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We trust that the legislature will
„ot adjourn without pasllng an at-
,.„ m entlaw for the state, as it is
one of the crying demands of the
,l»y. The present plan of “giving
property to tax receivers, prec
is,! in most counties, is as unjust
>s jt j, a bid for corruption. We
s ,y unfair, because there are cities
„,d counties in Georgia where as
sessors ere appointed, the people
thereby being required to return
their property at its full valuation
t ) n the other hand, when this" teat-
tcr ,s left solely at the option and
w lth the conscience of the owner,it
i, natural that he should place as
] 0 \r a figure as possible upon his
effects. In many n* ighborhoods
the people strike an average on the
value of their land, in returning it
to the tax collector, and of. course
the man who fixes the lowest figures
settles the matter. Is not this, then,
an incentive to fraud? We can see
j, jn no other light. In conversation
with Comptroller-General Wright
he tells us that in a certain county
in Georgia the issue was made upon
jhc old tax-receiver that he w<*s
strict about property returns,
, nd for this reason he was opposed
and defeated. As a natural conse
quence,
the assessment in that coun-
v to a
up to
.( is an
' Georgia
NO. III.
ATHEISTS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,18S5.
Next to Keely’s moter and the
South Carolina cotton-picker, the
most wonderful invention, *^r rather
discovery, of the ago is v that made
by a western scientist by which,
through the means of a powerful
microscope, he is able to discover
the human soul in the body, work
ing like a>mall*sixed magget. What
part of the anatomy this unquench
able worm is located in the discov
erer does not tell us, but we pre
sume that it is under the bottom of
the foot. We believe every word
that back-woods scientist says, only
we think he has spelled the word
“sole” incorrectly, and had the re
verse end of the instrument pointed
at the object.
frll short over one miUtoi dollars.
Tl-.i- "ill be repeated in c-ier sec-
until you will find ti.at your-
uwn assessment on-prope’ty vill lie
made the issue in the eh ‘ior. of
usieceiver. No one doi its but
me property in the above intion-
ed county was first returned at a
fair valuation, and that unp. edent-
fd lulling off was due so 1
ilr ulect in forcing the pee
a full sense of their c’uty.
.r'listicc to those sections!
lV l R ., e this assessment law is rigidly
enloictd, and so tar as v. larkc is
concerned, we shall insist .nat the
nest grand jury remove the restric
tinn lruin the receiver inquiring
himtore-eive no icturns .n Athens
a: U-s than the cits assessment, and
no laud in Clarke county at a lower
tig lire than $toper acre, unless the
leaisUiure enacts some law forcing
similar lestraints upon other coun
ties. Our people are willing to car
ts their full portion of the public
burthen, but not one farthing more.
Toe argument used to defeat the
pas-age of an assessment law is
that the valuation of property in
Georgia is constantly and rapidly
increasing, and even this year an
addition of over $300,000 will be
made 10 the state treasury. While
this is a highly gratifying shosving,
at the same time it does not remedy
the evil complained of. The best
wav lor the people to force this
measure is lor eveiy county
Georgia that now has assessors to
abolish the same, and leave the
matter of return solely with the tax
payers. If this is done, we have no
hesitancy in predicting that such a
falling oil'in the public revenue will
s run be noticeable as to force the
next general assembly into
come measure of public protection.
We trust, ho wever, that this will not
he necessary, and that our law-mak
ers, before adjournment, will see
the wisdom ^n<l justice of passing a
general assessment law for Georgia.
It wiil not only equalize the public
burthen, hut enable the Governor to
greatly reduce taxes.
A gentleman just from Washing
ton City says but few republican*
are removed from office, and when
dismissed they are given places in
some other department. There is
growing and wide-spread dissatis
faction among democrats to the
President’s policy. Fred Douglass
and all of his family are yet fed
from the government teat.
Bullock has been interviewed by
the Chicago Tribune, and pays a
glowing tribute to “the fair and im
partial laws of Georgia.’* Bullock
should certainly feel a yearning ten
derness toward the Georgia judi
ciary, for had justice been done
he would to day he digging black
diamonds forjoe Brown.
53,1196.
Athens' Tot ’ Cotton Receipts Rendered 'ay
Koss & Thomas.
We give below a statement of t..c
cot'on receipts of Athene, and their
d' position for the year ending Aug.
31, iSSc:
' »*>cd b* rai'*oads ... — 49,1-30
1 '•iB’et. by fkctorl' - 4.4
Sw.j* o.i hr nd 9
FROM NORTH GEORGIA.
Legal, Personal and General Hews From a
News Q'therer..
A TEKRIBhE NIGHTMARE.
Less sto
id Sept 1, 1SS4
54,014
53.S94
Receipts ter ; earerdinf Aug. 31, 1884 45,615
Increase past season *.281
There can be no stronger state-
mentofthe advantages of - our city
as a cotton mar 1 et than the above
increase in the p st 3 <*..r’s receipts,
though the crop in this section was
an unusually „hort one.
Our oredictio 1 made on the first
of last September, that the 1 -ceip “
would be over 50,000 bails iids
been verified with a large margin.
We say, with equal confidence, that
UieJrdfcqS s -jilt the coming season
will be over 65,000.
GONE TO SKA.
And Leave. His Young Wife With two Help-
ion Children.
Severf.l years ago Jacob Aultmnn
carnet, on - New York to Athens
Senator Bob Fslligant, of Savan
nah, is one ol the best workers in
Georgia. He is just the kind of man
that Georgia now needs in the U. S.
Senate, and we would support him
heartily for that position. He is
brainy, fearless, and as true to his
party and his principles as the nee
dle to the pole.
The taxable property of Haber
sham county is $r,050,383, accord
ing to the returns of the Tax- Re
ceiver. The assessment, is nine-
tenths of 1 per. cent., and is to pay
the legal indebtedness of the county
and the current expenses.
and commenced clerlring for S. Har
ris. He was a young man of good
address, and soon made quite a
number of friends in our city. Af
ter the failure of Harris, Aultma 1
went out to High Shoals and engag
ed in some kind of business, and
while there he made the acquaintance
of Miss Maggie Steed, a beautiful
young lady of that place. Aultman
soon won her affections and married
her. They lived happily together,
and two children blesseii this seem
ingly happy union. Aultman mov
ed hack to Athens, and for some
time clerked in the store of Mr.
