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W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NiWS GLEANINGS. Ex-Governor Warmoth is now one of Louisiana's largest siyjar planters, and ue says the sugar crop will fall off fully one-ha* f. The Mobile press indignantly howl at the published reports that the city Ison the decay. They assert thatlhe city o"f Mobile is fast improving. The cotton crop of South Carolina unquestionably be short as com plied with last year’s crop, but there is * ,me reason to hope that the loss will not he as great as generally supposed. It is saol the Pensacola railroad has the largest pair of track stales'in Amer ica, which ate 106 feet long, and can weigh three cars at once loaded with spar Gmber. Marion (Ala.) Standard: A Perry ■county woman, whose arms are cut off just below-the elbow, threads her needle by sticking it in her dress and tak lng the thread between her two stumps of arms and forcing it through the eve of the needle. She does neat sewing iiocs cooTi well and can piek fifty or sixty pound* of cotton per day. Arkansas Democrat:' The cotton , ro P of Arkansas is much smaller than it was last year. But it must he remem bered that we lost a large portion of test year’s crop by had weather, and much of what, was •gathered was of a very in terior quality and sold.for a small price, sf the Weather continues favorable for picking there will he only a small dif ference in the amount saved as com pared with last year. Mobile Register : There seems to be A fatal disease among horses and mules this neighborhood. Within the forty-eight hours ending at dark last night eight horseft&nd five mules have dieil. We also linderstsind from Capt. 1 • l' Alba that he has several horses under treatment for the same disease, tyhieh is an Affection of the throat. Some apprehension among the owners of valuable animals exists for fear that the disease may become epidemic. Idle Statfs Vkginian : . The raius that have fallen in the past few days in nearly every portion of* Virginia and >h>rth Carolina* will benefit the grass and set tire streams to tunning once more, but they lune too late to ..help the tobacco crop. J.deed, some o 1 the most experienced tobacco planters are of the "pinion coniing so. late* as t did, will-score harm thAn good. Risers will have die eonsolaWf “'knowing that the de ficiency in be made up in ft measure. The Madisonian : There is a negro in Morgan county, Lewis Jordon, who is thoroughly conversant with the rudi ments of the Latin language, knows a of French, and is fast learn ing to read and parse Greek. He is a capital scholar in English grammar, and R ready in mathematics. He has ac quired this extraordinary amount of learning without the assistance of a pre ceptor, and seems charmed when under *ome great mental task. He hasn’t an ntelligent face, but rather the reverse, appearing at times silly in the extreme. He is about thirty-five years old, and teels confident that he can master sev eral languages before his death. He laugljs at you when you ask if he could not progress faster if placed under a o.Mnpotout *coohfcr. Ilrhumble, po lite and strictly reliable. Knoxville Tribune : One of the most wonderful phenomena that have come under our observation in a long time is ft natural flow of gas from the earth, that burns with a brilliant flame when ignited. The spot where this gas es capes is about one mile from Oliver’s Springs, in Anderson county, and im pregnates the atmosphere for yards ft round with the odor- The gas seems to come from a spring on Coal creek, near the water, but for yaids up the mountain side there runs a vein about a foot wide, which has been fired and at times burns brilliantly. At the end of the vein, on the bank of the creek, the gas burns with a bright yellow flame and emits considerable beat, A pipe i? sometimes introduced in the spring and at a distance of several yards burns readily. A traveler pasaiifg. a few days ago stuck in a small pipe in the vein, put two rocks, one eu opposite sides of ’he pipe, and boiled tea from the fiifme that was produced on igniting, The ga* evidently comes from a'ooal formation ‘Hi lin k itutoral curiosity reels# go 4| ilu.* to :•<*- it. - . vvvvvvvvvv ——l*!!