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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. published evert tdesdat NOTICE. jr-All sonuaunlsatton* intended for thti P^per most b# MmapwM with the fan „, m * of the writer, not necessarily for pnbU. m Uodi bat m a guarantee of good faith. W* art 1* no way roaponalblo for tho view* ir opinion* of correspondents. £• $. LANGMAOE, Attorney at Law, SANDRIHVILLE, GA. MAYOR. O. H. ROGERS. LEEK it 271EASEE EE. D. E. B, WELLS. MAE 62/ALL. J. E. WEDDON. ALT) EEJfEA', W. H, LAWSON, Wm. RAWLINGS, S. G. LANG, A. M. MAYO, M. H. BOYER. MUSIC, MUSIC GO TO— JERNIGAN FOR MINI, MUM, Bows, 1 Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. & C BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Bandsrsvlllt, Go. win prnctic.« In th* State and United states ruuru. Office In Court-bom*. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY R SPA I RID ST JSRXTXCAXT. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, nmtui hi mmi Having recently graduated at th* Univer sity of Maryland and returned home, now offers Ills profesaional services to the citizens of Bnnderevllle and vlolnlty. Offloc with Dr. H. N. llolllflald, next door to|l(ra. Bayne’s millinery store. G. W H WHITAKER. DEN TI ST, SahdersTllle, Go. TKRMS CA3U. Offloe «t. bis ftesldsnce, on Harris street. M. 1M0. Anril U. N HOLLIFIELD, Physiciun anil Surgeon, ■aadererllle, Oa. Offloe nett doer to Mrs. Boyne* millinery •lore a* Harris street. BUY YOXJJEt, mm\ SPCCTACLES, FROM JERNIGAN, **ns genuine without onr Trad* Mark. On linnd and for sales SPECTACLES. NOSE GLASSES. ETC. A *• Him O. H. Room* HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA„ yjl 1 Practice In the conntlea of Washington, •f.j . n,on , Johnson, Emannel and Wilkinson, Si*® the U. 8. Courts for the Southern Dla- Geor «la- r.rn a .? t us agents In bnylng, selling or nil"* ®«tl Estate. o«t lbSfO* ^ r ** t * >d * ot FnbUo Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, F ° i A fiT J KINDS OF MACHINES, for sale. * w ,“' »lao order parts of Mncnlnel that get broken, for which new pleees are wanted. J. JEIINIGAN ., Stealing Stamps. Wa , a r ®P°fted at Washington that the flie "Jd been made in the Post Office De- htnm 6 ? 1 °*rtaiu of the employees of th .I,,*J 1 5 lv ‘“ion had been stealing large quan thkm *5 ne ' v stamps in sheets ana disposing of t „i* . 0 h-aide parties, and that this bad been / or a loD 8 time, the value of th “tod dolhu 811 being at several thou- A. J. JERMGAX, Proprietor. volumevT ■ARNCSP8 AZTEC CHILDRKN ar^f ° hU , dren ' Who 80 long "®« * feat- "* ° f ‘ h ° « rea ‘ mora ‘ -'‘Of, are now beyond Sir f, inin 0hio *“«• “yium. m*nt t^t^° n r.' 1 Che ° k0d by tb ® annonnoe- tTe izten 7 * Ve ° nly ,)een re ‘" r ®«d homo, the Aztcoo r ph a ns having always been idiots ot the atraightest Cancasiau stripe. T, , . , I’°NG FISH I, INKS. thev fl«h d Winncbagolako ' Wisconsin, 'L, v 7 * ix mUM long - and ®«® 20,000 hooks on a lino. One catch generally rcahzes 2,000 fish. The 20,000 hooks ary baited Piece* of meat and lowered to tho bottom. It takes twenty boats with two men in each to look after this big catch. Most of the fish a en from this lako aro sturgoons, weighing on an average seventy pounds. YOUNO WIDOWS IN INDIA. Bau-au-brali, the converted Burmese, who is attracting so much attention in this country Just now, says that in India they have 80,000 young widows between tho ages of throo and five, no says that they will novor bo married, becauso in India as soon as a child is born a match is made by tho paronts. If tho boy dios tho girl is considered a widow, and must re main in mourning for her husband as long as ■he lives. A LUCKY FARMER. Bomo men are born lucky. The recent flood In Toxas bring ono of this class prominently to tho front. Ono farmor whoso land was almost submerged found himsolf whon tho water subsided tho possessor of a raft of wood noarly a milo long by a quarter wide, which drifted on and remained. Nor was tho wood all ho got. There wero 6,000 codar rails, enough lumber to build a houso, bedsteads’ wash tubs, ohiokon-coops, sovoral kegs of whisky, and flaskB of whisky without end. TIIE BARTIIOT.UI 8TATUE. Now that Minister Morton lias accoptcd on behalf of tho IJnitod States tho Bartholdi •tatuo, what aro we going to do with it? It is a regular elephant on our hands. Tho people won’t como down with tho “dust" to flx np a placq to put it, and now tho statue is ours it has got to be taken oaro ef. It would seem that tho money for tho foundation and enough for a posey garden around it aught to havo boon subscribed within sixty days after notifi cation. A WHITE RAINBOW IN TIIE SIERRAS. In the midst of a Bhowcr of mingled hail and rain, abont 9:16 yostorday morning, tlicro was visible for a minuto or two a segment of a rainbow that lacked tho usual prismatic colors. It was a belt of puro white, circling across the misty curtain of falling pollots of snow and raindrops. In France, some months ago, the papers had mnch to say about a whito rainbow •een in that country. It was spoken of as a thing unprecedented. Twice within the past twolve months the phenomenon has been visi ble from Virginia City. In neithor case, how