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Ir E ATIO AND To TUX SF COUNTRY. D. F. BRADLEY & 00 - PICKENS, r.".,TURSDAYJAUR19 . . 1. NEWS GLEANINQS, Mississippi will have a State female college. Georgia has 762,981 males and 779,199 females. 'Birmingham has hopes of a large car manufactory. Mississippi has four times as much tim ber as Minnesota. . Marion county, Fla., has 23,000 acres Atnd'- in orance groves. Russian Jews are constantly settling in all parts of Mississippi. Fifty-five cotton mills in Georgia, and others-in process of erection. Real estate at Milledgeville, Go., has doubled in value in the last two years. Birmingham, Ala., has raised the li cense of whisky dealers to $850 a coun ter. A bill has been introduced in the Vir ginia Senate to abolish tie whippi post.Pig The salary of the Mayor of Savannah has been increased from $1,500 to $2,000 a yeat, It is sa'd that twenty-seven of the ex hibitors at Atlanta are going to establish factories there. There are eleven men in the Clarks ille, Ark., jail charged with murder in in the first degree. Three Butler county, Ala., boys in one day's hunt killed fourteen foxes and twenty-two cat squirrels. Forty thousan-i dollars have been sib' scribed toward a proposed car nanufac tory in% Montgomery, Ala. Mrs. Nancy E. 'earce, who cut off her child's head in Howard county, Ark.,. has been adiudged insane. The street letter-boxes in San Anto nio, Texas, have been rob bed so frequent ly that thi postmaster has ordered them taken down. Many Georgia farmers believe there will be a great advance in cotton next spring, and are holding back as much of their crops as possible. Since 1860 Tennesace lias acquired nearly 400,000 additional population, and has made crops every year of an average annual net profit of $27,500,000. Thtlif6our States of Georgia, Alabama, *fouth Carolina and Tennessee the nuin ber of persons employed in the manufac ture of cotton is 11,788, against 5,890 in 1870. The Mayor of Birmingham, Ala., has given orders to the police lorce of that city to require all merchants to discon tinue the sale of cigars and tobacco oni ISunday. -The father of Rev. Richard Jordan of Rhea county, Tenn., is still living, at the age'of 106. His son is seventy-five. His * ~ wifc is~ eighty-seven, but looks older thatn her husband. The Cincinnati Southern railroad hmas contracted with the Glen Mary (Tern.) mines for twenty car loads of cox'! per day for their engines, at seven cents per bushel unsorecened The new capitol building at Austin, Texas, is to be 366 feet high, 566 feet - ,. long,.and 285 feet in depth, the seventh highest building in the world, and the second in the United States. The Trustees of the Georgia A cademy for the Blind have purchased ground at Macon for the erection of an academy for the colored blind. The State appro priated $10,000 for the purpose, In North Carolina there arc fifty three cotton mills in operation, and~ six others are in progress and~ pearly completed. There are also four or five woolen mills in operation in " the old North ::dL.' A mulatto woman named Fannie Crawford has just returned to her farm in Miississippi, with fifty negroes from Sumpter county, Ala. This year, about closing time, she workedi 800 hands on her farm, which she manages herself. With increased capital pouring into New Orleans, with the jetties opened for the largest Vessels, with four railroads -running there, and at least three more - on the way, the Times-Democrat wishes the whole world "a happy New Tear." Te Vicksburg and Ship Island and the Memphis and Vicksburg railroads have leased 600 penitentiary conlviniA from the Mississippi State Board of Pub lie V"'ks which are to be divided be tween the two roads and put to work near Vicksbur. A gcod deal of igrup made in Alaba ma this season is found to be unfit for use because the sugar cane from which it was made was grown in cow-pens. The stalks of the case were unusually fine, but the flavor of the syrup is said to be absolutely nauseous. Memphis Appeal; Mrs. Erwin, who is mentioned as the "Southern Florence Nightingale," died at Huntsville, Ala., recently. During the war she had hos pitals wherever the army of the Tennes see could be reached, and after the war she established-an asyhm for the orphans of Confederate soldiers. It is reported that the Woodwards. the great nail manufacturers of Wheel ing, West Virginia, are arranging to come to Birmingham, Ala., where in co partnership with Mr. DeBardeleben. they