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w. F, ciViITH, Publisher, VOLUME IX. Him GUANiNSS. Corn is selling in East Tennessee at sixty cents per bushel. Some 400,000 feet of cross ties will be shipped from Kentucky to Mexico. The levee at New Orleans is lobe illu minated with the electric light. Professor Cather, of Alabama, predicts a hard winter. Immigration and capital are steadily flowing into Tennessee. A fine vein of coal has been discovered in Jackson county, Alabama. Albany, Ga., is going to spend SOOO for an artesian well. There are 634 convicts in the South < 'arolina penitentiary. The average produe r of the cot ton crop in the Memphis district is fifty-one per cent, less than last year’s yield. 1 yler James, colored, was give n twenty stripes by a Richmond, Va., court for stealing an overcoat. Three thousand snappers were carried to Pensacola, Florida, in one day last week. At the Florida state fair a premium of six dollars was offered for the beat darned stocking. All over the south telegraphic inquiries have been received from New York hankers about Confederate coupon bonds. A few F orida farmers who have plant ed arrow-root make as much as SI,OOO on an acre. Accomac and Northampton counties, \ irginia, have peach trees now living and bearing which were planted in 1816. Fur the year ending September 1 the citizens of Brownsville, TVnn., consumed 5-8 barrels of whisky. A Pennsylvanian has leaded 10,000 acres of land near Woodbury, Cannon county, Tennessee, and will bore for oil. Colonel E. W. Cole, the ‘‘‘railroad king,” has purchased the old Bank of Tennessee building at Nashville for 642,- 000. Kev. Father J. Ryan, the sweetest poet in the South, has taken charge of the Catholic chunch at Eufausa, Ala bama. Last year J. E. Yates, of Rappahan nock county, Virginia, purchased 275 sheep, for which he paid 63.50 apiece The lambs and wool thin year brought him $1,700. One firm in Virginia, with 87 acres of land, has produced 3,500 gallon of wine in a season. Two counties in that state this season will make 60,000 gallons. Messrs. Stuart Mel>owell, of the Hudisill mine in North Carolina, have to the Atlanta exposition a solid piece of geld sulphuretore weighing 900 pounds, and is assayed at about SBO per ton. The tobacco trade of Richmond, Vir ginia, have decided to appoint an in spector of tobacco, who shall have charge of the entire market* This will separate the business of warehousing and of in spection. James Phillips, twelve years old, was left at li ime by himself in Robeson coanty, North Carolina. During the night some devilish boys visited the house and ‘vied to gain an ensrance for he purpose of frightening the boy. The little fellow was scared so badly that lie was thrown into spasms, from which he died shortly afterward. Rome (Ga) Courier: Two sisters, Misses Emma and Susie, daughters of widow Cornwell, of Rocky creek, Gordon county, picked out with their own bands, last week, a bale of cotton, had it ginned, and sent it to Rome. Mr. H. H. Bmitli bought it at twelve and a half cents, and sent it to the Atlanta Exposition as a sample of of North Georgia cotton. Thi; . jßote, of Inowrazlaw, Prussia, gives the following table of wages for workmen in that city, a place of sohie 4 *OOO or 10,000 population. The wages are for a week's work of six Jays of four teen hofurs each. A mark is equal to an EuglisU shilling, or about twenty-fcfo vents ' y Marks. bricklayers, best brieWavers, common Hudcarriers *. 1 (ii chiding losrd ) y bickMniths Onemdisig board) * 1 ailurs (iuchulmg board t * Miners, Factory laborers ‘ ,l ordt.'ners 0 Field hand# - b Is it any wonder in view of tliMe fig ures, and they affe to a certain extent a criterion to judge the wages uli over Germany, that the. sturdy yeomanry ami mtisaus ot i Igo. country are tjomiug to the United States by thousands V . hhhhhhhhhhh TOPICS OF THE DAY. Boston women gamble in railroad stocks. Ma.uk Twain lias written another book. Chinese are becoming plentiful in Chicago. Tobacco in Virginia will bo only half a crop this year. tLm George Bancroft, the historian, is eighty-one years old. There will be a scarcity of coal in the West the coming winter. Boston now boasts of ono female lawyer, Miss Lidia J. Robinson. A monument to Dean Stanley will be erected in Westminster Abbey, The students at Harvard are com pelled to attend prayer meeting. An equestrian statue will be erected to Gen. Burnside in Rhode Island. Ex-Gov. Shepherd (“Boss”) is about return to Washington from Mexico. Illinois’ oldest citizen is