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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. a* Second-data Hatter at ,SsanderevtUe Poatoffice April 97, ISSO. SiodersTllle, Washington County, Ga. PUBLISHED BY a j, JERNIGAN & CO. 11 ‘ proprietors and Editors, Subscription: $1.80 Per Yeai, THE MERCURY A, J, JMRXIOAX .« CO., Proprietor* VOLUME VIII, DBVOTBD TO LITERATURE, AORIOULTUIUC AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SUBSCRIPTION- $1.00 l'er .litmini SANDERS VILLE, GA., TUESDAY. MAY IT. 1887. NUMBER 3. E. S. LANGMADE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SANDERSVILLE, Oa. g II. Rt4H«, B. D. Etaks, Jb EVANS & EVANS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW SANDERVILLE, OA. F. H. SAFFOLD, attorney at law, SANDER8VULE, OA. Will praotice in all the Oourta of th« Kiddle Circuit And in the countiei mrro'nnling Washington. Special at' tontion given to commercial law. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE 1 AU Communication* intended for thia Paper must be accompanied ky the fall name of the writer—net nccemaarlly for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We are in no way reaponeible for the views or opinion* of eorreepend* ante. Money Pouring Into the South for Mills, Foundries, Railways, Etc. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, SANDERSVILLE, OA. Milliner, Office next door to Mrs. Revue |torr, on Flarrli street. HUY YOUIt -FROM- vJEJEtL/ IN - 1 Gh-A-UST, (None genuine without onr trado murk.) OX IIAX’D AND FOR SALK SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc. Watches, Clocks AUD JEWELRY RBPAiaiD BT JBE/UIGAIT. nr snori.li no sohbtiiisq. Iho Man Who Cannot do Anything XT it Ices lio la Told. A mnn wlio kept quite a number ol tn'ii employed in different wavs, so tlmt largely they could not lie under his im- meilinte control, complaint*, in tha Iw- tl'"trial Ornette, Unit tlio worst tronlile lie had wiih to secure men upon whom lio could rely to do Boinctliiug. Ho ""iild toll thorn plain enough want ho "anted, and tlicii stnrt them out. If anything should turn up different from "lint they had expected, tlio lnrgor pro* portion of his men would como buck without accomplishing nnytliing. Ai- mi illustration, ho bad n man with » team hnndling bridge lumber qnito a distance from one of hie eaw mills to a railroad shipping point By eocuring a reasonably early start, tlui tenm could make n good loud every day. One nfter- noon, ns ho was returning'with a load, nn«l Imd got perhaps half why home, in coming down a hill, throng’ll a strip of timber, ono of the hind wheels struck a stump mul, by some means, broke the nxlo of tho wagon, Tito man always curried an ax and an oxtra chain or two, especially to guard against aocidonte. He was in timber where, with very little trouble, ho could have arnutged some- thing tlmt would have enabled him to have taken his load into town. Ho might have been a little longer than Usual. Instead of this, ho pulled his load to ono side of the road, unhitched his team, and mounting ono of t he horses, rode into town. His employer did not happen to be at homo, so noth ing was done until tho next morning, "ni'ii ho borrowed another wagon and "eat out and brought in the lumber, and then, leaving the wagon, rode out, nggod a polo under tho broken axle, sad brought the wagon to town to the jdtep. Another day was lost ill getting the wagon repaired. At least a full day lost more than was necessary, simply JiccaiiHo ho could not see that it was his business to do something. “I could,” J le sn id, “have stood a heavier loss with batter grace if the man bad only tried to d° something rather than spend his time doing nothing. He couhl »t, least buvo shown a disposition to do the best bo couhl. There are plenty of men who *>'0 a tiling, routine work, done every day, ami yet if they were told to do the same thing, would ask to be shown how. leant nothing from observation. Hay may see lumber piled up every day, or sco and even help put up ma chinery, load a car with certain lnuter- j i .Tot ask ono of them to go abend and , by themselves just what they have been helping do, and they will want to he shown how. They are either inaapo- !l'° ° 1 ' indifferent of learning by observa tion, or even helping. With some this is simply the result of thoughtlessness, they do not stop to think that they are failing to work as they should to their employers’ interests. With others, it is simply Indifference. So the day’s work. °r time rather, is put in; it is a small matter whether the work accomplished m in nny way prolltablo to tho employer or not. A great runny employers will recog- bizo their own expaneneo with indiffer- CQ t, thoughtless employees in the above l°ld story from onr excellent West ern contemporary. Helena, Ark., is about to build a splen did opera-house. 