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NEW JAS. BKECKENRIDGE A CO., Publishers. ' ONWARD AhD UPWARD” (HJBSCRIPnOII I $l.«0 Per A* VOLUME I. DALLAS PAULDING COUNTY, GA.j THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1883. m NUMBER 35. donly •topped Mid fail dead. No marks earring knife *11 yew tor splitting kind- m-dn-nfanw were found on hi* body. It it ling wood, opening fruit cans, joining fro^n stove pipe, potting Ixrae plant, digging GENERAL NEWS. !NW«* Mining ope^tionU mg HUMOROUS PAPERS; | have already commenced. Last week in the northern part, of Henry county, Tenu., while some l wye were in a mill pond iH'longing to Mr Hays, they were making wiellafdisbud anee that Hays came out and ordered them Out of the lionet. A tjoy. named _______ Huf. MdCoiihelt toolc a p* slot from life Jy 1 ™" hftithcr's pocket and shot Hay*, killi‘ 1 “ - Thh cotton Worm is reported in a num ber of places ih Wilkinson county, Mi**., and it is feared will do the crop mueli damage. - < The inangptor* at New York .aiesed 80,00f> wsfArtnelohiH, Fmpped4ft>th Niviui- hah. ’A«r»4rfHt Sfltfi 1 saM t-tTITe rotten and unfit for use. An Ohio capitaUqt r wiahes, to stast n rolliig.ikU*in Aflaifba.Vfa., aim ini* Ifeeii in"ebrie?, fbhiKnffJ with Mr. Nat. Haven, of UuUoite^^Ao^e matter. T)ik CiTaThm-g Goal and Lake Compa ny, of Alabama, own 10,000 acres coni lands. Thouwpvnray Im'v slrrndy begnv operations, mid iit %el ting Out 800 tons of coal a day, and 'will inoreaso tlio out put as-fa it as possible. The military telegraph line* have been Bold at Bnn Aniline, • HevSn hundred and thirty-tlve mile* of line were Hold, realizing a total amount, of $71,444,1)0. The Rrie Tolophone • Company "Whrf the principal pnrchsHer, hint instantly. Both hoy* started off a nut over the hill*, and about front the scene of the murder R' TOO MUCH OOMTETITIOft. “Yon have alwnys had the repntettdu if being an honest man—how, then, is it WHAT WR FIND IN Tltnui TO MUIJt' mat you hnve boon guilty of theft ?* ttVlIB TBMJ WBM. I ^ed Ml Austin Judge ol a man who ■ had been arrested with stolen proporty oabv»o a tumor. | in his possession. The beef way to oarve a turkey, sayBi “It is not my fault, Judge. It is the Bindsttfl. fei First Bny a turkey thatf fault of the ago in which wo livo. The - ■—1 death at the age of ninety- ! upright man who Btrivcs to make an The bluer the meat the | honest living now-a-days, oau't do it, a mile if. sua- thought that his death occurred fright and exhaustion,the day being 'worms and scraping knife brick, Fourth—R»t the turkey on a platter two ■ires smaller than the bird. Fifth—Set ; the,, divide itetweon Bod raid IVefB. it crops out at Saledo, A number of citizens of Oxford, Miss., havo engaged in. the, business of buying and shipping,,c v 1 (Ip. The cattle are shipped to Arkaus yi, Tuxes and Missnn- n. Tb,^nkinpij. ipgum very profitable, aiwHtafcifldimu'iiwrnTpfctfteVTliising. A imlnimw'tv 111%* 'in' F)o*ii$a lies patented a process for making sugar aitcf syrim film evumva juid. after ex periment. wSte% fchiit, ho. has no doit P that ea 11Ak' etiwrutfrm'Xviiiyin a%w years, bo tin must profitable employ ment of the pSojfle’nf that Htute. Gbeat excitement prevails in lingual > Ark.,- over tha dlsiioVerv oi a" gold'mtne a few miles west of that place, which ns says 810.113 in silver and SI 1.03 in gold per ton. It is thought the ore extends all nlonj, ’White riVei'B. It crops Greenbrier and ne t;- Biu-k Horn, B. NV. Harrison, of Melrose, is the honey farmer of Rockingham Co., Vn. This year from 150 hives ho will souore a crop of over 2,000 pounds of honey, for which he will get about $100. This, besides the increase of his bees, which will bo fully eighty hives, thus adding to liis “working” capital. After, shooting at it eight or nine times, Mr. W. H. Richardson finally killed with the ninth shot, n few days ago, a milk-white deer in the forests near Bigboo, Ala. The negroes think that white deer aro akin to witches, and are probably delighted that one of them has been laid