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VOL; V.-NO. 13. news gleanings. Four negro colleges flourish in Atlan- ta, Talbot was the only county in Geor gia that hejd a fair this year. A stGck company has been organize* at Birmingham, Ala., to build a eottoi factory. The n ew directory for Knoxville, Tenn-, places the population of that city at 17,151. M. W. Harris, of Perry Ga , has some Egyptian cotton growing on his place which is ten feet high. A lot of Confederate bonds, amounting to $145,600, was sold recently at Charles ton, S. C., for sl2 50 per thousand. Columbus, one of the most progress ive cities in Georgia, is moving tn build a thorough system of street railway. George Crane, who murdered his wif< in Daugherty county, Ga., has been sen tenced to life imprisonment in the pen itentiary. The Selma (Ala.) Times says $15,00< Jbas been squandered by Selma peoplt in matrimonial insurance companies, al] of which has been lost. At Tirzah church, York county, S.C.. Felix Jones and Charles Starr foughi over a woman and Jones was killed Starr, who is but eighteen years old i escaped. A meteor fell at Mt. Airy, N. C., re cently, burying itself several feet in the earth. The mass greatly resembled iroi ore, and weighed several hundret pounds A North Carolina exchange says th< Liberia fever has broken out strong!' among the negroes of that State, and t large number are anxious to emigrate tv that country. I wo years ago so little dried fruit was shipped from Tennessee that it wa scarce worthy of note. The business has now grown, however, to be one of tin most important in the State. Near Luray, Va., recently, an eagh whose body was snow white and wing jet black, was killed. From tip to t , of its wings it measured six feet sever, inches, and weighed twenty pounds. The artesian well at The masville, Ga ’ has reached a depth of 1,100 feet mostly through sohd rock, without getting a flow of water. Many tine gpecimen9 o , 08811 sea shells are brought up from the bottom. and l !?' 9810 ? oVerrun with rats tt is said the rodents have become a about"tJ’ a f gUe ’ ln the countr y ™und • the farmers are loosing heavily by t( an<l CBn fincl no wav t 0 Pro tect their grain or kill off the raiders. G- . Hobbs, of Sampson county, N pilZ y "? bited " very «->»- th« ofbsy’™™’ bU ‘ hM “ ° d ° r rpi con / C °: ; ° Q P ,anter s of Mississippi are at'T” 8 the Cott „„ Seed X ci ;_ olh ” j, T ’ N '™ Orl “"’ <erril t ,Tv W ’j^““ ,e ,hey b *’ e di ’ lde<l S ho dfi, ' dr * tef »” red - They ” tTOd,ho ' ddbe s<”- by the laws of trade. dre Tb J™ 1 hy the heir, of An l«d i„t ,MOVCT 160 «f Fifth w e mo(lt ’tillable portion of the lh( Pte„ t hJider.ofX"’" “ ">■■<’'l7 ««i."" di “ t<!l '" tye “' P»r --.b e "° f '“ nd *“ ,heY ‘ IW.OOO acres of 't ”1 D ° W *’ xam ■“i ntr '»p«rci,« n pnelandwi,h »’i« b ’*t3,W, Ml ’ y ” di “'=h.ve ln Texas. of grazing land i «MiuX h f’.””."""™ 1 h ” "»t.» th « classic battlein lda ° bs< ‘ rve > from Marco, at St a enU o,d Fort San I Ven «« Novem^^ 111 !’, the transit of carf y with th Pm • he ex P« di tion Wei ghing 30 000 sc ’ entl6c apparatus H" Th"“,vear j N ashvil le A merican . T i yeßter <lay foun(l * Can ’ The grand jury i mu,d er in the lndl «ttnents f or i Wlth intent J * degree and assault 1 ‘<>ese cases ffere murd er. All I T ielar g e numWrof m , e^ nt occurai >ce. I and othe , B,alte “P ted I * h,ch have occur* ? ngu,nar y affairs I the capital city an ‘J here are giving I mere. • an Unenviable prom- ®hc Ultillon Glrgns. One of the most brutal crimes ever committed is reported from Danvillet Va., A little negro boy, aged eigb, years, had a silver dollar, which Dave Mills, a colored man, coveted. The boy refused to give it up, and Mills, in or der to coerce him into compliance with his demand, caught him and held him over the escape pipe of a steam engine until the little fellow was nearly cooked. Mills has been arrested. A few days ago, says the Gainesvill’ (Ga.) Southron, Mrs. Martin and four children undertook to cross the Chatta hoochee at Faulkner’s ford to the left of Belton. A little boy had charge of the boat, and it becoming unmanageable he little fellow jumped out. At this Mrs. Martin became frightened, and her little child fell overboard. She jumped out to save it. Both were drowned. An other little girl went overboad and was irowned. Two others saved their lives by clinging to limbs and rocks. The bodies were all recovered as soon as the neople in the neighborhood could get to the scene. The water was not over