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IHOS. J. WaiSOn, Editor VOLUME IV. Hailroads, Chickasaw Route, MEMPHIS Si CHARLESTON R R. TVVO PASSENGER trains daily TO MEM HA IS, TENN. PASS. Sj J Chattanooga 830 am 810 p m w°" 10 00 am 9 45pm - 10 35 a m 10 22 p m 1205 pm 1155 pm „ £, e n oatar 125 pm 100 am r 12 00 n’n 210 am “rr i h i 631 P tD 5 21a 111 Arr u!„ ; ,Unchoa ' -727 p m 725 a m Arr Memphis 930 pm 945 ani p e 010 connection is made at Memphis with tLe Memphis & Little Rock Railroad for all points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. The lime by this line from Ciiattanoo ca to Memphis, Little Rock, and pointf beyond, is five hours quicker than by anv other line. Throuirli Passenger Coaches ami Baggage Cars from CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK Without Change. No Other Line Offers these Advantages. TICKETS NOW SELLING AT THE LOWEST RATES. For further information call on or write to J. M. SUTTON, Passenger Agt., Chickasaw Route, P. O. Box 224, Chattonooea, Tenn. Alehasia Great Soittei R’f Time Card, Taking effect January 15th, 1882. SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Mail. Arrive. Depart. ..-,<*afcmoo*a. A M ggf •Vau/iatshieA B'4o .do *■’*• 841 . 9 11) do 917 Rising Pawn 937 do 938 Attalla 12 20 do 12 35 HirinlnghaiM 251 do 301 Tuscaloosa 523 dif 525 Meridian A. 10 00 do r Charles I?. Wallace, If. Coia.rran, Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Act. NashTiHir. ChattaiiTflia’S St, Louis H’f. AHJSA [> OF ALL C(^! PKTITOKS. BUSINESS MKN, ToußHV.nr MiTM DZT D JCMIGUANTJ, FA Ml LI MS, H 5?I t. IY! Ut H Xbe [{onto to LonisvilH, Cincinnati, Indi anapolis, Chicago,.aud tlte North, is * ia Nli vine. • Tte i*e*t Roi.tr to S. Lou sand the West is rla llclif n/ir. The lira! R, rn (l tf> \Vf6t Tennessee and Kerr tiickv !Mi H t spipi, Arkansas and Ten s points i>. .via Melf enste. DON’T FOUGRT IT. —By this Line you Fecure the— MAXIMUM 0 " cS,& MINIMUM er i:*|*oi..o, Anxiety. S'! J R | nfl U I*l ISotlier, Fatigue. Be sure to buy your tickets over tne N. C. & St. L. B’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER need not, go amiss; tew changes are necessary, and such as are unavoida ble are made in Union Depots. Through Sleepers BETWEEN — Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou isville,, Nashville and St. Louis, via Cc lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louis, Union City and Si. Louis, McKenzie ana Little Rick, where connection is made with Through Sleepers to all Texas pionts. Call on or address A. B. Wrenn, Atlauta, Ga. J. B. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenu. W. T. Kouebs, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenu. W. L. Danley, G. P. aud T. A., Nashville, iem-. Rising Fawn Lodge, No. £9l], meets first and third Saturday nights (deac i month. .1. W. Ritssey, W. M. S. H. I huSHAN, S c’ly. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a a month on Friday , night on or before the full moon. W. U. Jacoway W. M. g G. M. Cra pee, Sec\y. Trenton Chapter No. t R, A. *M., meets on the third Wed esDy mgct of each month, M. A. B. Tatum, H. P. W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty. Court of Ordinary first Mon day of etch month. G. M. Crabtree Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk B. P- Majors, Sheriff, Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver, D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector, Joseph K: er, Coroner, Wm. Moni-on Surveyor. (jfji (l % * RISING PAWN. DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY,OCTOBER 5, 188*2. SEWS GLEANINGS," Jacksonville, Fla., has six papers. Texas has 137,000 square miles desti tute of inhabitants. The richest county in North Carolina in gold is Montgomery, The largest single brick-yard in the United States is at Atlanta. Tennessee, North Carolina and Vir ginia will all make good peanut crops. . Corn is offered in Jackson county, Ala., at twenty cents per bushel, deliv ered. Pratt’ B coal mines at Birmingham, Ala., are the most extensive in the South. Experiments have proven tlmt the Japanese seedless persimmon wilNprrow prolifically in Florida. It is estimated that over 1,000,000 or ange trees will come into bearing in Orange county, Fla., this year. It is said that the first orange tree ever known to have been injured by lightning was struck at St. Augustine, .Fla., recently. Of’the immigrants arriving at Castle Garden during the last six months, Texas got 2,089 more than any other Southern State. Twenty more marriage and natal guilds filed articles of incorporation at Nashville Monday. The grand shaking up of dry bones will be a tiling of tlie near future. The Concho floods caused the death of 149 persons and 15,000 sheep. In the past month, floods in Texas have de stroyed 200 lives and $5,000,000 worth of property. The High Shoals factory recently sold to an Atlanta broker, for SOSO, Confed erate bonds to the amount of SIOO,OOO, which had been lying in the factory safe for seventeen years. Griffin, Ga., has the largest peach or ctTwiff t n tire A-lou-tU. ooatiiiiin u .