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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. ■ 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. • • 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. T 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. i i j 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.