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FROM ATLANTA.
The memorial exorcises in honor of
B. H. Hill, on the night of the 24th ult..
wore very impressive. The portrait ol
Hill, by HBraoe Bradley, of Atlanta, tor
which the logialalure appropriated $!,-
000, hung in IVont of tho speaker's dealt,
between thoso of Jefferson and LsKoy
etto. Senators Davii, l’eeples, and Mol
drim, and Representatives Drewry, Gary,
Huge, Humber, Wztts, and tho two Ras
rella, were tho speaker#.
Tho adjourned #oxioi#of tho legiala-,
ture ooat the rtate $102,000.
Silver water servioo* wero presented to
Speaker Garrard and to Rankin, of Gor
don, speaker pro. tew., and watches to
Benton H. Miller, doorkeeper, and
Smith, messenger, for their faithful dis
charge of their duties.
The joint committee to investigate the
agricultural department made two re
ports. One approved tho department un
qualifiedly; the other disapproved some
of its acts. The former was adopted.
The joint committee on the peniten
tiary reported that they had not found a
single ease in whioh the lessees of con
victs had violated the express language
of the act. The report, and tho seooui
parrying evidence, wero referred to lira
governor.
The juiot committee have soljotod
Mrs. J- R. Gregory, ol Atlanta, to paint
the portrait ol’ A. 11. Stephens.
The governor has signed the following
bills : to Kfluire solicitors to represent
the state in oertain oases in the U. 8.
courts; to require physicians to rorvo ns
jurors in lunacy cases; to regulate the
service of calos jurors in suporior courts;
to repeal an act creating a county court
for Floyd oounty; to codify all acts indor
porating Rome ; to tax dogs in Floyd
county; to repeal an aot establishing u
county board for Uh ttooga county; to
make it a felony to sell or rent a lot of
land tho title to whioh is forged; to re
quire all puhlio officers to uinko an an
nual inventory of all public property in
their eharge; to amend soetions 4500
4163, 4151, 1317,4194,809 of the code;
to provide for the probate of foreign
wills; to incorporate the Central City
Loan and Trust Company; to submit the
liquor question t > tlio voters of W hitfieid
oounty; to provide for a pub’io roud sys
tem in Wl.itfi.dd county; to authorize
the governor to settle with the bondsmen
ofHauiuclß. Hoyle, late tax collector of
Fulton oounty; to incorporate tho 51 cr
chants' A Planters' Bank of Forsyth; t.
incorporate Kast Rome, to require rail
road property not used in operating the
road to be taxed where it lies; to supply
notaries public with copies of the code;
to pay the expenses of tho committee
that visited Milledgeville to secure the
medical records of the state.
The seuato has passed tho following
bills: to prohibit tho selling or furnish
ing of any intoxicating liquors to an ha
bitual drunkard, after notion from lather,
mother, wife, brothor, or sistor, of such
dtunkard, to define wire fenoes, and
niako them lawful; to make it a felony to
break open a railroad o#r; to provide
against loss by fire ol books which belong
to the state, but are in the bands of
oounty offioers; to aompel tax collectors
nod reoeivers to give an aco'>untv>l their
doings when oallod on by proper authori
ties; to authorize tho judge of the supe
rior oourt to grant home stead, when 'he
ordinary and the clerk of the superior
court are disqualified; to authorize tho
governor to insure tho library and public
buildings of the state; to make ten days
tho legal time for advertising constables’
sales; to authorize the issue of alias tax
ti. fas., when the oiiginal# have been lost;
to prescribe a penalty for illegal voting
at luuuioip: 1 elections; to provide a
special lien upon crops in favor of trans
lorees ol'debls for rent; to provide bow
conviu e in the ohaingang or peoiteutiary
may bo broght into court as witnesses;
u require tho principal keeper of tho
p.-nireutiary to report tho names of oon
v icts annually; to compel connecting rail
roads to receive freight; to establish a
board ••! pharmaceutical examiners; to
an.end .notion 1355 4i>97 , 3974, 4512,
.1971. 14J9, 1349, 2454. 4009. 4441, 4214,
344 of the node; to make Stern's calen
isr evt ionoe as to dates; to appropriate
#’;)d to pay for stationery of the legisla
ture and SIOO to bind enrolled copies; to
al'v.w ocunty school commissioners to
name students for Atlanta University if
ii- legislators fail to do so; to proved.' a
bet iff for the supreme oourt; to aulhor
ze ti c- trustees of the State University
to elect the governor of the state a metu
lier of the board; to pay the funeral ex
penses of A. H. Stephens; to pay John
M. Stubbs, David M. Roberts, and John
T. Do Lacy for aiding in prosecuting tho
Kastman rioters', to submit to the voters
of Floyd oounty the prohibition of the :
tale of liquor outside of Route ;|t> iucor- -
poralu the Georgia Loan and Trust Corn
pany; to incorporate the Georgia Invest
no-lit and Ranking Company; to encour
age private elementary schools hy making
ampler provision lor public schools to lie
taught in conneotion therewith; to pro
vide a more current and efficient mode of
taking the enumeration of the school pop
ulation; to prevnnt rlieoriving of cuttle
from localities nflliciud with infeotiovs
diseases; to amend no a -t which provides
