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W. F, SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. In I' lorida 3,000 pine apples can be raided on an acre of ground. 1 >ne thousand men are employed in the iron works in Cherokee county, Ala. The only drawback to cocoanut rais in." in Florida is that it takes ten years for the trees to bear. Fifteen hundred executions for delin quent poll taxes have been issued in Union county, S. O. An old man on Oaney Fork, in Mid dle Tennessee, caught $6,000 worth of saw log< during the last rise. Tennessee has a State Jaw which im poses a fine of S6OO for lailnre to report small pox to the State Board of Health. At Louisville, Miss., John D. M. Thrasher had been sent to the jeniten tiary for life for the murder of W. I) Triplett. The Georgia Supreme court has de cided that the cities of that State must stop their debts at 7 per cent of their taxable property. Six hundred partiidgcs in boxes, shipped from Danville, Va., arrived in Wilmington, Del., last week for the Delaware Game Association, which is trying to restock that State. Fifteen thousand dollars have been expended <n the North Georgia agri 1 culturel college at Dahlonega. It will take $6,000 to complete it. Col. Benj. S. Ricks, of Yazoo county, Miss,, the second largest planter in the South, employs 1,000 men, and made -,<>oo b ties of cotton last year, r I lie acreage of wheat sown over Bast Tennessee is unusually large, and the prosnect for an excellent crop was never more encouraging for the time of year. Within the last three years over $2,- 000,000 have been invested in manufac taring enterprises in Georgia, and nearly $10,000,000 have been invested and con tracted for in railroads in our State. Old Aunt Bonnie Holloway died in Fauquier county, Va., last week, in the one hundred and fifteenth year of her nge, ihe oldest citizen probably in the Old Dominion. When Lord Cornwallis passed through Eastern Virginia in the summer of 1781 she said she “ was a good smart gal, big cm ugh to get married.” The Nashville Banner, in some race recountings, say* : At another race over the Clover Bottom track Gen. Jackson entered liis famous horse Truxton, and was backing him quite heavily. Gov. Cannon was on hand, but had no money, so lie bet a wagon load of negroes with the General. Truxtcn won tho race and the General took in the negroes. Uold is being wadied from alluvial lands within tho limits of Gainesville, <a., which pays 50 cents to the pan. Ihe city covers a deposit of gold-bear ing material which should be utilized, and no doubt will be as soon as the ca nal Atlanta so much needs passes through that section. The bed of that canal for a distance of forty miles will he cut through veins and deposits of gold bearing ere. lhere are three great land companies now interested in Florida. The Pisston company holds 2,000,000 acres of the 4,000,000 acres it bought from the State. A third company (headed by Pisston also) proposes to drain the Lake Okee chobee region and reclaim the swamp lands. The area of reclaimation is as large as New Jersey, Connecticut, Dela ware and Rhode Island, and the Pisston company will get half of it, the State retaining the balance of it. Two enor mous dredging boats are already at work at this, and the work will be pushed to completion. Atlanta Constitution Florida Notes: Light years ago there was only $120,000 invested in steamers on the St. Johns. Now there are twenty eight steamers plying that river, one of which cost $-40,000. and to this fleet there are con stant additions. The Indian river and Bouth Florida lakes and inlets are now dotted with pail boats, carrying freight <" and fro. In a very short time these will be supplemented by steamers, and then the quesaion will be settled, anew region opened, the fertility, and beauty of which cannot be put in words. A contemporary asks : “ How shall women carry their purses to frustrate tho Why, carry them empty. - J n , ug frustrates a thief more than to •snatch a woman s purse, after following wr half a nule, nnd then find that it con - * la . uotlnng but a recipe for spiced >• ae ies aud a faded photograph of her giaadmother. ggggggggggg to Industrial Inter st, the Ihffu ion ol Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Cincinnati reports 188 cases of small pox under treatment. Denver will hold a National Mining Exposition in August. This is the season of the year to make predictions about spring. The persecution of Jews in Russia is exciting general attention. The New York bar will give Judge Porter a complimentary dinner. A woman in Graves