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-ImVTM ocLrx A TO TU ENERAL INTIERET OF THE COUNR Y BD. P. BRADLEY & 00- PICKENS. -"C 0, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1881 NEWS GLEANINGS, A Hancock county, Ga., farmer has a pair of oxen which weigh 3,900 pounds. Athens, Ga., has prohibited the riding of velocipedes on her streets. Eighty bushols of rough rice to the acre is thAe average yield in Florida. Ark-ansas produc.d 705,000 bales of cottcn during the season of 1880-81. 'he German carp planted in Tennos'. M-e ponds do not propogate well, Farm lands in the neighborhood of Athens, Ga., bring from $100 to $400 jper acre. It takes $30,000,000 for freight and insurance to place a year's cotton crop in the New England cotton market. Over fifty thousand bales of cotton were exported from the port of Savan nah last week, There are fifty females in the North Caroli-a penitentiary, two white and fort3 eight colored. 'Wild turkeys are plentiful in the <country adjacent to New Orleans on -account of the protection accorded them by the game laws. A rattlesnake six feet long and twenty inches in circumference was killed recently in Rutherford county, I Tenn. 4 Deer, squirrels and pheasants are said to be very abundant in the Shenandoah Valley regioni this fall. Partridges are scarce, while wild turkeys are about an aver ge. The Alma (Ark.) Independent knows -nen who saw their wives and children put in, make and harvest ihis .year's crops, and are now investing the pro ceeds in cheap whisky. On the wharf at. Key West, Florida, are two sticks of mahogony. One measures twelve feet in length and is fourteen feet two inches square. The other is three feet eight by three feet two inches in thickness. The cotton States consume 42,252,244 - bushels more wheat than they raise, and pay to the North for wheat, corn, oats and hay $150,000,000 annually, which is equivalent to that amount of m-mnev being literally squandered by Southern c people. I The net profits of the cotton factory owned by the Tennessee Manufacturing to Company, Nashville, for the year were d *46,000. The company declared a divi dend of ten per cent. Arrangements have been made for the erection of an y other mill at a cost of $250,000. e In a quarrel between Capt. Frank Sul livan, of the bark Potter, at Charleston. S. C., and a Portuguese seaman namedL Sylvia, the latter drew a knife. Sullivan said to him that he didn't have ''spunk" enough to cut anyone. To prove he had, a the Portuguese drew the knife across 0 his own breast, inflicting a deep and $ painful wound. The Natchez and .Jackson, V icksburg d and Ship Island, the Mobile and North- I) western, the Durant and Lexington, the o .Greenville, Columbus and Birming ham; the Aberdeen and Elyton, the Columbus, Favette and Decatur; the 14 Zazoo City and Canton, the Meridian 'y and New Orleans are some Mississippi v~ railroads that for the present only exist on paper. Mrs. Jane Gornto, a widow living r near Wrightsville, Ga., sent her son for e quinine. The clerk gave him a bottle of morphine, which he made in pills andl gave his mother. She died in forty- a y eight hours. n In A tlanta the rain drops that fall t6 off the western side of the roof of the First Baptist Church find their destinai- y tion in the Gulf of Mexico, while th we which fall from the eastern side of the y roof meander to the Atlantic ocean. Gen. Jubal Early lives at a Lynch burg hotel and practices law. Although j not yet seventy, he is as bent and t bowed as a man of ninety years. His e drooping shoulders, his Ie gray beard and flowing white hair, and the strong staff on which he leans, makes him look like the ideal Rip Van Winkle. Hea wears the Sonthern gray yet, and his a still vigorous mindl is full of fire.v Marion, Georgia, i'; only a shadow of her former self. in days gone by " twenty faro banks flourished there. It was no trouble at all to raise three or v four ,;housanddtlr for~IITjoli tical barbecue, and the floatingivoters of th'e County were entertained in regal style- I wined and fed upoin the fat of the land 6 at the hotels and public houses uinder the survellance of the agents of one or the other political parties for a month or more in ad vanice of elntioan (ay. . TOPICS OF TIE DAY. Bos TON is to have a free Hebrew school. PETROLEUM oil has been discovered in Colorado. THERE are 268,830 pensioners in the Unitud States. PRESIDENT ARTRun will sign no tem perance pledge. SMoKING is not allowed at polling places in Boston. TENNESsEE has supplied the Mormons with 125 converts. GUITEAU is pretty certain to live through the holidays. JUDGE FOLoER has taken charge of the United States Treasury. AmERICAN oleomargairine is sold for Rolland butter in Enghuid. Tin.E World's Fair project seems to lave about fallen through with. THE desire for American inde pendence s manifesting itself in Canada. BALTDWN is very contrite. Ho calls iimself both a knave and a fool. THE production of rai ins in Califoruia his year is estimated at $500,000. SUSAN B. ANTHONY wants tle name of ?ullman cars changed to Pull-man-and voman. FROUDE is of the opinion that England an iot rule Ireland. May be she can't, >ut she does. TrE New York Produce Exchange has ecided to erect a new building at a cost if $2,000,000. AND so the Star Route rascals escaped he first batch of charges? Still the harges remain. KEELY, the motor man, asks for three aonths more to perfect his invention. Io may have it. Ta stars and stripes were vociferously hoored in the streets of London on jord Mayor's Day. IT REQUIRES but twenty-six hours now > go from New York to Chicago. The istanco is 900 miles. IT Is estimated that $60,000,000 is in ested in jewelry in the United States, iclusive of silverware. BRADY's anxiety for vindication seems > have waned--gone clear out. It must ave been a myth in the first place. NEW YORK has responded mnost liher Ily to thes appe~al of the Michigan suffer rs. She contributed something over 125,000. ARCmnBALD F0I'InEs, the war orrespon ent, will write a serial fo r a London ewspaper under-the title of " The South f T1o-dlay." AND now, for personal comfort, we mg for just one slice of the warm ~eather we had last summer to stir in ith the winter. COAL at Cincinnati sells at $5 a ton, ad Cincinnati is on the river leading to ittsburg, too. It seems that the coal rop failed also. SInERIA has a populatign of I ,385,00 ad has an area of 8,000,000 sqluar, iiles. Russia claims that her object is > populate the country. TmE Courier-Journat says that in row Jersey it is "' Over the BanIk to theL 'oorhouse." This is Lot <quite righit. 'or "Poorhouse " rol " Mone~y-vault.'' ST. Louis has eleven murderers in til, and the papers intimate that if icre is not a " hanging bee " soon, the itizens may lose control of themselves. PUIBLIC opinion respecting the guilt of Lie Star Routers has not been affectedl particle by the dismissal of the case on technical flaw. They still stand con icted. A JIoTEL is to be b)uilt inl Toledo) in 'hiehI there will be no bar-room at Lohed. but in its stead a small chapel rhere guests may hold religious ser TrosE who expect to hear Adelinam 'atti sing may as well commtence now >)save up their money. From all wve an learn the popular price of admission rill be $10. CILAnA LouisE KELLOGG is 14(oh to h Whitney. They say ho followed he about and deviled her till she just ha< to giva up. NEw Yonc seems to have caught th4 disease from Ohio. The election return; sihow that they did a great deal o scratching there. The tioket elected i: a mixed ole. FANNY MAIrrns, living at snndu(V. Ohio, has very large feet, as feet go The riht one is twenty- two inches lon, and the left one nineteen. She origi nally lived in Chicago. IT LOOKs now as if the consumlp tion of smoke in Oincinnati is to b< an actfual fact. The ordinance has pas aed both Boards of Common Coun. cil and been signed by the Mayor. MAHONE is a nan of very small statur( and light weight, but there is perhaps not a man in Virginia who feela his het1 more than he does. 3ust now there it something more than a ton of him. Mas. SARToRis nee Miss Nellie Grant, her husband and two of their three chil dren are visiting the old folks in Nev York, but some how or other, are no attracting so much attention as usual. WrEN -ladstone rises to speak h< cl:tsl)s his hands behind his back. Thi attitude prevails, however, only durint the opening sentences. Once warmet up, his gestures are rapid, almost funri ous. MR. LABOUCHERE, in his journal, Truth, declares that the late Baroi James Do Rothschild lost on the Bours< inl October 80,000,000 francs or $16,000, 001), and that this loss was the cause o his death. PATTI will start out by singing " Home, Sweet Home," because, sh says, America is still her home, and sh< ex)ects an feorc that, when sized up will look something like a liuudre< thousand dollars or thereabouts. IT is hard to believe that Brad.v wa in earnest when he demanded an earl' trial and consequent vindication. H( doubtless is willing to wear the stigm, that has been placed upon him for th profits he has made in the Star Rout business. A NEGRlO woman living in Meridan li-ssissippi, has given lbirth in thirt-ecij years to fourteen children, six