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Waynesboro, Georgia, I* ridiiVj August 31 tli, 188*>.
u clul) of llvc> subscribers with
t ,.n vlollars, wo will give a box of
hole** onmgvs. — Tavares, (Flu.,)
\ young lady at our elbow, sug-
,t- ilu' perteiiancc of stating tin
lit
,,1^. dimensions of the box.
W,. .five the following item of
information tor
of mu-
the consideration
agricultural friends: “By
11( . u „o trial the last season, J00
bushels of shelled corn shrank to
, s ],ds between December and
jl ilV |. It was put in a tight bin,
ami the shrinkage was entirely from
evaporation. ’
r|’] u , mail carrier continues to
please our people by arriving at i)
dock every morning.—Darien
(la-cite.
Why !) o’clock should be the ex
act point of time to please the eit-
j Z cas of Darien for the mail carrier
to arrive, is what we can’t divine,
un less it be because it is just after
break fast, and everybody is inclin
ed (o lie in a good humor.
WAS KOMKHODY’K M0T1IKK.
The woman was old ami raggoil ami «rray:
A ml bout with tin* Hi HI of a winter’s day.
I he sireel was wH with the winter’s snow,
And t lie woman’s feet were aged and slow.
Slit> stood at t ho crossing and waited lung,
Alone, uncared for amid tin* throng.
Number 16.
<The <Tme (Citizen.
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()f human beings, who passed her by,
Nor heeded Ilu* glance of the anxious eye.
I town I lie street with laughter and shout,
Iliad in the freedom of school let out.
he shadows of political death
m to he gathering around Billy
Maliono, of Virginia. Mo body will
donate a cent to relieve bis politi
cal distress, and now comes tbe
Hiclnnoiid Strife, which, under the
head, “Mdlione’s Bees swarming,”
makes Hit* following painful thrust:
“Mitltoae’s bees are swarming till
around, and in a very angry way.—
(let out your tin pans and tea-bells,
boss and try and hive them, or till
your crop of honey will be lost this
Came the boys like a llock of sheep,
Mailing the snow piled white and deep,
Tasfc the woman so old and gray.
So meek, so timid, afraid to stay,
Lost the carriage wheels or horses feet.
Should crowd her down tin* slippery stre
At last came one of the merry troop,
The gayest laddie ofall the group.
Ho paused beside her and whispered low
“I’ll help you across If you wish to go.”
men prescnn*rt»their ease clearly,
land in support, of the chum pro
duced the written opinions ol'Sen-
i ator Joseph 1*3. Brown, who being
i governor at the time signed the
j bonds, (tenoral Toombs, the late
I (Inventor Alexander !!. Stephens,
j and the late Senator B. It. Hill, and
the late lion. Amos T. Akennan,
i who favored the payment *>l the
| claim on the ground that it was an
1 honest debt. Tim committee, alter
: bearing the arguments of these
t, rendered two reports.—
A llulteini III Pcttlroats.
Washington, August 2->.—A1 is;
Lucy Horton, a
brunette
Arthur to lb* Kiilnapped.
(TKUHNT (I’ljKAMNtiS.
cty, has threatened to throttle the in the A
Treasury Department. She lias (‘veiling,
Heragcd bund on his strong young iirm
Shu placed, and without hurt or harm
lie guided tho trembling feel along,
Frond tlint disown were firm and strong.
Then hack again to Ids friends lie went.
Ills young heart happy and well content,
"She's somebody's mother, hoys, you know,
For she Is old and poor and slow;
Ondkn, Utah, August 2">.—Con-
air and dashing i siderable excitement exists in this
well known in local soei-1 city over a report which appeared
Wood River 'Hines of last
that a party of cow boys
poken and written the mnndate.— I started for the Yellowstone Bark to
It is that she must have a clerkship, kidnap President Arthur. Sheriff
nr Secretary Folger and appoint-j Furry lias detailed two trustworthy
nient clerk Butler must bite the deputies to look it up, with instruc-
dust. Lucy is not without a histo- Lions to summon a strong posse,
rv, and her record is written in and arrest the kidnappers, if the
blood. Site i" probably, twenty-live facts are as stated.
