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NEW-S GLEANINGS.
Newton, Ala., will build a cotton fac
tory.
The oat crop in some parts, of Geor
gia averages 100 bushels to the acre.
Eastern capitalists will build a large
cotton-seed oil mill at Chester. S. C.
Virginia contemplates making arrang
ments to ship sweet potatoes to England.
Lagrange, Georgia, is to have a large
cotton factory.
The new custom-hoilse at Nashville is
ready for occupancy.
In some parts of South Carolina the
barley yield is forty bushels to the acre.
Little Bock, Ark., cannot pay her
gas bills, and the gas company has shut
off the light.
A package of Stokes county. N. C.,
tobacco recently sold for $65 per hun
dred pounds.
Alamance county, N. C., has two cot
ton factories in operation and five in
course of construction.
A crate of Florida peaches sold in
New York at seventy-five cents apiece.
The six hundred tea plants set out by
Comnaissioner Le Due at Enteiprise.
Fla., are doing finely.
Florida will experiment in the grow
ing of cinchona .trees, from the bark oi
which quinine is made.
•A fruit drying establishment on a
large scale is to be started at Greensbor c
South Carolina.
Vicksburg girls have organized a
band of “sweet sweepers.’’ This is the
latest Southern craze.
Alligator hides have become in such
demand that many alligator farms are
being started in Louisiana and Florida.
The people of Aberdeen. Miss., are
largely experimenting in silk culture.
The worms are fed on ossge orange leave.
The wheat crop now being harvested
in West Tennessee and North Alabama
is the largest ever known.
The Nashville American says: All
tire crops in Tennessee are in magnifi
cent condition except cotton, which will
average from sixty to eighty per cent.
Greater preparations than ever will lx
made this year to develop the gold and
copper mines of Mecklenberg county.
North Carolina.
Many fine walnut trees in >South Car
olina sell for s4(i apiece, tae nurcha--
ers reserving the right to remove them
when they choose.
The Richmond. Vs., alms-house cer
tains seven men who a few years ago
were worth from half a million to a
million dollars each.
Jacksonville, Fla., has just made its
first conviction under the new law pro
hibiting the intermarriage es whites and
blacks. The culprit was fined SSO.
Plenty of illegal votes are cast in
Clarke county, Ga. The grand jury of
that county has just returned indict
ments agtinst 121 persons for that of
fsnse.
(Several Alabama farmers report sone
damage to cotton by cut worms, a means
of damag heretofore unknown; and
they report that it has had a very’ se
rious effect on some fields.
The Petersburg. Ga., Index Appeal
says the best and largest fruit crop ever
grown in Georgia will be ready for the
market in a few weeks.
In the seven counties around Griffin,
Ga., 150 distilleries will be running this
summer. The peach crop in the same
section will l>e immense.
A boy-genius of Charlotte, N. C.. has
made a r;aall fire engine, three feethigh
and complete in every way. It raises
steam in a minute and throws a tiny
’‘(ream of water neriy twenty feet.
Cocoanut growing is becoming an im
portant indusiy in Florida. They grow
to perfection and promise to add great
ly to the wealth of the State.
A Jackson, Ga., man has discovered
• f| at his stock will feed as readily on
grass as on hay, as is preparing
harvest a big crop of the long de
spited herbage.
The outlook f< r a peanut crop in vari
ous parts of Virginia and North Caroli-
D "’ is very discouraging. Cotton and
. °° rß have suffered severely from the
| cold.
\ The Rome. Ga., Courier says the best
that the South presents
i for cotton manufacture is
a saw sins
j. *t that Southern mills run
■ n full time while Northern
/UK'S ' ’ lrlal ' ,he,r '■ ’
IK* the overflowed territory
Sljt dnllon 2kgns.
in Louisiana differ widely. In some
places benefits are reported and crops are
jdoing well. From others the reports are
ust the reverse. The cut-worms in
some parts is doing extensive damage.
The increase in cotton spinning in the
South is indicated by the statistics of
Georgia, Alabama. Tennessee, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, North Carolina and
South Carolina, which shows an increase
of 36L60fi.spindles during 1881 and 1882
This represents an investment of $9,768,-
200 in machinery, and a consumption
of 120,0C0 bales of cotton a year.
