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W. F. SMITH, Pnblisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. _JBear meat is selling in Little Rook at five cents a wound. The Bristol and North Carolina Nar row-guage railroad has been abandoned. Real estate at Atlanta has advanced fifty per cent since the opening of the Exposition. 1 he Baltimore Packing company will pack firth, oysters and turtle at Apalach icola, Fla. Decatur, lenn., has given up its char ter of Incorporation to get rid of whisky saloons. white persons left Greens boro, Ga., recently to seek homes in Ar kansas. J’as-enger Depot at Atlan ta will be illuminated by an electric light. Twenty-five nuns of the order of the Incarnate Word, from Fiance, are en route to Texas to engage in educational w °rK in a con vent of their order. Two live-oak trees are now growing within seven miles of Palatka, Fla., which measure respectively thirty-six feet in circumference. During the past fiscal year Savannah exported fSQ, OOO,OOO ftiore than Boston, $.11,000,000 more than Baltimore and $G0,000,000 more than Philadelphia. The Little liock'and Fort Smith rail road, in Arkansas, makes no charge for carrying seed wheat to all stations along its route. The orange crop of Florida r tliis vear 'is now estimated ..85,000,000„ alVof which'but about 5,000,000 will be ship ped out of the StAte. There is a monster orange tree near hort Harley, Fla., that measures nine feet one inch in circumference. It is over fifty years old, and some seasons has had over 9,000 oranges on it. A German"professor who is gathering materials for a nistory or tills country is quoted assaying that he £ ’tprised at the superior appearance f§nl intelli gence of the white laboring class rtf the South when compared with that qf the North or t’ at of Europe. In Union countv, Ga., veins of mica from five to fifteen feet wide have been found, which are intersected by innu inerable smaller veins of the purest quality of this valuable mineral. A company has been organized o develop it * • y Mr. Ben Hilliard, of Washington county, Ga., is perhaps the greatest suf ferer in the world. He has been thirty three years in his bed, eaiditring the most excrutiating agony from rheumatism, being unable to move any part of his body except his lower jaw, and to slight ly shrug his shoulders. For all those long vears of suffering fcis joints have been as stiff as if grown together solid. f * * > Last week tb<rMexican Gongress grant ed a pension of a month ta Mrs. Augustina Ragtirez. Her claim upon the bounty of her country is the follow ing: When the French invaded Mexi co, Mrs. Ramirez was the happy wife of Severiano Rodfiguex, and the proud mother of thirteen children,.all of whom were grown tip men. fler husband and her sons all took up arms to repel the foreign invader, a’d extraordinary as it may seem, they were all killed in a bat tle during the intervention. New Or'eans Times : To take a horse back ride over each parish in this State one would be surprised to see thousand* upon thousands of acres of the most fertile lands to be found on this conti nent, lying idle, bringing in no revenue, doing no one any good, but burdens to the owners, cankers upon their energies, their labors and their pockets/ You as* if these lands are for sale.? Ob, wes; ail* for sale can he ho ught almost at you r own price. But who is the owner? Don’t know. How is a man to get it ? Don’t know, and so on. Within the last two week a very large vein of pure lead has been found in the Magruddr mine'. The‘first large piece taken out weighed 260 pounds, and was sent to the Cotton Exposition as a fine specimen. But a day or two after an other solid piece was taken out which weighed 356 pounds. to Augusta to the President of khe com pany. Since than'another large pifec€, which will weigh not less tfian'Boo lbs. has been dug out, hut has not heefi.Rais ed to the surface of the ground." This is pure without rocks or foreign substance, and is ready for use as it comes out of the gwtuod. {Washington (Ga. Gazette. v „ ggggggggggglJtitMle ffwrgia |9Sj| TOPICS OF THE DAY. Rev. Mr. Beecher is in favor of tax ing churches. British Parliament has been pro rogued to February 7. The country is flooded with unhung murderers. Where is the remedy ? Over $252,000,000 are locked up in the United States Treasury at the pres ent time. Firk insurance is said not to be a pay ing ia vestment in Russia, owing to the numerous fires. Guiteau is about the only murderer we know of who enjoys the luxury of two breakfasts a day. Special prayer for the