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Sciy County Sews.
— PUBLISHED EV*RY WEEK AT—
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA.
A recent health report takes the
ground that consumption is not heredi
tary, but infectious.
King Leopold of Belgium seems to
have set liis heart upon the construclion
of a railroad in Congo, Africa
The Atlanta Constitution declares that
the greatest man this country has pro
duced had the advantage of starting
poor.
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x ranee, wnlch a' short time ago prid
ed itself on its efficient navy, now la
ments the fact that her naval armament
is antiquated and behind the times.
A company in England insu:es against
burglary. Over there in England there
are said to be no few-er than 28,729
known thieves over sixteen years of age.
A bill lias been introduced into tlie
British Bouse of Commons, restricting
the height of London buildings to (50
fe<t, or as much more as the width of
the street exceeds that figure.
The Turkish government, in order to
encourage manufacturers in that coun
try, has issued a proclamation, stating
that mac hinery and tools will be ad
mitted free during a period of fifteen
years.
Observes the Detroit Free Press: “The
Sepoys of India kicked up a great re
bellion about hog’s grease, but their
tastes have changed in the last five years
and they now eat American ham and
bacon with as much gu 3 to as an Euro
pean. w
The Supreme Court of North Caroli
na, at a recent session rendered an im
portant decision, to the eff ct that a
husband can mortgage his real e 3 tat 8
without the consent of his wife, unless
the identical piece of property has been
set aside as his homestead by apprais
ers.
A
In order to encourage the dairy in
dustry in Victoria, the Minister of Ag
riculture has decided to establish a dairy
college in one of the rural districts of
fEo colony. Already a traveling dairy
is at work at an expense of $25,000 a
year, but the instruction given in this
way is not sufficiency complete.
» There is a larger proportion of the
\>oys and girls of New Jersey fh.su of
any other S ( a‘e of the Union who go to
Sunday school, according to an estimate
In the New York Commercial Advertiser.
It appears by statistics recently taken
that there are just about 280,009 chil
dren in the 1,997 Sunday tchools of
New Jersey.
Home rule in India is a question that
looms up before the British Government
with even more of danger in it than any
other, declares the New York Voice.
The education of the past half century
has wakened many thoughts in the
young minds of Calcutta, Bombay, Ma
dras, and tho thoughts are taking shape
in formal demands.
Two suicides have been recorded late
ly in Berlin of promising young men,
the sons of rich parents, who were in
duced to commit tho fatal act from des
pair at having failed to pass their ex
amination. The mania for suicides
pervades all classos, both sexes and ail
ages. Numbers of boys at school, ser
vant maids, men who have been un
lucky in professional life, the moment a
critical time comes succumb to a sense
of despair.
Tho first law ever enacted to prevent
the mutilation of horses by docking their
tails has recently passed the Massachu
setts General Assembly. It makes the
punishment for the offense, in the dis
cretion of the court, a year’s imprison
ment and a $250 fine, and the lowe-t
penalty is $100 fine. Mr. George T.
^ngell, President of the Massachusetts
Bociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, has offered in behalf of thu.
Society a reward of $100 for evidence
8>y which conviction can bo secured of a
person, in Bos ten or vicinity, perform
ing such mutilation. What say our
tnglish and French friends who have a
|ondne.s for this practice? queries the
Rational Horse Breeder.
The coal syndicate of Pennsylvania,
•with headquarters at New York city,
has informed the f ublic that out of the
anthracite coal mined, not more than
forty per cent, is available for consump
tion.
The forestry division of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, reports an enor
mous consumption of timber throughout
the Union during the year, and esti
mates the value of the forests cut down
at $700,000,000; in other words, sum
marizes the Times-Democrat, the United
states drew upon its natural resources in
twelve months for $1,200,000,000.
The French are endeavoring to raise
the funds for a CoDgo (Africa) railway,
which wilt pass entirety "thro jgh French
territory, in oppos.tioa to the scheme
for a railway from Vivi to Stanley Pool
to the Iiiver Kwilu. Steps, it is said,
will be taken to render the Kwilu navi
gable, and so establish direct communi
cation between the Congo and the At
lantic.
Says the Norristown Herald: “The
heathen Chinee is no longer permitted
to come to this country, but the lower
classes of Hungarians are allowed to
land in America by thousands. While
Hungarians T T ■ were robbing , , . the . dead , . m .
Johnstown the Chinese pagans in New
York were raising a fund of several
hundred dollars for the benefit of the
flood sufferers.’'
The Boston Transcript has discovered
that people in the habit of leaving
newspapers and packages on the top of
street letter boxes cannot expect the aid
of the United States in punishing pur
loiners. Packages so left are not depos
ited in the mails within the meaning of
the law, and stealing them is no offense
against the United States statutes, It
is, of course, an offense against the laws
of the State wherein it is committed,
and tlio local police must be looked to
for the arrest of the purloiners.
The Boston Transcript says: “There
is one man in St. Louis who appreciates
the law’s delays. His name is Dier
berger, and in May, 1883, he deliber
ately shot and killed a man in a horse
car. On his first trial he was promptly
convicted of murder in the first degree.
The supreme court reversed the judg
ment. There was a new trial and he
was sentenced to twenty-fivo years’ im
prisonment. The sentence seemed too
severe to Dierbcrger. lie appealed, got
a new trial and was sentenced to ten
years in prison. But even this conces
sion did not satisfy him. One day re
cently the case was taken up on his
renewed appeal, and w r as compromised
on one year in jail and $1,000 fine. Let
others speak slightingly of the law’s
delays. Dierbcrger will always say
they saved his life.”
Thc Indian population of the United
Slates is increasing slowly. Not in
cluding Alaska, the Indian population
on reservations is 264,599, of which
21,300 are mixed bloods. It appears,
by the 1S87 Government statistics, that
for that year there were 4,794 births
and 8,888 deaths, leaving an increase of
only one-third of one per cent. Of
course this varies on different reserva
tions, as in New Mexico the increaso
was over two per cent. But it is ob
served that, with this oue exception,
where the Indian population is com
paratively large, as in the Indian Terri
tory, Dakota, Montana, Washington,
Arizona and California, there is little or
no increase. The education of Indian
children is going on; the number of
Indian schools in 1887 being 231, with
an average attendance of 10,245, at a
cost of $1,095,379 to the United States,
while in 1878 the number of schools
was 137, average attendance, 3,489,
and cost for their support, $195,883.
A curious illustration of the treasures
of the soil, often overlooked for a long
time, is the discovery of mineral wax in
Utah. It was discovered three years
ago on the line of tho Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad, covering an area oi
150 acres. Over 1000 tons a year are
secured. It looks like the wax that is
made by bees, and can be used for the
same purposes, it is mixed with paraf
fine in making candles, and is used i n
the 11 insulation i of electric i j • _• wires. », It
needs no refining for ordinary uses.
The discovery is a hint to our land
owners that their farms often contain
riches that aro overlooked. The Penn
sylvania farmers worked the oil fields
for generations without a dream of th«
wealth under foot.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
R10US POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Sr Bill ^ Westmoreland, Se „t“ o“rX « nojtro V : SderS’t desperado,
Ja n °
in .s pring. ■
Dr. J. B. Wottham, a prominent c.ti
zen of Winchester, Va., committed sui
cide Monday, by shooting himselt
through the head. No cause is assigned
for the deed.
At Augusta, Ga., Thursday night, a
negro was beaten and chas.d into the
canal and drowned. His pursuers, two
white men named Davis and Bennett,
are under ai rest.
Matthew Gibbs, supposed to be the
oldest man in the slate, died at his home,
Mr. near Center, N. C., Monday morning.
Gibbs was 108 year 9 old, and died of
sheer old age.
The dreaded cotton caterpillcr has ap
peared at Hawkinsville, Ga. A prom
ineut planter of Pulaski county reported
his on Wednesday that he had seen them in
cotton.
Revenue officers brought to Charlotte,
-\t N. C., n on if Wednesday, j i thirty-six . i • , • i barrels, .
containing two thousand and three hun
dred gallons of corn whiskey, which had
been seized on the premises of Jacob
Jenkins, in Gaston county. N. C. This
is the biggest haul made by officers in
many months.
A special from Lexington, Ky., says
tIie Arlington hotel at Blue Lick Springs,
was burned Monday morning. A hun
dred guests were at the hotel, all of
whom escaped. Loss, $315,000; insurance
$17,000. Senator Blackburn and ex
Chief Justice Hargie and family, were
among the guests.
