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S. Article* for publiettloa »hot>k) be vrtttMi la a cUer, legible bead, end oo only one aide of the page. 4. All oh* reach a* oo F in idverti»emenu moat NEWS GLEANINGS. There are but 799 Jews in Florida. Arkansas has but eight daily newspa pers. West Virginia has a population of 618,457. . ' The city debt of Memphis is about 14,000,000. Texas has nearly 2,400 convicts in her penitentiary. The dogs of Georgia cost more than her preachers. A large cottopaeed-oil mill is to be built in Madison. Ga. An unusual!t rich copper mine, has been opened in Cabarrus county, N. G A fourteen-pound cabbage 1 baa been •hipped from Americas, Ga. < Gao*gia’s wheat crop this year will be the best raised ia twenty years. The Richmond, Ye., water works are to be oompleted, sod will cost 960,000. A told ftah lOy iorhee loag was recent ly lake* from t cistern la Maooa, On \ irgfiM will <wme to tho (root this ywsr with s rema/bsWy large fr «tt crop. Far the tmgsins ia meeaty-4*s y Fntosm rcwelv. tin., is wtthewt a THE VOL. V. NO. 40. tween the spokes in i!s revolution, knocked him ofl. The wheels then ran over his neck, breaking it. Mississippi has a new law which re quires all agents for fruH miseries situa ted out of the State to pay $5 license in every county in which they d<? business and give a bond and surety that the vines and trees sold will come up to the representation of the vendor. A mill owner in Clinch county, Ga., has found that the sawdust and chips from his saw mill yield fourteen gallons of spiriil of turpentine, three to four gallons of rosin and a Urge quantity of pine tar per cord. It U extracted by a sweating process, and the newly-discov ered industry will be generally worked by mill mao. Laborers at work on a railroad near Jacksonville, Fla., moved a large flat stone while grading, which discovered a bole lauding into iha earth. A long pola failed to toach the bottom of pit and a sun was iowatwd into it with BARNWELL, C. H., 8. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 22. 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAI. Skscuunt Mason is making shoes at Aibany, N. Y. The net debt d New York, June 1, $97,592,052. t ' Mexico has repealed the duty on ex ports of gold and silver. Paris is oonnting on 100,000 Ameri* 'Vft.ng visiting tliftt city tills summer. GAHFisiiP’s biograpy is selling in England at the rate of 2,000 a month. Mbs. Garfield has been elected succeed her husband as a trustee Hiram College. The present Chief Justice of Alabama used to set type on a weekly newspaper tog |5 per week. __ rested ia ia the Hooking Ex Bmeatob Blaim ia Carom Farris, who preached in Wait- conscience happens to dictate. The minster Abbey a cennon on Darwin, took ' °4her Sunday, in Paterson, N. J., a this appropriate vextt "And he spake of ' g»ng of Salvationist were parading the trees, from the cedar that kin Lebanon ,tr ® et »- parking time and singing loudly even unto the hysop that springeth oat * f°* low h>K ouplet: of the wall; he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.” JK 1 ** Bradbtrrbt’s report indicates a de crease in the acreage and a reduced yield in the production of cotton. The weather has not been favorable to the growth of the plant in considerable areas of the country, and the demoralisation of labor in the flooded districts has retarded planting. The popular costume of the dwellers in Arizona is thus graphically described by s “tenderfoot:” “In ordinary weather be wean a belt with pistols ia it When it grows chilly hs pots on another belt with pistols is ti, tt*d it beeosaes really cold hs throws s IwaMMLfltfnH The Lord is right, and the Devil is left.” A captain and lieutenant of the police fores arrested the Salvationists as dis turbers of the peace, and in court, when the case came up a number of Hallelujah lasses were preeent, who knelt down in a circle and prayod fervently for the souls of the wicked policemen who had arrested their commanders. W. A. Fbrkeb, writing from San An tonio, Texas, says that “among tbs noted residents of the vicinity the Rev. W. H. Marray, ‘Adriondack Murray,’ as he is called, Is here, a fallen giant in deed, with none so poor as to do him rsverenea. When he fled from Boston fria fair haired private secretary, a young lady, followed his fortune# and has sine* Fall of “Specs.” The anal old-fashioned