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Newspaper Page TextTHE MERCURY. Filtered as Second-etnas Halter at Mo Snnderavllle Poatojjice April 37, 18S0. Sandersville, Washington County, 6a. PUBLISHED BY A. J. J KKNIGAN, Proprietor and Publisher. MERCURY. THE MERCURY. 'L J. JEItNIQAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATUBE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SUBSCRIPTION: $i.so Per innim, Subscription: $1.60 Per Year. VOLUME VII. SANDERSVILLE. GA„ TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1886. NUMBER 22. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE! All Communications intended for thia 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 reaponaihle fan the v touts or opinions of correspond* ents. City of Sandersville. Mayor. J, N. Gilmobe, the original THIRTEEN. MEXICAN MATTERS. Aldermen, W. R Thigpen, B. E. Rouohton, J. B. Robhrtb, A. M. Mayo. 8. G. Lang. 'ilMANUIiMKNTS FOR A GRF.A1 CENTENNIAL. a Xjtsntutlan of t'jrmimtliy l> n *scil ,„ r ,, Lhnrlcmnti H„I! rr ,r,-om CnrpcnteV Hull Vlaltotl—AfUIrrnflGM ul Clerk. 0. 0. Brown. , Weir time. As it result of the movement oil the Treasurer j. A. Irwin, Marshal. J. E. Wbddon, A. C, WRIGHT, attorney at law, 105 Bay St., Savannah, Ga. pay* W [l.t, J'RAOTtDK IN AM, THE COURTS. E.S. LANGMADE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, Ga. U. D. Kvans, .In EVANS A EVANS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW SANDERVILLE, GA. |mrt ol the chief magistrates of the tliir- | teen origiilnl states, seven governors n| as many Commonwealths met at 1‘hihidcl. plna to arrange for a fitting observance ot Uie centennial anniversary of the pro. .....gut,on of the constitution < f the l lilted States. This ccntennarv will oc | eur on September 17th, 1887. ten slate* were represented. New Hampshire ! Massachusetts and North Carolina were I " (,t represented, but probably will be. The following governors were present : i 1 ntiison, of Pennsylvania; Lee, of Vir- ' K’ ni, M Eloyd, of Maryland; Htocklcy, ol Dolcwnre; AVcttmor, of llhodo Island: McDaniel, of Georgia; and Sheppard, ol I South Carolina. New York was repre- ! seated by Lieutenant Jones; New Jersey by a eoinmitteo of the state legislature; aid Connecticut by cx-Govcrnor Bign- I low. At tlie Continental Hotel Governor j Pattison delivered a brief address of I welcome. After Governor Patterson’s ! speech the party divided into pairs and marched down Chestnut street to the old | state house. Here the party halted in the room where the declaration of itule- i pondonco was signed, and standingundci a canopy of red, white and blue, listened to nil nddress of welcome by Mayoi ; Smith, F. H. SAFFOLD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Will praoticain nil the Courts of the Middle Circuit nnd in llm counties mrro'inding Washington. Special at tention given to commercial law. F. K. Hixex. O. II . IlOGKUB. HINES & ROGERS, at Law Attorneys SANDERSVILLE, GA. "'ill pr»oti<v in die counties of Wnshinglo), JcITorsc'ii, Jnliiislnn, Emanuel mat Wilkinson, •ml in tlio U. H. Courts for tlio Bonthcrn Dis- t irt of Georgia, Will sot ns BKenta in buying, soiling or rout ine IU»I Eusto. Oftieo on West aide of Public Square. Oetll-lf 6 W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA. —-TERMS CASH.— tr Oflioe st his residence, on Harris streot. Apr20-80 H. S. HOLUFIELD, iician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Oflico next door to Mrs. Ilavne's Millinory 5 | ' , rr, on Harris street. ’ SB FROM JE:E^2sri<3-A_;L\r. None genuine without our trade mark.) ° v HAND ANDFOJt SALE SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc. Watches, Clocks AND jewelry nKl'AIRBD DV ^ ^riO-A nsr. Carpenter’s Hall, the old hull where, in 1774, the first colonial congress met, j eleven provinces being represented, was next visited. Hero, also a meeting was held. Tlio governors ranged themselves around a large table near (lie centre ol the hall. Richard K. Betts, ono of the oldest members of tlio Carpenter's com pany in the city nnd county of Philadel phia welcomed the visitors and briefly reviewed the History of the time-worn meoting-plncc, Hampton L.Carson then delivered the oration. The business meeting of the governors was called to order by Governor Pattison. Governor Lee, of Virginia, was invited to take the chair. Mr. Carson was elect ed secretary. Letters wore rend from the governors of North Carolina, New Hump shire and Massachusetts, regretting thcii inability to ho present, and assuring t lie governors they were in sympathy with the movement. Colonel J. E. Payton, who originated the idea of tlio celebration, nnd who has charge of