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W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. Alabama’s total indebtedness is s<) > 111,500. Texas has 4,600,000 sheep, valued a $18,800,000. The jailor at Trenton, county, Tenn , is paid SIOO a year. It is probable the Virginia legislature will abolish chain gangs and the v-hip ping-pOst. At a sale in Vicksburg, Miss., recent' ly, a plantation containing 1.900 acres I brought only $2,225. Out of ninety convicts hanged in the Fnited States in 1881, Arkansas head the list with fifteen. There are nine colored men in the Mississippi legislature, eight iu the house and one in the senate. Tho cotton mill at Wesson, Mias., pays twenty six per cent, divideud, and the stock is worth over S3OO. A two-inch carp put in a pond near Atlanta, two years.'ago, was caught a few days since, and weighed seven pounds. The Mississippi pre alarmed at the recent heavy sales of land to speculators in that state, is urging that the state lands should be withdrawn from the market until they are explored, classi fied and appraised, and then they should he sold in such a way as to swell the school revenues of the state. Augusta, (Ga.) News: A Pennsylva nia firm is manufacturing papef at Sa vannah, from what is called the “saw pal metto,” a material heretofore regarded as nearly useless. The paper is said to he of superior quality, and especially useful as a transfer paper, which has heretofore been imported. Messrs. Mertz, Finley & Purdy, have bonded the Mertz gold mine, situated two miles northwest of Gainesville, Gn., to Eastern capitalists for SIO,OOO. The ore is quartzite, with liberal shoeing of free gold. Both walls are argillite. A to3t ton of the ore will be shippod East this week. Winston, (X. C.) Sentinel. A inpn by the name of Woods committed su’citle at Laural Springs, Ahs county. He came in from hunting and avked "luS wife to pull his boots off. She refused to do so, which so wounded his feelings that he caught up his gun and by the use cf his foot, discharged the contents tntoliis body, killing hiniFelf instantly. They wer both young and h.vd been married only about a year. Atlanta Constitution Florida letter: “Ihc Speer grove, wiih 600 trees, would bring perhaps $50,000, and this is the best in Florida. This is about SB, 500 per acre, for six acres. It is the best because it is the oldest. The lar gest yield ever known from one tree • ime from the oldest tree in the state, at St. Augustine, which bore 14,8000 oranges. This is held to prove that up to 70 or 100 years the yield of a tree will improve. There are several trees that hate yielded 7.0, 0 and 8,000 oranges. Florida Key of the Gulf: A friend describes to us a remarkable scene wit nessed by him at a religious meeting on B hidby Island. W. T. A., a memcer of the church, while praying, called npon God to strike him dead if a certain statement made by him in the strongest and most unequivocal manner was not exactly true. He had hardly' uttered the last word when he fell deah Com* ing as this did, in the church, and upon leading member, the effect upon the congregation can only be imagined. “I believe,” says Gov. Bigelow, of f oncecticut, in his message, of his trip fcouth, “that the visit gave a large body Connecticut citizens new and truer ideai of the South in feelings and mo tive®. We hope that these Southern f ffi*ens whom me met, and to x-horn we are indebted for such a fraternal wel c *me, gained truer conceptions of the temper of our people toward them. Ic certainly given an added cordiality *** heartiness to the good feeling be ! *een Connecticut and South Carolina.’ Atlanta Constitution: Georeia j*, w Sports 330,000,000 feet of lumber annu- The lumber goes to .every part of world from Brazil to New Bruus wck, and from Algiers to Germany. gettiug of this lumber strij* about H ( M>O acres of land annually. It j s to estimate that half as qjuch more u iber is destroyed or wasted by the ur pea tine men. It will be tfaerr. that we are getting '-! pine forests very swiftly. * There is a Poetically exhaust less eeeervfe.ftf ey- Pea® timber that w ill be touched^‘Wkiil . t a - .rYnr f Devoted to Industrial Inter st, the Diffarion of Trnth, the Establishment of Jo&ie?, and the Preservation of a People’s Government, as soon as the pine barrens are denuded. Atlanta Constitution Florida letter: ‘“The only newspaper railroad in the country. is the gotith Flor ida, mailing out from Sanford to Tam pa. This rosid was built and is owned and operated by the Boston Herald It is now in operation twenty three miles and is being extended rapidly. It will be ninety miles long when the pres ent contracts are finished, and may be pushed to Punta Rossa. The Herald people are doing the work themselves, and as a Floridan said: ‘They are talk ing less and doing more work than any ot *our developers.’ The road is paying hardsonuly and runs two trains a day.” The American Cultivator says that ‘’the scarcity of heavy Texas hides is getting to be a source of anxiety to tanners, who want to get out heavy leather to answ’er the prevailing demand The improvement of herds has been going on time on the cattle ranches, and the long-horned, scraggy Texas steers are getter scarcer every year. There is more system pursued in raising cattle. Crossing the breeds give finer stock and better meat, at the expense of the hide, which in the best bred animals is finer and does not make such thick leather. Another large consolidation of iron interests is nearly affected at Birming ham, which will unite the Alice and Eureka furnaces now in operation, the great Sloss furnaces now building, and two more yet to be constructed. The capital of the company will be slo,o<io, 000. The leading jpovers in the scheme are Dc Barlcdebcn, who recently sold the Pratt mines to New York capitalists for $1,0,0,000, the Hilraans and Col. Slosa This would practically consoli date all the iron producing interests of Central Alabama, except the charcoal furnaces The six furnaces would have a capacity of 150,000 tons annually. The Bane of Habit. Habits iu little things exercise ft petty tyranny which is most degrading. A man cannot do anything -witliout ot>serving a lpfc of preliminary forms ; he must have elope just so inhny hours, have risen at a ref 1 lac ti uae.r i&ive .bivsilwhcsted on heaf steal; and coffee have read one j>articu lur newspaper, have walked a certain rnfnber of blocks, before he can make Lis great speech, or write his brilliant editorial. He cannot rise to a great oc casion. He becomes a machine. His work may bo regular abd neat, but it is soulless, cold, touched with no charm of individuality. Such a man may serve well, but he is not fit to rule. If, at home, he is frequently respecta ble, abroad ho is always insufferable. Ho is made so miserable by the disturb ance of his habits in the exigencies of travel, that ho can enjoy neither scenery, pictures nor people. Yet he prides him self on the “ good habits” by which he has blunted his sensibilities, and limited his enjoyment of every thing intended by Providence to elevate and inspire a fallen race. But there is a worse danger yet. This subj >et has so long been misunderstood, and that which is really a vice has so of ten been upheld as a virtue, that people have come to regard it with actual satis faction. This unworthy contentment is death to intellectual growth. The mind is hampered iu thought and expression by mental mannerisms which it is never taught to shake off. In speaking of the typical habitual person I have said “a man” advisedly. Women are more rarely' subject to this ▼ice. I do not put their superiority in this matter on the ground of a stronger moral sense. Ido not wish to exalt my own sex undeservedly-. Women are gifted by nature with greater flexibility; aud, doubtless, the ordinary circum stances of their lives offer fewer tempta tions toward habits. We must wait till a woman’s outward life becomes as nearly like that of a man as it will soon become, before we should boast of her superior moral nature. We must see whether her freedom of soul will stand the crucial test of men’s unnatural “regular occu pations. ” If a woman would be charming, let her shun habit like pestilence and death. When Enobarbus said of Cleopatra : “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety,” he meant that she was one of those de i iightfully spontaneous creatures who t have no habits at all. Some days, I fancy, she was very silent, and on others overflowing with talk. When Antony marched home late in the evening he might be perfectly sure that the Qneen | would not be upset by having her dinner at nine instead of at six and that she [ would be pleased to sit up the rest of the night to listen to his exploits. She probably rose one day at -noon, and on the next viewed the sunrise from her garden. As I have said, one who has* habits, may be a good servant, but one who wishes to do more, must get rid of them. A soldier, a mother, a frontiersman, a physician, or any one who has to meet nature face to face, and work with her • forces, has nothing to do with habits. Sfieh a one must learn to bear fatigue, heal sud epld, broken sleep, irregular |aml insufficient food, days of arduous |WcX V and days of enforced idMness.