Coleman, on Broad street. He rent
ed a neat little cottage up town, and
had it nicely fitted up. Last Tu
day, without ever saying a word to
his wifi or to any one else, he left
home nd went back to New York;
He wrote back that lie had joined
the navy and would soon leave the
port of New Yr k lor along cruise
His heart-broken wife has gone
back to bet* oeople at High Shoals
and has nivndoned the idea of ever
seeing her wayward husband again
Gainesville, ug. 31.—I atte -
ded Forsyth superior court, a Cur. -
ming, last we k. Judge Brown pre
siding. Considerable business was
transacted. Two negroes were
convicted of burglary, and one white
nan, James Fat-on, for selling, the
titles to land which were forged.
Tl|e case which rttrac'ed the most
attention was the state vs. Rev. A.
M. Stringer, of this place, charged
with disturbing services. The trou
ble grew out of appointments.
String r is a sort of a free-lo'-al ,
go-as-you-pler. e preacher, a kind o.
a congrega-’o lalist free thinker..
The troub’e occurred at Big Creek
Methodist church. Stringer had
been denied the right to preach in
that church or on the church prop
erty by the trustees, but he sent an
appotpr-ient \o preach, and with it
the message that lie would fill it if
he had to wade through blood up to
his knees. The day arrived and
Stringer appeared. The Methodist
people were holding Sunday school
in their building, and had locked the
school house, which is built on their
propeity against Stringer. A -t
Sunday school the Methodists began
prayer meeting, end had got about
half through when Springer, who
had a small congregation outside,
said in a high tone of voice: “Come
up brethren and hear the true gos
pel preached without money 01
without price. 1 was not born in
the 11*! woods to be scared out by
cats.” lie then began to sing and
carried his followers, about a dozen,
ins: fifty yatds from the church
door, and began to preach in such a
tone and manner as to absolutely
break up the Methodist meeting.
The Methodists indicted him, and
the jury, promptly, after hearing the
able charge of judge Brown,
brought in a verdict of guilty, but
recommended him 10 the mercy of
the court.
A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
ATLANTA NOTES.
A mowing machine recently cut
off two toes of a member of the
Connecticut legislature. We would
like to see an appropriation .made
to set a few mowing machines at
the summer resorts ot Georgia.
ICTI RE TR ANSPORTATIOX.
The Virginia negro women are
bulldozing their husbands into vot
ing for John Wise. The Old Do
minion doubtless don’t stand much
in need of a whipping post foT wife
beaters.
Representative Sneed’s base ball ; Thomas A. Ch.yton, died Saturday
bill seems to have been knocked I
. . , ■ tt f 1 1 Bunche TIill, a noted courtesan,
ou o ic grount s. enr\ r.i< y was severe jy W ounded on the head
Sunday night by an unknown
threatened to adjourn the legislature
again if that hill came to a head.
THE GEORGIA MARBLE RING.
We arc glad to know that the lit
tle coiporate ring in Atlanta, organ
•-ed with the intent of draining an
additional $200,010 from the public
till as an incentive to substitute their
worthless stone for the material se
lected by our excellent beard of
Capitol Commissioners, has met
with but little encouragement from
the legislature, and are now gnaw
ing the file of defeat. A public test
Frank Wadsworth died from the
effects of too mr~h laudanum taken
for other metU'-'ne.
Joseph / rson, a prominent
church negro, was arrested on the
charge ol arson of his own house.
Henry Phili ps, who shot himself
five week.- ego. died from the c -
fee is of the wound. The ball w .
found in Ills left l:>dney.
Tp'ius Bearoe, who resides thr*e
m es from the city. 1 f. the city
Sr rday and was fourd dead in
his buggy on its arrival at home.
He was holding the r ‘ns firmly in
his hard ., Ills death was from
neart — ••
Willk'iTf Wirt Clavton. son of
Another doctor has just been ere
mated at Lancaster, Pa. It is need
less to add that the crematory for
lawyers is not established in Penn
sylvania, but just across the river
Styx.
white man.
IXJUXCTIOVsrSTAINEI).
to restrain that body from exchang
ing the extension ol the North-
Eastern railroad to Clayton, with
the R. & D. syndicate, lor a new
line to tap the Georgia road at some
, . , point at or between Social Circle
*" ol the relative mer.ts of £ nd Madson The cit y council
GHASTLY FLEIGHT.
A dead negro was shipped to
MaJison last week, and none of his
friends had money to bury him. His
body remained in the depot about
,woily .m.ich to the annoyance
of the ' eight age tt, who was :
loss to know wh t disposition
m e of it. It was perishable
-ndee Estes Forties tbe Mayo.-and Council. * J T^t, a ' ct strongly attested by
of Athea. from CSangln* the Railroad d ' 8 e..ble odor arising from
Contract. toe bo t« ‘jvng the remains; but
__ , T j a e 1 the iv‘e vi ,; ne the disposition
Yesterday Judge Estes forward- f hab ,, f - * ht could ‘not be
ed the papers to Athens, susta-mng I J,. >d Q thi „ ” articular ca . e> aB
the injunction of James Came c et | , nil revoU £ d at traffic in Jead
al. vs the City Council of A nens. | bodi r - addition the com
• j. . A e»enin th-it KaHr frAiri ovi'honrr_ ’ . . ’ .
mouit^ wa thoroughly unmarket-
Paper Trains Will Be the THtimate Solution
of the Railroad Problem.
While at New Holland Iasi weak
wc had the pleasure of conversing
with a very scientific and learned
gentleman, who was fully posted on
all the new inventions of the age.
In discussing rapid transit, he said
that icrial navigation was impracti
cable. and he did not look in that
direction for quick transportation:
but, in less than a decade, di
would be annihilated at the speed
ot a hundred miles per hour, and it
would be on terra .i ma, too. There
would be pape tra ns. paper en
gines and paper r ■, thus greatly
lightening the v ’g'ht of tolling
stock and cn. blin"'. .he full power c
.earn o be boug.it in o play Our
i iforir .nt s id that paoer car wheels
are now co ning into general use,
and are art entire .uccess. A com-
p-uv.in New- York is now experi
menting with a . u'! tra : n of coaches
and an engine, as also ra-ls, made
entirely of paper, and they 1- ve
met wi‘h great secc s. Coo!’ng
stbves are b*ing’ m: nuf. ctured of
this material, which is a satisfactory
evidence that it will p’so answer fo
a locomotive. Such a road wou’i
he much saler than those now in
, and would have every advan
tage over the present passenger
lines. The only drawback we see
to this su ;gcstion is In. t science has
demonstrated that a speed a little
over 60 m-les an hour is impractica
ble and dangerous, ow'ng to the 1 e-
sistance of the atmosphere. If rap
id transit is ever solved, it will be
through electricity anu pneumatic
tubes.
How an Athens Prohibitionist Awoke Only
Too Soon.
