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(i. Y 7. M. TATUM, Iditor and Proprietor. VOLUME IV. NEWS GLEANINGS, Dalton, Ga., has the only ax handle factory in the South. A $60,000 statue of John C. Calhoun, will soon be erected at Charleston, 8. C. Athens is the only city of its size in Georgia that does not have a free school system. The oyster beds on Indian river, Fla., are said to be inexhaustible, and a can ning establishment is in prospect. The wages of street car employes o;. the New Orleans city railway have been reduced from S3B to $35 per month. A suit over an old sow was settled at Luling, Texas, last week in favor of the defendant. The costs were $547.80. William Smith, of North Carolina has sold, his tobacco crop in Lynchburg, Vfl., for $50,000. Three hundred dollars worth of snufl was sold by a Cutlibert, Ga., house the other day. Atlanta and Chicago parties have or ganized a fertilizer company, the manu factory to be situated at Nashville. A shark was caught near Tampa, Fla., he other day, weighing 700 pounds. It had, when caught, seven rows of teeth. Col. Pratt, of the Palatka, Florida, Herald, says that alligator oil beats lard all hollow, and that alligator steuks beat the frogs of Paris. There are over half a million acres of land in Fulton county, Ga, the county in which Atlanta is situated, valued at only eight cents an acre. Atlanta Constitution : Fifty persons left Rome for Utah on Wedne-day morning. They were ni'stly snuff dip ping women who had become Me rmoi Columbia, Ala., has made more im provements in the past twenty-four months than she has made in twenty four years before. A fire in Mobile last week destroyed the entomological collection of F. Elshes 1 It was the result of fourteen years’ labor ! and contained 8,000 specimens. Mr. Richard Outlaw, residing near Hartselle, Ala., is ninety nine years old, and expects to make his five bales o cotton this year. A young Frenchman, of Hamilton, Ga., spends his spare time catching but' terflies, which he sells to parti s in New York, Philadelphia and Boston at five cents a piece. Lnychburg Advance: The gold boom is starting all over Virginia. Gold bear ing quartz is being developed in several counties, said to be as rich as any found in the Rooky Mountains. There is a young student at the Uni versity of Georgia who eats the hind legs of every rat he can find. He also diets on those large size tad-poles, stewed like oysters. He says that both make delicious dishes. The latest form of crueltv is that adopted by a negro of Whitesville, Ga. His mule was levied upon by his creditors whereupon he ceased to feed it. The animal died promptly, and the negro i happy. Caldwell, Texas, Register: A widow lady living on Dry creek lost a calf dur ing the last storm. After search it w-as found back of H. N. Smith’s plantation lodged in the fork of a tree, supposed to have blown there. A man, Jake Brooks by name, living near Argus, Crenshaw county, Ala. some months ago made two hand wagons, putting his household goods in one and his three children in the other, and took a trip to Florida and returned lately, he pulling the chattels and his wife the children. The bones of a woman and baby have just been fonnd in an old shaft near Villa Rica, Ga. They are supposed to he those of a youug lady who, seventeen years ago, having committed a social indiscretion, disappeared and was never afterw-ards heard from. Mr. A. W. Martin of Milledgeville, Ga., w-as seventy two years of age on the 12th ult., and never had a lawsuit, w-as never a witness in court and never served on a jury but tw-ice, never learned play at cards, and has not taken a drink of liquor in fifty years. Rome Courier : The guano trade has been almost entirely abandonded by our merchants. They find it does not in the *?quel prove profitable to themselves nor to the farmers. There is not one-half as much sdd this season as was the last Farmers are learning to depend more on their own resources for fertilizers than upon bought stuffs. TOPICS OF THE BAT. Zululand is suffering the ravages of a famine. Pkince Bismarck is having deoidedly poor health. Wealthy Mormons have an average of twelve wives each. Jesse James was killed sure enough this time, and there is no doubt about it. The auction sale of Wolfe’s collection of paintings in New York the past week netted $131,865. Sowing of spring wheat will occur about three weeks earlier than usual in Minnesota and Dakota this year. fVWEN Maloney and James Weed on. Pittsburg pugilists, will fight June 13, in West Virginia, for a purse of SI,OOO. Tiie liquor tax bill, in Ohio, gave the Democrats a boom pretty much all over the State in the late municipal elections. The statement that the Chinaman could be kicked out seems to be a mis take. The Chinaman is a heftier fellow in this country than we suspected. It is surmised that Frank James will attempt to avenge his brother Jesse’s