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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
Japan proposes to expend 50,000,000
yen ($44 350,000) on her navy during
the next five years.
Since 1872 France and Germany have
been making inroads into England’s
Spanish-American trade.
R. 11. Vickers, a Vicksburg (Miss.)
lawyer, has written a pamphlet to prove
that large coins breed high prices, and
that pennies make low prices.
The New Orleans Tunes- Democrat says
that there is a great deal of unoccupied
land in the United Slates, and immi¬
grants of a good class are welcome.
The New York Herald wants the vio¬
let adopted ns our national flower, be¬
cause it stands for modesty and is,
therefore, a true representative of Amer¬
ica.
There appears every reason to believe
that the present year will prove the
most flourishing ever known in the com
meic'al history of the United King¬
dom.
The newest idea in christening ships
is to scatter roses over the bow, instead
of breaking a bottle of wine. The in¬
novation is certain!,’ poetical, comments
the New Orleans Picayune, and a bottle
of wine is saved for those who can ap¬
preciate it.
The Constitution of the Cherokee Na¬
tion absolutely forbids any alienation of
the tribal lauds, and the authorities of
the nation could not sell the Cherokee
strip even if they wished to. It can be
taken by the United States by force,
but there will be no opportunity to
disguise it through a so-called negotia¬
tion.
The state railroa Is of Prussia make
special contcsdons to invalids of the
lower classes who arc obliged to travel
for the sake of their health. The blind,
deaf, insane or diseased of any kind are
transport!* 1 with their attendants for
the exceedingly low rate of one-sixth of
a cent a mile. Poor children sent to the
country on summer vacations and the
officers of all benevolent institutions of
whatever nature are also given the samo
privilege.
Doorkeeper Loeffi r of tho Whito
House, has a wonderful memory, llo
was with S.anton at tlu time of Lin¬
coln's assassination, and during the
trials of 1869 was ordered to the ’White
House f ir tho ditties he is still perform¬
ing. lbs recollection of faces is re¬
markable. “You called on Mr. Gar¬
field,” or “1 remember you during the
Hayes regime,” lie will sometimes say to
a man whom he has never seen but
onco, and that years ago. Ho cm tell a
“crank” on sight and he saves the
President a groat deal of annoyance by
his acuteness.
The men at We t Guthrie, Ok ahoma,
are rough, lema-ks the Chicago Herald,
but tender. Mot- infrequently they will
take a dt ink or a ‘ chew,” and over a
disputed piece of lan 1 they will tight
like tigers. But they are extremely
gallant in their treatment of the fair
sex. Th y held an election for mayor
out there the other day, and not ouly
allowed the 35 women of the place to
vote, but procured carriage> and drove
them to the polls where they were
treated with every mark of courtesy.
Cultured Boston, in the recent election
in which women participated, showed
t cm less polite attention than the
rough pioneers at Guthrie.”
The objection of electricians to the
new method of execution by electricity
is said to be purely one of sentiment.
They do not wish to see the science de¬
graded. well, they say, put a man
to death by music or poetry as by elec
tricity. “All of which is true,” ad
mits the New York Commercial A Jeer
tiser, "but ..... these practical poets, the
electricians, must remember that the
protests of the civilized world its/if has
not been able to blot out that instru*
meat of torture, the hand organ.
Doubtless the spinners of hemp were
once maeh sea idalized by the ignoble
use to which their handiwork was put,
but rope-making . . seems to . , have survived ,
the ordeal.”
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
news feom everywhere—accidents, strikes,
KIBES, AND HAPPENINGS OJT INTEREST.
The premium on gold in Buenos Ayres
has advanced to 95 per cent.
At the the charter election in Guthrie,
Oklahoma, Wednesday, the charter was
carried by 112 majority.
Michael McDonough shot and killed
his wife Wednesday night at Kenton, O.
Lynching is threatened.
