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Newspaper Page TextX[i}Z Q)C0cql2t lOcclUu ll dcCiCiph a no JjJttfcTOl & 3Tle;33Um0*£« . 3 *&£~--"'' B weaving the altfsA » Wr 'refth theweftmrf Till thtir Ahodowa uncertain Keeled round on the curtain. WMl..r the trellis w# drank In the Jui - .ak«~t ” jugh with the midnight thoTC:»r' *1 toiTr^aiowy^treasca outlined In tho hrlii Crystal, moon smitten mUta, wh >ro the foun tt'forervbunrhfull with delight; And It* lisp on my spirit the second degroo, and recommended im prisonment in the penitentiary for life. C :■ ;.irriblo indignation was aroused by - cement of defendants' ooansel of a motion for a new trial for some of a stranger's eye in o streets nnd homes which would suggest another thought than thin in a quiet, pleasant, peaoeful oommn- nity. Forever, 1 >e prioonera. Mr. Turner, of Atlanta, is :re to take the prisoner* at onoe to the raitentiary. Five more of the rioters «<7c to trial to-day, Robert Pariah, Jim ‘Md, Stafford Foster, George Frink nrr Carmichael—8ymines, Ilsy- fiBishop, attorneys for defendant*; «olicitor-goneral, Stubbs. ■ that noer It i a braezo of Ca- L the roitt. at your throat wa* a hest of •pilled kissest nd the raudel—In fsner I hear U to-day, An I sit hero, confessing Our secret, and blessing rival who found us, and waltzed roe away. -J. fV.Mey. (iKOKGIA GLEANINGS. I UATIMItED MET SPECIAL V, U11 It EH r ON DEB TS. itcoentiy two nn*ucoefcafol attem*jtahave boon made to rob the atoro of t nller A Maxwell. Though we have no police, each occurrences are rare. .. . This seelion of Georgia is unusually in terested in the Sunday-school cause. In 3 the cape provided sand. Wireeattod for tho cartridges communicated with nn electric battery a hundred and fifty yards distant. Ths battery put in motion pro duced the explosion of eartridgoa. Only eight cartridges dislodged oxer ten oar loads of rock. Mr. Lanier will deer the river sufficient ly to allow the boat which they are build ing, capable of freightin* twenty or thirty bales of ootton to the mills, to pass. Many improvements are going on around gwn, ruiiciior-gonerai, ovuuus, vVimith, DeMcy and llerrman “ Judge M. 8. Morahon, of rcuit, is presiding in his r. Judge Pato will go to V.wW adjourn that court. The hi?WJ5®l// < }%^Is, wo believe, In without^l^ tQ// (y’Jioial history of lttpasofi dsr in sentencedto time irrprisoni aomcttiing to' written while the people. irers, merchants, doctors, lawyers and even common folks* can laugh all around this fall over genuine ante helium prosper- Ity. It looks as if such .will be tho case, from tho signs of the times. There arc quite a number of balea of now cotton in town to-day. uresiou S mu ouuu«»,-»«.«/«. v—™. — , The authorities of our college are begin- July wreral county 8anday-fchoolconTen: I Dinzto arruge for the oc.«oin, ofth. tton. united and formed tho VtajoroM ncrtlemioii.thi. month. They «ip«t a District Hnnday-ochoot ConrcnUon. Ho- very much tow aUendanco than la«t merarille, Clinch ounnly, i» bnildln« a i year. And notnlthatandina tha fart that Banday^chool tabernacto. Col. H'tinea, there ia no proaldonl yet, Tt won t make of tb. Savannah, I'iorida and Woatom any difference with the regular oponing of Railway, gave them a lot and liberal per- the college. Pro,.Nealy, S n ra^,°.V«.^;^S?K turned or.r S th. authorttie. of that October. They purpose making Homers- presidency, has uotaooepted tFet-itis ville a little Chautauqua. This work isuu- supposed b**™*® JJ® lqXi£j<5£. der the State Himday-school convention. board at At fieusto •S®*®,**}® Tho citizens of Were oounty, especially He has expressed hfmself M being greatly Wayerc**, are unusually exercisedin the ! pleased with the oollege ae he has seen it, ' U1 elections, as “prohibition" is the iisne, and there ia no doubt that if he Accepts Tohibitionis “salvation” to material in- the presidency the oollege will be greatly to rests on the one side, while the other 1 more benefitted. pronounce it “ruin.” Tbo Republicans of . Most of oar citizens wlm have bees ao- ■ oounty, reoently in convention here, Mourning at various watering placet, (in- i very pronounced in their opposition eluding the branch spring of the country The thief who broke open Frank Lav nier’a store has been caught. Ha seems to have been an adept at the business, lie had many stolen goods in his possession, stolen from Opelika firms. He was HztTZMBKB I.—DublJ^ifethodlft Dis trict Coufer.nco was LGCh -Ubi* plsoo ol Inst Sunday night. Several v wdstinguished were verjr proaotmoed 3 Next , 8undsjr a°colored excursion leaves I pomebsck bomerand nearly all of them here to attend a district meeting in Val-1 look better. That Is sayingloU for them. I <ln*tn Tho train. I believe, is hired by a I The theatrical season will open next colored man: * Tiu*hiVmt. | Wednesday night with Morton's fig Four ArotsTSl.—The court Is dragging its slow lenrth along. Seven more of the riolcre are on trial. Tho cam boa been bo- fore tbo coor five days. Yesterday the guim-nt o< mmencod. J. F. Del . yo; >. for the State, followed by Jr., nnd J. W. Haygood 1 Col. Roberta followed Gourllandj Bymnnds, eluded for the dofei tHabb j , for tbo State, meat. The Jury will them sometime to-day. have beqp very indual found over twonty-flvp true pc use is heavy. Twiggs oonrt wi Journed on ooconnt of this apaolal plo t rom the tntrnundinf country brought ■i, ^ ^ v in xne grove nssr the house In town won i guests, and bountifully cared manifested in the tioos were made to B.V.J.B. t ftf the now croDwas broouhtin town to-day I Miller Grieve, the manager, a gallery has by Mr. J D. Chambers, Ving two weeks !>®en, built, «d excellent accommodations Inter than thb first bale of last season. It I will be provided for all, hereafter, from was classed good ordinary, and woe bought I th ® footlights to the peannt gallery, by Mr. W. L. Highfor cents. t | grav The boy who did the killing has been lodged in jail at Tuskaaes, Ala. Mrs. Lae Lanier and Miss Lizzie Hugu- ley returned from pleasant visits to Mari etta and Qrifllu last Thursday. All the boys have retnrned from the springs. Public school will begin Monday. Prof. W. R. Thigpen has returned from Foravth much improved, and is quite equal to the task of the school room. He ’ a fine teacher. The protracted meeting at the Preebyto* rlan church cloeed Thursday night. Sev eral new members were added. We have had the most healthy town this year in the limits of the State. Sore eyes are epidemic. NTktobxk. W. R. M. SALOT. 'After a short iUneas Mrs. E.~G. Atkinson I Know Nprlnc died on tho morning cf the iTJth of August. | Sememccb 1.—The boiler at the saw- Atruo Christian and faithful wife has! mill of Messrs. Wilson it Ward at this passed “over tbd river to home beyond the I piaco exploded to-day, making a complete skies^ »»/»*». . . . . ... . ~ » Tbommsvllle. Acocst 81.—We had tl»e largest-meeting I is fearfully scalded and will probably ere to-day siuoe the discussion of tho | die. The boiler and engine were thrown in 'vll rights bill. One delegate from each j every direction, one piece falling through Llitia district in the oounty was sent to I the roof and floor, nnd into the ground nn- k ; > Senatorial convention, in McDonald, j der the residence of Mr. T. W. Sheffield. ,Zd also to the Congressional convention. I The immediate caose of the Accident was ll recointion was adopted reoognizisg the I probably an insufficient quantity of water L?cht of Coluaitt county to tlie atnte Sena-1 in the boiler. * « •» * .n.1 tn.InMlrtr. Hat. II A Tim..,*. I | wreck and instantly killing Drew Laurens aud Minor Forehand, colored, and severe- | ly wounding four other men.; Albert Tokes Thomas county is to have a Stock Breed- _ ;’s fair. The premiums aro nil purchased and there will be no promise that will not be redeemed. Thomas has always been one of the foremost counties in progres sive messofos, and this pne indicates her old timo wisdom. Cciisidebabi,b complaint is manifest all through Southwest Georgia about the cot ton crop. The Thomasville Enterprise says: About the first or second week in July the cotton crop of this const/ would UgJ.or, and indorsing lion. U. G. Turner’s J. s. n. Acouit 28.