dead—Mrs. Margaret Noughton, aged 116 years. Mbs. Garfield’s income will be $20,- 000 a year. Mrs. Lincoln’s is $3,000. It is thought the Indianapolis Journal has an eye opt n to a Cabinet position. Mb. Windom will retire from the Cab inet and return to tbo United States Senate. President Garfield’s picture is to be placed upon the five cent international postal letter stamp. A recent frost in the vicinity of Bos ton is said to have done damage to the extent of $1,000,000. George Francis Train says he has made his last speech and written his last letter. We knew there was a silver lining somewhere. ’The Czar of Russia is resigned to any fate that may overtake him. He is said to often declare, “lam quite ready to meet, death when it comes.” The mummy of the daughter of King Raineses is said to be among the discov eries at Thebes—the woman who found Moses in the bulrushes. Sarah Bernhardt was hissed at Amiens, and stepping to the footlights, remarked: “I am not accustomed to play to geese.” Beady wit. ih vottd to Industrial Inter st, the Diffu ionof Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s tiovernmeut. The Mormons take great consolation at the present political status. They feel that their polygamous institution is secure, and that the Lord is with them. The expense of Garfield’s illness is estimated at SIOO,OOO, of which the doctors’ bills will be $53,000. Dr. Bliss is accredited with a claim of $25,000. The Pall Mall Gazette acknowledges tlio United States to be the most power ful nation on the globe. This confession is a great one, coming from an English source. Ellen Nelson, a Swedish woman committed suicide in Philadelphia the other day because she could not get a husband. She must have been horrid ugly. The President’s brother, William Ar thur, who is Major and Paymaster in tne army, was married a few days ago at Governor’s Island, to Miss Laura Bou vier. Judging from results, the Ohio voter is a scratches That comes of getting poor men on the regular ticket—a fact that the late election has forcibly pre sented to party managers. The Cincinnati Commercial says the situation in Ireland is quite too utter. We suppose this means that it is in a stooping posture. Nations, like individ uals, are nothing if not fashionable. Gladstone is held responsible for the arrest of Parnell, and Gladstone is of the opinion that the arrest is for the vindication of law and order, and the first elements of civilization. Under the old French law, being in toxicated three times deprived men oi their right to vote. Such a law in this country, it is to be apprehended, would prevent the holding of an election in some sections. Since “information” has been filed, we have failed to hear that Brady, of Star Route notoriety, is still ranting round, demanding an early trial. His INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. ardor for justice has cooled down some what. An agent of the Land League in Ire land has been arrested £u r nnituuz üba dles in potatoes to be fed to the cattle of a farmer guilty of paying liis rent. That is partaking of a very low kind of fiendishness. Guiteau seems determined to have Bon. Butler to defend him. Ingersoil he doesn't want. His discrimination is based upon religious principles. Butler, how ever, does not crave the service, and will endeavor to excuse himself. “The Mormons are held together,” says (he Mormon organ, “by an in fluences that is beyond the power of men or nations to prevent, destroy or con trol.” That “influence” is a plurality of wives, certainly not divine. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says that the hog crop of the territory tribu tary to St. Louis will be very inferior in quality and less in quantity than for many years past. The higli price of com is given as a reason for this condi tion of things. This is a sad comment on the insur ance question: One insurance Presi dent, whose company loses $12,000 by the fire in Morrell’s Building, in New York, himself had $20,000 worth of property stored there and only $3,000 insurance on it. Eight members of the last House ol Representatives are now United States Senators : Messrs. Frye and Hale, oi Maine ; Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Haw ley, of Connecticut; Lapham and Mil ler, of New York ; Mitchell, of Pennsyl vania, and Conger, of Michigan. J oiin Battersby, for twenty years the ohief of living skeletons in the side shows, has of late been missed from the ranks of the human curiosities. The reason is that, from a weight of leven pounds he has rapidly