Yankee ia still a fixture among ns, though some writers would make m believe that he has been dead for yean. There waa a genuine specimen in the Erie depot yesterday, and he was explaining to several inter ested parties: “Father-in-law lives here in Jersey City, and I’m on a visit like. Thought I’d bring along a few traps and things and get up a dicker or two. Any of ye like to invest in that ?” He put out the model of a rat trap and said: ‘•This trap not only catches the var mints, bat it chokes ’em to death, throws the body out of that back window, and Letters must be wicked thingl. are always indicted. Motto for the milkman—to the all things are pure. “What is your farorito gem, Sarahf* Sarah replied demurely, “A gate.’' Melo drama. A corrijs of soldiers of the Salvation ' Army approached a Philadelphia broker receutly and asked: “How is it with you, my friend7” “I am short on Read ing,” replied the broker. Wraltht Cat—“ Look Here—bring me some dinner, old man. The best ou’ve got.” Restaurateur—“Diner a Carte, M'lieur Cad—“Cart be £ thel.nj-t.il~.il. Ia the tap i. an alnnu, a to go off any hour you want and wake ‘j 5 , \ “T.,. up the family Hera's an apparatus on ToETaay, ‘ tis darkest piat before the this side for grating spioes Any of you the man who got up at nud- like to buy county rights?” ' night to hunt for a lone match on the No one did, and he then placed before of the wash-stand can t see how it them a vessel, about which be ex- <»uld be any darker, i plained. | “I rrr outside my window a “This is now a water-pail By plae- filled with mold, and sowed it ing tins iron cover oo the bottom It be- What do yen think came op T r* • at t ft a. The sf enaakpea* ftwath < a’vnaa a Asa «f !• eamvwted ef dove Wpeteanmanl ran fee A Norfolk, Va., girl brrame m> ta- •iatrr gave birth to aa illrgiltaMte child that »be .transit d the iafaat to death The part** teloeg to a good family and the murder** n la jail. The Atbvna. Oa , rot too factory pays aa annual dividend of 124 per cent, bo •idea putting a like per cent into a aii k- ing fun-1 for future repairs and addi* James Kirkland, of Levy county,Fla., met with a horrible death while out hunting recently. He stumbled and fell on a sharp stake, which pierced through his body and held him until he died. T he Hebrew saloon-keepers of Little Rock, Ark., refuse to obey the new Sun day law, claiming that the Christian Sunday is not their Sunday. Willie Morris became joyous at a Wilmington, N. C., camp-meeting, and fell over Annie Williams while the lat ter was kneeling in prayer, and broke her back. of the take Is that the lain- Iha whole thiac hi santesA apotowtea the girl He weald listen to no apologies the old lady could make for the girls. He would hear no excuse, but solemnly folded hie official robes aixfot him and ^ silently glided away. Where There are no Nansets. The following is Congressman Cox’s description of a scene at the North Cape: “Here in the uppermost point in Europe and at this midsummer season there is no sunset! Bring burial weeds and sable plume, for there is no suuset I Lift the funeral song of woe and tell through the land that sunset is no more, and yeti lire! And mast I now be disenchanted ? Do I live, and is sunset no more? Do I see a country where the son is going down, amid a mite en scene equal, if not superior, to that Ohio evening years ago, which I tried to portray with my poor pen, and yet it does not go down ? Was it not enough that for ten long days there was no in the north without any disturbed our customary (root the South Coeat of South America Is to the effect that Ecuador is in the throes of rovolotioai. Pern in az^ohy and disorder, and Chili smitten b^ftidemics and oursed by brigandage. Am Rmwmo light wire,buried beneath an asphaltmu pavement at San Francisco, somehow lost its insulating envelope recently, and the result was the electric fluid found its way into the asphalt which was soon in a lively sizzle an! fume. Mr. Georgs Jacob Holtoaee, tin well-known writer on co-operation and kindred subjects,has been commissioned by the British Government to visit this country and Canada and report upon the chances offered here to imiliigrant work ing people. Tire Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board has spent $592,000 in the pas 1 year. It has now accepted thirty new missionaries, mostly young men. Ex pecting a great