Jess Overman, a jealous lover in Peru,
Ind., shot and killed Maggie Hmi’h,
Wednesday night, and then killed him¬
self
A number of naval officials at Berlin
and Keil, Germany, have been arrested
on the charge of wholesale bribery. One
of them has committed suicide.
Four French journalists have been sen¬
tenced to pay nominal fines f.-r publish¬
ing the indictment against General Bou
langer.
The Now York World Thursday morn¬
ing prints a rumor that the actress, Mary
Anderson, is in a private insane asylum
in England.
The Rhode Island senate passed a li¬
cense bill Wednesday, after inserting a
clause prohibiting the kee ping of a sa
loon within 400 feet of any school house,
Late T . news from , Indian T .. territory , is . to ,
the effect that the famous desperado,
St Lopki was kdled last Sunday by the
captain ot the Creek Indian Light Horse
According to the latest statistics care¬
fully compiled by the board of injury, at
Johnstown, Pa., Wednesday, the num¬ I
ber of lives lost in the devastated district i
was about six thousand. !
Joseph Larson, aged 14, was overcome
by damp while cleaning a well near Ma- j
donia, la., Saturday afternoon, and J. A.
Wilson, who was lowered to rescue the ;
boy, A dispatch was also from overcome. Berlin Both died. General j
says: |
Von Schellendurf, in a speech at Koe
nigberg on Wednesday, said that ail
fears of war are groundless. widely He hoped cir¬
that this assurance would be
culated.
The Chicago Johnstown relief commit¬
tee met in the comptrollers office
Wednesday morning, and decided to
send the balance of subscriptions Pennsylvania in the ; r
hands, $25,000, to tho
authorities.
At Anderson, Ind., Friday evening,
while bathing in White river, Scott Todd
and Charlie Hosier, aged ten and eleven,
were drowned. Sunday evening a man
named* Bilby was drowned while trying
to recover the bodies.
The civil service examination this
year occurs on the 16th of August. A
larger number of persons will be exam¬
ined than ever before. In New York
City alone there are about 2,400 appli¬
cants.
Upwards of half a million dollars have
been subscribed ut Syracuse, N. Y., to
the North American Salt Association »
mostly by Onondaga salt manufacturers
on condition of admission to the associa¬
tion.
A large meeting was held in New
York Wednesday in the interest of the
World's Exposition in that city in 1892.
Tho meeting was a success. Mayor
Grant was empowered to appoint com¬
mittees on finance, organization, etc.
The Standard, of London, Eng., has
consented to apologize and to pay £100
damages for asserting that Father Cove
ney, of Dunmanway, Ireland, publicly hand
appealed to God to strengthen the
of the man who killed Inspector Martin,
at G weed or.
A dispatch from Kansas City says: The
heavy mins of the past, few days in Kan¬
sas, which were welcomed as a sure pre¬
ventive of hot winds, and as the saver of
the corn crop, seem to have done almost
as much harm as good. The damage to
wheat and oats will be considerable.
An English syndicate has purchased J.,
five or six breweries in Patterson, N.
for an aggregate of $2,038,000, the own
ers to retain one-third interest in the
concerns. The transactions were made
through ex-SenatorGarreit, and com¬
pleted Thursday.
At the couit of oyer and terminer at
New York, Tuesday, Charles Giblen and
Ferdinand Caroliu were sentenced to be
This ill make .
hanged on August 23. w
five men who are to be executed in the
Tombs on the same day. 'lhe other
three are James Nolan, John Lewis and
Patrick Packerliam.
The co-operative brewery stockholders,
of Buffalo. N. Y., have sold their stock
to au English syndicate for $140 per share,
an advance of $t0, $50 being originally
paid for each share. They clear $400,
000 on the plant. It is understood that
the brewery will be used as bottling
works.
The whaling schooner Franklin arrived
at New Bedford, Mass , Monday Lorenzo morning,
with the crew of the steamer D.
Baker, from Port Antonio, La., for Bos¬
ton, with fruit, before reported overdue.