** l ft* Hifoim l Truth, thf Establishment of Justiw, Mid th Preservation of a People's tiuvrrnmcut. TOPICS OF THE HAT. Charles J. Guiteaj will plead in sanity. IHE Jews in Russia are organising for self-protection, Rowell has retired from the track with $50,000 to his credit. American horses are carrying off all the honors in England this year. The country is responding liberally to the suffering people of Michigan. A Parisian* clothing house is running it ; sewing-machines by electricity. One of Detroit’s tough citizens uses nitro-glycerine to blow his nose, with. Private board, as a rule, has advanced one dollar a week in nearly all the cities. A St. Lotus negro committed suicide through grief at the death of the Presi dent. The public debt was reduced ov n r twelve millions of dollars during Sep tember. Sixty-eight miles of black clotli were used to drape the department buildings in‘Washington. Traveling by balloon would be the better and more profitable way in Mis souri and Arkansas. The rice crop of the United States this year is estimated at 1,500,000 bush els, an abundant crop. Reports of the nut crop say hickory nuts are more plentiful than ever, but ternuts a failure and acorns short. Guiteau was pleased to hear of the President’s death because it put him out of pain. This is magnamiuity, indeed. Wesson, of pedestrian fame, is in the employ of the Church of England Tem perance Society. How men do drift about. Queen Christine, of Sweden, said that she loved men, “ not because they are men, but because they are not wo men/’ ' - , to the change of administration Wilfyam Walter Phelps, United States Min&toi' to Austria, has asked to be re called at once. > i." m These is little doubt but that the i>J&s£cutions of the Star Route con tractors will go right on as if nothing lu^fujauired. ?We Announce, with a spasmodic shiver, that large hoops are being adopted by the leathers of fashion in the large cities. Girls, to yonr tents ! Unless some terrible "penalty is at tached to attempts on the lives of pub lic men, we may expect an increase of crime in that direction. Harrison, the “boy preacher,’’ charges SIOO a week for his services. There is no telling what lie will charge when he gets to be a man. Mason, who shot at Guiteau, will not be photographed, and persons writing for bis picture will save thomselves time and u oney by taking notice. The late rains over the country have started a rapid growth of grass, and the consumption of hay, for the time being, will stop to a great extent. Xn mxv, perhaps, was ovor in a moro trying position than President Arthur, and all well-meaning citizens can but hope he will be equal to the emergency. The Detroit Free Press states there are 58,000,000 gallons of whisky stored in Kentucky. What a high old time there will be when people find out where it is. August Belmont, the New York banker, who spends liis summers at Saratoga, pays SI,OOO a week for board for himself and family of half a dozen persons. The number of days from the time of Garfield’s election to his death (includ ing those two days) was “329.” Were this a superstitions age, the fact might not le regarded merely as a coincidence. During the past twelve years it has cost $302,345 for “ furnishing and re pairing ” the Executive Mansion at Washington, and yet we read that the furniture is old and must be replaced.- The amount does look rather stingy. It seems to be the case that the Mor mous supply the White River UtUS with aaimunitrcn*, audit is rumored.now that, having, pl&nty of that article, they.will il e • i refuse to stay on their new reservation. It Would, perhaps, be to the interest of the Mormons to endeavor to cultivate Uncle Sam’s good opinion: Ex-President Hayes seems to have an enterprise on hand about which the public know very little. He owns a farm of 500 acres near Bismarck, D; TA NARUS., which cost him from sixty to seventy-live cents an acre, •worth now sls per acre, and the past year a wheat crop on it yielded him a profit of $15,000. Here is the new Cabinet as it is or ganized in some of the New York pa pers : Secretary of State, XT. S. Grant; Secretary of the Treasury, Levi P. Mor ton ; Secretary of the Interior, Senator Jones; Secretary of the Navy, Judge Settle; Secretary of War, Robert Lin coln ; Postmaster General, Senator Fre linghuysen ; Attorney General, Geo. S. Boutwell. You no men should take courage. Several years ago Jenny Henry, a young girl with scarcely enough to sustain her, settled on a tract of land at Ash Creek, Kansas, and by economy and hard work, now owns a farm under a good state of cultivation upon which there is a com fortable house, well-furnished, and other valuable improvements. She will make a living for some man. Farm products, on the average, are a third higher than they were a year ago. Within a few months wheat has advanced from 87 cents to $1.50, and com from 45@47 to 76@80c. Flour has advanced $2 on the barrel. Potatoes that last March were selling at $2.25 per barrel are now bringing $3.35. What price potatoes will bring by next March wo do not