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VOL. IV.-NO. 15. NEWS GLEANINGS. Madison, Ga., will soon have a cotton seed oil mill. The water works at Columbus, Ga. are completed. Alabama’s oat crop, just harvsetcd, was the largest for years. Georgia yields over a million dollars per annum in gold bullion. Nashville parties will build a’cotton seed oil-mill in Atlanta, Ga. Polk county, Georgia, has thirty saw mills, employing 1,050 men. The Buckingham gold mine, in Vir ginia, is valued at $2,000,000. The Charlottesville, Va., bent-wood factory has begun operations. Ground has been broken at Columbus, Ga., for the new cotton factory. One orange tree in Clay county, Fla., has 5,000 orang- n its branches. Over two hundred houses arc in course of erection at Chattanooga, Tenn. Mrs. Carr, aged 100 years, died in Barbour county, Ala , a few days ago. Baker county, Ga., has raised its liq uor license from $27 to SI,OOO per year. Charleston, S C, is shipping phos phate rock, used for fertilizing, to Eng land. i West Virginia produces nearly one fourth of all the nails used in the United States The dam now building at Columbus, Ga., is the largest stone dam in the South. Judge ClavMn. of Eufaula, Ala., has decided that'deaiing in cotton futures L gambling, Louisiana has 172,005 registered vo teres, of which 85,451 are white and 88,- 024 colored. The mountains in Swain county, N. C., are said to be of solid marble —red, pink, plaidcd and black. A careless druggist at Starke, Fla. gave Mrs. Jones poison instead of a dose of calomel, and she died from its effects There are now in Wythe and Pulaski counties, Va., fifteen blast furnacesen gaged in making of cold blast charcoal iron. An immense hardshell turtle, weigh ing nearly 100 pounds, was captured in the Obion river, near Troy, Tenn , a few days ago Charleston, S. C., has 250 saloons, each of which pays an annual city license of S2OT Savannah follows with 300 licensed bar rooms. Three hundred men are now- engaged in picking peaches on one farm at Gris fin, Ga., and will continue to pick them until the middle of July. Dr. D. Babcock, the inventor of the fire extinguisher of that name, is in Buchanan, Va., a perfect wreck from the intemperate use of whiskey. A negro in Montgomery, Ga., lost his only mule by death, but, being bound to make a crop, hitched himself, and, while his wife held the handles, contin ued with his work. A rich strike has just been made in the famous old Magruder mines, in Lin coin county, Ga., in the shape of a four and-a-half-foot vein as silver ore, assay ing $l5O to the ton. Virginia drinks up her entire wheat crop annually, and it is stated that the liquor drank in Louisiana costs $47,000,- 000—52,000,000 more than its combined cotton, sugar and rice crop. Pineapple grow to an enormous size in Key Largo One recently exhibited at Key West from that place measured a foot in length and twenty-three inches in circumference. It weighed eight pounds. Pensacola promises to be the future seaport of the South. During May eight y nine vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 68,116 tons, entered the port, and ninety-five vessels, with an aggregate of 55,616 tons, cleared. Three curious fish were recently cap tured in a lagoon near Macon, Ga. The first one caught was about three feet long, shaped like a watermelon, and was perfectly translucent, bloodless, cold and clammy. The others were smaller, but like the first in every other respect. ’ n ««bor» a . tec-i '"'Mid important industry is be F " ,nit ain Lake Jessup, Fla. The "J 4 •'“‘"tiouilnarl which have been dis ... the south shore of the a mw “ It was dtilized ’ With fish from ('A the manufacture of fertili ZaM! ■mpany has been organized WWMBLs erected on Bird i.-iand, in > * ®l)r DuHoii Straws. the lake, a mile and a half from the main land. Out of the 200,655 immigrants w'ho landed at New York from January 1, to May 31, of this year, more went to Wis consin aloe than to the whole South To show how few of them went South, the following detail is given : Virginia, 153: Maryland, 181; West Virginia, 136; North Carolina, 29 ; South Caroli na, 64; Alabama, 68; Florida, 49; Missis sippi, 79 ; Georgia, 134; Arkansas, 1,155; Louisiana, 600 ; Kentucky, 800 ; Tennes see, 157; Missouri, 430; Texas, 1,500. The Tennessee State library contains some valuable relics, among which is a piece of the flag surrendered by Lord Cornwallis to Gen. Washington, at York town, October 19, 1781; Daniel Bocne’s musket, Gen. Jackson’s cap, and the sword of Col. Du Puyster, a British offi