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M. Robt. J. Pendry, of Jefferson
county, died on the 21st ult.
Mrs. R. H. Bohler died, in Swains-
boro, on the 3d mat., of consumption.
The residence of Mrs. Twiggs, of
Augusta, was robbed of $1000 worth
of jewelry the other night.
The Darien Timber Gazette favors
Robert Falligamt, of Savannah, for
Congress from the first District.
Buzzards attack live sheep, pigs and
goats in the fields near their roost at
Cedar Shoals, in Newton county.
On the 12th of May, the birthday of
Mr. George I- Seney, of New York,
Ihp faculty and students of Wesleyan
Female College, at Macon, will hold a
celebration meeting.
Swainsboro Herald : An abundant
wool crop is predicted for Emanuel.
Wtn. Canady says the yield per head
is greater than for some years previous.
This is good news for the owners,
Conyers Weekly : Forty years ago
Mr. D. M. Parker distributed the first
mail in this post office. He is to-day
attend mg to the distribution of the
mails. He has served our people long
and well.
Texas has established a railroad
commission.
The President has signed the modi
fied Chinese bill.
Snow fell all day last Saturday at
Williamsburg, Penn.
The census giveu us 6,000,000 miles
of fence in the United Stetes , which
has cost over $2,000,000,000.
A bill has been reported to tbe
House of Representatives, appropri
ating 8300,000 to extend the Execu
tive Mansion.
A New Orleans Judge sentenced a
juror to 24 hours in the parish pris
on, the other day, for contempt of
court in appearing without a neck-tie.
The Courier-Journal doubts wheth
er the North can justly criticise
Southern women for dipping snuff,
while -[Northern women walk the
streets leading puppy dogs by strings.
The Toledo Democrat says: “The
way things are going in Ohio the in
dications are strong that the Demo
crats will elect twelve of the twenty-
one Congressmen at least, and proba
bly thirteen.”
Savannah News.
There is working at Mr. R. DeMar-
tin’s stables, in this city, a young man
by the name of Charlie Ross, who,
strange to say, was kidnapped when
merely a small infant and carried away.
He was so young at tbe time that he
has no recollection of his parents or his
home. At an early age he was placed
upon a sailing vessel by his abductors,
and subsequently was shipped as a sail
or before the mast. For many years he
followed the sea, and has visited Brazil
and various ports in South America,
Havana and Great Britain. He arriv
ed at Brunswick on the brig C. H.
Manson, from which place he came to
Savannah lately, and here obtained
work. He is about 23 years old, five
feet eight inches high, of light com
plexion, brown hair and blue eyes, and
weighs one hundred and thirty oounds.
The (Charley Ross, who was stolen from
Germantown in 1874 would only be
twelve years of age if he is now living.
A head of the white tailed Ameri
can deer, bearing fifty-eight points,
was lately received in thi-» city from
San Antino, Texas. This is three
times as many as had been seen be
fore in this part of the country. The
deer was shot near the Banders range
of mountains.—Scientific American.
Calhoun Times : Mr. Felix Sloan, a
farmer residing in this county, near
Resaca, has a mare which recently gave
birth to two mule colts, both well form
ed—one ordinary size and the other
about the size or a rabbit. The largest
Ollt: stilfalive.
Swainsboro Herald : The cash
price in Swainsboro for corn is $1.35,
and for bacon 15 cents. Corn sells at
Tennille, in Washington county, at
$1.60 per bushel, and bacon 18 cents
per pound, on time. Can poor men
live and support their families at such
prices
M .eon Telegraph and Mes enger :
Gen. Gordon seems to have tired of
the business of accumulating wealth
and again yearns for Senatorial honors.
In a recent interview lie is quoted as
follows: “I ain not a candidate at.
present, but if friend-t urge me to go
to the Senate again I don’t sty what
1 may do.”
Augusta News: At. the annual
meeting of the members of the Augusta
Cotton Exchange, the following officers
w reelected: President — W. F. Alex
ander, Vice President—James Tobin,
Directors—B. H. Smith, Jr$ J. J.
Doughty, W. F. Alexander, Goo. T.
Jackson, James Tobin, H. H. Hick
man, G. W. Crane, George R. Sibley
:uid W. T. Wheless.
A special to the Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist, from Ath ns, dated May
Kth says: Dr. .T, II. Campbell and
Dr. Si C. Benedict, who have today
returned from a visit to Brooks county,
where they were delegated by legal
authority to exhume the body of Wal
ter Rountree, assert that the bullet
which killed the young man was fired
by his brother (Bartow). All is quiet.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger:
Mr. B. .F. Finney, who runs a first-
class farm near Haddock’s station,
shipped a lot of country cured hams to
Mr. J. F. Crutchfield, of Macon.
Every year Mr. Finnoy raises enough
meat for his own use a id for sale. He
has a lot on hand now for sale. This
is the kind of enterprise we like to en
courage, and we are glad to note this
evidence of prosperity and homo indus
try of Mr. Finney.