1 oaa " ion . C .' ty ’ ToDn > wil1 build a #180,- 000 court-house. rJ an -. An , ,0 nT e * > dero,c » #150,000 for a city hull, jail, etc. Greenville, Tcnn., is to lure a tobacco factory to cost #20,000. There is an electric light company at Winston, N. C., with a capital of #:;o,- Tiif.iu, was a very large mule that dm*! in my neighborhood, and three > ears aftor it was dead it killod a nine year old negro boy. The hawks were '■ery had at our house, and wo took the i *‘l of the ahovo montioued mule and bung it up in the top of a mulberry o'ee to scare tho hawks away. In the summer when the mulberries were ripe, me negroes ono day went to the troe to get some. One climbed up the tree and 000. The Memphis & Birmingham Railroad Co contemplate building a branch road to Aberdeen, Miss. 8. Inman nnd others have chartered the East Atlanta. Ga., Lund Co. with a capital stock of #00,000. Sannicl R. Lowry has organized a #50,. 000 stock company to cultivate and man ufacture silk at Rirmingham, Ala. A company with a capital of $50,000 has been organized at Titusville, Aik., to cultivate the poppy nnd mumifno' .ire morniuoA Packard & Grover will move to*, large shoe factory from Brockton • ,</ to Owensboro, Ky. Three lu ad'ed nntuis will bo employed. The Carolina, Knoxville A Western Hnilwny Co. has been incorporate ! to build a road from Knoxville, Teun to Greenville, 8. C., 150 miles. B- Bufkstrcsser has purchased tho Black Mills falls water power, at Dade- ville, Ala., and will, it is snid organize n stock couipnny to build n cotton factory. W. G. Welty, of Cleveland, Ohio, and associates will build largo works to man ufacture iron bridges, nuts bolts, at Rome, Ga. About #40,000 will be in vested. J. A. Montgomery, F. Y\ Anderson G. B. West, W. J. Cameron and I. Forst have incorporated a company to build a hotel at Leeds, Ala., with a capital stock of #150,000, The Alexander Iron Co., of Nashville, reported before, has n capital stock of #1,000,000. Tflo company will at once erect malleable iron works with a daily capacity of about 80 or 40 tons. Tho Balcony Falls Co., of Virginia, previously reported as incorporated, has been organized with an authorized capi tal stock of #2,500,000. The company will start a town and build furnaces and mauufnctoriss, George F. Alford, of Dallas, Tex,, nnd J. II. Langley, of Boston, Man., con template incorporating tho Dallas & Archer Coal & Iron Railway Co.,to build a railroad from Dallas to Archer county, to open up mineral lands. John 8. Perry, the great Move manu facturer, of Albany, N. Y., decided to establish expensive stove works in tho South, nnd spent considerable time in vestigating the advantages of different ' mat ions for this industry. Finally, he decided upon South Pittsburg, Tcnn. GOD’S VISITATION OiV OVH X HIGH BO 11, MEXICO. HcUmln CnnvnUlon Wliloli Korlm Iho Country* I’roftucliiff Horrible Ctiiminft* Many People Killed and Gen eral Terror. News from Guymas, Mexico, stato that tin; earthquake of a few days ago was ac companied by n terrible volcanic erup tion at Rntrispe, which destroyed Monte zuma, killing one hundred and fifty per sons and igniting the woods in the vicinity. Twenty-seven persons were nlso killed at Oxutu by the falling build ings. Many persons were injured in Grenada anil Gusabnr, which towns wore almost completely destroyed. Another violent enrthqunkc is reported in San Jose mountains, forty miles South of FortHunchuca, in Sonora. Gen. For syth has Bont an exploration party to investigate. A party just returned from Santa Cabana mountains report thot the canyons are full of water, which was brought to the surface by the earthquake. This is a great boon for that region, ns there are thousands of acres of good fnrming lands at the base of these moun tains, which only needed water to make them valuable. Another good effect of the enrthquako is tho opening of two large gold reins, which wore discovered in Santa Gaisina mountains, at a point whero tho whole sido of the mountain slid down. COERCION FAILING ABd Ireland’! Frleude Very Hopeful. With regard to the recent division in the British Parliament, refusing a se lect committee, a deputation of conserv ative members waited upon the Irish party, to say that if the latter were wil ling that the scope of tho proposed com mittee be so enlarged so us to include the Parnell letter, they, representing a con siderable number of conservatives, would support Mr. Gladstone’s mnendmen . The Irishmen counseled with Mr. Glad stone, Mr. Morley and Mr. Dillon, and subsequently said thoy were willing to have it so enlarged as to include any charge made by anybody against any Trislf member. Then the conservatives waited on