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VOL. IV.-NO. 41. ffEWS GLEANINGS. a There are but 79d Jews in Florida. Arkansas has but cigftt daily newspa pers. a West Virginia has a population of KI 8,457. I The city debt of Memphis is about >4,000, 000. I Texas has nearly 2,400 convicts in her penitentiary. The Georgia lunatic asylum is full to ■overflowing. The dogs of Georgia cost mere than her preachers. A large cottonseed-oil mill is to be buiU in Madison, Ga. An unusually rich copper mine has been opened in Cabarrus county, N. C. A fo.urteen-pound cabbage has been Shipped from Americus, Ga. Georgia’s wheat crop this year will be the best raised in twenty years. The Richmond, Va., water works are to be completed, and will cost 360,00 ). A gold-fish 101 inches long was recent ly taken from a cistern in Macon, Ga- Virginia will come to the front this year with a remarkably large fruit crop. Fpr the first time in seventy-five years, Putnam county, Ga., is without a sa loon. ■JJ’ennessec has 18,000 acres unimproved land, most of which is covered with fine timber. Two hundred and forty convicts are al work on the Marietta & North-Georgia railroad. Atlanta, Ga, is to have a watch man. ufaoturing company, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. A South Carolina lady has made feath er fans of the value of $1,5-0 for a New York firm. Os the 30,000.000 acres of land in 'Mississippi less than 5,000,000 are under cultivation. - Southeastern Alabama is said to be improving more than any other portion of the State. Rome, Ga., has the reputation of be ing the pretiestand most nicely situated city in the south. A company has been organized at Au gusta, Ga., to build a railroad from that city to Elberton, Ga. A farmers’ convention in East Ten nessee adopted a resolution favoring compulsory education. Rome, Ga., has completed the survey of her proposed canal, and estimates the cost at $25,005 per mile. Moss Point, Miss., has a glass factory, a tannery, shoe factory, five plaining and fourteen saw mills. the postmaster at Vicksburg gets the largest salary of any postmaster in Mis eissippi. His pay is $2,700 per year. George Ra n and Peter Bang, each 18 years of age, are to be hanged at Pas cagoula, Miss., August 4, for murder. Near Lumberton, N. C., two girls named respectively Frances McNair and Jane Kellar fought over a young man, and the latter was stabbed through the heart. Southern papers point to the im mense amount of farming machinery being sold as evidence of the prosperity of the South. A rich depositof kaoline has been dis dovered in Macon county, Ala. The m - terial is indispensable in the manufac ture of fire brick. A company has been organized in North Carolina to bottle juniper water> famous as a gentle tonic. The water is abundant near Albemarle. lennessee has 25 copper furnaces that turn out 2,600,000 pounds of copper each year. Thu state has also 18,000,000 acres of unimproved land. South Carolina protects the birds by imposing a fine of 10 against every one convicted of robbing a nest. Thirty days imprisonment can be added. A Norfolk, Va., girl became so in censed because he, sister gaj>e birth to \ an illegitimate child that she strangled |*he infant to death. ,The parties belong Ito a good family and the murderess is in wail. . y Athens. Ga , cottno factory pays imer^',,^' r v i' bjof 121 per cent, be» WWs J p er cent into ash k ]u Jfsire repairs and addi a raw ii/ It was and, of Levy county,Fla , MK lorrible death while out /jmti.ly. He stumbled and stake, which pierced ®li£ Halton Skgus. through his body and held him until he died. The 1 tebrew saloon-keepers of Little Rock, Ark., refuse to obey the new Sun day law, claiming that the Christian Sunday is not their Sunday. Willie Morris .became joyous at a Wilmington, N. C., camp-meeting, and fell over Annie Williams while the lat ter was kneeling in prayer, and broke her back. * Augusta, Ga., will soon add 40,000 people to her population by taking in the new factories and Harrisburg, Hick villc and Rollersville, and the Sibley, King and Curry settlements. , Thomas Fergueson, of Weldon, N. C.. carelessly pointed an “empty” shot-gun at his three year-old brother, but it wen off just the same, and the child was torn to pieces. The Savannah News calls attention to the fr.eM. that the execution of two white murderers recently in Georgia, shows tluit hanging white offenders for murder is by no means played out in the Empire State of the South. A peculiar accident caused the death of Richmond Pitts, at Cedartown. A stick ot wood fell from a wagon on which he was riding, and catching be tween the spokes in i’s revolution, knocked him off. The wheels then ran over his neck, breaking it. Mississippi has a new law which re quires all agents for fruit miseries situa ted out of the State to pay $5 license in every county in which they do business and give a bond and surety that the vines and trees sold will come up to the representation of the vendor. A mill owner in Clinch county, Ga., has found that the sawdust and chips from bis saw mill yield fourteen gallons of spirits of