Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

VOLUME IV. Bailroads, Chickasaw Route, MEMPHIS It CHARLESTON R, R. TVVO PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY v TO M EM HA 18, TENN. * PABB. ax. Ly Chattanooga 830 a m 810 pra . Stevenson 1 0 00 a m 945 prn Scottsbo-o 1035 am 10 22 pm Hnntev’l'e 1205 p m 11 55 p m Debtor 125 pm 100 am (l J lO^ 6 12 00 n’n 210 am „ Corurth 5 31pm 521 am Grand Junction.... 727 pm 725 am Arr Memphis 930 p m 945 a m 86 Oh connection is made at Memphis ' * 4he Memphis & Little Rock R iilmsd for all points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. # The time by tbit line 'rom Chattanoo ga to MemphiSj Little Rock, and point r beyond, is fife hours quicker than by any othef.line. Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage Cars from CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROOK Without Change. ATo Other Line Offers these ■Advantages. .EMIGRANT TICK RTS NOW P FLUNG AT THE LOWEST RATES. For fnrti er information call on o r write to J. M. SUTTON. Paspcrec' Act., Chickasajv Route, P O. Box 234. .Chattomnosra, Tenr. Allans GitloiirnlF ' •. Tim© Caid, Taking, effect January 15th, .1832. Southbound. - No. 1. Mail. *■ . •’ •- Arrive. Depart •Chaitancoya am 8 2- . Wauhatehje.?. 843 do 841 MrtrgaiWfl'.e #.. 859 r'o 906 Trenton ...,. 77. 910 do 917 . P.isintr F iin 937 do 938 AttaWa.... v —t 12 20 do 12 35 BirriineKkiii 2 s'* do 30! Tuscaloosa 523 do 525 Meridian 10 00 do CHARLF.i B. Wallace, 11. Collbran, S’lnerintendent.. Gn’l Pass. Aet. NaMe,CMfairoia & St. Lonis R’y. AHEAD OK ALL COMPETITORS. BUSINESS MEN. TOURISTS D T T IUI DC P JCBII9RANTS, FA Ml LI MS, flllmCsfjDLn Th. Rants to LrniKvl!]*, Cincinnati. Inrii a-apoMa, Chicago, and the North, is via ville. Ti*e Ws.e to R. lon's and tho West is via Hcflmis, Tias* rtnsf ft 0 0 t West Tennsaee and Kei ■ tnckv. Mieaissipi, Arkansas and Teirg joints i l -. vl MeHensle. DON’T FOKGKT IT 1 . —By thD Line you secure tl^ — MftXIMUM Camfar, Snilar'aftlon ‘MINIMUM ** Bother, F (Wig-no. B a f ure to Buy your tickets over tne N. C. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER need not go amiss ; few chaners are necessary, and such as are unavoida hie are made in Union Depots. VThrough Sleepers —BETWEEN— Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lnn Isville,, Naehville and Sk Louis, via Co lumbus. Nashville and Louisville, Nash ville and Memphis Martin and St. Louis, Union Oitv and St, Louis, McKenzie and Little Rock, where connection is made with Through Sleepers to all Texas pionts. Call on or address A. B. Wrenn. Atlanta, Ga. J. H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. T. Rogers, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenn. W. L. Danley, (4. P. and T. A , Ncdtvi’te, Tenn. Rising Fawn Lodjre, N, 293 mcfts first an 1 third Sa'itrdsv night* r.f erch month. J. W. Bussey. W. M. S. H. Thurman, Scc’ty. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meet* orce a a month cn Friday night, on or be’ore the full moon. W. U. Jacoway. W. M. G. M. Crabtree, Sec’ty. Trenton Chapter No. 69, R. A. M., meets on the third Wednesday night of each month, M. A. P. Tatum, F. P. W U. Jacoway, S.c’ty. Court of C dinarv ouetsou first Mon day of each month. G. M. CPAETREEOr linary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Ulc-rk P. P* Mejor=, Sheiiff, Joseph Coleman, Tsx R-ceiver, D. E. Tax (Jdlecter, Joseph K er, C<r mf, Wm, Morrison, Surveyor, RISING FAWN. DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, ISS2. NEWS GLEANINGS. Virginia has the larges mast crop known for years. The Virginia penitentiary now con tains 682 convics. About three-fourths of the fruit crop of Georgia has been dried. At Gainesville, Ga., Mrs. Chamber died at the age of 100 years. The ISoutb will make 7,600,000 gal lons of cotton seed oil this year. Bee-keeping is becoming a large and profitable industry in Mississippi. The trade in cotton in Montgomery, Ala , last year footed up $6,000,000. -Florida has shipped, during the sea son just closed, 25,000 head of cattle to Cuba. In some portions of North Alabama corn is offered at twenty-five cents a bushel. Clay county, N. C., polls but twenty negro votes, while Wake heads the list with 5,128. The colored military companies in the South will hold an encampment in At lanta this fall The Selma, Ala., cotton mills have jnst