like to predict, They will be high enough evidently for those who are com pelled to buy. Ex-Minister Christiancy doubtless feels somewhat discouraged. First, a divorce suit unsettles his nerves, (hen comes a challenge to fight a duel, and before he recovers from tlie shock, bur glars enter his apartments and steal $3,000 worth of diamonds that had been given him for safe-keeping. This is about the point reached when thoughts of suicide crowd themselves one upon another. . The Sexton of Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, where General Garfield is buried, says that one day last fall the President-elect and his uncle, Thomas Garfield, since dead, and buried in the cemetery, came out to inspect the mon ument of the Garfield family. The old uncle was a jolly fellow, and, while talking, said, laughingly, to the nephew : “Now, James, if you should be so per verse as to die, with so many honors thick upon you, here is plenty of room to bury you, and a plaoe left on the stone to inscribe your name. ” W e have another terror now in antici pation, that of cholera. This disease seems to recur at intervals of seventeen years. It visited us in 1849, and again in 1866. The cable announces that it has broken out among the Mohammedan pilgrims in Mecca, and also in the Russo- Austrian frontier, two distant points on the road from the East. It may be that this is ominous of its return here in 1883, and as sanitary laws are its only preventive, it is essential that they be strictly heeded. Corn is now worth eighty cents the bushel, and the prospects are, that it will be higher. When money was cheap and corn brought one dollar the bushel, the fact was recorded as an event worthy a place in the history of commerce; but wliat shall we say now, with money at par, of the whiolx thia pr-ulnoi promises to attain. The difference how ever, between then and now is, that then the high price attained was owing to the cheapness of money and au un usual demand in the markets, whereas the present status is a result of the scarcity of the corn product. It is of little benefit to the farmer how high com is if he have none to sell. The Cincinnati Gazette pays the fol lowing tribute to the integrity of Jav Cooke : The example which Jay Cooke presents of recovery from bankruptcy to honorable solvency, after having been hounded from wealth to poverty by heartless and undiscriminatiug persecu tion, is not equaled probably in finan cial history. Every lover of integrity and personal worth will rejoice to know that the great dispenser of greenbacks and salesman of Government bonds in the hour of the Nation’s fiery trial is likely to pass the evening of his days in affluence in the elegant home he pro vided in days of affluence, which was cheerfully surrendered to satisfy both needy and rapacions creditors, but is now recovered by his recuperated means to the of the worthy owner. ihuti WtuKEBSOK, a Colorado outlaw who * was kindly assisted “over the INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. range ” by the vigilants, was highly con nected in Indiana, as well as with the limb from which lie made his last ap pearance in public. His granduncle was I Joseph Wright, who was Governor for several terms, then United States Sena tor, mid afterward Minister to Berlin. His grandfather was for many years a member of the Indiana Legislature. His father was a cousin of the Hon. James F. Harlin, of lowa. Bert had for sev eral years figured as a border bar-room hero, and the murder for which his life was taken was wanton, brutal and cow ardly. W hen about to die, however, his bravado proved trustworthy. He ad justed the noose himself, remarking “Boys, I’ll help you all I can,” and coolly kicked over the chair on which lie stood. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. When reduced to extremity by hun ger, the wolf will swallow mud in order to allay the uneasy sensations of his stomach. There is a species of crow in Flor ida that gives vent to a series of haw ! haws l in exact imitation of the human voice 1 A wild elephant may generally lie tamed, so as to be conducted from place to place unfettered, in about six months. In the Guildford Endowed Grammar School, in England, where the school master is held responsible for every vol ume, which, if lost, he is bound to re place, one master, to decrease his risk, carefully packed all the books under the floor, where they proved a banquet for the rats and mice. The curious library of old Samuel Pepys, the well-known diarist, is im prisoned in its original book-cases at Magdalene College, Cambridge. No one can gain admission to it except in the company of two