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fptUHe COcorgia §tops. W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS 6LEANINGS. North Caroline ores will be a feature in the Atlanta Exposition. Local option was generally defeated in lexas at the recent elections. The Louisiana sugar industry will pan out handsomely this season for the pelican State. And now they are talking of making an excellent substitute for butter out of cotton-seed oil. Tho crops of Marshall county, Ala., are reported in good condition, the drouth to the contrary notwithstand ing. Silk culture in Alabama is being agi tated by many of the papers. They Hcein to think that it would handsomely. Louisiana is a well timbered State. The New Orleans papers claim that there are millions to be made in the wooded lands of*the State. * I he health of Jeff. La vis rince he ar* rived in Europe has been wretched. He will probably return to America sooner than expected.. The two ice-manufacturing establish ments at New Orleans are making big money this season. They charge S2O a ton, and can’t supply the demand. The tenant farmers in many places of the South are askiDg a reduction of rent. < hving to the drouth they have raised little or nothing on their places. The Virginia Historical Society is be ing built up. It is an ancient and honorable institution, and its friends everywhere will be glad to know that its prestige will be sustained. I ensacola qld bonds are now in re quest since the compromise of the city’s debts. Twenty-five per cent, has been offered for $20,4)00 of the old bonds, and declined. Colonel R. F. Maddox, the big cotton nian of Atlanta, estimates that i Vio ton crop will be short about 1,000,000 bales. But, with all this, there will be an abundance of cotton in the land. Marietta (Ga.) Journal: Some of our most sensible farmers, notably the larger and more thrifty ones, have dis covered their mistake, and will hereafter sow down their lands in wkeat, oats, clover and grasses, and increase their herds of cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. Arkansas Democrat; Cotton-seed oil is being generally used here for cooking purposes, and is liked about as well, if not better, than the stuff brought here in buckets and sold as leaf lard; besides, t is so much cheaper. Georgia is not to have a prohibition campaign, after all. The bill to submit the question to the people was defeated in the Senate by a vote of twenty to nineteen, and reconsideration failed. The House will probably let the bill die on the calendar, and thus avoid committing members. Charleston had a trade last year of $<1,211,100. It receipts of cotton were 528,28< bales; of rice, 58,871 tierces; of spirits of terpentine, 51,886 cakes; rosin, 231,417 barrels; of crude phos phate, 108,183 tons; lumber, 18,610,- "5. feet, of commercial fertilizers, 100,- tons—the whole of the value of $36,216,- 000. The New Orleans Democrat states that not a drop of the water of the Red river now ruus into the Mississippi, but all goes to swell the Atchafalava, which, re enforced by a large percent age 'of Mississippi water, is daily in creasing in size, and constitutes a direct menace to the future of New Orleans.” The Legislature of Georgia has killed the bill to appropriate $1,000,000 to build anew capitoi by a large majority. The present capitoi building was origi nally intended for an opera house, and Is not only unsuitable for a State house, but is unsafe. The dead bill provided for the expenditure of $200,000 per an num until the whole amount was paid, at the end of the five years time set apart to construct the new edifice. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, has a correct appreciation of the news paper, and adds his testimony to its valve as an educator. “Journalism,” he says, has become as much a sepexate and distinct profession as medicine, or law, or engineering, or agriaulture, or archi lecture, or mining, and every family should have a newspaper if they expect or care to keep pace with the current of event* in this fast-moving age. Books are not always accessible, but papers lre > *nd at a price that places them within the reach of the poor as well as ths rich.” Hfutnl to Mistrial InUrtst, the Diffgsiou #1 Trstb, the EntaMidneit f JnstiM, and the Presemtws *f a Feaplt’a Immtit. An Indian river correspondent writes this to the Florida Agriculturist; ‘‘Or anges, lemons, guavas, mangoes, pineap pies, fish and oysters are all doing nicely, and promising heavy yields. There has been such a run for laborers to clear