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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUMR XXIV.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
I ITEMS of interest from va
: RIO VS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
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mroKTANO* IN 11 SOUTHSBN STATES.
The Bob* hotel at Cedurtown, Ga., woi
gold on Wednesday to Mr. Uuilor ot
Florida.
Zacharies McDaniel, the oldest citizen
in Buckingham county, Va., and a pen
sioner of the war of IHI2, died near Elk
ton, Vn., Tuesday, uged 103.
Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga.,
was struck by lightning Tuesday while
standing in his store door and instantly
killed. He leaves a wife and several
children.
At 11 o'clock Wednesday night the
postotticc of Waycross, Ga., was broken
into and robbed of over twelve hundred
dollars in currency, and thirteen regis
tered packages.
Gabe Holmes, a very respectable negro,
at Beaufort, S. C., was struck by light
ning Wednesday afternoon during a
thunder storm. His injuries are very
serious and may prove fatal.
The corner stone of the Polk county,
Ga., new twenty-four thousand dollar
courthouse, was laid Thuisdav, at Cedar
town, with appropriate Masonic cere
mony by the lodges of Home and Cedar
town.
The postoffices at Patterson and Homer
villc, Ga., have been burglarized, but wf
have not learied full particulars. This
is evidently the work of the same party
who burglarized the postsffice at Way
cross.
The Furman Farm Improvement Com
pany, of East Point, Ga., arc extending
their chambers and putting in new sul
phur furnaces, which will burn 6,000
pounds of sulphur in 24 hours, and they
claim that this will make 27,000 pounds
or 13J tons of sulphuric acid.
During the thunder storm of Wednes
day, a house near the Baldwin Fertilize!
Works, of Beaufort, 8. C., was struck by
'lightning, and a colored boy, a cow, s
hog and some chickens were killed. Si-v
--, era! men were in the house at the time,
but were only shocked.
Isabella Smith, nu old colored woman,
was struck by the south-bound fast mai
train, back of Concordia Park, Savannah,
Ga., Wednesday morning, and was in
stantly killed. She had started out ti
pick terries, and was walking south or
the Savauuah, Florida & Wosteru track.
Avery severe wind and rain storm vis
ited Charlotte, N. C., Wednesday after
noon, and considerable damage wasdont
to crops, cspecitdly corn. The wheal
and fruit crop also suffered no little dam
age. Com was blown down, and in some
fields uprooted entirely. The storm only
lasted a short time, but was terrific and
disastrous.
The Danville and East Tennessee rail
road company organized at Danville, Va.,
Wednesday. Among the directors art
A. E. Bateman and R. W. Stuart, New
:York bankers. The road is really f
[western extension of the Atlantic and
IDativillc railroad, which will be com-
Ipleted between Danville and Norfolk by
KJeccmber 1.
[ 11. 8. Pullen, of Carrollton, Ga., whe
[tried to cut bis throat a few days age
with a razor, attempted his life acain
Tuesday by trying to drown himself in a
small branch, a short distance from his
house. He was brought to town uudet
a charge of lunacy, tried anil sent to the
asylum. Mr. Pullen has been a successful
farmer, and has accumulated a nice little
property.
W. S. Morris, a conductor on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad was
killed justoutside the union depot at tin
o’clock Wednesday night in Birmingham,
Ala., by some mistake in setting nswitch.
The engine backed against otto of tin;
coaches of an excursion train standing
on a side track. Morris was caught be
tween the coaches and tender of the en
gine, and his head was crushed to pulp.
John Williams was shot and fatally
wounded Sunday at Emery church, ten
miles east of Sardis, Miss., by Mrs.
Mattie Campbell. The shooting occurred
immediately after religious services, and
Williams died the following morning.
The provocation for the killing was a
charge made by Williams thst he had
been intimate with Mrs. Campbell several
mouths ago, upon which statement a bill
for divorce is now pending.
Tlure is anew- railway war at Durham,
N. C. Early on Tuesday morning a large
force of hands began the extension of the
Richmond and Danville side track along
Peabody street. The commissioners
held a meeting and passed resolutions
forbidding the road from extending the
jtrack. The chief of police was instructed
to use the force to stop the track-laying.
Tlie uiatter goes iuto the courts aud adds
to the complication.
The supreme court has just decided
that the bouds issued to erect a twelve
Kiousand dollar graded school building
Spartanburg,' S. C,, are valid. This
as a fortunate ending to a warm local
■ontest Ihe woik of construction will
proceed immediately. The building was
more needed, for eight hundred
Epupils have been in attendance durino
the recent year, and the old buildings
sare uncomfortably crowded.
It is reported that Charles R. McLeod
who lives in Wilcox county, Ga., just
across the Pulaski line, killed two ne
groes Friday. McLeod and a negro ten
ant had a difficulty. They had grappled
aud were struggling, when the m gro’s
wife ran up behind and dealt McLeod a
fearful blow with an ax back of his
head. He was stunned, but recover no
himself, saw that she was about to strike
again He drew a pistol and shot her
and then shot her husband.
The Georgia Pacific railroad is now
open to Greenville, Miss., and making
regular conueclions with the road from
safe c’fT l ° Ark “ ns " 8 Ci, y on the other
Warren an Fn r ‘ ] VL ' r ' The road between
, Camden beyond Arkansas
U shall "* r,l l>idly, and when
and (1 imrt om pl<_ted there will be anew
and direct route from Atlanta to Texar
a " 19 speeded that by the Ist of
beTn • hC Ge ° r ? m Pacific railway will
SKWWKS
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. p. says:
"l as mf; d° Tuesday on the Raleigh
aston railroad in the presence of a
number of prominent railroad men of a
proepss recently invented by Baylus Cade,
his county, for telegraphing tp and
. . m i novin g trains. A current is niain-
InnU 1 l ,y meaas of a drag which is at
tached to the car, atjd which sijdes over
set of wires laid along the track. A
message was received from the offices at
Httleigh and Greensboro whilo the train
was running at the rate of thirty miles
an hour.