The steamer was burned at sea. Her
cargo was valued at $10,000, and the
ve>sel "as insured for $o0,00 .
1 Duport, a Boulangist, member of the
c j iam t>er ot deputies at Paris, France -
Wednesday night, attempted to make ;s
nv ech at Pout L'Abbe, Finistere. but
w: ‘ s attacked by a mob and stoned A
! number of Duport s teeth were broken
and his face cut, and he received permis
s j on to proceed with his remarks,
M’bile men were removing rock and
coal from the chambers closed a, the
Central ^Inertaj mine, near beranton, Pa., on
by a cave-in, the lamp of and one
G f ^ laborers ignited the mine gas
an explosion followed. John William?
and Robert Roberts were killed and four
others frightfully burned.
A cave-in occurred in Hyde, Pa.,
Wednesday morning over a vein of the
Central mine. Over six acres of ground
were affected, and the 5th ward public
school building was badly damaged.
Fully a dozen private residences have
cracked foundation walls and jammed
doors as a result of the cate-in. A large
fissure may be seen in the earth, and in
the center of the affected district the
earth has settled fully ten feet.
Lieutenant 0 M. Carter, at Washing¬
ton D. C., has ten separate works of im¬
provement undir his charge in Georgia
and Florida. He asks the insertion ol
the following named sums in the next
river and harbor bill: Improvement of
the Savannah river and harbor, $2,501.
000; Savannah river betsveen Savannah
and Augusta, $100,000; Altamaha river,
$50,000; Ocmulgee river,$00,000; Oconee
river, $50,000; Brunswick harbor, $62,-
500; Jckyl creek, $33,590; Cumberland
sound, Georgia and Florida, $1,000,000.
Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw,
must die in prison. He is in the last
stages of consumption, and prominent
men of Missouri have neon trying to se¬
cure his pardon, Governor Merriam
sai i to Col. Brouough and ex-Governor
Marshall, on the r presentation of alarge
petition: “I may »s w T eIl siy to you
now once for all,that I have my own per
sonal feeling . and prejudice .... in the mat
tc r > ani ^ ^ should not be moved to inter- _
fere . in the of Bob of them,
case or any p/
even if Haywood , 8 wife cou come from
lhc g ° rave and sign g ' your daughter petition, ’should or if
H wood , 8 8urv ivi g 8
J0] appeal .
Rev. Father Curley, director of the
Georgetown university, died in Wash¬
ington, D. C., Wednesday morning. the'United He
was the oldest living priest in
States, and. so far as known, in the
world. He was born in the county Ros¬
common, Ireland, in 1796. He entered
Georgetown college in 1827 as a novitiate
and p as remained at the college ever
g j ncei with the exception of two years
spent in stu dy from 182 7 to 1831. For
forty-eight ye ars he was professor of phil
osophy and natural science and during
this time he made a number of valuable
contributions to science,
A land slide on the Northern Pacific
which occurred near Miles City, Mont.,
Saturday, is one of the most extensive
and disastrous in tho history of the road.
It happened division, on a point on the skirts Yellow¬ the
stone where the track
Yellowstone river, with a turbulent
stream on one side and a high alkali bank
on the other. Without warning or appa¬
rent cause, this bank gave way and a
mass of earth for the distance of five
hundred feet along the track and from
three hundred feet away slid down into
the river, completely burying the rail¬
road.
A shocking jpjojdent occurred Monday
morning on the Philadelphia and Read¬
ing railroad, near Mahoney City, Pa.
Three hoys were driving in a buggy from
Mahoney City to Frackville. As they
approached the railroad crossing a pas¬
senger train passed, closely followed by
a little combination engine. They at¬
tempted to cross as soon as the passenger
train had passed. The combination
engine struck the buggy, smash¬
ing it into splinters, killing the
horse and terribly injuring the boys.
One of them was thrown forty feet and
shockingly mangled and instantly killed.