lands and set out pineapples that the price runs from S2O to $26 and board per month. Some hands are realizing $3 to $4 per day in doing odd jobs of work. We want men and money to make this the garden spot of the State.” Richmond Dispatch: Misfortune never comes single. The drouth is not only ruining the crops, but the cholera is killing the hogs in s>me of the South ern counties. In portions of Nottoway and Brunswick counties it is stated a large number of hogs have recently died of this disease, and others are dying. One farmer in Nottoway county writes that within the past ten days he has lost thirty hogs, and that he has not been able to check the spread of the disease. Savannah News: Mention has several times been made of the reported dis covery of dead bodies floating in the river near the shore, below and in the vicinity of Fort Jackson. The matter laving been brought to the attention of the mayor, he yesterday addressed a let ter to the board of county commission ers, referring to these reports and stat ing that as the points where these bodies are said to be exposed are beyond the jurisdictional limits of the city, it was important that the county commission ers, in the interest of the public health, should take official action, and asking that their prompt attention be given to the subject. It can not be denied that it is very important these bodies be se cured and interred as soon as possible. TOPICS OP THE DAY. Vennor predicted rain in September. It came. TVBuuxiro cwro out of date in En gland. High prices seem to be ruling stronger. Parnell's influence is said to be on the wane. A new City Hall in San Franciscq is to cost $5,000,000. The Ohio State election occurs on the 11 tli of October. Cincinnati is striving for the estab lishment of a Union Depot. Wa do not like to see people suffer, but,—Guiteau has neuralgia. France is not bothering much about Egypt. Tunis keeps lier pretty busy. Governor Wiltz, of Louisiana, is said to be dying of consumption. Delaware turns out 300,000 baskets of peaches this year, against 4,000,000 last year. King Kalakaua is en route for Amer ica. Undoubtedly he enjoyed himself while here before. Gov. Roberts, of Texas, is aged sixty years, wears a very plain suit and smokes a clay pipe. A dispatch from New Mexico says that the Indians are not all dead yet. This is bad for the white man. Crow Dog has been indicted at Dead wood for the murder of Spotted Tail, but will not be tried until January. Thurlow Weed gave SSOO to the Michigan sufferers. Fanny Davenport gave SIOO. That was kind of Fanny. Mrs. Mary Olemmer, the well known Washington correspondent, is oompelled, by order of her physician, to rest from all literary labor. The destitute in the burnt district of Michigan should be remembered by those who have a surplus and are able to give. Here’s a chance to do good. The Egyptian troubles are over. The Khedive has reconstructed his Cabinet and the dissatisfied army officers have relinquished all ideas of rebellion and accepted the situation. The K*n*aA City Times mentions the birth of a “ baby mule ” on the public square in that city and adds that it at tracted a large crowd of spectators. A society event, we suppose. It is a fact that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher recently jumped seven feet—ac tive man, you know—but now every pa per in the land is wanting to know from what window he jumped. It’s a dirty fling. INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. A portrait of Columbus has been discovered in the Spanish Colonial Of fice at Madrid. It was painted when ho was forty years of age, showing a face devoid of wrinkles, a brilliant eye and dark luxuriant hair. Pet dogs ocoupy reserved seats at places of amusement in New York by the side of their owners. They applaud by barking, and then the critics go into ecstacies "about the enthusiasm showu by the “intelligent audience.” The California Tichborne claimant, loath to learn from others’ exoerienoo is n his way to England to claim the Tich borne estate. He will possibly land in ihe same receptacle occupied by Orton, (he English Tichborne claimant, for the past several years. The various lines of steamers carried to London and Liverpool during the months of April, May, June and July, 12,065 cabin passengers. These, for most part, wore pleasure-seekers, and the number is greater than for the same period any previous year. The result of the recent French elec tion will constitute the new Chamber of Deputies as follows: 459 Republicans, 47 Bonapartists, and 41 