| gentlemen, rendered two reports.— vears of age, and hence cannot be The Times says during the past
I l’lie majority favored the payment j-inssfil as unsophisticated, having two weeks, a number of strangers,
j of tbe bonds, and the minority was j j )0(lll a resident of this city several j till well provided -with good riding
against their payment, on the voars> a very few years ago she animals and firearms, and reseni-
! ground that it was ti war debt, | hrc.,1 a slug of lead into the body of filing a party of regulators or Texas
barred by the 1-ltli Amendment.— Senator Morgan's son, of Alabama, | cow boys, have been camped on
Whim these reports came up m the ]oft him for dead. Sin* said
! Mouse tin' majority report was vo- {| 1( , young man had seduced her,
led down by yetis 1 IT, nays Ml). This , , in( ^ | H .trayed her. She is tall, slen
der, rather vivacious, and good
looking. II is said she can love with
a fervor seldom equaled, and hate
with a vengeance worthy of a pi
rate 1 . Six months or more ago, the
A Daiurlitoi' Sues Her Kntlirr.
Quincy (Flu.) Herald.
There is on the Circuit Court
docket for trial at the approaching
term of the (fadsden ,'ircuit Court,
a case against the town of Quincy,
a breacii of promise suit, and a
case of a daughter suing her father
for wages.
settled tilt' claim so far as the pres- 1
cut Legislature is concerned, but
does not end the matter, as Mat
tingly, through bis lawyers, pro-j
poses to continue to press the claim,
"Ami I hope some fellow will leml u lmiul
To help my mother you understand,
“I I ever she’
When tier m
i “lit uml poor uml gray,
n ileav hoy is far nwny.
hoping at some future day to get a 1 slll() ke from the field where she
Legislature that will net in his fn- j s i lo t youna having cleared
vnr. 1 tun told that the late Gov- a \y a y ( ,s]io applied for a position in the
An exchange says, “the quarrels
of the Maryland Democrats may
not lie past healing, but they should
reassure their brethren elsewhere
by putting an end to their wrang
ling. A few bosses might be nil-
And “Homebody s mother” bowed low her
head
In her home that night, and the prayer she
said
Was “< tod, he kind to the noble b<
Who is somebody’s son and pride
j ernor Stephens was to have gotten
' .f.'iiili for the legal opinion rendered
I in this case, but never got it.
! General Toomh
in reference to a r
Treasury Department. Site made
her application in person, and was
accompanied it is said by Airs. ingcr-
oitcc speaking sol, Representative Sltellenbargor,
port in circulti- of Pennsylvania, and other good
The Mattingly iioml (Liim.
Savanmih Tunas.
Atlanta, August 2:1.—The ave
rage Georgia Legislature knock. 1
the Sharp’s rifle claim out of time i way into bis command,
with as niut'li ease us Sullivan
downs every slugger who faces lvim.
The history of this claim lias been
written up so often that every one
who takes an interest in Georgia
affairs is acquainted with it. In
I860 the General Assembly then in
session at MiHedgPville, authorized
chief executive, Governor Jo-
|i,ailed with profit.” This is no time j p 10
lor Democrats anwhere to quarrel.. s( ,ph jr Drown, to purchase a.special
if wc succeed in 1881, and success . number of stands of arms for the
is within our reach under judicious inore thorough equipment of the
management, the Democratic par- \
t.v tattst present an unbroken trout i chased from the Sharp Rifle Com-
»il along the line. No Democrat j p. vny) of Springfield, which coaipa-
^liiutlil insist upon his personal ail- i ,,y was represented in the transac-
viaieemeat which will in anyway
antagonize the party, no matter
State militia. The arms were pur
lieu to tlie effect that the guns were j and reputable people, who urged
I of an inferior quality, said it was the Secretary to give her a place
| not true, that the guns were as good The people who recommended her,
| as any of those used by tho < knifed- were moved by her pleas and prom-
j crate troops during the war. lie ises. As soon as Secretary Folgci
: says that some of them found their heard her name lie refused to help
and that : her. Rut the old man was soon
’they were first class in every re- outmameuvered by ardent friends,
spent. At present the chances of j She was given a position ns a “sub,”
Mattingly getting bis money are for three months under another
very slim, as there is a good deal of j name than Lucy Horton. At the
feeling among some of tin* people i expiration of that time, she sttc-
' of this State against paying the needed in securing another three
debt, owing to the fact that tho .months’ lease of life. It was during
claim is held by a Yankee. A mem- j the last quarter that she displayed
her of the judiciary committee a spirit not to be courted by the
who opposes the payment of the saints, whereby a prominent clerk
claim, tells me that the Yankees j in the department was transfored
prescribed the 14th Amendment, from one division to another, and
and that lie was in favor of dosing | came near losing his otlicial head.-—
them with the same medicine that; Appointment clerk Butler discover-
they prescribed. | ing Lucy’s unenviable qualities,
refused to help her to another term
Wilcox creek, and considerable
curiosity lias been expressed as to
the intention of the party. Some
accounted for their outfit by de-
A Hood Henson.