the arrangements, was invited to the stand to make any suggestions which might havo occurred to him. He said it would he a good thing to have every stnto in the Union represented at the celebration next September by a reg iment of soldiery. It seemed to him that the young men would avail them selves of this opportunity to participate. On motion of Governor Pattison, the organization wns made permanent. The Governor suggested, also, that u commit tee, consisting of tlio govornors of the thirteen states and representative citizens from those states, he appointed to pre pare a plan for the celebration. On motion of Governor Stockley, the chair appointed a committee of five members to draft a plan. The governors of Pcnnsylania, Delewnre, Rhode Island Maryland and Georgia were appointed. During the sessions at Carpenter's Hall, resolutions were adopted that each state and territory be invited to unite in preparation for a proper national cele bration of the adoption of the federal constitution, to be held in Philadelphia in September of next year; and Unit the President he invited to formally commu nicate to congress at their next meeting the fact that his administration closes the first century of constitutional gov ernment, and to urge upon that body the propriety of Inking measures to render the celebration worthy of an occasion of sit h dignity and importance; that the executive of every state and territory in the Union he formally communicated witli anil urged to press upon the attention of their people the fitness of their hearty co-operntiou. A resolution was also passed, requesting that delegates from the dilFerent states mid territories he sent to Philadelphia to meet on December 2d next to organize a permanent organiza tion, with power to devise plans to se cure a celebration worthy of the ovent. Resolutions were also adopted looking to the appointment of n committee of citi zens to co-operate with the permanent organization; extending sympathy to the earthquake sufferers in South Carolina; and thanking the Carpenter’s company (or the use of tho hall. I’rcaldont lllac’a lWessnitR to Cnsmn- 1 The ( iittiitK Affair. In his annual message to congress rend on the assembling of Hint body Wed nesday, President Diaz said that Mexico’s relations to foreign governments had continued generally on terms of friend ship and good understanding. There had, however, recently occurred an in cident which threatened to destroy the harmony and cordiality existing between this republic and its northern neighbor. A ease of small importance in itself, it excited, in an unexpected manner and j ’’wii'g to a conjunction of circumstances, , pa- -ions on either side or flic Rio Grande. “1 refer,” edntimies (lie message, “to the matter ot the American journalist " hli !i lies already name tonurJuioivledge h t v publications nindu in the Dinro Otli- , 1 al. ^ We must congratulate ourselves' tii.il in such mi emergency the dignity of J ilie government nnd tlio good name of I i lie country could he saved, wit limit i l ions conflict, thanks to the' prudent | and strictly legal conduct of the courts | and authorities of the. stale of Chihuahua 1 as well as to the good sense of our own j people and of the government of tlu I United States, which, when better in- | formed, did not insist upon its demand which gave vise to this transient difli- eully. Texas papers have, on tlii- ac count, alluded to other eases of alleged | outrage on citizens of that country by | ullieinls of our own. In their ongomess to accumulate charges against Mexico, | they have referred, mistakenly, to t]i: i ease ot nil indiv dual named Franciscos Ui iisui i-, author of various crimes eom- | raitted in our territory. It will wiflicc to observe that Erresuris wns of Mexican | nationality mid wns voluntarily delivered | by Texan authorities to n force of the state ol Cpnhuila without any previous demand for his extradition. So that, in j this ease, it will tie seen that as regards this supposed citizen' of the United States there is no occasion for u contro versy between tho t wo governments. ANOTHER SHAKE. A Sll|kt Hhnck of Knrthqnak. In Charles. ton-The Work ol Hellcf. There was an earthquake shock Thurs day morning about 4 o’clock unaccompa nied by any great rumbling or detonation, aid wns only noticed by a few persons. I here 1ms not been a shock iu several days worth reporting. The relief committee 1ms issued ovoi one thousand forms of application foi assistance in rebuilding or repairing houses. Attention lias recently been di rected to the character of mortar used, consisting largely of yellow sand, nnd the city council will probably take action on tlie subject