conversion of Bob Ingeraoll to the Christian religion i3 being suggested. The iron manufacturing companies of St. Louis have consolidated. The total capital stock is $5,000,000. Senator Jones, of Nevada, expresses the belief that there will be no change made in the New York Collect or ship. The proof-reader is the only person who read* a President’s message entire, and the proof-reader is to be pitied. Soovelle is ’ trying to prove that he married into a family of lunatics. By wbfl’f process he retained his own mental equilibrium is not explained. ", ■ . The projeofc of publishing an official journal in Cincinnati is' being* dismissed!' Excessive charges for advertising by the city papers is thq cause of it. Although Cincinnati is supposed to be consuming her own smoke now, the atmosphere is as heavily freighted as ever with minute atoms of coal. (xtttteau has e horror for the word *%mur<|er. but-thgre is something mel tartious to him in . the moved.” Let Guiteau bo “removed” then. *?'... Tfttt; fund for the establishment of a Garfield Professorship at Williams Col lege now reaches SIB,OOO. of which more than one-half was contributed in New York City. After January 1 no child under twelve years of age can be employed in any manufacturing establishment, in New Hampshire, except during the regular school vacations. Several accomplished females are conducting a systematic blackmailing scheme in Detroit, a number of the most prominent citizens having already fallen victims to their machinations. And now it appears Sarah Bernhardt has been stoned because her ancestors were Jews. People are not careful enough about their ancestry anyhow. We all did wrong in letting Adam do as he did. According to the testimony of Mrs. Christiancy’a mother, in the Christiancy divorce case, Mr. Christiancy is profane, a drunkard and a wife-beater. It takes t fellow’s mother-in-law to lay him out when she makes up her mind to it. * Haste Cdaxton, the actress whom the fire fiend a few years ago chased about the country, and whose presence in a theater was equal to a panic, is now per forming to an audience of one, and it’s a wee tiny little girl, just the sweetest thing in the world. If or a week after Thanksgiving Gui teau complained of not feeling well in consequence of over-indulgences. Is it not an outrage that persons oharged with crime should be made to suffer by an excess of good things before he has been pronounced guilty ? So&ss statistical genius should comp le a table allowing what proportion of those who commit murder in this country are hanged. We are not in possession of sufficient knowledge on the subject to stale with any accuracy, but venture to say that not over five per cent, of them feel the halter draw. Judge Cox, manager of the Gniteau circus at Washington, was himself the counsel of Mrs. Surratt, one of the con inffittOraicon vietodwf -plotting the assas sination of President Xusoohi. Go®, we believe, ife charged with .not fully appreci ating the solemnity that should pervade the proceedings in Guiteau’s case. Whew a bank cashier defaults in the East, the people lionize him, but tho hank cashier who defaults in the West is expected to make his peace with Jesus . just ap quick, as he. can. Somehow or IMi.t <1 to Industrial Intinst, the Diffa>im ol Truth, tbe Establishment of Justice, aud the PreservatioH of a People’s Government. INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA other they don’t give an honorable citi zen a chance in the West to become prominent as a shrewd financier. As mutilated coin does not now pass current, and the fact that the country was literally flooded with it, brings up the question, What has become of it all? Evidently it is all in somebody’s posses sion, aDd lucky was he who early in itr depreciation began to refuse it. It is just probable, however, that the church contribution box can give Borne informa tion on this point. An examination inb® th® book* of th® city government of Philadelphia, a 1 though just begun, indicate* that tie amounts of which that city has been de frauded is startling. The books ffidi cate, by raised figures and that the process of stealing ws* com pletely systematized throughout tho Comptroller’s and Tax Receiver’s depart ments. Henry Ward Beecher says “he who is sane enough to organize tha elements of crime and accomplish it is sane enough to be hanged,” a kind of philosophy that irritates Guiteau immeasurably, and Guiteau takes occasion to reply in Court by pronouncing Beecher p lecherous old villian whose life has been devoted to the ruin of women. By the