Mr. W. H. Smith, Ho m- etantlv said that if any independent action was taken among his followers he « rPg i L , n The Times, Dillon affair Und. to weaken the alliance of the con servatives and unionists ; and thus wo 1 ks directly against the interests of the g - S0UTHERN NEWS, Tho meeting of the military at Macon, Ga., to contest for prizes, was ono of tho most brilliant assemblages held in the South for years, Three brothers tinmcd Hutchins, of Huntsville, Ala., becamo involved in a family quarrel, nnd James M. Hutchins killed Hunter Hutchins and wounded Charles Hutchins. A mnn named Follius, of Wctumpkn, Ala., was, with his sons, hoeing cotton in a Cold, when a dispute arose with a young man named Powell about a money debt. It ended by Powell’s death froih a wound made by n hoe. Columbia, 8. C., recently celebrated Memorial Day under the auspices of the Ladies’ Memorial association. The graves of tho Confederate soldiers in the differ ent burying grounds in the city were decorated with flowers by the committee of ladies. There were no ceremonies, but tho city bell and tho several church bolls woro tolled during tho decoration. The electric car system in Montgomery, Ain., is working admirably and gives very general satisfaction, but recently an oml of a wire from one of tho poles had been left carelessly on the ground near the deyot. A mule attached to a bug- gago wagon accidentally trod upon it. Tho wire was fully charged with the dangerous fluid. Thoro was a flash, nnd in an instant the mule tumbled to tlu ground dead. At the annual meeting of tho Young Moil’s Library in Atlnntn, Gn., the present ■imberof members was reported at 720: total number of books 12,1(14 volumes, as against 11,550 in the year 1885 (’>, being an increase of 005 volumes, of which 878 were purchased and 282 donated. These new books were carefully nnd judiciously selected, and ns a result the current ol books issued from tho librarian’s desk quickened from 020 in May last, und froir an average of about 1,100 volumes pet month for the ilrst eight months of tin fiscal year to an average of 1,500 volumci tier month for the last four months. M. V. Clark, of Forsyth, Ga., a well- known negro editor, was killed by a runaway accident. Tho authorities of Macon, Ga., are hard at work perfecting plans for the new water-works. The students at the Athens, Ga., Uni versity becamo very unruly recently. Thoy armed themselves witli guns and mndo demonstrations at the Lucy Cobh Insti tute, which so frightened the principal, Miss Rutherford, tlmt slio called on the police for protection. Charles V. Harris, of Jacksonville, Fla., was arrested in Savannah, Ga., for larceny after trust, and attempting to commit suicide with a pistol in tho sta tion house it was frustrated by the police. In a rage lie attempted, it is alleged, to shoot a policeman. Mrs. George It Black recently pur chased a GOO pound bell for All Saints Episcopal Church in Sylvauia, Ga. It is a memorial bell, and upon its sido is tins inscription: “To the glory of God and in loving memory of George R, Blnck, who entered into rest November8,188(1.” Jennie Bowman, tho brave young do mestic, whoso brutal treatment by tho negroes, Turner and Patterson iu Louis ville, Ky., so aroused the people of that city a few weeks ago, died from her inju ries recently. A fund of about #1,000 was raised for her during her illness. Express Messenger Fothoringham lias sued the Adams Express company and the. Pinkerton Detective agency, at St. Louis, Mo., for #100,000 damages for falso arrest and imprisonment, in con nection with the grent express robbery. Tho State Farmers’ alliance cotton congress, at Waco, Tex., arranged to enter into the manufacturing of wagons, agricultural implements, cotton presses aud oil mills. Over #10,000,000 were represented, Arrangements have been concluded for collecting statistics nnd for an early charter under tho laws of Texas. Several weeks ngo, a hound mu through settlement near Decatur, Ga., and frightened a number of people, who felt certain that he was mad. Tho dog bit a valuable mulo belonging to Jennings Hulsey, nnd recently tho mule died. A fine jersey cow which wns bitten also died. The dog wag not killed until a fow days ago. Mrs. Susnn Sullivan nnd five small children arrived nt Chattanoogn, Teun., from Pierce, Mo., having walked the entire distance of 000 miles. Her hus band died in December, leaving tho family among strangers, and penniless. Mrs. Sullivan wished to return to her former home in Knoxvillo, and having no means, concluded to walk, A terrible tragedy occurred near Spring Station, Ky., recently, on the farm of Capt. Jos. Blackburn,, cx-sccretary of stato, and brother of Senator J. C. 8. Blackburn. Miss Henrietta Blackburn, accompanied by her cousin, Henrietta