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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. — _ 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.