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VOL. V.-NO. 7. NEWS GLEANINGS. Virginia haa the larges mast crop known for years. The Virginia penitentiary now con tains 652 convics. About three-fourths of the fruit crop of Georgia has been dried. At Gainesville, Ga., Mrs. Chamber died at the age of 100 years. The South will make 7,000,000 gal lons of cotton seed oil this year. Bee-keeping is becoming a large and profitable industry in Mississippi. The trade in cotton in Montgomery, Ala, last year footed up $6,000,000. Florida has shipped, during the sea son just closed, 25,000 head of cattle to Cuba. In some portions of North Alabama corn is offered at twenty-five cents a bushel. Clay county, N. C., polls but twenty negro votes, while Wake heads the list with 5,128. The colored military companies in the South will hold an encampment in At lanta this fall The Selma, Ala., cotton mills have just shiyped five car loads of cotton goods to China. H»le county, Ala., is looking out for her moss industry and is gatherirg thousands of tons. Macon, Ga., has a bonded debt of but $700,000, and taxable property amount ing to $10,000,000. Memphis has one-seventh of the whole number of cotton-seed oil mills in the whole country. Over 400 mines, including silver, cop per and other minerals, are being work ed in biorth Carolina. The first and only town clock in the State of Florida surmounts the new court house at Tampa. Large and very rich deposits of iron ore have recently been discovered in Marshall county, Ala. A-grove of eighty bananna trees, eighteen months old, is bearing good fruit at Waynesboro, Ga. An effort is being made to found a college at Greenville, Miss., for the ed ucation of colored youths. North Caroolina’s rice crop is good, and this year will reach 65,000 bushels of tide-water and 200,000 bushels of up land. , A stalk of Sea Island cotton nine feet ,n height and having forty-two branches and 250 bolls, is on exhibition at Bron son. Fla. The Georgia Lunatic Asylum is full 1" overflowing, and cannot accommo ate a large number of insane persons waiting treatment. It is estimated that over one-half of e new manufactories started in the nth •luring the last two years belong to Northern capitalists. Ark., voted on the and d " e . , q “ e ’ tlon at the recent election d decided by an overwhelming ma mv to continue to “sip of the flowing it is^ 6 * ,r^eans T'imes-Democrat say ad r: p . robabie that the S’uffs th- he South toth# West for food less th? 1 ' WiH be * loo ><Woo 88 than paid in 1881. my to tX" da an S erous ene nose blep 1 Near Enni ” a man had posited p WU 6 aßleep ’ and the fl y d * later 256? that time ’ A few davs * nian ’s none. WOrnlß ,r °® table'hmrin? t ? DB . titution Polishes a Georgia t() bo h \ aiable Property of Nation, $290 000 000 Mt year’s J ’ ’° o0 ’ an increase over returns of $16,000,000. nace's 01 ?7, twent y-two iron fur X Tbeßi -ingham Wiles of Birrnin I? 1 " ** radillß °f fifty th r eiß enou * b a thousand _4 ars> hoUßand furnace « for *t a T pass aged ini Michael Hol- S a ; ion We’ t d y d laßt , Week in ' talw art, aged ii i ' a ’’ and J ame« “ v‘? h “ iU,t di " l J lorida w;ii Work of rail Wavg Soon , be a perfect neb ? pm ent oftbe y ’ and rapid devel 10W - H er Xu e WIU ° f CoUrse fol *few years wi]l are Wonderful, and IVehe «t of the Soutl o er araon g the TheAm»- thern States. I tb;,t during X (Ga-) Recorder Ba VB ra Part of the city SI) c El n Ito n '1 vgn were blown dry. These wells, up to the time of the gale, were unfailing. The explanation of this remarkable occurrence i» the existence of subterra nean passages and the violent agitation on the surface opened channels of es cape for the water to these. A curious looking specimen of the bovine race was exhibited on the streets of Greensboro, N. C., recently. The animal is a Devonshire bull calf, three months old, with a tail and hide similar to those of an elephant. The calf is about the usual size, and apparently well and hearty. Its hide is entirely destitute of hair, lies in heavy folds like an elephant’s, and is of about the same color. The tail is short and spiked. Many valuable articles have recently been contributed to the Tennessee His torical Society. Among them are the writings «f Thomas Paine, printed in 1792; an eight dollar Continental cur rency bill of 177 7; a Spanish silver dol lar of 1783; an Indian tomahawk found in 1814; a copy of Arrowsmith and Lewis’ General Atlas, published in 1804; the first volume of Marquis de Chattel lux’s Travels in North America in 1780, 