for keeping in each county u record ol
wild lands therein; to provide an addi
tional way of working puhlio roads; to
create the office of county administrator;
to provide for ro-recording deeds, Ac ,
when tlui record has been lost or destroy
ed by fire ; to require judges of superior
courts to charier shell, plunk, and turn
pike road companies; to prescribe the fees
of justices of tho peace and oonstubles in
proceedings to dispossess intruders, or
tenants who hold over; to say when the
statute of limitations shall begin to run
against a creditor of an unrepresented es
tate; to appropriate money to pay ex
penses of patients from blind asylum
while being treated t > restore their sight;
to appropriate lialf tho money received hy
the state from sale of supru i.e court re
ports to buy books for stale library; to
provido means of putting to death live
stock tliut become valueless from injuries
by railroads; to require railroad compa
nies doing business in this stute to tile
with the secretary of state a copy of their
charter and of all amendments thereto;
to require railroad conductors and engi
neers to stop their trains within 50 feet
of all orossing-; to appropriate money to
pay tho expense of establishing the lino
between this ; late and North Carolina;
to authorize and require tho beurd ol com
missioners of loads and revenues ol Floyd
oounly to levy and oolli-ota tax lor road
purposes; to make it penal to soil or oo
ouwbcr personal property held under a
conditional purchase; to prescribe tho
costs of cases withdrawn or dismissed
from superior courts; to appropriate
$3,000 to repair tho buildings of the
State University; to amend an act incur
porati g the Rome A Chattanooga Rail
road; to pay the contingent expotiso# of
the legislature; to appropriatess,soo to
repuir and refurnish the executive man
sion nud the supremo court room; to pay
$225 to stenographer of committee on
agricultural department; to pay A. F-
Cuoledgc, stenographer of penitentiary
committee; to incorporate the Rome Fire
Insurance Company.
The senate has discussed the following
bills: to providb for fire escapes for hotels
(lost); to inereasc tho amount allowed to
uonlederiite soldiers lor limbs (lost); to
provido for the renewal ol the appoint
ment ol state depositories, and for filling
vuoiincies, to enlarge the power ol the
governor and treasurer over such depos
itories, and regulate the taking of bonds
and suiulios (lost); to regulate tho feus
of olerks of the superi r oourts for re
cording dee Is, liens, und mortgages
(lost); to amend section# 70S, 3565, 2011
of the code (lost); to enablo sureties on
the offieiul bond of county officer# to
limit their liability (lost); to prescribe
the mode of proeoodure by the railroad
commissioners (tost); to further pre
scribe the duties of official stenographers
for superior courts (Ios,), to pro.’ont the
driving ol cattle from adj tilling stales
into Georgia (lost); to repeal an uut to
regulate tho practice iu equity eases re
furred to masters in chancery ( ost); to
exempt members of county hear ts of ed
ucation from road and militia duty(lost);
to make persons wlto live iu outmtios
whore the stock law is in foroe liable for
damages done by their itook in counties
whore the stock law is not in foroo (lost)
The house has passed tlio following
bills: to authorize the trustees of the
Atlanta University ,to nominate pupils,
ti the wcmbcis of the legislature fail to
do so; to authorise the judges of tho su
preme court to appoint their own sheriff;
to instruct tho governor to provide a safe
place outside the cupitol for storing tlie
public archive#; to prohibit tlio running
of excursion trains on Sundae: to pre
scribe tho duties of county surveyor; to
prevent the discharge of firearms on or
near any public highway; to provide for
procuring attendance of convicts as wit
nesses in criminal oases; to fix tho juris
diotinn of county oourts at from SSO to
#3OO at monthly sessions, an 1 from SSO
to SSOO at quarterly sessions; to prohibit
any foreign insurance company from do
ing business in this state till it agrees pot
to transfer any eases to the U. 8. oourts;
to require the supremo court to give oue
day between any two circuits; to amend
sections 1215, 3094, 4157, 4982, 1235 of
tlio code: to provide an additional meth
od ol foreclosing mortgages on porsonal
property before the debt becomes due:
to regulate the rate of legal advertising:
to make it lawful Hr a tuariied woman
to act as executrix: to prohibit any mem
ber of tho railroad commission, or its
olerk, from acting as counsel in any ease
in whioh any railroad company is inter
ested; to punish the sale of adulterated
articles of food; to proscribe the oath to
bo takeu hy jury commissioners; to amend
tho law as to publication of supreme
oourt repertsjte mike the seooudtarm he
trial term iu justice oourts iu certain
eases; to furnish the allowance to crip
pled soldiers for artificial limbs every
th ree years; to prescribe when the statute
of limitations shall run -gainst an unrep
resented estate; to incorporate tho .Mu
tual Live Btoek Insurance Company; to
| give the Marietta A North Georgia
Railroad Company 250 convicts till tlio
road is completed; to fix the matmer of
paying the advertising and posting of
notices of ordinaries.
