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Wll.l, W. NIIVOI.KTON, it it I tor.
JaUENAVIBTA.OA.,FEBUt All V 18th,1881
LOG A L SEW HP A PEES.
The county paper improves socie
ty, developer the resources nnd de
fends the interest df tllfe country. Like
the miesionaryand school teacher,they
go into destitute places, and though
they cannot publish elaborate articles
they are giving lino upon lino, pre
cept after precept, and send up to
the great centres of thought aud
learning facts for tho moralist, tlio
scientist nnd logician. The local pa
pers give tono to society and ov
er leaves a happy and worthy influx
cbe.
Northern Seed I. Potatoes
puro and reliable at ...
KOLLIN JEFFEttSONS,
Kl3 west bide lirond Street*, ColutHbds, Ga>
BURNED TO OK ATI!.
We have been inforriied that a
fchiltl of Mr Whit Benson; wflo lives
near Brantley, was burned to death
lsl Saturday. Full particulars wo
have failed to learn.
Mrs. Soothers, a very old lady in
Macou county, caught flrd and
burned to death last weeft.
An assortment ol New and Fresh
Garden Seed at J. Israel, Agt.
ii
February must fcertainly have bor
rowed the winds of March.
LIST OF JURORS.
We give Irclow the list of jurors
drawn for (fib April term of Marion
Superior Court:
WeaND jury.
Blnn Wallis Tnos A Gordou
15 F Short .1 It Bushin
Robert Cranford W I) Benson
N N Nicholson F L Wisdom
W T Stewart Fetef S Wall
ThosJ Bell ftefij . Highnote
J W Slaughter J G Ferryman
.T M Tullis A J McElmnrry
W L Clements WW Di ane
Henry Lancaster Moses II McGarrah
JJenj Powell Jas M Gill
T VV llarvey B B 1 Watson
W D Chapman J It Stiori
W A McMichael Daniel F. Hart
J It Battle K E Clements
PETIT JURY.
Toff Welch Henry G Chapman
S J Grier L A .Tester
David E Cry '/> B Fnssel
Win M Williams S ft Montgomery
Y A Duke W T Smith
Win F Sale Lot Green
,7 It Chambliss Joseph It Brown
Thos S Story D M Fosy
Jno K Kemp Jno Ii Parker
J T McCorklc N L Alen
j J Hunley Vincent Meadows
G W Johnson J J Ivy
S W Thompson John W Fussel
C J Smith 'William Kidd
W It Ato way Ruben Brown
Calvin Ohern (t W Gridin
James Jossey EJ Johnson
John llanner Jonathan McClung
Chatted by the Young Polks
— S.’s go from-meeting hat is fuv
bc-lowed with ribbons add 1 the like.
It makes him look lovely.
The school children have had very
ted fossons the past week —thinking
about fodenttoes.-
Two red-headed tbys life-meaning
each other as “red treaded rascals,’’
is the last monkey shbW/
Some ot the boys artf struggling
with the subject, “Where Was Moses
when the light went out?’’
A valentine party is m order for next
Friday night. That is, if the matri
monial wa' T i of the past season has
luxe enough young-folks.
The artist says he Specks ho could
take a good picture, if you would let
him.
We believe tbbrtf is two boys in
town whose ideal of hfeaven is Brown,
Competition is the life (A trade, but
Me. says there is too much' competi
tion for bi& good.
Last Sunday we saw a young lady
that was like a wagon wheel — she had
fellows (felloes) all around.
If you smoke a cigar too short you
smoko iu too lodge
A source ol much consolation:
“There is no gander so gray
But soon or late
Some goose will stop that way
And claim him for its mate. ’
Fact.
iforth of the prominent young men
of Chattahoochee county left Mon
day lor Texas.
—Two hotels; two livery stables,
now “business houses’’ on every
corner, all Buena Vista needs is uii*.
other newspaper and n railroad.
—The school house caught on fire
last Monday, but it was soon extin
guish without any material damage
huvmg been done.
—Last week wc forgot to mention
tho serious illness ol Mrs. F. L. Wis
dom. For two weeks past sho has
Wecu very low, and is now but little
bet ter.
Mr. A. C. Adkins, whoso mental
condition last, fall caused him to be
sent to the lunatic asylum, is much
improved ftnd his family expect him
llonio soon.