1781, 1782, and many interesting abori* ginal relics. A suit which will prove of great in terest to theatre-goers and managers of amusement halls has been brought at Richmond, Va. A gentleman was ar rested in the opera house of that city for occupying a seat for which he had ne coupon, although he bad a ticket of admission. The seat was the only va cant one in the house. Now he will ask the courts to decide whether or not the theatre is compelled to furnish seats when a ticket is sold for it and the money paid. Putting Away Tools. The wearing out of farm implements is, as a rule, due more to neglect than to use. If tools can be well taken care of, it will pay to buy”those made of the best steel, and finished in the best man ner; but in common hands, and with common care, such are of little advant age Iron and steel parts should be cleaned with dry sand and a' cob, or scraped with a piece of soft iron, washed and oiled if necessary, and in a day or two cleaned off with the corn-cob, and dry sand. Finally paint the iron part with rosin and beeswax, in the propor tion of four of rosin, to one of wax, melted together and applied hot. This is good for the iron or steel parts of every sort of tool. Wood work should be painted with good, boiled, linseed oil, white lead and turpentine, colored of any desired tint, red is probably the best color. Keep the cattle away until the paint is dry and hard, or they will lick, with death as the result. If it is not desired to use paint on hand tools, the boiled oil with turpentine and “liquid drier,” does just as well. Many prefer to saturate the wood-work of farm implements with crude petro leum. This can not be used with color, but is applied by itself, so long as any is absorbed by the pores of the wood.— Agriculturist. How to Kill a Rattlesnake. A working party on a railroad here is made up of mountaineers and Georgians. One of the latter performed a foolhardy feat the other day that made the blood of the unaccustomed spectators run cold. They were at work clearing away the thick underbrush, in advance of the en gineer, when some one shouted : “ ’Ware of rattlesnakes! ” He saw one of these reptiles about four feet long and five or six inches in diameter lying just ahead. The Georgian cut a short stick with a forked end, and creeping up to the snake he deftly pinned it to the earth by pushing the forked end on either side of his neck. Then, seizing the tail in his right hand, he ran his left down the snake’s body, and grasping it firmly just back of the head he held it up at arm’s length and called on the others to “look at the varmint’s mouth.” It was any thing but a pleasant sight, and most of the spectators were horrified. After holding it a few minutes for general in spection, he suddenly swung the snake over his head with his right hand, let ting go the hold of the left, and dashed it with great force against a rock, kill ing it instantly. It was a cool and dex terous feat, but very trying to the look- . ers-on, who censured the man for his “folly,” at which he seemed to be mightily amused. —To Color Brown: For five pounds of cloth, boil one and one-half pounds of catechu in as much water as will cov er the cloth until disso ved, then add two ounces of blue vitriol, stir well and put in your cloth, let it lie over night, I wring it out in the morning, put two I ounces of®bi-chromate of potash in a kettle of boiling water, let the cloth ! stand in this till of the right color, and wash when dry. Color in iron. Farm and Fireside. —Spirits oAturpentine is now made from sawdust and refuse of the saw mill. It is extracted by a sweating process, and yields fourteen gallons of spirits, three to four gallons of resin, and a quantity of tar per c >rd. The ( spirits produced has a different odor , from that produced by distillation. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1882, TOPICS OF THE DAI. About three-fourths of the Georgia fruit crop has been dried. Ben. Butler has been retained by the Dorseys in the Star Route trials. The last of the Irish suspects have been released from Kilmainham jail. A farmer at Valdosta, Georgia, has made two crops of corn on one piece ol land. The proposed introduction of Chinese labor into England is meeting with op position. Hereafter no breect,loading rifles are to be included in stores for uncivilzed Indians. A fatal case of blood poisoning from the bite of a mosquito is reported from Louisville, Ky. Sir Garnet Wolseley is a one-eyed man, and was left for dead in the trenches at Sabastopol. Oliver