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LUMPKIN & JORDAN, Editors and Proprietors, VOLUME 11. The deficit in the sugar beet crop reported as between 25 and 50 per cent, less this year than last. It will have an important bearing on the price of cane sugar when it is remembered that licet sugar is identical with that of cane su gar, and that the beet-sugar manufacture covers about one-third of the sugar pro duct of the world. The late captain general of Cuba, Martinez Campos, is now the premier of Spam; and as such he is doing his best to secure to Cuba the reforms that he promised the people of that island before he returned to Spain. He is encounter ing a great deal of opposition in the cor tes, especially as to the abolition of slavery and tariff reforms. A dissolu tion of the cortes, or a ministerial crisis will probably occur before the Cuban measures are disposed of. The United States Economist says: A constant and steady export of wheat and breadstuffs will occur throughout the fall and winter months. As the season ad vances it would not be surprising if prices would gradually grow firmer. It is unfortunate for the general welfare of the country that great operators in grain manipulate tiro market in wheat as they do stocks in Wall street. By concerted action they can corner wheat as they do railroad stocks and thereby unsettle values to the hindrance of legitimate business. The Catholic Bishops of Ireland have adopted resolutions appealing to the gov ernment and to all public bodies and individuals to help the poor, as the poor law act is insufficient to meet the neces sities of the impending crisis. They at the same time exhort their flocks to bear their trials patiently, to respect the rights of others, to pay their just debts as fully as they arc able and to obey the laws, while using all peaceful and constitu tional means to reform the land laws, which are the main cause of the coun try’s poverty and helplessness. ■■.my Ay Y on k who has traveled along the railroads that traverse the coal regions of Pennsylvania, must have noticed the huge black hills that stand beside every colliery. These mountains are coal waste, and have hitherto been, not only useless, but cumberers of the ground. It is esti mated that twenty million tons of this refuse is produced every year, and it has been a problem long thought over by owners, what to do with this waste. Some years ago a Pennsylvania man pat tented a plan by which the finer portions of the waste was to be pressed into bricks fit for use as fuel, but the expense of manufacturing is greater than the profit accruing, so that plan fell through. Now, however, a locomotive has been con structed that will use this waste as fuel without any special preparation, except screening. It is expected that over 100,- 000 tons will be used this year and when stationary engines get to use the waste, those immense black mounds will rapidly disappear from the landscape of Pennsyl vania. It is stated that France and England have accepted Austria’s view of the Rothschild loan ; that Rothschild must redeem prior loans amounting to £1,400,- 000 in order to have first security on the surrender of the Khedival estate. Aus tria and Germany will accept Anglo- French representatives in the commis sion of liquidating, and resulting control over Egyptian financial administration. This agreement, if accomplished, removes the threatenened hitch in the Anglo- French scheme. The Forte and Sultan are spending their whole time over the reform question and the demands of En- gland. The position of the other powers is necessarily one of reserve in the ques tion, which primarily concerns England and Turkey, and in which marked inter ference would tend to embroil rather than clear matters. Still, as regards Austria and Germany, it may he taken for granted that their influence is being exerted in support of the demand for beginning reforms as well as toward pre venting any collision. As to joining eventually in measures of coercion, no invitation has yet been addressed to these powers. In this respect there has, there- fore, been no occasion for giving an opin ion on the subject. The French and Italian Cabinets are more than usually reserved on the question, while the Rus sian attitude in a difference between En gland and Turkey cannot for a moment be doubted. Differences of that kind have always been regarded by Russia as a most efficient lever for promoting her political designs in Turkey—a lever sure to be applied on the present occasion if the complication last long enough to give her an opportunity. Many people throughout the south will be pained to learn of the death of Dr. Loviek Pierce, which occurred in the home of his son at Sparta, Ga., on Nov. RISING FAWN, HAUL COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1879. lltli. Dr. Pierce was the oldest Methodist preacher in th<y United States. He has held every office in the ministry except bishop. He gave to the church, how ever, a bishop in the person of his son, George F. Pierce, who is to-day one of ts most