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IV. E. HAI!P, Publisher. VOLUME I. NEWS GLEANINGS. The debk-ef 01m r lest on, 8. 4b.. is $4,- 364,050, Seven employes of the Atlanta, Ga., post-office are negroes. Pensacola, FIa v is building an opera house at a cost of $50,000. A chair factory at Marietta, Ga., has told 108,000 chairs in.the past year. An immense number of manufactories are being built in Birmingham, Ala. One tannery at Tuka, Mis?., turns out -SIOO,OOO worth of leather each year. The census taken in Chattanooga, May 1882, gives he,r 17,0q4 population. Atlanta, Ga,, has eighty-seven licensed saloons that take in ever $1,000,000 a year. An oat mill will be established at Sumter, N, C. It will be the first in the South. The bronze statue for the Confeder ate monument has been delivered at Charleston. Thirty bushels to the acre is a com mon yield of wheat in East Tennessee this season. Alabama will have 2,830,000 acres in cotton this season. A decrease from last year of 10.3 per cent. Key West, Fla., is troubled with an epidemic of “dengue” fever. Five hun dred case# are reported. More reapers have been sold in Geor gia this year than the entire cotton belt possessed one year ago. 'ihe cotton crop of this year, so it is estimated from present appearances, will be about 5,000,000 bales. The largest orchard in North Carolina s owned by R. P. Paddison, at Moults by’s Point. It contains over 8,000 trees. Fortress Monroe is the largest single fortification in the world. It has al ready cost over $3,000,000 of money. Sixteen thousand men are now em ployed in railroad construction in Flor ida. Eighty thousand people have set tied in the State in the past ten years. The last aporopriation of $125,000 for constructing jetties at the mouth of the St. John’s river, Fla., is nearly exhaust ed, and it is probable the work will cease about the 4th of July. The Charleston, (S.C.) News and Cou rier, as a proof of' the growth of home industries, mentions the building of a steamer and the construction of all her machinery in that city. Of the several Governors Alabama has elected, four were natives of the State. Gov. Patton was born in Lau derdale, Gov. Winston in Madison, Gov Watts in Butler, and Gov. Cobh in St. Clair county. Presley Nelms is the oldest citizen of Monroe county, Ga., being 104 years of age. He yet chops with an ax, uses the hoe, and can get about with surprising activity. He has a living son over sev enty-five years old. In the seven States of Georgia, Ala bama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and the two Carolinas there has been an increase of 361,000 in the number of cot ton spindles during the year, represent ing an addition to the manufacturing industries of nearly $10,000,000, A man at Magnolia, Ark., has some thing new in the potato line. In his garden about thirty potato bushes are growing, and the potatoes grow up among the limbs, like apples, and none are attached to the roots. The Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen tells of similar vines in that vicinitl*. Geo. I. Seney said : “If any one asks you why I gave so much money to the Wesleyan Female College, of Georgia, tell them it was to honor my mother, to whom, under God. I owe more than too all the world beside. I admire the Southern women. There are possibili ties in the Southern women not equaled anywhere’else on earth.” A novel hut profitable industry in the mountains of North Carolina and East Tennessee is that of collecting roots (mostly laurel). The roots are shipped to Philadelphia and Boston and used for the manufacture of door knobs and pi[e bowls. The roots frequently weigh from 75 to 150 pounds. There is a constant demand, and the prices are paid for them by the ton. The will of Gen. George Washington, on file in the clerk’s office at Fairfax, Fairfax county, Va., has received so much wear and tear from strangers who desired to examine it, that the clerk found it necessary to inclose it in a glass case In order to preserve it. The will is written on heavy unruled paper, about note size, and every side is cov ered. There are twenty-seven pages, all of which have Gen. Washington’s name attached except the twenty-third, j which ended with the words “City of Washington,” and it is supposed that in looking over it the General mistook the words for his signiture, and therefore failed to sign the page. The entire will is in his own handwriting, and was writ ten in 1799—the year he rjitd. THE JACKSON NEWS. TOPICS OF THE DAY. The Canadian government has begun S issuing $4 bills. j President Author has decided to sum mer at Long Branch. The French Senate has rejected the American pork bill. And now it appears that Billy Patter son was struck by lightning. A