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THE GAZETTE
SUMMERVILLE, GA.
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MM OTM MT 2M ISBS,
It in thought the compilation of the
official record* of the late war will fill 80
Vo; urn of; 19 have been published.
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Loirera by fire in Geor.is: Van Bu
ren, of Griswoldville. gin house, (the
finest one in the state); Charles Howell
k Co., of Columbus, store, fl,500; J- B.
Hancock, of Jackson county, reside-oe;
Rose Crane, of Athens, residencs, $6,000.
In China divorces are allowed in
' all cases of criminality, jealousy, tnutua'
dislikes, incompatibility of tempi r, or
too much loquacity on the part of the
wife. It strikes us that any one who
wishes a divorce could succeed under one
or the other of these heads
The sermon of Rev. G. C. Rankin,
Methodist pastor in Chattanooga, last
Sunday night, is said to have been the
most one ever preached there.
Tllo-f<T|jee-Q»si waging war on the ‘‘soiled
doves;” he said that he proposed to show
up the male prostitutes til tho city. The
Timos deciares the sermon unfit for pub
lication.
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A. N. Cole, of Wellsville, N. ¥., has
changed dry and barren hillsides into fer
tile fields.by digging horizontal ditches
deep enough to holdall tho water that
falls. It gradually souks through, and
keeps the ground always moist. Il prac
ticable, there will bo no washing off tho
soil, no destructive droughts, where this
is tiled. Will tome of our farmers ex
periment on it?
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Strikes: 1,000 mill-employes in Sagi
naw, Mich., (forced others to join them);
the Augusta (Ga.) butchers, for lower
rent el stalls in mnrket-housc; at Meriden,
Conn., 300 qunrryu.cn, for $1.50 u day
instead ol 81.10 (drove off others who
wished to continue work); in Cumber
land, Ind., the employes of tho Warren
glass company, because three appren
tices were put to blowing bottles.
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Accounts from the Indians are very
contradictory. Ono day they are said to
be on the warpath in Kansas, killing and
burning; the next day we ore told that
notan Indian has been seen in Kansas.
It is probable that, expecting to be dis
armed, they are sending off their best
horses and arms to be hidden, and that
tho parties going for this purpose have
bsen reported as on tho wur path.
Hung: in Cincinnati, Joseph Palmer,
negro, (one of the parties to the murder
which led to last year's riots); in Phila
delphia, Joseph Taylor, lor killing Mi
chael F. Doran, his keeper in the peni
tentiary (during ten years before the
piurder, he stabbed 17 persons, and shot
J 38); at Halifax, N. C , Eaton Mills, ne
gro, fur killing Henry Purtou in 1883; at
Helena, Ark., David Ackles, negto, for
killing Frank Burrell and Scylla I*lujnery
last year.
Tho advocates of pci feet holiness say
that, if we consecrate ouiselves wholly to
God, lie will take from us nil inclination
to do anything that is wrong; but, if we
afterwards falter in consecration, temp
tation may overcome us. Among their
recent faith cures in this state are these
three: “Miss Kate Strickland, of hor
syth county, given up to die with cuu
suuiptioti; Mrs. Bond, of Hogansville, at
the point of dea b; Mrs. Wimpey, for
22years unable to raise her foot or ex
tend her arm. Far further information
consult the Constitution for Sunday, J u y
12tb.
We have not seen the full text of the
genersl local option bill, but tho memo
rial presented to the legislature by the
state association of liquor dealers points
out one bad provision in it. We refer to
the section prohibiting future elections
io counties or districts where the sale of
liquor is now prohibited. If, after hav
ing tested prohibition, the people of any
locality prefer to have whisky sold, they
should have that right. If they think
Ligh license will be more effectual than
prohibition in restraining intemperance;
allow them to try it. We sympathize
fully with the general object ot the bill,
but we think this section should be
stricken out.
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In nothing doe» the old feeling, that
women ate inferior to men. crop out
mere plainly than in the difference in the
punishment affixed both by law and by
public opinion to want of chastity in tho
two sexes, lu wouiau it is a damning of
fence, burying out of sight al) the excel
lencies which she may h ive displayed; in
man it is only a venial crime, if not a
recommendation. This inequality should
not exist. It is a crime in woman; it is
equally so in man. Fortunately women
may, to a considerable extent, remedy
this. Let them admit to their company
no man whom they know to be impure,
and a vast stride would be made towards
reforming men, equalizing the condition
of tbu two sixes, and protecting female
virtue
DEFECTIVE TIES AND BAGGING.
