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G. W. M. TAsIJJVI, Editor aafl Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
iNEWS GLEANINGS,
Bees tell in South Florida for $2 a
swarm
Pulaski, Tenu., has c intracted to have
its streets lighted with gas.
Mississippi will spend $50,009 for the
encouragement of immigration.
Florida’s cotton crop of 1881 was nine
ty per cent, of the crop of 1880.
The demand for Florida Oranges this
year has exceeded any previous year.
The Alice iron furnace at Birming
ham, Ala., cleared $12,0( 0 in January.
New Orleans pays $1 25 a pound for
a certain brand of Massachusetts butter.
The value of ’railroad property in
Georgia increased during 1881, $2,250,-
000.
Large numbers of deer and other ru
minant wild animals have been drowned
in the overflow of streams in Mississippi
county, Ark.
A Green county (Ga.) farmer put a
flock of nineteen geese in his nine acre
cotton xield, and they kept it clean of
worms without injuring ihe cotton.
After three attempts Mechanicsvilli
has voted to be annexed to Knoxville,
which will swell (hat city’s population
3,000 and give it 12,910 inhabitants.
Sometime since the Chattanooga City
Council passed an ordinance appointing
two men in each ward to kill out the
English sparrows. It has developed
that the lew is unconstitutional.
The Galveston News thinks the cen
sus reports overestimate the acreage of
merchantable pine timber in the South
at least thirty-five percent. Not suffi
cient allowance is made in the reports
for swamp, river, barren and denuded
acres, or for the hammock and other
lands covered with a different growth.
W. H. Durham died in Harris coun- 1
ty, Georgia, last week of a wound re
ceived at the.battle of Chancello'sville,
eighteen years ago. He was shot in the
hip, the bullet, it was thought lodging
in a bone. A post-mortem examination
was made and the ball was found in the
small of the back, lodged against the
backbone.
Atlanta Constitution : There could be
no greater success in any venture than
our Exposition. It was gotten up in a
year, challenged the admiration of the
world by its completeness and magni
tude, and upon its heels wifi follow a
cotton factory stocked at SIOO,OOO,
which will spin and weave cotton of the
next crop.
Prof. N. T. Lupton, of Vanderbuilt
University, is now engaged, at the sug
gestion of Commissioner Hawkins in
making an analysis of soils from differ
ent sections of Tennessee, taking the
virgin soil and specimen soils from ex
hausted fields. This analysis is being
made in order to discover what elements
have been lost in exhausted grounds.
New Virginia Industries: A chair
factory has been started in Culpeper, a
v-oolen mill at Gordonsville, a cotton
factory at Danville, anew cotton fac
tory at Norfolk, a paper-bag factory in
Lynchburg, a straw hat factory in
Richmond, a sassafras oil distillery at
Charlottesville and an extensive wheat
fan factory is to be started in Staunton
Some months ago a party near Green
ville, Miss., sued out an injunction
against his neighbor, restraining him |
from sowing Johnson grass seed, the pe
titioner alleging the grass would spread
over the adjacent country and destroy
the land for cultivation. The Chan
cery Court granted the injunction. The
case was then carried up to the Supreme
Court of the State and the injunction
was dissolved.
Two clergyman of Fauquier, Virginia
went into court with their dis ute as to
the ownership of asß calf. Each own
ed a cow, which he claimed, was tiie
mother of the calf. The Justice went
with the jury aud litigants to a pasture,
where the two cows were let loose for
the youngster to choose between, and
the question was so quickly and unmis
takably settled by the brutes that the
jury gave a verdict without further hes
itation.
At Centerville, Ark., where there is
no Bergh society, a wager was made
as to the endurance of a certain tough
mule. The trial drew a crowd, and the
betting was heavy. The tread-mill of a
threshing-machine was used, the mule
being fastened in it and compelled to
wait without rest. Wheneve he was
inclined to stop he was goaded to keep
him moving. He was not allowed food
or water. For over three days the beast
' tmtu 4-
walked, and when he finally fell down
it was to die.