powerful leaders. George F. Pierce was admitted to the ministry at the first Georgia conference in Macon, January 5, 18311. His career is of more recent date and is a par t of contemporary Methodist history. Dr. Pierce has been a delegate to every general conference of the Methodist church, and in 1848 was the fraternal messengt r sent to the northern general conference, but was refused ad mission and recogn itiou. In 1874 he was one of the three sent in response to those who came to the southern general con ference at Louisville. He was unable to gs> to the confori >nce north, but wrote a memorable letter upon the fraternal relations of the chinches. In May, 1874, Bishop Pierce was in Louisville, attending the general conference, and last year he was presetit at the general conference in Atlanta. One of the most notable incidents of the conference in Louisville was a little speech he made in connection with the transaction of some conference business. The aged bishop said: “My B enjoyed Brethren : I stand before you rather as a marvel in the his tory of Methodist jrroachers. It would ne very unbecoming in me to congratu late you on account of my presence with you, hut it is Fight that I should con gratulate myself on being permitted to see this very certainly the last general conference I shall ever attend. I have been greatly honore d—more certainly than I have ever deseirved. I have never been left out since the time of my eligi bility as a delegate. I have never done much. I have always felt inclined to retire rather than make myself bold and prominent. I had no expectation, when it was announced to me that I was elected to this general conference, that I could be present with you. It may be consid ered as the first instance in history, at least in that of our own ministry, that a man in his ninetieth year has traveled six hundred miles and occupied his seat daily in a body like this: but God conferred upon me this very remarkable blessing.” SOUTHERN NEWS. Jackson, Tenn., has a coal famine. Cartersville, Ga v is to have two cot ton-factories. Corn is worth $1 per bushel in Goliad county, Texas. Blight is affecting the orange trees in southwest Louisiana. The cotton presses of Atlanta are working day and night. Union City, Tenn., has just started a bank, with $50,000 capitol. There was si state convention of spir itualists in Texas last week. Savannah, Ga., received seven thou sand hales of cotton Tuesday. Grasshoppers have done incalculable injury to the wheat crop of Texas. Chattanooga’s population has increased 1,301 during the past twelve months. Lady compositors an l employed in the offices of a number of Southern newspa pers. The city bonds of Savannah, S. C., have advanced 3.1)0 per cent, since Au gust. San Antonio, Texas, is to have a pat ent gas-machine in the Alamo, with 300 lamps. McKendree Church, Nashville, which was recently burned, is to be rebuilt at once. The editor of the Key West ( Fla.) Dispatch, a colored man is in jail on the charge of robbery. Judge Lochrane, of Atlanta, gets $lO,- 000 a year as attorney for the Pullman Palace Car company. Warren county, Mississippi, in three years and nine months has reduced her indebtedness $114,095. The young ladies of Frankfort, Ky., not to lie behind the times have organ ized a cooking club. Atlanta has eight banking institutions, not including Jim Banks, who is a sep arate institution of his own. Increased attention is being given to fish culture in Virginia. There are now three hatching houses in the state. Colonel E. Richardson, of Jackson, Miss., has given $2,000 for the improve ment of the cemetery in that city. A German colony has settled in Es cambia county, Fla., uear the Pensacola railroad, to eHgage in sheep raising. The Americas, ( Ga.), Recorder thinks that cattle-raising will supersede cotton growing to a great extent in that section. The Houston and Texas Central rail road is receiving new steel rails with! whibh to replace those of iron now in use. An extra session of the Florida legis lature, to consider the proposition of the Florida ship canal, will probably be held soon. The scarcity of water on the route of the Texas Central railroad is so great as to interfere with the regularity of trains. The Augusta, Ga., cotton mills havea capital of SIIOO,OOO, and pay a dividend of twenty-eight per cent, on the money invested. The Whig records the death in Rich mond, Va, of Capt. C. F. Pardigan, “ Faithful to the Fight, Foarlexx Against the Wrong.” a noted French teacher and ex-Confeder ate soldier. There are thirteen thousand volume* belonging to the North Carolina IS t ate Library, more than the library building affords room for. The New Orleans papers call upon the police of that city to abate the nu isance, caused by the illegal sale of lottery tick ets on the streets. The court-house at Opelika, Georgia, was fired by incendiaries Tuesday night, but the flames were discovered in time to prevent any damage. The progressive towns in Georgia are striving to secure the location of the State Normal College provided for by