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ISSO.
Sandersvllle, Washington County, Ga,
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E. S. LANGMADE,
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VOLUME VIII.
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SANDERSVILLE. GA.. TUESDAY, MAY 3. 1887.
NUMBER 1.
HONORING A STATESMAN.
CA LITOUN’S STATUE UNVEILED
AT CHARLESTON, S. C.
Imn'B'B CrawdB Allenri (he Or.moay-
A niii(nlflcpnl Oration by Hon.
L. Q. C. Lamar.
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
OfUeo next door to Mrs. Ravin’* Milltnorr
lor, "M Ifiurid ntivei.
memorial day.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
CUV YOU.lt
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FROM
(None genulno without our trado mark.)
O.V It A NO AND POR SALE
SPECTACLES, NOSEJILASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
AND
JEWELRY
III: 1'AIHBD BY
jEi^jsria.A3sr.
CAUL 1) UNDER.
lilt Discourses on Hovornl Little
Things.
Sometimes some;indy comes to mound
no s i lias J Curl ] hinder ! 1 vims. All
rinld, Mr. Duiulor, I vlins going to trafel
uiul t like some advice of you. Und I
t»yn to him:
“ Koop sober, take tlio middlo car on
ornilront train, und dolin'hot on some
add r man'a games,"
S ' i ' iuies u man mit n plug hut und
a I'liiiul almiilecornea into my sivloon und
ws how you vims, Mr. 1)under, und
] l(nv view dot good wife of yours, und
lanv does Shul.e got along, und plows
mv soul! hut you vhiia dor fattest uiul
j'dli' i Dutchmans in Detroit? Say, Mr.
Builder, I like to shpenk a few words
nut you in hrivate. 1 vims going to rim
mr oitioo dis fait, und I like to count on
you to help mo through. I pring all
ter lwty hero to puy liocr, und I
nuke Slmke my deputy, oh I How vlias
it, oldt frendtf Und 1 say t<y him :
"Di r nmu who depends upon liolities
eifts a lumvo or a fool. Dor man who
depends upon holitie'ims vims nil fool.
R 1 help you und you vims elected you
I get mo. If I help you und you vlins
<t' fefit< d dot odder giuididuto vlins my
enemy for life,”
Sometimes n man mit a srnlt look on
;j» face slips nrouudt to’mo uiul says I
. 0 to talk to you, Mr. Dundor. I vims
J n 1,01110 troul il(*s mit my wife, und I like
0 msk your ailvice. If you would ho so
«n;lt °s to tell me * ■
l ml f miya to him :
‘ Mv dour frendt, vlion it is time for
nisiliiiid or wife to go mit smnepody else
II n niiplnin of each odder it vims time
" yo to de« courts for a divorce. When
’nnny troubles can’t ho kept in dor
“Wjy it vlias bettc '
me'vn yourself.
o'mieiiiui s a young man comes in very
. '"• v 'hen nopo ly vims aroundt und
f 'n’ ,*’> Ml’. Dundee, you und my
uV i in, * K,<M1 fi'iendts a good while,
’>>n! ! ike to ask a leedle favor. I vims
H'' pehindt, tlimneinlly, und I liko
Ti, i T - v ' m f" l°an me twenty dollars.
Uml I say to him :
' hen n young man vlias pehindt
vlias wrong mit
VJien a young man
aiso
dor
too soon."—Detroit
THU CAMIOUN STATU*.
One of the finest dnvs of the year offer
ed the people of the South a chance to
unveil, at Charleston, Smith Carolina,
on Memorial Day, a magnificent statue to
John C. Calhoun, and the procession
numbered nearly 5,000 military and civic
associations.
I he statue, Situated on Marion square,
was draped by both state mid national
colors, which were drawn away I y six
little children, while thirty-five young
ladies and misses stood around as spon
sors. The young ladies were appointed
to be present at the unveiling of the mon
ument. With very few exceptions they
are relatives of Mr. Calhoun. Two of the
young ladies are the nearest relatives of
their age of Gen, Francis Marion, of the
Revolution,the directresses believing tlmt
the two distinguished Carolinians to have
j been kindred spirits, though in different
departments of the service of the state.
Six bn ics pulled the rope under super
vision of attending young ladies. The
babies were: Julia Calhoun, groat grand
daughter of the statesman; William
Lowndes Calhoun, great-grandson of the
statesman; 11. l’utnnm Calhoun, Jr.,
great-grandson of the statesman and
great-grand nephew of General Putnam;
Nddio Antrum, great-grandniece of tho
statesman; Florida Calhoun Dickens und
Floride I’cyno Johnson.