propose to enter largely into the manu facture of nails and other irons. There are 1,000 Indians yet in the Everglades of Florida. They speak their own language, but by frequent inter- t course with the white people at the trad- C ing posts, on Lake Okeechohee, have be come civilized. They are friendly and honest in their dealings with the whites. The extent of the manufacture of " pure olive oil" from cotton seed is in dicated by export statistics from New Orleans. Of 6,000,000 gallons shipped thence during 1879-80, eighty-eight per cent was sent to the Mediteranean and a French ports, and one-hn1f of this C amount to Italy. Phillips, Marshall & Co. of London, r have purchased 1,300,000 acres of land i from the state of Mississippi. The lands lie mostly in the Ynzoo delta, and com prise some of the richest cotton and a timber land in the South. It is the in- t tention to improve, cultivate and colo nize these lands. Hon. J. F. Cunninghiani of Fulton, 3 Ark., has invented a cotton-picking ina chine that pulls off the cotton bolls. limbs and leaf, and then separates them. The horse and wagon pass over the rews that have been picked and the machine gathers on the side. He says that by b attaching the separator to the gih power ii he can pick two rows as fast as the team (an move. Atlanta Coustitution : The cost of the a Exposition was t250,00, of which $150, 000 in round figures were put in build ings and improvements and the balance paid out for running expenses, printing, etc. The receipts were from $220,000 to $250,000, of which $115,000 caie from b stock, $15,000 from privileges, $15,000 i fr mn entry fees, $93f,000 from gate re- A ceipts, and $5,00.) from miscellaneous resources. Eastman (Ga ,) Times: L. L. Burch, p of Telfair county, kilkd a bald eagle o last week wlhichi measured eight feet from tip to tip of its wings. One of the feet was sent to this office, and the claws from point to point measured eight and one-third inches. -This monstrous lbird had ai grown sheep down when Mr. Burch discovered it, and forced himi to relax d his hold by sending a rifle ball through 11 his eagleship, . Durham Recordler: The farmers in Eastern Carolina seem to b~e tardy in fin- e ishing up Ae yeam 's crop, hence it is al. t most impossib~le to emplloy a man to drive e deer. Sport in this line, however, is fine. D)eer are abundant, so mcclh so1 that migratory sportsmen believe themi to be more numerous in the everglade counties oif Pender, Jones, Onslowv, Cra ven, Pamldico and Carteret than iin any parf, of the South. The Dempsey family and the Norri, i family, of Cherokee county, Ala., have i long been enemies. The older members have spent a life time in continued hick erings, and have weariedl of it. But the 4 I boys have taken up the cudgel, and here N~ the -result: Last week two of thme Den. sCy boys and two of the Norris met to .'rght it out. Both of the Norris boys w'erL stabbed, the younger mortally. t The families stand high in the commu nity, and great excitement has grown out of the (difficulty.t Jacksomville (Fia.,) U~nion : During the month of December there were 6, 200,000 fcet of yellow pine lumber shipped from this port, against 3,318,000 feet for same mon th last year, an increase last month of 2,882,000 feet over the amonnt shipped (luring the same month in .1880. The above does not include lumber shipped north via Fernandina, over thc Fernaindina and Jacksonville railroad. During the year just close there were, not including that shipped 1 via Fernandina, 68,887,451 feet of lum--. ber shipped fron, this port, against 41, 719,255 feet shipped during 1880, and 33,978,988 shipped in 1879, .an increase in 1881 over 1880 of 17,118,100 feet, and over 1879 of 24,858,518 feet, TOPICS OF THE DAY. FRANCIs MIOuL PASOAL, the French iculptor, is dead. A FOnTY-THREB-DAY female faster has lied in Washington. HON. JOHN C. Nuw, of Indiana, is itudying the map of Russia. THE Mississippi Democracy returns Uamar to the United States Senate. MONTREATL ice men are preparing to reeze us out at a high price next summer. ONE hundred and eighty-seven ves els were lost at sea during the past year. TnoUnLES on the boundary between Russia and China are becoming serious. IN RUSSIA theaters are now required o be closed both on Sunday and Satur-' Lay night. A roRTION of Tammany Hall, New cork, havo organized an anti-Kolly aovement. TIHRE are very few localities through ut the States that have not been reached y smallpox. MR. ORTH, of