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Senator Josbph K. Brown it Uthought on «cqou|it ,of I We are oppueed to the legblati meddling with our present coni tem. It cannot be Improved n] Democrats should observe Thankagfo lug day. The south haa muoh-tprjbe thankhit fori In the defeat of radloajiqn. We are toM.that senator Ikdarn mal;rt 1700 a day pWm hy aslag outlet labor in htjmlnF*. Hy^an llTo|Uf **«*>- ftomt iftMawrvwfc. I ^ ff? Georgia, we believe, is Ufc.onlyi in thhUufeinwl: tvisrk; tie m k hm msi NO. XXVI. .3^*323 I ^T^E^STS, nk.r/l'* : tUO Ml ■ bfn-iH •.«!) 1014?* W lonrn. nMyaidonalt since his inan- It MU be an outrage] lion (f«ut legislature e<l_^ r t _ i»li up their work and adjourn -C Gov. Stephens haa gram about twenty criminals tint* _ gu ration. It won’t take him long to ilearthe penitentiary at thiarate. We are happy to Inform the publlo • that Sc want Mason Is still In .do* rsuce vile, and that Bill Jones, bis Imitator. Is likely to keep-him. com- ’ panT- -k i Tliere will be 401 electoral votes ia 1884, and It wilt require 401 to elect. Tho Southern States and New York, New Jersey awl Indiana wW give that majority. ’ Mr. Stephens haa at last Isaued.hlS proclamation declaring the election of congressmen. Mow let those Spcorites either give up their money or take ont an Injunction. i . Every day we read of negro children tmrnel to death In cabins'and limbs gnawed up in ootton gins. In both in. stances criminal carelessness is at the bottom of the trouble. Tliere is but little doubt that Mr. Em ory Speer ia working to get back into the democratic party. Well, be can take bis place at the foot in the class and work his way up again. What right haa members of the Geor- gia legislature to charge the state mile age when they have thslr pockets filled with iree peases over railroad* f Will some of them please answer? It is now proposed to run Hancock and Stephens as the democratic stand- ard-lhwrt is In 1884. The fallow that suggested this ticket must-have snail- nliitlhig faith in that Atlanta ring. - We want to see something dong. J>y the legislature toward reducing taxa tion.! The people are tired of paying as much or more to keep up the state na to run their local government. Gov. Colquitt has gone into the In- 8uraou« business again, having farm ed a partnership with John C. nblt- nor, the well known general agent. Ho la the "company" of that firm. During the past twenty-live yean about flfty-flve thousand wrecks, caa. uultios and collisions have occurred on the British coasts, involving the loss ot nearly twenty thousand lives. The Macon Telegraph objects to Georgia accepting Senator Brown’s gilt to the University. We predict If that Institution was located in Macon Col. Lamar would sing another tune. A bill has been Introduced in the Ala bama legislature to punish public drunk enness in the state. We think this a temperance move In the right direction, and would like to see the experiment tried. We arc getting tired of reading about hut congressmen "sSrvfnfc fb|lt - suto'atra-great person*! •settle#:" Why don't they sing thla tune ' before their election? and we guarantee that the people would not require such a "sacrillce.” The fale prophet, of which aomuch has been said and written, has at last been discovered. He edits a. certain Speer organ, and kept standing in his paper a table by which he predicted the election of "Our Emory" by 6,000 ma jority. The cilixeus of Athens would like the editor of the Atlanta Phonograph to give them the name of his informant for that wilful lie he published. That' journal istic talking maohine has no right to re peat such slanders without first inform ing himself as to their truth. The Georgia legislature now con templates ognvenlng another consti tutional convention.- We wish they would, so as ltoould be made a peni tentiary oflense fqr a legislator to move to amend the code, call au ad journed session or to aooept a free railroad pus. There Is a disposition among certain members of the legislature to abolish the Agricultural Bureau. If left to the votes of the farmers this expen sive nuisance would have been dis pensed with long ago. It is about as much use to oar farmers aa news per per agricultural advice. It is truly ungrateful for the Speer or- gaus to accuse Mat Davis of selling out his friend, when we know to a certainty that he did more (or "Our Emory” Gian ail his other supporters combined in Clarke county. Had Mr. Speer been successful his "Dear Mat" would have been a hero; as U Is lie is a traitor and a thief, but such ia politic*. S In mllatrictlng the state we kepi thn legislature won't separate "the sun- capped summit of Hog-Back mountain" and "the rippling watate ofTIgar-Tall creek,” for II “Cair Emory” dees run agsia for congress they would} thus ruthlessly destroy om of the most ex quisitely beautiful passages lu hisstero- typed oration. < ( J , /] / , The Washington Gaxetle says: "In a bill which lias been Introduced in the legislature to redlatrict the state, Wilkes county has been put In • list wfth Lincoln, Taliaferro, Greene, Put- nsra, Oconee, Clarke, Jackson, Madi son, Oglethorpe, Elbert, Hart and Walton, and the district comprising the hbove counties is to (is called the eevehtb. This would thro * -Athena in the same district with us. The bill will likely be greatly changed, and does pass." ’ The following Is the list of the new Judges-eleet of the several circuits In the state: Flint circuit, J. D.'Btew art: Southern circuit, J. H. Mansell; Augusta circuit, H. <V Roney; Rome circuit, Joel Branham; Western cir cuit, N. L. Hutchins; Ocmulgee cir cuit, T.G. Lawson; Brunswick cir cuit, M. I* Herebon ; v$l|ddk/e|KaU, Carswell; Pataulacircuit, J. T. i circuit, T.J. Simmons; Southwestern circuit, Allon Fort; Eastern circuit, A. P. Adams; AJbany circuit, B. B. Bower; Northeastern cir cuit, J. B. Estes. A Had Dkath.