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nrrRDERED MERRITT' TRAGEDY DP THE JJ»» C ®° KRI ” l Join H-EASTERN. bn" 1 k»I>p pn g M at tula, Kill. Dspntj Marshal joUn Msrrltt In Cold Blood. 8 0 clock Saturday night one of the ' , unprovoked and cold-biooded mur- * committed at Lula that haa oc- I'^'A for many years in that section, rt, cause of the killing seem* to be a vttcry, but it ia thought by some to 9 t) o f n caused from something that n od between Merritt and Coffee f m o lime ago. From the statement* of *art ; es who saw the murdered inan'land ’ T i ihc pistol shots, it seems that it ^ JonC without any provocation. Joel brother of the man who did shooting.) John Merritt and P. F. wore in Logan’s restaurant con ing very friendly, when John Coffee, the murderer, came in, and after stand -in the crowd for a few minutes said: M.rritt, let me see you privately.” ,,jfoe walked out of the frontdoor of the r ,>uurar.t, followed by Merritt, and „,pcd on the corner, which is only a sr -tops from the entrance of the res ent. The other members of the rtv remained in the restaurant and con- uo d the conversation. A few moments i: Vr ( otfee and Merritt had passed out the door four or K1VF. PISTOL SHOTS re heard tired in quick succession, e reports of the pistol came from the tree! near the entrance of the building, he men rushed out and found John Merritt lying on the ground near the cor- cr gasping for breath. The night was ,rk and no one could be seen near the ring man. He was picked up and car- ,.,1 into the restaurant, when he drew ie breath and died. Merritt died with- nt uttering a word of any kind. In fact, was practically dead when the n»cn •ked him up. K. F. Cape, a deputy V. S. marshal, died f<»r volunteers to go with him and rrest the murden r, and intimated that . hn Cotlee had committed the terrible rime. No one offered to go, and Cape •,t to t i linesvillc, where n posse was k.» d and immediately went in pursuit, here is considerable excitement, and •d«‘>s Coffee makes good his os- ip.' through the mountains, he will t-caught Coffee has lived at Lula for long time, and has been making and Ihng whisky, and it will be a hard latter to overtake him, as he is well ac- ainit'd with all the paths and houses in hat part of the country. CAPE S STATEMENT. Three of us,” said Cape, “Merrett, urn and I, left Gainesville yesterday -inner on a raid into Hanks county. 1. ft tin* cars at Lula where, we were ed by heputy Collector Strong. Af- ^pending the whole of yesterday in a • less search ami lying out all night, reached Lula this evening between . lown and dark, tired and sleepy, and rtided to get aboard the down passen- :U!* o’clock for Gainesville. While utiiii the arrival of the train we went > what is known as Logan’s restau- t. a house situated on the left of the .. ** 1 from here, almost directly op- ite the depot building. I.ogan, the proprietor, was in the front room of the house. Mrs. Legan * in the cook room adjoining, busily preparing supper, while Merrit, Osborn, Joel Coffee and myself, and the little on of Logan were seated around a pleas- mt fire in another room. Merritt was rated in front of the tire, I was on his ight, and Joel Coffee and Osborn at his eft. He was entertaining the party by propounding questions from Walter Tay- s riddle book, and we were amusing ourselves trying to guess the answers to the riddles. In the midst of this John oflee came in and stood between Mer- r tt, who was still reading, and the fire, inti spoke to me very pleasantly. After »moment he approached Merritt, touch- el him on the arm, nodeed to him, gave I*•!»* to understand that he wished to xpeak to him privately and went out, followed by Merritt. As they passed out the door Logan saw them and re marked jokingly: “Yes, by G—d, you are fixing to give somebody away now.’ A moment after he made this remark five pistol shots were heard in quick succes sion, and some one outside said “Oh!” three times. 1 immediately sprang to my feet and rushed out, asking as I did so: ‘What is the matter?’ Logan replied: •somebody’* killed, I think,’ and seined his lantern. We then went out together, followed by the others, and around the corner, about eight or ten feet, we saw Merritt lying on his face against the house. Logan called for water and dashed some on him and turn ed him over. He was still alive, but by the time we got him in the house he was dead. Wc made a hasty examination and found only one wound located near the heart. Soon after 1 came away on the train, leaving him there surrounded by loving friends. As brave a man and a?* true a friend as ever breathed. Why John Coffee should have killed him I do not know. Coffee was not drinking, and not a word was passed in anger so far as any of us could hear. It was a cruel cold-blooded murder. John Coffee killed a mi»n at Longview several years ago, »nd is looked upon by all who know him as a dangerous man.” dfeven- dve.ofhog cholera. WjJ. Smith; otWay cross, has a 'cat Which playtf the piano. f Butler, has NO. XVI ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTTE&pA:^, M ARGIEL •' ■ " • ■Tir '■ r " 'I-* ! ' 1 -~r ’ 1 .imi -.v [V'hramcle.l Whice out hunting, Edgar Dyson ac- cidedtally ahot himself in the foot; While Mr. and Mra. Gabo Bell, living near Mt. Zion, were at preaching Satur day, one of the little children that they left at home was fatally burned. There ia not much religion in leaving amall chil dren at home to go to church, with no one to watch them. Mr. Wood, the stable man, had a fine hoase to run away and get impaled on a picket fence. The animal was so badly injured that it had to be killed. Father O'Brien is out en the streets again. The barn of Mrs. Wm. Sutton, near Danburg, was burned. Capt. Burnett found a hen egg on his place recently, in the shape of a terrapin with distinct marks for feet and tail, the outlines of a human face, and the figures of 171 on the flat side. Henry Gartrell and Jerry Landers were arraigned before Judge Widfield in the county court on Saturday for retail ing liqdor without license. Both were adjudged guilty, and sentenced to the chain gang for six months, with the op tion of paying twenty-live dollars each and costs. FRANKLIN COUNTY. |B (taler.] The Register is in mourning this week for Dr. Wilkes, of Carncsville. L. J. McConnell is in business in Carnesville. A gentleman from Harmony Grove will open up a furniture store in Carnesville at an early date. Robert Smith, better known to many of our readers as "Uncle Bob Smith,” died on Saturday last. He lived to a good old age, about 76. 