I. 1’ rank Mills, colored, lost h s life un
der peculiar circumstances at. Columbus,
Ga., while sacking bran. The bran was
banked many thousand of pounds on
the upper floor, and passed to the work
ers on the lower floor tbroug l a passage
or pipe, which mated a funnel shaped
depression in the great bank above. A
-ack dropped into the depression, and
the negro, in trying to get.it out, was
drawn into the whirlpool of bran.
When discovered only bis hand could
be seen. Four men failed to pull him
out, and when the bran was removed lie
was dead from suffocation.
The Law of Lost Property.
What ought the finder of a lost articla
to do? Most people will give a. ready
answer. He should do his best to dis
cover tlie owner and restore the lost
property to him. But this standard of
moral duty being imperfectly recognized
by the law,' it will be interesting to
review tbe decisions on this subject.
1. The finder need not take charge of
the lost property. There is no legal
duty on him to do it but if he does
take it into his possession, fie then be
comes a depository, and is bound to keep
it for the owner and restore it to liim
when known. How long he must keep
it, or what efforts he should make to find
’he owner, have not been laid down.
2. If tbe finder does not restore tbe
property upon discovering the owner,
does he commit theft ? This depends on
whether he knew, or had reasonable
means of knowing, who the owner was
at the time of finding. It has been held
that the tinder of a pocketbook, having
tho owner’s name legibly written or it,
is a thief if he conceals and appropriates
the money; but if there is nothing to
indicate the owner, he does not become
a thief in law by so doing.
3. The owner may at any time reclaim
his property, and if the finder refuses to
give it up, can recover it or tbe value of
it from him. But as against any one but
the owner the finder’s title is good.
4. When is a tiling to be considered
as lost ? It lias been said in several cases
that money or other property laid down
and forgotten is not lost in the legal sense
of the word. The proprietor of the shop,
or bank, or place where it is left is the
proper person to take charge of it. and
these who pick up the property have no
right to keep it. Ou the other hand, it
has been held that where a conductor
found money in a railway car, whose
owner could not be ascertained, be had
a good title to the money.
5. Is the findei entitled to be paid for
his trouble and expense ? Ho need not
take charge of it, and it seems that if ho
does so he must look only to the grat
itude and good feeling of the owner for
reward.
6. What if a reward be offered ? There
is no doubt that any one who, seeing
offer, sets to work to find the property,
will, if he succeed, be entitled to the
reward, and may even retain the prop
erty till it be paid. But if he already
has the missing article in his possession
when the reward is offered, or has with
held the property in the expectation
that a reward would be offered, the rule
is the opposite.
A gentleman contributes to Nature
the following account of his experience
in India bearing upon the question
whether ants pro.iuoe sounds or not:
“ Whilst lying awake early one morning
before the servants were stirring, when
camped in the Deccan, at the present
small station of Chota or Chick-Soogo >r,
on the G. I. P. Railway, during the win
ter 1868-69, I hoard a sound repeated at
intervals of about a second. It sounded
as though the wall of the tent was being
struck by a light fringe along one side;
but noticing that the air was perfectly
still, I listened for some minutes wonder
ing what it was .and trying to fix the lo
cality. I got out of bod cautiously and
looked out; the whole of one side of the
tent, for a height of two feet, was covered
with white ants so thickly, that at the first
glance I thought the wall was covered
with a gray-reddish mud to this height.’
The noise ceased suddenly as soon as the
ants seemed to become aware of the
writer’s presence, and in a few minutes
they had all disappeared. The impres
sion produced was that they had all been
s'riidng the tent wall at the same time
a ith their heads. , *
Sumner’s Practice.
Near the close of Sumner’s career
“Appliia Howard” said to him in his
Washington home :
“What are you doing here without
Congress ? ”
“ Did you never see,” h asked,
“when a train of cars is standing in a
station, a man go around striking each
wheel and every part of the machinery
that has been under any strain ? He is
testing it. I am doing this,” ho con
tinued, “with my speeches. lam go
ing over them sentence by sentence,
and testing each, to see if there is ouo
that gives an uncertain sound.”
