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A stirring Place la Birmingham, Ala.—
Riral Street Railways- Athene Personals
-iron Furnaces and Chain Works—not a
Wild West Town-Humor That the Atlan
ta Constitution Will Establish a Branch
Office in Birmingham, etc.
IIimusuham, Ala., March 28.—Athens
in Hirminphsm are a longways apart but
closely connected. Both places are situ-
nt.‘d geographically the same in their re
spective states. One, old and aristocrat
ic, the other young and progressive. The
former the educator of the brain, the
Utter of the muscle. This is a stirring
place, and a man who goes to bed at night
is not startled the next morning to wake
up and find some big change.
Listen to this: The Birmingham and
Pratt mines street railway company wont
bo fore the city Wednesday night and
were granted the franchise over certain
streets and avenues in the city. The bond
of $2.5oO was at once signed. The com-
panv put a force of hands on a certain
avenue and worked them all night to get
ahead of a rival companywho had staked
the same avenue for their line to begin
work the next day. The citizens who
retired al night on that avenue met a sin
gular sight the next morning. To cap
this road off, the rival line put on anight
force on one of their staked streets and
had worked all night in another portion
of the city before any one knew it. Such
is Birmingham.
Let mo picture some of the sights to
be seen here. We have about thirteen
passenger trains, and forty-three freight
trains, on the different railroads daily.
The Union passenger depot building
will be the handsomest in the South, and
will be completed by the first of next
October. The six furnace plants that
surround the citv are immense. The
prooe:
>S of I
elting iron in bars from the
an be seen al 12 o'elock m..
ii. At these hours are melt*
iron.
furnae
froii
it
Ith Id:
the furnaee
ngs for the <]
d Clow. ’I h.
s gorge,
the in, > 1 *
’ed out in
illuminate-
ce of a mile
Inch,
,.llt te
btldde:
wonder if lo ll is hotter
w,,rks in the South is
person must ha',* a sp,
visit it. The w orkmer
give <*lose attention, an
to talk. A good chain
Th,
invitation t-»
required to
not allowed
• links
•f the
nrks
melted eighty to
>t, whi.-h was the
, furnace*to he ei
plate for one
at the Trait mines, distance si\ miles
from the city. Lverv body i- for Bir
mingham. and you never hear a man say
•• Times are hard.” There is one pre
vailing idea that misleads many who
come here to have their air castles shat
tered. 'That idea is. that all a man has
to do is to eonie here and pick up dol
lars in the streets. K very body lives on
hope here, and a heap of it.
Not THK WILD WKST.
This is not the wild West, either. Peo
ple here are much more progressive and
full of business than are found in many
other plaees. The society i> becoming
crystalized, and is as good as can he
found South. It is a big joke here to
hear a person ask if it is safe in the city.
The police government is fine, and the
Mayor is a young and progressive fellow,
llis name is A. O. Lane, and he gradu
ated in Athens, I think, about 1887. Bir
mingham is pushing ahead. In 1880
there were 5.000 people h'*re; to-day
there are 21,000. It is rumored here
that the Atlanta Constitution has given
up Atlanta on account of prohibition, and
has decided to establish a branch office
here, for the purpose of booming up the
place, llow true the rumor is l cannot
say. Wynton.
NO. XVI
ATHENS, G-EOUGKE^l, TITER'D A. Y, APRIL, 6 1886.
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NEWS EKOM JEFFERSON.
Improvements In tire Town and County-
Stock Law Elections—The Measles an Ep
idemic—A New Jail and an Iron Bridge—
Persouals.ctc.
Jefferson, Ga., March 28.—Jefferson
has some improvements going on in her
midst. Hon. Hen Silman is having him
a new law office erected near the court
house. We notice, too, en the old Stark
hill, a neat little cottage is being erected
by Mr. Jas. Thompson, of the Jackson
Herald. AVhen completed Mr. T. will
move his family therein. The Martin
Institute building will ire completed in a
short time. It is being used by the
school children for practicing calisthe
nics. A bout 40 workmen are now engag
ed on tire building.
An election will he held in Newtown
district to-day on the stock law. It is
said that it will be carried. Mavsville
district voted on it last Friday, and the
stock law carried by 15 majority. Seven
districts out of twelve in' Jackson have
tire stock law. T wo failed to carry it,
and no election has been held in three.
There is a string band in Jefferson,
which can make excellent music. The
hovs have recently bought new instru
ments. and are practicing up for the com
mencement exercises.
A new jail will be built this summer,
so we understand, for Jackson county.
It will be built wilbilt the sheriff's house,
and she Ordinary. Judge 15.11. is making
arrangements forbids. A Cincinnati con
tractor was in .lelforsnn last week look
ing to this end. A new iron bridge will
be built on Thompson's mill river at an
onrlvdate. Judge Hell has the bridges
constructed sub-tantially, so the big
freshets won't wash them awav. He is
i dib
it tlic
Prof. W. S. McCarty returned Thurs
day night from the Louisville baptist
Theological Seminary. He has been in
attendance there for several months past,
and bis many friends in Jefferson art-
glad to welcome hint back.
Some of our citizens made a li ving trip
lit Atlanta last week: also several left
this week for the Gate City to buy
gomls. They said they wanted to buy
their goods in Athens, but there was no
railroad from Jefferson to your town.
I bis is the sentiment of all the Jefferso
nians, too. Our town will subscribe
$ It t.l H N t to-morrow, with the people
along the line. Now, Athenians, cotnc
forward and build the road.
Col. J. L. Asltury, so rumor says, has
been appointed to a government position
in Washington by Senator Col-ptilt. Col.
A. is an iron-ribbed democrat, and his
many friends in Georgia will be glad to
hear of his appointment.
11 lSTElilOlS MANNERS.
Tb« Strange Way of a Retiring Partner In
a Firm.
l.KXiNuTos, Ga., March 27.—Some
tune ago the firm of Tiller Brothers &
Irby dissolved partnership, where they
had been doing business in this county.
Mr. Irbv taking the Broad River wagon
shops and material, and settling off the
d.-bis of tht shop, collecting anil receipt
ing for moneys. Instead of paying off
th»- debts of the firm in Athens anti oth
er places, he kept the money anil sold out
th*- shop, etc., to some parties, anti left
tin- place. Mr. Till,rcame to town yes-
t rtlay and had an attachment gotten out
on the shop, anti a warrant issued for Mr.
