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THE GAZETTE
SUMMERVILLE, GA.
T. C. LOOMIS,
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WEDUE2DAY SWIJUNE H 1885.
Tbo cabinet decided that the president
had no authority to grant permission to
continue the New Orleans exposition.
The force in the bureau of printing and
engraving has been reduced twice lately;
first on account of the resolution to piint
no more one and two'dollar bills, and
second because the bureau failed to se
cure the contract for printing postage
stamps.
. .n' i • «•»
Alex Etheridge, a noted negro thief in
■ ’ Macon, was tried not long ago for bur
glary, and sent to the asylum as insane,
lie has already escaped. This case, that
of Sam Hill, and others of recent occur
rence, show that judges and juries cannot
be too careful in admitting insanity as an
excuse for crime.
~A preacher in Canisteo, Steuben coun
ty, N. Y., refused to marry a couple be
cause the young man, while waiting at
the church for his reverence, took part
in a game cf baseball. Ilis denuncia
tions so affected the brido that she re
fused to go elsewhere to be married, and
tho match is indefinitely postponed.
The 53rd annual meeting of tho Bap
tist Homo Mission Society began in Sara
toga last Wednesday. It has 702 mis
aionaries in 45 states and territories.
Within a year these missionaries have
organized 139 churches. They have 29,-
001 members under their charge. The
receipts for the year were $447,379, and
the expenses $60,607 more.
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Value of property burned: In Miles
City, Montana, $60,000; in Milton, Fla.,
$30,000; at Prestoiwille, Ky., $25,000
(lectlfym. house); in Lansing, lowa,
$100,000; in Cincinnati, $3,500; in Naw
York City, $393,000; <ti Harrodsburg,
Ky., $40,000; in Philadelphia, SIOO,OOO
by explosion of benzine put on
furniture to kill moths; two persons kill
ed).
John Slum, a German Catholic, be
longing to the Grand Army of tho Re
public, died in Pottsville, Penn., on tho
23rd uit. In accordance with his dying
wish, his follow soldiers proposed to at
tend his funeral with their badges on;
but the priest, Frederic Longinus, refus
ed to allow this us it is a rule of tho
Catholic church that no secret society,
while collected as a society, can attend
any religious service. Ho said that the
members, without their badges, might
attend. It has caused great excitement.
The following patents were granted to
citizens of Georgia during May, 1885.
Reported expressly lor this paper by
Louis Bagger & Co., mechanical experts
and solicitors of patents, Washington, 1).
C.: C. D. Adams, Geneva, a two-wheel
ed vehicle; M. T. McGee, Chipley, cul
tivator; E. W. Camp, Puckett, mortis
ing and boring machine; John Waters,
Augusta, boiler-cleaner; J. A. Looper,
Rockpile, car-coupling; F. G. C. Peek,
Philomath, household furniture; W. C
Shearer, Atlanta, locomotive engine;
Ansel Strickland, Cumming, cash-carrier.
While George W. Crawford was gov
ernor of Georgia, a young man in Colum
bus killed a young lady because she re
jected him. After lie was Bontoneed to
death, fiicnds appealed to Crawford for
mercy, pleading bis good family and
youth, only 20. Crawford's reply was,
“If that is the bud, what will tho blo«-
sotu be? He hangs." And he did.
The governor was right. In such a
case, clcmcßcy to the criminal would '
have been cruelty to law abiding citizens.
If all governors were as inflexible, thote
would be fewer murders.
Julio R. Sautos, a native of Ecuador,
naturalized in tho United States, living
here from 1865 to 1879, but since that
time in Ecuador, has been imprisoned
there for taking part in tho relc'.lion ot
Eloy Alfaro. Secretary Bayard demand
ed his release or speedy trial, as a citizen
of the United States; Ecuador replies
that by treaty two years' residence in the
country of one's birth forfeits naturaliza
tion, unless it is proved that he intended
to return to bis adopted country. By re
quest of Ecuador, action is suspended to
await the production us evidence rebut
ting proof already produce.l that Santos
intended to return to the United States.
We give some of the results of Secre
tary Whitney's investigations; at Mare
Island, California, $900,000 spent during
13 years in repairing the Mohican, now
worthless as a war vessel (twice her orig
inal cost); the Tennessee, $2,200,000 for
repairs; at Portsmouth, the Omaha, un- ;
der repairs since 1881, has cost $1,550,-1
000, and repairs not yet completed. The I
Mohican is fit only to be sold and broken •
up; the Omaha still under repairs; the,
Tennessee in good condition. One good
vessel for $4,650,000; pretty high; who
got the money? Evidently it was spent as
jt-vu'ght not to have been; fur whose ben
efit? i
SOME OF SAM JONES’S SAYINGS.