turpentine, three to four gallons of rosin and a large quantity of pine tar per cord. It is extracted by a sweating process, and the newly-discov ered industry will be generally worked by mill men. Laborers at work on a railroad near Jacksonville, Fla., moved a large flat stone while grading, which discovered a hole leading into the earth. A long pole failed to touch the bottom of the pit and a man was ’owered into it with fifty foot rope, but this also failed 10 find bottom. While he was being pulled up he discoved the skeleton of a man lying in a niche in the side of the cav ern, which bad apparently been there for ages, as the bones crumbled to dust as soon as touched. The pit is to be ex plored. Full of “Specs.” The real old-fashioned Yankee is still a fixture among us, though some writers would make us believe that he has been dead for years. There was a genuine specimen in the Erie depot yesterday, and he was explainiug to several inter ested parties: ‘•Father-in-law lives here in Jersey City, and I’m on a visit like. Thought I’d bring along a few traps and things and get up a dicker or two. Any of ye like to invest in that?” He put out the model of a rat trap and said: “This trap not only catches the var mints, but it chokes ’em to death, throws the body out of that back window, and then resets itself. In the top is an alarm, to go off any hour you want and wake up the family. Here’s an apparatus on this side for grating spices. Any of you like to buy county rights?” No one did, and he then placed before them a vessel, about which ho ex plained. “This is now a water-pail. By plac ing this iron cover on the bottom it be comes a kettle. By inverting the cover you have a spider. The pail is a half bushel measure to a grain. Once around it is exactly a yard. Its weight is exactly two pounds, and I sell the county rights for SSO each. ” , The next was a boot-jack, which could be transformed into tiie-tongs, press board, stove-handle, nail-hammer and several other things. He had au auger which bored four holes at once, a gimlet which bored a square hole; a washing'- machine which could also be made to serve as a tea-table, and one or two other things, and as he reached the last he said: * “Gentlemen, I am full of speculations. I’ll invent anything you want. I’ll sell anything I’ve got. I’ll take pay iu any thing you have, and I'll give every ono of you a to make a million dol lars. ” Safe Light on Railroad (law. It is proposed to forbid the use of oil on railway cars for light. This is wise. Many serious accidents have resulted from this habit, vias or the electric light will serve. The railroad companies may object to the expense, but when life amt safety are concerned the question of expense should not be considered. The people pay so much money to the rail way managers that they are entitled to every comfort aud convenience,— New York Herald. • . DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Sergeant Masom is making shoes at Albany, N. Y. The net debt oC New York, June 1, was $97,592,052. Mexico has repealed the duty on ex ports of gold and silver. Paris is counting on 100,000 Ameri cans visiting that city this summer. Garfield’s biograpy is selling iu England at the rate of 2,000 a mouth. Mrs. Garfield has been elected to succeed her husband as a trustee of Hiram College. The present Chief Justice of Alabama used to set type on a weekly newspaper for $5 per week. Ex-Senator Blaine is interested in the great coal monopoly in the Hocking Valley of Ohio. ♦ ■ - Goveror Crittenden, of Missouri, has been made an LL. D. by the Mis souri University. Vennor, Tice, and Couch, a trio of weather prophets, all predicted execrable weather for June. At Tombstone, Arizona, a purse of $2,500 has been raised to pay for Indian scalps at $lO apiece. Costa Rica has accredited a lady— Madame Beatrice—as her Envoy Ex traordinary at Washington. Nearly all the creditors of the busted Mechanics’ Bank, at Newark, N. J.,have been paid and the bank will reopen. A bill to forbid publishers and agents of school books serving on school com mittees has parsed the Rhode Island Senate. The census returns of Japan snow a population.of 35,353,991. Os these 18,- 423,274 are males and 16,935,720 are females. The Chicago fnter-Ocean has discov ered that the man who pays fifteen cents for a drink of whisky is swindled a clean ten cents’ worth. The Ancient Order of United Work men, in annual session in Cincinnati, decided to hereafter receive no members who are over fifty years of age. The world moves. An oil pipe line has been laid across the Caucasus Moun tains to deliver petroleum at a shipping point on the coast of the Black Sea. Alexander 111. has presented the German Emperor with the horses which were drawing the carriage of his father, the Czar, when he was assassinated. The Spirit of the 'Times cays James 11. Keene offered fifteen thousand dollars for Henlopen, winner of the Juvenile Stakes, at Jerome Park, which was declined. It is conceded by those who are posted on Congressional matters the present session, that the member who has the strongest lungs is the