ever, was the bow a complcto semi-circle. CHOLERA. Aeiatio cholera, when it onco ontore a coun try, marches on & straight line through it. In ite track it leaves desolation and doath. Sev eral times when it mado ite appcaranco in America thousands of people wore suddenly oarriod off without the slightest warning. At first it is generally supposed that the disease ie dyBontory or cholera morbus, bnt in tho course of a few days all doubts aro romoved. Frequently when a person is- attacked a fatal collapse occurs in one or two hours. On ons ocoseion In India the epidemlo struck a train of several hundred passengers, and in a few hours' timo fifty dead pooplo woro dragged out. It seeme that the resources of medical scionce so far havo been found unablo to oopj with this devouring pestilonco. MONKEYING WITH AN ANCESTOR. Professor Benger wrapped a live fire-eating wasp and a lump of sugar in a piece of paper and handed the delusive packago to an intelli gent monkey to see if our muoh disowned grandfather conld be fooled. Our nimble an cestor opened tho document and caught on to the bitter sweet with alacrity, and immediately uttered a shrill ejaculation, jnmped on the table, upset a pint of ink all over 960 worth of manneoript and drawings, hurled an oxpeneive microscope through a third-story window, and continued to emaah things until he secured the Professor’s thumb, which he chewed with intense and growing enthusiasm, until the learned man killed his ancestor with a olub. He then wrote with hli left hand that a monkey can b* fooled on the first ballot, but it doc* very little good to fool him. CREMATION AND CHRISTIANITY. A distinguished preacher has been inveigh ing againet cremation as unchristian, contrary to the Bible and utterly barbaroue. If the question were open for discussion, he would find *t difficult to maintain his point. St. Paul Bays: “Though I give my body to be burned and have not oharity, it is nothing,” clearly implying that the custom of cremation pre vailed among the disciples, and in every ceme tery tho words daily hoard, “ashes to asheB," carry tho same argument. Tho question of cremation now is really one of taste, and not of Scripture; in a few years it will he a sani tary point, and an important ono. Meanwhilo a crematory is building on LoDg Island, and those who wish their ashes to roposo in an urn will soon havo an opportunity of being incin erated with neatness and dispatch. AN ODD REI.IC. Mr. E. M. Holland, who lives about six miles from Gainesvillo, Ga., has in his possession a pair of yarn gloves, worn by his father, Her. Moses Holland, during the surrender of Corn wallis to Washington, at Yorktown, over 100 veers ago. The gloves aro in a state of per fect preservation, notwithstanding their age, but at the same timo they look as if they had seen a good deal of service. Mr. Holland was a member of General Washington’s command, and a Baptist minister for sixty-six years pre vious to his death. He was married twice and died in 1829, at the advanced age of 84 years. Mr. E. M. Holland is his youngest son by his second wifo, and is himself nearly seventy /eon of sg*. The last oouple that was married by the elder Holland wa* Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Gower, who are at present living in Gaines ville. WHITE ROCK. Near Buzzard Boost, North Carolina, is a peculiar mine of white rook. This rock is ground up into a fine powder and shipped to New York where it is sold for about 92.60 a barrel Th® coarser quality ia used to adulter DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND G1N1RAL INTELLIGENCE. SANDERS VILLE. GA., TUESDAY, JULY 22, I88L $1.50 per Annum ate granulated sugar. Thii escapee without deteotion a* it ie said twenty per oent of it can bo mixed with sugar without disoovery. The finer grades of this powdered rock ore need for pulverized sugar, and family flour. Thii rock nowmakez a leading element in all of onr fancy candies, and ie laid to be much more harmleaa than terra alba. The candle* con taining this mineral adulteration are the »o- called French mixed candiei, lozengeri of all kinds, oheap (tick candies, strawberry drop*, bull’s eyes, sugar belle, and all excessively sweet preparations. The dear or otyitalised candies are not adulterated. A SHEEP CREATES A SENSATION. I ho naturaliits of the Smithsonian institute are quite excited over the presence of a live, big horn mountain aheop In their midst, for’ owing to the groat difficulty of capturing this hardy mountaineer and keeping him alive, when captured, no animal of this speoies has ever before been scon cast of the Missouri river. This specimen ie in fine, healthy con dition at present, as are all tho animate, but It is not likely to live long in captivity. It has already distinguished itself by clearing a fence ten feet higli at a single bound. It has for a companion a genuine hybrid, or orose botween itself and a doraestio sheep, covered with a mixture of wool and hair, but more strongly resembling its mate parent from the mountains than tho domestic species. Mr. Hornaday, tho chief taxidermist of tho national museum, has secured permission to photograph tho animals, and Mr. Snlollie, the Smithsonian photograph