The Rome Cotton Exchange has
adopted the following preamble and
resolutions, which will be read with
interest by both planter and merchant.
Whereas, The past year has dom.
onstrated the fact that, by the use of
light weight bagging and ties, great
loss has resulted to farmers, cotton
buyers, and shippers, on account of
bales packed with this material being
insecure for handling and transporta
tion, either by railway or steamship
lines, and,
Whereas, The merchant makes no
additional gain by selling these infe*
rior goeds, buyers, shippers and com
press companies, are crowded with
claims for broken ties, scant bagging,
and wastage of cotton, eei-scd by the
use of this shoddy material, and
Whereas, The farmer, in purchas
ing and marketing his cotton in this
light weight goods, suffers a very con
siderable loss, as shown in the follow
ing table, showing comparative profit
to planter in bagging and ties, based
on value season of 1884, with cotton
at 10c per pound : 7 yards bagging
2$ Ihs per yard, retail value 12)c per
yd, cost 88c, producing 15} lb sat 10c
—51.58; 6 ties (56 lbs per bunch),
retail value 81.50 por bunch, cost 80c;
producing 11 1-5 lbs at 10c, $1’.12,
total cost to planter sl.lß per bale, for
which ho gets $2.70, making a net
gain of $1.53 per bale. 7 yards of
bagging, I) lbs per yard, retail value
11c, cost 77c, producing 10) lbs at
10c, $1.05; 6 ties, (45 lbs per bunch)
retail value $1.25, cost 25c, producing
9 lbs at 10c, 90c, total cost to planter
$1.02, for which he gets $1.95, mak
ing net gain of 9.3 c. 7 yards bagging.
1) lbs, retail value 11c, cost 77c, pro
ducing 10 12 at 10c $1.05. 0 ties,
(40 lbs per bunch) retail value $1.15
per bunch, cost 23c, producing 8 lbs
at 10c, 80c; total cost to planter per
bale $1 for which he gets $1.85, mak
ing a net gain of 85c; net gain to plan
ter in heavy weight material vs. me
dium 59c per bale; net gain in heavy
weight vs light G7c per bale. And
whereas, a yet further loss is assured
to the planter by the use of this ob
jectionable material, through hisjfail
ure to thus add to the bale the num
ber of pounds deducted in Liverpool
for tare, it being the present custom
to deduct 0 per cent, in weight, or
30 lbs on a 500 lb bale, (or its equiva
lent in price), while the planter in us
ing light weight bagging and ties only
furnish 18) to 20 pounds, thereby
plainly sacrificing the value of 10 to
12) pounds net cotton; and whereas
ranch of this trouble comes from pub
lic, ginners, who buy cheap material
in order to compete for business in the
ginning and packing of cotton, by
w hich method the planter is made to
suffer a loss of that profit which
would naturally accrue in the use of
heavier material,
It is therefore resolved, That plan
ters be requested to allow none but
the best material to be used in baling
their cotton.
Resolved, That this board urgently
request the merchants of Rome and
surrounding country not to purchase
or sell (on commission or otherwise)
any bagging weighing less than 1 3-4
pounds per yard, or any ties weighing
lees than 51 pounds per bundle, and
those of standard make.
Resolved, That in order to secure
the paeking of cotton in a shape to be
most easily and expeditiously handled
by planters, warehouse and Compress
men, we recommend tho adoption ot
a paeking box of the following dimen.
sious, which will insure tho desired
uniformity. Length of box -5 feet,
width 26 niche’.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
printed in all newspapers in this sec
tion of country, and that all exchanges
in ndjoining cities be requested to co
operate with us in suppressing the sale
of all inferior and light weight bag
ging and ties.
Kb.
WASHINGTON NKWS»
Removals for "offensive partisanship”
have been stopped by the president. (La
ter dispatches contradict this doubtfully).
The time lost by each clerk since Jan
uary Ist will be deducted from the cus
tomary month's leave of absence.
Hereafter naval officers will be allowed
mileage only when they travel at their
own expense; not, as heretofore, when
traveling at government expense. This
will save hundreds of thousands of dol
lais annually.
