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ELLAVILLE PUBLISHING CO.
GENUINE
M!t, Ga.,
THANKSGIVING!
Why We Should be Thankful:
THANKFUL That wc live iu a live
and growing city.
That we have pleasant
homes and good church
and school privileges.
THANK PH I *' lmt we ' iave been spared
liliiiiJirUu from pestilence, cyclones
and earthquakes.
That while we have not
grown suddenly rich, wc
have the means of put¬
ting a turkey on the table
That there are still some
square-dealing merchants
in Americus like
JOHN R. SHAW,
Who has made us further thankful by
selling u* the best class of goods at
the lowest prices
THANKFUL
That his liberal dealin g has not bank
rupted him, and that he is still
oiToring a magnificent line of
Dross Goods,
Velvets of all Styles,
QHESS TRIMMINGS
-AND
BUTTONS TO MATCH
:o:
Yt prices lower than ever, for he says»hc
is determined to cut down his stock.
THANKFUL
That at his store wc can find a I,aigt
Stock of
CLOTHING.
Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
I’rom which we can select just, what
need, at prices to suit tbe state of our
finances, so that Done need go
naked. Nor need we go with
uncovered heads so long
as he is offering
Hats of all Styles j
STIFF AND FELT
At Prices that Cannot be Duplicate 1 in
Georgia !
SHOES
Enough to fill a first-class Shoe store. A
barge Lot, of Ladies’ Fine Shoes juvt
received from Stribley & Co.
We do not need nor care to inquire
how he can sell cheaper than other ileal
cr<, It is enough for us to be
Thankful
'tint he does it and that we -ret the bene
*
« of if So let us all, iu remembering .
.
oy f numerous .blessings not forget to be
^ hankful
B. SHAW J
Ttle Live and Leading Merchant,
F ° r *yth St.,
. AMERICUS, GA
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER s, 1S8T.
BELMONT DISTILLING CO.,
A. Hirsch, - Manager 9
A^EEI^ICTJS, GA, H
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If you wish , to purchase any Liquors and
Wines, Pure and Old, at Lowest Figures, write
t0 me for P^ces. Samples sent Free on appli¬
cation.
Rapt-8 Jinj.
M. B. COUNCIL. & McGARAAH.
-Having formed a copartnership in the-
COTTON WAREHOUSE,
—AND—
COMMISSION BUSINESS.
Respectfully announce to the citizens of Marion and Schley that they can be
found at the old stand ol S. MeGarrah,
COTTON AVE., AMERICUS, 6A.
Where they will have full arrangements for keepiag posted in all fluotuavtion
and changes in the cotton market, and where they have every convenience for
handling, storing, sampling and sbowisg cot' on to advantage.
They respectfully solicit consignments, and from long experieceejin the.'business
feel sure of obtaining the
Guaranteeing fair dealing and prompt re¬
mittances.
sept 8-3m COUJSTCIL & McGARiRAH.
W. T. TOOLE,
WAREHOUSE 5
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
LAMAR ST., AMERICUS, GrA,
Respectfully solicits from his friends and the
public generally, a share of their patronage.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 8ep-8-2m
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MURRAY & "WILLIAMS,
ELLAVILLE, GA.,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Bagging, Ties, Salt Meat, Flour, Lard, Tobacco,
Chairs, Saws, Hammers, Chisels, Planes,
Squares and Notions.
-A FINE EOT OF-
HATS AND SHOES,
Ad T LiU TAAA7 W -ZlM-O A r 1 l“ 1 }—f * IB l T <"Y'W'T? 1 *
ttv yf 6 solicit it, tll8 - PaXl „ . f oila-g; C n OI f HU oil ntitl ailu g rrli U»mil avow _
fzxp Q51 oCAbloACto tlQfilPtinTl viun,
P. H. Williams !
-DEALER IN-
Fancy and Staple Groceries,
FINE LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
invite* to oall ...... and buy them.
I, receiving a large stock of goods, anil you “living
now l best of goods, and hr guarantee* to sell them at
HiiBpeciftlt „• Don ,, t r bel , t e\rt e verv .in . j m u n 0 f ‘‘below ooat*,’ 1 na maa can prosper nor run
profits. if he sell* at cost an Y ■ c^tch vai. Dome to me for
his business
b ki 2k, Uno,
Hour, Meal, Meat, Sign, Oiffee,
And other unadulterated article you warm, and
any
« SMILE WITH ME’
hard times, for I’ll leave y®u a little Seme eld Stand,
At
Cotton Avenue, - - - Americus, Ga.
