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G. W. M. TA'IUM, Editor and Proprietor
VOLUME IV.
Railroads,
Chickasaw Route,
M£H:S & GHARIESTDis 3 R,
TWO PAS3ENGFR, TRAINS D ULY
T )
M EMM Al3, TEN N.
Lv ChaCanoaga 830 a m 345 p m
“ Stevenson 10 10 ain 520 p m
Arr Decatur 1 ,r> p m s O', pni
“ Corinth 54l pin 12 05 it m
“ Grand Juneti >u... 712 pin 14Sa in
“ M einjihis 930 p m 400a in
Close connection is made at Memphis
with the Memphis & Liitle Rock
ltiliroad lor all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
The time by thi: line from Chattanoo
ga to Memphis, Little Rick, and points
'beyond, is five hcu-8 quicker than by any
other line
Through Passenger Poaeaes and Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK
With vu t Change.
No Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
nST’i'JfIGRANT TICKETS NOW SELLING AT
THE IXiWEST RATES.
For further information call on or
write to J. M. SUTTON,
Passenger Agt., Chickasaw Route,
P. O. Box 224 Chattoncoga, Tenn.
Alain Great Boutfiern R’y
Time Card,
Taking effect January 15th, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND.
. No.’ 1. Mail.
Arrive. Depart.
Cha tauooga am 8 25
Wauhatchie...*. 840 do 8 41
kiorganville 859 do 900
Treaton 9 16 do 9 17
Rising Fawn 937 do 938
Attaltu 12 20 do 12
Birmingliaiti 25. do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 do • 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wallace, 11. Cou bran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Ag’t.
Millie, (Mats© & St, Louis R’y.
AHEAD OK A EL COMPETITORS.
business men,tourists DCMritsnrD
EMIGRANTS, KA MI ELMS, 811. !Yi tiR DL (1
Xl;e IL-aS Isu< to E< wißviila, Cincinnati. ImU
a-n notig, Chica :.i, and the North, is via XI at Ik
ville.
The i'> 4 Rm.le to 8. Lou's and the West is
via Violin *| t .
The set IS.-*o'e to West Tenncssas and IXen
tiiekv. Miss.ssipi, Aikatisus and To:: s joints i<.
via McKenzie.
DON’T F iItGET IT.
-By this L'ne you ! ecu re the—
MAXIMUM or S£SkX!&
MINIMUM "bo.lieV,’ll.iit'ii...
Be sure to buy your tic sc is over tne
N. O. & St. L. B/y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER nerd not go amiss; few r ban re
are necessary, and such as aie unavoida
ble are made in Union Depots.
Through Sleepers
BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nashville and B‘. Louip, via C -
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis. Martin and Sr. Louip,
Union City and St. Louis, MeKerz'eam;
Little Rock, where connection is made
with Through Sleepers to all Texas p’oitp.
Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn, Atlanta, Ga.
J. H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Temi.
W. T. Rogers, P. A. Chatnnooga, Tear.
W. L. Danley, G. P. and T. A.,
Nashville, Tent’.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday nights of each
month. J. W. Russf.y. W. M.
S. H. Thurmon, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month cn Friday ,'night, on or be r cre
the full moon.
W. N .Tacoway W. M.
G. M. Crabtree, Sc-c’ty.
Trenton Cnapter No. 60, R, A. M..
meets on the third Wednesday night of
each month,
W. A. B. Tatum. TT. P.
W. N. Jacoway, Src’ty.
Court of O. dinary meets on first Mon
day of each month.
G. M. Cpabtree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk
W. P. Majors, Siieriftj
Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver.
D E Tatum, Tax Collector.
Joseph Kiser,C roner.
ffBWS GLEANINGS.
There arc but 798 Jews in Florida.
Arkansas has but eight daily newspa
pers.
West Virginia has a population of
618,457.
The city debt of Memphis is about
$4,000,000.
Texas has nearly 2,400 convicts in her
penitentiary.
The Georgia lunatic asylum is fall tu
on rflowing.