—As I seo nothing In valuable paper from this section of ] oounty, I concluded to drop yon a ___ lines. The ooplee of your papor that bavo lately beensusebribed for at this offloe are anxtondy looked for and highly appre ciated. I Ibiak yon may look for a large addition to your subscription Ret as soon as money gots ripe, aid Tom Barney can meander around this way again, for what he oan’t talk into one about a newspaper. it ie no nse for any a S t a newspaper, w to try, sal the old Atlanta . _jt els heard him talk for the Herald la days of yore, with all of that persoszlva eloqnenoa, which is ao chsract teristio of a newspaper man, wbioh bears Qar crops aro very good, larger than we have hsd einoe the war. Mr. w. O. Nor man, near this plsoe, will make between fifty acd aevsnty-five bushels from one course and recommending him for rvnotn-1 Ifo»ie«uni». instion to Congress. I Hztt. 2.—Bineo mailing yon the reporto For the nomination of candidates for I the explosion of Wilson & Ward’s engine the Legislature the majority rule wm I at ttnow Spring, the inkn, Albert Tolcas. adopted, but the highest vote was only a I has died. The Mr. Lawrence, mentioned plurality. About four-fifths of the people I in the report, was a white man and the suddenly come to a close, and he is in du- ranoe rile for six months. Two fine schools t>egan their exercises Ia«r Monday—tho female, under the Instruction of Mrs. Un dine Iisne, wito of the faithful pastor of I vice. Cuthberf. the Baptist chnreh and tho male school, presided ter. Both . Hon. J. 0. Clements addressed the citi- zens of this plaee a few days ago. His them back to have another ballot, it decided to submit the nomination to primary election to be held at all the pro- ctoc*. ia tho ooontyoa (tatardo,. tgptom.. Htrrnn>n 2> _ Tb , nomin ,t. * ' I lag convention for this district met here M*r*liAlIv!llCo | vesterdsy. After protracted bnlloting, G. Parks, of Da arson, received tr.o marks wore well timed and received with enthusiasm by the peoplo. ]■ high spirits, confident re-election. As lie has declined to go hand in hand with Parson Felton in their stump ing campaign, the Intter worthy will in a too wta for bottoms generally. The ootton crop is mnoh Wttcr tb*a it was thought it would be. while soioe think differently. Unci*. Heller has ths UUest ootton ia Henry tad it is beginning to bloom, bat h« says it ain’t worth ”a dang.” Uncle Henry Lewis says, ‘The great forever 1” he never saw such crops, and he believes the good Lord has decided to take the fanner oat of bondage oaoo more, to see if they will do any better. Bore eyes, eandidtte* and rad bugs, are ss thick ss hops; there are a good many candidates out and spoken of for the different oounty officer, among whom are five for Legisla tive honors* two of which are on the pro hibition platform; butstnettyspooking, the other three are opposed to the liquor traffic, ifseme planrible plan *»•»» be sug gested for Legislative action that can be o&rried oat when made a lew. Anyhow, 1 thick either of the five would give sstts- faction, ss I haver knew that many s*pir- lug to tho asms position without there being some “black sheep in ths flock," bat it is not the oese this time, as I think any citizen of Henry would be found to vote for either of them. Stephens stock is not very booyaot In our oounty. The people think he needs reel, yet 1 think be will have a very ooropUmeutnmvote, bat front nil I can gather I think (jffi. ajl will carry the oounty. 4. short time wake the echoes o’er hill ar.d dais in this pretty little village. To-morrow will bs observed ns A day of thanksgiving by the peoplo. They have agreed to meet at tho churches to retnrn thanks to the God of harvests for the abun dant supply he has given the workingman. The fleecy staple U still in the background; vno* on the market ss yet. The cool rains for a week m»ko ns think of getting things in readinoM tot an early fail sad severe winter, as predictedT>y m*oy old folks here. Several familloe from Poasacola strived here yesterday, running from the yellow fever. Fruit is now a thing of the past—the melon a joy long fled. The remains of Mrs. 0. U. Ford, a form er resident of this place, were brought up from Talladega and interred by the side at her hasband, Joseph n. Ford, who war ons of the pioneer far mere of this ojunty. The death angel called suddenly at her chamber door, but found her ready aud anxious to go. Hit.—Young tamed out I IhHiHHiHViHHHHIHHH yesterday afternoon tj witness the mar-1 nomination—thus doing away with the ffi lof J. D. Msssie to Miss Anna Gam-1 rotation system in this district, it having inaKv. ot tho Methodist Chnreh. The I been Clay’s tars to be represented. ■ friends of th« happy pair had decorated I The convention to nominate a candi- Itha church handson»«ly. Rev. W. M. Hsye | d a io for the lower Hoasomeets nextSntur- oiliciated. The groom wu attended by his I day. ^ four next beet friends, Willi* Rice, A. H. I *| Lee, M. Crocker nnd Joe Carson. The I Indian Hprlng, 1^4tertStSEl smam l.-TU. ,tU,i. piaco ■ l*,? n . i “ c , h to Ltk Gmngo. Acacvr 8L—The voice of the candidate ii heard in the land—Isas plaintive and tender than the turtle, yet se constant in his affection. bev»n eameei, sirongbaek fellows have worked up this eosaty from "Dsn to Beersheba.” JCaeh osudidateuu- der the present law is entitled to n patient hearing, and leet a thing or two has been omitted a rehearing Is always in order. Yon oannot evade them. I tak that they had no elections to _ Ioc.-idsiur#, like we hare, when Job’s three friends sat In hit presence seven days and nights witliout speaking, oth.-rsiee be wonld have been "broken in piccee with words.® They have wrestled with me with a wresilu akin to good old J.«rob*e tnsele, and I in turn have promieed. If 1 could, to bee tow the bleeelay, and now each of the seven demand# that I shall be a delegate to the convention on Tuesday next. I cannot support the seven, since Troop gets trot two. The thing is np proachlug a crisis. If I have been too unanimous let it be attributed to weakness Of tho lltfh. Our Judge F. object* to that part of Gen eral Uartrell’e platform In whieh be in sist* on a "free balht and a fair coast." Ti c jr;,!ge thinks such a doctrine will not do in G< .agio, and suggests in lien thereof a “fair ballot and a free eount." I confess th. 11# my mind there is but little differ ence between the two; the Utter i.laok a. . ht he more congenial In this section. The first new bale vf ootton made its ep- iwaranw Uet week. It was the product ot John W’. Abrabsts. cch rain has f..!!cn here fo ths lost crop looks promising but mny 1 artaer. UU qa*esly prize, fhs ao- Mnph.ib«dand beantifnl Miss MilUr, of ictun aid eounlff, has met a warm reoop- on in LsGrange. ••Barney’* Uolere^ and ir, and deferred to do well. HU •t r - . iiae fiends, however, are sur- i-ed at thU eihibitlon of splendid jodg- mt and good look. But the Frost family # good traders. Tsocr. he adjoarnmant of court, the streets I ABed with people from the country— rhoms—tome on horseback, i, etc. Among thore -•..V''**. etc. among tbc-re on horseback one Charlie Darby,ayoneg man aboet -vcoty-one years old, who has always :*>rnc a good lepetatM. Bat on yeetcr- iay >•« wm qciu dresk, and on leaving wequifsfsst and before he got »n fell l'ren hi* horse and re- Albany. SsrrsMsn 1.