grown to 125, and he has considerately gone to blacksmitliing. Wrangle Land, which Canada claims under the old boundary treaty, and which claim the United States disputes, is on the north coast of Siberia and over a thousand miles from the American coast. There will be no fighting over its possession. It ain’t worth it. Massachusetts has a Judge who evi dently enjoys his morning naps. He has rendered a decision that the ringing of a church bell at 5 o’clock in the morn ing is a public nuisance, and if people must worship at that hour they should do so without disturbing their neigh bors. Since David Davis is President of the Senate, the public generally are anxious to know to which party he belongs. Mr. Davis, we believe, is not much annoyed on the subject. He is where he feels at liberty to take a plum from either party, and plums he is very fond of. The convicts of the Ohio Penitentiary sent SIOO to the Michigan sufferers. They raised the amount by denying themselves the luxury of tobacco and the sale of trinkets whieh they had made. Really, this expression of sym pathy from such a source is touching. The father of Mrs. Christrancy testi fied in Washington the other day that prevous to accepting the Senator his daughter had refused twenty-five offers of matrimony. This, we suppose, is an instance of passing by All the straight and taking a crooked stick in the end. About the meanest thing we are able to call to mind just now is the action of the steamboat companies whose crafts ply between the National Capital and Yorktown. For the benefit of those at tending the Yorktown celebration they put the fare up to Jive times the usual price. What noble patriots those fel lows are. General Garfield wrote in answer to a friend who had oongratnalated him upon his election to the Senate : “As to the hope you express that I shall be called higher, I can only say that my idea of the highest ambitioD of a public man ought to be to discharge fully the duties of the position to which he is al ready called. A man is not in position to discharge his duties fully and without bias if he is aspiring to higher places and laboring to secure them. The post of greatest usefulness ought to be the place of the highest honor.” Love was at the bottom of the Arkan sas train robbery. The three’boyish fel lows who committed the crime were moneyless and desperately in love, and reading how easy it was for the .lames bovs to rob a train, resolved to imitate them to bridge over the obstacle standing between themselves, their girls and matri mony. They obtained the money, but thinking they would not be pursued, they made no effort to escape. Their girls, no doubt, feel bad to think that 'for their sake they were led to the com mission of a crime that has culminated in a seventy-years’ sentence in the peni tentiary. Mr. Vennor says in the preface of his almanac for 1882: “I lav no claim to the discovery of an infallible system of foretelling weather. The science of practical meteorology is yet in its in fancy, and is being studied by ’men whose abilities are far greater than any I could endeavor to lay claim to. There will be many mistakes before a right understanding or interpretation of its principles is arrived at. Based, as my system of predictions must be, on records of weather as yet incomplete and very faulty, the results can not be entirely satisfactory, more especially in respect to new ground; yet I believe the key to the solution of the problem has been found, and that all errors will but aid in more correctly discovering the secrets of coining months.” Stock-Raising in the West. The freedom to pasture cattle on ex cellent grazing land, together with an accessible market, are the main reasons why at present stock-farming is particu larly profitable. The first of these con ditions is precarious, and it is evident that in ten years there will not be much good free range left east of the Missouri river. When immigration to that extent shall have shut him off from free pastur age, the stock man can either sell his farm at probably four times its present value, and move to Dakota or Montana, or else turn his attention to fattening stock on grain for other parties. For instance, as a practical case, there is a cattle man of Council Bluffs who is said to own 100,000 head of cattle in Idaho. He has a range of sixty square miles of land not worth a cent to the acre for agriculture, yet affording excel lent pasture for cattle. He lias ten men employed at wages varying from $24 to S4O per month to look after the