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Pi the mercury. watered an Second-class Matter at tfteSandcrsvtlle l‘ostaffco April 27, tsso. Sandersville, Washington County, 6a. PUBLISHED BY J. JJERISTIGAN, Proprietor and Publisher. Subscription: $1.60 Per Yeu. City of SandersTille. Mayor. J. N. Gilmore, Aldermen. W. R Thigpen, B. E. Houghton, J. B. Roberts, A. M. Mato. S. G. Lang. Clerk. 0. 0. Brown. Treasurer J. A. In WIN. Marshal. J. E. Wbddon. A. C. WRIGHT, attorney at law, 105 Bay St., Sarannah, Ga. IfSTwIM. PRACTICE IS ALL THE COURTS. E. 8. LANCMADE, attorney at law, SANDERSVILLE, Ga. R. D. Kvim, ,r» EVANS & EVANS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW SANDERVILLE, GA. F. H, SAFFOLD, attorney at law, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Will practice in nil the Courts of tits Middle Circuit nnd in the counties unrounding Washington. Spccinl at* teniioti given to commercial law. F. K. IIikm. 0. It. HooF.ni, HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, SANDERSVILLE, QA. Will jiractlci* in ilio coantics of Washington, JefBrion, .1 olmntoii, Emanuel and WiUdnpon, •ml in the U. 8. Court! for tho Southern Dis- t ict of Georgia. Will Hot ns agents in buying, Bailing or rout ing Heal Citato. Offlr's on West Hide of Public Square. Oetll.tr 6, W. H, WHITAKER, DENTIST, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA. TERMS CASH,— W Office at his reaidonoc, on Hftrria street, Api 20-’80 H. S. HOLLIFIELD, Pliysician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Office next door to Mib. Baync'a Millinery •tore, on Harris street. HUY YOUIi J Itr 4) m m -FROM- JER.3iTXC3-A.3Sr. tNono genuine without our trade mark.) O.V HAND ANDFOll SALK SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc. Watches Clocks JEWELRY JSH/3STIGi_A.XT. OUR department "Pplied with all the requisites tor doing 11R of Job and Book work In First- -iaaii Style, Promptly and at ltcu.- souable Prices. Bedding cards, visiting CARDS, BUSINESS CARDS, BALL CARDS Fosters, handbills, PROGRAMMES, STATEMENTS, Better headings, dodgers, pamphlets, ETC.. ETO,, etc THE MERCURY. Am jr. JMaNXQANy Proprietor. VSNOTEX) TO IDBBtmil, ACMHOULTUEB AND flOREHAL DIIIUIflBIIR. SUBSCRIPTION. $1.00 Per VOLUME VII. SANDERSVILLE. GA., TUESDAY. JANUARY 18. 1887. NUMBER 38. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE! AW Communications intended foe this Paper must be accompanied by the full name of the writer—not necessarily.’or publication, but as a guarantee of good, faith. H'e are ht no way responsible for the views or opinions of correspond ents. THE NEW SOUTH. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. SOUTH CAROLINA. Tlio Sumter national bank has declared a rr-mi-annual dividend of four per cent. Tho now town council of Darlington has placed tho liquor license at $150, which is $25 less than it was last year. The Green Pond, Waterboro and Branohvillo railroad has been completed to a point within a tnilo of Waterboro. James E. Davis, of BarnwoH, who was so severely shot on Christmas day by W. E. Owens, is rapidly recovering. The directors of the Sumter cotton mills hnvo declnred a dividend of woven per cent on the cnpital stock, and also passed ten per cent to tho surplus. Ono hundred nnd fifty negroes left StrotherB last week for Toxus and Arkan sas, seeking bread and bettor homes. Wives have gono and left their husbands. They arc very poor and dissatisfied, hav ing bad four wuccessive failures in tho crop. nnm. it is cnuca tnc rsortn Ainunmn Colored Land company, and is capitalized at $50,000. Nearly all the prominent colored people in town are interested in it. Prohibition virtually prevails in Blount county, from the 81st of December, 1880, until at least to the 22d of July, owing to the recent net of the legislature passed, to regulate the manner of obtaining li cense to liquor dcnlcrs in this county. The Lowndcsboro correspondent Hayuo ville Examiner says: Planters have pret ty generally commenced work for 1887. With few exceptions most of them have plenty of labor and we trust all parties will be better satisfied during the coming year. RAILWAY PASSENGER AGENTS. A Koiialng Meeting nt Which Twenty-Two Uoiiipaiili-s Were llepreeentnd. A meeting of tho Southern Passenger association was held in New York on Tuesday, twenty-two out of the twenty- five companies of the association being represented. Col. T. M.R. Talcott, of Mo- M. Mayer Richards, a cotton buyer in Montgomery, was arrested Saturday on a warrant issued by Justice II. B. Screws on nflidnvit of L. Seligmnn, pnper