Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1882-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Georgia contains 32l ,43S voters.

The cotton crop is put this year at
six million bales,
Two thousand Choctaw indians
still liyein Mississippi,
Ehe wheat crop of Tennessee is es-
timated az IL 100000 bushels.
The public debt was decreased ncar-
ly sixteen millions last month.
4 vein ofyaluable mcershaum has
been discovered near Henry's, S. Z.
The first coins of the United States
were struck with portrait of Mar
tina Washington,
The black peop!o who wenttcK
sas afew Years ago are said to lbc i'll l.
state ofrdestitution,
A fruit canning establishment st
Morrilt0n, Ark, puts mp from 4,0OG
to 5000 cans ofpeaOheS per week.
In Coal Creek, Fremont County,
California, a solid Mmp of coal was
mined that weighed $4,000 pounds.
In the manufacture of cotton alone
in the South, the increase in spindles
has been from 100000 in 1860 10 7l4y-
600 in 1850.
Reports of cropsin Texas are that
conn isdate and will yield from 30 t"
10 bushels per acre. Cotton is prom
Using, but 1T is % days late.
Dennis Kearney, the great sand lot
agitator of the Pacific coast a few
years ago, is now a drayman in the
employ of the government custom
house at San francisco.
Thc Saturday Review admits tha&
there is large admiXture of truth in
the apparently paradoxical PROPOSE
tion that, of all branches of study, iic-
tion is the most instructive.
Nlessrs. L. G.. Walker and G. #.
Powell have discontinued the publica-
tion of the Spectator at Rogersville,
in order TO commence the publication
of the Daily Democrat at CAadtanoo-
ga.-knoxville Chronicle.
IfGeorge Foster trades a $40 dol
iaS watch for a $s5 shotgun, pays $3
for repairs and then exchanges it for
q $50 horse, which kicks a$2S COW tO
deatA, and the horse thon dies of a
broken heart, what are Georges
prOfits2
The New York Independent, after
of the membership Of
the n. E. Church, says: at is true
that there is a Ioss off ,aa4 members,
but there is gain OF 9,Sl6 probation
eSs, which indicates that the revivals
of last winter were very fruitful, and
lead to the hope that this large list #
probationcrs will swell the member
ship"
The New York Tribune checrfnliw
remarks: "Thc general condition nf
business has clearly improved. Dry
goods dealers are remarkably active,
and find their trade satisfactOrN.
The large shipments OF goods to the
West and South will help materially
to lessen the demands from those Sec
tons for cash to pay for grain and
cotton"
Letters received from prominent
and reliable farmers of North Caro-
lima, say that the cotton, tobacco and
corn crops throughout that State, as
far as heard from, are growinginely-
The present Indications axe that the
yield will be mach larger ttan was ut
first expected. Cotton is later than
last year by few weeks, though the
quality is much better,
Preaching seems to hare lost ite old
fashioned cGeciiveReSs the churches
are less sought on the Sabbath; the
religious field shows large percent
age of tares, indicative that spiritual
influence is not 50 powerful for good
as in Tie days gone by. Now wfeth-
or this fat7Tng oil, or }arhaps deeliHG
is tho better term, is oSsing to tEcfeet-
i've seed or Ceebe sod. is n0$ @@r
province TO determine; bnt tfiat ii is
fact who will deny? Perlaps sS-
other version of the new testamcEt
might prove all elective anti+t0te.--
Athens Post.
u, A good adviser SAYS: Next 10
The love Of her husband, nothing SO
crowns wonan's life with h0lsOv ~
the devotion efa SOP 20 her. Nc new
er knew boy 10 turn out badly vhS
hegan by falling iR lo~e with his
mother. ANY man may IAN im love
wilha frcsh-taced gfri snd FIRE mam
who is garfant TO the girl may cruelty
neglect the poor aId weary wife i'm
after years. But the big boy who is
a lover Of his mother at middle sge ia
a true knight, who will lore his uaoas,-
er in the sorr-lcaf autumn as he did
in The dasief spring. There fs Mpth-
iug so beautifully chivarors as tho
love ola big boy for his mother