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Statie News Paragraphs- Mr. Thomas Powell’s grain crop, in (Vie horpe county, amounts to 30, 000 bushels. Joseph Davenport, a little boy, got lost in Macon the oilier d ;y,. and fell in a ditch, and was drowned. Charley Reynolds found a large nug get of gold on Mr. Anderson’s farm, ah out three miles from Athens. It is reported that the two Whol dens, who Killed Jones in Sumter c >untv, were killed in P ik county, Fla., last week. An Atlanta lady recently had her BeMirig machine stolen out of the house. The house would have been taken loo, but for the incoveni(nce of handling it. A very powerful revival has been go ing on in Fort Gaines for seven weeks. For once denominational differences are forgo* ten in the one great purp se of drfing good. A young ma i named Wi.liam E. Ilar- rRal committed suicide in Augusta on lost Sunday evening by blowing the top o( bis head off with an army rifle. No e .use is known for the rash act. ‘ The l.itest news from Senator Hill is sad. He is steadily sinking and is now in a condition to take his nourish ment bv a tube. The question of his death is a matter of only a short time. Athens Wa'ehiuan : Mr. J. E. Ta’- irmdge, who never does things by halves, recent y gathered en two-horse wagon lo:idr of onions from three-four Lis of an acre of land. B sides these he had been selling onions from the same lot a 1 this summer. Sena'or Brown has donated $70,000 to the State Uuiversity, the interest accruing on which is to be loaned to poor young men to a ; d them in getting an education,. $ 1,000 of the interest is to be used annua l v by the North Geor gia eolle h e, a Dahlonega, for the same purpose. {he principal is to remain untouched. This is a magnificent git, and wi 1 perpetuate Senator Brown’s name longer than were it car- vi d in marble. THE GEORGIA HOUSE. Atlanta Herald. The folowing L the apportionment bill that is to go into effect with the meeting of the next General Assembly, whereby it will be seen that the coun ties v ill be represented in Wednesd.y’s General News Paragraphs- t Texas has nearly 2,400 con victs in her penitentiary. Florida comes to the front with a thirty-one pound turnip. r P , T r, j. i * i • convention un^er the old apnortionmen i he Khedive has dismissed Arabi , . 11 _ , . . . , law. and not the new one: Bey fit m the ministry of w*r. , t0 change the apportionment One man carried to St. Augustine Representatives in the General As , ..... . 1 sciubly, provided for in article 3, sec- a lew days ago 400 turtle eggs. .. 1 , , .... n J I tiou d, poragraph 1, of the Constitution There was no loss of life among the of the State of Georgia : American residents of Alexandria. THE TRUE CITIZEN. PUBLISHED 2Y23Y FRIDAY Section 1. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, 'Hut the H"tise of epresentatives sh ill consist of 175 m,•rubers, apportioned as follows : To the largest counties, to-wit : Bibb, Burke, Chatham, Floyd, Fulton and Richmond, three Representatives each ; to the twenty six next largest, to-wit : Bartow, Carroll, Cobb, Coweta, tur, DeKalb, Greene, Gwinuelt, ImR Hancock, Harris, Houston, Jackson, Jefferson, Meriwether, Monroe, Musco- The present corn crop of Alabama i ge6) Oglediorpe, Pike, Putnam, Sumter, it is said will be the largest ever! Thomas. Troup. Walton, Washington ma le in the State. j and Wilk- s, two Representatives eaoh, i and to the remaining 125 counties one The Americans landed GO marines ]; e j )reKeu . a ivccach. 16,000 men are said to be employ ed in railroad construction in Florida. A tramp died in Pittsburg the other day with $21,000 on his person. Many planters in ’Montgomery county, Alabama, will make 10,000 bushels of corn. AT WAYNESBORO. CA. RY THE— Meriweiher Vindicator : The deni zens of Mount Hope neighborhood were atarteled recently by a very mysterious iicidtn’, Kise Whitehead, colored, li ’ing in the settlement, while passing along the road near his house, found a box on the fence that contained a live human being. Tt was an infant so badly bitten by ants that its tribe could hard ly be determined. That it survived its tortures is quite astonishing, and from whence it came is is a problem y et to be •olved. Montezuma Weekly : A family in ♦own, while sitting at their dinner, were surpiised to see the letters “W. T.” imprinted upon a loaf of bread recently baked. The baking pan aud everything connected with it was examined, but no clue to the mysterious letters could be found. Superstition began to creep iuto the mines of the family, when the lady remembered that the bread bad been placed on 'he stove for a moment. Search was made and the mystery solved. The letters were upon the stove, and had impressed themselves into the soft dough. riter in the Home Journal pub- he following statistical infoima- irdxng Houston connty, ehow- ults of the lack of manufact- sries in that county:— have become impossible, ely sustained and sparcely ng men leaving the neigh- win'er to find cinploy- preciitive communities, left, leaving, or going ngs deserted in startling few statistics on the interest. Young men the place or corn- families who nd uioyed Mindies e, 27 ; ittitly under command of (Dpt. Cochrane, in Alexandria, Saturday. A convention of millers and grain dealers from central Kentucky, will be held at DanvilP, August 20. New York, July 17.