pair o the children being twins. The father (J these children, who is sixty-four years 0: age, is the father of thirty-seven living children. H A RVARD UNIVERSITY rep~lied to the re. quest of Miss Kate E. Morris, a graduat< ,f Smith College, for admission to can. didacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, that " the corporation arc not prepared to admit women as candi dates for a degree." THEi Ceditor of the Indiana &la/esman at Terre Haute, has beeni sentenced to twenity-five days in jail and to pay a fine [)f $300, on coniv~ict ion of criminail libel. As tan editor's navocation is that of think ing, what a golden opplortunlity this will jford, and no annioyanices, either. A'r 'rrE approaching coronation of the (Ozar aind Czarina the ivory throne 01 Constantine, the last Emperor of Con stant iiople, is to be used. The Czarina is to Oceenpy a throne adorned with 87( Siamonds a nd rubies, and 1,223 sapphires, turquoises and pearls of the first water, MnIurT. EntIsT, the famous circus ridex Iof Pariis, is (reditedl with being a daughtei if thle EmpLIeror of Austria. Her ciremu lress is spangled with diamonds, and1 I tiamonds gleami from her hair as, stand. ig with one foot upon her flying steed, -dhe directs with her other toa the aitteni tion of her audienio) to tihe zenith. AccoRDINGf to the extra census hulle. t in just issued, the great wvheat State are Ilinois, which raisedl 51 ,000,00( h'ushiels ; hIdiana, 47,000,000 ; Ohio, 40,. 000;Miebigan, 35,000,000 ; Iowa 31,000,000) ; California, 29,000,000 ; Mis souri, 25,000,000, and Wisconsin, 24,. 0)00,000. In three States were p~rodulcei nearly three-fourths of the whole wheal e~rop of the country. TrE King of Ashantee is a very gooi slort of a being. The State building needed repairing, and he desired to shov how sacrikficing a personage he was, and so he had 200 young girls, or maidens killed for the purpose of using thei: bloodi to mix the mortar. He neglecte< Lo tap his ow-n fiendish heart, however These massacr-es, it is said, are custom try with the king. ITr is reported that the Sultan ha, 'rdered the ruins of Solomon's Temnph to)1) he reserved, and1 the surrounding place to be clearedof r...ish e ethe place stands the Mosque of Omar, the revenue of which is said to be 4150, 000 a year. Hitlierto this sum has been sent to Constantinople, but it is now to be appropriated to clearing the site of the Temple. This act of the Sultan is believed to be a result of the visit of the Crown Prince of Austria to Jerusalem. MR. PARNELL, the Land League chief, owns some house property in Dublin, oin which the toants complain of very high rents, but he states that the tenanta are of the landlord class, and that such property is not to be regarded in the saime category with agriiulturi. His agricultural property consist.s of 4,678 acresin the Countyof Wicklow, estimated by Griffith's valuation at X1,2 15 per annum. The farms are let at the poor 'aw valuation, which in some parts of Ireland is higher, in others les.41 than Griffith's. Rents are regularly paid. ARABS are very lively in talk, quick, full of gesticulations and arguieits, in (1isitive, great chatterers, siouters, and screamers. They sur)pass tlie Jews in fanciful names. From the swarins o1 girls in the seminary at Beirut, colt ducted by American ladies, the follow. ing names have been set down in Eig lish translation : Miss Faiscinating Fi Miss Sociable Slider, Miss Safe Chat tr er, Miss Victor Camel Driver. Miss Benevolent Old Shoe, Miss Pink Thtiel; Lip, Miss Enough, Miss Diamond MTi lasses Maker, Miss Blessed Butter Maker, and so oD. Learn a rrade. It is very evident that a great dig proportion exists, as regards education, between that kind which is needed and is of practical importance, and that which is not; but which thousands ac quire without any definite purpose; and if they decide upon some pursuit it is not chosen with that regard to their qualifications and deficienies which the importince of the question requires. The young man who thinks he will he a lawyor, a doctor, or a minister, and hopes to attain success, must decide oil his choice of any profession by some thing beside hiis own ambition and con ceit in the ma)tter as to his fitness and ability for the saine. The desire to fill a high and influential )osition is laud aI)le (:nly when it is not disproportion ate to one's ability. cOne of the strongest incentives that influences many to rush into the pro fessions without that careful dclibtera tion which the subject demands, is the idea that those avocations will reflect more honor and credit upon them