5L THE SECOND- Bam Small'a Week to Chicago— 1 The People Slicuitod With Him—Aping Bam tha Greater—Hllartoui Talk about • Hell— aroaaly Intuiting a Worthy Charity and Good People—Too Imperlone for a Hew Convert-Mr. Small May be Bam Jones' Convert, Bnt He It Hot a Convert of Jesus Chrlat. from the experience of an eminent servant .of the devil, until a very re cent period a dissipated and reck* 'Mia sinner, the zeal that he now displays against balls, operas and the theatre, lustily rebuking all who patronize them, and sending them by quick dispatch to hell, would be painiul if it were not so generally es teemed ridiculous. Mr. Small is alto- together too imperious for a new convert. He is too swift and whole sale in his condemnation and damns THE KNIFE. Cutting to East Athens. Sunday night East Athens was the scene of a very dangerous cutting scrape. Henry Evans is a young white boy about 12 years old, and got into a difficulty with Bud Brown, a negro, over some trivial matter. Brown hit Evans three licks with a hickory stick. Evans, see ing that the negro had the advantage of him, drew his knife and cut Brown. The Srst cut was across the side of the head, splitting his ear. He then stabbed him in the pit of the stomach, and just above the heart. The most dangerous wound is the one above the heart, and may prove fatal. Evans thinks he is justifi able, and has not left. TO SWING. Clarksville to Have a Hanging. Robt. H. Morris, who murdered his brother-in-law Henderson last Novem- vember, was tried at Clarksville last week, and found guilty of murder in the first degree. Morris was sentenced to be hung on the 26th of April. His law yers will make a motion for a new trial this week. He had no idea that he would be hung or even go to the penitentiary, as he claimed that his deed was done in self-defense. Henderson was the second murder that he had committed. DR. ARMSTRONG'S CASE. Atlanta, March 8.—There is amove ment on foot to establish an independent church for Dr. James G. Armstrong, the suspended rector of St. Philip's Episco pal parish. It is not improbable that an effort will be made to induce Dr. Arm strong to preach once every Sunday at DeGive's opera house, and a purse of four thousand dollars a year is proposed as the financial foundation of the scheme. Quitca number of Dr. Armstrong’s parish ioners have announced their intention to follow the doctor if he makes a bolt. CHURCH BURNED. The church at White Plains, Greene county, was destroyed Monday by fire. The building was a large, handsome wooden structure, erected in 1872 at a cost of |5,500. It was handsomely fin ished, the chandelier alone costing $125. Nothing was saved except the organ, the chandelier and a small pisce of the car pet. The building is a total loss—there being no insurance—and will fall heavi ly upon the church and community. Evidently the fire originated just where the stove pipe goes through the ceiling. BITTERS. Our drug stores have all quit selling litters of which alcohol is the chief in gredient, as it turned their place of bus iness into regular bar-rooms, and drove off respectable customers. There is big money in “ bitters" but it is destruc tion on other branches of trade. To get Anything st all intoxicating in Athens now a fellow must ride fire miles ost to Fowler s. A druggist tells us that his sales of bay rum and Jamaica ginger have quadrupled of late, as a great many old soakers use it as a substitute for whisky. COMPETITION IN OGLETHORPE The steam and water mills and gins arc waging an exterminating war on each other down in Oglethorpe. The water-power owners have put down the price of grinding corn to one-twelfth, while the steam mills charge an eighth. In some localities the gins got to cutting so in tolls that farmers had their cotton gin. ned for one-thirtieth. There is no mon ey in this, of course, and such policy is financially suicidal. AH ASSIGNMENT* Yesterday J. B. Thornton, the Clay ton street candy manufacturer, made an •alignment for the benefit of hia credi tors—N. B. Jones doing thb legal Work. Ur. E.TT: Anderson is the trustee, and will sell and convert assets i ito cash for the creditors. Mr. Thorntcn preferred all of his Athens creditors, tuey will get their whole claims. Chicago Paper. Chicago has had a week of pre liminary revival meetings conducted by Mr. Sam himall, the co-liborer and advance herald of Kev. Sam (ones. His business was to prepaie the way,for the union Evangilistic services,, which began in the Casino Skating A'cademy building last Sun- day. Mr. Small, in the absence o» Mr. ]ones, had the field to himself, and conducted the prelimina'y ser vices of the campaign in a manner which is not altogether pleasant to many originally interested in the revival. He was the special attrac tion at the noon day services at Far- well hall, making an address every day, and preaching every night in the Chicago Avenue church. While the attendance has been fairly good at all these services, there has been no outpouring of the multitude. It is Jones that draws the crowd, not Small, who, although a very capable and eloquent speaker, of theentense Southern style, even more dramatic and sensational than Jones, is always more or less overshadowed by the greater Sam. Now that the latter hasarrived upon the scene and taken command, the revival served no Ion ger by deputy, we may expect to see the same phenomenal crowds that have attended the Georgia evange lists in the Southern cities, and also in Cincinnati, the scene of their re cent labors. Mr. Small’s services last week were unexphctedly noticiabiein their way, and demand a word or two on their own account. In Cincinnati and elsewhere the lesser Sam has been complimented for a higher and more cultivated style of address than Sam Jones uses in his pulpit and platform appeals. It has been said that while equally as earnest and common sense as Jones in hia speech, he made a better impression on the more thoughtful and Chris tian people of the congregation by not descending to the slang phrases and rowdy elements of speech which copiously interlard the public ad dresses of the other Sam. If this was the case in Cincinnati ai.d else where, a mighty change has come over Mr. Small since his advent in Chicago. “Like master, like man,” would seem to be the words now to apply in the new development of the recent Georgia convert. On several occasious during the last week, Mr. Small was as coarse, ir reverent