What Nashville people want is areviv
al of honesty. There are too many men
in the church boarding with their wivos.
God will feed an honest man, if he has
to put the angels on half rations.
I never saw a man who did not believe
in a hell, wbo-was not on a bee line for it,
if there is one.
Young woman, I would sustain your
good name; 1 love to think of your good
character; but, I beg you, make young
men keep their hands off you. When a
young man walks with you, and seizes
your arm, you may be virtuous, but what
is he?
Every moment of your life God is
where He can put His hand on you. A
man must give up, or do worse. I know
that His great heart beats for mankind;
but I know that He is terribly just.
When 1 stood by my father’s bedside,
and he held my hand in his, I believe
that was my last chance, and that, if I
had turned away and sinned again, I
would bo in hell to-day.
CASUALTIES.
Chailes Johnston, of Coshocton, Ohio,
drowned while showing his power to wade
in deep water; in the Hughes saw mill,
Chattanooga, Morgan’s cyo knocked
from its socket by a belt;* in Iredell coun
ty, N. C., 1). L. Glover killed by acci
dental discharge of George Mask’s gun
while they were hunting; Walter Cahoon,
of Terrell county, N. C-, brains kicked
out by a mule; near Syracuse, N. Y.,
Charles Kinne killed by boiler of his
steamboat exploding; August Strcssman
and Charles Gunwald killed by lightning
near Fergus Fulls, Minn.; in Jersey City,
N. J., four persons killed, ten injured,
by fall of house; in Coles county, 111.,
Mrs. Winglee and her ester killed, three
others stunned, and house sot on tiro, by
lightning; in Howard county, Md., Geo.
Downey, aged 67, gored to death by his
own Alderney bull; at Henry, 111., Thos.
Mannion, drowned in the Illinois River
by going over a dam in a skiff (Charles
A. Marsh watching him, took a fit, fell
into the river, and was drowned); two
Indies of Osborne, Kansas, drowned
while crossing a swollen stream; at the
Kanawha mine, W. Va., four miners
killed by a breaking band; twelve per
sons drowned by waterspout near India
nola, Nebraska.
SUICIDES.
Mrs. Pauline Hood, of'Baltimore, aged
25, by hanging; Mins Matilda Ovcrbeek,
aged 26, a Milwaukee, Wis., nun, by
drowning; John Vincent, of Richmond,
Indiana, by striking his head with an ax;
in Troy, N. ¥., William McCormick, af
ter cutting his wifo’s throat (jealousy);
4v» Merrill, of Lexington, Ky., with
morphine; in New York City, by shoot
ing, Mins J. Jobe* (nothing else known);
James M. Sharp, of Stuteville, N. C.,
because he was becoming blind; Freder
ick L. Lehman, of Albany, Ga., with
: morphine (drinking had caused despond
ency); in Bozeman, Montana, Frank
Cole, alias John F. Mulehary, a desert
ing soldier; in Manilla, Ind., William
Riloy, after killing his soven-ycats-old
daughter (ho had separated from his
wife, and rho was suing tor tho girl); in
Jackson county, Ga., Mrs. William
Keith, aged 76, by jumping into a well
65 feet deep; 14. L Cuttevillo, city dork
of Eufaula, Ala.; near Salem, Va., Isaao
Martin (hung himself near bis residence,
and was not found for six •weeks); near
Wilkcsbarre, Penn., Adam Brumm, af
ter neurly killing his sweetheart, Miss
Catharine Bohn, for refusing reconcilia
tion after a quarrel ; in Highland, Hl.,
Maurice Iluogoy, a broken banker, dread
ing prosecution; in Newark, N. J., Miss
Nellie Canfield, from pnin caused by
sickness; in Cincinnati, Mrs- Sarah Mc-
Grue, a widow, from tho trouble of pro
viding for a family.
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KILLED.