Monarchists. The Republicans comprise the Left Cen ter, 39; the Left, 168; Republican Union, 206, and Extreme Left, 46. The French began their picnic in Northern Africa with 16,000 men, but now they want 100,000 more before they can straighten matters out. They have been meeting with reverses. The wild Arab cavalry have beaten tlieir opponents in the field* and cut off the water supply of the city of Tunis. Grace Greenwood (Mrs. Lippincott) writes from London that she is a sad invalid, suffering severely and very fre quently from attacks of acute bronchitis. She says she can bear pain, prostration, danger, everything, better than inability to write in her old way; that grieves ner. Mason, who shot at Guiteau, may have been emotionally insane, and his trial by court-martial will result in light punishment as a consequence, but if Guiteau was permitted to come in con tact with the people generally, there is no doubt but that thousands would prove themselves emotionally insane. A colored preacher in Louisville, Kv., has found in his church a daughter from whom he had been separated at the auction-block twenty-odd years ago. He was much rejoiced, but was a prey to conflicting emotions when he learned from her that her mother is still Jiving, he having been legally married to an other woman, after becoming a fre^dman. There is a prospect of a duel without a collision between Buffalo Bill (the Hon. Mr. Cody) and Wild Harry, an In dian scout, who is starring it with a dramatic troupe. Buffalo Bill calls this particular Wild Harry a fraud and a liar, (to use mild language) and Wild Harry is keeping silent, but there is an awful glitter in his eye. They travel in differ ent directions. It is stated that there are a hundred or more men in jail at Chicago on the charge of murder. A third of them have been incarcerated in the last nine months. What do the authorities of that city propose to do with these fel lows ? In the far West they hang men for murder, and are not very long about it. either. Five men were harwypd in a bunch at Fort Smith, Ark., the other day, and the country feels the safer for it. Chicago seems to be trying to get a good crop on hand before they begin to harvest. There is trouble about Pharoah of old. Among the mummies discovered in the cave near Thebes, in Egypt, one of them is said to be the identical Pharoah who oppressed the ohildren of Israel. Doctors of Divinity have preached for centuries that Pharoah and his host were drowned in the Red Sea. At the word of command Moses etretohed forth his hand over the sea, the waters returned and overwhelmed all the Egyptians, so that “ there remained not so much as one of them." Those ara the Scripture words. Christians and others will wait with some anxiety for further revelations concerning the iden tity of the mummies discovered. Ip there is any one thing on the face of the globe that is despioable, it is a thief. It is now suspected that the cof fins of seven at least of the royal per sonages lately discovered near Thebes have been robbed of their royal occu pants, and less distin "niched mummies placed in their stead. The alleged corpse of Thotmes is said to be that oi a ohild or dwarf. Such changes are not uncommon in Egypt, but if they have taken place in the present instance, the inscriptions on the coffins, and still more the long rolls of papyri still remain to reward the investigations of scholars. If the remaining three months of the year are fraught with as great disasters, comparatively, as have the nine months past, truly the year 1881 will long be remembered as an epoch of calamities in the history of the world. So far this year the enumeration is as follows : A great earthquake in the Greek Arohi pelago; floods in various countries of Europe; tornadoes in the Northwest; fearful storms in the South ; the appear ance of two comets; an exceptionally cold winter and an equally exceptionally hot summer, with its attendant drouth ; the assassination of the Czar of Russia and the attempted murder of the Presi dent ; the yellpw day in New England, and the terrible forest fires in Michigan. JtLis reputed birth place is Preble County, where, as a boy, he was known among his associates as overbearing and brutal in his ways. The story goes that, grow ing older, he became unmanageable, and possessed of a spirit of daring, he ran away from home, boarded a ship putting to sea, was wrecked, picked up by a passing vessel bound for the Indies, and finally landed in that country. The then King having lost his only son, who very much