Second Comptroller Maynard has de
cided that the $35,555 appropriated by
congress to repay Georgia for expenses
incurred during the revolutionary war
(commonly known as the Trexevant
claim) must be credited against the tax
levied by congress in ISO!, to meet war
expenses. The tax on Georgia was
$584,367: $512,955 are still duo.
Secretary Manning has sent to manu
! lecturers a circular inviting them to send
!in any information in their possession
bearing on the tariff, showing as tar as
they can, thj effect of adopting specific
duties instead of ad valorem.
John Roach, builder of the Dolphin,
Las aeiignel.
THE MURDER AT WILLS.
Many, many years have rolled by since
the incidents occurred that I am about
to relate. Men and women that were
then young have since run the race of
life; many have gone to that bourne
• whence no traveller returns; and 1, who
was then just commencing the battle of
existence, feel the heavy hand of time.
But memory lives, and will revert to the
things of the past; and mine goes back
over the intervening time, and recalls the
horrors of one night—horrors that will
not be forgotten while life lasts.
I had bought a tract of land from a
man by the name of Jones, and, to make
the last payment and complete the trans
fer, it became necessary for me to go to
L , forty-five miles distant, where
Jones lived. It was a bright morning in
June when I made the necessary prepar
ations for the journey, and started. 1 had
the money—thirteen hundred dollars—
snugly tucked away in my breast pocket,
and was confident it would be increased
several hundred by (he speculation. I
was riding a fine animal, and traveling
through a beautiful country. I can re
member no time of mV existence that I
ever felt better, or more contented; or
any journey I ever undertook under more
favorable auspices. It has often occur
red to ine fine, that some disaster or
trouble follows upon the heels of pleasure
and happiness; and experience generally
confirms the belief. If this is so, it is
one of those mysterious laws of provi
dence whose function it is to make the
bright and dark sides of life come close
together, so that by comparison we can
fully appreciate the good.
I had a friend —Wills by name —who
lived thirteen miles from L , with
whom I intended stopping that night,
and going from there to Jones’s next day.
It was late when 1 reached Wills’s house.
I found I was not the only traveler that
claimed Wills’s hospitality that night,
for be told rue a stranger had arrived
about an hour earlier, and was then in
bed adjoining the only vacant room he
had. where he informed me 1 was to pass
the night.
‘‘What kind of a man is he?” I en
quired of Wills; fori did not like the
idea of sleeping next door to a stranger,
with thirteen hundred dollars in u>y pote
session.
‘ Quite a nice man,” answered Wills.
“Laud buyer himself. No danger need
be expected from him.” Wil's knew I
had money, and he wished to make me
feel easy. His words had the de.«ired ef
fect, for I Lad great faith in his judg
merit of men and things in general.
I dismissed the subject from my mind,
and, utter partaking of the cold supper
that had been placed before me, I ex
pressed a desire to retire; for I was very
much fatigued after the hard day’s rile.
Wills showed me tho roam I was to oc
cupy, which, as has been said before, ad
joined tho one which contained the
stranger. I was soon undreseed, ami
ready to retire; but before doing this I
took out my pocketbook to see that all
was right. While I had the book tn my
hand, tho door between toy loom un i
the stranger’s was partly opened, and a
man’s head thrust in. Although 1 tried
to conceal tho book, I am confident he
( saw it; but ho gave no sign.
“1 beg your pardon a thousand times,”
said he. “The noise you nude awoke ma,
and I could not rest again until I hud
found out what caused it. This room
was not occupied when I camo, ami Mr.
Wills told me no one would stay in it to
night. I suppose you have just arrived?”
I I told him I had.
: “I sincerely bog your pardon,” ho re-
I poated, ami withdrew, closing the door
j after him.
, This little incident drove sleep from
j my eyes. I was confident ho saw the
money, and it made me uneasy, 1 put
out the light, first putting the pooket-
' book in my bosom, uml lay down, but all
! in vain. I could not sleep. Turn as 1
I would, it was all the same. At List 1
s gave up the effort; I lay stiff on my back,
f gazing up through the darkness at the
. ceiling, and listening to the thousand and
I one little noises one can hear at such a
time. How long this continued Ido not
’ know; but Ido know that there gradual
ly came over me a feeling which cannot
s be described, and which only those that
" experience it can understand. My hear-
S ing was preter-naturally sharp. I could
- hear the rustle of a leaf, the breaking of
_> a twig, or the fall of a drop of dew on
. the outside; but could not move so much
as u finger. 1 could bear everything that
was passing, and could reason, and un
derstand what produced all the little
. sounds, but 1 was incapable of action.
