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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. Kiln ij/. 3til > »-»)>.) *.u4 jnoaitti 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, \