County, Kentucky, is undergoing a forty days’ fast. Vanderbilt pays over two hundred thousand dollars annually in iaxes. Strawberries from Florida are selling in New York at $4 and $5 per quart. This is t he year that the Mohammedans expect the coming of their Messiah. Of the 601 convicts in the Arkansas State Prison more than 100 are murderers. Canada is considering the feasibility of abolishing the duties on tea and coffee. De Long has been traced to a definite locality. The next thing now will be to find him. A St. Lons man lias started a fund for the Guiteau jury by contributing $1 towards it. We find that the more the editors say against the Gainsborough hats the higher they loom up. Cincinnati will probably try the ex periment of propelling street cars by tile cable system. The Cleveland fund for the Garfield monument is not quite SIOO,OOO and there it sticks. Ridgeway is under the impression he can freeze Guiteau’s body so that it won’t stink. It may be that he can. February 27 is the day upon which Mr. Blaine will deliver his eulogy on President Garfield in Congress. The reporters of Chicago have ruled women out of their press club. Men want to get to themselves occasionally. There is one thing Guiteau may rest assured of : He will be cut up, or froze up—exhibited in the flesh or as a skele ton. Female teachers in Boston who Lave been in service ten years want SI,OOO a year. If they can't get married they ought to have it. The Spanish pilgrims to Rome are Carl is t soldiers or well known friends of Don Carlos, who urges the movement in letters to his partisans. Tug Russian Government claims that the persecution of the*Jews m that country was originated and-is kept up by revolutionary agents. The work of tunneling the St. Law ence River is to -be completed in four years at a cost of $3,500,000. Mon treal has the contract Wilde’s face is so long that it is said to have the appearance of being reflected from a convex mirror. Grief over be fading lily produced it. Under the law District Attorney Cork hill will get S2O for prosecuting tho assassin. Dr. Bliss might give Corkhill a pointer on making out bills. Oso a.r Wix.de think?; Walt Whitman is the gieatest of living poets—not even excepting Longfel .ow, Mr. Wliitman will now please tickle Mr. Wilde some. The Grant phalanx, known as the Three-Hundred-and-Six, are to be pre sented with bronze medals as mementos for their unswerving fidelity in the hour of sore trial. If Babnum could secure the body ol Guiteau, and then engage Oscar Wilde as lecturer, he might double his fortune of $3,000,000. The scheme is worth looking into. We reckon Oscar Wilde don’t like America excessively. Shafts of sarcasm are hurled at him from every conceiva ble quarter. He must think we Ameri cans are awful reckless. Tobacco is a foul weed, but it seems to yield an enormous revenue wherever it is raised. The tobacco monopoly ol France last year yielded a net profit to the State of about $60,000,000. Since Liszt went to Rome his health nas greatly improved. But he still de votes hours to the fatiguing work of composition, and forgets sleep, food and INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. everything else except the work before him. The St. Petersburg police have issued an order forbidding the appearance of any actors or dancers on the stage of the theaters of tlie Capital whose dresses have not been previously rendered in combustible by means of chlorate of lime. The same rule has been in force in Berlin for five years. An official report on the condition of the eyes of school children in Philadel phia says: “Hypermetropic eyes a?-* more numerous than both myopic and emmetropic ; that next to myopic astig matism, distinct lesions are most preva lent to the eyes with bypermetic astig cnatism ” This will be startling news to most people. In its continual use in the Guiteau trial many people have asked, what does ‘court in banc” mean? ‘ Banc,’ brought into legal language from the French, means “bench,” and comes to us from English law. “ Banc Regis ” was the title of the Kings Bench, which w'as above all other courts, and appeal to which was final. The “Court in banc” therefore means tlie Supreme Court of the District in full bench. Sixty Harvard students, wearing knee breeches and black silk stockings and bearing lilies in their hands, went in a body to one of Oscar Wilde’s lectures in Boston. Oscar, strange to say was not pleased. To see himself as others see him so disconcerted him that he failed even to enjoy the rapturous ap plause that occasionally greeted him Perhaps this sort of monkey business, if pursued long enough, will teach the dis ciple of aestheticism a wholesome lesson. Editor Ramsdfll. of the Washington Republican, recently offered $5 for the best written letter accepting an offer of marriage, and lieie is the letter, by Ger trude Nelson, which won the prize : “My Dear Donald— Fresh with the breath of the morning came your loving missive. I have turned over every leaf of my heart during the clay, and on each pago I find the same written, namely, gratitude for the love of a nobleman, hu mility in finding myself its object, and ambition to reader myself worthy of that which you offer, I juviii try Yours henceforth.” George Q. Cannon, one of- the con testants for the seat of Delegate in Con gress from Utah, speaking of the re pressive measures respecting polygamy, says: “Our people will be obliged to submit with the spirit of martyrs, as they have heretofore submitted when oppressive laws have been enacted against them, or when they have been expelled or mobbed from their various homes, before polygamy became one of their tenets. They actually rejoice in persecution, as it intensifies their ad hesion to the doctrines of their church, and confirms them in their belief in its divine origin.” A cotemporary tells the following story: A man named Harsens who keeps a saloon and a parrot in New York went out a few minutes the other even ing aud on his return missed seven silver watches lie had there. A few nights after William Cox, who was the only person in the sa’.oon during Harsens’ absence, came in with some friends; and while he was drinking at the bar, the parrot startled him by saying gravely, “Billy Cox stole those watches.” He hurried out to sue the owner, of the par rot for defaming liis character, when he was arrested for stealing another watch which was found in his possession. According to the New York Herald, now engaged in examining the Clerk’s ac count of the disbursements of the House of Representatives, the most shameful recklessness prevails in the manner of spending the public fuuds. We quote from the list: “Two perfumery cases, bought for a member, s*2o, three fans bought for a member, $16.63; six tooth picks, bought for member, $28.17; two fourteen carat charm magic pencils, bought for a member. $30.60; seven knives, bought for a member, $lO9 67; three card cases, bought for a member. $10.33; one fine opera glass, bought for a member S4O; cne shaving case, bought for a member. sl3. These are only a few of the long list given. The Herald, commenting, says: “Sorely Mr. Adams, the late Clerk of the House of Representatives, who furnished these extraordinary articles to ‘a member’ at the public expense, on the pretense that they were needful for the discharge of his legislative duties, does great injustice in withholding the ‘member's’ name from the curious taxpayers. He must have been engaged in very dirty work to need so much perfumery.” One old Irish dame asked another touching some person recently deceased’ the following question : “Eh," dear Judy alannah, iv what did he die?” “ Aveh dear,” replied Judy, “he died iy a Tuesday, I’m tould.” Spoopendyke in the Role of a Sports man. “Say, my dear,” said Mr. Spoopen dyke, as he drew a gun from the case and eyed it critically, “I want you to wake me up arly in the morning. I’m going shooting.” “Isn't that too sweet!” ejaculated Mrs. Spoopendyke. “I'll wear my dress and my Saratoga waves. Where do we go?” “I’m going down to the island, and you’il go as far as the front door,” grunted Mr. Spoopendyke. “Women don’t go shooting. It’s only men. All you’.ye got to do is to wake me up and get breakfast. When I come home we’ll have some birds. ” “ Won’t that be nice !” chimed Mrs. Spoopendyke. “Can you catch birds with that thing?” and Mrs. Spoopendyke fluttered -around, the improved breech loading shot gun, firmly impressed with the idea that it was some kind of a trap. “I can kill ’em with this,” exclaimed Mr. Spoopendyke. “This is a gun, my dear ; it isn’t a nest with three speckled eggs in it-, nor is it a barn with a hole in the roof. You stick the cartridge in here and pull this finger-piece, and down comes your bird every time.” “Isn’t that the greatest thing ! I sup pose if you don’t want a partridge you can stick a duck or a turkey in that end, too, or a fish or a lobster, and bring it down just as quick.” “Yes, (*r you can stick a house or a cornfield, or a dod gasted female idiot in there, too, if you want to !” snorted Mr. Spoopendyke. “Who said anything about a partridge ? It’s a cartridge that goes in there.” “Oh !” ejaculated