—Mrs. E. P. Eber- hart died - yesterday morning, she h3 7lta8BSS4Sfisr , '"r ■ haul wilful deatru timber by sportsmen. Now we can butlOok upon this move as a malicious and premeditated blow aimed at the inalienable rights of our free Ameri can citizens of African descent, and the mover of that law should be burnt in effigy under every , |«rsimmon tree In the Palmetto State. A man who would propose such an enactment must be some Imported Yankee states man, of carpet-bag notoriety, for every Into born southron well knows that a ’possum never climbs anything but a ion tree, and we don’t «up- ■ou could get a thousand feet of marketable lumber by sawing upevery one south of Mason and Dixou’s line. We never heard of this species of tree being fit for anything but to grow ’slm- mons and’possums; for it is a well- known superstition that to burn one brings bad luck on the offending fain tly. Again the average nigger had much sooner saoriflee one of hie lov ing children than a good, healthy per simmon bush. Id fact, this tree we have always believed to be the missing link between the darkey and the vegetable kingdom. He will un hesitatingly fet! the stateliest giant of the forest to secure a little five-pound coon, but the darkey holds the ’slm- mon tree as too sacred for the touch of his axe. The luscious ’possum is not captured in any such way. Sambo invariably ascends the trunk of the sappling aud carefully unwinds the caudal appendage of bis game from a friendly limb and drops It to the ground. The tree is in no manner in jured, but is left to bear auother crop some future night. No; we will bit terly oppose any aud all legislation looking to this trespass upon the rights of our colored population. We believe the Lord created the ’possum especially for the benefit of the nigger, and the persimmon tree for the ben efit of the ’possum. If anything would give just ground for a general exodus of the darkies it is this ’possum bill, aud we know of a good many whites who would follow them. There is no possible danger of exterminating the possum tribe, either. You cau clear our forests of all manner of game, our Streams of fish and even the air of birds; but the ’possum remaius with UB In undlminlshed numbers. In foot, It is said there are more in the country now than when the foot of the first pioneer was planted upon our soil. So we unequivocally denounce the bill aud hope there are enough patri ots in the South Carolina legislature to kill both it and the fellow who in troduced such a villainous enaotment. PETROLEUM. This is the age of petroleum. Its use is universal, and not only is it found in the cabin of the pioneer and of the poor, in the mansion pf the re- BfcRTon.t Mr. T. L. ~ Watchman-: vnMMtoyawbv nice suit of clothing, Srtaia:r your services re Speer contest, district, but many were here. We sii lndependentlsm ia you much sucoei 25,1882. B.inner- have for- - . express a it to you by in Elbert, appreciation of ‘ in iateCandler- rere not in your supporters trust that Wishing On tha Brink of & Strn Chasm. of display fast night,*’ said the astron omer to the reporter on Monday, “pertrapB you would like toTook' at Ji>r M«.| | -ill i ■ |«dt 'fill ! 11 my | IAO lilJO 10TM3M»Dfl*jn» | tab toil i»«tl uO (infill* ni 3"q liiw |y/ ;»ilmiii 'nil Ill ssiatu* /tdi.i ililu ■ Jiiw'i♦iqilll IU vjuiblui .i.-n|jh;kiv>*h »H«l-s-Jmil it if '»l«> ir»’ai|f]|UAui ->> liiw SKhqvMie f lM »<) > ,|1W nil :ii-)U vln j •Hil* .mi itUlsi* .yA«iUAkssnn too Ail iKtqqus luolJ*).Oiii^fMAk ■ I ttuss had craz ■ what came 'next. It was wntdi'idhftihs: The chaiiis I waft to eell ptany pripe, from «2.W 4o any thing above that one-wanted to gitfia tilling? them * tH8 iflfflF’the more-they paid-the batter itwonld bo for thorn. I hinted that the rifcfclfdi ^ouldcome : n«v1,'-Mid this ~ * .en. i jwe are, Youra truly, A fours tr Swift Bros, Monday evening we received the above letter by mail and a splendid IMMtWalatMHby express,} presented by our friends In Elbert, Never was a gift more highly appreciated, com ing, aw this did, from friends of our boyhood—men who have known us since a youth. Aside from the intrin sic value of the present, this fact great ly enhances I he gift In our eyes. While net a native of Elbert county, we moved there when a youth aud spent the happiest part of our life anioug its generous people, who have ever prov ed the same warm, noble-hearted friends that we fl nd them to-day. El bert is the only’ county in Georgia, and we believe in the south, that lias never bowed to the yoke of radical ism. . When her sister sections were groaning beneath this despotic tyran ny she was ruled by men of her own choioe. No where upon the American continent do you flftd purer democra cy than within her border*.. Kfom the days qf reconstruction up to the pres ent hour her galiaut people have ac cepted no party yoke save this. Never haa any officer but nu acknowledged democrat represented ha? In either lo cal affairs or the halls Of-- l*'gillln$tof>. We mean no dispayngement to othpr sections when we c|&.im for filbert tie ohampion democratic county o( G«or- gla. : 'But while thus faoved sirs has never for an instant forgotten h*rwin ter counties and states who for she has ever ery aid iu her power to redeem from radical rule. Wfpjeshe was not in the ninth district, we have felt that we bad the sympathy of her people on our side, and their noble record served assn incentive to nerve the arm of the