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W. F. SMITH, Publisher.
VOLUME IX.
NEWS GAININGS.
Birmingham is also to be lighted with
gas.
The bottom corn in the South is not
so bad.
The old city debt of Memphis is $2,-
172,792.75.
Oottou-BCed \<n is IKrW used in the
Soush extensively in place of lard for
co>king purposes.
They gamble wildly and desperately
at Hot Springs. Twelve faro tables in
one houge allow 200 sinners to fight the
tiger nightly.
At last the capitalists of the North
are turning their attention to the South.
It is the best place to invest money.
Augusta, Georgia, is no slow place by
considerable She has 175,000 spindles
in active operation, representing $5,-
000,000 capital.
Ihe White Sulphur Springs property
in Virginia has been sold to satisfy liens
for $19,000. The original cost was $160,-
000. The property contains 1,439 acres*
Good, judges estimate that the de
ficiency in the cotton crop this year will
be 500(000 bales—that i to say, the to
tal product will Jbe 5,800,00 p instead of
0,300,000 bales, as in J^O.
Faoin an estimate made by the Agri
cultui^9^#ttpeiiVaUWiwhington, wq
learn lie 1J 11 acres of grapes in
cultivation hibama, making 422,673
gal lons, f 1 -' 1 j
Out of eighty-five distilleries in the
Nashville revenue district all but twenty
six have ceased operations. It is be
lieved all the distilleries in the upper
country, save two in Moore county, will
have to cease for lack of corn.
lhe city of Pensacola has redeemed
her credit by agreeing to pay her debt,
A vote of her citizens on the 27th de
veloped but twenty-two against a set
tlement, agreed upon between the Mayor
and Council and the bond-holders.
New Orleans has sixteen steamers en
gaged in the Mediterranean fruit trade.
During the present year they have landed
no less than three hundred and twenty
thousand boxes of oranges and lemons,
and about twenty thousand more boxes
have been brought in by sailing vessels.
Louisiana produced and maiketed
during the year ending September 1 the
largest crop of rice and sugar since the
war. A careful computation shows the
receipts to have been 218,314 hogsheads
of sugar, 16,256,028 gallons of molasses,
and 266,658 barrels of clear rice.
There are 225 Indians still remaining
in South Florida. They are peaceful
and Jiold friendly relations with the
white settlers. They are remnants of
\jie “Timers,” Wolves,” “Snakes” and
North Winds.” Their chiefs are al
ways chosen from the Tigers from super
stitious traditions.
The Morning Star (N. C.): The forest
acreage of North Carolina is probably
greater than three or four of the North
western States combined. What a for
tune there is in the forests of our State
for {generations unborn. Everv farmer
should plant at least 10,000 tree . Let
the supply be increased rather than di
minished.
W e see it stated that the advance
sheets of the census declare that the
email portion of the State of Mississippi
called the “Yazoo Bottom,” which in
IS7O produced only “\S.OOO bales of cot
ton, is capable, by the exclusion of the
Mississippi overflow and by improved
cultivation, of producing nearly 5.737,-
257 bales annually, or the whole present
production of the whole country.
An interesting feature of the Interna
tional Exposition at Atlanta, next
month, will be the manufacture of a
suit of clothes from raw cotton in twentv
four hours. The cotton will |be picked,
spun, dyed, woven and made into a suit
of clothes for Senator Brown inside of
the day. , p
North Carolina has discovered anew
£em. It is called the “hiddenite” It
h similar in cdffc to the emerald, but
harder and mpre brilliant. One vein
nly has been found, and that only two
to two and a half inches wide and two
feet long The cut stones sell readily
for SIUO per karat, and the largest yet
found weighs five and three-quarter ka
rats.
Mr. Hamtett, President of the Pied
® cotton factory., of Georgia, makes
this estimate of the profits of manufac
turing a bale (of co'.tqn into sheetings:
Cost of bale, $43; (post ul manufacturing,
and commissions, $25.62’
qome thoroughly disg isted and tired of
life because of the destruction of his
•it >
.'Crop by worms, committed suicide by
Jumping in the river at the crossing
near the Matthews place. He stripped
himselDomthe south bank of the river
gnd deliberately walked in until lie
struck deep water, when he sank out of
sight. He made no outcry.
