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A. F. HARP, Publisher. VOLUME I. j news gleanings. 9 tfß!ltS .eo has. forty marriage associa -9 dons -9 fgventv gold mines are being worked ■ in Georgia -9 Abbeville, Ala., lias a colored citizen I >O,OOO. 9 gjj negroes sit on tbe grand jury at |9 giownsville. 1 enn. 9 iiifii-ta, On., hass6,ooo,ooo invested 9 manufactories. 9 thousand Choctaw Indians still 9 in Mississippi, ■ aJai't'o car factory is to be establish- I ft at Danville, Ga. I , lijitnnooga has the finest union de ■ tyot in tbe South. The largest peach orchard in the world is in Alabama. Pepper pods weighing a quarter of a peundgrow at Waldo, Fla. Cedar Key,Fla., shipped 4,000 pounds of turtles one day last week. The eolton crop of Florida will be jtont the same as that of last year. Chatham county, Ga., has shipped 550,000 worth of cabbages this year. Oneof’the licbest mica mines in the kuM has been discovered near Athens, Ga. Five hundred, thousand dollars will he invested iu anew cotton mill at Sel ma, Ala. The population of Birmingham, Ala., is estimated at from 8,000 to 12,CC0 Quite a margin. The authorities of Madison county, Flat, will abolish the license of $5OO for trading in cotton seed. Duiing the ten years from 1870 to 1880 Tennessee increased the number of her farms forty per cent. A Chili squash, raised as an experi mer.t by a Monticello, Fla., farmer, weighs nearly 200 pounds. Senator Brown is the largest individ ual tax-payer in Atlanta, Ga , and he pays taxes on $829,500 worth of real a e and personal property. A mysterious rot lias made its appear ance among the Tennessee vineyards, and it is feared creat damage will be done the heretofore promising fruit. Within the neighborhood of Talbott’s Etation, Jefferson county, Tenn., over five hundred sheep have been killed' and as great a number crippled, by dogs in the last twelve months. A canal to be built at Home, Ga , on .ne Etowah river, wiil be four and a half milts long, 2C2.9G horse power and have a fall of over twenty-six feet. It is intended for manufacturing purposes, and will cost $350,000. A. M. Page, the hero of the great Lowndes bond robberyat Clarksburg, W. Va„ who succeeded in getting away with $lOO,OOO in money and bonds, lias just been released from prison after serv ing out seven years of an eight yeart sentence. An inexbaustable mine of corundum stone, the next hardest known substance to the diamond, has been discovered in Butts county, Ga. It resembles tlie sapphire, is susceptible of high poUdfl valuable in many l.orentz 10ehi'u!>a- - k i v\ .■ ■ • l;Jnl> ill j . SBOSgllBl i :■ lie-' 11 -Vf-Uj S' L-'i;vy "A v"-v ■i* .ti ‘H’ Mrs,'{;s,£<:; .-.j ", • - H fi ' i ii • ' y)}V' ■ #i ■ 1 > ‘"i ■#' ■3 ■ 13k iVaV-’"'riv'™ ■ *Wf uiS'Ur'i:/ 1, /’VyA S' -A in c S ir. -V>;l;'• A.j'f-A -"■oil Av%&*i iii'-h B-Ktip’.3?i ■ ! '.-V''-;' .-•.Vg n e i! 'until id .laHU!• j X'.l'x>^'7 "■ A -J? ■-vfj r y of m ' 7 ; - V>-.. A? ■-i '■ > C h t V • r, , ; 7 *&- -'h' line i A. V" - -1 .■: 111 -V'jj SgBBHKB| ‘A A l ' -’A ••et ufS.;'V -s. - THE JACKSON NEWS. The Season and Planting. The season of 1882 will long be re membered for untimely frosts, oontinued cold weather and deluging rains. These have not been confined to any particu lar portion of the West,but it is general, so that the opening spring, which prom ised everything that could be desired, has given later anything but what was expected. The winter was mild; wheat wintered admirably, except that in some instances it was too rank. From all that we can learn half a crop will be all that may be expected. Spring wheat and oats were late in being sown, and have grown slowly, and continued wet weather has prevented proper growth, but yet seems not to have seriously in jured the crop; as a whole the injury las been confined to particular portions of farms and to particular localities. The worst feature in the season, how ever, is that continued rains have pre vented the planting, or when planted, the cultivation of corn. It is true that disabilities of a season are always over rated. Asa rule the worst view of the season is apt to be taken by farmers, and naturally so. If the soil is wet it is always concluded to he disastrously so. H too dry crops are burning up. If frost strikes the blossoms, fruit is en tirelykilled, while succeeding daysshow perhaps that a full crop is left. Thus this season the outcome of fruit now promises fully half a full crop, or more, except as to early blossoming varieties; the severest loss being strawberries, anil next peaches. Winter wheat will proba bly make half a full crop, which means almost or quite an average crop. The damage early anticipated from destruc tive insects will prove next to nothing. For the weather that was bad for crops was fatal to insect life. So far there seems no cause for being disheartened over small grains, a3 a whole. In relation to corn the matter is mori\ serious. Our great corn years are those when the corn may be planted early and cultivated right along. Dry sea sons give better crops than wet ones,the best seasons being moderately dry warm springs, followed by warm, rather moist weather during Juno and July. Asa rule corn planted in June does not make a full crop to ripen on the stalk, but if cut up at the time of the first frost, it will ripen sound. If the autumn is late and warm, the June plantings may ripen perfectly on the stalk, but this may not be expected.