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N THE PAULDING '/D AA EEA^ C c nB-l 418. B »j^ypy^»»Mh > y i l ; ^ *\ it “ONWARD AND UPWARD* 8UB8CRIF1ION! (1.50 Per Ana it. VOLUME I. DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 18S3. NUMBER 50. GENERAL N£WS ; Kit Wert ii to have 9150,01)0 hotel. Thl cotton crop in Texts will be 1,070,- 000 bale* lean than teat year. A hew hotel, ooating $500,000, is to be bniltin New Orleana before tho Exposi tion opens. Dunntu the year no less than 18,080 homesteads hnvelieen entered in Florida. The Florida pine-apple is second in impoatanco only to the orange and lemon. Sixty bushels of peach stones were received at Hawthorne, Fla, Inst week, which will be plnnted out for a nursery. The oldest man in Pike county, Ala, is bud to be Thomas Grimes, of Spring d. He ib 100 years old. IT is estimated, so says the Palntkn Herald, that five hundred thousand alii- brs were killed in Florida lost year. r the census of 1880 there were in ^bama 1,835 physioiana and surgeons, awyers, 1,214 olorgymon, and 74 sta. rpEPosiT of marl has been discover ed ep tho Conecuh river, in Alabama, whdk promises to bo valuable for ootn- IS*? 1 apiyopriaBons for pounding with other elements os t Ts * 875 - W8 ' Tho “1 User. Two cypress trees have recently boon cut in Sumpter county, Fla From one 83,000 shingles were made, and from the other 37,000 shingles and 6,100 clap boards were made. Wolves are so plentiful in }he tylnek in the Capital Square at Richmond), sur- roufided with a wretth eoifi posed of the principal agricultural products of tho Confederacy (cotton, tobacco, sngnr- cano, corn, whont), and having around it tho words, “The Confederate States of Amo.ica, Twouty-second February, Eighteen Hundred nnd Sixty-two," with tho following motto: “Deo Vindice.” The Confederate monument at Magnolia Cemetery to the memory of tho dead who fell in defense of Charleston bears on one of its faces an onlirged represen tation of tho groat seal of the Confede rate States. EDITORIAL NOTES. German* has 500 mills for tho manu facture of wood pulp. Such n degroo of perfection 1ms been attained in tho treat ment that evon for tho better qnulitios ot paper tho wood pulp is substituted for pulp nrado from rags. It consti utos 70 per cent of the papor stock us ad throughout Germany. Tire Methodist Episcopal Vission at t NfH X«rk. appropriated $15,482 for mis sionary work in Bulgaria nnd Turkey, $34,000 for Mexico, nnd 835,648 for Ja- for- appro priations for domestic missions are: Arizona, $8,000 ; Black Hills, $13,000, and Dakota 313,525. Iiaroe fortunes arc rare in Switzerland and tho salaries of public functionaries are very modest. Tho president of tho -. confederation rccoivcs for his services Mountains of North Carolina that they I only $8,000 a year :’fow judges are^puoned with strychnine, and their depMations render fanning and sheep- raising very tjnoerfain. A Gum tree- 1 in Florida was fired the other day, and the occupants summarily evicted were a swarm of bats, followed by flying-sqairgelsjlaereeeh-owlsy various other night birds, two coons and one ’opossum. Tt is prabable feat»telegraph line will be built from the cable of the Western Union Company through the Everglades to Jupiter Inlet, on the esstern coast o! Florida. A survey of the country is to be made as early as possible. Pensacola Commercial: The moss crop of this State is worth more than the cotton, and can lie put on tho market with very little expense. Tho demnnd exceeds the supply, and there is not a county in the State in whioh the product is not now going to ’waste. The dogs at the Louisville bench show were valued at $250,000. Fortunately for the dog raising industry, they are exempted from taxation. Tho same value in sheep would he annually taxed about $2,500. Verily, tho dogs are hav. ing their day. Leeds is spoken of as the next mining and manufacturing town in Alabama. Its situation is excellent, being in the bosom of tbe great mineral sources, with plenty of water power around, nnd a fine brac ing climate. Several wideawake men are already at work developing tho place. Missimm has $7,000,000 invested in manufacturing industries, a gain of 100 per