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2 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-.--- ®~rr--v Atilrc* —■" 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.” >■■♦>< ■ 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,