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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA NEWS
GEORGIA.
The Oglethorpe Echo thinks that when Mr.
Stephens retires Hon. James M. Smith will be
the Congressman from the Eighth Georgia dis
trict.
The Athens Banner states that on Monday
afternoon a wild cherry tree in the front yard
of Captain K. Nickerson, of that, city, which
was standing about thii ty feet from his house,
was struck by lightning. The bolt, in its de
scent, tore the tree open and scattered splin
ters over the yard, some of which were from
one to two yards long. Some of these were
driven into the blinds of the house, and some
were carried over the house. All the window
glasses in the house on the side next to the
smitten tree were broken. The fence just by
the tree was torn to pieces, and the lightning
ploughed into the ground and tore up one of
the roots. Persons in the house were shocked,
though not injured, while others, two or three
hundred yards|away, felt the shock sensibly.
The.transfer of the stock owned by the city
of Athens to the Clyde syndicate is completed,
and the Athens Banner hopes that when the
Macon and Brunswick extension is completed
it will run from Macon to Social Circle, thence
to Monroe, thence to Athens. This would give
the Richmond and Danville combination a con
tinuous line all the way from Norfolk, Vir
ginia, to Brunswick, which would leave At
lanta away off to the West. But the law au
thorizing the sale of the Macon and Brunswick
provided for the extension to Atlanta. That
will probably interfere with the Banner's
calculations somewhat.
The Montezuma T! "cekly has received the
talons of an eagle killed in Flint river swamp
which measured seven feet from tip to tip of
its wings, and had been known to carry off
fifty pounds in its talons. Before its death,
this emblem of the United States of America
had committed numerous depredations, having
stolen many young pigs and lambs from Mr.
Willie Peister, who brought it down.
According to the Cumming Clarion, Mr. Wm.
Castleberry, of Forsyth county, is seventy
eight years old. He has not a hair on his head,
his beard has all come out, and he has no eye
brows or eye lashes. He says that he has been
troubled with a strange feeling in his head and
that some time ago lie commenced losing his
hair until now his face is as smooth as a boy’s,
and his head as hairless as the palm of the
hand. The loss of his eye-lashes and eye-brows
gives him a very singular appearance.
A correspondent from Marsh’s post office,
Thomas county, writes us that farming in that
section is further behindhand than it has been
for many years, owing to the bad weather, and
farmers are much discouraged at the scarcity
of corn. Cotton planting is not yet finished,
but where it has come up good stands are re
ported. Oats are looking well, and the pros
pect for fruitjwos never better. Peaches will
be abundant, and there will be no end to black
berries. This latter item will, our correspon
dent thinks, prove an especially gratifying
item of news to the Thomasville editors.
“We learn,’ - says the Columbus Enquirer-
Sun , "that farmers of the grand old county of
Talbot are progressing favorably with their
work, owing to the pleasant weather of the
past ten days. Cotton planting will be through
in a few days, and with might and main every
effort will be directed to the harvesting of the
largest crop that has been made since the war
in that section of the State. The wheat and
oat prospect is indeed flattering, and with the
exception of the peach crop, which will be
very slim, everything tends to better times in
the future.”
Says the Americus Recorder: “We learn
from our country friends that the wheat crop
is particularly fine out in the direction of Ella
ville. Mr. John Howell reports his as the finest
he has ever had. Mr. Howell has been farming
twenty years; it must, therefore, be exception
ally good. He says it is waist high, and has
shed its bloom, this condition placing it out
side of the risk and within the point of safety.
His corn, he says, is half-leg high and growing
rapidly, This is good news, and if it is univer
sal in this county and section, will be glad tid
ings to ever}- man, woman and child, and to all
domestic animals.”
Milledgevilie Recorder: “A few days ago we
met one of our neighbors of Jones county,
though living just on the line of Baldwin, who
refreshed us by telling the way he farmed. It
was in four words—he lived at home, made his
provisions for man and beast, and always had
a sweet, juicy ham in his smoke house that
was entirely and unanimously home-made.
We waive ceremony, and unveil him as It. C.
Jenkins. Go thou and do likewise.”
Montezuma Weekly: “At an early hour last
Tuesday morning an explosion was heaid in
the house of Archie Ross, colored, and our
Marshal, who is ever on the alert, hastened
there to find out the cause. He found the wife
of the oolored man severely burned, who re-
Jiorted that the oil can exploded from being
W near the fire, an 1 her clothes were satu
rated with it, which also took fire. It was
with difficulty that the flames were extinguish
ed by her husband and her life saved. After
diligent inquiry it leaked out that she was at
tempting to kindle a fire w ith the oil, and thus
the explosion,”
We have already published by telegraph a
brief account of the death of the colored boy,
Frank Dorsey, in Macon, by the explosion of a
boiler in the cotton factory of that place. The
Telegraph and Messenger gives the following
details of the tragedy: "Yesterday morning
about 5 o’clock, the men were preparing to
start the engine, having fired up aud raised
ninety pounds of steam. In the engine room
were Allen and Anderson, two colored men,
oiling up the engine, and Frank Dorsey, who
was at the head of the engine just preparing to
start the wheels upon their day’s journey. Sud
denly a crackling explosion was heard, and in
stantly the room was filled with biting, blind
ing, boiling hot steam. Allen and Anderson,
the oilers, darted out and escaped, but not so
Dorsey. While standing between the two
engines, the feed pipe had burnt and the fuli
force of ninety pounds of steam s-triking
■bin' had huflt'd him, into the snt.
jjTWfeed him into the further corner, a
of boiled flesh. Notwithstanding’
the Jerribu heat of the escaping steam, there
were inst wanting brave men to attempt to ren
der assistance to the unfortunate Dorsey. Sev
eral ventured in, and though scalded, succeed
ed in finding the body, from which life must
have teen driven almost instantly. It was, as
stated, hi theTiirthar eevner of the pit, between
the fly wheel and the pit-wall, as far as force
’ could drive it. Bending over, the rescuer at
tempted to drag it out. The arm was seized,
but the skin came off as a glove would be
drawn, leaving the white flesh exposed to view.
Finally, however, it was extracted and stretch
ed out, A more horrible sight could scarcely
be imagined. The body was literally boiled,
and the swollen tongue hung from the mouth,
a shapeless lump of flesh.”
The Rome Courier says: “We have heard
since the decision of the Supreme Court on the
Bank of Rome case that the assets of the bank
will lack SIO,OOO of paying the State’s prior
lien, and that the depositors will be assessed to
make up this deficiency.”
The Dublin Gazette says that Laurens county
needs an iron bridge across the Oconee at Dub
lin, and two substantial light draft boats to ply
the Oconee from Silver Bluff to the Central
Railroad.
According to the Telephone considerable
complaint is being made in Scriven county of
the scarcity of cotton seed for planting pur
poses.
The Calhoun Times reports that Mr. Gus
Warren, aged fifteen, and Mrs. Martha Hair,
aged fifty-five, were married on the 12th inst,
in Pulaski county.
The Covington Star has seen specimens of
the coal found a few miles from Covington,
and pronounces them genuine. It is not known
yet in what quantities the mineral exists, but
there is undoubtedly a pure coal bed in less
than five miles of Covington.
The Covington Star relates a touching inci
dent of the recent tragedy in that town which
resulted in the killing of Dick Campbell, of
Jasper county, by |Mr. Henry I. Horton. It
seems that at the time of the difficulty Camp
bell had his little five-year-old son with him,
and after he was killed the little fellow was
Hfitherless and unprotected, gome kind-heart
ed person, however, seeing the hoy, took him
in his arms, and carrying him to a room, placed
him on a bed, where he slept sweetly and
soundly all night, in childish ignorance jtof his
father’s death.
The Thomson Joarnal reports that several
Sundays ago, at Liberty Ilill Church, a short
distance above Wrightsboro, McDuffie county,
the colored people were holding' services. An
old blind negro woman, well known in the
neighborhood, went to church, walked up the
steps, and j ust as she got inside the door, fell
to ihe floor and expired instantly. The Journal
Is informed that she didn’t even breathe after
she fell.
The Americus Sumter Republican learns
from Schley and Sumter county farmers that
operations in the fields are most satisfactory.
Corn is reported as halt a leg high. Cotton in
many places is up and growing vigorously,
and hands have been set to work chopping it
out. In fact there seems not to have been
much of a drawback on account of the lateness
In which farmers went to work. Their pros
pects for good crops next fall are of the bright
est kind, and notwithstanding the scarcity of
corn and bacon, and the fact that money can
hardly be obtained, hope buoys them up, and
if the yield of oats, in three or four weeks, is
as large as the promise now seems, hard times
will be knocked on the head and rejoicing will
be heard on all sides.
Mr.Mohn H. James, the Atlanta banker and
speculator, has published a circular advising
the people of Georgia to sell out all other
securities and buy Georgia Railroad stock.
Wonder how much of the stock Mr. James
holds?
Augusta News: “From all sections of the
State come the cheering accounts of the finest
prospects for good crops for a long time. Not
only grain, but an abundance of fruit, is re
ported, while cotton is growing off in an un
precedentedly rapid and healthy manner. The
croakers must get out another hobby.”
Sylvania Telephone: “The severity of last
winter did not injure the sheep crop as much
as we had feared. Mr. C. L. Wells informs us
that he has marked seventy-three iambs in a
flock of about two hundred sheep. He also
says that four years ago he bought a sheep,
for which he paid one dollar and fifty cents,
and that up to date he has received twenty-five
dollars from that one sheep in wool and lambs.
It beats cotton.”
A correspondent of the Columbus Times from
Hogansville, Troup county, writes as follows:
“Living near the town is Mr. J. F. Jones, the
champion wheat grower of Georgia, who never
makes less than forty bushels of wheat per
acre, and to look upon his wheat field is a feast
in itself. It is already heading out, and it shows
to the farmers what can be done in the way of
the cultivation of grain, which is far more
profitable than the cultivation of cotton.”
The Talbotton Register states that Mr. Jame 3
McDowell, of Cuthbert, a member of the
Thirteenth Georgia Regiment, Colonel J. M.