way, is a wit, who is ready at repartee, a lunatic ? Cincinnati Commercial: “The Com missioner of Pensions estimates that $100,000,001 are to be divided this year under pretense of paying arrears of pen sions, And that $250,000,000 will be re quired for the same rat hole ; and the next thing no doubt will be another swindle Which, the demagogues and will, attempt to charge, to the account of the soldiers.” Mr. Abbey, who pays Patti something over $4,000 a night, knows how to get cheap advertising. In Brooklyn, a few nights ago, the horses were taken from Patti’s carriage and she was pulled through the streets by the supes. Of course such little freaks as that get telegraphed all over creation and keeps PoAti proiuiutmt in the minds of the It is published that "Victoria Wood hull litis returned,td this country and is going to lecture. When we remember that it has been but a short time since tnat she was reported to be almost in the act of marrying a British Lord, it is a little hard to understand why it is she comes over here on a lecturing tour, but we suppose it is because Victoria finds more real solid enioyment in lecturing than she does playing second fiddls.to a man. The Star Route fellows are on tha ag gressive. They know which side of their bread is buttered. Instead of defending themselves as the only means of figlting their battle, they are making an asiault on A. M. Gibson’s right to oall liin self an Assistant Attorney General, and this because A. M. Gibson was specially em ployed to prosecute them. It stems that the question of their guilt is Id be entirely left out of the case and event ually forgotten. Persons of suicidal intent shouU be informed as to the latest, quickest and surest method of shuffling off. It does not seem to be generally known tnat a new route to the hereafter has been opened upby the adoption of the electric light. By connecting himself wita. the electric wire the suicidest can receive a charge of electricity equal to a stroke of lightning which will hurl him into the middle of the next century so suddenly that he will not be aware of the trais morgrification. (That word is a little long but we had to use it or be stumped) A DAW should be enacted making it a crime punishable by imprisonment fer either lawyer or judge to dilly-dally ia criminal cases. If there is any one thing on the face of the globe that is becoming oontemptible in the eyes of the peoplq it is the manner in which justice is ob structed in our Courts of law, and a rev olution must come sooner or later. As now conducted Criminal Courts ar% bm a mockery, and the fact is painfully oh servable to the most obtuse mind. Numerous lynehings, that are called disgraceful proceedings, are the out growth of the law’s delay. Crimina trials that are based upon legal techni calities without regard to the atrocity cf the crime under consideration mum necessarily be a faroe, and the frequency of Buch, {rials is wearing out the patience of the people. Public opinion does not .atop -to inquife into the legal verbiage upon Which - lawyers and judge stum ble and squabble over, and will have none of it. Whether the prig, oner is guilty or not, as charged, is all they ask, and if guilty, they want to see him punished; if not, then he should be discharged set once. Inqnirv should be to the poiuf and punishment prompt. The plea of insanity as a d®- faise should require the symptoms to be sf marked that experts would not b® re (jrned. A man who is so san® that an ordinary person cannot decern a mental derangement is sane enough to hang. Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, Igainst whom th® charge of outrageously ibusing the pardoning power has been so videly published, and for which charges there seemed to be some ground, ha* made the following reply in hi* annual message. It vividly portrays th® horror* which criminals in Kentucky have been compelled to endure: “When I cam* into th* Executive office there were nine hundred and sixty-nine convicts in the penitentiary, and only seven hundred and eighty (780) cells, and these oeUs were but three feet nine iuches wide, six feet three inches high and six feet eight inohes long. In a word, there were 189 more prisoners than cells: and when you put these int® cells with others you had 878 men, in a cell onl/ three feet nine inches wide. They were dying at a fear ful rate, and I determined that the State Peni tentiary should not be a charnel house. Yes, I was determined that this should not b. It was a disgrace to the State. Again, many men are fined for slight offenses, even