In Joliet, 111., Penzedek, quarry
man, by strikers, Ronb Johnson, of
Owensboro, Ky., by Charite Richards,
over an old grudge; in St. Louis, John
Coleman, by Lurry Cunningham, in a
fight brought on by Coleman’s beating
his wife, and Cunningham’s reproving
him tor it; Lewis Browning, of Steuben
ville, Ohio, by a kick in tho stomach du
ring a quarrel; Willard Pearce by George
Joy, both of Marietta, O.; in Roane
county, Tenn., Limb by— Wooley
(Wooley made remarks, disparaging but
deserved, about Lamb’s mother; Lamb
attacked him, and shot twice); in Scott
county, Mo., Rodgers by his brother
Jeff, and Jeff by officers; in Worth coun
ty, Va., J. P. Buffington and August
Killian, by each other, in a dispute about
a cow; at Cobden, 111., Alex Walker by
W. M. Mayes (they were rivals in love);
in Shubute, Miss., Phil Stevens, by Ben
Brazier and John Parker (Brazier’s sis
ter had slighted Stevens); in Memph's,
lenn., R. M. Schuyler by his step-son,
William Kanerz, aged 19; in Ashvillo,
S. C., John York by bis brother Charles,
in a drunken dispute; in Raleigh county,
N. C., R. C. Calloway, while returning
from Methodist quarterly meeting, in a
dispute about some church matter; in
Simpson county, Ky., Wesley Hicks and
Jerry Taylor, incendiaries, taken from
jail and hung; at Brownsville, Tenn.,
Powhatan Pete, negro burglar, taken
from jail and hung; in Youngstown, Ohio,
Jeflersou C. D vis by Angus Bratt, for
! seducing Bratt’s daughter aud refusing
| to marry her; in Orange, Mass., Gilbert
I Prentice, aged 65, by his son William,
aged 35.
Ixrscrs by tire: Buck Bolling, of Hall
county, store, $2,000; Z. Ivey, of Tel-;
lair ccuuty, residence burned by light-|
ning; K. £’. Stephenson, of Griffin, resi-i
dence burned by lig.itniog; Thomas Les
ter, of Athens, residence; Aberry & But- i
ler, of Cocbn.n, carriage shop, $1,200.
A PJCKET-LINE PICNIC.
While Longstreet was in front of Suf
folk, pecking at us with Wright’s batter
ies, instead of coming in and “wiping us
out," as he could have done before we
were reinforced, a report came in that he
was massing a heavy force to the south
east of our lines, our weakest point of de
fense. To learn the true state of things
at that point 1 was sent with a small
scouting party by the way of tho Shingle
company’s canal into Lake Drummond,
to scout from thence south of the Dismal
swamp.
Going in skiffs, we reached a landing
on tolerably solid ground, and camped
for the night on a little knoll in a dense
thicket of scrub pine, a half milo or
thereabout from the point of landing. Os
course, I had sentinels well out from our
bivouac, for wc knew by many sounds
that the enemy wore not far from us. All
went well through the night, and at dawn
we made coffee and cooked somo venison
that I had got from old Duke at the head
of the canal as we came by his place on
the previous afternoon. The sentinels
were called in to breakfast,for there seem
ed to be no immediate danger. We had
just squatted to our coffee and grist when
a sound stiuck our ears which made
every man in si’ence spring up and grasp
his Sharp’s carbine. It was the heavy
tread of men. We had just got our arms
in hand when a dozen men in rebel gray,
led by a lieutenant over six feethigh and
lean as a nail, broke right through tho
brush in front of us.
In a second, white both parties stood
at a ready, the lieutenant cried out:
“Hold on, Yanks! If you’uns won’t
shoot, we’uns ’ll hold fire. That coffee
smells mighty good—-we’uns havon’t had
none for a year. Wu’velotsof tobacco,
though.”
He aud his men looked so gaunt and
hungry, and so little like enemies just
then, that I cried out:
“If you’ll stack your arms out there
and trust to us, you shall share io grub
and coffee, and then be free to go back
and fight it out if you want to.”
“Good as sweet corn! We’uns are
mighty hungry, you bet!”
They at onco stacked arms, and we did
tho same, and while our cook put more
coffee and moro steak on the tiro we sat
there on the ground, tho blue and the
gray, and talked as if wo were old friends.
Nothing about the war or its causes, but
about camp life and other things.
And the way our coffee went down with
hard tuck and juicy venison steak, would
have satisfied the proudest landlord that
ever braggod of his table.
After we had filled up, the Virginians
brought out their tobacco, and di 1 their
share of treating. Tho lieutenant had a
’ huge canteen of old peach brundy, aud
that went tho rounds.
After wo had got so friendly I asked
tho lieutenant how ho came to be in on
’ that point. He replied:
! “1 was sent to watch lost you’uns can e
this way in force to take its on tho flank.