shiyped five car loads of cotton goods to China. Hsie county, Ala., is looking out for her moss industry and is gathering thousands of tons. Macon, Ga., has a bonded debt of hut $700,000, and taxable property amount ing to $10,000,000. Memphis has one-seventh of the whole number of cotton-seed oil mills in the whole country. Over 400 mines, including silver, cop per and other minerals, are being work ed in North Carolina. The first and only town clock in the State of Florida surmounts the new 7 court house at Tampa. Large and very rich deposits of iron ore have recently been discovered in Marshall county, Ala. A grove of eighty bananna trees, eighteen months old, is hearing good fruit at Waynesboro, Ga. An effort is being made to found a college at Greenville, Miss., for the ed ucation of colored vouths. North Caroolina’s rice crop is good, and this year will reach 65,000 bushels of tide-water and 200,000 bushels of up land. A stalk of Sea Island cotton nine feet in height and having forty-two branches and 250 bolls, is on exhibition at Bron son. Fla. The Georgia Lxnatic Asylum is full to overflowing, and cannot accommo date a large number of insane persons waiting treatment. It is estimated that over one-half of the new manufactories started in the South during the last two years belong to Northern capitalists. Little Ro;k, Ark., voted on the “license” question at the recent election and decided by an overwhelming ma jority to continue to “sip of the flowing bowl.” The New Orleans Times-Democrat say it is quite probable that the amount paid by the South to the West for food stuffs this year will be $100,000,000 less than paid in 1881. The screw worm in da angerous ene my to Texans. Near Ennis a man had nose bleed while asleep, and the fly de posited eggs at that time. A few days later 256 screw worms were taken from the man’s none. The Atlanta Constitution publishes a table showing the taxable property of Georgia to be worth, as returned from taxation, $290,000,000, an increase over ast year’s returns of $16,000,000. There are now twenty-two irou fur naces in Alabama. The Birmingham Age says that within a radius of fifty miles of Birmingham there is enough .iron to supply a thousand furnaces for a thousand years. Two more of the old guard have pass ed over the dark river. Michael Hol bert, aged 101 years, died last week in Marion county. West Va., and James Stalwart, aged 111 years, has just died in Aceomac county, Va. Florida will soon be a perfect net work of railways, and the rapid devel opment of the State will of course fol low. Her resources are wonderful, and a few years will place her among the liveliest of the Southern States. The Amerieus (Ga.) Recorder say* that during the present cyclone the 1 wells in the eastern part of the city “Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.” were blown dry. These wells, up to the time of the gale, were unfailing. The explanation of this remarkable occurrence is the existence of subterra nean passages and the violent agitation on the surface opened channels of es cape for the water to these. A curious looking specimen of the bovine race w r as exhibited on the streets of Greensboro, N. C., recently. The animal is a Devonshire bull calf, three months pld, with a tail and hide similar to those of an elephant. The calf is about the usual size, and apparently well and hearty. Its hide is entirely destitute of hair, lies in heavy folds like an elephant’s, and is of about the same color. The tail is short and spiked. Many valuable articles have recently been contributed to the Tennessee His torical Society. Among them are the writings of Thomas Paine, printed in 1792; an eight dollar Continental cur rency bill of 1777; a Spanish silver dol lar of 1783: an Indian tomahawk found in 1814; a copy of Arrowsmith and Lewis’ General Atlas, published in 1804; the first volume of Marquis de Chattel lux’s Travels in North America in 1780, 1781, 1782, and many interesting abori ginal relics. A suit which will prove of great in terest to theatre-goers and managers of amusement halls has been brought at Richmond, Va. A gentleman w r as ar rested in the opera house of that city for occupying a seat for which he had no coupon, although he had a ticket of admission. The seat was the only va cant one in the house. Now he will ask the courts to decide whether or not