Athens Banner-Watchman: Mr.
John Matthews, who lives in the edge
U'f Madison county, near Athens, the
other day had his gin house completely
destroyed by fire. Mr. Matthews got a
dog and put him on the truck of the
supposed incendiary. The dog went
straight to the house of one of Mr.
Matthews’s neighbors, and it was with
difficulty he could be gotten away.
This is the third or foutth time Mr.
iburucd.
A peasant’s cap with explosive ma
terial in the crown is the latest inven
tion of the nihilist conspirators. .
These were to have been thrown at
the Czar on his reception at Moscow.
The ingenuity of the nihilist is no
less wonderful than their zeal and
perseverance.
Last Saturday the steamer State
of Texas of the New York and Port
Royal Line loaded 145 barrels of sperm
oil and 14 barrels of black fish oil.
The Oil was shipped to New York by
Capt. Mandloy, of the schooner Mary
E. Simmons, who has been on a
whaling cruise off Port Royal for the
past two months.
Galveston, May 7.—A Dallas spe
cial says:—“The jury in the case of
R. E. Cowart for killing J. M. Thur
mond, ex-Mayor and prominent law
yer, in the court room, about two
months agp, arrived at the verdict
by adding the number of years each
of the jury thought the prisoner
should serve and dividing the sum
by twelve. Cowart will be sentenced
fur two years.”
Washington, May 8.—A decision
was recorded by the Supreme Court of
the United States this afternoon in
thejease of Sergeant John A. Mason,
petitioner upon an application for a
writ of habeas corpus, tho court, in
a carefully prepared opinion by the
Chief Justice, decided that the court-
martial had full jurisdiction to try
Mason for the offense charged; that its
proceedings were all within proper
jurisdiction, and that the sentence
pronounced was not in excess of its
power. The petition for a writ of
habeas corpus is, therefore, denied
and the rule to show cause dis
charged.—Macon Telegraph.
A gentleman from Candelaria in
forms us that the smallest baby in the
world was born in that camp at noon
on the 3d instant. The father is a
miner in the employ of tfie Northern
Belle mine and weighs 190 pounds.
The mother is a stout healthy woman,
weighing perhaps 160 pounds. The
child is a male, as perfectly formed as
any human being can be, but upon its
birth it only weighed eight ounces.—
Its face is about the size of a horse
chestnut, and the sizo of its limbs can
be imagined when we say that a ring
worn on the little finger of its mather
was easily slipped over its foot nearly
up to the knee. Our informant states
that it was the opinion of the attending
phisioian that the child would live and
| prosper in good health, notwithstanding
its diminutive propotions. Tho midgot
is so small that throe of its sizo could
play hide-and seek in a cigar box.—
Carson (Nev.j Appeal.
During the month of April ,$3,416 )
473 was added to the silver coin in the
treasury, which is over 8900,000 in
excess of the amount coined, and du
ring the same period silver cirtifi-
cates to the amount of 8600,000 were
thrown hack into the treasury. Very
nearly half the coin now held by the
government is silver.
Tbe State of Georgia, not satisfied
with the two or three defeats it has
rccieved in pitting its checkers against
the North Carolina birds, is deter
mined to try it once more. The
Charlotte Observer says a main has
been arranged to come off at Ham
burg on the 10th inst. Sid Holt and
the Charlotte crowd are to do the
fiehting for this State. The State
that looses that fight is to hand over
81,000 to the other.
Atlanta Phonograph: Tho Coali
tion faction ran itself into the ground
and then broke off. The Independents
are not such fools as to be engineered
by a lot of old sealey-backed i.epub-
licans. If they desire to vote with the
Independents, all right, but they can’t
boss them. That Liberal business is
all bosh. The Independents want, good
men to fill the various offices of tho
State Government, but they are not
willing to he Radicalized for that special
purpose.
Walton County Videttc: Old Ben
Duggar has played a political trick
that beats anything we have ever
heard of. He represented the Forty •
first district in the Georgia Senate du
ring the la£t term. The district is
composed of Pickens, Fannin anc 1 .
Gilmer counties. His district be
lieves in the rotation plan, and seeing
that he could not be re-elected from
Fannin county, lie has moved over
into Gilmer, the county entitled to
the next Senator, and is now run
ning for the office as a citizen of that
county. He is a Republican and
will stoop to such a trick just to get
into office.
Macon Telegraph: We are in re
oeipt of a card from Mrs. Jesse James,
who indignantly denies that she is pre
paring for publication any work upon
the life and doings of her late husband.
She declares that he never in life made
her acquainted with any unlawful act
on his part, and she has no knowledge
of any of the grave charges laid at his
door. She concludes as follows: “I
therefore repeat that any identification
or connection of my name with any
book or newspaper article whatsoever,
purporting to record tho career of Jesse
James, my dead husband, is wholly and
entirely without iny pormissioi^ and I
trust that the publio will regard mo
with more charity than to bo deceived
by any olaims connecting my name with
the book.”
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