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State News Paragraphs- 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. ■ rnwi J Hi LUMA U”' 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. THE TRUE CITIZEN. PUBLISHES BUSHY FRIDAY AT WAYNESBORO, CA. -BT TUTS- SULLIVAN BROTHERS. :oOo’ Independent in All Thing*, Neutral In Nothing. -eiOje- 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. 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