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VOL. V.-NO. 5, NEWS GLEANINGS. Georgia has 2,517 drinking saloons. The bonded debt of Louisiana is sll,- 786,850. The’re are seventy-three saw mills, all running, in Obeon county, Tenn. Last year Texas imported corn. This year she will have millions of bushels to sell. Alexander H. Stephens says he now weighs five 'pounds more than he ever did before. A solid lump ol pure silver, weighing nearly a pound, was found near Mag nolia, N. C., recently. The explosion of a bottle of ginger pop caused an Augusta, Ga., lady to loose the sight of both eyes. A steamship from Norfolk to New York a few days ago carried 20,000 chichens from Southwestern Virginia. North Carolina has 776 saw-mills, 'with a capital of $1,743,217, employing 3,029 hands, and the products are worth $2,672,796. The total consumption of cotton by North Carolina mills and factories for the year ending August 31, 1882, was 20,000,000 pounds. A panther six feet in length was re cently killed in Buchanan county, Va. It had for a long time been a terror to the neighborhood. During the year of 1881 ninety-six wildcats were killed in St. Johns county, Fla., a T jd so far this year seventy-six have bitten the dust. The average corn crop in Tennessee is $0,000,000 bushels, but it will reach 100,000,000 bushels this year. The wheat crop will reach nearly 12,000,000 bushels. Mrs. Bozeman, whose age is well au thentivated to have been 115 years, died in the Halifax county (N. C.) poor house last week. She leaves a great great grandchild forty years old. The crop of sugar made in Louisana during the season of 1881-2 amounted to 159,874,950 pounds, equivalent to 122,982 hogsheads. The production of molasses amounted to 9,691,104 gallons, or 206,194 barrels. An Alabama law, passed by the last Legislature, prohibits the owners of sheep killing dogs to permit them to run at large. The first conviction under the law was made in Jefferson county re cently, and the owner of the dog fined 575. The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser earns with surprise that the “poor but ! r 'U ( l \oung women of that city are e uctant to engage as operatives at the mill for f ear that suc h employ ment is 'not quite respectable.” Fifty one counties in Georgia have no ltPn^ pl saloons. Two others close out aml°i r 1 Seven have only one each, ‘ n many counties the the sale is Tho nC , exclusivel y to the county town. prohibition element is becoming u ger and more formidable every day The corn crop for the State of Geor- estimated by the State Agricult hood fitment to be in the neighbor which ei|u “ l to ‘ h «oflSs9, wohablv he i'“ one be '" parted as '^i„thel,fe SC ° rnCr ' ,pCVer| '" ,, ‘- havp 6 . *>t Camden, S. C., H er „ r ' JUSt commi tted suicide, grandfat) grandfatker w *s hanged, her ther. L W R BUidde ’ her fa ' <ler an 1 ’ K ' B air ’ was tned for mur sonal n eßCaped ° nly fall * per- Sho Z oUnter With C»Pt- Haile, a is now i n ± ° ne of her brothers out a lisp ', tate peniten tiary, serving sentence for murder. metitution^* 1 '? t*- S ome ? a fanatical LltUe R ° ck - A >k., no ’hat the dis t 0 the Bick ’ no matter Offering Which they a died recentlvfo^. the lnmates > a child, meat, and tL • r , Want of medical treat core ‘han inhnm Uman mana S erß of this eflp rt Ulßavei inßt ' tutl °n made no Prosecuted / , lhey should be name of the ? lfUl mUrder > aad thing smacking P refixed b Y some natnpi «a mi s L " 8 ‘ The Present true. ° mer ls a ll reports be The’ in the Staked”^) 0 - ** dwarfed kangaroo Texa ’- Itsbodv n 7 f Northwestern lon K; its fore leg '* ab ° Ut eight inches lnp h and a h alf g . DOt more than an "hileits hind k tW ° ,ncbef * in length, Ith -at i l 8 \ a,e all of six inches about eight inches long, ®l)e On I lon Straits. completely bare except a tuft of long hairs at the end, and a ridge of short hairs on its upper part. The animal is also a marsupial, the pouch being well developed. It is a soft blue color. Its only mode of locomotion is by jumping, precisely like the kangaroo. It can jump eight nr ten feet. Some Queer Dishes, What about worms, for instance ? I do not mean the common earthworm, of yvhose agricultural efforts Mr Darwin descants in so learned, and interesting away. The earthworm, as far as lam aware, is not used as a staple article of food in any part of the world, but mere ly as a resource among certain tribes of Indians in time of famine, and is no more to be classed as an ordinary arti cle of diet with them than leather or canvas soaked in grease is with qs; al though both these, as well as other curi ous things, have often been had recourse to by cast away sailors in the attempt to satisfy the cravings of hunger. The an nelid I refer to is a marine species, and is looked upon as a great luxury by all the natives of the South Sea Islands.' 