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Wll.il W. NINHLKTON, Eilllor.
I. W. SINGLETON, Ain't. Btlllor.
iiUENA VTST.V, GA., JANUARY ‘29, 1881.
t&" Matt Tidd is authorized to
reicoro and receipt for subscrip'
lions to t'no Argus,.
Married
At the residence of the bride’s father,
Rev. W. A. Singleton, at 7 o’clock on
tlio morning of the 2(itb inst., Dr. 8.
1\ Shi, of Ilalcsboro,Texas, and Miss
Vidola Singleton.
The A nuus extends to them a broth
er’s sinecrcst, heartfelt thanks lor
their future happiness.
OUR SCHOOL.
Last Monday morning Rev. S. I).
Cleiuents began ins school with very
good prospects, notwithstanding the
snow was nu inch deep at school
hour and continued uutd eleven o’-
clock in a henvy drift, there wore 24
pupils in attendance, and has siucc
increased to fotty four. This is a
first-rate site for a school, and we
• "ve good teachers.
HEATH OP MRS. WIMUUSII.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wimbush, mother
of Mrs. Louis Webb, died at the home
other daugbtor, Mrs. William Har
vey, Id Schley county, last Monday
morning at ten minutes to ten. She
was buried at the old homestead last
Thursday. Mrs. Wimbush at the
tune ol her death was seventy-two
years old, and for half a century had
been a member of the Methodist
Chinch.
TIRED OF LIFE.
We have been reliably informed
that Mrs. Joseph Glover, who lives
in Sumter county, between Friend
ship and Amcricus, near the Buena
Vista aud Amerieus road, committed
suicide by hunging lat Tuesday night.
Her corspe was hurried at Concord
Church lust Wednesday.
For several mouths past she had
been in bad health, and considered
t > be somewhat demented. Ou Tues
day her husband had gone to Amei
icus, and on returning home his wife
was missing. Search was made, and
sometime after dark her body was
found in a little room uear the dwell
ing suspended from a joist by a plow
line, dead. Her husband is con
sidered a good funner, and is thought'
to be in easy circumstances. Tue
lady was aOout 45 years old.
A CLEVER FELLOW—TOO CLEVER.
Mr. A. P. Bclk tells us that as he
was on his way homo from Columbus
last week, he uiet a man and a lady
(a person in female garb, at least)
aboutloven miles this side of the
city. The man hailed Mr, Belk, and
wanted to show something wonder
ful— a veritable bonanza. Ho had
three boxes, and in one he put forty
live dollars, being carelul to leave a
little edge of the money so it cou'd
be seen. “Now,’’ said be,. “if you
will pay me fifteen dollars, and go
on to Baena Vista and spread the
news that I am coining, it you draw
the box with the money in it, you arc
perfectly welcome to it.” Mr. liclk
says he saw that woman give him
one of her most enticing smiles,
nnd it satisfied him. So lie
t Id the stranger lie didn’t want to
try his luck at any price. Finally
the clever stranger offered a draw
for five dollars, always leaving a
little edge of the money so as to
bo seen, but this bait didn’t catcii
the fish. Finding that his custo
mer was too sharp for him, the fel
low started in the direction of Co
lumbus and Mi.Bolk on home, but
remembering that bis son and oth
ers were behind, he went back aud
warned them ol tills man. Mr.
Belk thought, and we doubt not
lie was rigiu, that the chap was
dealing in counterfeit bills, and
was willing to get rid of them at
any price. It is well to give too
clever strangers a wide berth.
APPOINTMENT OP MARION CIRCUIT
Ist, Sunday and Saturday before —
New Bethel.
Ist Sunday, 4 p. in.—Glen Alta.
2d Sunday and Saturday buloic —
Tazewell.
2d Sunday, 4 p. in.—Liberty.
3rd Sunday und Saturday beloro —
Union.
3rd Sunday at 4 p. in.—Philadel
phia.
4th Sun ’ iy and Saturday before—
Church lli
4Ve an may breathe easy for a time
at least. Prof. Proctor says the world
cannot possibly come to UU C-d before
thi year 1397.
THE DEL A V.