and even vulgar as the most heedless or thoughtless of “the boys” could wish. His slang aad witticism were greeted by laughter by the thoughtless oi his congrega tion, but many were alio displeased at his hard hearted levity and gen eral forgetfulnes of what was due to his solemn position before the pub lic. Some specimens of his talk may be given as examples. In a sermon last Friday, he told of a class of peo pie who “would want Peter to let them out early so that they could get their cocktail every morning!” He then described another class that was so much interested in a low or der ol music, and loving it so well that they wanl“want to get up a min strel show,” and “organize a troupe amongthe angels and travel through the country.” Othei music lovers “would not be in heaven twenty- four hours belote they would be go- ing around organizing an arch-an- gelic church choir company.” Of a certain description el lawyer he “would not trust to get a bob-tailed calf out of the city pound;” while the doctor was caught in the assertion that “we ate going on so last now that young men don’t think i hey can graduate properly trom a medical college and hang out a saw-bone sign and roll up a pill until they have themselves acknowledged infidels and atheists, and that they must be agnostic before they can be fit to prescribe for a sick baby.” Such statements as these may be well calculated to tickle the ears of the groundlings they do not advance Mr. Small’s chances for usefulness as an evangelist. Mr. Small was also generaly hila rious in dealing with the subject of hell and the eternal loss of soul; using language that plainly evinced that lie had no sympathy with the multitude hurrying on the down ward course, even using levity in hit descriptions of their sufferings, making them dance in hell and go to the theatre and indulge in an eter nal round of drunkenness and all sorts of dissipation, drawing heart less pictures of the fate of the damn ed in this manner *.vith brutal facili ty, and apparently unmoved by the spectacle he was presenting to his hearers. people too promptly and vigorously for his own good. A little more of years she has been a rag picker in the streets of Chicago, and her back • he common sense, which he says once nearly sent him to hell, would still be a useful ingredient in his make up. People will be apt to re member who the man is that sets up himself as the modern Jonah to call Chicago to repentance. A record such zs Sam Small’s is not a first- class recommendation for a revival prophet or the teacher ot purity and righteousness. If be does not be come more careful in his speech and more modest in his claims, the thoughtful among his hearers will conclude that while he may be Sam Jones'convert, he is not a convert of the Lord Jesus Christ. A CURIOUS SHIPWRECK. .A FORTUNE IN RAGS a Female Mltcrtnio Picked Up $80,000 on the street* of Chicago. prii' Chicago, March 4.—A little, dried-up old woman, dirty and in rags, sat in a chair in Judge Pen dergrast’s court room yesterday, and looked vacantly into the faces of six men who had been called to exam ine into her mental condition. Her name was Ida Schireider, and her age was given as 57, although she looked much older. For twenty picker in Chicago, was bent and her shoulders humped by the loads she has during that FASHION MOTHS. ■. time borne through the alleys and ones - dl it>i Vioiett are to’ bd“very fashiona ble. ' - fl B* Buckles of all kinds are in high- favor. Cuffs are en suite with callarettes and fichus. Linen cuffs and collars are heavily embroidered. Clasps for beaded velvet dog-col lars correspond with the heads. Etamme or the rather coarse can vas fabrics reappear this season. Long silk gloves are worn at re ceptions and with the demi-toilette. inbroidered China silk hand kerchiefs take the place of linen At a re,cent sale day, valuable lands withla two miles of Monti- A daily paper gives the following account of a singular shipwreck from the l'ps of Captain White, of the brig Ada L. White, which was abandoned and lost on her recent voyage from Rio Janeiro to this port. Captain White said it was fine summer weather, with the mercury standing at So degrees in the shade, when they left Rio, December 16, with 11,248 bags of coffee on board. The voyage continued without inci dent until the brig was off Jamaica, when a gale came howling from the noithwest, and lasted three days. But it was several days later, when 160 miles out at sea, off Hatteras, that the great storm which wrecked them was encountered. The waves ran high; the wind blew almost a hurricane, and lashed the ocean into foam; wave after wave broke over the ship, and finally enough water got below to wet the cargo. Then the coffee hegan to swell, the bags burst, and more water got in. The coffee, which was forced out of the open sacks, floated into the pumps, and soon disabled them. It was now impossible to reduce the water in the hold Meanwhile the fury of the storm ncreased, and the sea was terrible to behold. In the midst of these scenes of peril, a new and terrible danger appeared. Because of the disabled pumps, which were chok ed with coflee, the eleven thousand bags ot coffee became completely thoroughfares of the city, while her eyes would at times leave the faces of the six jurors and drop to the floor, as it looking for some scrap of value upon the carpet. It was found that she had been insane for two years and a halt, and she was order ed sent to Batavia. The woman has had a most sin gular history. Year after year she has been turning over the ash heaps and refuse piles of the city, and from the garbage barre’ls ot the ho tels and restaurants has procured food enough to sustain liie. Her sleepittg place was any hole into which she could creep, and so, win ter and summer, rain or shine, she made her rounds, spending absolute ly no money, for castaway garments supplied her with clothes, until she had laid away upward of $So,ooo, all in money, a fortune for most peo ple, and a princely one for her. She has one daughter, a Mrs. Isadore Schmidt, who yesterday made a motion in the probate court for the appointment of a conservator for her mother’s estate, and at whose instance she was found insane. It may be that better treatment and good food will cure the woman’s malady, hut a mind which has been clouded by twenty years of merely animal existence will be a difficult subject to reclaim. GOING INTO POLITICS. The Action of the Knights of Labor to nil- nols—Tbey Announce the Formation of a Hew Political Party, to be Known ae •■tbe United Labor Party of America"— The Aim* of the Hew Combination. Chicago, March 8.