Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

VOL. IV.-NO. 52. NEWS GLEANIIOS, ■ Gull eggs sell at fifteen cents a dozen ■t Tampa, Fla. I Atlanta, Ga., capitalists talk of start ■g a large shoe factory. I Georgia has turned the tables, and is ■lippingoats to the West. ■ The hemp crop in the blue grass region ■ Kentucky will be short. I Texas has nearly $1,000,000 cash bal ■nce in the State Treasury. I A cotton seed oil mill has been con tacted for in Greenville, Ala. ■ The cotton crop of Florida will be ■out the same as that of last year. ■ New corn is being contracted for at t enly-five cents a bushel in Texas. | From Key Largo, Fla., 360,000 pine tples have been shipped this season. ■ The fine quarries of marble in Pick ets county, Ga., are to be developed. ■ Americus, Ga., according to recent trveys, is just 320 feet above sea level. ■ Rich deposits of phosphate rock have ten discovered in Chatham county, Ga. ■ Preserving figs is an important indus ty at St. Augustine and Jacksonville, ■la. ■An Atlanta druggist says there are ■OOO confirmed opium-eaters in that ■y. ■North Carolina now leads the South er i States in the number of her cotton ■lls. ■ St. Augustine, Fla., is manufacturing Hd shipping large quantitses of orange line. ■Virginia has 681 prisoners in the pen ilntiary and 291 hired out on railroad w»rk. ■ ■Three hundred Swedish families will Mttle along the line of the Florida Cen tr; * Railroad. HA Jewish synagogue, fashioned afte r an ancient Palistine palace, is to be in Athens, Ga. ■A large factory will be erected near Norfolk, Va., tor the preservation of jßmber by the creosote process. ■For the first time in the history of ■flerson county, Ga., no intoxicating can be purchased within its bor* s - ■n the past ten years Georgia has in -’d the number of her farms ninety eqll't per cent., and now has a total of 10,626. ■Trs. Wm. Beardintr, who died recently >». ‘erry county, Ala., was 107 years o|. Her husband, who survives her, >« (| 9 years old. ■'ho great iron viaduct for the track iHthe ’Frisco railway south of the Bos mountain tune], in Arkansas, is 321 felt high and 890 feet long. ■*f the 1,231 convicts in the Georgia women are among the number,' and but one of them is white. ■ b I nited States troops stationed at are to be moved to Mount Ver ■V, Ala., and the Tampa post will be abandoned altogether. ■ ' n <'e the spring of 1880 Memphis has eight and a half miles of streets rut down forty miles of sewers and miles of subsoil pipes. The cost $500,000. ■'Hannah parties are endeavoring to H>6lish a semi-monthly line of steam eibetween that place and London, Fmg- for the purpose of bringing immi- to this country. Vbu .. parties in the South are now rimenting in the manufacture of B' ir front watermelons. A bright, ■ s -' ru P made to the proportion of to eleven gallons of juice. B' he editor of the Key West (Fla.) noerat, Gen. Songer, is twenty year- F " e 'gbs thirty-five pounds, and is forty inches high. He was born in '*" m ingo and was raised in Florida. ,y ■ ’ icst g f it for the manufacture of tones to be found in the world is ( rr 'ed in Moore county, N. C. It is t«H ,Ulral Co ™P° siti o n of flint rock am which sharpens rather than S ■ '.se. 1 •<i•• •u t on,* t holl -am I a. i - .BB‘ ' | ICMfc l|r H aar imi'i K. * "'aY' aMBBBBMBhh Che Brtlton Stains. ry, $120,000, and an iron company, $250,- 000. There are besides, two founderies doidg a business of SIOO,OOO, and six flouring mills, all doing well. Peter Griffin, colored, lives near Au gusta, Ga , and owns a farm of over 300 acres, all of which is under cultivation* He has 100 acres in corn, and will make fifty bales of cotton this year. He has twenty acres in oats, and raises on his place everything that he needs. There are six plows under his direction, and he has a home that is fitted up with every convenience and comfort. East Tennessee letter: Ancient mum mies are found in East Tennessee caves, with sandals petrified to their feet. Tim ber in our forests disclose wounds in dieted near the heart, with sharp-edged tools, long before Columbus quit wear ing petticoats. Triangle-shaped coins, of unknown alloy, of the date of 1215, are plowed up in our fields. Fossil re mains of animals, long since extinct, are found petrified on nui hillsides Dried brick, prepared of clay and cut straw, are unearthed many feet below the sur face of the earth, where they are sup posed to have remained for many centu ries. Bread Baking in London. A London bakehouse is almost invari ably situated in a cellar. Generally it is a cellar that might do well