cer under Col. Ferguson, captured at the battle of King’s mountain in 1780. In. a case with many other things is to be seen a limb in the shape of a walking cane, said to.be cut from a beech tree sixty feet high and four feet thick, on whick is plainly visible to this day the following inscription : D Boon cilled a Bar. cn tree in year 1760. Near Stellaville, Ga., a leaden medal was found that is quite a curiosity in its way. On the obverse side appears the figure of a six masted steamer, full rig ged, over which is the inscription, “The Great Britain,” and below the ship is the dimensions, number of state-rooms, etc. reverse side appear two medal lion heads, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. This medal commemorates the launching of the Great Britain at Bris tol, England, on July 19, 1843, and de notes an important era in ship building, from the fact that she was built of iron and fitted with the newly invented screw propeller. India Proofs. There are various ways in which de ceptions are practised. .For instance, “unlettered India proof,” as it is technically called, is, from being taken off the engraving at an earlier stage, very much superior to what is called a “lettered India print,” which is obtained after many impressions have been taken off the engraving, and when the plate has, consequently, become worn, and the picture lost its clearness and sharp ness of line. To turn an “India print,” therefore, into an “India proof,” the India print is cut down all round close to the engraving. A clean sheet of Indi i paper, of the same tone as the India print, but of a larger size, so as to show a clean, blank margin, is then i mounted on a piece of still larger plain paper, and the cut down India print in turn is mounted in such a position as to show the usual margin all round. Before drying, the manipulated print is sub jected to immense pressure, which so forces the mounted print into the India paper as to entirely hide the difference in the thickness of the material. A true impression taken off a plate leaves the mark of tire plate all round the picture; and to add this to the “doctored” India proof, a plain steel or copper plate of the proper size is laid on the face of the print, which is again subjected to pres sure, and the deception is then so com plete as almost to bafile detection. A ' volume belonging to a collector was sup posed to contain India paper impressions of engravings to the value of £3OO, but on examination they were found to be “doctored” plates, not worth £3O in all.— Chambers' Journal. * Influence of Association. I remember once seeing an advertise ment in the papers with which I was much struck, and which I will take the liberty of reading : “Lost, in the Tem ple Coffee House, and supposed to have be taken away by mistake, an oaken stick, which has supported its master not only over the greatest part of Europe, but has been his companion in his jour neys over the inhospitable deserts of Africa. Whoever will restore it to the waiter, will confer a very serious obliga tion on the advertiser; or, if that be any object, shall receive a recompense very much above the value of the article restored.” Now, here is a man, who buys a sixpenny stick, because it is useful, and totally forgetting the trifling causes which first made his stick of any consequence, speaks of it with warmth ■ and affection; calls it his companion, and would hardly have changed it,,per haps, for the gold stipk which is carried before the king. But the besf atd the . strongest example of t*iis, and of the customary progress ol is the passion of avarice. A child *only loves a guinea because it shines ; and, as I it is equally splendid, he loves a gilt button as well. In after life he begins to love wealth because it affords him the comforts of existence, and then loves it so well that he denies himself the com- ■ forts of life to increase it. The uniting idea is so totally forgotten that it is com pletely sacrificed to the ideas which it united. Two friends unite against the i person to whose introduction they are indebted for their knowledge of each I other ; exclude him from their society and rnip him by their combination.— 1 Sidney Smith, DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 24. 