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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. published evert tuesdav i NOTICE. W - A U oommnnlcatlon* Intended for thli paper must be accompanied with the ftaU 0 , me of the writer, not ncoeaeorlly for pnbtl- „ tl on, but u • guarantee of food faith. We are In no way responsible for the TiOWI gropiutoua of oorreapondenta. MERCURY. A. J. JKRNHJAN, Proprietor. VOLUME V DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND ORNKRAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 per Annum SANDERSVILLE, GA„ TUESDAY, AUGUST 5. 1884. NUMBER lfi. THE MERCURY. entered aa eeeond-elaae matter at I derawUle Poetoffloe, April ST, 1M Bandemllle, Washington Coaitft fits nmam ii A. J. JERNIGAN, PaomnoB abs Poai.iaw—. Subscription....—.— II Jl per Teat E- S. LANGMADE, Attorney at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA. MAYOIl. 0. H. ROGERS. u:r?K <c- 2ft#Astrft#ft, D. E. B, WELLS. MAftSIIAZL. J. E. WEDDON. At ft#ft MBA'. AV. II. LAWSON, Win. RAWLINGS, S. U. LANG, A. M. MAYO, M il. BOYER. MUSIC, MUSIC GO TO— JERNIGAN Bows, Strings, R osin Boxes, Etc. C- C BROWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BandererlUa, Oa, Will prnetlMtn theHtateand United SUM Court*. Office In Court-house. Watches, Clocks And JEWELRY RRPAIRID BY JEF.1TICAIT. Dr. H. B. Hollifield, PHYSICIAN ill SUEIIEON, Having recently graduated at the Univer sity or Miuylanu and returned home, now otters bis prolesalonal aervtcea to the oltleena ol Hsmlorsvllle and vlolnlty. OITlco with lir. II. N. Holllfleld, next door to|Mre. Boyne’s millinery store. 0. W H WHITAKER, DENTIST. HnndcrsvIUe, Ga. TKit MS CASH. Utlli o ii t hit Residence, on Harris street. A m l 1 Id. 18*0. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, BaaderwUle, Office nett doer te Mm. Bayne* mUllaery store on Hams attest. BUY YOUR SPECTMMS, SPECTACLE':, FROM JERNIGAN, Hone gaunt no without our Trada hart On hand and for sale, SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES. BTC. O. H. Rooxas HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDERSVILLE, GA„ Will practice In the counties of Washington, Jefferson, Johnson, Emanuel end Wilkinson, anil In the U. S. Court* for the Southern Du- trlotof Georgia. . Will aot as ugenta In bnylng, selling er renting Real Estate. , _ Office ou West slda of Pnblio Square. Oet ll-tf lieutenant oreely. Lieutenant Grccly, who was rescued by Com- mender Bcliloy, is about forty years of ago. Ho is not a graduate of any of tho military academies. Ho served through tho war as a private in tho federal army. His present rank is that of ilrat lieutenant In the Fifth cavalry. IIA It II DRINKER*. As hard drinkers tho English are nowhere by. tho sido of tho Danes. Statistics show that in England tho consumption of ardout spirits averages ouo gallon a head annually. In Den mark tho averago is four gallons. Notwith standing tho wide difference between the two countries in tho matter of drink the propor tion of crime and pauperism in caoh is about the same. TEA AND COFFEE. Why do Englishmen, Russians, Australians end Chineso all drink tea, while Frenchmen, Germans and Irishmen all drink coffco? Coffeo is the bettor stimulant of the two, blit tea is easier of digestion. In Amorica thoro aro many tea drinkers, but coffee leads in publlo favor. Tcmpcranco people will bo interested in learning that medical oxperts have great faith in coffco as a substitute for ardent spirits. Generally when a man is able to obtain roally flrst-class coffee he has no dcBire for liquor. THE CHOLERA. lho steady spread of / cholera in southern Franco leaves littlo room to doubt that tho plague is on an extended tour. Tho require ment that all vessels leaving the Infected ports shall carry clean hills of health amounts to very little. It is tho opinion of medical ex perts that cho 1 <a will cross tho water and make its appoaranco in this country sometime in tho latter part of tho summer or possibly ns late sb Novcmlwr. Taking tho wornt view of the situation tho sanitary authorities of this country havo several weeks in which to lnako their preparations. Thorough clcanlincsB and a rigid quarantine are the only safeguards. CIIAKI.KY HOHS. ~ Tho father of the ill-fated Chnrlcy lions told a reporter, tho other day, that ho had, sinco the disappearance q( ids son, examined per sonally into over 700 cases of kidnapped boys, traveled thousands of miles ahd spent over ♦60,000 in the vain endeavor to trace tho lx>y. Tho Hoes case dovolopcd the faot that thero is hundreds of missing children in this country every year, but whether they aro stolen or simply lost, it Is impossible to say. Tho extra ordinary offortB mado by tho police to hunt up littlo Charley and his abductors effectually checked tho crime of child-stealing. Few criminals caro to commit an offeuso which at ohco transforms every father and mother into a detective. The risk is too great, and the profit at best is very doubtful. CHEAP IRON. Iron and steel are qpw nearly as cheap as they over were in this country, the Lackawan na iron and coal company’s recent quotation of ♦SO a ton for steel rails being tire lowest ever named in tho United Htatcs. Similar rails were quoted at t35 to ♦SO a year ago, ♦86 in 1880 and ♦172 in 1868. Tho average price of good American No. 1 foundry pig-iron now to bo bought at the shipping ports fo r ♦19.60 