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W* F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME IX. NEWS GLEANINGS. Mississippi has 1,738 Indians. 3ho cabbage crop of Mobile county, Ala., sold for $200,000 this year. West Virginia makes 21 per cent of all the nails in the United States. There are 282 females and 184 males in the Mississippi lunatic asylum. H. C. Hamilton, of Dalton, Gn., has a meteoric stone for which he has re fused S2OO. Sixty-five thousand dollars was sub scribed in one day in Tuscaloosa, Ala, for an ice factory, A turpentine'farm near Hawkinsville, Ga., is composed of 800 acres, and will be increased to 1,600. Hon. John M. Book waiter, late demo cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, has purchased the old Atlanta Scofield rolling mill. Ninety-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six pounds of manufactured tobacco was shipped in bond from Pe tersburg, Va., last week to foreign ports Since the Hale of whisky has been stopped at Augusta, Ark., the people find no use for a city marshal, and are contemplating the question of abolish ing the office. An East Tennessee lunatic named Walton imagined that lie was directed by God to offer up his wife as a sacrifice and made several attempts to murder her before he was confined. Judge Pierce of the grand jury to indict the men who run the “bucket shops.” He declares that the speculating in future delivery cotton and grain is gambling simon pure. A shark killed recently on the Florida coast measured seventeen feet ten and a half inches long. Eleven silver Mexi can dollars, one Spanish doubloon, gold, and a lot of brass buttons were found in bis Htomaeh. J. J. Duval, of Prescott, Ark., de stroyed a colored man’s eye while snipe limiting last week. The gentleman paid the surgeon’s bill, gave the victim a sum of money, and deeded him forty acre* of good farming land. Mr. Stringer’s gold vein, near Gaines ville, Ga, shows six feet of superior gold quartz between shining agali'e passed into mica slate. One specimen taken from the surface shows a clear crystal of oxide of tin. The giant Charles Drummond, a col ored laborer in Onancock county, Va.. is in his nineteenth summer. He mens arcs six feet citrht inches in height, his shoe is sixteen inches long, and his weight 284 pounds. His principal diet since boyhood has been sweet potatoes ■Savannah (Ga.) News: Not only are whales captured off our coast in large numbers, but they have become so em boldened that they ply our in shore streams. The captain of a hark that has been loading in Wright’s river re ports seeing one for several days peram bulating in the vicinity of his vessel. Not alone oil’ the mouth of eutrance to the Savannah river are these denizens of heretofore other clinics to be found, but are seen all the way down the Georgia coast. A few days since the whaling schooner Golden City, Capt. Anthony, captured a seventy-barrel whale outside the harbor of Brunswick. To strike and make a good haul out of a shoal of these creatures is a “ lucky find,” and when we consider that the one captured near Brunswick, though not considered any thing like a mastodon, yielded seventy barrels, or about 2,130 gallons of oil, valued at about $2,000, the business can not be else but profitable. Philosophers and Poets. The St liouis Globe-Democrat has a long article in a late issue, the gist of which is that women had better marry philosophers than poets, astheir chances of conjugal happiness are greater. ; The reason of this is that the former, hying in a world, of logic and fact, allows his ideality to develop around his wife, while £he poet, on the contrary, dwell *uß in a region of sentiment and exalted fancy, is horrified to find the creature he had married with the idea that She was an angel, to be onlv flesh and blood after all. The consequence is that the wives of the philosophers, though they may be common-place women like Dr. John son’s wife, are loved while living, and deeply mourned when dead. The wives of the poets, on the other hand, no mat w how lovely or loveable, are usuallv to their husbands, and get little of their affection. Girls, marrv P llosophers, if you would be happy. Anger dies soon with a wise and good man, fffffffffffffffffff TOPICS OF THE DAY. The stenographic report of the Gui fceau trial cost $7,000. — The telephone is now in operation in portions of Central Asia. Ex-Vice President Wheeler is in Florida catching alligators. The Ministry in Egypt consider slavery in that country a necessity. A Canadian Court has recognized the validity of divorces granted in New York, The bridge over East River, at New