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G. W. M. TAIUM, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME IV. TOPICS OF THE DAY. New gold discovorios have been made (n Montana. Beecher denies tlio report that he is loon to retire from the pulpit. Dr. D. W. Bliss is to goto Europe for a rest. The rest will be general. The “bey preacher” Harrison has *aade 1,300 converts in Cincinnati. Judge Elatchford is perhaps the wealthiest man who ever sat upon the Supreme Bench. There arc 285 persons or firms in Washington prosecuting claims before the Pension Bureau. Because of the veto of the Chinase bill, they burn President Arthur in effigy in San Francisco. The French Government will have eight expeditions taking observations of the transit of Venus, December 6. An attiaMpt to pass a bill in the Ohio General Assembly to prohibit tho sale of firo arms to minors was defeated. Longfellow once gave this sensible advice to a student who desired a rule to guide him in writing: “Be yourself; tt’Qt'k out your own individuality. ” It is a consolation to know that the Chinese have discovered that there is sueh a country as British Columbia. They are going there by ship loads. Henry M. Stanlet writes from “far up the Congo Kiver” that his expedition is prospering and will probably ba brought to a successful close this year. Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, of New York, has given a house and grounds complete on the south shore of Long Island to be used as a place of summer resort for the poor children of that city. The Memphis A mlanche says that the only thing Congress can do to improve the Mississippi River will be to build a mountain range on either side of it to keep it within its boundaries. The Star Route swindlers who at first wanted a speedy trial, and then after ward didn’t seem to be in a hurry about it, are to be triod speedily whether their anxiety tends that way or not. Should Mr. Sooville commit suicide no surprise need be felt. Only twenty persons turned out to hear him lecture the other night. A school boy could have drawn a larger audience. The report has begun to circulate again through the newspapers that Mr. Tilden is in feeble health. This report will reappear with increased frequency as Ihfc summer of 1884 draws nearer. The fight in Ohio, as it is being drawn, seems to be between the churches and the saloons, and “other people,” of which there are doubtless many, do not ap pear to have much to say in the matter. Davtd Swing, of lowa, aged eighty three years, had to pay $3,000 damages for kissing his hired girl. Strange one of his age and experience conld not do so slight a turn without damaging the girl. _ There is only one sad fact connected with the death of tho murderer, Jesse James. Sentimentalists did not get a chance to present him with a bouquet in his last moments, although he had killed fifty men in his time. Well, well! And so dishonesty has crept into the Ohio Legislature, and that, too, in the shape of bribery! Tho very last place on earth one would have looked for it. It is no wonder honest men refuse to run for office. Sarah Bernhardt was married the other day, and now a oablegram says she is attending bull fights at Madrid. Spitting blood—married—attending bull fights ! Well, well! If that isn’t going it by strides then we don’t know what is. A correspondent describes the wifa of Sergeant Mason as being twenty-seven years old, tall and spare built, with ui> graceful figure. But she lias fine, light brown hair, pleasant eyes, an aquiline nose, rosy lips, oval chin and a slender neck. Mr. Scoyille’s application to Congress, for pay for services rendered in the de fense of the President’s murderer was not exactly unexpected. It requires no more nerve than was required of Dr. Bliss when he set his figures for services at $50,000. Historian Bancroft, who professes to be a judge, says bo “never ate finer Bade (Countil (Ciazette. dinners in any European court than President Arthur provides for his friends, ' which leads us to remark that Arthur has a wonderful craving for good things. Marshal Henry says Mrs. Garfield is in wretched health, the reoent attacks upon her husband almost crushing her. A fortnight ago she wrote him that lier troubles were more than she could bear, and that if it were not for her children she would be glad to die. J udging from the testimony it does not seem that lobbyists hesitate to offer money to members of the Ohio Legisla ture for their votes. What the country ueeds is a law that will look upon the lobbyist as a common criminal and hold bis vocation to lie on a par with that of vngranoy. Barnes, the Kentucky evangelist, ac cepted a purse of SBOO for bis highly successful revival work in the village of Paris. This fact is being used against him, ou the ground that be possesses ut ter disinterestedness. He replies that the money will be devoted to tlie