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Editorof The Baptist, o Memphis, ofyour Tenn.,says: Liver Medicine, I received and have a pack- m half age of used it. It works like a charm. I want Z no belter Liver Regulator, and certainly no more of Zeilin’s mixture. c I C. F. Simmons Medicine Co., Propr’s, jjSfeV St. Louis, Mo. 2 | ESTABLISHED 184-0." m COUNTY NEWS. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, A AD EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE3, 1 IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. The Italian government has refused to iec,ive Mashan Effeudi, w T hom the portj wishes to appoint us Turkish am bassador to i aly. The bodies of thirty-seven of the men killed in the explosion in Bentelee col liery, at Longton. England, on Wednes day, have been recuveted. Up to the recess Tuesday night G27 jurors had been excused in the Cronin case at Chicago, four accepted and sworn in and four temporarily passed. The trial of Father McFadden, charged with having participated in the murder of Inspector Martin at Gwedore, in Feb ruary last, began Thursday. By t ie capsizing of the schooner Laura in East Iiiver, New' York, on Tuesday, William James Hughes and Alexander Christie were drowned, and Captain Eugene McLean and James Law ler si veely injured. A dispath from Sofia to the Cologne Gazette , says that the Austrian Lander Bank, jointly with the German banks, has loaned the Bulgarian government 25,000,000 frmes, of which 10,000,000 is to be paid immediately and the remain der in two installments. Theie is a great rush of speculators and boomers to Pierre, the new capital of South Dakota. On Friday a large number of spe ulators from Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, and as far west as the Pacific coast reached the embryo city to invest and to help make things hum. The finance committee of the World’s Fair, at New York, on Thursday re solved to take, without further delay, the necessary steps to obtain subscrip tions to guarantee $5,000,000, and a sub committee w'us appointed to prapare the necessary subscription books for that jurpose. The threatened strike of the bakers be came general at Newark, N. J., on Wednesday. Five hundred men are now out on strike, and a boycott has been or dered against the boss bakers. Pickets are keeping New Y T ork men from going to work and persuading them to go home. The announcement that the steamers lad advanced their freight L.tes caused considerable stir on the floor of the pro duce exchange, at New York, on Wednesday. Freight on grain has ad vanced to 5£ pence per bushel. This is the highest figure reached for this sea son’s crop. United States government officers have seized llie distillery ol Freiburg – Work urn, of Lynchburg, Ohio, upon the charge of defrauding the Uuited States by equalizing shortages from shrinkage in packages before the guager measures the contents. The whisky seized amounts to more than a million gallons. A dispatch from Kansas City, says: II. D. Gregg, for many years private secretary of General Stieridan when the general had his headquarters in Chicago, III. , and for some time department clerk at Washington, and later a newspaper man at Omaha, Neb., w r as sentenced to the penitentiary Tuesday for horse steul ing. , Dr. Talmige, of Brooklyn, N. Y., whose celebrated tabernacle was de stroyed by fire, one week ago, announced on Sunday that the trustees of his church had purchased property 150x200 feet, on the corner of Clinton and Greene avenues, for the erection of a new taber nacle. The ground will be broken on the 28th inst. The Pope, in an address to some French pilgrims, at Rome, on Sunday, advised the formation of an association which shall be devoted to securing the material welfare of the workmen by procuring increased facilities for labor, calculating principles of economy and defending the rights and legitimate claims of workmen. The senior class of Harvard college, at Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected o colored man, Clement Morgan, as class irutor. The election was hotly contested nut Morgan received a substantial major ity, about 270 men voting. Last year as i c> mpetitor for the B >ylston prizes hq carried his audience by storm and won the first prize. The firm of Lissfierger, Solomon – Brown, wholesale dry goods and cotton factors, of Waco, Texas, state that the} are temporarily embarrassed, and on Tuesday made a sale of their stocks of goods und store to II B. Clafhn – Co., of New York, their principal creditors. Liabilities are placed at about $950,000, with assets estimated at $1,200,000. Exports of specie from the port ot New York for week ending Saturday, Oct. 19th, amounted to $487,855, ol which $02,830 was in gold and $455,025 in silver. Of the total exports, $17,000 in gold anti $454,050 in silver went to Europe and $15,830 in gold and $875 in silver to South America. Imports of spec ie for the week was $34,234, of which $20,299 was in gold and $7,905 in silver. A strike of moulders at Pittsburg, Pa., was inaugurated Monday. Two weeks ago they made a demand for an advance ot ten per cent in their wages, but up to a late hour Saturday night, none of the manufacturers had conceded the in crease, and at a meeting it was decided to about strike on Monday morning. There are 1,000 moulders in the city. Empress daughters Frederick, accompanied by her Princess Charlotte, Prin cess Victoria. Princess Sophia and Piiu Sax-Meinengen, cess Margarette und Prince Bernhard, of husband of Princess Charlotte, left Berlin, Germany, on Sat urday, for Venice, on their way to Ath ens, where Princess Sophia is to be mar lied on the 27th inst. to the crown prince of Greece. The coffin containing the remains of Ralph Waldo Emerson,at Concord,Mass., whose grave was disturbed last week,and whose skull -was erroneously reported to have been carried away, has been placed in a securely bound box, which has in turn been deposited in a grave composed of blocks of granite cemented together and securely fastened with a granite cov ering. The generally accepted theory is that the vandalism was committed to create a sensation. About three weeks ago Dr. E. T. Schneider, of Pelee Island, was taken ill with a disease which proved to be small pox. Wednesday word came from Pelee that there were nearly one hundred cases of the disease on the island. The Can adian government has established a quarantine against the island The state board of health at Columbus, Ohio, has issued an order closing all ports along the shores of Lake Erie against Pelee Island. At one o’clock Thursday, the grand jury of Chicago came into court and banded up twelve indictments, eleven of which w r ere for every day crimes. The twelfth was a joint bill against Mark Sal omen, John Graham,Thomas Kavanaugh, Fred Smith, Jeremiah O’Donnell, Alex ander L. Hanks and Joseph Keen. All of these men were already under indict ment for conspiracy tobr;de the jurymen in the Cronin case. A terrible wreck occurred on the Bur lington and Missouri road,at Gibson,a few miles from Omaha, Nebraska, Wednes day. About fifty passengers were in jured. Tw r o engines were completely de nolished, and a chair c r md combin ation car were th own from the ira’ks end reduced to atoms. The combination coach and chair car w r ere both crowded with i a te igers, all of whom were more or less injured. Many of the passengers were badly burned in addition to their other THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. LEADING IRISHMEN WILL MAKE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE TI1E ORDER. It is announced on the authority of a prominent member of the Irish National league, who is a resident of St. Louis, Mo., that there is a move ment on foot within the league to in crease its numerical strength, and place it on a firmer basis than it has ever been. In the past year the affairs in Chicago have done much to create a wrong im pression of the league, and it has been affected to a considerable extent. It is denied explicitly that thb league has in any way been mixed up with the Clan na-Gael or Cronin murder. Rev. Father O’Reilly and Colonel John Atkinson, of Detroit, have gone to England for the purpose of consulting Mr. Parnell and his friends on this subject, and Charles O’Brien, who has just returned from a conference at Detroit with Father O’Reilly, left for Lincoln, Nebraska, to consult with John Fizgerald, president of the league, and make arrangements lor a thorough organization in the whole country. VANDERBILT’S PARK, 4,000 ACRES IN THE SUBURBS OF a. IK A r ILLE, N. C., BOUGHT FOR A PARK. The purchase of 4,000 acres of land, by G. W. Vanderbilt, the millionaire, in the suburbs of Asheville, N. C., is a matter of current notoriety, Mr. Van derbilt is now 7 at Asheville, and brought with him from New York city one of the best-known architects of Gotham, and a landscape gardener from Europe. It is now certain that he well make his large boundary into a park, not unlike Tuxedo park in New York. The work of laying off these 4,000 acres com-! menced Friday, making drives, artificial lakes, fountains and other natural orna ments suited to the location. This prop srty will be made by fur the most mag nificent ami attractive of its kind to be found in the south. It will giadually be made a seclusive resort 1'or northern millionaires, each of whom will own his cottage for summer use. A HARD WINTER, PREDICTIONS OF A LONG AND HARD WINTER BY A VETERAN. N. K. Masten, formerly cashier of the Nevada bank, of San Francisco, Cal., and a lesident of the coast for sixty years, predicts the longest and coldest winter the Pacific coast his ever expe rienced. He said: “I have just come from