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Chicka.. VIA * MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R I?. TWO PABSENGFR TRAINS DAILY TO MEM HA IS, TENN. PASS. EX. JjV ChattanoDßa 830 a m 810 p m “ Stevenson 10 00 a m 945 p m “ Scottsboro 1035 am 10 22 pm Huntsville 1205 p 55 p m Decatur 125 pm 100 am . 12 00 h’n 2 10am „ or \ •/ 531 pin 521 a m Grand Junction.... 727 p m 725 a m Arr Memphis 930 p m 945 a m B e Olti coD’jection is made at Munphis 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 any other line. 'J Imuigh Passenger Coachfts anil Baggage I’ars from CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK Without Change. Ao Other Line Offers these Advantages. TICKETS NOW SELLING AT THE LOWEST RATES. For further information call on or write to J. M. SUTTON, Passentrer Agt., Chickasaw Route, F- O. Box 224. ChattoDooea, Tenn. Alabama Great Sonin R’y Time Card, Taking effect January 15tb, 1882. SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Mail. Arrive. Depart. ClmjtAnoqga.am 8 25 ' Morganville 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. Ant. Nasiville.ciiattanooia & St. Louis R’j. AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITORS. rosin ess men. tourists, nrsflriyinrn emigrants, familims, nLlYltmDLn Tho Itoal Itonfp* to Louisville, Cincinnati, Indi anapolia, Chicago, and the North, is via Nfati* vllle. Tf Beit Ro.te to S. Lou’s and the West is via nrlieni.ie. Th* Rest R<iQe to West Tennessee and Ken tucky. Miftsissipi, Arkansas and Texas rointi is. via McKenzie. DON’T FORGET IT. —By this Line you fecure the— MAXIMUM Contlor, NnlUfarlion MINIMUM ° f Expense, Anxiety, m 1111 nr! u 111 Bother, Fatigue. Be sure to buy your ticxets over tne N. C. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER need not go amiss ; tew change? are necessary, and such as aie unavoida ble are made in Union Depots. Through Sleepers BETWEEN— Atlanta and NashviHe, 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 and Little Rock, where connection is made with Through Sleepers to all Texas p ; onts. Call on or address A. B. Wrenn. Atlauta, Ga. J. H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga. Tenn. W. T. Rogers, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenn. W. L. Danley, G. P. and T. A., Nashville, Tern*. Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets first and third Saturday nights of each month. J. W. Russey, W. M. S. H. Ihubman, S c’ly. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a a month cn Friday ’night- on or before the full mcon. W, U. Jacovay, W. M. l‘ G. M- Cra pee, Sec’ty.9 Trenton Chapter No. C R. A. !M., meets on the third Wed esu’ay night of each month, M. A. B. Tatum, H. P. W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty. Court of Ordinary meets on first Mon day of each month. G. M. Cpaetref. Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Uleik P. P* Majors, Sheriff, Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver, D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector, Joseph Kirer, Coroner, Wpa. Morrison, Surveyor. _ f lexas w. leries by tin m . „ oi , The colored Baptis number 60,000 and have 150 ci jetties in ha Charleston, South Carolina, has be resumed. In spite of the overflow, probal consequence of it, the Isiuisiana s crop is the best since the war. Jack Butler, who burned his little child to death at Florance, Ala., has been sent to the penitentiary for life. The Nickle church, to be built at Pal estine, Tex., is to be paid for by not less than 200,000 persons contributing a nickle a piece. „ Para grass grows to an enormous length in Florida. Near Orange City some is growing that is eighteen feet and a half long. A terrapin farm has its existence at Waveland, Miss., and last week 900 lit tle turtles were hatched. They will be full grown in three years. In Heard countv, Georgia, resides a family of eight persons, named Ray, all of whom are deaf mutes. Nevertheless, they are all industrious and happy. The average corn crop in Tennessee i 60,009.000 buehels, but it will reach 100,000,000 bushels this year. The wheat crop will reach nearly 12,000,000. The Farmer’s Co-operative Union, of Florida, are said to have secured a sim ple hut effectual plan for preparing or anges for market in such a manner that thev will keep for months. The monument to be erected at Vicks burg, Miss., to the memory of Gari baldi, will be surmounted by a life sized statue of that personage, and will be one of the finest in the United States. A large shot-tower is to be erected in New Orleans by a local company who have abundant means and plenty of ex oerience. The tower will be the eleventh in the United States when completed. The progress of railroad building and -ailroad business in the South last year was unprecedented. About 1,500 miles of road were put in operation, and the gross earnings amounted to $63,000,00 0 Roberts & Salter, 'of Bullock county, Ala., had twenty-six acres of heavy timbered bottom land which they want ed cleared. In ten hours 106 axmen with 200 log rollers and brqsh pilers completed the job. The Hot Springs creek on the*Gov rnment reservation at Hot Springs, Ark , is to he strengthened and protect el from sewasre water and