—Our ootton crop is not so good ss was flret thought. The caterpillar in some sections and rust in others have cut U abort at least ose-third from the esti mate three weeks ago. And there is an other thing that has been overlooked ex cept by close observers and experienced farmers, and that is the scarcity of fruit on the stalks. A person riding along the road would naturally coaclude that the crop was magnificent, when a dose exam- inator will reveal the fact that it is mostly weed and the fruit ia absent However, with all these disadvantage*, the orop will far exoeed last year’s, and has been made with less money then any crop einoe the war. Every year I become more convinc ed of (be foot that there are two things that the good Lord can't foretell, and they are the result of a ootton crop and the verdict of a petty jury. On Saturday last we raeeived 2fl0 bales and an average of one hundred and twenty- five a day this week, whieh ia very light receipt* compand to previous years, dun entirely to th* eontinusd rain*, scarcity of labor and eieknese among the bands in Uta country- Still labor has not advanced; farmers only offer a oertain figure per KU, aud get all they can at the price. Grain cron* of all klnda are good. Albany Is rapidly Improving and is coming into no- have been reported ss much better than usnsl. Now, ths genaral report is that il will fall very considerably short of lost year’* crop. The rust, scnld, or whatever it is, has ruined many fields, the boll worm has done some damage, and altogether the crop does not look promising at alL Many farmers say that their crop will be very don’t tb. Kiri. »ud keewnu thorn Boro, hot i ,| tlon wllh J„ 1U k * Johnwn^of .oorclty: do “*, M* *2“° b ? , ‘ ,r ?.P “.dl.t-neo, MJ Whit Collier bu ilre.il. tnkon do hi. ofd e«i«et»llj Macon l>o,», ‘'bobbin* errand." „omtiou n. one of tho •*!>. <5. aV’of Mb- u * I con. Paul Collier leaves to-dny for Albany, „ . ’ , „ \ whore he hit* *c«:ur*d a good situation. SMTSMJiitB 1.—Ihe marnago of M r. J. | The rattle of the fa» mere’ wagon is heard R. Bishop, a four necks widower, is the | on the street, and oor merchants are busily latest eensation at Ihi* plsoo. Hi* sncccre eugsged in arranging on their shelve# in the matrimonial line seems to encour-1 largo atocks of fall goods. Everything age the bachelor* to persevere in their ef-1 points to a fine trade here this winter. Many improvements are in progress foeta to become benedicts. ....... HPPHH Her..,ore epidemic tn tMi eoctlon, I tba'clepotT'iidci^MS.Vtore"houte.”"ootl ml mnpn *m innn • th l .... I. * . ' . . .. ’ . enterprising citizens have engaged in the lumber business, and besides, t J llAWsirevtx.ca Newt: Mr. W. H. Tarver, 1 who has been eagsgnd in taking the school icengos of Ilawkinsvillv, famtohe* ue with the following report: White males be tween U and 18 years, W: females, 00. To- tics ban d.gMlth.D otherwise. The Baptists are holding a serie* gf ... w .„ UL „ lllt ,.. , tUL1 VTri1J — liitioa. tneetiott* .1 th.tr ehnrch I’.re, hot I Krecmno boy. nr. ootUott tboeudd. .. ire not .coomplUhiDR uy iro*t rojolb. o, , Mt ot , amtwr „ t their now «w mill uir only those who are alrendy in tho fold l the enrimr. seem to take any tmerest»the meoungs. j HudbOift of nn excursion from Atlanta rb. hardened .Inner bold, .tool. H.lord.y wer. h.ndod .round to-d*y. On next Tnr«l«y t tho «h in.tnnt, the | IrK , crow d i. oipected. Democrat, of Campbell connty will n»- Detootlr. Jonw, of Atlanta, hw boon ..mtl. in convention »t hairbnru to non.- | n town for .ovor.l dajmon thTlookoat for mite a oandtdato tor Keprevoatalivo. W o tbo party wbo attempted to rob tbo eiprcw havo already one Inde;>endeDt in the field, I ofllco a le~ ^—Sm and some of those prognosticators found in I every community, wbo know much nnd I Wrlstitnvllte. »<¥,AT 00“io*Uonw.wtll have nnotlutr. I that over cam. baron tho poopto of John I hero i* a consiucreblo spriskliog ot I non. was committed last Sunday niuhr Repnblimn votes in the oounty, and the j AUngi two month* ago, Romanos F. i*er- Independents are nnmerons, hat we intend I n >. w t* A ; e f» . m »na iom/lit .v,«n«p nnrinp ••“Urn I her f » ther =’ (Warren Priced, roof. Perry WU# alwsye keeps up with the mueio in the ttc, i” 1 ?. r‘ 4„,„. ’ .„ . I h-'•« hlm. and .nt.rod .olt and eelect their foremost man for otir 1 rnlTTnitice coart'accordinfflv I o^K^tKre pjfest!* SJJwSJdSStBES9S*iS£5°; , wo shall place oor colors in the bands of I threat* wore so no morons that Perry had ’in’bwottlTb ^’.bS corner o? ta ,E as in everything el*o, r sir burn ie not to be l Warren Price, with a einale-bnrrei ^hnrtntf np U» WI ,nd of Dm pvo- 'SSJSWtnSl *£££?£% ***** ** ilcher I down and patting sis shot in Tharpe. w will onw -wi I off for fear of being killed and HCommissioner Orr will addreseonr clti- told Perry’s father of the circumaUnoe, unlay, Lbatuzms. -At.- nnTh. ^MvH n# .3n,.Han n.. I MIO CirCUmaUWCe, Uu * on «*• of edaoation next Sat- W h« n he sent after him and had him car- ■"* ried home. His father then summoned phjsicisns, who, after A careful examinn- - ... . . „ . tsun, found that thirty-seven UB shot and - ^IS* fW b y« ln ^f“ d M?* • Iwge »»**> penetrated ins right side, for the season arrived to-day. Milner is arm and thigh. The soff*rer lingered warm, doll and inactive.. 1110 season uutil 2 o’clock on the morning Xllner. Single too, Hunt A Co., will, in a few days, open a wholesale and retail oboe bouse here. Mr. Paul Jones win open a whole- solo liquvt house, and »t is currently re ported that Messrs. 8. T. Coleman A Co., are seriously thinking of opening abranoh bones soon. We now have one wholesale drug store, Lamar, Raskin A Lamar, Merer*. Lewie Bros., wholesale grocers, also Masers. 8, Mayes A Glauber, who carry an immense stock groceries and whisky* strictly wholesale. ur>N Vi.KxncmuN, of Americas, has in vented a “sextuple spring mattrws.” which he thinks beats tho “quadruple’ There will be no trouble about the elec tion of Stephens to the governorship of finl • He thinks there ia n fortuno in Sumter Republican: We learn from some of our farming friends that cotton has been sorionsly damaged by rust. Many of them say that there will not be as much made this year, with all of the glorious promise, ss was made in 1881. We know of parties who will wager one hnnJred dollars that the crop of iw. In this section, will not Georgia- Colonel Johnritubba, of Laurens county, says he will be elected by two hun dred thousand majority. Tbo Colonel is jnst bubbling over with enthusiasm.' H Bmao along your jug*. W. F. Tannor last equal that of 18§1. Ausaious, up to threo o’clock Tuesday, hi d received 313 bales of the new crop. Walton County \ VidetU :*3 Th# Middle Georgia,Times says “Mr. Stephens's ma jority is now pat down by knowing politi cians at GO,COO, and the calculation is that Gartrell will not carry six counties in the State." If Htephens'a friends lie still and believe any such gush as the above, Oar- trell will be Georgia’s next governor. will fill them cheap for caah«— Worth Star, Fill ’em with what? Not with liquor, surely. A jag cannot be filled with liquor “cheap for cash." It is a “dear” basins.