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.. ........ ..... .. ................ P, 0 9 & c K s - Ly t ('. * &. SET ..R 2. . XI NO % NEWS SPEANINOS. Birming4u ts .alo to be lighted with 9-gsu. The bottom corn in the South is not so bad. The old city debt of Memphis is $2, 17279275. - Cotton-seed oil is now used in the Soush extensively ;n jlce of lard for co:king purposes. * They gamble wildly and desperately at Hot Springs. Twelve faro tables in one house allow* 200 sinners to fight the tiger nightly. At last the capitalists of the North are turning their attention to the South. It is the best place to invest money. Augusta, Georgia, is no slow place by considerable She has 175,000 spindles in active operation, representing $5, 000,000 capital. The White Sulphur Springs property in Virginia has been sold to satisfy liens for $19,000. The original cost was $160, 000. The property contains 1,439 acres. Good judges estimate that the de ficiency in the cotton crop this year will be 500,000 bales--that ii to say, the to tal product will be 5,800,000 instead of 6,300,000 bales, as in 1880. Faom an estimate made by the Agri cultural Department at Washington, we learn there are 1,111 acres of grapes in cultivation in Alabama, making 422,672 gallorfs, worth .399,705. Out of eighty-five distilleries in the Nashville revenue district all but twenty six have ceased operations. It is be lieved all the distilleries in the upper country, save two in Moore county, will have to cease for lack of corn. The city of Pensacola has redeemed her credit by agreeing to pay her debt. A vote of her citizens on the 27th de veloped but twenty-two against a set tlement, agreed upon between the Mayor and Council and the bond-holders. New Orleans has sixteen steamers en gaged in the Mediterranean fruit trade. During the present year they have landed no less than three hundred and twenty thousand boxes of oranges and lemons and about twenty thousand more boxes - have been brought in by sailing vessels. .Luisiana.. produced and maiketed during the year ending September 1 the largest crop of rice and sugar since .the war. .A careful computation shows tihe reeipts to have been 218,814 hogsheadts of sugar, 16,256,028 gallons of molasses, and 266,658 barrels of plear rice. *. There are 225 Indians still remaining in- S6uth Florida. They are p~eacetul and hold friendly relations with the (d " 9ffe 'settlers. They~ are remnnants of th iers," .Wolves," "Snakes" and otiWinds." Their chiefs are al ways chosen from the Tigers from super *stition.4 trad ition1s. The -Morning Star (N. CI.): The forest acreage ot-North Carolina is probably *greater thani tbree or four of the North western States combined. What a for e' tulle ther6 is in the forests'of our State for greperamtion~s unborn. Every farmer mdould plant at least 10,000 tree . Let tihe supply be increased1 rather than dIi mimished. Wesee it stated that the advance sheets of the census dleclare that tile small portion of the State of Mississippi called the "'Yazo() Bottomu," which in 1879.Produced onily 258,000 bales'of cot toni, is capable, by the exclusion of the Mississippi overflow and~ by improved Cultivation, of produlcinug niearly 5,737, 257 bales annually, or tihe whole present production of the whole country. An interesting feature of the Interna .tional Exposition at Atlanta, next month, wvill be the manufacture of a miuitof clothes from raw cotton in twenty four hours. The cotton will 'he pickedi spftah, (dyed, wvoven andl mladIe into a suit of clothes for Senator Brown inside of the dlay. North Cairolina has dliscovered a new gem. ft is called the "hiddenite " It is similar ill color to the emerald, but harder andl more brilliant. One vein only has been found, and( that only two to two and a half inches wide and two feet long. The cut stones sell readily eA for $100 per karat, and the largest yet .found weighs five and thre-inrter ka rats. Mr. Hamntett, President of th'e Pied m-mt cotton factory of Georgia, makes this estimate of the profits ot mianufac *turing a hale .of cotton into sheetings: Cost of bale, $45; cost .f manufacturing, 7asetrinaieane s>36 total cost, $68.62. Brodts of h bQe nade into -sheet!ngsp $80.16; net proAte, $17.54. - oluding .th a11ptr0i 9VP-in wages, the nanufacture of a balo of cot ton into coarse goods leaves $31.91 be hind in the place which manufactured it, almost as much as the total value of the cotton. The amount of taxable property In Georgia has increased within the last year from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000. The Governor has, in consequence, is sued his order for decreasing the rate of taxation half a cent less than last year. Dudley Dugger, of Columbus, Geor gia, fired his pistol off at Robert Law son. The bali missed its mark and en tered the breast of Dudley's little grand-daughter, killing her instantly. Then Dudley fell to the ground and tore his hair in wild grief. It is reported that Portuguese opera tives are employed on the Louisiana plantations. There seems to be a sys tematic effort to secure the immigration of Spaniards, Italians and other Medit erranean nationalities under the persua sion that these Southern Europeans are better adapted to the warm climate of the South than the Teutonic and Scan dinavian races. In Dallas county, Alabama, Fayette Wright, a negro farmer, who had be come thoroughly disgisted and tired of life because of the destruction of his crop by worms, committed suicide by jumping in the river at the crossing near the Matthews place. He stripped himself on the s.uth bank of the river and deliberately walked in until he struck deep water, when he sank out of sight. He made no outcry. Florida Crescent: The way Hernan do keeps flush with money is this: From January to warm weather she amphibiates in the wavamp, cutting and selling cedar, plants crops and ships vegetables North. In the summer she stampedes her cattle to Cuba, pulls fod der and eats watermellons. When the cattle stampede subsides she gathers her crops and starts the fish boem to boom ing, and when That blows off she sliips oranges and sells ier cotton, and gets ready for Christmas. So there is an influx of money nearly the year round. New Orleans Democrat: This port owns 552 vessels, with a tonnage of 85, 310. Of this number twenty-one, with a tonnage of 27,920, are ocean steamers; 16G, with a tonnage of 29,810, river steam, 359, with a tonnage of 26,881 sail ; and six barges, with :s tonnage of 700 tons. Twelve hundred and fifty five vessels entered this port during the past business year-vessels with a ton nage of 1,422,726. Of these 290O, with a tonnage of 415,533, were cqastwise ; 180, with a tonnage of 152,757, Ameri can vessels from foreign ports, and 333, with a .sonnage of 851,436, foreign. There :cleared during the same period 1,257 vessels, with a tonnage of 1,402, 596. Loafing. DIoes the young man who persists in being a loafer ever reflect how much less i' would cost to be a decent, respectable man ? Does he imagine that loaferism is more economical than gentility? Any body can be0 a gentleman, if he chooses to be, without much cost, but it is mighty expensive being a loafer. It costs time, in the first place, days, weeks and months of it ; in fact, about all the time he has, for no man can be0 a first-class loater with out devoting his whole time to it. The occupation, well followed, hardly affords time for eating~, sleeping, dri , we had almost said drinking, b ut on reflec tion we will except that. The loafer finds time to drink whenever invited, at the cost of friends. Once fully embarked on the sea of loaferdom, and you bid farewell to every friendly sail that sails under an honest and legitimate flag. Your consorts will only be the bucca neers of society. It costs mo'ney, for, though the loafer may not earn a cent or have one for months, the time lost might have procured him much money, if dtevoted( to industry instead of sloth It costs health, vigor, comfort, all the true pleasures of living, honor, dignityj, self-respect, and the respect of the worl when lhving, and, finally, all right of con sideration when dead. Be a gentleman, then ; it is far cheaper. Fast Horses. Since Lady Suffolk trotted a mile in 2:26j, and Flora Temple in 2:194, aston ishing reductions in time have been made, the official record of horses that have gone below the time which made Dexter famous being as follows : 2:10%, Maud 5. 2:16k, Lncille Goldld ust, 2:114, I1t. Jul1ien. 2:16%,American Girl and 2:I3%,Urue.* Delrby. 2:14, Goldstmith Maid. 2:16%, Occident. 2:14%, Hopeful. 2:17, Gloster. 2:15 , Lulu:. 