stock. These men require 200 ponies to handle the cattle. An overseer is hired at $1,200 a year. During the winter, how ever, four men can do all the work re quired, which is mainly breaking the ice in the streams that the cattle may have water. Streams serve as the great checks upon the cattle straying away, for they never will go far from water. In the spring of the year the cattle men of the plains have a grand “ round up (as it is called), the stock is picked out by means of the brand, and those cattle that are meant for the Eastern market are started for Omaha. They travel about ten miles a day, and gen erally take the whole season in the journey from the winter ground to the Missouri bottom. At Omaha the cattle are put on the train and shipped nominally to Chicago, but really to different points along the road, to be handed over to farmers for fatten ing. Mr. Stewart delivered over 1,900 head to farmers last fall, and of these only eight were lost dining the winter. The parties who receive the cattle agree to fatten them at the rate of 5 cents for every extra pound of weight they add to the animal. This seems small at first sight, but when cattle put on 250 extra pounds during a winter, and where two hogs sire fed from the refuse of each ox, the farmer finds that the result to him is equivalent to selling his corn at 100 per cent, profit. The large cattle-raisers, of course, have their inspectors, who travel from farm to farm to look after their property, and gather it together in the spring for shipment to Chicago, where they are either slaughtered or shipped to Europe. The cattle men have a great advantage over mere farmers, in that they are to a great extent independent of railways. If they are badly treated by one corporation, they have a simple remedy in driving their stock a few miles to the next road.— Harper's Magazine. Gough. After all his life-long work upon the platform, and with the high fees his fame and abilities justly command, John B. Gough is not a rich man. His private charities are as large and ntunerons as they are unostentatious, for this great-hearted man does not let his left hand know what his right hand does. He has met with frequent and heavy losses on account of the tender-hearted willingness with which he puts his valuable autograph on the back of a friend’s album for ninety davs, and the almost infallible certainty with which he is compelled to get it back again for himself when the three short months have flown. Mr. Gough ought to be worth $500,000, but like most men whose hearts are wrapped up in, and whose lives are consecrated,to some great work of ref rm, he is not a good busi ness man, and impecunious friends and suffering humanity have got most of the money the great apostle of temperance has earned by hard platform work. “ Have you spoken to pa about that vet?” anxiously inquired the oldest daughter of her indulgent mother. “No, my child, not yet. Your father is too busy with his creditors to think of pony phaetons and russet harness to match just now.” “Bother the creditors,” was Hie snappish reply. “That’s what vour father is doing, my dear. After lie has compromised yon. shall have your turnout.” If want of sense is the worst kind of Doverty we know ®° me people who bueht'to be been in the poorhoua. since their rhddliooA— Lampion. (( Affidavits Are Not Lobsters.’’ Gen. James Grant Wilson furnishes the Cape Ann Advertiser with the fol lowing pleasant gossip about old Admiral Collin —ore of the Coffins, by the way— and the great variety about Cape Cod of lobsters weighing exactly ninety pounds. Sir Isaac Coffin, a British Admiral and a member of the family which held a fa mous reunion at Nantucket, August If), was born at Boston, ami when a child lived for some years on Cape Cod. Sir Isaac came to this country soon after the war of 1812, and during the voyage he stated to the officers of liis flag-ship that when they reached Cape Cod he would show them lobsters that weighed ninety pounds ! The rules of a quarter deck do not permit you to flatly contradict an Admiral, but still some doubt and dis trust. was visible on the countenances of the Captain and Lieutenants who stood around. “Well,” sail Sir Isaac, “if you doubt it, I will make you a wager that when we reach Cape Cod I will produce a lobster that weighs ninety pounds.” The wager was made under the gracious permission of the Admiral, and when they arrived there Sir Isaac scoured the Cape, but he could not find any’ lob ter that weighed ninety pounds, so he said : “ Well, they don’t happen to be here just now, but I will obtain the affidavits of the old fishermen to prove that there are such lobsters.” And he produced a pile of affidavits, showing that when there were fishermen in early times lobsters that weighed ninety pounds were as common as huckleberries on the C ipe. Then it was left to an umpire to decide, which had lost and which had won, and by him so concise a judgment was given that if now living it would entitle him to the vacant Judgeship in the Massachusetts Supreme Court, if all his decisions were equally good. His decisions was that “ affidavits are not lobsters.” The and stinguished member of the Cof fin family, writing to his friend Commo dore Isaac Hull, in 181 G, says : “Many thanks for your kind exertions ; send the ninety pound lobster when yon can. My reputation will be saved, although my money is gone,” and in another let ter now lying before me the Admiral re marks : “ The lobster you committed to ('apt. Tracy arrived in good condition, and is considered a marvelous one here. Still my friend Sir Joseph Banks longs for one of ninety pounds.” Whether Hull succeeded in saving Sir Isaac’s reputation by sending lum a ninety pound lobster I very much regret I am unable to state, but a venerable Glouces ter fisherman whom the writer consulted ou the subject said : “ There ain’t been no siebi lolster s seen on Cape Ann durin’ the last sixty years, an’ I don’t believe any sicli were ever caught on Cape Cod.” Aunt Susan’s Suggestions to a Fretful Wife. “Hester;” exclaimed Aunt Susan, ceasing her rocking and knitting, and sitting uupright. “Bo you know what your husband will do when you are dead?” “ What do you mean ?” was the start led reply. “ He will marry the sweetest-tempered girl he can find.” “ Oh, auntie !” Hester began. “Don’t interrupt me until I’ve fin ished,” said Aunt Susan, leaning back and taking up her knitting. “ She may not be as good a housekeeper as you are ; in fact, I think not, but she will be good natured. She may not even love him ns well as you do, but she will be good-na tured.” “ Why, auntie—” “ That isn’t all,” continued Aunt Su san. “Every day you live you arc mak ing your husband more and more iu love with that good-natured woman, who may take your place some day. After Mr. and Mrs. Harrison left you the other night, the only remark he made about them was : 4 She is a sweet wom an.’” “Oh, auntie—” “That isn’t all,” composedly contin ued Aunt Susan. “To-day your hus band was half way across the kitchen floor, bringing you the first ripe peach es, and all you did was to look on and say : ‘ There, Will, just see your tracks on my clean floor! I won’t have my floor all tracked up.’ Some men would have thrown the peaches out of the win dow. To-day you screwed up your face when he kissed you, because his mus tache was damp, and said, * I never w ant you to kiss me again.’ When he empties anything you tell him not to spill it; when he lifts anything you tell him not to break it. From morning until night your sharp voice is heard complaining and fault-finding. And last winter, when you were sick, you scolded him about "his allowing the pump to freeze, and took no notice when he said. ‘ I was so anxious about you that I did not think of the pump.’ ” “ But, auntie—” “ Hearken, child. The strongest and most intelligent of them all care more for a woman’s tenderness than for any thing else in the world, and without this the cleverest and most perfect house keeper is sure to lose her husband’s af fection in time. There may be a few more men like Will—as gentle, as lov ing, as chivalrous, as forgetful of self, and so satisfied with loving that their affections will die a long,' struggling death ; but in most cases it takes but a few years of fretfnlness and fault-finding to turn a husband’s love into irritated indifference.” “But, auntie—” “Yes, well! you are not dead yet, and that sweet-natured woman has not been found: so you have time to be come so serene and sweet that your hus band can never imagine that there is a better-tempered woman in existence.” There is red and green as well as black ebony. SUBSCRIPTION-*SI.SQ. NUMBER 10 HUMORS OF THE DAY. Was Eve’s first dress made of bear skin? U naturally look P Qliar if D R C D and going to D K. — Bill Nye. In some hats the cabbage leaf moat feel perfectly at home.