Irby. Knowing ones say that Mr. Irby
has lias laitl himself liable criminally,
w itilo others say not. lie has heretofore
l.orne a good character, anti it was quite |
a surprise to many. His collections run l
up to about $1,2* >t t which amount would
have paitl off the indebtedness had it been
applied that way. Rumors are quite
conflicting, as it is only talked in whis
pers.
THE CONTRACT FOR BUILDINU THE GEOR
GIA MIDLAND SIGNED
Coi.fttncs, fta., March 27.—There is
now not a shadow of doubt about the
building of the Georgia Midland railroad.
The Knquirer-5un to-day received a tel
egram from Mr. Gunby Jordan, the pres
ident, who is now in New York, saying
the contract for the completion of the
road to the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Lcorgia, via Griffin, has been signed and
tha work will be promptly let. This
sounds like business.
THE BRIDGE AT THE PAPER MILL.
The bridge which was washed away
Monday night, will be replaced as early
»« practicable. Judge Jackson cannot
act until he confers with the county corn-
imsssionors of Oconee county. He, how
ever, will have a flat put at the river for
the convenience of the traveling public,
until the new bridge is erected. The old
bridge cost $500, and he thinks another
one at the same cost will be built. The
county commissioners of Oconee meet
next Tuesdar.
SPUING STYLES.
Short Wraps, Street Suits, Jerseys and Ho
siery, Dinner Table Fancies.
All dressy spring wraps are short.
Pale bronze is a popular color in
spring goods.
Both round and pointed bodices
are fashionable.
bhoes and’boots are less pointed,
but not square-toed.
Big and little bonnets will both be
fashionably worn this spring.
Stripes of all widths and inevety
variety of cluster are immensely
popular.
Plaid buttons of ivory and of mo
hair come among other novelties in
big buttons.
The pointed waistcoat front is the
marked feature in young girls’
spring frocks.
Spring jackets are made longer,
but remain shorter in the back than
in the front.
That hateful nuisance,and unheal
thy garment,the rubber waterproof,
is moribund.
Draperies tl.e coming season will
be worn both long and ample, short
and bouffant.
Whitt petticoats are no longer
worn directly under the dress skiit,
except for indoor toilets.
Fashion decrees that old and el
derly ladies may wear colors as well
as black and dark gray.
Another season of black hosiery
is predicted, but not to the exclusion
of colored stockings.
Some ol the new dresses have
full overskirts shirred on to the long
botJice, which is pointed back and
front.
Dark blue, dark green, pansy-
shades, garnet, bronze and drab are
worn by elderly as well as by young
er women.
Short loose jacket fronts opening
over long-pointed waistcoats are
«een on some of the new spring
street dresses.
Black silk and fine glossy alpaca
ate the materials used for the long
petticoat worn under the skirt of
street Irocks.
Sptingjackets ol fine striped or
checked chevoits are trimmed with
cord ornaments, the cufTs being of
moire antique or velvet.
Cashmere and camel’s hair are
used in combination with novelty
woolen goods for young women,
and watered silk for older ones.
Some ol the new wool canvases
are striped with velvet, others with
plush aud still others with chenile
hands between those of wool.
Flowers will be used in profusion
to trim the summer ball costumes,
making clasps, belts and necklaces,
besides the usual wreath and gar
lands.
“Fairy lights” is the name given
to the new English dinner table
lamps, which are set in the middle
of e flower vase and shaded with
colored glass.
When the sacque-form of frock
is used for little girls it is now so
trimmed as to simulate a long.round
waist and full skirt, with high hip
draperies.
Ladies’ cloth bodices of brown,
blue, gray and red are worn with
skirts of figured,plain or striped ma-
teiial and are trimmed hussar fash
ion with cord.
Immensely big buttons—toolaige
to pass through a buttonhole—are
used simply decoratively, being
sewed on dresses that are fastened
witn hooks and eyes.
Scraps of satin merveillieux with
open work embroidery, and also of
Batiste and linen in the same style,
, will be worn as adjustable draperies
for summer dresses.
MERRY MOMENTS.
BARKED OFT OF HIS CHURCH.
Tbe Way Oglethorpe Darkeys Treat Erring
MlnlPtera--Lake Brown Finds His Church
Doors Closed Against Him.
Bov. A. L. Brown is a well-known col
ored Baptist preacher, who lives over the
river in Last Athens, where he has a
church. On stated days Lake also serves
a flock near Antioch, in Oglethorpe
county, and until recently was very pop
ular with his people, although reports
were in circulation that he was repeat
edly engaged in smashing one of the Ten
Commandments into “smithereens.”
The parson, however, had such a strong
hacking in his church—principally among
the sisters—that no one dared to arraign
him. At last reports of Brother Brown’s
transgressions came so thick and fast
that the church was forced to take no
tice of them. But the Oglethorpe dar
keys didn’t trouble themselves with any
long and expensive church trial. They
knew apian worth two of that. So last
Saturday, when Lake appeared to deliver
his monthly discourse, he found the 1 The leg-o-mutton sieve, says the
doors of his church securely barred, Xew York Evening Post, appears
while a delegation of members stood upon some of 4 the antique house
without to notify their preacher that his dresses made in Paiis tor early
services were no longer needed by them, I spnng wearing mostly of “early En-
The par>on was righteously indignant, i f^'^ 1 style,
and finding that words wore of no avail, ;
start oit to 11 Irak tlown thr door and rater \ never so pretty anti tastefully trim-
anvhow. Lake hail 1,is followers, anti a I mcd - and * he lovel .V facies in
seriousiltsturhance was threatened, when I P ,nk ‘ * k >'. and
Mr. Landrum, who lived near, was sent
for.and he succeeded in quieting the bel-
1 iggerents. Lake, however, did not gain
l entrance to the church, and had to re-
| turn to Athens on the next train without
L livering a sermon.
He who hesitates is bossed.
“Undressed kids”—Cupids.
The scenter of gravity—Xewtom.
An off-hand affair—The buzz-saw.
The silver problem—How to get it
A poor man’s plaster—A mortgage.
The sigh of the seamstress—A hem!
The bald-headed man never says dye.
Table sauce—Quarreling at breakfast.
This is by no means a “forward March.”
The power behind the thrown—A billy-
goat
The “color line” is well drawn in the
rainbow.
A girl may frown and frown and be a-
willin’ still.
A bad habit to get into—-A coat that is
not paid for.
Some of our best buglers belong to the
Toot-on race.
The hangman is generally dressed to
kill on Fridays.
Nothing tries the soul of a man more
than a shoe-peg.
When a man uses high words he is in
very low business.
