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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. ___ 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, ____ 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 – • 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*. Subscribe for . this , . paper. 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. mm 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 i 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. 8^ s\«* > is! w 4 iN I 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 * 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 € || A -A 9 % . is/j. ' ■ y , jC 1 S r * 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.