pint of whisky a day is Sitting Bull’s government ration. The crops in the Northwest promise to be better than ever before. The Kentucky wheat crop is supposed to reach near 13,000,000 bushels. •’ • 1 Rutherford B. Hates is reported a? hoeing corn and enjoying himself. Within one week 1,000 Jews have left Lemberg, Austria, for America. An unusual amount of counterfeit coin and currency is afloat. Look ont for it. From Hayti comes a contribution of $225 for tho Garfield Memorial Hospital. Thb habit of going to Enrope costs America not less than $125,000,000 a year. If Congress adjourns before the mid dle of July the country will be fortu nate. The young people at Concord keep the grave of Emerson covered with fresh flowers. _ A colony of 200 families of negroes is about to leave Mississippi to settle in Mexico. Sewing thread is made from pine tim ber in Sweden, and is ooming into de mand for export. Four hundred and forty-one pounds of tea has been raised on one acre of ground in Georgia. The losses caused by the late cyclone in lowa are variously estimated from $2,576,000 to $3,000,000 in amount. England hangs murderers every time —when she catches them ; but they don’t seem to catch them very fast over there. The British police have at times ar rested as the real Dublin assassins six teen different men, none of whom were within 200 miles of the oitv that day. A concert at public cost is given on Boston Common every Sunday afternoon in summer. There was opposition by the orthodox at first, but it has died out. There are seventy-two // inen now in Sing Sing prison who used to exercise great political influence in their various stations. Where else can a politician expect to bring up ? The only -way to convince a Southern negro that a farm is not waiting for him in Kansas, is to let him make the trip. In two or three days he gets through asking which road it is on. Everybody on the continent seems to know that Don Cameron has recently been suffering from a jumping tooth ache—the matter going so far as even to effect politics in Pennsylvania. Louisiana is considering whether it would not be good policy to stop the lot tery business in that State. Louisiana and Kentucky are the only States in the Union that tolerate lotteries within their corporate limits. Two Michigan men got into a boat and pursued a bear. The bear climbed into the boat and the men climbed out. Had they not been rescued by a tug they wouldn’t have got home to tell this little bear story at the family hearth. It is the opinion of a Philadelphia editor that a family who don’t know enough to go to clnzrch at the proper hour, without hearing the clang of a bell, wouldn’t meet a bank note unless the cashier came and blew a horn in front of the house. The Helena Independent mentions that two cowboys were arrested at Benton, M. TANARUS., and fined S4O each for firing a volley at the comet. If they had killed a man it would have been aU right. The line is drawn at killing people out there. _ The ctcxoxe which spread death and destruction in lowa a few days ago, is described as at times resembling a gi gantic arm reaching from the heavens ; then it took the form of a vast serpent, and again resembled a funnel and an hour-glass. It is notable that wherever the storm-cloud struck a belt of timber it was arrested and took a long jump. The Detroit Free Press pays its re- ST A C voung Ohio woman haa been sent to the 'nnatic asvlum because she has “a. mama for work ” We arc a little surprised that this should be thought a aim of lunacy in a Tonn„ Ohio woman. It would be perfectly juatifiable to shut up an Ohio man on that charge—Doles* he was working for an office. In that respect they are all maid there. Ohio men still have one advantage they can’t be insulted by any such in uendoea. DeA'otecl to (lie Interest ol Jackson and Uutts Countv. JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5,1882. A remarkable case of lusus natur* is recorded in the local columns of the Cin cinnati Commercial of June 22, as fol lows : A specimen of that peculiar freak of nature, a hermaphrodite—a human being of both sexes—was taken to tho Central Station last night by Officers Gould and Altevers. The person is colored, about 23 years of age, and without the sign of a beard. He or she claims the namo of Jack Smith, and tho occupation of cook at a boarding-house on George street be tween Race and Elm. He was dressed in ma l * attire, but a genleman who happened into tlO station says he ha* seen tho same person in woman’s clothes. He was locked up on a gen eral charge. The army worm seems übiquitous. We hear of his ravages in New England, New Tork and Maryland, as well as in the West. The only successful way that has been devised to stop their march is that of plowing a furrow, say seven inches deep, and continuously dragging a log, four or five feet in length, back and forth from daylight till dark every day until the worms have disappeared. By this process the ground in the fur row becomes thoroughly pulverized and the' worms can not possibly cross it be fore the return of tho log passing to and iro to crush them. Asa rule tho worms travel eastward. Daphne Mcßnirc. “There is no more pie.’’ “God help us, tliun,” said Daphne McGuire, looking up to her mother with a weary, wistful, why doesn’t-somebody buy-me-a.-scal-skin-sacque expression on her oval face. Mrs. McGuire did not reply. Leaning her baßgless head on a thin, white hand —the hand that Vivian O’Rourke had called “a dimpled , treasure that ouo might risk his soul to win,” that night, so many yoars ago, that she had rejeoted his proffered love and caused him to wander away in wild despair and marry Girotle Quirk—-and thought of how, had she plighted her troth to him, life would now havo been a garden in which pretty flowers waved their bright faces, instead of a wind-swept waste, barren alike of flowers and venture. She remembered how, for tho first few years after their marriage, every thing went well with Percicles McGuire, and lio.v, when Daphne was a prattling infant, he lmd come home full one evening and told hor in proud tones that ho lmd reached the summit of his ambition, and was a policeman. All these memories of the past—tho bitter and tho swoet—came surging through her mind as she looked out through her tears and saw the Blue Island avenue cars going by like ghosts in the twilight. “Why do you weop, mamma?” said Daphne, placing her soft West Side arms about the neck of tho mother she loved so dearly—the only mother she had. “I fear me, Bridget,” said Mrs. McGuire, using Hie pet name by which Daphne was known at homo, “ that oUr future must indeed be a cheerless one; that the coming days will hold for us only sorrow and misery.” “Do not be disheartened, mamma,” replied the girl, kicking tho dog off the front steps and kissing her mother with a warm, lingering, I-havc-come-to-stay n 11-winter-and-part -of - the - spring kiss. ‘ ‘ Tilings may not be so bad as they seem. Wo iiave still one hope, you know, one resource incase all else tails.” “ What is it, child?” asked the mother in hoarse, anxious tones, “ What is this hope you speak of?” “Doughnuts,” replied Daphne, speak ing the word softly, and with infinite tenderness. “We have a jar of them down stairs, you know.” “Then let us tackle them at once," said the grief-stricken parent, starting for the pantry at a 2:20 clip. —Chicago Tribune. Rufus Hatch in the Indian Territory. Rufus Hatch, the noted Wall street, New York, operator, took a trip to the Indian Territory to look after some rail road property and liis newly established cattle ranclie. He writes the scenery on this trip has been beyond description, monstrously grand and beautiful, hky, land, prairie, grass, then more sky, shrub, grass, small creeks, sky, dust, sand, wind, sky ,' then more sky, clouds, dust, grass, dust, only more so, sky high; clouds, wind, dust, sky, prairie, more prairie, prairie, one short tree, sky, drove of cattle, horses, cowboy, buffalo skeleton, sky, prairie, dust, prairie dog, coyote, sky, grass, clouds, more sky, antelope, prairie, sun, dust, heat, skv, snake, prairie, prairie, prairie, clouds, three or four trees, sun, skv skv, sky, clouds, sun, heat, wind, dried buffalo horns, grass, prairie, more clouds, more sky, more prairie, sky, sky, heav ens, dust, snakes, cowboys on leave ol absence, wolves, sky, prairie, grass, sand, dust, sun, heat, prairie, only more so when we came in full view of more prairie all the time, and sky and clouds, kept keeping over us, and more snakes, buffalo carcasses, and horns, with con tinuous prairies and more beautiful scenery, until after nearly one hundred miles of delicious driving, in a first class open buggy, under a broiling sun, with more sky, clouds, prairie, wind, dust and grass, we landed at this Eldo rado—known on the map as “ Spencer & Drew’s Cattle Rancbe,” and now, amid the crack of rifles and Colt’s revolvers, the singing of birds, the delicious moaning and sighing of the fragrant breeze as it creeps through the full leaved green branches of the trees, the piping of the mocking bird and quail, and the thousand heads of homed cattle gently grazing on rich meadow lands as far as the eye can reach, the bum of in sects, and the gentle titilation of the unobtrusive mosquito, I bid you all good-by, with the gentle remark that if the Indians should overtake and kill me, I never will forgive myself for coming here! —New York Commercial Adver tiser. A