Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

w P A . Publisher THOS. J. WATSON, Editor VOLUME IV. Hail roads. 'fk ' Chickasaw Routed VIA. MEMPHIS A CHARLESTON R, p. TWO PASSENGER TRAINS DAILY MEM DA IS, TENN. T * PASS. » Ey <7 Cbattenqoeia 830 a m 810 pn. « |^f" son 10 00 ahi 9 45pm .< H,?n t n° 10 35 am 10 22 pm . 5“ n ' sv ’ lle 1205 pm 1155 pm .. S/nT* 1200 n ’ n 2 10am Arr m! A Junction.... 727 pra 725 a m Wt> connection is made at Memphis with the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad for alt points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. The time fcy this line from Chattaroo sr* to Memphis, Little Rock, and points beyond, js five hours quicker than by any other line. * J Through Fassenser roadies and Baggage Cars from CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK Without Change. Xo Other Line Offers these ■A elvan tafjes. TICKETS NOW SELLING AT THE LOAVERT KATES. For further information call on or write to J. M. SUTTON, PaepeDper Agt., Chickasaw Route, r. O. Box 224, Chsttonooga, Tenn. Al® Great Soiera R’y Time Card, Taking effect January 15th, 1882. SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Mail. Arrive. Depart. •Cbattanoosta am 8 2f Wauhatehie 840 do 841 Morganville 859 Tnrnton 916 do " 917 JRieinot Fawn 937 do 938 Attalia 12 20 do 12 35 Dirmimrharu 255 do 301 Tuscaloosa 523 do 525 Meridian 7..10 00 do Charles B. Wallace, H. Collbran, Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Agt iasMrejCbattaiiooga & St. Louis R’y. aheap of all competitors, business men, tourists, npuriuinrn emigrants, fa mil] ms, ntmtlYiDtn anapoiiH, Chicago, and thcNoitb, is ria vUle. Tt.e Rest Route to S. Louis and the West is ▼li» Meli«nzie. “SThr, Rest Rmte to AVest Tennessee and Ken tnckv, Mississipi, Arkansas and! Teias joint. via .JlcKenile. DON’T FOKGKT IT. —By thii ’TJne you secure the— MAXIMUM Camfor, Saiislarlio MIMBftIUM or Expense. Anxiety, mlflSWy [YI Bother, (iitignc. Be mre to buy your tickets over tne N. C. & St. L. R’y. THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV ELER need not go amiss ; few cbanve* are necessary, and such as are unavoida ble are made in Union Depots. Through Sleepers BETAVEEN — Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou« I 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, Tenu. Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets first and third Saturday nights of each month. J. W. Ritssey, W. M, S. H. Thurman, Sec’ty. Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a a month on Friday 'night on or before the full mooD. W. U. JAOO’V'AY, W. M. G. M. Cra fee, Sec’ty. Trenton Cnapter No. C R. meets on tiie third Wed esday night ot each month, n p M. A. B. 'IATUM, H. P. W. U. Jacoway, Sec ty. Court of Ordinary meets on first Mon day of each month. y G. M. CpABTREE Ordinary. S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk B P- Maj' re, Sheriff, Joteph Coleman, Tax Receiver, D E- Tatum, Tax Collector, Joseph Kiser, Coroner, w 2. Morrison, Surveyor. NEWS GLEANINGS.^ The school population of Georgia 507,801. Alabama has a bonded indebtedness of $0,500,000- m Alexandria, Va., gets oysters at thir ty five cents a bushel. Twenty thousand Le Conte pear trees are being set out in Leon county, Fla. Cedar Key, Fla., bears the distinction of being a town in which not a single cow is owned or kept. Alabama is in such a prosperous con dition that the Governor recommends a reduction of taxation. A gold mine has been discovered in V arren county, Ga., which promises to be one of the richest in the State. In Georgia this year 140,515 white voters paid their poll taxes, and 93,153 colored voters did 'the same thing. A bill has been introduced in the Ala bama Legislature to prevent persons playing “crac-a-loo” in public places. The iron bridge' across Yazoo river, twelve miles above Vicksburg, Miss., is to cost $250,000. It is now under way. The actual capital now invested in Southern cotton mills is placed at SSO, 000,000, giving employment to 40,000 hands. A bill has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature to require railroad companies to fence in their roads and erect cattle guards. Georgia farmers, elated and encour aged by the immense oat crop harvested this year, are putting in a larger crop than ever this fall. The New Orleans Times-Democrat and Charleston News and Courier are aeitating the project of organizing a Southern Associated Press. The Commercial says Vickburg is on a regular business boom, forging ahead at a lively rate, but the condition of the city finances is deplorable. The award of SIOO for a design for the Confederate monument to be erected at Nashville has been ordered paid to Henry O. Avery, of New York. WaA-erly, Tenn., takes pride in point ing cut to visitors the site on which stood the log school-house in which Col Robt. G. Ingersoll taught school txventyr five years ago. Virginia ranks in the list of fish-produeing'States, the oyster, menhaden and shad fisheries being the three branches in Avhich her citizens are most extensively inteiested, A Mississippi man has discovered that an excellent quality of sugar can be made from sweet potatoes. If this proves true, a new use' has been found for one of the best and m ost prolific 0 American products. The News says Galveston may as well give up the hope of being a’great cotton market, in consequence of direct expor tation of the cotton of Northern Texas to Liverpool and Is remen by spinner’s agents throughout the State. A bill providing for the erection of a new Capitol has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature. The bill provides that it be built of Georgia granite and marble, decorated with Georgia pine and walnut, and cost $1,000,000. On the farm of Win. J. Watkins, in Buckingham county, Va., is a mound between twenty and thirty feet high, which is filled with the bones of men and women, together with pieces of In dian pottery, arrow heads and ether relics. The many hundred thousands of cane fishing poles used in the North each year are obtained near the head of Big Black river, in Mississippi. Four hun dred thousand poles will be cut and shipped this fall, besides 100,000 small er canes for pipe stems. Louisiana’s crops of sugar, rice and cotton are enormous. Some of the su gar plantations are yielding three hogs heads of sugar and six barrels of molas ses to the acre. This is remlikable. The planters are in high glee. Net incomes f- -m $50,000 to $500,000 are talked of. Lynchburg(Va.) Advance: The‘an nual report of the Hampton Indian school shows thirty Indian girls and fif ty-four Indian boys in attendance. The students made 2,000 pairs of shoes and seventy-five sets of harness, besides n: any other articles, during the present year. A Charleston (S. C.) woman blondin ed her hair with some vile concoction, and then while braiding it,' held it in her mouth. The stuff poisoned her lips,, RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1882. Faithful to tiie Right, Fearless Against Wrong.* and the poison soon found its way throughout her entire system. After weeks of doctering, she recovered, but only by the merest chanoe. Montgomery Advertiser: Among the fruits exhibited at the fair during the present week tfas a barrel af Alahania oranges, raised by Mr. Tatum, Repre« sentative in the Legislature from Baldi win county. They attracted general attention by their rich color and large size, and compare very favorably with the best Florida oranges. Mellomaize is a South American ce real, superior to both corn and wheat for cakes and bread, which experiment, ing has proved will grow successfully in the .South, making from fifty to one hundred bushels to the acre. In South Carolina it has been crown for several years by Rev. H. H. Pratt, who intro duced it to this country. The Fate of Explorers. From Singapore we learn that Mr. Witti (formerly an officer in the Austrian army), an explorer in the service of the British North Borneo Cortlpftny,has been treacherously murdered by “head hunt ers,” who also killed se’.eral of his native attendants. Mr. Witti had, it -eems, been making, his way- to the head of the Sibuco River. This region may bo considered at present quite beyond the active administration of the British Borneo Company, The Governor was not aware that Mr, Witti intended to make so long and hazardous a journey. At the same time, Mr. Witti being an experienced traveler, a brave man, and on good terms with the natives gener ally, there was no reason to feat that he might hot go through the x'crv heart of the country witiiout molestation. He had made, it seems, an important trip, and was, it is believed, on his wav to Kimaois. Neat' the head of the Sibimo River he Would be on the frontier of Dutch Borneo, and in a region where Mr. Carl Bock found the natives