-oiI,LOO trees and covering most of 600 acres. the same farm are’4, ooo grafted ap ple trees and 5,000 pear trees. Numerous petitions are being circu lated in Alabama asking the Legislature to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State. The petitions are being numerously signed. Gold has been discovered in the Organ Mountains, sixty miles north of El Paso, Tex. A piece of ore brought in, weighing two pounds, was covered with pure gold and contained $159 worth of the metal. In the orchard of Perry Howard, at Ebenezer, Miss., there is an apple tree from which the ripe fruit is just now disappearing. A second crop is upon the tree about half grown, and is still blooming for a third crop. Williamsburg, the oldest city in Vir ginia, is said to be one of the quaintest, quietest towns in the South, and of great interest because of its many an tique and odd looking buildings. It was once the capital of the State. A New Orleans washerwoman lias in the past fifteen years raised a family of fatherless children, given them all good educations, purchased a handsome house and has SIO,OOO laid away for a rainy day. Her entire possessions were earned at the wash-tub. In Jackson county, Ga., two men, named respectively Hill and Goss, fought a duel with buggy whips to set tle a dispute. The fight contin'ued for over three hours, and resulted in a draw. The men were one mass of welts at the close of the novel duel. Probably the youngest farmers in the country are two children living near Shreveport, La., who have eight acres in cotton and ten acies in corn, and will make good crops. ’ The children arc brother and sister, aged respectively thirteen and ten years, and have done most of their own work. In Geneva county, Ala., a mill was blown down by a storm Tuesday, and a woman and her child buried in the ruins. The next morning the debris was cleared away, and, jvhile the moth er was crushed by a ly?awy timber, the little child was uninjured and found he* side her mother, sleeping quietly. Dixie Wagoner, a >mart Helen, Ark., nvmph du pave, has made the marriage associations sweat. After taking out a large number of policies she married her “friend,” drew all her money and then went to Illinois and procured a di vorce. The pair then divided the swag and are now laughing at the duped and discomfitel “guilds." “ Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrung." Rome (Ga.) Bulletin : D. W. Ford, of Cave Spring, brought into our office yesterday a perfect natural pitcher, which he had found in Texas a few months ago growing as an excrescence on a red elm tree. Its proportions are ac curate. and it is about twelve inches high and six inches in diameter, is hob low, and has a perfect handle and spout. At Wilmington, N. C., a, party of gentleinep discovered a large white crane -on the edge of a small pond evidently trying to fly, but could not. They went •to investigate the matter and ascertained that one of the bird’s feet was held by a large snapping terrapin. The crane was lifted out of the water, but the ter rapin kept his hold. Both were cap tured alive. Henry Todd, who lives in Darien, is the wealthiest colored man in Georgia. When a youth his master died and left him his freedom. "When the Confed orcy fell he lost twenty slaves and some Confederate bonds. After the war he continued farming operations and en gaged in the lumber business. He is now sixty-five years old, and is worth SIOO,OOO in good investments. The New Orleans Times-Democrat, in an article on “Cotton Mills, North and South,” says the Southern mills now boast 1,237,409 spindles, aud that the consuption of cotton this year will reach 400,000 bales, or one quarter of the amount used North. This fact is the more natable because two years ago the amount of cotton