four feet deep where the victims met their death. A somewhat singular case, and one whose decision will be looked forward to with interest, was argued before the Supreme Court at Raleigh, N. C., a day or two ago. One Scott had been sued at the spring term, 1878, of the Superior Court of Wake county, but i e died about a month later. His death was never suggested to the court, and in 1879 judgment was taken against him, no administrator having been appointed. It would appear to any one not up in law that such a judgment w r ould be void, but strange as it may appear, the question is a doubtful one and is being contested, one side claiming that it is Worthless and the other that it is binding on the estate. Floor Coverings. It is a mooted question whether mat ting should be taken up and laid away o- le t on the floor under the carpet. Under an in ’ rain tin seams ir the mat ting undoubtedly wear the carpet, un less three or more th cknesse- of paper are la d between them. Tapestrv and Brussels carpeting are but ittle attecte I bv the matting which undoubtedly keeps better upon the Poor. Indeed, if it is left down and covered with coarse brown wrappi g paper, such as grocer use, put between t and the carpet. it will be foun 1 nicely cleaned by spring. We have found stains which resist >d al other applications disappear entirely under such treatment. Carpets Which have been la d away for the summer should be carefully exam ned be’o e putt ng down* and if the moths have invaded them should at once be sent to the steam-cleaners. Ingra n carpets may be nicely mended bv si p ing a patch under the hole and pasting patch and carpet together with stiff flour paste, taking care that the figures match, and ironing with a hot iron to make the edges lie smooth and adhere properly. The popular fancy for rugs and ma s is an economical one, s uce it renders t easy to hide any worn or faded spo s in the carpet under their friendly shelter. A faded carpet may often be mu h freshened by washing wth beef’s gall and water -one part of ga’l to three o cold water. Rub this into the carp t either with a clean flannel or a -oft brush- rinse the la her o f with cold wa ter, and rub the carpet dry with a so t cloth. If there are any very d r y places wash them w.th gail only. It will b> wise to speak for the gall a few days before it is needed. Light colored Brussels or velvet carpets may b ■ deed to form the center of a large rug, or or a carpet with bright I order. Dying will expo-e anv worn places merci le s- Iv, for the carpet must necessarily he dved all one color; but where the carpet is a good one, end the light color is ob je ted to, the experiment will probable prove satis actory in the hi Jiest degree, giving an entirely newe ect, well suited to the fashion of the day. Stained floors w.th la ge rugs in the center of the room g ovv < onstantly in favor, and some han Isome new houses have floors of costly woods highly pol ished lor the purpose. Ele ant Turk ish and Pers'an r gs are used on these, but the fashion o>ti ns also in heaper fabrics, and ingrain and tapestry rugs are shown in abun lane al the arpet stores, along with the pretty Smyrna rugs which imitate the Oriental rarpets. Philadelphia Press. Didn’t Want a Pass. The other day an Arkansaw man se cured a free pass over a railroad. He was very much pleased at first, but after discovering that if injured in an acci dent he could not rec >ver damages he approached the Superintendent and said; “Look here! how about this thing?” “What’s the matter with it?” “What if I get killed on the road, my wife wouldn’t recover damages.’ “No, sir.” “Then I don’t want the pass. 1 ain’t got no wife nor no relations, but I want to feel that if I had a wife she d get pay for my death. I’m much obliged to yer, but I reckon I’ll have to walk.”— Arkansaw Traveler. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A telephone has been run into a church in Olean, N. Y. Lieut. Thackara has resigned from the United States navy. Minister Hannibal Hamlin will pass the winter at Bangor, Me. The revision of the Old Testament will be completed in a few months. Daniel Sealis, of Cleveland, is said to be the wealthiest colored man in America. * ♦ • The new directory for Knoxville, Tenn., places the population of that city at 17,151. Any Roman Catholic who can prove that the Apo-tle Peter had no wife, can obtain a $5,000 prize offered in Scot land. There were more people killed and wounded on British railroads last year than all the British casualties in the Egyptian war. Father Ryan, the poet-priest, is lec turing in Gulf Coast cities on “ Atheism and Infidelity Tried at the Tribunal of Reason and Common Sense.” The bronze statue of the late Senator Hill, to be erect d at Atlanta, Georgia, will cost about SIO,OOO, of which one half has already been subscribed. It is asserted that in the three years ending 1880, there were no fewer than 252 theaters destroyed by fire, or partly so, resulting in 4,370 deaths, and about 3,400 injuries. General Brady, of Star-route noto riety, is said to have lost $75,000 in op erating his Canadian lumber mills, which he is now trying to dispose of to avoid further loss. One of the benevolent New Yorkers who helped introduce the English spar rows here, has had to remove every bracket from his house and go to an ex pense of SIOO for painting. A new underground railway is pro posed for Paris, to cost about $30,000,- 000. Toe central station is to be at the Palace de la Bourse. In all, the lines will be twenty-four miles. Miss Gabrielle Greeley has begun making improvements on the Greeley swamp at Chappaqua, and has given a plot of ground to the Episcopal Society of that village on which to erect a chapel. In the high school of Dedham, Mass achusetts, the experiment is being made of using daily newspapers instead of text-books in the reading class. The Principal thinks that the plan is suc cessful. A book has just been issued in Ver mont entitled “The Resurrection of Christ from a Lawyer’s Standpoint.” It is an investigation according to the laws of evidence, and it ends with a full ac ceptance of the resurrection of Christ as an historical fact. The Hon. Levi P. Morton, is giving laudable attention to the interests of the American colony in Paris. He has re cently been chosen as a warden of the American Episcopal Church in that city, and has become a patron or the “Paris, British and American Schools.” Jay Gould stopped at Rochester re cently on his return from the West. On alighting from a car at the new depot, he stepped on a sidetrack in front of a moving locomotive, and would have been run over but for the outcries of those standing near. Professor Reese, an astronomer, de nies that the comet of 1882 is identical with, the comet of 1843 and 1880. From data given after observation of its orbit, he says it will not return to our systent in less than four thousand years. It is not necessary, therefore, to lie awake al night dreading a catastrophe. * ♦ Richard Wagner has sold the copy right of all his musical productions to Schott, the Mayence publisher, the con sideration of the agreement being the yearly payment to the composer of 150,- 000 marks (about $35,000). This an nuity is also to be paid to Wagners heirs for thirty years after his death. And still it is thought the publisher has made a profitable contract. Drunkards are suffering in the rural counties of Wisconsin, where the local option law of the State enable the total abstinence people to vote down the pub lic sale of intoxicants. Heretofore the traffic has been continued out of sight, but now the railroad companies have prohibited their employes from taking therefore obtain only very limited sup plies. Confederate bonds still have some value in the South. A large quantity of them belonging to the estate of Jacob Barret, of Charleston, South Carolina, were sold recently at auction. The whole lot, $149,600, was bought by Ed ward Moteland at $12.50 per SI,OOO. The bidding, which started at $lO per SI,OOO, was quite spirited, $6,450 oi Confederate bank bills were also sold at $lO for the lot. Guiteau’s skeleton is not yet articu lated. It is ready for wiring with the exception of the thigh bones, which are Lot yet sufficiently bleached. They are submerged in an ether bath where they will remain for some weeks before the process of preparation is completed. It is not likely that when articulated the skeleton will be placed on public exhi bition. It will probably be consigned to repose among other ghastly relics of the Medical M iseum. upon which the eye of an outsider is never allowed to rest. The harvests of 1882, with few excep tions, resulted favorably, and there is immense wealth in the grauaries of the country. Crop failures were appre hended, but not realiz d. The autumn, too, has been most favorable to the ma turing corn, and that which the usual frost might have destroyed was saved by the prolongation of fine weather. But in the face of the great wealth which lies back in the