11 lives in the coral reefs, and from the middle of October to the end of Novem ber comes to the surface at sunrise in immense numbers; and great is the commotion and excitement among the people on the first appearance of the little stranger. Its arrival is always heralded by feasts; and during the Balolo or worm-month, all the natives wax fat and lusty on this their favorite article of food. The worm is curiously punctual in its appearance, almost to a day; and the months in which it ap pears are respectively called the little and big Balolo months. From early dawn on the expected day, scouts are placed on the hills and rocks command ing a view of the reefs; and no sooner does the long-expected shoal appear than all the wooden drums in the neigh boring villages are sounded, and the entire population, big and little, young and old, sound and lame, rush to the beach; and while the able-bodied ones help to launch the canoes, the remain der set to work to dig and heat the ovens, or to discuss the chances of a good oi' bad worm season. Fleets of canoes swarming with people, all armed with nets, at once put off, and scoop up the worms in huge quan tities; they are then taken ashore and handed over to the cooks, who, after adding a certain quantity of cocoa-nut milk, specially prepared for the pur {>ose, tie them up in young banana eaves, which have been previously passed over the fire to toughen them, and then bake them for some time in an oven, when they are ready for con sumption, and are" often sent round as presents to friends, just as game is among ourselves. Dr. Stradling mentions white ants, but does not appear to have tasted them; allow me to tell him that they are “dear little things” when prop erly fried in their own fat; plump, sweet, and satisfying; but curiously un like ants in appearance. They are gen erally much esteemed as food by the na tives of most of the countries in which they are found. Porpoise and whale are also edible. I have tried both, and found porpoise liver excellent, and not to be distin guished from that of pig. Os the flesh, however, I can hardly speak so highly, as it requires both good cooking and a long abstinence from fresh meat to make it at all palatable. Our ancestors, however, were of a different opinion, as in olden times it was highly esteemed, and we generally find the “porpuss” figuring as a distinguished dish in most of the great banquets of middle ages. But if the flesh of the porpoise is coarse and indifferent, that of his big cousin the whale is still more so; and the only time I tasted it I found the meat ex ceedingly coarse and tough, as well as permeated with a nauseous taste and smell of train-oil. The tongue, however, is said to be much better, but it never has come under my observation. Whale’s milk is by no means to be despised. Shark, the full-grown fish, is detesta ble—tough, and of a terribly rank smell. It is rarely eaten by white men except under pressure of extreme necessity; but the natives of the South Seas view it in a different light, and look upon the monster as a special luxury. Moreover, a New Zealand Maori knows no greater treat than a shark that has been kept until high enough to be unapproachable within twenty yards of any one but a native. But with a young shark of the brown variety the case is different, and I well remember, during a five months’ residence at Opara, having many a good meal of fried cutlets cut from young sharks about four feet long; and at last we came to look upon it as the best fish there. In taste and appearance it re minded one more of sturgeon than any thing else. It likewise resembled the latter fish in having gristle instead of bones; and was much superior both in firmness and flavor to the British dog fish, which I afterward tried.—CAam bers' Journal. —There has been discovered in the sandstone rock at the Nevada State Prison what is considered a great “find.” It is the marks of the sandaled foot of a human being, and the marks of the track of a mammoth in the same piece of sandstone, or upon the same level, showing that man and mammoth lived not only in the same age, but in the same year, and, perhaps, in the same day. These marks were found in the sandstone quarry at a depth of sis- ; teen feet, on which is supposed to have i been, at the time the marks were made, ' the border of a lake, where the man | went fishing and the mammoth to drink. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Philadelphia claims to have 5,00 C laudanum drinkers. * ♦ « Patents for car couplers arc issued at the average of one a day. A Southern paper calls courage the temporary paralysis of discretion. Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwau kee and Louisville, are all holding expo sitions. It is stated that the free ice distrib uted by New York philanthropists has caused much sickness. It is stated that the State coffers of Italy now contain 550,000,000 of coin laid up toward the abolition of the forced paper currency. An Illinois woman gave a tramp a bogus quarter to get rid of him, and he made it cost her an arrest and fifty dol lars in cash before he was satisfied. The Postmaster General has decided that a stamp cut in pieces and thereafter affixed to mail matter is not good, though the stamp has never been canceled. The South will make 7,000,000 gallons of cotton seed oil this year, and you will buy some of it put up in nice shape and labeled olive oil from Italy. Liszt, the great composer, is always surrounded by women, who cling to him like lovesick maidens. He kisses both hands and cheek whenever he takes a fancy. Owing to the opposition of the rela tives of the late Charles Dickens, the collection of his earlier plays and poems, announced for publication in London, is to be suppressed. It is related that a young gentleman connected with the English Foreign Office the other day went to a telegraph office and asked to see the original of . a telegram which had arrived from Egypt. Morse, who invented the telegraph, and Bell, the inventor of the telephone, both had deaf mute wives, which leads a wag to observe: “Just see what a man can do when everything is quiet.” The richest man in Mexico is an Irish man named Patricio Milmo, who owns a 400,000 acre farm, and is reputed to be worth $10,000,000. When he went to Mexico he had not a dollar. He got his start by a fortunate marriage. Czar Alexander HI. evidently ex pects to survive his coronation. He is adding to the seventeen palaces of his father a new one at Peterhoff, overlook ing the Gulf of Finland. Its founda tions are to be completed this fall at a cost of $300,000. Etienne, the well known French au thority on the subject, has issued his estimates of the harvests of the world for 1882. His report is, on the whole, de cidedly favorable, indicating no serious deficiency in crops in any quarter of the world, and a general abundance through out Europe and America. The Mormon priesthood has been cir culating a secret circular in Utah, giving instructions to their people directly opposite to the law rulings of the Com missioners. One of the circulars has been unearthed. They also decide to have three Bishops sit with the Precinct Registrars and oversee registration. The Gentiles are much incensed at the inter ference. A report is current that 300 of Gari baldi’s old comrades have banded them selves together with the determination of taking his body from its present rest ing place, and of causing it to bo cremated according to the desire expressed in his will. Whether the report, which is believed in Italy, be true or not is not yet known ; but it has been thought advisable that a guard should be placed near his grave. Emory Thomas sent to Mary Brown, at Jackson, Michigan, silk for a dress as a present. He wished to marry her and she was inclined to consent; but when she learned that the silk was part of the booty of a burglary, she became the principal witness against the wooer, and he was sent to prison for seven years. But they have become reconciled, and a few days ago the prison chaplain joined them in wedlock. The well known German newspaper, Algemeine Zeitung, of Augsburg, was originally started at Tubingen, in the year 1798, by the great publisher Corta, and two of its earliest contributors were [ Goethe and Schiller. Among the foreign correspondent** have figured some of the most gifted and eminent Germans of our age Heinrich Heine, for instance, was for several years its representative in Paris. Thurlow Weed, in a recent letter on civil service reform, complains tlqit the “academies and colleges contribute a very large contingent to the army of of fice seekers. ” Mr. Weed expresses the belief that there is too much “liberal education” in this country, which pro duces idleness and office beggars—-men who resort to office seeking as a means of living, and who get to hating hard work. The mother-in-law of the late Nathan iel Adams, her daughter, her daughter’s daughter, her daughter’s daughter’s daughter, and her daughter’s daughter’s daughter’s daughter are all living at his late residence in the Roxbury district of Boston, Massachusetts. Thus there are five generations of women in continuous line living under the same roof, they being Mrs. Hendley, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Wolcott, Mrs. Colby, and