manufactured in the South was scarce worthy of mention. The largest individual sheep owner in Texas is a woman, well known all over the State as the “Widow Callahan.” Her sheep, more than 50,000 in number, wander over the ranges of Uvalde and Bandera counties, in the southwestern part of the State. Their grade is a cross between the hardy Mexican sheep and the Vermont merino. They are divided into flocks of 2,000 head each, with a “bosjsero” and two “pastoras” in charge of each flock. A North Carolina correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes: “I suppose Morehead City is the only city in the world without a wheel in it, I do not think that there is a wagon or a buggy horse in town and very few in the country. Everything is done in boats. There is not a house in the county that a boat cannot get within a mile of. Not a doctor or a lawyer in the county owns a horse ; they practice in boats. The people go to funerals in boats, and when they arrest a man they carry him to jail in a boat. A Prussian View of the English Army. The correspondent of the Cologne Oa:i i'tc at Ramleh expresses surprise at the coolness of the British troops. “They show,” he says, “none of the excitement and eagerness which dis tinguish the Continental nations w hen they fight for existence, or at least for a national idea. This Egyptian war, like most wars in which England is en gaged, is treated entirely as a matter of business; if the object of the under taking had been to make a railway or a canal it could hardly have been entered upon more quietly. * * * Deeds of extraordinary energy and courage, as is to be expected iu wars carried on in this way, are much more rare than in the national wars of Continental Eu rope. It is true that the feeling of national solidarity is as strong as, if not stronger, among the English, than among other nations, and there is no lack of manliness in a race of such consummate physical development; but the cause for which they tight does not elicit the enthusiasm which prompts men to do more than their duty. More over, the English, however practical, are deficient in foresight. It will scarcely be believed in Germany that there are not more than two or three trustworthy maps of Lower Egypt in ; the whole of the English camp. Even j most of the stall officers have to use j maps which are not much better >' an ! those in Baedeker’s Guide Book. And yet there would have been plen’y of time to get a few hundreds of copies of the Arabian man of Mahmud Bey, with the names of the places printed in Roman characters. At the sanu time, it is not to be denied that the English army, notwithstanding its singular and antiquated organization according to Continental notions, is well adapted for a war of this kind. The admirable physique of the men, the wise and busi ness-like way in which they are led, and the strongly developed love of sport, whether military or otherwise, which is the national characteristic, are immense advantages in a struggle with a half-civilized adversary. The dis cipline of the army, too. seems very strict: for I have not seen any drunken soldiers since 1 arrived ” —An Indiana writer advocates th • ab olition of the telephone on the e.r- 11 •:■ i that it encourages laziness. TT<- m,. ■ objection applies to easy chairs I nearly all the comforts of modern life. Chicago T< itnine. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Oregon Is now called the Webfoot State. • Evangelist Moody is trying to stir up t religious feeliug in Paris. Primps BisMarck the Prits dan Mint' try twenty years. The cckv acherago is greater this year than ever,before owing to the tooth-pick ;oed boom. A tunnul is projected under the Elbe, oetween Hamburg and Steiuwarder fsland, to cost $5,000,000. -t— ♦ Tr will ot st over SIOO,OOO to replace the bridges swept away by the recent floods at Elizabeth, New Jersey. Seven Citizens of Delaware were pub licly whipped a few days ago, aud three more stood an hour in the pillory. A gentleman who has made recent observations in Utah claims to have discovered internal dissensions in the Mormo*Church which may work its luiu. Cincinnati is organizing a swell cav alry company, to he kuown as the Cin cinnati Horse Guards. It takes S3OO and a “pasflible” moral character to become a member. The great Newburgh poker game has at last been settled, by Hedges and Scott refunding to their victim, Weed, $20,000. This makes Weed’s loss, iu round