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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
news rnoii r.vrnywHEKE— accidents, stbikes,
7IRF.fi, AXD HAPFEX1S08 Of INTEREST.
The black vomit has made its appear¬
ance at V< ra Cruz, New Mexico.
Tbe total amount of contributions re¬
ceived by Governor Beaver, of Harris¬
burg, for the flood sufferers to date is
about $700,000.
Three of Captain Wissman's steamers
are reported to have been lost on the
Benadeir coast. German men of-war
have gone in search of the missing ves¬
sels.
General Grtely is about to turn loose
three hundred weather prophets on the
country. On and after July 1st, the ob¬
servers at the signal service stations will
make their own predictions.
The Russian army will soon be provided
with hr ei h-loa ling rifl'-s, which will
catry a distance of 0.000 feet. Noiseha;
powder will also be used in the future by
the army. Th sc improvements in the
arming of troops involved immense ex¬
penditures.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says: The roof of the Merced market
fell in Friday, burying nearly forty per¬
sons. Four dead and fourteen wounded
have already been taken out. Soldiers
are removing the rubbish and starching
for the bodies.
Severe hail storin') prevailed on Mon¬
day in many parts of Germany, mteifer-
ing greatly with railway traffic. While a
procession was passing through the streets
of a Sicilian town, five of the ponders
were struck by lightning and killed.
Forty others received severe shocks.
A Chicago paper contains the follow¬
ing paragraph: “The suivivors of ihc
Johnstown flood aie throwing away their
Bibles and openly providence. disclaiming any be¬
lief in a divine Men and
women, who saw their loved ones swept
aw ay and drowned, have in their despe¬
ration turned their backs on religion.
The great calamity has made more athe¬
ists than a century of Ingcrsolism could
have done.
The John"town sufferers have received
enough clothing, in the shape of contri¬
butions. to last the people twenty years.
6,000 men are now at work clearing
away the debris, with the aid of dyna¬
mite and tire engines. Newspaper cor¬
respondents have taken sick, and many
have returned home. A huudred porta¬
ble houses are being erected, and if sat¬
isfactory, a thousand more will be put
up. Seventeen more bodies were found
on Monday.
STORMS IN FLORIDA.
DISASTERS FROM WIND AND RAIN IN DIF¬
FERENT PARTS OF THE STATE.
A heavy rainstorm prevailed in Jack¬
sonville Sunday and Monday, accompa¬
nied a portion of the time l>y a galo ot
wind. Reports from the interior of the
state indicate that the storm has done
more or less damage in several localities.
A terrific south-west gale and heavy rain
prevailed at Sanford. At Lake May the
tornado cut a track one hundred feet
wide, bearing down forest trees before it
and completely demolishing W. L. D.
MaCrackers’ large orange packing house.
Reports from Tampa Florida state that the track
of the South lailrca l is sub¬
merged in many places with several bud
washouts. A rumor is current that the
gale tore off the upper deck of the steam¬
er H. B. riant, at Blue Springs, on the
St. John’s liiver. but it cannot be au¬
thenticated as the telegraph wires in
that direction are working badly. Presi¬
dent Ingraham of the South Florida rail¬
road left Sanford < n a speci il train Mon¬
day afternoon for Port Tampa to investi
state the extent of daui&ge.
DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.
A SON SHOOTS HIMSELF TO AVOID A FATH¬
ERLY THRASHING.
A young man named Jarvis Odam
committed suicide in Rutherford county,
N. C.. under peculiar circumstances. Tie
had whipped a smaller brother who had
repor'ed the occurrence to liis father.
The latter is very severe iu correcting his
children and several times ehistised his
oldest son very cruelly. On tins occa¬
sion ht sent word to him that he would
give him a L rrib'e thrashing for whip¬
ping his brother. The young man knew
what this meant and weat up stairs cry¬
ing. In a few minutes the report of a
gun was li aid, and when the young
man’s room was entered, he was founu
tying on the floor with a hole in his head.
He died iu a few seconds.
CHARLESTON’S COURT.
The coming session of the criminal
court, which commences ou Monday
next, promises to be the most important
ever held in Charleston, S. C. The jury
is composed of fourteen rmdattoei and
negroes and twenty-one whites-an miu
sually large proportion of the colored
race. The docket h s over 61 cases to
he tried—13 for murder, 16 of assault
with intent to kill, 6 burglary, 8 of va¬
grancy, 2 of carrying conceded weapons,
1 of rape. 3 of house-breaking, 8 of lar¬
ceny, and the rest of minor offences. The
greatest interest attaches to the case ot
McDow, charged with the murder of
Captain F. W. Dawson, on the 12;h
March last. It is probable, however,
that thiscase wiii be postponed.
