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VOL. V.-NO. 2.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Nashville has twenty-one hotels.
Tennessee has but nine daily papers
Saloon license costs $1,500 a year at
Meridian, Miss.
Pensacola will soon begin the con
struction of a street railway.
The new three-cents-per-mile railroad
law has gone into effect in Texas.
Fort Valley, Ga., will erect a beautb
fnl and costly Confederate monument.
Pike county, Ala., has a fourteen
year-old boy who weighs 385 pounds.
Arkansas is shipping immense quanti
ties of black walnut timber to England.
Last year Texas imported corn, but
this year will have 50,000,000 bushels
to se’d.
Mississippi has organized several live
•stock insurance companies—a new de
parture.
A million dollars worth of improve
ments are being added to Birmingham,
Alabama.
Five miles from Fort Smith, Ark., a
vein of coal five feet in thickness has
been struck.
Griffin, one es the most enterprising
Bittie cities in Georgia, is to have the
•electric light. '
The wooden plate at New
berne, N. C., turns out, 600,000 of the
plates each week.
Atlanta, which last year handled 120,-
oco be.les of cotton, expects to handle
160.,D00 bales this year.
One hundred and twenty-four varie
ties of cotton goods are turned out by
the Mississippi mills.
Athens, Ala., has a population of 8,-
000 and a valuation of sß,ooo,ooo—that
is, SI,OOO to every inhabitant.
The coal measures of the Warren,
Ala., coal field are 4,000 feet in thick
ness. The seams number forty-two as
fa? as developed.
Mrs. Butler, of Marion county, Ga.,
who has reached the age of 112 years
was baptised last Sunday as a member of
the Primitive Baptist church.
Pensacola parties have sent to Ger
many for 200 servant girls, to be held
under a years contract, with privilege,
to employers, of two years.
A shark was killed in Mobile bay a
few days ago which measured fifteen
feet from tip to tip, and of that variety
known to sailors as the tiger shark.
Columbus, Ga., has ten cotton and
woolen mills. Sixteen thousand nine
hundred and forty-eight bales of cotton
were used in manufacturing last year.
D. R. McCurry, of Floyd county, Ga.,
has succeeded in making a fine article of
syrup of watermelon juice. It is rich
and thick, and has‘the taste of honey.
Mattresses made of needles from South
Carolina pine houghs are said to cure
pulmonary and rheumatic ailments, and
an active trade in them has been estab
lished.
A $7,000 diamond was found recently >
in the bed of a creek near Danbury, N.
C. As it was in the rough and other
large ones have been found in the State,
the charge of salting will not hold.
Perhaps the best apology for Mormon
polygamy that has been made is by a
wit on a Pacific coast newspaper. He
says that at least the system does not
throw the burden of supporting a hus
band on one woman.
Louisiana’s salt mine, which is in
Iberia parish, covers an area of 140 acres
sod is a solid deposit of remarkable pur
ity and excellence. The rock is very
solid and is without fissure or seams.
Over 1,200 sacks is the present daily
output.
A weed far superior to oakum, has
been discovered in Putnam county,Flor
ida, which, after being put through a
process, proved the above assertion. A
stock company is being formed for the
purpose of utilizing it. The weed is
found in abundance.
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The oldest stove probably in the
United States is the one that Warms the
hall of Virginia’s capital in Richmond.
It was made in England and sent to
Richmond in 1770, and warmed the
House of Burgesses for sixty years be
fore it was removed to its present loca
cation, where it has remained for thirty
years.
“Is the Turkish civil service system,”
asked a traveler in the orient of a pasha,
“like ours ? Are there retiring allow
ances and pensions, for instance?” “My
illustrious friend and joy of my liver,”
replied the pasha, “Allah is great, and
the pub. func. who stands in need of a
retiring allowance when his term of of
fice expires is an ass! I have spoken.”
The Hebrew Aid Society, of New
York, is sending back to Russia the
pauper, diseased and infirm Jews sent
over to this country by the London
committee. This is very sensible, as
the Hebrew Agl Society has enough to
do looking after the able bodied refugees
ano getting them work in this country.