1882 TOPICS OF THE DAT. ■Warmer weather has given corn and cotton a boom. 1 - . Queen Victor - a is fat and hearty— weighing 200 pounds. Garibaldi's body bore scars of ten gunshot, and one bayonet, wounds. Delaware promises to give the coun try the largest peach crop since 1875. The army worm is the object upon which the farmer may lavish his curses this year. Philadelphia is taking steps toward the construction and adoption of an electric railway. Stock of the Bank or Ireland sells at 319—that is higher than stock of the Bank of England. In the destruction of the barley cfop, I - is it possible that the army worm, too, I is fighting the brewers ? Between the army worm and tne j weather there is little preference. The one seems to augment the other. Since her marriage Sarah Bernhardt > is not popular, although she is perhaps , as good an actress as she ever was. The census returns in Japan shows 1 nearly a million more men than women. This is not a usual thing for old settled countries. Portions of Washington’s farewell ad dress are published in a French nows- | paper as appropriate to the condition of that country. Robert- Bonner, the New York Ledger j man, has $382,000 invested in horse flesh, for his private use and to gratify a per sonal ambition. Let us say to our Christian friends that Mr. Beecher has taken to playing bil liards. He keeps a table in his house for the purpose. One hundred and ten thousand per sons, over twenty thousand of them j women and girls, used the free baths in [ New' York last week. A Miss Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, is creating a sensation in London ' as a professional beauty. Bear in mind that she is an Ohio girl. We are informed that the Star Route trials are finally in progress. The trouble will be to get them to end—at least sat isfactorily to the people. ■ - ——————— The New York Sun tells of a man who j sent a written note to an apothecary for “ogsallegasset.” He wanted oxalic j acid. He had a bad spell. — Surgeon Woodward, U. S. A., one of the attending physicians on President j Garfield, is reported to be in a hopeless condition at Nice, from brain fever. This year’s graduates at West Point we said to be better waltzers than those of any former class for years. In a mil itary point of view this is important. Leadville exults over the fact that I there has not been a natural death in , that city for two weeks. A natural death out there, by the way, is a death by ’ shooting or stabbing. The condition of crops is good in France, Germany, and Holland. Rains have improved prospects in Southern Russia. Cold w’eather has checked veg etation in England. If the Atlanta Constitution speaks correctly, more reapers have been sold in Georgia this year than the entire cot ton belt possessed one year ago. If true, . this is a good thing for the State. Sergeant Mason says he can’t com plain of the treatment he is receiving in the Albany Penitentiary, only he would like to get out. Being imprisoned is the , meanest feature of the whole thing. Mr. Weed, of Newburg, N. Y., lost $450,000 in one hour at a game of poker and is now' creating a fuss all over the continent about it. Mr. Weed doesn’t seem to know how' to play the game. ■ ■ -flb The Chinese Government will return fifty students to American colleges, hav ing disebvered their removal was a mis take. iLseems that the meaner we treat Qhina-the better they will think of us. Lawyer Hirst, of Philadelphia, left n will bequeathing SIBO,OOO for the founding of a free law library, and $lO a week to his sisters. Thus he loved ; the public, dear man, batter than he did his sisters. .. t Miss Belle Braden is said to be the only female railroad offmer in the ■ country. She has just been elected i Treasurer of the .Waynesbuffg and Wash- : ington Railroad, in Pen'/jsylvaujit, end . is acting Paymaster. < The Catholic Telegraph thinks that the most useful acts of Garibaldi’s life were the soap and candle factory on Staten Island, and teaching Americans to make macaroni. The Telegraph has a high appreciation of a great statesman and liberator. The Tariff Commission, appointed by j the President, does not seem to have been a “happy” one. Appointments conferred upon the State of New York have been respectfully declined. New York is not altogether patterning after the Ohio idea. Rev. John DeWitt, D. D., of the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadel phia, resigned the pastorate of that rhurch, paying hin> $6,090 a year, to accept a Professorship in Lane Sem inary, Cincinnati, at $3,000. But this j is only one case in a million. A London scientist predicts that the ■ time is not far ahead of us when elee | tricity will be stored so successfully and | cheaply that little boxes of it will be i used to propel tricycles, and people will journey about the country by that method richer than