than a trade, but instead of such honoring the profession, the reverse is glaringly ap~parent, that a large proportion of them are' sadly out of place. It des not require much sagacity to see that one had better be a good lumi b~ernman than a third-rate lawyer, a first class mechanic than a quack doctor. There are those who have spent a great deal of time and money in study ing Latin and Greek, and many other things, which never did them any good, prac.tically speaking, and have learned too late that their time might have been emiployed to far better advantage. Maniy young men, after years spent in misdlirected effort, have had to resort to anything that offered. Of this there are instances too numerous to mention. The world is full of so-called educated men who don't know anything of any implortance, considering the kind of knowlege which the needs of the country demand. There is a need of skilled me chianica, capable, active men, instead of doctors, lawyers, ministers and( clerks. It is a question of great impo)rtone not only to the young, but to the parents, this of preparing their childlren for a business wherein they can not only earn their daily bread, but secure to them selves some of the comforts and conven iences of life, and an honorable position in the world. When p~eople get out of the prevailing but foolish notion of thinking that it is more honorable to haive a profession than a good trade, and wvhen the reverse of this rather is taught to the young, it cannot fail to have ai judicious tendency toward correcting an error which lhas been fostered long, and lies close to the interests of all. If every man had an occupation that was chosen because he was better fitted for it than for an other, he would be in a condlition to enjoy much in life, and his sphere of usefulness andl influence wouhl be greatly enlarged. Practical education, with a carefual considIeration of one's abilities and deficiencies, with an adaptedness to the wants and needs of our land, cannot fail to make our con dition much pleasanter and our labor more renumerative. AN Indianap olis scissors grin d(-r clii mns to have been with the D~uke of Welling Lon in forty battles, and that he received 132 sword en1ts andl( eleveni gunhoit wounds. We don't bl)'ieve the Duke of Wellington had ainy use for a scissors grinder. The D~uke was no.t edihlo' ar paper, as we undlerstand1 it. Still, if the Diuke did have a seissors grinder, wvho went arour.d with his grinding macbine, - inging r. bell alnd shout ing the way bhey do nowadays, we dlon't hlame the Duike'F neighbo)r5 for stabbing lhim 1 :2 simeP and slhooting Ihim eleven times with a gun. Hec deserved it.-P'e-k's MEN of great genius and large heart ~ow the needs (of a new degree of pro gress in the world, but they bear fruit Sonly af ter many year. Adulteration. There seem to be very good reasons why the pessimists should call a halt upon the genius of invention until some force can be made available to regulate his movements. It is very generally acknowledged that the world is growing better as it grows older, and no doubt it is, but the progress of invention and dis covery, although in the main beneficial to mankind, is )ringing forth things that must of necessity exert an injurious in fluence. Charles Reade, in one of his novels, speaks of some old solid silver plate, made in the ancient days when things were made honestly. "Not," lie says, " because the workmen were more honest than they are to-day, but because they didn't know how to clheat." As the world grows older, people learn more and more how to cheat, and the peopl who don't want to be cheated have to study closer and closer to learn how to circuin vent it. It is a good deal ike the inventions of armorers. Every few years a gun is produced, the projectile from which will pierce any known obstrictioi, and then other armorers exert thenimselves to goVt up an armor that it cannot piorce. And so it goes on, and the wonder is where it is all to eid. It is so with iii V''itioni an1id discovery in other dirce': ions. Clhemiists are finding out more amd miore how to adulterate food and its iigredients until it is almost dangerous to eat any thing but primary substances. Ever anid anon accounts appear in the papers of a faniilv poisoned by eating or drinking this, that or the other, until ono hardly knows what iniigence of appetite ma'y be considered safe. There is ia standing apple! to legislation to correct thmes evils, but legislation, although it n1111V have mitigated the danger, has not, 's yet, entirely removed it. It would seem to be an easy matter to treat this subject in a way to assure the people that what, they eat and drink need not prove in jurious on account of iiiipurity or adulteration. If there is an offence in the calendar callhig for the most condig punishment, it is that of adultenation. Let us have laws, and an enforcement of thei, that will make it safe to eat and drink vhat purports to be healthful and nutritious.