*, iv*b when the jag is filled gratis- Men should fill their jugs with water, und save t: nr im.ney t-« b-:; ' tl.'ir wive* ami their little om-*. A,.-’, loaded with liquor, is an enemy even to are not prepared to exy he will not be, with all the work that can be done to prevent it The following Fosx Valley Mirror. change has been made in the star roots schedules: York to Welborn’a Mills . lull MJ nctUUIUB .Ullis , leave Welborn’a Mills Wednesdays anal Satardaya at 7 a. m^, arrive at Perry at II the GEomatA press. Wtint tbo People Think and Oo. otuuiunjR « t a. m., urnre w retry at il a. m.: leave Ferry Wednesday nnd Satur days 1 p. m., arrive at Welborn’s Mills at Walton County VidetU comes up with the following. “Mrs. Hhods White has hatch* od a fine brood ot chickens by placing tbs eggs in a basket of wool under heroooking stove.—Mr. John M. Miebael has a tur key gobbler that has raised a large flock of little tnrksys—taking them from the mother whon very small, and hovering them at night under his wings. A hen ^ Mr. John R. 1 Thompson’s place laid two eggs in a partridge neat. The partridge set on the eggs, together with several of her own eggs, hatched two chickens and raised them. When last seen, the chicken* were still following the partridge in tb j woods, and wore as wild as books/* Dubl» Post: A gentleman told ns that a negro on. Clint Walker’s place -woald make three hundred bushels of corn and eightoen bale# of cotton on forty acres with a mulo, and bo challenges the connty 4 *»best it. Tni Butler sohoola opened with sixty- five students. short, and that unless the pieklng reason is very favorable they will get no erop to speak of. We have always beard experi enced farmers ray "a dry summer for a good cotton crop" and truly this one haa been anything but dry. We do not believe the cotton crop will he a big one in this oounty, but we think it will be about equal to last year's, and if the prioo holds up to prerent figures, with plenty of provisions made and saved, we can all manage to keep off starvation for one year longer. Hknbt McClebdbs. of Thomas connty, said to a friend. “If I don’t got forty bushels of corn to the aere, I’ll give you all I do make." That is big corn talk, bnt it Is true. Poor. J. IL Alsxasdbs haa been elected to tho presidency of the South Georgia Ag ricultural College at Thomasville, vieeO. D. Scott, who doclinod a re-election. Mini Jabs Gadboll, of Thomas connty, is dead. Aged 7G. Rome has twenty-three criminals in her jail, and the numbs* is daily increasing. Rosa is on a boom as to prognostica tions. The Bulletin says that next season they will ruoeivo 140,000 boles ot ootton. Jcpos Undeswood, who has been at home tor several days in Rome, has re turned to Long Brsneh end to bie duties on the Tariff Commirsion. The Dormlney Mill correspondent of the Berrien County News says: Mr. J.A. Hanley, an aged gentleman living ten miles from here in wiloozoonoty, and who has raised a family of oleven children, has never had the headache, toothache or back ache ia his life. He is in qood health and is able to do as much work ss a young aggreyatoo f«u«>ui,,(n f tut iubiomd um 1881 of *3,274,510. This Is a capital show ing for oar seaport. MsaiwsTBKa and Taylor campmeetings art in full play. TuANKsomao Dat was very generally ob served in Atlanta. Hawkirsvills had received 2G0 balea of new ootton np to lost Thursday. Mil Bss West, one of the best citizens of Habersham county, is dead. Lksc and Ed Allen are in trouble in At lanta about a man’s watermelon pitch. bwvau ii iuu to .v, ibuumsh, ini, 4 v tsl whites, IDG. Colored male# between and iH rears, DG; females, GD, Total col ored, 14.V. Grand total of white and color ed between the agt* of G and 18 years, 340. HAWsomvxLLB is to have an artesian well. We kn*’’* aha wonld ns soon m Alba ny had made a anocess of one. Hawkins- matter of progress. ■Ths first term of Pulaski Saperlor Court I was held in 1800, Judge Peter Early pre- ■iillng M ■A riivsiciAi ot tlie Georgia Insane Asy lum told the Rev. R P. Kerr that of the nine hundred patients in that institution folly foor-flftb were insame from the ef fects of liqnor drank by themselves or neot Democrat remarked to-day, when speaking about Mr. Htephcns’ presence In the city, and the impending meetiog of rnruj. uuu sw luncuvv. wwwn UDIH Z O CIOCK on tUe momill iroral«.lo b» aiuo.ll> bMknrd «nd ,h« Slat, wli.n h. dlod. An bol llul. ouUoa U «port*d to b. or-nlnk'. I nairt WM h«ld trMtnda, «>«tnz. and wbll. th. tumlappMunu nod tho r»- Uttar witamiaz * put morUm tumln*. M" o( th* hou worm wdthrMUiiinz. tiaa >ad btuiaz th. tutlmoay, ths jtu, Nrtlma 0. Mum Km., ot Muon, >1.. roadorod a t.rdTct thrt Romuu V. Vmj Rod hor. ruurd.t in tbo loUrut of John- 0.100 to hi. d.oth b, nuhol wonnd. fnnn ■on A Hwrta, on# of tho Contril fit, « iho hud. of tV.rron Price. Afl*r tho T.r- iUnd.nl hulnoo. bourn. Mr. Maori, ii diet wu rud tho coraoor iuud * warrant n uood butnMo mu ud cleror zutluann. I for tVuran 1‘rtco, who wu nrrutod hut MS? El.‘ h u , L3 na u now tawl •» thoowb not s poUUoiu, I. pouuood of . Tbo dolontM moot hor. to-morrow to wand jadzmut ud to iiaicb tn dKidInz|nomlo.tonttonu>rfortho.ixtomUiHon«- rb.rutor, wo lo.rn thu tho oootost l>o-1 tonal dl.trtot- • . twou Foltoo nnd CtoaMatowlllho.Torrl Uon.U.J.Hlchtower.od Jodn M. M. Wo jnra yuterda, .hown throozh tho bitUrouud tho mil nnurUln. Mjr I Muon torn dSuwd ttenuolTM u oudi- “bou olothin* hoouof KothwMtItoorgU, loformut tou nut mutot hl.tlm.ih I datoafu toztototira honon-botb ubjut — Cbrttoozj, WMkar ud M hltd.ld oonnUu, I to n Demoer.tle nominnUor, ud hunt th. raont .lwnh of Dr. P.lton WrlghUrlll. root!rod her flrnt halo of u i 11 » w £. h Btophon. in w- ootton on lut Wodncrtaj, tho aoth nil., verelv enticireil—the DorPir clmiuinj thu I whin). Knnnkt m. i v m..k 'Morris Mayer, wbo earriee a stock of $iu,. UU), and can furnish von with a soil from $3.00 to $50.00, Merchants ia the sor- ronnding country need go no farther to And a wholesale market for anything at masnfactnrere' prices. Oor artesian well continues to draw crowds from abroad, to reap the benefits of it* healing quatitieo. ill la a sore euro for dyspepsia, disordered liver, etc. Politics Is completely played ont. Some of tho anti-Stephens men say they will vote for him, bnt don’t care anything •bout it, and if they have other basin*** I that day will not trouble tbcmrelvre to go I to the pctle, while a majority won't vote for I him at ail, nor for Mr. Gartrell; and there are others who wiU do anything to dafeat him, and wiM take GsrtreU in pref*reoce;| and. in our humble opinion, if the same feeling -risH proportionately ia every I connty as dose in tina rectiou, 2/r. Ste- nktona'a Man.l. h. .1 ti.lt.. lu-in tn nuun odvid eeriona, if net fatal injuria# about the head. It t« thought that the horsed foot struck his head. He has also a very od on tb* hip, made by the break- lug of his wbi*y fcuic, which he carried in * Up pockrt. Tie is ae yet ineessible. He is the eon of a widow, and her main stay for a re;,port. Several visiting lawyers have been In ei- tenJ -nce npou oar oonrt, among them we nation Colonel Joel A. Billups, of Ma- mention Colonel Joel A. Billups, of Ma- ooo; W. W. Clark, of Covington; W. 8. MrUenry, and others. It i# said that a motion to dissolve the tejonction against th* Athens Banner. »• - • - aiil be heard here, before J adye Erwin, on Retards/. The oonrt has dispatched bneinem rapidly. Das. AT- rft si.