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SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS of interest from va
Bious POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A condensed account of what IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHEBN STATES.
Governor Lee, of Virginia, delivered
an address to ex-Confederate soldiers at
ClintoD, N. C., Thursday.
The First National bank of Rockwood,
Tenn., has been authorized to begin bus
jae” frith n capital o f £50.000.
The farmers’ convention in session in
St. Louis has appointed a committee farmers’ to
bring about a uuion of all the
organizations.
In the United States circuit court in
Columbia, S. C., Daniel H. Chamberlain
was made permanent receiver of the
South Carolina Railway company.
The North Carolina Steel and Iron
company has been organized at Salisbury,
with a capital stock of $1,000,000, to
build a Bessemer iron furnace of 150 tona
daily capacity.
The will of the late Mrs. Charles
Crocker, of San Francisco, was filed for
probate Tuesday. She bequeathed her
entire estate, valued at about $11,000,
000, to her four children.
The board of survey on the United
gtates steamer Brooklyn, now at Norfolk,
Va., has reported that she cannot be
repaired within the 20 per cent, limit,
and she will therefore be condemned and
appraised for sale.
A large hardware company from Con
necticut has finally signed contracts with
the Fort Payne, Ala., Coal and Iron
company, to remove their works to Fort
Payne at once. This company employs
5U0 skilled mechanics.
The suit of Dr. Nathan R. Goitei
against Robert Garrett for $25,000 foi
professional services, which has been
pending in the Baltimore court, was set
tied Thursday. Dr. Gorter offered to
compromise for $18, )00, and the prop
osition was accepted and the money paid,
A special from Florence, Ala., saysi
Fire broke out Thursday morning in
Peyton’s livery stable and burned the
building and twenty-one horses. Loss
§0,000. No insurance. The fire com
municated to an adjoining store, burning
:3own the store building and stock.
Loss $12,000.
The general assembly of Virginia con
veDed at Richmond, on Wednesday.
Both branches re-elected their old offi
cers. Governor Lee sent his message to
the legislature. It really is a re-affirma
tion of the provisions of the Riddleber
ger debt bill, and contains a mass of
figures on that inexhaustible topic.
The Central Elevator company, of
Chattanooga, Tenn., filed a bill of as
signment in the cliancei v court Tuesday.
Tneir schedule shows $169,298 liabili
ties, and about an equal amount of assets,
consisting of grain in elevator, real es
tate, etc. The failure is the largest that
has ever occurred there, and was precip
itated by the depreciation of grain in tbs
elevator, and by the inability of the
company to meet drafts on them.
At a large meeting of the New Eng
land capitalists at Denison, Texas, on
Thursday, nearly $200,000 "was sub
scribed to the stock of the Eenison Cot
the ton capital Manufacturing company to complete
of $5o0,000, which was re
quired to build and complete the mill,
The mill will have 25,000 spindles; will
employ dition 800 hands and will cause an ad
of at least 3,000 persons to the
population.
EMIN PASHA INJURED.
A dispatch from Zanzibar announces
that Emin Pusha has met probably a fa
tal accident. B ein g nearsighted he
talked out of a window by mistake, fell
on his head, fracturing his scull. He
»ow lies at Bagamoyo in a critical condi
tion. AH the doctors, except Stanley’s
physician, injuries declare that Emin Pasha’s
will prove fatal.
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Iiic animal report of the director of
the mint shows 1 hat the predu t on of
gold in the United State? during the
fiscal year 1888-9 was $33,175,000, not
far from the c nstant average. Our
balame of exported gold in the same
year in was tho $49,661,101; so that we have gold
now country $16,486,101 less
than in the previous year, and the stock
available for financial purposes is still
further diminished by the estimated
816,000,COO of gold consumed in the
a ''bi. The silver production of the year
^hich. $43,000,000, the commercial value, about of
^•1,000,000 on came 1 a is of value,
was t ike n for coina e, wlii’o
ala'an e of $12,034,403 was exported,
»’ts. $8,000,000 Our consumed in tlicio- tho
stock of s:l\er,
°W.. h is increased ue.irlv $13,00,),
So far as t’.c loitmge xal-
1ie k concerned, our mo'ie r supply is
. d
t 1 v mtly more than $15,000,000 smaller
an a y ( ar ag ). Yet the yea" has been
fiir more piouperou; than tlie o.:o ple
ading i c .
b ,«»" °i mer im, '" t ;,r ' a, (’
Sali^T V h ; 11 tur loft *’V( ml y. ars, tho proceeds °/ th
b N tlle ° 1,e y
native princes who died upward of
tey yea, f ago. The do eased lady,
a JB the breeman s Journal, w-a; an
sixty "oman, who wont to Lodia oorao
lunuiu years since as tho traveling indie., corn
:? of two W( ftlthy Engliah
un ng hot- stay in iSdia sho attraMod
blie fettled upon her by the Malia ajah.
childless anil le't no will.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE —ACCIDENTS,
URES, STRIKE!,
AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
A A “ encan zolvereign. opposed to the proposed
Ifc « officially denied that France has
unlo* 1 ^ 0 " 1 *^ 011 w *^draw from the Latin
F The 0,
PulIman Car works, at Pullman,
* lo ss C I £100,000 from fire
> ' Tuesday b'ght. .