by rail. Whisky is to be made independent or j the corn crops. A number of railroad men are buying timber lands, and are going to make whisky out of smoke. This is a question which requires the im mediate attention of the foresters. In a few years rain will be unknown. A cotemporary whoso patriotism is ■ bubbling over in fond anticipation of a [ Fourth of July celebration, says : There is going to bo more of 4th of Ju gloriousjnly in this country this year than the oldest inhabitant ever saw before. ’Tis well. We whipped ’em. We can do it again, if they don’t kick nor bite. Turn loose the whang doodles and let the rockets fiz. Lampton, of the Louisville Courier- Journal, has become something of a political punster. He turns his attention to affairs in Pennsylvania as follows: Cameron & Son, successors to Wm. Tenn. Attention is called to the varied resources of | our State. Every adult male allowed to vote I for us. Onr own Legislation in session every | year. Send for circular. — ♦ An edict signed by the Czar, and pub lished in the official Gazette of St. Pcters ' burg, virtually bankrupts every wealthy .1 ew in Russia. It provisionally suspends I all payment for contracts or debts duo j to Jews, prohibits them from settling outside towns and villages, and other- I wise provides for their speedy extirpation j throughout Czardom. After a serious illness of one of the jurors in the Malley case, the trial has been resumed, but the interest in the proceedings has waned. There is no probability of a conviction of any of the parties who stand charged with Miss Cramer’s outrage and murder, although there is little doubt in the minds of any who are familiar with the facts and tes timony, as to their guilt. Chileon Dickerson, aged seventy live, of Danville, N. J., was bitten by a mad dog last March. His wife was alsi bitten. The woman who treated them advised Dickerson to abstain from the use of tobacco, which he did until re cently, when ho resumed indulgence of the weed, and died. Mrs. Dickerson, who, it is presumed, does not use to bacco, has not been affected. The Drummer, after careful observa tion, throws out the following hints to girls: If a young man truly loves you, he will al ways bo somewhat embarrassed when with you. If a young man is not interested in you at first sight, the chances are five to one against you. If a fellow continues to glance at you ho is interested in you ; if he hastily averts his gaze when you catch bis eye, the chances are that he’s a gentleman ; but if, instead, he smiles at you, you may know that be is only a "masher. Huxley compares Darwin to Socrates, saying there was in him the same desire lo find some orffe wiser than himself, the same belief in the sovereignty of reason, the same ready humor, the same sympa thetic interest in all the ways and works of men, Just so, Professor Huxley; but do you suppose if they had found men wiser than themselves, either one of them would have admitted it? From France an extraordinary tri cycle journey is reported to have been made by the Vice President of the Lyons Bicycle Club, accompanied by his wife. They traveled in oue of the two-seated tricycles. from Lyons to Nice, Genoa, Rome, and Naples, and home again, through Florence and Turin. The entire distance is about 2,300 miles, and they averaged between fifty and sixty miles a day. The quicket time on record in a di i vorce suit was made last week at Fort Wayne. A wealthy farmer .named J. V. Gilbert drove to town with his wife, and she handed in an application for j freedom on the ground of cru ® J^’’- . ’j d 1 couple then agreed that the wHe » have $1,009 in cash, now false teeth every throe years, half the furniture, fruit, and milk, and two-thirds of the children. Both appeared in court, and the divorce was at once granted. The Mohammedan populace of Egypt is getting more excited and fanatical every day. Europeans are leaving the country by thousands, and more trouble is expected. Under the circumstances it is only matter of life and death with Europeans. Alany who are in good circumstances, prosecuting a lucrative trade, voluntarily leave all lor the sake of ridding themselves of uncertainties that must ultimately result in ruin and death. —" —• o After all, the Keely motor is a fraud. Says the Scientific American: The truth is that "the secret” was divulged long ago. The power exhibited by the motor is simply that of conipresKed air introduced surreptitiously by pipes which connect it with a condenser. Perhaps the company who have in vested so heavily in the motor, and