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THE NEWS. TOCCOA, GEORGIA. The Turkish Navy is rapidly falling in¬ to decay. _ The United States will not expend more than $6,400,000 in making the cen¬ sus of 1890. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany is the only sovereign in Europi asserts the New York Mail and Esf>res», who is really try- ing to earn his salary. The Chicago Time* has discovered that the United States is not adequately repre¬ sented at the Paris Exposition in the de- partments of the industrial and decorative arts. Pension Commissioner Tanner says that aot less than 10,000 honorably discharged loldiers and sailors of the Union Army and Navy are living to-day in alms¬ houses. ■s It is estimated that seventy-two Ameri¬ can citizens are worth the colossal sum of 11,443,000,000. This is just $33,000,000 in excess of the total money circulation of the United States, according to a late Treasury statement. “Let it be remembered to Washing¬ ton’s credit,” observes the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, “that he not only whipped the British, but also introduced that useful »nd picturesque quadruped, the mule, Into this country.” Canada is not worrying over a surplus. The national debt was increased $10,- 000,000 by the Parliament session re¬ cently adjourned, of which “$2.000,00C went to railroads, and other large amounts to enterprises in which Members of Par¬ liament were interested,” states tho New York Graphic. Poole, the great English tailor, whe may be ranked as the AVortli of mascu¬ linity, charges the Prince of Wales noth¬ ing for his clothing, the advertisement ol his patronage being sufficient. The posi¬ tion of heir apparent to the English crown is very much in the nature of a downy snap. In many parts of China the Bibles given to the natives by missionaries are used in the manufacture of cheap boot soles. In the opinion of a missionary, the propagation of the Gospel by means of literal translations of the Bible, scat¬ tered broadcast, is attended with the least measure of lasting success. “Georgia’s position in the sisterhood of States is both interesting and unique,” observed Governor Gordon in a recent speech. “She was the youngest of the thirteen original colonies that formed the Union, and is, therefore, the honored link in the family circle between the old and new commonwealth of tho Republic.” It is not all sunshine in the Western towns where natural gas has been discov¬ ered and utilized. In one of these boom- ing localities a cook recently gave her mistress notice to leave, because she was not willing “to cook God’s meat with hellfire.” That girl was a philosopher, thinks the New' York Graphic , of no ordinary type. Mr. Gladstone attributes his health and vigor to his habit of sleeping seven hours out of the twenty-four, and never think¬ ing of business after ho goes to bed. Men who are unable to sleep soundly and haven’t the faculty of freeing their minds from anxious thoughts would be very glad to follow the English statesman's rule of life, if they only knew how to do so. Professor horster, of tue L T niversity Opthalmic Clinic at Breslau, claims that 300 of his patients are suffering from a .I chrome •„ disease of , tue ,, eyes, accounted , J ’ for bv interruption . caused by the wear- ing of tight collars, and implies that the national spectacles of Germany are ren- j lered , necessary by , the , national . , style of neckwear. Here is a hint for American iudes. Two hundred and one votes agains. »nd H’Q for abolishing the hereditary principal of the British House of Lords! exclaims the New \ ork Press. A change nf twenty-one votes iu the House of Com¬ mons would have meant a majority. Fortunately for the House of Lords, it is still, as it was written in “Iolanthe,” doing nothing in particular, and doing it very well. It is au undeniable fact, observes the Now York Commercial Advertiser, that ■Treat railway J jobs have 5 e rowa lei fro- c dent of , recent years. Dishonesty in railroad management alwavs has existed .nd will probably continue'to exist until ihe millennium; but the days ot whole- sale fraud, plunder and wrecking of .cores ot great systems of railroads is low past. The Eiffel tower in Paris has been sup¬ plied with two small cannon, one oi which is fired each day at the hour of Dpening the great Exposition, and the 3ther at the hour of closing it. This a: - rangement recalls to the Chicago Neus * the <stnrr nf pre ____ P 1 °*°P- , ier "Kho , * 4 rut a hole through his door to permit ais eat to pass through freely and a smaller hole for the convenience of hi« Mt's kitten An ordinary person would supposed that one gun fired twice a would be as good as two fired sepa- rateiy. \ GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. news from eterwhebe—accidents, strikes, FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. The flood damaged the property of Pennsylvania to the exteut of $44,250,- 000. The king of Holland, who recovered sufficiently from his recent illness had to re- sume the reins of government, has a serious relapse. 