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jjjjjjjjjj W* F. SMITH, Publisher, VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. Thre arc 1,100 blacks and 115 whites in the Georgia penitentiary. The Mississippi State Grange favor* the repeal of the agricultural lien law. The Atlanta City Council has voted $15,000 for the purchase of a site for a city park. Centenary Methodist church, at Rich mond, Va., will havo a chime of bells to cost $7,000. A company, with a capital of SIOO,- 000, has been organised to introduce the electric light at Columbus, Ga. Commissioner Hawkins of Tennessee is making arrangements for experimen tal tests in the effect of commercial fer tilizers on the crops in every county in the State. Some Chicago capitalists are negoti ating for the purchase 13,000 acre* of land in Sequachee county, Tenn., as an investment. It is well timbered and rich in coal. The marble quarry near Calhoun, Tenn., has been leased, and 100 steam drills will be oporated there. A railroad will be built and other preparations made for extensive quarrying. The Atlanta Constitution discovers in the fact that the Eagle and Phoenix mills of Columbus, Ga., last year earned 25 per cent, on tlieir capital stock, one of the most overwhelming political tri umphs for the South. The Georgia railroad has compromised with Henry Hill, whom the passenger conductor put off near Madison last summer for not wearing his coat in the ladies' car. Tthe road paid $5,000 for this treatise on etiquette. Sturgeon fishing in the waters around Georgetown, S. C., has become a large and profitable industry. About 100 men are employed in the business, and large quantities of sturgeon meat are shipped to Charleston in kegs every week. A short time since a bar-room was found hid in a pen of cotton seed near Athens, Ga. It seems the proprietor kept a barrel secreted in this pen, with rubber tube leading therefrom, and when a customer wanted his jug filled it was easily drawn. It was reported to a rev enue officer and broken up. Atlanta Constitution: Columbus is about to turn her attention to building a canal. According to all accounts it won’t be a difficult job. With canals in Augusta, Columbus, Macon and At lanta, Georgia will have sufficient hn proved y uter power to run all the cotton mill in the United States. But, really, we don’t want all. We will be satisfied with just half. Columbus (Ga.) Times: There were four bales of cotton brought to market yesterday from the plantation of Col. F. Terry, who lives near Waverly Hall, Harris county, that was grown and gathered in the year 1860, Oaled with ropes, and have been reposing in his gin house ever since. He was offered •outs for it in 1865, but would not sell because he thought the revenue tax of 8 cents per pound was unjust, and lie said he had rather burn the cotton than sub mit to such injustice by the government. He had at the close of the war upward °f 100 bales of cotton, and still has a few more left. How the Snake Gets a New Suit. “Some people think that snakes only R hod their skins at certain seasons of the year,” said the keeper. “That’s a mis take. If they are well fed and kept n ght warm they change their coats *d>out every eight weeks through the ' ear. ’’ “ Does it pain them ? ” “ Not a hit of it. You see the skin of a snake does not increase in size reptile frog's, as with us. While the old skin I s getting smaller by degrees, anew one 18 forming underneath, and the other gradually gets dry. W T hen it is ready to sued, it loosens around the lips, and the reptile rubs itself against the earth or le ro °k in the cage, and turns the up per part over the eye and the lower part o\ or the throat. Then it commences to ghde around the glass case, all the time rubbing itself against something until ue entire skin is worked off. Sometimes 18 !*kes three days ; occasionally they g et rid of the incumbrance in a few Urs - I don't believe they have a bit lnti ‘lligenee. For all I feed them and **** f'l'them, they would as lief bite me a uy stranger. I can handle a good J* 11 ?' °f them safely, but it’s only the uaek of the tiling— not that they won’t ciianc can’t get the jTeddler.—“’Mornin’, Mr. Waggles. jer mornin’ pipe kafter last ut s storm ? I heard you and vour o\.i , ' m ’ words as 1 passed at 12 r * Waggles (a reprobate)-- , gn words, wos it? More like low I calls it.” Demed to Industrial laUrtst, tin Diffttuon tf Tntt the EstaMishaent of Jastice, and the Presemtioa of aPeoftli’g Gevennaent. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Thurman is said to be building hia fences for 1884. Patti— Cincinnati Musio Hall—twe nights—sl6,ooo. For military reasons England will op pose the Channel tunnel. Thb Pope recommends that the pro posed Spanish pilgrimage be abandoned. Gen. Sheridan favors the compulsory retirement of all officers sixty-two years of age. Cotton returns indicate for 1881 the loss of 300,000 bales by ravages of the caterpillar. The English exports to America for 1881 were 20 per cent, less than those of previous years. Since Sullivan pounded Ryan he is said to have had three offers of marriage. He’s a great masher. The appointment of policewomen on the New York force is now asked for by the woman suffragists. Mrs. Garfield will not reply to Mrs. Scoville’s letter, appealing in behalf of the assassin of the President. TnE address to the throne in the House of Common has been adopted, thus sustaining the government’s Irish polioy. Thomas Nast, the well-known carica turist, has a plethora of money, so we are informed, and purposes retiring to private life. The Fire Commissioners of Boston have ordered fire-escapes to be supplied by all manufacturers employing five or more hands. The Prussian Budget is made to a sur plus of $9,000,000. This is chiefly due to the working of the railroads bought by the State. Potatoes are being imported from Europe, and New York dealers are some what disgusted. Such invasions inter fere with “oorners.” Cuba, just now, is undergoing a severe drouth, to the great injury of the sugar cano. We might spare her any quantity of water and not suffer either. Belle Boyd, the Confederate corres respondent, spy, and blockade runner, lives now in Corsicana, Texas, and fre quently delivers a lecture or two. The insurance on Barnum’s baby ele phant is $300,000. The insurance on the average Congressman is $5,000. Differ ence in favor of the babe, $295,000. Great distress exists among the peo ple of Sweden, the mildness of the weather preventing the transportation of produce by means of sleighs, as usual. General Carr, against whom Gen eral Wilcox preferred charges of a se rious character, has been released from custody, the President refusing to en tertain the charges. France seems not inclined to recon vene the Monetary Conference April 1, owing to a desire to avoid another fail ure in her efforts to secure a uniformity of views on the part of the Powers. The Government Printing Office, in spite of the scarcity of money and the agitation about the change of manage ment, is at work at a tremendous rate turning out books, pamphlets, and other printed stuff by the ton. Senator Hill, of Georgia, who has submitted to a third operation for can cer in the mouth, reports that his con dition is now most favorable, and ex presses great confidence that a perma nent cure has been effected. It appears that, after all, the portrait the temperance ladies had painted of Mrs. Hayes to hang up in the White House, will not be used for that purpose, President Arthur feeling inclined to dc as he pleases about the matter. The State of Pennsylvania has begun suit aginst seventeen railroads because of their failure to return to the Auditor their annual report within thirty days after the expiration of the financial year. The penalty for each road is $5,000. Mb. Scoyille proposes to lecture in various localities on the subject “ Mod ern Politics.” In these lectures he will refer incidentally to the Guiteau trial. However, it is generally believed the public have had enough of the Guiteau trial. It seems that Egypt is advancing • somewhat in civilization. The present INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. Khedive spends but $500,000 a year, whereas his predecessor spent $10,000,- 000. He has but one wife, and grants oonsessions to all religious denomina tions. Patti and Minnie Hauk both got laryngitis during the Opera Festival at Cincinnati, and that’s why things got so terribly mixed up. All prima-donnas get laryngitis once in a while, and those who do not hereafter complain of laryn gitis occasionally are not what you might call great warblers. Cereal estimates of the Department of Agriculture of crops of 1881, as com pared with those of 1880, shows a reduc tion of 31 per cent, in corn, 22 per cent, in wheat, 21 per cent, in rye, and 9 per cent, in barley. The total value of crops in 1881 is $1,465,000,000, against $1,361,- 000 in 1880. The late Lord Beaconfield paid £4,- 000,000 for England’s 177,000 shares in the Suez Canal. Owing to the recent wild speculative mania in France, the price of the shares was forced up to £l4O, and if Her Majesty’s Government had cleared out at that figure, it would have realized £24,780,000, or a profit of £20,- 780,000. The Memphis Appeil says anew day has dawned for the South, and that in its light prejudices are vanishing, and with them the hatreds and the narrow ideas of the past, and that intelligence, reason and common sense