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VOL. V.--NO. 14. NEWS GLEANINGS, | The county jail at Atlanta contains •216 prisoners, Tennessee is extensively shipping cat tle and hogs to Florida. Jam eß B. Pace is announced as the wealthiest man in Virginia. The United States jail at Ft. Smith, Ark., contains ICO prisoners. The late Gen. Holt, of Macon, Ga., left an estate valued at $500,000. Montgomery, Ala., expects to handle 140,000 bales of cotton this season, Maryville, Tenn., has a factory wh're buttons are made of muscle shells. A carload of German carp have ar rive at Nashville for distribution. The Nev: Orleans police are making an effort te, break up the opium dens of that city. Most of the levee work on the Missis sippi river below Natchez, Miss., is un der headway. Fulton county, Ga., is taking care of 216 prisoners who are awaiting trial on different criminal charges. A law in Florida requires that the tickets, of candidates for county officer,- be printed on colored paper. Nineteen Indian boys have been tak en to Trinity College, North Carolina, where they will be educated. The New Orleans papers complain be cause the Charity Hospital at that place is overrun by patients from other States. Nashville has no water for fire pur poses, and the underwriters are discuss ing the advisability of advancing their rates. Several more Mormon elders have ar rived at Chattanooga and joined the band of Mormon missionaries now work ing up converts in the South. Lord Houghton, of England, has pur chased 60,000 acres of land in South ern Florida, and intends going exten sively into sugar culture, investing at least f 1,000,000. The British steamer Castello left Sa vannah, Ga., Monday, with the most valuable cargos ever cleared from the port. The cargo was 7,100 bales of up land cotton, valued at $406,037 32. A hill to be introduced at the present session of the Georgia Legislature will provide for a registration law, which "ill debar any person from voting who has not paid his taxes in full. It is thought this bill will be easily passed. A Mr. Johnston, o' f , ~Ja, a cousin r( n. Joseph E. J fa 18r of twenty-two children,'the young es of them being an infant. Mr.’ John ston has been married -but once, and his wife is now living andin excellent health. One of the four silver half dollars coined by the Confederate States gov ernment is in the possession of a gen tleman living in Cartersville, Ga. He een offered on several occasions the com ortable sum of SSOO by numismatic collectors for the coin. ork on the Mobile harbor progresses a‘sfactorily. The present dimensions " He channell are seventy-five feet W ‘ ? >y seventeen deep from the mouth " he nver to deep water down the bav. wither with an additonal sho'rt of forty f e et wide near the mouth ct the river. There ar e now 979 patientg in _ J la In sane Asylum, 257 of whom Chat/ e<eiVed <lunng the Present year. Chatham county furnishes the largest withs\ S,X . ty ‘ fOUr; Fulton follows forty six ' J? 11 *’ Richmond with teen t, patlents range from fif nto ninety y ?arß o f ag e. gerous r siA yUne iS infomed that a dan in ckcula ’ C ° n . erfeit TreaßUr y note “ B ote i 8 of th n NeW Orlearlß - The a PPeared in ("r mC man,,facture which of thembein " Cag ° ln 188 °’ the P rinter monev * 25 - 000 of since appeared j P ° B ' iession - T hey have cities. nman r of th e larger Couru.f s" t t | de ? ~>" ° f the S «Dreme hy the Chari' 1 ' ( ' ar °l‘ na > characterized ‘the most 6 ” NeWB and Courier as ance thatha? l ] , '’^ an i t j udicial ‘lelive-- tio “ of the new lad 81nCe the ado P~ in future ha. .i COnßtltuti< >n,” no felon law «bei ne , 6 n . ght t 0 vote - This So «thern States" * y ado P ted in the Suit has been brought Brokerage A lnSt !, .• (’ d As- *ociation, at to rec ve- si , , 1 ir o a n, who seeks Cljc Dolton -ttqus. plainant alleges that the transactions in which the money was lost were not bona fide, as no real delivery was contracted for. Charleston News and Courier : The skeleton of a full grown mastodon hae been found in the Cowee tunnel, on the Ducktown branch of the Western North Carolina railroad. When the monster was discovered the convicts fled in ter ror, and it was by hard work that they could be induced to return to their picks, It was found six feet below the surface of the earth. It was in a per ect state of preservation, and crumbled to dust as soon as exposed to the air. A Singular Confession, Prof. Schulte has written a confession of the burning of the pavilion at Ter race Springs, Napa. After saying ho set fire to the building to obtain the in surance, $750, he says: “Now, who could do such a deed— such a wrong deed? one who has al ready