—Th* following eonvemticn took plaee between a wall-known caadi- d«t* and s voter t Cendidsto—“.Stop neighbor, I want to tali- to yoa a little. Yoo know 1 am s can- didatf for tlie U .Hslaturc. Now I want » ■ t > come to th* meeting and vote for pbens's frisode had better begin to organ- iae and oorameooe a vigorous campaign. The number ot good Democrat* that are indifferent and will donbtleea stay away from the polls, combined with those who won’t vote, and those who wiU sor Gartrell, aud tb* whole Radical party well organ ized, will be quit* a stumbling block in tb* way of the old m,w We believe a majority of the people of this judicial circuit favor Judge W. T. Jones, now judge of the County Coart of Doagherty, ae Judge Warren’* successor. Hie name wiU be before the next Legisla ture. Tb* baseball fever ht* broken out down here, bnt if yos east it reported write oat oor discharge and seleot another man baseball correspondent. Oor medicine* completely resurrected ns and we are again ourself and oo the look out for an iUm. The doctor* are b**y amputating tho usual number of hands, mutilated from ■ticking them in the saws of a gin white being propelled by s ten-horse engine. Com or two daily. C. J. Candidate agrpriied "Why,how*s that? I cg.'t .i. i. t'ifue eiptaia." v r "lurt roe resiember fbateev. eral n, on the ago I asked you to stand my bond 1- - h\ i t»o hen--id dull-.-seed that yoo woeld be gladi bo Lut o>ul i i. write your naan . or gmsg to eehool bii.cr. .Nu mu, I c .l\ ? •« f it %n illiU.-ste hill caXid.JAt J. XLM 1.— 1!. Oer Acocst XL—The weather, ae we have neeally found it in the low country in Angnet, has been pleeaent, but SepUmUr is uniformly hot. We are having floe rains, and doubtless “ WVMiSC — - | planted, will be h isanis m com erope are fine. If futsre valoee conld I be estimated by the local outlook, theta artiefea woeld be cheap, for mtnaialy there wiU be an aboiufcn*.'. I A gentleman, reccatly retnrned to Way- crose from bis future home, Chicago, says Georgia grata crops ue better than those of IUinute. Let this enroonge as to “go I on to perflsetioa"ta makiagonr aoti fertile and fruitful. Ihe health of enr village ie excellent. Fevers and “fevers and ages," so much dreadwdby op-country folks, are| have held no ratifl^siioa meetiage; ion have not raised money for the campaign; there is no es'hasissin among yoo; I have waited patiently, and yon have don* noth- thing; now 1 shall take my eanvaes in my ( own heads and ’tote my own skillet.' I re- nuuoeo yon, end stand for governor be tor* thfc people. What the f’oel-Appro! said about yon, and that yon desired me to ojoeentto a zomination by the party only verely criticised—the Doctor claiming th# I which was bought by Mr. 4. E. Clark. Independents forced hU nominatioo on | One thousand and three hundred pounds of *nd he was Ukeo up by ths seed ootton yielded 586 pounds oflint. ... II Th* iMMltion of ih* tinrtv I i i n J. AP. Th* position of the p*rty was forcibly illostraied by the Doctors famous etorv and, other anecdotes. Th* eon-1 Bzrnaiuza 2.-Tho cold hand of death l»nn to Mr. Rtopbana. raeo; W. oandiun-1 a. Robert.-on.ot our ola«,t unlmoat ra- /r.‘*ofo^. , rS*s a .,°i , iu w « %iS2C!« jst^ way here. U t*oomnumtotwav a man eey I # w * areideo pained to learn of the death be will vote for him, lees common to hear I 0 f iji^ Porter, eon of Mr. and Mrs. David smsneaybe willnotvote s tall.ocdmortt I w. Carmichael He was taken violently t be wiU vote for I with croup on the night of the 30th, and 1 die*’ in n few houra. Ilo wai n bright boy, ami everybody loved him. The Macfemith ehop of R. M. Harper, and now I defy yoo. I am ta the hand of the people. If they want me to be Gover nor, I will be governor: and It they want me to: Senator, I will be Senator.' ” Atlasta Post.Appeal: Tbe population of the State is 1,54:1, IHO; number of whites, HlG.JWG; colored, 735,274; majority of whites, D1.632. Number of families, 903,000; nam- ber of dwellings, 2K>,474; pereons to the eqaare rails, 31.15; familie* to thesqaare mile, 514; acre* to a family, 124.41; area, square miles, 58/ik); number of voters, 921,438; voters in 1880,153.G51, only 53 per cent, voting; white and native born voters, 172,043; foreign, 5.W3; total white vote, 177.967; eolored vole, 143,481; actual ma jority of white vote, M.414. A MBSTtao was held in Atlanta, Wednea day night, to erect a monument to tbe ' •- HUL Acocst 31.—Ihe ease of the State | about eight mils* w<w against P. M. Turner, charged with thelbaraedon the night of Friday, the 25th reenter of Captain J. K. Shuttle* last Jane, instant. Tbe firewss dieeorered about Aspedaltarmto try said ease htabeea undoubtedly thTWmk ofsS i^dh^ ordered to coavetteon the Aral Monday in | bnt there U no due to th* perpetrator ol teest. The jury trying th* care I tb* crime. Lorn about $2U0 j no insurance, of Joe Wortham, ehar^d with murder, af-1 We have had so much ram ta the last terepradiog a wlwl* night in their room, few days that the farmer* are apprehensive brought in a verdict of “Voluntary man-1 loat it should injnre tbe cotton crop. slaughter." aud said Wortham was ten-1 Quit* a painful accident happened to ttnred to five yaare. Court adjournedyee- foliow’iown*man, W. F.Swan. While as- terday evening. I aietiiig at the funeral ot Mr. Roberta bie Campneeeting near Warm Sprinp. in foot supped aud be fell, and to attempting this connty, cow me ace* to~n*ght. Gov-1 to catch broke hie arm, ernor Colqiutt U.xpccted tboru next Rotor-1 Ourlown ni nU>Kwl lut 8.tnrJir mMU d..r n rt d.Jsai2dr T ^d death of Mia Leila Sim*, the charming l with Iseaay, and white going around with daughter of Judge John T. Sims, of this I him trying to get boo* on* to go oo his county. Mies Lcils, after a lingering iU- bond, the negro broke for th* woods with oeeeot several month*, was relieved by the sheriff at his heel*. Th* chase waa long death on the eveetffb of tb* 24th instant, I and exciting and for a while waa “nip and sad was buried taetde her mether at An- tock.” But Go* wav running f or liberty tioeh Chnreh. Mies Leila wm about 18 which did to bte “speed add wing*" and year* of age—joe* tdooming into loveW the last seen of him he was making tracks yoeng womanhood. She attached herself across the railroad with the sheriff faria to the Baptist Church when quite a child, I the rear. and her religion* character shone brighter Mr. Bconio Watkins reesived eight bates and brighter to the last moment of ber I of ootton at his new warehouse last Toe*, life, and she a* quietly kissed a hcartbro.) day. B. ken and weeing father and dear tittle | brother gr,cd-uy>. a* if she waa only retir-1 wm r oint. tag torThe tight. To die aa she did re-1 SavrsKsan 2o-Weet Point present* quite Rerw d*A*h of It* ti ^cr*. Jack- a coutrut with what she was a week ago. £1 IMedgevIll*. I Heap* of goods aro continually eomtacin, Bimvsxi 2.-The Tbxolosaps asn| «■!eroryetoropreeeoteaetriaimgly , nc»1»—*hu tK-.uu 1 a eholeaale and retaif < I.e»tiita!| l ta moming. It la rarely that »c*h is the ease, j the grocery tine, at Hcgniey’a old stand. ths devil ie to blame for this, ae 1 W. IL Hug uteyi Co. now " “ be is for most irregularities. .. . r oecopy J. R. ,’n former bezinese place. Askew A i WrUtbt.illopmndrazjZor.u tt,.oath To^w, look, uofo I k. Ioihh ‘l" «tf ,K Ol—r .but. Tho .torthoMar. ol «, d>, bu ZM Much. Tho .lit. «n th. Hut Fuat Muufutarinc Uompu, • (aU o* pwplo . from th. uastij, nnd f»» • **«u rtuta Mr. V- V. 1—m.r, joc «. mil In th. ttuo^hu. u odor | U ruotfniud u t-inz ' i «t, Daniel tirjsnt and i'i htu.hr. rioUrr, cLsrgfd ' r-tu i %«ru»ctcf gLiliy Another family from 8svsnnsh have en gaged board among ee for the ttuemer. 