21% etr 2:15%, Smuggler. :7,Detr W an ancient Greek poet felt good lie used to say, " I feel as lovely as a now blown nose 1'' Nothing like the snverely clannic. .Tons or TgE DAY. . 9 e$b p9p Gi9kge his partnzer., PESIDENT GAraun'8 mother haa been a widow fifty years. JAIWULL is the name of a Coloradd town. Names Are very searoe out there. ANNIE Louris OAUY -has left the stage and refuses to return to it at any price. THE water in some of the rivers in Pennsylvania is so tepid that the fish are dying. VENNOR has predicted much rain for "after the middle of September." He does not say bow long after. Josin MANSFIELD, well known in con nection with the death of Jim Fisk, is. keeping a gambling house in Paris. Tn ride from Washington to Long Branch was a great treat to the President, contrasted with the dull scenery of a sick room. THs Cincinnati newspapers claim that the Ohio River is no more. ' That means that water is scarce and that people must drink something. MORMONISM is spreading. A temple is being erected in San Francisco for the benefit of those who believe in having an abundance of wives. THm Detroit Free Press puts it in decent shape. It says : "Early to bed and early to rise, is good for the sleeper but rough on the flies." CONGREss HAT.TJ, at Saratoga, is the rendezvous of the Hebrew aristocracy, and the extremes in fashion to which the ladies go, very truly, is an eye opener. THE Boston Post says that a brake man on a drunk at Chicago fell into a newer, and at onoe yelled, "St. Louis, change cars I" It may be there is no truth in this. THE beautiful Mrs. Langtry has sud denly disappeared from London society, and no one knows what has become of her. She was perhaps abducted by an empty pocketbook. IT is authoritatively stated that the so-called " boy preacher " is no more a boy than Susan B. Anthony is a girl. If that is so-well, you can figure the rest of it out yourself. SNOW in Dakota Territory from three inches to two feet deep while mercury in these parts registered 100 degrees in the shade seems a little curious, but that was about the way of it a few days ago. IN BURAII, mercury, in March and 4pril, reaohqai -14Q* and 1iok ?a done after nightfall. It is not so stated, but it is supposed the inhabitants sleep during the heat of the day, if they can. IT Is estimated by the Chicago Tri biene that the laud bill wvill~4add about $100,000,000) to the value of peasant buildings in Ireland, and reduce the rental of landlords from $60,000,000 to $40,000,000. AnOUT the only point of the compass where the peach crop) is not a failure is Southern Indiana, an-1 there the crop was never better than the present sea son. The owners of orchards are mak ing fortunes. * IT 1S related as a fact that a water melon can be kept an indefinite period by giving it two or three coats of varnish. This excludes the air, and the fruit ia not only preserved but retains its flavor and sweetness. MAJy. BEYHARD reports that the Missis sippi River is cutting a new channel for itself from the mouth of Red River through the Alchafalaya to the Gulf. Should this occur, New Orleans would be left high and dry. THE Kansas p~rohibitory laws do not prohibit to any great extent. The To peka City Council issues licenses to dealers in " soda, mineral water, and oider drinkA," and other drinks, they do say, are having a big run. THE yTames boys still live and operate, as usual, in Missouri. Strange there isn't enough " energy" in that State to annihilate these outlaws. We know of several States that would have gotten ridl of them long ago. IN SWE.ETwATER COUNTY, Wyoming, a deposit of sulphuric acid in a natural state, has been found ; 100 acres or more are impregnated with it. However, we do not bcbeve that 100 acres will hold all the bad people there is in the worldl. ONE of thn grrat truths of tha day is the following from the ioston Tran crtpt: . "We have seen ladies who were insufferably shocked at the sight of a man in bis shirt sleeves, and their own arms were bare almost to the shoulders I WoAnen are strange creatures." THE Sioux City (Ia.) Journal boasts that there are more births in Iowa to the population, than in any other coun try in or out of the United States that the sun shines upon. Young married couples will please read this paragraph a second time. THn people of Michigan appeal to the people of the United States for help. This appeal