and stationery, the charge being larceny of furs. Mr. Richards gnvo bond for ap pearance. An attempt was made to wreck a train near Ilonea Path on tho night of the 1st instant, by placing an iron hnr across tho rails. It was struck by the engine of n specinl freight going west, about nine o’clock, but fortunately no injury was dono, ns the bar was knocked clear of tho track by the pilot of the engine, Covington county is becoming noted for the almmlnnco of large and small game within her boundaries. A party of gen tlemen from Pike came down a few days since, were joined by friends at this place ami went on a hunting expedition to the lower portion of tho county. We learn the results were satisfactory. jprosented. bile, presided. It was said that tho special busiuess was to invoke now aids in an effort to get those of the southern lines not now m the association to come. Of these four companies who arc not mem bers, all but one—the Mississippi and Tennessee—a small lino, have signified their intention to join. Mr. Stoughton was re-elected commissioner cf the asso ciation. Tho association completed its labors and adjourned. A committee of five was appointed to confer with the management of roads not members of the association and ungoverned by its rates to obtain their concurrence in the schedule if pos sible. The committee consist of E.. B. Tliomns, of tho Richmond nnd Danville; Henry Fink, of the Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air-Line; E. T. D. Myers, of tho Richmond, Fredericksburg nnd Poto mac; N. II. Smith, of the Louisville nnd Nashville, and John O. Galt, of tho Cin cinnati, New Orleans and Pacific. ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. Mr. and Mra. Cleveland May Tmlt San Kran- claeo nnd the YellowMone Park. Leon county is redeeming her bonds nnd stopping interest Gnluesvillo uow boasts of u population numbering 5,038 souls. O. B. White, of Volusia, Inst week picked 1,050 oranges from a five-year-old tree. Mr. Tyson, of Smithville, Ga., is now- on Indian river looking out for a location for a newspaper. The university library at Tallahassee has received 20 volumes of Swedenborg’s Publishing society. Tho reduction of hands in tho railroad shops in Tnllnhassee turns twenty-two employes out in tho cold. Mr. Kcesley, of Point Pinellas, shot an eight-foot nlligntor last week, but n horse did noarly as well last Sunday, jumping on and disabling one, live feet nnd a half long. Tho Courier, Mr. S. A. Jones's new pnpci in Tampa, appenred Wednesday. This makes three weekly newspapers for Tampa, and it is now a question of tho “survival of tho fittest." Tho Andalusia Times says if Andalusia continues to make the same headway in mittcrini progress for the next two years that she 1ms in the one just drawing to a close, she will indeed be a boomer. Never before in her history 1ms there been such an influx of new comers and erection of new houses nnd improvement of old ones. Montgomery Advertiser: John Saun ders, n notorious thief, was urrested by (lllicer Payno yesterday afternoon. The charge against John is grand larceny. A few days ago he stole some hides from L. Seligmnn and sold them to Mr. Sabel. Mr. Seligmnn identified his jxroperty nnd took the, hides lmek to the store, Tho next day the hides were missing again. John had stolen them again nnd sold them to Mr. S. Marks, on Dexternvenue, The hides were recovered and the thief spotted. Yesterday nGernoon the officers got him and lodged him in prison John Saunders is a veteran thief, nnd is a fa miliar character in the police court. lie has been arrested up to date forty-eight times by Officer Payne, and ill almost every instance for larceny. A man named Weaver appeared at tho courthouse a few dnys ago to transact some business with the clerk of tho court who said ho lind wulked all the way from Brevard to Tallahasseo to straighten out his lund matters. A wild boar was killed in Rice-creek swamp, near Pnlntka, a few days ago. The hog weighed more than three hun dred pounds nnd was killed by Mr. Jim mie Grooms. The tusks were about seven inches long, nnd shows just what n Flor ida razor-back can do when given tho freedom of tho swamps. It'IM CAROLINA. that many of tho most It is st it prominent tobacco farmers of the section nroimd Henderson will not put in a full crop of tobacco this year. It has been definitely ascertained that Governor Scales will not order nil election to fill the vacancy in the Fifth district, caused by Reid’s resignation. The Governor lias offered a reward of $1011 for Thomas