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LETTER FROM WYNTON.
Ala-, April 14,—When
lon« dosed hi» (rreit revival servl-
hr raised hi* hand «W the Urge
J,«tion end »eid: “In Birmingham
** !,on,, ‘ mi B h *y ROOd p e °p u " H#
' |th . Mil on the head. It U said men'.
„ ,rr governed by the daily impTea-
made on them. If this he so, the
!oDtin<*al sight of fire here causes
■ houghts of where no man cares to 60,
nlfjs h«‘ is better. On* of the many in-
° rf $ting Rights to be seen in and around
K rnungH»m are the beautiful fires which
fu<h «p o° m d *y t0 day and ,ight the
fcfa ven* »t night. These fires are from
,hf furnaces and rolling mills and fills
onf with awe as they are gazed at. It is
ldnight. L«t 'I* 4 suppose we are stand-
j .near the Alice furnace No. 2, waiting
tt , the night run. The furnace is roar
ing «nd belching out the slag, which is
escaping with a loud noise from an open-
side. Two stalwart negroes
stripped to the waist armed
with l'*ng iron poles with
which they guide the heated dross.
\r»u.nd the moulding room can be seen
hiu**n forms with ghastly features
standing watching for the approaching
tim» The forms we see are the negro
hands w ith the pale bluish glare from the
furnace light shining on theirdark skins.
The moulds have all been prepared, and
f v,-nthing ready for opening the fur-
e. The word is given and the ne-
fI .„ s take a peculiar tool and make a
hole through the clay at the opening.
1 he olav gives way and the cry, “Here
phi- come; is shouted, and the red metal
U'cms to course down the main channe
into the moulds. Soon the stream grows
larger, and the building is lighted up
with a rich glow which extends over
the surroundings. The scene is one of
a.nmtv Seventy-live tons of pig iron
has been made, w hich has a market value
of twelve hundred dollars. The men
who work with this iron are reduced to
hone and muscle. They wear wooden
fthoe.s, and during a run put on very
heavy woolen clothing to protect them
from the heat, which is intense. The
first objects of attraction to a stranger
who visits the city at night
are live hundred lights bulging
out of a rampant looking atlair, on which
are walking men, who are silouetted by
the reflection of the light. It is this
tight that usually catches the country
fallows, as they raise up half asleep off
the ear seat and exclaim: “I’ll swar,
this lure town is a burning up, show.”
This interesting sight is the
rrnsAo: cokkovkns,
winch furnish coke for the furnaces.
The ovens are usually five hundred feet
long and twenty high, built of brick.
These ovens are fed from the top, wher %
the coal is dumped in. The heat and
pas from them causes a blaze to shoot
out three to ten feet. The workmen are
negroes, who grow three shades blacker
i ter a month s work. It is said a negro
who works at Hie ovens will not awear.
It is a good moral persuasion, and con
vinces turn he is already plating around
a young hades. The heat near the ovens
i<* intense. Fire is a commodity here,
ami is seen in large quantities.
Wynton.
Wu**ii \ ,i visit liarnaonx Grove,don’t
t < ti* s* v the millinery tit pmiiuenl at
• • inn* l>, I'.trti-r .* Co., they haw just
r* c ive*l » :ull *i»riug stock which tran
m e.vmi. uovtl'x and be«uty anything
ev i nefore se* n in the place.
HI NTING THE DIAMONDS.
A Force of Detectives Scouring the Lines.
There have been several detectives in
onr city the the past week trying to get
4oine clow to the stolen diamonds' It is a
theory among some that the thief who
pot the sparklers, has been following the
:« ntleman who brought the diamonds to
Athens, some weeks ago, and finding out
he had left some with Mr. Mandeville to
he shipped, watched the movements of
that gentleman to find out where he had
shipped them. These diamond thieves
*r»’ the sharpest rascals in the business,
and work a long time to accomplish their
object.
The jewelers of Athens yesterday re-
ceived notification of a diamond robbery
which occurred in New York only afew
days ago with a request that they keep a
Uok-out for the missing diamonds. A
gentleman went to New York and pur
chased $30,0UU worth of diamonds, and
put them in his truuk. The thieves
were on the lookout and followed him.
The diamond man stopped at a hotel and
put his trunk in the ba-reage room, tak
ing a check for the same. The thieves
put their grip sacks in the baggage room,
and while the owner of the diamonds
was out, asked the man who attended
to the baggage room to allow them to
get a collar from their grip-sacks. While
in tne baggage room the check was
slipped otr the trunk, and the one on the
grip sack took its place. They called
for the trunk, produced the check and
got away with the trunk and diamonds.
The reason that there was no value
placed on the package ahipped by Mr.
Mandeville is that the diamond mer
chants in New York insuro against rob
bery by transportation, and on thU ac
count they do net value the diamonds, as
the express company charges according
to the value of gold, silver, greenbacks
and diamonds. The detectives are hard
it work and we may hear something in
teresting in a short while.
AH INTERVIEW
Witt Hr. K. &. Hodfiob OB Kallroads and
tto Tociaoloflctf toluol.
“Can't you giro u» an insight into the
railroad movements?" a B.-W. reporter
asked of Mr. E. R. Hodgson yesterday.
“There is nothing on the inside," re
plied that gentleman. “The only thing
we can do is to patiently wait until the
first of next month, when the contract
between the city and the R. & D. road
expires, when something definite will
surely be done. Athens is not dead on
railroads, and the people can reat assur
ed that everything will work to the ad
vantage of the city. We have been wait
ing a long time for something to transpire,
but now there is only an interval of
about two weeks, and before you know
it Athens will have more railroads than
■he knows what to do. This is all I can
say about this matter at present."
“Where, then, will the Technological
school be located, Mr. Hodgson?”
“Every city in Georgia will he given a
chance to bid for this school, and the one
offering the best advantages and the most
of them will certainly get it.”
"Is the fact that one city more health
fully located than another the only
reason it will have the advantage in com
petition?"
“A healthful location is one of the first
essentials, but many other things will
also have to be taken into consideration.
There are hundreds of healthy localities
in the state that would not be suitable pla
ces for the school."
“Well, tell us some of the advantages
of this school, as we feel it would be of
interest to the people?"
"The school intended to combine prac
tice with theory, similar to the wav in
which chemistry and civil engineering is
now taught in the University. I'rof.
M bite's class in chemistry work in the
laboratory just as if they were apprenti
ces learning their future vocation. The
same is true of Prof. Barrow’s class.
They study text hooks at the college and
a certain portion of each year is given to
field work and regular camp life, and a
graduate of either of the above classes is
competent to fill a position in actual
bread-winning service the day he leaves
college. Both the above branches will
be taught in the Technological school,
and in addition to this we intend to have
the finest and beat work shops in the
South. Students will have their over
alls and paper caps, and will have to work
just as if they were working for wages.
