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W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME VIII. 'S9&imVTID SM3N A Mormon haw married a Methodis lady in Falkville, Ala. B;ukson, Tennessee, is to have a cotton factory. The total income tax assessed in Vir ginia for 1880, was $3,322,4G0. Ove r 80,00 > pounds of tomatoes have heeii shipped from Chattanooga during the season. Montgomery, Alabama, has an arte sian well that discharges 25,h'00 gallons of pure drinking water every day. An oak tree on the Feysor farm, Page county, Va., is twenty:two feet in cir ni inference. The death rate in July in Chat tanooga, from a basis of 17,000. popula tion, was only a little over 18 per cent, per thousand. Robert Thomas, a colored man of Cocke county, Tennessee, lias bought the Car- Mii farm of 205 acres, near Dandridge, for $8,525. Jetterson’s old clock at Monticello is being repaired. Ttis a remarkable time piece on a grand scale, and a splendid piece of mechanism. A Mississippian by the name of Darl ing P. Dear, has died at West Enter prise. Wonder if the “1\” stands for Tet? The Coosawlmtehie swamp in Hamp thi county is drying up rapidly, and quantities of fish are being devoured by the buzzards. •John Colbert, of Etowah, has lost three wives, being married thirty-six years, lias buried twenty-two children, has lost one arm and thirty horses, and is but fifty years old. lathe death of Colonel Randolph I, Mott, of Columbus, (la., the Macon Volunteers lost the last of the originrl an 1 charter members. The company was organized April 23, 1825. Cork tree's are being successfully raised in Georgia. The cork on some of them is already thick enough for use. It is supposed these trees can be successfully raised in most of the Southern Stalls. \ palachieola, Flirida, has a popula tion of over 2,000 souls, forty or fifty vessels engaged in the sponge and fishing trades, and five large mills, with a ca pacity of over 250,000 feet of lumber per day. Coal oil has been discovered near May flower, Arkansas, and two local compan ies have been formed, who are leasing all the land in the neighborhood. Pros pectors and speculators are flocking in in great numbers. John Boswell, colored, formerly State Senator in Florida, and a prominent candidate for Congress from that State, is now working out a sentance for dis orderly conduct in the street-gang of Galveston. A bill declaring a wife a competent witness against her husband, where he commit ts an assault upon her, has passed the Georgia Senate. Likewise, one to make it a misdemeanor to carry intoxi- Oating drinks to any public gathering. The Georgia Redater says “the House has on hand over 900 bills, or enough, if each sheet were detached and pasted together, to encircle, the city of Atlan ta, which is nine miles in circumference. No adjournment in sight, even with a first-class telescope.” The farmers in South Geo’gia suffer so much from watermelon thieves that they poison fine melons frequently to catch the thieves. A few nights since a party of young men of the best families of Decatur county were out latent night and took a melon from a neighbor’s patch. All were desperately siek and one ha- died. One of the finest light houses in the world is being erected at Cape Henry, in Chesapeake Bay. It measures from top to base 155 feet; diameter at the base, thirty feet; at the top, 1-5 feet. It has six stories, and above there is a serv ice room, watch-room and lantern-room. It is constructed of cast-iron, and the interior is sheet-iron. The light room is a circular steel frame, twelve feet in diameter and nine feet high. The glass U'-ed for the chimneys will be of French glass. A negro boy living in Chailottsville, irginia, fell from a tree about six weeks ago upon a sbarpstake, which penetrated his liver. A portion of the organ pro truded from the wound. Dr. William C. Rogers attended the case. He clipped a piece of the torn and protruding liver about the size of a marble and *e"'ed up the orifice. He expected the boy would die, but lie got better from tiiH fir-t ;ind is now running about as usual. ih void to Industrial Inter st, the hiffnsiwi ef Truth, the BstaMisfamit ef Jntiet, and the Preservation of a Peopli’s tonnatat TOPICS OP THE D VT. Guiteau is anxious to be admitted to bail. The Grange idea has just reached Brazil. Prohibition was overwhelmingly de feated in North Carolina. Jim Keene, the great speculator, is not in good standing in London, report Bays. There are 500 men in Now York worth $3,000,000 and over. We hold that they are lucky. The President is now anxious to try his legs, but his back is a little bit too sore for that. The yield of wheat in Indiana is esti mated at 24,000,000 