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Ia r 4 - *1 4 WJt 1 i i ; , f ! ; [ ■. r - , . .- • r ' 1'" ' W- F. SMITH, Publisher, VOLUME IX, NEWS GLEANINGS, .Mississippi’s population lias incroa-od • 100,000 in ten years. •South Carolina’s cotton ctop will he 000,209 bales of 400 pounds each. 1 here are 3,019 prisoners in the Texas penitentiary. Ihe public debt of 'Tennessee is foil, 000,000. There are 70,000 head of cattle and • ••V* 0 bead of sheep in Mitchell county. Georgia has forty cotton mills, nn<f they pay from eight to tweniy-five per cent, net on tlie money invested. An eighteen pound sweet potato U among the Georgia exhibits at the At lanta Exposition, A fig hush in Mobile,- Ala., is'credited with producing annually 300 bushels of wheat. * ’,!•* \ * J Birmingham, Ala.', 'expect* two'hul-, roads to center there within the next three or four *yoars! *, ‘ ‘ * The city council Vrf Knoxville, Tonn., has passed an ordinance preventing the sale ol parlor or-otber explosive matches within Qe corporate limits. I lie Atlanta reprints an old freight bill issued for the Georgia mad forty-ond years ago. Dogs and ne-, groes were charged $3 euoli. Forty-eight application?? for divorce were tiled at Chattanooga from .July 1 to November 1, and/Wnty 110 marriage I iren. severe issued . The citizens of Sparta, Ga., have not paid any municipal' in* for over two years. The rqfuil llqiyir licenses have more than paid the expenses of the town. ... r l lie cotton crop of Alabama for the present season, notwithstanding the drouth and other disasters that beset it during the year, will not fall more than ten per cent, behinikthat of last year. 1 lie lamest block of unyrVle out in Hawkins eounfy/'Temiosseq, con tained 135 feet and weighed' 24,000 pounds and required t^veii tv-ionf horses' to draw it. ~ - A bale of cotton, was sold at Waynes boro, Ga., H few day* that had 200 pounds of sand hi the cefiteV of it. The negro who owned .it acknowl edged the sand. Three lengthy, angular women passed through Rome. Giv, a few days since to join the Mormons, They sniff the 'mis sionary told them they could jtef hus hands by going to U tah. Eureka Springs, Ark., hy pf the Governor, is now declared a city of the first-class. Within two vears and three months from the building of the first cabin, it has become second in pop ulation in the State. It is occasionally a long time between drinks in Texas. Local option is en forced on the road between Benham and t rooks, and for sixty the law doesn’t allow the tiavetyr to wet his lips. . * p Opie Read’s “Uncle Jerry” philoso phises: De ole time nigger is away. When dese ole bonefc is laid to rest in de narrow bed of eternal sleep, my sons, wid dar young buckish ways will be goin’ rulin' declaring dat <hir fodder want nebber a slabo. Chickasaw (Ark.) Messenger: On the morning of the election we ate a* nice biscuits, in which the cotton seed oil was used, as we ever saw. and we here and now declare we take no mote lard in ours. The oil is cleaner, ana. cheaper than lard, and has a better flavor. John Greenwood, of Walker's Station, Red River county, Texas, offers SI,OOO reward for the return of a boy child nineteen months old, white-haired, blue eyed. with fair complexion,_ wluqli- was taken from Shawnee Prairie, in that county. The child had a very dim scar on the back of the left hamhand a sear on the left side, a few inches'be!ovr the arm pit. *"* * ? 1 1 ‘ H Jacksonville (Fla.) Union : Mr. David l\val, of Nassau county, Fla., has gone to the Atlanta Cotton Exposition. He tHik along with him, just to show what there is In Florida, what he calls hi walking stick, which is ninety-five feet long, is perfectly straight, hewn to an eight square, and fifteen inches in diam eter. He also took a cabbage palmetto aalk, i-yxcy-one feet long to the leaves, nnd with the leaves is sixty seven* feet lonp; also, a pine Hag-pole eighty' feet '"tig, a poplar Hag-pole sixty-one feet '"tig. and a poplar stalk forty teet long :,,J d thirty-two inches diamekw; eight Devoted t(t todtfckial Inter-st, the Biffinon oi Troth, tho Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a Feople’s Givernmeut. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Astor’s campaign in New York cost him 8200,000. The temperance tidal wave is cruising about in lowa. The Government paid $40,000 for the Yorktown celebration. Smallpox is bo bad in Chicago that an epidemic is feared. Thirteen members of the next Legis lature of Virginia will be colored men. Eighty newspapers published in Ne braska favor women suffrage. The wife of Macl#,y, the millionaire, rides in a carriage in Paris which cost $30,000. The word “grease” is no longer in de mand. What is not butter is lard, and vice versa. The mines of Colorado yielded $23,- 000,000 last year $4,000,000 more than the State of Galifornis, A war lias been begun in Chicago on retail grocery stores for selling beer by tlie bucket to minors. , The Irish National Land League of this country has sent $127,835 to Ireland during the past three months. Stationary wages, with an increased cost of the necessaries of life, will have a tendency to produce strikes. '‘With malico aforethought” is what riles Guiteau. He hi sane enough to know that that sort of tiling won’t do. The simpler the ceremony the more fashionable the wedding. Dame Fashion Vmiles on the poor at last. — Berlin lias a Sauer-Ivraut Exchange. We thought tlie Germaus would eventu ally corner that article. Dakota Territory, anxious to be ad mitted into the Union as a State, claims a population of 150,000. Tim Prince of "Wales was forty-two years old the 9th of November, and he hasn’t sowed all his -wild oats yet. Seven comets have bobbed up severely this year, still the old world rolls along without a jar in the same old rut. . Talmage says when a boy isn’t good for anything they make a preacher of him, and that is what ailes the ministry. It is expected that this country and Mexjca will be in direct telegraphic eonimmiicrttiou with Peru and Brazil by June next. Including magazines and other peri odicals. there arc 11,418 publications in tlie United States. Of tins number 982 arc daily papers. Weults. who attempted to blackmail Jay Gould, is said to be respectably con nected. That always seems to let the criminal down easy like. Senator Sherman wants a law by which a creditor may persue a debtor from one State to another. He can do that now, if he so desires. The White House so completely torn upside down by carpenters and plasters, that Arthur is beginning to de spair of getting into it. Jewish* refugees from Russia and Ger many are flocking to America by the hundreds. It is expected that 5,000 will come here during the winter. Gov. D. Long, o' Massachu setts, accompanied his Thanksgiving proclamation with an original hymn of four stanzas, in common meter. Blaine is worth $1,000,000, :Jid yet his political ambition will not let him jstop at that. “ 18S4 " looks just as big to him as it does to any one else. The Chicago Tariff Convention asked for the abolition of the internal revenue, and declared for “a wise protection sys tem."’ This of itself is somewhat vague. Go”. St. John, of Kansas, charges the Brewers’ Congress at Chicago with anuiotisiug the expenditure of an un j limited amount of money to defeat the ! prohibitory law in Kausas. Adelina Patti has condescended to appear before the Cincinnati public in tho oratorio of the Messiah, December 28. Beer and music in Cincinnati will continue to go hand in band. &XB&NQK things get into some foreign INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. newspapers. A Russian journal relates to its reader, that President Arthur is an Irishman who was driven from bis coun try by England’s misrule. —— '2 he State Auditor of Indiania has bsen advised by Attorney General IbU win to open a war on the Grave} aid.ln surance Companies of other States who have been operating in Indiana, "**' 1 ■ 1 ■■■—'— -■ ' —— So many boys in Baltimore have been fatally injured through the handling of the “ toy pistol ” that a city ordinneo has been passed making it unlawful to sell the article within the city limits. The fact is recalled that Judge Folger, the new Secretary of the Treasury, was one of the nine men in the New York Legislature in 1867 who voted in favor of giving woman the ballot. Lucy D. Fisk, relict of Jim Fisk, writes a card to the New York Herald in defense of the charity of Jay Gould. She says ho has always responded to her actual needs since the death of her husband. Guiteau may be insane, but at the same time he is sane enough to know that his life is in jeopardy, and there is not a level-headed lawyer in the country who has a keener appreciation of the in sanity plea than he. Cincinnati has figured largely in the Atlanta Cotton Exposition. You see, there is a railroad from Cincinnati to At lanta, and it is fondly hoped that as a line of transportation it will have abont all it cau do in the future. The newspapers published that Jessie Baldwin, of Youngstown, Ohio, had a quantity of gold in liis house. Thieves went and blowed Baldwin’s safe open and carried off his gold to the amount of $30,000. This is additional evidence of the value of newspaper advertising. God had commissioned Welles to kill Jay Gould, but Welles was willing the Divine command should miscarry, pro vided Gould would give him a pointer on stocks. This is precisely a parallel case to Guiteau’s, with the excep tion that Guiteau was permitted to ex ecute the command.