low. Two more of them ,ha« been upon recettt'y in the forests of ' Watfhmgt* >ii county. Around Gainesville, Fla., tlio raising and shipping of the turbine squash 1ms become an industry. It finds a ready sale at Boston, and is used almost exelu sively for making pie3. In shape it re sembles a turbine wheel, whence it takes its name. It has the color of a pumpkin »n,l looks like a Kershaw, hut is finer and has a more delicate flavor. The vines hear heavily, and continue hearing until about the first of August. The - prices vary from 81.50 to 85 per barrel The four wing dams at the “Upper Flats” of the Savannah river have been completed. The effect of these works upon the channel is already perceptible, and it is . the opinion of the engineers that there will be within a short time depth of twenty-two feet of water at this point, an increase of six feet. The con struction of the wing damhs at te “Cab bage Trees,” or “Lower Flats,” has been commenced, and it is expected the work will ho finished in two monthB. Capitaman (La.) Advocate : The in cessant rains are working injury to the growing crops, particularly cotton, which is shedding in some places and rusting in others. It is feared the little cotton the rain leaves will bo finished by the caterpillars, although this destructive insect has not appeared in th s vicinity as yet. Cane is not looking ns well as we would like to see it, the continued rains being anything but favorable to its growth, while the grass in some pla ces is about to take complete possession of the cane fields. A LARGE mining enterprise of North ern Alabama is the Lady Lesley Mining and Manufacturing Company. Its in corporators are chiefly Memphis gentle men, and it is named in honor of a Mem phis lady, who met a tragic death last year on a Nashville Btreet in a runaway accident. These gentlemen with the assistance of agents, have quietly been buying lands along the projected Birmingham and Northwestern railroad until they are now in possession of 75,- 000 {tores of the finest mineral lands in be done by proxy.- The day bad arrived the guests assembled, the license pro cured, the parson on hand and tee bride roady, lnlt tlie youthful groom did not turn up. The friend who had douo the courting went out, and, after looking around, found jiim jittigg or lying in a horse bough. X>11 -asking him why he did jib! go to Uit| houHtj to be married, lie said: “Oh, I can’t go tlmr and stand before them folks.” “Oh, yea, you cans everybody in there is married.hut your gui. uuu ” "Get her to come out iloors and* we’ll nwuxy under the shed but let the old folks stay iu the- house. Tho friend went back, got the girl anil her the turkey. Second—Boast it uutU yon osn strike 8w out ef its breast with a whet-stone. Third—Use tlio wgrin. . (Georgia seems to he pre-eminently s’**®. 1 - - Sumpter Republican te’s the story of a X,Tsi.lh--Then inrite ,our guests young man down near the nver who was * young nun who has to tje married on a certain mg . « llol —t leaned to swear, to osrve the ha l seen and loved the girl and_ whs too ^ >oriflofc He leMn in „ ix minutes, uashful to do the courting so it had to dnlcBB he stools. There is too much competition.”—Texas Siftings. CLirriNGS. irson out without exciting suspicion, and they were married. The company wailed two or three hours, and, on being invited to supper, were introduced to tho bride and groom. They became so indignant that all left without partaking of tho supper. Tiiehe is a good deal of complaint along tho line of the Mobile and Ohio ailroad in Alabama about the depreda tions committed on tho lands belonging the road. Mr. Danner, President of the Danner Land and Lumber Company ays he found hundreds of people depre dating on tho lands, especially iu the way of getting turpent-ue and rosin. The people who do the actual work of cutting the timber belong to a cIiibb of poor and ignorant men, who aro encouraged by men of means and respectability. “For instance, persons of means have built turpentine stills at points