Florida Crescent: The way Hernan
do keeps flush with money is this:
From January to warm weather she
amphibiates in the swamp, cutting and
selling cedar, plants crops and ships
vegetables North. In the summer she
stampedes her cattle to Cuba, pulls fod
der and eats waterrnellons. When the
cattle stampede subsides she gathers her
crops and starts the fish boem to boom
ing, and when that blows off she ships
oranges and sells her cotton, and gets
ready for Christmas. So there is an
influx of money nearly the year round.
Itavottd to Industrial Inter* st, the Diffusion of Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government.
total cost, $68.62. Produce of the bale
made into sheetings, $86.16 ; net profits,
$17.54. Including the amount paid in
wages, the manufacture of a bale of cot
ton into coarse goods leaves $31.91 be
hind in the place which manufactured
it, almost as much as the total value of
the cotton.
The amount of taxable property in
Opnrjnn han iuorenoed w Ghin t.hfl laat
year from $12,(00,000 to $15,000,000.
The Governor has, in consequence, is
sued his order for decreasing the rate of
taxation half a cent less than last year.
Dudley Dugger, of Columbus, Geor
gia, fired his pistol off at Robert Daw
son. The ball missed its mark and en
tered the breast of Dudley’s little
grand-daughter, killing her instantly.
Then Dudley fell to the ground and
tore his hair in wild grief.
It is reported that Portuguese opera
tives are employed on the Louisiana
plantations. There seems to be a sys
tematic effort to secure the immigration
of Spaniards, Italians and other Medit
erranean nationalities under the persua
sion that these Southern .Europeans are
better adapted to the warm climate of
the South than the Teutonic and Scan
dinavian races.
In Dallas county, Alabama, Fayette
Wright, a negro farmer, who had be-
New Orleans Democrat: This port
owns 552 vessels, with a tonnage of 85,-
310. Of this number twenty-one, with
a tonnage of 27,920, are ocean steamers;
166, with a tonnage of 29,810, river—
steam, 359, with a tonnage of 26,881 —
sail; and six barges, with a tonnage of
700 tons. Twelve hundred and fifty
five vessels entered this port during the
past business year—vessels with a ton
nage of 1,422,726. Of these 290, with
a tonnage of 415,533, were coastwise;
180, with a tonnage of 152,757, Ameri
can vessels from foreign ports, and 333,
with a xirmage of 851,436, foreign.
There cleared during the same period
1,257 vessels, with a tonnage of 1,402,-
596.
Loafing.
Does the young man who persists in
being a loafer ever reflect how much less
i* would cost to be a decent, respectable
man ? Does lie imagine that loaferism
is more economical than gentility? Any
body can be a gentleman, if lie chooses
to be, without much cost, but it is mighty
expensive being a loafer. It costs time,
in the first place, days, weeks and months
of it; in fact, about all the time he has,
for no man can be a first-class loafer with
out devoting liis whole time to it. The
occupation, well follow ed, hardly affords
time for eating, sleeping, dri , we
Kui 1 almost said drinking, but on reflec
tion we will except that. The loafer
finds time to drink whenever invited, at
the cost of friends. Once fully embarked
on the sea of loaferdom, and you bid
farewell to every friendly sail that sails
under an honest and legitimate flag.
Your consorts will only be the bucca
neers of society. It costs money, for,
though the loafer may not earn a cent
or have one for months, the time lost
might have procured him much money,
if devoted to industry instead of sloth
It costs health, vigor, comfort, all the
true pleasures of living, honor, dignitv,
self-respeet, and the respect of the w orld
when living, and, finally, all right of con
sideration when dead. Bea gentleman,
then; it is far cheaper.
Fast Horses,
Since Lady Suffolk trotted a mile in
2:265, and Flora Temple in 2:19|, aston
ishing reductions in time have been
made, the official record of horses that
have gone below the time which made
Dexter famous being as follows :
2:10W, MandS. fclSJj, Lneilla Ooiddust,
2:11V. St. Jalien. 2;l6fc,American Girl and
2:13W, Rirus. Derby.
