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VOL. V.--NO. 9. NEWS GLEANINGS. Q ne of the most successful cotton growers in Alabama is a negro. Texas will have over 200 new distil leriesby the close of the present year. The colored Baptists in Tennessee number 60,000 and have 150 churches. Work on the jetties in harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, has been resumed. In spite of the overflow, probably in consequence of it, the Louisiana sugar crop is the beet since the war. Jack Butler, who burned his little child tG death at Florance, Ala., has been sent to the penitentiary for life. The Nickle church, to be built at Pal estine, Tex., is t® be paid for by not less than 200,000 persons contributing a nickle a piece. Para grass grows to an enormous length in Florida. Near Orange City some is growing that is eighteen feet and a half long. A terrapin farm has its existence at Waveland, Miss., and last week 900 lit tie turtles were hatched. They will be full grown in three years. In Heard eountv, Georgia, resides a family of eight persons, named Ray, all [of whom are deaf mutes. Nevertheless, they are all industrious and happy. The average corn crop in Tennessee is 60,006,000 buehels, but it will reach 100,000,000 bushels this year. The 'wheat crop will reach nearly 12,000,000. The Farmer’s Co operative Union, of [Florida, are said to have secured a sim pie but effectual plan for preparing or anges for market in such a manner that they will keep for months. The monument to be erected at Vicks burg, Miss., to the memory of Gari baldi, will be surmounted by a life sized statue of that personage, and will be one of the finest in the United States. A large shot-tower is to be erected in New Orleans by a local company who I have abundant means and plenty of ex [perience. The tower will be the eleventh in the I nited States when completed. The o f railroad building and >ailroad business in the South last year was unprecedented. About 1,500 miles of road were put in operation, and the gW's earnirgs amounted to $63,000,000 i Roberts & Salter, ‘of Bullock county, Ala., had twenty-six acres of heavy t'ml < rt<l oottom land which they want e * Hca.eft. In ten hours 106 axmen 200 log rollers and brush pilen •ooipleted the job. * he H()t Springs creek on the Gov mment reservation at Hot Springs, . 1810 be strengthened and protect ' r °“ Bewa ? e and refuse, and generally to have $127,000 worth of im provements puj & n it. reu. J'™ es ‘ D K emocrat ’ in an article on e heahh o f New Orleans, claims that JJere r Cno|egß eighteenth',7t- IXly ° f age Or one ‘ h -e passed WhHe 19& grave yard <7 be buiU ° Ver a s>x years , . maßtodon8 > an 'l for five or seldom X V t OD b SfOr bUilding ° bones Al’ t 0 >nng up their d( ’ a nUmbeF ° f theSe maßto a g°> and some of 7 "7 & feW dayß mous size. f1 Xe b ° nes were of enor - F?th ( f t tbe P r nee ’ Stonewa, l Nation's i a Chief Ml rria g e fined $ 2 Ark ” h -e ordinance whiel " ' ['•[ Vlola, . lD g a cit y Prises being <•« \ liroblbit s “gift’ enter 8t «t* Gazette i U 7 Cd ‘ n that City> The entl yordai 1 n e r d an in''s R ‘ r< ” oseksonvilie pi ‘ John 8 church, ""“t artistin ? ’ " r ‘ UCh i 8 called th e "WLkrt .Ji,” T"" ’ dia a,e 1,1 the State tl * ft Wa ” the first heen oioained i, a . c,lorad man has AtGri ffin ‘ bitechu -h. kas heen captured 4 77 CUrioUB B P ider 7 rd ’ th ick form J- “ ba * ° n ‘ts back a blin ga soft shefl 7 VeFy ’ nUch reipm -8 Quarter of an 177 ’ * turt]e ’ abou t ha ‘ ei ght horn, " Chacroßß This shell ’^Piusawe^re' 1 ° f Which the 8 an active 1 he Same ‘’me He * ollld sav a ’ n < ’ a ? Artemus Ward ° al - v a fe W , ,b server : It has E Hid 'ien, a „ p " ths einc e Prof. W 'h'tingui,] ied eleeirr 6 ° f Edißon > the at tenno n o f the Ulic Dalton world the now far famed hiddenite. 11° has now discovered atoothcr stone only a little lew Valuable, if any, than the gem which bears his name. He beliWves it to be a new mineral, Unknown to sci entific geologists, perfectly transparent, resembling the diamond, but belonging to a different geological! amily. It is one degree softer than quarto) ot higher lus ter, complex fbfm, and he propo es to on!' it Edisonite. It is found in the neighborhood of the place in Alexander eounty where he discovered the hidden ite. ___________ The Probable Wheat Yield. The only statistics which have yet been given for the yield per acre of the present crop are those of Illinois, where the official report places the yield at 181 bushels per acre, against 17-7 in 1880. It is. of course, not assumed that the yield per acre in Illinois is to be ac cepted as the average for the United States. But there are some reasons why the yield per acre in Illinois may be accepted