1 A portion of the Manninpham mills, at Bradford, England, was burned Sun- ! day. Loss, £50,000. Two firemen were killed by falling debris and several in- j juretl. I : The steamship City of Cleveland, and ; Hie schooner John Mar in, are ashore at TwoH.rbors Minnesota, and are badly 1100,000 and JJ® the schooner Ste h amer at $3o,000. Mr. A snd dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., arrested says: Mrs. J >hn Leavitt were Wednesday, charged with the murder of their two daughters, near Gresham, Sun- day night. No further particulars yet received. The Avithdrawal of gold for shipment (o Europe on Saturday’s steamer from New York, has already set in, $4,250,- 000 in gold birs being ordered at the assay office Thursday for export by for- eign brokers. Courier DeBruxelles savs that Prime Minister Becrnaert (who is aiso minister of finance) will present parliament at Brussels, a bill authorizing the issue of bonds to the amount of $2,000,010 for the Congo railway. Rivcrs have overflowed their banks and partially submerged the town of Bar Leduc, France, in the department of Meuse, and the surrounding country. Many houses underminded and de- stroyed, and crops and vineyards have b^cn ruined ‘ The marriage of , „ Prince . Frederick , . , Leopold and the Princess Louise oi Monday. bchleswig was solemnized and at Berlin and 1 he emperor empress many royalties were present at both the civd and religious ceremonies. A grand i.nquet followed. Official returns have be-n received from every county in the state of Pennsylva- uia. The majority against the prohibi- tory amendment is 189,020. The ma- jority against the suffrage amendment, qualification, providing for is a 235,540. repeal of the poll tax Thursday General Cameron was prostrated on at his home, Donegal Springs, Pa., with paralysis of the right arm and side, and his condition is critical. Ex- Attorney-General Wayne McVcagh and wife, and Mrs. Haldeman, General Cam- cron’s daughter, are with him. A dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo., says: Governor Francis on Tuesday dealt the saloons of Missouri the most severe blow ever received when he signed tho Newberry bill. The bill prohibits music, cards, dice, billiard tables, pool t dues, bowling alleys and boxing gloves in saloons, and will go into effect Ju'y 1. A hoy named Snyder, thirteen years old, residing at Highland, near Terre Haute, Ind., was murdered by four boys, whose ages range from nine to fifteen. The boys are two brothers, named Pear- man, and two named Douglas. Snyder’s body was found in a creek. lie had been stabbed and shot. All the boys arc un¬ der arrest. Mrs. Haves, wife of Ex President Hayes, was stricken with apoplexy Fri¬ day afternoon at her home in Fremont and at 9 o'clock in the evening she was unconscious. The attack came between three and four o’clock in the afternoon, while Mrs. Hayes was sitting in her room sewing. Paralysis of the right side re¬ sulted, rendering her speechless. The mayor of Belfast, Ireland, has sent £500 by cable to ihe Johnstown sufferers, as an installment of the amount to be raised by the citizens of Belfast. The sultan of Turkey donates £200 Tutkish, for the relief of the flood suf- ferers. Mr. Blaine directed the minister to expres- the grateful appreciation of tho President and government of the United States for the generous donation of the sultan. Harry II. Flarnm, who was an em¬ ploye of the Marine National Bank, at Pitts urg, Pa., was lodged iu jail Sat¬ urday night on the charge of having em¬ bezzled $o5,0Q0.’ About 4 o’clock that afternoon, the W. W. O'Neil, president of bank, lodged information against Flarnm for embezzlement. Flamm was taken from hN desk. $20,000 bail was demanded for his hearing Monday. Be¬ ing unable to secure that amount, he was lodged in jail. A disastrous fire, accompanied by se- r '°us loss of life, occurred early Friday gening Heyer Bros., in the corner fireworks Summer establishment and Hawley of streets, * -n Boston, . Mass. Three dead , bodies . .. have been taken < uf, and others received injuries which will probably re- ; lllt fatall v * 11 thiU m '? - be more victims am ng the debris. Loss $l(i0,000. A later and more careful in- vestigation places the fatalities at five, and one probably fatally injured, and two boys missing. A dispatch from Providence, It. I., says : The fifth amendment to the statution of Rhode Island, lhe prohibi¬ tory amendment, was on Thursday re¬ pealed by a vote of 5 409 more than three fifths of the total vote necessary tc carrv the amendment. The vote will be officially counted on or before July loth. and w ill be announced by proclamatior on or before July 10th. The electior was quiet, aud thc result created, no ex- tliat n5sUt ^ t ^ ^ " ce f *1 ac le ^ H a wa! ~ • Ft nrciM SAM_AND a w n JaTSArt. r-rcA , wreckage indicates a collision be- tw ren two steamer*. For several days rest there have been evidences of sonv ocean disaster in wash- a? tore ncar_\meyard Haven, . I s-., man's'dolhing, “aJJly’“done °L"?n great liaste, was pickt d up ou the beach at also Edgartown, and a life preserver was found. Considerable wreckage, painted gieen aud slate color, is coming ashore on the island. Among the things found at Smith Point Monday were gilt moulding Urge in considerable quantities, and oue door, with ore ground glass °5rcular top window sash, evidently be- longing to some steamer. Wiaecards of tbe Steamship Havtien Republic was washed ashore at Nantucket Monday, A mast about two feet iu diameter, square rigged with wire trigging, was also found with the wreck. Everything points to a collision between toe Victoria and Hay- rieu Republic, though the life preservers belonged to the city of Rome. There is a mystery concerning thc supposed dis- aster. HANGING IN ROME, GA. HAP.DT HAMILTON 6WINGS FOP. KILLING A CHINAMAN. From four to six thousand people wen! to Rome, Ga., Wednesday to witness tht hanging of the Hardy Hamilton. all kindB They came from country in ol vehicles, and the railroads brought s large number. Iu appearance Hardy Hamilton was a stalwart and handsome negro of rather light complexion, and ol apparently more than usual intelh- gence. His face was prepossessing, and he had no appearance ol being a cold-blooded murderer. the Lponthe gallows dressed Hardy addressed black people. He looked was :n a nett suit. He brave and hope- His voice was clear and strong, wlt hout a tremor. Not the slightest sign » of fear was visible. He rehearsed th g ^ of bis crime ’ Baid he alone c m . mitt „ d murd > thftt bc dt8crved deathaQdwas not afra . d to d , Hfi warned every one against c sin, and closed bv Fayillg . ‘.i Look at this rope; that Bpea ks better than I can.” He then knelt au( j offered up a fervent prayer. The black caRW ai placed on Irs head, and at ten minutes before one Deputy Moore sprang the trap and the condemned man fell eight feet. There was no s. niggle, and death ensued in a short time. Af- ter twenty-tw o minutes the body was cut down. The story of the crime is as follows: Joe Lee and Ah Chin were two harmless Chinamen who had opened a laundry on Third avenue, near Broad street, where they pursued the even tenor of their way formary months, unmohsted aid mo- lasting no one. On the night of March 5th, last, they were the victims of a murderous assault and received fear- f dl pounds which might at any moment *®-‘ u 1 m death. The Chinamen were discovered lying on the floor of their y oom V '^ 11 C1 communicated with the laundry insens . ble, surrounded by a fool °t blood and with gaping wounds in tlic head and neck, evidently inflicted by some sharp {„ instrument. Joe Lee died, uncongcio two days afterwards, l.av- • reinriine d since the attack which so in bis (lcath . A h Chin, after j J 5 ^ in a prtcarioU s condition for days, j { finally J recovered, Duri tho tr a of Dunc Gwaltney the defense placed Hardy Hamilton on the stand ns a witness. In the presence of a great crov „ d lie told the story of the mur- der . Cooly a- d with deliberation, he gave all the horrible details of the crime, claiming he'll that hc alone was guilty, and that d no accomplices. lie stated that he waited for Ah Chiu at the rear doer of the laundry; that, just before retiring, Ah Chin came to the door, and that he (Hamilton) gave him several blows on the head with an ax. He then went into tho laundry, where he found Joe Lee in bed, and indicted upon him terrible w ounds. He then rausacked tho laundry and obtained several silver dol- l ars » together with cohars, cuffs, etc. tie threw the ax into a well near the laundry. Hamilt on’s evidence created a profound imrpession. But public truth, opiu- ion was greatly divided as to its many still believing that there were ac* complices in the crime. A TRAGEDY. GOV. NOHWOOD, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA., AND TWO ITALIANS, KILLED. Gov. Norwood, of Birmingham, Ala., contractor on ttie Cumberland Valley extension, was murdered Saturday at his camp near Cumberland Gap, by an Ital¬ ian, known as Tony Cravasso. Cravasso and his brother were bakers at the south end of Cumberland Gap* and had sold bread to some of Norwood’s men, and had requested him to hold the men’s pay till they could collect their bills. Nor¬ wood told them he could not withhold men’s pay except on garnishee, and di¬ rected the Italians to a magistrate. Sat¬ urday they called on Norwood and asked if he had their money. He told them hc did not have any money for them, and walked out of the commissary stoic and entered a cabin adjoining. Just as he stepped in the door, Tony, who had followed him, shot him in the back, killing him almost instantly. The Italians escaped to the woods, but they were captured Saturday night in Ten¬ nessee. Kentucky They were brought back to ducted Sunday, and were being con¬ to the Pineville jail, when Judge Lynch took them in charge and gave them a trial, resulting in the 1 anging ol the elder Cravasso,and the s. nding of the brother to jail. The officers started for Pineville with the younger Cravasso, and as they were traveling along the road, a W nehester rifle cracked on tlie moun¬ tain side, and the prisoner fill in the toad a corpse. WOOLFOLK GUILTY. 1113 TRIAL ENDED AT PERRY, GA., WITH THE ABOVE VERDICT. On Monday, the jury in the case of Wooll'o k niitnhr declared as their verdict, after haviug retired for omv forty-five minutes, that Tom Woolfolk was guilty. The ju:y was called, and Foreman Joe Frederick gave it to Soltc- Felton, who s'owly and distinctly u, sa *t” \' : u .! uty. ^Fs ti A , e M-T’ pod of A^d the the defend- asked by the defense, jury was tor aud so ordered. Each juror said the verdict was his. The verdict was received in absolute si- , eucc \ C ?Y ^? , w , l ,avin ff , IHt the court- > !? thc om v er< w ?. ? ict lle ^ ls d ^ 11 ^ accordance was out with Though the . rions r the people, there con y\ c o. was | positively no demonstration of approval 1 ", uu rcn( cred, except possibly the &r d ex ra. R w. cous- 5ns of the prisoner, left the courthouse ■ | and town after the was* jury retired and be- ■ fore the verdict rendered. The : aggregate csact time occupied by the argument on both sides, after the evi¬ dcncc was oil in, was thirty-one hours and thirty five minutes; bv the prosecu- I Si .if^ 3 'dSenJ ,, ri.MZ‘ ! t™rf 'i,i„- M .' people' „ n< j , ix ul(s T b e arc itn- mensely relieved at the conclusion of ll " S t,iaK FIRE IN JOHNSTOWN. THE FLAMES DESTKOY A LARGE NUMBER OF HOUSES. A sweeping fire broke out in Johns f° wn » Fa, at 12.30 Monday aftern on. Tho flames s-pread rapidly, and at one o'clock twenty houses were burning. Among those burned is the first ward school-house. All engines in thc place w re called out, and the most intense excitement prevailed. Nearly all the houses burning were more or less de- stroyed by the fl od. The wind was ania thv fire spread rap’diy towards Kernvi le. It was soon beyo- d control oi t l le hre dtp.r mmt?, and at last ac- c uuts covered five acr s. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SO UTU. ! A CONDr NSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The Boaz hotel atCedartown, Ga., was sffd on Wednesday to Mr. Gailor of Florida. Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga., was struck by lightning Tuesday while standing in his store door and instantly killed, lie leaves a wife and several children. At 11 o'clock Wednesday night the postoffice of Waycross, Go., was broken into and robbed of over twelve hundred dollars in currency, and thirteen regis¬ tered packages. Gabe Holmes, a very respectable by negro, light¬ at Beaufort, S. C., was struck during ning Wednesday afternoon a thunder storm. His injuries are very serious and may prove fatal. The corner stone of the Polk county, Ga., new twenty-four thousand dollar courthouse, was laid Thursday, atCedar¬ town, with appropriate Masonic cere¬ mony by the lodges of Rome and Cedar- town. The postofficcs at Patterson and Ilomer- ville, Ga., have been burglarized, but we have not learned full particulars. This is evidently the work of the Bame party who burglarized the