The other two were very badly, and it is
believed, fatally hurt.
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
THE SECRETARY OF TnE STATE “WHEEL’
OF TENNESSEE SKII>3.
A veritable sensation has developed in
the state “Wheel,” in session at Nash¬
ville, Teun. When their organization
met at the capitol Wednesday morning to
consolidate with the state alliance the
secretary, W. T. Davis, was absent, and
it was necessary to elect a secretary pro
tern. A bombshell was then exploded.
A letter was read from secretary Davis
acknowledging that he was short in his
accounts, and saving his body would be
found in the bottom of the Cumberland
river. He also stated that he was tired
of life, and that he could not bear the
disgrace and face his friends. The lose
which is not stated, will be covered by
the official bond, which is $3,000. The
order is perfectly solvent and lias suffi
eient money to pay all its obligations,
q'he suicide statement finds few believers,
j s thought that Davis left the city Mon
d ffighfand detectives are tnink already will lead fol
[ ow his'eapture. ing clews which they
to
OUTRAGE IN COREA.
A MINISTER’S WIFE SENTENCED TO DEATH
FOR PBEACHING.
Information has been received that
Mrs. Hattie Gibson Heron, wife of the
Rev. David Heron, late of Jonesboro,
re a," for twcSgth “d^trin^Tif Chris
tianitv. Rev. David Heron is well
known as a Presbyterian three minister. ago-the He
went to Corea about years
wife joining her husband a few weeks
later. Mrs. Heron preached the gospel
as well as her husband and was the
means of converting a nobleman m Co
rea, who began preaching Heron Christianity. arrested
The emperor had Mrs.
and thrown into prison. Her case was
investigated, and finally sentence of
death was passed. beautiful Mrs. lady Heron was
known as the most in up
ridi
SOUTHERN SEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SO UTIL
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Cora Herron, of Mecklenburg county,
N. C., aged 12 years, was bitten by a
mad dog about three weeks ago. A
madstone was .applied, but with no ef¬
fect, and on Wednesday she dkd in ter¬
rible agony.
Governor Gordon, Monday, appointed
Mr. Malcolm Johnson, of Atlanta. Ga.,
Judge George M. Lester, of Marietta,and
A. F. Wofford, of Banks county, to serve
as assessors for the Atlanta and Charlotte
Air-Line railroad.
Andiew F. Crutchfield, aged 65, a
journalist, who was well known in Bal¬
timore, Md., and throughout Virginia,
and who was one of the founders and
editor of the Baltimorean, died Wednes¬
day at his home in Baltimore.
At an adjourned meetingof Western Cut
Nail association held at Wheeling, W. Va.,
Wednesday, the reduced gauge for nails
heretolore adopted, was re-affirmed and is
now going into general adoption in all
cut nail mills.
In Atlanta,on Wednesday, Judge Hen¬
derson received a sample basket of Irish
potatoes from Mr. P. Calhoun. Seven
of them filled a big basket. Colonel
Henderson said they were the finest he
had ever seen.
The taxable property of Haralson
county, Ga., was returned last year at
$1,496,753. This year it is returned at
$1,550,625—an increase of $53,812.
The rate of increase last year surpassed
every other county in the state.
The southern part of VanZ indt coun¬
ty, Texas, is suffering from the acts of a
band of incendiaries, who are burning
churches and schoolhouses right and
left. Four of these buildings have been
destroyed within a week, and the citi¬
zens are becoming greatly excited.
Twenty-three murder cases an(^ three
rape cases, making twenty-six capital
cases, are set for trial at the present term
of the criminal court at Birmingham,
Ala., and the grand jury, now in ses¬
sion, is grinding out indictment for mur¬
der at the rate of two per day.
At Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday,
Fannie Bryant, the negro woman who is
supposed to have been the accomplice of
Dick Hawes in the murder of his wife
and children, was brought into court and
arraigned. She announced ready for
trial, pleaded not guilty, and her trial
was set for Monday next.