have been patiently waiting for years to real ize their dreams of a scientific revolu tion—and fortunes—will now turn their attention to hard facts as as they find them. Woman suffrage has at least made some progress, whatever individual opinions or prejudices may bo. The committee in the United States Senate to whom the matter was entrusted for con sideration, have made a majority and minority report, the majority report favoring an amendment to tho Constitu tion granting the elective franchise to women, the proposed amendment to be submitted to the several Legislatures. The minority report favored submitting tho matter to the several States upon tho basis of States rights. It is not likely that Congress will act upon the question at the present session, but advocates of woman suffrage may take courage and hope for a full discussion of the theme next winter. Taxes in Holland. Taxes in Holland, Mr. Bird tells us, are generally very high, and, it is clear, are often very mischievous. Here they might learn much from us. “There is a tax on every window, door, chimney, servant, * * * on every article of household furniture in use. One must even pay for tho privilege of earning one’s daily bread, no man being permit ted to carry on a profession, trade or oc cupation of any sort unless he obtains what is called a “patent.” The poor tax-payer has not even the satisfaction of having his taxes called for. He must take the money to the collector’s office, and often lose an hour or two while wait ing till the great man can attend to him. Should he be behind in the payment, one or two hungry militiamen are quartered in his house at his expense until he has cleared off his arrears. Two hundred years ago boots and shoes, “ those arti cles so essential to human comfort,” as our author somewhat needlessly de scribes them, were not only taxed, but were conspicuously marked on the up per leather with the Government stamp. Medical men have their fees fixed by law, and fixed at a low rate. To make up for this, no druggist can sell the sim plest mixtures unless the prescriptions of a doctor be produced. If a man is [ suffering from headache or toothache, j though he may know of some remedy ■ which will give him relief, he cannot procure it until he has consulted a med ical man. In some parts of Holland the houses of the poorer Boers are but little better than Irish cabins. “The family live all together in one large room, divided by wooden partitions, which serves as parlor, kitchen and bed-room, and is not unfrequcntly shared with a cow or donkey.” The bed is a huge box, filled with heather or seaweed, and in districts exposed to floods is often raised to a height of six or seven feet above the floor. In respect of cleanliness these poor people are far superior to tho Irish. Even if a laborergets not more than 10s. a week, yet he, his wife and children will be seen every Sunday “respectably dressed and scrupulously clean.” It is a very common custom for the peasants to leave their wooden shoes outside the doors of their cottages, so that they may not carry the dirt inside. By counting the number of shoes it can be readily seen how many people there are at any one time in the house, — The Saturday Review. - Violating a Patent. It will be sad news to many a prudent hous* wife to learn that every time she picks a hole in an egg with a pin she is violating the patent of an American in ventor, but such is the case. Years ago an inventive genius devoted himself to discovering a method to prevent eggs from cracking during the process of boil ing. He solved the problem by picking a pin-hole in one end of the egg, through which the air in the shell was allowed to escape, and this pin-hole he duly patented according to law. Precisely how he managed to collect his royalty is a mvstery, but the fact remains that he has a legal claim for royalty on every pin-hole made in an egg before boiling. Two young Canadians who nearly I killed themselves by blowing out the gas | at a Bradford hotel, say they would dod ogam rather than . into the P'P” and o'ipht to x The innocent" a^" ai iy a* i-oiuubfe. bo K <.t home »» •i>ecan.Y ■ "'"J ' TERMS: 81.00 A YEAR. HUMORS OF THE DAT. “Do YOU play poker, Mrs. Schenk wales “I do; I play it on Mr. bchenkwales head sometimes.” “Never send a present hoping for one iu return.” Never. Get your present first, always, and send yours when you have time. “ T s the General on the retired list?” they asked of his wife the other evening. “Retired! no, indeed!” she replied “he s down to the club playing poker.’’’ Jones (accompanied by his dog Snap) meets Brown, who accosts him with, “ Good morning, Jones; how’s your dog Snap?” Jones—“ Pretty well, I thank you ; how are you ?” Imagine tho indignation of an Ameri can boy in a French school, who in a history' class is told how Lafayette, the great French General, triumphed in the Revolution, assisted by Washington. “Just taste that tea,” said old Hyson to his better half, at the supper table, the other evening. “ Well, there doesn’t seem to bo anything the matter with it. I can’t taste anything.” “Neither can I, and that’s what I’m growling at.” First Swell—“l never did like 1 May;’ not nearly so pretty as ‘Mary wonder they don’t change the name of the month to ‘ Mary.’” Second Swell— “Clevaw ideaw, by Jove ; make awys taws good to June, you know!” Modesty: “Do you pretend to have as good a judgment as I have?” ex claimed an enraged wife to her husband. “Well, no,” ho replied slowly, “our choice of partners for life shows that my judgment is not to be compared with yours. ” A French officer said to a Swiss Col onel : “How is it that your countrymen always fight for money, while wo French always fight for honor?” The Swiss shrugged his shoulders and replied : “ I suppose it is because people are apt to fight for that which they need most.” “I understand that Brown is in trouble,” said Smithson. “ Yes,” replied Fogg. “ Brown was at the auction shop the other day. They had a silver pitcher, and Brown offered to take it—offered to take it for nothing, you know. Well, the Sheriff took him up. That’s all.” It is quite a proper idea for a young lady to paint a bunch of pansies on a fresh-laid egg and foward it by special messenger to her best gentleman friend. This signifies : “Pa is hatching another scheme against you. Come ‘ over the garden wall ’ this evening. ” The inter est now begins.— New Haven Register. Uncle Ned lost a dollar the other day, and when he went home he called up his eldest son. “Comeheah, boy, and set down. Dis am a queer worl’, anyway, boy; jis’ w’en yo’ think yo’ am layin’ on feathers on’ walkin’ on roses—slap ! an’ dar yo’ is, flat in de mud, playin’ a tattoo wld yo’ heels on nex’ to nuffin.”— Oil City Derrick. Terrible fate of a kind-hearted girl: According to a truthful Indian newspa per, a hungry lion invaded a young ladies’ seminary on commencement day, and, bouncing in among them, carried off the prettiest and plumpest, with her composition iu her pocket—a school-girl essay on kindness to animals. “How profoundly still and beautiful is the night,” she whispered, resting her finoly-veined temple against his coat collar and fixing her dreamy eyes on the far-off Pleiades, “how soothing, how restful.” “Yes,” he replied, toying with the golden aureola of her hair, ; “and what a night to shoot cats.”— I Brooklyn Eagle. J “ Look yar, Clem, don’ yo’ be growlin’ ’bout de scaceness on dem yar trousers! Dey’s got as much w’ar in ’em yit as dem shanks o’ yo’n, eben es yo’ fader did tram ’roun’ in ’em nio’n forty year. I He didn't hab no sich a’rs ! He’d v prancin’ ’roun’ in ’em yit, and be p ’miff ob de chance, es dar wuz. an„ sion for gearmints whar he’s gon' Rome Sentinel. How Lincoln Treated His Riy Lincoln had away of maintain timate personal and official n with his most formidable politics Instead of quarreling with the counseled with them. He did not mit the Government to be deprn their services by their personal s tion. Whether this course was die solely by devotion to the public , ests or in part by that keenness of ) cention which taught Lincoln the vantage of having his rivals in hit, official household, it is not necessai inquire. It is only just to say, howe that it is not known that Mr. Lin ever indulged a feeling of personal terness at the expense of the good of the public service during his entire public career. Os Mr. Lincoln’s entire free dom from indulgence iu spleen or spit' against political rivals his treatment Seward and Chase are conspicuous e. amples. Mr. Seward was his most fo> midable rival for the Presidental nomi nation in 1860, and he placed him at the head of his Cabinet. Mr. Chase retareu from the Cabinet in 1864, after having intrigued unsuccessfully for the nomi nation against his chief, and Mr. Lin coln soon afterward conferred upon him the highest honor within his gift appointment to the Chief Justioes.jp he Supreme Court. Probably no moi striking example of found in the annals of political histor But it was this quality of • that governed I ch! friends, joined to uncompro t , firmness m doa.' 1 "* Mb ■