Our main forco is massed in front, where
the batteries are ready to go in ifyou'uns
weaken, and tho old man (Longstreet)
( wis afeard you might come through the
( swamp and tickle us in tho rear! What
! were you’uns doing here?”
“Out on a hunt for fresh meat; got
I this deer last night.”
“Well, tho best o’luck to you. You
don’t feel like fightin' now, do you?”
“Not if the boys don’t. It would be a
pity to spoil this picnic that way.”
So we all shook hands, traded coffee
( for tobacco, and separated, at leost for
then, as friends.* The next day on tho
lines wc weru all throwing lead and iron
' at each other. Ned Buntline.
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i DEFENSELESS HARBORS.
In its Sunday issue, the New York
Herald presents a map of New York har
bor and vicinity, by which it is shown
that there are now in existenoa fifteen
complete war ships, any one of which
could lio off Coney Island and destroy
. with shells tho city as high up as Forty
second street, reduce all the forts and
destroy all the shipping practically with
out suffering injury; that there are in
process of construction in the world twen
ty vessels of equal power. Also that
there are in existence thirty completed
aud fourteen uncompleted war vessels
that could reach points from ono to two
miles south of Forty-second street.
Those vessels are owned by all tho na
tions. so that should war break out, there
would be no escape. China, Italy, Chili
or Brazil could rain the city of New York
in two days.
These are facts that have long been
patent. They are capable of being de
monstrated with mathematical precision.
It is merely a question of range and dis
tance. There is not tho slightest reason
to doubt that the lieraid's head line, "At
the Mercy of Everybody,” correctly de
scribes the true state of affairs.
But New York is, though the most
important, but one of the many unpro
tected ports upon our vast coasts. From
the upper limits of Maine to tho Rio
Grande there is net an artificial obstruc
tion that could stay for an hour the ad
vance of a hostile fleet of the present
day. If there can be any comparisons
in such conditions as now exist, it is pat
ent that the Southern coast is even less
protected than the Northern. In the
Northeast, some pretense of defense is
maintained, but southward even the pre
tense is abandoned. Neglect marks I
every station and by official order the | i
na\y yards and forts have been left to',
crumble iuto ruins. Is it intended that'
when war comes to this, as it does in time ,
I to all countries, the South is to be offered
as a sap to the invading Cerberus, while
I the North prepares for defenses?
Married in Wyandot county, Ohio, J.
i R. Miller, aged 71, to Miss Ellen Sutton, i 1
• aged 16. | t
A FLORIDA FEUD.
On Sunday, the 17th nit., Hickory
Grove church, in Madison county, was
the scene of one of the most horrible
encounters on record, a fatal fight be
tween three brothers named Langford
on one side and three brothers named
West on the other. Sunday-school
was in progress when the conflict be
gan, and members of both the fami
lies involved were teaching classes
within the church. William. Langford
and his two brothers were sitting be
neath a tree in front Os the edifice
when John and Eugene West drove
up in a buggy. William Langford
arose and walked toward the buggy
as if to speak to the Wests. As he
neared the vehicle pistol shots were
heard, but who fired first is uncertain.
Eugene West made a move to leap
from the buggy, but before be could
do so he was shot and fell to the
ground senseless. The ball passed
over the rear of the buggy, striking
Eugene in the back near the right
shoulder and plowing its way through
the body to the skin over the right
breast, beneath which it lodged and
was subsequently extracted.
Another brother ran up and joined
the Wests, and a fusillade, in which
the entire sextette took part, was itu*
mediately commenced. The firing
brought out those in attendance on
the Sunday-school, and a terrible pan
ic among the women and children fol
lowed, alljunning in different direc
tions. Two or three men who essay
ed to stop tho conflict soon decided
that discretion wus the better part of
valor and also took to their heels.
The belligerents'were’ thus left an
open field, and thirty-five or forty
shots were fired at close range as rap
idly as the belligerents could pull
their triggers.
When the weapons had been crop,
tied of their bullets the combatants
closed in for a hand-to hand conflict
with knives. W>lliam w Langford fell to
the ground perforate 1 by seven bul
lets, and died while the conflict was
still progressing. Bob Langford was
shot through the bowels, kidneys and
right arm and also fell to the ground
in a dying condition. His recovery is
impossible. Tass Langford was shot
in the head, and his left shoulder was
literally hacked to pieces, death nearly
resulting from loss of blood from this
wound alone. Six long gashes in
other parts of his clothing tell of the
fury with which bis antagonist plied
his knife. Rts death is also 1 foregone
conclusion.