Smith commanding, lost on May 12,1861, ut the
battle of the Wilderness, Va., a Masonic gold
medal, given by Clinton Chapter, which, after
fifteen years absence, was returned to a then
surviving relative of Mr. McDoweil, Miss
- Jennie McDowell, of Talbot county. It was in
the possession of a Federal Captain, North.
Under the heading “Important Suit” the
Macon Telegraph and Messenger says: "Mrs
Laura Ralston Smith has filed by her attor
neys, Messrs. Lanier & Anderson, her claim to
a half interest in the estate of David Ralston,
her father, who died in this city in 1844. The
suit is an important one, a3 a large portion of
squares 22, 88 and 39, in the heart of the city,
belonged to Mr. Ralston at the time of his
death, and, in addition, other property of
value. Mossrs. Bacon & Rutherford have been
employed by the defendants, J. A. Ralston and
Dr. Bozeman.”
McDuffie Journal: “The facts of a strange
death, which occurred on Sunday last, have
come to our knowledge. On that day Revs. J.
A. Shivers, of Warren, and Littleton Usry, of
Glasscock, held services at Brier Creek Church,
Warren county. Mr. Shivers preached, and
Mr. Usry wa3 closing the services with prayer
when he was stricken with paralysis and had
to be assisted to a seat, after which he only
spoke a few intelligible words. He was carried
a short distance to the residence of Mr. Jordan
Norris, where, about three o’clock in the after
noon, he died. Mr. Usry was a brother of the
late F. M. Usry. of this comity, and was highly
respected as a citizen and a Christian.”
The Jonesboro News reports fine crop pros
pects and everything encouraging in the coun
try around there. Good stands of cotton are
appearing, aud corn is beginning to grow off
finely.
Hon. Hugh Buchanan, member of Congress
from the Fourth Congressional district, pub
lishes a card stating that he desires to make
an appointment to Annopolis from his district.
He desires applicants to address him immedi
ately at Newnan, stating their qualifications,
etc.
The Talbotton Railroad has been completed,
and the Register and Standard is thoroughly
elated thereat. It enthusiastically declares
that railroad connection with the outside
world, which has been the dream of Talbotton
for thirty years, has been realized at last.
The Rome Courier learns from a gentleman
who has just returned from Bartow county
that the prospects for good crops of wheat and
cotton in that county -were never better. The
crops are fully fifteen days in advance of same
time last year.
The Augusta News says: “Prof. Bibikov was
seen hurrying dow T n town yesterday with a
bundle of coal in his laughing hands, and on
asking him what he wanted with coal this
kind of weather, he replied that ‘in time of
Eeace he was preparing for war,’ and that he
ad struck it rich this time. He thereupon
exhibited a verv rich specimen of cannel coal
which he had found in his explorations on
Mr.Faul F. Hammond’s place, across the river.
He is digging it now and will go regularly in
the business, for lie is satisfied with the qual
ity and quantity.”
Barnesville Gazette: “Sometime since we
mentioned the killing of Howard by Charles
Hamilton, in Meriwether county. Last week
Sheriff Bussey became aware of Hamilton’s
probable whereabouts. Having something of
a presentiment that Hamilton’s wife was com
ing over to see him Wednesday, our Sheriff
awaited her arrival, and allowed her to pilot
him, unknowingly, to her husband’s where
abouts. Charles was therefore taken in custody
by Mr. Bussey, brought to Barnesville Tuesday
morning, and lodged in the calaboose, and
subsequently carried to Zebulon, where Sheriff
Florence, of Meriwether, took charge of him.”
Says the Hamilton (Harris county) Journal:
•‘We hear nothing but encouraging reports
from the grain crop. Everywhere in the coun
ty it is doing well and promising a splendid
harvest, Fields and patches around town look
better than we have ever seen them. Alto
gether, the crop about to be harvested has a
value that cannot be over-estimated, and we
expect to see very little Northern hay iu the
market after oats have been cut. With favor
able weather for a month, we shall harvest the
finest grain crop ever known in this county,
which, supplemented with a good yield of
blackberries, will aid us greatly in bridging
the summer and in making a moderately prof
itable seven cents cotton crop.”
The Talbotton Register and Standard reports
the following case of jail breaking in that
town: "Three negroes, Cary Russell, Ed. Ford
and Willis Sliirly. have been confined in the
county jail to await action of the next grand
iury. On last Thursday morning Sheriff J. a.
Foster went down to the jail, opened the out
side door and, in attempting to open the pas
sage door to the prisoner’s cell, discovered that
something was wrong with the hinges. On
forcing open the fastening, the three negroes
having prized off the hinges of the inner door,
rushed out, when the foremost one, Cary Rus
sell, was grappled by the Shereiff, who quickly
knocked him down against a pair of steps that
led to the second floor. The two other negroes,
who had been prevented from passing by the
door opening on the passage, rushed
out, Ed. Ford as he passed, striking
Sheriff Foster with the heavy end of a
door hinge. The Sheriff, of course, was power
less to prevent their escape, suffering item the
blow and exhausted from the scuffle with the
negro Russell. It so happened on that particu
lar morning that Sheriff Foster was not armed,
the only occasion on which he has ever at
tended the jail without being prepared for any
emergency. Cary Russell, a short time after
his escape, was recaptured crossing the road
on the west of the town by Rev. J. W. Wilson
and turned over to the Sheriff. The other
negroes are still at large. Ed. Ford was shot
at on Saturday last, on the Waterman planta
tion, by Mr. A. J. Harris and Tom Giimer.
Efforts are being made to secure these ne
groes.”
We have already published a brief notice of
the killing of Dick Atkins by Bob. Jenkins
(both colored) in Sandersville. The Herald of
that place gives the following details(of the af
fair: “Our community was greatly shocked
on Tuesday afternoon to learn of a horrible
murder that was committed, about one
o’clock, on what is known as Col. R. L. War
then’s Brown place. This place is on the War
renton road, some three and a half miles north
of Sandersville, and is now rented by Messrs.
Martin developed at
the Coroner’s ' hi-.---
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S|tfHrthg for a mes
sage from Bob. Jenkins (both colored)
of an offensive nature. Atkins sent him
word to come and tell him what he wished and
not send such messages. Jenkins soon cams
over and dared him to come out and fight him.
Atkins said he did not want to fight, but would
send out two little boys to fight him. Atkins,
however, went out near him. JenkinS ad
vanced towards him, and was pushed away by
Atkins,who then started to climb the fence and
leave, when he was struck with a knife by
Jenkins, and severely cut in the face, also in
the neck, wounding the artery, and then
stabbed in the breast. Either of the last
wounds would have proved fatal. Atkins
never spoke after being cut, but died before
he could be carried to the house. Jenkins at
once fled, and has not as yet been arrested.
We learn that Atkins was about 27 years old,
while Jenkins is probably younger. Coroner
Tompkins was in town when the news of the
murder was received, and immediately sum
moned a jury, who, after a due inquest,return
ed a verdict of murder. Dr. H. N. Hollifield
was the examining physician, and the jury
consisted of S. M. Northington, Foreman, W.
L. Orr, K. J. N. Walden, Geo. Gilmore, D. G.
Watkins, Wm. Duggan, Jno. G. Killebrew, A.
H. Ainsworth, Benj. A. Smith, Rob’t Dudley,
Jno. Spalding, and C. I. Duggan. The facts as
detailed stamp this as a most atrocious mur
der, and all good citizens hope to see him
speedily brought to justice.”
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: “Further particu
lars of the burning of Rock Mills, in Randolph
county, Ala., on the 30th of April, informs us
that the mill caught fire about seven o’clock
in the evening, and was first discovered in the
gin room in the rear of the main building. The
building was a wooden one, and the names
spread so rapidly that none of the machinery
was saved, and the house was soon in ashes. It
was with much difficulty that the principal
part of the town was saved from the destroy
ing element. A correspondent writing to the
Constitution says that between seventy five
and one hundred operatives are thrown out of
employment, and some three or four hundred
persons here to-day know not where they
will get their bread to-morrow. The mills
were set fire to sometime ago by some dastard
ly coward and malicious person, hut was sayed
'i-om the llames by mere accident. This time
the lUgiiious deed was well performed, and
the entire inside of one of the buildings was
consumed before it was discovered. The ca
lamity i 3 supposed to be the work of an incen
diary. The watchman, who but a short time
had left the building, had crossed over into the
village and was making his round among the
stores when the alarm of fire was given. He
was doubtless watched, and as soon as gone,
the fatal work had commenced. Yesterday
was spent in fasting and prayer, imploring
God’s mercies and protection over the widows
and orphans of the village. Loss between $60,-
000 aud SIO,OOO. No insurance.
i.Under the caption “One of the Old Land
marks Gone,” the Columbus Times says:
“At his residence in Chattahoochee county,
near Cottage Mills, Mr. Thomas Gilbert
breathed his last on Monday, the 2d inst,,
after a short illness and iu comparatively good
health. He was in his eighty-ninth year, and
had retained his faculties to a remarkable de
gree up to the time of his death. Mr. Gilbert
was one of the pioneers in the early settlement
of this country, and its history was as familiar
to him as household words. He was a soldier in
the war of 1812, but only recently began to
draw the pension allowed by the United States
Government. He surveyed and laid off the
town of Lumpkin, in Stewart county, before
the oiganization cf that county in iB3O. He
bad lived to a good old age. and had been
solaced by the prattle of grand aud great
grandchildren around his knee. He was (he
father of Mr. J. B. Gilbert, of Stewart county,
and of Dr. J. N. Gilbert, of this city. Peace to
his ashes.”
Coiumbus Times: Tuesday morning Mr.
John Conway, who lives in Linwood, gave his
little daughters, who attend school in the city,
five dollars with which to pay tuition. One of
them placed the money in her grammar and
in company with a little daughter of Col.
Porter Ingram, they started to school. As
they were crossing the bridge over the branch
iu rear of the Western depot, a tramp emerged
from underneath and ordered them to drop
their satchel or he would kill them. Os course
the children were terrified, and complied
with his demand at once. The villain search
ed the satchels, taking from them the lunches
and throwing them at the children. He also
got the five dollars, as Mr. Conway informs us
It was not to be found in the book after the
tramp had left it. The children were so badly
frightened that they would not go home in the
afternoon without the protection of a friend.
It is not likely that the tramp knew
anything of the money being in possession of
the little girl, and his attack must have been
made in the hope of getting something to eat.
It is certainly a bad state of affairs when chil
d ren cannot go to school without a protector.
The fact is there are too many vagrant and
suspicious characters around Columbus, and
an investigation into their means of support
would prove quite beneficial. Steps should be
taken to give them all employment—on the
chain gang.”
Says the Rome Bulletin : “We learn that
Colonel Alfred Shorter has donated the mag
nificent sum of SI,OOO to the cause of rebuild
ing the colored Baptist church, of this city,
which was destroyed by fire some few weeks
since. The donation is literal, and Colonel
Shorter deserves much credit for the spirit
which prompted the gift. Nearly SSOO addi
tional has been realized by other volunteer
subscriptions, making in all a neat sum with
which to inaugurate the work. The church is
to be built of brick, and is estimated to cost
SI,OOO. We congratulate Rev. Jeff Milner, the
pastor, for the success which has, so far, crown
ed his zealous efforts.”
Under the caption “Send Him Back,” the
Dublin Post says: “About four years ago
Lish Coates, colored, tied up a negro woman
and whipped her to death. For this crime he
was sent to the penitentiary. The fiend is at
home again and on last Friday he beat an
other woman out on Colonel Wayne’s place so
severely that it is thought she will also die.
He should either be swung up or sent back to
the penitentiary for life.”
Mr. J. R. Strate, ex foreman of the Confed
erate States Central Laboratory, at Macon,
during the war, writes us what he believes is
an important discovery. It is aremedy to
vent small-pox. While in charge of the labors*
tory e foresaid there were a line of shanties, in
which were quartered from two to four hun
dred negroes, employed by the Macon and
Western Railroad, on one side of him and the
small-pox hospital on the other. The negroes,
needing bed linen, stole some sheets belonging
to the hospital, which had been placed on cer
tain scrub oaks adjacent to dry. Iu conse
quence,, in a short time he found himself sand
wiched between two small-pox hospitals, one
for whites and one for negroes. Yet, though
he had a number of men working for him, and
was thus situated for three or four months,
only one case of small-pox was developed at
the laboratory. The remedy against the dis
ease was drinking tar water, nothing else. His
entire force drank this water with the excep
tion of one man (a Mr. Farmer, of Social Cir
cle). He had no faith in the antidote, and re
fused to drink the water, and he was the only
man who fell a victim to the disease.
According to the Dalton Citizen the farmers
thereabouts say that the wheat prospect was
never finer at this season of the year. The
yield,without some unforeseen accident, will be
over an average one. There was a large acre
age sown last fall.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch reports a terrible
accident in which Miss Jimmie Ann Sangster,
daughter of Mr. Wash Sangster, living about
six miles east of Vienna. Dooly county, was
burned to death. On Thursday of last week
she was in the field assisting her father and
brother in their farm work, when her clothing
caught fire. Her screams brought them
promptly to her assistance. Mr. E. G. Green,
who was engaged in teaching school a short
distance, also hastened to the aid of the unfor
tunate woman, and found that her clothing had
been entirely burned off. The accident occur
red abou one o’clock p. m., and, after about
five hours of the most agonizing pain, she ex
pired.
Thirty-one divorce eases at this time cumber
the Superior Court docket of Fulton county.
The Marietta Jotirnal reports one of those
strange monstrosities which surprise and baffle
science. It is a calf with eight legs, a well
formed neck and no head. Three ears pro
truded from the lower side of the neck, near
its shoulders. It had an under lip like that of
a dog. Two caudle appendages were in the
usual place. The calf and its mother are both
dead.
Miss Josephine Cameron and Mr. Barton Hill
scored a marked success in Athens last
Wednesday night.
The Louisville News and Farmer reports that
the fruit in Jefferson county is not more than
half killed. Nothing from this out preventing,
there will be an abundance of plums. The
blackberry crop is all right, while apple trees
have enough fruit on them if it don’t fall off,
and peach trees will produce about one third
of a crop.
The North Georgia Times states that cotton
planting has been going on at a rapid rate
among the farmers of that section for the past
two weeks, and an enormous crop is being
planted.
The Warrenton Clipper pronounces the
News “a grand and popular” paper. It is es
pecially complimentary too to this column, for
it says: “One of the features of the News is,
that it shows such an amount of industry in
culling news from the local papers. Other pa
pers may find nothing in a local paper that
has excellent items, but when they pass the
Savannah News those items are apt to lodge
there.”
The Darien Timber Gazeite says the prices
for timber still hold their own in that market,
aud there has been but little change in several
weeks, and the large number of vessels now in
port loading will make a large size hole in the
booms around the city. The following are the
Gazette's quotations for last week:
“Square—6oo average, $5 50@7; 700 average,
$6 50(&8 ; 800 average, $7 25 @9 ; 900 average,
$8@10: 1,000 average, s9@ll; 1,100 average,
$10(2112; 1.200 average, sll 00iai3. Scab—3oo
average, s6©7 00; 490 average, sS@i9 50; 600
average, $lO$H 50; 600 average, $12@13,”
A white man hailing from Bartow county fell
in the clutches of two dusky sirens of Rome
a few days ago, and they robbed him of eiehty
dollars. They were arrested and committed to
jail in default of two hundred and fifty dollars
bail.
Hawkinsville Dispatch: “Wo are informed
that Mr. C. W. Wade, of this county, planted
forty acres of cotton in two and a half days,
with two mules. The row’s are three feet
apart and only two furrows were run in plant
ing the cotton.”
Says the Thomasvillo Pos’: “As a rule our
farmers are behind with their crops. The late
spring and the recent dry weather constitute
the reason. Cotton could not be planted safely
at an early date,and that recently planted could
not come up for lack of moisture. Some of
the crops, however, hdve not suffered, and
now that rain has come, all will grow off rapid
ly. Oats are looking well, and the yield, if the
seasons suit, will be fully up to an average.”
Eastman Times: “We are reliably informed
that on Thursday last Mr. Joseph H Chambers,
who for a
_ mater i®->-, *-• mi'.. made
■ null his aiaw .
into an the i
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and severely
if not fatally stabbed him. The negro, we
learn, had given him the d—n lie, and was
making for him with his knife, when Mr. C.
drew his knife and mace a successful stroke
just in time to save his own life. No blame
whatever, it seems, is attached to Mr. C.’s
action in the matter. It was thought the ne
gro would probably die.”
Griffin News: “As a News reporter was hang
ing on to a curbstone yesterday, Mr. B. N. Bar
row rode up in his buggy and called the re
porter out. We sauntered out to the buggy,
and after shaking hands, Mr. Barrow invited
us to look under the buggy seat. We did so,
and found a fine looking hen sitting on a rather
scanty looking nest with the usual complement
of eggs under her. Upon expressing our surprise,
Mr. Barrow informed up that the hen had se
lected that place for her nest, had laid the eggs
there, and the indications were that she would
hatch them out right there. He drove around
in his buggy every day, came to town every
day, and through it all the old hen sat her nest
serenely and confidently. This may sound a
little fishy, but as the reporter is an honest
man, it is an actual fact, and can be verified
almost any day on the street."
Under the heading “Show’ers of Silver,” the
Atlanta Post-Appeal says: “A reporter of the
Post-Appeal learns that Treasurer Morrill, of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, got off a
little joke the other day, that enlivened a dry
business transaction not a little. When the
day arrived for the monthly payment of the
twenty-five thousand dollars rental of the
road, Treasurer Morrill was as prompt as he
usually is on such occasions. He planked down
the money—every dollar of it. But it was all
in silver coin, the last cent of it. Twenty-five
thousand dollars in halves and quarters make
a pretty big pile.and the services of a dray were
called into requisition to convey the filthy lu
cre to the State Treasurer’s office. Treasurer
Speer was a good deal surprised at this sud
den deluge of small change, but money is
money, and he philosophically accepted the
situation. This is the largest payment of sil
ver coin ever made In Atlanta in a single busi
nesss transaction.”
Discussing the crop prospect the Thomas
villa Enterprise says: “We made a visit to the
country la3t week and traveled about eighteen
miles through ns fine a section for farming and
inhabited by as good farmers as there is any
where in this section, and we are forced to the
conclusion that all crops are at least one
month behind an average year, and more than
that behind what they were last vear. This,
however, is not the fault of the farmers. They
were up with their work, just as far advanced
as they can be, in nearly every place that
came under our observation, but the spring
has been so backward. We saw corn that had
been plowed out and then hoed, but it was not
more than six inches high, though the
land was good and strong. Cotton
looked strong and vigorous, though it was just
up and nearly every place had some planted
that was not yet up. The very warm weather
that set in last week will make it grow rapidly,
but the grass will grow very fast also, and as
the start is about even the farmers have a hard
time ahead of them for the next two months.
Last year many farmers had chopped out
most, if not all, of their cotton before the Ist
of May and “laid by” their corn; this year not
an acre of cotton has been chopped and corn
looks as though it would not do to “lay by” be
fore the middle of June. We see no reason
why the crop should not be a good one—unless
the grass runs away with it.”
A correspondent from Echols county writes
us that crops there are looking pretty well on
an average, though at least two weeks late,
and in some localities the stands are bad. The
weather is now dry, and farmers are making
up lost time. The fruit is very promising, but
oats are generally in poor condition. Finan
cially the county seems to be in a healthy state,
for at the spring term of the court the grand
jury reported the county out of debt, with a
few hundreds in the treasury, while the Tax
Collector has, since that time, made his settle
ment for 1880, which increases the surplus
somewhat. Two and one-half mills on the dollar
is recommended as the county tax for the
present year. The health of the county is
very good.
A prominent physician of Albany told the
News and Advertiser a few days ago that he
had done less practi e during the last week
than lie had done during the same length of
time within tho last two years, 'ibis speaks
well for the health of the city and vicinity.
The Madison Yeoman learns from various
sources that the prospect for a wheat crop was
never better in that county than at present.
