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Newspaper Page TextTHE MERCURY. Entered an Second-clans Matter at the SantJer8Vllle I‘ostofllcc April 37, ISSO. SandersYllle, Washington County, 6a. PUBLISHED BY A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor and Publisher. Subscription: $1.60 Per Yen. THE MERCURY. •I. JERSIGAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. ttynSCMVTlOyi $1,110 Per Annum. VOLUME VII. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1880. NUMBER 7. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE! •411 Communications Intended for this Paper must be accompanied by the full name of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We are in no way responsible for the views or opinions of correspond ents. City of Sanderavllle. Mayor. J. N. Gilmore, Aldermen. W. R Thioprn, B. E. Rouuhton, J. B. Robbuts, A. M. Mayo. S. G. Lano. Clerk. 0. 0. Brown. Treasurer J. A. Irwin. Marshal. J. E. Weddon. Town of Tennille. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. Intendant. John C. Harman. Aldermen. J. F. MannisoN, J. D. Franklin, J. M. Brown, J. R. Pritchard. Clerk. S. H. B. Massey. Marshal. J. 0. Hamilton. A. C. WRIGHT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 10S Bay 8t>, Savannah, Ga. iSr-WILL TRACTION IN ALL TRII COURTS. E. S. LANGMADE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, Ga. It. D. Evans, B. D. Evans, Jb EVANS & EVANS, ATTORNEYSAT LAW SANDERVILLE, GA. F. Hi SAFFOLD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Will practico in nil the Courls of tint Middle Circuit and in the counties surrounding Washington. Special a’.« tontfou given to commercial law. F. K. Hines. 0. 11 . Koiikhf. -AND DEPARTMENT HAPPENING8 OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINTS. HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law. 8ANOERSVILLE, GA. Will prsotten in tlio counties of WasliiiiRlo i, Jefferson, Johnston’, Emanuel nml Willii>.eon. *nd in tlio U. 8. Courts for tlio Himtla-rn Dis trict of Georgia. Will actus agents in buying, selling nr rent ing Ileal Estate. Olffco on West side of Public Bqmiro. OctU-tf 0. W; H, WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA. TERMS CASH.— •ST Oflico at bin reaidonco, on Harris ttreot. Apr20-’80 H. $. HOLUFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Office next door to Mrs. Bayur’s Millinery Store, on Harri.i utreol. FASTF.KN AND MIDDLE STATUS. Mn. Carneoie, |tho millionaire, hns pre- mtnWKl for library purposes $350,000 ti Allegheny city, Penn., nud $503,000 to Pitts burg. A NKono died nt Danbury, Conn., from lockjaw, caus al by a whito man biting his thumb during a light. .. V®" Booku Ticiidorne,’’ tbo notorious claimant," nrrivotl in New York from lMigland n few days since. He propones to lecture in this country on the fumous Tich- borno case. James G. Blaine was the principal spoaker nt n large meotini in favor of Irish home rule nt l’ort'nnd, Mo. -B'tt’LiVEf of tho planing nnd sash mills In l hiladdphin struck on tlio 1st to tho number of 2,1)00 ior nine hour i a dny. HbijR Most, tho Anarchist Ion lor, wesson- toncod in Now York on tho 2d to one year’s Imprisonment with n flno of $503; his ••ol- loaguo, Hrmmsobwi'lg, touino mouths nn 1 n lino of $250, nud Slieuok, thn third prisoner, to nine months without nuy fluo. 1 JIN Maine Democratic Htnte [Convent! in, be d in Bangor, nominated Colonel Clark 8. hdwards for Governor. * UK Aninlgi mate 1 Assoclntlon of Iron nnd (steel W orkers, iu session nt Pittsburg, Po; u., nuo,ited resolutions congrntulntlug Presldcuc '.lovelaua upon IPs marriage. TAMMANY’S CHIEF, TKItlttllli't RAILROAD ACCIDENT. JOHN KELLY, THE NOTED NEW YOKE POLITICIAN, DEAD. Drtnllrd Skrlrli «f Ills Eventful Carter In (lie I’nlltlrnl Aren i. ' A Train (Inns Through n Trestle. Kllllafl Mix Piusnnaers. Tin nor.liward bound passenger train on the N ir,Invest railway which left Charleston, S, 0., nt 12 o'clock Monday, p'unged through tho fUntnirivor trestle, hetwoon 8t. Blephons sta- . Hon a id Santee rlyer bridge, smashing tip the \ : o ic n h and killing six passengers. Tho kiltbcl | arc : J lin L. C do. Dr. G. O. Kinosoh, Wil- ; in n In ;n Is, M ss M'lvor, of Charleston, Miss ' !'J. E. M’Widle, of Marian, Mbs Hannah Wil- : ion, residence not known. onduc or U. O. Mszick anil Mail Agent F. NEWSY GLEANINGS. John Kelly, tho head of tho Tammany po litlcal organization from tho downfnll of Tweed to tho oloction of Grover Cleveland to the Presidency, died at his residence in New York on tho 1st Inst Ho bait been ill, with j w. It in ker wore badly injured. Tho cause of j vnrions seasons of apparent improvement, tli" a-c dent is not jot known, hut it is sup-j sin -e just after the Presidential election of i po r ,l to have nsultid from tho insreuro fast- 18$), nnd had been conflned to hiH house points if 11 o rail on changing the gauge, for six months or moro post. Ho a<h.> ii ai’lio news of tlui ace dent reached was lwrn iu Now York city April j cliai» o„, a spool tl train was dispatched in ! 