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SANDERS VILLE, GA., TUESDAY. MAY IT. 1887.
NUMBER 3.
E. S. LANGMADE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, Oa.
g II. Rt4H«,
B. D. Etaks, Jb
EVANS & EVANS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
SANDERVILLE, OA.
F. H. SAFFOLD,
attorney at law,
SANDER8VULE, OA.
Will praotice in all the Oourta of th«
Kiddle Circuit And in the countiei
mrro'nnling Washington. Special at'
tontion given to commercial law.
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Money Pouring Into the South for Mills,
Foundries, Railways, Etc.
H. N. HOLLIFIELD,
SANDERSVILLE, OA.
Milliner,
Office next door to Mrs. Revue
|torr, on Flarrli street.
HUY YOUIt
-FROM-
vJEJEtL/ IN - 1 Gh-A-UST,
(None genuine without onr trado murk.)
OX IIAX’D AND FOR SALK
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
AUD
JEWELRY
RBPAiaiD BT
JBE/UIGAIT.
nr snori.li no sohbtiiisq.
Iho Man Who Cannot do Anything
XT it Ices lio la Told.
A mnn wlio kept quite a number ol
tn'ii employed in different wavs, so tlmt
largely they could not lie under his im-
meilinte control, complaint*, in tha Iw-
tl'"trial Ornette, Unit tlio worst tronlile
lie had wiih to secure men upon whom
lio could rely to do Boinctliiug. Ho
""iild toll thorn plain enough want ho
"anted, and tlicii stnrt them out. If
anything should turn up different from
"lint they had expected, tlio lnrgor pro*
portion of his men would como buck
without accomplishing nnytliing.
Ai- mi illustration, ho bad n man with
» team hnndling bridge lumber qnito a
distance from one of hie eaw mills to a
railroad shipping point By eocuring a
reasonably early start, tlui tenm could
make n good loud every day. One nfter-
noon, ns ho was returning'with a load,
nn«l Imd got perhaps half why home,
in coming down a hill, throng’ll a strip
of timber, ono of the hind wheels struck
a stump mul, by some means, broke the
nxlo of tho wagon, Tito man always
curried an ax and an oxtra chain or two,
especially to guard against aocidonte.
He was in timber where, with very little
trouble, ho could have arnutged some-
thing tlmt would have enabled him to
have taken his load into town. Ho
might have been a little longer than
Usual. Instead of this, ho pulled his
load to ono side of the road, unhitched
his team, and mounting ono of t he
horses, rode into town. His employer
did not happen to be at homo, so noth
ing was done until tho next morning,
"ni'ii ho borrowed another wagon and
"eat out and brought in the lumber,
and then, leaving the wagon, rode out,
nggod a polo under tho broken axle,
sad brought the wagon to town to the
jdtep. Another day was lost ill getting
the wagon repaired. At least a full day
lost more than was necessary, simply
JiccaiiHo ho could not see that it was his
business to do something. “I could,”
J le sn id, “have stood a heavier loss with
batter grace if the man bad only tried to
d° something rather than spend his
time doing nothing. He couhl »t, least
buvo shown a disposition to do the best
bo couhl. There are plenty of men who
*>'0 a tiling, routine work, done every
day, ami yet if they were told to do the
same thing, would ask to be shown how.
leant nothing from observation.
Hay may see lumber piled up every
day, or sco and even help put up ma
chinery, load a car with certain lnuter-
j i .Tot ask ono of them to go abend and
, by themselves just what they have
been helping do, and they will want to
he shown how. They are either inaapo-
!l'° ° 1 ' indifferent of learning by observa
tion, or even helping. With some this
is simply the result of thoughtlessness,
they do not stop to think that they are
failing to work as they should to their
employers’ interests. With others, it is
simply Indifference. So the day’s work.
°r time rather, is put in; it is a small
matter whether the work accomplished
m in nny way prolltablo to tho employer
or not.
A great runny employers will recog-
bizo their own expaneneo with indiffer-
CQ t, thoughtless employees in the above
l°ld story from onr excellent West
ern contemporary.
Helena, Ark., is about to build a splen
did opera-house. 1
oaa " ion . C .' ty ’ ToDn > wil1 build a #180,-
000 court-house.
rJ an -. An , ,0 nT e * > dero,c » #150,000
for a city hull, jail, etc.
Greenville, Tcnn., is to lure a tobacco
factory to cost #20,000.
There is an electric light company at
Winston, N. C., with a capital of #:;o,-
Tiif.iu, was a very large mule that
dm*! in my neighborhood, and three
> ears aftor it was dead it killod a nine
year old negro boy. The hawks were
'■ery had at our house, and wo took the
i *‘l of the ahovo montioued mule and
bung it up in the top of a mulberry
o'ee to scare tho hawks away. In the
summer when the mulberries were ripe,
me negroes ono day went to the troe to
get some. One climbed up the tree and
000.
