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Atlanta is to have 100 new street
lamps.
There are seventy gold mines now be
ing worked in Georgia.
Mr. John Arnold Tbas been installed
as postmaster at Columbus.
Gen. Toombs has recently disposed
®f $20,000 worth of lands in Texas.
Eggs are quoted by the Athens Ban
ner as selling at five cents per dozen.
The new oode of Georgia is expected
to be ready for dis ribution at an early
day.
An Ogjethorpe oouaty farmer has
gold7,000 bushels of oats at 50 ets. per
bushel.
The editor of the Americas Republi
•an has been feasting on new sweet
potatoes.
Mr. J. W. Hardison, of Fort Valley,
had his hand mashed to a jelly by a
base ball striking it.
Houston county favors neither Ste
phens or Bacon, but is ‘‘for a gray
horse of another color.”
An Atlanta carpenter, named Sidney
Stephens, fell from a scaffold on Satur
day and fractured his skull.
The Rome Tribune says that Dr.
Felton will certainly run for Congress,
and wi'l make a good run too.
Savannah Times, 8th iust: The City
of Augusta sailed this afternoon with a
Jtill passenger list and a heavy freight.
How do farmers and working men
expect to liye by feeding high priced
com to stoek and bacon to hands at 5
•onto a slice.
As rouoh com has been shipped from
Brooks oouaty this season as was brought
into the county from the West last
year. This looks like living at home.
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General News Paragraphs•
The rioe crop of Louisiana is re
ported as excellent
In 1881, North Carolina produced
2,000,000 pounds of gopper.
A Convention of Texas Republi
cans has been called to meet August
23d, at Austin.
The reduction of the national debt
during the fiscal year just closed foot*
up the handsome total $151,684,-
351.
Dr. A. G. Thomas, of Columbia,
Kentucky, owns a clock that since
1815 h«o told the time of day ia hi»
family.
The Maryland peach season will
begin about July 10th, and the Dela
ware saeson a few days later. It)
Maryland the crop of fruit to be
gathered will probably be as large as
the great crop of two years ago.
The Secretary of the Board of
Agriculture of Kansas reports the
harvesting of the largest wheat crop
ever gathered in that State, The
area planted was 1,462,736 acre*, and
the product is 30,263,711 bushels.
The funded debt of the United
States is now only $1,463,810,000.
There were redeemed in the last
fiscal year, ending June 30, $157,-
500,000 bonds. At this rate it will
take only about eight years to pay
off the whole bonded debt.
There is a precious rose»bush in
the cathedral at Hildesh«im, in Ger
many, that is said to be over a thous
and years old. It is fairly covered
with buds this season, and the shoots,
planted for some years past, are also
in a remarkably thriving condition.
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING.
Sylvanta Telephone.
In pnrsuanoc to the call of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Scriven county, a mass
meeting was held this day at the court honse In
Sylvania. for the purpose of reorganizing the
party In the county, selecting delegates to the
Gubernatorial Convention to be neld la Atlanta
on the 19tli Instant, and to the Congressional
Convention to be held at Savannah on the 6th
of September next; also, to fix upon the day
and manner for selecting delegates to the Sena
torial Convention for the Seventeenth Senato
rial district, and the time and manner of nomi
nating a candidate for Representative to the
next General Assembly.
The meeting was called to order by Colonel
J. Lawton Singellton, Chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of the county, and
proceeded to the election of a Chairman. On
motion of J. It Humphries, Esq., T. W. Oliver,
Jr., Esq., was unanimously elected Chairman of
the Democratic Executive Committee for the
next ensuing two years.
On motion of Hon. John C. Dell, the present
Executive Committee were retained In office
until the next meeting of the partv.
On motion of J. R. Humphries. Esq., the Chair
was empowered to appoint tbo delegates to the
Gubernatorial Convention, when the following
named gentlemen were appointed: Hon. V. H.
Bums, John H. Perkins, Esq, J. R. Humphries,
Esq., and W. L. Matthews, Jr. On motion of
T. W. Oliver, Jr., the Chair appointed the fol
lowing gentlemen as delegates to the Congres
sional Convention : Hon. John C. Dell, Hon. U.
P. Wade, Hon. TV. H. Burns, J. R. Humphries.
Esq , W. J. Maner, Esq., and T. W. Oliver, Jr.,
Esq.
