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VOLUME V.
The three sign* of a counterfeit coin
*re not often heeded by a careless public.
A bad piece of silver has a hollow ring
<or a light weight or an imperfect rim.
If these characteristics were fully learned
counterfeiters wou\d soon be discouraged
in trying to pass imperfect money.
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In New Yc.rk City there arc five colored
lawyers w>jo enjoy a lucrative practice.
1 hey sole iom appear in court to argue a
case, thf ;ir business being chiefly in real
estate titles, preparing briefs, advising
client s> etc. Ninety per cent. x>f their
fi.’o' ats are white people.
ostrich farming is prospering in Cali¬
fornia. The feathers are equal to the best
grown in Africa. The ostrich weighs
from 300 to 500 pounds. Every seven
months, after it is four years old, its
ipltuxage is ready for the market, yield¬
ing twenty-five fine feathers, and a num
ibvr of less valuable ones. They are cut
•off with shears. The longest and finest !
white feathers sell at four dollars each. l
It requires a good deal of capital to run
an ostrich farm. An ostrich in a hurry I
can make forty miles an hour.
A Maine paper brings out the fact that
since capital punishment lias bec’.i abol¬
ished, there are thirteen other crimes,
the punishment for which, under the
laws of Maine, may be the same as wilful
murder, viz.: Murder in. the second de¬
gree, arson of dwelling in the night time,
arson of dwelling in the day time, if a
person is therein; treason, obstructing
railroad, if life is destroyed; robbery
with arms or with a confederate, abduc¬
tion, rape, arson endangering dwelling,
■burglary, forgery, and altering public
•ecuritics. For the seven last named
criir.es the court may sentenea the coa
vif.t for life or for a term of Vears.
The sixteen members 0 f the English
Cabinet receive salaries amounting to
$430,000 perannmr,, $260,000 of which
goes to the eight, peers, and $170,000 to
the eight oorjmoners. The thirty-one
members of the outer ministry draw sal¬
aries aggregating $318,025, the live pc era
getting $30,000, the nineteen members
of the 'House of Commons $244,025, and
the seven non-members $74,000. The
eighteen household salaries amount to
!$90,240, fourteen peers receiving $80,
< 000 , three commoners $13,000, and the
peeress taking $2,500 of that sum. The
salary of the sixty-five officers taken to¬
gether is $844,805, $370,080 of which is
paid to peers, $398,285 to thirty mcm
hers of the House of Commons, and $70,-
500 to the eight appointees unprovided
with seats in either House.
In the center of tho tobacco w wave- w«re
. houses at , the . London
docks there is an
iinnirmc kiln, which if kept continually
burning, day and ni'dit 1, ,’*” and SI goes bv the !
mmne of of theO the yuu uccd’k ns tobacco 1 pipe. t Tho
English Government hat a different way
-of treating confiscated articles than that
in use in this country, one of them being
to utilize them as fuel for what is termed
n,. y '<*nr \et mer
• chandise , . is seized for non-payment of
duty, or because it is considered under
the law as in a damaged or unsalable con
dition, if i, taken to thi, great kiln and
burned there, the owners having no
remedy. The only utilisation that is
made of these scum,, is from the sale
of the ashes from the fur,me., which, to
the amount of a great many tons a
month, are sold by auction to chemical
works, aud to farmers and others to bc
used in enriching the soil, There is a
similar but smaller Queen's tobacco pipe
in the Government tobacco warehouses at
Liverpool, these two %,ming the ppinU
of destruction for all confiscated merchan¬
dise ifi the United Kingdom.
During the reccht exercises 1a.memory"
of General Grant in Hartford, thc follo-Wt
mg curious stal istics, in regard to the
manufacture of the “Personal Memoirs of
General Grant,” were read: In binding
the cloth liooks there were 44,359 square
yards of cloth used, or if put in one piece
it would make a strip one yard wide and
twenty-five and one-fifth milcs long. The
gold used in stamping, lettering, etc.,
on all styles of binding, if coined, would
ntako $15,416.47. ’The price paid the
gold beaters for this gold was $ 21 , 039 . 50 .
There were 276 barrels of binder paste
used, weighing about 69,000 ’pounds.
There were 27,882 sheepskins used, 7,221
goatskins aud 138 calfskins. As none of
these skins were split, it represents, of
course, the killing of an equal number of
animals. There about 302,210 reams of
paper used in the printing, which weighed
about 1,813,880 pounds or 900$ tqus.
This put into ontr’ piebffjKould make a
strip two feet wide uilJ 1,682| miles
long. .If the boqks w^n* piled up in one
row the narrowest way, that is, the same
as they would stand in u book case, it
would take a shelf H& milcs long to hold
them. If the pages of the books were
joined together it would make a strip of
piper six inches wide and 6,729^ miles
long. Forty-one steam presses were
working day and night; over 1,000 opera¬
tive* were employed; aud over 9,000
agents engaged in distributing the book.