The Brooks county correspondent of the
Waycross Reporter writes that paper that ten
thousand truck farmers are wanted in South
East Georgia this year, to make it the grandest
truck and fi uit growing country in the known
world. The soil, climate and rapid railroad
facilities render it the most inviting country to
be found. It says: "Let us know, ye men of
New Jersey, New York, and, iu fact, from all
Northern and Western States, tvho understand
truck farming, if you cau’t be induced to come
by receiving as a donation eighty acres of land
near the line of a railroad? We want you, we
nvite you to coma and occupy them free.”
According to the Senoia Farm and Home
typhoid fever is doing an effective work ail
over that section of the State. That paper
says: “While it could not be termed an epi
demic, its ravages are seen and felt.”
THE SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1881.
Says the Waynesboro Herald: “Prom winter
we have come suddenly upon summer. Farm
ers tell us that crops are growing: off well, and
as for the grass, it is simply immense.”
Says the Darien Timber Gazette: “Another
colored man charged with murder was brought
to the city from the country on Tuesday and
lodged in jail to await court. The jail is now
aboutfuilof criminals andit will take the whole
of court week to clear It. The criminal docket
should be taken up and disposed of the very
first thing, and thus save the county of a large
expense. This is a very important matter to
the tax payers of this county,who have to bear
the burden, and we, therefore, hope that it will
be duly considered by the Judge presiding.”
Another instance of the fatal consequences
of children fooling with pistols is thus record
ed in the columns of the Carroll County Times:
“The youngest son of Mr. James W. Helton,
we learn, was seriously shot on last Saturday
evening. The following are the particulars:
The boy and a girl by the name of Bivens got
hold of a Distol and were snapping it at each
other, They did not think it would burst a
cartridge. After the first snapping the little
boy went off to water the horses. Comiog back
again the girl again snapped the pistol at the
boy, and it shot and struck him in the right
breast, passing through the right lung. It is
not thought that the boy will live.”
Under the head “A Bold Buzzard and a Trag
ic End,” the Washington Gazette says: “Tne
following circumstance was related to us by a
gent'eman of this county, whose veracity is
undoubted, and he vouches for the truth of
the statement. We don’t know that we can
relate it exactly in his own words, but we can
give the substance of it. A negro woman lh -
ing on his plantation, owns a sow, which dur
ing the past winter became very poor—so poo, -
indeed that some of her bones had rubbed
through the skin. Several days before the oc
currence which we are about to relate took
place, the woman said to her husband, “Joe,
you see that buzzard flying around here, 1
do believe he is waiting for mv sow to die.
For a day or so the buzzard hovered around
the cow lot where the sow generally stayed,
and even got so bold as to sit upon the fence,
and watch the sow as she moped about the lot
eating grass. The next day, while the woman
was in the lot milking the cow, the buzzard
becoming impatient for the sow to die, flew
from the fence, and lit upon the sow’s back.
The force, of his weight knocked the old sow
down, who, as she turned over, made a grab at
the buzzard, catching him between the neck
and the body, and actually bit off his head
and devoured him feathers and all Our in
formant says the sow is still living and getting
Under the caption “A Gigantic Enterprise,”
the Wire grass Watchman says: “Whilst the
proud cotton belts and mineral fields of Geor
gia are boasting of their resources, the once
derided wiregrass section is steadily advancing
to the front aad keeping even pace in the
strides of progression with her more pompous
sister sections. To our already immense tur
pentine, lumber, sheep husbandry and agricul
tural interests, is yet to be added at no day
far distant, an enterpiis© of immerse
proportions, entirely new in its fea
tures and hence but tittle dreamed of
until a quite recent date. The said enterprise
is nothing more nor less than the erection of
an extensive factory for the manufacture of
different mercantile commodities from the
wiregrass straw which can be found in such
abundance throughout this section of the
State. A strong company composed of North
ern capitalists has been formed with a view to
engaging in the enterprise, and already have
land owners in this section been conferred
with with a view to the most desirable location.
It is generally believed and hoped that the
factory will be located in either the county of
Telfair or Montgomery. Let us trust that the
enterprise will meet with proper encourage
ment. When we remember to what advantage
the straw was used, even in its raw state, dur
ing the late war in the manufacture of hats,
baskets and other articles of use and conve
nience. the wonder to us is that something in
this direction has not been attempted ere
this.”
The following instance of heroism displayed
by two little girls of Laurens county is men
tioned by the Dublin Post: “A spark fell from
an ironing fire on last Saturday, about ten
o’clock, on the roof of Mrs. Thomas’ house in
the western part of town, and soon kindled
into a lively flame. No one was at home
except Mrs. Thomas and her two little girls.
But the latter rose to the height of the emer
gency. and ran up stairs with
buckets of water, and climbing out
on the roof through the dormer
windows, extinguished the flames after a hole
had been burnt in the roof two or three feet
square. A neighbor saw the fire and started
the alarm which soon spread over town and
got the bells to clanging and the populace to
rushing in the direction of the scene of alarm
but the crowd was met and turned back near
the academy by the news that the fire had
been extinguished,”
A correspondent of the Griffin News wants a
cotton factory in that city. He thinks that
nothing would offer fairer inducements to set
tlers or more prolific channels for the invest
ment of capital.
The Atlanta Phonograph says the way for
the South to get rich, independent and power
ful is to “manufacture our cotton, raise the
provisions required, and hoard up the net proM
ceeds.” ft
A huntsman in Gordon county recently took*
a tame turkey into the woods as a decoy to 3
wild turkeys. He not only failed to bag any I
of the latter, but some man passingalong spied •
the tame bird and carried off his decoy.
The Americus Republican states that a negro
man living with Mr. William Allen, in Schley
county, in attempting to burn off a small piece
of woods, one day last week, let the fire get out
into another piece near the fence. In his
efforts to keep the fire from the fence, he be
came overheated, fainted and fell in the fence
corner, and had it not been for his daughter,
who happened to be near enough to see him
fall, and secure help to remove him at once, he
would have been burned to death in a few
more seconds.
riet!sa» .' ,T Rice is lOOkmWS
splendid.” I
The Americus ipjffblican learns from some
of the farmery* Willey county th.it rice birds
have made eh^rappearance in the wheat and
oat fields. Fa vs that paper: “These birds
play havoc with the- small grain crop when
they set in, and we presume the hunter will
fall in with his gun and help them by treading
down the fields in their eagerness to kill
them.”
Wilkes county boasts, of a male cat which is
twenty-eight years old.
The Americus Recorder says: “There is
quite a quantity of damaged coin in the mar
ket now, and we expect ta hear of dead mules
and horses before long, parties buying it be
cause it is cheaper thap-goVid corn, will learn
a lesson from experience, the good teacher,”
Dealers in those famous medicines, Tolu
Rock and Rye, and Sweet Gum, Corn and Rock,
in Sylvania, are very much put out because
they have been compelled to pay a liquor
license tax.
The Lexington Echo say s that though for the
past few weeks the railway excitement in
Oglethorpe county has beeA silent, it must not
be taken as an index that interest in the road
is dyiDg out, for such is not the case. It says
the committees are hard at work, and meet
with farmoreencouragement than they hoped.
Right now is a busy time with farmers, and
their entire attention is riveted on agriculture.
But so soon as crops are laid by, it thinks the
railroad excitement will revive with a >oom
In the mean time a charter will be obtained
and, through committees, work brought to
such a climax that the company can soo;
go to breaking dirt. It asserts that the Broad
River Railroad is neither dead nor sleeping.
Says the Lumpkin Independent: “The negro
still loves to attend upon any court proceed
ings, and whenever opportunity offers they
flock to the court house and take their seats
with the regularity of jurors—then they go to
sleep.”
The Hartwell Run has been shown a piece
of white quartz which was well sprinkled with
gold. It was found in that county. It has
also some particles of fine Iron ore which it
shows contained silyer. It says there are un
doubtedly many large and valuable mines
of minerals awaiting development in that
ocunty.
It is stated that a new post office has been
established in Macon county by tbe name of
Wier, betweon Jay, Lumpkin county, and
Amicolola, Dawson county. This will prove
quite a convenience to the people in that sec
tion of the State.
The Lumpkin Independent is in favor of a
town ordinance being passed which will force
tramps to get out of that town in thirty minutes
after entering it.
The Early County News reports that the
weather for the past week has been exceed
ingly favorable for both the growth and culti
vation of crops, and both seem to have made
good use of the favorable circumstances.
Says the Augusta .Yews: “At present Augusta
is getting more free advertising than any other
city in the land. Since the huge transactions
in railroad stocks and the immense new cotton
mills now in process of erection have been set
forth by her local papers, the cry has been
taken up all along the line, not only in Geor
gia, but throughout the United States, and
Augusta to-day is better known than she ever
was.”
Says the Americus Republican: “A Schley
county gentleman, who has been on a visit to
Hawkinsville, returned home last week
through Dooly county, and saw. what he took
to he a very economical way of planting cotton.
A young man was driving a mule, laying out
the row; following behind him was
the old man, with a bag of cotton seed,
which he was dropping. Around the
old man’s shoulders was a strong rope, which
was attached to a plow, and this had a board
in ihe place of the ploughshare, to cover the
seed, and was guided by the.old man’s wife.
All of the parties were white, and stated that
they could do as much work in that way as
colored people would do with three mules. It
was a kind of labor-saving process, and did
away with extra mules.”
At the Stewart county Superior Court last
week a little colored boy, AA’illie Albert, 12
years old, was indicted for an assault with in
tent to murder a littie negro girl younger than
himse.f. He was sttempting to shoot a robin
with a shotgun. The gun failed to fire at the
first attempt and the girl begged him not to
shoot the bird, and ran in front of him to
frighten the bird away. He said to her, "if
you scare the bird I’ll shoot you,” and aiming
the gun at her did shoot her. The charge en
tered her right breast and neck and she is so
badly injured that she will be hopelessly crip
pie for life. The jury found him guilty of the
charge, and hejwas sentenced to the peniten
tiary for three years.