cent, in five years, and Alabama has $5,000,000 in the iron production. The laatSouth Carolina legislature chartered nine new cotton factories with an aggre gate capital of $1,725,000, and in three yean 275,189 spindles hare been added to tbe manufacturing capacity of the Carolines, Alabama and Georgia. A Machine for picking cotton has, the Charleston News says, been satisfac torily; teated in Sumpture, gouth CaroUnn- Its capacity is two hundred pounds pei hour. The cost of picking the late crop rocoivo more than $ 1,250, nnd there is probably no bank manager in ho country with a salary of more than twice that amount. A man with nn income of $2,500 is con sidered very well off indeed, nnd to have 85,000 a year is to ho “pnssiug rich.” So that it is fair to conclude that teu per cent of the tobacco chowod by froo American citilens, is licorice and another ten per cont. sugar. New Joraey takes tho lead in tho manufacture of tobacco, with Missouri a close socond. North Carolina third, nnd New York fourth. In tho manufacture ot cigars Now York loads tho list, having 3,893 factories and making a miilion cigars a year, Tho to bacco factories and importers supply for every mnle person in tho country ten pounds of chewing tobacco, three and a half ponnds of smoking tobooco, two hundred nnd fifty cignrs, nnd half a pound of snuff. Tho whiskey showing is still worso. Every male person lu tho country could havo had six gallons a piece last yoar if tho quantity cconsum- ed lud been obually divided, while tlioro waa enough malt liquor destroyed to furnish every man, woman nnd child with ton gallons each, Tho delightful luxuries, while they regaled tho Ameri can votor, paid the treasury $140,000,000. IMTOBTANT TIME CHANGE- drastics 1st Stic Time by whVh She H«ilr»nila si Site Count y nro Hint. HE JOKERS BUDGET. Th" changes mnilo on Sunday, November 18, In tho tuno l>y which about all tho railroads in tho country nro nut, cannot ho brought about, at the best, without considerable friction, says the Scientific Amerfmn. In Boston, for WHIT WH WIND IN THR HVMOHOim rAPKKH. TIIE l'ARMltn AND Till TELEPHONE. snn oot it. There,” called out a woman who was a passenger on a Bay City train lenving Instance, thoro ii no llttlo opposition to tho Detroit a day or two ago. “I'vo wont putting of ciooks and watch™ bock some' and gono and left my satchel in tho seventeen minutes, ns will bo nocossnry under' depot I Somebody call the conductor I" General Wright, chief of enginoos, wants in the next fiscal year $36,730,485, for use on the rivers aiul lmi-bora. And even this sum docs not inclndo tho work under the direction of tho Mississipp river commission. He proposes to ox- pend $90,000 in Charleston linrbur, $135,000 on tho Savannun river, and 150,000 in Cumberland sound. Tho es timates for tho Atlantia cost arc for car rying on operations on 145 of the 151 improvements in progress. They pro* vide for the completion within tho com ing fiscal year of 75 of them. When fertilizers fail it is customary to blame the manufacturers, without stop ping to think that no manufacturer can mnkeafortililor that will suit all soils. No two farms arc alike in their wants. I lion, too. the bo;.ion «aay be odvorso to the manner in which llio fertilizer jspi.t in the aol. Tho Petersburg Index- Appeal says the chief reason is found in tlia failure of the farmers “to supply their lands with that quantity of organic matter which tlioy always need, and without which no stimulant is of much value. All soil roquiros more or less of organic matter (humus,) and if this is insufllcent for tho requirements of crops, tho fertilizer remains comparatively inork All must havo noticed that ferti lizers act best on soils rich in vcgitablo mould. Tho fact ought to supply the farmer with a vnluablo hint, Urganio material is the basis of fertility, and all land should be liberally fo l with it.