an nually savage and unfi iendly. Witti had a party of seventeen men. He divided them. Some nine or ten were told off to attend to the boats. They were navi gating a river, and Witti had bought boats from the natives. The other mon remained to push on ahead in company with the explorer. The natives had shown no disposition to hostility. The local chiefs (the tribes are, no doubt, the Mm uts, though one account says they are Tandjooing Dyaks) had hospitably entertained Witti, which is generally a guarantee of friend ship. While his little party were pre paring to move forward, Witti sat down to make some notes in his diary. Sud denly,from an ambush in tlie liver,some three hundred natives, armed with poisoned arrows and spears, rushed in upon Witti and his men. Three of the latter fell almost immediately. Witti defended himself Avith his revolver a id killed two of his assailants. The re it crowded upon him.hbweveiyuid speafr.d him to death. The others of the party had already run away, one of them,who was carrying Witti’s Winchester rifle, taking it off in his flight. From a hiding place they saw one of the attacking party decapitate Witti, while others cut off ther lower limbs of his dea l attend ants, fling them, with the explorer’s head, into a boat, and make off with their bleeding trophies down stream. They also carried off Witti's pipers and dispatch-box. The event has created a sensation at Singapore ami at Labaun. A police party, of the Borneo Company, lias been, or is about to be, dispatched to the scene of the massacre, with a view to a complete investigation of the iff i r and the punishment of the M The head of the Sibuco River is on the con fines of the British North Borneo Com pany’s territory, occupied by trib-s of an entirely different character i< 1 1 oe among* whom Mr. Frank Hat n to other scientilic explorer, is at * ■ ; in the northeruTegions around about Iviui Bolu. He and his party, including an Australian engineer, iiave been well re ceived. They found the company’s t! ig living at several somewhat remote points, and, so far as the real work of the company goes, it is moving on sat isfactorily. Mr. Witti must have had the dangers of his expedition in his mind at the out set. It is quite likely, from what is known of his adventurous spirit, that he had resolved to accomplish a great achievement even at the risk of hish/o, for, prior to setting otii, lie made his will and left behind him full in-t’ uctious as to the distribution of his property* He was known to the Geographical So ciety of London, whose “Journal of Transactions’’ contains several of his contributions to the geographical his tory of Borneo. The commercial civili zation of North Borneo is of great im portance to trading interests in the castorn seas, and it will be necessary in the in terests of Borneo and adjacent islands to make an example of the murderers— London Tdcqraih. —Robert Harris, a poor boatman, found .'IOO Spanish doubloons umior the stump of a tree near tl.e Pamlico : her, in North Carolina, the other day. The finding of the coin has caused great ex citement Harris was ottered irohO) for his treasure. During the i ast hun dred years periodical searches have been made on desolate sand-bars and islands on the North ( arolina coast for treasure supposed to have been buried by the pirates, Captains Kidd and Black beard. From time to time monev lias been found. — N. O. I'icavune. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Malignant diphtheria prevails in and u-ound Philadelphia, Pa. “Tiie Grover Cleveland” is the name :>f a now overcoat just placed upon the market by a Chicago firm. Florists are endeavoring to introduce the English custom of using bright lowers at funerals in this country. Emigrants to Texas are returning to their old homes in great It timbers. They of great sickness, and their inability to become acclimated. Thebe Is some! style at Omaha, The social season was opened by Aft. aud Mrs. Levi Garter at the Baxton Hotel by a party which cost 16,000. The hotel mis just been finished. At Chattanooga, Tenn., they are ex pecting Very high prices for beef. The sause of the scarcity is that nearly all the cattle from that vicinity is being shipped to Cincinnati and the West. TMe report is current in society circles that General George T. Beauregard, of New Orleans, La., is soon to marry Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, widow of the late Commodore Vanderbilt. Pastor Tuokeb, of the Methodist OhiirOh at Norwich, Connecticut, is a most strenuous opponent of the Revival- 1 ist Barnes. He calls his doctrines “ damnable nonsense, and the fag ends of Calvinism,” • ■— Dr. Talmage says that when Governor Waller is inaugurated in Connecticut all the newsboys of America should have a torchlight procession in honor of the man who was onee a newsboy in the city of New York. After two weeks’ observation, Willie Winter, the admirable dramatic critic of the New York Tribune, announces his Conviction that Mrs. Langtry’s attain ments fully Avarrant her adoption of tho dramatic profession. Ex-Goal Leland Stanford, of Cali fornia, ft is reported, has leased AVilliam H. Vanderbilt’s old residalicir for the winter, at SI,OOO a Dr. Webb, Mr. Vanderbilt’s son-in-law, has occu pied the house until recently. There aJfe in the District comprising the State of Florida, 120 cigar manufac tories, 89 of which are at Key West, and 25 at Jacksonville. During the quarter ending October 1} the number of cigars made in the District was 10,571,825. A gentleman who has been visiting the far Northwest of British America, with a Government surveying party, re ports that the buffalo is fast becoming scarce, but that antelope are numerous. Badgers and gophers infest the whole Western country, and seem to have honey-combed the soil. Engineer Melville is reported to feel very keenly the humiliation of pub lic discussion of his private affairs. He does not care to talk for publication. But it seems to be understood that he still believes his wife insane, and that while he will provide for her, he will not live with her any more. It is stated on good authority that the public pays for twice the gas they would need with good burners. The gas com panies are pressing the subject now, as they fear the electrio light, and wish to make a good showing. As long as they had only candles and lamps to contend with they did not object to this waste. When Mrs. McElroy, the President’s sister, was asked why she did not be-, come mistress of the White House, she replied that she owed her time, first of all, to her husband and five children. Her admirers in Washington say that if she chose to “do the honors” she would be popular for her gentle self-possession and her quiet elegance of manner. The Sultan evidently considers him self blessed with loyal household retain ers. At the recent imposing public feast of Kurban, he called to himself his chief eunuch, and, in the presence of the min isters and other officers, thanked him for his good services in the past, and gave him a golden star, beaming in dia monds the word “Faithful.” This is a rare and highly-prized decoration, whioli has only been bestowed npon seven per sons. To the other eunuchs of his harem he gave rich gifts of olothing and money, in token of their honesty and diligence. Two physicians whose names became familiar to the public during the illness of President Garfield, are seriously and ' fatally ill Surgeon Genera' Barnes has | been very low, aud his life was despaired jof from day to day a month ago. He : has rallied since, but his friends are not ! much encouraged by his condition. His trouble is prctaonced Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Another of Garfield’s physioians, Dr. Woodward, is rapidly failing of softening of the brain. He has returned from Italy where he spent the past summer, without signs of im proA’ement; but, on the contrary has grown worse, aud little hope is enter tained that he may recuperate, and it is feared tho worst may be looked for at any time. A few months ago the discovery by Koch that tubercles were caused by a living parasite called a bacillus was con fidently announced. Now comes the Chicago Medical Journal with the an nouncement that it will soon pnblish an article by Dr. H. D. Schmidt, a dis tinguished microscopist of New Orleans, who claims that the bacillus is not an organized body, but a fat crystal. Dr. Schmidt declares that he can produce artificially every form of Koch’s bacillus. He reached his conclusions by employ ing the so-called Baumgarten process of soaking sections of tuberculous lung in a 30 per cent, solution of caustic potash. This produced minute deposits of red in tissue and sputa, thus facilitating the work of observation. His conclusions, if true, are of great