democracy of the ninth to throw off the yoke of independence. It is Indeed an honot to be thus re membered by such a galiaut people. We aoeept with our warmest thanks their handsome present, which is greatly enhanced by the flattering mo tive that prompted it. We have ever claimed old Elbert as our home, and may npr j||fe|haudwrltiMr and drop from our body if we ever pen a line or perform an act that will cause our friends there to blush at the mark of esteem and confidence they have in this act shown us. BOGUS GOVERNOR BULLOCK AND HfS BOGUS BONDS. netic storm “Well, to be more accurate, per haps I should say that the Sixty or seventy years ago, my friends, father was a pioneer in the the Ohio sun spots are most numerosa ^j^nd largest, then auroras and storms are most frequent ancT most violent This has been strikingly exemplified daring the present year; we have had two or three magnetic storms, enditnnlleiMiniiiii ly with each ot tbs atamanminatnfai of tatrwmBimry been visible. I caught sight of the present great spot jnst coming around the edge of the sun on Nov. 13th, and since then there been more or less electrio or magnetic disturbances, culminating in the marvellous auroral outburst of last Friday. I think this spot is iden tical with the one which made ito appearance during the of the great comet, but it great comet, but it has chang ed greatly in appearance." 4><» im!. ..... ..... -r-T-l.. . reinu.1-4. ftetfajrt.Brefilfr , . BufasiMallonq'who retained & J ' ” since from a trip around they wo: ey worked. or nye years oh near them v' on the time c WesrethatBufis B. Bullock, acres- flmdMMl wrolthy.o. clviliz-l people, ZjSjUSHSfSmSmSi batII..aperiarillumln*t|o,qg^illw have caused even' half' civilised and barbarous people to adopt it. It is, at any price asked for it during the past few years, the cheapest illuminating fluid known, and its cheapness has enabled It to drive all others from the market. During less than a quarter of a century the annual consumption of petroleum has increased from a few hundred barrels to over thirty million barrels, and it ranks third in value as an arf'-le of export, bread-stuffs and ootton alone exceeding it. The pres ent productive oil field, so far us know, is confined to eight counties in Pennsylvania, aud it is said by ex perts that it is only a question of few years when these oil fields will be exhausted. The eight counties of Pennsylvania embracing the petrole um territory are Butler, Armstrong, Clarion, Veuango, Crawford, Forest, Warren and McKean. The available territory in the first five has been practically exhausted, though there are a few small wells still producing. McKean is on the decline, and is more than half exhausted. Warren and Forest yet contain virgin fields, but at the present rate of drilling the en tire territory will be opened up within three or four years. A good many oil operators are reported to be oi the opinion that the present Cherry Grove development in Warren coun ty will be the last big field that will ever be opened up to the drilling pub lic. Several of the best known civil engineers of Pennsylvania have de clared that the petroleum supply of Pennsylvania Is more than half ex hausted. There are a few large land owners, however, who, witli an eye en it ia visible without a tele* ipe?”. ’ | v j ' ‘Easily. Smoke a piece of win dow glass to protect the eye, and you can see the great spot as a con spicuous block dot on tho sun.” J “It must be very large.” “Large! Enormous doesn’t be gin to express itl Counting the whole surface covered by the vari ous nuclei and the penumbrsl net in which they appear to be entan gled, it is not lees than 60,000miles miles long by 40,000 miles wide. Take all the continents and is lands of the earth together, add to them all the oceans, and spread the whole out flat, and they would not cover one-twelfth of the area in cluded in that tremendous conge ries of son chasmB." • ‘ 5,1 /W - Let mo see it,” said the report er. “Don't keep me waiting.*; The astronomer laughed and pointed the telescope at the sun. After the reporter had recovered somewhat from his astonishment he began to ask questions. “So those clearly. shaped black iota' are holos in the sun are ey?” “Yes,” replied the astronomer. “And what is the shadow veil that surrounds " Bun’s surface, but not so deep as the black holes.” What are the white around the spot?” SkFteWljFMisruFli'Wsjdrity ofthh T gk£. tors, ami who fled the state like a thief in the night wlion the democratic party regained possession of {the government, is out in acard In tip Allan D> Constitu tion advocating the re-opening of the bogus bond quesGsa in Georgia. It will be remembered that this man Bullock, while usurping power in Geergla, had ever ton million dollars of bonds issued under his administration. They were fraudulently Issued and the mouey de rived from their sale stolen by Bullock and fellow conspirators. The people re ceived no benefit whatever from their sale, and after • fair and thorough in ▼rstigalion . the courts and legislature repudiated them. In order to prevent the matter ever again being brought up acliuae was dratfed in the new consti' tntion forbidding their payment. While their validity was being inve^tigat where was ex-Governor Bullock? > Did he appear togive testimony as to their solvency? No; he was a fugitive frosi justice, seeking safety In auother etaie. If he felt that he was innocent <j£jmy crime against the State ot Geoi had in Iris possession evidence t bonds were legally issued, whj ha not then come forward'Hke his trial and tell th the matte: his. ' Rufus , and so by rerdict ac- wliat be knew about did not see