— I tbXfiemin Indianapolis Herald, Indian springs,Georgia. TOPICS OF THE DAY. W hat has beoome of Ben Butler, any way ? San Fbancisco granted 364 divorces last year. It seems that the country is about to devote itself to paying pensions. It is stated that Mr a. Garfield took no interest whatever in the Guiteau trial. ■ The Cincinnati Commercial says the English of SpuytenDuyvil is “Spitting Devil. ” _ • “ In Congress are eight Irishmen, four Scotchmen, five Englishmen, and three Germans. Guiteau will now await the “divine pressure ” —irresistible in its very nature —of the hangman’s rope. Edward S. Stokes, Fisk’s murderer, lives in a house in New York for which he pays a rental of $4,000 a year. The Photographers’ Association of America will hold their next annual meeting at Indianapolis, August 8, 1882. The leading London newspapers ex press satisfaction over the conviction of Guiteau. but they all criticise the con duct of the trial. The shipping north of Florida straw berries will begin in a few days. The cream and sugar accompaniments are ripe and ready whenever they come. The compulsory education law of Sonora, Mexico, requiring children be tween six and sixteen years to attend school six months in the year, is being enforced. The ju/ors in the Guiteau case say that, during the trial they talked with no outsiders and read no newspapers. They were virtually shut out from the world seventy days. A rumor, almost too weak to stand alone, says Dennis Kearney is about to start an anti-monopoly party in Califor nia. So then, Dennis is still in the land cf the living. There is one person displeased with the verdict rendered in the case of the assassin of President Garfield and that person is Charles J. Guiteau, “ the little giant of the West.” Congress, as usual, is full of men who are afraid to follow the ghost of what conscience they have. What is needed is a little hard, earnest work, and fewer grand dinners, receptions, etc. Ehthusiastic anti-polygamy meetings are being held in many parts of the country. The Mormon question seems to be about the next thing of any con siderable importance for the country to grapple with. The people up in the Northeast have been taking too many icebergs in their weather. Thirty-five degrees below zero must have been more disagreeable than anything Mother Yennor, in her palmy days, could have given us! It is the thing now to be a “boy preacher.” The third “boy preacher” of the country has popped to the surface in Baltimore, who, it is said, is saving more souls than all the old gospel ’pounders of that city put together. The murderers of Jennie Cramer, the New Haven belle, are having a delightful time of it in jail. Blanche Douglass divides her time between sewing and reading the bible, Jim Malley reads novels, and Walter sketches and plays the zither. Baltimore extended a reception to Oscar Wilde and Oscar forgot all about it and went on to Washington, and now Baltimore is so mad that they want to rotten-egg the long-haired youth. It seems that Baltimore forgot that Mr. Wilde charges S2OO to attend a public re ception. _ Footpads have become so bold in and about Indiauapolis that the citizens threaten to organize vigilant committees. The footpads hit their victims with a bag of sand, knocking them insensible, and then rob them of their valuables. Of a number who have been thus assaulted, one died of his injuries. The Ohio State Temperance Conven tion the other day adopted a resolution asking that an amendment to the Con stitution be submitted to a vote of the people, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol. for drinking purposes; also, protesting against tax license, or any restrictions or regulations whatever. The stock of flour at the principal points in the United States ana Canada, actual arid estimated, is pTabM at about 2,200,000 barrels. The annual manufac tmre of flour fi the country is about 55,- 000,000 to 60, OO©^ 000 barrels. The stock of 2,200,000 is nc4 more than about two weeks’ consumption the whole popu lation. y.' - The Boston Hera\ \ ’links that if Wil liam Penn, who was " |pod old Quaker, were to-day nominate* foV Governor of Massachusetts, he -nmldVbe snubbed, because he drank wine, v’he Boston H . , rJd, seems to forget that's the longer a man has been in tho ground Ithe better he is thought of. If Penn V©re alive to-day he would be no better vthan the rest of us. ■ Prince Bismarck is rapidly gying down hill. He lately wrote to a German in Chicago who had been in his oervioe, to whom he said that both his sons and daughters were in good health, “ which, ” he added, “ unhappily, I can not always say of my wife, and not at all of