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VOL. V. -NO. 12.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Connecticut now has but one active
gm distillery.
Mr. Labouchebe says that France is
now one gigantic gambling establish*
ment
There are nearly 300,000 tons of last
season’s ice in the houses on the Kenne
bec River.
~Ax English financial critic says signif
icantly that England never hawks her
wires abroad.
The Boston Herald estimates that
there are not more than 6,300 German
voters in Massachusetts, and 47,000 Irish
voters.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts-Bartlett
owns the smallest pony in the world. It
stands thirteen inches high, and is five
yeavs of age.
Both branches of the Legislature of
Oregon have ratified the proposed wo
man’s suffrage constitutional amend
ment. It now goes to the people.
A certain drawing-room on Fifth
avenue, New York, has a ceiling of ca
thedral glass, said to have cost $5,000.
It is one of the oddest ideas of a very
odd year.
Walter Nevegold, a lad fifteen
years of age, living in Bristol, Pennsyl
vania, has patented important improve
ments in rolling mill machinery. He is
said to be the youngest inventor on the
records at Washington.
A merchant in Tallahassee, Florida,
lately received an order for one hundred
poiuids of dried fig leaves of a bright
ocior. As the order came from a large
tobacco manufactory, the use to which
the leaves will be put is easily surmised.
—* » ~
Mr. Barry Sullivan, the actor, is to
nm for an Irish constituency as a Home
Buler. He is yet a young man of fifty-
S ’ J h °A h^Jl a9 ..keen
starred it in America before the civil
war,
Mrs. Mallonee, of New York, who
was killed at the recent railroad accident
at Syracuse, was a contributor to the
Century Magazine, and one of latest
poems was entitled “The Whistles.” The
last sound she heard before her terrible
death was the warning whistle of the lo
comotive.
A young man started for a drive of i
twenty miles with his sweetheart through I
an uninhabited tract in Minnesota. At
a point about midway of the lonely
route the pair had a bitter quarrel. The
fellow unhitched the horse, mounted it,
and rode away, leaving the girl alone in
the wagon, where she remained all night,
and next day walked home.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has
resigned the Parkman Professorship of
Anatomy in the Medical School of Har
vard L Diversity at Boston. The retire
ment of Dr. Holmes from an office he
has held for thirty-five years is induced
hy a desire to give attention hereafter
more particularly to literary pursuits.
Ex-Governor Abner Coburn is the
richest man in Maine. He is worth al-
most 87,000,000. He lives near Skowhe
gan, and he drives about the village in a
wo-seated phaeton * showing evident
niarks of usage. The horses are strong
and clean-limbed, buttheii trappings and
grooming evince a disregard of appear
ances. There are no heirs to Mr.
Coburn’s property but two nieces.
Simon B. Paige, of Oskosh, Wis., of
fered $5,000 for the rescue of his wife,
< cad or alive, from a burning hotel.
The body was saved by 0. Reif, but
Pa ge r efused to pay him, and was sued,
he County Court decided in favor of
wk th o ® the rescuer
’as a fireman and in duty bound to save
anybody without reward. The Supreme
rt has now reversed this decision.
Mn. Herbert Spencer says that he
as j, n a good deal annoyed by state
ll which have been made in the
ewß Papers concerning him, aud de
ion V ' at never expressed any opin
whab ver concerning Oscar Vilde,
and ZS l t : lieV A e in “interviewing,”
Ile A “encan appetite for
hasti 'i Bas th® blamable cause of
a man < I \' YNE > the Southern poet, is
a half f ’ l,e( lu m B * ze —P er haps five and
;'■««« , d n k ’ pß “'
forehead u , 8 ’ n ‘ full > ma »sive
cordial *] i ghly P ° lißhed man ‘
eloquence ln ' reaH - aud 8 « “uch natural
ev fcfyone nf touversa tion as to remind
the fact that he is a nephew
Snlton Skgus.
of Robert Hayne, Daniel Webster’s
famous opponent.
The library of Cornell University re
i ceived, not long ago, by the will of a
which » at the time, was
believed to be only of moderate value
It was found, however, to be chiefly in
vested in Wisconsin pine lands, and
turns out, at the present price of such
property, to be worth something over
$2,000,000 in hard money. This is in
addition to the $5,000,000 that Cornell j
has derived, or will derive, from the sale
of her scrip pine lands in the same
State.
