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T. A. HAVRON, Publisher. CURRENT TOPICS. Paper peach baskets are used in Mary land. Darwin is the name of a new street in Paris. Leprosy is causing excitement in San "Francisco. The Cross Eye is the name of a paper in Gordon, Tex. Frogs legs are worth eighty cents a dozen in New York. Twenty States and Territories hare adopted compulsory education. An English seamstress has reckoned that there are 20,049 stitches in a shirt. An unprecedented amount of real estate seems io be in the market in England. Mrs. Mary Osborne, aged ninety-eight, is the oldest inhabitant of Portland, Me. In sharpening edged tools, substitute common bar soap and water for oil on the hone. Myriads of locusts have appeared in Mexico and wrought great damage to crops. Luther Hodden died, a few days ago, at Koutn Willmington, Vt., age 102 years and seven months. A further suspension of the window glass factories of Pittsburg is probable after September 1. We trust “Figbtingtown,” Ga., was not suggested for a name by the proclivities of of its citizens. A statue of George Sand was unveiled a few days ago at La Chatre, the nearest town to her birth place. Fifty Roumanian paupers were sent back to Europe the other day. This coun try is no dumping ground for European almshouses. A destructive and voracious enemy to the beet-root has appeared in Germany. It is a black bug, immense swarms of which soon ruin acres of beets. About 250,000 plovers’ eggs are annually consumed in London to gratify epicures. The nests are robbed and robbed again till the birds can lay no more. THe cost of the public printing now amounts to $3,000,000 annually. There is said to be some extravagance in this branch of the public service. The population of the United States in creases at the rate of thirty-two per cont. every ten years. At this rate there will be 88,00(1,000 inhabitants in 1900. Tke grand total of appropriations for the coming fiscal year is $186,100,470. That is, it takes over $500,000 a day to grease the wheels of the Government. The plant is said to kill grasshoppers by the million; it is alse use ful in killing flies, multitudes of which are found dead on or under the plant. Three thousand two hundred and twen ty-three cattle and 425 horses have died in the Mexican district of Jonacatepec, More los, in two weeks, for lack of pasturage. The two leading papers of Denver, Col.— Republican and Tribune have consoli dated, and will be known as the Tribune- Republican, and ba Republican in politics. Detectives are trying to locate the “underground railway” by which Chinese are brought into this country. A good many may have come from British Colum bia. Potato rot has appeared in the vicinity of Quebec, owing to the recent wet weather, and farmers are busy digging potatoes and hurrying them to market. Hay has also been very much damaged. Charges are again made that the New York police take bribes for protecting per sons engaged in unlawful business, and ♦ hat the detectives especially are partners of thieves and receivers of stolen goods. Lord Falmouth, an English nobleman, sold fifty-six horses the other day by auction, for an aggregate of almost $400,- 000. One mare brought $28,000, and even the yearling colts averaged almost SB,OOO apiece. The bootblack is menaced with a revival of the enameled or patent leather shoe which enables an economical man to wear his boots without “shining’’ for three or four months, and to shine them himself for the rest of their life. At East Gainsville, N. Y., a salt vein 100 feet thick has been struck at a depth of 2,180 feet. This find is considered import ant, as it demonstrates that the salt depos its of weastern New York are more exten sive than had been supposed. Of the 4,500,000 letters which went intf the dead-letter office last year, twelve thou sand wpre mailed without any address, and nearly two hundred thousand without stamps. Half a million of them were di rected to foreign countries. The other day in London two men who sold a painted sparrow for a canary were sentenced to three month’s imprisonment at hard labor, and just afterward two women who had beaten and half-starved three little children were sentenced to one ■week's imprisonment. School Commissioner Eaton says out scholastic population is over 16,000.000, and of that number about 10,000,000 are enrolled in our public schools. We now have 293,- 294 public school teachers, or about 4,000 more than in last year. Public school in comes and expenditures have increased about $6,000,000 in one year. A VERY strange and painful death was recently recorded by the English papers. A young woman walking near a precipice slipped and fell over the edge. The bottom of her dress caught on a stump and was pulled up over her head and arms, checking her descent but rendering her helpless. Ip this position, about ten feet from safety, 6be starved to death, her position being unsuspected by any one, and her cries be ing inaudible. An analysis of butter and milk recently made in the District of Columbia, disclosed the fact that of the twenty-five samples of the former examined, twenty were adul terated. The milk was found, it was said, to be composed of sheep’s brains, cbaik and water. TRENTON. DADE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1884. A CONFLAGRATION. A Minnesota Town Loses One Million Dollars of Property. Almost KTTr.i I3u«i ■)<<»« lloiikt nmi Fart»ry lu Ahlifu '1 lie Mftl: bui ii Opera-El <>ii*e anil Ilitfh .School Hull . IK'itlroyeU. St. Paul, Minn., August 18.