To these latter—who were mainly old
' soldiers and the widows .of soldiers, was
paid in commissions for the selling of the
book considerably more than $ 1 , 000,000
in cash. J
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EASTMAN, DO DGE COUN TY. GA., WE DNESDAY. JUNE 1887.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
'OOS SIPY GLEANINGS ABOUT OUlt
NATIONAL OFFICIALS.
Sssisthlsg Absst tht President’s .Hove,
meats—Kepsrti from the Departments,
Us* sf Appointments, Ltd., Etc.
monthly payments.
The experiment of monthly payments
in the army is about to receive a very
i^ U nn order rebuking hi°
r J y m P v «r yuiasiera e are stationed at posts.
present op gravestones.
George W. Childs, of Philadelphia,
Pa., president of the board of visitors to
the Military Academy, notified Secretary
'V ftr Lmlicott that he has directed
Architect * John McA rthur
national to visit the
the Military cemetery Academy grounds attached to
for and design a
monument the grave of each Union
general the*« which is now unmarked.
Mr. Child s contemplates erecting an ap
Eravl * 0 cU Ins ,T l° nument own individual ovcr each expense. of such
toooh dikt.
The Navy Department haadirected the
dismissal of a dkizen or to of students at
the Annapolis Naval Academy for requir
ing lower classmen to eat soap, drink ink
and partake of other nauseous dozes, and
it will have the effect of eliminating these
particular hazers’ curriculum, ingredients and from the the substitution sportive
of a milder dint therefor which, .hough
perhapanotw hard to d.gert, may be
equally aa degrading and compromising
e y ctim The best time to “haze”
is said to be just before and after the
cruise of the practice ships.
the negro OFFICER.
Young Alexander who entered West
Point four years ago, and graduated
thirty-second in a c lass' of sixty-four is
a light mulatto with regular but slightly
coarse features. He has a large 'would well
formed, and, as the phrenologists
thc say, fighting head. He is a little under
well average built, height, being five feet six
carries himself straight as a gun barrel and
with the bearing of a
soldier. In his manners he is modest
and unpretentious. His favorite militaiy
exercise is a cavalry charge. lie called
to pay his respects to the President, but
could not be prevailed upon to wear his
uniform. Young Alexander expects to
liave a commission forwarded to him as
second lieutenant in some of the colored
companies on the Western frontier some
time during July.
OUR SURPLUS.
After providing for $19,716,000 of 3
per cent, bonds due July 1 , the surplus
will be about $37,000,000. The pension
appropriation of $76,075,000 for the fis¬
cal year ending June 30, 1887, is already
exhausted; consequently tlut pension bu¬
reau reports that when tho appropriat ion
becomes available on July 1, it will draw
$ 12 , 000,000 for the payment of pensions.
This will leave in the treasury a surplus
of $25,000,000. In September the &ur
plur will be $0O,OOO,OOo.
hotks.
Surgeon-General Hamilton who , , has
j , u *t returned to Washington from a vwit
80 Chmago, expresses a belief that all
proper ateps have been taken to check
the yellow fever epidemic a Key \\ eat,
and that further spread has been guard
ed against.
Secretary Fairchild reduced to $40 in
each case the fines of $000 imposed by
tbe collector of customs at Key Most,
Fla., on masters of the Spanish fishing and
smacks, Enriquito, Habam+b, which wcr£- ^Iurie, seized Dolorres bg
not
presenting manifests, and for atWhipting
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Th* Secretary - of , the . _ Treasury h. ? ap
Kl^ad TZ o‘Z^eut g^Jat Ealv’ ^40 N ut C ** 0 "'
cent.
haa.been served upon suUcriBers to the
guarantee fund of the National Drill, to
P a y now in hand, amounting to
$ .
20 , 000 .
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap¬
pointed Sete T. Serugtrs to oe store¬
and keeper and gauger at Greenville, 8 . C.,
W, D. FfOst to bo gauger at Shclby
ville, Tenn.^
. Thq Presided!, haa appointed Edward
Burgess, of Culpepper, V;», to be regis
tacof the Land Office at Prescott, Ariz.,
and John T- Cfrfwfqrd, of Fort Ogden,
Fin., to be receiver £Of public, money at
Gainesville, Fla. Q
The Interstate Commission has received
from the Western A Atlantic Railroad
Co., of Georgia, a complaint against the
Eaat Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Rail¬
road Co., oharging it with violating thc
Interstate commerce law, in failing to
afford the first named road “reasonable,
proper and equal facilities for the inter¬ J
change of traffic.” I
TRAIN HELD UP.
Tbe Moat Daring Highway Robbery of tbe
Nineteenth Century.
