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VOL. V.-NO. 3. NEWS GLEANINGS. Florida has made an immense crop of corn. There arc between 1,500 and 1,800 blind persons in Tennessee. Richmond, Va., is shipping large quantities of grain to Italy. The Southern Presbyterian Church has 6,000 elders and 4,000 deacons. The prohibition law prevails in forty two counties in the State of Georgia. A Southern scientist has discovered that alcohol can be produced from acorns. George W. Swepson, with a property worth $2,000,000, is the richest man in North. Carolina. Richmond, Va., has a debt of $4,741,~ 707 65, on which she pays an annual in terest of $303,1.34 43. * The celebrated Dummett orange grove has, according to the Florida Dispatch, been sold for SIOO,OOO. The public library at Knoxville, Tenn, lias 1,500 new books, is out of debt, and has $2,000 in the treasury. A young Virginian has invented a ma chine which turns out 150 cigarettes per minute. It is on exhibition at Lynch burg. In 1833-34 the railroad from Charles ton, 8. C., to Augusta, Ga., 130 miles, was the longest railroad then in the world. The gum of the palmetto, which is found in abundance in Florida, makes as good if not better mucilage than gum arabic. It is calculated that the splendid grain crops of the South will save that section $100,000,000 hitherto diverted Northward. A mortal enemy of the cotton worm has turned Kp in Mississippi. It is a red dish looking spider, and attacks and kills large numbers of the worms. As early as 1/33 the sale and con sumption of whisky was prohibited in Georgia, then a colony under British rule. The act, however, was repealed in 1742. The Rugby colony in Tennessee, in stead of being on the wane, is said to be growing nicely. A large number of peo Pie from Michigan will cast, their luck with the colonists this fall. I b-' State Democratic ticket of Texas contains the name of but one native exan. Os the other nominees three are natives of Kentucky, one of Georgia one of South Carolina and one of Ten nessee. Ibe New Orleans Times-Democrat rom carefully gathered information, earn that the present condition of the «ce crop i n Louisiana is good and the Prospects for a large and good crop most favorable. Tbe locomotive “General,” which was he one that pulled the train that was s olen by the Mitchell raiders in 1861, is \V f . i' nUSe iW a frei £ht engine on the yrn and Atlantic road, and is in good condition. Jhe Process of articulating Guiteau’s is nearly completed at the Ar fui in M i ed ‘ cal mUßeum - rt doubt nl >f the bones will make a first-class Many were found to be po- US ’ re< l ulnn S care to mount. wlm hT rt ?” ey ’ Ga -> mals io’ 1 *” 6 * 1 hIS chi,dren after ani conse/iup '"V that tlle y will in arefom Xu ' Ve t 0 " ld agc ' There respectfi ii* < 7° <UKI tlley are namcd ’Possum. ‘ bt ’ C ’ Fox aild nahi' h ' 11le ’ 1,1 ' ts Craze for marital and the clirnTby < '° ,npani< ‘ S has ca PP ed Twin a • y or & auizin g “The Natal WhiC ” Wi " Pay ' T rM U ei„ B « CCPtili . "" '‘"‘"■■“y «» « pair of twin the "'I .land H "'“I "’l”' ' ’’ BCV<mt y* nln ® Democrat. wnsi,t, L°‘” "PP 0 ” 1 ' 0 ”- The latter GreenhnoV .. eiglt Ite P ubli cans, four e P end ent >"'»r3*X’J th . lhe mills show ' " and ’ Southern ‘hcirfaC a "ondcrful difference, in overd ° Carn ’ n 8 8 > but the thing is Prove to the'" '’ h" 1 to ° many mills will " ear Apalachicola, Fla., ft w w 7 , ’-r nilneilSe size was captured. ’'V " ieet > B ix inches long, CEljc 'Halton forty-two inches across the body, the saw forty-one inches long and seven across the center between the points of the teeth, weighing 500 pounds. Near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, an elm tree, said to be the large it in the United States, if not in the world, is growing. It is 105 feet in diameter and 329 feet in circumference from tip to tip of its branches. The size of the trunk and height of the tree are not given. J. H. Lester,-who lives near McDon ough, Ga., is 113 years old, having been born in Rockingham, N. C., December 7, 1769. He distinctly remembers the Revolutionary war, and when eleven years old was detailed with other boys to defend the women from the Tories. He served under Gen. Floyd during the war of 1812. A horrible condition of affairs has been developed in the “Saviour’s Home,” an institution in Little Rock, Ark., which is supposed to be a charitable one. From insufficient nourishment many of the child inmates have been starved nearly to death, and many of them will die. The institution is conducted by fanatics of the worst kind. About Roses. All roses flower more profusely if