Just as our forms were ready for
the press last Saturday, onr roller
boy negligently let onr ink rollers
melt, ami consequently wo have bo. n
obliged to delay until wo could gi t
new rollers.
——— - • ♦ • - ■ -
—l.ocal news is as scarce as hen
I eel b.
—Mr, James Armor is sick—con
fined to bis bed.
—Mr. Henajah Peacock has boon
quite sick, but is now much better.
—The last load of twenty-seven
thousand shingles for recovering the
Methodist church in Buena Vista ar
rived last Wednesday.
—The mail on the route fiom Bne
na Vi.-ta to Cusseta wus carried for
ward last Wednesday. Mr. Sam
Johnson has undertaken the job, amt
wc bet our old hat, Sam will not bank
—Mr. Wallace, who lives on the
road six miles this side of Geneva,
has gone to Atlanta, hoping that he
may regain his sight.
—Two snows in one season is too
much of a good thing.
—Fears are expressed by many
that the grain crop has bceu injured.
—The school at Jacksonville open
ed last Monday with twenty-iour
scholars. Mr. Seaborn Stevens,
teacher.
—ln a recent article we stated that
Anderson Taylor, Sr., was one of
Dan Farris’ bondsmen. But we were
mistaken, and he desires us to ‘hec
tify ’’ the statement, which wo hereby
cheerfully do.
—Wo are aware that the editorial
work of tko Argus this week is vety
deficient, but extreme indisposition
and pressing engagements of another
nature forbade that it should be oth
erwise.
—Rev. J. W. Hinton, presiding
elder of the Columbus circuit, spent
the past week in town. He goes to
day for Union, where ho will hold the
First Quart. riyMceting of the Marion
Circuit. Sunday night he will preach
in the Methodist Church in Buena
Vista.
—Mrs. M. J. Matthews last Mon
day gave her little son a doso of
morphine through mistake for
quinine. T lie distressed and
alarmed mother sent post-haste for
a physician, and the little fellow
has recovered. Quinine and mor
phine looks so much alike it is not
good for them to be near neighbors
on the mantle.
George W. Stallings will give his
friends the best of bargains and
make it to their interest to call
at Wilkerson & Hatcher’s when in
Geneva and see him. j 29 3t
—Mr. E, W. Parker, of St. Louis,
Mo., contractor for earning tko mail
Irom Buena Vista to Geneva, ar
rived in town Thursday night, and
left this morning. He employed Mr.
Sum Johnson to carry the mail, and
it will be to sure go.
Doath of a Marion County Lady
Mrs Elizabeth 11. Patillo, me Mur
phy, was born In Jasper countv, Ga.,
married James Pati'lo, moved to Tal
bot and from thence to Marion, where
they lived many years and raised a
family of ten children. They were
both righteous before God, and were
members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Brother Patillo died about
fifteen years since, and the care of
educating the children then devolved
on lur. This she did faithlully and
well. She was a member of the
church forty-five years, lived a con
sistent liff, and died of dropsy a
peacoful death on the 21st of January,
1881, in Girard, llussell county, Ala.
Her funeral services were conducted
from her home at 1:30 o’clock, on the
23d of January, 1881, by the under
signed. She was buried in the Gi
rard graveyard. Peace to her ashes.
Y. F. Tignor,
in Columbus Enquirer.
Mrs. Patillo lived near Brantley,
as wi 1 be remembered by tbo people
ol that vicinity.
PERSONAL. j
—Mr. Edwin Baker has returned
from Nashville, Tenn., where he has
been attending medical lectures.
—Mrs. John R. Ruslan is visiting
lier lather’s family in Crawford.
—Julian Chandler and Whit Me-
Crary, two Geneva boys, were in town
two days this weeks.
—Mrs, Elizabeth Butt and her
daughter-irnlaw, Mrs. Dully Butt, is
visit ng Mrs. Grace, ol Howard.
Chief Justice Jiukion was elec'e
to the Legislature at s ko age of 2ld.
Around about in Goorgla.
Georgia is the eleventh State ol i lie ,
Union in the order of increase of pop- j
illation, as shown by the last census, j
and Texas is the first. The increase
shown by Texas was 778,930. That
of Georgia was 354,874.
