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B. K. HA.IJ*, Publisher. VOLUME I. NEWS GLEANINGS. Madison, Ga. f will soon hare a cotton iced oil mill. P Ihe wor jj S at Columbus, Ga., are completed. A Usama's oat crop, just liarvseted, w; the largest for years. Georgia yields over a million dollars •per annum in gold bullion. Nashville parties will build a cotton seed oil-mill in Atlanta, Ga. Polk county, Georgia, has thirty saw miiwj employing 1.050 men. Ih ; c Buckingham gold mine, in Vir ginia, is valued at $2,000,000. Ihe Charlottesville, Ya., bent-wood factory has begun operations. Ground H'as been broken at Columbus, Gn., for the new cotton factory. One orange tree in Clay comity, Fla., has G,OOO oranges on its branches. Over two hundred houses are in course of erection at Chattanooga, fenn. Mrs. Carr, aged 100 years, died in Barbour county, Ala., a few days ago. Baker county; Ga., has raised its liq uor license from $27 to SI,OOO per year. Charleston, S, C , is shipping phos phate rock, used for fertilizing, to Eng land. ■ West Virginia produces nearly onc foil rib of all the nails used in the United States. . The dam nbw building at Columbus, Ga., is the largest stone dam in the South. Judge Clayton, of Eufaula, Ala., has decided that dealing in.cotton futures is gambling, Louisiana has 172,005 registered vo— teres, of which 85,451 are white and SB,- 024 colored. The mountains in Swain county, N. jp H are saijl to be of solid marble —red, pink, plaidcd and black. A careless druggist at Starke, Fla. gave Mrs. Jones poison instead of a dose of calomel, and she died from its effects. There are now in Wythe and Pulaski counties. Va., fifteen blast furnacei en gaged in making of cold blast charcoal iron. A negro in Montgomery, Ga., lost his only mule by death, but, being bound to make a crop, bitched himself, and, while his wife held the handles, contin ued with his work. A rich strike lias just been made in the famous old Magrudei mines, in Lin coln county, Ga., iu the shape of a four ■ and-a-half-foot vein af silver ore, assay ing $l5O to the, ton. Virginia, drinks up her entire wheat crop ahhvially, and it is stated that the liquor, drank in Louisiana costs•s47/00,- 000 —52,000,000 more than its combined cotton, sugar and rice crop. Pineapple grow to an enormous size in Key Largo. One recently exhibited at Key West from that place measured a foot in length and twenty-three inches in circumference. It weighed eight pounds. Pensacola promises to he the future seaporc of the South. During May eighty nine vessels, with an aggregate tonnage nf 68,116 tons, entered the port, and ninety-fige vessels, with an aggregate of 55,616 tons, cleared. Three curious fish were recently cap tured in a lagoon near Macon, Ga. The first one caught was about three feet long, shaped like a watornielon, and w'as perfectly translucent, bloodless, cold and clammy. The others were smaller, hut like the first in every other respect, Anew ana important industry is be ing built up on Lake .Jessup, Fla. The fine beds of mat! which have been covered along ‘ th& south shore of the lake are being utilized, with fish from the lake, in the manufacture of fertili zers. A company has been organized and buildings erected on Bird island, in the lake, a mile and a half from the main land. Out of the 200,655 immigrants who landed at New York from January 1, to May 31, of this year, more went to Wis consin aio e than to the whole South Tojshow how few of them’went South, the following detail is given: Virginia, 158: Maryland, 181 j West Virginia, 136 North Carolina. 20 ; South Carol i i na, 64; Alabama, 68; Florida, 4!); Missis sippi, 70; Georgia, 134; Arkansas, 1,155; Louisiana, 600 ; Kentucky, 810; Tennes see, 157; Missouri, 430; Texas, 1,500. The Tennessee State library contain* some valuable relics, among which is a piece of the fiag surrendered by Lord Cornwallis to Gen. Washington, at ork towu, October 10. 1781 ; Daniel Boone’s jpifu-kejh (yen. Jackson’s cap,, and the sword ofjCol. Da oyster, a British, offi cer under Col. Ferguson, captured at the battle of King’s mountain in 1780. In a case with many other things is to be seen a limb in the shape of a walking cane, said to be cut from a beech tree sixty feet high and four feet thick, on whick is plainly visible to thi* day the following inscription : D Boon eillf and a Bar. ( n TREK in year 1760. Near Stellaville. Ga , a leaden medal THE JACKSON NEWS. was found that is quite a curiosity in its way. On the obverse side appears the figure of a six masted steamer, full rig ged, over which is the inscription, “The Great Britain,” and below the