HORSE BREEDER DEAD.
General William T. Withers, aged 64
years, proprietor of the celebrated F dr¬
ift wn farm and breeder of noted trot tint-
Ky., horses. Sunday died at from his home iu Lexington?
effects of wounds re¬
ceived in the Mexican war. lie was a
native Kentuckian, but moved to Missis¬
sippi iu 1851, where he remained till
1871, when he went to Lexington and
commerced l>re« ding horses. He was the
first livin in Kentucky to pay $25,0<X)for
a trotting sta l:ou, he paying that amount
for Almont. He served hrough the war
of the rebellion on t! e confederate side
and was wounded by a shell while in
command of land batteries at Vicksburg
NEWS FROM STANLEY.
Letters received at Zinzibar from Ujyi,
dated March 10, say that Stanley met
Tippoo followers Tib and sent with a number him of his
lick back by way of
the Congo. Stanley intended coming to
the East coast with Emin Pasha. Tip-
Tib would arrive at Zanzibar iu
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA -
RIO US POINTS IN TUB SO UTII.
».v rrFwizap accocxt or what is oonro oir or
imfobtance rx the sotTHEEif states.
State officers are moving into the new
State Capitol of Gco^i. in Atl.nta The
Md buddmg, mall probability, will soon
Thi The Lmon t- • p-. I oint aid , vvv, White p, I lams ■ ' .
railroad vontiacts wifi hare soon been be in let operation. and work The w T i.l j
bCKmat0nce -
Zachanas McDaniel, the oldest cit zen
. Rockingham county, \ and !
in a., a pen-
sioner of the war of 1812, died near Elk- .
ton, Va., Tuesday, aged 102.
Tbe International Typographical Union
h; s, by a large majority, accepted the
invitation to hold its next annual meeting ,
at Atlanta, Ga., next June.
A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., says: road
Subscriptions to the Aimuieus The
smount now to nearly $30,000. re¬
maining $20,000 will be raised next
week.
v r latiK t ci mith • ti of f c birmli • i C . 4 tation, .I- c' Ga.,
,
was struck by lightning Tuesday while
stanuing in ms store door anil instantly
* e • e eavea a " 1 e anc * 6cvcra
ren ‘
A middle aged negro Savannah, entered Magis-
Irate Russell’s court, in Sat-
urday, and insisted on surrendering him-
se.f into He custody of the law. He
said he had been guilty of suicide.
Fourtccn negroes were baptized in a
mud hole in the western part of Gaines-
ville, Ga., Sunday afternoon, by Rev.
Green Hunter Numbers of people at-
tended and witnessed the proceedings.
In Atlanta, Ga., on Saturday, an Ital-
ian vendor of imitation dogs w", was attacked
by dof?, a laryc Eentlioe. buli-dop. he thought escaped, the
were 1 Ifali,m
hut the dogs were broken ,n<l scattered
on the aidewalk.
The contunplatcd Piedmont exposi¬
tion, which Wtis to have been h Id in
Charlotte, N. C., in the fall, lias col-
lapsed on account of some disagreement
among the committee, It any expttei-
tion is held it will now require anew
organization.
Professor Richard W. Cone,
ft teacher in the Nannie Low NVarthen
institute at Wiiglitsville, Ga., has been
ndjudged a lunatic, and was taken to
Miilcdgeville Friday night. He is a
graduate of the state university, and was
a man of unusual natural endowments.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala.,
savs: President Johnston and General
Munairer Saire of the Georgia Pacific
Rai road, left for Greenville,
where they go to inspect the newly com-
pitted extension to arrange for putting s
on through trains by July J 1st.
News reached Augusta, Ga., of the
burning of the barn and stables of Mr.
Dunbar Lamar, at Beech Islands, S. C.
Besides the building, eighteen mules,
three oxen, several hogs, and three
thousand bushels of oats were consumed.
It was evidently the work of an in¬
cendiary.
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Smithc™'i V S TiJhia°l'’f7v mifas o°f Cu tb 8 -
Stewart county* for" hie Jo Cuthbert "’^With’this
connection mad, soon lo be bubt
from IraJe Cuthbert to Bainbridire Cuthbert
«m su erior
connections “ '
I , lie case of the .. Mansfield Drug ^ Co.,
Memphis, I enn., against some thirty-four
insurance companies, of New \ork,
Philadelphia, Hartford, New Orleans and
n tria !i, in tl 1
L >11 ted States c rcuit court f f for the past
v\eek, was ended this moining, the jury
returning a verdict for *86,800, the full
amount claimed by tbe plaintiff company.
II. S. Pullen, of Carrollton, Ga., who
tried to cut his throat a few days ago
Tuesday with a razor, trying attempted liis life aaain
by to drown hims- If in a
small branch, a short distance from his
house. He was brought to town under
a charge of lunacy, tried and sent to the
nsylum. Mr. Pullen has been a successful
farmer, and has accumulated a nice little
psopeitj.
John Williams was shot and fatally
wounded Sunday at Emery church, ten
miles east of SardD, Miss., by Mrs.
Mattie Campbell. The shooting occurred
immediately after religious services, and
Williams died the following ir.ornino-. was°a
The provocation for the killing
charge made by Williams that he had
been intimate with Mrs. Campbell several
months ago, upon which statement a bill
for divorce is now pending
T L a . n f, Cr tarnia . of . ^e ,,
‘ 51 1 J ‘ / o^„?u arobna lnsr E s month
, , ,
sion, were
c;ease under toe earnings from the same
of T^-: $,.,54 ,r ol. M St irT Die freight ei f n0d earnings ! - ?t ye ;- fur r
ibe month were $3L 1,455.42, showing au
inciease over the earnings from the same
source during the same period last year
ot $02,349.10.
Tiure is a ncw r railway war at Durham,
N. 0. Early on Tuesday morning a large
force of hands began the extension of the
Richmond and Danville side track along
Peabody street. The commissioners
held a meeting and passed resolutions
forbidding the road from extending the
track. The chief of police was instructed
to use the force to stop the track-laying.
The matter goes into the courts and adds
to the complication.
The Georgia Pacific railroad is now
open to Greenville, Miss., and making
regular connections with the road fr >m
that point to Arkansas City on the other
side of the great river. The mad between
Warren and Camden beyond Arkansas
City is being pushed rapidly, aud when
it shall be completed there will be a new
and direct route from Atlanta to Texar-
kaua. It is expected that by the 1st of
be August the Georgia Pacific railway will
running schedule trains between At-
anta and Texarkaua.
A A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C. says:
t< st was n ad j Tuesday on the Raleigh
and Gaston ai road in the presence of a
number of prominent railroad men of a
process recently invented telegraphing by Baylus Cade,,
of this county, for to and
from moving trains. A current is main¬
tained by mi ans of a drag which is at¬
tached to the car, and which s ides over
a set of wires bid along the track. A
message was received from the offices at
Raleigh and Greensboro while the train
was running at the rate of thirtv miles
an Lour.
Between ■Between midnight and day Sunday ^
morning the Central railroad put a force
of hinds to work laymg the track on its
U'used r;ght-of-way, about a mile from
Columbus, Ga., to prevent the Columbus
t.ou,h„ a from c.-ming in bn it. An
effor L was made to keep the matter a
secret, but it teaked our, and before the
work was half finished the Chattahoo-
chee Brick company filed a bill asking
for an injunction and Judge Smith
granted it. The work was stopped at
once.
Uring Negroes coming from Sumter county
the startling report that John
Pickett, who was hanged in Leesburg,
G a., Friday, has come to life a^ain.
T hey say that the body was taken to
Sumter City for interment. While tak-
iug it to the cemetery that afternoon,
st.angc sound, issued from the coffin.
The negroes became very much fright- I
t’hfron”? • ' OnToYj'lT?‘u ® negro remained With it, -1“
<nd he secured an ax and broke open the j
eoffin. No sionei was this accomplished 1
the unutterable '
0 amazement of
‘be darkey, , out jumped the supposed
corpse and took to the woods instantly.
The remains of John Sevier, first gov-
ernor of Tennessee, were exhumed Mon-
lay at old Fort Prcatur, near Montgom-
£, 7i Ala., and coffined in a magnificent
casket, arrived in Ch .ttanooga at noon
Tuesday in charge of Governor Taylor
and s ad. The train was draped in
mourning. 1 he fu; er.il train was met,
in addition to tbe local military, by the
officials of the city and county and a
delegation of citizens. The procession
marc * R 'd to the chamber of commerce,
where the casket was placed in state. ;
The casket was viewed during the duv
p v hundnds of citizens. The party left ;
the city Wednesday fur Knoxville, where
the interment tooknlace at 2.30, d. m. j
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MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT *
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ArrorxTMrvrs, decx^Ta™ other matters
of interest ‘ from ‘ thf capital.
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,, e r “ “ d ' ‘“ J Scvera° f“ r a „mher ui l in Hho t hv “ ,
„ cck rf7in imnrovemeufa ar. t *
m ber machfaerj
the,Mtlfem -.*•*?
States ntl.ruey for district
f J^htd M oiroliaa , TT ThJv V 1
g ta cg for Soullr
luvp lmon npoant,,] cb -
tr , ,,, . U?
the appointment of their successor *
J?, f | he postmaster-general , ‘ ni L! , ; ’? s P , ost appointed ‘| iast(;rs the for
1 Ar r9 IV leavers, Duuwoody,
i-” u’ county; * Cornelius Lnghshjgeb,
> ! I . ia L.?” , 9 ( coun C0U11 ’ < 7 111 J. ,• ®! linchcr, ras > Mazep- Zeb-
’ ^ ’ Geo.
rrj’ T herc ' ■ S ^ ons . derab , le talk of an extra
- f 1 he northern
e 8:011 ° G° n g res9 men
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aroof t he °P. ln l ou tbat ifc will be held,
Whllc l , he m ?J? nt y of southern men ex-
P r ess‘he opinion that . the President will
await the October elections in the newly
admitted territories.
Forty-one postmasters were appointed
j”? Tuesday by t. e President of whom
fiftec u were to vacancies created byre-
were Southern:
Zac bs‘riah B. Hargrove, at Rome, Ga ,
vioj William II. Atkins, removed, and
Walter Brock, at Tallapoosa, Ga., the of-
See becoming presidential.
The President on Saturday made the
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« Shaauhai; Wakefield G. Frye, of
Zachary T. Sweeney,
f Ind,ana ' at Constantino P le i 01lVer IJ .
Janeiro; Oliver N °'tf H. Simons, of Colorado, Ri » , de
it Sr, Pennsylvania, Petersburg; George W. Roosevelt,
Q f consul at Brussels;
L ev } \y Brown, of Ohio, consul at Glas-
2 row.
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SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
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r\vo men killed and one hundred in-
juked in a kailkoad whech.
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A railroad wreck, resulting in the
death of two men and the injury of one
hundred others, occuried about seven
o’clock Tuesday moining near Pratt
mines, six miies from Birmingham, Ala.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company runs a train every morning to
carry the miners and other woikmen
from the town of Pratt Mines in the dif-
ferent shafts and slopes where the men
work. The train cot sisted of
eight cars, and there were about
two hundred men on beard when the
accident occurred. The train was run-
ning backward at the rate of ten miles
an hour, when it struck two cows lying
an “V 1 the lue track. u ai:K " Six ° iX of OI the ine eight eigne cars cars were
thrown , ‘ irow Q down down 1 an an embankment embankment and and piled piled
® !iC ‘i other. Henry McCauley and
Yal ! er J 3easIe v > carpeuters, were instaut-
-
, ^ hilled. Both were young white men
and unmarried. On or.e ot the cars were
about thirty convicts chained together,
and, strange to say, they were about the
nTed who esca P ed “W- A, ^ t
. Ind
wo^sUnjuries'behig^okTw^ it
a ^. has been impossible to obtain
a list of those seriously injured. The
coroner’s jury found that the company
was guilty of gross negligerce Jood in not
keeping the road bed in repair, and
that the conductor was gudtv of crimi-
nal ncMHence ° °
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A TERRIBLE CRIME.
A MAN IN SOUTHPORT, NORTH CAROLINA,
POISONS HIS WIFE.
Brjaot „ , Curroll, a youn- white ... man ,s .
“ $*' « Southport Brunswick county
N,T null be tried V, lor T- 1,J S fr Ideal , the 1 September i ?' I"' 1
term of court. He is .barged with p u-
soulug his wife who something o£ contained
>" “ bott !° " f p; rt "e,! Ch h V";
duccd her to drink. . She died
about fifty in,note-. afterwards.