A Jewish agricultural colony has been
established in Colorado, which is said to
be doing well.
What is said to be the largest flag
stone in America is soon to be laid in
front of the stoop of R. L. Stuart’s
house, at Fifth avenue and Sixty eighth
street, New York. The stone measures
26 feet 6 inches by 15 feet 6 inches, is 9
inches thick, and weighs nearly 60,000
pounds. It was cut in Sulivan county,
at the same quarry from which came
Mr. Vanderbilt’s great flagstone. It was
drawn by 18 horses to its destination.
Pittsburgh Telegraph : It is a mistake
to suppose that Maine passed the first
prohibitory liquor law in America. An
old act passed by the Trustees of Ogle
thorpe’s colony ‘ has been unearthed
which “enacted that the drink of rum
in Georgia be absolutely prohibited, and
that all which shall be brought there
shall be staved.” This historical record
has considerable interest in these days,
the act having been passed in 1733, or
forty-three years before the Declaration
of Independence was signed.
While the foundation or pillars for
the railroad bridge across Flint rive’ - , at
Montezuma, Ga., was being constructed,
one of the workmen placed a toad in the
crevice of a rock and fitted another rock
over the crevice, and then made the
abode of the toad air tight by means of
morter. Sixteen years rolled by, when
it became necessary to repair the pillar,
which was done by the same workman
that placed the toad in the pillar when
it was first built. He remembered the
circumstance, and, upon examination,
found the toad still alive.
Mrs. Sykes on the Egyptian war : “Is
it not strange to reflect upon, that all
these mighty engines of war, these splen
did armaments, these wonderful equip
ments, this pomp and circumstance, are
directed upon a distracted enemy by the
mere penstrokes of two gentle old-lady
ish persons—the Queen, to wit, and Mr.
Gladstone? lam sure the Queen-moth
er would not personally harm a dove,
and as for the people’s William, no
doubt Uncle Toby, who freed a captive
fly, was a bloodthirsty creature beside
him. Yet by the irony 'of fate it is
these two who are thrown into positions
which force them to be the arbiters of
war and death, of cannonading, famine,
bodily anguish and every manner of
mortal suffering!”
Rhode Island is the State that has the
largest population in proportion to its
area, the extreme smallness of the latter
giving it an exceptional density of hab
itation. This State, with its 255 per
sons to the square mile, being excepted.
Massachusetts then becomes very re
markable with its 222 to the square
mile. No other is near it; but New
Jersey is next conspicuous with its 152,
and Connecticut with 129. New York’s
cities bring her fifth on the list, with
108 persons, in spite of her great extent.
Five States only have a population be*
tween 100 and 50 to the square mile,
these being Pennsylvania and Maryland,
with about 95 each ; Ohio with 78, In
diana and Illinois with 55. At the oth
er end of the scale of States is Oregon,
with not quite two to the square mile,
while even California and Nebraska
have not quite 6. The territories are
all, of course, very thinly peopled in
proportion to their areas, except the
District of Columbia, if indeed this can
ibe classified among them. The District
! naturally is far more densely populated
I than any of the States, having 2,960 to
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26. 1882.
the square mile ; but obviously it is to
be compared in this respect rather with
cities or counties containing cities.
These various densities are based on the
census of 1880; in all cases they are
now greater, as the populations have
since then increased, while the areas
have remained the same.
Valuables by Mail,
The sending of a registered package
containing bonds valued at $1,000,000
from Baltimore for transmission to Eu
rope, which has been a subject of com
ment in the Baltimore newspapers, is
not regarded by the postal authorities
here as a transaction of unusual magni
tude. The post-office officials are '’in
clined to be reticent as to the value of
the money packages received and de
livered through the registry depart
ment, and, in fact, the amounts are only
known when <he packages become
broken and have to be repacked and
sealed. Bonds sent between this coun
try and Europe are now transmitted
almost entirely by mail, because that
method is the cheapest and quickest.
