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VOL. V.-NO. 18.
news gleanings.
For the first time in thirty-one years
the postal service is not a burden to the
Treasury.
A rich tin mine, said to be the only
one in the United States, has been dis
-1 covered in Clay county, Ala*
The empress of Russia received by
actual count 6,000 begging letters in one
week in Rome, and they tay Minister
W. W. Astor has received nearly as
many.
The Savannah (Ga.) News predicts
that as much money will be invested in
cotton factories and cotton-seed oil
mills in the South next year as there
has been this.
Processes have recently been patented
in Paris for making red and white wines
from red and white beets, that are said
to be equal in every respect to many of
the wines of the grape.
Exile for life, instead of imprison
ment, is the punishment decreed for
Arabi Pasha. To save trouble no doubt
he pleaded guilty to the charge of re
bellion and was sentenced to death, and
the sentence was commuted.
The Board of Audit on the Garfield
claims have made the sowing allowances
to physicians: Dr. Bliss, $6,500; Dr.
Frank Hamilton, $5,000; Dr. Agnew,
$5,001); Dr. Reynolds, $4,000; Dr. Boyn
ton, $4,000; Mrs. Dr. Edson, $3,000.
The German government has resolved
to extend the ordinence of 1880 which
forbids the importation of minced pork
and sausage from America. The new
ordinance forbids “the importation of
pigs, pork, bacon, lard and sausages of
all kinds.”
H. A. P. Carter, the Hawaiian diplo
mat, who visted this country to try a
colonization movement among the sur
plus negroes at the South, says that the
griming industries of -the section made
it evident that there would soon be am
ple demand for all resident labor.
l>r. Frank Hamilton, one of the con
sulting physicians in Garfield’s case, now
asserts that tne unfortunate President
was dosed to death with morphine by
irections of Dr. Bliss after the use of
the drug had been prohibited by a coun
cil of the medical attendants. It is
probable that Bliss will sue Hamilton
nr ibel and then the evidence will be
Produced.
Texas is very liberally supplied with
Wne people, there being at present
0 tbousa nd such persons under the
care of the State, and a large number
or whom there are no accommodations.
proposed to spend $500,000 next
year putting up more buildings for the
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bra ted Everglades of Florida, famous in
poetry and history, yet a mysterious re
gion, of which as little is known as of
“the dark continent,” The expedition
will not be unattended with dangers,
and the result of it will be of great in
terest to the thousands interested in the
“Land of Flowers” and its development.
Starting from the source of the Kissi
mee river, the expedition will descend
that stream into the celebrated Lake
Okeechobee, lying in the center of the
Peninsula. After thoroughly investi
gating this lake and the character of the
lands surrounding it, the expedition will
proceed on its way to the Gulf, through
the Caloosahatchie and other rivers and
the canals of the Disston Company,
reaching the Gulf at Punta Rasa.
Welsh Choirs.
The members composing a choir are
often scattered over a wide extent of
territory—so that regular weekly, or
even monthly, meetings of the choir are
impossible. For instance, one of the
choirs in the late contest has a mem
bership spreed over a district forty
miles in extent, with no means of com
munication but the rough country
wagon or the long tramp afoot. When
a new chorus is to be learned, the vari
ous members will procure, if they can
afford it, one copy for each member of
;he family, or, if the work is expensive,
>ne copy for the whole family. Then
the neighboring families will meet once
or twice a week at each other’s houses,
the best reader among them is appoint
ed leader, and they go to work with no
instrument but a pitch-pipe, or tuning
fork, to master the fugues of Handel or
Haydn. There is something almost pa
thetic in the picture of these hard
worked men and women, and even little
children, meeting thus, surrounded by
the grimy waste of a mining district,
and setting to work with loving patience
to master, unassisted, the musical
thoughts of the greatest genius. When
all these small parties have mastered
the chorus—which they do so thorough
ly that they commit it to memory—a
meeting of the whole choir is held, num
bering from 10 to 300, in some church,
or school, or railway station, and the
leader of the choir, himself usually a
miner, holds a grand review of the work
done by his lieutenant. The whole work
is gone over carefully and thoroughly,
and, aftei the singing of some of the old
home songs in ike mother tongue, the
various groups separate for tl.c
walk or ride through the woods ana
over the mountains, to repeat the
process with another chorus. The
choirs that live in the neighborhood of
towns have, of course, many advan
tages over those that have to conduct
their rehearsals in this fragmentary way,
having the opportunity of frequent meet
ings and the constant presence of their
regular leader, and in some instances
the aid of instruments.