01, 1821, of Irish parents, nnd resolved the , 0 ,„ r superintendent Lnyall, with Dr. i rudiments of nn oduention in n Cat hollo | Annum' for the >oi. f of thn wounded and to 1 nrochinl school nud in the city's night : . schools. As a hoy hs worked for a while in | brl ig back the deal. Hie ixtent uf damage I the Now York Herald office, nod afterward SOUTH AND WEST. l ilt Knights or I n’nr, in their Cleveland Convention on tlio Hist, nil iptvl resolutions ” ni'inding Hint C ingress should preserve the public lands to actual settlers, proto-ting against alien Iniidlnnls nn 1 ilemnmling that the pro;out ones shall ho bought out nml tlmt fre.-h grants ho deniu I to would-be new ulion owners; insisting upon tlio romovnl of bnrbeil-wlro fences; n Ivoent n g a system of ern luat.!,I income tax; diking Hint Election Day ho male n untlounl holiday, nud that provision he made for tho punishment of In ihc-givors nnd bribe-takers, etc. Ai'ai iii's nttn ’kc 1 ,loii"s Brothers’ ranch, near Hooker's Hot Springs, Arizona. Tho owners mail i nn effective defense, killing throe of tlu Indians. Four men wore killed and three Injured by (hoexplosion of tho l.oiler iu a earriago fac tory nt Quincy, Mleb. A riUK which originated in a gambling d'vo in Itausa'o!a. Pin., burned thirty build- lugs. The loss was $(10 1 (’IK>. At tho Knight i of I sibir Ocnirnl Assembly In Clevclnml on tlie 2d tho opponents of l’owderly, of tho tin les-unions and of arbi tration nml riu eful methods of labor agita tion—tho rndi :nl clement of theOrdor—were in the ascendency, o'ortlng threo memboi's of the Executive Board amid great excitement. Enuinkichh Johnston nud Hammond, and Eireninn \'nn lorvoort, nil of Newark, Ohio, wj o killed by n locomotive bailor oxplos on rear Hellnire, Ohio. Curious rains have broken tho long con- tim ed nnd damaging drought in Texas. Nineteen portions wore injured, sivornl or endy. by tlio ox plosion of n keg of pow- ■ I r m n general store nt Errowe, Midi. Tho store nnd nn ndjoining residence were blown to fragments. The Gouernl Assembly of tho Knights of Labor ended its meeting nt Cleveland on tho i d. The sosiion lusted niuo days. Addressos 11 trades unions, tho farmers nnd tho pub lic were issued, nnd nix nuxitinrios were oloclod on tin Executive Hoard. Of these four nro said to favor an miti-trndes-union policy. A committeo was nlso appointed to rovi etho constitution of tho Order. Twelve detectives guarded tho cottaco at Door Park, Md., iu which President Cleve land and his l.rul • passed their honeymoon. Tho i oltago secured for them was untananteil save by Mr. nnd Mrs. Cleveland and ono ser vant for each, their meals being sent from | tho hotel near by. BUY YOUR FROM j'EKjnsria-A.isr. (None genuine without our trade mark.) ON HAND A ND TOR SALE SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc. Watches, Clocks JEWELRY REPAIRED BY JEBNIGAN. OUR WASHINGTON. The Canadian sdioonor S'stor.t, recently seized nt Portland, Me., for violation of the customs laws, will be let oil' without payment of (lie fine Incurred, tbo Treasury depart ment having derided to ho loniout toward tho captain of the detained vessel. The l’roildont lim nominate 1 David L. Hawkins, of Missouri, to bo Assistant Secre tary of the Interior, and Josoph B. John ston, of Virginia, 11 lie Commissioner in utid for thedistrii tof Alaska. The estimated cost of the White House j welding cake, nmdo in New York, is $1,733. I The House Committee on I’oitefflees and ; Roads Imi reported favorably n hill amond- ! ing the statutes relative 11 tho transmission of lottery advertisements through tho’nails. ; The hill prohibit,! tin mnili ig of nuy letter, i clr-'ulnr or writing con orniug n lottery or ! gift eiitorprisi or nuy pap 'r containing an | advcrtlsj nent of any lottery or information | regarding it.s drawings. Violations of those | provision! nro male misdemeanors puuish- ; able by flue nnd inmrisonmout. . Tiie public debt during May >vas decrease 1 $(i,81.<,5!i(l. The President hns vetoed three more pri vate pension hills. President Cleveland received tho fol lowing ( able message from Queen Victoria on his wodding ilay: “Pray accept my sin cere cougin filiation 5 on your marriage, and my best wishes for your liupplness.” FOREIGN. Tiie Salvation Army Congress hns been in so sion torn week nt Loudon. Two thousand officers and many thousands of soldiers of tho Army from all parts of tho world were prosent. TriE volcanic eruption from Mount Etna is subsiding. In pursuance of instructions from tho United State! Government, Minister Pholp? hns had aa interview with Lord Rosoberry, the British Foreign Soerolury, on the Cana dian fisheries question. It is state i officially that the British Government is rather glml than otherwise that the trouble has occurred, ns it is thought tho present dispute will hasten a lasting settlement. The Australian sternum Lvocmoon, from Melbourne for Sydney, has been lost. Sev enty persons were drowned. Mn. Chamberlain delivered iutho British House of Commons on tlio 1st a long speech reciting his objections to tho Gladstone Home Rulo bill aud sharply attacking its Nation alist advocates. John BnionT is opposed to Gladstone’s Irish Homo Rulo bill. Three thousand housos, comprising nenrlv tho ontire city of Akita, Japan, have boon "destroyed by lire. Leading London papers nro considerably exi ited nt the sympathy expressed in Amerl- iii for Irish homo rulo. learned tho trndo of grnto sotting. After mustering ids tr.ulo ho sot up in business for himself. When n young mnn he nlso boramo