Mrs. Spoopendyke, rather crestfallen. “I see now. Where does the bird go?” “It goes to night school, if lie hasn’t got any more sense than you have,” snorted Mr. Spoopendyke. “Look here, now, and I’ll show you how it works,” and Mr. Spoopendyke, whose ideas of a gun were about as vague as those of liis wife, inserted the cartridge half way in the muzzle end, and cautiously cocked the weapon. “And when the bird sees that he comes and pecks it! Isn’t that the fun niest !” and Mrs. Spoopendyke clapped her hands in the enjoyment of her dis covery. ‘ ‘ Then you put out your hand and catch him !” “You’ve struck it!” howled Mr. Spoopendyke, who liad the hammer on the half cock and wag vainly pulling at the trigger to get it down. ‘ ‘ That's the idea ! All you need is four feathers and a gas bill to be a martingale ! With your notions you only want anew stock and steam trip hammer to be a needle gun! Don’t you know the dod gas ted tiling has to go off before you get a bird ! You shoot the birds; you don't wait for ’em to shoot you !” “At home we used always to chop their heads off with an ax,” faltered Mrs. Spoopendyke. “So would I if I wa3 going after measly old hens,” retorted Mr. Spoopen dyke, who had mauaged to uncock* the contrivance, “ but when I go for yellow birds and sparrows I go bke a spoits man. While I’m waiting for a bird,’ continued Mr. Spoopendyke, adjusting the cartridge at the breech, “I put the load in here for safety, and when I see a flock I aim and lire. ” Bang ! went the gun, knocking the tall feathers out of an eight-day clock and plowing a foot furrow in the wall, perforating the closet door and culminat ing in Mr. Spoopendyke’s plug hat. “ Goodness, gracious !” squeaked Mrs. Spoopendyke, “ Oil, my !” Mr. Spoopendyke gathered himself up and contemplated the damage. “ Why couldn’t ye keep still!” he shrieked. “ What’d ye want to disturb my aim for and make me let it off? Think I can hold back a charge of pow- a pound of shot while a measly woman is scaring it through a gun bar rel V” “If it had been a bird how nicely you would have shot it!” suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, soothingly. “If you should ever aim at a bird you’d catch him sure.” The Crater of ropocatanetl. In a letter to the Philadelphia Record , Mr. Nathan E. Perkins describes at great length the ascent of the Mexican volcano Popocatapetl, having reached the crater after a toilsome clin b, and de scended as far as he could without a rope. From this position a good view was obtained of the crater-walls. The bottom was hidden by ascending smoke and steam. The lower walls were hung with large masses of sulphur interspersed with icicles hundreds of feet long. “The crater is-about one mile across, and has the appearance of a large funnel whose sides are but little inclined, and the bottom is not visible. There seem to be three distinct rings, which divide it into four zones, the largest being that nearest the mouth. From the summit the City of Mexico, although over 100 miles away, was plainly visible, and, surrounded by lakes as it is, seemed like a magnificent gem set around with pearls. The whole great valley of Mex ico can be seen at a glance. At our feet lay Arneca, over thirty miles distant, with its luxurious growth of tropical plants, orange groves and banana plan tations, and on the right Pueblo and the old cities of Chilulo and Tascalla, with . their 365 chm*ches and spires. The dis tant mountain of Orizaba, nearly 200 miles away, the snowy peaks of Melen cka, the White Ldv and several others in the distance, stood arrayed before me. I felt fully repaid for my toil in having climbed the highest mountain in North America, whose summit is about 18,000 feet above the sea-level.” Consult the lip3 for opinions, the con duct for convictions. A POLICE INNOVATION. Ttoe (hloMe Officer on the Dearer Foiee. Concerning Denver’s naturalized Chi nese policeman, Louis Johnson, alia* Kan Yun Yu, the fact that Johnson is the first Mongolian who ever wore the star of a polieemman in America, was early developed in the conversation, and is worthy of note. Johnson is married, and more important, his wife is an American, a lady in all senses of the term. “I married her,” said Johnson, “in Louisville, Ky., in 1873. She was a Miss Burt, and lived on Twenty-first street. A good family. Oh, yes. First class. She is of German descent, and was a working girl, but I assure you in every way an excellent woman—oh, yes!” “Keeps you pretty straight, doesn’t she ?” “You bet. She objects to my going among the Chinese, and makes mo do just as Americans do—just the same.” “ How do you like that ?” “ Oh,. I don’t object. You see I con sider myself civilized, and my country men are not. Many of them are had people. They are envious and under handed. When they see that a China man has a good thing, they try to get it away from him by under bidding him.” “Are they immoral? ’ “ Most of them are bad. So my wife doesn’t want me to associate with my countrymen here.” “ What do Chinamen pay for the Chi nese women !” “They are bought first in China. Young girls- are preferred. They are stolen on the streets in Chinese cities and sold to slave dealers there, who again sell them to men who ship them to America. They are bought there for from $250 to S3OO by wholesale, and re tailed in San Francisco for from S3OO to sßoo—-young girls bring the best prices. They then belong to the men who buy them, who keep them till they get old and then sell them to Chinamen, with whom they live as their wives. Their owners collect all the money the women receive, except what they steal, and feed and clothe the women.” “ How many Chinese women are tliero in this country ?” “Well, I should say there are about 10,000. They are scattered pretty thick ly over the Pacific coast.” “Why do no more decent China women come to America ?/ “In China everything is different from America. The women are kept very close. Hence the women don’t get out much, and they don’t come to this country.” “Do all the Chinese smoke opium?” “Most of them.” “Do you?” “Oh, I hit the pipe occasionally when I have a headache.” “ Does your wife ?” “ Not much.” “How many Chinese are there in Den ver?” “About 500.” Johnson says it i.s his determination to live the life of a respectable American citizen. He is a member of the Meth odist Church, while his wife belongs to the Christian denomination. He has de voted most of his life to the tea bus iness. He was naturalized in Evans ville. Speaking of bis courtship, be says he met bis wife through her brother, who was a friend of his. He courted her for about a year, and vhen they decided that they each loved the other more than they loved any one else they were mar ried by a Christian minister. —Denver New a. A Battle Between Birds. A gentleman from Stone Comity gives the particulars cf a remarkable incident which he witnessed while crossing White River on the ferry just above the month of Sycamore Creek. When nearly hall way across the stream an enormous eagle swooped down on a flock of geese, which were swimming in the river some eighty roue below* the boat. The fowls, upon observing the eagle approaching, in stinctively dived under the water just as the bird struck the wave. Baffled in the first assault the eagle flew slowly up ward, and when the geese came to the sur face, darted downward again, and bury ing its talons in one of them, attempted to bear it sway. The goose struggled violently, while its companions swam around uttering shrill cries and the per sons on the ferry boat watched the strange scene with keen interest. Once the eagle lifted its prey clear out of the water and seemed on the point of convey ing it to the mountain cliff that rose grandly in the air on the other side of the stream, but the struggles of the goose forced the captor downward. When water was again reached the goose made a supreme effort and plunged below the surface, dragging the eagle after it and causing the latter to loosen its hold and rise upward with a fierce stream. The eagle next attacked another goose, but with the same result, being com pelled to relinquish its hf>ld when its in tended victipi plußged beneath the waves. This strange contest lasted fully thirty minutes, at the end of which time the eagle gave up the fight, and, rising, soared away to the mountains westward, while the flock of geese swam further down the stream. None of the flock were killed, but the water in the vicinity was dyed with blood, and the surface of the stream was covered with feathers for a considerable distamo. —Little Rock Letter to Atlanta Constitution. One of the greatest pleasures of childhood is found in the mysteries which it hides from the skepticism of tL*(' elders, and works up into small my thologies of its own. SUBSCRIPTION*'SI.SV. NUMBER *25 USEFUL HINTS. Never lean the back upon anything that is cold. Never begin a journey until breakfast has been eaten. Sfirits of ammonia diluted with water, if applied with a sponge or flannel to discolored spots on the carpet or gar ments, will often restore the color. Skim-milk and water, w ith a little bit cf glue iu it, made scalding hot, will restore old rusty black crape. If slapped and