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,4. * N NNW_ -, E* * D TO I itn tDoF.B RDLE 40.ick NkW$ glEANINGS. Seh1g has fifty fine artesian wellsa The tobacco crop of Virginia wil be short this year. Vq&tqtion is frightfully parched in Middle' Tennessee. Real estate to on the up grade in B on Rouge, La. The blaakberry crop of Pulaski e m ty this yedr,*as worth $8,500. Arkansas has 2,000 milei of navigfble rIvers. 'Whisnington, North arolina, is 8 p ping a large amount of lumbert Hayti. Selma, Alabama, has fifty-tve o r flowing bored wells affording a ple ty of good water. Mississip~pi prooced the lar t amount of cotton' in 1880, the num i of bales being 955,808. The Mississippi river 6ommission 1] build ninety barges, and will have f c steam tugs. A live oak tree in Miconopy coun Florida, measures twenty-two feet r circumference. A North Carolina colony is talkedI which shall be free from "beer saloo s churches, ministers and lawy'ers. g Nashville w uts to be the iron ce of the South. Wt is now the next thI to it-the rock. center. Railroads, railroads, railroads, is il cry from one end of the South to 4 other. Southwest Georgia is happy in 41( success attending the boring of artei, wells. Water in abundance has b I o'tained at a depth of 530 feet. J. B. Morriihi, of Mclellansvile South Carolina, has raised three h in dred poneds of excellent Malaga gra The F4h oil-mill aw cot -in ;out completed. -It is 4n of the largest in the country, and 4s $75,000 Pleas HRoer, a negr ht a pl n tation on Broad river, in corgia, p7 ing for the same $32,000. It comprise 2,100 acres. - ., The official majority against prohb tion in North Oarolina was 116,1 01nly three counties in the State -4-i0ties in favor, which, comb amointed to but 268. Next year ana tackles the same question. ' There is great anxiety at Vicksbu~ for fear that the recent Congressi di Rp rpriation of $75,000 for the i '% ment of the harbor at that point ie~igoing to be expended as jiidiciou~ ia expected. The citiz~ens areinov i bt the nmatter,.becanse at this stag f aer good work can be accomplished. ' erman society organized at New * nsl for the purpose of promoting th interests of German emigration to the Sough, is meeting with flattVerin~ success. It is stated that a large num ber 7if Germans are now on their way froma Kurope to points in the South. Now this does begin to look like busi One of the Cotton Exposition's at tractions will be an " ensilage caittlery" in full operation. The pits are being dug, and the multitude of horses, sheep, hogs, cows and mules will be fed in the * ensilage during the exhibition. The "inain object of the system is to save la bor and Ume. The Oeorgia Legislature has passed a bill makings a coniplete change in the management of the. State *peniten dary. - y11t'thd office of Principal Keeper oi Wardafi .A1 bolished, and a board ol thrge Odmmidioners elected, clothed * with~ unlimited power~ to control the operation of affhir. This power wai formerly in the hands of the Go vernor Th~e thirty-eight States of the Uniei contain 2;299 counties. Texas leads off having 151 counties, followed closely by Georgia's 187. After Georgia -in th< table comes Kentucky with 117 coun ties; Missouri, 115; Vginia; 105; 11 a linois, 102; Iowa, 99; u~nessee an< North Carolina, eec. * 94, .avgd Indiai 92. As a rule, the Southerrptates hav4 more counties than the. Northeri States. ~'Te Charleston Oouri on to thR defe~e of the Sotherig oer cb i wtht being un gto wor~ at saos 'b "is only necessr to Iao aConahe ~o, Augusta in Georgia, o atQeer tl~ Spataubutg In thi *Iity of thimeC * , to prove tb bno exception rleston wil~ rble opporta o h ft n tdu to"th TOPICS OF TKE DAY. GovnmNiO PrwAwnT, of Maine, is to marry next October. YnNNoR says the outlook for the ap proaching winter is pleasing. SzamrAY KXrxwooD smokes too much, so the doctors say. A novzMENT is on foot to settle a large number of Swedes on the wild lands of Eastern Kentucky. -CAR WUDE, the Mathetic poet who writes o44he barmn ideality of unissed kisses, is.n Irishman. A LADY in Colorato claims to p sess the crucifix whica Columbus held in his hand when he fiiit landed in Americao TnE four-hundredth anniversary of.' Gutenberg's use of printing type