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W, F. £r$!TH, Publisher, VOLUME IX. H.YVS GLS N!NGI. Louis hum has good rice crops. - t-. i*:irge elicit nut crop in Tennessee! * will have street ears hi a -hort time. * I he; Texas Pacific railroad is ! within 100 mile* of JEi ro|o Albany Georgia has a new six-hundred dollar iirc alarm hell. 1 l)C corn cr “I> in Georgia will. be an average one. An Altanta hotel includes ten elec tric lights among it’s attractions. * Gen. Gordon will soon start a cotton factory at Carfollton, Miss. In Florida SI,OOO worth of arrowroot IS f >n an acre of land. g,' New Orleans has a butter iae facto ’) *hat turns out 12,000 pounds per day. Ue baptist of iLyncbburg,- iiav-e. completed a £22.1)0# chtm br - If’ Unit, of Mt. La* 4ir nved, arid. is and >mieiled at the Louisville. l>r. John Phinter, Grand is at tne Galt house. he . ppen) says the grand jury will indict the “Bucket Shop.” .. . A I be Nashville grand jury has indicted ahout twenty-five or thirty pool buyers; Alex. Beil, of Pike county, Ga., is 14 years old and weighs 355 pounds. * II is estimated that gold, si!ver~nnd" copper mines of the south will yield $20,000,000 this year. Mr. E. \ oung, of I‘oimsyl vanin, ha§ SIO,OOO fora prospective,ggid mine in Goochland coiinty, Va. * n artesian well hi Durham; (J. lias reached a depth of 1,6 0 feet out any indio&tiotlH of wjitor. * ' * .loliM Stewart, tlie oldest.nian in Ala ‘•Mina.lis <t*ad in Hhelhv* cmYntyr awd 102 years. •/ * n M, (Richardson, of Mississippi., 1118 V!llHe<l 12,500 hales of eoftftu Ais vcai\ '• ' * Translucent porcelain was first manii-’ factured in the United States at Slew* Orleans last spring. ( It is a crime in Georgia'fo point a gun or a pistol at another in fun yj;.„m:ilict\ whether tlie weapon Is loaded q^n^t. I he seventy-five members of_ the' new 1 at. NashvilleJare^wcltli iu the aggregate, $4,000,000. A Chaqpery case eleven years oRl; has Iwen decided at Troy, Alabama. The plaintiff got judgement for $l5O~ 1 uo American rifle team is arranging tor a shooting tournament sometime during the exposition at Atluntu. Nine hundred acres of land wore re.r eently sold by the sherfff*of MaOon county, lla., for eleven cents aii acre. MePho son Barracks, at Atlanta, will broken up. The troops will go to N>’cw York harbor to take the place of the third regiment. Eureka Springs, Ark., has' 15,00 Q in habitants, and is beginning to ape city manners. The latest affection plas tered rooms and brick chimneys. Forty thousand dollars for building ami twenty thousand dollars for a site, will be expended for an opera house at Dallas, Tex. The old city park of Charleston, S. C* has been re-christened Washington Square. A rtatue of the.father of his county will soon be erected there. The Sloss furnace now building at Birmingham. Ala., will cost when com pleted $180,000; will nmploy 250 men, and have a capacity of 80 tons per day. Anew town is springing up at the terminis of the Pensacola and Selma road, thirty-two miles from Pensacola Junction, in Conecuh county, Ala. It is expected that that the canal around Muscle Shoals will be completed in two years, when the Tennessee will be navigable from Paducah to Knox ville, a distance of 500. T here is great excitement in the local ity of the zinc mines, in Tazew ell county, Tenn , over new ‘-finds” supposed to be silver. It must lie valuable, as they will not sutler so much as an ounce of the ore to be lost. One year ago, near Clmrleston, Miss., a Mrs. Orogby gave birth to triplets, a j few days ago Mrs. C. did nothing less ] than repeal the performance. Ihe chil- I dren are all alive and kicking, and it is ' presumed that Mr. U is going through a similar exercise. r i he contract for that portion of the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad not heretofore let, ephsUilng- of about one hundred utiles indhe center of the line, has been awarded to A. J. gggggggggg of Macon, Ga. The contractors will transfer about ode thousand men to the Pensacola and Atlantic from the New Orleans and Pacific railroad,' where they are just finishing a large contract. Nashville ’World : Considerable snr -I'rise was caused yesterday'by the sale of in'Con federate bonds, part of the as lots of the Bank of Tennessee, for ?S.D(fO. he Sile was effected by Robert Ewing, Clerk and Master, ‘as Receiver fur the bank, and the buyer was Raphael J. Mf ses, Jr., of New York. One mil lion dollars more in Confederate bonds is in bis posse*-ion. Columbus Enquirer-Sun : A gentle man from Elbert county and a lady from Franklin had agreed to become one.