Madison Madisonian: “Much has bsen said
in the newspapers within the last few days
about the extension of the Macon and Bruns
wick and the probable point that would be
reached on the Georgia Road to connect the
North eastern at Athens. As soon as this ex
tension appeared probable, some of our lead
ing business men began to discuss the idea of
making Madison the point where the new com
bination would pass, in order to tap the Macon
and Brunswick at Macon. This being the prin
cipal town on the road and decidedly the best
section of country,it is now not improbable that
the new railroad will pass through our city, if
proper efforts are made by our citizens to se
cure this much needed result. The extension
would prove not only advantageous to Madison
but also to Athens, and this is a section that that
city is anxious to reach. Our bnstness men can
readily see the result of such an enterprise.
It is thirty miles to Athens and sixty-eight to
Atlanta. All articles of merchandise would
come direct from Athens at a discount of
thirty-eight miles freight—aside from the
great advance in real estate consequent to
culmination of such an enterprise.” ~
Atlanta Phonograph: “Up to the present
time the surveyors have not been over a foot
of the proposed Georgia AA T estern route, though
a city contemporary states positively that
they have been at work on both ends. pen.
Gordon’s time for beginning the work expires
on the second day of June. AA’e hope to see
something done before much longer.”
Oglethorpe Echo: “About $50,000 has been
spent in the past two years digging gold in tills
county, without any return whatever. Both
mines have now been abandoned, and the valu
able machinery left to rust. The fault with our
belt is that the gold is mixed too much with
sulphurites to be washed by the machinery as
now used. The dry is not far distant, however,
when some process will be discovered to work
this ore, and then every acre of the Flatwoods
will be worth a fortune. AA’e sympathize w ith
these men who lost on the mines, as they are
genial, whole-souled gentlemen, and made a
faithful and gallant fight against ill luck. It is
reported that they intend to try their hands
again next fall ”
Reporting “A Sad Case of Insanity,” the
Henry County Weekly says: “The many
friends of Judge Q. C. Grice, of Fayette coun
ty, will be shocked to learn that his mind has
recently become so seriously impaired as to
render him non compos mentis. On Friday
last a jury was impannelecl in Fayetteville to
determine his s?.nity, and after a careful ex
amination they decided that he was a fit sub
ject for the asylum. In accordance with this
verdict Judge Griggs directed that he
be conveyed to the asylum at Mil
ledgeville, and on Saturday last the
unfortunate mnn passed through Hampton, in
charge of Sheriff Carlisle, on his way to the
asylum. Upon arriving at Miliedgeviile, how
ever, it was ascertained that no vacancy ex
isted, and he was refused admission. He is
now at Fayetteville, under the surveillance of
Sheriff Carlisle, w’here he will remain until a
vacancy occurs. Judge Grice formerly resided
in Fairburn, and was Judge of the County-
Court of Campbell county, in which position he
was held in high esteem by his fellow - citizens.
Judge Robert Grice, of Perry, and former
Judge of the Macon circuit, is his brother.”
Say-s the Berrien County News: “The de
pressed condition of many of our farmers—
many more of w hom will feel the pressure be
fore the summer ends—is attributed very
properly, in our judgment, to the planting of
cotton to the exclusion of provision crops.”
Wrightsville Recorder: “Corn is scarce
through this section, in fact, it is scarcer than
wq have ever known it to be, but w - e honestly
believe that if the old crop, now in the hands
of the farmers of this county, was equally dis
tributed among the people, it would be at least
sufficient to supply every person in the county
with corn unti another crop was made. AVe
know- one man, living in five miles of this
place, who could easily spare five hundred
bushels of corn if he felt so disposed, and we
know a half dozen others, not seven miles
from this place, either of whom could spare
two or three hundred bu-hels if necessity
should require it.”
Hartwell Sun: “On AVednesday last the fir;t
annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Hartwell Railroad was held in the court house.
The report of the officers was received, which
we will publish next week. A new President
and directory was elected. The outlook for our
country since the bielding of the Hartwell Road
is altogether inviting. The good effects of the
road have already far exceeded the expecta
tions of even the most sanguine. Not alone in
the town of Hartwell are the great benefits ob
servable, but a great system of development
and progression is going on all over the
county. Its work has just fairly commenced.
Some little divisions have existed with re
gard to the road in the past. Let them lie
buried in the future. The managers of the
road are puhlic-spiriled gentlemen,
who have large ■Rfcssts involved, and they
propose to make a complete success.
They should have the Support and co-operation
of all. Our people sho u id a u stand together in
promoting our section 6f country, and in fos
tering all those lAaslftutions and enterprises
which eon tribute, so largely to our progression
and'prosperity. With this w-e ihink our imme
diate section will be the most desirable to be
found within ‘the three States’ in the near ap
proaching future.”
FIOKID4.
The Sanitary Council before adjourning at
Evansville, Ind., resolved to hold the next
meeting in Pensacola.
There is ta'k of a telegraph line from Apa
lachicola to St. Marks and Tallahassee.
Matt AVilson wtts bitten by a snake near
Green Cove on Sdnday.
The blackberry boom is about to begin in
Gadsden.
a new paper called the
SliiiMßßwSilaißlOimrcii at Green Cove Springs
yS^Mpß|HPat fa e gift of Col. Clinch,
ft ■j't IjKjßi <dEtailroad depot on I.ochloosa
a mile further down
* *' J* f,* ' 1 " «
is reported, is to have a
sawT**®" *V §" the interested parties is re
ported>.> .. • *!i purchasing machinery, etc.
The M/jtKKk'ribune points to the early
shipmljHßßfcgctabte: ; from Hillsborough
sore ui evidence that the
cold solKpv , jharinless in that section.
“Captain AA'ldtney
in jfi<sTO3llliiretS tlle --?- l Pl la is carrying ahou
vegetables >-h trip
JV anveariousi
TJBfTwith Other (ocaliTies •
y— i M. Youmans, who has
been KjaSU here' charged with the murder of
was carried to Pine Level on the
steamed Lizzie HendersoD, Wednesday, to
stand his trial, which comes off next week.
He was&iu charge of the Sheriff of Manatee
a strong guard.”
Mr. Joseph Getllion, of Tampa, cut recently
a bunch of bananas with 90 fingers. The stalk
bearing was a year old, and grew in
his yard. i«yg»of the “dwarf” variety and
about four f'?**Mgh.
The St. John’s Barge Company has organ
ized with the following officers: Alex. AVal
lace, President; Antonie Solary, Treasurer; A.
L. Richardsi n. Secretary; Martin Griffin of
Jacksonville, HA, DeForest of Sanford, B. L.
lallientbat-criTPjuka, G. A. Drake of DeLand,
and R. M. Cherigj of Fruit Cove, Directors.
The next meette will be held in Palatka on
the 12th of theJglSesent month, when the style
of the barges v; *ljp determined upon.
The Chapel ;«|3he Good Shepherd at Brook
lyn was constiU&ed on Sunday. The Jackson
ville Union £+o% that the building is of wood,
size 24x40, i, - Vnodern Gothic style (ecclesi
astical),-\sg, iu every part, walls
of side and end swing
ing and bell cupola; will seat
about oneHiundred, but so built that it can be
readily enlarged It stands on Commercial
street, F; jokiyu, entrally located for the pres
ent and futu re population.
A thi< f ha: walked off with Congressman
Davidson Aiirkey.
is scarce in Suwannee.
Four hundred orange trees were burned in
Monroe county last week.
Sanford refuses P .-end her borders.
Sanford is clam': Is for water works.
Hon. E. C. LovPy'of Gadsden county, has
gathered his tea crop, and is curing it. The
Quincy Herald says: ‘lf any one will examine
the tea raised by the J udge on his lot in our
town, they cannot fail to be convinced that as
good tea can be raised in Gadsden county as
can be produced in China or any other coun
try.”
Fort Myers is feasting on ripe watermelons.
There are one hundred and seven inmates at
the State Insane-Asylum.
Three onions, weighing five pounds and three
ounces, were raised on Mrs. W. D. Powell’s
farm in Orange ecunty, so says the Sanford
Journal.
The guano boom in Orange county con
tinues.
All the winter hotels in Jacksonville are
closed.
The Atlantic, Gulf and AA’est India Transit
Railroad will hereafter be known as the Flori
da Transit Railroad.
A division of the Sons of Temperance was
organized at Gainesville Monday evening.
The Port Royal, which is to take the place of
the Mary Draper between Jacksonville and
Green Cove Springs is to he supplied with a
new boiler and overhauled before leaving New
York.
The schooner David Luner has arrived at
Jacksonville with a cargo of new iron for the
Florida Central Railroad.
Our AVelborn correspondent, under date of
May 5. says: “Yesterday evening, about 5:30
o’clock, the alarm of the was given, and the
kitchen of Dr. \V. C. Mallory was found to be
on fire. Tho fl lines had made such headway
that nothing could be done to save the build
ing. The dwelling, being «u)y a few feet dis
tant, soon caught, and the entire premises
were soon iu ashes. None of the family were
at home, and the doors were a 1 locked. The
fire probably caught from the stove and was in
progress some time ere it was discovered. The
kitchen door was opened, but the flames burst
out and nothing could be got at. The house
hold furniture was all saved There was no
insurance.”
The Sunland Tribune states that “tho survey
of the Tampa, Peace Cieek and ft. John’s
Railroad was begun last Saturday by Mr. S.
B. Carter, Chief Engineer of the company,
with a competent corps of assistants. Several
preliminary lines are to he run, and the route
offering the greatest advantages will be adopt
ed.”
Pensacola Advance : “Fishermen in the in
terest of Messrs. AVarren & Co. caught on
Puckens’,Point, last week (Thursday), thirty
two hundred pounds of Spanish mackerel, the
most of which were packed and shipped the
same day. These, we are told, are the first of
the season, hence the very ready sale.”
The Herald says Mr. Darsey, of Concord,
came to Quincy a few days since to pay his
taxes. He brought his money in a corn sack,
of which there were 1,200 nickels, l,POoten-cent
pieces, and $l3O in one-dollar and half-dollar
pieces.
The Orange City Times wants to know if
there is a town in Florida that can beat this:
“To-day ends April, and up to this time we re
cord 300 lots sold the past winter, and besides
this, 2,000 acres more have changed hands im
mediately surrounding the city. Can another
town in Florida say as much!'”