educa tion of bis daughter. A price is set upon tho heads of wild Horses in three of the Australian colonies. They hang upon the outskirts of civiliza tion, and are a ceaseless cause of annoy ance and loss to outlying They are vicious, physically weak, and worthless as work horses. Stalking them with the rifle, or running them down, is a favorite sport. Ip there is a summer hotel in this country that doesn’t mistake cockroaches for raisins in preparing food for the table, it should make it a point to adver tise the fact. Hotels in whioh cock roaches do not get mixed up in things in which they bate no business to med dle, are getting to be about as scarce as rich editors. Manufacturers of oleomargarine are in Washington resisting tho proposition to tax them. If a tax is to be placed on this vile stuff it should be heavy enough te have the effect to increase its market priee to a figure by which tho innocent purchaser can distinguish it from the genuine article of butter. Frauds are altogether too numerous. Barnum has landed an elephant in this country Ue calls Jumbo, and most of the metropolitan dailies seem to have taken a fit over the matter. Why this particular elephant should excite so much or more attention than some gi gantic swindle or a presidential election is hard to understand, unless it is because he can be assailed without the danger of a lible suit or a first-class fight. Capt. Howgate, who owes the Gov ernment something like $160,000, ac companied by a bailiff, went to his resi dence to see his daughter, who had just returned from Vassal- College. It seems that the Vassal- girl turned the bailiff’s bead, for at a moment when bis mind was not centered ou his charge, the bird took flight and was gone. Beally an attrac tive girl is worth something in an emergency. The recent statement that the time would arrive in a few days for the usual announcement that the peach crop has been killed, has finally reached us, but the joke end has been cut off, leaving us alone with the sad fact. And it is not only true that the peach crop lias been all but completely killed, but with it go all early apples, pears, cherries and other fruit upon which we bod relied for au abundant yield. In Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, there will be little if any early fruit. The promenade over the Hast River Bridge, New York, promises to be the most attractive of any in the world. The walk for foot passengers is in the center of the bridge, and nine feet above tlie roadway for carriages and railroad cars, and the view, taking in the bay, the river, a glimpse of tlie sound, and the area of the two densely populated cities, will be such as thousands will do light to linger over. The distance be tween the towers is 1,595 feet 5 inches, and including the approaches, about a mile. A strange circumstance is connected with the shooting of Sergeant Mason at Gnitean. When the bullet struck the wall of the murderer’s cell it flattened itself out into a thin piece of lead in the outer lines of which the superstitious see a startlingly distinct profile of the mur derer. It excited profound curiosity at the time, and a shrewd dealer obtained of Warden Crocker permission to make a cast from the original piece of lead. By a very little scraping here and there the likeness of the self-appointed “agent of tlie Diety” was made perfect, and since then hundreds have been sold, accom panied by the Warden’s printed certifi cate of correctness as fac similes. The RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1882. “Fail.bfal lo the Right, Fearless Agi.iust Wron^” uncanny souvenirs, which have found their way into countless pockets, have been bored with holes and hung upon watch chains and ladies’ bracelets, show the receding forehead, long lean nose and sharp chin as perfectly as if tho as sassin had sat for the picture. Almost Incredible Distance of the Stars. It would take a ray of light traveling at the rate of 186,000 miles per second three years and eight months to go to the nearest fixed star. In order that the mind may he less confused in the midst of these thousands of sparkling points it has been agreed from the high est antiquity to class the stars according to their apparent brightness. The brightest stars have been called stars c-f the first order or magnitude, although this term does not imply anything rela tive to the actual size or brightness of the stars; those which follow, still in the order of their apparent brightness, have been called stars of the second magnitude; then comes those of the third, fourth, and fifth magnitude, ac cording as they appear smaller; stars of the sixth magnitude are the last stars visible to the naked eye. It is generally thought that the brightest are the nearest, though this Ls not always so. There are said to be be tween 5,000 and 6,000 stars visible to tho naked eye. But when our feeble sight