—The action of the Knights of Labor in this sec tion in forming a new jtolitical par ty is attracting much attention. They declare in their platform: “We have formed a new national political party to be known as the united labor party of America, for the purpose of organizing and di recting the great political power of the industrial masses, as a political saturated, and the whole mass tose I organization, and we will cast our like yeast. With a shock that shook ballots for no one who will not the vessel to her centre, the decks pledge himself to stand firmly by burst open with a crash of thunder. | our principles.” They call upon all The hatches were wrenched ofl as voters to unite in an effort to eman- f they were but paper, and great seams opened in the vessel, which admitted the sea in tonents. All hope was now lost. Nothing was to be done but leave the ship aa speedily as possible, for she was al ready setting in the white waters. THE NEGROE S HOME-MADE BANK. Ha No Longer Puts Faltb to tbs Banking In stitution*. The colored folks have a great penchant tor burying their hard- earned money. Doubtless this feel ing was superinduced by the Fred- man’s bank swindle, in which so many colored people lost their all. An industrious old colored man who lived in this place a few years ago, named Lem Mathis, before his death buried six hundred and fifty dollars in Hunt’s woods. The mon ey was in a tin box. He died with out revealing the place of deposit, and his children, one of whom still lives here and another one in At lanta, wete thus deprived of this money. Another negro man nam ed Joe Cook, who formerly belong ed to Rev. Dr. Cook, was a brick mason and hired his own hands,and by this meanshadaccumulatedal.alf bushel of silver. The family left here for lower Georgia, and old Joe buried his money and died without telling the exact spot where it was hidden. A colored man died here about a month ago who had con siderable money and his children have been unable to find it. It is presumed that he buried it.—Mari etta Journal. cipate the wage-workers of the country from the iron hand of the capitalists. They declare that the alarming development and aggres siveness of the great capitalists and corporations, uuless checked, will inevitaoly lead to the pauperization and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses. The Knights of Labor numbered 20,000 1030,000 in Chicago, and 850,000 in the U nited States and Canada. The tinners and cornice makers decided to be come Knights of Labor. AT THE LAST MOMENT. A Man In Delirium Confenes to a Murder. Macon, Ga., March 9.—Swamp Miles, the man who is supposed to have murdered Swamp Mollie and her paramour, Davis, died yester- day. He made a virtual confession while dying, crying out: “Oh! why do you torment me; I have killed you once—let me alone.” He tore bis hair and clutched at his throat, saying: “Oh! Mollie, leave me flone!” then cried: “I am in an engine burning up, help me out.” He soon died. His confession virtually settles the question as to who was the murderer. A GEORGIA WILLOW FARM. THE CHATTANOOGA MURDERER. Ha Hu Been Carried to Sum mervllle to Re ceive His Senten ce. THE HABERSHAM MURDERER. Morris is well connected, haring been lorn and raised in Franklin county. He '• * nephew of Hon. Thoms* Morris, of Csrnesrillo, who represented Franklin serorsl times in the legislature, and of A. J. Morris, who wu at one time Ordinary of Franklin. The doomed man in his routh went to school to Judge Estes, end this may be the reason that caused the Judge to exchange circuit* with Judge Brown. Judg* Estes for a long fitne wu also th« law partnsr of Hon. f ho mas Morris, hi* uncle. hahdithuyiax. A farmer tellaus that hands are nearly el! hiring for standing wages this year, end good workers command $100 and l"»rd. U will take fire bales of cotton * l7l » cent* to meet this and feed tbe plow stock, allowing nothing for rent* Jow hands will make that much. So ‘he fanner gets badly left. AT SEA. Farmer* are at a loss to know what to o. They feel now that their cotton '•op next year will bring them only 7K «ota, and it.can’tbe raised for thi*. -Tot “oyhare their hand* to pay off and «c* to meet, and there U nothing else ■JL*** M»g them in ready •’ m* Swear) * A COOL MURDEKEB. Morris, who wu sentenced to death at Clarksville court for murdering Jas per Henderson laughed all the time bile the judge was delivering the sen tence and said to the sheriff when he wu carrying him back to jail, “Send me plenty to eat, so that I will be heavy enough to break my neck when I fall.” THB ATLANTA JAIL. j The government ia sending all of its prisoners to other jails from Atlanta. One man 8isd on hia-way home.« Bellinger and .Byron, of Habersham county, and Hamilton, of White county, are danger ously ill and their recovery is doubtful, Thor* are four others who are very lick. MSOLVENT COST AID. The fine tff $400 paid by Moore of Madison cennty,atthe Us) term ofconrt, paid ail the insolvent opstof the coun ty except one dottkr and a half, Madi son ia the only county on record which ha* its insolvent cost *0 nsar paid l up. 10 isrconrowABiHo hSk'i JUSTICE. News cam* down on the North-Eut- «rn yesterday that John Coffee wad lean in- the* northern portion of Habersham dressed in women’s clothes,'. going to wards North Carolina. There hia not Boon • party organised uyet to the fleeing criminal. During the week Mr. Small vig orously attacked the hypocrisy and dishonesty of church members, but in such en undiscriminating manner as to lake away much of the force ot his argument. Robert Ingersoll could wish for no more wholesale verdjet against the general rotten ness of Christian society than he could glean from Small’a sermons of the last week. If he keeps on as he he has begun, he will be a valu able co laborer of Ingersoll as well as Jones, for the infidels will be quick to utilize his sweeping and unjust 'condemnation of the Christian church. It ia very generally admitted that Mr. Small made a very bad mistake in relation to another matter, which has impaired hia usefulness in the city. During the week the annual charity ball was given in this city. This affair, originating outside of the churches and with a most commend able object in view, enlisting tome of the best families of Chicago in its support, was bitterly attacked by Mr. Small as a hell-deserving enter* prise. He