The house lias discussed the following
hills: to amend and codify all law- con
cerning the inspection, analysis, and sale
of fertilizers (lost); to prohibit burning
ami fishing on the lands of another after
notice: to prohibit railroads from discon
tinning stations (lost); to allow a person
to insure with a company outside of the
state, whioh has not complied with the
law regulating insurance in this state
(lost); to establish branch ooih.-goa at
liawkinsvillu, Wafhourvillo, anl Mar
ihalville (postponed); to uinoiiil seutions
1424, 3529 of tho codo; to require tho
state chemist to analyze soils when so
requested (tabled); to provido for tho
appointment of a guardian ail litem in
divorce eases when either of tlio partios
becomes insane; to amend an act relative
to tho return of wilt! lands (tabled); to
declare all liquor dealers who bell less
than a gallon to bo retailers (tabled);
to ulliiw creditors to redeem property,
sold nt tax sales (l.ist; 82 yeas, 19 nays);
to require the enmmiasioner of agricul
ture to analyzo specimens of soil when
s nt to him (tabled).
A PAItM IIOIIHK TKAIIKOV.
A Crmi'il fftiNlmiHl Murder* III* Young
Wife ami lllniHolf -Locked In Each
Other’* Arum.
Last Saturday’s Morning Newt con
tained a brief statement of the farm
hou-e tragedy at. Jsrsuyjown. Columbia
county, Penn. The following account is
taken from the Philadelphia l*reu of tho
15th :
“The quiet farming village of .Jersey
town, Columbia county, is stirred to its
depths by an awful orituc. William Run
yan, a prosperous young farmer, at least
nine days ago out the throat of his re
cently wedded wife and, taking her bleed
ing body in Itis arms, uut his own. Lick
ed in the bloody embrace of death, their
deoomposed bodies were discovered only
yesterday afternoon. There is every in
dication that the slayer of his wife and
himself was the victim of hereditary in
sanity. Tho tragedy brings grief into
some of the best families of the county.
“William Runyan was mariiod last
Mnrch to a daughter of C. Kramer, an
extensive lumber merchant, und an own
er t,f over I,IXX) acres of the best land iu
the county. He is now engaged in busi
ness iu Jorsoytown. The young oouplo
wore given a farm two milos outside ol
tho village by the wife s wealthy father.
Ro far as neighborhood gossips knew,
they lived happily. On Wednesday af
ternoon of last week tlioy visited the
hottso of Mr. Kramor, tlio wife’s father,
and alter making some purchases at the
store in Jorseytown, returned to their
home.
“It i an appalling commentary upon
the isolated life which even tlio more
prosperous of the lartners lead, that sinoc
that time, though nothing had been seen
of them, their absunoc wus unnoticed un
til yesterday afternoon A brother of
Mrs. Runyan, the murdered wife, went
to the house tho day alter their visit to
Jorseytown ; but, as he found tho house
looked, lie supposed they wore making it
visit, and returned to Itis homo. Day
after day passed; the house was silent,
and told no title to a casual passer. The
cows moaned for fond in tho burn; other
live stock rosined unto tide 1 in the fields.
“Yesterday, however, a neighbor no
ticed that (he horses and cuttle were hud
died together in the pasture during a
heavy ruin. He knew that William Run
yan was a careful fat liter, und much per
plexed, lie went to the house. It was
looked. Almost dazed, the neighbor
went to the burn, where lie found the
cattle dead and chained in tlioir stalls.
Their ribs stood gauntly out; they bud
evidently starved.
“Thoroughly alarmed, he dragged a
ladder to the house, and planted it
against the siding. Mounting to a second
story window, ho found husband and
wife lyiug in bed looked in each other's
arms, and covered with blood. Tbo man
raised the window, but the bodies were
in snob a state of decomposition that it
was impossible to enter tho room. An
alarm win sounded, and in u few hours
the entire neighborhood wus urousod.