The dogs of Georgia cost more than
her preachers.
A large cottonseed-oil mill is to be
built in Madison, Ga.
An unusuallv rich copper mine has
been opened in Cabarrus county, N. C.
A four teen-pound cabbage has been
shipped from Americus, Ga.
Geo ’gut’s wheat crop this year will be
the best mUed iu fo twenty years.
The Richmond, Va., water works are
to be completed, and will cost 360,009. ,
A gold-fish 101 inches long was recent
ly taken from a cistern in Macon, Ga.
Virginia will come to the front this
year with a remarkably large fruit crop.
For the first time in seventy-five years,
Putnam county, Ga., is without a sa
loon.
Tennessee has 18,000 acres unimproved
land, most of which is covered with fine
timber.
Two hundred and forty convicts are at
work on the Marietta & North Georgia
railroad.
Atlanta, Ga , is to have a watch man
ufacturing company, with a capital stock
of SIOO,OOO.
A South Carolina lady has made feath
er fans of the value of r 1,500 for a New
York linn.
Of the 30,000.000 acres of land in
Mississippi less than 5,000,000 are under
cultivation.
• Sautkea*ten Ahlums : s n : .d to ha
improving more thirn any other portion
of the State.
Rome, Ga., lias the reputation of be
ing the pretiest and most nicely situated'
city in the south.
A company has been organized at Au
gusta, Ga., to build a railroad from that
city to Elberton, Ga.
A farmers’ convention in East Teu
nes-e*e adopted a resolution favoring
compulsory education.
Rome, Ga., has completed the survey
of her proposed canal, and estimates the
cost at $25,009 per mile.
Moss Point. Miss., has a glass factory,
a tannery, shoe factory, five plaining
and fourteen'saw mills.
i!>e postmaster at Vicksburg gets the
largest salary of any postmaster in Mis
sis-ippi. Ilis pay is $2,700 per year.
George Ra n and Peter Bang, each 18
years of age, are to be hanged at Pas
cagoula, Miss., August J, for murder.
Nvar Lumberton, N. C., two girls
named respectively Frances McNair and
Jane Kellar fought over a young man,
an i the latter was stabbed through tne
heart.
Southern papers point to the im
mense amount of farming machinery
being sold as evidence of the prosperity
of the South.
A ricli deposit of kaoline has been dis
doveredin Macon county, Ala. The ma
terial is indispensable in the manufac
ture of fire brick.
A company lias been organized in
North Carolina to bottle juniper water;
famous as a gentle tonic. The water is
abundant near Albemarle.
Tennessee has 25 copper furnaces that
turn out 2,600,000 pounds of copper
each year. The state has also 18.000,000
acres of unimproved land.
South Carolina protects the birds by
imposing a fine of 10 against eveiy one
convicted of robbing a nest. Thirty
days’ imprisonment can be added.
A Norfolk, Va., gill became so in
censed because her sister gave birth to
an illegitimate child that she strangled
the infant to death. The parties belong
to a good family and the murderess is in
jail.
The Athens. Ga , cottno factory pays
an annual dividend of 12J per cent, be
sides putting a like per cent into a sink
ing fund for future repairs and addi
tions.
James Kirkland, of Levy county,Fla.,
met with a horrible death while out
hunting recently. He stumbled and
fell on a sharp stake, which pierced
RISING FAWN. DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15. 1882.
“Fai Mal to the Right, Ftarhss Against Wrong.”
through his body and held him until lie
died.
The Hebrew saloon-keepers of Little
Rock, Ark., refuse to obey the new Sun
day law, claiming that the Christian
Sunday is not their Sunday.
Willie Morris became joyous at a
Wilmington, N. C., camp-meeting, and
fell over Annie Williams while the lat
ter was kneeling in prayer, and broke
her back.
Augusta, Ga., will soon add 40,000
people to her population by taking in
‘lie new factories and Harrisburg, Ilick
ville and TN llersville, and the Sibley,
King and Curry settlements.
