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6 GEORGIA AND FLORIDA. NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS. A Walker County Lady Kills a Snake That Threatened Her Life- A Man Has His Second Sad Experience in Obstructing the Rails With His Own Person in Front of a Train. GEORGIA. Dr. W. H. Harris, of Sparta, picked lest Week a tomato which turned the scales at a pound and a quarter. The annual celebration of the Montgomery county Sunday School Association will be held at Mount Vernon on Thursday before the third Sunday in September. It is rumored that preparations are being quietly made by a large carriage manu facturing concern of a neighboring city to locate a brunch factory in Tallapoosa. Sparta Ishmaelitc: A lightning-rod man passing through town on W ednesday want ed beer. He took water. Water is very fine for lightning-rod men, liook agents, bald-headed merchants, lawyers and editors. On the Alabama road near Lafayette Stands a historic tree, the jxistonk on which John Burton was hung by Gatewood. The land adjoining it has been cleared by Wash Standfleld. but that tree has been spared by the woodman’s ax. W. M. Wheeler, of Hancock county, cut a watermelon on Thursday, and when opened it displayed a distinctly formed W on both halves. ' Maybe it stood for wet weather. It was at least as good and indi cation as a moon sign. On July 9. 1864, on the field of Monocaev, W. F. McWhorter, of Lafayette, was laid out in the shade for dead. Occasionally Doc comes in with a load of the best water melons raised in the neighlKirliood. Timas are more peaceful now than then. Although several bridges have been swept away entirely anil many others dam aged, Judge John T. Sims, Chairman of the Board of Merriwether County Commis sioners thinks all missing bridges can be rebuilt and repairs made at a cost of $>8)0 or $l,OOO. Sparta Ishmaelite: With tho election and installment of the new treasurer per haps a little light will he let in upon the treasury mudale. The people have waited patiently and for a long time to find out something about the status of county finances. Not long since, at a gathering in Albany, comprising fully fifteen men and boys rang ing 15 to 50 years, it was discovered that but one of all that company die wed tobac co, and he was an elderly gentleman. This makes a noteworthy and gratifying showing for the youth of the city. Mrs. McNeese, who lives near the Round Pond, in Walker county, had a narrow es cape Tuesday of last week. She was gath ering potatoes, when near her, just as it drew back to strike, she discovered a rattle snake. The good lady did not leave the field to her enemy, hut killed it promptly. It was 4 feet long and had five rattles. George Mason, a young man living a little north of Tallapoosa, accidentally shot him self last Saturday evening and died from the effects of his wound Sunday morning. He went into an outhouse seeking shelter from the rain, and when coming out by some means the hammer of his gun was caught by the door, causing it to discharge, the load entering his stomach. At Bremen late Thursday a messenger from Buchanan came rushing into town for Dr. J. N. Cheuy to hasten to the home of Mr. Fullbright, who is mad from hydro phobia. Two months ago Mr. Fullbright was badly bitten by a rabid'dog, and imme diately sought Dr. Tidwell, of Fairborn, who lias a mndstone; and the same having adhered sixty-two hours before failing. Mr. Fullbright returned home greatly relieved and confident there would be no further danger. But to his and many friends' sur prise he is now dangerously mad. aud there is perhaps no chance for recovery. At Wavcross a few nights ago, during a terrific thunder storm, the residence of James Cox was struck by lightning, and it was a miracle that all of the sixteen per sons who were in the house at the tune escaped unhurt. except of course a pretty severe shock. A little baby was within two feet of the chimney post down which the lightning ran. and its only protection from the falling slivers was the top of the bed stead. Two dogs sought shelter under th > chimney, and were in tantly kill'd. All the occupants of tho house were more or leas shocked, and felt the effects of it for spme time. In Hancock county the total returns of ■whites foot up 889; of b!a<-k and colored 1,618. The number of acres of land in cul tivation is 45,648; the aggregate value of land is $1,399,231); horses, nml 'S, hogs, sheep and cattle are returned at $154,595; the ag gregate value of the whole property of the countyfoots up 52,655,303. While tliisshowsa falling of of some $15,000 from last year’s re turns, it is a remarkably good showing, for there have been several business disasters of considerable preportions in the county since last year's returns were made. The only surprise is that, the falling off came within $50,000 or $lOO,OOO. Wednesday afternoon ns the passenger train was rounding the curve on the east side of tlie trestle, near Montezuma, a man by the name of Hankerson was sente. 1 on the end of a cross tie, and after seeing his approaching danger was loth to give up his seat, and remained there until the front truck of the locomotive knocked him off. It is supposed t hat he was drunk, as a broken bottle of whisky was found oil his person after the jolt. Upon examination it was found that two of tiis ribs were broken. A few years previous to this he tried to butt a train off the track near Marshallville, and was knocked out in the ttrst round. Watkinsville Enterprise: We don’t wish to get our reputation up, nor to tear down anyone else's, nor do we make a practice of publishing big <?