— ! he license was procured, the minister present, and the twain stood on the floor ready to join hands matrimonially, when a former flame, of the. lady stepped in arid asked the groom expectant if the Jady would prefer to marry him would lie Interpose any objection*. He answer ed favorably, so did the lady, and the ceremony proceeded with anew groom. Lotteries In Italy. Italy, however, is afflicted with another plaguo, even more destructive than that of oounterfciting, more tremendous iu its evil results,* and which invades every , department and every class. The Gov ernment itself regulates the lotteries, with the idea, probably, pf limiting what could, not be avoided, ana profiting by it. It is said that the ammal fief profit which it derives from this tutelage is $15,000,- 000. But it is considered only a tem porary measxufe, the final aim of Italy’s statesmen being to abolish a vice which habits.of .industry and encoiir *ng< s crime. It-fuay.be e'omKmjpd uodbt . fnj. whether this is tlmbesfc waV to do it, butjthe habit was footed in fhVcharacter of the Italians. It is flow at least conducted witlj perfect lion 'esty, tlio highest fuationajios of the city taking part in the extraction of the num bers. T 1 lis ceremony takes place in Home every Saturday afternoon in a semi-circular building off the Via Ri pelta, and is one of the relics of old fames which is destined to pass away. In a high balcony in. the center, of this • copvex semi-circle are seated a delegate of the Prefect and several ‘other gentle men, wlio pass the fortunate number from one to tlie other antil it is held up to the people aud called out by a* city .guard. The people stand on the street with their luiuls raised and. their fixed on the balcony until hope is quenched in Certainty or‘satisfied with : success. The part of'ltaly most infected 'with this vice is Campania, hvhere the annual average for* eaolii inhabitant is about $1.50. Home is second* then follows Tuscany, while: Liguria sixth upon the list* Another of citizens iu Rome redeem it from this stray by industry and saving, the ahmral medium for every person bl-irig ’thirty-one francs. The system of savings bankw is wisely encojyyged by a few a .social econo mists, among whcqnjs, a Jew and a member of Parliament. This is the true weapon with which to noaibat the vices of idleness, long encouraged by the Papal Government The people have responded to the mvitationevith far greater promptitude than could have been expected. —Home Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette. Kind Words. “ I saw in de papers de odder day,” began the old man after carefully wiping the top of his head, “a leetle item ’bout speakin’ kind words to our feller-men as we trabble de highway of life. Pat’s easy ’miff to do an’ a mighfV cheap way of serubbin’ Tong, but I doan’ want no body to practice it on me. If I use men right, dey will use me right, au’ we kin trade kind words. If you meet a man in de gutter, do;m’ stan’ on de sidewalk an’ tell him dat you am ready to bust wid sorrow*, an’ dat you solemnly wish he wouldn’t do so aov mo’. Stau’ him on his feet an’ start him fur home, an’ let bis wife an’ tie poker run de kind word bizness, or hunt fur a purleeeman an’ have tlie drunkard boosted for sixty days. If you meet a poo’ man whoa* wife atn lying dead in de house ’den wipe yer eyes an’ rattle yer chin an’tell him you’d join de funeral pmCeshun if ymi only had a mule. Walk right down inter yer we t pocket fur half yer week’s wages to help pay fur de coffin an’ odder expenses. If you meet a feller-man who am out of wood au’ meat au’ flour an’ lias a broken arm to excuse it, doan’ pucker yer mouth an’ tell him dat de, Lawd will purvide. De Lawn doan’ |mnish pur vishuns fur dis market. Instead of droppin’ a tear of sorrow on de doah-step, stop aroun’ tor de wood yard an’ de gro cer sand lay down de cash to feed an’ warm de family fur a fortnight. “ When i meet a leetle gal who has i lost her doll-baby, or a leetle boy who i has stubbed his toe, I take ’em up in my ■ arms au’ Vipe deir leetle noses an 5 sot ! ’em down wid a handful of peanuts. When I meet a widder who am out of wood, an old man who has biu turned out doahs, or a workin’ m%n who’s home am under de shadder of death, I doan’ lean on de fence an’ look, to Heaben for relief. If I’ze got a dollar I han’it out. I lend it or give it or make ’em take it, an’ if Heaben does anyfing f urder dat’s extra. When you read dat it am easy to speak kind words j- st reileet dat it am also de cheapest way in thq world to help a uavbur. Turnips atp quoted at forty cents a bushel; kin !' words have no walue in de market.