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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -AT— BELLTON, OA. Bv MYERS & BUICE. DR. D. M. BREAKER Editor. Office in the Sjaitb building, east of the depot. Terms — sl 00 per annum, 50 cents for six months, in advance. Fiftv numbers to the volume. NtWS GLEANINGS. North Carolina ores will be a feature in the Atlanta Exposition. Local option was generally defeated in Texas at the recent elections. The Louisiana sugar industry will pan out handsomely this season for the pelican State. And now they are talking of making ■ an excellent substitute for butter out of cotton-seed oil. The crops of Marshall county, Ala., are reported in good condition, the drouth to the contrary notwithstand ing. Silk culture in Alabama is being agi tated by many of the papers. They seem to think that it would handsomely. Louisiana is a well timbered State. The New Orleans papers claim that there are millions to be made in the wooded lands ofjthe State. The health of Jell. Davis rince he ar rived in Europe has been wretched. He will probably return to America sooner than expected. The two ice-manufacturing establish ments at New Orleans are making big money this season. They charge S2O a ton, and can’t supply the demand. The tenant farmers in many places of the South are asking a reduction of rent. Owing to the drouth they have raised littleor nothing on their places. The Virginia Historical Society is be ing built up. It is an ancient and honorable institution, and its friends everywhere will be glad to know that its prestige will be sustained. I ensacola old bonds are now in re quest since the compromise of the city’s debts. Twenty-five per cent, has been offered for $20,000 of the old bonds, and declined. Colonel R. F. Maddox, the big cotton man of Atlanta, estimates that the cot ton crop will be short about 1,000,000 bales. But, with all this, there will be an abundance of cotton in the land. Marietta (Ga.) Journal : Some of our most sensible farmers, notably the larger and more thrifty ones, have dis covered their mistake, and will hereafter sow down their lands in wheat, oats, clover and grasses, and increase their herds of cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. Arkansas Democrat; Cotton-seed oil is being generally used here for cooking purposes, and is liked about as well, if not better, than the stuff brought here in buckets and sold as leaf lard; besides, t is ro much cheaper. Georgia is not to have a prohibition campaign, after all. The bill to submit the question to the people was defeated in the Senate by a vote of twenty to nineteen, and reconsideration failed.' The House will probably let the bill die on the calendar, and thus avoid committing members. Charleston had a trade last year of $71,211,100. It receipts of cotton were 528,287 bales ; of rice, 53,871 tierces ; of spirits of terpentine, 51,386 cakes; rosin, 231,417 barrels; of crude phos phate, 108,183 tons; lumber, 18,610,- 757 feet, of commercial fertilizers, 100,- tons—- the whole of the value of $36,216,- 000. The New Orleans Democrat states that not a drop of the water of the Red river now runs into the Mississippi, but all goes to swell the Atchafalaya, “which, re enforced by a large percent age ’of Mississippi water, is daily in • creasing in size, and constitutes a direct menace to the future of New Orleans.” The Legislature of Georgia has killed the bill to appropriate $1,000,000 to build a new capitol by a large majority. The present capitol building was origi nally intended for an opera house, and iff not only unsuitable for a State hou»e, but is unsafe. The dead bill provided for the expenditure of $200,000 per an num until the whole amount was paid, at the end of the five years time set apart to construct the new edifice. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, has a correct appreciation of the news paper. and adds his testimony to its value as an educator. “Journalism,” he says, “has become as much a seperate and distinct profession as medicine, or law, or engineering, or agriculture, or archi tecture, or mining, and every family should have a newspaper if they expect or care to keep pace with the current of events in this fast-moving age. Books are not always accessible, but papers are, and at a price that places them witbin the reach of the poor as well a th* rich.” The North Georgian. VOL. TV. An Indian river correspondent writes this to the Florida Agriculturist; “Or anges, lemons, guavas, mangoes, pineap pies, fish and oysters are all deing nicely, and promising heavy yields. There has been such a run for laborers to clear lands and set out pineapples that the price runs from S2O to $26 and boaid per month. Some hands are realizing $3 to $4 per day in doing odd jobs of work. We want men and money to make this the garden spot of the State.” Richmond Dispatch: Misfortune never comes single. The drouth is not only ruining the crops, but the cholera is killing the hogs in sime of the South ern counties. In portions oi Nottoway and Brunswick counties it is stated a large number of hogs have recently died of this disease, and others are dying. One farmer in Nottoway county writes that within the past ten days he has lost thirty hogs, and that he has not been able to cheek the spread of the disease. Savannah News: Mention has several times been made of the reported dis covery of dead bodies floating in the river near the shore, below and in the vicinity of Fort Jackson. The matter having been brought to the attention of the mayor, he yesterday addressed a let ter to the board of county commission ers, referring to these reports and stat ing that as the points where these bodies are said to be exposed are beyond the j jurisdictional limits of the city, it was important that the county commission ers, in the interest of the public health, should take official aetiou, and asking that their prompt attention be given to the subject. It can not 1* denied that it is very important these bodies be se cured and interred as soon as possible. W J* 1 " ' TOPICS OF THE DAT. -A Vennob predicted rain in September. It came. Wedding cards are out of date in En gland. High prices seem to bo ruling stronger. . . dfc Parnell’s influence is said to be on the wane. A new City Hall in San Francisco is to cost $5,000,000. The Ohio State election ocours on tho 11th of October. Cincinnati is striving for tho estab lishment of a Union Depot. We do not like to see people suffer, but, —Guiteau has neuralgia. France is not bothering much about Egypt- Tunis keeps her pretty busy. Governor Wiltz, of Louisiana, is said to be dying of consumption. Delaware turns out 300,000 baskets of peaches this year, against 4,000,000 last year. King Kat.akaua is en route s>r Amer ica. Undoubtedly he enjoyed himself while here before. Gov. Roberts, of Texas, is aged sixty | years, wears a very plain suit and ; smokes a clay pipe. A dispatch from Now Mexioo says | that the Indians are not all dead yet. This is bad for the white man. Orow Dog has been indicted at Dead wood for the murder of Spotted Tail, but will not be tried until January. Thurlow Weed gave SSOO to the Michigan sufferers. Fanny Davenport i gave SIOO. That was kind of Fanny. ■ Mbs. Mary Clf.mmeb, the well known ; Washington correspondent, is compelled, by order of her physician, to rest from | all literary labor. The destitute in the burnt district of Michigan should be remembered by . those who have a surplus and are able to give. Here’s a chance to do good. i The Egyptian troubles are over. The Khedive lias reconstructed his Cabinet ; and the dissatisfied army officers have relinquished all ideas of rebellion and , accepted the situation. The Kansas City Times mentions the birth of a “baby mule” on the public square in that city and adds that it at tracted a large cr- wd of spectators. A society event, we suppose. It is a fact that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher recently jumped seven feet—ac tive man, you know—but now every pa per in the land is wanting to know from what window he jumped. It’s a dirty fling. _ BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA., SEPTEMBER 22, 1881. A fostr aw nt Col an i bus has bean discovered in the Spanish Colonial Of floe at Madrid. » was painted when ho was forty years of age, showing a face .devoid of wriuldesjta brilliant eye and dark luxuriant hair. Pet dogs occupy reserved seats at places of amusement in New York by the side of their owners. They applaud by barking, and then tho critics go into eostaoies about the enthusiasm shown by the “intelligent audience.” The California Tichborne claimant, loath to learn from others’ exnerienne is n his way to England to claim tho Tioh borne estate. He will possibly land in he same receptacle occupied by Orton/ .ho English Tiohborno claimant, for tho past several years. Tub various lines of steamers carried to London and Liverpool during the months of April, May, June and July, 12,065 cabin passengers. These, for most part, wore pleasure-seekers, and the number is greater than for the same period any previous year. The result of the recent French elec tion will constitute the new Chamber of Deputies as follows: 459 Republicans, 47 Bouapartista, and 41 Monarchists. Ths Republicans comprise tho Left Con fer, 39; tho Left, 168; Republican Union, 206, and Extreme Loft, 46. The French began their