Meeting a prohibition friend yes—
terdev, we asked him to explain
that look of desperation and dejec
tion upon his usually genial face.
“Last night,” he replied, “I wet t
through one of the most dreadful
and disappointing experiences in
the history of nightmares, or day-
horses, either, t-s to that. }ou
know, before pronibition went mto
eflect I used to take on a brick load
every after -oon about sundown,
but decided that it was all nonsense
about a man drinking, and so was
beguiled into voting the prohibi
tion ticket, thinking that I’d never
miss the liquor when the bars ran
dry. But in less than 24 hours I
realized my mistake. A regular
simoon of drynes«, you know, swept
over the town, and a pp^yder horn
soon got to be a regutar water-
gourd compared to me. Occasion
ally I would happen to catch a
drink on the fly, but there contin
ued an unsatisfied yearning in my
innards that felt like the desert of
Sahara. I tiled hut coffee, ginger
tea and other l-ke liquid hallucina
ting substitute--, but they only acted
like adding fresh fuel to the funeral
pyre that 1 had helped to build
around the bier of King Alcohol.
During my waking hours I was
haunted by v's-ons ot past drunks,
and at night nty di earns were preg
nant with mirages of foaming beer,
four fingerdriuks and like torture*.
But when 1 placed the sparkling
cup to my lips, the contents would
turn to as es—or rathe", cold vvate
I ha\e chewed up eve
cork l could find lyiu;,
around the former saloon stand-,
and at last was teditred to the dire
necessity of investing in an old beer
keg that 1 might masticate its staves.
I have worn out a new pair of shoes
every two weeks limiting up soire
fellow who had a jug hid out, and 1
here publicly announce t’.iat inv
vote is for sale to the candidate in
the future who sets’em up. Talk
about panioMsin! What is that to
a man who hasn't had a drink in
eleven long days? But to proceed
with my . narrative: Last night 1
went to bed unusually dry, and soon
after falling a-leep found myself (in
dreams, ol course,) looking for a
drink. The fir-t man 1 tackled was
Col. Blank, who at once remarked:
“Hello, old fellow! 1 have just got
in a case of $S-a-g:illon liquor.
Won’t you come and joi > me?” Af-
A Han Impaled by an Iron, But Likely to
Recover.
Oil City, Pa., Aug. 29.—Henry
Sutton is seemingly about to make
one of the most remarkable recov
eries on record. A little more than
two weeks ago, while engaged in
agitating an oil well owned by Col
lins & Thompson, at Stone Hill,
near Warren, he attached an iron
* od, known as the polish rod, to
the sand pump lino and lowered it
to the bottom of tha well. A sud
den rush of gas threw the rod from
the well and about thirty feet into
the air, and in falling it struck Sut
ton on the right side of the neck,
came out on the side below the
breastbone, entered again al the hip
and emerged from the flesh at the
knee. The vital organs were cot
10,000 PEOPLE DROWNED.
. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
,,JL
says that it costs
‘6 ruif the Cincin-
Generjtl George Jit JklcCIellan as-
oires to hold a seat in the United
States'Senates ' ..
The children of Queen Victoria
now take .$600,000 a year from the
purse of the British people.
The Charleston Ne ws and Cou
rier estimates the loss in that city by
Tuesday’s cydone at $1,123,000.
Brigham Young’s : eldest son,
John, is the husband ot .two wives
VOL XXXI
A Terrible Story of ttte Lt s- of I. fo by tbe
Floods in’ Canton. , »
; _ Wabiufton Special' .
v Details of the destruction in Can
ton, China, and vicinity by the
recent great rain-stprm there, have
been received by private parties in
(his city. The flood'was the most
serious which has visited Canton in
thirty years. More than ten thou
sand persons lost their live* and a
tar greater number are left in a
starving condition. Entire villages
were engulfed and the rice and
silk crops in the vicinity were almost
ruined. The price of rice, has been
raised eighteen per cent, in, conse
quence of the loss of the crop.
Tbe Press Dispatches orYestefday Reduced
Into a Nutshell.
The cholera has appeared in Italy.
Prohibition was defeated in Wa
co, Texas.
At Indianapolis, a train cut a
man’s head off*.
The cattle men are moving out of
the Indian lands.
The government debt decrease
for August was $3,000,000.
In Ohio a man shot at two women
and then killed himself.
A bill making it unlawful to fish
on Sunday has been introduced in
the house.
A man and wife were killed by
lightning, in Pennsylvania, while
The rain fell the latter "part of sitting on the porch.
June filling and overflowing all the Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has opened
rivers. Many of the streetsof Can- the Virginia campaign »udwiUputh
penetrated, but it was thought there ton werepfloodptUor^ver * w*tek: It
vuiN vbpv lime none of his recoverv." a. c.
was very little hope of his recovery.
In spite of this Sutton Has contin
ued to improve, notwithstanding
the fact that his physicians say that
in 995 outol every 1,000 such cases
the victim would die in less than a
minute after the accident and that
it w ould be almost imp-.-sible for
even a knifting needle to billow the
course through a man’* body which
this iion tod did without entering
a number of large arte ies. whereas
e rod which passed through Sut
ton was three-quarters of an inch in
diameter.
A dispatch from Warri-n to-day
-ays: "Sutton is getting along
nicely and gives every indication of
a rapid recovery. He si:s up in
bed and smokes."
A STRANGE DISEASE.
nce tei a little hesitation 1 replied that I
some i.ncsdid take a nip, and it was
Stone Mountain granite, Georgia
marble and the oolitic limestone,
and after being kept in a furnace
lor one hour, the two former crum
bled into dust, while the limestone
was only hardened and improved
hv the ordeal. This was a settler,
and decided the question. The cry
sounded by the marble company
that to patrol ze them would be to
build up a home enterprise amounts
to nothing. It we are not misin-
turmed, the quarries from which
this stone was to be taken are own
ed and controlled by Chicago capi
talists, and all tbe profits accruing
therefrom would have gone into the
pockets of “foreigners” at last.
Could the exchange have been made
without an injustice to the tax
payers and the 'intereits of the state,
we would have been glad to see
our new capitol built of material
taken from the confines of Georgia.
Hut this it was impossible to do.
The representatives of the people
only appropriated $1,000,000 for
this purpose, and if the gentlemen
appointed to supervise the same are
not interfered with, we feel assured
that they will complete a structure
that will be an honor to our grand
old state, and that, too, within the
appropriation.
will meet next Monday night, when
that body will decide whether or
not they will carry the ense to the
supreme court. The verdict is not
a surprise to our people, as it was
generally accepted that the decis
ion would he that rendered.
able. Alter some delay the body
was turned over to the dead man’s
triends, and buried at the expense
of the county.
