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W. F. SMITH, Publisher,
VOLUME IX.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
There are 1,21(5 convicts in the Geor
gia penitentiary.
Key West, Fla., has 12,000 inhabitants
and only two chimneys.
Ihe first national bank in Mississippi
will l)e started soon at Columbus.
In Florida there are 17,038 white peo
ple over ten years of age who cannot
write their own names.
More small grain has an 1 will be sown
in Southwestern Geoigit the-present
j-eason than at any former period.
Tennessee stock traders arc bringing
their mules back from Atlanta rather
than sacrifice them at the low prices
prevailing.
There are]fifteen prisoners in the Vir
jonia penitentiary for life, one for fifty
four years, one for thirty-e ; ght, and two
for thirtjr-six.
Ihe Carthage (N. C.) Gazette says
tout twenty pounds of solid pure gold
have been taken from the Cugle mines
in the past two weeks.
Citizens of Alabama pay taxes on
$305,000 worth of farming tools and me
chanical implements, and on guns, pis
tols and dirks, valued at $354,000.
The Silver Valley mine in Davidson
county, N. C., employs about 80 hands,
:uul produces about five tons of concen
trated ore daily, which is valued at SSOO
per ton.
Ihe Southern fourth of Alabama is
covered with forests of long leaved pine,
mixed in the northern part with much
hard wood. A comparative narrow belt
<d pine runs nearly across the State lie
tween latitude 32 deg. and 33 deg.
Chattanooga Times: The Roane Iron
Company is now securing an order of
steel bloom a from England. They are
arriving in car-load lots every day.
'1 his order will amount to about $53,000,
the duty on which will be $22,000.
Curing the year just passed 322,934
tons <)f coal wore mined in the State of
Alabama, A few years ago the output
could have been expressed in ciphers.
I liis industry has progressed more rap
d'y than any other within the borders
of the State.
A borne, Ga., man is preparing
unique directory. It will contain the
name, style, whether brunette or blonde,
address and approximate age of every
young lady in Georgia who has in net
own name, or as heir expectant, prop
ortv to the amount of $5,000 or upward
Elijah Cliaddock, aged 102 years and
tlux'e months, and his wife, aged 102
years and seven months, of Walker
county. Ga., passed through Chattanooga
-Monday en route to Arkansas, where
they will reside in the future with their
son< They are hale and hearty, and bid
fair to live several years longer. They
go West, it is supposed, to grow up with
the country.
On I* rid ay last, about ten miles from
Albany, Ga., a tattered, emaciated, half
starved woman was discovered wander
'ii_ in the woods, tshe was taken charge
°i kind persons, and it was soon found
that she was a woman, who
hid been abandoned bv her husband on
’he way from Pensacola to Eufaula.
Hie woman could not speak a word of
e-nghah, and ever since Christmas had
been wandering in the woods, living on
mushrooms and toadstools.
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: Mr. Al
exander H. Stephens keeps microscop
u‘aUy informed of the details at Liberty
11 all. He knows from day to day how
many chiekens, ducks, pigs, etc., he has
m his yard, and takes as lively an inter
est in these home matters as “he does in
national or state affairs. He recently
lost a mule that had attained the great
age of thirty-seven years, and he is now
much concerned about another, named
Oul Heck,’ that had become moribund.
1 raveling in Florida is expensive.
Ihe hotels range in price from $3.50 to
$1 per day, but are first-class in every
' Board may be had in private
houses from $2 to $3 a day. Steamboat
tares are about fora day and night’s
travel, including fare and berths. The
boats are very much crowded now. and
cots are used nightly in the cabins for
toe comfort of passengers. It is not a
good idea tq buy return tickets on the
as the discount is small and
dm return tickets are good only on cer
tain boats.
When several years old and three or
four feet high the palmetto tree has the
ir<cist appearance of a huge growing
l'lm apple, with its tuft of green, blade
hkc leaves at the top. Until the tree
attains the height of several feet its body
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is embraced with successive layers of a
regularly interlaced growth of shuck,
which in color and appearance closely
resembles the pineapple. After acer
tiin age they lose this, the trunk assum
ing a firm, smooth surface, which first
makes its appearance next the ground,
gradually extending to the top as the
tree matures.