2:14, Goldftnlth Maid. 2:16\, Occident
2:14 V, HopefuL 2:17, Gioster.
2:15, Lulu. Dexter.
2:15 V, Smuggler.
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When an ancient Greek poet felt
good he used to say, “ I feel as lovely as
anew blown tnose i” Nothing like the
severely classic.
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Jay Gould has made his son George
his partner.
President Garfield’s mother has
been a widow fifty years.
Jamfull is the name of a Colorado
town. Names are very scarce out there.
Annie Louise Cary has left the stage
and refuses to return to it at any price.
The water in some of the rivers iu
Pennsylvania is so tepid that the fish are
dying.
Vennor has predicted much rain for
“after the middle of September.” He
does not say how long after.
Josie Mansfield, well known in con
nection with the death of Jim Fisk, is
keeping a gambling house in Paris.
The ride from Washington to Long
Branch was a great treat to the President,
oontrasted with the dull scenery of a
sick room.
The Cincinnati newspapers claim that
the Ohio River is no more. That means
that water is scarce and that people
must drink something.
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Mormonism is spreading. A temple
is hieing erected in San Francisco for the
benefit of those who believe in having
an abundance of wives.
The Detroit Free Press puts it in
decent shape. It says : “Early to bed
and early to rise, is good for the sleeper
but‘rough on the flies.”
Congress Hall, at Saratoga, is the
rendezvous of the Hebrew aristocracy,
and the extremes in fashion to which
the ladies go, very truly, is an eye
opener.
The Boston Post says that a brake
man on a drunk at Chicago fell into a
sewer, and at once yelled, “St. Louis,
change cars!” It may be there is no
truth in this.
The beautiful Mrs. Langtry has sud
denly disappeared from London society,
and no one knows what has become o!
her. She was perhaps abducted by an
empty pocketbook.
It is authoritatively stated that the
•o-called “ boy preacher ” is no more a
boy than Susan B. Anthony is a girl.
If that is so—well, you can figure the
rest of it out yourself.
Snow in Dakota Territory from three
inches to two feet deep while mercury in
these parts registered 100 degrees in the
shade seems a little curious, but that
was about the way of it a few days ago.
In Burmah, mercury, in March and
April, reaches 140° and work is done
after nightfall. It is not so stated, but
it is supposed the inhabitants sleep
during the heat of the day, if they can.
It is estimated by the Chicago Tri
bune that the land bill will add about
$160,000,000 to the value of peasant
buildings in Ireland, and reduce the
rental of landlords from $60,000,000 to
$40,000,000.
About the only point of the compass
where the peach crop is not a failure is
Southern Indiana, ani there the crop
was never better than the present sea
son. The owners of orchards are mak
ing fortunes.
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It is related as a fact that a water
melon can be kept an indefinite period
by giving it two or three coats of varnish.
Tlii* excludes the air. and the fruit is not
only preserved but retains its flavor and
sweetness.
Maj. Beyhard reports that the Missis
sippi River is cutting anew channel for
itself from the mouth of Red River
through the Alchafalaya to the Gulf.
Should this occur, New Orleans would be
left high and dry.
The Kansas prohibitory laws do not
prohibit to any great extent. The To
peka City Council issues licenses to
dealers in “soda, mineral water, and
other drinks” and other drinks, they
do say, are having a big run.
The James boys still live and operate,
as usual, in Missouri. Strange there
isn’t enough “energy” in that State to
annihilate these outlaws. We know of
several States that would have gotten
rid of them long ago.
In Sweetwater County, Wyoming,
a deposit of sulphuric acid in a natural
state, has been found ; 100 acres or more
are impregnated with it, However, we
do not believe that 100 acres will hold
all the bad people there is ia the world.
One of the great truths of the day is
the following from the Boston Tran
script : ‘‘ We have seen ladies who were
insufferably shocked at the sight of a
man in his shirt sleeves, and thpir own
arms were bare almost to the shoulders !
Women are strange creatures.”