should be promptly and liberally answered. The calamity of which they are victims is one of the most frightful that ever occurred in any age or country. A Gnir. in the rural districts of New York, who received a prize of $200 for being "the handsomest girl in the State" has g6ne crazy as a bed-bug over the matter and has been sent to an asy lum. It hurts some people to tell them they are good looking. AT THn expressed wish of the Presi dent, Drs. Reyburn, Barnes, and Wood ward, three of the President's attending physicians, have been dismissed. The President said he was tired seeing so many doctors around, and thought they were superfluous. Probably he was right. A COnIsPONDENT at Hot Springs, Ark., writes that poker (a game at cards) is the monopoly of the hour at that place. It is played day and night In the hotel parlors, bed rooms and offices, in the stores and at every con ceivable point where the players can find a place to sit down. IT As been a long time since the Pres ident read the papers, and he is natur ally anxious to know what is going on. He said the other day, after suddenly waking from his sleep, as if musing : " I think it is about time that they gave me the daily papers to read. What is in them, anyway ?" OwING to the fact that there are about 3,000 claimants for the $200 Warner .prize for the discovery of comet B., and no means of ascertaining who is the rightful claimant, Warner has decided to award the $200 to the person writing the best essay on " comets, their relation to the earth and other bodies." IT SEEMs that the longer we live the worse do our opinions become of the Apaches. They are a heartless, nmur derous set, whose chief delight is to torture to death their fellow beings. The noble red man is scarcely as noble as he used to be, and peop~le who mix with them are finding it out at a pretty livoly gait. THE King of Wurtemburg has ap pointed Richard M. .Jaekson, an Ohio man, his~ reader. .Jackson has a salary of 6,000( marks, a suite of five rooms at the academy andi( is conitinully with the king, *~ith whiom he is in good favor. Yes, yes ; Ohio men do popP up just where you least expect them. LAloms' b~ustles hereafter will be made of a material to serve as life-preservers, so that in case of a steamb)oat blowup or shipwreck, the fair ones, duck-like, enn ride serenely to shore. Of course they will sit upright and let their feet hang over. Th'le sight will be a grand one. Wuiv do not the railroad companies in the West provide their emp~loyes with arms with which to protect themselves and passengers against the outrages of outlaws ? It does seem strange that there is never any one ab)out wVho( knows how to shoot when the James gang come along. ____ THIe outlaw Jesse James does not prop)ose to have his horrible deeds recordecd in boo0k form, and has to niotified a Western editor who is en gaged upon such a work. lie states through a newspaper that he will cut the throat of the man who publishes his life. That's enough. The editor will desist at once. TrE Cincinnati Exposition, now in progress, has not been as extensively advertised as the enterprise deserves. Every feature of the ~exhibit is pro nounced superior to that of any past year, yet the fact has not been thoroughly stated to the publ1lio in the public prints, and should the attendance not come up to the e-neation of the Board, the fault will h. in the lack of sufficient advertising and not in the dis play made by exhibitors or their lack of enterprise of an appreciative character. YE~NNOR has been making some mis takes He uredicted frosts for the latter part of Aug-at, and when he publkhed his predictions people looked forward with fond expectatiou to the time when they could enjoy a good sleep, but the frost didn't come-oh, no; not by a jug ful. But the storm that was to follow' these frosty nights on the Atlantic coast' did come and did a heap of damage, but it didn't come at the tail end of a frot. It came alone, and the way it acted, was fully able to travel without outside assistance. Thm news of the wholesale destruc tion, by fire, of life and property in' Michigan, should convey a warning to' those wide regions of the country where the terrible heat prevails and the drouth, has become alarming. There are parts of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky that might be swept by a tgpest of fire, and there should be' extraordinary pre cautions taken against letting fire got out. The burning of brush and stumps, as is the custom in a dry season, is dan gerous business when the country is so inflammable; and a man who starte a fire in the woods for his amusement, or because he imagines he is a hunter, or in wantonness, should be regarded as a criminal and treated accordingly. WREELEB, the editor of the Quinoy (Ill.) Herald, has created a national hate for himself by his cowardly attacks on the wounded President, and to say he richly deserves it, is putting the matter in a very mild form. The Chicago Tribune speaks in nppropriate terms of Wheeler, as follows : " And this abandoned wretch who laughs to scorn the nobles-t impulse of grief ever iudulged in by a great people, this scoundrel who meet4 tears with taunti and ribaldry, op'nly npplauds the at of Guiteuai, and1l ther - by makes himself morally a party to hi; crinie by justifying it ; thiis hcerl a 917L -e who does not attim1pt t, conce(a his ardent hope that the President will die and that quiekly, this tciied iii linai shlp2, has not been so much a; slaipped in the faCe ! le has not, bea11 t lrre'd and foathered. lHe has iiot been hol~d by the ear and told to his face that he is a dastardly liar. He has not been kicked down stairs out of his own offle. He has not been U treated like the dirty dog he is, and he continues to splash his poisoned ink in the faces of the people of Quincy." Fairs in England. It is wonderful how completely the old English fair has disappeared. Every year the characteristics of "merrie Eug land " become more and more historical. At Epsom races there are no more side shows, no speckled boys, no fat women, no dwarfs, giants, or living skeletons. The Richardson show is gone. The in creasing crowds of people amuse them selves with plenteous potations of beer, throwing sticks at cocoanuts, and shoot ing from toy guns at targets. It is the same at fairs ; even at Coventry Fair there is almost nothing of the old time. Lady Godiva is forbidden to lead her procession through the town, however thickly clad. The old Shrewsbury show occasionally appears, but only as a ghost of its former self. The Lord Mayor's show holds out longest, but it is a sad spectacle. Probably Gcorge Stephenson is responsible for this hiding away of the fairies that used to dance andl sing. The railways have let in too much light on their solitudes. The fragments of that strange past, picked upi and set a-playing like puppets at Al bert Hall, were amusing, but there was a sad side to them. Human nature devours its own children, and sometimea pilays with their bones. Daisy's Story. "01h," said Daisy to her mamma, " I wuz in the parler last night behind the sofy, when the young preachier come in to see sister Kate, and they did set too close up for anything ; an' the preacher said ' Katie 11ear, I luv you;' an' K ate said 'Go, Go;' an then the pi'eacher, he kissed her right smack in the mouth, and said, 'Dear Katie, how go the Lord is to us poor sinnerie ;' an' Katie said, ' 0o, oo ;' an' then-ad' then-'" "Well," saidl her mamma, "you wick< d child, wvhat did you (10?" " W'y mamma, I felt so good, I blurted right out, 'Let us pray,' an' you ought to seen them two people, how they jumnpt up, and I looked nt D~aisy all scrhlnched1 up in a corner. It wuz just too awful, mamma for any usi." Daisy was not slippere3d that time. ~Se/>cnville Hie? aid. A Simple Cholera Cure. A I i a in" aid the late Rev. Dr. William Tracy, who nnt the whole of his adult life na missionary in India, and wvho hadl experience of many h1unIlded of cases of ch~olera, "' for anyone to dlie of chaplera. If at the first premoniitory symp'toms lhe lies down a' once and sub mits to a treat ment the principal patrt of which c'ons5ists of a paitient andi persiste'nt rub bing of the abdomr-n, to be kept up even after apparent coillapse h as occu r red. he is certain to recover."--Pit/n/urg LeadIcr. _______ MIEN are as cold as ice to the truth ; hot as fire to falsehood. Tn~ " Thousand Islands " number 1,8M by actual count. GEMS OF THOUGHT. WoNDEROUS strong are tho spells of fnotion. BEWARE Of the fury of a patient man. -Dryden. 0, MEMoRY, thou alng'st an endtcle muse Tbrough all the lonely chambers of the he* rt. A snioT that hits is better than a broadside that misses. WHAT'S goine and what's past help, Should be past grief. Tau chains which cramp uts most are those which weigh ou us least. TRAVEL improves superior wine and spoils poor; it is the same with the brain. NATURE has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. IF IDLENEsS do not produce vice or malovolence, it commonly produces mel. alUholy. EACH man has an aptitude born with him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. MA NNERS are the hypocrisies of na tions; the hypocrisios are more or less perfected. CALUMNY spreads like an oil-spot; we Ondeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains. IT 1. with happiness as with watches -the less complicated the less easily deranged. ANNOYANCE is man's leaven ; the ele mont of movement, without which we should grow mouldy. To ACQUIRE a few tongues is the task of a few years, but to be eloquent in one is the labor of a lifetime. WHEN death consents to lot us live a long time it takes successively as host iges all those we have loved. AN irritable iman lies like a hodgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles. A vioonous mind is as necessarily ac Companied with violent passions as a great fire with great heat.-urke. A MAN'S idolatry is for an idea a wo man's is for a person. A man suders for a monarchy, a woman for a King. ExPERIENCE shows that success is du less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul. IT is more from earelessness about the truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. -Johnson. WHAT is opportunity to thA man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away illtA) nonentity. TaE good things of life are not to be had singly, but como to us with a mix turo ; like a schoolboy's holiday, with a task aflixed to the tail. I LOvE tbat tranquility of soul in which we feil the blessing of existenco, and which ini itself is a prayer and thanksgivinug.--Longfe//ow'. COU~5srm is not so sacred a thing as praise, since the former ii only useful among men, but the hatter is for thme most part reserved for the gods. Wrrn the world (10 not resort to inl juries, b~ut only to irony and gayety; imury revolts, while irony makes one retlect, and gayety disarms.- Voita ire. I-r is the slowest p)ulsationI which is the most vital. The hero will then know how to wait as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wvisely. _________ A MiAN Inl Dresden has discovered a new lubricant for shafts, which hie claims is superior tA) thme best oil. It is malhde by mixing the whlites of eggs with the fIest graphuite powdler, until of the form of dou gh. T1hme- mixture is thon boiled in wateir until the whole is coagulated, when it is reduced to powder. The Many-Leaved Clover. A gentleman residing at St. John, sends this office four small hunches of clovers leaves, which are quite a curjosity. He says: " At the request of Mrs. L,. (I. Severance I send the inclosed speci men of four, five, six and seven-leaved clover, which are quite a botanical cnri osity. They were all plucked from a small sod not a foot square." One buneh contains sixteen stalks, each with four leaves of clover ; a second eight stalks, with five leaves ; a third, eight stalks, with six leaves: and a fourth six, withb. seven leaves.-Portland Oregonian. IN 'rnE Philadelphia Mfedicat Times a case was reported of a young man whose mother and1 five sisters had diedl of conisumptioni and~ who had14 himse5lf escap~ed a similar fate, prob//>/y because lhe " 'has lived for the past seven years in apartments well stAoeked with thrifty plants.'' Wux-r a pity flowers can utter no sound1( ! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a munrm urinig honeysuckle-.oh what a rare and exquisite miracle woul these be.- lkeccr. ONE of Ltme noisiest members of the We*st Virginia Legislature is a Beekman Wyatt. Ihis colleagumes call him Boek Wyatt, but he doesn't be quiet, just the same. IF Eve haid posssed patentII bangs, and halso haiir, andm a dIozen mlodern'f dresses, she would have beena bu'y, and have had no time to bother wiuth the ser pent. A YoN lad of Providence hanged himself nft--r reading a dime no'vel. What would he h tve donelafor reading~ a Chicago pa)per. --osa' Posh/. T aE man who oats oleomargarine gets fat. There is no doubt shout the fat part.