cat, carelessly shut up in a room In Ron Seville, N. Y., while the family were away for the summer holiday, was found, alive after thirty days. In the agonies of starvation it had tom down the cur tains and mutilated the wail as high a* it could reach. The Origin of tho Sleeping Car. Mr. W. Barnet Lo Van, M. E., of Philadelphia, says: From all accounts, no doubt, Napo leon I. used in 1815, the first “sleeping, lining room and parlor car ” that was ever built. This car, Or chariot, was presented to the Prince Regent of En gland, by whom it was afterwards sold to Mr. Bullock for $12,500. It event ually found its wny to Madame Tussaud’s Wax-work Exhibition, London, where it may still bo seen, This very curious and convenient chariot of tho First Emperor was built by Symons, of Brus sels, for the Russian campaign, and Is adapted for tho various purposes of a jnintry and a kitchen, for it had places for holding and preparing refreshments, which, by the aid of a lamp, could be heated in the carriage. It served also for a bedroom, a dreasing-room, an office, eto. The seat is divided into two by a partition about six inches high. The exterior of this ingenious vehicle is of the form and dimensions of our largo coaches, except that it lias a projection in front of about two feet, tho right hand half of which is open to the inside to receive the feet, thus forming a bed, while the left hand half contained a store of various useful tkwiga. Beyond tho projection in front fJhd nearer to the horses, was the seat for the coachman, ingeniously contrived so as "to prevent tho driver from viewing tho interior of the carriage, and yet so placed as to nfibrd those within a clear sight of the horses and of the surrounding country. Beneath this seat is a receptacle for a box, about two and one-half feet in length and four inches deep, containing a bedstead of polished steel, which could be fitted up in a couple of minutes. Over the front windows is a roller blind of strong painted canvas, which, when pulled out, excluded rain, while it ad mitted air. (This might bo an advanta geous appendage to our present car windows ns well as carriages.) On the ceiling of tho carriage is a network for carrying small traveling requisites. In a recess there was a secretaire, ten by eighteen inches, which contained nearly a hundred articles presented to Napoleon I. by hlaria Louise, undei whose care it was fitted up with every luxury and convenience that conld bn imagined. It contained beside tire usual requisites for a dressing box, most of which were of solid gold, a magnificent breakfast ser vice, with plates, candle-sticks, knives, spoons, a spirit lamp for making break fast in the carriage, gold case for Na poleon’s gold wnsh-liand basin, a number of essence bottles, perfumes and an infinite variety of minute articles, down to pins, needles, thread and silk. Each of these articles wore fitted into recesses most ingeniously contrived aud made in the solid wood, in which they were packed oloso together, aud many one within the other, in such a narrow space that, on soeing them arranged, it ap peared impossible for them ever to be put into so small a compass. At the bottom of his toilet box, in divided re cesses, were found 2,000 gold Napoleons ($7,700); on the top of it wero writing materials, a looking-glass, corubs, etc., a liquor case, which had two bottles, one of Malaga wine, the other of rum ; a silver sandwich box, containing a plate, knives, spoons, pepper and salt boxes, mustard pot, decanter, glasses, etc.; a wardrobe, writing desk, maps, telescopes, arms, etc.; a largo silver chronometer, by which the watches of the army were regulated; two merino mattresses, a green velvet traveling cap, also a dia mond head dress, (tiara), hat, sword, uniform aud an imperial mantle, etc.— Iron Aar. Adulterated Tobacco. A pamphlet has been published, show ing that in Germany thousands of tons of beet leaves are transformed into to bacco. In some places chiccory and cabbage leaves make the fragrant weed. An English chemist found a stuff sold for tobacco was tho leaves of a diaphor etic plant. It has been impossible to sell the plant as a drug, and it has been turned into tobacco to save loss. Another writer informs everyboby, or wants to, that chemists have an im portant place in tobacco factories. Fif teen factories in New York employ oliom ists to “flavor” cigars. They can not do much with the wrapper, but they can “ heighten and develop, "the fillings. It is a relief to know on the authority of the writer quoted thatopium is not used, although it used to be formerly, in Eng land, but stringent laws broke the prac tice. The substances used to flavor to bacco are numerous. Every manu facturer has his own formula. Vanilla