—Mr. Majors intends moving Ids
steam engine next week from Jack
sonville to near Mr. Moody’s for the
pm pose oi sawing. The gin and
grist mill will remain, and when tho
gintiifig season opens, will returh to
his old stand.
—Frank Wooten, a colored man
in the employ of Mr. Arthur Drune,
accidentally stuck a light-wood splin
ter in his right wrist while hauling
rails last week. Tho doctor did not
succeed in getting in it out, nnd it is
feared it will result seriously. lie is
finable to work.
—Sam Johnson left his guardian
angel at home when he wont to the
city last week, and the effect was dis
astrous. Inserting his thumbs into
the arm-holes of his vest; a No. 1.
Havana cigar between his teeth, he
politely toldtho impudent man in tho ;
furniture store, “sir, my name is
Samuel F. J ’’ and then walked
through a fifteen dollar looking-glass
alter the impolite rascal. Thais the
way tho boys tell it.
i
—We conclude from tho following
extract from the Americas Recorder j
that Frof. VV. W. KOanOriy is sick in
Tenncesce:
Mrs. Kennedy writes us fromDoch
ar I, Teun., that tho attending physi
cians pronounce more favorable the i
general symptoms of the Professor, !
She says, however,he continues weak,
and the change,if any, is scarcely no
ticeable.
—The weather this year has been
exceptionably severe, and with our
houses built on a Style as if intended
for the tropical rcgiou.it lias been ex
tremely uncomfortable. It ha*, too, j
retarded every interest. The rains j
have rotted the roads, so as to make
even buggy travel difficult; hauling
has been almost out of the question,
nnd the rain the first of the week
has made matters worse. The con- j
sequence is the farmers generally are !
very much behind, and it will require
some stirring work to catch up. Of
course there is some except ions.
Northern Seed I, Potatoes
pure aud reliable at
1 KOT.LTN JEFFERSON,
133 West bide Broad Strt, (jolum.eus, Ga.
—We learn that an old gentleman
named' Ca'pbll Was burned to death on
the Wilkinson place in Schley county
last Thursday evening Week. Sir.
Capers nnd a Mr. Woods were burn
ing off an old field. Mr. Woods had
left the old gentleman and gone on
firing, alter having instructed him
to halloo if the fire should get out of
its bounds. When Mr. Woods heard
a halloo lie hurried back, aud found
the fire had swept out for two hun
dred yards,.and Mr. Capell burned
to death. The supposition is that a
puff of wind spread the fire very rap
dly and the old man fainting, 101 l
.an easy victim to tho flames.
Wc aro informed that Messrs. Joseph
Hobbs and Zichariah Worsham, who
were charged with the burning of the
school house and the killing of Mr. E.
I). Jones, of Macon county, on the
night of the 7th of January have re
cently been re-arrested and p'aced under
bond; the former five hundred and the
latter three hundred, whose cases will
be tried at the next regular session of
the superior court of said' county, —
Butler Herald.
In Sandorevillo .there aro lirge
and handsome shade trees. 1 hey
are cork trees, raised from acorns dis
tributed by the government twenty
years ago. The bark is two inches
thick, and makes good stoppers for bot
tles. They aro of a rapid, growth.
!il'lledgeville also has them,
( IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.
Nearly every farmer buys tobacco
to furnish his hands, ignorant, of
course, that thoy are violating the
laws of tlio United States, and laying
themselves liablo to prosecution. At
least, wo so construe tlio following
letter from the U. 8. Commissioner,
Baum, to lion. J. 11. Blount, meinber
Congress, from Gill district, as pub
lished in tho Macon Telegraph and
Messenger:
“I have received yorfr letter ol tim
31st ultimo, enclosing a communica
tion from ('. A. Solomon, of Jeffer
son vilh*, Gn.; relative to the furnish-,
ing of tobacco to employees.
In reply to the inquiries contained
in Mr. Solomon’s letter, that a larmer
who makes a business ol selling to
bacco to his hired labor is liable to
pay a special tax:
If he sells manufactured fobacco,
tlio tux would ho that of a dealer in
manufactured tobacco, to-wil, $5;
but if lie sells leal tobacco, then tho
special tax would bo that ol a retail
dealer iii leaf tobacco, viz:ssUo.