reached the evening of life, proba bly not distant far from the very hour when night completely and forever shrouds the earthly form—one who thus during almost Qiree score years has never been accused of any act offensive to the law ? How couid do such a deed one who from the early days of student lire steadily walked in the paths of sci ence, literature and even art, the litera- • ture of all nations, ancient and modern, ti e vernacular of ■yhich he practically knows and speaks? ’How could do such a deed one with such attainments, such Culture—one who ever since he in the tog of battle had torn from him a limb, returnable to mother earth, when be longing to a medical staff some twenty six years ago; who ever since, I say, became an able lecturer, a most able in structor, and as such active and success ful, more than twenty years in the pri vate high schools of this State, such as the old College of California, (now the Department of Letters in the State Uni versity,) the defunct Female College of the Pacific, the Mills Seminary, etc., and during his residence in this town, in the Collegiate Institute, the Ladies’ Seminary, and Oak Mound Academy. (Alas! that instead of myself another were to state all this as has in the past been done, when,indeed, not needed; my seemingly, and under all other cir cumstances truly immodest self-lauding, admitting of no other apology but my being confined behind prison bars, lone and severed from friends and the world, no one having as yet been able to raise voice in my behalf.) How then, in fine, could do that wrongful deed one who was always known—latest in this very town—to be a man exemplary in his habit, religious even, in harmony, how ever, with the advanced and enlightened convictions of the times; an ever faithful husband, a good and solicitous father, who purest happiness found at home alone; one punctual in his professional duties, ever industrious and persevering, affable and honest in all his dealings. How then? How in the name of all that’s good and true? How could such a one do such a deed ? A deed most wrong and most condemnable! What could make it possible, not excusable? Despair! Despair! Despair unuttera ble! Despair unknown! Despair not fully understood even by his own fam ily ! ! * * * I recoiled, wrongfully recoiled, and as wrongfully conceived that by a rich insurance company the loss of a few hundred dollars would not be felt. lean. The condemnable deed was done. Yet when the flames sur rounded the massive structure, although unoccupied and uninhabited, when the flames chased darkness, illumining sky and distant horizon all around, pangs of conscience almost overpowered me. I hastened from the scene. On the fol lowing day I had to, and did, publicly dilate, not with my usual enthusiasm in deed, on “Beauties of Modern Litera ture,” English, German, French, Span ish and Italian, comparatively with these in the language of the ancients. To day, in the solitude of my barred cell, I inwardly dilate on the prospective hor ror and privations of a state prison, with sufferings heightened by the cease less pangs of bitterest remorse. Sic semper justitia'. Yet might not, with general weighty condemnation,one wee, light grain of pity mingle?”—San Fran cisco Call. Cinders in the Eye. Persons traveling by railway are sub ject. to continued annoyance from flying cinders. On getting into the eyes these are not only painful for the moment,but are often the cause of long suffering that ends in a total loss of sight. A very simple and effective cure is within the reach of every one, and would prevent much suffering and expense were it gen erally known. It is simply one or two grains of flaxseed. These may be placed in the eye without injury or pain to that delicate organ, and shortly they begin to swell and dissolve a glutinous sub stance that covers the ball of the eye, enveloping any foreign substance that may be in it. The irritation of cutting the membrane is thus prevented and the annoyance may soon be washed out. A dozen of these stowed away in the vest pocket may prove in an emergency worth their_number in gold. - wAta-. “What’s your name ? ” asked one little four-year-old miss of another. “1 do declare 1 ” replied the second little girl, “ you are as inquisitive as grown peoples. They always askses my names, where I got my new boots, and all such tings, until I’m almost as’amed of ’em. ” DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1882. 