greatest statesman. Says a cotemporary : Stories used to begin : “Once upon a time there lived—” Now they begin : “ ‘Vengeance, blood, death,’ shouted Rattlesnake Jim,” or words to that effect. The entire expenses at Yorktown cele bration—per bid audited and allowed by Congress—amounting over $7,000, was for fine old wine and whiskies, cigars and fine-cut chewing tobacco. Intelligence from the South Coast of South America is to the effect that Ecuador is iu the throes of revolution, Peru in anarchy and disorder, and Chili smitten by epidemics and cursed by brigandage. An electrio light wire,buried beneath an asphaltum pavement at San Francisco, somehow lost its insulating envelope recently, and the result was the electric fluid found its way into the asphalt, which was soon in a lively sizzle ami fume. Mr. George Jacob Holyoake, the well-known writer on co-operation and kindred subjects,has been commissioned by the British Government to visit this country and Canada and report upon the chances offered here to immigrant work ing people. The Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board has spent $592,000 in the pas‘ year. It has now accepted thirty new missionaries, mostly young men. Ex pecting a £reat increase of work this year, it asks for an additional SIOO,OOO above customary receipts. Some German newspapers are venor- , able with age. I’he Journal f is 261 years old, the Magdeburg Zeitiinf, is 253 years old, and ninety-eight others are over 10G years old, ami most of these papers arc no more like a real live Amer ican sheet than they were 100 years ago. The Memphis Avalaneme keeps the docket of Judge Lynch’s court, and states that since January 1, sixteen per sons have been hanged by mob law in the South, nineteen in the North and six in the frontier States. This probably equals the executions by due process of law. Canon Farreb, who preached in West minster Abbeye lermon on Darwin, took this appropriate text: “And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hysop that springeth out of the wall ; he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and fishes.” Bradstreet’s report indicates a de crease in the acreage and a reduced yield in the production of cotton. The weather has not been favorable to the growth of the plant iu considerable areas of the country, and the demoralization of labor in the flooded districts has retarded planting. The popular costume of the dwellers in Arizona is thus graphically described by a “tenderfoot:” “In ordinary weather he wears a belt with pistols in it. When it grows chilly he puts on another belt with pistols in it, and when it becomes really cold he throws a Win chester rifle over his shoulders.” The Italian idea of Darwin is as fol lows, from one of their papers: “We learn fvm our English correspondent that Darwin, the famous apostle of the apes, is dead. In Darwin’s opinion men are not the creatures of God, made of body and soul, and called to immortality in another life, but merely perfected apes.” That the dogs of Georgia cost more than her preachers, and that rats claim a tithe of her wheat and corn, are among the curious deductions from a talk with the Commissioner of Agriculture, who also sees iu 1882 a bad year for cats, whose places as rat killers can only be filled by black snakes, according to Congressman Hammond. < Movements are being made in many cities for the erection of monuments to Garibaldi. The municipality oi\ Genoa have subscribed 20,000 francs toward the erection of a monument, and that of Verona 10,000 francs for the same pur pose. The municipality of Rome have contributed 80,000 francs for the erec tion of a monument on Janiculum Hili. A drunk and disorderly man was sen tenced by an English magistrate to seven days at hard labor for trying at Leicester last week to shake hands with the of Walesas sho sat in her car riage, and poked him away with her parasol. He was immediately released at the request of the Prince aud Princess. It is hard to beat an English magistrate in doing what he thinks will please the royal family. There seems to be as little economy in the disbursement of public funds in New York now as there was when the lamented -Tweed built his court-house. The New York and Brooklyn Suspension Bridge’, which started on a plan of 200 feet above low water, and an estimated cost of $7,000,000, has got down to only 135 feet above water, and up to an actual cost of $15,000,000, and now the New York Legislature has a bill to appropriate $1,250,000 to complete the bridge. The trial at New Haven of the Malley boys and Blanche Douglass,-charged with the outrage and murder of Miss Jennie Cramer, it is thought by those who have been watching the proceedings, will not result in conviction, but rather in ac quittal—not because the Malleys have been shown to be innocent, but because they have not been indisputably shown to be guilty of the crime for which they are indicted. And yet public opinion will nevertheless hold them responsible for Jennie Cramer’s death. A New York lawyer has earned per haps the largest fee ever won. The ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States, taking off 50 per cent, specific duty on hosiery and knit goods into which wool enters, refunds to the importers $11,000,000 of the taxes pre viously paid. The lawyer gets half— ss,s(lo,ooo—a nice contingent fee. The manufacturers of hosiery in this country complain loudly of the injustice of tho decision, taking off all the protection ; from their work. The quickest time on record made by a train of improved stock cars between ( 1 Chicago and Now Yor ; is < The h pe...l fr o. BuP-.Uo Os thirty to xarry-nve hour. The shrinkage was only twenty pounds per head, while the usual loss is from seventy to one hundred pounds. These ; ears permit each animal to occupy a sop ! arate stall. The animals can also lie ■ down and move about without coming ; in contact with each other. For feeding and watering tho animals without un loading the facilities are ample. In his dispatch to Minister Lowell on the subject of the relations between Great Britain and the United States to the various inter-ocean canal projects, Secretary of State, Frelinghuysen, hav ing made his points of opposition on the part of the United States to foreign in- ■ terventiou in the matter of the Nicarag- 1 uan Canal, as being contrary to the Monroe Doctrine of this country, rests ! iiis case, with an expression of confi- ! dence that the differences between the ■ two Governments will bo satisfactorily adjusted before the canal will be built. It is a serious infringment on personal liberty when religionists are prohibited from exercising the emotional as their conscience happens to dictate. The other Sunday, in Paterson, N. J., a gang of Salvationist were pai ading the streets, marking time and singing loudly the cuplet: “Right, left ; right, left, The Lord fs right, and the Devil is left.” A captain and lieutenant of the police force arrested the Salvationists as dis turbers of the peace, and in court, when the case came up a number of Hallelujah lasses were present, who knelt down in a circle and prayed fervently for the souls of the wicked policemen who had arrested their commanders. W. A. Fenner, writing from San An tonio, Texas, says that “among the noted residents of the vicinity the Rev. W. H. Murray, ‘Adriondack Murray,’ is he is called, is here, a fallen giant in deed, with none so poor as to do him reverence. When he fled from Boston his fair-haired private secretary, a young lady, followed his fortunes aud has since lived with him. Last year her heart broken father came for her, and after a despairing effort to get her to return with him, which proved ineffectual, the poor old man, disgraced, broken in . spirits, alone in the world and almost penniless after his long search for her, blew out his brains at the very threshold of Murray’s door. Only last Sunday— Sunday, mark you—l saw him at San Pedro Springs unloading, with his own hands, a wagon load of cedar ties that he had hauled from his little place fi i the street railroad company. He vas without coat, vest or collar, dirty and , unshorn, and it would take a keen eye, as a Boston man remarked to mo, to de tect in him the idolized preacher of one of the proudest pulpits in the Hub. The Figs of Commerce. The fruit of the fig tree may be reck oned among the staple foods of man for ages before cereals were cultivated by any settled agricultural population. In the temperate regions where it thrives best, it tills the place of the banana of tropical climes, and yieldsits fruit during several months of the year. In Asia Minor, where tho tree is found wild aud where the best figs of commerce are chiefly grown, the fruit begins to ripen in the end of June; and the summer yield, which gives employment to a large population, comes to market in immense quantities in September and October. The trees often give even a third crop, which ripens after the leaves have fallen. Tho best figs for drying come from the valleys of the Meander and Kaistros, to the south of Smyrna, where the trees are planted regularly with care, and the ground is dug and hoed from four to six times during the summer. Tho Smyrna and Aidin Rail way now affords great facilities for transport of the fruit, which formerly had to bo brought long (hstances on camels carrying about 000 each, w* figs reach Smyrna, they arc sorted by women and packed in boxes I>y m< . They are best when newly packed, and as the months go by get dryer and harder in the ware-houses or th eß r<^ tr “ shop No one who has not eaten them in the Levant at the commencement of the season, packed in the pasteboard drums, with glowing on the top, in which they are soldfor local consumption, knows what figs are like. '1 he card-board for these boxes is supplied chiefly by Belgium and Austria; 54,000 camel-loads of four kintals each, or nearJy 12,000 tons, had reached Smvna on the 22d day of October last year; and the production increases annually. Fifteen years ago not more than half the amount was recorded tor the whole season. England and America take by far tho larger portion of the exports ; France, where the smaller and much inferior figs of the nean are chiefly consumed, taking little or none of tho fine fruit of Smyrna.