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W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. S, onge culture it a success at Pine Key. Fla. The public debt of Tennessee is a lit tle over $25,000,000. Knoxville expects to have water works in operation about the Ist of June. A Baltimore liniment manufacturer spends $200,000 a year in advertising. This season’s Louisiana sugar crop has fallen short from 25 to 30 per cent. The population of Virginia is 1,512,- 566- Alabama cultivated 2,170 acres of to bacco last year. The Mississippi State lunatic asylum ban 500 inmates. The value of productions in Missis iippi In 1870 was $8,154,758; in 1880, $12,352,375. A few days ago Columbus, Miss., in vented $300,000 in a cotton factory, and no-v the capital amounts to $1,250,000. A Van Buren, Ark., man has a con tract to dig 1000 persimmon roots to be shipped to Loa Angelos, Cal. A four story hotel, w ith *ll modern Improvements, and to cost $75,000, is a probability at Birmingham, Ala. Atlanta’s lirst grain elevator is com plated. It cost $33,000, and has a stor age capacity of 200,000 bushels. Georgia raised less than 2,000,000 bushels of oats in 1870, and in 1880 the production was over 5,000,000 bushels. Pensacola, Fla., has voted against re pudiating her ante-bellum debt, and re cently paid $300,000 of it. Hix hundred and one convicts in the Arkansas penitentiary. Over 100of the number are murderers. The individual deposits in the four national banka at Nashville amount to $3,702,831.02. Shad are becoming numerous in the Alabama, and are sold in the Montgom ery markets. Birmingham, Ala., taxes retail whisky dealers $350, while Moulton charges only S2O. A stick of yellow pine timber at Way cross railroad, Fla., measures fourteen inches at the tmall end, and is 94 feet long. Grnndison Harris, Jr., was convicted of body-snatching at Augusta, Ga , and sentenced to pay a fine of SI,OOO or work inlhe chain-gang for twelve months. A company will cnmmence work at Atlanta on the Ist of March on a facto ry for the manufacture of stationary engines. A large portion of Arkansas has been carried by the late three-mile, local op tion law, and hundreds of saloofis were closed with the olose of the year. A factory will he established at New Orleans to prepare cotton-seed oil for cooking, illuminating and lubricating purposes. In the Green county, Tenn., poor 8 h use the daily expense of each pauperi averages four aud a half cents. The bill} of fare ought to be printed for the sake of curiosity. Alabama has 51,540 square miles, is divided into sixty-six counties, eleven of them l>eing 1,000 square miles or more in dimension—the largest, Baldwin, being 1,620 square miles. The smallest are Green ami Etowah, being each 520 square miles. Twelve tramps visited Columbus, Ga., a few days ago, and a few hours after wards they were beginning a thirty days sentence on the rock pile. This treat ment generally aud vigorously applied will reach the very marrow of the tramp nuisance. The Little Bock Democrat says that a great many people in that country do not understand that it is a greater crime to kill a human being than it is to steal a Choctaw ponv, with tiax mane and tail, worth $14.75. # The Florida Southern railroad projects an extension to Pc rv, Ga., which will pass through one of the richest undevel oped sections of the State. The com panv is composed of Boston capitalists aaid to represent $40,000,000. A heavy force is at work on the Georgia line. Atlanta Constitution: If one of the products of the cotton plant is to run nog’s fat out of the South, this remark able weed will hereafter be regarded as the author of anew and higher civili aation. We are all the victims of dis oased hog’s fat and a tod frequent use of the frying pan. tort Smith (Ark.) Independent: It is, no longer Old Arkansas, but New Ar kansas. The flint lock rifle, the coon ‘kin cap, the yellow dog, the belled spurs ftnu the quirt are only remembered as tbe past, and good stock, good farms, £ood schools, education and refinement nave taken their place. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: With the in crease of our industries comes also the ‘‘omand for skilled laborers. The South ias not got them. All our boys have ( ’, een trained to be lawyers and doctors, ycorgia has not an institution for train youngmen as skilled meehanios She , so-called military attach ments, but not an institution devoted to practical knowledge in mechanism and manufacturing, which is now her great est need. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Sooyille has one faculty. He car Calk. Patti’s baggage consists of twenty three trunks. The long-haired Wilde’s first lecture netted him $1,400. Contrary to report, Annie Louise Cary is not to be married. One hundred newspapers in this coun try are edited by colored men. A resident of Belfast, Ohio, has been put under bonds for opening his wife’s letters. The project for the World’s Fair in Boston has been abandoned for want of money. It will be a great relief when we shall be able to announce the close of the Guiteau trial. Tiie Boston University has come into possession of $2,000,000 bequeathed to it by Mr. Rich. A Salt Lake Gentile states that it would require an army of 30,000 men to put the Mormons down. A contemporary suggests that Guiteau will have an opportunity to deliver his speech from the gallows. The Boston co-operative store, after several years’ trial, has proved a failure, aud will wind up its affairs. Both the new