refuse, and generally to have $127,000 worth of im provements put on it. The Times-Democrat, in an article on the health of New Orleans, claims that there are no less than 11,900 people in that city over sixty years of age or one eighteenth of the population, while 195 have passed ninety. DaWas, Tex., is said to be built over a grave yard of mastodons, and for five or six years past excavations for buildingo have seldom failed to bring up their hones. A large number of these masto don remains were unearthed a few days ago, and some of the bones were of enor mous size. The officers of the Pawnee, Stonewall Jackson, and Chief Marriage Associations of Little Rock, Ark., have been fined $25 each for violating a city ordinance which prohibits “gift” enter prises being conducted in that city. The State Gazette dubs them, “Wildcat schemes to fleece the innocent.” A colored man, J. R. Ballard, was re ently ordained in St. John’s church, cacksonville, Fla., which is called the most artistic church in the State, by Bishop Young, in the presence of a dis. tinguished audience. It was the first ase in the State that, a colored man has been ordained in a white church. At Griffin, Ga., a very curious spider has been captured. It has on its back a hard, thick formation, very much resem bling a soft shell crab or a turtle, about a quarter of an inch across. This shell has eight horns, from all of which the spider spins a web at the same time He is an active, and, as Artemus Ward would say, an “amoosiu’ little cuss.” Charlotte, (N. C.) Observer: It has only been a few months since Prof. W E. Hidden, an employe of Edison, the distinguished electrician, in search of platinum, discovered in Alexander Cos., and brought to the attention of the Th , * The only wnnXi have .vet been given for the yield per acre of the present crop are those of Illinois, where the official report places the yield at 18J bushels per acre, against 17-7 in 18X0. it is, of course, not assumed that the yield per acre in Illinois is to be ac cepted as the average for the United States. But there are some reasons why the yield per acre in Illinois may be accepted as an index to the average yiejd oi the United States, in preference to accepting the yield of almost any other one State as such an index: First —lllinois is the largest wheat-raising State in the Union, and in the three years from 1879 to 1881 inclusive pro duced about twelve per cent, of all the wheat raised in the United States. Second—lllinois lies nearly in the center of the group of ten States comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis consin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, which produced in 1880 about three-fourths of the wheat crop of the United States. Illinois may therefore be presumed to represent the average of the meteorological experience and crop conditions of this group of States. In 1880 the average yield pur acre in Illinois was 16-7 bushels, while that of the United States was 13-1 bushels per acre. Illinois was therefore 22 per cent, above the general average It is an established fact that the ue rage yield of wheat per acre in different sec tions of the United States con tinues at about the .same rela tive difference, as, for instance, the average in the Southern States is always only about half as much per acre as in the group of States above men ; *i, fa.. NLcM-iW-acf ib yield is always greater per acre than in the ten States mentioned. There seems no objection, therefore, to assuming that certain States are always above and oth ers always below the general average of the United States. Now, if we may as sume that the present yield of 181 bu-hels in Illinois is also about 22 per cent, above the average, it would make the average for the United States say 14 43-100 bushels per acre, or just about 10 per cent, over 1880, which, upon an area of 37,000,000 acres, would be 538,- 910,000 bushels, a result which differs less than the half of one per cent, from our previous estimate, which was made without any such calculation as produces the present figures. Some argument will of course be made against assuming an increased average yield per acre of ten per cent, over the crop of 1880. But it will be remember ed that there has been no year before this when the crops of spring wheat and winter wheat were both good— except possibly 1577, when the average crop of wheat throughout the United States was 13 86-100 bushels per acre, or only about four per cent, less than we have as sumed as the average yield per acre for the present crop to produce an aggre gate of 533,910,000 bushels on 37,0*00,- 000 acres. — N. Y. Evenin'] East. Chinese Infanticide. Wo have all heard the Ohinsse charged with infanticide. We believe that crime to be less prevalent with them than it is with us. If children are ever exposed, as has been seen on a wayside a tar near Honam, we believe that bitter want and a hope that charity would provide for the child better than the mother could have been the moving causes. Asa general rule, .self-interest acts as the strongest bar to this vice. That the life of the male children should be preserved is most important, as the Chinese law will compel the sons to maintain their parents, and in