enough for the receptioh of lumber, but is utterly unfit for any other purpose, and, of all purposes to which it might possibly be put, for the manufacture of bread. The writer spent a night in such a place a short time ago. The walls were bulging, cobwebby and old; the ovens were un der the pavement of the street; the refuse of the bakehouse was deposited near the ovens; the four or five com partments into which the cellar was divided were small and close, and when the gas was lighted at midnight cock roaches were swarming over walls and ceilings, chasing each other about the sacks of flour,and holding assemblies in the bins. This, however, was rather a superior bakehouse. The dirty and dismal caverns in which most of our bread is made are inaccessible. If the baker does not regard cleanliness as a moral obligation, he is, at any rate, fully aware that the cellars in which he practices his mystery are not quite such show places as they ought to be. The circu instance that they are underground, and that the ovens are so placed as to draw tiie air which feeds them —often from the close proximity of the drains— over the troughs in which the dough is kneaded, is in itself sufficiently appall ing. Bread readily absorbs the air that surrounds it, and ought never to be made or to be kept in confined places. In London, however, it is habitually made in dens so confined and nauseous that the baker’s trade is one of the most unhealthy in existence. The condition of the bakehouses is one of the least evils connected with the existing system of bread-making. Bread is made now after much the same fashion as was in vogue, probably, in the Cities of the Plain. The baker still uses his naked arms in the process of kneading. The “sponge” is laid in long wooden troughs. Over these the jour neyman baker, often working in a tem perature of ninety degrees, bends for half an hour or so while he kneads the dough. Os course he perspires. His occupation is as laborious almost as that of the blacksmith, and produces similar outward effects. However much he may be disposed to cleanliness, he can not pursue his occupation except under conditions that to any one not accus tomed to the process are sickening to behold. After belaboring the dough much as a housewife belabors a feather bed, he “rubs his arms out” —that is, he clears them of rhe paste with which they are encrusted by dipping his hands in dry Hour and rubbing them down his arms. The dough comes off in little rolls, which are returned to the trough ane kneaded in with the bread. This is not the case only in bakehouses which are doing a “cutting” business. Lt is the process common in all bakehouses. The (lough which adheres to the arms, saturated as it must be with impurity, would otherwise be so much waste, and in a bakehouse nothing is wasted. Such things are not pleasant to dwell upon but bread is the chief food of the people, and it is as well that we should know how it is manufactured. Before being made up into loaves and put in the oven it goes through a tiresome amount of handling. After being kneaded in the troughs it is pulled out in pieces and rolled vigorously on a bench. Now and then a knife is taken up and the bench is scraped, and the scrapings are returned to the trough. The old proverb about eating a peck of dirt has a more literal application than is generally supposed. We take agreat deal of our allowance in our bread. It is a remarkable fact that there is more popula r ignorance on the subject of food than on anything else which is necessa ry to our daily life. In nothing, more over, do we take so much on trust as in the article of bread. If, by some acci dent, the public could watch our bakers at work for a few hours there would be a general and immediate resort to home made bread.— Mall Gazette. Venice is the richest city in Italy—it is almost free from debt. And with all •>> canals, too 1 The Venetian Alder- K —nd State legislators are fearfully & \ the age.