The bottle containing what remained of
the wine lias been subjected to analyses,
which re-ulted finding . strych-
m arse- ic,
nine and prussic acid both m the wine
and the stomach. There is another
woman in the case to whom Carroll now
desires to be married, but the county
commissioners refuse to aliow him to
have even an interview with the woman,
who is at large and is not charged with
complicity in the murder.
GENERAL TAFT INSANE.
TOO MUCH RELIGION SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN
THE CAUSE.
T It is . rumored , that General Taft, ex-
postmaster and present candidate for the
postmastership of Charleston, S. C., has
again lost his mind, and been sent to the
state lunatic asylum. Taft lost his min l
about two years ago went crazy on the
subject of religion, and after remaining
m ihe asylum for some time, was taken
north by his wife. He recovered and re-
turned here, apparently perfectly restored,
although little his friends thought he was a
off. He was a cmfiMete for tl.e
postmastersh:p, and has been to Wash-
inytoa recently looking after his interest :
there, and it is thought that this might
have unsettled his mind
FARMING HINTS,
GARNERED FROM SOUTHERN
ALLIANCE SOURCES.
The Alliances of Georgia are solid for
ootton bagg'mg.
Many Allacc^s are meeting hiving their leo-
tures read ut every from the
ScutScm Cultivate, of Atlanta, Oa.
The Alliance men of DeKalb county,
Ga., will have a g "rand fourth tha/couniy. of Julv meet-
ing at Wefcley hapal in
™ rrjw, q„ . n ’Jm£ 3£
op fishfng of unencvLed law lands!
hunting 3 and ,^ on ‘
ricultural . headquarters v of . Geor-
e a =
p„ b lishLi* tpnHppi^fnrii R OCatt< J a **}• ? a, 1 ’ rankl a., m 111 .
room - ^ ' ^ purpose.
The Dougherty county, Ga., Alliance
bought a lot aul will commence the
erection of a warehouse at an early day.
^ be lot purchased has a front of 102 J
feet, running back 210.
In the last repo:t of the condition of
crops in South Carolina, it is estimated
that 4 per cent, less commercial fertiliz-
ers has b-en used on cotton than last
year, and that 23 per cent, of t£. w fertil-
izer useti th s year wai home-made. As
to corn, 55 per ceut. of the crop Lis been
fertilized, and over one-half of this
amount with home made manures.
A large number of farmers came as del-
©gates to the meeting £ of the Countv Al-
liance at g,, s . Resolutions con-
d emn j n g the bagging trust and pledging
‘be members of the Alliance to use only
cotton cloth to bale cotton, were adopted.
Though the Alliance declined as a body
to endorse the proposed cotton seed oil
miH, m^nv of the m mheri sub-eribed
hugely, thus showing their sympathy
with and confidence in the enterprise.
The 7,670,000 former, rtn.l farm fabor-
«« of the Unite,1 State. (4,000,000
'«'“») '<thor , hicU, to feed 00,000,00 t of
l»<'Pl« «d the dem.-etic animal,, and to
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Jot 100,000,000 M 0 000 ^7 people besides b 9 !t° ,h our ° " K own; ”'* be*
^ pork, beef, T' lard, a ?' i tallow, , ti “ ot ™f hides r - and horns
^ bich tlj e factories work into forms and
shapes suited to the convenances of
commerce and the wants of the people,
Albany, Ga., peop’e spent many dol-
hirs in nending oil and buying of an iten-
erant 11 irist the clematis, when the wild
clematis of that section is far more beau-
tiful. A resident discoveted one of these
P lf in s in one of li s incursions into the
country, and that for delicate beauty, it
far surpasses the clematis that bloom in
the gardens. The flora of that section
embraces about 175 varieties, some of
which are as choice ns ever were fash-
loned in Nature’s mould. Think to
what some of these flowers, so beautiful
eultivatian. ‘ Q their wilds, could lie brought through
A Georgia farmer gives his formula
for making a superior fertilizer. It is
about the same as the popular Furman
formula. He puts together, in layers,
thirty bushels each of stable manure and
cotton seed, sprinkling in 100 pounds
P h os P b ? to “'“J "‘- v
, ts w ^ as
lows it to stand say sin weeks, then
sixty bushels to “th’'' the 08 area. fr ' ,m He ,, thirt makes )'
“«« “«*>
and without th*> stable manure. One
hundred pounds cottou seed meal, fifty
pounds acid phosphate, fifty pounds
kainit, mixed together, applying from
two hundied to three hundred pounds to
the acre.