iork, is to be completed the present year. Twelve female doctors in Russia now officially engaged in teaching medicine to women. If a man adulterates food in China he is put to death. In America the con sumer is put to death. It is safe to conclude that cranks with missions to destroy rulers are becoming antirely too abundant. Fifty-EionT million dollars’ worth of finger rings are worn in the United States, not counting the brass ones. Temperance in the White House is at a low ebb. Six different kinds of wltw grace the dinners given in that institu tion. Mr. Blaine’s eulogy on Garfield seems to be universally commended bv the press for its impartial and moderate tone. The assessed value of real estate for taxation in St. Louis is $161,171,610; personal property, $30,414,630. Total, $191,586,240. A man who gave information that lead to the conviction of the murderer of Bailey, in Dublin, was shot dead in the street a few days ago for his pains. The fact that Chinese are arriving at San Francisco to the number of 1,000 to 1,500 a day would make it appear that the Celestials have just begun to dis cover us. Winslow, the Boston forger, is mak ing money hand over fist in Rio do Janeiro, flis second wife clings to him, although she knows his first wife is living. The Sprague divorce suit was settled without the necessity of proving tlio husband was a brnte or the wife unfaith ful, and the country, in that particular, should feel relieved. Roderick Mac Lean, who attempted to assassinate the Queen of England, is pronounced sane by the doctors. To all appearances, liis inspiration was drawn from Guiteau’s notoriety. Bishop, the mind reader, lias been completely stumped. An offer lias been made him in London of a £I,OOO bank note if he will tell its number while it remains in a sealed envelope. Mr. Parnell disobeyed the rules of Kilmainham J ail and was subjected to one week of solitary confinement there for. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Par nell is looked upon as an ordinary crim inal. Miss Kate Field contributes a long article to Our Continent advocating knee breeches, and for lack of space, says she will pursue the subject further in a subsequent numbeft Better lei men’s clothes alone. A large dry goods Arm of Boston pro poses to its employes that each shall contribute $lO in weekly installments of fifty cents, toward treating one out of every twenty-five of their number to a trip to Europe, luck to decide who shall go. A coxTemtorary suggests that a gen eral bankrupt law is of far less import ance than a law regulating marriages and divorces, which shall be applicable to all parts of the country. That seems to be a pretty sensible idea. Matrimony, above all things else, should be well regulated. Caxvas-backed hams of American pro duct, imported into Garmanv, are here after to be taxed as cotton goods. This seems a little queer, but it is so* Per haps when some person gets one of the hams off to himself and goes into the bowels of the thing he wiil find it to be pretty meaty. Destitution on the Lower Mississippi does not only continue, but seems to in crease. Numerous break in the levees are reported and the whole lower country is completely inundated. In consequence, Demoted to limuntrial Inter, st, the Diffusion©! Trnth, the Establishment ©f Justice, and the PreserYation of a People’s Government, INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. the greatest dispress prevails among the inhabitants who are left without shelter or the necessaries of life. The Fisli Commission propose, in April, to place in Lake Erie between 40,- 000, and 50,000,000 white fish, which are now being hatched at Sandusky and Toledo. It is proposed next year to pay special attention to the stocking of the rivers in the interior of the State with black bass, salmon, and pike. The saloon-keepers of Indianapolis are making war on those members ol Council who voted for the ordinance tax ing saloons. Mr. Brice, baker, says he has lost many customers, a Mr. Stout has lost several thousand bushels of coal, and a Mr. Caylor intimates that he is out SI,OOO on ice by the withdrawal of customers. So it goes. A literary genius does not believe in writing a legible hand, because, he argues, if the manuscript is legible it will be put into the hands of the worst com positors, whereas if it be written indif ferently it will be put into the best hands and the work well done. He overlooks the probability of its going into the waste basket instead of the printer’s hands. The Old Fellow has come at last, sure enough. A Belgian, who landed at Cas tle Garden, a few days ago, has a pair of horns an