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IV.-NO. 46. J NEWS GLEANINGS. ■ "(The debt of Charleston, S. C., is $4,- I 164,050. ■ Seven employes of the Atlanta, Ga., ■ post-office are negroes. R Pensacola, Fla., is building an opera ■ house at a cost of $50,000. S A chair factory at Marietta, Ga., has ■ sold 108,000 chairs in the past year. H An immense number of manufactories ■ are being built in Birmingham, Ala. I One tannery at luka, Miss., turns out ■ SIOO,OOO worth of leather each year. ■ The census taken in Cnattanooga, ■ May 1882, gives her 17,051 population. ■ Atlanta, Ga., has eighty-seven licensed ■ saloons that take in over $1,000,000 a ■year. ■ 'An oat mill will be established as ■ Sumter, N, C. It will be the first in ■ the South. ■ The bronze statue for the Confeder ■ ate monument has been delivered at ■ Charleston. £ Thirty bushels to the acre is a com- ■ mon yield of wheat in East Tennessee ■ this season. ■ Alabama will have 2,330,000 acres in ■cotton this season. A decrease from last ■year of 10.3 per cent. ■ Key West, Fla., is troubled with an ■epidemic of ‘’dengue” fever. Five bun ' ■deed cases are reported. S More rea[>ers have been sold in Geor ■giathis year than the entire cotton bell ■possessed one year ago S The cotton crop of this year, so it is ■estimated from present appearances, will ■be about 5,000,000 bales. ■ The largest orchard in Nortl?Carolina ■ s owned by R, I’. I’zddison, at Moults- ■ by’s Point. It contains over 8,000 trees ■ Fortress Monroe is the largest single ■fortification in the world. It has al ■ready cost over $3,000,000 of money. I Sixteen thousand men arc now nn ■' I '<Ayed in railroad construction in Flor ■ida. Eighty thousand people have set ■fled in the State in the past ten years. fe The last aporopriation of $125,000 for ■constructing jetties at the mouth of the ■bt. John’s river, Fla., is nearly exhaust ■al, and it is probable the work will cease the 4th of July. fl The Charleston, (S.C.) News and Cou ®ier, as a proof of the growth of home industries, mentions the building of a ■tcamer and the construction of all her ■nachinery in that city. ® Os the several Governors Alabama ■as elected, four were natives of the ■State. Gov. Patton was born in Lan Werdaie, Gov. Winston in Madison, Gov ■Vatts in Butler, and Gov. Cobb in St. B-lair county. B Presley Nelms is the oldest citizen of •lonroe county, Ga., being 104 years of ■ge. He yet chops with an ax, uses the and can get about with surprising ■ctivity. He has a living son over sev- years old. i In the seven States of Georgia, Ala ll ? a> Mississippi, J/misiana SB” Life two Carolinas there has been an of 361,000 in the number of cot n spindles during (he year, represent an addition to the manufacturing industries of nearly $10,000,000. ■ A man at Magnolia, Ark., has some jV. new in the potato line. In his en about thirty potato busl ies are an< l lb* 3 potatoes grow up 10tl g the limbs, like apples, and none IB y attach t e '. l to tlle roots. The Pulaski Bh!? 11 - S’’ t ’ zen bells of similar vines in ■"at vicinity. : any onc af ' kl ’ , y „ f? ave so much money to the B Feniale College, of Georgia, B> ?° ni \ l Was t 0 honor my mother, to Bl Un<er I °" e more than too Os no 1 T len - There ftre -Qvwh , Hllheril women not equaled lere e ' Be on earth.” bUt P industry in the ‘’ lns 01 or th Carolina and East ■W,/'.' thflt of collecting roots rTKj/ 77’)- The roots are shipped “ SI e . phla and Rnsto » and nsec, for BE rL C, " rCnf Jl ' or kn ” lw I'il’C i '/' r . C roots i re <l'ient!y weigh from lberti * a constant SKth t the price 3 nrc i ,aki f ” r ! ini- WOMB n( ton. iirv 5 - c pi "WS ”« th: n 1,0 'ni am * r th * n ’ rlax > the G »° o aiW fi/-_J i u< * “> who It»a« "['7 <«* Dr" V. . SsaAc. ®|j£ DtiWtm Avgir:. is .written on heavy unruled paper, about note size, and every side is cov* cred. There are twenty-seven pages, all of which have Gen. Washington’s name attached except the twenty-third, which ended with the words “City of Washington,” and it is supposed that in looking over it the General mistook the words for his signiturc, and therefore failed to sign the page. The entire will is in his own handwriting, and was writ ten in 1799—the year he died. Adulterated Tobacco. A pamphlet has been published, show ing that in Germany thousands of tons of beet leaves are transformed into to bacco. In some places chiccory and cabbage leaves make the fragrant weed. An English chemist found a stuff sold for tobacco was the leaves of a diaphor etic plant. It has been impossible to sell the plant as a drug, and it has been turned into tobacco to save loss. Another writer informs everyboby, or wants