to prevent any Buddcnsleck disaster in the hurry of rebuilding. Ex-Senator Simon Cameron, in a letter j covering one thousand dollars into the | relief fund says: | “1 always associate your city and state j witli my recollections of your statesman, Mr. Calhoun, who occupied so command ing a position iu the senate nnd before the country. At my first entrance upon public life, more than forty years ago, lie received mo in the senate with tho great est of kindness, and during tlie remain der of his life I was permitted not only to share, with others, the admiration ol his singular simplicity, elevation mid dig nity of character, hut also to experience, almost daily, some proof of his personal consideration nnd regard. It naturally gives me pleasure therefore, to associate my recollections of him with this contri bution towards tho relief of citizens ol •he state ho loved so well.” I ho fund for relief now amounts to $309,118, CYULONR IN INDIANA. THE ODD FELLOWS. Tin- Gri-ntmt Excursion on Hecorit—Tlii Mtirrreluii Grand Lodge. Saturday morning an extraordinarily lai:- excursion left Chicago for Boston, ovi r tin- Chicago nnd Grand Trunk Bail- wav. Tho contract witli that company calls for sixty Pullman and forty Wagner sleeping coaches, fifty regular passenger coaches and twenty baggage cars. The lii i .a-tion of this remarkable train left Chicago Saturday at 9 a. in. The re maining sections of tlie train left every twenty minutes thereafter until tlio entire party was oil the move. This great excursion is going to the O ld Fellows’ celebration at Boston, "here the sovereign grand lodge of the world holds its meeting. The Odd Fellows aro vainly trying to get lower rates for everybody on all lines. They entered into a contract with tho '•nind Trunk for $13 for the round trip. Since that date other competing compa nies have made concessions. A MUSICAL SWINDLER. How Hurl Ton Webber lilvoil in Jeclv ■onrlllc. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. O [JR DEPARTMENT i / 7 ftP tho requisites for doing ' ,,s of Job nn I Rook work in Vn»t* Jl ’* Pro opt v and at lieu.- suitable Prices. WEDDINo cards, ViHF1\ no CARDS; BUS1NJS88 CARDS, POSTERS, BALL CARDB handbills, PROGRAMMES, STATEMENTS, '■Piter headings, dodgers, PAMPHLETS, ETC.. ETC,. ETC The Central railroad depot was tho scene of n disastrous accident between the hours of one and two o’cloek, Thurs day morning, at Albany, Ga. It was re ported that the cannon hall train from Brunswick would he a quarter of nn hour behind the schedule time, and Engineer Green, of the Brunswick and Western railroad, attempted to take advantage of the delay to drill his ears. The cannon bull came in sooner than was expected at „ pretty rapid rate of speed, ami at the lime when the main track was obstructed „ith Brunswick and Western freight llOXCS The cab was smashed and hurled from the track. The engine was completely dismantled and is a perfect wreck. Tlie fireman made a miraculous escape from death, being bruised considerably by sticks'of wood thrown from the tender. Pin engineer, Mr. Wallace Scoville, wns m,no unfortunate. Upon applying the brake lie jumped from the engine, and m so doing broke his leg just above the „„kle, so badlv that the hone protruded. The physicians think they can save lm leg, hut there is a possibility of its liav- nq to he amputated. Carl Von Webber, professor of music, of Jacksonville, Fin., wns arrested, charged with larceny in stealing a lady's diamond ring, a sum of money nnd sur gienl instruments to tlio value of five hundred dollars. no came here n year ago. He claimed to have been a pro lessor in the Cincinnati academy of music and a member of tlio Theodore Thomas orchestra in New York. He also said ho hud a vincynrd in California and was nn Australian count living incog. Voti Webber wns received in the best circles, and took lending rank us u musical director in the Congregational church choir, and also in the Philhar monic society. The property mentioned was found in his room at the hotel, (nicked up. He owed a board bill at tho hotel, nnd it is found that of into lie had been eating at a restaurant and sleeping in the church of the Incumbent. <dt llTKNAY's PROCLAMATION. Work is going on actively, hut brick layers mul plasterers are badly needed. Tlie subsistence committees nro now is- ; uing rations to nearly 7,000 persons. A huge majority of these nro colored. Nc <nse of distress fails to receive prompt attention. Mayor Courtenay issued tlio following proclamation. City ok Charleston, Executive pKPAHTMK.NT, Septcrabor 17, 1880.— To the Public: The city council of Char leston, nt its last regular meeting on the • lie Mth 'list., took the following action: “Whereas, a terrible calamity has be fallen Charleston—vast and widespread in 1 he loss it inflicts, far greater in extent than wns at first realized. “And whereas, it it evident that the liberal and spontaneous assistance which has come to us from nil parts of this country and from England, and which deeply appreciated and gratefully ac knowledged by our people, will he wholly insufficient to meet our unex pected exigencies; bo it “Resolved, That the mayor he request- id to prepare nn nddress to the public setting forth our condition nnd invoking additional aid for this stricken city.” Jn making'known to the general pub lic this declaration of tlie municipal gov ernment ns to tho condition of our city nt this time, it seems unnecessary that 1 should add any words of my own. The facts are before the country by the statements of disinterested visitors from dif.erent parts of the laud, after personal observation, and are known hero and deeply felt. I ask the press of tho United States to give this proclamation tho benefit of it fjiv-rcnching circulation. William A. Courtenay. There wns a slight shock of earthquake at 2 :25 Friday morning. The relief committee provided for the appointment of two master mechanics to visit every house of persons npplying for assistance to rebuild, and to estimate tlie amount of damages. A resolution was also passed providing first for the pay ment of small claims, less than $200. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCHES Bishop Pnrct has issued n circular to the Episcopal elegy and congregations f the diocese of Maryland, recommend ing and requesting'that' in all the that dioc ■burches in that diocese offerings he re ived on Sunday, September 20, for rc- SUSPENDED. building tlie churches of Charleston. Such offerings may he sent to Rev. J. II. Eecleston, D. D., 140 Paul street, Balti more, who will acknowledge them, mul I lie whole amount he placed in the hands of the bishop of South Carolina, to he used ns he shall direct. TSir Howard County llunk oH«lnn*ntV'.lYo« < Iokcn Its Poors. James S. Thompson, president of the hank, makes the following statement: The assets of tho hank are ample 1o pay ( all depositors nnd stockholders in full. Hard times nnd extreme difficulty in col li cling induced tlie directors to turn over the business to a trustee, who will collect nnd pay off first the depositors and then tlie stockholders. Tho assets amount to $60,000. The liabilities do not amount to quite that sum. One of the largest creditors of the hank is the Laclede hunk, of St. Louis. It, how ever, will not he seriously affected by the failure. THE TWO BROTHERS. HE IHJC'K D RATES. KILLED BY A FILLING ROCK. A large rock overhanging the mountain side in Jackson county, West Virginia, vosterday became detached nnd rolled down. The dwelling and barns of Les lie Cummins were demolished. Uuin- rdns’s son Frank and a hired man, Ed ward Jenks, were killed outright. Two other children of Cummins were so badly hurt they will die. Several horses were tilso killed. A move affecting passenger traffic from New York to the south and southwest,, will he made by the commissioner of the Trunk Line pool, who will announce *i general reduction of from four to seven dollars to all southern and southwestern points. This is caused by the fact that the East Tennessee, Virginia mul Georgia Air Line has grown restive un der the continued cuts made by the Bal timore and Ohio via Cincinnati, and in recognition of the rights of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road, this reduction is allowed by the trunk lines. Tho new rates will he: New York to New Orleans $25, Atlanta $20, and other points on a similar basis. '• heir Novel Cgnvsn In Nashville. Ton. nes.ee. The ennvnss which the Taylor brothers arc making 1ms been one of unprecedent ed excitement. They have averaged sev eral hours daily speaking since starting, and have hut in two cases lmd as much as five hours for sleep. In one stretch of seventy-five hours they rested but five. But they have stood tlio strain remarka bly well, being old campaigners and realizing tho necessity for husbanding their resources. Neither realized the tremendous de mands to lie made upon their endurance. The appointments cover every day and tlio stations are so far apart as to necessi- late un immediate start at the close of tlie debate for the next station. The speaking at Woodbury involved a ride over a country road of fully forty miles, and even rougher journeys are yet in store. Each is bonding every energy to defeat tlio other on tlie stump. As to tlie popular choice, there is no room for doubt, and the debate is growing stronger