The dedicatory prayer was nindo hy
Rev. I)r. C. C. Pinckney, who was pre
sented to the audience by Mayor Court
enay, who presided. Tho unveiling then
followed.
An ode to Culhoua hy Alias E. II.
Cheseborough wns read by Rev. A.
Stukely. ,
Following this mine tho oration of
Secretary Lntnar, which was followed by
unothes Calhoun ode, written by Mar
garet J. Preston aud read by Rev. Dr.
Junkin, und then came the benediction,
pronounced by Rev. John O. Wilson.
Secretary Lamar's speech,which occupied
two hours, was received with tho deepest
attontioa and frequent applause.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP,
ItBnatirbl tVrntlier, Great Crowds, l ine
Dlaplnra of military ami Clrlo llodles
nnd Patriotic Orations.
In Atlanta the procession comprised
tho officers of the police force under
commnml of Chief Connolly, Following
cume the Confederate veterans, about one
Hundred strong, under command of Col.
George T. Fry. Tho third division, uu
dcr command of Capt. W. I). Ellis,
wns ono of tho most attractive, including
tho Onto City Gusrd, under command of
Capt. lliirkc, Atlnntn Rifles, under Capt.
Sneed, Means Cadets, under Prof. Edwards
and the Patriots Militant, commanded by
Captain William Kinyon. The Atlanta
Military Rand was with this division, W,
J. Long, assistant marshal, was in com
uuuid of tho sourth division, which in
cluded three tribes of the Independent
Order of Red Men, with tho Marietta
band,
Maj. J. Gadsden King was in charge
°f ,he division, which included two
divisions of tho Uniform Rank Knights
of Pythias, the Governor’s Horse Guard
anil the Atlanta Artillery with their four
guns. Tho sixth division, under the
command of Frank M. O'Hrynn, assistant
marshal, including tho Knights Templar
escort nnd cm tinges containing the ora
tor nnd chaplain of the day and the
members of the Memorial association.
Follow ing this come various officials and
citizens in carriages under the command
of GeorgeR. DcBuussuro. At Oakland an
address full of part lot ic lire was delivered
by Col. Albert II. Cox.
Tho dny wns fitly noticed nt Mncon, On.
Montgomery, Ala., Millcdgovillo, Ga.
Americas, Ga,, Athens, Ga., Covington
On., Albany, Gn., Jacksonville, Fla.
end ninny other places.
Chattanooga, Tenn., was houorod hy
the presence of Miss Winnie Davis,
duughtcr of Jefferson Davis, and in the
evening a reception was given at the
Stanton House.
At Augusta, Ga., Governor Gordon
delivered an oration before tho Confed
erate Survivors association, and an im
mense audience. His address was di
rected to a review of the South under the
old regime, showing its civilization and
prestige in directing and controlling gov
crnmcntul affairs. Governor Gordon was
sick when he began his address, and was
compelled to cud it suddenly, on account
of intercostal neuralgia
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
iECTIONS OP THE SOUTH.
Mnniifnclarlna nnd Other llaalaaea later-
eete Ilnomlaa-New Rallraatle, Hie.
THE MERCURY.
FDBUSERD EVERT TUSMT.
NOTIOSI
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RICH FIND.
DISCOVERY OP
BOLD MINES
RICH UNUSED
IN MEXICO.
H EMS OP INTEREST PROM
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
i*r dot you go oft’ mid
to ask
financially somethin
m-s way of li v i n .
Iw ' '
’ j*' it h ) ''mi -, min
•' '' k' 11 to his fodder's friendt to mist
f. n 1 '-' 'tollni- it vlias a matter dot del
■' ' 1 can t know too soon.”—Detroit
His Gold Lace.
cor ^ lln Now England Governor laid
visit a tribe of Indians who
mi V i 'I 11 . ! lo,uo within his jurisdiction,
nf ii °° |J lm Btnff u * on (? with him. One
till V° 0 luol ' fl , who was of a consoquen-
ni-iw 1-11 ’ 1GS0 * vet i to make a deep im-
nn i U P°R tho untutored red man,
will, "* 1 ^ lls O hj°ot arrayed himself
Great caro and orowdod on all the
L„,, *?° nu, t braid that his uniform
i,i,i V ' hoar. As he expected, tho ilis-
of ft tho attention of the chief
|,;. 10 lri h°, but tho impression madoon
s! ,, ,' vus not just wlmt tlio owner of the
shnii' V ni ^ orm had looked for. As lie
p' r 1 , , VP to tho clxiof tho latter ex-
„ ■■ ‘ l himself in curt Indian fashion :
a Vi,' 11 " n y?” “No,” said tho officer.
