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' a a fttdfj) (ii^tt* G- W. M. TAIUM, Editor Md Proprietor. 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. '■ 1 ♦ # 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.