The most darrrg train robbery that
ever occurred in Texas was perpetrated
near Pacific Sehulenbur,g Railway. Tex., on the Southern
As the- train drew up
at the station, two men with drawn pis¬
tols mounted the engine, covered the en¬
gineer him with their weapons and compelled
to pull the train out to an open
prairie, four hundred yards to the east,
where a fire was burning, around which
stood eight or ten men armed with Win¬
chester rifles. Nearly all the passengers
were asleep and did not know what was
going on until they were .aroused by the
lohbers. All the paseongqra lost what
valuables they had, aud it is difficult to
form an estimate ot the amount of money
and. jewelry secured. It is thought to ba
over $8,090, including the mail and ex¬
press matter. The whole country is
nroused and in arms. Several parties
have gone in aearch of the robber*.
RATHER HOT.
The heat has been dreadful at Bloom¬
ington, Ill., for nearly a week, culminat¬
ing with a record of 116 degrees in the
sun, at 8 p. m., and 90 degrees in houses
usually considered cool.
Justice to All* Malice for None. 1 ’
BIOT IK BOSTON
Recaaae Faaaail Hall Wai Used By Brit¬
ish Sympathiser#.
Probably no meeting ever held in Bos
ton, Mass., created such intense excite
rnent a» the gathering of English and
Scotch societies in Fanueil hall, to celc
orate with a banquet the Queen’s iubilee
Z »^of 1 °< ! al r nen « ran,ei
1 e use °* p" e Ball for this purpose a
\v h men^aml s°ex 6 D Si* \ !r ° Fe °I ) l ,0 ° ® 1 C ^ l*? or ck J thereto " roU P^
hnva ^ l numbeJ/werrrapTmy *
theha11 ’ ftnd eir
utog 100 officers detaila of police arrived ^ until over
were on the ground, and or
ders wen ? g iven to keep the walks and
8 P ace in front of the entrance to the hall
?* ear tbc - By l 8 o’clock, the hour for hold
,n £ )an( l ue t, Dock square and the
approach to Faneuii hall therefrom had
become densely packed with people, and
other streets leading into Faneuil Hall
s 4 ^are contained large crowds. Then
orders back nd were given to drive the crowds
onc ? 7°P e °.? tho 8 bose tre ets. number This had was
y e P° ■ lc ® w
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of mountrf'offlcera bul' no untVaome
rn^h vigoroua clubbing eonfre had ap“o“h been done In a
at Dock an offleert
horse stumbled and knocked downs
young lady, who is reported to have died
from her injuries. Ropes were stretched
at last, and no one was allowed to enter
Faneuil hall square unless provided with
a ticket to the banquet or known to the
police. One or two speakers harangued
a crowd in Dock equare. Some one eng
gested that the hall be burned, but this
sentiment did not meet with much favor,
Aside from shouting and confusion inci
dent to every large crowd, there was no
disturbance. As late arrivals at the ban
quet forced their way in carriages through
tbe ^ ense tbron 8 h escorted by police,
tbc ^ were kmdty kissed, but no violence
^ as attem P te d. The banquet lasted un-
12 o’clock, and when it was conclu
ded tbe £ uest8 quietly left for their
bome3 > witb n0 8 i g n3 of molestation from
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VICTORIA’S JUBILEE.
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Loral Subject. Hake a Grand Uikpiar In
London, Knoiand.
Never were the streets in London filled
by a more enthusiastic and loyal assembly
than they were ricently, to celebrate
Queen Victoria’s jubilee. The decora
tions passed were off splendid and everything
in the most harmonious man
ner, and the Queen was delighted. The
day before the exercises at Westminster
Abbey, the police, acting under supervi¬
sion of Col. Majendie, chief inspector of
explosives, and other experts, made a
thorough search of the abbey as a pre¬
caution against dynamite, and every
vault, corner and point iu tbe edifice
where it is possible to hide anything was
inspected and overhauled, especially
powerful lamps being used in the exam¬
ination of darker places. Nothing was
found. The American minister, Mr.
principal Phelps, delivered to the Queen before the
exercises, an autograph letter
from President Cleveland, which wa 9
f 08 ’ 6 ' 1 ' The Queen received Mr. Phelps
in a small room, not one of the state
apartmerit8 and only the Duke of Con
naug h t and Lord Salisbury were present.
H cr Majesty ^ expreaaed |^ hei sense of the
kjnd a a mallifestcd t0 „.„ rda
her by the American people Other
qiptomHis received afterwards c » rrvl „„ congratulations in the were
customary
f orm . The Boston address was taken to
the Queen’s private apartments. Her
majesty was much touched at the senti
ments contained in the address, and read
the ode, which was printed on cream
colored satin, with peculiar interest.
Some houses in Cork, Ireland, were il
S’?? wMowa^a'hoore dec * r,,ed Xiutin^To'h *" h0n " °f ** ^
' " 'X Q u “en raid cheering n?lted tor Par
Tto poUee, who ^ were with
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lYrrmniAVOf i n IJX rts SJ. « r v.
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N , w ,p BP er Oflee and Law ofliors Burned
Kariy in ilie .Hornin*.