| tales, but as this beats them ail we will deviate from our rules unee. Mr. O. L. Anderson isresjsmsible forthe fol lowing: He was at Watson Springs during the big freshet and says somebody’s water melon patch washed away from up the river and its it. floated down he saw the half of one floating along with a good size pig Bitting in one end eating out of the other end as placidly as if ini pen, with a scare crow floating behind trying to punch him out w ith a stick. We gave him our hat aud walked off. Fulton county’s to* digest show* a marked Improvement over last year. The number of defaulters has decreased from TBl to So; for 1886, white polls were <1,702, IHH7 they wore 8,791. In lsaii whites owned $19,481),- 160 worth of city* property, in 1887 the value was $20,219.00(1. The value of lunik share* was increased from $050,009 in 18sit to 8*13,000 in 1887. (Stocks and bonds from $497,025 to fill 1 .), 717>. Merchandise from $3,829,860 to $8,070,730. Ijvo stock in 1880 was quoted at $001,890; in 1887 it is re turned at $288,475. The number of acres owned by blacks, 1887, is returned at 985’ The value of land outside of the city, owned by blocks, is returned for 1887 at $43,300. I>r Stiles, of Atlanta, expresses the opin ion that Woolf oik, the Bibb county mur derer, ts of unsound mind. He says: “lain positive that Woolfolk is not sane. There is undoubtedly a depression on his brain, which soon or later will produce softening of the brain, insanity and death, i do not regard him as an irresponsible individual by any means. He knew wnathe was rtoing wbon he killed his kinsmen. There wir< no cunning displayed. There was no intelli gence in his method of doing his victims to death. He is not a bright fellow, the vari ous newspaper report! to the contrary notwithstanding He has a weufe mind. His nature hits much in it that is vicious. He believed that be had l>een deprived of his inheritance." It is probable that Henry Pope, the negro who wos tried, found guilty and sentenced to lie hung for ravishing Miss Kendrick, in Cbatooga county, but who was afterwards respited and is how waiting the termination tl a too uou lor a new trial, is not tkJcuibt party after all. The following is from the Sumtervilk- Gazette; “ For several months Nelson Haggard, of Walker county, has been on the track of a negro whom he suspected of being the ruvisher of Mcs Kendrick. lie arrested him last Fri day in Somerset county, Kentucky, and ap plication was immediately made to Gov. Gordon for a requisition. He fills the de scription exactly, and was on the Rome and Decatur railroad on Feb. 3. A day or two after, he went home, told his wife he had committed the rape and left.” Advices from Elberton is to the effect that the religious trouble in that place is not in the slightest way allayed ana will take at least a generation to wipe it out. The town is badly divided and a great deal of hard feeling exists. At one time it was feared that there would lie a personal con flict between prominent members of two de nominations; but cooler counsel prevailed, and this subsided. Not, only the church members refused to allilmte, but the bitter ness was carried into the private family cir cles. The schools have been broken up and Professor Ayers has left the place. The Baptists have opened a school of their de nomination, and the Methodists will do like wise, but the place cannot support two good schools, aud this division will greatly injure them. Even the newpapers have been driven into this controversy, the Baptists supporting the Leader and tho Methodist party the Gazette. Tallapoosa Journal: What is Bessemer ore; i.s a question which is often naked in these days of iron excitement. From in quiry with several well-known furnace men, which is corroborated by the manager of land company here, any ore which is free enough from phosphorus to work by the direct or basaic process without dephos phorizing in making steel is a Bessemer ore, whether it be brown or black in color. It may carry the desired portion of manganese or manganese may have to be added to pro duce the desired effect. The term Besserr er is a production of tho last three years, and is used by the iron men in designating this particular grade of ore, whether it be brown or red hematites or manganiferous ores. Assays made on both the brown and mangaiiiferous ores of TulJapwisa in many places on each of the four loads running parallel show that they contain from one tenth to three-tenths of phosphorus, conse quently they can be worked into steel by the direct process aud are in the parlance of the day Bessemer ores. Among those that have been attracted to Bartow county lately is Lewis .Scofield, formerly of Atlanta, but more recently trom Chattanooga. Mr. Scofield built the first iron foundry in Atlanta as well as the last one, and is well known in manufactu ring circles. He is now engagod in o[>e rating one of the many manganese banks in the county, situated just across the river below Cartersville. In the 60’s in a trade he liecanie in possession of his present lot in Bartow comjt.v, which was termed a wild land lot in the trade. He never thought much of the matter, grudgingly paid the tax ever since, often thinking that he would not pay the tax, but let the lot go to sale, as has much of the land in this section been dis posed of. He, however, continued paying the taxes, which was a trivial amount, thinking some day he would have a chance of selling it so as to get it off his hands. During the late interest, centred on the lands of our county Mr. Scofield concluded, as his lot seemed to be in the midst of iron and manganese banks, to give it a test. A few workmen were soon digging away, and soon developed that the insignificant lot was to bloom forth as a never-failing bonanza. Irani and manganese were found in large quantities aud is now being mined success fully. Only the other day yellow ochre was found in great quantities. Mr. Bcoflekl is