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— OK,—
The Stolen Heiress.
i TALE OF NEW YOBK IN 1835,
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
AUTBOW 0»
. Tht Caeca’s Secret," “ The Tower of Gold*
•The Half-Breed ,,* “ Harold* Hate,'
“ The Bride of Barcelona,” Etc.
CHARTER XIII.—Ooutin leu •
“Oh, I remember all that very well,
though 1 was but ten years old then. ” said
Bazilio. "But what said tbe beggar?”
"He said thai be had never hoard of any
little child-and I don't think ho had, my
sou. He said Mrs. Brackly disappeared
from Loudon soon after she Was discharged
as cured from the hospital; anil ttiat Ue be¬
lieved she was dead long ago, till about
three weeks ago he chanced to bo in York-
ville, and to see trad recognize Lor at the
door of a cottage. ”
“Ah! Did she recogui/.o him?”
“No—he was sure of that, my son. She
called out to a constable who chanced to be
near, to arrest tho beggar aud take him- to
jail ua a vagabond thief, aud the beggar
fled at once—having no fancy for the inside
of a jail.
J>audt, “Thestory of the beggar." added Ur-
'"made me come to .New York at once.
I had to foot it, tor 1 had no money, and
jny progress was very slow. But at last I
cot here, and throe days ago I stole to
where the beggar bad told me tbe so- caUed
Dame Helen Grippard ’lived—you see, he
had discovered her present name by inquir¬
ing iu the neighborhood. I stole into her
cottage yard, und peered in through an
open window. She was In tho room seated
jat a table, counting gold into a bag. My
mouth watered for that gold, you may wel 1
believe, my sou! Our eyea suddenly met.
I recognized her as my former wife—your
mother. The stoiy of the beggar had pre¬
pared me to recognize her."
. “Did ahe recognize you?”
I flat! "Patience, my sou. Before pur eyes met,
noted certain peculiarities thftt be¬
longed to your mother. The slight cast in
the left eye--the lack of a joint of the ring-
ifiuger Smaller of the left h ini the right-ear much
than the left thi v very deep cleft
of the chin—the mole on her upper lip—
per protrusive lower jaw. aud prominent
foyMPtheth. I had Oh, it was she! And for six-
by een years believed that she had died
my hands! My faith, 1 was glad to see .
per (should alive—and at once I resolved that she
be a gold-egg-laying goose for rne!
hhe is rich, my. soU-tremeudoualy rich!
The beggar said she was reputed to be
Worth hall a million.”
i “She is very wealthy, I know father,
Put “Acted what did she do w hen your eyes met?”
like herself instantly, my son,
Snatched up a billet of wood and threw it
at my head with a curse upon me for a
■prowling would-be thief. Snatched a gun
from the wall and would have fired at me, I
believe, had I not taken to my heels in-
stalltly.”
“And you are sure she did uot recognize
you?” “Perfectlysure,
my son.”
“And what d <1 you intend to do next,
father,?” ;
“To watch for a chance lo get my hand on
her throat in the dead of night, and in that
cottage—for Both only two others sleep in it.
are women. One is her servant, n
middle-agod woman, uot very bright, for I
saw her while I was stealing to the cottage
window—(he other is about eighteen, I
should fancy—though I didmot gain a good
look at her. She did at mo, however—for
she was Btarir.g in horror at me When I
chanced to look beyond the dame, and saw
the young girl just coming into the room.”
“You have not yet found a ehamce to get
into the cottage at.night, 1 suppose, father?"
“No. lhave done some prowling, but
not found the chance I wish. YUfterday,
while lurking in the alley below—more for
secret aud safe sleep than anything else, 1
chanced to see you arranging the rope at
the window above, as I told you—
“Ah, aud then- .you fancied you Would
find good game in lurking for me,” laughed
Bazilio. ■ "That was like you! But now
you are well shorn and well shaved-”
Here a heavy missile, hurled by some one
in Captain Balbata’s room, struck against
the communicating door with much sud¬
den violence as to startle Urbnndt to his
feet.
