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0. W. M. TAIUM, > ditor asd Proprietor. VOLUME IV. Railroads. Chickasaw Route, VIA ME MPHIS & CHARLESTON R R. TWO PASSE NGFR TRAINS DAILY TO MEM HA IS, TENN. J>v Chatfanooßa 830 a m 345 p m ‘ Stevenson 10 10 a m 520 pm -Arr Decatur 135 pra 80> n m Corinth 549 p n j 12 05 a m ' Grand Junction... 7J2 p m 148 a m “ Closo connection 11 made at Memphis with the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad lor all points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. The time by this line from Chattanoo ga to Memphis, Little Rock, and point beyond, is tive hours quicker than by anv other line. Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage Cars from CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROOK Without Change. No Other Line Offers these Advantages. emigrant tickets now selling at THE LOWEST RATES For further information call on or write to J. M. SUTTON, Passenger Agt., Caickasaw Route, P. O. Box 224. Chattoucoga, Tenn. AlsdnM Great Mm E’f Time Card, Takjng effect January 15tb, 1882. SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Mail. Arrive. Depait. Chattanooga am 8 25 Wauha f chie 840 do 8 41 Morganville 859 do 900 Trenton 916 do 9 17 Rising Fown 947 do 93S Attalla 12 20 do 12 35 BirminL-haßi 25) do 30l Tuscaloosa 523 do 525 Meridian 10 00 do Charles B. Wallace, H. Collbran, Superintendent. Gen’l Pas3. Ag’t. NaMfc.CMltarota HI. Lonls E’y. AHEAD OE ALL COMPETITORS. 80-INESB MEN, TOURIST- DU ill CM DTD EMIGRANTS, FAMILIMS, fl LDi I. SB DL ll Tbo B**t Stojite to Lcuisville, Cincinnati, Indi anapolis, Chicazo, anil tbe North, is via N-sli ville. Tl<- Kix.te to S. Louis and t.lis West is via tleliemis. Ttae Bet Run's t West Tenn9B3oO and Ken turkv. Misslssipi, Arkansas and Texts to i.t is. via HeiicEzte. DON’T FORGET IT. —By thu Line you fecure the— MAXIMUM Comt'or, Salisfaeliou I MINIMUIVI 1 Hot tier. S aliuuc. Be sure to buy your ticxes over me N. O. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER netd not go amiss; tew changes are necessary, and such hs aie unavoida ble are made iu Union Depots. Through Sleepers —BETWEEN — Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou isville,, Nashvide and S\ Louis, via Cj* lumbus, Nashville and Louisville. Nash ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louip, Union City and St Louis, M< Ker ziesnn Little R ick, where connection is mad with Through Sleepers to ail Texas p oats. Call on or address A. B Wbenn Atlanta, Ga. J, H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. T.-Rooias P. A Chataneoga, Tenn. W. L Danley, G P and T. A , Nashville, Tern*. Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293 nuets first and third Saturday nights of each month. J. W. Russey. W. M. S. H. Thttrmon, Sec’ty. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a a month on Friday night, on or before . the full moon. W. N. Jacoway W. M. G. M. Crabtree, Sec’iy. Trenton Cnapter No. 60 R. A M meets on the third Wednesday night of each mouth, W. A. B. Tatum H. P. W. N. Jacoway, S c’ty. Court of O dinary meetson first Mon day of each month. G. M. Ceabtree Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk W. P. jors, S reriffj ,T iscrib Coleman, Tax Receive'. D E Tstum, Tax Collector. Jostph K'oer, Corner. RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Many of the cigarettes of the day are made from picked-up cigar stumps. There seems to be no diminution in the frequency or temper of cyclones. It cost something over $1,300 to secure a jury in the Malley murder case. The President has called the attention of Congress to the troubles in Arizona. To all appearances we stand sadly in need of anew and more effective Indian policy. Ex-Secretary of State Blaine holds that tbe United States is reponsible for the Chili-Peru war. Poor Captain Howgate ! Ho is still lost. Marshal Henry liad better increase that SSOO reward to S6OO. The English aesthete will be enter tained by Mr. Beecher at his Peekskill home in June. Two of anything make a pair. The English Government gives Prince Leopold $50,000 a year to support his new wife—a splendid salary for the work he does. The Prince of Wales wrote in the au graph album of the historian, Bancroft, “Not ‘Ours,’ but yours truly, Albert Edward,” A New York company is making ar rangements for heavy importations of ice from Norway tbe present year, to •upply the demand. It is reported the outlook through the State of Kentucky taken as a whole, is very promising, and