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VOL. V-NO. 17. NEWS GLEANINGS. Chattanooga, Tenn., pays her Mayor but SSOO per year. A bill introduced in the Georgia Leg islature makes betting On elections a misdemeanor. The Alabajna penitentiary contains 522 convicts. Os these sixty-seven are white*, and 455 colored. A total of $3,372 40 has been collect ed toward erecting a monument to Sen ator Ben Hill, of Georgia. The Little Rock Gazette says the acreage of wheat sown in Arkansas this fall is larger than ever before. Alabama has over 3,000,000 acres of Government land subject to entry un derhomestead and pre-emption laws. Richmond, Va., has fifty factories, representing a capital of $4,000,000- Their sales for 1881 aggregated $11,250," 000. The debt of Memphis is four and a half millions, and the Avalanche says it i« increasing at the rate of $270,000 per year. A Southern paper estimates that at least ICO cotton gins have burned this season. Many of the fires were incen diary. The general local option petition which is to be presented to the Georgia Legislature in a few days is 300 feet in length. A bill has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature to require all the qualified voters in the State to register before voting A bill introduced in the Alabama Legislature provides that the study of the laws of health be introduced into the public schools, The North Carolina peanut crop will this year reach 140,000 bushels. The nuts are of better quality than any grown during the past five years. Fifty-one women from N ortheast Georgia left Atlanta a day or two ago for homes and husbau ds in Utah, hav faftb^ 11 conver^<d to the Mormon The dam across the Chattahoochee river, at Columbus, Ga , is nearly com pleted. It i 8 the largest in the South, and contains about 200,000 feet of solid masonry, Georgia has more illiterates than an other State in the Union. North Caro hna is second on the list, Alabama third, irginia fourth, Tennessee fifth and Mississippi sixth. Virginia will soon have the largest iron furnace in the United States. The Victoria furnace, in Rockbridge coun ty, now nearly ready to put in blast, will daily produce 200 tons of iron. Geological examination reveals in the delta of the Mississippi, along a space of 300 miles, ten distinct forests of bu iie trees. Bald cypresses with a diam- f * r nd Os twent y-fi™ feet have been g , w Te *‘ W ‘ Raker and wife have Markh w Husf ’ P ro P rietor of the dam a™, H ° U ! e ’ Atlanta > f °r SIO,OOO a ges for injuries sustained by Mrs. * ker by being bitten by rats while a g 8t of the hotel last summer. in ° f tbe g ‘ rls era ploy ed lishm aBhTlUe manufacturing estab - .Ofkln ° hAbit * QBU lting dark * g " ' lhelr way home atter and w i pr ? bablht y that the Cotton tnrance f’ Cn MUtUal Man usurers’ In tron will °“ pan J’ a Northern institu take ltS borde - a <> a « to ■tills. utlp in cotton and woolen ble qnarte^sVhe 111411 = m ° Bt season are? Cr ° Pß ° f Texas so r this of cotton at 1 - 400 >000 bales corn. Texas Wo °’ floo bushels of li «tofSouthern°stat tandß 6rßt ° n the *>»”«'“ lhc r r •"d'w.ke'"’' 1 '"”* Ml,t ’ Franklin ’holesale killb" 1 ? u N ‘ Over tbe formers. p hp * of ho K® blonging to the have been nni a e^e that the hogs ln the interest* ,>V tram P peddlers B carcel v twentv TT™ P° rk P ackers ’ t’o counties ’ " e h ° gs are left in the '“Muroijg, of <«mp«rance are * h 'Ore»‘. fI", de " »' Um. of l-de„ f X Wl ' i,tej P " >h *>« altogether, ffiljc Pulton Bratts. while others ask that the license be fix ed at $5,000, SIO,OOO, and even $20,- 000 per year. Atlanta has a candidate for Mayor who proposes, if elected, to gradually reduce taxation until, at the end of fif teen years, the city government can be run without one cent of cost to her cit izens. The scheme proposed by the can didate is pronounced feasible by many prominent citizens of that place. John Milton and another colored man named Long entered a Vicksburg (Miss) saloon, and a wager being agreed upon between them as to thei r relative capac ity far storing away whiskey, a drink ing tournament was begun, the bill to be settled by the one who drank the least. Milion succeeded in drinking five pints. His funeral occured the next evening. The Hern Industry. Ifom< of our bumble friends with four feet could give expression to their thoughts, they would perha s accuse nmu of bcin<* a terribly rapacious ani mal. Not on.y, they might say, does ho ea. our I'esh, but he even utilr.es our skin in various ways, and the very horns of our heads are cut and shaped and polished and pieced together, until they assume a hundred shapes which native never intended the. should take. V. hat