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Cotton is selling in Atlanta at 11.90.
The Rountree case cost Clarke coun
ty $2,600.
Grasshoppers are damaging the cot
ton crop in Hart county.
Atlanta will haye a new match fac
tory in operation in a few days.
The Republican State central com
mittee met in Macon on the 23d.
A railroad from Savannah to Colum
bus is one of the talked of enterprises.
There are three prisoners from ad
joining counties now in the Gainesville
jail for safe keeping.
The negroes celebrated the anniver
sary of the Fifteenth Amend went with
great pomp in Augusta, on Monday.
The artesian well at Albany is be
coming an institution. Good water,
easy of aoress, will make Southwest
Georgia a more glorious section of our
State than it now is—and it is now a
most attractive section.
Last Monday week, Mr. T. Jeff.
Jordan, of Cochran, went to Macon.
He had about two hundred dollars with
him, and during the day checked out
$1 ,100 from the Exchange Bank.—
Siinoe that time nothing has been heard
from hiiii.
The Atlanta Post-Appeal reports that
on the 18’h inst. the balance in the
State Treasury was exactly $857,-
842.87. Of this amount $275,000 was
paid in by the purchasers of the Macoa
and Brunswick Railroad in State and
United States bonds.
Hartwell Sun : A negro ate three
ore pound cans of mackerel, two one
pound cans of corned beef, two pounds
of crackers, and a bottle of pepper sauce
at one meal at Bowersville last Satur
day, and expressed a willingness to
foish his meal with two boxes of sar-
diues, if anybody would furnish them.
Macon Telegraph: Mr. Douglass
Sorrel, formerly of this city, but late of
Texas, is visiting his mother m Yine-
ville, adjoining Macon. He brings
with him a handful of cotton bolls
^hthered from a crop planted on Janu
ary 19th, and planted to compete for
the $500 dollar first bSlc prize offered
by Galveston merchants.
The LaGrange Reporter says : It
is- estimated that Senator Hill’s expenses
since he has been under treatment for
cancer have been about one thousand
dollars per month. Mr. Hill is not
possessed of wealth, and this heavy
drain upon his resources would, doubt
less, have greatly inconvenienced him
but tor the timely payment of a fee,
long due, for several thousand dollars.
Oo» operation alone cost him fifteen
Ubndred dollars. Surely, misfortunes
have come heavily upon this noble and
distinguished man, and every true heart
is with him in this hour of “his suffer-
ir<r and greatness.”
Macon Telegraph: The following
appeared in the last number of the
Quitman Free Press : “The editor of
do? Free Press shipped to the editorial
staff nf the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger, on the 18th inst., a water
melon weighing eighteen pouuds. We
have 15 acres of this kind, and the best
corn crop in :he county. This proves
beyond peradventpre that, there is
r-iore “gum” in some editors than is
creamed of in our philosophy. It will
o he observed that .ve are porfootly
able and willing to do our own blowing.”
greeably to the above, the melon was
•eived in good order, and the gift
I fully appreciated by tho staff. The ex
terior was as pretty as a Richmond
guilty rattlesnake in July, but thore
a prematureness of the interior that
mirwilly suggestive of colic. Our
?rs. however, wrostlcd will it, and
re the ink is dry on this issue are
jgl'ng in the agony that belongs
those wlio oateth that which is
Nevertheless, the donor. Mr.
Psrh in, has the thank* of the
O 'ii ?.ral News Paragraphs-
Uape Colony exported last year
$4 500,00) worth of diamond*.
US,000,000 of gold was engaged for
!*h':>mont to Europe from New
York on Wednesday.
A ;-plendid comet was seen near
tin an >y the eclipse observers in
E,< pt, out whether going in or com.-,
ing at the astronomers were unable
to tell.
The ease against ex Governor Moses
of South Carolina, has been in •
defin ly postponed in a New York
court. The plea of insanity has been
entered.
At last accounts the wife of Sena
tor Lamar, of Mississippi, was
thought to be dying. She is a
daughter of Judge Longstreet, author
of “Georgia Scenes.”
Another mortgage of $100,000 has
been placed on the Tribune building,
New York, and a contemporary
illiberally remarks that lying does
not seem to thrive there.
Mrs. Maria Bruce, of Rappanoclc,
Va., beat her step-daughter, aged
ten, to death with a poker. She
then carried the body to her cabin
and cremated it. The murderess is
in jail.
The Memphis Avalanche says that
since January 1st, 16 persons have
been hanged by mob law in the South,
19 in the North and 6 in the frontier
State.-. This probably equals the
executions by due process of law.
Mrs. Betty Bassett, of Virginia,
claims to he the owner bv inheritance
of Washington’s family Bible, and
offers to sell it to the Government.