The late Judge Black was once
asked why lie did not become a
Republican, lie grimly replied,
that if lie wasn’t afraid of hell lie
would. The judge was an uncom
monly smart man, and good Re
publicans would do well to look
into the matter.
HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS.
TIIK 11.: A SON.
On land tintl sea ivposos
The moonshine cold and white,
The perfume of the roses
Kills all the air of the night.
The
breeze is running riot
t >’er ocean’s distant blue;
No sound disturbs our quiet,
(>ur solitude for t wo.
In one harmonious chorus
Night’s voices all seem blent,
Night’s charm is stealing o’er us.
And yet—we are not content.
Yellow Fever Approaching Urunswiek.
Washington, Aug. 2i).—The Sur-
eon General of the Marine IIos-
a
’Tis not that love lias vanished,
’Tis not timt we forget,
’Tis not that hope is banished,
And leaves us but regret.
Our thoughts are far asunder
As (Mirth and ocean’s pearls—
11 isn’t any wonder;
You see we both are girls.
scribing them as a party organized I pital Service lias received a tele-
to go into the Indian country on a gram from Surgeon Burgess at
prospecting trip, while others lie- Havana stating that the Spanish
lieveil them to be a party of Arizona | bark DaceJunio, which left there
rustlers. During several days past,! on the 2<>th inst. for Brunswick, Gn.,
some of the party have ridden bad two cases of yellow fever on
bow just his claims may be. The
siiri'i'ss of the party is paramount
to the claims of any individual, it
matters not who lie is or wluvt his
claims may be. Let us have har
mony—perfect harmony—in the
party from one end of the land to
the other.
We have reeeivetl an “Advance
Sheet for Editors’ Extracts” of the
Ame.rieun Aijriculturulist. We
glaiiceil over it, and our eye fell
upon the caption “Rickie Farming.”
That was good—every body loves
pickles—“there is millions in it”—
nml if tho editor of the Agricultu
ralist will furnish us the seed, we
will plant a whole square of our
garden in pickles at any season of
the year or time of the moon he
Mill advise. But that is all we can
promise. Last spring we urged
our Ini'iners to go into the “truck
farming,” and many of them plant
ed largely of Irish potatoes and
melons, and shipped them to tho
Northern and Western markets.—
The Yankee commission merchants
stole the proceeds, and in our opin
ion they would steal all tho pickles
that could be raised in the State if
they could reach them through the
fence. Oh, no; we cannot advise our
farmers to go into the pickle farm
ing business.
Another great cotton mill lias
been established at Columbus, (In.
The Eastern manufacturers laughed
I'omitemptuously at the first puny
ellbrts to build cotton factories at
tlie South. Later, when tho South
ern factories began to show a serious
disposition to compete with the
Northern factories, hired newspa
per writers attempted to stop their
building by publishing specious,
long-winded articles to prove that
cotton manufacture in the South
could never be made profitable, and
Mould finally result disustcrously
to those investing in this businos.—
Notwithstanding, these newspaper
arguments, there was found capital
and energy enough in the South to
g" tut with the building of factories,
M'lille the ample dividends settled
the question of profits. To-day the
Rustem niimiilTieturers look with
dismay upon the rapid increase and
iuiportiuice of the cotton mills of
Hie cotton producing States. They
sec Ilu 1 Inevitable—that it is only a
question of time, when the great
coiton manufacturing interest of
tion by General Pennington, one
half of the amount was paid in
cash, and by mutual agreement the
remaining sum was paid in bonds.
Bonds of the ordinary character
were given the manufacturers until
a more neatly executed bond could
be procured from the hands of tbe
parties who were to engrave the
set - which was to be considered the
permanent issue. Owing to some
delay, the bonds were not gotten
up until after Georgia had taken up
arms against the Union. When
tlie State came into possession of
the bonds, they were forwarded to
tlu' Sharp Riile Company, and by
that company they were cither sold
or transferred to other parties. The
bonds were to run twenty years.—
At the end of that time, these bonds
turned up in the possession of Geo.
