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G- W. M. TATUM, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
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Close connection is made at Memphis
with the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad for all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
The time by this line from Chattanoo
ga to Memphis, Little Rock, and points
beyond, is five hours quicker than by an>
other line.
Through Passenger Coaches anil Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK
Without Chanpe.
Wo Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
tickets now selling at
THE LOWEST RATES.
For further information call on o r
write to J. M. SUTTON.
Passenger Apt., Chickasaw Route,
P. O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Tenn.
Alabama Rreat Soli If
Time Card,
Taking effect January 15th, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mail.
. Arrive. Depart.
Chattanooga am 8 2f
Wauhatchie 840 do 841
Morgan ville 859 do 900
Trenton., 916 do 917
Rising Fawn 937 do 938
Attalla 12 20 do 12 35
Birmingham 255 do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 do 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wallace, H. Collbran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Act
Naskrille.Chattaiooea & St, lonls R ! y.
AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITORS.
business MEN, tourists, nrai! rRa nr n
EMIGRANTS, FAMILIMB. nLlYjtlYlDLn
Tbe Ronto to Louisville. Cincinnati, Indi-
Title 8 ’ tjluca °°' and tbe North, is via Nani,-
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In 1111 If! U 111 Hot her, Fat iff tie.
Re sure to buy your tickets over toe
N. C. & St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRW
ELER need not go amiss; few changci
are necessary, and such as ate unavoida.
ble are made in Union Depots.
Through Sleepers
BETWEEN—
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nashville and St. Louis, via Co
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis. Martin and St. Louis,
Union City and St. Louis, McKenzie ano
Little Rock, where connection is made
with Through Sleepers to all Texas p : onts.
Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn, Atlanta, Ga.
J. H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. T. Rogers, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenr.
W. L. Danlky, G. P. and T. A.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday uigbts of each
month. J. W. Russey, W. M.
S. H. Thurman, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month on Friday ’night, on or before
the full moon.
W. U. Jacoway, W. M.
G. M. Crabtree, Sec’ty.
Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M.,
meets on tbe third Wednesday night of
each month,
M. A. B. Tatum, H. P.
W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty.
Court of Cidinary meets on first Mon
day of each month.
G. M. Ceabtree Ordinary
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court C lei k
P. P- Majors, Sheriff,
Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver,
D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector,
Joseph Kner, Coroner,
Wra. Morrison, Surveyor.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1882.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Knoxville, Tenn., has raised $250,000
[ toward building "a cotton factory.
A hog owned by a man living near
J Petersburg, Va., weighs 1,300 pounds.
Louisiana proposes to enter extensive
ly in the raising and manufacture of
jute.
At Henrys, N. C., a vein of meer
schaum of extremely fine quality has
been discovered.
Vicksburg’s new cotton compress,with
a storage capacity of 50,000 bales, is
ready for business.
At a sale af public lands at Austin,
Tex., 60,000 acres were sold at fifty
cents, a man named Forsyth taking it
all.
The State Land Office at Tallahassee
has now eight clerks employed. Three
did the work before the boom reached
the State.
A man near Newnan, Ga., has been
working an alleged gold mine forty
years and has never made a cent. He
is still confident that “there’s millions
in it.”
The huge rattle snake recently killed
in Sumter county, Fla., has been for
warded to the Smithsonian Institute.
The snake measured eight feet and two
inches in length.
Raleigh News and Observer; North
Carolina has 178 varieties of
25 more than any other State can show,
up. There are 112 varities of woods,
and again we are in the lead.
It is intended organizing the “Ben
Hill Monumental Association” in Geor
gia, the object of the association being
to collect funds to erect a monument at
Atlanta in memory of Hon. B. H. Hill.
An old silver watch, once the prperty
of Aaron Burr, and an autograph of
Thomas ‘ Jefferson, were purchased in
Richmond, Va., recently, by ex-Gov
ernor Randolph for the New Jersey
Historical Society.