The Sioux City (la.) Journal boasts
that there are more births in lowa to
the population, than in any other coun
try in or out of the United States that
the sun shines upon. Young married
couples will please read this paragraph
a second time.
The people of Michigan appeal to the
psople of the United States for help.
This appeal should be promptly and
liberally answered. The calamity of
which they are victims is one of the
most frightful that ever occurred in any
age or country.
A girl in the rural districts of New
York, who received a prize of S2OO for
being “the handsomest girl in the
State” has gone crazy as a bed-bug over
the matter and has been sent to an asy
lum. It hurts some people to tell them
they are good looking.
At the expressed wish of the Presi
dent, Drs. Reyburn, Barnes, and Wood
ward, three of the President’s attending
physicians, have been dismissed. The
President said he was tired seeing so
many doctors around, and thought they
were superfluous. Probably he was right.
A correspondent at Hot Springs,
Ark., writes that poker (a game at
cards) is the monopoly of the hour at
that place. It is played day and night
in the hotel parlors, bed rooms and
offices, in the stores and at "every con
ceivable point where the players can
find a place to sit down.
It has been a long time since the Pres
ident read the papers, and he is natur
ally anxious to know what is going on.
He said the other day, after suddenly
waking from his sleep, as if musing : “I
think it is about time that they gave
me the daily papers to read. What is in
them, anyway ?”
Owing to the fact that there are about
3,000 claimants for the S2OO Warner
prize for the discovery of comet 8., and
no means of ascertaining who is the
rightful claimant, Warner has decided
to award the S2OO to the person writing
the best essay on “ comets, their relation
to the earth and other bodies. ”
It seems that the longer we live the
worse do our opinious become of the
Apaches. They are a heartless, mur
derous set, whose chief delight is to
torture to death their fellow beings. The
noble red man is scarcely as noble as he
used to be, and people who mix with
them are finding it out at a pretty lively
gait.
The King of Wurtemburg has ap
pointed Richard M. Jackson, an Ohio
man, bis reader. Jackson has a salary
of 6,000 marks, a suite of five rooms at
tlie academy and is continually with the
king, with whom lie is in good favor.
Yes, yes; Ohio men do pop up just
where you least expect them. >
Ladies’ bustles hereafter will be made
of a material to serve as life-preservers,
so that in case of a steamboat blowup
or shipwreck, the fair ones, duck-like,
can ride serenely to shore. Of course
they will sit upright and let their feet
hang over. The sight will be a grand
one.
Why do not the railroad companies
in the West provide their employes with
arms with which to protect themselves
and passengers against the outrages of
outlaws ? It does seem strange that
there is never any one about who knows
how to shoot when the James gang come
along.
The outlaw Jesse James does not
propose to have his horrible deeds
recorded in book form, and has s#
notified a Western editor who is en
gaged upon such a work. He states
through a newspaper that he will cut
the throat of the man who publishes his
life. That's enough. The editor will
desist at once.
The Cincinnati Exposition, now in
progress, has not been as extensively
advertised as the enterprise deserves.
Every feature of the exhibit is pro
nounced superior to that of any past
year, yet the fact has not been
thoroughly stated to the public in the
public prints, and should the attendance
not come up to the expectation of the
Board, the fault will lie in the lack of
sufficient advertising and not in the dis
t>lay made by exhibitors or their lack of
enterprise of an appreciative character.
Yensob has been making some mis
takes, He predicted frosts for the latter
part of August, and when he published
his predictions people looked forward
with fond expectation to the time when
they could enjoy a good sleep, but the
frost didn’t come—oh, no ; not by a jug
ful. But the storm that was to follow
these frosty nights on the Atlantic coast
did come and did a heap of damage, but
it didn’t come at the tail end of a frost. •'
It came alone, and the way it acted, was
fully able to travel without outside
assistance.