There is no delay of packages for ex
amination at the custom house, and the
cost is only 10 cents on each package,
besides the .postage. The bonds are
insured by the marine insurance compa
nies in the same way as other merchan
dise, and the Government is not legally
responsible for their safe delivery. If
the value of the package is declared, the
post-office authorities may refuse to take
the risk of delivery. The transmission
of property worth several hundred thous
and dollars is thus secured at the cost of
a few dollars. The sending of gold by
mail is also very common, especially be
tween San Francisco and this city. The
gold sent by the Government from Cali
fornia is packed in heavy iron safes and
is delivered under the usual Govern
ment frank. The safes are taken from
the post-office to the Sub-Treasury, and
the contents carefully counted, the seals
not being touched from the time of de
parture to that of arrival. Gold sent
by private persons is packed for mailing
in bags, SI,OOO being sent in each bag.
The Nevada Bank receives the largest
part of the gold thus sent from Cali
fornia. The value of the gold sent
through the mails is often many millions
of dollars in a year, and that of the
bonds is larger. It is said that when
the bonds of the Erie railway were be
ing sent to this country for a special
purpose, there were securities valued at
$80,000,000 within the walls of the post
office at one time.
Great precautions are taken by the
fjost-oftice authorities to guard against
oss of the valuable matter committed
to their charge. In the Registry De
partment, as far as possible, every
transaction is witnessed by two clerks,
and no article is at any time out of the
charge of some person responsible for
its safety. Receipts are given for the
delivery of each package by one clerk
to another. If any package falls open,
the fact has to be at once reported to
the superintendent, who sees that its
contents are safe, and that it is securely
refastened. When the registered let
ters and packages are distributed for
mailing they are put into canvas bags,
which are different from those used for
common mails, and are fastened with
padlocks of peculiar construction. The
padlocks are numbered on one side, and
have an opening through which can be
seen a rotating number which changes
every time the lock is opened. The
number of the padlock and rotary num
ber are registered at each place, and
the lock can not be disturbed between
the stations without the fact appearing
in a change of the number.
Beside valuable articles there are also
sent by registered mail some that are
remarkable in other ways. A firm in
one of the Northwestern Territories has
a habit of sending registered otter skins
to the city, and their odor is a fruitful
source of complaint among the clerks.
The same fault is found with packages
of compressed mushrooms that are sent
to this country from Italy. Two trade
dollars were sent the other day by an
economical person, who did not seal
them in envelopes, but tied around them
a piece of paper containing the address,
so that the coins might go as fourth
class matter. Occasionally a bag of
mail matter on being opened will dis
play loose coins and paper money from
packages carelessly fastened. The
letters that are sent with the packages
usually contain enough particulars to
enable the clerks to replace the right
amounts. —N. F. Tribute.
—A Dakota girl has earned her right
to the endearing title of “duck.”
While crossing the river near Valley
City her canoe Upset. She tied the ca
noe to her ankle and swam ashore.
Another young woman of the same Ter
ritory has advertised for a husband as
follows: “I mean business. If there
is any young man in this county that has
as much sand in him as a pound of plug
tobacco I want to hear from him. I have
a free claim and homestead, am a good
cook and not airaid to work, and willing
to do my part. If any man with a liko
amount of land, and decent face and car
cass, wants a good wife, I can till the bill.
—There are but few places in the
United States where water is more valu
able than petroleum. Garfield, the new
Pennsylvania oil town, is perhaps the
only such locality. There is no water,
and the supply for human existence has
to be brought from a spring some dis
tance from town. It. costs sixty cents a
barrel, while oil is only worth fifty-six,
and the water venders wilt not give a
barrel of water for a barrel oi oil.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Illinois farmers are feeding theii
hogs rye, as being cheaper than corn anc
more fattening.
It keeps the postal authorities busy in
England watching for dynamite in mail
matter from America.
Montgomery, Alabama, has quaran
tined against Pensacola, Florida, where
yellow fever is reported.