Says the Manatee News: “They will be busy
at the mill these days, as Mr. AVgrper has the
contract to furnish the cross-ties for Jay Gould
& Co. to complete their Mexican Railroad
scheme; also one to furnish one hundred thou
sand feet of heavy material for the construe
tion of a wharf at Fort Tavlor, Key AA’est and
for Tam/ -01- on T , ; hundred and fifty thousand
mUl J ” maiCa- If you want work 8°* (0 the
The Tampa Guardian remarks: “Tne
taMhlo v„?’" ays expressed great confi
deace in Mr. Yulee s extending his company’s
railroad to Tampa, and we are now realizing
the truth of our prediction. This week we
came over the Tampa Road from AVal.lo in
company with Captain Maxwell and a corps of
cml engineers, who are now surveying the
route from Ocala to Tampa. It has been sup
posed by some persons that the road would
stop at Oca a for some time after reaching
there, but this is a mistake, for the work will
be pushed ahead until the road reaches the
waters of Tampa Bay. The iron is being laid
at the rate of three-fourths of a mile a day,
and the road will be in good running order as
far as Ocala by the last of this or the first of
next month.”
The Union states that Col. Coryell has gone to
join the engineers who left Jacksonville on
Monday last. These gentlemen, after inspect
ing the cuts on the Halifax, will proceed to the
head of Indian river and run three levels
to Lake Okeechobee for the purpose of as'er
taining the most available line for the proposed
canal. It is thought that the directors of
the company recently formed to drain the
Everglades will meet at Philadelphia on Satur
day, for the purpose of perfecting their organ
ization by electing officers.
The Palatka Herald reports that at the late
term of the Circuit Court, held in Leesburg
Sumter county, AM 11 is AVilson, a negro, was
convicted of the crime of rape on a little negro
girl nine years of age, and was sentenced to
twenty years hard labor in the penitentiary
On tho night after sentence had been passed
he was liberated by unknown parties, and the
following night the jail was burned. AVilson
took up in the neighborhood of Hon. Gus
Munroe, in this county, where he has been at
work. A special deputy from Leesburg arrived
there, and, in company with Sheriff Thomas
Shalley, arrested the convict who is now in
jail awaiting the order to convey him to the
convict camp.
Faj’s the St. Augustine Press: “The latest
scheme in the way of improvements in St.
Augustine is to transform the unsightly creek
known as the Maria Sanchez into a beautiful
lake, which will be a delight to the eye of the
connoisseur in art and nature. Every year
some grand scheme of this kind is lalked of—
something which is to transform St Augustine
into a veritable paradise-but somehow or
other, just when public feeling is at fever heat,
the courage of the projectors ‘oozes out at
their finger ends,’ and the scheme dies out
never again to have an existence. AVe trust,
however, that this time we shall see some
thing done. The parties interested have ample
means, and if their faith and public soirit is in
proportion to the rotundity of their pocket
books, something is sure to happen.”
The St. Augustine Press reports that Thurs
day night of last week an attempt was made
to enter the store of B. Genovar on Charlotte
street. The thieves entared the yard and made
an at.empt to open the office window, which is
protected by heavy shutters and an iron bar;
an augur and compass saw were used, and
one of the shutters sawed completely through
Dr. McQuie, who is stopping at the Hernandez
House, only about a hundred feet distant
heard the noise and going to his window gave
a shrill whistle, which frightened the thieves
who in their hasty flight left behind a compass
saw. Mr. Genovar’s establishment was broken
into once before about three years ago, and
the perpetrator is now repenting his sins at
Major Wyse’s turpentine camp. The compass
saw is in Mr. Genovar’s possession and the
owner can have it by proving property.
AVith reference to the tremendous boom in
the lumber trade of Jacksonville, the Union
states; - 'During the month of April there were
3,330,000 feet of yellow pine lumber shipped
from this city, against 2,569,535 in April, 1880,
an increase last month of 760,485 feet. Os this,
3,173.001 feet were shipped to domesticand 157,-
000 feet to foreign ports. During the months of
January, February, March and April, 18S0,
there were 15,407,416 feet of lumber shipped
from this port, while there have been 15,743,-
663 shipped for the same months this year, an
increase of 336,217. Besides the above amounts
for this year, one or two of our mills have
loaded vessels at Fernandina with lumber
sawed here, and it is estimated that at least
1,000,000 feet have been sawed for use in the
construction of the various railroads, besides
the usual home consumption, which, when
properly added up, will show an increase
of lumber sawed and shipped from here this
year over 1880 of at least 2,000,000 feet.”
AVork on the Jacksonville street railway has
been resumed.
Cedar Keys ice dealers charge two cents a
pound for the indispensable commodity.
Among the contributors of money and labor
to the Tallahassee monument were George
Fitzgiles and Curtis Hill, two colored men.
The Catholic Fair in St. Augustine netted
$398 52.
Pensacola is sending fence planks to Aspin
wall.
Two steamers are to be run from Pensacola
to Havana next fall under the auspices of the
Louisville and Nashville combination.
Hernando’s crops are growing finely.
Measles have given Brooksville a rest,
Mr. Welch, who lives on Salt river, is said to
be the oldest man in Hernando. He is aged 84.
Hernando “takes the cake,” according to the
Crescent, which says of the orange market:
“Hernando is on the Gulf,and the flattest mar
ket here has been sl2 50 per 1,000, and brisk
demand for all marketable fruit.”
Frank Hunter, of Arredondo, was killed by a
passing train on the Transit Railroad on the
30th ult. He was Intoxicated.
Several investigations have been made as to
who burnt the houses recently destroyed in
Leesburg, hut no clue as to the guilty party
Has yet been discovered.
Fishermen recently in from the Gulf stream
report having seen schools of Spanish macker
unpr"cedeqijed in number,
gentlemen, recently ‘appoint
ed by Governor Bloxham, constitute the new
Board of Health of PensacMa: Drs. Robert B. I
S. Hargis, J. C. AVhiting and D. G. B ent; B. I
R. Pitt. President Board County Commission
ers and the Mayor are both ex-officio members.
Says the Apopka Citizen: “AA’e are sorry
that the erection of the Lake Joanna Steam
and Planing Mills should be delayed for a day,
but they will soon be ready to accommodate>
the public. The 15th of May. two weeks ahead,
is the time set. They will embrace all the
modern improvements and be able te fill al
most any order.”
Says the Pensacola Advance: “Notwith
standing the large number of vessels that have
left port in the last few weeks, thus indicat
ing the approach of hot weather and a com
paratively listless period in business affairs,
there is still a fleet of at least fifty ships in
port. The prediction of ten years standing
that our great staple would soon be exhausted
is still repeated by a few prejudiced minds,
but Pensacola loads her ships all the same.”
The Apopka Citizen says: “Mr. Ingram,
President of the South Florida Railroad, and
Mr. Trafford, Chief Engineer, were at the resi
dence of Major Champneys yesterday, and the
party went over the route of the new road be
tween Apopka city and Lake Apopka. The
Major thinks the survey will be made from •
Apopka to the lake before the other part of
the route.”
The Platka Herald states that Mr. AV. P.
AVright has bought another slice of Drayton
Island, 300 acres. Before this last purchase
he owned a good part of the west side of the
island. Mr. W. has been in Florida for twelve
years, and was the first who introduced into
this section the business of market gardening.
For the past ten years he has cultivated vege
tables for the Northern market. He has had
as high as fifteen acres in cucumbers in one
season. This year he cultivated over t n acres
to cabbage alone. It may be said in his case,
at ieast, that he has ascertained the positive
reality of the vegetable industry, and his tes
timony is favorable. The additional 300 acres
just purchased by him, is for vegetable grow
ing. It is a piece of low, rich prairie, which,
in order to render tillable, he is now diking and
draining.
A few days ago Mr. Thomas Shalley, sheriff
of Putnam county, arrested a negro named
Mat Sanders, at San Mateo. Sanders was a
teamster at McGlenny’s Mills, in Duval county,
and, on the 15th of last January, he shot an
other negro, AValker Lewis by name, and made
his escape to Pu’nam county where he re
mained up to the time of his arrest. The pris
oner was delivered to a special constable from
Clay county and returned to Duval.
The Apopka Citizen states that the delega
tions from South Apopka, Apopka City and
Altamonte met the directors of the South
Florida Railroad, at Sanford, on the 28th, and
formally signed articles of agreement, by
which the directors agree to begin the surveys
of a branch road from some point at or near
Longwood or Snow’s Station, and run the line
through Altamonte and Apopka to the shore
of the great Lake Apopka, to begin in one
month, the road to be finished to the lake by
the first of January, 1882. The delegates
pledged $35 010 worth of land to the road, and
the iron was to be ordered this week, and
everything done that could be to place the
work in the hands of contractors. This action
consummates matters and renders the road a
certainty, which will be good news to a great
many.
The Thirty-eighth Annual Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
Florida assembled at St. John’s Church, Jack
sonville, on AA’ednesday. There were present
the Right Rev. J. F, Young, D. D„ Bishop of
the diocese; the Revs. Drs. Scott, of Pensaco
la, and Carter, of Tallahassee; Revs. Messrs.
Thackara, of Fernandina; AVeller, of Jackson
ville; Meany, of Gainesville; Roote, of St.
Augustine; Martin, of Palatka; AA’illiams, of
Crescent City; Snowden, of Lake City; Rode
fer. of AA’aldo; Taylor, of Orange Park; Stur
ges. of Mandarin; Bicknell, of Jacksonville;
AA'eller, Jr., of Ocala; Sturges, Sr., of Ohio;
Stevens, of Chicago; Carpenter, of Detroit,
and a number of lay delegates from various
parishes and missions. The Rev. R.
H. AVeller was re-elected Secretary.
The Council adjourned until
Thursday, where the usual committees were
appointed, the standing committee made its
annual report, and the Bishop delivered the
annual sermon. The total receipts of the
AVomen’s Mission Society were $1,390 39. It
was b greed to hold the next council in Jack
sonville in May, 1882. The Treasurer’s report
showed the receipt 3 for Diocesan purposes to
be $4,056 74 The following officers of the
diocese were elected for the ensuing year:
Secretary, Rev. R. H. AVeller; Treasurer, H. E.