some for trivial amusements, where nominal wagers are laid, without any intention of violating law. This ought not to be ; but these annoyano** will occur so long as our Commonwealth’s At torneys have parts and portions of tke fines assessed. Most of our Prosecuting Attorneys are honorable men, but occa sionally one may be found, who at all times is prying into the most trivial matters to find out the trifling offenses of some fellow-citizens, that he may put a little money in his pocket. I earnestly r ecoinmend that our Commonwealth’s Attor neys be paid fair salaries out of the Public Treasury ; that they be not driven to the miser able necessity of hunting out the small pecadil loes of their fellow-men, that they may profit by their fines and forfeitures. I may, perhaps, have used the pardonimr power somewhat too ireely; but many men who blame me would, perchance, have done just as I did if they had all the evidence before them on which I acted, ihe fee system should be abolished as far as possible. I do not believe that any State Prosecutor should be pecuniarily interested in the result of any suit on behalf of the State.” The Attitude of Canada* The jPall Mall Gazette, whose utter- ISheeS are almost official, is of the opinion the United "the pQpular feeling of' Canada to-day. A few years ago it was quite different. The Canadians were superloyal and the annexationists, even then it large body, were the objects of popular hatred and contempt, but during the past two de cades, the trade relations between the United States and the Dominion have grown closer and closer until the two countries are now commercially one. The grand trunk of railway of Canada lies hilf in the United States and half in Canada. Portland, Me., during the greater portion of the year is the ship ping port for Canadian produce, and the Canadian telegraph system is now but a branch of the Western Union. All these circumstances work injuriously to the interests of the Canadians. They see that they would be greatly benefited by . annexation and, as a consequence, are becoming anxious for the union. What has hitherto prevented this movement from taking some regular shape are the politicians and officeholders. Canada has more politics to the square mile than any other country on the face, of the globe. It has an elaborate judiciary and all the government of a large empire. Union, with this country, would sweep away all these officials, and, as a consequence, they oppose it. The Pall Mall Gazette does not say how Great Britain would regard the secession of its A merican domain, but the cooi and careless manner in which it treats the subject is good evidence that the British lion would not roar very loud should the Kanucks see fit to sever their allegiance with the mother country. Who Was Nemisis! In Grecian mythology Nemesis was a female divinity who appears to have been regarded as the personification of the righteous anger of the gods. Sho i represented as inflexibly severe to the proud and insolent. According to He siod, she was the daughter of Night, though she is sometimes called a daugh ter of Erebus or of Oceanus. The Greeks believed that the gods were ene mies excessive human happiness, and that there was a power that preserved a proper compensation in human affairs from which it was impossible for the sinner to escape. This power was em bodied in Nemesis, and she was in an especial manner the avenger of family crimes and the humbler of the overbear ing. There was a celebrated temple sacred to her at Rhamnus, one of the boroughs of Attica, about sixty stadia distant from Marathon ; the inhabitants of that place considered her the daugh ter of Oceanus. to a myth preserved by Pausanias, Nemesis was the mother of Helen by Jupiter, and Eeda, the reputed mother of Helen by Jupiter, was only in fact her nurse, but this mvth seems to have been invented in later times to represent the divine vengeance which was inflicted on the Greeks and Trojans through the instru mentality of Helen. Don’t think you can with impunity adopt the follies of other folks; your constitution may not be equally well able to bear abuses Nsv Orleans ladies are said to have the prettiest feet erf any ladies in the land. The Man at th® Junction. Six railway passenger* were put down at a junction to wait for a cross-line train. The little depot was the only build ing in sight, and the man in charge of it was not a telegraph operator. He simply kept the station-honse and flagged the trains, and he was no more responsible for the running of trains than the Tycoon of Japan. Every one of the six realized this, and yet it wasn’t over two minutes before one of the passengers approached him and asked: “ Is that train on time?” “I guess so.” “You guess so! Don’t you know ?” “No, sir. , “You don’t, eh? Then how do you know it isn’t an hour late ?” “ I don’t.” “Don’t, eh? Well, if that train’s late, you’ll—” Here he was elbowed away by the old woman who made up the six, and who wanted to know : “ Will I git home to-day ?