Presently I beard a noise that I had not
heard before, a low insidious noise that,
■ once heard, can never be forgotten. It
’ came from the direction of the stranger’s
’ room. Horror of horrors! I realized it
all; he was alter my blood 1 and 1 was
1 heloless, incapable of defending myself.!
r Gradually the noise drew nearer—at last j
j paused just beside me as though the oue
a that was making it was locating me pte-
- paratory to striking the blow. Oh, the
agony of that moment! Beads of perspi-
. ration broke out on my brow, and my
f heart nearly ceased beating. Momenta
s rily I expected the blow, but, Lefore
r making it, he touched me lightly on the
I breast. That touch saved me; it broke ■
t the ebarm—or nightmare, as you please j
r to have it —and 1 was myself again. I ;
g grasped my adversary in a death grapple, :
I and in my wild excitement I became a
. i murderer. Yes, a murderer; for, in the
j struggle that followed, I killed the—
n ■ mosquito. * * *
David Gamble, of Emmettsburg, Md.,
died recently, after sleeping 40 years in
his coffin. He took this fancy because
, his wife fell dead, of heart disease, in bis
ledr. otn, a few years after marriage.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
A mysterious epidemic is racing in '
Portugal. Persons die in a few moments I
after being taken.
Peru i-' still unsettled. Fights between
the troops of Caceres and the President
are frequent.
A new nihilist paper in Brussels is
styled, “Neither God nor Master.”
El Mahdi is reported dead.
Notwithstanding the reported advance
both of Russians and Afghans, the last
dispatchessay that Rus ia is determined
not to do anything which will stop the
negotiations for peace.
There is great ex ilement, in London
over the revelations of th: Pall Mall Ga
zette. Preachers, ladies, and the gov
ernment, are moving to stop the vices
revealed. A special committee, consist
ing of an archbishop, a bishop, a cardi
nal, ami an bonerable, are to investigate
the truth.
The Russians are sending mere trooj«
to the borders of Afghanis’an, and the
Afghans are sending reinforcements to
Herat. Russia concedes Znlficar pa-s to
Afghani-tun, but claims a position north
of tho pass which the ameer c aims be
cause it commands the i ass. Russia
contends for it because an Afghan garri
son there would cut off communication
between two points admitted to be hers.
A recent insurrection in Spain was put
down without bloodshed.
The present adminis’ratior. in England
has promised to it quire Into the fairness
of political trials in Ireland for several
years, notably the Maanstra-na cases.
The Irish land purchase bill has pass
ed its first reading in she house of lords.
It provides lor an advance by the govern
ment to Irish tenantswishing to buy the
lind on which they are living, of three
fourths of the purchase money, at four
pnr cent.
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SUICIDES.
In f’arlestadt, N. J., Elward Rose,
because he had not been able to replace
S3O, a deficit in his last month’s collec
tions; in Warwick count)’, Ind., by
drowning. Mrs. Rog< r.s. after killing her
two children, because her husband was
to > attentive to h-r sister; Hansel W.
Beckwith, of Ellaville, Schley county,
Ga., with morphine, lor deft (his third
attempt); at Shenandoah, Penn , Chas.
Dyar, because one of his three wives
threatened to prosecute him for bigamy;
in Philadelphia,‘Carrie Evans, aged 15,
because she had been seduced; at Lou
don, Tenn , a negro, by jumping from a
precipice 75 feet high; in L gar, countv,
Ohio, Mrs. Ella Norville, because her
husband accused her of adultery. aid
su id for a divorce; in Jeffereonvil e, In
diana, Albert Ross, alter killing his wife,
through jealousy; in New York City,
Augustus Erwin, alter shooting bis wife
(a runaway n iitcb); in Columbus, Ohio,
A. B. Porter, after drinking hard fer
several days.
CRIMKS.
In Gibson county, Indiana, J. N.
Lynch is thought to have poisoned his
four children, ami wished to poison his
wife, with arsenic in | ie. One child i“
dead, two are likely to die. one will re
cover. The wife would not eat the pie.
Edward Ritchey, negro, ravished a
ten-years-old white gill at Queen, Long
Island.
A negro (name not given) ravished
Mrs. Mary Walcher, of Guttenburg, N.
J.