Ames, Republican nominee for Lieutenant-Governor of Massachu setts, is a son of Oakes Ames. “One country, one starry banner, and one wife,” is the platform of an editor whose field adjoins Mormondom. According to the Minneapolis Tribune there is not enough low grade wheat in Minnesota this year to feed the chickens. Lieutenant Danenhower will enter the lecture field in a few days,having for his subject “Arctic” and Siberian ex periences. The United Presbyterians have agreed to raise a fund of $500,000 in honor of the twenty-fifth year of their organization. It is the thing now for young men of society who have nothing to do, to claim they “ write for the papers.” It makes them seem to have brains. Ten thousand acres of oysters have been discovered in the North Sea. The attention of managers of church festivals should be called to this item. Half a ton of tbe silver three cent pieces which originated under Buchan an’s administration was shipped a few days ago from Boston to the Philadel phia mint. A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Florida makes railroad prop erty liable to taxation, and thus adds about $5,000,000 to the taxable property of the State. The Egyptian war helped the sale of English journals wonderfully. The Lon don Standard, on the day succeeding the bombardment of Alexandria, sold over 300,000 copies. It is stated that a block of creosoted pine, in use in the street pavement in Galveston for seven years, was recently examined and found to have lost but ac eighth of an inch. Special inducements to plant trees are offered in Dakota, where for every five acres of trees, forty acres of land with SI,OOO in improvements are ex empted from taxation. Moses Williams, who died in Boston a few days ago, leaving a fortune of $6,000,000, began life peddling milk in the streets of that city. That’s what comes of selling milk where water is so abundant. A Boston banker went to the Oceanic House at the Isle of Shoals for recre ation, taking five rooms for himself and family. When he went away, September 1, he paid his three months’ bill of SB,- 000 and said it was cheap enough. Herbert Spencer is in this country, and he is sick, yet withal he is able to use this forcible language iu speaking ol Oscar Wilde: “He is that outlandish person who attempted to reconcile idipey with art and namby pambyism with sentiment.” The Louisville Courier-Journal ex presses the opinion that if Alfred Tennyson were to go through a news paper waste basket, and attach his name to all the original poetry ho should find in it, he would still be read, admired, and paid. What sort of doctors have they in New Jersey ? A Jersey paragraph says: “The health authorities of Paterson have declared the office and residence of Dr. Daeumer untenantable from filth, and the inmates are to be removed and the promises cleaned and fumi gated.” , A number of immigrants of various I nationalities passed up Broadway, New I York, the other morning. The Italian men carried deep carpet sacks, and the women, left far in the rear, and wearing pink and green costumes, carried or led half-grown children. The Scotch women and men were about equally laden. ’ The Englishmen carried nothing at all, while the women, endeavoring to keep up with them, were burdened with a heavy port manteau in each hand. The African expedition under Stanley, sent out by the King of Belgium, is said to have established the first four of a line of various stations which, starting from, the Congo, will for commercial purposes tap the most populous districts of Central Africa. These four stations are described as cities in embryo. They possess houses and gardens; they .are connected by well constructed roads,and at each a European acts as Chief of the community, having another European as sub-chief. Mrs D. W. Lincoln, of Portland. Maine, lately fell heir to $175,000, the estate of her consin, Erven W. S. Noughton, of California, formerly of Maine, deceased. There is a romantic history connected with the bequest. Mr. Noughten and Miss Lincoln, in their younger days, were intimate friends, and would probably have been married had it not been for opposition of relatives. Mr. Noughton started for the West, de claring he would never come back. He kept his word. Business prospered with him and he became wealthy. Speaking of the Princess Louise, as she appeared in that city, the Omaha (Neb.) Bee says : “ The Princess made her appearance on the rear platform of her car to watch the antics of her little terrier, in charge bf the porter. She was