vig orously pruned. It is best to cut the old wood with an unsparing hand, for the handsomest blossoms will spring from fresh growth and young shoots from the roots will bear the largest cluster of buds. Hybrid perpetuals re quire to be pruned as soon as their first flowers have faded so as to produce a •rood display of buds and blossoms in September. They have no claims to the title “perpetual” as they never bloom but tw.ee in the -year and rarely that, unless they are highly fertilized and closely cut back when they have ceased to bloom in early summer. They are the most desirable of summer roses be cause they have so luxuriant a growth and possess the charms of brilliant col orings and fragrance. Great advance has been made during the past few years in their varieties, which are now' numbered by hundreds in the English and French floral catalogues, and our own florists <<-r them in large numbers and at very low prices. Ten cents will often buy a flourishing young plant which, in two or three years if properly treated, will become a large bush. “Gen. Jacquemont” is a perpetual whoso flowers are known to all lovers of ro es and are in much demand for winter bouquets. Among other desir able varieties are “Arma Slexieft,” “Beauty of Waltham,” “Boule de Nieze,” “Coupe d’Hibe,” “Edward Morreu,” “Jules Magottin,” “La- F rance,” “Mabel Morrison,” “Mme. Lacharme.” “Mme. Charles Wood,” “Mar c Baumann,” “Bnronnede Roths child,” and “Reynold’s Hole.” The la-t n entione I was named for the famous English rusarian who cultivates some of the finest roses in England and takes the prizes at all the rose exhibi tions in his vicinity, and it is a rose of remarkable beauty. None of this cla<s of roses require protection during the winter, but they will do better another year if they are covered about the roots with manure which can be dug into the ground early in the spring. Large bushes of roses should be lied up to stakes made cither of small pine-trees or of wood painted green. Watering with liquid manure will increase the beauty of roses at this season. That made from the horse stable or the hen roost will be more fertilizing than any other. Do not put it on too str mg, dse it will do more harm than good. It is a goo I plan to fill a half-barrel one quarter full with manure and add a pound of copperas to it to keep the worms awav; fill it up with waiter and put i on the [/hints twice a week, tak ing care not to touch the leaves. Make the water the color of weak coffee if ho: sc manure is used, the color of weak tea if hen manure is [/referred. — Sprmg field (Mass.) Republican. Only One Life. Too many farmers appear to be only skirmishing around during the. present life without any of the real enjoyments which this world offers to everyone who will gat her them. In the first place, if he does not marry a good wife (and there are a plenty of them running around loose) the fatal mistake is made which can never be remedied. If a man in tends to be a farmer, and through that channel of industry enjoy all of the comforts and pleasures of life, he should surround himself and family with as many of the conveniences of life as his means and industry can command. He should keep in mind that on his farm and with his family is the best place for contentment and happiness. And the best way to be happy is to make tils family happy and his home pleasant. Every hour needlessly spent away from the home of domestic happiness is just so much lost in the great sum of life's comforts. One life—one home—one wife —one aim—and one end to all of life’s struggles and hopes. Without happiness all work is a burthen, and life a failure. — lowa State Register. —The Imperial Gazette, a Chinese newspaper, has the reputation of hav ing been printed in consecutive series for fifteen centuries. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1883. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Edison is still obtaining patents at the rate of twenty-one a week, ■ Garibaldi, the Liberator, is to have a monument in Baltimore. The Treasury last week received 82 conscience money from Germany. Os the 1,518 cases of smallpox in Chicago last year 1,116 proved fatal. ——— > » ——— Retorts from Matamoras state that many persons sick of yellow fever die of fright. Postmasters in Texas have been ordered to fumigate the mails before forwarding. The Texas cattle Tever lias appeared at Auburn, New York, and street ped dling of beef has been stopped for six weeks. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge is to visit the United States this autumn. He is the peer of Gladstone in elo quence. Susan B. Anthony finds much en couragement for the woman suffrage movement, and urges the Suffragists to persevere. The Lady Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett hae arranged for the dispatch to Egypt of » small staff of nurses, with all nursing appliances, the moment their service® are needed. The Egyptian debt is £98,398,020, of which £72,000,000 is held in England. This and the commerce of Egypt and the road to India are what England is fighting for. The United States is not likely to be asked to send a delagate to the confer ence of the Suez Canal question, and the United States doesn’t care so very much about it, either. Having taken a solemn pledge not to drink at a public bar, a young man of Toronto has his favorite tipple brought out by the bartender, and drinks it standing on the sidewalk. Cetywayo has learned to eat with a knife and fork, and his favorite dish to begin breakfast with is a mess of por ridge and a bottle of whisky. The Zulu King is becoming rapidly civilized. The Philosophers of Concord, who were duped by a Western sharper, have several things to learn yet; among oth ers, that of not placing too much confi dence in a glib-tongued, prepossessing stranger. The Boston Transcript thinks it was not surprising that Rev. Mr. Miln had doubts of the existence of bell after liv ing a year or two in Chicago. He looked upon such belief as the rankest kind ■ tautology. e »■ 1 ■ Oscar Wilde has announced his in tention to visit Japan. Every heart will bound with joy at this news. America is anxious to get rid of all the cranks she can, and will bid Oscar an eternal adie« with a smile on her lip. London Truth astonishes the English with the statement that “in some of the smaller Western cities of America there are more telephones than there are at present in England.” The ordinary Englishman, however, would not liko w admit that. > ♦ « Fifteen thousand men and five thou sand horses have been sent to Egypt from England, and about ten thousand men from India. Wolseley will proba bly be able to muster for -the march or Cairo, about fifteen thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry. Some one writes to the Maine, Journal that “ cider drinking has become a great evil among the rural population of the State, as many labor ing men will not work unless it is fur nished them by the farmer, and many farmers and farmers’ sons are too muck addicted to its use.” The Langtrys found the friendship the Prince of Wales expensive, and l/fr tween giving entertainments at which he was present and the Irish land their income of 815,000 a year melted away. So Mr. Langtry was forced U be contented with about a tenth of hit original income, to supplement which his wife took to the stage. In Admiral Frederick de Lutke, Rue sia loses one of her oldest sailors and scientists. Born in 1797, he made the voyage around the world with Captain Julownin in 1817-19, and soon after be gan that service of remarkable Arctic explorations which got him the ear aud the applause of the scientific world. ♦ Herbert Spencer is paying thi* country a visit, the chief object of the I visit being that of the recovery of his health. No doubt part of his purpose 1 in coming was to learn something which would be useful to him in the division of ' the great work on Sociology on which he is now engaged—The Industrial De velopment of Society—having finished and published volumes on the Ceremo nial and Political Development. The celebration at Ogden’s Grove, Chicago, for the purpose of raising funds to erect a monument to the mem ory of John Brown was one of the worst managed and completes! failures of th* century. Letters of regret were read from many distinguished men, aud nobody was there but a few of the neighbors, aggregating 300 persons The widow of John Brown, who lives in California, was there, and delivered i sl-*rt address. The men of commerce, art and in dustry who have given character an*, tone to the Industrial Exposition of Cin cinnati deserve well, not only of thei) fellow-citizens, but of all who take ai interest in the manufacturing industries of the nation. There have been evi dences of commendable improvement in every succeeding exhibition, and the public have good grounds to anticipate for the tenth a perfection of order, dis play aud excellence not previously at tained. The classifications are a model of fullness and elaboration. Its scenic departments embrace everything in ma chinery, manufactures and products, and these are classified under eighty five heads. Gold, eilver and bronze medals and cash premiums are offered in the different