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W. F. &MITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. A Hancock county, Ga., farmer has a pair of oxen which weigh 3,900 uounds. Athens, Ga., has prohibited the riding of velocipedes on her streets. Eighty bushels of rough rice to the acre is th* average yield in Florida. Arkansas produced 7<*5,000 bales of cotton during the season of 1880-81. The German carp planted in Tenrn* feee ponds do not propogate well, I*arm lands in the neighborhood of Athens, Ga., bring from #IOO to #4OO per acre. It takes $30,000,000 for freight and insurance to place a yeai's cotton crop in the, New England cotton market. Over fifty thousand bales ol cotton were exported from the port of Savan nah last week. There are fifty females in the North Carolina penitentiary, two white and forty-eight colored. Wild turkeys are plentiful in the country adjacent to New Orleans on account of the protection accorded them by the game laws. A rattlesnake six feet long and twenty inches in circumference was killed recently in Rutherford county, Teun. Oeer, squirrels and pheasants are said to be very abundant in the Shenandoah Valley region this fall. Partridges are scarce, while wild turkeys are about an average. 1 he Alma (Ark.) Independent knows men who saw their wives and children put in, make and harvest this year’t crops, and are now investing the pro seeds in cheap whisky. On the wharf at Key West, Florida, are two sticks of mahogonv. One measures twelve feet in length and is fourteen feet two inches square. The other is three feet eight by three feet two inches in thickness. TliSe cotton States consume 42,252,244 bushels more wheat than they raise, and pay to the North for wheat, corn, oats and hay $150,000,000 annually, which is equivalent to that amount of being literally squandered by Southern people. The net profits of the cotton factory owned by the Tennessee Manufacturing Company, Nashville, for the year were $46,000. The company declared a divi dend of ten per cent. Arrangements have been made for the erection of an other mill at a cost of $250,000. In a quarrel between Capt. Frank Sul livan, of the bark Potter, at Charleston, k* C., and a Portuguese seaman named Sylvia, the latter drew a knife. Sullivan said to him that liedidn’thave “spunk” enough to cut anyone. To prove he had, the Portuguese drew the knife across his own breast, inflicting' a deep and painful wound. The Natchez and Jackson, Vicksburg and Ship Island, the Mobile and North western, the Durant and Lexington, the Greenville, Columbus and Birming ham; the Aberdeen and Elyton, the Columbus, Fayette and Decatur; the Zazoo City and Canton, the Meridian and New Orleans are some Mississippi railroads that for the present only exist on paper. Mrs. Jane Gornto. a widow living near Wi ightsville, Ga.. sent her son for quinine. The clerk gave him a bottle of morphine, which he made in pills and gave his mother. She died in forty eight hours. In Atlanta the rain drops that fall oft the western side of the roof of the First Baptist Church find their destina tion in the Gulf of Mexico, while thise which fall from the eastern side of the roof meander to the Atlantic ocean. Gen. Jubal Early lives at a Lynch burg hotel and practices law. Although not yet seventy, he is as bent and bowed as a man of ninety years. His drooping shoulders, his long gray beard and flowing white hair, and the strong *taff on which he leans, makes him look Hke the ideal Rip Van Winkle. He wears the Sonthern gray yet, and his still vigorous mind is full of fire. Marion, Georgia, is only a shadow of her former self. In days gone by twenty faro banks flourished there. It was no trouble at all to raise three or lour thousand dollars for a political barbecue, and the floating voters of the county were entertained in regal style— wined and fed upon the fat of the land At the hotels and public houses under the surveilance of the agents of one or the other political parties fur a month 1,1 more in advance of election day. ggggg Devoted a Industrial Inter st, the Ditfu innoi Truth, the Establishment of Jnstite, aud the Preservation of a People's Government. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Boston is to have a free Hebrew school. Petroleum oil has been discovered in Colorado. There are 268,830 pensioners in the United States. President Arthur will sign no tem perance pledge. Smoking is not allowed at polling places in Boston. Tennessee has supplied the Mormons with 125 converts. Guiteau is pretty certain to live through the holidays. Judge Folger has taken charge of the United States Treasury. American oleomargairine is sold for Holland butter in England. The World’s Fair project seems to have about fallen through with. The desire for American independence is manifesting itself in Canada. Baldwin is very contrite. He calls himself both a knave and a fool. The production of raisins in California this year is estimated at $500,000. Susan B. Anthony wants the name of Pullman cars changed to Pull-man-and wornan. Froude is of the opinion that England can not rule Ireland. May be she can’t, but she does. The New York Produce Exchange has decided to erect a now building at a cost of $2,000,000. And so the Star Route rascals escaped the first batch of charges? Still the charges remain. Keely, the motor man, asks for three months more to perfect his invention. He may have it. The stars and stripes were vociferously cheered in the streets of London on Lord