the theatre is compelled to furnish seats when a ticket is sold for it and the money paid. Putting Away Tools. The wearing out of farm implements i*. as a.i-n'r*. Due‘more to neglect than to use. If tools can be well taken care of, it will pay to buy those made of the best ste%l, and finished in the best man ner; but in common hands, and with common care, such are of little advant age. Iron and steel parts should be cleaned with dry sand and a cob, or scraped with a piece of soft iron, w ashed and oiled if necessary, and in a day or two cleaned off with the corn-cob, and dry £and. Finally paint the iron part with rosin and beeswax, in the propor tion of four of rosin, to one of wax, melted together and applied hot. This is good for the iron or steel parts of every sort of tool. Wood work should be painted with good, boiled, linseed oil, white lead and turpentine, colored of any desired tint; red is probably the best color. Keep the cattle away until the paint is dry and hard, or they will lick, with death as the result If it is not desired to use paint on hand tools, the boiled oil with turpentine and “liquid drier,” does just as well. Many prefer to saturate the wood-work of farm implements with crude petro leum. This caa not be used with color, but is applied by itself, so long as any is absorbed by the pores of the wood.— Agriculturist. How to Kill a Rattlesnake. A working party on a railroad here is made up of mountaineers and Georgians. One of the latter performed a foolhardy feat the other day that nrade the blood of the unaccustomed spectators run cold. They were at work clearing away the thick underbrush, in advanoe of the en gineer, when some one shouted: “ ’Ware of rattlesnakes! ” He saw one of these reptiles about four feet long and five or six inches in diameter lying just ahead. The Georgian cut a short stick with a forked end, and creeping up to the snake he deftly pinned it to the earth by Eushing the forked end on either side of is neck. Then, seizing the tail in his right hand, he ran his left down the snake’s body, and grasping it firmly just back of the head he held it up at arm’s length and called on tho others to “look at the varmint’s mouth.” It was any thing but a pleasant sight, and most of the spectators were horrified. After holding it a few minutes for general in spection, he suddenly swung the snake over his head with his right hand, let ting go the hold of the left, and dashed it with great force against a rock, kill ing it instantly. It was a cool and dex terous feat, but very trying to the look ers-on, who censured the man for his “folly,” at which he seemed to be mightily amused. -- To Color Brown: For five pounds of cloth, boil one and one-half pounds of eqtfeehu in as much water as will cov er the cloth until dissolved, then add two ounces of blue vitriol, stir well and pn! in your cloth, let it lie over night, w-ring it out in the morning, put iwo ounces of bi-chromate of potash in a kettle of boiling water, let the cloth stand in this till of the right color, and wash when dry. Color in iron. —Farm and Fireside. —Spirits of turpentine is now made from sawdust and refuse of the saw mill. It is extracted by a sweating process, and yields fourteen gallons of spirits, three to four gallons of resin, and a quantity of tar per cord. The spirits produced has a different o.fer from that produced by distillation. TOPICS OF THE 1)AI. About three-fourths of tho Georgia fruit orop has been dried. Ben. Btjtler has been retained by the Dorseys in the Star Route trials. The last of the Irish suspects have been released from Kilmainham jail. A farmer at Valdosta, Georgia, ha* made two crops of corn on one piece oi land. The proposed introduction of Chinese labor into England is meeting with op position. Hereafter no hreech’loading rifles are to be included in storos for uncivilzed Indians. A fatal case of blood poisoning from the bite of a mosquito is reported from Louisville, Ky. Sib Garnet Wolseley is a one-eyed man, and was left for dead in the trenohes at Sabastopol. Oliveti Ames, Republican nominee for Lieutenant-Governor of Massachu setts, is a son of Oakes Ames. “One eountry, one starry banner, and one wife,” is the platform of an editor whose field adjoins Mormondom. According to the Minneapolis Tribune there is not enough low grade wheat in Minnesota this year to feed the