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(1. W. M. TAiUM, Editor and Prop:ietor. VOLUME IV. Railroads. Chickasaw Route, MEMPHIS Si CHARLESTON K R. TWO PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY TO MEM HA IS, TENN. Lv Chattanooga 830 a m 345 p m “ Stevenson 10 10 a m 520 p m Arr Decatur 135 p ui 80i pm m “ imli 540 p ui 12 05 a m " “ Grand .Junction... 712 p m 148 a m “ Me ui] li is 930 p m 400 a w (’lose connection is made at Memphis with the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad lor all points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. Tae tima by this line from Chattanoo ga to Memphis, Little Rock, and points beyond, is live hours quicker than by any other line. Through Passenger Poaches and Baggage Cars from CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK Without Change. Xo Other Line Offers these Advantages. MIGRANT TICKETS NOW SELLING AT THE LOWEST KATES For further information call on or ■ write to J. M. SUTTON, Passenger A;t., Chickasaw Route, IP. O. Box 224 Chattoncoga, TenD. Mu Great Smira B’y Time Card, Taking effect Jauuary 15th, 1882. SOUTH BOUND. l No. 1. Mail. r Arrive. Depart. Cha.tanooga a m 8 25 Wauliatchie 843 do 8 41 Moiyanvifie 859 do 900 Trenton... 916 do 9 17 Risin? Fawn 937 do 938 Attalla 12 20 do 12 35 Birmingham 25) do 301 Tuscaloosa 523 do 525 Meridian 10 00 do Citable* 15. Wallace, 11. Collbran, Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Ag I '. lastTiUe.Ckattan-jOia Si St. Louis E 1?. AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITORS. B 0 INESS MEN, TOURISTS. D r HUS DT D EMIGRANTS, FAMILIMS, Cl Liff L 111 DL H Tlu- Knnta to Lmisville, Uineiiumti, Indi amipolig, Chicago, ami tbo Norlli, is via !i --vlllc. The !?, Rm.ls to S. Louis ati i the West is via .Hrlivnvls. * tS*l to West Ti'iiuessoo and Ken turlcv, Misßissipi, Arkansas and Texts io.it is. lia ili Ut nur. DON’T FOKGKT IT. - By this Line you recure the— MAXIMUM “ nEiSJ;, MINIMUM ° f K ' p ßtThA?lmV..... Be sure to buy your ticxeis over me k. C. & St. L. R’yt , THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER net and not go Mini ?; few changes necc sarv, an 1 such as ate unavoida- He are made in Union Depots. Through Sleepers —between— Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta aud L >u i-ville,, Nashville and 8 . Louis, via C - him bus, Nashville and Louisville. Nash ville and Memphis, Martiu and St. Louis, Union City and St, Louis, M< Ivei zieanu Little R ick, where connection is made Nidi Through Sleej irs to all Texas p outs. Call ou or address A. B. Wrenn. Atlanta, Ga. •h H. Peebles, T. A. Chatta'hc >g°, Tenn. 'V. T. Rogers P. A. ChitanoogH, Tenn. W. L Pani.ey, G P. and T. A , Nashville, Tenn. Rising Pawn Lodge, No. 293, meets first and third Saturday nights of each m °ntb. .1. W. Russey, W. M. 8. H. Thttrmon, Stc’ty. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a R month cn Friday night, on or before Ihe full m ion. W. N Jacoway. W. M. G'. M. Crabtree, Secßy. Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M , ni p ts on the thi’d Wednesday n’ght of ea si month, * • W. A. B. Tatdm. H. P. W. N. Jacoway, Sic’ty. Court of O dharv meet J on fust Mor nßy of each month. G. M. Crabtree Ordinary. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk M P. Majors, S.ieriff| I Joseph Cole mar, Tax R ceire-. II L E Titum, Tax C dlector. I Jossp i Kiser, Coroiiir. QyjSO NEWS GLEANINGS. From twenty to thirty car loads of iron oar are shipped daily from Gadsden, Ala. Railroad property iu Georgia increased two and a quarter million dollars in value last year. In South Carolina the contending local factions are called the wet ticket and the dry ticket. The assets of the Ladies’ Calhoun Monument Association, in South Caro lina, now amounts to nearly $70,000. A colored female preacher from Spar tanhurg is carrying on a revival in the colored Baptist church at Anderson, S. C. Women who are put in the city prison in Knoxville are set to work on “ rock piles,” in public view on one of the principal thoroughfares. Capt. Martin, of Anderson county, S. C., madeJ’rom one pine tree on his place 2,520 of straight edge lumber and 350 feet of rough edge lumber. St. Luke’s Hospital lias been incor porated at Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. .AD exander Mitchell, wife of the promin ent Milwaukee railroad man, is the Pres ident. A correspondent of the Fredericks burg Star says that he counted off the bore of “ The Neck,” King George county, Va., ninety vessels engaged in taking oTHeis. In