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State. N&ws Paragraphs- There was a (rotting race at the grounds, in Augusta, on Monday, fair The Augusta grand jury heavily en dorses Judge Snead and his official career. M. Quad, the funnyman of the De troit Free Press, was in Augusta on Monday. Congressman H. H. Turner will assist in the prosec atioa of the negroes who killed Rountree. Judge Samuel Levy, of Augusta, has been elected to represent Wash ington Lodge at the session of the Grand Lodge, I. 0 0. F. in August next. It is said that fifty emigrants, mostly females, set out recently from Rome, Ga, for Utah. If there are in the State any more of these creatures, simi larly frail, they should be given free transportation to the laud of beastli ness. Two clever women of our acquain tance went fishing on last Thursday. One of them caught a roach and a ter rapin. The other caught two terra pins and a ro.ich. They blamed the moon with it, we suppose \ but the probability is they didn’t spit on their hooks.—Ishauu lite. Commencing on the first of May, the Central Railroad will run a fast train as far as station 41, on that roid for the accomodation of people who do business in that town and live ir» that section during the summer months. The train will nuke thirty miles per hour.—Savannah News. On Tuesday the corner stone of the colored blind academy was laid in Macon. The building is an offshoot of the Georgia Academy for the blind, of which Prof. W. I). Willi uns has long been principal, it is designed for the education and instruction in trades and professions of the coloied blind ol Geor gia and is being built with an appro priation from ihe Stale. Montezuma Weekly: Dooly county can boast of the youngest mathemati cian in the country. He lives near Eureka, is scarcely five years old, and can add, subtract, mul iply and divide with wonderful accuracy. The lit’le fellow does not know one letter of the alphabet from another, but seems to have a remarkable adaptability for num bers. We should have stated that he knows nothing of ti«ures but gives the correct answers to all mathematical questions with but little hesitation. Savannah News : The regular meet ing of the State Sunday School Con vention will be held in this city on the 24t,h and 25tb of May next. One hundred delegates will come here from Atlanta and nearly that number from Augusta, and the total number of dele gates will he about three hundred. Arrangements are now being made for the reception of the delegates, and Mr. R. B. Reppard, of this city, is the Vice- President. of the organization. On this occasion a mass meeting of all the Sun day School school children will be held in the Independent Presbyterian church, and will number, all told, over one thousand children. Dublin Post: ‘‘Johnson county is much agitated at present over the arrest by the United States post office officials, a day or two since, of Mr. 0. S. Fort ner and his sister, charged with open ing registered letters at Battleground post office, in that county. It is deep ly' deplored by the whole people, as the parties under arrest are prominent citizens and have hitherto borne the best of character. It is to be hopod that the charges will prove groundless, and that the parties will soon return to their home completely exculpated.— They were taken to Savannah for trial. r l"hey are the children of the late Hon. I Fortner. The young lady Gen^tl News Paragraphs- When the Pilgrims first landed they fell on their knees, after which they fell on the aborigines. At last Congressman Chalmers, of Mississippi, has been unseated, and Lynch the negro contestant, put in his place. Dr. Tanner played with a lion’s cub in a circus at Covington, Ky., to demonstrate his mesmeric coutrol of the beast. He lost his hand. Joseph Jefferson, tbe actor, has presented to his life-long friend, At torney General Brewster, a fine view of a southern landscape, painted by himself. The families of two men lynched for cattle stealing at Pueblo, Col., have sued the county for $50,000, on the ground that the men were not prop erly protected by the officers. The ex-Empress Eugenie, against whom a case w*s called at Marsailles, France, is mentioned in leg-d papers pertaining to the affair by her vari ous titles, but also as “widow of Mr. Chas. Louis Napoleou Bonapart.” The largest cow on record of Ne braska bovine history was slaughter ed recently in Lincoln. She was sev en feet high, weighed 2,450 pounds alive, and netted 1,400 pounds of beef. Her hide weighed 160pounds. Last Monday a mad dog came into Edgefield, and to the house of Mr. Lmhara, of Lao ham’s Springs. Miss Lena Lanham, sister of the proprie tor, who was visiting her brother's house, gathered up a pistol and shot him dead. Raleigh, N. C., May 1.—Returns from municipal elections held to-day in various cities and towns in the State show a victory for the regular Democratic ticket. The Democrats carry this city. The Independents received but a very small vote. Columiua, s. C., April 29.—An altercation occurred at Abbeville last night, in which Mr. H. Tillman Wardlaw, one of the editors of the Press and Banner, was dangerously shotbj E. Noble, Jr., Esq* The cause of the difficulty is not definitely known. The pistol ball entered the lower part of the left side of the ab domen, and the wound, although con sidered dangerous, is not necessarily fatal. A party of nearly forty young men, sons of gentlemen residing in all parts of England, left Bristol the other dav for New York, on their way to Min nesota, where they are to be placed as pupils with well known American farmers. They are under the charge of the Rev. G. Pridgham, Vicar of West Carptree, who has been in duced to promote this emigration by the success which has followed a similar placing out of several of his own relatives. Atchison, Kan., April 27.