A correspondent writing from Egypt
of the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, says :
“Arabi had, it seems, dubbed the Scotch
solders ‘Old women,’ to the surprise of
his men who, later on, were more in
clined to call them demons. Two ill
omens occurred to chill the ardor of the
Egyptians before the battle. Firstly
in the fight previous, one man was shot
through the breast by a bullet which
pierced the Koran he carried and took
part of it into his body. Secondly, the i
young crescent of the moon encircling a
star sank below the horizon before the
tight, and being emblamatio of their
crescent and star, conveyed to them a
bad impression.”
Secretary Lincoln evidently does
not share the views which prevail among
a few military officers in regard to what
is necessary to constitute an offense
under the article of war relating to ‘con
duct unbecoming an officer and a gentle
man. He has raised the question
whether an officer who persistently re
fuses or neglects to pay his debts does
not render himself amenable to trial
under this article. In this position he
is quite at variance with the General of
the Army, who, not long since, main
tained that an officer might even make a
blackguard of himself without being
subject to trial for “conduct unbecom
ing an officer and a gentleman,” provid
ing the act was not done while the offi
cer was in the discharge of a military
American Fables.
A Horse owned by a Peasant one day
refused to draw his load, having be
come tired of the tyranny of man.
“ Perhaps I have been too hard with
him,” soliloquized the Peasant,, “and I
will now make his burdens easier for a
time.” .
The Horse was therefore given light
er loads, his supply of provender iu
ci eased, and his master never appeared
a the stable without a lump of sugar
I in his fingers.
A Fox who had observed how the
Ilh ng worked paid a visit to a Mule
owned by the same Peasant, and asked:
"Do you want more oats and hay?
“1 should murmur,” replied the
Mule.
‘■And would you like to
your time away in the clover field?”
“ I’m blessed if 1 wouldn’t’.”
“ And have some one rub you down
with a piece of velvet and feed you cut
loaf sugar?”
“It makes my mouth water to think
of it,” said the Mule as he nibbled at
the fence. . ,
■‘Very well then,” continued the
l’o .. “ All you have to do is to refuse
to budge when hitched up. 1 he. Horse
1 .laved that name, and the result is that
lie has become sleek and fat.’
Next day when the Peasant hitched
the Mule to his cart the animal refused
to move.
“What! rebellion in my old Mule,
too! 1 shouted the Peasant. “Indeed I
<an not pexm t both animals to defy my
authority.. Having exhausted my kind
words and Sugar on the Horse, I will
try the virtues of a club on the Mule.
lie thereupon pounded the animal
unt 1 he was glad to speed faster and
draw a heavier load than ever before.
MORAL.
The Fox had been watching the allaii
from a fence corner, and as he saw the
result he chuckled to himself :
“ A rich man may have his fence in
the street, but a poor man must keep
his sidewalk in repair to escape the
Law.”— Detroit Free Press.
Rough Lesson to a Bank Depositor.
Apractical lesson was taught to a
bank depositor a lew days a<jo in the
Queen street branch of the Dominion
Bank. It appears he called to deposi
about, $5,000. which he laid on the
counter, and then turned round to speak
to an acquaintance. On again facing
the counter the money was gone, ana
consternation reigned supreme. >-
depositor accused a painter, who was at
work near the counter, of abstracting
the money, and threatened to call in a
Constable if it were not at once given
up. While proceeding to carry out his
threat he happened to look towaid the
counter, and to his amazement he saw
the missing package of money Iving in
the exact spot where he had laid it.
One o the bank officials explained the
mystery by stating that on entering the
o ' c • from a back room, anil seeing the
money so i arelessly displayed, he picked
it up and carried it away to teach the
dci ositor a lesson, to be more < are u
in th" future, and then quietly returned
it. An apology was tendered the ac
-1 cud painter, aqd all unpleasantness
r was removed. Toronto (Can.} Mad,
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4. i SB2
A Blackshear, Georgia, fanner still
uses a wagon made fifty years ago, and
which has never been repaired
Pearce county, Ga., is seeking legisla
tion that will increase the cost of license i
to sell liquor in that county to SIO,COO
per annum.