“ Jesso.”
Wo want more industry and more op
portunities for our boys and our girls,
and we want our cotton worked up at
home and that will give us cheaper
goods, for we won’t have to pay freight
both ways. They talk a great deal about
a tariff for revenue only, but I have never
seen one yet that didn’t prove to be a
tariff for protection, and I never will. It
is all a complicated piece of machinery
fixed up by politicians to get to Con
gress, and they stay there and the poor
consumers don’t know anything about
it. Jesso. In the good old honest days
when the masses of the people made
nearly everything at home it didn’t mat
ter so much, but it does now. I was
a-thinking of the days when w r e used to
wear country jeans and home-made
shoes and wool hats and drank water
out of a clean gourd instead of a silver
dipper, and sat in split-bottom chairs—
the best chair in the world—and lived in
houses we were not afraid of. Ido hate
to be afraid of a house when I go in it.
x was thinking of the times when the
boys went to mill and chopped the fire
wood and wore home-made galluses and
made balls out of old rubber shoes and
played marbles without fudging, and
called up doodle-bugs out of their sand
holes. The are uow too smart for
the like of that. They know more than
we know, and by the time they are
grown they will know it all and quit.
Jesso. But still lam hopeful. There
is always some good seed in the basket,
and maybe the old stock won’t run out
entirely. —Bill Arp.
When Women are Most Attractive.
In an interesting paper entitled “When
Women Grow Old,” Mrs. Blake has
brought facts to show that the fascinat
ing power of the sex is oftentimes re
tained much longer than is generally as
sumed.
She tells us of Aspasia, who between
the ages of thirty and fifty, was the
strongest intellectual force in Athens; of
Cleopatra, whose golden decade for
power and beauty was between thirty
and forty ; Livia, who was not far from
thirty wdicn she gained the heart of Oc
tavius ; of Anne, of Russia, who, at
thirty-eight, was thought to be the most
beautiful Queen in Europe; of Cathar
ine 11., of Russia, who, even at the
silver decade, was both beautiful and im
posing ; of Madamoiselle Mars, the act
ress, whose beauty increased with years,
and culminated between thirty and forty
five; of Madamo Reecamier, who, be
tween twenty-live and forty, and even
later, was the reigning beauty in Eu
rope ; of Ninon d’Enclos, whose own
son—brought up without knowledge of
his parentage—fell passionately in love
with her when she was at tlie age of
thirty-seven, and who even at her six
tieth birthday received an adorer young
enough to be her grandson.
These facts, the representatives of
many others, establish that the golden
decade of fascination is the same as the
golden decade of thought; that woman
is most attractive to and most influential
over men and woman are nearest the
maximum of their cerebral force. The
voice of our great prima donnas is at its
best between twenty-seven and thirty
five ; but still retain, in a degree, its
strength and sweetness even in the silver
decade. The voice is an index of the
body in all its functions, but the decay
of other functions is not so readily
noted.
New Cooking Utensil.
The ordinary range and cook-stove in
which the tire box is placed at the side
of the oven, or in which the proceeds
of combustion pass over the top, have
the disadvantage of an irregularly heat
ed oven. The sides and top are hotter
than the bottom and ends or other side,
and as a result the bread or other food
is improperly cooked—perhaps burned
at 4 top while badly done at the bottom.
To correct this defect in ovens a simple
appliance has been devised for causing
the air in the oven to circulate, aud thus
carry the heat obtained by radiation to
all parts of the oven. A sheet of metal,
bent into the form of the top and one
side of the oven, is supported on wire
standards and placed in the oven. In
the narrow space between the sheet
metal and the hot side and top of the
oven the air is heated more than in the
main body of the oven, and by expan
sion it rises and moves over the top of
the oven toward the cooler walls. The
arrangement, simple as it is, appears to
be founded on a good idea, and is re
ported to work well in practice. The
apparatus examined was portable, and
is designed to be put in the oven by the
cook whenever an even heat is needed. —
Century Magazine.
