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VOL. V.-NO. 8. {JEWS GLEANINGS. Jacksonville, Fla., has six papers. Texas has 137,000 square miles desti tute of inhabitants. The richest county in North Carolina in gold is Montgomery. The largest single brick-yard in the United. States is at Atlanta. Tennessee, North Carolina and Vir ginia will all make good peanut crops. Corn is offered in Jackson county, Ala., at twenty cents per bushel, deliv ered. Pratt s coal mines at Birmingham, Ala., are the most extensive in the South. Experiments have proven that the Japanese seedless persimmon will grow prolifically in Florida. It is estimated that over 1,000,000 oi ange trees will come into bearing in Orange county, Fla., this year. It is said that the first orange tree ever known to have been injured by lightning was struck at St. Augustine, Fla., recently. Of’the immigrants arriving at Castle Garden during the last six months, Texas got 2,089 more than any other Southern State. Twenty more marriage and natal guilds filed articles of incorporation at Nashville Monday. The grand shaking up of dry bones will be a thing of the near future. The Concho floods caused the death nf 149 persons and 15,000 sheep. In the past month, floods in Texas have de stroyed 200 lives and $5,000,000 worth of property. The High Shoals factory recently sold to an Atlanta broker, for $650, Confed erate bonds to the amount of SIOO,OOO. which had been lying i n the factory safe for seventeen years. Griffin, Ga., has the largest peach or c ard in the South, containing 50,000 fees and covering most of 600 acres. “ same farm are,4,000 grafted an P e trees and 5,000 pear trees. Numerous petitions are being circu lated m Alabama asking the Legislature to prohibit the manufacture and sale ol intoxicating liquors in the State. The petitions are being numerously signed. Gold has been discovered in the Organ Mountains, sixty miles north of~El 1 aso Tex. A piece of ore brought in, weighing two pounds, was covered with pure gold and contained $l5O worth of rue metal. Fha Glc h ar d of Perry Howard, at nezer, Miss., there is an apple tree '7 “A th. ripe frult I B j‘.t „ 0 „. appearing. A second crop is upon ‘he tree about half gr3Wn , and is still blooming for a third crop. P inT n - iamß ? Urg ’ the 01dest cit y Vir cuietp 1 ! T t 0 one of t,ie Quaintest, great nt ' OB th ® S ° Uth ’ and 01 tian i LFeSt because of its many an building,. ItwM Ce the capital of the State. th^Past W fif ) f rleaQß Washerwoma n has in fit) i teen years raised a family of a *’«■ Ihem an Xod day ’“ ,d «’»? tor a rainy namJ” 01 '”” TO “'“ 7 ' G “-> l »'> men, Cm r ? i ’ eot ' v "r Hill and O „ M ’ oyer three I “ n,in “ed tor draw Tim h ° Ur8 ’ and resulted in a atll M CC “““Otwell, ciose of the novel duel. I ™"l',y b a re ‘ h ! J ” U T‘ in the living hrether and , ister ‘ cl >'Mren arc thirteen and te„ re 'P“tOelj mMt of their own work have done In Geneva countv ai Wwn down by a storm m’’ a miH Wa » woman and her child 1 “ CS . day ’. and a ruins. The next juried in the ’■s cleared ,„ ay tho d «l>Ha ".aaeraahed by «L'' 1 1 1 " . the ”»«■- li «'“hild J,*;;:*’’ the ” d ' h “"’»ther,^ pin Dixie Wagoner, a smart n . nymph du pave, has made * Art ” associations sweat. Aft ne ma "iage large number of noli •' * takin 8 °«t a h« “triend,” drew al! X," 1 ' then went to Illi no i s » n<l nione y and v orce. The nair tu . procure <I a di and are now b •** ° v ’ded the swag diß eomfitei at the duped and F Rome (Ga.) Bulletin: D. W. Ford, of Cave Spring, brought into olir office yesterday a perfect natural pitcher, which he had found in Texas a few months ago growing as an excrescence on a red elm tree. Its proportions are ac curate, and it is about twelve inches high and six inches in diameter, is hoi low, and has a perfect handle and spout. At Wilmington, N. C.» a party of gentlemen discovered'a large white crane on the edge of a small pond evidently trying to fly, but could not. They went to investigate the matter and ascertained that one of the bird’s feet was held by a large snapping terrapin. The crane was lifted out of the water, but the ter rapin kept his hold. Both were cap tured alive. Henry Todd, who lives in Darien, is the wealthiest colored man in Georgia. When a youth his master died and left him his freedom. When the Confed ercy fell he lost twenty slaves and some Confederate bonds. After the war he continued farming operations and en gaged in the lumber business. He is now sixty-five years old, and is worth $100,003 in good investments. The New Orleans Times-Democrat, in an article on “Cotton Mills, North and South,” says the Southern mills