iVhl. “No.” “Militia?’,’ “Yes."
i )r „„, l!u l 10n tho clxiof, with a look of su-
U11 ° contempt, ejnoulnted, “Oh,bah I’
in?*?' Pjsi ^ e * Poonis tells the follow
soon i.fVZ:, 4 ? 01 . 1 - '-t'aylor said ono day,
that V. i 1 , nmuguration ns President,
nxuel, V i 1 nnyei' enjoyed a turkey st
Way i a he lmd at New t Orleans on his
It w.JlT fr ° w hi « Mexican campaign,
table ,v llL ' ut t before iiim on tlio dinnor
C m I * *-1, 8t ’ ( I lmrlcB Hotel, and it
caj-v,. •- had been requestotl to
of i\, n .• tiln ^ ascertained that it •wns
I<mni] of 111,u ’ho. When opened it was
pair W ^nntmn, not stuffing, but a
and -..'‘'J 01 ’ gonevnl’s gold epaulettes
lor v i, n f f sxxhU , a present from tho artil-
J hattahon “That,” said tho Uon-
’ """’os a t-turkoy worth liaving. ”
,11ml la n*ina Dona br Ilia Danila of Our
(Jovcriunout—Tlio IVn-U’a Itevlovr.
OIIANT ItKI.lCH.
The Grant relics, which Imve been for
several months safely guarded in one of
fhe private rooms of the national museum
are now placed on public exhibition.
Two handsome plush-lined cases, filled
with articles from I lie collection, were
placed in the main entrance. The arti
cles mo of great intrinsic vulue.
Notes.
The interstate commerce commission is
in the South. Their labors will be prin
cipally in Georgia and Alabama.
James II. Marr, chief clerk to the first
assistant postmaster-general, died re
cently. Had ho lived until June ho
would have been in continuous public
service fifty-six years.
Gen. I-'. O. Aruun, U. S. A, retired,
will command the encampment of tbe
national drilL lie is u resident of Wash
ington.
Acting Secretary Thompson has ap
pointed Dr. Benjamin F. Shaftel, of
Georgia, to be sanitary inspector, at Sa-
pello quarantine station, Georgia.
Nearly four hundred pensious have
been granted under the Mexican service
net, of January 20th. About 15,000 Mex
ican claims have been received at tho
p -nsion office. The president has issued
a proclamation suspending discriminating
duties, tonnage taxes, etc., upon vessels
of the Netherlands and Dutch East In
dies under the law authorizing him to
make such exemptions, where similar ad
vantages have been afforded to vessels of
the United Slates.
In a Cbnpsl Alapa are Fauad which Glva
a Clow.
Special dispatches from the City of
Mexico announce the discovery of two of
the lost seven bonanza mines by nn Amer
ican party of prospectors. Humboldt and
Hamilton speak of tho fabulous wealth
obtained from these mines by tho Span
iards. They wore worked up to tho
middle of last century. In 1770 tho In
dians swept over northern Mexico and
destroyed Chihuahua and nil tho iniuei'B
were drivon out. Tho Indians held con
trol of tho country so long thnt records
were lost. Recently, Lieutouunt Kenper,
formerly of tho U. S. army,W. K. Glenn,
of Illinois, Capt. Allen uiul J. McIntyre,
of Chicago, went out on n surveying ex
pedition in the interest of u land com
pany, und in an old chapel found mnps
and other data. Dividing into four small
parties a thorough search was begun.
McIntyre’s party located wlmt is thought
to be tho Lapoya silver mine. It is in
the midst of thousands of ruined build
ings, mining large churches ami forts.
Within four miles are 420 workings
of old Bpnnish furnaces nnd tons of
slag. A few days later the Rowers party
reported tho discovery of tho Guayanopa
in the heart of the Sierra Miulre moun
tains. Around it ure the ruins of 118
arastrns. Advices from other points con
firm the rumor and stato thnt the great
placer field has been located, whero tho
Jesuits of 200 years ago found fortunes
for tho church. Great excitement in
mining centres prevails.
"MILLIONS IN IT."
Tbe Wrsiinsbonae Air Hrnke IavsallaB
('In nn d by a Four Mob.
Theodore Monger who lives in Detroit,
Mich., is a tall, rather powerful-looking
nmn, wearing a full gray beard, trimmed
rather close, usually dressed in gray
cloth, nnd wears cowhide boots. Mr.