Mayor’s Day. It requires but twenty-six hours now to go from New York to Chicago. The distance is 900 miles. It is estimated that $60,000,000 is in vested in jewelry in the United States, exclusive of silverware. Brady’s anxiety lor vindication seems to have waned—gone clear out. It must have been a myth in the first place. New York has responded most liber ally to the appeal of the Michigan suffer ers. She contributed something over $125,000. Archibald Forbes, the war correspon dent, will write a serial for a London newspaper under the title of “The South of To-day.” And now, for personal comfort, we long for just one slice of the warm weather we had last summer to stir in with the winter. Coal at Cincinnati sells at $5 a ton, and Cincinnati is on the liver leading to Pittsburg, too. It seems that the coal crop failed also. Siberla has a population of 1,385,000, and has an area of 8,000,000 square miles. Russia claims that her object is to populate the country. The Courier-Journal says that in New Jersey it is “ Over the Bank to the Poorhonse.” This is not quite right. For “ Poorhouse ” read “ Money-vault. ” St. Louis has eleven murderers in jail, and the papers intimate that if there is not a “hanging bee” soon, the citizens may lose control of themselves. Public opiuion respecting the guilt of the Star Routers has not been affected a particle by the dismissal of the case on a technical flaw. They still stand con victed. A hotel is to be built in Toledo in which there will be no bar-room at tached. but in its stead a small chapel whore guests may hold religious ser vices. Those who expect to hear Adelina Patti sing may as well commence now ito save up their money. From all we can learn the popular price of admission will be $lO. Clara Louise Kellogg is soon to be \ married, and the happy mortal is named INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. Whitney. They say he followed her about and deviled her till she just had to give up. New York seems to have oaueltt the disease from Ohio. The election returns show that they did a great deal of scratching there. The ticket elected is a mixed one. Fanny Mills, living at Snndnskv, Ohio, has very large feet, as feet go. Hie right one is twenty-two inches lona and the left one nineteen. She origi nally lived in Chicago. It looks now as if the consump tion of smoke in Cincinnati is to be an actual fact. The ordinance has passed both Boards of Common Coun cil and been signed by the Mayor. Mahone is a man of very small stature and light weight, but there is perhaps not a man in Virginia who feels his heft more than he does. Just mow there is something more than a ton of him. Mrs. Sartoris nee Miss Nellie Grant, her husband and two of their three chil dren are visiting the old folks in New York, but some how or other, are not attracting so much attention as usual. When Gladstone rises to speak he clasps his hands behind his back. This attitude prevails, however, only during the opening sentences. Once warmed up, his gestures are rapid, almost furi ous. Mr. Labouchere, in his journal, Truth , declares that the late Baron James De Rothschild lost on the Bourse in October 80,000,000 francs or $16,000,- 000, and that this loss was the cause of his death. Patti will start out by singing “Home, Sweet Home,” because, she says, America is still her home, and she expects an encore that, when sized up, will look something like a hundred thousand dollars or thereabouts. It is hard to believe that Brady was in earnest when he demanded an early trial and consequent vindication. He doubtless is willing to wear the stigma that has been placed upon him for the profits he has made in the Star Route business. A negro woman living in Meridan, Mississippi, has given birth in thirteen years to fourteen children, six pair of the children being twins. The father of these children, who is sixty-four years of age, is the father of thirty-seven living children. Harvard University replied to the re quest of Miss Kate E. Morris, a graduate "'f Smith College, for admission to can didacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, that “the corporation are not prepared to admit women as candi dates for a degree.” The editor of the Indiana Statesman, at Terre Haute, has been sentenced to twenty-five days in jail and to pay a fine of S3OO, on conviction of criminal libel. As an editor’s avocation is that of think ing, what a golden opportunity this will afford, and no annoyances, either. At the approaching coronation of the Czar and Czarina the ivory throne of Constantine, the last Emperor of Con stantinople, is to be used. The Czarina is t > occupy a throne adorned with 876 diamonds and rubies, and 1,223 sapphires, turquoises and pearls of the first water. Mllf. Elise, the famous circus rider of Paris, is credited with being a daughter of the Emperor of Austria. Her circus dress is spangled with diamonds, and diamonds gleam from her hair as, stand ing with one foot upon her flying steed, she directs with her other toe the atten tion of her audience to the zenith. According to the extra census bulle tin just issued, the great wheat States are Illinois, which raised 51,000,000 bushels; Indiana, 47,000,000; Ohio, 46,- 000,000; Michigan, 35,000,000; lowa, 31,000,000; California, 29,000,000; Mis souri, 25,000,000, and Wisconsin, 24,- 000,000. In three States were produced nearly three-fourths of the whole wheat crop of the country. The King of Asliantee is a very good sort of a being. The State