to 120 a ton, has been about 129 for tho past forty years, the lowest price, 110.60, being reached in November, 1878, and the highest, #74, during the war, while In Febru ary, 1880, It was $11. Hardly any Iron is be ing imported and as railroad construction is comparatively at a stand, still quotations will probably remain unchanged for tho present. HAY FEVER. The viottms of hay fever have discovered that there is no known oure for their annoying malady, but it will be some comfort to be as sured that there is a way of warding off the disease. Dr. Dio Lewis, who has been subject to hay fever for many years, says that tho general Immunity enjoyed by women may be traeed to their table temperanoo. Many men of sedentary habits eat as heartily as farm laborers during hot weather and there Is little doubt that their table excesses bring on the fever. By adopting a vegetable diet, end exer cising freely in the open air, the hay fever oan be prevented In the majority of oaeee. This Is one of the lnetanoee in whloh an ounoe of pre vention ie worth a pound of ettre. When the dleease once faetene Itself Upon a person) it is almost oertaln to strike him every year A novel Flan. Pinkerton, the great deteotive, once adopted a novel plan for establishing the guilt of a bus- peoted murderer. He was employed to work up a oaee agalnet Johnson, a oolored man, In South Carolina, who was supposed to have committed a very brutal murder. Johnson wai not arrested, nut one morning when he went to take hie plow to the field be found It spattered with blood. In the field he found little pooli of blood. When he went back to the stable he law the bloody Imprint of a hu man hand on the door. Every hoe and rake had blood on it. By nightfall the murderer was paralyzed with fear and afraid to go to bed. He believed that the spirit of his victim was haunting him. Tho next day ho out his throat from car to car, and his suicide was regarded as conclusive proof of his gnilt. THE CHOLERA PATIENT. A cholera patient feels well up to within a few hours of the attack. Sometimes he is seized with violent purging and vomiting im mediately on riBing in the morning. Judicious treatment during this first stage of the disease may bring about a speedy recovery, but if neg lected, the sufferer complains of intonso thirst and a burning heat at the pit of his stomach, and also excruciating pains from cramped muscles. Tho pulse iB rapid and weak, tho respiration hurried and tho voico husky. These conditions continue in the last stage of the disease, but the mind of tho patient re mains dear, and he desires nothing but sleep snd drinking water. This stage seldom lasts longer than twenty-four hours, and reaction either commences or the patient dies in col lapse, or paeees on to the tepid stage, which, In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, ends in death. _ foot to the end of tho torch in tho outstretched hand is 187 feet, 9 Inches i tho pedestal of gran ite will bo 83 feet high, and the two together will givo a grand total of 220 feet for tho ontlre work. Tho monument oh Fish sttnet hill i« ohly 202 feet high, and tllo famous colossus of Rhodes stood only 140 feet without his stock- lhgs. Home people predict that tho statue will never stand, and that tho winds and waves will play hovoc with it. Tho engineers, how ever, aro of the opinion that it is sufilciently substantial to hold its own. The artistic merit of the figure Is considerable. The poso is the atrical, tho drapery massive and fine, and tho general effect imposing. It is certainly a mag nificent gift, worthy of Franco, and worthy of America. MII.K CULTURE. Bilk culture In this country Is still in the ex perimental stage, and tho result Is doubtful. Hon. John Ryle, an oid silk manufacturer of Patterson, New Jersey, lias recontly visited the south with a view to encouraging the culture of silk among the colored population. Tho result of his tour is rather discouraging. Ho says that the silk growers in tills country at tempt too much, and milesB they chango their methods they will never accomplish anything. Mr. Itylo advises onr silk growers to conflno themselves to raising cocoons and the pro duction of eggB for seed for tho next doaen years. Wo must first make It att established fact that the supply la ready hoforo tho do main! for pierced cocoons will I to transferred from foreign Countries to America, it will take years of cocoon raising before tho reeling of silk can bo mado practicable hero. It is worthy of note, however, that othor experts differ witli Mr. Ryle. Recently Mr. Virion dcs Lanriers has established in Mooro county, N. O., a colony of Frenchmen who will dovtffo tliemselvos to silk culture. There aro thirty families ill tllo colony and 200,000 mullterry trocB will bo planted at once. Another French colony will shortly be located in North Caro lina, and like their Moore county compatriots they will mako a specialty of silkworm raising. Just why North Carolina should have been se lected is not explained. It ia generally believed that Georgia is as well suited to tills itldlistry as any state itt tho thiloil. PROTECTING AMERICA. LATEST NEWS NOTES. dat^enihgs of interest to All, At Home and Abroad. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, for ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for sal*. I will also order parts of Msontnes Hint get broken, forwblch new pieces nrs wanted. JED 1VIO-AN. htatue of liberty. ——i- - ■" The Bartholdi statue of liberty for the bay Whatever busies the mind without corrupting it has at leant this use: That the United Sta g country The it rescues the day from idleness; and he be transported to p almost "bit is never Ulle will not often be dimensions of thta ootoffiJl statue^are^lmost vicious—indeed, if wisely busy, he oan- inoredibly large. Thefig . . not bo so. .feet) the extreme, length from the sole of the A Proclamation by the President ol (lie Culled Nlnle*. Wlillo qltaratttlno regulation! att) commtttod to the several HIKles, tho general government has reposed certain powers in tin, I’rosi lent, to be used at ids di-oration in preventing a threaten d epidemic. Feeling it my duly, I hereby hill upon all porsona who, unilbr existing systems in the several States, aro intrusted with tho execution of quarantine regulations to bo diligent and on the alert in order to provont tho introduction of tho poatib nco which, wo all regret to learn, Iina mado its appearance in some of tho coun tries of Europe, between whloh and the ports of tho United Htatcs intercourse is direct and frequent. I further advise that tile cities and toWttl of the United Btates, whether on the coast or on tho lllieB of interior communication, by sound sanitary regulations and tho production of cloanlincss, ho pri pared to resist tho power of tho disease snd to mitigate its severity. And I further direct tho Consuls of the United States in tho ports where the pcs'ilonoe has made or may mako its appraranco to oxor- olse vigilance in carrying out the instruotions heretofore given, and in onmmunlcating to the government of the United States any Infor mation of value relating to tho progress or treatment of the disease. Given undor my hand and tho seal of the uni ted States, at tho City of Washington this nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and of the Independence of the Unltod States one hundred snd right. Cuestkb A. An nual. By the Presidents Fb*D T. FniLtNOHUTSBU, Secretary of State. At the meetihg of tho Cabihot, At Washing ton, it was dooiuod to tako prompt and vigor ous measures to prevent tho introduction of cholera into tho United States. The State and Treasury Departments will act In conjunction in enforcing the regulations which are to be propsred. An order will be lssuod prohibiting (be importation of rags from all infected coun tries for a period of ninety days or for a longer period If deemed necessary. It was also de rided that the vessels of the revenue marine service should establish a Cordon along the oosst to prevent the landing of all vessels from foreign ports whloh do not possess dean bills of health. A Parisian llenaatlsa. The body of the well known financier Volk- ntar was found in the Seine with s bullet through the head. His ring, whloh was a val uable one. and all his money except fifty cen times in the waistcoat pooket were missing, M. Volkmar had recently been greatly depressed on account of monetary troubles, He was last seen on Thursday last at midnight in the pa vilion Henri Quatre, in La Me. St, Germain, with a lady with whom ho Is supposed to Bate had intimate relations. SI, Volkmar webt to Now York In 1881 and loaned AJjOOO. He then proceeded to London, Where ho started the Faure Accunilater Company. He sold his share in the company for a compara tively small sum and camo to Paris. Hsre ho speculated on the bourse, and despite losses he recently declared that to had a monthly In come of 4,000f. The theory of murder is fa vored becauee Vnlkmsr's pistol was found in his residence untouched. If he committed suicide he must needlessly have purchased an other pistol. Tho affair causos a great sensa tion in 1‘ariB. Incidents ol the I’lngue Isolated cases of cholera continue to bo re ported in various parts of France, boiuo widely distant from tho infeclod district. A wo man living at Courbevoie, a village only a few miles from Paris, was seized with sporadio cholera on Thursday. She was at once convoyed to the hospital, and her lodging was thoroughly disinfected. No ap prehension of further cases is behoved to exist in the community. Two cases of chol era have occurred at Narbonne and at 8k Nnzairo, a village not far from Toulon, two deaths from that disease have occurr jd One of these deaths was of an especially pathetic character. An unknown woman was soized with the dread disease while passing along tho street. She foil prostrate to tho ground and expired immediately. A pitiable case is reported from Marseilles. An old wo- mun of ovor seventy years was missing for sev eral davs. The police at last forced an en trance Into her lodging. They found her body upon the floor in such a condition that she must have been dead for some days. Exami nation proved lhat she was a viotlmof oholers. She had lived almost exclusively on fruit. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, has asked the Councils for $10,000 to enable the Quaker City to mako a good allowing at the Now Or loans Exposition. — 1 The defunct Manufacturers’ Bank, of Mil waukee, offers twent.i -live cent* cash, and seventy-five oonts in equal paymonts at one, two and three years. —The Grand Jury of Petersburg, Va., have not concluded their inquiry into the failure of the Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank. -Green’s Bank, at Jackson, Miss., makes an excellent showing by the receiver's report. —Bnnday afternoon Rairnv 1 Hmllh and Ills fifteen-year-old daughter were walking on tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track, near Blianer, Pa,, when they were struok by a freight train coming in the Opposite direction. Smith Wat Instantly killed, and his daughter fatally injured. — Pauper immigrants continue to srrivo in New York. The Commissioners of Emigration have resolved to sond them all back. Tho Westphalia brought thirteen Baturday. —A Gorman woman has arrived at Castle Garden, New York, who claims to be 112 years old> —Three likes Werb lost in the Uirhtfig of k soow near Tolodo, Ohio, Baturday. —Considerable damago was dono near Kings ton, N. Y., to the fruit erop by hailstones, on Baturday. —A locomotive boiler on tho West Caroline Railway bnrat on Thursday, killing three men snd injuring several others, —Tho chiiso of lho oaiioo AilAniis lias rcachod a disastrous' termination. Hlio was abandoned at sea. Her occupants arc safe at l’oitamuuth, N. II. — Seven steamers ssilod for Europe Baturday and only ono had a good load of passengers. Agents admit that the bottom has dropped out of tho summed tt-akel scaaoil. —A stepfather about to punish a boy led the latter to jump into a rapid stream in Virginia, and leaning in to aavo tho lad, whose hands were tied, both wore dlbwniid. _—The snsrciifRt, Knmmer, In prison at Vienna, hits confessed to tho murders of tho banker Lienliart and Hcntinol Adels of Htras- bourg, and of tho bunker E sect at Htiittgnrt. He declares that Htcllniachcr and other anarch ists sssisted him In tho execution of ids crimes. —'Tho now sehome.fdr the extension of rail ways In India is for the purpose of Humiliating the export of Indian grain to England. —Tho English lories have organized a coun ter demonstration lo tho movement favoring tho Franchise hilt. — The number of deaths from cholera in Francois much atignutiled, and the conso qiient panic is Very great, —A conductor on the Nlcket Plate Railroad knocked a thtmU off liU tr-iitt jtnd iltldbr Its Wtibols caitsing ratal injuries. Tho trimp, wlio had several hundred dollars in his possession, left it to his sister. —A very tragio olopemont is reported from Louisville. A divorced ooitplo were eloping to romarry when tho husband accidentally shot tiie driver of the hack. -The private banking hmtso Of F. G. flail ills suspended. Liabilities ♦100,000. —Green's flank, of Jackson, Miss., has sus- icnded for want of ready cash. It la bellevod hat all creditors Will bn pXld in fiiU. -'Thb liricklayora of New York wont on striko for a working day of uino hours Instead of ten. Tho demand wa< in many eases com plied with, and tho mon aro confldont of an early victory all ovor tho oity —A young man who prevented one boy from ill-treating anotl or, In Chicago, was shot by the father of tho first tiny, Wednesday. The fin man nf a locomotive mtirdored hla engineer at JaOksott, La., Wednesday. , —Tllb most i xtemlvo dry goods ahd notioii house in Bt. Louis faile>d Wednesday. —The Canadian rlflo bam won tiro Kolapore Cm at Wimbledon. - -At Cortland, N. Y., on Wednesday, while Barnnm, Tailey A Hutchinson's circus was giving its afternoon performance to an au dience of 6,000 persons, a heavy storm of wind and rain camo up and Btruclt tho font, which fell ovor on all the people, causing a panic, in Which tiro horses trampled upon and injured Seventy persons, but none fatally, although it is feared that floVcral will dib. —Tlio miners’ striko in tho Belleville, 111., section lias fai'ed because of the destitution of tiie minors. —Tlio brig Clara M Stoddard, reported with yellow fever on board from Havana, lias been quarantined at Boston. —Tiie Canadian exploring expedition to establish stations in Hudson's Bay sailed from Nova Scotia oh Tuesday. — Matty of the ptockltoldct-s of tho Rochester and Pittsbui'g ltailtoad Company aro At odd* witli tlio management, whom they charge with trying to wrack tho company. —'There wore at least forty thousand specta tors present in Central Park, New York, Tues day, to witness tho unveiling of the stntue of Beethoven, which was presentod to the city by the Beethoven Maeunerohor. —John 0. Eno, the embezzler, has rented a liahdsome hottee In Quebeo, where be will re side with ids wife snd family. —Lieutenant Greek's party are steadily im proving in health under the bare of surgeons at St. John., —Queen Victoria has congratulated Iffest debt Arthur on the rescue of the Grekly sur vivots, —The lose at the great fire at Wapping, Lon- don, amounts to ♦2,600,000. —M. de Lesscps announces that the com' mission stndying the question decides that the Suez Canal must be widened. —M. Ferry expeots a speedy solution of the Chinese difficulty, and there seems to be in'htf d!* 1 will pay the indemnity —A Viehna correspondent says Bardowsk has confessed that a plot to kill the Osar am Cearewitch was arranged at Bt. Petersbutrt. On Bardowskl’s information more government employee* and eleven students have been *i- rested at Warsaw. Among those arrested st Bt. Petersburg is Vera Fillpoff, who is wanted for having mado attempts upon the llfo of the Czar in 1870 and 1881. —Adelaide Histori, the tragio aotreea, has made a oontract for a tour in America. Bhe wilt play In English. —The rresidenoy of tho Belgian Chamber of Representatives has been offered to Herr Simons, member for Brussels. Baron Dane- than presides ovor tho Scnato. — Ilie Mississippi Railroad Supervisory law of Mississippi has been declared unconstitu tional. —Tho National Prohibition Convention mot at Pittsburg, Pa., and formed a permanont organization. —United States detectives havo mado the important discovery that the Cuban revolu tionists have shipped from New York city to t depot of supplies at Nassau, Now Providence, a large .piantity of war materials, including dynamite. A contract for 1,000 pounds of dynainito is said to have been pending. —It is reported from Tangiers that a French comedy troupe traveling through Algiers has beon massacred by the Arabs near the Moroc can frontier. -Twenty-nine deaths from yellow fever oo* curred at Havana during the past week. — One hundred arrests have been made at Warsaw, Russia, in oonnection with the plot to blow up the palaoe there during the Czar's viiit. The prisoners lnolude Russians, Ser vians snd Bulgarians. —More than elxty thousand persons at tended the third Sunday concert In Central Park, New York. —Officer* of the revenue cutter Corwin give an account of a visit to a recontly uplieaved volcano in Alaska, which spouts only steam and aBties. —Nine cars of an excursion train ran off an embankment near Canton, O., on Saturday, but no one waB killed. —A heavy rain and hail storm did great damage to orops and highways in Vermont. —A new comet is reported aa having beon discover^ by an astronomer at NwbviUo, Tepm r —The English agent st Meshed, in Persia, telegraphs that tlio Turcomans in tho district Southeast of Sarrakaa have submitted to the Dear and acknowledge tho claim of linssla lo ausotb Pehjdkd. Tlio convention between fl]ta!n| England and Germany, recognizing Spain’s sovereign* ty over tlio Hooloo Archipelago, has been signed by all tlio contracting Powers. —A mob nttackod the Salvation Army Hall, at Bienne, Switzerland, snd completely wrecked tho building. Tho police wore powerless to prevent tlio assaults, a* the mob greatly out numbered them. —In the English House of Uomnluns, tho Right Hon. George Dodson, Chancellor of tho Duchy of Isxncaster, stated that the customs officials pro|X>sed to soparato butter from but- tcrino and olcomaigarlno in tlio customs re turns. —Lieutenant Greely telegraphs to his friends In Newlmryport, Mass., tliat his physioians consider a public reception there Inadvisable. —A locomotive Crashed Into a street railroad car noar Troy, N. Y., resulting iii tllb killing of an old lady who was a passenger on tho latter. —Tlio Virginia law preventing officials from taking part in politics was doolarod unconsti tutional. £ —Tlioftt ware. 223 failures. In tlio United States during tho past wfiek, According to Brad*trrvt'» report. Of these 01 wore Iti tile Middle Stutea, 29 in tho New England, 82 in the Southern, 73 in tho Western snd 80 in the Paciflo States and Territories. Thoro were 16 failures in Canada. .-- The Greenback Convention will meet in New York cltj August 97) to appoint a full set of electors. —President Arthur has set asido his nomi nation of Mr. John Jnrrott for the head of tho ncit> NHtltfnSl bureau of Labor and lias ap- ininlod Mr. M. F. IlolaertUan, of Illinois, lo lie position. —Over six thousand packages of adulterated tea were rejeoted at ttie port of New York dur ing tlio past month. Tlio Canadian authori- ‘i-H liaVo decided to admit into Canada no tea titeli has bean rejected by tho United States Littibriticl, —Fifty pauper immigrants, forced to rcltlHI to Oornmny on tlio steamer Westphalia, earned a torrlblo scone at the Hamburg pier in Now York, and wore treated witli unnecessary se verity. —At Sltamlco. near Green Ray, Wia., Joseph Ashley's liirco littlo children left home early in tiie day to pick berries. Not returning soaroh was made atnl their bodiea Were found In a stroltin iifcitr Ity. TheJ had stripped and gone in wading. T he victims fffets bitter aged 9; Hotiry, aged 7, and Freddy agod 6 yeafs. —Tlio rolief ships witli tlio survivors of tlio Grooly expedition are to arrive st Pnrtuinnth, N. II., August 1st. Tiie bodies of me dead will bo sent to Genoral Hancock, at Gov ernor's Is'snd, for transmission to tho resi dences of reistfvcs. Ex-Congressman John Hill, of the Fifth Now Jorsey district, tile ‘ father of cheap poet- Sgei” and.ono of the Dost known of the old (fciiool politlciiliis,tiled at ms residence in Boon* ton, Morris county, N. J. —At Piano, Texas, two children wore burned to death by the explosion of a can of coal oil with widen the older child was attempting to kindle a fire. —Hand ft Ellsworth, paper merchants' of New York, made an assignment to John A. Pierson, giving prtferences for ♦38,000 to elutives for trust funds or money left in the disiness; —At Cdnnellstnlfl, Pa.) A. Overboil ft Go.'s distillery caught lire and lit less Ulan three hours tho main building, witli throe bonded warehouses and seven thousand barrels dt whisky, wero burnod. —Internal rovenno rrooipts for tlio past fis cal y nr readied ♦121,690,089,1> ing a falling off from tiie previous year of nearly $23,000,000. — Rcven pei'SoiiB wero bitten by a m»d dog Friday at Newman station on tlio Un on l’no f- Icltsllrnad, fifteen miles eastof Topeka, Kan. — Julius Hotlweg, a dbspohdfiht German, committed suicide in Now York Friday, by shooting lilmai If witli a revolver. He had ar