fit to do lock knew that It w{ (or him then to revi had so lately conspi a quiet acceptam knowledge^ tho rl| But loug afterwar nesses to his high crimes and mil meanors had been silenced, and the evi dence against him destroyed, he again invades Georgia aud with an audacity uid not be liealti] the state 1 I to rob, i tho ht pf the deejsie to the ffiture, have bought large tracts wUliaut , p , ra ]nd takes up a pe^ 'Xtr-S *sr - our capital. VVe - **-"— **~ lims lhat. there was er tha _ _ i a prtc will make It highly profitable for them to sell. The price of petroleum haa doubled within a few montba, and if the preseut rate of advance continues a very short time will probably see their reserved territory opened up. When the petroleum supply of Penn sylvania has been exhausted, the at tention of the oil nieu will doubtless be turned to the uil fields of West Vir- g lnla, Kentucky, Tennessee and Cali irtila, but they are thought to be in significant in comparison with the petroleum deposits of Pennsylvania. Its present cheapness is increasing the consumption enormously, and is thereby hastening the day when it will be exhausted. THE TROUBLED OIL MARKET. Tbs Puls r»Uow*d Bj Dtasawr asMaStsa Im to darks, Boys, soS Borraata. B.W- O Clarke; On. City, Not. 24.—This has been a o 1 unusual excitement In the Oi Exchange. Contrary to all expectation at the close of business on Thursday, the market depreciated yet lower in the scale, dropping as low as K&c.iu Its rap id deeconn Tho scene at this point battled description. Never In the history of the trade had there been such a Babel •fcutilusioa and terror. Brokers aud speculators were fairly tianilysed. and the market (ell so faai that they could not get up margins quick enough to aave themselves. Many men laborers, mechanics, clerks, boys, and even wo men aud shop girls, were carrying a thought at the something deeper tjhan a love for the "Sunny South'* that brought this man again in our midst. Ho 4<tst have known the repugnance that all honest people would feel for him, and that he could not look for congenial companion ship. His mission bus been at length demonstrated by that curd. He emues among us agaiu as tlie agent of the hol lers of those repudiated bonds, ami anxious to (aha advantage- oliny change oi public opinion that nflwht give a loop by w hich the questiou of tiidr payment might be reopened. We remember that about one veer, .a certain paper in tbia congressional district suggested his name for Governor again, anu we hon estly baNtro that ha4_lhgJallow revel v- Kina, the savings of years, In antieipa tinn of a rise. All went down before cyclone of depreciation. Only y huge failure iaao far reported, mom path one very huge failure is so far reported, but at this moment it is impossible to tell the extent ot the disaster. Men who loatall left the Exchange wi.h blanched faces, and several women were seen to leave the railleries weeping bitterly ever their misfortune*. Judging from the amount ot oil told out under the rules, the wrecks among speculators and brokers most have been vsw numerous. The Clearing House is nor yet at this writing through with the day’s clearances. On ’ the completion of their work the worst n lo: newspaper In Geei with an offer **' payment of tl insulting bri* The people for Bogus proves that a be made to re-open the question, holders of these bonds leading proactive ocate the nils, but the autly refused on tlie alert, Biillnck’s car. less i non The will not scruple to go home-Polly was no where to be seen- g s “That’s strange,* said her father. “She always obeys so welL I don’t see how sneoonld have strayed off.” “She wouldn’t have gone home without telling os,” said her-broth- “Look! here’s her sun-bonnet some where around.” They looked again in every direc tion. tailing “Polly! Polly!’ r but all tn vain. There were no Indians living near, but wolves and pan thers were plenty, and only the winter before the father and son had killed two bears in an attack 'on the bow house. So they began to feel seriously alarmed. i So the brother, looking anxiously about, espied an odd-looxing heap of leaves on the farther slope of the hill, where no wind could possibly have tossed them. He went to have a, closer look at it. Carelessly throwing aside a portion of the heap, he uncovered, to his joyous surprise, a bit of Polly’s red frock “Father, come here," he called, and in a moment more they had the child safe and sound, bat fast asleep in their arms. “That’s strange,” said her father, once more. “John, take Polly home. I’m going to stay here and find ont what this means. She never covered herself up this way, I’m certain. Comeback as quick aa you can and bring your rifle with you. Here, hand me mine before you ga” So saying he piled the leaves up neatly onoe more, putting a small log of wood in the place where the child had lain. He then crouched down beside a fallen tree near by to see what would happen. He did not have long to wait. John had scarcely bad time to re turn, almost out of breath with the baste he had made, when the soft .tterof paws was heard on the dry ves, and they saw tliree gray ith rroundsthem?” another slightly in advance leading ‘That is also a depression in the ridges parison with the size of which the size of the Himalayas or Andes are rows of mere ant-hills.” What are those white, feathery- king pointe projecting here and there over the chasms?” “Clouds in which iron and other metals are floating in the form of metalic vapor. What do you sup pose yotf could see if you could stand upon one of those projecting points suspended over a sun chasm?” The reporter couldn't tell. “Let ns make the