little Miss Colby. Mrs. Hendley is ninety-five years of age, and the infant a few weeks only. This is the way that Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps characterizes the State of Maine in her novel, “Doctor Zay,” in the Atlantic: “We allers do hev every thing wus here than other folks,” said a passenger on the Bangor mail coach. “Freeze and prohibition, mud and fu sion. We have got one of the constitu tions that takes things,likemy boy. He’s had the measles, ’n the chickenpox, and the mumps, and the nettle rash, and fell in love with his schoolmarm, ’n got re ligion, and lost the prize for elocootin’— all in one darned year.” This story of strange practice is told of a Kansas lawyer: The law requires that a person must be twenty-one years old before he can pre-empt land. When one comes to ask if he can evade this law and have his boys, who lack some years of being twenty-one, “prove up” some land, the attorney smiles serenely and says: “Os course; certainly; it is the easiest thing in the world!” And when the time comes to make out the papers the attorney marks with a piece of chalk on the floor, “twenty-one years old.” He places the affiant on the floor standing on these words, and has him swear that he is “over twenty-one years old.” _ Saxon Houses and Tenements. As the halls and stairways are used in common by the entire community of the house, of course no carpetings are laid upon them. In the higher class of houses, and in the villas of the wealthy, the hallways are laid with squares of marble and granite, of different colors, and the steps are built usually of one or the other of these stones. But in the tenements of the working people only common flag-stones are used, and these are so soft, that it requires only a few years to wear them in the middle of the steps until they are sometimes scarcely a half-inch thick. On entering one of these large houses Hie first impression is unfavorable, everything appearing so dreary, so lonely and bo desolate. The wide stone stairway, the broad corridors and the bare walls have nothing about them to remind you that you are in a dwelling house. All the doors leading to the corridors and landings are closed and generally locked, for they have a spe cies of sneak-thief in Saxony fully as expert and fully as accomplished in the art of noiselessly removing portable property as his American brethren. The ground floor is sometimes occupied by a barber, a toy-dealer, a “ buch-handler,” or a baker. 'Whether it is so occupied or not, it is not popular for residence purposes. Ihe second story is the most sought after, and its apartments or ten ements command the highest rent. It is not an unusual thing to find peo ple of the best society occupying the second floor; people of less importance socially, but nevertheless respectable, occupying the third floor; people still lower down in the social scale being on the fourth floor, and working people of the third degree living on the fifth floor. Thus you may find in one house a mer chant and his family, a factory superin tendent and his family, a mechanic and iiis family, and a laborer and his fami- i lv. The poorer he is the more steps he i must climb, unless he is a small trades- j man and rents a couple of rooms on the ground floor— Chemnitz Cor. Chicago News. Vanity of Highwaymen.—A Galves veston lady was reading a newspaper ac count of a stage robbery that recently took place west of San Antonio and was very indignant on reading that besides robbing the passengers they had opened the mail and read the letters, among them, possibly, a letter the lady herself had written to a friend. “You needn’t ! be alarmed.” remarked the lady's hus band, “I dare say they did not read a word in any of those letters, as those fel lows don’t know B. from. bull s foot. “Why, then, did they make out that they read them ?” “Oh, they made out they could read so as to make a favorable impression on the passengers. Gal ■ veston News. A Chicago physician — perhaps tin > alarmist ."