— Quincy Modern A rflo. Inquire : The most horrible suicide on records is that of the man who took a drink of Chicago water. — Boston Post. My father was Irish, My mother was Irish, And I am Irish stew. Yonker't Statesman. It was probably an Irish missionary who, when about to be masticated by the cannibals, originated that beautiful song : When you lose a needle on the floor, the quickest way to find it is to take off your shoes and "walk about. But some how people don’t do that way. “Gesticulation,” says an eminent actor, “is fast becoming a lost art!” He probably never saw Talmage fencing with an imaginary lobster. — Herald P. I. An Albany paper tells of a woman in this city who woke her husband during a storm and said: “I do wish you would stop snoring, for I want to hear it thun der ! ” “Confound it ! you’ve shot the dog ! I thought you told me you could hold a gun.” Pat. — “Shure, and so I can, vour honor. It’s the shot, sor, I couldn’t hould 1” A bad-tempered man : He had lost his knife and they asked him the usual question : “Do you kuow where you lost it?” “Yes, yes,” he replied, “of course I do. I’m merely hunting in these other places for it to kill time.” Not every man can tell from exper ience how it feels to be struck by light ning, but he can get some idea of it by going suddenly around a corner and meeting his mother-in-law while he is walking with a pretty girl. Boston Post. A Keokuk man succeeded in hugging his sweetheart to death. But he has no trouble in finding others. The girls seem rather anxious to take their chances on his hugging them to death. They don’t belive he can do it; would just like to see him try it. An Irish lady was so much on her guard against betraying her national ac cent that she is reported to have spoken of the “creature of Vesuvius,” fearing that the crater would betray her again. —Albany Journal. She finds her paral lel in the Yankee who speaks of the pil lowß of a portico. When a corpulent citizen endeavors to jump off the dummy of one of our cable roads while on the down grade, and falls on the track in the front of the wheels nothing gives him so much genuine sat isfatiou as, just when he is about to be crushed to pulp, to wake up and find himself on the floor beside his own bed. —San Francisco Post. How pestering little things will hap pen. A stranger in a Middlesex County village was looking for a man named Ondeck, and when he went up to a fel low and asked : “Are you Ondeck?” the fellow answered. “I reckom I am,” and the stranger tried to talk business to him and they got all mixed np in a misunder standing and had to be parted by the bystanders before they got through. And it was all on account of that confounded name. —Boston Post. English social life presents many points of interests in its slang. We have all probably read the anecdote of a young American lady in England (not a “fair Barbarian,” either) who, while play ing crocket, exclaimed at a surprisingly fortunate shot of an opposing player: “Oli! what a horrid scratch!” where ujxm a young English lady remarked : “ You shouldn’t use such language, it’s slang!” “ W r ell, what should 1 say?” asked Miss America. “Oh! what a beastlv fluke !”— New Orleans Times. Who and Whom. A too frequent error is the use of the objective “ whom” instead of the nomi native “who” in such expressions as “the men whom he says were present.” This sentence should read : ‘ ‘ The men who he says were present.” “ Who ” is not governed by the verb “ says,” but is the subject of “ were,” and should be in the nominative. “ Whom” is a stiff and clumsy word at the best. It it very lit tle used in conversation, even by highly cultivated people. It has a flavor of pedantry and affectation. The usual substitute of “whom” is “that,” as “the man that I saw,” or it may be omitted altogether in many cases. No body of any taste would think of using such sentences in conversing as “Of whom are you speaking ?” “ Whom do you mean?” These phrases may be grammatically correct, but they are de cidedly inelegant. The easiest way to deal with them is the best. “ Who is it you are speaking of ?” or “ Who is it you mean?” are equally good English, aud far more graceful forms expression.— N. Y. Star. Work is the law of our being—the living principle that carries men and na tions onward. The greater number of men have to work with their hands as a matter of necessity, in order to live; but all must work in one way or another, if they would enjoy life as it ought to be enjoyed. Labor may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honor and. a glory'. Without it nothing can be ac complished. All that is great in mau comes through work, and civilization is its product. Were labor abolished, the race of Adam were at once stricken by moral death.