inch long protruding from liis forehead. The doctors say they could not be cut away without great danger, as the incision would probably reach the brain. The fellow, however, doesn’t care, as he seems to be proud of his pe culiarity. Nineteen members of the New York Legislature have returned their free passes to Mr. Vanderbilt since the smash-up on the New Y r ork Central. It may be they were afraid to continue to ride on Mr. Vanderbilt’s road, but then it may also be they got better “ terms ” over some other route. Politicians don’t throw things over their shoulder for nothing—not as a rule. America will lead in everything. The London World says a young American gentleman named Matthews, while gam bling at Monte Carlo, cleared over 500,- 000 francs during his stay of about a fortnight, 300,000 francs of which won in three consecutive nights, his greatest loss in one night amounting to some 70,000 francs, which appeared to be a small matter to tho intrepid player. 2Estheticism is already going into de cay, and there is following closely upon its heels, originating in England, of course, a doctrine known as agnosticism, having for its followers chiefly scientists. The principal is defined thus . “An ag nostic is a man who does not know whether there is a Godi or not, whether lie has a soul or not, whether there is a future life or not, doesn’t believe that my one else knows any more about these matters than he does, and that it is a waste of time to find out.” The inventive genius of this nation is prolific in new discoveries, yet but a small percentage of the patents issued have any practical value. Prof. Brown, special census agent, says that 5,585 patents have been issued on plows in this country. On harrows and diggers 1,746 have been granted; on harvesters, 3,235, of which about 400 are on self binders; on threshing machines the number is 1,922. Yet of this vast num ber how few are iu common use and how small a percentage have ever re turned their inventors any profit. xY scientist having discovered that the bite of a mosquito injects into the system an antodote to malaria, has pur sued his investigation further by taking up the bedbug. He gives as a result of bis analysis that the bedbug bite acts as an antidote against rheumatism, neutral izing whatever there may be of calomel or mercury in the system by injecting a rich fluid which has been distilled in the retorts of the bug’s body. This may be the reason persons who live in boarding houses are OOE generally rheumatically afflicted. We reproduce the following from the Detroit Free Press without comment: “ A Boston correspondent writes : * Can you give me any reason why General Grant should be put on the retired list at $12,000 per year, while the widow of the brave General Custer, who lost his life in the country’s service, receives only S3O per month ?’ We regiet to say that we cannot oblige our correspondent with any reason. We would very cheer fully if we could lay our hands on one; but after diligent search and patient in quiry, we have been driven to the con clusion that there is none.’’ The Toronto Globe relates the follow ing : “ A well-known Canadian lumber man, in making his way from Midland Harbor, Lake Huron, to the mouth of the Muskoka River, preceded his team- sters to sound the ice. Getting beyond tho islands along the east coast of the Georgian Bay, he found himself exposed to the full force of a northeasterly gale. He was thrown down and blown toward Collingwood. Nothing would stop him; sometimes on his knees, .sometimes on his back, sometimes on liis side, he was driven along with fearful speed toward the open water, as he supposed. For twelve miles he rolled, tumbled and slid, helpless, till he was driven against a small island and his life was saved. He has scarcely smiled since.” The attempt to assassinate Queen Vic toria, &a she was entering her carriage at Windsor on the 2d of March, by Roderick Mac Lean, is the sixth attempt that has been made on her life, although she has never so much as been even wounded by any of her would-be assassins. The first attempt was made in June, 1840, by a young man named Oxford, who was placed in an insane asylum for life. In 1842 two distinct attempts at assassination were made, on May 29 and May 30, by Jolin Francis, who was transported for life. July 3, 1842, a hunchback named Dean attempted to shoot the Queen, but the pistol missed fire and was found af terwards to be loaded with powder, paper and a clay pqie. Dean was sen tenced to eighteen months’ imprison ment. A few years ago a half crazy young Irishman pointed an uuloaded pistol at Her Majesty, for which