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G - W * TATUM, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME IV. Hailromls, Chickasaw Route, WE VJPHIS & CHARLESTON R R, 1 " O PASSENGER TRAINS DAILY TO MEMIIA IS, TENN. PASS, ” sui'zz*': ,jss:s *<•; “ Scottsboi-o r" 108 2 m"‘"n to P m h “ Huntsville 1205 nn, i P |“ Florence.;:;;; 1200 n>n 022 am P‘ Corinth s§?n™"" I ii° “ “ F“ Urn mi irf-LV IP m 521 a m ;a - ~ 1 Junction.... 727 pm 725 an “-I"* ' , l “i,|?T lt ;i ion >. "'•!<• at Memphi, with the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad /or all points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. r 1? th r V } i ne fr °m Chattanoo ra to Memphis Little Rock, and points X°r line. h ° lUB < * uick " th?n >' IlToutrh Passenger Coaeiies anti Baggage Pars from Bfl ATT A N OOG A to LITTLE ROCK Without Chance. INo Of/ter Line Offers these Advantages. BkiF”£Mir,RANx TICKETS NOW SELIJNG AT THE LOWEST RATES. For further information call on or write to J. M. SUTTON, Passenger Agt., Chickasaw Route, P. O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Teon. AliiMioiiTy Time Card, | Taking effect January 15th, 1882. ■ POTT TIT BOUND, p No. 1. Mail. | Arrive. Depart. ■ hattanooga am 8 2f Ht’anhatchle 840 do 841 | liorganville 859 do 900 I Trenton. 918 do 917 I Rising Fawn 9 .37 do 938 A Malta 12 20 do 12 35 Birmingham 255 do 301 Tuscaloosa 523 do 525 Meridian 10 00 do ( iiAßi.Bg B. Wallace, H. Collbran, Superintendent. Gen’] Pass. Ae’t. NasliTiilc. Chattaa-oga 4 St. Louis R’y. AHEAD OK ALL COMPETITORS. II OSIN ESS MEN, tourists,*) r JUS P IUI DT D KM (GRANTS, KAMILIMS, II L 111 L 111 DL It The Ileal Rnnleto Louisville, Cincinnati. Indi inapolig, Chicago, an<l the North, is via Naali vllle. I he r'e# 1t...(' to S. Louis and the West is via Melieeiit*, fl Hpit K in'n to West Tennessee and Ken tiiokv. Mjsaja.ipj, Arkansas and Teirs rointt is. vi>* IteKestle. DON’T FOKGKT IT. —B7 this Line you secure the— -111 M Aim u ill Conifer, Siitisfartion MINIMUM Expense. Anxiety, m 1111 m U I Itulher. rmistiie. Be sure to buy your ticsets over tne N. C. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV* ELER need not ero amiss ; few changes arc necessary, and such as ate unavoida bio are made iu Union Depots. Through Sleepers BETWEEN— Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou- Fviile,, Nashville arid S'. Louis, via Co lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louis, Union City and St, Louis, McKeizieand Little Rock, where connection is made with Through Sleepers to all Texas p oats. Cull on or address A. B. Wrenn. Atlanta, Ga. J. IT. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. T. Rogers, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenn. W. L. Dan ley, 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. Thurman, Sec’ty. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a a month cn Friday . nigut, on or before the full moon. W. IT. Jacoway, W. M. G, M. Crabtree, Sec’ty. Tieotun Chapter No. 60, R. A. M., me. ta on the third Wednesday night of ea< h month, M. A. B. Tatum, H. P. W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty. Court of Ordinary meets on first Mon day of each month. G. M. Crabtree Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk R. P- Majors, Sheriff, Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver, D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector, J wph Kr er, Coroner, Wm. Morrison, Surveyor. RISING FAWN. DA 1)F COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31. 1882. NEWS GLEANINGS. Florida has made an immense crop of corn. There are between 1,500 and 1,800 blind persons in Tennessee. Richmond, Va., is shipping large quantities of grain to Italy. The Southern Presbyterian Church has 6,000 elders and 4,000 deacons. The prohibition law prevails in forty two counties in the State of Georgia. A Southern scientist has discovered that alcohol can he produced from acorns. George W. Swepson, with a property worth $2,000,000, is the richest man in North Carolina. Richmond, Va., has a debt of $4,741, 707 65, on which she pays an annual in terest of $303,134 43. The celebrated Dummett orange grove has, according to the Florida Dispatch, been sold for SIOO,OOO. The public library at Knoxville, Tenn. lias 1,500 new books, is out of debt, and has $2,000 in the treasury. A young Virginian has invented a ma chine which turns