arc ready to make available the resources which science and experience have brought within reach. About two-thirds of the counties in Indiana have been authorized to take observations of the weather, and as soon as the instruments and supplies are for warded by the General Government the service w T ill be inaugurated. Indiana will be the first State to make these observations by counties, although other States are moving in the matter. All persons, including officers of the law, are opposed to the brutality of prize fighting, and the newspapers of the land have a great deal fc> say against it, but all newspapers take the pains to publish detailed accounts of such affairs, and with hardly a single exception, readers are not satisfied until they know just how each round came out, and who was finally whipped. Prof. Henry S. VENNORhas published a card in the Cincinnati Commercial declaring that he is a success as a weather prophet. However, instead of predict ing weather a year in advance, he will hereafter print a monthly paper at Mon treal which shall contain predictions, weather maps, etc., for the ensuing month. Thus you see when a man gets so he can’t tell the truth, he turns to editing a newspaper. A brute, by name John Wilson, of Taunton, Mass., has been in the habit ol tying a heavy rope around the neck of his grown-up daughter and dragging her around after him. For this he was fined ten dollars, and the girl paid it with her own money. She is one of the Chris tians who returns good for evil, although when it comes right down to carrying out the doctrine, it don’t seem to be just the thing accordisg to the common way of thinking. Illustrative of the destitute condition of people in Southern Illinois, a cor respondent writing from Saline County says: “In this county nothing was raised, not even grass. There are farm ers who are as near stavation as they well can come without actually starving. They are living on anything they can con vert into food to keep soul and body to gether. Their situation might be im agined, but one would • have to see it to fully understand it.” At Lafayette, Indiana, an old soldier named John Baker was married to Mrs. Anna Smith, who had been nursing him for some time past, and to whom he owed considerable of a board bill. Baker knew his death was but a few days dis tant, and he wished to reward his kind benefactress by leaving her the pension which he had for several years been re ceiving from the government. He died the day following the ceremony, and the widow, it is said, has, besides the monthly pension, a claim for $2,000 back pension. Charley Wright, the colored boot black, who saved two men at the recent New York fire by climbing a telegraph pole and cutting a wire rope, has re ceived a medal from the American Hu mane Society which makes him a col onel in the life-saving brigade. Another gold medal will be shortly given to him. He has received in money SB9 and the Humane Society will present him with a purse. He has saved eight persons in the surf at Cape May, for three sum mers past. His father is an African, his mother a Sioux Indian. Rev. Talmage’s charge that the father of Robt. J. Ingersoll, in life, fed and clothed his family sparingly and “never spoke a kind word to his wife,” has re ceived the attention of Mr. John F. In gersoll, of Waukesha County, Wiscon sin, who has printed a most scathing re ply. He says that liis father was a min ister on SSOO a year, and had to live sparingly, that he was kind to his fam ily, and as to Robert, while he did not believe the doctrines the father taught, was “as good and obedient boy as he ever knew.” Mr. Ingersoll endeavors to shame the Rev. Talmage for going to the grave as a ghoul, to tear up the ashes of the white-haired dead. Speculators in Cincinnati Opera Festival tickets were gloriously stuck— some to the extent of $1,500, and others for less amounts, but all lost more or less in their speculation. This is as it should be. When a lot of men buy up with a view to securing a “ corner ” at the expense of the masses—extorting money from those who can least afford it—it is but justice that they should lose, and that Heavily. One Hebrew citizen, who had bought reserved seats heavily at a big advance, stood about the door, late at night, offering his tickets at 35 cents apiece, and not one of them had cost him under $7, and some of them as high as $24. People, rather than pat ronize him, shoved him aside and paid $1 for general admission, went in and stood up, so outraged were their feelings over the affair. We never like to see persons losing money, but sometimes it is a good thing for the general ppblic for would-be oppressors to suffer se verely the fruits of indiscretion. A touching