importance, for they render nugatory what has been deemed an important advance in science. The Solicitor of the Treasury has recommended the acceptance of an offer of SI,OOO as a compromise in the case of the United States against the bondsmen of a former Receiver of Public Moneys in Louisiana during the war of the re bellion, whose aocounts were found to be some SB,OOO short, when a settlement was finally made. This suit has been pending for many years, and was about to come to trial when the offer was made. The defense of the Receiver was that he was compelled to turn amount of money over to the Confederate authori ties under duress. The opinion states that under a decision of the Supreme Court claims against of ficials for deficits during war times are void, if it can be shown that there was either moral or physical force used to compel a surrender of the moneys in their possession. This was not only proved in this case, but indisputable ev idence was also given to show that the Receiver was a loyal man to the Union at that time. The translation of Arabi Pasha’s let ters, captured after his surrender, has been completed, and they are held by the counsel for the defense to prove three points: “Firstly, that he received direct encouragement from the Sultan, who, expressing entire disregard for the Khedive, appeals directly to Arabi tc defend the interests of Egypt and the rights of the Khalif against foreign ag gression. Secondly, that Arabi had the unanimous support of the Egyptian peo ple, as is proved by numerous petitions, bearing the signatures of twenty-five thousand of the most influential repre sentatives of every class and section of the population—officials, military offi cers, civilians, merchants, laDd owners and Bedouin chiefs. Thirdly, that he had the sanction of the representatives of the religion of the country, as shown by the Fetwa, Bigned by the heads ol all the four Mahometan rites, pronounc ing the deposition of the Khedive, and enjoining the continuance of war.’’ The evidence taken in the trial so far has been ohiefly to show that Alexandria was fired by Arabi’s ore 1 ms, and othei outrages committed at his command which make him criminally li#ble, since they exceeded the laws and usages ol war. If guilt is fastened upon him it will hardly be necessary to consider the above three points. Let the Light In. There are few farm-houses in which al least one room—often one of the best —is not kept shut up most of the time; and the spare-room intended for vis itors in city homes seldom tares much better, so far as the admission of light and air are concerned. Then we put blinds on our windows to keep out the heat in summer and let them keep out the light all the year: we hang up cur tains for purposes of household deco ration, and regard the resulting gloom as a necessity, of modern life; we eveu devise all fantastic forms o’, colored glass for our dwellings in order to mod ify what little light does get in. No house can be clean that is dark; and no house that is not clean can be healthy. Fore light is a purifier. It destroys the poison of organic disea-e. Its etticacy in this respect may be illu - bated by the fact that the poison of that most dangerous of serpents, the cobra, which will retain its fatal p< \v r indo! nitely if kept in thedark, becomes innocuous after continuous exposure to the action of sunlight. Let the light into eve jv room. then, avoirv da/- —Thomas Hughes, Judge of the Nautwich County Court, and better known as the author of “Tom Brown’s School Days,” gave an important de cision on the law of libel, by deciding that an editor might alter an advertise ment to prevent a libel. TERMS-SI.OO per Annum strictly In Advance. Household Recipes. To remove oils, varnishes, resins, tar, oyster soup, currant jelly and other selection- from the bill of fare use ben zine .