had the rudeness to de clare: “If there is any logic in earth or bell that can differentiate the dif ference between a charity ball and one of those low dance house dive balls for the villainous and the scum of Chicago, then you ought to trot it out right away.” To put this char itable Dali on the same moral level with the dance house dives and brothels of the city, was an offense for which Mr. Small will not soon b$ forgiven in Chicago. It was vile uuault to hundreds of its best people, who are foremost in all the good works of the City. And when we rwnflmber that Mr. Small is himself, according to his own ac count, only $ few month* removed John Davis, who killed a com panion of his in Chattoog a county, was carried to Summerv'ille from Rome Thursday to receive his sen tence of imprisonment for life. The murder which carri, ;s young Davis to the penitentiary to r life was committed about two y ears ago. He and a companion, a boy about 14 yeats of age, were out hunting, and when night came the hitter did not show up. The parents of the boy became alarmed, and went in search of him, Davis failing to give any account of the missing one. The search was made through the night and until the next day, when the bey was found in the creek with gunshot wounds upon his person sufficient produce death. Davis wascharged with committing the crime and was therefore arrested. At the Septetu her term of Chattooga superior court he was tried for the murder of the boy, which resulted ina mistrial At the March term, 1885, he was again tried, and found guilt; of murder, but was recommended to the mercy oi the court. The law yers for the defendant made a mo tion for a new trial and asked sen tence to he suspended. The request for the new trial was refused, and the motion was carried to the su preme court, where the judgment of the lower court was sustained. About a mile below the city of Macon is the Osier willow farm of Mr. I. C. Plant, which has been visited by a correspondent of the American Druggist. The willow switches, at the end of two years, are from four to seven feet long, and are cut and gathered into bunches like sheaves of wheat. In the strip Ding building they are steeped in water, and the bark at the larger end loosened for a couple of inches I by machinery. The leaves and bark are then removed by a little machine devised by Mr. Plant. One by one the switches are placed in the mechanical stripper, and with a pair of pliers are pulled through with a sudden jerk. They are then wiped off with a woolen cloth, bun dled and laid away to dry. All the leaves and bark are dried and haled. They are used for me-' dicinal purposes, and command a price b'f twenty-five cents a pound. There are at present 400,000 wil lows growing on the farm, and 80,- 000 additional slips have recently been set out. Tbe entire levee is to be eventually covered with them, when sixty acres will be devoted to this single crop. The average yield is a ton to the acre. When dried, the willows command $200 per ton, and find a ready market. Beaded plush and frise velvet are always combined with the plain ma terial. Childrens’ pinafores must be am ple now, quite covering the dress, and being very richly trimmed. Plush grows in popularity for dresses, wraps, bonnets and hats, and is worn by old and young alike. Fichus of crape cross over the bust one end is cut off where the other crosses it, the latter extend ing to the waist line. Cord ornaments are shown. They are heavy, and are worn with the best effect on the coarse, rough ma terial now in vogue. Tan-colored Swede Gloves are worn with evening dresses. They are of very light shade, very long, and fit the arm smoothly. Cashmere shawls are utilized for mantles and are trimmed with os trich tips or fur. The longer cloaks have the front and back of velvet. Khedia satin is a new material. It is to be had with small Oriental de signs and also plain. When draped it falls in peculiarly soft, rich folds Plastrons of silk muslin or piece lace are laid in folds from the throat to the waist, where they are fin ished by a fan of lace or a bow of ribbon. Exquisite hand - painted flowers are seen on the silk or satin hand kerchief bags that now hang from the elbows ot the stately dames of fashion. Ribbon will form a most impor tant part of the new dresses, water ed, plain, gross grain, gauze, satin striped and plain, fluttering in bows and floating ends. Crush hats are made of corded silk rosettesatranged in front. These hats are also made to match trave ling costumes. Such dainty work bags may be made of colored China silk kerchiefs with a running strings set in, leav ing the four pointed corners to lap Over;to make them prettier still,these bags should be edged with oriental lace. A dainty sachel-bagis made with a white China silk handkerchief, in which the filling is in equal parts, lavendar and orris root. The con tents should be tiid up in pudding fashion and the string a piece of bright red ribbon. Red jerseys are are shown with black buttons and black velvet vest, collar and cuffs. A skirt of camel’s hair, with long drapery lined and turned over at one side with the color that forms the trimming of the jer sey, makes a useful morning cos tume. Nattv jerseys in wool are made with aloose coat front, trimmed with gold buttons 3nd worn overa Fedora front ot bright red, with a low bod ice of velvet matching the shade of the eoat,which in this case should be dark blue or black. New $dk handkerchiefs have tor figures cross bars of orange, black and other striking combinations of colors, in sea green and in dark blue with white dots. Others come in pearl gray, with various rich figures in blue red checks and a great varie ty of soft colors. A rich dress has the bodice, train and short overdress of deep blue velvet. The underskirt is of pale pink satin, covered with lace. The overdress is fastened back with em broidery and agraffes of shaded blue beads. The short sleeves are of vel vet trimmed with bead embroidery and lace. About the shoulders are folds of the-lace covered satin. ' A walking costume is ot brown bourette with tiny"flecks of red. The overdress is draped over the skirt, whicn is plaited in wide folds from the waist. The bodice is laced with red and brown cord over dark red surah chemisette. The short visita worn with this dress is trimmed with Alaska sable. The bonnet and muff are of dark red plush edged with fur. ■' IixoseUtWurdstfWtl ^7 Loan agents have been fora num ber of years scattering mortgages upon our Georgia farms. There are probably $1,500,000 of such mortgages, in sums of from $500 to $3,000. Numbers of the borrowers have failed to meet their indebtedness and the lands are be ing sold. Some of our best lawyers are making a handsome thing ot it in foreclosing these claims. The farmer first paid from 30 to 50 per cent, tor supplies and guano advances. He thought it a move forward to borrow money for three to five yeats’time, mortgaging $3 of land for $1 of loan, paying 16 per cent, of commission in a lump to the agent, and S per cent, interest a year. For instance, ou a $3,000 loan he gave a mortgage on a $9,000 farm. His commission, 16 per cent., was $4So, which left him only $2,520 cash. His interest of 8 per cent, on $3,000 is $240 a year, or $1,200 for the five years. His account stands at the end of the five years: Whole loan due $3,000 Commission gone ! 