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VOL. V.--NO. 15. NEWS GLEANINGS. Cedar Key, Fla, ships 40,000 fish per The Alabama insane asylum hag 417 inmates. Florida will soon he a perfect network of railroads. Arkansas has a two years’ supply of corn, oats and wheat. Atlanta claims to have the finest church building in the South Jacksonville, Fla, is to have a new coart house at a cost of $50,000. A large bagging factory will soon be added to the industries of Eufaula, Ala bama. Out of the 1,243 convicts in the Geor gia chain gang camps, only 113 are whites. The graves of the 264 Federal soldiers •who were burned at Key West, Fla., have been marked by handsome head stones. A vast amount of cotton will go to waste in Arkansas, Texas and other cot ton States because of the scarcity of picket-s. A bill will be introduced at the com ing session of the Alabama Legislature to exempt factory operatives from pay ing poll tax. Between fifty and sixty thousand dol lars in Confederate bonds held by the city of Lynchburg, Va., have been or dered to be sold. The Chattanooga Times says large numbers of farmers from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are settling in the section contiguous to'Chattanooga. At Sarasata, in Charlotte’s harbor, Fla., a Northern company is established and engaged in catching fish, for the purpose of extracting oil and manufact uring it into guano. A Mississippi physician says the day is not far distant when cotton-seed oil will have taken the place of lard the world over. He pronounces it much purer than lard and a great deal health ier, Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times : The deer on Cumberland mountain are dying with the black tongue. No less than fifteen have been found dead within the last ten days. Some cattle are dying with it. A curious Indian relic was recently found near Hartsville, Tenn. It is a piece of stone about fifteen inches long, hollowed out in the shape of a police man’s billy, it C an be blown like a horn and evidently was used to summon the Warriors to assemble. Moscow Lamar co Ala Nov 3d 182 Please put this item in the Journal Mr. Elia, Chaffin of this county & State Saves he has made a close Astronomicle investigation of the commit in the East and finds that there is a hole through the stare & the blase is caused by the r ?y e . S r h e Sun shining through, like “inmg through an Auger, hole, Sub scriber. Near Chattanooga, Tenn , are several Indian mounds which for years have at tracted archaeologists from many parts n t e country. The largest mound in e group was opened a few days ago an many skeletons, several pieces of pottery and other interesting Indian re les found. The mound was dug into Out a short distance, and will be further tunneled. me* ting of the cotton planters from e hn f see, Mississippi and Alabama met - einphis Monday to find some means uccossfully oppose the monopoly of An orgM -. 2a “PI un 'l‘‘r the name of the an Prs Co-operative Association.” Planters allege that the oil men and ? Jr 10ne d off the cotton country great deuimerntX to ““ viiuicni or the farmer. ladies 'had N . eilson and three death while mir . acu l°us escape from Denver and thlm ng , the track of lhp a ne?;?‘°- GGrade " de Rail ™d in cenfiT Th Xv P r ngville ’ U ’ T - r «- N eilwn failinJ f’ Cle was covered, and Poaching t ra^n to ,i ® ee or hear an aP on'y to have hk dr ° Ve on to the track, Mies hurled in JT n ’. himself ™d the Neilson took h< an' r: Up ° n land found that neitk * L inventory, and dies were i n S kl . m ? elf nor the la the horses were Sltt ln]U L ed V althou 8 h broken into q ,,i: , d and the wagon ' P lntep8 -—San Francisco rniilThHo hoT™ y ticles that haro the mild to p Pne . 35 thi « causes Unllon Yvgus. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A pew in Dr. John Hail’s Church, New York, sold, the other day for #2,600. The late Daniel Murphy, the Nevada "cattle king,” left an estate worth about $3,000,000. A Mississippi man has a "mad-stone” for which, it is said, he has refused a cash offer of $7,500. Recently compiled statistics place the death rate from the administration of chloroform at one per 1,000. In France and Germany, respectively, two francs and two marks are the medical charges for single visits, except in the fashionable watering places. Hon. Jewett Adams, who is elected Governor of Nevada on the Democratic ticket, is a native of South Hero, Ver mont, and resided there until he was twenty-one years old. The story that Langtry, when a girl, used to milk the family cow, is said to create great excitemont among New Yorkers who have gotten rich by milk ing the lambs in Wall Street. "Spinster dinners” are given by betrothed