Comptroller-General Wright, at Atlan¬
ta, Ga., received notice Monday from the
Atlanta and West Point railroad of their
intention to appeal from the assessment
made by the state of their property. They
gave notice that Mr. L. P. Grant would
act as arbitrator for the road. There
is a difference of $88,000 between the
road and the state’s estimate of the
property.
On Tuesday Col. Roger J. Page, for¬
merly a distinguished lawyer of Virgin¬
ia, lately the editor of the Times-Register
at Marion. S. C., was assassinated while
standing in the midst of a half dozen
friends at the depot of the Western
North Carolina Railroad. The murderer
had advanced to within two paces, and
at his back, when he fired upon Col.
Pago, whose neck was broken by the
shot. The assassin escaped. The coro¬
ner’s verdict was “killed by a gun-shot
wouud by a party to the jury unknown.”
A great mass meeting of citizens was
held in Raleigh, N. C., Tuesday, in
which indignation was expressed by word
and by resolution at the finding of a ver¬
dict ot not guilty by the board of di¬
rectors of the insane asylum in the Gris¬
som investigation. Speeches w r ere made
by prominent and leading citizens, and
resolutions were adopted requesting that If
the board ask Dr. Grissom to resigu.
they failed in this, for the governor to
ask them to resign, and if they refused,
to call a special session af the legislature
for the purpose of investigating the
matter fully.
In the flooded district of West Virgin¬
ia many of the farmers have lost their
all and will be compelled to ask charity.
It is known that eighteen persons lost
their lives by the flood. All the bodies
have been found but two. Six good iron
bridges and many wooden ones were
washed awnv. At Morristown thirteen
houses were sw’ept away, besides many
others in that neighborhood, and much
suffering is the result. In Braxton coun¬
ty the soil was washed on to low lands to
the depth of six feet. The county com¬
missioners returned from a tour of inspec¬
tion of the district Tuesday, and reported
the loss in bridges to be about $25,000.
Many farmers are unable to pay taxes
this year. The loss in one county will
reach $50,000.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION
WILL TAKE PLACE IN BOSTON, AS NEW
YORK HAS NO SUITABLE BUILDING.
The International Maritime Exhibition,
which was to be held in h.ew \ork from
j the J ob 21st wi l not be heffi here ^ at^r aU f
j but f ri.? mil
j ** exhibition i will' coo
the manage could le ve
lork j, is that tnat the tne manage s s couia
; not place to hold it in.
| secure a proper
[ Madison Square Garden had been se
lected, but as it will be torn down for
rebuilding the managers had to look for
accommodations elsewhere. T‘e Me
, Boston has been
, ehames institute at en
KSMiK-TST ,hej
A JUDGE KILLED
IN ATTEMPTING TO GET OFF A CAB HR
FALLS UNDER THE WHEELS.
Judge John T. Clarke, judge of the
Pataula circuit, was the victim of a hor¬
rible accident Monday, at Smithville,Ga.,
in which he lost his life in the twinkling
of an eye. His head was almost com¬
pletely severed from his body, beneath
the wheels of the west bound Macon and
Montgomery passenger. He was on his
way to Macon to hold court for Judge
Gustin, having agreed to sit in the fa¬
mous Cotton State Life insurance case.
At Smithville, the Macon bound train
waits until auother train can make a
trip to Albany and back. During the
delay, Judge Clarke boarded the Mont¬
gomery train to speak to friends, and
when he attempted to leave, the cars
were in full motion. He swung by the
railing, and in attempting to gam foot¬
hold was jerked underneath the wheels
of the coach. His right shoulder and
arm were crushed, a large wound made
on the forehead, the lelt arm broken in
several places, and the neck cut
entirely loose from the body.
Judge John T.Clarke was born at Eaton
ton, Putnam coun y, Ga., in January,
1834, being 53 years of age. On May
May 2d, 1885, John T. Clarke married
Mis3 Laura F. Fort, a grand niece of Dr.