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The news of the wholesale destruc
tion, by fire, of life and property in
Michigan, should convey a warning to
those wide regions of the country where
the terrible heat prevails and the drouth,
has become alarming. There are parts
of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky that
might be swept by a tempest of fire,
and there should be extraordinary pre
cautions taken against letting fire get
out. The burning of brush and stumps,
as is the custom in a dry season, is dan
gerous business when the country is so
inflammable; and a man who starts a
fire in the woods for his amusement, or
because he imagines he is a hunter, or
in wantonness, should be regarded as a
orimmal and treated accordingly.
Wheeleb, the editor of the Qnfciey
(HI.) Herald, has created a national
hate for himself by his cowardly attacks
on the wounded President, and to say he
richly deserves it, is puttiug the matter in
a very mild form. The Chicago Tribune
speaks in appropriate terms of Wheeler,
as follows: “ And this abandoned
wretch who laughs to scorn tlie noblest
impulse of grief ever indulged in by a
great people, this scouudrel who meets
tears with taunts and ribaldry, openly
applauds the act of Guiteau, and there
by makes himself morally a party to liis
crime by justifying it; this scapegrace
who does not attempt to conceal his
ardent hope that tlie President will die
and that quickly, this fiend in human
shape, has not been so much a slapped
in the face ! He lias not been tarred
and feathered. He has not been held
by the ears and told to bis face that he is
a dastardly liar. He has not been kicked
down stairs out of bis own office. He
has not been treated like the dirty dog
he is, and he continues to splash his
poisoned ink in the faces of the people
of Quincy.”
Fairs in England.
It is wonderful how completely the
old English fair has disappeared. Every
year the characteristics of “merrie Eng
land ” become more and more historical.
At Epsom races there are no more side
shows, no speckled boys, no fat women,
no dwarfs, giants, or living skeletons.
The Richardson show is gone. The in
creasing crowds of people amuse them
selves with plenteous potations of beer,
throwing sticks at cocoanuts, and shoot
ing from toy guns at targets. It is the
same at fairs; even at Coventry Fair
there is almost nothing of the old time.
Lady Godiva is forbidden to lead her
procession through the town, however
thickly clad. The old Shrewsbury show
occasionally appears, but only as a ghost
of its former self. The Lord Mayor’s
show holds out longest, but it is a sad
spectacle. Probably George Stephenson
is responsible for this hiding away of
the fairiek that used to dance and sing.
The railways have let in too much light
on their solitudes. The fragments of
that strange past, picked up and set
a-playing like puppets at Albert Hall,
were amusing, but there was a sad side
to them. Human nature devours its
own children, and sometimes plays with
their bones.
Daisy’s Story.
“ Oh,” said Daisy to her mamma, “ I
wuz in the parler last night behind the
sofy, when the young preacher come in
to Bee sister Kate, and they did set too
dose up for anything ; an’ the preacher
said ‘Katie dear, I luv you;’ an’Kate
said ‘ 00, oo;’ an’ then the preacher, he
kissed her right smack in the mouth,
and said, * Dear Katie, how good the
Lord is to us poor sinnersan’ Katie
said, * 00, oo;’ an’ then—air’ then— * ”
“Well,” said her mamma, “you
wicked child, what did you do?”
“W’y mamma, I felt so good, I
blurted right out, ‘Let us pray,’ an’ you
ought to seen them two people, how
they jumpt up, and I looked at Daisy all
scrunched up in a corner. It wuz just
too awful, mamma, for any use.”
Daisy was not slippered that time.—
Steubenville Herald.
A Simple Cholera Cure.
“It is a sin,” said the late Rev. Dr.
William Tracy, who spent the whole of
his adult life as missionary in India, and
who had experience of many hundreds
of cases of cholera, “for anyone to die
of cholera. If at the first premonitory
symptoms he lies down af once and sub
mits to a treatment the principal part of
which consists of a patient and persistent
rubbing of the abdomen, to be kept up
even after apparent collapse has occur
red, he is certain to recover.”— Pittsburg
Leader.
are as cold as ice to the truth;
hot as fire to falsehood.
The “ Thousand Islands ” number
1,854 by aotual count.
SUBSCRIPTION-^!).
NUMBER 5:
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
Wonderous strong are the spells of
fiction.
Beware of the fury of a patient man.
— Dryden.