— Fertilizers will pay on such soil, and on no oilier. the nc-v provision for “Eastern standard” tlmo, but orders havo been tasue l for many of the pi,B lc docks in that city to Iw so regu late I, and, ai tho whole raili-oal system of tho Bsstorn States will ho coutroilol by this standard, tho prevailing opinion scorns 1 to bo that tho innovation will l» gnnerally : aecopte I, Thoro may bo some who will at | first carry tho two kinds of time, tho “stand ard’’ a,111 tho true, as can bo n-a ii y done by having two minute bauds on a watch; tins Is now fro luontly in-act cc i to keep botli New York and Boston time, by thoso who travel much bctwoju the two citji-s, In Now York city, olsrr tho change required calls fop putting back tho true time only four min utes, {hero will pi\ billy bo lew opposition to the a loetlon of the i ow standard, but it limy hi readily conceived that great ooiifudon will inevitably Iw oaiuod wherever tt Is at- tompte I to uso the two kinds vf tlmo stiuu'- tati&uslr- By tin adoption of Uin now plan tlioro will pruotiojlty tie only four standards of tlmo throughout tho country, insloid of forty- nine, ns at proem'. The tlme-talitcs of many of the r.d roads will also luivo to bo clmngo l, i s well as the clocks, In order to facilitate tho iiinldn; of o mnoctlous lolwcoa lines nll'octod over i dii.Movable distances oast nnd west. Tho folowing list of changes lias, thurofnro, bo -n fliruislio.l by Mr. W. R Allen, socrotni y of tho vnilioasl conventions which tleoiilea nism the adoption of tho now standard, tho letter f denoting that I he c'co't is to lai set an,-ad, land tho letters itmt It Is to ho set Atchison, Topeka, nn 1 Santa Fe, cast of Dodge City, ciooks only.il mlmitoH, f. AtohVm, Topeka, an I Knnta Fe, west of Do Ige Citv, clis.-ks nnd iclio lulus, 51 mlmitos, LATER NEWS. While the men nnd boys of America were drinking eight gallons apiece of beer and whiskey last yenr they did not exhaust tho stock of tho mannfncturers in this country. They exported over 6,000,000 gallons of spirits and supplied without mite. -1 ’ ... f - - John Waffin, of Cleveland, b.-t u dollar Europe with 235,000,003 pounds of to bacco. Tho tobacco went almost ontiroly to England, France and Germany, whilo the liquor found its way over almost tho entire area of tho civilized world. In spitoof tho fact thrtwo used 75,000,000 gallons of our own whiskey in tho past yoar, there wore imported 8,000,000 gal lons of spirits of various sorts, which, by the way, is more than wo exported in tho year. It is proper to add, that tho internal revenue tax .collected upon this whisky, beer and tobacco during the past fiscal year was $140,000,000. anil that the internal revenue system, since its inception in 1863, lius brought into the treasury a total of $3,037,376,125,05. An adroit rensoncr once wrote an essay on tea as a cause of cri i o in which he contended that this mild beverage wrick ed more nerves nnd ruined more consti tutions than all tho various forms of alcohol combined. Tho consumption of tea is increasing rapidly and ton drinking by hand was $50,000,000, or at the retM is becoming more anil more of a social of $7 per bale. The cost of picking by machine will be $1 per bale. It is esti mated that a third of the crop lias lieen left in the field in seasons post because of lack of hands. Tho machine will remedy this. Montgomery Advertiser and Mail: The number of persona who emigrated to Toxai and other portions of the West and are returning home is astonishing. On one of the north-bound trains of I he M. and M. road a few nights ago, eighty of the passengers, and on another suc ceeding, sixty were returning from Texas to their former homes in Alabama and adjoining States, Most of them were former citizens of this State. The original seal of the Confederate States, which is of massive silver, is still in the hands of an ex-Confederate sol dier, who treasures it carefully. It con sists of a device representing nn eques trian portrait of Washington (after the cu3tomo in England and America. Sugar is going out of favor at fashionable Ame rican tea parties, and cream is losing ground. The French drink their tea very sweet and help themselves to sugar with their fingers. The Russians, who set many of our social customs for us, prefer lemon with both hot and cold tea and seldom use sugar. Tbe luxury of tea drinking is said to be offered in its most tempting form in Russia. Tlieir best brand costs ten dollars a pound aid its proper preparation for tlio table is one of the