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GEORGIA AM) FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Smtthville Conjurer Brings a Frog
Out of a Pot of Boiling Water and
Terrorizes His Audience A Citizen
of Jackson County Attacked by a
Vicious Bull and Nearly Killed.
GEORGIA.
Rents have advanced 20 per cent, at Al
bany.
At High Shoals, tbe mills era being rap
idly filled with new machinery.
Tlie post office officials at Americus sold
B,(XX) 2c. stamped envelopes in one lot Thurs
day.
Grtfin will try to have 125 men m the
torchlight procession at Atlanta on the oc
casion of President Cleveland’s visit.
Two w’eeks ago, near Powell’s mills, in
Oconee county, a man broke his leg nt the
ankle. Now it. will have to lie amputated
to save his life.
A farmer named Gearcy, who lives just
above Centre, lias just lost by fire every
thing he had in tbe world, of his
homestead and it* contents.
Mr. Scupin, a mining export, has been
prospecting in Hall and adjoining counties
for several weeks, and has met, with great
success iu finding splendid specimens of gold
©re.
Albany's little enterprises turn loose about
SI,OOO in weekly wages in the city. The
oil mill, the ice factory, and the compresses
are the acquisitions of tile last few years and
months.
The citizens of Guyton voted on incorpo
ration last Tuesday, which resulted in favor
of incorporating the town by a good ma
jority. Representative Rawls can now go
ahead and put tlie bill through.
S. M. Chamblee, former Tax Collector of
Hall county is fearfully in arrears with the
county. For ttie vear 188;! he owes #224 8t!;
1884, $Bl3 54; 1885, $145 70; 1886, $2,-
768 70: total amount due, $3,043 09.
Albany’s cotton receipts for August were
2,820 bales. The cotton receipts are now
averaging alxnit the same that they did a
month later in the season last year. The
crop is being harvested and marketed rap
idly.
Rev. E. B. Carroll, having accepted the
permanent call of the Camilla Baptist
Church to nerve with preaching every Sun
day, has resigned tfie charge of Hickory
Head churoh, Brooks county. It is proba
ble that Rev. J. M. Rushin will accept the
call to succeed him.
Wednesday afternoon, the boiler of en
gine “Carrollton,” drawing the passenger
and freight from Griffin, when within three
miles of Carrollton, bursted, but fortunately
no one was hurt. Jim Mitchell, the express
route agent, walked into Carrollton and Se
cured hacks to convey the passengers to
their destination.
The TallajKKtsa Land, Mining and Manu
facturing Company shipped to Atlanta from
their marble quarry Wednesday, a slab of
marble weighing 2,500 pounds. It was of
*ven texture, fine grain, very white, and
susceptible of an elegant polish. It will be
dressed and polished and exhibited at the
Piedmont fair at Atlanta.
The Tallapoosa Laud Company is in cor
respondence with a furniture factory, a
tannery, a boot and shoe manufactory, and
a creamery, all of which are thinking of
locating in Tallapoosa. Arrangements
have already been completed for a large
Bhingle, planing and lath mill, and the fac
tory will soon be in operation.
Willie Blount, assisted ■ by Clmrlei Da
mour, is busily engaged in indexing the
court records of Bibb county. The work
extends back to 1825, and has' been brought
tip to 1847, covering a period of twenty-four
years. It is very tedious and requires hard
labor, but when done it will be a valuable
addition to the county library.
At the Board of Trade meeting at Griffin
Thursday six directors were elected, as fol
lows: W. J. Kincaid, R. P. McWilliams,
A. C. Sorrell, N. B. Drewry, R. F. Strick
land and S. H. Bass. A constitution and
by-laws were adopted and the meeting ad
journed. The directors will now take charge
of affairs belonging to the board, which now’
numbers about fifty members.
There will be a mass meeting of Macon
citizens at the Academy of Music Tuesday
night. The object of the meeting is to take
action to provide for the projier reception
of Mr. Davis, the surviving members of the
Confederate Cabinet, the Confederate Gen
erals and the Confederate veterans who will
be there at the reunion of all surviving ex-
Confederatee at the State Fair on Oct. §B.
J. C. Statbam, of Santa Fe district, Jack
son county, was very badly hurt last Mon
day by a vicious Jersey bull. The bull
knocked Mr. Statbain down and trampled
upon him until he was unconscious. Other
(parties with guns loaded with buckshot went
eut to capture the ferocious animal. The
fenitnal made fight and received the buck
fehot in the face, but continued the fight
until his antagonists left him master of tne
meld.
Rev. "W. B. Burke, of Macon, Rev. C. O.
Mosely, of Arkansas, and Mias Gaines, of
Kentucky, are probably being borne across
the billowy bosom of the broad Pacific to
day. They were to have sailed from San
I'rancisco Thursday. Rev. J. W. Burke,
father of Rev. W. ft., received a letter fidhi
his son dated Kansas City, Aug. 22, in whifh
the young missionary speaks very pleasantly
*>f the reeption he and his party met with
there.
Isaac Dicken, of Watkinsville, awoke at
hU usual time Saturday morning and made
an attempt to get up, but on rising he was
seized with a dizziness and fell back on the
tied and died in & few minutea. He had
been subject to these spells for some time,
and it was thought to he heart disease. He
was somewhat given to drink, and was con
siderably intoxicated the day and night be
fore. which, it is thought, brought ou his
Sudden end.
William Wansley was accidentally killed
near Ruekersvilla, in Elbert county, ou the
xnorning of Sept. 1. He was assisting in
hauling stock logs and was on the log wagon
when the party that was holding down the
lever on tne tongue of the wagon jumped
off, the lever uot being fastened flew bock,
pranking Mr. Wansley on the head. He
lived about an hoar, but died before medical
assistance could reach him. He was about
V 4 years old and a popular young man.
