eat well and sleep woll; bo n clean alt
through and all over as you aro in a
drawing-room, and then you will not
only be able to do your day’s work in
this world like a man, bat, when tho
years bring their inevitable burden yon
will be able to say with Adam iu tha
play :
Though I look old, yet m T tron({ and liuty,
For in rny yont.h 1 nevor 41(1 apply
Hot *rid rrix-lll.xiK Ilnuorn to tny blood ;
Kor did with nnbanlihil forehead woo
The mean* of welnc nd debility;
'J heraforo my ■(( 1 u * maty winter,
Frosty, but kindly.
Remember this, too, that, with health
and strength to back you, life means
hard work, and hard work on long lines,
with native ability and good conduct,
means success.— /lev. Robert Collyr ■
A Colored Camp Follower
“ You ran at the first fire, dn'
said the Colonel of a regiment
sail,” wna the unblushing rep!
would have run soon ah if I Jb
it was coinin’.” “But have
gard for yonr repntati*
“Reputation is nuffin to
tlie side of life.” “ Well'
your life you would have
lion of knowing that you
country.” “ What hh.‘
dnt lie to mo, sah, w'*
feelin’ it was gone?’ 0
ism and honor are no'
“ Nuffin wliateber,
diers wore all lik,
have broken up,
resistance. ” “
would hab
wouldn't '
'gainst
ed, fo’
losa i
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