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w. F. SMITH. Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. Bees sell in South Florida for $2 a swarm. Pulaski, Tenn., has contracted to have its streets lighted with gas. Mississippi will spend $50,000 for the encouragement of immigration. Florida’s cotton crop of 1881 was nine ty per cent, of the crop of 1880. The demand for Florida Oranges this year has exceeded any previous year. The Alice iron furnace at Birming ham, Ala., cleared $12,0(0 in January. New Orleans pays $1 25 a pound for a certain brand of Massachusetts butter. The value of railroad property in Georgia increased during 1881, $2,250,- 000. Large numbers of deer aud other ru minant wild animals have been drowned in the overflow of streams in Mississippi county, Ark. A Green county (Ga.) farmer put a flock of nineteen geese in his nine acre cotton field, and they kept it clean of worms without injuring the cotton. After three attempts Mechanicsville has voted to be annexed to Knoxville, which will swell that city’s population 3,000 and give it 12,940 inhabitants. Sometime since tho Chattanooga City Council passed an ordinance appointing two men in each ward to kill'out the English sparrows. It has developed that the law is unconstitutional. The Galveston News thinks the cen sus reports overestimate the acreage of merchantable pine timber in the South at least thirty-five per cent. Not sulH cient allowance is made in the reports for swamp, river, barren and denuded acres, or for the hammock and other lands covered with a different growth. W. H. Durham died in Harris coun ty, Georgia, last week of a wound re ceived at the battle of Chancellorsville, eighteen years ago. He was shot in the hip, the bullet, it was thought lodging in a bone. A post mortem examination was made and the ball was found in the small of the back, lodged against the backbone. Atlanta Constitution : There could be no greater success in any venture than our Exposition. It was gotten up in a year, challenged the admiration of the world by its completeness and magni tude, and upon its heels will follow a cotton factory stocked at $400,000, which will spin and weave cotton of the next crop. Prof. N. T. Lupton, of Vanderbuilt University, is now engaged, at the sug gestion of Commissioner Hawkins in making an analysis of soils from differ ent sections of Tennessee, taking the virgin soil and specimen soils from ex hausted fields. This analysis is being made in order to discover what elements have been lost in exhausted grounds. New Virginia Industries: A chair factory has been started in Culpeper, a "oolen mill at Gordonsville, a cotton factory at Danville, anew cotton fac tory at Norfolk, a paper-bag factory in Lynchburg, a straw bat factory in Richmond, a sassafras oil distillery at Charlottesville and an extensive wheat fan factory is to be started in Staunton Some months ago a party near Green* ttlle, Miss., sued out an injunction against his neighbor, restraining him from sowing Johnson grass seed, the pe titioner alleging the grass would spread over the adjacent country and destroy the land for cultivation. The Chan wry Court granted the injunction. The case was then carried up to the Supreme Court of the State and the injunction w &s dissolved. Two clergyman of Fauquier, Virginia *ent into court with their dis ute as to the ownership of as3 calf. Each own cd a cow, which he claimed, was the toother of the calf. The Justice went *ith the jury and litigants to a pasture, the two cows were let loose for the youngster to choose between, and the question was so quickly and unmis takably settled by the brutes that the jury gave a verdict without further hes itation. • At Centerville, Ark., where there is Do Bergh society, a wager was made w to the endurance of a certain tough ®ule. The trial drew a crowd, and the netting was heavy. The tread-mill of a was used, the mule fastened in it and compelled to without rest. Whcncve he was nclj- *d to stop he was goaded to keep kuii hiqviog. He aas not allowed food or water, three days the beast hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Dented to Industrial Inter st, the DifFu ionol Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government walked, and when he finally fell down it was to die. Trank Mills, colored, lost his life un der peculiar circumstances at Columbus, Ga., while sacking bran. The bran was banked many thousand of pounds on the upper floor, and passed to the work ers on the lower floor through a passage or pipe, which criated a funnel shaped depression in the erreat bank above. A sack dropped into the depression, and the negro, in trying to get it out, was drawn into the whirlpool of bran. When discovered only his hand could Ire seen. Four men failed to pull him out, and when the bran was removed he v.as dead from suft'oeation. The Law of Lost Property. What onght the finder of a lost article to do? Most people will give a ready answer. He should do his best to dis cover the owner and restore the lost property to him. But this standard of moral duty being imperfectly recognized by the law, it will be interesting to review the decisions on this subject. 