Indiana, protested gainst playing secon' fiddle in the ,ommittee on Rules. A nALLOT-BOX stuffer, in Philadelphia, 3ceived on Now Year's day, six months i the Penitentiary. Mu. FREDERICK J. PHInLIPS '1as as med the duties of Private Secretary President Arthur. JUDGE Cox believes that a great crim ial is a great thing-and to be treated ith consideration, too. THE provisions of the naturalization .eaty with America have finally been Ktended all over Germany. MRs. LANoTRY, whose eyes are said to e very delicious and eloquent, is earn ig $500 a week on the stage. GOVERNOR LONG, of Massachusetts, in favor of women suffrage and the bolition of capital punishment. THERE were 12,479 more deaths than irths in New York City the past year. he difference in 1880 was 4,401. EMPEROR WInLIAM, of Germany, on rew Year, received over 1,000 congratu Ltory telegrams, some of them from i .merica. THE Mormon mnihsionaries in England re having a hard time of it. Pick ockets got after them and robbed two f their numbers. HION. TuoMAs L. JAMEs, ex-Postmaster toneral, has assumed the duties oi the 'residency of the Lincoln National !ank, New York. AN Onto Senator says there is little t ifference between the two leadingI olitical parties and the fight is now hiefly for patronage. 81x-rEEN out of twenty-one Massa huusetts towns reports smaller debts] han one year ago. That is at least one ood feature about 1881. Two hundred and fifty thousand dol arr were expended to make the Atlanta xposition a success, and the receipts amo very nearly up to that amount. DuRING 1881 Judge Lynch disposed if twenty-five lives, nineteen being tegroes, and one, in Colorado, being an nunocent man, mistaken for the crim nal. LADE dressmakers who go to Wash Sgton to supply tihe upper crust with aaterial made outside of the District, re required hereafter to take out a iconse.1 IT 1s pretty well remembered that here was nothing funny about the trial f the assassin of President Lincoln, but t seemsi that American humor is now in lhe ascendency. THE Albany (N. Y.) Journal goes for Tennor with its gloves off. He deserves t every bit. We predict that the Ven ior almanac, hereafter, will be a dead veiglht on the market. HION. ANDREW W~ILIAMs, of Burling on, Vt., made his wife a Christmas gift >f $50,000. The point about this is, the noney was kept in the family and is afo out of tile reach of creditors. THE crop failures of 1881 are equally >orne b~y the producer and consumei'. WVhile the one has little or nofhing to sell, the other is compelled to pay an Ldvanced price for everything he gets. A NEw YORK Judge has decided that ao puff cigar smoke in a man's face is as iault and battery. We presume it is wounding with intent to kill (at some other time) to do the same thing to a woman. OsoAn WInDu is a blonde young man, with flowing looks, little blue eyes and a prominent jaw, and stands six-feet-two. What is more,he will lecture for 8200 a night, and considers that you are getting off pretty cheap at that. Tun Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen, who has recently returned to Paris from Rome, urges the Italians to choose another capital and leave Rome to the Pope, in order to avert the necessity of his departure from that city. THE cable announces that J. R. Keene's Foxhall, and Lorillard's Iro quois, Glerald and Aranza are among the entries for the city and suburban handi cap. Foxhall and Iroquois are also en tered for the Epsom and Ascot gold cups. MARION L. Dow is the name of a fe male stock broker in Philadelphia, and Harriet S. Dunning is the namo of another female who is prosecuting her on the charge of swindling. We say, give woman her rights, and she will do the thing. up for all the world just like men do. PRESIDENT ARTHUR is down on the [nterminable invasions of Maryland rielegations and says the thing must be stopped. If further persecuted by the !riends of those seeking office he will make a public announcement refusing to receive importunate visitors at the White House. THE Temperance Colonization Society f Canada intends to establish a colony f total abstainers on a large scale. A nillion acres of government land have Leen secured for the purpose, and people who hate alcohol are invited to settle on t, the farms being sold at slightly less han the established price. PAM and Theodore Thomas and Cary Lad Pendleton and the Cincinnati news apers, altogether, succeeded in getting 1p a first-class row, and all because rhomas asked Patti to take a drink of 