Fellows of the col lege, and, if a single book is lost, the whole collection goes to a neighboring college. The Norwegian lemming is an animal about the size of a mouse. They live under the stones in summer, under the snow in winter. They hiss and bite. About once in ten years they migrate in large armies. They march in a straight line, They cross lakes and rivers. They go straight through liay-stacks rather than go around. Notliing stops them, not fires, cascades nor swamps. If a man stands in their way they will jump at him as high as his knee. If struck they will turn around and bark and bite like a dog. Foxes, lynxes, owls, hawks and weasels will fellow them and destroy largo numbers of them, but it does not check them. They continue their course until they reach the sea, into which they plunge, as persistent and progressive as ever, until the waves exterminate them. The microscope shows a variation in the thickness of human hair from the l-250th to the l-600tli part of an inch ; but,< notwithstanding such fineness, it is a massive cable in comparison with other fibers. Thus the thread of the silk-worm is many times finer, being from the 1-1,700 th to the 1-2,000 th of an inch. This, however, is nothing to the slenderness of the spider’s thread, which has been found in some instances to be no more than 1-30,000 th of an inch in diameter. The fibers yielded by tlie vegetable kingdom are also of astonish ing minuteness. Thus, every fiber of flax is found to be composed of a bundle of other fibrils, which are about 1-2,500 th of an inch in diameter. Simi lar fibers obtained from the pineapple plant have been ascertained to be no more than 1-5,000 th or even 1-7,000 th of an inch in diameter. In the British House of Lords Lord Brougham once mentioned two some what-remarkable facts showing the ne cessity of having a safe place for the deposit of wills. The first ease is one in which one of his noble friends, as heir at-law, lost, and another of his noble friends, as a devisee, gained, £30,000 a year. How the first lost it, and the last gained it, was by a wdll being found in an qW rusty box, in an ola traveling carriage, and which, therefore, might have been very naturally lost by acci dent or destroyed by ignorance. The second case was one, also, in which some of his noble friends were con cerned, and the sum in question was no less than £160,000. This sum would have been entirely lost for the purposes for which it was intended if the inquiries relative to the existence of a will with respect to it had been instituted in win ter instead of in the summer. The will was searched for everywhere, but could nowhere be found, until, at last, it was discovered in a grate, and stuffed like a piece cf waste paper through the bars; if it had been winter instead of summer, in all probability when the fire had been lighted it would have been destroyed. “Gath” says that a public man at Long Branch told him that when Zach Chandler heard of the nomination of Lincoln in 1860, he began to curse in a terrible manner, and said that Lincoln was a miserable clown, and that Seward was the only man in the country fit to be electee and who could have carried it. Somebody spoke up at the telegraph office, where this talk was going on, and said. “ You underate Mr. Lincoln ; he is a man of intellect; a fine lawyer ;an ex cellent debater, and a man of decision of char;, df r and firmness of purpose. ” In alfcoU* Slteeii ndilutes of such talk as tun, Zach was induced to send a message to Idiicaiu congratulating him, GOSSIP F&R THE LADIES. tVha* She Wore. She wore a sage-green polonaise. Shirred up behind the back, Aud several plaits with gusset loops n ere hemstitched in with black. The drab corsage—that fair cot-cage— Was biased down before} The skirt was simply flounced in gray J And barely touched the floor. A collar-band of crepe de chine. Or Satinet ecru, Just reached unto her dainty waist, And was of mauvish hue.' Her hat—but, no, an angel's pen Were needed on the earth To paint that hat and costume as They just arrived from Worth. The Influential Woman. We generally picture her as a leader of fashion, stately and beautiful, the center of her coterie. Her moral quali ties are not considered at all ; and that is where we err. When the rich woman can show to the world only a life of fashion and idleness, she is deserving of open censure aud disgrace, so long as there are hungry bodies, minds or souls crying for some of her abundance. To whom much is given much is required. Let public opinion mete out its wrath of censure upon the fashionable, idle woman, who is a disgrace to her sex because of her aimless, useless