1. The fiuder need not take charge of the lost property. There is no legal duty on him to do it but if he does take it into his possession, he then be comes a depository, and is bound to keep it for the owner and restore it to him when known. How long he must keep it, or what efforts he should make to find ’lie owner, have not been laid down. 2. If the fiuder does not restore the property upon discovering the owner, does he commit theft ? This depends ou whether he knew, or had reasonable means of knowing, who the owner was at the time of finding. It has been held that the finder of a poekefcbook, having the owner’s name legibly written on it, is a thief if he conceals and appropriates the money; but if there is nothing to indicate the owner, he does not become a thief in law by so doing. 3. The owner may at any time reclaim his property, and if the finder refuses to give it up, can recover it or the value of it from him. But as against any one but the owner the finder’s title is good. 4. When is a tiling to be considered as lost ? It has been said in several cases that money or other property laid down and forgotten is not lost in the legal sense of the word. The proprietor of the shop, or bank, or place where it is left is the proper person to take charge of it, and those who pick up the property have no right to keep it. On the other hand, it has been held that where a conductor found money in a railway car, whose owner could not be ascertained, he had a good title to the money. 5. Is the findei entitled to be paid for his trouble and expense ? He need not take charge of it, and it seems that if he does so he must look only to the grat itude aud good feeling of the owner for reward. 6. What if a reward be offered ? There is no doubt that any one who, seeing the offer, sets to work to find the property, will, if he succeed, be entitled to the reward, and may eveu retain the prop erty till it be paid. But if he already has the missing article in his possession when the reward is offered, or has with held the property in the expectation that a reward would bo offered, the rule is the opposite. A gentleman contributes to Nature the following account of his experience in India bearing upon the question whether ants produce sounds or not: “ Whilst lying awake early one morning before the servants were stirring, when camped in the Deccan, at the present small station of Chota or Chick-Soogoor, on the G. I. P. Railway, during the win ter 1868-69, I heard a sound repeated at intervals of about a second. It sounded as though the wall of the tent was being struck by a light fringe along one side; but noticing that the air was perfectly still, I listened for some minutes wonder ing what it was and trying to fix the lo cality. I got out of bed cautiously and looked out; the whole of one side of the tent, for a height of two feet, was covered with white ants so thickly, that at the first glance I thought the wall was covered with a gray-reddish mud to this height." The noise "ceased suddenly as soon as the ants seemed to become aware of the w riter’s presence, and in a few minutes they had all disappeared. The impres sion produced was that they had all been striking the tent wall at the same time with their headß. Sumner’s Practice. Near the close of Sumner’s career “Apphia Howard” said to him in his Washington home : “What are you doing here without Congress ? ” “Did you never see,” he asked, “when a train of cars is standing in a station, a man go around striking each wheel and every part of the machinery that has been under any strain ? He is testiug it. I am doing this,” he con tinued, “with my speeches. lam go ing over them sentence by sentence, and testing each, to see if there is one that gives an uncertain sound.” In the presence of Herbert Spencer, a little boy said: “ What an awful lot of crows! ” The philosopher corrected the youth by saying: “I have yet to learn, little master, that there is any thing to inspire awe in such a bird as the crow.” For onoe the author of first principles had met his match. The boy replied: “ But I didn’t say there was. I didn’t say, ‘What a lot of awful crows!* but, ‘What an awful lot uf crows! ’ ” Sound for the boy. INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Omo is legislating against bucket shops. Indiana has a Greenback State ticket in the field. The Cold Water Party has been having the bulge on this country. Deaths from scarlet lever in New York City average about 100 a week. Search for the Jeannette’s missing third boat has aotively begun. The present prospects of the peach crop in Southern Indiana are excellent. The high waters carried off about $15,000 worth of distillery cattle at Louisville. Congressmen are required to write aud not “stamp” their franks on free mail matter. In spite of the weather and water, New Orleans, as usual, made Mardi- Gras a success. About the only hope now is, that the heat of the coming summer will not be oppressive. Ice will be a luxury. The Directors of the New York, New Haven and Harford Railroad refuse to allow religious services on their road. By a new fast mail services all points in Florida will be reached twenty-four to thirty-six hours sooner than heretofore. On February 17 the visible supply of cotton in the United States was 1,442,123 bales, against 1,156,000 bales same time last year. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company has taken a moral fit and now discharge all employes who are iuiown to gamble. Blackfeet and other Indians in Northwestern Territory are at it again, “killing whisky traders and other Americans,” and committing other depredations. It ib estimated that the high waters in the Mississippi Valley ha3 deprived from 50,000 to 75,000 men of the means of subsistence. This means destitution to 200,000 souls. Of eigrty-fouk bills passed by the Kentucky House, seventy-five of them have been to incorporate turnpike com panies. Kentucky is determined to have respectable highways. Dr. Bliss’ bill for services rendered during the illness of Garfield has been cut down to one-fifth the amount he asked, which was $50,000. St.ll he gets a pretty good round sum. Herbert Spencer, the London Tele graph says, is coming to America during the present year, but he will refuse all proposals to lecture. The object of his visit is to see the country and people. The Mexican National Bank has opened for business, and already has large sums of money on deposit. The Mexican Government has made a deposit toward paying installments on the American debt. The prospect for farming in the Mis sissippi Valley the present season is very sickly indeed. It is conjectured that the waters will not have receded suffi cient for practical purposes before the middle of April. The editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer created a sensation a few days ago by contributing $250 in hard cash to the Harrison revival meetings. The con gregation thereupon united in prayer for the salvation of that editor’s soul. The death ot Soteldo, the Washington journalist, who was shot in the Republi can office, is add tional evidenoe that when an editor does try to be honest, somebody comes along and kills him. Editors better keep in the old rut and avoid trouble. President Arthur has rented a cot tage on Cedar avenue, Dong Branch, where he goes the coming summer. This is announced long ip advance so that young ladies who are well matured will know in time where they are going Jo spend the hot months. There seems to be no question now as t destitution among the people of Eastern Arkansas and Northern Louis iana, although their poverty was denied a short time ago. The appeal to Con gress for aid is sufficient guarantee that they are in pretty bad shape. The Chicago Board of Trade, after the maimer of the New York Produce Exchange is making war on the bucket shops. The Board of Trade quotations are the basis upon which the bucket shops do business, and without them their occupation will be gone. The architecture of Oscar Wilde’s oalves are said to be absolutely monoto nous, and not a bit soulful in their ex pression. Oscar oughtn’t to button his breeches so tight around the knee. That’s just about what it is that makes his lower extremities wear such a bony look. It is plain that Bradlaugh cannot se cure his seat in the British House of Commons. He refused to swear when he could, and now that he wants to take the oath, he can’t, and the members. of that body have bounced him by an over whelming vote. It seems that some times it is “ too late to mend.” The New York Herald makes the statement that Mme. Nilsson has oried so much over the insanity of Jier hus band that her sight has become greatly impaired, and she is now obliged to wear glasses. That the unfortunate man is now dead, it is to be hoped that Christine will look at the matter from a philosoph ical standpoint It seems that so far as Prof. Jackson is himself concerned, the question is not yet settled as to what caused the explo sion in his laboratory at Chester, Pa., by which seventeen persons were blown to atoms. The business was that of manufacturing sky rockets and such tilings. It is rather strange what it was that could have exploded. A queer suit has just been decided in New York. A boy of twelve picked up a revolver from an open drawer, and play fully pointed it at a tutor, who gave him lessons at his home. The pistol went off, the tutor was not dangerously hurt, but confined to his bed for a month. The court held his father guilty of negligence in leaving the pistol around loose, and a jury gave the plaintiff SSOO. Gen. Brady’s paper, the Washington Critic, continues to defend the Star Route Ring, in face of the indictments found against the members of that clique. It says : “ The manipulators of this wholesale blackmailing scheme stand out in their true colors as liars, slanderers, and blood-suckers; to be known henceforth by the whole world as such, that they may be shunned and avoided by honest men.’’ Just so. A man calling himself the second Christ, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, an nounced that he would walk across the Arkansas River at a certain hour. When the hour arrived an immense assemblage had collected to witness the perform ance, but the second Christ came not, and there was great disappointment among the people—not that they ex pected to see a miracle performed, but they were alltired mad at being beaten out of seeing a crank drowned. That popular humorist, Mr. W. J. Lampton, whose witticisms gave the Steubenville Herald a national leputa tion, has been called to the position of city editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal. Although the Courier-Journal is widely known among those who write their editorials with a pair of scissors, the addition of Mr. Lampton to the helm will help the old ship out wonder fully and she will come in with a better cargo than ever. Boys, get your scissors ready! Great bodies move slowly, and that is why the New York Board of Aldermen only last week adopted resolutions tend ering the thanks of the city to Mr. Wil liam H. Vanderbilt for his munificence in defraying the entire cost of removing the Alexandrian obelisk from Egypt to its site in Central Park, a year or so ago. The fact of the matter is, the Board of Aldermen wanted to see how they would enjoy having such a thing around before they were willing to bubble over with thank3. They hadn’t forgotten it, of course not. Thebe is a theory that the