a shockingly selfish ad grasping creature this man, as he calls himself, must be! It may be urged that if our four-footed brethern could speak, they night not have these or any o. her thoughts to communicate. This, how ever, is a frivolous and superficial ob jection, for does not the power of speech necessarily involve the ability to th nk? But even if this is not so— and in our present mood we are not concerned to dispute the point—it is at least certain that if animals could think and speak, the reflections we have put into rheir mouths would be very natural and appropriate and from their point of Few, even reasonable. l ime was when, from this point of observat'on, we were much greater sin ners than we are now. In former days, and not so long since, either, the horn industry was of considerable importance in this country. There are, indeed, plenty of people who are by no means willing to con ess themselves old, who remember when this material was used for a multitude of purposes for which g ass and various metals are now em ployed. We ate apt to think with pity o. our forefathers, who used it for their lamps, and lanterns, and windows; but I it is as well to remember, on the o'her hand, that it possessed several recom mendations, by no means to be despised. Ti ne, it was not so transparent as could have been wished, nor in those earlier days was it turned out of hand so artis tically as it has been by the skill of m< re iecent times. But then it required a good deal of breaking, and so cur an cestors were spared some of the irrita tions which we unfortunate mortals ha ve to endure. In other directions the substitution of glass for horn has more to he said in its favor. The modern tumbler, for example, is a dstinet im provement upon the drinking-horn wh ch it has supplanted. At the present time —to come to sober facts—horn is used lor the most part in the mann a' ture of combs, knife-han dle', and mouth-pieces of pipes, al though it is employed also, to a limited extent, for fancy articles. It is still utilized, too, for the hunting horn, but the orchestial instruments denominated “horns, ’ are now made of brass. Strange to say, one of the be-t kinds of horn or artistic purposes is tint for which we are indebted to th l ' come y and graceful rhinoceros, and it is so be cause it is solid in-tea 1 of being hollow, as met other horns a e. >t is worth not ng, too. that although the breeder has done much to im; rove the ‘ esh of domesticated an inals, it does not ap pear that any improvement has been s perin bleed either in the size or tex ture of the horns. It is suggested, in deed, that th 3 horns of wild rnimals are more permanent than those of the domestca'ed races. Locked His Pocket-Book Out Doors. There is a man in this city who is considerably given to speculation: goes out into the country and I uvs a few car-loads of potatoes or anything else that he thinks he can turn to advantage The othe • day he gathered tog ther every cash dollar he had, and i on owed all the spare cash that a merchant friend o! his had. the whole aggregating quite a large sum of money, with a view to a speculative trip with plenty. That night he was verv careful to -ee that all the doorsand windows in the house were secuiely fastened. When he arose in the morning he threw un the window to see if the milk-man had got around, when, much to his h >rror, his eye lit upon his pocket-book in the grass near the garden walk. The first idea was that it had been stolen, rifted and thrown there, He rushed down stairs, and much to his joy found the pocket- I ook all safe, with contents intact. It seems that he had stepped into th gar den the previous evening to get a plant, and in stooping the wallet slinpt d from his pocket.— Portland (If ’.) /'/•< > . —Several Chattanooga (Tenn.) youths filled a large can with water, sealed it up tightly, and then, after placing it over a hot fire, stood by to see it burst. Willie Dugger was so badly scalded when the explosion occurred that he would lose his eyesight and probably his life. DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAT. It is gently whispered that Mrs. Langtry drinks beer regularly. Six thousand petitions, bearing 679,000 signatures, in favor of a Sunday closing bill for England, have already been presented to Parliament. A San Francisco club has been or ganized which has as its aim the nomi nation of Robert T. Lincoln for the Presidency of the United States in 1884. During the past twelve months Amer ican newspapers have been received by mail in England at the rate of more than 28,000 a day, or 10,000,000 a year. The death is announced from the western coast of Africa of King Omora. He