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G. W. M. TATUM, Fditor and Proprietor. VOLUME IY. NEWS GLEANINGS, Eighty-five thousand tons of fertili zers were sold in North Carolina for the year 1881. t-hlk culture in Louisiana has of late poS 6 3 f7 's' hlK in(l stry, and to-day Ai i, iant production. ®G ro h .ar State*! is coining into the Texas land*' vsury from the sale of school Y than from taxes and all other forces. In 1865 Florence, S. C., contained only ten houses. It now has a population of over 2,000, and last year over 100 houses were bu’lt. A Florida paper says that vast quanti ties of blind mosquitoes are caught in the swamps of that State for fertilizing purpeaes. Nearly everyday from 100 to 150 per sons. pass through Chattanooga, going West. T’aero are from Western North Carolina and Southeast Tennessee. Owing to the crowded condition of the Alabama State Asylum, Bulloch count y is at the expense of caring for its insaa/e'paupersat the County Poor-house. The poor-house of Choctaw county, Ala , has but one inmate, the first for several years past., It is an old negro woman whose age is stated at ‘19.2 or thereabout*.” Atlanta Constitution; The silver vein of Ma'gi’uder mine grows richer with the continual digging. The ore has assayed as mu eh as §B6 of silver to the ton, and the lead in the ore is also in sufficient quantity t® be valuable. Seme hunters near Deuglasviile, Ga , lafct week, while fox-chasing, ran a strange animal to its den, which proved to be a wild dog. They found a mother .and fopr puppies, all of which got away Tnit one #f the latter. Within three months ground has been surveyed, or .breken for three more blast furnaces; Imd steel and iron rolling-mill a nail factory, and a dozen or more small er establishments have been started, and will soon b 6 iii fuJB operation in Bir mingham. The area of land which will be re claimed in Florida by the draining of Like Okeechobee, work on the canals for doing which has already been begun, is larger than the States of New Jersey, Connecticut, Dele ware and Rhode Is. land. Mr. W. D. Graydon, a farmer of But ter county, Ala., made last season from one acre of ground 830 gallons of molas ses, besides putting some of the cane on the market, saving 3,008 stalks for seed and reserving about one thousand stalks for consumption by his family. Charleston News and Courier: A Mrs: Coker, with her three children, in an ox' cart, was going home from Perry, Ga. The;road they traveled passed through very rank wire grass, which had been s>et on fire. In trying to get out of the ■way the cart and oxen became fastened among pine logs and the fire overtook them. The cart was consumed with the two children inside, and the oxen were burned to death. The woman attempted te escape with her infant, but her cloth tng caught fire aud she and the other child were so badly burned that they have since died.. Good Eating and Good Writing. In old monastic days good eating was under a ban. It was imagined that the brain could best be kept clear and vigor ous on a low diet. Romantic young ladies in our time love to think of their favorite authors as fed on a divine ambrosia. It brings them down to a common level to associ ate them with roast beef find mutton. Poor Charlotte Bronte was once disen chanted of her hero-worship. Thackeray was'her favorite author, and in her lonely home on the moors, her imagination in vested him with all ideal graces. On a visit to London she was lifted to the summit of happiness by an invitation to a dinner where Thackeray was to be one.of -.the guests. She .was introduced to the great man, and sat next to him. It was a red-letter day in her life, and memory was on the alert to retain all his bright sayings, and report them to her sigtfirs. , . Thackeray, however, did little talking, blit much eating. 'He had recently re covered from a severe attack of typhoid fever, winch left him with a ravenous ap petite, while the dinner was exception ally gdbd. • Charlotte looked on in won der at his feats, and the surprise gradu ally changed to disgust. One more idol had turned to clay. If she had known the modem law‘of the conservation of forces, her charity might not have failed her. - TRAMrs on. the Pacific slope long for a return to the good old days, when a gen tleman scorned to give a beggar less than a dollar. fl;ule €mntv funette. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Jay Gould owns §53,000,000 in stocks. .Esthetic Easter cards, it is said, wilt be the rage. Pittsburg has several colored police men on the force. Edison is recuperating in Florida and giving electricity a rest. When lunacy is no longer an excuse for crime, crime will perceptibly diminish. ’? ramps may now bo expected in the .■ole of “ Mississippi overflow sufferers.’ Victor Hugo is of opinion that if the Czar will not spare tho people, God will not spare the Czar. The woman who rode a bicycle 600 miles in six consecutive days, at St. Louis, is a Canadian. According to Cardinal Manning, it is an indictable offense in England for a man to propagate atheism. The American Express Company has organized a money order system cheaper than.that of the postoflice. A Russian traveler says that one third of Asia aud a considerable part of Europe still remain unexplored. A Chicago Grand Jury last week re turned an indictment against a dead man. Live criminals are scarce up there. The report of the Secretary of War shows that our Indian wars in the last ten years have cost $5,055,821 in jjctual money. Just what the Mormons think of their present prospects we are not prepared to say, but they evidently are not well pleased. Mr. Tourgee, the novelist, allows himself to bo calls*!, in bie own pappr, Our Continent, “Hon.” Albion V/. Tourgee. Congress should make a law especially adapted to the punishment of the inspired crank element. The need of such a law is daily increasing. Mason’s sentence to eight years in the Penitentiary for shooting at Guiteau was certainly quite enough. "Guiteau doubt less approves the sentence. The Mississippi House of Representa tives has passed a bill preventing the sale of tobacco to minors without an order from their parents or guardians. A bogus priest named Deßohan, ar rested in Chicago, aud familiar with five languages, lias borne in bis brief exist ence of thirty-one years, twenty-five aliases. It is reported that John Russell Young, the newly appointed Minister to China, will soon marry Miss Julia E. Coleman, a niece of ex Governor Jewell, of Connecticut. Lieutenant Schwatka,'- of the Arctic Expeditiou of 1879, speaking of the Jeannette’s crew, says there is no hope for DeLong and party, and little for Chip’s boat’s crew. Robert Bonner thinks the time will come when two minutes will be very ordinary time for a trotter. As Bonner is opposed to betting, there is no chance here to lay a wager. The visit of General Sherman to the West will probably result in the abandon ment of several military forts in Texas, Snd the establishment of posts at San Antonio and Fort Bliss. Hallie Hutchinson, a little girl nine years old, is probably the youngest tele graph operator in the world. She is stationed at a town in Texas where she has entire charge of an office. The indications are that Mason will eventually be pardoned. Petitions ask ing for his pardon are flooding in to the President from Legislatures, societies and citizens in great numbers. This is the question which Mormons nsk our Congressmen: “How do you know it's bad to have a dozen wives? You haven’t tried it. We have.” That may bo regarded as a clincher. Archibald Forbes has discovered that an American audience’s estimate on a lecture is to be discovered, not from the applause, but from the number of people who sit till the lecture is ended. It is stated that tho Czar, having re ceived convincing proofs that the Nihilists are determined to abandon their policy of assassination, imperial clemency will RISING FAWN, J)ADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, ISS2. consequently bo extended te political prisoners. The Sunday saloon question, just now, is the topic of interest in Ohio—whether it is better to go in by the front door or by tho back door. No saloonist was ever known to keep both doors looked at tho same time. Ihe report that four towns were destroyed by an earthquake in Costa Rica, later information says, was an “exaggeration,” yet how great an exag geration is not stated. Perhaps it was all exaggeration. Four women in the vicinity of Rich mond, Ind., and a Methodist preacher aud two women at North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio, have gone insane over religion the past two weeks and been placed in lunatic asylums. The beautiful Mrs. Langtry would like to come to this country but her agent wants so much that she wall prob ably tie denied the privilege. Asa rule managers endeavor to make contracts with a view to making something for themselves. Dr. George H. Lamson, of London, tried for the murder of his brother-in law, Percy Malcolm John, a mere boy, that lie might come into possession of his property, lias been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The evidence was circumstantial, but conclusive. The outlook on the Lower Mississippi is everything but promising. The whole country is flooded, without any prospect of the water receding at an early day. In the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, the country for forty miles around, on either side of the river, is like an ocean. An item to sausage-eaters from the Louisville Courier-Journal: “A man who detected a piece of bark in his sausage visited the butcher shop to know what had become of the rest of the dog. The butcher was so affected that he could give him only a part of the tale.” The Police Commissioners of Balti more have dismissed a policeman foi not arresting a woman who was assault ing another with a horsewhip. As sha was his wife and the assaulted woman his sweet-heart, he felt that he could not interfere without great embarrassment. The Commissioners relieved him ot all further embarrassment by relieving him. Half the silver dollars circulated in Montana are alleged to be counterfeit* made by the Chinese in San Francisco. They are described as of exactly th* weight of the genuine ones, and ona thirty-second part of an inch larger in diameter. They contain only sixteen cents’ worth of silver, which is all on the surface. Eighty-five houses in South Bethle hem, Pennsylvania, are quarantined be cause of smallpox, and the disease is re ported on the increase. Why this dis ease has become so alarming there it is difficult to say. The town is high and healthy, and is the home of the Mo ravians, than whom no one could be cleaner or more particular in neatness. Mrs. SARAn E. HowE,4he defaulting Boston Bank President, who has been sentenced to the House of Correction for a term of three years, may well congrat ulate herself. She promised to pay her depositors an interest that amounted to 96 per cent., and iii consequence failed to return the principal, by which the de positors lost something like $475^00. The Milwaukee Sui\ suggests a plan for “ saving the country.” It says : “ Let'' Northern people go South in the winter, and Southern people go North in the summer, and let the young of both sec tions fall in love with each other and do a little marrying, and when Northern and Southern grandmothers go traveling back and forth to,visit the babies that will naturally come upon the scene, that will naturally end all sectional feeling.'’ The Paris Figaro says of Skobeleff: “This General has not changed during the last four years. He is now thirty seven, or thereabouts. He is very tall —so tall that in a campaigning time he can not stand upright in his tent. His face is exceedingly intelligent, his eyes blue and keen and quick, his forehead full, and his beard brightly blonde; at the very first glance his person reveals the energetic and loyal soldier, ready to dare all and sacrifice everything.” The Galveston News suggestively says: “ When a President is shot, every thing in the United States can be turned topsey turvey, and the occupant of al most every office, from Secretary of State to the humblest tide waiter, changed. Had Mac Lean succeeded in his nefarious attempt on the life of the Queen, hardly a particle of difference “ Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.” would have oocu-ved in the Government of England; not an office would have changed from Prime Minister down to letter carrier.” The most dangerous element in this country is the inspired crank. Henry Remshaw, the “embassador from heaven sent by Guiteau to shoot Dr. Gray ” of the Vale Lunatic Asylum, at Utica, N. Y., when arrested, had upon his person two r-wy revolvers, one single barrel revolver, ono repeater, one dirk, cleaver, one te ttle of chloroform and thirty bundles of cartridges. As an arsenal he was e• Adently prepared to do some killing. Or. Gray, fortunately, received only a flash wound. Dr. Gray was the chief medical expert of the Government in th* Guiteau trial. Juveiiilo Mortality. One of the most mysterious phenom ena of human existence is the large per