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Wt F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. Vicksburg, Mississippi, has raised $200,000 towards a cotton factory. Some unknown person has been poisoning the fish of Black Lake, La., by the wholesale, with India berries. Anew cotton compress is to be erected in Norfolk. Virginia, which is intended to be the most powerfu’ in the world. Bradley county, Arkansas, is de scribed as a glorious garden, where the people own their farms and the crops hide the houses from sight. Sixtyrone thousand three hundred and seventy tons of guano were imported into North Carolina during the past season. Sohn E. Peoples, of Anderson, S. C., is the greatest rag man in the State. He ships annually from 150,000 to 200,000 pounds of rags. A colored Baptist minister, John An gel James, of Forsyth, Georgia, im mersed fifty converts in fifty-five min utes. Louis Kent, a colored man of Missis sippi, has had the honor for three years past of sending the first bale of cotton to market. Parties are poisoning the streams in Sumter county, Georgia, with green walnuts and devil shoestring to kill ihe fish. This is a violation of law. Judge Gilliam, of Oglethorpe county, Georgia, often has applications from men to buy marriage license on time. He tikes a lien on the bride and then issues them. A swarm of bes have made a hum fo themselves in the tower of the Presby terian church at Covington, Ga., where they are supposed to be butting up honey for winter use. Senator Lamar’s hea Ith is still so poo that his physician has forbidden him to speak at public meetings at present, saying he could only do so at great risk. Old man Burnside, the New Orleans mill ion rire, didn’t know he had any relatives. But there is a little army of them marching right along to fight over those five or six millions of “filthy lu cre.” In the South the cry is again heard, “liaise what you eat.” The people have commenced eating citton seed oil, and may be they will be able to eat cotton after awhile. Some negroes of Oglethorpe county, Georgia, have organised a church founded on anew belief. They say there is no hell, and the preacher proposes to forgive, all sins upon the payment of a fee ranging from ten cents to a dollar, as the class of sin may dictat e. The Dallas Times thinks that: “In the beautiful hereafter, if towns should become spirits, Galveston will be found, with hands extended, standing on the corner of the New Jerusalem asking for alms. It is the begg;u town o£ the State.” Mr. Joe Beasley, an experimental gardener near Columbus, Georgia, has succeeded in raising some melous with a delicious lemon flavor. He makes an incision in the vine a short distance from the root, to which he attaches a lemon, anil by means of absorption the juice is taken into the melon. Constitution: Whatever Georgia may do, the two Carolina* will be well represented at the Expositions and so will Tennessee, Never had Georgia such an opportunity to show the whole civilized world her natural resources and unequaled capabilities, aud if it goes unimproved the men who are re sponsible for the neglect will live to see their action condemned a thousand times. Last week a ludicrous occurrence happened in Montezuma, Ga. A col ored man was sporting around a five, j dollar gold piee, ami unwittingly handed it to a notorious negro woman named Sallie Banks, for inspection. 1 £he, deeming herself a bank, and that the money was intended for deposit, placed it in her mouth and swallowed it, neglecting to give the man a cirtifieate of deposit. During a protracted meeting at Rock Hill church, Georgia, in Dooly county, a young man of eighteen years, the son of a widow lady, professed religion and united himself to the church (Metho d'nt). On going home he told his moth er of it, who is a Baptist. She was highly incensed, and made an elder son tie this seeker of religion, and together they gave him an unmerciful beating, a nd threatened a more severe punish uient if he persisted in what they called downright foolishness.” The young man has gone back to the ways of the world. k Jidnstrial liUMt, tt* DiffiuUiiti Truth, tlw Egk’tlisJiueifc if Jjistke, and the Preservation if a Peepli’s ttowrarntJit. TOPTCS OF THE DAT. ——— 4 Secretary Blaine is a sufferer from malaria. Prof. Huxley reaps salaries to the amount of $150,000 a year. Prohibition was defeated in North Carolina by a majority of 100,000. The crop prospects of this country are just about as poor as any one wants to see them. Stanley is charged with using chain gangs of slaves in making a road in Africa. The Cincinnati Commercial is author ity for the statement that opium kills 160,000 Cliinamen every year. England gave the cold shoulder to the International Money Conference. England ought not to be disturbed. The New Hampshire