out 150 cigarettes per minute. It is on exhibition at Lynch burg. In 1833-34 the railroad from Charles ton, S. C., to Augusta, Ga., 130 miles, was the longest railroad then in the world. The gum of the palmetto, which is found in abundance in Florida, makes as good if not better mucilage than gum arahic. It 's calculated that the splendid grain crops of the South will save that section $100,000,000 hitherto diverted Northward. A mortal enemy of the cotton worm has turned up in Mississippi. It is a red dish looking spider, and attacks and kills large numbers of the worms. As early as 1733 the sale and con sumption of whisky was prohibited in Georgia, then a colony under British rule. The act, however, was repealed in 1742. The Rugby colony in Tennessee, in stead of being on the wane, is said to be growing nicely. A large number of peo pie from Michigan will cast their luck with the colonists this fall. The State Democratic ticket of Texas contains the name of but one native Texan. Of the other nominees three are natives of Kentucky, one of Georgia, one of South Carolina and one of Ten nessee. The New Orleans Times-Democrat from carefully gathered information, learn that the present condition of the rice crop in Louisiana is good and the prospects for a large and good crop most favorable. The locomotive “General,” which was the one that pulled the train that was stolen by the Mitchell raiders in 1861, is still in use as a freight engine on the Western and Atlantic road, and is in good condition. The process of articulating Guiteau’s skeleton is nearly completed at the Ar my and Medical museum. It is doubt ful if the bones will make a first-class skeleton. Many were found to be po rous, requiring great care to mount. Near Fort Valley, Ga., lives a man who has named his children after ani mals, having a belief that they will in consequence live to an old age. There are four children and they are named respectfully, Rabbit, Coon, Fox and ’Possum. Nashville, in its craze for marital and natal insurance companies has capped the climax by organizing “The Natal Twin Association,” which will pay $2,- 000 to each member producing a certifi cate of the paternity of a pair of twin babies. In Alabama the Senate will stand thirty-one Democrats and two opposi tion ; the House seventy-nine Democrats and twenty-one opposition. The latter consists of eight Republicans, four Greenbackers and nine Independent Democrats. As compared with the cotton manu factures of New England, the Southern mills show a wonderful difference, in their favor, of earnings, but the thing is being overdone, and too many mills will prove to the South as bad, if not worse, than no mills at all. In the Gulf near Apalachicola, Fla., a saw fish of immense size was captured. It was fourteen feet, six inches long, “ Faithful to the Right, Fearless Agaiast Wrong.” forty-two inches across the body, the saw forty-one inches long and seven across the center between the points of the teeth, weighing 500 pounds. Near Lawrencehurg, Tennessee, an elm tree, said to be the largest in the United States, if not in the world, is growing. It is 105 feet in diameter and 329 feet in circumference from tip to tip of its branches. The size of the trunk and height of the tree are uot given. J. H. Lester, who lives near McDon ough, Ga., is 113 years old, having been horn in Rockingham, N. C., December 7, 1769. He distinctly remembers the Revolutionary war, and when eleven years oid was detailed with other boys to defend the women from the Tories. He served under Gen. Floyd during the war of 1812. A horrible condition of affairs has been developed in the “Saviour’s Home,” an institution in Little Rock, Ark., which is supposed to be a charitable one. From insufficient nourishment many of the child inmates have been starved nearly to death, and many of them will die. The institution is conducted by fanatics of the worst kind. About Roses. All roses llower more profusely if vig orously pruned. It is best to cut tho old wood with an unsparing hand, for he hand-omest blossoms will spring Horn fresh growth and young shoots com the roots will bear the largest cluster of buds. Hybrid perpetuals re quire to be pruned as soon as their first (lowers have faded so as to produce a good display of buds and b!o-soms in September. They have no claims to the title “perpetual” as they never bloom but twice iu the