Brinkley, who is charged with the murder of Pierce Hermann, at Hickory, Christmas day. Hermann was a merchant there. Directly after committing the crime Brinkley fled. While Lawrence Pritchard, son of Rev. Dr. Tliomns H. Pritchard, was hunting, nl Lake Wacinaw, his gun burst, wound ing him painfully in the face and hands. The gun was over-charged. The injuries are not considered serious. Negro brutality in some cases is horri ble, and the latest instance occurrred at Charlotte, where the wife of John Morri son heat him on the head with cooking utensils, fracturing bis skull and causing his death, Wednesday night of last week. The murderess has tie I. The State Bonrd of Agriculture meets on the 17th, and has invited tho farmers of the State to meet with it for a general discussion. There has been specially call ed, a State Convention of farmers, on the Stitli instant. This appears to be excit ing ipiite a deal of interest. Wilmington lias had more trouble than any place in the State during the past few months in tho way of strikes. The last one of these labor troubles was caused by railway firemen. The police stopped the trouble. Thursday one of the strikers, a negro named Aycock, was before Mayor Hall at Wilmington, charg ed with threatening to kill one Massen- burg, a negro who had been given Aycock s place. ALABAMA. All of north Alabama seems to be on a boom. A movement is on foot to plant a hun dred thousand dollar carriage and wagon factory at Birmingham. The residence of Mr. G. W. Abbott of Arkadelphia, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Everything in the house was lost. I W Dainwood, of Livingston, who made an assignment some days ago has compromised with his creditors and re sumed business. Major Garland Goode, an old and es teemed citizen of Mobile, formerly in the Cotton factorage busiuess, died and ™ buried Friday. He was born un Edge- field, S. C. The little six-year-old daughter of Mr. ir,.,Xiek living near Calera, was burned to death Friday morning. Her clothing « fl r « and before assistance came she was burned almost to a cusp. At a meeting of the board of directors ■ f the pecatur Lind Improvement and Fimineo company, the executive com mittee were authorized to proceed nt ■nee to erect four blast furnaces of at ' .ist one hundred tons daily capncity. ' proposition, through Mr. Gunby Jordan, of Columbus, Ga., from New York, and Philadelphia captalists, for the erect ion of n one hundred ton blast fur nace, was received and neted upon. Tho representatives of the Pierce charcoal nnd wood alcohol works, who tiro now erect ing fifty ovens at this point, are expected ore with a view to erect a charcoal iron mince at this point, A Curry cotton cimpress company wns organized, to erect extensive works at this point, FROM TUSCALOOSA, The excitement over Tuscaloosa’s great iloom increases hourly. Telegrams have p mred in from nil quarters nsking for oek in the land company. The sub- ■ription hooks having been closed, these chgrains are filed in the order in which/ they have been received. The talk now is general on the streets that tho original amount of ground floor stock agreed up on will have to be increased to meet the pressing demands of capitalists from other points. The prospect is that tho Tuscaloosa Coal, Iron and Improvement ( ompaiiy will bo the largest and strongest ever organized in the South. It is ru mored that negotiations are pending to secure for the company a body of over ime hundred thousand ncrcs of coal and iron land lying between Tuscaloosa and and the Georgia Pacific railroad, in addi tion to the lands heretofore secured. Ten percent premium was freely offered on the streets for places on the stock list, the holders generally refusing to sell at that price. In the meantime real estate of all kinds in tho city that is offered is readily taken up, advancing jirices. Tho proportions which the boom is assuming is amazing even to tho most sanguine be lievers iu Tuscaloosa’s future. SIR STAFFORD N0RTHC0TE DIES. lie Kitinls ivliilo ascending Iho Sintra of Lord Salisbury’s Residence. a ..pirni company * s Hie latest novelty tAS3&Sw* ■»“ f Lord Iddesleigb is dead, He is better known to fame in British po'itics as Sir Stafford Nortlicote, He fainted while ascending the stairs of Lord Salisbury’s official residence, in Downing street, as lie was about to visit his lordship. He was taken into the prime minister’s room and almost instantly expired. A physi cian's bulletin announces that Lord Id- dlesleigli died from heart disease, from which he hod suffered slightly