postsffice at Way- cross. The Furman Farm Improvement Com¬ pany, of East Point, Ga., are extending their chambers and putting in new sul¬ phur furnaces, which will burn 0,000 pounds of sulphur in 24 hours, and ihey claim that this will make 27,000 pounds or 13J tons of sulphuric acid. During the thunder storm of Wednes¬ day, a house near the Baldwin Fertilizer Works, of Beaufort, S. C., was struck by lightning, and a colored boy, killed. a cow, Sev¬ a hog and some chickens were time, eral men were in the house at the but were only shocked. Isabella Smith, an old colored woman, was struck by the south-bound fast mail train, back of Concordia Park, Savannah, Ga., Wednesday morning, and was in¬ stantly killed. She had started out to pick terries, and was walking south on the Savannah, Florida & Western track. A very severe wind and rain storm vis¬ ited Charlotte, N. C., Wednesday after¬ noon, and considerable damage was done to crops, espechlly corn. The wheat and fruit crop also suffered no little dam¬ age. Corn was blown down, and in some fields uprooted entirely. The storm only lasted a short time, but was terrific and disastrous. The Danville and East Tennessee rail¬ road company organized at Danville, Va., Wednesday. Among the directors are A. E. Bateman and It. W. Stuart, New York bankers. The road is really a western extension of the Atlantic and Danville railroad, which will be com¬ pleted between Danville and Norfolk by December 1. W. S. Morris, a conductor on the Louisville and Nashville railroad was killed justouts’de the union depot at ten o’clock Wednesday mistake night in setting in Birmingham, switch. Ala., by some a The engine backed against one of the coaches of an excursion train standing on a side track. Morris was caught be¬ tween the coaches and tender of the en¬ gine* and his head was crushed to pulp. The supreme court has just decided that the bonds issued to erect a twelve thousand dollar graded school building in Spartanburg, S. C., arc valid. This is a fortunate ending to a warm local contest. The work of construction will proceed immediately. The building was never more needed, for eight hundred pupils have been in attendance during the recent year, and the old buildings are uncomfortably crowded. It is reported that Charles R. McLeod, who lives in Wilcox county, Ga., just across the Pulaski line, killed two ne¬ groes Friday. McLeod and a negro ten¬ ant had a difficulty. They had grappled and were struggling, when the negro’s wife ran up behind and dealt McLeod a fearful blow with an ax back of his head. He was stunned, but recover ng himself, saw that she was about to strike again. He drew a pistol and shot her, and then shot her husband. MURDER CONFESSED. AN OLD WOMAN TELLS HOW SHE KILLED ilEU HUSBAND. On November 12, 1888, Richard O. Allen, an aged farmer living near Wash¬ ington, Ind., was found tied to a tree near his house with his throat cut from ear to ear. It was thought to be a Case of suicide, and no inquiry was made. A few , days , ago, vhue laboring under . re- ligious excitement, Mrs., Charm!te Allen, the seventy-year-old widow ol the t.cad man, confessed to two colored servants that she commuted the crime. She said sue aud her husband had troub.e as to who was the lightlul owner of the farm, and in order to settle the dispute she gave her husband morphine in Ins tea. Allen fell sleep in the garden. and She then procured a table knife rope, an 1 tied the rope around his body, and, making several slashes at his throat, half severed his head from his body, She then dragged there. the body to a tree and tiel it A HORRIBLE DEATH. KNOCKED DOWN BY AN ENGINE AND DRAG¬ GED THREE HUNDRED FEET. Savactn*!, „ , t, Brown » workman , wa, krlled by a Georgia Railroad switch on- engine near Atlanta Ga., Ihursday morning. He was walking alono the track with a dinner bucket in lus hand. 8 “7 ff he r 11 was „r dragged M ITU; nearly ? g „ three 1,lu1 ' hun- » Dd dred feet before the machine could be stopped and his body extricated, engine coSd £d*" WL* £ b d\° J be pulled loose from the asMb to which it was fastenesl. The right foot was crushed off, the left arm ground to a pulp, the face and chest crushed and mangled and the neck broken. Bro wn was about twenty-six years old, aud has a wife and two children. The body was taken charge of by his relatives. A HEAVY MORTGAGE. A morning paper Paul says: Railway “The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Compa- ny has made the United States Trust Company, New York, a mortgage for $150,900,000. The mortgage is for tbe purpose of taking up all other indebted- ness of the road at a lower rate of inter- est, and to lay additional double tracks aud make other necessary improvements, It gives the whole property as security.” CALLS HIMSELF CHRIST. A NEGRO IN GEORGIA CREATES MUCH EX¬ CITEMENT AMONG HIS RACE. For a month, a man calling htinsel! Jesus Christ has been going about through Liberty county, Ga., raving in an insane way which he called preaching. him, The negroes have come to believe iu and have accepted his words as insp.red teachings. “Give up everything and fol¬ low me,” he commanded. 