gives way, the telescope, that giant eye which increases, from century to century, piercing the depths of the heavens, con stantly discovers new stars. After the sixth magnitude the first glasses revealed the seventh. They then reached the eighth, the ninth. It is thus that thous ands lmve increased to tens of thousands, and that tens of thousands have beoome hundreds of thousands. More perfect instruments have cleared those distances, and have found stars of the tenth and eleventh magnitudes. From this period they began to count by millions. The number of the stars of the twelfth magni tude is 9,556,000; added to the eleven preceding magnitudes, the total exceeds fourteen millions. By the aid of still greater magnifying power these limits are again surpassed. At the present time the total number of stars, from tlie first to the thir teenth magnitude, inclusive, is calcu lated at 43,000,000. The sky is truly transform-!. In tho field of the tele scope neither constellations nor divisions are distinguished; hut n fine dust shines in the place where the eye, left to its own power, only secs darkness, on which stand out two or three stars. In pro portion as the wonderful discoveries in optics will increase the visual power, all regions of the sky will be covered with this tine golden sand. Eating Before Sleeping. Man is the only animal that can ha tatight to sleep quietly on an empty stomach. The brute creation resent all efforts to coax them to such a violation of the laws of nature. The lion roars in the forest, until he has found liis prey, and when he has devoured it he sleeps over until he needs another meal. The horse will paw all night in the stable and the pig will squeal in the pen, refusing all rest or sleep until they are fed. The animals which cliew the cud have thoir own provisions for a late meal just before dropping off to their nightly slumbers. Man can train himself to the habit of sleeping without a preceding meal, hut only after long years of practice. As lie comes into the world nature is too strong for him, and he must be fed before he will sleep. A child’s stomach is small, and when perfectly filled, if no sickness disturbs it, sleep follows naturally and inevitably. As digestion goes on, the stomach begins to empty. A single fold in it will make the little sleeper restless; two will waken it; and if it is hushed again to repose tlie nap is short, and three folds put an end to the slumber. Paregoric or other narcotic may close its eyes again, hut without either food or some stupefying drug it will not sleep, no matter how healthy it may he. Not even an angel who learned the art of minstrelsy in a celestial chon- can sing a babe to sleep upon an empty stomach. We use tho oft-quoted illustration, “ sleeping as sweetly as an infant,” be cause this slumber of a child follows im mediately after its stomach is complete ly filled with wlioleeome food. The sleep which comes to adults long hours after partaking of food, and when tlie j stomach is nearly or quite empty, is not after the type of infantile repose. Thero is all the difference in the worldbetween tlie sleep of refreshment and the sleep of exhaustion. To bleep well blood that swells the veins in the head during our busy hours must flow back, leaving a greatly dimin i ished volume behind the brow that late |ly throbbed with such vehemence. To digest well, this blood is needed at tho 6tomach, and nearer the fountains of life. It is a fact established beyond the possibility of contradition that sleep aids this digestion, and that tlie process Jf digestion is conducive to refreshing sleep. It needs no argument to con vince us of this mutual relation. Tho drowsiness which always follows tho well-ordered meal is itself a testimony of nature to this ihter-depi ndence.— New York Journal of Commerce. An English mechanic lias invented a horseshoe composed of three thicknesses of cowhide compressed into a steel mold and subjected to a chemical preparation. It will last longer than the common shoe, weighs only one-fourth as much, dogs not spht the hoofs, requires Jio calks and is very elastic. Rill Arp is Mad Because the Old s<w Opens Oates. From Ills Constitution. | 4 The more a man does the more he can do, especially if there is a gentle pres sure behind him which says, don’t stop, keep moving, here is another little job frjr you to do. A farming man may map out his work for to-morrow ever so’carefully, but it is mighty hard to work up to it, for the first thing lie kr< >ws ihe plow points are too dull or a single-tree breaks in the new ground, or a abhors hogs, that have got no pasture but the big road, have broke through thfe water gap, and it takes an hour to rtia ’em out again, for a hog wont go ou-. at the same hole he came in. These •bogs that pester me so come three quar ters of a mile every day to peruse my premises, and they have lived on me all winter, and I’ve