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VOL. V.-NO. 16. news gleanings. The echo®! population of Georgia i 507,861. Alabama has a bonded indebtedness pi $9,500,000- Alexandria, Va., gets oysters at thir ty five cents a bushel. Twenty thousand Le Conte pear trees are being set out in Leon county, Fla Cedar Key, Fla., bears the distinction of being a town in which not a single COW is owned or kept, Alabama is in such a prosperous con dition that the Governor recommends j reduction of taxation. A gold mine has been discovered in Warren county, Ga., which promises to be one of the richest in the State. In Georgia this year 140,515 white voters paid their poll taxes, and 93,153 colored voters did the same thing. A billhas been introduced in the Ala bama. Legislature to prevent persons playing “crac-a-loo’’ in public places, The iron bridge across Yazoo river, twelve miles above Vicksburg, Miss., is to cost $250,000. It is now under way. The actual capital now invested in Southern cotton mills is placed at SSO, 000,000, giving employment to 40,000 hands. A bill has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature to require railroad companies to fence in their roads and erect cattle guards. Georgia farmers, elated and encour aged by the immense oat crop harvested this year, are putting in a larger crop than ever this fall. The New Orleans Times-Democrat and Charleston News and Courier are agitating the project of organizing a Southern Associated Press. The Commercial says Vickburg is on a regular business boom, forging ahead at a lively rate, but the condition of the city finances is deplorable. The award of SIOO for a design for the Confederate monument to be erected at Nashville has been ordered paid to Henry O. Avery, of New York. Waverly, Tenn., takes pride in point ing out to visitors the site on which stood the log school-house in which Cob RobL’.G. Ingersoll taught school twenty five years ago. Virginia ranks seventeenth in the of hjh-producing States, the oyster, menhaden a r ld ghad figherieg beiog th(j e e ra uches in which her citizens are 08t extensively inteiested, A Mississippi man has discovered that an excellent quality of sugar can be tde from sweet potatoes. If this proves true, a new use has been found or one of the best and most prolific o American products. The News says Galveston may as well iMrtT e hope of being » great cotton et . m consequence of direct expor a ion of thecotton of Northern Texas to Breme ” by gents, throughout the State. A bill providing for the erection of a »ew Capitol has been introduced in the bill provides marble * i^' U ° f Georgia granite and “ a rble decorated with Georgia pine 1 walnut, and cost $1,000,000. Bu O c D ki t n h V arm ° f Wm - J - Watki <«> Mween t? a mound which is fiITZ thlFty feet high< and 1 Wlth the bones of men dian n< d !? together with pieces of In relics. fy ’ arr ° W beads and otb er “•Hng'X”’ ' H " , '! red of cane v«, . " 1 in «“> North each cotton gar Plantation ’ rm ° Uß, S ° me of the B «- h^ofX^ri dingthreehogß * 8 the acre Th- * barrels ° f molaß ' Planters are in Ju 18 remarka We. The from SSO 000 ♦ * g ' ee - Incomes LynchV 50 °’ 000 ar * talked of. DUal "mT? u anCe: The an ’ «chool nhowsthirvi u ampt ° n Indian ‘Hour Indi an k ty Indlan girls and « stud cnts made mJ attendance - The "venty-five ,W 0 P airs of shoes and man y other article. 0 d harnew ’ year. ’ uring the present C harleston (R n \ ' d her hair with WOman hlondin and the “ while’ h 8 0"?. Vile conc °ction, '' t>r.,d, ng K heW i( / Halton Stogns. her mouth. The stuff poisoned her lips, and the poison soon found its way throughout her entire system. After weeks of doctering, she recovered, but only by the merest chance. Montgomery Advertiser: Among the fruits exhibited at the fair during the present week was a barrel as Alabama oranges, raised by Mr. Tatum, Repre* sentative in the Legislature from Bald win county. They attracted general attention by their rich color and large size, and compare very favorably with the best Florida oranges. Mellomaize is a Sou th American ce real, superior to both corn and wheat for cakes and bread, which experiment ing has proved will grow successfully in the * South, making from fifty to one hundred bushels to the acre. In South Carolina it has been grown for several years by Rev. H. H. Pratt, who intro duced it to this country. The Fate of Explorers. From Singapore we learn that Mr. Witti (formerly an officer in the Austrian army), an explorer in the service of the British North Borneo Company,has been treacherously murdered by “head hunt ers,” who also killed several of his native attendants. Mr. Witti had, it seems, been making his Way