he was * ‘ whipped. ” No political significance is attached to the attempt of a few days ago. A debate most novel in its nature has occurred at Newark, Ohio, between Professor J. C. Hartzler, Superintendent of the public schools, and Rev. Adam Pfenger, a Lutheran minister. The subject was “ Resolved, that the earth has no motion, and is the center of crea tion,” the minister taking the affirma tive and backing his argument by quota tions from Scripture and an unlimited faith in the doctrines taught by the “ in spired” writers. “Johua commanded the sun to stand still or God permitted a lie to be handed down from generation to generation.” In Isaiah it is said that “the sun turned backward,” and God’s reputation for truthfulness is at ?stake when it comes to doubting and denying His revealed word. The minis ter denounced astronomers as wholesale deceivers. He also claimed that if the sartli had the motions attributed to it by science, the Gulf stream would flow in opposite directions, and the atmos phere would sweep everything from the face of the globe. Professor Hartzler, in reply, accompanied his argument by black-board illustrations, and a corre spondent states that although he han dled his subject in a masterly way, the majority of the audience, which was large, pinned their faith to Pfenger and the Scripture. Placed on Approval. A stranger enters the store of an oblig ing grocer: Stranger—“ Owing to the extortions of the gas companies I have about deter mined to light my premises with candles, only, you see, I am at a loss to decide what sort to select. I want something really good, you know.” Grocer—“ Certainly, sir! Step this way a moment, sir! You can see for yourself, sir!” (Lights fifteen different sorts of candles and places them on the counter.) Stranger (after having walked up and down before them for five minutes, with his chin in his hand, immersed in deep reflection) —“ Well, I guess on the whole I prefer gas ! Good afternoon !” (Exit hurriedly!) Grocer (Hurling a bar of soap after him.) —“Oh. ! ! ! ” > —Detroit Free Press. Apples as Food. An exchange states the benefits of apples to be as follows: “A raw, mel low apple is digested in an hour and a half, while boiled cabbage requires five hours. The most healthy dessert that can be placed on a table is a baked apple. If eaten frequently at breakfast with coarse bread and butter, without meat or flesh of any kind, it has an ad mirable effect upon the general system, often removing constipation, correcting acidities and cooling off febrile conditions more effectually than the most approved medicines. If families Could be induced to substitute them for pies, cakes and sweetmeats, with which their children are frequently stuffed, there would be a diminution in the total sum of doctors bills in a single year sufficient to lay in a stock of this delicious fruit for the whole season’s use.” Cousin Dick’s Reply. The late Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana (the Cousin Joe), and Bishop Wilmer, of Alabama (the Cousin Dick, of the following anecdote), being in Italy to gether, the latter was enthusiastically pointing out to the former the archi tectural beauties of a ruin, when his Louisiana reverence rather wearily pro tested, “ It’s all very fine, Cousin' Dick, but. nevertheless, a cheerful field, fra grant with new-mown hay, would please me better.” The Bishop of Alabama replied: “Well, Cousin Joe, there is this in favor of your view of it —there is not an ass in all Italy that would uot be , 0 f sameopinion.” —Harper's Drawer, The Lime Kiln Club. “Several letters have come to me floorin' de pas’ week axin’ me to define my posishun on dis queshun of amuse ments,” said Brudder Gardner, as tho lamps were turned up. “Eberv once in a while dar’ am a yell fur reform, au’ sartin men an’ women weep an’ wail ober de gineral wickedness of de world. De church pitches into de theater, de prayer-meetin’ whacks away at dancin’, an’ de Sunday school-teacher tells de leetle boys dat de circus am liex’ doah to perdishuu. It has bin my opinyun fur de las’ fifty y’ars dat dis was a wicked world. It was created fur a wicked world. De Lawd wanted it dat way, an’ He made it to please Hisself. De &crip turs state dat wickedness shall abound in ebery co’uer of de land; dat men shall murder an’ rob an’ women go astray; dat chill’en shall deny deir par ents an’ brudder turn agin brudder. All sich lings am predicted an’ to be ’spected an’ looked fur, au’ nobody has any grounds to liowl an’ weep. If dis war a good world we should have no need of preachers, deacons an’ Sunday-schcol teachers. Preachers will tell you dat man am