the last legislature. A number of influential newspapers in the south are advocating smaller farms and better cultivation as the surest way to success and prosperity. Handsboro, Mins., is furnishing Louis-' iana stock-raisers with blooded sheep. The town is also making preparations to start a cotton and woolen factory. Between 000 and 800 laborers are now engaged in the construction of the Owen boro and Nashville railroad between Adairsville and Rusaelville, Ky. The hemp factories at Lexington, Ivy., have closed on account of a regulation of the railroad companies raising the cost of transportation for dress heinped. Farmers in Chattahoochie and Stew art counties, Georgia, complain of a great scarcity of labor, and the cotton crop threatens to be diminished in con sequence. Louisiana sugar-planters are elated over the fact that the European beet sugar crop for the present year is twenty-five or thirty per cent. Inflow the average. Memphis Appeal: The city is becom ing haunted with drummers. They now think Memphis is a great city, although during the epidemic they gave her a wide berth. Flemingsburg ( Ky.) Times: We have no big pumpkins, but D. R Hinton has a gourd that is 104 years old. It was brought from England to Virginia in the year 1775. The Little Rock gas company has re fused to furnish gas to the city for its streets and public buildings until the city puts an end to its indebtedness to the company. In Lonoke county, Ark., last week, a AlllHTpl Vuxivr Cun of the Peace, and Pink Saunders, result ed in the shooting of the latter. Death occurred instantly. The past summer in Key West, Fla., was the healthiest which the inhabitants of that city have experienced in. thirty years. The mortality was less by one third than in any year since 1861. Mr. W. C. Cotton, of Harris county, Ga., raised a stalk of cotton this season that is now bearing nine hundred and eighty-seven bolls. The cotton is the Dickson variety. The Catletsburg Dem., says that Wm. Christian, of Lawrence county, claims to have fallen lieir to Fountain square, in Cincinnati, and that be has refused $140,000 for his interest. Frank Smith of Fayette county Ky., has shipped to New York for the eastern market one hundred head of cattle that averaged 1,800 pounds. Four head averaged 2,120 pounds. Savannah News: Pensacola is elated because she owns the steamship Escam bia, of the capacity of 6,500 bales of cot ton, which is intended to ply regularly between that port and Liverpool. Ex-Governor Alcorn is building a fine residence on his home plantation, in Jonestown, Coahoma county, Miss. When finished it will be one of the finest and best arranged dwelings in the State. A colored woman died at New Orleans the other day whose age was given at 100 years by the coroner, but she was sup posed by those who knew her best to have been at least thirty years older. Columbus Times: Some of our citi zens have already commenced to sow oats for the spring crop. Efforts will be made to retain the reputation or raising the finest oat crops in southwestern Geor gia. According to the Banner, the year’s operations of the Nashville cotton fac tory, closing on the 30th of September, indicate considerable prosperity. The amount of wages paid was $2,807.90, and the number of yards of cloth produced was 5,424,927. Little Rock, (Ark.) Democrat: The jury in the Tom Davis murder ease was hung by a colored man, reported to be a barber. The other jurors were white. The prisoner was a colored man, the vie tim a white man. Holly Springs, (Miss.) Reporter: The dedication of the monument, erected to the memory of Rev. Fat her Oberti and the six Sisters of Bethlehem Academy, who died of yellow fever in this city in 1878, took place Monday. The News says that a young man named Randolph Watts, of Savannah, Ga., who recently appropriated $1,350 of his employer’s money, and left very sud denly, has returned and voluntarily giv en himself up to the authorities. Jackson (Miss.) Clarion : In the death of Paul A. Botto, of the Natchez Demo crat, the press of Mississippi, has lost one of its worthiest members. He was born in Italy in 1840, but has resided in Mississippi since his childhood. Little Rock ( Ark.) Gazette: Sever al wood cases came up before the United States Court yesterday. Cutting wood from government lands has caused a great deal of trouble, and as ignorance of the law excuses no man, the penalty is rigidly enforced. New Orleans Picayune: The British steamship Ashburn, Capt. Hall, was cleared yesterday for Liverpool with a cargo of 7,120 bales of cotton, 1,378 sacks of oil cake and 1,080 pieces staves. This is the largest cargo of cotton ever ex ported on any one vessel from this port. One of the brightest young lawyers in Arkansas, J. P. Woods, of Johnson county, has been sentenced to the peni tentiary for stealing a pistol. The pis tol was taken while he was drunk, but the worst feature in the case was that Woods did not tell that he had the pis tol after he became sol>er. Charleston News : The United States Government employes are removing 10,000 tons of granite from the quarries near Columbia to Wilmington N. C., to be used upon the public works in that harbor, it is greatly to be regretted that this stone can not be used upon the Charleston jetties simply because there is no communication by railroad to the water’s edge. Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen: The sur plus agricultural products of Giles coun ty this year will reach! $1,000,000, as follows: Wheat, $200,000; cotton, $600,- 000; mules, hogs and beef, $200,000, This, with a population of 32,000, gives us nearly S3OO cash per capital for every ,man, woman and child, black and white in the county. Certainly there is life in the old land yet. One of the unsung heroes of the Mem phis plague is John Walsh, an undertak er there, who has remained pluckily at his post for two years. At times he has been left absolutely without assistance >and at times he has buried 150 bodies in one day. A young lady, Miss Caledonia Linton, Texas, residing on Cottonwood Creek, while walking in the woods met a large alligator. She got a rope, tied it around the alligator’s neck and dragged it two miles to her home. The brute came near striking her several times. The Georgia goldmines yield $1,000,000 a year. The Magruder mine, just in the edge of Lincoln county, is worked day and night, and yields 100 pennyweights of gold per h#ur, or SBOO a day, and the Georgia papers think that their State will eventually rival Colorado’s mineral richness. Memphis Ledger: To be collared by an official and charged $10.25 every time he comes here, makes a commercial tour ist roar, and some get off in a hurry, ■our came in a few nights since, and up on seeing how it was, they never un packed, and the next train carried them out of town. *• tl. CHy IRV llfUCll bv two trifling women, each the mother of several children, was oth er night, and three littleJehilcTren per ished. The women are Jmingly suspect ed of having started the fire. One of the women was once before imprisoned for a similar crime. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: L. F. Johnson meta singularly sad and tragi cal death at Washington and Lee Col lege, Va., last tiittmlav. He and an in timate friend Poigner were play ing croquet began quarreling, and Poigner struck Johnson lightly on the back of Uie head with a croquet mal let. Johnson died a few hours after. The grief of As brothers and of his unfor tunate slayerxvas heartrendering. Poig ner is in jail. Master Joseph. Brand, son of Mr. E. M. Brand, of Logansville, La., was the victim of a most shocking accident at his father’s gin in that place on Tuesday of hist week. While putting some tur pentine upon the band leading from the steam engine to the gin, to prevent its slipping, his left arm was caught and so torn and mangled that it necessitated the amputation of the limb near the shoul der. The lad suffered most excrucia- tingly and died shortly afterwards. Brownsville (Tenn.) States: Last spring, a colored man in this county rented a place and planted a little crop. He had but one mule, and that turned up its legs and died just as the cotton com menced coming up. In sore trouble he applied to his merchant for advice and help. A mule was lwught for sixty-five dollars and the crop was faithfully worked, gathered and sold. The colored man has paid his rent—one hundred dol lars—paid for his summer’s supplies, paid for his mule and has about three hundred dollars left. Maysville ( Ky.) Republican : Last Saturday an aged and decrepit woman, carrying upon her back an idiotic child, about ten years old, passed through this city on her way to Kansas City, where she expects to join her husband, who left her for that place years ago. She Mas an object of pity and commiseration as she trudged along with her burden upon her back, on her long and weary tramp, depending upon the charity of strangers fora subsistence. She said she was from Martin county. After remain ing over Sunday at the station-house, resting and recuperating her strength, she started again on Monday morning for her destination. Mr. S. Brocker, one of the establishers of the Little Rock Democrat and for several years connected with the Gazette, died of dropsy on November 9th. He was a native of Cumberland, Md., and was about 58 years of age. He served throughout the civil war as an officer in the confederate light artillery, and was a major commanding a battalion at the close. In the Brooks-Baxter trouble in 1874 he was appointed brigadier-gener al. He was for several years secretary and grand master of the Masons in Ar kansas. Dr. M. F. Stephenson in Gainesboro Southern: “One of the most important discoveries has recently been made by Professor Hayden, six miles northeast of the city, in Harrington vein, of chloride and bromide of silver, the first found in Georgia, and gives promise of immense value. The range of assays of silver go into the hundreds, and the gold will give from twenty to forty dollars per ton. There are three veins in this neigh borhood which are argentiferous, viz: “ Harris lode,” the Kelton vein and the