One of the chief characteristics of the
singing of these Welsh choirs is their
confidence and vigor in attack, a quality
that is sadly wanting in nearly all our
choruses; this is probably owing to the
fact that every member of the choir is
so confident of his knowledge of his
part that he never feels it necessary to
lean on his neighbor or wait for him to
show him the way. It is also remarka
ble with them that, although th» sing
ing at their concerts is always unac
companied, they rarely vary from the
pitch, even the long and difficult chorus
that concludes Mendelssohn’s “Hymn
of Praise” being sung by nearly all the
choirs in their late contest without fall
ing or rising from the pitch. Their
weakest point is the quality of the tone
—this, probably owing to the large
number of boys and girls with unformed
voices, and devoid of knowledge of how
to use them, is inclined to be nasal, on
the higher notes somewhat harsh.
These are blemishes, however, for
which they are not responsible, and
they in no wise detract from the real ex
cellence of their performances. — Phila
delphia American.________
The Income.
A Baltimore man who bought him a
farm two or three years ago was re
cently approached by a friend who had
some money to invest, and who asked:
“Can I buy a pretty fair farm for
$15,000?”
“Yes, about that figure.”
“And I’ll want to lay out about $lO,-
000 in improvements, I presume?”
“Yes, fully that.”
“And 1 can invest another SIO,OOO in
blooded stock?”
“I think you can.”
“And $5,000 more in grading, filling
up, creating fish-ponds, and so forth?”
“Well, you may get through with that
sum.”
“That’s $40,000; and now let’s figure
the income.”
“Oh you don’t need pencil or paper,”
said the victim, as a shadow of sorrow
darkened his face. “The income will
be about $3 for turnips, $2 for potatoes,
$5 or $G for corn, and a bull calf or two
at $3 a head. To save time, call it $25.
I’ll see you again in a day or two.
Maybe I’ve forgotten something which
will add a dollar more. Morning to
you.”— Wall Street News.
—ln England window curtains of
stained glass, for the lower half of the
window, are becoming usual, and are a
very great improvement upon the ugly
structures of woven wire and wicker
which have done service for so long a
time. “Those who know” assert that
these particularly pretty additions to
the windows will soon be equally usual
in New York residences.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Four Presbyterian clergymen in Phil
delphia have lately adopted the oustonl
of wearing gowns in the pulpit.
Lilian Whiting says that in Boston
theatres “it is almost as usual to seetwe
ladies come in together as it is a gentle
man and a lady.”
The fact is now recalled that Gover
nor-elect Pattison was formerly a base
ball player, having been a member of
the Harry Clay Base Ball Club of Phila
delphia in 1868.
Miss Anna Dickinson denies the report
that she has withdrawn from the stage.
She says she is under engagement to lec
ture and read plays, and to act in the
Western States.
Mr. Thurlow Weed Barnes says no
body knows the exact value of his
grandfather’s estate, but that it is about
$1,000,000, and is chiefly in railroad and
Government bonds.
A Baptist minister of Marysville,
Tennessee, recently declared that he had
been restored to life after being dead
three days, his return to the world being
for the purpose of evangelizing it. His
work, however, was stopped, because he
undertook it naked, and he is now in an
insane asylum.
It is said there is living in Cumber
land, Maryland, a soldier who was
wounded in the battle of Gettysburg,
and the wound, in healing up, shortened
his right leg so that he became perma
nently lame. Recently he had his left
leg shattered at the thigh, and when he
recovered it was found that his left leg
was also shortened so as to be on a par
with the other, and he now walks with
out limping.
Experiments recently made in Ger
many promise to overcome the difficulty
heretofore experienced in the use of the
telephone for long distances where the
wires are laid underground. The details
of the new scheme are not made public,
but it was found on the underground
cable that runs from Cologne to Elber
feld that messages were safely conveyed
a distance of more than thirty miles,
and this in spite of the fact that the rest
of the wires in the cable were used at the
same time for other purposes.