The Memphis & Birmingham Railroad
Co contemplate building a branch road
to Aberdeen, Miss.
8. Inman nnd others have chartered
the East Atlanta. Ga., Lund Co. with a
capital stock of #00,000.
Sannicl R. Lowry has organized a #50,.
000 stock company to cultivate and man
ufacture silk at Rirmingham, Ala.
A company with a capital of $50,000
has been organized at Titusville, Aik.,
to cultivate the poppy nnd mumifno' .ire
morniuoA
Packard & Grover will move to*,
large shoe factory from Brockton • ,</
to Owensboro, Ky. Three lu ad'ed
nntuis will bo employed.
The Carolina, Knoxville A Western
Hnilwny Co. has been incorporate ! to
build a road from Knoxville, Teun to
Greenville, 8. C., 150 miles.
B- Bufkstrcsser has purchased tho
Black Mills falls water power, at Dade-
ville, Ala., and will, it is snid organize n
stock couipnny to build n cotton factory.
W. G. Welty, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
associates will build largo works to man
ufacture iron bridges, nuts bolts, at
Rome, Ga. About #40,000 will be in
vested.
J. A. Montgomery, F. Y\ Anderson
G. B. West, W. J. Cameron and I. Forst
have incorporated a company to build a
hotel at Leeds, Ala., with a capital stock
of #150,000,
The Alexander Iron Co., of Nashville,
reported before, has n capital stock of
#1,000,000. Tflo company will at once
erect malleable iron works with a daily
capacity of about 80 or 40 tons.
Tho Balcony Falls Co., of Virginia,
previously reported as incorporated, has
been organized with an authorized capi
tal stock of #2,500,000. The company
will start a town and build furnaces and
mauufnctoriss,
George F. Alford, of Dallas, Tex,, nnd
J. II. Langley, of Boston, Man., con
template incorporating tho Dallas &
Archer Coal & Iron Railway Co.,to build
a railroad from Dallas to Archer county,
to open up mineral lands.
John 8. Perry, the great Move manu
facturer, of Albany, N. Y., decided to
establish expensive stove works in tho
South, nnd spent considerable time in
vestigating the advantages of different
' mat ions for this industry. Finally, he
decided upon South Pittsburg, Tcnn.
GOD’S VISITATION
OiV OVH X HIGH BO 11, MEXICO.
HcUmln CnnvnUlon Wliloli Korlm Iho
Country* I’roftucliiff Horrible Ctiiminft*
Many People Killed and Gen
eral Terror.
News from Guymas, Mexico, stato that
tin; earthquake of a few days ago was ac
companied by n terrible volcanic erup
tion at Rntrispe, which destroyed Monte
zuma, killing one hundred and fifty per
sons and igniting the woods in the
vicinity. Twenty-seven persons were
nlso killed at Oxutu by the falling build
ings. Many persons were injured in
Grenada anil Gusabnr, which towns wore
almost completely destroyed.
Another violent enrthqunkc is reported
in San Jose mountains, forty miles South
of FortHunchuca, in Sonora. Gen. For
syth has Bont an exploration party to
investigate. A party just returned from
Santa Cabana mountains report thot the
canyons are full of water, which was
brought to the surface by the earthquake.
This is a great boon for that region, ns
there are thousands of acres of good
fnrming lands at the base of these moun
tains, which only needed water to make
them valuable. Another good effect of
the enrthquako is tho opening of two
large gold reins, which wore discovered
in Santa Gaisina mountains, at a point
whero tho whole sido of the mountain slid
down.
COERCION FAILING
ABd Ireland’! Frleude Very Hopeful.
With regard to the recent division in
the British Parliament, refusing a se
lect committee, a deputation of conserv
ative members waited upon the Irish
party, to say that if the latter were wil
ling that the scope of tho proposed com
mittee be so enlarged so us to include the
Parnell letter, they, representing a con
siderable number of conservatives, would
support Mr. Gladstone’s mnendmen .
The Irishmen counseled with Mr. Glad
stone, Mr. Morley and Mr. Dillon, and
subsequently said thoy were willing to
have it so enlarged as to include any
charge made by anybody against any
Trislf member. Then the conservatives
waited on Mr. W. H. Smith, Ho m-
etantlv said that if any independent
action was taken among his followers he
« rPg i L , n The Times, Dillon affair
Und. to weaken the alliance of the con
servatives and unionists ; and thus wo 1 ks
directly against the interests of the g -
S0UTHERN NEWS,
Tho meeting of the military at Macon,
Ga., to contest for prizes, was ono of tho
most brilliant assemblages held in the
South for years,
Three brothers tinmcd Hutchins, of
Huntsville, Ala., becamo involved in a
family quarrel, nnd James M. Hutchins
killed Hunter Hutchins and wounded
Charles Hutchins.