John West was badly cut about the
hips, his antagonist evidently aiming
to disembowel him. Abraham West’s
injuries consist of eight or ten knife
wounds in tbo back which have laid it
bare from the shoulders to his hips.
There is a possibility that neither of
the West brothers will die. The third
of the trio escaped without a scratch.
The origin of tho trouble dates back
eight or ten years to the time when
Colonel West and Capta’n Langford,
both deceased, fathers ot the partici.
pants in yesterday's conflict, lived on
adjoing plantations, when they had a
dispute which resulted in a feud,
which has never ceased to exist be
tween their families. This ill-feeling
was intensified last fall by the publica
tion during the political campaign of
controversial letters of a personal char
acter by John West and William
Langford in the Madison New Era
aud the Recorder. Subsequently the
families had a conference at Thomas
ville, Ga., looking to a compromise,
aud until the other Jay it was thought
the family differences had been amica
bly adjusted.
Both families are among the oldest
and most prominent in the country,
and are in comfortable financial cir
cumstances. Marital ties connect
each with several other families of
prominence, and there a-e fears in
some quarters that the vendetta will
lead to still more serious consequences,
Bettor than She Expected.
“Yteur letter received. In reply lam
happy to say that Parker’s Hair Balsam
did much more for me than you said it
would, or than I expected. My hair has
not only stopped falling out, but the bald
spots are all covered, and all my hair has
grown thicker, softer and more lively
than it was before my sickness a year
ago. Thank you again and again.” Ex
tract from letters of Mr. R. W. T-, West
Fifty-third street, New York.
Ray S. llathway, city editor of the To
ledo Democrat, has been treated to a coat I
of tar and feathers by several young mar
ried men whom he had charged in his :
paper with ruining a young married lady,
and breaking up a happy family.
Charles Green, alias George Rowland, .
alias J. J. Harris, is in trouble for draw-;
iug SI,OOO from Middleworth, Graybill,'
<fc Co-, of Indianapolis, on a forged order
from bis employer, Gramlison Clark, of
Jasper county, Illinois.
In Oakland, California, Mrs. 11. F. ‘
Prindle told her husbasd that Dr. H. L- I
Buck, while attending her, had taken
improper liberties. Prindle shot the doc- j
tor dead. Some say she is crazy.
LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS.
About 4 o’clock in the afternoon here,
it is the custom for the women to come
out in the open air and lean over the bal
cony. or stand at the gate chatting with
one another. If the day is warm—as
day before yesterday happened to be—
nearly everybody on the street is out of
doors. The children play quietly to
gether, the negro servants gossip gig
glingly, and their mistresses smile greet
ings on every hand. The door of the
opposite house opened shortly after 4,
and the “laydy” strolled out. She wore
a morning gown of light color and text
ure, and her feet were clad in comforta
ble slippers. After a leisurely glance
around she folded her handkerchief slow
ly, placed it onthe railing of the piazza—
the floor of which was four or five steps
from the ground—and, resting her el
bows on it, leaned for half an hour, star
ing amiably and complacently at nothing.
Presently a tramp, hove in sight. He
was a sedate and tranquil tramp, and he
wandered along looking with an air of en
tire approval at tho residents who were
enjoying the air. He arrived at the
house opposite, lookel at the comforta
ble little woman on the piazza, and after
thinking it over for a moment, stopped,
removed his hat, and half laughed, hall
sat ag iiast the gate post. He placed
his hat on the ground beside him, and
being at last comfortably disposed to ba
gin his plea, said deliberately:
“It’s curious how things’ll run agin a
man who ain't done nothing agin God or
man goin’on this forty-six years, but t z
tried to do his duty like a man. Look at
me” —and so on in his usual strain.
When he had got through with his nar
rative the woman on the piazza moved to
a little more comfortable position and
, rested her chin on one of her plump
hands. She looked at tho tramp with
an interested air and he looked up'at her
with grave respect. The story went on
until I thought it would never stop, and
still the woman listened politely. When
it was fini.-hed she said slowly:
“Seems to mo that things have been
going very hard with you.”
has, indeed, laydy,” sai* l tho
tramp. She contemplated him a mo
ment more, and then, rousing herself
with an effort, she disappeared in the
house. Sho was gone a long lime, but
i the tramp hu lno misgiving, apparently,
i for he hummed quietly as he gazed at bis
tattered trousers and indolently swung
his hat. Then the little woman strolled
, out again with a coin, which she dropped
into tbo man’s outstretched hand, and
then resumed her pose on the piazza.