The remains of John Sevier, first gov
ernor of Tennessee, were exhumed Mon
day at old Fort Decatur, near Montgom
ery, Ala., and cnllined in u magnificent
casket, arrived in Chattanooga at noon
Tuesday in charge of Governor Taylot
and sail. The train was draped in
mourning. The funeral train was met,
in addition to the local military, by the
officials of the city and county and a
delegation of citizens. The procession
marched to the chamber of commerce,
where the casket was placed in state.
The casket was viewed during the day
by hundreds of citizens. The pnrty left
the city Wednesday for Knoxville, where
the interment took olace at 3.30 u. ui.
HANGING IN ROME, GA.
HAHIIY HAMILTON SWINGS FOU KILLING A
CHINAMAN.
From four to six thousand people went
to Rome, Ga., Wednesday to witness th
hanging of Hardy Hamilton. They
came from the country in all kindß ol
vehicles, and the railroads brought a
large number. In nppearance llardy
Hamilton was a stalwart and handsom*
negro of rather light complexion, and ol
apparently more than usual intelli
gence. His face was prepossessing,
and he had no appearance ol
being n cold-blooded murderer.
Upon the gallows Hardy addressed
the people. He was dieesed in a neal
black suit. He looked brave and hope
ful. His voice was clear and strong,
without a tremor. Not the slightest
sign of fear was visible. He rehearsed
the story of hisjirime, said he alone com
mitted the murder, that he deserved
death and was not afraid to die. H
warned every one ngainst sin, and closed
by saying: "Look at this rope; that
speaks better than I can.” He then knell
and offered up a fervent prayer. Th
black cap was placed on his head, and at
ten minutes before one Deputy Moors
sprang the trap and the condemned mas
fell eight feet. There was no s‘ ruggle,
and death ensued in a short time. Af
ter twenty-two minutes the body was cut
down.
The story of the crime is as follows: Jos
Lee and All Chin were two harmless
Chinamen who had opened a laundry on
Third avenue, near Broad street, where
they pursued the even tenor of their waj
for many mouths, unmolested and mo
lesting no one. On the night of March
sth, last, they were the victims of i
murdeious assault and received fear
ful wounds which might at any moment
result in death. The Chinamen were
discovered lying on the floor of theii
room which communicated with the
laundry, insensible, surrounded by a
pool of blood and with gaping wounds in
the head and neck, evidently inflicted by
some sharp inslrument. Joe Lee died,
unconscious, two days afterwards, hav
ing remained so since the attack which
resulted in his death. Ah Chin, after
lying iu a precarious condition for
several days, finally recovered.
During the trial of Duno Gwultney the
defense placed Hardy Hamilton on the
stand as a witness. In the presence of a
great crowd he told the story of the mur
der. Cooly and with deliberation, he
gave all the horrible details of the crime,
claiming that he alone was guilty, and
that he had no accomplices. He stated
that he waited for Ah Chin at the rear
door of the laundry; that, just before
retiring, Ah Chin came to the door, and
that be (Hamilton) gave him several
blows on the head with an ax. He then
went into the laundry, where he found
Joe Lee in bed, and inflicted upon him
terrible wounds. He then ransacked the
laundry and obtained several silver dol
lars, together with collars, cuffs, etc.
He threw the ax into a well near the
laundry. Hamilton’s evidence created a
profound imrpession. But public opin
ion was greatly divided as to its tiuth,
many still believing that there were ac
complices in the crime.
THE OTTAWA.
THE WRECKED NORWEGIAN BARK OTTAWi
FOUND BV A PHILADELPHIA TUG.
Shortly before midnight Saturday, the
tug ‘ Argus,” of Philadelphia, having in
tow the wrecked Norwegian bark, Otta
wa, arrived at Lewis wharf, Boston.
The Ottawa was abandoned at sea about
May 15th, while on passage from Pensa
cola to Buenos Ayres, laden with hard
pine lumber. Her crew were received
aud taken to London. The Argus made
an unsuccessful cruise iu search of the
bark about three weeks ago. She left
Boston on a second cruise June 14th, and
found the balk on the 19th. The wreck
piesents a hard looking sight and gives
evidence of battling with the elements
for some time. Every available spar,
with the exception of the foot fore lower
mast and mizzen mast, are gone. The
fore yard is hanging in the slings, look
ing as if it might fall at any moment.
On it the foresail hangs in rib
bons, and that is the only piece ol
canvas left, except the mizzen gaff top
sail, which is furled on the mast. Ilei
cabin is completely gutted, and a lot ol
boards are piled up in the center of the
cabin floor. A portion of the decklnad
of hard pine lumber remaius on dick.
The bulwarks are completely washed
away, and a portion of the stanchions are
broken off. Masts, yards, blocks, a vast
amount of ropes, rigging, etc., art
■strewn about the decks.
LITTLE ENGINEERS.
PHILADELPHIA BOYS KILLED BY TOE EX
PLOSION OF A HOME-MADE BOILEIt.
Harry and William Jesser, aged 15
and 17 years, were, killed Saturday, and
are victims of their mechanical preco
ciousness. They were inventive lads, and
employed much of their time running a
small engine. They had been generatiag
steam in an old range boiler and convey
ing it to the engino by means of a gas
pipe. They conceived the idea of at
taching the engine to the family icc-crcom
freezer, and thereby doing away with
hand turning. They were getting a firi
for this purpose Saturday in a small
brick furnace under the boiler, when a
terrific explosion took place, killing both
boys, aud injuring Mrs. Flora Kriese and
little Henry Kriese. who were near by.