near tho lands which were the property of the railroad company—lands which are now in our possession—and would thou give out that tltfy would buy erudo turpentine when brought to them. They would at tho same time furnish these laborers with provisions, tools, etc., show them the railroad lands, and induce them to work on them and bring the produce to them." Those who have been engaged in these transactions aro to be prosecu ted, and a company hiiH been organized for tho purpose of inducing parties to move their mills there from the East and West and saw up the timber. EDITORIAL NOTES. It is claimed that 90 per cent of the 10,00;) felons prrdoned by the czar du riug coronation week have found their way buck to p rison again, and are ready for another coronation. The jury in the case of Treasurer Polk brought in a ve -diet of guilty of embez zlement, fixing the penalty at imprison ment in the penitentiary for 20 years, and imposing a fino tn the full amount of the embezzlement. To oarve f Oh, the gods pity you, no, no, no;' not to csrvew ran un eon or nun. At noon yosterday there were half n dosen Idler* st the foot of Woodward avenue, some asleep, some looking des pondent, and two who had just assured • pedestrian that they must have work at tome prioeor starve. A gentleman suddenly stepped out of an offioe and approsohed one of these menand said: ' “You look like an honest man.” “lies, sir, Ida” “And yon are a hard worker.” “I am that.” “I presume yon could be trusted in any oapneDp.” “Oh, I know I eonM. ” “Well, I have a job fee you. Unit, porter at the Sixth National Bank 1ms left us and we mutt fill his plsoe. The only thing—that is—you sco- ” "Do you want a recommend?” asked the man, as the other hesitated. "Oh, no, no, no ! You see*we have been paying the other man 84,000 per year, and—and—” “And wliat, sir ?” “Well, the board has deoided to out it down to 83,500.” “Then don’t yon take it!” said tho man’s partner. “Then I won’t I If I ain’t worth ns much as the other man was, tho board can do its own sweeping 1” The gentleman walked back into tho office tho winner of a box of cigars. Ho had wagered that he would offer the man $3,500 a year, and that it would 1» refused.—Detroit Free Press. peck’s sunbeams. “It has cost over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year to main tain the pleasure yachta for the queen and princes of England.” If it costs ns mnch as that to run a pleasure yaelit, Jay Gonld is not going to make mnch by selling his newspaper and going into the pleasure yacht business. He could lose more than that with his newspaper, and besides have a good deal more fun. The suit brought by a New York man against a Pennsylvania railroad for thir- An argument used in England against the oniranehisement of women is the power it would throw iutj the hands of the clergy. “The vuat majority of their weaker Bisters,” it is urged, “would un doubtedly bave recourse to their pastors, not only for gho ,lly counsel and advice, but for political principles.” The supreme court of Ind'ima haB de. cided, iu reviewing the proceedings in murder case, that the mere fact of a man having read news’)'per accounts of crime, and having an opinion i herefrom but oue which could be removed by the evidence, does not render him incompe taut to sPEve ou juries. There is said to be an unusually large number of young men among the mem bers elect "of the forty-eight congress, but the youngest man who has ever been elected to congress since the adoption o* the federal constitution was John Ran dolph, of Virginia. His fellow-citizens, considering him a prodigy, elected him their representative to congress at the iju veple age of 22 years, ty thousand dollars, for the loss of a leg in an accident was decided against the man because he rode on a pass. If tho railroad company think they can frighten newspaper men into paying their fares by any such means they will get left. Editors have rode on passes too many ears to be frightened off by one suit c,l this kind. It is reported that