In the wood room will be done all man
ner of bench work, wood-turning, ma
chine-sawing and planing with the most
improved machinery. In the iron room,
filing and chipping and reaming and fit
ting and finishing of plane surfaces, work
with speeil and engine lathes, drilling,
milling and planing, tool making, manage-
agement of ateam, care of engines, de
signing and constructing. The progress
of a student will necessarily be faster
than if serving an apprenticeship, because
he will receive the constant attention of
the superintendent of the shops, who
will be one of the best men that can be
found, and at the same time he will be
receiving a first class education. I'll tell
you more about it some day when I liave
time."
“Well, what are the chances of Athens
to get the school?"
"Just the same as any other city; but
you must see to it, my friend, that any
other cities do not outbid you. It is worth
more thafi a railroad, and you see how
some of the Georgia cities arc planking
down the cash for railroads. It will just
make me sick, if, when we open the bids
on the first day of October I find some
other city presenting greater induce
ments than Atkcns for the location of
this school. You know, we cannot con
sult our personal preferences ir. the mat
ter of location. It will he like awarding
a contract. The best bid, all things con
sidered, will get the school. Good-bye.
OUR OGLETHORPE TRIP-
CRAWFORD ADD rifXINGTON COM
PARED-
Messrs Gunnels, Power A Co., keep
the most mrtiitic millinery More In
Harmony Grove. This department is
presided over by Mrs Gunnels and
MrsGarricht.
LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY.
The following is a copy ef a letter re
ceived by Uncle Peter Culp from Hor
ace Greeley, during his canvass for the
Presidency:
Bradford, N. H., Aug. 10, 1872.—
Bear Sir; Yours of the 2d reaches me
here, and I answer it only to say that
you need not fear the North. New York
is with us by a very large majority; so ia
New Jersey; so ia Connecticut. New
Hampshire and Rhode Island are closer,
hut we will carry them, and expect to
triumph in Pennsylvania. Yours.
Horace Gsiilxt,
USEFUL HINTS.
Never carry a lamp which is burning
from a warm to a cold room.
Never go to bed with a lamp or candle
burning.
Bo not read by candle ok lamp-light
after lying down.
Open your window! at night Night
ur >a seldom, if ever, to poisonous as
y°ur own breath. Air and light are
about the heat medicines known to man.
A moist cellar ia more dangerous than
1 wet cellar.
" oolen is, in this climate, the best
undergarment daring moat of the year. '
Cold bath* are dangerous to the old
Mid feeble. i t J ' '
Warm baths are relaxing, and should
t » k *n in the morning. oeonle
The morning is the best time lor a cold
■*«;the evening fo7 a
Brooklyn Magaxine. !cu / U
DASIELSVILLE U01.NGS.
Danielsvii.lb, Ga., April 14, 1886.—
Mrs. I.cttic Brannon, a very aged
Christian lady died yesterday, a few
miles from town and was buried here to
day. She was a consistent member of
the Presbyterian Church here for over
half a century. Rev. Groves H. Cart-
ledge preached the funeral sermon.
Mrs. Samuel Chandler, whose hus
band died three years ago, died of con
sumption, the 10th, inst., and was bu
ried near Union Church, on the 11th,
inst. She leaves 7 little children, the
eldest a daughter about 12 or 14 years
of age, the other six hoys. Homes will
be provided for these little ones.
The infant of Mr. and Mrs. George
Thompson, one day last week after
breakfast, when the mother went to take
it up from the bed, was found dead.
The babe waa awake about midnight,
and it ia supposed that it waa overlaid
The new organ is in place in the Pres
byterian church building, for the use of
that and the Baptist church, and the
Union Sunday School, all of which meet
in that building. The Sunday School is
flourishing and very interesting.
Mr. Scoggins, who has been selling'
liquor by retail in this county near Har
mony Grove retails no longer, because
Mr. John B. McGinnis, one of the 5 own
ers of the land nearest the barroom re
fused to sign the petition to the Ordina
ry for license.
Judge Lumpkin Las ordered that onr
superior court hereafter meet on Mon
day mornings at 9 o'clock, instead of 10
o’clock, as heretofore, thus saving an
hour of work to the connty, without ad
ditional coat to anybody. Judge Lump
kin has won the reputation of doing more
business with leas money than any of his
predecessors. He thoroughly under
stands the geography of a dollar, espe
cially of the public's money; and when
ever the people get ready to spare him
from the bench of the Northern circuit,
ha would make one of the best Governors
Georgia could get.
There will probably be a lively prose
cution at the September term next of our
superior court, judging from the facta
below; Rev. T. J. Adams was formerly
a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, bat for some cause ia now
with the Congregational Methodists, a
preacher. He is our county school com
missioner, and is also teaching a school
near his home in his own building, used
for the double purpose of church and
school house. I believe he teaches a
public school. His, cousin, Mr. Hubbard
Hampton, one of our staunch farmers,
sends his little son. Bee, and his daugh
ter, about 14 years of age, to Mr. Adams'
school. A few dsys ago Mr. Adams
gave little Bee a very sever* thrashing,
report says, leaving several marks upon
his person, some of them 3 or 4 inches
long. Misa Hampton plead with Mr.
Adams for her little brother, whereupon
he turned upon this young lady and
thrashed her. These, in substance, are
stated by Mr. Hampton as the facts. Of
course ha is indignant, and says he will
prosecute to the extent ot the law. There
Is considerable talk about the matter, and
Mr. Adams'action is. condemned by the
warm bath.—I “Have yon been before the grand
in 1‘lUJwy?" is the latest question.
Data Gathered During a Week's Sojourn
Among the Kindest People in the World.
We epent a week with the good peo
ple down in Oglethorpe, and would have
remained longer, but for renewal of pains
in our lungs that admonished us of a
threatened attack, and we returned home
with all speed. We did not getnear
through with onr visit, for our friends
seemed to vie with each other in their
tendering of hospitality. We could have
spent twelve months with them and not
remained at one house more than a day.
The citizens of Oglethoepe have always
been noted for their open-handed hospi
tality, and they are the truest and warm
est of friends, and most uncompromising,
yet open and avowed opponents if they
do not like you. For nearly eight years
we lived among these kind and true
hearted people, and our little start in life
they gave us. If we should live to be
an hundred years old, and move to the
most distant climes, we should alwavs
look upon old Oglethorpe as our home,
and feel to each of its people as almost a
kinsman. We love this county and its
people, and we flatter ourself that we also
possess their esteem and confidence.
Many of onr most pleasant associations
and friendships were formed there, and
whenever wc can “steal a day" know
of no more delightful place to spend it
Crawford is largely settled by emi
grants from,East Tennessee—a thrifty in
dustrious, brave people; who brought
with them to the old red hills of Ogle
thorpe that vim and enterprise for which
they are remarkable. Crawford is locat
ed on the dividing ridge between the
Broad and Oconee rivers, and the land,
naturally thin, had long been worn out
and thrown aside. The writer can well
remember when Crawford was hut a lit
tle way station, with one store and three
or four dwellings. It was on this
spot that our Tennessee friends
settled. Mr. S. II. Stokeley was the vi-
dette, and he soon built up here one of
the largest mercantile businesses in the
section. One by one his friends followed
him, until now the leading spirits of this
county are East Tennesseeans. They
possess the happy faculty of making a
success of whatever they touch, and as
either merchants or farmers prosperity
smiles upen them. The old worn-out
lands were renovated, and fields that
would scarcely “sprout a pea” now pro
duce the most abundant crops.