480 Yearly interest five years 1,200 Ik •ed' Spotted county jail. Senator Miller, of California, is dead. Boston liquor licenses have been raised $200. John S. Davidson is mentioned for Governor. Humphries, the alleged murder er, is in Macon for safe keeping.' The tea culture experiment in South Carolina has proven a failure. One million new Georgia 4^’s have been placed in Paris. The President’s course is still condemned in Washington. At Gwinnett court, John Hill was convicted of manslaughter. A Philadelphian shot his daugh ter in the shoulder for a burglar. The work ot rescuing the entomb ed Nanticoke miners has been re sumed. Nitro-glycerine was found under the^ freight depot at Newberry, $4,680 He gets use of cash 5 years 2,500 For which he pays $2,180 This is a frightful thing. The farmer gets $2,500 for 5 years on a $9,000 place and pays for it $2,160 or $432 ayear practically, or 17$per cent. He lacks $360 of doubling the amount in five years—that is he gets $2,500 in cash and pays out lor it $2,160, or within $360 of the $2,520. He pays commission $480, which he gets no use of, and pays S per cent interest, on it for 5 years, being $38.40 a year and $192 for 5 years. Now, let us see what the $S,ooo farm has to do in five years. Be sides supporting its master, his fam ily and hands, it has to produce a surplus of $4,680 in the five years, This is a total of over (50 per cent for the whole five years or over to per cent, a year, A business that nets 6 per cent, is a good one—a magnificent one. But this farmer has to net over 10 per cent, straight along for five years, good or bad season, rust or no rust, drouth or flood, as his fundamental expense, and live outside of that, or at the end of five years be unable to meet his mortgage. It can’t be done as a rule. It can only be done as a rare exception. The only policy for the farmer is to not borrow, but live and work hard, economize, diversify his har vest, make home-made manures, raise provisions and have his cotton as a surplus. Down with the mortgage system PROHIBITION. How (tha Movement Is Growing Over the United States. A fatal duel in Mexico has been recorded. Both p incipals were shot dead. The Mormon women protest against the government’s war on polygamy. Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina will be contested by the republicans. Senator McCall, colleague of Senator Jones, of Florida, says he is crazy—as mad as a March hare. Earthquake in the CityofCosen- za, houses thrown down ’and per sons killed and wounded, Samuel Newton, the Choctaw wife murderer, was executed last Friday. One negro gambler near Millen, Ga., shot and killed another because he would not loan him five cents. cello sold for $4 an acre. Eleven Atlanta youths have run away from their homes, Snd intend to walk to New Orleans. Many of the farmers of Haber sham county are using guano and trying to raise cotton. Three and a half gallons of whis ky from a bushel of corn is the yield at Bagby’s distillery, in New ton county. Three white men were sent to the chain-gang since our last issue for bj ting up an old negro’s pai’tngs. —Waycross Reporter. A Monroe county farmer' says that he has quit swearing, drinking wrisky and chewing tobacco, and thrt to make the reformation com plete, he will quit guano. One family in Bartlesville had 14 •’ooks last year. The he. d of that household is now paying his two ’aughters, bright, w'nsome girls they are, too, $153 month to do the cooking. Several Swiss settlers, who lo cated in Habe. sham cou.ity several years ago, bid ta : r to m..*.e the gr. pe tnd w: .e business a >..c-‘ess. Some of them till ik Habe •haul, in its idaptability to the v : ie, equal to the fine wine districts in Europe. Mr. Elijah Pate, of Dooly county, s unusually sprightly or a man ot seventy-five yea's of age, but he still has an eye for the tender and the loveable. A few days ago he was married to Mi Bailey, a young lady of sixteen summers. Some few weeks since Mr. John Faucett, living in upper Dodge county, conceiving the idea that phosphorus was sure death to rats, broke a lot of match s, m'xed the same with some sausage ard placed it in his corn ctib. The s.ory in full is told in a few words: The rats were destroyed, and with them the coin crib and its entire contents, amounting in tile aggi egate to about coo bushels of corn. A breach of promise suit has been filed against a Louisville, Ky., preacher. There are sti'lsome Seminole In dians living in the everglade region of Florida. The burning of the West Point, Ga.. college, was the work of an in cendiary. F. L. Howell, of Warrenton, and Powell & Hardy, of Harlem, Ga.. have failed. Ethridge was acquitted of the murder of Dr. Tucker, in Dodge county. John Hill, an old and paralyzed Confederate soldier, was found dead in Augusta—supposed to be suicide. In Pittsburg, Pa., rival labor unions are s.riking against each oth- ARRESTED FOR MURDER. TERRIBLE DEATH BY FIRE. An Epileptic Falls Unconscious Upon a ' Banins stove. Canton, O., March a.