life. Let the expression “best society” mean those who do good deeds, who leave the world Imppier and better for having lived, instead of those who have been most idle and aimless. The “influential women” of every community are those who are doing and daring, that the world may be made purer and better, whether they are fashionable or unfashionable it matters not. A Woman’s A r<>. A case was decided not long ago be fore the appeal court at Metz, in Ger many, which shows how a lady’s age is a matter entirely within her owii control. Fraulein Catherine Mahl was engaged to a desirable partner, to whom she had imprudently declared her age at six years less than it really was. As soon as the moment arrived for producing the certificate of birth, she was aware that her little deception would be discovered, and she feared that tlie match would be broken off. She, therefore, took tlie liberty of altering the official document so as to make it correspond with tlie statement already made. The cere mony took place, and the husband was duly united to a lady whom lie believed to be quite a jeune ingenue. Unfortu nately, the certificate, in passing through some oflice, happened to be minutely examined by one the clerks. The bride was charged with the offense of falsify ing a public document, and condemned to spend, if not her honeymoon, at least three of the first months of her married life, in prison. She had tlie courage to appeal from the sentence, and cause the case to be argued out before the court of Metz, which reversed the decision of the inferior tribunal, and acquitted the lady on the ground that she did not in tend to commit an illegal act, but had been actuated only by “female vanity.” Three Itlaidens and Census. The Misses McFarlanes are three maiden ladies—sisters. It seems the one would not trust the other to see the census paper filled up, so they agreed to bring it to me to fill it in. “ Would you kindly fill in this census paper for me ? ” said Miss McFarlane. “ My sisters will look over and give you their particulars by and by.” Now, Miss McFarlane is a very nice lady, though Mrs. Cameron tells me she has been calling very often at the manse since the minister lost his wife. Be that as it may, I said to her that I would be happy to fill up the paper, and asked her in the meantime to give her own par ticulars. When it came to the age col umn, she played with her boot on the carpet, and drew the black ribbons of her silk bag through her fingers, and whispered: “You can say four-and thirty, Mr. McLauchlin.” “All right, ma’am,” says I,for I knew she was four and-thirty at any rate. Then Miss Susan came over—that’s the second sis ter, really a handsome young creature, with fine ringlets and curls* though she is a little tender eyed and wears specta cles. Well, when we came to the age column Miss Susan played with one of her ringlets, and looked in my face sweetly, and said: “ Mr. McLauchlin, what did Miss McFarlane say ? Aly sister, you know, is considerably older than I am—there was a brother be tween us.” “ Quite so, my dear Miss Snsan,” said I; * * but you see the bargain was that each of you was to state your own age.” “ Well.” said Miss Susan, still playing with her ringlets, “you can say—age, 34 years, Mr. McLauchlin. ” In a little while the youngest sister came in. “Miss McFarlane,” s/iid she, “sent me over for the census p£per.” •‘Oh, no, my dear,” savs I; “I can not part with the paper.” ‘ “Well, then,’ said she. “just enter my name, too, Mr. McLauchlin.” “ Quite sq. But. tell me, Miss Robina, why did not Miss McFarlane till up the paper herself ?”—for Miss Ilobina and I were always on very confidential terms. “ Oh,” she replied, “ there was a dis pute over particulars ; und Mias McFar lane would not let mv other sister see how old she was; aud Miss Susan re fused to state her age to Miss McFar lane ; and so, to end the quarrel, we agreed to ask yon to be so kind as to fill in the paper.” “Yes, vCs, Miss Robina,” said I, “ that’s quite satisfactory; and so I’ll fill in your name now, if you please. ” “Yes,” she said, with a sigh. Wh£n we came to the age column—“ Is it a‘> •solutely necessary,” said she, “ to fill in the age ? Don’t Jpou think it is a most f SUBSCRIPTION—SI.SO. NUMBER 8 impertinent question to ask, Mr. Mo j Lauchlin ? ” Tuts, it may be so to some folk, but to a sweet young creature like you it ea not matter a button.” “Well,” said Miss Robina. “But now, Mr, MeLauchlin, I m to tell you a great secret,” and shp blushed as she slowly continued; “ the minister comes sometimes to see us.” ‘ * I have noticed him rather more at tentive in his visitations in your quarter