now boast 1,237,409 spindles, and that the consuption of cotton this year will reach 100,000 bales, or one quarter of the amount used North. This fact is the more natable because two years ago the amount of cotton manufactured in the South was scarce worthy of mention. The largest individual sheep owner in Texas is a woman, well known all over the State as the “Widow Callahan.” Her sheep, more than 50,000 in number, wander over the ranges of Uvalde and Bandera counties, in the southwestern part of the State. Their grade is a cross between the hardy Mexican sheep and the Vermont merino. They are divided into flocks of 2,000 head each, with a “bossero” and two “pastoras” in charge of each flock. A North Carolina correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes: “1 suppose Morehead City is the only city in the world without a wheel in it, • I do not think that there is a wagon or a buggy horse in town and very few in the country. Everything is done in boats. . There is not a house in the county that a boat cannot get within a mile of. Not a doctor or a lawyer in the county owns a horse ; they practice in boats. The people go to funerals in boats, and when they arrest a man they cirry him to jail in a boat. A Prussian View of the English Army. The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette at Ramleh expresses surprise at the coolness of The British troops. “They show,” he says, “none of the excitement and eagerness which dis tinguish the Continental nations when they light for existence, or at least for a national idea. This Egyptian war, like most wars in which England is en gaged, is treated entirely as a matter of business; if the object of the under taking had been to make a railway or a canal it could hardly have been entered upon more quietly. * * * Deeds of extraordinary energy 7 and courage, as is to be expected in wars carried on in this way, are much more rare than in the national wars of Continental Eu rope. It is true that the feeling of national solidarity is as strong as, if not stronger, among the English, than among other nations, and there is no lack of manliness in a race of such consummate physical development; but the cause for which they tight does not elicit the enthusiasm which prompts men to do more than their duty. More over, the English, however practical, are deficient in foresight. It will scarcely be believed in Germany that there are not more than two or three trustworthy maps of Lower »Egypt in the whole of the English camp. Even most of the staff officers have to use maps which arc not much better an those in Baedeker’s Guide Book. And yet there woidd have been plen.y of time to get a few hundreds of copies of the Arabian map of Mahmud Bey, with the names of the places printed in Roman characters. At the same time, it is not to be denied that the English army, notwithstanding its singular and antiquated organization according to Continental notions, is well adapted tor a war of this kind. The admirable physique of the men. the wise and busi ness-like way in which they are led, and the strongly developed love of sport, whether military or otherwise, which is the national characteristic, are immense advantages in a struggle with a half-civilized adversary. The dis cipline of the army, toe. seems very strict; for 1 have not seen any drunken soldiers since 1 arrived ” —An Indiana writer advocates the al olition of the telephone on the proiw that it encourages laziness. Th ■ huh objection applies to easy chairs . n nearly all the comforts of modern l.f Chicago Tribune. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Oregon is now called the Webfoot Mate. Evangelist Moody is trying to stir up i religious feeling in Pdrisi Prince Bismarck has beenjin the Prus sian Ministry twenty years. The corn acherage is greater this year chan ever before owing to the tooth-pick coed boots. A tunnel is projected under the Elbe, oetween Hamburg and Steinwarder Island, to cost It will cost over §IOO,OOO to replace the bridges swept away by the recent Hoods at Elizabeth, New Jersey, —* ♦ * Seven citizens of Delaware were pub licly whipped a few days ago, and three more stood an hour in the pillory. A gentle Man who has made recent observations in Utah claims to have discovered internal dissensions in the Mormon Church which may work its ruin. Cincinnati is organizing a swell cav alry company, to be known as the Cin cinnati Horse Guards. It takes §3OO and a “passable” moral character to become a member, The great Newburgh poker game has at last been settled, by Hedges and Scott refunding to their victim, Weed, §20,000. This makes Weed’s loss, in