The stock of the Tallapoosa Land, Mlniug
and Manufacturing Company is being rap
idly bought up. Tne company has resolved
to sell *12.5,000 of the stock at >1 25 per
share of $5. This is 25c. on the dollar. The
amount realized from this hloek of stock
will be devoted to the further development
of property and investments with a view to
preparations for the auction sale of lots in
October. Only the amount named will bo
sold at this price, when the price of stock
will be advanced by the company to $2 50
per share.
, An attempt was made to wreck a train on
the Georgia railroad on the night of the
81st, at McHenry’s crossing, near Madison.
J. M. Aikin, who lives there being awake
■when the ii o’clock freight came, noticed
that it stopped at the crossing, but thought
no more or it at the time. In the morning,
however several crossties were found near
the track, having evidently been placed
there during the night, fine of the ties was
split open, indicating that it had been
struck by the engine. Fortunately no dam
age was done.
At Mnysville Wednesday George Sanders,
while intoxicated, severely cut his father-in
luw. John Sailors. Sunder* had been treat
ing his wife cruelly and she had gone to hor
father for protection, whoa Handers went
after her. Her father attempted to keep
him from injuring her. Sanders drew his
knife and stubbed him, and also struck him
with n stick after he fell. He was arrested
and placed in llomcr jail. Handers has been
Worn the United Htales Court for violating
the revenue laws, and ia considered a bad
character where he lj known.
Dr. T. R. Wardell, of Balubridge, has
only been nut of Decatur county twice
Waco the war. The first time was In the
seventies when he went over to Tbomasville
with the firemen. The second time was last
week, when he went over to Neal’s Land
ing, in Florida, to see his son, William, who
was quite sick. The doctor returned home
on tlie steamboat, bringing Billie with him,
who has fully recovered. Doctor Warded
is .V! years old, and passes anywhere for 33.
He is chief of the fire detriment, and the
most active man in that celebrated corps.
A few weeks ago Dr. Lockhart, of Mill
edgeville. was attacked at night by parties
who sprang from the roadside and the doc
tor received two knife wounds at their
hands. It seems that the enmity of tlie at
tacking parties continues still, from a oom
numicatiou the doctor received a day or so
ago. The tenor of the note was to the effect
that the ear-splitting was given as a warn
ing and if tho doctor didn’t make himself
scarce in these parts his throat would be the
next part of his organism on which to il
lustrate scientific carving. The doctor
insists on his innocence of any wrong and
expresses his determination to “face the
music.”
At Atlanta for some months a large force
of hands have licen employed at the water
works, engaged in the construction of an
immense brick and stone water basin, in
which the water supply of the city was to
be put through a filtering process. A few
days ago the basin was completed at a cost
of $.54,w). Friday one of the sides ot tho
basin gave way and the large volume of
water contained in it washed over the ruins.
A surveyor the damage done showed that
it would cost, $4,000 to repair the wall. It
is stated that the basin, although completed,
had not been turned over by the contractors
to tbe city, and in consequence the con
tractors will have to boar the loss.
A terrible tragedy occurred on tho plan
tation of Lucius T.C. Lovelace, near West
Point, on Wednesday of last week, at 12
o’clock, in., the victim of which.
Holstun, now lies in a bloodv grave, while
the lierpetrator of the deed, Deter Story, is
at large. Both were colored men, and
brothers-in-law. Bad blood, it seems, ex
isted between the men, on account of llol
stun’s treatment of his wife, who is Story’s
sister. On Weduesday, while they were at
dinner, Story’s fell purposo of murder (for
the crime has every appearance of having
been deliberately planned) culminated in a
fierce attack, which resulted in Holstua’s
death on Friday morning ut 1 o’clock.
The Agricultural Department compiled
the crop reports of its correspondents yester
day, and the following is given as the av
erage condition and prospects of crops for
the State: Sept. 1, cotton 82, corn 97, rice
88, sugar cane 90, sweet potatoes 97, tobacco
74; number of stock hogs as compared witli
last year 90; condition of hogs 98. Cater
pillars are reported as having made their
appearance iri all sections of the State, being
noticed in North Georgia from Aug. 12 to
20; Middle Georgia, Aug. 20; Southwest
Georgia, July 1 to Aug. 16; East Georgia,
Aug. 2to 25; Southeast Georgia, Aug. 10.
Complaints of rust and shedding a* a result
of .the excessive rains of the latter part of
Juiy and early part of August are general.
The weather has been favorable for picking,
aud the work of gathering the cotton crop
is being pushed.
A Mr. Waldon lives beyond McDonough,
in the upper part of Henry county, and is a
well-known and successful farmer While
working in his field lie noticed a dog acting
as if he nad the rabies, and broke to run as
he had no weapon to defend himseif from
the brute. The dog made hot pursuit, and
Mr. Waldon, in looking back over his
shoulder, stumbled and fell, when the dog
made a savage attack on him, terribly
lawrating his left arm. The dog was a
powerful beast, but after a long struggle, in
which he was bitten in several places besides
his arm, Waldon succeeded in killing the
dog. Mr. Waldon was satisfied that the
dog was mad, and as soon as he could get
his wounds dressed, proceeded to Atlanta
for the purpose of securing the best possible
medical attention.
Near Smithville on Saturday evening last
a colored man, claiming to lie possessed of
supernatural powei-s, took a small iron pot,
filled with water, beneath which he built a
fire, stating tiiat as soon as the water
boiled he would show them something won
derful. A half dozen lounging darkies
stood near waiting for the show to open,
and great was their surprise, when the
water in the pot commenced to simmer, to
sob a frog leap out and stand unscathed on
terra Anna. There appeared to be nothing
in the pot when the water was poured into
it; but when, as it boiled and bubblad
further, a cooter tame crawling out and
took his staud beside the complacent frog,
they’ broke aud ran as though their lives
wore at stake, declaring that “de berry deb
bil da in dat pot!” It was only a clever,
well-executed trick, but the cooter settled
it, and the sorcerer was left severely alone
iu his glory.