er, will be engaged to-day in taking instanta neous viows of the two mountain sheep for use in mounting specimens of tho earns kind to display at tho New Orleans exposition. A BATTI.E WITH INDIANS. Wilson, Cartoct A Johnson’s cattle ranch, In the western part of Laplata county, near th* Utah line, was attacked by Ute Indians Jnly 8. Chas. Cook and Adolph Lusk, employes of the cattle company, were badly wounded. Five Indians woro killed and a number wounded. The whites had eleven horses killed and 100 stolen. The cowboys woro driven off thoir oamp, their outfits burned, and provision 1 ; carried away by the Indians. Tho two Wilson boys, 8 and lo years old, rodo twenty-nine hours without food or rest, and arrived at Durango last night in an oxliausted condition. Tho Utes have for eomo time been causing troublo to the cattle men, killing cattle and stealing horses. One of tho Wilson men found several of the latter's horses in possession of the Indians, and under took to secure the same. An Indian attacked him with a knife and was killed. This precip itated tho fight. Seventeen thousand cattle are left at the merey of the Indians. Col. Hal, commandant at Ft. Lewis, has dispatched a company of cavalry to drive th* Indiens back to the reservation. The Indiana will probebly reach the reservation well supplied with horses and oattle before the soldiers get in reach of them. SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN FAILURES In the six months ended Jnne 80 the liabili ties of failed firm* in the United State* amounted to 9124,891,282, against 988,189,034 in 1883, and 990,680,920 in 1882, in the corre sponding period. The average, therefore, has more than doubled. The Southern States, however, present a relatively oheerful contrast to this remarkablo record. Tha comparison is of sufficient interest to date in detail, the fol lowing table showing the liabilities In each State: 1884. 1683. 1882. Alabama.... 9468,800 9489,000 91,022,278 Arkaniaa.... 636,626 279,668 622,848 Florida. 161,610 196,800 84,100 Georgia 1,866,660 1,160,868 1,142,021 Kentaoky... 1,106,042 887,427 2,646,020 Louisiana .. 8,760,989 1,498,681 2,610,280 Mississippi.. 1,480,832 809,122 1,773,290 N. Carolina.. 709,334 976,227 406,900 8. Carolina.. 687,878 667,766 626,617 Tennessee... 696,697 465,496 1,205,070 Texas 1,660,037 1,346,833 773,601 Virginia 1,659,881 885,011 917,999 W. Virginia.. 448,700 280,488 83,784 Total 915,245,785 99,909,181 914,714,101 Tho liabilities on falluros In the South were 63 per cent greater than in 1883, and only 6 per oent greater than in 1882. Hi* failures In other sections of the country, ascertained by deducting Southern fallnree from the grand aggregate, show en inorese* of 92 per oent. as oompared with 1888, and about 210 per cent, as oompared with 1882. In 1884 the Southern failures show an aggrsgste of liabili ties of 915,245,786, and those of other seotions 9109,145,497, the proportion of the former to the latter being 14 per cent. In 1888 Southern liabilities were 99,909,181; and thoae elsewhere 966,279,868, the proportion being 18 per oent. In 1882 Southern liabilities amounted to 914,- 714,101 and those of other sections to 935,866,- 819, the proportion being 41 per oent. In all references wo mean the first six months of tho years mentioned. CROP PROSPECTS. Condition nt the Staple Asrrieiiltnral Pro ducts ot the Nation. Tho report of the Department of Agrionlture for July Bays the area in corn has increased about two per cent. The total area will be be tween 69,000,000 and 70,000,000 aorcs. A few States report a decrease—Maine, Massachu setts, New York, Louisiana and Minnesota. There is a good degree of uniformity in the in crease of tho (Southern and Central districts. It is 5 por cent, in Iowa, 20 in Nebraska and 80 in Dakota. There is also an inorease on tho Pacifio coast. Tho condition of spring wheat is up to the normal standard, 100; the same as in July of last year. Wisconsin and Minnesota stand at 101 and Dakota at 102. Tho winter wheat covers an area of about 27.000. 000 acres, and unless the threshing rec ords should prove disappointing or injury re sult in tho stack tho outcome would exceed 360.000. 000 bushels of winter wboaL The condition of barley is good, averaging 98, against 97 last July. Oats averages 98: last year at this date, 99. The average for rye is 97. The oxccssivo production and low price of potatoes in 1883 liaa caused a reduction of three per cont. in area; condition is good. A large increase, amounting to nearly ten per cent., has boen made in tho area of to bacco. Fish Ntntiatlcs. The receipts of codfish at Gloucester, Mass., during the past six months have been much smaller than for the corresponding period for several years, owing to light recoipta from the Banks. Id other departments the receipts have been fair. Total codfish, 18,785,000 against 23,011,800 pounds for the same period in 1888; total halibut, 8,912,016 pounds, against 3,431,218 pounds for the first six months of tUe previous year; aggregate had dock, hake, pollock, cask and mixed fish, 2,192,000 pounds, agaiiiBt 8.076,000 pounds; total mackerel. 18,615 barrels, against 18,411 barrels; total frozen herring, 14,830,000 fish, against 16.939,000 flab fer the first half of 1883, HEWS Maiersi sal EMile State*. MWO* fording is manifested in the cool region of Pennsylvania at th* heavy impor- JS®. °t foreigners, who aro employed to work In the mine*. Largely attended meet- MJ® been held te denounce the course of the railroad and mining corporations for bringing Mils element into the coal country. Secret societies ore being formed to drive the foreigners from the districts. Tm MBigneeof Grant & Ward, the sus pended New York brokeiw, has made an offi- clal statement of the irm’s affairs. The lia bilities arc 810.702,647.72. Tire nominal assets ora 927,130,098.56; the actual assets, 987,- 174.80. ’ ’ ■any barns and sheds were destroyed, mut. trees ruinod and mnch damage to com and tobacco crops was done by a terrific rain and wind storm in the region surrounding Latiz, Penn. The loss is estimated at 960,000. a J>am BnAiisNDKn, president of the sus pended Erie savings bank, of Krio, Penn., was arreetedon the charge of embezzling 9150,- 000 of the institution s funds, and committed in default nt 9100,000 ball. Four persons were burned to death, four others badly Injured, two it is believed fo- tally, and ten buildings wero destroyed by fire in Bradford, Penn. Th* immediate dead comprised Mrs. Relbly, her two young chil* dronand*Swedish gif 1. J 8«nth and Wees, Two young ladles—Miss Williams and Miss Gibson, tioth prominent residents of Rich inond—while bathing at Fortress Monroe, were earned out by the undertow and drown ed. Thx Bank of Mobile, established at Mobile, Ala., in 1818, has mado an assignment. A fiqht between cattle men and Uto In dians in Eastern Utah resulted in the killing of four redskins and the wounding of twe white* A firs which broke out In a Toledo (Ohio) lumber yard spread over twelve acres and burned up twenty million foot of lumber. Estimated loss, 9350,000. Tiirkz United States prisoners were execu ted at Fort Smith, Ark,, for murders com mitted In the Indian Territory—Thomas L. Thompson, a white man; John Davis, a full- blooded Cnoctaw Indian, and Jack Woman- killer, alios Gal Catcher, a full-blooded Chero kee. On the same day Edward Altman and Charles Malskey were hanged at Warren*, burg, Mo., for murdering a young German. Woahlngtan. Congressman Randall states that th* wool* amount of appropriations for the ex pense! of the government for the last fiscal year was 9280,187,090.90, and the whole amount appropriated directly for the ourrant fiscal year 6186,100,477.01. Just previous to the adjournment of Coix- peas the Senate, in executive session, con firmed a large number of the President's nom inations. Tax President nominated en the last day ef the session, and the Senate confirmed Jarvis Patten, of Maine, as commissioner of naviga tion. Hermann Bruoqeman, a postofflee clerk, detected in stealing stamps, admitted hie guilt. Tnx secretary of the interior requested the secretary of war to cause the arrest of Cap tain Payne and such of his party (reported to number 1,500 or 2,000) now upon tho Cherokee outlet lands of the Indian Territory, i*i viola tion of law. Foreign. Dr. Kooh, the head of the Berlin cholera commission, who is investigating the disease in France, reports that the cholera at Teuton is Astatic, from the extreme East Ha found the same microbes there as were found in Egypt and India. The intestines being the seat of danger, fumigation is useless, He said; "The cholera will reach Germany. It will go everywhere. Having a center like Toulon it must spread." At Marseilles and Toulon the disease was on the increase, end at the latter place tho cemetery was kept open all night to allow the speedy burial of those who died from the disease. France demauds 950,000,000 indemnity from China for the recent firing by Chinees troops upon a French force in Tonquin. General Iolesias has resigned the presi dency of Peru, and a new election for presi dent, vice-president and members of con- I gress has been ordered. ■ • , | Ninety per cent, of the cholera victims at Marseilles are women. Eighteen hundred persons left the city in one day. The national division of the Sons of Tem perance of America opened their fortieth session at Halifax, N. 8. The report showed a total membership of 66,570. A Paris dispatch says that “although the epidemic does not appear to be abating in in tensity in Toulon and Marseilles, the cholera scare is fast dying out in Parte and nil parts of Franco which are not in the vicinity of the Mediterranean coast. In fact, nil the indica tions seem now to show that there is little fear of the disease spreading over France as far ns Paris and the Atlnntic ports.” Cholera has broken out hi many towns in Bpain and Italy. The laying of n now cable between Great Britain and America by James Gordon Ben nett and Mnckay, the California bonanza king, te going on actively. In the British house of commons, in a de bate on the franchiso question,Lord Randolph Churchill accused Mir. Gladstone of using private communications with which to tra- duce his opponents. A lively scene was ths result. The Mexican government offer a bonus of 960 for each Chinese laborer landed a. Guyamas. » MISCELLANEOUS. —-The U. S. man-of-war 8 water a, anchored off Bedloe's Island, New York harbor, was run into by the Gunard steamship Aurania on Friday night and badly damaged. —At Marshall, Texas, oue man attempted twice to puBh another on top of a circular saw. Tho latter ended tho straggle by shoot ing the other. —A little girl was burned to doath at Ithaca, N. Y., through her clothes taking fire. The little one's sufferings were terrible before death relieved her. —Bush flreB are raging in the Baguenay dis trict, also in the neighborhood of Cape For- mentine, Quebec, and considerable damage ia reported. —During the oelebration of Independence Day at Centralia, Mo., two men were Killed by the premature discharge of cannon. —An accidental explosion of fireworks at Oharden, Ohio, on Friday night killed a man and a boy. —The eighth annual Convention of the Na tional Association of Music Teaohers was held at Cleveland, Ohio. The officers elected for the current year were : President, Dr. 8. W. Fonfleld, New York: Secretary and Treasurer, A A. Stanley, Providence. —Several families in Brooklyn have been poisoned by eating ice cream which had boen standing for a time in copper freezera. —At election at Kecskemet, Hungary, for members of the Hungarian Diet serions riots occurred, but the rioters weie suppressed by the military. Herr Bay, a member of the Lower House, was arrested. —A conflict took place June 88 between Jews and Armenians at Tiflis, in Southern Bnssia. Tho Cossacks succeeded in restoring order. —It is reported at Simla, in India, that the Ameer is massing bis troops at Herat. —The trial of the Fortescue-Garmoyle breach of promise case has been postponed until November. —The London Times advises China to bow to France and thus obviate a possible inter- natlonal difficulty. —The (team tog H. O. Coleman exploded It* boilers at Elliott's Landing, Misflouri river, and all the crew, three white men and four ne gro**—excepting Captain Thompson, were killed. The boat was torn to pieoes and the pilot houee blown 220 yards away. —The Ohio Coal Exchange hat decided to Import Swedes and Hungarians to take the place of the 2,000 miner|i now looked oat in the Hocking Valley, alaij> to start mining ma chines. —Tho Prinoe of Monaco's' yaoht has beon wrecked off the coset of Sweden. The crew were drowned, but the bereditury Prinoe Al bert, who was on board, was rescued. —An explosion oooumid in a powder factory at Como by which six persons were killed end a number of others injured. —The Royal Armory of Madrid woe par tially destroyed by fire. —Stanley’s men, under Pollock, have had a conflict with the Frenoh on the west ooest of Afrioa —In the Court of Common Flees. New York, the schedules of tj A Grant, Ferdinand Ward, U. S. Grant, Jr.j and Jitrnes D. Fish, comprising ttie firm of Grant A Ward, bankers and brokers, who failed and made an assign ment for the benefit of creditors to Julien T. Davies, were filed. The .liabilities ore shown to be 916,792,647.72, the nominal assets 927,189,098.66 and the actual assets 967,174 80. —A cyclone swept overthe valley eight miles north of Dosdwood, D. T., doing great dam age. nonses wero demolished, stock killed and crops destroyed, and a number of persons lost —A Missouri Paolflo freight train was pre cipitated through a burning bridge, noar Chi cot*, Texas. Ton car* were wreoked and burned, and tho brakeman, named Mason, wa* killed. —At Wheeling. W. VaJ an editor and a pub lisher were adjudged guilty of having libelled the Supremo Court of that State and fines were imposed upon themj —Two young ladies were drowned in th* snrf at Old Point Comfort, Va. —Uto Indians and oowboys are at war ovet stolen horses in La Plata bounty,! Col. —Forty prisoners were the result of a de scent on a Chinese opium joint and gambliug house in Philadelphia. | —'Die Chootaws are preparing for an Inter tribal fight. “ —The fish In Lako Ontario aro dying by the thousand and polluting the watcit 1 . —Two grocery clorks Who belonged to the A. B. C. Union of New York Cllty, whose ob ject was to rob employer* to set employees np In business, pleaded guilty to potty larcony and wero sent to the Ponftenttiary for threi months each.' —Tho inoome of the tax assessment in New York city over last year Is 961,678,140. —Ovor 160 pooplo wero made very slok In Brooklyn, N. 1., from eating ioo cream at a plcnio. , I —A disastrous storm occurred in Eastern Nebraska. A number of lives wero loot. —A boy named Carey, about eight years old, went fishing on the shore of the Cook Bey, Portland, Me. He hooked a la'go fish, clung to the line, and was pulled intolthe water and drowned. —The Snperior Court of Panama impeached Dr. Cervera, President of the State of Panama, for bribeir, and named Gen. Ruiz, the Second Vioe-President, as President. Dr. Cervera re- fnsed to leave the Presidential residence, and te surrounded by friends and policemen. —The town of Lachine, Ontario, wa* nearly destroyed by fire on the 4th. Bomo forty honses wero consumed entirely before the fire wee brought nnder control. —As a party of twenty white men were re turning from e barbecue at Bull’s Head, near Mobile, Ala., and had reached the Catholic Cemetery, they were fired upon Iby a body of nogroes, said to be 200 