abuurd suppo sition that yonr body would not, in the millionth part of a second, be turned into vapor,” said the astron omer, “and let ns also suppose that you oould for an instant retain con scious existence amid the crash and roar of solar action, where the noise of the bursting of a world into fragments would be indistin guishable from the universal clan gor, and I will try to give you a no tion of tthat you would see. Your barizon, supposing that immediate ly around yon comparative quiet could prevail, would bap circle of fire, heaving, tossing, spurting, casting up showers of not metallic spray, while hi geysers, shot up wnn inconceivable velocity, would rise a thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand miles, and, condensing, fall back in an unimaginable blaring rain. The sides of the chasm over which you hung, gaping wide euoughr to swal low this whole earth, would appear as cataracts of gloving vapors, par tiallyoondeosedaiidtumbGiigdO'fen- ard to an awful depth. Some stu dents of the sun have attempted to measure, or pjltMr to approximate ly estimate, the depth of nun spbts, and - they put itril 8,000 to 6,000 milee.' In the case of so large a spot as this one we may safely as sume that its depth is equal to the; maximum estimate. You would cyclonic morions in this Bea of fire producing fearful whirlpools, and the rushing and clashing of; vaporized elements, driven by~hu ricanes that would make playthings of moon tains. The fiery clond bridge upon which you stood would be likely to be shattered to frag ments at any time. I have seen such bridges disappear in a few minntes. Then, if you fell into the chasm, still assuming that would not instantly be turned to TOpoj, yon would, after your tum- :h a foot oould al any tnds to carry their point. They will spend millions, if necessary, iii bribing the pr.ss and legislators. " Bul lock is a sentinel un me watch-tower and lie is kept in Atlanta for no other purpose tkan to feel and start the move w tuinty offers. We d Georgia legislature enough, il they wen face public opinion s looking to this infi attempt such a thin| people rise In thrir worthy law-givers cri spiral found brave rruptenough, to naot any bill nd. Did they see the the un- were the tors in the Yssoo fraud. Let us be on our guard, however, and send none but pare and incorruptible men to represent ns in the general assembly. gases, in which, probably, all of the elements that compose the solid earth would be represented. Aa you arnk lower and lower the gases while yet retaining their other propemmL' would resist your de- scent like an ocean oftar t t]ie riSS«t of the tremeudons temperature and pressure to which they are subject ed.” . "But would I find nothing be- Aldtti gna ia the sun?” T^poiior asked. “Probably not,” the astronomer replied, “but you must recollect that this is a matter of theory. As tronomers are only trying to ac count far what they seem ways $hW appeav most consistent and reasonable. It ia a long step from the gaseous theory of the sun which is now widely aooepted, though in somewhat varied forms, to the the- theway. The wolf in front led his com rades straight to the heap of leaves, and stretching eagerly, quickly un buried log. His dis- i«et ooreiAol—*o~ behold. He snified, and smelled, and turned his head this way and that in utter bewilderment How a dainty little girl, plnmp and soft, and just suit ed to the taste of a wolf who enjoys id dinner, could suddenly turn a great uneatable log of wood, was too mnch for him to under stand. He finally gave the problem np in despair, and turned to bis companions, cowering like a beaten hound. There were some sharp barks of disappointment, followed by snarls, e three guests, who had evi dently been bidden to a feast which was not forthcoming, expressed their indignation at the supposed hoax. The other wolf only whined dole fully, but in vain, for the three fell upon him, and in less time than it takes to tell of it, tore him into )ieces and began to devour him. Hey did not finish the meal, how* ever, for the two rifles behind the log cracked once and again, and all three wolves lay dead beside the comrade whom they had punished 110 terribly. tialieveea. -.•jri-s-A'.a ;jah a] :e Egyptians, wiser tban wp in ng with the Mississippi, never leveed the Nile. They dug canals, ope of these, in a former age, when was the world’s granary, ing the river with the Bed Sea. How rich the Nile’s alluvial valley may be is inferrible from the fact that each acre pays a tax of (6. The crop depends so much on the Nile that one foot difference in flood-level is worth $10,000,000; aking a fair average of about ,000 acres, the value of the maize, wheat, cotton, rice, and oth er crops may be estimated at $224,- ■ 000. Great efforts have been le of late to supply artificial means fur irrigation in dry or de- ficient seasons, each as steam ps and water wheels. The be have a great prejudice Cgainst windmills, or much more might be accomplished in this di ion. The customs revenue of oountry is small, being about $5,000,000. The railways and tele- tphs bring abont $6,250,000. e Government expenditure u limited to $17,250,000, any balanoe ‘ ing devoted to the payment of ibt The tribute to Turkey is more than 8 per cent, of the gross revenue. It ia ncrw stated that the loss by * overflow of the sugar planta in Louisiana last Spring was ly over-estimated. The crop in Iberia parish will be nearly double that of last year—say 225,- 000 hogsheads of sugar to last year’s crop. This year's crop may reach 250,000 hogsheads. According to the Census returns of 1880 the number of manufacturing es- tabllshmeutsln the state was. 3,693, capital Invested 120,672,410, males em ployed 18,937, females 3,610, children and youths 2,310—total amount paid In teages, $0,252,952; value of mate rials consumed $24,010,239, and value of the products $36,447,448. The nUm- berofs|iecific cotton factories in ttu state la forty, with a capital of $6,348, 667,198,666 spindles and 4,493 looms, In which there are employed 0,349 op erative* and officers. 