*’ “I guess so.” “The train stops here, does it?” “Yes’m.” “Stops long enough for me to git on? ’ “Ob, yes.” “ Well, m bbe it does, but if it don't you’ll bear from us !” She gate place to a man who had looked at his watch three times in six minutes, and who sternly asked : “Did I understand that we were to wait here two hours?” “Yes, sir.” “Is it two hours before that train crosses here ?” “Yes, sir.” “ Whereabouts on tho line is the train now'.” “I don’t know.” “ Why don’t you telegraph?” “We have no instrument here,” “Haven’t, eh! That’s a pretty state of affairs ! Two long hours, and perhaps four ! Now, then, if—” Here he was called away by the blow ing of a saw-mill whistle, aa the most peaceful-looking man in the crowd edged up aud inquired: “ Train on time ?” “Yes, sir.” “Does it cross here?’* “Yes, sir.” J. * Always stop ?” “Always.” “If 1 get left here to-night it would cost somebody a good round sum. 9f In the course of the next ten minutes JEWESS versa!ion, and after an °jr C f >n^ te.f ked what timei *i!ak trains didn’t makeTlo™ con inkuolr/ aha &nd wbv on earth he didn’t have an eating-house in connection with the . station. He had a civil answer fta everV question, and. his patience never wavered until just four minutes before train time. Then the old woman said to him for the twentieth time,r “Do you’spose I’ll miss the train?” “I hope not,” he quietly replied “for if you do I shall take to the woods!” And at that the six passengers gathered on the end of the platform, went into convention, and it was unanimously “ Resolved, That the arrogance and impudence of public servants must be and is hereby sternly rebuked.”— Detroit Free Press. Cruelty to Fish. Talking with a gentleman of 84 years —a man of great experience in practical life, and withal one of humane instincts and principles—we gathered many in teresting suggestions and ideas, that would be worth repeating. Among oth er tilings, he referred to a lifelong prac tice he had always observed.- In catch ing fish, he never failed to kill them im mediately upon drawing them out of the water, which is their natural element. Every boy knows this fact, yet hardly one in a hundred stops to think that a living fish, deprived of the peculiar means of respiration that the water fur nishes, must suffer similarly to a human being cut off from its usual supply of atmospheric air. Death by suffocation is regarded as terrible, and a fish out of water, being deprived of the oxygen that sustains its blood, doubtless suffers intensely. It is the easiest thing to kill a fish, either by striking it a slight blow upon th head or on Hi not ils thrrwo*. It is well known that the flesh of ani mals wounded and then left to die is unfit for food, and experi enced fishermen say that a fish should be killed immediately on being caught in order to render it fit for the table. But, aside from the question of food, the subject should be considered as one of principle. We know by the fierce struggles of the captive fish it is in severe pain, and humanity dictates that it should be speedily put out of misery. We have no right to inflict needless suffering upon any. creature, and the torture of a fish is quite as bad as,the torture of a dog or a home. Nearly every day during the fishing season may be observed boys carrying large strings of fish through the streets, the move ments of which show that they are alive and in great pain and misery. In most cases this is Hie result of thoughtless ness or ignorance. Most boys would dislike to be thought cruel, and, if they were instructed by their parents and others on this subject, would probably follow tile rule of humanity in the treat ment of fishes, as tlmy do in the care of domestic animals. We trust our young friends who read this article will hot only follow these suggestions themselves, but will try to induce their companions to do likewise —Humane Journal. Teojx?be remarked, when Angara's father shoved him hi? the doortte,-th*t the qld gentleman hadoomdderable push about hue. - - SUBSCRIPTION-11.61. NUMBER 17 HUMORS OF THE HAT. A man may have ten-ants and yet have no pay-rents. The concern that always makes money ‘—the mint. Thebe is a divoroeity of opinion be tween many men and their wives, The child never sees the necessity of strict obedience until it beoomes ap parent. A man cap possibly have no affeotion for rheumatism, and yet. he will do al most anything for It. A man never feels poor when he hfts a ten-del far bill to wrap on the outside of his roll of ones.