resembled David (that was the boy’s name) adopted him, and in time he fell heir to the throne. This is the whole story in a nut shell, and may, during the King’s visit here, be more fully investigated. Guiteau, who some time ago thought of making application for a writ of habeas corpus , has changed his mind about the matter. He has been told by District Attorney Oorkhill that he can not be protected on his way to court by the soldiers. Why he is protected in the jail and could not be protected by soldiers when out of it is explained as follows by Corkhill: “The jail belongs to the Government, and is built on land, and the troops are ostensibly employed in guarding o-overn ment property. When it comes to guarding Guiteau from the jail to the court-house when the time for his exami nation arrives, that will be another thing. The inference was that the care of Guiteau would then be left to the civil authorities, and that they would be powerless to prevent the people wreak ing summary vengeance on the assassin.” This talk, coming as it does from an army officer of high rank, shows the utter detestation in which Guiteau is held by those wlio are compelled by hard sate to be his defenders. The Cincinnati Commercial says that one of the churches of that city, after praying lor tne recovery of the Presi dent, offered up prayers for Guiteau also. The advisability of praying for Guiteau, to the Christian mind, seems to be a difficult problem. The Bible teaches them to pray for their enemies, ana many ot tnem do not see wny they should not pray for Guiteau, whose soul is on the brink of perdition. On this same point Rev. N. Summerbell, a min ister of the Gospel, writes as follows: “ Moses and Miriam did not turn to the port side of the sea to hold prayer meet ing for the souls of the pursuing host, but a jubilee over their destruction, (Exodus, xv.) Jesus prayed for Peter, but not for Judas. Jesus said of some they ‘have never forgiveness,’ and Saint John said * There is a sin unto death, I do not say that he shall pray for it.’ The truth is that both nature and grace teach that there are some things which should be destroyed; and God saw that the destruction of such was best for them as well as for the universe. Saint Peter said of this class of persons: ‘These, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand not, and shall utterly perish in their own corruption. Thus it will be seen that there seems to be room for an argument on both sides. A Distinction with a Difference. Avery dilapidated-looking tramp en tered the counting room of one of Jersey City’s wealthiest storekeepers, and, com ing up to the desk, asked: “ Ain’t your folks from Posey county, Indianv ?” “Yes.” “ And your name is John Smith ? “Yes.” “ Shake! You have at last found your long-lost brother Bill. I am in need of money. _ “ Here is a quarter. Take it and go. The long-lost brother turned over the quarter a time or so, and then said: “Is a quarter all you can spare your long- lost brother ? “ That *8 all. Go now, or I’ll call a po liceman,’’.said the merchant. “ I'll accept the quarter on account of our relationship. That is a family mat ter* but, beside being your brother, I’m a tramp and a dead-beat. Now I apply to you "professionally. Give me another quarter.” A Yery Needful Invention. The facts were these: Mr. Skid’s neighbor kept a goat and that goat had often got at Mr. Skid and butted him two rods, end over end, and he hated the goat profusely. But the neighbor wouldn’t keep the goat shut up, and so Skid invented a machine to slay the goat. It was in the* form of a man bending down to pick up his hat, but in the body was a spring of tremendous power. From the tip pocket of the figure waved a red handkerchief that was the target to draw on the goat. When he butted it the spring would fly and throw the goat a big distance. The machine was gotten up in very elaborate style and looked just like a man. It was perfect enough to de ceive any goat. And it cost Skid $74. But he didn’t begrudge the money so long as it fetched the goat. And he took the machine and put it out in his front yard where the goat oould see it, and then he retired to his house and waited to see the fun. He waited about two hours, and then his son came in and told him that the goat had swallowed an old hoop skirt the night before and it had got tangled in his bowels and slain him. And of course Skid was terribly mad. But the machine was not wholly wasted, for the boy took it and put it on the outside of the circus tent so it looked like a man