And this spirit of im
provement and thrift soon hecainc an ep
idemic, and the “natives" profited by
the example set them by the new-coiners.
As a natural consequence the most suc
cessful and thrifty farmers in the coun
ty arc now found around Crawford, and
lands have quadrupled in value and fer
tility. You see fewer loafers around
Crawford than any country town in the
South. When a Crawfordite is caught
taking his ease you may bet that he lias
attended to all business, and it only re
quires the sight of a man with a dollar to
spend to charge his system with industry
Crawford does not heli-ve in booms. Her
citizens are cautious, and before build
ing a house or investing in a public or
private enterprise they first count the
cost and profit. Hence there is not a
dollar of dead capital there. The place
has steadily yet slowly improved, and is
to-day on as firm a financial footing as the
bank of England. It isjalso a moral and re
ligioustown.andwill not countenance vice
or wickedness. But at the same time
there is a broad vein of humor running
through the place, and no people know
better how to give or take a joke. The
Crawfordites are strong in their convic
tions and friendship, and there is n o
need for a man to ask their support for
office unless he can show a spotless mor
al and political record. The Baptist de
nomination largely predominates, and at
the regular monthly meeting days, on
Saturday, every store in town is closed,
no matter how busy the season, that the
people may attend divine worship. But
during our visit last week we found
Crawford unusually excited and active.
It seems that Messrs Hubbard and Ar
nold are running rival hotels and hack
lines, and a traveller to disembark from
the train would think that he had in-
Taded a metropolis. But this war for
patronage is conducted in the best spir
it, and serves to enliven the place. In
new improvements we notice that Messrs
J. L. Jarrell aud R. I). Stokely have both
erected beautiful modern cottages, that
are quite an addition to the town.
Lexington and Crawford are as differ
ent as if settled by two nations of peo
ple. Lexington reminds one of A Tetired
and somewhat seedy old gentleman, who
still preserves all the hospitality and
dignity of his more prosperous and
younger days, and delights to entertain
the visitor with the story of his past
gTandeur. Crawford is a hardy young
frontiersman, looking with hopeful and
expectant eye to the future. Oglethorpe
county has been the cradle of Georgia's
greatest men, and it was from Lexington
that they embarked on the sea of life.
Every one of the imposing
old buildings that form the
town is a part of the history of our state'
and could the walls speak would tell a
story rich in interest. Old eitixens can
remember when Lexington was the great
mart of Northeast Georgia, and the la
dies of Athens would there buy their
finest goods. But when the railroad
waa built, leaving the town stranded
three miles to the left, Its trade disap
peared and the place gradually perished
of the dry rot But there is a quiet re
finement and warm-hearted hospitality
about the town that nothing can rob the
people of. A Lexingtonian is rarely in a
hurry, and the air of antiquity that sur
rounds him seems to penetrate the very
system of the people. During the dull
season the male inhabitants delight to
congregate in little groups around the
store-doors, and a stranger would think
that a Rip Van Winkle sleep had seized
upon the place. The only thing that
breaks the monotony of their lives is the
arrival of the mails. It does not not
take much to amnse a people cut off even
for so ahort a distance from railway
communication, and last week we saw
Urge crowd gathered around a little
three-year-old boy of Mr.Panl’s to he en
tertained by the child. But the grand old
town seems of late to be taking on
new lease of life, and its citizens are
turning their horoscopes in the direction
of the Augusta and Chattanooga railroad
and their rock quarries. There Uno
doubt about Lexington being once more
on the up-grade. She boasts some en
terprising and progressive citizens, and
these men are now taking the lead. The
new conrt-honse will not correspond
with the dingy old buildings that sur-
roundsthe square, and when it is com
pleted there must be a general scouring
up. Lexington feels more like home to
u* than any spot we know, and we are
anxious to teethe town get out of those
old ruts and take on a fresh life.
PXSCIL FOISTS.
Every man you meet has surveyed the
A AC. railroad so as to run it in front of
his house. There are a great nmnyair-
lines running through Oglethorpe.
Bermuda grass lands are on a boom,
and when tended yield from two to two
and one-half tons of fine hay per acre.
' We were surprised to hear Mr. Rich
ard Bacon, who voted “no fence," 6ay he
would vote against the stook lsw if the
election wss called again, as it is driving
cattle, sheep and hogs out of the county.
The corner stone of the new court house
will be laid early in May- John S. Da
vidson, of Augusta, has been asked to of
ficiate.
Nearly all the peaches are killed and
the plum crop is ent short. Other fruit
uninjured. Col. J. S. Baughn says that
on the 4th day of May, 1830, a heavy
frost came that killed peaches as large as
eggs and destroyed the wheat crop that
was jointing.
A great many spring oats have been
sown. The fall crop of oats are killed
and wheat very paor. We saw some
wheat sown in February that was looking
well.
Major Bondurant, who has the contract
to build the court-house, is a most affable
gentleman. He will bid on Athens’ pub
lic school houses, and says he is anxious
to get a foothold here.
Mr. George C. Hall, at Crawford, can
prognosticate a cyclone 24 hours in ad
vance.
The late Dr. Jarrell left a monument
to his memory in the public roads that he
worked. It is a pity that every district
in the county had not such a man.
A great deal of sugar cane is being
planted this year. It is a paving crop.
Mr. J. W. Echols lias turned his atten
tion to raising mules for market. He has
a Bermuda grass pasture of 600 acres.
Politics are very quiet in the county.
It is proposed to give the liquor and the
prohibition side each a representative in
the legislature.
The lawyers and doctors of Lexington
say that it will be hard work for them to
pull through until blackberry time.
Some negro teachers in the county will
be reported to the grand jury this week
for false swearing.
No efforts arc being made in the coun
ty to evade the prohibition law.
SHE must wed him or die.
Keeper Daly shoot! at the Girl Who
Would Sot Marry Him.
A young woman and several men
rushed out of Francis McElJuff s
saloon, on the corner of Twenty-
eighth street and Eighth avenue,
last Wednesday. Patrolman Mitch
ell of the West Thirty seventh
street station heard their call and
ran to the corner. “Bernard Dali
wants to kill me,” said the y> ung
woman. “He shot at me twice.
The policeman entered the saloon
and went up stairs to the apart
ments of Mr. and Mrs. McEldufl.
on the second floor. In a room oc
cupied bv the young woman. Miss
Annie McCann, a niece ot Mrs.
McEldufl, Mitchell found a young
man lying on the floor groaning
The carpet was covered w itli blood,
which flowed from a bullet wound
in the left side of his abdomen. The
man was too weak and excited to
talk, but when the policeman said
he was going for an ambulance he
said: “I won't go. I’ll die here.”
But the ambulance came and took
him to Roosevelt Hospital.
The wounded man is Bernard
Daly, who, though but 19 years old.
has for a year past had a saloon
keeper’s license for No. 236 60
Thirty-second street.