a vast amount ut money will now have to be spent in re pairs of the Atlantic cable. The great strain upon the cable ir sending over sueh a large number of Rnssian names averaging from six inches to four feet in length, for that long and exciting period during the coronation exercises has, it is nppoeed, nearly ruined the entire cable system. Joke on a Commissioner. On th* hlattohm—“And to you, kind teachers, who have watched over us with such solioitous onro, and havo so carefully trained us to love tho beautiful, the true, and the good, We bid all affee tionate, though a sorrowful farewell." v Vt homo- -“Well, I’m just felad school s over, for if any girl was tortured to death with useless lessons and merciless tfcachers, I was that girl. OU. what a re liof to think that my ednoation is fin ished."—Oil City Derrick. An Equal Division.—An nnoommon Step in the division of tho property was tikon by the logatoes of tho late Amnsa Htono, of Cleveland, Ohio. They found ♦hat one or two of Mr. Stone's relatives, oud ones to whom ho was cBpociiilly par tial, had been forgotten in his will. A Mooting was called, tho matter talked over, oud it wob finally agreed that ( iyery oue should sot aside some portion d his or her bequest and thus make up •B equal amount for those not provided for. Such was douo, and os an uuiisual occurrence in such matters deserves special mention. I’m latest “American” story going the rounds of the European press is that of a traveler of that nationality who it neoeesary to excusd his inability join in the hilarity of other travelers ,use of his poverty. "Gentlemen,’ he, “I know I am more or fosw of a ratod blanket on this party; but the fiust is I am a very poor man—steeped trj,the lips, I may say, in impecuniosity. When I tell yon, in atriot confidence, that tliis is my wedding'tbftV/amMhaw boon compelled to leave my wife at homo, you can form an idea of the narrownosa of my resources." Merchant— 1 ’The article is first class madam; and $1.50 a yard is very oheiq If we hadn't got four mouths’ time on i> —if wo hadn’t bought it on orodit—w couldn't sell it to you at that price. I wo had paid cash, it would have cost $2 a yard, madam.” Mrs. Brown—"Yes i know it must be clicnpor to buy oi i ime. My husband tolls mo to purcha-i dl I can get on oredit. I think I’l lake sixtoon yards, and yon can jus •lmrgo it to Mr. Brown.”— Texas Sift inejs. A PAOKAOB containing I wo drafts, one for $1,000, another for $2,000, and a five dollar gold piece, belonging to a lady in Boaui%nvd, MiHS., was found 110 miles from that placo, having been blown there by a cyclone. It takes a oyclone to “raise tho wind," and yon will always find more or less breeze whore there is a Unit.—Norristown Herald, Mamie having been helped twice to amt kills H*n two children and HSSSHLT. o ■ l- Tlio details of an insane woman’s ter rible orime aro given in an Ohio paper: A*Tarmer named liobert J. McMillan came to Ohio several weeks ago with his family, consisting of n wife and two small oliildren, from Garlnnd, Warren county, Pa., and settled in tho town of Lindenvillo, in Ashtalmlla county. His wife, a woman about forty yonrs of age, has boon in failing health for somo time past, and within tlio last, week lias been the victim of spells of insanity, which at times has assumed violent forms. Hovoral times sho lias made desperato attempts to take her own life, lint was uusneeusHful. She hail been in better health than usual for the last few days, and Monday morning McMillan left the two children in her charge and started to work in the neighborhood. It was not long after his departure that his wife beoiune suddenly insane, and wliilo tho oldest child, a girl of eight years, wus iu tho front room tho woman picked up her baby boy, aged two years, and going out into tho yard proceeded to an old well on tho promises, and after kiss ing and embracing tho child threw him mto tho well, which is forty-five foot doop and contains ton feet of water, The child sank immediately and was drowned. Tho womau