ship is the dimensions, number of state-rooms, etc. On the reverse side appear two medal lion heads, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. This medal commemorates the launching of the Great Britain at Bris tol, England, on July 19, 1843, and de notes an important era in ship building, from the fact that she was built of iron and fitted with the rewly invented screw propeller. The Owl as a Poet. Since the arrival of the pig by express last year, sont by a wicked man at Watertown, no packago Ims created the consternation at this office that a box containing an owl did, which anived Wednesday from Oak Center. The name of the donor was not given, but the name “ Old Parker ” is on the box, and that is probably the name of the owl. Ho is a lively bird, and would make a good “bird poet,” such as we wrote of a short time since. Who knows but this is a girl poet who lias been taken at her word, and turned into a bird. If this is the girl poet who wrote, “I would I were a bird,” she has got her self into tho worst scrape of her life. The eyes look more like a girl than any thing, and when tho owl winks with one eye, and looks at us as though she meant to be so understood—presuming that it is a she—ic makes us tremble, and forget business, and wink back, If this is a girl poet turned into an owl, we wonder whether it is the girl’s or the owl’s appetito that enables the insect tc. eat three pounds of beef, If it is tho girl’s appetite that lias been sawed off on to an owl, it would boa mean trick on the owl, if he had to get his own living. When the bird winks, and makes its mouth go, we think it is a girl poet trans formed, and retaining many of the girl’s best qualities. To see whether there was any gill left in the owl, we put a mouse iu the box with the bird, expect ing if the girl symptoms predominated the owl would take its feathers in both claws, and climb up on something to get away, and scream. But there is more owl in ILe bird than girl poet, be cause the bird snatched the mouse in its claw, and with its bill tore the little ani mal into fragments and eat him. So, if there is any girl left in the composition of that owl, the girl poet has got her stomach full of nasty mouse. We warned the girl poet not to become a bird, and if she has not taken our advice she knows by this time how it is herself. But what a wink the owl lias got. That wink on a girl would break up a prayer meeting. A girl with such a wink as that could go to church and not a man in the congre gation could ever tell where the text was. And what a wise look the bird lias got. It sits and seems to be thinking of tho hereafter, or maybe it is wondering where the next meal is coming from. It. is possible that some friend, knowing we wanted mi associate editor, has sent the owl to take a position on our staff. May be some dear friend has been transformed into ail owl, and caused themselves to be shipped to us, to get into the sanctum and see what is going on. If the eyes were another color, and they should wink that way, we should be sure a joke was being played on us. Any person that wants to hire a good owl to cat meat on shares, can apply at this office.— Peck's Sun. Religion In a Turkish Bath. There is a story around town that is good if true. It seems that an attend ant at a Turkish bath establishment was converted at a revival in church, and be came quite interested in the new faith. He asked his minister what ho should do, iu his daily life, to induce others to get religion, and the minister told him that in his business, in his recreations, everywhere, he should impress upon those about him that they had a never dying soul to save, and that they were upon the blink of a precipice, liable to die at any moment, and to frighten them into seeking after the truth, if he aouldn’t do it in any other way, but to be always alert in the Master’s cause. The bath attendant made up his mind that he would try it on some of the cus tomers that visited the bath-house. The next day six hard old nuts that take a Turkish bath together about twice a week, came to the place, and went into the sweat-room, after disrobing until there was not a rag on them as big as a child’s handkerchief. They were men well along in years, who had steamed it a good deal, and became rheumatic and gouty, and the whole party had no more religion than could be put in a canary bud’s eye. They were sweating away, joking each other on being pretty near played out for this world, when a sepul chral voice that seemed to come from the confines of the damned, filled the red hot air and said, “ Prepare to meet thy Oudl" The old pelters looked