to the head of the Sibnco Itiveri This region may be considered at present quite beyond the active administration of the British Borneo Company. The Governor was not aware that Mr. Witti intended to make so long and hazardous a journey. At the same time, Mr. Witti being an experienced traveler, a brave man, and on good terms with the naives gener ally, there was no reason to fear that he might not go through the verv heart of the country without molestation. He had made, it seems, an important trip, and was, it is believed, on his Wftv to Kimanis. Near the head of the Sibuno Biver he would be on the frontier of Dutch Borneo, and in a region where Mr. Carl Bock found the natives un uually savage and unfriendly. Witti had a party of seventeen men, ' He divided them. Some nine or ten were told off to attend to the boats. They were navi gating a river, and Witti had bought boats from the natives. The other men remained to push on ahead in company with the explorer. The natives had shown no disposition to hostility. The local chiefs (the tribes are, no doubt, the Muruts, though one account says they are Tandjoeing Dyaks) had hospitably entertained Witti, which is generally a guarantee of friend ship. While his little party were pre paring to move forward, Witti sat down to make some notes in his diary. Sud denly,from an ambush in the river,some three hundred natives, armed with poisoned arrows and spears, rushed in upon Witti and his men. Three of the latter fell almost immediately. Witti defended himself with his revolver and killed two of his assailants. The rest crowded upon him,however,and speared him to death. The others of the party had already run away, one of them,who was carrying Witti’s Winchester rifle, taking it off in his flight. From a hiding place they saw one of the attacking party decapitate Witti, while others cut off the lower limbs of his dead attend ants, fling them, with the explorer’s head, into a boat, and make off with their bleeding trophies down stream. They also carried off Witti’s papers and dispatch-box. The event has created ♦ sensation at Singapore and at Labaun. A police party, of the Borneo Company, has been, or is about to be, dispatched to the scene of the massacre, with a view to a complete investigation of the affa r and the punishment of the Muruts. I'he head of the Sibuco River is on the con fines of the British North Borneo Com pany’s territory, occupied by trih *s of an entirely different character (<• t i >se among whom Mr. Frank Hatt n an other scientific explorer, is at w ..x in the northern regions around about Kini Bolu. He and his party, including an Australian engineer, have been well re ceived. They found the company's fl <g flying at several somewhat remote points, and, so far as the real work of the company goes, it is moving on sat isfactorily. Mr. Witti must have had the dangers of his expedition in his mind at the out set. It is quite likely, from what is known of his adventurous spirit, that he had resolved to accomplish a great achievement even at the risk of his life, for, prior to setting out, he made his will and left behind him full instructions as to the distribution of his property. He was known to the Geographical So ciety of London, whose “Journal of Transactions” contains several of his contributions to the geographical his tory of Borneo. The commercial civili zation of North Borneo is of great im portanceto tradinginterests in the eastern sea«, and it will be necessary in the in terests of Borneo and adjacent islands to make an example of the murderers — London Telegraph. —Robert Harris, a poor boatman, found 300 Spanish doubloons under the stump of a tree near the I’amlico River, in North Carolina, the other day. The finding of the coin has caused great ex citement Harris was offered $5,(00 for his treasure. During the past hun dred years periodical searches have been made on desolate sand-bars and islands on the North < arolina coast for treasure supposed to have been buried by the pirates, Captains Kidd and Black beard. From time to time money has , been found.