“Have no fear!" whispered Bazilio. “ The
Captain simply dewires to let me know that
he i* r.Wiike, and yvishefl to speak to me.
Remain silent here, till I call you.”
Urbandt nodded, aud Hn/.iio moved
quiell.v toward the door, .
■f’HAPTFU XFV
■ IN BA I BATA’S ’ BKDBOOM ’
.
Rnzmo ... was soon m . the Captain b pree-
t nee. The Cajitain (whom we have already
described) was in bed, reclining upon one
elbow, bed'with holding, hia apart the in onrlnius h:s night of garb, the
other hand,
and with his eyes toward where Bazilio en-
•trad-
Near the bed, within easy reach of the
Captain, was a tuble, or which a lamp was
brightly burning. As the-Curtains of the
window were closely drawn, tho daylight apartment. with-
out was not yet visible in
1 he lamp showed a pair of gold-mounted,
pistols and a heavy gold watch lying on the
table, and a boot near the door. The boot
was the missile which the Captain had
burled against the door to summon Bazilio
:o his presence, Bazilio being his comrade. secre-
Ary, bosom adviser and trusted
ind also his first officer at this time.
■ “Ha, Btizilo 1 Glad to see you! What’s the
aour?” growled the Captain, with a sleepy
glare in his leoniue eyes. People
“Speak in whispers, Captiin!
of the house are astir. It is half-past
>ix.” ’•
*. But what luck, Ba-
“Ila! half-past six?
silio?’’
“The best, Captain. ”
very calms soul
“Good! That my again.
Where are the notes?" j
“Here, " replied Bazilio, counting upon
the table the tive notes which had been
bound toother with the strip of paper.
“As you said I might keep one if I recov-
ered all,Captain, he added, and replacing I
one of the live notes in his pocket-book,
will do so,
The L'aptaiu glared discontentedly, arid
growled “They a curse. tho that him
ate same we saw
count from vour hand yesterday afternoon,
Captain, and paste the strip strip.” of papei
»ronn<l. 1 have burned the
“Bazilio, 1 shall need that fcl.uOO note to-
day. You must lend it to me. As soon as
we realize on our secret cargo you shall
have double the amount for the use of it.
Bazilio did not look as if he liked this
proposition. Iu fact, be knew the Captain
was very slow in paying his debts.
“Come,” growled the Captuin, his face
growing redder as he scowled, "you know 1
was forced to pay that man nearly every
dollar I could take and scrape together yes-
tvrday, or he would have hj*d thf>_ brig
xiouty i lammed to-vlay. Ho meant to
make ins thru it Rood, anil would have done
no had 1 not paid him the live thousand
pounds lioforo sunset. His watchers were
nonrtbebrig. of t here w.is no way to be rid
thow nor of liis menaced examination of
tho brie save by paying him all I owed him.
You amt I, and all our crew, would now be
iu prison under the easily proved charge of
trading in conn erfeit money lmd 1 not paid
the tuiiu. You know that.
"Oh, yes, Captain; I know that very
well.”
“Then help ma in a little affair I have on
my bunds to-day by lending me that ono-
thousuiul-ponnd note, to make up five
thousand p muds, which I may decide to
lo pay to old l)anve Urippud this morning
it Old Anchors. ”
“Oh! you think of paying her—Dam*
Helen Grippard tive thousand pounds at
Old Anchors this morning, Captain! May
I ask why you desire to t ay her so great a
ium?”
"Why not? I usually tell yon all my af¬
fairs, Basilic. Yon have never betrayed
uie yet. You know that if ever you do be-,
tray me your life will thereafter speedily be
at an end. Y'es, I think I may see fit to
pay Dame Helen Grippard five thousand
pounds sterling to-day, and contract to
hiariy her grand-daughter. ’’
llazilio slarte I violently at this reply, but
the Captain did not observe the fact, nor
that Bazdio’s eyes gleamed with a sudden
rage as ho asked:
"is it possible that you intend to marry
Miss Vemeena Poland, Captain? 1 '
“Most certainly I shall desire most nr*
deutly to marry Miss Verueena Roland
—the reputed grand- daughter of Dome
Grippard—if the dame proves to me thut
the girl is half us great an heiress as the
dame declared she was to me yesterday!’’