In the presence of Herbert Spencer,
a little boy said: “ What an awful lot
of crows! ” The philosopher corrected
the youth by saying: “I have yet to
learn, little master, that there is any
thing to : nspire awe in such a bird as
the crow.” For once the author of first
principles had met his match. The boy
! replied: “ But I didn’t say there whs.
j I didn’t say, ‘ Wli '.t a lot of awful
j crows! ’ but, ‘ What an awful lot of
crows! ’ ” Sound for the boy.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3. ISS‘2.
“FaiiJbfal to the Right, Fearlesi Against Wrong.”
TOPICS ©F THE BAT.
Ohio is legislating agaiust bu -Lot
shops. .
Indiana has a Greenback State ticket
in tbe field.
The G®kl Water Party has been having
the bulge on this country.
Dbaths from scarlet fever in New York
Oity average about 100 a week.
Sbaboh for the Jeannette’s missing
tlmdl boat has actively begun.
The present prospects of the peach
crop in Southern Indiana are excellent.
The high waters carried ofi* about
$15,000 worth of distillery cattle at
Louisville.
Congressmen are required to write
and not “ stamp” their franks on free
mail matter.
In spite of the weather and water,
New Orleans, as usual, made Mardi-
Gras a success.
About the only hope now is, that the
heat of the coming summer will not be
oppressive. Ice will be a luxury.
The Directors of the New York, New
Haven and Harford Railroad refuse to
allow religious services on their road.
By anew fast mail services all points
in Florida wifi be reached twenty-four to
thirty-six hours sooner than heretofore.
. On February 17 the visible supply of
cotton in the United States was 1,‘*42,123
bales, against 1,156,000 bales same time
last year.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad Company’ has taken a moral fit
and now discharge all employes who are
known to gamble.
Blackfebt and other Indians in
Northwestern Territory are at it again,
“killing whisky traders and other
Americans,” and committing ether
depredations.
It is estimated that the high waters
in the Mississippi Valley has deprived
from 50,000 to 75,000 men of the meaus
of subsistence. This means destitution
to 200,000 souls.
Of eighty-four bills passed by the
Kentucky House, seventy-five of them
have been to incorporate turnpike com
panies. Kentucky is determined to have
respectable highways.
Dr. Bliss’ bill for services rendered
during the illness oi Garfield has been
cut down to one-fifth the amount lie
asked, which was $50,000. St 11 h gels
a pretty good round sum.
Herbert Spencer, the London T< \
graph says, is coming to America during
the present year, but he will refuse all
proposals to lecture. The object of
visit is to see the country and people.
The Mexican National Bank lias opened
for business, and already has large sums
of money on deposit. The Mexican
Government has made a deposit toward
paying installments on the American
debt.
♦ 1
The prospect for farming in the Mis
sissippi Valley the present season is very
sickly indeed. It is conjectured that
the wateis will not have receded suffi
cient for practical purposes before the
middle of*April,
The editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer
created a sensation a few days ago by
contributing $250 in hard cash to tbe
Harrison revival meetings. The con
gregation thereupon united in prayer
for the salvation of that editor’s soul.
The death of Soteldo, the Washington
journalist, who wa shot in the Republi
can office, is add tioual evidence that
when an editor does try to be honest,
somebody comes along and kills him.
Editors better keep in the old rut and
avoid trouble.
President Arthur has rented a cot
tage on Cedar avenue, Long e g
where he goes the coming sum m -. ’IN as
is announced long in advanc e o ihat
young ladies who are well maim ed " il
know in time where they are gouig m
spend the hot months.
There seems to bo no question now
is to destitution among the people of
Eastern Arkausas and Northern Louis
iana, although their poverty was denied
a short time ago. The appeal to Con
gress for aid is suffiueut guarautee that
they are in pretty bad shape.
The Chicago Board of Trade, after
the manner of the New York Produce
Exchange is making war on the bucket
shops. The Board of Trade quotations
are the basis upon which the bucket
shops do business, and without them
their occupation will be gone.
The arcliiteoture of Oscar Wilde’s
calves are said to be absolutely’ monoto
nous, and not a bit soulful in their ex
pression. Osoar oughtn’t to button bis
breeches so tight areuud tho knee.
That’s just about what it is that makes
his lower extremeties wear such a bony
look.