ranged it so tliat, if ttie revolver had not killed him, lie could lire off a rllte which he had nine >' within a few inches of Ills heart. Be fore shooting himself lie smoked a pipe and drank Severn! g'assos of beer. —A locomotive exploded nesr White Haven, Pa., oh Friday, killing tllo four mon who wore oh board. A freight train was derailed by tiie whCk and thirty cars were destroyed. —Ex-Oovbrhof- fit. John accepts thb nomina tion for President tendered him by tho prdlil- bition party. —John Orcndorff, aged 14; Frank Vittrtrili of tlio samo ago, and Frod Jones wore drowned while fishing at Copperas Creek dam, in Clin ton. Ill, Friday morning. Their boat caught in the eddy of tho dam and was drawn under the water. —A construction trx'n oh the Vicksburg. BhreVeport and Texas Paciflo flallroad fell through the bridge oveb Alligatoi’ Bayed, hid ing Engineer vanderberg and the fireman. The accident wis caused by tbs falls .having bben torh up by unknowh petsons tot the pdr- pose ol wreoking the train. —It te reported that in bihhipiak* has occurred at Haseowah, on the Red Sea. Neatly all the honscs In the city were destroyed, and the ship* in the harbor were violently rocked, The Inhabitants ware panto stricken and fled to tbs interior, —Mr. Parnell, in tho House of Commons, drew attention to the difficulty experienced In j>btaljnl|ig frogi ^he^HoUso of Lords legislation —Mr. Psrhell dehouhoel the Ifilh LeSrftie Convention tb be held in flelfast. —The condition of Arles In oonaequehee of the Spproioh of cholera is deplorable In the extreme. The cofhnmtkers have struok for higher wages, —Ah influential deputation Of English gentlemen request tuo Lord Privy Beal to re move the restrictions upon the Importation of cattle from Wyoming. —General Cacercs has become Provisional President of Peiti. — Orders from Parts havo been telegraphed to China to give tlio Chinese no more time, hut to occupy Foo chow if Franco's demands aro —Tho National Domocratlo Committee mot in New York, and organized by electing Wil liam H. Barnnm president and Mr. Frederick 0. Prince secretary. Committees wero ap pointed for the purpose of arranging the do- tails of tho campaign work. —Tlio Woat Virginia Democratic State Con vention nominated E. Wilson for Governor, Patrick M. Dnffy for Auditor, and Alfred Cald well for Attorney General. Tlio resolutions in dorse Cleveland and Hendricks and tho Demo cratic platform. —Bcnor Nootzlin, tho Mexican debt agont, is endeavoring to induce tlio Barings to placo a new Moxtcan loan of $30,000,000 at sovon por cent. Interest. —Tlio English sloop Gotfriod, plying be tween PortMorant and Port Antonio, Jamaica, was fired npon by tho Spanish gunlmat Almon- darez on the morning of Jnly 8. The captain of tho gunlmat says tliat bo did so in conse quence of instruotions from tho Captain Gen eral at Havana to look out for all suspicious looking vessels, as it was suspoctcd tliat. dyna mite was being carried into Cuba by gmall sailing vessels. —It is officially ntiholincod that tho Czar's visit to ttie palace at Warsaw lias not been re nounced. Extraordinary precautions will he taken during tlio visit to provent any acts of violence. No Bussian will bo allowed to enter the city without a permit. Tlio railway will bo lined witli soldiers while tho train witli tho rotat personages is on its way. Arrests of persofts sfispeeted of complicity in ttie plot to tilow up the palace still continue. —Tlio Warsaw plottors intended, after kill ing tlio Czar, to provoke a rebellion in Poland and Western ltussln, nnd to plunder the Jews. — 1 The Irish tcam’Won tlio Echo Shield at Wimbledon, With a score of 1,683 points. —It Is officially anuounoed that tlio cholera at Marseilles and Tonkin IS decreasing. —It is expected Hint Hunklnt will ho attacked bv tlio rebels after (lie Ramadan. IffL William Daniel, of Maryland, was nomi nated for Vibe President. John l 1 . St. John, the candidate for President, has been a prom inent figure in Kansas for fifteen years. Ho was born in Indiana and studied law. Ho licgan practice in Missouri, nnd after set tling in Kansas became n lending Republican. Me served in Imlh brsnohesof tlio Legislature, and two terms as Governor of tho Stnto Later lie became prominently identified with tho Prohibition party. lln endeavored to make lho Republicans put prohibition in their platforms, nod, failing to do that, ctll looso rrnm the party nod devoted himself tr. the tempera noo cause. He Ih alsnit 48 years oid, noil has no Interesting family. Ho is per sonally a rather slim, why man. He Is a fluent, forcible speaker, and lias mado hun dreds of temperance speeches, —A terlble hail and rain storm occurred at Fergus Falls, Minn., on Thursday. The grain In many plnees was totally mined. At Stony Brook tho hail out a swatli two miles wide through the country. Considerable grain was also ruined in the Otter Tail country. —Capt. Traynor, in Ids dory the Harold T. Bibber, landed at Mallnicna Island, Mo., on Wednesday afternoon, in nine days from New York, and proceeded next day for Bristol, Eng. Mo was In good health and confident of > reach ing hie destination, —Detective Smith captured Salvator Lnn dino, the Italian, who had been In hiding since July 4, when ho attempted to kill Ills wlfo at her apartments, No. 133 Third aveimo, Now York. As tlio prisoner was on his way to tho station homo ho took n dose of