THE PRICE OF COTTON.
It is the general impression
among men who know that cotton
will not get below 9 cents the pres
ent season, as the crop won’t much
exceed that of last year. The floods
and caterpillar have done great
damage in the south and west,
while the dry weather has seriously
injured the prospect through the
middle belt. We predict that
6,500,000 bales will cover the crop.
GRADUALLY WEARING AWAY.
Mr. Robinson, ot Tallulah, for
mcrly engineer on the North-Eas
tern, tells us that the constant action
of the water is ranidly cutting away
the falls, and within the past few
vears he can show w.iere the de
scent of the wat.,. has been lowered
several inches. The rock in 1 the
chasm is ot sand fo.mation. and
nence easily wo n. Geologists can
now calculate how many cer. tu^cs
it will t..ke to reduce the bed of the
Tallul h riv"r to a smooth and grad
ual descent, thus seriously marring
the beauty and grandeur of this fa-
mons resort.
j -1st abo it this time of day, too. He
conducted me into his office,unlock
ed a little cuddy and took out a
bottle of old rye with about two
drinks g»ne. I piled up the glas-
brimming full, and was just lifting
to my lip- when the thought flashed
across my mind that perhaps it was
another of those visiort.ry dream
that hud haunted me so of late. 1
was in r.o humor to be disappoint
ed, and remember pinching myself
to see il I w s re My awake. I dis
covered that I was and was just
ready to >.-dp down the fluid when
my w : fe aroused me with a fearlul
box on the side.of the head, and a
demand to know what I meant by
Dinching her arm. Had she just
kept quiet two seconds longer I
would have had that drink down,
and I believe it would have done
me just as much good as the simon
pure stuff.”
Panic Caused by Uany Deaths Frsm an
Unknown Disease.
Wheeling, VV. Va., Aug. 30.—
Intelligence from Clay court house
says a strange disease ha: broken
out ami is raging there with fright
ful eflect among the inhabitants,
who are. rapidly becoming panic
stricken. The locality iu which the
outbreak occurred is in the region
along the Valley of Sycamore
creek, heretofore an exceptionally
healthy part of the state. The
Weekly Progress, at hand to-night,
says:
“Every hour brings the sad intel
ligence of more victims to the fatal
scourge that is playing havoc with
life in Sycamore. A score of those
attacked have die Jin the greatest
; go ry within a few hours after
. eizure. It was at first thought to
be flux, bat it is no v believed to be
a tother and more fatal malady. A
vague, horrible lea.- has begun to
fill the b: eats of some. It may not
be' bjt it is v y much like cholera.
Squire Sizemore, a well known cit
izen, hr* buried three ol his sons.
Tl ey lay dead in the house, while
three othe were screaming in ago
ny. We have been unable to learn
the number of de- ths, but the re
ports are alarming. It is confined
tochildren^ who are attacked and
die in a tew hours seemingly paraj
yzed with pain.”
CHARLESTON’S CYCLONE.
stion
Gov. Mathews' Divorce.
Gov. George Mathews’ second
wife was a Mrs. Reed, of Staunton,
Va. A year or two after their mar-
iage, accompanied by two of her
stepd-iughteis, daughte s of Gov.
M. by his first wife, she made a visit
to her triends in Virgini... When
the time had passed which was al
lowed for her visit, she wrote to Gov.
M. to come or send forher. He wrote
her that as she had gone vvit.i-
out him she could return in the same
way. She replied that she “would
not again travel so far without his
protection.”
The case was referred to the legis-
latire. A divorce was granted,
thou h he and his wife had never
quarreled—had parted in kindness,
and had no intention at tlie time of
continuing to live apart.
Cov. Mathews’ residence on Bro..J
river was in a cabin of small logs,
with -the sides scalped off; the open
ings between them chincked with
puncheons, and daubed with red
mud.
THE LATEST CATCH.
A young man went into Jack
McGugan’s saloon, at Fort Gaines,
a few days since, and bet Jack that
he (the young man j could open a
bottle of pickles without breaking
the bottle or taking the cork out.
jack could not see how this could
be Jone, and the stakes were put
up *and a bottle of pickles produced,
upon which the young man afore
said quietly pushed the cork into
the bottle and took out the pickles.
Jack had no more to say.
A FERtLLOUS FEAT.
. While at Tallulah, recently, we
, * lal witnessed a dangerous feat by that
daring explorer Mr. Wm. Robinson.
Disrobing himself, he leaped acros'
the seething waters of . the Dev-”s
Den, at the foot of Temne-ta falls,
and succeeded in finding foothold
on the slippery Tocks. He th .1
captured a nun iaer of pieces of wood
from this will ! pool, thkt had been
worn iato queer shapes by the ac
tion of water, and then safely swim
ming the seething flood, just be
neath the pouring waters of Tem-
pesia, to the opposite side. This is
a feat never before undertaken by
man.
Russia and England have about
agreed to retract and he friends for
the present.
Parnell demands a disaolution of
England and Ireland. Of course
the British government will at once
proceed to draw up the papers.
In Virginia, the outlook foi dem
octatic success hat brightened of
Bte. The campaign song is, “We’ll
hang John Wise on| a scallawag
tree!”
The President is atill in the Adi-
rnndackt fishing for mountain trout.
He had much better be in Washing
ton angling tor Southern acallawags
»nd carpet-baggers.
The colored Georgia legislator’s
civil rights bill was pulled entirely
too late. The proper place to have
introduced it would have been in the
Iowa republican convention.
That liquor ring in the Georgia
legislature should join that fillibus-
tering expedition to Cuba. What
they don’t know about fiUibustenng
**a f t vii
: worth learning.
The legislature haa juat enough
before it to keep it working
d *y and night until Christmas. If
that body will now only pass the
. SenerM local option bill and atsess-
ment and registration laws, the tax*
WAS IT TOBACCO’S WORK?
In speaking of the death of Mr.
Dick Burruss, a salesman at Co
hen’*, an intimate friend yeste-dav
gave it as his opinion that the de
ceased’s death wa* mainly attributa
ble to the fac? that for years he had
been an excessive chewer of tobac
co but a few weeks before Jii» death
he’quit the weed entirely,that had a
startling eflect upon his nervous
system; Had Mr. Burruss broke
himself of the tobacco habit by de
grees, his life might have been .saved.
COLLECTOR OTAEpin*. ■'
We were pleased to see Capt.