pressed dry, like muslin, it will look as good as new. A paste made of whiting and benzoin will clean marble, and one made of whiting and chloride of soda, spread and left to dry (in tlie sun if possible) on the marble w r ill remove spots. Celery boiled in milk and eaten with the milk served as a beverage is said to be a cure for rheumatism, gout and a specitie in eases of small-pox. Nervous people find comfort in celery. Never stand still in cold weather, especially alter having taken a slight degree of exercise ; and always avoid standing upon the ice or snow, or where the person is exposed to a cold wind. A flannel cloth dipped into warm soap suds and then into whiting and applied to paint will instantly remove all grease and dirt. Wash with clean water and dry. The most delicate tint will not be injured, and will look like new. To remove grease from white goods, wash with soap or alkaline lyes. Col ored cottons, wash with lukewarm soap yes. Colored woolens, the same, or ammonia. Silks, absorb with French chalk or fuller’s earth, and dissolve away with benzine or ether. For salt-rising bread, stir up quite thick in the usual way, using cold water, and place upon the sitting-room coal stove over night; it will be light enough to sponge the bread by morning, and is quite a help when the days are so short for raising the emptyings ; my family prefer this rising. When one has not a warm-enough place to set their milk put hot water in to raise the temperature. To make a light wheat loaf, take the thick buttermilk from the bottom of your buttermilk dish; stir just as you can, allowing one heaping teaspooniul of so da to a pint basin of buttermilk. Pot pie is nice made in the same way, only put about one third sour cream. A pud ding made in the same way with dried cherries and steamed in the cake dish with a hole in the center is nice. The advantage of the hole in the center is that the steam passes through the center of the pudding into the steamer. Eat this pudding with sugar and cream; nice tart apples will answer very well for fruit. POPULAR SCIENCE. For several years it has been observed that the European glaciers are steadily retreating. The molecules of hydrogen, at a tem perature of 60° Fahrenheit, move at the average of 6,225 feet in a second. - Flammarian says that the tail of a comet must sweep through sjaace with the velocity of 16,000 leagues per second. Mr. Stone, her Majesty’s astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope, has just com pleted- his great catalogue of Southern stars, the result of ten years’ labor at the cape. The algae known as protococcacese have one peculiarity—they do not live in the water but in other plants, some in dead, some in dying and others in living parts. Some people have come to ’believe that salting or smoking will kill trichinae, but a temperature of 212° Fahrenheit, or at least 160° should be reached in every part of the meat to bring about this result. The colors which distinguish our sum mer aud autumn flora—reds, pinks, blues and yellows—are caused by the presence of substances which require a strong light and high temperature for their production. It was at one time supposed that among twining plants each had its own direction, some twining toward the sun and others against it; but, though the theory is true in the main, there are found exceptions to the rule. The amount of nervous action may be measured by the quantity of blood con sumed in its performance. The plethys mograph, measuring the volume of an organ, when the arm is brought in con tact w ith its records the amount of blood drawn from the body to the brain, and thus indicates exactly the effort in men tal action. Experiments have recently been made to show that.the presence of ozone pro duces luminosity in phosphorus. In pure oxygen, at a temperature of 15° C., and under atmospheric pressure, phos phorous is not luminous in the dark, and a bubble of ozone introduced under the bell glass produces momentary phos phorescence. The practical value of the Faure ac cumulator for the storing of electricity is yet to be proved. It is said that sev eral such batteries stationed in a house and charged with electricity during the day will be sufficient to light up the rooms at night and perform such light operations as turning a coffee-mill or sew'ing-machine. “ Parting is such sweet sorrow,” re marked a bald old bachelor to a pretty girl, as lie told her good-night. “I should smile,” she replied, glancing upon his hairlessness and wondering how he ever did it Fiutz has named his doe Non Sequit ur, because it does not follow.