figures, $70,000. Each of Garibaldi’s children is to get $2,000 a year for life from the Italiau Government. Yet their late father was in 1834 < on lemned by grandfather of the present King of Italy to he shot. The Queen of Madagascar has ordered that a prohibitory law shall be framed, prohibiting the manufacture of bsandy or its importation into her territories. The penalty is the forfeiture of ten oxen anck a fine of $lO. The fruit crop in Scotland has been a fad.uce. It is the worst season for \tbe last' fifty years. At one well known orchard in the Carse of Gowrie, which is rented at £2OO, the emp of one barrel of apples. Rttmor has it that the wedding of Mr. Chester A. Arthur, jr., and Miss Crow ley, has been appointed for the early part of October. The bride aud groom elect are extremely young, their com bined ages not exceeding thirty-six. The London Trv%, says that a specu lator iu New York has resolved to tempt Prof. Huxley to cross the Atlantic by the offer of £ I 'jy per lecture for a series of 200 discourses on popular science, to he delivered during 1883 aud 1884. Mu. Gladstone wears rcadv-mado clothing, and while crossing a street always acts on the principle that the hypothenuse of a triangle is less than the two sides. In place of using the cross walk, he cuts off the corners, or crosses diagonally 011 the cobbles. Tiie Washington Critic says: ‘Star- Route juryman John B. McCarthy, who voted for conviction all the way through, has been appointed to a position at the Government Asylum for the Insane. Mr. McCarthy was simply an honest cobbler before he got on the jury.” Bacon that used to sell in the South for from five to eight cents per pound is now worth from fourteen to seventeen cents per pound. Cotton has depreciated largely, and it does not pay to raise cot ton to buysgork with. The Southern farmers are beginning to find this out. Mit. J. G. BrGELow, the counsel for Mason, states that when he visited the Albany Penitentiary a few days ago, to obtain the execution of the petition of a writ of habeas corpus, Mason was looking bad and felt quite discour aged. They have him engaged in mak ing shoes. Thf. number of acres in rice in the United States in 1880 was 114,113; num ber of pounds produced, 110,131,373 clean rice; an average product of 632 pounds per acre. Number of acres un der cultivation in 1881, nearly twenty thousand less than in 1880, and product in 1881, eleven million pounds greater than that of the previous year. The London Truth ridicules Gen. Wblaeley’s dispatches from Egypt as “sentimental twaddle,” and attention is 1 called to his account of an engagement in which there was “heavy firing for i several hours,” the troops “behaving admirably under a hail of bullets,” and 1 the result was one man killed and twelve wounded. A wealthy bachelor of Oregon, whose TERMS—SI.O<) pr Annum strictly In Advance. death lately occurred in the East, while on a visit, lias given the most valuable farm in the cove to a school for young ladies. The buildings for the school will be erected soon. This farm contains 34,000 prune an plum trees, and the pro ceeds from the sale of fruit are somo SIO,BOO a year. Prof. Boss, of the Dudley Observa tory, at Albany, says the comet was 16,- 000,000 miles from the sun September 17, and 20,000,000 on the 21st. On the former date it was 103,000.000 miles from the earth, and on the latter 107,- 000.000. It is thus going away both from the sun and the earth. It is plainly visible in the early morning in the Eastern sky, and is beautifully brilliant. The woman suffragist movement seems to he advancing in the East. Says the Massachusetts’ Democratic platform: Equal rights, equal powers, equal bur dens, equal privilegesnd equal protection by law under, the government for every cit izen of the republic, without limitation of race or sex, or property-qualification, whether it be by a tax on property or a poll tax on persons. Says the Republican platform of the same State: We invite intelligent and candid consid eration of all propositions in aid of tem perance and good order, for equal rights of suffrage irrespective of sex, and for the en couragement of industry, frugality, con tentment and prosperity among all the people of our honored State. Some one has found in one of Ecker marni’s books a record of a conversation he had in 1825 with Goethe on the sub ject of ship canals. Goethe, he says, showed a special interest in Humboldt’s idea of