is the most common. This is employed in the form of an alcoholic tincture to flavor fillings. It is said that few cigars are free from vaDilla. Its effects are not harmful if not used in excess. The tonka bean and balsam fir are used in the same way and for the same purpose. Cedar oil is also introduced. The best imitator of the tabaoco flavor is valerian. Valerian and vanilla aro the most valu able chemicals now in use by tobaccon ists. By their me the poorest stems may be converted into fair tobacco. Into cigarettes enter not only valerian and vanilla, but cuscarilla bark. To make cigars burn, ammonia is used, and they aro soaked in saltpetre. The latter is injurious and makes young men old with dispatch. The object of its use is to cause the cigar to burn freely, ft has been noticed by some smokers that an intoxicating effect has been produced by some cigars. This is produced by dip ping the fillings in a solution of sulphuric ether and bromide of potassium. When it is known that, New England rum is used with vanilla and valeriap, it is nothing to wonder at that the cigars so treated produce intoxication. Wo do not name the brand that is treated with New England rum. If we did, the de mand would excel the supply. To make tobacco, or aid in its adulteration, such other tilings ns potato leaves, sugar, potash, tamarinds, aniseed, gum and various oils not heretofore mentioned are used to a greater or lesser extent. In Haw York alone, 826,666,<500 cigars are made annually, besides, 229,800,000 cigarettes, and twenty-five thousand persons rxe employed. Jour nal. Noethers corn contains most oil and tt .reh, and Soutliera corn most mineral and albuminous matter. ONE SOFT MAX DAY. Hr ILDKGERTE. Kiar(*d by a rose, olio noft Mfty rtay 4 A lily in tho garden blowing— KUnoil by ii rose, onouoft May day* A lily in tho garden growing. Jle ray bride, oh ! Illy fair. Ue my bride, my palft white queen. The lllly amiled with radiant air, Hmiliug sweetly aud Hertue. Kluaed by a rose, oue soft May day, A lily crashed wa* dying— Kiefiod by a rose, one oft May day, A fragile fragment lying. My bride is a tho rone had nnid, And the air was full of Its breath; My fair white queen ia lying dead, And I, • * * tho cuuso of her denth. A reel, red rose, one oft Mny day, Waamiesod frein tho Harden flowers; The dainy sighed for the bright- rod ray, So beautiful in the morning bourn, Tho flowers oamo where the rod rose lay, Dead and purple, on tho lily’s breast, And BHd wero tho hearts, that soft Mny day— The red, red roeo had gone to ita rest. Milwaukee, Win. Weary Woman. Nothing Is more reprehensible and thoroughly wrong than the idea that a woman fulfills her duty by doing an amount of work that is far beyond her strength. She not only docs not fulfill tier duty, hut she most signally fails in it, and the failure is truly deplorable. Tliero can be no sadder sight than that of a broken down, or ovor-worked wifo and mother—a woman who is tired all of her life through. If the work of tho household cannot lie accomplished by order, syistem, and moderate, without the necessity of wearying, heart-break ing toil—toil that is uever ended aud never begun, without making life n treadmill of labor, then for tho sake of humanity let the work go. Better to live in tho midst of disorder than that order should bo purchased at so high a prioe—the cost of health, strength, happiness, nil that makes existence en durable. Tho woman that spends her life in un necessary labor is, by this very labor, unfitted for the highest duties. She shouid be a haven of rest to the home to which both husband and ohildreu turn for pence and refreshment. She should ho the careful, intelligent, adviser and guide of the one, the tender, confidant and helpmate of tho other. How is it pos sible for a woman exhausted in body, as n natural consequence in mind also, to perform either of these offices? No, it is not possible. The constant strain is too groat. Nature gives sway to it. She loses health and spirits and hope fulness, and more than all, her youth, tho last thing a woman should allow to slip from hor; for, no matter how old sho is in years, slio should bo young in heart aud feeling, for tho youth of age is sometimes more attractive than youth itsolt. To tho overworked woman this groen old ago is out of the question; old age comes on her, sore and yellow, before ils time. Her disposition is ruined, her temper is soured, her very nature is changed by tho burden which, too heavy to carry, is dragged about as long as wearied feet aud tired hands cun do their part. Even her affections are blunted, and she becomes merely a ma chine—a woman without the time to bo womanly, a mother without tho time to train and guide her children as only a mother can, a wife without the time to sympathize with and cheer her husband, a woman so overworked during the day that when night comes hor solo thought and most intense longing is for the rest and sleep that very probably will not come; hut even if it should, that she is too tired to enjoy. Better by far let every thing go unfinished, to live us best she can, than to entail on herself and family the curse of overwork. A Detective’s Story. 