— Lim# Kiln Cluh. Deutfd to INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA TOPICS OP THE DAY. Sleet and snow storms are prevailing in Austria. Mexico is in for $87,000,000 in rail road subsidies. Nast, tliq caricaturist, sunk $30,000 in a Colorado mine, A tree -PL anting holiday ha3 been established in New Jersey. President Arthur’s weight is 215. Fat old widower, ain’t he ? Ex-Cadet Whittaker is reported to have joined a miuistrel troupe. A traveling paragraph says Nasi gets S2OO a week from Harper's Weekly. — . ar Parnell’s admirers denominate him the “Uncrowned King of Ireland.” Mormonism' may be doomed and all that, but their converts are increasing 10,000 a year. A locomotive now being built at Jer sey 6ity is expected to run ninety miles an hour. ThE new lecture of Judge Tourgee, “Give Us a Best,” will meet with a hearty response. Vernor is still contending for an open winter, notwithstanding all theories tend to the contrary. The expectation that the world will momentarily wind up its affairs is losing its grip very perceptibly. According to the Boston Herald, Dr. Bliss Blinks that $25,000 will impart a laudable character to his purse cavity. Miss Adelaide Fletcher purchased the Baltimore Protestant Episcojml C/wMh News at auction last week for SIOOO. California is again coming to the front with the cry, ‘ ‘ The Chinese must go.” The subject had been almost for gotten. Ghevy did a most excellent thing. Iriffionor of his daughter’s mar riage hp gave the poor of Paris 20,000 francs. ’ Sun spots are held responsible for meteorological wonders, as severe varia tions in the weather invariably occur during their presence. In nts Iwok the Shah of Persia says he did hit come to America “because of a diseh.se there called the ague, which kills foreigners in three days.” Twenty more Mormon missionaries deft a few. days ago for England. Eng land seems to be a good field for the Mormon idea to operate in. •■i- ♦' * An edition of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” is printed in London in such small type and in such condensed form that it is profitably sold at a penny a copy. The breweries iu Kansas all sus pended operations after the passage .of the prohibitory amendment, bat accord ing to accounts they are all starting up again. Mr. Chas. Darwin, the great English naturalist, has inherited a large fortune from his late brother, Erasmus A. Darwin. It amounts to nearly a mil lion dollars. The renomination of Thomas L. James as Postmaster General means that he shall remain in the Cabinec until he shall have concluded his Star Route prosecutions. The Mayor of Pittsburg vetoes every ordinance passed granting permission for the erection of telegraph fades. He holds that they are a nuisance to prop rty owners. The excitement in Ireland consequent upon the arrest of Parnell and other leading agitators is subsiding and arrests are still being made daily with no opposi tion save that of growling. "Washington is an unhealthy place, but there is one good thought about it: None except politicians are obliged to abide there, and they are pefectly will lug to take the chances. Richard Watson Gilder will succeed J. G. Holland, deceased, as editor of The Century (Scribner.) Gilder began literature in the capacity of reporter, and latterly was assistant editor on The Century. Gf.n. Grant is to have a family re union on next Thanksgiving Day. Mrs Bartons and her cliildren will sail from England in time to be present, and it is thought that seventeen members.oi tne family will sit down to dinner. The re ception will be given in the new family 1 mansion, now about completed. Mu. Walter, proprietor of the Lon don Times , known the world over as the Thunderer, is in this country with hie wife and family. He is of small stature, recent, but agreeable in his conversa tion, and, above all, regards America as singularly attractive. This is his third visit to this county. Borert Bloskie, who has just died in Wabash, Ind., had for nine years lived chiefly on dog meat, which he declared to be wholesome and palatable. His family relished the same food, and pro p to continue its use. This may be a slanderous statement, but it seems to have emanated from good authority and passes without contradiction. Sag administration in Spain is giving signs of almost republican radi cMism. Civil marriages, trial by jury, a M the legitimization of children born ont of wedlock are among the provisions of varying merit by which the most con servative of European nationalities is now startled. Colonel Steuben and party, the descendants of the collateral relatives of the illustrious officer who ivas the friend of Washington and the engineer of the siege of Yorktown, were warmly received and highly entertained at Cincinnati. They are the Nation’s guests, and are enjoying a jaunt over the continent in a most agreeable manner. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has re signed the editorship of the Christian Union, but states in his valedictory that the paper will continue to publish his sermons, and lie will m future occasion ally contribute to its -columns. His age -sixty-seven years—is telling on him, and his x>°wer of endurance is by no means what it was a few years back. There lias been entirely too much rain in the West and Northwest for tho good of crops and much damage has been sus tained. The lowlands adjacent to the Uxiper Mississippi were flooded for a week or more, the river having risen higher by eight inches than in June of 1880, and higher than it has been for the j>ast thirty years. * * ' A writer who claims to have thor oughly investigated the matter asserts, that the publishing house of Harper & Brothers is a strictly family affair, and that in tlie establishment there are fathers, sons and grandsons. None of the family can be admitted to the firm unless they have practical print ers, and each one has his specialty iu the office work. The Harpers are all blondes and all look alike. Respecting Guiteau’s autobiography the London Neivs' says : “ Guiteau has an idea that the whole civilized world is waiting to hear the minutest details of his career. The whole civilized world, on the other hand, is waiting to hear that bis wretched mischievous life has been abolished, and that the earth no longer supports this quintessence of murderous selfishness and silliness.” New Jersey owns the ideal juror of the age. He had not heard of or read of the case at issue ; does not take any newspaper ; does not know the name of the President of the United States; does not know anything about tlie sanctity of an oath, but knows that an oath is a good thing to use when the hogs get into the garden ; does not know how old he is, and doesn’t care. One thousand dollars has been sub scribed among the Free Thinkers of Tor onto to aid in the publication in Toronto of the two prohibited works of Paine and Voltaire, “The Age of Reason” and “ Pocket Theology.” A well known bookseller is prepared to undertake the publication. He has ordered from New York and Chicago fifty copies of each of the works, and he will not be in the least put out if the books are seized. The amount of money which the Peru vian Government has received from the sale of guano is estimated at $2,400,000,- 000 of dollars. All it has to show for this large sum are four or five railroads, which have cost 8150,000,000. On the night the contract for the Oroya railroad was signed Meiggs, the contractor, is said to have presented the wife of the President of the republic with a hand some bouquet, concealed in which were bills to the amount of $500,000. Granite begins to yield at a tempera ture between 700 and 800, sandstones show greater* power of endurance, mas sive limestones still greater, and marble the greatest. Conglomerates are among the weakest stones. “There are Christian families," says the examining committee of the Boston Public Library, in its last annual report, “in which the Old Testament is a for bidden book to the young. ” me reniuij oi a imj n nmituiiiropj. It’s a great thing to be a philanthro pist. So Mr. Goodlveart thought, and at the suggestion of his neighbor, Mr. .Snide, he resolved to have a grand pic nic for the poor bootblacks of the city at his elegant country house. So he sent a man to hunt up a lot of the boys and bring them out there one fine afternoon. They came, a good hundred of them, and the old gentlemen received them with smiling faces and kind words. “Make yourselves right at home, boys, and have just as grind a time as you know liow to,” he said to them. Then he left them to go it and went into the house. In about fifteen minutes his head gardener came in and asked him if he had given three of the boys permis sion to ride upon his Alderney cow, and to throw rocks and bard names at who ever objected. Mr. G. said “ No,” and went out to soe about it. He finally in duced the boys to quit that amusement, and then his coachman came and said if he wanted to have any fish in his trout pond he’d better go and stop the boys from fishing in it. He did so and began to feel rather annoyed at their proceed ings. But he stood it and didn’t scold. Presently his dog flew by with a bottle attached to his tail, and the whole