A destructive fire occurred at Walhalla,
S C.' at 3 o’clock in the ' morning
The fire originated on the Court House
squ'arc, in the building occupied as an
office by the Keow'eei Courier. The
Courier office was- iif the second story,
while the first floor i^as used by two law
firms, Keith & Vernon and Thompson <fc
Jaynes. The law offices of S. P. Dendy,
H. II. A. Gibson and J. W. Sheler were
also burned. Everything in the Courier
building was a total loss, including the
libraries of Keith & Vernon and Tliomp
son & Jaynes. The fire was clearly the
work of an incendiary, as the building
was fire burning discovered. iu different The places when the
was court house
caught several times, and was with diffi
cult\ saved from the flames. Dendy,
Gibson and Shelor each lost, besides bis
office, a number of law books. There
was no insurance.
MILLIONAIRE GOULD’S PRESENT.
The Mt. Vernon estate, where the re¬
mains of Washington lie entombed, has
been enlarged by the addition of a tract
of 83J acres on the north side, near the
old Washington mansion. While on his
way up the Potomac from Fortress Mon¬
roe recently, in his yacht “Atalanta,”
Jay Gould shown stopped at founds. Mt. Vernon and
was around the In the
course of conversation, the superintend¬
ent remarked that the land in que.-tion
is much needed to protect the property
from encroachment. Mr. Gould imme¬
diately authorized the purchase of the
land at his expense, and it has been
bought and turned over price to the paid Mt. is Ver¬
non regents. The not
known.
KILLED BT A SHERIFF
William Callaway, a resident of Gad
distown, offense, Ga., was charged with a serious
and M. J. Williams, of Uniun
county, a deputy sheriff, hltn. was given a
warrant to aireat As it was
understood Callaway and his two grown
sons would resist arrest, the sheriff
summoned a posse. On going to Calla¬
way’s house, he fired a pistol shot *4 the
Officer, pistol and was, in turn, riddled with
bails and killed.
GENERAL NEWS.
NORTH OF USx PROVINCES, MEX¬
I ICO AND ACROSS THE SEAS.
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«•■■•««*« Ahoas Ireland, Labor Troubles,
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Cnicugo’s water collector, I.. G. i\»pe,
turns out to be a defaulter.
Wra * Clark Noble > a >' oun £ 8Cul P tor >
.
» f jo,,. M ccu„ou g h. *.
Philadelphia, Pa., bakers use chrome
yellow to color their buns, a»4 George
M. Palmer, a baker, lost a wife and five
children, who ate some of his buns,
There has been a failure of crops in
Asia Minor and other districts of Adana
and Kutahia are threatened with famiue.
The Sultan of Turkey held a cabinet
council to discuss the subject, and dis
patched a commissioner to institute
i measures of relief.
Bij oU an elephant, over 100 years old,
could not stand erect on account of his
?g , 0 the .7 na « er of “j 0 ,,imc mu,0 "“
" R 08t0 . ”’ Ma88 '.- whcr . ? 1,0 ' “ 8 °“ ex h‘
imnkTflectionatelvarond dyiSTe tw“cTlSi
affectionately around his skeener keeper.
Maxwell „ > ahas Brooks > tbe murderer
, Preller, at St. Louis, Mo., % is to be
ban K e< ^- The Supreme Court refuses to
reveree tbe decision of the court. The
P n8oner was unofficially notified by his
““orney..and waa very much dejected The
that hts trial was a farce
cuccntion is fired for August 18 th.
The Irishmen of New \ork C ity as
ambled at the Cooper Union to mourn
tbe deaths of their countrymen who have
died on the scaffold in the past 50 years,
^ be reading desk and stage were decked
mourniug emblems.
A solemn mass of requiem Holy was Inno- cele
brated in the Church of the
cents, New York, over the victims who
have died in 50 years of English misrule,
A coffin was placed in the church, cov
ered with black cioth :!ml bavin S the 1Q ‘
scription, “L H. S.” There was no
cor P se in the coffin ’ which wns P laced
there as a sign for the thousands of Irish
men who had perished from British laws
dur,n g the P ast 50 > ears -
A ... not occurred , during , . the ., Jubilee T ,
celebration at Liverpool, Eng., between
a party of Orangemen and a crowd of
Socialists.
mx t> ... , r“A.o . , d ,
tor the arrest S’n of Dnvitt rn O’Brien, aS an ?,T Dillon
and Sexton, members of Parliament, who
have encouraged the Irish to resist
evictions. ...". *
A . collision occurred j, at . T-r Havre de . Grace ~
Md on the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore Railroad, between two express
trains, and three persons were killed
three very badly injured and a number of
others more or less seriously injured.
The rpv. Bethel t> .l i r> Baptist Church, i near Shel- ,
byvilic, diary, Ind., was burned, and the me n
Charles Colee, was caught and
]i d ' r° co ' , fcss '' d “•> swore out an
affidavit m l •. for the , pastor, Rev. W illiam
Snapp, as an accessory alleging that
bnapp offered him $50 to burn the
urc ‘
_ Earthquakes .. . , felt .. recently .. .
tvere m
Smyrna and the leland of Seto.