James O’Farrell on the street yes-
terday, although "bnT i* jtoH, on
crutches. He is now able to place
his injur* *i foot on the ground, and
thinks that in two tor thre* weeks
he will be able to resume business
He ha* *uflered a great deal.
A FEMALE MOONSHINER.
Several days ago a band of reve
nue raiders pounced down upon an
’Micit«lil o^longing to Mrs. Fanny
Smith, <■' S' iking Mountain fame,
and arrested two men found at
work there. They did not molest
any of the. property, however, as
under the new ruling of the reve
nue department in Georgia, this is
the duty of Collector Crenshaw’s
lorce. The many visitors to Tallu
lah, who have e-ten of “Aunt
Fanny’s” good country dinners, will
regret to learn that she has fallen
under the stern hand of the law.
Cowhided by a Woman.
Montreal, Aug. 31.—At St.
Johns, Out., yesterday, Miss Pris
cilla Taylor, a farmer’s daughter, of
eighteen sum tiers, pre'ty and en-
gaging, with a turn for athletics,
gave an extraordinary p quancy to
the scene at the door of ,\ie Metho
dist church. She went up to Wil
liam Warner and accused him of
defaming her character. Warner,
a wealthy farmer of fifty, got no
chance fo" reply, as Miss Taylor
quickly drew a cowhide from her
dtess folds, and in presence of the
congregation slas -d Warner’s fac*
each blow bruisiu.. 01 cutting tb
Hesh. Warner was in a corr- r,and
tried to grapple with Miss Taylor’s
whip hand, but failed. Some of
the congregation finally interfered,
when Miss Taylor’s big brother and
her father in turn took a hand
and there was a lively row.
Quiet was after some time re
stored, and Warner threatens an
action against his Amazonian assail-
Had Him on the Hip.
A certain grass widower in town
had to pay himself out of trouble
yesterday, and it was his 9-year-old
son that “worked tbe racket” on
him. Young America thought he
discovered that his f«th 's atten
tions to a certain pretty young lady
were altogether too marked, and
threatened to write to his mamma
about it. Pater tam'lias undertodk
to reason with his boy and finally
resoited to ridicule to difsuade him
from carrying out his threat, but it
was no go. Young America was
sharp enough ro see that he lird
struck a good thing—something
that he could use to make the old
man “come down,” and lie was de
termined to work it u>r all it w
worth. F.ndip that he o.“(!>
have to buy the boy oil', the fath.-%
like any oth - prudent glass wid
ower would have done
under like circumstances, changed
his tactics and entered into nego
tiations which soon "esulted in a
tiade. A certain amount of money
was paiddotvn, and other considera
tion:; a -ere promised for the ne. r
futu c. That boy ha» struck a good
thing, anil evid-n.ly knows it. It
may co-t his lather the price ol a
pony In f ne the return ol'the absent
wife and mother.
Terrible story of Death and Dei
From tbe Sea Co ait.
Mr. J. B. Toomer. of Athens, yes-
'terday received the following letter
from his sister, living at McClellan-
\ ille, ’detailing the ravages of the
Lite storm that swept along the
coast. One of Mr. Toomer’s cous
ins had a vessel wrecketl, and the
gentleman and his child drowned
were also his relatives. The letter
says:
McCt.feLLANVI
We had a dreadful
At Sz-Ni City , the water broke
through the city wall. It is report
ed that several thousand people
were drowned in that place. The
embankments of the rivers were
broken in numerous places, and the
water swept across the surrounding
country, carrying everything before
it. A foreigner, who was an eye
witness of the scenes of devastation
reports that one night the boat
he occupied anchored near a bam
boo grove. By morning the water
had risen to the tops of the bam
boos. At other points It rose
forty feet during a night time. The
inhabitants fled troni the villages
and camped on the hillsides.
At Kun-In, a market p’ace situat
ed near an embankment of one of
the streams connected with the riv
er which brings water from the
Noith and West rivers, the majority
of the inhabitants were drowned by
the water breaking through the em
bankment. Some escaped to a piece
ol .ising ground in the neighbor-?
hood, but the water continued to
rise and gradually overtopped the
elevation, drowning those who
stood upon it. Seventeen Chinese
graduates in Canton, hearing of the
distress and suffering prevalent in
their native villages, took passa^
on a boat, with a view to proceed
ing home to render what assistance
they could. On the way the boat
was capsized and all in it were
drowned. In some places parents
tied their children on . the high
branches of trees, while they insti
tuted measures for their general
safety. The trees were washed up
by the roots and the children were
drowned.
The body of a bride, dressed in
her bridal robes, was found floating
in the river at Canton. A large tub
was also seen. It was picked up
and found to contain, a boy and a
girl. With them waa' a paper stating
their names, the day and hour of
their birth. Their parents had tnkeu
this means of saving the lives of
their children*.
The writer of the letter from
which the above is taken says that
the suffering that is being endured
by thousands ‘in the province is
simply heart-rending and (hat there
floods will, of course, bring on other
calamities. The subsiding, .qf. the
water will leave'an alluvial dephsit
that will burden the atmosphere
with malarial poison. The people
are obliged to use the ; filthiest and
dirtiest water, which must give
them all sorts ot disease. The non
progressive character of the people
leaves them helpless in the face of
calamity, and all they can do is to
beat gongs, burn incense,' howl to
the heavens, pray to one idol to go
and cause another to stop his rain
M norm of w.od 1 ti Vo_„i, lhclr
. ... , , , , . , cm ruler and
and ra n. We had our barn and gin c i, ance
house ruined, and the whole crop of j
cotton and rice blown flat. We will
not make a fourth of a crop. The wa
ter .air a to the gate. The tree in
ront of the house is almost down,
id our wharf all gone. Mr. Rem-
phy lost seven tltousand cooters,
Hil> and Mr. Graham lost
all their cooters, in all about 10,000.
We feel mined. Abby Legare,
that was, lost her husband. Johnny
Whiteside and child were
drjwned. The water rose up in
the house and the child fell in the
water. He jumped alter it and both
w-re a wept off. They have not
been found yet. I write in haste.
EARTHQUAKE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
only and the'fathor of, ten sons and
eleven daughters. ' ’ " _ ■ '
Three'weeks ago a m*n was sen-
tor ail If is Worth.
THE GREAT FARMER.
Co! Jim Smith ordered yesterday,
through the Athena Foundry and
Machine Works, a 100-horse power
engine. Mr. Smith will shprtly add
u cotton seed oil mill to hi* already
extensive milling operations.
HISTORY OF QUININE.