A HEAVY MORTGAGE.
A morning paper says: “The Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Compa
ny has made the United States Trust
Company, New York, a mortgage for
$150,000,000. The mortgage is for the
purpose of taking up all other indebted
ness of the road at a lower rate of inter
est, and to lay additional double tracks
aud make other nepessary improvements.
It gives the whole property as security.”
••MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER HE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /"— J*tfnon.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FHOU ETKUYWHKHE ACCIDENTS, STBIXE.,
EIBES, AND U A I'FIN IN OS OK INTEUEST.
Tho flood damaged the property ol
Pennsylvania to the extent of $44,250,-
000.
Tho king of Holland, who recovered
sufficiently from his recent illness to re
sume the reins of government, has had a
seriotis relapse,
A portion of the Munningham mills,
it Bradford, England, was burned Suu
dav. Loss, £50,000. Two firemen were
killed by fulling debris and Beverul in
jured.
General Greely is about to turn loose
three hundred weather prophets on the
country. On and after July Ist, the ob
servers at the signal service stations will
make their own predictions.
The steamship City of Cleveland, and
the schooner John Martin, arc ashore at
Two Harbors, Minnesota, and arc badly
damaged. The steamer is valued at
♦ 100,000 and the schooner at $35,000.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says:
Mr. and Mrs. John Leavitt were arrested
Wednesday, charged with the murder of
their two daughters, near Gresham, Sun
day night. No further particulars yet
received.
The withdrawal of gold for shipment
to Europe on Saturday’s steamer from
New York, has already set in, $4,250,-
000 in gold bars being ordered at the
assay office Thursday for export by for
eign brokers.
Rivers have overflowed their bankt
and partially submerged the town of Bai
Lcduc, France, in the department ol
Meuse, and the surrounding country.
Many houses underminded and de
stroyed, and crops and vineyards have
been ruined.
Official returns have received from
every county in the state of Pennsylva
nia. The majority against the prohibi
tory amendment is 189,020. The ma
jority against the suffrage amendment,
providing for a repeal of the poll tax
qualification, is 235,540.
General Cameron wa9 prostrated On
Thursday at his home, Donegal Springs,
Pa., with paralysis of the right arm and
side, and his condition is critical. Ex-
Attorney-General Wayne McVeagh and
wife, and Mrs. Haldeman, General Cam
eron’s daughter, are with him.
A dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo.,
says: Governor Francis on Tuesday
dealt the saloons of Missouri the most
severe blow ever received when be signed
the Newberry bill. The bill prohibits
music, cards, dice, billiard tables, pool
tables, bowling alleys and boxing gloves
in saloons, and will go into effect July 1.
A boy named Snyder, thirteen years
old, residing at Highland, near Terre
Haute, Ind., was murdered by four boys,
whose ages range from nine to fifteen.
The boys are two brothers, named Pear
man, and two named Douglas. Snyder’s
body was found in a creek. He had been
stabbed and shot. All the boys are un
der arrest.
Mrs. Hayes, wife of Ex-President
Hayes, was stricken with apoplexy Fri
day afternoon at her home in Fremont
and at 9 o'clock in the evening she was
unconscious. The attack came between
three and four o’clock in the afternoon,
while Mrs. Hayes was sitting in her room
sewing. Paralysis of the right side re
sulted, rendering her speechless.
The mayor of Belfast, Ireland, has
sent £SOO by cable to the Johnstown
sufferers, ns an installment of the amount
to be raised by the citizens of Belfast.
The sultan of Turkey donates £2OO
Turkish, for the relief of the flood suf
ferers. Mr. Blaine directed the minister
to express the grateful appreciation of
the President and government of the
United States for the generous donation
of the sultan.
Harry H. Flamm, who was an em
ploye of the Marine National Bank, at
Pittsburg, Pa., was lodged in jail Sat
urday night on the charge of having em
bezzled $35,000. About 4 o’clock that
afternoon, W. W. O’Neil, president of
the hank, lodged information against
Flamm for embezzlement. Flamm was
taken from his desk. $20,000 bail was
demanded for his hearing Monday. Be
ing unable to secure that amount, he
was lodged in jail.
A disastrous fire, accompanied by se
rious loss of life, occurred early Friday
evening in the fireworks establishment of
Heyer Bros., corner Summer and Hawley
streets, Boston, Mass. Three dead bodies
have been taken out, and others
received injuries which will probably re
sult fatally. It is feared that there may
be more.victims among tho debris. Loss
$160,000. A later and moro careful in
vestigation places the fatalities at five,
and one probably fatally injured, and
two boys missing.
A dispatch from Providence, R. 1.,
says: The fifth amendment to the con
stitution of Rhode Island, the prohibi
tory amendment, was on Thursday re
pealed by a vote of 5,469 more than
three fifths of the total vote necessary to
carry the amendment. The vote will be
officially counted on or before July 15th,
and will be announced by proclamation
on or before July 10th. The election
was quiet, aud the result created no ex
citement in the city streets that night.
At midnight a salute of fifty guns was
fired in consequence of the repeal.
HERO AND HEROINE.
A BRAVE WOMAN SAVED FROM DROWNING
BY A BRAVE MAN.
A dispatch from Wilmington, N. C.,
says: The most daring rescue ever made
on this coast has made Richard Warren,
of Wilmington, the hero of the hour.