“ Ma, what’s a sweet, sugar-coated
little angel pill?” asked a Williamsport
boy of his mother at breakfast the other
day. “ I declare, Willie, I don't know,”
was the laughing reply. “ Where did
you ever hear such an odd expression as
that?” “Oh, I heard pa telling Mary
that in the hall, last night, when you
was over to Mrs. B——’s.” The “sweet
sugar-coated little angel pill” was dis
charged the next day.— Williamsport
; Breakfast Table.
At what season did live eat the apple?
Early in the fall.
tooted to Industrial Inter st. the Mi bn of Truth, the Establishment of J
INDIAN SPRING
TOPICS OF TIP: DAT.
The price of stoves promises to go
up.
The new Garfield postage stamp will
be issued in a few days.
Niagara Falls is trying to get the
contemplated World’s Fair.
Louisville is shortly to make an ef
fort to found an art gallery.
General Hancock has purchased a
large tract of land in Minnesota.
It seems Mr. Gladstone is still some
what down on the Land League.
WnEAT in Southern Illinois is reported
in an unusually flattering condition.
The organization of a Produce Ex
change is being urged in Cincinnati.
I)iu Sullivan ever tackle the fighting
editor of a first-class newspaper? Well!
Queen Victoria, by the advice of her
physician, goes incognita to Mentone in
March.
The wilderness in which the crew of
De Long’s boat are held, is eighty miles
in extent.
Lord Granville has taken grounds
in favor of preserving the Clayton-Bul
wer treaty.
An exchange says that Oscar Wilde is
like Balaam’s ass because he was made
“too utter.”
The Insurgents in Yemen, Arabia,
have proclaimed a descendant of the
Prophet of Caliph.
It seems that the widow of General
Custer has no pension. She paints
plaques for a living.
Judges Cox and Burnet, of Cincin
nati, after fifteen years’ service, have re
tired from the District Court.
The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted
resolutions calling on Congress to
eradicate Mormonism by legislation.
It is safe to refuse silver dollars bear
ing the date of 1843. A dangerous
counterfeit of that date is in circulation.
The weeding out of incompetent
clerks in the Treasury Department has
caused another rush of office-seekers to
Washington.
A convict in the Mississippi Peniten
tiary was killed by one of the guards,
and the Court has awarded his wife sl,-
400 damages.
A vaccine farm, capable of turning
out 3,000 points daily, lias been es
tablished near Chicago, and is doing a
thrifty business.
The fact seems to be just published
that Cincinnati came out something like
eleven thousand dollars behind with her
Exposition of 1881.
A number of State Legislatures have
passed resolutions calling up Congress
to do something toward the obliteration
of polygamy in Utah.
It is estimated that more than $l,-
000,000 is spent annually in New York
for cut flowers. As to how much is spent
on the poor no estimate has yet been
given.
A woman who died in Paris recently,
at the advanced age of one hundred and
two years, had lived a widow eighty
years. She had no man to pester the
life out of her.
Recently a pack of wolves entered a
church at Uvarre, Spain, and refused to
quit it until they had killed three
and seriously wounded five of the
congregation.
When a man is sentenced to hang at
St. Louis, the man gets in a hurry about
it and- hangs himself with his bed
blanket. This saves the Sheriff a great
deal of trouble.
The retirement of Gambetta from offi
cial life and assumption of the duties of
an editor is looked upon by the Albany
Journal as promotion—increasing the
size of his audience.
Between the Ist of March and the Ist
of July next the commission of over 350
postmasters will expire—many in large
cities. They are appointed for periods
of four and eight years.
Marvin, the man with fifteen wives,
made an ineffectual attempt to escape
from the Virginia penitentiary a few
days ago. He perhaps had heard of an
other woman who who wanted to get
married.
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At one time Mr. Bradlaugh refused
to take the oath of office in the English
House of Commons because, he said, the
oath would be meaningless to him.
Now that he has signified a willingness
to take the oath, in order to retain his
seat, the House has refused by a strong
majority to permit him. to do so.