Harrington vein; in addition to which is a ledge of white marble, and near by, on Dr. Ham’s land, is a dyke of porphyry; associated with it you find a vein of magnetic iron and manganese. In the last number of the Monroe, (Ga.) Advertiser, Dr. A. C. Rogers pays the following tribute to one of his former slaves: Aunt Clara Rogers, one of the best and most unexceptional colored women the writer ever knew, died last week She was a faithful and true ser vant in slavery, obedient, honest, confid ing and lovinsr: true to her master and mistress, and a kind nurse. There was not one of the children that did not love her. She nursed them all; cared for them, and called them her children; and woe to the darkey that dared to offend one of them. After freedom she was the same kind and faithful friend and servant, living with her former mistress most of the time, and loving her and her children as in days of yore. Nothing existed among them alfbut the kindest words and feelings. When her mistress sicken ed and died, she sat by her bedside to wait on her and see the last breath de part, and then she wept with the chil dren and lamented her death as one of them. Her disease was the fatal and tormenting cancer, which she Imre with calmness, fortitude and resignation. She aid all her trust was in God, and exhort ed her husband, kindred and friends to meet her in heaven. For two days before she died, she refused to take any more morphine to alleviate her sufferings, which were very great, saying she wished to die in her senses, which she did. Speaking kindly and lovingly to all pre sent, and offering her hand to husband and others when she could no longer speak. The household she so much loved now weep for Aunt Clara, and hope to meet her again on the other side of the dark river. Farewell departed kind one, we believe your robe there will lie shining white. Mr. L. .T. Dupree, edkorof the Austin, (Texas) Statesman, thus •rites of a Georgia town: The Augusta Georgia News says “the third crop of figs in Ogle thorpe county is nearly ripe, and there has not been a fighter quarrel in Lexing ton since last spring.” It was of this ancient village that Bob Toombs said forty years ago that it was “finished and fenced in fifty years” before his time. Sic assertion lias to other *>ii towns Lmt owes paternity to Bob Toombs. But Lexington is a his torical spot. Little, lifeless, rose-embow ered, its shining white cottages and resi dences going to decay, its store houses empty, and courthouse a dilapidated rookery—hapless as its fortunes may be, and deserted its bar room, where the News says there “has not been a fight since last spring,” Lexington is still a fascinating spot—for an archaeologist. The voice of Wm. H. Crawford was once familiar on its streets as was his gigantic form. He sat, in his old age, on the bench. His old home is hard by, and that of Joseph Henry Lumpkin and of George R. Gilmer and of the builder of the great public hall of Athens. These old homes of worth and greatness still constitute monuments to the ancient glory of Lexington. Then Tom and Howell Cobb and Bob Toombs and Bill Dougherty and .Tack Greer and Alexan der H. Stephens, were boys, loitering idly about the village green of Lexington. No wonder the “third crop of figs this season ripens in Lexington.” Figs have less to do there than in any spot of si lence, white sand, and sunlight and soli tude on God’s foot stool. MISCELLANEOUS. A widow 70 years of age, residing near Austin, Texas, takes care of a stock ranch and 300 head of cattle^ Mrs. Charlotte W widow of ex-Governor Letcher, of Kentucky, died at Frankfort on the 29th of October. The whole number of Methodists in Louisville, Ky., in 1865, was 1,424. The number at the close of 1878 was 4,882. John Arnold, of Mineral county, West Virginia, raised this year ten barrels of corn from one ear’s planting. The Ashville Citizen says: President Fain and Superintendent Herbert Mill soon have their end of the North (Geor gia railroad completed. Wood county, West Virginia, has shipped this fall 290,000 pounds of grapes, besides the quantity sold at home, yielding in all a revenue of SIO,OOO. A cheap and simple piece of machin ery has just been invented and is in op era t ion at Wesehester S. C., which spins seed cotton Into thread. It is claimed that this invention will add 100 per cent, to the profit of the planter, as it saves him the expense of ginning, baling, bagging and ties. “ Dat cullud pussun on de jury, him’s de man I objec’ to,” said a negro when put on trial in the Marion, S. C., Court the other day. Tire black, good man and true, was unseated, and the prisoner given acquittal. After his release the darkey was asked what he had against a juryman of his own color. “Nuffin at all. boss,” said he, “but, yesee, I knoMed if I flattered the prejudus ob de odder jurymen dat I get off', an’ golly I did.” Sidney the poet-musician, is lecturing at the Johns Hopkins Uuiver sitv, in Baltimore, n “ English Verse,” the lecture treating especially of Shaks peare’s verse. Mr. Lanier M ill endeavor to show the