crops bid fair to fully make up for the disastrous season of 1881. _ The lack of good faith on the part of Indian Agents may have had something to do with the recent outbreak. Such things have been heard of in the past. And now wo have it that Miss Nellie Arthur has large brown eyes and short brown hair, and that she is as chubby as a cherub—altogether, a very delicious morsel. The Government hangs three Indian murderers, whereupon the Indians, in re taliation, murder a hundred innocent whites. This is “Indian Policy ’ with a vengeance. A bill has passed the Rhode Island Senate providing that no license to sell intoxicating liquors shall be granted in those towns where, at the anuual town meeting in April, the people shall vote to grant no licenses. Mob law is becoming almost too com mon a thing in Indiana. If matters keep on as they have been going the past few weeks, it will not be long before the judiciary in the State will be entirely dispensed with in criminal matters. The National Forestry Convention at Cincinnati has excited considerable inter est on the subject of tree planting. We 6hall expect within the next few years to see the country dotted with young groves. Land can be put to no better puspose. The proprietor of a restaurant at Fre mont, Ohio, who found an onyx pin, set with diamonds, and failed to return it to the young lady who had lost it, was bound over to Court in the sum of SSOO, on the charge of larceny. The trial of the Malley boys for the murder of Jennie Cramer is now in pro gress at New Haven, Conn. Miss Blanche Douglass, also implicated in the murder, is said to be an intensely in terested listener to the testimony as it is adduced. A Cincinnati woman visited a small pox patient, despite the protests of her husband, “just to see what the disease looked like.” She caught the contagion uid conveyed it to her husband and only -hild. Both parents died and the child survived. Her curiosity was doubtless gratified. The President’s son Allen appears to have fallen desperately in love with Miss Maude Crowley, the pretty daughter of the Representative from Lockport, and is said to haunt the Crowley parlors at the Arlington, morning, noon, and even ing, bringing daily to his inamorata a lavish bouquet from the White House conservatories. The statement comes that Jews in Russia are marrying at the rate of 150 couples a day in anticipation that by so doing farms will be given them in America. To begin with, Jews, as a class, would not farm under any circum stances, and furthermore. A) lerica is not giving farms to her own people, much less foreigners. “Fai'.hfal to the Right, Ftarltsi Against Wrong.” Hon. Will Cumback, of Greensburg, Ind., gives it as his opinion that the mob who hanged Garrett at Greensburg were Kentuckians, hailing from -the former home of the murdered man Walton. He bases his opinion on the public feeling at St. Paul, the home of Walton and Garrett,where he says, there was no disposition to do injury to Garrett since his acquittal as as acces sory to the crime. "While the Government is considering the feasibility of protecting American subjects in Ireland, and the advisability of going to war with Russia in behalf of the persecuted Jews in that country, it will do well to give a moment’s thought to the unprotected frontiersman of our own land. If it can’t protect subjects at home, it were worse than folly to talk of securing freedom and happiness for the persecuted in foreign lands. The message of rebuke to the Cabinet, sent by the citizens of Tucson, Arizona, asking that better protection be afforded them against the murderous Apaches, and less money expended on the grand military display anticipated at Fortress Monroe, is very fitting and doubtless de served. A great deal of money is ex pended on more than worthless displays, which it would be humanity to use in the protection of those who are in con stant peril of their lives. Susie Green, says a contemporary, had her pick from among the young men ol Lexington, Kv., for she was handsome and rich; but she preferred a gambler ol the flashiest kind. He was known tr her for a month as a stock broker, and at the end of that brief courtship sin married him. They stopped at a Louis ville hotel on their bridal tour. Ht brought her a lemonade in her room, and she found it bitter. He had put an opiate in it. When she was unconsciou he stole her purse and $2,500 worth of diamonds, and deserted her. One Methodist clergyman in Cleve land said that the newspapers of