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W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. I here isn t a public clock in Mcinphi?. Texas ships $2,000,000 worth of pecans annually. North Carolina ranks tlfird in the list of cotton-producing Stated Light hundred Russian emigrants are thinking of settling in Georgia. Lawrence county, Georgia, doubled its population in the last ten years. The total acreage of cotton last year in Tennessee was 722,502, yielding 330,- 621 hales. Charleston, S. C., has decided on a paid fire company, which will cost $35,- 000 a year. Macon, Georgia, will have a tomato canning factory, owned and conducted by Northern men. Tennessee will realize as much from her fruit crop this year as she usually does from her wheat crop. Four thousand men are at work on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad from Atlanta to Rome. Yazco county, Mississippi, produced more cotton last year than any county in the cotton region. It turned out 48,321 baleH. The Constitution says over $150,000 worth of real estate has been purchased at Atlanta by the Coal railroads in the past four months. Gen. Peyton Wise haslieen elected to fill the office of bonded tobacco inspector at Richmond, Virginia. The salary is only $12,000 a year. Among the exhibits at the Talbot county, Georgia, fair were 1,200 speci mens of minerals. The owner was twenty-five years collecting them. The Florida Agriculturalist says this is the last year cheap orange lands can be procured. There is very little left, except in private hands, and it will bring big prices in the future. Two paupers in the Aiken, S. C., poor house have so arranged it that their hearts will hereafter beat the State as one. The beautiful and accomplished groom is only seventy, while the bride is ugly and thirty-three. Union Springs (Ala.) Herald: A suit for damages by a colored widow of this county against the L. and N. railroad for killing her husband was recently compromised for SSOO. The lawyers got $250, her advancing merchant got $125 for looking after the afiair and the "lone widow” got $125 to soothe her grief. Nothing like an equitable divis ion of spoils. St. Louis Republican: There is doubt less no child now living that will see New Orleans a greater exporting port than New York, but the next few years will see it make a demoralizing advance on New’ York. Within the last three years it has advanced ahead of Philadel phia, Boston and Baltimore, and within the next three it will make enough progress to cause lots of trouble for New York, however impossible it may be to surpass the trade of that city. Nashville American: For snuff-dip ping and sneezing the people of Tennes see annually pay over $1,000,000. A dealer in snuff informs us that the Nash ville merchants annually pay over $300,- 000 for snuff, and the merchant* of the city of Memphis more than that amount. The people of the Southern States con sume'annually over $8,000,000 of that article, while the people of the Northern States use comparatively none. Two firms of New York supply the South. A Pike county, Alabama, negro firs t stole a hat, a bridle from a near neigh bor’s next stuck to his hands, .going farther a mule's head became fastened in the bridle, proceeding on his journey a stable furnished harness for the ani mal, and a few miles further on a farm er’s spring wagon had joined ftafe cara van, then someone else’s bale of cotton that wouldn’t get out of his way was transferred to the wagon, and the pro cession arrived at Union Springs, where the police jailed the manager as he was bargaining to get rid Of his booty. He resisted and cut one of the policemen s throat. In order to cure her husband of drinking, a ooiored woman in South Car olina put concentrated lye in his whisky bottle. The last words he uttered were to the effect that it would be a relief to him to drop into hades to cool off, and the last words the widow spoke to the outside world, as she dodged into jail, were: *‘l nevah seed aich weak stom achs as de niggali are gittin’ nowadays; day can’t stand fiufliu !"