round figures, §70,000. Each of Garibaldi’s children is to get $2,000 a year for life from the Italian Government. Yet their late father was in 1834 (on lemned by grandfather of the present King of Italy to be shot. The Queen of Madagascar has ordered that a prohibitory law shall be framed, prohibiting the manufacture of brandy or its importation into her territories. The penalty is the forfeiture of ten oxen and a fine of $lO. The fruit crop in Scotland has been a complete failure. It. is the worst season for the last fifty years. At one well known orchard in the Carse of Gowrie, which is rented at £2OO, the crop consists of one barrel of apples. Rumor has it that the wedding of Mr. Chester A. Arthur, jr., and Miss Crow ley, has been appointed for the early part of October. The bride and groom elect are extremely young, their com bined ages not exceeding thirty-six. The London Truth says that a specu lator in New York has resolved to tempt Prof. Huxley to cross the Atlantic by the offer of £IOO per lecture for a series of 200 discourses on popular science, to be delivered during 1883 and 1884. Mr. Gladstone wears ready-made clothing, and while crossing a street always acts on the principle that the hypothenuse of a triangle is less than the two sides. In place of using the cross walk, he cuts off the corners, or crosses diagonally on the cobbles. The Washington Critic says: ‘Star- Route juryman John B. McCarthy, who voted for conviction all the way through, has been appointed to a position at the Government Asylum for the Insane. Mr. McCarthy was simply an honest cobbler before he got on the jury.” —♦ ♦ * Bacon that used to sell in the South for from five to eight cents per pound is now worth from fourteen to seventeen cents per pound. Cotton has depreciated largely, and it does not pay to raise cot ton to buy pork with. The Southern farmers are beginning to find this out. Mr. J. G. Bigelow, the counsel for Sergeant Mason, states that when he visited the Albany Penitentiary a few days ago, to obtain the execution of the petition of a writ of habeas corpus, Mason was looking bad and felt quite discour aged. They have him engaged in mak ing shoes. The number of acres in rice in the United States in 1880 was 114,113; num ber of pounds produced, 110,131,373 clean rice; an average product of 632 pounds per acre. Number of acres un der cultivation in 1881, nearly twenty thousand less than in 1880, and product in 1881, eleven million pounds greater than that of the previous year. The London Truth ridicules Gen. Wolseley’s dispatches from Egypt as “sentimental twaddle,” and attention is called to his account of an engagement i in which there was “heavy firing for j several hours,” the troops “behaving admirably under a hail of bullets,” and the result was one man killed and twelve wounded. A wealthy bachelor of Oregon, whose death lately occurred in the East, while on a visit, has given the most valuable farm in the cove to a school for young ladies. The buildings for the school will be erected soon. This farm contains 34,00(1 prune an plum trees, and the pro ceeds from the sale of fruit are some §IO,OOO a year. ♦ ♦ Prof. Boss, of the t)udley Observa tory, at Albany, says the comet was 10,- 000,000 miles from the sun September 17, and 20,000,000 on the 21st. On the former date it was 103,000.000 miles from the earth, and on the latter 107,* 000,000. It is thus going away both from the sun and the earth. It is plainly visible in the early morning in the Eastern sky, and is beautifully brilliant. Tjiii woman suffragist movement seems to be advancing in the East. Says the Massachusetts’ Democratic platform: Equal rights, equal powers, equal bur dens, equtil privileges and equal protection by law under the government fore Very cit izen of the republic, without limitation of race or sex, or property-qualification, whether it be by a tax on property or a poll taxon persons. Says the Republican platform of the same State: We invite intelligent and candid consid eration of all propositions in aid of tem perance and good order, for equal rights of suffrage irrespective of sex, and for the en couragement of industry, frugality, con tentmen and prosperity among "all the people of our honored State. Some one has found in one of Ecker mann’s books a record of a conversation he bad in 1825 with Goethe on the sub ject of ship canals. Goethe, he says, showed a special interest in Humboldt’s idea of piercing the Isthmus of Panama, and further said : “Itis a necessity for the United States that American mer chantmen and men of war should be able io set sail straight into the Pacific from the Bay of Mexico, and