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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
It is stated by the Medical Record,
that the United States Government has
paid more money in the investigation of
the disease of hogs than if lias for all the
diseases affecting the human race,
Tn addition to the National Bureau of
Labor Statistics, it is now proposed to
‘-tablish Bureau of Criminal Statistics,
of a somewhat similar nature so far as
lh<’ gathering of material is concerned.
An agitation among the natives of In¬
dia in the province of Bengal is disturb
ing Engiish officials, Ii is said to be ar
outgrowth of the Irish struggle for home
rule, and may take the form of it general
refusal to pay taxes to England.
The Detroit Journal recently headed
it- column of Michigan news with the
following challenge: “Leap year is gone,
yet can any one tell of a bona fide case
wherein a Michigan girl really proposed
to it man during the year? Give names,
please; no generalizations.”
The stint,ling assertion is made in one
of the opening pages of a recent work on
prison reform that “judgingby the num
ber of commitments, year by year, to the
penitentiaries and state prisons, crime
has increased in the United States, rela¬
tively to the population, since the war
by not less than one-third.
The total area under cultivation in
corn, wheat, rye and oats in the United
8tat.es last year was about 140,000,000
acres, or nearly 219,000 square miles.
This is less than half the 322,000,000
acres of public lands which have not
been surveyed, much of which is well
adapted b> the cultivation of cereals.
It is asserted by the Rural New Yorker
that “More sheep and lambs are killed in
New York than in any other city in the
world over two million head being
slaughtered annually, and with the in¬
creasing demand for mutton and lambs
the chance- are that she will continue to
hold first place for some time to come.”
Tho North German Gazette says that
owing to the increased traffic on the rail¬
ways, the Prussian government has or¬
dered the construction of 7,600 new
goods-wagons, and has hired 1,500 wag¬
ons from abroad. It will also ask the
Landtag :o- vote alsuit $15,000,000 for
the purpose of increasing the rolling
stock of the railways.
The New York Herald calculates that
“a single year of failure in agricultural
production would bring a famine the like
of which has never been in the history of
all the c< i ttiries since civilization began
and yet vve have philosophers posing
as statesmen who think all a farmer is
•mod for is to east his vote for the fa¬
vored pi tieal party.
Italy i* rearranging her railroad system
on tho pi m of her great neighbors, so as
to make it more efficient in carrying
troops to any threatened point. It seems,
comments the ( ineinnati Enquirer, as if
the war burdens would never close over
them. But they have increased at such
a fvightl i role since 1876 that every one
who can is running away.
(Ydoiu W. E. llarle. of Washington,
ha- presented to the State of South Caro¬
lina the great seal of the Confederate
States of America. The -cal is of pol¬
ished bronze three inches in diameter,
b<arii!g on oho side the inscription:
"The C-”'federate Slate- of America.
22d February, 1862 . Deo Yittdice.”
And on the other an equestrian statue of
Washington.
In spite of the largely increased con¬
sumption of i oal oil. owing To the dt >
eided fax - v in which lamp- arc held for
illuminating purposes by fashionable peo¬
ple. the price, state- the San Francisco
Chronicle, . p- low and manifests a
tendency - go lower. The owners of
oil wells owe a debt of gratitude to the
anists <■: the l nite 1 States who have
improved :lie form of con!-oil lamps to
such an extent that they have become ar¬
ticles of ornament a- well as utility. If
it wen u t for this tact the immense pro
uu- • .oi- oi i. al oil, -i largtlv in excess
of the demand, would have brought
down price- to a stage which would
have de-'ttoyed all the pn .'ii iu the busi¬
ness.
THE S01TH
AT LARGE
A GREAT ERA OF PROSPERITY
AND PROGRESS IMPENDING.
run labor field —farmers and business hi:;:
ACTIVE—SOMETHING ABOUT RAILROAD ACCI
DENTS, MURDERS, SUICIDES, FIRES, ETC.
ALABAMA.
A railroad between Anniston ane
Montgomery is projected.
Col. AV. B. Dunn, f< r sixty years a
resident of Mob.de, and prornineu ciii
zen and lawyer, died Thursday, aged 81.
He was born near Nashville, Tumi., in
1807, and moved to Mobile in 1829,
where he began the practice of law.
The House passed a bill reducing tin
tax rate in Alabama for 1890 from live ;<
four and a half mills, and for 1891 Ir hi:
four and a half to four mills, making foi
the former 45 cents o:i the one hundred
dollars, and 40 cents for the latter year.
A bill establishing the new county ol
Fitzpatrick was passed.