Hempstead, a young lady of nineteen years, went out to shoot at a mark with a small rifle. They were joined by Sam uel Blackburn, a young man of twenty- two, a brother of Miss Henrietta Black burn, and a friendly contention wns begun as to who should shoot, first. Tho three engaged in a playful struggle for the possession of the gun, and in this struggle tlie weapon was discharged, the ball piercing the heart of Alias Henrietta Hempstead, and killing her instantly. SECRET SOCIETIES Wke Cora far lk« WUiw mad Orpkin. Tho supremo lodgo of tho Knights of Honor met in Philadelphia, Pa., recently. The Knights of Honor was organized Juno 80, 1878, in Louisville, Ky., by James A. Deraoreo, and sixteen young men. Mr. Demorco is still identified with the order as grand reporter. In the fourteen years of the order’s existence it has distributed #26,000,000 to its sick members and tho widows and orplinns of deceased members. Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia were represented. Tho report of B, F. Nelson, supreme re porter, shows that at the beginning of last month the total membership was 120,- 002, a Blight decrease over last year. The report of tho supreme treasurer, Joseph W. Branch, shows that during the four teen years of tho order’s cxistenco, a to tal of #86,000,000 havo been distributed. Total receipts of widows nnd orphans benefit fund, during 1886, was #8,080,018 and up to April 25th, 1887, #1,0Q2,603; total, #4,148,522 16. Balance on hnnd on April 25th, was #69,805. In the gen eral fund, balance on hand, April 25, was #10,058. There is special fund of #21,875 PERSONAL Mns. Francks Hodgson Burnett, the Washington, D. 0., authoress will visit Europo this summer. Quern Victoria is determined to vin dicate Lady Colii) Campbell. Her method of doing this will be to receive the young woman at court Tiik Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, now nearly Bcvcnty years old, is a great sports man, and has shot in his Thuringian for ests some 1,100 stags. Gen. Sheridan takea a ride through the Shenandoah valley every spring. This year he will bo accompanied by one his aides and Senator Cameron, of Penn sylvania. Prof. Yodno of Princeton College, N. J.,will observe the total eclipse of the sun in August next at Kireshamt, in the government of Kostroma, Russia. Bis companions will ho the scientific repre sentatives of Russia and England. It is now nlmost certain that tho Med ical Society of Washington will take no further steps in the case of Dr. Z. T. Sowers, who recently talked indiecroctly The session of district grand lodge No. “ bout P re,,de , nt Cleveland’s adiposity. , Independent Order of B’nnl B’ntli, at Sowcr8 bl18 bnd ft bi « advertisement. Memphis, Tcnn., was devoted to reports Gen. C. A. Evans and Hon. Patrick of committees of minor importance. To- Walsh, of Augusta, Gn., have been talk wards the close of tho Bession, the cn dowment committee reported unanimous ly in favor of #1,500 endowment, with annual duos of #80. Hon. B. F.Petixotto, of New York, made a stirring address, urging united action in behalf of tho Jewish emigrants from foreign shores. The supremo delegates of tho Catholic Knights of America met at Chicago, III., recently. Tho organization is ono of tho strongest of Catholic organizations in the United States, and now numbers among its members fully 18,000 believers in that faith. The supromc delegates represent state societies, and two from each stato and territory were in attendance at tho ing up the proposed Chattanooga 4k Augusta railroad to tho people of Chatta nooga. Gen. Evans is president of the company, and tho prospects for the con struction of tho road are good. A lhctukkr on “Golden Opportunities and How to Uusc Them” asked John Wanamaker tho Philadelphia millionair clothier, which of his opportunities had been most useful to him. “Thinking, trying, toiling, trusting in God, is all of iny biography,” replied the great shop keeper. Frank VizETELLY.tho artist, supposed to havo polished in tne ill-fated expedi tion, is said to he alive. A Syrian Greek recent meeting. They moot once in two | who , 1BS nrrivo(1 at Cairo gay ,' that amon „ ^n , hcMinNewY n o n rk l cRr i0n ^ I tb « European prisoners at Khartoum is “2 BATTLES ON PAPER HodiwImi Different In Actual Rriunneirn- tlon. Murat Hulstcad, of the Commerciul- Gozettc, Cincinnati, O., prints in liis paper, over his own initials, a stricture on Jeffarson Davis’s historical inuccmacy in that gentleman’s recent criticism of Gen. Wolscley, on Leo at Fredericks burg. Hulstcad maintains that Wolsoloy was right. Halstead was at Fredericks burg anil knows whereof he speaks, and \ sharply criticizes Davis, saying: “Davis, short, stout man, with a full board, wearing glasses.” There is every