New York girls on the eve of their weddings to friends of their own sex exclusively, and they are chaperoned by the mammas of the morrow’s bride and bridegroom. A young missionary visiting Thibet for the first time, recently expressed his horror at finding the practices of Mor monism reversed under the protection of the King of Cdihmere. The law allows women several living husbands. Madame Patti, who is nervous when crossing the ocean, before starting for America, made her will, in which she desires to be buried at Craig -y-nos, and leaves a sum of money to be expended in instructing a number of poor Welsh boys with good voices who may show a taste for music. We are progressing in the science of epigrammatic signboard advertising. “ Society for the Encouragement of Wearing Clean Shirts,” is the latest de velopment, as seen flauntingly displayed over a laundry establishment at Chat ham and Pearl streets, New York Citv. General Grant’s new magazine arti cle, entitled “An Undeserved Stigma,” concisely reviews the case of General Fitz John Porter, giving grounds for his former belief in Porter’s guilt, and his present conviction of his entire inno cence, and appeals to the Government and the country for prompt action in Porter’s behalf. Mr. S. C. Hale, a veteran name in literature, announces for publication in March next ‘‘A Retrospect of a Long Life,” in which he promises to give es pecial prominence to his recollections of Ireland sixty years ago, when he says he “frequently bought eggs eight for a penny and chickens for eight pence a couple. There were no markets except in large towns, and there was no mode of locomotion.” Staff Commander James Charles Atkinson, the oldest officer in the Brit ish navy, has just died at the age of one hundred years. He commanded the Penguin, and was captured and his vessel destroyed by the American corvette Hornet in 1815. For the past fifteen years he had been quite blind, but otherwise retained all his faculties unimpaired up to the very moment of his death. Mr. Oliver Ames, Lieutenant Gov ernor-elect of Massachusetts, although now a man of great wealth, was trained to work, and did work for years in his father’s shops as a common journeyman shovel-maker. The proficiency he at tained as a mechanic is shown by the fact that for several years he alone matte all the prize shovels and other tools ex hibited by the firm at fairs in this and other countries. His example is being followed by his son, now twenty years old, who daily works at the bench and anvil. General Nicolas de Pierola, ex- President of Peru, who is in New York, is described as a dapper little man, about five feet five inches in height, with a clear complexion, laugh ing brown eyes, dark wavy hair, mous tache with long curled ends and an im perial. His foot is as small and as neatly booted as a woman’s, and he has the grace of manner of a Frenchman. A high, broad forehead alone distin guishes him from the commonplace, and a few streaks of gray in his hair are the only indications that he is forty-three years of age. , Sown patient German has collected DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 1882. Statistics of the capacity of the world’s largest houses of worship. First on his list, of course, appears St. Peter’s, at Rome, which is capable of containing 54,000 people. Next comes Milan Ca thedral, with 87,000; then St. Paul’s, in Rome, With 82,000; Cologne, with 80,- 000; St. Paul’s, in London, and the Church of St. Petronius, in Bologna, with 25,000 each ; the Sophia Mosque, in Constantinople, with 23,000 ; St. John Lateran, at Rome, with 22,000; St. Stephen’s, in Vienna, and the Cathedral in Pisa, 12,000 each; St. Dominic, in Bologna, 11,400; the Frauenkirche, in Munich, 11,000, and San Marco, in Ven ice, 7,000. St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in New York, is given a capacity of 18,000. A Detroit saloon-keeper advertises that he has paid S3OO for a year’s license to sell liquors, but that he means to vol untarily restrict his business within cer tain moral bonds. “To the wife who has a drunkard for $ husband,” he says in an advertisement, “or a friend who is dissipated, 1 say, emphatically, give me notice of such cases, and all such shall b 6 excluded from my place. Let fathers, mothers, sisters, do likewise, and their requests shall be regarded. I pay a heavy tax for the privilege of selling whisky and other liquors, and 1 want it distinctly understood that I have no de sire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to the poor or destitute. I much prefer that they save their money and put it where it will do the most good to their families. There will be an effort during the next session of