— N. O. Picayune. DALTON, GEORGIA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Malignant diphtheria prevail* in and wound Philadelphia, Pa. “The Grover Cleveland” is the name as a new overcoat just placed upon the market by a Chicago firm. Florists are endeavoring to introduce the English custom of using bright lowers at funerals in this country. * » EmigranYs to Texas are returning to their old homes in great numbers. They jomplain of great sickness, and their inability to become acclimated. There is some style at Omaha. The social season was opened by Mr, and Mrs. Levi Carter at the Baxton Hotel by a party which cost $6,000. The hotel nas just been finished. at « At Chattanooga, Tenn., they are ex pecting very high prices for beef. The jause of the scarcity is that nearly all the cattle from that vicinity is being shipped to Cincinnati and the West. The report is current in society circles that General George T. Beauregard, of New Orleans, La., is soon to marry Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, widow of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, Pastor Tucker, of the Methodist Church at Norwich, Connecticut, is a most strenuous opponent of the Revival ist Barnes. He calls his doctrines “ damnable nonsense, and the fag ends of Calvinism.” Dr. Talmage says that when Governor Waller is inaugurated in Connecticut all the newsboys of Ameficia should have a torchlight procession in honor of the man who was once a newsboy in the city of New York. After two weeks’ observation, Willie Winter, the admirable dramatic critic of the New York Tribune, announces his conviction that Mrs. Langtry’s attain ments fully warrant her adoption of the dramatic profession. Ex-Gov. Leland Sfanford, of Cali fornia, it is reported, has leased William H. Vanderbilt’s old residence for the winter, at SI,OOO a month. Dr. Webb, Mr. Vanderbilt’s son-in-law, has occu pied the house until recently. There are in the District comprising the State of Florida, 120 cigar manufac tories, 89 of which are at Key West, and 25 at Jacksonville. During the quarter ending October 1, the number of cigars made in the District was 10,571,825. A gentleman who has been visiting the far Northwest of British America, with a Government surveying party, re ports that the buffalo is fast becoming scarce, but that antelope are numerous.. Badgers and gophers infest the whole Western country, and seem to have honey-combed the soil. Engineer Melville is reported to feel very keenly the humiliation of pub lic discussion of his private affairs. He does not care to talk for publication. But it seems to be understood that he still believes his wife insane, and that while he will provide for her, he will not live with her any more. It is stated on good authority that the public pays for twice the gas they would need with good burners. The gas com panies are pressing the subject now, as they fear the electric light, and wish to make a good showing. As long as they had only candles and lamps to contend with they did not object to this waste. When Mrs. McElroy, the President’s sister, was asked why she did not be come mistress of the White House, she replied that she owed her time, first of all, to her husband and five children. Her admirers in Washington say that if she chose to “do the honors” she would be popular for her gentle self-possession and her quiet elegance of manner. The Sultan evidently considers him self blessed with loyal household retain ers. At the recent imposing public feast of Kurban, he called to himself his chief eunuch, and, in the presence of the min isters and other officers, thanked him for his good services in the past, and gave him a golden star, bearing in dia monds the word “Faithful.” This is a rare and highly-prized decoration, which has only been bestowed upon seven per sons. To the other eunuchs of his harem he gave rich gifts of clothing and money, in token of their honesty and diligence. Two physicians whose names became familiar to the public during the illness of President Garfield, are seriously and fatally ill Surgeon General Barnes has been very low, and his life was despaired of from day to day a month ago. He 1 has rallied since, but his friends are not J much encouraged by his condition. ,H trouble is pronouced Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Another of Garfield’s physicians, Dr. Woodward, is rapidly failing of softening of the brain. He has returned from Italy where he spent the past summer, without signs of im provement; but, on the contrary has grown worse, and little hope is enter tained that he may recuperate, and it is feared the Worst may be looked for at any time. v » A few months ago the discovery by Koch that tubercles were daused by a living parasite called a bacillus was con fidently announced. Now comes the Chicago Medical Journal with the an nouncement that it will soon publish an article by Dr. H. D. Schmidt, a dis tinguished microscopist of New Orleans, who claims that the bacillus is not an organized body, but a fat crystal. Dr. Schmidt declares that he can produce artificially every form of Koch’s bacillus. He reached his conclusions by employ ing the so-called Baumgarten process of soaking sections of tuberculous lung in a 30 per cent, solution of caustic potash. This produced minute deposits