the event of all the sons dying no one would be able to offer that worship at the tomb of the father and mother on which their happiness in another state is supposed to depend. With the girls preservation is almost as important, and they are a marketable commodity either as wives or as servants. Indeed, it is no very rare thing to see a basketful of babies sent down from Canton to Hong Kong for sale at prices ranging from $2 to $5. These are all girls. In denying the ex istence of infanticide it is necessary to make one exception. This is among the Tan-kia, or boat population. These are a race of people of different descent and religion from the Chinese, governed by their own magistrates, and so looked down upon by the other classes that no of a boat-woman can compete in the literary examinations, or, whatever his ability"may be, become an aspirant for office*. This class is excessively su perstitious, and we have heard it stated by missionaries that when a child be longing to people of this class suffers from any lingering malady, and recovery becomes hopeless, they will put it to death with circumstances of great cruel ty, believing it not to be their child but a changeling, and fancy that a demon has taken the place of their offspring for the purpose of entailing on them expense and trouble for which they could never get any return. — Temjple Bar. ot Wronr.” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1S82 ; LTCS OF THE DAY. g Boston widow this season ning suit of fnll mourning. ft > Pendleton's new homo In Mi has large gilded suufiowera [of the lightning rods. kl’h artist has represented Time instead of a man. He ar .‘omen have more of it than Jilnnary of Bolivar is to be cri ed on July 24, 1888, at Caraccas, 4 .ezuela, by the dedication of a statue rof Washington. The Flathead Indians have agreed to allow a rAroad to be built across their reservation in Montana, upon the pay ment of $23,000. The price naked was $1,000,000. Tiie $1,000,000 bequeathed by Mr. Lewis, of New Jersey, to the gov rn ment, to lb applied towards extinguish ing the national debt, will make its ap pearance in the next monthly statement. Robert T. Lincoln lias shipped from Springfield,, Illinois, to Washington sixty-two' trunks belonging to bis n other, which were filled with dress goods and trinkets purchased in Europe. Mr. Burnham, a seientie Counecti cut farms*-, recently Bold one of his young cows for $4,800.* This animal, in 372 days, has given in milk ten times her own weipg* .10,000 pouuds—and 1,000 pounds of butt -r. A Californian has invented a sheep counting; machine. It counts up to 10,000, registers the number, tin n gives a snap, jumps back, and begins count ing again. It never misses a sheep, old or young, fat or lean. Fifty young ladies from six counties of North Carolina, took part in breaking ground for the Clinton and Point Cas well Railroad, near Raleigh, recently. iilCy 'til'jir Ntantlo „ItL 6 -c=vt vigor, and were applauded by 5,000 spectators. Mbs. Langtry, according latest rumor, will be accompanied to this country by a band of male admirers, something after the style of the lovesick maidens in “Pejieueo.” An English nobleman, it is said, will be the leader of the party. President Barrios, of Guatemala, re ceives a salary of sl,o<sb a month. He has been in office twelve years, and is worth $8,000,000. The debt of his country is and growing, which would seem to indicate that lie does not allow any one else to take much. Acting on the suggestion that letter postage be reduced to two ceuts a half ounce, a Post office Department official lias figured out that on that basis the deficit of last year, one of the most pros perous in the history of the service, would be $10,000,000, instead of a sur plus of $1,500, OOt). Kings and Princes are getting down nowadays to the same prosaic, business like ways of thinking and doing as other mortals. Oscar 11., sovereign of Swe den and Norway, being about to under take a journey to the latter country, has had his life insured in favor of his fam ily for the sum of 6,000 crowns. A training school for servants has just been established at St. Louis under the management of leading ladies if that city. Practical housekeeping in all its departments will comprise the course of training, and a nursery for poor chil dren, where they shall also be taught to “sew and sweep and spin,” is to be at tached. It is proposed to perform an operation on the eyes of Tlmrlow Weed, who has been blind for five years, with the hope of restoring his sight. It is intended to cut away the double cataract over his ey* sand tit a double convex lens of glass accurately in front of the eye, so focussed as to j-roperly cast an image upou the retina. If the retina has not lost its sensitiveness, it is thought that he will be able to see. Tiif. sealskin clothes worn by Engi neer Melville during bis terrible experi ences in the Arctic regions are objects of much inti rest at tiie Navy Department, Washington. Among the relics is a br.i.iantly colored foxskin cap belonging to Lieut, Beiry, which was presented to him by an Esquimaux damsel. She con fisc :fed his old cap because it was not pii tty, and gave him one she bad made berueil in retuiu. A f’i'v