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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY NOTICE. <rA U oommunloatlons intended lor title p»per m0 «t be accompanied with the full n «meof the Writer, not necessarily for pnbll. e »Uon, hot a* • guarantee of good faith. We are in no way responalble for the view* or opinion* of correspondents. THE MERCURY. A. J. 'lEHMQAX, Proprietor, VOLUME V. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE ANI) GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SANUERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1884 $1.50 per Annum NUMBER 10. THE MERCURY. Entered ee eeemd-eioea matter at M •an dersvllle FsetofBoe, April V, IMfc Saafiersvllle, Washington Cenlfi Ah A.. J. JBRNIGAN, reonime am Pcbusmbr. Subscription ...II* P* Tee* £■ S. LANGMAOE, Attorney at Law, SANDERaVILLE, GA. MAYOR. 0. H. ROGERS. LEU 1C <0 2 At LAS UR A'It. D. E. B, WELLS. A WARNING. Tho Pell Mull Gazette wernn itn readers to be prepared to understand tho word "tclphe. ra^e when they encounter it. It is to bo used to mean transportation by electricity. niHCOUlt At! Kill ENT. IMiat kills nun is discouragement. It is getting down n nlcr troulilc that destroys men. It is standing up valiantly and resolutely mocking trouble that enables mon to go through tho battle without harm. MARSHALL. J. E. WEDDON. A ZD LRJ1 LA', W. H, LAWSON, Ww. RAWLINGS, S. G. LANG. A. M. MAYO, M IL BOYER. DYSPEPSIA. Dyspepsia is cured by muscular exercise, voluntary or involuntary, and it can bo cured in no other way, because nothing but excrciso can create or collect gastric juice, which is a produot of tho humnn machine that naturo alone can rnako. MUSIC, MUSIC QO TO— JERNIGAN Bows, Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc- c. c. BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BandtrrvUle, Ob. f Will practice In the State and United Bteteg Courts. Office In Court-house. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY bbpairbd bt JSRXTXCAXT. Or. H. B. Hollifield, TiYSICIAI AND SIMM ,ly „ , ,d and returned home, now niters Ills prolesHtonal aervices to the citizen* nt Sanderavllle and vicinity. Office with Dr. II. N. Holllfleld, next door to|Rrs. Bayne's millinery store. Having recently graduated at the Unlver illy of Marylan* " J * Q. W H- WHITAKER, DENTIST, Bandenvllle, Go. TERMS CASH. Office at hie Residence, on Harris street. ADrl 18d. 1880. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, Office next doer to Mite Bayne* toUUBteT ■tore on Harris ■ treat BUY YOUR SPECTACLES, SPECTACLES, FROM JERNICAN. Wong genulno without our Trod# On hnml and for ftalfe SPECTACLES. NOSE GLASSES. ETC. HOT TEA. Hot tea 1b the bent drink In hot weather, and tho best quencher of thirst at all times and in all Bensons. It, perhaps, Is not bo nlco as iced tea, when tho mercury is up in tho nineties, but it is far moro wholesome, and is always safe to take. It also freely promotes perspira tion; but no artificial accessories will bo neces sary. TIIU MTTI.Ii DROWN MULE. There Ib a “celebrated case" In Iron county, Mo., which has at last been brought to an end. It was all about the ownership of ft little brown mule, worth about $60. It had been pending for years and had been tried many times in different courts. Thoro wero sovonty-flvo wit nesses suhpicnacd in tho case, and the oosts in tho last trial amounted to $000. Tho other celebrated mule case—that of “forty acres and a mulo”—Is still on tho dookot. ANOTIIKlt EXPEDITION. Tito Canadian Government intends to send out an expedition to cxploro Hudson’s Hay about tho end of August. It seems odd that this hag not been done before. It would ap- \ pear reasonable to supposo that tho largo section of country around this vast inland sea would be vnluab|n for settlers. Ono tithe of tho money spent on North Pole expeditions, if applied in this direction, might have been some benefit to the world in a commercial way. A NEW PENSION HIM,. There is a new pension bill now under con sideration before Congress to givo pensions to women who had married veterans of the Mcxl can war, and afterwards became widows. The disposition of our wise legislators acorns to be to continually to bunt around forsomo kind of a method to dispose of tho public funds. Why not make a clean sweep at once, and pension everybody who had anything to do with any of our wars, or wero in any wiso councctcd with any one who had. . EMJCATION. Tho leading educational question of tho hour is how shall our public schools !h) directed so that they shall inost effectually aid tho cause of labor'/ Special schools for tho promotion of the flno arts are much to bodosiral; butubovo and beyond them, and of paramount import ance, stand educational institutions in which the millions of Ixiys aud girlB growing up into manhood and womanhood shall have opportu. nitics for familiarizing themselves, to some extent, at least, with tho practical duties of ’ife. TELEGRAPHIC. A London journal tells of a gentleman who viBitcd the tolcgraph ofllco in Old Broad street not long ago. He was desirous of ascertaining how far communications on a single circuit could be extended. First the operator connec ted with a German town, then with Odessa, then with Teheran, then with Agra, and finally