happy over his prospects. Camilla correspondent Albany News and Advertiser: The writer was called, on last Sabbath morning, to ride with Dr. VV. W. Twittv, of this place, to see a patient of his, Mr. Hair, a section lnaater, living on the railroad three or four miles from Camilla. The condition of the dirt road leading to the house of the sick man is such that it necessitates the leaving of the horse and buggy of tho Doctor three-quarters of a mile away, thereby walking for that dis tance becomes necessary. A cow pit is in the way of tho pedestrian along the rail road. On our return from the visit to the patient, your correspondent, in undertak ing to walk across the pit, although using ordinary caution, not disregard ing the necessity of self-protec tion and becoming vigilance, his foot slipped mid lie went headforemost into one of the dirtiest and most offensive pits that it. had been his misfortune to fall into. In it were dead frogs, tadpoles and many other dead things, emitting an odor than which shore is none more offensive. Your correspondent was wearing his uew and Ix'st trousers, which were much damaged, having had one leg torn nearly off, his shins Iwdly skinned, thoroughly drenched in such an offensive hole that the inconvenience and damages are too great to keep without notice. Your correspondent has not felt like writing since the casualty, yet he docs not fcjl oso to assess the damage done to his perso?^re.su 11 ing from tho unfortunate ca tastrophe, but is willing to submit the mat ter to a fair arbitration. Tallapoosa Journal: J. R. Crandall, tho genial malinger of the IVdapoosa Hotel, spent two days of this week in Bartow county, and reporta that there is hardly n piece pf iron property, develojied or unde veloped. now for sale —it having all lieen 1 knight up by furnace men. He says that tlie iron property in Tallapoosa will soon le, and is now, in fact, in great demand. The Bessemer ores on t his load, which runs through Haralson, Polk, Bartow, Cherokee, Pirkeris, Dawson, Lumpkin and Union counties, are ivhat the great iron fur naces of the South must depeud on in the future for ore for steel making. Until recently it was sup|>osod that no man ganese or Bessemer ore existed I*>lmw Polk county;but since the prosjiectinpTind de ve’-pment by the Tallapoosa lauul, Mining and Manufacturing Company, it is found that the richest ores of the whole lead are found in Haralson county, near Tallapoosa. This town has the advantage of living nearer to railroad communication with the great furnaces of Alabama than anv of the other counties named—the ores exist in larger quantities, and are of superior quality. Several of the furnaces at Birmingham are being altered into steel making, aml one of the furnaces being erected at Bessemer, Ala., will lie used for the same purpose in connection with a steel rail ruilf now located there. Anniston is also making preparations to manufacture steel, aud ail of the eittos are compelled to look into either Georgia, North Carolina or Arkansas for their Bessemer ores. Talla poosa being the nearest, point by at least, 200 miles, will lie sure to be the shipping point for all th l ' ores of this county, with a blast furnace, which will be located within the coining twelve months, she will be the centre of the iron industry for a radius of twenty miles, with the Georgia Central, Home and Columbus, and the Georgia Pa cific railroads. FLORIDA. Ocala will soon have another National hank. The streets of Orlnrido are to be lighted by electricity. Since the survey of Runnyntede, but a short time ago, 901 lots have been sold. The asseto of Makillson & ICntz, of Kis simmee, exceed their liabilities by $lO,OOO. An electron to locate the county site will Ire held in Bradford county on next Wednes day, Aug. 17. At Bartow business seems to ire picking up and real estate getting a little stronger and more active. Buko City ships thousands of [rounds of hides every year, and her citizens are speak ing of a tannery. Twelve Bet ' into [rear trees netted a Boon county man $BOO. This is at the j'ate of $2,030 to t he acre. Dr. W. J. Sear's bus resigned the Mavor ulty of Shakcrug, and moved back to Kis sinunee last Tuesday. People who have had occasion to rid* THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. AUGUST 14, 1887. through Lake county, report quail more plentiful than they have been for years. Considerable fruit has set on the orange trees from the July blooming, and the pros pect for summer oranges in Orlando next year is fair. The Baptist people of Oviedo are to have anew church building The material is all on the grenmd for the structure, and the work was inaugurated a few days ago. At the meeting of the Common Council of Orlando Thursday City Clerk Goodjng tendered his resignation, and John T. Wat son was unanimously elected in his place. There is said to be a tree on the plantat ion of T. J. Townsend, near Madison, the diameter of which is said to be more than ten feet. A person can easily ride a horse into a hollow at its base. Hatton Sample, a colored Columbia county fanner, has grown broom corn very successfully this year. It is quite likely thatconi.d-rable attention will bo devoted to it in that section herereafter. The officers of Lake county have received their commissions, with the exception of the Surveyor, whoso bond was imperfect and had to go over to the next meeting of the board fir correction and approval. The lands of the Ilomosaasa Company, on the gulf, have lieen sold to a New York syndicate tor #300,003 and an interest in the profits. There arc 13,000 acres in the tract. The new company propose to eioct a splendid hotel and boom the enterprise in every way. The next regular meeting of the. Lake County Commissioners will be first Tuesday in September, at