--Boston Bud (jet. A Drop of Water. We read frequently of the drowning of good swimmers, who suddenly sink in the water without any apparent cause. The common explanation of such an ac cident is that the swimmer is seized with cramps ; but an English naval officer offers a different solution of the phenomenon. He bases his theory on his own experience. His ship was lying for a long time off Aden harbor, and it was the practice for cricketing parties to swim from the vessel to the shore every evening, having their clothes sent in a small boat. Of course there was a race to see who would get to the beach first. The writer in the course of a sharp struggle for the lead opened his mouth to lreathe, and some of the spray flying in the wind got into his throat and took the passage down the trachea. "I could neither," ho says, "get any breath in, nor any out, and I soon began to feel that I was dying on top of the water. There must have been a dozen men close to me, but I could not speak, much lessi call to them. I kept swimming on for the shore. In about thirty seconds my senses began to leave me. I ceased to swim, and my legs went down, when luckily for me they touched the bottom; a violent jump helped me to cough up the drop of water. I staggered on shore and fell quite exhausted on the beach, much to the surprise of all the men with me." It is the opinion of this gentlenman that many fatal accidents to swimmers are due simply to a drop of water in the wind-pipe. A conclusive proof that they are not due to cramp is a fact that aL man rescued within twvo minutes of sinking in this mysterious manner is beyond all hope of resuscitation. Home Life for the Blind. In an addl~ress b~efore the College for the Blind, at Upper Noiwood, Henry Faweett, the blind Postmaster General of England, said that, speaking of his own experience, the greatest service that couldl be rendtered to thet blind was to enable them to liye as far as possi-ble the same life, as if they had not lost their sight. They should not be imprisonedl in institutions or sep~arated from their friends. Few who had not experiencedl it could imagine the indescribab le joy to them of home life. Some persons hesi tated to speak to tie blind about out ward objects. There could be no great er error. The pleasauntest and happiest hours of his life were those when he was with his friends, who t alked ab~out every tihing they saw just as if lie was not present ; who in a room talked about the pictures, when wedking deCscribed the scenery they were passing through, and who described the people they met. When with the blind, p)eople should talk with them about and dlescribe every thing they saw. The speaker concluded bmy remarking that there was plenty of good will to assist the blind, b)ut what was required was better organization. A Cheerful Set of Folks. The Lepchas, of India, are Buddhists, short in stature, bulky and of fair comn plexionl, their features bein~g distinctly of the Mongolion type. They are gross feeders, gorging themselves constantly to repletion, and 'ating the flesh of the elephant, rhinoceros and monkey. Their habits are nomadic. They do not usu ally live longer than three years in one place. They buy their wives for prices varying rom 40) to 500 rupees, and, if they ve no money, will serve their fathers- -law as bondsmen in recoin OLD men's eyes are ike old men's memories ; they are strongest for things a long way off'. V U. ZVI. J "I i1. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. ONIP oyster may lay as many as 2,000, 000 eggs a year. A BLOW from the leg of an ostrich will break a man's leg. A WOLF, like a tiger, having once eaten man, prefers him to ill else for a dinner, and if h atticks a man it is proof that he has already dined off one or had hydrophobia. THE sea Cucumber, one of the curious jelly bodies that iiliabit the ocean, can practically effrco himself when i:n danger by Squeezing the water out of h6; body and forcing himself into a narrow orack -8o narrow as not to be VisibleC to the naked eve. He can throw out nearly whole of his inside, and yetlive and grow it again. ACCORDING to a writer in Natuire, the small miaratory birds that are unable to perform the flight of 350 miles across tho