classes. The Exposition opens September 6, aud closes October 7. The industrial parade on the day of the opening will be the biggest thing ever spen in Cincinnati, aud a spectacle wonderfully interesting, instructive and picturesque. The cars of seventeen wards, already organized and at work, will extend seventeen squares. As for the Exposition itself, there is more space now engaged than was occupied by the last Exposition when it opened, and the interest aroused is extraordina ry and universal. All railroads center ing in Cincinnati will sell tickets at re duced prices. Traveling by Hand-Car. For several days past railroad men on the Buffalo division have been both ering their heads over a strange charac ter whom they have seen running a hand-car all by himself, and behaving in a singular manner. Monday night train No. 12 was stopped to avoid run ning over him. Other trains have come close upon him within the past few days before he got his “special” off the track. Yesterday Officer Mahar found him near Dalton with his car. He was brought to Hornellsville, and now oc cupies a cell in the lockup, where he was interviewed by a Times reporter. He is a young man apparently not over twenty-five years of age, of medium size, with black hair and eyes and dark complexion. He said that his name was Martin Kastel, and that his home was in Omaha, from which place he had come on a first-class passenger-car. Somewhere between Hunt’s and Dalton he purchased his hand-car of a young man, whose mother ratified the bargain. On being asked what his plan was, he replied that he thought that a nice way to spend the summer would be to travel around by himself on a hand-ear. He had intended to move gradually along to New York, gathering curious stones and weeds by the way, and having a quiet, restful time all by himself. He said he had no idea of this trouble when he started, and now he was will ing to trade his hand-car for some prop erty in this town if he could. On being asked if he did not know that it was dan gerous to travel as he had been doing, he replied that, there was no danger at all. “Why,” said he, “I never let a train get within half a mile of me unless I hap pen to meet one on a curve. Then I just lift my ear off in two seconds. If I had some chairs in here 1 would show you how Ido it. lam safe if a train gets within half a block of me before I see it, and it is easy to get out of the way if a train is two blocks off.” '1 he young man asked the reporter how soon the examination would take place, say ing: “ I want to get out of this place as’soon as possible.” — Hornellsville (N. Y.) Tinies. Superstition in Massachusetts. There is a great deal of superstition yet remaining in the most civilized States of the world. < >ne of the most recent illustrations of this comes from Massachusetts. At Fall River, about a year ago a house belonging to an aged blind woman was sold under a foreclos ure of mortage, and the old woman cursed the parties concerned in the sale and prayed that whoever took the house might become blind. lhe purchaser, another old lady, was deeply grieved by her threats, and was never happy in the house. Her health rapidly declined and she took to her bed. For several weeks before her death she was blind, and some of her friends have thought that the agitation caused by the old woman’s curses worked upon her imagination and finally caused her death. -Ex. A man generally dislikes a girl baby at two years, just her a ten,’and worships her at eighteen. Good Things Cost. Yes, indeed, they do. Generally that which we admire and which seems to Us, perhaps, to be done so easily has cost all that it is worth. And the rea son why it does not seem so to us is be cause we do not see when and where and how the work is put in. We are riding along and looking out tq/on a beautiful landscape. We admire the skillful arrangement of trees, and shrubbery, and flowers, or the smooth and gently sloping grounds. This is, indeed, lovely, we say. How fortunate the owner was to find such a place. But some one replies, could you have seen all this years and years ago, when it was in a natural state, you might never have dreamed of this. It has taken much thought and hard work and great expense to bring these grounds to their present condition. Tell a man how a thing has been done and he says: “That’s easy to do.” Very possible, now that you have been shown how to do it, but could you have done it in the first place? That is the real test. You listen to a man wh »se mind is richly stored with facts and thoughts and fruit ful in combinations of these varied stores, and as