Bloomfield. They will then decide on proposals to be mud i mean time by any responsible parties, for the new county map, which proposals were voted for at last meeting. A street railway, a seventy-room hotel, water works, gas works, electric lights, #94,000 expended in brick business houses, anil nearly as much more in wooden build ings outside of the fire limits, all since Jan. 1, 1887, is the record Orlando offers for the inspection of the civilized world. Messrs. Ausioy, MeCaskill ffc Potter, of Argyle, lost about #30,000 by the storm, but have settled up all their indebtedness, though it left them without anything almost. The destruction of their business will be a great loss to Argyie, Wulton county and the Pensacola and Atlantic rail road. Thursday night the colored folks’ church, situated on the railroad one mile from De Futiiak, was fired and burned down. A school was being taught in the house by Mary Ronlhae, a colored girl, who says that there had been no fire ou the premises dur ing the day. The work, therefore, seems to be that of an incendiary. From Lake Harney last Monday Messrs. Herbert and Hopwixid caught 100 pounds of pike, the largest weighing 8 pounds. They wore considerably bothered by some gigantic mud fish, which insisted on getting caught when they weren’t wanted. Mr. Herbert says he dries the pike, and when dry the flesh is ‘'beautiful eating.” Tho business place of O. F. Hart, at Eustis, hail a very narrow escape from fire last Mon day night. A number of packages of matches were, piled up on the shelf, the side of which was an open box of the same in flammable pine splinters. It is presumed tiie rats set the loose ones on fire, scorching and burning the outside of the packages. At a citizens’ meeting, held at Pensacola Friday, Chairman Louis P. Knowles ap pointed Cant. W. D. Chipley, Judge Walter Tate and Capt. D. O. Brent a committee of three to invite President and Mrs. Cleve land to visit Pensacola on their Southern trip in October. Should tho invitation lie accepted the distinguished guests will tie royally received and entertained. Tho Governor made the following ap pointments Friday; For Duval eounty— Dr. Henry Bacon, to be member of the Board of Health. For Escambia county — John Webb, to lie Harbor Master for Pensa cola. Supervisors of Registration—For Orange county, B. M. Robinson; for Jeffer son county, W. R. Taylor; for Citrus county, W. J. Bumph; for Loo county, John J. Blount. County Commissioner Aulin is of the opinion that the yield of oranges in Dr. Henry Foster's Lake Charm grove will this year reach 13,000 boxes. It is now holding an exceptionally heavy crop of green fruit. Other groves near it are doing equally as well, while still others give promise of a light yield. Taking the section together the crop promises to lie nearly up to the av erage of former years. Ou hoard the bark Havelock, now lying at Pensacola, having just arrived from Montevideo, there are four South American ponies, one of which, a mare, is profusely covered with wool, or what will be very readily taken for wool if that is not what its covering consists of. It is a curiosity, well worth any showman's big money. Mi-. Walker Gonzales, it is said, will become the purchaser of the animal. The Sunday evening train on the Florida Railway and Navigation road, in passing over tlie trestle near Eldorado, set fire to the trestle. The (lamas were not chocked until some ten bents of the structure were de stroyed, necessitating the rebuilding of about 180 feet. Traffic over the road was somewhat retardixi in consequence of the necessary trunsfer oocasioned by the acci dent. Trains wore running all right again Wednesday. At Eustis offers for oranges on the trees have already been made for the coming win ter as follows: #3 per box for bright*; #1 50 for russets, size 300 to the box and under; $1 for russets, size over 300 to the box. It is a sure indication of the lightness of the orange crop generally throughout South Florida to tie offered so good prions for oranges on the trees, and so early in the season. But the trouble is that in many sections there will lie hardly any to sell, and consequently it will not help much. The salaries for teachers for tho coming term in Orange county have been fixed, based upon the average attendance last year, with 5 per cent, addrel to allow for in crease during the year. Among the more important salary allowances aro Hie follow ing: Orlando, #340 par month; Sanford, #310; Apopka, #1.50; Oconee, #4O; Crown Point, $35; Bet hel, #3O, etc. Eight of the schools, including Oakland, Winter Park, Tildon’s and Lakeville, have lieen left blank in the list, as recent changes have occurred in the school system at those places, and the adequate salary will not be known until the report of the'first mouth’s teaching i.s handed in. The orange groves in the region south of Lake Jesup are vigorous and prolific, and are as full of promise tvs those of any other section of the State, Tlie soil seems to lie specially adapted to oranges, the trees grow vigorously and yield well. A gentleman who has had long experience in Florida, and who knows thisregmn well.expraises the opinion that in an avenge fruit, year, the yield of this South L ike Jesup region will reach 890,000 boxes of fruit, This from a little holt no more than a couple of miles wide and six or seven miles in length. At a fair estimate tho fruit should net the grow ers #1 per Ikix. Surely ji handsome revenue for a small territory, not more than one acre in ten of which has yet lieen brought under cultivation. According to a published notice, a meet ing of citizens representing Eustis, Fort Mason, Orange, Hiimmix'k and other sec tions contiguous to Lake Eustis, Yale and Ella, met in Eustis Aug. 6. ihc chairman stated the object