then returned to the house and taking the little girl by tlio hand led hor totho well and pushed her into tho opening. A neighbor, who was watching her queer notion, hurried into the ynrd and endeavored to rescue tho girl, but wus unsuccessful. In tho meantime Mrs. MoMillnu returned to hotiRO and swallowed several ounces of bedbug poison. Sho was in a dying mdltion whou found and her recovery is impossible. Croat Bridges of tlio World. Tlio following interesting figures of tli# t agtli of notable briilges of tho world ars « lvon: - ML roiti everything on tho table, Hlid down, when the coffee oame in, from her chair, witli n sigh. “There now,” said her mamma, “I suppose yon have eaten so muoh that you feel uncomfortable.” “Don’t," re plied Mamie, quickly, witli a toss of her little head, “I only just feel nice and smooth.”—Harper’s liazar. “Sav, Pat, what ever mode yon go to work for Uncle Dan ? He’s the meanest man in the conntry.” “Mane is it?’ said Pat; "why, sure an’he’s the foinest, nisyest-goin’ master iver I hod, bedad lie gives a man fifteen hours to do a day work in,” The Apache Indian, it is said, cun march from thirty to forty mileB a day Without becoming tired. It is really a bity that tho Apache cannot he civilized, for he would be just the fellow toaoeom- JlL ~ f ' : V”)l. - ■ . , —, 1)1 MTH»1 Sir'll if A Xotkcr’a Desperato Act, TH* FnWr wJCwXfTOvW" " Psrtr-stss Tears IMS. sM Si* toi * Iks BalilaMrs sad Ufcls Used. exhibit, the first locomotive engine trait for their road which proved sneoeeeniL This locomotive is tlio celebrated. ’’Aff*" bian,” No. 1, whioh like all prortinent objects in Baltimore, -has a Ismily his tory. It is not, as is generallv supposed, eitiier tho first eligino built by the oom- iniiy or the first engine that ptfiled a __ rain oil a curved road, but it was the Hint successful American locomotive.' It whh built at th* company's shops under tlio supervision of its designer. It wen* bite service June, 1834. It has been carefully taken enre of and repaired, "and with vory littlo difference is precisely the same engine that it was forty-nine years ago. It is claimed to bo the oldest eflee- < live locomotive engine in tlio United States, and perhaps ill the world. It is a geared engine, having a vortical c™n- 1 * dor, with walking beam. It haa tour dri ving wheels, each thirty-six inehcain diameter, or nearly ono-half the size of tho drivers used on modern passenger loeomotivi-s. The weight of the Arabian is thirteen tons, about one-third that of tho modern locomotive. Its traetivo power is (1,000 pounds. It naed’to'havo * runs oonneotod with the exhaust, l)ut those become .broken, and no attempt lias been made to restore tliorii. Witli tliis exooption it is tho same engine iw when first miulo. It is in aetivo service at the Mount Clare yards, aud works a* well now ns whon first pnt on ttas read. It was for many years s passepger, en gine, drawing trams on both the Wash ing branoh and tho main stem. * A* far os could he learned it had Mffer mot with an accident, never jumped a rail, or ran off tho truck, with one execu tion. Ttiat excnptiou wss a notable one. Boforo it was finished Mr. Davis promised the workmen engaged In the shops, some 800, to take them and their mi tlm ♦ruin ilniWB 1»V tllfl AfA- ’ Chelsea, suspended • • W® Oliicimisll and Covlnfilop (over tho Ohio), suspended, built 1«07.... .... I,nfi7 {(ton (over Ninaamilivef), suspended. 1,2«H Hairs, Infill 1889, suspended HimnorforU. suspended Hleff,suspended Mens!, hufit 1818 78, KUr-nrndad 1,080 •'iuusia. bum 1885, mispeiaW... 2,990 Oi, built 1840 tofuuspratoit - ’5-889 HOT HUHI’DHBIOlf. Vlctorle, over Bt. bswronco Iliver, wrought Iron Bombay (Miulr**) q Boyne, nt Drogheda, Wrought Iron itihou Aqueduct, atoiio ..oulBvillo, K.V Uaiutonon Anmuinct, ntono flu rlrm AquoauoL 8toll!) Vlotilpflllior Aqueduct, Htono 3,780 1,700 3, NOS 5.310 10.807 1,450 8,214 r Ini'burg, W »toin •«.... 