to, that chemists have an im portant place in tobacco factories. Fif teen factories in New’ York employ chem ists tb “flavor” cigars. They can not do much with the wrapper, but they can j “heighten and develop,’’thefillings. It ; is a relief to know on the authority of ' the writer quoted that opium is not used, j although it used to be formerly, in Eng- : land, but stringent laws broke the prac- | tice. The substances used to flavor to- : bacco are numerous. Every manu- ; facturer has his own formula. Vanilla , is the most common. This is employed i in the form of an alcoholic tincture to I flavor fillings. It is said that few cigars i are free from vanilla. Its effects are ; not harmful if not used in excess. The I tonka bean and balsam fir are used in j the same way and for the same purpose. ’ Cedar oil is also introduced. The best ; imitator of the tabaeco flavor is valerian. I Valerian and vanilla are the most vain- I able chemicals now in use by tobaccon- i ists. By their use the poorest stems may be converted into fair tobacco. Into cigarettes enter not only valerian and vanilla, but cascarilla bark. To make ■ cigars burn, ammonia is used, and they i are soaked in saltpetre. The latter is | injurious and makes young men old j with dispatch. The object of its use is i to cause the cigar to burn freely. It has been noticed by some smokers that an intoxicating effect has been produced by some cigars. This is produced by dip ping the fillings in a solution of sulphuric ether and bromide of potassium. When it is known that New England rum is used with vanilla and valerian, it is nothing to wonder at that the cigars so treated produce intoxication. We do not name the brand that is treated with New England rum. If we did, the de mand would excel the supply. To make tobacco, or aid in its adulteration, such other things as potato leaves, sugar, potash, tamarinds, aniseed, gum and various oils not heretofore mentioned are used to a greater or lesser extent. In New York alone, 826,666,500 cigars are made annually, besides, 229,800,000 cigarettes, and twenty-five thousand persons tyre employed.— Providence Jour nal. Rufus Hatch in the Indian Territory. Rufus Hatch, the noted Wall street, New York, operator, took a trip to the Indian Territory to look after some ra.il ' road property and his newly established cattle ranche. He writes the scenery on this trip has been beyond description, monstrously grand and beautiful. Sky, laud, prairie, grass, then more sky, shrub, grass, small creeks, sky, dust, sand, wind, sky ; then more sky, clouds, dust, grass, dust, only more so, sky high; clouds, wind, dust, sky, prairie, more prairie, prairie, one short tree, sky, drove of cattle, horses, cowboy, buffalo skeleton, sky, prairie, dust, prairie dog, coyote, sky, grass, clouds, more sky, antelope, prairie, sun, dust, heat, sky, snake, prairie, prairie, prairie, clouds, three or four trees, sun, sky, sky, sky, clouds, sun, heat, wind, dried buffalo horns, grass, prairie, more clouds, more sky, more prairie, sky, sky, heav ens, dust, snakes, cowboys on leave of , absence, wolves, sky, prairie, grass, I sand, dust, sun, heat, prairie, only more so when we came in full view o£»more prairie all the time, and sky and clouds, kept keeping over us, and more snakes, buffalo carcasses, and horns, with con tinuous prairies and more beautiful scenery, until after nearly one hundred miles of delicious driving, in a first class open buggy, under a broiling sun, with more sky, clouds, prairie, wind, dust and grass, we landed at this Eldo rado—known on the map as “ Spencer & Drew’s Gattie Rancho,” and now, amid the crack of rifles and Colt’s revolvers, the singing of birds, the delicious moaning and sighing of tho fragrant breeze as it creeps through tho full leaved green branches of the trees, the piping of the mocking bird and quail, and the thousand heads of horned cattle gently grazing on rich meadow lands as far as the eye can reach, the hum of in sects, and the gentle titilation of the unobtrusive mosquito, 1 bid you all good-by, with the gentle remark that if the Indians should overtake and kill me, I never will forgive myself for coming here !— .New Yor/c Commercial Adver tiser. A Hoosier youth named Gosling saw a girl at church, courted her two hours, and at the end of three was married to her. A man who does up all his court ing in two hours and then marries, misses lots of fun. Its like stuffing himself with peaches and cream in five minutes and then ha ing dyspepsia the rest of ’ the year, DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAT. The Canadian government has begun ' issuing $4 bills. President Arthur has decided to sum mer at Long Branch. The French Senate ha»> rejected the American pork bill. And now it appears that Billy Patter son was struck by lightning. A pint of whisky a day is Sitting Bull’s government ration. The crops in the Northwest promise to be better than ever before. The Kentucky wheat crop is supposed to reach near 13,000,000 bushels. Rutherford B. Hayes is reported as hoeing corn and enjoying himself. Within one week 1,000 Jews have left Lemberg, Austria, for America. An unusual amount of counterfeit coin ! and currency is afloat. Look out for it. From Hayti comes a contribution of : $225 for the Garfield Memorial Hospital. The habit of going to Europe costs America not less than $125,000,000 a ' year * -r If Congress adjourns before the mid ■ die of July the country will be fortu ' nate. The young people at Concord keep ' the grave of Emerson covered with fresh flowers. —.» i A colony of 200 families of negroes is about to leave Mississippi to settle in Mexico. Sewing thread is made from pine tim ber in Sweden, and is coming into de- ' maud for export. Four hundred and forty-one pounds of tea has been raised on one acre of ground in Georgia. The losses caused by the late cyclone in lowa are variously estimated from $2,576,000 to $3,000,000 in amount. England hangs murderers every time —when she catches them ; but they don’t seem to catch them very fast over there. The British police have at times ar rested as the real Dublin assassins six teen different men, none of whom were within 200 miles of the city that day. A concert at public cost is given on Boston Common every Sunday afternoon in summer. There was opposition by the orthodox at first, but it has died out. There are seventy-two men now in Sing Sing prison who used to exercise great political influence in their various stations. Where else can a politician expect to bring up ? —— * ♦ * The only way to convince a Southern negro that a farm is not waiting for him in Kansas, is to let him make the trip. In two or three days he gets through asking which road it is on. Everybody on the continent seems to know that Don Cameron has recently been suffering from a jumping tooth ache—the matter going so far as even to effect politics in Pennsylvania. Louisiana is considering whether it would not be good policy to stop the lot i tery business in that ‘State. and Kentucky are the only States in the Union that tolerate lotteries within their corporate limits. Two Michigan men got into a boat and pursued a bear. The bear climbed into the boat and tho men climbed out. Had they not been rescued by a tug they wouldn’t have got home to tell this little boar story at the family hearth. < ♦ » —— It is the opinion of a Philadelphia editor that a family who don’t know enough to go to church at the proper hour, without hearing the clang of a bell, wouldn’t meet a bank note unless the cashier came and blew a horn in front of the house. The Helena Independent mentions that two cowboys were arrested at Benton, M. T., and fined $lO each for firing a volley at the comet. If they had killed a man it would have been all right. The line is drawn at killing people out there. The cyclone w hich spread death and destruction in lowa a few days ago, is described as at times resembling a gi gantic arm reaching from the heavens ; then it took the form of a vast serpent, and again resembled a funnel and an hour-glass. It is notable wherever i the storm-cloud struck a belt of timber it was arrested and took a long jump. — The Detroit Free Press pays its re spects as follows: A young Ohio woman has been sent to the lunatic asylum because she has “ a mania for work.” We are a little surprised that this should be thought a sign of lunacy in a young Ohio woman. It would be perfectly jnstiflable to shut up an Ohio man on that charge—unless he was working for an office. In that respect they are all mad there. Ohio men still have one advantage— they can’t be insulted by any such in uendoes. A remarkable case of lusus naturic is recorded in the local columns of the Cin cinnati Commercial of June 22, as fol lows : A specimen of that peculiar freak of nature, a hermaphrodite—a human being of both sexes—was taken to the Central Station last night by Officers Gould and Altevers. The person is colored, about 23 years of age, and without the sign of a beard.' Ho or she claims tho name of Jack Smith, and the occupation of cook at a boarding-house on George street be tween Race and Elm. He was dressed in maA attire, but a genieman who happened into th« station says he has seen the same person in woman’s clothes. He was locked up on a gen eral charge. The army w’orm seems übiquitous. We hear of his ravages in New England, New York and Maryland, as well as in the West. The only successful way that has been devised to stop their march is that of plowing a furrow, say seven inches deep, and continuously dragging a log, four or five feet in length, back and forth from daylight till dark every day,until the worms have disappeared. By this process the ground iu the fur row becomes thoroughly pulverized and the' worms can not possibly cross it be fore the return of the log passing to and ♦ro to crush them. As a rule the worms travel eastward. Daphne McGuire. “ There is no more pie.” “God help us, then,” said Daphne McGuire, looking up to her mother with a weary, wistful, why doesn’t-somebody buy-me-a-seal-skin-sacque expression on her oval face. Mrs. McGuire did not reply. Leaning her bangless head on a thm, white hand —the hand that Vivian O’Rourke had called “a dimpled treasure that one might risk his soul to win,” that night, so many years ago, that she had rejected his proffered love and caused him to wander away in wild despair and marry Girofle Quirk —and thought of how, had she plighted her troth to him, life would now have been a garden in which pretty flowers waved their bright faces, instead of a wind-swept waste, barren alike of flowers and venture. She remembered how, for the first few years after their marriage, every thing went well with Percicles McGuire, and how, when Daphne was a prattling infant, he had come home full one evening and told her in proud tones that he had reached the summit of his ambition, and was a policeman. All these memories of the past—the bitter and the sweet —came surging through her mind as she looked out through her tears and saw the Blue Island avenue cars going by like ghosts in the twilight. “Why do you weep, mamma?” said Daphne, placing her soft West Side arms about the neck of the mother she loved so dearly—the only mother she had. “I fear me, Bridget,” said Mrs. McGuire, using the pet name by which Daphne was known at home, “ that our future must indeed be a cheerless one; that the coming days will hold for us only sorrow and misery.” “Do not be disheartened, mamma,” replied the girl, kicking the dog off the front steps and kissing her mother with a warm, lingering, I-have-come-to-stay all-winter-and-part-of-the-spring kiss. “Things may not bo so bad as they seem. We have still one hope, you know, one resource in case all else tails. ” “ What is it, child?” asked the mother in hoarse, anxious tones. “ What is this hope you speak of?” “Doughnuts,”replied Daphne, speak- Hlg, the word softly, and with infinite tenderness. J? We have a jar of them down stairs, you kilOW,” “Then let us tackle them at once,” said the grief-stricken parent, starting for the pantry at a 2:20 clip.—Chicago Tribune. When Coal Was Discovered In America. There is strong reason to believe that the first discovery of coal on this conti nent was made in Illinois, by the early French explorers, some time between 1673 and 1680. James McFarlane, author of the “Coal Regions of Amer ica,” says : “It is remarkable that the first discovery of coal in America, of which there is any account in a printed book, was made so far in the interior as Illinois, by Father Hennepin, more than two hundred yea-s ago.” Hennepin’s map accompanying the edition of his journal published in 1698. locates a coal mine in the bluffs of the Illinois River, near Ottawa, where an inferior quality of bituminous coal comes to the surface. Referring to this record left by Henne pin, R. C. Taylor, another high author ity in economic geology, says : ‘‘ This is the earliest notice on record of the existence of coal in America.— Chicago Inter- Ocean- The Paris authorities are intent just now on measures to prevent deleterious articles finding a sale, and have seized American hams wrapped in a ] cloth, rendered impermeable by ehrom r »te of lead. How to Select a Cow. Hon. 11. Lewis, of New York, read a paper before a convention of dairymen in Ontario, from which we extract : Again, ono breed of cows will do well on some land, where some other breed would be almost or quite worthless. Hence, I advice every dairyman to select that particular cow or breed best suited to his lands, -where she is to obtain her food, and best adapted to that branch of dairy fanning in wUhch he is engaged. If, for instance, your pasture lands are rough, or on steep side hills, select a small, active cow, and if butter-making is your business the Jersey or Devon and their grades from our native cows will prove satisfactory. But if cheese making is your business, or the pro duction of milk for market, the Ayr shire is the cow. While her milk is well adapted for cheese or for market, it is better than the average cow’s for butter. Again, if your pasture lands are pro ductive and moderately level, with but ter-making your business, select the Holderness or the Princess family of Short-horns, or their grades from our native cows. But if cheese or milk only be your object, the Holsteins will prove satisfactory. As the selection of individual cows, suited to our several farms and adapted to our various wants, would be too much of an undertaking, and require so much time and care, it can be done best I>y selections from our herds of native cows, and the use on these of a thorough-bred bull of that breed desired. In this way, if tho selections be carefully made, a herd can be built up in a little while founded on our native stock and at small expense, iar exceeding in value any of ! our ordinary herds. It has been a • matter of surprise to me that our intelli gent and progressive dairymen do not more generally adapt their cows to their several wants by breeding a sufficient number each year to make good the annual loss from old age, acci dent and disease. A cow reared on the farm where she is to remain is al ways more valuable to her owner than a strange cow. First, she is acclimated; second, she is acquainted xvitli the herd with which she must associate; third, she is fa miliar with the lauds from which she obtains her food, and can travel over it with greater ease than a strange cow. Napoleon’s First Abdication. France, in the latter part of 1813 and the beginning of 1814, was iu a very un settled condition. Napoleon had curried 1 on brilliant but weakening campaigns, ! and even the dazzling glory of tho great commander’s exploits in the face of all j Europe could not dispel the shadows I which had begun to gather about him at I the capital and throughout France. Nor ! was the prospect beyond the realm any i more encouraging. Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden, and late companion i of the Emperor, was coming down from ; the north with 100,090 men; and Murat, I King of Naples, Napoleon’s own brother- [ in-law, had entered into a secret treaty | with Austria for the expulsion of the French in Italy. The gloom around Na poleon deepened, until the allies suc ceeded in reaching the exterior defenses of Paris, and the capital, which for so many years had dictated law to all other capitals, was obliged to capitulate, and tho allies entered Paris amid the accla mations of the people. Tho Senate turned their back on Napoleon and de clared that “by arbitrary acts and vio lations of tho constitution ” he had for feited the throne, and absolved all Frenchmen from their allegiance. His own generals insisted that he ought to abdicate, and he signed the surrender of his power. He was allowed the sover eignty of the Isle of Elba, with a revo enue’of 6,000,000 francs ($1,200,000). Ten months later he was invited to re turn to France by a conspiracy of old Republicans joined by Bonapartists. He escaped from Elba February 26, 1815, and landed at Cannes March 1 with an escort composed of about 1,000 of his Old Guard. And KM) days after ho had resumed power his last act on the stage of Europe was played out, and tho sec ond and last abdication was signed. Dr. Johnson’s Partiality for Tea. In his review of Hanway’s “ Tea and its I’ernicftnis Consequences,” Dr. John son proclaims himself as “a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this facinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool wild with tea tea sohtCfW -the midnight and with tea’ welcomes the morning.” Boswell says that he supposes no one ever enjoyed with more relish the fragrant leaf than Johnson. The quantities ho drank of it at all hours were so great that his nerves must have been uncommonly strong not to have been extremely relaxed by such an intemperate use of it. It is related of him, but not by Boswell, that, while on his Scotch tour, the Dowager Lady Mac- Leod, having repeatedly helped him un til she had poured out sixteen cups, then asked him if a small basin would not be more agreeable and save him trouble. “I wonder, madam,” he an swered roughly, “ why all the ladies should ask me such questions ? It is to save themselves trouble, madam, and not me.” On another occasion he said : “ What a delightful beverage must that be that pleases all palates at a time when they can take nothing else at breakfast!’ Croker mentions tiiat the doctor’s teapot held two quarts. Jack Everman, a bimk-burglar, left $5 000 at his death, in Philadelphia. He made no will, and his natural / refuse to touch the m« S / the proceeds of robber g TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The true bed-bug is said to be found in cliff swallows’ nests. The number of different uses for the bamboo is estimated at 500. The number of earthquakes in Japan during the past 1500 years is 149. American beer for Germany is an im portant addition to our export trade. Weasels hunt in couples, and some times more than two work together. In the course of five years, from 1779 to 1784 Mesmer magnetized 8,000 per sons. In Sicily the total quantity of sulphur annually melted is estimated at 390,000 tons. The Australian exchange names with Europeans, as a proof of brotherly af fection. * Since 1865 the ratio of suicides has been greater in the kingdom of Saxony than any other part of Europe. A large whale committed suicide by hanging himself with tho telegraphic cable laid across the Persian Gulf. An English superstition is that if the ear-lobe hang below the line of the mouth, its possessor will be hanged. A swarm of locusts observed near Boulder City, Colorado, traveled sixty six miles to eastern Kansas and Mis souri. Falcons are the swiftest of birds. One sent from the Canaries to Spain re turned in six hours, the distance being 780 miles. The following sentence of only thirty four letters contains all the letters in the j alphabet: “John quickly extemporized five tow bags.”, A gentleman, having suffered a so l ere blow on the head, found on recovery that he had lost his knowledge of Greek, but had not suffered any other loss of memory. Tigers are said to be plentiful through out Siberia, where they remain through 1 the winter. They are said to be larger than the Himalayan specimens, and to have hair five inches in length. At the present time in Spain the correct place of dating a letter should be from “this your house ;” one giust never say from “ this my house,” as politeness requires him to place it at the disposi tion of his correspondent. In New York and Chicago, telegraph wires are being put under ground, and i it is possible that the time is coming ' when the underground method of tele graphing will be in vogue all over the country, as it is in Germany. Ostrich farming, is, next to wool and i diamonds, the most important industry 1 of Southern Africa. It was not suooess | ful until tho eggs were hatched by a patent incubator, the parent bird not performing her duty well in confine ment. | It is suggested that the derivation of | London is from tho Celtic Luan, the j moon, and a dun, a city on a hill. That it was “ the city of the moon” is all the more probable from the tradition that the site of St. Paul’s was formerly that of a temple of Diana. The greatest flood ever known on the Mississippi was that of 1814, which swept away the levees, overflowed the entire country, filled up the swamps and remained at high-water mark for months. It was due to the unscientific construc tion of the levees. “For four Brother’s Sake.” A good story is told by the Providence Journal of a gentleman’s mistake while on the way to the inauguration at Wash ington, in March, 1881. Between New York and Philadelphia he took a seat beside a portly gentleman, and conver sation began. Politics were mentioned, and tne Rhode Islander said he was a Republi cuii) uml tliouplit lust full tlmt it wonicl fcc not’ bo well for tho country to have a change, but that he had a brother was a Democrat. . “ • Soon the train stopped at a station, and the Rhode Islander stepped to thr-Q platform and met an acquaintance, alter a little space, remarked: “Gen. Hancock is on this train, as I am acquainted with him, perhapiT2y you would like an introduction.” Os course he would; so they entered ' the car, and approached the portly gen tleman just left; the Rhode Islander was introduced to the General. With a twinkle of the eye, Gen. Hancock said : ‘' ],»ill shake hands with you for your ’ brotiw • *- Noble Nature. 'There are persons sufficiently enlarged to receive blame without pain, and yet not be able to resist the excitement of praise. Nobility of soul, magnanimity, wai’d off or counteract the pain that in smaller souls results from blame; but the same traits render their possessor more quick to the apprehension of a kind word, more grateful for a loving expression, more appreciative of appre ciation. Why should it be thought an evidence of greatness to receive l>oth praise and blame with equal stolidity? Must our emotional natures die in tho process of our upward growth ? M ill they not rather become quickened to keener enjoyment continually? So would our susceptibility of pain become correspondingly quickened, but that our expanding reason nullifies its effect. Helen Williams. A oat it could roacn-