—PwcA. ■Mi i DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Yellow fever is creating considerable excitement in portions of Texas. George William Curtis’is fighting the administration without gloves. Southern New Jersey and the Dela ware Peninsula are suffering from drought. The Creek Indians are on the -war path. This time they are fighting among themselves. The hop crop is 25 per cent, short this year as compared with last. In this ease the pressure is on the brewer. The nomination and election for a third term of Governor St. John, of Kansas, is said to be assured. It is proposed to build an under ground railroad in Paris. The cost of its construction is put at $30,000,000. “ The President now drives out with a four-in-hand.” While this might mean almost anything, we presume it means four horses. The London Times expresses the opinion that the Sultan will send his troops to Egypt expressly to thwart the purposes of England. Cbop reports from England say that wheat will not nearly amount to a fair average crop ; barley rather less than an average crop ; oats good. Six thousand acres of walnut trees have been planted in Kansas. They propose that future generations shall have all the walnuts they want to eat. In is stated, as common rumor, that although the President vetoed the River and Harbor bill, he secretly worked, through his friends, for its passage over his veto. There arc symptoms that the fight in Egypt will not he confined exclusively to the English and Moslems. The pro portions of a general war are indicated by late dispatches. There is a class of people who, on their arrival at a seaside resort, register their names at a first-rate hotel, the fact is announced in the newspaper, and then they go to a cheap cottage. An actress in a London theater is a sixteen-year-old Bohemian girl, eight feet two inches high, and still growing. She believes the time has come for women to occupy a higher level. The Cincinnati Commercial argues that a drunk honest man is preferable to a sober thief. That is owing somewhat to the size of the drunk as well as the size of the steal. Let us have the .’spec ifications, . » ♦ ■• Wheat and corn, at some points, bring the same per bushel, a state of com merce that doesnot of ten. occur. The abundant crop of wheat is now on the market, whereas, corn will be scarce for some time yet. As a rule, New York merchants were loud in their praise of the President’s act of vetoing the River and Harbor bill. The improvement of Western channels is a matter of little interest to Eastern merchants. Tennessee has nine daily papers, of which four are for Bates, the repudiat ing Democratic candidate for Governor ; four for Fussell, the State credit Demo cratic candidate, and only one for Haw kins, the Republican nominee. The Arkansas Traveller gives the fol lowing bit of good sanitary advice: It’s ebery nigger’s duty ter be baptised. Even if he ain’t got the faith, dq water’ll do him good. 'This same advice will apply to white men. - —— Simon Rkicuard, his wife, two sons, and two daughters, of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, weigh together 1,522 pounds, and claim to be the heaviest family of six in Pennsylvania. Their several separate weights are represented to be 245, 235, 220, 222, 200, and 400 pounds. The Supreme Court of lowa rules that a police officer is guilty of manslaughter if he strikes a prisoner a fatal blow with a club to defeat an attempt to escape, unless the officer Jias reason to believe that he is in danger of great bodily harm or loss of life. —♦ — Brooklyn shows a total church mem bership of 269,462, agsinst 138,705 in 1862, of which there are Catholics 200,- 000, 110,000 in 1862. The greatest per centage has, however, been for the Uni versalists, next the Baptists, then the Congregationalista. H. T. White, who is the author of the Chicago Tribune's humorous novelettes, which have captured more than national notice, is a graduate of a theological seminary, and was at one time sporting reporter. lie is grave and calm in his speech, and is rather bashful. England sensibly objects to the land ing of Turkish soldiers in Egypt with out first knowing who they are going to fight for when they get there. She demands that the Porte denounce Arabi Bey a rebel. It will give a clearer un- j derstanding of what the Sultan proposes to do in a crisis. A scandal prevails at Loveland, Ohio, concerning the boy evangelist Harrison. The Camp-meeting Association erected a cottage at a cost of $175, furnished it in elegant style, and set it aside for Harrison’s exclusive occupancy, or use. When the camp-meeting closed, the other day, Mr. Harrison offered to dis- | pose of the cottage, furniture and grounds, all in a lump, for S2OO. He was notified by several members of the Association that it was not his to dis pose of, but on his vacating it, reverted to the Association. Mr. Harrison was non-plussed, and went away dissatisfied, and now there is considerable talk and scandal about the matter. The ladies all think Mr. Harrison ought to have the cottage, but not so with the hard hearted men. What Arabi’s rebellion is already cost ing Egypt may be judged from the Alexandria dispatch