'randy out of a bottle, and Patti felt in milted and wouldn't hold to his hand vhen she went on the stage, and Cary, who hadn't been stopped by the bottle trrangement, had flopped herself into Patti's seat. We trace the whole matter .o the bottle of brandy. IN Is New Year's sermon, Rev. HeryV Ward Beecher stated that any man wl'o erverted one dollar intended for the 3ducation of children should be gibboited is a criminal, and he concluded by ask ng, what would be said of a man who nade the loss of virtue a condition of riv'ng pla'ce, and whrt't punishment sould be found for such a miscreant ? At meeting of the New Brooklyn Board of Edtxcation, a few days later, the remarks vere read, and a motion was made that a ~ommittee of three be appointed to visit 3eecher, and ask him for the informa ion on which he based his remarks. The notion, being out of order, was over uilcd, but will probably come up again. OscAR IL. BALDwIN, late cashier of the vrecked Mcchanics' Bank, of Newark, i. JT., has filed his answer to the ap~pli sation of the Receiver for a permanent njunction restraining him from dispos ng of his property on the ground that 10 had- applied the bank funds to his >wn use, in which lie denies that any art of the banks money wvas ever im properly diverted to his owvn use, and 3xplains in detail how the several funds with which ho is charged with transfer ring to his own use came into his possesM sion. He tells, in a long narrative, the rue story of his life, how ho began Wfork in the bank as messenger, rose to be0 3ashier, and finally, in 1872, was induced by the representations of Christopher NTugent, of Nugent & Co., morocco manufacturers, to extend his line of 3redit to the amount of $147,000. He says he concealed this fact from the Diredtorsgand that Nugent, on learning this, used it to force him to continue the Loans until the time of the failure, when they amounted to $2,400,000. Inmates of Almshiouses. There is a prevalent idea that the almshouses, for the mo:,L part, shelter the unhappy and guileless poor, whog~ unmerciful disaster has follIowed fast and followed faster until it has chased them into this last refuge---people who have come from vine-covered cottages, or tidy rooms up one flight of stairs in tenement houses, with a big Bible on the table and a pot of flowers in the window ; or even from luxurious homes desolated by commercial panics. As a matter of fact, the great majority of American indoor paupers belong to wvhat are called the lower classes, and seek the almshouse not because of commer oial disaster, but because of very com mon vices. I'r is said that Landseer never painted a full-grown oat. He painted kittenar and "lefit the rest to nature." UNTIED TIE BOO. The swain sat on the front door-stop, The hour of twelve had fled, The dog was chaiued up in the barn, Her father was in bod. rhe heiress, in his mind, he'd won, So to hinself he said: Oh, acres and bonds that I'll call mine When her dear pa isadead ! " rhe sOOne was changed on that front step; Seductive visions fled; The dog was tearing from the barn, Her pa was out of bod. The old man shouted, " Sick him,.fluu-;" The swain whizred t'ward the gato; So did a club the old man throv. It struck hii on the pate. He fell headloig upon the walk, lie felt the canine tako A piece from off his binder iart Alarge mouthful of steak. He dreanied of golden pounds no nore, nut pound uipon the bead; And when that swain would fain sit down He wished her pa was dead. Attack on the Idol of Juggernaut. An attack has been made upon the idol of Juggernaut, at Pooree, the most Y.1 A: V sacred shriue- in Indi, by a body of fanatics. The rioters, who numbered twelve men and three womon, and were almost in a state of nudity, succeeded in on tering the temple, and tried to force their way into the inner recesses. Al though upward of 1,000 pilgrims were >resent, they were not expolled without severe struggle, in the course of which one intruictor was trampled to death. The rest were arrested, and sentenced to three month's imprisonknent. The inquiry showed that they belonged to a set of Hindoo dissenters lately founded in the Sumbulpore district, and known as Kumbhupatias from Vio fact that the followers wear ropes of bark around their waiits. They allege that their religion was re vecled to sixty-four persons in 1661 by a god incarnate, whom they style Aleknew amy-that is, the Lord-whose attri butes can not be described in writing. They believe in the existence of the 300,000,000 of Hlindoo deities, but do not respect their images, saying it is im possible to represent a Suprene Being whom no one has ever seen. They are subdivided into three classes, two of which renounce the world and make no distinction of caste, while tho third lead a family life. Their habits are said to be very filthy, and, like some European sects, they take no medicino in illness, but rely solely on divino help. Their attack on the Pooreo temple was prompted by.tie belief that if the Jug gernaut were burned it would convince tile Hindoo of the futility of their relig ion, and tile whole world would then embrace the truth.