myself. I hunt no more, and rarely ride, since I am too weak, and if I do not soon get rest my vital forces will be worn out.” The Washington Star refers to the singular and suggestive fact that Mr. Webster Wagner, who was burned to death in one of his own palace cars on the Hudson River Railroad, a few days ago, was Chairman of the Committee on Railroads in the New York State Senate which a year ago smothered and sup pressed a bill introduced in that body for the better protection of life on rail ways. Mlle. Rhea, a Russian actress who was interviewed by the Cleveland Leader on Nihilism, said: “The majority of the Nihilists are young men between eighteen and twenty-two. Many of them are girls of the same age; girls with short hair and spectacles who think they are divinely inspired to throw bombs. It’s queer that women always go to extremes in everything.” Yes, it is a little queer, but. they do. Perhaps the actress went just a little to the extreme in this state ment of hers. Senator Blair says he has received numerous letters from men prominently identified with public education in the South, indorsing his bill to appropriate money from the National Treasury to qjd the cause of general education. The bill proposes to appropriate $15,000,000 the first year, $14,000,000 the second VCftf, and so on for ten years, the sum tv- be diminished $1,000,000 each year, the money to be distributed to States and Territories in proportion to the illiterate population in each. A Louisville reporter has gotten himself into a nice mess. He tele graphed over the country that Louisville had thirteen cases of smallpox, whereas an investigation proved that there was no smallpox in that city whatever. For his enterprise, according to a citvordin ance, he will be compelled to pay SSO for each case, an aggregate of $650. As everybody knows that is somewhat larger than the average reporter’s pile, there is nothing left for the reporter to do but to elope with his body. The imports of German and Italian beans at New York have amounted to about 45,000 bushels thus far, and some 8,000 to 10,000 are in transit. Foreign markets are said to have advanced slightly under this large call from Amer ica, but there seems to be sufficient margin at present cost to encourage im porters. A large proportion of these beans have gone West, where they can be used in place of home-grow n stock at a lower price. Most of the sales are at $2.75 to $3; some of the best have been worked off in place of State mediums. The coming Opera Festival at Music Hall, Cincinnati, which occurs on the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th of February, will, beyond doubt, be the most successful, both in point of musi cal excellence and financially, that has ever been held in this country. Patti, whom at all other points in the country it costs $5 to hear, will sing upon this occasion, and to the entire series of per formances, eight in number, a season ticket can be had for sl4, which is made transferable, and can be divided up among several persons and thus still further reduce the price of "admission. Those in distant towns desiring choice seats can get them by applying in ad vance of the occasion for a plat of the auditorium of the Hall. Aberdeen, Ohio known as the “Gretna Green” of America—is the scene of many romantic marriages.. No licenses are required and in consequence persons of any age or color may be united in wedlock without risk of violat ing the law. An unusually exciting event is reported as taking place there a few days ago. The candidates for matri mony were from Kentucky, four in num ber, named Mr. R. Smith and Miss Alice E. Garrison and Mr. Willard F. Garrison and Miss Mdggi4 NeaL They were "in a very greet hurry, having traveled all oigbt Pt of to reach the place, as the bride cf Mr. Garrison was being pursued by her parents, who objected to her getting married on account of her age, phe be ing only thirteen years old. But they managed to beat the old folks, and all were married by ’Squire Maosia in his usual graceful style. The thirteen-year-old girl, it is said, was so excited that she did not know her right hand from her left. These are poets and there are poets —poets honored by a nation, and poets who, for the sake of humanity, should be hurried pell-mell to the nearest pile driver and there annihilated for all time and eternity. From a late copy of a farm journal, which, in an agricultural point of view perhaps is unsurpassed in excellence, we find some verses written to’ “Sweet Madoline.” Asa sample of the whole we print this one : Oh she’s as sweet as the lily of the valley, Her ne’er was’seen; How