The mace and sword of State, used
in South Carolina in colonial times,
are still preserved. They were brought
to this country in 1729.
The cotton crop of Texas is so large
and pickers so scarce and hard to get
that a great deal of the staple will re
main ungathered, thereby entailing
heavy loss,
A company organized at Atlanta will
mport and slaughter‘cattle, run stock-
FtaT 1 * ■ * ■
Macon, Ga., bees have religious in
clinations. The steeples of the Presby
ierian and Wesleyan churches were each
invaded by a swarm on the same day,
which remain and are at work.
One man at Dalton, Ga., has paid out
over $12,000 for matrimonial policies.
Controller General Wright says Geor
gia is gaining in wealth more rapidly
than any other state in the sout
A curious bird, bronze colored, with
a long, keen beak, long slender legs and
and talons and similar in many respects
to the English bittern, has been cap
tured near Nashville. It is a stranger
to this country.
Newspapers are published in seventy
three of the ninety-four counties in
Tennessee at eighty-seven different
towns and cities, of which number
sixty-nine are county seats. There are
180 papers in the state.
Pickens county, Alabama, is so over.
whelmingly in debt that property has
decreased in value until it is now
almost impossible to give it away. A few
days ago 365 acres of fine timber land
and a mill in good condition brought
but $2lO, the effects of the condition of
affairs in the county.
Elizabeth Malley, convicted of illegal
ly living with S O Prentiss, ex-city
editor of the Nashville World, and
sentenced to a term of two years in the
penitentiary, has been granted a new
trial; the motion for a new trial in the
case of Prentiss has not yet been acted
upon.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
A Confederate monument is to be
I erected at Goldsboro, N. C.
Virginia’s peanut crop is said to be
I unusually large.
I Chattanoaga, Tennessee, is to have free
| mail delivery.
In fifty-three counties in Georgia Io-
I cal option prevails.
A colored lawyer has been admitted
I to the bar at Macon, Ga.
Mount Vernon, Alabama, is to be made
a permanent military post.
The Ben Hill monument fund ha
reached a total of $3,142.25.
Savannah, Ga., has sent $1,313.25 to 1
the Pensacola fever sufferers. <
The South sends $8,000,000 worth of
cottonseed oil to Great Britain an
nually,
Mr. Bearden, aged 104 years, has just
tbeen married to Mrs. Lee, aged forty
years, at Bibb, Ala.
John York, for the murder of his
step son, in. Whitfield county, Ga., goes
to the penitentiary for life.
The Nashville and Chattanooga rail- t
road will build a belt railroad around 1
Cumberland mountain. The Chatta
nooga Times says the result of tne
grand plan cannot be estimated. The new 1
road will pierce the heart of the finest
coal country in the state, and will aid
more in theindustrial development of
our states, than anything done in years.
Mobile Register: The McAllister
gun, invented and patended oy Dr.
A. H. McAllister, of Union couuty,
Miss., has twenty-four rifle barrels, and
discharges 500 cartridges a minute,
greatly exceeding the Gatling gun in
execution and reliability, The entire
work of construction was done at the
blacksmith shop on his plantation by
Dr. McAllister and a machinist of his
own neighborhood,
Chattanooga Times : One would think
that in the Tennessee penitentiary wonk
be found hoary-headed old men, who had
been there for thirty or forty years; yet,
strange to say, though the penitentiary
was erected fifty four years ago, never
during all that time, has a prisoner sur*
vived over seventeen years, though many
have been sent there under life sentence’.
There is no one there now who was there
n 1870.
The Columbus, Georgia, Enquirer
says the worth of cotton seed is not, as
yet, appreciated by the planters of the
South. The linters taken from the seed
sell at from five to six cents per pound
after the oil is extracted the meal is a
remarkable fertilizer and stock feed ; the
hulls make good fuel, and the ashes are
rich in potash Besides this, a beautiful
rich dye, an analine purple, can be pro
duced from the seed.