Mungcr lias been a resident of Detroit for
ten years or more, but until recently has
attracted no attention. Ho now comes
forward with the claim of having boen
the inventor of the Westinghouse air
brake, from which invention ho says he
never realized a dollur. Ho claims that
lie invented this valuable Improvement
about eighteen years ago, at the time an
attempt was made to produce the result
with steam on passenger car brakes, i
Being in poor health at the time he says
he revealed his invention to those work
ing at the steam brakes, who have since
taken advantage of it to deprive him of
pecuniary and other benefits. Mr. Mun-
ger talks rationally about this invention
and backs up his claim in the most cir
cumstantial manner,and if legally proved,
will uruke him a millionaire.
A barrel factory is being erected by
Chicago pnrtics at Chattanooga, Tonn
Arrangements have beeu made for
building a furniture factory at Florence
Ala.
A $10,000 stock company will be or
ganized to erect a canning factory at Gal
latin, Tcnn.
The stock of the Planters' Compress &
Warehouse Co., at Greenville, Miss.,
$100,000.
Garner & Bon, of Tampa, Fla., con
template erecting a steam laundry at An
niston, Ala.
Tho ltayidcs Compress Co., capital
stock $80,000, has been organized at
Alexandria, La.
Subscriptions are being received to
wards tho erection of n hotel to cost
$00,100, at Amcrlcus, Gn.
Hitt A Co., will erect a Taylor compress
at Americus, Ga. They will probably
erect several other compresses.
Allen Fort has organized a company to
build a cotton factory at Americus, Ga.
Tho capital stock will lie $100,000,
The mayor of Anniston, Ala., will rc
ceivo bids for the erection of tho city
hull. It is to bo two stories, 120x120
E. F. Gould, of Lake Helen, Fla., is to
build a 0-story building on Decatur
street, Atlautn, Ga.. to cost about $150
000.
The Montgomery Iron Works, of
Montgomery, have contracted to furnish
machinery for a 15-ton ico factory at Eu
faula, Ala.
A national bank with a capital of
$100,000 has beeu organized iu Anniston
Ain., nnd a dime savings bank, with
capital of $30,000, has been formed.
Arrangements have been made for run
ning a regular lino of steamers between
RrunswicK, Gn,, nnd European ports, to
commence on or beforo the 1st of August,
Works are to be erected in Binning
bam, Ain., to manufacture) snd irons,
I ho capacity will bo 10 tons daily. The
East Birmingham Land Co., uro inter
cited.
Tho Atlanta, Ga., Cotton Compress A
Warehouse Co. have chnngcd their nutno
to the Atlanta Compress & Warehousing
Co., nnd have increased their capital to
$500,000.
Tho Catawba Falls Manufacturing A
Improvement Co., capital stock $200,000,
has been incorporated nt Catawba, 8. C.
Tho object of the company eventually is
to purchase the Catawba falls nnd build a
cotton factory.
A Western syndicate purchased recently
through a local real estate broker, thirty-
four tho sand acres of timber in Escurn-
bin county, Ala. It is the intention of
the syndicate to commence ut once the
erection of a large saw and planing mill
RAILROAD ROBBERY.
A RED LIGHT DISPLAYED AN1)
THE TRAIN STOPPED.
Only About 82,000 Mlolen—Focnpo ol (ho
Villains.
A special nt Han Francisco, Cal., from
Tucson says (he western bound expri
duo there nt 10:30 p. m, recently, was
stopped nnd robbed ut Pnpngo station,
eighteen miles east of there, about 0:30
o'clock. The number of men engaged
the robbery is variously estimated
from five to eight. Harper, tho engineer
when upproaehing Pnpngo, was signalled
by a red lantern to stop, lie slowed
down nnd ns be spprouchcd the liifht lie
noticed obstructions on (lie track, so
placed, that in enso he failed lo stop, the
engine would sjirend the rail and derail
itself. Immediately on stopping, a doz
on or more shots were fired into the ex
iresscar und a man with a pistol in each
land boarded the locomotive and com
mniulod Harper not to get down.
Hie other robbers had, in the mean
time, been prying open the express, und
failing to get it open they placed a slick
of giant powder under it and compelled
Hurper to light the fuse attached. This
lio was obliged to do, but to avoid being
being blown up tho messenger opened
tho car and tho robbers took possession
After extinguishing the fuse they then
took charge of the car, uncoupled the
engine, baggage and express from Die re
mainder of the train, and made Harper
get on the engine and pull ahead two
lengths. This being done Harper was
again put off. The robbers took off tlio
engine nnd pulled six miles toward Tuc
son. Here they “killed" the engine uml
left it. They only got about $2,000.
The express messenger saved $5,000 in
gold by hiding it in a stove. The rob
bers are believed to be discharged rail
road employes. Thirty-five soldiers from
Fort Lowell are scouring the country, iu
conjunction with Indian trailers from
Yuma.