A mnn named Follius, of Wctumpkn,
Ala., was, with his sons, hoeing cotton
in a Cold, when a dispute arose with a
young man named Powell about a money
debt. It ended by Powell’s death froih
a wound made by n hoe.
Columbia, 8. C., recently celebrated
Memorial Day under the auspices of the
Ladies’ Memorial association. The graves
of tho Confederate soldiers in the differ
ent burying grounds in the city were
decorated with flowers by the committee
of ladies. There were no ceremonies,
but tho city bell and tho several church
bolls woro tolled during tho decoration.
The electric car system in Montgomery,
Ain., is working admirably and gives
very general satisfaction, but recently an
oml of a wire from one of tho poles had
been left carelessly on the ground near
the deyot. A mule attached to a bug-
gago wagon accidentally trod upon it.
Tho wire was fully charged with the
dangerous fluid. Thoro was a flash, nnd
in an instant the mule tumbled to tlu
ground dead.
At the annual meeting of tho Young
Moil’s Library in Atlnntn, Gn., the present
■imberof members was reported at 720:
total number of books 12,1(14 volumes, as
against 11,550 in the year 1885 (’>, being
an increase of 005 volumes, of which 878
were purchased and 282 donated. These
new books were carefully nnd judiciously
selected, and ns a result the current ol
books issued from tho librarian’s desk
quickened from 020 in May last, und froir
an average of about 1,100 volumes pet
month for the ilrst eight months of tin
fiscal year to an average of 1,500 volumci
tier month for the last four months.
M. V. Clark, of Forsyth, Ga., a well-
known negro editor, was killed by a
runaway accident.
Tho authorities of Macon, Ga., are hard
at work perfecting plans for the new
water-works.
The students at the Athens, Ga., Uni
versity becamo very unruly recently. Thoy
armed themselves witli guns and mndo
demonstrations at the Lucy Cobh Insti
tute, which so frightened the principal,
Miss Rutherford, tlmt slio called on the
police for protection.
Charles V. Harris, of Jacksonville,
Fla., was arrested in Savannah, Ga., for
larceny after trust, and attempting to
commit suicide with a pistol in tho sta
tion house it was frustrated by the police.
In a rage lie attempted, it is alleged, to
shoot a policeman.
Mrs. George It Black recently pur
chased a GOO pound bell for All Saints
Episcopal Church in Sylvauia, Ga. It is
a memorial bell, and upon its sido is tins
inscription: “To the glory of God and
in loving memory of George R, Blnck,
who entered into rest November8,188(1.”
Jennie Bowman, tho brave young do
mestic, whoso brutal treatment by tho
negroes, Turner and Patterson iu Louis
ville, Ky., so aroused the people of that
city a few weeks ago, died from her inju
ries recently. A fund of about #1,000
was raised for her during her illness.
Express Messenger Fothoringham lias
sued the Adams Express company and
the. Pinkerton Detective agency, at St.
Louis, Mo., for #100,000 damages for
falso arrest and imprisonment, in con
nection with the grent express robbery.
Tho State Farmers’ alliance cotton
congress, at Waco, Tex., arranged to
enter into the manufacturing of wagons,
agricultural implements, cotton presses
aud oil mills. Over #10,000,000 were
represented, Arrangements have been
concluded for collecting statistics nnd for
an early charter under tho laws of Texas.
Several weeks ngo, a hound mu through
settlement near Decatur, Ga., and
frightened a number of people, who felt
certain that he was mad. Tho dog bit a
valuable mulo belonging to Jennings
Hulsey, nnd recently tho mule died. A
fine jersey cow which wns bitten also
died. The dog wag not killed until a
fow days ago.
Mrs. Susnn Sullivan nnd five small
children arrived nt Chattanoogn, Teun.,
from Pierce, Mo., having walked the
entire distance of 000 miles. Her hus
band died in December, leaving tho
family among strangers, and penniless.
Mrs. Sullivan wished to return to her
former home in Knoxvillo, and having no
means, concluded to walk,
A terrible tragedy occurred near Spring
Station, Ky., recently, on the farm of
Capt. Jos. Blackburn,, cx-sccretary of
stato, and brother of Senator J. C. 8.
Blackburn. Miss Henrietta Blackburn,
accompanied by her cousin, Henrietta
Hempstead, a young lady of nineteen
years, went out to shoot at a mark with
a small rifle. They were joined by Sam
uel Blackburn, a young man of twenty-
two, a brother of Miss Henrietta Black
burn, and a friendly contention wns
begun as to who should shoot, first. Tho
three engaged in a playful struggle for
the possession of the gun, and in this
struggle tlie weapon was discharged, the
ball piercing the heart of Alias Henrietta
Hempstead, and killing her instantly.