"In Miss Vemeena Itolaud simply the
reputed grand-daughter of Dnine Grippard,
Captain?'
“Bo the dame said she would prove to
me—and prove more—if she and I agree
upon terms to-day at Old A chore.”
“I did uot kuow that you had over seen
Miss Boland, Captain.” But,
“I never have, Bazilio. bymyROul,
if she were to prove to be as ugly, as hide¬
ous, as the old lady herself, i would scarce¬
ly hesitate (o marry her to gain two millions
of dollars, dear Bazilio. ”
my Captain!”
"Two millions of dollars,
“She may be proved the heiress of not
a dollar less, Dame Grippard swore to
.
mo yesterday, aud in to prove to me to-day.
But Um opay down into the old conno-
CWS Will five “rertssss: thousand, Bazilio?
you lend me
Besides the four thousand pottnds on the
table, I have at my command barely three
hundred dollars to-day. ”
«J.o»-,h..o.ni,d-|>oniid not, o» it, abll
with tht? other four. “Here is the note for
la thousand pounds. ’’
"Thank you, my lad! You shall share
j hold n my high good revelry fortune, all when over Europe, it is mine. my We’ll boy I
But tl! “ ue how Y ou 8 ot the notes {rom
mn ' ! We 8ilw hlIn T ut the t ,aeka 8 e into
his safe, _ you remember, a few moments
after I paid them to him. Haw did yotl
get into the safe, Bazilio?”
“Ho afterward took the notes from the
safe,” replied llazilio, as lightly us if speak-
tog won any ordinary Bubject, "else they
would, very probably, not be here now,
Captain.” when
-'“Ah, them, they Bazilio?” were on his person you
took
“No matter where they were w hen I took
them into my possession, Captain. You
have tkom now. The mutt will never ask
you nor me for them. ”
“Ha!" exclaimed the “You Captain, springing
to have a sitting killed posture, him?” mean thut you
“I was forced to do so, Captain. What
does it matter?”
“It matters much,” cried the Captain, with
snatching his pistols from the table
wonderful quickness and aiming “It them matter at
Bazilio's breast and head. is a
of life or death to me us well as to you if
yon havo left a single trace that shall lead
inquiry toward me or toward you.
Scoundrel, I did not tell yon to kill the
man! Tell me nil, and by heaven if I shall
then believe that you have leit a single
trace toward the truth I’ll shoot you dead
where you stand! Try to escape, and I’ll
fire, if i die for it! Tell meall'
• ‘Til tell you nothing,- Captain, so long
ns you threaten me. Shoot, and the man
in the next room will see that the hang¬
mans rope. «o dreaded by you nil your
life, shall goon be around your neck.”
It was plain that Ba/,ilio was uot iright-
;ned by the fury of the Captain. It was
ao less plain that the Captain was ap.
palled by Bazilio’s reference to the man
In the adjoining room. had holy horror
Tho Captain in truth a
of hanging. He lowered his weapons,
glared at Bazilio, and whispered: in
“Is tee, indeed, a man your room,
Bazilio?”
“There is, Captain; and ns the door ia
ijar, as you see, not a word so loudly
3poken by you may havo escaped his ears.
Why, you roared your threats at me loud
snougit to be heard by any one outside.” man?
“I was a fool, Bazilio. Who is the
H0W K ut h ° ‘“ t0 V0U1 ' ri, ° m at thi * hour?"
- yesterday. Captain, to be
Yon told fne
. rpeedy in obtaining a capable iirst mate for
jur brig. This morning, at about day
lawn, ns 1 was on my way hack from Old
Anchors, I chanced to meet this man—ran
igaiust him, ia fact. lie begged me to
ibtain work aboard some ship, in as he I was,
le said, starving. He was rags. re-
jognized him a* a man who had served,
fears ago, abosid ship with me in the Medit-
;rrauoau. I saidhosLouId havea berih with
rs if yon should be pleased with bis ap-
penrnnec. I led him to my room and have
riven him clothes which were our lute
irst mate’s. He presents a goodappear-
mce for a man of his age. He is old in
[ace, but not iu years. I am sure lie will
iuit us. Shall I’call him iu?”