Betty should be careful not to give
the Government a revised edition—
but they wouldn’t discover the dif
ference, no how. Sail in Betty.
The clippings of sole leather in
New England shoe factories were for
merly regarded as worthless, and the
smell of their burning was a pecu
liarity of such towns as Lynn aud
Salem. These scraps are now stamp
ed int) buttons for cloths and fancy
tack heads for upholstery, and the
long familiar odor is missed.
Victoria. B. C., May 23.—The
scarcity of labor continues and ship
ping is seriously affected. Two
large vessels are lying in harbor, be
ing unaMe to go to sea. The United
States revenue cutter on this station
has lost ill but one man by desertion.
As high as $50 per month has been
offered to sailors and refused.
Spain is taking measures to relieve
her people from the bread famine
which prevails in that country, and
a commission has been sent to Russia
and other European countries and
also to the United States to buy
wheat. It recalls the descent of the
children of Jacob into Egypt, when
Josef l made his big speculation in
com, and gave the Chicago Wheat
Exchange a cue for its first great
“corner in wheat.”
If Air. Blaine runs for Congress in
Main, this year, as he has been urged
to do by “many voters” ho will have
to make tho race before tho peo
ple ol the State at large. Tho new
apportionment bill provided that
Statch loosing members, should elect
all their Congressmen by general
ticket unless the Legislature re-dis
tricted the State. Maine loses
member and has not been re-district™
ed, hence the “knight” would have
to run nil over the State.
Washington, May 22.—Tho title
to the Freedman’s Bank property
having been examined and accepted
by the government, the deed was
signed by Comptroller-General Knox
to-day. The amount to be paid by
the United States is $250,000. In
anticipntion of this purchase arrange
ments have been made for the pay
ment of .v dividend, and Comptroller
Knox will to-morrow issue a circu
lar announcing that a dividend of 15
per cent, will be paid on or about the
1st of June.
Smiplietvl Adv *j■ t ,
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ft»r IVEr.
i nittee.
THE TRUE CITIZEN
N. Y. Herald.
Mr. Shiplierd fu nish?.-* the ollowing
for publican >n •
“ To t !K Public : Five dollars re
ward, and pos tive y no awkward ques
tions asked of anyb dy will be paid
for the return to t undersigned of one
James G. B aine, who nas been missing
from these parts ever since my arrival
here, on or about Monday evening, 15th
ins . I wioe th,' amount of this reward
will be raid mr the publi ation ol this
aovertisement in the New York Tri
bune. M hen as. > eu Mr. Blai e was
making across the country south south
west, at the pproximate r t, of sixteen
and hre -quarter mil‘S per hour, said
to be the best time ever made by a
non professional The finder on re
turning him wi 1 br al owed to akc him
away again as soon as ,,r. 131 ine’s
clothes have been searched, inasmuch
as no one known to the unders gned has
any further use for Mr. Blaine. But
the runaw y. as it now ppeais, carried
off with him one' of he standing com
mittees t,f t ongr ss c, mceaiod some
where about his capacious person, and
somewhat thin y disguised, it is said,
as white mice, nested in the pjeket of
his new aud handsomely fit;ing Prince
Albert coat. For photographs and a
minute description of this coai. uni of
the intellectual pallor of Mr. Blaine's
large and effective coun enance, appli
cations may be filed at any office of the
New York Tribune. Intending finders
of Mr. Blaine and his committee may
communicate with I he bereaved clerk
of the committee to whose official credit
I will myself deposit the promised
reward iu case the House ol Repre-
senta'ives should refuse the necessary
appropriation, as I am advi-ed they
will, on the ground that they can re
place their last committee with a better
one for a great deal less money. I do
not propose to raise an issue with the
House on this or on any other occasion ;
but I have been living with this com
mittee for three months past and I like
it. I want it back again, and am not
gffng to be mean about ihe reward,
which will positively be paid without
rebate on delivery of the advertised
property. The Peruvian Company
having discovered that the committee
which has so suddenly disappeared has
been all the whilo a part of the private
menagerie of Mr. Blaine, has forbidden
me to offer more than the sum above
named for i s return and begs to give
notne hereby that it will immedia ely
resume business at the old stand, and
will not thereafter confide its business
secrets to any committee of Congress.
In this resolution it relies upon the
support of every sister corporation in
the country. In answer to requests
already received from nearly every
State in the Union, I am considering
the expediency of continuing the narra
tive so suddenly interrupted by the
flight of Mr. Blaine and his committee,
in some other place than the now desert
ed committee room. The necessary
data are all ready, and if the public
want the facts and the documents I am
rather inclined not to refuse them.
Jacob R. Skipiierd.
"Washington, May 20, 1882.”
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