4 Let your crops go. Turn your cattle into the pitches. The L'rd will hundreds provide for of you.” And, obeying him, negroes have quit work Their little crops have grown up with weeis. The planters have been deserted by their la- borers, who absolutely refuse to work. Turpentine manufacturers and the saw- mill men have difficulty in gettiug help enough to conti .ue operations. The colored population has been completely 9uch demoralized for three weeks. To an extent had the craze spread that the intelligent colored people and the whites joined in discussing some plan to put a stop to it. So Thursday a warrant was issued for the man’s arrest. He calls himself Jesus Christ, declaring that he descended from heaven in a cloud. In the warrant the n ime Campbell wa9 told ap¬ his plied to him. The new prophet They people not to offer any resistance. feared that he would be crucified, but he told them ihat he would not be put to death again. When the officers went to arrest him no resistance was offered, but a large crowd som joined the favored disciples, who arc almost constantly about him. They were ready to tear the officers to pieces, but at the Lord’s request suffered him to be taken quietly away, The constable drove to Flemington, where Justice Fleming resides. Friday ho was tried. There is no telegraph office near Flemington, and the result of the trial could not yet l>c learned. He shows scars in his hands which he says were made by the nails when he was crucified on Cal- vary. Ilis hair and beard are long and shaggy, although he evidently endeavors to trim his b( ard as the Sivior’s is rep¬ resented in some old pictures, The negroes fall down and worship him, and kiss his hands and feet and anoint him. He dresses shabbily sometimes, and at all times poorly, He refuses money publicly, bu- is said to have mon¬ ey. Campbell came from the West, it is believed. At his bidding women have left their husbands and men their fami¬ lies to follow him about. IIis f uuiliarity with the scriptures is exceptional. buck Ho has told tho people that he will go to Heaven in a chariot of fire at an early date. RAILROAD WRECK. TWO FERSONS KILLED AND EIGHT OTHERS INJURED. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says: The second section of mail train No. 7, west bound, on the Pan Handle Railroad, was wrecked Wednesday afternoon while pissing New Cumberland Junction, two miles east of Steubenville. Two persons were killed outright and eight were in- juied, four of them seriously, The names are: Killed—J. II. Payne, postal clerk; E. R. Reinhart, express messen¬ ger. Seriously injured—Conductor Burris, Brakeinan McFarland, Postal Clerk W. S. Bolton, Postal Clerk J. E. Matthews. The third car from the en¬ gine left the track. It was followed by two others, all going over an embank¬ ment. The train consisted of an engine, express car and four postal cars. VOTING INSANE PEOPLE. AN INDIANA POOR-HOUSE SUPERINTEND¬ ENT CONFESSES II1S GUILT. Iliram W. Miller, ex-treasurer of Ma¬ rion county, Ind., and Smith Williams, superintendent of ihe counly poor asy¬ lum, who were indicted lor voting the idiotic and insane inmates of the county asylum at the last election, pleaded guilty before Judge W- ods Thursday. Miller, who, as election iu-pector in tue precinct, disregard'd the challenges in receiving the votes of the unfortunates. Whs fined $250, and Williams, who the preliminary hearing showed consp red with Miller to vote the paupers, was fined $50. The result of the pr solution is regarded as important in that it will stop the voting of idiotic and insane inmates of the county throughout the Gate, a practice that has become common during recent years. MAIL POUCH STOLEN. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANE OF A NASH¬ VILLE. TENN., MAIL POUCH. All the mail that left the Nashville postoffice for the disappeared. S"Uth on the The night of i May 17th has fact i has been withheld by the postoffice offi- cials, that investigation might not be j barnpered . Up to the present nothing Hus been, learned further than that the maP was made xip as usual and delivered : at lhe door of the postoffice to the keeper G f the wagon which carries the mail to xbe depo t. The pouch was locked up in tins wagon, “ which drove off toward the depot> nd that is lhe p ;St h o ard of j t . it is impossible now to learn how much money was in the mail, It was destined for a large and important territory, and the presumption is that the pouch con¬ tained much valuably matter. j COLORED ALLIANCE. A MEETING IN COLUMBIA, S. C.—A LARGE ORGANIZATION. Delegates from most of the counties in which there are colored Farmers’ Aliian- 1 met Wednesday morning in the ces Court House, in Columbia, .’ S. O., to C f g Carolina lniza , ion The B „ on South is a branch f , ..Colored Fanners' National A , Hmce „ n(i cooperative Union.” The orf 6cems to been first founded in Texas, and has Superintendent rapidly spread R. over M. dehte n states. ,, 1 , I*. who is a Car. linian, and , . v • 1q -q fhat ________ Sub-Alllaneol there are n w 858 *g'?vt2 mt "”' DARING MURDER. DAVID A. PETTUS FOUND DEAD IN A BIR¬ MINGHAM STREET. David A. Peitus, a section f <remaa on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was murdered and robbed Tuckdav* night in an open square on First avenue, Bir- mingham, Ala., within one hundred feet of an electric light, and near a thickly populated n. ighborhood. The body was not found until Wednesday morning. An inquest was begun that afternoon, but no ciew to the assassin has yet been disc.ov- ered. The dead man, when last seen by b j s friends, hr.-l about $50, a gold watch and some other jewelry, all of which was stolen. The murdered manleaves a wife eD d four children. NEW FIRM. M°ALLISTERS SIMMONS Have Just Opened Up With LARGE STOCKS Of HEAVY GROCERIES 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 Wo Carry a Full Line Of Stoves, Hardware, Furniture, Mattresses. Bed-springs We Have Just Received Old HICKORY and White HICKORY. WAGONS O ---IN-- CAR LOAD LOTS- 1,11111 »fs» ill®. tlttWl. 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 FOR CASH We are able to afford superior inducements to our Custoiners. BALUSTER & SIMMONS, LAYONIA, TOCCOA, GA. GA. E. *». SUM I’SOIM » TOCCOA, CiORCIA »i f ii ttiiifiii?. And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery. PBBKLMSS BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION GEISER SEPARATORS Farmers and others in want of either Engines or Separators, will SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. I am also prepared to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrateel «1ESTEY 0RGANS.O 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 Undersign d is Prcpzred to Furnish MARBLE, i- At ImfstsaosSJumsts wifi §§ plainest Of All and Kinds lowest and prices, Styles up from to the tlie ttSipfC '/», m delivered, st elaborate set up and and costly. satisfaction All gu.ir- work anteed. Call at my yard, exam ne w gof mmm samples and leara prices 1 efere i nr- Mm -r-g ' chasing elsewhere. Address, J.. F\ COOK, TOCCOA, GA. MUMS MSS 1 TOCCOA CITY, GA-, MRS. E. W. ROBERTS. Frop Mrs. Roberts al lias ch rge of lh< Uailroad Eating IT iso at Bowersville, Ga. Good aciunir -ari-ms, good board at usual rate' ia firs class houses. 8 LAGKSMITHIH 0 1 HORSE-SHOEING 3 Manufacturing and Repairing vV AGONS, BUGGIES —AND— FARP/i 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. Georcria Everything i U ed in a Trinfing Office oi on a Frees, no natter by whom advertised or manufactured, (or Supply Dodson’s Printers’ Depot, GA. LEWIS UAVSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. TOCCOA CITY, GA , \V ill practice in the counties of Ilaber- s iam au-d Rabun of the Northwestern Circuit, and Frank! n and Banks of the VYe,t, rn Circuit. Prompt attention will !>e g von to ad business entrusted to him. The collection of debts will have spec- ial attention. LU'-rl AL - ESTATE. CITY LOTS, Farm and Mineral Lands Iu the Piedmont It gion, Georgia. Also Fruit and Vegetable in Florida. Address J. W. RficLAURY, TOCCOA, GEORGIA. Don’t Fail to Call On W. A. IATHEI 0 I, Who has Special Bargains in Various Lines of Goods. notLmats et<:. —ALSO— [REDWARE OP ALL KINDS. Farmers’ Tools., Wagon and Buggy Ma- terialj Blacksmith's Tools, Hinges, Locks, Bolts, Doors and Sash. —EVERYTHING IN THE— HARDWARE LSWE, COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE. AND WOODWARE ■ --ALSO-- DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES TOCCOA. CA.