of red in tissue and sputa, thus facilitating the work of observation. His conclusions, if true, ate of great importance, for they render nugatory what has been deemed an important advance in science. The Solicitor of the Treasury has recommended the acceptance of an offer of SI,OOO as a compromise in the case of the United States against the bondsmen of a former Receiver of Public Moneys in Louisiana during the war of the re bellion, whose accounts were found to be some SB,OOO short, when a settlement was finally made. This suit has been pending for many years, and was about to come to trial when the offer was made. The defense of the Receiver was that he was compelled to turn this amount of money over to the Confederate authori ties under duress. The Solicitor’s opinion states that under a decision of the Supreme Court claims against of ficials for deficits during war times are void, if it can be shown that there was either moral or physical force used to compel a surrender of the moneys in their possession. This was not only proved in this case, but indisputable ev idence was also given to show that the Receiver was a loyal man to the Union at that time. The translation of Arabi Pasha’s let ters, captured after his surrender, has been completed, and they are held by the counsel for the defense to prove three points: “Firstly, that he received direct encouragement from the Sultan, who, expressing entire disregard for the Khedive, appeals directly to Arabi tc defend the interests of Egypt and the rights of the Khalif against foreign ag gression. Secondly, that Arabi had the unanimous support of the Egyptian peo ple, as is proved by numerous petitions, bearing the signatures of twenty-five thousand of the most influential repre sentatives of every class and section of the population—officials, military offi cers, civilians, merchants, land owners and Bedouin chiefs. Thirdly, that he had the sanction of the representatives of the religion of the country, as shown by the Fetwa, signed by the heads of all the four Mahometan rites, pronounc ing the deposition of the Khedive, and enjoining the continuance of war.” The evidence taken in the trial so far has been chiefly to show that Alexandria was fired by Arabi’s orders, and othei outrages committed at his command which make him criminally liable, since they exceeded the laws and usages of war. If guilt is fastened upon him it will hardly be necessary to consider the above three points. Influence of Poetry on Snake-Bites. There is probably nothing older in medicine than thebel cl that a hymn, if sung at the right time and place, will cure almost any complaint. When Odvsseus was struck by the wild boar, Homer tells us that his friends sang a song oi healing over the wound. Another classical writer advises us not to sing songs over hurts that need the knife, and this advice might have been recalled with prolit by Ram chtinder Ghose, lately a serpent charmer a good business in I uddoopookur. A coTira was found in a shop where poor Ghose happened to be sitting, and the public were anxious to put it to death. Ghose, from motives of humanity, and, perhaps, to adverti-e his skill, o eied to “charm” the < obra. He d d manage to collar it, and was about to place it n a chattv, when the cobra bit its charmer. Ramehunder Ghose, who seems to have been an earnest man in his way, refused to go to hospital, or to stiller any med icaT treatment. He repeated some mantra, or sa red strains from the Vedas, and said it would be all right. The mannas however, failed on thisoccasion, and Ghose expired, the victim of mis placed contiden e in his professional skill, and in the influence of poetry on snake-bites. London hraphtc. —Mrs. Mehnert, who is ntoety-nine veins old, has kept the Golden Irumpet Hotel, Reichenbach Germanj fir gl L consecutive years, and 1 1 hearty. BEN HILL NOT BEAD. Cm he be dead ? Then fame is less, indeed, Than poets sing or seers accredit it: Exceeding small, if words heard to earth’s end, Bearing the truths of deathless principles To heights so rare that all the world may read, Can cease to be. Dost say the maize seed dies Just when its glist’ning spears burst from the ground ? To die is to lie down in dust for aye, Death hopes nor knows no waking. Why say “dead ?” Humanity’s irail husk, but ’nils away I'o give the germ, the seed, the soul new life. A child may weep whene’er the sun goes down, And say “there is no light,” but wise men know That other lands are glowing in bright rays. Those on the heights see clouds as speeds below Floating in endless sunshine ; we alone Wco dwell down in the vale are shutout from Desired light, and still must grope in dark ness. And so because we see no