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W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS.* Mississippi will linve a Stale female college. Georgia has 702,081 mules and 770,199 females. Birmingham has hopes of a large car manufactory. Mississippi has four times as much tim ber as'Minnesota. Marion county, Fla., has 23,000 acres of land in oramre groves. Russian Jews are constantly Fettling in all parts of Mississippi. Fifty-five cotton mills in Georgia, and others in process of erection. Real estate at Miiledgevflle, Cla., has doubled in value in the last two years. Birmingham, Aia., has rained the li cense of whisky dealers to $350 a coun ter. A bill has been introduced in the Vir ginia Senate to abolish the whipping post. Ihe salary of the Mayor of Savannah has been increased from $1,500 to $2,000 a year. It is sad that twenty seven of the ex hibitors at Atlanta arc going to establish factories there. There are eleven men in the Clarks ville, Ark., jail charged with murder in in the first degree. Three Butler county, Ala., boys in one day’s hunt killed fourteen foxes and twenty-two cat squirrels. Forty thousan! dollars have been sub’ scribed toward a proposed ear manufac tory in Montgomery, Ala. Mrs. Nancy E. Pearce, who cut off her child’s head in Howard county, Ark., has been adjudged insane. The street letter-boxes in San Anto nio, Texas, have been robbed so frequent ly that the postmaster has ordered them taken down. Many Georgia farmers believe there will be a great advance in cotton next spring, and are holding back as much of their crops as possible. Since 1860 Tennessee has acquired nearly 400,000 additional population, and has made crops every yea* of an average annual net profit of $27,500,000. In the four States of Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee the num ber of persons employed in the manufac ture of cotton is 11,788, against 5,890 in 1870. The Mayor of Birmingham, Ala., has given orders to the police torce of that city to require all merchants to discon tinue the sale of cigars and tobacco on Sunday. The father of Rev. Richard Jordan of Rhea county, Tenn., is still living, at the age of 106. His son is seventy-five. His wife iseighty.-seven, but looks older than her husband. The Cincinnati Southern railroad lias contracted with the Glen Mary (Tenn.) mines for twenty car loads of coal per day for their engines, at seven cents per bushel unscreened The new capital building at Austin, Texas, is to be 360 feet'high, 566 feet long, and 285 feet in depth, the seventh highest building in the world, and the second in the United States. * The Trustees of the Georgia Academy for the Blind have purchased ground at Macon for the erection of an academy for the colored blind. The State appro priated SIO,OOO for the purpose. In North Carolina there are fifty three cotton mills in operation, and six others are in progress and nearly completed. There are also four or five woolen mills in operation In “ the old North State.” A mulatto woman named Fannie Crawford has just returned to her farm in Mississippi, .with fifty negroes from Sumpter county, Ala. This year, about closing time, she worked 300 hands on her farm, which she manages herself. With increased capital pouring into New Orleans, with the jetties opened for the largest Vessels, with four railroads running there, and at least three more Oil the way, the Times-Denaocrat wishes the whole world “ a happy New Year.” The Vicksburg and Ship Island and the Memphis and Vicksburg railroads have leased 600 penitentiary convicts from the Mississippi State Board of Pub lic Works which are to he divided be tween the tw® roads and put to work near Vicksburg. A geed deal of syrup made in Alaba ma this season is found to be unfit for use Because the sugar cane from which it was made was grown in cow-pens. The gggggggggggggggg Dented to Industrial Intcnst, the Diffusion ol Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government. stalks of the cane were unusually fine, but the flavor of the syrup is said to be absolutely nauseous. i Memphis Appeal: Mrs. Erwin, who is mentioned as the “Southern Florence Nightingale,” died at Huntsville, Ala., recently. During the war she had hos pitals wherever the army of the Tennes see could be reached, and after the war she established an asylum for the orphans of Confederate soldiers. It is reported that the Woodwards, the great nail manufacturers of Wheel ing, West Virginia, are arranging