as an index to the average yield of the United States, in preference to accepting the yield of almost any other one State as such an index: First —lllinois is the largest wheat-raising Slate in tho Union, and in the three years from 1879 to 1881 inclusive pro duced about twelve per cent, of all the wheat raised in the United States. Second—lllinois lies nearly in the center o. the group of ten States comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis consin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, which produced in 1880 about three-fourths of the Wheat crop of the United States. Illinois may therefore be presumed to represent the average of the meteorological experience and crop conditions of this group of States. In 1880 the average; yield pet acre in Illinois was 16*7 bushels, while that of the United States was 13-1 bushels per acre. Illinois was therefore 22 per cent, above the general average. It is an established fact that the average yield of wheat per acre in different sec tions of the United States con tinues at about the same rela tive difference, as, for instance, the average in the Southern States is always only about half as much per acre as in the group of States above men tioned while in the far Northwest the yield is always greater per acre than in the ten States mentioned. There seems no objection, therefore, to assuming that certain States are always above and oth ers always below the general average of the United States. Now, if wD may as sume that the present yield of 181 bu-hels in Illinois is also about 22 per cent, above the average, it would make for the United States say 14 43-100 bushels per aero, or just about 10 per cent, over 188i>, Which, upon an area of 37,000,000 acres, would be 533,- 910,000 bushels, a result which differs less than the hilf of one per cent, from our previous estimate, which was made W’thout any such calculation as produces the present figures. Some argument will of course be made against assuming an increased average yield per acre of ten per cent, over the crop of 1880. But it will be remember ed that there has been no year before this when the crops of spring wheat ami v :nt "’heat were both good—except possibly 1877, when the average crop of wheat throughout the United States was 13 86-100 bushels peracre, or onlyaoout four per cent, less than we have as sumed as the average yield per acre for the present crop to produce an aggre gate of 533,910,000 bushels on 37,000,- 000 acres.— N. K Evening Post. Chines* Infanticid". Wo have all heard the Chinsse charged with infanticide. We believe that crime to be less prevalent wit h t hem than it is with us. If children are over exposed, as has been seen on a wayside a tar near llonam, we believe that bitter want and a hope that charity would provide for the child better than the mother could have been the moving causes. As a general rule, self-interest acts as the strongest bar to this vice. That the life of the male children should be preserved is most important, as the Chinese law will compel the sons to maintain their parents, and in the event of all the sons dying no one would be able to offer that worship at the tomb of ihe father and mother on which their happiness in another state is supposed to depend. With the girls preservation is almost as important, and they are a marketable commodity either as wives or as servants. Indeed, it is no very rare thing to see a basketful of babies sent down from Canton to Hong Kong for sale at prices ranging from $2 to $5. These are all girls. In denying the ex istence of infanticide it is necessary to make one exception. This is among the Tan-kia, or boat population. These are a race of people of different descent and religion from the Chinese, governed by their own magistrates, and so looked down upon by the other classes that no child of a boat-woman can compete in the literary examinations, or, whatever his ability may be, become an aspirant for office. This class is excessively su perstitious, and we have heard it stated by missionaries that when a child be longing to people of this class suffers from any lingering malady, and recovery becomes hopeless, they will put it to death with circumstances of great cruel ty, believing it not to be their child but a changeling, and fancy that a demon ha- taken the place of their offspring for the purpose of entailing on them expense and trouble for which they could never gel any return.—Tenure bar. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAI. A young Boston widow this sbasoti wore a bathing suit of full mourning. Senator Pendleton’s new home in Washington has large gdded sunflowers at the top of the lightning rods) A French artist has represented Time as a woman instead of a man. He ar gues that women have more of it than anybody else. The centeunary of Bolivar is to be cel ebrated on July 24, 1883, at Caraccas, Venezuela, by the dedication of a statue of Washington. The Flathead Indians have agreed to allow a railroad to be built across their reservation in Montana, upon the pay ment of $23,000. The price asked was $1,000,000. The $1,000,000 bequeathed by Mr. Lewis, of New Jersey, to the govern ment, to be applied towards extinguish ing the national debt, will make its ap pearance in the next monthly statement. a gfc > .... . . Robert T. Lincoln has shipped from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington sixty-two trunks belonging to hifi n other, which Weke filled with dress goods ahd trinkets purchased in Europe. * * — II Mr. Burnham, a scientic Connect! cut farmer, recently sold One of his young cow-3 for $4,800. This animal, in 372 days, has given in milk ten times her own weight—lo,ooo pounds—and 1,000 pounds of bttttef, A Californian has invented a sheep counting machine. It counts up to 10,000, registers the number, then gives a snap, jumps back, and begins count ing again. It never misses a sheep, old or young, f it or lean. Fifty young ladies from six counties of North Cal’oliua, took part in breaking ground for the Clinton and Point Cas well Railroad, near Raleigh, recently. They plied their shovels with great vigor, and were applauded by 5,000 spectators, Mrs. Langtry, according to the latest rumor, will be accompanied to this country by a band of male admirers, something after the style of the lovesick maidens in “Patience.” An English nobleman, it is said, will be the leader of the party. ♦ ♦ « President Barrios, of Guatemala, re ceives a salary of SI,OOO a month. He has been in office twelve years, and is worth $8,000,000. The debt of bis country is $9,000,000 and growing, which would seem to indicate that he does not allow any one else to take much. • —— Acting on the suggestion that letter postage be reduced to two cents a half ounce, a Post office Department official has figured out that on that basis the deficit of last year, one of the most pros perous in. the history of the service, would be $10,600,000, instead of a sur plus of $1,500,000. Kings and Princes are getting down nowadays to the same prosaic, business like ways of thinking and doing as other mortals. . Oscar 11., sovereign of Swe den and-Norway, being about to under take a journey to the latter country, has had liis life insured in favor of his fam ily for the sum of 6,000 crowns. A training school for servants has just been established at St. Louis under the management of leading ladies < f that city. Practical housekeeping in all its departments will comprise the course of training, and a nursery for poor chil dren, where they shall also be taught to "sew and sweep aud spin, is to be at tached. It is proposed to perform an operation on the eyes of Thurlow Weed, who has been blind for five years, with the hope of restoring his sight. It is intended to cut away the double cataract over his eyes and fit a double convex lens of glass accurately in front of the eye, so focussed as to properly cast an image upon the retina. If the retina has not lost its sensitiveness, it is thought that he will De able to see. The sealskin clothes worn by Engi neer Melville during his terrible experi ences in the Arctic regions are objects of much inti rest at the Navy Department, Washington. Among the relics is a brilliantly Colored foxskin cap belonging to Lieut. Berry, which was presented to him by an Esquimaux damsel. She con fiscated his old cap because it was not pretty, and gave him oue she had made herself in return. A new use has been discovered for potatoes. They can be converted into » substance resembling celluloid by peel ing theffi, and, after soaking in water, impregnated with eight parts of sulph uric acid, drying aud pressing between sheets of blotting paper. In France, pipes are made of this substance, scarce ly distinguishable from meerschaum. By subjecting the mass to great pressure billiard balls can be made of it rivaling ivory in hardness. A Rfew style of car is aboitt id bfe in troduced on the Southern Pacific Rail road, destined to be run from California to the gulf as wheat cars, and on their return as emigrant cars. The interior will be like other freight cars. Along thb sides will 1)0 Sleeping blinks, lowered and suspended by an iron rod and hinge, but capable of being closed up flush when fri ight is Carried. There are win dows, of course, and it is said the cars will be as Comfortable and warm as tne most luxurious Pullman sleeping cat. At the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. George