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W. M. TAIUM, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME IV. Railroads. Chickasaw Route, BKJPMSS & CHARLESTON ii g. TWO PASSENP,FR TRAINS DAILY TO MEM HA IS, TENN. X-v Chattanooga 8 80 a iu... ..3 45 p m fcwwensoii 10 10 a m 520 p m A , rr Decatur 135 pm §Ol , m .< ,n ! h . v r> 40 pin 12 05 am << brand .I unction... 712 pra 143 a m Memphis 930 pm 400 am Oloso connection is made at Memr.hß with the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad /or all points in . ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. fno lima by this line from Chattanoo ga to Memphis, Little Rock, and pouts beyond, is Sve horns quicker than bv any otuer line. Through rassenger Coiciies and Baggage Cars from CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROOK Without Chfnge. No Other Line Offers these A dvantar/es. @“£MIGRANT TICKETS SOW BILLING AT THE LOWEST RATES For further information call on or write to J. M. SUTTON, Passenger Agt,, Chickasaw Route, P. O. Bos 224 Ohattouooga, Tenr. Time Card, Taking effect January 15th, 18S2. SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Mad. Arrive. Depart. 'Uha.tnnooga am 8 25 Wauhatchle 84T do 8 41 Morgauville B£9 do 900 'Trenton 916 do 9 17 Rising Fawn 937 do 938 Attalla 12 20 do 12 35 Birmingham 251 do 301 Tuscaloosa 523 do 525 Meridian 10 00 do Cilarle* 1?. Wallace, 11. (ollbran, Superintendent, Geu’l Dess. Ag’t. Millie. CMttaoia & St. Louis R’y. AHEAD OF ALL COS’PETITORS. BUSIN ESS M KN. TOURI ST ' O C f-R T jl* Q T F EMIGRANTS, EAMILIMS, nL.ifIUTIDLn The l!o( Knnteto L< nisville, Cincinnati, Jndi anapolis, Chicago, and the North, is via Mei-li ville. Ttie He.l Rn..te to 8. Louis an! the West is via Meßeniie. Th'* Steal Ritnie to West Tennessee amt Ken tucky. Otississipi, Arkansas and Texas joints if. ' ia MeSvensle, % DON’T FJKGBT IT. —By thsa L'qc you secure ths— risximuni ('<■■■ lor, Sa I islaction j II i y !U i I fill <>f Expense. Anxiety, iu 111 5 !?| U !?! Bother, Fatigue. B to buy your ticte’s over rue N. C. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER need not go amiss; taw chan es are necessary, and such as ate unavoida ble are made in Union Depota. Through Sleepers BETWEEN — Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou isville,, Nashville and Sh Louie, via C. ■ lumbua, Nashville and Louisville, Nash ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louie, Union City and St. Louis, M. Ket zieano Lit’l** R >ck, where connection is made with Through Sleepers to all Texas p’onts. Call on or address A. B. Wrenn Atlanta, Ga. J. H. Peebles,T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. T. Rogfus P. A. Ch&tanooga, Teurt. W. L Dan ley, G. P. and T. A , Nashville, Tenn. Rising Fawn Lidge, No. 293, meets first and third Saturday nights of each month. .T. W. Russey, W. M. S. H. Thurmon, Sec’ty. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a a month cn Friday .nigut, on or before the full mion. W. N Jacoway. W. M. G. M. Crabtree, Sec’tv. Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M.. meets on the third Wednesday night of each month, W. A. B. Tatum, H. P, W. N. Jacoway, S.-c’ty. Court of O dinarv meets on first Mon day of each month. G. M. Crabtree Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk W. F. Majors, Sheriffj Joseph Coleman, Tax Receive-. D. E Tatum, Tax Collector. Joseph Kiser, Coroner. RISING FAWN. DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Reports from Dakota indicate a large jield of wheat. ■ —o— Mark Twain is writing a book about the Mississippi River. Russia has lost $110,000,000 by the anti-Jewish movement. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s estate is estimated to bo worth SIOO,OOO. Petitions for the pardon of Sergeant Mason contain an aggregate of 550,000 names. The army-worm is operating in por tions of Illinois doing serious damage to wheat. The formal opening of Garfield House, for working girls, iu London, was a notable event. Mr. Gladstone condemns the revised edition of the New Testament. He does anything and everything to make the Irish dislike him. Is Shipherd afraid or is the Commit tee on Foreign Relations afraid? The investigation into the Peruvian affair is long-drawn and decidedly dry. Number thirteen, to which so much evil superstition is attached, lias been reclaimed to respectability by the sur vival of thirteen of the crew of the Jeannette expedition. Prosperous America must give place to Australia, whose colonies ai - e the richest, per capita, in the world. Among their possessions are 80,000,000 sheep, to a population of only 3,000,000 souls. The Supreme Court of Indiana has rendered a decision to the effect that railroad ticket scalpers