for sev eral years. A few moments before he was stricken, he seemed to be in per fect health and spirit. His body has been removed to the family residence in St. James place. There will be no in quest, the doctors certifying that death resulted from a failure of the heart’s ac tion. SNOW IN THE NORTHWEST. singe C'eacbea llloeked—Two Men Barted by ho Avnlanoho. Many stage coaches are blockaded in western Montana, and a number of casu alties are reported. The coach from llenton to Helena was blockaded twenty- eight miles out, the team becoming ex hausted from walking through the snow. The driver and passengers walked to tho next station and all were more or less frozen. The c inch from Helena to Fort Shaw was also obliged to lay up. The snow is terribly deep iu tho mountains and the roads are impassable. Two men Tony Wise and a Swede named Martin, were at work on the side of Sheep mountain, near Cook City, developing sonje mining property. A. huge slide -wept clown the mountain and hurled the two unfortunate men into eternity. They were carried a thousand feet below, .and their bqdies will not be round until the mow melts next summer, 0LUVERIUS AND RELIGION. Til. PrlMrrr Mnrkl.g Itellgloua Oaaiala- Hon-Petition for Farther Respite. Counsel for Cluvcrius, the condemned murderer of Lillian Madison, have pre sented a formal petition to the governor for a further respite. Tlio prisoner re ceives lew visitors, and spends much of liis time reading the Bible. Recently, at his own request, ho has been visited sev eral times by Captain Frank W. Cun ningham, wlio is known as “Richmond's silver tongued tenor,’’ and its sweetest ballad nnd hymn singer. On each occa sion Captain Cunningham has sung for the condemned criminal, and in recogni tion of his kindness, presented Captain Cunningham with an autograph album, with the following written on the first page: “Captain Frank W. Cunningham: Let me say that no words of mine can proper ly thank you for the cliccr atid comfort you lmvc brought me in my lonely hour by your sweet music. Whatever others may say or think, I can say to you I am innocent. .May we all meet in heaven whore sorrow is not. We shall sing on that beautiful shore. Thomas J. Cluverius." KILLED BY A PENCIL. A Nirange lleatlt Koparted from Flerei.ee C. H. Pahrer, a merchant of* Florence, died Monday from the result of a strange accident. One day about two montni ago, while standing in front of his store, lie wns approached from behind by a friend, who playfully threw his nrui! around Barber’s neck. A scuffle ensued, in which Barber's head was drawn down ward and his right eye brought in con tact with the sharp point of a small lead pencil sticking out of his friend’s vest pocket. The pencil, which was about an inch and a quarter long, penetrated the eye, and became so completely embedded therein, ns to baffle the efforts of the surgeons to extract it. After remaining in tlic eye about six weeks, the pencil worked itself out,and it was then thought that,with (lie exception of tho loss of the eye, Mr. Burlier would suffer no other in convenience, but in a few days it became evident that the lead had poisoned the optic nerve, and soon after the brain be came similarly affected. Burlier lingered in great agony until death relieved him. The autopsy showed that the braiu had ■iterally rotted away. A CBI.LHK ATED CASH. Private advices from Montgomery state that tho suit in the supreme court of D. W. Visher versus East Alabama Railway company to recover East Alabama Rail road, resulted in favor of present com pany. This is u celebrated case, having gone the round of t lie .state court into tho United States supreme court and again to the state supreme court. This is a final ity. Mr. Visher was tho road contractor, and sued for alleged unpaid contracts. The present company offered at ono time a compromise, but Vischer’s lawyers re fused. BASEBALL. The Southern basebnll league is an es tablished fact. John Morrows president of the league said: “The league is thoroughly organized now, is in harmony and working under a guarantee of the national association, lias secured all cities ■in the circuit, except Atlanta and Macon, and these will he replaced by Mobile and Birmingham. Memphis has remitted her franchise deposit of $2,000. New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston and Nash- villo have fallen into line and Chattanooga is safe. IIE WANTS TO SWING. A MYSTERIOUS LYNCHING. It is said that tho president and Mrs. Cleveland contemplate a lot of jaunts this summer: that they intend going