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S£ Pme founts ♦ 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. - - 9 ■ .......... ........ 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 A 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 “ ‘ ° *' ° ‘ S ' 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 . . 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 an y one - --- VICTORIA’S JUBILEE. - 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 8 lYrrmniAVOf i n IJX rts SJ. « r v. „ 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. 1 ' «•■■•««*« Ahoas Ireland, Labor Troubles, j j 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 ! | ^^“ ^ ^ 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, I 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, < ! 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 ? - 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 — “i 8 - NUMBER HEAYY CAPITAL ■ i 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 ■ 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 ‘