Thomas Fergueson, of Welfion, N. C.,
carelessly pointed an “amply” shot-gun
at his three year-old brother, but it wen
off just the same, and the child was torn
to pieces.
The Savannah News calls attention to
the fact that the execution of two white
murderers recently in Georgia, shows
that hanging white offenders for murder
is by no means played out in the Empire
State of the South.
A peculiar accident caused the death
of Richmond Pitts, at Cedartown. A
stick or wood fell from a wagon on
which he was riding, and catching be
tween the spokes in is revolution,
knocked him off. The wheels then ran
over his neck, breaking it. 1
Mississippi lias anew law which re
quires all agents for fnut miseries situa
ted out of the State to pay $5 license in
every county in which they do business
Wnd give a bond and surety that the
vines and trees sold will come up to the
representation of the vendor.
A mill owner in Clinch county, Ga.,
has found that the sawdust and chips
from his saw mill yield fourteen gallons
of spirits of turpentine, three to foui
gallons of rosin and a large-quantity of
pine tar per cord. It is extracted*by a
sweating process, and the newly-discov*
ered industry will be generally worked
by mill men.
Laborers at wflrk bn a railroad near
Jacksonville, Fla., moved a large flat
stone while grading, which discovered a
hole leading into the earth.* A long
pole failed to touch the bottom of the
pit and a roan was owe red into it with
fifty foot-rope, but this also failed to
find bottom. While lie was being pulled
up he discoved the skeleton of a man
lying in if niche in the side srf the cav
ern, which had apparently been there
for ages, as the bones crumbled to dust
as soon as touched. The pit is to be ex
plored. =
Full of “Specs.”
The real old-fashioned Yankee is still
a fixture among us, though some writers
would make us believe that lie lias been
dead for years. There was a genuine
specimen'in the Erie depot yesterday,
and lig was explaining to several inter
ested parties:
- “Father-in-law lives here in Jersey
City, and I’m on a visit like. Thought
I’d bring along a few traps ail* tilings
and get up a dicker or two. Any of ye j
like to invest in that ?”.
He put out the model of a rat trap and
said: |
“This trap not only catches the var- j
mints, but it chokes ’em to death, throws |
the body out of that back window, and :
then resets itself. In the top> is an alarm, ]
to go off any hour you want and wake |
up the family. Hero’s an apparatus on j
this side for grating spices. Any of you j
like to buy county rights ?”
No one did, and he then placed before
them a vessel, about which he ex-:
plained.
“This is now a water-pail. By plac-i
ing this iron cover on the bottom it be- 1
comes a kettle! By inverting the cover
you have a spider. The pail is a half-1
bushel measure to a grain. Once around
it is exactly a yard. Its weight is exactly
two pounds, and I sell the county rights
for 850 each.”
The next waß a boot-jack, which could
be transformed into fiie-tongs, press-j
board, stove-handle, nail-hammer and
several other things. Ho had ail auger I
which .bored four holes at once, a gimlet
which bored a square hole; a washing- j
machine which could also be made to
serve as a tea-table, and one or two other
things, and as he reached the last he
said:
“Gentlemen, I am full of speculations. \
I’ll invent anything you want. 11l sell]
anything I’ve got. I’ll take pay in any
thing yoa have, .and I’ll give every one
of you a to make a million dul
ler ”
Safe Light oh Railroad Pars.
It is proposed to forbid the use of off
on railway ears for light. This is wise.
Many serious accidents have resulted
from this habit. Gas or the electric
light will serve. The railroad companies
may object to the expense, but w hen life
and safety are concerned the question of
expense should not be considered. The
people pay so much money to the rail
way managers that they are entitled to
every comfort and convenience. —New
York Herald.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Sergeant Masq* is making shoes at
Albany, N. Y.
Tins net debt of New York, June 1,
was $97,592,052.
Mexico has repealed the duty on ex
ports cf gold and silver.
Paris is counting on 100,000 Ameri
cans visiting that city tills summer.