picnic in Northern Africa with 16,000 men, but now they want 100,000 more before they can straighten matters out. They have been meeting with reverses. The wild Arab cavalry have beaten their opponents In the field ami ent off the water supply of the city of Tunis. Grace Greenwood (Mrs. Lippincott) writes from London that she is a sad invalid, suffering severely and very fre quently from attacks of acute bronchitis. She says she oan bear pain, prostration, danger, everything, bettor than inability to write in her old way ; that grieves her. e> MASON, who shot at Gnitenii, may have been emotionally insane, and his trial by court-martial will result in light punishment ns a consequence, but if Guiteau was permitted to oome in con tact with tho people generally, there is no doubt but that thousands would prove themselves emotionally insane. A colored preacher in Donisville, Ky., has found in his church a daughter from whom ho had been separated at the aiiotion-blook twenty-odd years ago. He was much rejoiced, but was a prey to conflicting emotions when he learned from her that her mother is still living, he having been legally married to an other woman, after becoming a freedman. ■ There is a prospect of a due] without a collision between Buffalo Bill (tho Hon. Mr. Cody) and Wild Harry, an In dian scout, who is starring it with a dramatic troupe. •Buffalo Bdl calls this particular Wiki Harry a fraud and a liar, (to use mild language) and Wild Harry is keeping silent, but there is an awful glitter in his eye. They travel in differ ent directions. It is stated that there are a hundred or more men in jail at Chicago on the charge of murder. A third of them have been incarcerated in the last nine months. What do the authorities of that city propose to do with these fel lows? the far West they hang men for murder, and are not very long about it. either. Five men were hanrrsil in a bunch at Fort Smith, Ark., the other day, and the country feels the safer for it. Chicago seems to be trying to get a good crop on band before they begin to harvest. Thebe is trouble about Pharoah of old. Among the mummies discovered in the cave near Thebes, in Egypt, one of them is said to bo the identical Pliaroah who oppressed the children of Israel. Doctors of Divinity have preached for centuries that Pharoah and li is host were drowned in the Red Sea. At the word of command Moses Rtrctohe l forth his hand over the sea, the waters returned and overwhelmed all the Egyptians, so that “ there, remained not so much an one of them." Those ara the Scripture words. Christians and others will wait with some anxiety for further revelations concerning the iden tity of the mummies discovered. Iff there is any one thing on the face of the globe that is despicable, it is a thief. It is now suspected that the cof fins of seven at least of the royal per sonages lately discovered near Thebes have "been robbed of their royal occu pants, and less distin uni shod mummies placed in tlioir stead. The alleg'd corpse of Thotmes is said to be that oi a child or flwarf. Such changes are not uncommon in Egypt, but if they have taken place in tho present instance, the inscriptions on tho coffins, and still more tho long rolls of papyri still remain t j reward the investigations of scholars. If the remaining three months of the year are fraught with as great disasters, comparatively, ns have the nine months past, truly the year 1881 will long be remembered as an epoch, of calamities in the history ot the world. So far this year the enumeration is as follows ; A great earthquake in the Greek Archi pelago; floods in various countries of Europe ; tornadoes in tho Northwest; fearful storms in the South ; the appear ance of two comets; an exceptionally cold winter and an equally exceptionally hot summer, with its attendant drouth ; the assassination of the Czar of Russia and the attempted murder of the Presi dent ; the yellow day in New England, and tho terrible forest fires in Michigan. His reputed birth place is Preble County, where, as a boy, ho was known among his associates as overbearing and brutal in his ways. The story goes that, grow ing older, he became unmanageable, and possessed of a spirit of daring, he ran away from home, boarded a ship putting to sea, was wrecked, picked up by a passing vessel bound for the Indies, and finally landed in that country. The then King having lost his only son, who very much resembled David (that was the boy’s name) adopted him, and in time he fell heir to tho throne. This is the whole story in a nut shell, and may, during the King’s visit here, be more fully investigated. Guiteau, who some time ago thought of making application for a writ of habeas