The ferryman at Neal’s ferry, on the
Chattahoochee river. Tenn., found a box
floating in the stream which contained
a sweet little babe, alive and crowing.
An abundant stock of fine clothing for
the waif was in the box.
In Troup county, Ga., a field was
planted in wheat this year which for
nine proceeding years has been planted
in cotton. Strange to relate a splendid
stand of clover came up with the wheat
though it is nine years since it was
planted in clover.
A rare and valuable relic was dug up
in Berlin, La., recently. It is bronze
medal two and three-fourth inches in di
ameter, and weighing five and a half
ounces. It was struck to commemorate
the evacuation of Boston by the British
on the 17th day of March, 1776. and was
voted to General Washington by Con
gress. The medal is much rusted, but
the figure of Washington, finely execu
ted on both sides, is very plain.
Near Hixburg, Va., three brothers
n c med Banton were at work in a fieid
when a black snake of enormous size
completely enwrapped one of them, lick
ing the boy’s face until he was uncon
scious. When discovered by the other
brothers the snake was foaming at the
mouth, and maintained bis hold until cut
to pieces. The boy was so frightened
that he became speechless, and it was
several days l>efore he could regain the
use of his tongue.
Row to Manage a Kitchen.
“A clean kitchen makes a clean house,”
is a saying which has a great deal of
truth in it. As all the food of the fami
ly has to be prepared in the kitchen, and
as most working people have to take
their meals and sit in the kitchen—in
deed, as the one day-room has to b
parlor, kitchen, and all to many honest
families—it ought to be clean and neat,
or it will not be comfortable and healthy.
First of all, the window and the fire
place must be clean and bright. No
room is cheerful with a dirty fire-place.
Every morning the room must be care
fully swept, and any hearth-rug, mat. or
piece of carpet must be taken out of
doors and beat daily. The hearth must
be cleaned every day, and the stove
brushed, the fire-irons rubbed with a
leather once a week at least, the grate
must be black-headed, and the fender
and irons thoroughly polished, and all
well scoured down twice a week. Cup
boards want great care to keep them free
from dust, cool and neat Supposing
there are two cupboards, one on each
side of the fire-place, it is well to keep
one for stores, as groceries, etc., and one
for crockery. Everything should be
clean that is put in the cupboards, and
there should be a place for every differ
ent thing, so that if you wanted anything,
c.en in the dark, you could lay your
hand upon it. Be sure, whether you
keep the lids bright or not, to keep the
inside of every pan or pot used in cook
ing so clean that it is perfectly dry and
sweet If you neglect his you may be the
cause of poisoning yourself and your
household. Many families have been
poisoned by food being cooked in dirty
pans. Besides, even if food is not made
poisonous, it is spoiled by not being clean
ly cooked. Be very particular about
this. It is a good plan to have a jar of
soda in some handy place, where yon
can, whenever you wash up, take a bit
and put in the water. It is very cleans
ing, and both crockery and tins washed
in hot water, with a bit of soda in. will
be sure to shine and be sweet. All tins
should be polished once a week. Kitch
en towels require good management. It
is a very nasty habit to be careless about
towels/ Tea things and glass should be
wiped with a thin, coarse towel kept for
that purpose. If you have a plate-rack
over the sink, plates should be washed in
hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to
drain in the rack; but if you have no
rack you must wipe the plates: keep a
good dish-cloth to wash them with, and
a good coarse towel to dry them with,
and use your dish-cloth and your dish
towel for nothing else.
The Oldest Town.
According to Humboldt, the oldest
town in the world is Yakutsk—s.Wo in
habitants —in Eastern Siberia. It is not
only the oldest, but probably the coldest
The ground remains always frozen to the
depth of 300 feet, except in midsummer,
when it thaws three feet at the surface.
The mean temperature for the year is
12.7 degrees F. For ten days in August
the thermometer goes as high as 85 de
grees. From November to February the
temperature remains between 4<• degrees
to fe degrees below zer>. The river
Lena remains frozen for nine montns in
the year.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10. 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Within the year the mines of Arizona
Territory have paid nearly $1,000,000 in
dividends.