-By my Bazilio,” growled the Cap- him
jun, “we are compelled to engage
now. He has heard too much for our
safety." “1 will Captain. I know
. answer for that.
him well. He seivc-d under me several
years in the Asiatic and Afric sens.”
“Very well. Tell' him to come in, Ba-
silio,”
Bazilio obeyed, knowing that his father
had heat’d every word that had passed be-
tween the Captain and himself.
The matter ended in the engagement of
the outlaw as tho first mate of the brig
Balboa.
g oon a ft er three breakfasted and
then took their way toward Old Anchors-
wheie wo shall meet them again.
|to iik conti nuep.J
Just That.
-' lrN (Vimsonheak—“I’m T „iL'f‘AI so tired that
I , should j like to retire and sleep foi the
rest of my life.
Mr. Cnmsoubeak—“Well, that* just
what you will do, for sleep is just that
thing!” what thing c"m-W
“Just life.”— ‘
^ of vrtur Yonkers
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The mamifa'(Jire of coke is becoming
an important industry in the territory
south of Zanesville, Ohio.
VOL. Ill, NO. II.
AROUND THE WORLD.
co\ot:ssrn facts oleaseu
FROM HAST SOURCES.
Tlirvwiliin, liurape.tn Canlilran-lreland’k
Trou lilmt-FIri-a, ACclilents, Nulcliles.
etc., Knat. W®.l and Nurtli.
Jacob Sharp, the New York briber,ha»
been released on $40,000 bail.
William O’Hrh'ii, u well-known tra¬
peze pet former of Buffalo, N. Y., who
was injured by a fall, died recently.
The Chicago board of trade indorsed
a memorial from Tampa, Fla., asking
Congress to appropriate $100,000 for im¬
provement of the harbor there.
dian, Henfy E. Dixey, the “Adonis” $1,300by come¬
lias been swindled out of
a gambler in named Hadley, who Cal. used load¬
ed dice, San Francisco,
fn a colliery at Prumbo, Silesia, thir¬
teen workmen were killed by choke damp
and many others taken out of the shaft
insensible, but were resuscitated.
The French syndicate which lias cor¬
nered the tin market is still musing asked
prices to go up. New York sellers
35 cents per pound for spot tin, and buy¬
ers offered 84 3-8 cents.
No trams from the East have reached
Pueblo, Colorado over the Santa Fo road
for a week. The trains arc blocked by
heavy and saow drifts near expected Dodge in City,lum¬
ens, they are not for sev¬
eral days.
A 13-inch gas pipe, heavily charged
with dynamite powder, was found in the
office of the Evening News at Renova,Pa.
A fuse was attached,und it was undoubt¬
edly intended to blow up the establish¬
ment.
ley, An earthquake the shock of was felt England, at Chor-
in county .Lancaster,
which shook the buildings and made a
rumbling noise. The people wore fright¬
ened,and many ran out from their houses
in alarm. No serious damage was done,
however,
(, 0 |. Henry R. Goetehiu*, of Columbus,
is at , )aws011 0a in the interegt 0 f the
heeded w-r Is secunng the right a, of ; way
throughout Terrell county, and says a
strong force will be set to work on the
road about the first of January.
h ““““ h »
restaurant, with a bullet hole m hishea«I,
dead. It is supposed that he committed
suicide while temporarily insane, lie
was elected city treasurer at the last
election, and was a prominent citizen,
The Buena Vista & Ellaville railroad,
from Americus to LaCrosse, Ga., was
completed, the last spike being driven.
Regular trains It has will not been be put given on for out sev¬ yet
eral days. not
when work will begin on the extension
of the road from Buena Vista to Colum¬
bus.
A tire broke out iu the extensive es¬
tablishment of the Strobridge Litho¬
graph company, in Cincinnati,Ohio. The
fire department was slow in getting to
work, and the building and contents had
was a total loss. The establishment
a complete stock on hand, and the loss
is $500,000.
A squad of fifty laborers, in charge of
F. M. Ivey, of the Chattanoochie Brick
company, left Columbus, Ga., fora point
on Upatoi creek, twelve miles from town,
for the purpose of clearing the railroad. right of
way of the Columbus Southern
This sqund will work southward and the
intervening section will not be touched
until certain rights of way in that county
are secured, when other laborers will be
employed.