ligwtly she trips along the alley, Her n*me is Madoline. It savors somewhat of richness to pic ture in your mind a sweet maiden trip ping along an alley. There are some alleys in which we fear sweet Madoline would wish she never had gone. The stench of the refuse would overcome all the sweetness she ever did have and leave her a sad wreck. But what in the name of heaven an editor-—yes, an ed itor—could see in such doggerel to merit its publication is beyond human concep tion. After the author of the verse quoted has been crushed under a pile driver, it will he high time to visit that editor’s sanctum and hit him in the head with a stuffed club. A Wonderfnl Tree. Why men occasionally see sea serpents and other snakes is plain enough; bul vvliat is there in a Jersey cedar to ac count for the following from the Clinton, NT. J., correspondent of the Philadelphia Times. Se says : “A farmer living near Schooley Moun tain has greatly excited his neighbors by an acCouiit of a wonderful tree which he discovered several years ago, and which he has been watching ever since. 3e says for three years it has gone through the colj weather without shed ding a leaf. It is a maple tree, and its iap makes very good maple sugar. “ The farmer noticed it first while fol lowing the trail o L a Xox up over the mountain early in 1838.‘ Ail the other trees, even of' tiie fs„me Species, were entirely bare, while tlua tree had aot, to all appearances, lost a single leaf, rhero were no dried leaves underneath it," and the leaves oh the branches were •all green. It was with great difficulty that a leaf could be pulled from the twig to which it was fastened, and a strong breeze, which was blowing at the time, had no effect npon the leaves. So astonished was the discoverer at the phenomenon that he forgot all about the fox he was after and the cold character of the day, and spent several hours ex amining the tree. “ He went home greatly puzzled, and returned several days later with a clergy man. living in the vicinity. They de termined to mark several of the leaves and see how long they remained where they were. They also resolved to keep the thing a secret and watch its progress until spring. This they did. When April arrived the leaves which they had marked were just as green and fresh as in December, and the tree itself was hot affected in the least by the severity of the weather and the many windy blasts. “ The bark was tapped every week and yielded a plentiful supply of sap; enough to keep both the farmer’s and min ister’s families in syrup all winter long. The same has been tried ever since ; not a leaf has fallen, to the best of their be lief, since the day the tree was first noticed, and the sap has flowed with the same regularity and profusion. “As far as can be Ascertained, there is no cause for the mysterious vitality of that particular maple. There is nothing in the sod or sub-soil to. render growth more available or make the trunk and branches better able to stand the storms and cold weather. “A number of people have lately vis ited the curiosity, but each one comes away perfectly mystified. At the pres ent time not another tree on the whole mountain, with the exception of several evergreens'near the hotels, has a leaf on it, and the trunks and branches stand out bleak and bare. This maple io in an exposed spot, unprotected from the winds and surrounded by rocks. Just why it is as it is baffles the ingenuity of all beholders. Even the regular Decem ber fox hunt is cast in the shade by this perpetually green maple tree. ” Translated from Tfye Omnibus.— The Little Emma-“jlhe derd must it very good have, dear Mamma !” Mother, much struck—“And why so, dear child?”. Emma “Because the fleas them not more bite!” Lady—“ Marie, go and see if the butcher calves feet has.” Marie, back coming—-“ Madam, I know not. I have them not see could.” Lady—“ What T has. He has boots out” -Yisitress— “ Thou appeared vexed, dear Emma. ” House Young Oh, yes, think of it! Our girl ha? suddenly out of the service gone. Now must my old mother, with the rheumatism, the whole work iO.” •: ; * ? ’ ' , Nothing so auorns the face as cheer f&ln&ss. When the heart is in flower, its bloom and beauty pass to the features, * ‘ Abundance, like want, ruins many ;** however,’ let us risk it on the abundance. “Don’t give me a weigh,” pleadad the fat girl when invited to step on the scales. When a girl rejects an offer of mar riage she goes through a sleight of hand performance. The end to be attained in tho inveai* ment of money is the divid end. — Stctt* bcnviUe Herald. It George Washington cannot have a monument he has had a pie named lor him, and that is better. An old negro says : “Sass is power ful good in everything but children. Dey need some other kind of dressing.” The editor who called Chicago a Chris tian country ought to be better posted in re igious geography.