increaas of work this ruling cf ths Supresae Court of the United States, taking off SO per oaot specific duty on hosiery aad knit goods into which wool enters, refunds to ths importers $11,000,000 of ths viously paid. The lawyer ( $5,500,000—a nice nontiagent fee. The manufacturers of hosiery in this country 1 complain loudly of the injustice of the decision, taking off all the protection from their work. The quickest time on record made by a train of improved stock cars between Chicago and New York is just reported. The speed from Buffalo was at ths rate of thirty to forty-five miles an hour. The shrinkage was only twenty pounds per head, while the usual loss is from seventy to one hundred pounds. These cars permit each animal to occupy a sep arate stall. The animals can also Us down and move about without coming in contact with each other. For feeding and watering the animals without un loading ths facilities are ample. an dispatch to Minister Lowell oa Newt* Caring Sick Headache. A Vermont correspondent writes that after Buffering (ran tick headache for twenty yean, with frequent attacks of diphtheria, quinsy and has discovered ths < lea Eight months' has cured her of d .1 it Waul lo I placed two torpedoes but I did ant step on carriage to f wes blown said that I wan afraid todrin Found a aeorpioa ia my left slipper, bat luckily shook it out before putting it on. Just before stepping into tbs go for wq morning drive it into ths air, kiThng the coachmen and hones iastaa&Y. I did Lai dhive. Took a light lunch of hermetically-sealed American canned goods. They can’t fool ms there. Found a poisoned dagger in my favorite chair, with the point sticking out. Did not sit down on it. Had dinner at 6 p. m., and made Baron Laisohoonowonski taste every dish. Hs died before the soup was carried away. Consumed some Bal timore oysters and some London stout that I have had locked up for five years Went to the theater and was shot at three times in the first act. Had the entire audience hanged. Went home to bed, and slept all night m the roof o the palace.—San Francitoo Letter. comes to market in deaths than births, sod in the BMU s in September and January and Februray, 1882, the ( es often give even a exceeded the births by 2,44a. In best, it fllte the pises of the baaeos of tropical dimes, and yields tis fruit daring several mouths of the year, la Asia Minor where the trss is found wild and where ths I vat figs -4 commerce ore chiefly grown, the fruit begins to ripen in the sod of June; sad the summer ▼ield, which gives employment to s large population, immense quantities in October. The trees often give third crop, which ripens after the leaves have fallen. The beat figs for drying come from the valleys of the Meander and H*utros, to the south of Smyrna, where the trees are planted regularly with care, and the ground is dug and hoed from four to six times durinti the summer. The Smyrna and Aidin Bail way now affords great facilities for the transport of the fruit, which formerly had to be brought long distances on camels carrying about 500 each. When figs reach Smyrna they are sorted by women and packed in boxes by men. They are best when newly packed, and as the months go by get dryer and banter in the ware-houses or the grocers shop. No one who has not esten them in tne Levant at the commencement of death eight th# s< of New York, ’Why are Americans d 1881, in this city, there don, daring the yeer | deaths i Lou* 1800, 81,128 deaths sod'182,128 births, or W,- 047 more births than deaths, I have considered these facto worthy cf close attention. One reason why Americans are dying out is because they eat too much and too fast A person studying closely the habits of Americans wild think that their object in hfe was to eat Americans can’t converse five without something to eat son why Americans are dying out Is b^ cause they drink too much. The 'curse of our nation is internpersace. A third reason why Americans are dying out to liecanse they gamble too ton. We becoming a nation of gambled. This spirit of gambling is undermining au honest industries. packed in tbe ornamental disappointed ambition. 1 of mala. Each man J _ the top, in which they are saM lor fellow*. A local consumption, knows what the beat fig* *rv like, 'i be card-board for Iheas boxes is supplied chiefly by 1 _ Austria; 54,000 eamd-loada of four kintals each, or nearly