centage of mortality among young chil dren. A fearful proportion of the deaths everywhere are those of persons who have just begun to live. Even when due allowance is made for faults of nurs ing and training, it appears hardly possi ble that any improvement can offset the inherited weakness from which so many children suffer, and, as yet, science has taught little concerning those epi demics which find the majority of their victims among the little ones. “ Still, in telligent care and favorable surroundings can do much. The English statistics, much mure full and accurate than those of our own country, show that in the rural counties the mortality of children under five years of age does not exceed, and often falls- below, forty in the thou sand. In the cities and towns the aver age is much greater, ranging from about fifty-nine in the thousand, in Portsmouth, to over ninety-five in Birmingham and Sheffield, and to over one hundred and three in Liverpool. In nineteen large towns, containing an aggregate of a mil lion and marly twenty-four thousand children, the deaths for a year from their number were 82,250. This is a fearful number, and no doubt tho figures were increased through causes which might have bee:,;, .voided. Styi, had every thing been done, the little victims must have been counted by myriads. As tilings are, it is probable that in very many cases c >ntinued life would not have been - b'i t th • quaint old epi taph, “ So soon was I done fey * I wonder what I was * JK. W will nevertheless suggest Cincin nati Gazette, To Cure .Sheep-Killing Dogs. The question of how to protect sheep from the caresses of destructive dogs, which has so long agitated the agricul tural mind, seems to have been happily settled by the farmers of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, Ngw Jersey. They tried the experiment or mixing in a few goats with their sheep, and after the goats and sheep had affiliated for a few days, they proceed some dogs, regular sheep-killer*, aas started them for the folds. The dogs, regarding the affair as n sort of picnic, went for wool and came back shorn of their conceit. They seem to run against goats in the most unexpected places, and were struck by the singular nature of the thing and al most drove into the ground by the force of the remarks made by the goats with their heads, in the heat of the debate. Mutton, which the dogs had always re garded as a delicacy, suddenly palled upon the taste and they felt coyed. No doubt the goats, with customary polite ness, asked their guests to pass their plates and have some of the mutton, but the dogs did not care for mutton. They came out of the field limping ou three legs, and no word of encourage ment from the farmer could induce them to go back. They had been broke of sucking eggs. Squeaking Shoos. A correspondent of the Country Gen tleman gives the following remedies for the above nuisance: Not long ago I went to my slioestore and asked if the squeaking could be pre vented in my shoes. I was told it could be very easily, and it was done by open ing the soles of my shoes at the shank, pouring in powdered soapstone, taking care to have the sole well-filled to the toe, and then pegging or sowing them up again. My shoes did not squeak after that. A shoemaker’s receipt to prevent squeaking is to put a piece of cloth (sheeting) between every two lay ersuif leather on tho sole. Last sum mer I purchased a pair of fine boot which annoyed ine very much by squeak ing. So on very hot days in haying I turned them up to the direct rays of the sun and put on grease; as fast as it dried up I applied more, until they would take 110 more, and they have nev er troubled me since. Our own plan is to stand the shoos in n* hollow pan and then pour in lukewarm water until tlie soles are nearly immersed. Keep the water as nearly lukewarm as possible for twenty-four hours, and put on the shoes while the soles are still damp. They should not become wet inside. A French physician of note lias been studying the question of “fatigue of the eyes,” so familiar to literary men. He believes that it is due to a permanent tension of accommodation, the muscles becoming fatigued in their efforts to keep the lens to the curve adapted to the fo cus, or, in other Words, the distance of the printed matter. As to tho maxi mum of legibility, he finds that, other things being equal, it does not depend on the height of the letters, but on their breadth. HUMORS OF THE DAY. Does a man break into humor when i he cracks a joke ? 