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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -AT— BRLIYIOisr. GA. Bv MYERS & BTJICE. DR. D. M. BREAKER, Editor Office in the S nith building, east of the depot. TERMS—SI.OO per annum, 60 cents for six months, in advance. After three months, $1.25: after six months, f 1.50 per annum. F.fty mowers to the volume. NEWS GLEANINGS. Bear meat is selling in Little Rock at five cents a pound. The Bristol ami North Carolina Nar row-guage railroad has been abandoned. Real estate at Atlanta has advanced fifty per cent since the opening of the Exposition. The Baltimor • Packing company will pack fish, oysters and turtle at Apalach icola, Fla. Decatur, Tenn., has given up its char ter of incorporation to get rid of its whisky saloons. Seventy-five white persons left Greens boro, Ga., recently to seek homes in Ar kansas. The Union Passenger Depot at Atlan ta will be illuminated by tun electric light. Twenty-five nuns of the order of the Incarnate Word, from Fiance, are en route to Texas to engage in educational work in a convent of their order. Two live-oak trees are now growing within seven miles of Palatka, Fla., which measure respectively thirty-six feet in circumference. During the past fiscal year Savannah exported $30,000,000 more than Boston, $31,000,000 more than Baltimore and $60,000,000 more than Philadelphia. The Little Rock'and Fort Smith rail road, in Arkansas, makes no charge for carrying seed wheat to all stations along its route. The orange crop of Florida ’this year is now estimated at 85,000,000, all of which but about 5,000,000 will be ship ped out of the State. There is a monster orange tree near Fort Harley, Fla., that measures nine feet one inch in circumference. It is over fifty years old, and some seasons has had over 9,000 oranges on it. A German professor who is gathering materials for a history of this country is quoted assaying that he was s trprised at the superior appearance and intelli gence of the white laboring class of the South when compared with that of the North or t’ at of Europe. In Union countv, Ga., veins of mica from five to fifteen feet wide have been found, which are intersected by innu merable smaller veins of the purest quality of this valuable mineral. A company has been organized o develop it. Mr. Ben Hilliard, of Washington county, Ga., is perhaps the greatest suf ferer in the world. He has been thirty three years in his bed, enduring the most excrutiating agony from rheumatism, being unable to move any part of his body except his lower jaw, and to slight ly shrug his shoulders. For all those long vears of suffering his joints have been as stiff as if grown together solid. Last week the Mexican Congress grant ed a pension of sls<l a month to Mrs. Avgustina Ramirez. Her claim upon the bounty of her country is the follow ing: When the French invaded Mexi co, Mrs. Ramirez was the happy wife of Severiano Rodriguex, and the proud mother of thirteen children, all of whom were grown up men. Her husband and her sons ail took up arms to repel the foreign invader, a d extraordinary as it may seem, they were all killed in a bat tle during the intervention. New Or'eans Times : To take a horse back ride over each parish in this State one would be surprised to see thousands upon thousands of acres of the most fertile lands to be found on this conti nent, lying idle, bringing in no revenue, doing no one any good, but burdens to the owners, cankers upon their energies, their labors and their pockets. You ask if these lands are for sale? Oh, yes; all for sale can be bought almost at your own price. But who is the owner? Don’t know. How is a man to get it? Don’t know, and so on. Within the last two week a very large vein of pure lead has been found in the Magruder mine. The first large piece taken out weighed 260 pounds, and was sent to the Cotton Exposition as a fine specimen. But a day or two after an other solid piece was taken out which weighed 356 pounds. Thir was shipped to Augusta to the President of the com pany. Since then another large piece, which will weigh not less than 800 lbs. has been dug out, but has not. been rais ed to the surface of the ground. This is pure lead; without rocks or fore’g substance, and is ready for use as it comes out of the ground. - [Wa-hington (Ga.) Gazette, The North Georgian. VOL. IV. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Rev. Mr. Beecher is in favor of tax ing churches. British Parliament has been pro rogued to February 7. The country is flooded with unhung murderers. Where is the remedy ? ■ ♦ ...... Over $252,000,000 are locked up in the United States Treasury at the pres ent time. Fire insurance is sai l not to be a pay ing investment in Russia, owing to the numerous fires. Guiteau is about the only murderer we know of who enjoys the luxury of two breakfasts a day. ♦ —— Special prayer for the conversion of Bob Ingersoll to the Christian religion is being suggested. - I ~ , The iron manufacturing companies of St. Louis have consolidated. The total capital stock is $5,000,000. Senator Jones, of Nevada, expresses the belief that there will be no change made in the New York Collectorship. The proof-reader is the only person who reads a President’s message entire, and the proof-reader is to be pitied. Scoville is trying to prove that he married into a family of lunatics. By what process he retained his own mental equilibrium is not explained. The project of publishing an official journal in Cincinnati is being discussed. Excessive charges for advertising by the city papers is the cause of it. Although Cincinnati is supposed to be consuming her own smoke now, the atmosphere is as heavily freighted as ever with minute atoms of coal. Guiteau has a horror for the word "murder,” but there is something mel lifluous to him in the expression “ re moved. ” Let Guiteau bo “removed" then. —■ —— The fund for the establishment of a Garfield Professorship at Williams Col lege now reaches SIB,OOO, of which more than one-half was contributed in New York City. After January 1 no child under twelve years of age can be employed in any manufacturing establishment, in New Hampshire, except during the regular school vacations. Several accomplished females are conducting a systematic blackmailing scheme in Detroit, a number of the most prominent citizens having already fallen victims to their machinations. And now it appears Sarah Bernhardt has been stoned because her ancestors were Jews. People are not careful enough about their ancestry anyhow. Wo all did wrong in letting Adam do as he did. According to the testimony of Mrs. Christiancy’s mother, in the Christiancy divorce case, Mr. Christiancy is profane, a drunkard and a wife-beater. It takes a fellow’s mother-in-law to lay him out when she makes up her mind to it. Kate Claxton, the actress whom the fire fiend a few years ago chased about the country, and whose presence in a theater was equal to a panic, is now per forming to an audience of one, and it’s a wee tiny little girl, just the sweetest thing, in iha world. For a week after Thanksgiving Gui teau complained of not feeling well in consequence of over-indulgences. Is it not an outrage that -persons charged with crime should be made to suffer by an excess of good things before he has been pronounced guilty? Some statistical genius should compile a table showing what proportion of those who commit murder in this country are hanged. We are not in possession of sufficient knowledge on the subject to state with any accuracy, but venture to say that not over five per cent, of them feel the halter draw. * Judge Cox. manager of the Guiteau circus at Washington, was himself the counsel of Mrs. Surratt, one of the con spirators convicted of plotting the assas sination of President Lincoln. Cox, we believe, is charged with not fully appreci ating the solemnity that should pervade the proceedings in Guitean’s case. When a bank cashier defaults in the East, the people lionize him, but the bank cashier who defaults in the West is expected to make bis peace with Jesus just as quick as he can. Somehow or BELLTON. BA'NKS COUNTY. GA., DECEMBER 8 1881. other they don’t give an honorable citi zen a chance in the West to becohie prominent as a shrewd financier. As mutilated coin does not now pass current, and the fact that the country was lit rally flooded with it, blings up the question, What has become of it all? Evidently it is all in somebody’s posses sion, and lucky was he who early in ite depreciation began to refuse it. It is just probable, however, that the church contribution box can give some informa tion on this point. An examination into the books of the city government of Philadelphia, al though just begun, indicates that the amounts of which that city has been de frauded is startling. The books indi cate, by raised figures and erasures, that the process of stealing was com pletely systematized throughout the Comptroller's and Tax Receiver’s depart ments. Henry Ward Beecher says “ he who is sane enough to organize the elements of crime and accomplish it is sane enough to bo hanged,” a kind of philosophy that irritates Guiteau immeasurably, and Guiteau takes occasion to reply in Court by pronouncing Beecher a lecherous old villian whoso life has been devoted to the ruin of women. By the way, is a wit, who is ready at repartee, a lunatic ? > Cincinnati Commercial.' “The Com missioner of Pensions estimates that $100,000,050 are to be divided this vear under pretense of paying arrears