The London papers are complaining
that as fast as British workmen leave
England, the gap is filled up with Ger
man workmen and workmen from Russia,
A mob set fire to the Jewish quarter of
the town of Suna Sgerdahely in Hun
gary. The quarter was almost entirely
destroyed, and one hundred and twen
ty-five * families made homeless.
The Pope h:ls sent Cardinal Persico,
member of the congregation for special
efjf^'ical ailaira and Sfousignor Gi
orimhaflatrs tolre
«“ “ i‘ 8 P«^““ 88 “>“ •» I™b btshops.
of tbe late Henry Ward Beecber lately,
will probably be appointed permanently
V™ 1 ™ of Plymouth Church. Mr. tstowe
is about 30 years old. -
Guy ebber, of Cincinnati, acting for
Ea^ni capitalists, has concluded the
Purchase of 2,000,000 acres of land in
\ ^ on °ta, Mex. The purchase was made
f rum different persons, and the purpose
; t?^establish an American colony,
Charles Aldeu, inventor of the milk
condensing, fruit evaporating, and other
processes, committed suicide in Rau
dolph, Mass., by shooting. He was at
one time very wealthy. He was 70 years
old and had been subject to mental ab
oration on account of financial difficulties.
|.< Both the state and defense handed in
instructions, which were read by Judge
j Shepard, in the case of the Chicago, III.,
“boodlers,” with only a few modifica
j | tions other. aud The no jury comments, brought one in way verdict or the of
a
guilty against McGarigle and McDonald,
and the penalty was fixed at three yea is’
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The recent feiry accident at Parks, on
the Danube river, was much worse than
was at first reported. The boat was fear¬
fully overloaded, having 400 persons on
board. It is stated that the boatmeu
were intoxicated. Bodies recovered give
evidence of fearful death struggles in
their tattered clothes, and it is estimated
that 300 persons were drowned.
A lawyer named Henderson crossed
from Dover, England, in eleven to Calais, hours. France,
in a six-foot canoe,
An unknown man, supposed to jiimjivd be F. ,
_. Tngg of Washington, leading D. Three C„ n Siatera
from th. bridge to
Island*, *t Niagara Falla, and waa car
ned over Horse Shoe I aua.
A New York newspaper Louis, attempted to
send a balloon from 8 t. Mo., to
tbe Atl&ntic'Occan. After going about
60 miles, the inflated gas bag collapsed
and landed in a corn field.
A demonstration favorable to the cause
of Rev. Dr. McGlynn was recently held
in New York city, and it wa> announced
50,000 men would march in procession.
But about 6,000 took part in it.
An English from officer, Petersburg, who ha. recently
returned 8 t. »y, lei that
the cm of Rmtsi. is nothing than
an irresponsible maniac. He is suffering
from de Cij( lip H ii» tremens, drink, of course,
being snr .
SOUTHERN NEWS.
INTERESTING BITS OF GOSSir
CAUGHT ON THE WING.
Ssalal, Bellglosi, Society, Military and
Otfcor Taylca Which Interest tbe
People la the South.
ed Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, has appoint¬
Hon. J. Samuel Barrett to the vacant
Wilkes county judgeship.
Andrew’ B. Pacetti, of Savannah, Ga.,
was the instantly killed by a freight train on
Savannah, Florida & Western Rail¬
road.
The latest boom in Atlanta, Ga., busi¬
ness circles has been brought on by a
lady, who finds partners for bashful sin¬
gle men for $5. The matrimonial market
is quite excited.
Miss Jessica Hardeman, of Macon, Ga.,
a beautiful girl and only daughter of
Col. Robert U. Hardeman, state treasur¬
er, died suddenly. She was an accom¬
plished musician.
Some negro bovs undertook to haze
Harp Sing, an Atlanta, Qa„ Chinea.
lanndrjmaa, and the Celeatial, with a
sU ‘ :k 7'?, '^° intC, l T l in th ° ' nd ° f it>
"'“H, , killed several of them, „
winfield Scott> a ne phew of the late
Gen w in fi e id Scott, U. S. A., attempted
to defend a woman of doubtful reputa
w jj 0 was assaulted by Edward
Levy> in R i chmond> V a. Scott was
sta bbed by Levy and may die.
An accident occurred on the Virginia
Mi(i | ond R»,| r „ad, nt.out two miles from
Lawyer’s Depot, near Lynchburg, Va. A
freight train, coming from the south,
had not been reported to the train dis
p at chers. At the point designated, it
caine j u collision with a hand - car con
taining John Martin, his five children
an d a Mrs. Sprouce, returning from the
funeral of one of hia children. Two of
the litlle ones were killed outright,
Yellow fever is extending all over Key
West, Fla., and nothing will now stop it
but the exhaustion of material.
The 52d Georgia regiment, who served
, during the War, will have a reunion and
barbecue at Dahlonega,Ga., August 10th.