incident occurred at th* Midlothian mines in Virginia, the other night. Superintendent Dodds mounted a coal car, and addressing the wailing throng of women and children around him, said: “My poor friends, it grieves me to state to you that for the present our search for the bodies of those you know and loved will have to btfaban doned. You know wliat fire iij a coal mine means, and it may take months of watching to subdue it. We will close the pit now.” The speaker’s voice quiv ered with emotion. When he finished a beautiful little girl of fourteen years, Annie Crowder, the only daughter of one of the victims, uttered a piercing scream and rushed to the mouth of the pit, crying: “Oh, do not leave my dead papa to burn down there. Let me get into the cage and go down after him. Let mo save him.” The strong arms of the miner* held her back as the fragile thing tried to make her way to the cage, and more than one blackened face was made blacker as the hand went up to wipe away the tears. Men sobbed aloud and turned away to conceal their emotion. The little girl, finding her progress barred, swooned at the mouth of the pit^ Women’s Masculine Idols. Every man who fills an effective pub lic position has an especially good op portunity of moralizing upon feminine frivolity and frailness. A handsome actor, a good-looking popular preacher, a oharming singer, finds the women go down before him much as the ladies do before the hero of Patience. As very High Church young ladies delight in standing up out of reverence to very young curates when they enter the church, so there are many women who would be charmed to go down on their knees when one of the heroes of society enters a drawing-room. Good looks are not always necessary, though as a rule women prefer their idols to be hand some. Excessive notoriety will do in stead. The men who, with no personal charms—with, as in some recent in stances, a positive unpleasantness about them—go through society worshiped and adored by the women, must indeed be inclined to adopt the true Guy Liv ingstonian view of the other sex. These ladies who sneak after the man of mush room notoriety, imploring him to come to their afternoons, begging him for his photograph or a copy of his poems, or an autograph letter, or a lock of his hair —must appear to him very “ poor little beasts ” indeed. But however he may despise them, he can, to a certain extent, understand their motives. They want other women to see him talking to them, to meet him at their houses, to be aware that he has written letters to them and given them his photograph. The idea these women entertain must be that they obtain a second-hand distinction by be ing associated in people’s minds with the idol of the hour. Women have from all time regarded it as sufficient honor for themselves to be the favorites of great men. This is but a modern ren dering of the old story. They have made it the fashion to sit in adorning circles around their hero, and gaze upon him with meek eyes of wonder, much as if he were a Persian prince, and they his humble slaves. But there is none of the charm of danger in this, and perhaps not much excitement; for it is all done in public, and has become a prominent feature in the programme of most drawing-room entertainments. —London World. A Chicago Girl's Yore. “ Does your father keep a dog ?” These words, uttered with the simple earnestness shat showed how deeply their full meaning was felt by him who spoke them, fell from the lips of Fthelbert Dooley as he looked tenderly in the fair, spirituelle face of Rosalind Mahaffy. They were at the matinee, and a dull pain stole into the girl’s heart, as she shifted the last caramel in the box over* to the starboard side of her pretty mouth. * “Ethelbert does not love me,” she said softly to herself, while a look of pain whitened for an instant with a deathly pallor, the pure ingen id face, and the shapely hftnd grasped more tightly the dainty silk parasol that served alike to keep off sun and wind from the tithe form. “All gone, ” she murmured, sadly—“ every blamed one” —feeling earnestly with her taper fin gers in every corner of the empty box, and tben a look of sweet contentment overspread her features, as she placed her hand in the pooket of her sealskin saeque, only to be succeeded by a dull, dwjed expression of grief and anguish. She had lost her chewing gum. ' “You look ill, darling,” whispered Ethelbert, as the curtain \fent down at the close of the first aot; “ try some of these,” handing out a *aper of peanuts. With a glad look of love in her beau tiful eyes, Rosalind turned to him and said: “I ean never doubt you again, darling. I would follow you to the end of the world.” —Chicago Tribune. (i Don’t You Believe Him.