An auctioneer does as he is bid, a post
man as he is directed.
Probabilities of the week—Coughs,
colds and lung troubles.
If spring poets were hens, even an edi
tor could afford to eat eggs.
The selfish man has presence of mind
—he never forgets himself.
The rock on which the beer-drinker
strikes is quarts (quartz.)
The march hares must have been mad
at the way the month came in.
In some places business is afraid to re
vive for fear of being hit with a strike.
When a man suffers from a sticb in his
side—When he is hemmed in by a crowd
, Little fish are very level-headed—They
always commence life on a small scale.
The grave-diggers advice to the stock
speculator—Always be ready for the last
call.
It you want to see a quick rise in the
market, put a bent pin in a butcher’s
stool.
In spite of the prevailing cold weather,
dude-drops are frequently seen on slip
pery walks.
The dude is going in the dictionary, but
there’s mighty little of the dictionary in
the dude.
There was a shower of worms in Marys
ville, O m yesterday, but it was too cold to
go fishing.
Chivalry: No, the knights of old did
not carry their armour about the country
in mail bags.
The author of the saying that “you must
always take a man as you find him” was
a policeman.
Burglar—Tell me at omce where all
your valuables are?
Old Sport—At the pawnbroker’s.
Why is X the most unfortunate of let-
ers? Because it is always in a fix and
never out of perplexy.
“If de wedder grows much worse and
de work much harder all de time dis nig
ger >. ill have a call to preach.”
The Wall Street bears should send for
Lartijo, the matadore of Madrid. lie
killed 345 bulls in a single season.
Women as a rule are not profane, and
yet a great many sf them rip, tear and
darn—their husband’s old clothes.
A ton of coal will never get to heaven,
because it has so often been weighed in
the balance and found waiting.
Brown says that it is a wondor there
is any truthfulness in the world when
mankind began life by lying in the cra
dle.
Bald-headed men will worry a little
over the statement that “during the sum
mer months hair will be worn high on the
head.”
SWEPT BY THE STORM KINO.
j CYCLtWft SIGNALS. j
A Method of predl^Tand ria SE to* Cy-' ’• rrtbl * W ° rk ofth * “ 4
clones and Tornadoes j Atlanta. Ga , March 30.—The
One branch of the Signal Ser- • '*> »•* city have
vice system, says the Augusta
_!ersey» continue in favor and are
as varied in design as dress bodices.
Some are covered with heads in a
variety of pa'tens; others have vests,
collars and coffs of velvet, plush or
— ' -urah.
AUGUSTA AND CHATTANOOGA. i . „ , . ,
.... 1 . r.i . , 1 1 •! ... 1 A Gv psy bonnet of fancy straw
1 he plans nt the Augusta an.I ( hatta* , . , 7 .,,
, ,, , - , . . I has the brim lined with ecru silk,
nonca railroad have been so far perfected , c |,„ elv shirred It j s trimmed with
as to place the subscription list before a cUlster of hed( , e roses> wi|h their
the public on the merits of the enter- j f„|ia S c. The strings are ol ribbon
prise. Canvass for subscriptions will be : ol the same tin' as the lining,
made immediately in Augusta anti 1 The Clothing Gazette for March
Charleston, and in the counties through | predicts, hut deprecates, a change
which th«* road is to pass. If this road
ever is built—which fact we seriously
doubt—Athens must not let it pass us on
the east, but bring it through the city.
This can be done with money. It would
injure us as badly as the Air-Line on our
north has done.
When a man has to chalk his head and
use a shoe-horn to get his hat on, it is time
for him to think seriously of reform.
“I’m setting a bad egg sample,” as the-
ben remarked as she rose from a china
egg, aad left the poultry yard in disgust.
“Missus told me to come down and tell
you she was not at home.” “Go back
and tell vour mistress that I have not
called.”
There is very little difference between
a baby’s smile and heaven, and a woman
is quite as near it when there is only a
window glass between her and a display
of spring bonnets.
A baby is a link that binds its mother
to heaven and causes its father to chase
all over the creation for the paragoric bot-
Silk gloves for the evening were ! He.
There are two things which a man is
bound to take on faith—his wife’s private
opinion of himself and what sausages are
made from.
The most modest inan we ever heard
of was in a row-boat in a storm. He got
swamped and drowned because be refus
ed to hug the shore.
When he was married lie promised to
have lace embroidered tops of the
same hue.
Chronicle, deserve* special encour
agement, and southern prt plc are
directly interested. It is the pro
posed method of predicting and
flagging cyclones and tl it can be
developed into anything 1 ke rea
sonable certainty new appropria
tions should be made. The subject
is profoundly interesting and valua
ble, because it is claimed much
property and life may be saved by
the service.
The people of Georgia are still
tenderfooted before the cyclone.
The experience of the past ten years
from Harriscountv to Richmond,
from Hall to Chatham, has been
enough to drive ■ them into pits,
when the black clouds darken the
flowery hillsides in the springtime.
The season is approaching when
storms are most frequent, for the
work of the winds through Georgia
in April, 1S85, will be remembered
as long as the events ol this genera
tion remain. In July of that year an
equally destructive atorm struck
Pennsylvania—and far more
fatal to life for 134
people pere killed. In Missouri, ’84
65 persons were killed. In the past
ninety years there have been 600
cyclones reported in this country
and their frequency and devastation
have increased in this section con
siderably in the past decade.
In the signal service bill now be
fore the house of representatives,
favoring the extension of the signal
service reports tor the relief of far
mers, it is proposed to forecast “cold
waves, rains, storms and market!
inclemencies ol the weather.” The
proposed system of prediction in
voives only the usual methods. But
tornadoes require special attention
and a high degree of scien
tific accuracy for their prediction
Danger signals ought to be estab
lished at telegraph stations not later
than Aptil 1st, 1SS6, otherwise the
storm season may break upon us
without warning.
The present storm service of the
department is an excellent one, but
if the cyclone forecast is practica
ble as a distinctive featute, by all
means let it be tried. The govern
ment has followed up the path of
the historic cyclones with great ac
curacy and care, and the storm
charts are very nearly perfect pic
tures of the wind racks across the
country. The forces and mysteries
of the envelope around the eaith
are being widely explained and
some of the best talent in America
is engaged in foretelling floods and
storms. The black flag tor this tor
nado will be our next storm signal,
perhaps.
Pledger Gives a Pointer.
Atlanta, March 37.—Pledger,
ex-collector of this port, though he
no longer has comfortable head
quarters iu the custom house, does
not intend to get out of polititics
entirely or to lose his grip on the
colored vote of the state. I saw him
this mornin'g, looking sleek and
fat as though he still might be
drawing good rations somewhere.