I feel sure that they will accomplish it. I should wish to live to see it; but that will not happen. Secondly, I should like navi gation from the Danube into the Rhine to be rendered feasible. And thirdly, I should like to see the English in posses sion of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez. To live long enough in order to witness three such great events it would be really worth while to put up with existence for some fifty years more.” Goethe’s fifty years, it will be observed, were completed in 1876. Causes of Typhoid Fever. A severe outbreak of typhoid fever which occurred last year at Nahant, a rocky peninsula near Boston, inhabited during the summer by a small number of very rich cottage owners, was fol lowed by an investigation, of which the results are made public in an article by Mr. E. W. Bowditch, in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. In such cases contamination of drinking-water is usually the principal cause of the spread of the disease, and the wells and cisterns which supply the houses were first examined. Water was taken from one hundred and ninety of these and analyzed. Eight of the samples were pronounced “excellent,” and seventy one others “permissible,” or “wood.” One hundred and eleven were classed as “suspicious,” “very suspicious,” or : “bad.” About eighty cases of fever occurred, nearly all of which could be accounted for by the actual condition of the drinking-water used in the houses inhabited by the patients. In a few others the filthy surroundings furnished a probable source of infection, although the water appeared pure, as, in one in stance, where analysis failed to detect any serious pollution in water taken from a well situated within ten feet of one leaching cesspool and fifteen feet of another, both overflowing, and of course ready to furnish an occasional supply to the well during dry seasons or under other circumstances. One or two more were probably explained by the fact that the ice used in the house hold was brought from a foul pond in | the vicinity; and only one seemed quite I inexplicable, unless perhaps the infec- | tion might have been brought by milk contained in cans which had been rinsed in foul water. Mr. Bow ditch’s suspi- ; cion, that the infection was communi cated in certain cases by contaminated ice, is strengthened by the fact that a very severe and fatal epidemic of ty- j phoid fever was unquestionably caused in this way not long ago at a seashore i hotel in New England; and it is worth asking whether the public authority ; might not be employed with advantage in exercising some sort of surveillance over the collection and sale of an article j which may become, and perhaps already is, far more dangerous than the trichi- i nous pork or immature veal against which so many precautions are taken. In one place that we know of, says the Amer ican Architect, thousands of tons of ice are annually gathered at the very edge of an extensive and well-filled cemetery, which slopes somewhat rapidly toward the water; and we have seen the winter product of a little pool formed by the overflow of what was practically the drain of a cluster of squalid houses regularly sold to customers. — Scientific American. A granite memorial to Elihu Burritt, the “learned blacksmith,” bearing the simple inscription, “Friend <d ' race - | »nd Philanthropist, has been k tup rn I New Britain Cemetery. Connecticut. A Parisian AftiM’s Revenge. One of the most eminent painters of Paris was lately commissioned to paint the portrait of a lady who was some years ago a famous beauty, but who is how nearer her fiftieth than her fortieth year. She wished the portrait to be ex hibited in this year’s Salon, and gave the artist endless trouble over its de tails. When it was finished, however, she was far from contented, and de blared that the could not recognize her own likeness in his conscientious piece of work. 'The paintef «tdd that she need not have the picture if she did not think it to be a faithful one, and it re mained in his atelier as his own unsold property Meanwhile he was deter mined to have hist revenge for the insult done to his pride as an artist and the loss to his pocket as one who lived by his art. In order that the picture should not remain a piece of dead capital, he resolved to transform it from a portrait into a subject. A few days before the private exhibition the lady in question was informed by a w ell-instructed friend that the artist had introduced a number of accessories into her portrait which tvero likely to compromise her reputa tion. She drove off in great haste to the painter’s studio and asked