A Paris actress avers that each per
fume has its special moral and physics’
qualities, which—so far as her observa
tions have gone—she states as follows :
Musk predisposes to sensibility and
amiability; rose, to audacity, avarice
and pride; geranium, to tenderness;
violet, to mysticism and piety ; benzoin,
to dreams, poetry and inconstancy ; mint
and verbena, to a taste for the beautiful
arts; camphor, to stupidity and bru
tality , Russia leather, to indolence;
while ylangylang is the most dangerous
of all.
The Washington Post relates that a
few evenings ago Col. Emil Frey, the
Swiss Minister, was in the House res
taurant, Washington, with Gen. R. D.
Massey when General Longstreet en
tered. Col. Frey turned to Gen. Mus
sey and asked who that gentleman was,
and upon being told requested an intro
luction saying byway of explanation
that General Longstreet took him pris
oner at Gettysburg, since which time he
had not seen him. Thereupon the two
veterans, once enemies, were introduced,
warmly shook hands and spent an hour
or so in pleasant conversation.
The Dublin (Ireland) Freeman's Jour
nal admits that the spirit of Nihilism
seems to actuates desperate organization
which has its headquarters in Dublin.
English newspapers compare the state of
the country to that of Russia. A leading
journal says: “Ireland has outgrown its
existing system of government, and, un
able itself to change it, is writhing con
vulsivelv in the shackles imposed upon
it. The servants of the Government live
in terror of their lives, and are protected
from assassination solely by body-guards
of police and soldiers. It is exactly the
same state of affairs as exists in Russia,
■ind it is marvelous that our statesmen
will not recognize it.”
Owing to the boldness of train robbers
ind the number of bad or suspicious
characters infesting the towns and
country in the northern part of Texas,
lhe railroad companies are taking unusual
precautions to protect their trains. In
future all passenger and express trains
on the Texas and Pacific road will carry
a strong force of State Rangers as a
guard between Fort Worth and El Paso,
and other roads will probably pursue
the same course. No capture has yet
been made of the men who attacked
a train on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe road a few days ago, but it is pretty
well established that one of them was
mortally wounded in the fight and died
next day near Clebnrn, and was secretly
buried by his comrades.
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Attorney-General Brewster has
communicated to Congress his Views
upon the inadequacy of compensation to
United States witnesses in Western
States and Territories. He believes the
present law causes many suits in behalf
of the Government to fail because of the
witnesses. He recommends the enact
ment of a law providing that witnesses
and jurors in California, Oregon, Nevada,
Colorado and the Territories be paid
actual expenses while attending Court,
in lieu of mileage and per diem now
allowed by law. He also suggests as a
remedy to overcome the complaint,
because the Judge who presides in the
District also sits in the Supreme Court
when his decision is reviewed, that either
an additional Judge be appointed in the
Territories, or that a Circuit Judge be
appoined as in the States.
The printing of Thurlow Weed’s death
bed statements in the New York papers
recently concerning the disappearance
of William Morgan after the publication
of his pamphlet entitled “Free Masonry
Exposed and Explained,” in 1826, has
created an astonishing revival of all the
incidents connected with that izyste
rious case. Prominent Masons through
out the country have been interviewed,
and all emphatically denounce the accu
sation of the complicity of their Order in
Morgan’s death, both false and ridicu
lous. Morgan’s pamphlet was issued
during a heated political canvass in
which Mr. Weed was waging a bitter and
incessant war against the Masonic
Order,and Morgan’smisterious disappear
ance was immediately seized upon by
Mr. Weed and extensively used in the
anti Masonic campaign. Whatever
may have been the fate of Morgan, it is
doubtful if the deep mystery surround
ing his disappearance will ever be satis
factorily solved.
The Cincinnati College of Music have
announced the third of their grand op
eratic fests to take place in the Music
Hall of that city, on January 29, 30
and 31, and February 1, 2 and 3, 1883—
embracing eight distinct performances.