Mattingly, of New York, who since
the bonds have till ion due has
been thumping at the duors of tho
Legislature at every session, asking
that his claim he paid. The first
two or three Legislatures that sat
down on tlu* claim, gave as an ex
cuse for doing so, that the claim
•was a war debt, and as such pay
ment was prohibited by the 1 Ith
Amendment. Now Mattingly asks
that the Legislature allow him to
test tbe validity of bis claim, so far
as the constitutionality of it is con
cerned in the courts of the State,
and if, after doing Ibis, tho courts
decide that the debt is just an hon
est, then tin* governor shall draw
Ids warrant on the treasury for the
amount of the claim, wliseli is
something like ,jto0,<)()0.
Some years since, while speaking
of this ciaim, an Atlanta man, wlm
was a member of the Legislature
that authorized the issuance of tho
bonds, said tome; “When these
bonds were Issued, it was not under
stood that the guns were to he used
for any other purpose than to equip
At Tell
he
v do not
the case
Lkksiu ug, Ya., August 2a.—Per
haps the best concealed duel on re
cord, occurred on Harrison’s Island,
near Ibis city, last Tuesday. The
affair was kept so completely se
cret, that it lias just leaked out
here, where all the parties are well
known and prominent citizens.—
No publication of the alfair has
been made in the State press, and
the mass of the people
know of it. The facts
ire as follows:
Dr. N. G. West and Dr. Sam Ale-
Gill arotwo of the hauling physi
cians of this city. They have had
mutual dislike for some time
past, but recently Dr. McGill had
seemed very bitter in his feelings
towards Dr. West, and made seve
ral statements damaging to hi
character. West on bearing these
reports, denounced them tis infa
mous lies, and expressed his opin
ion of McGill in language more em
phatic than elegant.
McGill, after advising with some
friends, demanded a retraction of
the epithets applied to him. This
West refused to give. Arrange
ments were then made for a hostile
meeting, which were conducted
with consumate skill. Nobody sus
pected what was brewing, and the
parties left town tis quietly as if
they were going to a picnic. They
reached Harrison's Island, a seclu
ded spot in the Potomac, which Inis
witnessed hostile meetings before,
and proceeded with the final prelim
inaries which were conducted with
the same business-like precison
characteristic of the two duelists.—
Tin 1 duelists were to stand ten pa
ces apart and use revolvers. ,Iu.-
beforo they were to take their
places, however, McGill's second
made overtures for a settlement of
the ditlh'iilty. They were promptly
| rejected by West’s second, who hi
nt the end of her last employment.
Again Iter old disease for blood re
turned. She coolly entered Air.
Butler’s room in the department
a few days ago, and informed him
that unless he reinstated her, she
would shoot him and Secretary
Knlger, too, remarking with empha
sis: “I won’t miss my aim cither,”
at which Air. Butler presumed she
meant immediate work, and lie re
plied be should not treat her as
others had if she ever attempted to
shoot him, but would reply with the
same effect as though sin 1 was mas
culine. Lucy left Air. Butler’s room
with her anger unsoothed. Re
turning to her home on I street
northwest, she indited a note to Air.
Butler. She threatened his life If
he did not give her a place tit once.
She essayed the same fate to Secre
tary Knlger. Not hearing from her
note she wrote again, and again.—
The others were of the same pur
port as the first. “A clerkship, or
your lives, Messrs. Butler and Fol-
ger.” Air. Butler informed Secre
tary Knlger of the woman’s threats,
and repeated to him her dangerous
character, but did not say to the
Secretary that 11is life was also
threatened. On Thursday, Aliss
I Inrtmi entered the office of the ap
pointment clerk. She was calm,
and her face bloodless. She was
penitent. She is subject to hyster
ics, and after begging to be received
back, she was seized by a hysterical
spasm, and enacted a scene that
would put out pathos its very self.
But Air. Butler, to save liis honor,
could not take Iter back, and re
fused flatly to do sn. She came
again yesterday, and again to-day.
Her visits were long—probably of
two or three hours duration. This
afternoon she repeated her threat,
that she would shoot Air. Butler
and the Secretary, and those who
know her say she doesn’t talk so for
a past time. Since she has grown
so demonstrative, Congressman
Sludlenharger, Airs. Ingersol and
Iter other whilom influential friends
have abandoned her.
through the town in a defiant man
ner, and mysteriously disappeared.