gang set oil in pursuit, and ran over his flow er beds and into the conservatory and upset valuable plants, and did a neap of damage. Then he ordered the gang started for the city, and in hunting them up four were found to have just got the barn afire by smoking in the hay. Vig orous efforts, however, saved the build ing, and the boys were shipped away'* And then Mr. G. sadly told his men to try and repair the wreck while he went over to see the neighbor who suggested the affair. And they parted foes. And Mr. G. declares he is not and never will be a philanthropist. It’s harder than heimr a hern. Rosirm. Pont. Dogs as Sentries. When any one devises something sen sible every one wonders why no one ever thought Of that particular thing be fore, and on Ibis principle a great many people, on learning that Russian sentries, on outposts, are to be assisted by dogs, will pronounce the change exactly the thing. All harm to sentries, and, through their death or capture, to the foi ee of which they form t part, comes from enemies who approach stealthily ; the first shot is almost invariably fired by the foe instead of the guard. Against an enemy on the sentinel,- who must at night strain Lis eyes in every direction, is aha great dis advantage, whereas a dog lying near lfini, or in advance of him, would be quick to note any movement iR his neighborhood, and thus put the sol-tier on the alert. In the United States at the present time the dog might not oe of much service to llm army, but it Is strange that his peculiar faculties are not appreciated ’by private indi viduals who require a guard. Adosrin side a house, is worth two watchmen on the outside, for while the latter may be bribed or surprised, the dog cannot be reached, except by some one entering the house, and before the same could be done, the animal would have alarmed those inside, and given them an oppor tunity to defend their own. A lively r dog, and the smaller he is the more satisfactory he will be for household purposes, will scare a burglar- away as 'soonas lie raises his voice; for no mat ter how brave a thief may be he sees no profit in entering a ilouse where the people are aroused in time to fire on him from the dark. If instead of cherishing huge brutes to lie out of doors after dark, make night hideous and go visit ing while they are supposed to bo on duty, the householder would devote his attention to a Skye terrior and give him free range of the house at night, he might consider his property safe from molestation by thieves. —New York He y aid. A story is told of an exchange of courtesy betw*een a Scotch minister and liis parishioner, which is characteristic of both. The minister was introduced into a country living, and, in his round of parochial visits, called at the cottage of a Tittle tailor. Taking a seat unin vited, he proceeded to talk, but found it hard work, as he met with no response. The tailor sat upon the table, stitching in sulky silence. At length he spoke. “ Sir,” he said, “I regard it as an un warrantable intrusion your entering my house, and I ask you in whafc capacity you come?” “My good man,” was the reply, “ I come as your parish clergy man—it is my duty to know all my parishioners. I know you don’t attend church, but that is no reason why we should not be friends. ” To which the tailor responded ; “I dinna regard ye as a minister of Christ, but as a servant of Satan ; if ye come as a gentleman, well aud good ; but as a minister I refuse to receive you,” which could hardly be called courteous, but the tailor’s polite ness was outrivaled by his minister’s, who, rising, said ; “My good fellow, be pleased to understand that it is only as your parish clergyman that I ever dreamt of visiting you ; when I visit as a gentleman I don’t visit persons in your position in society,” with whieh he de* narted. A Georgia School Teacher. A colored “schoolmarm” in fhis county has a number of men with fami lies attending school—one forty years old. Among the number is the man with whom she is boarding, and one erf the first to receive the rod of correction was her landlord. He says she is right, and if, while he attends her school, he disobeys her commands or Jrails to com ply with her regulations; that she ought to*whip liim, and his duty is to submit to the chastisement without complaint, s —Marion Cos. (Ga.) Argus. SUBSCRIPTION--11.68 NUMBER 12 POPULAR SCIENCE* • * Soda put into sea water makes it fit for waslnngblothes. The nearer a rain-cloud is to the earth, tho larger the drops. UNDERsanqx wheels require a much larger body of water than over-shot. The diamond is rather more