Miss Carrie Moffit was drowning in the
surf. She is a heroine, and inherits hei
feariess spirit. Her grandfather was
Captain John N. Moffit, of Confederate
fame. Her father was late Ensign Eu
gene Moffit, who distinguished himself
in the fight of the Alabama with the
Kearsago. She showed her true south
ern pluck by saying to her nearly ex
hausted rescuer: “I do not think you can
save me, the waves are so high. It is not
well you should perish in trying to save
mo It is not necessary that both should
die’, so if you yourself growing
woak under your burden, turn me loose
and let me die alone. I will release my
hold.” People in Wilmington will pre
sent testimonials to Miss Moffit and
young Warren.
Folks who are always for-giving:
charitable persons.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JUNE 27. 188!).
CALLS HIMSELF CHRIST.
A KKOKO IN GKOUUIA CItEATKB MUCH EX
CITKMK.NT AMONG Ills HACK.
For a month, a man calling himsell
Jesus Christ lias been going about
through Liberty county, Ga., raving in
an insane way which he called preaching.
The negroos have come to believe iu him,
and have accepted his words as inspired
teachings. “Give up everything ami fol
low me,” ho commanded. ‘ Let your
crops go. Turn your cattle into the
patches. The Lord will provido for
you.” And, obeying him, hundieds ol
negroes have quit work. Their little
crops have grown up with weeds. The
planters have been doserted by their la
borers, who absolutely refuse to work.
Turpentine manufacturers and the saw
mill mcn.havo difficulty in getting help
enough to continue operations. The
colored population has been completely
demoralized for three weeks. To such
an exteut had the craze spread that the
intelligent colored people and tho whites
joined in discussing some plan to put a
stop to it. So Thursday a warrant was
issued for the man’s arrest. He calls
himself Jesus Christ, declaring that he
descended from heaven in a cloud. In
the warrant the mmo Campbell was ap
plied to him. Tlic new prophet told his
people not to offer any resistance. They
feared that he would be crucified, but he
told them that he would not be put to
death agaiu. When the officers went to
arrest him no resistance was offered, but
a large crowd soon joined the favored
disciples, who are almost constantly
about him. They were ready to tear the
officers to pieces, but at the
Lord's request suffered him
to bo taken quietly away. The
constable drove to Flemington, where
Justice Fleming resides. Friday he was
tried. There is no telegraph office near
Flemington, and the result of the trial
could not yet be learned. He shows scars
in his hands which he says were made bv
the nails when he was crucified on Cal
vary. His hair and beard are long and
shaggy, although he evidently endeavors
to tiim his beard as the Savior’s is rep
resented in some old pictures. The
negroes fall down and worship him,
and kiss his hands and feet and anoint
him. He dresses shabbily sometimes,
and at all times poorly. He refuses
money publicly, but is said to have mon
ey. Campbell came from the West, it is
believed. At his bidding women have
left their husbands and men their fami
lies to follow him about. His familiarity
with the scriptures is exceptional. He
has told the people that he will go back
to Heaven in a chariot of fire at an early
date.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN KILLED AND ONE HUNDRED IN
JURED IN A RAILROAD WRECK.
A railroad wreck, resulting in ths
death of two men and the Injury of one
hundred others, occurred about seven
o’clock Tuesday morning Dear Pratt
mines, six miles from Birmingham, Ala.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company runs a train every morning to
carry the miners and other workmen
from the town of Pratt Mines in the dif
ferent shafts and slopes where the men
work. The train consisted of
eight cars, and there were about
two hundred men on board when the
accident occurred. The train was run
ning backward at the rate of ten miles
an hour, when it struck two cow 9 lying
on the track. Six of the eight cars were
thrown down an embankment and piled
on each other. Henry McCauley and
Walter Beasley, carpenters, were instant
ly killed. Both were young white men
and unmarried. On one of the cars were
about thirty convicts chained together,
and, strange to say, they were about the
only persons who escaped injury. About
one hundred men were injured. The
worst injuries being broken legs and
arms. It has been impossible to obtsin
a list of those seriously injured. The
ooroner’s jury found that the company
was guilty of gross negligence in not
keeping the road bed In good repair, and
that the conductor was guilty of crimi
nal negligence.
A DOUBLE CYCLONE.
TWO PEOPLE KILLED IN MISSOURI AND
OTHERS FATALLY INJURED.
A dispatch from Albany, Mo., says:
At 2.30 p. m. Thursday, our vicinity was
visited by two cyclones, or one in two
prongs. It struck the frame residence of
H. P. Williams, three miles east of this
city, and completely demolished it.
Williams’ nine year son and his mother
in-law, Mrs. Crispin, were instantly
killed. Mrs. Williams was fatally in
jured and three children were badly hurt.
Tho cyclone wiped out the little village
of Louestar. destroying the store-house
and goods of A. C. Townsend, tho Bap
tist Church, school house and many res
idences. Townsend, the postmaster, is
thought to be fatally injured, ns is also
Mrs. George Stiaeman. Many otl er farm
houses and outbuildings were destroyed.
MAIL POUCH STOLEN.
MYSTERIOUS DISAI’I’EARANE OF A NABII*
YILLE, TENN., MAIL POUCH.
All the mail that left the Nashville
postoffice for the South on the night of
May 17th has disappeared. The fact
has been withheld by the postoffice offi
cials. that investigation might not bo
hampered. Up to the present nothing
has been learned further tlinn that the
mail was made up as usual and delivered
at the door of the postoffice to tho keeper
of the wagon which carries the mail to
the depot. The pouch was locked up in
this wagon, which drove off toward the
depot, and that is the last heard of it.
It is impossible now to learn how nuch
money was in the mail. It was desliued
for a large and important territory, and
the presumption is that the pouch con
tained much valuable matter.
DARING MURDER.
DAVID A. FETTUB FOUND DEAD IN A BIR
MINGHAM STREET.