— Prairie Fanner. Founder of the Christian Church. Alexander Campbell, the acknowl edged founder of the Christian sect named Disciples of Christ (often called Campbellites), was the son of the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian divine who emigrated from England to America in 1807. Alexander was born iu County Antrim, Ireland, in June, 1786. He was educated in the University of Glasgow, where he remained until 1809, when he followed his father to America, and set tled in Washington County, I’a., near Bethany, the site of Bethany College, West Virginia, which he organized in 1841, and of which lie was for many vears the President. For a short time after coining to this country he was pastor of a Presbyterian Church, but having adopted the belief that Christians should accept no creed or declaration of faith but the whole Bible ho and his father left the Presbyterian communion in 1810 and organized a church at Brush Run, Pa. In 1812 he and his church declared their belief in immersion as the .‘only form of Christian baptism izoil by Christ, and, in <'' tins doctrine, ihov wnrejgßffiaHjß llere, tin'll, ai BrudJiB 4 -*; t' snny. I’m.. in jJU Devoted to tlie Interest of Jckson and Butts County. JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 188-2. laid nr. Latil by tn my silent chamber, I beat'them stirring below ; Voices I love are sounding clear, And steps I know are in my ear, Still passing to and fro. And I ask my heart, Shall I never more Of my own will pass through that door? I n-k, Oh I is it forever That I have ceased to be 0110 of the group around the hearth, Sharing tlieir sorrow or their mirth? Am I from henceforth free From nil concern with the tilings of life, Done with its sorrow, and toll, and strife? Shall they carry mo forth in silence, With blind and scaloil-u|) eyes? Shall they throw the windows wide tn the air And gather mementoes here and there, As they think, with tears and sighs, “ This she was fond off--this she woro, But she never shall need them any more.” — Litiell't Living Age. Hard nnd Soft Water. You often hear of water for household purposes being called “hard” and “soft.” The reason why some waters especially spring-wator, are “hard’ is owing to the mineral matters dissolved in them. Rain-water is never “hard,” because it is nearly free of solid m vt.ter. The reason you had such an uncomfort able wash and shave this morning ai your friend’s house was owing to the water being largely charged with lime and magnesia. When the soap is rub bed between the palms in water of this description, the stearic acid in the oil oi the soap combines with the lime and magnesia, and forms compounds which the water cannot dissolve; and henc< the provoking curdinoss you observed For the lather to be a perfect one, coin plete solution of the constituents of the soap must take place, and in pure watei this would bo the case. But some water! are permanently hard, while some art only temporarily so. Permanent hard ness is caused when the water is chargee with sulphate of lime and magnesia, anc temporary hardness by carbonates o lime and magnesia. Pure water dissolve! the sulphates, but not the carbonates Then how do the carbonates come to bi in the water at all? The reason is this All natural waters, but especially spring and well water, contain more or less fret carbonic-acid gas in a state of absorp tion. and, whe i thus charged, are capa ble of dissolving the carbonates; bul whenever this g.u* is expelled from thi water, say by boiling it, the carbonate; are at once deposited ; and this account for the incrustation in the kettle; ani when this takes place the water becomei quite soft. The boiling does not nffec the sulphates to any degree in this waj in water that is permanently “hard.’ Temporarily hard water can bo madi soft by more moans than boiling alone If a tubful of it at night bestirred u( with a little “slaked” lime and allowec to settle, in the morning there will be f white deposit at the bottom of the tub, and the water will be found to he quits “soft,” because the.ltnae added wil combine with the free carbonic-aoid ga in the water, and the whole of thi carbonates will become deposited, i 1 virtue of their insolubility in water wit h out this gas. jj For drinking purposes, after being pas-ed through ajBBB remov” the 1 r:ii'l-, is till! Ill'i't :i i'll; File '.hi-. ’ '( gi: 4 ", 'jjsAv,j l f. ' jm • jdgj , r jjm > - -'Ai-V; 1 A y.