A heavy northeast gale, accompanied
Uy a blinding snow storm, has prevailed
° U ake Ontario for two days.
ri 1 he total
amount of insurance involved
ln tIle Thanksgiving fire in Boston offi
ciully reported to date is $2,346,000.
^ r - Gladstone made a speech at Man
Chester, England, Tuesday, in which he
predicted success for the Liberals in the
next election,
The Turkish government has in
^ructed its delegates in the African
eonference to oppose any intervention in
ll- ade in Circassian women,
On Tuesday, in the menagerie attached
to Barnum’s circus, in London, the larg
es ^ e 'ephant belonging to the show be
came enraged and killed his keeper.
The general executive committee ol
the world’s fair at New York, held a
meeting which Thursday and adopted a bill
is to be presented to congress.
The benefit tendered to Mrs. Parnell
by Comedian W. J. Scanlan, took place
Thursday afternoon at the Star theatre,
New York. Eight hundred and seventy
seven dollars was realized.
The national wool growers’ meeting
organized Tuesday, electing Columbus
Delano, of Ohio, president; G. II. Wal
lace, president of Missouri Wool Grow
ers’ association, secretary,
Vienna is snowed up. Provisions are
from fifteen to twenty-five per cent,
dearer on account of impeded coinmuni
cations. Postal service is done on
sleighs. Robbers are active in the coun
try distrsets.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says:
Homer L. McGaw has made a statement
regarding his expulsion from the
Knights of Labor, in which he charges
Litchman and Powderly with crooked
ness.
The editor of the Waterford, Ireland,
New a has been sentenced to two months’
imprisonment for printing in his paper
opinions contrary to the views of the
government, which is called intimida
tion.
On account of an open switch an ex
press train on the Pennsylvania railroad
was wrecked near Greensburg, Pa.,
Wednesday. The express run into a
freight train. Both engines were wrecked
and a dozen passengers were injured,
Three dead bodies, two of them men,
floating on a life raft, the other with that of a
woman floating near the raft a life
preserver around her, were found near
Delaware Breakwater Tuesday. The
general opinion is that they came from
the Old Dominion steamship Manhattan,
Bunk in collision recently.
The Chicago Times says that Maggie
Schreiner, who poured kerosene and oil on
her husband on June 25, 1888, then
6et fire to it, burning him fatally, is
suing the order of Foresters for $2,000
interest and principle, on a death benefit
of $1,000. which she claims as beu
eficiary of the dead man’s estate,
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A Carious Life History.
There is a hard sandstone in Prov
ence, interspersed with fr ab e strata, in
which harrowing insec s cjns'ruct their
c ] ul mbe s. A kind of bee, the Antlio
phorus, makes nes s there and tills them
Uitli honev, on which it leaves its egg
to float; then, finally, Anthophores, plasters up its
chamber. Ins ead ot' eu
tirely different insects come out from
these nesls—Siteris, belonging to Lei a
group very remote from the 1 ees.
U s see how they manage to substitute
themsehes fo-the legitimate proprie or
Q f p ie ne8 -_ j n the autumn the female
0 f the Sitaris deposits her eggs in front
of the sealed galleries of the Anfliopho
rus The young are hatched from these
Great Britain, Sir Lowthian FeT
Bays, saves 4,000,000 tons of coal a yeir
by utilizing _ the gases which once is
made caped from in this furnaces. country As. or u <■■ i –
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much that made ,
within ten per cent, as as
in Great Bri.a n, the sivni 0
be 3,600,000 toes, oi t n P } . ‘'
anthracite output. Yetth-srsa i r _
trifle t» the saying winch
when the slag is used a. ■ » ■
waste products or cooking“
the .combust, on of coai canion so M
t-> utilize ttu“was.' coal to m.-kc , j I, t
west >ful way of usa g -
and st am.
Peruvian Girls.
Vv,f'!r'C”;.Tii?TC”\ S ’|,‘i 1 :’itl,t
- bo ei on the streets
sayiuL tlmir bonds in some of the
or or Their dark eyes are the
lurm Ul 6 jump oil
’““l’ ‘, “J f the river Img. Rimac ll
his l , .Jt „ The
x • deal of atton
] .anvia^ o l _ a , n
tion “‘ ' J ‘ Vj- tt..--? apl )oarancc. and
tiin dre*.
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SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
SCHLElT COUNTY.
Schley County is composed of terltory cut
from Sumter, Marion and Mai on counties.
It wa9 organized in 185G, and naini d f of
.r ©ne
the old Colonial Governors of Gt org a; Gov
ernor Schley.
Its location is Southwest-Central. Area ISO
square miles. General features, hilly, inter
spersed with level plateax. The soil is very
fertile all over the county, but varies in color,
some places being red clay, some dark brown,
very sticky In wet weather, some pebbly and
SO"m sandy, under-lr.id with clay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota
toes, pumldns, melons, rice, wheat, rye, bar
ly, peanuts and ehufas; peaches, pears .prunes,
pomegranates, plums, apples, apricots, quin
ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries,
raspberries, goose berries, beets, cabbage, cu
cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips and oth
er field, orchard and garden products, grow
here to perfection.
