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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. The South does not grow enough pro deßpite the ad " fcbtt&and puts << at direction. So far drawn on the North alue ..f 000 .ai, .000. o<IO. ,l " H ' 1 K 1 ;l *' II ■ . ■' ' U ill Hl.- 1.:,;..- 3l)c Dcillon gratis. lets, which will each make a distinct plant. 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. ■ r ! Jones is a timid man. He lives out of ' j n. F' / rni/ronil. P”* * to