may sell special tickets whether they are half fare, or ex cursion, or special in any other respect. The 27th of June is the day upon which the people of lowa will vote on the amendment to tlieir State Constitution forbidding the sale of all intoxicants. The fight is said to be already waxing warm. It does seem strange that the assas sins of Cavendislnand Burke cannot be ferreted out. Perhaps England had better send for Pinkerton. What they need over there is a detective that can detect. Chicago has sent a petition cQntaining over 1,500 names to Rev. Moody, now in England, begging him to return to that city and hold a series of revival meetings. Mr. Moody can find no better field for missionary work. There is one thing about it, Ship herd is getting himself disliked by Re publicans, and we observe that he is denounced as a “lying old fraud” in many quarters. Some years ago Ship herd was a popular minister. We hear of a musical prodigy in Toronto —a girl, only fourteen years old, whose playing of the violin is regarded as wonderful, even by so accomplished a judge as Remenyi. Her name is Norah Clench, and she is the child of a violin maker. The last report of the Philadelphia Home for Inebriates says that “ the free lunch system is responsible for more drunkards than almost anything else.” Men will stand round and eat free lunch until they get so drunk they can’t see. Take out the free-lunch counter. Miss Marie C. Ladreyt, a teacher in the State Normal School at Farmingham, Mass., has won the Perire prize in Paris of SI,OOO for an essay on education. Like a myriad of others on the same subject, it doubtless perished with the occasion for which it was written, Archibald Forbes, the well-known English war correspondent, being a widower with three children, has permit-, ted his heart to be touched by the daughter of a retired Quartermaster General’s daughter, and now thinks there is no country so attractive as America. A news item says “a Burlington (Vt.), man who got a divorce from his wife, a while ago, employs her as his hired girl. She has more money and better clothes ihan when she was his wife.” We do not doubt it at all. If you ever noticed it, a man invariably gives the hired gill more money than he does his wife. Miss Emma Jane Bonner, only daugh ter of Robert Bonner, the great ad mirer of fine horses and proprietor of the oldest story paper in the world, the New York Ledger, was married a few' days ago to Mr. Francis Forbes. Emma is a child of romance, and will doubtless now give us new editions in serial form. In a note to the Cincinnati Commer cial. under date of May 11. Professor' “Faitfjfal to the Riglit, Fearless gainst Wrong.” Vonnor predicted as follows: “ I expect a sharp period, with frosts, about the 7th or Bth of June, iu Southern sections, and a second ono during the last week of the month.” Wall, we shall see what we shall see, but we do hope the man is out of his head. It is remarked that President Arthur . 3 the first President since Buchanan to attend horse races. General Grant, though very fond of horses, did not at tend the races, even at Long Branch, during liis Presidency. Buchanan, Pierce, Tyler and Van Buren wero very fond of horse racing, aud attended all the great races iu Virginia and Maryland during their terms of office. A late magazine article on dress re form says a good thing : “It is the women that the men admire, and the clothes for their sakes; but never the women for the sake of their clothes. No ono ever saw men in rows in front of shop windows admiring the dresses on stands.” Husbands, show this paragraph to your wives, but at the same time, express a willingness to purchase an occasional calico dress if it is really impossible to do without it. There are men mean enough to refuse to do even that. Making the execution of the Presi dent’s assassin private will be bad for the railroads, but it will be good for the people and good for public decency. The proposition of an Ohio man to take forty car-loads of people from one section of the State to witness the execution is monstrous. The simple fact is, a public execution would draw no less than a million people together, and the result in several particulars might be most disastrous. At all events James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, has done one handsome thing in connection with the futile and disastrous Jeannette Arctic Expedition. He has presented to Airs. DeLong, the widow of Lieutenant De Long, who lost his life in the expedi tion, a check for $50,000. Iu this con nection a cgtemporary fittingly remarks that “it the Lieutenant nna men in u>, service of the Government his widow would have received a pension of about fifty dollars a month.” Astronomers in