at each other and turned pale. Then the voice said, “ Get down on your knees, every man, and repent before it is everlastingly too late, for in such a mojnent as ye think not your goose will lie cooked.” This thing was getting a little bit inter esting, and every man would have per spired if there had been no heat on at all. Just then the attendant came through a door into the room and began to pray for the salvation of the souls of the barefooted old fellows, when they all got out of the door into the cool room ami got into their clothes without being dried, and before the poor fellow had got through praying they had gone to a sa loon and were taking a drink and were wondering if it was a warning from on high to them to get in their work for a glorious immortality beyond the grave. They will not know that it was all owing to th 6 enthusiasm of a recent convert, until they read thir.. It is amusing to hear the old fellows tell how all-fired scared each of the other feiiowß was. Thev are taking their Turkish baths now brought to them in bottles, — Peck's Sun. A mother advised her daughter, who was going to a party to oil her hair, and fainted away when that candid damsel replied: “Oh, no! ma, it is so apt to spoil the gentlemen’* vesta." Dovoted to tho Interest of Jackson and JJutts Countv, JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY,JUNE 28, 18S2. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Warmer weather has given corn and cotton a boom. Queen Victoria is fat and lioarty— weighing 200 pounds. Garibaldi’s body boro scars of ten gunshot, and one bayonet, wounds. Delaware promises to give the coun try the largest peach crop since 1875. The army worm is the object upon which the farmer may lavish his cursos this year. Philadelphia is taking steps toward the construction and adoption of an electric railway. Stock of tho Bank or Ireland sells at 819—that is higher than stock of the Bank of England. In tee destruction of tho barley crop, is it possible that the army worm, too, is fighting the brewers ? Between the army worm and tne woather there is little preference. The one seems to augment the other. Since her marriage Sarah Bernhardt is not popular, although she is perhaps as good an actress as she ever was. The census returns in Japan shows nearly a million more men than women. This is not a usual thing for old settled countries. Portions of Washington’s farewell ad dress are published in a French news paper as appropriate to the condition of that countiv. Egbert Bonner, the New York Ledger man, lias $382,000 invested in horse flesh, for his private U3e and to gratify a per sonal ambition. Let us say to our Christian friends that Mr. Beecher has taken to playing bil liards. He keeps a table in his house far the purposo. One hundred and ten thousand per sons, over twenty thousand of them women and girls, used tho free baths in New York last week. A Miss Chamberlain, of Cleveland,- Ohio, is creating a sensation in London as a professional beauty. Bear iu mind that she is an Ohio girl. We are informed that the Star Route trials are finally in progress. The trouble will bo to get them to end—at ’east sat isfactorily to the people. The New York Sun tells of a man who sent a written note to an apothecary for “ogsallegasset.” Ho wanted oxalic aoid. He had a bad spell. Surgeon Woodward, U. S. A., one of the attending physicians on President Garfield, is reported to be iu a hopeless condition at Nice, from brain fever. Trns year’s graduates at West Point are said to bo better waltzers than those of any former class for years. In a mil itary point of view this is important. Leadville exults over the fact that there has not been a natural death in that city for two weeks. A natural death out there, by the way, is a death by (hooting or stabbing. The pondition of crops is good in franco, Germany, and Holland. Rains have improved prospects in Southern Russia. Cold weather has checked veg etation in England. I? the Atlanta Constitution speaks correctly, more reapers have been sold in Georgia this year than the entire cot ton belt possessed one year ago. If true, this is a good thing for the State. Sergeant Mason says he can’t com plain of the treatment he is receiving in the Albany Ponitentiary, only he would like to get ont. Being imprisoned is the meanest feature of tlie whole thing. Mn. Weed, of Newburg, N. Y., lost 1450, 000 in one hour at a game of poker and is now creating a fuss all over the continent about it. Mr. Weed doesn’t seem to know how to play the game. The Chinese Government will return fifty students to American colleges, hav ing discovered their