bushels against 47,- 000,000 bushels fur 1880. It has been decided by a Tittsburg Judge that insanity is not suflicitnt grounds for divorce. May blessings flow profusely upon the heads of correspondents who have ceased k> dilate upon the lunatic Guiteau. A thoroughbred Indian has been appointed a clerk in the Indian office, and “ things is a workin’.” Mr. 8. RutiTj refuses to ride on the •ars. He thinks they want to get him where they oan break his neck. Ex-Minister Ghristiancy lias paid to Mrs. Ghristiancy and counsel so far, for aliMony and counsel fees, over $24,000. m *• The real and personal property in the United Btatcs is valued $70,000,000,000. It don’t look like very much on paper. Some time ago Senator Ben Hill had a cancer cut from his tongue, since which time he has been unable to talk. The anti-treating law in Wisconsin is a dead letter. The people—that is, the drinkers—drink together just as they always did. Canada is not accused of stealing, but at the same time the Postoffice De ment thinks they like to use our mail bags up there mighty well. A St. Lours Fenian has a plan for ■ending up balloons and dropping down torpedoes on the hated Saxon, as a means of “ freeing Ireland. ” Tins bullet iu tho President’s body has been located by tho aid of Bell’s electric machine, but for the present the doctors will let it romain where it is. TnE Paris of America is called Cin cinhotter by the Louisville Courier- Journal. Watterson refers to excessive warmth. He is familiar with the topic. Lawton B. Evans, of Atlanta, eigh teen years of age, is the youngest Master of Arts in the country. Ho received the degree from the State University at Athens. A high peak on one of the mountains opposite Cornwallis, Mon., fell with a terrific crash the other day, thousands of tons of rocks being hurled into the val ley beneath. The Philadelphia Herald says if you will catch a few fiies and stick them in the butter you oan imagine yourself at a seaside resort. The Philadelphia Her ald is a pseudologist. The Uto Indians will bo removed to their new reservation about the Ist of September. They consist of Uncom paghre, Uintah and While River Indians, numbering in all about 2,700. The Russian Jews are crossing the German frontier in considerable num bers, intending to form settlements in America. No obstacle is offered to their departure by the Government. The white woman in Ohio who re cently married Wah Sing, a Chinese lftundrvtnan, has eloped with a white man. She get enough of the cheap labor business in a pretty big hurry. In one of his verses, Oscar Wilde, the nesthetic poet, alludes to “ the barren memory of uukissed kisses.” An un kissed kiss probably is the barrenest thing within the range of human experi , once. Europe will not want much bread studs this year, and while the fanners may not be particularly pleased with this news, the poor man may laugh in his sleeve. Our granaries will not be overstocked from present indications. An exchange says “it is much safer to fight a duel in Europe than it is to call a man a liar in Kentucky,” and we INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. may add, the man who does not believe it had better try it, but fight the duel first to bo sue you will experience both. Captain C. A. Cook, of Brownsville, Ohio, made himself great by slapping George Morrison in the mouth for hop ing the President would die. The way the’ cent subscriptions are pouring in upon him, ho will be able to buy him self a farm. A French newspaper tells a pretty tough story. A millionaire who lost all of a large fortune hut 100,000 francs, died of grief in twenty-four hours. His brother and sole heir died of joy on the sudden receipt of what he considered so large a fortune. Latest reports state that Jay Gould owns 7,000 miles of railroad valued at $140,000,000. He seems to be getting tho bulge on us. If King Kalakaua was smart now he would cultivate Gould’s acquaintance. lie could buy up his do minion and not miss the money. C. A. Cook, Brownville, Licking County, Ohio, is the address of the man who was fined $lO and costs ($32) for slapping a man named Morrison who aaid he hoped Garfield would die. Mor rison, at the time, was flourishing a re volver in protection of his right to his views. The Steubenville Herald, a little folio paper containing only twelve columns to the page, is seventy-five years old. Its re markable vigor may be attributed to that risible genius, J. W. Lampton, whose “mixed drinks” have been known to intoxicate whole families at one sitting. The spot where Gen. McPherson fell is described as a small enclosure, railed in with musket barrels, capped with spears, and covers a little glade in the forest, two and