The following experience of a French
ican agriculturist was translated from a Mex-
orchid journal: ‘Two peach trees of my
were covered whh insects, just
a6 they were about to flower. Having
cut several tomato vines, the idea occur-
red to me to place them around the
trunks and branches of the peach trees, sun!
to shelter them from the rays of the
What was my surprise, all’the on the following
day, to notice that insects had
disappeared, except from the leaves be-
yond the influence of the tomato plant, ap!
I carefully separated these leaves nud
plied disappeared the tomato to them, when the in¬
sects as tliough by enchant-
ment, and from that time the peach
trees beg ;n to grow luxuriantly. Wish-
ing to carry the experiment further, I
put some of the tomato leaves in water
and sprinkled other plants, such as the
r oge bush, orange tree, apple which tree, peat
tree, etc., with the infusion, also
had the same effect of completely freeing
them of insects within a few days.”
South Caro ina papers meti ion a some*
thing astonishing to the “oldest inhab¬
itant,” the finding of wild cane in seed:
“This rara avis in question is a growth
fesembiing the red oak somcwlnr, and
f rows oa a common can e or reod ,’ su ch as
ls fouad on bmDch aad . cretk bottoms, .
The specimen stalks before us from
twelve to fifteen feet in heighth, thickly
filled from end to end, or from ground to
end , Wltn ... oat-like , ... , beads, , containing ...
$P flat P ura ’ .P It seems that this
» of dis-
seed-bearing cane is a very recent
covery, never having been observed, infact,
until within the past few days.” Both the
large and small cane bear seed, though
not freely, as is the case with most
p ants, which increase free'y by running
root-stocks. The latter fact, well kuown
to botanists, ’ accounts for the almost in-
5 . lriab]e !t crili , y of lh „ p e9 ,if erou!
th , .. m „i leu cane." But J. H.
Simp-on, ‘ of M natce, discovered it in
seed la ,t / year, ’ and i„ proved it to be a va-
rie . J y of C£rt oin 8 mp gra . aley, Si , he pani .
cam Curtisi . Dr . G , V of the
I>»l»r meet of Agriculture, Booth Caro-
: has l0c „ mm ended botanist! to rec-
it as .. TOri , tv Sinipsoni."
The Farmers’ Alliance is becoming a
powerful and influentu* society in Mis-
nssippi. It has able public sneakers and
well-iuformed agents visiting all of the
counties of the state, organizing aid incci
and instructing the farmers in an! regard to
their interests, their rights theii
wrongs. Their lecturer.-) are iti-ie ant
school-masters, teaching the farmers in
their lectures exactly what they all ought
to know. And the members of the or¬
der wiil pass it round to their neighbors
who do not belong to the order. They
are not only taught important practical
facts in agriculture, but facts relating tc
commerce and trade, how they should
sell their crops, how they are affected by
“rings” and “corners” and “combines”
and “trusts,” and by paving dearly fox
the credit they get; and thev are taught
important facts in political *economv°ia
relation to labor and national - wealth,
where the money w}J comes from ‘ and where
it goes, and <r e ts it And they are
taught that they must have more farmers
in state legislatures and in Ct n-re«s -"aft and
SriSttSS^?fof in state o/ovemments to loo auStt? 1 r the
a» frie-JcL
that thev must vote for tried
the farmers ^ for k/uila all oflVec * ffJ frnm c-i
aent oa _ ^««n» uown te the
officer that testa the honesty of weight*
and measures. Farmers have a deep in¬
terest in weights and measures, as well as
in presidents and lawmakers.
FIGHTING IN COURT.
THE JUDGE, CONSTABLE, PHISONEB AND
SEVERAL SPECTATOIIS KILLED.
A bloody shooting affm, occurred
eighteen miles south of Austin, Te.,,
Thursday evening, In which four white
men and live negroes wire killed and
many others wounded. It appears that
in the neighborhood where the trouble
occurred, a colored justice of the peace,
Orange Wickea, and a colored constable,
Isaac Wilson, were recently elected. The
j 1). ust j ce jj a( j j ssue( j H warrant for one II.
Litton, and it was put into the hand*
of Wilson. Soon alterwards, the latter
met Litten, and informed him he had a
warrant for his arre-t, and proceeded to
re a<I it. Little remarked that it was no
use to read tbe warrant, for he would
not be arrested by a d- nigger.