to come to Birmingham, Ala., where in co partnership with Mr. Deßardeleben. they propose to enter largely into the manu facture of nails and other irons. There are 1,000 Indians yet in the Everglades of Florida. They speak their own language, but by frequent inter course with the white people at the trad ing posts, on Lake Okeechobee, have be come civilized. They are friendly and honest in their dealings with the whites. The extent of the manufacture of “ pure olive oil” from cotton seed is in dicated by export statistics from New Orleans Of 0,000,000 gallons shipped thence during 1879-80, eiglity-eight per cent was sent to the Mediteranean and French ports, and one half of this amount to Italy. Phillips, Marshall & Cos. of London, have purchased 1,300,000 acres of land from the state of Mississippi. The lands lie mostly in the Yazoo delta, and com prise some of the richest cotton and timber land in the South. It is the in tention to improve, cultivate and colo nize these lands. Hon. J. F. Cunningham of Fulton, Ark., has invented a cotton-picking ma chine that pulls off the cotton bolls, limbs and leaf, and then separates them. The horse and wagon pass over the rows that have been picked and the machine gathers on the side, He says that by attaching the separator to the gip power lie can pick two rows as fast as the team (an move. Atlanta Constitution : The cost of the Exposition was $250,000, of which $l5O, 000 in round figures were put in build ings and improvements and the balance paid out for running expenses, printing, etc. The receipts were from $220,000 to $250,000, of which $115,000 came from stock, $15,000 from privileges, $15,000 fr m entry fees, $91,000 from gate re ceipts, and $5,00) wfcm miscellaneous resources. Eastman (Ga ,) Times: L. L. Burch, of Telfair county, killed a bald eagle last week which measured eight feet from tip to tip of its wings. One of the feet was sent to this office, and the claws from point to point measured eight and one-third inches. This monstrous bird had a grown sheep down when Mr. Burch discovered it, and forced him to relax his hold by sending a rifle ball through his eaglcship, Durham Recorder: The farmers in Eastern Carolina seem to be tardy in fin ishing up the year’s crop, hence it is al. most impossible to employ a man to drive deer. Sport in this line, ho Trevor, is fine. Deer are abundant, so mcch so that migratory sportsmen believe them to be more numerous in the everglade eounties of Pender, Jones, Onslow, Cra ven, Pamlico and Carteret than in any part of the South, The Dempsey family and the Norrii family, of Cherokee county, Ala,, have long been enemies. The older members have spent a life time in continued bick erings, and have wearied of it. But the boys have taken up the cudgel, and here is the result: Last week two of the Dempsey boys and two of the Norris met to fight it out. Both of the Norris boys were stabbed, the younger mortally. The families stand high in the commu nity, and great excitement has grown out of the difficulty. Jacksonville (Fla.,) L T nion: During the month of December there were 6,- 200,000 feet of yellow pine lumber shipped from this port, against 3,318,000 feet for same month last year, an increase last month of 2,882,000 feet over the amonnt shipped during the same month in 1880. The above does not include lumber shipped north via Fernandina, over the Fernandina and Jacksonville railroad. During the year just close there were, not including that shipped via Fernandina, 58,837,451 feet of lum ber shipped from this port, against 41,- 719.255 feet shipped during 1880, and 33,978,938 shipped in 1879, an increase in ISBI over 1880 of 17,118,196 feet, and over 1879 of 24,858,513 feet. INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Francis Michel Pascal, the French sculptor, is dead. A forty-three-day female faster has died in Washington. Hon. JonN C. New, of Indiana, is studying the map of liussia. The Mississippi Democracy returns Lamar to the United States Senate. Montreal ice men are preparing to freeze us out at a high price next summer. One hundred and eighty-seven ves sels were lost at sea during the past year. Troubt.es on the boundary between Russia and China are becoming serious. In Russia theaters are now required to be closed both on Sunday and Satur day night. A portion of Tammany IJall, New York, have organized an anti-Kelly movement. There are very few localities through out the Slates that have not been reached by