The first bale of cotton of the season
was received in Augusta, Ga., on Thurs
day, from Danielsou – Palmer, of Millen.
The cotton was grown by J. 1>. Parker,
of Screven county, who holds up the
recoid for that section with as much
success as Primus Jones does that ot
southwestern Georgia.
The heirs of brothers William F. and
George W. Norton, deceased millionaires
of Louisville, Ky., have decided to give
$0,000 to the building fund of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
moved there from South Carolina a few
years ago. Both brothers made princely
gifts to the seminary during their life
time.
ItozzeU’s family, of Charleston, N. C.,
consisting Monday of a wife and three children,
relatives on Union evening were going to see
in county in a carriage,
and when driving along a precipice, the
carriage capsized, throwing Mrs. Itozzell
and the three children out. All the
children are badly injured, and it is
thought Mrs. Rozzell cannot recover.
Extensive preparations are being made
at Knoxville, Tenn., to celebrate the
103d anniversary of Davy Crockett’s
birthday on the farm where he wa3 born
near Limestone. Among the guests will
be R. P. Crockett, of Granberry, Texas,
the only living son of the frontiersman,
and the only living grandson of Colonel
R. H. Crocliett, of New Gaseny, Ark.
A special from Live Oak to the Times
first bale of new crop upland cotton was
delivered here Tuesday by the Florida
Central and Peninsular railroad, for
shipment to Savannah over the Savan
nah > Florida and Western railroad. It
was from W. R. Wilson, of Tallahassee,
and was consigned to Perkins – Sons,
Savannah, Ga.
At Carbon Hill, Walker county, Ala.,
on Wednesday, Superintendent C. P.
Seymer, of the Kansas City Coal and
Coke Company mines, was shot from
ambush while riding horseback. Some
time since he brought several officers up
to stop the moonshiners from selling
mountain dew to the miners. It is sup
posed the moonshiners shot him.
A band of cattle thieves is getting in
work in the section of Florida contig
uous to the Apalachicola River. The
band has been depredating upon the
herds of cattle for some time, and many
farmers have been their victims. The
community is thoroughly aroused, audit
would not be safe for the farmers to get
in sight of the gang which is said to be
composed of two white men and two
negroes.
A dastardly attempt was made at Lex
ington, Ky., Tuesday, to assassinate
D. L. Baxter, a well known newspaper
correspondent, deadly by the explosion of a
machine which was left at the
Leader office directed to that gentleman.
There was sufficient dynamite in the
parcel to have blown up any building in
the city, and it only failed to accomplish
its deadly purpose because the percussion
matches failed to ignite.
On July 26, a fire broke out in one of
the shafts at the Pratt coal mines of Al
abama, and a miner and sixteen mules
were caught in the mine below the fire.
The fire was extinguished the latter part
b ls t week, and the miner was soon
f °™ d ^. The mules were much
f farther back in the mine, and were not
rcac hed until Tuesday, when fifteen of
them were found alive. They were in a
terrible condition, and too weak to stand
oil tucir iut,
On Monday night, at Birmingham,
Ala., Dr. L. Lichstein, recently of New
York, experimented on himself and a
patient named L. D. May, with the
Brown-Sequard writhing Elixir. Both are now
in mortal agony, the pain hav
increased ing begun several hours afterw-ard and
ever since. Nervousness, a
chilly feeling and symptoms of blood
poisoning make their condition danger
ous. The lamb had been dead one hour
and forty minutes before the injection
was made.
IS IT TRUE?
THREE NEGROES SAID TO HAVE ENTERED
A FIERY FURNACE.