imperfect, an’ dat de Lawd made him to go astray, an’ yet cloy will turn aroun’ an’ wonder dat lie am not goodness biled down. “ Deed, gem’len, but de only better world dan dis am heaben itself. You have got to hunt fur wickedness to fin’ it. You have got to prejudge de case if you can make wickedness out of de jokes of a circus clown or de plot of de ordi nary drama. If I had to praise God by findin’ fault wid de world He made an’ de people He put yere, I’m afraid it would be faint praise. De preacher who can’t go to de theater widout feelin’ wicked had better stay away. If he wasn’t on de hunt to fin’ wickedness he wouldn’t see it any mo’ dan de rest of us. Me an’ de ole woman kin go out an’ dance Virginy reel fur fo’ hours an’ cum home wid cla’r consciences fur family prayers. We kin set down to keerds an’ not forgit to be honest an’ charitable au’ forgivin’. We kin go to a circus an’ come home an’ fault God dat our lives have bin spar’d anoder day, an’ dat we am still left to comfort de sick an’ for give de errin’. If gwiue to sich places makes a preacher feel dat Satan has got a mortgage on him den he’d better stay home. “No man airnest in de good cause wants to fight agin human natur’. Man am a social bein’. He likes to be pleased an’ amoosed. Make a tombstone of him an he’ll soon hate hisself. When I see a man who claims to be too good to watch a circus purceshun pass ’long the street I neber work for him widout de cash in advance. When I fin’ a man who am down on amoosements I doan’ work fur him at all. A y’ar ago, when me an’ de ole woman was joggin’ ober to de circus we met a man who said we war gwine straight to Texas. He said he would cooner see his son in his coffin dan in a circus, and lie scart de ole lady most to death. I kept tiack of dat tombstone, an’ in less dan six months he left town widout payin’ his gas bill, water tax, butcher or grocer, an’ he am no exception in his class. Look out for solum-faced men. Bewar’ of de men who weep ober de wickedness of a world made so by de Lawd far reasons of His own. Have no truck wid men who neb ber laff. A man widout faults am a man widout reason. A man widout wickedness am a man widout argyment. ” —Detroit Free Press. Rapid Transit. Uncle Mose owns several small shan ties on Galveston avenue, which he rents out, but one of the tenants is rather slow in coming up with the rent, so Old Mose had to make him a pastoral visit. Just as he was coming away from the house, Old Mose met Jim Webster. “Jim,” said the old man, “ which am de fastest trabbeler you eber heerd tell about?” “Dey say dat de ray of light trabbles more den 200,000 miles a second, but I nebber timed it myself,” replied Jim. “Dar’s a man in Galveston what can gib de ray ob light fifty yards start and beat it wust kind. ” “ G’wav, ole man. Lyin’ is ketehin, and I kain’t been vaccinated since de wah. ” “ Hit am jess so as I tole yer. Gabe Snodgrass, what owes me four mumf’s back rent, can outtrabble de light. ” “Did yer see him do it?” “I went to de front doah, and jess as his wife opened de frost doah I seed Gabe slide out de back doah. *ls Gabe at home ?’ says L ‘ He’s done gone to Houston,’ says she. Hit am fifty miles to Houston, and he must hab made de trip while I was a-lookin’ at him slide out de back doah. Jess fetch on yer ray ob light, and ef it don’t hab to hump hitseff to catch up wid Gabe Snodgrass when I comes for de back rent, den Ise a fool—dat’s all.” A Time-Honored Remedy. “Uncle Pomp,” said Col. M. to a former slave, “I hear that some of yon darkies down on the lower place are af flicted with the itch.” “Bein’ as it’s yon, boss,” replied old Pompey, hesitatingly, “I mus’ confess dat de Lawd has seed fit to affliek ns dat •way, fer a fae\” “Ah ! Doing anything for it?” “ Yes, sali; oh yes, sah 1” “What?” “Why, we—er —we am scratchin’ fer it.” * * One hundred and twenty-five years ago Johu Adams, school teacher —after- wards President —sat in his chamber at Worcester and wrote: “ I have no books, no time, no fi tends. I must tin r. fere be content 'd to live and me an obscure, ignorant fellow.” Why be dkcouraged! SUBSCRIPTION--M.BO. NUMBER 29. lIIMORS OF THE DAY, Cross roads are most apt to be bad. Arkansas women love to whistle. And what is more lovely than tulips well blown ? Trifles light as hair sometimes turn the whole course of a man’s appetite, says the New Orleans Picayune. An Illinois girl’s toast: “The young men of America—their arms our sup porters, our arms their reward; fall in, men, fall in.” Jo says that the best lip salve in crea tion is a kiss. The remedy should be used with great care, as it may bring on an affection of the heart A Baltimore man remained- in a trance for three days recently, and they finally had to yell “dog fight” under his window to rouse him to life. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe thinks it very inartistic to knit men’s foot gear straight. Doesn’t it depend, Harriet, on whose socks it is that is gored. A Nebraska monument to a horse thief is simply a stake at the head of the graveandAsign readings “It would have been cheaper for him to go afoot.” A young man has generally got the winning cards in his hand when, on popping the question, he sees a “flush” in his sweetheart’s face.— Somerville Journal. Bridget (who has discovered the car pet sweeper): “Luk at the music box, now, wid the long handle! I wander how they plays on the insthrumint!”— Boston Transcript. An exchange says: “If a minister can receive the title of ‘Dr.’ why cannot a physician have the title of ‘Rev?’ ” Because people may think it meant Revelations, and doctors know a good deal. Said little Edith to her doll: “Thera, don’t answer me back. You mustn’t be saucy, no matter how hateful I am. lam your mother!” Strange what curious ideas children get into their heads some times. “What pretty children, and how much they look alike,” says C, during a first visit at a friend’s house. “They are twins,” his friend explains. “What! both of ’em? ” exclained O, greatly in terested. There is a knock at the front door, and the colored person says to the lady of the house: “Is you de white ooman what told a colored gemman yon was lookin’ for a colored lady to wash your clothes by the mumf ?” “Yes,” said the tramp, “they talk about the charitable institutions of Bos ton. Now, a man can go down to the Hawkins Street Home and get a supper and lodging, and he’s got to saw a foot of wood to pay for it. By snakes, sir, I don’t call that charity.”— Boston Post. A new t author, who intends to make a living by good advice, says: “Never leave what you undertake until you can reach your arms around it and clinch your hands on the other side.” Perseverance, and all that sort of thing, in the right direc tion, is well enough, and even commend able; but if the new author’s advice is carried out, one is likely to get his ears boxed. —New Orleans Picayune. A Chicago young man broke into the room of the girl he loved, to carry her away, as she refused to marry him. She was absent, but left the bull dog asleep on her bed. The room was dark. The.dog didn’t bark, but worked. In about seven minutes the remains of the 3 r oung man came out and said that he wouldn’t marry that girl for $70,000. Tlie Senator’s Wife. A lady correspondent of the Cincin nati Commercial gives the following in cident as having occurred in the Senate galleiy: Two women struggling for a place nearest the door got into a fight. One was a Senator’s wife. Not being able to crowd into the gallery set apart for Sen ators’ wives, she pushed through the throng at the door of the ladies’ gallery. “Let me in,” she demanded of the door keeper, and handed him her card. No response. “Senators have passed as many as sixteen ladies apiece into the Senatorial gallery, consequently people who belong there are pushed out.” She was very angry. “I wonder how many Senators here own to having sixteen wives.” “Madame, take your arms away! You knocked me in the chest. I expected to find ladies here. I never was in so uncouth a set. Keep your elbow out of my chest, madam! I won’t stand such treatment! I will stick a pin in you!” To the surprise and amusement of by standers, the Senator’s wife produced a pin, and threatened to bury it to the head in the first one who touched her. Presently a surge in the crowd threw a lady against the defiant Senator’s wife. She turned with her pin ready to put her threat into execution, but was met by a long bounet pin in the hand of the intruder. “Only in self-defense,” the lady said, laughingly. The Senator’s wife continued her abuse and vulgar ha rangue until the Sergeant-at-Arms had to be called. In the excitement she slipped through the unguarded door into the gallery, and was lost in the inner throng, and got by fraud what we who were abiding by rules had to wait for, some of us, for over two hours.” Somebody claims to have found gold in lowa. No doubt of it. Thousands of men have found gold in lowa, and in Kansas and Missouri as well. They have found it in paying quantities, but they mine it with a plow and reaper, and some of it they drive to the market on four legs. It is genuine gold, how ever, and whether stocks go up or down the laborer gets his hire, and if he sticks to it he is sure to make his pile,— Kansas City Journal,