A REMONSTRANCE
From Certain Clllzma of Atlanta, Ga., to
tbe Kailway CommUsluui-r*,
The interstate commission, iu session
at Atlanta, Ga., received u formal docu
ment from a delegation of colored people
which recited that they aro assigned,
peacoably If possible, by force if neces
sary, by the officers in charge of the trains
who claim to be acting under orders from
superiors, to some particular car, known
in the common parlance as the “Jim
Crow car,” “smoker,” or “negro annex,”
which is always inferior in every respect
to cars occupied by white passengers pay
ing the same faro and traveling between
tho same points, which car is also the
retreat for drunkards and all low and un
principled characters of tho traveling
public of other races, thereby subjecting
maidens, wives, children, mothers nnd
sisters to horrible outrages aud indigni
ties, und forcing them to listen to lan
guage which is heard m the brothel and
bagnio,
THE G. 0. M. SHAKES HANDS.
Willi lluflnlo Kill’s Wi‘»Cerii Wild Indians.
Mr. Gladstone nnd his wife recently
paid n visit to the grounds of the Amer
ican exhibition nnd camp of tho AVild
AVest show, in London, Eng A special
performance was given for their enter
tainment, und they were much impress
ed hy (he aborigines. Mr. Gladstone sat
and looked on with all evidence of child
like delight. After the performance was
over he was introduced to ‘ ‘Red Shirt,”
one of the Indians, Mr. Gladstone spoko
to him at length, and asked him whether
he noticed any difference between Eng
lish and Americans, or if he regarded
them as brothers. “Red Shirt" replied
thnt he didn’t notice much about the
brotherhood. Fifteen hundred work
men employed at the exhibition grounds
cheorcd for “Gladstone and home rule.”
Mr. Gladstone and bis wife repentediy
bowed in answer to salutations. Mr.Glad-
stone wus entertained at lunch by the
manager of the exhibition. Col, Rus
sell, of Boston, presided,
KIDNAPPING A SENATOR.
A Bold Plau to Gobbln General Hheriuaa’e
Ilrolber.
It has just leaked out, that a party of
kidnappers or outlaws, comprising much
of the dangerous elements of Cuban ban
ditti, hud arranged to capture Senator
John Sherman on his recent visit to Cuba.
The project only fuiled by a notice in
time. The plot was well arranged, and
the banditti were in sufficent force to
capture Sherman's party, but they left
tbe plantation intended as the scene of
tho outrage just live minutes before the
outlaws uppeared. It is thought the
owner-of the plantation was a purty to
the scheme. AVliile in Havana, Senator
Sherman took occasion to congratulate
the captain general on the peace prevail
ing throughout the islands. AVben the
senator, however, expressed a desire to
visit the sugar plantation in tho interior,
the military guard was sent as an escort,
aud the entire party barely escaped an
unpleasant surprise.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A negro teamster, named Lem Cole,
while driving across tho railroad track
in the suburbs of Birmingham, Ala., was
struck by n backing freight train and in
stantly killed.
Clark Horn, a woll known nnd popular
young man of Chattanooga, Tenn.,,whilo
out speeding a spirited horse in a gig,
was thrown out of tho vehicle aud kicked
on the bond by tho horse, receiving in
juries from which lie will die.
A few nights ago nt a church in Sandy
BottomGn, May AA'hitcliead an Henry Clay
a colored rann got into a dispute about
Henry spitting on the floor, nnd Clay
said something that did not set well with
AVhitehcad, who struck Clay iu the
mouth.
Three children were burned to death
in a farm houso near AVright, Texas.
Their mother locked them up in the house
to make a call nt a neighbor's nnd in her
nbsenco the house wns burned down.
The name of the uufortuuate family is
Welch. J
Cicero - Darby, who wns confined in jail
at Macon, Gn., and wns sentenced lo a
life-long imprisonment, swallowed eight
ounces of opiates and died in conse
quence. Ho left a long letter, claiming
to bo innocent of the crime for which he
wns sentenced to prison.
Judge Jenkins, tho new judge of the
Ocmulgee, Ga., circuit, is enforcing the
liquor laws with rigid impartiality, He
fined the ordinary of the county,' \V. (’.
D. Carlisle $100'uml R. It. Gordon, of
Toombsboro, $500, for violations of the
law.
A young mail, named Elmore, of llli-
nois, who has been iu Chattanooga,
Tcnn., for several weeks part, looking
for work, fell from n Cincinnati Southern
train at Dayton, Tenn. The wheels of
tho train passed over his legs and right
arm, severing them completely from the
body.