^ Henry E. Abbey has engaged Patti for thirty concerts at something over $4,000 a night. These concerts will be divided up among the large cities of the conti nent. The highest price of admission, Abbey asserts, will be five dollars, with a sliding scale dowmard. Patriotism, in Ireland, takes some curious turns. For instance, when a farmer pays his rent, a lot of patriots go and cut the tails off of one hundred of his cattle, in the name of liberty. How they propose to free Ireland with these tails is more than we know. If TnE w T ord of a crank is of any force, God is appointing a great many people in this country to go about killing their fellow men. Hwo should get in the habit of stringing cranks up as fast as they pop to the surface, there would soon be a cessation of Divine murderers. Henry Ward Beecher being adver tised to lecture before the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, a correspondent of the Jewish Messenger objects, because Mr. Beecher once said that the “ancient Jews hadn’t much moral sense and .Jacob’s twelve sons were little better than cutthroats/' The New York Christian Union-peaks in the highest terms of the devotion of Edwin Booth to his wife, whose death has just been recorded. “ Evil-minded persons,” it says, “would be put to shame if a statement of the character of Mrs. Booth’s illness and the devotion and tenderness of her husband, were made public.” * Beally we take compfcssrtou. on those persons who put so much faith 1 n Mother Shipton’s prophecy. Their con fidence in prophets is sadly shattered and they certainly feel bad over it. Mother Shiptons trash, like herself, is now dead, and it should be buried very deep. Superstition has seen its best day by all odds. Because Colombier claims to have written the Bernhardt book, Sarah Bernhardt takes occasion to remark that “if Colombier were a man she’d smash her head.” Now then, wouldn’t it looks just as angelical for Bernhardt to smash a woman’s head as it would for her to smash a man’s ? Let the smashing go on. Thu Protective Tariff Convention at Chicago recommended that the Presi dent appoint a commission “to revise our revenue system, including our tariff laws, in the interest of protection and for needed revenue,” and passed a re so Intion asking for the abolishment of in ternal revenues, in other words, it has asked for a revolution in the tariff sys tem. Mr. Price, Commissioner of Indian at last shed a ray of light on the vexatious Indian question. He says we feed the White River murderers while we compel the Uintachs to largely care for themselves, and as a consequence of this cause of treatment the Indians are taught to believe that if they are to get favors from the Government they must refuse to work and commit depredations against the Government. It does look as if there was some truth in this state ment. While boring an artesian well in the vicinity of Richmond and Carr streets, Cincinnati, a stream or vein of gas, was struck at a depth of eighty-three feet. A “cap” was put on the pipe which had been driven down, and rivited to confine the gas, but the force of the gas burst the cap off. A pipe forty feet in length was then attached to the driven pipe to convey the gas from the building, and to test the quality of the article a match was put to the gas as it escaped at the end of the attached pipe, when it ignited and a blaze shot out seven feet produc ing light equal to 500 ordinary gas burners. The phenomena is producing considerable excitement. Commandek Cheyne, of tho Royal Navy, lias delivered a course of lectures in Chickering Hall, New York, illustrat ing how it is possible to reach the North Pole by balloon. Cheyne was an officer in three Franklin-search expeditions. He desires to be accompanied by Lieu tenant Schwatka. The idea is to go in vessels in the spring, until travel by that process becomes dangerous, and then to continue in balloons, three in number, each balloon carrying three men, a sledge, Esquimaux dogs, provisions, and instruments. The distance calculated at 696 miles, can be made in eighteen to twenty-four hours, at the rate of thirty nine miles per hour. Forced Marches. In 