SECRET SOCIETIES
Wke Cora far lk« WUiw mad Orpkin.
Tho supremo lodgo of tho Knights of
Honor met in Philadelphia, Pa., recently.
The Knights of Honor was organized
Juno 80, 1878, in Louisville, Ky., by
James A. Deraoreo, and sixteen young
men. Mr. Demorco is still identified
with the order as grand reporter. In the
fourteen years of the order’s existence it
has distributed #26,000,000 to its sick
members and tho widows and orplinns of
deceased members. Thirty-five states and
the District of Columbia were represented.
Tho report of B, F. Nelson, supreme re
porter, shows that at the beginning of
last month the total membership was 120,-
002, a Blight decrease over last year. The
report of tho supreme treasurer, Joseph
W. Branch, shows that during the four
teen years of tho order’s cxistenco, a to
tal of #86,000,000 havo been distributed.
Total receipts of widows nnd orphans
benefit fund, during 1886, was #8,080,018
and up to April 25th, 1887, #1,0Q2,603;
total, #4,148,522 16. Balance on hnnd
on April 25th, was #69,805. In the gen
eral fund, balance on hand, April 25,
was #10,058. There is special fund of
#21,875
PERSONAL
Mns. Francks Hodgson Burnett, the
Washington, D. 0., authoress will visit
Europo this summer.
Quern Victoria is determined to vin
dicate Lady Colii) Campbell. Her method
of doing this will be to receive the young
woman at court
Tiik Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, now
nearly Bcvcnty years old, is a great sports
man, and has shot in his Thuringian for
ests some 1,100 stags.
Gen. Sheridan takea a ride through
the Shenandoah valley every spring.
This year he will bo accompanied by one
his aides and Senator Cameron, of Penn
sylvania.
Prof. Yodno of Princeton College,
N. J.,will observe the total eclipse of the
sun in August next at Kireshamt, in the
government of Kostroma, Russia. Bis
companions will ho the scientific repre
sentatives of Russia and England.
It is now nlmost certain that tho Med
ical Society of Washington will take no
further steps in the case of Dr. Z. T.
Sowers, who recently talked indiecroctly
The session of district grand lodge No. “ bout P re,,de , nt Cleveland’s adiposity.
, Independent Order of B’nnl B’ntli, at Sowcr8 bl18 bnd ft bi « advertisement.
Memphis, Tcnn., was devoted to reports Gen. C. A. Evans and Hon. Patrick
of committees of minor importance. To- Walsh, of Augusta, Gn., have been talk
wards the close of tho Bession, the cn
dowment committee reported unanimous
ly in favor of #1,500 endowment, with
annual duos of #80. Hon. B. F.Petixotto,
of New York, made a stirring address,
urging united action in behalf of tho
Jewish emigrants from foreign shores.
The supremo delegates of tho Catholic
Knights of America met at Chicago, III.,
recently. Tho organization is ono of tho
strongest of Catholic organizations in the
United States, and now numbers among
its members fully 18,000 believers in that
faith. The supromc delegates represent
state societies, and two from each stato
and territory were in attendance at tho
ing up the proposed Chattanooga 4k
Augusta railroad to tho people of Chatta
nooga. Gen. Evans is president of the
company, and tho prospects for the con
struction of tho road are good.
A lhctukkr on “Golden Opportunities
and How to Uusc Them” asked John
Wanamaker tho Philadelphia millionair
clothier, which of his opportunities had
been most useful to him. “Thinking,
trying, toiling, trusting in God, is all of
iny biography,” replied the great shop
keeper.
Frank VizETELLY.tho artist, supposed
to havo polished in tne ill-fated expedi
tion, is said to he alive. A Syrian Greek
recent meeting. They moot once in two | who , 1BS nrrivo(1 at Cairo gay ,' that amon „
^n , hcMinNewY n o n rk l cRr i0n ^ I tb « European prisoners at Khartoum is “2
BATTLES ON PAPER
HodiwImi Different In Actual Rriunneirn-
tlon.
Murat Hulstcad, of the Commerciul-
Gozettc, Cincinnati, O., prints in liis
paper, over his own initials, a stricture
on Jeffarson Davis’s historical inuccmacy
in that gentleman’s recent criticism of
Gen. Wolscley, on Leo at Fredericks
burg. Hulstcad maintains that Wolsoloy
was right. Halstead was at Fredericks
burg anil knows whereof he speaks, and \
sharply criticizes Davis, saying: “Davis,
short, stout man, with a full board,
wearing glasses.” There is every reason
to suppose that this man is Vizctelly.