Legislature spent several weeks trying to codify a new railroad law, but gave the thiug up in disgust. The President has been doing so w r ell so long, according to the doctors, that there are some people who think be ought to be up, but he is not. Nellie Grant— we scarcely everbear of her now. She and her husband, and the little Sartorises of course, are liv ing on an income of SIO,OOO a year. Morality in Micliigan is losing its grip on the female population. Asa last measure the State is compelled to establish a reform school for girls. Americans are said to have spent over $8,000,000 in France last year for works of art, engravings and books. We will not let our needy suffer if we can help it. People in Cincinnati have almost forgotten what water tastes like. They believe that it is unfit to drink, averag ing nearly two pounds of sewage to the 1,000,000 gallons. General Hancock expresses the opinion that the President will be able to attend to his duties in a few weeks. He bases liis belief on observations of gunshot wounds during the war. An effort is being made to draw a line in Ohio between people who drink and people who don’t drink, whisky. There is little doubt, however, as to which side the crowd will be found upon. There is another widow in England worth marrying. She is the Hon. Mrs. Meynell-Ingram, daughter of Lord Hal ifax, and has an income of $150,000 a year. Don’t somebody want to love a widow? Henry YmnARD, the great projector of railroad and other enterprises, was, not so many years ago, a Washington correspondent. Newspaper men will come out and shine in spite u£ every thing. More ladies and children are said to be learning to swim this year than dur ing any other similar period. The pos sibility of accident on frequently crowded excursion boats should make this kind of tuition almost imperative. Boston people—an intellectual set— will scarcely hesitate to claim anything, even one’s pocketbook. A Boston man now chums to have been born with a bullet in his liver. Liver in his bullet would have been better, but bullet in his liver, we can’t believe. Three boys at Lynn, Maas., whose patriotism compelled them to break into a church on the Fourth of July and ring the bell, have finally been fined $lO each and costs. The object of the boys was perfectly risrbi, so was that of the justice that fined them, but tlien when these boys are wanted to go forth and fight the Indian they will be apt to refuse to budge an inch. The one-cent subscription fund raised by the Cincinnati Commercial for C. A. Cook, of Brownsville, Ohio, to pay a fine assessed him for slapping a man in the mouth who wished the President would die, has grown to unexpected propor tions, and will place Cook, who is a poor man, in rather comfortable circum stances. The contributors, so far as one is able to judge, have been irrespective of party. Queen Victoria has taken occasion to snubb the philanthropic Baroness Bur dett-Coutts-Bartlett. The Queen ought to call to mind the fact that the fortune of the Baroness exceeds her own, that she hasn’t begged it from Parliament or the people, and that she has a habit of occasionally giving liberally to suffering humanity. She does not deserve to be snubbed even by a queen, although she INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. has a young American for a husband, and is not the mother of fourteen children. — The traveling expenses of the 100,000 drummers employed by the merchants of the United States are $12*0,000,000 a year, exclusive of salaries. The con sumer pays it all without a grumble, but that may be because he hasn’t heard as much about tlae drummer as he has the railread and other monopo lies. When we get rid of the perplexi ties that we have now, we can fly to those that we know nofe of and get mixed up just as badly as. ever we were. Speaking of the rumor of the Pope transferring the Holy See to America, the Buffalo Courier says : “ There is no reason why the Pope should not come, certainly, if he chooses. He would have to leave hia ideas of temporal power behind, of course, and come pre pared to see all subject* discussed in an unlicensed press v/itk perfect freedom.” Probably t'fiis is the sentiment that caused the Pope, the other day, to say, “ I will not Heave Boyne wntil I am com pelled to.” Ex-Senator; Plato’s loss is his gain. By reason of being President of the United States Express Company, the Southern Central Ra ilroad, a National Bank, and State Quarantine Inspector, his total annual income, in salaries, amounts to $40,000. However, the glory, or perhaps “honor,” attached to being a United States Senator, and that, too, until in 1887, is a thiing that no one could give up without feeling a little sore about it, and who will question but that Platt is human. The size of France’s African engage ments can be