to seethe picture. The wish was promptly grati fied. There she stood upon the canvas, life-like and life-size; but the cruel artist had thinned her hair to scmi-baldness, and in one of her hands she held two long tresses of false hair. Upon the table at her side, which he had changed into a toilet-table, were ranged a num ber of bottles, labeled respectively with the words: “Milk of Lilies,” “Beauty Water,” “Elixir against Wrinkles,” “Golden-hair Dye.” The lady cried out that such treatment was infamous. “You have really no complaint, madame,” said the artist. “Youhave already declared that the picture is in no sense a portrait of yourself. I accept your opinion, and, as I cannot afford to lose so much hard work, I have treated it as a fantasie piece, and as such I shall introduce it to the public. I mean to call it “The Coquette of Fifty Years.’ ” “What!” exclaimed she. “You mean to exhibit it?” The lady immediately begjed him to accept the stipulated sum for the portrait and, after she had seen the compromising accessories ob literated in her presence, took out her check-book and bought the picture on the snot.— London Echo. Western Stories Outdone. Newspapers in the West and South have of late enjoyed a monopoly of re markable stories of snakes and other desirable specimens of natural history 7 . That the North may not be left behind in this respect, let us consider the moral teachings which are .presented by the Summer Boarder and the Freshwater Clam. Three years ago the boarder in question, while straying along the bed of a stream that had been left partially bare by excessive drought, discovered, lying upon the sand, a conehiferous, bivalvular mollusk— vulg. clam—which seemed to be in the last gasp from ex haustion and thirst. The kind-hearted stranger, pitying the sore strait of the unhappy bivalve, at once took it up and cast it into a deep part of the stream and then went his way, speedily forget ting the incident. A week ago, how ever, as he was enjoying his vacation, amt sitting near the spot where the above described event took place, he perceived a clam laboriously climbing out of the water and dragging itself over the sand. Arrived, with much ex ertion, at the fc “ of the amazed ob server, the clam ope.-M its shell and disclosed a pearl as large as a hazel nut, which the gentleman did not hesi tate to appropriate. Thereupon the clam, smiling clear way around to its back hinge, returned to the water and disappeared with a gurgle of satisfac tion. This affecting incident, besides showing that even the humblest works of creation are capable of noble emo tions, teaches us the fine moral that we should always be kind to animals, in which respect it is much to be pre ferred to the Southern and Western yarns referred to, which seem devised simply to entertain the minds of the frivolous, and convey no edifying lesson at all.— Boston Journal. Driven From a Valued Home. A will made in a mail-house, of which the testator has been an inmate during the greater part of his life, is not a doc ument very likely, one would say, to pass muster in a court of law, but such a paper has just been declared valid in Dublin. The testator was a Frenchgen tleman, who in his youth became insane from excessive dissipation and was con fined in an asylum for two years before he recovered his mental health. Being then at liberty to go, he refused to do so, but having acquired a liking for the place, he remained there until his death, twenty-eight years later. Only once did he go out into the world, and on this occasion he returned to the asylum so drunk that he declared be would nev er run into temptation again, a resolu tion to which he always thereafter ad hered, until finally he was told he could not remain any longer, whereupon he went forth weeping and diedin eighteen months from the day of his discharge. ■ —The Agricultural Colleges of the : various States that have a farm attached should begin a systematic and continu ous effort to develop new and different kinds of fruits, and by mterchanging find out line's 0 tended field of ' of fruit,’especially pay the expense a /, million fold. —At. S'™” TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR. PITH AND POINT. —ls you can’t trust a man entirely, let him skip; this trying to get an average on honesty has always been a failure?— Josh Hillings. —lt is said a cornet player in Berlin burst a blood-vessel trying to sound a Wagnerian double note. It is comfort ing to know that Wagner’s is to be the music of the future.— Lowell Citizen. —Professor Huxley estimates the take of herring in the North Sea at 3,000 - 000,000. Before relying on Huxley’s es timate we would like to know whether i he saw the fish or took the statement of the fishermen.