more the glow Fiom Ben Hill’s soul, we say it has gone out. . Theie is no answer when you say “the babe Is dead,” the little one that only lived \ mement and was buried ere you knew T’was born. The mother wond’ring hears you say Her hopes, her quenchlets love, her agony Were all for naught; no more than brutes have felt, Brutes without past or future, nor can feet A hope, nor know but present fear or pain. You may say true the babe shall wake no more, The precious hopes shall never fiuited be, The mother’s arms may never clasp that form Which only she has lov’d, nor may she see Nor know the meaning in an after life ( Os this life’s unfilled hopes, desires and dreams. The infant breathed—then ceased to breathe This was its all of time. You may believe It dead, but not this man, who yesterday Held out a warm -right hand to grasp his friend’s. That strong right hand that did but short time since Pen peerless sentences, priceless and pur t As pearls purloined from ocean’s treasures, That toft, white hand that held witbjn its palm All that is good of earth. What had he not ? Wealth was his to spare, loved offspring Ciuelered around his hearth, and loving wife Most like to Csezir’s. To fame he climbed The (harmed rounds, and held a helping hand To tottereis on the dizzy heights below. Dead? He whose voice held all the woild spell bound, And fired its heart with matchless eloquence. Holding by right of innate puissance The sesame to laughter an 1 to tears. Call you him dead who bravely neared that shade By man more feared than all his enemies, Arid smiling, stepped into that awtul stream Leading to waere man’s mystery is solved ? He must have seen that hoped for afte.l life Which those yet faraway pretend to dou’it. He must have look’d that way and been as sur’d. Could reasoning man go down to endless night With smiles, and steady step, and cloudless brow ? No, not dead, but gone towards perfection. Louella Styles Vincent. Jonesboro, Texas, August 188 2. Sable, Marton and Mink Fnrs. The Russian sable—though why so named is an enigma, the choicest speci mens coming from Kamtchatka —is ex tremely fashionable throughout the world, the fur being valued for its great beauty, and being unique from the fact that the hairs turn and lie equally well in any position. The animal is related to the weasel, pine and stone martens, mink, etc., but exceeds them all in the beautyand length of the over hair; that is long, flowing, and of a rich blui h dark shade, wearing extremely well, the pelt being tough and durable. Nearly 100,- 000 are caught yearly at all points, bringing from S3O to $l5O a skin, and the lady who would wear a perfect set of furs from it must pay nearly $2,000. Other kinds are more or less used in the trade, the Kolinski of Japan being a favorit* in England, and 75,000 of them are used on an average yearly in Eu rope and Asia. The American m nten —from Ixibrador and Great \\ hale River—is much in demand. Aiti-ts’ brushes are made from the hairs of the tail, and for this and other purposes over 130,000 are captured yearly, va) ued at $25 per skin for the be-t. Os pine martens 200,000 arc used. It is a rich brown, being often passed off by dis honest dealers as Russian sable. Thirty years ago the stone marten from Hun gary and Turkey was the fashion, but now there is hardly a demand for it in this country, though in Europe 150,000 skins are annually prepared and col ored. The entire industry may be val ued at SBOO,OOO. The fisher-marten is rare and valuable in Europe, as well as various other members of the family. In this country the better class of mink retains its popularity, the dark chestnut browns and blacks being rich and ele gant in the extreme, and often passed off upon the innocent purchaser as Rus sian sable. The dark blue, lustrous shades are most admired, and come from Maine, Nova Scotia, the Middle and Northwestern States. The trap pers realize, or should, from $5 to $25 per skin for the 250,000 animals killed vearly. Fifty thousand Russian minks are used a year, but they are smaller and of a much inferior quality.—A. I. Post. -Thomas Hughes, Judge ofjhe Nautwich County Co ” ’ T m Hrovv n's known as the author o fnt ( j (; - I School Days,” deciding cision on the law of 1 that an editor might alter a / meat to prevent a hbet- TERMS; SI.OO A YEAR PITH AND POINT. —“The baking-powder war” is tha heading of an advertisement in some of our exchanges. Another Yeastern diffi culty, it is presumed.— Norristown Her ald. —Said Brown, looking about the es tablishment: “I don’t see Belcher around. How do you get along without him? You told me he was your right hand man.” “So he was,” replied the storekeeper, “but now he is left.”