—/Vn/Vm,' fffffff TOPICS OF THE DAY. There is every indication now that Cincinnati will have a union depot. Emigration to this couutry amounts to 1,800 souls a day, or 633,000 ft year. Extraordinary atmospheric disturb ances have been predicted for November. General Grant carries SIOO,OOO in policies on his life. Experiments are to be made of com pressed air motors on the New York Ele vated Railroad. A man aged ninety-two, at Des Moines, lowa, is suing his wife, aged eighty-five, for divorce. Henry J. Gully, implicated in the murder of the Chisholm family, is a can didate for tho Legislature in Mississippi. A Mormon elder is in prison at Ham burg for trying to make proselytes. The good are always persecuted. Chicago lias canceled the order which forbade the employment of married women as teachers in the public schools. It is said there are fewer office-seekers in Washington now than there has been for years. Miss Arthur, the daughter of the President, is a blonde haired young lady who is now at school in Albany. Mrs. Cornwallis West, the beauti ful, and Adelina Patti, the prima donna, two noted women, have arrived in this country from England. The late Gov. Wiltz, of Louisiana, left his widow and five children in poverty, and the citizens of the State are appealed to to provide for them. The stock of the wrecked Newark Bank was worth 180. After the cashier made a confession it wasn’t worth a cent. One word from his lips killed it. The Zulu Chief Cetawayo, is costing the British Government about $20,000 a year. Ho is rather an expensive pris oner. Gov. Roberts, of Texas, says he would rather walk than to rido on a rail road pass. Yes, unless there is some thing hitched to the pass to drag it along. A cannon weigliing 56,000 pounds has been Ciist at Reading, Penn. It is of rifle pattern, neatly and strongly molded, and will cany a ball weigliing 150 pounds a distance of twelve miles. It is suggested that Arthur, the wid ower, and Queen Victoria, the widow, pool their issues and give us a cheaper government. The idea is a capital one. The President ought to take it under con sideration. The Pittsbiprg-,ijhrt opinion that the demaadT ObmeTOrate bonds is brisk enough to start the printing presses to going again. During the war the Government winked at the Northern manufacturer of Confederate money and bonds. Talmage thinks there ought to be schools of journalism. There is. There a re over 8,000 newspapers in this country. They are all schools of journalism. But journalism can no more be taught in col leges than can fishing, and some men never can learn how to fish. President Grevy, of the French Re public, receives the modest salary of $200,000 a year. This, in connec tion with the fact that France is no larger than an ordinary State, is enough to make an American President feel pretty blue. The estimated cost of the Mississippi River improvement is SSO,IKK), 000. There is a diversity of opinion as to w hether the Government ought to bear the expense. The improvement will be directly felt by the Western States, but not by the East ern, hence the East will use its endeavor to oppose the matter in Congreaa. Th hat of the fashionable woman is something smaller than a wagon wheel. Asa screen in church, where the fellow just behind is anxious to take a nap, they are par excellence, but in the theater or other places of amusement, where there is always an anxiety to know what is go ing on, they must be an awful bore. The prefect of one of the first cities of Italy, who is a rich landowner, has, in this civilized age, resorted to a feudal custom, obliging his field laborers to wear an iron muzzle daring the grape harvest, to prevent them from tasting a few bunches of grapes. Stingy men who read this may be expected to turn green with envy. ——— ■ . ■ .., , , - . .j. obd to Industrial Inter, st, the Truth, the Establishment of Justiee, and the Preservation of a People’s dovernment. INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. The opinion prevails that Baldwin should have stolen the safe also out of the Ne*vark This is a reflection fin his' The safe would is, proba bly it been, 4gn|pbhere is no telling. He Could have credited it on the books and that would hft-*#* , ' h §fttisfied the Directors. All they cared for was a respectable looking balance-sheet. Buffalo has struck upon a liappy and an economical prooess of dealing with mendicants. All the charitable institu tions in that city have been merged into one, and thus the relief of one family or person by several societies at the same time is an impossibility. All applica tions for aid are thoroughly investigated before relief is granted and the result is that begging is discouraged and idleness effectually rebuked. A new religious project is on the tapis. It is that of attaching a Gospel car to railroad trains for the delectation of all who are religiously inclined and for the conversion of those who are not re ligiously inclined. It is proposed that instead of a card table there be a piano or organ, instead of spittoons, a carpet, and instead of cards, a Bible and hymn books. All seats will be arranged to face the center of the car where some good man may stand to preach, exhort or expound, as the case may be. Rev. Talmage has preached a sermon on the newspaper business. When he said “ a newspaper is the greatest tempo ral blessing God has given this country,” and, “if I had to choose between a gov ernment without the