Georgia Historic Newspapers

    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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -