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HOS, J. WATSON, Editor VOLUME IV. It ail roads, Chickasaw^Route^ MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R, R. TWO PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY TO memhais, tenn. T U Chattanoasra 830 a m 8 lO X p m U Jenson 10 00 am 9 45pm Scottsboro 10 35 a m 10 22 pm Huntsville 1205 pm 1155 pm Decatur 125 pm 100 am Florence 12 00 n’n 2 10am „ 2 #n "* h 1 v 5 31pm 521 am Gvand .Junction.... 727 pm 725 am Arr Memphis 930 p m 945 a m ae HMo connection is made at Memphis with the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad lor all points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. The time by this line from Chattanoo ga to Mem phis, Little Rock, and points beyond, is five hours quicker than by any *other line. Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage (Jars 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 W'iteto J. M. SUTTON, i Passenger Agt., Chickasaw Route, P. O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Tenn. Alai feat Soattiern E'y 'Time Card, Taking effect January 15tb, 1882. SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Mail. Arrive. Depart. Chattanooga AM 8 25 Wauhatehie 840 do 8 41 Morganville 859 do Z/T 900 "Trenton. SIC do Ml 7 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. Wali.ace, H. Colt.bran, Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Agt Mile. (Mamma s st. Louis R’y, ■B USIN essmkn’t. db T hts!d f M r M n U D emigrants, familims, nLlflEmDLn t 0 touieville, Cincinnati. Indi vine ’ Ullc, ‘- 10 ’ an<l ,I,e North, vi T srX’k?„ o vi* to s - Lou:s 8,1,1 ,he West is ♦ West Tennessee aid Ken ...I: Miaatgsipi, Arkansas and | Tesi s loints via NeKenile. DON’T FORGET IT. —By tlii 3 Line you secure IhQ— MAYIMIIM ° f 111 HAI In U If! Coml'or, Sallsfaotin MINIMUM Eipense Anxiety, Ifl 1 PI I It! U 111 Bother, Fatigue. Be sure to buy your ticxets over me N. C. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER need not go amiss; few changes are necessary, snd such as ate unavoida. ble are made in Union Depots. 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. Louie, Union City and St. Louis, McKenzie an-o Little Rock, where connection is ror.de with Through Sleepers to all Texas pionte. Call on or address A. B. Wrenn. Atlanta, Ga J. H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. T. Rogfhs, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenn. W. L. Danlky, G. P. and T. A., Nashville, Tenn. Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets first and third Saturday nights of each month. J. W. Rttssey, W. M. S. H. 1 hurman, Sec’ty. Trenton No. 179, meets once a a month cn Friday k night on or before the full mooD. W. U. Jacoway, W. M. G. M. Cra ' PEE, Sec’ty. Trenton Chapter No. I P. A.'M., meets on the third Wed cs iay night of each month, M. A. B. Tatttm, H. P. W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty. Court of Ordinary meets on first Mon day of each month. G. M. Cpa btree Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Olerk B. P- Majors, Sheriff, Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver, D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector, Joseph Ks er, Coroner, Win, Morrison, Surveyor. RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1882. NEWS GLEANINGS. .. The county jail at Atlanta contains 216 prisoners. Tennessee is extensively shipping cat tle and hogs to Florida. James B. Pace is announced as the wealthiest man in Virginia. The United States jail at Ft. Smith, j Ark., contains 100 prisoners. | The late Gen. Holt, of Macon, Ga., ■ left an estate valued at $500,000. Montgomery, Ala., expects to handle 140,000 bales of cotton this season, Maryville, Tenn., has a factory where buttons are made of muscle shells. A carload of German carp have ar rive at Nashville for distribution. The New Orleans police are making an effort to break up the opium aens of that city. Most of the levee work on the Missis sippi river below Natchez, Miss., is un der headway. Fulton county, Ga., is taking care of 216 prisoners who are awaiting trial on different criminal charges. A law in Florida requires that the tickets of candidates for county officers bo printed on colored paper. Nineteen Indian hoys have been tak en to Trinity College, North Carolina, where they will be educated. The New Orleans papers complain be cause the Charity Hospital at that place is overrun by patients from other States. Nashville has no water for fire pur poses, and the underwriters are discuss ing the advisability of advancing their rates. Several mo re Mormon elders have ar rived at Chattanooga and joined the band of Mormon missionaries now work ing up converts in the South. Lord Houghton, of England, has pur chased 60,000 acres of land in South ern Florida, and intends going exten sively into S\lgar culture, inventing at least $1,000,000. The British steamer Gastello left Sa ( vannah, Ga., Monday, with the most valuable cargos ever cleared from the port. The cargo was 7,100 bales of up | land cotton, valued at $406,037 32. A bill to be introduced at the present ! session of the Georgia Legislature will ! provide for a registration law, which ! will debar any person from voting who I has not paid his taxes in full. It is thought this bill will be easily passed. A Mr. Johnston, of A tlanta, a cousin of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, is the fa ther of twenty-two children, r the young est of them being an infant. Mr. John ston has been married but once, and his wife isnow livingand in excellent health. One of the four silver half dollars coined by the Confederate States gov ernment is in the possession of a gen tleman living in Cartersville, Ga. He has been offered on several occasions the comfortable sum of SSOO by numismatic collectors for the coin. Work on the Mobile harbor progresses satisfactorily. The present dimensions of the channell are seventy-five feet wide by seventeen deep from the mouth of the liver to deep water down the bay. together wither with an additonal short cut of forty feet wide near the mouth of the river. There are now 979 patients in the Georgia Insane Asylum, 257 of whom were received during the present year. Chatham county furnishes the" largest number, sixty-four; Fulton follows with forty eight, and Richmond with forty six. The patients range from fif teen to ninety years of age. The Picayune is informed that a dan gerous $lO conterfeit Treasury note is in circulation in New Orleans. The note is of the same manufacture which appeared in Chicago in 1880, the printer of them being arrested with *25,000 of the money in his possession. They have since appeared in many of the larger cities. By a recent decision of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, characterized by the Charleston News and Courier as ‘the most important judicial deliver ance that has been had since the adop tion of the new constitution,” no felon in future has the right to vote. This law is being generally adopted in the Southern States. . Suit has been brought against the Tennessee Brokerage Association, at Nashville, by .Calvin Morgan, who seeks to recover $3,150 lost on ,:orn deals dur ing the month of October. The com- “Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.” plainant alleges that the transactions in which the money was lost were not bona fide, as no real delivery was contracted for. Charleston News and Courier: The skeleton of a full grown mastodon has been found in the Cowee tunnel, on the Ducktown branch of the Western North Carolina railroad. When the monster was discovered the convicts fled in ter foT, and it was by hard work that they could be induced to return to their picks, It was found six feet below the surface of the earth. It was in a per ect state of preservation, and crumbled to (fust as soon aS exposed to the air. A Singular Confession. Prof. Schulte has written a confession of the burning of the pavilion at Ter race Springs, Napa. After saying he set fire to the building to obtain the in surance, $750, he says: “Now, who could do such a deed such a wrong deed? one who has al ready reached the evening of life, proba bly not distant far from the very hour when night completely and forever shrouds the earthly form—one who thus during almost three score years has never been accused of any act offensive to the law ? How Could do such a deed one who from the early days of student life steadily walked in the paths of sci ence, literature and even art, the litera ture of all nations, ancient and modern, the vernacular of he practically knows and speaks? How could do such a deed one with such attainments, such culture—one who ever since he in the fog of battle had torn from him a limb, returnable to mother earth, when be longing to a medical staff some twenty six years ago; who ever since, I say, became an able lecturer, a most able in structor, and as such active and success ful, more than twenty years in the pri vate high schools of this State, such as the old College of California, (now the Department of Letters in the State Uni versity,) the defunct Female College of the Pacific, the Mills Seminary, etc., and during his residence in this town, in the Collegiate Institute, the Ladies’ Seminary, and Oak Mound Academy. (Alas! that instead of myself another were to state all this as has in the past been done, when, indeed, not needed; my cktwl uudoi all ottim di cumstances truly immodest self-lauding, admitting of no other apology but my being confined behind prison bars, lone and severed from friends and the world, no one having as yet been able to raise voice in mv behalf.) How then, in fine, could do that wrongful deed one who was always known—latest in this very town—to be a man exemplary in his habit, religious even, in harmony, how ever, with the advanced and enlightened convictions of the times; an ever faithful husband, a good and solicitous father, who purest happiness found at home alone; one punctual in his professional duties, ever industrious and persevering, affable and honest in all his dealings. How then? How in the name of all that’s good and true? How could such a one do such a deed ? A deed most wrong and most condemnable! What could make it possible, not excusable? Despair! Despair! Despair unuttera ble! Despair unknown! Despair not fully understood even by his own fam ily ! ! * * * I recoiled, wrongfully recoiled, and as wrongfully conceived that by a rich insurance company the loss of a few hundred dollars would not be felt, lean. The condemnable deed was done. Yet when the flames sur rounded the massive structure, although unoccupied and uninhabited, when the flames chased darkness, illumining sky and distant horizon all around, pangs of conscience almost overpowered me. I hastened from the scene. On the fol lowing day I had to, and did, publicly dilate, not with my usual enthusiasm in deed, on “Beauties of Modern Litera ture,” English, German, French, Span ish and Italian, comparatively with these in the language of the ancients. To day, in the solitude of my barred cell, I inwardly dilate on the prospective hor ror and privations of a state prison, with sufferings heightened by the cease less pangs of bitterest remorse. (Sic semper justitia\ Yet might not, with general weightycondemnation,one wee, light grain of pity mingle?”— San Fran cisco Call. Cinders in the Eye. Persons traveling by railway are sub ject to continued annoyance from Hying cinders. On getting into the eyes these are not only painfu 1 for the moment, but are often the cause of long .suffering that ends in a total loss of sight. Avery simple and effective cure is within the reach of every one, and would prevent much suffering and expense were it gen erally known. It is simply one or two grains of flaxseed. These may be placed in the eye without injury or pain to that delicate organ, and shortly they begin swell ana dissolve a glutinous sub stance that covers the ball of the eye, enveloping any foreign substance that may be in it. The irritation of cutting the membrane is thus prevented and the annoyance may soon be washed out. A dozen of these stowed away in the vest pocket may prove in an emergency worth their number in gold. - Auteui “ What’s your name ? ” asked one little four-year-old miss of another. “I do declare ! ” replied the Recond little girl, “ you are as inquisitive as grown peoples. They always askses my names, where I got my new boots, and all such tings, ; until I’m almost as’amed of ’em. ” TOPICS OF TH£ DAY. Sentinels still guard President Gar field’s tomb: A business man in Rochester is seven feet two inches in height. Mrs. Langtry, it is said, will go to Australia and N-iw Zealand after liei American tour. The wife of President Gonzales, oi Mexico, is studying medicine and sur gery in Chicago. Mbs. Langtry is said to have received $6,000 from Sarony for the privilege of photographing her. A bar of gold was recently cast in Nevada City, Cal., which weighed 450 pounds, and is said to be the largest ever cast in this country. Arnold’s “Light of Asia” has reached its tenth edition in London. More than 100,000 copies of the poem are said to have been disposed of in America. A rose bush bearing 1,000 buds is the pride of a gardener in Charlestown, Mass. It is thirty-five years old and covers over 100 square feet of ground. Beecher has looked over several Sunday school libraries, and it is his candid opinion that eighteen books out of every twenty are too boshy for any intelligent child to read. At a recent test of plain boiler flues in England against corrugated flues the former collapsed at 225 pounds per square inch, while the latter withstood 1,020 pounds per square inch. The oldest printer actively engaged in his profession is Grandpa Prescott, in lowa, who, at the age of ninety years, sets type every working day in the com posing room of the Coming Gazette. The wife of the Chinese Minister at Washington is seventeen years of age. She dees not receive visitors, of course, but with an attendant she drives out. Sh*is studying the English language;. Mr. Edwin Booth the Christmas holidays in and soon after go to Germany, where engage men ts have been made for him at Ber lin, Hamburg, Leipsic, and several other large cities.* Mr. Edward Atkinson has written a letter to the managers of the proposed Cotton Exchange in Louisville, Ken tucky, warmly approving of the project, and making some valuable suggestions as to the construction of the building. The immente cost of living in Evvpt is a very serious matter for the British troops who will have to remain there. The prices for everything are enormous, and the whole day’s pay of a subaltern will purchase him but one meal at a hotel. “Plunger” Walton lost $7,500 on his first horse race wager during his present visit to England, according to a correspondent of the Boston lieml<l, and for several days his luck was generally bad, but by winning $40,000 on a single horse he came out $15,000 ahead on the whole week. A bill is before the Vermont Legisla ture prohibiting a divorced person from marrying within a year, and a person from whom a divorce is obtained from marrying within five years or ever, if the ground of complaint is a crime, in which case criminal prosecution must follow the divorce proceedings. Baby insurance compauies are becom ing quite popular in New England. The lives of children from one to twelve years of age are insured to amounts not exceeding $250, the charges being a few cents weekly. It is expected that the business will become a profitable accom paniment of the baby farming industry. It is stated that a pastry cook, at Bologna has produced a very novel sub stitute for a newspaper. It is composed of very delicate leaves of pastry, on which w itty articles are