Macon, Ga., the little two year old hoy of officer W. YV. Henderson was found dead in bed. It had slipped between the railings and the foot-hoard during the night and broken its neck. A thriving and profitable enterprise in the neighborhood of Americus, Ga , is the fur trade, the skins being princi pally chose of the beaver, otter and coon, and a few wild cat and rabbit pelts. Major B. W. Bellamy, living sixteen miles from Quitman, Ga., has a farm of 10,000 acres, with (5,000 under cultiva* tion. Over 1,000 negroes live on the place, and they raise 800 bales of cottons with all necessary supplies. The Avalanche says three times as many heaver skins have heen hrought to Memphis during the past season as any in the past fifty years. A dam has been built twenty miles from the city six feet high, eight feet wide and forty feet long by these animals. Albany (Ga.) News: ‘‘Do you want a local?” said an Albany matron the otha er day. “ Yes’m.” “ Well, you may say that beax are so scarce in Albany that the girls have all resolved to catch the first one that comes along, cage him and keep him as a natural curiosity. ” Houston (Ga.) Home Journal: A suc cessful farmer of Houston county told us the other day that he considered corn at $1 per bushel equal to cotton at twen ty cents a pound. That farmer sells home raised corn, wheat and oats every vear. Jefferson Davis delivered a two-hours speech at the French opera house in NeM' Orleans Tuesday night, before a meeting called to raise funds for a building in which to preserve, the Southern war rchives and other papers of the South ern Historical society. A fruit dealer iu Savannah lias an al ligator in a box in front of his store, and was much annoyed by people pass ing along and poking sticks at him. The fruiter put up this sign: “Every idot who comes along is expected to shove sticks down the alligator’s mouth.” Tae alligator is let alone now. Reidsville (N. C.) Times : Bill Gunn brought to Wentworth yesterday a joint snake he dug up on his place near that town. It was examined with much in terest by several of the citizens, Col. Settle offering $lO to catch him one just like it. The tail could be easily taken to pieces. Henry W. Grady says the extent of thecuttiug which Senator Hill, of Geor gia, has been subjected is not realized by the public. One-third of his tongue lias been taken out —the entire left floor of his his mouth—the glands iu the left side of his neck. The last operation n'as the most severe, and probably success ful. When he was put under ether for it, it was intended to only take out a small lump that had hardened on the gland in liis neck. After lie was in sensible it was determined to adopt the heroic treatment and take out the entire gland. He was kept under the knife two hours. RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, LSS-2. “Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.” TOPICS OF THE HAY. Cadet Whittaker is in the West searching for employment. After all the Indians iu New Mexico and Arizona are to get the worst of it. The New York Sun has it that Frank James is at the present time sojourning in that city. The beer drinkers of Vienna are on a strike, demanding a decrease in the price of beer. The New York Legislature lias passed a bill prohibiting Judges from appoint ing relatives to office. A general exodus of Jews lias set in in Russia, and the destination in almost every instance is America. There are in Arizona 2,273 enlisted soldiers and 140 officers, in addition to the forces under General Forsyth. Cool weather, with accompanying frosts the fore part of May, should be credited up to Vennor. He predicted it. Cotton factories are rapidly increas ing in Georgia. One hundred thousand spindles wore added during the year 1881. The arrears of rent in Ireland are estimated at $30,000,000. It will per haps be some time before these figures will be diminished. The English government seems to have lost its grip on Ireland, and Irish subjects are happier to-day than they have been for years. The wife of Edmunds is to receive a gift of a silk quilt from the women of Utah as a mark of their appreciation of her husband’s recent service. Said Mr. Maher to Mr. Sprague In the New York Legislature the other day. “ The gentleman, if ho is a gentleman, is an infernal liar.’" Wonderful polite ness those legislators have. A New York scientist named Kruger killed himself because he failed iu his endeavor to perfect a flying-machine. He has gone where the art of flying is one of the accomplishments. During the Parliamentary