of the meeting was to dis cuss the importance of opening a canal for navigation between Likes Eustis, Yale, Ella and tho Ocklawahn river, and to ar range for forming a company for said ob ject. Miudi interest was mauifeeted aid the ineetiu; was addressed by Dr. Hicks. Col. Potter. Judge Brown. C. T. Smith and others. Judge Brown moved that a com mittee of five be appointed to draft articles of iiicor|xirution for the pur pine o. forming a eoiii|xuiy to construct said canal, and tint the chairman of the meet,ing b cimirnmu ut the ixmumttec. This was carried unuiii- ismimittoe appointed were Messrs. Hicks, Brown, Wilson and King. The committee is to report at an adjourned meeting. Saturday, Aug. 30. Orlando Reporter: Since the sign for the San Juan de Ulioa hotel was put up wo have heard considerable discussion and speculation as to the possible meaning of the name. Some spell through the first part of the name very well, but when it comes to the “Ulioa” they give up in des pair. Others of superior information, when appealed to, says that Ulioa is Spanish for hotel, so that it moans ‘ St. John’s Hotel.” Henor Rafael Perez, the Cuban cigar manufacturer, has an old history of Cuba, written by Pedro Santncilia. which gives the origin of this peculiar name as fol lows: On April 18, 1518, Juan de Grijalva, a Srwtnish navigator, discovered and landed at Vera Cruz, in Mexico. As his ship neared tho shore the native Indians gre-tod them with a shout which sounded like “Ulna! Ulua!” and the spot was christened Ulua by the Spaniards, who built a large fortress at the place. The name was sometimes called “Ulioa,” but even at this day the name Ulua is preferred by tho Spaniards. Orlando Reporter: It is to be hoped that contractors and property owners will con sider long and well before they proceed to erect rows of small tenement houses so near the heart of town. Large substantial build ings can be erected at a moderate cost, and will bring a good rent price, while the adjoining property will be greatly bene fited and advanced in value. These little houses are actually worse than no buildings at all, for they occupy ground which might be used lor buildings that would be substantial additions to tid city. September will soon lie here, aud with it will com;? a revival in the building line, and we hope the men in whose hands the matter lies will take the right view of this question, and put up nice large build ings which will attract a good class of peo ple; persons who are able to pay good rent are willing to do so for handsome quar ters convenient to th# business centers. One such house is worth many times as much to the city and to the owner as a dozen shan ties. ix>t us have more good sized houses aud fewer small tenements. According to the direction of Gov. Perry of Florida the State troops go into en campment at Pablo Beach ou Tuesday, the August 23, and remain about ten days. Extensive preparations will be ma le for the occasion and all concerned are looking for ward to a season of unusual pleasure as well os improvement in military tactics. Under the new law the Florida Wtate troops are limited to three batalions each of ten infan try and two artillery companies, as follows: First Florida Battalion—Commander, W. B. Young. Tho battalion is composed of the following companies: First Florida Light Artillery,(Wilson's Batte -y),of Jacks mi file, Capt. W. D. Barnett; Jacksonville Light Infantry, of Jacksonville. Capt. R. M. Call; Metropolitan Light Infantry, of Jackson ville, Capt. F. P. Fleming; Fernandiua Vol unteers, of Fernandiua, Capt. W. D. Bal lantine; Gem City Guards, of Patatku, Capt. R. W. Davis. The .Second Florida Bat talion is composed of the following com panies; Ocala Rifles, of Ocala, Capt. T. D. Lancaster; Halifax Rifles, of Daytona, Capt. J. W. Douglass; Orlando Guards, of Orlando, Capt, T. J. Shine; Gainesville Guards, of Gainesville, Capt. Irving E. Webster; St. Augustine Battery, of St. Augustine, Capt. William Moody. The Third Florida Battalion is composed of the following companies: Escambia Rifles, of Pensacola, Capt. W. T. Williams; Santa Rosa Rifles, of Milton, Capt. Malcolm Anderson. The above companies compose the regular State troops commis sioned under the recent act of tho Legisla ture, sworn in for a term of three years, and subject to regular military discipline ac cording to>Unitied Stab's regulations, and consequently are required to attend the en campment. As those companies are com posed of not less than thirty-two members each, it wifi be seen that not less than 354 men will participate in the encampment, but as some of the companies are very much larger, it is probable that the numtier will lie increased to not less than 400. Besides the above, there are seventeen volunteer companies belonging to the State militia, but tho members of which are not subject to military discipline, though it is expected that several of these companies will attend and participate. These com panies are as follows: Hillsborough Greys, of Plant City, Capt. T. A. Bivens; Leesburg Rifles, of Leesburg, Capt. L>. M. Hopson; Tampa Rifles, of Tampa, Capt. E. L. Leslie; Finley Guards, of Ocala, Capt. F. B. Lip pett; Clay County Guards, of Green Cove Springs, Capt. A. G. Morgan; Franklin Guards, of Apalachicola, Capt. J. H. Coombs; Maclenny Light Infantry, of Maclenny, Capt. W. A. Drake: Mun roe Rifles, of Key West, Capt. R. A. Monsalvatge; Chipley Uillas, Chipley, Capt. R. B. Bellamy; Do Land Rifles, or ttoLand, ('apt. Joseph Dore; Leon Guards (colored), of Tallahassee, Capt. E. T. Singleton; Perry Guards (colored), of Jacksonville, Capt. Willis Williams; Duval Light Infantry (col ored), of Jacksonville, Capt. Frank P. Hop kins; Jacksonville Guards (colored), of Jack sonville, Capt. J. C. H. Singleton: Arling