removal was a mis take. It seems that the meaner wo treat China tho better they will think of us. Lawyer Hirst, of Philadelphia, left will bequeathing SIBO,OOO for the founding of a free law library, and $lO a week to his sisters. Thus he loved the public, dear man, better than he did his sisters. Miss Bei.ee Braden is said to be the only female railroad officer in the country. She has jnst been elected Treasurer of the Waynesburg and Wash ington Railroad, in Pennsylvania, and is acting Paymaster. Rev. .Torn* DeWitt, D. D., of the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadel phia, resigned tho pastorate of that ihurch, paying him $6,000 a year, to icoept a Professorship in Lane Sem inary, Cincinnati, at $3,000. But thin In only one case in a million. A London scientist predicts that the tune is not far ahead of us whoa eleo- trioity will be stored so successfully and cheaply that little boxes of it will be used to propel trioyoles, and people will journey about the country by that mothod rather than by rail. Whisky is to be made independent ot the oorn crops. A number of railroad men are buying timber lands, and are going to make whisky out of smoke. This is a question which requires tho im mediate attention of the foresters. In a few years rain will bo unknown. A ootemtorary whose patriotism is bubbling over in fond anticipation of a Fourth of July celebration, says : There is poiriß to be more of 4th of Ju gloriousjuly in this country this year than the oltlost inhabitant ever saw before. "Tis well. We whipped ’em. We can do it again, if they don’t kick nor bite. Turn loose the whang doodles and lot tho rockets flz. Lamtton, of tho Louisville Courier- Journal, has become something of a political punster. He turns his attention to affairs in Pennsylvania as follows: Cameron A Son. successors to Wm.’ Penn. Attention is called to the varied resources of our State. Every adult male allowed to vote for us. Our own Legislation in session every year. Send for circular. An edict signed by the Czar, and pub lished in the official Gazette of St. Peters burg, virtually bankrupts every wealthy Jew in Itussia. It provisionally suspends nil payment for contracts or dobts due to Jew’s, prohibits them from settling outside towns and villages, and other wise provides for their speedy extirpation throughout Czardom. After a Borious illness of one of tho jurors in the Malley case, the trial has been resumed, but the interest in the proceedings ha3 waned. There is no probability of a conviction of any of the parties who stand charged with Miss Cramer’s outrage and murder, although there is little doubt in the minds of any who are familiar with the facta and tes timony, as to their guilt. Hitxley compares Darwin to Socrates, saying there was in him tho same desire to find someone wiser than himself, the same belief in the sovereignty of reason, the same ready humor, the same sympa thetic interest in all tho ways and works of men. Just so, Professor Huxley; but do you suppose if they had found men wiser than themselves, either one of them would have admitted it? From Franco an extraordinary tri cycle journey is reported to have been made by the Vice President of the Lyons Bicycle Club, accompanied by his wife. They traveled in one of tho two-soated tricycles from Lyons to Nice, Genoa, Rome, and Naples, and homo again, through Florence and Turin. The entire distance is about 2,300 miles, and they averaged between fifty and sixty miles a day. ... ■■■■.♦■■ - . The quicket time on record in a di vorce suit was mado last week at Fort Wayne. A wealthy farmer named J. V. Gilbert drove to town with his wife, and she handed in an application for freedom on the ground of cruelty. Tho couple then agreed that the wife should have SI,OOO in cash, new false teeth every three years, half the furniture, fruit, and milk, and two-thirds of the children. Both appeared in court, and the divorce was at once granted. The Mohammedan populace of Egypt is getting more excited and fanatical every day. Europeans are leaving the country by thousands, and more trouble is expected. Under the circumstances it is only a matter of life and death with Europeans. Many who are in good circumstances, prosecuting a lucrative trade, voluntarily leave all for the sake of ridding themselves of uncertainties that must ultimately result in ruin and death. After all, the Keely motor is a fraud. Says the Scientific American : The truth is that "the secret’’ was divulged long ago. The power exhibited by the motor is simply that of compressed air introduced surreptitiously by pipes wbioh connect it with a condenser. Perhaps the company who have in vested so heavily in the motor, and have boon patiently waiting for years to real ize their dreams of a scientific revolu tion—and fortunes —will now turn their attention to hard facts as as they find them. _ Woman suffrage has at least made some progress, whatever individual opinions or prejudices may be. The committee in the United States Senate to whom the matter was entrusted for con sideration, have made a majority and minority report, the majority report favoring an amendment to the Constitu tion granting the elective franchise to women, the proposed amendment to be submitted to the several Legislatures. Tho minority report favored submitting the matter to the several States upon the basis of States rights. It is not likely that Congress will act upon the question at tho present session, but advocates of woman suffrage may take courage and hopo for a fail discussion of the theme next winter. An Austin teacher was instructing his class in natural history. "To wlmt class of birds does the hawk belong ? ” he asked. “To the birds of prey,” was the reply. “ And to what class do quail belong ? ” There was a pause. The teacher repeated the question. “ Where does the quail belong?” “On toast,” yelled the hungry boy at the foot of the class.— Texas Siftings. Taxes In Holland. Taxes in Holland, Mr. Bird tolls tis, aro generally very high, and, it is clear, aro often very mischievous. Hero thoy might learn much from us. “There is a tax on every window, door, chimney, servant, * * * on every article of household furniture in use. One must even pay for the privilege of earning one’s daily bread, no man being permit ted to carry on a profession, trade or oc cupation of any sort unless lie obtains wliat is called a “patent.” The poor tax payer lias not even the satisfaction of having his taxes called for. Ho must take tho money to tho collector’s office, and often lose nn hour or two white wait ing till the great man oan attend to him. Should he be behind in the payment, one or two hungry militiamen aro quartered iu his house at his expense until lie has cleared off bis arrears. Two hundred years ago boots and shoes, “ tlioso arti cles so essential to human comfort,” as our nnthor somewhat needlessly de scribes them, woro not only taxed, but were conspicuously marked on the up per leather with tho Government stamp. Medical men have their foes fixed by law, and fixed at a low rate. To make up for this, no druggist can sell the sim plest mixtures unless the prescriptions of a doctor bo produced. If a man is suffering from headache or toothache, though lie may know of somo remody which will give him relief, ho cannot procure it until he has consulted a med ical man. In some parts of Holland the houses of tho poorer Boers are but little better than Irish cabins. “Tho family live all together iu one large room, dividod by wooden partitions, which serves as parlor, kitchen and bed-room, and is not uufrequently shared with a cow or donkey.” The bed is a huge box, filled with heather or seaweed, and in districts exposed to floods is often raised to a height of six or seven feet above the floor. In respect of cleanliness those poor people are far superior to the Irish. Even if a laborerge.ts not more than 10s. a week, yet he, his wife and children will be soen every Sunday “respectably dressed and scrupulously clean.” It is n very common custom for the peasants to leave their wooden shoes outside the doors of their cottages, so that they may not carry the dirt inside. By counting the number of shoes it can bo readily seen how many people there aro at any onetime in the house.— The Saturday Review. Rest lie Could Ho. It wan a Michigan man riding through West Virginia on horseback, and one afternoon as lie came along to a settlor’s cabin on the mountain road ho asked of a man leaning over the gate : "Can you tell mo how far it is to tho town ahead?” “I reckon I kin, stranger. You’ll have to peg along fur about nine miles yit.” “ But it is nearly dark. Is there no tavern on the road V” “Never heard of any, and I’ve backed my corn-meal over this road risin’ of twenty years.” “But perhaps I could put up some where ?” “ P’raps yo could. There’s Stove Taylor’s down about four miles, but he’d beat ye blind on old sledge. There’s Mose Smith, a mile nigher, but Mose would feel offended if yo didn’t trade him that boss fur a stub-tailed mule. Might putup at Green’s, but there’s lots of rattlesnakes around his place. Ker nel Johnson is down about six miles, but the Kernel would turn yo all out doors at midnight if ho found that you didn't vote his way.” “But what am I to