Dr. Truit was tlie fir-t toenter tho room,
but was ootupolled to return after having
made the discovery that Mrs. Runyan’s
throat was out. He could stay to leurn
no more. This morning, however, sev
eral persons entered the room. The dead
wife lay folded in tho dead husband's
arms. The bod was soaked with blood,
whioh had oozed to the floor.
“Evidently, a double luurdi r by any
one who had enter, and the. bouse was im
possible. It was plainly the work of an
insane husband, and this was confirmed
liy a memorandum lound in one o! his
pockets, disposing of some of Ids and her
personal e(foots, and stating that ho had
committed the deed, and that the fami
lies would find out why. Only a few
days before the fatal Wednesday, while
threshing in the barn, he told his brother
that there would he a funeral before the
week was out. A sister of tho murdered
woman says that Mrs. Runyan told her
that if ho was to die ha wanted her to
die with him.
“The condition of the room clearly in
dicated that Runyan had cut his wife’s
throat while she slept at his side. After
murdering her lie rose and walked about
the room, as there were bloody trucks all
over the floor. Returning to tho bod, he
had evidently clasped her body in his
arms and then cut his own throat. No
inquest has been held, nor is any likely
to be held, as both families are satisfied
that it is a ease of suicide and murder.
Runyan's uncle and grandfather died by
their own hands. His fattier, when told
of the tragedy, said that ho ‘expected
nothing else,’ as William had been ‘act
ing strangely ol late.’
“Of course, the country people, filled
with morbid curiosity, have beco flock
ing to the gloomy house trow miles about.
The wife will be buried separately to
morrow by her parents, who are distract
ed by grief. Kunyau’s family endure
their sorrow with a kind of stolid despair.
To-morruw’s funeral is expected to at
tract crowds from the entire county.”
Till-: LMIISLATIIIIK A.NII ITS VVOIIK.
The legislature that closed its labors
yesterday, was an unusually in-lustrums,
painstaking body. If it left undone some
things that it might have done, it had
tho courage to kill many bills that would
have worked a puhlio injury.
It had to deal with rnuuh pithy legisla
tion that seems, howevor, to have been
demanded by Icoal exigencies, and it had
to work against tho obstructive spirit and
machinery ol tho constitution. Wo re
grot that it did not pass the law providing
for tax assessors, the bill establishing a
school of technology, and the general dog
law. These will come in time, however.
The bill redislricting tho statu is a good
one, the oapitol bill is wisely guarded, and
liberal in its provisions, and the bill pro
hibiting the i uniting of Suuday excursions
is in the right direction, Indeed, this
legislature seems to have east its influence
in the direction of morality on all ooca
sioos. W bile it failed to pass the general
temperance bill, it did pass more than 70
special tenjporanee bills. We may have
had more brilliant legislatures, and more
progressive and liberal, but it js doubtful
if wo ever liad a safer und more conscien
tious one. Wo certainly never bad a more
industrious one. 'i be members have been
away from home and business more than
four months. Not one duy of this time
has been wasted, and the puy is wholly
inadequate to the loss entailed hy their
absence. For this service they are omi
tied to the thanks of their constituents. —
Atlanta Caiutuutuiu, 27 th ult.
WASHINGTON NMVS.
Mahnne’s assessment on the employes
of the Norfolk navy yard has. on a hint
from thin place, been dropped.
It is thought that iu his forthcoming
report Postmaster General Gresham will
advocate strongly a postal telegraph and
a postal savings bank.
Gen. Sherman wiH turn over tho com
mand of the army to General Sheridan
on November Ist. On the Bth of Feb
ruary he will be placed on the retired
list oftho army.
The appraised value of the vessels re
cently condemned and sold was $271,30 *;
tho accepted bids wore $308,297.
Jumes G. Blame has leased his mag
nificent new residonoo tor several years.
He and his tamily, however, will not
leave Washington this winter.
The first omptroller of the treasury
reports that there arc in circulation in
tho United States $743,317,573 in coin,
and $831,757,069 in paper; total, sl,-
575,104,642.
There are nearly 1,000 cases on the
docket oftho IJ. S. supreme court. They
usually dispose of about 300 a year.
I’OUTIC.I L NKWS.
Wendell Phillips, long tlio foremost
titan in the anti-slaveiy party, denounces
the Republicans, and hopes that Duller
w'JI be ro elected governor of Massachu
setts.
Mahono's tyranioal bpssi-mi lias di
gitated U. s. Sonutor Riddlebergur ami
Governor Cwmeron, and they are toking
no part in the campaign.
D. 11. Chambcrlu n, cx-govornor ol
South Carolina, says thu Muhono move
ment “was brought forth and ciadlcd in
fraud, and fraud alono, and its manners
and methods have been consistent with
its inborn cliaraelor."