1757 Frederick the Great marched about 160 miles 20 days; and again, after Rossbarh, a little greater distance in 15 days, but lost 300 men through exhaus tion. In 1760, with 40,000 men and 1,000 wagons, lie accomplished about 80 miles in 5 days. The same year the Austrian General Lasoy, with 15,000 men “ knocked off” 180 miles in 10 days. Prince Eugene, of Wurtemberg, to re lieve Berlin, made a forced march on the 4th of October, 1760, of 3G miles 1 day. This latter does not approach the i'eat of the Sixth Corps—3s miles in 19 hours. It may be remembered by many of those who served with the Army of the Potomac that Bimey’s First (Red Diamond) division of the Third Corps had won for themselves the nickname of “ Bimey’s Foot Cavalry,” and this title was subsequently applied to the Second Corps after the Third Corps was combined with it. In regard to the Third Corps, Army of the Potomac, the writer feels that it deserves equal pre eminence with the Third Corps of the French Army under Napoleon in the campaign of 1806. Of the latter organi zation, Marshal Davoust said to Napol eon during this, the Jena campaign, when the Emperor expressed his ad miration of its achievements and his grief at its heavy losses, “Sire, the soldiers of the Third Corps, will ever be to you what the Tenth Legion was to Caesar.” (Alison, ii., 457, 2). The ac tivity of the Third and of the combined Second-Third Corps rivaled that of Oudinot’s Grenadier’s, in October, 1805, when they actually outmarched cavalry, accomplishing 12 leagues a day, and contributed chiefly to the capture of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand’s col umn, which had escaped from Ulm. In the pursuit of the Sixth Corps kept up with the cavalry on the 6th—so says Col. Archabald Hopkins, Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, in his account of (Little) Sailor’s Creek, 6th of April, 1865—and it is claimed that the Fifth Corps had likewise equaled the speed of the horsemen, prior to the concentration at Jetersville, evening of the sth. Tue infantry, both of the Army of the Poto mac and of the Army of Northern Vir ginia, justified Lieut-Gen. Baron Am bert’s magnificent eulogy on the foot soldiers, whom he styles “ the sinews of an army.” Gen. Roche-Aymon says that cavalry is to infantry what poetry is to prose, and, he meant exactly what these words express. It is not a bad comparison, inasmuch as the world might go on without poetry, while it would be utterly impossible to get along without prose. Moreover, good poetry is very rare, whereas excellent prose is not. Poetry, too, while all very fine, is at best no more to real life than what dessert is to a dinner.— The United Service. biambling. Gambling in any form is, In the end disastrous to the one who is not “ with the bank.” No matter what its appar* ent inducements may be. the loser is the investor, the gainer the person who holds out so many inducements to the unwarv. ft is stated by those who have made some kinds of calculations that, on an average, the investor stands from one chance in H ve 40 one in twenty of gain jjjo- anything. It does not pay as a mon etarv transaction; it is ruinous morally. Give all games of chance a wide berth. Falling Stars. Astronomers divide meteors into sev eral classes—aerial meteors, as winds, tornadoes, etc.; aqueous meteors, as fogs, rain, snow, hail, etc.; luminous meteors, or those due to the action of elements in the air, as rainbows, halos, parhelias, milage's, etc.; electrical meteors, as lightnings, auroras, etc.; and igneous meteors as shooting or falling stars, star-showers, bolides or fire-balls, aerolites or meteorites, etc. In present usage, says Professor New’ton, the term meteor is generally limited to the last group, or to the igneous meteors. The meteorites are all evidently fragments, not separate formations. They are, says the same authority, in the heavens, to some extent, at least, grouped in streams along the orbits of known comets, and hence have a common origin with them. The continuity of these streams, the double and multiple character of Biela's and other comets, and the steady dimin ution of comets in brilliancy of success ive returns, seems to argue a continuous breaking up of the comet into fragments by some cause, probably by the sun’s heat. This view is strenghened by the fact that the meteoric irons and stones bring with them carbonic acid, which is known to form so prominent a part of the comet’s tail. It is now universally admitted that igneous meteors are caused by small bodies which have been