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At Columbus, Wednesday, as the little
grandson of J. M. Frazer, in a buggy, ac
companied bv a small servant girl, was
nearing his home in Wynn ton, they saw
coming in the direction of' the city a deliv
ery wagon, and as it was approaching very
closely, the little fellow drew as near the
sidewalk as possible, t>oth he and the girl
calling to the driver of the wagon to keep
further to the right. Not heeding the call,
the driver continued his course and deliber
ately ran into the buggy, breaking the shaft
on Ills side and causing the horse to run
away. The horse broke the harness and
turned the buggy over on the occupants,
who however, escaped without injury. The
driver sat uiion his wagon looking back un
til the frolic was over, when he laughed and
proceeded on his way. Mr. Frazer found,
upon inquiry, that the negro’s name is Hub
ert Anderson, and that he drives for Messrs.
J. H. Gabriel & Cos.
Two Jackson hunters, while among the
big hills or mountains of Butts county a
few days since, made a wonderful discovery.
One of the dogs struck a trail and the hun
ter following the rugged mountain side,
saw his dog disappear in the bowels of the
earth. Procuring a lantern lie proceeded to
investigate the cave, and the Argus thus
teUs of his visit to the underground cavern:
“With lantern in one hand and hit gun ready
cocked and primed in the other, our in
formant disappeared into the cave where
the foot of mun had never trod before.
After going some distum* under the ground
lie found that ho was in a spacious cavern
and the faint voice of his much loved dog
could be heai'd in the distance. Nothing
daunted, he pressed forward half
feeling his w ay, expecting every moment to
meet a terrible encounter with some raven
ous beast, as the indications at the mouth
of the cave showed that some wild animal
was making his home in this dark, abode.
After he had gone several hundred feet he
discovered numerous bones scattered nronnri,
and while he was stopped with his hair
standing straight on las head, wondering
what to do, his ears were greeted with a
mighty roar like the falling of many waters
in the distance. With a hurried step he
made his way to duylight again. (eating his
favorite but ill-fated Hover to tno mercy of
the mad inhabitants of this unexplored cav
ern of mid Butts.”
J. A. Cary, the nmn who traded the choke
down mule to N. L. Hagan at Albany, on
Wednesday, struck a simon-pure horse
trader after he regained possassion of his
mule. The man stated that lie was looking
for a choke-down mule, anil Cary’s wasn’t
that kind that ho did not want to trade.
Cary thought he could suit him exactly, and
a bargain was easily driven, Cary taking in
exchange for his mule two Texas pomes.
The public interest is naturally awakened,
and there is much sp-illation as to which
of the traders downed the other. It seem*
that choke-down mule- are not uncom
monly mot with in that section. Capt.
Weston tells of a trade once made oy
him, in which ho exchanged a tolerably fair
mule for a pampered up choke-down, and
gave $lO to boot. The mule proved entirely
useless, but a young man who knew the
mule and it* ailment offered to take it off
the Captain’s hands for $4O, which was ac
cepted. The young man took his mule to
Valdosta and swapped it for two new
buggies, for which he got $llO eoch. Mr. C,
C. Campbell says that a mule like the one
Cary bed would be worth $l,OOO to a horse
trader in Cincinnati. H* once knew a
broken-winaei faprae to lx mid every other
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1887.
day for months in that city. The course
pursued was to drive him just so as to con
ceal his defect and sell him without a war
rantee, and buy back at a greatly reduced
price after his purchasers discovered his
worthlessness.
B. P. Weeks, of Macon, has hit upon a
now scheme to ease and facilitate the work
of policemen in lodging drunken men be
hind the bars. The institution invented by
Mr. Weeks has a number of advantages
over the Black Maria. On the five regular
police beats of the city he places a box, or
small house large enough to contain four
seated persons, and has an iron ring on top.
It is provided with a door, to which every
officer has a key. At the police headquar
ters is kept a peculiar kind of wagon with
a horse always hitched up aud a driver al
ways ready. At the back of this wagon Is
a small derrick, or windlass, which
is worked with chain and hook.
Whan tlie officer sends in his
message the vehicle promptly responds to the
call, and is soon at that portion of the beat
where the box or house is kept. The wagon
is backed up to it and by means of tlie der
rick or windlass it is hoisted in its place amt
carried to headquarters, where the contents
are taken out and placed in a cell. In this
way, if an officer finds a drunken man on
the street, he simply locks hint up in the
box, telephones for the vehicle and con
tinues his walk over the beat, losing but lit
tle time. By the present method, if an of
ficer finds a drunk oil the street, and the
drunk is very drunk, he must call a
brother officer from another beat, and
together they carry their man to
prison. This 'leaves two beats unpro
tected for a half hour or more.
Ranse Mallory and wife, two notoriously
mean negroes, are tenants on Buck Smith's
plantation, four miles southeast of Cuth
bert Both are able-bodied, and well able
to pick 350 pounds of seed cotton jier day,
ami were picking it, but putting into two
cotton baskets, one at their house and one
at the back side of the plantation not under
Mr. Smith’s supervision, and that which
was placed in tho latter would, on the same
night, disappear very mysteriously. Mr.