to tho visitor’s great delight, with Calcutta, 7,000 miles away. Perhaps if tho gentleman takes good care of his health, his old age may find him chatting through a perfected tele* phone over an equal distance. TAI.ENT. Talent that is purely physical pays nowadays, Mrs. Langtry, who can’t net a bit, made $50, 000 last year, and Sullivan, who can only fight, made $100,000. Ono is tempted, after reading tho later fact, to indulge in ft little moralizing and a few comparisons, now many mem bers of the learnod professions enrnod a qusr ter as much? Precious few. It is not surpris- ing that tho profession of pugilism is over- orowded wlion it presents chances like this one whioh came in Sullivan’a way of making a for tune in a year. SHIP BUILDING IN MAINE. The shipbuilding industry in Maine has proved moro satisfactory this yoar on th( whole than was oxpccted last spring on account of tho prevailing low froights. Last year thoro was an unusual number of tons built, and this year tho total cornea within 876,78 torn of the total for 1882. Tho work lias alao been moro evenly distributed, for, whilo there haa boon a decrease of 5,989,89 tons in tho Bath district, thoro has been a gain in oight of tho otlior dis tricts. There wore 174 vessels built this year, against 168 last year, comprising 9 steamers, 13 ships, 4 barks, G barkontincs, 2 brigs, 133 schooners, and 7 sloops, aggregating 74,708.13 tons against 75,084.91 tons last year. PHILOSOPHY. Wo have so many systems of philosophy that almost any man can bo snited. All ho haa to do to look around and talco his choice, rerhapa for a good, solid practical overy day philosophy tho first Napoleon stood at tho head of his con temporaries. His Idea was that tho concentra tion of foroo on ono given point at a given time was bound to win. This principle is applica ble to every act of llfo. Whether a man is do ing mechanical or intellectual work ho will find that ho can do it exceptionally well if lie con centrates his best mental and physical powers A t Husks. HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA., Will practice in tlie counties of Washington, Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel and Wilkinson, f in the U. 8. Court* for the Southern Dl»- trlctof Georgia. Will act ns agents In buying, soiling or f «»ng Real Estate. Office on Weet Bid* of PabUo Square. Oot ll-U Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles. foil ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, foreale. I will also order parts of Machine" that get broken, lor which new pieces are wanted. A., .J. JEHNIGAN. NECROPHOBIA. Neurophobia is the namo of a new disease. It is nothing moro nor less than the unaccount able diBliko which some peoplo have for certain streets, places and objects. It is a common thing to find in our largo cities norvous per sons, who cannot bo induced to go into certain streets or to visit certain buildings. They can givo no reason for their prejudico, hut ir by any chance they find themselves in tho objec tionable places, they fall into paroxysms * O. H. Kookbs | nervous terror. With women neurophobia concerning colors is not uncommon. It is cer tainly a peculiar disoaso. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern anil middle Stain, Five acres of ground ovor n coal mlno near Wilkesborre, Penn., suddenly caved in with a roaring sound like that of an earthquake. Fifty dwelling houses stood on tho ground, and tlioy sank from otic to three ft>ct, many of thorn being completely wreekod and tho in mates narrowly escaping with their lives. A FLOOD caused by heavy rains and freshets swept through Springfield, Vt., undermining houses, displacing street*! and ruining the cro|)s. Tho damage is estimated at $50,000 to business interests and many thousands to roads. A disastrous flood, the second in throe months, has done great, damage nt Curwlns- villo, Penn. A large dam gave way, setting adrift thousands of logs, and a number of houses and I turns wore curried away. John O. Kno has been indicted by the Now York grand jury for unlawful conversion of tho funds of tho Second National bank while president. Brooklyn nut, (in a gnln nppoaraneo in honor of the fifteenth nmmnl reunion of the Army of the Potomac. Hunting and flag, wero conspicuous everywhere, and 200,000 peoplo witnessed tho parade of veterans, Phila delphia, Boston nml other dtles being repro- Rented by grand army lHists. Generals Grant, Hancock, McClellan, Newton, Governor Ab bott, of New Jersey, and Mayor lx:w took a prominent part In t he exorcises. At tho busi ness meeting General Grant was unanimously occurlng fn Russia, 100 persons, including forty army officers, having lieen taken into custody at Kieff and 200 more nt Chnrkow. Josicrtl ToMrnK.Tr nml George Lowdorwero hanged together nt 1’ietou, N. N., for the mur der of Peter l*azinr. Until asserted their in nocence to the last. Robbrry was tho motive of their crime. Redouts have reached Cairo I hat tho Arnle have massacred Hussein Pacha Khalifa, com mander of Berber, in the Soudan, and all his family, tho garrison anil tho European tra ilers. Election riots have occurred In Brussels, Belgium, on account of the defeat of tho llbcr- als. Great damage was done to property and many persons wore wounded. The members of tho Belgium cabinet tendered their resigna tions. Suakim has again been attacked by Osman Dlgna’s rebel forces. Tho men-of-war and tho forts replied vigorously. Russia is planning for International notion against dynamiters. A tunnel in tho course of construct ion on a new railway lino in Spain caved in, nnd twolvo workmen were killed. Bussian officers are planning an expedition to tho north polo in sledges. A waters pout in Akulisig, Russian Turk* CBtau, drowned forty persons and destroyed eighty houses. and dircots thorn to tho matter in hand. This ] elected president of tho society. In the even Ing a reception was held at tho Academy of Music. A fiue in Boston partly destroyed a large rubber warehouse heavily stocked with goods, causing on estimated loss of more than $400,- 000. Sixteen firemen Wore injured more or loss severely by an explosion in tho burning building. Hibster Clymbr. ex-metnlwr of tho I’entr lylvania State senate, memls-r of Congress from 1873 to 1881, nnd Democratic candidate for governor in 1866, died suddenly of paralysis at Reading, Penn., aged 57 years. Cashier Shepard, of the Now York Cen tral railroad freight department nt Buffalo mysteriously disappeared, nnd an examination of his accounts showed that he was short about, $.’0,000. The receiver appointed to sottle tho af fairs of Grant & Ward has filed a schedule of the assets and liabilities of the suspended firm. Tho cash assets nro $15,23?.75 nnd a lot of se curities nnd hills receivable, mostly uncollect able. Tho nubilities amount, in round num bers, to $14,000,01)0. The People’s Havings bank, of Now Castle, Penn., 1ms suspended. A meeting of Massachusetts Republicans opposed to the nomination of their party at Chicago has been held in Boston. A commit tee of 100 was appointed, nnd-a series of reso lutions were adopted declaring that tho Chi cago nominees "wore named In absolute dis regard of the reform sentiment of the nation and represent political methods and prin ciples to which we lire unalterably opposed,” nml closed by saying: “Whatever ac- nction l>e taken by tho Democmtia party lit Chicago, wo, tho Repub licans and Independents, direct our commit tee to call a convention In such manner as they may deem expedient after the Demo cratic candidates have lieen nominated, nnd not later thun August 1, to take such further action ns may, to thorn, seem necessary to carry out tho sense of this meeting with prac tical effect.’’ equally tree of writing a paragraph, making speech, driving a nail or shovoling dirt. To do Ida heat work a man must put Ids whole mind into it. This was tho Napoleonic method, and thoro is common sonse, genius and magio in it. GOLD AND SILVER. Tho Director of tho Mint, in his annual re port on tho production of tho precious metals, places tho total production during tho calendar year 1883 at: Gold, $30,000,000; silver, at ita ooinago ralo, $46,200,000; Arizona produced $950,000 gold and $5,200,000 silver; California, $14,120,000 gold ami $1,460,000 silvor; Colo rado, $4,100,000 gold and $17,370,000 silvor; Dakota, $3,200,000 gold and $150,000 silvor; Idaho, $1,400,000 gold and $2,100,000 silvor; Montana, $1,800,000 gold and $G,000,000 silvor; Novada, $2,520,000 gold and $5,430,000 silver; Now Mexico. $280,000gold and $2,815,000 silver; Utah, $140,000 gout $6,620,000 silver. l’lio remainder was produced principally in Alaska, Oregon, Georgia and North Carolina. his Is a reduction of $2,500,000 gold and $600,000 silver from tho yield of 1882 —An international rifle match, participated in by English, Hootch and Irish teams, consist ing of twenty men osch, has linen con cluded at Oonglcn, near Glasgow. The score was as follows:—F.ngland, 1,817 points; Scot land. 1,810; and Ireland, 1,657. —Twenty deaths from yellow fever occurred at Havana last week. —Arrangements are being mado at Wash ington. D. O., for an international single scull race, to lie open to all oarsmen in the world, for $5,000 in cash prizes and the world's cham pionship. — An accident to a gravel train, on the Pitts burg, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, resulted in the mangling of seven Italian laborers, two of them subsequently died. —Fourteen men. crew of a small vessel, lost their lives in Trinity Bay, N. F., by the oapsis- lug of their craft. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. THE JOKER’S BUDGET. WHAT WR FIND IN THE HUMOROUS PAPER* TO SAIILK OVER, A STRANGE CUSTOM. At Monte Carlo It is tho onstom to All tho pockets of snicidcs with hauk-notos, so that it may bo seen that they did not kill themselves nn account of losses. A recent loiter from tlicro relates how a presumably dead Irishman ucceodeil in getting his pockets filled a short time ago. After losing a small sura at tho gambling tables, he suddenly jumped up, ex claimed, “I am ruined 1" and rushed into tho gardens. Almost immediately afterward tho guards heard a pistol shot and then a cry of pain, and, rushing to the spot, found the Irish man dead. It was dark, with no ono around, so they filled his pockets with money and left him to b# fonncl in tho morning. They had scarcely gono out of sight, howev- r, before the Irishman was on his feet agnin and skipping away in tho moat lively