Senators elected from lowa are natives of Ohio. Men born in Ohio get into office everywhere. A saloon-keeper, at Blanchester, Ohio, has been required to pay a woman $1,200 for selling her husband liquor. Experiments made with sugar beets in Whitman County, Oregon, result in a yield of 5,000 pounds to the acre. What a remarkable contrast the pres ent winter is with that of one year ago. Everything seems to go to extremes. The Garfield monument fund now amounts to about $90,000, of. which the. sity of Cleveland contributed $68,000. A girl at Wentworth, Ont., was sent to jail for forty-eight hours for contempt of court because she refused to take an oath. Massachusetts’ entire representation In Congress—two Senators and eleven Representatives—are in favor of woman suffrage. Miss Anna Dickinson has scored a success in male character, as “ Hamlet.” H®r determination to wear tights has prevailed. The Boston Globe believes the esthetic wriggle, which fashionable women have adopted as a manner of locomotion, will cure rheumatism. It is said that of 72,000,000 bushels of grain sent from America to Europe last year, not a’single bushel was carried by an American ship. „ A New York paper advertised for original short stories, and receded over 100 responses. The world has an abund ance of literary talent. There is one thing the Land Act has done in Ireland; it has filled the prisons, but what other benefit has been derived from it would be hard to say. That infinitesimal specimen of human ity, Tom Thumb, has become a convert to spiritualism, and believes in almost everything of a ghostly nature. It is in order to announce that Secre tary Folger nas no one to do the honors Df his palatial home but a grown daugh ter. In other words, he is a solitaire. The aesthetic knee-breeches have one great advantage they do not bag at the knee, and they have this great disad vantage—they betray an unshapely calf. Russia goes steadily nearer bank* ruptcy each year, and last December raised with difficulty the gold to pay the semi-annual interest due foreign debtors. Oscar Wilde says that in all England there is not an actress so “powerfully intense” as Clara Morris, This remark is supposed to be a*compliment to Miss Morris. In Baltimore teachers are required to report twice a week the number of whip* pings administered, and those who re port the fewest whippings have the smoothest sailing. It is claimed that on account of the beans they eat Boston women look younger at forty than Chicago womeß Deiotid to Indnstrial Inter* at, the Piffiuion o{ Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government, INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. do at thirty years of age. Still, it is pretty hard to believe. Says the Detroit Free Press: “The war of 1812 ended sixty-seven years ago, and yet over 20,000 widows are drawing pensions granted on account of it. That’s a big load of old widow's.”. Col. Fred. Grant is the President oi the newly-organized American Electric Light Company, of Massachusetts, which claims to have a system for light ing residences and small areas. It required cars to carry ex hibits to the Atlanta Exposition, but so many were sold that 200 w'ere sufficient to take aw ay those which remained, they being nearly all of them machinery. Kentucky does not naturally take to holidays and believes there are too many of them on the calendar. In the House, a few days ago, a bill was passed to abolish New Year’s day as a holiday. The heads of corporations should be held responsible for inexcusable acci dents, particularly where they are the result of bad management. Under such a law there would be fewer accidents. The King of Sweden will have no guards at his country house. “The soldiers are for the country, not for me,” he said to Du Chaillu. “I would rather not be King if obliged to keep soldiers watching over me.” In the Vienna disaster a girl of 18 lost her father, mother, sister, brother-in law and her betrothed in the fire. She returned to the burning house twice in search of them, and at last jumped from the front balcony into the street and was killed. Port Huron, Michigan, believes in corporal punishment. Fifty leather straps, each a foot long, two inches wide, and very thin, have been purchased by the Board of Education of that place for use in punishing pupils in the schools. Sergeant Mason, who shot at Guiteau more than four months ago, is still in jail at Washington. General Sherman promises that he shall be tried by court martial. It is generally believed lie will be acquitted on the ground of insanity. Oswego, New York, is decidedly a healthly town. Rev. Simon Parmalee, on the 15th of January, celebrated his centennial birthday. Another Oswegoan died recently aged 108 years and a Mr. Clark, of the same town, claims to have passed his 110th year. It is gratifying to know that a true bill for murder in the first degree has been found against the muiderers oi Jennie Cramer, at New r Haven, Conn., the sth of August last. Walter E. Mal ley, James Malley and Blanche Douglass are the persons indicted. The National Board of Health is con sidering the pressing demand for bettei quarantine regulations at New York and other ports, in order to prevent Emi grants infected with smallpox landing and proceeding on their journey inland, spreading the foul disease all over the country. A railroad disaster is a pretty serious thing for the company which owns the road. It is said that the Ashtabula dis aster five years age has cost the Lake