leaves 700 widows. Os his ninety five children seventy-seven are still alive. His oldest son has 400 wives. During the Egyptian war a column of leaded telegraphic messages cost the London newspapers from SI,OOO to $1,250, Seven shillings and two pence (about $1.80) per word was the r*' charged. Emile Zola wrote to the Connecticut parents who had named their boy after him, advising that he be made a man of science, rather than trained for “the career of literature, where there is noth ing to reap but bitterness and disap pointment.” It is thought at Washington that the Mississippi River Committee will report favorably upon the jetty system, and in substantial opposition to the experimen tal system of improvements now being conducted at such vast eost between Cairo and New Orleans. According to Supervising Inspector Dumont’s report, in the year 1851 there were 39,000,000 passengers carried in steamboats with a loss of 700 lives—an'av erage of one life lost for every 55,700 per sons carried. In the last fiscal year there were 354,000,000 persons car ried and 205 lives lost—an average of only one to every 1,727,000. A letter from St. Petersburg of re cent date states that Russia is unable to compete in the European markets with wheat grown in the United States. It costs much more to grow wheat in Rus sia than in this country, and the average product per acre is only one-third in the former of what it is in the latter. Lead ing merchants consider America lue granary of the world. Senator David Davis lives in a verit able palace, in the center of a hand some aud spacious park, just outside the city limits of Bloomington, Illinois. From the lofty turret that surmounts his mansion he can view fertile fields that are all his own, extending almost to the horizon, to the north and east. It is reported his contemplated wedding has been postponed until next spring, at the request of his affianced. Harriet Beecher Stowe is very proud of her achievements as an orange grower at her charming winter home of Mandarin, in Florida, about twenty miles south of Jacksonville. Her grove, which was set out when she established herself there not long after the war, numbers something over one hundred trees, and from seventy-five of them she now reaps an income of $1,500 a year. Thurlow Weed's autobiography, though left incomplete by him, will be published. The Albany Argus reports his grandson, Thurlow Weed Barnes, as saying: “The editorship of the work will probably devolve upon me. The manuscript of the first volume is com plete, but the rest is fragmentary. My grandfather seemed to think he had plenty of time, and though we urged him to finish the work, he did not has ten it.” Canada has adopted the system of competitive examinations of candidates for admission into the civil service. It is now charged that *he protectionist Ministry has hit upon an ingenius method of ascertaining the political views of candidates for government po sitions and rejecting or admitting appli cants accordingly. In some recent ex amination papers the apparently harm less question was asked: “Who was Richard Cobden?” If the candidate in reply shows any enthusiasm for Cobden as a free trader he doesn’t get an ap pointment. Mme. Nmsaojr-RouiBATO received a few days ago, in Baltimore, a large en velope bearing the Paris postmark of November 6, and the address, “Madame Christine Nilsson, New York,” to which some post-office employe added, “North America.” Without postage or further directions it had come from Fans to New York, to Boston, and finally to Baltimore. It was found to contain an invitation to the wedding, in Paris, October 20, of the Marquis Ferdinand Guell de Bourbon, Secretarv to the Spanish Embassador In Eans, to Senorita Maria Josefa Alfonso y Guell. The matrimonial insurance swindlers will find it difficult to continue their op erations through the mails hereafter. Registered letters or money orders will not be forwarded by the Post-office De partment to these concerns, a list of them having been prepared bv inspect ors detailed for the purpose. The great est number are located in Tennessee and Mississippi, where it is said they continue to operate in spite of the expo sures which have already been made concerning their fraudulent character. Under the watchful supervision of the postal authorities, however, their days will soon be numbered, A method of preventing pitting in smallpox is given in the Gazette des Hopitaux. A mask is made of very plia ble linen cloth, leaving apertures for the eves, nose and mouth, and the inside of this is smeared with a liniment prepared in either of the three following ways : One of these contists of carbolic