of pen sions, and that $250,000,000 will bo re quired fqr the same rat hole ; and the ■next thing no doubt will be another swindle which the demagogues and schemers will attempt to charge to the account of the soldiers.” Mb. Abbey, who pays Patti something over $4,000 a night, knows how to get cheap advertising. In Brooklyn, a few nights ago, tho horses were taken from Patti’s carriage and she was pulled through the streets by the supes. Os course such little freaks as that got telegraphed all qver creation and keeps Patti prominent in the minds of the people. - It is published that Victoria Wood hull has returned to this country and is going to lecture. When we remember that it has been but a short time since that she was reported to be almost in the act of marrying a British Lord, it is a little hard to understand why it is she comes over here on a lecturing tour, but we suppose it is because Victoria finds more real solid enioymont in lecturing than she does playing second fiddlejto a man. The Star Route fellows are on the ag gressive. They know which side of their bread is buttered. Instead of defending themselves as the only means of fighting their battle, they are making an assault on A. M. Gibson’s right to call himself an Assistant Attorney General, and this because A. M. Gibson was specially em ployed to prosecute them. It seems that the question of their guilt is to bo entirely left out of the case and event ually forgotten. ♦. Persons of suicidal intent should be informed as to the latest, quickest and surest method of shuffling off. It does not seem to be generally known that a new route to the hereafter has been opened up by the adoption of the electric light. By connecting himself with the electric wire tho suicidest can receive a charge of electricity equal to a stroke of lightning which will hurl him into tho middle of the next century so suddenly that he will not be aware of the trans morgrification. (That word is a little long but we had to user it or bo stumped.) A law should be enacted making it a crime punishable by imprisonment for cither lawyer or judge to dilly-dally in criminal cases. If there is any one thing on the face of tho globe that is becoming contemptible in the eyes of the people, it is the manner in which justice is ob structed in our Courts of law, and a rev olution must come sooner or later. As now conducted Criminal Courta en’> a mockery, and the fact is painfully ok servable to the most obtuse mind. Numerous lynchings, that are called disgraceful proceedings, are tho out growth of the law’s delay. Criminal trials that are based upon legal techni calities without regard to the atrocity of the crime under consideration must necessarily be a farce, and the frequency of such trials is wearing out the patience of the people. Public opinion does not stop to inquire into the legal verbiage upon which lawyers and judge stum ble and squabble over, and will have none of it. Whether the pris oner is guilty or not, as charged, is all they ask, and if guilty, they want to see him punished ; if not, then he should be discharged at once. Inquiry should be to the point and punishment prompt. The plea of insanity as a de fense should require the symptoms to be so marked that experts would not be re quired. A man who is so sane that an ordinary person cannot decern a mental derangement is sane enough to hang. Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, agiinst whom the charge of outrageously abusing the pardoning power has been so widely published, and for which charges there seemed to be some ground, has made the following reply in his annual ms sage. It vividly portrays the horrors wfi. f , criminals in Kentucky have been compelled to emlure: “When I came into the Executive officq there wore pine hundred and sixty-nine convicts in th.-penitentiary, and only seven hundred and eighty (780) cells, and these cells were but three feet nine inches wide, six feet three inches high and lix feet eight inches long. In a word, there wore 189 more prisoners than cells: and when you put these into cells with others you had 878 men, two in a cell only three feet nin<; inches wide. They were dying at a fear ful rite, and I determined that the State Peni tentiiry should not be a charnel house. Yes, 1 wot determined that this should not be. It was t disgrace to the State. Again, many men are fined for slight offenses, even some for trivitl amusements, where nominal wagers are laid, without any intention of violating law. This ought not to be ; but those annoyances will :>ccur so long ae our Commonwealth's At torneys have parts and portions of tho finet assessed. Most of our Prosecuting Attorneys are honorable men, but occa sionally one may be found, who at all tines is prying