judged from the fact that she now has 90,000 troops along the coast of Tunis and Algeria, and is ar ranging to send 50,000 more Frenchmen to take their chsmces in that precarious struggle for glory. Africa is a sponge which has absorbed' a good deal of French valor, but Frenchmen forget the struggle for Algeria, which lasted from 1830 to 1860 and cost millions of francs. Yet the French Government will hold Algeria and Tunis, and eventually work into little Tripoli. The Baltimore Sun tells of Robert Pryer, of New York, ivlio has devised a velocipede steamer, of which the hull is to be out of water. The vessel floats in three hollow spheres of sheet steel, one forward and two astern, and all provided with flanges to grip the water as they tire revolved. The upper works of the ship are to depend upon the spheres that do the propelling, and will be made as light as possible. An ocean steamer 200 feet long by 120 feet deep, has been designed, of which the spheres or paddles are 60 feet in diameter. Great speed is expected to be made. Qeeen Victoria, though one of the greatest sovereigns in the world herself, evidently does not believe in women’s ngnts. one gave notice that her name would be withdrawn, as a patron of the International Medical Congress, recently adjourned, if women were admitted to its meetings, and they were thereupon ex cluded. Now it would seem that if there is any career open to women it is that of medicine, and of course if they can be doctors they should have repre sentation in the medical councils. The Queen’s opposition to them is a notable instance of woman’s want of confidence in her sex. The Siberian plague, a disease be lieved to be the same as that which raged in Egypt before the Exodus of the Israelites, and which the Book of Exodus describes as a “ grievous mur rain,” and as “a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast,” has begun to rage furiously in some of the provinces of the Russian Empires and thovo, it amicus nut only horses and cattle, but also human beings. This plague is believed to be the same as that which is called by our veterinaries, “ an thrax,” or “splenic fever,” and some recent researches of Dr. Greenfield’s have shown a strong probability that by vaccinating with a mild form of the dis ease, protection against any serious and fatal form can be almost secured. People who have ft buy what they eat must expect the coming winter to pay pretty dearly for their living. We do not say this by way of alarm, but offer it rather as a precaution to those who have the means to provide for such an emem *ncy. There has been an al most unparelleled drouth all over the continent, resulting in a poor yield of wheat, and a corn and root crop that must necessarily be a failure. There is very little difference in sections. Where rains have fallen they came so late that no essential good could come out of them. Corn that burned up by the sun during the filling process could not be benefited by rain afterwards; and at this late day no amount of rain can supply what the drouth has destroyed. The New York Sun prints an extract from a letter written by a gentleman who arrived in Europe in the steamer Circassia, and who speaks of the anxiety ,of the passengers for news of the condi tion of President Garfield. The letter •ays : “When we readied Moville we had been ten days without news, and President Garfield was very low when we started. It was necessary to take a pilot there to run up the Forth. When his boat came alongside, and before he had time to get hold of the rope ladder, half a dozen voices shouted, * How is Garfield?’ ‘All right,’ was answered back, and a sort of thrill spread all over the ship. The one hundred and twenty one passengers were all assembled on the upper deck, and some expressed their feelings by shouting, some by cry ing, and some by shaking hands. But the crowd collectively only found vent for their emotions by spontaneously bursting out with the Doxology. The grand old anthem never sounded so good before, and the words, * Praise God from whom all blessings flow, ’ had sudh a peculiar significance, that the whole thing was very affecting.” The Mosquito in England. Here it must be observed that mos quitoes are especially hard on two sorts of people. Young ladies and children, and many men, they sting, till the vic tims are all covered with blisters and in danger of erysipelas. This is pretty bad, but we think the nervous persons, whom mosquitoes sting little, but keep awake with their buzzing, are even more to be pitied. They find the mosquito’s bark worse than his bite. The latter may not mark or hurt them much ; it is a question of constitution; and there are people with whom the bite does not “ take,” as they say of vaccination. But they suffer all night long from the shrill, persistent noise of the