Very Respectfully,
Greek B. Ratim,
Commissioner.
IlerribSe Murder ttu Americas.
Among tho telegrams ol last Sat
urday, wa find the following from
Araericus: “A great deal of excite
ment was created in this city this
morning by the news that Mr. John
J. Hudson, a well-known citizen, and
successful merchant, was murdered
near his home last night. At present
the alfiir is shrouded in mystery.
Mr. Iludsou was a man who was very
regular in his habits, going home
about dark every evening. On
yesterday evening he failed to put iu
appearance at the regular time, and
his family, after waiting for some
hours, became alarmed and began
looking for him. About 6 o’clock his
horsa was discovered hitched to his
fence in the lane leading to his stable,
which greatly increased the anxiety
of the family. The search was con
tinued, but nothing further was dis
covered till shortly aft r daylight,
when he was found in a pine thicket
a shoit distance from the public road
in east Americas in an insensible and
almost lifeless condition. Ho was
conveyed to Lis home, which was but
a few hundred yards away, where he
expired in a few moments. Near the
place v.hc-rc he was discovered there
was signs showing that his horse bad
been hitched thrre to a tree tor some
time. When found, he was foaming
at the month, but no signs of violence
were discovered upon his person.
His money which he always carried
home with hint' from his store every,
night was gone, and tho opinion pre
vails that he was dragged from his
house, drugged, robbed and then left
in this isolated spot to die in the pit
iless cold which prevailed last night
Since tho above was put in type
the Republican has oome to hand,
and from it we learn that Mr. Hud
son was murdered, and the guilty
parties arrested and jailed. There
was a family of negroes living on the
land Of Mr. Hudson, whom he gave
employment about his premises. The
father of the family, Jim Clarke, had
been for several years employed
about Mr. Hudson’s house, and knew
that he carried his money on Ins per
son home with him at night. For
len doySjJimClarke and his daughter
Emma had planned to rob Mr. Hud
son, and on Friday night they put
their terrible purpose into execution.
! Jim Clark, Emma Clark, Jim Jones
| and Elisha Cntts arc tho parties un
der arrest, and §3,163 in cash and
j $-1,249 deposit checks were found iu
j the possession of Jones who received
it lrorn Emma.
Later.— From a private source we
loam that tho woman has confessed.
She says she st'ruckMr. Hudson with
a sand bag and the otheis ran up
and smothered him. They then left
their victim in the bitter cold to die.
We publish tho following in re
gards to the suicide of Blr. liichaid
Shipp,of Green Ilili, inasmuch as it is
fuller and different in some respects
from tho account we gave last week.
On Monday,about noon, the neigh
borhood of Green Hill, Stewart comi
ty, which is iicar tho line of Chatta
hoochee county, was startled by the
intelligence that. Mr. J. K. Sbpp had
committed suicide. Ha was a gen
tleman liked by all who knew him,
and the news of the tragedy cast a
gloom over his many friends. From
parties living in the vicinity we learn
that about, noon on Mondav he enter
ed hismother’s room,and talked for an
hour or so with her about lus troub
les. lie said ho had more trouble
thtm any man living, nnd tluit it was
moie than he conld stand, that life
had become a burden, and the soon.r
he was in another world the better
it would lie. In a few minutes, after
crying quietly by his mother’s side,
he left the room and went, towards
fhj hone lot, Vrs. S immediate!.'
called Mr. Gordy, saying: '•Some
thing is tlio matter wiih Dick; I wish
you would watch him.’’ Mr, Gordy
then went in tlio direction taken by
shitjp, but had not gone niovo than
liairthedistance to the lot, when ho
heard a pistol lire. Mu ran quickly
in the direction of tho sound. Mr. S.
was lying on the ground with a bullet
holuih his right temple and a pistol in
his hand. llj died almost instantly.
A Mr. Livingston was near and saw
him when he entered the lot and
placet! the pistol to his head. He
called to him to stop and attempted
to r/uieh tlm unfortunate man; but he
haSjhardly taken mere than one ortvo
steps beforo the report of tho pistol
told him it was too late. Air Shipp
was almost twenty-eight years of
ago, a hard-working, industrious
man; nnd his untimely end will be
tho catiso of much regret among
nil those who knew him best. There
is no cause assigned for the
rash act, nor can any of his Fiends
surmise what led to such a determi
nation. It is said ho left a note ex
plaining all, but as y>-t the contents
are unknown.” —Columbus Enquirer.