“Thank you, laydy. May you never
want,” muttered the tramp quietly,
1 Then, as ho put on bis hat: “It's a
pleasant day.”
i “Yes,” sai l the lady, sleepily, "it's a
mighty pleasin' day.”
“Plenty of time here. No one hurried.
Timo was made for slaves."—Philadel
phia J'ren.i.
SCIENCE AND MATRIMONY.
■ It seems that Dr. Scudberry, of tho U.
: 8. navy, was married about three years
ago to a lovely Oakland girl, to whom he
had been engaged for a long time. Short
( ly after he was ordered to join the Asiatic
I squadron, and returned to his bride only
a few days ago. During his absence, his
wife determined to employ her time in
the study of medicine, which she hoped
1 would boa delightful surprise to her hus
> hand on his roturn. Unfortunately she
entered a homeopathic college, her worse
i half being of the allopathic persuasion,
i The doctor was on his way home from
tho train after his arrival, when he saw a
crowd around a drug store, and was told
that a man had just fallen in an epileptic
fi . Forgetting his eagerness in the call
of humanity, the doctor rushed into the
‘ store, wi ere he was astonished to sec bis
• wife engage! in consulting the patient’s
t pulse. “ What does this mean?” exolaim
i ed the astonished surgeon. “Why, I have
a surprise for you, darling,” said Mrs.
. Scudberry. “I am a regularly qualified
homeopathic physician.” “Homeopath
’ id” sneered tha much surprised husband.
“Yes, pet,” said Mrs. Seudberry, sweet
ly, as sho took out her “pillules;" “this
dosing people with bucketfuls of slop is
getting out of date, precious. ” “And so
, you have actually been roped in by that
• gang of pellet-peddling ignoramuses.
have you?” “Don't be rude, my dear,”
■ said the female practitioner. “You can’t
expect to keep up with the march of sei-
I . .
once in Asia. Ju.-t stand back, and let
mo save the patient. ” “Save fiddlesticks!
Woman, go home, and quit trifling with
human life—or perhaps you’d better mix
a mustard plaster, while I resuscitate the
j subject.” "Why don’t you quit fighting
l and go to work?” said the victim's wife,
I who had just decided that she would not
i look well iu black. “When this person
I is removed, I will proceed in the regular
way," said Dr. Scudberry stiffly. “I will
i not be answerable fur the consequences
. unless that old fogy withdraws,” rejoined
. Dootress Scudberry haughtily. “Your’e
a quack!” roared the husband. “Your’e
: a butcher!” screamed the wife. And in
! this way they went on, till somebody an
| nounced that tbe patient had picked him
| self up and walked off, he being tha oniy
■ person who escaped, as the police arrest
| cd the whole crowd for creating a distur-
■ banee. The divorce suit of Scudberry
: vs. Seudberry is set fi r the fall term. — I
' San d'ranciseo Post,
> f.
In a San Francisco soda-factory, the
: alkalis used have bleached the hair of al
the brunette operatives to blonde; auburn
hair becomes first white, and then green;
I brown hair changes to the hue cf a half
, burned brick.
Grant’s house in Philadelphia was sold
for § 22,590 on tbe 26th ult. Citizens of
. that place paid $33,000 for the house in
■ 1865, furnished it, and gave it to him. j
GENERAL NEWS.
Gen. Grant is alternately better and
worse.
Geronimo’s band has been joined by
many other Indians, They have killed
numbers of whites.
. The greatest revival ever known in
Nashville closed last Friday night. 8,000
people were packed in the tent and
around it. Tbe shouts and shrieks of
women were indescribable. Over 2,000
have been converted during the meeting.
Last Sunday tho Brazos River was
higher than was ever known before.
People and stock drowned, crops and
fences washed away, etc.
In the trial ofCluverius in Richmond
for killing Miss Madison, the pleading
began or. last Monday, the 23rd day of
tho trial. t
Major Burke denies having paid out
any of his own money, or surrendered
property, to discharge tha debts of the
exposition.
Near Tampa, Florida, on the 23rd ult.,
Ed. Shaver killed Morris Davis in a quar
rel about ten cents.
In Iberia parish, La., last March, Dr. F.
Henckle killed— Bingmuller for outrag
ing bis own daughter, Ilencklo’s sweet
heart. Being acquitted, he immediately
married the girl.