Atlanta Constitution: The commit*
tee in charge of the fund raised for the
erection of a memorial to the late Sen
ator Hill, find that the cost of the stat
ue will be very much less than was at
first expected. By correspondence they
find that a bronzo statue, seven or eight
feet in height, a perfect portrait and
model of Mr. Hill, ana done by an ar-
tist of world wide fame, can be had for
a sum varying from SB,OOO to $12,000.
Nashville Banner: The progress made
by the Mormon missionaries with the
people in the Hurricane district, in the
southern portion of Wilson county, is
becoming alarming. A correspondent
writes to say that the new converts there
are violating every rule of decency.
Many of the men are already cohabiting
with more than one wife, and it is said
they claim that God has warned them
to leave for Salt Lake by the first frost.
An interesting suit against the United
States will be actively commenced at
Atlanta, Georgia, on the 26th inst In
1864, when Sherman was on his famous
march to the sea, there were some bitter
secessionists named King, who owned a
factory at Boswell. As a desperate at
tempt to save teeir property, they, with
out consideration, transferred tbeir fac
tory to a Frenchman named Theopholie
up a French flag and claimed protection
under it. Sherman disregarded the flag,
burned the property and arrested Roche
who now comes forward and demand
$50,000 principal damages with interest
and $20,000 damages for false imprison
ment, in all amounting to $125,000
Roche still lives at Boswell.
Anecdote of Lord Redesdale.
Early one morning he made his way to
the mansion of the Earl of Lucan. He
had started for the races, and was dressed
in sporting garb, his cap put on awry
and a cigar between his lips. He rang
at the front door, and the Earl’s best man
—an exqusite of the first water an
swered the summons. „
“ Is the Earl at home?
“No sir! The Hearl is not at ome.
He mistook the caller for a sportive ser
vant, very likely seeking Aemploy
rn< ‘I‘lDo 1 ‘ I Do you know if he has gone to W ind
sor. mvman!" ... ,
“No I don’t know his e as gone to
Windsor. But I’ll tell you what Ido
know: You’d be a doin of yerself a
wast deal o’ credit his you d honly just
run around to the sign o the Bell an
Crown, hand fetch me a pot of alf-an
’alf ” »>•
“ Hall right, where’s your money.
.. W,“bV you! I don't «nd money
to, them » I h»to h«™wertl.el»ll ton
‘Aven’t you got a sixpenny bit of yer
°"“I guess I can find one." And away
his lofdsbip went,
thing, and shortly returned with a tan
Vnr<l of foaming half-an-half.
' The valet drank it with a keen relish
—emptied the pot-and then offered to
ret “Sie fc re Wl mygoodfeUow-I’mmuc h —”
But the visitor put the pot back, and
cut the speech short with:
“Return the tankard youiself, my
when your master returns, be
kind'enough to tell him that Lord Itedes
<h His “lordship left the dazed and con
founded valet supporting himself "fl ainß J
the door-post, the porter-pot fallen to
After a holiday the rabbi aexxisted a
bright-eyed little “daughter of Judah
wits, Hie inquiry: "Why w«™ y »u not
in the synagogue yesterday? After
twisting in her mouth for some moments
the end of a dubiously clean apology for
a prxket handkerchief, Rebecca, with
downcast look, replied: “Because my
hat was not clean, sir." “ Not clean?
said the rabbi, somewhat sternly. Don
VOU know that God cares not for outward
annearances? that He looks to that which
is Os infinitely more importance—that
which is within?” “But,” quickly m
.i the seven-year-old matron,
7™' .oIX »< «» .Memty
“the lining wes dirty, too.” And hat
settled the controversy without further
„ rgument. — Harper's Magann<.
-There are in Lucknow and Cawn
indiQ forty-five puolHhing non
pore, India, xoryy 1 » Usuintr »”ti
Effects of Drought
It was onoe believed by manv think
•rs and observers, that one of the good
affects of a drought is to bring up fer
tility to the surface soil, from deep
down m the subsoil of our fields. The
increased crops of the following rear
would sometimes seem to favor such a
theory, and it is not improbable that
such movements of the moisture con
tained in the soil may, to some extent,
aid the growth of crops in years subse
quent to those of excessive drought. If
soluble substances are carried down
with moisture wiien it settles through
the soil, it would seem reasonable to
expect them to be brought up when the
moisture again works upward. Recent
experiments have, however, shown that
in our climate there is not a great
amount of fertility carried Sown
through the soil out of reach of growing
plants during the growing season.