The assessed value of real aud per
sonal property in New York City is $2,-
00 ,000,000. This does not include $55,-
000,000 worth of church property, $50,-
000,000 worth of school and library prop
erty, and $15,000,000 worth of real estate
owned by the United States, nor does it
include the reputed wealth of many
millionaires. Further, it is only 60 per
cent, of the actual value of the property
assessed. New York is no one-horse
place.
A San Francisco correspondent writes
to the Baltimore Sun: “Coal oil is now
so plenty from the wells of Los Angeles
that the market is overstocked, and we
want no more from Pennsylvania. The
market price in Los Angeles has fallen
from fifty cents to eighteen cents a gal
lon. It is advertised in five-gallon cans
at that price. The oil belts of California,
from present indications alone, may be
counted the richest in the world. ”
It seems now to be a question whether
the Senate has the right to originate a
funding bill. The Committee on Ways
and Means have referred the proposition
to a sub-committee. Should the matter
be decided in the negative, it is said the
Committee on Ways and Means will pro
ceed to frame anew funding bill, and ig
nore entirely the Sherman bill, which
has already passed the Senate.
Since the statement has been pub
lished that Dr. Mary Walker received
the appointment of clerk to the special
Congressional Committee on Woman
Suffrage, Senator Lapliam, of New
York, the Chairman of the committee,
is having the life pestered out of him
by woman suffragists. He avers that he
has no rest, and to add to it his mails
are burdened with aU manner of effusions
from the tender sex.
Ip all that is said against the China
men is true, they are indeed a filthy
race. A paragraph on the rounds con
tains the following information: “An
habitue of an opium den in Virginia
City, Nevada, discovered that the pil
low he was using was the dead body of
a man covered by a'quilt. The Coroner
found it to be a Chinese body that had
been dead for two or three days. The
keeper of the place said he came in off
the railroad, sick.”
Two men now prominent candidates
for the possession of several tons oi
Government money are Captain Eads
and Mr. Corbin. Captain Eads thinks
that an appropriation of $50,000,000
would be about right with which to
build the ship railroad across the Isth
mus of Panama, the money to be placed
at the disposition of Eads himself, and
Mr. Corbin has got it into his head that
by a similar appropriation, placed at his
disposal, he would be enabled to run
ships across the ocean in six days. There
seems to be a power in money in large
quantities about which we know little or
nothing.
The following from Robert Bonner, of
the New York Ledger , will start anew
boom in story writing : “A man who
looked like a perfect idiot came into my
office one summer afternoon about ten
years ago, and told me he had a story
which he wished to sell to me for publi
cation in my paper. At first I thought
it would not be worth while to spend my
time to even look at the story, for it
seemed to me that such an idiotic-look
ing fellow could not write anything that
would be fit to print. He pleaded so
hard, however, to have me just look at
his story that I finally consented to take
the manuscript and submit it to one of
mv editors. The editor read it, and it
proved to be one of the best stories ever
brought into my office.”
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Mercenary Wars.
Kital, already red with crime, has
■ another sin to her bloody list. It
since the battles have been
t and made their slaughter, that
■fendi war in Tunis was caused by
||i'ench money sharks, who desired
■tend their financial operations.
Credit Foncier ” of France, which
■mswer to our “ Credit Mobilier,” is
■usible for the Tunis war. Govern
■ ought to be above these soulless
■rations and able to resist their
Ih aggressions. The industrious
lui went into North Africa, and be
lo construct railroads. The French
lalists became possessed with the
■that they would speculate in these
|Bw representations of wealth. They
Ited. They became entangled in
[net, and hence the war. French
ital appealed to French arms for
France answered the appeal
affirmatively and went to war. A more
mercenary campaign was never waged,
under the banners of a civilized nation.
Heaven knows that wars, under whatever
auspices, are cruel, barbarous and
brutal to the last degree. They repress
the man and develop the brute. They
smother the good in humanity, and
throw to the surface the evils of the
race. Ferocity takes the place of force,
and savagely usurps the place of bravery.
As General Sherman said, ‘‘ In whatever
light we look at it, war is hell.” One of
the great works of civilization yet to be
accomplished, is to disarm the world.
To go to work to gratify ambition is a
terrible sin; to take up arms to use in
anger is weak, as well as wicked ; but to
go to war for plunder, for mercenary
ends, is to be unspeakably depraved.