The Massachusetts Greenbaekers ami
Democrat# have both nominated B. b
Butler for governor.
Scnat >r Bayard emphatically protests
against Butlor's being recognised as a
Democrat, in vijw of his oourse iu the
days of reconstruction.
John Kelley expresses himself as satis
fied, and determined to support tho
Democratic nominee.
CBIMK.
Near LaKayc ttc, Indiana, on the 24th
ult., Mss Atkinson, aged 18, was out
raged, murdered, and horribly mutilated
while at home alone.
Near Peru, Indiana, on the 28th ult.,
three masked men robbed the express
car of $15,000, and escaped.
At Cartledgc, Kansas, on tho 29th ult,
a gang of cowboys attacked a train, killed
the engineer and fireman, but were re
pulsed.
In Jersey City, John Wane is on trial
for having betrayed Hattie Wagner by a
uiook marriage.
In Dallas; Texas, last Friday, Henry
Shanks killed Adam Woimor in a dis
pute about religion.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Montgomery is building up rapidly.
Property worth $500,000 was burned
at tho Oxwoor furnace, near Birming
ham, on the 20th.
The deputy sheriffof Talapoosi killed
Bradley ou the 22J ult., while try
ing to e.-eapo from arrost.
Oxford is raising money rapidly to
build a cotton factory.
Tho State University at Tuscaloosa is
full; no room for more students.
The books of the city assessor of Bir
mingham show an increase of nearly
$1,000,000 over last year's values.
The Alabama River is lower than it
lias boon in 25 years.
Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago
Tribune, being called before the labor
committee of the senate, said that the
chief cause of the poverty of the working
men of this country is their impiovidence.
They spend too much for whisky and to
bacco; $400,000,000 annually lor whisky,
aud $10,000,000 more for tobacco and
cigars. The figures are high, but as his
reputatiou is at stake, he probably knew
the truth of what he said' If so, is it not
a strong argument for banishing whisky?
OKOItnIA NKWS.
On the 19th of August the Mitchell
House, at Thom isville, “the pride ol all
South Georgia," was burned. Work has
already been commenced to replace it
with a building fronting 365x130, con
taining 160 sleeping rooms.
A young man calling himself Henry
Z Morse was cowhide,! m the street in
Savannah on tho I9t.h ult., by a young
lady. Without having secured an intro
duction, lie hud written a note request
ing an interview.
In DeKalb county Henry Cato, negro,
has been sentenoed to be hung November
9th, for murder.
The old soldiers of Madison county
held a reunion at Madisou Springs on
the 20tli ult.
In Clarke eoun’y, on the 21st ult.,
Robert Stark, negro, put ground glass in
the bread for Robert Calloway’s family.
They have recovered, and he isio jail.
A Clarke county negro licked molasses
from a rook ; fragments thereof got in
his throat, and killed him.
Two negro women in Cobh county jail
are charged with infanticide, and one
with killing her husband.
Jackson Street, Atlanta, has a big
ghost sensation.
After some Sandcrsville young gentle
men had playe-l a number of pieces in
front of a house, a servant opened the
door and said, “If you’l! wait, I’ll go and
tell the young ladies you're here." They
did not wait.
In Henry county, A-u Oglesby, aged
12, picked 3-W pounds of cotton on tho
17th ult., ami stopped nearly tin hour at
dinner time. •
A Wilkinson farmer is reported as having
taken his wife, baby, cradle, and sewing
machine to town with him recently.
While returning he rocked the cradle,
and his wife tmmiptilated the sewing ma
chine ori he newly purchased goods.
Georgia has over 30 insurance compa
nies.
Talbot ooonty lawyers aio reported as
making, altogether, los.-, than SS,UJO a
year.
Mtdvillo, in the Savannah Nnvx, coin
plains that the turpentine men are mak
ing nothing, ami calls for a meeting of all
engoged in the bmdm *s to eon. ult about
wages of employes.
William Moss, living noar McDonough,
•lied on the train ju.it as it left Atlanta
for Mucon lust Wednesday, of heart dis
ease.
'llie sucoessful candidates for cadet
ships a week ago yesterday wore Krncst
K West, of Rome, for Aunapotis, and
P. C Harris, of Ccdariown, for West
Point.
Capt. S L I j of Auwnrtli, has a
cow that gives eight gallons of rich milk
a day. lie values her at sl,<H.
Uoorge Wallace, negro, wa- hung at
Savannah last Fliday. His counsel tried
hard to iuflxence Governor McDaniel to
interfere with the sentence of the law.
When this attempt failed, George ap
pearel to beuomo craz , but u jury de
cided t at it was all pretence.