• b,, ’''7i‘“Lw:rlf , a ! in that city is a form miner oi a / ! Bcou'ge next summer. Caught by Themselves. There is a slang phrase now current which aptly expresses the fatality at tending the testimony of criminals in court. They are almost sure to “give themselves away,” that is, to really convict themselves while they are try ing to prove their innocence. In a court in Paris recently, two cobblers were charged with stealing fifteen francs frqm their master's till, The men had asked for some money from their em ployer, but he had refused and had gone off for the day with his family. So they stole the fifteen francs and themselves started ol! for a holiday’. “Where d-d you spend your holi day?” asked the Police Justice. “We took no holiday. We worked as usual,” said the first cobbler. ‘ ‘ Come, that won' t do. The facts are all against you, although, to be sure, no one saw you take the money from the bag,” said the Police Justice. “It wasn’t a bag; it was a pine box. Ah!” (to the other cobbler) “what are you tramplingon my feet for?” said the second cobbler. “How do you know it was a pine box?” asked the Justice. “ Why, I’ve seen the master take mon ey from it more than two hundred times,” answered the second cobbler. “1 only brought it home the night be fore. I iiad always used an iron box. So he couldn’t have seen this two hun dred times,” said the master. “Well, when 1 said two hundred, perhaps 1 stretched it a little. 1 saw it at least once that day,” said the second cobbler. “What day?” asked the Justice. “Why, the day that we took the fif teen —Oh, stop trampling on my feet!” said the second cobbler. “So you acknowledge taking the fif teen francs?” said the Justice. “He means the fifteen pairs of slip pers we made that day,” said the first cobbler. “So you worked all day?” said the Justice. “Yes, except that towards evening we were tired and went out to Mont martre and took supper,” said the first cobbler. • “Butyou told your master you had no money. How did you go without money?” asked the Justice. “ We borrowed three francs,” said the first cobbler. “Yes, and when we were arrested, they found no money in our pockets. If we had taken the fifteen francs, there would have been some left, for we only spent seven francs,” said the sec ond cobbler. “Ifyou only borrowed three, how did you spend seven?” asked the Jus tice. “We got credit,” answered the first cobbler. “ Yes, we got credit for nine francs,” said the second cobbler. “I think you’ve satisfied us of your guilt. That will do. You shall have a sentence of four months,” concluded the Justice. — Youth's Companion Sleepers’ Discomforts in Germany. One of the first complaints heard from Americans on arriving in Ger many is against the beds, for German beds, as a rule, are short—so very short that a man who is unfortunate enough to measure six feet has to double him self up between the head and foot board, like the letter Ain the alphabet. The misery of this uncomfortable position would, not be necessary were the beds of a decent width, for with a wide bed, even if it was not of sufficient length, he could lay “cornering,” or he could turn over on his side and double up without projecting his knees and his feet into the cold air outside of the mat tress. German beds, almost without ex ception, are single—yes, very single— so much so that the occupant if he at tempts to deviate an inch or two from a horizontal position finds himself sprawl ing on the floor. The sheets, bed-blank ets, etp., are made just to fit the beds and are never wide enough to “tuck in.” They are seldom lut an inch or two wider than the mattress, and it re quires the skill and experience of an acrobat, especially with a foreign er, to keep the bed-clothes evenly balanced over him. And then the grumblers grumble at the pillows, which they declare are either too large or too small, too hard or too soft, and that the onlv people who know how io make comfortable pillows, and who have them, are the Americans. Many of the hotels and boarding-houses here adopt the French pillow, which is about half the size of the mattress and stuffed out so hard and plump that the only bene fit the tired traveler gets from it is to have it serve as a rest for his back while he sleeps in a sitting position. The majority of pillows, however, found in Germany are made wedge-shaped, of the same material as the mattress, and come to a point near the center of the bed. On these, the sleeper, if he sleeps, rests on an inclined plane, and looks like a body on one of the narrow planks in the morgue at Paris, with a sheet thrown over it. I think it would be difficult to find a bed in this country that would measure over five feet ten, or six feet at most between the head and foot board, and as for a wide double bed there is probably none in all Germany, without it may be the one I saw at the museum in Munich, which is said to have belonged to some King or baron of olden time. Dresden Cor. Spring field \ (Mais.) Ueoublican. / .Senior a«k» a found question. tf ia t ton wise , ' ‘ { ‘’" l •'l",' Mon could not eneu - o/ UB [ Buppoee that» • Hunk. ” TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR, . _ PITH AND POINT. —An honest man is the noblest pur suit of woman.— Hartford Times. —Little colored boys are coming into fashion as pages in Paris. And, by the way, they are not the first black pages in the history of PAvis.