corpus, lias changed his mind about the matter. He has been told by District Attorney Corkhill that ho can not be protected on his way to court by the soldiers. Why ho is protected in the jail and conld not be protected by soldiers when out of it is explained ns follows by Oorkhill: “ The jail belongs to the Government, and is built on Government kind, and tho troops are ostensibly employed in guarding Govern ment property. When it comes to guarding Guiteau from the jail to the court house when the time for his exami nation arrives, that will be another thing. The inference was that the care of Guiteau would then be left to the civil authorities, and that they would be powerless to prevent the people wreak ing summary vengeance on the assassin.” This talk, coming as it does from an army officer of high rank, shows the utter detestation in which Guiteau is hold by those who are compelled by hard sate to be his defenders. - - ' 1 - The Cincinnati Commercial says that one of the churches of that city, after praying lor tlie recovery or the Presi dent, offered up prayers for Guiteau also. The advisability of praying for Guiteau, to the Christian mind, seems to boa difficult problem. The Bible teaches them to pray for their enemies, ana many or them do not see why they should not pray for Guiteau, whoso soul is on tho brink of perdition. On this same point Rev. N. Summerbell, a min ister of the Gospel, writes as follows : “ Moses and Miriam did not turn to the port side of the sea to hold prayer meet ing for the souls of the pursuing host, but a jubilee over their destruction, (Exodus, xv.) Jesus prayed for Peter, but not for Judas. Jesus said of some they ‘have never forgiveness,’ and Saint John said ‘There is a sin nnto death, I do not say tli*t he shall pray for it.’ The truth is that both nature and grace teach that there are some things which should bo destroyed; and God saw that the destruction of such was best for them as well as for the universe. Saint Peter said of this class of persons : ‘These, ns natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand* not, and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.’” Thus it will be seen that there seems to be room for an argument on both aides. A Distinction with a Difference. A very dilapidated-looking tramp en tered the counting room of one of Jersey City’s wealthiest storekeepers, and, com ing up to the desk, asked: “ Ain’t your folks from Posey county, Indiany ?’’ “Yes.” “And your name is John Smith ? “ Yes.” “Shake! You have at last found your long-lost brother Bill. I am in need of money.” “ Here is a quarter. Take it and go.” The long-lost brother turned over the quarter a time or so, and then said: “ Is a quarter all you can spare your long-lost brother?” “ That’s all. Go now, or I’ll call a po liceman,” said the merchant. “ I’ll accept the quarter on account of our relationship, 'that is a family mat ter; but, beside being your brother, I’m a tramp and c dead-beat. Now I apply to you professionally. Give me another quarter.” I A Very Needful Invention. The facts were these: Mr. Skid’s neighbor kept a goat and that goat had often got at Mr. Skid and butted him two rods, end over end, and he hated the goat profusely. But tho neighbor wouldn’t keep the goat shut up, and so Skid invented a machine to slay the goat. It was in the form of a man bending down to pick up his hat, but in the body was a spring of tremendous power. From the 1; ip pocket of the figure waved a red handkerchief that was the target to draw on tho goat. When he butted it the spring would fly and throw the goat a big distance. The machine was gotten up in very elaborate style and looked just like a man. It was perfect enough to de ceive any goat. And it costßkids74. But he didn’t begrudge the money so long as it fetched the goat. And he took the machine and put it out in his front yard where the goat could see it, and then ho retired to his house and waited to see the fun. He waited about two hours, and then his son came in and told him that the goat had swallowed an old hoop skirt the night before and it had got tangled in his bowels and slain him. And of course Skid was terribly mad. But the machine was not wholly wasted, for the boy took it and put it on the outside of the circus tent so it looked like a man just starting to crawl under, and a policeman ran up and hit it with his club and was surprised tosee his club fly forty feet into the air, while his arm ached like fury, and then a stalwart cir cus man run up and kicked the king and was picked up twenty feet away with his leg broken in two places. And when ho got over his surprise he said he’d give that num a season ticket if he’d tell how he did it, as he’d like to work tho same racket on the old man of the girl ho was courting. But the machine couldn’t be found, the boy having, in tho excitement, taken it home. He is going to sell it to a country editor, to bo pointed out as “the man who wrote the article you object to. You oan proceed to kick him.”