n member of the Now York Volunteer Firo Department. In 18.W tho prosperous young grnto setter flint ontorod public life, being elected a mem ber of tlio Hoard of Aldermen in that year. Tho following year he was elocted to Con- cross, nnd was re-oleeted at tho expiration of Ills first term. Mr. Kelly retired from Congress nt tho end of Ms second term to tnko tho nomination of his party for HliorilT of New York, the most lucrative nml inlluontinl office in tho county. This wnsiu IH.W. He was elocted, nml after serving his term, went abroad for tbo benollt of his health. Mr. Kelly returned from Europe much im- provifl in h nltli, nnd nt onceninssumnd the cotiS|iicu ms part he hail formerly plnvo 1 iu politics. Tho movement for the roorganivntlon of Tammany Hull had been begun, tbo Tweed clement had been driven out, and the Do no- erotic lenders in tho city wnnto 1 Mr. Kelly to lie the head of the now organization. Ho took hold of the work with energy nnd onllnisi- ns n, the district leadors rallied nronnil him, nml ho soon bj '«mo the One Mnn Power. Ho hecamo tho dictator to n solid organization 75,1)03 strong, nml the embodiment of ‘'tho boss” in Amorlcnn politk s. In IH74, iu spite of Mr. Kolly’s strenuous opposition, Mr. Tilden wns nominated for Governor. Mr. Kelly had uutivnilingly tlirown ills strength iu fuvor of Snudford Is. Church. Tammany Hhll supported t’w ticket, however, nml Mr. Tilden win elects 1. Tnmtnnny wm content with tho election of Mr. Wickham, its candidate for Mayor in Now York nud other county officers. Tho opposition to Tammany grew. In 1875 the Auti-Tammany party effected a combination with the Republicans whereby Mr. Kollv’s friend, Gunning H. Bedford, wns defeat si for Recorder by John K. Hnckott, nml the Republicnus elected Benjamin K. Phelps District. Attorney. This was tho flint serious blow nt Mr. Kelly’s party. He oj - posed Tildou’s nomination for the Presi dency nt tho Democratic National Con vention, hut supported the ticket. In Novemlier, 187(1, Mayor Wickham nom inated Mr. Kelly for City Comptroller. Tho Hoard of Aldermen conllrraed tho nomina tion, mul Mr. Kelly nt on o entered upon tho duties of the office. His administration was successful, hut his troubles iu the party mul tiplied under the aggressive policy he had adopted in dealing with those who differed with him. In 1*77 Kelly’s friend, Augustus Scholl, wns defeated for Rtnto Senator by John Mor rissey nftor n blttor contest. In 1878 Scholl was ngnln defeated, this time for Mayor. In 18/D Mr. Kelly refused to abide by tho action of the Democratic State Convention in nominating Luciui Robinson for Governor, nnd himself became 000, and is a completo loss, the Grcou street n candidate for thatoffico. IIo made an active front, which was ocoupiod by the medical col- ennyass mid polled about 70,000 votes, there- , b( . ing ttll t i, at rem «i n , standing. It ii by defeating Robinson. Sir. Kelly's bolt lost . ’ B him regular stamling in the party, nml hi insured. At 5 o clock tho flro broke out with knocked In vain for admission to tlio renewed vigor in the medical collego building, Htnte Convention of 1880. Neither were ani , Bt the Jefferson street side of the theatre, his claims to admission to the National Dem- ! , . „ ., , , . , , ,, . oerntie Convention of 1880, nt St. Louis, re- Hie roofs or all tho burned structure, fell in, cognized. and Ihu hlook was ontlrely destroyed. Kelly bail n row with Ciovornnr Cleveland, ,j-| 10 Are waB confiuod to tho Davis block Til! and strongly opposed the latter s nomination for President at tho Democratic National theatre had just closod for tho season. I lie 0 die piopertyof tho con pany is not vet wci r- loiued. ’the wreck was bo serious that no unr liai n 11 und tr.i u was sent out that night. A Ira n with iho dead ami wounded arrived 1 Charleston tiie following evening. Tlio cause of the nccidcnt lias not yet been ascertained. Tlio investigation will he thorough. Tho bodies of Miss Melvor and Miss Hnmiali Wilson were sout to Clieraw, and tho remains of Mis! Mr White to Marion for burial. T ie funeral of Wil i nn Inglesby took place Tuesday afternoon, and tho fnncrals ol Dr.Tl. O. Iwnluck and John Cole occurred Wed lies lay. The ooudillou of tho wounded is favor- ablo Mrs. Bailey anil live children, of Aloxan > r a Loiub nun, occupjing the sleeper, oseapeJ w tliont die slighted injury. W. F. Tift, ol My tic, Conn., was nlsoapa's-ngcr andcscapo 1 wi.liasl glith uise. George McConnell, ol New Yoik, osi,p d with n Lastly bruised shouldor. M. D B.'iinelt, of Niw York, wns uninjured, Those persons nil left Cli il lusion Tuesday morn ing by lie nor-dinarJ I otuid train o i ti e North- f iistern iniiriud. C. A. Price, ixpicss ii.issengcr, who wns in- lured in ;ho accident, died Tuesday night. A THBATIIK ni'RNGD. Louisville’s New Gin ml Tlienlie Dcslroycil by Flro. A' 8:53 Tuesday nuiruiiig flro was discovered lx h nd the stage of tho new Grand tln-a' ro, nt Louisville, Kv. Tho canvass nnd oil nl tho rcencry and stage feltings burned lietcol.v a id m live minutes after 111 i discovery of the (lames die i nl ire singe wns blazing furinunlj'. An a'arm was Bent In, hut tho enginis that re* speeded were unalilo to do anything toward ex Ingulshing the conflagration which, by this time, covered