to-daj are a powerful o’ly of Christianity. Another said that editors would not dart talk as they write. A third said that he knew a reporter who became a Chris tian and found he could not continue it the business. Doubtless all spoke th truth. As to the reporter, probably h< had never taught himself to write truth fully, and was therefore a disgrace to the profession. The other two statement* are accounted for upon the presumption that one of the clergymen in question took a respectable paper, while the other was a patron of one of the few disrepu table sheets that are published in the country. Mrs. Tabor, the wife of the Lieut,en int-Governor of Colorado, has filed a petition in court asking that the fine house in which she lives, said to be worth $150,000, shall be set apart as her exclusive property, and that $50,000 a year be granted her for living expenses. Her husband is worth, or is said to be. from $7,000,000 to $8,000,000. She ac cuses him of infidelity, while he repre sents himself as willing to give her a divorce, the house and $3,000,000 if she will sue for a separation, which she re fuses to do. “The case,” it is alleged, “will hardly go to trial as it would cre ate a fearful scandal, in which the best people would be involved.” If such people are ‘ ‘ the best ” in Colorado, what must the worst he ?” It mas be interesting to our lady readers to know how Princess Helena, of Waldeck, was dressed at her marriage a tew days ago to Prince Leopold, the last son of the Queen of England. The wedding dress was given to the Princes* by her sister, Queen of Holland, and was made in Paris. The petticoat was of the richest white satin, with several small openings near the bottom, showing a thick wreath of orange blossoms and myrtle underneath it, trimmed with two robings of the costliest point d’Alencon lace coming down either side, turned with square corners toward a white satin train, in the draperies of which it disap pears. The train is of immense length, aud literally sown with flakes of silver, white large bouquets of fleur de Its in re lief, embroidered in silver all down the center of it. It was edged with sln ll like flutings of satin, intermingled with point d’Alencon. The dress has short sleeves, trimmed to match, with point d’Alencon and wreaths of myitle and orange blossoms. J. Higgins, in the Popular Science Monthly, writes that experiment has shown that animals confined in a close apartment whet < they must inhale over and over again t-lieir own exhalations, develop tubercle of the lungs, and that human beings are no less injured by breathing the air of poorly ventilated rooms, he thinks is proved by the fact that of eleven preachers who died during eight years in the oounty of Philadel phia eight died of consumption. THE FACTS AT LAST. HOW THE CONFEDERATE SFECIE WAS DISTRIBUTED. \n Authentic Account by Gen. Dibrell, Who was in Command of the Davis Escort and Money Train. [Washington Post ] [Gen. G. G. Dibrell—now a member I Congress from Tennessee—contributes he following authentic and circumstan tial account of the disposition of the Confederate specie about which so much tas been said since the publication of Gen Joe Johnston’s first statement.— Ed. Post.] On the 12th day of April, 1865, I re ceived a few miles below Raleisrb, N. C., •in order from Maj. Gen. Wheeler to oroeeed at once with my cavalry com mand, composed of a part of my own Tennessee brigade, commanded by Col. W. S. McLemore, and the Kentucky brigade, commanded by 001. W. C. P. Breckinridge, and Wmgin’s Arkansas B'.ttery, to Greensboro, N. C., and there report to Gen. John C. Rreckinridue, the Secretary of War, and President Davis. We had that day at Butler’s bridge, be 'ow Raleigh, learned certainly of the disaster of Gen- Lee’s Army. In obedi ence to that order we passed through Raleigh and marched fifteen or twenty niles that night. The next night we -amped above Hillsboro, and the next eached Greensboro about 12 o’clock at tight, and reported in person with Col. Breckinridge, first to Gen. Breckinridge, nd then to Mr. Davis. We left Greens 'oro the next evening, moving south. Vt Lexington we awaited dispatches Tom Gens. Breckinridge and Jos. E Fohnston in regard to the surrender or terms of surrender proposed by Gen. Sherman, and then moved on to Ohar otte. N. C , where we were joined by he commands of Gens. J. C. Vaughn nd Basil W. Duke, which had c un' teross from western Virginia. After wards we w<gre joined by Gen. Fergu son’s brigade. At