The men who sent the army against
Tunis were the money sharks of Paris.
Government has the right to follow her
citizens and demand that they be pro
tected, but have they not a right first to
ascertain the character of the capital
under which they intend to go to war ?
Nations should not be plunged into war
to gratify the pockets of men who project
Panama canals, Tehuantepec ship rail
way enterprises, nor for those who
speculate in railway stocks in the north
of Africa. The statesmanship of the
world will be larger and wiser when it
refuses to be influenced unduly by these
corporations, whose rights should be
settled without involving the country in
war. The money and blood of the peo
ple should not be put up for the benefit
of the people who organize in corpora
tions. What patriot cares to lay down
his life for a .soulless corporation ? The
mercenary wars, and the others too,
should come to an end. —lndianapolis
Herald.
Every Man “Ilis Own Doctor.”
Many a man who, if his horse or cow
is sick, sends at once for the veterinary
practitioner for ailments of his own that
are on the face of them quite as serious
and as much in need of professional
treatment.
He will take the advice of an ignorant
neighbor as to what is “good for” an ill
ness, when he would laugh at the idea of
going to the same person for counsel in
any other business or concern whatever.
In the days of our grandmothers, when
the household materia medica consisted
of “roots and yarbs,” with a few simple
drugs like epsom salts, this domestic or
“lay” prescribing was less dangerous
than in these latter days when concern
trated and powerful agents have become
so common and familiar.
The household remedies of the olden
time w r ere rarely liable to do much harm,
even if they did no good. The cure was
generally in reality left to nature, though
the “roots and yarbs” got the credit of
it. But most of the drugs of our day
are not of this inert or negative charac
ter, and the danger in their use by the
ignorant is a real and serious danger.
The most powerful medicines that un
professional people of a former genera
tion ventured to fool with bore about the
same relation to those in vogue that gun
power does the nitro-glyeerine; yet the
latter are used even more recklessly than
the former ever were. A little knowl
edge is not always a dangerous thing,
but when it leads a man to think that he
can “doctor” himself, in ailments of any
serious nature, the old and often-abused
proverb is indisputably true. —Journai
of Chemistry.
The Magnetic Needle.
A condensed explanation in regard tc
the needle pointing to the northward and
southward is as follows : The magnetic
poles of the earth do not coincide with
the geographical poles. The axis of
rotation makes an angle of about 230
with a line joining the former. The
northern magnetic pole is at present
near the Arctic circle, on the meridian of
Omaha. Hence the needle does not
everywhere point to the astronomical
north, and is constantly variable within
certain limits. At San Francisco it
points about seventeen degrees to the
east of north, and at Calais, Me, as
much to the west. At the northern
magnetic pole, a balanced needle points
with its north end downward in a plumb
line. At San Francisco it dips about
sixty-three degrees, and at the southern
magnetic pole the south end points
directly down. The attraction of tht
earth upon a magnetic needle at its sur
face is of about the same force as that of
a hard steel magnet, forty inches long,
strongly magnetized, at a distance of ODe
foot. The foregoing is the accepted ex
planation of the fact that the needle
points to the northward and southward.
Of course, no ultimate reason can be
given for this natural fact, any more than
for any other observed fact in nature.”
A libation is better than a potation ;
trine is often better spilt than drunk.
SUBSCRIPTION—SI.6O.
NUMBER 26
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
A counter attraction—a pretty girl
clerk.
Always ready to take a hand in con
versation—deaf and dnmb people.
“ There is no rest for the wigged ” is
what a bald-headed man said when he
chased his false hair up the street in a
gale.
You can always tell the fastidious man
by his sending twenty-seven cuffs and
collars to the laundry, accompanied by a
single shirt.— Yonkers Gazette.
■‘The truth always pays iu the end”
is an old saying, and that is the reason
probably why there is so little of it told
at the beginning of any business trans
action.
A young lady bearing the aristocratic
cognomen of Jardine recently deserted
her lover, because in an impassioned
sonnet, he made her name rhyme with
“sardine.”