murder. The Ford brothers, who killed Jesse, express no fear of personal injury. A Kentuckian, eighty-nine years old, took out a marriage licence at Cincinnati a few days ago. He was hale and hearty, but his eyesight was somewhat impaired by age. The fleecing of Charles Francis Adams out of $19,350 by bunko sharks, and his forgetting the swindle, has be trayed the fact that bis memory is sadly impaired. Evidently another anti-Chinese immi gration bill, less objectionable perhaps in its features than the one vetoed, will be adopted during tho present session of Congress. Says the Toledo Telegram: Crow Dog, who muiaered Spotted Tail, has been sentenced to be hanged May 11. This is a case in which the Tail went be fore the Dog. The Coroner’s jury in the case of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, brother of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, returned a verdict of death from suicide, committed under temporary mental depression. Bennett’s Polar expedition will not cost him less than $200,000, Derides tho most excruciating torture to his men re sulting in the death of several of their number, and science has gained nothing. Invitations are out for the coronation of the Czar in August. If they are ac companied with passes and the where withal for extra expenses—well, we don’t know what we might do under the cir cumstances. Longfellow’s will makes no public be quests, the bulk of the property being given to his children. Richard H. Dana, jun., theexecutor namedin the will, being dead, the poet’s son, Ernest, will be made administrator. Discoukaging reports of the maple sugar crop come from New Hampshire. Bad weather has caused a poor run of sap and poor sugar. Choice syrup from Canterbury retails in Concord at $1.25 a gallon and Hillsboro sugar at thirty cents a pound. Frank Hatton, First Assistant Post master General, writes the Postmaster at Cincinnati that postal clerks and other employes may accept municipal offices, . unless such offices interfere with the official discharge of their duties in tho postoflice. It should be generally known that Sarah Bernhardt now has a bona fi-tr husband, “a Greek gentleman, tolerably rich, and good looking.” If Sarah can master her blood-spitting proclivity she will keep right on playing just as if nothing unusual had happened. A woman living in a suburb of Lead ville a few days ago, gave birth to a monstrosity with a head resembling a lizard and bauds like fins. It gives out an articulate sound. The father had to be held to prevent his killing the child. It bids fair to live. The fact of the matter is, “Betty and the baby” are going to bs rich. All the prominent newspaper offices in the coun try are collecting a fund for the Ser geant’s family, and among them is tho Philadelphia Press, whoso fund alone now amounts to $2,200. If Mason should happen to get out he may proceed to en joy life in the most approved style. The site on which St. Xavier’s Church RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, ISB-2. “Fai fcfal to the Right, fearkss Against Wrong.” was located, on Sycamore street, Cin cinnati, seems to be a fated one. When tbo old structure was being torn down, some years ago, to give place to the new, a wall fell, crushing a doaen work men to death under it. The new structure, whigh burned a few days ago, with furniture and fixtures, was valued at $200,000. Mb. George W. Greene writes to the Provilence Journal: “I am asked whether it is true that I am writing the life of my late friend Longfellow. I reply that some six years ago he and I agreed to be each other’s biographers, and from that time to this have kept the tntention in view. The materials are abundant, particularly the family letters, all of which have been put at my dis posal.” The resignation of State Senator Bar rett, of Tennessee, has created much talk, as his resignation will very consid erably change the complexion of the Senate in the event a proposition to settle the State debt is submitted. The bill to settle the debt at 100-3 was passed by the Senate at tho regulai session by a bare majority, Barrett being one out of the thirteen who voted for it. Ex-Governor Stanford, of Cali fornia, says that ultimately the entire output of California grain for Europe and the Atlantic coast will go over the Southern Pacific Railroad. Ships which will take the grain from New Orleans to Europe will be fitted to carry back emi grants to New Orleans at a very low rate. He says that tho popular table wines of California are better than the ordinary poor stuff of France, Germany and Daly. A lady writes from Boston relating a little episode that happened when Oscar Wilde drove out to Cambridge to call on Longfellow. Oscar asked him if lie was not a groat admirer of Browning. Long fellow'replied that he liked the very few poems he could understand, but the mass of Browning’s pieces were incom prehensible to him. Oscar