L. Du Give, proprietor ol the opera
bouse in Atlanta, is to bo tried to-day for
having a negro ejected because lie in
sisted on sitting among the whites.
Tho Constitution of last Friday men
tions two casus ol men taking out u. s.
liquor license, and proceeding to keep a
bar in prohibition counties Oio of ilium
has already paid SSO and costa iu each of
two oasce; the result of tho othtr attempt
>• in the future.
Lee Jones, of Gordon oounty, had his
shoulder dislocated hy a frightened
horse.
M. M. Scott, of Gordon oounty, had
his ankle broken by jumping while the
team was running away. The bone stuck
through the flesh.
Bicycle riders in must avoid
Broad and Howard Streets. So says the
mayor-
Mrs. Ida Mosely Blasingame, of Mad
ison county, peisistently affirms that her
lather attempted to outrage her. He de
nies the accusation.
F’rom all parts of the state come state
ments that the crop is short, and is going
into market vory rapidly. Most towns
are considerably ahead of their receipts
Si this tin o last year.
William Reed, a negro one-hor e
farmer of Stewart oounty, has three
bales ol last year's cotton crop on hand
Thomas S. Ilueka' ee, r-f Carroll coun
ty, claims from Superintendent Nelm
$35 as the value of clothing stolen from
him by the rccon'ly escaped convict .
Two fine silver candlesticks were re
cently stolen from the Catholic church at
Albany.
Herman White, livitig near Rock Run
Furnace, aged 63, lihs never sworn, got
drunk, or taken a chew jt tobacco.
In Carroll oounty, two weeks ago.
Toni Jourdaa, aged 17, pioked 417
pounds of cotton in one day; his brother
Jclro, aged 13, 220 pounds.
In Sumter county cotton picking ;#
nearly finished.
Two horses driven to death is one of
the results of a negro asso.iation in Lau
rens county.
J. M. Faulk, of'Laurens oounty. has in
his yard a coffee tree three feet high,
growing finely, but showing no s : gti of
fruit.
The bridge eleetiou in Floyd county,
comes off'next Wednesday. Rome gives
a big barbecue; the bridges will be free
‘or that Jay, aud the railroads also, vo
ters.
Tile wife of Lucius Harper of Mor
gan county, .as recently killed by the
cow that she was milking.
OXNXKAL NKWS.
The Timet, a New York daily, has re
duced its subscription from $lO to $6;
and the price of a single copy from four
cents to two. This caused great excite
ment urnoug the other papers, but most
of them have done likewise.
The manager of a large summer hotel
in Now York sells his swill for the season
St SSOO, and thinks the contractor will
make $l,OOl by his bargain.
A street ear propelled by a spring is to
be tried in Philadelphia. When once
wound up, it will travel eight miles.
Dr. Niles’s well in Jaoxeonville, Flori
da, is 301 feol above high water mark on
the Florida ooast, only 14 feet dsep, but
rises and fails with the tides.
A hotly was recently exhumed at Ful
ton, N. Y., after lying iu the ground 27
years. The lower part was petrified, tho
upper part hard and white. The hair
had grown several inches since burial.
Several boys of respectable families iu
Mobile have been arrested for stealing.
They belonged to the Jesse Jam is gang.
Ditue oovcls did the work.
During thu vale of August 28th and
29th. 49 sailors ol the Frenuh fishiug fleet
off Newfoundland were drowued.
Veunor says thu earning winter will be
open, warm and wet.
Texas lias adopted constitutional
amendments, levying a separate tax for
school purposes, and authorizing the in
vestment of thu school fund.
Detectives at San Franei-oo have cap
tured one of the moo complete counter
feiting outfits ever ocn on that coast
The operator gave his name as {Tpoo.
An international wrestling match, to
come off this month, between 11. M.
Dufur, of Marlboro, Mass., Duncan C.
Ross, of Cleveland. Ohio, ami George
W. Flag, of B diitroe, Vt., eicttes con
siderable interest iu New York,
The jewels which dazzle the eyes at
Boston partios arc frequently only hired
from a jeweler lor the night. Many of
the "presents’’ at weddings arc said to
be hired by the bride's parents, to make
it appear that their daughter has hosts
of friend-.
The triennial council of the Congrega
tional churches uf the United States will
meet in Concord. N. II , on the 15th
lost.
The damage to corn in the North by
Irost is now estimated at live per cent. It
is thought as uiuoh will bo : ive-l as last
year. Pork and laid arc declining s uie
wliat.
At Lock Haven, Penn , Charles Les
lie (’lark bar* for months been unable to
retain food >n hi- st-mneh. O . the 22 i
ult., something came from his stomach
into his mouth; he grabbed it, and d-cw
out a blank snake eight inches long.