The orchestra engaged for the occasion
will number one hundred pieces, and
over two hundred persons will partici
pate in the mass chorus. The combina
tion of musical celebrities will be head
ed by the renowned Adelina Patti. The
annual recurrence of these Opera Festi
vals is hailed with the greatest interest
by the people of Cincinnati and contig
uous country, and by such enterprise as
the above has Cincinnati achieved the
reputation of being the Paris of America.
The operas to be rendered at the ap
proaching Festival will embrace the fol
lowing: L’Afrioaine, Semiramide, Don
Giovani, Mignon, William Tell, Aida,
Romeo and Juliet, LeNozze Di Figaro,
Lucretia Borgia, Le Prophete, La Fa
vorita and Lohengrin.
There is quite a stir in the higher cir
cles of society at Detroit, Michigan, on
account of anew departure by the Sketch
ing Club, of that city, an organization
composed of young ■ society people. A
day or two ago an advertisement ap
peared in one of the local newspapers,
reading: “Wanted—Models —Male and
female. ” There were numerous responses,
but few being males and about twenty
five females. The person selected as the
first model is described as a young lady
of rare charms, a beautiful face and
splendid physique. She is reported to
dwell in one of the best quarters of the
town, and said to be highly educated.
The conditions upon which she consent
ed to become a model were that her name
should not be disclosed and that she
should be allowed to wear a veil at pos
ings. Leading members of the club de
fend their action by asserting that there
can be no harm in studying from the
nude as long as the matter is properly
conducted. It remains to be seen whether
the use of a female model will be toler
ated in staid old Detroit.
A Joke turned out to be a serious
thing a few days ago, costing several
thousand dollars. Jirkins & Brinks, at
Poplar Head, Ala., have been running
a prosperous steam cotton gin. Last
week one of the boys came out of the
lint room covered with the lint, and in
order to frighten him another boy struck
a match and touched it off. The wind
blew the fire in the lint room, the cotton
ignited, and soon the whole building
was in flames. Twenty bales of cotton,
a large quantity of cotton seed, the en
gine, gin, and all the machinery were
destroyed.— Chicago Times.
—An excellent shampoo is • made of
salts of tartar, white castile soap, bay
rum, and lukewarm water. The salts
will remove all dandruff, the soap will
soften the hair and clean it thoroughly,
and the bay rum will prevent taking
cold.— Exchange.
To prevent choking, break an egg
into a cup and give it to the person
choking to swallow. The white of the
egg seems to catch around the ob^ a cle
2nd remove it. If one egg does not an
swer the purpose, try another. rhe
white is all that is necessary.
Restlessness of Old Age.
Those who have been much with the
aged have observed in them a chafing
against the infirmities of their years
which expresses itself in restlessness
and desire for chahge; They grow weary
of the inactivity which has succeeded
the busier times, when they bore the
heat and burden of the day. And so
sometimes they wander here or there,
dropping in to visit a friend or talking
with a chance acquaintance, trying
thus to while away the tedious hours.
In mistaken kindness and unkind affec
tion, we often oppress dear, aged peo
ple by our own very care. They dis
like supervision. The tender watch
fulness which to us seems due to their
physical feebleness, as well as a fit re
turn for their care of us in earlier days,
is by them resented as restraint. It
annoys them. Then, too, we try to
take all the work out of their
hands, and that they do not like. No
body, who has been active and useful,
en ,oys the feeling of being laid on the
shelf. Grandfather’s step is uncertain,
his arm is less vigorous than of old, but
he possesses a rich treasure of ex
f erience, and he likes to be consulted.
t is his privilege to give advice; his
pr vilege, too, at times to go into the
field and work with the youngest, re
newing his youth as he keeps bravely
up with hearty men not half his age.
Grandmother does not want to be left
out of the household work. When the
days come for pickling and preserving,
and the domestic force is pre sed into
the service, who so eager and lull of
interest as she? It is cruel to overrule
her decisions, to put her aside because
“she will be tired.” Os course she will
be tired, but she will enjoy the fatigue;
and rest the sooner for the thought that
she is still of use in the world. To
those whose homes are honored by
the presence of an aged parent we
would say, deal very gently with those
who are on the downbill of life. Your
own time is coming to be where they
now are. You, too, are “stepping
westward.” Sooth the restlessness oi
age by amusement, by consideration,
by non-interference, and bv allowing
plenty of occupation to fall into the
hands that long for it. Only let it be of
their own choosing, and cease to order
their ways for them as though they
were children. A hoary head at the
fireside is a crown of glory to the house
where it dwells. The blessing of the
aged is as dew on the pastures, as the
falling of sunlight in a shadowy place.