a half miles from Atlanta. From a granite base in tlio center a thirty-two pound cannon rises in the air, its square cut face rounded by a shell held in tho mouth. A woman belonging to tho sect called Perfectionists undertook to run herself to death at Dallas, Texas. She got the idea from the Scriptural passage about “running the-race to the end,” that if she ran till she died she would go direct to heaven. She could not kill herself by pedostrianism, however, and resorted to drowning instead. Mississippi County, Missouri, is the great watermelon region of the world. Over 4,000 acres are this year devoted lo watermelons alone, and the yield is about a car-load an acre, so that 4,000 car-loads will bo shipped to St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit and Indiana. Con tracts liavo been made with many farm* at sllO a car. The general prices run from S6O to $lO6 a car during the season. The homoeopathic physicians of Wash ington City are endeavoring to establish a liomoeopathio hospital there. There are now 7,000 homoeopathic physicians hi the United States, and tho school maintains eleven colleges, thirty-eight hospitals, twenty dispensaries, sixteen journals, 105 local societies, twenty-three State societies, and one national society. There are thirty homoeopathic physicians in Washington. Miss Montague, Farpaugli’s ten-thous and-dollar beauty, got sick, and as she had to be left behind, and it wouldn’t do to be without a ten-thousand-dollar beauty, a Miss Josie Sutherland was em ployed to succeed lier. Miss Montague now sues Forpaugli for the SIO,OOO which, the surrounding circumstances would make it appear, she never got. On with the music, and let these tilings all come out. Mr. Henry Villvrd predicts that the Northern Pacific Railroad will be com pleted within two veal's. He also states that the Oregon Trans-continental Com pany, which controls the Northern Pa cific and Oregon Railway and Naviga tion Companies, will probably build 800 miles of tributary railway east of the Rooky Mountains and will have 2,000 miles of tributaxy roads completed by the time the trans-continental line is open, and that the entire system will embrace about 6,<300 miles of railway. Dcring the past year over two hun dred men and women have emigrated from Georgia to Utah, converts to the Mormon faith. Several Mormo% churches flourish in Haralson and adjoin ing counties of the State. A bill has been introduced in the Georgia LegiS lature to suppress Momionism in Georgia. It provides that any person convicted of teaching such principals or ! endeavoring to decoy emigrants to Utah, i shall be fined not exceeding SI,OOO or i imprisoned not more than one year, or | both, at the discretion of the Court. A man’s good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill-man ners. FEELING THE EARTH MOVE. A<?connt of Koine Cnrioaitic* or the Wind by a Pliiloaoplier on the Roof. [New York Sun.l “Would you like to feel the motion of the earth whirling on its axis just as you feel the motion of a buggy by the air driven against your face?'' The man who asked this singular question looked both sane and serious. As he spoke ho touched with his finger a small globe, which, with the slight impulse thus communicated, began to revolve smoothly and swiftly within a brass ring and a broad wooden zone, on which were pictured the odd-looking figures that represent the twelve sign* of the zodiac. The green painted oceans andThe variously tinted continents on the little globe blended into a confused jumble of color with the motion. Europe and America, the Atlantic and the Pacific lost their outlines. Greenland made a dark circle about the pole like a streak on a boy’s top. “Yon know the earth is whirling like that—many times faster than that,” said the philosopher, “and if the atmosphere did not partake of tho same motion there would be a constant hurricane blowing at the rate of a thousand miles an hour. Most persons accept the explanation that the atmosphere revolves as fast as the solid ground without inquiring any further, and so they lose sight of one of the most startling facts in nature. Just step up here.” The reporter followed the philosopher to the flat roof of tlie house. “Don’t you feel that?” asked tho phil osopher, putting his hand to his cheek. “I feel a wind from the northeast,” replied the reporter. “Well, that’s it, then,” said tho phil osopher. “As the surface of the earth revolves eastward, it meets a current of air flowing from tho north, which has not yet acquired a velocity of rotation equal to that of the ground it passes over. So objects on the earth arc driven by the earth’s motion through air that is moving more slowly to the eastward than