to tho Pacific slope, through tho south, spend ing some time in the woods of Michigan and New York, and that tho president hopes to take sufficient exercise to work down his superfluous flesh and give liis muscles some elasticity, so as to obviato the danger he Is in of a stroke of nppo- plexy or something else. Last summer he had such a good time in tho Adiron- dacks and felt so greatly improved that ho will try it on a Larger scalo. It will bo remembored that last sum mer efforts were mado to get Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland to go to San Francisco, St. Louis, tlio Yellowstone Park and a number of other plnces, contemplating travel over a largo scope of country. Tho president hinted at that time thnt ho might pay visits to all those places in the future. This summer will cover the long vacation of congress, or rather the inter im of great length when thoro is no ses sion. The offices will nearly all have been filled by new men, and they have so completely mastered the details as to be able to run the maohinery of government without his directing care. So the mo ment for politics, recreation and social visits will bo opportune about Juno or July. A JACKSON COUNTY SENSATION. A Man Enaprcted of Robbery la Taken Ont aed !>Inltreated. THF DEATH OP THI YEAR. A TRAIN IN A SNOW DRIFT. Kate I I’lnnce if a Mliaenrl I’aclflo Paaaen" per Train. A south bound passengor train on the Missouri Pacific extension wns wrecked near Dunbar, Neb., about midnight Wednesday. The wreck was caused by the loosening of a rail, done by parties unknown. Several spikes and fish plates lmd been removed and the train coming along at the. rate of thirty iqiles an hour, plunged fifteen feet down an embankment and landed in a snow drift. James De witt, of Wyandotte, Kansas, engineer, was caught under the boiler nnd killed, his body not being recovered nl last no- counts.' Frank llonewith, express mes senger, wus internally hurt and may die. A lady, whose name was not learned, was badly"hurt, but tlie other pussengers worn not seriously injured So far ns known here, all were shaken up, however, and T1 ' ' more or less bruised. Tho entire train left the track and probably the loss of life would have been greater except for a snow-1 milk which broke the force of the plunge. Missouri Pacific olllcials state that the wreck is the result of a third at tempt upon the life of Engineer DeWitt. THE CHINESE QUESTION. Negotiations Willi tlio Coverninanc—Expul sion at Van (louver. It is understood that negotiations with tho Chinese government, to which allu sion wus imulo in the president’s message, for such a modification of existing trea ties as will entirely prevent the introduc tion of Chinese coolie labor into this country, have just been brought to a suc cessful termination and that in u few days, an amended trenty, covering this point, will be submitted to the senate for ratification. Both the State department and Chinese embassy are much gratified at tho satisfactory conclusion reached. EXPULSION OF CHINESE AT VAN COUVER. The committee appointed at tho public meeting at Van Couvor, B. C., waited on a number of Chinamen who recently ar rived therefrom Victoria B. C., and re quested them to leave, which they did. Their return fare to Victoria was paid by subscriptions received from citizens. It is reported that instructions have been re ceived to tuke proceedings against Mayor McLean, of Van Couver and other citi zens implicated in the expulsion. On Thursday hight of Christmas week tho storehouse of Mr. J. E. Statham,who lives in 8entofc,Qa.,was entered and $100 stolen therefrom. For somo cause sus picion at once rested on W. O. Shclnutt, who lived near the store, buf direct proof was lacking which would fasten the crime on him. Threats were openly made about Bhelnutt’s complicity. On Sunday night following, about 1 o’clock, Shclmitt’s door wns broken open, and without giving him time to dress or bid his wife adieu, a party of men wearing masks and nine in number, hurried him oil to nit old church nenr by. and finding a suitable limb, procured a strong rope and fastening one end around his neck drew him U]i between heaven and earth. After suspending him thus until life was almost extiuct, the lino was Blackened nntl an opportunity given him for a full confession of the crime, but this ho re fused to do, and again wus the rope tightened. When breath had about left him a halt was culled, and in an uncon sci ms condition Shclnutt was dragged by two men about 100 yards to a log. While they held him down acroH* it