— Boston Post. Practical In formal ion. “ What is ruck rent, dad?” inquired a young Comstocker who had been read ing the news from Ireland. The patient parent laid down the stock list and replied: “Do you know how much I charge Mr. Boggarty for his room up-stairs ?” “ Yessir; sl2 a month.” “Well, now, suppose Mr. Boggarty should take it into his head to have, at his own expense, new paper put on tho wall, the eeibng whitened, and all the furniture mended, the room would look a heap sight prettier, wouldn’t it?" “Lor’!’ murmured tho intelligent boy. “ Well, if the minute Boggarty had got all these improvements made I should go up, and look around, and smile, and jingle my money in my pocket, and re mark, ‘ This is a pretty good sort of a layout for a single man, Boggarty, and you have altogether too soft a thing; your rent will be $29 a month hereafter, what would you think of it?” The innocent child giggled and said, “ That would be cheek, wouldn’t it, dad ?” “Bet your money on it, my boy,” re plied the father, beaming kindly upon his offspring. “That would be rack renting Mr. Boggarty, and if he kicked and claimed that all the improvements had been made by hire without costing me a cent, and I should lire him out, that would be eviction. I will now,” continued the parent, warming up, “ briefly review the history of Ireland lor the past 700 years. When Brien Borhu—" But his son had fled.— Virginia City Chronicle. How the Government Pay* Bills. A great part of the work in the de partment is necessarily in the line of keeping accounts, and presents little in terest to people who are not exceptional ly fond of figuring. The general principle which governs the whole system of auditing and set tling accounts against tho Government is to provide ovary safeguard against fraud, and thia is so successfully accom plished that a dollar could net be got out of the treasury illegitimately with ut the collusion of so many persons tliat it may be sot down as a practical impos sibility. Suppose a man has a bill against the Government. The head of the depart ment or bureau to which the matter properly belongs makes a requisition for the amount upon tho Secretary of the Treasury, using a prepared blank which asks him to cause a warrant for the amount in question to be issued in favor of the party, the same to be charged to the particular appropriation by Congress out of which the sum ought to come. But before this requisition reaches the Secretary it must pass under the eye of the proper Auditor and Comptroller and receive their countersign, the Audi tor at tho same time charging tho amount to the account of the disbursing officer in whose favor it is Wied. If all goes well so far, the Secretary issues a warrant to the Treasurer, directing him to pay over tho money, which he does by issuing a draft for the amount in favor of the Government’s creditor, but not until after the warrant has t ion countersigned by the proper Comptroller and registered by the Register. Indeed, the draft itself must go the Register for comparison and registry before it is finally passed over. There seems to lie a good deal of red tape in all this pro cess, but it is a sort of red tape that saves the country money in the long run.—Good Company. There is a story current, and xot without a semblance of truth about it, that King Kalakaua is a native of Ohio. Cfeofgfi RATES OF ADVERTISING. Sfacb. i mo.'3 moi •; moi Lv’r. (»M liu h~ ' * 2 501 « 5 V 0 i' • 7 50 910 oo Two inches, 375! - M .J , 0 00 ijm Three! rhea. 500 10(H)! 12 50 20 Oil Four inchea, 6 (Mil 12 50| 15 H 25 00 Fourth Column, 7 £»•; 15 01. J2O 00 30 00 Half column, 11 IM 20 00 40 00 6)00 Or.e column. I 15 o'' 30 on| 60 <lO 100 uo bilU due after ti ot in ertiou.. Transient ndvertiseineutß (strictly in ad vance) il per inch for the first insertion; 50 cents per inch for each additional insertion. Local reading notices 10 cents per line. Announcements $5 each. Marriage noticesand obituaries exceeding six lines will be charged for as advertise meutß. NO. .38, GEMS OF THOUGHT. Cynicism, ia old at twenty. A. talent is perfected in solitude ; a character in the streams of tho world. 