Smith, solving the mystery, went to Ranse,
and, without accusing him of theft, tried
to prevail upon him to bring him all of the
cotton in tho house to his residence, where
upon Ranse got fighting mad aud pulled
down his musket, filled with buckshot,
cocked it and had Mr. Smith, who was un
armed, completely under his control. The
negro’s wife, in "the meantime, urged her
husband to shoot, but Mr. Smith somehow
prevailed on him to desist, but little Gus
Smith, a 16-year-old-son, who had accom
panied his father, was taken in charge and
given a terrible beating with a fence rail.
Mr. Smith stood by and saw it all but could
do nothing. Finally they both succeeded in
getting away without being shot. Mr.
Smith immediately came to town and served
out warrants against them, charging them
with assault and battery, Sheriff L. A. Smith
deputized Mr. Buck Smith and gave him
the papers for the arrest of the parties, and
he, accompanied by Messrs. Rad Bridge and
Will Harvey, started out to arrest them.
When nearing the house, in an old field,
Ranse and his wife were met awaiting Mr.
Smith’s return, having said to the latter
that he would be ready for him. Mr.
Smith told him that he had a warrant for
him, but the negro defied and immediately
began uttering a profusion of oaths, and at
the same time pulled out a pistol and leveled
it at Kmith, who seeing the danger he was
in, nulled down on him with two loads of
buckshot from a Parker gun, one load tak
ing effect in tho stomach and thighs, the
other missing the mark. The negro and
wife were then arrested and brought to
town, medical aid was given and he was
jßlled. It is thought that the negro will
die.
FLORIDA.
Lake Weir wants a military company.
The corner-stone of the Methodist church
at Altoona was laid Friday.
Mr. Bradford, State Engineer, is expected
daily to inspect tho work of the Apopka
Canal Company.
The election on tho liquor question in Vo
lusia county will, probably, be called for
some time in October.
The LeConte pear trees of 8. B. Thomas,
Sr., of Madison, from which a heavy crop
has boon tuken recently, are blooming again.
Three hundred and sixty dollars was
pledged by tho citizens of I-ake City to sup
plement the teachers’ salaries ut the public
school.
The first sugar cane of the season made its
appearance in the Lake City market Satur
day, to tlie delight of the small hoy and the
colored citizen.
Gov. Perry has requested the Executive
Committee to order a primary election for
Sheriff of Columbia county. Capt. Sheffield
will act temporarily.
Mr. Arnold, the contractor, is at Halifax
putting down the telegraph poles for tho
Jupiter telegraph line. The wire will be
strung as fast as the poles are set.
J. B. Speer, near Oakland, has just housed
275 bushels of corn from about ten acres of
ground. This is better than the average of
the corn acreage of tho State of Illinois.
The prospects of raising money to build a
furniture factory at Gainesville are encour
aging. The mechanics of the town have
liecome interested in it and are taking stock.
John P. Wall telegraphs from Tampa as
follows: “The statement in the Tampa 7Vi
bune that infected bedding from Egmont
Key was landed in Tampa is a positive false
hood.’’
There are several large farms in Columbia
county that could bo advantageously used
in raising stock, and the citizens are begin
ning to turn their attention in that direc
tion.
The officers of the State troops at (Aeir
meeting Monday favored tho first Monday
after the Fourth of July as the Ume aud
Magnolia Bluff as the place for the next en
campment.
At Bartow Friday J. A. McGill, grocer,
formerly of Uniontown, Ky., was closed up
by attachment in favor of R. B. Post &
Son, of New Orleans. Liabilities, $500; as
sets, nominal.
Negotiations for the sale of much real es
tate near Dade City, are under considera
tion. Several houses are now in process of
construction, aud quite a number are to be
built at an early day.
The new arms for the Halifax Rifles have
arrived. The boys are now perfecting ar
rangements to secure a handsome dross uni
form, and next year, at the unnua) encamp
ment, will not bo outshone in dress by any
of them.
On Tuesday, an execution was Issued by
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Volusia
county against the rolling stock, roudbed,
buildings and laud grants of the HI. Johns
and Halifax railway, in favor of 0. I). O.
Bortola. for $.'1,410 (Vi, to which the costs,
amounting to about SOOO, are added, 1
A few days ago a lady living a tnilo or
two out of Madison noticed her cows being
chased by two large anil ferocious looking
dogs. She picked up her husband's rifle
and as one of the dogs came in range took
deliberate aim anil pulled the trigger. She
was rewarded by seeing the brute fall to the
ground, which soon died.
A negro moil and woman, accompanied
by a little girl, were walking across oue of
the trestles of the Jacksonville. Taniiia and
Key West railway just, outside of I’alatka
Tuesday when a train overtook them. All
jumped from the trestle about fifteen feet
to thy swamp below. No other injury thau
spraining the child's ankle was suffered.
Frank Dimu, who is serving an appren
ticcebip on Pensacola bar, and who, a part
of his course, hus inode n voyage to sea, re
turned home Thursday. He left Pensacola
lsurt November oil the American bark Silas
Fish, went to Havana. returned to Pensa
cola, wont thence to New Orleans, them* to
Tarragona, Spain, thence to Trapani. Sieilv,
thence to Glouster, Mass., and than, by rail,
came home.
At Warrington, Friday, a large boat was
picked up by Ordnani* Sergeant Thomas
lienrv. United States army, in charge at
Port Pickens. The boat sw bottom up and
had sail set. Tile so.dfer*. with the Sergeant
I*#*!!!.*, went into the surf to get her out.
There is every reason to believe that all of
the party thait were in the boat have been
drowned, as by the appearance of the vessel
it must have been upset suddenly. It was
said, among the men, that the last seen of
the boat it had a man and boy in it.
Orlando Uecord: A certain professsional
man in town has a scheme which might
well be adopted by every one who pays his
street tax. When a collector called oil him
yesterday with a bill he was requested to
stand still a moment, aud in the meantime
an assistant of the aforesaid p. m. had
succeeded in taking a photograph of the pair
in the act of paying the bill and giving a re
ceipt. The scheme works to perfection aud
he is never troubled a second time.