smallpox. Mr. Orth, of Indiana, protested against playing second fiddle in the Commit teo on Rules. A ballot-box stuffer, in Philadelphia, received on New Year’s day, six months in the Penitentiary. Mr. Frederick J. Phillips has as sumed the duties of Private Secretary to President Arthur. Judge Cox believes that a great crim inal is a great thing—and to be treated with consideration, too. ♦ The provisions of the naturalization treaty with America have finally been extended all over Germany. —— Mrs. Langtry, whose eyes are said to be very delicious and eloquent, is earn ing SSOO a week on the stage. Governor Long, of Massachusetts, is in favor of women suffrage and the abolition of capital punishment. There were 12,479 more deaths than births in New York City the past year. The difference in 1880 was 4,401. Emperor William, of Germany, on New Year, received over 1,000 congratu latory telegrams, some of them from America. Tiie Mormon missionaries in England are having a hard time of it. Pick pockets got after them and robbed two of their numbers. Hon. Thomas L. James, ex-Postmaster General, lias assumed the duties of the Presidency of the Lincoln National Bank, New York. An Ohio Senator says there is little difference between the two leading political parties and the fight is now chiefly for patronage. Sixteen out of twenty-one Massa chusetts towns reports smaller debts than one year ago. That is at least one good feature about 1881. Two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars were expended to make the Atlanta Exposition a success, and the receipts came very nearly up to that amount. During 1881 Judge Lynch disposed of twenty-five lives, nineteen being negroes, and one, in Colorado, being an innocent man, mistaken for the crim inal. Lady dressmakers who go to Wash ington to supply the upper crust with material made outside of the District, are required hereafter to take out a license. It is pretty well remembered that there was nothing funny about the trial of the assassin of President Lincoln, but it seems that American humor is now in the ascendency. The Albany (N. Y.) Journal goes for Vennor with its gloves off. He deserves it every bit. We predict that the Yen nor almanac, hereafter, will be a dead weight on the market. Hon. Andrew Williams, of Burling ton. Vt, made his wife a Christmas gift of $50,000. The point about this is, the money was kept in the family and is safe out of the reach of creditors. The crop failures of 1881 are equally borne by the producer and consumer. While the one has little or nothing to sell, the other is compelled to pay an advanced price for everything he gets. A New York Judge has decided that to puff cigar smoke in a man’s face is as sault and battery. We presume it is wounding with intent to kill fat some other time) to do the same thing to a woman. Oscar Wilde is a blonde young man, with flowing locks, little blue eyes and a prominent jaw, and stands six-feet-two. What is more, he will lecture for S2OO a night, and considers that you are getting off pretty cheap at that. Tiie Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, who has recently returned to Paris from Rome, urges the Italians to choose another capital and leave Rome to the Pope, in order to avert the necessity of his departure from that city. • The cable announces that J. R. Keene’s Foxhall, and Lorillard’s Iro quois, Gerald and Aranza are among the entries for the city and suburban handi cap. Foxhall and Iroquois are also en tered for the Epsom and Ascot gold cups. Marion L. Dow is the name of a fe male stock broker in Philadelphia, and Harriet S. Dunning is the name of another female who is prosecuting her on the charge of swindling. We say, give woman her rights, and she will do the thing up for all the world just like men do. President Arthur is down on the interminable invasions of Maryland delegations and says the thing must bo stopped. If further persecuted by the friends of those seeking office ho will make a public announcement refusing to receive importunate visitors at the White House. The Temperance Colonization Society of Canada intends to establish a colony of total abstainers on a large scale. A million acres of government land have been secured for the purpose, and people who hate alcohol are invited to settle on it, the farms being sold at slightly less than the established price. Patti and Theodore Thomas and Cary and Pendleton and the Cincinnati news papers, altogether, succeeded