poison and died twenty miuutos after reaching tlio station house, —Knit 1ms been b"oil ;lit before Jildgi Mills, at Wlii-to Plains, for tlio annulment of tlio marriage of Lydia Lyon Wylca witli Frederick G, McNally, and of Mary F. Wylca with Henry W. Wnllii g. The parlies wore two school girls and two cadets itt a military aeadejny at Wor cester, Mesa. Tlio niarriiigca were Hie reault, tho yuling girls say, of an innocent prank, and tlio grooms soon after tlio ceremony wont to their Lomcs In tho West. —Ttie receiver of tlio Gloucester Oity, N. J., Savings Institution promises to pay tlio crod- ttois promptly pro rata as fast as ho realizes On tho asyots In his hands. —Four persons in a carriage wore drowned while crossing a ford in Kans.iH Wednesday. —George Roth stamped ou a dynainito cartridge in the itiiua of a dynamite factory in Westchester county, N Y., and received III Juries which cauW tils death. —Tlio publlo floonrlty in the suburbs of Con stantinople haH never boon in a worse condi tion. A bond of brigands entered a mosquo four miioH from tlio oity and, after filing sov- eral volloys into tho floilliig, rilled ovory per son present, securing money anil valuables. Bilgnhds aisct attacked an 1 plundered the vil lage of Bnz hall, a few miles outside of tho city. —A royalist plot is said to haVo been dis covered in Baric. —A dispatch from Bernes states that a storm has ooourred on Lake Luoerne. Four boats were capsized and ten of their occupants were drownea. Borne of those who lost their lives were foreigners. —Fite terrorist* havo boen arrested in Mos cow With incriminating documents in their possession, Warsaw is to be declared in a state of siege, tnic UfidLKrtA iff France. All Prceawtioiu Proving Ineffectual Thus Fnr. The public officials of Marseilles have be come panic strioken beoause of the failure to cheok the spread of the oholera and ire fist ing. Toulon shopkeeperi are dosing their os* tabllshtnenta. The flight of residents from the town ii universal. The men sta tioned at the arsenal are leaving. The fumigation of the railway etationa at Toulon, MarselUei and Paria has beon discon tinued, as It ha* proved a useleta precaution. The disease ha* made It* appearance in tho Department of the Lower Alps and five deaths have already occurred there. The steamer St. Dunstan, which arrived In the Mersey from Marseilles, after losing two persons from ohol era during the voyage, has been twioe dlsiu- feeted. The stores whloh she took on board at Marseille* have been destroyed, and lior water ballast has been pumped out. Vessels arriving at Lisbon from Germany are sub jected to five days' quarantine. TIIE JOKER’S BUDGET. WHAT WK FIND IN THE HUiflOROP* I'APKHN TO H,31 ILK OVER. A Ilia DIAMOND. Hotel Olerk—"I had suob 4 zoaro Inst night. Just after I got into my room I heard my diamond stud fall on the floor. The gas was not lit; I had no matches in my pocket, and the match box was at the other end of the room. Yon can imagine how afraid J waa to movo.” Guest—“Indeed I can; but I am glad to see yon escapod.” "I escaped?” “Yes; if yon had stumbled ovor that stnd yon might have broken your neck," , , SOAP-BOX BKNflMKNTa, 'It is my opinion that we are on the evo of a great panie,” said the man on the soap-box at the grocery sttffy. “J havo never known such universal din* trust in flnaneial circles ns thero in now, and unless there is an enrly return of publlo oonfldeuoc I shall not be sur prised at a genoral erash. Why, a man that 1 Drive known all my life refused to trust me for a 15-cent string of flah this morning, and they woreu r t very frcab flsh either. I doirt see how moneyed men oan help feeling very nneasy in tho midst of suoh a stnto of affairs. I think I’ll draw my money ont of bank and in- vest it in luxi."—Middletown lYan- script. THE EASIEST TIIINO IN TIM WORLD. “Secretary,” remarked tho president of an Eastern railroad tho other morn ing, “oan yon prepare a statement for pnblioatlon that tho earnings of this rond for tho past six months linve been largely in excess of last year ?” “Yes, sir.” “And tliat we propose to pay our in terest on tho very minute it becomes duo V" "Yes, sir, hut—” “But whnt ?" “None of our employees hsve been paid for four months and a dozen differ ent contractors hnve begun suit. How con those tilings bo explained ?” “Easy enough, sir; just add six or eight inches to your report to the effect that we have contracted for three hun dred new ears in anticipation of fall freights I" AN UNO ALL ANT YOUTH. “Isn’t that a now horse I saw yon driving this afternoon, Mr. Grimson- beak V” asked Miss Fussanfeather when that gentleman called on her the othor evening. “Yes," replied tho young blood; “i only bought him last week." “Ho looks like a good driver,’’ sug gested tho young lady with a sido glanco. “Ho is sn excellent driver,” camo from tho cruel young man who was never known to tnko a bint. "I’m passionately fond of driving,’ still further ventured tho young lady, studying the figures on her father’s oar- . pet. "Oh, aro you, indeed?” said Grimson beak, with a smile; "I’ll give yon a ohanco to drive to-morrow." “Oh, will you, Mr. Crimsonboak ?’’ exolaimcd the overjoyed maiden, “lteally, you aro too good." “Yea,” continued Crimsonboak, get ting near the door and renching for his hat; “you see we are going to put down somo carpets at the houso, to-morrow, and I’ll got you to come down and drivo tho tacks.”