The census of 1880 will make thirty
volumes of 18,000 pages. They will be
quartos, the size of the Congressional
liecord.
Arabi, whose name is just now on
every lip, is pronounced A-ra-bi, the
accent on the second syllable with the
long sound of “a.”
The Jesuits of Quebec are again agi
tating for the restoration to them of all
their property confiscated during Henry
the Fourth’s reign.
Attention is called to the fact'that the
latest official returns show that the ratio
of the insane to the sane has doubled
during the last ten years.
Oscar Wilde is still in this country.
He is at Saratoga. (It is just possible
that we owe our readers an apology for
permitting this paragraph to be printed.)
It may yet be a question whether
England will have to whip Egypt, De-
Lesseps or Turkey. DeLesseps, how
ever, thinks he is one size larger than
Egypt.
Curious tourists are not flocking to
Egypt in as great numbers just now as
they did in former times. The strange
scenes of that country have lost their
charm.
Cadet Whittaker has dropped from
the public gaze. He has given up lec
turing and returned to his South Caro
lina home where he will earn a living at
hard work.
The Baltimore American cites two
classes of professional tramps: One is
the wealthy idler who will not toil; the
other is the impecunious idler who will
not toil. This is a distinction without a
difference.
The postal authorities of the United
States have asked the British officials
for an explanation of their action in in
terdicting the delivery of American mail
matter suspected of containing seditious
articles as information.
August 13 Professor Vennor wrote to
the Boston Post: “No more hot wave,
and the straw hat season is over.”
Straw hats will be worn, however, until
enough money can be scraped together
to purchase another sort. -
Cincinnati is making extensive prep
arations for the forthcoming Exposition,
which occurs September 6th to October
7th inclusive. The industrial parade on
the opening day is expected to be the
largest ever witnessed in the West.
An old landlord says that not more
than half of the summer hotels will es
cape loss this season, nor more than one
in five yield a profit. Persons who have
been subjected to extortion at these fash
onable hostelries may extract some com
fort from this statement.
The approaching school days leads
us to remark the fact that now-a-days all
school books are pretty good, and, as
far as merit is concerned, very much
alike. The pressure of competition
makes it so. And changes of text-books
should be made very’rarely.
The Treasury Department has decid
ed that Custom officers may detain re
prints of American copyrighted books,
and notify the owners of the copyrights,
to the end that the latter may take such
measures for the forfeiture of the books
as circumstances may warrant.
The Washington female kickers,
inown as the Female Society for the
Prevention of Unsympathetic Congress
men, have arranged what they call a
olack-list, it being their purpose to de
defeat the future political aspirations of
those whose names are upon it.
Corea, the country now attracting
some attention owing to the revolt of
bet people, is a mountainous peninsula
lying between the Yellow and Japanese
seas. It is a kingdom, whose sovereign
Is nominally a vassal of China. It con
tains about 80,000 square miles, or a lit
tle more than twice the area of Ohio.
The result of a Southern duel, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch, depends a great
leal upon the locality, it would appear.
In Virginia, as a general thing, the com
batants return from the field of honor to
» wine supper. That (isn’t the way in
Kentucky. There both men
return full of buckshot, and with no 1
petite to speak oi, _
The first sentence under the new
whipping-post law in Maryland was pro
nounced on a negro wife-beater the
ether day, the sentence being that the
effender receive thirty lashes. “Fore
de Lord, Judge,” pleaded the criminal,
“give me seven years in jail.” A mo
tion for a new trial, which was made,
will stay the execution of the sentence
for several days.
In approving of the course of the Khe
dive. the London Truth says his wife
should have the credit of being the in
stigator. The Khedive married a grand
daughter of Abbas Pasha. She is beau
tiful and strong minded, and Tewfik is
entirely under her influence. This mod
ern Cleopatra is very rich, and when
money has been wanted to bribe the
Turks, she has, greatly to her dislike,
been obliged to provide it.
