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G- W. M. TATUM, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME IV. Hail roads. Chickasaw Route, VIA MEMPHIS A CHARLESTON R R. TWO PASSENQFR TRAINS DAILY TO memhais, tenn. pass. Ex> ~T ™ attan <>o<?a 830 a m 810 t>’m Stevenson.. 10 Of) n m r " ."“*1035 a m " Vi 99 P 111 “ Huntsvll'e... X 9o?*“ ?H P m “ Florence.... 12 00 o’n I?o ” <* uu n n 2 10am it G r ....i ! ;v 6 31 pni 521 a m Arr Me™ ?. anctlon ~ 727 P"> 725 a m 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,- T sf*Mck"„ o ler t 0 ‘ S - I ‘°" ,S a " 1 M ' e Wfst if R,, TT Weßt Tennessee and Her tiiekr. Mifisi^Bip 1 , Arkansßs aud Texps roints If. vlh JlrHfiiKlf*. DON’T FOKGKT IT. —By tbi3 Line you secure the— MAYIMIIM ° f #nty. 11l n A I In U 111 i ninlur, Snlislariioii MINIMUM ° f Anxiety. 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.