Wilt |S THIS 35tH Ol*’ DUCK ''tßi' R
CALLED CHRISTMAS 1
Liberty, Maju-.k Countv, C.a. )
February Bth 1881. )
Dear Argus: Christmas, tlio 25th
day of December, lias passod, and
with its advent th ; question originat
ed—why called Christmas? The al
most universal answer i3 “because it
Is Christ’s birth-day.’’ Is this true?
Mr, Webster says, “the feast of
Christ’s nativity What is meant
by this? Are we to understand that
the day on which the Savior was born
a feast was instituted in commemora
tion of Ilisbiiub, or, are wo to infer
that this least was instituted years,
aud perhaps centuries after His
birth? What iu Said iu ancient his
tory of the chronology of those times?
In the Elements of History this lan
guage may be found “the Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ was born m the
26th year of tho reign of Augustus,
four years before the time commonly
assigned for the Christian era, and
was crucified in the 18th year of the
reign of Tiberius.’’ (Fage 86.)
Again, “the Christian era, which is
used by Christian nations, is reckon
ed from the birth of Christ * * *
!he Hebrew text of the Old Testa
ment took place in the year of the
world 4,00c 1 , * * * Tlio birth of
Christ is supposed to have taken
place about four years earlier thau
the period assigned to it in the vul
gar era,’’ (Page 308.) Again, “A.
D. was not used until the sixth cen
tury in the year 532. It was intend
ed to date from the both of Christ,
but now we find that Christ was born
the sth of April.” Then why is Dec.
25th called Christmas? Augustus
commenced to reign thirty years be
fore the birth of Christ, and died
fourteen years after the birth of
Christ, (Universal History, page 94.)
He (Augustus) reigned 44 years.
Now if Christ was born in the 26th
year of the reign of Augustus, we
would find tfr.t tJ6 from 44 leaves 18
years which Christ lived during the
reign of Augustus.
Then if Christ was crucified in the
18th year of the reign of Tiberius,
the step son and successor of Au
gustus, we would find that 18 plus 18
equals 36 years which He lived on
earth, but if Augustus died the 14th
year after the birth of Christ, Be
(Christ) only lived 14 years of the
reign of Augustus, and was crucified
the 18th year of the reign of Tibe
rius, hence we have 14 plus 18 equal
32 years which He lived on the earth.
Here seems to be a discrepancy of
four yoars in the chronology of those
times, and yet we are not convinced
that the 25th of December is tho day
on which the Savior was born accord
ing to our chronology, Luke 26-7;
“And.in the sixth month &o. *’ Now
what are we to understand from this
text? Are wo to understand by this
language that the sixth month of the
year, or the sixth month of the con
ception of John, is referred to? If
to tho former, we might have some
starting point in the chronology of
those times, hut if from the latter,
which is doubtless true from the 36th
verse, we are left without it. Then
why called Christinas? We often
hear “old Christmas’’ spoken of,
which corresponds to tiie sih of Jan
uary according to our computation.
Was this day, tho sth ot January
ever really used as Christmas? If so,
why tho change to December 25th.
Since the “Little Star ' has disap
peared from the galaxy of Liberty,
vve are in doubt and call upon you or
some of your able contributors to
l dispel the gloom which oVrshadows
tho literary zenith of our horizon.
More anon. Give us your ratiocina
tions on the above and oblige.
P. G.
Wo refer tho subject to some of
oar readers who have giver the
matter mure research than have wf,
Published by roqnodt.
COIVTIIAmCI'tON Ob’ ATHF.IsM.
CIUNOBI) KUOJI HUH. KIQOVIINI’V.
"No God! uo God!” tho simplest flower
Hint on tho wil l is found,
Shrinks us it drinks its cup of dew,
And trembles nt the sound,
"No God!" astonished echo cries
From out her cavern hour:
And overy wandering bird that flies
ltoproves tho Atheist lore.
Tho solumn mountains lift their bends,
Tho Almighty to proclaim:
Tho brooklet from its crystal lied
Doth leap to greet Ilis caiuo.
ITigh swells tho deep and fitful sou
Along its billowy track,
And red Vesuvius opes its month.