Prom a man who came in to-day,
it is learned that the party, who
induced him to join them and make
certain pledges of secrecy, were
organized to proceed to Yellow
stone Park. They left last night,
going on the stage-road, and the
informant escaped during the
night. The object of the expedi
tion is to coral and capture Presi
dent Arthur and his party,, and to
spirit them away into the moun
tain fastnesses and caves, where
they will be fed but kept prisoners
while the members of the party act
as pickets, to prevent them from
being captured while negotiations
for ransom are being conducted.
The captain or leader of tin 1 par
ty lias’ an idea that a heavy ran
som will be offered by personal
friends of the President, after
the search for the President’s party
has been given up, and that half a
million of dollars or more caft tlui
be extorted from the secret service
fund, and divided among the party
on the principle of the Italian ban-
diti. Tbe escaped member of the
party says that there are fid men in
the outfit, some of whom were guer
rillas in the late war, and that five
wild Shoshone and Bannock Indi
ans go along as guides and scouts,
who are armed with repeating ri-
lles and scalping knives. The lead
er is a Texas depenulo, on whose
head a price has been set, and with
the exception of two Italians, who
left the railroad grade and flew,
the others of the party are cow boys.
A grand council was held night be
fore last on the prairie, when every
man swore by bis dagger, in the
firelight, to do his duty.
Itliirkmulliin; Kclit'iiic Foiled.
board.
Ilyins to Avenge Ills Sisters’ Honor.
Van hath a, Ills., August 28.—
Louis Phillips and Jacob Ro,sen-
brook killed one another this morn
ing near London City in a duel
growing out of remarks made by
Philips concerning ltosenbrook’s
sister. Both men fell mortally
wounded at the first tire. Phillips
was a school teacher 22 years of age
Some men are so lacking in hos
pitality that they will not even en
tertain an idea.
A New Hampshire dog is sick
from biting a tramp. One cannot
be too careful what lie eats this
warm weather.
And now the modest advertising
agent is around asking the editor to
swear about his circulation, which
the editor is doing most of the time
without being asked.
When Henry was courting Sarah
la 1 used to boast that be had a “boss”
girl; now that lie is married he
finds that lie has a “boss” wile, but
lit' never mentions it.
Danger from Turkey.
Wash i ngton, Aug. 21)—The State
Department has received a dis
patch from the Tinted States (Con
sul General tit Constantinople say
ing that the sanitary condition of
that city is bad beyond description,
that tin 1 city is overrun by fugitives
from Egypt, that a visitation of
cholera is extremely probable, and
that steps should be taken to guard
against the introduction of the
disease’s germs from there into tlie
United States by means of rugs,
carpets skins and similar articles of
merchandise.
Airs. Homespun, who has a ter
rible time every morning to get her
young brood out of their beds, says
she cannot understand why children
are called the rising generation.
“Walk slower, papa,” cried the
little girl whose short steps were
no match for the strides of her mas
culine progenitor; “can’t you go
nice and slow, like a policeman?”
A (irlndstone Hursts uml Kills 11 Negro.
Richmond, Ya., August 28.—
Spencer Coleman, colored, was in
stantly killed here, to-day, by tho
bursting of a large grindstone which
was being tried for the first time.—
Coleman was standing about thirty
feet from tho stone when a piece,
weighing seventy-five pounds,
struck him, knocking the top of his
head off. One piece of stone went
through a nine-inch wall, making a
hob 1 almost as large as an ordinary
door, and another piece went
through tlie roof of the building,
tearing up the planks rigid and left.
A scientist asks, “How was man
distributed on the earth?” Well,
brother, judging from a painful ex
perience, we would say it was by
means of an insidious banana peel.
Some Chicago girl has been bru
tally made away with. A skeleton
lias been dug up at Barnard, AIo.,
and the bones of the feet show that
these members were eighteen
inches long.
the Georgia malitia, and tho ques- sisted that the idfitlr proceed in the
tion of war was not thought of. 'I lie j “good old style.” A second attempt
militia in those days were in the I was made to conciliate West, hut it
most part armed with broom- f a ih*d, and it soon became evident
handles and hickory sticks, and the tlu\t he must have a fire. Accord-
guns were to he given to tlti'ii^in the j ingly the parties were stationed,
place of their wooden weapons.— : all( | Dm word was given.