While two of Jus. It. Ellis’ children
were playing in the yard at his home,
three miles from Griffin, Gn., they were
struck by lightning. One of them, a hoy
about four years old, wns instantly killed.
Tho other, a girl nbout five years old,
was stunned by the shook but soon re
covered, und is now out of danger.
A D Clinard.whos uddonly disappeared
from Rome, Ga., has committed suicide.
Mr. Clinard wns about fifty yenrs old.
He kept a hotel in Athens, then removed
to Cave Spring, and nfterwards to Rome,
"hero until recently ho kept the Central
hotel. He wns financially embarrassed, and
had threatened to commit suicide in or
der that his family might receive ton
thousand dollars life insurance.
Mayor I’rice, of Macon, Gn., In re
sponse to the complaint of u number of
merchants, forbade the Salvation Army
holding open air concerts. Ho gave them
permission to pnrade, but as the mer
chants entered such earnest protest
against their stopping to sing nnd piny
iu front of their business places, he told
them to return to their barracks, which
they did
The Georgia railroad is laying steel
rails on the Atbons branch.
Mobile, Ala., petitions tbe interstate
commission to suspend some of the en
actments of the law.
Tho Grays and Blues of Montgomery,
Ala., will enter tho prize drill at Louis
ville, Ky., about tho middle of June.
A middle-aged man riding a small
mule, is going over tbe stato of Georgia
passiug off bogus silver dollars on the
people,
AV. P. Fowler und Mr. Stivers, rector
of tho Episcopal Church at Grenada,
Miss., hail n difficulty recently, in which
Mr. Stivers was mortally wounded.
A freight train on tho Valley branch of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, was
wrecked near Timberville station. Billy
Cooley, of Strausburg, Va., brake naan,
was killed, und Edward RuBsell, con
ductor, badly hurt.
William Garvin, who murdered William
Hankinson, near AVayuesboro, Qa., a
year ago, was arrested u fow days since.
Garvin killed Hunkinson to prevent the
lutter from testifying against him in a
hog-stealing case. He buried the corpse
and OBcnnnfJ. Both were negroes.
Tom Slieely, a farmer living near Op
elika, Ala., about a month ago was bit
ten on the little finger of his left hand by
a fine dog. Recently symptoms appear*
ed in the form of intense pains through
out his left side, and water being shown
him ho at once went into violent convul
sions.
Three young sons of Geo. W. Hay
wood, of Solomon Island, iu the southern
:>art of Maryland, were drowned recent-
y. The boys, with a colored man, wert>
returning in a small sail boat from a visit
across the buy. Tbe boat was capsized
in n heavy gale and two of the boys,
Frederick and Guy, wore swept away in
the darkness. Tho colored man and
Bcrnnrd, tho youngest boy, clung to tlio
mast till daylight, when Bernard lost his
hold and drowned. The colored man
was picked up by a passing vossel.
Judge William F. AVright of Atlanta,
Ga., who was born in Coweta county in
1821, died recently at Alexandria, Va.
Alabama’s State encampment in June
will be a fine affair, and will do much to
increase the efficiency of the military of
that state.
Celhoun county, Ala., intends to send
special train of enrs as far as New York
loaded with specimens of the resources of
thnt section.
A jury was summoned by the sheriff of
Baltimore, Md., to determine tho mental
condition of Lambert Gittings, ono of tho
wealthiest men in that city. Ilis property
estimated at $2,000,000.
Mrs. Edna Mullen, of Columbus, Ga.,
answered a ring of tlio door bell recently
and some unknown ruffian tried to kill
her by a blow over the head witli a bar
of iron. She escaped death, but received
terrible wound.
In Jefforson City, Mo., Judge Henry
and State Auditor AValker quarreled.
The judge struck his opponent over the
head with, a cane aud tho auditor re
sponded with a pistol shot. Both are old
men aud neither was seriously hurt,
LATEST NEWS,
A dispatch from Rome says, tlmt Dr,
McGlynn, of New York, has again in
formed the Vaticau tlmt lie refuses to
come to Rome.
Advices from Kodisk, Alaska, says
tlmt the schooner Flying Scud, hailing
from tlmt point, was recently lost at sea.
All hands were lost.
Emanuel DcFroitas, a seven teen-year-
old lad who made a successful jump from
the Brooklyn bridge, was sentenced to
prison for three months.
The steamer Benton, from Singapore,
was sunk in a collision with n bark off
tho islnnd of Formosa nnd one hundred
and fifty persons were drowned.
A dispatch from AVcstcrn Australia,
says a hurricauc swept over the north
east coast recontly. A ponrl fishing fleet
numbering forty bouts was destroyed and
five hundred and fifty persons perished.