-v- 4 \ I'fAif A Steam-Blow at Work. A Fargo, Dakota, letter to the Boston Journal says: “ Aftor all that has been done with reference to bringing out a steam-plow in this country, it remains for an ingenious Englishman (o invent and place in suceesslul working a steam plow. Mr. J. G. Allen, of Leeds, En gland. agent for John Fowler & Go., the manufacturers of steam-plows at Leeds, is accomplishing some excellent work on the Aurora farm, belonging to Captain Thomas W. Hunt, at Blanchard, Dakota. It is attracting a great deal of attention, and farmers are coming loug distances to see the plow at work. Two enormous traction engines are placed about 300 to 500 yards apart. Beneath each engine and belted to the boiler is a steel drum about live feet in diameter. To this drum i3 attached a steel cable about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 500 yards long, and capable of sustaining a weight of thirty tons, which drags the plow to ami fro across Hie field. The plow is a frame-work of iron resting upon two large wheels; on each side of this frame are firmly fixed six plows with colters that cut six fur rows sixteen inches wide each time the machine crosses the field. On the ar rival of the plow at the end of the fur row the gauge changes position, and the plows that have been in the air are low ered and ready to start back. One man is sufficient to guide the plow, and, seated over the body of the machine, directs one of tiie two large wheels in the furrow last turned by means of a hand-wheel. Each engine is of about forty-horse power, and weighs about sixteen tons. When the plow reaches one side of the field ihe engine on that sides moves ahead eight font, the opera tion takin- three and one-half minutes only, and the plow is started back"to the other side of the field. The plow will break front twenty-five to thirty-five acres per day, according to the soil, location, and lav of the land, etc. It also does harrowing.” K Brave Man. At Brother Barnes’ mwt'n; last nicht, there was an episode in which a coToretl brother and the highest judicial officer of the State gave a public exhibi tion ol'tho fraternal rchU&WH exiuing between the white and coroted races in Kentucky. While the evangelist stood with outstretched hands asking: “Who will trust the Lord?” Judge ’lliomas F. Hargis, of the Court of Appeals, was moved to confession and took his .‘mat on the front row of chairs. Shortly after ther.s passed down the aisle a penitent, blacker than the midnight eyes of the sable goddess. Then came others who Brother Barnes observed were careful to choose seats as far away as possible from the dusky brother. Stopping right iu th# midst of the sing ing, Brother Barnes said: “My dear friends, you see ’SdsliD’-vS'i . jA, A; Funeral Flowers. During the past five years the beauti ful custom of sending floral tributes to the funerals of deceased friends has grown wonderfully, and now the casket that incloses the remains of a loved ono is niraost invariably surrounded with handsome floral tributes in various de signs, showing the esteem in which the depavted is held. Out of this another beautiful custom has grown. ’ Every Easter Sunday tho chancels of the churches, especially the Episcopal churches, are filled with handsome me morial pieces, placed there in memory of loved ones gone before. Yesterday afternoon a reporter visited some of tho leading florists of the city and ques tioned them on the subject of memorial flowers. Mr. E. Pieser said that tho florists made their own designs, from which tho wireworkcr made his frames. Each florist tried to protect his new designs for exclusive use, but sooner or later they were copied by others. “ What flowers are used principally in this work?” asked the reporter. “ Carnations in the winter and bal sams in the summer. Other flowers are also used, but these are the principal ones from which memorial piece? are made.” “ What do you use in lettering?” “In summer we use immortelles and in winter violets." “What fa the processs of miking up those designs?” “The wire frames are filled up with wet moss, and tlie flowers are wired onto toothpicks and stuck in. The work requires considerable labor, care, and taste ” “ What are tho principal dosignsP” “The ‘Gates Ajar’ is a favorite de sign, also the ‘hour-glass.’ Then there are sickles, scythes, chalices, crowns and crosses, Bibles, crosses, wreaths, hearts, stars, anchors, lyres, harts, broken columns, etc. A handsome de sign is the ‘Faith, hope, and charity’—• cross, crown, and anchor.” “ How do tho prices range?” “In summer from $3 to $l5O, and in winter from $5 to S2OO. Where special designs are ordered the price is in creased. Wo made tho design of the engine and tunnel, which was given re cently at the funeral of a prominent railroad official in this city. It cost S4OO. We also made a floral lodger for the funeral of a young bookkeeper. That cost $100." “ How long can these designs lio pre served P” “ We can keep them for eight days if necessary, in good condition, bill when they leave us they generally fade within forty-eight hours.” “ Has the demand for those pieces in creased lately P” “O, yes. Since Jan. 1 last there has been a very large demand for funeral flowers nf all kinds. Wc have used The Hungarian Plains. At lirgF the plains softly undulating are dimpled here and there with shady hollows; while like golden islands in an ocean of vivid green lie long stretches of yellow colza and ripening corn. On the gently rising upland yonder a dark round speck appears against the sunlit sky; gnrdually it elongates, and we hear a voice singing in a quivering treble some national idyl. It