Five months ago the young sa
loon keeper met Annie McCann,
who is a plump and good looking
Irish girl, two years his senior. He
soon found that he loved Annie
very much. She went often to
places of amusement with him, and
he thought she loved him. Last
Sunday Bernard visited Annie at
the McEldufl" home to ask her to be
his wife. He asked, but she re
fused. He pleaded, and she left
him alone in the room. He went
out and got very drunk.
SOZODONT the ladies prlds,
Obit rivals it deride.
Zepnrs ot flower Isden sir.
Only with it ean eompsre,
Doing good to everything,
On rv ry side Us praises ring;
Negleet to use it, ladies won't
They all must hsve their SOZODONT.
The Fragrant Breath of Beauty,
attests the matchless purifying prop
erties of HOZODONT. Every lady vvtio
has ever used it, proclaims it a jierfect
antidote to dental decay. Pure teeth are
essential to a pure breath, and both are
enjoyed by all who resort to this agree
able wholesome and invaluable vegetable
compound.
Good Results in Every Case.
D. A. Bradford wholesale paper dealer
of Chattanooga, Tenn., writes, that he
was seriously afflicted with a sevens cold
that settled oa his lungs: had tried
many remedies without benefit. Being
induced to try Dr King’s New Discovery
for Consumption, did so and was entirely
cured by use of a few bottles, Since
which time he has used it in his family
for all Coughs Colds with best results.
This ia the experience of thousands
whose lives have been saved by this
Wonderful Discovery. Trial Bottles
free at Long & Co., Durg Store.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A VICTIM OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Terrible Suffering and Death of a Young
Physician.
Dr. Briton 11. Warner, a young
physician of Baltirnoie, who has es
tablished a good practice and was
making tapid piogress in his profes
sion, died the othei- morning of hy*
drophobia. Dr. Warner was bitten
on Christmas day. He was passing
along the street when he saw a lap
dog, which had been run over by a
hoiseca, a..d had dragged itself
biui-ed and bleeding, over the cob
blestones. He was very fond of
dogs, and with a kinkly feeling
thought he would convey the tiny
animal home, nurse it and make a
pet of it. Taking out his handker
chief he tied it aiound the dog’s neck
aud tried to induce the animal to
follow him to his home a block
westward to Saritoga street. He
made three attempts to induce the
dog to follow him, whea suddenly
it turned and bit him on
the right hand. Although the ani
mal exhibited no signs ot hydropho
bia, Dr. Warner at once cauterized
his wonnJ and said he was going to
have hydrophobia. Soon alterwards
1 policeman killed the dog. Dr.
Warner often worried over the bite
although it gave him no pain.
Thursday he went to his office as
usual although he was slightly sick.
The next day lie fell upon the kitch
en fl ior, and when picked np wan
very nervous ar.d excited. Saturday
he went to bed and the delirium be
gun. The symptoms of rabies had
been pronounced. There was a wild
look about his eyes. He could not
swallow water and in his delirium he
imagined there were dogs under his
■bed. So vividly was this idea im
pressed on his mind that he sprang
Irom his bed and rushed to the op-
site side of the room, and the ani
mals seemed to persue him wherever
The disappointed lover continued | he went, and he moved restlessly
Regular.
An old trunk has been found in a
branch near Hartwell, containing some
clothing, a camera and other photo
graphical instruments. The trunk was
well-nigh rotten and must have been
buried several years ago. The find has
caused some excitement and a good deal
of speculation about Hartwell. Somo sus
pect foul play, and others again sossit
the idea. i Price 50cents. A 1.'mss The Dr. Husanko
During court week a number of the Medicine Co., Piq ia, 0. Sold by E. S.
to drink and to seek opportunities
for pressing his suit. He bought an
engagement ring for Annie Mc
Cann. He neglected his business,
spending most of his time in Fran
cis McEidufFs saloon, where he oc
casionally got glimpses of Annie.
Yesterday afternoon the brother,
Frank, left the saloon in charge of
his uncle and went to look for Ber
nard. He found him at the McEl-
duff establishment, but could not
get him to leave. Bernard had
bought a self-cocking, 3S-caliber
British bulldog pistol, almost as
heavy as a gun. He waited until
he saw Annie go up stairs alone
and followed her. She went to her
bedroom, but he entered too.
“Once more, Annie, will you
you marry me ?” said he.
“No, I won’t.”
“Then here goes one,” said Daly,
firing at the woman’s head.
Theball grazed the side of her face
and entered the wall. She scream
ed and ran into the hallway, but,
believing Bernard only meant to
frighten her, she stopped and look
ed b?ck into the room. He took
aim and fired again, but missed his
mark. He then shot himself in the
abdomen. Nobody in the house
heard the report, but the shot is a
fatal one.
CUBE FOB FILES.
Piles are frequently preeeileil bv a
sense of weight in the back, loins and
lower part of the abdomen, causing the
patient to suppose he has some affection
of the kidneys or neighboring organs.
At times, symptom of indigestion are
present. flatulency, uneasiness of the
stomach, etc. A moisture like perspira
tion, pro*hiring a a very disagreeable
Itching, alter getting warm, as a common
attendant. Blind, Bleeding aid lu lling
Pilesvield at once to the application of
Dr. B warko’s Fife Remedy, which acts
directly noon tile parts affected, absorb
ing the Tm mrs. allaying the intense
lung, and cif-otinga permanent cure.
survivors ef the Tugalo Blues consulted
together and decided upon having a re
union the coming summer. The re
union will he held after crops are laid by,
and a meeting, or mectiags will
he called preparatory thereto,
of which the survivors of that gallant
company will have ample notice.
What can Be Done.
Ry trying again and keeping lip
courage many things seemingly imjtos-
hle may t>e attainted. Hundreds of
hopeless "cases of Kidney and Liver
" mplaint have been cured by Electrice
tters, alter everything else had been
tried in vain. Sj, don’t think there is no
cure for you, but try Electric Bitters.
There is no medicine so safe, so pure,
and to perfect a Blood Purifier. Electric
Bitters will cure Dyspepsia, Diabetes
and Diseases of the Kidneys. Invaluable
affections of Stomach and Liver and
overcome all Urinary Difficulties Large
Bottles only 50 cts. at Long & Co.
J.yndon and G. W. Rush.
Thk Giikat Kkukdy.
ROSADALIS is a great remedy for
Scrofula, and alt taints and diseases of
the Blood. It is well known to Physi
cians, v* ry many of whom regularly
f ireec.ibc it. It is a strengthening med-
cine, enriching the blood and building
up the system- Bead the following: I
have suffered 37 years with Liver Com
plaint Keliumatism,Sick Headache, and
I'isordered Stomach. I was at one time
having distracted, rubbing may bauds
and hall crazy with pain Mv wife sent
fora doctor, and he attended me nine
months. He said lie could do me no good;
butone bottle ot ROSADALIS did me
more good than all the medicine the
doctors ever gave me.
Moore's Creek. N. C. J. If. WALKER
TRUE BILLS.
from one part ot the room to anoth
er in a vain effort to escape. A
number or leading physicians were
in attendance; every mode of treat
ment were tried, including the Rus
sian bath but without success. In
stead of getting betterhegrew worse.