The following resolutions were then offered by
T. W. Oliver, Jr., Esq., and unanimously adopt
ed :
Resolved, That we learn with sincere pleasure
of the continuous improvement in the condltlen
of onr recent so sorely stricken Representative,
Hon. George R. Black, and congratulate him
and his constituents upon the prospect of his
speedy recovery.
Resolved, That we again present hts name as
the choice of the people of this county to repre
sent the First Congressional District in the
Forty-eight Congress of the United States.
Resolved, That we hereby instruct the delegates
selected by this conveutlon to cast the vote of
the Demooraey of Scrlven county for him in the
Congressional Convention, to be held at Savan
nah on the 6th day of September next, and to
use all honorable means to secure hl9 nomina
tion.
On motion of Hon. John C. Dell, the conven
tion to eeleot delegates to the Senatorial Con
vention of the Seventeenth District and to
nominate a candidate for Representative to the
next Gen iral Assembly, was called to meet in
Sylvania on Friday the 1st day of September
next.
Oa motion the meeting then adjourned sin*
die. J. Lawtok Sjhoblltor,
W. L. Mathbws. Jr., Chairman.
Secretary.
Sylvania, Ga., July SJ, 1888.
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Mr. Thomas Hampton, an Athens
merchant, is said to have raved fifteen
tnys fnna drowning In the Oeouee riv
er. He should be presented with a
gold medal.
Angusta News : Thanks to Senator
Brown, the Savannah river above Au
gusta, has seemed one appropriation of
$15,000. The rocks above and the
Baud below will now prepare to vacate.
Augusta News : Hon. W. L. Peck,
a progressive farmer of Rockdale coun
ty, has shipped a cav load of wheat to
Augusta. When Georgia farmers fol
low this example, Augusta mills will
not have to grind Western grain.
Augusta News : Dr. Wright, Sena
tor Hill’s attending physician, says his
patient is much bolter now than he was
when he left Philadelphia, He eats
belter and weighs more, although the
wound shows no sign of healing, but is
Bpreading slowly.
Augusta Chronicle : Last Sunday a
difficulty occurred in Central Baptist
Church, colored, at an officers’ meeting.
After a wordy discussion in regard to
the employment of an organist, wc un
derstand that blows were resorted to,
aud that one of the deacons, named
Charles David, knocked down two of!
bis brethren. The matter will come
before the Recorder this morning,
Capt. C. C. Clay, of Sumter county,
and one of her live, go-ahead farmers,
says that he will have during the pres
ent mouth a bale of cotton on the mar
ket, if he geta sunshine enough. He
ha* 75 acres of early cotton in cultiva
tion, the stalks four tcet high, and an
average of 15 to 20 bolls on a stalk.—
He has also in cultivation 250 acres of
•urn that will average 20 bushels to
the acre.
One of the balloons sent up on the
four b has been found near Conyers, as
ia evidenced by the following postal
•ard, received by Mr. Scott, of Atlan
ta:
Conyers, July 7.—W. M. Scott: I
do not understand your reward for find
ing yonr balloon. Is it $5 and a suit
ef clothes, or a suit of elothes ? You
will please answer at once, as I have
your balloon, and if you order the mon
ey paid oyer here I will |bip you the
balloon at ohm, Let me bear. K. O.
sumjktt .—Constitution.
Nkw York, July 7.—Tl« first bale
of the new cotton crop of 1882 83,
was consigned yesterday by Carson &
Ellis, of Houston, Texas, to Latham,
Alexander & Co., of this city. It
weighs 470 pounds and grades low
middling. The producer obtained
$2,500 for it in Texa?, beside* a
premium ol $250.
Arrangements for the shipment of
50.000 head of cattle to England,
chiefly from New York, during the
months of October and November,
are now being made by representa-
! tives of a syndicate of Western cat-
I tie raiser#, who, in connection with
'he Earl of Airlie, are said to control
300.000 head of cattle, and have im
mense grazing fields in Colorado.
Syracuse, N, Y., July 9.—At five
o’clock this afternoon James Hawks,
a laborer, stabbed and killed his wife
on Grape street. She had bought a
pail of beer in a saloon, and, return
ing home, met her husband, who
was drunk. Hawks drew a j icknife
from his pocke*, and without a word
stabbed his wife to the heart. The
woman ran about thirty feet and
clung to a tree outside the walk. She
died in fifteen minutes. Hawks was
arrested. When told that his wife
wa* dead he exclaimed : “I am glad
ol it. It is a good thing for me.”