“ Well,” said a cow-boy, as he looked
at Sookey, when she had come through
a weedy stubble-field. “Well, old gal,
you ain’t got wings, exactly, but you are
a burred of passage, all the same.”
Poverty is the mother of rest. An
editor is proverty. Therefore an editor
is the mother of rest, but he never gets
very well acquainted with his offspring
on this terrestrial sphere.— Lampton.
The gentleman who caught a severe
cold from pressing his lips to a maiden’s
snowy brow, recovered quite rapidly
while basking in the sunny smiles of an
other fair damsel.— Toledo American
John had a “pop” of thnnder-tonc,
He lent young Billy Smith it,
The “ pop ” went off, but not alone,
Smith’s linger went oil’ with it.
A New York lady who was traveling
in Ohio gave a baby her gold watcli to
piay with, and the baby gulped it down
and cried for more. What they can’t
swallow in that State must be over a foot
in width.— Detroit Free Press.
Young man, look not upon the church
sociable oyster stew when it is red—
with pepper; because at the last it sting
etli like an adder and biteth a bole in
your pocket-book to a considerable
amount. Williamsport Breakfast
Table.
Said the sailor to his sweetheart : “I
know that ladies care little about nauti
cal matters, but if you had your choice
of a ship, what kind of a one would you
prefer?” She cast down her eyes,
blushed and whispered: “A little
smack. ”
The latest marvel of science is instan
taneous photography. By the aid of this
process it is possible to obtain a picture
of yourself and girl in the act of being
thrown over a stone wall by a runaway
horse. This picture can be placed on
the mantlepiece in a maroon velvet
frame as a warning to young men to
never let go the reins with both hands.—
New Haven Register.
She wanted to test his affection, so,
picking up the rovolver and putting her
eye to the muzzle, she said, innocently,
“I avonder if it’s loaded.” “Oh, don’t,”
he exclaimed, with manifest agitation.
It satisfied her that he loved her and
she asked, indifferently! “Why not?”
“Because,” he answered, “I’ve got
house rent to pay next month and a
funeral would embarrass me. ” — Brooklyn
Eagle.
A new boarder at the Occidental gazed
at Iris plate, the other morning, and then
said: “Is there a reliable physician
stopping in this house?” “Yes, sir,”
said the water. 1 Good surgeons, too,
eh?” “Believe so, sir.” “Then just see
if he is in his room before I start in on
this breakfast. I had a brother choked
to death on a steak like that once, and I
am bound to take all the necessary pre
cautions. ” —San Francisco Post.
Congratulations.
Peck, of Peck's Sun, helped an old
lady off the cars at some Western station
three or four years ago, and she died last
month and left him $22,000 in bonds.
Even as homely a man as Peck never
loses anything "by playing grandpa.—
Detroit Free Press.
Very likely the editor of the Free
Press thought he was doing us a kind
ness by starting that story, but if he
coffid see the procession of charity
seekers that have filed up our golden
stairs since, he would be sorry. We
never appreciated what an immense
circulation the Free Press had until the
people began to congratulate us on our
good luck. But its circulation must be
principally in poor houses.— Peck's Sun.
Charred Bran.
The use of charred bran for preserving
delicate fruit while on the road to mark
et bids fair to solve the problem which
has so long perplexed some millers.
Converted into charcoal, the light and
slippery product of the mills ceases to
be unmanageable; and it is quite likely
that a large local demand for charred
bran will arise in the vicinity of most
mills, for packing not only quickly
perishable fruits like peaches, plums
and grapes, but also apples and other
firmer fruits, for storage as well as trans
portation.
A Boston artist discovered an ancient,
mo3S-grown, vice-clad stone mill in
Maine, and sat down to sketch it, much
to his own delight, as well as to that of
the owner. When night fell he had his
sketch half done, and the next morning
he returned to finish it. Meanwhile,
the owner had “tidied up” the place by
grubbing up the vines, scraping off the
moss and giving the stones a fine coat ol
whitewash.
A flash of lightning made an Ohio
boy cross-eyed, but one day when his
mother boxed his ears his eyes flew back
to their old positions and he was made
so happy that he fainted away.