Tbo Gwinnett Herald announces
that one the old citizens ol Gwinnett
county, now in his 88lh year, wus
mas married to a blooming young
bride last week.
The first turnpike ever made in I he
United Stales was that built between
Philadelphia and Lancaster eily in
1792, costing $500,000, a fabulous
sum in those days of economy.
Two brothers of Monroe county
were to marry young Indies ol Jasper,
Thursday evening being the appoint
ed time. Early on the morning of that
day, despite the rain and mud, full of
hope, they started for tlie homes ol
their soon-to-bc brides, but, lo ! ‘'they
went to the river and couldn’t get
across” on account of tbo height
of the water and great mass
of floating timber. Four hearts
were sadly disappointed. The. wed
ding now depends altogether upon
the river as it is rumored that the
young gentlemen still linger on its
banks, gazing wistfully at the oppo
site shore. —Constitution.
Mr. Murdock D. Wilcox, a promi
nent citizen and merchant of Halt's
kinsville, died very suddenly of heart
disease on 21st. Alter eating his sup
per an 1 retiring in his usually chcetful
manner, his little son, Tommy, about
tenyears old, who slept with Him, was
disturbed this morning by a strange
noise from bis father, and on awaking
an inmate of the house, a light was
made in the room, when it was dis
covered that Mr. Wilcox was dead.
A broom factory is to be establish
ed in Rome.
According to the Covington Star
considerable cotton still remains in
the fields unpicked in Newton coun
ty.
Warrenton Clipper: Tt is a remark
able occurrence, that while the body
of the lata Mr. Samuel ila.ll was
awaiting burial, Moses a colored man
and former slave of the deceased, ap
proached the house to see his old
master once more before they laid
him away, and before reaching the
gate he was observed bv a great
many gentlemen to suddenly
f ill, and l lien make an effort to rise.
They hastened to the spot, wh<-re lie
fell but upon being raised he heaved
a deep sigh and breathed his l ist.
IDs heart beat very rapidly for
a few minutes, and life was over.
His colored Iriends say he had suff
ered from heart disease a long while
and several times fallen but recov'
ered. An inquest was hel l and it
was decided that the excitement
i ansed heating of his master’s death
and the expectation ot seeing him a
corpse was too great—he sank under
it.
Says the Rome Bulletin: ‘‘lt is not
known by all that one of the finest nnd
most extensive coal deposits to be
found in this country is situated only
ten miles from Romo. But such is a
fact, an<l that Rome shivers is more
of a disgrace than a cause for com
plaint against the coal dealers of
our city. Lavender Mountains are
full of coal of the richest character.
The builders of the Rome aud Chat—
t inooga Railroad will be compelled to
dig through this coal deposit. When
this road is compht'.d, Rome will
bo furnished coal at two dollars and
fifty cents a ton, but until this en
terprise is prosecuted to completion,
we will shiver wLilo dealers extort
seven dollars aud fifty cents a ton for
coal. We are all interested in the
building of this road, and every act
or deed of encouragement possible
should be freely offered the builders.’’
Says the Thomasville Enterprise:
“The damage to the oat crop by the
late freeze, we learn, is much greater
than many hoped it would prove.
We have carefully examined one
field, where the outs ranged in age
Irom three or four weeks to just
coining up, and fully half stand is
killed. The younger ones, which
many fanners believed safer than
those a little older, are almost -on tire
killed. How this fluid will compare
with the general crop we do not
know bui tear that it will prove a
lair critcron. Fortunately, many
[armors had not planted, or
or Lad not finished planting,
und that portion of the crop tuat
will bo planted since the freeze may
prove good. We hope all who can
will put in as many more oats as pos
sible, for the corn will,in consequence
of the snortneßS ot the oat crop last j
year, run short before Corn will como j
again.’’
9i'^*i^uesnKanaae^!VMmaßmsußm
An assoitinenl of New and Fresh
Gar icu Seed at. J, Israel,
Capt. John McMahon, vice-presi
dent of the Southoru Bank of the
etaluof Georgia, died la-t Tuesday,
Hurrah Horton, the honest aud re
liable old colored man, who for years
has been porter at the passenger do
pot in Macon, is dead,
Mrs. RebeccaFro t, of Hart coun
ty, is 107 years years old, is in good
health and in tho enjoyment of all
her faculties. She relates many
reminiscences of tho revolutionary
war.
