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joUf(]^i< —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 I S5& - -__________ - ,