strong. One man was killed and 9 were wounded. | —J. Dillabaugh, a correspondent, has been arrested in Hamilton, Cat., for elding in a plot to blow up the public building* there. —Two young men were drowned while bathing near Baltimore, lid. —Ex-Minister Sargent returned to America on the City of Romo and expressed himself freely regarding Biamarokl and hlfs policy. He declared the German Ohainoellor to ne working for the greet landed interact* and againet the people. --A wealthy oattle dealer wa* shot at Dodge City, Kan., by a Cornell graduate. —A ranoh near Fort Davis,! Texas, was raided by Mexloans disguised ss Indians. —A requisition has been made by the Gov ernor of Massachusetts far ex-Gavornor Moses, of South Carolina, and he will be tried on a criminal charge at Cambridge. —Indian agitations are being fomented In Manitoba and in the Indian Territory. —The city savings bank of Gloucester, N. J., has closed ite doors, but hopes to reanme busi ness again. —The receiver of the JPenn Bank, of Pitts burg, Pa., has commenced proceedings against the directors of that institution for the bank's securities whioh they helped themselves to on th* day the bank failed. —The Deoeased Wife's Sister Bill was in troduced into the English House of Lords and passed the first reeding. —The Frenoh Chamber of Deputies, after rejecting by a vote of 281 to 206 an amendment S reposing to abolish th* right of the Presl- enl to dissolve Parliament, adopted the bill for the revision of the ooinstltntilon by a vote of 414 to 118. —Consul Mason reports that the cholera sit uation is worse at Toulon, bnt that the epi- demio is stationary in France. It is a moot question whether the dinesse has actually ap peared in Paris. —Another war te imminent botween France and China. The reoent treaty is disavowed and repudiated by an influential party in China, and responsibility is assumed by the government for the Lang-Bon assault. —A minaret of a mosque at Oairo oollapsed, killing a dozen persons. —John Carpenter, who murdered hie wife Mary in New York city, was sentenced to bo hanged August 26th. —A terrible oyolone passed near Belmont, N. Y., tearing down houses and barns and up rooting trees. Several lives were lost and serious damage done. —A cyclone in southern Illinois did 9250,- 000 damage to property. Three children were killod by being crushed in falling houses. —The roof of the grand stand at Butte City (M. T.) race course fell on the Fourth, seri ously injuring a great many people. —Eleven cases of trichina, from eating raw pork, one fatal, have been discovered at Ari etta, N. Y., by Dr. Beaeh of the State Board of Health —During the fisoal year of 1884 the United States mints coined 92,658,561 pieces of tho valne of 957,880,921.66. —Grant A Ward's net liabilities are now given as 66,708,767.87. The total loss to creditors will be between 94,000,000 and 96,000,000. —The president of an Ohio railroad who fell or jumped from a trails and was killed had, it now appears, been engaged in raising money on spurious notes. I —A Virginia farmer wan whipped by masked men. He was charged by his sister, whom he aUeges to be slightly insane, with having beaten her. —The trouble in the Mobile bank* appears to be over and confidence te restored. —A bank cashier of Erie, Pa., who em bezzled 9160,000, has gone to Oajnada. —Trouble is anticipated over the proposed employment of Hungarians in the Hocking Valley mines. —Paul Morphy, the f amous ohesa player, died at New Orleans, La. Since 1876 ho hae been hopelessly insane. He was born in New Or leans on the 22d of June, 1837. —At Centralis, Pa., thJtee men were fataUy injured by the pnuaiwe epttowton of * blast. —A construction train loaded with workmen went through a bridge on tho Council Bluffs and Kansaa City Railroad, near Cunningham, Mo., nine men wore killed and a number of othera seriously injured. —Robert Oraydon was sentenced in tho Criminal Court of Bt. Louis, Mo., to bo hanged on August 15 for the mnrdor of John Davis. —Four mon employed by the Calumet Iron and Steel Company,Chicago, III,while engaged in cleaning one of the large chimneys 0011- neoted with the works, wore suffocated by the gas. —The water supply of Brooklyn. N. Y., 1s to be increased 19,000,000 gallons dally by driven wells. —Official returns of the emigration from tho British islands during the six months ended Juno 80, show that it was considerably lee* than during the corresponding period of last year. —Qxring to a quarrel certain moderate nihil ists in Russia have bcoomo government in formers. — 1 The oommanders of Portuguese war voa- sela havo aacendod tho Congo and annulled tho treatioa that Mr. Stanley had made with tho nativea. Stanley, much diaguBtcd, has left for England, —In the match game of oricket at llochdalo, between tho American oloven and the Castle- ton Olub, tho AmorlcaiiH won. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate. The Beunto recoded from Its amendment to tho naval npproprintioii bill On motion of Mr. Bayaru a vote of thanks was given to Mr. Edmunds for tho ability, courtesy mid Impartiality with which lie tiad pot-fur • 1 the duties of tho president pro tempore.... Mr. Allison, chairman of tho appropriation committee, summarized (lie work of Congress on the appropriation bilte. Ho said tho whole amount of tills yeur’B bills in exross of Inat Jrns 923,090.000. The excess ui-oso largely from tho fact that last, tear wo had no river and harbor bill, whilo tills year that bill amounted to 914,000,000. Tho total appropriations this year wero 9193,201,087.18. In respect to one or two fea tures of the nnvnl bill this amount wna estimated, but the variation would probably bo lovs than §300,000 from the amount lie had mentioned. This aggregate did not iucluilo reapproprlntlons, winch for pensions nloue this yoar amounted to 400,0:10,000, raising the aggregate to 9269,201,087'. 13. After a fow remarks by Mr. Edmunds tho Senate ad journed for tho toss ion at 3 o’clock p. M. Ilona*. Tho House session was continued through Saturday night and n part of Sunday. AH the appropriation bills except tho naval bill wore dispose.1 of.tho conference committees of both houses having come to an agreement. The Houso conourred in tho Senate amend ment to tlie adjournment resolution fixing ths hour of final nujoumment at 8 p. m. But a fow moments before 2 tho hands of ths clock were turned bnck five minutes to permit the reception of a messsgu from tho .Senate an nouncing the adoption of a resolution post poning the hour of adjournment until 3 o’clock. Tlie resolution was agreed to Messrs. Randall, Turner of Georgia, and His- cock, who were appointed a committee to wait upon the President ami ascertain whether hs hnd any further communications to make to the House, performed that duty, and an nounced that the President hud no fur ther communication to make A bill was passod increasing tbe pension of soldiers who lost an arm at the shoulder Joint to ths amount received by thoso who lost a log at tbe hip joint At 3 p. M. ths Houso adjourned without dny, and the first session of tho Forty-seventh Congress was at an end. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Remenyi, the violinist, proposes to go to Australia via San Francisco this summer. Madam Janisoh, a German octrees, will tor in England next season, under H. J. Bar- font. An American pianist, Victor Bonham by name, has had a decided success in Parte, al though he te but sixteen years of age. One of the theatrical shows of next season trill include a professional beauty to represent tho typical loveliness of each State in tho Union. Mr. Lawrence Barrett is said to havo Signed an engagement to play in English in the winter of 1886-86 in a sories of Shake spearian revivals with Henry Irving and Ellen -A-bBANt will be tho lending prima donna at tho New York Metropolitan opera- house next season under Gyo’s manngeniont. He receives a guarantee from tho stockholders of $1)0,000 for fifty-two performances, or over $1,700 for each. Sims, the London dramatist, says he mode 9100,000 last yoar. Tlie income of Sir W. L ull, the leading I-ondon physician, is 950,000. Mil- la is paints about $50,000 worth of canvas a venr, and Tennyson can get twenty-five dol lars a line for all tho poems he can reel off. Dion Bouoicault, who, it was supposed would make another dramatic tour or tlie United States the coming season, has, it it •aid, arranged for a long season in London y**r, to be devoted to the revival of hit Irish dramas and the reproduction of a new one—“The Nine Lives of Fin MacCoul.” Muss Henrietta Pollak, a young German soprano, is one of the successes of the London concert season. She made her debut at Sir Julius Benedict's jubilee, and her delightful rendering of a charming English ballad won immense applause. Miss Poliak has a voioe of high and brilliant compass, and she knows how to use it. The young lady will soon be a fixed star in the musical hemisphere. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Joseph E. McDonald mounted froift a saddler’s bench to a soat in the United States Senate. Franz Hilman, tho man who invented tha polka, recently died in Prague at the age of eighty years. Moody, the evangelist, estimates that he has mudo 30,000 converts during his last cam paign in Loudon. The Princess Louise is to execute the statue of her mother. Queen Victoria, for tho Litch- Bold (England) cathedral? Bartholdi took for the model of his statue of liberty, which is to enlighten New York harbor and the rest of the world, his own mother. M. 1)k Lkskeps says that there is no truth in the statement of the failure of the Panama excavution works. In 1888, at tho very latest, he asserts the canal will be finished. The ex-queen and king of Naples, who have been living in poverty since they were drivon from their thrones, are now rejoicing over 40,000,000 left them by the Dowager Em press of Austria. THE MERCURY. Entered as eeeeafi-eta— Eintlsx * deravlUe Peetofoce, April 9, HufiemlHe, WuUailtn C>—|y t tbs A.. J. JERNIGAN, TIIE JOKER’S BUDGET. WHAT wr FIND IK THS ■69MHH FAPKUN TO NUU HTML FORCE OF HABIT. First Director—“My greetosw, w* are rained.” Second Director—"0b, it cehm! b*. r "Yes, it te true, too true. Tbe Presi dent ho* *o watered hi* stock that il to not worth the paper it te printed «*." "The President did it, yon my f” "Ye*; he ha* oonfeaaed.” "Well, wc might here known better than to elect him to that position.'’ “Why so?" "We should have ret force of habit.” "I do not understand.” "He was onoe a milkman.”—PMlm, Evening Call OONHOLINO, Mndnme D’Aroy—"Why do yon weef^ my poor woman ?” Weeping Womnn—"My son ha* jn*> been hung.” • Mndnme D’Aroy—"Happy mother P Weeping Woman—"Happy I” Madame D’Arcy—"Ye*. My .on te alive, bnt he t* a dude. ” A OOOD MAKE. "Were you nware of the fact that the Parisians call a Wall street panic a krneh ?” asked a man the other day, whose Frenoh pronunciation wm not of tho best. "No,” replied bis companion, "bnt it falls short of the mark. ' Now. scratch would be a much better name for il It oromea so many people ont of bnsinsss existence, yon luiow. ^’—Boston Budget BETTER THAN NOTHING. "I haven’t seen a man in a month ot Sundays,” writes a Yasaar girl. "W* were ont taking a ‘constitutional’ Satnr- day and came across a scare orow in a corn field. All the girl* ran for it nt onec, and I only managed to aeonra a part of one of the ekirta of ita coat. Still, it was something.”— Pittsburgh Chronicle, FADDT HUBFHT. A bronzed and weather-beaten nun stood in the box of the Yorkvill* polio* court one day laat week. “What te yoar name ?” aaked Jnatioe Welde. "Faddy Murphy," answered th* man. "Where were yon born ?” "Italia.” "Why do yon give an Irish name f” "Itallano get-a no show." ADVANTAGES OF A TRADE. Wise Father—"My son, I want yon to loam a trade.” Son—’ ’A trade ? What trad* f" "Anything. Beoome a machinist, a carpenter, a blacksmith, a bricklayer— anything, bnt learn a trade." "Why, you have not lost yoar money, have you, pa f” "No, my money te secure, and yon will never lack for wealth. Bat I want yon to learn a trade, work at it every day, and be snre to go to and from you labor in yonr workinjr clothes.” ' "Mercy on me I Bnt what for 4” "Jt will keep some fool of a woman, nil airs, selfishness and vanity, from marrying yon.”—Philo. Eve. Cult AN UNLUCKY DAT. "I do not believe in this nonsense about Friday being an nnlnoky day,” said Mrs. Minks. "Don’t you, my dear f” replied Minka, who was a trifle out of hnmor. "I be lieve in it though. Friday yon will re member wait the day I was foolish enough to ask you to marry me.” "Ah, yes,” Mrs. Minks responded, "so it was, and I was foolish enough to accept yon. Yes, Friday te on onloeky dav."—Phila, CaU. THAT SWIM WOMAN. Mrs. Pastoral, who spends a few months every year at her country home, chanced at one time while there to be without a cook. A neighbor, ouespre- hending the situation, made bold to sail upon Mrs. Pastoral and nuest a wo man whom she thought might make on excellent servant After mentioning some of the good point* of the woman she recommended, she flntehed by say. mg: "I don’t snppose you’d have any ob jection to her being e Switch woman, wonld you ?” "You mean that she makes switches?" asked Mrs. Pastoral. "Oh, no,” said her neighbor. "J mean that she’s a Switch woman—that she comes from there.” Mrs. Pastoral learned afterward that her neighbor meant that the proponed cook was a Swiss woman. FORMER EXPLOSIONS IN ENULANP. Prevention ol Cholera. Tho Secretary of the U. 8. Treasury has is sued a circular to customs officials in regard to the prevention of oholora, of whioh tho follow ing is a copy: It has been brought to tho attention of the Department that persons from tlie infected i districts of France are leaving in considerable | numbers by ether than Frenoh lines. You will therefore require ovidenee that none of the baggage of immigrants or returning trav elers has been shipped from the infected dis tricts since June 20, 1884. A certificate of the loool quarantine officer to the effoct that no danger to the pnblic health need be appre hended from allowing the landing ot any passenger's baggage may be accepted as eu- titling snoh traveler or immigrant to land his effeota j Haw the Dynamite War has been Wane* Aaninst Knalnnit ter Seventeen Years. Many have been the explosions in England, chiefly in London, since the Olerkcnweli outrage seventeen yean ago, and fow have been the oulprits snooted in connection with them. The following are two of the moet noteworthy attempts of this character: On December 13, 1867, »t four o’clock p. m., three men, accompanied by a wo man, rolled a barrel np to the wall of Glerkenwell Prison, where Biolwwd Burke, the Fenian, wm confined. On* of the men remained and fired tha bar rel. A terrific explosion mmut, injur ing every house on the opposite side of the street, and, in fact, utterly destroy ing some. Several lives were lost and many persons were injured. Barrett was the man who fired the barrel. He was arrested, tried and executed at Now- gate Jail in 1868. The prison ilneU es caped injury save for the blowing down of a portion of the wall. Burke wm not rescued. In Maroh, 1881, an attempt wm mode to blow up the Mansion House in Lon don. A box containing forty pounds of compressed gunpowder,was placed in a passage at the east side of the baifating, A passing policeman noticed tlm team ing fuse, pulled it away and extin guished it on the ground. Th* Lewd Mayor and his family were sleeping in the Mansion House that night.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, July 22, 1884, Image 1