A gentleman in Ccdaitown, Ga ,
was smoking a cigarette tho other
day. when a spark'flow into his hair,
and burned it alt off, leaving him per
fectly bald and badly blistered.
Tho Athens Watchman was forced
to suspend lust week on account of
tho in tens* cold and its inability to
secure fuel enough to keep warm. **
An exchange facetiously remarks
that if the weather continues as bad
as it has been for the past 2 monks
Atlanta will have the biggest muddy
gras celebration sho h is over had.
An old woman near Norwood put
a lighted pipe in her pocket tho oth
er day, and set fire t o three twenty
dollar bills contained therein. The
notes were so mutilated that they
had to be sent on to Washington tor
redemption.
Columbus Enqurer: Yesterday
morning the steamer Jordan of the
people's line, bad made ad prepara
tions to leave and was about to shove
ofl, whan it was dieovered there was
something wrong about tho boiler.
On examinati >n a ‘blisterwas found;
tho tiro was taken out and the boilers
cooled. Tne passengers were iu
lotmed she would not leave. She
will now be laid up lor the season.
Only the Mourb will bo run until
next full.
Tne several ponds in Rasa Hill
Cemetery at Macon are to be
drained of native fish the places
of wqich will bo supplied with Ger
man Carp
Warrenton Clipper advises the
farmers ol that section, if they wish
to become truly Independent to sow
oats.
The Mi-Daflic Journal leans that
fanners in that, section are experienc
ing much difficulty in securing labor
for the current year. Manv negroes
are indifferent about making con
tracts, and all of them arc demand
ing increase of wages,
The Harmony Grove correspon
dent ot the Jefferson, Jackson coun
ty News, is in despair over the terri
ble weather, He says: “I think
we can safely say blessed is the mail
that has no stock to fetal this winter.
Tho cows eat more than was ever
known and gives less milk; the liens
are all going dry too, as we can hear
ol no eggs except some that were
frozen; the hogs are growing leaner
and less every day; the duck3 and
geese have quit growing feathers; the
women and babies are grumbling aud
growling about tiie meal, the flour
and tiia wood being out, and it is
too cold for old men to help them
selves; the horses are standing up
in their stalls eating their heads off;
the dogs have ceased to bark; the
rabbits have all been killed, aud it
seems tnat it will not be a matter of
much thought to figure out what the
closing scene will be if bad weather
holds on a few weeks longer.’’
Augusta News: If an editor omits
anything he is lazy.. II lie speaks of
things as they are, people are angry
If he glosses over or smooths down
the rough points, tie is bribed. Il
he cals things by their proper names
he is unfit lor tho position ot an edit
or. II he does not tarnish his read
ers with jokes, he is an idiot; if he
does, In; is a rattle head, lacking sta
bili y. If he condemns the wrong
lie is a good fellow, but lacks discre
tion. If he lets wrongs and injuries
go unmeationed, he is a coward. If
he exposes a public man lie does it
to graiify spite, is a tool of a clique,
or belongs to the “outs.” And so on
to the end of the chapter.
The Macon Herald slates that the
house girl and cook of a Macon fam
ily became involved in a dispute with
one another a few nights since, which
may finally result very seriously. As
u mode of revenge the cook poisoned
some coffeo of which the girl drank.
She soon becoming sick,an investiga
tion was made, and the efforts of the
cook to take the life of her enemy
was discovered. The house girl is
now quite ill, aud we understand
that tho wculd-brf murderer has tak
en her departure to jams unknown.
Wart'ottUm Ultppei; “A uegro,
whose mother liven in Hancock coun
ty, lias bean cutting up somo high
shines in this bPCtion ol' lute. lb
stole a horse from Mi'- Hull, reported
to be a resident of Jefferson county.
Ho sold tho horse to Mr. Wilboit, ,
living about one mile from thisplace. j
Mr Wilboit rc<itit*€<l llio follow to do- j
posit fifty dollars until Mo count prove j
bis right to sell tho animal. A. low
days before tin; samo chap stole n
mulo from a physician of Lou sville.