buildings needed repairing, and he desired to show bow sacrificing a personage he was, and so he had 200 young girls, or maidens, killed for the purpose of using their blood to mix the mortar. He neglected to tap his own fiendish heart, however. These massacres, it is said, are custom ary with the king. It is reported that the Sultan has ordered the ruins of Solomon’s Temple to be preserved, and the surrounding place, to be cleared of rubbish. Near the place stands the Mosque of Omar, the revenue of which is said to be £150,- 000 a year. Hitherto this sum has been sent to Constantinople, but it is now to be appropriated to clearing the site of the Temple. This act of the Sultan is believed to be a result of the visit of the Crown Prince of Austria to Jerusalem. Mr. Parnell, the Land League chief, owns some house projierty in Dublin, on which the tenants complain of very high rents, but he states that tl: :> tenants are of the landlord class, and that such pi’operty is not to be regarded in the same category with agricultural. His agricultural property consists of 4,678 ncresin the County of Wicklow, estimated by Griffith’s valuation at £1,245 per annum. The farms are let at the poor law valuation, which in some parts of Ireland is higher, in others less, than Griffith s. Rents are regulai ly paid. Arabs are very lively in talk, quick, fudof gesticulations and arguments, in quisitive, great chatterers, shouters, and screamers. They surpass Jhe Jews in fanciful names. From the swarms of girls in the seminary at Beirut, con ducted by American ladies, the follow ing names have been set down in Eng lish translation : Miss Fascinating Fly Miss Sociable Slider, Miss Safe Chatter er, Miss Victor Camel Driver. Miss Benevolent Old Shoe, Miss Pink Thick Lip, Miss Enough, Miss Diamond Mo lasses Maker, Miss Blessed Butter Maker, and so on. Learn a Trade. It is very evident that a great dis proportion exists, as regards education, between that kind which is needed and is of practical importance, and that which is not; but which thousands ac quire without any definite purpose; and if they decide upon some pursuit it is not chosen with that regard to their q ualifications and deficiencies which the importance of the question requires. The young man who thinks he will be a lawyer, a doctor, or a minister, and hopes to attain success, must decide on liis choice of any profession by some thing beside- his own ambition and con ceit in the matter as to his fitness and ability for the same. The desire to fill a high and influential position is laud able only when it is not disproportion ate to one’s ability. One of the strongest incentives that influences many to rash into the pro fessions without that careful delibera tion which the subject demands, is the idea tliat those avocations will reflect more honor and credit upon them than a trade, but instead of such honoring the profession, the reverse is glaringly apparent, that a large proportion of them are sadly out of place. It does nut require much to see that one had better be a good lum berman than a third-rate lawyer, a first class mechanic than a quack doctor. There are those who have spent a great deal of time and money in study ing Latin and Greek, and many other things, which never did them any good, practically speaking, and have learned too late that them time might have been employed to far better advantage. Many young men, after years spent in misdirected effort, have had to resort to anything that offered. Of this there are instances too numerous to mention. The world is full of so-called educated men who don’t know anything of any importance, considering the kind of knowlege which the needs of the country demand. There is a need of skilled me chanics, capable, active men, instead of doctors, lawyers, ministers and clerks. It is a question of great importance not only to the young, but to the parents,* this of preparing tlieir children for a business wherein they can not only earn their daily bread, but secure to them selves some of the comforts and conven iences of life, and an honorable position in tha world. When people get out of the prevailing but foolish notion of thinking that it is more honorable to have a profession than a good trade, and when the reverse of this rather is taught to the young, it cannot fail to have a judicious tendency toward correcting an error which has been fostered long, and lies close to the interests of all. If every man had an occupation that was chosen because he was better fitted for it than for any other, he would be in a condition to enjoy much in life, and bis sphere of usefulness and influence would be greatly enlarged. Practical education, with a careful consideration of one’s abilities and deficiencies, with an adaptedness to the wants and needs of our land, cannot fail to make our con dition much pleasanter and, our labor more remunerative. An Indianarolis scissors grinder claims to have been with the Duke of Welling ton in forty battles, and that he received 132 sword cuts and eleven gunshot wounds. We don't believe the Duke of Wellington had any use for a scissors grinder. The Duke was not editing a paper, as we understand it. Still, if the Duke did have a scissors grinder, who went around with his grinding machine, inging & bell and shouting the way fiiev do nowadays, we don’t blame t ! e Duke’s neighbors for stabbing him 132 Hmps and shooting him eleven times with a gun. He deserved it.