'There is a story told of a lady and gen tleman traveling together on an English railroad. They were strangers to each other. Suddenly tho gentleman said: “ Madam, I will trouble you to look out of the window for a few minutes ; I am going to make some cliangCH in my wearing apparel. ” “Certainly, sir,” she replied with great politeness, rising and turning her back upon him. In a short time he said : “Now, Madam, my change is com pleted, and you may resume your seat.” When the lady turned she beheld her male companion transformed into a dash ing lady with a heavy veil over her face. ‘‘Now, sir, or madam, whichever you are,” said tie lady, “I mu t trouble you to look out of the window, for I also have some changes to make in my apparel.” “ Certainly, madam,” and the gentle man in lady’s attire immediately com plied. “ Now, sir, you may resume your seat.” To his great surprise, on resuming his seat, the gentleman in female attire found his lady companion transformed into a man. He laughed and said : “ It appears that we are both anxious to escape recognition. What hove you done V I have robbed a bank ? ” “ And I,” said the whilom lady, ns ho dexterously fettered his companion’s wrists with a pair of handcuffs, ‘‘l am Detective J , of Scotland Yard, and ill female apparel have shadowed you for two days—now,” drawing a revolver, “ keep still.” A return issued by the German Post master General shows tho number of post-cards used in Europe in the year 1878 to have been 342,000,000. Of that number 111,455,000 were posted in the United Kingdom, 108,741,000 in Ger many, and 30,522,1X10 in France. In the United States during tho year 1870 240,000,000 qards were dispatched by the postofHce, and it is estimated that during 1880 tho figure will rise to 300,000,000. The German pobtal authorities estimate the number of cards in use throughout tho postal union at about 700,000,000. Geoboe Mitchkm,, an Ohio wife mur derer, declared that his condemnation to death was just, and that he would not have it changed if lie could. He spent the night before the day appointed for the hanging in loud rejoicings that he w as about to go to heaven ; but, when a reprieve came, he shouted : ‘ 1 Blessed be God; didn’t I always tell you that the Lord was on the side of a Christian man f” flow to Select a Coir. non. H. Lewis, of Now York, read a paper before n convention of dairymen in Ontario, from which wc extract: Again, one breed of cows will do well on some land, where some other breed would be ulmust or quite worthless. Hence, I advice every dairyman to select that particular cow or breed host suited to his lands, where she is to obtain her food, and best adapted to that branch of dairy farming in which ho is engaged. If, for instance, your pasture lands arc rough, or on stoop side hills, select a small, active cow, and if butter-making is your business tho Jersey or Devon and their grades from our native cow’s will prove satisfactory. But if cheese making is your business, or tho pro duction of milk for market, the Ayr shire is tho cow. While her milk is well adapted for cheese or for market, it is better than the average cow’s for butter. Again, if your pasture lands oro pro ductive and moderately level, with but ter-making your business, select tho HoldcrncHS or the Princess family of Sliort-honik, or their grades from our native cows. But if cheese cr be your object, the Holsteins will prove satisfactory. .■ ’ As the selection of individual cows* suited to our several farms anfl adapted to our various wants, would bo too much of an undertaking, and require so much time and eayo, it can be done best by selections from our herds of native cows, and tho use on these of a thorough-bred hull of that breed desired. In this way, if tho selections ho carefully made, a herd can be built up in a little while founded on our native stock aud at small expense, tar exceeding in value any of our ordinary herds. It has been a matter of surprise to me that our intelli gent and progressive dairymen do not. more generally adapt their cows to their several wants by breeding a sufficient number each year to mako good the annual loss from old age, acci dent and disease. A cow reared on the farm whore she is to remain is always more valuable to her owner than a st range