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VOLUME IV.
Mail roads.
Chickasaw Eoute,
&1E £FHiS & CHARIE3TOri R, R.
TV'/O PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY
TO
MEM HA IS, TENN.
Lv Chattanooga S3oa in 345 p m
isoeveuson 10 10 ain 530 pin
ArtDecalttr 135 pm SOipm
k on “i l ," v 540 pin 12 05 am
brand .Junction... 7J2 p m 148 am
MemjAiis 9J50 p m 400 am
Close connection is made at Memphis
v. r itu toe Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad lor ail points ia
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS,
iae time by this line from Chattanoo
ga to .Memphis, Little Rock, and points
beyond, ia five hours quicker tk&u by any
other line. J
Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK
Witlisut Change.
Ao Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
’i MIGRANT TICKETS NOW SELLING AT
the lowest rates.
For further information call on or
write to ,T. M. SUL'TON,
Passenger Chickasaw Route,
R. O. Box 224 Chp.ttODCoga, Teen.
Alahaia Great Sonin B'y
Time Card,
Taking effect January 15th, 18S2.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mail;
Arrive. Depart.
Chaitauooga am 8 25
Wauhatefaie 840 do 841
Morganvjlle .. .8 59 do 900
Trenton. 916 do 917
Rising F.tvrn 937 do 938
Attalla ~..12 20 do 12 35
Birmingham 255 do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 do 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wallace, 11. Collbran,
Superintendent. Gen’) Pass. Ag’t.
MasMc.MtaMoia * St. Louis R'y.
AHEAD OK ALL COMPETITORS.
BUSINESS MSN, TOU RTSTS, BCKrIUiPCD
EMIGRANTS, KAMI 1.1 MS, H L <Vil if lOC [S
TJse Beil K;:te to L< nisvilla, Cincinnati, Indi
>anoli, Chicago, and tbe North, is via
vllle.
The re-t Knuir to S. Lou's and the West is
via McKenzie.
Tfie Beat It n"e to West Tennessee and Ken
tuckv. Missinipi, Atkansns a id Tessa joints i .
via McKenzie.
DON’T FORGET IT.
—By this L ee you secure the—
P/i AX! MU M or
SJ ! fj IMi ? M Of Expense, Anxiety.
HE IA I iVI Ulf I Kollier, Eatijfiie.
Be sire to buy your tickets over tr.e
N. C. & St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER need not go amiss ; few rhanues
ere necessary, and such as are unavoida..
ble are made in Union Depots.
Through Sleepers
BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashvil’e, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nasbvi’.le and B’. Louis, via Co
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis, Mar in and St. Louis,
Union City and St. Louis, M.-Kerzie and
Little Rock, where connection is made
with Through Sirepers to all Texas polls.
Oul on or address
A. B. Wrknx, Atlanta, Ga.
J, H. Peebles T. A. ChaUanocgp, Tenn.
W. T. Roger i, P. A. Ohatar.ooga, Tenn.
V, 7 . L. Danley, G P and T. A ,
Nashville, Tenn.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday nights of each
month. J. W. Russey, W. M,
S. H. Thurmon, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month m Friday . nignt, on or before
the full m ;ou.
W. N Jacoway. W. M.
G. M. Crabtree, Secby,
T cbUju Cnapler No. 60, R, A. M.,
meets on the third Wednesday n’ght of
each month,
W. A. B. Tatum, H. P.
W. N. Jacoway, Sec’ty.
Court of O dinary meets on first Mon
day t f c-ach month.
G. M. Cpabtree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk
>t 7 . P. Mi j ora, S’leriffj
Joseph Cob our, Tax Receiver.
D E Tatum. Tax Collector.
Joseph Kiser,Coroner.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8 1882
NEWS GLEANINGS,
Newton, Ala., will build a cotton fac
tory.
The oat crop in soiree parts of Geor
gia averages 100 bushels to the acre.