The Jesuit powder was none oth
ertban the famous Peruvian hark,
made as we all know from the bark
of the Chincbon.. trees, so-called !>y
\Jiinxus after the Countess ol Chin-
con, wife of the Viceroy of Peru
This lady’s cure in 163S from a des
perate fever, brought the quinine,
the “bark-of-barks,” as its Indian
name signifies, into notice; and gave
the world one of the most precious
remedies we possess against disease
DEATH □> WATXIN 8VOLE.
Mr*. Albon Wilson, Sister ol Mr.
W S. Holman, died at her home in
Watkinsville yesterday after a long
illness. She was a lady beloved by
A BAIN KINO.
Dr. A. C Mathews intend* ex
perimenting with dynamite next
summer to produce rain. His plan
is to send up a number of small
balloons, containing dynamite,'and
when they reach a su.Ticient alti
tude, ignite the combustibles with 1
an electric spark.—Elberton Ga
zette.
Robbed of 92,000 on a Train.
Cleveland, Aug. 31 —A. H.
Roberts, *f Pennsylvania, .while on
a “jsee line” train yesterday between
D: yton and Springfield, discovered
that he had been robbed of $2,t. *
The trdin was running very slow,
and Roberts jumped off and, run
ning forward, twice attempted to
throw -himself unde* tbe locomo
tive. He'vfos prevented from doing
so by • brakeman. - He was arres
ted, andjs now in jail in. Dayton.
He i* 21 years old, and. says that he
lives in Pennsylvania.
Ccught Htf Wife Putting Poissn in his i; ?
SoO-nt Braintree, Mass^Aug.
31.—.Yesterday Alden H. Holbrook
caught his wife in the act of pouring
Paris green.into the pork stew that
was to form his dinner. The police
were notified,-and are investigating
the case. Mrs. Holbrook'acknowl
edges the fact, but says she only
did it in fun. Tbe couple have not
lived happily together.
~ A Jew days ago*Mrs. J. W- Mad-
dox,’ofWilkes'county, found a ,sil
. ver thimble in ' the gizzard of a fry
ing sized chicken.
An Inhuman Mother.
A rc-p irt was brought to town on
Thursday morning to the eflect that
a rei>io child, aged about ivne
months, had died on Mr. C. T.
McKenzie’s place, abo t a mile
from town, under most suspi
cious circums ances. After the
dea 1 of the child an
investigation showed that its
riglqj forearm and w 'st were brok
en, and it' left shoulder hor-'bly
beaten, bruised and swollen. The
general opinion is that the child was
murdered, and every circumstance
points to the mother as the pe.pe-
trator of. the black and inhuman
deed for the puroose of ridding her
self of its care. The mother, Milly
Scott, is a strolling vaga
bond, going from place to p|ace and
remaining jts long as she is al
lowed, but cannot be induced to
work undei any circumstances. A
short time ago she, in the presence
of witnesses, threw the child at the
root of a tree on the roadside and
left it, swearing that she would kill
it. The child was taken up by
those in company with lie?, who
Anally induced her to take it back.
A Remarkable Case.
The Maxwell-Preller murder case
promises to become cclebfated.
When Maxwell was brought back
trom New Zealand and denied that
Preller was dead Mis story was
laughed at. Had not the body found
at the Southern hotel been fully
identified as Preller’s?
But now a m nof alleged respect
ability oilers to become a witness in
Maxwell’s behalf, and to testify that
he saw and spoke to Preller at a
Philadelphia hotel in May last. He
declares Chat he knew Preller well,
and cannot be mi-taken. As the
man who is suppo-ed to have been
l’reller was murd e. 1 'n April, the
Philadelnhia man must be mistaken,
or else Preller was not murdered.
The chances are that the Phila
delphia man is mistaken. He may
be, and donbtless is, ^'mcere, but it
is not a difficult matter to make a
mistake respecting tbe identity of a
person.
Assuming that the Philadelphia
man will tell the same story on the
witness stand that he tells off of it,
and that he will sustain himself well
on cross-examination,-it will not be
an easy matter r o convict Maxwell.
The Philadelphia man will create a
doubt, perhaps, in the minds of the
jury, the benefit ol which, under the
law, the prisoner will receive. The
case is a remarkable one in what
ever light it truy be viewed.
Q -andfatber Mountain Shaken and tbe Peo
ple Tbereabouts Alarmed.
Ashvillb, N. C., Aug. 2S.—A
shock of earthquake occurred near
Bowling Rock, Caldwell county, on
Thursday. People . sitting in their
houses were surprised to hear a noise
resembling thunder. Mrs. C. R.
Reid says her house ishook so that
she was thrown from her chair. The
shock passed over several miles of
country. It lasted but a lew sec
onds, but during that time there was
a violent rocking. J PatCoftey, who
lives at the foot of Grandfather
Mountain, and several other persons
were on top of the mountain at the
time and were very much frighten
ed. Coffey was sitting on a large
hanging rock on the Watauga side
of the'mountain, which has a'pre
cipitous descent. He says it shook
and quivered and trembled, so that
he scrambled from it in haste and
ran for his life. He and the party
at once descended the mountain in
a state of great-alarm. The shock
was also felt at Bqone, ten miles
away. There was also a shock at
Elk Mountain, near Asheville, la».t
summer.
A dastardly attempt was made in
Illinois to wreck a train hy burning
the railroad bridge.
A Connecticut man, through
jealousy, fatally shot his wife and
then wounded himself.
At York, Pa., a member created
scene in church by objecting to
his pastor eulogizing Grant
The committee of the house has
decided to lift the $25,001 deposit
which five insurance companies are
compelled to make in this state.
A negro woman in Pittsburg,
Pa., killed - a child and poisoned two
girls by putting poison in the oat
meal gruel.
The bill prohibiting the accep<
tance of free railroad passes by
members of the legislature failed to
pass the house.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 3L—
Near Opelika a white peddler raped
a negro woman at the p nt of the
dirk. She refused to buy his laces.
The negroes are looking for him
and lynch ng may follow.
Chattanooga, Tenn., August
29.—Tho conntry in the vicinity of
Calhoun, Ga., is in a frenzy of ex
citement over the daring deed of
outlawry by a disreputable gang
who have been infesting that local
ity. Last night the store of W. P.
Dillard & Co., at Crane Eater, Ga..
near Calhoun, was robbed and then
blown up with giant powder. The
shock was terrific, and the postoffice
was entirely demolished; also the
jin house ot Fite & Mayfield. The
oss is from $S,ooo to $10,000. The
people are up in arms, and last
night at least 100 men were scour
ing the woods for the culprits.
Seventeen have already been ar
rested and more are suspected.