Mediterranean Sea are carricd neross on the backs of cranes. In the autumn miy flocks of cranes may be seen com ing from the north, with the 1rst cold blust from that quarter, flying low, and11 uttering a peculiar cry, as if of alarm, as they circle over the cultivited plains. Little birds of every species may be seen fiving up to themi, while the twit terig so ngs of I hose already comfortlbly settled upon their backs nmy be dis tinctly heard. But for this Kiiud pro vision of nature, nunerous varieties of simill birds would becomo extinct in northiern countries, as the cold winters wouldkill them. BANK OF ENGLAND notes are made from pure white linen cuttings--never from rags that have i,>ei worn. So carefully is the paper prepared that even the number of dips into the pulp made by each individual workmiai is regis tered on a dial by inclkiery, aid the sheets are carefully counted ad booke^ to each person through whose hands they pass. The printing is done by a most, cu0rious process within the hank building. There is an elahbora to ar rangement for securing that no note shall be exactly hko any other in exist ence ; conseqiuently there never ias been ia duplicate bank note oxcept by forgery. The stock of paid notes for seven years is sa11( to amount to 94,9000,000, an11d to fill 10,000 boxws, which, if placed side by side, would cover over three miles in extent. IN England the north sido of a church yard is objeCted to aIS Ia htJCe of burial. The old ecclesiasticl reason is this : 1 The east is God's side, wlwe His ithrone is set; the west is ui's side, the Galilee of the (eitils; tie soutl is the side (f the angels and of the 'spirit male just,' where the sun shinst in its strngth. The north is then dlevi's side, where Satan and his legion lurk to catch -the unwary." Some churches have still a " devil's door" in the no:th wall , which was cpelnedi at biptisiis inld conimlmn ions to let the devil out. Miles Ever dale, in his "'Praying for the Dea'id," A. D. 15315, says: "' As they die, so shall they arise; if in faith in the Lord, to ward the south, * * * andmi shiall arise in glory; if in unbelief, * * * to ward1 the north, then are they past all hope." THE disproportion of tihe costs of a lawsuit to the damanige's obtained was prob~ably never greater thanii inl IL caso argued by~ William 11. He want in 1848. A newspaper adidressed to a Miss Felton was received at the Syracnso postoffice. Th'Ie Postmaster refused to <deliver the paper without letter pa st age, hsejiuse theo 'iniitials of the se;nder weore onl the wrapl per The lady suedl in a Just ice's couirt for tie value of thme piaper, and1( was awarded 6 cents dimn-,es. The Post master appealed, andl ti .caLse was car ried successively to the Court of Com-. moni Pleas, the Supremo Court of the State, thme Court of Appeals1 and1 theI United States Suphremle Court, each af firming thme original decision. WVhen tihe 'case enteredl thme last tribmunal $136.00 in ' costs had been added to the 6 cents dam ages. The Wyoming Method. San Francisco Chronicle. They have learnled how to live in Hiil liardl,Wyomning territory, and1( are' leased43 with their lesson. As often as' they get out of meat they repleniih this way: A band of wicked-looking citizens go down to the Union P aciftic track ai ways, to where the trains run slowly and awiait tihe passageI~ of the throughl express5 gers. As it is hieai ill the (distan~ce they take their places. A tuff man maude of straLw is hll out beside two decal cofihus, a bit of banggage keeping his face from being seen, while the( gang gather around a li ving victim, whiom they are ab)out to hang to a telecgrapih pole. It is a slim ebanice for the poor fellow, but the pas. sengers run wild at tihe sight. Thme train is stopped. Voluniteeri run back to the the scene. Explanaiutioni: Two noted horse-thieves are( the scourge of the is trict, survivor peniitenlt now, buIt thme best time to hang him is when we) have him. He's doneo thousandli~'s of dollars of damiago. This suggests a ransomn. The11 passengers take up a contribution and1 b uy thme uoor devil's life for himi. 'Then they carmd him on to Hlilliard andt leave him. ''Titizens inl carriages' come riding home later wvith the ransom, which they divide wit hount ai pum rel, and there is peace and1( plea.'i'itry in Hilltiard. ADIPOOERE is an oily, waxy suibstance, formed from the soft parts of animal bodies buried in damp soils or under water. It isi the substance that human bodies sometimes change into, giving rise to the idea that they petrify. Tiis king-becominlg graoes-devotionl, patienCe, cousag~e, fotd e.