Colored men have applied for permis¬
sion to use Piedmont Park, in Atlanta,
Ga., for the purposes of a National Col
0 red Exposition, ’ in 1888.
The Atlanta, , Ga., glass works, one of
h nefi t plants of the kind in the coun
try, was destroyed by fire. The loss
8m °"” t8 t0 * ^ 5 <>.« 00 6 . ™ which there is no
iDsura0Ce of „o .
Col. _ , James r _ D. Graham, _ . of # Sumter, _ S.
C M has discovered an mexhausfible bed
of kaolin. If it turns out to be kaolin, ’ u
joint the | ands , tock compimv ,„‘ ’ wiu bc formcd a d
bou ,,f t ,„i There j, a bed of
it fivc milcs fc d o( uncertain d , |lth ! ,
e b k ' a com . )any b v .„ rl h
for n \
Some _ trifling .... characters , have recently
been using incendiary language aiming
the negrooB of the Vicinity of Fishing J
Creek Factory, S. C. At a meeting ,f of
considerab | e number ot good , m sub .
„ antill farmere resolutions were adopt- deist
ed warning incendiary^ tl.e guilty parties to
from .Wr talk, or take the
consequences.
The colore ,1 mint,a of Georgia had
a price drill at Macon, Ga„ which ... was
attended by about 2,000 people.
Fire Engine No. 1 of Savannah Ga
collided fire and with Capt. a street car wliile go’ing
a Thomas Screven who
was seated in the car was badly hurt.
j John Anderson n. wf-ll.tn.rln forme,
I living near Green River North Carolina
I committed suicide bv’ hamrino- No ’
! cause can be assigned for it IIe°showed
| no signs of insanity.
For the first time the congregation Chlrlraton, of
8 t. Michael’s Church, of S.
C., returned to worship at their beautiful
“ry, 1 from which they have so long
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begun During the coming fall, work will be
i bishop on and a clergy new Episcopal palace for Uie
of the cathedral of Our
Lady of Perpetual Help in Savannah, Ga.
It will be of brick, with stone trimmings,
j four stories high, fifty feet front on Ilar
j ris street and seventy feet depth,
Sandersville, Ga., has voted against
the proposition for a public school.
Augusta, Ga., is to have a new hotel
on the corner of Washington and Broad
streets.
‘ A startling earthquake shock occurred
at Summerville, 8 . C., recently, accom
panied by a terribly roaring sound. No
; great amount of damage was done,
C. T. Gurnsey, of Macon, Ga., and G.
i C. Bower, of Medina, N. Y.. rode on
bicycles from Niagara, N. Y.. to Atlanta,
i Ga. They left May 30th, and averaged
fifty miles a day.
Amanda Dickson the negro woman who
was awarded recently an estate valued at
$400,000, has been quietly notified that
the white people of Augusta, Ga., where
she lives in a big house, prefer her room
to her company,
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TUB RIGHT 80RT.
The Society of the Army of the Poto
B resolutions ac met at Saratoga, N. the Y. Several
were offered on matter of
the return of the captured flags, but all
wers laid on the table. Resolutions were
>pted that the next July annual 2d meeting be
held at Gettysburg, 1st, and 3d,
1688. Several addresses were made,
showing that an extremely kind .urvivonj feeling
elistw itowwd the Confederete
M(J re , olutioM were unanim 0 U 8 |j, adopted
that th , luryiTora of th „ Ar my of North
» society. art. Virginia These be invited adopted to meet with thn
were after a
ringing Corporal speech in favor of the last by
j j Tanner, who loat two legs in
the war, while serving as a corporal,
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! FEMALE DUEL.
i Two colored women fought a duel with
! keen Woodruff, edged razors on the public highway
! 8 . C. The battle w*i
“ d 8ki “ ,ul - * nd the combatant
'““gMuntil th« suceumbed from ex
*? a *.* od ttORWe gf»w out
of ?
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A BOY S CHIME.
Edward E. Thomas, of ^artanth Ga.,
Shot by His Htepson While Asleep.
About three years ago, Mrs. Fanny
Wingard, a widow about 35 years of age,
living in Savannah, Ga., was married to
Edward E. Thomas, a machinist of that
city. The habits of the husband have
not been of the best, and recently, while
on a spree, he assaulted his wife, and it
caused a boy named William Edward
Wingard, 15 years of age, a son by the
first husband, to take his life.
The story of the killing, as told
by the widow, is about as follows:
“My husband he worked all day and
came home at night about 12 o’clock. He
had been drinking, but went to bed and
went right to sleep. He got up next
morning, ate his breakfast and then went
out. He came back about eleven o’clock.
He was very full. He began abusing me.
He picked me up and attempted to throw
me out of the window, but I screamed
and lie put me down. I started to run
down the steps, when he struck me with
a broom. I came down stairs, and sat
down awhile there, then I went back up
stairs. He was lying across the foot of
the bed. He told me to leave the room.