—Within the last 24 hours 150 deaths were record ed in this city, 86 being of children ! from cholera infantum. Five chik-J dren died to-day from the effects of heat. The mayor and c uncil, of Lead- vide, Col., were arrested on the 15’h inst. and fined $250 and ten days in jail for contempt of court. The police judpe and city attorney were removed aud new men appointed in their places. Robert Hilding, a Swede, arrested for robbery at Chicago, has confessed in prison to having murdered a wo man in Stockholm, Sweden, in Sep tember, 1875. A companion of Hil ding named Robertson also confessed to having assisted in the murder, Springfield, III., July 16.—Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late President, died in this city at a quarter past 8 o’clock to-night. She had been ill for a long time. A few days ago she grew worse, on Saturday evening she suffered a shock of paralysis, and from that time lay iu a comatose state till she died. The Lake Eustie Orange Grove Company has been organized among the department clerks of Washington, D. C., and the company has secured about two hundred acres of choice land near Lake Eustis, in Orange county, Florida, and contracted to have one hundred acres put out in orange trees at once. Near Kingston, N. C., anegr • boy, six years old, shot his sister, aged four years, in a house, dragged the body into a field and hid it between rows of cotton. He said the child Si-.c. 2. Be ; t further enacted. That this a t shall non take effect until the terms ot the members of the present House of Representatives expire. iSeo. 3. Repeals conflicting law’s. Approved September 27, 1881. The Augusta News of Tuesday even ing in onus us of the death of Judge \\ in. T. Gould, which occurred in that city on Tuesday morning. Juge Gould w.;8 82 years old, one of the oldest citi zens of Augusta. l ie was a prominent Free .Yiaso'>, and was early identifi d with every movement for he benfit of the city. SUhLIYAR BROTHERS. :oOo:- Independent, in Ail Things Neutral In Nothing. CABBAGE SBED For Fall «ud winter Buist’s Improved Late Drumhead, u Improved Late Flat Du ! ch, “ Green Glazed, Genuine Collard Seed. At HOLLEYMAN’S Drug and Seed Store. T- rnip Seed, New Crop. BuNts Improved Iiuta Baga, Golden Ball, (Aw lion-, Large Norfolk, Large White Globe, Yellow Abcrd'dn, White Flat Dutch, Red or Purple Top. AH good reliable feeds. For sale by W. F. HOLLEYMAN, Druggist and Seedsman. ( PURE FAMILY MEDICINES- Castor Oil, Quinine, Cicchonldia, Bromide Potash, Pure English Mus tard, Pure Bi C^rb Soda, Pure Epsom Salts, Pure.Cream Tartar, Morphine began to cry, and to hush it he snap- Opium, Chloral, Gum Camphor, ped a gun at her, as he had been in the habit of doing. The gun went Laudanum, Paregoric, Syrup Ipecac Syrup Squids, Cox’s Hive Syrup, Sp’ts. Hartshorn, Sp’ts. Camphor, off and the charge nearly blew off tbe , Chloroform, Cayenne Pepper, Dovers o' ild’s head. Powder, Powdered Ipecac, Blue Mass Mercurial Ointment, Tutt’s Pills, Gil- Pittsburgh, July 17.—Great satis faction exists over the decision in the case of Miss Nerfio Clokey, who mar ried the colored porter, John Miller, at Washington, Pa. In court this morning the young lady was adjudged insane, and was ordered to be con fined in an asylum, ller husband announces that he will have her brought into court again to-morrow on habeas corpus proceedings. New York, July 17.—John L. Sullivan and “Tug” Wilson, the Eng lish champion, fought in Madison Square Garden to-night. The con dition® of the match were that, it Wilson could stand up for four three- minute rounds, lie should receive $1,000. During the course of th<‘ tight Wilson was knocked duwn twenty seven times, but succeeded in standing out for the entire rounds, winning the money. The time of the fight, including allowance nunds. WM- lift* en mii.ut s. dor’s Pills, Compound Cathartic Pills Henson’s Pills, Iron Bitters, Hop Bit- tors. H II P (Hill’s Hepaiic Panacea), Moller’b Cod Liver Oil, Scott’s Emul sion Cod Liver Oil and Lime, Green Mountain Asthma Cum, Perry Davis Pain Killer, Holley man’s Compound Elixii Camphor and Chloroform, and everything usual y kept in a first-class Drug Store, W. F. HOLLEYMAN Druggist and Pharmacist, Waynesboro, Ga. jun23,’82.a-m. WM VO ELK E ll, Undertaker, -o:0:o Not Pledged to Any Party. Faction, or Individu ti. -o:0:o- A JOURNAL FOR THE PEOPLE. o:0:o Devoted to the interests of the people of Burke county, their in struction. entertainment and advancement—a faithful and impartial chronicler ot all Burke county happenings—a fair recorder of all import ant events elsewhere occurring—a sturdy advocate of correct Jeffersonian principles of government by the people and for the people—a just, upright and honorable journal. In all these things the CITIZEN hopes not to prove remiss in its duty—it is a public institution, and every subscriber and patron is a stockholder— the Publishers are merely their agents, and their duties and responsibilities are reciprocal—-we think we can promise that the man agement win do its duty, aim li toe public will do theirs, it will pr< ve an immense power lor good in the community -o:0:o- TERMS W StIBSCRIFTTQJC: One copy one year, Cash in advance, six months “ three months “ “ 12 00 1 00 50 Waynesboro, Georgia. Undertaking in all its branches at die lowest prices. A full stock of Coffins four H,WHVS ° n * )Hnr ^ H,u ' to „ n _ ! Also, Chen*, Coffins made to order troin $1.50 to $10. j JOHN HAENKL. Agent, july 14,’82.b-r. Waynesboro, CjL. IW Advertising rates liberal, to be obtained on application. Address, S. L. SULLIVAN, Business Manager, WAYNESBORO, GEORGIA.