1 It is no longer a matter of pride to j have a high forehead. A cow has that, and she is very low-ly. In union there is strength. “Poor Tom’s a cold,” but Tom and Jerry’s liot. —Boston Commercial Bulletin. The best description we have ever heard of a slow man was that he was too slow to got out of his own way. —Lowell Courier. When the washerwoman calls for a young man’s linen, does that make her a shirt-callei ? Neckst. Steubenville { Herald. I “Money makes my ma go,” said little : Skeesicks when his mother, armed with a S2O greenback, left for a down-town shopping tour. Enquirer: Are plants in a sleeping room unhealthy? Not necessarily. We’ve seen some very healthy plants growing j in sleeping rooms. I “Don’t you think that Miss Brown is | a very sweet girl?” asked Henry. “Oh, yes, very sweet,” replied Jane; “that is to say, she is well preserved.” ‘ ‘Abb you dead, Tim ?” said an Irish father to his son, who had fallen down a ; well. “Not dead, father, but spache less,” came up from the depths. No woman e’er contented is, No matter what she’sgot; For when she builds a little house blie always .wants a lot. —Hackensack Republican. “It is poor taste to laugh at your own jokes,” said Henderson; “something I : never do, through Ido say it.” “Does anybody else over laugh at them?’ ! asked Fogg. A Brooklyn man has just found his sister from whom ho has been separated fifty years. She was the cook in his boarding house, and lie recognized the style of her hash. “Have you any faith in mince pie as a cure for headache?” asked one young married lady cf another. Yes,” was the reply, “bring out your mince pie. I get mince-pie headaches refulariy.” When Brown complained of a nish of blood to the head Fogg endeavored to ease his mind by reminding him that nature abhors a vacuum, and Brown’s blood rushed to his head worse than ever. “Man and wife are all one, are they?” said she. “Yes; what of it?” said he suspiciously. “Why, in that case,” said his wile, “I came home awfully tipsy lest night and feel terribly ashamed of myself this morning.” He never said a word. At a young ladies’ seminary recently, during an examination in history, one of the pupils was interrogated thus: “Mary, did Martin Luther die a natural death ?” “ No,” was the reply; ‘‘ he was excommunicated by a bull.’ —Harvard Lampoon. Little Editii was terribly sleepy the other night, tibe began her customary prayer upon retiring, but when she got as far as “Our Father,” her eyes closed and her head tumbled on to the pillow. “I tau’t tay it to-night,’.’ she said, “I’m too s’eepy. He knows the yest of it.” A lecturer was, once in a dilemma which he will probably never forget. While talking about art he ventured the assertion, “Art can never improve na ture.” And at that moment some one in the audience cried out in a gruff voice, “Cant he? Well, then, how do you think you would look without your wig ?” “Memory is a wonderful thing,” said Jack Miller to his friend Dan Watts. “Just think of what a fellow’s head can hold! It’s gigantic, sir gigantic!” Watts—“l have often heard your friends say you have a very fine memory, Jack.” Miller (flattered) —“Well, that’s very kind. Yes, I have a pretty good memory. ” Watts—“Do you think you can recall the ten dollars 1 lent you three years w! ” Ar~b , . XjManltoba./ This, than Ivliich perhaps there if #not to be found a more inhospitable region below the latitude of Greenland, is pic tured as a Northern paradise, and ren dered magnificently attractive on paper. A flat country, almost without timber, swept during the greater part of the year by high winds surcharged with snow and s'! cereal led, in the expressive phrase of tho denizens, “blizzards,” frozen during the winter hard as an ice- t£ a fearful depth, and deluged with water in tho spring, it possesses many tions for an Esquimaux. Horses and cattle fare poorly in Mani toba, since if they escape the loss of their ears by frost, they are subjeet tc gradual starvation during the long win ter. It is doubtless pleasant enough during the brief summer, and a returned explorer gives it as liis opinion that the land is propuetive, although he found it difficult to reach a correct conclusion in regard to it in the spring, while it was several inches under water. —Canadian