The examination of water that has
passed down through two or three feet
of soil in our cultivated fields, seldom
shows any traces of fertilizing elements
that have been drawn from the soil dur
ing its descent If water carries little
•r nothing down, it can of course,
bring but little back.
It would seem that in a season like
the present, when the soil is excessively
dry, and vegetation actually stops
Sowing, that the fertilizers applied to
e land must to a considerable extent
remain in the soil ready to be applied
to the growth of the next crop, so that
the loss from small erops this rear will
not be all loss. Where land’bas been
well manured this year, but prevented
by the extreme drought from producing
a full crop, we shall expect to see next
year, provided the season is favorable,
an extra luxuriant growth. This will
be the case especially on clayey land,
which does not readily part with its
plant food by leaching." A thin, sandy
soil, underlaid by coarse grave)/ must
lose its fertility more readily under the
influence of winter rains, but this is not
the general character of the majority
of farm lands in New England. We
shall look for bountiful crops of spring
gra n next season, where the corn was
well manured, but dried up this year,
and without the application of very
heavy dressings.
On mowing lands that have suffered
severely from long continued droughts
the past two or three months, the case
TTrue keustfft HJ tiprVT
hay next year. The pity is, that a very
large proportion of the land, of New
England farms is in exactly this condi
tion a great deal of the tune —old mow
ing fields that need ploughing up and
working over- —and a dry season like
what we have bad the past summer
works very disastrously against the
farmer who owns such lands. Could we
get in the way of working our land
oftener, even though perhaps we re
duced the size of our farms, we should
certainly feel the loss less from such a
season as we have had this year.
In short, however unfavorable the
weather may seem to be, it is almost in
variably more favorable to the good
farmer’ than to him who cultivates
poorly and manures light. Ihe culti
vator of the soil should endeavor to
learn how to secure a crop, whatever
the weather mav be. The best farmers
and gardeners do this to a considerable
extent and so find less cause to com
plain than those who depend almost
wholly upon good weather to help them
along.—As* England Farmer.
The Lime KUn Club.
A communication from the Cooper
Institute, New York, contained this
query for Brother Gardner to
“In case a bank made a mistake an ga
a customer SI,OOO in place of SIOO what
would be the duty of that customer?
“ Dar’ kin lie but one answer to all
sich queshuns,” replied the p eßl^ I 'b
• In dis speshul case I should count de
money over about fo’ times, to e ,u ,
I had* too much. Den I’d go home an
wait fur de bank officers to come an see
me. If dey didn’t come arter a week. < r
so I d drap armin’ to de bank and kinder
menshun de matter an git de load off my
conscience. Honesty am de
You may gain a few dollars by tradm
a blind mule in de night, but in
fo’ weeks yer dog will
stove will gin out, or within.
will occur to swaller all de profit dishon
eS Jericho Smith, Chairman of the Corm
mittee on Popular Science and Natural
Philosophy, announced that lllß “ ont J Z
report U ready. Hi.
been asked to investigate (he ™
the polar waves which sweep across the
country during the winter at stated ,m
tervals. They had consulted conven
ient authorities, and would report as
fO1 “ We am satisfied dat de cold begins
Bomewhar’, but de exact pint no man.kin
find out. De spot on which it starts
grows colder an’ colder, an bim*by,
when it gits so all-fired /
would freeze in ten ticks ob
streaks of weather scoot off dis ? d
dat, an’ keep growin an f
reach Chicago,
odder biff places. Dis ftm <1
dis committee. De minority,
of Brudder Jones op i n ytui
to report dat it ami his P f wind
dat polar waves am < ® r . aroun ’
blowin’ ober stone t‘A., .. Detroit
. de co’ners of • brick bnildin s.
Free Press. ___
-A rock weighing a pound
half was found in the < )n Carter
oak tree lecent y < wo'>il had
TEEMS: SI.OO A yeah
PITH AffD POINT.