Alex Q. Holloway, President of the
State Agricultural College, at Lake City,
has been vigitlng Indian river and Mos
quito lagoon for the past week. He visited
that section in the interest of a State exper
imental garden, and he was favorably im
pressed with what he saw. In company
with C. D. Sweet aud Burt Walker he vis
ited Mosquito lagoon and the Halifax. He
said that his friends would hardly believe
him when he returned and said that he had
slept for three nights on the famous Mos
<nuto lagoon without a mosquito bar, and
that the nights were so cool tiiat bed cov
ering was quite comfortable.
At Pensacola,Friday,hefore County Judge
Hallmark, Capt. A. Fogh, of the Norwegian
bark Annie Tory, was arraigned upon the
complaint of H. A. Kliason, for kidnapping
a sailor. The warrant was served Thurs
day by Deputv Sheriff Cusachs while the
Captain was ashore, but the Captain aided
by a friend, resisted tho Sheriff, informing
tie officer that he could be seen on board his
vessel during office hours, aud enforcing his
resistance by the display of a pistol. The
officer desisted at the time, but Thursday
night after the return of the Stella from the
excursion, idle was chartered by Cusachs
and several deputies, who ran alongside the
Annie Tory and proceeded to take the Cap
tain into custody. A general tight ensued,
the Captain, cook and watch-dog taking an
active part, but finally the Captain was
overpowered and brought ashore in irons.
As tne result of this scrimmage, Capt. Fogh
stands charged with resisting an officer and
carrying concealed weapons, and Capt.
Nicholson with obstructing an officer in the
discharge of his duty.
Umatilla correspondence Eustis Lake re
gion: “Rev; John Traub, who came here
two years ago this month and bought wild
pine land, had not exceeding one-third of
an acre in strawberries; from this he sold
2,580 quarts of fruit that netted him ldbjc.
per quart, and sold most of them here and
m neighboring villages. He had in one and
one-quarter acres in tomatoes that netted
him $448. Mr. M. H. McGuire, from West
Virginia, bo.ight last summer five acres of
unimproved pine land, cleared one acre, set
it to tomatoes, and realized enough to pay
for his five-acre purchase, cultivation of
crop, and the clearing of the one
acre. I had in a small lot near the depot,
(one and one-quarter acres); at the com
mencement of the shipping season, I
was offered $lB3 for the crop, accepting the
offer, and the purchaser received over SI3OO
for tho crop. Messrs. Devault (D. J.) &
Danielson received $1,461 from three acres
in cabbages. George V. Devault received
$758 from two and a half acres in cabbages,
used S2B worth of Wilcox & Gibbs’ fertil
izer, paid out pot exceeding S3O for lubor,
done balance of work himself and is now
enjoying himseif with his girl in East Ten
nessee. D. B. Wilder received from six
acres in tomatoes, and from one and a half
acres in other vegetables, in all seven and a
half acres, $1,409, and has 185 crates to
hear from. While these are among the best
yields I know of, they are not all, for a
good many others have made money.”
GOSSIP ABOUT THE JUDGESHIP.
The Complications That Will Possibly
Arise—The Several Candidates.
From the Macon (Go.) Telegraph.
There is a good deal of gossip and specu
lation as to the vacant place on the Supreme
Court bench and the possible results. Of
course there is but little talk about it except
upon tho turn which would make Judge
Simmons Judge Hall’s successor. This pos
sible result brings aoout eomplications,
owing to the fact that two of the candi
dates for the Superior Court Judgeship
would create vacancies in case either was
elected.
It is said that Solicitor General Harde
man has seeural endorsements from his law
yer friends upon condition that be was not
to oppose Mr. Gustin. As it has beeu a fact
well known for a long time, Mr. Gustin has
stood ready to succeed Judge Simmons iu
any event of his vacating the place, this
action on the part of Solicitor General Har
deman has given rise to a suspicion that
perhaps Mr. Gustin will not be a candidate,
and Mr. Hardeman will lie ready with his
backing to make known his candidacy, and
thus gel the bulge on others. The intimation
that possibly Mr. Gustin would not trv for
the place suggests the simple query: Why?
Gossip answers by saying that Mr. Gustin
has beeu retained by the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad as its attorney at a
salary double that of a Superior Court
judge. He does not care to lose this posi
tion, and for that reason is now halting be
tween the gratification of ambition and u
love'of the dollar.
The elevation of Mr. Hardeman causes a
vacancy, and those who desire to fill it will
make a considerable backiug for him.
Another name mentioned is that of Judge
Charles J. Harris, though the Judge does
not snv whether he will be a candidate or
not. He is at present Judge of the City
Court, and has advantages he could not
have as Judge of tbe Su|ierior Court. The
salary is the same, but the Judge of the
City Court does not go out of the county to
attend other courts, nor lias he any traveling
expenses to pay. It is nothing more than a
little promotion with more work and re
sponaibillty.
The name of Mr. N. E. Harris is brought
out prominently as a candidate, and Mr. C.
L. Bartlett is spoken of. Tlie former is in
Atlanta, and the latter is off on his summer
vacation.
Cleveland Mußt Come to Havann&b.
From the Macon (C/a.) Telegraph.
About the best route home for Mr. Cleve
land will lie by Savannah and Charleston.
Savannah will not 'give him gush, but the
licst entertainment he has ever enjoyed. If
lie will go there and eat a broiled summer
duck, Honked by rice birds, with proper
solid and liquid trimmings, and look upon
a few Georgians, lie will lie entirely Indiffer
ent as to political conventions and second
terms for the balance of his life, and will
never look upon a Mugwump again.
Ho Woe Very Polite.