ton Guards (colored), of Jacksonville, Capt. Oran B. Taylor; L’Engle Guards (colored), of Jacksonville, Cant. J. B. Brown; Gar field Guards (colored), of Pensacola, Capt. Isaiah Richardson. A THOUSAND MILES AN HOUR. Project for Crossing the Ocean in Pneu matic Tubes. From the Boston Globe. Col. John H. Pierce, of Plantsville, Conn., said to a reporter that as yet little was known ontside his room of his plan for con necting this continent with the Old World by means of pneumatic tubes. Hum ' state ment of a brief nature has been made to a local paper. Only within a day, almost, has it lieen developed to its present stage. In response to a request to give the facts the inventor was lull of enthusiasm, but spoke with care and precision and with tlie air of a man who knew whereof he affirmed. “Yes, I believe my plan is a practical one. This country can be connected with Europe by means of pneumatic tubes of large proportions. When the theories are reduced to practice they limy be modiflixi to some extent." “How would they be laid and operated)’ “After the manner of the cables, as I wifi hereafter explain. We will lie obliged to have them laid exactly straight, or as near straight as the surface of the glolie w ill per mit. They will he operated hv currents of air, but on principles quite diffeient in some respects front those governing the small Dili's now in use; the general princi ples remain the same. Of course the tubes wifi always b> in couples, with currents of air driven through them, the curr sit in one tube always moving in an opjxxutedirection from the other.” “Will it in i: lx? difficult to force currents of air the distance you contemplate, f "Oh, no. The speed of this current can he made as great ns desired, and with scarcely any limit, by simply using a great number of steam fans on the principle of those used in blast furnaces, “Tho tulies mu <t lx? large enough to admit of passengers, of course, yet small as possi ble. I would have individuals sit tamleni, one ahead of the otliT, vmi see. Friction! That would lx-prevent" i by hall bearings necessary appliances The motion would hardly lie iviveptihle to the passenger. It is hard to srx'on.ate upon the speed attaina ble. One hundred miles an hour would lie the easiest tiling m th" world; I,Oik) in lias an hoii*' is no, imp .ssibl? with polislie i .-.reel surface fur tube lining and exterior friction we could provide for. The spend, owing to the curvature of the earth's surface will tend to overcome all weight and m ik" the pressure greatest on the upper portion of the tube, when running at maximum s|ieod. Think of going 1. 1 Loudon in such a way and in such time as that!” (sil. Fierce said that n, would not rost, a very large sum to build un experimental Hue fur a sheet distance, sav a few miles. His plan lias lu i'u subinitt xi in its details to sweral exports, and has nut with ap proval. The gn>at question with the in ventor at the present time is to gel the necessary funds to carry forward the work, for lie is a man of comparatively little capital. He feels confident that in tlio end h“ will receive the ivrognitioii aud eucoui'- (fucmcat which his work deserve*. NEW ENGLAND OLD MAIDS. Some Interesting Statistics About the Yankee Girls. Boston, Aug. 13. —Some curious statistics fell into my hands the other day which I shall reproduce for their bearing on a ques tion of the hour—a pressing question in the East at least—the growing number of un ninrried women. In one of the smaller New England towns, where it seemed as if the family were almost ceasing to be the unit of society, I met a woman who for some vears hack has kept a record of the girls who have graduated from the high school of the v:l lage, what they have done and what, up to date, has become of them, She gave me her figures for the classes from IH7I to 1876, from sixteen to eleven years ago, and strange figures for any marrying or giving in mar riage community they seem. The average age of the graduates from a typical New England high school is between 16 and 17 years. Hence it would seem that the women of whom this list has been kept, ranging at present from U 7 to 36 years old, have done the greater proportion of all the “settling in life" which they are likely to do. There were 10 girls in the class of 1871. Of this number 5 have married, 4 have died of consumption, 10 are unmarried. Of the 16 girls of 187:1, 6 have married and 10 are single. Of the2l of 1873,3 are married and 18 aro single. Of the 13 of 1874, 2 have married, 5 nave died of consumption, and 6 axe single. Of the 13 of 1875, 5 have xnar ried, 1 has died of consumption and 7 are single. Of the 17 of 1876, 6 have married, 1 has died of consumption and 10 are single. Making for a total of 99 graduates, 27 mar i iages. ll deaths and 61 women thus fax single. No account is taken of the years since 1876, because as the average age at marriage is advancing no fair conclusion could be drawn fi-om the younger classes. The proportion of single w omen, it will be seen, is nearly two-thirds of the whole num ber. Whether this town is fairly represeti tative of its section 1 have no means of knowing, nor whether the same proportion would hold among the unschooled or less schooled girls of the 'place. There is no obvious reason why it should not, however, for a high school education is not sufficiently exalted to rouse in any mind the suspicion that the girl who has subjected herself to it has thereby unfitted herself for the domes tic duties of life. The 11 deaths were one and all from cast wind consumption which gets to be hereditary and plays direful havoc in families. There have been two cases of insanity, but these both occurred among the married 27. The lai-gest number of chil dreu in the families of the married is 3. Three of