he expi .'sses the thought which needed expression, perhaps you say: how easy that wa» done. 1 could have said it. Could yoil? Whydidyou not then, before he did? Why not go one step farther and give expression to the next thought which, so soon as ex pressed, the orator and all the people shall say that was the right word right ly spoken. That is the very word we were waiting to hear. When the light ning flashes you can see very clearly. And, if you act quickly, you may take all your bearings by its instantaneous light. And such a flash of thought may prove to you an apple k of gold. But we want more than fitful gleams. Ste idy lights are best. And he is the true speaker whose light shines on clear and true while it is at the same time able to throw a great flood of radiance on the dark spot when the right moment comes. Never say such things do not cost. I tell you, if such a light blazes before you and does not cost him who gives it, then it is an ignis fatuis and will lure him and you, too, on to destruction. Great men are hard-working men. Genius means a great capacity for work, “Genius will work.” The men emi nent in all the noble walks of life have been, are now, great workers. They are trained to endure, and when occa sion requires, can. and do, labor tre mendously. You see a train fly down the track. It goes easily, does it not? Swift and strong, without friction and without sign of labor, it shoots along. You simply see the results. But what leads to and insures these results? So you look upon the outside appear ances of great lives and see no signs of heat, and noise, and worry, and weari ness, and you state your proposition that they lead easy, charmed lives. Try it and see. Try to grapple with the labors of some great legislator, merchant, writer, or divine, lor even one day. He who puts off the harness makes the wisest statements. A truly great man bears a great load easjly. To do this enves the right to bear the name. Are you dazzled by the lives of Gen erals, Senators, millionaires, or great men of letters? Consider the cross well ere looking at the crown. It is a grand thing to win the crown. Try for it. Try with all the manhood there is in you. You are worth little if you do not make the trial. But remember that you only reach the high seats and wear the crown after long, arduous, unre mitting labors. Let no word of mine discourage you. But try no short cuts. Count the cost and then do valiant bat tle. Determine to win all these good things, but win them legitimately. Great and good work merits and will in due time receive a great reward.— Golden Rule. What the Ancients Believed. Arrian, who flourished about the mid dle of the second century of the Chris tian era, was of a skeptical frame of mind and had a who'esome distrust of the evidence of eye-witnesses. He rid iculed the old stories about ants that dug up gold, and griffins that guarded the precious metals, and declared that none were to be found in those parts of India that were visited by Alexander and his officers. He describes, howev er, a learned, or rather a musical ele phant which “beat upon a cymbal while several others danced to his music. Two cymbals were hung between his forelegs, and one tied to his proboscis or trunk. He then striking the cymbal which was tied to his trunk against the others between his forelegs alternately, the rest of the elephants moved round him as in a dance, and lifted up or bowed their bodies as fitly and justly as the measure and reason of the sound seemed to require, or as he who played upon the instrument directed.'’ He also speaks, though from hearsay, of an elephant dying of grief because it had killed its keeper in a moment of frenzy. Nearchus, it seems, had ] ro tested that he once saw the skin of a tiger, and that the natives averred that the animal, when alive, was as big as a full-grown horse, and further, that it would leap upon an elephant, and strangk* it. Thereupon Arrian remarks that those he saw were like speckled wolves, only a little larger, so that he never saw a tiger at all, but only a leop ard. —All the lear Round. -One lowa farmer on the bne ot the Beven different bureau®. TERMS; SI.OO A YEAR. FACTS AND FIGURES. —Ohio manufactured over four mill ion pounds of plug tobacco last year. —There are fifty-two breweries in Brooklyn which produce 4,000,000 kegs of lager annually, and paid a revenue of $1,000,000. — N. F. Times. —The corn crop of Texas this year is estimated at 140,000,000 bushels. The value of the agricultural products of that State is $94,071,9^. — Chicago Tribune. —Ninety-three thousands acres have been planted under the new arboricul ture act in Kansas. Preference is given to the cotton tree on account of its rapid growth. —Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be the largest in the world, have been made for their own use by the South Boston Iron-works. Each lathe con tains 600,000 pounds of iron, and is in tended for boring out cannon.