Dennis Kearney pops up again, but
not as a politician. He has drawn SB,OOO
in a lottery.
A man who buys a glass of beer in
lowa on Sunday renders himself Hable
to a fine of from $1 to $5.
Divert stable men in the East say
the extension of the telephone from vil
lage to village is injuring their business.
Wendell Phillips has declined, and
Governor Long has accepted the invita
tion to deliver the oration July 4at Bos
ton.
A monument costing $40,000, and a
fountain $15,000, are to be erected to the
memory of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park,
Chicago.
According to a local paper a man died
in Minnesota from whatwas “prononced
to be leprosy by physicians, of the most
hideous appearance.”
Charles Reade is writing a series of
short stories which will appear simul
taneously in England, the United States,
Canada, and Australia.
The Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
has issued a proclamation warning drug
gists to desist from the practice of sell
ing liquor “by the drink. ’*
The Toledo Blade says that the
trouble with Mrs. Christiancy arose
from the fact that she wanted to be a
sister to too many nice young men.
Prices at the prominent summer re
sorts will be from twenty-five to fifty per
cent, higher than they were last year.
Second grade people will have to stay at
home.
The Arizona Star declares that by the
aid of artesian wells the desert lands of
Arizona can be made the most produc
tive wheat growing districts in the
country.
To show their respect for Darwin, a
number of students belonging to the
Moscow University have resolved to
wear a band of crape around their arm
for twelve months.
The Czar of Russia thinks that by in
augurating reforms that he can get
things in shape for his coronation in
about a year. In what abject terror
such a ruler must live.
It is thought that cork trees can be
successfully raised in every Southern
State. Os some specimens planted in
Georgia many are now thick enough for
use.
A naptha locomotive is about to be
tested on the New York, Lake Erie and
Western Railroad. It is an immense
saving in fuel, provided it works all
right.
An English surgeon says the time is
coming when a man’s stomach can be
repaired and replaced without difficulty.
It will simply keep him home part of
the time.
The Sultan has refused to permit
Hebrew exiles from Russia to make set
tlement in Palestine. Two hundred
Jewish families are on the verge of star
vation in Constantinople.
Henry Villard, the millionaire Pres
ident of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
was once Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune, later, degener
ated and fell in with monied people.
Gutteau starts on his trip to the next
world just four days before the Fourth
of July and 362 days after the commis
sion of the crime that placed the Nation
under a cloud of gloom the last Fourth
of July.
Nine million acres of the best farming
land in Dakota have just been thrown
open to settlement by a decision of the
Secretary of the Interior. Here is a bet
ter field for enterprise and industry than
El Dorado.
The hundreds of saloons that closed 1
in Ohio in consequence of the Pond i
liquor tax bill, now that the bill has l>een
declared unconstitutional by the Su- !
preme Court, will probably resume busi
ness again.
The Syracuse Herald is in favor of
substituting steam whistles for church
bells. “Thev can be heard further,
create more disturbance, and it is han
dier to drop in and murder the man who
pulls the rope. ”
The contest over the South Carolina
contested case was terminated in the
United States House by the adoption of
the resolutian seating Mackey. The re
maining contested seats will now be
rapidly disposed of.
Nilsson’s reason for resuming her
own name is that she is indignant that
the property which she accumulated by
her exertions should pass to her hus
band’s relatives on his death. The
whole thing is an outrage.
The penitentiaries are full of murder
ers who will agree to be “ good citizens’’
if the Governors will pardon them out.
This is merely suggested by the negotia
tions pending between the Governor of
Missouri and Frank James.
Captain Howgate is still in seclusion
and everything seems to be all right
Whether the authorities at Washington
are anxious to capture him does not ap
pear, but perhaps they are not or we
should hear more about it than we do.
The period of three years required by
law before a statue can be erected in a
public place in honor of a deceased per
son is nearing its end in the case of
William Cullen Bryant, so Central Park,
New York, will soon have a new monu
ment
Charles Hunt died in New York of
apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a few
days ago. He was well known in Bos :
ton, Washington, and New York as the
unacknowledged son of Daniel Webster,
and has held several important Federal
offices.