5.800 11,200 2, HOC 1,702 3,300 0,530 8,500 4.800 A train on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad stopped below Spuyten Duyvil a few days ago on ac count of a hot journal, whioh was blaz ing tip and threatened to *et fire to the car. The moment the car stopped the rear brakeman ran back with a red flag to stop any coming train. The conduc tor went to the last car to see that the brakeman was doing his duty, and then set to work to cool the journal. While he was occupied with this task a man of dignified appearance approached “What did that man go back with tba red thing for?” he asked. The conduc tor paid no attention to him and he re peated the question. Finally he re marked to the unmindful conductor- “Do yon know who I am?” Tho con ductor replied that he did not, and what was more, did not care s continental. “I am a Railroad Commissioner, Sir.’ The conductor, nothing daunted, re torted that *-he Commissioner ought to nunv his wife on a shopping excursion, man s r ,.r — - -...n TTe.ra.td. refer- soon forgiven , V*., iron 7.1148 Q'ni'nny"("Vi)i ; Mississippi iliver), iron.. ’uihIiii (over Missouri XUvor) •Hockport, -ttinHburg, stone It. Charles, Mo., Iron Susquehanna, stone......... Vlbane, N. Y., extreme length......... Albany, N. Y„ ilontilu track railway brblKo (largest draw apan in tlio world) M"” Vistula lUver, Germany, iron.......... 4.780 firth of Tav, length nearly two mile* or 10,891 Brooklyn Bridge 0,*s» lie Was Forgiven. Tho Philadelphia Press tolls tho fol lowing amusing story of tho late Dean Richmond, President of tho New York Central It. R., a well-known railroad and steamboat man: One oi his Hons was at tho time a conductor on tho Central, and very strict orders hud been isanodj ema nating from tho old gentleman, it was supposed, that no passenger should he “deadheaded” on any exenso whatever without showing a pass from some officer named. Mr. Richmond, the elder, whs one day on his son’s train, when the young man wus collecting tiekots J and making no move to show a ticket or a puna, was plnmply asked by the lary tor a ticket. “Go away, I haven’t got any, said tie. “But,” said the conductor, ‘'my ordure aro strict to let noboilv ride i:hout a ticket or a puss.” “We .nutter,” said Dean, “I’m president of riiis road, and don’t need cithor. ’ “Can t help it, father; you see how I’m fixed. Shull have to put you off if you don t do one or the other. ” The old man looked il him square in tho eves, hut as the son didn’t quail and looked a look that meant mischief,’ tlio president deemed it best 0 come down with the “spoiululics, and did, amid the merriment of thoBO around. But, as it showed the young mettle in the line of duty, he wus families on tho train drawn by the Ara bian ss far as it went, then to go to Washington and have dinner st gown’s (now the Metropolitan) Hotel. The Washington branch was then opened nearly to Blndenslmrg. The trip yas 1,880 mudo, William Duff being tlie qiiginoer. 2,5(VJ jukt wont of .Toiwiun'ii ©lit, WiQ u half miles -this side ol Baltimore, (die . Arabian ran off the track. Mr. Davis was sifting with Mr. Duff when thane- • eideint ooenrreif. BUw-«vri»esnUe<> its side. Neither Duff or anyhodyelse in tho train was hurt, lint Mr. Witts. • Ho was killed. There scetaed to bo a special fato in tho matter, Nobody (•mild over tell why the Arabian rsif off tlie truck. There was no evidence asrer shown, although the (idlest investigation was mndi'i that any caune ©iiHifca to throw it off. As tlie Bnllpek press, whioh, tho first lime it was PUtto work, caught the inventor and printed him into its first impression, so the Arabian on its first trip killed i(s designer mid mak er. An imaginative mail, giftod witli a littlo anperHtitlmi, might' think that matter hud been imbued with iitjalh- gonce that rsaepted its creation thus fiercely on its creator. 