71,380 bales ol cotton were consumed In;1880, weigh ing 88,767.196 pounds, and costing $3,- 601,654. The goods manufactured veje^O^lOjjJ yards of the value of :i l ' JULES VERRE; OUTDONE. ^ I « W&LTtS&i"*- »I" IS5218SSJ Ixii TEE dimiWAiY QAiULd | argKfT jtinmM I mills w tiro ▼as last inferi* a Standard reporters: whom bo furnished the foil synopsis of his voyage: He Portland May 31, ana sailed from San Francisco on the steamer QoO- anic, June 6, arriving at Yokohama on the 25th. Spent < a few days there and visited ToBo, the capital anese empire. From Yo- ie went to> Shanghai, on 1 *4 the way touching at Kobe and N*- sasakif. From Shanghai' he went man near - by way of Hong Kong to Singapore, to visit which place was the object of his visit. Finding that he would the trip home more quickly : — ahead than by turning ok passage on a French steamer from Singapore to Naples. The steamer caDea Colombo, where “balmy breezes blow softly o’er GeyJOn’s fele ? and then at Aden, in Arabi, then a Snezjmd then through the Suez canal to Port Said, and across the Mediterranean to Na ples. He passed Ismalia the day the battle was fought near by, but did not take a hand. He had in tended to cross Egypt and have a look at the Pyramids and Spinx, but Arabi Pasha had all the rolling stock of the railroad corraled, so he went straight to Naples, arriving there August 31st During the time spent in Italy he cended Vesuvius, visited Pompeii and Herculaneum and stayed sev eral days at Rome. From the Eter nal City he went to Pisa, as every body knows, to see the leaning tow er and after viewing the landscape from the top of it went to Venice and Btood upon the Bridge of Sighs and had a sail in a gondola, then passed on to Florence and thence to Milan and over the Alps by the pass of St Gothord, preferring that route to going through the tunnel. He next visited Metz «nii thence to Paris and on to London. Spent ten days in this immense. city and saw as much of it as was possible in that time. From London to Liverpool and thence home is an evety day trip'. The steamer Alas ka, on which ne took passage from Liverpool to New York, was not an every day affair, however, as her rate of speed was from 425 to 435 miles per,day. From reading Jules Verne one is led to believe that it is a great feat to go round the woald in eighty days, bat the time, spent by Mr. Mallory in actual travel was less than that and he is confident be can moke the trip in seventy days. ajuaHije -<* mhV i (hum TffTTTi niisiii* vuiJri “Dq you know;’’ saidra jnan.who n«*i Bettiag* I jewelry»from.: & d y ' —“da bo* .to’a reporter,“that the ericana are the easiest humbi r lOfany people inlfraworld? is true and I have helped to hum- bag them about as much as tlie av- erage mu!':- .Somebody..(had. just been readings*accountcitbeLou- isriUfe lottery drawing whioh brought forth this- speech, i i‘!Can’t youtell us some of youi; experience in that line?” asked a ■* mniu ri suidjun Well vou would laugh fa know what fools people make of them 1 selves sometimes. About two years ago I was down in Brunswick, where I saw s fellow running a per fectly square game, but which waa the moat out And out ateel lever* heard of, His .plan was simple and bw^roi!B,ofthe yeKy hart people in fie .rented a stee a^eSow case across the counter in the cen tre. In the show case ho had, I know, my hat fu’I of,ten and twenty dollar gold coins, piled, in a heap in one corner, and in the other about the same-size pile of silver dol lars. A. dice box and six dice com- S leted his outfit By paying half a ollar a man had one throw with the dice. If he threw six sixes he took the entire pile of gold; if he threw six aces he was entitled to all the silver. Of course no one ever threw all the sixes, neither was it possible to get the aces to come all in a bnneh. A man might as well expect to get struck by. lightning on from a cloudless sky at noonday as to throw six aces; it, is almost an impossibility, that’s all Well, the fellow made several hundred dol lars and left”. ,,, “Did you ever hear of how easy it is to tool a man with soap?” con- •tinued the speaker. “We street men knew that as an old story, of course. I was down to Troy, Ala., several months ago when a fellow ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. A Sad Suicide at the Markham—Wea ry of Ufa'* Journey—-At Rest. { (i Atlanta Herald iturday evening later® -rettier neat and attractive-looking gentle man came to the Markham house to seek lodging. He registered as D. Stewart, Scooba, Kemper oounty Mo. Upon inquiry of Mr. Henry Glover, the courteous night clerk, if he had any baggage, and reply ing in the negative, he was informed that he would have to pay in ad vance, as was the custom of the house in every instance. Paying the amount he was consigned to room No. 13, bat did not retire a$ the time, appearing to have busi ness outside. It was at this junc ture that he probably secured the means whereby he was to end his apparently sad and disappointed lue. At a late hour he returned, and as nothing was heard from him during the day suspicions were aroused as to what had become of the stranger. About six o’clock the night watch man, by means of a step ladder, procured entrance through the tran som and found