chickens. Lieutenant Danenhowbb will enter the lecture field in a few days, having for his subject “Arctic” and Siberian ex periences. The United. Presbyterians have agreed to raise a fund of $500,000 in honor of the twenty-fifth year of their organization. It is the thing now for young men of society who*have nothing to do, to claim they “ for the papers.” It maket them -' ‘ to have brtins. •v i . , t _ Ten thousand acres of ojeUJa 4ave been discovered in the The attention of managers of church festivals should be called to this item. Half a ton ef the silver three cent pieces which originated under Buchan an’s administration was shipped a few days ago from Boston to the Philadel phia mint. | A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Florida makes railroad prop erty liable to taxation, and thus adds about $5,000,0(10 to the taxable property of the State. The Egyptian war helped the sale of English journals wonderfully. The Lon don Standard, on the day succeeding the bombardment ot Alexandria, sold over 300,000 copies. It is stater! that a blook of ereosoted pine, in use in the treet pavement in Galveston for seven years, was recently examined and found to have lost but an eighth of an inch. Special inducements to plant trees are offered in Dakota, where for everv five acres of trees, forty acres of land with SI,OOO in improvements are ex empted from taxation. Moses Williams, who died in Boston a few days ago, leaving a fortune of $6,000,000, began life peddling milk in the streets or that city. That’s what comes of selling milk where water is so abundant. A Boston hanker went to the Oceanic House at the Isle of Shoals for recre ation, taking five rooms for him self and family. When he went away, September 1, he paid his three months’ bill of SB,- 000 and said it was cheap enough. Herbert Spencer is in this country, and he is sick, yet withal he is able to use this forcible language in speaking ol Oscar Wilde: “He is that outlandish person who attempted to reconcile idiocy with art and namby pambyism with sentiment. ” | ; —•'W The Louisville Courier-Journal ex -1 presses the opinion that if Alfred Tennyson were to go through a news paper waste basket, and attach his name to all the original poetry he should find in it, he would still be read, admired, and paid. What sort of dootors have they in New Jersey ? A Jersey paragraph says: “The health authorities of Paterson have declared the office and residence of Dr. Daeurner untenantable from filth, and the inmates are to be removed and the premises cleaned and fumi gated.” A number of immigrants of various TERMS—SI.OO pr Annum s1 rictly in Advance. nationalities passed up Broadway, New York, the other morning. The Italian men carried deep carpet sacks, and the women, left far in the rear, and wearing pink and green costumes, carried or led half-grown children. The Scotch women and men were about equally laden. The Englishmen carried nothing at all, while the women, endeavoring to keep up with them, were burdened with a heavy port manteau in each hand. The African expedition under Stanley, sent out by the King of Belgium, is said to have established the first four of a line of various stations which, starting from the Congo, will for commercial purposes tap the most populous districts of Central Africa. These four stations Are described as cities in embryo. They possess houses and gardens; they are connected by well constructed roads,and at each a European acts as Chief of the community, having another European as sub-chief. Mbs D. W. Lincoln, of Portland. Maine, lately fell heir to $175,000, the estate of her consin, Erven W. 3. Noughton, of California, formerly of Maine, deceased. There is a romantio history connected with the bequest. Mr. Noughten and Miss Lincoln, in their younger days, were intimate friends, and would probably have been married had it not been for opposition of relatives. Mr. Noughton started for the West, de claring he would never come back.' He kept his word. Business prospered with him and he became wealthy. Speaking of the Princess Louise, as she appeared in that city, the Omaha (Neb.) Bee says : “ The Pynoess made her appearance on the rear platform of her car to watch the antics Rf hy little terrier, in charge of the porter. She was aooompanied by one of her ladies, and only remained a moment, and few of the crowd