*- The Arabs tell a story to show how a mean man’s philosophy overshoots itself. Under the reign of the first Calip there was a merchant in Bagdad equally rich and avaricious. One day li® had bar gained with a porter to carry home for him a basket of porcelain vases for ten paras: As they went along he said to the man: “My friend, you are young and I am old; you can still earn plenty; strike a para from your hire.” “Willingly !” replied the porter. This request was repeated again and again, until, when they reach the house, the porter had only a single para to re ceive. As they went up stairs the mer chant said: “If you will resign the last para, I will give you three pieces of advice. ” “Be it so,” said the porter. “Well, then,” said the merchant, “if any one tells you it is better to be fast ing than feasting, do not believe bim. If any one tells you it is better to be poor than rich, do not believe him. If any one tells you it is better to w r alk than ride, do not believe him.” “ My dear sir,” replied the astonished porter, “I knew these things before; but if you will listen to mo, I will give you such advice as you never heard.” The merchant turned round, and the porter, throwing the basket down the staircase, said to him: “ If any one tells you that one of your vases is unbroken, do not believe him.” Before the merchant could reply the porter made his escape, thus punishing his employer for his miserly greediness. Ear and Brain. The substance of the following state ments with regard to the ear and brain is from a paper in the New York Medi cal Journal , by Dr. Andrews, surgeon to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York. Ear diseases are much worse than those of the eye. They are a principal cause of deaf mutism. They are also among the most frequent diseases of oliiidhood, being developed in diphtheria, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, measles, small-pox, typhoid fever, influenza and tubercular affections of the lungs. Indeed, a simple cold in the head or sore throat rapidly spreads along the mucous membrane of the nostrils and pharynx to that of the ear. Bays the late Prof. Clark, of Harvard University, “So important is proper attention to the ear during and after acute exanthemata (diseases attended with rash) that a physician who treats such cases, and neglects to give this attention, cannot be said to perform his duty to his pa tient.” But the most serious fact about these diseases grows out of the very intimate connection between the ear and the brain. Most of the bony wall which contains the internal ear lies in direct contact with the membrane of the brain. Some parts of the wall are so thin as to be transparent. There are also open ings through it for the passage of nerves and blood-vessels, and often parts of it are wanting through arrest of develop ment. Hence, purulent inflammations of the ear extend to the brain—the more so, the younger the child. These may cause similar lmflammation of the membranes, inflammation of large veins and abscesses of the brain. Nearly one-half of the latter are due to this "cause, chronic inflammation of the ear—showing itself perhaps only in a slight headache—being vastly more dangerous than \eute.— Youth's Com vanion. A young member of the bar thought he would adopt a motto for himself, and, after much reflection, wrote in large let ters, and posted up against the wall, the following, “ Sunni Caique,” which may be translated, “ Let every one have his own.” A country client, coming in, ex pressed himself much gratified with the maxim, but added, “ You don’t spell it right.” “ Indeed ! Then how ought it j to be spelt?” The visitor replied, “Sue ’em quick.” A blot . may be erased, but with tht erasure goes part of the original texture. Character can never suffer a stain with out some loss. SUBSCRIPTION--SI.SO. Number 27 THE BLACK DEATH. Cause of tlie Annual Outbreak of tbe FI ague. . It is goner ally supposed, says the Chicago Tribune, that the inundation of the low lands of the Euphrates river is the only cause of tlio outbreak of the plague, or black death. They are a con tributing, but not the only cause. The real cause of the pestilence has been known ibr years to the Persian and Turkish Governments, but they have done nothing toward its prevention. The black death is not an uncommon disease in that part of Mesopotamia lying south west from Bagdad, between the right shore of the Euphrates aud the Syrian desert. It has made its regular appear ance there ever since the year 1872, be tween the months of December and June. In Nedjeff, or Medsched Ali, is the grave of Ali, the son-in-law 7 of the Prophet Mahomet. From there leads a desert road, marked out by the bleached bones of