Gi field's - biograpy is selling in
Eng’.'Ud at the rate of 2,000 a month.
Mrs ‘Garfield has been elected to
succeed her husband as a trustee of
Hiram College.
The present Chief Justice of Alabama
used to 'feet type on a weekly newspaper
for $5 per week.
EX'* -Viator Blaine is interested in
the crtal- monopoly in the Hocking
Valley of Ohio.
♦ Goveror Crittenden, of Missouri,
has been made an LL. 19. by the Mis
souri University.
Vi s nor, Tice, and Couch, a trio of
weather prophets, all predicted excel able
weather for June.
At Tombstone, Arizona, a purse of
$2,5-9' has been raised to pay for Indian
scalps fu $lO apiece.
Cos r x Rica lias accredited a lady—
Madame Beatrice—as lier Envoy Ex
traordinary at Washington.
Nearly all the creditors of the bnsted
Mechanics’ Bank, at Newark, N. J.,liave
been paid and the bank will reopen.
A bill to forbid publishers and agents
of school books serving on school com
mittees* has passed tlie Rhode Island
Senate. . _
The census returns of Japan show a
population of 35,353,991. Of these 18,-
423,274 hire males and 16,935,720 are
females. .
' ■ ' . Ihter-Oesan lias discov
ered that the man who pays fifteen cents
for a drink of whisky is swindled
ten cents’ worth. Jr
The Ancient Order of United Work
men, in auuual sossion in Cincinnati,
decided to hereafter receive no members
who are over fifty years of age.
The world moves. An oil pipe line
lias been laid across thcX’aucusus Moun
tains to deliver petroleum at a shipping
point on the coast of the Black Sea.
Alexander II has presented the
German Emperor \*th the horsed which
were drawing the carriage of his father,
the Czar, when ho was assassinated.
The Spirit of the Times says James
R. Keene offered fifteen thousand dollars
for Henlopen, winner of the Juvenile
Stakes, at Jerome Park, which was
declined.
It is con celled by those who are
posted on Congressional matters the
present session, that the member who
has the strongest lungs is the greatest
statesman.
Says a cotemporary : Stories used to
begin : “Once upon a time there lived—”
Now they begin : “ ‘Vengeance, blood,
death,’ shouted Rattlesnake Jim,” or
words to that effect.
The entire expenses at Yorktown cele
bration—per bill audited and allowed by
Congress—amounting over $7,000, was
for fine old wine and whiskies, cigars
and line-cut chewing tobacco.
In "ellioence from the South Coast of
South America is to the effect that
Ecuador is in the throes of revolution,
Peru in anarchy and disorder, and Chili
smitten by epidemics and cursed by
brigandage.
An electric light wire,buried beneath
an asphaltum pavement at San Francisco,
somehow lost its insulating envelope
recently, and the result was the electric
fluid found its way into the aspliap...
which was soon in a lively sizzle anJ
fume.
Mr. George Jacob Holyoake, tin,
well-known writer on co-operation and
kindred subjects,has been commissioned
bj lire British Government to visit this
country and Canada jmd report upon the
chances offered here to immigrant work
ing people.
The Presbyterian Foreign Mission
Board has spent $392,000 in the pas 1
year. It has now accepted thirty now
missionaries, mostly young men. Ex
pecting a great increase of work this
year, it asks for an additional SIOO,OOO
above customary receipts.
Some German newspapers are vener
able with age. The Frankfort Jourv l
is 261 years old, the Magdeburg Zeitun&
is 253 years old, and ninety-eight others
are over 100 years old, and most of these
papers are no more like a real livo Amer
ican sheet than they were 100 years ago.
The Memphis Avalanene keeps the
docket of Judge Lynch’s court, and
states that since January 1, sixteen per
sons have been hanged by mob law in
tlie South, nineteen in the North and six
in the frontier States. This probably
equals the executions by due process of
law.