all of the middle of the block betwo n Third, Fourth, Jefferson and Green streets. A second alarm wan turned in, hut tho entiro dieatre was thou on tire, anil resistc I tiie greatest efforts of the firemen. Too flamer spread to the rear of tho saloons fronting on Green nud Jefferson streets, nnd at daybreak the entire centre of the square was a glowing mass of red hot mortar and blazing wood. Tlio theatre was leased to Whallcn Brothels, al out four years ago, ami was ono of tho finest in the west or south. Tlio block was valued at $100, BurrAt.o gnat* are goading cattle to death In the lowor Mississippi Valley. A bunch of oats eight feet threo inches in hoight is displayed nt Winter, Cal. A Methodist missionary has been ap pointed chief physician of the Chtneso army. A wealthy English lady died recently in Chicago from blood poisoning, caused by the prick of a pin in Washington. KxrEutMENTH nro being inode in Philadel phia in tho breeding of silk worm) fromeggl of worms bred in till) country. TullaHoma, Tonn., has n newly arrived infant thnt is white with the exception of its face and neck, which nro coni black. A Chicaoo man who l>egnn saving hog bristles at tlio Chicago slaughter houses now lives in a mansion, nnd is worth a for tune. 3Vhat is said to hi tho largest schooner in tho world will soon lie laun bo I at llnth. Me, Hho will have a coni carrying capacity of 2,(i0) tons. A two-year-old son of Edwin Lear, ot Bourbon county, Knnsns, wns struck by lightning wliilu" lying in n cradle and in stantly killed. The colored Methodists have now the largest, church in Washington. It cost $11!).- UOU, of which all but $40,000 hns boon rnlsea, and seals 2,800 |Msiplo. In London last year there were 2.851 alarms of lire, or nn average of eight a dny. tlf those 2,210 were vir.table flro), though only sixty result 'd in soldo h dnmngo. Computations of tho results of tho late cyclones in tho Wo t put lb ) piss of lmina'i life nt 123; there w re l .’8 persons wounded, nnd property worth $ 1, US),000 was de stroyed. An extraordinary run of scnls along the Pa'ifle coast is reported. Old sealers say the creatures were never so numerous, nml had not had weather prevented, the ent -lies would linve I won enormous. Application for divorce lint horn made by a Lewiston (Me.) couple, who, it is rul’d, did not exchange words for nearly n quarter ol a century, until six weeks ngo. They lived in the same houso all the while. A Chinaman has been arrested atSpoknno Falls, Wyoming Territory, for having re moved tho figures 50 from u revenue stamp in n very skillful manner nudpiibtod them on a $1 greenback in such n manner as to make it appear as a $50 note. What is most singu lar is the fact that ho succeeded in getting tho bill changed, carrying nway for it $50 in good monoy. CHARACTER IN THE HANDS IRISH HOME RULE. Convention. At the election in 1884 tho Tammany local ticket was badly beaten, and shortly afterward Kelly retired from active participation in politics, although still the nominal leader of Tammany Hull, lie was twlco married, and leaves a wife and two children. THE WEDDING CAKE. IIcscriptinn ol' ihc Cnlie Blade lor ilu l’rcsldeut’* IHurrluac. The report Imt a well-known New York firm were innWing the White House wed ling cake caused numerous calls to he ma-lo upon them by persons anxious to got a sight of that article. Their efforts, however, were fruitless. Tho cake was a little over half a foot thick, eighteen inches in diameter and ; weighed twenty-five pounds. It was nmdo of tho best, wodding eako material. The top frosting was unusually thick, with scroll-work | around tho edge. In the centre of tlio t ip wns tlio monogram 'C. F.,” throe nml n half ! iiu-lio! in ilin'iiotor, surrounded by n wren h of orange blossom. Smlliix and white ro ot form'd n frame around it when in I In Whito Houso. One liuudro l and fifty s in 1 I boxes, to I): filled with welding-cake for the guests, wore also ordered. They were six inches long by tw > inches dojp, and ucco I lined and covered with wait) satin, fnsitli, asn covering to the contents of each box. wai fine point la-o attached to tin box. Eu-li box j was tie 1 with narrow white sitiu ribbon Tlio left hand half of the cover conlniuo 1 the ! monogram “C. I'Y’ nnd date of the wed li'ig i day, hand painted in n very light tint. The ] other half had upon it the design of n card upon which bride and groom wrote their mimes. I There was not a little speculation as to the cost of tlio President's wodding cake. An I autliority on the expense of such things gnvo 1 tho following estimate, which it is believed is j very near to being correct; Cake me 1 monogram work $130 - 150 hand-painted boxes, with cake, at $10each l,-’;03 Expense attending its taking to Wash ington 09 $1,710 five people diiowned. I« supplied with all the requisites fnr <l"fii;; all kinds of Job nn I Hook work in F l it- Cl»xs Stylo. Pro . |-t y and at Rea sonable Prices. WEDDING CARDS, VISITING CARDS, BUSINESS CARDS, BALL ( AlID gad Fato of n Clergyman, Ills Three Clill* dren and ft Friend. The Rev. P. C. Jerome, pastor of tne Con gregational Church of Wolfborough, N. II., with his two sons nnd daughters nnd n young mnn named Davis, wont out on a lake on a fishing excursion the other afternoon and fnilirl to return