newspaper, and a newspaper without a government, I would choose the latter./’ his words were golden, but his opinion that the person ality of Writers should be disclosed proves bis lack of experimental knowdedge. Many persons unknown to tlie world are our ablest newspaper writers, and fur ther than this, the newspaper reader of to-day does not stop to inquire who wrote this article or who wrote that. He wants a record of thp events of the day, and he wants them in a condensed form, and he makes no more inquiries who the author is than does the epicure who prepared his dinner. From the London World we get an inkling of the reason why there is a de mand just now for Confederate bonds. Says the World: “The result ing from the Confederate cotton loan was not advanced because the people who took the bonds had sympathy with the Southern States, but because we needed the cotton ; and before making the ad vance pains were taken to ascertain from the highest legal authorities that it was a perfectly legitimate transaction, and that there was nothing to prevent any of our merchants agreeing to it. The cot ton on which the loan was secured was taken by the United States, who there fore remain subject to all the agreements made in respect of • it by the Confede rates. There is not much chance of this new being admitted by the United States; but as it is vouched for Oy so high a legal authority as Lord Hather ley, it may be worth mentioning. ” Plums and apples have been short in quantity this year, while pears and grapes have come to the front splen didly. The two former require more moisture than they got this year, while the latter want only plenty of heat. This is shown by the fact that plum and ap ple leaves, when the fruit is ripe, are juicy, while pear and grape leaves are brittle, showing that they have given up their moisture to feed tlie fruit. Xn New •Jersey, North Carolina and a few vxarts of Ohio, and in Arkansas, it failed ut terly, and was only medium in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Among vegetables, potatoes will be high this winter. New •Jersey produced the most, in Arkansas fair, although the latter ones are poor, and the bugs ruined them in Kansas. Tomatoes are not a full supply, sweet potatoes are plentiful, turnips are poor, and onions are not plentiful. Cktewayo, the dethroned king, it Oude Moulen, a prisoner ysfc to the English Government A recent letter from a lady who saw the ex-Africar potentate, says : “The great change 1 noticed in his appearance made me ex claim involuntarily, ‘ls he ill?’ as I stepped across the threshold, to which the interpreter replied, without referring the question to Cetewavo : ‘He is not very well, but he has never been well since he has been here.' After shaking hands, I said to him : ‘Do you like Oude Moulen better than the castle?’ To which he replied very sadly : ‘lt is all the same to me where I am without my freedom.’ In saying good by, I said that I hoped he would try and cheer up and not fret, as he would make him self ill, and that fretting could do no good. But he shook his head and ex ciaimed, ‘ 1 cannot help it/ adding, as he shook hands with me, that he ‘hoped God would bless me for my kindness.’ ” When a cashier who has stolen $2,- 600,000 is admitted to $25,000 bail, and the fact of the theft is almost forgotten within a week, the ordinary man is at a loss to collect his senses. The whole transaction from beginning to end beyond belief. Baldwin’s stealings be gan in the year 1873, by his own con fession. That was eight years ago. The bank examiner makes his rounds six times a year, hence the affairs of the Mechanics’ Bank was subject to his inspection upon forty-eight different occasions. It seems that on each of these visits the Bank Directors, must have, without knowing* testified to the accuracy of the Cashier’s reports. Then what? The Directors in whose hands the bank is supposed to be, knew noth ing of its affairs, and the President was a mere figure head. The Cashier’s word could not be doubted. He stood high in the church and came from a good family. AH his brothers stood high in the business world. Dishonesty there fore was out of the question. But dis honesty crept in aud after everything had been stolen that was available, leav ing only the safe and the stove, J3aldwin calls the Direotors about him to say he has stolen $2,600,000, and if he was not such a coward he would shoot himself, and hence is ready to go to prison. But they do not put him in prison, oh, no His bail is fixed at $25,000, just l-IQIOtI of the amount he has stolen, and for tin time being he is a free man. Who suf fers for all this? Certainly not the Directors. The law does not hold them responsible, but it ought to. If their negligence is not