into the most trivial matters to find out the trifling offeases of some fellow-citizens, that he may puts little money in his pocket. I earnestly rec«mmend that our Commonwealth’s Attor ney! bo paid fair salaries out of the Public Treasury ; that tbey bo not driven to tho miser abh necessity of hunting out the small pecadil lots of their follow-men, that they may profit by their flues and forfeitures. I may, perhaps, hate used the pardoning power somewhat too fnely; but many men who blame me would, pe,‘chance, have done just as I did if they had all the evidence before them on which I acted. Tfce fee system should be abolished as far as possible. I do not believe that any State Ptosecutot should bo pecuniarily interested in thi result of any suit on behalf of the State.” The Attitude of Canada. The Pall Mall Gazette, whose utter ances are almost official, is of the opinion tUut'janeida. will be annexed to the United States within the next ten years. Such is the popular feeling of Canada to-day. A few years ago it was quite different. The Canadians were superloyal and tho annexationists, even then a large body, ware the objects of popular hatred and contempt, but during the past two de cides, the trade relations between the Uiited States and the Dominion have gnwn closer and closer until the two countries are now commercially one. Tim grand trunk of railway of Canada lies half in the United States and half in Canada. Portland, Me., during tho greater portion of tho year is the ship ping port for Canadian produce, and the Cklmcian telegraph system is now but a branch of the Western Union. All these circumstances work injuriously to the interests of the Canadians. They see tint they would be greatly benefited by annexation and, us a consequence, are booming anxious for the union. What hag hitherto prevented this movement frun taking some regular shape arc the politicians and officeholders. Canada has more politics to the square mile than any other country on the face of the globe. It has an elaborate judiciary and ail the government of a large empire. Union, with this country, would sweep away all these officials, and, as a consequence, they oppose it The Pall Mall Gazette docs not say how Great Britain would regard the secession of its American domain, but tho cool and careless manner in which it treats the subject is good evidence that the British lion would not roar very loud should the Kanucks see fit to sever their allegiance with the mother country. Who Was Nemislsl Tn Grecian mythology Nemesis was a fegiale divinity who appears to have been regarded as the personification of the righteous anger of the gods. She is represented as inflexibly severe to the proud and insolent. According to. He siod, she was the daughter of Night, though she is sometimes called a daugh ter of Erebus or of Oceanus. The Greeks believed that the gods were ene mies of excessive human happiness, and that there was a power that preserved a proper compensation in human affairs from which it was impossible for the sinner to escape. This power was em bodied in Nemesis, and she was in an especial manner the avenger of family crimes and the humbler of the overbear ing. There was a celebrated temple sacred to her at Rhamnus, one of the boroughs of Attica, about sixty stadia distant from Marathon ; the inhabitants of that place considered her the daugh ter of Oceanus. According to a myth preserved by Pausanias, Nemesis was the mother of Helen by Jupiter, and Loda, the reputed mother of Helen by Jupiter, was only in fact her nnrse, but this myth seems to have been invented in later times to represent the divine vengeance which was inflicted on the Greeks and Trojans through the instru mentality of Helen. Don’t think you can with impunity adopt the follies of other folks ; your constitution may not be equally well able to bear abuse. New Orleans ladies are said to have the prettiest feet of any ladies in the land. The Man. at the Junction- Six railway passengers were put down at a junction to wjjt for a crossUine train. The little eftpot Was the only build ing in sight, and the man in charge of it ’ was not a telegraph operator. He simply kept the station-house and flagged-the trains, and he was nd more responsible for the running of trajps than tlw Tycoon of Japan. Every one of the six realized this, and yet it wasn't over two minutes before one of J the passengers approached him and asked*: “Is that train on time?” “I guess so.” “ You guesa sql Don't you know ?” “No, sir. “You don’t, eh? Then how do you know it isn’t an hour late ?” “ I don’t.” “Don’t, eh? Well, if that train’s late, you’ll—” Here he was elbowed away by the old woman who made up the six, and who wanted to know : “ Will I git home to-day ?” “ I guess so.” “The train stops hero, does it?” “ Yes’m.” • * Stops long enough for me to git on ?” “Oh, y<«.” “ Well, nmbbo it does, but if it don't you'll hear from us I” She gave place to a man who had looked at his watch three times in six minutes, and who sternly asked : “Did I understand that we were to wait here two hours?” “Yes, sir.” “Is it two hours before that train crosses hero ?” “ Yes, sir.” “ Whereabouts on the line is tho train now.” “I don’t know.” “ Why don’t you telegraph ?” “ We have no instrument here.