camels and human beings, to the so-called Lake Euphrates, which re ceives its water through the Hintieh canal. To the northwest of this lake is situated tlie city of Kerbela, where is to be found the golden mosque and the grave of Hussein, the son of Caliph Ali and the daughter of the Prophet. These two cities are the real breeding-places of the dreadful disease. To Nedjeff aud Kerbela the Shiites, or religious follow ers of Ali and Hussein, ohiedy Persians, send the dead bodies of their friends and relatives, because they believe that to be buried near Hussein’s or Ali’s grave will souls certain admission to paradise. Caravan after caravan, each camel loaded with two felt-covered coffins on each side, arrive there daily and deposit their ghastly freight for in terment, which, during month? of travel from tlie Persian highlands, has been decomposing and is filling tlie air with its pestilential odor. Tlie coffins are placed in shallow trenches and covered with about an inch or two of earth. But this is not all. The whole country around Nedjeff has become one vast graveyard, and, in consequence of tlie frequent floods occurring in the Eu phrates, all the lands on both sides of the river are inundated, tlie light cover ing of earth is swept from the coffins, which, being made of light material, fall to pieces, and thousands upon thousands of corpses are left rotting under the rays of an Oriental sun. The waters finally recede, or are gradually absorbed by the soil, poisoning all tlie wells in that coun try. From 12,000 to 16,000 corpses are sent there annually for interment by the Shiites. The Jews send annually sev eral thousands of their dead to be buried near the grave of their prophet Ezekiel, which is also near Kerbela. Beside these caravans there arrive flotillas of pilgrim boats loaded with corpses on the Eu phrates by way of the Semawat branch and the Bar-i-Nedjeff. Not only aro they filled with this pestiferous freight, but the coffins are even hung outside of the boats, loading them down to the wa ter’s edge. The constant arrival of these caravans and flotillas with their freight of decaying human corpses, and added to this the careless burial, must be regarded as the cause of the outbreak of tlie plague, and the fatalistic negli gence of the Persian and Turkish Gov ernments, which do not interfere until the disease has become epidemic, ex plains why it has not been suppressed during the last ten years. For a long time a special treaty has been in exist ence between these two Governments relative to the transportation of these corpses, but so far it lias been a treaty on paper only. The people of Amertit are in as much danger as the rest of the world. It is about time that the civil ized nations of the earth should make this question of the transportation of corpses under an Oriental sun an inter national question, and force the two Governments directly interested to exe cute the provisions of their treaty in good faith. The Use of Wealth. There are thousands of rich men who are not skinflints, who have the reputa tion of being so, bcause they have never been known to have done any special good with their money. A man who is worth $50,000 can do more to make himself loved and respected by all with whom he comes in contact, by the judicious expenditure of a thousand dol lars in charity, than by giving the whole fifty thousand dollars after he is dead. It seems as though it would be mighty small consolation to a millionaire to leave money to some charitable purpose, after death, and be so confounded dead that he couldn’t see the smiles of happiness that his generosity had created. Suppose a millionaire who has never had a kind word said of him except by fawning hypocrites, who hope to get some of his money, should lay out a beautiful park worth a million dollars, and throw it open free to all, with walks, drives, lakes, shade and everything. Don’t you suppose, if he took a drive through it himself and saw thousands of people having a good time and all look ing their love and respect for him, that his heart would be warmed up and that his day would be lengthened. Wouldn’t every look of thaks be worth a thousand dollars to the man who had so much money that it made him round-shoul dered? Wouldn’t he have more pleas ' ure than he would in cutting off coupons with a lawn mower?— Peck's Sun. There is an incorrigible little darky down in Washington, Ga. He is 9 years old, and is known as a horse-thief, as well as being willing to steal anything else. His mother has tried to reform i him by whipping him for the first half of the day, and hanging him up in a bag and smoking him the other half, but the inhabitants of Washington despair of*his being a trustworthy citizen.