Tbe enterprising Texan who started
a goose ranche near Taylor has given
up his project. The geese, 400 in all,
died, failing to find sustenance enough
in the grass on which it was thought
they would thrive.
The chestnut tree recently felled at
Salisburg, N. C., measures nine feet in
diameter, and a lady and gentleman can
walk through it without getting near so
close together as they do at a lawn par
ty. The rings on the tree indicate that
it is 400 years old.
“Pa, what is a pessimist, and what is
an optimist?” “A pessimist, my son>
is one who takes the surplus kittens,
: ust after they are born, and chloro
forms them. The optimist is one who
lets the kittens grow up, to live a
wretched, starving life ; to be tortured
continually by hoys and other thought
less animals, and to he finally killed
with brickbats and left to rot on the
street.”
Great war ships are costly even in
England, where ship building is less ex
pensive than in thiscountrv. The Brit
ish ironclad Inflexible cost $4,000,000,.
hut she is the most formidable war ves
sel ever constructed. She has a tonnage
of 11,406 tons, 8,000 horse power en
gines, and an armor ranging from six
:ccn to twenty-four inches in thickness
She carries four eighty-one ton guns,
which propel 1,700 pound shot a dis
tance of nine miles.
At the receut Forestry Convention at
Montreal it was shown that in Canada
the annual production of pine lumber
is 2,000,000,000 feet, requiring the trees
of 1,000,000 acres, and that at this rate
the pine forests will not hold out over
fifty years, and not that long if the
present waste in cutting continues and
fires are allowed to ravage the pine re
gion. Dr. Loring, our Commissioner of
Agriculture, made an address to the
convention, showing that the pine for
ests in the United States would in Tex
as he exhausted in 300 years ; Florida,
thirty years ; Alabama, seventy years;
Mississippi, 150 years; Minnesota ten
years ; Michigan, seven years ; Wiscon
sin, twenty years ; North Carolina, fifty
years; Louisiana, 540 years; Georgia,
seventy-five years ; Pennsylvania, five
years ; Arkansas, 320 years; California,
200 yeais; South Carolina, twenty-seven
years; Maine, fifteen years. The bulk
of the pine lumber supply is in the
Southern States, and from Dr. Boring's
statement it is very evident that it is a
great public duty to prevent the present
reckless waste of timber, and to rehabil
itate wasted areas by forest planting.
“Faithful to the Right, Fearless Agsiust Wrong.”
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Italy has postponed specie payment
till next April.
Conk derate bonds are beginning to
look up again.
Texas cotton is promising, but twen
ty*five days late.
News from across the big poud says
Sarah Bernhardt is seriously ill.
It was James Gordon Bennett him
self who interviewed the Sultan for the
New York Herald.
The Czar is afraid of his crown. The
coronation, we are now informed, will
not occur until next May.
It is estimated that there has been no
less than 50,000 watermelons shipped
north daily from Atlanta, Ga.
It is a fact that while at Saratoga
Oscar Wilde registered “oscar wilde,
london.” Small potatoes, that.
Portland, Oregon, is reputed to bo
the wealthiest city in the United States
in proportion to her population.
Guiteau’s skeleton is now in the Na
tional Army Medical Museum, Wash
ington, but not on public exhibition.
The progress of Dakota is indicated by
the fact that she now has more daily
papers than any one of the Southern
States.
While General Swaim is still of opin
ion that the confinement of Sergeant
Mason is illegal, the confinement goes
on, and in time the sentence will be
served out.
Paul Boynton, the swimmer, figures
up that he has saved seventy-two persons
from drowning in his day, and the largest
reward ever offered him was a silver
plated watch worth about $3.
Decrease of the public debt for
August $16,000,000. During the next
two months the Government will dis
burse $41,500,000 in payment of called
bonds, interest on the public debt aud
pensions.
Henry Ward Beecher says that if he
was a newspaper man he wouldn’t be
lieve in anything or anybody that had
an ax to grind. Yes, Henry, and there
are lots of things that newspaper men
don’t take much stock in.