Mob law is being talked of by the
community, and several will doubt
less be lynched.
The cholera is decreasing in
Spain.
The Texas fever continues to ex
terminate cattle.
President Cleveland has moved
out of the woods.
A fatal and mysterious disease is
ravaging Douglassville, Ga.
The whisky pool is broken in Il
linois and it dropped to $1.05.
It is impossible to detect certain
counterfeit coins in circulation.
The drought h?s damaged the
cotton crow of Mississippi 25 j per
cent ■»«»’ •' | '
A waitress in a Boston saloon
stabbed and killed a negro whd in'
suited her. “' '
An old lady 'jn‘ Gregdnj : while
fighting fire in the'woods, was burn
ea to'death. ■
All the other cities are quarantin
ing against Montreal bn account of
the small-pox.
Tom Walket lost his life at Day-
ton, Tenn., by falling from a smoke
stack 30 feet high.
At the foot of Lookout Moun
tain, Jennie Ring, a woman, fatally
stabbed Metcalf Calloway.
Dr. A. J. Mathews, of Hartwell,
is a candidate for state senator. He
would make a model officer.
A careless druggist in New York
killed tne sister with a wrong pre
paration and seriously poisoned an
other.
A chemist found arsenic in Walk-
up’s stomach, who was supposed to
be poisoned by his young wife in
Kansas.
The following losses by fire are
reported: Cameron, N. C., $15,000;
Charlotte, N. C., $21,01 1; Lancas
ter, N. Y., $30,000; Cincinnati, $15,-
tenced at York, Etigland, to three
moathla imprisonment- for man
slaughter. He had, previously done
seven* years’. penal servitude for
stealing a Shirt?' " J ‘
In Charleston the other diiy light
ning struck a negro man on the
head and caromed- oq-i-the.-head of
his wife. The lightning was de
molished, while the stricken ne
groes are rapidly recovering.
A novel method of suicide was.
that attempted by an insane man at
Brooklyn, N. Y n a few days ago—
th.owing a large cobble »tone in the .
air and letting it fall upon ’his bare
head. He had infl : ctea several se
vere but not necessarily fatal
wounds when he was .discovered
and p’aced under restraint.
Prolonged freshness is secured by
standing flowers in water for some
hours before they are sent away. It
is the greatest fallacy to suppose
that any which have to be sent to a
distance should be fresh picked.
They will travel better and last
longer if allowed to imbibe a full
supply of moisture before* starting.
It seems that a * New Jersey
weather prophet, A. T. De Voe,
predicted the late storm. Some
time last week he said that there
would,. in a 'few days, be severe
thunder storms in the Southern
States, and that “between the 25th
and 30th of this month a cyclone
will occur near the South Carolina
coast.”-
A Mantoban farmer was shar
pening a stake with an axe, when a
flash of lightning, accompanied by
a sing.e clap of thunder, came from
the only cloud visible, a small one
immediately overhead, striking the
head of the axe, splitting it into two
pieces and breaking the handle.
The man was knocked to the
ground insensible, but speedily re
covered, and upon searching about
found the fragments of his axe
lorced deeply into the ground.
George Wilkes, known by his
Spit it of the Times, is dying in New
York.
The horse that the famous Jesse
James rode during the post bellum
raids is now in Atlanta. ,
The death of an aged Ohioan was
caused by the shock of discovering
that lie was only 90 yea.-s old, in
stead of being the centenarian that
he had supposed. '
A blind man in Los Angelos, Cal.,
bought twenty acres ot latjd several
years ago for $i,£ •, and has so im
proved it that he was offered $17,000
for it lately, but refused. * *
A new married young coup e
from Louisiana are making their
bridal tour through the Southwes
tern states in a two-wheeled cart
drawn by four young bullocks.
An Iowa woman was engaged in
the pleasing duty of giving her hus
band a severe curtain lecture the
other night when she was seized
with lockjaw and died within fifteen
minute'. "
The ex-Empress Eugenie is mak
ing a round of European watering
places as the Countess de Pierre
fonds. , The ’ detective police of
Cirfbad, learning that the assiimed
title wn* fictitious, h repdrted'Ber as
an adventuress. 4
, A couple of Kqr.tuifky/geritlemen
met and exchanged fifteq%sbftts the
other day. One df.theni was slight-
ly wounded. What Kentucky' heeds
.is move: shftotiMfg -£4lMrieS.' Tbe
supply of- bloodthirstiness in' that
state is a long way; in' excess of the
supply of marksmanship.
.A New Jersey lover shot at bis
sweetheart and then lulled himself.
From the Frying Pan into tbe Firs.
A Twenty-sixth d'slrict man tells
us that a short time ago Hon. W.
C. Sheffield hired Mr. D B. Black-
well to dig a well in the bed of a
pond which he wished drained off
in order that he might cultivate it.
The well was dug and a subterra
nean stream reached, but instead of
the wrter in the pond running out
through the well into the earth, the
water in the undetground stream
flowed "up through the well and
made the pond l..rger, drowning
out an acre or more Of cotton.' Not
satisfied to let matters rest in this
sta.e, Mr. Sheffield had Mr.'Black
we 11 to dig a ditch from the pond
into his mill pond hear by, when lo!
and behold, idxtead of the smaller
pond running into the mill pond tbe
mill pond ran-out intothe little one,
overflowing its'banks so much th..
twenty acres of cotton were ds
stroyed.—Blakely News. j'
At Its Old Tricks—Terror Amen* Kestdant*
of tba Vicinity.
Asheville, N. C., Aug. 26.—
Excursions returning trom the vi
cinity of Bald Mountain report that
on last Thursday there were several
repetitions of the quakings for
which that neighborhood became
famous some years ago. The shocks
resembled an earthquake and caus
ed great terror among the residents.
Great rocks fell down the mountain
sides and the Waukega river was
temporarily diverted from its source.
A Jersey Bonanza.
The sale of their entire herd of
104 registered Jerseys by L. J. & A.
W. Hill, the proprietors of the Ilills-
dall stock tarm, and the lease of the
farm to Messrs. Butler, Woodward
and McCle M and, is quite an event
The purchasers have already a
tine Jersey iarm in Whitfield coun
ty, with s rare herd. They will
move .their interests, tq-JJilldale and
unite their.nerds 1 The: price of the
104 Jerseys is said to go near $50,-
000. Leonidas, the leader, has been
rated at $10,020. King Coffer, the
next male, cost $3,200.
