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urtc‘ Publisher. HOS, J. WATSON, Editor VOLUME IV. Vail roads, Chickasaw Route, VIA MEMPHIS A CHARLESTON R, R. TWO PASBENGFR TRAINS DAILY TO memhais, tenn. PASS. Ex. JiV UhartanoaKa 830 a m 810 pm „ gtf venson 10 00 am 945 p m * eottsboro 10 35 a m 10 22 p m Huntsville 12 05 pm 1155 pm Decatur 125 pm 100 am Florence 12 00 n’n 2 10am „ £ on “ tl \ 5 31pm 521 am Grand Junction .. 727 pra 725 am Arr Memphis 930 p m 945 a m se 010 connection is made at Memphis with t-’ae Memphis & Little Rock Railroad lor 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. Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage Pars from CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK Without Change. No Other Line Offers these Advantages. ®Sg“EMIGRANT TICKETS NOW SELyNG AT THE LOWEST RATES. For further information call on or write to J. M. SUTTON, Passenger Agt., Chickasaw Route, P. O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Tenn. Alan Great Mm R'y Time Card. Taking effect January 15tb, 1882. SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Mail. Arrive. Depart. Chattanooga AM 8 25 Wauhatehie >,..8 40 do 841 Morganville 859 do* 1 * 11 999 Trenton 916 do 917 Rising Fawn 937 do 938 Attalia 12 20 do 12 35 Birmingham 255 do 301 Tnscaloosa 523 do 525 Meridian 10 00 do Charles B. Wallace, H.Collbran, Superintendent. Gen’l Pans. Agt NasliTiUe, Chattanooga & St, Lonis R ! y. A BEAD OF ALTj COM PETITOKS. BUSINESS MEN, TOURISTS. DCfIPCMDCD EMIGRANTS, FAMILIMS, It L If! L 111 DL H Tlie B?i( Ron( to Louisville, Cincinnati. Indi anapolis, Chicago, and the North, is vf Nash ville. The Bed Ki,le to S. Louis and the West is vln tleliensle. The Rest Route t West Tennessee and Ken tuckv. Miss’ssipi, Arkansas and Teirs roints via MeKemie. DON’T FORGET IT. —By this Line you secure tha— MAXIMUM ton, (or, Sails (actio MINIIIIIM or Expense. Anxiety. ITII H I ITI U 111 liolhcr, Fatlttnc. Be sure to Buy your ticsets over tne N. C. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER need not go amiss; few 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 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 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, G. P. and T. A., Nashville, Tenn. Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets first and third Saturday nights of each month. J. W. Russey, W. M. S. H. Thurman, Sec’ty. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a a month on Friday jnight on or before the full moon. W. U. W. M. G. M. Cra. pee, Sec’ty. Trentcn Chapter No. C R. A.'M., meets on the third Wed esday 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. Crabtree Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Olerk B. P - Majors, Sheriff, Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver, D. E. Tatum. Tax Collector, Joseph Kuer, Coroner, Wm. Morrison, Surveyor. RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY.NOVEMBER 9, 1882. NEWS GLEANINGS. Four negro colleges flourish in Atlan ta. Talbot was the only county in Geor gia that held a fair this year. A stock company has been organized at Birmingham, Ala., to build a cotton factory. The new directory for Knoxville, Tenn., places the population of that city at 17,151. M, W. Harris, of Perry Ga , has some Egyptian cotton growing on his place which is ten feet high. A lot of Confederate bonds, amounting to $145,600, was sold recently at Charles ton, S. C., for sl2 50 per thousand. Columbus, one of the most progress ive cities in Georgia, is moving to build a thorough system of street railway. George Crane, who murdered his wife in Daugherty county, Ga., has been sen tenced to life imprisonment in the pen itentiary. The Selma (Ala.) Times says $15,000 has been squandered by Selma people in matrimonial insurance companies, all of which has been lost. At Tirzah church, York county, S.C., Felix Jones and Charles Starr fought over a woman and Jones was killed. Starr, who is but eighteen years old,' escaped. A meteor fell at Mt. Airy, N. C., re cently, burying itself several feet in the earth. The mass greatly resembled iron ore, and weighed several hundred pounds. A North Carolina exchange says the Liberia fever has broken out strongly among the negroes of that State, and a large number are anxious to emigrate to that country. Two years ago so little dried fruit was shipped from Tennessee that it was scarce worthy of note. The business has now grown, however, to be one of the most important in the State. Near Luray, Va., recently, an eagle whose body was snow white and wings jet black, was killed. From tip to tip of its wings it measured six feet seven inches, and weighed twenty pounds. The artesian well atThomasville, Ga ’ has reached a depth of 1,100 feet mostly through solid rock, without getting a flow of water. Many fine specimens of fossil sea shells are brought up from the bottom. Thomaston, Ga., is overrun with rats, and it is said the rodents have become a perfect plague, in the country round about the farmers are loosing heavily by the pests, and can find no way to pro tect their grain or kill off the raiders. G. W. Hobbs, of Sampson