a brawny fellow administered a severe flog ging with an improvised cat-of-nine tails made from a heavy leather strap. When tho mob had given him all ho could stand a halt was ordered and another oppor tunity given for a confession. With his hack bleeding from a hundred wounds, tho poor wretch, to nave his life, told them that a mail named Griffith robbed tlio store, and he Shclnutt happened to sen him in the act, and that Griffith gave him five dollars to keep mum. This con fession seemed to appease tho wrath of tlio crowd to a certain extent, and Sliel- mitt was then taken to the home of Mr. Stiitbain, proprietor of the store that wns robbed, nnd turned over to his tender mercies. The next day Griffith was ar rested, but Shclnutt failed completely to show any connection that Griffith had with tho matter, so Griffith was released. Shelnutt says he knows nothing what ever about the robbery and only told the mob what lie did in order to save his life. Warrants have been isauud for six men charged with complicity in the whipping, and lively times may be looked for Defore tho thing is finally onded. A cloud came out of the golden west, A bell rang over tho silent air; The mm-god hurried away to rest, Flushing with ldsses each cloud he prest, And, oh! but the day was fair. “How brightly tho year gees out," thoy soldi "Tho glow of tho sunsot lingers long, Knowing the year will be over and dead, Its sod hours over—its fleot hours fled— With sorvlce of even-song.” “IIow sadly the year came In,” they eald, I listened and wondered in dusk of night; To me no your that might como instead Of tho old friend numbered among the dead Could over be half so bright. ThfituR-WaAd cTouds grew pale and gray, Tho bells hung silont in high mld-alr, Watting to ring tho year away In strains thnt were over too glad and guy For mo—as I listened there. A VIRGINIA RIOT. HIS BODY FULLED IN TWO. James Chavis, a young man about 18 years of age, met with a horrible death in the gin house of J. T. Goodson, in Darlington county. At the time of the accident Mr. Goodson wns in tho gin house, up stairs, nnd noticing that the mules had stopped, he went down stairs, where lie found Chavis’s dead body,brok en in two just below the chest. It is sup posed that Chavis was standing on .the shaft, and while going backwards lie wns mght by the hand wheel. Riotous demonstrations on the part of the striking employes of the Old Domin ion Btoamship lino, at New port Nows, occurred Tuesday. A tolegram from Mr. Bremond, general traffic manager of tho Chesapcak and Ohio railroad, at New port News, to General Wcckhutn, of Rich mond, second vice-president of the com pany, says, the strikers have taken pos session of pier No. 2, set fire to tho hath house of tho Old Dominion land company, nnd perpetrated oilier outrages. Mr. Dromond asks for un armed force to pro tect tho company’s property ami arrest tho offenders. Judge Beck, of Warwick county, has made a formal call upon Gov ernor Lee for military aid, and he has taken prompt action in the matter by or dering three companies, two white and ono colored, from Richmond, and ono whito company and one colored from Hampton, to proceed at once to tho scene of tho disturbance. A BATTLE AT TONQUIN. A BRIDGE FALLS IN. Cooper, tho murderer sentenced to bs hanged on January 14th at Darien, Ga., was informed that the governor had re prieved him until February 11th. He did not hail the news with joy. He says ho does not like this interference by outside parties, and would prefer to hang on the day first appointed. A special from Adrian, Michigan, says: Tho iron passenger bridge spanning the Raisin river, connecting the two princi pal portions of the village of Blissfield, ten miles cast of this place, fell yesterday, the intense cold causing the iron to con tract and draw upon the supports. Wil liam Black and Charles Quigley, with a herd of cattle, were precipitated to the bottom. The men are injured fatally. THE ARMY AND PENSION BILLS. ‘Why make it to The army appropriation bill, as report ed to the Senate by Senator Allison, ap propriates $28,787,718, being $051,000 in excess of the appropriation bill as it camo from the House, and $1,778,809 less than the estimates. The pension ap propriation bill, also reported by Senator Allison, appropriates tho same amount as the House bill, and contains but one amendment of slight importance. Ike Brumfield, colored, was hanged by an unknown mob Saturday night at Osyka, Miss. The body was found on Sunday. The negro, it is stated, resided in Louisiana, but was taken