The session was the same one at j Doth fired, and West’s ball grazed
which Ben Hill made Ins famous j Mo({ After the ardor of
spooch, advocating the pardoning 1 (lu , (llK> , lul(l ( . on | n | i, y nds harm-
of (’holer, who killed an Atlanta
Postal IUwpi|its Pulllim oft*.
policeman. Hill was the leader of
llm Senate, and ex-Congressman
William II. Felton was the ac
knowledged head of the House.—
Whenever these men spoke they
ooniiminded attention, and nearly
advocated by them
went through with a rush, as each
tin* country must be transferred
fmm tho North and Hast h> its nut- j ‘‘very measun
»ml pnaltoiu at tho South. Nor is went through \
n ii . 4 i nf tlie*111 had iniliU'iu'P witli lln
Hie cotton nmnutacturc tho onl.\ , . . ,>
I,,,. , , .... , . i iiicmbci's ot bulb brilliclios.
'mmoli ot mnuutacturlug interest,
mInch is assuming Importance at When this meusuro came up bc-
tIn* South, and which lire destined fore the judicial,\ a lew
in a few years to bring Northern the attorneys of Matlm
capital mid Northern Interests to found to be Yanepps, and King F.
grief I Calhoun, of Atlanta. These gentle-
>y
lees exchange of leaden compli
ments, McGill’s* friend again ten-
t dcred conditions of agreement,
which, according to one report,
were accepted, hut according to an
other were rejected. At any rate,
the encounter ended at this point,
mid tlu 1 belligerents were soon on
their way home.
There Is bud feeling yet between
days
fly
nice,
were
tin' parlies,
come of this
mis quarrel.
and something may
curious mid mystori-
Stibsci'iptions are positively cash
It appears that the postal reve
nues derived from the sal*of upst
age stamps have fallen mf np%lie
time for tho reduction of letter
postage approaches. This indicates
Unit tbe public is making prepara
tions for the change, and are not
adding to outstanding stocks of
stamps, and that when the first of
October conn's a very large increas
ed demand for the new stamps will
bo tin' result. It is assumed that
tin'sale of postal cards next your,
will bi> less than that of the fiscal
year just ended, but that it will be
made lip In the number of stamps
sold. Nii provision has yet been
ninde for tho redemption of three*
cent stamps mid envelopes in the
bunds of postmasters. This re
demption can only take place by
act of Congress. It’ is suggested that
these thrce-ccnt stamps and envel
opes can In' used for double postage
by adding u one-eeut stamp, and
that there will be no necessity for
their redemption, w hich would en
tail a great amount of labor and
expense upon the department.
Quite a sensation was created in
Baltimore a few days ago when it
became known that tin attempt had
been made by a young widow, well
connected, to extort !£')<)() from John
Henry Keene, a prominent lawyer
and a gentleman of large means. A
few weeks ago, the young woman,
who is a daughter of John Cole, a
retired merchant, called at Keene’s
office, and secured his services to
obtain a .share of her late husband’s
estate, which she alleges is kept
from her by her husband’s children
by ti former wife. Keene had seve
ral interviews with her, but always
in presence of 1 iis law student. A
tew days ago she culled and deman
ded St.'iOO, and remarked: “If you
don’t give me tho money, 1 shall
create a scandal.” Keene delayed
matters until the next day, and in
the mean time informed the police
of flit' case. Detectives were de
tailed at Keene’s otllee, and when
lltt' young woman called for the
money, they overheard the conver
sation, and at the proper time ap
peared, made themselves known
and thus blocked the game. Keene
refused to prosecute, and thus the
woman escaped punishment. She
is young and handsome, and the
police snv, lm> been successful in
other instances. The alfair lias
been suppressed in the papers here,
and only became known to-night
by accident. Keene is a widower,
and bis wife was a (laughter of
Cooke, the New York banker. She
died a few months ago at Saratoga.
“Never would call a boy of mine
‘Alias,’ ” said Airs. Jones, of Hunts
ville, Ala., “if T had a hundred to
name. Afen by that name is alius
cutting up capers. Here’s Alias
Thompson, Alias Williams, Alias
the Night-hawk—all been took up
for stealin’.”