travel ing about the sun in their orbits, but now come into the earth’s atmosphere, and, in general the shape of broken fragments of stone. The outside is usually covered with a thin black crust, which is evidently due to a melting of the surface in the atmosphere. There have been found at various times and places, loose iron masses that are as sumed to be of meteoric origin, because tin ir peculiar form, their peculiar chemi cal composition, and their peculiar crystaline structure are like those of the iron masses that have been seen in sev eral instances to come down from me teors. Sliooting-stars are seen on any clear, moonlight night; they leave be hind, many of them, a bright cloud of phosphorescent light ; the meteors and their trains have various colors—white, green, blue, yellow, scarlet, etc.; the duration of the flight is generally less than a second of time, but the brighter ones may last several seconds. The me teorites contain no elements, so far as we know, which have not been found on the earth, but these elements are com pounded differently from any terrestrial minerals; sometimes they reach the earth, and again are consumed in their mrse.—Chicago Inter Ocean. An Ingenious Rascal. The theater of Ofen (Buda-Pesth) was the scene of his debut, though this was made in a loge, not on the stage. It ap peal s that a certain Hungarian countess, well known for her riches and beauty (the same spirited lady who seconded her brother in a duel) graced with her presence the performance at the Aresa, or summer theater. On one of her fair fingera my lady wore two splendid dia mond rings, exactly like each other. During an entr ’ acte there presented himself in her-box a big fellow m gorge ous livery—six feet of the finest flunkey imaginable. Quoth he, in finest Hunga rian : “My mistress, Princess P—, has sent to your ladyship, to ask the loan of one of your rings for five minutes. Her highness has observed them from her box opposite and is very anxious to have one made after the pattern.” Without an instant’s hesitation the countess handed a ring to “Jeames,” who bowed with respectful dignity and retired. The performance over, the two great ladies met on the staircase, and the countess begged her friend to keep the ring at her convenience. “What ring, my dear?” Denouement! Tableau! The “pow dered menial!” was no flunky at all, but a thief, and the ring was gone. The police were informed of the impudent trick. Justice seemed to have over taken the culprit in a very few strides, for next morning the countess, while still cn robe-de-chambre, received a let ter informing her that the thief had been caught and the ring found on his per son. “Only,” added the note, “the man stoutly denies the charge and de clares the ring to be his own. To clear up all doubt pray come at once to the police station, or send the duplicate ring by bearer.” To draw the second ring from the finger and intrust it joyfully to the messenger—a fine fellow in full police uniform, together with a hand some “tip,” for the glorious news, was the work of a moment. Only when my lady an hour later betook herself radiant to the police-station to recover her jew els, a slight mistake came to light. “Well, my rings? I could not come to myself the instant I got your letter.” “ What letter, madam ?” Denouement! Tableau No. 2 ! The thief had got them both.— London Globe. The remarkable discoveries of Jenner, Pasteur, and others, showing that some of the most fatal virulent diseases may be rendered comparatively harmless by inocculation with a weakened virus, have led to the suggestion of the pos tibility of combatting tuberculosis in the same manner. It is now quite gen erally believed that this disease, hue smallpox, chicken cholera and anthrax, is due to the very rapid increase of cer tain minute organisms in the body, and it seems reasonable to hope that inocu lation with its weakened germs may produce as favorable results as have been achieved in the case of the other maladies. This is an important prob lem for science to solve. A Colorado town is called Jamfuli. Its motto is, “ Preserve us all,” and its children are all saucy. Hunky Ward Beechek says that God keeps a list of rich men who cheat their poor neighbors. SUBSCRIPTION--II.SI. NUMBER 15 HUMOBS OF THE DAT. A good port-rait—ss a bottle. Niagara Falls—and what’s to prevent It? Eli Perkins is rail mad, spelled back wards. Does it follow that a woman raises thunder beeause she puts lightning in her bread ? If you want to get rich, mount a mule, because when you are on a mule you