He intimated that he has designs
on the next legislature ami seems to
expect when the clerk of the next
house calls the roll he will be oh
hand to answer as one of the dele
gates from Fulton county. I am
inclined to think there are a num
ber of political possibilities vastly
more impossible than this. Pledger
remarked, with a trifle more gravi
ty, that it was the height of his am
bition to be a member of the legis
lature following, which will be
called upon to elect Senator Col
quitt's successor, so that he might
cast one vote against the “Hero of
Olustee.” As an explanation of
this remark—though there may be
a more vital one—he said: “After
campaigning the state tor him in
1SS0, for which service I received
the cash remuneration of $30, he
was the first to advise me to cover
myself all over with by resigning
the office of collector, anil I want to
put in one vote against his return to
the United States senate.” Does
this pot tend a split among the faith
ful?
ail burst.
People in the valley’s are flooded
an l forced to move, and desolation
genetally testtlted among the poor.
Last night the trains on eight of the
nine roads centering in Atlanta
were side-tracked. Huge washes
were rrpoited on the Alabama
Western. The Last Tennessee and
the Western and Atlantic were is his best card.—Albany News.
hlockaJed by land slides, and de
hundreds
TBS EIGHTH DISTRICT.
What the Preu Say About the Congrezslon-
al Outlook.
vastations amounting to
of thousands of dollars have occur
red. In West Point tbeChattahoo
chee rose during the night until the
town was flooded. One hundred
thousand dollars worth of property
was carried away. The railway
bridge, a huge structure, is destroy
ed, and one white mar. and two ne
groes were drowned while battling
with the waters. Rome is submerg
ed under 6 feet of water, and the
people are seeking the hill tops.
Columbus, which is on the Chatta
hoochee, is also in great danger—
the waters of the river having risen
30 feet. To-night not a train is
moving out of Atlanta and no mail
has been teceived. Many of the
telegraph wires are cut, and wild
rumors are afloat as to the disasters
in inaccessible districts. It is the
greatest freshet of the generation.
fallen and a total wreck.
Montgomery, Ala.. March 30.—
A special (rotn Prattville, fourteen
miles west of here, states that the
cotton factory there has been un
dermined, and has fallen in and is
a total wreck. The loss is $85,000.
Two hundred laborers are thrown
out of employment.
HEAVIEST STollM FOR YEARS.
Montgomery, Ala.. March 30.—
The heaviest rain storm for years
has prevailed throughout Alabama
tiuring the past two days. The
washouts on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, north
of Selma, have stopped mails and
trains. Specials from Wetumpka
eport that the bridge across the
Coosa liver there washed away last
night—loss $30,000. Specials from
Opelika report that a construction
train went through a bridge over
the Tallapoosa river on the v_olum-
bus and Western road between
Opelika and Danville. The engine
and two cars, the engineer and fif
teen hands went down. It is fear
ed that some of the men are lost.
Great cries ot distress were heard,
but nothing as to their fate is yet
known.
FOUR PERSON'S KILLED.
Montgomery, Ala , March 30.—
A special states that a cyclone
swept across a portion of Bullock
county, and in its path struck a ne
gro church in which a fnneral was
going on. The church was blown
down and four persons were killed
and ten badly injured.
AN OI.D COLTON SEED.
Taken from Ute Tomb of a Mummy.
Washington Letter in Augusta Chronicle.
Senator Brown and Hon. S. S.
Cox are warm peisonal friends and
occasional correspondents. The
other day the Minister to Turkey,
who is nuw taking his vacation in
Egypt, wrote a vety interesting let
ter to the Georgia senator. Near
the ruins of Thebes, Mr. Cox and
his wile, guided by the celebrated
archeologist, Maspero, investigated
a newly-opened tomb of an agricul
turist, who died 4,000 years ago.
The mummy was tound in excel
lent preservation, and the painted
symbols of the walls were as fresh
as the flowers of May. Among the
objects long buried with this farmer
was a twig of cotton in bloom,
which was as perfect as ifjust from
the field. Alongside the fleecy
boll Mrs. Cox has placed a blue
harebell, which grew by the brink
ol the mystic Nile. Senator Brown
will plant one of the seeds ot this
wontlerlully ancient boll, and hopes
to perpetuate it in North Georgia.
BURGLARISES HIS OWN HOUSE.
The Washington Chronicle be
lieves now that Hon. Seaborn Reese
will not have any opposition for the
nomination in the eighth.
It is thought Seab Reese will
have no opposition in the Eighth
district. Seab Reese is a man of
much personal popularity, and that
The retirement of Mr. Mattox
from the congressional race in this
district leaves Mr. Reese without
any open or developed opposition.
In the main he has shown himself
to be right on public questions. He
is a strong advocate of the silver
dollar, uncompromisingly in favor
of tariff retorm, an opponent of the
President’s view of civil service re
form, and doubtless an enemy to the
Blair bill.—Sparta Ishmaelite.
The Daily Banner-Watchman
publishes a letter from Hon. W. H.
Mattox, of Elbert county, in which
he declines to enter the race for
congress cn account of his health.
This leaves Seaborn Reese the only
avowed candidate in the race. It
may be consicered certain that oth
er candidates will crop out pretty
soon. It Mattox had stayed in the
race Clarke county would have cast
her vote for him in the nominating
convention.—Athens Correspond
ent Atlanta Journal.
Correspondent Randall remarks
that “if Mr. Reese is kept in con
gress a few terms longer, he will
make his mark hi£h.” This may
have been intended lor a compli
ment, but Colonel Reese, when he
sees it, will have cause to cry out,
“Lord, deliver me Irom my friends ”
Let us see; has the Colonel been in
congress two or three terms? And
he needs a few more terms more in
order to “make his mark!” Let him
have them, of course. It would be
very sad indeed if he were retired
to the shades of private life before
he had made his mark.—Eatonton
Messenger.
WASHINGTON CITY NEWS.
Mr. Blount was the only Georgia
member who opposed the Blair
bill.
Senator Brown introduced a pe
tition of the Atlanta Knights of La
bor against the Free ship bill.
The Committee on Labor report
ed a bill authorizing the Commis
sioner of Labor to make an investi
gation as to convict labor.
Senator Colquitt is delighted
with his western trip and the dis
tinguished reception he met with
from the Ohio Legislature.
The nominajion of J. C. Mat
thews to be Recordet of Deeds for
this District, was recommitted to
the committee on the District of
Columbia.