Investigation in o the case of Mary
Studley, a Massachusetts bigamist,shows
that her ancestors for four generations
. have been bigamists.
The Hessian fly has at last crossed the
Rocky Mountains, and now revels in the
wheat fields of California.
In the Presbyterian general assembly
i at Cincinnati, last weete a resolution rcc-
I oguizing the validity cf baptism adminis
tered by a Ciitboiic priest, was laid on
the table unanimously.
Two negro preachers of Baltimore, P. i
H, A. Braxton and Haivev Johnson, are I
' suing the Norfolk (Va.) Ferry Company I
i for damages by being made to leave the I
boat for insisting on staying in the cabin, .
1 which was marked “For whites only.” I
The streets of Lynchburg, Virginia, are ‘
' crowded with tobacco wagons. Until
. lately, the weather wu.- too cold and dry
to handle tho w ed.
John Cheeney, of Lawrence, Kansas,
got drunk on hard cider, because he could
□otget anything stronger. In a few
hours he died.
Millions of grasshoppers are reported
as coming cut of tho sandy soil south of
tho Arkansas River, iu Colorado, and de
vouring the crops.
In Chattanooga thers are 240 wells,
used by 10,000 persons, and regarded as
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Application to Have Child Bound.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
To all whom it mav concern; Whereas James
Herndon has applied to me in proper form of
law to have Alice Hudehins, a minor orphan,
(white child), of said county, bound to hiiu in
terms of the law in such case made and provid
ed. this is to notify all persons concerned that
said application will be heard at my office on
the 26th dav of June next, at 10 a. m. Thia May
23rd, 1585. ’ JOHN MATTOX. Ordinary,
Road Notice.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
To all whom it may concern: whereas John
W. Close, county supervisor, has laid out and
marked a change in the public road leading
from Summerville to Chattoogaville, on the
John A. Johnson farm, as follows: leaving the
present public road going south at the corner
of Dock Starling’s garden, (marked 5): going
thence setith to'stoh4; thence to stob 3; thence
southwest to stob 2; and continuing in the
same direction to stob 1, near the fence where
the change in said road should intersect the
present road, about sixty yards north of the
lands of the Smiths, believing that the change
will be of public utility: this is to notify all per
sons concerned that on the 29th day ot June
next, said change will be finally granted, if no
new cause 11 shown to the conirarv. This May
25th, ISBS. JOHN MATTOX, Ordinary.
Road Notice.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
To ail whom it may concern: AU persons in
terested are hereby notified that, if no good
cause be showc. to tlie contrary, an order will
be granted by the undersigned, «n the 26th day
of June next, establishing a new read as mark
ed out by the road supervisor appointed for that
purpose: commencing near Oak Hill church, in
1216th Dfst. G. M.. iu said county, leaving tbe
present public road south of said church, run
ning in a due westerly direction, along the
settlement road, through tho lands of Capt. K.
K. Foster aud John Bridges, to the residence
of said Bridges, thence south to the Alabama
line, near the residence of Wm. Wards. This
May 26, 1885. JOHN MATTOX, Ordinary.
Road Notice.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
To all whom it may concern: AU persons inter
ested are hereby notified that., if no good cause
be shewn to the contrary, an order wiil be
granted by the undersigned, on th* 26th day of
Jun« next, establishing a new road as marked
cut by the county road supervisor, appointed
for that purpose, commencing in the town of
SubUgna. in said county, and running in a south
easterly direction, through the lands of A. A.
Blackburn, Milton White, R. H. EHU, W. D. His,
Mrs. D.ivis Hix. Mrs. Bailie Hill. John Hill,
Thom-t- Gray, Terrell Gray, and J. T. Davis,
and intersecting the present public road leading
from Jarno Ponder’s to Wesley Shropshire’s,
near said Davis’s in said county.’ This May 26,
1885. JOHN MATToX, Ordinary.
Notice.
| GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
I will be at the usual places of holding elec
tions in the districts of this county on the fol
lowing dates, for the purpose of letting to the
lowest bidders the eontraets for working the
roads in each aistrict, respectively:
Summerville. June 13, 1885.
Trion Factory, • 15, u
Suhligna. ’ “ 17,
Haywood. *• 19, ‘‘
Dirttown. “ 22, “
Coldwater, “ -'4, ••
Seminole. 2*>, “
Dirt seller, “ 29,
Alpine, July 1, “
Teloga, “ 3,
JOHN W. CLOSE,
May 13, 1885. Road Supervisor.
Sheriff's Tax Sale.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County.