to the Manchester Examiner. Her cotton crop averages two hundred millions of pounds an nually, and that is altogether lost for this year. Her exportation of wheat ought to be about twenty-five millions of pounds, but there will be not enough garnered in this season for the support of the native population. England has recently been paying her ten millions of dollars annually for cotton seed that is compressed into oil cake, and now that item of revenue is sacrificed. The Lon don Shipping and Merchant Gazette de clares that it is almost impossible to compute the monetary disaster to Egypt. The deficiency in the cotton and wheat deliveries to England must, however, be supplied by American ex portation, and if the war is inevitable, our shippers may conscientiously con sent to make all the money they can out of it. Burns. Extensive burns are apt to be fatal, even when death does not iollow from the shock caused by the accident. Why they are fatal has been a cause of sur prise in cases where no internal organ has been harmed. Recent examinations of persons who have died from this cause have shown that the blood was thick and viscid. Much of the blood water (liquor sanguinis) had been drained from the blood, rendering it unfit for its functional purposes. The loss was undoubtedly due to rapid exu dation from the inflamed surfaces. To what an extent exudation place has been shown by the large drops of fluid that have been pressed from the burned skin of a rabbit. When the animal was placed in a hot room, the fur over the burned part remained moist, although it quickly dried when moistened on other parts of the body. In cholera there is a somewhat simi lar loss. but there are also great t hirst and shrinkage of the muscles, which is not the case in burns. It is, however, only the serum—blood-water without the fibrin—instead of the water of the blood-proper, which is drained oft. As this changes the density of the latter, the blood-vessels, according to a well known law, tend to draw a supply to meet the lack from the muscular tissues, causing their great shrinkage. In the case of burns, however, there is simply a diminution of the quantity of the blood-water, and no change in its density; hence no absorption from the muscular tissues takes place. Burns in which the scarf-skin is not destroyed do not so seriously atlect the system. The aim in the treatment of burns should be to arrest the exudation of the water on the surface. Soda not only removes the pain of burns, but it will save life even when the burns cover surface enough to cause death. Its re markable curative power probably lies In the fact that it renders the surface dry. Youth's Companion. . He Took the Cue. A Chinaman, clothed in the conven tional costume, sauntered into a Sixth Avenue cigar store yesterday, laid down i a ten cent piece on the counter, and held up two fingers. The mute demand was 1 readily complied with by the intel- I ligent tobacconist, who, with the utmost suavity, addressed his customer I in “pigeon English:” “ Livee ’round here, John?” i The Celestial gave his interrogator a curious look and replied in excellent English, with a faultless pronunciation: I “ Weil, not in this immediate vicini ty; I am temporarily sojouring with a friend on Fifth Avenue, but eventually expect to return to New Haven and prosecute my studies in the 'School of : Science. Good morning, sir.” _ i The cigar dealer had entertained a Yaie graduate unaware.- N. Y. Com mercial Advertiser. . . | CON..KKHSMBN have away of “(ffizing th' mails to their own prullta. Ihat frank- The Hydrogen Locomotive. The following is a description of the locomotive which recently ran upon the Jersey Central Railroad, the fuel being hydrogen gas, which was constantly re- ; produced by its own heat from water by md&ns of naphtha, as explained by the ; inventor: The new locomotive is fueled j with hydrogen gas, which is constantly I reproduced by its own heat from water , through the mediation of a small pro portion of crude naphtha. No oil is burned in this process in the ordinary or proper sense of combustion. It is used exclusively within retorts without air as a decomposing agent for steam. The present i. vv locomotive, commenced at the Grant Works in Paterson in the sum mer of 1881, was originally designed with considerable modifications sup posed to be favorable to the utilization of gaseous fuel. The boiler as then con- | structed was tried in October, 1881, and, | as the result, the more extensive and costly changes were rejected and the ' simple ordinary pattern of boiler, with | certain adaptations only in the fire-box ! and vent-pipe (no longer a “smoke- ■ stack, as there is no smoke), was sub stituted last winter. The gas-making retorts are four in number, of massive wrought-iron, semi-cylindrical or dome shaped, the size and shape being nearly that of half a peck measure with the convex side up. They are set on short iron posts in a row across the fire-box, near the floor and near the door. The interior of each retort is a single undi vided chamber, into which enters from the top an oil-pipe, extending to within one inch from the bottom, and also pipes from the steam-space and water ! space in the boiler, all opened and , closed by finely-fitted and gauged I valves. An outlet pipe also passes from the top of each retort to a “manifold” joint, in which these four pipes unite and so connect with a massive cast-iron gas “main” running centrally through the fire-box fore and | aft (length eight feet, diameter three inches), at level of about three inches below the bottom of the retorts. This main is divided into three sections by i cut-off valves, enabling the engineer to supply or withhold gas to any section of the burners at pleasure. From each side of the main horizontal branch pipes of one-inch caliber and three or four inches apart extend at right an gles across the fire-box, to the number of sixty-two. Each of these pipes (ex cept the extremes) is pierced on its upper side with two rows of minute burner holes, alternating in position and obliquely pitched in such a manner that the gas-jets from the right side of the i one pipe and those from the left or nearer side of the next pipe converge I and meet in pairs, each pair uniting at an angle of, say, forty-five degrees di rectlv over a one and one-fourth-inch air-hole in the iron floor of the fire box. The total number of jets thus placed is 548. The air-holes are opened and closed wholly or partly at will by under-slides controlled by levers from the engineer’s cab. Under the whole is constructed an air-chest, open forward, to secure a pressure of air into the air holes during rapid motion, and also to warm the draft and thus save the great ; heat radiated downward from the fire. The retorts of a locomotive in service will seldom be cooled; but for initiating the process in cold iron a small prim ing oil-pipe runs under the four re torts, touching each of them with six jets which are turned on and lighted tem porarily until the retorts are hot enough to vaporize oil in their interiors. —N.Y. Tinies. Rats on Ships. Rats greatly infest ships, and are by them conveyed to every part of the world. So industriously do they make homes for themselves in the numerous crannies and corners in the hull of a ship, that it is impossible to get rid of them. Ships take out rats as well as passengers and cargo, every voyage; whether the former remain in the ship at port is best known to themselves. When the East India Company had ships of their ow n they employed a rat catcher, who sometimes captured 500 rats in one ship just returned from Cal cutta. The ship rat is often the black species. Sometimes black and brown inhabit the same vessel, and unless they carry on perpetual hostilities, one party will keep in the head of the vessel and the other to the stern. The .ship rat is very anxious that his supply of fresh water shall not fail; he will come on deck when it rains, and climb up to the wet sails to suck them. Sometimes he mistakes a spirit cask for a water cask, and he gets drunk. A captain on an American ship is credited (or discred ited) with an ingenious bit of sharp practice as a means of clearing his ship from rats. Having discharged a cargo at a port in Holland, he found his ship in juxtaposition to another which had just taken in a cargo of Dutch cheese. He laid a plank at night from one vessel to the other; the rats, tempted by the odor, trooped along the plank and be gan the feast. He took care that the plank should not be there to serve them as a pathway back again, and so the cheese laden ship had a cruel addition to its outward cargo.