cot. First, Khe is acclimated; second, she is acquainted with the herd with which sho must associate; third, she is, fa miliar with tho lands from which she obtains her food, and can travel over it with greater easo than a strange cow. Out of His Year. White talking with .Tames Milton Sherrod, the other day, the letter-carrier pulled out of Ills pocket a very hand some agate, rounded and worn smooth by constant use as nn ear ornament. It bad a hole drilled through tlio top, and by a doer's sinew this trinket hud for merly boon suspended from the ear of some Sioux brave. The work on tho stone showed the crude and patient efforts of tho untutored rod man. On being asked how he secured the agate, Mr. Sherrod, whittling off some black tobacco with a butoluir knife, rubbed it in tho palm of his hand a while, and then, after putting it in his pipe and trying ineffectually for a long time to light it, said : “I got it up in the Black Hills in '76. A lot of Sioux Indians ambuscaded mo one evening in the form of a horse-shoe, and I had to cut my way through. I killed several of them and the rest lit out. When I come to assess the dead, 1 found a big fellow wearing this lu re agate and tied on with a deer’s sinner, and I just yanked it out of his your. There was another one iu his other year that I got, but 1 lost it. It was tho exact fact similar of this horo one.” — Lara mie lioomeranr/. l)r, .lollnsou’s Partiality for Tea. In his review of Hanway’s “Tea and its Pernicious Consequences,” Dr. John son proclaims himself as “a hardened and shameless tea-ilrinkcr, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this facinating ptynt, whoso kettle lias scarcely time t‘> cool, who with tea amuses tho evening, with tea solaces the midnight and with tea welcomes the morning.” Boswell says that he supposes no one ever enjoyed with more relish the fragrant leaf tlnm Johnson. The quantities lie drank of it it all hours wore so great.that his nerves must have been uricpmmonly strong not to have been extremely relaxed by r.uch an intemperate use of it. It is related ol him, but not by Boswell, that, while mi bis Bcotch tour, the Dowager Lady Mac- Leod, having repeatedly helped him un til she hail poured out sixteen cups, then asked him if a small basin would not be more, ngroeul.de and save him trouble. “ I wonder, madam,” he an-, swereil roughly, “why all tho ladies should ask me 'such questions ? It is to s.ivo themselves trouble, madam, and not. me." On another occasion ho said : “ What a delightful beverage must that be that pleases all palates at a time when they can take, nothing else at breakfast I” Broker mentions that the doctor’s teapot held two quarts. Pawning Human Flesh. According to a writer in the Lagos Times, a human pawn system exists in tiiat colony. It appears that many persons whoso necessities compel thorn to borrow money are in the habit of pawning their children or other relatives to the money-lenders of the colony, who, instead of being paid interest in the usual manner, are able to use theso unfortunate creatures as slaves until tho loan is refunded, which may not be for n series of years. The inhabitant of Lagos who makes this statement says: “ The pawn receives not a fraction of payment, for his toil. Should he die be foro payment of tho loan is made, or shovl l he desert his master, a substitute is to be provided. This wicked slavery is practiced under the eye of British iaw, and sometimes by persons calling themselves Christians.” The same writer states that there are British subjects re siding in Lagos who serve on juries and perform all tho duties of citizenship, but who yet are among the largest own ers of slaves in the neighboring terri tories, and he says that “ incidents have been known of these resident British subjects converting their slaves them selves, or through their agents, into money to meet their liabilities." 'I i $1.50 per Annuo:. NUMBER 43. ITEMS OF INTEREST. TnR true bed-bug is ssiu to be found in cliff swallows’ nests. The number of different uses for the bamboo is estimated at 500. The number of earthquakes in Japan during the past 1500 years is 149. American beor for Germany is an im portant addition to our export trade. Weasels hunt in couples, and some times more than two work together. In the course of five years, from 1779 to 1781 Mesmer magnetized 8,000 per sons. In Sicily the total quantity of sulphur auuually melted is estimated at 390,000 tons. The Australian exchango names with Europeans, as a proof of brotherly af fection. " Since 1865 the ratio of suicides has been greater in the kingdom of Saxony than any otiier part of Europe. A LAHGF. whale committed suicide by hangiug himself witli the telegraphio cable laid across the