year and rarely that, unless they are highly fertilized and closely cut back when they have ceased to bloom in early summer. They are the most desirable of summer roses be cause they have so luxuriant a growth and possess the charms of brilliant col orings and fragrance. Great advance iias been made during the past few years in their varieties, wluoh are now numbered by hundreds in <he English and French lloral catalogues, and our own florists offer them in large numbers and at very low prices. Ten cents will often buy a nourishing young plant which, in two or three years if properly treated, will become a large bush. “Gen. Jaequemont” is a perpetual whose flowers are known to all lovers of roses and are in much demand lor winter bouquets. Among other desir able varieties are “Anna Sloxieft,” “Beauty of Waltham,” “Boule de Nieze,” “Coupe d'Hibe,” “Edward Morreu,” Jules Margottin,” “La- France,” “Mabel Morrison,” “Mme. Lacharme.” “Mme. Charles Wood,” “Mar e Baumann,” “Baronne de Roths child,” and “Reynold’s Hole.” The last mentioned was named for the famous English rosarian who cultivates some of the finest roses in England and takes the prizes at all tlie rose exhibi tions in his vicinity, and it is a rose of remarkable beauty. None of this class of roses require protection during the winter, but they will do better another year if they are covered about the roots with manure which can be dug into the ground early in the spring. Large bushes of roses should be lied up to stakes made either of small pine-trees or of wood painted green. Watering with liquid manure will increase the beauty of roses at this season. That made from the horse stable or the hen roost will be more fertilizing than any other. Do not put it on too strong, dse it will do more harm than good. It is a good plan to iill a half-barrel one quarter full with manure and add a pound of copperas to it to keep the worms away; till it up with water and put it on the plants twice a week, tak ing care not to touch the leaves. Make the water thw color of weak coffee if horse manure is used, the color of weak tea if hen manure is preferred. Spring field (Mass.) Republican. Only One Life. Too many farmers appear to be only skirmishing around during the present life without any of the real enjoyments which this world offers to everyone who will gather them. In the first place, if he does not marry a good wife (and there are a plenty of them running around loose) the fatal mistake is made which can never be remedied. If a man in tends to be a farmer, and through that channel of industry enjoy all of the comforts and pleasures of life, he should surround himself and family with as many of Ihe conveniences of life as his means and industry can command. He should keep in mind that on his farm and with his family is the best place for contentment and happiness. And the best wav to be happy is to make Ijjs family happy and his home pleasant. Every hour needlessly spent away from the home of domestic happiness-is just so much lost in the great sum of life’s comforts. One life —one home—one w jf e —one aim—and one end to all of life’s struggles and hopes. Without happiness ail work is a burthen, and life a failure. — lowa State Register. —The Imperial Gazette, a Chinese j newspaper, has the reputation of hav : in<>- been printed in consecutive seiies | for fifteen centuries. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Edison is still obtaining patents at the rate of twenty-one a week. Garibaldi, the Liberator, is to have a monument iu Baltimore. The Treasury last week received $2 couscienco money from Germany. Op the 1,518 cases of smallpox in Chicago last year 1,116 proved fatal. Reports from Matamoras state that many persons sick of yellow fever die o! fright. Postmasters iu Texas have been ordered tc fumigate the mails before forwarding. Tiie Texas cattle fever has appeared at Auburn. New York, and street ped dling of beef has been stopped for six weeks. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge is to visit the United States this autumn, lie is the peer of Gladstone in elo quence. Susan B. Anthony finds much en couragement for the woman suffrage movement, and urges the Suffragists to persevere. The Lady Burdett-Coutts-Bartlctt hae arranged for the dispatch to Egypt of t small staff of nurses, with all nursing appliances, the moment their services are needed. The Egyptian debt is £98,398,020, of which £72,000,000 is held in England. This and the commerce of Egypt and the road to India are what England is fighting for. The United States is not likely to be asked to send a delagate to the confer ence of the Suez Canal question, and the United States doesn’t care so very much about it, either. Having taken a solemn pledge not to drink at a public bar, a young man of Toronto has liis favorite tipple brought out by Ent v bartender, and drinks it standing on the sidewalk. Cetywayo has learned to eat jf knife and fork, and his favorite to begin breakfast with is a mess of por ridge and a bottle of whisky. The Zulu King is becoming rapidly civilized. The Philosophers of Concord, who were duped by a Western sharper, have several things to learn yet; among oth ers, that of not placing tm> much confi dence in a glib-tongued, prepossessing stranger. The Boston Traimript thinks it was not surprising that m>v. Mr. Miln had doubts of the existence of hell after liv ing a year or two iu Chicago. He looked upon such belief e.3 the rankest kind tautology. Oscar Wilde has announced his in tention to visit Japan. Every heart wii. bound with joy at this news. America is anxious to get rid of all the cranks she can, aud will bid Oscar an eternal adie* with a smile ou her lip. London Truth astonishes the English with the statement, that "in some of the smaller Western cities of America there are more telephones than there are at present in Eugland.” The ordinary Englishman, however, would uot like i* admit that. Fifteen thousand men and five thon sand horses have been sent to Egypt from Eugland, and about teu thousand men from India. Wolseley will proba bly be able to muster for the march or Cairo, about fifteen thousand infantry and five thousand cavalry. Some one. writes to the Kennebee, Maine, Journal that “ cider drinking hat become a great evil among the rural population of the State, as many labor ing men will not work unless it is fur nished them by the farmer, and many farmers and farmers’ sons are too mud addicted to its use.” The Langtrvs found the friendship in the Prince of Wales expensive, and be tween giving entertainments at which h was present and the Irish land troubles their income of $15,000 a year melted away. So Air. Langtry was forced ti be contented with about a tenth of hil origiual ii.come, to supplement which his wife took to the stage. In Admiral Frederick de Lutke, Rns sia loses one of her oldest sailors aud scientists. Born in 1797, he made the voyage around the world with Captain Julownin in 1817-19, and soon after be gan that service of remarkable Arctic explorations which got him the ear aud the applause of the scientific world. Herbert Spencer is paying thi* country a visit, the chief object of the • vjX-it being that of the recovery of hi* health. No doubt part of his purpose in coming was to learn something which would be useful to him in the division of he great work on Sociology on which be is now engaged —The Industrial De velopment of Society—having finished and published volumes on the Ceremo nial and Political Development. The celebration at Ogden’s Grove. Chicago, for the purpose of raising funds to erect a monument to the mera ory of John Brown was oue of the worst managed and completest failures of tht century. Letters of regret were read from many distinguished men, and nobody was there but a few of tht neighbors, aggregating 300 persons The widow of John Brown, who livot in California, was there, and delivered short address. The men of commerce, art and in dustrywho have given character ani tone to the Industrial Exposition of Cin cinnati deserve well, not only of tliei fellow-citizens, but of all who take aj interest in the manufacturing industrit s of the nation. There have been evi dences of commendable improvement in every succeeding exhibition, and the public have good grounds to anticipate for the tenth a perfection of order, dis play and excellence not previously at tained. The classifications are a model of fullness and elaboration. Its scenic departments embrace everything in raa chinery, manufactures and products, and these are classified under eighty five heads. Gold, silver and bronze medals and cash premiums are offered in the different classes. The Exposition opens September 6, and closes October 7. The industrial parade on tho day of the openiug will be the biggejt thing ever seen iu Cincinnati, aud a spectacle wonderfully interesting, lustruftivejmd picturesque. The cars of seventeen wards, already organized and at work, will extend seventeen squares. As for the Exposition itself, there is more space now engaged than was occupied by the last Exposition when it opened, and the interest aroused is extraordina ry and universal. All railroads center ing iu Cincinnati will sell tickets at re duced prices. Traveling by Hand-Car. For several days past railroad men on the Buffalo division have been both ering their heads over a strange charac ter whom they have seen running a hand-car all by himself, and behaving in a singular manner. Monday night train No. 12 was stopped to avoid run ning over him. Other trains have come close upon him within the past few days before he got his “special” off the* track. Yesterday Officer Mahar found him near Dalton with his car. 11c was brought to Hornellsville, and now oc cupies a cell in the lockup, where lie was interviewed by a Tim s reporter. He is a young man apparently not over twenty-five years of age, of medium size, with black hair and eyes and dark complexion. He said that his name was Martin Kaslel, and that his home was in Omaha, from which place he had come on a first-class passenger-car. Somewhere between Hunt’s and Daiton he purchased his hand-car of a young man, whose mother ratified the bargain. On being asked what his plan was, he replied that he thought that a nice way to spend the summer would be to travel around by himself on a hand-car. He had intended to move gradually along to New York, gathering curious stones and weeds by the way, amhJiaving a quiet, restful time all by himself# lie said he had no idea of this trouble when he started, and now he was will* ing to trade his hand-car for some prop erty in this town if he could. On being asked if he did not know that it was dan gerous to travel as he had been doing, he replied that there was no danger at all. “Why,” said he, “I never let a train get within half a mile of me unless I hap pen to meet one on a curve. Then I just lift niy car off in two seconds. If I had some chairs in here 1 would show you how Ido it. lam safe if a train gets within half a block of me before I see it, and it is easy to get out of the way if a train is two blocks off.” The young man asked the reporter how soon the examination would take place, sav - ing: “I want to get out of this place as soon as possible.” —Hornellsville (A r . Y.) Times. Superstition in Massachusetts. There is a great deal of superstition yet remaining in the most civilized States of the world. One of the most recent illustrations of this comes from Massachusetts. At Fall River, about a year ago a house belonging to an aged blind woman was sold under a foreclos ure of mortage, and the old woman cursed the parties concerned in the sale ami prayed that whoever took the house might become blind. The purchaser, another old lady, was deeply grieved by her threats, and was never happy in the house. Her health rapidly declined and she took to her bed. For several weeks before her death she was blind, and some of her friends have thought that the agitation caused by the old woman’s curses worked upon her imagination and finally caused her death. —Ex. —A man generally dislikes a girl baby at two years, just tolerates her at ten,’ and worships her at eighteen. TERMS-SI.OO p*r Annum strictly in Advance. FACTS AND FIGURES. —Ohio manufactured over four mill ion pounds of plug tobacco last year. —There are fifty-two breweries in Brooklyn which produce 4,000,000 kegs of lager annually, and paid a revenue of $1,000,000. — N. Y. Times. —Tht; corn crop of Texas this year is estimated at 140,000,000 bushels. The value of the agricultural products of that State is $94,071,998. Chicago Tribune. —Ninety-three thousand acres have been planted tinder the new arboricul ture act in Kansas. Preference is givon to the cotton tree on accountof its rapid growth. —Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be the largest in the world, have been made for their own use by the South Boston Iron-works. Each lathe con tains 600,000 pounds of iron, and is in tended for boring out cannon.— Boston Post. —The crop of Indian corn is one of the most important and valuable iu the United States. The crop of 1880 was estimated at 1,717,000,000 bushels; the wheat crop of the same year was esti mated at 198,000,000 bushels. It must be considered the staple crop of the Western and Southwestern States. In 1880, Illinois produced 240.000.000 bushels, as against 60,000,000 bushels of wheat. The acreage of corn in Kan sas the same year was 2,995,070 acres, and the product 108,701,927 bushels, against an acreage of 1,520,659 acres of winter wheat, with a product of 17,560,- 259 bushels. —lt is estimated that nearly 2,000,- 000,000 pounds of paper are produced annually; one-half of which is used for printing, a. sixth for writing and the remainder is coarse paper for packing and other purposes. The United States alone produces yearly 2i>0,000 tons of paper, averaging seventeen pounds per head for its population. The English man comes next with about twelve pounds per head; the educated German takes eight pounds; the Frenchman seven pounds, whilst the Italian, Span iard and Russian take respectively three pounds, one-half pound and one pound annually.— N. Y. Sun. —The English are the best customers for American canned salmon. Most of the Sacramento Riv er salmon go to the Atlantic cities, but Liverpool draws the bulk of its supply from Oregon, either direct from the Columbia River or through San Franc Leo. The Fraser River salmon all go to England direct from Victoria. Last season the Fraser River sent 146,000 cases to Europe. It is expected that as many more will be canned there this season for the same market. 'TheColumbia River sent 380,- 700 cases direct to Europe for the year ended March 31. Thus far this season three cargoes have been cleared direct from the Columbia River for England, with 98,480 cases. —Chicago 'Times. As Sensible as Most Duels. Sheep’s-head, although hardly a flat tering epithet or tenn of endearment, is hot regarded between man and man in this country as an insult of so deep a dye that the stain indicted upon the honor of a gentleman to whom this compound noun may happen to be ad dressed can only be washed out in blood. That such, however, is the view taken of its German equivalent, “Schafskopf,” in the Fatherland is conclusively demon strated by the following lamentable oc currence: A few days ago, in the an cient City of Oldenburg, one Herr Jan sen, an elderly barrister, called upon an acquaintance, the upper story of whose dwelling was occupied by an infantry Lieutenant named Fischer, the proprie tor of a handsome pointer, upon which he had sportively bestowed the name of Scharfskopf. The dog was lying stretched on the door-step as Jansen came up to the door, and that very mo ment the Lieutenant, thrusting his head out of his second-floor window, shouted at the top of his voice: “Sheep’s-head, come up, will you?” Jansen took the summons to himself, anu, instead of entering the house, waited by the door unt 1 Fischer made his appearance, when, exclaiming: “ Sheep’s-head yourself,” he lent the Lieutenant a hearty box on the ear. Fischer, who was in mufti, retorted with a walking stick. and the result of this misunder standing was a hostile meeting. Jansen fired first, inflicting a slight flesh wound upon his adversary, whereupon Fischer, in no way rallied by his hurt, stretched the too-hasty advocate dead upon the ground with a bullet through his heart. —London Telegraph. Odd Moments. It is often the odd moments that are the most valuable and offer the best privileges for acquiring knowledge, or doing some little act of charity. It was Schliemann, whose books on Troy and Mycen.e are much sought by the learned, who said that he never went on his er rands, oven in the rain, without having his book in his hand and learning some thing by heart, and he never waited at the post-office without reading. Some who read this may complain of their odd moments being so few, and seem to look upon half an hour as a trifling thing to gain any knowledge; but it is these odd moments and half hours that are so valuable, and give such rare opportuni ties for improving the mind and heart. The odd moments of most men are, in reality, the only time that they can call their own. All the working hours are occupied in making a living. These belong to their employers, and the even ings and an occasional rest-day are the only times they have to secure intel lectual wealth. But, rightly improved, great things can be done in the odd mo ments. — Baptist Weekly. NUMBER 38.