Canon Faiirkr who preached in West
minster Abbey u vermon on Darwin, took
this appropriate text: “And he spake of
trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon
even unto the Jiysop that, springetli out
of the wall ; ho spake also of beasts,
and of fowl, and of creeping things, and
of fishes.”
Bradstrert’s report indicates a de
crease in the acreage and a reduced yield
in the production of cotton. The weather
has not been favorable to the growth of
the plant in considerable areas of the
country, and the demoralization of labor
in the flooded districts lias retarded
planting.
The popular costume of the dwellers
in Arizona is thus graphically described
by a “tenderfoot:” “In ordinary
weather he wears a belt with pistols in
it. When it grows chilly he puts on
another belt with pistols in it, and when
it becomes really cold he throws a Win
chester rifle over liis shoulders.”
The Italian idea of Darwin is as fol
lows, from one of their papers: “We
learn from our English correspondent
that Darwin, the famous apostle of the
apes, is deiql. In Darwin’s opinion men
,xre not the creatures of made of
body and soul, and called to immorality
in another life, but merely perfected
apes.”
That tlie dogs of Georgia cost more
than her preachers, and that rats claim
a tithe of her wheat and corn, are among
•the curious deductions from a talk with
the Commissioner of Agriculture, who
also‘bees in i832 a year for eats,
whose places as raj killers can only
be filled by black snakes, according to
Congressman Hammond.
Movements are being made in many
cities for the erection of monuments to
Garibaldi. The municipality of Genoa
have subscribed 20,000 ftgncs toward the
erection of a monument, and that of
Verona 10,000 francs for the same pur
pose. The municipality of Rome have
contributed 80,000 francs for the erec
tion of a monument on Janiculum Hill.
A drunk and disorderly man was sen
tenced by an English magistrate to seven
days at hard labor for trying at Leicester
last week to shake hands with the
Princess of Wales as she sat in her car
riage, and poked him away with her
parasol. Ho was immediately released at
the request of the Prince and Princess.
It is hard to beat an English magistrate
in doing what ho thinks will please the
royal family.
There seems to be as little economy
In the disbursement of public funds in
New York now ns there was when the
lamented Tweed built his court-house.
The New York and Brooklyn Suspension
Bridge, which started on
feet above low water, and an estimated
cost of $7,000,000, has got down to only
135 feet above tvater, and up to an actual
cost of $15,000,000, and now the New
York Legislature has a bill to appropriate
$1,250,000 to complete the bridge.
The trial at New Haven of the Malloy
boys and Blanche Douglass, charged with
the outrage and murder of Miss Jennie
Cramer, it is thought by those who have
been watching the proceedings, will not
result in conviction, but rather in ac
quittal—not because the Mulleys have
been shown to be innocent, but because
they have not been indisputably shown
to be guilty of the crime for which they
are indicted. And yet public opinion
will nevertheless hold them responsible
for Jennie Cramer’s death.
A New York lawyer lias earned per
haps the largest fee ever won. The
ruling of the Suprome Court of the
United States, taking off 50 per cent,
specific duty on hosiery and knit goods
into which wool enters, refunds to the
I importers $11,000,000 of the taxes pre
viously paid. Tlie lawyer gets half —
■ $5,500,000—a nice contingent fee. The
manufacturers of hosiery in this country
| complain loudly of the injustice of the
decision, taking off all the protection
! from their work.
The ouickest time on record made by
i a train of improved stock cars between
Chicago and New York is just reported.
The speed from Buffalo was at the rate
of thirty to forty-five miles an hour.
TERMS-SI.OO per Annum slrie.ly In Advance.
The shrinkage was only twenty pounds
per head, while the usual loss is from
seventy to one hundred pounds. These
cars permit eacli animal to occupy a sep
arate stall. The animals can also lie
dow r n and move about without coming
in contact with each other. For feeding
and watering the animals without un
loading the facilities are ample.