Eastern capitalists will build a large
cotton-seed oil mill at Chester, S. C.
Virginia contemplates making arrang
ments to ship sweet potatoes to England.
Lagrange, Georgia, is to have a large
cotton factory.
The new custom-house at Nashville is
ready for occupancy.
In some parts of South Carolina the
barley yield is forty bushels to the acre.
Little Rock, Ark., cannot pay her
gas bills, and the gas company has shut
off the light.
A package of Stokes county. N. C.,
tobacco recently sold for $65 per hun
dred pounds.
Alamance county, N. C., has two cot
ton factories in operation and five in
course of construction.
A crate of Florida peaches sold in
New York at seventy-five cents apiece.
The six hundred tea plants set out by
Commissioner Le Due at Enterprise,
Fla., are doing finely.
Florida will experiment in the grow
ing of cinchona trees, from the bark of
which quinine is made.
A fruit drying establishment on a
large scale is to be started at Greensboro
South Carolina.
Vicksburg girls have organized a
band of “sweet sweepers.” This is the
latest Southern craze.
Alligator hides have become in such
demand that many alligator farms are
being started in Louisiana and Florula.
The people of Miss., are
largely experimenting in siHcTulture.
The worms are fed on osage orange leave.
The wheat crop now being harvested
in West Tennessee and North Alabama
is the largest ever known.
• The Nashville American says: All
the crops in Tennessee are in magnifi
cent condition except cotton, which will
average from sixty to eighty per cent.
Greater preparations than ever will be
made this year to develop the gold and
copper mines of Meeklenberg county,
North Carolina.
Many fine walnut trees in South Car
olina sell for S4O apiece, tae purchase
ers reserving the right to remove them
when they choose.
The Richmond, Va., alms-house con
tains seven men who a few years ago
were worth from half a million to a
million dollars each.
Jacksonville, Fla., has just made its
first conviction under the new law pro
hibiting the intermarriage @f whites and
blacks. The culprit was fined SSO.
Plenty of illegal votes are cast in
Clarke county, Ga. The grand jury of
that county has just returned indict
ments against 121 persons for that of
fense.
Several Alabama farmers report sone
damage to cotton by cut-worms, a means
of heretofore unknown; and
they report that it has had a very se*
rious effect on some fields.
The Petersburg. Ga., Index-Appeal
says the best and largest fruit crop ever
grown in Georgia will be ready for the
market in a few weeks.
In the seven counties around Griffin,
Ga., 150 distilleries will be running this
summer. The peach crop in the same
section will be immense.
A boy genius of Charlotte, N. C., has
made a small fire engine, three feet high
and complete in every way. It raises
steam in a minute and throws a tiny
stream of water nerly twenty feet.
Cocoanut growing is becoming an im
portant industy in Florida. They grow
to perfection, and promise to add great
ly to tile wealth of the State.
A Jackson, Ga., man has discovered
that his stock will feed as readily on
Bermuda grass as on hay, as is preparing
to harvest a big crop of the long de
spised herbage.
The outlook for a peanut crop in vari
ous parts of Virginia and North Caroli
na, i3 very discouraging. Cotton and
corn have suffered severely from the
cold.
The Rome, Ga., Courier says the best
evidence that the South \ resents
I the best field for cotton manufacture is
“Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong;.”
in the fact that Southern mills run
profitably on full time while Northern
mills have to curtail their production.
Reports from the overflowed territory
in Louisiana differ widely. In some
places benefits are reported and crops are
doing well. I- rom others the reports are
just the reverse. The cut-worms in
some parts is doing extensive damage.
The increase in cotton spinning in the
South is indicated by the statistics of
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missis
sippi, Louisiana, North Carolina and
South Carolina, which shows an increase
of 361,600 spindles during 1881 and 1882
This represents an investment of $9,768,-
200 in machinery, and a consumption
of 120,000 bales of cotton a year.
The ferryman at Neal’s ferry, on the
Chattahoochee river, Tenn., found a box
floating in the stream which contained
a sweet little babe, alive and crowing.