county, N, C., recently exhibited a very fine sam ple of watermelon brandy. Its flavor is good, it is clear as crystal, and has none of the disagreeable smell of ordinary brandies and whiskies, but has an odor like that of bay rum. The cotton planters of Mississippi are condemning the Cotton Seed Associa tions of Memphis, New Orleans and other places, because they have divided territory and fixed rates for seed. They think the price of seed should be gov erned by the laws of trade. The suit brought by the heirs of An drew Johnson to recover 160 acres of land in the most valuable portion of the Fifth Ward, in Chattanooga, Tenn., has been settled by a decision in favor of the present holders of the property. The amount involved was about $200,000. The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion says: A wealthy English syndicate last year pur chased 706,000 acres of land in the Ya zoo delta and they are now examining 600,000 acres of pine land with a view to purchase. The same syndicate have bought 3,000,000 acres of grazing land in Texas. The French Government has sent Hn expedition to Florida to observe, from the classic battlements of old Fort San Marco, at St, Augustine, the transit of Venus November 6. The expedition carry with them scientific apparatus weighing 30,000 pounds. They have ar rived at St. Augustine. Nashville American; The grand jury yesterday found eight indictments for murder in the first degree and assault with intent to commit murder. All tnese cascs were of recent occuranee. The large number of murders, attempted murders and other sanguinary affairs j which have occurred here are giving !the capital city an unenviable prom inece. “Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.” One of the most brutal crimes ever committed is reported from Danvillet Va., A little negro boy, aged eigh, years, had a silver dollar, which Dave Mills, a colored man, coveted. The boy refused to give it up, and Mills, in or der to coerce him into compliance with his demand, caught him and held him over the escape pipe of a steam engine until the little fellow was nearly cooked. Mills has been arrested. A few days ago, says the Gainesvill" (Ga.) Southron, Mrs. Martin and four children undertook to cross the Chatta hoochee at Faulkner’s ford to the left of Belton. A little boy had charge of the boat, and it becoming unmanageable the little fellow jumped out. At this Mrs. Martin became frightened, and her little child fell overboard. She jumped out to save it. Both were drowned. An other little girl went overboad and was drowned. Two others saved their lives by clinging to limbs and rocks. The bodies were all recovered as soon as the people in the neighborhood could get to the scene. The water was not over four feet deep where the victims mei.lheir death. N A somewhat singular case, and one whose decision will be looked forward to with interest, was argued before th 6 Supreme Court at Raleigh, N. C., a day or two ago. One Scott had been sued at the spring term, 1878, of the Superior Court of Wake county, but he died about a month later. His death was never suggested to the court, and in 1879 judgment was taken against him, no administrator having been appointed. It would appear to any one not up in law that such a judgment would be void, but strange as it may appear, the question is a doubtful one and is being contested, one side claiming that it is worthless and the other that it is binding on the estate. Floor Coverings. It is a mooted question whether mat ting should be taken up and laid away or left oil the floor under the carpet. Under an ingrain th<? seams in the mat ting undoubtedly wear the carpet, un less three or more thicknesses of paper are laid between them. Tapestry and Brussels carpeting are but iittle affected by the matting which undoubtedly keeps better upon the floor. Indeed, if it is left down and covered with coarse brown wrapping paper, such as grocers use, put between it and the carpet, it will be found nicely cleaned bv spring. We have found stains which resisted all other applications disappear entirely under such treatment. Carpets which have been laid away for the summer should be carefully exam ined befo e putt rig down, and if the moths have invaded them.should at once be sent to the steam-cleaners. Ingrain carpets may be nicely mended by slip mg a patch under the hole and pasting patch aud carpet together with stiff flour paste, taking care that the figures match, and ironing with a hot iron to make the edges lie smooth and adhere properly. The popular fancy for rusrs and ma's is an economical one, s lice it renders it easy to hide any worn or faded spots in the carpet under their friendly shelter. A faded carpet may often be much freshened by washing with beef’s gall and water -one part of gall to three of cold water. Rub this into the carpet either with a clean flannel or a -oft brush: rinse the la her off with cold wa ter, and rub the carpet dry with a soft cloth. If there are any very dir y places wash them with gall %n ly. It will be wise to speak for the gall a few days before it is needed. Light colored Brussels or velvet carpets may b ■ dyed to form the center of a large rug, or or a carpet with bright border. Dying will expose any worn places merciless ly, for the carpet must necessarily be dyed all one color; but where the carpet is a good one, and the light color is ob jected to, the experiment will probably prove satisfactory in the highest degree, giving an entirely new effect, well suited to the fashion of the day. Stained floors with large rugs in the center of the room grow constantly in favor, and some handsome new houses have floors of costly woods highly pol ished for the purpose. Elegant Turk ish and Persian rugs are used on these, but the fashion obtains also in cheaper fabrics, and ingrain and tapestry rugs are shown in abundance at the carpet stores, along with the pretty Smyrna rugs which imitate the Oriental carpets. —Philadelphia Press. Didn’t "Want a Pass. The other day an Arkansaw man se cured a free pass over a railroad. He was very much pleased at first, but after discovering that if injured in an acci dent he could not recover damages, he approached the Superintendent and said; “Look here! how about this thing?” “What’s the matter with it?” “What if I get killed on the road, my wife wouldn’t recover damages.” “No, sir.” “Then L don’t want the pass. I ain’t got no wife nor no relations, but I want to feel that if 1 had a wife she’d get pay for my death. I’m much obliged to yer, but I reckon I’ll have to I walk.” — Arkansaw Traveler. TOPICS OF THE DAY. A telephone has been run into a church in Olean, N. Y. lukut. Thackara has resigned from the United States navy. Minister Hannibal Hamlin will pass the winter at Bangor, Me. The revision of the Old Testament will be completed in a few months. Daniel Sealis, of Cleveland, is said to be the wealthiest colored man in America. The new directory for Knoxville, Tenn., places the population of that city irt-17,151. .Any Roman Catholic who can prove that the Apostle Peter had no wife, can obtain a $5,000 p>rize offered in Scot land, 3IHERE were more people killed and wounded on British railroads last year than all the British casualties in the Egyptian war. Father Ryan, the poet-priest, is lec turing in Gulf Coast cities on “ Atheism and Infidelity Tried at the Tribunal of Reason and Common Sense.” The bronze statue of the late Senator Hill, to be erected at Atlanta, Georgia, will cost about SIO,OOO, of which one half has already been subscribed. It is asserted that in the three years ending 1880, there were 110 fewer than 252 theaters destroyed by fire, or partly so, resulting iu 4,370 deaths, and about 3,400 injuries. General Brady, of Star-route noto riety, is said to have lost $75,000 in op erating his Canadian lumber mills, which he is now trying to dispose of to avoid further loss. One of the benevolent New Yorkers who helped introduce the English spar ro vs here, lias had to remove every brack&t from his house and go to an ex t -se uf SIOO for painting. A new underground is pro posed for Paris, to cost jmom\ s3o, ooo, - 000. The central station is to be at the Palace de la Bourse. In all, the lines will be twenty-four miles. .* Miss Gabrielle Greeley has begun making improvements on the Greeley swamp at Chappaqua, and has given a plot of ground to the Episcopal Society of that village"* on which to erect a chapel. In the school of Dedham, Mass achusetts, the experiment is being made of using daily newspapers instead of text-books in the reading class. The Principal thinks that the plan is suc cessful. A book has just been issued in Ver mont entitled “The Resurrection of Christ from a Lawyer’s Standpoint.” It is an investigation according to the laws of evidence, and it ends with a full ac ceptance of the resurrection of Christ as an historical fact. The Hon. Levi P. Morton, is giving laudable attention to the interests of the American colony in Paris. He has re cently been chosen as a warden of the American Episcopal Church in that city, and has become a patron or the “Paris British and American Schools.” Jay Gould stopped at Rochester re cently on his return from the West. On alighting from a car at the new depot, he stepped on a sidetrack iu front of a moving locomotive, and would have been run over but for the outcries ef those standing near. Professor Reese, an astronomer, de nies that the comet of 1882 is identical with the comet of 1843 and 1880. From data given after observation of its orbit, he says it will not return to our system in less than four thousand years. It it not necessary, therefore, to lie awake al night dreading a catastrophe. Richard Wagner has sold the copy right of all his musical productions to Schott, the Mayence publisher, the con sideration of the agreement being the yearly payment to the composer of 150,- 000 marks (about $35,000). This an nuity is also to be paid to Wagner’s heirs for thirty years after his death. And still it is thought the publisher has made a profitable contract. Drunkards are suffering in the rural counties of Wisconsin, where the local option law of the State enable the total abstinence people to vote down the pub lic sale of intoxicants. Heretofore the traffic has been continued out of