at 3 o’clock, ns expooted. A steamer which arrived at 4 o’clock reported having seen an overturned boat near Jauuis- towu Island. i Search was made, aud late in the evening ; the bodies of the whole party wore ro.'overed. ! Mr. Jerome was a wealthy -gentleman, own ing about $150,030 worth or proport-y. lie ' came from New York about two year* ago, AN IMPORTANT LICENCE. Co| y of the Document Which Permitted the President to Wed. In Washington persons desiring to wed must secure a marriage liconso before any minister or justice of the ponco can per form a ceremony. Tlioso licenses cost one dollnr, and rich and poor, whito and black, must go through the same form of question ing. The name, birthplace, residence and ago of both contracting parties are asked, and the clerk of the court then affixes his signature, puts ou tho proper seal, nnd tin way is oloar of nil legal o6sta"los to Imppl- lies. Following is a copy of the lieeuso granted to Preside Jt Olevel m 1; To any Minister of the Gospel authorized lo Celebrate Marriages in III". District of Columbia, greeting: You are hereby licensed to solemnizo tho rites of marriage between Frank Folsom, of | Buffalo, N. Y., and (trover Clevelnud, of V u- propei »w.mj.-iu S ,< Buffalo, N. Y,, if you 11-id no lawful impodi- j pn-knge of oleomargarine. first estimate of the losses was little if any aggorated. FATAL ItAll.ltOAH ACCIDENT. Firciunn K! led m <1 If iglncer Hurt on (lie Conn nl It. It. of Gf-orghi. Excitement w.is cnuso-11 i flivamiiih Tuesday by Hie report of u seri. us u-cldcnt t> poasrngor train No. 54, from At mta, ilui ill Hivunuali at e x o'cl ick. Juq dry deve'iipi-d lln fo'l .wing : When near Rigors, No. H.'j r.hout half past uvo o’clock, tho tr.ii i .milling at regular speed, tho engine struck mi o i.strucfion and was thrown from the track, dragging t.ireo cars aud smashing things generally. E igiu or \V- 11. I’j nh rgrast and Fireman Chnrlo.i Middox Jump d as tho engine was turning over. Roth were badly scalded. Thoengineer w « 'u-iiomlv bruised, but Maddox was killed, Ins head fear fully nnn hod nnd his body senld d. 'Mi ■ pus. sengers wore uninjured, hut badly shaken up- A uporiul train was son’, lo the soonn, mid -lie mi Hi and passengers wore transferred, a so tl e engineer and the bo !y of Jlnddox. Tho train reached Savannah at t.-n o’clock. Pen. Aorgrast was sent home under a physician, and «ill recover. Maddox was buried this evening, ilo was a worthy young man, well thought of. Tho accidont occurred by miscreants wedging hoavy pieces of timber between tho frog of the milch, elovating the rail. Every effort will he mado to apprehoud the so mndrels. THE BOGUS BUTTER BILL. Ilo Posstigc Jly tin- House—Some of its Jiitpoitunt Features. Ou a final vote in the lower branch of Congress tho bill defining and taxing oleo margarine hns been passed by 177 yens to 101 nays. Tho bill,as It passed the House,contains til ) following features: Butter is defined to ho a food product mado exclusively from milk or cream or both, with or without com mon salt and with or without additional col oring matter. Oleomargarine is defined os “all substances made of oleomargarine, oluo, oleomargarine oil, butteriuo, Incl ine, suiuo aud neutral; all mixtures nnl compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, buttorine, suiuo ami neutral; all lari extracts and tal low extracts; aud all mixtures nnd com pounds of tallow, b?ef fat, suet, lard, lard oil, vegetable oil, annotto, and other coloring matter, intestinal fat ami offal fat made in imitation or so.nhlauce of butter, or when so rnndo, calculated or intended to be sold as butter or for butter." Special taxes are imposed ns follows: On manufacturers, $(100; on wholesale dealers, $480; on retail dealers, $48. The existing in ternal revenue laws, so fnr as applicable, are made to apply to these special taxes. Penalties are imposed on auy person who shall deal in oleomargarine without paying the special tax. Provision is mode for th«* proper stamping md labelling of every " A fax of five Gladstone’s Answer Krgnrdlns Ills Plans far the Fnmro. In tlio Bi it'sli Ho isc of Common), Sir M chart Micks-L’o icli, the lotder of the op- postion, rose nt quest on t me nml iiiked Mr. Gladstone for n definite statement of his in tuitions ns to the future p ogress of the Homo Bulc inensu o. Mr.UIndih n)answered quite distinctly: “Tho govurnmoit do not Iio]hi to carry the hill this sc .sion: they doire to pa is the second re cling in ordor to ailir.u the principle of tli' hill nti.l pledge tlio Hon e to Home Rule. After tint they would cither adjourn l.e further pro gress of the hi I to the autumn sit ting of the same Parliament, or pro rogue Pnrlinmout at once and bring on n new l.lil in tho new scsiion of I'nidiament lo Ik- he'd ii the oirly pint of the autumn.” Til's In’ti r course. In* mill, the government preferred, but he eoiild not ray positively that it win the coji'se they would adopt. “Reference must I o made elsewhere” In-fore lie < null give n definite nusw, r. Everyone know what he meant- Hint tho Queen must ho consulto I before he could give n public nnd pos tivo statement. The Tory lenders afterward declared their w illingness to withdraw n mot on for final adjournment, nn i to 1-t, (lie del ntn on Home Unit* continue. They