— Lowell Citizen* Fair umpire at lawn tennis—“ Only keep your head, Mr. Jones, and you are sure to have a soft thing.” An observing laundryman has dis covered that the time for him to catch soft water is when it is raining hard. The Philadelphia Chronicle-Her aid thinks that Eve was a giddy young thing because she got married when she was a day old. “ An’ that’s the pillar of Hercules ?” she said, adjusting her silver spectacles. “ Gracious, what’s the rest of his bed clothes like ?” “Bind up my wounds, bringme an other piece of stovepipe and let the bat tle proceed ! Charge, tinker, charge ! On, stovepipe, on!” “What is right in the concrete may be left in the abstract,” remarked senior Alley as he pulled his foot out of his shoe and left that article sticking to ths new-made pavement.” The worst “ spell ” of the season comes from a Dakota postmaster, who ac knowledged the receipt of a package <2l postal cards from the Holyoke factory, in these words: “Received the pac akichitch.” “Noman was ever elected President who was born in a city. And yet, de spite this fact, boys continue to be bom iu cities. They evidently don’t aspire to the Presidency. They prefer to be come members of base-ball clubs.” A Frenchman learning , the English language complained of the irregularity of.the verb “to go,” the present tense of which some wag had written out for him as follows: “I go; thou s tartest; he departs; we lay tracks; you out sticks; thou absquatulate or skedad dle. ” “Yell, mein frent,” said-an, old Jew in London who, after having recovered from a fit which, it was thought, wbuld terminate ifi death, saw a* eiucifix that Catholic Bumm6iH3cf*o hv a pious “ I can lend you Duly tVw shillings on it,” A Western Coroner’s jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death #om exposure. “ Wfiat do you mean by that ? :> asked a relative of the dead man. “ There are two bullet holes in his skull.” ‘ k ‘Just so,” replied the Coroner, “he died from exposure to bulldts. ” Hr was wealthy but penurious, and this is what he said to the suitor for his daughter’s hand: “ Yes, you can have her. But you must elope with her. I can t afford the expense of a swell wed ding, and the romance of the elopement will make up for the lack of show and we’ll (save SSOO on expense?.. Go Boston Post. “I maintain,*’ cried Mr. Quillhopper, excitedly, “that no man has been in such a horrible predicament that he coul4 not be in a worse one.” all nonsense,” answered the blonde young mana relative'of mine was once dh the sea in an open boat for ten days with nothing to ,eat; on ) the eleventh day he was so hungry he had to eat ids own shoes; what oonjd be worse .jhan 'that?” “ Well,” said Mr., Q., slowly/ 4 * he might have had to’ 'eat someone Rise’s T The blonde ybung man wilted, ' ‘ A good egg will sink in water. * A boiled egg which is done will dry quickly on the shell when taken from the kettle. The boiled eggs which adhere to the shell are fresh laid. ifiv. _ c(sk laid m aoj in uiiuw, 1110 shell comes off easily when boiled. A fresh egg has a lime-like surface to its shell. Stale eggs are glassy and smooth of sheill 1 Eggs which have been packed in lime look stained, and show the action of the lime on the surface. ; Eggs packed in bran for a long time smell and taste musty. With the aid of'the hands or a piece of paper rolled in funnel-shape and held toward the light, the human eye can lpokj through an egg, shell and all. If the egg is dear and golden in ap pearance when held to the light, it ia good; if ; dark or spotted, it is bad. The badness of an egg can sometimes be told by shaking it near the holder*# car. ' An lowa paper tells of two lovers who were permanently separated by the in terposition of a “ cold cloud of realism. Being freely interpreted this means probably that they were not kindred souls. * The circumstance recalls the instance of a romantic young lady who bad a verv fine head of hair. One even ing when her affianced stood gazing very inquisitively at it in the midnight* she said, With much feeling, ‘tfohn, are yon thinking ft* S^B?i a bujdmg ju to W pbess r “W(ffl, no,** ;hp answered mechanically, “I was thinking iM nice mosquito net they would make.”