Congress to reduce the fee for patent rights from thirty dollars to one dollar—the fee now charged for copyrights. The thirty-dollar fee means an examination, but it is no guaranty of the value of a patent, neither is it a guaranty that the patent does not in any way infringe on other patents or inter ests. The expenses of the Patent Office will be reduced under the new bill to less than one-fiftieth what they now are, and there will be more profit in con ducting it, for, while the charge for pat ents is exorbitant, the expenses of run ning the office are extravagantly large. The thousands of patents issued yearly that are never heard of afterward mean the support of a certain number of clerks in the Patent Office and a certain num ber of patent attorneys who exist be tween the inventor and the Patent Office. It is claimed that there would be even fewer patents issued under the provisions of the proposed bill, and its effect would be in the end to increase the value of a patent-right, Sounded Familiar. A seedy-looking fellow dropped into the city editor’s room, and. failing to borrow a half dollar, begged to narrate his experience. “I used to be an officer of State, I did. I was Sheriff, and mem ber of the Legislature, and Constable, and Clerk of the courts, and Judge, and a candidate time and again, and had a high old frolic, I did.’’ “I don’t believe it,’’ said the city editor. “Why don’t you?’’ “Because I have a letter here which says you are a thief, and a liar, and a scoundrel, and a villain, and a traducer, and a perjurer, and a default er, and a plotter, and a low-down brawl er, and a lover of all that is vile, and wicked, and dishonest, and abhorrent to decent people, and a’’ ——. “Aha! stranger, go on and read that all over again, and read it loud. It sounds like oTd times. It brings back the days when I ran for office. It reads like an editorial in the opposition paper, and brings again to my memory that blessed period when 1 felt- like 1 was somebody and life was worth living. O, glorious hours of my past, will ye ever come back to me ?” and the tears rolled down his cheeks as the city editor pronounced again the magic words, and then gave h7m a quarter to sober up on.— Louis ville Courier-Journal. A Commercial Item. Mose Schaumburg’s little boy, al though only ten years old, is traveling around slung to a tray, like a miniature Sam’l of Posen, instead of being sent to school where he could acquire a knowl edge of arithmetic that might be useful to him hereafter. An Austin gentleman stopped Mose Schaumburg, junior, and asked the little fellow how much he made on his arti cles. , “Five per shent; don t yer vant a bair of sushpenders for a quarater of a tollar?” , , , “Five per cent! Why that’s not much profit.” T “1 hash never pm to school, but 1 shuppose I makes five per shent. What costs me one tollar I sells f< >r five tol lars. Don’t you vant two bairs of sush penders for a quarter of a tollar.”— Texas More hay is injured by not being dried enough than by being dried too much. One extreme is equally as bad as the other. Clover, for instance, if allowed to become too dry in the sun will lose all of its leaves and its blos soms, and the stocks that are left are of little value. On the other hand, if put in the mow too soon it will become mow bitrnt, and equally worthless. A little of last year’s hay to mix with each load as it is put in the mow is very desirable, absorbing the moisture from the new hay. Farmer's Magazine- SENEX JEBILANS. The world Is growing better ~ . . Every year! It throws off many a fetter Every year; There are many things to relish, Though the ancient things must perish. But the beautiful we cherish Every year. Many changes have come o’er us Every year; Many friends have gone before us Every year! Through many a strange mutation We have reached a higher station Every year. We have had our slight vexations Every year; And pleasing jubilations Every year; There are visions to remember Os flowers in September And Christmas in December Every year. The sun shines now as brightly Every year; And the snowflakes fall as lightly Every year; As in days when we were younger, And the years appeared much longer To out hearts, which then felt stronger, Every year. Afflictions have not shrouded Every year* And troubles have not clouded Every year; But hope the whole discounted, While the former were recounted, And the latter all surmounted Every year. Our weakness is more trying Every year: And the days more swiftly flying" Every year; Our faults bring deep contrition, Our errors admonition, Experience its fruition Every year. The end of life comes nearer Every year: The friends left become dearer Every year; And the “goal