Dotterer; Registrar, Dr. A. S. Baldwin; Stand
ing Committee, Rev Messrs. Thackara, AVeller
and AVilliams, and Messrs Daniel, Swann and
Benedict; Finance Committee, Messrs. Daniel,
Dotterer and Benedict and Rev. Messrs. AA’eller
and Thackara.
Jefferson county’s share of the State school
fund has fallen off one-half.
Several suspicious characters are prowling
about Tallahassee.
The lightning bad a boom in Monticello last
week. The fluid shivered a china tree in Mr.
Carroll’s yard, entered the smoke house, which
it filled with smoke, but did not set it on fire.
His little boy was knocked heels over head, but
was not hurt. Several cows had moved from
under the tree ere it was struck.
Colonel B. F. Whitner, a former resident of
Tallahassee and a prominent citizen of rangeO
county, is dead. He was a native of South
Carolina, and graduated at an early age from
the Georgia State University. He was pos
sessed of iiterary talents of a high order, and
on leaving college was offered the position of
associate editor of the famous Southern Lite
rary Messenger.
In addition to the premium of SIOO for the
best display of Florida products grown by any
single individual to be shown at the next Or
ange County Fair, offered by General Sanford,
Mrs. Sanford offers a prize of SSO for the best
floral display.
The peach crop of Alachua promises to be
large.
Pahttß HeraH, speaking of the opening of
the Vanilla brigade’s campaign, says: “The
demand seems to be on the increase. Last
season about 175,000 pounds were shipped from
this place. It is bought at from four to five
cents per pound and transformed in New York
into the best Cuba tobacco.”
-Th® Lske Worth correspondent of the Key
West Key wants to know why a letter to and
from Miami is forced to travel four hundred
miles to Jacksonville, thence to Cedar Keys, by
steamer to Key West and thence by sail boat
to Mmim, a journey of fifteen hundred miles,
when the actual distance is but eighty miles.
Alachua county was visited recently by a de
structive hailstorm. Many farmers were com
pelled to replant their corn.
Monticello has not had a Sheriff’s sale for
Legal business is flat, and the
Constitution wonders how the lawyers live.
Carpenters, field hands and laborers in gen
eral are needed in Sumter county.
A Dutton correspondent of the Fernandinr.
Repress relates that a young man from Vir-
Edwards, who had been stopping
with Captain Swails, became smitten with a
cbarmuig young school teacher. She lately
lelt for home, and Edwards started for Calla
han, presumably to go to work there. The
next morning he was found locked up in his
room at Captain Swails’, with empty
alcohol and laudanu m bottles thrown around
promiscuously. The door had been forced,
and sticking in the crack, a noto was found
announcing his intention to commit suicide.
He was promptly attended to, and is thought
to be in a fairway to recover.
Mrs. Stringfellow’s house in Gainesville was
consumed by fire last Friday night. The Sun
and Bee says but few things were saved from
the building. Almost all the articles of cloth
ing belonging to the members of the family
three gold watches and all of the furniture
were consumed. Insured for $1,500.
Alachua vegetable growers complain of the
returns made for recent shipments.
Two new engines for the Florida Transit
Railroad are expected to arrive to-day, making
in all twenty-two locomotives on that road.
• A, nev *l engine of great power has been placed
m the Sanford saw and planing mill, and it
commenced running for the first time on Tues
day last. With this acquisition, it is thought
the mill can turn out about 12,000 feet of lum
ber a day.
Morris Metzger, who murdered Samuel Moore
in Brevard county last winter, has been sen
tenced by Judge Cocke to be hung at such time
as the Governor may designate. Abil of ex
ceptions was entered by the doomed man’s
counsel.
The Fernandina Express states that the im
provements for the protection of Fort Clinch
are now in progress. Four jetties are being
run out, at right angles to the beach, above
and below the fort, and will prevent the in
cessant wear of the beach from tides. During
the past year the encroachments of the tides
have been enormous.
Savs the Milton Standard: “The trade of
the Bagdad Lumber Company has for a num
ber of years been very extensive, reaching al
most every nook and corner of the civilized
and half civilized world, but they have just re
ceived an order for flooring from Topeka
Kansas, which seems to us is getting to the
centre as well as the corners.”
. Lake City Reporter: “Some complaint is be
ing made among our business men about a
freight discrimination against Lake City. This
should not be—a town that shipped in the last
six months of 1880 over five hundred thousand
dollars worth of produce.”
Gainesville Sun and Bee: “H. R. Smith,
charged with a nameless crime upon his
daughter, was acquitted in the Circuit Court
last Tuesday. The case was the most impor
tant criminal case tried at this term of the
court and excited much interest.”
The Leesburg Advance learns that a wooden
railway will soon be built from Leesburg to
Lakes Harris and Griffin for transporting
goods from the steamers.
Fernandina Mirror: “It has leaked out that
the Transit Railroad officials are surveying a
line between Bronson and the Suwannee river,
with the view of making a short line connec
tion between the Suwannee river and the Tran
sit Railroad.”
The Fernandina Express says: “The contrac
tors have not yet commenced work on the jet
ties for the improvement of the entrance to
Cumberland sound, but are preparing to do so
at an early day. They have erected dwellings
rough but comfortable, for the workmen on
the extremity of Cumberland island. The
north jetty will he the first one commenced,
and is to be the longest one.”
The Polatka Herald proffers the following
timely counsel; "We have time and again
written on the necessity of our planters turn
ing their attention to raising sugar cane. It
pays better than cotton. We have thousands
of acres of land adapted to its cultivation. On
the Atlantic coast, south of St. Augustine, may
be found some of the finest sugar lands in the
United States. This land is covered heavily
with a growth of live oak. The soil is of a
dark loam color from at least fifteen to twenty
inches in depth. Before the war of 1835 sugar
was raised on a very large scale on this coast,
but since then there has been little or no
effort made to reclaim the land for that or any/
"LtherTmtpose. In addttlfc*rfiese<Wch lands,
Jsuusnnd3of acres all over iTB state could be
planted in cane with good profit.”
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South Carolina Notes.
An organized band of thieves is going about
the Cedar creek country robbing the premises
of farmers in Fairfield county.
The fair of the Winyah Indigo Society, of
Georgetown, was held last week. The net pro
ceeds amounted to about SI,OOO.
Mr. J. W. Woodward, who has the contract
for building the court house and jail at Aiken,
has determined to build a railroad from the
freight depot to the site of the court house,
for the purpose of transporting building mate
rials with facility and expedition. He will be
furnished by the South Carolina Railroad Com
pany with iron necessary for the track.
The longest cotton row in Spartanburg coun
ty, or in the State, perhaps, was laid off by Mr.
E. B. Huff, who works land of John H. Mont
gomery, Esq., two miles north of town. It is
9,760 yards loDg, and the rows being three and
a half feet wide, this row contains a fraction
over two and one-third acres. Its length is a
little more than five and a half miles. It would
require about six hours to run round this one
row of cotton.
Fully six thousand gallons of whisky have
been sold at Blaekville since last November.
Influential friends of the road from Spartan
burg to Augusta have been busy for the last
few days getting up a petition to the County
Commissioners to order an election in the
county as to the subscription of $75,000 in aid
of that road. Up to this time there are about
500 signatures to the petition.
Quite a large number of negroes came to Co
lumbia Friday to witness the execution of
Stepney Sweat and Joe Thomas, who were to
have been hanged, but whose sentences are
stayed pending the appeals in their cases.
These people were visiting the jail in small
squads during the morning. They came from
all directions, some even from as far as Green
ville, and it is estimated that their numbers
must have reached several hundred.
Amelia Chatham, colored, was found one day
last week sitting dead in a chair in her house
in Edgefield.
The upper part of Greenville county was vis
ited by a severe hail storm last week. The
cold was so marked that overcoats were com
fortable .
Two negroes, recently convicted of assault
and battery in the Orangeburg Court, escaped
sentence owing to the indictments’ not con
cluding against the statute.
The total taxable property of Orangeburg
county amounts to three million seven hundred
and seventy four thousand seven hundred and
twenty dollars.
Mr. John Dintzler’s gin hoffeo, in Orangeburg,
was struck by lightning and burned last week.
The sentence of Monroe White, a negro, con
victed in March, at Spartanburg, of burglary,
has been commuted by the Governor from life
imprisonment to confinement for one year in
the penitentiary.
Two negroes, named Wells and Young,'got
into a difficulty at Columbia on Saturday.
Young was severely cut. Wells was arrested.
Eleven families are en route by steamer
from New York for Charleston. They are the
first immigrants to arrive via the seaboard.
Prof. H. P. Montgomery, of Virginia, has
been engaged to take charge of the colored
normal institute, which will be held about the
middle of July.
The South Carolina Dental Association met
in Cheraw last week and adjourned to meet in
Charleston in May next. Twenty-one physi
cians and dentists were present. The pro
ceedings were of an interesting character, and
the delegates were treated with marked hos
pitality by the people of the town.
The South Carolina State Educational and
Missionary Convention of the Colored Baptise
Church met in Cheraw last week. About one
hundred and fifty ministers and delegates were
in attendance.
J. Henry Johnson, a notorious character of
old Radical times, died in the neighborhood
of Old Wells, Edgefield county, on Saturday
last.
The Methodists contemplate erecting a new
church at Bamberg.
Up to date Bamberg has shioped over 7,C00
bales.of cotton, an average of 650 bales to each
buyer.
General Bamberg sold in the winter of 1879
373 horses and mules. The number will run
much higher this season.
The jail at Spartanburg has been empty of
prisoners for the last two weeks, and there has
been no sales by the Sheriff for the last three
months.
Col. Cothran is again working the Dorn Gold
Mine, in Abbeville. He is very cheerful and
hopeful of big results.
The Town Council of Aiken have purchased
five hundred feet of new hose for the fire
department.