— Peck's Sun. —: Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of anew degree of pro gress in the world, but they bear, fruit only aft*? JtM*- Adulteration. There seem to be very good reasons why the pessimists should call a halt upon the genius of invention until some force can be made available to regulate liis movements. It is very generally acknowledged that the world is growing better as it grows older, and no doubt it is, but tlie progress of invention and dis covery, although in the main beneficial to mankind, is bringing forth things that must of necessity exert an injurious in fluence. Charles Reade, in one of his novels, speaks of some old solid silver plate, made in the ancient days when things were made honestly. “Not,” he says, “because the workmen were more honest than they are to-day, but because they didn’t know how to cheat. ” As the world grows older, people learn more and more how to cheat, and the people who don’t want to be cheated have to study closer and closer to learn liflw to cii’cu in vent it. It is a good deal like the inventions of armorers. Every few years a gun is produced, the projectile from which will pierce any known obstruction, and then other armorers exert themselves to get up an armor that it cannot pierce. And so it goes on, and the wonder is where it is all to end. It is so with in vention and discovery in other directions. Chemists are finding out more and more how to adulterate food and its ingredients until it is almost dangerous to eat any thing but primary substances. Ever ami anon accounts appear in the papers of a family poisoned by eating or drinking this, that or the other, until one hardly knows what indulgence of appetite may be considered safe. There is a standing appeal to legislation to correct these evils, but legislation, although it may have mitigated the danger, has not, as yet, entirely removed it. It would seem to be an easy matter to treat this subject in a way to assure the* people that what they eat and drink need not prove in jurious on account of impurity or adulteration. If there is an offence in the calendar calling for the most cond’gn punishment, it is that of adulteration. Let us have laws, and an enforcement of them, that will make it safe to eat and drink what purports to be healthful and nutritious. —Boston Budoet. A Drop of Water. We read frequently of the drowning of good swimmers, who suddenly sink in the water without any apparent cause. The common explanation of such an ac : cident is that the swimmer is seized with cramps; but an English naval officer offers a different solution of the phenomenon. He bases his theory on liis own experience. His ship was lying for a long time off Aden harbor, aud it was the practice for cricketing parties to swim from the vessel to the shore every evening, having their clothes sent in a small boat. Of course there was a race to see who would get to the beach first. The writer in the course cf a sharp struggle for the lead opened his mouth to breathe, and some of the spray flying in the wind got into his throat and took the passage down the trachea. “I could neither,” he says, “get any breath in, nor any out, and I soon began to feel that I was dying on top of the water. There must have been a dozen men close to me, but I could not speak, much less call to them. I kept swimming on for the shore. In about thirty seconds my senses began to leave me. I ceased to swim, and my legs went down, when luckily for me they touched the bottom ; a violent jump helped me to cough up the drop of water. I staggered on shore and fell quite exhausted on the beach, much to the surprise of all the men with me. ” It is the opinion of this gentleman that many fatal accidents to swimmers are due simply to a drop of water in the wind-pipe. A conclusive proof that they ai’e not due to cramp is a fact that a man rescued within two minutes of sinking in this mysterious manner is beyond all hope of resuscitation. Home Life for the Blind. In an address before the College for the Blind, at Upper Noiwood, Henry Fawcett, the blind Postmaster General of England, said that, speaking of his own experience, the greatest service that could be rendered to the blind was to enable them to live as far as possible the same life as if they had not lost then sight. They should not be imprisoned in institutions or separated from then friends. Few who had not experienced it could imagine the indescribable joy to them of home life. Some persons hesi tated to speak to the blind about out ward objects. There could be no great er error. The pleasantest and happiest hours of his life were those when he was with his friends, who talked about every thing they saw just as if he was not present; who in a room talked about the pictures, when walking described the scenery they were passing through, and who described the people they met. When with the blind, people should talk with them about and describe every thing they saw. The speaker concluded by remarking that there was plenty of good will to assist the blind, but what was required was better organization. A Cheerful Set of Folks. The Lepchas, of India, are Buddhists, short in stature, bulky and of fair com plexion, their features being distinctly of the Mongolion type. They are gross feeders, gorging themselves constantly to repletion, and eating the flesh of the elephant, rhinoceros and monkey. Their habits are nomadic. They do not usu ally live longer than three years m one place. They buy their wives for prices varying rom 40 to 500 rupees, and, if they