Charlotte, Gen. Breck inrhlee, who was a Major General in the Confederate States Army, assumed com pand of all the troops along in person fad* are orders. Up to this tune my ommand of Tennesseans and Kentuck ins had done all of the guard picket tnd scouting duty, and contemn to di <o until surrendered. On giving Char otte we marched on through South Carolina, encountering large numbers ol Jen. Lee’s soldiers who had been pa led and on their way to their homes. At Abbeville, S. C,, on the 2d of May, tfter having gone into camp, Col. Bragg ent for me and showed me the terms ol surrender agreed ufln by Gens Sher nan and Johnston, which included ah >f Gen. Johnston’s army. That night a conference of officers was held at the residence of til Hon. Mr. Burt, in Ab beville, at which were present Mr. Da vis, Gens. Breckinridge, Bragg, Vaughn, Duke, Ferguson, Col. Breckinridge and myself. After a full and free discussion >f the situation, the condition of the troops, etc., it was agreed that we would nove at 11 o’clock that night across the Savannah river into Georgia, near Washington, and there surrender such if the cavalry as did not wish to go to the trans-Mississippi department. It was also agreed there that the troops diould the next day be paid a part of the specie on hand. When orders were issued to move, I was requested to fur nish transportation for the specie, and the quartermaster furnished four wagons. The specie train was placed immediate Iv under the control of Gen. Duke, who delivered it safely the next day to Gen. Breckinridge at his headquarters, where it was divided as heretofore published. Tn the conference of officers held the night previous, Mr. Davis inquired par ticularly as to the condition of each com tnand, whether they could be relied up on in an emergency. I remember stat ;ingfor my command, commanded by Cols. McLemore and Breckinrigde, and the artillery commanded by Capt. Wig gins, that they had remained true and intact, were under good discipline, and never refused to do duty either as scouts, picket, or guards and were as ready to march to battle as taey had always been. Each officer was asked in turn in regard to his command, and my statements were corroborated by Col. Breckinridge when he was interrogated. Mr. Davis had had the company of Capt. Given Campbell, of the First Kentucky cavalry, as an escort, and he decided to leave next day with his es cort, staff, and a few others. On going into camp near Washington, Ga., on the 3d of May, the specie train was parked at Gen Breckinridge’s headquarters, and that inteuded for the troops was turned over to Maj. E. C. White, chief quartermaster of my command, he being the ranking quartermaster present, who, after c rnnting the money turned over to him, and receiving the pay rolls of each command present, paid out and furnished me a statement of the amount, which 1 had misplaced, but Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge having retained a copy furnished it to me, wnieh is as follows, to wit: To amount received of Confed erate States government... $108,322 90 By amount paid Capt. JBr ggs, A. Q. M., Dibrell’s brigade 29,677 GO By amount paid Maj. W. J. Brad ley, Q. M., Breckinridge’s brigade 15,842 30 By amount paid Capt. ClayPrfce A. Q. M., Ferguson’s brig ade 25,477 96 By amount paid Capt. J. D. Floutt, A. Q. M., Vaughan’s brigade 12,781 80 By amount paid Ma j. D. H.Flew ellen, A. Q. M., Duke’s brig ade 1 < ,192 00 Bv amount paid (’apt. W. F. Bell ' A. Q. M., Ninth Kentucky Regiment ;• 100 00 By amount paid Gen. J- C. Breckinridge and twenty- four men . 630 00 By amount paid thirty-one en gineer troops with G0n.8... 813 75 By amount, paid ah rty-six men of various commands per or- _ . der of Gen. Breckinridge... 945 00 By amount paid Gen. Dibrell and thirteen officers at di vision headquarters 341 25 By amount paid twentv - six scouts,Dibrell’sdivision... .. 