General Woodford favors a bill
granting artificial limbs to Confed
erate soldiers wounded in the war.
Woodford was the only Union
soldier who could match Forres t.
There is considerable talk of the
probable break up or reformation of
the cabinet. Mr. Garland is sick
and broken. Mr. Lamar’s health
is feeble, and Mr. Manning is like
ly to resign.
The impression generally prevails
that the senate will go right on and
make extensive confirmations, Mr.
Edmundsand Mr. Logan are laugh
ed at for having already helped to
confirm at least two of the most ob
jectionable appointments made by
the presidont.
FIBRE FROM COTTON STALKS.
AM APPRECIATED COMPLIMENT.
Ytstenlxy Mr. Gantt received*note
from Miss Emma E. Martin, corTcspond-
inp secretary of the Burten Literary so
nny. of the Gainesville Female College,
Announcing his election as an honorary
laetabcr of that body. Of course it is an
honor he hidgly esteems.
DEATH OF DR. CUNNINGHAM.
A telegram reached Rev. Mr. Knowles
•n Friday, containing the sad announce
ment of the death of Dr. W. H. Cunning-
ham, his son-in-law, who died at his res
idence in Xacoochee Valley, on Wednes
day night, after a protneted illness.—
Greeneshoro Home Journal.
PROHIBITION IN ATHENS.
A prominent member of the Athens
*r asserted on the streets “that before
Prohibition went into effect in Clarke
♦ounty bis criminal practice alone
•mounted to $1,000, and now he would
‘•'“lloOfor his practice in the criminal
aourt”
THE BLAIR BILL.
An exnct counterpart of the Blair bill
was introduced in the House and refer
red to the committee on labor by a vote
of 133 to 115. This is a test vote, and
settles the fact that this bill will go
through the House, It is thought, how
ever. that the President will veto the
THE COVINGTON AND MACON.
This road has been graded a distance
of of twenty-five miles; that is, to a point
about three miles south of Hillisboro. in
Jasper county. After crossing Walnut
creek no stream of any importance has
to bo crossed. The hands were moved
last week, and set to work grading be
tween Hillsboro and Monticello.
in the near future in the form of
gentlemen’s evening full dress. The
new style proposed is the calvalier’s
costume of two centuries ago.
Cotton dresses ivith white muslin
guimpes and dog collars of embroid
ery or velvet will be much worn.
Sometimes the grimpe is suplement-
ed by a vest harmonizing or con
trasting with the dress.
Silver dishes, silver tea and coffee
urns, silver soup tureens, silver can
dlesticks, and all sorts of silver dec
orative pieces for breakfast, dinner,
tea and luncheon tables are again in
favor, and are more favored than
ever.
An English doctor thinks that it
might be as well to amputate the
second toe before trying to wear the
narrow French boots with pointed
tips. According to him the number
which have to be amputated after
the wearing is really ala
cleave to her to the end. And the first
time they visited the theatre he clove to
end of each act.
Which is right Edward, ‘the wages of
is death' or ‘the wages of sin are
death."' “Neither, ‘Anabel, tile wages
of sin is wealth.’ ”
“Yes,” said the pawnbroker, “it is cer
tainly monotonous sitting at this desk
from morn to night but, nevertheless, I
take interest in the work.”
German Professor (who is about to
have his hair cut)—“Donnerwetter, how
cold it is in this room. . . Pray allow
me to keep my hat on.”
If it be true as a writer in the Tribune
asserts, that “whaling isn't what it used
to be," we warmly congratulate the com
ing generation.
“How fine it is to-day! How warm in
the sun! 1 wonder whether I might ven
ture to take my wife's sealskin jacket to
the pawnbroker's'?”
The man who makes ducks and drakes
of his money can only make poultry ex
cuses for his conduct Without henny
doubt he will go to the bad.
Aged Suiter: “I will love you as long
as I live.” Y’oung Lady: “That will not
auflicc. I want some one who will love
me as long as I live.'
A Sensational Tragedy In Granger County,
Tennessee.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March zS.
News reached the city to-night of
a very sensational tragedy in Gran
ger county, Tenn. The trustee of
the county was William lust), a man
universally esteemed and respected.
He enjoyed the absolute confidence
A Faint to Preserve Ties.
To the Editor ot the Scientific
American: I have what I call a
“century paint, for posts, railroad, Q f the community, and held the po-
ties, etc., made of linseed oil. resin, j gition for a number ot years. On
and charcoal dust. To one gallon Friday he returned from his office
~ c put two lb. of resin and I an< | deposited a money bag in his
enough coal dust to make the m x- room , sa yj n g it contained $2,500,
ture the cons stency ol thick paint. | which he had collected in county
ilarming.
TOCCOA S YOUNG MURDERER.
Toccoa, March 27.—The oxcitement
over the Freeman-Mauldin murder has
about suhrided. A large number of
Toccoa's citizens believe that Freeman
has made good his escape and is now
safe in some foreign country, perhaps
Mexico, where seme say he has an un
cle. Others arc certain he is carefully
concealed in some safe retreat near here.
THE OCONEE RIVER.
w. ieethlt<9)000 hM bwn recom
. " ‘PP r °P™Uon from con-
teeUtt ont th. Orone. river from
«• nhroafi to Scull Shoal*.
THE SCHOOL MIRROR.
The above monthly, published by the
young ladies of the Elberton Female In
stitute, is on our table anditisapcrfcct
little journalistic gem, reflecting great
credit on the talented young ladies who
wield the editorial pen. We notice that an
enterprising druggist has already taken
advantage of its columns to advertise his
magical mixture, that he recommends to
cure the effects of green apples and salt in
fine minutes. This is what we call taking
time by th. forelock.
HIGH SHOALS DOTS.
A Little Child Killed—The Old Olobe Home
Burned—Personal, etc.
(Walton Neve.]
Mrs. A. J. Mcdlin is very sick.
Mr. J. W. Lea has most of the lumber
ready for his new home.
Miss Mary Powell has been “quite in
disposed for several days.”
It is rumored that we are to have a
marriage in town in a short while.
The old Globe House, bought by Mr.
A. J. Modlin a-few weeks ago, waaburn
ed to the ground a few days ago.
We are sorry to note the death of Mr.
John Cox’s little babe* Mrs. Cox was
returning home, from a visit to her bro
ther, when the obstinate ox sha was
driving straightened its neck end trotted
over a stump, throwing herand four lit
tle children out of the cart Bhe receiv
ed some slight bruishes, while here babe
was injured internally. It died yester
day- . .. ” ,
TIMEOUT.
