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THE MERCURY. r,tim'd aa Second-ctaaa Hatter at aeSnadci'SvUle Poatojjlce April 27, ISSO. Sandersvllle, Washington County, Ga, PUBLISHED BY A J. JERNIGrAN & CO. *** proprietors and Editors. THE MERCURY. Subscription: $1.60 Per Yen. E. S. LANGMADE, attorney at law, SANDERSVILLE, Ga. fTTsTANII, B. D. Evans, Jb EVANS & EVANS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW SANDERVILLE, OA. F H SAFFOLD; attorney at law, SANDERSVILLE, OA. Will praotico in all the Courts of llit Kiddle Circuit nnd in the counties , ,urro Hiding Washington. Special at* tention given to commercial law. H. N. HOLLIFIELO. A. J, JERNIGA.V co,, Proprietor.,. VOLUME VIII. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.00 Per Annum 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 dim 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 ..All C'ommunicotiona intended /be fall Paper must be accompanied by the /VII name of the ivriter—mm neceaaartly for publication, but m • guarantee of pood faith. IFe ane<»«o way reeponeiblefbr the vieurn or opinions of correopond* 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.