In Toronto, Canada, the street cars
do not run on Sunday, the bootblack
boys are not on duty, and all the tele
graph offices are closed except the cen
tral one, where one man remains all day
to attend to important messages. The
cab stands are deserted, and anybody
who wants a vehicle and team must go
to a livery stable. The drug stores are
open at certain hours, and that only for
the sale of medicines. The liquor shops
close at 7 on Saturday evening, and re
main closed till 5 on Monday morning.
In an article on the death of Senator
Hilf, of Georgia, the Cincinnati Commer
cial (Republican) says :
His character is too widely understood
to require a word of comment. His abili
ties shine forth like stars from the night
of contemporary mediocrity. Perhaps no
man of his time could both speak and
write the English language with such
force and elegance as belonged to his
tongue and pen. More especially was he
a thorough orator. The worthy successor of
Webster, of Clay, and of Calhoun, his un
timely death is not his loss—a Nation’s.
Above all, his loss will be most severely
felt by the Southern people, who recog
nized in him a fearless, unyielding pat
riot and statesman.
Corea, whose King and Queen have
been assassinated because they effected
a treaty of commerce with the United
States and England, regards the world
at large as barbarians and want nothing
to do with it. Confucianism mixed with
local superstition is their religion. Tor
ture is inflicted as a part of their judicial
proceedings. Sometimes a prisoner’s
bones are bent or pulled out of joint;
sometimes his calves are beaten into
rags by blows from a heavy plank ; his
thighs may be sawed by a heavy cord,
or he may be hung up by the arms until
he faints or dies. The final step is to
cut off the victim’s head.
A large, new clock has been con
structed for the United States Signal
Service in Washington, D. C. The case
is made of brass, of sufficient height to
allow the swing of the pendulum one
moter in length, which weighs about
three hundred pounds. The case is
made air tight, so that the air can be
exhausted from it and the clock move
ment runs in. a vacuum, in order that
the variation caused by atmospheric
changes will be slightly felt. A very in
genious attachment lias been affixed to
the movement, whereby the clock winds
itself as it runs, so as to overcome the
difficulty which might arise from the
difference in the power of the spring
when fully wound and when partly
spent. The way this is accomplished is
by alternately breaking and closing an
electric circuit, and using the motion
thus obtained, and the power of the
electricity in rewinding the spring by
means of a worm end and other mechan
ism, which is so graduated as to motion
that the winding keeps exact pace with
the running.
Western Meanness.
“Donlt you go there!” he said as he
turned around on the passenger who
announced that he was going through
to Idaho. “They are the most selfish
set of people you ever saw.”
“ How?”-
“Well, take my case; I ran a wildcat
under a school-house and discovered a
silver mine, and yet they wouldn’t let
me do any blasting under there during
school-hours for fear of disturbing the
children. Had to work nights alto
gether, and they even charged me thirty
cents for breaking a window.”
“ Indeed!”
“And in another case where I staked
out a claim and three then jumped it,
the Governor refused to issue ammuni
tion or to let the Sheriff move; and do
you know what I had to do.' I had to
dig a canal from a river three miles
away and let the water in to dree tho
jumpers out, ami even then the Coronet
who sat on the bodies made me pay for
the coffins ami charged me sl2 for a
funeral sermon only seven minutes
long! Don’t g*> beyond Colorado .V°’ 1 /
want to be used well! 14 allured
fortifteen evuturies.
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR,
FACTS AND FIGURES.
—The capacity of the ice-houieg
along the Hudson River is more than
1,000,000 tons.
—The tonnage transported on all th*
railroads in the United States in 1881
amounted to 350,000,000 tons, which
Poor's Railroad Manual estimates, at
the too low average of SSO a ton, would
be worth $18,000,000,000.
—lt is estimated that the South has
this season paid to the North $55,000,-
000 for wheat, $50,000,000 for com,
$72,000,000 for meats, and about $25,-
000,000 for hay, butter, cheese, oats, ap
ples, potatoes, etc.— Chicago Times.