4ch*., Libert il reienota mere pteanant retreat ta ink Ad»\a^,thc "Wiregrese Georgia.' We are soon to _ j have a bUUsrd room, taivolaUy »^pfaf*!MU>ita^wear* to4d, a ,a * m thu there i« sb#-,. .u.:y noth.-.’ the many ndvantige _ Kunth, if properly uiili/. d. Heenja • fifty acre* of land, planted in .. till far leea money, than if Uta land waa planted in oottou end the nr up sold at 36 cento per pound. He toys that the Inrgeat .•roflt# with the Northern farmers email crope, that the Houth entirely ig^ norre, althonaL our soil nppHpnitai tho unborn. For the sake of all that is hopefol, fill your jugs with water. Baonien Haslon, of the lively Worth Star, continued to examine Iris political geography oiasaet in tolling style. The l<*«.«on on “political trickery," is as folios*: “Flrst-clasa in political trickery, *tand ip. What is a politician’s friendship bounded on tte north by?" "Self-interest/' “On tho south ?" “Self-interest." “Un tho east?” “Self-interest." "On the west?" “Belf-interest/’ "Correct. Sit down and congratulate each other on your ‘amart- nesz.'" Enquirer-Sun: Tho funeral ot Mr. Johh Quinn took place from the Catholic chnreh j eeterday morning at 10 o’clock. The aer- vices were attended by a large number of the friends of the docc&»e<L Thus has an other old landmark been removed forever from human sight. Mr. Quinn was a re markable man In many respect*. In auto betiem days there vim scarcely a tnoro in fluential man in Muscogee county politics than he, acd he alwayn took nn active part in all elections. There Hi nt Amt aepte left who namo to this city as early as Mr. Quinn. OoLrmoBPz Echo: On laet Sunday night a negro stole a mule from the stable of Mr. ; . v. I-.t n*..i! \»hih li<* \»1« i-rmi-limg a Crawford. Being informed of it Mr. John- aou it&vo pursuit. Stopping at Lexington ho was infjrmed that the negro pa**od through Lexington about D o’clock, and. beinc joined by Meest*. It. J. Witiingham W. H. Deadwyler aud F. R. Smith, trackcc him to Taliaferro county where the male was recovered, the negro making hie es cape. He will, in all probability, be caught, however, and spend a few year* in the Gaxtt’h immense stories about the bear and door hunting around Tallulah Hotel, elhuH much’ bettor adapted to them than tho North. Tn* Savannah Netrs continue* to devot* large space to “champion games," a eort of desd-beat variety of enjoyment. Tn* rumor that W. A. Iluff, ex-m"ynr of Macon, wonld run aa an Independent can didate for Contrera in the cixth district, against J.H. Blount, the regular nominee carry ns back to the days of Daniel Boone nnd Simon Kenton.—Jackson Herald. Yea, that will carry a him far back into primi tive days. Gantt is a genius, beyond doubt Mms Leila 8nca. a lovely yonog woman, died recently at Greenville. Death plucks onr fairest flowers. Bbothsi Haibz, of the Oglethorpe Echo, has bees ravelling in the barbecue—so to •peak. Tnz Montezuma Weekly wisely concludes that intervlawing Gen. Toombs is a profit less business. Ms. B. O. Reed, a high respected citizen of nail count/, died reeontly in tbo eighty- fourth year of his age. The NVhm says: "There aro very few, if any, conntry counties in this Utate that are growing wealthy as rapidly as DeKaib.” Mas. David Ansorn, of Oglethorpe ooun- ty, is dead. Her fasti!/ lives in Butte county. We extend oer sympathise to tbe bereaved ones. Bsonrzs Hanlon belllvr* "the Demo cratic party is being sold out." Incur judgment the sale should bs spoken ef in the past tons* ratker than in the present Tbs Ssndersville Herald announce# the denim* at Mr*. Maaan Nhurllng, iiiw Mat- tie Hilton and Mrs. Inaao Tanner. The flret two died of typhoid fever, near Tea- nille. Tuns Is a little dog In Lexington that will chew tobacoo.—Oglethorpe Echo. Kvovni Evening News: As tbs Georgia railroad train wm ooming down from At lanta lost night, and when near Stone Mountain, the train band, Ned, belonging to Mr. Harry Hill’s train, accidentally fell from the steps while the train was rapidly moving, end sustained soversl severe broieea about the head nnd shoulders. Hut for the faet of his having struck on hia head, It is probable the damages wouli have been more seriont. Thb following deserved compliment. Judge Branham will be appreciated by bie many friends in this seotion. We clip from the La Fayette Messenger: “One of ihe leading members ot the North Georgia bad fa Tnsss is a considerable amount ot sick. ms in Washington county. In fact, there is no exception, so far n* we are able to seo, to the general prevalenooof all over the State. Mostzzcma Weekly: A Dooly oounty man claims to have cleared $1,UC0 in two years fanning with only one male. If this be true there it no nse for despond ency ta this conntry, Somb wicked person has s*nt Uncle Till man, of the Wn/crossyteporter, s copy of the Atlanta IleraUl, of Angnet 2Gth, and ths old gentleman is mad. Uncle Tillman ‘ a dangerous man when angry. Is speaking of tbe potato crop, the Echo i*e ; **TH« rran. likn nurlf nil nth.r* thin bar was naked his opinion of the new enmbent, Judge Branham. “Why, sir, •aid he, "thin circuit ts fortunate; it hai the best judge in the State." La Fatbtts mourns the death of Miss Kate Russell—a rarely lovely and aoeotn- pushed young lady. Nothing coaid be is disputed by Air. Huff, who hs/h he has no •uchnotioDB.—f't, Gaines Rribune. Mr. fluff knows a wall wh«n he neee it. Ho knows something about the uncertainties and the expenaiveness of political content*. Tbe Independent opponent of Mr. B’cunt, if there bo one, will probably be n man from Putonm. It has boon so Mated. What is Senator Brosu doing for the Democratic ticket? It ie evident that Gov. Colquitt, although elected by aid of the Republican* anti negroes two years ago, cannot control them now, aud the admirers of tho Senator claim that his political in fluence is Georgia approximates omnipo tence- Isn’t it about timo for him to roll ont his traditional "bar’l," and begin to move things, ns it were?—McDuffie Jour* nal. The organ* that have been abusing Mr. Bacon for “sulking in his tent" ought to answer th* question as to what Brown is doing. Ws learn he is going west. So far as the "barrel” bash'.ess in conccrnsd, wo hope it will be condemned by all good oit- izeuB. It is a felony to offer or taka a bribe, and wo trust every man v. ho ie de tected either in buying or in felling n vob i the will be indicted, convicted and xml chalngang— even were it Lerator Browu. Tub war over the rotation evrtnr s r:ill curried on in number# of tl.o Enatgrlil districts of tho State. Of courro tlie . *- ictn was nsver anything more than : f. litical convenience and a barrier against a number ot Democratic candidates from the name district. If thsrs bo general op position to it, of ooorso the e/fti :n will have to go. Mms M. A. Epwahwi, of Randolph coun ty. was rccentli married to Mr. Wm. P. Farris, of Texas. Ths following anske stor/ Is from tho Cuthbert Enterprise: “One day la*t •.;-*k Mr. John H. Rice and wife started oil from home ou a grape hunt through th- w< near the line between the ptontatioi ..f Mr. A. J. Moye sort Dr. Godfrey. They didn’t find many grape#, but t • > found instead a den of ntUlMnnkea, with rhlch they engaged in lively combat, fx tho end of the battle they cuuo'cd -..’