stylo. ANOTHER FALSE PROPHET. Things aro gottlng complicated in the Sou dan. Another Falso Frophet has arisen, who says that El Mahdi is not the gonuino Falso Prophot, and that ho, tho new arrival, Is tho only truo and original Prophet. In pursuance of this theory ho pitched in and defeated somo of El Mahdi’s troops. Now, if the new Falso Prophet and the old Falso Prophot will only play the part of the Kilkenny cats, the Spudan question will be fottlod without any annoyance to England. The new Falso Prophet is said to have tho power of making himself invisible, and like the Frenchman's flea, when his ene mies go to put their fingers on him he isn’t there. But that doos not seem to bo a good way to win victories. Tho British troops havo been making themselves invisible in the Sou dan for sometime snd yet they have not suc ceeded in accomplishing much In that country. TI1E ARMY OP T1IE POTOA1AC. The Society Meeting In HrooUlyn-The Officers Elected. Absenou of mind : “Yob, Obarloy in a Rou<\ enough sort of fellow,” remarks Ictu; "but then be is so confoundedly b>»ten!-minded 1 Ho borrowed five dol- :lrH of nio the other day, and when he eullud at my place to return the money, mowed if he didn’t forget what he came tve aotuall 7 borrowed another ATTAll OP ROSES. “Gonuino attar of roses,’’ remarked ft Now York chemist-, “which is made in India and Australia, costs $100 an ounce at tho places distillation. It takes 50,000 roso blooms to make an ounce of attar. They arc tho common roses, and grow in great profusion in Califor. nia, whore tho distillation of attar could be made a very profitable industry. I have Been hedge-rows near Samona, in that State, so dense with these roses that the odor from them on a warm, sultry day caused a feeling of pecu liar faintness and oppression in the passer-by. This is tho effect of tho attar that is distilled by tho heat and moist air, and Is held suspen ded, as it wero, in the atmosphore. bonnets. formorly bonnets wore considered the es pecial prerogative of women, but circumstances alter cases, and now horses may don a head gear very similar to that worn by women. A “X. Buffering- Hum.nitf. » wSl « policy, demands the providing of bonnets for all horses subjected to exposure to tho melting ‘ of a summer’s sun. A wetted sponge under the bonnet will greatly contribute not only to the horso’s comfort, but also to the pafoty of his life. Tho Socloty of the Army of the rotomao held itb fifteenth annual reunion in Brooklyn. The city was In holiday garb and the veterans paraded the streets. General Grant was en thusiastically ohosen president of the sooiety. There was a reoeption In the Academy of Muslo in the evening, at which Mayor Low and General Horace Torter made addresses. The following vice presidents were ohoson— one from each army oorps:—First, Genoral Isaac F. Tichenor; second, General Selwya Connor; third, Major J. B. Fcssonden; fourth, General Day; fifth, Major F. W. Simon; sixth, General William H. Brown; ninth, General M. T. Donohue; eleventh, General O. O. How ard; twelfth, Colonel W. 8. Cogswell, oavalry corps, General John B. MTntosh; artillery corps. General H. J. Hunt; general staff, Colonel George L. Ames, eight eenth, General E. O. Ford; nineteenth, Gen eral George L. Deal. Tho otlior officers wero re-elected as follows : Treasurer, Major Gen eral M. T. MoMahon; Recording Secretary, Brigadier General Horatio C. King; Corre sponding Secretary, Brovet Major General Georgo H. Sharpe. Tho next meeting of tho Society will be held in Baltimore. THE ICE STRANDED BRIG. Rescue of a Portion ol the Crew ot tlio l»rlg Conledernte—Thirty Still In Peril. South nnd Wont. Eleven men wero (Tossing the river in a small boat nt. Thompson's Falls, Montana, when tho cable parted and tho boat was swops over the fulls. Nine of the eleven mon wore drowned, and two other men on shore in nn attempt, to rescue Jhom also lost their Uvea Two brothers named Kennedy, laborers at Louisville, Ky., have just fallen (loirs to about $1,000,000 each, left them by nn uncle in Aus tralia. Andrew Adams, a hoy, killed his mother nnd eight-year-old sister at their home on North CreeK in West Virginia. Neighbors who visited the house found the mother and daughter dead, tho formor's head being al most smashed to a jelly, whilo tho gill’s throat was cut from oar to car. In a corner of tho room was crouched the lnd, who said that the Lord had told him to offer his rela tives ns sacrifices, and He would bring thorn to Ufo again. Isaao A. Stanley, pnyingtellerof the N* tlonal Bank of Commerce, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been arrested for embezzling $100,000 from tho institution. Ho used the money In grain speculation. A neoro boy of fourteen was lynched In Russell county, Vo., for killing n young white boy. Two lumberman-brothers named Haddock —while cutting timber in Gilmor county. W. Vo., got in the way of nn inunonso log, which rolled down upon them and literaUy crushed them to n pulp, breaking every bone in their bodies. Lewellen Robinson (colored) was hanged at Seale, Ala., for the murder of another negro, and on the same day Carlos Recio, colored Cuban, was hanged nt Key West, Fla., for tlio murder of a companion in a quarrel growing out of a game of cards. An