—AT. Y. Scientific Times. —The living skeleton of a San Fran cisco side show went out for a walk on a railroad track. A locomotn c kn<>ekv<l him down , / nl - four j an<l continued us ;11l l the . inches between " ft>l . /,is / ( , ios /,«<! been bm ‘ d m dulses amt y. tiun. TERMS; SI.OO A YEAR. FOREIGN GOSSIP. —A man smashed every one of the large plate glass windows of the London office of the Dublin Freemen's Journal some nights ago because, as he said, they had no right to write about En glishmen. —Venice and Amsterdam are the cities of bridges. The first has 450, the last 300. London has 15, Vienna 20, and Berlin will soon have 50. Altogether the most beautiful and striking bridge in Europe is that over the Moldau at Prague. —lt is found that the mind of Under Secretary Burke’s sister, who lived with him, has given way. She has not shed a tear, and sits at the window, exclaim ing at every footfall, “He is coming.” It is impossible to divert her thoughts from him. —They pulled down a chimney at the Royal Mint, in Berlin, the other day, and it occurred to the architect that it might bo worth while to analyze the soot still adhering to the inner bricks. The result was that they found four pounds of pure gold, worth a thousand dollars. —Mr. Dijoud, who had previously been convicted eighteen time®, and spent thirty-five years in prison, lately set fire to Valence Cathedral, but, the fire being quickly discovered, only $7,000 of damage was done. He said he was tfred of prisons in France, and wished to end his days in New Caledo nia—twenty years’ penal servitude. —The recent solar eclipse calls to mind an incident of Francois Arago, who gained among his simple country neighbors an almost uncanny reputa tion by his accurate prediction of a total eclipse. Not long afterward he was a candidate for election to the National Assembly, and was elected by an al most unanimous vote of his constituents. The wealth and government influence of the rival candidate created no impres sion upon the voters. “No, no,” they cried; “we must vote for Arago, for, if we don’t, he may get mad and hurl an other eclipse at us!” —The newest fashion in Paris, that of wearing black underclothing, has be come the furor among the women of the highest aristocracy. The undergar ments, like those of the Eastern odal isques, are composed usually of silk, generally of what is called foulard des Indes. From head to foot the Parisian lady appears, when divested of the outer robe, as just emerging from an ink bath —the stockings of black silk, the slip pers of black velvet, the corsets of black satin, and adorned with black lace, and the petticoats of black surah, filled around the bottom with a stiff mousse of black illusion or net. —The following clause was found in the will of a Yorkshire rector: “Seeing that my daughter Anne has not availed herself of my advice touching the ob jectionable practice of going about with her arms bare up to the elbows, my will is that, should she continue at my death in this violation of the modesty of her sex, all the goods, chattels, money, lands, and all other things that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the eldest son of my sister Caroline. Should, any one take exception to this as being too severe, 1 answer that license in the dress of a woman is a mark of a depraved mind.” ________________ Killed the Wrong Heirs. An irascible sea-Captain settled down 1 to Portland life by the side of a well tempered man, and the two got along very well until the hen question came, up. Said Hie Captain: ft' “ I like you as a neighbor, but 1 dor«Ji like your hens, and if they trouble l?_| any more I’ll shoot them.” ’l h.e mild-mannered neighbor studtea over the matter some, but knowing Captain’s reputation well by report, he replied: ' “Well, if we can’t get along any' other way, shoot the hens, but I’ll take it as a favor if you will throw them when dead over into our yard and yell to my wife. “ All right,” said the Captain. The next day the Captain’s gun was heard, and a dead hen fell in the quiet man’s yard. The next day another hen .was thrown over, the next two, and the next after three. “Say,” said the quiet man, “ couldn't von scatter them along a lit tle? We really can’t dispose of the number you are killing.” n “ (live ’em to jfour poor relations, replied the Captain, gruffly. And the quiet man did. He kept his neighbors welt supplied with < mckens for some weeks. One dav '••c Captain said to the quiet man; . •* I have half a dozen nice hens I m going to give you if you’ll keep quiet about this affair.” “ How is that,” said the quiet man. “ Are you sorry because you killed my hens?’ . “ Your hens!” said the < aptain. “ Why, sir, those hens belonged to my wife! 1 didn’t know she had any until I fed you and your neighbors all sum mer out of her flock.” — Portland (Me.) Transcript. _ c —The Sherman (Toxas) Courier hum bly apologizes to the Governor as fol lows • “We doubly regret the error in- . to which we were led some the compositor, makingr» B du i Roberts that he H ’ ; ‘? ,! ~" r I fiblo I m (ar the greiitvt _