California, and it is already be ginning to get cold. Low ranges of mountains—in fact, parts of the foothills that have never been known to heve snow on them even in the dead of win ter—are already covered with a white mantle, and have been for several weeks. There is one, to me, significant fact, and that is that the fall geese flight is almost over now, and not in one year for the last tifiy has this flight begun until October 15.” TOO PUBLIC-SPIRITED. Emmet V. Rhoades, cashier of the First National bank of St. Paris, Ohio, pleaded guilty in the United States court, to misappropriation of the hank’s funds, on Thursday. It was shown that there was no ultimate intention of de frauding the bank, and the money was used in a public-spirited effert to advance the interests of his coramunily. The minimum sentence, five years in the pen itentiary was made. SODTIIEM NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOXX3 ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Florida has received twenty awards and four gold medals on its exhibit at the Paris exposition. Edward A. Perry,ex governor of Flor ida, died at Kerrville, Texas, on Tues day, from paralysis, after an illness of about a week. Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, one of Geor gia’s wealthiest and most respected citi zens, died at his residence m Athens, Ga., on Sunday, at the age of seventy one years. At a special meeting of the board of directors of the New Orleans board of t adc, limited, held on Friday, the fol lowing was unanimously adopted: the ‘‘Resolved, That this board favors city o^Chicago as the site for the World’s fair of 1892.” A special from Ja k on, Tenn., s;yys: Two Deputy United Mates Marshals ar rived here Saturday morning having in custody Bill Matton, the oldest moon shiner in southern Kentucky. West Tennessee officers have been searching for him for the past twenty five years. A dispatch, on Saturday, from Nash ville, Tenn., says. Congressman Whitt horn, of the seventh Tennessee district and at one time chairman of the commit tee on naval affairs in the house of rep resentatives, is lying at the point of death at his home in Columbia. Governor Seay of A’t.bama, while in New York on Tuesday, placed through Uhlfelder Bros., of Montgomery, tne new issue of $954,000 state bonds, bear ing 4 per cent., at one and one-tenth premium. The bonds were taken by the New York Security and Trust company, of which the late secretary of the treas ury, Fairchild, is president. The bonds run thiity years. The Birmingham Age-Herald states that agents of the Corona coal mines and the Virginia and Alabama mines at Patton have just closed a contract w'ith an ex p rt agent for 00,000 tons of coal, which is to be shipped to Cuba. The coal will be shipped by rail to Mobile, and thence it will be sent in tugs and barges to Cuba. A horrible -outrage, committed upon has just a negro woman by another S. C. come to light at Charleston, A negro woman named Re becca Perkins, on her way from church Saturday night, was horribly burned by a rival with a can of vitriol, or concen trated lye, which was thrown in her face. The victim’s eyes were burned out, and her face horribly scarred. A fatal and disastrous fire occurred at Dawson, Ga., on Friday, in which two young sons of Judge J. H. Guerry, and a colored boy were killed by falling walls. A warehouse containing 175 bales of cot ton and a whole block of business houses with their contents were wholly de stroyed. The estimated total loss is about $40,090. The fire is believed to be the work of an incendiary. A dispatch from Birmingham on Wednesday says: The Richmond Ter minal, Georgia Central, East Tennessee, Louisville and Nashville, Southern Pa cific and other south and southwestern railroads, and the Plant system of rail roads and steamships, have united in a movement to make Tampa, Fla., the shipping point for all freight handled on these lines. At Hallett, N. C., on Sunday, a .. mad Jog sprang upon the 11 year-old son of T. C. Johnson, and fixed its teeth in the child’s arm. llis father and mother ran to his aid and made desperate at tempts to tear the dog away, but we^e unsuccessful. Not until the dog’s throat hold was entirely severed would he relax his upon the prostrate and fainting boy. The muscles of the arm were torn to pieces. I he office of the Southern Express about company, atMiilsport, Ala., a small town ninety miles west of Birmingham, on the Georgia Pacific railroad, was robbed Monday. The jobbery was kept secret by the officials of the company until Thursday, when a man named Abercrombie was arresled in Lamar county, prisoner charged with the robbery. The is believed lo he a member of the Rube Burrows band of outlaws and train robbers. Danville, Va.,on Tuesday,voted $150, 000 towards the western extension of the Atlantic and Danville railroad, from Danville to