It is plain that Bradlaugh cannot se
cure his seat in the British House of
Commons. He refused to swear when
he could, and now that he wants to take
the oath, lie can’t, and the members of
that body have bounced him by an over
whelming vote. It seems that some
times it is “ too late to mend.”
The New York Herald makes the
statement that Mine. Nilsson has cried
so much over the insanity of her hus
band that her sight has become greatly
impaired, and she is now obliged to wear
glasses. That the unfortunate man is
now dead, it is to be hoped that Christine
will look at the matter from a philosoph
ical standpoint.
It seems that so far as Prof. Jackson
is himself concerned, the question is not
yet settled as to what caused the explo
sion in his laboratory at Chester, Pa.,
by which seventeen persons were blown
to atoms. The business was that of
manufacturing sky rockets and suoh
things. It is rather strange what it was
that could have exploded.
A queer suit has juSt been decided hi
New York. A bey of twelve picked up a
revolver from an open drawer, and play
fully pointed it at a tutor, who gave him
lessons at his home. The pistol went
off, the tutor was not dangerously hurt,
but confined to liis bed for a month.
The court liehl his father guilty of
negligence in leaving tlio pistol around
loose, and a jury gave the plaintiff SSOO.
Gen. Brady’s paper, tho Washington
Critic, c.<iy?ues to defend the Star
Route Ring, hi face of the indictments
found against the members of Unit
clique. It says : “ The manimJatdre of
this wholesale scheme
stand out in their true colors as liars,
slanderers, and blood-suckers; to be
kuown henceforth by the whole world as
such, that theyP may be shunned and
avoided by honest men.” Just so.
A man calling himself the second
Christ, at Fort Smit'% Arkansas, an
nounced that he would walk across the
Arkansas River at a certain hour. When
the hour arrived sfw immense assemblage
had collected to witness the perform
ance, but the second Christ came not,
and there was great disappointment
among the people—not that they ex
pected to see a miracle performed, but
they were alltired mad at being beaten
out of seeing a crank drowned. .
That popular humorist, Mr. W. J.
Lainpton, whose witticisms gave the
Steubenville Herald a national leputa
tiou, has been called to the position of
city editor of the Louisville Courier-
Joumal. Although the Courier-Journal
is widely known among those who write
their editorials with a pair'of
the addition of Mr. Lampton to the
helm will help the old ship out wonder
fully and she will come in with a better
cargo than ever. Boys, get your scissors
ready! a
Great homes move slowly, and that is
why the New York Board of Aldermen
only last week adopted resolutions tend
ering the thanks ol the city to Mr. Wil
liam H. Vanderbilt for his munificence >
in defraying the entire cost of removing
the Alexandrian olielisk from Egypt to
its site in Central Parii, a year or so ago.
The fact of the matter is, the Board of
Aldermen wanted to see how they would
enjoy having such a thing around before
they were willing to bubble over with
thanks. They hadn’t forgotten it, of
course not.
There is a theory that the destruction
of forest* lessens the rainfall and has a
tendency to produce drouth. That
theory has stood without contradiction
since the beginning of the drouth of
1881 up until the present time. What
the advocates of that theory have to say
now has not yet been announced. Per
haps the absence of forest* also is pro
ductive of great rainfalls ; at all events,
the cutting away of forests helps to ac
celerate the rushing of waters to their
terminus and that means inundation to
all sections bordering their course.
In the British House’of Commons the
i other day Chaplin stated that all the evi
dence before the Ilcrtal Commission
: tended to show that the United States
had reached the acme of agricultural
prosperity, and the worst, therefore, had
j been seen of foreign competition. Well,
that’s all Ohaplin knows about it. The
United States hasn’t fairly got started in
the agricultural business yet. Twenty
five years from now we will begin to
show Englaud what we can do in the
way of “hogs and hominy” and as for
flour, we expect to be tho world’s
market.
The Paris correspondent of tbe New
Orleans Picayune tells the story of the
French financial panic in tho following
oonoise words: “While the following
figures are deceptive, for the securities
will rise again and the majority of the
shareholders are not speculators, and
have not sold, still these figures serve to
show the enormous depreciation of favor
ite shares of speculation, and the con
sequent losses of speculators. The
shares of the Union Generate are worth
$60,000,003 less than they were on tlie
10th of January; those of the Suez
Canal $110,000,000 less than they were
worth on the 3d of January; the Tim
bale, $24,000,000; tho Public Fuuds,
$60,000,000. The total depreciation of
securities of all sorts on the Bourse since
the 3d of January is set down at $1,000,-
000,000 ; in other words, is equal to the
war indemnity paid Germany in 1871.”