dog’d ’em pretty bad, hut they come hack again next day and lie round a-watching, and water gaps and gates are no protection, for they are educated hogs. Cobe told me to catch one and mash his tail on a rock, but it did no good. I can fix a gate that that old sow can’t root open, hut Fir not going to do it, for she has no right to put her nose under it and shake it and rock it and lift it uutil she gets it open; and I’m notgoing to stake down myi water-gap on the lower s’de either, forkhe creek rises rapidly, and some times in tke night, and brings the rif raf down, and the gate must he free to rise with it. The fact is, nobody -has any right to keep such hogs unless they keep ’em at home, and I’ve home with it uutil patience is exhausted and I’ll have to stand by my arms. Why, last Sunday we all shut up the house and went up to spend the day with our mar ried offspring, and when we come hack in the shank of the afternoon the old sow and all her shoats were under the hou=o and had broke up two hen’s nests, and when I made war on her in my wrath she actually shewed fight and kumblumoxed at me like the premises were her’s. THE FIvNCE LAW AND THE HOGS. The fence law as it is gives these hogs a pasture in a lane nearly a mile long an and open at both ends, and they have go? to forage on somebody or meat will be scar.;-.-, next fall. There is a power oft* 'kto do now and it looks like my si.aftvoT ‘h is biggei dian usual for one of the hoys has gone to railroading and another is puny. Well he is not down in bed tick but he is not ahh enough <o do hard lvork at it, but just feeble enough tomCt a-fishing and set on the hank and get the biggest bites and catch the smallest fish in the creek. Mrs. Arp is mighty particular about her children when their eyes look hollow and they complain of pains and she is a mighty good doctor, hut she knows I have no time to get sick, and so it’s William this and William that, and the other day me a quar ter of a mile off, and when I came a puffin’ ar.d blowin’ she said the wonder curtain had fell dewn and wanted me to fix it. Soum more new' dirt was wanted for the nower pots and boxes, and I had to bring her samples from seven fence corners before I got the right kind, and the big old fi-h gerani ums that don’t smell good nor look pret ty had to be divided and set out in the ground, and the scuppendine vine had to have an arbor built and two more coops for the little chickens that were hatching out had to be fixed up, and the new-born ducks had to have their tails cut off and the peas w r ere to stick and the little chaps are alw r ays saying papa this and papa that, and yesterday I had to take a basket and a digging hoe and go w r ay down in the meadow, and on the creek, and dig tip lillies, and violets, and all sorts of wila flow'ers for them to plant in their little flower gaiden, and they had to have hen’s eggs, and pigeon eggs blowed out to paint and dye and | fix up for Easter, and I had to make ’em a draft board, and saw spools in two for draft men, and dye half of ’em with ink, and it’s some new thing every day to do, and it is a good tiling for a family to have a wiliing horse to work in any sort of harness, and though I sav it my-. self I’m that sort of a horse, and I think it suits me, for it is a varvgated labor j and less monotony in it than all-day work at one thing, and it changes the j muscles and lets one set rest while an- j other set is at w’ork, and so a man don’t get tired at all unless he wants to. Ii thought I was going to dodge the pota-1 to slip business this year, hut I had to go at it, and I feel to-night like J was a | hundred years old in the back ; but Mrs. j Arp got me up a good supper, for she ' knew I’d couie a grumbling, and besides j 1 brought her some sweetshruhs and j white honeysuckles from the woods, and I these were her favorites in the days of I auld lang syne, and yesterday I cleaned out the old rubbish in the flower-pot for her, for she said she knew there was a snake in there somewhere and I didn’t find the snake but found two eggs in a nest aud she wasn’t right sure they wasn’t snake eggs until the oid hen come cackling out of there this morning. MRS. art’s work. But my work won’t compare with hcr’s by no means, for there’s an ever lastin sight of sewing and patching and darning going on all the time and she never gets done and every week’s wash ing is to look over and sort out and the missing buttons to sew on and the rents to close up and tlie churning is to do, and sometimes the dasher goes flippitv flop for two hours before the butter will come, and now she is teaching the little chaps to write little letters, and when they get into mischief and have to come to headquarters, they come a little the \ Highest of getting a wljippin of any children in the world, only they don’t j quite get it, and I haven’ kept any ; book account, hut my opinion is that j not less