reason to suppose that this man is Vizctelly. Gen. 8. B. Buckner is a man of middle stature, with small, piercing bluo eyes, •now-white mustache and imperial and a rather ruddy face. He is between sixty- five nnd seventy years of age. He ia wealthy. Ilis real estate in Chicago 1* snid to bo wortli #500,000. About two years ngo ho married, as his second wife, u reigning hello of Richmond, Va, Jeferbon Davis lias written a review of Gen. Wolselyo’s “Lifo of Gen. Lee.” Mr. Davis takes exceptions to many of the English general’s statements, and, in criticising Wolseley for saying that „ ,n„ , i *i f . Inv .u ’ , * Burnside’s army was in a ‘tight place’ nt ^ ° • • d J D ,? f '" r l T' tb ., ho * u P« r , ls ' Frederick aim r.- ,.n,i niic.e.i tlvo °P ,nl °n of Gen. Leo’s mditary ability Fredericksburg, and allowed to esenpo, falls into u strango error which he rc- peuts and dwells upon, of assuming that there were two national armies, one un der Burnside, nnd another within sup porting distance on tho north under Hooker, nnd out of this theory of two i armies Davis makes tho assertion that > Burnside’s troops were not in a tight * place. Hooker did not have an inde pendent command. Ho had charge of | ono of tho three grand divisions of Burn- I side’s nrmy. Tho other two wero under Franklin and Sumner. Hooker was in i the battle of tho first day, personally giv- | ing orders to Humphreys that lie had re- 1 ccived from Burnside, to continue the ^ hopeless attnek on the stonewall, and vainly attempting to support it with nrtillery. Stonewall Jackson is roported to havo advised a night attack on the troops in Fredericksburg, nnd if ho had known how greatly they had been dam aged ho would nlmost certainly have made tho attack. There is no doubt that after their repulso, they were in a dan- gorous situation, justifying Wolsoley’s phraso of a ‘tight place.’” NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. Gossip About the President, His Cabinet and Other Notables. Whnt SoMlhcrn Ole! are Being Rteeiilied- ultreallngllemi Aboat thaNatlsaal Drill, lilc.. Etc. IHIITAI.O IIIMAS 1‘OPIII.AItITY. S t s*™ 1 improioi. i. that ET- J government i. in • U«U pUc* and likely to be defeated. riLLAOE DESTROYED. A fire at Lebanon, N. II., destroyed 80 buildings and caused a loss of f u ”y See hundred thousand doUara w.th m- •urance of not more than #111,000. ine burned district covers nearly ten acres on look it, and the skull fell and struck^ Miraea “'"“i'J. 7 n " a "river and on both «>e negro boy on tlm head, killing him br f 'Hig h Mill, and Hon- iistantly. It was three years to the j sides of M ^ v ’ erv manufacturing es- '•iy day from the time the mulo died I over ® trec ‘ • , Villntro, except Hen- ^n!^tottowaS/ 08ayS 5 ' Sk.Trick woolen mill, was destroyed. The American exhibition at London, Eng., was formally opened recontly. Trie weather was clear nnd sunny. About 7,000 persons attended. The bursting of a boiler (luring the morning prevented the starting of the machinery, otherwise the programme of the opening ceremony was carried out. Hundreds of visitors ignored the coretnony of opening tho regular exhibition and rushed to the grounds where the Wild West show per formed. Tnit NATIONAL DRILL. Gen. C. C. Augur, commnndant of tho national drill encampment, has added to liis staff appointments, Brigadier-general H, H. Wright; Colonel H. Kyd Douglas, of Maryland; Colonel P. Lacy Goddard, of Pennsylvania; Captain C. A. Sinclair, of the 8t. Louis Branch Guards, undCup- taiu Louis V. Clark of Birmingham, Ala. The southern passenger association, in cluding ail roads south of tho river and east of the Mississippi, announced in ad dition to their three-quarter cent rato for parties of twenty-five persons, a special excursion rate, for single passengers, of two cents a mile. Charles T. Murry has been made chairman of the press com mittee for the drill aud will have charge of all arrangements for correspondents. RIFLE SHOOTING. At the request of iho executive com mittee of the national drill, Gun. Sheri dan lias detailed Col. 8. E. Blunt, of his staff, to take charge of tho rille competi tion during the drill. Competition will be open to nny regularly enlisted limn or commissioned officer of the volunteer militia—entries not to exceed two men from any one company—under army reg illations. Eight prizes will be offered, consisting of gold, silver aud bronze medals. About 100 entries have alrcudy been received. An order was issued from the war de partment by direction of the President, dropping 2d Lieut. John Shaw (appoint ed from New Y’ork) from the rolls of the army. Lieut. Shaw was churged with duplicating his pay accounts, but disap peared before he was arrested. FRANCE VS. GERMANY. opinion of Gen. Leo's military ability