In his dispatch to Minister Lowell on
the subject of the relations between
Great Britain and the United States to
the various inter-ocean canal projects,
Secretary of State, Frelinghuysen, hav
ing made his points of opposition on the
part of the United States to foreign in
tervention in the matter of the Nicarag
uan Canal, as being contrary to the
Monroe Doctrine of this country, reate
his case, with an expression of confi
dence that the differences between the
two Governments will be satisfactorily
adjusted before the canal will be built.
It is a serious iufriugment on personal
liberty when religionists are prohibited
from exercising the emotional as their
conscience happens to dictate. The
other Sunday, in Paterson, N. J., a
gang of Salvationist were parading the
streets, marking time and singing loudly
the following euplet:
“Right, left; right, left,
The Lord is right, and the Devil is left.”
A captain and lieutenant of the police
forco arrested the Salvationists as dis
turbers of the peace, and in court, when
the case came up a number of Hallelujah
lasses were present, who knelt down in
a circle and prayed fervently for the
souls of the wicked policemen who had
arrested their commanders.
W. A. Fenner, writing from San An
tonio, Texas, says that “among the
noted residents of the vicinity the Rev.
VV. H. Murray, ‘ Adirondack Murray,’
as he is called, is here, a fallen giant in
ieed, with none so poor as to do him
reverence. When he fled from Boston
his fair-haired private secretary, a young
lady, followed his fortunes and has since
lived with him. Last year her heart
broken father came for her, and after a
despairing effort to get her to return
with him, which proved ineffectual, the
poor old man, disgraced, broken in
spirits, alone in the world and almost
penniless after his long kearcli for her,
blew out liis brains at the very threshold
of Murray’s door. Only last Sunday—
Sunday, mark you—l saw him at San
Pedro Springs unloading, with his own
hands, a wagon load of cedar ties that
he had hauled from fcis little place f< i
the street railroad company. He van
without coat, vest or collar, dirty and
unshorn, and it would take a keen eye,
as a Boston man remarked to me, to de
tect in him the idolized preacher of one
o' the proudest pulpits in the Hub.”
The Figs of Commerce.
The fruit of the fig tree may be reck
oned among - the staple foods of man for
ages before cereals were cultivated by
any settled agricultural population. In
the temperate regions where it thrives
best, it fills the place of the banana of
tropical climes, and yields its fruit during
several months of the year. In Asia
Minor, where the tree is found wild
and where the best figs of commerce are
chiefly grown, the fruit begins to ripen
in the end of June; and the summer
yield, which gives employment to a
large population, comes to market in
immense quantities in September and
October. Tlie trees often give even a
third crop, which ripens after the leaves
have fallen. The best figs for drying
come from the valleys of the Meander
and Kaistros, to the south of Smyrna,
where the trees are planted regularly
with care, and the ground is dug and
hoed from four to six times during the
summer. The Smyrna and Aidin Rail
way now affords great facilities for the
transport of the fruit, which formerly
had to be brought long distances on
camels carrying about 500 each. When
figs reach Smyrna they are sorted by
women and packed in boxes by men.
They are best when newly packed, and
as the months go by get dryer and
harder in the ware-houses or the grocers
shop. No one who has not eaten them
in the Levant at the commencement of
the season, packed in the ornamental
pasteboard Arums, with glowing pictures
on the top, in which they are sold for
local consumption, knows what the best
figs are like. The card-board for these
boxes is supplied chiefly by Belgium and
Austria; 5-1,000 camel-loads of four
kintals each, or nearly 12,000 tons, had
reached Smyna on the 22d day of October
last year; and the production increases
annually. Fifteen years ago not more
than half the amount was recorded for
the whole season. England and
America hike by far the larger portion of
the exports ; France, where the Bmalier
and much inferior figs of the Mediterra
nean are chiefly consumed, taking little
or none of the fine fruit of Smyrna.
Neiv Orleans Sugar Planter.
Miss Bird, the traveler, remarked to
her Japanese factotum, “What a beauti
ful day!” and soon afterward., note-boOk
j in hand, he said: “You'say ‘a beautiful
day;’ is that better English than ‘a dev
ilish fine day,’ which most foreigners
i say?”
NUMBER 28.