On the 15th of this month (April) the
time of the Richmond Sc Danville to ex
tend the North-Eastern to Clsyten ex
pires. In the meantime, the N. E. road
has been shouldered with such a debt
that it would bankrupt th* city to pay it,
in the event that the road reverted to
Athensby anon-compliance with contract
on the part of the R. Sc D. The outlook
now is that we will get the Macon road
instead ofthe Georgia Midland. There is
a possibility, however, of Athens captur
ing them both.
The two Russian patients of Pas-
teur.-whpjk day* ago Bhowed
The republican* will allow the- symptoms of hydrophobia, are now
tariff bill po die in the senate. r
recover^*-
jsw. w.iwaoiM*'
WILD FLOWERS.
The latest style is to select a bed in
your garden to be sown down with a gen
eral mixture of wild flower seed, without
any attempt et arrangement. The seed
can be had of any grower. Several Ath
ens ladies have already planted their
flower beds.
•Rinreafi Stocks.
Both Georgia and Central rail
road stock are on rising ground.
Georgia is quoted at 191 asked and
Central at So} asked, with 794 bid.
“Have you any kids?” inquired a
young lady of a new cleric in a War
ren county atore which mukea a
specialty ol gloves. “Not yet,” said
the clerk with a blush; “I have been
married only three weeks.”
taxes. He bid llis wife good-bye
saying he bail business in an ad
joining county, and would return
next day. During the day a cousin
ol the lady came to her house and ls a ver
was given a room for the night.
About midnight he was aroused by
a burglar, and fired on him. The
thief uttered a howl of agony and
fell back dead. He proved to be
the trustee, who was endeavoring
to steal the public money, and then
claim that he had been robbed.
Get the cross ties out of good t
ber. well seasoned. Then dtp
them about one minute in a
large vat of the print, hot. Wipe
off the ties, and they are ready for
use. Bore an auger hole in the tie,
fill it with the paint, then drive the
spike home. I will guarantee all
the ties treated in this manner to
last 20 years. Fifty per cent, will
last 35 years, and 25 per cent, will
last 50 years sound.
F. M. Shields.
Coopwood, Miss., Jan. 25, 18S6.
Working Under a Dam.
In White county recently the
revenue officers captured J. B. Nix
and his illicit still. It appears that
near Nix’s house was a spring
branch, which he dammed up lor
the double purpose of making a fish
pond and covering up his distillery.
Immediately under the dam, which
was constructed oflogs and brush
covered up with dirt, he had made
a good large room, in which was
placed the entire outfit necessary
for the manufacture of tangleloot.
A tunnel was built for egress and
ingress; * smaller one ran along the
dam and underground to his house,
some thirty yards away, through
which the smoke was conveyed, so
as to pass out through the kitchen
chimney.
The Qordon-McDaniel Interview.
An absurd statement has been
put out that Genetal Gordon and
Governor McDaniel had held a con
ference concerning the campaign.
The interview intact was about one
minute long. Gen. Gordon walked
into the Governor’s office, shook
bands with the Governor, expressed
his regrets that Governor McDan
iel had declined to run, glanced at
>is watch, saw that he had only five
minutes to catch a train, said “good . „ , ,
bye,” hurriedly ran down the steps nounce lh “ before breakfast on
A Fibre Stronger Than Flax la Being Pro
duced from the Common Cotton Stalko.
Mr. S. A. Lovejoy, 11 Cedar
street, Charlestown, Mass., has
been making some interesting and
valuable experiments in producing
fibre trom cotton stalks. In a let
ter to a friend in Spartanburg he
says: “I commenced a few days
ago to experiment and to-day send
you enclosed the first specimen I
have obtained. It is a small lot, for
I took only a few stalks to begin
with, but enough perhaps to give
you some idea of the fibre. It (the
fibre) can be easily bleached to a
snow white if desired. I send also
a small piece as first taken from the
stalk, showing the color and the
gummy or resinous matter which it
contains. This I take out after a
few hours treatment, and it is this
which has been very difficult to ac
complish by any ordinary means,
and is the reason why cotton fibre
has not been profitably extracted
from the stalk before. It seems to
me that, if properly prepared, this
ry valuable fibre lor many
uses. It is
Tbs Confirmation of Mathews.
It is pretty well understood that
the President has determined to
stand by his appointment of Math
ews to the office of Recorder of
Deeds for the District, and that , the
democratic senators will vote to
sustain the President. In commit
tee Mathews got a black eye for the
reason that on the question of his
confirmation Rtddleberger voted
no. If Senator Brown had not
voted in his faver his defeat would
have been conclusive, at least so
far as the committee was concern
ed with his cause. Senator Miller’s
death left a vacancy on this com
mittee, which accounts for the tie
vote. Heretofore no small office in
the district, save one, has been given
to a citizen, and Mr. Cleveland has
given them all to citizens, save one
—the one Mathews got, which is
simply an office where transfer
deeds and similar papers are sent to
be recorded, and for which fees are
charged. The place hat no salary,
and the incumbent has no authority
over any one.
Bam small Gives Up Tobacco.
Chicago. March 26—In his ser
mon last night Sam Jones said: “My
good friends say tobacco is a sin,
and therefore I am happy to an-
and almost ran to the depot.
Tho Paacbblow Vase.
Tlie New York Times prints a
statement that the vase is not a
“peach-blow” at all, but a “crushed
strawberry,” and that is of a kind
that is held in bnt small esteem in
China. It is farther alleged io the
Times’statement that it originally
cost only about $200 in gold, and
::*o:q/,T8o
..1.. r»»* t .«■ a*‘
y
threw his tobacco into the fire. I
said to him, 'Haveyouquitto stay?’
‘Yes,’ said he. Says I, ‘Old fellow,
tell me why. won’t you?’ ‘Well,’
he said, ‘Brother Jones, I didn’t
quit it because I believed it was a
sin, but they kept after me until I
got resentful, and I said I won’t
perpetuate anything in my mind
that will make me resentfnl toward
* SOW *° IP*°P le > and ^ htve IP Te h«P for-
said to be stronger tfian
flax and is of as fine or finer fibre.
Of course it does not answet the
same purposes as ball cotton or the
ordinary cheap fibres like jute,’ sisal,
&c. The unevenness in length is
owing to cutting off of the small
branches. To test the strength take
three 01 four of the single fibres and
twist them a little between the fin
gers. You will find them very
strong.