At midnight an Episcopal minister
was summoned to his beadside. Af
ter the minister had departed anoth
er one of the convulsions occurred
in which he frothed at the month
during the intensity of the sDasm.
He died after suffering the most
horrible agonies. Dr. Warner left
a wife and three children.
An Actor Who Guys the Flay.
From the New York Tribune.
“ Ned” Thorne, the actor, has the
reputation of “gnying” every piece
with which he is connected.
Shrewd managers who know his ir
repressible flow of humor stipulate
in his engagements that he shall
forfeit all claims on them, if he
“guys” the play. He told me yes
terday, as 1 was chatting with him
and “Billy” Florence at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, that Manager
McVicker, of Chicago, made such
a stipulation with him when an at
tempt was made to bring out a
dramatization ot Fenimore Coop
er’s “Spy” at Chicago, Thorne says
that the worst guy he ever made
was the result. “The plav was hor
rible, abominable,” he said to me,
and the houses were worse than
the play. I was cast for “Harvey
Birch,"’ the spy. I had solemnly
promised McVicker that 1 wouldn’t
guy the piece, but I had put in a
proviso, which was that I might
take the bridle off when I should
see disgust written on his own face.
This night Mack sat in the box
The play yins along until the spy
comes out on a bridge, from whose
height he stops to hurl defiance at
the minions of England. There is a
dramatic speech, and then he runs
off, while a British officer comes on
and shouts: A hundred dollars for
the spy.’ When I had made my
eternal defiance I looked down on
a beggarly audience and I saw in
McVicker’s face the ulter disgust he
felt at the poverty of the play and
the greater poverty of the receipts.
When the officer shouted out his of
fer of a reward I said to myself.
•Now is your time,’ and I rushed on
at the left entrance, and throwing a
piece of paper up at him, yelled
back: ‘It’s yours, manuscript and all
the parts. You might have got it
for half the money.’ The audience
didn’t catch on. But olU McVicker,
bless his old soul, I thought he
would die a-laughing. The play
came off the next night.”
A TERRIBLE CYCLONE. - ,
Two WUcrnsIn Towns Visited By Destruc
tive Wlads—More thanone Hundred Uvea
***•'
M iNNBAj’oj.is. Minh April 14.—
Report* have been received at 6 p.
m. of a terrible cyclone at St. Cloud,
Minn., this morning, in which.it is
reported that 40 weie killed, 75 in
jured and half the town laid waste.
It is reported that Sank Rapids also
suffered. Mayor Ames and a half-
dozen physicians areju-t leaving on
a special train for St. Cloud, in an
swer to a message for assistance.
Further particulars will be obtain
ed at the earleast possible moment.
St. Paul Minn., April 14.—St.
Cloud and Sank Rapids were swept
by a terriably destructive cyclone
this afternoon. The first knowledge
of the disaster was contained in a
telegram to Mayor Ames from St.
Cloud, reporting the disaster and
asking that a special train be sent
with physicians. A similar dispatch
was sent trom Sank Rapids. Im
mediately, upon receipt ot these
messages, preparations were made
to respond to the call for help. A
train for St. Cloud left at 6 oclock.
Information at hand is very meagre
and sensaaiona), reports are current
that 100 persons were killed. It is
believed that at least 40 persons have
been killed and 75 wounded,but it is
impossible to get much information
as yet. All is excitement and the
streets are filled with men and
frightened women and children.
The disaster is certainly apalling.
As nearly as can be learned scores
of bouses have been entirly wreck-'
ed. Twelve physicians were aboard
the relief train which left for St.
Cloud. Private advices say the
storm struck the railroad between
the reund house and freight depot
and swept a path 600 yards wide
through the city, leveling between
150 and 200 houses. M. H. Clark a
well-known lumberman who lives
in St. Cloud, says that 90 persons
were killed in that city and more
than too injured,many very serious
ly. Superintendant Wakeman, ot
the Manitoba road, says between
30 and 40 persons were killed at
Sank Rapids, a few miles Southeast
of St. Clond, and nearly double that
amount injured. The telegraph
wires northwest of this city are all
down and no news direct from
either St. Cloud or Sank Rapids has
been received or obtained since 7
o’clock.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
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V
GEORGIA NEWS.
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The Best Salve in the World for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
‘"ever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Etupt-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
lerfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box For sale by
Long A Co.—tf.
HARMONY GROVE NEWS.
V . J. D. Barnett and Miss Lula
Deadwylcr, both of this place, were
married at the Biptist church here on
Thursday evening. The attendants
were Mr. Enoch Anderson and Miss
Ada Almond, Mr. W. B. Barnett and
Miss Blanche Comer, Mr. F. Y. Stark
and Miss Pope McLaughlin, Mr. A. B
Dcadwyler and Miss Josie Wood. The
ushers were Masters 0. H. Williford and
J. W. Merritt The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Frank Stark. Mr. Bar
nett is a prominent young merchant a
member of the firm of Messrs. T. E.
Key & Co., and Miss L’ula was one of
our prettiest and most accomplished
young ladies. This happy couple have
the good wishes of a host of friends.
Mrs. C. Garreeht, late of Athens, is
new in the employ of Messrs. Gunnels,
Power & Co.
“Ten Nights in a Bar-room" will be
played here one night daring May for
the benefit of the Harmony Grove brass
band.
The season for the sale of fertilisers is
almost over. The farmers are using
large quantities, and every effort it seems
is being made for a large cotton crop.
Our merchants have sold quantities of
provisions on time this year—y ' 2 cents
for meat and about 47 per barrel for
flour is about the average time prices.
Our merchants are getting a good
trade from the people of Franklin county
this year. There are some splendid
farmers in Franklin, and they find onr
town a good market for their cotton and
can bay their goods here as cheap as in
any market, with freight added.
Mr. Jenks Comer, of Maysville, was
here Thursday night He brought with
him a bevy of pretty girls.
Athens sends out a lat of clever dium-
mers. We are thinkingof CoL Jim Co
mer at present, though they are alt very
clever.
The Grand Jury After the Blind TlferB of
Athens.
The young bloods of eur city have
been prancing up to the court house
all the week, being summoned as wit
nesses in cases where parties are
charged with selling liquor in defiance of
prohibition. One who professes to know-
says that at least fifteen true bills will be
found against a single firm, while some
other parties are on the toasting fork.
It seems that the unfortunate firm had
been reported by a man who was actua
ted by malice. The police are very
vigilant and determined that the laws
shall be enforced. It is folly forany one
to try to sed liquor in Athens w ithout be
ing caught up with. The cost and troub
le of a court trial will be much greater
than the profits. We trust the accused
parties may be able to vindicate them
selves. We know nothing about the
character of the- evidence given.
ATLANTA MOUTHS OPEN.
Six months ago we had no demand for
B. B. B., but now our retail demand is
such that we are forced to buy in gross
lots. We attribute tlie rapid and enor
mous demand to the comparative size
price ot B. R. B. (being large bottles for
$1) and Its positive merit. It sells well
and gives onr customersentire satlfaction
Onr tales have Increased 500 percent,
within a few months. Jacobs’Pharmacy
per Fred. B. Palmer, M. D.