The London JUorZd says: “It is an
open secret in the Irish party that Par
nell dare not go to Ireland, and that
in London, when not in the House, he
is in virtual hiding.” Mr. Parnell’s
i crime is that he favors a peaceful settle
j inent of the troubles in Ireland,
j When a lady called upon Mrs. Secre-
tary Kirkwood the other day she found
that lady ironing. Hence, whole columns
of praise and flattery. Had it been
I some woman whose husband had a sal-
■ ary of $25 per week, she would have
i received the cold cut forever after.
w
It seems that Walt Whitman has
‘ written a book—“ Leaves of Grass”—
■ that is too dirty to be published. W?
: knew that Walt was old, and thought
’ also that he was clean, but after all it
don’t do to have too good an opinion of
a man. Walt has erred, and that is hu
man.
The Texas Legislature has showered
1 a public blessing on the morality of that
State by taxing all persons selling the
Police Gazette, Police News and simi
lar illustrated journals SSOO per annum,
in each county where such papers are
! sold. That is simply equal to prohibit
ing their sale.
Speaking of the vast strides made in
the railway world, the Bai way Age
gives the following interesting statistics:
We believe it is safe to say that there are at
least three hundred and fifty’lines, covering, at
1 moderate ett.imate, a total of twenty-five
thousand miles, upon which work is now in
progress or is p’-vposed to be commenced dttr
'ng the present year.
Missouri is in a truly pitiable condi
tion. Rather than hunt Frank James
down and ptmish him according to law
for the crimes he has committed a great
deal of red tape and an unconditional
pardon seem to be preferred. What
would be the moral of an unconditional
pardon to Frank James?
The home for working girls in London,
called Garfield House, at the formal
opening at which a fortnight ago Min
ister Io well presided, contains thirty
nine bed-rooms, a dining-room, a sitting
room, and a library, and each occupant
will pay for her accommodation from
sixty-five cents to one dollar a week.
The press generally is circulating the
report that Chicago girls would rather
kiss a pretty little dog than a man, and
one Chicago girl has taken the trouble
to write a letter for publication acknowl
edging the soft impeachment There
certainly must be something wrong with •
the Chicago man’s breath else d gs’ <
noses are a mighty sight cleaner there
than they are here.
Guiteau’s act one year ago interfered J
with the usual Fourth of July celebra
tion. His act this year, we are pleased ,
to say, will have a tendency to add to ,
the hiliarity of the occasion. We do <
not make merry over the prospective 1
event of the assassin's untimely death— ‘
far from it—but it is a source of gratifl- ‘
cation to know that America is still dis- j
posed to put vicious dogs to death.
—— t
Mr. Christiancy has caused to be i
published a letter purporting to have 1
l>een written by him to Mrs. Chris- ’
tiancy’s father, in 1878, in which de- r
tails are given of numerous liasons al- c
leged to have been carried on by the c
young and handsome wife, all of which, t
Mrs. Christiancy has stated to a reporter,
are a mess of fabrications. The alleged
liasons, sue avers, were simply mnrnfes
taboos of friendship. r<
Charles Lochbruner weighs about
100 pounds, his wife 300, and their rela
tive strength is fairly represented by
the same figures. He ostensibly keeps
a restaurant in New Orleans, but she is
its real boss, as he complains to a police
justice that three days in succession she ■
took him across her lap and spanked
him terribly. Being arrested she gave
nail to Keep tne peace, tnougn at tne
same time she avowed her intention to
subject her husband to discipline when
ever and however she pleased.
The most serious labor strike of the 1
year began June 1. The proprietors of
the Pittsburg iron milk having refused
to sign the new scale of wsges, a strike
was ordered. Some thirty-five or thirty
six mills in Pittsburg and vicinity shut
down, and more than eighteen thousand
workmen are thrown out of employment.
In Wheeling upwards of five thousand
men went out, and some seven hundred
or eight hundred quit work on the other
side of the river, in mills whose pro
prietors refuse to adopt the new scale, at
least until it is accepted by the Pittsburg
mill-owners. The strike is likely to
spread to all the iron mills west of the
Alleghany Mountains, and will be long
and obstinate. It is impossible to meas
’ ure the loss to the productive interests
of the country which this strike will
entail, or to compute the hardship and
suffering it will bring to the families of
: the workingmen. It can not be regarded
other than as a public calamity.