— Boston Post. —The crop of Indian corn is one of the most important and valuable in the United States. The crop of 1880 was estimated at 1,717,000,000 bushels; the wheat crop of the same year was esti mated at 498,000,000 bushels. It must be considered the staple crop of the Western and Southwestern States. In 1380, Illinois produced 240,000,000 bushels, as against 60,000,000 bushels of wheat. The acreage of corn in Kan sas the same year was 2,995,070 acres, and the product 108,704.927 bushels, against an acreage of 1,520,659 acres of winter wheat, with a product of 17,560,- 259 bushels. —lt is estimated that nearly 2,000,- 000,000 pounds of paper are produced annually; one-half of which is used for printing, a sixth for writing and the remainder is coarse paper for packing and other purposes. The United States alone produces yearly 200,000 tons of paper, averaging seventeen pounds per head for its population. The English man comes next with about twelve pounds per head; the educated German takes eight pounds; the Frenchman seven pounds, whilst the Italian, Span iard and Russian take respectively three pounds, one-half pound and one pound annually.— N. Y. Sun. —The English are the best customers for American canned salmon. Most of the Sacramento River salmon go to the Atlantic cities, but Liverpool draws the bulk of its supply from Oregon, either direct from the Columbia River or through San Francisco. The Fraser River salmon all go to England direct from Victoria. Last season the Fraser River sent 146,000 cases to Europe. It is expected that as many more will be canned there this season for the same market. ThetColumbia River sent 380,- 700 cases direct to Europe for the year ended March 31. Thus far this season three cargoes have been cleared direct from the Columbia River for England, with 98,480 eases. < 'hicaao Times. As Sensible as Most Duels. Sheep’s-head, although hardly a flat tering epithet or term of endearment/ is not regarded between man and man in this country as an insult of so deep a dye that the stain inflicted upon the honor of a gentleman to whom this compound noun may happen to be ad dressed can only be washed out in blood. That such, however, is the view taken of its German equivalent, “Schafskopf, in the Fatherland is conclusively demon strated by the following lamentable oc currence: A few days ago, in the an cient City of Oldenburg, one Herr Jan sen, an elderly barrister. Called upon an acquaintance, the upper story of whose dwelling was occupied by a r '"•’try Lieutenant named tor of a handsome point<«e and supe he had sportively bestow ly - Scharfskopf. The ■ stretched on the door 3 , came up to the door, ment the Licutenant.jl, , (1 out of his second-floienusta. I*racti9» at the top of his voic ,ute - J * lß —• come up, will you?’ INr , s summons to himself, entering the house, '■'Sul’geOll, unt l Fischer made 1 ° when, exclaiming: > yourself,” he lent the , hearty box on the ear. F isener'’** /. — - was in mufti, retorted with a walking stick. and the result of this misunder standing was a hostile meeting. Jansen tired first, inflicting a slight flesh wound upon his adversary, whereupon Fischer, in no way ruffled by his hurt, stretched the too-hasty advocate dead upon the ground with a bullet through his heart. —London Telegraph. Odd Moments. It is often the odd moments that are the most valuable and offer the best privileges for acquiring knowledge, or doing some little act of charity. It was Schliemann, whose books on Troy and Myceme are much sought by the learned, who said that he never went on his er rands, even in the rain, without having his book in his hand and learning some thing by heart, and he never waited at the post-office without reading. Some who read this may complain of their odd moments being so few, and seem to look upon half an hour as a trifling thing to gain any knowledge; but it is these odd moments and half hours that are so valuable, and give such rare opportuni ties for improving the mind and heart. The odd moments of most men are, in reality, the only time that they can call their own. All the working hours are occupied in making a l even belong to their employers, and ings and an occasional onlv times Giey Im™ t ledunl wealthy great things can be mm V