Git., and had add him to some of our
colored citizen. In order lo get even
with Mr. Wilboit this wholesale; horse
tl; ii f turned in and stole his line in tiro j
and lied the country. The stolen i
horse and mule have been restored to
their Jefferson claimant.
.According to tho Columbus En
quirer, tho steward of a colored
church ill Harris County keeps Ilia
record of the church on a stick. When
anew member is received they cut, a
notch, and when one was dismissed
they cut off a notch. Tue stewards
also held another responaielo duty.
It is their business to appoint tho
‘•holders.’’ For the benefit of those
who do not fully understand the term
“holder,’’ we will explain that it is
their duty to hold the colored brolh
ers and sisters when “tin spirit strikes
them, to keep them from shouting
on the benches and hurting them
selves, This is told as the truth and
by responsible par ties.
We learn from tho Carroll County
Times that a man by the name of;
Shannon was drowned in Dog River,
Douglas county, at the place known j
as Fray’s Mill, on tho 10th i >st., un
der the following circumstances: I
Shannon drove into the river in a one j
Imrse wagon, and bis horse becoming
outangled he jumped out to cut the |
horse loose from the wagon, and while j
in this act he was washed down by j
tho current of tiro stream and was j
drowned. This happened about 12
o’clock, and his body was taken out
about dusk some 50 or 00 yards be
low the ford. The stream was con
siderably swollen at the time. A gen
tleman upon the shore succeeded in
rescuing Shannon’s horse, but was
not able to render Shannon any as
sistance in time to save his life.
The Conyers Weekly says: While
we think the prohibition law a good
tiling, and of much benefit to our I
place in a general souse, we know it
to be of harm to some; those who
have b como slaves to whisky, and
will, when they can get io it, make
dogs of thcmselve, for fear they may j
not get any more soon. They will
purchase it by the gallon, and they
arc such slaves to the devastating
demon that they can’t qu:t uutil the
last drop is gone. They keep thor
oughly soaked ns the space grows
from the “bung to the bottom.’' Wo
have in our place walking monuments
of shame and disgrace! Mon who
were a few years back young anil
manly; possessed of the highest char
acters and the brightest names.
While it looks hard that any human
being should be reduced to so wretch
ed and despicable a state; yet it may
be that he is used by Divinity as an
example to warn others. Young men
look upon these wrecks of once hon
ored and respected men, and take
warning.
The Summerville Gazette >ays that
two week ago Frank Strickland, a
fourteen year old son of Lilo Strick
land, of Chattooga county, went hunt
ing on the mountains with Billy Har
per and Jeff Clcckley. As he did not
return when expected, his father and
brother went in search of him. His
brother found him kneeling in the
snow, his gun on his shoulder, and
his hands clasped over it. When ho
was brought home his feet and legs
were so stiff that lii.s boots and socks
hail to be split to the toes to get them
off. His hands were clutched, his
face was perfectly black and his
tongue was sticking out of his mouth
Ilis feet and legs are now a mass of
sores, and it is feared that all the flesh
will fall from the bones. Jeff Cleck
ley had one of his feet frozen so that
some of toe nails dropped off, and
ht cannot wear a shoe.
Col llochstrasser,whois the largest
dealer in ibo city, says that the or
anges brought here now were frozen
on the trees, atul the water would do
no good, die gave us an account of
a visit to Florida once, in which a
prominent orange grower staled to
him that during a ood winter several
years ago he had four or live thou
sand oranges to freeze on the trees.
There weio pithy, ail tho juice having
lett them and gone baciv into tuo
trees. Ho let them hang on the
trees until next year, when the or
anges again tilled i\ith juice, and.
while not a.together ns good were
verydelicious ami line fru.t. —Col am
bit _ Enquirer.
r( h-riVATios of rvr.ANO
HIVE.