A great crowd, composed largely o;
ladies, filled the lobbies and galleries at
the state house when the General Assem¬
bly met Thursday. The special order
of the day in the House, was the bill tc
aid in the completion of the Confederate
monument on Capitol hill. The debate
was long and lively, and the bill was
finally passed on a vote of 51 to 41.
John Williams, a young despersdo, blood
who murdered a man in cold in
Birmingham last Summer, and was ac¬
quitted on a plea of insanity, is on the
war path again. He has been out of the
asylum about a month, and had beer,
making public announcements that he
had reformed and was going to live a
very moral life. Williams got drunk
Thursday night and attempted to shoot
Frank Edwards, proprietor of a billiard
saloon. He was disarmed and left the
saloon. About daylight he became dis¬
orderly on the streets, was arrested and
two officers started with him to the s'a
tionkouse. On the way he a‘ked who
ordered his arrest. When told that no
one ordered it, he began to curse the
officers, and suddenly drawing a large
dirk knife, he attacked Officer Walker
with the remark: “I’ll cut your heart out
any way.” The officer drew his pistol,
and would have killed Williams but for
the interference of the other officer.
IHIMSIHSII'l'I.
Maj. R. W. Millsop, president of the
Capital subscribed State Bank $53,000 at Jackson, buihl on Thurs¬
day, Methodist to and en¬
dow a college of the Episco¬
pal church, South.
NORTH. CAROLINA.
The Legislature passed a bill abolish in
ing all the while normal schools the
state, eight in number, and applying the
funds s at apart for them to the county
institutes, which will be held under di¬
rection and control of the state superin¬
tendent of public instruction.
The Kansas emigration fever has broke
out among the negroes at Raleigh, preparing and it
is said that hundreds are tc
leave. White agents are urging people the ne
groes to leave. Many white ap¬
pear to be glad to have them leave, while
others say it will demoralize the farming
interests if it continues. Many who
have left or intend to leave, have made
contracts for the year’s work.
The negroes in the western mountains
are having considerable trouble with the
white desperadoes who live there aud
follow the occupation of manufacturing
and selling illicit liquors. Of late, these
desperadoes, who cure for nothing save
their distillery on the mountain side,
have been making desperate efforts to
run certain negroes, who they believe
have put the officers on the track of
tHeir business, out’of the country. But
the negroes refuse to be scared or bull¬
dozed, and armed themselves and were
ready for any fray. At a negro dance in
Marble, the place was raided by the
moonshiners and a fight took place, in
which bowie knives, guns, pistols, clubs
and stones were brought into play. Soon
the negro girls, some of whom had re¬
ceived wounds, lied and the negro men
followed. When tho smoke ot battle
had cleared away, three men were found
lying upon the ground dead. They
were, Hansford Altman and Oscar Deal,
white, and Sam Smith, colored.
TKNN ESSE E.
A tail-end collision occurred between
two freight trains in Tunnel No. 17, on
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, just
north of Oakdale. Freight train No.
11, south bound, ran into a special in the
tunnel, smashiug the caboose into kind¬
ling wood, and bursting a 2,800-gallon
tank filled with oil on the car next to
the caboose. The stove in the caboose
set fi e to the car, and the flames weic
soon under headway. The oil caught
tire and six cars were destroyed as well
as much of the wood work Df the tun¬
nel.
An immense concourse gathered at
Vanderbilt l nivcisity, in Nashville, on
Sunday, to witness the buiia! of Bishop with
MeTyiere’s remains. In accordance
his own last request , the exercises were
simple, being confined to the burial ser
YlOt S of the church. The ceremonies
which begun at his late residence an.:
ei ded at the grave, were participated Ga in
by Bishops Keener, Key. Hargrove. -
loway, Granbery and Duncan, assisted
by Rev. Walker Lewis. The grave i;
by t!i« side of tin* graves of Bishops
Soule ami McKeudree, on the l nivcisity
grounds.
VIRGINIA.
Nearly complete returns from all the
counties iu the state, show that an
amendment to the Constitution authoriz
inga state lottery was defeated.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Piedmont Exposition, at Atlanta,
only lacks $18,COO of the amount neces¬
sary to start the wheels in motion.
The post-office at East Po nt, near At¬
lanta, was broken inlo by burglars ....<
quite a haul was made. No arrests.
Rev. R. H. McMahon, the well-kn >wn
Catholic | nest of Atlanta, has been
transferred to the charge oi St. Patrick's
parish in Savannah.