the poor unfortu nate man dead, relief probably hav ing come to him at least twelve hours before it was discovered he had taken his life. Coroner Hilbnm was summoned immediately, and procuring a jury, an inquest was held developing tna fact that the deceased came to his death by an over dose of morphine, administered with suicidal intent. In the room on the table were found three letters, one from his mother, giving a parent’s tender and affectionate advice. The other two, apparently written with delib eration, one of which was addressed to Mr. Huff, the proprietor, as fol lows : * Dear 8ir—If I should die you will confer a fa vor by sending proof of my death to my mother nt Hcnoba, Kemper county. Mo.: and If you will have me decently buried »be,viUpey nil ex pense* cheerfully. Direct your letter, with the proof, Mr*. J. A. Me Cal ebb, Scooba. Kemper county. Mo. Respectfully. Leon Stewart. Please forward the pther letters also. L. 8. The other to liis absent wife, full of lore and-tender solicitude. in which he spoke of his best endeav ors and his futile attempt to get aiding in life! It appeare that the party, had beconqq morbid and sad in conseqnence of not being able to obtain employment. and had so worked upon his mind that the only Way out hia misery'was to end: .hia life. .noli’. i..i' - Leon Stewart, as he registered, was to all intents passive, quiet, unobtrusive man, courteous in hia bearing and possessing a fait edu cation, as his letter gave, evidence in the general tette/aad tenor^ t/So extietuar wan he isrihe 4t*dil itness of things that after having written his-letters he left fifteen cento, on the • Mfe to pay for the postage'brithb same. MOreaH« m will be disposed of as was requested by the deceased.: aomfcnv:!J3H ahd os soon obi thei chains sold'Itoekthd ‘jfiffiUff. khd, of tho crowd, tie4 it er, and after flunking a to throw ■ tile bun- in the crowd for the best'man to take. While talking-1 purposely 'the bundle into my.iittle box by my side in which I had the other handkerchief. i.I* itUs»Was ten dollars in silver and some pa- “r to make it stand out and look ;e the one I had: dropped: ■: All this had been arranged beforehand, of coarse. With sewoop I swung the bag arotmd my heed after atoop- : toipiek it np where I first drop- itand up it went into the .air. reat heavens. 1 you should have seen the .mob ! I never' saw . any thing like it. They fought likadi- ~ara over then handkerohief^: while took occasion to: leave fhe spot; I had also arranged to hrisgilrething to a climax about the time tbSjAl- bany train left; so I was driven'nt once to the depot. I was just $280 ahead. But I got very weak in, the knees while waiting at the depot* I was a little too soon and about a dozen young men ran up . raisinc the very mischief of a noise, which I thought was for me and it proved to be true. They saw me nnd.caoie around me laughing knocking each other like crazy mom I didn’t know what on earth was .the matter until they finally told me it waa the best joke that had ever been played on Brunswick, and, altfiougntney had been victimized, they wanted to assure me that it was all right., “I had sold the phains to nearly all the best nw^i ip, —'—' some of them paying me . as pigp as five dollars for them. I was satis fied to leave and had ..my revenge. Yon may put it down for a fact that any average American, cro^ pon be humbugged the same way every day in the year.**, ‘ LATE NEWS. transparent soap, cut it into small pieces about the size of one’s thumb, wrapped it in colored tisane paper very neatly, and then covered the paper with tin foil, sprinkling the whole with a bottle of cologne to give it a good smell. Well, sir, that fellow got on a box and soon gathered a crowd by some nice talking, and proposed to take ont all the grease from hats, coats, Ac^ that'oould be brought in. The firat case presented was the city marshal, who walked up with a great- spot ou his coat which he wanted taken out The fellow car ried a sponge well saturated with benzine and arnica, which of itself wiU take out most anything, and by using a bit of the soap soon the mar- grease. That started uie feoa] and in two or three hours, it being Saturday and a crowd in town, the soap man had sold $36 worth, near ly all of which was clear profit" Stopping to draw a long breath the jewelry man continued his in teresting story: “I tell you you can humbug anybody. I am not unlike the rest of the world. I believe I would bite at my own tricks if I conld only get in the crowd." While I was at Brunswick, Ga., some time ago, I took revenge on the town by playing what we term the give away racket.’ It is a mighty fine thing to play, but very dangeronB one in some localities. I had been using a big umbrella, large enough to cover fifty people, when one night on the street a crowd of sailors, lea on by the town boys, threw rotten eggs at the umbrella and broke np tne crowd. Then I resolved on the ‘give away racket’ A fellow has to be mighty careful abont working it or he will get caught. It can only be played once in a town. “The way to do it is this: Get a lot of fine gold rings which cost about a dollar a dozen and pro pose to be advertising some big gold concern in New York. I call ed mine the big brazed gold of San Francisco, stated that I would show the crowd a thing or two, and Boon got them interested. First, I made a speech in which I stated my bus iness; then I commenced to offer the rings at any price from two cents np, telling them they conld not be bought for less than four dollars apiece at a jeweler’s. I let about twenty rings at abont two cents, and then asked everybody who had bought rings to hold them up. ly every ring was in r. ‘Now,’ stud .. - . mii, j f as strops reasoning faculties as an,” people i Ret Into a cireusjthat a child wascrush ed to death.' , |f{ ,;ilrf ?