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6 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. ! < . I ; 1 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. 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