criminal, it ought to be. What are they there for if not to look into the affairs of the bank? If they were compelled to make good the loss perhaps their position would be something more than ornamental. Under the circumstances thieving is encouraged, and if there is not more stealing done by cashiers in the near future than there has been, it will be because there are no more dishonest cashiers. A Ton of Truth. Why is it that, in a majority of cases, the newspapers, in recording anything pertaining to continental countries that involves a mention of weights or measures, employ the terms used l>y the metric system ? The metric system is undoubtedly the best one in use, but, unfortunately, it is not thoroughly un derstood in this country, and the general ity of readers are all at s°a regarding the significance of the word. If an American take any interest in a German flagstaff, he wants to know how many feet high it is ; or if he desires to know the weight of a French pig, pounds alone will convey the desired information to iiis mind. If he is obliged to read of meters and kilogrammes, he utterly fails to grasp the idea. The staff may be miles high, and the pig may weigh tons, for all he knows to the contrary. Much the same may be said of the employment of words and phrases in a foreign lan guage. No American is so cultured that he cannot understand at least equally well an idea conveyed in plain king’s English, with this exception, that there are words and phrases in foreign tongues that are practically untranslatable, and whose force would be lost iu an attempt to render them into English. But these words and phrases are generally familiar, and in common use in English conversa tion. Such words and phrases are of course allowable. But the use of a French phrase that can be understood only by one versed in the French lan guage is snobbish. The journalist who indulges in the practice of peppering his manuscript with foreign words run a great risk. The intelligent compositor may make sad work of his best efforts, and it is dangerous to repose unlimited confidence in the proof-reader. It is no evidence to the mind of the reader that the writer is possessed of any particular erudition because he is able to handle Latin, Greek and French freely. • Any body, with a dictionary of those lan guages at his elbow, can do the same. What the general reader wants is a plain story, plainly told, in words that he .can understand —Boston Buoet. A Sure Remedy. There is no remedy for trouble equal to hard work—labor that will tire you, physically, to such an extent that you must sleep. If you have met with losses, you don’t want to lie awake and think about them. You want sleep—calm, sound sleep, and to eat your dinner with an appetite. But you can’t unless you work. If you say you don’t feel like work, and‘go loafing all day to tell Tom, Dick and Harry the story of your woes, you’ll lie awake, and keep your wife awake by your tossing, spoil your temper and your breakfast next morn ing, as (I begin to-morrow feeling ten tunes worse than you do to-day. There are some great troubles that only time can heal, and perhaps some that can never be healed at all; but all can be helped by the great panacea, work. Stonehenge, in England, Has been generally supposed to be a relic of the Druids, but one eminent antiquary gives it as his opinion that it dates still farther back, and was a temple of the fire wor shippers, belonging to the Bronze Period of Northern archaeologists. CatLDBEN have more need of models I pun of criticism. Feeling Hurried. Probably nothing tires one so much as feeling hurried. When in the early morning the day’s affairs press on one’s attention beforehand, and there comes the wonder how in -the world everything is to be accomplished, when every in terruption is received impatiently, and the cloek is watched in distress as it moments flit past, then the mind tires the body. We are wrong to drive onr selveS with wlflp and spur in this way. Each of us promised strength for the day, and we must not wear ourselves out by crowding two days’ tasks into one. If only we can keep cool and calm, not allowing ourselves to be flustered, we shall be less wearied when we have reached the even-tide. The children may be fractious, the servants trying, the friend we love may fail to visit us, the letter‘we expect may not arrive, but if to can preserve our tranquillity of soul, and of demeanor, we shall get tlirough everything creditably. Especially is this good advice for warm yveatlier. Wliofeels the heat most? Who is most exhausted and prostrated by its severity? Why, the person who flies from fails to ioe-water, bemoaning herself, who changes her dress a half dozen time a day, who laments that it is so w arm, and watches the