•cubci dead rattlesnakes nn the proof «.f th r valor and prowpM. Tho mother euakJ wn* foar and a half feet lung.' Tatar is trouble in Qnltmau oj’ii.ty among Democrats over tho refusal of u.o incentive committee to cell a eonvcutii u to nominate a candidate f* r tho ture, A number ot Democrat* of tho county have iNsned n card, appealing to the •people from the declfion of the cuur nhttee, amt celling a convention. Jcdob W. M. Snaopasias says he and hi# partner ean best ti c world at w Lift This is not givtn as a challenge, hat we feel arenred that parties demurring from the proposition acd desiring to test II, will t* aceommodsled.—Home liutletin. lias the Judge ever taekled Mr. Stephens and his partner? If not, he ie crowing before he got# out of the. woods. Mr* otephei.« claims to hav? no ar;wrior. sadder thus a death like this. Thb following items and opinion* are from tlie Henry County Weekly: "Georgia has one ealoon to every six hundred aud fifty Id habitants. Governor Colquitt livcred his famous Sunday school lecture at ML Zion last Sunday afternoon, to a iarge crowd. it is rumored that W. G. Ctrnnuarr Appeal: Tbe rust has struck tb* oottoa in many aecticne, which will ef fectually kill tbe top crop. Too mcch rain for a good ootton crop. A negro man os WedAsday last was caught'in weaver's •roam gin, near the depot, and badly cut up ho tuaid hs relieved «ruui hi* perilous condition. ins following account ot tno iaii ox iim little daughter of friend Bnr*h, of tbe Kast man Times, into a well twenty-six feet Inoano Asylum says that of the nine hun- That’s not strango. VTs know a number of d£fid patients in that institution, fu ly big do^a that are troubled with the seme foar-flfthe are insane from the effects of says: “The orop, liko nearly all others thu year, is mors promising than It has been in year*. It La little later than s«ual,but the yield ie good and ths potatoes large." Cakdidatm are thick as knats.—Clark*. rille. Advertiser. Brother Church changes are not tb* candidates worse than th* gnats? Thomas Ham, of Atlanta, has been ar rested on the charge of "suspicion." Be ing a seaport town. Atlanta seems die- posed to adopt English customs and laws. She thinks it the proper thing to have “suepeels," sad so aha has invsnted tbe new crime of “•uapiclon/* Mb. W. O. Lewis died at Turkey Creek i get me out of the way. a* a possible ndidate for the Senate, ha# eotae true. J* on Friday, with yellow tever. Us wm an estimable gentleman and brother of our townsman, Mr. J. M. Lewis.—Montesuma Weekly. It wasn’t gctulne yellow fever, w* suppose. Malarial fever, probably, is what it was. But we doctors don’t know everything. It would seem from tbo following from the Ogiethorpe Echo that the farmers in that soetioo are troubled with aroundless fears: "If* hear a good many of oor fannffs express fear* that they will make more cotton than they can g^tner. 'Ao . ) ! \y A l A’-;* ' • r!. • times as much ae they now tbiuk toey ean. HAwmssVRXB Dispatch i Major E. n. Wunberly, told ns oo Saturday last that new oorn was selling at llayneville for fifty cost* per bushel, and it ts selling in IIsw- kinsville at G5 to 75 cent* per buz he I. Yet merchant* continue to sell meal at $1.30 to $1.25 per bushel. It may be that they get their meal tn Atlanta where price* ore still Atlasta is gpdeavorlng to stop Sunday beer drinking. A saloon keeper in West Knd was fined fifty dollars this week. Albast. News and Advertiser i Young ChUles Walker, whose troubles counted in yesterday’s paper, came into the city ycaterday and surrendered him self to Sheriff Edwards. He was carried immediately before Jcdge Warren on a motion for bond, wh ^ heard tho case and fixed the bond at $IJM0. Judge Wright instantly given, and the young man set at liberty. Oss farmer tn Dougherty oounty has tent thirty bales of new cottoa to Albany, and Neil Willingham wants to know why Chan Jones didn’t tell onr readers about iL Al*a*t Is jolly over her telephones. Tssssistob* a Republican Congres sional convention tn Albany on the 12th proximo, to nominate a candidate in the second district to run against CspLU. G. Terner. Albast News and Advertiser: A oo a* try- man fell out with a merchant yesterday about a pair of snoes, and mad* tb* air very blue with oaths on Broad street. Louise were peering too. He was carried before the mayor, and Saturday was the day fixed fortnaL A moms trader tn Dalton the other day did a heavy business. He arrived in the city with n bone he had stolen and com "H'poeti trading operations. continued hia speculations until be had changed six different animals before tt was discovered that he was operating upon stolen capital. He waa arretted end ie now in jati. Ms. form Bags, near Dallas, had both tyrs ttowm out while blasting rock. TiujU. ta some food for solid reflection in the following Lom the Hartford Timet: “Senate* Bui Util died comparatively made life at Waehingtosi *p*f^ they millionaires, and they aren't dead y*L 1 Bnt, between men of the Georgia Senator’s stamp of sterling hoeeety nnd potitie.ans of the Sherman and Bobesoo sahoot, there »crepe yet to sees s ta,u It Is hoped that far- ■ l H.zTMtcrtf ttrad." Htiteiu bags rocks' from Aonm -Yews; Mr. Sidney Lewis bee Ihe bottom of the river between Uri* point moved hie family to Mpoon. Mr. Lewie ie end tbe BriO*, tror mBeedtetanL lt wee I the founder of the J MM liquor drank by tbcmeelves or their pa rent#." Womas Is the idol that man worships.— Exchange. And the mors idle she is the more be worships her.—A’m-.i and Adrer- User. How do you make that out t "The more idle she U." the Ism time he has to worship her. There ia nothing in Idleness that ts calculated to appeal to a m»a*s bump of adoration. An Idle, thriftimr woman Is a snare and a delation. It Is now too late for the caterpillar to do much dnmnge to ootton. HaL a* inf or. mition on this line is ot interest to far men, we pnbtisb the following from »h* News and Advertiser, ot Albany: “ti* learn from farming friends that the cater pillar bss in tone localities mods his sp- licnrauce in tertiary stage, and commeaced hie depredations in catomL Jndgs Wright, whose farm ie near the city, trite an that the comiog of the pest wm quits •mitten, as he bss watched tho progreve very atten tively. They have covered his ootton since last HULday. Mr. John Walter's ootton ta suffering ll Mow that Hon. Seaborn Reese hit becu nominated, let all politieal and personal prejudice* be buried, aud the Demoeroey of the district rally to hi* support.—Even ing Newt. Right, Brother Moors. n*ab. Rmm is a good Democrat, sad should re ceive the united support of the Demoorati of the eighth district. If a disorgaeizer and an Independent bad been th* nomite* of the convention, the reason of the ce» would bo different. Let C'oL Reece meet an enthusiastic indorsement, and let hi* friends rapport J. C. 0. Black, one of tin Ts* TsLsasATB asd Usmksoss wants to find an enthusiastic Stephens man. We hope the Democrats aro just enthusiastic cepltn self-dafetue. If the Jeffersonians want peace, let then "bands off." Tns abeeL We clip from tbe Free But don’t send'em around to the editor." Sows of tbe papers doubt Governor ColqniU’e sincerity on tb# Ilqscr question. Tbe Worth Star says: "If Governor Col quitt had taken hold cf tbe prohibition question three or four years aro, when it woe v«ry unpopular to be a prohtoitiosUt, we awuid be more ready to appltod hie recent nut-ranees agsleet tbe mannfactme and sate of whisky m Georgia. r Ms. *rsss will drive two bones in bie campaign Ut tbe mountains. AlLa Can Use tiler will drive ma»y place* ae his opponent, but be wtiTl pom under the siring first at the finish.