every day, each finding the ability of the other, and becoming more determined. Each manifests a sincere interest in the personal welfare of the other, and little brotherly acts of kind ness which mark their intercourse aro beautiful features of their intercourse. ACCIDENT ON THE EAST TENNESSEE. A terrible accident occurred a half mile from Chattanooga nt G:10 Wednes day evening, on tlie East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway. The northbound express train struck a cow ou a sharp curve, while going into Chat tanooga. The engine turned over a slight embankment, crushing the engineer Toni Buckley, and Fireman Cal Farris, to death. Buckley’s body was not recover-! ed for several hours. The tracks of tho j East Tennessee, Cincinnati Southern ! nnd Western and Atlantic railways were blocked until midnight. No passenger*: were injured. THE AUGUSTA STRIKE. At 11 :B0 o’clock on Wednesday a cyclono struck Terre nnute, ind., com ing from tlio southwest. For fifteen minutes the wind blew a hurricane, fill ing tho air with missiles. The storm wns confined to the central portion ol the city. Numerous lnrgc buildings were unroofed and tlie rain which fol lowed did grent damage. A enreful es- fimntc places the loss nt $40,000. The roof on the Mnsonio hall wns blown ofl and the water ruined the fine frescoing in the lodge rooms. The canvas of a circus wns blown down nnd a large audience left in tho storm. Many ot the actors were in tho dressing room, half nude, and they made a brisk movement up the street for tho nearest hotel. Several thousand peoplo were at llic fair grounds. An eating house was blown down nnd the wreck caught fire, severely burning a woman and boy. No fatalities occurred, A special from Newport, Vermillion county, reports six or eight buildings destroyed, hut no lives were lost. The damage reported along tlio Wabash val ley is great, and will nggregnte ovoi $90,000. About 11 o’clock this morning a vio lent wind storm struck Montezuma. I'nrk county, this state, but did no dam age beyond unroofing a number of houses nnd uprooting slindo trees. HARRY IIILL’N RAILROAD. The Union Point and White Plains rnilrond lias suspended operations for n short time because of some disagreement between President Harry Hill and the stockholders. The stockholders, who subscribed $10,000 to tho road, claimed a bond for this amount, which bond President Hill has given. It scctns that the White Plains stockholders think the h md for $10,000 is insufficient to cover tho rolling stock and oticr equipments ‘ s ready to he nt tho time the rood is turned over to the company. One hun dred nnd poventy-flve hands are suspend ed until the trouble is adjusted. Four miles of tlie road linvo been graded, nnd Mr. Burkhaltor, tlio con tractor, one of the most energetic nnd ef fluent railroad men in the south, says he will have the remaining eight miles graded nnd equipped, ready for running, in forty days after the troublo is adjusted and work is resumed. ROIIIIEItY OF THE A1AILM. Two rifled United Stntcs mntl lings were discovered under the plntforms of a cotton press nt Montgomery, Ala. One was unlocked, hut both were cut open ns with a dull knife, anil both were empty. Their appearance indicated that they had been very recently put there No letter or sign of the contents was found, hut there is roast n to think they were rifled Saturday night after be ing Bunched from the incoming train from Nashville, Inspector Booth, at Atlanta, has been telegraphed to send , detective. I It AIN WltEGKCltH. Early Thursday morning a freight train was thrown from the track about a half mile from South Lyons, Mich., by a rail having been removed from the track, Fireman Ed Newman was killed, brnkrmnn Campbell wns fatally and en gineer Tlios, Davis seriously injured. I lie engine and fifteen cars were com pletely wrecked. There is no cluo to tlie train wreckers. Tho peoplo aro greatly excited nncl lynching will un doubtedly follow the capture of the wreckers. THE NEW IIA.AIF.kHIRE VETERANS. A number of citizens of Winchester, V it., headed by the Union cornet bn ml! seventeen peices, left on Friday, via liar lisburg and New York, to attend the cel ebration of the New Hampshire Veteran Association on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, at Winchester, N. H. All arc guests of the association, and left in anticipation of a royal good time. The Virginia militia rifle team that had also been invited, were obliged to decline tho invitation. niURDKKED FOR MONEY. At Florence, S. C. t Tuesday morning, I lie body of James Douglass, Jr., a prominent young man, was found on the sidewalk with three wounds in his head . iliicr of which would have been fatal. A 38-ealibre pistol hall was found in tlie hack of his head, nnd there were two oilier wounds, evidently inflicted by "lows. The object of the murder wns robbery. The murderers have not vet lx en identified. THE DOLPHIN AND PURITAN. A warrant for forty-five thousand dol lars has been issued to the assignees of John Roach, in final payment for the Dolphin and for the care of the monitor Puritan. This is accepted iu the settle ment of all claims of John Roach against the government, and the Dolphin be comes in law what she long has boen in fact, the property of the government. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mmb. Bernhardt will play but fourtMn weeks in this country. A comedy writton by Lord Beauonsfieid Is to bo produced soon at a London theatre. Miss Violet Cameron brings over a chorus ot lorty peoplo for her opera com pany. Tiieiik are 150,000 persons engaged in one capacity or another in London tneatros end musio holla Mr. Irving and Miss Ellen Terry roop- peared in tho London Lyceum Theatre last night in “Faust.” Man. Minnie Hauk has sung leading parts in over forty operas and in three dif ferent languages. Minnie Palmer, having completed her tour of Ireland, has sailed Tor Austria for a nine menttu’ engagement. Miss Mart Anderson is going to play four nights in Dublin for the benefit of the fund for the CharJoston sufferer:. Mrs. Langtry’s costumes that she will brin^ to this country wero made after draw ings furnished by “The Lily ” herself. Mademoiselle Erdodv, who was consid ered the host houbretto on the BorJiu stage, hns committed suicide with a revolver. Mme. Tkkiiki.i.i, tlie contralto singer, will como to this country soon with bor daughter Antoinette and commence a tour of sixty concerts. IluntNSTElN will personally conduct the first porforman os of his new t-i,tb Sym phony in Leipsic, which will take place next Novoinhor. THREE live lions anil two leopards nro Ih > a tors in fcardou's mn t rpleoe, •Theodora,' nowb ing performed ut Niblo’s Ga -den, New Y ork. J.n n T. Raymond is ill. Ho fell in a faint tho other clny when al out to l>exin a io- bourn 1 for tlio sermon, nmt it in lilt night lie will not. bo ublo to nut forsome time to come. A i.i; rr Niemann, tlio Gormau tenor, will re-elvo *IS,(MO, besido having his traveling expenses nnd hotel bills paid, for his lb ire months' engagement iu this country for next season. In Miss Annie I’ixley’s new piny next season, “Tlio I ca -oil's Daughter,” she imper sonate! tho will ul daughter of stem New England parents, who goes nn tlio stage nealnst their w.shes, and shocks them very hard. J A v “Undo Toni’s Cabin” company ap- (.carol at Winnatnac, In I., under eiinvas, and played so badly that tho largo andi -ueo broke up tho performance, ami some oven wont so far as to throw brickbats nt tlie lier- forniers. Patti, who is tho finest singer In the world, is n lyri; soprano, and in addition to her wonderful voice she is nn n iuilrablo a tress, which givos a captivating oleet to her mol (lion, uft •nnro). Bho has received I5.U0:) a i ll nalisM* rourso rich. PERSONAL MENTION. Prince Ai.EXANDER.of Bulgaria, received f: 01,000 for giving up his throne. Frederick Dqjuu.AS.8 haa sailed for Europe with his wife oh a, long,trip. The Emperor of Yliissia Ifis.sotlW M. Pas- t-ur tho sum of f:J >,0 0 tor his hydrophobia hospital. Wai.t Whitman is busy on a poem that ho < nils “Bonil a,” an aged man's review of a life nearly gono, Hknatok Delano Stanford, it is said, makes it a matter of pleasure to give away tlio purses won by his hoises on tho turf. German military circles are already pre paring to colebrate tlie Einperor’s ninetieth birthday anniversary, on March 22 next. Miss Harriet Goodwin, a niece of Gen eral Stonewall Jackson, is a loading member of tho Shaker Community nt Alfred, Me. Dr. J. L Inof.rsoll. who had boon nomi nated for Congress by the Prohibitionists of Wisconsin, is a brotlior of Colonel ‘‘Bob.” FohtmabtkiuG. ncrai, Vtr.AH Is quoted ax saying that Preddent Cleveland has prom ise I to inako a visit West with him next fall. Miss Cleveland has finally consented to go to Cliieng i to livo, andisiimkingpre.tara- t one to lease h -r house at Holland Patent, N. V. The pieturo of the late Vico-President Thomas A. lien irii-ks u lores tiie new. one- dollar silver eei tltlcates which have just boon issued. Mrs. Hendricksdoesu t like the uor- trait. Hknator John Sherman's houseat Mans- flold, Ohio, is 1,: 100 feet above tlie sea level —tlio highest point in tho Stale, and exactly on tlie divide between l.nke Erie and the Ohio Hivor. “Extra Billy” Smith, twtee Governor of Virginia, reached Ids ninetieth birthday Inst week. lie is still quite active, phys ically and moutallv. and daily walks to War- reutou, Va., a distam e of Hourly a mile. Bishop Whipple, nf Minnesota,walks un armed among the Indians in that vicinity; is appealed to by them when disputes arise, ami could command tho lives of hundreds of various trilios did he neod them. The bluo of fox furs presented by the Czar to the Sultan are describe 1 us two magnifi cent pie es, ma le up of the finest skins umi measuring ca h three inztres square. Their v a.u.