To hurl tho falsehood batik.
“No God!” With indignation high
Yon fervent sun is stirred,
And tho polo moon turns paler still,
At such au impious Word,
Tho stars from their thrones in heaven
Look down with angry eye,
That man, a worm of dust, should mock
Eternal majesty.
A MCDDLE SUBSCRIBER.
“Good morning, Mr, Editor,'how are all the
folks to-day ?
I owe you for next year’s paper—l thought
I’d come and pay;
rind Jones is going to take it, and this is his
money hero;
I shut down leadin' it to him and coaxed
him to try it a year.
“ .dud here’s n few little,items that happened
last week in otir town:
I thought they’d look good for the paper, so
I just jotted ’em down;
rind here’s a basket of peaches my wife pick
ed expressly for yon,
rind a small bunch of flowers from Jennie—
she thought she must send some
thing too.
“You’re doing the politics finely, as all our
family agree;
Just koep your old goose quill a flapping,
and give them a good one for me;
And now you are chuck full of business, and
1 won’t bo taking your time;
I’ve things of my own I must ’tend to—good
day sir, I believo I will climb.”
The editor sat in his sanctum, and brought
down his fist with a thump;
“God bless that old farmer, he muttered,
"he’s a regular jolly old trump.”
And tis thus with our noble profession, and
thus it will evor be still,
There are some who appreciate its labor.and
some who, perhaps, never will
But, in tho great time that is coming, when
Gat riel’ trumpet shall sound,
And they who have labored and rested shall
eojne-from tho quivering ground;
Wheii they who have striven and suffered to
teach aud ennoble the race.
Shall march at tho head of the column each
one in his God-given place;
As thoy march through tho gates of the city
with proud and victorious tread,
The editor and his assistants will travel not
far Worn tne heftef.
ITEMS IN BRIE F
The Pencil and Scissors.
Judge Dawson A. Walker, ol Dal
ton, is dead.
The Bibb county farmers’ club is
in favor ol no fences.
There was fifty-six drummers in
Columbus last Monday.
One negro killed another in Sums
ter county last Saturday.
Mule stealing is uncomfortably
common in Sumter county
Up to last Friday night, Atlanta
had received 110,000 bales of cotton.
Georgia ranks as the eighth Stato
iu manufactures.
The fertilizer men expect to do a
bigger business thau usual this sea
son.
A swarm of bees selected an old
chimney in Columbus as a hive and
tilled it with honey.
Among the neatest of Georgia
weeklies the Arlington jAdyancc
stands prominent,
George Johnson, tho bill poster of
Atlanta, committed suicide by taking
morphine last Tuesday.
James Tinsley was shot cud in.
eUutly killed by a eo'orcd barber in
Macou, last Monday night. Tho
murderer escaped.
Considerable loss of stock on ac
count of the freshets in theAltamaha,
Oemulgee and Odmec rivers.
According to the Recorder five lit
tle negro children have been burned
in Sumter county during the past
week.
The Enquirer says that a borso in
that city bad a fit. It foamed at the
mouth, pawed the air and in every
way acted like a Unman.
Suicides, murders and burns have be
come alarmingly, common in Georgia
this year.
A negro cabin and two children in it
was burned in Washington' county last
week.
The measles ate raging in Cedartown,
from which several deaths have oc
curred.
Alice May, a bright, little daughter
of Mark a. Bradford,of Columbus,die !
last Saturday. This is the second
death within two weeks that has
cart a gloom over tiifft home,
From the Star we learn that cultle
around Co\ ingfoii are suffering with
die hollow lrorn around Covington.
They are suffering Willi hollow
' stomachs in this section.
Americas has two of tho noatost
and ablest edited papers in the State
We prenumosho has two—tbefteoord
er is so high-flown as to fail to visit a
country neighbor of late.
Pink Trait, the young nogro man
who committed a criminal outrage
on Margaret YVntkins, n little ll|ycar
old rVhito giil of Marietta, and who
has been convicted of the crime, will
bo hung ou the 4th of March.
Gen. Toombs says that tho oltl
maxim, “Figures do not lie, ’’ is alia
mistake. lie says figures are llio
biggest liars in tho woild when they
are put in the wrong place.