piercing the Isthmus of Panama, ayd further said : “Itis a necessity for the United States that American mer chantmen and men of yar should he able to set sail straight into the Pacific from the Bay of Mexico, 2nd feel sure that they will accomplish it. 1 should wish to live to see it; but that will not happen. Secondly, I should like navi gation from the Danube into the Rhine to be rendered feasible. And thirdly, I should like to see the English in posses sion of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez, To live -enough iu order to witness three such great events it would be really worth while to put up with existence for some fifty years more.” Goethe’s fifty years, it will he observed, were completed in 1876. Causes of Xiphoid Fever. A severe outbreak of typhoid fever which occurred last year at Nahant, a rocky peninsula near Boston, inhabited during the summer by a small number of very Vich cottage owners, was fol lowed by an investigation, of which the results are made public in an article by Mr. E. W. Bowditcli, in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. In such cases contamination of drinking-water is usually the principal cause of the spread of the disease, and the wells and cisterns which supply the houses were first examined. Water was taken from one hundred and ninety of these and analyzed. Eight of the samples were pronounced “excellent,” and seventy one others “permissible,” or “good.” One hundred and eleven were classed as “suspicious,“very suspicious,” or “bad.” About eighty cases of fever occurred, nearly all of which could be accounted for by the actual condition of the drinking-water used in the houses inhabited by the patients. In a few others the filthy surroundings furnished a probable source of infection, although the water appeared pure, as, in one in stance, where analysis to detect any serious pollution in \ihter taken from a well situated within ten feet of one leaching cesspool and fifteen ieet of another, both overflowing, and of course ready to furnish an occasional supply to the well during dry seasons or under other circumstances. One or two more \vre probably explained by the fact that the Nee used in the house hold was bi’ought from a foul pond in the vicinity; and only one seemed quite inexplicable, unless perhaps the infec tion might have been brought by milk contained in cans which had been rinsed in foul water. Mr. Bow ditch’s suspi cion, that the infection was cated in certain cases by contaminated ice, is strengthened by the fact that a very severe and fatal epidemic of ty phoid fever was unquestionably caused in this way not long ago at a seashore hotel in New England; and it is worth asking whether the public authority might not be employed with advantage in exer' ising some sort of surveillance over the collection and sale of an article which may become, and perhaps already is, far more dangerous than the triohi nous pork or immature veal against which so many precautions are taken. In one place that we know of, says the Amer ican Architect , thousands of tons of ice are annually gathered at the very edge of an extensive and well-filled cemetery, which slopes somewhat rapidly toward the water; and we have seen the winter product of a little pool formed by the overflow of what was practically the drain of a of squalid houses regularly sold to customers. — Scientific American. —A granite memorial to Elihu Burritt, the “learned blacksmith,” bearing the simple inscription, “Friend of Peace | and Philanthropist,” has been set up in New Britain Cemetery, Connecticut. NUMBER. 43. PITH AND POINT. I -—lf you can’t trust a man entirely, let feim skip; this trying to get an average on honesty has always been a failure.— Josh Billing —lt is said a cornet player in Berlin burst a blood-vessel trying to sound a Wagnerian double note. It is comfort ing to know that Wagner’s is to be the music of the future. —■Lowell Citizen. —Professor Huxley estimates the take of herring in the North Sea at 3,000,- 000,000. Before relying on Huxley’s es timate we would like to know whether he saw the fish or took the statement of the fishermen. —Boston Post. —Douglass Autz, of Norwich, fell un der a moving train he was trying to board. When tho train passed Douglass arose, uninjured, with his cigar in his mouth. And yet there are people who claim smoking to be injurious.