From the Philadelphia Timet.
Thorn was a very polite tnan aboard yel
low coble car 1H!I on Market street yester
ilry. He was tall and bony, and had been
having a good time, in spite of Sunday
liquor laws. There was onlv one other pas
senger in the car and the polite man had a
whoU* side to himself. At Tenth street a well
dreesed young woman got aboard.
“Hie—have—my—sheet,” said the young
man as ho rose, and mode a wavering, but
dignified bow.
“Thank you, sir, but there are other
sea fa,” said she.
“Don't—disturb —hie—them—take—hie—
ray shoot," HO id he.
"Well, really thsre is plenty of room,”
she answered, nervously.
"I can—hie stand with the others,” he
ealluntly replied, and then the Chester
field ian ’passenger insisted and the young
woman was driven by the persistent and
dignified |K>liteness to take the proffered
seat, whiL the polite man raised Ills hat and
grew more dignified as he stood In the al
most empty cur as it sjHxsied on its way
across the Hchuykltl.
Stand Not Upon the Order of Your Go
In*.
Bn, go at, once and buy a bottle of the fra
grant NOZODONT. You will never regret
it. It not only beautifies and preserve* the
teeth and ai rest* decay, but leaves thu
mouth cool, and the breath a* fragrant a a
rot*.
A SINGULAR SECT.
The Wonderful Eoy Preacher of the
Indiana Soul Sleepers.
From the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.
The Soul Sleepers are not strong numeri
cally, but they just now have among them
one who is truly wonderful, viewed in wliat
ever light he may t>e. As far as i can learn
this sect is confined to the Southern part of
the State, and have their strongest settle
ment in Jefferson county. Boilod down to
its simplicity their dectriue is simply this:
That when the body dies the soul enters on
a state of sleep, in which it remains until
the final resurrection of the body on the
day of judgment, when it awakes and again
enters into the body as it arises from the
tomb. This re-united soul and body then
ap;>ears before the throne for judgment.
To judge from outward appearances and
surroundings, the believers in this state are
not of the profound and learned class. As far
as I could judge, and from all I could learn,
they are unlearned and ignorant, and they
certainly have a sleepy look, as if both soul
and body were more than hall asleep. How
ever that may he, they ure evidently devout
and earnest, and are a simple-minded and
simple-mannered clans. The peculiar doc
trines they teach of the future seem to have
affected them in many ways, especially in
their habits and manners of living. In
Jefferson county, not far from Madison,
they have a church and quite a congrega
tion. The pastor of the church, or rather
the preacher, is a boy of 10 years of age,
and be is really a wonder. When out of the
pulpit he has a sort of far-away, simple and
listless look and manner. His clothing
is illy cut anil poorly made, and of
the cheapest material, and, with his pre
occupied look, gives him the appearance of
a prematurely aged child. His hair is
thick, course and uukenuned. In the church
he site on one of the front benches, his feet
about six inches from the floor, and swing
ing in regular school-boy style. No ob
server, no matter how attentive he might
be, would ever take him for anything but
an ordinary boy. Uninteresting and really
stupid as he appears, he has a marvelous
and almost inspired conception of words
and ideas, or a memory that is equally mar
vellous, for he preaches sermons that Beech
er in his palmiest days might have been
proud of. For purity of diction, logical ar
rangement, and beautiful similes, they are
unmu passed by any pulpit orator of the
present day, either in this country or
in Kurope. Neither by act, word or look
does he convey the impression that be is
possessed with the Idea that he has done
anything extraordinary, even after one of
of his loftiest flights.
There is about him something so earnest,
so simple and so childlike that tbo listener,
as he preaches or prays, feels a kind of
electric thrill, a creeping of the flesh and a
tingling at the roots of the hair. Last Sun
day he preached from Isaiah lxiii. 4. : “For
the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the
year of my redeemed is come.” His father,
who is an illiterate man, being scarcely
able to read, opened the services by reading
the chapter from which the text was taken,
the boy meanwhile sitting ois the front seat
swinging his legs, and apparently unmind
ful of what was going on around him.
When the father concluded his reading ho
nodded to the boy, who arose and ascended
the pulpit. Ilis feet had scarcely
touched the pulpit before a wonderful
change came over him. His listlessness was>
gone, and in its place was an enthusiastic
eartuestnesK seldom found even among the
most devoted ministers. He knelt down
and led the congregation in prayer. There
was a depth, earnestness, pathos and en
treaty in that prayer that made it wonder
ful even beyond the mnrvelovi sermon
which followed it. The prayer concluded
with the following words, spoken in a tone
of earnest pathos that reached the hearts of
the hearers, if it did not the throne of God
to whom it was addressed: “Oh, Father,
look in mercy and love on the sick and
afflicted: oh, Lord, regard with symiiathy
and kindness the poor and afflicted; oh,
Father and Lord, look with special favor
and tendornexe upon the young men who
are here to-day.”
His prayer ended, he took his place at the
desk, his eyes fui.'ly in flames from his com
munion with his Master, and without hesita
tion or embarrassment, and in a clear but
deeply earnest voice, proceeded to elucidate
his text. I cannot give oven a synopsis of
the sermon; but it was clear, logical, forci
ble, and in some respects unique. In closing
he claimed that the last of the prophecies
were now being fulfilled and the flay of
judgment w’as approaching. He referred
to the prophecy as to the time of the end of
the world, that children should rise against
their parents, imd parents against their chil
dren, and said that at no period of the
world's history was that more true than to
day, when every paper was loaded down
with aoeounts of parents being murdered
by their children, and children by their
parents. I cannot say that the sermon was
his own composition. The language and
ideas were too exalted for a child of his ten
der years, but even if it was the work of
another, his seat of memory in reproducing
it and the elocutionary powers displayed
were something uncanny. He is a prodigy
whichever way it is taken, and his equal
does not exist anywhere in the United
Statei.