At Uoouovillo, lad., five boys J. D.
Wilson, Will Lnmpton, Louis Irwin,
Emmett Moore, J. Gifford Lnmpton, while
ronming in tho woods, utc wild parsnip.
Three of them died within an hour.
Mrs. Joseph Farnsworth, aged 25 year*
of Lockport, N. A’., ran away with her
husband's father, Natlmn Farm worth,
aged 00 years. Mrs. Farnsworth left two
small children. The elopers went to
England.
The English government recently ap
plied for a list of educated candidates to
fill vacancies in the ranks of the Irish
constabulary caused by resignations, nnd
refusals to join the service were so
numerous that the government wns com
pelled to resort to an inferior list. Many
even of the latter, refused to take tho
places offered them.
The trial of persons implicated in the
plot to kill the Czar commenced recently
and a Russian general is present to report
proceedings Tor tlio Czar. A painful im
pression was produced on the spectators
in the outer hall ns the accused entered
the court, their youth und high Ined, in-
telligont air eliciting much sympnthy.
Among the prisoners is a maiden of
striking beauty.
Dr. W. T. Northrop, a physician at
Haverhill, Ohio, was murdered by
I liomas McCoy, a saloon keeper, and
his brother Alfred, postmaster at Haver
hill, aided by two sons of Alfred McCoy.
Dr. Northrop had incurred the displeas
ure of the McCoys by being uctivo iu fa
vor of local option. They waylaid him
when coming to his office nnd began
tiring on him with pistols and shotguns.
He was unarmed, but drew a pocket knife
und badly wounded Alfred McCoy before
ho wns fatally shot.
Tho AVubash railway luuiulliouse, at
Desmoines, In., containing fourteen en
gine!, was burned recently.
Mrs. Hetty Green, a forty million
dollar New York widow, ii going to buy
the Baltimore Ohio railway.
Being refused a ten per ceut, advance
in wages, about 1,000 window-glass
workers have quit work at Pittsburg, Pa.
Harry Gill, Michael Bohnnnan, Hurry
Morrison, Daniel Finn nnd Ebon Frances
wero killed at Tunnel colliery at Ashland,
Pa., by a fall of coal.
The speculators who bought up trade
dollars made over a million dollars profit.
About $5 ,250,000 of tiiis depreciated cur
rency has been redeemed at par.
A Central American confederacy with
a firm constitutional basis has bean
formed. The treaty of peace ami friend
ship which has just been made public,
will probably promote tho welfare of all
the Central American republics.
Fred Reeves, one of the militiamen
guarding the reservoir and state property
in Paulding county, Ohio, where the cit
izens have partially destroyed the old
canal reservoir, accidentally shot and
killed himself while on guard duty.
Mr. Gladstone, in his speech at the
dinner given by the labor members of
Parliament, in London, Eng.,, declared
his entire disbelief in tbe accusations
made against the Irish leaders of being
concerned in the Plumiix park massacre
Customs officers throughout Great
Britain and Ireland hive received string
ent orders to search all vessels arriving
from America, China and the east, the
government having been warned that ex
plosives have been sent from San Fran
cisco to porta in the east to be transhipped
to England.
The cases of a number of druggists and
merchants charged with keeping open
their places of business, on Sunday, came
up for trial in AVushington, D. C. Judge
Snell, on authority of AVebster’s Diction
ary, held the words “Sabbath” and “Sun
day,” to be synonymous. A fine of
twenty dollars, or thirty days in the
workhouse, was imposed in each case.
J. H. Burns, of Mansfield, 111., a farm
er, employed three men to paint a barn.
They stood on a bracket scaffold twenty
feet from the ground. A calf running at
large with a rope around its neck man
aged to get the rope entangled in the
aupports of the scaffold, pulling the posts
•way, and two of the men were killed by
the fall.
Extreme self-lovers will sot a man’s
house on fire though it wero but to roast
i their eggs.
The summer is coming, my love so fair!
I bear its step in the fragrant woods;
I know by spring's strange, fitful moods,
And • hushed expectancy that broods
Like a wondrous presence everywhere.
The summer is coming, O love of mine I
When the earth will go whirling nearer the
sun,
And the currents of life more deeply run,
And the symphonies by spring begun
Swell Into harmonies more divine.
A day is coming! (Ah, how you start
And blush roae-red and droop the eye I)
And many will carelessly pass it by,
Unheeding it* beauty as, sweetly shy,
It nestles in summer's warm heart.
That day shall be best of a thousand, dear!