ot late than usual. Miss Robina. ” “Very well, Mr. McLauelilin; but you must not tease me just now. You know Miss McFariane is of opinion that he is In love with her, while Miss Susan thinks her taste for literature and her knowledge of geology, especially her pamphlet on the old red sandstone and its fossils as confirming the Mosaic pe riod, are all matters of great interest to Mr. Fraser, and she fancies that he comes so frequently for the privilege of conversing with her. But,” exclaims Miss Robina, with a look of triumph, look at that 1” and she held in her hand a beautiful gold ring. ‘‘ I have got that from the minister this very day.” I congratulated her. She had been a favorite pupil of mine, and I was rather pleased with wliat had happened. “ But what,” I asked her, “ lias all this to do with the census ?” “ Oh, just this,” continued Miss Ro bina. “ I had no reason to conceal my age, as Mr. Fraser knows it exactly, since he baptized me ! He was a young creature then, only three-and-twenty; so that’s just the difference between tis.” “Nothing at all, Miss Robina,” said I, “ nothing at all; not worth mention ing.” “ In this passing and changeful world,” said Miss Robina, “ three-and-twenty years are not much, after all, Mr. Mc- Lauchlin.” “Much?” said I. “Tuts, my dear, it’s nothing—just indeed wliat should be.” “I was just 31 last birthday, Mr. McLauchlin,” said Miss Robina, “and flie minister said the last time he called that no young lady should take the cares and responsibilities of a household upon herself until she wa? s —well, eight and-twenty ; and he added that 34 was late enough.” " The minister, my dear,” said I, “ is a man of sense.” So thus were the Miss McFarlanes* schedules filled up; and if ever some one in search of the Curiosities of the Census should corqe across it he mav think it strange enough, for he will find that the three sisters McFarlane arc all one year’s baims.— Chambers' Journal* Investigating His Historic*! Trrarnlng. ‘ ‘ And so you are studying American history?” asked a fond father of his hopeful. “Yes 1” responded the lad, “Good enough!” roared the delighted parent. “Now tell us who George Wash ington was. ” ‘ ‘ He was nurse to a lot of old colored women,” sang the boy. “ What was he first in ?” “First ashore, first to leave, and first in the carts of the hungry man.” “Look here, you scalawag,” said the old man, riling up, “you want to get this thing straight. What was it Wash ington couldn’t do?” ‘ ‘ He couldn’t lie !” snorted the young ster. “You’ve got the light man. What fight did he win ?” “He licked Hunker Bill on Boston Common, in three rounds.** “What was it he cut when lie was a boy ?” “He cut his father’s cheese, and ex claimed, ‘Father, spyre me; I cannot tell a hatchet from a lie !’ ” His father graduated the boy at once, *nd he now makes a living selling paper*- A Curious Love Story. There abides in the mind of woman an overwhelming sense of the importance of having an ample trousseau. Witness the case of a young woman in Dort mund, Germany, a short time since,who was arrested for stealing a gold watch and chain from her affianced lover, who on discovering his loss, had placed the matter in the hands of the police,with out the faintest notion as to who was the thief. The maiden, with many tears, confessed that she had taken the watch, so that by pawning it she might raise money enough to buy her wedding dress, which she could get in no other way. Thereupon the despoiled but magnani mous bridegroom spoke out in court, declared that “the prisoner was his only love; and that he would marry her out of hand if the jndge / would consent to set her at liberty.” Without delay the trib unal annulled the arraignment, and the generous lover carried off’ his liberated larcenist in triumph. How He Proposed. A bachelor too poor to get married, yet too susceptible to let the girls alone, was riding with a lady -“all of a sum mer’s day,” and accidentally—men’s arms, awkward things, are ever in the way—dropped an arm round her waist. No objection was made for a while, and the arm gradually relieved the side of the carriage of the pressure upon it. But of a sudden, whether from a late recognition of the impropriety of the thing or the sight of another beau com ing never was known, the lady started with volcanic energy, and, with a flash ing eye, exclaimed: “Mr. 8., I can support myself 1” “Capital!” was the instant reply. “ You are just the girl I have been looking for these five years Will you marry me V* “ Do you expect to travel this sum. ?”- “Yea, some.” “It will cost some.” “ Ye*, quite a sum.” “Do you possess tiu necessary sum ?” “ I have some.”