printed, not with ink, but with chocolate liquor. Thus, after its literary contents are devoured, the reader may devour the production itself. The latest phase of the Egyptian question is the complicity of the Sultan in Arabi Bey’s revolutionary movement. This has been often affirmed, though as often denied, and it is now maintained by Arabi’s counsel that direct encour agement was given him from the Sultan as well as from the Egyptian people and clergy. A few miles away from Philadelphia are living a family of triplets, two men and a woman, who are sixty years of age. They are the children of an old Lutheran clergyman named Rollers, and are all hale and hearty. These triplets have always lived together. The brothers are TERMS—SI.OO par Annum strictly in Advance. married, but the sister has remained a spinster. An exhibition of skill with the lariat at Texas, a few days ago, drew a crowd of 10,000 persons. Ten cowboys coate-ited for a silver trimhied saddle worth S3OO, to be given to him who roped, threw and tied down a steer iu the shortest space of time. The winner Accomplished the feat in one minute and forty-five seconds. Eight children named Fogarty, the eldest eighteen years and the youngest only ten months, arrived at New York recently from Ireland, having been com pelled to make the voyage alone by the father being arrested, charged with abducting a young girl whom he had hired to nurse the infant. The father has since arrived to take charge of his family. The Ting Yueng. the formidable iron clad that lias just been built in Germany for the Chinese Government, is to be lighted by 240 Edison eiectrio lamps. This mysterious method of illumination will probably be as satisfactory evidence to the magnates of the Flowery King dom that there is something in Western civilization as any that could be fur nished. S. H. Butcher, of Oxford University, a young man of less than thirty-five, has been elected to the Greek Professorship at Edinburgh University, a place, says the London Spectator, worth £2,000 a year. “With Mr. Butcher at Edin burgh, Jebb at Glasgow. Geddes at Ab erdeen, and Lewis Campbell at St. An drew’s, the new generation in Scotland should know Greek.” O-TRiCHES are worth $1,400 each, and there is a duty of 20 pet cent, on their feathers. A man from Buenos I vres has just brought twenty-two of the birds to this country, and will establish a farm in the South. If his experiment suc ceeds, it will find many imitators. It is cheaper and pleasanter to run an ostrich farm than to shoot down the wild birds on the plains of Africa. t'HE TJnaaJau "Royal (Jornmi-aiuti tO abate drunkenness recommends : 1. Liberty to committees to close all drink ing shops. 2. Permission to communi ties to establish communal monopolies for the sale of drink. 3. No public house to ho established above 25 pci cent, in excess of one per 1,000 of the population. 4. Tea and food to be sold wherever drink is consumed on the premises. 5. Rigorous supervision of public houses. The Postoffice authorities will urge the Senate to pass, at as early a day as possible, at the coming session, the bill that passed the House for the modifica tion of the money order system. Dr. McDonald, the Chief of the Money Or der Division, is of the opinion that if that bill shall become a law the rates will so largely increase the business of the department as to he a large source of revenue to the Government. An ef fort is also to be made to pass the postal currency bill at an early day. There is a very urgent demand for this bill from many quarters. Six years ago an eccentric Spaniard was in Keokuk, lowa. He died in Spain last August. He had an only child, a girl, twelve years old® It seems he wanted her raistd a Protestor, and in his eccentricity named George Blfud, a colored blacksmith of Keokuk, as her guardian. He made a contract with a priest in Spain for carrying out his will. The will provides that the priest is to re ceive $68,000 in case the conditions of the will are fulfilled, otherwise nothing. George Bland, the colored man is to have the same amount and the guardian ship of the child, who gets $360,000 and a large amount of diamonds and jewelry. —The 4th of March, 1821, came on Sunday. That was the second inaugu ration of .lames Monroe. In 1849, the year of the inauguration of General i'aylor, the 4th of March came on Sun day. It did not happen % tin until the inauguration of President Hayes, in 1877. It will not occur again during this century. In 1885 the 4th of March comes on Wednesday; in 1809 the 4th comes on Monday, the next inaugura tion comes in 1893; the 4th comes on Saturday. In 1897 the 4th of March comes on Thursday. In 190.0 the 4th of March fails on Sunday, but that is not an inauguration year; that wiil be in 1901, and that will bring the 4th of March on Monday.— Chicago Journal. — Vt. P. Fopoff has an article in ths Critic showing that American literature is read in Russja. Longfellow heads the list. Cooper’s Indian tales are better lik ed than any other foreign novels ; and there are few educated Russians who hove not read Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle Tom.” Bret Harte and Mark Twain also are popular among the subjects of the Cvsar; but we doubt if even they cau make His Imperial Majesty laugh very in ueh, while watching to hear w here the ttixt Nihilist bomb will explode.