the 99 girls went to college after leaving the high school, but these are in the married list. Of the unmarx-ied 61, 21 follow a very usual feminine trade; they are school ma’ams, 1 at Hampton teaching the Indians under Gen. Armstrong, 20 in public schools and academies. Three set type, 1 reads proof, 1 is the head dressmaker in a dry goods establishment, 4 dressmakers on a smaller scale, 3 are music teachers, 1 has studied medicine, 15 are stitchers and but tonhole makers in shoe shops, and the rest are home stayers. Just what has brought about such a pre ponderance of spinsternood it would be hard to say. People have contended that it didn’t exist, and have explained the immense sur plus of women in New England on the sup position that most of them are widows, made so by the hazardous occupations of the men on the Eastern coast. W idows there are in plenty, but these sixty-one—and everybody who knows anything of New England will find it an easy matter to call up plenty of similar instances—have cer tainly never married, probably most of them have never had an opportunity to marry. There are very few marriageable young men to be found at the present time in any smallish New England town. The serene quiet of the most lethargic section of these United States doesn't suit a young man. He goes away before he is old enough to marry and the chances aro he doesn’t comeback again. He is a drummer out on the road somewhere, or he finds his way into busi ness in Boston, New York or the West. If he makes a vacation trip home, he is im fu-essed by the lack of money in New Eng and outside the cities, by the length of time since the houses have been painted, and the amount of calculation required before a dollar can be expended. He doesn’t stay long enough to learn to admire the hardy thrift tbut can wring a comfortable support out of a rocky soil where a New Yorker would starve or commit suicide, and the gil ls he left behind him cannot compare, so he thinks on his return, for beauty of dress or pi-etty coquetry of manner or small talk of society with the city girl who lias become insensibly his standard of girlhood. Not that ho expects to marry the city girl, not at all, no. The newspapers have slandered her to the transplanted country young man until between ice cream in summer and seal skins in winte viliration would be justified if it put mu lith in newspapers, in flinging its girl liu.i.o.s into the Charles River or the Hudson to rid the world of such useless in cumbrances. The fairly well-meaning and domestic young man thinks he doesn't ap prove of the city girl, but her chic lias none the less surely spoiled the country girl for him, the usual result being that lie goes into bachelors’ lodgings until he has un fitted himself in tastes and habits to marry at all. These things considered, it is fortunate for the spinster that she is beginning to think it a natural and not altogether un pleasant state of affairs to be a spinster. They do not look to me an unhappy lot, these New England old maids. For one thing New England is learning to be tender of them. She does not call thorn old maids. Being so strong nu element in society they perhaps dictate its attitude toward them selves. At all events, by a pleasant euphem ism enough of the fiction of their perjietual youth is kept up until they die, You may hear a New England woman speak of the “Fisher girls” or the “Simpson girl” for weeks before the truth is borne in upon you that the "girls” aro well along toward their seventieth year. They never married ami nobody was ever cruel enough to mark out any line IxeyouU which they ceased to be young. They are self-respecting and respected, these spinsters too. 1 wonder if it sounds strange in more sophisticated latitudes to lie told that there are to this day New Eng land towns in abundance where the best educated and best bred Yankee girl of the lest old colonial family can go into t he shoe shop, as Lucy Larcom and her compeers did into the Lowell mills when mills and shoe factories were new, and work there years after she has ceased to boa girl save by courtesy, and still read the Atlantic, and move in, perhaps lend, the most aristocratic soieety of the place. It is not such a had thing to bo an old maid where you can work at whatever comes handiest without loss of dignity, and where your neighbors on both sides are more likely than not to be old maids 100. You are following what is there the natural destiny of a woman. If you marry, then indeed comes the wonder, the surprise. W 1 icre did ho come from, who is ho and how did it happen that you took a fancy to him! Sometimes a New England village puts an exaggerated value on a im*n. es|xselally anew comer, as a rare and unex peeted being who opens new possibilities to half the girls in the place; but oftener the women grow so self-dot xendent, so used to managing for tbeinsulvos, tint the unneces sary creature, man. must bo very good in deed to lie good enough for one ol them. There is more or loss eommon sense floating round in Now England, and it. is about as good a oinre t o te mi old maid in as one oould find. E. P. H. Decay of the Bones, With some thirty other symptoms, mark the progress of that terrible disease known a catarrh. It advances from stage to stage of fearful annoyances, and if neglected, is certain to end in general debility, and pos sibly in consumption or insanity. Dr. Have's Catarrh Remedy will cure it at. any stage. This medicine has Ixeen long liefore th“ public, and thousands imvetiecu restored to health by it* never-failing virtue*. DRY GOODS. E C' :'K S T E IN 1 !: PROGRAMME OF BARGAINS FOR THIS WEEK: Monday—Robes and White Goods. We will make a great sale of the balance of our stock of White and Colored Embroidered and Fancy Robes We start them