Golden Bule. _____
Jones’ Elbow.
_____ ■ V ...
There is no stove up in the Jones fam
ily sitting room this fall, and there isn’t
likely to ne, for Jones says he isn’t go
ing to put the dratted thing up, not if
he knows it, and Mrs. Jones goes round
shivering and inquiring what is good
for rheumatism, and all this discomfort
arose from what a sharp writer once
called “the total depravity of inani
mate things.”
It was this way: Jones bought an
elbow for the stove, a kind of cut bias
and shirred affair, decidedly crooked,
and with a cruel, wicked eye. It wasn’t
very large, but it was an awkward
thing to carry. Then he stopped at the
grocery and got a neat little paper bag
of cranberries, and a dozen of eggs he
forgot when ordering supplies, also put
up in a paper bag; and next he boarded
a car for home. There was just, one
seat left vacant, and no takers; so Jones
laid the elbow in that while he paid his
fare. Then he forgot the elbow and
sat down gracefully, but not on a bed
of roses; there was about a dozen acute
angles to the elbow, and he got up again
ami took it in his lap, but as he did so
the bottom of the cranberry bag fell
out, and the red berries slid in a shin
ing heap to the floor. Everybody
sm led, because Jones was totally un
conscious of the fact that his ieet re
posed in a temporary cranberry bog of
the best ( ape Cod fruit. He was try
ing to maintain the equilibrium of the
eggs and keep the stove-pipe joint in
hand at the same time; but one egg had
jarred against it and was now busy lu
bricating the paper bag, and as the car
jolted along it gently insinuated itself
through the paper. Jones felt that a
catastrophe of some sort was imminent
and he reached down and slid the cold
elbow under the seat, 'l he moment he
let go of the thing it began to rock and
clatter as if it were possessed, and one
woman who had not been watching him
creamed out: “That’s a runaway com
ing.” Then all the other women in the
car jumped up, pulled the bell strap,
and screamed: “Save me! save me!”
Meanwhile the eggs were slowly escap
ing, and Jones’ cream-gray pantaloons
were getting the benefit. In the im
mediate confusion he saw a chance to
escape, and beat a hasty retre t, leav
ing the cranberries and eggs in an in
glorious heap on the floor, and the stove
pipe under ttfe seat of car No. 9. There
it clatters yet, and that is why people
say that car is haunted; but Jones
knows better, only he keeps his own
counsel.— Detroit Post and Tribune.
—A company has been formed for
growing and exporting coffee in Colima,
Mexico, one of the richest coffee dis
tricts in the world. Sixteen thousand
acres have beeii purchased near Manza
nillo, on which there are already sixty
thousand trees in bearing and six hun
dred thousand coffee-plants from one to
three years old. As the plants produce
each two pounds annually at a low esti
mate, thc enterprise is certainly promis
ing. The State l.egi lature of Colima,
with a view to encouraging this> in< os
try, has exempted from d "9-Center- ;
erv, implements, etc.. I
arise. It has. moreover, u " clc ,. fi ." t I
premium to the person /
titteen thousand pounds of best gutm y
of coffee.
TERMS; 31.00A YEAR
PITH AND POINT.
—The unfavorable opinion of soma
men is a compliment.
—One of the sweetest pictures of
domestic economy is a poet blacking a
>Vhite stocking so that it won’t show
through the fissures in his boot.— Puck.
—A cable dispatch says: “The False
Prophet is reported to "be within three
days’ march of Khartum.” This is the
first intimation we have had that Vennor
is traveling in Egypt.— Norristown
Herald.
—The theory that violins get tired by
constant use is one that can not be too
industriously circulated in the interest
of those who suffer from over practice
by their amateur neighbors.— Lowell
Citizen.