Hilldale farm has 200 acres of
land, barns that can hold 250 head,
6 ensilage pits that will, teed the
herd six montbb, besides every other
convenience.—Atlanta CapitoQ
A10-Year Old CQunlerfelter, • j '
• Rockford, III;,'Aug. ‘3 j:—Frank
Betts, to year* old, : Was apprehend
ed while trying to pass a counter
ieit half dollar yesterday., ;; Itjjwas
found that he had 200 more spuri
ous pieces, and to ail questions hi
replied that he had found them. The
matter will be looked into by the
authorities.
BALD-MOUNTAIN.
Senator Allen’s bill providing for
a general registration law in the
State was taken up, and after a
lengthy discussion was laid on the
table.
Russia is loading Prussian citi
zens down with chains and expel
ling them from the country. Th
women follow the men and sleep
in their prisqns,
Davis, a noted gambler, was kill
ed by a Texah in New York. His
wife is on a sick bed, with six little
children around her, and she is
kept in ignorance of the matter.
A son of Senator Morgan, of Al
abarrta, and a young lady named
Miss Della Steele, were drowned at
Washington by the boat capsizing.
Fort Smith, Ark., September 1.
Two of the notorious Lee gang,
for whose capture a reward of $7,-
500 was offered, were brought here
last night by the deputy marshal.
Savannah, Ga., September r.—
Four negro prisoners broke jail
here to-day by digging their way
out through the walls. One was
captured and the officers are in pur
suit of the others. -
Edgar Maines, a drummer, was
found dead in the woods nea-
Knoxville, Tenn., and it is thought
that he was killed for his money by
a man named Sellers, who has been
arrested.
Charleston, S. C., Sept 1.—
A very heavy rain and wind stoAn
yesterday caused damage to the ex
tent ol about $100,000 in this city.
GEORGIA NEWS.'
A Murderer’s Deathbed Vision.
Lumpkin, Ga., Aug. 28.—A
shocking murder was committed
last spring at the camp of Perkins • “* •« m™ mj.
Brothers, on the line of the Preston j Last week’s cyclone caused losses
railroad, when a negro man. was amounting to $i,r 10,000 and dam
aged 500 buildings, but our citizens
are not disheartened.
New York, ' September 1.—A
rumor is circulate# here to the ef-
kiUed and his remains burned in his
shanty. . At the April term of court
a negro named Simon Prince - ,was
put oh trial for the murder, but . for
want of sufficient evidence he was ?ect,that the employees of the Wes-
acquitted. It was believed by martv, ie™ Union Telegraph Company
however, that he was guilty, dn will strike on the 15th iqst/ The
Thursday, in Webater chunty, St- *" en . ^ claimed, are dissatisfied
... 1 J 1 1* •. t VioAoiico nrtmnanw Vine nnt artfro
Since the passage of the no-fence
law, snakes nave increased amazing
ly in Greene ceunty.
It costs about$i62 to convey pris
oners from Georgia to,the peniten
tiary at Albany, N. YV
The prohibition law has gone in
to effect in Troup county, and all
ate well pleased with it.
A negro man living- in Baker
county, last week, killed an bid bear
and-two cubs in his corn field.:
Louis Laramore, of Smithville,
will raise not less than $250 worth of'
watermelon seed this year.
Jack Williams, a colored man in
Stanfordville,' subscribed . • $503
worth of work to the. Covington,
Monticello and Macon road. . .
A negro woman in Putnam
county, a day or two ago, gave
birth to twins, one black and the
other white. The children died. /
Jesse Cook, the Taylor county
wife murderer, has been found \
gnilty of murder without recom
mendation to . the mercy of the
court.
Miss Mattie. Covender, cf Whit
field county, who .has recently de- -
veloped a power similar to tqat of
Lula' Hurst, will soon begin a tour
of the country. ’ ’'
Trains on the Carnesville railroad
will be making regular trips from
West Bowersville to Lattneris Gap,
the present terminus of the' railroad,
after September 10th.
A charge in a libel for divorce re
cently filed in Bartow Superior
Court is that the defendant.kicked
the cover off of pei’tion r. on a cold
winter night and she almost froze
to death.
The United States government
has selected a site fof the barriteks
about midway between. Atlanta and
East Po nt. The price agreed on i«
not made public, butris about a hun
dred dollars per acre.' '
R. B. Blodgett; a son' of the late '
Foster Blodgett, was. found-on.:the
road side near Hot Sprjflgs^Ark.,
in an. unconscious .condition and
supposed to be a tramp. A kind
gentleman .is taking care of- him.
At Atlanta, Wednesday, . while
the friends and family of Ed. C&aper
the young man who suicided^, on
Terry street Monday' night,'Were At
the cemetery attending his burial, a
burglar ebtered the house : afldRitole
the dead man’s >ve*ring-)*ppM»L
mon lay on his deathbed, and as he
felt the shadows of deathdrawing
closer around him his raind.revertea
to the midnight scene at Sawyer’;
mill. The ghostly victim lay stretch-
ed upon the ground, and ho cotild' ,
see the burning' timbers, of the[
shanty fall upon hi* upturned face.
The sick man shrank: from the *wfiil
spectacle, and in agonized tones
criedout:'
“I have killed Win once. Keep
film off; keep him off.” : •
His death is said tohaveheen an
awfol one. As his end drew near
the remembrance of his crime be
came so. fixed upon him that his
because^Ahe company, has put extra
whrk on them without ahy extra
pay. Arrangements for the con
templated Strike are stud to be on
an extensive scale.
ets
murder.
The Leaning Tower thnnjored.
Pisa,- Italy, Aug. 31.—A terrible
thunder storm visited this city yes
terday. The. lightning was awful
* ' * ' It
and claused, .great destruction,
struck and shattered the tower ot
' he church of St. Cecelia and that
of the church of San Ginseppe. The
former was so badly split that it is
expected to fall at any moment.
'Although subjected to the hardest
eyes seemed to start from their sock- storm known in Pisa during
ets as'he recalled the .scene of the? ' ’
ie' ..he present generation, the leaning
tower remains uninjured. 1
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living.
Butler, Ga;. Aug. 29—Jesse
Cook, the colored preacher,-...who
chopped hisw-fe to pieces, pud.who
waS captured a few days ago after
hiding in the woods for two months,
has been sent?nced to death.
As is well known, George \7.
iChevcs, formerly ^ditpr. pftlie P^w- 4
son Journal, i* confined in the At-
lanta jail for the killing of a man
named Picket, in' Dawson,, several
months ago. ' A few week's since
Dr. Boring, after, a proper examina
tion, stated that. Mr. Cbevcs was
unquestionably insane. Mr. Cheves
is now restored and in full posses
sion 6f his mental faculties. ‘Her “■
a representative of one of the i