Matthew Grant, fi wenlthy colored resi¬
dent of Xenia, Ohio, has deeded his
property, valued at $30,000, to WilVrer-
forco University. That institution is the
pioneer of its class and is the leading
colored college. It has frequently been
the recipient of donations of a thousand
dollars and upwards. President Mitchell
says, so far as ho knows, the greatest
amount ever given before for as like pur¬
pose was $5,1)00.
The well-known firm of Brown, Wood
& Kingman, dry goods commission mer¬
chants, of New York, Boston, Philadel¬
phia and Chicago, have gone into liqui¬
dation. The firm was one of the leading
ones in this country, doing a business of
from $13,000,000 to $14,000,000 a year,
controlling many large mills, and sup¬
posed to have u large capital for their
trade. WUTium L. Brown says the firm
is perfectly solvent, and will have a large
surplus when the business is wound up.
There was a great crash on the Penn¬
sylvania railroad, Catnden branch, near
Highs town, N. .1. Passenger train No.
304 hound for New York, ran intoacoal
train near Old Bridge, making both
trains a complete wreck. Engineer Jo¬
seph II. Smith, of the passenger train,
was crushed in hi* cab. Charles Hunt,
baggage master of tbe passenger train,
was also dangerously injured. A num¬
ber of passengers were badly hurt, but
fortunately no one was killed.
The coroner’s jury, which has been in¬
vestigating the deaths of Carl Iloniket
and lus five children, who were cremated
at Warsaw, Wis,, the other morning, that re¬
turned a verdict, stating their belief
Mrs. Fritz, an aged German, a neighbor
of Iloniket, had started the fire. A fam¬
ily feud hadexisted between Mrs.IIoniket
and Mrs. Fritz for some time, the latter
having frequently threatened to burn
the house of the former. Two days be¬
fore tin: fire the two women quarreled through
about Mrs. Fritz drawing wood
Honiket’s lot, when the former said: “I
will move you out of that house before
long.” She was arrested.
HOUSES FIRED.
Fire was discovered in an empty frame
shanty situated in a row of seven on
Louisa alley, in the immediate vicinity of
Asbnrv Chapel, Atlanta, Ga. Seven cot¬
tages were totally destroyed, and another
fronting on Davis street, was badly
burned. The firemen succeeded in keep¬
ing the flames away from Asbury Chapel, that,
though for a time it looked as if
too, must go. Several other frame
dwellingshmtsos near by were on fire at
different times, but these were saved.
The. tire vva* "! incendiary origin. The
buildings were occupied by negro fam¬
ilies and Acre owned by Mrs. Jane Ber-
ry. HU fi r as could be ascertained there
u ns uu insurance.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
i\rt REsrr\o s vhmahy of ik-
FOBMATtOS .1 ltorr COXGRESS.
tie Itrpnr/inrnln f. ry Riet It..f>l«f Itec.i*
str.irtloii of rli,. Nnvy l'ss,»nl.n>t
I’ra.-ml up t'er.inlliilf.
A JJKKAt’l.TKK.
Quite u sensation was caused by tht
announcement that Jalin K ilolling*head
t clerk iu the office of the Washington
Gaslight Company, had abscond.'d with
eo siderablc money belonging to thf
Gaslight Company. The amount is not
staled.
rUPTERMIXT IlAISKItS TftOUUI.KO.
Hundred* of petitions from around
Lyons, N. Y., have been forwarded to
Secretary Fairchild to rescind the recent
ordei to the. effect that Japanese or do-
mcntlmlizcd peppermint oil may be ad¬
mitted to the United States in bond and
may lie repacked in Ame.ican bottles for
• xport. Pep peril int oil is by far the
most important factor in the thousands agricultural of
wealth of thut locality, and
people derive their livelihood therefrom.
Japanese peppermint is very cheap and
can soon drive out American peppermint
oil.
MODERN RIFLE*.
Gen. Benet, Chief of Ordnance, hat
procured samples of the modem smal
calibred rifles that arc being introduced
so largely in European armies and the,
are now on their way to this country.