-oap and chloroform cautiously with whitewash brush and garden hose. Then hang on wood pile to remove the pungent effluvia of the benzine. To clean ceilings that have been smoked by kerosene lamps or the fra grance from fried salt pork, remove the ceiling, wash thoroughly with borax, turpentine and rain water, then hang on the clothes line to dry. Afterward pulverize and spread over the pie-plaat bed lor spring wear. To give relief to a barn, apply the white of an egg. The yelk of the egg may be eaten or placed on the shirt bosom, according to the taste of the person. To remove starch and roughness from flat-irons, hold the iron onalarge grind stone for twenty moments or so, then wipe off carefully with a rag. To make this effective the grindstone should be in motion while the iron is applied. Should the iron still stick to the goods when in use, spit ou it If your hands are badly chapped, wet them in warm w r ater, rub them all over with Indian meal, then put on a coat of glycerine and keep them in your pock ets for ten days. If you have no pock ets convenient, insert them in the pock et of a friend. An excellent liniment for toothache or neuralgia is made of sassafras, oil of organum and a half ounce of tincture of capsicum with half a pint of alcohoL Soak nine ards of red flannel in this mixture, wrap it around the head and then insert the head in a haystack till death comes to your relief. To soften water for household pur poses, put in an ounce of quicklime in a certain quantity of water. If it is not sufficient, use less water or more quick lime. Should the immediate lime con tinue to remain deliberate, lay the wa ter down on a stone and pound it with a base-ball club. To wash black silk stockings, prepare a tub of lather, composed of tepid rain water and white soap with a little am monia. Then stand in the tub till din ner is ready. Roll in a cloth to dry. Do not wring but press the water out. This will necessitate the removal of the stockings. To remove scars or scratches from the limbs of a piano, bathe the limb in a solution of tepid water and tincture of sweet oil. Then apply a strip of court plaster and put the piano out on the lawn for the children to play horse with. Woolen goods may be nicely washed if you put half an ox gall into two gal lons of tepid water. It might be well to put the goods in the water also. If the mixture is not strong enough, put in another ox gall- Should this fail to do the work, put in the entire ox, re serving the tail for soup. The ox gall is comparatively useless for soup and should not be preserved as an article of diet. — Nut?a JJoomerana. Economy is Wealth. A father, accompanied by his little son, called at a drug-store on one of the avenues and asked lor a cheap sponge. He was one of our rich citizens, and as he spoke he fumbled with his massive gold watch- chain, and looked worth a million. 'The druggist put a lot of sponges be fore him, and he glanced through the lot and asked how much they were. ••All the way from fifty cents to one dollar,” said the drug man. “Oli, but I want it for the boy’s slate,”, said the citizen; “it is hardly worth whiie to pav so much.” “ Well, then, these are what you need,” said the druggist, as he put out a collection of smal l , hard sponges. “These are live cents each.” 'The wealthy citizen fingered them over, and examined them one by one, and still did not seem satisfied. “ Here are some atone cent each,” said the druggist, who began to know h s man, “you might find something among these,” Tho citizen examined each one and still hesitated. At last he selected a small dark fragment, and holding it up, said: “ This one seems to be imperfect. How much will it be?” “Nothing.” answered the druggist, shortly, as he re-arranged his stock of sponges. “Have it done up?” “ No,” said the citizen, handing it to the boy and following him out, when the youngster was heard to ask: “Say. pa, ain’t you going to give me the cent?” And the mournful answer floated back to the druggist: “ Mv son, do you think 1 am made of money?”— JJelruil Free Press. —James Collins, of South Lawrence, Mass., is in his 110th year. Born in Ireland, he was left an orphan at the age of six months, and buried the last of his live brothers over sixty years ago. After living ninety-five years on a farm in his natixe Erin, he concluded to seek It s fortune in the land of tho irec, making the voyage with l.tt’e discom fort. He buried his wi‘e forty years a 2O, and is cared for bv live of his chil dren living in Lawrence. He talks, hears and sees well, never took medi cine. and never was sick, saws wood and walks or exercise, a id Ills still on his head locks of his own hair, of which the genuine Irish auburn has never been silvered Ha t t une. —We notice one thing—it takes a very rich man to appreciate the blessings of poverty. Solomon was worth $75,00) when he said, “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches.”—Bur lington Hawkeye. NUMBER 51.