The Speed of Thought.
Helmholtz showed that a wave of
thought would require about a minute
to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirseh
found that a touch on the face was recog
nized by the brain, and responded to by
a manual signal, in the seventh of a sec
ond. He also found that the speed of
sense differed for different organs, the |
sense of hearing being responded to in a '
sixth of a second: while that of sight re
quired only one-fifth second to be felt
ami signaled. In all these cases the dis
tances traversed was about the same, so
the inference is that images travel more
slowly than sounds or touch. It still re
mained, however, to show the portion of
this int -rval taken up by the action of
the brain. Professor Donders by very
delicate apparatus has demonstrated this
to be about seventy-five thousanths of a
second. Os the whole interval forty
thousandths are occupied in the simple
act of recognition, and thirty-five thous
andths for the act of willing a reponse.
When two irritants were caused to oper
ate on the same sense one twenty-fifth < f
a second was required for the person to
recognize which was the first; but a
slightly longer interval was required to
determine the priority in the case of ihe
other senses. These results were ob
tained from a middle-aged man. but in
youths the mental operations are some
what quicker than in the adult. Ihe
average of many experiments proved
that a simple thought occupies one
fortieth of a second.
The Modern Caucns.
An x -6 citizen who was one of the
early setluTs, was seen coming out on to
the sidewalk in front of a place where a
caucus was being held, a few nights bo- ,
fore election, on his ear. He seemed to ;
be propelled by some unseen power,
and as he got up and picked up his hat
out of the gutter, brushed the mud off
his sleeve and wiped the blood off his i
nose, a friend went up to him and j
asked what was the matter. The old
man said, “ Well, I ham t attended a
caucns in thirty year, but my nephew
wanted me to go to-night, and when I
proposed that the meeting be opened
with prayer, I think the stove fell over
on me. A fellow said, ‘O, give us a
rest,’ and I don’t know how I got out
here, but I did. Why, in ’49 they used
to open political meetings with ] raver,
and close ’em the same way. This cau
cus opened with a knock down and I
s’pos/ it will close with a riot. Hello, |
there is another man riding down stairs
without any saddle, and I s’pose /»e pro
posed some old-fashioned custom. Say,
do vou think mv eye will be black ? I
told ti e old ladv I was goin’ to meetin’
and I wouldn’t like to have her think I
had lost mv temper and struck the sex
ton Well,' that's the last polities for |
me.” The old man, however, got a
policeman to go with him while he voted
on election day.— Milwaukee Sun.
Wood Wearing.
This industry belongs strictly to the
town of Ehrenberg, on the Austrian
frontier. Sparterie work, or weaving of
wood, was introduced more than a cen
turv ago, but has been confined until
within a short time to the manufacture
of cheap hate, glued together, and worn
by the lower classes. Lately, however,
owing to the interest taken by the Gov
ernment, Ehrenberg has, been able to
send out fashionable hate and various
fancy articles, all made of wood and sold
at very low rates. The aspen is the only
tree whose fibers are tough enough to
admit of weaving, and all the timber
having been used in the vicinity of the
town, the material is brought from
Poland. The process requires the utmost
nicety in dividing the wood, and as the
divider must always follow the direction
of the filler, it 'is necessary that the J
threads should be prepared by hand. i
Th< weaving itself is done on l&i-ge
looms.
Dbvg stom* nose pwnt
udera bly < heaper «
■educes the ta*.—
TERMS: 81.00 A YEAR.
HI MORS OF THE HIT.
Can’t a coffin shop properly be called
a bier saloon?
By contracting a disease you help tc
spread it. Queer, isn’t it?
“I can’t account for it!” exclaimed
the defaulting bank cashier.—PA; add
phia Item.
Smoking and chewing are two evils
and ye who select the former chews the
less.— Courier-Journal.
Fogg says be never finishes a cigar but
be thinks, “Another temptation removed
from the young men of America”
It hi bad luck for thirteen persons to
sit down together at a table, especially
if there is only dinner enough for ten.
The cat is the great American pnma
donna. If bootjacks were bouquets,
her nine fives would be strewn with
roses.