they are. The result is that the wind which started to blow from the poles toward the equator, instead of moving straight from north to south ap pears to come from the northeast. The reason of this will be plain the minute yqu-look at a revolving globe. You see that close to the poles the revolution of the surface is, very much slower than at the equator, just as a point on the hub of (i wheel moves more slowly than a pofc . on the tire. i, \ on must not, however, suppose that every wind from the northeast is the re sult of this curious law. In fact, in this latitude it is very difficult to say when the true wind of revolution, if I may so speak of it, is felt, because there are so many local causes that govern the direc tion of the wind. Nevertheless, when ever a current of air starts from the far nortli toward the equator, this phenome non will be experienced in all the places it passes over, although it is very often obscured by the changes of direction caused by ranges of mountains, great valleys and local temperatures. But tho curious fact remains that we can feel in tho wind the whirling of our globe about its axes. In tho tropics this phenome non manifests itself perfectly in the fa mous trade winds. In fact the west and southwest winds that prevail here a large part of the year are the returning trade winds. In this case the air, moving from the equator, where the revolution is fastest toward the poles where it is slowest, has, as it advances, a westward motion greater than that of the surface over which it passes. So marked is the prevalence of this wind that sailors call it “down hill’ from here to England on accouut of tho easy sailing with the wind. So, yon see, that, although the winds alone would never enable us to detect the fact that the earth revolves, yet now that the fact is known, we see in them one of its most striking re* suits. ” Graves at Culloden. Many will be interested to learn that the graves or trenches in which the bod ies of the unfortunate Highlanders wpre buried after the battle of Culloden are being cared for by the present pro prietor of the estate of Culloden. Formerly the graves were distinguishable in the level green sward at the roadside only by the slightly-raised sod. But stones bearing the names of the clans have just been erected at the head of each trench. On one stone is inscribed the names of the clans “M’Gillivray, M’Lean and M’Lauchlan,” and there are separate stones for “Clan Stuart of Appin,” “Clan Cameron,” and “ Clan Mackintosh. * Two graves are marked “ Clans mixed.” At the abortive “great caifn” a slab has been placed bearing the following inscription: “The battle of Culloden was fought on this moor, 16th April, 1746. The graves of the gallant High landers who fought for Scotland and Prince Charlie are marked by the names of their clans.” The interesting prehis tor e remains at G*va have also received some attention from the owner of the property. Some of the standing stones which had fallen down have been set up; unfortunately, one or two have been made to face in the reverse way from what they did originally. The place otherwise has been improved. In clear ing up the ground round the largest circle, paved, or rather cause waved, paths have been discovered lead ing from the base of the cairn in a straight line to three of the outer standing stones. Local archaeologists have also found a great number of “cup mark -I U. , 8 • ou the stones in this locality. One stone discovered had cup marks upon loth sides —said to be a very unusual thing. — Edinburgh Soot*/tum. The Ways of Plants. 1b a great many cases leaves aro said to sleep; that is to say, at the approach of night they change "their position, and sometimes fold themselves up, thus pre •enting a smaller surface for radiation, and being in consequence less exposed to cold. Mr. Darwin has proved experi mentally that leaves which were pre vented from moving suffered more from cold than those which were allowed to assume their natural position. He has observed with reference to one plant, Maranta arundinacea, the arrow-root, a West Indian species allied to Canna , that if the plant lias had a severe shock it oannot get to sleep for the next two or three nights. The sleep of flowers is also probably a case of the same kind, though, as I have elsewhere attempted to show, it has now, I believe, special reference to the visits of insects; those flowers which are ferti lized by bees, butterflies, and other day insects, sleep by night, if at all; while those which are dependent on moths rouse themselves toward evening, as al ready mentioned, and sleep by day. These motions, indeed, have but an in direct reference to our present subject. On