682 50 By amound paid t enty-six courriers, Dibrell’t division 682,0 By amount paid Wiggin”s bat terv, eifih y four tnen 2,200 00 By amount paid qnai erinasters bet arlment, Dibrell’ divis ion, twenty two men 577 50 By amount pa and C S. depart ment, Dibrell’s divis on, fou teen men 369 50 Balance 66 84 $108,322 90 After this money was paid out upon pay rolls made out by the officers pres ent, our command went into camp to await a Provost Marshall to whom we could surrender. Some of our men went on and were paroled at Augusta, and in all our march from Greensboro to Washington, Ga., the two brigades above were well organized well armed and equipped and splendidly mounted, and were, all in all, equal to any command in either army in every respect. Thev bad done as much hard fighting, hard marching and suffered as much hardship as auv troops in the armv, and when tbe last davs of the Confederacy came they surrendered in good faith like true and gallant soldiers, I have no doubt, have respected their paroles to this day. I am induced to speak thifs of my command on this march, because several parties writing upon this subject have characterized the cavalry .along with Mr. Davis as irregular cavalry, and have Rated that they clamored for a division of the sneoie. This, so far as the gallant Kentucky and Tennessee brigades and Wiggin’s Arkansas battery is concerned is untrue. Thev were regular cavalry and artiliery under good discipline and remained true to tbe very last. The division or payment to them of the small amount received was unsolicited upon their part; was in accordance to an agreement made hv the officers with Gen. Breckinridge the previous night without their knowledge or|procurement. There was no halting or speech making until the Savannah river was crossed and a general halt or lered. Capt, Lot Abraham, of the Fourth lowa Cavalry, was sent from Augusta to oarole us. The paroles were all made out on the 9th of May, when Cant. Abraham notified me he had been in structed by Gen. Upion to take all the horses from the private soldiers. I de clined to surrender to him. and told him T would march back to North Carolina and surrender to Gen. Sherman ; that all of our horses were private property, and under the terms of Gen. Johnston’s surrender all private property was to be respected. At his iuggestion, Gen. Vaughn, Capt. Coffin and McKenney went with him to Augusta and telegraphed the situation to Gen. Wilson, who telegraphed hack to allow the soldiers to keep their horses, all of which were the private property of the soldiers. On the Uth of May we were all pa roled and stated for our homes in a body. Near Cleveland, Tenn., we were met by a request itom the proyxist marshal at Cleveland to come by tnat pffcce. We did so and were immediately surround ed by an infantry guard, and a vigorous search of the person and baggage of ev ery soldier instituted, until stopped by Col. Smith, of the One Hundred and Fifty fourth Illinois Regiment, an ex ceedingly gallant and clever gentleman, but tve were sent under guard to Chat tsnooga, where Gen. Juda was com manding, but a cert tin provost marshal named St. Sargent took all tbe horses from the soldiers, allowing the officers to retain theirs, claiming to act under orders from Gen. Thomas, which proved to be false. The soldiers thus dismount ed contrary to the express terms of the surrender and the instructions of Gen. Wilson, left immediately for their homes, some by rail and the balance on foos. Gen. Williams having joined us, proceeded immediately to Nashville and got an oid >r for the return of our horses tiken from Breckinridge’s brgide, and Col. McLemore got our order for his, nd they both sent back and got most f their'horses, but before the order was received and the others sent for, the Tennessee brigade had lost 250 head of valuable horses The quartermaster had turned them in a dry lot without food or water* Many had died and a num ber were too poor to'travel and were left by the wayside. The loss of 250 head of horses was a serious loss to the gal last soldiers, who had just returned to their deflated homes penniless and with nothing with which to start a crop. The foliowi% i? a copy of the last official order issued by me, which was furni hed me recently by Lieut. John A Lewis, Adjutant of the Ninth Ken tucky cavalry, viz: HEAnerafters Cavalry Division, May 5, 1865. —Coinmau‘lirig officers w.ll iramf (I ately make known to their command that they are expected to conduct themselves as soldiers and gentlemen. All who are tin- TERMS-SI OO psr Annum fdrieiy in Advance. willing to do this are respectfu'ly requested to send up furloughs for approval and will leave their command. No depredations will be allowed, either now or upon the march, or after they are paroled. All soldiers guilty of offences will he turned over to the civil authorities. Bokliers who cannot refrain from shooting in and around camps are re quested to take furloughs and go where th.