thermome ter with despairing Certainty that it nev er was so hot before ; who, in short, in tensifies her own discomfort and adds to that' of others by constant thinking of it. Women who can stay in-doors have the advantage of men in warm weather. It is wise to air a house thoroughly in the early morning, and to keep it, as far as possible, close and darkened through the middle of the day. Dispense with a great fire in the kitchen range, and let the cooking be moderate. Fruits, salads, and simple, easily-cooked cereals are the proper foods for summer. A gas stove is an economy and a comfort. Find the coolest place to sit, go quietly about your work and make as little fuss as may be about its being warm. Let the children have frequent baths, and do not encumber them with heavy cloth ing. Common sense and an easy mind help one over most of life’s rougli places with little friction, How Barbers Learn to Shave. “ How long does it take a man to learn the baffler business ? ” asked a reporter while undergoing a tonsoris operation at the hands of a colored professional. .“Well, dat depends on how much talent he has for de business,” was the quiet reply; “ generally takes ’bout a year.” “ How do they begin,” asked the re porter. “ Dev gene’lly begins by blackin’ boots. Deu dey stan’ round an’ watch an ole barber strop his razah, an’ watch him stave. After a /while dey lets ’em put de lather on. Den pretty soon lie tries his lian’ at shavin’. Somebody comes in dat’s Very good natured, or mebby ain’t very particular how lie’s shaved, an’ dey put dar new man on to try his han’; but some ole barber always strops his razah, an’ keeps an eye on him. Mebby de new man does fust rate, an r mebby lie doesn’t. It all depends on his confidence. Confidence is de main tiling in learning de barber business.” “ Do barbers shave themselves? ” que ried the reporter. “No, dey shaves one auuder. When a barber w ants a shave, he asks a friend to do it, an’ den lie shaves de other man. Barbers never pays nuthiu’ for shaves, unless they’se away from home.” “Doesn’t a professional courtesy exist among barbers everywhere ? ” “I reckon it does, but I never heard it called by dat afo’.” Debris of Old Buildings. [New York Industrial World.] The varied materials collected from old buildings in course of demolition form enormous accumulations in some of the upper wards in New York City, where one can purchase anything in the building line from a piece of lead pipe to a magnificent French plate glass. Timber of all sort, from giant cross beams to little joist posts, can be had in these yards, where there are also win dow sashes, window weights, doors, shutters, iron * and wooden staircases, window frames, doorposts, flooring lath :ng, tiling, wainscoting, bricks, brown stone fronts, granite steps, granite col umns, iron girders and iron fronts, iron stair-frames, and, in fact, anything and everything that has ever been used in a house. Door knobs, bell handles, iron railings and balconies, not to men tion the cornices, are there in profusion, and confusion. The profits of this busi ness a re said t a be great, and while it frequently happens that large figures are paid for some houses, the profits are correspondingly great. Recently some houses on Twenty-third street were taken down, and as they were finished in hard wood, ornamented with mirrors and great spacious fire-places, the price demanded was very large, but the old brass work and glass alone paid the pur chaser for what he had invested, and the wood, stone and brick of the house was all clear profit. The two firms who do the largest traffic of the kind carry to their yards about fifty truck-loads of material a day. Thee there are dozens of others in the tr;;b who do a much more modest bus i 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 detected by the taste. Mrs. Bebva A. Lockwood, the woman lawyer of. Washington, is said to ride a tricycle and to make long excursions about the city. SUBSCRIPTION-ll.if. NUMBER 13 FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. Out of evqry IQO inhabitants of the United States sixteen live iu cities. A locomotive brinks forty-five gal lons of every mile it travels. The finest tfiyead in a spider’s web is composed of ho less than 4,000 strands. When an frang-outang dies the others cover up tlie body with great branches of trees; * . M. Le Goa¥ saw in Java a female ohimpanzee that made her bed very neatly every day, lay upon her side and covered herself with the clothes. The heat on the Colorado desert is terrifiow At Yuma the thermometer fre quently registers 125 degrees and tho air is so rarefied that objects 100 miles distant appear very near. It is noted as a curious fact that no President, from Washington to Garfield, was bom in