took this Miy be mi-o they saw thnt I heir motion for ndjourmn nt would be ilofo itcil. '1 he Liberals, however, refus’d to permit a withdrawal of the motion for adjournment, and cnl.o I for a division. Tile vote showed only ono yen nud 405 nnys, tho Tories all voting nguimt tli.dr own motion. PERSONAL MENTION. Evanoeusts Jones and Small hnvo gono to Washington. President Arthur says that insomnia is his only trouble nt present. The Sultan of Turkey has given n banquet in honor of United States Minister Cox. K. F. Knowles, n loom manufacturer of Worcester, Muss., has bought a $000,000 hotel in Florida. Mr. JonN F. Smith, n Philadelphia typo founder has presented $5,000 each to hospital) iu thut city. Justice Field of the United States Supremo Court, will travel in Europe this summer with his wife. Queen Victoria has n flourishing poultry yard at Balmoral. Tho chicken houso is a I nlntinl structure, built in the Semi-Gothic stylo. Plymouth Church has voted to give Henry Ward Beecher a vacation for lour months, and he will go abroad with Mrs. Beecher. The Prince of Wa'os is nn entbusinst'e amateur photographer, and n most su ccssful one. Ho purchased his camera anl outfit in this country. The Chiuesc nnd Mexican Envoys, who at tended the exercises nt General Grant’s tomb ou Decoration Day, did so at the request of tlisir respective government). For beating the CinciunatLs tho Athletic management presented ca h player with a now hat. If they keep up thuir present good work they will receive other presents. General W. T. Sherman will lcavo Ft. Louis, July I, for Oregon ami California, ta nttenil tlio Grand Army mooting, und on his return will take up his permanent rosidonco iu New York. John W. Youno, tho oldest sou of Brig ham, is the leader of tho Mormon lobby at Washington, and is said to possess ninny of the personal characteristics of his la her. His mother was tho first of Brigii un's s i/.m teen wives. THE WORLD’S BREAD-STVFT S cents a pound is imposed on all oleomar garine manufa "tured and sold, and a penalty is prescribo l for the purchase or reception for tale of oleomargarine not branded or inout thereto; and having so done, you arc i commando l to appear i:i the Clerk’s ollleo of tlu Bupreme Court of said District and cer- ; tify the same. „„ 1 Witness my hand and the seal of said court ! stamped according to law. A number of fhls 2ij day of June, 1880. i sections of the bill are devoted to providing U, J. Melos, Clerk, puoUiuery to carry the law into effect, '"** WISE WORDS. DIFFERENT KINDS OF HANDS, AND WHAT THEY INDICATE. Three Things that are Tolil by Them —Rnti|(h mul Hell noil, Strong and Weak Hands. Our Oriental friends, who nro of_ a ^ moro slow nnd dignified chnrncter, dis- j iijiprove of the Western custom of tnk- ! ing hold of tlio precious person of nn j acquaintance and shaking him for wcl-1 come. It iimv bo more dignified to bow, | but if frankness and nctivity bo our [ characteristics, wo like the trustful mys-! tcry of a lmnd-clasp. It is nn index in 1 itself. Tho formal nnd cold character 1 offers straight fingers for an instant; tho j dull and npnthctic lets us take hold of a hand like n dead fish; the energetic buoi- j ness man meets nn old triond with a grip . that brings tho water into his eyes; tho wunn-hcartcd takes our hand and holds J it. The nervous Jiaml, with nn nifec- , tionato swiftness, comes out most readily | nnd longingly. And is there anything ; more natural to a reverent love than tlio j kiting of the hand that hns been boun- j tiful in love to usi See how fnr wo hnvo gono among the mysteries! Character, habits, nnd ago are tlio throe tiling’, that arc told by tho hands. When we draw tlio character of IIcop, tho hypocrite—and. ns !he schoolboys would say, tlio “snciik”—Dickons did not tie lect this tell-tale: --"Oh! what a clammy hand his wns! ns ghostly to the touch as to tlio sight; I rubbed mine afterwords tw warm it, and to rub his off. It was such an uncomfoitablo hand, thnt when I went to my room it was still cold and wet upon my memory.” Even if it bo not that of Hoop, tlio hypocritically humble hand is apt to writhe and squic o its bonding fingers together. Tlio hand (hat little Jack Horner mado sticky with his own pic in his own corner, undoubtedly hecamo with big Jack Horner n th’ck-fingeicd puffy Index of his partiality for pies and plums. Litt’o doui the swaggerer who chinks his small change, and cocks his thumbs rut of bis pockets, imigino thnt his thumbs and hands are ns ntueh Ids con demnation as tho bragging seals and the chain thnt would anchor n ship. Tho stingy mnn has a light hand ; his fingers keep fast lnld of a sixpence, und liis palm makes a careful hollow out of which it cannot roll, until ho is quite sure he is obliged to pnrt with it. The rough nud the refined hand nro different with a difference like thnt of education iu the mnn. The lowest ex tremity of roughness is tlio hand of brute violence—a colossal paw, of iron strength, huge with muscle, vein and sinew, lint lacking all sensitiveness and flexibility— defiant in its attitudes—a human tool that lias been turned into a weapon. There nre refined bands that are crim inal also, but their character is tho more hateful because no trace is mado upon outward perfection, and their