national fiuo arts. Some startling facts ore disclosed in the report of the commissioners of internal revenue. Last year tho tobacco factories in this country used 11,653,339 pounds of licorice in fixing their goods for the market. Besides this they used 11,257,100 pounds of sugar to make tho stuff taste good. The total amount of Immense ilomagcrf as been done by a trr- undo in Oxford, Franklin nnd oilier counties of Mnlno. Millions of trees were blown down, ninny liou-ei and brrus dos'royed, churches unroofed and railroad bridges moved from their foundations. Thelo sos aggregate hun dreds of thousands of dollars. The sum of 8150,000 hnsbeon raised by sub. sertption for tlio purpose of oetab'ishing a general Unitarian head juarterB ill Boston ) and immed'ate steps will be taken to purchase an eligible sight an 1 ei-octa suitatdo bud ling. At tlio Froiptoc Fair grounds, Brooklyn tho bay golding Frank, with running ina’c, trotted a mile in 3:03'/ lt thus brnttng 3:10L(, tlie best record, which was made by Maud H, Baitikiore nnd Ohio (wo t), b ith clocks nnd sc.ioinlks, 33 minutes, s. Boston Hoosao Tunnel a id Western, both clocks and «'b slules, -l minutes, s. Boston and Albuny, ciooks only 111 min utes, s. ... Canadian Fnclfic (Eastern division), clocks only, 0 inluutos, ». Delaware end Hudson Canal Company, clocks only, 4 minutos, s. De'awaro, Lackawanna, anil Western, bith docks an I schedules, 4 minutes, s. Fort Vfnyno, Cincinnati, and I.onlsvtllc, both clocks and s- ha lilies, 33 minutes, s. F-t i.-iJ/Hwl New York, both clocks and schedule-, 4 minutes, s. Hartford unit Connecticut Western, clocks only, 4 minutes, s. Lake Shorn and Michigan Southern, botli clocks met schedules, 3s minutes, s. I/diigh Vnllov, clocks only, I minute, f. liOiiisv t'le aiul Nushvillo, ciooks only 18 niinuto A lienovolent man with a hnhl head and n double ohm volunteered his ser vices, and after a time tho aunduotur was brought in. “Can’t yon stop and run buck 7” asked the woman. “No, ma’am, but I'll telegraph to havo your liaggngo sent on. what is it?” “A satchel,” "Vory well,” lie said ns he liegnn to write, “it's nil old satchel with one, hnndlo off, and tho look brokou, of conreo." “Y-ycs, sir; but it’s uono of your ImsinesH if it is. You dou't buy my satchels 1" “No, ma'am—of oourao not. Let’s aeo I I’ll telegraph them to open it. Tlio flrnt thing on top is a night-oap." “B'poein’ 'tls i" sho blustered up. “I guoin thoro iB no lnw ngin wearing night caps I" “No, ma'am; nnd tho next tiling is a inir of black woolen Htoolrings which inve lieon darned in tho licols. What next?" "Tho next thing is Hint if any man in tlda ’ore State of Michigan dares to open that satchel and go to pawing over tlio contents I'll make n corpse of him I" sho exclaimed, as slio untied her bonnet. “But I must tolcgrnph.” "Then you call itn black sntoliol kiml- or busted iu nil ouo side nnd kinder busted all to Gnshon by you railroad wretches on both omls, anil let it go at Hint 1 I won’t linvo it pawed over.” 'But, madam, you—” "Not another word,” sho snid, ns her spectacles danced on her noso. “Do ns I tell von, nnd if they can’t find it I'll conic back and stir things up nnd bounce folks around till tlmy'U think it’s a had year for hurricanes. Just say ii busted black sntcbel, nnd add Hint if it eomos along with tlio othur handle pulled off I'll begin a lawsuit to mnko tins railroad flicker I” The busted blank satohei left on tlio next (rain.—Detroit fiVee I’rcti. imito» Mis uiirl Pacific, clocks, solio lulei at St. Louis only. 8 minutes, s. Now York, l.ako Erie, anil Western, docks only, 4 minutes, s. Now York Central anil Hudson Itlvor, (lucks only, 4 minutes, s. Now York City ami Northern, ciooks only, 4 mlmitos, s, Now York and Now England (east of Con necticut). botli clocks and lolioducs, 14 min ute that bo could drink fifteen glav os c-f whisk} in fifteen minutes, nnd won tlio wagor, b.d lost his life. Trinity cathMral, 0:10 of tlio most impos ing Eph cop.il buildings tn tile country, was const crated nt Omaha, Neb., by the founder, Bishop Clarkson, assisted by Lord Bishop Kweetman, of Toronto, Bishop -Garrett, 0/ Texas, anil other clergyinoil. The National longue, for tho suppression of polygamy, in session nt Cleveland, adopted an address to the country denouncing Mor mon practices and urgently requesting "tlni| petitions bo circulated in ovt-ry city, town and school district in tho Unitjd Slates, ask ing Congress to submit to tho legislatures of the various States an amendment to the con ■dilution prohibiting polygamy." Durino tho recent heavy storm tho barge Milwaukee was lo.