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VOL. IV.-NO. x 3. 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 «» ,dJ. * J irl,ver. " . fl: