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VOL. I V.-NO. 51. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Canada ia anxious to send a regiment io Egypt ♦ « The Germans are mixing somewhat in the Egyptian troubles. There are only nine members of the Vanderbilt family at Saratoga. Railway mail employes are to be classed as postal clerks hereafter. —« ♦ . Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, of Chicago, is to be made a Cardinal. —« ♦ » A number of fatal sunstrokes have been reported from New York City. New wheat is being shipped from Texas directly to Italy and Liverpool. Hog cholera is creating alarm among the fanners of McLean County, Illinois. The Sultan of Turkey finally con cluded to regard Arabi Bey as a traitor. Jefferson Davis is spending his time attending camp-meetings in Mississippi. The farmers of Southern lowa will try the experiment of raising cotton next season. Harvest is now in progress in Central Dakota, and the crops are reported to be above the average. Ex-Public Printer Defrees, who was for a long time ill, is now in a fair way toward recovery. e Mr. Gladstone is very closely guarded now-a-days. Even at church he has two police attendants. The Mormon missionaries in the South claim that agitation is helping them to obtain proselytes. The weather in Ireland is reported as having improved, and there are now fail prospects for a good potato crop, Lawless Turtle Mountain Indians have crossed the border from Canada into Dakota, evidently to amuse the set tlers. * ♦ » Emigration for America thus far this year is less than last year. Still, about as many paupers are arriving as can well be cared for. Franklin Simmons, the sculptor, js at work in his studio in Rome, Italy, on a colossal statue of the late Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana. The Detroit Free Frees says that babies are so small in the little State of Rhode Island that they spank them with a tack-hammer. Ihe President has approved the act appropriating $50,000 for Mrs. Lucretia Garfield, less any amount paid President Garfield on account of salary. Cincinnati announces that she drank 110,000,000 glasses of beer last year, s.ijong nothing of the chaps who sent quait pitchers to the nearest saloon. The appointment of M. L. Joslyn, of Illinois, 1< irst Assistant Secretary of the Interior, it seems, has not exactly satis fied the people of Northern Illinois. . \ PABTY of Chippewa Indians are *ti Washington endeavoring to conclude negotiations for the transfer of 3,200,000 acres of the reservation, near Red Lake, -i liunesota, to the Government. Out of twenty New York doctors who Were asked to give an opinion of ice water, seventeen declared it all right as a beverage. The other three have all the practice they can take care of. A Miss Fox, in New Orleans, has Sil( <1 Mr. Low for breach of promise, p acing her damages at one dollar. That 13 satire sure enough. Low must feel Vt the low value placed upon him. Boston has passed a law prohibiting the sale of the toy pistol. Baltimore, where there were so many cases of lock jaw from the explosion of these weapons one year ago, passed such a law, and this year they bad no lockjaw to report. The American Israelite does not ap prove of the scheme of the return of the Jews to Palestine. It says : “We rather believe it is God’s will that the habitable world shall become one Holy Land, and the human race one holy peo ple.” organization in New Mexico v ,<r hirnied to wipe out \!i ' |n r. I I F ll mHHhHha ' ■ 5: yffik • ®j)C HWtoo Slcgtw. sume it is perfectly proper fw «lder ladies—if there are any such—to go it done. The President has referred a supple mental petition bearing 49,000 signa tures, from the Garfield Club of New York City, asking the pardon of Ser geant Mason, to the Secretary of Wai, together with several other and similar petitions. Mrs. Henry LaboucherE, wife of the editor of London Truth, who instructed Vlrs. Langtry for her debut, will accom pany her pupil and protege on her tour in the United States. Mrs. Labouchere is a charming person, known formerly on the stage as Miss Henrietta Hodson, an actress of great talent and vivacity. 'Cadet Whittaker delivered his first lecture on ‘ ‘ Color Line in the Nation’s School,” in Baltimore, where he retold the story of that ear slitting scrape. He also told how frightfully he had been misused throughout his entire term at West Point, the white boys refusing to eat or bunk with him and frequently call ing him “that nigger.” He said also 1 that he was lecturing for money. The Cincinnati Gazette tells this hor rid tale if two good little Sunday-school boys: Two Denver boys, having read about kid nappings stole a wealthy woman’s pet dog, and wrote a letter demanding $25 for Its re turn. If she did not leave the money in a specified spot, they declared they Would send her every day an inch of the precious brute’s tail. Being easily caught, they proved to be Sunday-school pupils of good standing. Egypt is pretty well supplied with al leged newspapers. Alexandria has three dailies in French, two in Arabia, two in Italian, and one in Greek and English, with circulations running up to 5,000. besides six weeklies, two in Arabic, one in Italian, and one in English. Cairo, with its population of 350,000, has but two dailies, both in French, and four weeklies ; Egyptians Devcnts, a weekly paper in Arabic, is the government or gan, and has a circulation of 10,000. Port Said has two French weeklies, and Suez, Ismalia, and other places, have what are called newspapers. Certainly He Would. The other evening, as a muscular citi zen was passing a house on Montcalm street, a lady who stood at the gate called out to him: “Sir! I appeal to you for protec- I ‘What’s the trouble?’’ he asked, as he stopped short. “There’s a man in the house, and he wouldn’t go outdoors when I ordered him to!’’ “He wouldn’t, eh! We’ll see about that!” Thereupon the man gave the woman his coat to hold and sailed into the house spitting on his hands. He found a man down at the supper-table, and he took him by the neck and remarked: “Nice style of a brute you are, eh! Come out o’ this, or I’ll break every bone in your body!” The man fought back, and it was not until a chair had been broken, and the table upset that he was hauled outdoors by the legs, and given a fling through the gate. Then, as the muscular citi zen placed his boot where it would do the most hurt, he remarked: “Now, then, you brass-faced old tramp, you move on or I’ll finish you.” “Tramp! tramp!” shouted the vic tim, as he got up, “I’m no tramp! I own this property and live in this house!” “You do?” “Yes, and that’s my wife holding your coat!” “ Thunder!” whispered the victim, as he gazed from one to the other, and realized that the wife had got square through him; and then he made a grab for his coat and sailed into the dark ness with his shirt bosom torn open, a finger badly bitten, and two front teeth ready to drop cut. — Detroit Free Press. An Idea Worth Adopting. The water supply abroad is so often of a doubtful character that travelers have resorted to the prudent expedient of drinking only some well-known min eral water. Thereupon a large trade has been done in the purcha-e front rag and bottle merchants of such mineral water bottles as still bore the labels in a fairly good condition. It was then easy to fill them with ordinary and possibly contaminated water, adding salt to gi'u the taste and appearance of the desired mineral spring. By this fraud the con sumer was not merely robbed but made to drink the very water he was doing his best to avoid. We are theiefoie pleased to note that in France at least the Prefect of Police has adopted ener getic measures to cheek this abuse. Orders have been given to visit all de pots of mineral waters, to seize hap hazard a specimen and analyze it on the spot. The tradesmen will also be cal led upon to exhibit their invoices to prove whence their stock is derived. N' t only are the stores of wholesale agents oi dealers to be thus inspected, but the re tailers, the case, restaurant and public house keepers will be subjected to an equally vigorous supervision, and all venders of such falsifications will be lia ble to prosecution.- London Lancet. “Sensibility would be a good portress TTshe had but. one hand ; with her rigid she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1882. Agriculture anil National Prosperity Never before perhaps In the history of the country has greater interest been taken in the growing crops than at the present time. The supply of cereals in the country is small, meat of all kinds 18 scarce and high, And Almost for the first time has there been a necessity for im porting potatoes, roots, and garderi vegetables-. The »oming harvest will find Aiiiple room in the now empty bins, cribs, warehouses, elevators, and cellars. It has been remarked that the world is ordinarily within less than a year of starvation, and that hunger Dari not wait. Wo aid nearer the realization of this startling statement than we have been for many years. We have more people to feed than we ever had before, and the number is constantly increasing. Ordinarily some articles of food are plentiful and cheap, but at prese’d ev erything is dear. Even corn meal, alt pork, potatoes, and cured fish are high. Persons can not live cheaply if they de sire to. Every article that will help support life in man fit the inferior ani mals Commands a good price. At pres ent every one takes an interest in the reports of condition of crops and is de sirous of obtaining the latest informa tion respecting them. There is Anxiety on every hand hl respect to the weather and the extent of the damage by storms and by the attacks of insects. Dealers ip other articles than grain and provi sions are deeply interested in the pro* duction of these articles. They arc careful to gain the fullest information possible about the prospect for crops in every section of the country before they sell large bills of goods on "credit. The Value of every day of sunshine is care fully estimated in a thousand counting rooms. The damage inflicted by a severe and long protracted storm is calculated in the same way. The worth of sun and heat is fully appreciated. A larger proportion of the inhabitants of this country are directly engaged in agriculture than can be found in almost any country in the world. In the great markets where the commerce of all nations center we exchange grain, meat, cotton, and tobacco for manufac tured articles. If we do not produce them in abundance we have nothing with which we can carry on foreign trade. Our tariff laws, designed to build up do mestic manufacturers to supply local consumption, have an injurious effect on the manufacture of articles for ex port. The prosperity of nearly all our manufactures depends on the produc tion of raw materials that can be work ed up. We make cotton cloth from lint produced from our own fields. Our ci cars arc manufactured from home-grown tobacco. The whisky, alcohol, glucose, and starch we make for home con sumption and export are produced from corn. A shortage in the corn crop re sults in the decline of the amount of ar ticles produced from it. We never im port corn, and it is difficult to find a substitute for it in the articles we are in the habit of manufacturing from it. The prosperity of our manufacturers depends indirectly, as well as directly, on the prosperity of our agriculture. A large proportion of our people depend on the crops they raise for the means to purchase manufactured goods of every kind. They must restrict their con sumption to their ability to buy and make payment with the product of their fields. If crops are small, only manufactured articles of necessity can be purchased by people living in the country. If they are large, they can indulge in ar ticles that conduce to comfort or minis ter to luxury. People in the country adapt themselves to their incomes bet ter than people who live in cities. They are more secluded, and on that account can get along better with poor furniture and articles of clothing. The prosperity of all our great trans portation companies depends on our ag ricultural prosperity. The largest pro portion of our freight cars are built for carrying grain, live stock, and dairy products. Many of our leading railroads* were constructed for the transportation of farm products. Several of them could not pay the ordinary running expenses if they relied on passenger traffic and the carrying of manufactured goods for support. When crops are good the trains run on them are many and long. When crops are poor the reverse in both particulars is true. What is true of railroad transportation is also true of steamboat and vessel transporta'ion. The latter, no less than*ihe former, were built for the most part for carrying farm products and farm supplies. As the country becomes older its prosperity depends more and more on agriculture. At one time a large portion of our people were en gaged in marketing the natural produc tions of the country. They killed wiliL animals and sent their skins to markejv They cut down forests that were up! planted by the hand of man. 'ls®v washed surface gold out of gulehesAjtnd became rich chiefly through the Oper ations of nature. Many livmUon the product of the chase, lhey teethe flesh of wild animals and birds, and sold the skins of the former. In many parts of the country civilized men produced the articles they ate and wore in the same way that savages did. The natural products of the country supplied many of the articles that in most parts oi the world are obtained only by conti iu ous and persistent toil. On this aoco trit many supported life by hunting and fishing. At present it is necessary to ( plant in order to reap,to breed and ! feed cattle in order to have moat, to till the ground in order to have crops. Timos are nrosperous or the reverse according to the production of cultivat ed crops.— Chicago Times. The Glories of the Starlit Heavens. If the eye oouid gain gradually in light-gathering power, until it attained something like the range of the great gauging telescopes of the Herschels, flow utterly would what wo seri now seem lost in the inconceivable glories thus gradually unfolded. Even the revela tions of the telescope, save as they ap peal to the mind’s eye, would tie as nothing to the splendid scene revealed, when within the spaces which now show black between the familiar stars of our :constellations) thousands of brilliant (orbs would be revealed. The liillky i luminosity of the Galaxy would be seen ■aglow with millions of suns, its richer ' portions blazing so resplendently that | no eye could bear to gaze long upon the 1 wondrous display. But with’ every in* I crease of power more and more niyi‘* . iads of stars would break into view, j until at last the scene would be unbear able in its splendor. The eye would seek for darkness aS for rest. The mind Would ask for a scene less oppressive in ■ the magnificence of its inner meaning j for even as seen, wonderful though the display would be, the glorious scene i would scarce express the millionth part l of its real nature, as recognized by a mind consciotts that each point of light was a sun like ours, each sun the cen ter of a scheme of worlds such as that globe on which we “live and move and have our being.” Who shall pretend to picture a scene so glorious? If the electric light could be applied to illumine fifty million lamps over the surface of a black domed vault, and those lamps were here gathered in rich clustering groups, there strewn more sparsely, after the way in which the stars are spread over the vault of heaven, something like the grandeur of the scene which we have imagined would be realized—but no human hands could ! every produce such an exhibition of celestial imagery. As for maps, it is obviously impossible by any maps which could be drawn, no matter what their scale or plan, to present anything even approaching to a correct picture of the heavenly host. There is no way even of showing their numerical wealth in a single picture. It is not till we have learned to look on all that the telescope reveals as in its turn nothing, compared with the real universe, that we have rightly learned the lessons which the heavens teach, so far, at least, as it lies within our feeble powers to study the awful teaching of the stars. The range of the puny in struments man can fashion Is Ho meas ure, we may be well assured, of the uni verse as it is. The domain of telescop ically visible space, compared with which the whole range of the visible universe of stars seems but a point, can be in turn but as a point compared with those infinite realms of star-strewn space which lie on every side of our universe, beyond the range—millions of times further than the extremest scope—of the instruments by which man has extended the powers of visions given to him by the Almighty. The finite—for after all, infinite though it seems to us, the region of space through which we can extend our survey Is but finite—can never bear any proportion to the infinite save that of infinite disproportion. All that we can see is as nothing compared with that which is; all we can know is as noth ing; though our knowledge “grow from more to more,” seemingly without limit. In fine, we may say (as our gradually widening vision shows us the nothing hess of wbat we have seen, of what we see, of what we can ever see), not, as Laplace said: "The Known is Little," but “The Known is Nothing;” not "The Unknown is Immense," but “The Unknown is Infinite.” Young Love’s Dream. They are young married people and have just gone to housekeeping, and the neighbors who assemble at their front !. windows to witness the harrowing sight ?of their parting for the day declare that the following is a verbatim account of their conversation: ’ “Good-bye, Charlie; now be careful th'street cars don’t runoff the track with you and kiss me, Charlie there was something I wanted to tell you let me see. Was it hair-pins? No, 1 got them w-h-a-t could it, have been?” !• I’m due al the office, pet,” says Charlie, bracing up and looking very handsome and manly; “was it some thing to eat?” “ Whv, of course it was: there isn’t a bit of mashed potato in the house, noi a mouthful of bread and butler. We want half a yard of beefsteak—see; and 1 have it cut bias so it will be tender— /and a loaf of sweet-bread, Charlie, and ■ a st raw berry short-cake, dear, and - i and anything else you think of, dear.” ! “But. my little wife,” says < harlie, j looking very wise, “these things must all be made before we can eat them.” “ Must they? oh, dear, and I never i learned to do fancy work! I never crocheted a biscuit fit to eat, and I I couldn’t paint a tomato to save my life. | Oh, ( harlie, go to the ready-made stores, I do. there’s a darling!” He diil; and they had a picturesque meal of lobster and strawberries with Laker’s rusk and lemonade, but Charlie . has written to his mother to oome at once ami make them a long visit, they I are so delightfully situated they can I make it pleasant fbrher now, he says.- 1 Detroit Post and Tribune. —A student of philosophy in Berlin has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for having stolen many as twenty hats and overcoats f om v ar- / ious restaurants and cales. How to Walk. It may seem at first ridiculous to pre tend to teach grown people how to walk as though they had not learned this in infancy. But we are willing to venture the assertion that not one person in fwDnty knows how to walk well. How few people there are who do not feel slightly embarrassed when obliged to walk across a large room in which are malty persons seated sp as to observe well each moveitient! How many pub lic speakers there are wlio appear well upon the platform so long as tlicfy re main standing still, or nearly so, but who bdcoiilC almost ridiculous as soon as they attempt to walk about. Good walkers are scarce. As we step along the street, we are often looking out for good walkers, and we find them very seldom. What is good walking? We answer, easy, graceful, natural walking. Nearly all the good walkers there are will be found among gentlemen, since fashion insists on so trammeling a Wom an that she cannot walk well, can scarce ly make a natural movement, in fact. To Walk naturally, requires the harmo nious action of nearly every muscle in the body. A good walker walks all over; not with a universal swing and swagger, as though each bone was a pendulum with its own separate hang ing, but easy, gracefully. Not only the muscles of the lower limbs, but those of the trunk, even of the neck, as well as those of the arms, are all called into ac tion as natural walking. A person who keeps his trunk and upper extremities rigid while walking, gives one the im pression of an automaton with pedal extremities set on hinges. Nothing could be more ungraceful than the minc ing, wriggling gait which the majority of young ladies exhibit in their walk. They are scarcely to be held responsi ble, however, since fashion requires them to dress themselves in such away as to make it impossible to walk other wise than awkwardly and unnaturally. We cannot attempt to describe the numerous varieties of unnatural gaits, and will leave the subject with a few suggestions about correct walking. 1. Hold the head erect, with the shoulders drawn back and the chin drawn in. Nothing looks more awkward and disagreeable than a person walking with the head th own back and the nose and chin elevated. 2. Step lightly and with elasticity— not with a teetering gait—setting the foot down squarely upon the walk and raising it sufficiently high to clear the walk in swinging it forward. A shuf fling gait denotes a shiftless character. But do not go to the other extreme, stepping along like a horse with “string halt.” A person with a firm, light, elastic gait, will walk much farther without weariness than one who shuf fles along. A kind of measured tread or rhythm in the walk also seems to add to the power of endurance, although, for persons who have long distances to travel, an occasional change in the time will be advantageous. 3. In walking, do not attempt to keep any part of the body rigid, but leave all free to adapt themselves to the varying circumstances which a constant change of position occasions. The arms natur a'ly swing gently, but not violently. The object of this is to maintain the balance of the body, as also by the gen tle swinging motion to aid in propell ing the body along. ('orrect walking should be cultivated, it ought to be taught along with arts and sciences. In our military schools it is taught; but these schools can be at tended by but few. Invalids, especial ly, should take great pains to learn to walk well, as by so doing they will gain more than double the amount of benefit they will otherwise derive from the ex ercise. — Hume Hand-Book. A Texas ( lend Burst. Some ten or twelve days since Cap tain Merril’s corps of engineers and assistants were camped in the valley of Buck Creek, in Childers County. Their tents were set one hundred feet from the dry bed of the creek. This creek was about twelve feet deep from the level of the valley on either side of the bank. The valley is nearly a mile wide, but the high lands curved in close to the place where the camp was pitched, ami the valley widened on the opposite bank. The night was clear, and no cloud in the distance betokened a rain fall. The boys staked their ponies near by. turned their mules loose, and laid them down to sleep in their tents. About midnight one of the boys felt wa ter at his feet. Springing up he saw the water coining, and, yelling like a savage giving his war whoop, roused his companions. In less than a minute they were standing in water up to their waists. Knowing to which side of them was the hill, they rushed wildly through the water, and succeeded in gaining a safe foot-hold. The water rushed by them, covering the entire valley to a dept of six feet and carrying away all the tents and baggage. The pony was saved by one o> the boys cutting the stake-rope as he passed him, he fortu nately having gone to bed with his pants on. 'Most of the boys were in their night clothes, and a solemn set they were. When daylight came they fol lowed down the stream to Red River, and gathered up some of their clothes and all Ihe valises but one. The missing valise had *t>s in Greenbacks in it. Ine sudden rise of water was mmmibted v caused bv what is known as a cloud burst” on the head —Clan crematory - Oi * 6 °’ OW ' ' ‘ in New 1 orK. wiv<> TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR. WIT AM) WISDOM. —Shallow men believe in luck: strong men believe in cause and effect —You can have what you like in this world, if you will but’ like what you have. —Said a fond husband to his wife: “My dear, I think I’ll buy you a little dog.” “Oh, no!’’ she replied, “do not! I prefer giving you all my affeo tions!”—Progress. —Here lies n man whoso earthly race is run- He raised the hammer of a fowling gun, ’ And blew into the muzzle just because He wished to know if it was loaded—and it was. —Somcrvta.e Journal. —Mr. Editor: Will you please answer who was “David’S wife’s mother?” and you will greatly oblige a reader.—Liz zie. Certainly, with pleasure. David’s wife’s mother was David’s mother-in law. — Philadelphia News. —An accordeon factory at Long Isl and, N. Y., was destroyed by fire a few days ago. The police are looking for the incendiary. It is supposed the peo ple want to present him with a valua ble testimonial.— Norristown Herald. —Gus De Smith called at a very fash ionable house on Austin avenue a few days ago and acted so queerly that when that lady’s husband came home, she said: “What is the matter with young De Smith? He acted so strange ly. 1 think there must be a screw loose about him somewhere.” “Reck on not. I saw him this morning, and he was tight all over.” —Texas Sijtings. —A store up-town has a sign which reads: “This is a tin-store.” An old inebriate staggered in recently, and aft er a good deal of fuinblingrin his pock et, put five cents on the counter. “What do you want?” asked the proprietor, indignantly. “Wa-wa-want a-a d-d-d --drink!” “This is not a liquor saloon!” said the proprietor, with awful empha sis. “Wha-wba-what!” said the drunk en man, astonished. “Why, Jo-Jo- Jones said I could get a horn here!”— N. K Tribune. —A good adviser says: “ Next to the love of her husband, nothing so crowns a woman’s life with honor as the devo tion of a son to her. We never knew a boy to turn out badly who began by fall ing in love with his mother. Any man may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl, and the man who is gallant to the girl may cruelly neglect the poor and weary wife in after years. But the big boy who is a lover of his mother at middle age is a true knight, who will love his wife in the sere-leaf autumn as he did in the daisied spring. There is nothing so beautifully chivalrous as the love of a big boy for liis mother. Boys, think of this.” _____ Port Said. Port Said, where the European Powers will probably land their troops if they resolve to protect the Suez Canal against posible destruction by the re bellious Egyptian army, twenty-three years ago was merely a narrow strip of sand which had been selected as the starting point of the great canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. M. De Lesseps then predicted that s<>™ day it would rival Alexandria. His prediction, it would seem, will be re alized within a short time. The city has grown and is growing with mar velous swiftness. It has.still the neat and prim Swiss look imparted to it at its birth by MM. Dussaud. It is still, according to one chronicler, “a city of dolls’ houses, with a church and a mosque and chalet-looking booths and cases that might have issued from a Nuremberg toy-boz But here the in nocence of Port Said stops. 1 nothing prim about it save its > war failt to c ture; being a hot-bed of vice unstemmed and uncontrolled Pm* it Egyptian Zaptich—a soit of £ , BtolIlw ;| 1 “ highway without the Court, where a day or nipwA.M«chi2,i> passes without some black or white, being openlytow,, the ‘Grande Rue.’ 1 ort ,*1 yo.fr pain kn sleeps. Attached to that uncd^ o expensive hostelry, the Hotel Bas, are a gambling-hell and a Kii.t.Kuior»w room, the orchestra of which is * 0 by German young ladies in, ftA NAii from Trieste. The arrival ot an •trooper' a «P. and 0.,’ ora ‘Messagenes from Saigon and Gallo is the. signal for a tuning up of tiddies and violincellos. But the fun waxes faster and more furious when an Australian drops her anchor in the basin. Then the young Trieste amazons rub their eyes and take to their fiddlesticks and receive the new comcrs with a sprightly waltz at what ever hour of the night or morning it may be, utterly regardless of the peace of mind or body of the unlucky wight who may be courting sleep on one of the hard beds of the Hotel aes Pays Bas. 1 ’ — London Warld. --Dr Claxton, says the Philadelphia Becord has found that rabbits soon die from an injection of human saliva, and that the saliva of some races, notably of noo-roes and residents of the tropics, exhibits an extreme degree of viru lence, a virulence that bears relation to the amount of tobacco used by the indi vidual. _____ Latest advices are to the effect that nothing has yet been hear( J kitten which two bad boys of loront ° tied by the tail to the tail of a kite and sent -tailing off into boundless space. Kitty dropped off when the' J*® 1 reached an altitude 'The country can ts s on) e W f.ero I A N exchange When . - dr > rim-