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***** State News Paragraphs- 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 , uxd th 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.” PUBLISHES EVERY FRIDAY, AT WAYNESBORO, CA -BY THE- SULLIYAH BROTHERS. r •:oOo: Independent in All Things, Neutral In Nothing. 1 -o:0:o- Not Pledged to Any Party, Faction, or Individual, -o:0:o- A JOURNAL FOR THE PE0PIE —o:0:o- Devoted to the interests of the people of Burke county, their in-' struction, entertainment and advancement—a faithful aud impartial' chronicler of all Burke county happenings—a fair recorder of all import- J 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. Boston Herald : President Arthur is said to bo contemplating the ap pointment of one Atkins as a Federal judge of the new circuit in Georgia. Atkins deserted from tho Confeder ate side during the war, married an Ohio wife with political influence, and, after the war wont back to Georgia and became an internal reve nue collector. It is said that he has hardly had an important law ease in his life, while there are at least three Republican lawyers in Georgia who are men of ability and good reputa tion. But tho appointment ot one of them might give satisfaction to some of tho Democrats who would prefer a decent Republican on tho bench. According to all accounts, President Art hur has been makingwa mess of bis Georgia appointmonW; ant', what little chance of breaking up the Bourbon party ever existed has i been for the time being destroyed by Longstreet and his syndicate. 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