In Nashville, on the 19th inst., Dr.
Thomas O Summer# sou dly caned a
drummer named Scroggins who had
written an insulting note to his (the doc
tor's) wile.
In Milwaukee, recently. Miss Melinda
I’ope married William Cumin The next
morning she wont to the justice, an-l
asked him to undo his work. She hail
marri-'d the wrong man. There were
twin brothers, so much alike that they
could hardly bo told apart. One was so
ber, the other a drunkard. She bad
married the latter, thinking he was the
other,
Mrs. J 5. 11. Wallace, of Cincinnati,
claims to be sole heiress to $152,000,000
in lljllaud.
Charles Oglotree has lately created con
siderable excitement in Georgia ami
Ala 1 awa, having kidnapped f. ur hoy<
within a few laumlis. llis last exploit of
this kind was stealing a son of James
White, in Madison county, Alabama,
August 29th. lie was closely chased,
and last Thursday the boy was recovered
in Coweta county. Oglotree had not
been caught at last accounts.
In Nashville, William Boyd ha* been
convicted of the murder oi Birdie I’at
terson, alias Lottie Rosa, and sentence I
to the penitentiary for 13 years.
Four couples moving iu the upper cir
oles of Paris, Illinois, have married and
separated within a yeor. One couple
have agreed to make another trial of life
as one; the others are still separated.
At Branchvillc, l’- nn.. Rev. W. 11.
Mvers, Methodic , lias eloped with .Mrs.
Ralph Trice.
A-tronmn. ra have discovered a comet,
not yet visible to the naked eye, not far
from the north star. It Is thoueht to be
the same one which w- e visible in 1811.
That had a tail 100,000,000 milos long.
I’robably about TW-tn >er 1-t it may bi
seen wi bout a telescope.
Suicide*: Cornelia- Tobin, because he
was haunted by the (ajp of one wh mu he
had ki led, R. L Login, of Wetumpka,
Ala.; John Mock, of Knoxville, Tenn ;
Mary Kind, of Philadelphia, from dis
appointed love; Col. Frans Davidson, at
Van Bureu, Ark.
*•>*.
On many countenances we see traces
of time, or dissipation, or evil thought,
which are no unintelligible hieroglyphic*,
but uuDii.-takahle language on a fair
page, from which wo tuoy learn lessons
of wisdom and truth. Tbe beauty of the
face is olten marred by sallowness, the
usual accompaniment of a disordered
liver, which can be cured by Portaline,
or 'fabler's Vegetable Liver Regulator.
Trice 50 Cents. For sale by Thar. &
Cain.
A young man recently victimized jutn
erous Baltimoreans by stopping before
their stores about dusk, calling out the
proprietor and saving in substance, "I
am the son of ; this lady is tny wife;
I have started to a party, and have left
my purse behind; l have not time to go
back for it;.will you lend me $10?”
stnrasafauiMraiou l i
Meet in I heir hall ut I(J.A. M. on the first Satur
day of each juamil. ,
J”; 4 *. HENDRIX, W m
G. J. MOYERS, Secret arj\
JOII\ W . MADIIOY,
attorney at law,
A
M M.MKKYIUK, OKORUIa '
Will practlee iu th® Superior, County, aud
District courts
Legal Advcrtienient.
Legal Advertisement* Payable In Ad*
vane®. Don’t you forget It!
Application for Discharge.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
R. D. Pettyjohn, guardian of John >f. Hosoh,
having applied to the court of ordiuary if u<i
county for a dUchitrg* from his guardianship®
John M. Huach: This i* therefore to cite all
rnKNM concerned to show cause why rh® said
D. Pettyjohn should uoi be dismissed from
his guardianship of John M. Hor.*h, and receive
th® usual letters of dismission, on the first Mon*
dsy in November next. Witness my hand, this
September Bth, 19*1. JOHN MATTOX,
Ordinary.
Administrators' Sale.
GEORGIA, Chattonga County:
By virtue of an order from the Court of Or
dinary of said county, will b® sold on the first
Tuesday in November, HUM, ut the court
house aoor iu said county, betweeu tho legal
hours of sale, tho following laud belonging to
the estate of W 8. Van pelt late of said, county,
deceased, tow it: North half of lot 41. east half
of lot 31, b'th in the 15th distr'et and 4lh section.