ADVICE TO 'MOTHERS.
Mas. Wis.low's Soothiso SYRUP should at
ways bs used for children teething. It soothes
the child, softens tha sums altars *H pain, cures
wisdcolic, and Is tits best remedr tor diarrheas.
Twentr-flve cents a bottle. Ir3lddwlr
LIVER FILLS.
Use Dr. Gunn’s Liver Pill*, for Sailow
Complexion, Pimples on the Face and
Biliousness. Never ticket's or gripes.
Only one for a dose. Samples free at
E. S. Lyndon and G. W. Bush.
What a fanny name ior a medicine!
Nsverbelcss it Is very Significant as
applied to the article. Bile, according to
Webster, ia “a yellowish bitter, viscid
oaosceous fluid, sac reted by the liver.”
Whenever the li vor does no act properly
this fluid Is retained in the blood and
paiaont the whole system, and aallow-
neaa and misery Is the result. SMITH’S
BILE BEANS I* a sore core for
biliousness and liver complaint. Pries.
35 cento per bottle.
Mr. George Murrell, near Winterville
paid ’Squire O’Kelley yesterday $1,000
for 60 acres of land in front of his house.
Bast English Bones Going to America.
London Truth.
The rapidly increasing through-
bred stock of America is likely to
tell upon our race courses. The
principal breeders, Messrs. Lorri-
lard, Belmont, Scott, etc., are im
porting tome of the best English
stallions and mares, and Mr. W. K.
Vanderbilt who has a modest in
come of 500,000 pound tteriing per
annum, and ia a through sportsman,
will probably appeajt both in Eng
land and America as the owner of
horses that will be able to hold their
own. '»• ,
The watchman at the Savannah
National Bank has a rat trap that
works automatically, and some
nights he catches two or three rats.
Yesterday morning, thoTigh, he
found that his trap had beat all pre
vious records. .Wheq, the rodents
were all slaughtered and laid tn a
tow there were twenty-one of them.
Four of the rats were fall grown,
bat the other seventeen were young
one* that had followed their mother
into the trap. '
FIGHT WITH A MANIAC.
A Lunatic Kills His Wife While Resisting
the Constables.
Milwaukee, Wis., April 12.—A
tragedy occurred at Kewaskum to
day, following a terrible struggle
with William Helm, who has ex
hibited symptoms of insanity for
two days past. Two deputy sher-
ffs were sent from West Bend to
arrest Helm and bring him here, as
he had been threatening the life of
his wife and fourchildren. Yester
day Helm mixed a dose of poison,
which he desired the wife to take,
saying that he had but a few days to
live and did not wish her to survive
him. The woman managed to es
cape from him and desttoyed the
poison. When the officers arrived
to-day they were met by Helm, re
volver in hand. Several attempts
weie made to induce the maniac
to part with his weapon, but these
were unsuccessful.
It was at last decided to make a
rush for him and trust to his excite
ment for missing his aim. As the
officers sprang toward him Helm
fired, the shot failing to take effect.
Befo-e they could close on him he
fiied the second time, 'he ball strik
ing Mrs. Helm in.the breast, pene
trating the heart and killing her in
stantly. The officers then closed
with the maniac, and, after a fierce
struggle, succeeded in wresting
away his weapon and securing him.
He was lodged in jail at West Bend.
Four children, the youngest a babe
two weeks old, are left orphans by
the tragedy.
ATTEND TO IT NOW.
Many suffering people drag themselves
about with failiug strength, feeling that
they are steadily sinking into the grave,
when by using Parker’s Tonic they
would find*core commencing with the
first dose, and vitality and strength
surely coming back to tnem, “ I am 63
years old; have been sick nearly all my
life, and ought to know something about
medicine by this time. 1 hare used
Parker’s Tonic freely for more than a
year, and consider it the best remedy I
have ever known. In fact, I now find
no other medicine necessary. For weak
ness, debility, rheumatism, and that dis
tressing all-goneneBs and pain from
which I suffered so long, it has no equal.
I do not see how any one can afford to
do without so valuable * medicine.”—
Mrs. Hattie W. Graves, cor. East and
Front streets, Providence. R. I. Par
ker’s Tonic prepared by Hiseox A Co.,
N. Y„ sold by ali Druggists in large bot
tles at oae dollar. aprlll.3«r.
Mm OUT SEED:
Since gardening is about over the av
erage congressman and United States
senators are sending out large quantities
of garden seeds with French names on the
packages. Every farmer who receives a
package digs a hole and puts them in the
ground and writs for large results. They
do not stop to think that these **>ds«*
not for planting but electioneering purpo
ses. The more seed* thq nars vatu*. If
the congressmen will send out soma old-
fashioned corn field boons and k pock of
Irish potatoes, it will pfeaso thbfknM^
bettor and bo of some benefit tn them. 1
LATEK INCIDENTS.
St. Paul, April 16.—The city
council this morning voted $5,000
in cash to aid the cyclone suffecers,
aud Governor Hubbard dispatched
a car load of provisions to Sauk
Rapids. The car was accompanied
by a committee of the Jobbers’
Uuion, who will offer ell the assist
ance in their power.
A mere enumeration of distress
ing instances that are coming to
knowledge would fill columns. Dr.
Denslow, who, with others, went
last evening by special train to St.
Cloud, returned this morning. Upon
arriving at St. Cloud he said the
physicians from St. Paul and Min
neapolis divided, some going to
Sauk Rapids. Dr. Denslow was
on the force sent to the St. Bene
dictine Sisters' Hospital, and they
were kept busy until 3 o’clock this
morning.
One probably fatal case is that of
a woman who has a broken collar
bone. Both bones of ’.he left fore
arm and both bones of the left leg
are fractured, all comminuted, and
the pelvis broken—an accident sel
dom chronicled in surgery. Her
head and face are bruised beyond
recognition. Sti ang to say, the wo
man is conscious and talks freely,
saying her hip hurts, but otherwise
she felt no pain.
Another probably fatal case is
that of a man twenty years old.
Both legs are so badly crushed that
they had to be amputated midway
between the knee and the thigh.
One man lying in the hospital badly
injured said three . of his children
were dead. Another man in the
next bed to him responded, saying
his wife and three children were
killed by the storm. Three little
boys about six years of age were
brought in at midnight wounded
cruelly. A woman was found with
a piece ot scalp as large as a man’s
hand torn from her head and hang
ing in shreds.
Drs. Denslow and Kilchel short
ly alter midnight went across to
Sauk Rapids to reader what as
sistance they could there. Twenty-
three dead bodies had been tound,
and the doctors from Minneapolis
were busy caring for the injured.
Drs. Higbee and Dalliver, of
Minneapolis, iust from St. Cloud,
told an Associated Press reporter
that new bodies were being recov
ered hourly from the debris and be
ing brougnt in from the country in
the track of the tornado. Twelve
injuted people were brought in,
several of whom will die. Drug
gist Scuab’s remains had just been
found. He had only been in the
city two weeks. Four have died of
wounds since morning.