the coal fields of southwest \ iiginia. The city has already voted a like amount to the eastern end of the une, Danville to Norfolk, and that end of the road, two hundred miles long,will soon be opened for business. Bristol, Tenn., the probable western terminus of the line, telegraphed greetings and iis sured Danville that Bristol will also sub scribe $150,000 to the road. FARMERS IN DISTRESS. A THREATENED FAMINE IN NORTH DAKO TA—APPEALS FOR AID. A special dispatch from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, says: There is great dan ger that the famine among the farmers of North Dakota last year will repeat it self this year. Intelligence just received from Minor county discloses the fact that a large number of farmers in that section arc in destitute circumstances. Owing to the drougth their crops were a total failure this season. A relief committee has been appointed to solicit aid aud many towns throughout the state are respond ing liberally to the call for assistance. SCHLEY COUNTY. Schley County is composed of t«ri;o y cut off from Sumter, Marion and Ma °* It was organized counties. in I 8 CC, and nann – f r one the old Colonial of Governors of (; ir S i; Gov. ornor Schley. Its location is Southwest-Centra!. Area iso square miles. General features, hilly, j nter sporsed with level plateax. The soil is fertile all the very over county, but varies in color, some places being red clay, some dark brown, very sticky in wet weather, some pebbly and some sandy, under-laid with clay subsoil. Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota toes, pu m kins, melons, rice, wheat, rye, bar. ly, peanuts and chufas; peaches, pears,prunes pomegranates, plums, apples, apricots, quin, ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries raspberries, goose berries, beets, cabbage, eu cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips and oth er field, orchard and garden products, grow here to perfection. The fence corners, waste places in old field and forest, abound in all kinds of wild fruit, such as blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries whortleberries. May haws, black haws,plums, cherries, crab apples,persimmons, fox grapes, Winter grapes, muscadines, chinquepins, hickory nuts and chestnuts. Besides the native crab, crowfoot and other grasses, many of the best varieties of lmport ed grasses do well here, especially Bavmuaa, herds, blue and orchard grass. The no fence law prevails in the county, yet stock raising is rapidly becoming one of the leading industries of the county gome of the finest horses in the South are raised here, and the rich golden butter and sweet country hams that arc daily brought to market by the far mers of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere. Cotton is the money crop of the county, but happily the day has past and forevevr gone when the people of Schley depended on other sections for their meat and bread. Nearly ev ery farmer in tin* county makes plenty of corn and bacon for home consumptions and many of them make a surplus to sell. No particular attention is given to poultry raising, yet the people have all the 7 want for home use and one man with a horse and wagon keeps busy the year round hauling chickens and eggs from Schley county to Americus. The health of the county is excellent, the av erage elevation being near two thousand feet above sea level and drainage is generally good an epidemic of any diseases, was never known here. The farming people of Schley are inteligent cultivated and refined as any agricultural i>eo pie in the world. The county is dotted with school houses and churches, and u half grown person who cannot read and write is seldom, if ever met with, and of the negro race most of them since freedom can read and write. CENTRA L HOT El. Under New Management. The Central Hotel, at Columbus Ga., is fast becoming a great resort for thetraveling public. This hotel has been thoroughly renovated inside and out and put in first-class order, and the fare, as well as the accommodations, is all that could be desired. This hotel is centrally located, large rooms, well ventilated and fur nished in modern style. Polite and attentive servants. The table supplied with all the del icacies of the season, making it a most popu lar resort for drummers and the traveling public generally. GEORGE W. DAVIS BARBER Shop east side court honsc square. Hair cut 20 cents. Shave 10cents. Shampoo 35 cents.Sat isfaction guaranteed. WILL FARRIS T n Y I t 1 J i'll j Repairing done with neatness and dis patch. Prompt attention given to all orders. Shop Southeast corner of public square. Ellaville Ga. A GEN TS W ANTED TO SELL AN EN TIRELY NEW BOOK The most wondorfu! collection o2 practice real value uni every-day use lor the poopl ev er publi he:, on the glode. 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