—Bos ton Transcript. —A medical journal explains how to make a “dropper”—an arrangement to drop medicine out of a bottle. The quickest and most emphatic dropper we ever saw was a young man who en tered a blacksmith shop and picked up a horse-shoe that had just come out of the forge. He dropped it with so much dropableness, so to speak, that it made him perspire—and swear.— The Judge. —The New York Graphic prints pic tures of “the great diamonds of the world.” There are about thirty of these precious stones, and the most surprising thing about them is the fact that not a single one of them is owned by an edi tor. Newspaper men never did care much for jewelry, anyhow. —“Oh, I’ve just had such a scare!” exclaimed a prim and pale housewife: “I feel as if I should faint.” “Why, what’s the matter?” was asked. “Well,” she replied, “you may not believe it, but as sure as I live that new girl deliber ately opened the parlor shutters and the sun was shining right in.” —“ Have you ever before been pun ished by the law?” asked an Austin Justice of a colored culprit. “Yes, I called a man a liar, and I had to pay a fine.” “Is that the only time you have come in conflict with the law?” “Now dat yer speaks ob hit, Jedge, I bleeves I was in de penitentiary for ten yeahs, es I disremember myself”— Texas Siftings. —A society drama was presented at the theater at Salt Lake City recently, but when in the third act the husband began to rave and tear around because his wife had run away with another man, the audience with one accord rose from their seats and exclaimed: “The idea of making all this fuss about one woman!” and left the place in disgust. -—San Francisco Chronicle. —The firm, steadfast character of Massachusetts men is seen also in things material. Look at the weathercock, for instance. This, elsewhere the symbol of instability and fickleness, is here transformed into stability itself. When the thing gets turned toward the rising sun, its fixity of purpose, its staying power, its rigid inflexibility, is simply sublime. It knows no north, no south, no west. — Boston Transcript. ? —A distinguished physician says that ! the garments worn by women are preferable to those worn by men. Ha may speak from experience, but we i don’t believe he ever wore a walking cos tume of royal blue cloth, with facings, 1 revers, and pelerine of velvet plush,with a velvet basque, a long, clinging pelisse trimmed with lace jabots down the front and back, Charles 11. collar, and a tiny black velvet poke and a rib-compressing corset cut entrain, and so forth. Hardly. Chicago Times. Pearl*. Pearls are perhaps the most valuable of all the offerings of animate nature, and are the results of the efforts of the bivalve to protect itself from injury. A parasite bores into the shell of the pearl bearer, and when felt by the animal it immediately fortifies itself by covering up the spot with its pearly secretion; the parasite pushes on, the oyster piling up until an imperfect pearl attached to the shell is the result. The clear oval pearls are formed in a similar way, only in this case a bit of sand has become lodged in the folds of the creature, and in its efforts to protect itself from the sharp ed<>es, the bit becomes covered, layer by"layer, and assumes naturally an oval shape. This growth of the pearl, as ft is incorrectly termed, can be seen by breaking open a SSOO gem, when the macre will be seen in layers resembling the section of an onion. The Romans were particularly fond of pearls, and, . according to Pliny, the wife of Laius Caligula possessed a collection valued at over $3,000,000 of our money. Julius Caesar presented a jew® l ,. l ®‘“ e mother of Brutus valued at s2w,wu, while the pearl drunk by Cleopatra was estimated at SIOO,OOO. Tavernier the famous traveler, sold a pearl to thelhah of Persia for $5.50,000. A $20,000 pearl was taken from American waters fn the time of Philip H- « was pear shaped, and as large as a pigeon s egg. Another, taken from the same locality, is now owned by a lady in Madrid who values it at $30,000. . Fresh-water pearls are often of great value. The streams of St. Clair County, 111., and Rutherford County, Tenn., produce large quantities, but the larges one was found near Salem, N. J.. was about an inch across, and brought $2,000 in Paris. The pearls from th Tav. Doon and Isla rivers, in Scotland, are nreferred by many to the Oriental, and in one summer $50,000 worth of nearls were taken from these localities by mem and children. Mother-of-pearl used in the arts is sold by the ton, from $.50 to S7OO being an average price, ine wlrcb I A r.'-idant Ij 3 cousin to hi’ line je also to I m o-ried h>s aa d cousins. »nd Mother in-law to hie and mother.