mosquito’s trum pet. At the first warning they leap up, light a candle, take it into bed, and try to catch the intruder. No one can guess how difficult this is. You soon find the mosquito on the curtain, where he lies apparently asleep. Very cautiously you stalk him, your hand is just over him, and justice is about to be done, when the vicious creature flies away and amuses himself in mid-air. Presently he settles, and the chase begins again, till the hunter sets fire to the flimsy cur tains, and has quite enough work to do in extinguishing the fire. After that mosquitoes come and go as they please, without let or hindrance, and day dawns on a feverish and frantic man, who has only bagged two or three of his innum erable enemies. Late in the morning mosquitoes sleep, overcome with triumph and the refreshment which they have snatched from their enemy. They may now be killed, and it is curious to see— as any one who crushes them will see— how much of man’s vital fluid one mos quito can absorb. They who are fortu nately inexperienced in the ways of mosquitoes will now understand that the insect is one of the greatest players that nature tolerates. There are more dan gerous flies—though the mosquito’s bite is sometimes poisonous and severe—but there is no more irritating creature in the world than the mosquito. Norway and Sweden suffer more even than the South from mosquitoes. The mild Bulgarian dreads them, and there is a ghastly story of a drunken Bulga rian who tied up his wife in a mosquito trap. The poor woman was bitten to death, and her husband observed in the morning that he had suffered almost as much as if he had not thought of his savage expedient. Greece is, perhaps, more remarkable for the insect “ whence is derived the verb * to flee ’ ” than for mosquitoes : and the same remark holds good of the Baden contingent. None of the countless snakes of America or In dia cause more trouble, when the host of minor miseries is added up, than mosquitoes-do. —London News. Women as Rulers. The talents displayed by women as rulers —a position which strangely has been accorded them in all ages and stages of civilization—have frequently excited admiration. It has been re proachfully said, too. that in this posi tion she has been cruel, treacherous and bigoted as man can be; but this only proves that talents, however rare, can not supply the place of principles in woman or man. But women as philan thropists have accomplished most for their race and won readiest acknowl edgments. Queen Esther’s one act, risking her life for the sake of the people, won her a place in history for all time. The Ro man matron pleading for the salvation of the doomed city touches every heart. Queen Isabella, the patron of Columbus, through her mistaken judgment, suffered the dread inquisition, yet is remembered for her zealous efforts for what she be loved the good of her subjects. Eliza beth, of England, because she became a “ rock of refuge ” to the persecuted for “conscience sake, ” has a mantle erf charity thrown over many weaknesses, and is “good Queen Bess. ” Glancing at examples in humbler walks: The very name of Dorcas has become a synonym of benevolence. Not only all England, but America, and the slow German States, were moved by the per sonal efforts of the large-hearted Quaker matron, Elizabeth Fry, to make lasting reforms and render justice in the inter est of outcast, condemned humanity. Freaks of the Telegraph. Names are always a great stumbling block to the clerks, and addresses are composed of names. Most of us have tricks of writing names in any but a distinct fashion; and, although the post office persistently reminds us, on the forms given us to write our telegrams on, that the writing should be plain, this advice, like most other advice, is but too often neglected. Hence many telegrams get altogether astray, some times to the not slight discomfiture of those into whose hands they fall, and who, unwitting that any error has been made, forthwith act upon them. It is related that a woman residing in some small street in Manchester once re ceived what appeared to be a summons from her husband to come up to him in London. Very much alarmed, she at once started. On her way she got in conversation with another woman who was in the same carriage, and who she found was also going to see her husband, who was in London ill. This woman had been expecting to receive a tele gram from her husband, and, not hear ing, had grown anxious, and had finally setoff without the telegram. Further parley revealed the fact that their names were the same; that their husbands’ names were the same ; that they both lived in the same quarter in Manchester; and it finally transpired that the tele gram which had been delivered to the first woman was the very one which the second had been for—the error in