acid, rour to ten parts, forty parts olive oil and sixty parts prepared chalk; another, five parts carbolic acid, and forty parts each of olive oil and pure starch ; and a third, two parts thymol, forty of linseed oil and sixty of chalk in powder. The mask should be renewed every twelve hours, and compresses impregnated with one of these mixtures may also be placed on the hands, and on any parts of the face which the mask does not directly touch. Salmi Morse is actively engaged in the preparation and rehearsal of the Passion Play at New York City, which he proposes to put upon the boards within the next sixty days. Whether or not this second attempt to introduce this performance to the public will be suc cessful, is a question concerning which varied opinions are expressed. Mr. Morse seems to be backed by ample capital. He recently purchased a build ing in New York, and is expending sev eral thousand dollars in remodeling and furnishing it in a manner appropriate to the solemnity of the play. His purpose, as expressed in an interview a few days ago, is not to make money, but to present in a striking and affecting manner the suffering and crucifixion of Christ. He claims that the play will be the direct means of familiarizing the masses with religion and the teachings of the Savior who would otherwise re main in total ignorance. The estimated cost of the production is $1,500 per . night. The number of performers will exceed three hundred, all amateurs. No professional actors will be allowed to take part in the play. Mr. Travers and Two Confidence den. Mr. William R. Travers tells the fol lowing story on himself, and vouches for its being a new and true one: As he was leaving his office on Thursday last a well-dressed man approached him and, greeting him very cordially, said: “How do you do, sir? lam very glad to see you. When did you arrive in the city?” “E—er—e—ex—c-c-c-cuse me—me, sir,” said Mr. Travers. “You—you have evidently mis—mis—mistaken me for s-s-s-s-somebody else.” “ Are you not Mr. Andrews, of Pough keepsie?” queried the man. “ N-n-no, sir: my name is Tr-Tr-Trav ers,” he replied, whereupon the man. with many apologies, made off. Mr. Travers quietly walked up Broad way, looking in the shop windows, as is his habit, when he was suddenly stopped by a man, who, rushing up to him, of fered his iiand and said: “How do you do, Mr. Travers? 1 am so glad to see you! I heard you were in town and have been looking out for you every where.” “■ Pa-pa-par-nardon me, sir,” said Mr. Travers, blandly. “My name is not Ter-Ter Travers; I I-I am Mr. An-An- An- Andrews, from Pok-Pok-Poughkeep sie. ’ '—N. World. —The art of shorthand is, it appears, to be superseded by one of the queerest inventions on record. The revolution is to be effected bj r means of a machine called a “glossograph,” consisting of six levers, forming a sort of cage, each communicating with a tracing pencil. The use to be made of the “glosso graph” is rather curious. While the orator or lecturer is holding forth, the reporter is to repeat the words of the speaker with his tongue in the cage. Thus the quickest conversation, some Ixnidon journals tell us, may be taken down with ease. The ludicrous aspect which this new invention assumes may be an obstacle to its adoption.— N. Y. Sun. —“ No one shall kiss his or her chil dren on the Sabbath or fasting days,” was an old Connecticut blue law. Here in we see the origin of going Sunday night to kiss the grown up children of other neople. H ••‘ton (110/'e. —There is a law among the Omaha ' Indians rc'ating to widows that is more ; tmrible than the inquisition of ancient | tines, with all its diaoolieal tortmos Among the < mmh.t.s. wi lows must wad ( i (our years before remarrying. Did the Comet Give the Suu a Black Eye ? Happening to look at the sun one day last week through a pair of those very dark spectacles which are used in the manipulation of the electric light, the reporter saw a distinct black speck on its disk. “ That must be a very large sun spot,” he thought, and immediately betook himself to the observatory of his friend the astronomer. ‘■ Yes,” said the astronomer, “that’s a truly remarkable spot. It’s the black eve that the great comet gave the ruler of the solar system! At least there is a theory which says so, and, as the sun has shown black eyes before after great comets have been engaged with him at close quarters, perhaps the the ory is not so very far out of the way.” “Do you mean that the comet hit the sun?” “No, not exactly that, for if it had it would have been the end vs comet. But it undoubtedly passed through the atmosphere of the sun, and if it had gone much closer would have touched what