The fence coiners, 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 import
ed grasses do well here, especially Barmuda,
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 some of the
finest horses in the South are raised here, and
the rich golden butter and sweet country hams
that are daily brought to market by the far
mers of Schley, could not bo beaten anvwhere.
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 the county makes plenty of corn
and bacon for homo consumptions and many
of them make a surplus to sell. No particular
attention is given to poultry raising, yet the
people have all they want for home use and
one man with ahorse and wagon keeps bifsy
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 auy diseases, was never known
here.
The farming people of Schley are inteligcnt
cultivated and refined as any agricultural peo
ple in the world. The county is dotted with
school houses and churches, ar.d a 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.
CENTRAL-:- HOTEL,
Under New Management.
The Central Hotel, at Columbus Ga., ia
fast becoming a great resort for
the traveling 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.
GEORGEW. DAVIS
BARBER
Shop east side court honsc square. Hair cut
20 cents. Shave 10 cents. Shampoo 25 cents.Sat
isfaction guaranteed.
WILL 3J 1 ARRIS
BOO! AND SHOE-MAKER
Repairing done with neatness and dis
patch.
Prompt attention given to all orders.
Shop Southeast corner of public square.
Ellaville Ga.
GENTS W ANTED
TO SELL AN EN
TIRELY NEW BOOK
The most wonderful collection o. practica
real value ur.d every-day use lor the peopl; ev
er publihe^ on the plode. A marvel of money
saving and money earning for every one owing
it, Thousands of beautiful, helpful engravings
showing just liovv to do everything. No compe
tition; nothing like it in the universe. When
you select that which is of true value sales are
sure. All sincerely desiring paying employment
and looking for something thoroughly first-class
at an extriordinary low price, should wrrte for
description and terms on the most remarkable
achievement in book making since the world
began. SCAMMELL – CO., Box 3003,
ST. LOUIS or PBILADEPHIA.
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Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and ail Pat
ent business conducted for Moderate Fees.
Our Office is Opposite U. S.
and we can secure patent in lees time thau those
remote from Washington. drawing photo., with descrip
Send model, if patentable or not, free of
tion. We advise, till or is secured.
charge. Our fee not duo patent
A Pamphiet. “How to Obtain Patents,” with
names of actual clients in your State, county, or
town, sent free. Address,
C.A.SNOW–CO.
opp, Patent Office, Washhgton, D. C.
Reading lousiness |t’|ona*8 off
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It is a good rule to patronize those who solicit your patronage through your local paper. It
is reasonable to presume that they will deal more liberally with you than a business house
that does not consider your patronage worth soliciting.
H. F. EVERETT,
The Stove Man.
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mrnFosrsc; rcrrcvnTrK xtuottgta.
I am now offering to the people of Schley County the largest Stock of Stoves,,
Tin-ware, –c., ever brought to Columbus.
I am sole agent for the celebrated
IRON WITCH STOVE
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I sell the best Baker in the world; the I
Othello Stove,
160,000 now in use.
Agent for the Southern Cane Mills and Copper Evaporators.
H. F. Everett, 1111 Broad st. Columbus, Ga.
H.A, Gibson
LON MODE FURNITURE STORE. 1145 Broad Street COLUMBUS, GA.
Buys his
by the IS load
and mautactures his
Mattresses and Spring's
Right at home in Columbus; consequently he can and will sell the best quality
of goods on easier terms, to suit the buyer, or cheaper for cash than any Furnitur
House in the city
The people of Schley and adjoining counties are invited to calll at the three sto
ry building next to the Bee Hive and examine his stock and prices before purchase
SCHLEY COlim PEOPLE, ilttitioil!
When you visit Columbus, drop in to see me, just like every body else, its na
tural and easy. I sell the best grades of Flour, Tobacco, Fish, and all plantation
supplies 0
I sell the purest and mellowest grades of liquors in the world. Drop in, shake
and get acquainted.—Your bills will be filled at
Bottom Prices.
Ginners will find it largely to their interest, to see my cotton cleaner;
Takes all the dirt, sand, and nearly all the trash from the
cotton, after it is gi nned , adding from 1 to 2 cents ner
pound to the value of the cottton. Guaranteed to please
and pay.
ROLIN JEFFERSON
6jan. 1 90. 1041 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
S.A. CARTER. W. C. BHADLEY.
CAETEE .ScIBIR-A-IDHjIErXL
COIll' FACTORS AND WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Fontaine Warehouse, Columbus, Gerogia.
Mr. Chas. H. Allen, will again represent us on the streets as buyer, and will
sustain his old reputation for
llii’li c Prices and n cr=a
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A Specialty as we propose to aid the Farmers in their fight |against “Trusts
and Combines.”
Special attention given to the Storage and Sale] of cotton, and Liberal ad
vances made on all consignments.
A Share of your business solicited. Faithfully Yours,
Carter – Bradley.