into Mississippi and lynched. Tho cause of tiie hanging has not transpired. CAPITAL COMING SOUTH. BURNING HOUSES IN IRELAND. A series of e victions was begun on the Winn estates, in Kerry. As the tenants were evicted their houses were burned. Intenso excitement prevails in the dis trict, and it is probable there will be blood shed. A party of eighteen gentlemen from In- linois, Indiana and Michigan, represent ing $2,000,000 capital, left St. Louis for the south. Their intention is to purchase a million or more acres of timber land be longing to the Mobile and Ohio road in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, and erect mills and open a new and extensive lumber trade in that section. LOBS OF LIFE AT A FIRE. ENGLAND ASSISTS BULGARIA. -v;- A rumor is current that England is giving pecuniary assistance to the Bul garian regents. There are rumors on bourse that Russia has occupied ft portion of Afghanistan. ... , A fire started Tuesday morning in the dentist office of Dr. Genslinger and ex tended to the adjoining buildings of F. M. Peal and J. H. Pipei, at Carlisle, Ky. When the walls fell Dr. Genslinger and Newton Craig were caught in the debris. They were extricated, but are fatally injured. The total loss is $50,000, ineuruoe $25,090. ODDS AND ENDS. An excliango bns an article on Bees Make Honey.” Thoy cell. A father may succeed iu cutting off his son without a cent, but he can’t cut off the lawyers If a man borrows money ho does not care to have it talked about, lie wants to be quietly let alone. The rockers on a chair never stick out half so far behind nt any other lime us when a man is prowling around in the dark barefooted. WnEN Georginna was three, she said suddenly one duy, after long quiet: “Mamma, where do the to-days go when they get to be yesterdays ?” The sheep is a mighty useful animd; his body is good for meat, his wool for clothes, and his skin is manufactured into doeskin, and even kid gloves. A damsel gave this as on excuse lor the size of her pedal extremities: She had rheumatism when a child, and her mother rubbed her legs the wrong way, and rubbed her calves into her feet. A young woman in eastern Maine cries by the hour because she is tall.— f'x. This is a rather peculiar case, but we have often heard of a man c nimit- ting suicide because he was “short,” You can always tell a man who has once been a clerk in a hotel, says un ox change. Our experience lias been that you can’t tell him much. He thiuks he knows it all. “I see that one of the new rules of the national game provides that where a batsman is hit by a pitched ball lie is given his base. Now, wliat is to pre vent a man getting hit on purpose to take his base ?” “llavo you over beeu hit by a pitched ball?" ’•Never!” “I thought not.” Oh. hearts! tlmt beat in a million breasts, Oh, lips! that utter tho same old phrase, I wonder that never a sorrow rests In words you uttor to friends nnd guest* In the new year’s strauge now days I Is it Just the ' nine as it used to ba! Have uow years only a gladder sound! For evor and always it seems to me That no uow face can bo sweet to see As the old ones we have found. There Is no cloud in the darkened weet, The boll is Bilent in misty air, The year tins gone to its last tong rest. And 1, who loved nud who know it best, Shall meet it—God knows where I —All the Year Hound. PITH AND POINT LOTTERY TICKETS COUNTERFEITED. Head-work—Bonnets. People who want the enrth do not cry to hnvo it blown into their faces by wind in a dry time.—Bouton Globe. “It is the rout question that doraande better home rule," as Bagloy remarked when he pinned up the back of hiivest. —Judge. A correspondent asks: “Is it wrong to cheat a lawyer?" First cheat the law yer and we will answer tho conundrum. —Profile nee Telegraph “Wlmt is education?" asks a writer Well, it is something a college graduate thinks he has until he becomes a news paper yinn. Chicago Tribune. The doctor chuckled in wild glee, With mirth almost exploded; ■‘The deadly mince nio come-,” said he “And folks don't know Its loaded." —Gonrlall’* A’un. Wo ore given, by nn agricultural ex change, a picture entitled: “A Device for Feeding Hogs.” livery cheap res taurant in .New York should have one.