is a husband man emerging from the hollow and trudging homeward along the crest of the undulation. Then all is silence and solitude once more, till coming to a standstill at one of the primitive wells by the roadside, we hear the distant rumble of a wagon as its wheels grind heavily along, the driver of it singing, as it goes, a melancholy ditty in the mi nor key. Then one by one the villages and solitary farms lying on the horizon die away, and we enter the boundless plains. How lonely wo feci, and what tiny atoms of creation, with no objects to measure ourselves by save birds of prey, and the white clouds sailing far tip in the great, blue, glorious sky! Our carriage, though imposing only in the matter of size, proved very comfortable, its ponderous hood shielding us from tho heat of the sun, save where, taking mean advantage of weak places in its constitution, it shot fiery arrows in up on us, scarcely less piercing than those that pour down upon the head of the traveler in tho desert. The sun reflects itself in tho white and (lusty road. Above tlie soil on ulthr.r oi<to there is a flickering motion of the air like tho haze from a lime-kiln. Everything is hot and dusty; not an insect is seen hovering about tho low bushes which now and then skirt our pathway. All nature is taking its siesta in tlie dreamy noontide, and nothing is awake but tho scarlet pimpernel that with wide-open, unblinking eye looks straight up at tho blazing sun. Wo now conio to a marshy district, where a lonely heron is con templating its lovely image in a small still pool, and then away we go again —out into the broad purblo patches of newly upturned soil, bauds of emerald corn, and speckled streaks of tobacco, witli its large red and green leaves, and on through cool labyrinths of maize, till we come to vast tracks of uncultivated land, where wild horses with flying manes go scampering across its surface with the natural grace of untamed things. As day advances and tho shallows of the clouds begin to lengthon across tho plains, a breeze springs up and plavs about us softly, rustling tho large white, surplice-like sleeves of the drivers garment, but not sufficiently strong to stir his black anil flowing looks, which, weighted with some unctuous matter, rest calmly on his shoulders. Our nearest town is Ve.szprim, hut at tho pace wo are at present going wo are scarcely likely to reach it before nighty fall, if then. But what does it. matter, when wo have the whole of to-morrow, and the next day, and the day after t hat, aye and our wjiql” Uves. to dofivi HRS'! |I.M per Annina. NUMBER 46. PITH AND POINT. —ln some parts of South America the banana skin is converted into a ma terial of which ladies’ dresses are made. This is probably the kind that the lady slips on easy.— Yonkers Statesman. —You can never entirely discourage a New Jersey man. When he comes down to his last dollar he picks up a spade and goes out to dig up some of Kidd’s buried treasure. — Detroit Free Press. —“ Is this my train?” asked a traveler at the Grand Central Depot of a lounger. “I don’t know,” was the re ply. “I see it’s got the name of some railroad company on the side, and ex pect it belongs to them. Have you lost a train anywhere?”— N. Y. Graphic. —lt is stated that a railroad brake man has become an operatic tenor, and has been engaged for next season at SSOO a week. He won’t have to learn the Italian language, you see. He has merely to speak his lines as he does the names of stations and everybody will think he’s speaking Italian. — Poston Post. —The peculiar costume of the dwel lers in Arizona is thus graphically de scribed by a “tender-foot;” “In ordi nary weather he wears a belt with pis* tols in it. AVhon it grows chilly he putt on another bolt with pistols in it, and when it becomes really cold ho throws a Winchester rifle over his shoulders.” —Seth Green savs fish can pot shut tlieir eyes. Fogg says this explains why they always succeed in keeping off his* hook. Whenever he goes fishing, the fish are all oyes and no mouth, and every eye wide open. Ho thought they kept*their eyes open out of pure eussed ness; but, now that he knows that they can’t, help it, ho simply despises where he hated them before.— N. Y. hvle pendent. —Well, my little girl,” said a New Haven gentleman, to a friend’s “preoiouseat,” “aren’t you going to sing for me?" “No, sir. I’m not a singer.” Now, I thought you were a little singer.” “Oh," no! 1 only sing a little to my dolly.” “But I’ll bo your dolly.” “You’re too big. I guess sister Jennie wouldn’t mind if vou was hors. She said you was just splendid.” Sudden rattling of tho dishes in the back room—where Jennie was busy.—- New Haven fteijister. —“The latest agony,"says Jeents, “Is tho way I felt this morning. My wife asked me for aXX bill—a twenty, you know—and I cut tho matter short by telling her that it could not be did, for the simple reason that I had only a matter of a dollar or so in my pockot. •I know you’d tell mo that,’ she said, ‘and it’s true, too.’ And, as I looked up in amazement, she added: ‘I looked in your pockets last night. I’ve got the twenty.’ Oh! boys, how I felt! ;ut what could I doPV^ “ 11