Quite a crowd had gathered and Wilson’s
friends advised him that he place the
warrant in the hands of a white constable,
This he did and Litten was nrrested, but
declared he would not be tried before a
colored justice. Notwithstanding hi*
protest he was carried before Justice
Wickes, whose court was in session,
The room was crowded with blacks and
whites. In the courtroom Litten was
very abusive, and finally words led to
blows, then to the use of six-shooters and
Winchesters. Justice Wi. kes and Litten
were riddled with bullets ami died im-
mediately. The constable was also kilied
&s was a negro named Bell. A spectau i
was filled with lead and toon died.
Ho-iston Moore n colored boy was also
kllleJ b y “ bullet. Alexander
Notch and George Schochf, both white
men, were 6hot down and instautly
kille< '- *»»*“ ", hoSt
name could not be learned. One him-
? red arm '? f g 0 ""' 1
10 tbe ^ but * U hM bse “ V™*
TENNESSEE S SENSATION.
A REVEREND GENTLEMAN SUBS SEVERAL
NEW6PAPEHS FOll $50,000 DAMAGES.
The great Howard damage suit is be¬
ginning to assume shape at Jackson,
Tenn. The declaration was received.
It covers about sixty pages of legal cap,
and contains sixteen counts, and claim*
$50,000 damages. The charges, as pub¬
lished in the Forked Deer Blade, and the
Baptist and Baptist Reflector, briefly are;
That the plaintiff has borne the abuses
Frederick Howard, Hewlett, Howard;
that if he sailed on the ship Tigress in
1873, in search of the Polaris in the
Arctic regions, he bore the name of
Ilowlett; that in South Carolina he as¬
sociated with negro's; ns trial justice,
had committed malfeasance in office;
eloped from Robbies, South Carolina,
with C. C. Brown’s wbfe; that hia life
is covered over with a mass of corrup¬
tion. The defendants plead the truth in
justification. The first evidence intro¬
duced by the plaintiff was to r rove the
publication in the papers, and it was
conspiracy also, to prove that the plain¬
tiff secured his title—doctor of divinity
—from the Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Auburn, Ala., in a regular
manner in 1883. The defendants opened
Thursday. They introduced depositions the
of Commander Greer, of the Tigress,
officers in the Bureau of Equipment in
the navy in Washington, Soiled and a journalist Ti¬
named Commague, who in the
gress on the polar expedition in search
of the Polaris ill 1873; that nc
man named Howard Was on the
vessel; that Frederick Howlett was on it
ns a seaman, deserted the ship in New
York harbor in November of the same
year. The connection of the case with a
historical event like the Arctic expedi¬
tion, is but one of the many interesting
points which are to come up during this
trial.
HERO AND HEROINE.
A BRAVE WOMAN SAVED FROM DROWNING
BY A BRAVE MAN.
A dispatch from Wilmington, N. C.,
says: The m; st daring rescue ever made
on this coa c t has made Richard Warren,
of Wilmington, the hero drowning of the hour. the
Miss Carrie Moffit was in
surf. She is a heroine, and inherits her
fearless spirit. Her grandfather was
Captain John N. Moffit, of Confederate
fame. Her father was late Ensign Eu¬
gene Moffit, who the distinguished Alabama himself the
in the fight of with
Kearsage. She showed her true south¬
ern pluck by saying to licr nearly ex¬
hausted rescuer: “I do not think you Can
save me, the waves are so high. It is not
w*ell you should perish in trying to save
me. It is not necessary that both should
die, so if you find yourself growing
Weak under your burden, turn me loose
and let me die alone. I will release my
hold.” People in Wilmington will pre¬
sent testimonials to Miss Moffit and
young Warrea.
A MYSTERY.
DISCOVERY MADE IN AN OLD GRAVEYARD
NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
A mysterious child murder was un¬
earthed Monday afternoon. Two young
men were walking through an old grave¬
yard in the suburbs of the city, and w'ere
surprised to see a fresh mound. As the
place has not been med i s a burying
ground for many years, officers were no¬
tified nnd the mound was uncovered.
Buried only a few inches under
was found a pine box containing
the dead body of a child, apparent¬
ly about one year old. The head of
the child had apparently been crushed by
a terrible blow with some heavy instru¬
ment, the murderer evidently seeking to
prevent any chance of recognition Th«
clothing worn by the. dead child was ol
a very fine quality, but saturated with
blood lrom the terrible wound in the
head. No one has yet identified th«
body. The investigation, it is expected,
will develop a big sensation.