— Purl-. A-cliild who was sitting in the sun wa« admonished by her mother: “My dear, como out of the sut.” “No, mother,” said the little girl, with emphasis, “I got hero first.” That tlio oyster is nutritious, (Julte exquisitely (loll- ions, Is a stutomout that can never be denied; But lie .udUeuly grows vicious, Toward your stomach quite malicious, When he's fried. —Merchant Traveler, Perhaps, if the Yale students are really tired of the old-fasioned religion that is preached to them at tho college, the faculty might delegato a fow of th* young men to got up a now one, with oiglit oarB and a coxswain in it. — Chicago Adi os. It has been discovered that Louisiana lottery tickets have been counterfeited for a year, and sold on tho Pacific coast. A ticket bearing a ono thousand dollar prise number was sent to New Orleans for collection, und there pronounced a forgery. Tho man who made the dies nncl printed the tickets is known, uud lie has given the names of tho men who or dered them and sold tho counterfeits. No prosecution for counterfeiting can bo sustained because the lotteries have no legal standing. Tho only prosecution that can be made is for misdemeanor for disposing of lottery tickets. Official dispatches from Tonquin report that French troojps made an nttack on a large rebel force entrenched at Shnnhonk, but were twice repulsed. During the fighting four French officers were wound ed five European and eight Tonquin sol diers were killed, and fifteen European and twenty-seven Tonquinese were ! wounded. Reinforcements of artillery I and infantry will be sent to the French. Thanksgiving In 1721. From uu old newspaper, tho Boston Gazette, of October' 1 , 17 11, tho follow ing quaint and curious proclamation was copied. Boston has never known a more doleful Thanksgiving Day than that of 1721; for during that year six thousand persons, out ol a population of about nineteen thousand, had the smallpox, nnd ono thousand of them died. Tho Indiuns hud seriously threatened the peace of tho colony, nnd Governor Shuto, a gentleman of high tory principles, wao in continual conflict with the Legisla ture. The prominence given in the proc lamation to the King, George, ana the royal family, was probably a political stroke aimed by the Governor at his op ponents. It did not soothe them, and the Governor soon after left tho province. Bij His Excellency Samuel. Suute, Esq.; Captain General and Governour-in- Chief, in uud over HU Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng land, etc. A Proclamation for a General THANKSGIVING. For as much as amidst the various awful Rebukes of Heaven, with which wo are righteously nttticted, in the Con tagious and Mortal Sickness among us, especially iu the Town of Boston; The tong and hninoderni*. Kafgg which have been so hurtful to the Husbandry tad Fishery; And the threatening Aspect of Affairs with Respect t> our Frontiers; we are still under the highest nnd most indispensable Obligations of Gratitude for the mauy Instances of tho Divine Goodness iu the Favours vouen-afed to us in tho Course of tho Year past; Par ticularly, For the Life of our Gracious Sovereign Lord the King, Their Royal Highnesses tho Prince and Princess or Wales and their i-sue, and the increase of tho Royal Family; The Preservation of His Majesty’s Kingdoms and Domin ions from the terrible and do dating Pestilence, which hath for so l ag a time been wa ting the Kingdom of, France: And the happy Kuc e-sef His Majesty’s Wise Councils for Restoring and Confirming the Peace of Europe; For the Continuance of our valuable Privileges, both rivil and Eoclosiastical; and the Divine Blessing upon this Gov ernment in their Administrations; Par ticularly, in succeeding the Methods taken to prevent the insults of the East ern Indians; 1-Vr ivin - so great Meas ure of Health wiilii . this Province, and Moderating tho Mortality of the Sinall- Pox, so that a great Number of Persons are Recovered from that Distemper; And for granting u-: so comfortable a former Harvest, and so hopeful a Pros pect of tlio latter: I have, therefore, thiught fit with the Advice of HP Majesty’. Council, toorder and Appoint Thursday, the Twenty-sixth Instant, to be Observed as a Day of Pub- lick Thanksgiving throughout this Prov ince, strictly forbidding nil Ben ito La bour thereon, an l exhorting both Minis ters and People iu their respective As semblies on tlio said Day. to oiler up humble and sin- ere Thanks to Almighty afore- God, for His many Favours, as said, and for many other Blessings be stowed on a sinful People. Given ut Boston, the Eighteenth Day of September, lidl. And in the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign ^ Lord George, by tho Grace of God tof jL Great Britain, France and Ireland, v King, Defender of the Faith, etc.:' > " By order of the Gove'rnour, with Ad vice of the Council 8. 8HUTA F. Willard, Sect. God Save the King I