\ *£ £ 'Tmost leLrkJS enzo
seized the negroes near Bessemer and
. intermediate country. For time
: some
1 past an old negro named Tobias Jack 3 on
| ■ j, ag been proclaiming himself as Daniel,
the pi0 het and doing all kinds of sin
, j wdd and queer things. Saturday
, ! j agt ke p er3Ua: ] e d three young negro men
' that they were representatives Abednego, of Shad- three
1 rack, Mcshack and
children of faith, who entered the fiery
f urn a C e of Nebuchadnezzar of old. He
j claimed naeited and that the into furnace all kiuds where of iron forms is
, cast
. was the furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, and
j that they could enter it and passthrough
, without the smell of fire. Three ne
j j groes, dren calling of Israel, themselves under the three the chil- iu
j fluence of their new prophet,
deliberately entered the gate ot the
cupalo of the furnace and lushed head
l° n g lllt0 the white heat of the melting
iron. When they failed to come out,
Jackson, the prophet, proclaimed that
he saw them rising furnace, in the air with the
| gmoke of the attended by angels
d . d hat th J wou i d revisit the
earth next Sunday.
VALUABLE ORES.
FINE SPECIMENS OF GOLD AND IRON ORES
FOUND IN HARRIS COUNTY, GA.
Mr. A. W. Fuller, of Shiloh, Harris
county, Ga., exhibited, on Tuesday,
some specimens of gold and iron ore,
which experts say contains 05 per cent
of iron, the quality of which is said to
be 20 per cent, better than any that
bas yet been found near Birming
ham, Ala. This piece of ore was takeu
from a place owned by Mr. M. Carlisle, 1
located about three miles from Shiloh,
Ore containing gold was found on the
Grant place, only a half mile from Shi
Rffi. A good deal of excitement pre
vails among the mountains of Harris,ow
ing to recent discoveries of valuable ore,
and the report that experts have offered
$200,000 for the Warm Springs property,
owing to the discovery of minerals there
on, has but added to the excitement. It
has long been thought that the moun
tains of Harris were full of valuable ores,
and it is likely that the late discoveries
will result in a thorough investigation ot
the matter.
VERY /ESTHETIC.
A MAN WHO HAD TOO STRONG A PENCHANT
FOR CURIOSITIES-.
William Jones, for twenty years a
trusted employee of E. H. Butler – Co.,
educational publishers of Philadelphia,
has in disappeared. He is said to be short
his accounts with the firm to the ex
tent of $40,000. Jones is a batchelor,
and lived alone in an old fashioned resi
dence in Germantown. He is said to
have had a passion for collecting rare
books, engravings, and antiques of all
sorts. His house was filled from cellar
to garret with valuable effects. Every
nook and corner was stuffed with antique
furniture. The walls were heavy with
rare shelves plates from masters’ works. The
of his book cases were weighted
with rare and uncut volumes of standard
authors. Connoisseurs have already pro
nouced his effects one of the most valua
ble private collections in the city. All
of the collection has, it is said, been
turned over to his late employers in par
tial restitution of the shortage.
EMPEROR WILLIAM
WELCOMES HIS FRIEND AND ALLY, EM
PEROR FRANCIS J08F.PH, OF AUSTRIA.
At a banquet given in Berlin, Germa
ny, liam, on Tuesday evening, Emperor Wil
in a toast, warmly welcomed tbe
Austrian emperor, and said: “You have
learned from the joyful reception given
you, of the warm and lively friendship
that has existed between our people for
century. Before all is (
a our army, a
portion of which you have seen, p r oud
of appearing before your keen, soldierly
eye. My people, like the army, will
hold firmly and faithfully to the alliance
which we have concluded. The army
knows that for the maintainance of
peace, it will have to join the gallant
army of Austria, and if providence so de
crees, they will fight together, shoulder
to shoulder.” Emperor Francis Joseph
returned thanks for the brilliant recep
tion accorded him.
THEY ORGANIZE.
THE FEAR GROWERS SEEKING MEANS TO
PROTECT THEIR INDUSTRY.
The pear growers and shippers ol
Cairo, Ga., have organized an association,
and will petition the other localities oi
the pear belt to do likewise, and then
meet at some central point and organize
a general association, the purn ose oi
which will be to devise ways and means
to protect their industry.
DREADED CATERPILLARS.
Considerable anxiety has been caused
recently on the sea islands, and, in fact,
in the entire lower portion of South Car
olina, by the appearance of the pestifer
ous caterpillar, the bete noir of the
cotton tacked planters, which, it is said, has at
the cotton with such a force that
the crop is already damaged a great deal.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIO
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FBOSI EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Forest flies are raging in Oregon ana
Washington. j
Bodies are still being found in ths
debris at Johnstown, Pa.