the other hand, in the dandelion ( Leontodon), the flower-stalk is upright while the flower is expanded, a period which lasts for three or four days; it then lowers itself and lies close to the ground for about twelve days, while the fruits are ripening, and then rises again when they are mature. In the Cyclamen tho stalk curls itself up into a beautiful spire after the flower has faded. The flower of the little Linaria of our walls ( L . cymbalaria ) pushes out into the light and sunshine, but as soon as it is fertilized it turns round and endeavors to find some hole or cranny in which it may remain safely ensconced until the seed is ripe. In some water-plants the flower ex pands at the surface, but after it is faded retreats again to tho bottom. This is the case for instance, with the water-lilies, some species of th ePatamogcton {Trapa natans). In Valisneria, again, the female flowers are borne on long stalks, which reach to the surface of the water, on which the flowers float. The male flowers on the con trary, have short, straight stalks, from which, when mature, the pollen detaches itself, rises to the surface, and, floating freely on it, is wafted about, so that it comes in contact with the fe male flowers. After fertilization, how ever, the long stalk ooils up spirally, and thus carries the ovary down to the bottom, where the seeds can ripen with great safety. —Sir John Lubbock, in the Popular Science Monthly. The Style. Though it would seem that tho people of all countries arc equally vehement in the pursuit of this phantom, style, yet in almost all of them there is a strange diversity in opinion as to what consti tutes its essence; and every different class, like tho pagan nation, adores it Under a different form. In England an honest citizen packs up himself, his fam ily, and his style in a buggy or tim whisky, and rattle away to spend Sun day. A baronet requires a chariot and pair; a lord must needs have a barouche and four; but a duke, O! a duke, cannot possibly lumber his style along under a, coach and six, and half a score of foot men. This style lias ruined the peace and harmony of many a household, for no sooner do they set up for style, than all the honest old comfortable sans cere monie furniture is discarded, and you stalk cautiously about, amongst the un comfortable splendor of Grecian chairs, Egyptian tables and Etruscan vases. The vast improvement in furniture de mands an increase in the domestic estab lishment, and a family that once re quired two or three servants for conven ience, now employs half a dozen for style. Bell Brazen was one of these pattern p of style; and "whatever freak she was seized with, however preposterous, was implicitly followed by all who would be considered as admitted in the stylish arcana. She was once seized with a whim-wham that tickled the whole court. She could not lay clown to take an after noon’s 101 l but she must have one ser vant to scratch her head, two to tickle her feet, and a fourth to fan her delecta ble person while she slumbered. The thing took—it became the rage, and not a sable belle in all Havti but what in sisted upon being fanned and scratched and tickled in the true imperial style. Sneer not at this picture, my most ex cellent townswomen, for who among you but are daily following fashions equally absurd. —lrv i ny. Husbands and Wives. A good husband makes a good wife. Borne men can neither do without wives nor with them; they are wretched alone in what is called single blessedness, and they make their homes miserable when they get married; they are like Tomp kins’ dog, which could not bear to be loose, and howled when it was tied up. Happy bachelors are likely to be happy husbands, and a happy husband is the happiest of men. A well-matched couple carry a joyful life between them, as the two spies carried the cluster of Eabcob They are a brace of birds of Paradise, They multiply their joys by sharing them, and* lessen their troubles by dividing them. This is fine arithmetic. The wagon of care rolls lightly along as they pull to gether; and when it drags a little heavily, or there is a hitch anywhere, they love each other all the more, and so lighten the labor. —John Ploughman. “In what condition was the patriarch Job at the end of bis life?” asked a Bun day-school teacher of a <piiet-io<kmp !kv at the foot of the “Dead, calmly replied the boy. SUBSCRIPTIOB--$1.60. NUMBER 52. BITS OF INFORMATION. Sir Humphrey Davy invented his safe* tv lamp, to prevent accidents which are liable to occur in coal mines, bo early as 1815. The signature of “Boz,” used by Dickens, was adopted from “Moses,” pronounced through the nose—a nick name of his younger brother. The phrase “piping hot ” originated from the custom of a baker blowing a pipe or horn in the villages of England to let the people know he had just drawn his bread hot from the oven. Molasses, liquorice paste, a decoc tion of figs, and glycerine are used in the manfacture of plug tobacco to impart a sweet taste, give color and prevent rapid dryiDg ; common salt and other salts are used for flavoring ; anise aud other aro matics aro added for their flavor. Bancroft, in his history, has the fol lowing*in regard to the introduction of slaves into wliat is now United States territory: “In the month of August, IGI9, a Dutch man-of-war entered James river and landed twenty negroes for sale. This, indeed, was a sad introduction of negro slavery in the English colonies.” The most of the authorities make the date December, IG2O. Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, lifo-time editor of “ Godey’s Lady’s Book,” wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” The or igin of the poem is this : A daughter of Mrs. Hale s neighbor was taken very ill, and the doctor was asking the girl’s mother what she had been eating. Mrs. Hale, avho had just come over to the house, heard the mother say : “ Mary had a little lamb, and Mary loves lambs, you know.” These simple words touched Mrs. Hale so deeply that she went home and wrote the immortal poem. It is said that the custom of present ing eggs at Easter is the survival of an old pagan custom celebrating the anni versary of the creation or the deluge. The egg presented by the pagans was an allusion to the mundane egg, for which Ornutzd and Aliriman were to contend till the consummation of all things. The custom of dyeing eggs at Easter is very old and common to all countries, but may have been taken back to the East by Christian travelers. The house of John o’ Groat’s was sit uated on Duncan’s Bay Head, the most northerly point in Great Britain. It re ceived its name from John of Groat and his brothers, who came from Holland in 1489. Hie house was octagon in shape, being one room, with eight windows and eight doors, to admit eight members of the family, the heads of different branches of it, to prevent their quarrels for precedence at table, which on one occasion nearly proved fatal. By this contrivance each came in at his own door, and sat at an octagon table, at which, of course, their places were all alike. The Spaniards visited Canada previ ous to the French, and, finding no gold or silver which they were in search of, often said among themselves, “ Aca rnxda,” there is nothing here. The In dians learned tliis sentence and its mean ing. The French arrived, and the In dians, who did not want their company, and supposing they were also Spaniards on the same mission, were anxious to inform them in the Spanish sentence “acanada” The French, who knew as little Spanish as the Indians, sup posed this inoessant recurring sound was the namo of the country, and gave it the name of “ Canada,” which it has borne ever since. Some Definitions. One of Thackeray’s daughters has just published a little book about her friend, Miss Evans, in which she prints some delightful definitions made by that lady. Some of these are as follow: “A privileged person—One who is so much a savage when thwarted that civil ized persons avoid thwarting him.” “A liberal-minded man—One who dis dains to prefer right to wrong.” “Radicals—Men who maintain tho supposed right of each of us to help ruin us all.” “Liberals—Men who flatter Radi cals. ” “Conservatives—Men who give way to Radicals. ” “A domestic Woman— A woman like a domestic.” “Humor—Thinking in fun while we feel in earnest. ” “A musical woman—One who has strength enough to make much noise, and obtuseness enough not to mind it. ” Kissing. A lady of experience gives advice oa kissing to a younger lady friend, an follows: “Be frugal in your bestowals of such favors. In the first place I would cut off all uncles, cousins, and brathers in-law; let them kiss their own wives and daughters; and I would not kiss the minister, or the doctor, or the lawyer who gets you a divorce.” Yousee this la dy understands her business, and does not leave out the editor; he of all others needs these oscillatory attentions to “lighten up the gloom;” she’sajoUy, sensible woman, with a heart in the right place. Hath the Hawkey e solemnly: “Yes, daughter, you should go somewhere this summer. Yon cannot stay at home dur ing warm weather and live. To be sure your mother, who hasn’t been out of town since she was married, can stand it, but then she is old-fashioned and doesn’t know any better, and besides, she has fun enough doing the washing and iron ing. By all means go. Get a linen duster and a basket and go at onoe.”