recess Mr. Gladstone recreates by writing one or two long magazine articles, and count less letters and postal cards, and fills up any spare moments with chopping trees in his woods. There is an honest man in Italy. King Humbert refuses to allow an ap propriation to pay the debts of Victor Emmanuel, but takes upon himself the honorable duty of paying liis father’s debts, and lives close. Poor Prince Leopold, Duke of Al bany,” (as the Queeu is determined to have him called) is a sickly weak young man. He has been troubled with a skin disease since liis birth and for weeks at a time is a helpless invalid. Mr. Gladstone says the charge of treasonable practices against Mr. Par nell will be withdrawn. Mr. Forster gives as the reason for liis withdrawal from the office of Secretary of Ireland, that he could not agree to release sus pects. The Queeu has given special aud par ticular orders that her youngest son is never to be styled Duke of Albauy. but ho is always to be described as Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany ” Her Maj esty does not wish the name of lier late revered uncle to be forgotten. It seems the astronomers have discov ered a system of canals on the planet Mars two hundred miles in width. Now let these astronomers keep on and discover the mules. What monstrous animals they must be. Look for tlieir ears, astronomers ! Look for tlieir ears ! The Cincinnati Gazette sounds this note of warning : “There is too much money in the United States Treasury. This tempts Congress to make liberal appropriations and squander the funds squeezed out of taxpayers. Congress ought to reduce taxe-i aud adjourn. Ihis would be popular. IVhat it is doing is not popular, as members will discover when they return to their constituents.” Mysteriously the saloons in Cedar ville, Ohio, suddenly blow up. What it is in tfte whisky that explodes a-t so un expected an hour of the night and shatters things generally, must remain an un solved problem. However there seems to be little doubt that to conduct a saloon in that village is a great risk of life. Mr. Joseph F. James, in a paper read before the Cincinnati Society of Natural History on the works of Charles Darwin, expressed the belief that the publication of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” would “make an epoch in science like the age of Shakspeare in literature, the discovery of America in history and the advent of Christ in theology " A $25,000 piano of unparalleled spleu- 1 dor, is the Prince of Wales’ wedding present to Leopold. Wo never could understand how people who are so hope lessly in debt as is the Prince of Wales, could afford to make such lavish pres ents. This fellow is eternally begging for money from the government be cause of the bnrdensomeness of his debts. The jury before whom the Malley hoys are being tried at New Haven for the murder of Jennie Cramer, are ail blondes. They were secured by the strategy of the counsel for defense under the belief that they were less apt to con vict than a darker type of humanity would be, brunettes being regarded as possessing greater individuality and positiveness of character. Capt. Howgate writes to a friend in Washington from his hiding place and asks for money. He indicates his pur pose to be hand for trial any day the government may set apart, and intimates that rascals hign in station may expect to be thoroughly shown up. There is no doubt but that Howgate could tell a great many wonderful stories, but there is no probability that he ever will. The Star Route cases have again been postponed, this time because of the absence of John W. Dorsey brother of ex-Senator Dorsey, who is sojourning in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, etc. The great anxiety for trial and “consequent vindication” that sprang up so spontane ously when the charges of conspiracy e u-e first brought, seems to have died a natural death. The Indian country is a good hiding place for Mr. Dorsey. Since the “ removal” of Jesse James Missouri seems to be satisfied. How about the res! of the gang ? or does re moving Jesso vindicate justice ? Why do the authorities regard the probable presence of I’fejik James in a communi ty with a pr< .Lind sense of awe ? And why is there? no effort made even to discover his .whereabouts ? or is the State taking a breathing spell to 1 jgij/ again as soon as it can recovejjjfirom the late conflict ? ~ Messrs. Vanderbilt and Field may regard their escape from destruction by dynamite as a most narrow one. Had uot one of the machines been