Wild Western Narrative*.
A Red Banon, (Nev.) prospector
gathered rabbit meat enough during
tne late storm to do him till June.
He cut a lot of trees, painted the
ends black, and the rabbits butted
their brains out trying to jump into
what they took for holes. He got
one hundred and forty the first
night.—Genoa (Nev.) Courier.
A Virginia City butcher killed a
steer the other 'day whose teeth
were completely incrusted with
gold and silver bullion. The animal
came from a ranch on Carson riv
er, and the precious metal on the
enamel of the teeth doubtless accu
mutated from drinking the water
from the river, which^is impregnat
ed with the tailings from the mills
reducing Comstock ores. This
circumstance is not new however,
as Sam Cavis mentioned somethin
similar before it) the Carson Appea
Most of the cattle along the river
have their teeth afflicted in the same
way. Their owners might scrape
off quite a revenue from them if
they had any financial sense
A Bad Death.
Miss Lucy Clark, the young lady
who was stricken with paralysis
several days ago, at the residence of
Mr. A. W. Atkinson, in Morgan,
who lives in Forsyth county, in
whose family she was acting as
governess, died Saturday night, a
few hours after the arrival ot her
mother. -
' ■ ei • ) .
Prince Augustus Leopoldo, grand
son of the Emperor of Brazil, is be-
in* feted ia.New Orleans.
TEiiEGRjfPHtC SPARKS.
- — . -'ll . .
Mississippi is seriously thinking
ot abolishing the liquor traffic.
Henry Berry, a paralytic at Nash
ville, Tenn., blew his brains out.
The President has been offering
Jay Gould some ad vice on the strike.
Butler Mahone was fined in a
Washington court for shooting a ne
gro.
The serious charges published
against Dr. Green, of Atlanta, are
untrue.
F. W.Nelson was killed by jump
ing from a push car at Laurens, S.
The minority in the House thi'eat-
ens to kill the Blair bill by fillibus-
taring.
Samuel R. Sterling, the default
ing treasurer of Harrisonburg coun
ty, Va., was arrested.
Mrs. Timothy Hurley and daugh
ter were burned to' death in Bron
son, Mich., yesterday.
Andrew Robetls married his
own neice at Wentworth, N. C.
The pair were arrested.
Saturday the Chaplain of the
House made a very foolish prayer,
about labor and capital.
The Jones, the alleged murderer
of Mary Rice, Asheville, N. C.,
have been found not guilty.
A white man named Mead killed
a negro porter at the hotel in Mil-
len, Ga., for attacking him.
Valentine, now in the Augusta,
Ga., jail, confesses to having mur
dered old man Vail, and implicates
three other parties.
Hon. Jefferson Davis has consent
ed to be present at the unveiling of
the Ben Hill monument in Atlanta,
and deliver an address.
Dr. W. B. Jones, a distinguished
planter of Waynesboro, died at his
residence at Birdsville, Ga., very
suddenly.
Monday, a tornado swept over
Helena, Ark., demolishing several
buildings. Much greater damage
in the country.
All ot the alleged ‘filibusters cap
tured on the steamer City of Mex
ico were released excepting General
Delgado and Col. Morey.
Powderly’s order has struck ter
ror in Chicago, where Knights of
Labor were being manufactured at
the rate of S,ooo a week.
The assessors have advanced the
value of property in Atlanta $t,-
000,000. Senator Brown was rais
ed $84,000. The Kimball House is
put at $400,000.
Governor Perry, of Florida, says
Senator Jones’ absence Irom his
seat does not make a vacancy in a
constitutional sense and consequent
ly he has no power to make an ap
pointment to fill a vacancy which
doesno t exist.
The Blaine senators are trying to
kill off Logan with the masses ot
working men, by accusing him of
endeavoring to increase the army
in order to put down labor when it
strikes.
A little two-year old boy of Mr.
T. \V. Orr, of Forsyth county, swal
lowed some hot coffee on Sunday
evening, the 21st inst., drinking it
from the spout of the pot boiling by
the fire. The little boy was alone
in the house. It died from its inju
ries.
Even Jay Gould’s paper, the
Tribune, believes that Grand Mas
ter Powderly sincerely desires, and
is trying to correct the evils which
have grown out of a strike in viola
tion of the principles of the order.
Brussels, March 30.—Quiet has
not only been restored at Charleroi,
but the strikers are generally return
ing to work. The only locality
where disturbances have increased
is the Central coal mining district.
Col. J. F. Hanson, of Macon, says:
“I am informed upon good author
ity, but which I am not at liberty to
quote, that President Cleveland said
to two members of congress from
Georgia that “they would never see
another ‘Solid South.’ ”
New Orleans, March 30.—A
dispatch says the steamer Barmore,
while engaged in saving the cargo
and machinery of the Mary Lewis,
exploded her boiler. Four men
were blown overboard and drown
ed. Five others are badly injured.
The resolutions of inquiry into
the killing of ten negroes at Car
rollton, Miss., introduced into the
House Mr. Randail yesterday, were
obstructed by Mr. Reagan’s objec
tion. The Mississippi members
seemed to be willing to let the reso
lution pass.
George W. Neal, one ofthe keep
ers of the dog pound at Newark,
New York, which was established
December last, after the children
were bitten, is probably dying from
hydrophobia. He was bitten Jan
uary 10th by a white spitz dog.
Convulsions begun yesterday. He is
a robust blacksmith.
From Brussels comes news o*
trouble; rioting, destruction of
property, etc., throughout Belgium-
Thc mobs have been fired upon and
several persons killed in attempts
to suppress the outbreak. Terrible
excitement prevails throughout the
little kingdom. Rioters have Brus
sels in charge.
Chamberlain and Trevalyan have
resigned. The Queen accepts the
resignations. James Stansfield,
radical member for Halifax, suc
ceeds Chamberlain and the Earl of
DalhousiesucceedsTrevalyan. Dal
housie, however, will not have the
same seat in the cabinet as Treval
yan had.
The “Cotton Manufacturers’ As
sociation” of Maine is a New Eng
land organization to thwart the
Knights of Labor. All the mill
owners will combine, and when a
needless strike is made against one
mill, every cotton factory will at
once shut down and throw all
Knights out of work,
Winona, Miss., March 27.—The
cuit at Carroll county adjourned at
Carrollfon to-day. The grand ju
ry examined over 150 witnesses on
the investigation of the shooting^of
the negroes in that place on the
17th inst, but no light whatever
was thrown upon the matter and,
as it was supposed, nothing can be
found against any individual who
took part in the tragedy. The
whites have recently received sev
eral anonymous letters of threats,
supposed to have come from the
negroffs.