ROBBING GRAVES.
Three young colored women—Sylvia
Green, Fannie Williams and Ziky Magee
weie arrested and jailed at Albany, Ga.,
on Monday, charged with robbing the
Albany cemetery. Their two room cabin
near the graveyard was found to be a
perfect curiosity store, so packed of with the
ornaments stolen from the graves
dead. This desecration has been going
on for several months, and other negroes
residing in the same bouse have beet)
held as witnesses.
THE GRAND PRIZE.
The race for the Prix de Paris, 106,000
francs, was won by Bay Co’.t Vasitas by
one length. The Chestdut Colt Pour-
tant, second, four third. lengths There ahead of thir¬ Bay
Colt, Aerolitho, were
teen starters.
NEW FIRM.
M c ALLISTER & SIMMONS
Have Just Opened Up With LARGE STOCKS Of
HEAVY GMOOEKIES
Bought for Cash by the
CAB LOAD 9
CONSISTING OF
MEAT, CORN, FLOUR, BRAN AND HAY,
Also, Large Stocks of
STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHIN G, Etc
We Carry a Full Line Of
Stoves, Hardware, Furniture, Mattresses. Bed-springs
We Have Just Received
Old HICKORY and White HICKORY.
WAGONS.
---IN---
CAR LOAD LOTS
ttttttt wi §»». tmn. to.
Our New Stock in this Line is Complete, Embracing all the Latest
Styles. We invite our Friends and Customers to call and Examine
our Stock before Purchasing elsewhere.
Having bought all the above Goods
w V
We are able to afford superior inducements to our Customers.
MCALLISTER Sc SIMMONS,
LAVONIA, TOCCOA,
GA. GA.
XU® JSIMPS 03 ST 3
TOCCOA/ CEORCIA
»
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
Peer.less Enginies#
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
GEISER SEPARATORS
Farmers and others in want of either Engines or Separators, will
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 1 am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
oOESTEY ORGANS.^
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines.
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be-
cre you buy. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned is Prepxred to Furnish 31 ARB LE,
m Of All Kinds nnd Styles from the
ft : H _ plainest m >st elaborate and lowest and co-tly. prices, up AH to work the
Wf/m. delivered, set up and satisfaction guar-
HI 'fa mm an teed. Call at my yard, examine
RVcpffl Em m ra|f samples and learn prices 1 efore pur-
' : ; chasing elsewhere. Addrcs«,
Ki L. TOCCOA, :p. cook, GA.
BOBtRTS HOUSE J
TOCCOA CITY, GA-,
MRS. £. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mrs. Roberts als > has chTgeof thi
Railroad Eating H~ ; ;se at Bowersville,
Ga. Good aownnv -ations, good board,
at usual rate* in firs cj«ss houses.
BLAGKSMITH1N6 J
HORSESHOEING j
Manufacturing and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
—AND—
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
JARRETT & SON.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
OLD STYLE
GORDON - PRESS.
The Best Press for general
work ever made . Prices $150
and up.
W. C. DODSON,
Southern Agent,
Atlanta* Georgia
‘ CRANSTON ”
Cylinder Presses
EIGHT RUNNING IN ATLANTA AND G1Y-
ING ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION.
The best-press for ti e money ever ba it. For
Prices ana Terms write
Rodson’s Printers’ Supply Depot,
▲TAASTA, Ga,
LEWIS DAVIS,
A-TTOFNEY AT LA W.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice ia the counties of II ;ber-
•ham and R ibun of the N< rthwes era
Circuit, and Frank! n and Banks of the
^ es fcern Circuit. Prompt at'enti m will
be given to ali bush.ess entrusted to him.
The collection of debts Will have epec-
> a ' attention.
RIAL ■ ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In the Piedmont R gion, Georgia. Also
Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
Farms for sale in Florida. Address
J. W. fecLAURY,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don’t Fail to Call Oa
W. A. MATHESON,
"Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods,
FINE DRESS GOODS 1
NOTIONS; HATS; ETC.
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬
terial, Blacksmith's Tools, Hinges,
Locks, Bolts, Doors and Sash.
—ETERTTHING IN THE—
HARDWARE LINE,
COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE
AND WOOD WAKE,
-ALSO--
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA. GAi