accident ally exploded by the jar of the car, be fore reaching their destination, there is no question but that they would have accomplished the purpose for which they were intended, during the prooess of opening them. that tlioir senders were there does not seem to be a particle of doubt. The almost simultaneous death of Adams and Jefferson seemed scarcely more remarkable to their contemporaries than is the closeness in time between the funerals of the two authors who have most contributed to the literary fame of the United States during the last half contury—Emerson and Longfellow. And, looking across the water, the near ness between the deaths of Darwin aud Emerson reminds us that each was in liis way a founder of a school of thought, and that by this joint bereavement both England and America lose their recog nized intellectual leaders. A morbid citizen of St. Louis, afflicted with an ardent desire to possess the two horses which lately belonged to Jesse James, has been the victim of a rather mean but amusing joke. Somebody, who knew his wish, shipped to him a couple of worn-out street-car horses, for which he cheerfully paid a fancy price. The poor beasts, in the course of their arduous lives, had encountered more than their full share of the sling and arrows ox outrageous iortune, ana were in a sorry condition when they reached St. Louis. But they were beautiful in the eyes of their owner, and he exulted exceedingly over his purchase until some sympathetic friend informed him that he had made a fool of himself. The Chicago Tribune relates how Ni agara Falls are to be utilized as an elec tric apparatus. It says The preliminary step has been the purchaso of the twelve acres known as Prospect Park, adjacent to the falls, which substantially gives the purchaser the control of the water-power of the entire American falls, estimated at 2,000.- 000 horse-power, or ten times the amount of steam-power in Chicago and all the rest of Cook County—a foreo equal to that of 12,000,- 000 men. The control of this prodigious power having been obtained, it is pro posed to erect immense buildings anil ponder ous machinery upon the brink of the falls, where the water can be easily reached, “to be returned after use.” After generating the electricity by this unlimited hydraulic force, it is to be conducted through properly insulated cases to sixty-five prominent American cities and towns for illuminating purposes, and is also to be used for operating machinery and ultimately for heating purposes. Altogether there will be ten thousand miles of copper cables with machinery to correspond. TnE Cincinnati Board of Health does uot seem to be accomplishing much. Under its management there has been almost a steady increase of Bmallpox for TERMS—SI.OO par Annum blric'ly in Adv mce. the past four months until the number af now cases now reach in the neighbor hood of 300 a week. This is somewhat alarming. That the infection has turned several million dollars worth of trade over to other cities less unfortunate there can be no question, and that the financial success of the forthcoming musical festival will be severely and perhaps seriously effected by it will be only too plainly shown by the dimin ished sum total of the receipts and the ibsonco of strangers on the streets. An inefficient Board of Health—and they seem to be the plague of many sections—is decidedly an expensive in stitution to a community. Beep vs. Shallow Flowing. There seems to bo quite a difference of opinion in regard to the depth to plow for the successful growing of crops. Some farmers advocate deep, while others, quite as positive, claim that shal low plowing is much the host. My ex perience and observation in plowing is that some soils will admit of deeper plow ing than others. For instance, light, sandy soils will admit of deeper plow ing than stiff clay soils, or those that have heavy clay subsoils. Subsoiling for such lands perhaps is better than too deep plowing. I think that all soils are benefited by deep plowing occa sionally ; and I think deep plowing ought to be done always in the fall, so that tho new soil can have the benefit and influence of the sun, air and frost to better fit it for a crop. Wo should be a little careful about turning up too much of the new soil at a time, for some subsoils require certain elements to make them productive that can only be sup plied by some system of manuring. I find by deep plowing in the fall, and then by a top dressing of fine manure, fits most any kind of soil well for a term of years, if