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State Mews Paragraphs- General Mews Paragraphs• Another Charlie K.OS3* 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.” THE TRUE CITIZEN' PUBLISHED EYBHY FRIDAY, AT WAYNESBORO, CA. BY THE SULLIVAN BROTHERS. :0 Oo: vJb.,,. Independent, in All Tilings, Neutral In Nothing. o:0:o Not Pledged to Any Party, Faction, or Individual. •o:0:o- A JOURNAL FOR THE PEOPLE Devoted to tfrPSWEFests of the people of Burke county, their i struction, entertainment and advancement—a faithful and impart chronicler of all Burke county happenings—a fair recorder of all import anUevents elsewhere occurring—a sturdy advocate of correct Jeffersoni principles of government by the people and for the people—a just, uprig and honorable journal. 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