Gen. 8. B. Buckner is a man of middle
stature, with small, piercing bluo eyes,
•now-white mustache and imperial and a
rather ruddy face. He is between sixty-
five nnd seventy years of age. He ia
wealthy. Ilis real estate in Chicago 1*
snid to bo wortli #500,000. About two
years ngo ho married, as his second wife,
u reigning hello of Richmond, Va,
Jeferbon Davis lias written a review of
Gen. Wolselyo’s “Lifo of Gen. Lee.”
Mr. Davis takes exceptions to many of
the English general’s statements, and,
in criticising Wolseley for saying that „ ,n„ , i *i f . Inv .u ’ , *
Burnside’s army was in a ‘tight place’ nt ^ ° • • d J D ,? f '" r l T' tb ., ho * u P« r , ls '
Frederick aim r.- ,.n,i niic.e.i tlvo °P ,nl °n of Gen. Leo’s mditary ability
Fredericksburg, and allowed to esenpo,
falls into u strango error which he rc-
peuts and dwells upon, of assuming that
there were two national armies, one un
der Burnside, nnd another within sup
porting distance on tho north under
Hooker, nnd out of this theory of two i
armies Davis makes tho assertion that >
Burnside’s troops were not in a tight *
place. Hooker did not have an inde
pendent command. Ho had charge of |
ono of tho three grand divisions of Burn- I
side’s nrmy. Tho other two wero under
Franklin and Sumner. Hooker was in i
the battle of tho first day, personally giv- |
ing orders to Humphreys that lie had re- 1
ccived from Burnside, to continue the ^
hopeless attnek on the stonewall, and
vainly attempting to support it with
nrtillery. Stonewall Jackson is roported
to havo advised a night attack on the
troops in Fredericksburg, nnd if ho had
known how greatly they had been dam
aged ho would nlmost certainly have
made tho attack. There is no doubt that
after their repulso, they were in a dan-
gorous situation, justifying Wolsoley’s
phraso of a ‘tight place.’”
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Gossip About the President, His Cabinet
and Other Notables.
Whnt SoMlhcrn Ole! are Being Rteeiilied-
ultreallngllemi Aboat thaNatlsaal
Drill, lilc.. Etc.
IHIITAI.O IIIMAS 1‘OPIII.AItITY.
S t s*™ 1 improioi. i. that
ET- J government i. in • U«U
pUc* and likely to be defeated.
riLLAOE DESTROYED.
A fire at Lebanon, N. II., destroyed 80
buildings and caused a loss of f u ”y
See hundred thousand doUara w.th m-
•urance of not more than #111,000. ine
burned district covers nearly ten acres on
look it, and the skull fell and struck^ Miraea “'"“i'J. 7 n " a "river and on both
«>e negro boy on tlm head, killing him br f 'Hig h Mill, and Hon-
iistantly. It was three years to the j sides of M ^ v ’ erv manufacturing es-
'•iy day from the time the mulo died I over ® trec ‘ • , Villntro, except Hen-
^n!^tottowaS/ 08ayS 5 ' Sk.Trick woolen mill, was destroyed.
The American exhibition at London,
Eng., was formally opened recontly. Trie
weather was clear nnd sunny. About
7,000 persons attended. The bursting of
a boiler (luring the morning prevented
the starting of the machinery, otherwise
the programme of the opening ceremony
was carried out. Hundreds of visitors
ignored the coretnony of opening tho
regular exhibition and rushed to the
grounds where the Wild West show per
formed.
Tnit NATIONAL DRILL.
Gen. C. C. Augur, commnndant of tho
national drill encampment, has added to
liis staff appointments, Brigadier-general
H, H. Wright; Colonel H. Kyd Douglas,
of Maryland; Colonel P. Lacy Goddard,
of Pennsylvania; Captain C. A. Sinclair,
of the 8t. Louis Branch Guards, undCup-
taiu Louis V. Clark of Birmingham, Ala.
The southern passenger association, in
cluding ail roads south of tho river and
east of the Mississippi, announced in ad
dition to their three-quarter cent rato for
parties of twenty-five persons, a special
excursion rate, for single passengers, of
two cents a mile. Charles T. Murry has
been made chairman of the press com
mittee for the drill aud will have charge
of all arrangements for correspondents.
RIFLE SHOOTING.
At the request of iho executive com
mittee of the national drill, Gun. Sheri
dan lias detailed Col. 8. E. Blunt, of his
staff, to take charge of tho rille competi
tion during the drill. Competition will
be open to nny regularly enlisted limn or
commissioned officer of the volunteer
militia—entries not to exceed two men
from any one company—under army reg
illations. Eight prizes will be offered,
consisting of gold, silver aud bronze
medals. About 100 entries have alrcudy
been received.