Egypt who viewed the orb of day during its total eclipse on the 17th, report a “fine comet ” near that body. Its position was determined by photography. The spectroscopic and ocular observations just before and after the period of totality gave most valuable results. The darkening of lines observed by the French astronomers indicated a lunar atmosphere. The spec trum of corona was successfully photo graphed for the first time. Another electric railway, which is the second there, has just been constructed iu Berlin, and formally opened. It has a grade of 1 in 30, which is, perhaps the steepest incline in the country. The motive power is led to the cars by two thin wire ropes, about twenty-five cen timetres apart, aud attached to the tele graph poles. These wires are capable of propelling ono small eight-wheeled carriage. Compared with the first line, the system used in this, while more complex, secures greater economy in the use of the current. The locomotive aud one car of a train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passed over a little child who was sitting between the rails a few days ago. Then the train was stopped, aud the conductor crawled under the car to collect the frag ments. To the astonishment of every body, be presently emerged with the child in his arms unjured, except for a slight bruise on the forehead, where the pilot of the locomotive had struck him. All the trainmen and passengers insisted on hugging the little fellow before surrendering him to his father who stood by. News from Dallas, Texas, tells a story that runs up into millions. Two men have fallen heirs to a fortune of thirty three million dollars, held in trust for them by the German Government, and one of the lucky individuals is M. Bros shis, Superintendent of the Dallas Car Factory. The other is Samuel B. Ed mundson, of Pennsylvania. The latter is also heir to the property on which the navy-yard, in Washington City, is built. It was leased to the Government for ninety-nine years by his great-grand father, aud the lease has just expired. This is probably th# last we shall ever bear of this fairy tale. They have a peculiar kind of justice in Massachusetts. No sooner do we hear of the discharge of a ruffian who had carnally assaulted a defenseless woman whom he had chanced to meet on the highway, at X o’clock in the morning—the dismiss>al being upon the ground that the worn an had no busiuess being out at that hour of the night— than we learn th; and a Justice lined a father $; and costs for slapping his fifteen-yar-old daughter. The charge was assllt and battery. Although it does not appear that the girl sustained any injdy, or anything more than felt tiie sting of the blow, it was held that the father overstepped the bounds of |la w and older. Thus it appears that in Massachusetts it is a greater crime for a fathei to jorrect his daughter than lor a ruffian t> carnally assault the same person. A correspondent in the St. Louis Republican gives tho following explana tion of t!ie betrayal of Jesse James by the Ford Brothers : One ant a half miles oast of Richmond, Mo., is tli house of tho Ford boys. It is dif ficult of access ; deep ravines wind through and about the 'arm—just the location to hide away from the hmnts of men, and to plot deep aud damning conspiracy. For two years Mr. How ard (Jesse James) has como and gone at his own sweet Will, aud yet the neighbors dreamed not that tee prince of brigands was so near. Tho Fords yore not neighborly, but hob would often bo seen ou the streets with strangers. Ho was a piiet, genteel young man with no habits thaUeould be objectionable. Jim Cum mings was 4 cousin of the Fords, while Wood Hite was a Iplative of James. The taking off of Cummings vaa tho act of either Hite or Jesse. Little and lob Ford, it is now almost fully es tablished, atarged Kite witl#the deed. A quar rel ensued,and he shot Little through the leg ; iu turn, Ford put a bullet through the brain of Hite. Knowing full well that Josse would re taliate for his cousin’s death, Little lost no time in confiuinicating with the Governor. A midnight rifid ou tho Ford Mansion soon after by officers of the law failed to bag the game. The Fords eorvplained at Kansas Ulty or the uniranantable proceedings, but wero quickly silenced when informed that they had slain and buried Hite. The secrets of the banditti were now no longer hidden, and so the Fords felt it * was sauvequi petit. Then tho sister, who was the sole woman of tho household, hurried to Jefferson City and did a tale unfold, an l the fate of Jesse James was sealed. The Fords, guaranteed immunity, went systematically to work the capture or death of their chief. With a plausible story of tho treacln-ry of Little, which had pkced them in jeopardy at home, they were received into the family of James. Then the traitors waited and watched aud struck down the man they dare not capture. Mrs. May Shannon, who accompanied Mrs. Sergeant Mason when she went to see the President iu behalf of her hus band, writes as follows of the incidents attending! the interview : Mrs. Mafcon seemed to wander along r.s if “ffep ■*"’ it* ixrt' '••.noii-t hall, desert -L” 81u> vo. .'