An abundant stock of fine clothing for
the waif was in the box.
In Troup county, Ga., a field was
planted in wheat this year which for
nine proceeding years has been planted
in cotton. Strange to relate a splendid
stand of clover came up with the wheat
though it is nine years since it was
planted in clover.
A rare and valuable relic was dug up
in Berlin, La., recently. It is bronze
medal two and three-fourth inches in di
ameter, and weighing five and a half
ounces. It was struck to commemorate
the evacuation of Boston by the British
on the 17th day of March, 1776, and was
voted to General Washington by Con
gress. The medal is much rusted, but
the figure of Washington, finely execu
ted on both sides, is very plain.
Near Hixburg, Va., three brothers
nmed Banton were at work in a fieid
when a. black snake of enormous size
completely enwrapped one of them, lick
ing the boy’s face until he was uncon
scious. When discovered by the other
brothers the snake was foaming at the
mouth, and maintained his hold until cut
to pieces. The boy was so frightened
that he became speechless, and it was
several days before he could regain the
use of his tongue.
How to Manage a Kitchen.
“A clean kitchen makes a clean house,”
is a saying which has a great deal of
truth in it. As all the food of the fami
ly has to be prepared in the kitchen, and
as most working people have to take
their meals and sit in the kitchen —in-
deed, as the one day-room has to be
parlor, kitchen, and all to many honest
families—it ought to be clean and neat,
or it will not be comfortable and healthy.
First of all, the window and the fire
place must be clean and bright. No j
room is cheerful with a dirty fire-place, j
Every morning the room must be care- |
fully swept, and any hearth-rug, mat, or j
piece of carpet must be taken out of
doors and beat daily. The must i
be cleaned every day, and the stove j
brushed, the fire-irons rubbed with a
leather once a week at least, the grate
must be black-beaded, and the fender
and irons thoroughly polished, and all j
well scoured down twice a week. Cup- j
boards want great care to keep them free j
from dust, cool and neat. Supposing j
there are two cupboards, one on each j
side of the fire-place, it is well to keep i
one for stores, as groceries, etc., and one j
for crockery. Everything should be ]
clean that is put in the cupboards, and j
there should be a place for every differ- j
ent thing, so that if you wanted anything, J
even in the dark, you could lay your
hand upon it. Be sure, whether you j
keep the lids bright or not, to keep the !
inside of every pan or pot used in cook
ing so clean that it is perfectly dry and
sweet. If you neglect his you may be the |
cause of poisoning yourself and your
household. Many families have been ;
poisoned by food being cooked in dirty
pans. Besides, even if food is not made
poisonous, it is spoiled by not being clean
ly cooked. Be very particular about
this. It is a good plan to have a jar of
soda in some handy place, where you
can, whenever you wash up, take a bit
and put in the water. It is very cleans
ing, and both crockery and tins washed
in hot water, with a bit of soda in, will
be sure to shine and be sweet. All tins
should be polished once a week. Kitch
en towels require good management, It
is a very nasty habit to be careless about
towels. Tea things and glass should be
wiped a thin, coarse towel kept for
that purpose. If you have a plate-rack
over the sink, plates should be washed in
hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to
dr£*n in the rack; but. if you have no
rack you must wipe the plates; keep a
good dish-cloth to wash them with, and
a good coarse towel to dry them with,
and use your dish-cloth and your dish
towel for nothing else.
Gov. Littlefield, of Rhode Island, is
a man of the people, having in liis early
days worked in a cotton factory at
Natick, one of the villages which have
grown up around the Sprague mills.
While Littlefield was toiling at the spin
dle William Sprague was Governor. By
a turn of fortune’s wheel Sprague be
came a bankrupt and Littlefield a
Governor,
TOPICS OF THE HAY.
Within the year the mines of Arizona
Territory have paid nearly $1,000,000 in
dividends.