country in the hands ol the agricultural classes, business is dull. The boom that was expected to follow the assurance of good harvests has not been experienced, and merchants in the country and in the ci ies are complain ing of slow sales and slower collections. Enough is already known of the radi cal movement in France to justify great uneasiness. The conspirators, who are mostly young men in cities andminu facturing villages, are united in close organizations, which long escaped obser vation by passing for trade unions. In cendiary papers and tracts are sedulous ly distributed, and as each group or fed eration of alliances has its distinctive name, the existence of a national league was uot so apparent. A central com mittee, composed of one delegate from each federation, has been meeting monthly at Ge leva. Tnere are evidence* not only that the objects of the conspir ators are akiu to those of the Russian Nihilists, but that one, at least, of the champions of the latter, Prince Krapat kine, is an associ itc of the French plot ters. The federations of Pai is and vi cinity are known to have more than 1,200 members, while Lyons is anotb *r stronghold. Hedgehogs in Confinement. Now and aga n for a series of years we have had captured hedgehogs kept in the house for the purpose of keeping down beetles. For some time past we have been very unfortunate with our hedgehogs, as. whether from being captured in traps or from in juries other wise received, their existence has been of very short duration. Recently, how ever. some members of our family, while visiting at nheimbcck, near Ham burg, picked up a couple which have since been the source of great entertain ment to us. Onboard steamer a few days after their capture tiiey became qu te tame, and ceased coiling them selves when touched, appreciating the passing of the handover their prickles, as down the back of a cat, and having their heads scratched. Within a fort night of the r arrival they have cleared the house of beetles, which had previ ously been swarming to an intolerable extent. They enter and leave the house like a cat or a dog. with this difference, that they retire to the r respe tive dor mitories till dusk, after which they come forth to enjoy a good feed of bread and butter, the butter be ng preferred, and over their meals they have an occasion al fight. The only ob eetionable feat ure.'df kept in too close proximity, is their extraord nary puffing, suggestive of a toy high pressure steam engine. We have put a hen s egg before them, but they have declined to touch it. When they desire to enter a room they scratch at the door, and should they cre ate a noise by the upsett ng of any arti cle which mav come in their way. it does not frighten them. Perhaps this note may suggest to some of your re d ers the kindliness of this gentle and in foresting animal, and enable the ques tion to be solved as to whether it does or does not attack egjs /-gn /on Field. Meteorological Item. There had been a heavy thunder storm the night previous and the school-teacher asked little Johmu : ‘•Were you not frightened. Joinin', at the thunder and lightning, last night?” “No, sir. n t a bit. “That's right. Johnny. You are a good little t unday-school bo “. know who causes the storm, don t you, Johnnv?” ~ 41 ~ • Yes sir. mv grandfather. am shocked at y° storm. * thornier and ligh ning.’‘"J before the • •May be so. b Xj old grand atbei :S"V“n i“'i» d. —r— ISiftinas. Dot Oafercoat. He was a full-blooded American, and he had seen second hand sind “hand me-down’’ clothing dealers in his life time, and gone them one better. He entered the Israelite shop, and performing the Masonic sigil manual of the Jew, by elevat ng his hand to the level of his ear and shak ng it parallel to his shoulders, exclaimed; “ How you vas, mine frendt?” “I vas not so veil,” replied Moses. “Has you a forty-live dollar oafer coat vot vas make to order for a stu dent, vot you vill sell me for dree dol lars ?” Moses looked at the would-be pur chaser from head to foot. “Vas you an orphan?” “No, I vas no orphan; but I has a brudder mit Schattam street vot sells goods vot vas an or| han.” “1 think you va give me taffy.” “Well, how about that overcoat, old man?” suggested the prospective pur chaser, in regular U. S. language. “ Isaac, vill you show the gentleman dot make-to-order Brince Albert oafer coat, vot you puy tone veek ago mit dot student?” The coat was produced and thorough ly inspected. “Y< u vill ell dot coat for dree dol lars? ’ asked the purchas r. “How could 1 do dot, mine frendt? Dot coat vas cost me dwenty dollar. I could not sell him to mine brudder for less than dwenty-fife.” “ Perhaps your sister would take it oft your hands for fifteen,” suggested the buyer. “ But I has no sister,” said Moses. “I think you vas no puy dot coat; you vas come here mit shoaks on me.” “Now, mine frendt,’ commenced the buyer, again giving the sign manual, “vot vas the le ist monish vot you take mit dot coat? ’ "' oses’ face brightened. “I vas sell dot coat for fifteen dollar; but if youefer dell a litin soul vot you pay for him I vas a rune I man.” “ 1 ha loss dot gombination mit mine safe, l>u! 1 va* gif you a tile-dollar note irom mine bocket book.” * I could not sell dot oafercoat for less dan ten dollar,” said A ose . “I vas lose a ten-dollar p 11 mit him then?” * Will you take the V ” asked the pur chaser, as he ffot to the door. I aac, you may do up the oafercoat for the gentleman. He is a beculrar frendt mit me.”— The. Judge. The Aquarium. In answer to several inquiries we con dense directions for making an aqua rium. A tank of ten by eighteen inches will support about twenty fish. These should be nearly of a size, and not more than three or four inches long. Lizards, eels, tadpoles, several species of beauti ful snails, and some kinds of bivalves, which are valuable as scavengers, should not be omitted. The tank should be filled with clean pebbles and sand to the depth <>f about three inches. A few larger stones arranged so as to form caves and grottoes produce a pleasing effect, and most fishes love such hiding-places. Nearly all plants found growing under water are suitable for a tank ; yet they should be sought in slow-flowing streams and ponds rather than in rapid running brooks. None but soft spring or rain water should be used for filling. It is a mistake to suppose that it is nec essary to change the vva’cr frequently. The contrary is true, as fishes can not thrive when subjected to frequent changes of water In an aquarium, as well as in lakes and ponds, the water is kept pure by the action of the plants growing beneath the surface. The tank should stand near a winddw or skylight, and not in direct sunlight for any length of time. If the glass becomes coated with c mfervse or slime, it can easily be cleaned with a sponge fastened to a stick. The plants and animals should be so selected and disposed that they become mutually self-supporting and flourish as well as in their native locali ty, forming a little world of their own. —Jf. Y. Tribune. Cookery by Music. It is a melancholy thing that the di vinl’ art of music should have been de graded to cul nary uses, but that a Ger man, of all national ties, should have been the first so to employ it, is a still deeper humiliation. A Prussian com poser has given to the world an “I gg ro’ka.” not named from any fancied re semblance of properties, but tor a rea son fully explained in the ‘‘directions for use ’ prnted on the back of every copy. "Let the polka be placed, open at the first page, upon the piano forte desk. Then drop the egg into a pipkin half full of Lolling water. Set the pip kin on the fire. Thon play the polka through in strict time, as per metro nome indication. One nipleting its last bar the egg will be cooked to a turn that is, its yelk will be fluent, and its white about as yielding to the touch as the flesh of a rpe plum. Those who wish their eggs hard-set will play the polka andante maestoso. The contrary effect will be produced by an alleg.o vi vace rendering of the composition. ' -About one mile from Kansas City the Hate Ine dividing Missouri and Kansas s located. Just beyond this » town has sprung up calle ktt " sa^ — ’ riot -- there is no niinutesget i do a l.lin- laws and 1 n gambiffig law. State where the ie'- C bStcWn i but strict Prohibition Jaws. Inter Ocean. TERMS; SI.OO A YEAR WIT ASl> WISDOM. —The man who worships the fortune he ha* made is no more intelligent than the heathen who prays to the little wooden god he has whittled into shape. —lt is an old and true saying that opportunity has hair in front, but is bald bciiind. if you catch her by the fore lock vou can hold her. but if you wait till she gets by your hand slips and she is gone. —A queen bee lays in the height of the season irom 2,0u0 to 3,000 eggs in twenty-four hours. The man who will dis over how to graft a queen bee on a hen will make money enough to buv out the whole continent in six months.