Wilson ville, Ala., March 27.—
A brutal murder was committed
near this place in the swamp. A
body, found alter laying several
days. The victim, Blackley Hol
combe, well-known and respected,
was seventy years old. He sold
medicines through the country and
was known to wive money. When
found his head was crushed in
with • pine knot, which was stick
ing in his skull. His clothes were
rifled and medicines and money
were found lying on the ground
* Oil Basbecti discovered in Egvj
a n ° Vd, - V
the woTld 01 invention*.
A.cat is dead at Glasgow, K
tuedy, aged twenty j ear*.
Bolivar, Tennessee,'has been,
lected as the site of the new insai
asylum.
Mahogany five thousand yet
old has been found in the muck bei
of Florida.
Ex-Fresident Hayes will shot
make his debut as a magazine
ter.
A Russian convict is said to hav
survived a punishment of 2
lashes. -
There are five Chinese Sunda;
schools in Chicago, with 6S2 teac
ers and 760 pupils.
A walnut tree, purchased for S251
in West Virginia, was taken to Net
York last week and sold for $i,6oo|
Birmingham, Ala., is having
boom in real estate. Sales in on
day last week amounted to $543,250,
A man traveled from San Fran
cisco to Chicago recently on a firs!
class limited ticket, which cost hi
only $4.50.
A manufactory for cologne, to be!
made from the flowers growing'tn!
the vicinity, has been started in Pa-
iatka, Fla.
It is probable that the aext Pres
ideDt of the United States will be
inaugurated on the 30th of April in-1
stead of the 4th of March.
Out of the fifteen thousand cigar
makers in New York city only
three hundred are skilled hand
workers; the rest use molds. The
molded cigar is inferior.
The farm labor of the United
States in 1S80 by the census num
bered 7,870,493, of which 812,829
were foreign born. In mechanical
matters there were 3,837,112 labor
ers, of which 1,225,787 were for
eign born.
One of the blastfurnaces of the
Kemble Iron and Coal Company at
Kitldlesburg, Pa., was banked up
in November, 1SS4. After being
out of blast nearly sixteen months,
it was recently opened for the first
time, and the fire found still burn
ing.
The oldest Episcopal church in
the country—that in Williamsburg,
Y'a.—which contains the fount in
which Pocahontas was baptized,
and which has had among its com
municants George and Martha
Washington, is said to be sadly out
of repair.
The condition of M. Pasteur is
indeed alarming. It is ."no secret
that the eminent scientist has al
ready had one dangerous paralytic
stroke, and should he have another
it might result in his retirement
from the labors he has made so pe
culiarly his own,
Another man has died the victim
of false teeth. This is the second
occurrence of the kind within a
year. The first was in Georgia and
the second in Medway, Ohio. Den
tists should be responsible for such
homicides unless they could ex
plain the unfitness of their work.
Maud, the 12-year old daughter
of Dr. R. J. Wilson, of Salem, Ind.,
arose in her sleep the other night
and went across the street. Then
she went back and stood at her own
door, fumbling with the lock. Her
lather heard her, and thinking bur
glars were around, drew llis pi;tol
and,when the door opened,shot. The
ball struck Maud in the shoulder.
It will not kill her, but it awakened
her thoroughly.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Atlanta publishes twenty newspa-
pets.
Sam Jones will invade Toledo in
July-
There is not a Jew in the town of
Toccoa.
Clayton county will build a new
court house.
It is now thought that Dooly
county will go dry.
Negro farm hands in Pike coun
ty demand 40 cents a day and ra
tions.
The Georgia Baptist convention
wifi meet in Rome on the 22d ot
April.
A negro boy in Washington has
4 .Ji;. . lea.-. «•) *d) .r-t". t Otx
'.Ji.V .U n.dl >- JuMf-
a cancer caused from wearing a
brass collar button.
Hesekiah Kirby, of Macon, paid
fifteen dollars for the privilege of
whipping his wife.
The Kimball House. Atlanta, will
have a $1,600 soda fount, which
will be put up in the barroom.
Georgia has had 61 fourth class
postmasters removed. New York
has the largest number, 1,053.
A catamount, four and a half feet
long, was slain in Wilkes county
last week. This is the second one '
killed this winter.
The term of office ofthe present
Commissioner of Agriculture, Judge
Henderson, will expire on August
next.
There is a family living in Ran
dolph county who have been using
the same collard seed for more than
forty years.
Mr. L. A. Rumph, of Houston
county, has one acre in radishes.
He has already commenced ship
ping to New York.
Georgia has four local roads on
their feet—the Macon and Coving
ton, Georgia Midland, Rome and
Carrollton and Dublin and Western.
Mr. Bob Griffin, of Wilkes coun
ty, last week baited a trap for wild
turkeys, and while a drove was
feeding fired both barrels, killing
seven.
Gov. McDaniel has refused to
pardon G. H. Barton, the Atlanta
swindler, who was recently sen
tenced to one year in the chain-
gang-
Mr. J. H. Parnell, brother of the
Irish leader, has lately planted 500
acres more in peaches on his Geor-
g : a farm, making a total of 1,300
acres in that fruit.
If Larry Gantt will come down
toThomasville, we will go bail that
he will soon be a well man. Come
old boy, the blackberry crop is •
coming on apace, the fish will soon
begin to bite. .
Sam Jones says he”hasJmore re
spect for a man who drinks whis
key than for a man who drinks beet.
Many men who drink neither have
no respect for an evangelist “for
revenue only.”—Telegraph.
A large capitalist is said to be
buying in debts ol the Kimball
House Company, at about 50 to 60
cents on the dollar. Many think
his purpose is to wreck the compa-
ny by pressing it for a large amount
after he has control of a majority of
the debts of the concern. This
would be a wrong to enterprising
Atlantians, who purchased bonds
for $100 and larger sums to help the
enterprise.
Says the Telegraph: Mason is
rapidly becoming the convention
city ot Georgia. In the near tuture
the following important conven
tions will be held here: The Wo
man’s Christian Temperance Union
on the 21 st and aad of April; the
Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons on the 27th of April; Geor
gia Press Association on the 29th of
April; the Grand Lodge ot the
American Order ot United Work
men on the 12th of May; the State
Sunday School on the 13th, 14th,
and 15th of May. It should
not be forgotten, also, to mention
the firemen’s parade on the 15th oi
April.—Thomasville Enterprise,
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