do?” “ Waal, I’m a squar’ man stranger, and the best I kin do is to ax yo to stop here with mo, an’ to tell ye before hand that if ye nr’ awakened in the night by shingles bein’ ripped off and logs pulled down it won’t be an avalanche or a cy clone., but oidy moa’n the old woman a tryin’ for the two hundroth time since the war to see who handles the money when I sell two coon-skins fur a dollar !” “I—l guess I’ll go on,” faltered tho rider. “Ke-rect, stranger! The last man who stopped here said he wished he’d have run the cha ices with tho snakes down at Green’s, an’ 1 gin him my hand when ho rorjo off. I’m squar’ up and down, as I told yo, and Green’s is the third cabin on this side artcr yo cross the creek.” —M Quart. The Irish Thirst for (lore. An Englishman landed at Dublin a few months ago filled with apprehen sion that the fife of any loyal subject of her Majesty was not worth a farthing there and thereabout. 'Die Land Leag uers, he imagined, were all bloodthirsty assassins, and all that sort of thing. But it was his duty to travel in the land—a duty he approached with fear and trem bling. Now, there happened to be on his route a number of towns, the names of which begin with tho suggestive syl lable “ Kil.” There wore Kilmartin and so on. In his ignorance of nomencla ture his affrighted senses were startled anew on hearing a fellow passenger in the railway carriage remark to another as follows : “I’m just after bein’ over to Kilpat rick.” “And I,” replied the other, “am after bein’ over io Kilmary.” “ What murderers they are ! ” thought the Englishman. “ And to think that they talk of their assassinations so pub licly 1 ’’ But tho conversation went on. “And fhare are you goin’ now?” asked assassin No. 1. “I’m goin’ home, and then to Kil more,” was No. 2’s reply. The Englishman's blood curdled. “Kilmoro, is it?” added No. 1. “You’d bettherbe cornin’ along wud me to Kilumaula 1 ” It is related that the Englishman left the train at the next station, probably to go back to the tight little island and report an alarming increase in tho num ber of outrages in Ireland. “ Major, I see two cocktails carried to your room every morning, as if you had someone to drink with.” “Yes,” sir; one cocktail makes me feel like an other man; and, of course, I’m bound to treat the other man.” ITEMS OF INTEREST. Fives have teeth in tho upper jaw. The white ant lays 80,000 eggs in the course of a day. Soipio Afrioantts the Elder is said to have first made tho sardonyx fashionable in ltome. The islands of the Pacific Ocean have been planted with cocoanut palm by ocean currents. An ant, watched from six o’clock in the morning to quarter of ten at night, worked incesMintly. Migratory birds, when flying by night, are at nn elevation of from one to four miles above tho earth’s surface. Counting night and day, allowing no time for rest or refreshment, it would take over four days to count a million. The workmen on a railroad near Deli ver, Col,, have como upon a petrified forest at a depth of from ten lo twenty feet. The Japanese, hnving no cattle, sheep or pigs, bat few horses and fowl, depend on the sowage of towns for the fertilizing of tlieir farms. Perfect quartz crystals are known as Cornish diamonds, Irish or Bristol dia monds, according to the locality in which they are found. During tho hot season in Australia snakes are far brighter in tint, and more active and iKiisonous than when the tem perature is low. Zoolouistb admire tho dissected body of a fox, because there is never anything unhealthy to bo found in its organs. Hence, foxes aro long-lived. At the zenith of her grandeur, Romo had eleven aqueducts, whose aggregate discharge was equivalent to a stream twenty feet wide by bix loot deep. The diamond is highly electric, at tracting light substances when rubbed, and, after long exposure to the sun’s rays, becomes phosphorescent in the dark. Before the Norman Conquest most English buildings were of wood, and to “ timber a minister,” was the common expression used to signify to build a church. It is observed that trees in tho poach gardens of Franco, grafted on plum stock, ripen their fruit, at least ten days earlier than the same variety grafted on u peach stock. The ripe seed of the mangrove is not scattered, but remains attached to tho capsule, still hanging oil tho mother plant. Tho seeds germinate, tho root seeks the mud, and tho plant is growing before its mother deserts it. Young Virginians. In Texas I saw many young men from Virginia, sons of the best families there, intelligent and of excellent character generally. In conversation with one ol thorn, I told him that I had recently