“And phat wud ye want sich t man as
Pathrich for?” said'Mrs. McGlone. “Ya
niver cud thrust Item out yer sight, onliss
ye was wid him. ”
What is called re spect ability is a great
help to many men. Once they have at
tained it, they can put in a he where it
will do the most good.
An Indian chief in Washington went
to see the Ideal Opera Company. When
M. W. Whitney gave a particularly low
note the chief said: “Ugh! him heap
dug out.”
Rest is said to be the solution of many
puzzling perplexities. If that's so, we’d
like to solute a puzzling perplexity about
three hundred and sixty-five times a
year.— Courier-Journal.
An Irish gentleman, bearing of a
friend having a stone coffin made for
himself, exclaimed: “Be me sowl. an’
that’s a good idea! Shure, an’ a stone
coffin ’ud last a man his lifetime.”
A Pennsylvania boy recently swal
lowed a horse-shoe nail without experi
encing any ill effects. If it had lodged
in his throat it would have made him a
little horse sure.— Norristown Herald.
“Is this the front of the Capitol?”
asked a newly-arrived stranger of an
Austin darkey. “No, sab; dis heah side
in front am de rear. Es yer wants ter
see the front yer must go around dar
behind on de udder side.”— Texas Sift
ings.
“ My son,” asked a clerical parent of
his hungry boy who was just in the
starvation period, “I wish you would
make a study of ‘Watts on the Mind. ’ ”
“I will, pa,” was the quick answer, “as
soon as I hare studied what’s on the
stomach.”
Calculated to fil) it: “I tell you,”
continued Pingrey, “ Brown isn’t fit for
the place. In fact, I don’t know of a
place that he ia calculated to fill. ”
“ Don’t be intem|>erate in your remarks,
Pingrev,” said Fogg; “you forget his
stomach. ”
“Yes,” said the injured party to the
owner of the dog, “I know the dog was
onlv in play when he bit al»out half a
pound of flesh out of me. Certainly he
was only in play ! And I was only in
play when I took an ax and made hash
of him. Only in play, sir. Nothing to
get mad about'
‘•Tell year mother I’m coming to see
her,” said a lady to Mrs. Gibson Bige
love's little boy, who replied: “I'm
glad you are coming. Mamma will be
glad, too.” “How do you know your
mother will be glad to see me?” asked
the lady. ‘Because I heard her tell
papa, yesterday, that nobody ever came
to the house except men with bihs to
i collect.”-- A us* n Siftings.
His exit: There had been a seeminr
oooln* ss between the lovers. One df
Emily's schoolmate ventured to refer te.
the subject and asked her; “ When did »
vou s-e Charlie last?” “Two
ago to-night. ” ‘‘ What was he doing ?’jr
“Trying to get over the fence.”„ “ Dir |
he appear to be much agitated? $
great Iv,” returned Emiiy, “ that it te
all the strength of papa's new bay.-'
to hold him.'’
The Belle of El Paso.
Almost every other house was a<}
ing saloon, and the whole place
air of dissipation which was rather
suggestive than alluring. The
class of Americans come over from
other side, preying upon the vices
Mexicans to their own profit, and
ing what money they can out oi th
propensities for gambling, drink:
and dancing. “Le vin, le feu, les beL
voila nos teules plaisirs, ’ seemed fitl.
to describe their lives and occupation, ■
all events during Christmas week. ?!
fellow-passenger back in the hack
an American “ belle,” who had l>oen r
to st i- the “boys,” as she ca’.ed then
w hom I had visited in prison, who were
friends of here; and during the inter
view a Mexican soldier had taken ad
vantage of a touching moment to rob
her of $5 and her pocket-Laudkerchief
so that I was entertained by heropinio'"
of the Mexicans as a race, couchee*
strong language, during the half-b'
enjoyed the pleasure of her sog. m
Blackwood's Magazine.
Dougal—'*Tidyoun<4isf |)T( . riit<
ta Toctor who iss come <
of old Toctor Munro for .
kept hiss head puned in his » /,, t
ta long praver in ta kink thiss „.. t
Angus—“O yes, efferybody
at ’im. ant it was p -cause—so J , ..n
h<’ is troubled with a locum
his head, a ttetwse wbich
•hold place affected. 1
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