If the sermon was his own, he is to ser
monizing what B.ind Tom is to music. In
diapolis has some able divines, but not one
of them can produce such a sermon as that
delivered last Bundiu’ by Pascal Porter, the
boy preacher of Jefferson county. His
parents and friends claim that be was in
spired when but 'i years of age, and that
since then he has been delivering his re
markable addresses. If he memorizes them
it is strange where he finds the originals and
who teaches him. His sole companion is an
aged grandmother, who, like Lois of old,
gives all her time to her Bible and to
prayer. These two spend their days in
reading the Scriptures and in talking of the
mercies of the Lord. , •
Surprised Turks.
8. 8. Cox in Youth's Companion.
Dr. IVashburne, President of the Ameri
can College at Constantinople, brought with
him from the United States one of Edison’s
phonographs, which he exhibited to a com
pany of Turks. He talked into the orifice
and the machine ground out of its vocal
tinfoil long sentences in its squeaky way.
The amazement of the spectators was
kept out of sight. They pretended that it
was no marvel to them at all, but when the
phonographs] Kike in Turkish they could not
contain themselves any longer aiid frankly
ndmittod that they could not understand
how the machine had learned the language
so quickly, since it hail been in the country
only two weeks.
LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drink.
Fifty ceute and one dollar per bottle. Bold
by riruKKiKts.
Prepared by H. Mozley, M. D., Atlanta,
Georgia.
For biliousness and constipation take
Lemon Elixir.
For indigestion and foul stomach take
Lemon Elixir.
For sick and nevous headaches, taka
Lemon Elixir.
For sleeplessness and nervousness take
Lemon Elixir.
For loss of appetite and debility take
Lemon Elixir.
For fevers chills and malaria take I ami on
Elixir, all of which diseases arise from a
torpid or diseased liver.
Lemon Bot Drops
Cure all Coughs, Colds. Hoarseness, Bore
Throat, Bronchitis and nil Throat and Lung
diseases. Prion like. Bold by druggist*.
Preoarad by H. Mosley, Atlanta, Oa., in
both liquid and lozenge form.
Had Bowels.
The very expression implies suffering
Every mother knows the anxiety over this
Sickness, hut every mother done not know
that Dr. BikgeiV Huckleberry Cordial wiji
irgululo and cut* ail wvt*l Loubies.
! MILLINERY.
PLATSHEK’S
138 BROUGHTON STREET.
SWEEPING!
Like an avalanche, down to the bottomless
pit, disappear all calculations on these
CHOICE GOODS!
Our aim is to close the lot, and at FABU
LOUS LOW PRICES. Do you want to
invest!
HERE’S THE CHANCE:
2.400 yards all silk face veilings, plain, matte
and chenille dotted, iu every shade now worn,
reduced to
10c. per Yard.
1,350 pairs, an immense lot of bailies' fine
Lisle, Taffeta Silk and pure Silk Cloves in Blacks
and Tans, 6, 8 and 10 button length, reduced to
uniform price,
28c. per Pair.
40 dozen Children’s Black and Solid Shades
Cotton Hose, tt to Bjj{, elegant goods, reduced to
8 l-3c. per Pair.
250 dozen Ladies' Pure Linen Hemstitched
Embroidered Handkerchiefs. Colored and
Mourning Borders, was 35c. aud oOc.; reduced to
16 l-4c. Each.
00 dozen Ladies’ 4-Ply Linen Collar*, with cape
in straight and turned edges, was and 35c.;
reduced to
15c. Each.
450 Papetorie Cabinets, Cretonne Covered and
Satin Lined, containing 6 dozen envelopes, 72
sheets of best writing paper and 1 dozen gilt-edge
cards; a grand reduction,
75c. Each.
100 cases Ladies’ and Misses’ Black Canton
Straw Shapes, new Fall styles, at
25c. Each.
Zephyrs, Wools and Embroidery Materials
in Vast Variety.
LIVE INDUCEMENTS in our different lines.
N. B.—Mail orders promptly and carefully at
tended to.
FURNISHING GOODS.
Go to LaFar’s New Store
AND SEE HOW CHEAP HE SELLS
Summer Hats.
I LaVE your measure take#
iYt the same time, and
1 RY a set of his excellent
Shirts made to order.
& WHILE THERE INSPECT IIIS LINE OF
LI NLA UNDRIED SHIRTS,
Monarch dress shirts,
Boston garters in silk and cotton,
Kubber garments of all kinds.
Lmbroidered night shirts.
Ijinen handkerchiefs at all prices.
Ia ISLE THREAD UNDERWEAR
A FINE ASSORTMENT OF SCARFS.
Shawl straps and hand satchels,
Anew line of HAMMOCKS, with PILLOWS
and SPREADERS, just in; also a lot of NEW
BATHING SUITS, at
X j a ET a r ’ s,
29 BULL STREET.
clothing.
CAUTION!
Unscrupulous dealers in woolen fabrics, seeking
to take advantage of the
Ever-taeasii Popularity
OF OUR
SANITARY
Mi tirrar,
ARE putting upon the market spurious
articles, manufactured la imitation of Dr.
JAEGER'S Goods and Brand. All (icrsons are,
therefore, warned against purchasing any of
these goods unless stamped with our TRADE
MARK as exhibited on every garment manu
factured by us, with Dr. Jaeger’s Photograph
and fac simile Signature.
A complete line of our goods can always be
had of our Agents.
A. Falk & Son,
80LK AGENTS
FOR r>R. JAEGER'S SANITARY WOOLEN CO.
nmi .iarm.