** “ Haven’t, eh 1 That’s a pretty state of affairs! Two long hours, and perhaps four ! Now, then, if—” Here he was called away by the blow ing of a saw-mill whistle, aua the most peaceful-looking man in fbe cwvl edged up and inquired: “Train on time?” “Yes, sir.” “ Does it cross here ?” “Yes, sir.” “Always stop?” “Always.” “If 1 should get left here to-night it would cost somebody a good round sum.” In the course of the next ton minutes the other two men approached and in dulged in about the same style of con versation, and after an interval of ten minutes he was asked what time it was, why ho was not an operator, why the trains didn’t make close connection, and and why on earth he didn’t have an eating-house in connection with the station. He had a civil answer for every question, and his patience never wavered until just four minutes before train time. Then the old woman said to him for the twentieth time : “ Do you ’spose I’ll miss the train?” “I hope not,” he quietly replied, “for if you do I shall take to the woods 1” And at that the six passengers gathered on the end of the platform, went into convention, and it was unanimously ‘ ‘ Resolved, That the arrogance and impudence of public servants must be and is hereby sternly rebuked.”— Detroit Free Dress. Cruelty to Fish. Talking with a gentleman of 84 years —a man of great experience in practical life, and withal one of humane instincts and principles—we gathered many in teresting suggestions and ideas, that would be worth repeating. Among oth er things, he referred to a lifelong prac tice he had always observed. In catch ing fish, he never failed to kill them im mediately upon drawing them out of the water, which is their natural element. Every boy knows this fact, yet hardly one in a hundred stops to think that a living fish, deprived of the peculiar means of respiration that the water fur nishes, must suffer similarly to a human being cut off from its usual supply of atmospheric air. Death by suffocation is regarded as terrible, and a fish out of water, being deprived of tho oxygen that sustains its blood, doubtless suffers intensely. It is the easiest thing to kill a fish, either by striking it a slight blow upon the head or cutting its throat. It is well known that the flesh of ani mals wounded and then left to die is unfit for food, and experi enced fishermen say that a fish should lie killed immediately on being caught in order to render it fit for the table. But, aside from the question of food, the subject should be considered as one of principle. We know by the fierce struggles of the captive fish it is in severe pain, and humanity dictates that it should be speedily put out of misery. We have no right to inflict needless suffering upon any creature, and tho torture of a fish is quite as biul as the torture of a dog or a horse. Nearly every day during the fishing season may be observed bovs carrying large strings of fish through the streets, the move ments of which show that they are alive and in great pain and misery In most cases this is the result of thoughtless ness or ignorance. Most boys would dislike to be thought cruel, and, if they were instructed by their parents and others on this subject, would probably follow the rule of humanity in the treat ment of fishes, as they do in the care of domestic animals. We trust our young friends who read this article will not only follow these suggestions themselves, but will try to induce their companions to do likewise— Humane Journal. Theodore remarked, when Angelina’s father shoved him off the doorstep, that the old gentleman hsd oonsiderable push about him. oftl} gATES OF ADVERTISING. > BPACIJ. I mo. 3om sraos 1 r’r. on.inch. . S 2 .4. 3 5 •• t 7 5U BI u ifo Iwaiuchei, 375 7IS iOW. 13 »B Three i rTu'k, 5W HI 06 12 BO 20 00 four iucUi)-.. 61X1 I2<W 15 W 23 00 Fourth UMMtn,' 750 15 to 2n 00 30 00 Halt* column. 1100 2000 iooo soon Oce 001 nuiiH bills due alter first iu-ertion. Transient advertisements (rtriotly in »d --vatfce) $1 per inch for the tirstjjasertion; M cents per inch for each additional insertion. Local reading notices 10 cents per lias. Announcements $5 each. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding pix flhes will be ajisrged tor as advsrtiss ptenls. * NO. 49. HUMORS OF THE DAY. A Man may have ten-ants and yet have no pay-■ret its. ' Tntl concern that always makes money •—the mint. There is a divorceity of 'opinion, be tween many men and their wives. VUhe child never sees the necessity of htuct until it becomes ap parent. A possibly have no affection for rheumatism, and yet he will do al most anything for it. A man never feels poor when he has a ten-dollar bill to wrap on the outside of his roll of ones.— Lowell Citizen. Fair umpire at lawn tennis—“ Only keep your head, Mr. Jones, and you are sure to have a soft thing.” An observing laundrynmn has dis covered that the time for him to catch soft water is when it is raining hard. The T'lulnilelphia Chronicle-Herald thinks that Eve was a giddy young thing because she got married when she was a day old. “An’that's the pillar of Hercules ?” she said, adjusting her silver spectacles. “Gracious, what’s the rest of his bed clothes like ?” “Bind up my wounds, bring me an other piece of stovepipe and let the bat tle proceed I Charge, tinker, charge 1 Ou, stovepipe, on !” “What is right in the concrete may be left in the abstract,” remarked senior Alloy as bo pulled his foot out of his shoe and left that article sticking to the new-made pavement.” The worst ‘ ‘ spell ” of the season comes from a Dakota postmaster, who ac knowledged the receipt of a package of postal cards from tho Holyoke factory, in these words: “Received the pac akichiteh.” “ No man was . ever elected President who was born in a city. And yet, de spite this fact, boys -oontiupe to be born in cities. They evfileiilly don’t aspire to the Presidency. They prefer to be oume members of base-ball clubs. ” A FrencHMaw' learning the English language complained of the irregularity of the verb “to go,” the present tense of which some wag had written out for him as follows : “I go; thou startest; ho departs; wo lay tracks; you cut sticks; thou absquatulate or skedad dle.” “ Vell, mein front,” Bfilft an old Jew in London who, after having recovered from a fit which, it was thought, would terminate in death, saw a crucifix that had been thrust in his face by a pious Catholic summoned to assist him home, “ I can lend you only two shillings on it.” A Western Coroner’s jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death from exposure. “What do you mean by that?” asked a relative of the dead man. “ There are two bullet holes in his skull.” “Just so,” replied the Coroner, “he died from exposure to bullets.” He was wealthy but penurious, and this is what he said to the suitor for his daughter’s hand : “ Yes, you can have her. But you must elope with her. I can’t afford the expense of a swell wed ding, and the romance of the elopement will make tip for the lock of show and we’ll save SSOO on expenses. Go it.”— Boston Post. “I maintain,” cried Mr. Quillhopper, excitedly, “that no man has been in such a horrible predicament that he could not be in a worse one.” “That’s all nonsense,” answered the blonde young man; “a relative of mine was once on tho sea in an open boat for ten days with nothing to cat; on the eleventh day he was so hungry he had to eat his own shoes; what could be worse than that?” “Well,” said Mr. Q., slowly, “he might have had to cat some one else’s 1” Tho blonde young man wilted. How to Tell Good Eggs. A good egg will sink in water. A boiled egg which is done will dry quickly on the shell when taken from the kettle. Tho boiled eggs which adhere to the shell are fresh laid. Alter an egg is laid a day or more, the shell comes off easily when boiled. A fresh egg has a lime-like surface to its shell. Stale eggs are glassy and smooth of ' shell. Eggs which have been packed in lime look stained, and show the action of the lime on the surface. Eggs packed in bran for a long time smell and taste musty. With the aid of the hands or a piece of paper rolled in funnel-shape and held toward the light, the human eve can look through an egg, shell und all. If the egg is clear and golden in ap pearance when held to the light, it is good; if dark or spotted, it is bad. The badness of an egg can sometimes be told by shaking it near the holder’s ear. An low A-paper tel.S of two lovers who were permanently separated by the in terposition of a “cold cloud of realism.” Being freely interpreted this means probably that they were not kindred souls. “ Tho circumstance recalls ths instance of a romantic young lady who had a very fine head of hair. One even ing, when her affianced stood gazing very inquisitively at it in the midnight, she said, with much feeling, “John, aro you thinking that each one of these hairs is like a golden curd binding you to hap piness?” “Well, no,” he answered mechanically, “I was thinking what a nice mosquito net they would make. ”