-t with lior crow of seven men in Lake Ontario. The annual roport of Cioncral Merritt, su pcrinUudbnt of tlio Wrst Point Mi itary academy, says that on H.ptcmbor 1, 1881, tlioro were at tho a -a loiny fifty-five pro fessors and commissioned oillcers and 311 cadets. Tliero wero no deaths during tbe year among tho cadets, oillcers or sddiers. The average cost of subsisting each cadet during tho hist year was 817.93 per mouth. Tho general tone and dlloipline of tlio cadets nro good, although tlio practice of hazing ha: not yet been en ti . ely broken up. Gold in piying qn entitles has bean found iuthe provinco of Quebec. Senoh Juan Valera, a distinguished Spanish novelist and formerly minister to Portugal, has been appointed successor to the lute honor Boren, who klllol himself in New York, as Spain’s diplomatic representative in bo Uuitod States. ciil), b ill clocks olid scheiu os, 1 minutes, s. I’ennsylvan a. New York dlvis.on, both clocks and ichudulos, I minute, f. Pennsylvania, all divisions oxropt Now Yoik. c.ocksonly, 1 minute, f. Plillalelphln and Heading, both clocks anil schedu'o*, I minute, f. Home, iValortowii, and Ogdoim'nirg, etx'ks only, 4 minutes, s. Gambling Legally Defined. tobacco manufactured iu the United 8t«fo$wbjcb turooaote bie monument, States last year waa 110,000,000 pounds, Furs.—Au importer and exporter or furs gives this information: < ‘The house cat is one of the mo3t valuable of fur bearing animals, mid when they mys teriously disappear from the bock fence they often find their way to the furrier. It is an actual fact that in 1882 over 1,200,000 house cats were used by tho fur trade. Blnck, white, mnltesc nnd tortoise-shell skins are most iu demand. They are made into linings and used in philosophical apparatus. As for skunks, Tho Supreme Court of Miohignn holds pools soiling on games of liaso linll to be gambling within tbe meaning of tbe statutes of that State against keeping gaming rooms. The foot that (lie games upon whioh the wagers aro laid do not take place in the room, butot a distance, is unimportant. “Betting wpon a gnrno of billiards whioh is being played in Now York,” says Judgo Cooley, “can as readily bo carried 011 in a distant city as in tbe vory room where the playing is going onj and if the latter is a gaming room so must tho other be." The oourt considers it to bo gaming or gambling to bet upon any game, al though the game may be perfectly inno cent and there may bo no wager liotwccn the players tbemeiveB. Butting iH thus equivalent to gambling whenever the bet is to lie determined by the result of n galfie, but there may be betting which is uot gaming, as for example, in tho case of nn election wager. Horse races, however, as well us dog tights, footraces and cock fights havo been held to be games within tlio terms of the English statute on tho subject, passed in the time of Queen Anno, which is the basis of mncli of the American legislation. ON THE WRONO IIAOK. An invalid gentleman nnd his wife had engaged a berth in n I’ullman car on n certain railway. Toward midnight the f intient awoke with a severe pain in his nick, nnd asked his wife to apply a mus tard plaster ns quickly as possible. Ills better half at cnco got tlio plaster ready and then ran to tho other end of tlio car riage to warm it at the lamp nnd muko it draw all tho better. Returning to her sick husband tlio littlo woman unfortu nately wont to tho wrong lied, whioh hap pened to bo occupied by a stout German wine merchant, who was fast asleep. Hho quickly drew the curtain, lifted the bed clothes, and iu a twinkle clapped ilia plaster on tho traveler's back. At that moment tbe sick husband called out from tlio berth; “Mnvy, what a long time vou are I” Now tlio poor woman first iieonmo aware of hor terrible mis take. Hurrying to her husband she told him in a whisper of what sho had done. The poor sufferer could not help laugh ing in spito of liis pain, nnd he laughed until his pain had left him. Then all was still for awhile, until suddenly loud cri-s and imprecations were heard pro ceeding from tho wine traveler. "IJorr- gotsmullonendoniK-rwetter! Whnt is it Hint I have got on my back ? llimmel- mel-bombemgrnnnten - clemonts-donner- und Hagslwottcrl IVhew, how it hums I Water I Fire ! Ah 1 Oh 1 my hack ! The lied is on fire ! Thunder nnd light ning 1 Water! my back 1” We draw a veil over tho rest of tho story.