—A horri ble and fatal accident befell Na thaniel Harsh, a bachelor farmer, living near Pekin, a village in this county. Harsh was about 45 years old and lived alone, attending to his own household work. Since his youth be had been subject to epi leptic fits. While cooking his sup per last night he was suddenly at tacked with a fit and fell helpless ’m the hot stove. He was una upoi ble to move and lay roasting for quite a time, when.he finally regain ed bis consciousness and flung him- sett 'from this awful, conch. The baked flesh fell in large pieces from his body. In an agony ot terror he rushed- into the open air, where he was - found running about crazed with pain. He died shortly after. Xsn-Csnt Circuses. : • ; Charleston (S. C.) Letter. Cne of the phenomenal successes of the year it that of a 10-cent cir cus which, was organized here a short time ago, and which has been playing to crowded tents during the week. It starts off on a tour next week. The outfit was pur chased by Charleston capitalists, who saw money in it, and the ac- tors were engaged North. There have been four ten-cent circuses here this season, and all of them have coined money. Two or three sharp business men here caught on to the idea and determined logo into the circus business. The out fit cost them about $2,506,1 am totd, and their weekly expenses are about $500. Their first week’s recepts in Charleston will aggregate over $2,000. Newton Powell, ot Walker County Light Bond. Lafayette, Ga., March 8.— Newton Powell, of this (Walker) county, was arrested yesterday for killing Dr.-Sam Price. Two months ago Dr. Price and Tom Powell be came involved in a difficulty, which the physician shot the young man. As he at tempted to shoot the second time Newton Powell, brother of the wounded man, seized a billet of wood and dealt the physician a terrible blow on the head, crushing his skull. Dr. Price lived six weeks with his brains oozing out, and was a raving maniac until his death two weeks ago. Young Powell, recov ered trom his injuries, whan New ton Powell was arrested. It was decided that four magistrates should hold his preliminary trial. When the testimony was concluded two were in favorjof acquittal and two wanted him committed. Nei ther would yield until the body of Dr. Price was exhumed. The head was dissected in the coffin to make some technicial examination, and thep decided to bind Powell over in $200 bond. WANT TO COMPROMISE. Some of ihe whisky men are proposing a compromise to the prohibitionists in Athens. They say they will not get up a petition for another election or try to hava the bill repealed, if the prohibition- ists will allow them to have the bill so amended sa to allow them to sell 1 beer. The Germans in Athens ore great .lovers of beer, snd they went to be allowed to drink it when through business at night. It will be a matter of interest to those interested in the temperance movement to know what have been the gains in recent years. As to states: New Hampshire has prohibition. Maine has prohibition. Vermont has prohibition. Kansas has prohibition. Iowa has prohibition. Great difficulties in enforcing these laws have been met for years. Courts must pass upon many law points raised. In Kansas the last saloon has gone. In Maine the law is enforced in all cities upon the coast but Bangor. In Iowa, a few of the cities on the Mississippi resist the enforcement ot the law; in nine-tenthsof the states the sa loon has been suppressed. The Governors ot these states say the law has come to stay. As to counties: In Georgia, m counties have no saloons. In Maryland, 10 counties have no saloons. In Kentucky, 32 counties have no saloons. In Missouri, 21 counties have no saloons. In Florida 6 counties have no saloons. In Pennsylvania, 3 counties have no saloons. In Mississippi, 26 counties have no saloons. Ssuth Carolina has only 200 saloons outside of Charleston. Large parts of Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee have driven the bar rooms away. Virginia, both parties stand pledged to pass a county local op- on a tion law, under which so widespread a work has been done in the South. It looks now as if the next five years will suppress the legalized, in New Orleans, and a few large cities. In Canada, this movement to sup press the strong drink traffic is equally widespread and successful, Fully one-halt of the Dominion is now freed from the curse. In places where we would least look for prohibition, it has come with the vote. When the people of Dakota voted recently upon the adoption of the constitution, the vote was in favor of complete pro hibition. It is not yet a state, but there is in this vote a-healthy mor al tone. In Clarendon county, S. C., reg ulators whipped a negro who was living with a white woman. Civil service examinations are to be held at Charleston, S. C., March 23d, and Savannah March 26. Atlanta, March 7.—Gen. Gar trell is reported critically ill at mid ght. The past year, three men have been lynched in Spartanburg coun The republicans say that Cleve land is the best President they ever had. He is disrupting the demo cratic party. Government counsel on the Bell telephone suit have come to an greement on a bill. The action is be brought in Columbus, Ohio, Augusta, Ga., is excited over an influx of Chinamen in that city There are already over 100, and they have 20 stores. Utica, N. Y., March 8.—Mary Bleecker, relict of Gov. Horatio Seymour, died at the residence of Mrs. Roscoe Conkling to-day. At Eatonton, N. T., a negro 70 years old was lynched in jail for outraging a young gill. He first knocked her senseless. to I Elberton, Ga., March 6.—Major Henry H. Harper, a prominent citi zen of Abbeville county, S. C-, died on last Thursday morning. Atlanta, Msrch 7.—Edward George, the young man, aged 20, who was accidentally shot late last night by his friend, died to-night. Mr. Emory Nash, of Lawrence- ville, tried to commit suicide with a pistol, but the pistol was knocked up and the ball passed through his neck. GOSSIP ABOUT DB. ARMSTRONG. Atlanta, Match 8.—Without being in the least desitous of being at all sensational, I am constrained to say the floating evidence is in favor of tbe belief that an effort will be made to establish an inde pendent church for Dr. Armstrong, There is a rumor that he has been offered “OLD SORREL” DYING. Tbs Last of Stonewall Jaokson’a Famous War Horse. Richmond, March 8.—To-night “Old Sorrel," Stonewall Jackson’s famous war horse, is thought to be dying. He was exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition, and since that time has been at the Confeder ate Soldiers’ Home, where he has been tenderly cared for. He now 32 years old, and has been bad health for some time past. Du ring the last week he has been weak that a block and tackle was used to place him on his feet The old soldiers at the home, in talking about him, shed tears. • . u.uu, mat ..