--Calcutta Gacc. THE Saxons were the most faithful allies of the Emperor until the battle of Leipsic, the chief city of Saxony, though not its capital. There at the ionent that Napoleon's 60,000 was closing in for its inevitable triumph the Saxon corps crossed the field and ired into their former comirades. Th is decided the conitest. Napoleon, having made his combinations and despisinig thme un wieldly enemy, had retiredl to eat his dinner in peace. Ho was finishing a leg of mutton, a meat wichl ho never ven tured on until his duty of the day was done, when an aide delivered tihe fateful message. "Well," hie remalfrked with~ composureo, " one must never eat until his battle is won. Now we shall have the whole work to do over to-morrow. I shall never eat muttoin againl, volat tou/." The next (lay 1h0 (lid iindeed worst the over-confident enlemy, but he didn't erush him, as in the glorious days of WVagram, Austerlitz and Jena, and while hlis losses couldn't be .replaced, thes swarminlg levies of Austria, Riussi, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and the Rhine -paid b~y Briitish gold-renewed them selves dily, until finally, though they met nothing but defeat, by slheer force of numbers, like Grant at Pete3rsburg, the Emperor's victorious legions were foughlt to a mere guard. 'Then camne the fateful day of Fontainebleau, when the man who had mastered Europe abdicated his place and relinquished his glorious miisalon. Six IHundlred Victhims of Whisky. 'Theu Corwvin dlurinlg her voymigo to Ahaska lauded oni St. Lawvrence island, hatving orders to investigate tihe whole sale starvation of the nlatives. At thme first village at which theyhanded all were dead ; so also at tihe second, where fifty four dead bodies were counltedl, nearly all full-grown males. At anlothler placo 1 50persons-men, women anl md children were dead. At the next, settlemeunt, twelve dead bodies, and at the following thirty were found. All the inhabitants on the north side of the island, where whmisky traders sold liquor, are dead not one escaping. The general starva tion occurredl two years ago last winter. Since then thle presence of the (Ccrwin ini the Arctic hlas broken up this inmhu man whlisky trading. The empty whisky kegs aro seen strewn all about. The total number of dead bodies found oni St. Lawrence island was over 600. The survivors say that white traders from Honolulu sold whisky, which the natives bought and got drnk, remfainling so during the season for laying in their winlter sup)ply of walrus and seal.-Nun Francisco Af hla. TaR Imperial Library at St. Peters burg containa over 1,000,000 volumes. Among the treasures of the institution is Voltaire's library, many of the vol times of which bear tihe former owner's autograph notes. A perip~atctic lecture upon tile library, its contents and asso ciat ions, is given twice a week (once on Sunday), which usually secures a much interested group of listeners, and sug gests the thoughlt that perhaps the plan might be followed with benefit to tihe public elsewhere. V NfJAJ *.4 L. 4WeIWO. RUMORS OF THE DAY. A iFnur of the battle-field--grape. A Louisviras belle has in her parlor a beautiful embroiderod motto, " E Plur? bus, yum, yum." LAST words of the balloonist: "It's all up with me." Last words of the godling: "It's all down with me." THEnE are some days when you can't lay up a cent, and other days when you can't get hold of a cent to lay up. IT is more blessed to give than to re ceive, when a kick from a No. 10 boot is the question at issue. - Steubenville licrald. CUToMEn-" You say that those fig ures are life size? My dear sir, they seem very small." Artist,-" Perfectly correct, sir; you know ' life is short"' WHiY doth the festive Tnjtin squaw Improve each shining minuto An scratei her hni from norn to riight? lecalsso there's millionm in 1t. -San Franeisco Wap. "YE," exclaimed Brown, " you aI ways find mo with a pen in my hand. I'm a regular penholder, my boy. ' "Let's see," said Fogg, musingly, "a enholder is usually a stick, isn't it? -Boston Transcrip(. Tivxt.1 twinkle, diminutive type of nebular Coll n111nt ionl; How I meditate upon your composition, Sit tiated above this oblate spheroid at such an alti I tide, III siiilitfid<le nn inflintestinal crytalllxation of car boi in the blue empyrean.