wil soon be celebrated by the printers of Vienna. THE Thousand Islands, a few years ago, sold at $25 apiece, and now many of them are held as high as $15,000 by their owners. CHARLS DARWIN, the evolntionist, has given the rent of a hall in Downes, England, to a zealous evangelist for a religious revival. IT is said that most of the men in WashingtOn Territory favor woman snf frage. We expect so. They wake then work for all they are worth. IN THn e'rglades of Florida has been found a species of wild coffee, and it has been demonstrated that coffee may he raised there equal to the best importe(l. THE most utterly utter nonsense yet recorded is that of a young female ii, the Catskills, who pitches her voice for conversation by means of a tuning fork. THE Baltimore American says fhlft of the 70,000,000 gallons of water use l per day in Chicago, one-half goes for beer manufgcture, and the other half for scalding hogs. G~ U A) I " MAnES STEWAwmi Mississippi wife Imurgerer who waqrUtpended between ~aven and e~t by an indignant mob the ot'Ier d 'was first prayed for by his father-in- w, who subsequently helped to adjuit tb iroose. ~TURNER TRlUTH is living in fair health at Battle Creek, Michigan. Her hair, whic~h for years was white, is turn ing dark again, and her eyesight is im proving. Acoording to the best informa tion her age is 106, though she thinks she 1s older. CHAnnaLS BaraLATIH rejects utterly the title of atheist applied to him. He contends that there is not sufficiont evi dence to convince him of the existence of God ; but he does not deny that such a being may exist. He simply suspends jtdgment. _______ CONSUMIERS of canned fruit had better improve their opportunity by canning for themselves, even paying a high price for the fruit, for the scarcity of all kinds of fruit will place the canned article on the market at an unusually high price the coming season. TwnNTY years ago James A. Garfld said : "I regardmy life as given toirv country. I am only anxious to make as much of it as possible before the mort gage on it is foreclosed." It has looked for a good while as ,if the foreclosure were pretty close at hand. A DoUQUIET was affixed a few days ago to the door of the cell in which Walter Malley, accused of the murder of Jennie Cramer, of New Haven, is incarcerated. The offering, of course, is " quite too previous," but it will cheer the poor fellow up and may be cause him to feel a little sorry. Ta;E Whitehall Time. thinks that men should furnish wives with politics and that women should furnish husbands Swith religion. The objection to this is, religion~ls free-no, salvation is free ; religion is the 9art that you pay for, and tuenn are now complaining of the drain on the pocket-book. We object. THU Olncinnati Gazette says : "A let i ter from Ljondon stalls that the condi tion of Lady Burdett-Coutt is becoming very interesting. Anent vhich an ex o hange remarks that the 1Bartlett pair Ipromises to proye fruitful." We have read the paragraph~ fourteen times, and jdon't kno* what to make of it, taken to the nosomsl1 Ci 4&a .aust~, kau treated as if thoy were veritable angels. It ia not uncommon, 'when traveling, to see almost every lady with a dog in her arms, and occasionally a footman or maid, whose sole duty mn traveling with the mistress is to take care of the dog, and see that he has water and food oni the route. The doctors tell many amusing anec dotes of having been called up, at mid night and finding that their services were needed for a poodle that had been over fed in the effort to kill them with kind ness. They could make heavier chargea, with the assurance of prompt payment in such cases, than if the patient had been a child or a husband. " Love me, love my dog," seems to be the sentiment of these ladies; and on one occasion the writer saw a finely-dressed lady, who had her dog in her arms, take off her gloves while standing in a railway ista tion, and diligently pursue and kill, a flea which she had discovered depredat ing among the fleece of her favorite. It is quite common to see them led tender ly along with ribbons, and in some cases to see a gold chain attached to a lady's belt, and at the other end of the chain a poodle dog traveling by her side or re posing jn her arms. Signs in the shop windows tell you that " Dog soap is sold here," and that various patent compounds- that will in duce canine health and longevity are on sale. A lady walking in any of the pub lic grounds with a dog is sure to be ao costed by a number of seedy-looking in dividuals, who will draw out of their pockets pups which they offer for sale. The offering or sale of anything in the public grounds bei~g prohibited, they thus keep them concealed in their pock ets. In the upper grades of life a moth er trust. her children to servants and governesses, but her poodle dog she keeps under her own eye; and a scream from the nursery might pass unheeded, but a yelp from the drawing-room or the boudoir would startle "her Ladyship" from~ ~the soundest sleep. Of course there are exceptional eases, but it in eludes most of those who aspire to fash ionable life. We see dogs caressed much more than children are, and their oomfort studied with jealous car. School Children's Headaches. Dr. A. Jacobi, of New York, in a paper on " Neuralgia in Infancy and Uhild hood," read before the Kings County Medical Society, said of the hard worked school children nowadays, their long confinement in school-rooms and at home, the consecutive disorders of the circulation, the insufficient oxygenatin of the blood because of lack of exercise, the digestive disorders resulting from their sedentary life, are just as many causes of impor#erish ment of the blood and insufficient iautrition and stimulation of the nervous eystem. in at these cases headaches geo very frequent, II '4 14 .4 '3, I I I' d C TI ~fl ii il Ii 'I 'fi jV 'j4 h ) '4 I I, IncI'ent of Lincoln's Murder. Those are not. cheerful-looking g, ae they ?" said Counselor M. A. )onald, as he auntered into the of of the United' States Marshal, and ited to a pa1* of handcuffs which were upon the tqble. ot especial y enlivening," repli6 loputy, picking up the rogue s eleta and examining them thought.* FT. There was a time when I thought r were the most cheerless and terrible ga in the world." he deputy looked up in surprise. Yes," continued Mr. McDonald, "I them both on my hands and feet at 3 for a number of hours. I they are not pleasant thingst r." Wore they put on to keep you a oner ?" gueried the deputy, wonder if his friend could have done any ig criminal," You would have thought so had you ni my place. I was arrested by 3ers who thought I was J. Wilkes >th." + - 41 No I" ejaculated the deputy, more 6n expresion of surprise than an in Lional reflection upon the veracity of McDonald. It came about in this way," began lawyer, whose dark hair and eyes,even r that sixteen years have passed, bear a-iking resemblanoe to the assassin of Lcoln: "Lincoln had been midered a few days, apud tho - entire cbuntry, nged in grief, was wild with desire for enge upon the murderer. My home i in Titusville, Pa., and I was on the F to it from Washington, where my air was then a Government con etor. The route was 'by way Erie. The train had left Erio I gone perhaps a dozen miles, when a Iple of officers surprised mo by put g me under arrest and clpping hand is on my feet. In vain I protested. ey would not believe that I was not lkeE-Booth. To add to the unpleas ness of the thing, and a fact which ave color to the belief that I was S.ident's assassin, it was well wn- that Booth had interests in the regions of Punnsylvania, and had ih there a number of times. The men o arrested ie did so upon the ength of my greft resemblance to a ture of Booth which they had ii tlieir 3session. When it became known on 3 train that the assassin of Lincoln had en arrested and was on that very in, the excitement was intense. The icers who were guarding me had all ay could do to prevent the infuriated issangers from doing me bodily harm. had been telegraphed along the line, - i A UNO~~ . S AWastas d shot. dead a mA 1eide he w. How very digou!Ws a be for many oL udL Havex n Beg dater. "How nd YOU thipk of calling auntie ?Go to her imnftediately nd tel er you are' sorry." Freddie goes to apauti. and say 'Auntie, I am sorry yuoare so stnpild EiAi i r has invent a new kiss. If shedo',res to dispose of,the old lot at cost she- can learn of something to her ad fan bcaln hi office out of buvanes . .N'oa w e ize.. Ts es ago," says a colored philoso iher,-i,#ggers was wuf aihou sand do ars apiece. Now dey would be deah at two dollars a dozen. It's 'ston ishing' how de race am depreciatin'." "Youn husban& is not in to-day, ma' am," said a collector who called at the door. "No, he is not." "Do you know where I can find him?" "I guess he's gone fishing. He carried a.glass bottle with something he called bait." AUNT MATIDA-"And do you study geography, Janet ?" Janet - Geogr. phy? I should think so, indee !" Aunt Matilda--" Where's Glasgow?" Janet-" Glisgow? Oh, we havon't goI so far as th-At. We've only got as far as Asia" Now that elephants' milk has been analyzed and found to be 'superior to cows' milk, of course it will become fashionable. And as it will be sold at a high prico, dealers can afford to make it of a flue quality of chalk and very pure water. " SAM, you aro not honest. Why do you put all the good strawborries on the top of the measure and the little ones below ?" "Samo reason, sali, dat makes udt front of your houso marble and de bacok gate chiefly slop bar'l, sah. "-Ex chanfe. UNCLE Mosr asked (us Do Smite why it was that the weather was so much waurner in summer thanl in. winter. " I thought every darued fool knew that," growled Gus. " So did I, boss. That's why I puts do. question to you on pur pose."-Tcxas siftings. "BUT do you know, pa," said the farmer's daughter, when he spoke to her about the addresses of his neighbor's soni, 'you kilow, pa, la wants me to marry a man of cult re." "So do I, my dear, so do 1; and tere is no better cul ture in the country than agriculture." " Tmn Bible says, 'Lovo your neigh bor as yourself,'" the parson remarked; but of course we must not take this lit or.ly. If you imlauage to love your tbor one-bundredth part as much as -o yourselves, many of you, it will that can be reasonably expected of -Boston Transcript. MMA-" Did you enjoy your ride, ?" Elis-"No, manuu, and rea nough, for Connio Jameos says the Minithis are going to givo a dance, ~we're not asked." Ma4ma-" Well, dear, your poor aunit's doa1th was *vidential-of course we can't go." 'is said that death lurks in cheap tred stockings. -.New O)rlean8 ica oe. She!I We've knowvn death to k in the too of anU enraged parent's >t, but didn't supp< se ho could kick a Sto (death ini his stockinig foot. We uld(n't go there any more if we were lyour place.-Ne~w IIalC)n RegOfister. Laughing Away a Duel. Laughter is an antidote to anger. Even duel has been prevented by some .using~ answer which turned wrath o murth. A man holding both his 'es can't hold a pistol. A.Georgia Judlge named White, who ~re a cork leg, once challenged a >the'r of the bench, Dooly by name, :a wat mortal combat. At the pointed hour both appoared on the Id, but Dooly was alone. White it his friend to ask where his an gonist's second was. "Gone into o goods," replied the humorous fy, " to got a bit of a hollow tree put one of my legs in, that we may be an." The answer was too much for Judge hito ; he laughed and so did his ond, and the challenge was with awn. An Ireh lawyer, who had never fired pistol, was challenged by a famous oelst whom he had offended by severe mments upon his testimony in court. 2o duelist, having been crippled in o of his duels came Jimpuig upon aground. He itad one favor to ask, rmission to lean against a mile-stone, he was unable to stand without sup 'lie request was granted, and, just the word "Fire! '" was about to be roen, the lawyer satid he also had a tuzent to make, Ho asked the privi ;e of leaning against the next mile ne. ahearty roar of laughter from seconds ti ohallenger dissipated all thought4 a duel. L'he great orator of the Rlevolution, Strick Henry, once roeeved the folloW. 2 note, preliminary to a challenge mn Gov. iles, of Virginia: 'Smi: I understand you have called a ' bob-tail ' politician. I wish to aw if it be true ; and, if true, youa anin6-" I1r. Henry replied in this style : 'SIR: I do not recollect having called 1 a ' bob-tail' politician at any time, I think it probable I have. Not ./ ollecting the time or occasion, I can't what I did moatb but, if you Stell me what you think I meant, 11 say whether you are correct or *Oourse th~ee was no duel- -Youth'e