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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.