A great deal of stock is dying in Madi¬
son county fioin a disease like tk; glan¬
ders. There is no cure for a horse or
mule when once attacked.
Amos Jackson, a colored man, and
his nine-year-old daughter were mur¬
dered near Decatur. Alec. Henderson,
a neighbor, was arrest. on suspicion.
A i anic is on at Social Circle, caused
by the death of John Henry Wommack
from hydrophobia caused by cat bite. Sev¬
eral ottiers were bitten and more deaths
are looked for.
Conductor Lindley Muiray, of the
East Tennessee road, was killed at Rex
by a train breaking in two, aud coming
together again, it wrecked the cabcose
in which Mr. Murray was.
“Jumbo” Hunter, the famous Atlanta
policeman, is astonishing everybody by
the system lie has infused into the out
of-door relief plan. The poor people
are benefitted, and money is saved to the
taxpayers.
Tolleson, the man who started an al¬
leged bank m Atlanta, and failed owing
a large amount of money with assets of
about sixty cent- - , and was promptly
jailed by Judge Marshall J. Clarke, now
offers to setile for fifty cents on the dol
lar.
The steeple of the Baptist Church at
Adairsville, was struck by lightning
Sunday morning, and fired the church.
The fire was soon extinguished by the
aid of buckets and the amateur fire
company. Mr. George W. Dow’s barn,
near by, was also struck bv lightning
during the night and tom to pieces.
During a severe thunder storm which
passed over Perry Sunday •morning,
lightning stnidVJhe residence of Mis
C. T. Lawson, orN^wift street, tearing a
large hole in the roof and passing down
near the chimney through the house,
scattering the contents, but doing no
damage to the family beyond the shock.
Mrs. Eliza Hargrove, a lady 75 years of
age, living in a lonely neighborhood be¬
tween Smyrna and Marietta, was murder¬
ed on Wednesday night by having her
brains dashed out, with an ax, for the
purpose of robbery. L. H. Cherry(white)
an alleged preacher, was arrested by a
posse, and a white man named Wood
who lived in the house, and Jim Brown,
a negro, are suspected.
Rev. Dr. Gibson preached an eloquent
sermon in the Baptist church in Lex¬
ington, gtii^able to Communion Sunday.
He then made all preparations for admin¬
istering the Lord’s supper, and all went
well until he began blessing the fruit of
the vine, at the same time turning up
the decanter to pour it into the silver
goblets. He commenced to bless and
turn, but no wine came forth. When he
had turned the decanter bottom upwards
and still no wine, there was consterna¬
tion depicted on his face, while the con¬
gregation struggled to keep the smiles
from their faces. Realizing the state of
uffairs Dr. Gibson quickly gave out the
doxolugy and dismissed the congrega¬
tion, deferring the wine part of the com¬
munion until another season.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
The British ship Anglo-India, from
Shanghai, wrecked for the Philippine Islands,
was at Tormasa. A portion of
the crew was saved.
Herman F. Ktidel, junior partner of
the firm of Wm. Knabe vfc Son, and man¬
ager of the branch piano warerooms on
Filth avenue in New York, committed
suicide on Sunday, in the warerooms, by
shooting himself through the head.
On Sunday, Frank Silvers, of Tecum
seh, Mich., shot his wife and two daugh¬
ters, Edith and Ada, aged eleven and
nine respectively, and then shot himself.
Every one of the victims was shot
through the temple, ana with the ex¬
ception of Silvers himself, death was
probably instantaneous.
All the parties interested in the Elec¬
tric Sugar Refining Co., frauds were ar¬
rested at Milan, Mich., the sheriff re¬
turning to Ann Harbor with Mrs. Olive
E. Friend, William E. Howard. Emily
Howard, Gus Halstead and George 1 1 m! -
•toad, aud placed them in the county
jail, where they are confined. They
were arrested for obtaining money under
false pretenses, three indictments having
been fount! against them by - a grand jury
of New York last January.
at last:
The body of a woman concealed in i
wooden chest, was discovered by flit
police of Dundee, Scotland. The body
wss mutilated. The chest was so small
that the murderer had been compelled to
squeeze the body into it. The husband
of the woman was arrested on suspicion of
being her murderer. Bury, the husband,
resided at Whitechapel, London, and
his antecedents suggest that he is proba
bly “Jack the Ripper,” and that he is
subject to fits of unconscious murdei
mania. Bury says that he left White
chapel three weeks ago. He refuses tc
8 ,y w hy he left there, and acknowledges
jf e } ia q uo business requiring his at
tention at Dundee. The theory of the
police officials is that Bury's wife knew
of facts connecting him with the East
End atrocities, and that she took him to
Dundee in the hope of preventing a re
currence of the crimes.
WASHINGTON
PHOTOGRAPHED.
GETTING READY FOR HARRI¬
SON'S INA UG URA TION
CONCittKSS.
Tn the Senate, on Thursday, Mr.
Edmunds offered a resolution (which
was agieed to), directing the committee
on commerce to take into consideration
the question of expediency of the pur¬
chase, by the United Stales, of the Dis¬
mal Swamp canal in the states of Vir¬
ginia and North Carolina, with a view
to its being improved and made an
adequate highway for commerce, be¬
tween Chesapeake bay and the principal
sounds of North Carolina, and with a
view’ to utilizing the fresh water of the
canal and its feeders in a basm for metal
vessels of the navy. The inquiry into
the Texas election case was taken up and
debated, but no conclusion reached....
In the House, the bill for the admission
of Dakota was pressed debate by Mr. Springer,
and an acrimonious followed.
NOTES.
The Senate confirmed the nominations
of Commissioner Colman to be Secretary
of Agriculture, and John A. Turley, of
Athens, Tenn., and Edward 15. Young,
South Boston, Ya., to he postmasters.
Commodore George E. Belknap was
detached from duty as commandant of
Mare Island navy yard, Cal,, and ordered
to take command of the Asiatic station,
to take the place of Rear Admiral Chan¬
dler, who died recently.
President Cleveland announces that to
jnable him to dispose of the pending
business requiring his personal attention
before the close of his term of office, it
will be absolutely necessary that he have
ill his remaining time free from interrup
lion, ail and he must, therefore, be excused
to callers.
Tne funeral of Gen. Henry J. Hunt,
U. 8. A., took place Thursday at the
Soldier’s Home, of which he was gov¬
ernor at the time of his death. The in¬
terment was in the soldier’s cemetery, op¬
posite the home, and near the tomb of
Gen. Logan. The honorary pall-bearers
were Generals John M. Schofieid, Joseph
L. Johnston. W. S. Iiosecrans, George
W. Getty, N. W. Browne, P.V. Hagner,
C. F. Manderson and Joseph R. Haw¬
ley.
On Wednesday, Congress officially
counted the votes for President and
Vice-President, and made the following
report: “The state of the vote for Pres
ident of the United States, as delivered
to the president of the Senate, is as fol
lows: The whole number of electors
appointed to vote for President of the
United States is 401—of which a majori
ty is 201. Benjamin Harrison, of
the state of Indiana, has received
for President of the United States
2153 votes, and Grover Cleveland, of the
state of New York, has received 168 votes.
The state of the vote for Vice President
of the United States, as delivered to the
President of the Senate, is as follows:
The whole number of electors appointed United
to vote for Vice President of the
States is 401—of which a majority is
201. Levi P. Morton, of the state of
New York, has received 233 votes, and
Allen G. Thurman, of the state of Ohio,
has received 168 votes.”
BATTLEFIELD SOCIETY.
A joint meeting of Federal and Con¬
federate veterans, who were engaged at
Chikamauga, was held Thursday in
Washington. The object was to devise
a plan for preserving that field and
marking the positions of all the forces
that participated iy the battle. Gen.
Henry M. Cist, of Cincinnati, chairman .
of the commiitee of the Society of the
Aimy of the Cumberland charged there, with
this subject, called his committee
ft organized and invited co-operation meeting
from the Confederates. The
was the result, and there were present
Generals Rosecruns, Baird, Reynolds,
Cist, Manderson and Boynton, and Col¬
onel Kellogg, of the Federal officers, and
Generals Bate of Tennessee, Colquitt of
Georgia, Walthall of Mississippi,
Wheeler of Alabama, Wright of Ten¬
nessee, and Colonels Bankhead of Ala¬
bama, and Morgan of Mississippi. The
plan of preserving and marking the field
of Chickamauga under the auspices of a
joint memorial corporation representing
all the states that had troops there, pat¬
terned in general alter the Gettysburg
association, was cordially approved. will It
is understood that some Georgians adopt
introduce a bill in Congress battlefields to in
some plan to mark the
Georgia.
POPE LEOS IDEA.
In all of the Catholic churches or,
last Sunday, the encylieal letter of
his Holiness Pope Leo XIII was read.