arc better off. We should think that scarf pins would get sea sick. They are so often on the bosoms of such heavy swells. Song of the Sioux Chief as lie leaves the wigwam of liis Laughing Water : “Oh, Sioux-aima, don’t you cry for me.” “Do you know who built the ark ?” asked a Sunday-school teacher of a little street Arab; and the little fellow’ re plied: “Naw!” Chicago has a violinist who plays with his feet. But nobody but a resident of Chicago would play with his feet. — New York Telegram. A poet who was fond of oysters— Shelley. Ditto, ditto, ten pins—Bowles. Do. do. soft-shells—Crabbe. Do. do., bottles—Suckling. It is said that a girl who w’enrs No. 2 shoes and beautiful hose cau be seared into believing almost every little bit of wood or stone she sees is a mouse.— Boston Post. “A large part of our happiness,” says Mr. Beecher, “is due to our mis takes.” The printer who got bounced for setting up “ infernal ” reception for “informal ” reception may coincide with Mr. Beecher, but we doubt it. Did’st ever thou gaze on a lovely maid, All glorious, radiant, fair, And think as thou saw’st those rich red lips Of the *■ unkissed kisses” there? Because if thou did’st not, this is a good time to begin’st. Steubenville Herald. Tom Hood’s most successful poem was the “Song of the Shirt.” A great many American poets don’t sing that sort of a song, because the subject is in use seven lays in the week, and it hasn’t time to be sung about.— Steubenville Herald. She wears finest diamonds and laces, And is worth half a million, they say; Her set socialistic emi rates The fashion and wealth of the day; Her face is a model of beauty Her praises are sung o’er and o’er; But what are her wealth and her booty, When a foghorn can’t equal her snore? - Detroit tree Press. A woman may offer in excuse for her red nose that she laces too tightly, but what shall a man say ?— Exchange. O, he can offer the same excuse. He also gets too “ tightly ” by so-lacing himself. —Norristown Herald. Although the marriage of Miss Nellie Grant to Mr. Sartoris, of England, was criticised in this country at the time, Neliie did well. Her husband has an income of about .SIO,OOO and one baby a year.— Kentucky State Journal. A ballet dancer is not good for much unless she learns her business in toe toe. —Boston Courier. If her teacher knows his business heel teach her to keep in step.— Yawcob Strauss. Must she put her whole sole into it? — Steubenville Herald. Hebe’s a positive fact that occurred in one of the public schools in this city re cently : A small boy was asked to name some part of his own body. He thought for a moment and then replid: “Bowels, which are five in number—a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y.— Philadelphia Bulletin. “Was it the drum major brave?” asked one soldier of another. “Of course,” said the other ; “ how can I get up the necessary excitement, if fife nothing to stir me?” “Oh, well, a man musket courage somehow,” said the first; ‘‘ I suppose most any one cannon occa sion.” “Ye3, that is the general order, and I’m a bayonet,” said the other : “ though I wish I’d never be gun.” On the Safe Side. A Michigander who was riding along the highway near Charleston, Virginia, a few days ago, came across a negro who was grubbing out a stump near the meadow fence, and, after a few questions about farm products, the Wolverine asked: “What do you get for taking that stump out?” “ Jist fifty cents,” was the reply. “How long have you been working at it?” “Wall, nigh ’bout a week, I reckon. “And how much longer will it take V “Wall, I spects I could finish it to morrer, but I reckon I won’t do it afore Friday.” “ Why ?” “ Wail, heah am de plot. If I finish it to-morrer an’ git my money I’ll be bound to drap down to Hallton an’ bet on a hoss-race an’ lose it all. Ef I wait till Friday I kin hab de means ob gwine inter de circus at Charlestown. I knows my weakness, boss, an’ so I ze gwine to sot heah anj dig a leetle an’ sleep a leetle, an’ chop off de las’ root when I heah de circus lio’ns blowin’ on top de red skule house hill.” The Medical Student. No, sonny. When you read about a ; medical student walking the hospitals you must not infer that he takes the hospitals out walking so as to exercise them. It means that he studies the cases that are there. There are few students who walk a hospital who don’t believe that they could run one if they had a chance. — Cincinnati Saturday KiahL Ida Lewis has saved two members of a brass band from drowning. Ida’s popularity is rapidly decreasing since this rash act.