destruction of forests lessens the rainfall and has a tendency to produce drouth. That theory has stood without contradiction since the beginning of the drouth of 1881 up until the present time. What the advocates of that theory have to say now has not yet been announced. Per haps the absence of forests also is pro ductive of great rainfalls ; at all events, the cutting away of forests helps to ac celerate the rushing of waters to their terminus and that means inundation to all sections bordering their course. In the British House’of Commons the other day Chaplin stated that all the evi dence before the Royal Commission tended to show that the United States had reached the acme of agricultural prosperity and the worst, therefore, had been seen of foreign competition. Well, that’s all Chaplin knows about it. The United States hasn’t fairly got started in the agricultural business vet. Twenty five years from now’ we will begin to show Englaud what we can do in the way of “hogs and hominy” and as for flour, we expect to be the world’s market. The Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune tells the story of the French financial panic in the following concise words: “While the following figures are deceptive, for the securities will rise again and the majority of the shareholders are not speculators, and have not sold, still these figures servo to show the enormous depreciation of favor ite shares of speoulation, and the con sequent losses of speculators. The shares of the Union Generate are worth $60,000,000 less than they were on the 10th of January; those of the Suez Canal $110,000,000 less than they were worth on the 3d of January ; the Tim bale, $24,000,000; the Public Funds, $60,000,000. The total depreciation of securities of all sorts on the Bourse since the 3d of January is set down at $1,000,- 000,000 ; ill other words, is equal to the war indemnity paid Germany in 1871.” Choosing a Profession. A question which becomes more im portant every year is that which concerns the education of young men for the pro fessions. When it is finally solved, and set at rest, a great good will have been done to tho publio, and many youths will be kept from feeling in their man hood the heartburnings and the sense of failure in their lives from which so many are now suffering. It is useless to dis guise the fact that the dignity of manual labor, guided by the intelligence of special learning, is not generally be lieved in. An excuse for this lack of faith is drawn from the argument that as mechanical trades are so subdivided now that a young man after learning one branch rarely is given the opportunity to learn another, and that, having but little need to use his brain in his work, he usually becomes a sort of animated machine. But is there a controlling reason why a mechanic should thus lose his pow er—assuming, of course, that he has started w T ith a fair supply of intelli gence and energy ? That there is not is shown by the fact that some men with no other opportunities than their fellows, by using their eyes and wits, learn every branch of their trades, and thereby pro cure commanding positions. For in stance in the pressroom of a newspaper of this city there is one man who not only can manage a complicated press, but can take it apart and put it together, and repair it if it gets out of order. Yet he has had no special advantages over the men whom he directs as a foreman. He has looked and learned, and he is now highly paid for the trouble he took to inform liimself. It seems wrong, then, to assert that an energetic, intelli gent boy will have no chance to rise in a trade. The thing to ascertain in the be ginning is the trade for which he is nat urally fitted. This is hard to ascertain, and most parents do not make the at tempt. They put their boys into any clerical position that is open to them, or they decide long in advance that the youths shall be clergymen, physicians, or lawyers. In this way many men have, been put into professions for which they have no aptitude, and so struggle on and fall. The question which arises is: Could not this evil be overcome by mak ing it less easy to become a professional man? Would not many fathers and mothers in moderate circumstances pause and reflect if they knew it would cost much time and money to make doc tors, or lawyers, or clergymen of their sons ? But, leaving this question one side, is it right that any ordinary man may obtain permission to practice upon the public health or the public rights after nominally studying medicine or law for two years? Asa matter of fact students do not attend the medical or law schools for half that period. Earn est physicians and lawyers who love their professions. think profoundly upon this question, and are of the opinion that not only should the periods of study be longer, but that no man should be ad mitted to study unless he has had a col legiate education, or, lacking that, is able to pass an examination so as to show that he has a good foundation for special learning. Ignoramuses would not then be so common in the profes sions. If only fit persons are given the right of way into the professions the un fit will find places suited to them, for fond and poor parents will be forced to study the characteristics of their chil dren before marking out careers for them.— N. Y. Times . Our Army from 1789 to 1881. The following exhibits the strength of the regular army of the United States from 1789 to 1861, as fixed by acts of Congress. The figures are fixed for the aggregate of officers and men: Strength of Year. Array. 