— A St. Louis man claims to haveun- dorgone no less than. sixteen attacks of delirium tremens. . . The Infant son of King Tbeodareiof Burraah is rocked to sleep ina . mil- llob-dollar crad’e. . There is no small-pox among the convicts at the Dade coal mines, but it exists4n that vicinity. ' A fire at Calhoun, Ga., on Saturday destroyed ten stores, nearly every one in the place. Loss ubout $20,000. |,« The liquidation of the City of Glas- co hank has been finished. AU the depositors received twenty shillings on the pound. ^ 1*mof•!• Reports irotu Alexandria to Oct, 6, states that the Egyptiau ootton crop Vineyards pay Just ten times as much as wheat lands in California. It is estimated that 6,000,000 gallons of wine will be made there this year. Stingy Ole was Shea’s nickname, for be was a miser, and after he died iu a miserable cellar at Richland, Minn., $9,740 in gold was found hidden In crackg and holes. ,|,1 " v The veteran contractor, Colonel Dan Callahan, is in Cnrtersville, building a tour mile railroad in Bartow county to the extensive iron ore beds of Gov. Joseph E. Brown. Mr. John P. Fort, of Macon, run more plows than any other piunter in Georgia, it is said. During the plow ing season he keeps one hundred and fifty going all the time. hna Two or three months ago the jail at Fouda. N. Y„ was burned to.,the ground by a prisoner who set tire to the celling of his cell, and on Tuesday night two prisoners burned the jail at Talbotton, Ga. . ■ --»«I •.. t Deputy Sheriff Hunt, of Pulaski county, went out ten miles from Ilaw- kinsville on Saturday night j$st. and arrested two negroes for whom he had warrants, at a night party, and started with them to HawkinsviUe, when a gang of negroes surrounded him, punched him all over with pistols and a posse ol thirty men for the arrest 'df the parties. ..ti A distressing affair occurred recent ly in Butler coanty. The wife of El] as Thornton, a colored man living, tberp, went away from her house one day last week, and on returning after some time fonnd the cabin burnt to the round and the remains of her three Rle children whom sho had left at home charred almost beyond recogni tion. This sad accident seems to hare been the result of the criminal' care lessness of the mother. .i< it., ,i* te Dawsonvllle Monitor: "Dawson county possesses one of .the greatest Jiving wonders iu the st: iu .the south. It is a woman t eight years old, measuring In thlrty-foor inches, and weight! oi made of paper werecwntqgjnto.i^a Aopd^maijjr pf uq.,received,,pve news with, .feelings: akin to disbelief, be when we are told that by a cbemledl ipHk^skMtet^’tlre IWtoa .White, as hard and as dorabteas iypty we may as well accept the first 4Wd»- thentic and dismiss' doubts iu regard to the last. p: t’ .ftuq •j.LL.iA ;ui i i'A* Athens gave birth to threw cbH terittJn i singleyear-^twins and then one. An- womap gnve birth td four ChBdri" iti«!j>\ 1-kI .'ll I si money, is it?’ ‘Yes,’ .said a dozen ‘And you gpve it up (reely fqr' .th^ rings?’. ‘Yes,’ came agnin in cho rus. ‘Vary, well, i here’s twenty cents for you, sir, and twenty gents for you, sir,’ and so on around the! -.ssi 1 J ' ■ jR A in til’ drazy , things; but I only told them that I was advertising goods for my house and had plenty more things to give away. Nett I'took np some of my hsndsome dikmdnd stild&t which I explained were Lake Georgd diamonds, equal to any on earth, Ac., and> that x was coiner to sell 'tB6b ffoih 25 oente mp j 'the one paid* the better it would be, of course, for hith.' ‘Tlrejity studs’ were sold 1AH *th»’ tOM a^edCh ’made. 1 Tltetf I ’inade 'the crowd hold up tite'dMftittfidrf, and efiefr man got fifty cents ‘baek t who jieMwisciil 1 "* •> ‘ ■" • o«i* v .i i ’ "Th^tidhg bfeghfl to’getre**yin teresting And the crowd numbered 300 or 400. Then I’got some pold plated sleeve bnttonk; whioh' lex- plaihed oould ! not be bought for Infertlmw fid ^''Iheee 1 I propMed tobeitfrir 1 fifty cents ’ eaeaV’Kvrian to hll-whobwightdolhtr.>ad£ Aiottal^ dpdnlteBV 'danhstiaM d—t> ting the money gifte* The buttons eddfr< went'<off as did- the otfam things, uad i *wah 'tOady *forl4lle final “bite’ at the Ortord. The twen- beektereatysilrext iwjMW jram**#'*Md! by saying m ay morning wltl for the arrest 'C one. an. ken to: her name—is no will talk fluently when tfp£ Miss Reney—Seuey Payne Is doi ‘ ‘ doubt the smallest woman in the. state, and would vastly, to tire Collection of aqy museu in Americ A consignment of fifty wometi w'iU be dlspatehed In a few day* from Bor deaux to Numea at the expense of the French Government and on the;dis tinct understanding that on. reaching the|r destination they must contract marriage with'those convicts' wMm the fecal authorities wish 4>.- reward (or good conduct fry conferring wives upon them. It should be; ox plained > ‘‘‘esc women havanot been nm«- nto the service. Although old ot ters, they are going to Vumti of tttelr'Cwn free wilUo settle down as i<nwoctahls>coav|cte’ wiv*at> JhwMw . ■ Curirta SoBArti.—Monday night, about -nine o’clock, a stt ahge «aaihMk named NewfenO and Mr. Boh«Chil ders,- of Athene, got into an altercation •it Wall *tv«et,'i vMi the -frewl«r slightly out the latter. Newland was arrested, but Childers was out. (again yegteateytid.* 1 ^ >«-ta .< * w*twi anti ■mauri»g411afeea*Bia»W itewwMgi visited Washington, Wilkea'county, last Monday, aeverelaasuaities .result ed from the heavy. weight of H anow upon the’bbttdlngs dTtiie' eltysl Gen. IIW damaged, a portion of the be