Jacksonvim-f., August 27.—A
dispatch from Wellborne, Fin., says
that John Dies wits shot dead to
day while riding in n buggy, be
tween Luke City and Wellborne,
by an assassin who was concealed
in a s 'hoollnnise by thi' roadside,
and fired through a crack, the whole
charge taking effect in Di*'s’ buck.—
There Is no clue to the murderer,
no suspicion, and no arrest lias
been made.
Macon, Aug. 28.—Near llawkins-
vllle lo-dnv \\\ L. Headley shot J.
L. .McIntyre twice In the breast and
abdomen, killing him instantly.
A bum-lea’s Danger.
N f.w York, August 28.—The
Senate sub-Tommittee on Labor
and Education resumed their ses
sion to-day. William G. Aloody, of
Brooklyn, author of “Land and
Labor,” was a witness. He called
attention to the fact that foreign
capitalist were purchasing vast
tracts of land in the South
West, lie' said that Hamilton
Disston, of Philadelphia owned a
tract of 4,000,1)00 acres in Florida,
and that a corporation is possessed
of 10,000 acres in Texas. English
lords and French counts were dom
inating territory three times larger
than tlu 1 Lingdom of (treat Britain,
and by this system of wholesale
farming, had driven the American
farmer from bis homestead and
into tlie ranks of wage slavery.
Wage workers were crowding the
cities, most of the small farmers
were not able to secure a decent
competency, and the only remedy
for this was the abolition of private
property in land.
A Pi'trtflpil Iloily.
Kiistmun Times.
Our renders will remember that
the rioters who were hanged tit this
place on the 2i)tli of October last,
were with the exception of Boh
Donaldson, who was sent to Coch
ran, buried in one corner of tho jail
yard. Here their bodies have re
mained undisturbed until Thursday
of last week, when they were disin
terred by order of tlit* Ordinary,
Judge Roztir,and removed to tho ne
gro cemetery, about one mile above
town. The coffins were all opened
and tlu 1 bodies found to be therein,
as they bad been buried, though in
a terrible state of decomposition,
except the remains of Joe King,
whose remains it is said arc partial
ly petrified. Tills seems to be the
opinion of nearly every one who
saw him, and Air. J. Watte, who
who made a close examination of
tlu' body, s:\ystherecim ho no doubt
about it, and adds that if the corpse
had remained undisturbed three
months longer it would have be
come a solid rock. This idea is
strcngtlied by the heavy weight of
tlu* eollln and contents, it being
estimated to have weighed at least
500 pounds,
Sarah Bernhardt says in her book
that slii' was not very pretty as a
girl. It is too late to remedy the
defect now; but Sarah can console
herself with the reflection that if
she lives twenty years longer she
will be a pretty old woman.
“1 feel so worried about Charles!”
sighed Mrs. Wildliusband. “It’s
getting late sure enough,” said sis
ter Kate, looking at the clock; “hut
I guess nothing unusual lias hap
pened.” “That is what frets me,”
and ,wiliod Mv* AVildhuslmnd; “I am
replied Mrs. AVildhusband; “I
afraid something usual lias happen
ed to Charles.”
It was a colored preacher who
said to his llock: “We have a col
lection to make this morning, and
for tin 1 glory of bonbon whichever
of you stole Mr. Jones’ turkeys
don’t put anything in the plate.”
One who was there says, “Every
blessed niggah in de church came
down with de rocks.”
A self-acting sofa, just enough for
two, has been invented. If proper
ly wound up it will begin to ring a
warning bell just before 10 o’clock.
At one minute after 10 it splits apart
and while one-luilf carries the
daughter of the house up stairs, the
other half kicks the young man out
of doors. They will come high but
people must have them.
Ten years ago two loving hearts
were separated by a little quarrel
owing to the miscarriage of an ex
planatory letter. He went West
and married; she staid East and
married, and now both are once
more free, llo lias eight children
and tin* Jaundice, and she seven
and tin* dyspepsia, anil neither lias
any idea of ever marrying again.
Truth may be stranger than fiction,
but it is not so romantic.
One of the Kansas postmasters is
more than pleased with the new
official order, lie says: “When
the wife of the first or second-class
postmaster offcially requests him
to beat the carpet, or weed the
ouiouhed, or white-wash the buck
fence, he can then draw out and
read Postmaster General Gresham's
order forhiding first or second-class
postmasters from absenting them
selves from their offices. Then lie
can go out from the sheltering roof
of Ids domicile absorbed in the
beautiful thought that ‘there is no
cloud without a silver lining.’ ”
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