David A. Peltus, a section forenan on
the Louisville & Nashville Railroal, was
murdered and robbed Tuesday nifht in
an open square on First nvenue Bir
mingham, Ala., within one hundml feet
of an eleetrie light, and near a hickly
populated neighborhood. Tho holy was
not found until Wednesday morniig- An
inquest was begun that afternoon, but no
clow to the assassin has yet boen (iscov
ered. The dead man, when last ien by
his friend?, had about SSO, a goldwatch
and some other jewelry, all of whith was
stolen. The murdered man leavesa wife
and four children.
FARMING HINTS,
GARNERED FROM SOUTHERN
ALLIANCE SOURCES.
Rose culture is on a boom in tho vicin
ity of Atlanta, Ga.
Griffin, Ga., expects to ship ten thous
and bushels of peaches this season.
The Surry county, Va., Alliance are
moving the matter of organizing the pea
nut growers.
The Alliance of Oconee county, S. G.,
lias saved $4 ,000 in the reduction on tli<
price of fertilizers.
The Summer session of the State Agri
cultural Society of Georgia will be held
in CeJartowu, August 11th.
The State Farmers’ Alliance of Geor
gia will meet In Marou on the 20th of
August. It will bo an important meet
ing.
The John 11. Dent Alliance ol Floyd
county, Ga., have their scalping knives
sharpened for light-weight millers and
sellers of corn meal.
The Horticultural Society of Georgia
will meet in Griffin, July 31st and Au
gust Ist and 2d. President P. J. Berck
mans is preparing an attractive pro
gramme.
Dr. A. F. Pharr, of Decatur, is one ol
the most successful grape growers in the
state. Major G. A. Ramspeck, of the
same town, has a vinevard of twenty
acres that yields enormously.
Tho Atlanta Horticultural Society is
investigating the matter of peach yellows
in Georgia. This society meets every
Saturday in the quarters of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in the new capitol
Hon. W. J. Northen, one of the con
tributing editors of the Southern Cultiva
ior , is of the opinion that tho farmers
will stick on cotton bagging and says sc
in the July number of the Southern Cul
tivator.
The Interstate Farmers’ Association,
organized in Atlanta in August, 1887.
will meet in Montgomery, Alabama, on
August 20tli, of this year. Hon. L. L.
Polk, of North Carolina, is president o:
the association. Tho attendance will bi
large.
The county Alliance met at Cuthbert
Ga., and after coneultation purchased
the Rawles & Perry guano house, whicl
they will convert into an Alliance ware
house for the handling of the comiog
cotton crop. The price paid was 6ever
hundred dollars.
Edgewood (Ga.) Alliance is a plucky
organization. They are arranging plan!
for a co-operative cotton seed oil mill,
an extensive cannery, and a grand county
exposition in DcKalb county of the work
of Alliance men. Major W. B. Hender
son is the live president.
The late Road Congress in Georgia is
attracting attention. Several Southern
states are moving in the matter of hold
ing stmilnr meetings It is snirl that one
count/ in Georgia has subscribed for one
thousand copies of the proceedings ol
the Georgia Road Congress.
THE INTER-STATE FARMERS’ ASSOCIATION.
This body was organized at Atlanta,
Ga., in August, 1887, and ii ooraposed oi
representatives from Alabama. Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes
see, Texas and Virginia. These repre
sentatives (live or more from each con
gressional district) are appointed by tho
vice presidents of the states respectively.
Tho vice presidents are: It. F. Kolb,
Montgomery, Ala.; L. P. Featherston,
Forest City,’ Ark.; J. T. Petterzen, Pen
sacola, Fla.; John P. Fort, Mount Airy,
Ga.; John Dymond, Bellair, La.; J. T.
Henry, Greenwood, Miss.; Elias Carr,
Old Sparta, N. C.; E. R. Melver, Pal
metto, S. C.; L. D. Yarrell, Bellfield,
Va.; B. M. Hord, Nashville, Tenn,; G.
B. Pickett, Decatur, Texas. The asso
ciation will meet in the city of Mont
gomery, Ala., on the 20th of August
next. Reduced rates, on all lines of
railway, will be secured, as also at the
hotels and boarding houses of that city,
and will be furnished to delo
o-ates in due time by the secretary.
Composed of leading practical agricul
turists of the south, this body will rep
resent the enterprise and progressive
thought, which new conditions and sur
roundings havo evolved, and which must
solve tho great economic questions
now confronting us. Let every state be
fully and strongly represented. Important
questions, affecting the material advance
ment and industrial development of the
south, and especially the promotion of
her great agricultural interests, will be
considered.
A FAMILY MURDERED.
SHOT IN TOE BACKS AND STRANGLED
REMAINS BURNED.
News was received at Helena, Mont.
Thursday night, of a most brutal crime
committed iu Fergus county. Ou Satur
day last, the body of a middle-aged wo
man, who had been shot in the back, was
found by a cowboy in a wild and unfre
quented portion of Judith river. Oc
Tuesday, the bodies of two men, a six
teen-year-old girl and a six-year-old girl,
were discovered about 100 yards above
the same place. All were shot in the
back except the child, who was strangled.
Near by wero found remaius burned.
Trunks and camp equipage, and every
thing by which the bodies might be
identified, was destroyed. They are sup
posed to be a family of emigrants from
lowa or Illinois. A hundred horsemen
are scouring the plains seeking the trail
of the murderers.
FLOOD IN KANSAS.
FOUR FARMERS KILLED —RESIDENCES,
RAILROADS AND BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY.
A dispatch from Wichita, Kansas, says:
The violent rain storm ou the head wa
ters of Walnut River caused an immense
flood to reach Augusta and Eldorado.