Letter in Cincinnati Gazette. A Mexican paper gives the following account of a battle between monarchsol' the deep : “A lake in the rear of Man zanillo, Mexico, burst its confines and poured its waters into the sea. The lake was full of alligators, and the harbor of sharks. When the monsters met, a water battle immediately began, aud it was waged for several days in the presence of most of the people of Manzanillo, j For a long timfc victory trembled in the balance, but the sharks finally prevailed and took dinner on the last of the routed intruders. ” Every one in this world has his or her share of trouble and trials. Let us then try as much as we are able not to increase the burden of any by as much as the weight of a straw. TERMS—SI.OO per Annum Gritflly in Advance. QUININE SUBSTITUTE. ITHERMALINE The Only 25 Cant AGUE REMEDY IH THE WORLD. CUKES CHiiis&rm:. And an MALARIAL DISEASES. I-y-yjigsssfCTWK™ From Kgdkx Thomsom, Pastor saull 5 S livl hie Church of the DiteipUt ef Maftjaitefeii&fcAl Christ, Detroit, Mick—"My tot was dangerously ill and entirely prostrated from Chile aed Fever. Quinine end other medicines were tried without effect. Mr. Craig, svho had used TstnmtALm* as a tonic, adviced a trial of Ttoeuaunx, which was done, resulting lit hi* comp!** B r*covery within a few <i*y ” i AT AIL :2TSK2?B, 03 S7 HAIL, 85c. ftH KL * DUNDAS DICK & CO., 112 White Street, H. Y. BEIDUTINE POWDERS, As pleasant aa ( EsruoMsw.! warn laxatine LOZENGES Eepisite the Bowels otuiiyKg§JsYS| saad pleasantly. Curoe Ccns jiipalion, Piles, BlHousaest.nraKH Headache, Keertbarn, See. All fcJrgß Druggists, or by 21 ail, 350. per fesSes&aß box. 3 BUND AS DICK <fc 00., 118 Wklte Strest, Now York. , & CapeuSot®. • ; u f jj S M The and mote r *li*bl* Care for all .[nSstust* or Urinary Organs, Certal* Our® in eight day*. No other medidna etui do this. Tho bsat medicine is the cheapest. Beware of dangerous imitation*. All Druggists, or by m*l, 750. and $1.60 Enr box. Write for Circular. DUNDAS IQK A CO., 112 White Street, New Ferk, M|Hn Instantly relieved by the m IrlilSirnff of MAC^ rEiy hatico and several applioatLone of it. Sold by all Druggists, or mailed on receipt ol by DUNDAS DICK A CO., M’fg Qh&niettt, 113 White Nw York. TES BUST OF ALL LIN ; ' ENTS yoa biast. For mor® thaa a third of a century Ui HttUn Efnetang XUataaenth*(Lean tmwi) te mlUipn* all over tho world as the oaly safa roltaace for the rcliaf of naldeM amt pain. It is a rucCialne aboro prio* ana praise—tl* best *r its kind. For every form of esternal pain " MEXICAN Masters* Liniment is without aa equal. it penetrates Scih and mtreeie to the very hone—niairing the oontinu aneo of pain and inflammation lmpos-1 slblo. lie efTeotshpim Human Fleeli and| Uia Brute Creation aro equally wonder-j fui. The Mexican MUSTANG ! | liniment is needed by somebody In | •vory house. Story day brings news of 1 the agon y of aa awful scald or burn j subdued, of rbanosetie martyrs re j stored, or a valuable horse *r evi saved by the healing power ef this LINIMENT ! which Greedily cures such ailments ef th* HUMAN FLESH as Xheumatilm, Swellings, Sllr deists, Uwntraeted Huulm, JSanu e.ad Scalds, Cuts, Bruises and Sprain-, PoiiouSHi Rites and Kings. Stintless, Ltustuen, Old ‘Seres, Ulcers, Ytctbltn,ChilPlains, Were Nipples, Caked Breast, om<*. Indeed every farm at external dla-1 ease. It heals withont scare. , For the B3ET3 Chbltiox it cures Sprains, SwSnsjr, 6U3T Joints, Feauder, Harness Sores, Hoof Ws oisrsi, Fact iimt, SJerew WenajSseh, j Hallow Eors, Scratches, TV Ind-1 Sails, Kpavia, Thrash, SUngbonc, Id Sores, Poll Evii, Film upeie th* Sight and every ather aliment te which the serqianta of tfes Stable and AHoek Yard are liable. I Tho JHoxlsar* Mustang JLlnimcat always cures and never dieappoiate; and it is, positively, THE BEST GF ALL LIMITS' 103 MAN 0B B3AST. Not That Kind of a Donkey. A coolness has arisen between Mr. and Mrs. Fitznoodle, one of the most respectable families in Austin. One day la§t week a Mexican donkey was run over in the outskirts of Austin, and killed by a freight train on the Interna tional Railroad. ■Next morning, just as Mr. Fitznoodle was about to start down town, his wife threw her arms around his neck and said: “ Dear Alonzo, promise me Dot to go near the railroad track. How oan the engineer distinguish between you and a donkey, in time to stop the train?”— Texas Siftings. NUMBER 16.