Will b<- sold before the c ui-t I'.ouso
door, in the town ofSuintuerville, in said
county, on the fir. tTuesday in July, 1885,
within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, the following
\\ ild Lamfelota, levied on t > satisfy tax
fi. fas. issued Ly the TaxColleetor of said
county, ns'i.inst each ol said lots, for tho
State and County tax duo thereon, for
tbo year tes.i, to- ,it: lots .4 la d Nos.
26.8, 239, 213, and —, all in the 13tli
district and 4'h section, in said county;
and No, 245, in tho sth district and 4tli
section, in Baid eoun'y; and Nos. 40, 30,
71, 78 and 96, in the 15th district and 4th
section, in said county; and Nor. 105,
185, 211, and 196. in the 6th district and
■llli section, in said cou' ty; and Nos. S 4,
90, 17(1, 172, 206, 209. 225. 276, 297, 296,
291. 319, and 95, in the 25th district and
3rd section, iu si id county; and N >s. 71,
I and 170, in the 14th district and 4ih sec
tion, tn said county. Also, the following
lots, levied on to satisfy tax fi- fas. issued
as aforesaid, against each lot, fur tho
state and county tax due therein, for the
year 1884, to-wit: lots of land Nos. 287,
197, and 157, in the 13th district and 4th
section, of said county; and Nos 41, S 3,
b'9, 225, 260, 259, and 319, in the sth
district and 4th section, of said county;
and Nos. 73, 77, 46. 54, 79. and 44, in tho
15th district and 4th section, in said
county; and Nos. 55, 191. 209. 245, 253,
258, and 283, in the 6th dis'rict and 4th
section, in said county; arid N s. 40,258,
259, 282,266, 260. 261, 262, 191. 171,
99, 26, 263, 192, 96. 265, nr.d 273, in
tha 25th district and 3rd section, in said
county; and N s 43 and 33, in the 24th
district and 3rd section, in said county;
| and Nos. 24, 230, , 12. at d 16, in the
14th district and 4'h section, in said
county. Also, the following lots, levied
on to satisfy tax ii. fas., issued as afore
said, against each lot, for the state and
county tax due thereon, fur the years
1883 and 1884. to-wit: lots of land Nos.
91. 317. 300. and’—, in the 13 ii district
and 4th section of said county; and Nos.
294, 175, 67, 282, and 22, in the sth dis
trict and 4th section, in said county; and
Nos. 47, 55. 72, 70, 75, 76. 94. and 95,
in the 15th district and 4th section of
said county; and No. 199, in the 6th
[ district nod 4th section, in said county;
i and Nos. 2. 25 48, 49. —, 61, 85, 97,
98, 119. 120. 121, 132. 133 155. 201. 2U5,
208, 226, 227. 240, 242, 243, 244. 245,
277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 301, 300, 299,
298, 295, 313, 314, 318, and 320, in the
■ 25th district and 3rd section, in said
county; and Nos. 6. 7,8, 35. 34, 77. and
81, in the 24th district and 3rd section,
in said county,- and Nos. 7 and 28. iimho
14th district and 4th section, in sai<l coun-
' ty. All of said lots being “Wild Lots,”
i not returned fi r taxation for said respeo-
■ live years, and assessed as provided by
I law.
All purchasers at said sale will be re-
I quired to pay for making deeds to each
i of the respective lots, as prescribed by
law. This 30th dav of March, I>S5.
T. J. WOKSHAM, Sheriff.
Sheriff s Sale.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
ill be sold before the court-house door in
the town of Summerville in said county, on the
first Tuesday in July. within the lesal
hours of gale, for cash, to tbe highest bidder,
the following pronerty. to wit: one Kandell bar
row, as good as new: levied on as the property
of John A. Starling, to satisfy one fi. fa. issued
from the superior court of said c' unty in favor
ot Moore. M-t rsh. & Co. Said property pointed
out by plaintiffs' attorney. This June Ist, 1885.
T. J. WORSHAM. Sheriff.
Application for Discharge.
GEORGIA, Chattooga County:
E. A. Hammond, Guardian of W. H. Edwards,
having applied to the Court, of Ordinary of said
county ft r a discharge from his guardianship of
W. H. Edwards, this is therefore to cite all per
sons concerned to show cause, if any they can,
on the first Monday in July next, why E. A.
Hammond should not be dismissed from his
guardianship of H. Edwards, and receive the
usual letters of dismission. Witness my hand.
May 5. 11*65. JOHN MATTOX. Ordinary