accompanied by one of her ladies, and only remained a moment, and few of the crowd suspected who she was. She was attired in the most modest man ner imaginable. Her dress was of dark lawn, and a spray of violets on her bo som, a plain bracelet, and a couple of plain gold rings were the only ornaments she wore. She is a well-formed, hale looking woman of thirty-five, or there about, and is said to have the features of her mother, and, like her husband, a modest yet frank demeanor. Her face is bright and intelligent, and lights up very pleasantly when she smiles.” xiive Jewelry. “Here is something new’ in the way of ornamentation,” a salesman in a large up-town jewelry store said, opening a box. Out walked a monster beetle, fully four inches in length. About its body was a solid gold band, locked by a tiny padlock, to which was attached a costly gold chain, about two inches in length, fastened to a pin. The beetle,s back glistened in light, having been treated to a dress of gold, and as it lumbered along its long legs worked to gether in a curious fashion. “It’s a shawl pin. You see the pin is used to fasten the face of a shawl, or perhaps worn on the bonnet, the insect crawling around the length of the chain. They are perfectly harmless and not expensive, as they live on air—that is, they have never been seen to eat. This one was brought here to mount, which is a very fine operation, as the legs and antennai are all so delicate. After all, there is nothing objectionable about them, ex cept the idea of having them crawl over you. They all come from South Ameri ca, and the only lot in the city is to be taken to France, where the owner w'ill try to introduce the fashion of wearing them. They costfromslo to SSO, depend ing entirely on the amount of the ring. There is nothing cruel about it, as they are bound loosely, and the gold has no effect upon their hard sides. In Brazil the fashion of wearing beetles is carried to a great extent. A well known resident has a beetle with a col - lar of gold which meets at the top, and is there ornamented with a diamond of great value. The insect has a cage sur rounded by the plants among which it lives in its native state, and nothing is neglected to make it as comfortable as possible. But the most popular insect used for an ornament in Brazil is asmali phosphorescent beetle. These are often worn fastened in the hair, and as the two phosphorescent or light-giving spots are on the of the head, the black in sect is, of course, invisible, especially when in the raven locks of the fair Bra zilians. Twenty or thirty of these bee tles will throw out a light sufficient to read by, and when arranged around the head iu a circle, or grouped over the forehead and held in place, the effect is beautiful. — New York Sun. —Ar. Indianapolis girl, forbidden by her parents to marry the man of her choice, pretended to be abundantly con soled by the promise of a grand birth day party. When all the guests were assembled on that occasion she walked in on the arm of her lover, who had within the hour been made her husband by a clergyman round the corner. —James Field obtained a promise from Jenny McHenry and her parents, in Philadelphia, that she would become Ins wife when she was sixteen, hei that time being twelve; but on he Serth OMh.4 ••<>•■! cido instead of mairpng. r y , refused to keep the agreement— A. Y. / Sun. A Brave Girl. It is customary among the wealthy classes who leave town during the sum mer to lock up their houses, notify the Captain of their precinct to look after the family plate and other valuables and depart. in fancied security. The records will show how often they have been deceived as to the vigilance of the police. Some people leave trusted, keen and sharp-witted servants in charge of their residences and return at the end of the season to find everything in its place. Which is the better plan, with all due deference to the guardians of the law. can be inferred from the fol lowing story: Mr. William Armstrong is a feather dealer in “The Swamp,” and he resides at No. 105 Madison avenue. He and his family spend the heated term out of town. During their absence the custodian of their mansion has been a tried and true servant named Annie Laussen. Annie is a young Ger man girl, slender and apparently deli cate, but possessing great presence of mind and wonderful nerve. Unlike the average servant girl—to whom the sole occupancy of her employer’s house means a perpetual picnic—Annie de voted her whole time and attention to the care and protection of the