just starting to crawl under, and a policeman ran up and hit it with his club and was surprised to see his club fly forty feet into the air, while his arm ached like fury, and then a stalwart cir cus man ran up and kicked the king and was picked up twenty feet away with hio log broken in two places. And when he got over his surpiioo ho snid he’d give that man a season tioket if he’d ten how he did it, as he’d like to work the same racket on the old man of the girl he wa3 courting. But the machine couldn’t be found, the boy having, in the excitement, taken it home. He is going to sell it to a country editor, to be pointed out as “the man who wrote the article you object to. You can proceed to kick him.” —Boston Post. Practical Information. “What is rack rent, dad?” inquired a young Comstocker who had been read ing the news from Ireland. The patient parent laid down the stock list and replied: “Do you know how much I charge Mr. Boggarty for his room up-stairs ?” “ Yessir; sl2 a month.” “Well, now, suppose Mr. Boggarty should take it into his head to have, at his own expense, new paper put on the wall, the ceiling whitened, and all the furniture mended, the room would looJt a heap sight prettier, wouldn’t it ?” “Lor’!” murmured tho intelligent boy. “Well, if the minute Boggarty had got all these improvements made I should go up, and look around, and smile, and jingle my money in my pocket, and re mark, ‘ This is a pretty good sort of a layout for a single man, Boggarty, and you have altogether too soft a thing; your rent will be S2O a month hereafter,’ what would you think of it?” The innocent child giggled and said, “That would be cheek, wouldn’t it, dad?” “Bet your money on it, my boy,” re plied the father, beaming kindly upon his offspring. “That would be rack renting Mr. Boggarty, and if he kicked and daimed that all the improvements had been made by him without costing me a cent, and I should fire him out, that would be eviction. I will now,” continued the parent, warming up, “ briefly review the history of Ireland for the past 700 years. When Brian Borhu—” But his son had fled.— Virginia City Chronicle. How the Government Pays Bills. A great part of the work in the de partment is necessarily in the line of keeping accounts, and presents little in terest to people who are not exceptional ly fond of figuring. The general principle which governs the whole system of auditing and set tling accounts against the Government is to provide every safeguard against fraud, and this is so successfully accom plished that a dollar oould not be got out of the treasury illegitimately without the collusion of so many persons that it may be set down as a practical impos sibility. Suppose a man has a bill against the Government. The head of the depart ment or bureau to which the matter properly belongs makes a requisition for the amount upon the Secretary of the Treasury, using a prepared blank which asks him to cause a warrant for the amount in question to be issued in favor of the party, the same to be charged to the particular appropriation by Congress out of which the sum ought to come. But before this requisition reaches the Secretary it must pass under the eye of tne proper Auditor and Comptroller and receive their countersign, the Audi tor at the same time charging the amount to the account of the disbursing officer in whose favor it is issued. If all goes well so far, the Secretary issues a warrant to the Treasurer, directing him to pay over the money, which he does by issuing a draft for the amount in favor of the Government’s creditor, but not until after the warrant has t jen countersigned by the proper Comptroller and registered by the Register, indeed, the draft itself must go the Register for comparison and registry before it is finally passed over. There seems to be a good deal of red tape in all this pro cess, but it is a sort of red tape that saves the country money in the long rum—Good Company. There is a story current, snd *ot without a semblance of truth about it, that King Kalaka.ua is a native of Ohio. SUBSCRIPTION"SI.SO. NUMBER 6 GEMS OF THOUGHT. Cynicisy is old at twenty. A talent is perfected in solitude ; A character in the streams of the world. '1 he path among the roses lieth soft, Sun-kissed and radiant under youthful feet— But on a wintry way true bands more oft, Do meet and cling in pressure soft aud sweet. Bad men hate sin through fear o i punishment Good men hate sin through very love of virtue. A cheerful temper, joined with in nocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good