—lt is pretty well settled that a
healthy man who lives to be 70 years of
age, in his life eats 7,800 pounds of
meat, 72 barrels of flour, 1,500 pounds
of butter, 987 dozen eggs, 800 pounds
of cheese, 163 bushels of potatoes, and
1,700 pounds of lard.
—Since the first oil well was opened
in 1859 the product of the wells has added
$1,500,000,000 to the wealth of the
United States in the value of the crude
oil and its products. To-day the prod
uct of these wells lights the cathedrals
of Europe, the mosques of Asia, the pa
godas of Japan, and even the huts on
Africa’s sunny soil. Its exports are
over 1,000,000 gallons a day.'— Boston
Post.
—The great cattle range of Wyoming
under the military protection of Fort
McKinney is about 800 miles square.
In this area are now grazing 300,000
head of cattle, worth $27 per head,
amounting to $13,500,000, to which can
be added the value of the horses and
ranches of the cattle-men and the
farmers, and the stock of the grangers,
making at least $15,000,000 of property
under the protection of the post.—Jv.
Y. Herald.
—ln this country, with a population
of 50,000,000, there are 4,204,362 per
sons above the age of twenty-one years
who cannot write. Os this number
2,056,463 are whites, 1,747,900 negroes,
about 300,000 Indians and 100,000 Asi
atics. It is estimated that in almost
every State in the Union, and in the
country as a whole, the balance of po
litical power, so far as numbers are con
cerned, is or can be in the hands of the
illiterate voters. — N. Y. Sun.
—Arizona covers an area of 72,000,-
000 acres of land, four-tenths of which
is mineral-bearing. It is larger than
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Delaware combined Since 1849
there has been extracted from seven
States and Territories the sum of $2,-
100,000,000, for which California is
credited $1,148,307,731; Nevada, $469,-
125,943; Idaho, $71,543,901; Oregon
and Washington Territory, $48,637,251;
Utah, $55,848,831, and Arizona, $17,-
930,175.— Chicago Times.
“Assassination by Silence.”
“ Assassination by silence” is the
latest Gallicism. It was the verdict of
the medical men and of society in the
case of a Frenchwoman recently de-
I ceased; and a coroner’s jury would.
• probably have rendered the same ver
dict if the case had not been kept from
the coroner. Noble by birth, she was,
and very rich; but she was hopelessly
plain, ugly of feature and hump-backed.
Her husband, a Duke, married her for
her money and hated her for her ugli
ness. A fortnight after her wedding
her martyrdom began, but not as other
conjugal martyrdoms have done. The
Duke lavished attentions on her— in.
public; he was affectionate —before the
servants; it was “darling” anfiii*-*’
loved,” and “my iittle cat”—
one was present; but in
and only one old nurse was AW<
cret. He pretended to b
her, and so played the .
had the hinges of all the,* yj c *
fuily oiled that they cu_ —SE-
w ithout a creak, the
trained to move aboutn ’
were set in the vast garoUrgeOUf
tel so that never the chir
row was heard. The poo, jete ly
forced to live in the midst
when they went together X
scowled so fearfully at every
approached his wife to speak tohertbSt
little by little people ceased to make the
effort. And then after they had re
turned, and she had gone to bed, he
would enter with list shoes on his feet,
so as not to announce his coming, and
would simulate a scene of jealousy.
That is to say, he would pace up and.
down like one in a fury who is about to
burst into reproaches; words of anger*
would seem on the point of issuing from
his mouth; then he would stop by the
bedside and raise his hand in threat; but;
he never struck, he never spoke, and,
resuming his walk, would go through
the same scene over and over again,
until, overcome by fatigue and horror,
the Duchess swooned. Every night sots
ten years his victim watched for menaces
which he seemed about to proffer, but
to which he never gave vent. The doc
tors were summoned at last; but th<j
utmost they could say was that they
were in the presence of some horribly
mystery which could not be fathomed
without killing the husband. And whea
the poor woman died and the old nursa
told her story they rendered the verdict
above recorded. — Detroit Free Press. ■
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