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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
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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Mexico has repealed the duty on ex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.”
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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