slapped the poet familiarly on the shoulder and re marked: “They are aseteerto me ss a running brook. I comprehend them all fully.” The London World says that there is still a strain of Puritanism in America, and that the sons of the people who ordained the Blue laws of Connecticut— who made swearing a finable offense, kissing one’s wife on Sunday a misde meanor, less insipid sorts of osculation a crime—still regard weekly beans as a burnt offering, and assoieate the domestic virtues with an aunual feast of roast turkey and pumpkin pies. We do not like to dispute so eminent an authority as the World. Ford, who shot James, and who lived with him at St. Joseph since last Novem ber, says of James’ daily habits: “During the day he would stay around the house and ia the evening he would go down town to the news depot and get the papers. He said there were men here who ought to know him, but they never did. He took the Chicago Tri bune, Cincinnati Commercial, and Kansas City Times regularly, and always knew what was going on all over the world. About a week ago he read a piece in one of the papers that Jesse James’ career was over, and Charlie said he was awful mad about it. " Beecher is in favor of Chinese immi gration to America. He says they are, by nature, calculated to do a low class of work at which other races revolt. To give the reader an idea of how low down in the social scale the Rev. Mr. Beecher plaoes the Chinaman, as well as other raoes of the human family, we quote the following from his sermon on the sub ject : “ What the Americans discard the Germans will eat, what the Germans the Jew will consume, and what the Jews throw away the Chinaman will subsist on.” This is, to say the least, rather a severe classification. However, the question now is, Wliat does the Qfiiuaman eat ? The story circulates that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher contemplates retiring from the pastorate of Plymouth Church, and permanently from the ministry, on the completion of his seventieth l>rthday, which will be June 24, next year. This is not because he is in full physical and mental vigor—his admirers say his pres ent sermons are among the best he has evej preached—but because, as is re ported, lie is unwilling to run any risk of intellectual decline in the pulpit, of which he seems to have a dread. His father, Rev. Lyman Beecher, lived to be more than eighty-seven, but had not preached regularly for a number of years previous to his death. During August of last year, at the time the Cincinnati Commevnial was managing the “ Cook One Cnt Fund ” to aid Capt, Cook in paying a fine assessed him for slapping a man who “ wished Garfield would die,” that paper received the following, which, at this time, seems of peculiar interest: “Kansas City, Mo., August 19, 1831. “ To the Elitor o! tho Commercial: “ Although detested and despised, and foared by a good many, and only *20.000 of a reward offered for us, dead or otherwise, and for all of the above we honor and respect our President, and stand ready not only to slap, but to shoot, if it need be, for him. Borry it is not dollars instead of cents that is rolling in to the honor able and patriotic old Oaptaiu Cook. Frank and Jf.sse James. “Missouri’s Awful Outlaws. “Please copy it all for Missouri’s Govcruor’s sake. I have uot seen bis name in your paper yet* “Frank.’’ Mrs. Samuels, the mother of the mur dered bandit, Jesse James, made a scene at tkß grave of the outlaw. She accused Sheriff Timberlake of murdering Jesse. When Sheriff Timberlake and Reed bade Mrs. Samuels good-by they told her they hnd only done their duty, and that she knew they would divide their last cent with her if she was in want, but never flinch from duty when called She said: “If yotx think you’ve done right, I’ll try to believe it. Oh, God ! my heart is broken. It was a brutal murder for money. You have been kind, gentlemen, and done all you could for me since you murdered my poor boy.” Jesse’s widow fainted as the body was lowered iuto the grave, and is now lying in a critical condition. She is dying vi a broken heart. Jesse wa3 devoted to her, and always made her comfort his first care, Tillage Architecture in China. Villages, not badly built by any means, occur at intervals of a mile or two apart all along the roads of China. Very good brick, mu-Ji about the same size, shape and material as those made in this couu try, compose the walls of the better houses, while for the poorer order of edifices mud is used. The brick walls in China are excellent, better than the cheaper brick walls in America, and but little inferior to our best pressed brick. When villages are constructed of mud there is a striking resemblance to the villages of Egypt. The houses have no outside windows and but one opening, which is the door. The openings for light are tic wn beer courts or back -yards, and are without glass. The eaves are made to