than 1,700 whippins have been ! promiied ’em, and are now due and i unpaid. I overheard a voice say the other day r ,“now, Carl,l will whip you for that,” and I echoed in gentle accents, “about what time,” hut Carl got it on a credit as usual. Nabor Dobbins had had eleven sheep killed last Sunday by the dogs. I bring mine up to the fold every night, but still I’m on the expectation all ihe time, and still I wonder if there is no remedy and never will be for these sort of dis- j asters—these little troubles that exas- j perate a man and make him grow old before his time. Life is full of ’em and ! I reckon they are sent upon us to make ! us get tired of life and the better to fit j and prepare us for heaven. £ hope so. Bill Arp. m 1 """■ i ■ GEMS OF THOUGHT. All romances end at marriage, | Wisdom lies in moderating mere im- i pressions. I assert that curiosity is not the mo- \ nopoly of sex.— Joaquin Miller. Thebe is a loquacity which tells noth ing. and there is a silence which tells much. If the poor man caDnot alwayg get meat, the rich man cannot always di gest it. It seems that beauty is part of the * finished language by which goodness speaks. The creed of the true saint is to make i the best of life, and make the most of it. Chapin. Half the pleasure of a feeling lies in being able to express it on the spur of the moment. Don’t assume the attitufte of saying— see how clever I am, and what fun everybody else is! * . They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety de serves neither liberty nor safety. Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noieslenely, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.— Garfield. Love is master of all tuts, Aud puts into human hearts The strangest flings!* wr ana do. -II W. Umtft'ltM. That indifferenoe to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis cf liis sublimity when it does not. Reflect upon your present blessings— of which everv man has many—not en your past misfortunes of which all men have some. Every man’s work, pursued steadily, tends to beoome an end in itself, and goes to bridge over tlie loveless chasms of his life. Look on this beautiful world and read the truth Iu her fail page; see every season brings New change to her of everlasting youth. —W. C. Bryant. | That quick sensibility which is the j groundwork of all advances towards per tection increases the pungency of pains j and vexations. Vice may be defined to be a miseal- 1 eulation of chances, a mistake in esti- j mating the value of pleasure and pains. It is false arithmetic. No oks is aoenrsed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own. —II. IF. I.onrjtltow. j We are members of one great body. : Nature has made U3 relatives when it j begat us from the same materials and j for the same destines. Shakespeare sets his readers’ souls on fire with flashes of genius; his common- j tators follow close behind with buckets j of water putting out the flames. Difficulty, abnegation martyrdom, death are tlie allurements that itet on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that bums up all lower considerations. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River w'ben I wish to go to Boston as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.—Emer son. Men thin away into insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making tlie most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. Those who have the power of re proaching in silence, may find it a means more effective than w ords. There are aceents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. By cultivating an interest in a few good hooks which contain the result of the toil or tlie quintessence of the genius ! of some of tho most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh aud in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us. _____ America’s Fntnre. Of course some day the movement of people from the Old World to tlie New w’ill cease; the population of the two hemispheres will become equalized, and tlie disappearance of cheap lands will remove tlie incentive that now maintains the movement. But when that day shall j come, it will sel in tlie United States a i strange, conglomerate people, the like | of which was never seen before on the ! earth—a people numbering 100,000,000, i made up of all languages and tribes, ! with the imperial Saxon element pre dominating, and capable of exerting a force which has not been witnessed or felt since tlie day's of the Roman era ! pire.— St. Louis Eepublicai*. TFRU2S-61 00 per Annum tilric ly In Advance. QUININE SUBSTITUTE. THtRMALINE The Only 25 Sent AGUE REMEDY m THE WORLD. 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Meat can be prevented from scorch ing, during the roasting process, by simply placing a basin or cup of water in the oven. The steam generated not only prevents scorching, but makes the meat cook nicer. NUMBER 20.