property she had been left to guard. She never left the house unless necessity compelled her. On Thursday evening, shortly aft er seven o’clock, such an emergency arose. Knowing that she would be ab sent but a minute she pulled the base ment door to, but she did not lock it. She then hurried out upon her errand. On her return she saw a man coming up the basement stairs, his arms laden with Mr. Armstrong’s plate. The ordinary woman would have screamed for the police and then gone off into hysterics. Annie is not an ordinary woman. A sudden impulse prompted her to dis pense with the services of the blue coats and to depend entirely upon her self. She sprang through the gate and grabbed the intruder by the throat. He was taken at a disadvantage, as the at tack was unexpected, but he attempted to free himself with Iris left arm, the other still holding the stolen silverware. Her hold was as secure. He dropped his plunder and by using both hands broke from her grasp and vaulted over the railing. He and Annie reached the sidewalk simultaneously. He struck the girl in the lace and she threw both arms around his body. It was no lovers’ embrace. He tripped her and both fell heavily to the pavement. Then the contest began in dead earnest. Kick and struggle as he might there was no breaking her hold. Both were breathing heavily and the girl’s strength was fast waning, but she ut tered not a cry. She was determined to capture the rascal who had stolen her employer’s property. By a desper ate cflort he regained his feet, drag ging the girl up with him. Owing to her failing powers he freed himself from her grasp and attempted to run; but, still bent on capturing him, she grabbed him by the coat and tore it from his back. In the struggle they ; again fell and rolled over and over from the railing to the curb. Annie’s clothes were rent to shreds, but she still held on. Findng her-elf on the verge of , unconsciousness and her hold relaxing she gave utterance to a series of screams. These were her only outcries during the unequal contest. It had the effect of bringing to the scene Rounds man Haughey, of the Thirteenth-street Police Station, who arrested the burg lar. Here again Annie display ed her wonderful courage. Such a protracted battle with a stronger antagonist would have used up the vital forces of any man not an athlete, and prostrated nineteen out of twenty women. Annie went in to the house, washed her hands and ! fat e, combed her hair, slipped on an- ■ other dress and walked to the station- ! house to make a complaint against the burglar, who f a d he was Joseph Will- 1 jams, of Albany. When this was done ; she walked out coolly and composedly t and returned home. She slept during the night and had no need of medical attendance. Tn the Jefferson Market Police Court on Friday she came up smiling and as “fresh as a daisy,” showing not a sign j of the ordeal through which she had j passed. She was modest and reticent , and disinclined to talk about the mat- | ter, leading the spectators to infer that j she considered she had done nothing | but what her duty demanded. Williams i looked as if he had had a tussle with a threshing-machine. Justice Ford com- j mitted him for trial. The stolen prop- ; erty was found in the front court-yard I of the house, where Williams had I drop; ed it.— N. Y. Herald. No Nonsense About Iler. “ I tell you what it is,” said young Spilkins, “that Dodgers girl is just the right kind of a girl. There’s no non sense about her, you know, and she’s so observing, you know; sees everything there is to be seen, and she’s just as economical ami modest-like as she can be. I took her out to walk the other evening, and she saw everything in the shop windows. More than a dozen times she said: ‘Doesn’t that candy look nice?” And two or three times, as we were going by an open door, she said: ‘How lovely that smells! It smells just like ice-cream, doesn’t it?’ But, la! notwithstanding she would like to 1 B I have had some, she never once / l lme to give her any. I ted - > / 4 you don’t often /ind r 1 , vo n / s j thoughtful and ,„ ,rrie.l. / f trail Free Press TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. —A driver in the Troy fire depart ment has invented a contrivance by which his horses are unharnessed by simply pulling the reins Trou (N. Y } Times. ' —Dr. Isador Kitsee, of Cincinnati, has patented a device for discovering fire damp in mines before the miners enter them. Electricity is used to fuse little pieces of metal at various points in a mine, and if an explosion of damp occur* a bell is rung.