of all that’s mortal” Opens wider still its portal To the land of the immortal Every year. And thinner grows the curtain Every year; That divides us from the certain Every year; We look forward to the morrow Which shall close all earthly sorrow With the calmness Hope can borrow Every year. William fieed. in Taunton (Mass.) Gazette. Houses for Winter. House cleaning in the fall, although much less prom nence is given to it, is fully as important as house cleaning in the spring, espec ally when, as is often the case in town, the house has been clo ed forth summer. Theme of dis inle taut' i then necesary, and sweep ing, dusting, scrubbing and whitewa n iugare imperatively c lied for. It is a well known fact that malaria is more active n the early fall than at any other season even in the dog days. There is in the air an excess of moisture, and this, wth the heat, are the exact ele ments necessary for decomposition. Mephitic taints are slower in coming to a head, so to speak, and so linger longer about the bouse. Besides in our fur nace-heated houses, the frost has no chance to kill poisonous germs, and when the fires are started they rise on the hot air. carrying the seeds of dis ease and de th into parlor and bed chamber. Therefore, if whitewashing is done but once a year, the fall rather than the spring should be the time se lected, and every nook and corner of the cellar should be well whitewashed. A strong solution of coperas is excellent for pouring down sinks and water clos ets, while chloride of lime should be used for sprinkling in back yards and damp corners Concentrated lye or a strong solution of potash will often clear a stopped pipe by eating away the ob jection. It is. however, useless where much grease has accumulated, since it merely converts it into soap and so hardens it. These accumulations are more frequent than one is apt to sup pose, and sometimes clog the drain pipes bv degrees until at last a space of several feet is filled To clear-this out, the aid of the plumber is necessary, but it may be prevented by occasionally, say once a week, flushing the pipe with hot water. Beds should be cleaned, mattresses sunned and blankets and quilts which have been packed away taken out and well aired to rid them of the odor of camphor or tar paper. Strong spirits o.' ammonia injected by means of a small glass syringe into every crevice of the bedstead will effectually dislodge any unpleasant occupants, and should be supplemented by a liberal dusting with insect powder. Where carpets have been left on the Poor. give them a thorough sweeping, either with a new broom, or better still, a patent carpet-sweeper. When this last is used it will be necessary to use a dust brush and pan for the corners. If any signs o' moths are detected, turn hack the edges of the carpet and sprinkle with insect powder thickly un der them—this will probably check their rava". s. Steam cleaning is, however, the only ceriain method of destroying them. I’hila 'clphia Press. —No boy of ten considers himself a man unless he has a cigarette in his mouth. To all such we commend care ful reflection on a fact that came to light in a police court in this city recently. An Italian girl was arrested collecting ci<rar stumps, of which she had about a thousand in a basket; she explained that she started every morning about 4 o’clock and spent the day in this de lightful occupation, and that she dis posed of her collection to persons who transformed the burnt-out stumps into brand-new cigarettes.— N. Y. Christian Union. —To make steak tender, lay it on » large Hat dish in a mixture of three t - vinegar, and let ‘"“S ma ke when cooked. I Chicago Ne ws. The Fall Season. The “fall of the leaf” is the season of death and decay. The gorgeous color ing of the leaves and the changing hues of the lower vegetation, are all significative df this. It is the ripening which precedes decay that produces the varied tints which clothe the woods find the shrubbery; and the beauty which pleases the eye is nothing less than the covering that hides the unpleasant and unwholesome ruins of the Summer’s verdure. The fall season, with its dying vegetation, its damps and fogs and dripping moisture and its sudden changes, is one that calls for special care and precaution. Decay and death re produce themselves, and there is noth ing so hurtful to life as dead matter. From it are spread upon every breeze germs which produce decomposition in living matter and disease in animal life; and unless pains are taken to fortify ourselves aga’nst these influences, we are in constant danger. There are a few simple directions Wh ch might be usefully given just now that may. if noted and followed, pre vent