explosion nt Loomis's Mills, near Little Rock, Ark., destroyed most of the structure, killed Anderson Caip-ntcr, the engineer, ana Elias Jxjo, and badly wounded two others. Tho mail steamer riovor, under orders from tho Newfoundland government to attempt tlio rescue of the sealing brig Confederate anil crew, arrived at King’s Cove. Captain Man uel has forwarded the following dispatch: lho brig Confederate is completely thrown up on tlio ice, and now lies on her side about sixteen miles northward of Fogo Island. Wo approached within twolvo miles ol tho vessel and succeeded in rescuing forty-five of tho crew. A heavy ice nip coming on, we wero torced to retreat, leaving the balance of the crew, somo twenty- nino or thirty men. and Captain Greene, with tho stranded vosboI. Notre Dome Bay is now completely blocked with Northern floe ice, anil icobcrgH aro innumerable in all directions. There is nothing but a little bread on board tlio Confederate. All other stores and fuel are exhausted. The sealing,crow suftored ter ribly from hunger, exhaustion aud ice bhud- ness. ' A Disastrous Flood Washington! Reports to the dopnrtanont of agriculture show a generally favorable condition of tho wheat, cotton and other crops. Mu G. Du Wkckiieulin, minUter resident at Washington for l ho Netherlands since 1868. has presented his credentials to tho 1’ioaidont as envoy extraordinary nnd mtntstor ptonlpo- ton tint- Tine House committee on elections, in the contested election enso of Campbell vs. Morey, of the seventh Ohio district, by a vote of eight to four agreed to report in favor of unseating Mr. Morey, Republican, and seating tho con testant, n Democrat-. The secretary of war having learned offi cially of the action of Colonel A. ]’. Morrow, Sixth Cavalry, in duplicating, triplicating, and even quadruplicating his pay accounts, has ordered a court-martial for tho trial of that officer. At n meeting of the House committee ou appropriations a resolution offered hy Mr. Randall was adopted as nn amendment to the general deficiency bill by a party vote of six to three. It provides that no Senator, Repre sentative, or Delegate in Congress, or Senator, Representative, or Delegate elect, and no offi cer, clerk, or employe of tho United States or any department, branch, or bureau thereof, or any ;>orson receiving any salary or compensation from moneys derived from the treasury of the United Stfttes, or any con tractor under the United States government, shall give or hand over to any person or per sons, directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing on account of. or to be applied to, Hie promotion of nny political ob ject, whatever. Violation of the provision is made ft misdemeanor, to tie punished by aftne not exceeding 85,030 or imprisonment not ex ceeding three .years, or both. The President nominated James Bartlett to lie consul of tho United States nt Santillo. The commissioner ot pensions has obtained, through tlio Grand Army of tho Republic, a list of moro than 300,000 nninos of Union sol diers, from which he is 'enabled to give nppli- MfWELLANEOrs. —Tlio Hpnnlsh Ministers have decided, in counoil, that seven of tho fifteen members of the Black Hand Anarchist Society condeuinod to death shnll lie executed at Jerez. Tlio others will suffer lifelong sorvitudo. -Tlio bill ro-cstabllshlng divorce has passed its first reading in tlio French Heuato hy a vote of 166 to 115. —Twelve artillery officers have beon arrested at Odessa, Russia, and fifty undo and female pupils in three high schools nt Kischcncff have been arrested on a charge of Nihilism. —One hundred porson* have been arrested at Kieff, Russia, on tlio cliargo of nihilism. Forty army officers aro among tho numl>or. Two lumdred arrests havo also boon mado at Cliarkow. -It is reported that a sentinel patrolling at Windsor Castle was fired at on Saturday Might by two men, who mndeth'clr escape. Increased vigilance is now shown hy tho guards at tho castle. —Report* hnvo reached Cairo to the effect that tho rebels nine days ago massacred Hus sein Pacha Khalifn, commander at Borlier, and all his family; the garrison, which wss faithful to the Khedive, and tho European traders who remained there. —The returns issued hy tlio British Board of Trade show that during tlio month of May tho British imports decreased, ns compared with that month in 1883. £8,100,000, and that the exports increased during tlio same period £358,000, as compared witli thoso of Hay, 1888. —It is reported that the plaguo has ap peared on the Persian frontier. -An election riot lifts occurred at Miedspell, in Hungary. Fivo persons wore killod and two wounded. —A'Gloucoster /Mass.) fishing schooner was run down and sunk by a coal steamor. Four lives wore lost. -Eight out of eleven of Professor Bruton's troupo of performing dogs were poisoned by somo porson unknown in Now York. Mr. llergli has offered $100 for thu detection of the mis creant. Tho dogs wore very valuable. —Tlio Bio Grande has risen rapidly at El r&so, Texas, and great damago to proporty along its banks has resulted. —Tho production of tlio precious metals in tlio United Hiatus decreased $3,000,000 in 1883 as compared with 1882. -Franoe haa assured Italy that she lias no intention of modifying the