project, so as to keep out the rain, and in doing so of course exclude much light as well. Blinds in: l A* A slats are sometimes used, and Hupf]light paper pasted over the slats servffo keep out some of the cold air and to let in a little light. The houses are invariably one story high. And at the bottom of this custom is a that higher houses would interfere with the spirits of the air (“Fang Chui”) and offend them, thus bringing disaster upon the house or village. In front of each door, and at a distance of eljlht or ten feet, stands a detached wall, fifteen feet long and as high as the eaves of the house, concealing the door from any person standing in front oil it. This is for the purpose of protecting the house and family from malignant “Fung Chui,” or spil’.ts, which are popularly believed to fly only in straight lines and to be in capable of turning a corner. It follows that when traversing the air in search of ace rtain house, when they come in con tact with the wall they are thrown off at an angle and thus baffled of their fell pur pose, and fly in a tangent through infiuite space and are lost. A Chinese village has but little in common with those of this country, cither in detail or in gen eral appearance. While the villgae6 of America copied from English prototypes are peculiar, from their detached and separate build, with gai’dens and grass plots, those of China are compact, hud dled together and present from a distance the aspect of a mere dead wall. One peculiarity of all Chinese cities and vil lages is the absence of steeples, spires or pinnacles of any kind. While Moham medan countries have the mosque, with its flashing domes and graceful minarets, and European and American centres of population are marked by lofty towers and spires, China is almost absolutely without any of these striking architec tural points. The result is great monotony and dullness of aspect. The Price of an Island. In 1659 the Island of Nantucket was bought from the Indians for $l5O and two beaver bats. This fact came on dur ing a gathering of the Coffin family on that island. One of the buyers of the island was Tristan Coflyn. To show how rapidly a prolific race increases, it is said that fifty years after Tristan’s death hie descendants numbered 1,158. They are now found everywhere. Nantucket has had a varied history. When whaling was in vogue it was the headquarters of that business. Its resi dent population was always largely com posed of women, the wives and daugh ters of tho absent whalers. When petroleum took the place of the whale oil Nantucket lost its business, and foi many years it was impossible to rent more than one-fourtli of the houses on the island. Its health and cheapness, however, have since made it a populai summer resort, and now tho prices ol laud have advanced to the old figure. The Parisian method of cleaning black silk is to brush and wipe it thoroughly, lay it on a flat table with the side up which is intended to show, and 6poage with Uot coffee strained through muslin. Allow it to become partially dry, the* iron. Jfrfeas of the Conductors. It is probable that railroad conductors play more jokes oil each other tnan any other class of people, and we would pub lish more of them, only the most of the conductors are big men who might tie us up iu a double bow-knot. Wo tell more jokes on Rumsay than any of the rest, because he is probably the only one we could handle in a rough and tumble fight. Fred Cornes and Ram sey are represensative conductors, in re gard to fun, and each is laying for the other to play a joke. Not long ago Rumsey hired a passenger that w’as go ing out on Fred’s train, a fellow who had three cat boils on his face, to go into the refrigerator in one corner of the ear, and when Fred came to pull him out, to tell him he had the smallpox. The scheme worked splendidly, and Fred went into the baggage car and washed himself all over in a tin wash basin, with bar soap, and stopped the train at Brook field Juuction and let the passenger get off without paying, that being his desti nation. Aa Lie train was moving iff the passenger yelled to Cornea and told him if lie saw Rumsey in Milwaukee to tell him that the cat boils passed him through all right. Cornt s at once saw through the joke and laid for Rumsey. A spell ago the two met, and both were tired, so Fred suggested that they take a Turkish hath and go up to his house and got dinner, and then lay down and have a good sleep. Rumsey consented, if Fred would promise to wake him up at live o’clock, as he had an engagement to meet a lumberman who wanted to buy some of his pine land. Fred agreed, and they went ujJ to the house oil Keewaunee street, near the school house, whore Fred comes home once in a while, and went to bed. After they had slept fur a dotiple of hours Fred got up aud dark ened the window’B, lit the gas in the room and turned the clock ahead to half past seven