use has been discovered for They can be converted into a TERMS-SI.OO pr Annum strictly in Advance substance resembling celluloid by peel ing them, and, after soaking in water, impregnated with eight parts of sulpli urie acid, drying and pressing between sheets of blotting paper. In France, pipes are made of this substance, scarce ly distinguishable from meerschaum. By subjecting the mass to great pressure billiard balls can be made of it rivaling ivory in hardness. A new style of car is about to be in troduced on the Southern Pacific Rail road, destined to be run from California to the gulf as wheat cars, and on their return as emigrant cars. The interior will be like other freight cars. Along the sides will be sleejiing bunks, lowered and suspended by an iron rod and hinge, but capable of being closed lip flush when freight is carried. There are win dows, of course, and it is said the cars will be as comfortable - ' and warm as the most luxurious Pullman sleeping car. At the marriage ’ \ Mr. Ru’d Mrs-. ; George Harris, at Mouhr Merkhuu, Vir- j giuia, the bride refusedito say “Yes” to the question whether j'io would obey i her husband. "She said that she saw no j reason in such a promise, and he con- j eluded that no harm would be done by omitting it, since he intended to “make ! her ni'ud anyhow.” Two years elapsed, j and a few and n>-Macro,Uhe unsettled ques- I tion arose ordered his | wife to ti > ' *-n for dinner, and she insiste i 1 r roasting it. He brought in a liorsewli * i, , 1 declared that he would flog herlirttiJ she obeyed. She shot and killed him. _ A French savant has called in the aid j of Darwin’s theory of evolution to ex plain the graceful gait of the Parisian ladies. According to his reasoning the streets of Paris were for a hag time af ter the foundation of the city in a very poor condition, as is indeed apparent from its original name—Lutetia, or the ‘‘City of Mud.” The Parisian Indies, in order not to soil their shoes, w ere forced to walk on tip-toe, which in due time re suited in high heels, and finally in that charming gait which is the admiration and envy of all the women of the civil ized world. * Reining a Horse. • One of the most seuselers, and yet a very common habit of the American people, is the reining of driving horses so tight as to inllict upon them a great deal of pain, under the mistaken idea that it adds to the siylish appearance of the animal. When people see a horse’s head drawn up by the hearing rein, and see him stepping short and champing the hit, tossing his head and rattling the harness, they assume that lie is acting in the pride of his strength and fullness of spirit, whereas the animal is really suffering agonies of pain, and is trying to gain by these movements momentary friele. To our view, a horse looks bet ter, and we know he feels better, when pursuing a natural, leisurely, swinging gait. It is as necessary for his head to oscillate in response to the motions of bis body ns it is for a man’s hands to do the same thing. A horse allowed his head will work easier and last longer than one on which a check is used. Blinds are another popular absurdity in the use of horses. They collect dust, pound tiie eye and are in every way a nuisance. A horse that cannot be driven with safety without them should be sold to a railroad grader. No eolt should be brokeu to them.— Lincoln (Neb) Jour nal. . Beans as Food, The nutritive value of iJfeansvery great—greater than almost any other article of food in common use. Consid ering their richness they are probably the cheapest food we have, but some what difficult of digestion, probably owing to the fact that we rarely cook them enough and masticate them in sufficiently. in preparing beans for the table jhey should first be well soaked in cold water and then thrown into boil ing v ater and cooked until of a medium consistency—between a fluid and a soli I- neither too thick nor too thin. They require some acid on them when eaten, and a sutticient amount of salt to render them palatable. They may be eaten with potatoes or other vegetables which contain more starch and less albu men rather than with too much bread or meat. In Germany there is a process patented, by which beans and all legu minous seeds are reduced to a very tine flour and rendered capable of being used as food by the most delicate per sons. We have samples of this flour, which equal in fineness the best wheat flour, and it is used extensively for m iking soup for invalids. These soups are worth a hundred times as much as beef tea. There is a fortune awaiting any one who will prepare a flour from beans as perfect as this flour from Ger many. Bean soup, rightly made, is ex ceedingly delicious and wholesome, and ought to be used more extensively than it is. Sanitarian. —Sage and other herbs which you wish to keep for use in the winter should be gathered on a*lry day. If they are perfectly dry when gathered you can sift them at once, and with very little trouble. Put them away in tin cans (the cans in which prepared coeoanut comes are nice for this purpose); keep them where it is dry. Herbs which you do not care to sift can be tied in bundles and hung up after the fashion of our grandmothers.— N. Y. Post. NUMBER. 44. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —Ben Hill’s last words were spoken to his pastor, Rev. C. A. Evans, and were: “ Almost home.” Secretary Folger, of the Treasury, is called a perfect picture of Benjamin Franklin, and with good reason, for Franklin’s mother was a Folger. —Says F. J- Furnivall, the Shakespe rian critic: “Shakespeare’s own five signatures prove that the most authentic form of spelling his name is ‘ Shaks pere.’ ” —Roza Bonheur is sixty-two years old and has quit wearing pantaloons and dresses like any other woman. This leaves Miiry Walker in the full enjoy ment of a dangerous monopoly.— Hawkeye —Hans Von Bulow, the pianist, is go ing to marry a woman named Maria Apialia Katharina Josepha Schauzer. IVhen she adds Von Bulow she will have a real seven-octave name.— Lowell Conner. Berlioz, the composer, when ho was in love, said to the adored one: Ariel, I adore you, I bless you; in a j word, 1 love you more than the weak i French tongue can say; give me an or ! clu sira of 100 performers and a chorus ! of 150 voices and I can tell you. ” —The best prose sentence ever writ ten on this .side of the Atlantic, accord ing to Mr. E. P. Whipple, is this from Emerson’s lecture on Shakespeare: “The recitation begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry, and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessi ble homes.” - Some Sanscrit manuscripts of parts of the bible of the Buddhists have Keen found in Japan. It is thought that many relics in Sanscrit of great value may yet be disehbired in China and Japan, though probably not any that will have any important bearing upon the religion either of the Jews or of the Christians. —Chicago Jamal. —Antoine Gerin-Lajoie, who recent ly died at Ottawa, will be long remem bered by his countrymen in Canada, for he wrote their national song. “Le Ca nadien Errant.” There is hardly a man, woman or child in Canada who does not know the simple song by heart, and it can be heard almost any evening among the Canadians of New England factory towns and in the French settle ments of the far West. — N. Y. Sun. —A correspondent relates the follow ing incident in the life of the Rev. Will iam Arthur, father of the President: “While presiding over the Baptist Church in West Troy, his choir drawled out the hymn with variations, which did not please him, so he took his text and preached two hours and forty minutes. Ilis head deacon grew impatient and consulted his watch. ‘ Keep your watch in your pocket, Deacon .Jones,’ said he, •you had a long sing, and now I am go ing to preach till 1 get through.’” Chicago Herald. Harmony in Human Life. Our surroundings should be harmoni ous with our life. it is not necessary to sound the same notes to produce h irmony. The word implies blending, but it almost forbids repetition. Nat ure is the great teacher. Her means and ends are consistent with each other. Nature understands too well the art of harmony to attempt impossibilities. She is always up to the mark, but she does not overstep herself. • Where the soil will not grow lilies and roses, she con tents herself with daisies, but left to herself, she will always cover man’s mistakes witli a carefully spun shroud. It is to learn this lesson more perfectly that in later life we are drawn away from mankind to live with Nature. A fuller growth takes place when we feel ourselves in unison with all we see, and when intercourse with nature restores in us the balance that human conflict has destroyed. Life in great eities is in imical to harmony. The clash of interests is too fierce, and those who live much in great centers of human effort cannot sus ain the sense of harmony, unless they come away for a time. The form 1 and manner of modern society increase the difficulty. The multitude of ac quaintances, and the little time given to each, make intercourse necessarily broken and unharmonious. Conversa tion takes the form of epigram, and each sentence must be cast into such a form as not necessarily to demand a second for its completion. By degrees, our thoughts follow our words, and each opinion becomes rounded and finished oft" to fit into each question that may arise. Nothing can be viewed as a whole—we are too near to its de tails. So near are we in great cities that it is almost impossible not to take each detail for the whole. Then arises irritation, from the sense of the un fitness of each separate opinion ex pressed to bear the structure of our whole line of thought. We have uttered an epigram, but we have not stated our judgment as it really is. To do that requires time and opportunity, which society, neglectful of the in : dividual in its care for the whole, can ! not afford to any one of its members. The utterance, unfathered and without offspring, must stand or fall by itself, while we may be thankful if we are not through it labeled and placed in a pigeon-hole to which we are as foreign as a dove to a hawk’s nest. Then it is that we fall back for consolation upon ourselves as a whole. —London Specta tor jt —The extraordinary vitality of “L T ncle Tom’s Cabin” is illustrated by the fact . that a single mail last week brought the publishers orders for 2,135 copies of that book.—A) Y. Christian Union.