—Port JervU Union. The Saginaw (Mich.) Courier says:— A" farmer stepped into, a grocery house here nnd sflRjL to sell a load of apples. Tho buyerVsr the firm was at the telephone, and the financial man told tho farmer to wait a momont, and ns the buy, r turned from tho tele phone the man of onsli, who was busy, uttrnoted his attention by n nudge, and pointed to tho jipples. Ho went out with the farmer and asked him what l-is apples were worth. Tho farmer wont down into his pocket, and pulled out a dollar, and pointed to the bushel casket 011 the lond. The buyer said, “That's too much, I'll give you 75 oonts.” Tho farmer shook his bond and flourished the dollar. He wan told it was too much, and Hint he must take something loss. Ho took out a scrap of paper ana ivrolo 85 routs anil $1, and then by mo tions imlienled that lie would take 85 cents fur one lot and 81 for tlio others. The buyer Kiiiii, “ All right, but wh ( y don't you talk ?” Tho farmer found his longue, and replied; “ Why, ain’t you ' deaf?" “Not that nnvhnuy know: of." " What did you linvo that tube to your ear then for?" nnd tlio man from the rural dial riots learned about the tele phone. ONE OP LINCOLN a STORIES. Hcoretnry Lincoln lias enough of his father's nature to eiiublo him to maku f lood stories nnd to tell them well. When 10 was in Chicago with Arthtir ho, with a number of other gentlemen, waa en joying nn after-dinner chat, when ho told tlda story, illustrative of the ernzo in Chicago for chirring U10 plea of self- defense: Three men quarreled iu nrooni above iv saloon, when 0110 of them foil dead from heart dinense. Tho others wero fonrful that they would he charged / with murder, so 0110 went to tho saloon / nnd enticed the bartender out, while *ho • / other carried Hie corpse down nnd plaaad / it in a olinir with its bend on a tublo s if sleeping off 11 drunk. When tlio bar- render returned tho two men took a drink, saying tlio drunken man in the chair would pay for it, nnd went nwny. The bartender soon shook his customer and demanded hie pay. Tlio corpse foil over on the floor, and ns tho bartender stood trembling with fear, the two men relumed with ail officer. Thoborteudor, anticipating his arrest, quickly said, “ Ho struck me first.” BUPPORINO A CASE. It was an ingenious witness tliut turned '• - the laugh upon tho genial County At torney of Androscoggin County, Muine, nt court recently? Tho cuso was tho Philip Atkins case. "Now, hir,” said tho County Attorney, holding up a gold chain, "what would you huvo thought if you had noon snob a chain as Hint around tho respondent's neck?" “Well, I can't say. I didn’t sco any such chain;’’ “Well, if you bad ?” “J can't say; never sco any such ahain on Atkins’s neck." "Yes," replied the Attorney; “lmt lot us suppose 11 ease. Hupposo, for in stance, that you hail seen this ohain around Philip Atkins's neck; what would you havo thought, knowing At- itiiis, as you do?" Tho oourl-rooni was vory quiot. Tho witness drawled perceptibly as bo re plied: "Well, I snpposo if I liiul soon it, I should have thought that ho had a gold chain around his neck.” The Judge rclnspcd, nnd tlio audience exploded, and the prosecution lost tho point.—l.cwlnlon Journal. UNA OUOMMODA-rlNO. Whilo tho Governor of Arkansaw woz at tlio Louisville exposition, ho was pre sented with a suit of clothes mailo o Arkansaw cotton. Shortly alter his re turn old Simon, tho politician, culled 011 tho chief executive. “I heuhs, gubnor, dnt da gin yer a snitob clothes while yer wnsup ynndcr.” “Yos, made within forty-eight hours Pensions.