3 he path among the rones lieth soft, Sun-klased and radiant under youtliful feet— But on a wintrv way true hands more oft, Do meet and cling iu pressure soft and Hweei. Bad men hate eiu through fear at punishment. Good men hate sin through very love of virtue. A cheerful temper, joined with in nocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good natured. The best way to apologize is to do such u kindness to the offended one that he will forget that you ever attempted to injure him. I r thou shall bo in heart a child, Forgiving, tender, meek and mild, Though with light stains of earth deliled, O! soul, it shall be well. —Morris. The first ingredient in good conversa tion is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor and the fourth wit. Somk days roust needs be full of gloom, Yet must we use them aa we may, Talk less about thy years to come Live, love and labor more to-day. Alice Cary. The plaintive wailing of the minor mingles itself with every earthly melody: and it is only by-and-by that the veil shall be lifted, and the full chords of harmony peal on our ear uumarred by that undertone of pain. Yet, though thou fade, From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise, And teach the maid That goodness Time’s rude hand defies That winter lives when beauty dies —Klrh JFMIa When one thoughtfully considers the part which love has in the destiny and character of women, the issues that come ont of it for her weal or misery, her ruin or perfection, notliing is more pathetic and death itself is not more solemn. Pipping Off 11 Miner. During one of his intermittent visits to the Comstock Mr. Mackay accom panied a party of Eastern tourists to the lower levels of the California mine, one of which carefully selected collection of Massachusetts blue blood being a young lady from Boston who was refined to the top notch of culture. On arriving nt one of the lower levels the gasping perspir ing, wilted orew paused, and Mr. Maokay called the young girl’s utteiitiou to a speaking tube which connected with the level above. _ “Is this hollow metal cylinder a eon duit of sound?” asked tlie well-edtioatal Bostonienne. “ Yes’m,” said Mackay; “ try it.” The young lady applied her mouth to its opening and piped out a tremulous “ Ilillo-a-a.” “Aye, ays,” shouted a hearty miner a hundred feel, above. “What shall 1 ask him?” said the girl to Mr. Maokay. “.Ask him how he is getting along. “How are you getting along, sir?” whistled the maiden. “Aw-w—pretty well,” rumbled the reply. “And now what shall I say,” continued tho girl. “Ask him if it’s hot.” “ Is it hot up there ?” “Hotter’n h—-1,” was the plain answer. The damsel gasped, but continued: “ What else shall I say?” “ Oh, ask him how his family are," replied Mr. Mackay, who began to tire of tho "pippingolf” interview. “ How are all your family ?” asked the girl. “To h—l wid ye ; what are ye givin’ us,” thundered the miner, who thought some one was “joshing” him. Collapse and u call for ice water.— Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. A Thousand Dollars a Minute. Mr. Eddy, the veteran patent solicitor of Boston, is a regular encyclopedia of incidents referring to inventors. He tells of a man named Hurd, who be longed in Stoneham, who realized $30,- 000, and gave to the world one of tlia most valuable inventions ever produced —all the result of only about half an. hour’s thought. His invention was the machine now everywhere used for ex extracting molasses from sugar. When the idea occurred to him he sketched it down and gave it to Mr. Eddy, and au thorized him to take out a patent. Re turning home, he forgot all about the matter and applied himself to other affairs. Subsequently a gentleman en gaged in the sugar business saw the in vention iu Mr. Eddy’s office, and at once appreciated its value. The solicitor was instructed to purchase the patent, which he supposed he could do for a moderate sum. The first offer of SI,OOO was re fused, and not until the figure of $30,- 000 was reached did Mr. Hurd surren der. The machine is used in all the sugar countries of tho world. Mr. Rob ertson, who was the American Consul at Hague, and the Aspinwalls, of New York, made millions out of the inven tion. Boston Jlerald. Maby C is a very popular little girl, and is invited to all of the chil dren's birthday parties, where she never forgets to wish, “ Many happy returns of the day.” Recently she overheard her father telling her mother that Mrs. J , the mother of seven cliildren, had just, had a birthday party, the said “party” being nine pounds, very live weight. Mary at once asked her hor rified mamma : , “ Shall I trot over and wish her many liappy returns of the day ? ” Hatters say that the size of tho hu man head in England and Scotland has been gradually diminishing in size with in the last quarter of a century. It is rarely that a seven-and-three eighths inch hat is asked for now. Is that the case in this country, also ?