1 ' The Arabian will be mtgimau&.to Chicago by Mr. Thomas Galloway. • Tho Chicagoans will thus see-the oWest effective locomotive engine in the world mu by the oldest living railway engi neer, an incident in railway history that deserves a more lasting record than wist of a nowspaper article. The Marshall (Texas) Herald, refer ring to tho trouble the flies givo tho bald-headed, suya: “We saw an account of a man similarly situated who secured immunity from the flies by painting a- large spider in the centre of the bold space.” Teacher—“In the sentence, ’Mary loves John,’ what doeB ‘John’ agree with ?” Bright scholar—“With Mary. Teacher—“With Mary! How do you make that ont?” Bright ^holar-- “ ’Cause Mary wouldn’t love him If ht didn’t agree with her.” Brother Hopewell retired to his cornel Protecting the Troops. The Texas Indi um have always had a thorough contempt (or the blue coats. Id 1875 the milro;d Loom began, ine builders ran their lines with an army of men in advance to drive back the sav ages The railroads havo done more to subdne the Indians in Texas than any other influence. Lo can’t stand steam. The State in 187-4 began to prepure for the immigration influx winch followed. Despairing of protection against the In dians from Uncle Hum, the Legislature, equipped the Frontier Battalion of State Bangers. This handful of scouts attacked ‘'marauders whurever found,_ and England’s Greatness. •• La Fanoe, says that England’s jeul- tinhv of Franco j’h caused by her fcarH ttiat in case of war tho Chinese tea ports will lm closed and the Chinese cpmpelled to use their own opium, and then tlie jour nal goes on to show whatr England-gaitm from her co|onie* mid dependencies, f ho H'/urcH are calculated indeed to in#]jir<* France to exert herself in tho sums’de ruction. Thus La Prance tejjs ua AM England has 7,917,000 square miles of colonies and possessions beyond too *as, “i extent twice as large ns ail BnMx;, ,ith 218,000,000 inhabitant whteh 00 000,000 nro in India, 5,000,000 in Canada, 8,000,000 in Australia and 1 000,000 ut tho Capo, all of whiqh form for England avast army of consumers, giving to hor commerce and: Dwrigraon-. prodigious activity. In 1881 EfigW" trade of exports and imports with The colonies and hor possessions amoontra to arly 5,000.000,0001., and.hor total ton nage of shipping leaving heroolomu! find foreign possessions was 50,000,880 out of the 08,000,000 tons registered. “ Noth ing,” adds La France, “shows srf strangely us tho above figures hoW taueh England’s commercial prosperity lsttono ♦„ h.-r colonial possessions.’ It concludes all broken up, and his first inove w^ ^ ^'id in hTx years what tho United States offer to trade a handkerchief with a red border to Shindig Watkins for a white- handled knife with all the blades broken. It may be a mighty big source for con solution when a po’ man sets down and suvs- “It’s all right, fur de rich man can't git ter Heaben; hut gib do po ‘ see how quick he d know without asking what a fed ifeg I man a chance an see noiv T meant,—.New For* 'Times, I stun m de nob mail s shoes, troops had attempted fur twenty years— drove out the Indians. Recently one of these gallant scouts was asked : _ Whst do yon rangers do out here?” “We protect tho frontier,” answered the ran ger “But,” exposulated the inquirer, “ I thought the United States troops | wore sent out for frontier protection.’ j “So they wore, and the rangers pame I out to protect th* troops,” to her colonial possessions.’ It concludes by urging Franco to develop herself be yond her own limits, as she haa com menced on the Congo, in Madagascar and Tonquin. TonAC.oo.—Although the Scotch are • renter ainokers than the English,“yet U»hh tobacco is smoked in Scotland tlijati in England. This is due, according to the London Truth, to the cafrny ata- ,.cter of Sootehmen. Owing to the large quantity of water in the ordmm-y tobacco ?»ld a pipe goes out More the tobacco to it is P smoked out The Englishman Givown awav this damp tobiwjco* Scotchman carefully extracts it from h.s pipe, and thou, when it has dried, re- places it. ’ A Long Range.-English capiUUsta have bought the Pan-handle of Texas, whioh has an area of 5,000 square mde^ The contract has been put out for a win fence 200 miles long tohead off the oattM from w>jpg tjftrft,