Many of tho farmers ol Marietta
county have not yet finished gather
ing last year's cotton crop. The bad
weather has retarded the picking and
damaged tho staple.
Gcu. Toombs doesn’t part Ids hair
in the midle. In tact, he doesn’t part
it at all. —Post Appeal.
W. M. Stratton, an employe in
Miller’s gin factory', iu Fort Valley,
on hint Thursday, took 24J grains of
chloral and was dead in a low min
utes. Cause, intemperance.
A negro named Sam Adkins killed
another negro named Sam Bumbo, be
cause he would not pay him fifty cents
tliat lie ewed him, on last Saturday
near liome. Tho murdoref made his
escape.
butler Herald chronicles the death
of Mr. James Rowe, ono of Butler’s
worthy young men, on last Saturday
evening. Also, on Thursday the
death of the infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Monk.
An insurance company on a novel
plan !s talked about being organized
in Covington. Any bachelor who is
over 27 years of age can join it by
paying ten dollars. The first one
that marries gets all the money paid
in, and anew collection is taken up
and tho game begins anew. Only
twenty members will be allowed to
join, and tho lust man in the proces
sion will have to pay heavily for his
single blessedness.
Savannah News: Cobb county is
the most prolific in the State. Iu the
last three weeks in the lower part ot
the county six married couples have
each been blessed with twins. If
that sort of thing continues when the
census of IS9O is taken Cobb will
show no reduction in population.
In speaking of bad roads the Colum
bus Enquirer says: That the damage
to the citizens on account of bad roads
has been very :yfrat coDe will question
who are at all informed on the situation,
A merchant whose sales, as a rule,' aver
age SSOO daily, told us that in one day
during the bad weather he did not sell
enough to pay his clerks. As widi him
g o it was with many othars. The mails
wore almost suspended'.
A correspondent of the Savannah
News from Monroe county, Fia., on the
30tli of January sent that paper the
first cotton bloom of tliß season. It was
of the common sea island variety and
grown by Mr. O, R. Blount on Twelve
Mi'ccreck. It has continued to grow
and f.uit two years, this being the third
winter through which it has passed un
protected in the open field, and is now
full nf forms, blooms and bolls.
Insanity, whisky and pisto's are
the great causes of all murders in our
county. Whisky inflames the mur
derous passion, the terrible, pistol
crushes the leaden ball through the
brain, and insanity saves the
life of tho monster who did the kill
ing, and another victim fills a grave,
and his soul sent, perhaps, all una
toned before Him; the great Judge.
Another widow; more fatherless
children arc thrown on tho cold char,
ities of the world,—Cartersville Free
Press.
Avery remarkable thing occurred
with one of the clever conductors on
the ikrl Royal road a few days ago.
ila had purchased a nice string of par
tridges away down the road at a station,
but expressed a wish for a few more, as
those he already had were not sufficient
to divide out with Superintendent, Flem
ing, Joe White, the Evening News,
and other austere Statesmen. This
wish was soon gratified, for as the train
was nearing Be!doe a covey from the
woods flaw into his cab and he captured
the full completcment. And he is not
one of the children of Israel eidrar. —
Augusta News.
The most remarkable rabbit story
of the age is told by tho Sumter Re
publican, It says that a rabbit was
being chased down Jefferson street,
I in that, town, Tuesday morning, by
j two hounds. In the street, and just
I in the path of tin* rabbit, was an old
I sow, Just ay the terrified little ani
mal approached the sow, the latter
opcTieu her mouth, and the rabbit
i PVAped down her throat and met an
‘.Untimely death. In its next issue
tp'brlnps tho Republ.can will tell us
I whether or not this story is true.
Montezuma Weekly sys: Sheriff
Rape uful Dr. S. T. Stovall, of Dooly
passed through our town last Thurs
day having in custody a small v.hito
boy only seven years old, and a negro
boy about eighteen, whom they wore
taking to the inane asylum at Nlilledgo
villo, both having been adjudged lyna -
tics by a competent jury of Dooly
county. The negro besides being ah
idiot, is moreover deprived of the
tenses of seeing and hearing, and
is a pidaide object indeed. Tho white
child is the youngest wc liavo ever
known to goi to the asylum. It could
not articulate a woixlj but seemed a
bright and intelligeut child, with the
exception of this misfortune. Wo
presume tho intelligent jury knew what
they were doing in sending him off.