Dennis Kearney pops up again, but
not as a politician. He has drawn SB,OOO
in a lottery.
A man who buys a glass of beer in
lowa on Sunday renders himself liable
to a fine of from $1 to $5.
Livery stable men in the East say
the extension of the telephone from vil
| lage to village is injuring their business.
Wendell Phillips has declined, and
j Governor Long has accepted the invita
tion to deliver the oration July 4 at Bos
ton.
A monument costing $40,000, and a
I fountain $15,000, are to be erected to the
memory of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park,
Chicago.
According to a local paper a man died
in Minnesota from what was “prouonced
to be leprosy by physicians, of the most
hideous appearance.”
Charles Reade is writing a series of
short stories which will appear simul
taneously in England, the United States,
Canada, and Australia.
The Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
has issued a proclamation warning drug
gists to desist from the practice of sell
ing liquor “by the drink.”
The Toledo Blade says that the
trouble with Mrs. Christiancy arose
from the fact that she wanted to be a
sister to too many nice young men.
Prices at the prominent summer re
sorts will be from twenty-five to fifty per
cent, higher than they were last year.
Second grade people will have to stay at
home.
The Arizona Star declares that by the
aid of artesian wells the desert lands of
Arizona can be made the most produc
tive wheat growing districts in the
.country, i; -
To show their respect for Pfrxin, a
number of students belougi/flf to the
Moscow tlniversity have resolved to
wear a band of crape around their arm
for twelve month^
The Czar of Russia thinks that by in
augurating reforms that he can get
things in shape for his coronation in
about a year. In whfl abject terror
such a ruler must live.
It is thought that cork trees can be
successfully raise.! in every Southern
State. Of some specimens planted in
Georgia many are now thick enough for
use.
A naptha locomotive is about to be
tested on the New York, Lake Erie and
Western Railroad. It is an immense
saving in fuel, provided it works all
right.
An English surgeon says the time is
coming when a man’s stomach can be
repaired and replaced without difficulty.
It will simply keep him home part of
the time.
The Sultan has refused to permit
Hebrew exiles from Russia to make set
tlement in Palestine. Two hundred
Jewish families are on the verge of star
vation in Constantinople.
Henry Villard, the millionaire Pres
ident of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
was once Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune, but later, degener
ated and fell in with monied people,
Guiteau starts on his trip to the next
world just four days before the Fourth
of July and 362 days after the commis
sion of the crime that placed the Nation
under a cloud of gloom the last Fourth
of July.
Nine million acres of the best farming
land in Dakota have just been thrown
open to settlement by a decision of the
Secretary of the Interior. Here is a bet
ter field for enterprise and industry than
El Dorado.
The hundreds of saloons that closed
in Ohio in consequence ol the Pond
liquor tax bill, now that the bill has been
declared unconstitutional by the Su
l preme Court, will probably resume busi
ness again.
The Syracuse Herald is in favor of
substituting steam whistles for church
bells. “They can be heard further,
create more disturbance, and it is han
dier to drop in and murder the man who
pulls the rope.”
The contest over the South Carolina
contested case was terminated in the
United States House by the adoption of
the resolutian seating Mackey. The re
maining contested seats will now be
■ rapidly disposed of.
TERMS- SI.OO pr Annum elric'ly in Advance
Nilsson’s reason for resuming her
own name is that she is indignant that
the property which she accumulated by
her exertions should pass to her hus
band’s relatives on his death. The
whole thing is an outrage.
The penitentiaries are full of murder
ers who will agree to be “ good citizens”
if the Governors will pardon them out.
This is merely suggested by the negotia
tions pending between the Governor of
Missouri and Frank James.
Captain Howgath is still iif seclusion
and everything seems to be all right.
Whether the authorities at Washington
are anxious to capture him does not ap
pear, but perliaps they are not or we
should hear more about it than we do.