An order was issued from the war de
partment by direction of the President,
dropping 2d Lieut. John Shaw (appoint
ed from New Y’ork) from the rolls of the
army. Lieut. Shaw was churged with
duplicating his pay accounts, but disap
peared before he was arrested.
FRANCE VS. GERMANY.
opinion of Gen. Leo's military ability
expressed in the book, he shows plainly
that he considers Gen. Wolscley’s criti-
j cisms of other Southern leaders unjust
I and unwarrantable.
The interesting historical problem m
j to whnt kind of clothes George Washing-
' ton woro at his inauguration has been
' settled. His suit on that occasion was
made of cloth from the Hartford woollen
manufactory, the first woollen mill in
America, established in 1788. The color
of the cloth was dark brown. Tho Pres
ident wore whito silk stockings, also of
American manufacture.
Scandal seems to be the order of the
day nt tho Austrinn court. There is
trouble between tho Crown Prince Ru
dolph and pretty little Crown Princess
Stephanie; they hnvo boon on the verge
of separation, but the Emperor has person
ally interposed ns a peacemaker, and in
stead of leaving Rudolph for good,
Stephanie, will only doprive him of her
presence for n few weeks, while she goes
home to Belgium to pout and be consoled
by papa and mamma.
JosEi'iiUH Compton, present member of
tho Legislature of Alabama, Inis left his
home mysteriously. Compton settled in
St. Clair Co. four years ngo, coming from
Kentucky, so ho stated. Ho took up his
nbode in the little town of Edon, whore
he followed tiie trade of a carpenter.
His lifo was exemplary, and in a year or
so ho was elected town marshal. Last
year, after a seasonable probation, Comp
ton was licensed as n Methodist preacher,
and his sermons and exhortations were
of tiro most fervid nnd eloquent charac
ter. It turns out that thirtcon years ago
he wns engaged in milking mooushino
whiskey in ono of the mountain counties
of North Carolina and shot an ofiicor, for
which tie was imprisonad, but escaped,
lie was tracked, und a requisition was is
sued for him recently, but ho escuped
tho officers.
I’HUHANENT I’ROMI’ERITY.
President Alfred Sully, of the Rich
mond & West Point It. H. system, said,
on returning to New York:
“I went over some of our South Caro
lina lines, East Tennessee roads und tho
Goorgi i Pacific. I found them all iu
very good condition and u great boom
dowu thoro in real estate and mining in
terests. Tliero is a lull in Birmingham
real estate sales, but there is a very largo
amount of building going on. There
seems to be a remarkable amount of en
terprise manifested in the South, espec
ially iu Alabama and Eastern Tennessee,
developing tho natural resources of the
country. There is no question but that
the newly developed manufacturing in
terests of the South ure upon a perma
nent basis, and [ believe that Georgia,
Alabama and Ten lessee will add 50 per
ee.it jo their material wealth in tho next
live years.”
TWO OCEAN Dl.HANTERN.
RUINED BY A LAW.
Another failure in the barbed wire
business has taken place in consequenco
of tire Interstate law. The firm is that
of Schnabel & Co. Their liabilities will
reach #808,000, and their assets are about
#175,000.
| Two commercial men named Weissman
and Patricia, who were parties to a bitter
feud, met in met in a cafe in Paris,
Fran ce. The proprietor, Terrian, to
! avoid a row, asked Weissman to leave the
place. This euraged the latter, and in
I the scuffle which followed, Weissman
i drew a sword stick and mortally pierced
Terrian. A crowd collected,and believing
that Weissman was a German, tried to
lynch him.
The French steamer La Bretagne, Cap
tain Do Jousseli, from New York, for
Havre, France, reports tlmt during tho
night of April 80th she collided with and
sunk n Norwegian hark. The crew of
tlie bark was saved. Tho steamer La
Champagne, which sailed for Now York
from Havre, and which ufterwards re
turned, having been in collision, was
run into by the steamer Ville do Rio.
The latter stenmer sank, but her crew und
passengers were saved. The collision
caused a panic among tho Italians on
board the Champagne, who made a rush
for a life bout and caused it to capsize.
Thirty-five of them were drowned, in ad
dition to three sailors who tried to pre
vent the rush. Tlie steamer Ville de
Bordeaux rescued fifteen Italians cling-
to the capsized life boat.
LATESTNEWS.
New York city was recently enveloped
in a dense fog for three days.
M. Lamourcnux, manager of the Eden
theatre, in which “Lohengrin” was pro
duced recently, but which wm withdrawn
owing to the opposition, by a portion of
the people, to German works, has entcrod
suit against the newspaper La France to
rerover 50,000 francs damages for sn at
tnek made upon tho opera.