A reporter of the Charleston News
nw.l Courier, sent, bv that paper to
investigate their agricultural pros-1
pects and tho labor condition, says
the cultivation of upland rice is open
ing a veritable bonanza in the upland !
counties of South Catalina, and lie
verities his opinion by Hie fo lowing;
narrative of results and processes in
Orangeburg county:
UPLAND ItICE.
was planted in Orangburg county, in
smalt patces, ns early as 18110. The
variety is the white tl ntrice which is
found' to suit tho soil beter iban the
golden si-o 1 used most generally in
the tide-water sections. Th • cultiva
tion was for many years confined io
tho liw lands, which wis badly
drained and unsuitable lor the culti
vation of either corn or coton. In
the year ISO" tho planter lost heavily
by their cotton operations. They
started the year with cotton at thirty
coals and sold out at fourteen cents.
It was a very wet year, and the far
mers found that eyen In the uplands
where rice had been planted good
heavy crops were made. Consequent
ly in 18G8
A LARGE CROP OF RICE
was planted, and that year 90,000
bushels of rice were sent to Charles
ton. The quality of lice, however,
that year was not as good as it should
have been, and tho prices realized
wire not s .tisfaotory. Since that
time smaller crops have been planted
and more attention paid to its culti
vation The chief advantage to tho
farmer in cultivating this staple
seems to bo that ho emplovs a class
of land that is almost if not entirely
unfit for the cultivatiation of any
thing else. The crops that are rais
ed, therefore, are almost a clear gain
This planting of upland rice, however,
is not any safer, if as safe, as the
platuiug ot' rice in the tide water fields.
The success of the crop is entirely de
pendent upon the rains in the months
of August and September, and if these
mouths prove dry and unfavorable the
crops wi 1 prove an ulter failure. The cul
tivation of upland rice is also subject to
the further disadvantage of ripening un
equally. Seldom are the hills of rice
found to contain stalks all equally ri
peued. When it,is threshed, therefore,
there is a large proportion of the rice
which is pei ma ure, or, as it is termed
teehuiehally, has white bellies. These
arc
THE DISADVANTAGES,
and I sta e them to show that the culti
vation of the upland rice is really not
without its drawbacks and disadvanta
ges, although it is an industry which is
growing rapidly more popular as it
becomes better understood. With
proper cultivation and with a good ssa
son the yield in this county has been as
big as forty bushels of the rough rice
to the acre, which is considered a tail*
yield for tide water rice. The average
yield is about fifteen bushels to the
acre. In 1878 about 9,000 acres weie
planted. The crop of 1579 was about
30,000 bushels, being an average of
about fifteen bushels an aero. The
year 1880 just closed has been the best
for upland rice for several years.
THE CROP OP THE COUNTV
will probably reach about 40,000 bush
el-, and the quality is said to be much
above the average. So satisfactory has
the cultivation of this rice proved
that several of the planters
have, during the last four years,
been tnruing theft a'tention to its on I ti-
I uation upon the overflow plan. Mr.
, (!. J. Siroman, who owns lands on
! Dean swamp, for two years past has
used wafers of the swamp by means of
dams and ditches, and has overflowed
his rice fields neater the coast. The
first year of this experiment he raised
2,500 bushels, but last veat he gather
ed a crop of between 8,000 and 10,000
bushels, ‘ Ollier planters are now pur
suing the plan, and by next year the
crop, it is thought, will ba largely in
creased.
THE MODE OF CULTIVATION
is very simple. The planting begins
about the first ot March. The seed is
sown in hills, very mncli as cotton, and
frequently of a cotton field, where the
cotion rows run through low ground,and
; s cultivated simultaneouly with cotton.
It is given three pioug'itngs and three
honings. The gathering is accomplish
ed in the same way as in tide water
fields and in appearance the rice is very
much the same, except that the stalks
are smaller and rough lice is not so
golden iti appearance. The seed is
reallv the same. A measured bushel is
lighter than a measured bushel of tide
water riot', owing to the number of im
mature gains in every bushel. It is
sold, however, by weight of forty-four
pounds to the bushel. The income to
I farmers of the eounty last year from
1 ihis source alone was over $40,000. In
order to determined accurately
the profit
in this kind o f planting I have obtained
the Io lowing figures from a reliable
source, which show a profit ot 100 pci
I cent upon the capital invested. In the
J first place the land used, as state i
above,is unfit for raising eitliet corn oi
| cotton and is not worth over $3 an
I acre. The cost of seed for plantings
!uu acre is twenty-five cents. Three
plongliings will average about $2.75,
ill rue booings about #2.7 5 gathering sl ,
ihiv-liing about flMv oents To at n*t
$7.25. Average yield 15 bushel',whirl;
nt present prices i* worth $1 a bushel.