‘ is rozkoueJ at 150,000 rouides. NEWSY GLEANINGS. A CO-OPER • TIYB MINE. Mine No. 3, the largest in the vicinity of Huntsville, Mo., after being idle more than live months, has just reopened on the co-operative plan. Tho miners are to have tlio use of the company’s machinery and to pay the latter a royalty of one cent per bushel, retaining for division among themselves the remainder of thi profits. THE TERRY TRAGEDY. The Knights of Labor of Augusta have ; received over teu thousand dollars tc i date, sufficient, it is reported, to pay off ; the debts contracted by the hands of the j A ugusta factory for the last ten xveeks. i No money has as yet been received for ! hands in the other mills, but Secretary ' Turner, from headquarters in Pliiln- I (ielphia, writes that the knights will take care of the Augusta operatives mid they will not return to work until the mills advance wages 15 per cent. He declines now to submit matters to arbi- , t ration as offers heretofore made have been rejected. P. D. Spencer, who wrote the card which led to -the Martinsville street fight between the Terrys and Spencers, at Danville, Va.., was tried for the murder I of J. K. Terry and acquitted. Four ol t lie participants of the fight have now been tried and all acquitted. The feel- in the county against the Spencer party is intense. BURNED BY LIGHTNING. Dispatches from Eau Claire, Minn., '■•'vs: Tho Chippewa Lumber and Boom '■ Ompany’s sawmill, at Chippewa Falls, the- largest in the country, was struck by lightning at two o’clock Thursday ■ud completely destroyed. Loss, $250,'- U00, partially insured. Mrs. Sub Lett, of Chetopa, Kas., Is 113 years old. California has earthquake insurance -lompanles. The Denver (Col., News has a gold mine in the cellar. Nf" Yok" ''. y received21,'• 13,522quarts of milk iu August. Over $18,000,000 has been nxpended on monuments in Massachusetts since 1801. Ten thousand public schools receive finan cial support from the government ot Mex ico. The snow is so deep among the mountains in eastern Oregon that teams cannot travel witli safety. If Daniel Pine, of Paw Paw, IU., lives un til December ho will be 100 years old. Meau- xvliile ho amuses himself by hoeing and suw- lng wood. Fifteen thousand dollars will be paid by the navy department for each accepted de sign for tho proposed two-armorad 6,000 ton war cruisers. Nickels are so scarce in tho Northwest that merchants in Minneapolis an I .St, l aul have written Ea-t to have several barrels shipped to them, offering to pay ull expenses and two per cent, premium. A bridge two and a half miles long is to be built over the Straits of Messina, thereby connecting Sicily and Italy, it will cross the water almost directly auove the famous Soylla and Charybdis. A farmer of Mome Townshjp, Canada has found in a swamp the stoleton of a mastodon. The tasks are over four feet long the upper jaw is over three feet long, and tho mbs are in proportion. Aivojias has arrived in Portland, Oie., from Montana, whose entire woa.th • onsistod of ten children, the eldest teu rears old. There were one set of triplets, two sets of twins, and three “singles." There is a baby in England waiting for iiarmmi to secure. It is a g e.itbaby,eleven months old, weighing fifty-eight pounls, standing three feet high, and measuring thirty inches round the chest KILLED ABOUT A HORSE, In a difficulty in Wilkes county^ Sim Byers shot Henry Edwards twice and killed him. Both of the parties were from Alleghany county, N. 0. The diffi culty was about a horue, AN INVITATION. When In the bouse the day Is warm, And dogs llo stretched before the door, Como out to my neglected farm, And sit upon tho grassy floor. Under the apple-trees’ green roof, Laced with tho yollow light of morn, Share nature’s joy without reproof, Tliou man xvho art to trouble bora I Alns I ’tin said for price of geld Tbo nxo shall hew these loafy towers; Tho spade shall trample in the mould This fragrantgra»s, thoso dewy flower* And when this plensuro-house is waste, ,V mansion built for earthly care, For wait'ng days and tiresome haste. Shall lift a stately front iu air. Thon como, before the day declines, And hoar the lieos among the bi ughs; See whore tha early uioon entwines Her croscoht in my bloomy house. Perhaps boforo tlio spado shnll xvound 1 his turf, to plant tlie caros of earth, A smaller plot of turf be found Moro groon to tell our noble birth. Then hasten ore the day shall die, And lny tlio heart to summer's blita, And loam whatever joys mny lly, To know tho permanence of thia Annie Fields, in Harper’s. PITH AND POINT. Every crab hns its own eido walk. Religious notes.