in getting up a first-class row, and all because Thomas asked Patti to take a drink of brandy out ot a bottle, and Patti felt in sulted and wouldn’t hold to his hand when she went on the stage, and Cary, who hadn’t been stopped by the bottle arrangement, had flopped herself into Patti’s seat. We trace the whole matter to the bottle of brandy. In his New Year’s sermon, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher stated that any man wlio perverted one dollar intended for the education of children should be gibbeted as a criminal, and he concluded by ask ing, what would be said of a man who made the loSs of virtue a condition of giving place, and what punishment could be found for such a miscreant ? At a meeting of the New Brooklyn Board of Education, a few days later, the remarks were read, and a motion was made that a committee of three be appointed to visit Beecher, and ask him for the informa tion on which he based his remarks. The motion, being out of order, was over ruled, but will probably come up again. Oscar L. Baldwin, late cashier of the wrecked Mechanics’ Bank, of Newark, N. J., has filed his answer to the appli cation of the Receiver for a permanent injunction restraining him from dispos ing of his property on the ground that he had applied the bank funds to his own use, in which he denies that any part of the banks money was ever im properly diverted to his own use, and explains in detail how tbe several funds with which he is charged with transfer ring to his own use came into his posses sion. He tells, in a long narrative, the true story of his life, how he began work in the bank as messenger, rose*to be cashier, and finally, in 1872, was induced by the representations of Christopher Nugent, of Nugent & Cos., morocco manufacturers, to extend his line of credit to the amount of $147,000. lie says he concealed this fact from the Directors, and that Nugent, on learning this, used it to force him to continue the loans until the time of the failure, when they amounted to $2,400,000. Inmates of Almshouses. There is a prevalent idea that the almshouses, for the most part, shelter the unhappy and guiltless poor, unmerciful disaster has followed fast and followed faster until it has chased them into this last refuge- -people who have come from vine-covered cottages, or tidy rooms up one flight of stairs in tenement houses, with a big Bible on the table and a pot of flowers in the window ; or even from luxurious homes desolated by commercial panics. Asa matter of fact, the great majority of American indoor paupers belong to what are called the lower classes, and seek the almshouse not because of commer oial disaster, but because of very com mon vices. It is said that Landseer never painted a full-grown cat. He painted kittens, and “ leit the rest to nature.” UNTIED THE I>oo. The swain sat on the front door-step, The hour of twelve had fled, The dog was chained up iu the barn, Her father was In bed. The heiress, in his mind, ho’d won, So to himself he said: * Oh, acres and bonds that I’ll call mine When her dear pa is dead! ” The scene was changed on that front step; Seductive visions fled; The dog was tearing from the tarn, Her-pa was out of bed. The old man shouted, “ Sick him, Bull; ” The swaiu whizzed fward the gate; So did a dub tbe old man throw— It struck him on the pate. He fell headlong upon the walk, He felt the canine take A piece from off his hinder part— A large mouthful of steak. He dreamed of golden pounds no more, But pound upon the head; And when that swain would fain sit down Ho wished her pa was dead. Attack ou the Idol of Juggernaut. An attack lias been made upon the idol of Juggernaut, at Pooree, the most sacred shrine In India, by a body of fanatics. The rioters, who numbered twelvo men and three women, and were almost in a state of nudity, succeeded in en tering the temple, and tried to force their way into the inner recesses. Al though upward of 1,000 pilgrims were present, they were not expelled without a severe struggle, in the course of which one intruder was trampled to death. The rest were arrested, and sentenced to three month’s imprisonment. The inquiry showed that they belonged to a set of Hindoo dissenters lately founded in the Sumbulpore district, and known as Kumbhupatias from the fact that the followers wear ropes of bark around their waists. Tiiey allege tiiat their religion was re vealed to sixty-four persons in 1661 by a god incarnate, whom they style