statue quo In Mor occo. —Russia Is said to bo planning International action against dynamiters. -Dynamito cartridges wore exploded in front of two churohes in Genoa. —Muoii rioting ooourred in Brussels owing to the result of the Belgian elections in favor of the liberals. A conservative oabinot will bo called to power. —The coal companies have decided to ralso the price of coal and rcduco the wages of min ers during the currant month. —A demented of the almshoned stanily killed. —Failures in the fruit trade havo taken place in New York. —Chancellor Runyon, of Newark, N. J., issued au order to the managers of the Newark Savings Institution direotiug them to show cause why they should not bo punished for contempt In loaning the funds of the bank contrary to the Chancellor's orders. —Gen. Joseph D. Williams, the first Adju tant General of the Htato of Connecticut, un der Gov. Buckingham, died at Hartford, o£ heart discaso, at the age of sixty-four years. —Tho cashier of tho Watertown, Mass., Bank who stopped in Missouri loug enough to bo arrested, was sent to State Prison for eight years. By the wreok of the aohooner Six Brothers off Newfoundland fourteen livo* were lost. —Forty-five of the orew of the lce-«tranded brig Confederate have been rescued. —A wife beater et Buffalo crushed the skull of a neighbor who interfered to proteot the woman. —A villain by setting fire to a barn in Chi cago caused the death of two men. —The Union Depot Building at St. Paul, Minn., was totally destroyed by fire. —John Knox Polk, nephew of President Polk, has been sent to an insane asylum. —John 0. Eno was indicted by the Grand Jury of New York oity for unlawful conversion of tho funds of the Seoond National Bank. —The tamous turfman General Abe Buford, of Louisville, Ky., committed stfioide at the residence of his brother Benjamin Buford, at Danville, lnd., just after tho breakfast hour. —Henry G. Von nor, tho weathor prophet, died on Sunday in Montreal. He was born in Montreal in 1841, and early in lifo began to take interest in natural scienco. —A barrel of beer exploded in a brewery at Newburg, N. Y.. killing James Quillan. His head was mangled beyond recognition. The news of the accident caused his invalid wife to become demented. —Five Italian tramps whilo walking the rail road tracks near Pittsburg, Pa., mot two trains, and not knowing how to get out. of their way two of tho tramps wore killod and one fatally injured. The title of Jauauschek's new i>l«y is " Llfo," the-author being Harry Meredith. Theatrical real estate In tho United States is estimated nt $116,030,030, divided among 2,552 t,heat res. An adaptation of Bret. Harte’s “ Luck of Roaring i'amp,” by Clifton W. Taylcuro, made for Maggie Mitchell in 1880, will po pro duced by its author nuxt season. Frank 1). Nelson, the singing comedinn, lias met with success nt the Hjginish Fort t>|iera-houfte, Now Orleans. He hns lately been ii p| h (luted assistant stage manager. Boeikl, the new ex-cab driver tenor of Hamburg, is receiving the unprecedented ■alary (for a young artist in Germany) of $375 n night, nt Kroll's theatre, in thoThiergarton, Berlin. M. Corson, in the Journal dr Pharmaeie, ■ays that a plots' of Imrux weighing two or three grains will, if nllowed to dissolve slowly in the mouth of a singer, remove all trace of hoarseness. A New York paper figures up the lame* of filtis'ii metropolitan theatrical speculations during the season, and makes tho total $486,- 870. Abbey tends off with $187,880 deficit on his oiK>rn venture, while Mspleson is set down its 418,000 short. In addition there Is said to Is* 475,000 claimed hy sundry persons m due to them from the managers, and $160,000 more is the amount in litigation. Here is tho other dial.' of the picture: Daly cleared $60,000 and llnrrlgan (V Hart still more. The Casino has done splendidly. Irving accumulated $40,000 at, the Star nnd Wallaek made money at the Htur (his old theatre), nnd tho now Wallnck’s uptown. Moro money was spent in amuse ments than in any other season on record, the gross receipts from September to May, In all tlie New York theatres, being estimated at •8.000.00) PROMINENT PEOPLE A MIOBTT OVATION. Foreigner—"Wbnt a grand outpour ing of the people. Thousands nnd tens of thousands of American freemen, and all assembled in ono spot. But what means this load acclaim?” Oitisen—“It is an ovation.” “Ah, yes; I see the recipient now on the hotel balcony. Is it (he President of this mighty Republic ?" ■Oh, no." •Somo great military hero, perhaps; or, possibly, some eminent scientist, au thor, poet or artist whom the country delights to honor ?” "You aro wrong." “Indeed I Then who is the personage who inspires such enUinslasm; what no ble deed hns ho accomplished V" “Ho is lho winner of lho walking match.”—livening Call. OR WALL STREET. It would appear, from the brii f men tion giren in the daily papers, that t here has been some little trouble 4n Wall street Borne thirteen Arms, with an aggregate capital of $7,720,000, have announced that their combined liabilities are $87,050,000. Tlie discrepancy be tween the two represents the difference between a bird in the hand and two in the bush. Thera b a powerful moral in Well street just now, but exactly how to frame it pussies the will aud makes bank rupts of as all.