Persian Gulf. An English superstition is that if the ear-lobe hang below the line of the mouth, its possessor will bo hanged. A swarm of locusts observed near Boulder City, Colorado, traveled sixty six miles to eastern Kansas and Mis souri. IjUl.coNS are tho swiftest of birds. One scut from tho Conaries to Spain re turned in six hours, the distance being 780 nqlex. The fallowing sentence of only thirty four fatten contains all the letters in the alphabet: “John quickly extemporized live tow bags.” A oentlkman, having suffered a se i oro blow on the head, found on recovery that he had lost his knowledge of Greek, but hud not suffered any other loss of memory. * Tigers are said to bccpkfmtiful'through out Siberia, where through the winter. They arc said to be larger than the Himalayan specimens, and to have hair fiVe inches in length. At the present time in Spain the correct place of dating a letter should be from “ this your house ;" ono must never say from “this my house," os politeness requires him to pluco it at the disposi tion of his correspondent. In New York and Chicago, telegraph wires aro being put under ground, aud it is possible that the time is ooming when the underground method of tele graphing will bo iu vogue all over the country, as it is in Germany. OsTiticH farming, is, next to wool and diamonds, tho most important industry of Southern Africa. It was not snooess ful until tho eggs wero hatched by a patent incubator, the parent bird not performing her duty well in confine ment. It is suggested that tho derivation of London is from tho Celtic Luan, the moon, and a dun, a city on a hill. That it was “ tho city of the moon” is all tho more probable from tho tradition that tho site of St. Paul’s was formerly that of a temple of Diana. The greatest flood ever known on the Mississippi was that of 1844, which swept away tho levees, overflowed tho entire country, filled up tho swamps and remained at high-water mark for months. It was due to the unscientific construc tion of the levees. Napoleon's First Abdication. France, in tho latter part of 1813 and the beginning of 1814, was in a very un settled condition. Napoleon bad carried on brilliant but weakening campaigns, mid even the dazzling glory of the great commander's exploits in the faro of all Europe could not dispel the shadows which had begun to gather about him at the capital and throughout Franco. Nor wan the prospect beyond the realm any more encouraging. Bcrnadotto, Crown I’ririeo of Sweden, and late companion of the Emperor, was coming down from the north with 100,000 men; and Murat, King of Naples, Napoleon’s own brother jii fuov, had entered into a secret treaty withTAiiKtria for the expulsion of the FrencOTn Italy. The gloom around Na poleon d§cj>eiied, until the allies suc ceeded in rediflung the exterior defenses of Paris, and the capital, which for so many years had dicta hid law to all ofher capitals, was obliged to tlio allies entered Paris amid tfie accla mations of the people. The Senate turned their back on Napoleon aftd de clared that “by arbitrary acts and vio lations of the constitution ” he had for feited tho throne, and absolved all Frenchmen from their allegiance. His own generals insisted that he ought to abdicate, and ho signed the surrender of bis power. Ho was allowed tho sover eignty of 'he Isle of Elba, with a reve enue of 6,000,000 francs ($1,200,000). Ton months later fie was invited to re turn to Franco by ft conspiracy of old Republicans joined by Boimpartists. Ho escaped from Elba February 26, 1815, and landed at Cannes March 1 with an escort composed of about 1,000 of his Old Guard. Ami 100 days after he had resumed power his lust act oil the stage of Euiopi was played out,.and the sec ond and las* abdication was “'gned. “For Four Brother’s .Suke.” A good story is told by tho Providence Journal of a gentleman’s mistake while ou the way to the inauguration at Wash ington, in March, 1881. Between New York and Philadelphia he took a seat beside a portly gentleman, and conver sation began. Politics were mentioned, and the Rhode Islander said ho was a Republi can, and thought last fall that it would not l>o well for tho country to have a chauge, hut that he had a brother who wuh a Democrat, Soon the train stopped at a station, and the Rhode Islander stepped to the platform and met an acquaintance, who, alter a little space, remarked: “Gen. Hancock is on this train, and, as I am acquainted with him, perhaps you would like an introduction.” Of course he would ; so they entered the car, and approached the portly gen tleman just leit; the Rhode Islander was introduced to the General. With a twinkle of the eye, Gen. Hancock said : “I will shake 'bauds wjth you for you; brother’s sake.”