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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUMR XXIV. SOUTHERN NEWS. I ITEMS of interest from va : RIO VS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. * ookduiß) account or wiiat is ooih.i on oi 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.