A long circular, said to have been sent
out to nil prominent Knights of Labor
and secretaries of assemblies in Califor
nia, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Illi
nois, Michigan and Missouri, by local as
sembly 8,188, of Portland, Ore., de
nounces General Master Workman Pow-
dorly for Ids rejoicing over tho result of
the Chicago municipal election, and om-
bodies resolutions pnssed by the assem
bly demanding that Mr. Powderly be de
posed from office.
An accident occurred at the Edgar
Thompson stcol works, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
tlmt cost tiro lives. Furnace E was
blown out a few days ago. A gang of
men were put to work clearing it out.
An arch had formed, composed of coke,
limestone nnd other material, which was
still nt red best, and part of the men
were working beneath this mass. With
out warning, the arch gave way. Rod-
hot matter was thrown in all directions,
knocking many men down, and in some
instances almost burying them.
Tho American paper wheels _for rail
ways havo proved uufit for the purpose,
and all the Germtiu railway managers
have discontinued them.
Walter Vroomau, an editor of Kansas
City, Mo., made a socialistic speech iu
Pittsburg, Pa., and, denouncing tho au
thorities and the American flag, was
jailed.
Count Bhovalow, Russian ambassador
to Berlin, is the bearer of an autograph
letter from the Czar, assuring the Em
peror William of Russia's continued
friendship,
A rousing meeting of representative
men was held in Chicago, 111., recently,
to give expression to American sentiment
in opposition to the suspension of consti
tutional liberty in Ireland. About 0,000
were present, drawn principally from
well-to-do classos. Mayor Roche presid
ed, and most of the spenkors wore citi
zens of American birth, such as Governor
Oglesby, Rabbi Hirsch, Wirt Dexter,
Rov. Dr. Bolton, Congressman Mason and
Gen. Martin Beal. They strongly de
nounced the coercion bill now pending iu
the British Parliament. Resolutions
similar in tone to the speeches were
adopted.
France lias concluded a defensive ulli-
•nco with certain other powers, and
henceforth Franco will not Ire alone in
ovent of aggression against her.
Col, W. H. Bolton, cx-Buporintcndcnt
of second-class matter in tho Chicago,
III., post-office, who was convicted of the
embezzlement of about #25,000, was sen
tenced to four years imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
REMBAinBRING HEROES.
The monument to the Confederate dead
of the battle of Bentonviile was unveiled
at Smithfield, Johnston county, N. C.
Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Washington, D.
C., delivered an address. Many distin
guished mon were present, among them
were Hon. William R. Cox, Stato Com
missioner of Agriculture Robinson and
others
NEW CORPORATION.
Judge Clarko, of the Suporior Court,
Atlanta, Ga., recently grunted a charter
to tho Atlanta Construction Co. The in
corporators are E. P. Burns, W. K. Park
ins and James A. Barns. Tho objects
arc contracting, building, etc., etc. Tho
capital stock is #10,000, with tho privi
'o^e of being increased to (100,000.
NUINANCEN.
The narrow gauge railroad must go.
President Charles Francis Adams, of the
Union Pacific, who manages 1,500 narrow
gauge miles, says they ure “first-class
nuisances.
A Case of Zeal.
The Boston Tranaeript says: There is
a suburban church, situated not far from
a very attractive and fashionably patron
ized slum, which nrnkes u practice each
Easter Sunday, after tlie Sunday-school
services, of distributing tlie greater part
of the flowers that have served in the
decoration of the church among the poor
children of the school. This distribu
tion is almost ns popular with tho street
children us is tlie Christinas distribution
of gifts and confeotionery.
After tlie mass of the children had
been given a few flowers, the Sunday-
school superintendent saw two hood
lnmish small boys whom he did not rec
ognize standing near by very wistfully,
caps in hand.
“Well, boys,” said he, cheerily, “wha!
doyouwunt?”
“H’m’ flowers, mister.”
“Belong to tlie school? I don’t seem
to remember you.”
“Oh, yes, sir,” said the bigger of the
two; “don’t you remember? I’m tlie
feller that run away from the Sunday-
school last New Year’s.”
'Indeed I And what is the connec
tion of your friend here with the
school ?”
“Oh, lie’s the cully that coaxed me to
run away!”
Tlie superintendent felt that such zeal
should not go unrewarded, nnd gave the
boys a handful of bright flowers.
THE HOUSE THAT LOVE BUILT.
Love built a house for his very own;
Not of spicy woods, not of brick and stone;
Not of polished marble, with all the rooms
Hung with fabrics from Eastern looms;
Nor of Jewels hold in dazzling mass;
Nor of gold or silver, or gleaming brass,
With splendor like to a looking-glass,
Was tho beautiful house that lovo built.
No, no indeed. But no palace fair
With tilts wonderful structure can compare.
Though yon search from Jericho to Japan,
From Salnmanca to Ispahan,
And travel many a weary mile,
Y'ou'll find, in ancient or modem style,
No building so grand as tho lofty pile—
The beautiful hoyse that love built.