Aleknew amj—that is, the Lord—whose attri butes can not be described in writing. They believe in the existence of the 300,000,000 of Hindoo deities, but do not respect their images, saying it is im possible to represent a Supreme Being whom no one has ever seen. They are subdivided into three classes, two of which renounce the world and make no distinction of caste, while the third lead a family life. Their habits are said to be very filthy, and, like some European sects, they take no medicine in illness, but rely solely on divine help. Their attack on the Pooree temple was prompted by the belief that if the Jug gernaut were burned it would convince the Hindoo of the futility of their relig ion, and the whole world w T onld then embrace the truth. —Calcutta Gazette , The Saxons were the most faithful allies of the Emperor until the battle of Leipsic, tlie chief city of Saxony, though not its capital. There at the moment that Napoleon’s 60,000 was closing in for its. inevitable triumph the Saxon corps crossed the field and fired into their former comrades. This decided the contest. Napoleon, having made liis combinations and despising the un wieldly enemy, had retired to cat his •dinner in peace. He was finishing a leg of mutton, a meat which he never ven tured on until his duty of the day was done, when an aide delivered the fateful message. “Well,” he remarked with composure, “one must never eat until his battle is won. Now we shall have the whole work to do over to-morrow. I Bhall never eat mutton again, vola tout.” The next day he did indeed worst the over-confident enemy, but he didn’t crush him, as in the glorious days of Wagram, Austerlitz and Jena, and while his losses couldn’t be replaced, the swarming levies of Austria, Russia, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and the Rhine —paid by British gold—renewed them selves daily, until finally, though they met nothing but defeat, by sheer force of numbers, like Grant at Petersburg, the Emperor’s victorious legions were fought to a mere guard. Then came the fateful day of Fontainebleau, when the man wlio bad mastered Europe abdicated his place and relinquished his glorious mission. Six Hundred Victims of Whisky. The Corwin during her voyage to Alaska landed on St. Lawrence island, having orders to investigate the whole sale starvation of the natives. At the first village at which they landed all were dead; so also at the second, where fifty four dead bodies were counted, nearly all full-grown males. At another place 150 person women and children — were dead. At the next settlement, twelve dead bodies, and at the following thirty were found. All the inhabitants on the north side of the island, where whisky traders sold liquor, are dead— net one escaping. The general starva tion occurred two years- ago last winter. Since then the presence of the Corwin in the Arctic has broken up this inhu man whisky trading. The empty whisky kegs are seen strewn all about. The total number of dead bodies found on St. Lawrence island was over 600. The survivors say that white traders from Honolulu sold whisky, which the natives bought and got drunk, remaining bo during the season for laying in their winter supply of walrus and seal. —San Francisco Alta. The Imperial Library at St. Peters burg contains over 1,000,000 volumes. Among the treasures of the institution is Voltaire’s library, many of the vol umes of which bear the former owner’s autograph notes. A peripatetic lecture upon the library, its contents and asso ciations, is given twice a week (once on Sunday), which usually secures a much interested group of listeners, and sug gests the thought that perhaps the plan might be followed with benefit to the public elsewhere. SUBSCRIPTION-$!.5. NUMBER 22 HUMORS OF THE DAY. A fruit of the battle-field—grape. A Louisville belle has in her parlor a beautiful embroidered motto, “ E Plurl bus, yum, yum.” Last words of tlie balloonist: “It’s all up with me.” Last words of “It’s all down with me.” There are some days when you can’t lay up a cent, and other days when you can’t get hold of a cent to lay up. It is more blessed to give than to re ceive, when a kick from boot is the question at issue. Steubenville Herald. Customer —“ You say that those fig ures are life size? My dear sir, they seem very small.” Artist—“ Perfectly correct, sir; you know 4 life is short’” Why doth the festive Injun squaw Improve each shining minute And scratch her head from morn to night? Because there's millions in it. — San Francisco Wasp. “Yes,” exclaimed Brown, “you al ways find me with a pen in my hand. I’m a regular penholder, my boy. ” “Let’s see,” said Fogg, musingly, “a penholder is usually a stick, isn’t it?” —Boston Transcript. Twinkle, twinkle, diminutive type of nebular condensation; How I meditate upon your composition, Situated above this oblate spheroid at such an alii— hide, In similitude an infinitesimal crystallization of car bon in the blue empyrean.