followed*by a ju dicious rotation of crops. If 1 draw manure to a piece of land in tho till, winter or spring and plow it under I generally plow a little shallow, so as qot to get the manure too deep in the ground. If I am plowing for small grain in the fall I generally plow a good depth; if I am plowing for small grain in the spring Ido not plow so deep. A farmer must study the nature of his land, and experi ment a little and watch closely the re sults, and by that method he can soon learn what is best for his land. The soil differs very much sometimes iu the same locality; seasons vary, droughts and heavy rains occur, cultivation and fertil izers—all have a powerful influence on the productivenesss of the growing crop, as well as deep or shallow plowing. So we see that in drawing our conclusions it is not always the depth of plowing alone that produces our light or heavy crops. I think a crop of clover has a good influ ence on the lightening and loosening of some subsoils, and on stiff, heavy clay land it sometimes has a better effect than deep plowing. Clover, I think, is a good and cheap and very effectual way of ren ovating old, heavy land. —Allen E, Smith, McHenry county, 111., in Farm ers' lievieiv. Cruelty to Animals. The cruelty of man to the animals that labor for him, afford him pleasure, food, and the materials for his clothing, is of ten such as to render it questionable, M’liich is,- after all, the inferior beast. Tlie establishment of humane societies in different States, cities and towns, however, is a step toward the protection of dumb animals from human barbarity. Tlie shame is, that these are at all neces sary in this boasted century of religions teaching and general intelligence. It is a fact, however, that the invocation of stern law is yet needed to bring many a human tiger to a sense of M-lmt is due even to the brutes he slaughters. A’hq. most flagrant outrage that we have to note in this direction, is afforded at the* stock-yards, near this city. It is the practice of those Mliose busiucss it is to kill the cattle at the slaughter houses, to spear them with a knife in the nedk, just back of the horns. It has been discov ered by the officers of the humane so ciety that when the animals are restless and seek to evade the knife, the mad dened butchers pierce the eyes of the victims that they may not see the ap proach of the death-dealing knife. Ar rests of these inhuman monsters are be ing made, and the proprietors of the packing houses, to their credit be it said, are seconding tlie society in its efforts to put a stop to tlie horrid practice. Farm ers, and farmers’ boys and hired help, who shudder at tho facts here presented, are you not guilty of a measure of cru elty, unconsciously, perhaps, toward your work team, your cows, and other domestic animals, that you may, as well as not, avoid ? Kindness and gentleness toward the loM’er animals, not only en noblß the master, but they pay in dollars and cents, as well. —Prairie Farmer. Nature’s Toilette. “ Who has seen Nature getting up ’i the morning ? She sleeps a’ night in her claes, yet they’re never rumpled ! her awakening face she turns up, dewy, to the sun, and Zephyr wfipes it wi’ his wing, without disturbin’ its dreamy ex pression. Never ye fcee her liah in pa pers ; for, crisp and curly, far-streamin’ aud wide-wavin’ are her locks, as alter nate shadows and sunbeams dancin’ o’ some joyous river, rollin awa’ to the far off sea. Her e’e is heaven—her brow the marbled clouds, ane alter a lang doon doon-gaziug, serene and spiritual look o’ hersell, breathin’ her orison prayers, in the reflectin’ magic o’ some inland ocean, stately steps sue frae the east 1” NUMBER 23. Clever Crows. I have not said thing about the crows, which are a feature of Yezo, and one which the colonists would willingly dispense with. There are millions of them, and in many places they break the silence of the silent land with a Babel of noisy discords. They are everywhere and have attained a degree of most unpardonable impertinence, mingled with a cunning and sagacity which almost put them on a level with man in some circumstances. Five of them ivas so imprudent as to alight on two of my horses, and so be ferried across the Yurapugawa. In tho inn garden I saw a dog eating a piece of carrion in the presence of several of these covetous birds. They evidently said a good deal to each other on the subject, and now and then one or two of them tried to pull the meat away from him, which lie resented. At last a big, strong crow succeeded in