sight, but now the railroad companies have prohibited their employes from taking liquor as freight, and the dealers caD TER MS- SI.OO par Annum strictly in Advance. therefore obtain only very limited sup plies. _ Confederate bonds still have some value in the South. A large quantity oi them belonging to the estate of Jacob Barret, of Charleston, South Carolina, were sold recently at auction. The whole lot, $149,600, was bought by Ed ward Moreland at $12.50 per SI,OOO. The bidding, which started at $lO per SI,OOO, was quite spirited. $6,450 ol Confederate bank bills were also sold at $lO for the lot. Guiteau’s skeleton is not yet articu lated. It is ready for wiring with the exception of the thigh bones, which are not yet sufficiently bleached. They are submerged in an ether bath where they will remain for some weeks before the process of preparation is completed. It is not likely that when articulated the skeleton will be placed on public exhi bition. It will probably bo consigned to repose among other ghastly relics of the Medical Museum, upon which the eye of an outsider is never allowed to rest. The harvests of 1882, with few excep tions, resulted favorably, and there is immense wealth in the granaries of the country. Crop failures were appre hended, but not realized. The autumn, too, has been most favorable to the ma turing corn, and that which the usual frost might have destroyed was saved by the prolongation of fine weather. But iu the face of the great wealth which lies back in the country in the hands oi the agricultural classes, business is dull. The boom that was expected to folio w the assurance of good harvests has not been experienced, and merchants in the country and in the cities are complain ing of slow sales and slower collections. Enough is already luJbwn of the radi cal movement in Frane% to justify great uneasiness. The conspirators, who are mostly young men in cities and manu facturing villages, are united in close organizations, which long escaped obser vation by passing for trade unions. In cendiary papers and tracts are sedulous ly distributed, aud as each group or fed eration of alliances has its distinctive name, the existence of a national league was not so apparent. A central com mittee, composed of one delegate from each federation, has been meeting monthly at Geneva. There are evidences not only that the objects of the conspir ators are akin to those of the Russian Nihilists, but that one, at least, of the champions of the latter, Prince Krapat kiue, is an associate of the French plot ters. The federations of Paris and vi cinity are known to have more than 1,200 members, while Lyons is another stronghold. Hedgehogs in Confinement. Now and again for a series of years we have had captured hedgehogs kept in the house for the purpose of keeping down beetles. For some time past we have been very unfortunate with our hedgehogs, as, whether from being captured in traps or from in juries other wise received, their existence has been of very short duration. Recently, how ever, some members of our family, while visiting at Kheimbeck, near Ham burg, picked up a couple which have since been the source of great entertain ment to us. On board steamer a few days after their capture they became quite tame, and ceased coiling them selves when touched, appreciating the passing of the hand over their prickles, as down the back a cat, and having their heads scratched. Within a fort night of their arrival they have cleared the house of beetles, which Sad previ ously been swarming to an intolerable extent Thej r enter and leave the house like a cat or a dog, with this difference, that they retire to their respective dor mitories till dusk, after which they come forth to enjoy a good feed of bread and butter, the butter being preferred, and over their meals they have an occasion al fight, The only objectionable feat ure, if kept in too close proximity, is their extraordinary puffing, suggestive of a toy high pressure steam engine. We have put a hen’s egg before them, but they have declined to touch it. When they desire to enter a room they scratch at the door, and should they cre ate a noise by the upsetting of any arti cle which mav come in their way, it does not frighten them. Perhaps this note may suggest to some of your read ers the kindliness of this gentle and in teresting animal, and enable the ques tion to be solved as to whether it does or does not attack eggs— London Field. Meteorological Item. There had beeD a heavy thunder storm the night previous, and the school-teacher asked little Johnny: “Were you not frightened, Johnny, at the thunder and lightning, last night?” “No, sir. not a bit.” “That’s right. Johnny. You are a good little Sunday-school boy. l r ou know wiio causes the storm, don’t you, Johnny?” “Yes, sir, my grandfather.” ‘Your grandfather! Why, Johnny, I am shocked at you. God makes the thunder and lightning and the storm. ’ “May be so, but the day before tho storm came up, my old grand atliei said he felt it in his bones.” Texas Satinas. NUMBER 48. WIT AND WISDOM. —The man who worships the fortune he has made is no more intelligent than the heathen who prays to the little wooden god he lias whittled into shape. —lt is an old and true saying that opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind, if you catch her by the fore lock you can hold her. but if you wait till she gets by your hand slips and she is gone. —A queen bee lays in the height of the season from 2.0U0 to 3,0U0 eggs In twenty-four hours. The man who will dis over how to graft a queen bee on a hen will make money enough to buy out the whole continent in six months.