About midnight of Sunday the waters
came rushing into the towns, and washed
away 1,500 feet of the track of tho
Missouri Pacific Road and car
ried away twelve residences. Monday
four farmers were drowned a few
miles north of Eldorado. East of Eldo
rado, on tho branches of Walnut river,
the Missouri Pacific lost six bridges. At
Augusta three hundred feet of the Santa
Fee track was lost and the bridge of the
Frisco Road was carried away. Great
damage was done to wheat in the rich
bottoms, and over a million bushels de
stroyed.
“I am surprised. Hobby, that you
Bhould aßk for more pie when you have
plenty yet ou your plate.”
“Why, that ain’t pie, ma; that’s crust.
What I want is pie.’
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND Ills ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, IND OTIBS M4TTEBS
OF INTEREST EBOM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The President on Wednesday appoint
ed John R. Lewis to be postmaster si
Atlanta, Ua., vice John W. llcnfroe, re
signed.
The following fourth clan postmastcri
for Georgia were appointed: John T.
Adair, Congress, Rockwell county; G.
B. Jenkins, Felton, Haralson county ; N.
B. Bunnell, Rising Fawn, Dade county;
F. M. Garner, Springdale, Randolph
county; Mrs. M. A. Metier, Shsllman,
Randolph county.
Forty-one postmasters were appointed
on Tuesday by tbe President, of whom
fifteen were to vacancies created by re
moval. Only two were Southern:
Zachariah B. Hargrove, at Rome, Ga.,
vice William 11. Atkins, removed, and
Walter Brock, at Tallapoosa, Ga., the of
fice becoming presidential.
Mr. Porter, auperinteudent of the cen
sus, made a brief argument before the
President, Wednesday afternoon, oppos
ing the proposition to apply civil servics
rules to appointments in thecensus office,
in the course of which he said that ex
perience has shown that for this particu
lar service better men can be secured by
elcstlon, on account of well-known qual
ifications in certain specialties, than by
selection from a list of persons willing to
enter competitive examination.
A delegation of members of the Ordet
of Patriotic Sons of America,on Wednes
day paid a visit to President Harrison, at
the White House. Mr. C. TV. Spofford
made the introductions to Mr. Harrison.
After they were over, and the visitors
were standing around the President in a
sort of circle, Spofford attempted to piu
a Patriotic Son of America badge upon
his coat. Harrison somewhat roughly
warded off Spofford’s extended hands
and said brusquely: ‘‘Do not do that.”
The party left, but not in very groat
glco.
A delegation of colored men waited
on tbe President Wednesday morning
and urged the appointment of Mr. Calvin
Chase as recorder of deeds In Washing
ton. The delegation took occasion to
thank the President for the disposition
shown by him not to restrict tho ap
pointment of colored men to particular
offices, but to consider thoir elegibility
for offices other than those previously
held by colored men. Another colored
delegation, led by ex-Representative
Smalls, called later in the day and asked
the appointment of Mr. Webster as col
lector of internal revenue for South Car
olina.
The President on Friday appointed A.
T. Wimberly collector of internal reve
nue for the districtof Louisiana. To be
United States attorney, William E.
Craig, of Virginia, for the western dis
trict ot Virginia. To be United States
marshal, George I. Cunningham, ol
South Carolina, for the district of South
Carolina. Frank Mason, of Ohio, ha*
been appointed consul general at Frank
fort; Charles B. Trait, of Maryland,
consul at Marseilles, and H. G. Knowles,
of Delaware, consul at Bordeaux. The
following consular appointments were
made later: Oliver 11. Simons, of Col
orado, consul to Hong Kong; Wm.
Monaghan, of Ohio, consul to Chatham,
Ontario; Wm. T. Rice, of Maaachu
setts, consul to Leghorn; Lyeli T. Ad
ams, of New York, consul to Horgen,
Switzerland; Henry W. Diederick, of
Indiana, consul to Nuremberg, and Ro
land J. Hemmick, of Pcnnsylvuaia, com
sul to Geneva, Switzerland.
VOTING INSANE PEOPLE.
AN INDIANA rOOR-IIOUSE SUPERINTEND
ENT CONFESSES HIS GUILT.
Iliram W. Miller, ex-treasurer of Ma
rion county, Ind., and Smith Williams,
superintendent of the county poor asy
lum, who were iudicted for voting ths
idiotic and insane inmates of the county
asylum at the last election, pleaded
guilty before Judge Woods Thursday.
Miller, who, as election inspector in the
precinct, disregarded the challenges in
receiving the votes of the unfortunutes,
was fined $250, and Williams, who the
preliminary hearing: showed conspired
with Miller to vote the paupers, was
fined SSO. The result of the prosecution
is regarded as important in that it will
stop the voting of idiotic and insane
inmates of the county throughout the
state, a practice that ha 9 becomo common
during recent years.
A horrible death.
KNOCKED DOWN BY AN ENGINE AND DRAG
GED THREE HUNDRED FEET.
Savannah Brown, a workman, was
killed by a Georgia Railroad switch en
engine near Atlanta, Ga., Thursday
morning. He was walking along the
track wTth a dinner bucket in his hand.
After lie was knocked down some
part of the engine caught him, and
be was dragged nearly three hun
dred feet before the machine could
be stopped and his body extricated.
When it stopped he was dead. The
engine had to back before the body
could be pulled loose from the ash-box,
to which it was fastened. The right foot
was crushed off, the left arm ground to
a pulp, the face and chest crushed and
mangled and tho neck broken. Brown
was about twenty-six years old, and has
a wife and two children. The body was
taken charge of by his relatives.
RAILROAD WRECK.