—A mite of a boy in SomerviUn
Mass., while looking out of the window
°f. h “ R pigeon
alight in front of the house. "Oh,
mother, come here,” he cried, “and see
a pigeon with a trail on as long as your
best silk J Jonr
—lt is very comforting to a man who
is just recovering from a lingering ill
ness and has managed to crawl out to
tne gate on a warm, sunshiny day to get
air, to have a neighbor come along and
shout cheerily: “Hello! Bee ns wav,
haven’t youF Had a good timeF Ton
are looking well.”
—“Well,” remarked a young M. D..
just from college, “I suppose the next
thing will be to hunt a good location,
and then wait for something to do, like
‘Patience on a monument. ” “Yes ”
said a bystander; “and it won’t be long
after you begin before the monuments
will be on the patients.”
—The N. Y. Graphic prints pictures
of “the great diamonds of the world.”
1 here are about thirty of these precious
stones, and the most surprising thing
about them is the fact that not a single
one is owned by an editor. Newspaper
mon never did care much for jewelry,
anyhow.— Norristown Herald.
—First Russian Officer-“Do yon
think the coronation will pass off peace
fully?” Second ditto—“ Think? fam
sure it will. The Czar never was more
popular than he is at this moment.
Why, the people are ready to exalt him
to the skies.” First officer—“l know,
but they may do it with dynamite.”
—“Why, how odd you look with yonr
hair parted in the middle!” exclaimed
Mrs. Brown. “I used to part mine on
the side,” said Mrs. Jones. Then the
conversation became general. Each lady
had to tell how she parted her hair
all but Edith's mother. She said noth
ing. Suddenly little Edith's voice was
heard. “My mamma parts her hair in
her lap.”— lndianapolis Journal.
—A Parisian, having advertised tor a
coachman, was called upon by a candi
date, who referred him to a celebrated
physician for information in regard to
his qualities. The gentleman called on
the physician, who simply took his pen
and wrote on a piece of paper that his
former servant was a reliable, punctual,
tOd-Qflllte Ooachmatj Talri nor fhjn nanai*
OTP.
The Horror, of Russian Criminal Law.
As to the manner in wliich Nihilists
are treated in prison the following case
may serve as an example:
f, H was arrested for a small press
offence in November. He was placed io
a cell so small that it was almost impos
sible to stand upright in it, while walking
was out of the question. The window
was broken, and the stoveless dungeon
soon filled with snow and ice. L. M.,
who had only his trousers and shirt on
when imprisoned, wm left without any
additional clothing, without being even
for one moment removed from this cell
for five months. The only covering given
him was a thin blanket, thrown in at
night and taken away in the morning.
The fact that torture is applied m «««•
sian jails is so well known that the rela
tives and friends of prisoners continually
try to convey them poison in order that
these unhappy victims may escape the
terrible sufferings they are subjected to.
-fie mother of H herself supplied
her son with prussic acid “in <’ ase “®
should be questioned. In the case of
Solovieff, one Trapp publicly
••be would soon make the pnsones speak
in all tongues,” a boast which he would
undoubtly have tried to execute bnt for
the threats of the Nihilist (
wlw so effectively intimidated the pnsoß
authorities that Solovieff was only
hanged.” ,_______
Tact.
Henry • g~“l >»?• but
natdlv was not possessed of tact. I <
not know that you understand P™ 0 . 1 * <
what tact means, therefore I 1
trate. One day a g ent ’ ema " * S . J.
Ing along the street when all of as a
dem an avalanche of dust d o *™ ,
on him from a second -story wm 1
Henry, who was standing near, sa
seemed so fanny to see a (i„,C«how
man suddenly • u^ e ? t *4 ud p u t John
er that he laughed aloud.
was entirely unlike nrecipitafc-
standing it was he whohadl .
ed the dust upon the
mnn. he was in the » ,r * cl an “ ent . Re
ing the gentleman sorry that such
said he was «’ had befallen
an unfortunate ««' den ‘,jeered to
the gentleman ai l dotb .
but whik l pretending to do this be
back. The said “ should be
for his kindness and said ne sn John
only too P lnd ’°. < O hnt Henry who saw
you see. had fact;; bnt Hemy.* *
the whole trßnsa V* He simply
he Thfe D angered the gentleman.
laughed. This a g discharged
—One of the best nl '^ B