— Boston Post. —Douglass Autz, of Norwich, fell un der a moving train he was trying to board. When the train passed Dougiass arose, uninjured, with his cigar in his mouth. And yet there are people who claim smoking to be injurious.—Ban bury News. —A new nurse-maid had been engaged for the family of John Leech. On her appearing in the nursery she was thus addressed by Master Leech: “Nurse, papa says I am one of those children that can be managed by kindness, and I’ll trouble you to fetch some sponge cakes and oranges at once.”— Chicago Tribune. —A salt mine has just been discovered in Australia which is believed to be more than two thousand years old. It’s a good thing it was a salt mine, or it would’nt have kept half so long. Now, there are some silver mines in America, for instance, that haven’t lasted more than three months after the assessments gave out.— Burlington Hawkeye. —Some men have tact. Said the bridegroom who didn’t wish either to offend his bride or die of internal disturbance: “My dear, this bread looks delicious; but it is the first you have ever made. I can not think of eating it, but will preserve it to show to our children in after years as a sample of their mother’s skill and deftness.”—Bos ton Post. —Plantation philosophy—Remember, yonng man, dat de best frien’ yer’s got on dis earth is a better frien’ ter himself den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter a man by de boasts what he makes. Thunder doan all de time tell ob a corn in’rain. . . Doan turn a man outen de ranks of spectability case he’s a cow ard. A hound dog ain’t much on de fight, but he’s a mighty useful animal. . . . While Nature was a foolin ’ away her time paintin’ different colors an’ stripes on de hornsob de Jack snappers an’ odder bugs, 1 doan see why she didn’t contrive some easier way fur a chile to cut teeth. — Arkansas traveler. —— 1111 "11 J 1 Hogs. If you have hogs running in your pas tures now is the time, when the grass is low and the heat oppiessive, to feed generously, once or twice a day with corn, wheat and oats screenings; with bran, shorts, rotten or fallen apples, and other fruits, jointly or separately made by boiling into a mush, or even a swill. It costs something and it causes some labor and trouble, but all will be well repaid in the quantity that before Christ mas will go into the lard tubs and pork barrels. It is perfect nonsense to raise pork on the old plan if you wish to raise it for less than twelve or fifteen cents a pound. If you follow the old plan, which was turning out shouts at “ kill ing time,” and starving them all win ter until clover comes, and then say, “root hog or die,” until with dogs and negroes you hunt them down and place them in a pen for fattening, after thev have worried you all the year as < laws, breaking in the fields of COD other grain at night, and next dayQ, almost to death and torn by dogs, uni. they escape through their holes m th< fence, and a man or more hasgj-QjJ half a day to drive them out the hole, for the same thing peated the next day--you will at a cost far beyond what you it for in the market. But if you can’ll a good breed, keep the hogs dry iqj warm in winter, give a good pasture in summer, plenty of water and food the year round, with rotten wood, ashes, salt and sulphur, you can raise pork costing not half what you should receive for it should you choose to sell. The hog is naturally lazy, and if well sup plied with food he will not wander far from the swill-tub or food-trough. Like the poor, lazy drunkard he will stick to the tavern that gives him his food and drink in the largest quantity for the least exertion on his part. But stop his meat and drink, and no idle vagabond or ruined roue will turn marauding rover, or sneak-thief, bold highwayman or chicken-stealer as will the hog, whether he be high-bred or common stock.— Maryland Farmer. Fascinated by .in Alligator. I was at the Zoo yesterday and saw something which is worthy of being mentioned. One of the gulls entered the pond where the alligator was lazily propelling himself about and proceeded to enjoy itself in its native elements. But the eye of the scaly monster was upon it and the mesmeric influence of its glance was soon felt. It was im possible for the gull to resist the baleful o-lare of the saurian; inch by inch it was attracted to the alligator powerless to resist the fascination, until it came close enough for the mammoth h £vin<' devoured luckless bird Aftei huvW its prey the ' to digest, Its 111. . ■ living __A l,e * r Uounxa. ho inohe* long-