'roi’icM Of* the day. Sentinels still guard President Gar field’s tomb. A business man in Rochester is seven feet two inches in height, Mrs. Langtry, it is sai l, will go to Australia and New Zealand after her American tour. The wife of President Gonzales, of Mexico, is studying medicine and sur gery in Chicago. Mrs. Langtry is said to have received $(>,000 from Satofiy fol' the privilege ol photographing her. A bar of gold was recently cast in Nevada City, Cal., which weighed 450 pounds, and is said to be the largest ever cast in this cotin tfy. Arnold’s “Light of Asia” has reached its tenth edition in London. More than 100,000 copies of the poem are said to have been disposed of in America. » l» -< A RoBH bush bearing 1,000 buds is the pride of a gardener in Charlestown, Mass. It is thirty-five years old and covers ox er 100 square feet of ground. •* - MM» Beecher has looked over several Sunday school libraries, and it is his candid opinion that eighteen books out of every twenty are too boshy for any intelligent child to read. - » At a recent test of plain boiler flues in England against corrugated flues the former collapsed at 225 pounds per square inch, while the latter withstood 1,020 pounds per square inch. • - The oldest printer actively engaged in his profession is Grandpa Prescott, in lowa, who, at the age of ninety years, sets type every working day in the com posing room of the Corning Gazette. The wife of the Chinese Minister at Washington is seventeen years of age. She dees not receive visitors, of course, but with an attendant she drives out. She is studying the English language. Mr. Edwin Booth will spend the Christmas holidays in Rome, and scon after go to Germany, where engage men ts have been made for him at Ber lin, Hamburg, Leipsic, and several other large cities. Mr. Edward Atkinson has written a letter to the managers of the proposed Cotton Exchange in Louisville, Ken tucky, warmly approving of the project, and making some valuable suggestions as to the construction of the building. The immense cost of living in Egypt is a very serious matter for the British troops who will have to remain there. The prices for everything are enormous, and the whole day’s pay of a subaltern will purchase him but one meal at a hotel. “Plunger” Walton lost $7,500 on his first horse race wager diving his present visit to England, according to a correspondent of the Boston Heruld, and for several days his luck was generally bad, but by winning $40,000 on a single horse he came out $15,000 ahead on the whole week. A bill is before the Vermont Legisla ture prohibiting a divorc d person from marrying within a year, and a person from whom a divorce is obtained from marrying within five years or ever, if the ground of complaint is a crime, in which case criminal prosecution must follow the divorce proceedings. —«, Baby insurance companion are becom ing quite popular in New England. The lives of children from one to twelve years of age are insured to amounts not exceeding $250, the charges being a few cents weekly. It is expected that the business will become a profitable accom paniment of the baby farming industry. It is stated that a pastry cook at Bologna has produced a very novel sub stitute tor a newspaper. It is composed ~f very delicate leaves of pastry, on which witty articles are printed, not with ink, but with chocolate liquor. Thus, after its literary contents are devoured, the reader may devour the production itself. The latest phase of the Egyptian piestion is the complicity of the Sultan iu Arabi Bey’s revolutionary movement. This has been often affirmed, though as often denied, and it is now maintained by Arabi’s counsel that direct encour agement was given him from the Sultan as veil as from the Egyptian people and clergy. A few miles away from Philadelphia are living a family of triplets, two men and a woman, who are sixty years of age. They are the children of an old Lutheran clergyman named Rollers, and are all hale and hearty. Thesu triplets have always lived together. The brothers are j married, but the sister has remained a spinster. An exhibition of skill with the lariat at Austin, Texas, a few days ago, drew a crowd of 10,000 persons. Ten cowboys contested for a silver trimmed saddle worth SI3OO, to be given to him who toped, threw and tied down a steer in the shortest space of times The winner accomplished the feat in one minute and forty-live seconds. Eight children named Fogarty, the eldest eighteen years and the youngest only ten months, arrived at New York recently from Ireland, having been com pelled to make the voyage alone by the father being arrested, charged with abducting a young girl whom he had hired to nurse the infant. The father has since arrived to take charge of his family. The Ting Yueng. the formidable iron clad that has just been built in Germany for the Chinese Government, is to be lighted by 240 Edison electric