serious disorders; attd first—be cause the most dangerous—the drink ing water calls for the most serious thought. Do we ever think of what be comes of the myriads of insects that have until now infested almost every leaf, and that with all the filth they have produced, have fallen to the ground and have died and disappeared, and of all the dead, rotting matter un der our feet everywhere? It is in greater part d ssolved and carried into the streams, ponds and springs; and from all these we directly or indirectly procuce our supply of drink. It is hard ly safe to use any water, even from the deepest wells, because these are all more or less polluted by surface water at this season, without boiling it; and special care should be taken against drinking any water that has not been thoroughly boded. It is just now that fevers, colds, sore throats and intestinal disorders become frequent, and a very little prevention may be more useful than a very large amount of cure. The closest attention should be given to the health. The feet should be kept dry and warm, and a chill to the body be carefully guarded against. The per spiration tb”ow off much of whatever unwholesome matter maybe taken into, or produced in. the system; and a sud den stoppage of it throws back all this into the circulation and poisons the bio d with it. The result mav be what we < all a cold; or it may be more se rious and appear as a fever, or pneu monia or diptheria; and all of these differ chiefly in degree and location, and not so much in character; for the former may easily change into the latter. 'The doctor is not always at hand, and so every person should be as much as possible his own and his fam ily's doctor, so far as the prevention of sickness is concerned. Precautions and good nursing save more lives than med icines. A simple cooling laxative, a warm bath, a simple sweating drink of gruel and wrapping in a blanket and going to bed, will frequently ward off a serious illness and avert the danger be fore the doctor can be Tea hed. And to use these, no one need to wait for the doct r’s orders. So that, to sum up, it may be lepeated that at this sea son it is very safe to be extremely par ticular in regard to drinking water; to avoid damp or wet feet or clothing: to avoid getting heated and then chilled by cooling; to eat moderately and at the first intimation of anything wrong, to use the simple remedies pointed out, and then send for the doctor.— Rural New Yorker. Chinese Masonry. Last Sunday was a great day for the Chinese Masons of Philadelphia, for no less a personage than Loo Chew, a gen uine Mandarin, had arrived to initiate nine new candidates into the mystical order of the Gee Hing. The ceremony began in the afternoon with a feast, at which a generous supply of chicken, rice and shark’s fins was put where it would do the most good, and a consid erable quantity of American whisky where it would do the most harm. Philadelphia boasts several Chinese singers of the first rank, who enlivened both the feast and the initiation exer cises with various selections from their native repertory, which were received with rapturous applause by the heathen and set on edge the teeth of passing Christians. The programme had been adapted to an all night session, and there is every reason to suppose that it was carried out to the letter.— Chicago HeraM. —A very small proportion of the quince trees planted ever arrhe at a fruiting age. generally dying from neg lect soon after planting. They require a deep, good soil, a comparatively moist, stiff and clayey one being best, provided it be well cultivated. For the first three or four years they demand careful at tention, after which time that ordinari ly given to other fruit trees will suffice. Thev should be pruned yearly and all weak or dead wood removed and too forward shoots headed back. —Farm and Garden. —A venerable darkey, seventy years old, had been claim ng relationship with f w b oie ( rX j / ties that he borrowed money / I left, and was entertained aa a, One day he was missed. x ( Post. TERMS: SI.OOA YEAR PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —Marian Harland, the novelist, is writing a history of Virginia. —Mrs. M. S. Pitman (Margery Deane), during her recent stay at Buda- Pesth, in Hungary, was tendered a ban quet by the Authors’ and Artists’ Club, at which complimentary addresses were made, flattering toasts were drank, and patriotic song* were sung. —A man at Simmons* Gap, Va., is living with his ninth wife. The patri arch is eight}' years old, has fifty-three children, and at a recent reunion over three hundred of his descendants were present. He does not know all of his children, and makes no effort to keep up with his grandchildren.