Of whnt was it built? Of a sigh—a glanee-
A touch of the hand—a song —a dance,
A smile, or a whisper—who can toU?
As if evoked by a magic spell,
In dazzling splendor it rose and rose,
'Noath tropic sun, or mid Arctic snows,
And still in Its radiant beauty grows
Tho wonderful house that lovo built.
Tis a palace—a temple—a holy Bhrine—
Fashioned according to lovo’s design,
And sot in tho light of a cheerful sun—
Whero two hearts enter and dwell m one.
And though, nlnsl on this earthly ball'
Wreck and ruin must come to all,
There is no ruin so great ns the fall
Of the beautiful house that love built.
—Josephine Pollard, in (Jflod Cheer.
PITH APPOINT.
A swell affair—inflating a balloon.—
Siftings.
It’s a wise child that resembles its rich
est relative.—Danville Breeze.
“My heart goes out to thee,” hummed
tho gambler, as he passed tho nco of that
suit under the table to his “pal.”—Tid-
Bite,
Lillie Cushman prints a poem entitled
“Unknown is Best.” But how does Lillie
know what 19 best, if it is unknown I—
Hartford Journal.
Pcoplo who declare most loudly their
ability to paddle their own canoe are gen
erally tho people who haven’t got a canoe.
-Somerville Journal.
It reads ‘‘New Maple Sugar.”
But then, it knows it lies,
For last year's date is plainly seen
Stamped on by last year's (lies.
—Danville Breeze.
A Boston paper recently published a
communication on “The Model Wife,”
and 2,000 Boston husbands swore noxt
morning that thoy wrote it.— Albany
Argus.
“Sunday is tho golden clasp which
binds together tho volumo of tho week.”
It is also a good time,and usually accept
ed as such, for a man to pull off his
boots and try all tho corn and bunion
remedies accumulated during tho six pre
ceding dnys.—Hartford Journal.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Ill sowers makes ill harvest.
The boughs that benr most hang lowest.
Lifo is half spent e’er wo know what it
He who begins many
but few.
things finishes
more painful
Mortifications are often
than real calamities.
Men’s years nnd their fruits are always
more than they are willing to own.
The silent man may bo overlooked now,
but ho will get a hearing by nnd by.
If we do not flatter ourselves, tho
flnttory of others will not be ablo to injure
us.
'When the forenoons of lifo are wasted
there is not much hope of a peaceful
evening.
TI10 heart that is fullest of good works
has in it tho icust room for tho tempta
tions of the enemy.
Bad custom, consolidated into habit, is
such a tyrant that men sometimes cling
to vices, even while thoy curse them.
Vicious habits are so odiouB and de
grading that they transform the individual
who practises them into an incarnate
demon.
When two start in the world together,
ho that is thrown behind, unless his mind
proves generous, will be displeased with
the other.
Life is never all work or sorrow; and
happy hours, helpful pleasures, aremerci-
fufly given like wayside springs to
pilgrims trudging wearily along.
Deer Among the Ancients.
A German professor has succeeded iL
tracing the origin of beer to the laud of
the pyramids. An ancient papyrus has
revealed the wrath of an Egyptian father
who had convicted his son of the deplor
able habit of lounging about tho Nile
tuvems and guzzling beer. From Egypt
the art of manufacturing “liquid bread,”
as the professor affectionately describes
his favorite beerage, was introduced into
Ethiopia and the heart of Africa, whero
perpetual summer made it seasonable all
the year round. The Homan Empire de
clined because amoug other things, it
despised beer and was beguiled by
stronger but less wholesome fluids. Tho
Northern races overran Italy, according
to the same authority, because they had
learned to live on bread and beer. En
thusiasm certainly carried tlie learned
professor a long way; and perhaps he has
not reached the end of his urchaic re
searches. Is he certain that the Israelites
did not have beer with their manna; or
that there wns not a fresh brew served
betimes in Eden?—New Yorle Tribune.
Why a Sou Voyage Restores Health.
The air of the seu, taken at a great dis
tance from laud, or even on the shore
and in port when the wind blows from
the open, is in an almost perfect state of
S urity. Nenr continents tlie land winds
rive before them an atmosphere always
impure, but at one hundred kilometres
off from the coasts this impurity has dis
appeared. The sea rapidly purifies the
pestilential atmosphere of continents;
hence every expanse of water of n certain
breadth becomes an obstacle to the pro
pagation of epidemics. .Murine atmo
spheres driven upon land purify sensibly
the air of the regions which thoy traverso;
this purification can be recognized as far
as Paris. The sea is the tomb of moulds
and of aerial schizopliytes.—MM.
Moreau and Miguel.
Reason and kindness aro the grent
promoters of that harmony aud hilarity
which generate friendship and affection.