.a'A .'.s; i ' In those attractions. Her spirit was Lr, away in the prisoner’s eel], and the burden 3 her heart’s song, like Grechen’s, seemed tol<- m J “ M ace is gone, my heart I liu- linn never, never moroj^r Having sent in our cards, wo took a seat in the largo ante-room by a good fire. Threaten ing clouds obscured tho sun and cast a ; all seemed dark aud cheerless within. We were quietly wa.ting for •.< coming interview, which would be the harbinger of good or evil to the ssd heart. At the expiration of half an hour the messeuger came in and announced that “ The President desired to see us.” We were shown tr „ia private parlor and had to wait but a few moments when i | entered from the opposite door. The American people can well be proud of their President for his gentle and courtly manners. I doubt if any present Monarch could enter tho drawing-room with such unassuming ’Ve as President Arthur did when be came to take by the band the wife of the poor soldier. I presented Mrs. Mason to the President. He shook bands with her. The anxious moment had at last arrived ; her pent-up feelings could no longer be restrained. She broke forth iu sobs : the I’resideut looked on with compassion. When she raised her eyes she full faith in him, for his coun tenance inspired confidence. She then made a pathetic appeal for her poor husband’s release from prison. The President told her that he appreciated her feelings, that ho knew all the details of the case, that he would bring the matter bv ore the Cabinet, aud that he would do all ia Li-, power. He said she need not dis tress herself to tell him any of the details, and she might feel assured that he deeply sympa thized with her. Ho again shook hands with her, speaking in the kindest manner. Inveidive Genius West and East. We have always maintained the super iority of the West over the East in most of the essentials ; but there is one branch of progress wherein the East still takes the lead. In certain lines of invents u the people of Massachusetts far out trip tho people of Michigan. Up to a very recent date it has been a sad drawli; kto tho comfort of prison offi cial; in punishing convicts that tlio latter couid v, be kept for any length of time on .-c No matter liow high their hands were fastened, the ungrateful wretch s would manage somehow, by stretching their arms or some other por tion.; of their •anatomy, to get their heels on tU ground, and thereby defraud their tortn' . of lawful enjoyment. and the pleasaui emotions excited by the observ ance of human misery. But, tho inventive genius of tho Yan kee h.t' come to the rescue of the abused prison official. Some sharp-witted fel low iu the Reform School at Westboro, n husetts, hit not long since upon the device of placing sharp point and tacks under the lieels of con victs when suspended by the wrists. They me quite willing now to stand oil tiptoe instead of meanly settling back upon their lieels ; and tho keepers are correspondingly happy A Michigan man would never have thought of this. The recent investigation at lonia showed that the authorities there were mere slavish imitators of tho authorities in Eastern prisons. They had the strap and the “paddle,” and they fed their ootiv'-ts uport rotton meat, just as the Eastern torturers of convicts have done for years. But they hadn’t a spark of originality.— Detroit Free Press. * It was in Paris, and they were having their midday breakfast. One of the guests arose, aud, with wine-glass I Tu hand, said : “I drink to the health of the groom. May lie see many days like this.” The intention was good, but the bride looked as if something had dis pleased her. TERMS—$lO‘> pr Annum Blric ly in Advance Preaching by Weight. The question is agitated among church going people, ‘ ‘ Why are so many learned ministers poor preachers ?” The trouble is that many of the learned ones are content to load themselves with mighty stores of knowledge, never thinking of liow they are to benefit their fellow men by giving it out. Unfortunately, some of our most learned clergymen are the driest of preachers. To learn or prac tice the ordinary arts of oratory does not seem to have occurred to these good men. The art of pleasing their audi ences is something to which they can not , conveniently descend. Perhaps