In Blcunt county, Tenn., Willistn
Porterfield, aged 35, ravished Mrs. Reid,
old and sick, inflicting la al injuries.
In Buffalo, N. Y., a seven-years-old
girl carried food to Peter Berg, sick in
lied, aged 50, with a wile and daughter;
he drew her into the bed, and lavished
her, iujuting her terribly.
In Pittsburg tho cashier of tlie Fourth
National Bank was called cut to talk for
a moment to a man in a buggy; when l.e
returned, SI,OOO had been stolen.
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FROM A l LAM A.
Lai l before the senate: to require a
deposit of costs in divorce suits; to regu
late the relation between m ister and ser
vant; to change the punishment for
horsestealing from 10 —‘20 to 4 —lO years;
to require master or servant to give ten
days’ notice before severing the relation.
The house spent all of last week dis
cussing the general local option bill,
passed it on Saturday, 114 to 22. and im
mediately adjourned till Monday. It
provides for election by counties, in places
where the sale of liquor is not already
prohibited, after petition tothe ordinary.
If the election goes for whisky, another
election may be held in two years, upon
another petition; if a e unty once goes
I for prohibition, the act gives no power
Ito hold another election. C. C. Cleg-
■ horn voted for the bill.
KILLED.
Near Vincennes, It.d., Lawson by a
crowd who had got drunk while dancing
at the house where he lay sicx; at Oxford,
Miss-, a negro lynched for attempted
! rape; in Baltimore, Howard Cooper,
who outraged Miss Katie Gray, lynch d;
! in Trumbull county, Ohio, Thomas Pugh,
for money; in Macon, Ga-, Harrison
■ Brown, negro (placed on railroad track
; to conceal the crime, and torn into small
pieces); in Henry county, Va., Mrs. G.
L. Stone, by her husband and his father;
at Novi, Mich., by William Jones, a
tramp who was breaking J’s furniture in
, revenge far being refused lodging; in
New Bradford, Fla., D. E. Dempsey by
B. J. Bigelow, for talking about B’s
wife; near Salisbury, N. C., Henderson
Surratt by John Koene, whom he had
waylaid
j CHATTOOGA’S PUBLIC ROADS.
The following is a list of the roads, the
amounts for which let, and the nnm»? of
contractors, as let out by the supervisor
since we-gave the Summerville and 'lrion
district- a f'etv weeks ago.
Subiigna District.—From Subl gna to
N. V. Lawrence’s grist mill, W. D. Hix,
$69.95; N. V.' Lawrence’s grist mill to
Walker county fine, W. D. Hix $70.05;
Subligna to Big Creek ford, W. D. Hix,
$27.95; Biz Creek ford to Walker coun
ty line, G. B. R. ISuiith. $25; Joseph T.
Hamilton’s to A. J Alexander's, G. B.
R. Smith, S3B 50; A J. Alexi rider’s to
James Ponder's s uth jiue. A. J. Alex
ander. $23; L. 11. Salmon’s north line
to D. R. Ramsey’s, W. D Ilix. $26 60;
D. R. Ra nsey’s to G. W. Mills’s, D. R.
Ramsey, sl7 50; D. R. Ramsey’s to
Walker county line, D K. Ramsey, sl6;
Subligna to G. W. Morten's south lire,
W. D. Hix. $23.50; G. W. Morton's to
top of Taylor’s ridge, W. D. Hix.431.75 ;
Shropshire’s shop to dis'riet line going
southwest. Milton While. $14.50; Cox's
gap road, W. D. Hix. $11.45.
Seminole District.—Alabama fine to
P ice’s bridge. Jos. Glenn, $37; Price’s
biidge to Findley’s gin, Jos. Glenn, SSB;
Price’s bridge to branch at Walnut
Grove, Jos. Glenn, $29.95; branch at
Walnut Grove to Jas. M. Smith’s, Jas.
H. Ragland, $36 75; Jas. M. Smith’s to
John Mosteller's, Joseph Glenn, $59;
John Mosteller’s to Mi llville grave yard
and from Starling’s mill to Alfred Fos
ter’s, Joseph Glenn $35; Dirtseller dis
trict line to George Horn’s south line, J.
P Horn, $25; George Horn’s south line
to Alabama line, G. A. Rugland, S2O;
Alfred Foster's t.> Foster’s bridge, New
ton Pitts, $22; Wm. 11. Berry’s to road
near Thomas Barker’s, J P. Horn. $9;
Alabama line near A. J. Il idi r-ori's to
c irnerof Mrs. Wakeley’s orchard, Jo-.