—Yonkers Statesman. A FAST LINE. Wo were iping West on the Great Western Division of tho Grand Trank and tho night was chilly for the latter end of May. 'Hi I porter,” said the oommerdal man in the bunk overhead; “can’t yon give ns another blanket? It’s deuced cool to-night." “Ain’t ffoi another blanket, boes,” "Well, just seo what you oan do for a fellow," said the commercial man, put ting his hand out through the curtains with a quarter in it. “Dunno, boss, but I’ll do what I kin,” There was scarcely a perceptible pause in the porter’s measured tread as he passed cur section fifteen minutes later, but the curtains parted and a blanket went through tho opening sail it had been ehot out of a call non, “Thought I felt somebody carrying off port of my bedolothes last night, said a passenger in the further end of the oar, as ho worked himself into his boots in the morning. "Dunno, boss; went mighty fas’ las’ night, making up time; probably run from under ’um.’’—Detroit Free Frets. —Tho Australian cricketer* have boon 1 .oaten by tho All England team. —Tho directors of tlio Panama Canal state that the Canal will bo open for traffij in 1881. —Two hteamors have collided off Corunna. Some of tlio po-sen^ers and crew have boon landed in Spain. —ABBintant Postmaster Morton, of Brooklyn, N. Y„ has not yet boon heard from, and the United States Marshal is watching for him with a warrant. —At Augusta, Me., a manufacturer ordered the Bteam whistle of his factory to be blown in honor of tho nomination for President made by tho Prohibition National Convention. The wh'stlo was believed to be an alarm of fire, and tbe fire companies were called out before the mistake was discovered. —The President has appointed John G, Brady, of Alaska, George P. Ihrie, of Pennayl- vanis, and Cheater Seeber, of California, to he Commissioner! for Alaaka. They will reside respectively at Sitka, Wrangel, and Oanalaaka —Mr. Hozi, the ohalrman of the Japanese Naval Commission, who has been inipeoting the navy yards for the past few weeks, says the American navy Is In an absolutely wretched condition; that it could not even, contend against Japan. He bdob nothing to prevent one first clasa man-of-war from destroying New York. —A yonng woman who lived in a private ho tel in Clinton place, New York, set fire to a pile of clothing in her bedroom and lay down by it to die. Tho smell of the smoke led to the diaoovery of the fire and the other Inmates of the hotel were saved from a great peril. The would-be nuloide had broken up a happy home for an olff man whom ehe Was living. Noble Kmlgrnnlu. A novel scheme of assisted emigration lias beon started in Gormnny by a soci. ty composed wholly of noblemen. Tho society proposos to send indigent members of noble G rman fam ilies to Chile. All the preliminary plans of the now schorae of philanthropy are now com pleted, and a largo party of the emigres will Boon arrive at Liverpool. From that port thoy will be taken to Chile at tho expense of the Chilean government, which also agrees to fur- ni-h the exiles with isml freo of cliargo and to maintain them all in suitable style for ono yoai from the date of their arrival. If at the end of that time they havo not made their fortunos, cither in the way of money or matrimony, they will be at liberty to return at their own expense, but tho Berlin philanthropists will have no more to do with them. A Laris Colliery Burned. The Derringer Colliery at Derringer, a vil lage near flazleton, Pa., owned by Cox* Brothers, has been destroyed by fire. Tbe building was entirely destroyed. The shops and offices near by were with the utmost diffi culty saved. The breaker was afiout the largest in the coal regions. It was a now one, having been completed only a year ago. It cost over $160,000, and was filled with the most im proved and expensive machinery. By this fire over six hundred men and boys will be thrown out of work, and the village of Derringer, whloh was entirely dependent on the colliery, will be paralyzed. It is Impossi ble to learn tha origin of the fire. Boms of tbe most brilliant charges in time of w m by the sutlers. THE ONLY THING UNFORTUNATE. “YVliat do you think, George,” said a bride of live months to her young hus band, “last night I dreamed I was a young girl again, going to school, and without a single care. Now, I am a believer in dreams. Do you think that is an unfortunate dream?” “Well,” replied the husband, “the only thing unfortunate about the dream is that it ain’t true.” The bride relatos no more dreams to her husband. NO WONDER. “Tim," said one Hibernian to an other, as they marched to the tune of “Paddies Ever More," on last St. Patrick’s Day; “ ’tin no wundher that Ireland is not free to-day." “Why ?” said Tim. "Sure we’re all here.”—Texas Sift ings. Governor Robinson, of Massachu setts denounces “fashionable drinking,” and hopes to see tho time when it will be abolished at all social entertainment*. TnE New York State Agricultural So ciety will hold its forty-lonrth annual fair at Elmira September 4 to 10 in clusive. The entries will close Au gust 5. An oet passed by the Legislature of Kentucky prohibiting the sale of illus trated police newspapers has gone into effect, and hereafter such literature wijl jjot be solej in that State,

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, August 05, 1884, Image 1