—I \Uainesville Eagle. W# shall be glad if tt be eo, bat w# don't believe tt. It ie bad policy to undervalue the immense ad vs si tagre that Speer baa in tb* campaign. Th# election will eoun decide the qoestioe. i A sroona temperance following Uee partly hidden in every nook and eorncrl of Georgia. In several years more tt will I break out in its vigor and sound tbo death knell of tbe whisky traffic ia our grand old I State.-Montemma Weekly. WeU, we don't object for onr parti but it should be settled by each county for iteelf aa asocial, end not aa a political, question. It is worse than foolish to split the Democratic party permanently on that rock. That question shoo Id be settled without regard to party* ■PnoTL* should not permit friendship for friend* support J. u. u. Bloch, oneortt * puteet, beet and able#* iueu ia tho State, for the Uiiltol State Ben&tc. It is timo to bring the young men to th* frorti RzpBMr.vr.invr. Groans R. Black, or eomo friend of his, is publishing medical certificates to show thru he will be oompo teut to dueharge th* datlse ot aC< agrew. deep, and tbe littlo one’s fiiirAcnloose will be specially interesting to the mothers Kho read one "newt notee." Wooongrat- Lto Mr. ^^Mri». Burch on the i : r^po of thsir little gR Sa/e tho Times: “Nettie, about eight years of age, a little daughter * * v * editor of thie paper, while attempt- fo re mot I to the bottom of the well. thinks, however, that iust before reaching the bottom she aucoeeded in turning, as the is of tho opinion that her feci struck the water first; though of this she ia uot eer- Uin. The well Is twenty-rix feet deep, and baa only about one foot of water. No ono ■cream, ran to tlie well _ __ ing at the bottom, thoroughly rata rated with water and bedaubed with clay sad and. A« soon of the little girl could brush the sand and water from her face to tint •he conld see, she looked imploringly and •aid: “Aunt Mary, please get me ou ** Mary told her to stand In ths backet, h on to the rope and she would d The child obeyed, and Mary s with all her might, when Mrs. IL, mo of the child, wbo was wittinT In her r_ _ et tho time the alarm waa given, reaches the well. Horrified with grief oud anxie ty, realizing only the faet that Iter child in tbe well, and without even looking Jewn to see her condition, she tt •/. d tho rope, and within lees time than tt tehee to tell it, the little girl was again on terra firma and clasped in her mother's em brace-unharmed and unhurt, save a few •light scratches acd brute • aud a terrible frignti This Is really a wundc. fsl rocape, •nd Mrs. B. earnestly wish** that do other mother will eve? hav* to p»v a throsgh sooh vehocklugand terrible ordea!." Thw Eastman Times reports tbfi death of Mias Maggie M. Sspp,siUr a Iona ilte by tho time Cengrroa meet*, \- unl< ttlrihitariNtalDr a re — taskua by the flret dtetrlct rosven'ion. Tbe spec tsele is a painful ose. Home men bold on to office with a doth crip, while the same spirit characterizes uii.tr* ia seeking it Tsiarv-rous marriags liseasee were ir- •ued by tboOrdiaary of Chsthsm oounty, daring ths month of Asgusti Thb total vain# of Savannah's sxporte, for the year ending flsgrut 81st, 18*2, i» $1'.»,7«R!^I4. This ie a creditable ehowieg. it place* our seaport city next la import-* WkV to New Orleans, and far in advance of the seaport town of Atlanta. Ths Savannah Retarder publishes the following extract from a letter, written by an extensive planter of Barks oounty, tbe New York cemmissionen of emigi lion. It will likely prove of interest some of oar agric iltnr*! aoteeribers: “1 have a few BoheminR* is the sooth«re*to portion of this State, nod we ar« well pleas'd with them at laborers, and desire to get more. We watt lsbor «ua meet have tt. If we confine j to farm. Tbe ne gro bee virtually quit tb* field and taken to politics and preechicg. and onr fields ere growing with weed* and bashes, acd if yo.: will inform ne bow to get the Bohemian* yoa wilt confer a very great favor oa the planting interest of Bark* county. Frotu what I can leant from tbe newepapvrs and other sources, tbe entire State i* in the ■sin* bad condition fot labor. Tnavs children in LouLville, Gv, hare been bit by a ratio Spits dog. Baonres Boro criee “aloud for light" to wbo will be nominated in Jefferson oa Tuesday next. Thb people are saying wilb startling em phasis "no mere whiszey shop* and bag natior. W# regret to eeo tho spread of In- depaadcntUai I* tfw State, but it U tl» uua* voidable contsquenee of tl* action of the Atlanta State convention. We hope fo see Ike party thoroughly ro-nrg.tnizsi on an anti.ring bests before R' !. Then there , will be a return of Jnii*pca.h i to tt-: \ Tns following from th# Kolo-'n will interest tbugiri*: “Mirrird. residence of Mr. B. H. Harrell, in county, on Hnmlay August SOth, 5. J. Mitchell, of bodge county. • l./.!iar. Milter, of l’uti •. .. J. P., officiating. Tint Fort Valley Mimw and | rfery pointedly save i iho recent ri^o in Ci attributable to the Gen. Alexander n • ► ley. We cannot «ct iho o?ec.:tive abilil; • ■ tr.-U-cn : u. • •, that .-f *?'i tr.ia ' ' 11 '■ "r\i ■P f patents ' ler then ('than whotr there ideitti" 'for; Among the United States PAtent for agrstatute < ic^ iand i .« he m«y l team this UayoxxvA W$ Beautiful skin and fair robust health un<l powers | follow tho use cf JUrt it really woe’ti—.Vrire and Parmer. May be tte reverse proposition woulds't “hold water," friend B-)>d; but that isn’t the point* Would It bold whisky ? That's the rub. Allis Caudles, th* Democratic nrml nee against "our Emory" In th* r.iuth„ rose cne eye oa the race. Tbe other was soot out. Atlaxta Is to have a new opera bouse. Two men of means and spirit have taken bold of the matter. Thb AuguU make* the fo.lowing points on Atlanta i The value of sba NxtioSLsl and State banks in Auguj SUv.V.'ri. Is Atlanta tt is but $2023 Atlanta muse bank cn cheek fael money. Ihe per centage in Inert I j j in Augusta has ‘ • LI fo ;r*.A.^i : i by tbe orfi:cary.of,;Mai daring m mth. filon, nance Drown'* IrotiDUteie. were ie* *uuty Beer tea i** o.iUijarily made is a w Ices nourishment, it la simply the flavor o( meat. Scott Jc Bowne’s Soluble lkf f 1s tbe substance dissolved In addition m the flavor, mdiis splendid food tor tbe sick. For sale by druggist* and grocers* U To supply oourishli valid* U a great d • IJownc’s Soluble Ik« I as it contain* the aubt flavor of tbe im-*l In sxlc by dm;. - * i "While It exhi rad’s Uodwi' W| ■ ' r • is $1,448, i AU-ia Angu'tn tt is $729,70. TfeS Augusta News has a lengthy at wall I Y>,; sale 1 able article on the rabjeet of "A Fit* | aside th* ohliga- ss an able article on the rabjeet of "A Fit*! * to social/. He ; nog ASooumeut ts Senator Hill," whieh | —D^onL Is manforeJtee, rw^mmende the b..fidiug of an art Ui] kocu . k i ■ I'JsiTenttyrompwcaelmr * * ‘ ^ t laced in deep drills nnd packed > Mr l.eQtenanUG end a patriot. Friendship is a »aered relation, bss it Uone which* titan owes w bo votoe for an ioeepahh from eoosideratiooe of porsonal fr ship, wrongs Iris friend and floes videuce long, thirty feet wide, end eight* to UM Stale. f i.in floor to re.lit ., to be l.vl.c I -.f... r In foUooing from onr oxoeilent ex-1 tho Ulnetriou* dead, change, tho Hawkinavtil* IhspaU A, ought Atsim Banner-Watchman:C.Xr. II. A. toe&eetc«llynukt any spire - -a-to. M a< y, a:: intelligent gcLttertan the Ui: at of llr. M.jr.cL- D ••cur pr- j Uh.o, orofptd in tores u* je^u-rdaj, a:..l tore to give beta cf the ,4**tion:jm tne oocrre o! coc»rr>.xu-ju he ^io*e ot mm WtMSSmSajs^