O, Memory, thou sing’st n ondlww muse
Through all the lonely chamber* of the heart.
A shot that hits is better than a
broadside that misses.
What’s gone and what’s past help,
should be past grief.
The chains which cramp us most are
those which weigh on us least.
Travel improves superior wine and
spoils poor; it is the same with the
brain.
Nature has sometimes made a fool ;
but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own
making.
If idleness do not produce vice or
malevolence, it commonly produces mel
anclioly.
Each man has an aptitude born with
him to do easily some feat impossible to
any other.
Manners are the hypocrisies of na
tions ; the hypocrisies are more or less
perfected.
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot; we
endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark
remains.
It is with happiness as with watches
—the less complicated the less easily
deranged.
Annoyance is man’s leaven; the ele
ment of movement, without which we
shoulchgrow mouldy.
To acquire a few tongues is the task
of a few years, but to be eloquent in one
is the labor of a lifetime.
When death consents to let us live a
long time, it takes successively as host
ages all those we have loved.
An irritable [man lies like a hedgehog
rolled up the wrong way, tormenting
himself with his own prickles.
A vigorous mind is as necessarily ac
companied with violent passions as a
great fire with great heat. — Burke.
A man’s idolatry is for an idea, a wo
man’s is for a person. A man suffers for
a monarchy, a woman for a King.
Experience shows that success is due
less to ability than to zeal. The winner
is he who gives himself to his work body
and soul.
It is more from carelessness about the
truth than from intentional lying, that
there is so much falsehood in the world.
— Johnson.
W hat is opportunity to the man who
can’t use it ? An unfecundated egg,
which the waves of time wash away
into nonentity.
The good tilings of life are not to be
had singly, but come to us with a mix
ture ; like a schoolboy’s holiday, with a
task affixed to the tail.
I love that tranquility of soul in
which we feel the blessing of existence,
and which in itself is a prayer and
thanksgiving.— Longfellow.
Counsel is not so sacred a thing as
praise, since the former is only useful
among men, but the latter is for the
most part reserved for the gods.
With the world do not resort to in
juries, but only to irony and gayety;
injury revolts, while irony makes one
reflect, and gayety disarms.— Voltaire.
It is the slowest pulsation which is
the most vital. The hero will then know
how to wait as well as Jo make haste.
All good abides with him who waiteth
wisely.
A man in Dresden has discovered anew
lubricant for shafts, which he claims is
superior to the best oil. It is made by
mixing the whites of eggs with the finest
graphite powder, until of the form of
dough. The mixture is then boiled in
water until the whole is coagulated,
when it is reduced to powder.
The Many-Leaved Clover.
A gentleman residing at St John,
sends this office four small bunches of
clover leaves, which are quite a curiosity.
He says: “At the request of Mrs. L.
C. Severance I send the inclosed speci
men of four, five, six and seven-leaved
clover, which are quite a botanical curi
osity. They were all plucked from a
small sod not a foot square.” One bunch
contains Sixteen stalks, each with four
leaves of clover; a second eight stalks,
with five leaves; a third, eight stalks,
with six leaves: and a fourth six, with
seven leaves.— Portland Oregonian.
In the Philadelphia Medical Times
a case was reported of a young man
whose mother and five sisters had died
of consumption and who had himself
escaped a similar fate, probably because
he 4 ‘ has lived for the past seven years
in apartments well stocked with thrifty
plants.”
What a pity flowers can utter no
sound! A singing rose, a whispering
violet, a murmuring honeysuckle—oh,
what a rare and exquisite miracle would
these be.— Beecher.
One of the noisiest members of the
West Virginia Legislature is a Beekman
Wyatt. His colleagues call him Beek
Wyatt, but he doesn’t be quiet, jnst the
same.
If Eve had possessed parent bangs,
and talse hair, and a dozen modern
dresses, she would have been busy, and
have had no time to bother with the ser
pent.
A young lad of Providence hanged
hjm&eli after reading a dime novel.
What would he have done af 4 j r reading
a Chicago poper.—£?■>.?" n Post.
Tan man who eats oleomargarine gets
fat There is no doubt about the fat
part.