1789—One regiment infantry, one battery ar tillery....? .! 840 1792—Indian border wars 5,120 1794—Peace establishment 3,629 (801 5,144 1807 3^2 ' B 1812— War with Great Britain 11,831 1817- establishment 9,9®) 1822-1832—Peace establishment 6,184 1*33-1837 —I eace establishment 7,168 1838-1842—Florida war 12,539 1813- Peace establishment 8,*13 1847—Mexican war 17,812 1818— Mexican war 30.890 1849-1855—Peace establishment 10,320 1856-1861—Peace establishment 12,931 SUBSCRIPTION--51.50. NUMBER 2S’. HUMORS OF THE DAY. Sings the dear little gas meter: * * Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever. ” If the good die young, how do you account for the bald-headed editors.— Modern Argo. Most great singers are accused of tak ing some slight stimulant, but few know how much it takes to prime a donna. Mary had a little “ lam ” And laid it on John’s ear, Because she heard him call the " maid,” ’Mongst other things, “ My dear.” Church choirs seldom harmonize alto gether, and tlieir debates often baritone of contention which i3 de-bass-sing. Oh, it is treble 1 Wf. ark told that the ancient Egypt ians honored a cat w’hen dead. The ancient Egyptians knew when a cat was most to be honored. “ There is no accounting for tastes.” Nonsense ! What is the work of a book keeper in an eating house but account ing for tastes ?— Boston 'Transcript. “Syracuse has a female architect.” Norristown hasn’t a female architect, but she has more than one designing woman. — Norristown Herald. A Chicago girl has sued a man rot SIO,OOO for Imaging her twice. The man who would ling a girl only twice de serves to be mulcted heavy d:unages. —Norristown Herald. There are three prominent phases of a young woman’s life, all visibly con nected : Asa baby, she is lugged ; Asa young woman, she is hugged ; as a wife, she is humbugged. “Have you ever been whipped by your teacher before ?” he was asked by his pa. And then the good little boy wdic* never told a lie said : “No sir,” and as he went out he finished tho sentence by remarking “But I’ve been whipped be hind.” Extract from a young lady’s letter : “And, do you know, Maud and I ore quite sure Captain Popple had taken too much champagne at the ball, for he took out his watch and looked hard at the back of it and then muttered : * Blesh my shoul! I hadn’t any idea it was that time o’ night.’ ” “Your arguments are sound, my sou, and delivered with force,” said the clergyman to his boy, who had been banging at away at his drum for an hour or more; “but we Lave heard quite enough on that head.” The boy stop ped at once, with the aid of his mother and hired girl. “When I grow up I’ll be a man, won’t I?” asked a little Austin boy of his mother. “Yes, my son, but if you want to be a man you must be industrious at school, and learn how to behave your self.” “ Why, mamma, do the lazy boys turn out to be women when they grow up?" A Detroit girl has sued a man for SI,OOO damages for hugging her twice. That is too confounded high. But we suppose while ho was about it lie could have hugged her teu thousand times and it wouldn’t have cost any more. Michi gan men always let up to quick. — Peek's Sun. A little rascal: A boy who liad been watching through the keyhole the antics of a couple of lovers, ran down into the kitchen to announce his discovery to liis mother. “Oh, it’s such fun!” he ex claimed. “What’s such fan?” gravely asked the old lady. “Why, to see sister Mollie and Mr. Fipps play lunatic asylum.”— Brooklyn Eagle. Natural history for little ones: This is a mule. He may look amiable, but he isn’t. He differs from the condor of the Andes. The condor soars; the mule sours. That speck on the sky yonder is the man w r lio attempted to climb the mule’s back by catching hold of his tail. When he comes down he will tell you that the best way to mount a mule is to drop on him from the limb of a tree.— Chicaao Tribune. A Letter in Blood. A bank-note bearing a message writ ten with blood was paid into a mer chant’s office at Liverpool, England, some years ago. The cashier, wliUe hold it up to the light to test its genuineness, noticed some faint marks upon it, which proved to be words scrawled in blood between the printed lines and upon the blank margin of the note. Extraordin ary pains were taken to decipher these almost obliterated characters, and the following sentence was made out: “If this note should fall into the hands of John Dean, of Long Hill, near Carlisle, he will learn hereby his brother is lan guishing a -prisoner in Algiers.” Mr. Dean was promptly communicated with, and he applied to the British Govern ment for assistance to obtain his brother’s release from captivity. The prisoner, who had traced the above sentence upon the note with a splinter of wood dipped in his own blood, had been a slave to theDey or Mohammedan ruler of Algiers for eleven years, when his strange mis sive first attracted attention in a Liver pool counting-house. His family ami friends had long believed him dead. Ho was released and brought home to En gland, where, however, he did not long survive, his constitution having been ir reparably injured by exposure, priva tions, and forced labor in the Dey’e gal leys. A Tennessee man had a dog that he would gladly have sold for fifteen cents. And yet he‘ paid $lO fine for walloping a loafer who kicked the dog, and swore if it was to happen over he’d do it again. Enquirer: “How canyon feel sure that when you come to die, that you’ll go to heaven ?” Bea murderer. They all seem to possessthat feeling when they come to be hung.