lamps. This mysterious method of illumination will probably be as satisfactory evidence to the magnates of the Flowery King dom that there is something in Western civilization as any that could be fur nished. S. H. Butcher, of Oxford University, a young man of less than thirty-five, has been elected to the Greek Professorship at Edinburgh University, a place, says the London Spectator, worth £2,000 a year. “With Mr. Butcher at Edin burgh, Jebb at Glasgow. Geddes at Ab erdeen, and Lewis Campbell at St. An drew’s, the new generation in Scotland should know Greek.” O triches are worth $1,400 each, and there is a duty of 20 per cent, on their feathers. A man from Buenos Ayres has just brought twenty-two of the birds to this country, and will establish a farm in the South. If his experiment suc ceeds, it will find many imitators. It is cheaper and pleasanter to run an ostrich farm than to shoot down the wild birds on the plains of Africa. The Russian Royal Commission to abate drunkenness recommends : 1. Liberty to committees to close all drink ing shops. 2. Permission to communi ties to establish communal monopolies for the sale of drink. 3. No public house to be established above 25 per cent, in excess of one per 1,000 of the population. 4. Tea and food to be sold wherever drink is consumed on the premises. 5. Rigorous supervision of public houses. The Postoffice authorities will urge the Senate to pass, at as early a day as possible, at the coming session, the bill that passed the House for the modifica tion of the money order system. Dr. McDonald, the Chief of the Money Or der Division, is of the opinion that if that bill shall become a law the rates will so largely increase the business of the department as to be a large source of revenue to the Government. An ef fort is also to be made to pass the postal currency bill at an early day. There is a very urgent demand for this bill from many quarters. Six years ago an eccentric Spaniard was in Keokuk, lowa. He died in Spain last August. He had an only child, a girl, twelve years old. It seems he wanted her raised a Protestant, and in his eccentricity named George Bland, a colored blacksmith of Keokuk, as her guardian. He made a contract with a priest in Spain for carrying out his will. The will provides that the priest is to re ceive SOB,OOO in case the conditions of the will are fulfilled, otherwise nothing. George Bland, the colored man is to have the same amount and the guar, ian ship of the child, who gets $360,000 and a large amount of diamonds and jewelry. —The 4th of March, 1821, came on Sunday. That was the second inaugu ration‘of James Monroe. In 1849, the year of the inauguration of General ’Taylor, the 4th of March came on Sun day. It did not happen again until the inauguration of President Hayes, in 1877'. It will not occur again during this century. In 1885 the 4th of March comes on Wednesday; in 1889 the 4th comes on Monday, the next inaugura tion comes in 1893; the 4th comes on Saturday. In 1897 the 4th of March comes on Thursday. In 1900 the 4th of March fads on Sunday, but that is not an inauguration year; that will be in 1901, and that will bring the 4th of March on Monday.—CVucat/o ._Dr. F. I’opoff has an article in the Critic showing that American literature is read in Russia. Longfellow heads the list. Cooper’s Indian tales are better Jib ed than any other foreign novels ; and there are few educated Russians who have not read Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle Tt>m. ” Bret Harte and Mark Twain also are popular among the subjects of the Cwar; but we doubt if even they can make His Imperial Majesty laugh very . much, while watching to hear where the i wxt Nihilist bomb will explode.-/*-/ trod I'rt* I’rcu. Extraordinary Tidal Waves, The reported damage done by tidal waves on the Panama Isthmus during the tropical cyclone and earthquake of the 7th ult. is suggestive not only of the connection between these phenomena, but also of the possibility of predicting the destructive ocean waves which orig inate under combined tidal and cyclon ic influences. The tidal waves reported from Panama may have been partly due to the earthquake, but if as violent as they are represented they must have been intensified by the great fluctua tions of air pressure going on at the time over the Caribbean Sea and its vi cinity. The highest spring tides of the year occur in March, shortly before the Vernal equinox, ami in September, shortly after the equinox. But, as has been recently pointed out by Rev. James Pearson, an English astronomer, “it is only when a combination of astronomical and atmospheric circum stances favors their development that their effects