Christian Hartlif, a German, recently work
ing at the Palmetto Mills, Georgetown, was
arrested on Tuesday last and lodged in jail on
a charge of lunacy. When taken in charge he
had an axe and a hatchet, and was disposed to
have a “free fight” at one time. After being
shut up he managed to knock down the parti
tions, and was disagreeably ugly for a while.
atAii«nrtli He 5 ry I ' riester > who killed his father
Allendale, has been arrested in Greenville
®omat V H,„ by r rai ! from Alette Hetooka
fho Exchange Hotel, and requested
P res<,nc ? should not be made known
a team to r en‘nv 6d m a livery stable t 0 secure
?, co iiy e 7 him to the house of his
from ' the “(fit v' l L ° D f’ about twelvemiles
hh“ and as B ? v „ eraf parties
ing ’ a hi™ was about enter-
X? Jr /puggy he was arrested Th*
Barnwell was apprised of his cap
fester attempted at first to pdss for
his wife s brother. His wife, who had gone to
live with her people, was permitted to see him
bbe ■s convmcei that he is insane, and fro”:
sharedhe“H k appears tbat tlle father
The new Catholic church at Anderson was
dedicated on Sunday, Bishop Lynch officiating.
to immigration to the Fal
"S™?h S rw,r h<? — W Y „ ork Uerah i remarks:
South Carolina is in a fairway to get immi
citizens long naturalized will be
casting about them for some way of getting a
Southern house and lot for nothing, and free
transportation to them.” s
Says the Laurensville Herald: “An old sa
br.e;,°nc°f Totb-r’s Blades,’ with which the
w hole of Marion s Brigade were armed, was
zensnddle day by 80me of our citi
zens while it was being carried to Spartanburg
Tb^i e i ap,aCe in the , Co* pens Centennial
Tins old reuc was owned by General Brandon
and used by him in t le battle of Cowpens.”
The merchants of Camden have agreed to
tsassssr °' M “
Julius Dunlap, colored, was killed b- lignt
!astVeek the HyCO seetion of Kershaw"county
Mr O. P Williams, the oldest member of the
ultimo* 0 bar ’ dled at ""alterboro on the 23tb
The Governor has received the report of the
jury of inquest on the Laurens lynching case,
and immediately offered a reward of two hun -
dred dollars for the apprehension of each of
the persons engaged in the affair. As some
? bl fi y men are supposed to have had a hand in
it, the reward will very iikely stimulate some
detective to work up the case.
The fishing smack Mary Alice, Capt. Jackson
Grant was capsized off the bar at Charleston
Saturday by a sudden flaw of wind, and the
wholeof the crew, consisting of the Captain
and three colored men, were precipitated into
the water. The Captain and two of the men
succeeded in holding on to the boat, but the
third man, Jacob Green, was swept otT by a
and before assistance cam© was carried
out of sight. The other men were brought to
the city in another Ashing boat.
General John 8. Preston died on Sunday morn
ing at his residence in Columbia, of cirrhosis of
the liver. He had been sinking from day to dav
and his death was expected. His wife and
two daughters, his brother, Col. Thomas Pres
ton, and others of his famiiy were at his bed
side. He was buried in Trinity Churchyard,
Tuesday. He was the brother
of Senator Wm. C. Preston, and was born in
Abingdon. Virginia, in 1809. In 3831 he married
Miss Caroline Hampton, step-aunt of Senator
Hampton. He rendered good service in the
iate war, but his splendid property was sadlv
wrecked during the struggle, and under the
carpet-bag regime. He was widely known and
universally respected.
Mr. Charles Vardel, assistant superintendent
at the tea farm near Summerville, has on ex
hibition a number of interesting relics, which
were unearthed while making explorations in
the basement of tbe old colonial building on
the farm. Some rare china and porcelain ves
sels, a beautiful vase, and a design in terra
cotta are among the best preserved specimens
The rest have been badly injured by the fire
which destroyed the building many years ago.
The State Superintendent of Education, Col
H. S. Thompson, has decided to hold a normal
school this summer for colored teachers, such
as was held last year for white, and will be re
peated this. He is in correspondence with an
experienced instructor in that branch of
education, and when he has consulted with
him in regard to his other engagements he
will appoint a time and place for the meeting.
At a late meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners of Beaufort county a resolu
tion was passed that “outside paupers be
stricken from the list and that the inmates of
the alms house be only such as are sick, indi
gent and without relatives to aid in their sup
port.” This action was taken on account of
the reduced revenue of the county resulting
from the abolition of the license system. It
was estimated that the cost of supporting the
paupers would amount to $3,500 per annum at
the present rate of expenditure.
The Rev. T. P. Bell, of Anderson, and the
Rev. John Stout, of Society Hill, both young
and talented ministers of the Baptist Church,
have tendered thrtr services to the Board of
Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist
Church for missionary work in Chiua. Their
services have been accepted by the board and
they will depart for their field of labor in Oc
tober.
The Clarendon Enterprise says: “The ap-
E roach of the Cowpens Centennial celebration
rings to mind the" fact that the wife of our
highly esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr. Arthur
Harvin, is one of a few living descendants of
William Maybin, one of the heroes of that bat
tle. On one occasion Mr. Maybin was taken
prisoner and carried to Charleston, S. C.,where
he soon after died on board a British prison
ship, one of those charnel houses of liberty.
His wife’s brother, Benjamin Duncan, a
soldier in the British army, obtained permis
sion to briDg his corpse on shore for burial.
Duncan then visited his bereaved sister. Upon
returning to his duty, Duncan promised to
come back as soon as possible, leaving a
watch and other things as a pledge. This
watch is now in the possession of Mrs. Arthur
Harvin, by whom it is highly prized.”
The funeral of General John 8. Preston, at
Columbia, was largely attended. Very many
of the old family servants were present. Tbe
r Rmhlamj Yg|unt«»rs_a«d -he _!Gov<agioFft
. GuardsAS?e*»<pres*nt In a eoffin
was hidden in flowers. The pali bearers were •
Governor Hagood, Chief Justice Simpson. Gen.
James Chesnut, the Hon. W. I'oTcher Miles
Ceptain W. B. Stanley, Colonei
Thomas Taylor, Colonel A. R. Taylor, Colonel
John T. Rhett, Colonel A. C. Haskell. Colonel
Wm. Wallace, Dr. C. H. Miot, Dr. P. E. Griffin
J. H. Sawyer, T. A. McCreery, Major Theodore
Stark and H. P. Green. The Episcopal service
was touchingly read by the Rev. Dr. P. J.
Shand and the Rev. H. O. Judd, of Trinity
Church. The correspondent of the News and
Courier says of the funeral: “It was an im
pressive scene, this burial of one of the last
of the old school of Carolina gentlemen. The
bells of the city tolled, and John S. Preston
was laid to his last rest in sight of the marble
sentinel soldier whose monument he had dedi
cated with his last breath of eloquence, and
whose cause had been graven on his heart in
Imes that defeat, nor time, nor death might
wear away.”
The contract has been given out for the
building of the telegraph line from George
town to Kingstiee. Col. L. P Miller will super
intend the work, which is to be completed
within seventy days, at a cost of $2,625.
Mr. J. E. Jaudon, living near Tillman, in
Hampton county, has the most extensive grape
arbor in that section.
James Heyward, a negro, convicted of mur
der at Beaufort and sentenced to be hnng, has
been respited by the Governor pending pro
ceedings for a new trial.
Seven chairs were stolen from the lecture
room of the Presbyterian Church in Columbia
last week.
The fruit crop in the upper part of Colleton
county bids fair to be very good. The trees
are full.
The Town Council of Camden, at its meeting
last Monday, passed a resolution appropriating
one hundred and fifty dollars to assist in the
survey of the route for the narrow gauge rail
road from Camden to Chester, a continuation
of the Georgetown Narrow Gauge Railroad.
It will cost about three hundred dollars to
make the survey, and the merchants of the
town will probably raise the other one hun
dred and fifty dollar >.
Mr. John Johnson was found dead in his bed
at Winnsboro on last Friday morning.
The Palmetto Manufacturing Company of
Charleston has applied to the Cierk of the
Court for a charter. Over seventy, thousand
dollars has been subscribed to the capital
stock.
Plans and specifications have been made,
and a site for a new hotel selected at Port
Royal. Tte building i 3 to cost $25,009 and
work will be commenced at once.
The State Board of Health has issued a cir
cular to be sent to tha teachers of all schools,
asking them to find out how many children
have been vaccinated, how many "have not
been, and how many are willing to be, free of
charge.
Mr. T. S. Stuckey, in Cypress Township, Dar
lington county, lost his barn and stables, with
all his corn, peas and forage, by fire, on Thurs
day morning, April 21.
Fourteen applications for license to retail
whisky have been made to the Town Council
of Darlington. The town license has been
fixed at SIOO, which, added to the United
St ates revenue and the State license, will make
the cost $225.
Mrs. Mary C. Addison, wife of George B. Ad
dison, Esq., died at her husband’s residence in
Edgefield county on Friday last at the age of
thirty-five. She was the eldest daughter of
the late Hon. Preston S. Brooks, and a grand
daughter of the late Rev. Robert Means, of
Fairfield.
Private subscriptions to the Atlantic and
French Broad Valley Railroad to the amount
of $12,000 were made in Abbeville last week in
a very short time. It is expected that this
amount will be doubled, and perhaps trebled.
In addition to this, it is confidently exuected
that $50,000 will be raised by township taxa
tion.
Amanda Washington, the colored woman
who was implicated in the robbery of Ben
Hayne in Burns’ lane, Charleston, on the 20th
of April last, has been committed for the Court
of Sessions on a charge of grand larceny.
Washington, after the robbery, made her
escape to Augusta. Ga., where she was cap
tured and brought back to Charleston. The
amount stolen was over S2OO
T. D. Richardson, Trial Justice at Jackson
boro, has been removed by Governor Hagopo.
It is understood that G. W. Turner, of
Graniteville, will shortly erect a steam saw
mill in the suburbs of Aiken.
The room of Judge Edward Crosland, of
Mayfield, Graves county, Ky., at the Highland
Park Annex, Aiken, was entered t>y a thief
through a window a few nights since, and
robbed of a quantity of valuable clothing.
No clue has been obtained as to the perpetra
tor of the robbery.
Mrs. Maty S. Chandler, of Sumter, was very
seriously burned on Saturday evening last.
Her clothes caught fire while she was attend
ing to the burning out of her fowl house, and
we learn the flames were only extinguished
when the elothes which she wore were con
sumed. Her life is said to have been saved
by the protection derived from the corsets
which she wore.
The iron on the Apopka Branch Railroad ha?
already been ordered,