— Ph Hat !e ! ph in News. —ln a village near Cork, a physician was disturbed one night by repeated taj-pings at his door, and on getting up he found a laboring man. “Have you been here long?” asked the doctor. “ Indeed I have,” answered the caller. “Why didn’tyou ring the bell?” “Och, be ause I was afraid of disturbing your honor!”— N. Y. Herald. —A smart young man asked a gen tleman from Cape Cod: “What’s the difference between you and a clam?’ thinking that the Cape Codger would say he didn’t know, and then the young man would pity him for not being able to see any difference between himself and a clam, but the thing didn’t work. The Codger took the young man and swept a path across the street with hint, and tlicn. after crowding him into an empty tisli barrel, and yanking him out again, said: “A clam wouldn’t be play ing with you in this way. That’s the difference between me and a clam.” The young man had no more questions to ask. Neir Haven Register. —The Ass and the Cat: An Ass one day Obser red a Cat ascend a Tree to Escape from a Dog, and a Bright Idea entered his head. “When my Master comes to set me to Work I shall run up the Tree and Remain for the Day,” And when the Master came, lo and be hold, the Ass Started for the Nearest Tree at Full Speed, and Ascended about four Feet when he foil back to t he Ground, and was so Completely Knocked Out of Mi ape- that his Master found it Impossi ble to Adjust his harness on him, and was obliged to Destroy him There and Then. Moral—Never Attempt to be too Versatile, and don’t Endeavor to Dodge Honest Work when yon have to Work for a Living, lest Peradveriture you get Left. — R. A. D., in Puck. A Nervous Tendency. Not n few are born with an excessive susceptibility of the nervous system. It renders them, not only specially capable of pleasure and pain and of quick men tal and physical activity, but peculiarly liable to nervous ailments. Others may suffer such ailments, if the cause act long enough and strongly enough; but the slightest disturbing causes are sufficient in the r ase of the former, just as a brief exposure may re sult in consumption, where one lias iu herited a tubercular tendency. Among these ailments is hysteria— popularly hysterics—the most terrible, when severe, that can cotne to a woman, not only for the fearful suflerings and the little sympathy it elicits, but for the bad moral qualities that often seem to be developed by it Females are more subject to it than males—in the proportion of about twenty to one only because the nerv ous element mote strongly preponder ates in their constitution, while their in door and sedentary life does not give them that toughening which generally comes to men from their employments. Allied to hysteria is catalepsy, a disease in which the person becomes wholly, or partially, unconscious, and her limbs take on a waxen stiffness and remain in whatever position they are placed. One form of catalepsy is trance, in which, while, lying perhaps apparently dead, wonderful visions are 'seen. Other diseases are St. Vitus’ Dance (chorea), which has been described as “insanity of the muscles;” neuralgias of various kinds, some forms of epilepsy, 6pinal irritations and insanity'. As this nervous temperament, with its countless possible ills, has been in herited from one or both of the parents, a special obligation is placed upon the latter to check, from tne first, the ac tivity of their children’s nervous system by bringing them up to simple habits, to ample bodily exercise, proper ac quaintances, practical and sober read ing, instead of imaginative; by guard ing them against coquetry, extravagant display and sensual indulgence, and by accustoming them to domestic duties and to a quiet and natural employment ;of body and mind. Youth's Com* j panion Incredible, But True. The rapidity with which a Texas ne gro can hide away a watermelon is wonderful, and the number of water melons that he is able to absorb on the shortest notice baffles the numeral sys tem. Not long since, when watermelons were fashionable, an Austin gentleman i bet a friend that a hired colored boy 1 could eat a forty-pound watermelon in four minutes. The boy was called and : told the nature of the bet. He asked permission to retire, which was granted. On his return, he announced his readi - ness to accomplish the eclipse of the melon in the given time, i “ Why did you go away?” “ I went away, boss, jess to try ef I could make de trip. I’se been practicin’ on two thirty-DOund melons, and I kin put de forty-pound melon out’n sight wid a minute to spare,” and he did it. but he wrs dii*'oointed at not getting a steady conn for all day. —Texas Sifting