—“Won’t you have a elass of soda,
Dorothy?” asked one girl of another at
Houston’s, the other night. “No, thank
you,” was the reply; “I haven’t any
cuffs on, and dassant raise my arm.—
Yonkers Statesman.
—A little boy, showing great reluc
tance to go to school one morning, was
asked the reason. “Because,” he an
swered, “the teacher said he was going
to try to put an idea into my head to
day, and I don’t want him to be cutting
into my head.”
—lt is customary to picture a gorilla
with the limb of a tree in his hand,
which is a gratuitous insult on the young
man who carries a cane, and should no
longer escape the frown of an intelligent,
humane and justice loving community.
—Boston Transcript.
—“ Why do women so often wander
aimlessly in the murky solitudes of the
dead past, brooding over days fore rev
gone?” asks a correspondent. This is
indeed a difficult question to answer.
There are no dry-goods stores in the
dead past.— Chicago Tribune.
—Why do all you Americans say
“deepo” for station?—English Tourist.
We don’t. Some of us say deppo, others
say daypo, anil a few others depot. Now
tell us” why you Englishmen say “ye
knaw” every six words when you know
we don’t know, you know.—Philadel
phia News.
—“ It were better that you had a
grindstone about your neck—” “You
needn’t go any further with your re
marks,” said the farmer’s son. “I’ve
had that grindstone about my neck un
til I’m tired of turning it. Get some
other boy.” And he footed it to the
city to become a horse-car driver.—
Boston Globe.
—Translated from the Omnibus: Pro
fessor—“ Meier, where is your manu
script?” Meier -“I believe you have it
therein the hand.” Professor—“So?
When have you it then written?” Meier
—“Sunday morning at the breakfast —
or, rather, directly after.” Professor —
“I see here but no work. Will you
yourself convince? The sheet is empty!”
Meier—“Thunderweather! then have I
out of mistake instead of in the ink-glass
in the milk-glass dipped!” — Louisville
Courier-Journal.
—X. has just finished a volume of
musical criticisms, in the course of
which he has had occasion to deal with
the works and talents of his friend Y.
Unhappily, just as the book is going
through the press, the two friends have
a falling out. With great presence of
mind X. inserts a slip of paper in each
volume, thus inscribed: “Erratum: P.
54, 1. 21.—For ‘Y., the eminent com
poser and distinguished musician,’ read
‘Y., the idiotic organ-grinder and clum
sy and impudent plagiarist.’ Chicago
tribune.
Skating Costumes.
It mav be a trifle unseasonable to
speak of Skating just yet, but for young
ladies who indulge in that pleasant pas
time, and wish to make costumes es
pecially for skating, it may not be out
of place to descr be one Will
serve as a model from which to fashion
others. The material is dark blue lady s
cloth, with trimming of deep red velvet
The skirt is made rather short and quite
full. Six inches from the bottom is a
wide band of bias velvet, and this is the
only ornament on the skirt. lhe
basque, or rather waist, is made plain
and tight-fitting, and a wide belt of vel
vet is worn. '1 he sleeves are very longs
and tight, and the buttons are medium
size ot cut steel. The outside garment
is made in the form of a half- fitting
long jacket, warmly lined with quilted
satin of the shade corresponding to the
velvet, and velvet forms the deep collar
and cuffs and the lapels of the B,d ®
pockets, and the small breast-pocket
high on the left side. A double row of
large cut-steel buttons ornaments the
front of the jacket, and the cutisi and
pockets are trimmed in the same way.
A scarf of red silk is worn close around
the throat with the ends tucked in the
jacket in front, farm ng a full puff- 1™
cap is a Tam O’Shunter of red velvet
with a silk tassel hanging f r°m th etop,
and is worn forward and just tipped a
mere trifle to one side, giving a Jaiinty
and pretty appearance. Long ™‘ tt6n ’
knit of silk the same shade a- the vel
vet, with fancy backs, are worn, the
wrists drawn high under the sleeveg , o
the jacket and over the sleeves of the
dress- The whole costume is exceed
inglv neat and pretty, with no long
3s flying to impede the progress an 3
•ret in other people s way. In thes
Hivs of roller-skates the older and
nleas uiter pastime of skating on i *
Chicano J’ll IP th—-
-There are six COM mines working in
Arkansas.