suspected who she was. She wus attired in the most modest man ner imaginable. Her drees was of dark lawn, and a spray of violets on her bo som, a plain bracelet, and n couple oi plniu grid riLgs weir the only ornaments she wore. She is u well-formed, hale looking woman of thirty-five, or there about, and is said to have the features of her mother, and, like her husband, s yodest yet frank demeanor. Her face is bright and intelligent, and lights up very pleasantly when she smiles.” uve Jewelry. “ Here is something new in the way of ornamentation,” a salesman in a large up-town jewelry store said, opening a box. Out walked a monster beetle, fully four inches in length. About its body was a solid gold band, locked by a tiny padlock, to which was attached a costly gold chain, about two inches in length, fastened to a pin. The beetle,s baede glistened in light, having been treated to a dress of gold, and as it lumbered along its long legs worked to gether in a curious fashion. “It’s a shawl pin. You see the pin is used to fasten the face of a shawl, or perhaps worn on the bonnet, the insect crawling around the length of the chain. They are perfectly harmless and not expensive, as they live on air—that is, they have never been seen to eat. This one was brought here to mount, which is a very fine operation, as the legs and an tenure are all so delicate. After all, there is nothing objectionable about them, ex cept the idea of having them crawl over you. They all come from •‘South Ameri ca, and the only lot in tho city m to bo taken to France, where tho owner will try to introduce the fashion of wearJhg them. They costfromslo to SSO, depend ing entirely oa the amount of the ring. There is nothing cruel about it, as they are bound loosely, and the gold has no effect upon their hard sides. In Brazil the fashion of wearing beetles is carried to a great extent. A well known resident has a beetle with a col lar of gold which meets at the top, and is there ornamented with a diamond of great value. The insect has a cage sur rounded by the plants among which it lives in its native state, and nothing is neglected to make it as comfortable as possible. But the most popular insect used for an ornament in Brazil is a small phosphorescent beetle. These are often worn fastened in the hair, and as the two phosphorescent or light-giving spots are on the sides of the head, the black in sect is, of course, invisible, especially when in the raven locks of the fair Bra zilians. Twenty or thirty of these bee tles will throw out a light sufficient to read by, and when arranged around tlie head in a circle, or grouped over the forehesid and held in place, the effect is beautiful. —New York Sun. —Ar Indianapolis girl, forbidden by her parents to marry the man of her choice, pretended to be abundantly con soled by the promise of a errand birth day party. When all the guests were assembled on that occasion she walked in on the arm her lover, who had within the houroeen made her husband by a clergyman round the corner. —James Field obtained a promise from Jenny McHenry and her parents, in Philadelphia, that she would become his wife when she was sixteen, her age at that time being twelve; but on her six j teenth birthday Field committed sui ; cide instead of marrying, for tho grl f refused to keep the agreement, —N. Y. Sun. XUMBER. 42. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. —A driver in the Troy fire depart ment has invented a eontrivanoe by which his horses are unharnessed by simply pulling the reins.— Troy (N. TANARUS.) Times. —Dr. Isador Kitaee, of Cincinnati, has patented a device for discovering fire damp in mines before the miners enter them. Electricity is U9ed to fuse little pieces of metal at various points ia a mine, and if an explosion of damp occurs a bell is rung.