The letter is written on the 50th anni¬
versary of Pope Leo's priesthood and the
11th of his pontificate. placed He speaks apostolic ol
the confidence in the
see. and says that in every land where
the Catholie religion flourishes, the
church is duly honored an I reverenced
with fervent love and sovereign bar
mony. “We have many times,” the
letter says, “as in duty bound, under
taken the defense of truth, and have
striven to expound particularly those
doctrines which seem to be most useful
fall.” Of the schools he says:
is no ecclesiastical authority left in them,
and in the years when it is most fitting
for tender minds to be trained care
fully in Christian virtue, the pre
cents of religion are, for the most part.
unheard. There are are s -me. in dee 1.
who go so far as to doubt the existence
of God."
ALL OVER
THE WORLD.
A MOST INTERESTING MED LEI
OF CAREFUL CULLINGS.
WHAT IS GOING OX IX EUROPE —-DISTINGUISHED
hex dead—France’s perii.—geuhaxv and
THE UNITED STATES.
William L. Porter, who has just re¬
tired from the office of treasurer o. Ver¬
million county, Ind., is short about $12,
000 in his accouuts.
The United States gunboat Yorktown
took a run on the Delaware river on
Wednesday. The indications are that
everything was satisfactory,
Extensive land slips have occurred at
Flenrier village, in Canton of Neuficha
tel, Switzerland. Several houses have
been demolished. Inhabitants are flee*
ing ° for their lives.
Another tragedy w T as enacted at Lake
ttarnberg, Munich, on Thursday, when
Swo persons drowned themselves in its
waters. Since the suicide of King Lud¬
wig, eleven persons have drowned them¬
selves in the lake.
The Berliu Reichsanseiger publishes a
list of losses among the crews of the
German men-of-war Olga and Eber in
the battle of Apia on December 18th.
There were 10 killed, JO seriously wound¬
ed and 9 slightly wounded.
The resignation of the French cabinet
has set the country in an uproar, and
trouble is looked for. Gen. Boulanger
considers that an immediate dissolution
of Parliament is inevitable, and that this
will lead to the triumph of his ideas.
The first movement for the enforce¬
ment of prohibition that lias been made
Por t Dodge, Iowa, for two years, thirty was
inaugurated Thursday. There are
open saloons in Webster county, one of
which does a wholesale business of $20,
000 a year. Saloons in Badger, Dun
combe, Lehigh and Barnum were raided
by indignant citizens and the liquors
were spilled.
FOR PEACE 1 , ALWAYS.
jy Washington newspaper man in a
conversation with Secretary Bayard, gives
an outline of the policy which has con¬
trolled the actions of the Department of
State during the past four years, and says
it has been frequently asserted that Mr.
Bayard has no policy, whetwas he has all
along had a very definite, peculiarly
American policy. Bayard believes that
the American people have a higher and
a nobler destiny than that of swaggering
about among the nations of the earth,
daring somebody to use a homely ex
pres ion, to “knockaehip off their shoul
der.” He thinks it is their mission to take
the lead among the nations in substitut¬
ing pacific methods for force in settling
international disputes. Mr. Bayard’s
theory of statesmanship i.s that nothing
should be done to disturb or imperil
our peaceful condition, but that, on the
contrary, the highest duty of a patriot is
to contribute as far as he can to their
perpetuation and development. His idea
is that the military spirit is to be discour¬
aged in a republic except in so far as it
is necessary for the purpose of defence,
because, in its abnormal development, it
is destructive of liberty ami necessarily
hostile to the genuis of free institutions.
Mr. Bayard, commenting on the clamor
in certain quarters, over the Samoan epi¬
sode, said: “What is it they want me
to do? To provoke war? I do not believe
the people want to go to war about
Samoa. There is no occasion for it. If
they want war, they must get another
secretary of state.”
STUPENDOUS DEAL.
A special cable dispatch from London
to the Montreal Gazette , the Canadian
government organ, says: “Absurd
statements have reached the journals
here, through New York, that a syndi¬
cate of leading Republicans in the
United States control $300,000,000,
which they intend to use in an effort to
secure Canadian annexation to the states
by a system of wholesale bribery in
Canada in the event of a dissolution of
the Dominion parliament this year, and
a consequent general election."
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The British steamship Chancellor, at
Charleston, laden with cotton, for Odes
sa,was found to be on fire Wednesday, in
the lower after hold. The fire was soon
got under control.
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what a ii x I miVCt have b een in!” Liie .
Herman Vickery, a burglar who
killed while trying to escape from
California penitentiary the other day,
had a queer record. Every time he
glarized a house be kissed all the
i rl S women m it. No matter how
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