Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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