Shore $2,000,000, and some of the suits for damages are not ended yet. The Spuyten Duyvil disaster will cost the Central a tremendous sum. A West Virginia railroad company lias agreed to stop at least one of its trains each way—on being flagged—for passen gers and freight at every farm where right of way is given. The good times hoped for when every farmer should have a railroad in his own door yard, seems to have come, in West Virginia. A remarkable use is being made oi potatoes. The clear peeled tuber is macerated in a solution of sulphuric acid. The result is dried between sheets of blotting paper, and then pressed. Of this all manner of small articles are made, from combs to collars, and even billiard balls, for which the hard, bril liantly white material is well fitted. A foreign letter says all Vienna thea ters are well nigh bankrupt. Nobody frequents them. The largest amount of money received by an one of them is S2QO; others take in about SSO a night. !fhe police have forbidden all day perform ances, and have lessened the num ber of seats in each. For instance, the the Ander Wien Theater, whic’n held 2,- 540 seats, has now only 1,270. - -m* ■ m Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has just had a streak of hack. A few days ago he received a letter from a lady in Boston, who said that shejhyed on Sliaw- mut avenue, wa* cultivated, bad a teste for the aesthetic literature and art, had a cool SIOO,OOO in bank, was but thirty eight years old, and anxious to be made a Mayor’s bride. The Mayor perhaps understands the drift of her argument. The annual product of the precious metals in the States and Territories west of the Missouri River, including British Columbia, are as follows : Receipts at San Francisco from the west coast of Mexico and reported to Wells-Fargo : Gold, $31,869,686; silver, $45,077,829. California shows an increase in silver and a decrease in gold. Nevada shows a falling off, and Utah, Colorado, and Ari zona, an increase. According to all accounts Mrs. Lin coln is in a pretty bad condition, physi cally and mentally. She is attending Miller’s Water Cure. New York, and is barely able to walk about her room. Cataracts are forming on both eyes. She is troubled with spinal troubles and lias Bright’s disease. When told that the Pension Committee had decided to give her $15,000, which amount was due her under arrears of pension, she manifested great satisfaction. She will remain in New York for the winter. Millions of . bairels of crude oil, enough to supply the w’orld for years, are said to be stored away in the oil re gions. The discovery of oil in Europe and the sinking of wells there threaten to affect the foreign market, though sta tistics as yet show no decrease of the amount of oil expected from this country. Our oil men have turned their attention to South America as a market, but in some parts of that section of the world there are large deposits of petroleum oi good quality, which can be procured in abundance without boring for it. A communication in the Charleston Neivs and Courier calls attention to the statute which makes the non-payment ol a poll tax of $1 a misdemeanor. It says: “What prompts me to write to you at this time is that arrests are now being made and prisoners are confined in our jail charged with no other crime than neglect to pay their poll tax, and as the Legislature is now in session I hope the matter can be so presented to the people and our legislators that immediate action will be taken.” It is this kind of a law that causes laborers to emigrate, in stead of immigrate, in South Carolina. . . . ■ '■ |.J Orange Wines. The subject of utilizing the surplus and the defective fruit of the orange groves of the southern counties by man ufacturing it into a palatable wine, has engaged the attention of numbers oi persons, and some interesting facts have been elicited. Edward Preiss writes to the Semi- Tropic California, and describes his ex periments in making orange wine from the wild orange of Florida years ago. He says that it can not be surpassed for medical purposes, and sold when only eight months old for three dollars per gallon. The oi'angns tntlst be perfectly ripe; Peel them and cut in halves, crosswise of the cells, squeeze into a tub. The press used must be so close that the 3eeds can not pass into the must. Add two pounds of white sugar to eaeh gallon of sour orange juice; or one pound to each gallon of sweet orange juice; and one quart of water to each gallon of the mixed sugar and juice. Close fermentation is necessary. The resultant wine is amber-colored, and tastes like dry hock with the orange aro ma. Vinegar can be made from the refuse, and extract from the peels. Tlie Confectioners' Journal, which is good authority, gives three formulas for making orange wine, and one for orange brandy, in all of which wine, raisins or brandy figure prominently. We quote the first, which is as follows: ‘ ’ Take thirty pounds of new raisins ; pick them clean from the stalks and chop them fine. Pare the yellow rinds from two dozen oranges as thin as possible, being careful to omit all of the white un derlaying pith. Boil about eight gal lons of soft water till the third part of it is evaporated ; after letting it cool a lit tle, pour upon your raisins and orange peel ; then stir it up well, and cover it up and let it stand to infuse for five days, stirring once or twice a day. Then strain aud press this liquid through a hair sieve. Now put it in a clean cask, adding the yellow