— Boston Times. “Pride goes before a fall.” True enough, but a pint of corn whisky can give pride a hundred and beat it every time.” An editor wrote a personal about a young man going to spark his girl. When it was printed ho was horrified to seethe letter “n” substituted for the “r” in the word spark.— Whitehall Times. “Have a place for everything and everything in its place.” Somehow or other this won’t work; we have a big place for our wealth, but we’ll be hanged if we can put it there ; we haven't it!—- Evansville Argus. “Dobs our talk disturb you?” said one of a company of talkative ladies to an old gentleman sittiug in a railroad station the other afternoon. ma’am,” was the naive reply, “I’ve been married night on to forty years.”—Hart ford Times. “ When I die let me be buried in the stove, so that my ashes may mingle with the grate, 5 ’ says the paragrapher of the Boston Star. In the stove the gentle man's ashes will scarcely mingle with the grate; the chances are he will gently simmer as a base burner. A miller in Peru, Ind., fell asleep in bis mill and bent forward till his hair got caught iu some machinery and was yanked out ; and, of course, it awakened him, and his first bewildering exclama tion was : “Durnit, wifo, what’s the matter now ?”— Boston Post. A very gushing young lady turnod to Mr. Snap and asked him in passionate tones: “Oh—ah— Mr. Snap, tell me! What— what — is your idea of real happi ness?” Mr. Snap— “ Never reached the full meaning of the word, yet, but I guess pork aud beans Would cover the .green*!” :'" T • “ You are op the wrong tack,” said the pilot’s wile, when the hardy son of the loud-sounding sea sat down on. it and arose with the usual exclamations. ? “No,” lie replied, after a critical exami nation, “ I’m on the right tack, but shoot me dead if I ain!t on the wrong end of 'it. ,Jk -— Burlington Haw key e. “ Have some more of the pie,” urged Mrs. Slobson to her boarders, who ob stinately refused. Again she urged them, adding : “If you don’t eat it I’ll have to tlirow it away. It won’t keep much longer.” Strange to say, their appetites departed. This is one of the amenities of boarding-house life. When you are coming up the cellar stairs with a bucket of coal in one hand, two pies and a plate of butter in the other, and a loaf of bread under each arm, it is exceedingly trying to your Christian fortitude to have a woman yell down aud caution you not to forget the preserves on the swinging shelf in the comer of the cellar, next to the current jelly. Been there, haven’t you? — Wil’ liamsport Breakfast Table . What Lincoln Said to Joshua Speed* Joshua F. Speed was one of Lincoln's oldest and most confidential friends in his younger days, and their friendship continued through all trials. After the capitulation of General Lee’s army, Speed came from his home in Louisville, Ky., to visit Mr. Lincoln, aud while in Washington was invited to an informal meeting of the Cabinet. The question of the disposition of Jef ferson Davis and other prominent Con federates, after they should be captured, was discussed, each member of the Cab inet giving his opinion, most of them for hanging the traitors, or some severe punishment. Lincoln said nothing. Finally, Mr. Speed, addressing the Pres ident, said: “Now, Mr. Lincoln, you have invited me here, and this seems to be a free fight. I have heard the opin ion of your ministers, and would like to hear yours.” “Well, Jacob,” replied Lincoln, “ that reminds me of a story. When I was a boy, in Indiana, I went to a neighbor’s house one morning and found a boy, of my size, holding a coon by a string. I asked him what he had and what he was doing. He says: ‘lt is a coon. Dad <k>tch six last night, and killed all but this poor little cuss. Dad told me to hold him until he came back, and I’m afraid he’s going to kill this one, too. And, oh, Abe ! I do wish he would get away,’ ‘ Weil, why don’t yon let him loose?’ ‘That would not be right, and if I let him go, dad would give me hell; but if he would get away himself, it would be all right.’ Now,” said Mr. Lincoln, “if Jeff. Davis and those other fellows will only get away, it wiP be all right, but if we should catch them, and I should let them go, dad would give me pell.” At* fashionable weddings in England a youthful relative of the bride bears her train. He is fancifully dressed in tlxe style of the old Yenetuu* or Charles L period. -