beauty is a lie. One rends in the well-cured for, or, as wo might say, the educated hand, not only its own refinement, but thnt of other generations—the ancestors who live i.t leisure from bodily toil, whoso muscles were not stretched by Inbar, whoso fingers, little used, went slender to tbo tips, whose very finger-nails revealed easy times, by their ovnl shape, not pressed nnd worn into hard-worked diminutive half circles. Yet ono likes the strong hand—morally Btrong even if it has never boon tasked with physical labor; tho man’s hand tli it is not effeminate, tiie girl’s hand that is not a pretty waxwork, but a part of a helpful someone, who would lie swoatly willing to do something for somebody else. Unless it be the weak hand of sick ness. which is a tno)t piteous sight, tho hand of (ho weak character is not what anyone cares to clasp. More and more in this world wo want tho hands that can do something. As Cailylo says, the first doing would be for many a revelation.— Cassell's Family Magazine. Report of the Wheat Crop for Lust Ycm ami TUIs-Tlie Cora Crop. Tiie Actiug Commissioner of Agriculture . repoi ta to Congress thnt. the world’s product of wheat in 1885 was 2,110,000,000 bushels; tho requirements of consumption 2,105,0‘JJ,- 031) husliols, presenting a deficiency of 55,- 000,003, drawn from tho previous year’s sur plus of 125,000,000. Ho finds the product of Europe lost year a medium ono iu size, an 1 that of India and Australia In'go, with a heavy reduction in tho United States. For tlio supply of the coming year tho crops of Australia, India and South America ali en ly harvosted are probably about 32,000,- 0(K) bushels lesi than tnoso Inst year, ivhilo th'Sj of tho Unite l States promiie fully 10-1,1)30,033 bushels more than tho harvest of 18)5. The wheat in tha United States on May 1 wns IU 1,000,000 bushels, against 152,030,000 bushels in 1.885. . Of tho commercial stocks ot wheat New York hold 4,188,035: Buffalo, 2,- 480,117; Chicago, 11,777,804; Milwaukee, 33f’,0J0, Minneapolis, 4,707,031); and Duluth, 7,838,748 bushels. The crop of corn in 18S5-80 was 1,017,000,003 bushels; the stock, 587,003.030 bushels, and the exportation 42,009,003 bushels. Tho esti mate I acreage of wiuter wheat now erowibg is 2 tJ27,037; spring wheat, H,800,UOU; total, 80,527,017, Roscoo Cmikling’s Memory. A New York correspondent, writing about ex-Fenntor Iioscoe Conkling', says: On one occasion that came under my personal observation, Mr. Conkling per formed an astonishing feat. It wns in the campaign of 1880, when (Jonkling, then a Senator, was advised to speak on tiie political issues of tho day in tlio Acndemy of Music. There was great in terest felt in what he was going to say in support of thetieket,Garfield and Arthur, in view of tho prolonged fight that the famous "300” delogato), under his leader ship, hnd made in favor of Grant for a third term. Until it was learned that Conkling had his speech written out, there was no little nnxiety in some of the news paper offices. It was put in type, how ever before the meeting, in the Tribune office, and a stenographer was sent to tho meeting with a copy r f the speech in type, in order to make any additions or corrections that might be necessary. There was only ono chnngo necessary— the insertion of u question from some ono in the aud cnee: "When nre you going to say anything about Garfield?” and Conk- ling’s quiet rejoinder: "That’s a field we’ll come to presently.” The address fill d eight und three q inrte.’ columns of the Ti Un-os C.r t'n- next dny -about )• '0 wrrds- d wi It tl o exception of tab than ti column li -tutistics in relation to the cotnmerco of the Southern States, etc., scattered through his remarks, Conkling repented from memory every word of tho speech exactly as it appeared on the proof slips. Tho tables of figures he read. Rural Raptures. Whon the golden-rod is gleaming By the hedgerow brown, When the crimsoned loaves are floating On the wext wind down, Whon the stubble iu tiie meadow Frosty gleams at morn, Then tiie farmer, thrifty farmer, Cuts his corn. Whon adoivn tiie storm-swept forest Rijie nuts patter fast, When tho latest harvest’s gathered, Indian summer post, Y/hcn the woodman’s ax is ringing On tho crashing logs. Then the farmer, bloody farmer, Kills his hogs. When the drifting snows lio heavy All the world around, When ’ueath mislotoe and holly Yuletido joys abound, Then besido his glowing hearthstone, Bcorniug temjiest’s wrack, Flay) the farmer, happy farmer, High-low-jack! — Witfw Etptfker Johnson. In thf Current Punish your passions, lest they punish you. What ought not to be done do not even think of doing. It is tasteless to seek admiration by adorning our house or person; let us adorn our characters by the charms of kindness nnd amiability. j Tbo chief ingredients in tho composi tion of thoso qualities that gain esteem and prniso arc good naturo, truth, good sense, and good breeding. Tho head truly enlightened will pre sently have a wonderful influence in puri fying the heart, and the heart really af fected with goodness will conduce to tho directing of tho head. Talk about thoso subjects you have' long in your mind, nnd listen to what others sny about subjects you liavo studied but recently. Knowledge nnd timber should not bo much