Ther.' ur** about 10acres of cleared land; dw !
ling house, gin house, aud good spring The
widow has n lifetime Interest in one undivided
third of this Und, and ths sale is subject to her
dower. Terms, cash. Sept. Slat. 19K1
J. M YAK PELT, |
M. M. HENS, ) A lm’ra.
Administrator's Bale of Land.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
By virtue of un order from th-* court of ordi
nary of sold tA>unty. will be sold In front of the
court house door, iu riwmim rriHt*. on Tuesday,
the rttb day of November, 18hd, within the legal
hours of sale, ail tL. tool estate belonging to
the estate of C. D. Gaines, late of Raid county,
except the widow s dower. B&id Ixuds wiil 1m:
sold In two divisions, n fo'lows: 75 acres of the
south half of lot No. s&l, 80 acres in southwest
corner of lot No 255, 35 acres of southeast cor
ner of lot No. 21W; in all of said division 145 acres
•ore or lum. About 60 sores of the above la n ds
sreiusgood <*tn:e of cultivation, wall watered,
creek running t brought he plantation; building .
oue log cabin. The Sad divislouof said lands is
as follows: 115 acres or lot No. 2U, 45 seres of
lot No. 855. h Ing in the northwest corner of ssul
lot; 42 k.cru: of i->t A. . 2.a), lying in the northeast
corner of said lot, containing in ail acres
more or less. Tho cieek is the dividing hue be
tween this tract of Isml aud the widow's dower.
About 50 acres of these lands at e in a good stnt<
of cultivation Tbert are on this plait: two good
log chtn, am! twrognod lasting springs, llie-so
laud* are ail lying i*i one body, m the sth dn£
aud 4th faction of said county. Pleuty of goou
timber on each *ciiiemeut. Terms of sale,
twelve mouthe* time, vrith good notea, with in
terwt at Mper cent. Bond given for U;les. This
o‘pl. M’.h, 1883. J. W. BELUAN. AJui'r.
An Administrator to be Appoiuted.
GEORGIA, Chsttoogn County:
To all whom it may concern: A. H. Davis, late
of said count*, having departed this life testats,
•aid will having bi n duly proven in common
form, and the person 1 smsd as executor in said
will also having departed this life, and there be
ing no legnl representative of said estate, this
is to cite a U and singular I he creditors and heirs
of A H Dnwia to m* and appear at my office at
the November term, INHS, < t the court of ordina
ry of said ccunty, and show cause, if tuiy they
can, why letters of administration with the will
annexed should not !>•• granted to G. D. Hollis,
clerk of the superior court, or some other fit and
proper person. Witness ny bund. September 8,
im. JOHN MATTOX, Ordinary
Application for Discharge.
GEORGIA . Chntfo* grv County:
Wher- ts D F. Aligooil, executor of the will of
Mrs. Alice L. Ailg t I, deceased, roprosunts to
rbe court in his petition, duly filed, that he has
fully administered Anoe L. Allgood’sestate, this
is therefore to cite sli persons opneyrned, heim
and creditors, to show cause, if any they can,
why B.id e\ef it'vr hould not b> discharged
from his cxet utorstip, und receive letters of
dismi ksion, on the first Monday in November
next. Witness my hand, July itth, 1888,
JOHN MATTOX, Ordinary.
KING OF THE SINGERS.
Abofi i th® rxiviH, represuntation of the
Sewing Machine we sell for S2O
It is iu t'vc iy respect the very beat of the
aiugor f iMarhinca,
Whtci\ tire by ftir the moat popular J/urAiutiu in
. .. .1 • .
PiniahcKl in tht* beat manner with the latest iin
provernent* for winding the bobbin; the most
convenient style of table, with extension. long,
large drawers, and beautiful gothic cover, it
at an da without a rival.
kin}; l'J*iiigcr Vfarhinew.
Having adopted the of selling Machines
without the aid of agouti*, ant: by giving to the
purchasers tbe benefit of the com mission usually
given to the agviita. enable them to obtain
machines at tme-hnlf of th regular prirex.
We th relore soil fur $-*' tu* abo>e st.yle t -f
machine, fully wr.rrant it for yeais. W>
du not >t*i~ you io pt’i- lor it until j<nt .->■ a hat you
ur> buying. W. wish tokuow that yon want
to buy a swing nj'' hine and arc wilting to puy
4MO for tlic *>*.•.! xii the market.
Write io us. sending the tuinie of your nearest
railroad station, und we will -.ml the machine,
and give matrui’l ciiH 7 - uilon to rfantint it
before yen pay Jot it. WILLSIAKTJJ St CO.,
182$ N. Jdth St., Philadelphia, Fa.
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|3P F “Bend IV. postage on trial box of 100 pills.
Address, Dr. M. W. BACON, Cor. Clark St. ami
Calhoun Place, Chicago, 111
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RROAD STREET HOME, GA,
Splendid Top Boggles. H acts. etc., wtt h grind
safe burses, always un hand., Prices to suit the
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