been looking about in his native Htato, and that it seemed to me that all energetic young Virginians were needed at homo, and that there was abundant opportun ity and reward for labor there; and I asked if lie liked tho life in Texas bettor chan work in Virginia, 110 said ho did not, hut that it was not yet tlie fashion for young Virginians of good family to ongugo in hard, rough work near their homes in the Old Dominion. "It would not do for me to work by tho month there for such wages as arc paid here, it would ho too much of an affliction for my family, and I should lose caste with my lady friends. If a man has no money ho can not begin in Virginia, be cause lie would ho classed with the poor whites and tho negroes, with whom his work and circumstances would bring him into competition. But he can come nut hero and ‘rough it,’ and if ho Ims no money he can work by tho mouth at herding, or driving team, till lie gets a start." I suppose this is true, for I heard the same thing often in various places in Texas, and in Virginia and Tennessee the parents of many of these young men gave mo the same reason for the emigration of their sons to Texas. I’orlinps these reasons would ho equally potent with everybody, but at any rate I could sec that many young men in the South west work harder, and live in far rougher and more uncomfortable ways, than would be necessary in the older States, and that they do liot make so much money as they might there. There is apparently as much emigration from Texas, too, as from any other Bout hern State. Tho talk is everywhere of “bet ter country than this,” in Mexico and New Mexico, and one soon receives tho impression that nobody is settled, or is at all certain of remaining very long, even iri Texas. I found in every part of tho South a decided and extensive movement of tho agricultural class, both white and colored, toward tho South west anil West. In many cases, the principal reason for this movement, so far as I could discover, is tho improve ment which is taking placo iu the older regions of the South. When “the now order of things" begins to manifest itself in a Bouthom community there aro many persons, of the poorer classes, who fee* repelled rather than attracted by tho in dications of approaching change, anil in their restlessness and discontent they leave their old homes, hoping to find rncro congenial conditions in newer and moro sparsely populated regions. Many of these persons depend only in part upon agriculture for their subsistence. They obtain some portion of their living by hunting and fishing, and these occu pations are much moro to their taste than steady work of any kind. These emigrants often say, “It’s agoin’ to cost too much to live hyur;” and they are undoubtedly correct in this conclusion. It will certainly require more money and more labor to live under the improved conditions in “tho now South ” than have hitherto been necessary, under the old order of things; and many Southern men, of the classes referred to, reason, rightly enough, that for them the im provement and progress oromised by tho ■signs of the times are not likely'to bring an increase of happiness .-Atlantic Monthly. Soups, according to Sir Henry Thomp son, whether clear or thick, are far too lightly esteemed by most classes. They are too often regarded as a mere prelude to a meal, to bo swallowed hastily or disregarded altogether. ’lfiKM'i $1.50 j or Annum. NUMBER 42. HUMOUS OF THE DAT. “Do von play poker, Mrs. Schenk wales?” “I do; I play it on Mr. Sehcnkwoles’ head somotimes.” “Never send a present hoping for one in return.” Never. Get your present first, always, and send yours when you have timo. “ Is the General on the retired list?” they asked of his wife tho other evening. “Retired 1 no. indeed !” she replied; “he’s down to tho club playing poker.” Jones (accompanied by his dog Snap) meets Brown, who accosts him with, “Good morning, Jones; how’s your dog Snap?” Jones—“ Pretty well, I thank you ; how aro you ?” Imagine tho indignation of an Ameri (<tr. boy in a French school, who in a history class is told how Lafayette, the great French General, triumphed in the Revolution, assisted by Washington. “ JrsT taste that tea,” said old Hyson to his better half, at the supper table, the other evening. “ Well, thore doesn’t seem to bo anything tho matter with it. I can’t taste anything.” “Noither can I, and that’s what I’m growling at.” First Swell— “l never did like ‘May ;’ not nearly so pretty as ‘Mary ;’ wonder they don’t change the name of the month to ‘ Mary.’” Second Swell— “Olevaw ideaw, by Jove; make awys taws good to June, you know 1” Modesty: "Do you protend to have ns good a judgment as I havo ?” ex claimed nn enraged wife to her husband. “Well, no,” lie replied slowly, “our olioio > of partners for life shows that my judgment is not to be compared with yours.” A French officer said to a Swiss Col onel : ‘ ‘ How is it that your countrymen always light for money, while wo Fronch always fight for honor?” The Swiss shrugged his shoulders and replied : “I suppose it is because people are npt to fight for that which they need most.” “ I understand that Brown is hi trouble,” said Smithson. “ Yes,” replied Fogg. “ Brown was at the auction shot, the other day. They bad a silver pitches, and llrown offored to take it—offered te la ko it for nothing, you know. Well, tho Sheriff took him up. That’s all.” It is quite n proper idea for a young lady to paint a hunch of pansies on a fresh-laid egg and foward it by special messenger to her best gentleman friend. This signifies : “Pa is hatching another scheme against you. Come ‘ over the garden wall’ this evening.” The inter est now begins.— New Haven Register. Uncle Ned lost a dollar the other day, and when he went homo he called up his eldest son. “Comeheah, boy, and sot down. Dis am a queer worl’, anyway, boy; jis’ w’en yo’ think yo’ am layin’ on feathers oil’ walkin’ on roses—slap 1 an’ dar yo’ is, fiat in do mud, playin’a tattoo wld yo’ heels on nex’ to nuliln.” —Oil City Derrick. Terrible fate of a kind-hearted girl : According to a truthful Indian newspa per, a hungry lion invaded a young ladies’ seminary on commencement day, and, bouncing in among them, carried off the prettiest and plumpest, with her composition in her pocket—a school-girl essay on kindness to animals. “How profoundly still and beautiful is the night,” she wliispored, resting her finoly-vemed tcmplo against his coat collar and fixing her dreamy eyes on the far-off Pleiades, “how soothing, how restful.” “Yes,” ho replied, toying with the golden aureola of her hair, "and what a night to shoot cats.”— Brooklyn Ragle. “ Look yar, Clem, don’ yo’ bo growlin’ ’bout de scaoeness on dem yar trousers! Bey’s got as much w’ur in ’em yit as doi shanks o’ yo’n, ebon ef yo’ fader did train ’roun’ In ’em ino’n forty year. He didn't hub no sich a’rs! He’d be prancin’ ’roun’ in ’om yit, and bo proud 'mil! ob do chance, ef dar wuz any ’ca sion for geormiuts wliar he’s gone.”— ltome Sentinel. Tourists Who Infest Egypt. The JiuUder, quoting a correspondent of the Dehats, censures the conduct of certain tourists who infest Egypt. They “increase in man hers every year; reports of revolution, insubordination in the army, and cholera are powerless to hin der them; and those easy means of com munication, the steamers that now run frequently up and down the Nile, bring in larger numbers than ever the strangers to see tho ruins. Thoir presence, how ever, is, wo aro sorry to hear, deeply re gretted by the genuine archaeologist. In the thirty years thnt Egypt has been thus v. itod, more harm has been done to its old buildings than in the centuries of so much abused neglect which have I passed over the country. The destruc tion caused by the tourists is really serious; piece by piece the inscriptions and tho wall paintings have been chipped away to supply ‘ memontoes. ’ M. Charmes desenlies how, on visiting a few day's previously the Valley of the Kings, lie found " most barbarously mutilated the famous tomb of Seti 1., which was discovered by Belzoni; the alabaster sarcophagus is, it will be re i nu mbered, at present in Bir John Soane’s Museum. When Belzoni and Champol j lieu entered the tomb it was intact; not a word of tho inscribed text was wanting" j the wall paintings were in fresh in color j as if painted the day before; now the I tomb is nearly a ruin, and in a few years the destruction will be complete.” We may udd to tho remonstrances of our contemporary the questions, How is it possible to censure this wanton and potty mischief when tho removal of noble obelisks to Loudon and New York is thought worthy of public applaus' 1 anil national honors? What is the dif ference in stupidity between knocking off the nose of a statue, defacing a tomb, or ravaging an inscription and carrying away one or more of the few obelisks left?— Pondon Athenaeum. Ii was a woman—Madame Darnet, the wife of a French surgeon—who dis covered at St. Gneix the tied of kaolin which first gave France the material for the manufacture of real china, hard porcelain, instead of the tender, porous stuff beforo made. Madame received no recompense until far advanced in years, and when she became the victim of poverty a scanty pension was allowed her,