—Ou the 23d instant Adam Ballinger, liv ing near Clyde, killed a hog, of which the entire family ate, and during the night all were seized with vomiting and other symtoms of trichiffosis. A son aged twelve years died during the night, and the remainder of the fami ly are in a dying condition, except Mrs Ballinger, who may recover, the movement of the trichinse in the raw pork may be obserrved with the naked eye. A Remarkable Gun. In the late war between Chili and Peru a curious accident befell an eight-inch Armstrong gun on board the Chilian war-ship Angamo9. The last time it was fired the gun, which was on deck, slipped out of the trun.- n on ring, flew backward across the ship and leaped into the sea. This was the singular end cf a rather re markable history. The gun was sup plied to the Chilians before the war by Sir William Armstrong’s firm, and proved a formidable terror to Peru. The Angamos was previously an Irish pig-boat, and was acquired by Chili for the purpose of carrying this one gun, which, standing off at long ranges 10,000 yards or so,she could do with impunity. The Peru vians at length sent out their fleet of gun-boats to destroy their wapish an tagonist, when the other Chillian ships, with their short rangers, came into action, and drew off tbe gun-boats all but one, which was sent to engage the Angamos at close quarters. The Armstrong gun however, sent a shower of Shrapnell bulletts on her deck and the gun-boat retreated. As she was nearing port, a pot shot from the 8-inch gun, fired at long range and high elevation, managed to hit and sink her. The gun, therefore, did plenty of hard word and valuable service before it gave way and was lo4 in the sea. Fatal Shooting Affray. Swalnsboro Herald. A difficulty occurred at Johnson Sc Kimball’s turpentine still, in this county, on the 19th ult., between Ed. Conyers, Northern Pierce and John Shavers, which resulted iu the kil.ing of Pierce by Conyers. We learn that the difficulty occurred about a hog be longing to Conyers which had been severely bitten by some dog in the quarter, and he, (Conyers) Tias trying to find out which dog it was and who set him on. He slopped at Pierce’s shanty and inquired about it, and re ceived an insulting reply from Shavers, who was at the shanty with Pierce. He (Conyers) replied that he wanted no difficulty and wished to hurt the feelings of no one, but he intended to kill the next dog he caught biting his hog. He was ordered by Pierce to leave their yard, which he started to do, but was intercepted by Pierce and Shavers with their knives drawn, and saying as they advanced that they could whip him, and cursing him terribly. They got between him and the .path, thus cutting off his only means of es cape, and he, fearing that they inten ded to cut him, drew his pistol and shot Pierce in the shoulder, inflicting jP wound from which hi- died in two days. Ed. Conyers, the accused, is a small, slender built darkey, and appears to be a negro of honest principles. He has had no commitment trial yet. We hope the case may be thoroughly sifted and justice be done. THE TRUE CITI PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, AT WAYNESBORO, CA. SULLIYAH BRO THERS ■:oOo:- Independent in All Tilings, Neutral In Nothing. * -o:0:o- Not Pledged to Any Party, Faction, or Individual. -o:0:o- inew York, May 1.—Col. E. W. Cole, President of the East Ten nessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail way system, resigned to-day. He thinks the property ought to be handled from the central office at Knoxville, and does not wish to change his home from Nashville. His resignation was duly accepted at his earnest solicitations. He remains Director and holds his interest in the property. The best of feeleng exist between him and the other Directors. A JOURNAL FOR THE PE0PL Boh Ingersoll continues to destroy Talmage, and the latter retaliates by annihilating Bob. Mr. Edward Atkinson emphatically declares that the best investment he knows of is a firshclass cotton ginning establishment in the South. Devoted to the interests of the people of Burke county, theil struction, entertainment and advancement—a faithful and impai chronicler of all Burke county happenings—a fair recorder of all import ant events elsewhere occurring—a sturdy advocate of correct Jeffersonian principles of government by the people and for the people—a just, upright and honorable journal. In all these things the CITIZEN hopes not to] prove remiss in its duty—it is a public institution, and every subscriber and patron is a stockholder— the Publishers are merely their agents, and their duties and responsibilities are reciprocal—we think we can promise that the man agement will do its duty, and if the public will do theirs, it will prove »n immense power for good in the community. A Miss .Shealey, near Grangervillc was attacked by a vicious cow. with a young calf on Friday last. She was thrown down, trampled upon and hook- od by the maddened cow, and but for the prompt assistance of her brother, who came to the rescue, she would have met her death. The Swainsboro Herald says : Our jail is again encumbered with another supposed murderer of the colored per suasion. The victim was also colled We supposo there will be a coim’act for 10 or 12 feet of rope soon after our next Court convonos, for the purpose of a Torpsicorian dance on nothing.— What will the editor of the Defiance say to that. W3B18IS m One cVpy one year, Cash in advance, “ \ six months “ “ “ “ three months “ “ UST* Advertising rates liberal, to be obtained on application. Address, VAN, Business Manager, AYNESBORO,