become remarkable.” Ob servations at Brest have shown that with a depression of one inch in the ba rometer the tide rises sixteen inches above high water mark, and similar though less ditferences are noticed at Liverpool and other ports. Low ba rometer causes high tides, and, vice versa, the abnormal rise of the barom eter, as was strikingly illustrated last January in New York Bay, gives rise to unusually low tides. Instances also are recorded in which high winds have obliterated the tides, as during the Brit ish hurricane of January 8, 1839, when there was no tide at all on a part of the river Trent. During the passage of West India cyclones along our Atlantic seaboard we may have at any time ex traordinary tidal fluctuations, as have often under such circumstances oc curred, with disastrous effects. As the periods when the highest and lowest tides due to astronomic causes alone are known, it would be easy to make fore casts of the development of very extra ordinary tidal ranges due to the con currence of astronomical and weather agencies, which would occasionally give great additional value to the daily weather reports.— N. P. Herald. Moths. The word moth was derived from two Gothic words meaning to gnaw and to eat. It was formally applied to moth worms only, but is now also applied to millers or “night butterflies.” When we say moths we generally mean the little wormlike caterpillars that eat woolen goods. In May or June the cloths moth miller (Tinea flavifrontella) is of a light buff, brown-color, with a silky luster and a long narrow body. It flies around at night,and every one seen should be killed if possible. When it rests it does not fold its wings out straight, but rather rolls them around the body. The miller searches for a good place where plenty of wool is found and after depositing the eggs it dies. The eggs hatch in about fifteen days. The larva; begins to gnaw little burrows through the substance in which they are, covering themselves with its small particles. In the fall they cease eating, make a sort of little cocoon out of their food, remain dormant all win ter, and in the following spring change into pupa; before emerging. The good old plan of house-cleaning in early June, sunning and beating all wool articles, and the use of tobacco, camphor and carbolic acid, are well-known to all good housekeepers. Furs may be kept from destruction by placing camphor in the box and sealing them up by pasting paper over the crack between the cover and the box. Dealers pack furs in common tar roofing paper. One man recommends petroleum paper for the same purpose.— Alice B. Walton, in lowa Slate Register. . West India Superstitions. It is very unlucky to tell the name of a boat before it is launched. I recol lect once when a worthy old creole, a connection of the French savant Geof froi St. Hilaire, ami who, as I hope, still owns a small island in the Grenadines, was about to launch a sloop, I asked what name he proposed to give it. He led me to where I could see a strip of canvass covering the stern, and told me it was not good to tell the name before the vessel was afloat. A calabash turned upside down in a boat is a sure forerunner of ill-luck, either in weather or fishing. The oil obtained from a shark’s liver rubbed oxer the-kin is a protection against the atta 'k of a shark. Fish brought into a place where arrow root or other starch is being prepared prevents a proper separation of the starch sediment from the impurities BU'pended in the water used. Io turn your boots upside down brings loss of money, and to open an umbrella in the house prevents your ever marrying. Never wash your hands in water which another person has u ed unless you first make the sign of the cross over it. When a glass cracks suddenly in a house it foretells a death and a horse stopping before a house and neighing is also a sign of death. If a cock crows in a house a stranger may be expected. In the South American colonies no good Catholic cuts a banana a ross. Iho fruit when so cut shows a mark which is thought to resemble a crucifix. lhe number of years it will take before a pine plant bears fruit depends .d ••chons’’ giv- en the number oi ' n en with the hoe before the plant in the ground. Blok people, as a rule, before drinking p«m a quantity man drink he drink and -ay / JUotes and Queries- TEEMS; SI.OOA YEAR ni'MOßous. —A young lady says that males are of no account from the time the ladies stop kissing them as infants till they commence kissing them as lovers. —A facetious boy asked one of his playmates how a hardware dealer dif fered from a boot-maker. The latter, somewhat puzzled, gave it up. "Why,” said the other, "because the one sold the nails, and the other nailed the soles.” —“Does your sister Annie ever say anything about me, sissy?” asked an anxious lover of a little girl. “Yes,” was the reply. "She said if you had rockers on your shoes they’d make such a nice cradle for my doll.”