At a church east of Kye Station
13 members of a wedding party
were killed, including the officiating
minister.
At Sauk Rapids 31 are already
Jead. The list will be swelled to
A terrible cyclone got in its
■*vork vesterdey. • •*• ■ • *’ f
L. Q. C. Lamar is in Macon, the
guest of Anderson Reeie.
The ninth death growing oiit of
the East St Louis riot, has taken
place,
The naval drill and display at
Pensacola has been Successful and
without accident.
Secretary Menning was yesterday
reported to be progressing towards
complete recovery.
The delegation to Charleston in
the interest of the Augusta and
Chattanooga, have returned.
There has been a reduction of
297 in the clerical force of the
United States treasury department
under the present administration.
Savannah, April 15.—Harman
Cohen, a butcher,. who stabbed a
negro boy on Liberty street two
weeks ago, plead guilty and sen
tence was suspended.
W. A Camp, the proprietor of
New Holland, is out there now
busily engaged in repainting the
houses, clearing awav rubbish and
beautifying the grounds of this fa
vorite resort.
Messrs. Randall and Morrison
were both moviug about among
members of the house today and it is
said that both were ascertaining
opinions on the pending tariff bill.
Montgomery, Ala., April 15.—
The cars of the Capital City Street
Railway commenced running to-day
by electricity. Trip* are regularly
made and everything works per
fectly.
A negro who is supposed to be
named Columbes Father, was horri
bly mangled on the Brunswick di
vision ot the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia railroad near
Stratton’s brick yard yesterday at
z o’clock, by an evening train.
Mr. James Gibson,of Gordon,was
stopping at the Sandersville hotel,
had $9 50 in stolen from his valice
in his room last week. Suspicion
rests upon Clara Strong, one of the
servants of the house.
The development of cholera at
Brindisi causes an alarm in France,
and particularly along the Italian
frontier. Precutions of the most
stingent kind are being instituted to
prevent the scourge from invading
France.
Robert Harr.iltons large tobacco
manufactory in Covitigton, Ky„was
burned this morning, damaging his
stock to the amount of $60,000; in
surance $6 5,00a
A party of hostile Apache Indi
ans passed through Pensacola, on
the Louisville and Nashville rail
road, in charge of United States au
thorities, en route to Fort Marion
and St. Augustine, where they will
be imprisoned.
The chair laid before the senate a
letter from Senator Jackson saying
he had accepted the United States
judgeship of the sixth circuit; that
his seat in the United States senate
had therefore become vacant, and
requested the president pro tern, of
the senate to so inform the execu
tive of Tennessee.
Washington, April 15.—The
Speaker to-day appointed the fol
lowing committee to investigate the
causes and extent of the labor trou
bles in the West: Curtin, of Penn
sylvania; Crain, of Texas, Outh-
waite, of Ohio; Stewart, of Ver
mont; Parker, of New York, and
Buchanan, of New Jersey.
Lynchburg, Va., April 13.—
Lieut. Gov. Massey spoke to a great
crowd at the skating rink to-night
on local option. Anti-whisky
clubs are forming, and every exer
tion is being made to carry local
option. The whisky men are work
ing earnestly to defeat their oppo
nents. The canvass is becoming
bitter on both sides.
Great excitement was occasioned
at Angelica N. Y., today by the an
nouncement that the First National
bank of that place had closed its
doors. It is said that J. E. Robinson
the cashier is defaulter to the amount
of $50,000. When last heard of he
was in Canada whither he had gone
for the purpose of “recovering his
health.”
At Alexandria, Va., today the
property of the Virginia Midland
railroad company was formally
transferred to the Richmond and
Danville railroad company, under a
lease of ninety-nine years, by Colo
nel Tohn Anerney, vice-president m
charge of the Virginia Midland com
pany, to Colonel A. S. Buford, pres
ident ot the Richmond and Danville
Company.
Greenville, April 14,—Mr.
Judson Anthony, county treasurer,
died suddenly of heart disease on
the evening ot the 12th instant, and
was buried' here to-day. There
seems to be a strange fatality about
the office of county treesurer of
Merriwether county. Three treas
urers have died in the last ten years
and a fourth one, who was running
without opposition, was buried just
the day before that set for the elec
tion.
40
Dr. Apaps, of Minneapolis, who
is on duty at St. Cloud, told Dr.
Dalliver that at least 30 deaths
can but result from the visitation
there. (
At Sauk Rapids a man named
Van Etten, who weighs250 pounds,
was carried 400 feet through the air
and fatally injured.
A dead baby was found on the
street; no owner for it can be found.
At St. Cloud, in the track of the
cyclone stood the Manitoba freight
house and cars filled with freight
Heavy cars were lifted, thrown from
the tracks and cast in pieces in a
shapeless mass. The rails were torn
irom the ties and twisted like small
wire. Telegraph poles were torn
up and wires twisted into curious
masses. The freight honse was to
tally wrecked. The roof was lifted
and blown several hundred feet
The sides next succumbed, and over
$3,000 worth of freight was scatter
ed piecemeal over an are*' ot a
quarter of a mile. Fifteen freight
cars were demolished. The opera
tors in the telegraph, office and the
employes at the freight depots saw
the cyclone coming and fled into a
cellar, and they escaped.
It was 8:30 in the evening when
the special car arrived froiti St.
Paul and Minneapolis. The run.
was made in two hours through a
terrible thunder storm. The akies
hung low with clouds a* black as
tbecnrtaina of Kedar, and zigzag
streaks of lightning made livid rift*
in the black pafi, while peals of
fbnnder too deep to be drowded by
the roar of the cor wheels shook the
air. Through the air drove the
hail and rain with sufficient force to
almost break the cor windows, bnt
the locomotive drove at the (ate of
35 miles sn boar. Along the road
were signs of terrible storms ap
parent on either hand, and streams
turbid and awollen, had burstpver
the confines Of their banks and cov
ered the prairies until the country
lttd the appearance of a world of
angry watera. . » , ' ’
Wo understand that Msddrey dr Jopes
Vrifl add ^tubbing to their business.
An old negro woman died in
Amerlcuk Saturday, who was said
to bo 106 years old.
Saturday a young msn by the
name of Dorrough was killed six
miles east of Carrollton, by the team
he was driving getting frightened ’
and running sway with him.
Mrs M iry B. Johnson, who died
near Covington last week, was over
91 years old, and het descendants
toot up 171—12 children, 42 grand*
children, 116 great grandchildren,
end one {reat-greatgrandchild.
A willow farm in Macon, Ga.,
produces about a ton of switches to
the acre, commanding, when dried,
$200, and, as the leaves and bark sell
at 25 cents a pound baled, the en
terprise pays better than cotton.
Philip Keane, the oldest inmate ot
the state insane asylum, from Chat
ham county, is dead. He was com
mitted Feb. 22, 1854, and counse-
quently had spent 32 years in the
institution.
The Rome Courier suggests that
Augusta build her Western Air-
Line to Kingston, where it could
connect with Rome, with a view to
its extension through North Ala
bama to a navigable point on the
Tennessee river.