ve no money, will serve their fathers- -law as bondsmen in recom pense. Old men’s eyes are like old men’s memories ; they are strongest for things a long way oft. SUBSCRIPTION—SI.S9. NUMBER 14 FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. One oyster may lay as many as 2,000,- 000 eggs a year. A blow from the leg of an ostrich will break a man’s leg. A wolf, like a tiger, having once eaten man, prefers him to all else for a dinner, and if lie attacks a man it is proof that he has already dined off on# or had hydrophobia. The sea cucumber, one of the curious jelly bodies that inhabit the ocean, can practically efface himself when in danger by squeezing the water out of his body and forcing himself into a narrow crack —so narrow as not to bo visible to the naked eye. He can throw out nearly whole of his inside, and yetlive and grow it again. According to a w riter in Nature, the small migratory birds that are unable to perform the flight of 350 miles across the Mediterranean sea are carried across on the backs of cranes. In the autumn many flocks of cranes may be seen com ing from the north, with the first cold blast from that quarter, flying low', and uttering a peculiar cry, as if of alarm, as they circle over the cultivated plains. Little birds of every species may bo seen flying up to them, while the twit tering songs of those already comfortably settled upon their backs may be dis tinctly heard. But for this kind pro vision of nature, numerous varieties of small birds would become extinct in northern countries, as the cold winter* would kill them. Bank of England notes are made from pure white linen cuttings—never from rags that have been worn. So carefully is the paper prepared that even the number of dips into tlie pulp made by each individual workman is regis tered on a dial by machinery, and the sheets are carefully counted and booke* to each person through whose hand* they pass. The printing is done by a most curious process within the bank building. There is an elaborate ar rangement for securing that no note shall be exactly like any other in exist ence ; consequently there never has been a duplicate bank note except by forgery. Tlie stock of paid notes for seven years is said to amount to 94,000,000, and to fill 10,000 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would cover over three miles in extent. In England the north side of a church yard is objected to as a place of burial. The old ecclesiastical reason is this ; “ The east is God’s side, where His throne is set; the west is man’s side, the Galilee of the Gentiles; the south is the side of the angels and of the ‘ spirit" made just,’ where the sun shines in its strength. The north is the devil’s side, where Satan and his legion lurk to catch the unwary.” Some churches have still a “ devil’s door” in the north wall, which was opened at baptisms and commun ions to let the devil out. Miles Ever dale, in his “ Praying for the Dead,” A. D. 1535, says: “As they die, so shall they arise; if in faith in the Lord, to ward the south, * * * and shall arise in glory; if in unbelief, * * * to ward the north, then are they past all hope.” The disproportion of the costs of a lawsuit to the damages obtained was probably never greater than in a case argued bj William H. Seward in 1848. A newspaper addressed to a Miss Felton was received at the Syracuse postoffice. The Postmaster refused to deliver the paper without letter postage, because the initials of the sender were on the wrap per. The lady sued in a Justice’s court for the value of the paper, and was awarded 6 cents damages. The Post master appealed, and the case was car ried successively to the Court of Com mon Pleas, the Supremo Court of the State, the Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court, each af firming the original decision. When the case entered the last tribunal $136.90 in costs had been added to the 6 cents dam ages. The Wyoming Method. San Francisco Chronicle. They have learned how to live in Hil liard, Wyoming territory, and are pleased with their lesson. As often as they get out of meat they replenish this way: A band of wicked-looking citizens go down to the Union Pacific track a ways, to where the trains run slowly and await the passage of the through express with its palace cars and tender passen gers. As it is heard in the distance they take their places. A stuff man made of straw is laid out beside two deal coffins, a bit of baggage keeping his face from being seen, while the gang gather around a living victim, whom they are about to hang to a telegraph pole. It is a slim chance for the poor fellow, but the pas sengers run wild at the sight. The train is stopped. Volunteers run back to the the scene. Explanation: Two noted horse-thieves are the scourge of the dis trict, survivor penitent now, but the best time to hang him is when we have him He’s done thousand’s of dollars of damage. This suggests a ransom. The passengers take up a contribution and buy the poor devil’s life for him. Then they carried him on to Hilliard and leave him. “Citizens in carriages” come riding home later with the ransom, which they divide without a quarrel, and there is peace and pleasantry in Hilliard. Adifocebe is an oily, waxy substance, formed from the soft parts of animal bodies buried in damp soils or under water. It is the substance that human bodies sometimes change into, giving rise to the idea that they petrify. The king-becoming graces— devotion, patience, courage, fortitude.