— N. Y. Post. —The Journal of Science says that at the soiree of the Society of Chemical Industry, held at Owens College, Mr. Fletcher, of Warrington, Eng., demon strated the possibility of the combustion of gas without visible flame, the heat obtained from a quarter-inch gas-pipe being sufficient to fuse iron into drops. ‘ —A gun invented by a man in Ripley, Miss., is, if it is what it is claimed to be, one of the most wonderful inventions of the age. It can be fired from ten to twenty thousand times a minute, can be . elevated or depressed or turned to the right or left, inclined to cover the slope f of a hill, contracted so as to bring the fire to bear on one spot or expanded to cover a wide area, and all with the great est ease and in the simplest manner, by , merely turning a crank. Chicago Times. I —lt is said that alcohol equal to that made from grain can be produced from ■ acorns. The acorns are freed from the , shell and ground finely; then they are ' mashed with malt and allowed to fer ment. Acorns contain about 20 per ; cent, of starch and 18 per cent, of glu ten. They would be a valuable article for human food if it were not for the ’ tannic acid (about 3 per cent.) which they contain. Vast quantities which ga to waste every year, where hogs are not fed in the woods, might be gathered by boys and converted into alcohol for use . in the arts, thus freeing an equivalent amount of grain for use as food. ' —Considerable progress is being made in reviving the mining industries of the Isthmus of Panama. For many years its mines excited the cupidity of Span iards and buccaneers. Indian and ne- I gro slaves were made to work in quartz ’ and placer by the most primitive proc esses, and almost entirely without ma j chinery, but their labors were very pro | ductive, according to tradition. it is I centuries, however, since most of the mines were abandoned. Some were worked out, others were not rich enough to pay with hired labor, and all required an investment of capital which the un settled condition of the country, and especially the fear all foreigners enter tained for isthmus fever, effectually pre vented from being made. — N. Y. Sun. —An impetus has been given to the nickel industry by the improved process es of making it malleable. Many useful as well as ornamental articles are now made of this material. Nickel table utensils especially are in great favor abroad. This class of goods is now be ing manufactured largely in Prussia, and is preferred to similar articles of other materials. The hardness of the metal renders it capable of receiving a high polish, which is not readily in jured by friction of any usual kind; on account, too, of the peculiar smoothness of the surface, matters do not adhere firmly to it, and cleaning requires but little attention or effort. It also pos sesses the ad vantage of not tarnishing, like some other substances, when fre quently used.— Chicago Tribune. - - ■ - > 1 Life in the Deep Sea. The conditions under which I' 1 in the deep sea are very The pressure exerted by th -*’ ’ great depths is enormous,JJsTS beyond comprehension. ’ roughly to a ton weight on 3TA.TOc> inch for every 1,000 fathoms so that at the depth of 2,500 jhest market there is a pressure of two tor. half per square inch of surface, may be contrasted with the ” 1 pounds per square-inch pressure’ltu n which we are accustomed at the level of the sea surface. An ex]>eriment made by Mr. Buchanan enabled us to realize the vastness ot the deep sea pressure more fully than any otiier facts. Mr. Mr. Buchanan hermetically sealed up at both ends a thick glass tube full of air several inches in length. He wrapped this sealed tube in flannel, and placed it, so wrapped up, in a wide copper tube, which was one of those used to protect the deep-sea thermometers when sent down with the sounding apparatus. The copper case containing the sealed g!".» tube was sent down to a depth of _,JO fathoms, and drawn up again. It was then found that the copper wall of the case was bulged and bent inward opposite the place where the glass tube lay, just as if it had been crumpled in ward by being violently squeezed. The glass tube itself, wi bin its flannel wrap per, was found, when withdrawn, re duced to a fine powder, like snow al most. —Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger. If a man means what he says he will ' be deliberate in his speech and state I his purpose in plain, simple 1 Intending suicide, he will not wake i motions at himself tin”* 7^ bi