It i* reported that the family of
the late William Hindsman found
$3,200 in currency over a door in
ins house a few days since. They
knew he bad a good deal of cash on
hand, but did not know how much
or where it was kept.—Ncwnan
Herald.
An effort will soon be made to
get stock enough subscribed to se
cure a compress for Americus be
fore the next cotton season begins.
The compress will cost about $15,-
000, and will compress 600 bales a
day, which will be good enough at
present.
The oldest house that was in
Americus was a little frame one
that stood in the old cemetery on
Forsyth street It was built by old
man Pegue, in 1S37, over his .son
Sid, and was the only real old house
in town. It was blown down last
week and has been entirely moved
from the sight of passers-by.
It is reported that John Carr, of
Sparta, who was convicted at the
last' t r m of the court of assault with
intent to kill, and who was out on
bond, pending the derision of the
supreme court bn an application for
a new trial, has fled to greener
fields and pastures new.
Seab Simmons, a desperate ne
gro. escaped from the Fulton coun
ty jail Monday evening. He was,
with a number ot others, being
conveyed from his ceil to the court
house, and at a moment when the
attention of the guards was divert
ed, made a leap for liberty. Dogs
were put on his track, and after a
hot chase he was reeaptured.
A horse belonging to Mr. Fred
Auld, of this place, died on Friday
morning last, and its death is sup
posed to have been from hydropho
bia. A mad dog passed under the
horse’s feet some time ago, and it is
supposed that it bit the horse. The
horse showed symptoms of the dis
ease before it died.—Elberton Ga
zette.
Mr. L. B. Tarver, of this place, a
hewer ot wood, but not a drawer of
water, is noted for his superior
strength. His horse jumped ofl the
embankment in Rocky Comfort
swamp the other night and mired
up to its flanks in the mud, at the
same time upsetting the buggy.
Mr. Tarver then got mad and took
the buggy on his shoulder, the
horse by the tail and set them
straight in the road.—Gibson Enter
prise.
A SPORTMAN’S ICEBOAT.
Ha Bigs Up a Sled and Slides Smack Into
aFlockof Wild Geese:
From the Wilmington (N. c.) Star.
A flock of wild geese alighted on
the ice just at dusk the oth*r even
ing, about midway between East
Madison and Tonyawatha, and set
tled down to sleep. Among others
who saw the big, fluffy creatures,
and wished to gut a crack at them
was Andrew Hippenmeyer. He
finally concluded to make the at
tempt, and rigged up a hand sled in
such a way as would deceive any
but a sage old goose. He fastened
on the front end of the sled a frame
about four feet high, upon which
he stretched canvass. Of course the
latter corresponded with the snow
in color, and as the sportman lay
himself prone npon the sled and
began to slowly propel himself to
wards the fluffy line in the distance,
the object was scarcely perceptible.
Hippenmeyer succeeded within
short range of the geese without
arousing their suspicion, and when
everything was in readiness, bang!
bang! went his eun, and five geese
were left floundering on the ica,
while the others arose with tremen
dous fluttering sped 'away into the
gathering darkness.
WAS IT GANGES*
I have been taking B. B. B. for six or
seven weeks for something tike cancer
"I my neck, ana l would net take one
MSi»«nd doHarfior tha benefit recived.
1 had previously tried ' various so-
called blood remedies, but B. B. B. is
the best, the quickest and the cheapest
blood purifier I ever-used. I refer to any
'merchant of Griffin, Ga* J. H. Baines
Griffin, Ga.
Bsmarkabla Escape From Drowaln*.
A .most remarkable escape from
drowning was that of Miss Eliza
Moate, of Sparta, on Monday. The
factory tyraneb is asually a little
thread-like stream where it crosses
the public road, but Monday’* rains
bad swollen it to git angry torrent;
when the yonng lady attempted to
cross it on the foot-log, which was
under water. Whether the foot-
log was floating, or the swiftness bf
the stream made her footing un-
*teady„is not known. In any event,
she fell in, mad: .mashed down
stream,|hronyf$ M ^m^ and under
• bridgma Uutaice srf man than
too yards. She was finally restued. ano.
GENERAL NEWS.
Chattanooga estimates her loss by
the flood at $200,000.
A* autograph collection owned
by F. J. Dorer, of Philadelphia, is
valued at $100,000.
There is a “Poverty Club” at Mil
ford, Ill. It gave a “hard times”
party the ether evening.
It is proposed in France to tax all
foreign residents in that republic 15
francs per annum.
Some travelers went from San
Francisco to London recently in
fourteen days—the quickest time on
record.
A new flagstaff on the Grand
Union, Saratoga, is eighty feet high
and weighs nearly three quarters ot
a ton.
The death rate of Cairo, Egypt,
has been frightful this year. In Jan
uary it was sixty per 1,000. Bad
water is believed to be the cause.
A Chinese student in the junior
class at Yale has received the right,
by scholastic merit, to be one of the
eight speakers selected for the exhi
bition next month.
The astonishing statement is made
that the belle of Butte, Montana,
takes a shoe thirty-six inches long.
The width and depth of the shoe
are not given.
At a horticultural exhibition in
Philadelphia one of the attractions
was a moon flower, a species of
morning-glory that opens in the
night instead of in the morning.
China has not a single lunatic asy
lum. Neither has the United States.
Single men don’t need them. It’s
the poor, deluded marritd men who
go crazy.—N. Y. Star.
Rubinstein has been offered $100.-
000 for a series of 100 concerts in
the United States, but he says he
suffered so excessively trom sea
sickness the last time that he will
never cross the Atlantic again.
Wabash, Ind., March 14.—For
the third time in three years an un
successful attempt was made on
Monday night to wreck a fast mail
West, on the Wabash road, two
miles east of this city.
_A Parisian street beggar has com
piled and printed a directory of phi
lanthropists and soft-hearted per
sons to whom it is worth while to
apply for alms, and the police are
trying to suppress the book.
The printers in the calico making
mills of the Connecticut valley have
a very close organization of their
own in each neighborhood, and will
not impart the secrets of their trade
to any but their own sons or the
son of members of affiliated organi
zations.
The Earl of Shaftesbury killed
himself while in a cab riding through
Regent street. He shot himself
several times in the body with a re
volver. Death was nearly instanta
neous. The corpse was conveyed
to Middlesex hospital. Shaftesbury
was within two months of being 55.
He was the eighth Earl ot Shaftes
bury, succeeding on October, 1,
1885, to the title on the death of hit
father, a noted philanthropist. He
leaves a widow, one son and five
daughteis.
There is a 13-year-old negro boy
in Richmond, Ky., who h a perfect
little fiend. The other day he bought
a box of rat poison, cut it in two,
and put one part in the tea kettle ot
the Deatherage family. Three per-
sons who drank of the water were
made deathly sick, and;, tbeir Uvea
were aaved with difficulty. The
week before he set fire to the house
andw year ago be tried to poison the
family of k clergyman with whom
dowAttwliwL He once showed his
wickedness or his sensitiveness by
thrusting a red hot poker into a Di-