— The city of Anoka, for the fourth time in its history, has been fire-stricken. Shortly after two o’clock this morning an.alarm was sound ed and the fire department -responded promptly. The cause of the alarm was found to be a fire in the skating-rink of Kilines & Vandervelde, situated in the rear of the Posjfoffiee and High School Buildings. Although the department was quickly at work, it was soon evident that the flames were beyond control, and that the adjoining build ings must go, and in a few moments the Campbell-Foote Brick Block, in whii b the Post-office was situated, was in flames, followed almost simultaneously by the appearance of fire in the High School adjoining, and Dowdeii Bros’, restaurant. The flames communicated to the elegant new brick belonging to H. L. Tieknor, and from there across Second Avenue to 11. S. Plummer’s dry goods store, and across Main street io a row of wooden structures occupied by various branches of trade. Up Second avenue, taking several resi dences and the Merchants’ Hotel,down Main on the south side, destroying Plum mer’s dry goods store. Cutter’s dry goods store, Tieknor & Co,, drugs; Ryan, boots and shoes, and so on until the liver barred its Course in this direction. While devastation was being wrought in this direction, appalling flames leaped from the wooden buildings on the north side of Main street and enveloped the handsome Mid stately structure lately erected by W. D. Wasburn, and in which were situated the Anoka. First National Bank and the tlegant Wasburn Opera-house. The whole tity seemed ablaze at once. Up and down 30th sides of Main street, from Third ivenue to the river, and along both tides of Second avenue, from fan Buren to Monroe street, the jitiless flames swept irresistably. From •Vashburn Block to the brick hardware •tore of Putnam, Cheslea & Lindsay, and he First National Bank to Bridge Square, he fire speedily made its way. Tuence dong Bridge Square on the east side, weeping away Daniel’s boot and shoe tore, Abear & Wicklund’s, dry goods, the Ynoka Union Brick Block, Peters* drugs tore, and thence across Jackson street liagonally to the great Lincoln louring-mill and elevator, consuming Jso, the smaller flouring-mill near the .ridge, two planing-mills, one shingle dry-. ;iln, lumber sued and office, all belong to V. I). Washburn & Co., the flames being irought to a standstill at a lane ninety feet rom the mammoth Washburn saw and hingle mills. From the point where the !re communicated to the Lincoln Mills it rent eastward to the corner of Second Ivenue and Jackson street, there joining orces with the section which jumped Main treat, and tackled Jackson’s Hotel and tables, the blacksmith shop, engine-housa nd jail, exhausting itself at the corner < Jackson street and Third Avenue. r hat branch ot the great conflagration rhieh took its way soutii on Second Ave lue destroyed everything to Monroe street, t here it was brought under control. No ives were lost and no very serious acei-' ents occurred, though it was a scene of he wildest and most uncontrollable con usion. Men fell exhausted by heat and moke, while women fainted, appalled by be terrible visitation. The losses and in urance can not be definitely ascertained or several days, as many losers lost every hing, papers and documents included. At his lime it is utterly impossible to more ban roughly approximate the great loss, vhich is placed by the most conservative t $1,000,01X1 at least. Canadian Crops. Toronto, August 15.—According to a upplementary report of the Bureau of In's lustries for August, a good harvest of ;rain crops of Ontario is assured. Fall vheat gives an average of 21 S' bushels, and pring 18X bushels per acre. The aggre ;ate production exceeds last year’s harvest >y ten ami a half million bushels. Bar ey is a good crop in southern counties, >ut in the northern and northeastern it is iffected by summer drouth. The grain, hough plump and heavy, was dis •oloredgiy ram in the last week in July. The oat crop account is much the lame as for barley, but, being two >r three weeks later in ripening, has been greatly benefited by the July rains. The irea in rye is much less than last j'ear. The acreage yield is about the same. Peas »re a bountiful crop. The estimated yield )f the hay crop is one million tons less than ast year. The appearance of the corn crop ■s unpromising, due partly to the inferior teed and partly to low temperature in June and July. A good crop of beans isex pected. Reports of root crops are general ly favorable. Damaging Storm at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, August 16.