Choosing a Profession.
A question which becomes more im
portant every year is that which concerns
the education of young men for the pro
fessions. When it is finally solved, and
set at rest, a great good will have been
done to the public, and many youths
will be kept from feeling in their man
hood the heartburnings and the sense of
failure in tlieir lives from which so many
are now suffering. It is useless to dis
guise the fact that the dignity of manual
labor, guided by the intelligence of
special learning, is not generally be
lieved in. An excuse for Ais lack of
faith is drawn from the argument that
as mechanical trades are so subdivided
now that a young man after learning one
branch rarely is given the opportunity
to learn another, and that, having but
little need to use his brain in his work,
he usually becomes a sort of animated
machine, Bftfc is there a controlling
reason why ft mechanic should thus lose
his power—assuming, of course, that he
has started with a fair supply of intelli
gence and energy ? That there is not is
shown by the fact that some men with
no other opportunities than their fellows,
by using their eyes and wits, learn every
Franck of their trades, and thereby pro
cure commanding positions. For in
stance in the pressroom of a newspaper
of this city there is one man who not
only can manage a complicated press,
but can take it apart and put it together,
and repair it if it gets out of order. Yet
he has had no special advantages over
the men whom he directs as a foreman.
Ho has looked and learned, and he is
now highly paid for the trouble he took
to inform himself. It seems wrong,
then, to assert that an energetic, intelli
gent boy will have no chance to rise in a
trade. The thing to ascertain in the be
ginning is tlie tradirfor which he is nat
urally fitted. This fchard tqyiseertain,
and most parents Ip not make the at
tempt. They put tneir boys into any
clerical position that figopen to them, or
they decide long in advance that the
youths shall be ctergyraeiQpftyfiicianH, or
lawyers. In this way many men have
been put into professions for which they
have no aptitude, and so struggle on and
fall. The question which arises is:
Could not this evil be overcome by mak
ing it less eayfUfo become a professional
man? Would not many fathers and
mothers in moderate circumstances
pause and reflect if they knew it would
cost much time and money to make doc
tors, or lawyers, or clergymen if their
sons? But, leaving this question one
side, is it right that any ordinary mn
may obtain permission to practice upon
tho public health or the public rights
after nominally studying medicine or
law for two years ? Asa matter of fact
students do not attend the medical or
law schools for half "fwit period. Earn
est physicians and lawyers who love their
professions think profoundly upon this
question, and are of the opinion that not
orfy should the periods of study be
longer, but that no man should be ad
mitted to study unless lie has had a col
legiate education, or, lacking that, is
able to pass an examination so as to
show that he has a good foundation for
special learning. Ignoramuses would
not then be so common in the profes
sions. If only fit persons are given the
right of way into the professions the un
fit will find places suited to them, for
fond and poor parents will be forced to
study the characteristics of their chil
dren before marking out careers for
them.— N. Y. Times.
Our Army from 1789 to 1861.
The following exhibits the strength of
the regular army of the United States
from 1789 to 1861, as fixed by acts of
Congress. The figures are fixed for the
aggregate of officers and men:
88 8 Strength oj
Year. , Army.
1789—One regiment Infantry, one battery ar
tillery B*o
1792—Indian border wars 5,120
1794—Peace establish beat, 3,629
1801 T.
1807 3,2,8
1812 —War with Great Britain 11,all
1817-1821—reace establishment. 9,980
3822-1832—Peace establishment 6,184
1833-1837—Peace establishment 7,168
1838-l'-42—Florida war 12,539
3843-1846 Peace establishment 8,'03
3847 Mexican war 17,812
1848—Mexican war 80,890
J 849-1855—Peace establishment 10,320
1856-1861—Peace establishment 12,931
TiRMS— SI.OO par Annum slric’ly in Advance.
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NUMBER 13.