— Chicago Times. —The will of the late Edward Clark, of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, leaves $50,000 to Williams College, SIO,OOO each to his agents, Bunyan and Meeker; $50,000 to two nephews, $250,000 to his daughter-in-law, and a like stun to each of her four sons, and the remainder of his property, estimated to be of the value Os $30,000,000, to his son Alfred C. Clark. —McDonald Clark, known years ago in New York as “the mad poet,” and who died in the Blackwell Island Luna tic Asylum, left among other items the following lines concerning his funeral: “ 1 hope the children will come; I want to be buried by the side of children. Four things I am sure there will be in heaven—music, flowers, pure a r and plenty of littlechildren.”— N. Y. Graphic. —Ex Governor Abner Coburn is the riches! man in Maine. He is worth al most $7,000,000. He lives near Skowhegan, and he drives about the village in a two-seated phaeton showing evident marks of usage. The horses are strong and clean-limbed, but their trappings and grooming evince a dis regard of apperanees. There are no heirs to Mr. Coburn’s property but two nieces. — Boston Transcript. Mr. Jacob Kunkel, the junior mem ber of .the firm of Kunkel Brothers, died recently. He was one of the most artistict musicians resident in the United States. His compositions, always full of melody and exquisitely harmonized, had made him famous as a writer of piano music far beyond the limits of the United States. As a solo pianist he was poetic in his interpretations, be yond anv one, perhaps, since the days of Gottschalk, and his duo playing with h s surviving brother, Charles, was, ac cording to no less authority than the king of pianists, Anton Rubinstein, die finest in the world Mr. Kunkel had not yet completed his twenty-sixth year —St. Louis Repub'.iean. The Phipps Extradition. The case of Phipps, the Philadelphia embezzler, before the Canadian courts presents some interesting international questions. Phipps, who was superin tendent of the Philadelphia alms-house, is accused of having robbed the city of $650,000. His peculations extended over a period of fine years, and it is I said he divided the fruits of them with four members of the board of guardians of the institution according to a nefari ous compact entered into at the time he was chosen superintendent. The agree ment was that the fourguardians should make Phipps superintendent, and he in turn should divide w th them $75,000 a year, a compact which he carried out with scrupulous fidelity. When bis robberies were detected he tied to Canada. The United States Govern ment demands his surrender under the Ashburton treaty. This treaty provides for the surrender of persons charged with various crimes; not including larceny and embezzlement —the very offenses that Phipps was conspicuously guilty of. Forgery is one of the crimes mentioned in tnq treaty, and the I hila delph a authorities have made out a show of a case against him on this charge, on the ground that he issued fraudulent receipts for warrants. The court at Hamilton, Canada,. holds that the forgery charge is sufficiently made out to warrant the extradition of the prisoner. But the prisoner’s counsel has taken the case before the < ourt of Appeals at Toronto, and if defeated there will take it to the Supreme Court at Ottawa. If Piiipps shall be surrendered it can be for trial on the charge of forgery only, the least of his offenses. But the Philadelphia authorities will regard it as a great hardship that a man who baa robbed their city of $650,000 through nine years of official life, through a ser es of crimes that ought to send him to the penitentiary for the remainder of his days, should be exempt from trial for the worst of these crimes, and be tried only for one. and that the least of them- Besides, it is not clear that he can be convicted of forgery, as the case is a weak one. if, therefore, the Ca nadian court shall make it a condition of his surrender that he be exempt from trial on the charges of larcenv and embezzlement, the proofs of which are overwhelming, and be required to an swer to the charge of forgery only, and if <>n this charge he should be acquitted, It would be a signal example of inter national law shielding a hardened and infamous-blender from punishment.— ,S7. Louis Republican. , —Currant Fritters: These are made of one cup and a half of very fine bread ‘ crumbs, one flour, one cup and a baltc J»w« 1 one quarter of a poti ;n currants Fnghsh ctirran ts of sugar thoroughly), two tat> Flavor and a small Iu I n .. tme a, to suit the with cinnamon lard and taste; drop m wine and fry until done. fat wnii w sugar.— Rurtl World.