TWO FERBO>’B KILLED AND EIGHT OTHERS
INJURED.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., saysi
Tho second section of mail train No. 7,
west bound, on the Pan Handle Railroad,
was wrecked Wednesday afternoon while
prssing New Cumberland Junction, two
miles east of Steubenville. Two persons
were killed outright aud eight were in
jured, four of them seriously. The
names are: Killed—J. H. Payne, postal
clerk; E. R. Reinhart, express messen
ger. Seriously injured—Conductor
Burris, Brakeman McFarlaud, Postal
Clerk W. S. Bolton, Postal Clerk J. E.
Matthews. The third car from the en
gine left the track. It was followed by
two others, aU going over an embank
ment. The train consisted of an engiue,
express car and four postal cars.
To be stylish the new dull-red woollen
jackets must be worn over loose silk
shirts of soft color, with here and there a
touch of the red. j
BUDGET OF FUN.
HTMOROUfI BKKTCHKH PROM
VARIOUS SOURt'KS.
Alas!—A Quest tunable Denial—The
Past Wan Secure— As Far as
She Had Been—The Same
Slick, Etc., Etc.
I had told her that I loved her,
She had whispered me the same 4.
Then in innocent flirtation
I was caught. The climax came.
She demanded back her letters;
And my mind is in a whirl,
for by some mistake I sent her
Letters from another girl.
A QUESTIONABLE DENIAL.
Brown—“l understand that you told
Weils that I am a regular chump."
Jones—“ Nothing of the kind. sir. I’m
not going round telling the public_what I
think.” —Omaha World.
THE FAST WAS SECURE.
Full Blown Rose—“ What a pity, dear,
you are engaged so young. You will
never have the fun of refusing a man.”
Bud—‘‘No, but I’ve had the fun of
accepting oap.”— Life.
AS FAR AS SHE HAD BEEN.
Omaha Teacher—“ What influence has
the moon upon the tide?”
Omaha High School Girl—“l don’t
know exactly what influence it has on the
tied, but it has a tendency to make the
untied awful spoony.” —Omaha World.
THE SAME STICK.
Lady Finehealth (at hotel entrance) —
“No, I have no money to spare for you.
I don’t see why an able-bodied man like
you should go around begging.”
Lazy Tramp—“l s’pose, mum, it’s fer
about the same reason that a healthy
woman like you boards at a hotel instead
of keepin’ house.”— New York Weekly.
WOULD NOT CHANGE WITH G. W.
“Johnnie, my boy, wouldn’ you have
liked to have been George Washington?”
“Naw.”
“No? And why?”
“He never seed a baseball game in his
life.”— Lincoln (Neb.) Journal.
SUSPENDED EVOLUTION.
He—“Aw, weally, Miss Blossom, do
you believe man sprang from the ape?”
She (very tired of his attentions) —
“Yes, I presume some men have, but
there are others who have never yet made
the spring, or at least never sprang very
far.”— Burlington Free I'rcss.
A GREAT SPEECH.
Daughter—“ Talk about your Daniel
Webster, Henry Clay, Everett, Calhoun,
etc., pshaw! Henry made a better speech
than any of them last night.”
Father—“ What did he say?”
Daughter—“Hesaid: ‘Nellie, I love
you; I have three millions. Will you
have me?’ ” — Epoch.
TWO DIFFERENT IDEALS.
Visitor—“ Why are you crying, Tom
my?"
Tommy—“ Because mamma won’t let
me wear my hair long.
Visitor—“O, you want to look like lit
tle Lord Fauntleroy, don’t you, dear?”
Tommy—“Naw; I want to look like
Buffalo Bill.”— Chicago Journal.
AWAITING HER CHANCE.
Elderly Spinster (at Navy Department)
—“I understand that you are going to
open a lot of sealed proposals here to
day.”
Official—“ Yes, madam, we are."
Elderly Spinster—“ Well, I guess, I’ll
git down and wait. I’m not going to
throw away any such chance as this.”
INCORRIGIBLE.
Lawyer—“ Your share of the estate,
sir, is one dollar, and there it is.”
Prodigal—“ Thank you, Mr. Brief.
This unexpected windfall quite over
whelms me. Will you not help me to
celebrate tbe occasion by joining me at
dinner? I know where we can get a
splendid d’hote for a dollar.”— Bazar.
WAYS AND MEANS.
Uncle Midas (to young scapegrace
ward) —“What, more money? My dear
boy, your extravagance is something
amazing. Go to the ant, thou sluggard,
consider her ways and ”
Young Scapegrace—“Ah! that’s just
it, nunky; I do consider my aunt’s ways,
but I consider my uncle’s means.”— Totcn
Topic*.
A LABOR SAVING DEVICE.
Storekeeper—“Mr. Fogg, let me show
you our new ash sifter. It is a wonder
ful labor-saving machine.”
Fogg—“No, thank you. If I should
buy one, Mrs. Fogg would be getting me
to sift the ashes, on the ground that with
your machine it is so easy that I could do
it just as well as not.”— Boston Tran
script.
STANDING ON HER DIGNITY.
Husband (alarmed) —“Emily, there
seems to be a smoke coming up through
the floor. Run and tell the lady on the
flat below. Something’s afire in her part
of the building! Quick! Quick!”
Wife (cold aud stately)—“Cyrus, I’ll
never do it in the world. We’ve lived
three months in this flat, and she has
never called on me.”— Chicago Tribune.
A CATASTROPHE FOR THE TRAMP.
Mrs. Youngwife—“Oh, George, I’ve
got something dreadful to tell you!”
Mr. Youngwife—“For pity’s sake,
what is it?”
Mrs. Youngwife—“l made a pie for
dinner and set it out on the back stoop.
A tramp came along and stole it.”
Mr. Youngwife—“Dreadful indeed!
Poor fellow!’’— Burlington Free Press.