«= Senator Brown will speak in the pastorate of *.Unitarian c°ming debate in the senate, on the church, outside pf Atlanta. It is al so rumored that the Doctor- Will go into the insurance business and teach elocution in the afternoons. Beacon Telegraph. ■ New York,(March .9—A tele* gram received in this c'ty this morn- Fng’announces the death at Purdy’s Station, Westchester county, of ex- United States Senator Jerome R. Chaffee, father-in-law of Mr. U. S. Grant. t> awe - was given At Anderson, S. C.‘, a neg taken lrom tbe calaboose an- 150 lashes for exposing bis person iri the presence of white ladies, and : then ordered to leave the county, uiWtw «*»• nl baa.!' It* right of the senate to demand the papers of the President in the cases ot removal from office. Senator Brown says the President is clearly right, and that the country will en dorse him. London, March 8.—The boiler of the tug Riflemau exploded in Cardiff harbor this morning. The vessel and crew, consisting of six persons, were blown to atoms. Tb cylinder of the engine struck a pat ing Italian ship a quarter of a m distant and killed the pilot. Port Royal, S. C., will probably be made a port of entry in the near future!''’ : o ■ tto*!'.i; oitrc 1 orfT liai. U-'iatra t, - t-'iifi GENERAL NEWS. One Mississippi j til contains thir teen prisoneis charged w th mur der. Mr. Moody, the revivalist, is to begin work in Charleston, S. C., on the 14th inst. A teamster in Wilkes county, N. C., last week killed a 400 pound bear with an axe. A mechanic of Belton, S. C., claims tha- he has succeeded in get ting perpetual motion. The hydrophobia scare has caus ed -he slaughter of 10,000 dogs in London. Mark Twain has received $63,000 on the proce ds of foji months’ sale ot “Huckleberry Finn.” Ex-Cadet Whitaker, late of West Point, has recently taken charge of the Sumter, S. C., A. M. E. school. Mrs. Hendricks, widow of the late Vice-President, has been cho- -en a director in a Montana mining company. One hundred and fii.v persons have been kil'ed in Chk.-go during the past year being run over by rail road trains. A New Preston young man play ing in k-ssing game the other night, kissed one of the buxom maidens so h? d that hebtoke k’> false tee.h. The value of the contents of a barrel of c.ude petroleum ranges from eighty-six cents to $1, while the value of the barrel itself is $2.50. The London Times suggests that a well-served fire-plug, with a hose attached, is the best weapon with which to confront a riotous mob. The report comes from Dallas, Texas, that the receivers of the Texas and Pacific have in contem plation the arrest of the leading knights of Labor and strikers. The Duke of Seville, who was recently sentenced to imprisonment for insulting Queen Christian, was pardoned by the Queen on the oc casion of the marriage of the Prin cess Eulalia. Manchester, V*., has produced the largest diamond ever found in this country, weighing 233 carats uncut, 11 11-16 carats cut, and for merly valued at $6,000. Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister of Gen. Grant, is lecturing in Mas sachusetts under the ausp’ces of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The grand jury at Bowling Green, Ky., last week brought in seventy true hills against saloo 1 keepers for selling liquor to persons in the habit of gettiag drunk. Mr. G. M. Hunter, of Fish Pond, Barnwell county, South Carolina, last year made eighteen barrels of syrup—eight hundred and ten gal lons—on two acies ot land. M. Samford, a drummer for Hart Brothers, of Chicago, was found in the Texas and Pacific yards al Fort Worth, Tex., Saturday merning, with his head severed from his body aad his arms and legs cut off. Augusta, Ga., March 6.—Mrs. Millie A. Hutchins, wife of Eugene Hutchins, ol the Augusta and Sum merville railroad, was horribly burn ed from hip to heel, from the’effects of which she will not recover. A man near Winnemucca, Nev., offers a reward of $150 for the ar rest of the person who stole his house from him. The building has mysteriously disappeared and there is no trace of its whereabouts. Augusta, Ga., March 6.—It has become known that a vast amount of suffering exists in the fnctory sec tion of Augusta, among the families of destitute persons and those who are unable to procure work in the mills. The strike on the Gould railroads throws 10,000 men out of employ ment, and is shutting down iron mills and other work along the line, that can’t get their products ship ped. All this trouble is caused on account of the discharge of one man. Portland, Oregon, March 6.— Another Chinese outrage is report ed near Port Townsend, W. T. Two men attacked an inoffensive Chinaman, and after beating his head against the rocks and fear fully maltreating him, they tore his que out by the roots and then leit him tor dead. The colored people of Chattanoo ga, Tenn., are preparing to begin the publication ot a paper, to be known as the Independent. It will urge the colored people to cease their slavish adherence to the republican party. At Abeline, Tex., Saturday, an Irishman giving his name as Fran cis Ames killed himself by drinking three and a half pints of whisky within twenty minutes. He died in rbout the same length of time it took him to drink the whisky. Last week, after a desperate strug gle, Joe Bethel killed a wild boar on Brooker’s Creek, near Point Pinel las, Fla., which weighed 455 pounds. The boar fought desperately for four hours, killed two dogs and tore up Joe’s clothes so badly that there was not enough ot his coat or pants left to make gun wadding. Cartkbsvillr, {.larch 6.—The east bound local freight of the East and West railroad broke through the Whitehead trestle three miles ijelow Taylorsville, yesterday morn ing. The whole crew of the traitr were on the engine except a negro named Will Smith, though all were Wrt « less Seriously bruised or scalded. ConductorVandivere was #1 " terribly Maided ou t bruised escaped by a miracle with*a slight injuries. •«?.? , . 1 1 f in tlXlJUn JA i\JM MIJrl :<: ' Mrs. T. A. Hendricks received recently from the California demo cratic dub a letter ot condolence printed on parchment from an en graved steel plate and encased in a massive envelope of solid silver. The whole was enclosed in a mag nificent satin-lined morocco box with silver ornaments. Covington, Ga., March 8.—Fire occurred here last night about 11 o’clock, destroying the brick build ing owned by R, W. Bagby. An other attempt at safe robbery was also made in the town. Humphries, the murderer of the >ung ladies near' Milledgeville, haa the Macqn jail for r ,-„ .He says "if he did tbe murdSr it.was while he was in* ited ant} didn’t; knovy what he as Mbit) ’. 1 riN* t'V.x- .... __ efi *<? sdW L-hiJJ-l ■M,