Tomlinson Fort, of Milledgeville. He
was ordained a minister of the Baptist
Church in 1858. In 1863, being then
only twenty-nine years old, lie was ap¬
pointed Judge of the Superior Perkins, Court de¬ of
Pataula Circuit, vice Judge
ceased. He was, with one exception, the
youngest man who ever held such a po¬
sition in the state. In April, 1868, by a
special order of General Meade, then
military commandant, the Judge was re¬
moved from office Judge Augustus
Reese, of Madison, shared the same fate.
These were the only judges in Georgia
who were expelled from office m that
way. In 1868 Judge§Clari<e was chosen
by the State Democratic Convention as
elector at large, with General John B.
Gordon, for Seymour and Blair. Later
he was elected to the State Senate from
the eleventh district, for the .-term of
1878-79, and took a prominent part in the
legislative work. He was for years
a member of the state executive com¬
mittee, and has always beeu a staunch
Democrat, but as a judge he had not
since taken an active part in politics.
From 1868 to the latter part of 1882 he
devoted himself to his profession, Legis¬ at
which time he was elected by the
lature to the judgeship of the Pataula
circuit. Several years ago he was vested
with the degree of LL.D. by Mercer uni¬
versity. He was a brother of Judge
Marshall J. Clarke, Mrs. E. E. Rawson,
the late Mrs. Sidney Root, Mrs. J. P.
Logan and Miss Clarke, of Atlanta, Ga.
He leaves a wife and one son.
MONEY IN POTATOES.
IMMENSE PROFIT FROM ONE AND A HALF
ACRES—HOW IT IS MADE.
Moses L. Petty, of Ophir, Ga., is a
grand success as a potato raiser—sweet
or Irish. He plants and cultivates a po¬
tato crop every year, because, as he.says:
“It is a lazy man’s crop. ” He says it can
be matured at less cost and labor with
better results than any other. He has
one and one-half acres in Irish potatoes
this year from which he expects to gather
not less than 600 bushels. Now multi
nly this by the probable amount per
bushel he will get, and you will see what
the acre and one-half will bring him—
certainly a great deal more than any other
like amount of ground will bring
planted in corn or cotton, or sowed in
wheat or oats, or almost any crop you
can name. He selects .the early r< se or
Goodrich, prepares his land well, ma¬
nures freely with stable manure and un¬
slacked lime, plants deep for along root,
and then leaves the seedlings to grow
and get in their work. The result is al
ways satisfactory, as tho crop nets him
well at a small outlay of work and ex¬
pense.
A PRIZE FORFEITED.
THE STATE OF ILLINOIS GOBBLES $15,
000 ON A WINNING LOTTERY TICKET.
Last week at Chicago, Ill., Lena Lurie,
a Polish Jewess, secured an injunction
restraining Lazarus Silverman, banker,
from turning over to Ike or Robert Lu¬
rie, more than half of $15,000 drawn on
a winning lottery ticket, claiming that
they were attempting to cheat her out of
a half interest which she owned in the
ticket, she having bought it on shares
with Robert. Wednesday morning
State’s Attorney Longnecker filed an in¬
formation in the Superior Court asking
that the entire prize be declared forfeited
to the state. This action is brought un¬
der an express provision of a statute to
that end, and is first of the kind filed in
that county. An injunction banker was from at once
granted restraining the pay¬
ing over the money to any of the claim¬
ants.
A BURNING HOTEL.
persons
from the win do
The S t. Cloud hotel.at Meadville, Pa.,
d Tuegd ni ht . The guests es
caned without infurv, but several ser
rants were badly injured by jumping
from windows. Mrs. Maggie Elveric, of
? 0 hio. lumped from the
»7 striking ° on her back. She
. P _ d - e g usan Deehrv had
br o ken> Barabara Hillman had
, bac k hadiy burned before jumping
on the^ a wni g which probablv saved
, a fireman? feU
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