One of the Swiss rifles has already com«
into the possession of one of Gen. Sheri¬
dan’s aides ami hd* been for some days
tiie object of object of interest to army
officers. The rifle embodies in a high
degree the principle of reduced calibres
in small arm*. The calibre has been re¬
duced from forty-four to thirty, and s
small bullet composed of an alloy of an
timouy, covered with steel, 1ms been sub¬
stituted for the old lead bullet. The
result has been an increase in the veloci¬
ty of the and bullet, greatly Increased pene¬
tration range.
CHARLESTON'S POSTOFFtCE.
The supervising architect of the Treas¬
ury, Col. Preedit, will prepare the speci-
fltu’ions for tho new public building at
Charleston with (he view of constructing
it of u I'oiiibiuation of brick and iron.
He prefers that it should Ire of white
marble, but lie realizes that the appropri¬ order to
ation ig not sufficient, and in
carry out hU desire, Congress would havo
to increase the construction fund. It
may be necessary to enlarge the site by
purchasing some additional ground on of
Meeting street. There is a surplus foi
nearly $30,000 of the appropriation that with
the site, and Col. Froecht says
a little more ground, he would run the
building line a little back from the side¬
walk, which would materially improve
the appearance of the building.
NOTES.
The acting Secretary of tbe Treasury
has appointed tbe following storekeepers
and guagers in the fifth district of North
Carolina: Henry V. Hix, atWilkesboro;
James II. Gilbert aud George W. Adams,
Jr., at Mulberry.
Tho President granted convicted a pardon in South to
Richard Stewart,
Carolina of violating internal revenue
laws, and H. L. D. Evans, convicted in
Tennessee of passing counterfeit money,
and sentenced to three years’ imprison¬
ment.
Actinq Laud Commissioner Stockslager
has refused tbe application of parties to
make homestead entries of n portion of
the city of Tuscaloosa, Ala., to whirh The it
is claimed the city has no title.
acting commis-ioncr holds tlmt the land/
ar: 1 reserved for the town site and are not
subject to individual appropriation.
NlioCHI.vo afpair.
A reign of terror prevails on Cat Is¬
land, in Crittenden, county, Ark., some
25 miles below Memphis, oil the Missis¬
sippi river. An ullr/ty occurred between
the whites aud negroes, which resulted
in the killing of two negroes and the
wounding of several othere. The affray
grew out of the arrest of oomc negroes,
who, it is alleged, insulted »ome white
ladies. Their act had aroused the indig¬
nation of the whites, trad about a dozen
each, of both races, met at colored the prelimi¬
nary investigation before n mag¬
istrate, nml a* to who started the row
nothing could be learned, but in the
shooting that followed, both negroes un¬
der arrest were killed, and two or three
others of their friends were wounded.
The negroes (led, but after arming them¬
selves prepared to return to the scene of
conflict. They fired at Thomas and Ham-
lett who were in a skiff, and when last
seen they wore going in the direction of
where their companions lmd been killed.
The negroes on Cat Island outnumber
the whites ten to one,and serious troublo
is anticipated __
The Scorpion’s Terrible Bite.
The Florida Times says: There ar¬
rived in this city via New Orleans n car-
laod of South American bananas for
Messrs. Church, Anderson & Co. Hoon
after they arrived several colored men
went down to unload the car. One of
the men unlocked the door and pushed but
it back and thrust his bend inside,
just as lie did so lie gave a cry of pain
and quickly withdrew it, when it was
found he had been stung about the root
of his first finger of his left hand by a
scorpion, and an ngly looking thing it
was. It was about two inches in length,
with « long, hard sting on the end of
its tail, and the thickest part was about
an inch in circumference. The gcopion, sting
was broken off in killing the
which w*s afterwards taken to William's
drug store and placed in alcohol. For¬
tunately it struck tho man in a spot
where the skin was thick and hard, and
oould not embed its sting as deeply portion as
if it had been on a more tender
of the body, The man was taken to Dr.
William’s store, suffering the most in¬
tense pain, where tbe wound was drezfl¬
ed. His hand was also beginning he had to
swell badly, and at last accounts
experienced but little relief.
Nut a -Han of Experience.
An astronomer asserts that there are
never more than 4,000 stars visible to the
naked eye. He never attempted dark to pass and
through a doorway in the
banged his head against the edge of th«
open door .—Norwich Bulletin.