— D&- (toil Frv Press. NUMBER 49. HUMOROUS. j —A young lady says that males ar# of no account from the time the ladies stop kissing them as infants till they commence kissing them as lovers. —A facetious boy asked one of hie playmates how a hardware dealer dif fered from a boot-maker. The latter, somewhat puzzled, gave it up. “Why.” said the other, “because the one sold the nails, and the other nailed the soles.” —“Does your sister Annie ever say anything about me, sissy?” asked an anxious lover of a little girl. “Yes,” was the reply. “She said if you had rockers on your shoes they’d make such a nice cradle for my doll.” — Ft. Y. Ledger. —An intelligent youth, recently en gaged in a commercial office, rnaae out a shipping bill for “fourty” barrels of flour. His employer called his attention to an error in the spelling of forty. “Sure enough.” replied the promising, clerk, “I left out the gh." Nearly $9,500,000 is invested in the printing and publishing trade in Boston, and the yearly product is valued at $5,- 467,000. * This does not include the amount paid to writers who furnish the matter for printing and publishing, and which, if all added together, aggregates several hundred dollars more.—Phila delphia News. —A promising youth of five summers, being about to retire for the evening, was asked by hi3 mother to kneel by her side and repeat the Lord’s prayer. The little chap, whose mind was evi dently intent on the beauties of the na tionnl game, having reached the middle of the prayer, paused, looked into his mother’s face and exclaimed: “Billy Brown is a boss short-stop,” and pro ceeded with his devotions as if nothing unusual had transpired.— Boston Post. —A little five-year-old friend who was alwaj s allowed to choose the prettiest kitten for his pet and playmate before the other nurslings were drowned was taken to his mother’s room the other morning to see the two, tiny twin new babes. He looked reflectively from one to the other for a minute or two, then poking his chubby finger into the cheek of the plumpest baby he said, decided ly: “ have this one. ” Chicago Tribune. — H. M., Selma, Ala.: “How can 1 permanently remove an indelible grease spot from a broadcloth coat?” The only way to permanently remove an in define -mot from a coat is to , it out of the coat, but that wuum possi bly injure the coat. On the other hand, if you would saw' the coat from the grease spot—but really we feel inade quate to the task of furnishing the right brand of advice in this case.— Texas Siftings. ___________ WIT AND WISDOM. —The time wasted by men in feeling in the wrong pocket would make the next generation rich if they had it. — A great many people in this com munity would like to tind out just how much money it would take to spoil them. We do not speak for ourselves, but for our poor relations. — N. Y. Her ald. —A traveler stopping at a village inn during a thunder-storm, said to a by stander: “Why, you have very heavy thuuder here.” "“Yes,” replied the man, “we do, considering the number of inhabitants.” —The Philadelph : a News argues that if a man had the strength of an insect in proportion to his size he could jump higher than a mountain. It is quite pos sible, as mountains are not very high jumpers.— N. O. Picayune. —Scene in Court: “Now, Mr. Blank, you say that on that day, at noon, you saw a woman ride past your house at a furious pace, and you have given us a detailed inscription of her costume. Please tell us what was the color of the house.” “1 do not remember.” “Well, was the woman white or black?” “I did not notice; she went so fast that I only had time to see how she was dressed. ’ ’ — Chicago Tribune. —“What have you that’s good?” said a hungry traveler, as he seated himself at table d’ hote at a Salt Lake City hotel. “O!” said the waiter, “we’ve roast beef,' roast mutton, roast pork and broiled curlews. “What’s a curlew?” said the traveler. “ Why, a *bird; something like a snipe ” “Could it fly?” “Yes.’ Did it have wings?” “Yei!” “Then I'don’t want any cur lew. Anything that had wings and could fly and didn’t leave this country I don't want for my dinner.” “Ah, how are you this morning?” said a Fifth avenue" man to his friend from Jersey. “Pretty well, pretty well,” he replied; “but my wife is suffering from a severe cold,” he con tinued, as his face beamed with delight. “Now, that’s too bad,” exclaimed the New Yorker; “ but why do you seem so happy over it?” Taking his friend by the arm, the Jerseyman replied, as tears of joy rolled down his apple-jack flushed face: “ Happy! Don’t mention it! Why, she hasn't been able to speak above a whisper for six days.— N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. —Lord Chelmsford was walking down St James street, when a stranger accosted him. saving: “Mr. Birch, I believe?” “If you believe that, sir, you’ll believe "anything,” the ex- Chancellor ’•eplied as he passed ou. London Society. —The mercantile stock exchange, the first in the Republic of Mexico, has been opened. It has been organized with native capital, and starts with twenty active members of Mexican brokers and fifty outside subscribers. | All classes of securities will be dealt in.