— N. Y. Post. —The Jcmrnal of Science -says that at the soiree of the Society of Chemical Industry, held at Owens College, Mr. Fletcher, of Warrington, Eng., demon strated the possibility of the combustion of gas without visible flame, the heat obtained from a quarter-inoh gas-pipe being sufficient to fuse iron into drops. —A gun invented by a man i_n Ripley, Miss., is, if it is what it is claimed to be, one of the most wonderful inventions of the age. It can be fired from ten to twenty thousand times a minute, ean be elevated or depressed or turned to the right or left, inclined to cover the slope of a hill, contracted so as to bring tha fire to bear on one spot or expanded to cover a wide area, and all with the great est ease and in the simplest manner, by merely turning a crank. Chicago Times. —lt is said that alcohol equal to that made from grain can be produced from acorns. The acorns are freed from the shell and ground finely; then they are mashed with malt and allowed to fer ment. Acorns contain about 20 per cent, of starch and 18 per cent, of glu ten. They would be a valuable article for human food if it were not for the tannic acid (about 3 per cent.) which they contain. Vast quantities which go to waste every year, where hogs are not fed in the woods, might be gathered by boys and converted into alcohol for use in the arts, thus freeing an equivalent amount of grain for use as food. —Considerable progress is being made in reviving the mining indastries of the Isthmus of Panama. For many years its mines excited the cupidity of Span iards and buccaneers. Indian and ne gro slaves were made to work in quartz and placer by the most primitive proo esses, and almost entirely without mar chiuery, but their labors were very pro ductive, aocording to tradition. It is centuries, however, since mos* of the mines were abandoned. Some were worked out, others were not rich enough to pay with hired labor, and all required an investment of capital which the un settled condition of the country, and espeoially the fear all foreigners enter tained for isthmus fever, effectually pre vented from being made.— N. Y. Sun. —An impetus has been given to the nickel industry by the improved process es of making it malleable. Many useful as well as ornamental articles are now made of this material. Nickel table utensils especially are in great faver abroad. This class of goods is now be ing manufactured largely in Prussia, and is preferred to similar articles ef other materials. The hardness of the metal renders it capable of receiving a high polish, which is not readily i jured by friction of any usual kind:, on account, too, of the peculiar smoothness of the surface, matters do not adhere firmly to it, and cleaning requires bnt little attention or effort. It also pos sesses the advantage qf not tarnishing, like some other substances, when fre quently used. — Chicago Tribune. Life in the Deep Sea. Tlie conditions under which life exists in the deep sea are very remarkable. The pressure exerted by the water at great depths is enormous, and almost beyond comprehension. It amounts roughly to a ton weight on the square inch for every 1,000 fathoms of depth, so that at the depth of 2,600 fathoms there is a pressure of two tons and a half per square inch of surface, which may be contrasted with the fifteen pounds per square-inch pressure to which we are accustomed at the level of the sea surface. An experiment made by Mr. Buchanan enabled us to realize the vastness ot the deep-sea pressure more fully than any other facts. Mr. Mr Buchanan hermetically sealed up at ! both ends a thick glass tube full ©f air several inches in length. He wrapped this sealed tube in flannel, and placed it, so wrapped up, in a wide copper tube, which was one of those used to protect the deep-sea thermometers when sent down with the soundmg apparatus. The copper case containing the sealed glass tube was sent down to a depth of 2,000 fathoms, and drawn up again. It was then found that the copper wall of the case was bulged and bent inward opposite the place where the glass tube lay, just as if it had been crumpled in ward by being violently squeezed. The glass tube itself, wi biu its flannel wrap | per, was found, when withdrawn, re -1 duced to a fine powder, like snow al most. —Notes by a Naturalist on the i Challenger. If a man means what he says he will be deliberate in his speech, and state his purpose in plain, simple fashion. I Intending suicide, he will not make ! motions at himself with a razor in the i presence of his family five or six times a day. Mr. Micawber’s style of speech is associated with his style of action All difficult, vaporing, tragic, superlati'. i words exhaust the speaker. His strength all goes out through his mouth, and he is thus left helpless to do anything. Lyman Beecher said that when he had not much of a sermon he always thumped 1 the pulpit and "hollered ”