rinds of a dozen more oranges, pared thin as the first. Make a syrup of the juice of the whole thirty six oranges, with a pound and a quarter of white sugar. Stir them well together, and bung up; let it stand two months to fine, and then bottle it offi” —San Francisco Bulletin. Remember, Young Men. Young men who are intending to be farmers should remember that agricult ure is both a science and an art, to be carefullv studied, and' then practically carried out The day has gone by when the ignorant can become successful fanners. Within the past ten years agriculture has undergone a great revolution, but. the next ten years will see greater changes than have y£t betfn witnessed. The leading agricult?irists will be the leading men of the cou> ifcry. —Prairie Farmer , lngersoll on Wlrskey. We publish this week a beautiful ex tract from a late volume of Ingersoll’s Wit, Wisdom and Eloquence by Mc- Lure, on the subject of Alcohol and its horrors. Mr. Ingersoll is an avowed in fidel, hut what Christian priest has done so much as he for the cause of temper ance? I am aware there is a prejudice against any man engaged in the manu facture of alcohol. I believe that from the time it issues from the coiled and poisonous worm into The distillery until it empties into the hell death, dis honor and crime, that it demoralizes everybody that touches it from its source to where it ends. I do not be lieve anybody can contemplate the sub ject without becoming prejudiced against the liquor crime. All we have to do gentleman is to think of the wrecks on either hank of the stream of death; of the suicides, of the insanity, of the poverty, of the ig norance, of the destitution, of the little children tugging at the faded and weary breasts of weeping and despairing wives, asking for bread, of the talented men ot genius it has wrecked, the men strug gling with imaginary serpents, proceed by this devilish thing; and when you think of the jails, jtlie almshouses/ of the asylums, of the prisons, of the scaf folds, upon either bank I do net wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against this stuff called alcohol. Intemperance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength and ige in its weakness. It breaks the fathers heart, bereaves the darling mother, ex tinguishes natural affection, erases con jugal love, blots out filial attachments, blights parental hope and brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength, sick ness, not health, death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans; fathers fiends and all of them paupers and beggars. Feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites chole ra, imports pestilence and embraces con sumption, It covers the land with idle ness, misery and crime. It fills your jails, supplies your almshouses and sup ples your asylums. It engenders contro verses, fosters quarrels and cherishes riots. It crowds jour penitentiaries and furnishes victims to yoltr scaffolds. It is the life blood of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the highwayman and the support of the midaight incendiary. It countenances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the blasphemer. It violates obligations, reverences fraud and honors infamy, it defames benevolence, haters love, scorns virtue and slanders innocence. It in cites the father to butcher his helpless offspring, helps the husband massacre his wife and the child to grind the par icidal axe. It burns up it con sumes w-omen, detests life, curses God and despises heaven. It stuborns wit nesses, curses per j ury, defiles the jury box, and stains the judicial ermine. It degrades the citizen, debases the legisla tor, dishonors statesmen, and disarms the patriot. Is brings shame not honor; terror, not safety; despair, happiness; and with the malovence of a fiend, it calmly surveys its frightful desolation and unsatisfied with its havoc, it pois ons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights confidences, slays reputation and wipes out national honors. It curs es the world and laughs at its ruin, it does all that and more—it murders the soul. It is the son of villainies, the father of all crimes,'the mother of abominations; thedevik best friend, and Gods worst enemy. A Better Way. The wasteful practice of burning or otherwise destroying love-letters has been brought into disrepute by a young lady in lowa, who has had hers bound in the form of an album, which she turns out for the inspection and enter tainment of her visitors when they have wearied of praising her tidies and finished the family photographs. The device, economical as it is—and in that aspect praiseworthy—has its draw backs. To visitors who have met—as the phrase is—“with a disappointment,” the sight of such a collection would be harrowing in the extreme. Then there would be the additional danger that some guest would find among the mis sives one from somebody to whom she believed she had a special claim. The sight, in such a case, of w r ords of love addressed to another might be provoca tive of unpleasantness —perhaps, even, of tears or, worse still, of scratching and hair-pulling. These possibilities are to be dreaded. Fortunately they can be avoided without recurring to the old-fashioned and waste ful method of burning love letters. Such missives contain —or are popularly held to contain —a good deal of sweetness. Some of them have been described, in the glowing imagery of girlhood, as “just too sweet for anothing,” but this is undoubtedly hyperbole. They ought, however, to be sweet enough for glucose if there is any semblance of sweetness about them. *Let the lowa plan be abandoned then and let the accumulated love letters of the country be sent to the glucose factories. The residents in the neighborhood of such factories might object. But they -do that now. Man’s value is in proportion to what he has courageously suffered, as the val ue of the steel blade is in proportion to the tempering it has undergone. SUBSCRIPTION—SI.S9. NUMBER 23 OEMS OF THOUGHT. [From Geo. Eliots’s “ Adam Bede,*'] Tiie beauty of a lovely woman is like music. Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them. A woman may get to love by degrees; the best fire does not flare up the soon est. A man may be very firm in other mat ters, rfind yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman. When death, the great reconciler has come, it is never our tenderness that wo repent of, but our severity. If you would love a woman -without ever looking back on your love as a folly, sho must die while you are courting her. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the woman that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb ? I don't want to know people that look ugly and disagreeable, any more than I want to taste dishes that look disagreea bio. Then they looked at each other, not quite as they had looked before, for in tlieir eyes there was the memory of a kiss. There’s no pleasure iu living if you’re to be corked up forever, and only drib ble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. One may be betrayed iuto doing things by a combination of circum stances which one might never have done otherwise. “But, mother, thee know’st we can not love just where other folks ’ud have us. There’s nobody but God that can control the heart of man. The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her own beauty tilt she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return. Because, dear, trouble comes to us all in this life, we set our hearts on things which isn’t God’s will for us to have, aud then we go sorrowing. A man never lies with more delicious langor under the influence of a passion, than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow. When I have made up my mind that I can not afford to buy a tempting dog, I take no notice of him, because if he took a strong fancy to me, and looked lovingly at me, tire struggle between arithmetic and inclination might become unpleasantly severe. It’s a deep mystery—the way the heart of man turns to one woman out of all the lost lie’s seen in the world, and makes it easier for him to work seven years for her, like Jacob did for Rachel, sooner than have any other woman for the asking. But I believe there have been men since liis day who have ridden a long way to avoid a rencontre, and then galloped hastily back, lest they should mis S it. It is the favorite strategem of our passions to charm a retreat, and to turn sharp around upon us the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own. An Out law’s Sweetheart. The robbers used to frequently shoot at targets in company with their sweet hearts, in the shooting the girls making sometimes almost as good a score as the men, and the yells that would rend the air as one’s favorite lady would split the bullet on the half dollar as it fell for ward to the ground would have done justice to a border scout. Nor were the young ladies behind them in equestrian ism, Miss Ryan, in particular, often boasting that she could drop the nickel as often in the race as any of the boys. It may be proper here to explain the viodns operandi of the “nickel race.” A nickel or other small coin is placed in the forks of a tree, about the distance from the ground that a man’s shoulder would be while on horseback. Each party has one shot at it as he Hies by on his horse *t full speed. The ladies take their regular turn, and Miss Ryan has been known to drop the nickel three times out of five races, aud that she is, indeed, at home in the saddle is demon strated by the fact that when alighting from herfavorite horse, a powerful black charger, she simply rises from the sad dle and leaps to the ground, while her horse w alks to the nearest liitchiug-pc it to await its rider. When she is ready to remount, her intelligent horse comes at her call, and taking her saddle by the pummel she bounds into it and is off at a fast gallop, the only gait she ever rides. —SL Louis Chronicle. She Fetched Him. Women sometimes have great pres ence of mind. A jailor’s wife saw that a prisoner had got between her husbaud and the unlocked door and was going for it like a Scotch terrier for a rat hole. She knew she hadn’t the strength to seize and hold him, and besides he had a knife, so she didn’t try. But she stepped into a side corridor near the head of a fight of stairs the prisoner had got to descend, yanked off her hoopskirt, and, as he passed, 'flung it before him. The way he turned handsprings and somersaults down those stairs was a cau tion to cats, and his frantic struggles after he reached the bottom would have attracted folks from a dog fight. When the jailor came up, the fellow had got himself so entangled that he was abso lutely helpless, was doubled up in terri bly uncomfortable ways and was chok ing to death, and so completely wound uiT that the jailor had to cut him out with a hatchet, and it took half a yard of court plaster and a pint of arnica to make him at all comfortable. —Boston Post.