natured. The best way to apologize is to do such a kindness to the offended one that he will forget that you ever attempted to injure him. If thou shalt be in heart a child, Forgiving, tender, meek and mild, Though with light stains of earth defiled, 01 soul, it shalt be well. —Morrie i The first ingredient in good conversa tion is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor and the fourth wit. Some days must needs be full of gloom, Yet must we use thorn as we rn.ty, Talk less about the years to come Live, love and labor more to-day. —Alice Cary. The plaintive wailing of the minor mingles itself with every earthly melody: aud it is only by-and-by that the veil shall be lifted, and the full chords of harmony peal on our ear unmarred by that undertone of pain. Yet. though thou fade, From thy dead leaves let fragrance rise, And teach the maid That goodness Time’s rude hand defies That winter lives when beauty dies —Kirk WMte. When one thoughtfully considers the. pait love has in the destiny and character of women., {ratios that oome out of it for her weal or her ruin or perfection, nothing is more pathetic and death itself is not more solemn. Pipping Off a Miner. During one of his intermittent visits to the Comstock Mr. Mackay accom panied a party of Eastern tourists to the lower levels of the California mine, one of which carefully selected collection of Massachusetts blue blood being a young lady from Boston who was refined to the top notch of culture. Ou arriving at one of the lower levels the gasping perspir ing, wilted crew paused, and Mr. Mackay called the young girl’s attention to a speaking tube whioh connected with the level above. “ Is this hollow metal cylinder a con duit of sound ?” asked the well-educated Boston ienne. ** res'm," said Mao Kay; “try it.” The young lady applied her mouth to its opening and piped out a tremulous “ Hillo-a-a.” “Aye, aye,” shouted a hearty miner a hundred feet above. “ What shall 1 ask him?” said the girl to Mr. Mackay. “Ask him how he is getting along. “How are you getting along, sir?” whistled the maiden. “Aw-w—pretty well,” rumbled the reply. * 4 And now what shall I say,” continued the girl. “Ask him if it’s hot.” “ Is it hot up there ?” “Hotter’n h—l,” was the plain answer. The damsel gasped, but continued: “ What else shall I say?” “ Oh, ask him how his family are,” replied Mr. Maohay, who began to tire of the “ pipping-off ” interview. “ How are all your family ?” asked the girl. “To h—l wid ye ; what are ye givin’ us,” thundered the miner, who thought someone was “joshing” him. Collapse and a call for ice water.— Virginia ( Nev .) Chronicle. A Thousand Dollars a Minute. Mr. Eddy, the veteran patent solicitor of Boston, is a regular encyclopedia of incidents referring to inventors. He tells of a man named Hurd, who be longed in Stoneham, who realized $30,- 000, and gave to the world one of the most valuable inventions ever produced —all the result of only about half an. hour’s thought. His invention was the machine now everywhere used for ex extracting molasses from sugar. When the idea occurred to him he sketched it down and gave it to Mr. Eddy, and au thorized him to take out a patent. Re turning home, he forgot all about the matter and applied himself to other affairs. Subsequently a gentleman en gaged in the sugar business saw the in vention in Mr. Eddy’s office, and at once appreciated its value. The solicitor waa instructed to purchase the patent, which he supposed he could do for a moderate sum. The first offer of SI,OOO was re fused, and not until the figure of $30,- 000 was reached did Mr. Hurd surren der. The machine is used in all the sugar countries of the world. Mr. Rob ertson, who was the American Consul at Hague, and the Aspinwalls, of New York, made millions out of the inven tion.—Boston Herald. Mary C— is a very popular little girl, and is invited to all of the chil dren’s birthday parties, where she never forgets to wish, “ Many happy returns of the day.” Recently she overheard her father telling her mother that Mrs. j_ } the mother of seven children, had just had a birthday party, the said “party” being nine pounds, very live weight. Mary at once asked her hor rified mamma : “ Shall I trot over and wish her many happy returns of the day?” Hatters say that the size of the hu man head in England and Scotland has been gradually diminishing in size with in the last quarter of a century. It is rarely that a seven and-three-eighths inch hat is asked for now. Is that the case in this country, also?