at $1 25, full Dress Pattern. This is less than half their regular price. The entire line bf Fine White Goods and Novelties reduced to less than cost—Bc. a yard will be the starting price. Tuesday—Wash Dress Goods. Fancy Muslins, Printed Lav,-ns, Crinkled Seersuckers, Light. Gingham, White Ground Calicoes and Cambrics, Imported and American Sateens. A Grand Sale, over 2,000 yards, commencing at 4c. a yard. Wednesday—Hosiery, Etc., Etc. 500 pairs Fancy Stripes, Solid Colors, Balbriggan. Lisle and Silk Hose. Clearing up all the Odds and Ends of the Season at prices ranging from 10c. a pair to $1 50. Some of the best bar gains ever offered in this line. Thursday—Handkerchiefs, Gloves & Mitts, We have a large lot of Odd Styles and small lots of oods iu this line that will be thrown on the Counter and closed out at any price from 3c. up. Friday—Great Day for Bargains. 500 dozen Towels at VA\4p. each. 250 dozen Doylies at sc. each. 155 Summer Quilts at 55c. each. 500 pieces Mosquito Nets at 35c. 1 case 4-4 Bleached Shirting at a yard. Saturday—Fancy Goods, Etc., Etc. Neck Ruching sc. and 10c. a yard. Linen Collars 10c. each. Linen Sets 15c. a set. 20 Fancy Parasols at half price. Perfumery anti Toilet Water 10c. up. 1.000 packages Fancy Soap at sc. Gents’ Collars anu Cuffs 75c. a dozen. 1,100 pair Socks at 10c. and 19c. a pair. WE WANT TO SEE YOU EVERY DAY--IT WILL PAY YOU TO COME. ECKSTEIFS, Congress and Whitaker Sts. F. GUTMAN, 14:1 BEOUGrHTOIST ST. SPECIAL SALE OF FANS THIS WEEK BLACK SATIN HAND PAINTED FANS at 50c., worth sl. BLACK SATIN HAND PAINTED FANS at sl, worth $2. COLORED SATEEN FANS at 600., 65c., and 75c , worth 85c., $1 and Si 50. Just received, anew line of LADIES’ BLACK LISLE THREAD HOSE at 50c.; worth 750, ORIENTAL LACES at 15c., 25c., 35c. and 50c. a yard; WORTH DOUBLE THE PRICE. IT. GUTMAN. DRY GOODS, ETC. Exceptional Reductions IN Summer Ms AT—. Mi & Dour’s, SUCCESSORS TO B. F. McKenna & Cos., 137 BROUGHTON STREET. FIGURED BATISTE CLOTHS. TITE will close out the remainder of our stock ff of these tine goods, formerly sold at 18c. a yard, now reduced to 12Vfcc. 25 pieces Figured Lawns, 33 inches wide, regu lar price 12V£c. a yard; now B>£c. 75 pieces Figured Lawns, choice styles, at3V*c. 50 pieces Wide Width regular price 10c. a yard; now o^c. One lot Crinkled Seersuckers, regular price 15c. and 17c. a yard; now 12V£c. One lot of Dress Ginghams, choice styles, regular price a yard; now 10c. 8B Imported Marseilles Quilts, slightly soiled, formerly sold at $3. We will close the lot out at $1 85 each. Hosiery and Underwear. 100 dozen Unbleached Black and Colored Ifose, regular price 12^c.; now 9c. a pair. A mixed lot of Misses' Fine English Hose, Ribbed, Plaiu and Silk Clocked, regular price of these goods from 25c. to 50c. We will close the lot, out at 17c. a pair. 50 dozen Ladies' Gauze Undervests, regular prices 25c. and 85c.: now 19c. each. 35 dozen Ladies' extra tine quality Gajize Un dervests, regular prices 50c., 65c., 75c. and 85c. We will offer the lot at the extraordinary low price of 47c. each. Our $i Unliuindried Shirts Reduced !o 90c. 75 dozen Gentlemen's Unlaundried Shirts, re inforced back and bosoms, th • best Si shirt, manufactured. In order to reduce our largo stock we will offer them at 90c. each. CIIOIIAN & DOOM-!!. WATCHES AND .JEWELRY. THE CHEAPEST'*PLACE TO UUY"~ V WEDDING PRESENTS Such as DIAMONDS, FINE STERLING SIL VERWAP.E, ELEGANT JEWELRY, FRENCH CLOCKS, etc., is to be found at A. L. Desbouillons, 21 BULL STREET, the sole agent for the celebrated ROCKFORD RAILROAD WATCHES, and who also makes a specialty of 18-Karat Wedding Rings AND THE FINEST WATCHES. Anything you buy from him Ixeiug warranted ns represented. Opera Gliisses at Cost. MERCHANTS, manufacturers, mechanics. corporation., and all others in need of printing, lithographing, and blank books can have their orders promptly tilled, at moderate prices, ai the MORNING NEWS PRINTINU HOUSE. 3 Whitaker street. FURNISHING GOODS. Go to LaFar’s New Store AND SEE HOW CHEAP HE SELLS Summer Hats. 1 I AVE your measure take* At the same time, and T LRY a set of his excellent , )£( . Shirts made to order. , 7 ,’ WHILE THERE INSPECT HIS LINE OF U NLAUNDRIED SHIRTS, Monarch dress shirts, 1 >OSTON GARTERS SILK AND COTTON, Rubber garments of all kinds. Embroidered night shirts. Linen iiandkep.chiefs at all prices. Lisle thread underwear. A fine assortment of scarfs. OH AWL STRAPS AND HAND SATCHELS, Anew line of HAMMOCKS, with PILLOWS and SPREADERS, just in; also a lot of NEW BATHING SUITS, at L air ar’ s, 29 BULL STREET. COTTON' SEED ANTED. COTTON SEED WANTED THE SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO., CAPITAL $5,000,000, HAS just constructed eight new Cotton Seed Oil Mills, located at the following points, each having the capacity per day indicated. Columbia, S. C., - 100 Tons. Savannah, Ga„ - - 100 “ Atlanta, Ga., - - 200 “ Montgomery, Ala., - 200 “ Memphis, Tenn., - 200 “ Little Rock, Ark., - 200 “ New Orleans, La., - 300 “ Houston, Texas, - 300 “ CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Address, at nearest Mill, Southern Cotton Oil Cos. GRAIN AND II AY. Ei i si em Hay. PRIME BRIGHT OLD CROP EASTERN HAY, POTATOES. LEMONS, ONIONS, CABBAGE, FEED AND SEED PEAS, VIR GINIA BLACK EYE TABLE PEAS, PEANUTS,GRAIN AND FEED, EYES, BRAN, FEED MEAL. Get our carload prices on GRAIN and HAY. 169 BAY HT, W. D. SIMKINS & CO. DRUGS AND MEDICINE-. Don’t Do It! Don't Do What: YI7HY don’t walk our tony streets with that > nice dress or suit of clothes on with Stains or Grease Spots in, to which the Savannah dust sticks “cl—r tlxau a brother," lien Japanese Cleansing Cream will take them out dean as anew pin. 85c. a bottle. Made only by J. R. HALTIWANGER, At his Dim: Stores, Broughton and Dray to* Wkiiaktu- aad Way*. almtA