Another bog of mail has mysteriously
dlsa PPeured from the Nashville,
P°stolhce.
The Montana convention, by a
party vote, passed a proposition
which all county officers will have to
re-elected.
Mr. King Humbert, of Italy, has appointed
Thomas A. Edison the great inven
Crown tor, grand officer of the Order of the
of Italy,
The mayor of Cincinnati has notified
theatrical and baseball managers that
Sunday performances and baseball games
will not hereafter be permitted.
A terrific cloudburst occurred at Pat
erson, N. J., Wednesday morning. Cel
lars were flooded and choked so that the
height water spurted out of manholes to the
of ten feet.
The United States ordnance building
at Sandy Hook was struck by lightning
Thursday morning and burned to the
ground. All the fine instruments in the
building were destroyed.
In the constitutional convention held
in Helena, Mont., it was decided that
Helena should remain the capitol until
1892, when the question shall be voted
on. Woman suffrage was defeated by a
tie vote.
Marlin Burke, the Cronin suspect, was
identified on Monday by Mr. and Mrs.
Carlson, owners of the cottage in which
Dr. Cronin was murdered, is the man
who rented it from them, giving the
name “Frank Williams.”
At the Keokuk, Iowa, races Thursday,
Satellite trotted six miles in sixteen min
utes, fifty-three and three-quar
ter seconds, breaking all records. The
last mile was made in two minutes and
forty-three and a quarter seconds.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, declined
to issue a warrant for the extradition of
Richard Carroll, general superintendent
of the Queen and Crescent, wanted by
Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, as an
aider in the Sullivan-Kilraiu prize fight.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is charged withembez
zlemeut in his office, shows that the
shortage amounts to $0,000, and may
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap
prehended.
While all advices indicate that there
has been no rioting in the Connellsville,
Pa., coke regions since Saturday, matters
are considered to be in a precarious con
dition, and an outbreak of the Hunga
rians at any time will not surprise the
operators.
The storm which passed over the Mis
souri disastrous Valley Monday night wa9 the mo9t
known to that section. Over
twenty lightning, persons, it is said, were killed by
and the damage in animals
killed, ruined crops and washouts will
run over half a million dollars.
At New York, Monday, the grand jury
presented to the court of general sessions,
two indictments against Eben S. Allen,
as president of the Forty-second Street
and Grand Street Ferry Railroad Com
pany, charging him with forgeries. The
spurious stock issued is a trifle over
1,000 shares.
At Pittsburg, Pa., the announcement
was made Thursday, of an advance in
Bessemer pig iron from $15.50 and $16
per ton to $16.50 and $17 per toD. The
advance was made in view of the pros
pective advance in coke freight rates.
The trade is looking up, and is more en
couraging than for months.
The Cuidon building, at the corner of
Clinton and Van Buren streets, Chicago,
III., which was gutted by fire some weeks
ago, ing collapsed Thursday morning, bury
a number of workmen in the ruins.
The work of removing the debris was at
once begun, and until it is complete the
exact number of casualties will not be
known.
The general passenger agents of the
leading railroads of the United States, in
session at Cape May, N. J., on Wednes
day, considered the question of reducing
Summer excursion rates from Southern
cities to Eastern and Northern resorts,
and the equalization of fares from New
York to Southern territory, as asked for
by the Southern passenger association.
It was decided to reduce rates for socie
ties and conventions.
A dispatch from Truckee, Col., says:
A disastrous fire occurred here Tuesday
afternoon, burning all east of Bridge
street and north of the railroad to the
round house. The American Hotel,
Irvin’s stable, the Methodist and Catho
lic churches, two school houses, Eileu i
lumber yard, Good Templars’ hall
thirty dwellings w r ere burned. Many
families are homeless. Loss $95,000.
Dispatches from Kansas City,
say: All through trains on the Burling
ton – Missouri, in Nebraska, have b efD
abandoned. No (rains have reached the
when city over that road since last Tuesday; Until
the great storm occurred.
Thursday, trains have been sent out
from there regularly over that road, b ut:
they could not get beyond the washouts. reported
In some places, the tracks are
to be under water from two to eight
feet.
expended So far this in building year over operations $41,000,000haveihe® in New
and $30,000,000 in Philadelphia, which is *
great increase over last year.