-ir s-hooting will not endanger the lives of their comrades, or violate the rules of good ord r and discipline. Read this to all your men. G. G. Dibrell, Brigadier General. Official: J. M. Hines, A. A. Gen. and C. Every officer and soldier who saw this command, admired its good discipline and soldierly bearing, and all who saw them in battle admired their gallantry. Commanded by such officers as Breckin ridge and McLemore and a splendid corps of regimental and line officers, they could not be othewise than under good discipline and brave and gallant soldiers and when they in good faith laid down their arms and accepted a parole, as true brave and good a set of men as ever bre tiled the breath of life, became good citizens. Justice to their memory demands that I should say this and de fend them against the charge of being irregular cavalry or clamorous for any thing. G. G. Dibrell. Washington, April 12, 1882. HUMORS OF THE DAT. The man who is corned is very apt to get on his ear and stalk off. A man eats cloves between acts so that not a breath of suspicion may be cast on bis temperance character. Always look on the bright side; a mighty ugly hired girl can ring the heU for a mighty good dinner. It may be said of the “belle of the ball ” that when she bows assent to an invitation to the dance, “she stoops to concur.” Bartenders are the most sociable set on earth. They break the ice oft ener and finer than anybody.—Bloom ington Eye. Don’t throw away your old flour-bar rels. They are useful. It has been found that an ordinary flour-barrel will hold 678,900 silver dollars. Wherein is the average church con gregation better than the highwayman? Does it not make the poor preacher stand and deliver every Sunday? “ The muses kiss with lips of flame,” says a recent poet of the new order. Then we are thankful that we are not courting any of the muses just now. We don’t wish to have our mustache, burned off. “You just ought to see how I was pay ing attention to Miss Flapjack out at the picnic.” “ Did you speak to her ?” “O no ; I didn’t proceed to that extreme, but I patted her poodle dog on the back when she wasn’t looking.”— Austin Sift ings. “Dear, dear!” exclaimed Mrs. Brown. “I have just been over to see Clara. Poor child! She is dying of ennui.” “Why, how you talk!” cried Mrs. Home spun; then, adding, as she moved away from her visitor: ‘‘ Mercy 1 ’Tain’t ketch in’, is it!” “Gentlemen of the jury,” said a blundering counsel, in a suit about a lot of hogs, “there were just thirty-six in the drove. Please remember the fact— thirty-six hogs; just three times as many as in that jury box, That counsel didn’t gain his case. The lecturer began: “There is a for -1 tune lying in wait—” Up jumped a bullet-headed fellow in the northeast corner to remark: “ Well I guess you’re ’bout right, there, mister. There’s Bill Jones, tiie butcher. Three years ago he wasn’t wuth a dollar. He’s got a fortin now. Got it, as you say, by ly ing in weight.” The bullet-headed man said no more, but the lecturer was ill at ease during the entire evening. —Boston Ti anscript. She was bright eyed and rosy cheeked; in fact, very pretty. She arranged two car seats so that she might have abund ant room. Then she opened her book satchel and began to take notes of her morning lesson. How charming to see the young female mind develop, thought we.' She took notes just three minutes, and then, oh, horrors ! she unfolded a flash story paper and read slush for half an hour. Her beauty faded so rapidly that when she left the car we thought she was the plainest person we ever saw. “Goodmorning, Fogg,” said Brown, briskly. “How did you like the opera last night ?” Oh so-so,” answered Fogg, moodily; “nothing striking about it, excepting the drum-sticks.” “Come, come,” returned Brown, “be serious. Didn’t you think that bravura passage pizzicato and appogiatura embellish ments were lovely!” “Guess I didn’t see it,” replied Fogg as before; “ there was only feathers aud flowers and things on the one in front of me.” “ What are you talking about, man?” exclaimed Brown. “That girl’s hat, of course. Wasn’t you?” “Good morning,” said Brown, as he turned the comer. A sad illustration of the terrible blight which hereditary syphilis may be, is re lated by a physician of Manchester, England. A boy at ten years of age, a subject of this disease, was afflicted with an inflammation of the eyes that per mantly impaired vision; later, with an inflammation of the throat that de stroyed the soft palate; at eighteen the parts of the bones of the legs decayed and came away; at twenty the si uU showed signs of dead bone on the right side of the forehead. 4 NUMBER 22.