—Between five »nd six o’clock this evening this section was visited by the worst thunder-storm of the season. Rain fell in torrents, the wind b’ew a hurricane, and hail as large, as mar bles fell in all parts of the two cities. Danziger’s trimming store, on Market street was struck by lightning and the roof partially torn off. The rain poured in the opening, and goods were dam aged to the extent of SIO,OOO. Library llall was also struck, but only slightly damaged. In the Seventeenth Ward a new frame house was blown down, and on the South Side a large frame building, in course of erection, was completely demolished. In all parts of Pittsburg and Allegheny cellars were flooded and in certain localities the streets covered w ith water to the depth of from two to three feet. The damage will reachKmany thousands of dollars. No fatalities are reported. My! terious Attempt at Suicide. Cleveland, 0., August 16.—This even a man of about thirty, standing at the Bee Line bridge over the river, suddenly drew a revolver, shot himself twice in the left side, and jumped into the river. Ho was fished out and taken to the City Hospital. The physicians think he will recover. Con siderable money was found in his pockets, and papers showing his name to be John Griffin, of Argyle, N. J. He had a rail way ticket purchased Thursday iu Fort Edwards. N. J.. for Toledo. 'iIIONE CANNIBAL CHARGES. Ri TOilliix I>l»i-lo«iii-fft made—The Rod; Fount] to he llonihl; Jlut.Utcd. Rochf.ster, N.Y., August 15.—The disin terment of Lieutenant Frederick J. Kis lingbury’s body, of Arctic fame, from its grave in Mount Hope Cemetery, was made here to-day with the consent in the pres ence of Frank W. and John P. Kislingbury, brothers of the deceased. The disclosures, resulting from a subsequent autopsy are of the most revolting character. The skin and muscles of the face and neck were intact, but from the upper por-> tion of the sternum and clavicle to the fifth rib the skin and muscles had all been re moved on both sides. The skin and flesh were entirely removed from both thighs and legs, excepting the skin upon the knee and ankle joints. Both feet were intact, and no bones had been broken. There were no vestige of imrigunient or flesh upon either arm, the interosseus membrane of the right forearm alone remaining. The flesh and muscles on both hands were well preserved. The examination of the posterior portion of the body showed that the skin and muscles of the back had been cut completely away down to the bones, with the exception of a few pieces of skin. The pelvic bones were entirely denuded, and all the extremities were attached to the body by ligaments only. All the or gans of the abdominal and thoracic cavity were present, and there were no signs of recent inflammation in the stomach or bowels. Hardened lumps of fecal matter distended the large intestines composed of hair, tnoss and woody fibre. It is the opiuion of Drs. Buckley and Mande ville that the flesh had been cut away with a sharp instrument, and tiiat re maining of the feet, hands and lace showed no signs of decay. The remains, were fully identified as those of Lieutonan Kislingbury. W. H. Kislingbury, tht other brother of the deceased officer, outlined the condition of things, which would lead to the belief that the Greely expedition was divided into two parties or factions, and one perished the other had gained possession, by force, of the food supply. In the ostra cized party were Lieutenant Kislings bury and Dr. Pavy. The condition of Lieu tenant Kislingbury’s body shows that he died of starvation at a time when the others had some food supply. There was absolutaly nothing in the stomach, and in the intestines was a lump of indigestible material. There were no indications of rupture, and the story that ho injured him self is discredited. Bishop Simpson’s Will. Philadelphia, August 15.—The will of the late Bishop Matthew Simpson was admitted to probate to-day. He bequeaths to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church one-seventh of his estate, in trust, for tlie endowment of an Episcopal chair for a Bisnop, who shall reside in Philadel phia, provided that, including this bequest, the sum of $50,000 he subscribed for this purpose before the meeting of the next General Conference. The remainder of the estate, valued at SIOO,OOO, is bequeathed to the Bishop’s wife ami children. Distressing Tragedy, Payton, 111., August 16.—A fatal hunt ing accident occurred near this city this morning. While Oscar Weiburg and a companion, of Chicago, were hunting prairie chickens on the farm of Gus Fred erickson, accompanied by Andrew Bremer, an old friend with whom they were stop ping, Bremer’s gun was accidentally dis charged, blowing the right side of Wei burg’s head away, and causing instant death. An inquest was held, and the ver dict was in accordance with the above facts. Bremer is nearly insane over the affair. Gold Increase. Washington, August 15.—The available balance in the Treasury is one hundred and forty millions, an increase of one million since August 1. The demands upon the Treasury during August and September will not be unusually heavy, and it is, therefore, likely that a call for ten million dollars of three-per-cent, bonds will be shortly issued. Ttte gold fund shows a slight increase compared with the figures of August 1. A Heavy Judgment. Pittsburg, August 15.—A writ of execu tion has been issued on a judgment recov ered by the Allegheny Valley Railroad Company against the heirs of William Phillips, de eased, for $475,000, and a levy will be made on the property of the de fendants. The famous litigation between the railroad company and the heirs of "the deceased President lias been in the courts for years, and has attracted wide-spread attention. Furnished His Own Subject. St. Joe, Mo., August 16. —Henry Evans, a colored barber, was shot and killed this evening by Dr. R. J. Kirshrier, County Coroner. The latter surrendered to the police. The kilting was done on account of Evans abusing the Doctor’s father, sixty-four years of age. The general im pression is it was justifiable hotnicide, Evans was an ex-convict, and a dangerous crank. A Composer Becomes Biind. Berlin, August 15.—Abbe Franz Liszt has become blind at Bayreuth. It is sug gested that the cause of his blindness is smoking and brandy. It is said he con sumed daily a frightful quantity of liquor, and often falls asleep in the theater. He lias broken off with the Princess Wichten stein, who has become a devotee. Abb« Liszt will retire to Weimar and end his days there. A Buzz-Saw’s Horrible Work. Muncie, Ind., August 16.—While working yesterday evening in Routledge’s saw-mill at Gillman, eight miles west of this city, William Pritchett, head sawyer, was thrown by a belt across a buzz-saw and cut to pieces. Pieces of the body were thrown in different parts of the building. His death was necessarily instantaneous. He was about twentyseight years of age, and leaves a young wife in limited circum stances. Subscription for Cholera Sufferers. New v >‘ik, August 16.—The Conner ties Etats ( n .of this city, forwarded 20.000 francs to Jules Ferry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paris, as the second subscription opened at its office for the relief of cholera victims in Fi ance. The total subscription! to this paper amounted tb'Pight to $5,666. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES Two Southern Towr.s Lose the Greater Portion of their Business. Hevenl.v-elKht Rnilrilnga Foii-nmt-tl at (Jrenatla, Jits*., and Foil; at UreeuvlUe, Tex. Grenada, Miss., August 17.—A fire last night destroyed the greater portion of the business part of the town. The fire burned three hours, consuming seventy-eight build bigs and contents. Loss, $300,000 insur ance $65,000. Galveston, Tex., August 17.—A Galves ton Greenville ( Texas) special savs: At 2 o’clock this morning flames were discov ered issuing from Beal’- grocery store. Un der a strong south wind,the fire rapidly en gulfed two entire squares of wooden build ings on South Stonewall street, including the Coffey Hotel. Crossing Washington street to the west side of the square, every building was swept away for two hundred yards. From this point the flames commu nicated to the new County Court-house of Hunt Comity, reducing it to ashes in spite of every effort. From the Coffey Hotel the fire spread to the south side of the square, destroying half the buildings on that side. Altogether about forty business houses, half of them well built brick Structures, with all contents, were con sumed. Over half the business portion of (Greenville is in ruins. Among the build ings burned were the Rainey Opera-house and Ragsdale & Herrin’s large agricultural hardware establishment. Total loss, in cluding the $40,000 Court House, foots up $300,000, distributed among seventy-three sufferers. Total insurance estimated at over $200,000, of which SIBI,OOO is already known. Several insurance offi es were burned out, with all their books. It is generally be lieved the fire was of incendiary origin. The citizens are greatly dejected. Green ville has been peculiarly unfortunate, hav ing had a previous great fire and suss tained heavy loss through a destructive cy clone. The city has about two thousand inhabitants. It is situated on the Missouri Pacific Railway, fifty-two miles southeast from Denison and the same distance from Dallas. A FATAL EXPERIMENT. An Affemikt to I'ulveiizo (limit r»wdi»i In a ( otlee-.TI ill lU’miiH* DUaftlioiial.v. Wheeling, W. Va., August 17.—Edward Brown, a young man of Martin’s Ferry, was fatally hurt last night, in an unique way. He intended to spend Sabbath hunting, but having no gunpowder, and the stores being closed, he took some giant powder in his pos session and undertook to pulverize it in a coffee-mill. So he pulverized it, and him self too, almost, and set the house on fire. He put a quantity of the powder into the mill and began grinding it,when it explod ed, igniting the balance of the powder and ■causing a terrific report. The coffee-mill was blown to atoms, the house was jarred, and Brown blown several feet and terribly burned. The hair on his head was burned off to the scalp, and his face, eyes, ears, hands, arms shoulders and chest frightfully burned. His finger-nails came off. He crawled out into the Toad with his ciothes on fire, screaming for help. The flames were extinguished as rapidly possible. His sufferings were terrible. His lips and tongue were terribly burned, having inhaled some of the flames. The Cholera in France. London, August 17.—There are now forty one places and thirteen departments iu Franc from which deaths fi<P\ cholera have been reported, and there are doubtless half as many more towns and villagtAin A. icb there have been deaths, of which no reports have readied the world outside. The incidents of the plague in Alpine villages are often heartrending, and as often wrath-provoking. The cholera area now stretches from Toulon, in the southwest, to Auxerre, in the nonli, ill the Department of Yonne, and to Gap in the southeast, in the Hautes Alpes, thus mak ing a rriang|c whose sides are respectively 286, 245 and^Omiles long. Auxerre is only aboftt one hundred miles from Paris in a soufceriy direction. • Fatal Accident. Cincinnati, August 17.—Jos. H. Beck herms, a grocer, in company with his wife, went out buggy riding this afternoon, and, after visiting the two German cemeteries, started for home. Just after having crossed the bridge at Cartilage the horse, which was blind, gave a sudden turn to me rigtit, and pitched the buggy and its occupants over a twenty-foot embankment, Bec<- herms struck a tree and broke his heck, killing hjin instantly. His wife escaped with several severe bruises on her head, arma nd side, but her condition is not seri ous. Last Greek Church Closed. New t York, August 17.—What is said to be the last Greek Church in this country closed to-day in this city. Rev. S. S. Hathely, Grand Arch-priest and Patriarch of the Greek Church at Constantinople, assisted by Rev. A. Athos, conducted the services, which were attended by only eighteen persons. Rev. Dr. Djerring, who has allied himself with the Presbyterian Church, was at one time pastor of the con gregation. Counterfeit Coin in Circulation. Americus, Ga., August 17 —Counterfeit silver money is in great profusion through out South-west Georgia. Tne ten cent pieces are most numerous. They are light er than the genuine coin, and bear the date of 1875. Quarters and halves are also very numerous. Escaped Convicts Killed. Frankfort, Ky., August 17.—Two of the murderers who escaped from the Peni tentiary, were overtaken by a Sheriff’s posse near Midway. One of the posse, Geo. Cassell, was shot through the head and killed by one of th» convicts. Both of the convicts were killed, one being dead when taken, the other dying soon after. Conspirators Shot. City of Mexico, August 17.—General Mejia and two others, implicated in the Mexican conspiracy, have been shot by order of the President. A decree has been entered against the lives and property of Gonzales, Diaz and all others implicated. Drouth in Northern Indiana. Indianapolis, August 17.—The three weeks’ drouth is causing great damage to growing crops in Northern Indiana. SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS. About fifty new books have just been added to the Public Library at Knoxville, forty of them novels. During the month of July there wore 3,0(10 visitors to the library and 444 books were taken out. The institution is in excellent condition and is growing in popularity. Through mail service has been put on the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Rail road for all points beU&isn Vicksburg and Shreveport. The value of property in Fultou County, Ga., including Atlanta, is this year between $30,000,000 and $31,000,000, against $28,000,- 000 last year. Unfortunately but $0,000,000 have been returned. The increase in the country districts is notable. The increase in the county since 1881 is placed at about ten and a half millions. The street railway has reached St. Augustine, Fla. A pretty white girl of eighteen has eloped from Winchester, Va., with a coal black negro dwarf, scarcely four feet high. The negro has a wife and four children. The postmaster at Barnburg, South Car olina, was compelled to close his office and flea to another town to escape personal violence. The other night a man named John But ler, who lives in Hanover County, twelve miles from Richmond, Va., had a difficulty with his wife. She swore out a warrant and had Butler arrested. He subsequently escaped, came back home and shot bis wife through the head with a pistol, inflicting a fatal wound Butler was again arrested and lodged in jail. He is a dissipated man and is supposed to be insane. Mrs. Butler was a highly respectable lady. Georgia sheep-raisers, it is feared, will have to retire before the dog-raisers. Fifty miles of steel rails will be laid at once over the Memphis & Charleston Rail road. An ordinance in Augusta prohibits the carrying of poultry head downward througli the city. There are five hundred men now engaged on the Muscle Shoals Canal, and work on it is being pushed. The average weekly shipment of cigars to New York from Key West numbers 1 000,000, and to the West about 200,000. Increased attention is being paid in "Georgia to corn, clover and grass. The present crop of corn is in a flattering condi tion. Atlanta has given up the hope of hav ing a special building at the New Orleans Exposition, owing to the difficulty of ob taining funds. The New Orleans postoffice is officially reported as inefficient through lack of training. Nepotism is charged. Mormonism has many converts in the extreme portion of North Georgia, and the elders are busily engaged in making more. Hon. Wm. Walton, candidate for Attor ney General at Austin, Tex., is recovering from the'bite of a tarantula. Physicians say there is no authentic case on record of the death from bite either of a tarantula or centipede. A municipal reform movement is in pro cest at Atlanta. The crusade against well water has reached Richmond. Augusta’s new cotton compress has a capacity of 100 bales an hour. A Georgian.wlio boasts of a fortuna of $700,000 returns $48,000 for trxation. A $250,000 hotel is to be built at Austin, Tex. A Louisville, Ky., gold mining com pany have bought a tract of land at Villa Rica, Ga., for $4,500. This is the third com' pany that will soon be at work there. Postmaster A. R. Johnston, of Grants ville, W. Va., absconded with Government funds and money borrowed from citizens and the daughter of a prominent citizen, leaving his wife and family and creditors behind. A warrant was issued recently for the arrest of Governor Ireland, of Texas, charged with violation of a U. S. statute in discriminating In a case of alleged misce genation. J. Mack Brooks, who has passed thirteen of his twenty-eight years in the peniten tiarv, was arrested the other day at Nash ville, Tenn., for starting a fire which destroyed $50,000 worth of property belong ing to the cooperage mill. Brooks admit ted he had fired four houses recently and stated that he was a monomaniac, and the only reason for incendiarism was he liked to see a big fire. Brooks caused the two disastrous fires at the penitentiary last year, in which there was several hundred thousand dollars loss. Brooks has served two terms in prison for arson. Three negroes named Jackson, Phillips and Girod were murdered at Cass Station, Tenn., on the Western and Atlantic R. R., the other night. They attempted to board a but were enjoined by the conductor. They then fired into the train as it Mfcved off, and two brakemen came near being killed. A citizen of Kingston hearing of the affair organized a posse at midnight and went in pursuit of the negroes. They met the negroes in a short distance and ordered them to surrender, One of the negroes, however, commenced firing into the posse. The latter returned the fire and killed all three of the negroes. The conductor states that he did not recog nize the man who volunteered to capture the negroes, and as no one will acknowl edge who composed the posse, it is a mys tery who killed them. The affair has caused great excitement. The other eveuing, at Jacksonville, Tex., a freight train ran into a hand car oti which were John Gray, a section hand, two ladie\ three little children and three sec tion men. They all jumped from the hand car except Mrs. Gray and her two little girls, aged five and seven. Mrs. Gray was very badly bruised, and the entire train passed over the children, cutting off both. legs of the elder, and one of the other. They will die. An ordinary house cat In Oglethorpe County, Ga., has killed a sualp? 6** long. VOL. 1.-NO. 26. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. —Pomegranates are being cultivated In the South. They yield SIOO per a re. —A company lias been formed in New England for the purpose of con verting water into fuel.— Boston Post. —The sawdust and refuse of the saw mill is now made to yield fourteen gallons of turpentine, three to four gallons of resin, and a quantity of tar per cord.— St. Louis Post. —A Hazelhurst (Miss.) man has started a new industry, lie -ships toads to Louisville florists, who use them to rid their plants of insects, which, it is said, they do very effectually, —Blasting paper is a recent Austrian invention. It is described as being un sized or ordinary blotting paper, coated with a mixture of prussiate of potash, of charcoal, saltpeter, potassium, chlorate and wh te starch. On its being dried it is cut into strips, which Arc rolled into cartridges. —The bog peat of Mexico is now be ing used ou a considerable scale at fuel for locomotives, stationary engines, smelting purposes, smiths’ tires and household use. The peat is mixed with a proper proportion of bitumen, and is said not ouly to burn freely, and with out smoke in m cb quantity, but to give a higher dynamic equivalent of heat than the same amount of wood.— Chicago Times. —An Atlanta (Ga.) publisher has in vented a new method of photo-liiho graphing by which it is claimed per fect cop es of the line-t, steel engravings may be taken on the lithograph cstone, ready for printing, in less than fivem n utes time. The proc ss, it is said, is very simple, and can be performed by a boy as well as an expert. By means of it, too, the inventor claims that he can make zinc an I o her metal printing plates. The original picture, it is said, is not injured by the process.— Chicago lie aid. —The grown g vegetable world breathes carbonic acid gas through its leaves, using the carboii to build up its structures, setting oxygen free for the use of the animal world, which inter change is constantly' going <>n. 'lhe carbon so appropriated is found in the ash of plants after combustion, com bined with lime or some other mineral, but the larger proport on is again driven oil" during the combustion, in which progress it is again united to oxygen in the ‘shape of carbonic acid gas. —jV. Y. limes. —lf, says M. (’. Montigny in L'Elec tric ite wc cast a rapid glance o er the progress that lias been made in elec tricity in less tiuiu half a century, we shall see that after presenting itself suddenly under an entirely new form in the Volta pile, after manifesting its sur prising action upon magnets amt cur rents at a moment when the science of the phenomena engendere t by the pi e seemed to some to be exhau ted, elec tric.ty is aga n presenting itself under a new light in iiduction apparatus wherein it is excited by the most sur prising means. ► riTII AM) POINT. I ain’ pot much faith in de frown in’ man. 111 de bla k cloud dar’s more win’ dan ra n. — Ar .ansaw Traveler. —She advertised: Little Hope p the lost her sheep. And didn't know were to find ’em; £he a lvcrtise i, and they catno home, Dialing gold dollars behind 'em. —Philadelphia Call. —“Boys, don’t leave the farm.” No, boys, 1 ust take the farm right along when you go anywhere. You will find it handy if you fad to get a situation in the city, as you probably will. —A scientific journal d's usses “ergs as food.” This strikes us a being a rather sensible idea and prodn ttve of much 11 ore good than discussing eggs as bou ,uets. — Oil City Blizard. —“ ood morn ng, Uncie Jim.” “Good n orning.” “Well, you got your daughter married off, have you?” “Yes.” “.veally, 1 rovidence smiles upon you.” • “ -miles: No, bless you, she snickered right out!”— N. Y. Sun. New G rl—Oh, Missus, there’s something the matier with the milk. Mistress Mer y me! What i< it? New t.irl A yellow scum has gathered on top it. I’m ’feared it’s spoiled. Mis tress—Where were you brought up? New Girl In New Yorrick. Mistress— I thought so. — Bh la Iclphia Ca'l. —“i am choost as full ash a bag of flour,” re 1 arked an inebriate to a sober friend. “There is a differen e between you and a sack of flour, however.” “ A hat ishdi erence?” ‘When a sack is full it can sta d up, but when you are full you can t even lie down on the ground without holding on. —liras Siftings. —An exchange thinks “the time may come when the thunder-storm may be called up by artificial means.” Come? Why, bless”yo i, it is here. The only artificia means necessary is to get up a Sunday-school picnic. There maybe an occasional failure, but it is about as reliable as anything on thisever-chang in<> glob- -ave death and tixes.— Horrtxtow.i Herat sir?” a locua ious barber a ked a cus tomer whom he had been Having alive. • •My wife would admire it eery much," rather indefinitely tesponded the man un er torture. “Ah. ’ said the barber, with great compla eney, “ladies are often excellent judges of their husbands beinc well shaven. -\nd you think mineT will sui;, sir?” doubt of it in the w rd. It was o ly this morning she became angrv be ause 1 told her i could not a told to bv her a spring bonnet and sa d 1 ought to be skinned alive.” Ihe barber lost himself in re tention.”-- Pittsburgh Catoaide.