than three , and one-half times heavier than water. Oil or essence of pine apple is obtained from the product of the action of pufjrid cheese anil sugar. A HORNBTB nest—being the finest woolly substance known —is the best polisher for glaSs lenses. According to fceameu, a green hue of the oeeari indicates soundings, an in digo blue, profound depths. Spirits of daibphor makes a good barometer, as it is cloudy before a storm and clear in fair weather. Leeches may be induced to bite inoro readily by bathing the surface to which they are applied with milk. A body which iveighs one pound at our equator would weigh live ounces six drachms at that of the planet Mai - *. A bar held in the natural direc tion of a needle, and struck several blows with a hammer, will become magnetized. Pencil quarks can be rendered indeli ble by dipping the paper in skim-milk and ironing on Tire wrong side after dry ing. " * The largest bituminous deposits in the world are in Asphaltic Lake, or Dead "Sea, in Judea, arid Tar Lake, in Trini dad.* The icebergs of the Southern hemis pheres are much larger than those of the Northern, and frequently attain a height of 1,000 feet. . * We cannot determine the sound of a string wliich makes less than thirty vibra tions per second, or of one which makes more than 7,552. Paper can be made transparent by spreading over it,’ with a feather, a very thin layer of resin in alcohol, applied to both sides. In a number of examinations of the heart-beats of • the dying, Bonchat re corded six seconds as tha longest interval between the pulsations. The diamond is the purest crystal car bon found ill nature, Plumbago, pf which lead pencils are made, is the next purest. Coal is crude carbon. It is a popular mistake to call a thin, flaky, semi-transparent mineral isinglass. Isinglass is fish-glue, and lias notiiing to do with the mineijai, which is mica. Birr articles of delicate shades should not be in white paper, as the chloride of, lime jised In bleaching the paper will probably impair the color of the silk. . q * ~ * Dissolving five ounces of niter and the same quatity of sal-ammoniac, finely powdered, in nineteen ounces of water, will reduce the heat of the liquid forty degrees. A good microscope may be made by boring a small hole iu a piece of tin and filling it with one clear drop of the balsam of the common fir. It will magnify sev enty-five diameters. The sunbeam is composed of three distinct rays, one of heat, one of light, and one called the chemical ray. The biue or chemical ray is greater in spring, the light ray in summer. The chemical ray is less in autumn. Ip a lamp chimney be cut with a dia mond on the convex side, it will never crack with the heat, as the incision af fords room for expansion, aud tlie glass after cooling returns to its original shape, with only a scratch visible where the cut was made. Arsenic is not freely soluble in any organic mixtures and may generally be found as a white sediment, which, when thrown upon red-hot coals, gives out a strong odor like onions and a thick smoke. Common arsenic can not be de tected by the taste. To Husbands. Always complain of being tired, and remember that nobody else gets tired. Your wife should have everything in readiness for you, but you should not do anything for her. When your wife asks for money, give her a nickle; ask her what she wants with it, and when she tells .you, ask her if she can’t do without it. Then go down town and spend ten times the amount for cigars, for they are a necessity. Go down town of an evening, stand around on the street corner and talk pol itics ; its more interesting than to stay at home with your family. Charge your wife not to gossip, but yon can spin all the yams you wish. Have yonr wife get up and make fires, but don’t get up yourself till the rest of the family are eating breakfast, as you might take cold. Wear old clothes, and make yourself as untidy as possible until your wife’s health fails; then it would be best for you to fix up some, fpr in all probability you will want another when she is gone. Have a smile for everybody you meet but get a frown bn before you go home. — Physiologist. “ Jerttsha, lovest thou me?” “Yes, Michael, thou knowesfc I love thee.” “ Lovest thou me more than all else?” “Yes, Michael, thou knowest I do.” “It is well/’ said he. “But,” said she, gaz ing fixedly at the north star, “ who loves Jerusha?” “God, God who hears the widow’s and the orphan’s eery; God loves Jerusha. ” —Chicago Nettm Letter. A steel bar held in the natural di rection of a needle, and struck several blows with a hammer, will become mag netized. -