— N. K Ledger. —An intelligent youth, recently en gaged in a commercial office, made out a shipping bill for “fourty” barrels of flour. His employer called his attention to an error in the spelling of forty. “Sure enough,” replied the promising, clerk, “I left out the <7 A.” Nearly $9,500,000 is invested in the printing and publishing trade in Boston, and the yearly product is valued at $5,- 467.000. This does not include the amount paid to writers who furnish the matter for printing and publishing, and which, if all added together, aggregates several hundred dollars more.—Phila delphia News. —A promising youth of five summers, being about to retire for the evening, was asked by his mother to kneel by her side and repeat the Lord’s prayer. The little chap, whose mind was evi dently intent on the beauties of the na tional game, having reached the middle of the prayer, paused, looked into his mother’s face and exclaimed: “Billy Brown is a boss short-stop,” and pro ceeded with his devotions as if nothing unusual had transpired.— Boston Post. —A little five-year-old friend who was alwaj s allowed to choose the prettiest kitten for his pet and playmate before the other nurslings were drowned was taken to his mother’s room the other morning to see the two, tiny twin new babes. He looked reflectively from one to the other for a minute or two, then poking his chubby finger into the cheek of the plumpest baby he said, decided ly: “Save this one.”— Chicago Tribune. —H. M., Selma, Ala.: ‘•How can 1 permanently remove an indelible grease spot from a broadcloth coat?” The only way to permanently remove an in delible grease spot from a coat is to saw it out of the coat, but that would possi bly injure the coat. On the other hand, if you would saw the coat from the grease spot —but really we feel inade quate to the task of furnishing the right brand of advice in this case. Texas Siftings. ~ WIT AND WISDOM. —The time wasted by men in feeling in the wrong pocket would make the next generation rich if they had it. —A great many people in this com munitv would like to find out just how much monev it would take to spoil them. We do not speak for ourselves, but for our poor relations. — N. Y. Her ald. —A traveler stopping at a village inn during a thunder-storm, said to a by stander: “Why, you have very heavy thunder here.” “Yes,” replied the man, “we do, considering the number of inhabitants.” —The Philadelphia News argues that if a man had the strength of an insect in proportion to his size he could jump higher than a mountain. It is quite pos sible, as mountains are not very high jumpers.— N. O. Picayune. —Scene in Court: “Now, Mr. Blank, von say that on that day, at noon, jou saw a woman ride past your house at a furious pace, and you have given us a detailed description of her costume. Please tell us what was the color of the house.” “1 do not remember.” ‘‘Well, was the woman white or black?’ “I did not notice; she went so fast that 1 only had time to see how she was dressed.” — Chicago Tribune. „ “What have you that’s good?” said a hungry traveler, as he seated himself at table d’hote at a Salt Lake Citv hotel. "O!” said the waiter, “we’ve roast beef, roast mutton, roa-t pork and broiled curlews. a curlew?” said the traveler. “Why, a bird: something like a snipe ” “Loma it fly?” “Yes”’ “ Did it have wings? “Yes!” "Then I don’t want any cur lew. Anything that had wings and could fly and didn’t leave this country 1 don t want for my dinner.” “Ah, how are you this morning? said a Fifth avenue man to his friend from Jersey. “Pretty well, pretty well,” he replied; "but my wite is suffering from a severe cold, he con tinued, as his face beamed with delight “Now, that’s too bad,” exclaimed the New Yorker; " but why do you seem so happy over it?” Taking his friend y the arm, the Jerseyman replied, as tears of joy rolled down his apple-jack flushed face: " Happy! Don t mention it! Why, she hasn't been able to spe.uc above a whisper for six days. A. Commercial Advertiser. —Lord Chelmsford was walking d „wn St. James street, when a stranger accosted him. saying: “Mr. Bitel, I believe?” "M you believe that, s you’ll believe anything, the ex ( hancellor replied as he passed on. London Society. ' -The mercantile stock ,/first m the ° beeli organized I been o P^ aed ’, ifa ] and atari* with with native Mexican twenty outside sulwcnbem. 'brokers and W dealt m. AU classes of securities wiu w