Glenn, S2B; Scott John-on’s to valley
road near John Millican’s, G. A. Rag
land, sl6.
Dirtseller District.— Vabama line to
Foster’s store, K. R. Foster. S6O; Fo
ter’s store to Alfred Foster’s, C. V. Ak
ridge, $64; Foster’s store to Mrs. More
ley's, K. R. Foster. $39; fork near Fos
ter’s store to disi rict line towards Rae
cion. K. R. Foster, S2B; end of Robert
Jones's lane south t > district line, K. R
Foster, $8; Oak [Ji I to Alabama line
via John Bridges, K. R. Foster, sl3.
Alpine District.—. Sunny Dale fork to
creek in lane near Rad Wyatt’s, Rad
Wyatt, S2B; creek near Rad Wyatt’s via
Alpine to Al.bama hoe, Turk Knox, $22;
Mrs. Moseley's to district line in direc
tion of Richard Echol s, Turk Knox, sl2;
John Tyson’s to fork near John Mont
gomery's, R. L. Knox, $25; Alabama
line ;rt Ami to A. J. Lawrence's, W. L
Thomas, S2B; A. J. Lawrence's to W.
F. Henry’s branch, J. J. Burns, $43;
Garrett’s grave yard to district line south
near \\ . M. R ch's, John B Alexander,
sl4; W. R Humphrey's to district line
east near W. 51. Rich's, W. M. Rich,
$24.
Teloga District. —George P. Carroll's
to top of ridge ea.-t of Cain’s mill, R S.
Wilson. sl9; top of ri'lge east of Cain's
mill to McW'horter’bstore. R. 8. Wilson,
$35; top of Lookout mountain via Cove
road to \\ alter county line, Cicero Me-
Cona. il, $22 50; Cove road fork to Watt
Ellison’s, Cicero McConnell. 22 50;
Walker county line to W. 11. Chafin's
shop, W. 11. Chafin, $54; Chafin's shop
to district line near Wm. Harper's, John
Y. Price. S6O; Valley Store to district
line towaids ghatnldin's ford, W. B.
Tapp, $25; Valley Store west to Shinbone
road, J. L. Davis, $25.
CASL ALI li •>.
In Reading, Penn., John Stuboer, fa
tally burned by a piece of naphtha which
a companion put in his p icket and light
ed; in Philadelphia, Charlie drown
ed while swimming across (he Schuylkill
river, io escape arrest for having fatal],
stabbed Joseph Maguire; four firemen
killed, 25 horses burned, in a fire at Al
bany, N. Y ; eight persons drowned in
Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, by upset
ting of a yacht in a squall; in Appling
county, Ga., four negro chill.en burned
up with the house in which their mother
I had locked them; at Ni .grra Falls, Mrs.
Jones, drowned by f fling in.
A runaway marriage is the latest sen
sation in Webster, Jackson county, N. C.
O-car B. Coward eloped with Miss Emma
Long, one of the prettiest girls in the
county. The marriage license was issued
Iby the young lady herself. Iler father,
who is county register of deeds, had left
several blank licenses al'his house, wiih
his name already signed to them, so that,
if any one should come for a license when
he was cut of town some mein er of the j
family could till out the blanks over his
signature. His daughter secured one of j
these blanks, and filled it out for herself.
She is not yet 14 years old.— Richmond
Dispatch.
That Dirty Dandruff,
Dandruff is dirty and disagreeable in
every way. It soils the clothing contin
ually, and is acs'ompanied by a hardly
less annoying sensation of itching- The
scalp is diseased. There is nothing in
the world so thoroughly adapted to this
trouble as Parker's Hair Balsam. It
cleanses and heals the scalp, stops the
falling hair and restores its original soft
ness, gloss and color. Is not oily, highl.
perfumed, an elegant dressing. Very
economical, as only a small occasional
application keeps the hair in perfect
condition.
W. M- Williams says that be and oth
ers, while herding sheep in Colorado wi h
the thermometer 20 degrees below zero,
wore less clothing than they now do in
I warm weather. He contends that oloth
j ing is unnecessary and unwholesome.
GENERAL NEWS.
Wesley Posey, the Birmingham negro
ravisher, has escaped the gallows by dy
ing in jail.