—Ilyran-book music. The Associated Press—A lover's squeeze. A court-ship has two metes end no captain. The most confirmed skept'o will take your word for It if you point a gun et hie head and toll him it is loaded.—Philadel phia Call. In summer when we want him not All day tho Hun Is shining hot. Like all the frlond-i whom men may boast He's coldest when we neod him most. —Merchant Traveler. A pious old lady rocontly sent as wed ding presents a pair of flatirons, a rolling pin and a motto worked on card boa. (1, reading: “Fight on.”—lianyor Com- rcading: mrrcial. New Yorkers want elevators which will carry them up at tho nte of 500 feet per minute. The averago citizen of Gotlinm always was in a great hurry to get high.—Boston Globe. Every evening a good-looking Mr. Comes arouim for to visit my Sr.; One night on tho stairs, Ho, all unawares, Puts his arm round her figure and Kr. —B 'Ston (Jlnbe. A young man enmoto us tho other day, and wanted to know if we could tell him whore ho could got a position with a chance to riso. Wo directed him to tlie nearest powder mill.—Burlington Free Press. In a Weak Stnto.—Landlady: “Tlie coffee, I am sorry to say. is exhausted, Mr. Smith.” Boarder Smith: “Ah, yes, poor thing. I was expecting that. I’ve noticod that for some time it hasn’t been strong. ”—Siftings. Down in tho heart of tlie bottlo-green wood The shadows are shifting and long; And over the pool in the lm:tor-nut tree, Tho chickadee rattles In song: And then like ft rasp comes a i.tful kl-yl That echoes through mountain and vale. And you know that some small boy hashurled his dog out In th'o groon-coated pond by the tail. —I'uch. “Here, James, take these two cakes and give tho smaller one to your little hi other.” James examined the enkos carefully, appeared undecided.and finally took a heroic bite out of one of them, xvhirh ho passed over to his brother with the remark . ‘‘There, Tommy, I have made you a smnllcr odo -They wero both the same size.--Philadelphia Call. WORDS OF WISDOM. He is well paid that is xvell satisfied. A young man idle, nn old man needy. Tho good paymaster is lord of another man’s purse. Hear one man before you answer; hear several boforo y u decide. Only tho lnzy hope to attain prosperity without w. rk or self denial. If you would have a faithful servnnt, and ono that you like, serve yourself. “Except wind stands as never it stood, it is an ill wind turns none to good.” Society is a troop of thinkers, and tho best heads among them take the best places. Unclaimed promises arc like unenshed checks; they will keep us from bank ruptcy, but net from want. Vice incapacitates n m in from all pub lic duty; it w.thers the puwer of his understanding, and makes his mind paralytic. Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers, knoxving that gold and silver were originally mingled w th dirt, until avarice or : mbition parted them. Nothing will supply the want of sun shine to peaches; nnd, to make knowl edge valuab e, you must have the cheer fulness of wisdom. Goodness smiles to the last. It is easy to tell when others are flnt- tered, but not xvhen we ourselves are; and every tnau and woman will lend firm belief to the soft nothings of the very man they believe to be an arrant flatterer when other are in the . use. Many men fail in life because, when young,they form a false judgment touch ing their mental capacities and inclin i- tions, and are ever after engaged jn the task of proving to themselves and others that their verdict was a just ono. Two Memorial Trees. In the Botau'cal Gardens at Washing ton arc a number of •‘mcmqr.nl iroop’’-— arboreal tribut. s to prominent men. Two of the trees arc cypress, pla ted on op posite sides of tho 8otithw.dk by .loir W, Forney and Id win Forrest, who v.er t inseparable friends. These trees in grow ing up, leaned toward each other tint!' now their branches almost interfile.; Sentimental people regard this as typi cal of close relations between the actor and the editor.—New fork World. Oregon pnys a bounty of 3 cents fi every squirrel killed, and one man wi recently pgid for 125,000 squirrel tai which ho had collected. -

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, September 28, 1886, Image 1