The period of three years required by
law before a statue can be erected in a
public place in hofior of a deceased per
son is nearing its end in the caso of
William Cullen Bryant, so Central Park,
New York, will soon have anew monu
ment.
Charles Hunt died in New York of
apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a few
days ago. He was well known in Bos
ton, Washington, and New York as the
unacknowledged son of Daniel Webster,
and has held several important Federal
offices.
The London World says: “It is an
open secret in the Irish party that Par
nell dare not go to Ireland, and that
in London, when not in tho House, he
is in virtual hiding.” Mr. Parnell’s
crime is that he favors a peaceful settle
ment of the troubles in Ireland.
When a lady called upon ?ijrs. Secre
tary Kirkwood the other day she Jfound
that lady ironing. Hence, whole columns
of praise and flattery. Had it been
some woman whose husband had a sal
ary of $25 per week, she would have
received the cold cut forever after.
It seems that Walt Whitman has
written a book—“ Leaves of Grass”'—
that is too dirty to be published. We
knew that Walt was old, and thought
also that he was clean, but after all it
don’t do to have too good an opinion of
a man. Walt has erred, and that is hu
man.
The Texas Legislature has showered
a public blessing on the morality of that
State by taxing all persons selling the
Police Gazette , Police News and simi
lar illustrated journals SSOO per annum,
in each county where such papers are
sold. That is simply equal to prohibit
ing their sale.
Speaking of the vast strides made in
the railway world, the Railway Aye
gives the following interesting statistics:
We be'iieve it is safe to sav that there are at
least three hundred and fift lines, covering, at
l moderate estimate, a total of twenty-live
thousand miles, upon which work is now in
progress or is proposed to be commenced dur
ing the present year.
Missouri is in a truly pitiable condi
tion. Rather than hunt Frank James
iown and punish him according to law
for the crimes he has committed, a great
leal of red tape and an unconditional
pardon seem to be preferred. What
would be the moral of an unconditional
pardon to Frank James ?
The home for working girls in London,
called Garfield House, at tho formal
opening at which a fortnight ago Min
ister Lowell presided, contains thirty
nine bed-rooms, a dining-room, a sitting
room, and a library, and each occupant
will pay for her accommodation from
sixty-five cents to one dollar a week.
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The press generally is circulating the
report that Chicago girls would rather
kiss a pretty little dog than a man, and
one Chicago girl has taken tho trouble
to write a letter for publication acknowl
edging the soft impeachment. There
certainly must be something wrong with
tlio Chicago man’s breath else dogs’
noses aro a mighty sight cleaner there
than they are here.
Guiteau’s act one year ago interfered
with the usual Fourth of July celebra
tion. His act this year, we aro pleased
to say, will have a tendency to add to
the hiiiarity of the occasion. We do
not make merry over the prospective
event of the assassin’s untimely death—
far from it—but it is a source of gratifi
cation to know that America is still dis
posed to put vicious dogs to death.
Mr. Christiancy has caused to be
published a letter purporting to have
been written by • him to Mrs. Chris
tiancy’s father, in 1878, in which de
tails are given of numerous liasous al
leged to have been carried ou by the
young and handsome wife, all of which,
Mrs. Christiancy has stated to a reporter,
are a mess of fabrications. Tho alleged
basons, she avers, were simply manifes
tations of friendship.
NUMBER 27.
Charles Lochbruner weighs about
100 pounds, his wife 300, and their rela
tive strength is fairly represented by
the same figures. Ho ostensibly keeps
a restaurant in New Orleans, but she is
its real boss, as he complains to a police
justice that three days in succession she
took him her lap and spanked
* him terribly. Being arrested she gave
oail to keep the peace, though at the
same time she avowed her intention to
subject her husband to discipline when
ever and however she pleased.
The most serious labor strike of the
year began June 1. Tho proprietors of
the Tittsburg iron mills having refused
to sign the new scale of wages, a strike
was ordered. Some thirty-five or thirty
six mills in Pittsburg and vicinity shut
down, and more than eighteen thousand
workmen are thrown out of employment.