—J/ife. nrOISNIO SKSP-DRFXN8U. The late Gelob Gushing onooremarked to a company of friends that when be was practicing law in a certain town ho had the chair used by visitors nailed down to tho floor four feet swny from hb desk. “What on earth did you do that fort” wss the query. “Woll, everybody in that section was extremely confidential and was also ex tremely fond of fried onions aud Holland gin. It was a move on my part of hy- gienio self-defense.” Jonathan Chace, of Rhode Island, is thv only Quaker in Congress. llt.iuTSi,a Corenn nobleman, has translated th ■ Bible into his native language. Jay Gould’s lossee through the shrlnkag< of stocks aro estimated at $21,642,000. The leader of the Chineao army in Tonquln, Too Tsung Tang, is seventy-eight yean old. The family name of the emperor of Japan the 123d sovereign of that country, is Milt soliito. . M. 1’akovlteh, a Russian army officer ol thirty years has mastered twenty-one differ ent languages. Walt Whitman’s works havo beon trnnsln ted Into German nnd are now being issued in Dr.ten. Ho received $50 for his first sonnet of eighteen Hues in Harper's. The first historic novel in Icelandic hoi been published in Canada by a lady bearing the name of Torfhlldur Thornsteindottir Holm. Tho title of the novel is "Brynjolfui Bvemssou." The nowly-olected Methodist bishop, Dr. Mallalien, of Massachusetts, said at a recent reception given him in Boston that h® started preaching twenty six years ago on a salary of two hundred nnd fifty dollars a. yepr, all of which was paid. Okubdb W. Jones, to whom was first ap plied tho phrase, “tho watchdog of the treas- irreuv mv.m.. ury," is living nt Fayetteville, Lincoln paupor leaped from tho top county, Tenn., in robust health, at the age of a at Erie, Fa., and was in- eighty years. Mr. Jones served in Congress ' I for eight consecutive terms. There nro but tliree persons in the United Status who have received tho three degrees of doctor of divinity, doctor of laws and doctor of literature. Those are Profeseor Wilson, of Cornell, President Barnard, of Columbia, and President McUosh. of Princeton. CONDITION OP TUB CKOPH. Returnste(he Departmental Aprlenltnre. The returns of cotton planting made to the Department of Agriculture indicates a tenden cy to increase of sres, oheoked somewhat in the (Southwest by rains and Inundations, and in North Carolina and Tennessee by low tem perature In the planting season. Replanting was still in progress to soma extent on the 1st of June, even In the lower latitudes. The ap parent inoresse is about four per eent, It would have been larger with abetter pbntlng sesjon. The inorease in Die area of spring wheat appears to be nearly $00,000 acres, pr • per oent. No part of the Paclflo coast area is In cluded as spring wheat. The largeet inorease in in Dakota, amounting to about 400,000 acres. . . ... The condition of spring wheat averages 101 per oent., being up fo the standard in nearly every district. The condition of winter wheat continue* high. The average is 98, against 94 a month ngo. It was 76 in June last year, and 99 at the same date in 1882. Since the last report the Illinois average has declined 11 points, Ohio 3 and Kentucky 8. Indiana, Miohigan and somo other Btates show higher condition. The average of condition of the principal States are: Now York, 98; Pennsylvania, 100; Maryland, 99; Georgia, 98; Texas, 98; Kentucky, 96; Ohio. 82- Michigan, 91; Indiana, 91; Illinois, 76; and MiSBonri, 90. , . . . . Tlio increase in area of oat* is 4 per cent. The average of condition is ®8. It was 96 last year and 101 in Juno of 1882. The averages aro highest, as is usually the oase, in the Btates north of the fortieth parallel coming up to the standard in all of the Western Btstes. The general average of rye has advanced from 96 to 97. . The bnrlev average has fallen from 101 in May to 98. It was 97 last June and 91 In June, 18 lfis 97 in New York, 90 in Pennsylvania, 101 in Wisconsin, 100 in Minnesota, 97 in Iowa, 100 in Nebraska and 98 in California. Ttuw Btasos usually produce four-fifths of the crop. JUST AS If* KXPXOTKD, “This won’t go for two cents,” said • postnl clerk in a ootinlry oflioo, rottuning to nu old nogro a lotter whioh he had pnssod through tho ileliv sry window. “Whnt’s do matter wid it ?” “Too heavy." “Jos’ 'bout like I 'speoied. Dnt lotter wnz writ by my son, an’ I tolo him he wnz or writin’ too lionby a ban’, bnt ho k'ep’ on or bearin' down on his pen. I'll take it book, sab, an' git him tor write it wid or pencil."—Austin .Siftings, . GREAT INDIAN FIGHT. Reported General Kn«a*ement Between Mix Thousand Sioux Indian*. Hood. A storm of torriflo force broke over tlio village, and the mill north of the town sont a torrent of water toward tho village. So rapidly did the water rise that few had tuue to save anvthing and were forced to flee for tnen lives. Tlie ohaunel of the oreek soon became tilted with tho wreckage of houses, barns ami other buildings. Tho damage will reach $60 000 A barn connected with the Oh os Ire Bridge Hotel was torn down, killing WHhnni Parker and fatally injuring Bella Spaulding. The storm raged over three hours. about;; of their comrades, wlio can furnish the ' testimony required in their coses. 