Washington, July 9.—The Na
tional Board of Health have in
structed all of their Inspectors along
the line of emigrant travel betweeu
the Atlantic oeaboard aud West and
Northwest, and also along the South
ern Atlantic and Gulf coast?, and in
the Mississippi vallej, to be prepar
ed to close their stations and suspend
work on the 15th instant. This
action is rendered necessary by the
failure of sufficient appropriation to
oover the expenses of keeping up that
service. It will involve a suspension
of inland inspection of foreign im
migrants for the discovery of aud the
prevention of the transmission of
small-pox at ten stations distributed
on the trunk lines of railway in the
Nbrth, and of inspection of infected
vessels coming to our ports from yel
low fever ports abroad.
A DOCTOR'S BLUNDER.
Philadelphia Timet#.
Charleston. S. O., Julv 4.—Mrs. Loten Reed
was burled a few days ago. She wiu a ynotng
man-led lad 7 of social prominence and her death
resulted from the careless use o" chloroform.
Owing to the efforts of the physicians to keep
the matter quiet the facts have but Jnst come
out. Mr. Reed, the husband, did not know tUat
there was anything the matter with his wife
until he was informed of her death. She has
been ailing for sometime and the family phy-
sioian told her that a simple and not dangerous
operation was necessary. A day was fixed for
the operation and Dr. It A. Klnlock appeared
at her house, on Logan street, accompanied by
Doctors Simons and Pelzer, who desired to wit
ness the operation. Mrs. Reed, however, refused
to allow them In the room, saying thaB Dr. Kin-
lock alone should perform the operation. Sim
ons aud Pelzer, therefore, went Into the parlor,
where they were told by Dr. Klnlock that after
he had put Mrs. Reed under the Influence of
chlorofo m they could come into the chamber.
In a few moments they were told to com* in,
and as they entered Dr. Kinlock remarked to
Dr. Simons; *'You had belter look after the
chloroforming.” Dr. Simons did so. He went
to the bedside and placed his finger on Mrs.
Reed’s pulse. It had ceased to beat. She was
dead and the frantic efforts of the doctors to
apply restoratives were futile. A message was
sent to Mr. Reed that his wife was dead. It was
given out that the lady had died from natfcal
causes in order to shield the reputation of the
physicians and prevent an Inquest. The facts,
as they have come out, have made a sensation
in fashionable society. Dr. Kiulock lias always
enjoyed a high reputation as a physician and
surgeon. Hts careless use of chloroform is not
understood.
Dahlonoga Signal; A few days ago some of
the hands were engaged in cutting h cross ditch
and struck an old grave. On examination thore
was found the skeleton of a full-grown human
being, which Is doubtless the remains of an
Indian of the Cherokee tribe. They also found
an earthen pot filled with parched Indian corn,
which had undergone but little change. Tradi
tion says that food is burled with the body to
feed the spirit until It reaches the happy hunting
ground. Many other mounds mark the spot
where the body of some weary warrior or the
form of some dark-eyed maid has been lain to
rest aud to listen to the murmuring waters of
the Chestatee, while their spirits wander with
the great hunter lu the happy hunting ground
forever.
Nasiivillk, July 8.—Attorney-General Lea has
given an opinion In which ho declares the mar-
riugo benefit associations not amenable to the
insurance laws' His ground is that the members
are not entitled to assured sums, or even any
benefit at all, by the associations. When assess
ments become payable to them they receive
such sums as are paid In by other members.
Ho says that the principle upon wliloh these
organizations are based is somewhat like that
of the Knights uf Honor, which order has been
held by several #»f the Stuto courts not to be an
Insurance company.
The Rome Tribune puts forwaid this great
truth : "It Is said the Democratic party Is In
fallible—that It can do no wrong—and yot It
sometimes nominates candidates that are about
as fit to repspient the people as a blackqgdth Is
to repair a watch. Alas! what wrongs are
committed In thy name l”
Chicago Inter-Otean: Hogs are looking up.
They are higher In tills market than they nave
been for eight years* The backward com crop
and the speculators share the responsibility.
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