— Oil City Deirick. “ No,” said the charming actress to her devoted lover, “No, Charlie, I won’t marry you; but you can have the privi lege of paying for all my little suppers and carriages after the theater, and you’ll be envied by all the boys. That ought to satisfy you.” “ But, your honor,” says the accused, “this is "a case of suicide.” His honor—“ ?” The accused— “He always said he wanted to commit Buicide, but that he hadn’t the courage. So then X helped him 1” His honor— “But why, afterwards, did you take his watch ?” The accused (with a shrug)—“Why, because lie didn’t need it any more !”—French paper. There was a little company at Mr. Brown’s and the youngest daughter, a bright girl of seven, was talking to her sister’s beau. “Why, Mr.-Sydney,” she said, loud enough for everybody to hear, “you can talk real plain, can’t you?” “Of course I can, Fanny. Did you tbinlc I wasn’t old enough to talk plain?” “Yes,” she answered, “I thought so, for I heard you talking to sister the other night, and you kept saying, ‘Oo tweet sing, oo ! Oo 'ovuy dovey, turn tiss oop own tweet Siddy,’ so much, that 1 wasn’t sure but you had a impegiment in your speech.” Fanny was excused and Mr. Sidney was carried out on a shovel.— Steubenville Herald. “ I come over to see about your boy,” said a neighbor last evening. “He’s very troublesome about my house. He has* been throwing rotten apples into my front yard and calling my wife ‘Old Molly Grubs.’” “And I was going over to see you about your boy,” was the rejoinder. “He chalked my wood shed all over with a picture of my wife driving me out of the back door with a kettle of water in one hand and a broom in the other.” “Is that so? Then Igo in for civil service reform within our own families.” The boys never knew wliat they were “ licked ” for that night. —New Haven Register. Brother Gardners*® Philosophy, “Doan’ seek to make angels of yer selves,” quietly began Brother Gardner as the meeting opened. “In de fust place dis am no sort o’ kentry fur angels, an’ in de next place you would be mighty lonesome. De man or woman who becomes so sweet an’ soft an’ good dat dey expect ebery mimt to rise up an? fly doan’ take so much comfort as folks who feel dat it will be a clus shave to git inter heaven. A leetle wickedness pickles a man an’ makes him keep all de better. ’When I trade mules wid a man I prefer dat he should suspect me wid an intenshun to make an eben $25 by de operasliun. When I deal wid a butcher I like to feel dat he will work in fo’ ounces * of bone fur ebery eight ounces of meat if I doan’ watch him. I like to have de bootmaker tell me dat American cowskin am French calf, an’ I am pleased when de sto’ clerk warrants fo’ cent caliker to wash like sheet-iron. De man who am not a leetle wicked has no chance to feel sorry ; no use for prayer ; no need of churches. He cannot say to a fellow man : ‘ I wTonged yon— l’m sorry— shake.’ “De man who neber sins makes a p-oor ner doah neighbur. De woman, who keeps feelin’ q£ her shoulders to see if wings have started* makes a poor mother an’ a wuss housewife. If you have neber injured a man an’ gone to bim an’ axed his pardon an’ made up you doan’ know what real happiness am. If your conscience has neber drib en vou to prayer you can’t feel de good ness of de Lawd. * My advice to you am to be a leetle wicked—-not ’nnff to make men fear or hate yon, but just nuff to keep you convinced dat you must help to support churches an’ pay clus atten shun to what de preachers say or you 11 be left behin’ when de purceshnn starts. Lord Derby has ten men servants in the house and about forty more domes tics feeding daily at his board. _ Suppos ing to-morrow he and his wife should agree to struggle along on SIOO,OOO a year he could save at least SBOO,OOO a year; while were the Dukes of West minster, Devonshire and Bedford to do likewise their savings would be still greater. Supposing Lord Derby to save at this rate for thirty years what an arch millionaire he would become l .