I leit the room and came down stairs and
took some beiries I had over to mother
for her to make me a pie. When I got
there my sister asked me what was the
matter with my face. I told her that
Mr. Thomas had struck me with a broom.
My son was up stairs at my mother’s.
He lived there, I did not see him. I came
home. Mr. Thomas was asleep on tho
bed. I lay down beside him for half an
hour, when I gox ip and went to put on
my dinner. While thus employed my
son came up the stairs with it basket in
his hand, containing the pie and some
sugar. I said: “Son, have you brought
the pie? What are they all doing at
home?’’ He said nothing and walked into
the dining-room. He turned aud went
out after I took the basket, and I thought
he had gone down the stairs. When I
heard the report of a pistol, I ran out of
the door and met my son at the door with
a pistol. I said: “Oh, my God, Bosey,
what did you do it for?” He made no
answer, but ran down the steps, putting
the pistol iu his pocket.”
TERRIBLE AFFAIR.
A Band of Ileffalators Almost Extermate
n Family of Desperadoes.
Rowan county, in Kentucky, has been
the scene of another bloody encounter, in
which the notorious Tolliver family, in¬
cluding the redoubtable Craig, have been
almost annihilated. A large party of
men, ostensibly led by Dr. Logan, whose
two sons were murdered in cold blood by
the Tolliver men about two weeks ago,
and who was in jail in this city at the
time of the tragedy, organized a band of
regulators for the purpose of suppressing
the desperadoes, and this posse did the
killing. Reports differ as to the number
killed, one placing the number at five,
including Tolliver; another stated that
Craig Tolliver, two of his brothers and
thirteen others had been killed. Ex
Governor Windman, acting governor in
the absence of Governor Proctor Knott,
has received tho following telegram from
Lexington: “There has been fighting
all morning at Morehead. Craig, Bud
and Jay Tolliver are already killed. Don’t
know how many more. The town is full
of armed men. Think the worst is
over.” The killed include Craig Tolli¬
ver, Bird Tolliver, Jay Tolliver and Hi¬
ram Cooper. They were all shot through
the heart, and died instantly. Craig
Tolliver seems to have been the general
target, as he was so thoroughly riddled
as to be scarcely recognizable. Cate
Tolliver, a twelve-year-old boy, and
three others, all of whom were cap¬
tured, except Cate Tolliver, who crawled
into the brush and escaped, were
wounded. Three others escaped, but
one was captured afterwards.
STUPENDOUS BANK SWINDLE.
Difllciency of Several Millions of Dollars
Foand In n Western Institution
United States Bank Examiner Powell,
was ordered to inquire into the affairs of
the Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati,
Ohio, and found that while the figures
showed the bank owed $ 6 , 000 , 000 , the
assets looked very small. The deficiency
undoubtedly represents money lost in the
recent wheat speculation. When Mr.
Powell asked for a sight of the $1,100,
000 cash represented to be in the vaults,
he was amazed to be shown a lead-pencil
memoranda reading, “ Wiltshite, Eckert
& Co., $900,000;” “J. W. Wiltshire,
$46,000,” and so on through a long list.
There was no collateral; no security
whatever. It is the belief of some that
Wiltshire succeeded as agent of Harper
in conducting the wheat deal, and was
not really a borrower. Vice-President
Harper, Cashier Baldwin and Assistant
Cashier Hopkins are under arrest on war
rants sworn out by the bank examiners,
Harper’s bail is fixed at $15,000 and the
others at $10,000 each. Cashier Bald
win is much dejected. He is naturally
reserved, and as he had before serious
afflictions—one the murder of his son
and another the suicide of a brother—it
has been suggested that there was danger
that this blow would unsettle hia mind.
DUCKING MARRIED MEN.
Much excitement was caused in Flush¬
ing, N. Y., by the ducking of Charles
Doaohar, the basin a respectable married man, in
of the village fountain by four
men whom he could not recognize in the
dark, bat who are supposed to be mem¬
bers of a vigilance committee. This or¬
ganization was formed two years ago and
its object is stated to be the punishment
by ducking of any married man found
out after 11 o’clock unaccompanied by his
wife.
ROBBED A TRAIN.
Five men boarded the 1:15 o’clock
Grand Trank train at Fort Gratick,
Michigan, going East, and “held up”
the passengers.. Several persons loat what
money they had. Three of the train
robbers were arrested and identified, but
were Doing held at Flatonia w ^- for further
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HEAYY CAPITAL
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BEING SENT ALL OVER THE
SOUTH FOR INVESTMENT.
Rapid Strides Being Made la the Develop*
ment of Mines, Bnlldlna of Kailreedn,
Factories, Sew end Floor Mills.
Griffin, Ga., is to have gas and water
works.
The Marietta A North Georgia Rail¬
road will build an iron bridge to cost
about $ 100 , 000 .
The Kentucky Natural Gas and Mining
Co., capital stock $250,000, has been or¬
ganized at Louisville, Hy.