Near Orangeburg, 8. C.. Samuel Car
rell, negro, vomited ur. six lizards.
JohnG. Tygett, of Union county, 111.,
has lost SIO,OOO worth of eat'le, bitten by
his own bull dog, mad. fits three chil
dren were bitten, but so far have not suf
fered-
At Blue Grass, lowa, five persons were
poisoned by drinking currant wine from
a bottle containing what was thought to
be prickly ash, but proved to be jimson
root. One died.
About Eagle Pass. Texas, the ground
is covered with small frogs. Merchants
are kept busy sweeping them out of their
stores.
A ghos'that had terrified the inhab -
tar ts i f M.lton. Mahoning county, Ohio,
being caught, proved to be a crazy wo
man who e-caped from confinement a
month before.
In Chicago, on ti e Bth irst., Mrs-
Thomas Smith reported herself as having
been tied, gagged, and robbed of
in her own home. In a few days the
police arrested “Black Jack” Bass. She
then eonfe sed that she bad been i iti
mate with Bass before and after marriage
(seven years ago); that she had given
him $1 200 of bet husband's savings be
fore the 6th. and the $1 000 on that day.
He had lost it gambling.
In Chattanooga. Rev. G. C. Rankin,
pastor of M. E. Church South, has cre
ated a sensation by exposing the vice and
immorality in the city, and saying that
her highest offirers openly a Ivoc ite pres
tituti in.
In Des Moines, lowa, recently, Nun
ley Clark wanted Io be married to Mis-
Jettie f’ollius on the dome of the Capi
tol; but when the ju.-the said that he
would not climb up there for le.-s than
$lO. he decided te be marred in the jus
tice's office for $2, and save $8 for a car
pet.
Wade Hampton says that at the fir-t
battle of M i a-res the foderals under
Sherman and Keyes would have attacked
Stonewall Jacxaun's troops before he had
time to form them, but tor the stubborn
resistance <f the Hampton legion, 6'K)
str.n g, who first checked the federal ad
vance.
The buildings, plant, and machinery,
of the World’s Exposition at New Or
leans, have been sold at auction for $175,
000. They were bought by a company
who propose to re-open the exposition in
the fall.
Since the passage of the prohibitory
law in Kansas, the ro-Ment* of Dodge
City have raised a lurid, and deposited it
with a local banker, ‘‘tor the benefit of the
widow <4 the first d —d scoundrel that
makes a cymplaint against a -aloon.”
Boston rep rts. a catiqry bird in the
centre of a baked potato.
Ihe opium which is smoked yearly iu
San Francisco cost- $1 .tXJO.i' I ").
On ae-oiint of doline— in trade, ten
miles of coal cars are standing etr pty on
one stretch of track in Perry county,
Ohio.
Christopher Mann died recently in In
dependence, Mo . at the age of lit). He
was the father of 26 children, the oldest
one 83 years old. the youngest 17.
A Washington newspaper man i- said
to be preparing a lull account of the in
trigues of prominent politician- there,
a la Pall Mall Gazette; and leading New
Yorkers are -aid to be nervously inquir
ing: ‘ Doyouthink there’s any danger
I I any New Y >rk paper breaking out l.ke
that?”
Wit bin the fir-t six months of this
year $36 534,000 were invested in new
manufacturing enterprises in tho South.
During 1884., 3.377 murders were
commilt'diri the United States. Os
this number, 313 were executed; 210 by
lynch aw, 103 by legal process.
A new cotton picker is reported, tie
invention of W. G. Sears, of Chattanoo
ga.
Norfolk, Va , is much excited over a
placard signed “di-gusted gentlemen,"
denouncing the "semiriudo or transpa
rent garb” in which s >me ladies attend
church, as more fitting for comic opera
or the shrine of Bibeh It asserts lhai
persons who appear in tight-fitting
dresses, ma ie of white musliu or trans
parent material of any color, without an
outside garment, are immodest, and un
| fit to enter respectable society.
The Chinese of San Francisco buy
i white gir s. babies or a little older, and
| raise them for infamous purposes. With
i in a year 26 have been taken from them.
I For the last one taken away they paid at
I first SIOO, and doctors’ bills had been
three limes as much.
John S. Wise is the Repub! ican candi
date for governor of Virginia. Gun Fitz
Hugh Lee ik expected to be his oppo
nent.
A TEXAS WATEKZFOUT.