o’clock. Fred’s wife was let into the joke, and she darkened the rooms down stairs, and the hall, and lit all the gas. Then Fred went up and j woke Ramsey, who yawned and rolled j over. Rumsey looked at thecas burn ing, and then at the clock, and saying, “This is a pretty trick to pi nr Tin a gen tleman,” he jumped out of be 1 ana got into bis pants. As he pulled on his boots he told Fred that was the last time he would catch him in that house. “Ii have been drugged,” said he, as he ! grabbed a cigar and his neat and vest j cad started down stairs. He stopped in ; the hall bv the dim pao light to button I his suspenders, and pulling on Ins vest, j he took his coat on his arm, yelled an adieu to Mrs. Cornes aud opened the ! door and jumped to the middle of the sidewalk. Lot Rumsey tell the rest of j the story. Says he: “I pledge you my word it was light ns day. The sun was shining brighter than I ever saw it, and more than a million children were ooming out of the school-house. When they saw me come out of the house on a hop, skip and jump, they thought I had been fired out, ane they gave me a big laugh. I looked around sort of innocent, just as though I always came out of houses that way, and then put on my coat and looked at my watch, and it was just four o’clock. My first impulse was j to go back into the house and murder Cornes, but he stood at the window with his wife, looking so sorry, that I just lit my cigar aud walked off But lam lay ing for him, now, and don’t you forget it. No man can play me for a siioozer. You just wait. Some day yon will hear more abont this. There don’t any of them get away with Rumsey. Why, I killed a man at Rush Lake Junction, once, for less than that. ” — Peek's Sun. Fishing in Japan. Fishing in the rivers and streams of the Main I land is not considered as a sport by the Japanese, but as a means of livelihood, and then-fore “the gentle angler ” will not receive muoh encour agement from the brotherhood in the Land of the Rising Sun. Salmon trout, trout an ai (a small imt gn.®e ILL) aro “ educated,” on some rivers, to taxe the fly. The Japs work with very small flies, fine tackle, slight bamboo rods, j with wLich they are very successful. : Altogether, however, the game will he | found scarcely worth the candle on the main land, but capital sp at with the salmon trout can be obtained in several streams near Satsuporo, iu Yezo, during May and June, with a genuine British fly. The most impo. tant export from Yezo is in dried salmon, which are netted in incredible quantities in various rivers of the northern part of the island and in the southern Kuriles; but sport in these rivers among the dense masses of fish is out of the question, even if tlie proprie tors of the fishings would allow their fish to be poached. The Japanese seaboard is everywhere picturesque, and the seas abound with fish, giving employment to the crews of thousands of fishing-boats. When sailing along Jlie coasts, numbers of large black whales and sharks, both large and small, will be seen, the latter being caught by the fishermen, as their fins are cou ted a delicacy and the skins serve many use*. The hilts of all the old swords are covered with white shark’s skin. —The London Field. New ideas are working into Palestine. Anew city is going up on the west side of Jerusalem, outside of the gates. Along the turnpike to Jaffa rims the telegraph wire, and on the Plain of Sharon stands the large Jewish Agricultural College, surrounded by a model farm and thrifty nurseries. Bethlehem is a thriving town—largely it is nominally Christian —and it carries on extensive manufact ures in mother-of-pearl.— llcv. T. L. Cvgler. Flowers sweeten the air. rejoice the eye, link us with nature and innocence, and are something t-o love. TcRMS-SI.OO pur Annum tiric'ly in Advance. QUININE SUBSTITUTE. s THERMAUNE The Only 26 Cent AGUE HEHIEDY THE WORLD. CURES CHILLS&FEVER And all MALARIAL DISEASES. jprwKTagßsMrasa From Elder Thomson, Pastor B *1 J il J| || | M of the Church of the Disciples oC Christ. Detroit, Mich.—" My tots was dangerously ill ar.d entirely prostrated from Chill* and Fever. Quinine and other medicines were tried without effect. 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Stable and Stock Yard are liable, j The Mexican Mustang Liniment I always cures ami never disappoints; and ii is, positive!y, THE BEST OF ALL FOB VAN OB BEAST. “UON’T YOU KNOW YOUR OWN JOUNNY ?” A South Carolina man, named John Dorsey, accompanied by his wife, whose name was Sue, went out ’coon-hunting. At last a ’coon was treed, and John said, “ Sue, I’ll climb up the tree and shake him down, and you club him.” So up he went and began shaking; but instead of dislodging the ’coon he shook himself down, and his wife, perhaps not discov ering the mistake, belabored him sound ly, and only stopped wnen her unfortu nate husband yelled out, "Don’t you know your own Johnny?” NUMBER 19.