expressed in the book, he shows plainly that he considers Gen. Wolscley’s criti- j cisms of other Southern leaders unjust I and unwarrantable. The interesting historical problem m j to whnt kind of clothes George Washing- ' ton woro at his inauguration has been ' settled. His suit on that occasion was made of cloth from the Hartford woollen manufactory, the first woollen mill in America, established in 1788. The color of the cloth was dark brown. Tho Pres ident wore whito silk stockings, also of American manufacture. Scandal seems to be the order of the day nt tho Austrinn court. There is trouble between tho Crown Prince Ru dolph and pretty little Crown Princess Stephanie; they hnvo boon on the verge of separation, but the Emperor has person ally interposed ns a peacemaker, and in stead of leaving Rudolph for good, Stephanie, will only doprive him of her presence for n few weeks, while she goes home to Belgium to pout and be consoled by papa and mamma. JosEi'iiUH Compton, present member of tho Legislature of Alabama, Inis left his home mysteriously. Compton settled in St. Clair Co. four years ngo, coming from Kentucky, so ho stated. Ho took up his nbode in the little town of Edon, whore he followed tiie trade of a carpenter. His lifo was exemplary, and in a year or so ho was elected town marshal. Last year, after a seasonable probation, Comp ton was licensed as n Methodist preacher, and his sermons and exhortations were of tiro most fervid nnd eloquent charac ter. It turns out that thirtcon years ago he wns engaged in milking mooushino whiskey in ono of the mountain counties of North Carolina and shot an ofiicor, for which tie was imprisonad, but escaped, lie was tracked, und a requisition was is sued for him recently, but ho escuped tho officers. I’HUHANENT I’ROMI’ERITY. President Alfred Sully, of the Rich mond & West Point It. H. system, said, on returning to New York: “I went over some of our South Caro lina lines, East Tennessee roads und tho Goorgi i Pacific. I found them all iu very good condition and u great boom dowu thoro in real estate and mining in terests. Tliero is a lull in Birmingham real estate sales, but there is a very largo amount of building going on. There seems to be a remarkable amount of en terprise manifested in the South, espec ially iu Alabama and Eastern Tennessee, developing tho natural resources of the country. There is no question but that the newly developed manufacturing in terests of the South ure upon a perma nent basis, and [ believe that Georgia, Alabama and Ten lessee will add 50 per ee.it jo their material wealth in tho next live years.” TWO OCEAN Dl.HANTERN. RUINED BY A LAW. Another failure in the barbed wire business has taken place in consequenco of tire Interstate law. The firm is that of Schnabel & Co. Their liabilities will reach #808,000, and their assets are about #175,000. | Two commercial men named Weissman and Patricia, who were parties to a bitter feud, met in met in a cafe in Paris, Fran ce. The proprietor, Terrian, to ! avoid a row, asked Weissman to leave the place. This euraged the latter, and in I the scuffle which followed, Weissman i drew a sword stick and mortally pierced Terrian. A crowd collected,and believing that Weissman was a German, tried to lynch him. The French steamer La Bretagne, Cap tain Do Jousseli, from New York, for Havre, France, reports tlmt during tho night of April 80th she collided with and sunk n Norwegian hark. The crew of tlie bark was saved. Tho steamer La Champagne, which sailed for Now York from Havre, and which ufterwards re turned, having been in collision, was run into by the steamer Ville do Rio. The latter stenmer sank, but her crew und passengers were saved. The collision caused a panic among tho Italians on board the Champagne, who made a rush for a life bout and caused it to capsize. Thirty-five of them were drowned, in ad dition to three sailors who tried to pre vent the rush. Tlie steamer Ville de Bordeaux rescued fifteen Italians cling- to the capsized life boat. LATESTNEWS. New York city was recently enveloped in a dense fog for three days. M. Lamourcnux, manager of the Eden theatre, in which “Lohengrin” was pro duced recently, but which wm withdrawn owing to the opposition, by a portion of the people, to German works, has entcrod suit against the newspaper La France to rerover 50,000 francs damages for sn at tnek made upon tho opera. A long circular, said to have been sent out to nil prominent Knights of Labor and secretaries of assemblies in Califor nia, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Illi nois, Michigan and Missouri, by local as sembly 8,188, of Portland, Ore., de nounces General Master Workman Pow- dorly for Ids rejoicing over tho result of the Chicago municipal election, and om- bodies