appears to us as the sun’s actual surface. You know that one of the dis coveries of recent years is that meteors follow in the tracks of comets. The tremendous spot that adorned the sun’s face after the perihelion of the comet of 1843 has been ascribed to the fall into the sun of a huge meteor following the comet, and the present sect, or rather spots -for there at e several which made their appearance about the time of the perihelion of our great comet—may nave had a s mil ar origin. There is ano!her view that can be taken of it. It has been shown that a comet going very close to the sun is liable to be torn to pieces by the divellent for es oper ating on it. The present <oniet. you know, has a divided nucleus; in fact, it has probably thrown off several cometary masses of considerable magnitude, and the work of dis integration appears to be still going on. Now, it may have parted with a portion of its mass when it was nearest the sun, and the fall of this may have produced the spots. There is yet another way of looking at it which does not involve the fall of anything upon the sun, and that is this; the exceeding ly close approach of the comet may by itself have caused tlie spots. It is true no comet has ever shown that it pos sessed mass enough to effect by its at traction the motion of any planet near which it passed, but the gaseous surface of the sun is in a condition far different from that of the solid globes which revolve around it. At any rate, the greater spot which you now see on the face of the sun, and some of the smaller ones too, undoubtedly made their ap pearance when the comet was at its perihelion; and moreover, they ap peared on that sde of the sun which was then turned toward the comet. “So you see there is really some reason for saying that the comet gave the sun a black eye. In return for this pugilistic salute, however, if all the ob servations are to be trusted, the King of Day reduced the comet’s head to frag ments.”— N. Y. How a Troubadour was Tricked. Some <>f the most celebrated singers in Arabia sing only for ladies, and will notperform unless they are aware that their efforts are not being merely thrown away on mankind. Os course, Moslem women can never be present, but they can and do throng adjacent terraces, courts and windows. An amusing trick was oacc played on one of these artists who was never known to exeit himself for males only. Whenever he was in vited oat all the neighboring posts of vantage were quickly occupied, and if he perceived that there were ladies among his outside hearers he always surpassed himself. On the day in question, however, it was raining, and every one was obliged to stay indoors instead of spreading the guest carpets in the court. The tenor was obstinately silent, and evidently very sulky. At length one of his friends, who knew his idiosynscrasy, went out of the room, and, enveloping a broom handle with a white veil and iz.ar, placed it in a neigh boring window. Returningto the sing er s side he jogged his elbow, and point ed out to him that a beautiful woman was watching him and waiting to hear his voice. He brightened up at once and sang for hours, with many a side glance at the mysterious lady. When the party broke up the inventor of the trick brought in nis dummy and pre sented it to the singer, saying, “Behold, my uncle, the maiden to whom you have been singing.” It may be im agined that his mortification was for long kept alive by the unmerciful mock ery when the story got abroad. Good Taste. Good taste is sometimes as useful as money ; indeed it has a pecuniary value of its own. How often do we see a cheap but tastefully planned and ar ranged cottage exceeding in attractive ness the spacious and costly but ill-con trived dwellings 1 The difference be two 'll taste and the want of it is strik ingly manifested in the laying out of groimds and the planting of trees and shrubs. And it is also manifest in other ways. One person always appears well dn ssed ; another never. Yet the one who is ill-dressed may pay his tailor twice as much in the year as the other. Ann praise wrongly directed, or sug gested by selfish motives, is an injun silly minds with ‘- V w Xst features of / pecudly does thia. TERMS; SI.OOA YEAR WIT AYD JHBDOM. —When you fret nJ fame at the pet ty ills of life remembar that the wheels which go round witlmut creaking last longest.