tearing off a piece, with which he returned to the pine where the others were congregated, and, after much earnest speech, they all surrounded the dog, and the leading bird dexterously dropped tho small piece of meat within reach of his mouth, when lie immediately snapped at it, let ting go tho big piece unwisely for a second, on which two of the crows flew away with it to the pine, and with much flutter aud hilarity they all ate, or rather gorged it, the deceived dog looking va cant and beM’ildered for a moment, after which he sat under the tree aud barked at them inanely. A gentleman told me that he saw a dog holding a piece of meat in like man ner iu tho presence of three crows, which also vainly tried to tear it from him, and after a consultation he separ ated, two going as near ns they dared to the meat, while the third gave his tail a bite sharp enough to make the dog turn round with a squeal, on which the other villians seized the meat, and the three fed triumphantly upon it on the top of a wall. In many places they are so ag gressive as to destroy crops, unless they are protected by netting. They assem ble on the sore backs of horses and pick them into holes, aud are mischievous in many ways. They are very late in go ing to roost, and are early astir in the morning, and are so bold that they often came “with many a stately flirt and flutter ” into the veranda where I was sitting. I never watched an assemblage of ttiem for any length of time without being convinced that there was a Nestor among them to lead their movements. Along the sea-shore they are very amus ing, for they “take the air” in the evening, seated on sandbanks facing the wind with their mouths opeu. They are threatening to devour the settlers, and a crusade is just now being waged against them, but their name is legion.— Miss Bird's “ Unbeaten Tracks in Japan." Tlie Rights of Others. If parents Mould teach their children to respect each other’s rights under all circumstances, society would bo bur dened M’ith few of those men whom wo now meet daily, and who deliberately prey upon the folly or weakness of others. There are some children that seem to have no sense of “mine or thine,” but borrow at pleasure what they want, ap propriate to their own use what belongs to other members of the family, make sharp bargains, cut off the corners in a trade,, and consider themselves only “smart” and praiseworthy when they have over-reached or outwitted their fel lows. Uufortunately, in many such in stances, the parent rejoices rather than mourns that “ that child seems to have a faculty of taking care of himself.” Let us sketch what seems to us an ideal con dition in a family as to the principle of “ mine and thine.” Each member of the family has his own personal belong ings, and these are sacred to him alone. No other member meddles there with. His treasures are not inspected even or appropriated by any one hut himself. If he have a room by himself, that room is safe from intrusion; no locks nor keys are needed to guard him uor his from impertinent and officious meddling. Nevertheless, the parents’ oversight never fails; and they revise all bargains and agreements made between their children, so that the elder may not take advantage of the younger, or the sharp of the dull, so that each one shall have an “ even chance” with the rest. The laws of equity govern parental de cisions and secure to each child justice. With such training at home, there is little danger that these young peo ple will develope into over-reaching, av aricious men and women. Advice to Sir Charles. When Sir Charles Lyeli, the eminent geologist, Mas in America, he seems to have had some curious advice given to him about traveling on the Mississippi steamboats. “Never pay your fare until you are compelled to,” Mas the first of wisdom thrown at him. “Aud pray why not?” he qusried, with English straightforwardness. “Because,” was the almost whispered reply, ‘ ‘your chances are better in case of trouble.” “Will yon kindly explain yourself, sir?” said Lyell, astonished, beyond measure. “ Well,” ansM’ered the American, with a very significant leer, “when I was traveling up tlie river last March, some body cried out, ‘Passenger overboard!’ The captain hurried to the office, aud asked, ‘Has the man overboard paid liis fare?’ On being answered in the af firmative, ho turned to the pilot, and said, indifferently, ‘Go ahead; it’s all right.’” When we asked our girl to marry us she said she didn’t mind— and we have since found out that she didn't. Toledo American,