resolutions pnssed by the assem bly demanding that Mr. Powderly be de posed from office. An accident occurred at the Edgar Thompson stcol works, at Pittsburg, Pa., tlmt cost tiro lives. Furnace E was blown out a few days ago. A gang of men were put to work clearing it out. An arch had formed, composed of coke, limestone nnd other material, which was still nt red best, and part of the men were working beneath this mass. With out warning, the arch gave way. Rod- hot matter was thrown in all directions, knocking many men down, and in some instances almost burying them. Tho American paper wheels _for rail ways havo proved uufit for the purpose, and all the Germtiu railway managers have discontinued them. Walter Vroomau, an editor of Kansas City, Mo., made a socialistic speech iu Pittsburg, Pa., and, denouncing tho au thorities and the American flag, was jailed. Count Bhovalow, Russian ambassador to Berlin, is the bearer of an autograph letter from the Czar, assuring the Em peror William of Russia's continued friendship, A rousing meeting of representative men was held in Chicago, 111., recently, to give expression to American sentiment in opposition to the suspension of consti tutional liberty in Ireland. About 0,000 were present, drawn principally from well-to-do classos. Mayor Roche presid ed, and most of the spenkors wore citi zens of American birth, such as Governor Oglesby, Rabbi Hirsch, Wirt Dexter, Rov. Dr. Bolton, Congressman Mason and Gen. Martin Beal. They strongly de nounced the coercion bill now pending iu the British Parliament. Resolutions similar in tone to the speeches were adopted. France lias concluded a defensive ulli- •nco with certain other powers, and henceforth Franco will not Ire alone in ovent of aggression against her. Col, W. H. Bolton, cx-Buporintcndcnt of second-class matter in tho Chicago, III., post-office, who was convicted of the embezzlement of about #25,000, was sen tenced to four years imprisonment in the penitentiary. REMBAinBRING HEROES. The monument to the Confederate dead of the battle of Bentonviile was unveiled at Smithfield, Johnston county, N. C. Hon. A. M. Waddell, of Washington, D. C., delivered an address. Many distin guished mon were present, among them were Hon. William R. Cox, Stato Com missioner of Agriculture Robinson and others NEW CORPORATION. Judge Clarko, of the Suporior Court, Atlanta, Ga., recently grunted a charter to tho Atlanta Construction Co. The in corporators are E. P. Burns, W. K. Park ins and James A. Barns. Tho objects arc contracting, building, etc., etc. Tho capital stock is #10,000, with tho privi 'o^e of being increased to (100,000. NUINANCEN. The narrow gauge railroad must go. President Charles Francis Adams, of the Union Pacific, who manages 1,500 narrow gauge miles, says they ure “first-class nuisances. A Case of Zeal. The Boston Tranaeript says: There is a suburban church, situated not far from a very attractive and fashionably patron ized slum, which nrnkes u practice each Easter Sunday, after tlie Sunday-school services, of distributing tlie greater part of the flowers that have served in the decoration of the church among the poor children of the school. This distribu tion is almost ns popular with tho street children us is tlie Christinas distribution of gifts and confeotionery. After tlie mass of the children had been given a few flowers, the Sunday- school superintendent saw two hood lnmish small boys whom he did not rec ognize standing near by very wistfully, caps in hand. “Well, boys,” said he, cheerily, “wha! doyouwunt?” “H’m’ flowers, mister.” “Belong to tlie school? I don’t seem to remember you.” “Oh, yes, sir,” said the bigger of the two; “don’t you remember? I’m tlie feller that run away from the Sunday- school last New Year’s.” 'Indeed I And what is the connec tion of your friend here with the school ?” “Oh, lie’s the cully that coaxed me to run away!” Tlie superintendent felt that such zeal should not go unrewarded, nnd gave the boys a handful of bright flowers. THE HOUSE THAT LOVE BUILT. Love built a house for his very own; Not of spicy woods, not of brick and stone; Not of polished marble, with all the rooms Hung with fabrics from Eastern looms; Nor of Jewels hold in dazzling mass; Nor of gold or silver, or gleaming brass, With splendor like to a looking-glass, Was tho beautiful house that lovo built. No, no indeed. But no palace fair With tilts wonderful structure can compare. Though yon search from Jericho to Japan, From Salnmanca to Ispahan, And travel many a weary mile, Y'ou'll find, in ancient or modem style, No building so grand as tho lofty pile— The beautiful hoyse that love built. Of whnt was it built? Of a sigh—a glanee- A touch of the hand—a song —a dance, A smile, or a whisper—who can toU? As if evoked by a magic spell, In dazzling splendor it rose and rose, 'Noath tropic sun, or mid Arctic snows, And still in Its radiant beauty grows Tho wonderful house that lovo built. Tis a palace—a temple—a holy Bhrine— Fashioned according to lovo’s design, And sot in tho light of a cheerful sun— Whero two hearts enter and dwell m one. And though, nlnsl on this earthly ball' Wreck and ruin must come to all, There is no ruin so great ns the fall Of the beautiful house that love built. —Josephine Pollard, in (Jflod Cheer. PITH APPOINT. A swell affair—inflating a balloon.