WOODBURY, OEM. MAHON'S, and other
approved Kltt.'lT JARH. at JAM. H. HtLVA &
BON’*
'■I'OOOUSTY OKKICEIW. Rooks and blanks
I required liy county offlosn for llirusrnf
the r'Mirts, or for nfftie use, supplied (o order hv
the Mi HNINti NKWH PIUNTLNU liULtJK I
W bitaker street, tsavaauau.
LIS.L.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000.
“H> do hereby certify that me supervise ths
arrangements for alt the Monthly and Semi.
Annual Drawings of the Louisiana State Lot.
iery Company, and in person manage and con
trot the I'railings themselves, and that the same
are conducted with honesty, fairness, and m
gcoil faith toward all parties, and we authorise
the Company to use this certificate, with f.w
similes of our signatures attached, in its adver
tisements."
Commissioners.
TFe the undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay all Prizes drawn in the Louisiana State Lot
teries which limy be presented at our counters
J. H OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana Nat'l Bank
PIERRE LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank!
A. BALDWIN, Pres. New Orleans Nat’l Bank!
CARL KOHN, Pres. Union National Bank!
11 NPRECEDENTED - ATTRACTION!
U Over Half a Million Distributed.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY.
Incorporated in 18BS for 25 years by the legis
lature for Educational and Charitable purposes
—with a capital of Hi,ooo,ooo—to which a reserve
fund of over £ssri,oCo lias since been added
By an overwhelming popular vote its fran
chise >vas made a part of the present State con
stitution. adopted December ad, A. I). 1879.
The only Txittery ever voted on and indorsed
by the people of any State.
It never suites or postpones.
ll* Grand Single Number Drawing* take
place monthly, and file Semi-Annual Dratv.
Inga regularly every six mouths (June and
December).
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO \VI\
A FORTUNE. NINTH GRAND DRAWING
CLASS I, IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIc!
NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, September 13,
ISS7—SOWIIi -Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $150,000.
t3F" Notice-Tickets are Ten Dollars only,
Halves, $5; Fifths, $2; Tenths, sl.
LIST Or PHIZES.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $150.000... •lUCLOiyi
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000.... 50 000
J GRAND PRIZE OF 80,000.... 3)000
8 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000 ... 20 009
4 LARGE PRIZES OF 6,000 ... 20,000
20 PRIZES OF 1,000.... 20 000
50 PRIZES OF 600.... 25090
100 PRIZES OF 800. ... 30,000
200 PRIZES OF 200.... 40,000
600 PRIZES OF 100 ... 50'000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes of S3OO ... SBO,OOO
100 “ “ 200... 20,000
100 “ “ 100... 10.000
1.000 Terminal “ 50.... 50.000
8,170 Prizes, amounting to $635,000
Application for rates to clubs should be made
only to the office of the Company in New Or
leans.
For further information write clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express
Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordi
nary letter. Currency by Express fat our expense/
addressed M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleana, La.
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
sVasiiiugton, D. V.
Address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleana, La.
RFMFMRFR That the presence of Gen
nl_ IVI C ivl DC_ it cra i s Beauregard and
Early, who are in charge of the drawings, is 4
guarantee of absolute fairness aud integrity,
that the chances are all equal, and that no oue
can possibly divine what number will draw 4
Prize.
REMEMBER that the oaymeut Of all Prizes
is GUARANTEED BY FOUR NATIONAL
BANK* of New Orleans, and the Tickets are
signed by the President of an Institution whose
chartered rights are recognized in the highest
Courts; therefore, beware of any imitations or
anonymous schemes.
DOORS, SASH, ETC.
ANDREW HANLEY,
DEALER IN
Doors, Sashes, Blinds,
Mouldings, Etc.
All of the al>ove are Best Kiln-Dried White Pina
ALSO DEAMCR IN
Builders’ Hardware, Slate, Iron and
Wooden Mantels, Grates, Stair
work, Terracotta, Sewer
Pipe, Etc., Etc.
Paints, Oils, Railroad, Steamboat and
Mill Supplies, Glass, Putty, Etc.
Lime, Plaster, Cement and Hair.
Plain and Decorative Wall Paper, Frescoeing,
House and Sign Painting given personal atten
tion and finished in the Debt maimer.
ANDREW HANLEY.
HARDWARE.
EDWARD LOVELL & SONS,
HARDWARE,
Iron and Turpentine Took
Office: Cor. State and Whitaker streets.
Warehouse: 138 and 140 State street.
STEAM LAUNDRY.
PSsrWliaK
a CARD.
n AVIN’C passed my first suniversay io this new
euteriirixe, I cannot refrain from thanking
u kind public for tbeputrouage extenJtd to me,
else for the patience displayed in overlooklnj
shortcomings on the part <>f my employes.
Having now solved the mysteries of artesian
water and the use of difficult machines, 1 can
promise nil Indulgent public that henceforth uiy
work will equal the best and surpass the most
steam Laundries in this country. My call and
delivery system will soon Lie Improved, and ask
ing it enntinuance of the patronage oo largely
extended, I am, respectfully,
M. I’BAGKK.
Prop r i etor.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
Don’t Do It! Don't Do Wlml!
W' HY don't walk our tony street* with that,
v * pice dress or suit of clothes on with Stain*
or Grouar Kisits In, to which the Havanuah dust
sticks "closer than a brother," when
Japanese Cleansing Cream
will take them out cloau ua a new pin. Ssc. a
bottle. Made only by
J. R. HALTIW ANGER,
At Id* Drug Stores, Broughton and Draylon.
Wli.taker end Wayne stret-tv
If'OH HALE, Old Newspaper*. juat the thing
I for wrapper*, only 16 cent* a hundred, JW
(vi at uwat*. at the bueutsM oftio*.
JAS. S. SILVA & SON
)
LOTTERY.