-Oil Oity Derrick. No," PAID the charming actress to her devoted lover, " No, Charlie, I won't marry you; but you c'n have the privi logo of paying for all my little suppers and carriages after the theater, and you'll be envied by all the boys. That ought to satisfy you." "BUT, your honor," says the accused, "this is a case of suicide." His honor-" ?" The accused-" He always said lie wanted to commit suicide but that lie hadn't the courage. So tien I helped him I" His honor-"But why, afterwards, did you take his watch ?" The accused (with a shrug)-" Why, because he didn't need it any more 1' -Frvwc paper. THERE was a little company at Mr. Brown's and the youngest daughter, a bright girl of seven, was talking to her sister's beau. " Why, Mr. Sydney," she said, loud enough for everybody to hear, " you can talk real plain, can't you?" "Of course I can, Fanny. Did you think I wasn't old enough tb talk plain ?" "' Yes," she answered, " thought so, for I heard you talking to sister the other night, and you kept saying, '00 tweet sing, 00 1 0o 'ovey dovey, tum tiss oor own tweet Siddy,' so much, that I wasn't sume but you had a impegiment in your speeclh." Fanny was excused and Mr. Sidiey was carried out on a shovel. St'rubcnville Hicrald. " I CoME over to see about your boy," said a neighbor last evening. "He's very troublesome about my house. He has beeni throwing rotten apples into my front yard and calling my wife 'Old Molly (hubs.' " " And I was going over to see you about your boy,' was the rejoinder. " He chalked my wood shed all over with a picture of my wife driving mno out of the back door with a kettle of water in one hq nd and a broom 'in the other." "Is that so ? Then I go in for civil service reform within our own families." The boys never knew wvhat they were " licked ' for that ni'ght. -Ncw Hfaven Rlegister. Brother Gaordners's Philosophy. " Doanu' seek to make angels of yer selves," quietly began Brothuer Gardner is tte meeting opened. "In de fust place dis am no sort o' kentry fur angels, an' in do next pr~ace you would be might~y lonesome. Do man or woman 'who b~ecomnes so sweet an' soft an' good dat dey expect ebery minit to rise up an1 Ily doaui' take so much comfort as folks who feel dat it will be a clus shave to git inter heaven. A leetle wickedness iickles a man an' makes him keep all do better. When I trade mules wid a man I prefer dat lie should suspect me wid an intensihun to make an ~ben $25 by de op erashun. When I deal wid a butcher I[like to feel dlat lhe will work in fo' ounces of b)ono fur obery eight ounces of meat if I donnt' watch him. I like to have do b~ootnmaker toll me dat American cowskin am Frenchucalf, an' I am pleased when do sto' clerk warrants fo' cent caliker to wash like sheet-iron. De man who am not a leetle wicked has no chance to feel sorry ; no use for prayer ; no need of churchies. lie cannot say to a follow man : 'I wronged you-I'm sorry shake.' " Do man who neher sins makes a poor nex' doah neig~hbur. De woman who keeps feelin' of her shoulders to see if wings have started makes a poor mother an' a wuss housewife. If you have neber injured a~ man an' gone to him an' axed his pardon an' made up you doan' know what real happiness am. If your conscience has neber drib en you to prayer you can't feel do good ness of do Lawa. My advice to you am to be a leetle wicked-not 'nuff to make men fear or hate you, but just 'nuff to keep you convinced dat you must help to supp~ort churches an' pay clus atten shun to what de preachers say or you'll be left behin' when de puroeshnn starts." Lonn DEnBY has ten men servants in the house and about forty more domes tics feeding daily at his bog~rd. Suppos ing to-morr ow he and his wife should agree to struggle along on $100,000 a year he could save at least $800,000 a year; while were the Dukes of West rriinster, Devonshire and Bedford to do - likewise their savings would be still greater. Supposing Lord Derby t'o save at this rate for thirty years what an arch millinaire he would become t