1 The value ot 'lie exports of domestic bread- stuffs during May was 411,903.044 as against $11,030,551 in May, It83. The value of the exports for tlie olevon months ended May 31, was $144,93.2,103, as against 4101,425,554 for the cofTespbiiding period in 18S2-’83. Foreign. i ■yvnni.MKAT.M amsta of alloyed nihilists ora A special dispatch from Springfield, D/ T., sayH Indians brinK reports that last week some Bnilo Sioux at Rosebud agency, «ot into a fight among themselves. Three were killed. Balance of bund, whioh numbers about six thousand, taken sides and general engagement in progress. Indians are well armed and mounted. This information comes wholly from Indian runners and may not be reliable. EnulunaP* Dynamite Seure. The London Globe says: “Tlaorc in good rea son to beliove that* the police are well on the track of tho men who caused the recent ex plosions.” ... - , i A max 1 was been arrested at Jarrow who is reported to have had something to do with the recent LcxidOD explosions. A deta*aliment of troops has arrived at lho Birmin *t,am Jail to prevont any attempt to rescue Daly, Egan and McDonnell. The son- tries ' ,*, V e been doubted and their portions are char ^ed daily to correspond with (he daily Ohf jJe«s of the prisoners’ oefl*» .. ’1-V a DTonr. He loved bor. She knew Ik She disliked him. What then? He asked her to marry him again and again. She refused. He grew nngry. He left m a pet. He told her he wiihed ItialFTtiey never bad met. fthe married another. Rhe waa happy. Hut hs Roamed the wide world over on land and on sea. He returned after long years, ner huabsnd was dead. , . ■ He proposed. She aeeepted. And »Q they were BOAnorrr op small ohanoib. “How do yon like Austin ?” ashed n gentleman, of Uncle Mow. “De town am good onnfT, bnt Iso sorry for de folk*; dey nm so pore." There aecnifl to be considerable wealth in Austin.” "Yes, dar seems to bo, tint hits all snare and a collusion. Yesterday I wanted change foalt n five-dollnr bill. I hunted all fru my iiookots, and I hain't loan’ it yet. I nebber seed a town whar hit was so hard ter git change foab a poor missuble five-dollar bill?”—Texas Siftings, NOBODY’S BUSINESS. A traveler just from the South reports the following: On one of the Sonthern railroads there is a station called “Saw* ycr." Lately a newly married oonple 1 warded the train, and ware very loving indeed. The brakeman noticed the pishing groom Mas the bride about two lundred times, bnt maintained a serene quiet. Finally the station in question waa reaehed, and juat after tho whistle sounded the groom gave the bride a rousing smack on the flp, nnd the brake- man opened the door and shouted: “Sawyer! Sawyer!" “What’a that?” responded the groom, looking over his shoulder nt the brake- i. Sawyer! Sawyer 1” Well, I don’t care if yon did, she’s my wife.”—Merchant Traveller. what rr siisANS. “Papa,” said a fashionable New 7 ork girl, "what does ‘baggage’ mean?” "Baggage?", the old mau replied; “why trunks, valises, eto.—things that you take with you when traveling.” “Ohl" said tho dear girl, who had returned from a fonr weeks* trip abroad, “now I understand. It's the same as ‘luggage.’ ” The New Irish Party. Provision Axnlnst Contrlbntloao. At a meeting of the U. 8. House Committee ou appropriations the following resolution, offered by Mr. Randall, was adopted a* an amendment to tho General Deficiency but by a vote of 6 to 3—a party vote of those present:— That no Senator, Representative or Delegate in Congress, or Senator, Representative or Delegate elect, Mid no officer, clerk or en*~ ployee of tho United States, or any depart ment, branch or bureau thereof, or any per son receiving any salary or oomp«n*»“«“ from moneys derived from the Treasury of tho United States, or any contractor under the United Btates government, shall give or hand over to any person or persons, dureotly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing, on account of or to be applied to tne promotion of any political objeoi whatever. That any person guilty of a violation of thin provision shsll be deemed gniltv of a meanor, and shall on conviction thereof be punished by a flno not exceeding $5,000, or Dy imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or by such fiue and imprisonment Dotn, m the discretion of th* Owi, A London dispatch says James Stephens has issued a circular to Irish nationalists in America, stating that he haa consented to again place himself at their head, because tho moment has ar rived when a union of all Irishmen is possible. As soon as he receives an swers from America the new conference of Irish leaders will meet in Paris. Stephens declares that Ireland shall be on independent republio before he dies. At the conclusion of the forthcoming conference in Paris, he will issue a mani festo prohibiting dynamite mnrderu He considers that those who trusted U the dynamite theory of resistance art now convinced of their error. Stephens says he expects daily to receive news that O’Donovan Rossa has abandoned his ultra-radical position and rallied a new party of moderate ideas. Thb astute sewing machine agent wears side-whiskers so as to give his chin free play.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, June 24, 1884, Image 1