—In tho United States tbe average vuluc of a pension is nliout $105. The average date when arrears begin to accrue is 1864. Tho number of unset tled claims now pending which involve arrears is 148,813. In addition, 95,692 claims aro pending which will not in volve arrears. The present annual charge for pensions is 832,000,000. If half tho ponding claims arc allowed, this will be increased to $84,836,565. if no further claims nre received, tho an nual chargo will of course diminish slowly at present, but very rapidly iu n few years. Droi-ped Out.—11 appears I >v a lecture of Mr. Laughton, delivered at Greenwich recently, that the old Royal George, „„ >AUI1I1J whose sudden careening, just as sho was si'oioOo' weTo" used 'Ti'i^'thbi^ouritry iast i BtBrt ® «™iHO with hundreds season, valued-from,fiftv cents to $1.20. 1 of mcn °» boftrd . linB '“"l" tho subject of They come from 6hio' nnd New York j verse nnd romance, really went down principally, and, as in pursuit of the | hecatiso slio was rotten, and the unusual tiger and lion, the bravest men are rp I 'j e'K* 11 in her hold caused her bottom to qaired,” drop out, on which slip ftjjpd an<4 sank PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY. Do renson dnt we thinks dnt onr mini- ders could bent anybody cookin’ iH Lo calise we kain’t carry do boy’s npportitc inter ole nge. When my wife says, “Doan yer think ycr’d hotter do so un’ so,” I commences ter arpy will lior, but when she says, “Go an’ do so an’so," I hus’lcs den nn’ ilar. I knowed one man wlmt was so good dnt ho wouldn’t pull a steer oiitcn do ditch 011 Sunday. He was artcrwnrd sont ter do penitentiary fur stealing n horse on Tuesday. Do baby is more np’ ter die den do man; do little apple is more up’ ter fall den do well gronoonc; do olo man is more up’ tor die den de yonng man, fur de ripe apple is al’ers rendy ter drap. It is a mighty good thing ter be ’dustrious, but too much stirrm’ ’ronn’ ain’t good fur yer. Do patoridge is more ap’ ter bo seed by de hawk when lio’s fly in’ 'bout den when lie’s restin’ under do bush. Once a man tolo me dnt ho didn’t want do office what ho had been nominated fur, an’ dnt I10 wun’t ngwino ter ax 110 man ter volo fur him, but wlien%e foun’ dnt I had voted agin him ho coino uroun’ an’ raised n row wid me. Now? when n canerdato tells mo det be donn want de office, 1 may not say mitbiu’, but I has a mighty stron ’spiciondat he’s a liar. —A rkansaw Traveler. after tlio cotton reached Louisville." “Hump. Dat was ’bout luck g(An' In de cotton patch nukid an’ cornin’ out wid a coat on. Whnt yer gwino ter do wid de gnrments, guliner ?” “1 shall always keep tho clothes as a souvenir—” “Ur whnt? Blamo of dat ain’t gram mar fur yer.” “I mean Hint I shall always koep tho clothes as a pleasant reminder of the great display mado by our Slatn.” “I’so sorry ter hcah yor talk dat way.” “Why ?” “’Oose I wants do clothes mysof. Yerso’f already got a good pa’rob britches nn’ a fust rnto cont, while my britches ken hardly hole mo, lind my coat ain’t lltU-n.ti-r w’ar. Gimme dut suitob close nu’ I’ll inshore dut yer won’t forget de ’splay made by do State, fur ebery time I seo yer I’ll ’mind yer ob de fack. Whnt, yer ain’t ngwino ter part wid do garments? ’Null' scd. Naixt time yer Hlicks up yer head fur a office I hits it sho. Good day, sail. Ef yer wants dat coal flitch Up f'otch it up yerso’f.—Lillie Hock Traveler, It Was 'there. THE RIGHT OP CONQUEST. “Why do you make such n face in tak ing medicine?” asked a wifoof her hus band. "You pour it down Tommy.” “Yes, because I am stronger than Tommy. If Tommy were stronger than Judge David Davis was once making a deposit at a Washington bank ana stood couniing a largo pile of money nt a desk. A well-dressed young nmu stopped up nnd, with it bow and u smile, snid: "Judge, you linvo dropped a bill.” Sure enough there lay a clean, crisp, genuine two-dollnr bill nt the depositor’s feet. “Thank yon,” blandly answered tho judge-, placing his ponderous right boot over tlio bill on Hie floor aud calmly resuming his counting. Tho sharper, taken aback by the coolness of tho pro- *1, he would doubtless pour it down me," I needing, disappeared and tho judge was ^-Arkansaw 'J’lqvcllcr, §2 ahead bj- tbe transaction,