delivery having been caused by some such mistake as “ Hamilton street ” for “Henrietta street” —a mistake very likely attributable to want of distinct ness in the writing. Another curious case of coincidence of which we have heard was that of a telegram addressed, “John Stillingwise, Brookdean, nr. Mirkby Lonsdale,’’from Robert Stilling wise, his brother, begging him to come at once to him at a hotel which he indi cated, in Leeds. The address “Brook dean ” was in some way altered, and the telegram was delivered to another John Stillingwise living somewhere in the neighborhood of Kirkby Lonsdale. This unfortunate man, who had not heard from his brother Robert for some twenty years, at once started off in stormy, wintry weather, reached Leeds in the evening, and was told by the landlord that he could not see his brother that night, as he was very far from well, and had gone to bed. " The next morning he was ushered into Robert Stillingwise’s room, expecting to see his long-lost brother, when, to his extreme astonishment and disgust, he found him self confronted by an utter stranger 1— Blackwood's Magazine. An Explanation. The reason why snow at great eleva tions does not melt, but remains perma nent, is owing to the fact that the heat received from the sun is thrown off into the stellar space so rapidly by radiation and reflection, that the sun fails to raise the temperature of the snow to the melt ing point. The snow evaporates, but it does not melt. The summits of the Himalayas, for instance, must receive more than ten times the amount of heat necessary to melt all the snow that falls on them, notwithstanding which the snow is not melted. And in spite of the strength of the sun and the dryness of the air of those altitudes, evaporation is sufficient to remove the snow. At low elevations, where the snow fall is probably greater, and the amount of heat even less than at the summits; the snow melts and disappears. This we must attribute to the influence of aqueous vapor. At high elevations the air is dry, and allows the heat radiated from the snow to pass into space ; but at low elevations a very considerable por tion of the heat radiated from the snow is absorbed in passing through the at mosphere. A considerable portion of the heat thus absorbed by the vapor is radiated back on the snow ; but the heat thus radiated, being of the same quality as that which the snow itself radiates, is on this account absorbed by the snow. Little or none of it is reflected, like that received from the sun. The conse quence is, that the heat thus absorbed accumulates in the snow till melting takes place. Were the aqueous vapor possessed by the atmosphere sufficiently diminished, perpetual snow would cover our globe down to the seashore. It is true that the air is warmer at the lower level than at the liigher level, and by contact with the snow must tan a to melt it more at the former than at the latter position. Bufc we must remember that the air is warmer mainly in consequence of the influence of aqueous vapor, and that were the quantity of vapor reduced to the amount in question, the differ ence of temperature at the two positions would not be great. A minister out in the far West, who has been troubled a good deal over mar riage fees, issued the following price list: “ One marriage, plain, $2 ; ditto, kissing the bride, $3; ditto, trimmed with one groomsman and bridesmaid, $4. Fifty cents for each additional grooms man or bridesmaid. Bachelors past forty will be charged extra. Maids of age, 10 per centum off Mileage will be charged in long-distance matches. Liberal dis count to clubs. Payments in cash ;no notes or securities aooepted. No money refunded, or rebates made for poor goods. Come early and come often. ” In the ladies’ cabins of the Hoboken ferryboats the following notice has re cently been posted : “The seats in this cabin are reserved for ladies. Gentle men will please not occupy them until the ladies are seated. ” That strikes us as reversing the proper positions.—Bos ton Post the products of mere understand ing partake of death. SUBSCRIPTION-tl^O. NUMBER 1. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. “ Hub of the Universe,” a popular des ignation of the city of Boston, Mass., originated with Oliver Wendell Holmes. Making tooth-picks of wood is by no means a modern ides. The Romans used wooden toothpicks in preference to quills. The name Gotham was first applied to the city of New York by Washington Irving in “ Saljuaguiidi, because the inhabitants were such wiseacres. The first circus in this country was managed by a man named Ricketts, in 1780. Gen. Washington and his staff patronized the performance in Pliiladel phia, and it became quite a fashionable amusement. It has been supposed among antiqua rians that the clapper is a modern addi tion to bells, and that it did not form a part of those employed in Japan or China. Mr. Henry O. Forbes, how ever, says that when in Java he saw in the possession of a gentleman there a bronze bell dug up on the site of one of the old Hindoo settlements, of which now only the graves remain. It had lost the clapper, but the hook to which doubtless a clapper was attached existed still. The source of the common saying, “consistency thou art a jewel,” has puzzled many a scholar, and whether or not the following authority may lie relied upon as the starting point or as only using a borrowed idea we cannot assert. In a ballad entitled “Jolly Robyn Rouglihead,” published in 1764, in a little volume of English and Scotch ballads, the poet bewails the extrava gance in dress which he considers the great enormity of lus day, and makes ltobyn address his wife as follows : Tush, tash, my lassie! such thoughts resign, Comparisons are cruel; Fine pictures suit to frames as fine; Consistency’s a jewel 1! Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, who was the son of a jeweler of Samos, born about 580 years befere Christ. At an early age he traveled, going to Egypt, where it is said he resided twenty-five years. Then it is related he went to Babylon, Judea, and it is even asserted li6 penetrated to Gaul and India. He established a school in Italy, and effect ed some reformation in the inhabitants. He was persecuted, however, the friends of a rejected student of powerful family compelling him to withdraw to Meta pontum, where he soon after died, prob ably ab?ut the year 500 B. C. . Fishing in Lapland. The water is very clear at Hammer fest, in Lapland; you may see every thing that goes on among the fish. A few feet down you may see the young cod snapping at your hook, if you have one; a little lower down the coalflsh, and the huge plaice and the halibut on the white sand at the bottom ; in other places the starfish, as large as a plate, and purple and green shellfish of all sizes. The f laice is taken in the following manner : n calm weather the fisherman takes a strong, fine cord, to which he has fas tened a heavv spearhead, like a whale harpoon. This he holds ready over the bow bf the boat, while another person paddles it forward slowly. When the fish is seen at the bottom the boat is stopped and the harpoon is suddenly dropped upon him, and thus the fish is caught. In two hours the fishermen will get a boat-load. The halibut are caught with hooks. They sometimes weigh five hundred pounds, and if drawn up care lessly will overturn the boat. In many of the mountainous districts the rivers swarm with trout, the habit of which is to conceal themselves beneath the bowlder rocks in the bed of the stream, venturing out only to feed at night. Men, each with a heavy hammer, will enter these waters, and strike one or two blows on the stones, when the fish ran from their lurking place partly stunned, and are easily caught. —Sea, World. ■ ■ ■ ■— ■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . i Health Food. It is no economy to use inferior food. It is a saving of money and time and health to give a high price for what we eat, if it be fresh and perfect, than to obtain it for less on account of its Being wilt ed or old or partially decayed. Borne people prefer their meat tender by keeping, which means that decomposi tion is taking place; in plainer phrase, it is rotting. Such meats require less chewing and may appear very tender, but it is a physiological fact that they are not digested as easily or as quickly as solid fresh meat. When a vegetable begins to wilt it is no longer tltat vege table, because a change of particles has taken place, and in snch proportion it is unnatural—it is dead—and to eat it tends to death. One of the most horri ble forms of disease is caused by eating sausages which have been kept a long time; more common in Germany than elsewhere. Scarcely anything saddens us so much in passing through some of the by-streets and the more obscure enues as the sight of the long-kept meats and shriveled vegetables - which are sold to the unfortunate poor at the comer Dutch groceries. But the poverty stricken are not the only sufferers ; the richest men come in for their share, for themselves and for their families, in pro portion as the mistresses of their splendid mansions are incompetent or inattentive to those household duties, the proper performance or neglect of which makes all the difference between a true wife and a contemptibl ) doll. With all the high-sounding advantages of pretentious “Young Ladies’ Boarding Schools” and “Institutes” and all that, with all the twaddle about learning French and Ger man, and music and aesthetics, how many of these paint like girls are any more fit to take charge oi a man’s house hold that to navigate a ship or calculate an eclipse 1 ’ r ;