— Siftings. It’s a wise child that resembles its rich est relative.—Danville Breeze. “My heart goes out to thee,” hummed tho gambler, as he passed tho nco of that suit under the table to his “pal.”—Tid- Bite, Lillie Cushman prints a poem entitled “Unknown is Best.” But how does Lillie know what 19 best, if it is unknown I— Hartford Journal. Pcoplo who declare most loudly their ability to paddle their own canoe are gen erally tho people who haven’t got a canoe. -Somerville Journal. It reads ‘‘New Maple Sugar.” But then, it knows it lies, For last year's date is plainly seen Stamped on by last year's (lies. —Danville Breeze. A Boston paper recently published a communication on “The Model Wife,” and 2,000 Boston husbands swore noxt morning that thoy wrote it.— Albany Argus. “Sunday is tho golden clasp which binds together tho volumo of tho week.” It is also a good time,and usually accept ed as such, for a man to pull off his boots and try all tho corn and bunion remedies accumulated during tho six pre ceding dnys.—Hartford Journal. WORDS OF WISDOM. Ill sowers makes ill harvest. The boughs that benr most hang lowest. Lifo is half spent e’er wo know what it He who begins many but few. things finishes more painful Mortifications are often than real calamities. Men’s years nnd their fruits are always more than they are willing to own. The silent man may bo overlooked now, but ho will get a hearing by nnd by. If we do not flatter ourselves, tho flnttory of others will not be ablo to injure us. 'When the forenoons of lifo are wasted there is not much hope of a peaceful evening. TI10 heart that is fullest of good works has in it tho icust room for tho tempta tions of the enemy. Bad custom, consolidated into habit, is such a tyrant that men sometimes cling to vices, even while thoy curse them. Vicious habits are so odiouB and de grading that they transform the individual who practises them into an incarnate demon. When two start in the world together, ho that is thrown behind, unless his mind proves generous, will be displeased with the other. Life is never all work or sorrow; and happy hours, helpful pleasures, aremerci- fufly given like wayside springs to pilgrims trudging wearily along. Deer Among the Ancients. A German professor has succeeded iL tracing the origin of beer to the laud of the pyramids. An ancient papyrus has revealed the wrath of an Egyptian father who had convicted his son of the deplor able habit of lounging about tho Nile tuvems and guzzling beer. From Egypt the art of manufacturing “liquid bread,” as the professor affectionately describes his favorite beerage, was introduced into Ethiopia and the heart of Africa, whero perpetual summer made it seasonable all the year round. The Homan Empire de clined because amoug other things, it despised beer and was beguiled by stronger but less wholesome fluids. Tho Northern races overran Italy, according to the same authority, because they had learned to live on bread and beer. En thusiasm certainly carried tlie learned professor a long way; and perhaps he has not reached the end of his urchaic re searches. Is he certain that the Israelites did not have beer with their manna; or that there wns not a fresh brew served betimes in Eden?—New Yorle Tribune. Why a Sou Voyage Restores Health. The air of the seu, taken at a great dis tance from laud, or even on the shore and in port when the wind blows from the open, is in an almost perfect state of S urity. Nenr continents tlie land winds rive before them an atmosphere always impure, but at one hundred kilometres off from the coasts this impurity has dis appeared. The sea rapidly purifies the pestilential atmosphere of continents; hence every expanse of water of n certain breadth becomes an obstacle to the pro pagation of epidemics. .Murine atmo spheres driven upon land purify sensibly the air of the regions which thoy traverso; this purification can be recognized as far as Paris. The sea is the tomb of moulds and of aerial schizopliytes.—MM. Moreau and Miguel. Reason and kindness aro the grent promoters of that harmony aud hilarity which generate friendship and affection.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, May 17, 1887, Image 1