From all sections ot the country
came repot 1 1 of suffering from tho re
cent unprecedented cold weather anti
heavy snow, and a number of persona
e.aug and. out in the storm Were frozen
to death, but wo did not hear of a,
angle case of serious injury in this
county until last week. The facts as
wo gather from r> liable parties aro
about as follows: “Henry Mangutn,
who lires near CnforJ, had been out
from homo during one of tho c0..l
nights after tho fi st snow, and be
came intoxicated. He started homo
and reached there about midnight,
lie was just able to cra.vl to the door
and awake the family, who found
him lying in an almost insensible con
dition on the steps. He was imme
diately taken in and every eff >rt made
to icstorc him. It was fount! that his
feet and legs were froz -n up to his
knees, and his bouts had to be thaw
ed before they conld bo pulled off.
After liis boots were removed, his
feet and legs were found to have tun -
ed back from the freeze. Medical
assistance was ut once sutnmoued,
and called into requisition for his
relief. Our informant staled that the
last report from him was that in all
probability amputation would hive
to be performed to save his life.—
Gwinnett Herald.
Weather on the Other Side.—
Compared with the experience of the
people of England our winter has
been a mild one. 1 here the snow has
fallen to a depth of six feet, and has
drifted in places as high as seventeen
feet, completely burying railway
trains, and detaining them several
days between stations. The snow
storm was accompanied by terrific
tornadoes and high tides, causing
the wreck of a large number of ves
sels and the loss of many lives. Rare
ly have there been such destructive
gales, and, although numerous disas
ters have been reported, it is feared
that only a small portion of the dam
age executed is known. We may ex
pect, too, to hear of marine mishap i
on the Atlantic caused by this storm,
as it was an extensive one and gath
ered force as it swept aloug ia its
course.
Tho Washington Post says: “lion
Henry W: Hilliard, United Stales
minister to Brazil, was recently rob
bed in Ilto Janeiro of over five thou
sand dollars in money, his watch aud
chain, clothing, etc. The thieves en
tered It is room in the night and ad
ministered chloroform to Mr. Hilliard,
from the effects of which lie had
hardly recovered when the last
American steamer left.”
Robert Lmit, a Noith Carolina
farmer who had been annoyed by
theives, shot and killed a man who
entered his orchard. The intruder
proved to be an honest stranger,with
no intent to steal. Smith was con
victed of murder in the first degsee
and sentenced to be hanged. Ilis
neighbors sympathised with him,
and, falling to effect executive cle
mency, forcibly released him from
jail, and sent him secretly out the
State.
Says the Griffin News: “From a
reliable source we learn that one
Reuben Iluckaby and Lou Smith re
cently eloped from the vioinity of
Russellville, Monroe county. When
last heard from they boarded the up
ward bound train at Rarnesville, on
Tuesday night, the 28th nit. Tho
aforesaid Reuben Huckaby left his
wife in a helpless condition, with
four small children to tako care of.
And the said Lou Smith is the moth
er of five small children—three girts
and two boys—the girls she took
with her and the boys she left to tako
care of themselves the best they
could. All persons are requested to
look tut for this delectablo pair of
sable lovers, and report to Jeftorsou
Smith, Rns-clvill", Ga. Iluckaby is
about five feet eight or ten inches
high and black. Loa Smith has
small, black eyes deep m her head,
with three girl children. Mr. Smith
promises a suitable reward to and aid
iu bringing these parties bak to
their home.”
The News says the steamrhip City
of Augusta came to anchor ut Tybee
Monday evening, having made the
run from New York in foriy-uino
hours. This is the quickest time ro
corded.
GrEOitUl.4--.Vl.uuoN 6'onnv
Whereas U B Umtou ban applied for tho
administration of the estato of M. E. Story
deceased with will annexed.
.411 persons iu interest are hereby notified
of said application. Witness my head Jan.
iltiii'il-Sdi Jos. it. Loon
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