a city, and that oniy the second Adams was even nominally a resident of a oity when elected. Some beetles, when counterfeiting death, will sutler themselves to be grad ually roasted without moving a single joint “I have pierced spiders with pins,” says Mr. Smellie, “andtorn them to pieces without tlieir indicating the slightest marks of pain.” The water-boatmen, among the most agile of water insects, row’ themselves along undCT-sfde uppermost. Their habit of moving upside down is of great use to them in feeding, for manj of their victims have hard backs, so the water-boatmen dive down and come up under their prey, thus attacking them on their soft side. The unicorn still exists in the interior of Thibet. It is there called the one horned tso-po. Its hoofs are divided ; it is about twelve or thirteen hands high ; it is extremely wild and fierce, yet associating in large herds. Its tail is shaped like that of a boar, and its horn, which is curved, grows out of its forehead. It is seldom caught alive, but the Tartars frequently shoot it, and use its flesh for food. Tiie equatorial diameter of the earth is greater than the polar by some thirty four miles. While the center of gravity remains as now the polar and equatorial regions will remain substantially the same ; but if from any cause the polar shall preponderate, then a change in polarity will ensue. Such, without doubt, was the case when the tropical elephants were incased in the icebergs of Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen. The paintings of the ancient Egyptians show that we cannot mix paints as well as they. In manufacturing metals they were our superiors. They made a sword so exquisitely that it could be put in a sheath coiled up like a snake without breaking. They had the steamboat and eanal 5,000 years ago. and they had the art of mov ing immense masses of rock, weighing 1,000 tons each. The pyramid built 1,500 years B. C. employed 360,000 men for twenty years. Twelve billions, seven hundred and sixty millions pounds of granite were used in its construction, and in dimensions it was 460 feet high. Astronomers say that the average number of meteors that traverse the at mosphere, and that are large enough to be visible to the naked eye at one place, if the suu, moon and stars would per mit, is forty-two in an hour, or 1,000 daily. The apparent size of meteors is greatly magnified by irradiation. Some of them have been computed to have a diameter of 100 or 200 feet, and others 1,000 up to 5,000 or 6,000; but this must be regarded as the diameter of the blaae of light which’ surrounds the meteor. The meteor itself, before it takes fire, may have a diameter of only a few feet, or perhaps only a fraction of an inch. The mean distance of meteors from the observer is about 105 miles. ‘■li-L-L lmiJ rVJ . - Another Love Tragedy. “I know that I am not beautiful, Adelbert, and in my jealous moment* it comes to me with a great throb—the power of beauty over a man. Soft, pearly flesh, rounded curves, sweet, red lips, velvety eyes—all the magic and marvel of tint and texture of outline— when I think of this, I say, I am in ut ter despair,” and the proud girl crushed with cruel force between her white, tap ering fingers a flower-pot that stood with others in the window. The noise at tracted the attention of her father, who was passing by, and he pushed aside the curtaia and entered. * * * “ How much will anew window cost ?” said old Mr. McAnery to his agent the next morning. “Did he take the sash with him ?” “Yes.” “ About $15.” * * * Two years later Violet Mc- Anery married a man who owned two garbage carts, four mules and a big tin trumpet. But her heart was desolate and her young love blighted.— Chicago Tribune. itABORiN'G man, don’t feel at all humil iated because of your occupation. You’re a manufacturer —you make money every day you work. —Kentucky State Journal. Sllrermaa'* L*ttrj t icket A Special from Helena, Ark., October sth, sapw “Night before last an attempt was made to as sassinate Simon Silverman while on bis way to this city. Five shots were fired at him from be hind a tree, with no other effect than to frighten the horse ridden by Silverman, which threw ita rider without injuring him. The cause of. this attempt on Silverman’s life is owing to the dis pute about the ownership of the lottery ticket which won the $15,000 prize in the Lonisiana State Lottery Company, Silverman claiming it to be his, and a Mrs. Clark claiming that she had bought it of Silverman, who afterwards purloined it from her. The ticket was taken from him at the muzzle of the pistol, and ht has instituted suit for the money. It is sup posed that the attempt on his life was made to | keip him from prosecuting the suit.” —Jfem i (A Picayune, October 19.