—Norristown Herald. —Anxious Ma’ma: “Come now, Rol lo, you have played too hard; sit down here by ma’ma and rest yourself." Rollo, after forty-eight seconds of sit ting: “Me must go play some more, now; me’s tired resting.” —Prepared for the Primer: See the honest driver. He is stopping at his home. Will he leave a tub of the coal? Yes, he will leave a tub of the coat Then he will drive on and supply the man who bought the coal.- -Courier- Journal. —To be masculine in dress and con duct is the highest ambition of many young women who left the school of propriety too soon. If they have any matrimonial aspirations the sooner they dress and act like other women the better.— Burlington Hawkeye. —“Any children?” asked a landlord of a gentleman seeking a tenement on Cherry street. “Yes, three.” “No use talking, then; I want tenants without children." “But mine are not fat enough to kill,” mildly remarked the gentleman, as he turned on his heel,— Waterbury American. —A gentleman in thia city was going out the other day with a little nephew and his baby sister, Grace, when he hesitated and remarked that he thought it was going to rain. Little Georgia did not like this, and said he would bet that it wouldn’t rain. “How much will you bet?” asked his uncle. “Well," said Georgia, thinking a moment, “I’ll bet 25 cents.” “Put up your money,” said his uncle. But at this moment baby Grace discovered several drops of rain, and drawing attention to them said gravely: “I fink oo better put up oo umbrellar.” — Detroit Tree Press. —A Conundrum: “Ha, come hither, pretty one Canst tell me why a water melon is like unto a book?” ft was the voice of the noble Sir Grabland, and, at the sound of his words, the lady Stiletto, his well-beloved niece, raised her ceru lean orbs (blue eyes) from the crochet work that lay entangled in her fairy like fingers. “Nay, me lord,” she an swered in her piccoloest tones; “give me an easier one." Like a swollen river chafing its rugged shores, or a vol cano getting ready for a matinee, a great limpid laugh gurgled through the anatomy of Sir Grabland as he replied: “Because, me dear niece, it is never read until it is opened.”— Boston Tran script. USEFUL AM) SUGGESTIVE. —Th« real old harvest apple of our grandfather’s days is to be found no more. —The farmer who leaves his plow to rot in the fields all winter is usually the one who finds most fault with the con dition of the country. —A5 Y. Herald. —The Gardener's Monthly says: “Let the laundry folk on every wash day pour the boiling-hot soap-suds about the roots of peach trees. This will de stroy the insidious little fungus wh"’ produces the ‘yellows’ and oth eases, ami finish the larva? of ot , p imbo which are injurious to the trees.’manage the ic llrHt year, Red ants are said to like J* place ter even than-sugar; for this the red ants are troublesome incipal o nice amt or store-room, set a plate w< comity of Hal), with lard in the room. k \ ( K. Wil covered with them, and L Snmnier of them; put the plate back, -ir names, place on doing so until they are extef'^r*’' 1 ° —N. 1. Post. shares, resi- -MarbleCake: (Light-) Ori«- resi . sugar, half a cup each of buttei - milk, whites of three eggs, two cup# * flour, one and a half teaspoonful of bak ing powder. (Dark.) Half a cup each of brown sugar and molasses, one fourth cup each of butter and milk, two cups of flour, the yelks of three eggs, one and a half teaspoonful of baking pow der, one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves and allspice. —A correspondent of the Queensland er supplies that paper with the follow ing on the subject of potato-growing: “ 1 tried an experiment with potatoes this autumn, as seed was scarce. I took cuttings of potato tops and planted them in the wet weather, and they took root and bore a better crop than the original root. Some of the seed potatoes were growing strong before 1 set them, so I slipped off the superfluous shoots and planted them, with very good results; and any one with a small supply of good seed may largely increase it by this simple method.” —One objection to a large farm, of sufficient capacity to meet the wants of a great farmer, is that it concentrates all the crops and all the manure at one point. In harvest time short hauling of hay and grain saves valuable time, and, when manure is to be drawn, short dis tances to the fields from the heaps or sheds very much lessens cost. It is better to divide on large farms and nave two or more separate points of concen tration in distribution, and thereby save great cost to teamwork. And, too, it £ verv wise to divide the farm buiMm? ' X to no have them nil burn at one tire. These uro general consideration* * y. Tribune. / —The, largest is '2S7SS)O rnet- frnnee-