For my queen will come to her rightful
throne,
And my heart's domain shall be all her own,
As, Into a world untried, unknown,
We haste with no thought of regret or fear.
AYeary the hours from my love npart!
Then lip, O time! and with hurrying feet
Bring us the guerdon so fair and sweet.,
That day of days, with joys replete,
Plucked from the summer's throbbing heart!
—George Runsell Lewis, in Current.
PITH AND POINT.
An unsteady man, like un unsteady light,
is apt to go out nights.—Burlington Free
Press.
If there is any one who should be
“rapped iu slumber," it is the man who
snores.
“Now, then," said tho dancing-master,
when he was setting his dock, “nil hand*
around.”
It seems paradoxical, but it is true,
that floating debts will sink a corpora
tion .— Till-Bits.
After all, there is no reason for suppos
ing thnt old King Cole was related in any
way to Alexander tho Grate.
The theory is now broached that tho
tree that George Washington cut down
was a chestnut.—New YorT' Tribune.
There are few men so immersed i tnheir
own business that they can’t find a littlo
time ^attend lo that of their neighbors.
■— Boston Courier.
The dove owner who painted his pigeon
house nil the shades of the rainbow, prob
ably termed it his “cote of many colors."
— Cedar Rapids Gossip.
George R. AVendling is lecturing on
“Does Death End All?” It docs hot if
the decedent leaves any money to light
about.—Pittsburg Chronicle.
These breach of promise games reveal
To which tho inalils resort,
A damsel you must court with zeal
Or go with zeal to court.
—Texas Siftings.
A rich nmu who began life as a boot-
black, having remarked that he had taken
a box at the opera, some one meanly
asked If a brush went with it.—Siftings.
“Hark! tba chimes, tho music swells,”
Cried Frank, “give uu, a ring of bolls;”
Kate whispered while the music roll'd,
"I'd rattier have a ring of gold."
—Detroit Free I*ress.
“I thought you said you knew Mr.
Binks.” “Soldo." “But you did not
how to him just now, when he passed.”
"Oh 1 that was tho man, was it? AVell, I
was introduced to him by telephone.”—
Boston Gazette.
My love is not nn angel
With thoughts on heavenly scenes.
She’s lust a common Boston girl,
Ana dotes on pork and lieans.
—Som erville Jou rnat.
“Beautiful moonlight when I came iu
last night,” said Mohair, breaking tho
ominous silence nt breakfast. “A'es," said
Mrs. Mohair, blandly, from the other side
of the table; "but scarcely light enough
for you to open the frout door with a but
ton-hook, which you couldn’t tell from,
your latch-koy.”
A lady who suffers ugohy with her
teeth, and yet has a horror of dentists,
rang the bell at her dentist's house the
other day with some hesitation. A liv
eried servant answers it. “Monsieur is
not in,” he says. “Ah, what good for
tune!” exclaims tlio patient, visibly re
lieved.—French Paper.
THE TWO CANDIDATES.
Gayly the candidate ''
Who has got there
Smiles os he walks about,
Head up iu tho air.
Sadly the other chup
Goes to the hole,
Pulls it in after him,
Mournful his soul.
—Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Picking Ten-Leaves.
“By their fruits ye shull know them"
is a saying which, in some cases, needs to
be freely interpreted. Turnips and
parsnips, for example, should be judged
Dy their roots, while (he tea plant, like
the cabbage, is at its best when it bears
nothing but leaves. An American teach
er in Japan gives a simple description of
tea picking as practiced in that country.
The tea bushes are not more than
breast-high at full growth,and tho young
plants are quite smnll. AVhen first set
out they are allowed to grow three years
before any of tho leaves are taken; after
that the leaves are picked each season,
yet the plant thrives, and lives about a
man’s lifetime. The plant is never
•tripped entirely, but only the bright
green leaves are plucked, which appear
on tha top of the bush in the spring and
summer. If the older leaves arc ever
picked, it is simply to make a coarser and
cheaper quality of teu.
The very finest quality, that which costa
several dollars a pound, even in the
province where it is produced, is made
entirely of the delicate shoots found at
the tip of the stem in early spring, just aa
the tiny leaf is in process of forming.
These minute shoots are carefully picked
first, and the leaves below them are
gathered afterward.
Upon approaching tho tea fields wo find
numbera of young girls aud women scat
tered among the bushes, and busily en
gaged in filling their baskets with the
fresh leaves. They are chatting merrily
together. The women, young and old,
keep their tongues going briskly during
the tea picking iis their sisters of other
climes are accustomed to do at their tea
drinking socials ; so that the little leaf
begins and ends iu gossip.
The product of canned fruits in 188$
waa greater than ever before.