HOW JACK WON THE GROG.
Here is our old salt’s story of how he
got a glass of grog: When at the wheel
Captaiu South says:
“How does she head?”
“Southeast by south, half south, a
little southerly, Captain South.”
“Put another ‘s’ to that, my man, and
you shall have a glass of grog,” says the
Captain.
“Southeast by south, half south, a little
southerly, Captain South, sir.”
The grog came.— Martha's Vineyard
Herald.
NUMBER 36.
UNHEARD OK IN HIS PROFESSION.
First Club Idler—“ What does this
mean? The paper says that Rococo, the
well-known architect, is in the insane
asylum.”
Second Club Idler—“Oh, yes; he
drew the plans for a house to cost $25,-
000, and it cost only $20,000. A com
mission was at once appointed which de
clared him insane.”
BOTH OF THEM CONFUSED.
They were passing under the elevated
railroad, and the din overhead was al
most deafening.
“This bustle makesmy head ache,” she
said.
“Probably,” observed he, “if you were
to wear a smaller one.”
“Sir!” she indignantly cried, “I mean
the noise confuses me.”
“I beg your pardon,” stammered he,
“I am confused too."— Time.
HOW nE KNEW HE WAS OF AGE.
A. D. Marsh was judge at the primary
Monday. A young, smooth-faced fellow
offered liis vote, and Marsh asked him
if he was old enough to vote. ”
“Yes,” says the fellow, “I am twenty
one.”
“How do you know?”
“Well, I have had the seven-year itch
three times,” was the response.— Celind
(Ohio) Observer.
AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE.
“The fish were very nice, William.
But how did you come to catch fresh
mackerel in Fox Lake?”
“What’s that? What do you mean?"
“I mean that you have deceived me.
You never went fishing at all.”
“Of course I did.”
“No, you didn't. It was a stupid
blunder of the fish market to send fresh
mackerel instead of black bass, wasn’t it?
We will talk this matter over later. II
you can explain your week’s absence in
any better way than that you are leading
a double life I shall be very glad of it.”
Chicago Herald.
THOUGHT HIS PA COULD WORK MIRACLES.
In the train.—“ Georgie, Georgie! mind,
your hat will be blown off if you lean so
far out of the carriage.” Paterfamilias
(quickly snatching the hat from the head
of refractory youngster, and hiding it be
hind his back) —“There now, the hatha*
gone!” Georgie sets up a howl. After
a while, his father remarks: “Come, be
quiet; if I whistle your hat will come
I back again.” (Whistles and replaces hat
|on boy’s head). “There, it’s back again,
I you see!” While the parents are engaged
in conversation, Georgie throws his hat
out of the window, and says: “Pa,
whistle again?”— Argonaut.
A POINT USUALLY OVERLOOKED.'—
The youthful heir to a Walnut Hills
ancestral establishment is of an inquiring
turn of mind and directs his attention
specially to the elucidation of religious
problems. Last week he heard a Sunday
school address on “The Prodigal Son.”
Just what the small boy thought of the
address his father was curious to learn,
and so he said to him that night at sup
per: “My son, tell me which of the
characters in the parable of the prodigal
son you sympathized with?”
“Well, papa,” replied the cherub with
perfect nonchalance, “I think I’d feel
disposed to sympathize most with the
calf.” —Cincinnati Commercial.
THE OLD MAN’S LITTLE MISSION.
“Wliat is your mission here, sir?”
asked the old man with a frown.
“I am on three missions, sir,” replied
the poor young man, who was also a hu
morist.
“Well, what are they?” inquired the
old man, impatiently.
“Per-mission to marry your daughter,
ad-mission to your family circle and sub
mission to the regulations of your house
hold.”
“Ugh!” grunted the old man, who was
something of a joker himself. “I have
one little mission to offer before I con
clude my arrangements with you.”
“Name it,” cried the poor young man,
eagerly. “I will be only too glad to
perform it.
“Dis-mission!” shrieked the old man,
with a loud, discordant laugh, and the
poor young man fell in a dead faint at his
feet.— Washington Critic.
OKLAHOMA HOTEL RULES.
Gents goin’ to bed with their boots on
will be charged extra.
Three raps at the door means there is s
murder in the house and you must get up.
Please rite your name on the wall paper,
so we know you’ve been here.
The other leg of the chair is in the
closet if you need it.
If that hole where that pain of glass is
out is too much for you, you’ll find a pail
of pants back of the door to stuff in it.
The shooting of a pistol is no cause fot
any alarm.
If you’re too cold, put the oilcloth ovei
your bed.
Caroseen lamps extra; caudles free,but
they musn’t burn all night.
Don’t tare off the wall paper to lit<
your pipe with. Nuff of that already.
Guests will not take out them bricks it
the mattress.
If it rains through that hole over
head, you’ll find an umbrella under the
bed.
The rats won't hurt you if they dc
chase each other across your face.
Two men in a room must put up with
one chair.
Please don’t empty the sawdust out oi
the pillers.
If there’s no towel handy, use a piece oi
the carpet. —Philadelphia North Ameri
can.
Production of Salt.
At one time nearly the whole of the
salt used as food and for industrial pur
poses was obtained from the sea, and in
many countries where the climate is dry
and warm, and which have a convenient
seaboard, a great quantity of salt is still
so obtained; 250,000 tons are produced
yearly in Portugal, and an approximate
quantity on the Atlantic and Meditera
nean coasts of France. Spain turns out
from the Balearic Islands, the Bay of
Cadiz and elsewhere 300,000 tons an
nually, and even the small seaboard of
Austria produces 70,000 to 100,000 tons.
The lance, which once played an im
portant part iu warfare, is likely to find
general readoption in several European
armies.