—jV. Y. Here.id. —One of the best inles in conversa tion is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. --Swift. —A cow at Pittston. N. Y., ate up a section of a spring be 1 before her own er noticed that she had a wiry appear ance. Some men are so absent-minded, you know. — Detroit Free Press. —The verdict of ths Coroner’s jury at Tunbridge Wells, o.i the death of a child, was: •• The child was suffocated, but there is no evidence to show that the suffocation was before or after death. ’’---MedicaZ and Surgical Reporter. —A Mew York paper says: “Last night Gustavus SehvVackheimer. a Ger man, attempted to commit suicide.” etc. The explanation that Gustavus is “a German” was necessary. Readers would have supposed that he was an Irishman from Tipperary.— Norristown Herald. —We are told by a recipe book that “eggs may be kept in good order for six month;! by dipping them into warm tallow, and after they are cool packing them in saw dust; cover with sawdust and make as nearly air-tight as possi ble, and put away in a dry, cool place ” This costs but little more than twice as much as it would to throw away the eggs you have and buy fresh ones when you want ’em.— N. Y. Post. —Nothing is ever lost by being pleas ant and agreeable. You ask for two pounds of steak—no more, no less. One butcher growls that he can’t cut off just two pounds, and you leave him, thor oughly vexed. At the next stall, the man of meat hears your request with unruffled visage, cuts off a pound and a half, slaps it into the scale and out aga ; n in double-quick time, rolls it np neatly, and says, with a sweet smile: “Just two pounds, ma’am.” He is the man who succeeds, Chicago Tribune. “What is your business?” inquired a city merchant of acountry youth with whom he was playing an innocent game of euchre. “Oh, I'm one of nature’s humorists,” replied the verdant lad. “I fail to catch on.” said the merchant, unconsciously dropping into slang; “what are you giving me?” “Just what I said, boss,” responded the boy. “Well, what do you mean by nature's humorist?” “Why, I tickle the ground with a hoe,” explained the young granger, “and the earth smiles with plenty.” The merchant passed, and the youth made it spades. Tiie Dead Horse I estival. This amusing ceremony often taken /dace on board of English ships sailing to Australia. Ou jo ning a ship tho sailors are a Ivanced a month’s wages, w.th which they are supposed to have bought a horse, which dies at the end of four weeks.* A dummy steed is pre pared in the forecastle, the body being an old four barrel, the neck and head of canvas, stuffed with straw and painted. In place of a saddle, a hole is nut through the body, large enough to i.dmit the legs of the rider. About half-past seven in the evening a small pro.'ession, headed by a man who carries a bato i, furnished with a rude imitation of a human face, issues from the forecastle. Following him is h. sailor with long white whiskers, who holds a can for penny contributions. He is protected by a number of policemen, armed with canvas clubs like those used in pantomimes, with which they b»y about them us freely as a New York policeman, but with no other than,eliciting shouts of laughter. The f procession is closed by a number of ® jailors who sing jolly sea songs during the march. After the collection has been taken up, the party returns to the forecastle. Shortly afterward a larger pro cession issues from the forecastle, with a number of comic characters in addition to those just men t.cned, among them the auctioneer, in fr<. k coat and tall hat, with a roll of pajers in his hands, and attended by a clerk. Immediately after the auction eer comes the horse, ridden, or rather carried, by a sailor dressed as a jockey, and led by a groom. The procession parades about the deck, the rider mak ing tbe horse prance in the most lively and amusing manner. The auctioneer then mounts a barrel <n the quarter deck, and after a long s,nd laughable harangue on the merits of the horse, puts up the animal for sale. Previous to all this the hat ha* b ,k eu passed round among the passengers and officers, and ten to fifteen pounds have been collected for the benefit of the sailors. The bidd ng is spirited and amusing, and cease i when it roaches the amount collected, which is then handed to the sailors by one of the lady ‘ After^the auction, the leading charac ters move off to the lee side, near the mainsail, and a solemn dirge is chanted about the poor animal dying suddenly, each verse ending with “1 oor old Horse!” The horse and rider are then hoisted to the end of the mainyard over the ship’s side, blue-lights are let off. giving a ghastly aspect to the scene, and at a given signal the rope is cut. and the horse f the rider suspended in the air, a floats astern in the darkness. Ihe pr<> X on S forms and marches »r«>und the decT the sailors smgm? • Britannia. _ I e. the Ijoodoo Ift- / PtrrrrcK A Sim vfferff(l for < r»ry niK-tionet'i*. { hiin ou two of a auuuner house.