Sparta Times and Planter: Tho
novel sight of fifty pounds of gold,
tho same being in the neighborhood
of $12,000 and contained in three
shot bags, was presented to some,of
otir citizens one day last week. Tho
money, belongs to the estate ol tho
late depart and John Boyer, Tho
money is deposited in the bank in
this place to remain until a settle
ment and division is made among
the heirs.
Augusta Chronicle: A negro man,
we learn, while out hunting hear the
Jefferson lino, shot and killed a-negro
woman a few days ago. He claimed
that the shooting was accidental, but
was arrested and taken to the Augus
ta jail for safe kioping.
Says the Reidsyillc Enterprise:
“Farm bauds are scarce throughout
the county. In many places it is
impossible to get any farm labor of
any sort. This is to be regretted, as
the continued wet weather for several
weeks past lias tluowu tho tanners
far behind with their work, and now
the tabure to got hands will.no doubt,
result seriously.”
A report, reached Columbus on
Friday last that a homicide had oc
curred near Chalybeate Spring, Mer
iwether county, last Monday nighf.
A man named Smith had a difficulty
with Mr. James Brown, in which tho
latter was killed, According to the
Columbus Times, it seems that
Brown went to the house of Smith,
and while, there Smith treated him t,o
whisky, or which he drank too freolv.
While in an intoxicated state he
raised a quarrel with Smith and drew
his knife. Smith, seeing, the danger;
he was in, drew a pistol and shot
Brown, killing him. These are the
circumstances. Brown once lived
near Ellerslic, Harris county, and
was well known throughout that sec
tion of country,
Columbus Enquirer; The elegant
new gin house and steam gin belong
ing to Col. \V. H. Chambers was
burned on the 2’d inst 1 . It, was lo
cated about ten miles Ire low the city
at Oswitchie t>*n ( d and had but re
cently been built. About ten bales
of cotton and the seed from four
hundred bales, about 13,000 bushels,
was consumed with it. We learn
that it was fully covered by insur
ance. Last year a gin hi use at t'he
same place was destroyed by fire.
The one just burned was one of the
finest in the country, and it is a
great misfortune that it waj? burned,
as a large nnmber of people depend
ed on it for ginning" their cotton.
The fire originated from friction in
the gin. This is the, thirtieth gin
house destroyed in' Alabama since
August 31,1880'.
At five cents a glass the Ver man
ufacture!} in 1880 brought $375,000,-
000 or about $7.50 per capita for ev
ery man,woman and child. This ie'a
quarter more than the total : expeh&
of running the United S.tat'ps Gov
ernment. Suppose the vast amount
was expended in'. building colleges,
asylums, etc,, how much happier
and better off wo would all be.—Mun
roe Advertiser.
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Amopg the curious discoveries made
by tiic census department ki its in
vestigations into the subject of man
ufactures, is that ono manufacturer
of Brooklyn N. Y, employs old
shoes m making Jamaica ruin; They
arc dilutee with spirits, colored with
burnt sugar and then sold as the line
brands ot rum. It has long been
known that mqiasses, or what is
known ns ‘‘golden syrup,’’ was made
from old rags; but tins conversion of
old shoes into liquor is an entirety
novel and by no means pleasant dis-*
covery.
There is wild excitement in Rich
mond, ind., over the publication, of a
“Dead beat Directory,” which threat-,
ens to culminate in violence. It
appears that a few of the business
hieu collected the names of all per
sons in the community who were re
ported as having failed, neglected or
refused to pay bills they had con
tracted. The names were, published
in. a pamphlet, which was entitle'!
the “Dead-beat directory. Tim ap
pearance ol the pamphlet raised a ’
perfect storm, as it contained nearly
13.000 names, among which were
those of some of the good citizens,
together with the names of honored
men who were in their graves. Aq
indignation meeting was attended by
about 1,000 poop'd, and speeches
denouncing tho fiction of the business
men were delivered bv leading men,, '
among others ttie mayor of the city,,
The feeling runs so high that all tho
business men are included in the de
\ nunciation, though some of them
protest that they had nothing to do
with the publication.
George W. Stallings will give his
friends the best of bargains and
make it to their interest to call
at IVTikerson A Hutciier’fi whfii in
Geneva and see him. j2O-3t