Hafris, at Mount Meridian. Vir ginia, the bride refused to say “Yes” to the question whether she would obey her husband. She said that she saw’ no reason in such a promise, and he con cluded that no harm would be done by omitting it, pinee be intended to “make her rand anyhow.” Two years elapsed, and a few days ago the unsettled ques tion arose again, George ordered his wife to fry a chicken for dinner, and she insisted dn fdasting it. He brought in a horsewhip and declared that he would flog her until she obeyed. She shot and killed him. A UrenCh savant, has called in the aid of Darwin’s theory of evolution to ex plain the graceful gait of the Parisian ladies. According to his reasoning the streets of Pas s Were tot rt long time af ter the foundation of the city in a very poor condition, as is indeed apparent from its original name—Lutetia, or the “City of Mud.” The Parisian ladies, in order not to soil their shoes, were forced to walk on tip-toe, which in due time re sulted in high heels, and finally in that charming gait which is the admiration and envy of all the women of the civil ized worlds Heining a Horst!* One of the most senseless, and yet a very common habit of the American people, is the reining of driving horses SO tight Us to Inflict iipofi tliein ti great deal of pain, under the mistaken idea that it adds to the stylish appearance of the animal. When people see a horse’s head drawn up by the bearing rein, and see him stepping short and champing the bit, tossing his head and rattling tho harness, they assume that he is acting In the pride of liis strength and fullness of spirit, whereas the animal is really suffering agonies of pain, and is trying to gain by these movements momentary friele. To our view, a horse looks bet ter, and we know he feels better, when pursuing a natural, leisurely, swinging gait. It is as necessary for his head to oscillate in response to the motions of his body as it is for a man’s hands to do the same tiling. A horse allowed his head will work easier and last longer than one on which a check is used. Blinds are another popular absurdity in the use of horses. They collect dust, pound the eye and are in every way a nuisance. A horse that cannot be driven With safety without them should be sold to a railroad grader. No colt should be broken to them.—Lincoln (Neb) Jour nal. Beans as Food. The nutritive value of beans is very great—greater than almost any other article of food in common use. Consid ering their richness they are probably the cheapest food we have, but some what difficult of digestion, probably owing to the fact that we rarely cook them enough and masticate them in sufficiently. In preparing beans for the i table they- should first be well soaked in cold water and then thrown into boil ing v. ater and cooked until of a medium consistency between a fluid and a solid--neither too thick nor too thin. They require some acid on them when eat?n, and a sufficient amount of salt to render them palatable. They may be ea'en with potatoes or other vegetables which contain more starch and less albu men rather than with too much bread or meat. In Germany there is a process patented, by which beans and all legu minous seeds are reduced to a very line Hour and rendered capable of being used as food by the most delicate per sons. We have samples of this four, which equal in fineness the best wheat flour, and it is used extensively for m 'king soup for invalids. These soups are worth a hundred times as much us beef tea. There is a fortune awaiting any one who will prepare a flour from beans as perfect as this flour from Ger many. Bean soup, rightly made, is ex ceedingly delicious and wholesome, ami ought to be used more extensively than it is. — Sanitarian. —Sage and other herbs which you wish to keep for use in the winter should be gathered on a dry day. If they are perfectly dry when gathered you can sift them at once, and with very little trouble. But them away in tin cans (the cans in which prepared coeoanut comes are nice for this purpose); keep them where it is dry. Herbs which you do not care to sift can be tied m bundtes and lung up after the fashion ot our/ grandmothers. —A’. oge - The Piano. The old idea was that a piano was bought and brought to the house with much bruising of its beautiful legs and much mtlfflea profanity on the part of the draymen, to be played on. What superlative nonsense! What a stale and preposterous suggestion! What a relic Os barbaric ignorance! A piano to be played on! Go tO. Thank the stars the days of atlch stu pidity are over, and the true, sole and hatiiral use of a piano is becoming generally understood. A piano is put into a house sos these simple pur poses and none other. Its top is