— Pin adelphin News. —ln a village near Cork, a physician was disturbed one nigh by repeated ta pings at his door, and on getting up he round a laboring man. “Have you been here long?” as*ed the doctor. “ Indeed I have,” answered the caller. “Why didn’tyou ring the bell?” “Uch, be ause 1 was afraid of disturbing your honor!”— N. Y. Herald. —A smart young man asked a gen tleman from Cape Cod: “What’s the di erence betwe. n you and a clam?’ thinking that the Cape Codger would sa\ he didn't know, and then the young man would pity him for not being able to see any difference between himself and a clam, but the thing didn’t work. The Codger took the young man and swept a path across the street with him, and then, after crowding him into an empty flsh-barrel, and yanking him out again, said: “A clam wouldn’t be play ing with you in ths way. That’s the difference between me and a clam.” The young man had no more questions to ask — New Haven Register. —The Ass and the Cat: An Ass one dav Observed a Cat ascend a Tree to Escape from a Dog, and a Bright Idea emered his head. “ When my Master ernes to set me to Work I shall ruii up the Tree and Rema n for the Da .” And when the Master came, lo and be hold. the Ass Started lor the Nearest Tree at Full Speed, and Ascended about four Feet when he fell back totheGround, and was so Completely Knocked Out of Shape that Ins Master found it Impossi ble to Adjust his harness on him, and was obliged to Des'roy him there and Then. Moral—Never Attempt to b« too Versatile, and don’t Endeavor to ] odge Honest Work when you have to Work for a Living, lest Peradveiiture you get Left. — R. N. D., in Puck. A Nervous Tendency. Not a few are born with an excessive susceptibility of the nervous system. It renders them, not only specially < apable of pleasure and pain and of quick men tal and physical activity, but peculiarly liable to nervous ailments. Others may suffer such ailments, if the cause act long enough and strongly enough; but the slightest disturbing causes are sufficient in the < ase of the former, just as a brief exposure may re sult in consumption, where one has in herited a tubercular tendency. Among thee ailments is hysteria — popularly hysterics —the most terrible, when severe, that can come to a woman, not only for the fearful sul erings and the little sympathy it elicits, but for the bad moral qualities that often seem to be developed by it Females are more subject to it than males—in the proportion of about twenty to one only because the nerv ous element more strongly preponder ates in their constitution, while their in door and sedentary file does not give them that toughening which generally comes to men from their employments. Ailed to hvstera is catalepsy, a disease in which H e person becomes wholly, or partially, unconscious, and her fimbs take on a waxen stiffness and remain in whatever position they are placed. One form of catalepsy is trance, in which, while lying perhaps apparently dead, wonderful visions are seen. n , Other diseases are St. Vitus J lance (chorea), which has been described as "insanity of the muscles ” neuralgias of various kinds, some forms of epilepsy, spinal irritations and insanity. As this nervous temperament, with its countless possible ills, has been in herited from one or both of the parents, a si ecial obligation is placed upon ths latter to check, from the first, the ac tivity of their children’s nervous system by bringing them up to simple habits, to ample bodily exercise, proper ac quaintances, practical and sober read ing, instead of imaginative; by guard ing them against coquetry, extravagan display and sensual indulgence, and by accustoming them to domestic duties and to a quiet and natural employment of bedy and mind. J oulh s Lum panion Incredible, Hot True. The rapidity with which a Texas ne gro can hide away a “ wonderful, and the number of water melons that he is able to absorb on the shortest notice baffles the numeral _sys tem Not long since, when watermelons were fashionable, an Austin eentieman bet a friend that a hired colored boy could eat a fortv-pound watermelon: in four minutes. The boy was told the nature of the be*• permission to retire, whan g r -adi - On h s return, he of the n ess to accomplish the ecJip nicion in the given ,, [ “ Why did you try es I “I went »*»/• b practicin’ °° H ' d "Jhirlv oo?nd nSons, and I on two thirty-oounu , Kight put de fort y-P° he did it, wid a minute to «P* r *’ d #f , H> t getting but he was d, *“£P /or d»y.—Texas a steady contract tor m j Sijtinys.