It may be creditable to tiie Washing
ton police that move instances of insults
to women are detected there than hi any
other city of equal size in the country,
but at the same time it does not speak
very well for our statesmen.
The Jewish Messenger rebukes the
Hebrews for leaving their religion in the
city when they go to the summer resorts,
and says: “We have yet to learn of a
single instance of public worship on the
Jewish Sabbath at any country place.’’
Fuel: credits Anna Dickinson with this
statement: “Well, yes, I was something
of a free trader, but if that horrid
creature Langtry is coming over here,
I am going in for protection. Oh, I
wish we women had the making of the
tariff.”
Six inches of rain fell all over North
western Texas during the recent heavy
storm, and it is estimated that 25,000
sheep, besides horses, cattle, mules, and
sixty to seventy-five persons were swept
away. About fifty houses are gone in
Laredo.
Rev. George C. Miln is preaching
at Watkins Glen, where he will soon
have an opportunity of meeting Herbert
Spencer, the man whose writings, he says,
first led him to disblieve in the Church
and finally to renounce the Christian
faith altogether.
The cook at the White House during
the illness of President Garfield, wants
to know why her name has been omitted
from the list of employes who are to re
ceive extra compensation. This is a re
markable oversight, perhaps due to the
cook’s lack of cheek.
“I often cross the street to avoitj
meeting a man,” says Mr. Beecher, “not
because I have anything against him,
but simply I do not feel like speaking to
him. I suppose all men are this way.”
It may be, but the question is, is this the
right spirit for a Christian to manifest.
The wearing of jewelry is going out of
fashion in England. It is regarded as
vulgar to be seen with a display of
jewels, unless it be on great occasions.
Bare arms and throats are the rule in
fashionable society, the wearing of ban
gles, bracelets, and chains being left to
those who do oot follow the newest
styles.
A cot km for ary significantly asks:
How does it happen that the British in
Egypt get regularly beaten in the after
noon papers, and come up all right and
getting on in the papers of next mqrning?
llow comes it that the afternoon papers
are so destructive to the British? By what
line do they get their news ?
Those who have access to both morn
ing and evening papers may have often
noticed this irregularity.
In Merchantville, N. J., a Magistrate
fined a boy $1 for swearing. This fur
nishes a basis for calculation to a brother
of Col. Sellers, who lives in Camden. He
reckons that in Camden County there
are 70,000 people, half of whom swear.
That would be $35,000 for an oath apiece.
Each fellow swears fifty times a day.
That makes $1,759,000 daily income,
$12,250,000 per week, and, counting
twenty-six good working days to the
month, $318,500,000 each month.
The Khedive has prescribed a treat
ment of officers who come back to him
from Arabi, which is calculated to wash
out their treason, but not to encourage
others to return; it is to have them keel
hauled by the frigate Seanda. Keel
hauling is to pass a line under the ship,
hitch the victim to one end, let him
down on one side, haul him under the
ship and up on the other side, making
no haste in the hauling. It is intended
to fetch the keelhauled to the next to
the last gasp.
It will be remembered that General
Sherman, not many years since, visited
the scene of the present hostilities in
Egypt, is perfectly familiar with the
theater of operations, and during our
civil war had a great deal of experience
in flank movements. He said that
Wolseley showed great nerve in taking
the sacred bull by the horns, so to speak,
without waiting for the result of nego
tiations at Constantinople. “Ah, he is
a great soldier, that Wolseley,” said the
General. “A great soldier. The English
people will pay him well, and he knows
it.” The General was evidently thinking
of the difference between the pay of a
General in the army of the United
States and a successful General in the
English army, with his titles and their
substantial £IOO,OOO attachments. He
says Wolseley’s ree'ent movement on
Ismailia was equal to anytliij*; a sim
ilar character the first
Napoleon.
Taming a Wild Partridge.
To do medicate the partridge has fre
quently been attempted, but rarely ac
complished. The eggs have been placed
under the ordinary hen for incubation,
thinking by association with the nest
mates the little jMrtridge chicks would
become domestic, but instinct would in
variably lead the young partridges to
their naturatewild life. Last winter in
Bolton, Zencffriiomas, while at work in
the woods a short distance from his
house, frequently saw a partridge, and
in the goodness of his heart would scat
ter a few grains of food for it. Last
spring, while at work clearing the
ground, he noticed a partridge that
seemed not to possess the natural wild
ness of its species, and, after a short
time, by feeding and kind attention,
would permit itself to be handled. Mr.
Thomas at any time, by calling “Dick,
Dick,” can get the bird to appear, much
to the amusement of the neighbors. Mr.
Thomas one day took the bird to his home,
hoping to induce him to remain with
domestic fowls, but as soon as liberated
“Dick” flew away to his haunts in the
woods. “Dick” resented this familiari
ty, and for sever al days would not per
mit Mr. Thomas to touch him.— Troy
Times.
Boston Bar Examinations.
It is now no easy task to be admitted
to the Suffolk bar. The examinations,
conducted by a carefully selected board,
whose names—Messrs. Horatio G. Par
ker, George (). Shattuck, John C.
Dodge, Robert M. Morse, Jr., and R. D.
Smith—vouch at once for the thorough
ness of their work, cover nearly all de
partments of the law. Three years of
study are expected of all candidates, and
any student must be exceptionally gifted
and unusually diligent who can pass
this examination in less time. Printed
papers are used and written answers are
required. The questions are chiefly
practical; they are all very searching
and are sometimes too much for old
members of the bar themselves. A
student in a very busy office recently
inquired of one of the partners in re
gard to the meaning of the maxim de
mtlioribus damnis, saying that it had
appeared on a recent examination pa
per, and that it could not be found in
“Broom.” Nobody in the office could
give a satisfactory answer. Then a note
was dispatched to an old lawyer who had
formerly been on the Examining Com
mittee of the County, and his reply
was: “You have struck an old question
of ’3; he had some doubt about it
himself. I think it means so and so.”
—Boston Advertiser.
The ancient custom of sending a pres
ent of fine cloth to certain high officers
of State and gentlemen of her Miijesty’s
household has lately been observed by a
committee of the Court of Aldermen of
London. The custom seems to have
originated in a desire to encourage com
petition in the manufacture of fine goods.
T£RMS-SI.OO pr Annum strictly In Advance.
Curious Corea.
A tall gentleman of military physique
attracted the attention of a Leader com
missioner yesterday as he watched the
ebb and flow at the Union Depot. Upon
inquiry it was learned that the warlike
gentleman was Commodore R. W. Schu
feidt, of the United States Navy, who
was en route to his home in the East.
Commodore Schufeidt was sent to China
and Corea by the Government on an im
portant and diplomatic mission, and
reached this country but a few days
since, having accomplished the service
he was detailed to perform. Corea is a
mountainous kingdom of Eastern Asia.
The King is a vassal of the Chinese Em
pire, yet within his own country he is an
absolute monarch. His name is so holy
that no one is permitted to speak it, and
it is rated high treason to touch his
body with any weapon of iron. Tieng
tsong-tai-vang permitted himself to die
of an abscess in the year 1880 rather
than permit his doctor to use a lance on
him. Every horseman that passes the
palace of the King is compelled to dis
mount, and those who enter his presence
must needs prostrate themselves before
the throne.
There are eight provinces in the
Kingdom, and each is presided over by
a Governor. The Corean language is
Turanian in its nature, but the educated
classes have discarded it for Chinese.
Buddhism is the official religion, and
sacrifices of pigs, goats and sheep are
offered to the gods for all purposes upon
the least provocation. Plurality of wives
is not tolerated, but harems are in high
fashion, and one of these arrangements
is attached to the palace of the King.
Children fare well among the people,
and strong affection for their off
spring is one of the redeeming traits of
the Corean people. Paper is the only
thing of any consequence manufactured
in the country, but trade there is entire
ly undeveloped. Iu 1867 several Ameri
can vessels were burned by the natives,
and Commodore Schufeidt was sent by
the Government to remonstrate with the
Corean authorities, but*he failed and
returned. Admiral Rodgers in 1870 en
deavored to enter Corea, Imd also failed,
and the country still remaiSs a sealed
mystery to the civilized world. The
Japs have got so far, however, as to be
allowed to station a permanent Minister
at the Corean capital, while three of the
ports are open to Japanese trade, but
further they dare not go.
Commodore Schufeldt’s second mis
sion to Corea was to open that country
to the world, and ho was successful in
doing so through the intervention of the
Chinese Government. The mineral re
sources of Corea are said to be great,
gold, silver, copper, iron ore and coal
being reported to be among its hidden
treasures. The Corea women are not con
sidered of much importance by the males,
and among the upper classes the mar
riage of a widow is considered disgrace
ful, and the production of the union, if
there be any, is looked upon as being
illegitimate. Widowers are, of course,
free to wed a dozen times if they are so
inclined. There is another custom which
Americans will have to remedy when
they move over, and that is the cultiva
tion of snakes. The average Corean
dotes on reptiles, and views them with
the most profound respect and awe.—
Cleveland header.
The First Castiitg of Iron.
Cast iron was not in commercial use
before the year 1700, when Abraham
Darby, an intelligent mechanic, who
had brought some Dutch workmen to
establish a brass foundry at Bristol,
Eng., conceived the idea that iron might
be substituted for brass. This his work
men did not succeed in effecting, being
probably too much prejudiced in favor
of the metal with which they were best
acquainted. A Welsh sliepherd-boy
named John Thomas had, some little
time previous to this, been received by
Abraham Darby into Jiis workshop on
the recommendation of ajdistant rela
tive. While looking on during the ex
periments of the Dutch wortaien, ho
said to Abraham Darby that ho saw
where they had missed it. He begged
to be allowed to try; so he and
Abraham Darbv remained alone in the
workshop all night struggling with
the refractory metal and imperfect
molds. The hours passed on and day
light appeared, but neither would leave
his task; and just as morning davvned
they succeeded in eas'.ing an iron pot
complete. The boy entered into an
agreement with Abraham Darby to
serve him and keep the secret. He was
enticed by the offer of double wages to
leave his master, but he continued faith
ful; and from 1709 to 1822 the family of
Thomas were confidential and much
valued agents to the descendants of
Abraham Darby. For more than one
hundred years after the night in which
Thomas and his master succeeded in
making au iron casting in a mold of
tine sand contained in frames and with
air-holes, the same process was prac
ticed and kept secret at l.’olebrook Dale
with plugged keyholes and barred doors.
—Hard-Money Cake: Gold part—
Take two cups of sugar, a scant cup of
butter, and work together to a cream,
then add the yelks of eight eggs, tour
cups of flour and one tablespoonful of
corn starch: one cup of sour milk, with
a tcasnoonful of soda in it. added the
last thing, except the flavor, which may
1)0 lemon§and vanilla. Silver part —
Take two cups of sugar and one of but
ter. four cups of flour and one table
spoonful of corn-starch, the whites of
j eight eggs, one cup of sour milk, tea
spoonful of soda flavor with almond or
peach. Put in the baking-pan alternate
ly one spoonful of gold and one of sil
ver. -Boston Transcript.
NUMBER 39.
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Dean Stanley said: “The best rein
edy for all evils is to look forward.”
—lt takes a clever man to conceal
from others what he doesn’t know.
—Said a young miss the other day as
she examined a cat that was “ shedding
its feathers,” “ I really believe this cat
has been moth eaten.”
—A girl who sets out to look grace
ful in a hammock has as much work on
hand as the man who tries to be languid
with a saw-log following him down "hill.
—Detroit Free Press.
—Said little Edith to her doll:
“ There, don’t answer me back. You
musn't be saucy, no matter how hateful
1 am. You must remember lam your
mother!” Strange, what curious ideas
children get into their heads sometimes.
Our Continent.
—A New York paper says “the ice
pitcher is more fatal than alcohoL”
That depends. An ice pitcher is a
harmless thing in itself; but if a man
were to swallow one he would no doubt
wish lie had taken a pint of alcohol in
stead. Norristown Herald.
—“I should like to have a coin dated
the year of my birth.” said a maiden
lady of uncertain age to a male ac
quaintance. “Do you think you could
get one for me?” “ I am afraid not,”
he replied. “These very old coins are
only to be found in valuable collec
tions.”
—She was an up-town lady of culture.
She stood watching a boat loaded with
ice. “ What is that boat loaded with?”
“Ice,” was the reply. “Oh, my!” she
exclaimed, in surprise; “ if the horrid
stuff should melt, the water would sink
the boat!” — N. Y. Bun.
—Don’t you known how hard it is for
some people to get out of a room after
their visit is really over? One would think
they had been built in your parlor or
study, and were waiting to be launched.
— Holmes. We think there is a typo
graphical error in the last word of the
above. It was probably a lunch, and
not a launch, they were awaiting.
There are such people. Texas Siftings.
—A Jersey man went to Mauch Chunk,
Pa., to spend his vacation, and during
his first night three old hens, which had
gone to roost on a tree outside his bed
room window, were disturbed by a cat,
and flew into the. apartment. The
Jerseyman awakened and slashed a pil
low around until they found their way
out. The next, morning he told his
host that he should come there every
summer, for during the whole night he
had seen but three mosquitoes.—Phila
delphia News.
—An official in the Water Board of a
Western city having departed this life,
the city Government, who esteemed
him as a faithful employe, sent his sal
ary for the remainder of the year with a
letter of condolence to the widow. A
friend of the latter in speaking of her
loss remarked that the action of the city
had been ver} 7 considerate, etc. “Yes,”
said the bereaved one, “but seems 'if
they might have shut off the water for
half a day at least, as a mark of respect
for John.” —Boston Commercial Bulle
tin.
A ret ic Coal.
The existence of coal in the Arctic re
gion, and the nature of its composition,
constitute one of the most remarkable
discoveries in modern geology. This
coal seam, it appears, is found in the
side of a narrow mountain gorge, the
prevailing rock of the surrounding dis
trict being a shingly claystone of very
irregular arrangement, but mainly dip
ping to the westward, and, so far as as
certained, devoid of fossils, though the
vegetation presents no less than sixty
species of plants. The coal has a bright,
shiny appearance, is somewhat of a
pitchy chara •ter, and very brittle. On
analysis, it cannot be distinguished from
bituminous coal of exceeding good qual
ity, and is found to belong to the true
carboniferous period. It contains some
sixty-live percent, of coke; and those
who are acquainted with the various
coal fields of England trace a strong re
semblance between the Arctic and the
English.— N. Y. Sun.
—Two children, named George and
Harriet Grindley, aged eight and nine
years, reached l’hiladelphia the other
day 7 , having traveled alone from Man
chester, England. Their mother is a
widow, living in Philadelphia, and has
been in this country three years. When
she left old England the children were
placed in the Chesterfield Industrial
School, at Manchester, where they re
mained until sent for by their mother.
Tags were sewed to their clothing stat
ing that they were to be forwarded by
the National Steamship line from Man
chester, and giving the destination of
the little travelers. They were intrusted
to the care of the steamship officers,
their passage being paid for on this side.
The children arrived by the steamer
Spain sound and bright.— Philadelphia
Record.
—Prof. Henry A. Ward, of Roches
ter, has taken a contract to purchase for
the American Museum of Natural His
tory, in Central Park, New York, the
specimens of two valuable collections.
One is to be a complete collection of the
mammals and birds of North America,
including some seven or eight hundred
specimens, and its cost, to be defrayed
by Morris K. Jessup, will be $10,000;
the other will be a collection represent
ing all the quadrumana of the world.
! About 300 mokeys will comprise the
latter collection, the expense of which,
,$7,000, is provided for by Robert Col
gate. It will take Prof. Ward upward
j of two rears to make the collections.—
N- Y. Times.