artistic groM th observable in Shakspearc’s later M-orks, as com pared with his earlier ones. The final lecture will make comparisons between “ The Tempest,” written after 1610, a “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” T ten about 1590. TERMS : si.oo perAnnwm, in Advmnee. NUMBER 4. riRTCE’S FAME. Like a quiv’ering, crystal bubble, Floating on the summer’s air, Is a maiden’s fame for virtue, Jewel of all jewels rare. Ent a breath—and gone the bubble. Never more to be the same; Cut. a whispered word of scandal— Hone the maiden’s spotless fawuk False may be the direful rumor; l’ure in heart mav be the maid; But a heartless world will whisper, And the forfeit must be paid. Warts on Amimals. Inquiries are made fora cure for warts of different kinds on horses, mules and cattle. Many remedies are prescribed— many barbarous and cruel to the ami mal. I will give you a remedy often tried and never known to fail: Anoint the wart three times with clean, fresh hog’s lard, about two days between times. I have had warts on my horses—bleed ing warts of large size, rattling warts and seed warts, to the number of mor* than one hundred on one horse’s head, I have never been able to find the warts for the third application of the lard. All disappear after the second applica tion. I have sent this prescription to several agricultural papers, hoping it would be of some use to farmers. But they all seem slow to believe; perhaps because the remedy i3 at hand and costs nothing. It ought to be at the head of the veterinary column of every agricultural paper. I own I was slow to believe myself, but having a fine young mare with large bleeding warts that covered part of the bridle and girths with blood when ever used, I thought there would be no harm in trying la rd on them. When the mare was got up for the third applica tion there were no warts and the scars are there now after more than fitteen years, with very little change. Right here I may say that for cuts, bruises, galls, etc., the application of fresh lard—either for man or beast—is worth more than any patent liniments in use. It will relieve pain instantly and does not irritate raw flesh, as all liniments do. Let all papers wishing to benefit the farmer ana his friend, the horse, copy this—not once, but often enough that all mav learn.— V. P. Richardson. The Biter Bit. A Sheffield, Eng., paper tells a good story of a revenue officer and a chemist in that town. The former wanted to catch ♦’*“*„ ‘* l **‘*“"J —~TT : ~a K him to sell and deliver two gallons of methylated spirits. The chemist sold the spirits and got his cash. He “ jumped” to the officer’s Httle game, however, and knowing that though he could sell two gallons, he could not legally deliver more than one per day, sent half the quantity to his customer. Then that officer was angry, and wanted to know why the whole had not been sent. “Oh,” said the chemist, quietly, “ don’t be alarmed; you’ll get the rest to-morrow.” The officer, seeing he was “dropped upon,” got angrier still, and wanted his money back. Not so—the man of medi cine was fairly satisfied with the transac tion as it stood, and the customer has more methylated spirits than he knows very well what to do with. Raisin Making. The United States is the greatest raisin consuming country in the world, and uses annually more raisins than the whole of Europe. This market is mainly supplied from Spain, the raisins known as “Malagas” being considered the best. They come from a comparatively nar row strip of country in the south of Spain, which has hitherto been regarded as surpassing all other regions for raisins of that character. The annual yield of Malaga grapes averages 2,450,000 boxes of thirty pounds each. It sometimes reaches 2,500,000 boxes, and last season about 2,000,000 boxes were marketed. Of this enormous yield the United States takes fully one-half, on which it pays a duty—as on all other raisins—of two and a half cents per pound. The American raisins are made from a white grape, the “Muscat of Alexandra,” to the raising of which the soil and climate of a large portion of California are well adapted. Type-Setting Machines. An English newspaper, the Liverpool Daily News, has for a year past used four type-setting and seven type-distributing machines, it a saving of about $2,000 per annum, as compared with the same amount of work by hand. The com positors working the machine earn better wages than their fellows at the case, while the saving to the establishment is over thirty per cent. The machines are used for every kind of composition ex cept tabulated and displayed work, the matter being set, spaced and justified with greater accuracy than by han' labor. Each machine cost $750, and ♦’ average speed is 6,000 ems per hour. Prof. Swing On Good Tim' Professor Swing remarks t> be a great mistake and agrea* if the return of good timer back the old fervor for p' ventures which made T the most popular t > / " Mortgages,” he ad / and debts are a re' die under them have to be sat r uals pine av come dishe' and the . day and c were *'