de signed as a place for a photograph al burn, a brilliant lamp-mat and a vase of flowers. Its rack is intended as a rest for an open book—an open book cov eted with pictures of farm, and fences, upofi Which are perched innumerable black birds. Its stool is placed there for the nervous young man In company to sit on and whirl, and writhe and wriggle. Its richly carved legs are Sprawled out for near sighted and awk ward people to run against, and upon being solicitously asked by the hostess if they are hurt, to reply, with the hot tears of anguish gushing into their eves: “Not in the least; only just grazed it.” Such are the legitimate uses of an able bodied and well-limbed piano in its various parts and proportions. As a Whole the piano serves two other and holder purposes. The one is it imparts character, Stateliness and an air of affluence to a household establishment. The proud-spirited host points to the rosewood instrument and seems to say to his assembled guests: "You behold that majestic in-tfurtlefiL It is grand, square and upright. Is it not symbolic of its owner—is he not grand, square and upright?” Os course nobody can play on it—not one of his quartet of daughters—but it Is to be remembered that it was not put there to play on, and who would ask its owner to put it to per verse use? But after all the real mission of a piano in the house is this—a place for a Young lady to sit and idly turn the leaves of ti blackbird book, and a some thing for a young gentleman to hang over aud now and then breathe softly in the young lady’s ear to let her know that he is growing weak, but he still lives. It iS ail affecting sight to observe a young man hang over rt piano. Few young men know how to bang over a piano ill good form. One must not bend too low, as if he were looking for a lost sleeve button or a nickel, nor yet be too rigid and inllexib'e, like a wood en soldier oil a weather vane. A com promise of these attitudes with a little ob lique leaning toward the stool and its Occupant is about the correct thing in piano hanging. Now and then byway of novelty an attempt is made on a grand social occa sion to actually play the piano. A dis mal young man leads an exhaustive young lady to the piano. An awful silence pervades the drawing room. The somber young man slowly lifts the lid, as if he was about to view the re mains of the last relative he had on earth. The young lady wildly runs her fingers over the keys —there is a sob, a wail, a vociferation of violent grief, a cry of comfortless despair and ail is over. The young lady sinks upon Lia nearest so f a. The young man lowers the lid, turns away his head and is seen no more. Verily, the day of superstition and mistaken ideas is over, and piano play ing has passed away with the many fol lies and foibles of our purblind and un cultured ancestry. — New London Tele gram. Wanted to Move Slowly. Last fall, when one of the small towns out West got the manufacturing fever, the citizens held a meeting to see what inducements should be held out for cap italists to come there and invest. One speaker said they could afford to donate ten acres of ground for a factory. An other said the town could add 500,000 brick. A third moved that the citizens turn out and give 100 days’ work on the building. A fourth said he could prom ise a house for the superintendent to live in, and a fifth would start a sub scription paper to buy the machinery and boilers for the factory. During a break in the popular enthusiasm an old tanner arose and solemnly said: “Gen tlemen, I think the enterprise of our town will build the chair factory, fur nish houses, rent free, for all the oper atives, and buy a year’s supply of lum ber to work on, but when we go beyond that let’s move slowly. We don’t want to promise to buy the foreman any hair oil or hair dye until we know whether he is bald-headed or not!”— Wall Street News. A Chase for a Baby. There was a funny chase for a baby at Plainville, Conn., on Wednesday morning. A woman stepped from a train a moment to question the agent, and the train pulled out suddenly with out her, carrying off her baby. Her frenzy moved the good ticket agent to telegraph to Bristol and order tlfe baby returned. The train dropped the infant at Forestville, and a good man footed it thither and lugged the baby back to Plainville. The mother, meantime grown impatient, had gone to Forest ville on the engine of a grave ‘ back went the good man with h h.‘bv lo Forestville, there to learn , frantic mother 'W'.nod to the I TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —Ben Hill’s last words were spoken to his pastor, Rev. C. A. Evans, and were: “ Almost home.” —Secretary Folger, of the Treasury, is called a perfect picture of Benjamin Franklin, and with good reason, for Franklin’s mother was a Folder. o I —Says F. J. Furnivall, the Shakespe rian critic: "Shakespeare’s own five signatures prove that the most authentic form of spelling his name is • Shaks pere.’ ” —Roza Bonheur is sixty-two years old and has quit wearing pantaloons and dresses like any other woman. This leaves Mary Walker in the full enjoy ment of a dangerous monopoly.— Hawkeye —Hans Von Bulow, the pianist, is go ing to marry a woman named Maria Amalia Katharina Josepha Schauzer. When she adds Von Bulow she will have a real seven-octave name.— Lowell (ottrii r. -Berlioz, the composer, when he was in love, said to the adored one: "Ariel, I adore you, I bless you; in a word, 1 love you more than the weak 1 ranch tongue can say; give me an or chestra of 100 performers and a chorus of 150 voices and I can tell you. ” —The best prose sentence ever writ ten on this side of the Atlantic, accord ing to Mr. E. P. Whipple, is this from Emerson’s lecture on Shakespeare: “The recitation begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from sul this painted pedantry, and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessi ble homes.” - Some Sanscrit manuscripts of parts of the bible of the Buddhists have been foltnd in Japan. It is thought that many relics in Sanscrit of great value may yet be discovered in China and Japan, though probably' not any that will have any important bearing upon the religion either of the Jews or of the Christians. — Chicago Journal. —Antoine Gerin-Lajoie, who recent ly died at Ottawa, will be long remem bered by his countrymen in Canada, for he wrote their national song. "Le Ca-’ nadien Errant.” There is hardly a man, Woman or child in Canada who does not know the simple song by heart, and it can be heard almost any evening among the Canadians of New England factory towns and in the French settle ments of the far West. — N. Y. Sun. —A correspondent relates the follow ing incident in the life of the Rev. Will iam Arthur, father of the President: "While presiding over the Baptist Church in West Troy, his choir drawled out the hymn with variations, which did not please him, so he took his text and preached two hours and forty minutes. His head deacon grew impatient and consulted his watch. ‘ Keep your watch in vour pocket, Deacon Jones,’ said he, ‘you hail a long sing, and now I am go ing to preach till 1 get through. Chicago Herald. Harmony in Human Life. Our surroundings should be harmoni ous with our life. It is not necessary to sound the same notes to produce harmony. The word implies blending, but it almost forbids repetition. Nat ure is the great teacher. Her means aii<l ends are consistent with each other. Nature understands too well the art of harmony to attempt impossibilities. She is always up to the mark, but she does not overstep herself. Where the soil will not grow lilies and roses, she con tents herself with daisies, but left t< herself, she will always cover man s mistakes with a carefully spun shroud. It is to learn this lesson more perfect’ Q that in later life we m e drawn from mankind to live with Na'ur ( ' fuller growth takes place L. 'TT ourselves in unigofi'with all we see, when intercourse with nature restores ill us th<j balance that human conflict has 3 destroyed. Life in great cities is in imical to harmony. The clash of interests is too tierce, and those who live much in great centers of human effort cannot bus ain the sense of harmony, unless ■tljey ®btne away for a time. Ihe form and manner of modern soc etv increase the difficulty. The multitude of ac quaintances, and the little time given (6 each, make intercourse necessarily broken-and unharmonious. Conversa tion takes the form of epigram, and each .sentence must be cast into such a form as not necessarily to demand a second for its completion. By degrees, our thoughts follow our words, and each opinion becomes rounded and finished oft to fit into each question that mav arise. Nothing can be viewed as a whole—we are too near to its de tails. So near are we in great cities that it is almost impossible not to take each detail for the whole. Then arises irritation, from the sense of the un fitness of each separate opinion ex pressed to bear the structure of our whole, line of thought. We have uttered an epigram, but we have not slated our judgment as it really is. To do that requires time and opportunity, which society, neglectful of the in dividual in its care for the whole, can not afford to any one of its members. The utterance, unfathered and without offspring, must stand or fall by itself, while we may be thankful if we are not through it 'labeled and placed in a \ pigeon-hole to which we are as I to*. ~ book-