In Wheeling upwards of five thousand
men went out, and some seven hundred
or eight hundred quit work on the other
side of the river, in mills whose pro
prietors refuse to adopt the new scale, at
least until it is accepted by the Pittsburg
mill-owners. The strike is likely to
spread to all the iron mills west of the
Alleghany Mountains, and will be long
and obstinate. It is impossible to meas
ure the loss to the productive interests
of the country which this strike will
entail, or to compute the hardship and
suffering it will bring to the families of
the workingmen. It can not be regarded
other than as a public calamity.
Sheep Raising.
The sheep industry in the United
states is vast and important, and in the
consideration of which there are two
partially distinct, and at the same time
interlocking interests. Sheep were in
early times grown almost solely for their
wool, and with the annual shearing came
the year’s income ; but in later times,
and never so prominently as now, the
carcass is looked upon as an important
item in sheep husbandry. Mutton as a
cheap and acceptable meat has of late
grown greatly in popularity, and mutton
now stands as one of the two important
factors in the successful raising of sheep.
In view of the fact that the merino is
essentially a wool-producing breed ? with
a fleece of the finest and best quality, it
is evident that the pure-blood merino,
though it may supply our manufactories
with the material for the finest of woolen
goods, on the other hand cannot
satisfy the butcher. The sheep having
to both feed and clothe its keeper, it is
an important question : What is the
best breed of sheep to do this ? Evi
dently not the pure-blooded merino.
Though the growing of the pure-blooded
merinos has its place, and an impor
tant one, and the demand for their wool
indicates the prosperity of manufacture
of the finest goods, it is by the crossing of
them with other breeds in which the
flesh-producing qualities predominate
that a sheep best for both meat and wool
is produced. A cross-breed is the one
that in most localities is to pay. The
merino is slow of growth and small of
carcass when mature ; but when crossed
with a rapid grower, one that matures
early, is a high feeder, and lays on flesh
rapidly, but not remarkable tor its wool
either in quantity or quality, a sheep is
obtained that pays for itself in its wool
of prime quality, and furnishes a good
quantity of mutton as a profit. Of such
character are the crosses of the merino
with the Cotswold and the South-down.
But with the great mass of American
sheep on the Western plains, wool is the
important product, and here the cross
must be with the merino upon the
“native”—a race of sheep which has
grown out of a variety of early impor
tations to this country—an intercrossing
of various breeds in which many of the
good points have been lost. In this field
the merino has a great work to do to
raise the yield of wool one, two, or more
pounds per head, and give it a higher
value.
“Breeding-off” Horns.
The question of “breeding-off” the
horns of native cattle is receiving at
tention, and there are many who claim
that it “can be done.” Horns on neat
cattle are a relic of barbarism, so to
speak, They are not only a useless ap
pendage, but positively objectionable.
Not only do cattle do one another injury
in a yard or stable, but they have many
a time, by their horns, caused the death
of, or disabled, other animals. Timid
people are mortally afraid of cattle with
horns, but pass by the “mules” with
out fear. In their wild state cattle had
undoubted need of their horns, but
domesticated, there are no ferocious ani
mals to attack them. Nature appears to
be doing gradually aud unaided that
which a little artificial help would accel
erate, as comparison between the spread
ing aDd long horns of the Texas steer,
and the short ones of the blooded cow
indicates. It is suggested that horns
may be bred-off by searing them when
the calves are young. Everybody knows
that dogs and cats have been bred with
out tails, yet analogy might signify
nothing, as sheep, whose tails are cut
close when they are lambs, continue,
after many generations, to raise lambs
whose tails, in turn, would be long, if
they were not cut. But a family of
Ayresliire cattle bred in Scotland,
originally had their ears clipped from
year to year to donate ownership. In
time the calves began to be born with
the end of the ear wanting, and now the
peculiarity is fixed.
Farmers compose one-third of the en
tire population of the United States.