they de spise it because there are so many empty-headed men who have succeeded in holding their congregations spell bound. They may think that to interest an audience is an evidence of sensation alism. Therefore, they are content to plod on in the delivery of matter which is really valuable, but which loses its value because uttered in Buch a lifeless fashion. Ono of our most learned preachers used to have a habit of meandering along in a sing-song monotone for the first fifteen minutes of his discourse. The effect on strangers was to weary them or put them to sleep, under tho impression that the whole discourse was to be delivered in this style. Oti tlioso who were accustomed to hearing him it was different. They knew he would have something of interest for them, and waited for it. After a while he would wake up to a most earnest style of de livery and continue in it to the end of his sermon. \ Some great scholars are so pompous that they can not preach as if to ordi nary mortals. Some preach fairly well, but, because they are such great men, do not stop short of an hour and a half. This may impress the weary hearers with a sense of greatness, but at the same time oppresses them with the ponderousness of it. Learning and good oratory are not necessarily out of harmony with each other. There is no reason whj a learned person should not add to lus ot!*r ac complishments the art of imparting liis wisdom to others iu the most graceful, attractive, and convincing way.—Phila delphia Times. The Yonug Writer’s First Production. Probably every one who has attempted authorship will confirm Longfellow’s experience on the appearance of his first effusion in print. Nothing, he tells us, which he since published gave him such exquisite pleasure as he experienced on opening the paper to which he had timidly sent his manuscript, aud to find it there in actual type, to be read by the multitude. This feeling comes but once, but the memory of it lasts a lifetime. It can never be forgotten. What anticipa j tions it arouses—what a sense of iuv i portance it gives ! How little does tho j young author suspect the cold indiffer- I ence with which it is read, possibly not read, by those who take the paper! As the song says, ‘ ‘ It’s all the w r orld to him,” and why not all to the world? It would be aud is cruel to spoil the 1 delightful sensations of initial author ship. They may be false* they certainly are fleeting, but the enjoyment, while it lasts, is an intoxication of delight, as first pleasant sensations are apt to be. The hint comes soon enough to the writer to discover how really unimpor j tant the event was. If he persists in j writing he will come to be as indifferent jto his appearance in type as the w r orld is. j if a newspaper writer, he will weary of the eternal grind, and forget what he l has written the day before in studying what to write for the day after. But no success, either as a newspaper writer or book-maker, either as poet or essayist, however flattering, will ever give to the author the sensation of his first appearance in print. It is, after it passes, a lost sensation, ramore to be repeated than love’s young ureai#, with freshness and fervor. It is an illusion too exquisite to be duplicated in one’s el perience. It is our advice, then, to youDgwriters, after they have succeded in getting into print once, to stop then and there, and cherish the sensation as long as possible —that is to say, as long as they can help it—and not repeat it to satiety, or until the spirit is jaded, aud the writer ready to cry out, with the Preacher, “ all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”—Cin cinnati Commercal. s Of Mr. Longfellow’s method when Professor of Modern Literature at Har vard, Dr. Edward E. Hale, one of liis pupils, has given this account: “As it liappened, the regular recitation rooms of the college were all in use, and wo met him in a sort of parlor, carpeted, liung with pictures, and otherwise hand somely furnished, which was, I believe, called the “corporation room.” We sat round a mahogany table, which was re ported to be meant for the dinners of the trustees, and the whole affair had the as pect of a friendly gathering in a private house, in which the study of German was the amusement of the occasion. Ho began with familiar ballads, read them to us, and made us read them to him. Of course we soon committed them to memory without meaning to, and I think this was probably part of his theory. At the same time we wero learning the paradigms by rote. His regular duty was Sic oversight of five or more instructors who were teaching French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese to two or three hundred un j der-graduates. We never knew when he l migiit look in on a recitation and vir i tually conduct it. We were delighted to j have him come. We all knew he was a j poet, and were proud to have him in tho college, but at the same time we re i spected him as a man of affairs. ’’ NUMBER 25. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Luck ia the dream of a simpleton. True nobility is exempt from fear. Virtue is the politeness of the soul. History is philosophy teaching by examples. Good order is the foundation of all good things. To be proud of learning is the great est ignorance. Conversation is the vent of character as well as thought. There is no past so long as books shall live !— Bulwtr. Misfortunes are in morals what bit ters are in medicines. If the memory of an injury is cher ished it is not forgiven. One trouble sometimes makes us for get a thousand mercies. Letters which are warmly sealed are often but coldly opened. * The more virtuous a man is the more virtue does he Bee in others. What the child admired, the youth endeavored and the man acquired. Hard workers are usually honest. In dustry lifts them above temptation. Recollect that trifles make perfec tion, aud that perfection is no trifle. Liberty is no negation. It is a sub stantive, tangible reality. — Garfield. It Is often the case that men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live. Cold natures have only recollections ; tender natures liavo no remembrances. Friends, if we lie honest with ourselves. Wo shall he honest with each other. — MacDonald. The virtue of prosperity is temper ance ; the virtue of adversity is forti tude. Blest is lie whose heart is the home of the great dead, and their great thoughts. The power to do great things gener ally arises from the willingness to do small things. You can not dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself ono. He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of some day or other being al lowed to command. There is many a man whose tongue might govern multitudes, if he could only govern his tongue. Elegance of language may not be tho power of every one, but simplicity and straightforwardness are. By example we become teachers. ’Tis not what we wear on our backs, but what we wear in our brains. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding. A man who habitually makes mean re marks about tlio other sex is a safe man to habitually keep away from. YVe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person, whatever he says, has an enhanced value. One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is to suppose that other men’s opinions are to make us happy. Fob to cast away a virtuous friend I call as bad as to cast away one own’a life, which one love’s best.— Sophocles. Treason doth nevar prosper; what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. — Harrington. gjTRUE politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself. Happy then iB he who has laid up in youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading. —Pufus Choate. Rows in the Garden. Works on gardening give plans for laying out tlie ground* l —certain beds to be put in one place, with paths here anti there. This is all well in order to make the most of a small piece of ground. , With the fanner’s garden the case is i different, as there are few farms where a | square rod or two more or less in the garden is of importance. In such a garden there should be very few beds, but all tire larger vegetables should be placed in long, straight rows, in order that the working may be done, so far as practicable with a horse cultivator. The permanent beds, such as those of rhu barb and asparagus, should be near one i another and at one side of the land t® be ; occupied by the annual crops. In sow | ing or planting it, the cultivator used upon the farm is also to do work in the ! garden; this isto be borne in mind in laying out the rows, which should be at such distances as will allow of the pass age of the implement. In going to or j coming from farm work, the cultivator may often take a few turns in the gar den. Those who have never tried horse power in the garden will be surprised at the great help it is in keeping it in proper order, and it will go far to do away with the complaint that the gar den “ takes too much time.” — American I Agriculturist. Tommy was a little rogae, whom his mother hail hard work to manage. Their i house in the country was raised a few feet from the ground, and Tommy, to escape a well-deserved whipping, ran from his mother and crept under the house. Presently the father came home, and, hearing where the boy had taken refuge, crept under to bring him out. As he approached on his hands and knees, Tommy asked, “Is she after : you, too ? ”