This morning near Waldron, 150 miles
west of thi-place, an east-bound freight
train was struck by a water spout. The
engineer saw the water-spout approach
ing. bounding along like a rubber bi 1,
tearing up the earth, and uprooting ah
in its way, and slowed his train to avoid it.
Just before it reached the line of the road
it changed its course, and bounded along
parallel to the track with frightful speed.
When opposite the train it burst, delug
ing the engineer. fireman, and brakeman.
They abandoned the train, and climbed
trees to avoid a wave fully eight feet high
! aud about 100 feet wide. The locomotive
and 14 cars were raised bodily and carried
i nearly 200 feet from the track, and the
' roadbed was almost obliterated. No one
'! was hurt. — Galveston A'e:w.
No Wonder.
A MAN WHO SUFFtniTD MENTAL AND
PHYSICAL AGONY EIGHT YEARS PRO
CLAIMS HIS HAPPINESS.
Mental agony is dreadful, but when that
and physical ailment combine, it is simply
terrible. Such was the condition of Geo.
W. Frampton, of Huntingdon, W. Va.,
for eight years. He -was a sufferer of ne
croses—that is, the leg bone at the ankle
•was inflamed and mortified, which caused
running scares. He says: “Pieces of bone
the size of a silver three cent piece came
out of the sores on my leg. The discharge
from the sores was almost continual, and
. I was unable to walk. For eight years I
have been doctoring. I had been under
the treatment of a physician at Newport,
Ky., for ayear; another at Burlington, 0.,
attended me for three years.and a doct r
here at Huntingdon worked with me for
a long time. None of them did me any
good, and they all finally said mv case
was hopeless. A few months ago I com
menced trying PeRUNA, and now I am
well. I can walk as good as anybody,
and have perfect use ot my limbs.
Mr. Alt'. Lusk, Wooster, Ohio, writes:
“ Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O. I have
been a great sufferer from that dreaded
disease, chronic catarrh of the
I have thoroughly tried your
and it has done me more good ten fold N
than all the doctors’ prescriptions, and I
have used legions of them.
Mr. Edgar Harte, Smeltzer T. 0., Elk
county, Pa., writes: “ I have bought sev
eral bottles of your Perlna, and find it
to be of great benefit. I also gave it to
some of my friends; they experienced
the same result.”
Mr. L R. Wollen, 45 and 47 Ross
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W. W. Russell, druggist, Canonsburg,
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Perun a. 1 have fold immense quantities
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Calista Fishel, Malvern, Ohio, writes :
“I take pleasure in recommending the use
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Legal A river tisemen I*.
Sheriff s Sale.
GEORGI A. Chattooga county;
Will be sold before the court-house door, iu 4
the town of Summerv’He. in said cmuty, on tho a
first Tuesday in Augu-4. ISSS. within the legal a
htni’sof sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the 1
following property, tu- .v it- house a .d lot N >. a
8. in the 201 h bl >« k inth“town of Summerville,
in said county; levied on as the property of &
Ned Penn 14u»* s. arch having been mid-?, and .
no P'r-<onal | t rnu-rty f.nin ! to-at i-.fv <• i-» fl
issued from the justi’e court n' Ihe 925th
trier, <» M , in favor of Epsy Wheeler again-t <
N»-d Penn; property point-4 nut by pLuri ilf’s
attornev. T. J. WORSHAM.
July Ist, 1885. Sheriff.
Notice of Change offload.
GEORGIA. Chattooga county.
Toad whom it may concern: AH p-rsens In
terested at *-iwteby notified that, if o > ge--d
cause be shown to the contrary, an order will
be granted hr the undersigned on the 21st day
of August, 1 granting a change in the Sum
merville ai d Btwomtown jui lie ri a l in tho
925th Diit. «». M. •-ah! ■•'lunt>■, ns maiked out by
the Supervisor appointed for tha f purpose;
leaving the present ro«d on the w*st side of the
Weathers’s hi 1. going north for about 80 yards,
then curving south. . rousing the pr> s-mt roa i
gedn - >uth, foiiowi ng th* marked ’ rout*. then
across the present road, just south of a blazed
Lick »iy tr»-* to the t->pof and i»er*><s the toll,
merville >n th* »-as< .snip of said hill, and again
intersecting th- present road at the foot of said
hill, »i««.ir a large oak sapling, through the. lands
of A. B. Rhinehart. This July VI. 18*5.
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