— New Orleans Suf/ar Planter. in Jm:>d, he »aid. TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR, PASSING SMILES. Z Letters must be wicked things. They are always indicted. Motto for the milkman—to the pure all things are pure. “What is your farorite gem, Sarah?” Sarah replied demurely, “Agate.” Melo drama. A couple of soldiers of the Salvation Army approached a Philadelphia broker recently and asked: “How is it with i you, my friend?” “I am short on Read ing,” replied the broker. Wealthy Cad—“ Look Here—bring me some dinner, old man. The best you’ve got.” Restaurateur—“ Diner a ' hi Carle, M'sieuf" Cad —“Cart be , hanged! Dinner a ler carriage!" I They say, “ ’tis darkest just before the I dawn,” but the man who got up at mid- I night to hunt for a lone match on the ■ corner of the wash-stand can’t see how it ■ could be any darker. “I put outside my window a large box filled with mold, and sowed it with seed. What do you think came up ?” “ Wheat, barley or oats ?” “ No—a policeman, who ordered me to remove it. ” The discouraged collector again pre sented that little matter. “ Well,” said his friend, “you are round again?” “ Yes,” says the fellow, with the account in his hand, “but I want to get square.” “Ladies and gentlemen,” said an Irish manager to his audience of three, “as t here is nobody here, I’ll dismiss you all. The performance of this night will not be performed, but will be repeated to-mor row evening. ” A little boy entered the fish market tho other day, and seeing for the first time a pile of lobsters lying on tho coun ter, looked at them intently for some time, when he exclaimed: “Thems the big gest grasshoppers I ever seen. ” What’s manna, metheglin, ambrosia and sich *1 To Ole O’Margarinet In odor so fragrant, in color so rich OL O’Margarine? Thou’rt guiltle-s of pastures and milk-maids’ smiles. Tliou’rt guiltless of churning and -lairy-malds’ wiles. Thou’rt guilty of naught but inscrutably iles, Ole O’Margarine. “ If this coffee is gotten up in a board ing house style again to-morrow morning, I think I shall have good grounds for a divorce.” said'a cross husband the other morning. “I don’t want any of your saucer,” retorted his wife, “and what I’ve sediment. ” A friend who lately called on tho Premier found him quiet, but not without a gleam of his peculiar saturnine humor. “It is a strange thing,” said he; “but people keep calling at this house, and asldng after me—as though I had had a child!” Mr. Maylum remarked to Erskine that his physician had forbidden his bathing at Brighton. “You are malum pro hibitum,” said Erskine. “But,” con tinued Mr. Maylum, “he says my wife may bathe.” '“Ah,” replied Erskine, “ she is malum in se.” “Ten dimes make one doll ar,” said the schoolmaster. ‘ Now go on, sir. Ten dollars make one—what?” “They make one mighty glad these times,” re •plied the boy; and tho teacher, who hadn’t got his last month’s salary yet, concluded that the boy was about right. The Chicago Tn ter-Ocean having come to the conclusion that “a full-grown man who throws banana peels upon the side walk is no Christian,” the Cincinnati Commercial anxiously inquires “ Well, what do you think of the banana peel that throws a full-grown man ujion the sidewalk ?” While Bishop Ames was presiding over a conference in the west a member began a tirade against uni vei si ties, education, etc., thanking God that he had never been corrupted by contact with a college. After proceeding thus for a few minutes the bishop interrupted him with the question: “Do I understand that the brother thanks God for his ignorance ?” “Well, yes,” was the answer; “you can put it in that way if you want to.” “Well, all I have to say,” said the bishop, iu his sweet, musical tones, “is, that *’ brother has a great deal to thank G. for.” ■ - The Harp an Irish Emblem. The earliest records wo have of f Celtic race give the harp a promin place aud harpists peculiar venerak and distinction. It was common to th northern races of Europe in the earli. centuries of the Christian era, and in the opinion Os many antiquarians was origi; rial among them. The Irish harp wa often an hereditary instrument, to be preserved with great care and veneration, and used by the bards of the family alike the poet-musicians and historians. It was long ago adopted by the Irish as a national emblem, and has been sung of by the most accomplished ana patriotic sons of Ireland since time out of mind. Curing Sick Headache. A Vermont correspondent writes that after suffering from sick headache for twenty years, with frequent attacks of diphtheria, quinsy and erysiiielas, she has discovered tfie cause of all her troub les. Eight months’ abstinence froirr~ lias cured her of dyspepsia ailments she has suffered and health is better than it has bjfen formally years. On a diet of vegetables and cer eals with fish aud eggs occasiomiUy, she is well and strong. .Happy they who find out their limitations, physical, in tellectual and spiritual, and , do health and happiness in a vam' to digest something beyond their pow . A G'AmFOIiNM man -