—Dan bury News. —A new nurse maid had been engaged for the family of John Leech. On her appearing in the nursery she was thus addressed by Master Leech: “Nurse, papa says I am one of those children that can be managed by kindness, and I’ll trouble you to fetch some sponge cakes and oranges at once.”— Chicago Tribune. —A salt mine has just been discovered in Australia which is believed to be more than two thousand years old. It’s a good thing it was a salt mine, or it wonld’nt have kept half so long. Now, there are some silver mines in America, for instance, that haven’t lasted more than three months after the assessments gave out. —Burlington Uawkeyc. —Some men have tact. Said the bridegroom who didn’t wish either to offend his bride or die of internal disturbance: “My dear, this bread looks delicious; but it is the first you have ever made. I can not think of eating it, but will preserve it to show to our children in after years as a sample of their mother’s skill and deftness.”—Bos ton Post. —Plantation philosophy—Remember, young man, dat de best frien’ yer’s got on dis earth is a better frien’ ter himself den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter a man by de boasts what he makes. Thunder doan all de time tell ob a corn in’ rain. . . Doan turn a man outen de ranks of spectability case he’s a cow ard. A hound dog ain’t much on de fight, but he’s a mighty useful animal. . . . While Nature was a foolin’away her time paintin’ different colors an’ stripes on and. horns ob de Jack mappers an’ odder buss, 1 doaa.see why she didn’t contrive some easier .• chile to cut teetE. —Jrkdjiscus ‘iYabjfer? — # ( ■; Hogs. # * *. • \ | • # • • ' If you have hogs miming inlyiur pas ture-, now is the time,'whim thu .grass is low and the heat opjtypsSivei £edd generously, once or llfrifioj a. day with corn, wheat and oats scre’eMiilgs; with, bran, shorts, rotten or fal 1 p *a nd other fruits, jointly or separately made-- by boiling into a mush, or <w.ei( It costs something and it oaiisri'S some labor and trouble, bnt all will repaid in the quantity that befitfe Cljrwt- ’ mas will go into the lard tubs and barrels. It is perfect nonsense tf raisd* pork on the old plan if you wish toraUe it for less than twelve or fifteen cents a* pound. If you follow the old plan, which was turning out shoats at “ kill ing time,” and starving them all win ter until clover comes, and then sav,’ “root hog or die,” until with dogs and negroes you hunt them down and place them in a pen for fattening, after they have worried you all the year as out laws, breaking in the fields of corn or other grain at night, and next day run almost to death and torn by dogs, until they escape through their holes in the fence, and a man or more has lost a half a day to drive them out and stop the hole, for the same thing to be re peated the next day- you will have pork at a cost far beyond what you can buy it for in the market. But if you can get a good breed, keep the hogs dry and warm in winter, give a good pasture in summer, plenty of water and food the year round, with rotten wood, ashes, salt and sulphur, you can raise pork costing not half what you should receive for it should you choose to sell. Tho hog is naturally lazy, and if well sup plied with food he will not wander far from the swill-tub or food-trough. Like the poor, lazy drunkard he will stick to the tavern that gives him his food and drink in the largest quantity for the least exertion on his part. But stop his meat and drink, and no idle vagabond or ruined roue will turn marauding rover, or sneak-thief, bold highwayman or chicken-stealer as will the hog, whether he be high-bred or common stock. —Maryland Farmer. Fascinated by .in Alligator. I was at the Zoo yesterday and saw something which is worthy of being mentioned. One of the gulls entered the pond where the alligator was lazily propelling himself about and proceeded t i enjoy itself in its native elements. But the eye of the scaly monster was upon it and the mesmeric influence of its glance was soon felt. It was im possible for the gull to resist the baleful glare of the saurian; inch by inch it was attracted to the alligator, powerless to resist the fascination, until it came close enough for the reptile to open its mammoth jaws and gulp down the luckless bird. After having devoured \ its prey*the alligator sank to the bottom to digest its meal. Toronto Mail. A thirteen-year-old girl, living near Houma, La., has a light-brown beard two inches long.— N. 0. Picayune.