The Macon, Ga., Construction Co.,
will soon begin work on the Georgia
Southern & Florida Railroad. •
The Cambria Iron Co., of Johnstown,
Pa., have of purchased Mr. the manganese Atkin’s
property Long, near
Tank, Va., and will develop it.
T. C. H. Vance, Harry Stuckay and
others have chartered the Wakulla
Spring Land Co., at Louisville, Ky.,cap- sell and
ital stock $ 100 , 000 , to buy and
improve land in Florida.
The Big Sandy, Tug River A Twelve
Pole Railroad Co., capital stock $500,
000 , has been chartered to build a rail
road from Ceredo, W. Va., to the Ken
t ucky state line, with several branches.
The Talladega, Ala., Real Estate and
Loan Association, a land company or
guni zed about three months ago, with a
capital stock of $300,000, declared its
first quarterly dividend of 5 per cent.,
which was set apart as a reserve fund, to
bo used by the board of directors for the
general interest of the company.
Major John W. Johnston, of Birming¬
ham, Ala., in connection with Richmond,
Va., capitalists, forming a syndicate, has
purchased large tracts of mineral lands
near Buchanan, Botetourt county, Va. f
Northern men interested in building also the
Virginia Western Railroad have
taken an option on immense bodies of
mineral properties near the same place.
Decatur, Ala., Dots: Graber & Bon,
from Indiana, are erecting the Hoosier
Mills Lumber Co., and will employ thirty
men. The Gate City Lumber & Manufac¬
turing Co. will manufacture finishing lum¬
ber and furniture. The enterprise removes
from Birmingham, Ala., and will employ
thirty men. A steam job printing office
from Redfield, Dakota, starts in the first
of July. $400,000 worth of lots have
been sold at private sale by the land
company in the past week.
Birmingham, Ala., notes: The Terry
Brick Works Company’s capital stock is
$ 10 , 000 , for the manufacture of brick,
tile, etc. The Alabama Ice and Cold.
Storage Company intends to build an ice
factory and a large cold storage ware¬
house, 100x200 feet. The New Orleans,
Birmingham A Notasulga Granite Com¬
pany has a capital 6 tock of $85,000 for
the purpose of developing quarries. The
New York $50,000, Manufacturing Company, agri¬ cap¬
ital stock to manufacture
cultural implements, has beenformed.
Items About Knoxville, Tenn.: A
company has been organized to bore for
oil and gas, under the name of the Knox¬
ville Petroleum A Fuel Co. Ferguson A
Bearden have finished a sash mill and
blind factory. Haynes & Hensan have
just finished a five story wholesale boot
and shoe house. The Knoxville Car
Wheel Co. are building additions to their
works. The Third National bank are
just finishing anew building, all of Knox- Lime
county marble. The Knoxville
Works by 8 . and E. 8 . Barker is just
organized. A company is being organized
to erect a large tannery; new marble quar¬
ries are being opened in Knox county.
The Pell City Land Co., of Ashville,
Ala., capital stock $250,000 has been
formed. The object is to improve lands,
establish manufactories and build a hotel.
The Southern C otton Oil Company are
making good progress in pushing forward
the construction of their cotton-seed oil
mills. They have about finished the
building of their mill at Gretna, opposite putting
New Orleans, La., aud are now
in the machinery at Houston, Texas.
DISLIKED THE EMBLEM!*.
attempt was made by a gang of
uine men to pull down the figures of the
lion and unicorn, which decorate the
front of the old state house in Boston,
( \] a8S . Whoever fastened the ropes to
the effigies was evidently familiar with
t h e building. The side door was forced
open and access to the roof was gained,
when the roof is reached the distance to
the figures mentioned is encompassed
w ith many dangers, but they seem to
have been braved by at least two men,
one of whom fastened a rope to the lion
I and another man a rope to the unicorn,
The manager of a telephone company no- of
ticed the unusual sight of a number and
men in the street pulling at ropes climbing
i gave t h c alarm. A detail of
firemen was necessary to remove the lines
f.om the figures. The action was, of
course, intimately connected with the
antagonistic feeling toward the celebra¬
tion of the Queen’s jubilee in Faneuil
hall.
DISPERSING A GANG.
The authorities in Berkeley county, 8.
C., did a good work in dispersing been a gang
of colored forgers, who have oper¬
ating around Pj nckn«y’s phosphate work*.
One of the persons implicated, William
Drayton, haa been arrested, and is now
in the Berkeley county jail- The forgera
usually counterfeited the name of -Mr. J.
A. Hertz, a phosphate labor contractor,
and these orders were presented by Dray¬
ton and cashed by several storekeepers works, in
the neighborhood of Pinckney’s
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LOOmr SITUATION.
Tfce Soldiers’ and Sailors’ mouumi
erected on the top of East,Rock, in E
Rock Park, by the town and oity of H
* Haven, Conn., in honor oitiw hereta
the Revolutionary War, jpvto»n M
1 the war of 1812
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