used till they arc seasoned. Every permanent stato of mind is large ly tho effect of habit. Just ns wo can perform an action so continually that it comes to bo habitual, so wo can encour age conditions of mind till thoy come to bn habits of thinking aud even of feel ing. - - - V Roaring Pemnqnid. - - ■ • ^ Pemaquid Point, near Damariscotta, Me., has boon said to bo, in a galo fron any point of tho compass between southeast, nnd southwest, tlio roughest point ou the Atlantic const. It is literally out to sea, nnd tlio winds of the Atlantic, rolling in from 3,000 miles of ocoan without let or hindrance, break with explosive roar upon its bastions of stone, which aro worn into endless forms by tho nttritlon and abrasion of ages. It is very rarely ■ I that any jioint of tho mainland pos sesses the conditions of an uninterrupted | breaking place for tho waves of tho ocean. | Outlying rocks or ndjnceut islands or tho; conformation of tho adjacent coast usual-1 ly lircak up or check tlio course of tlio waves long before reaching the mainland. I Nothing lios between l'emuquid Point nnd tho broad Atlantic, and oven in tho calmest mood of tho sea tho roar of the 1 surf upon its wnlls is remarkablo. Whon j the southerly gale iB.on, the spray is flung hundreds of feet in "tho nir. Tho noiso is deafening. Hugo pieces of rock aro broken from tho projecting walls and thrown up on the bank. ( l’emaquid lighthouse stands on tho promontory, sovoral hundred feet from tlio edge, with tlio house of tho keeper adjoining it. Tho light is at least 800 feet above tho sea level. Yet in a south-’ erly gnlo a few yenrs ngo a large stone was dnirlcd by tho wuves through the' thick glass of the lantern, und tlio spray came down tho chimneys of tho house iu such quantities as to extinguish the fires. History nnd legend nlso lend their nt- trn tions to Pemaquid. No part of the country wns earlier known to voyngers.' Tho ships of Pring, Woymouth and Gilbert hnd plowed these waters long be fore the settlement of Jamestown, nnd Pemaquid was tho rival of Plymouth nnd Huston ns a metropolis in the infancy of Now England. 'I he old fort at the harbor wns for nearly u century on tho disputed territory between Massachusetts ami Acadia.—llocklaml (Me.) Courier. Army Pels. 1 A little dog was tho chief pet ot tho Eighty-eighth New York Volunteers, wmek took its share of picket duty or battles like a little man, ivas repeatedly wounded (for which she had a silver col lar by way of a pension), but couldn't | keep out of any muss tho boys were in. Shu was cute, too, nnd fully understood the advantages of breastworks. At Chnn- cellorsvilic, where wo were hurried about a good deal under a heavy cross-flro of artillery, sho was greatly discomposed. When we got in "the last ditch,” which we had to get out of not long aftor, Fan leaped in in a hurry and snuggled down close to tlio nearest man in a way that, made us laugh. Then sho remembered her master, and loft hot shelter to look for him. The poor little tiling was hit twice at Uhanccllorsvillc. Tho British army enjoys some hereditary j pets, tlio goat of the Twenty-third Royal Welsh Fusiloers being an especially no ticeable animal. It is pure white, with a venerable beard, mid has become a per- ; feet idol of animated fotich, and, like | the Grand Llama of Thibet or tho Sacred Bull of ancient Egypt, when one goat dies ti successor hns to bo immediately provided by tho Quean of England her self. The regiment love their goat as they do their colors, and tako it every where. Their campaigns in Asliantca Land and Egypt were rough on the men, but must have been very tough on the goat—unless they 'shaved him.— Grand Army Review. —— i Barbers who Call on Customers. . The custom of having a barber call at one’s house has become quite the fashion within the last few years. It is rather expensive, but rich men can stand it. Fifty cents is the average fee demanded. Some men have fitted up special barbers’ rooms at their homes. Others have easy chairs for tho accommodation of their [ barbers at their down-town places of business. It used to be Ferdinand Ward’s ; regular afternoon custom to summon the | barber as soon as business was over; he ! was a sort of pioneer in this line down I in Wall street. Now there are dozens of speculators and clerks who follow out his aristocratic example.—New York Times. A Poisonous Pedagogue. ’ , Dr. Oswald says in the Cincinnati Enquirer: A lauded proprietor of the Prussian Province of Pomerania has pre ferred a curious charge against a school teacher of Btargard. That pedagogue, who had served the family in the capac ity of a private tutor, was so incurably addicted to the use of tobacco that he smoked his strong cigars in the presence of his young pupils, who at last were simultaneously striken with a mysterious disease. One of tho children died, and a committee of physicians diagnosed the complaint as nicotosis, a marasmus cuuscd by the poisonous principle of tobacco smoke. . . ——— Mexicans have a passipn for mirrors, and a traveler anys that the interior of some’of the city houses look like steam- boafccabins. He remarks also that mir- rosFare among ,tfie &>milJPgefit articles iq the pawnshop! there, : 0

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, June 15, 1886, Image 1