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.THE MAQPN WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1880.—TWELVE PAGES. OVER THK STATE. Brum. rick wants to organize a board of ‘"^mberlandlaland is to have two artesian *Rald win's prohibition election takes place U C ,l! R C. Humber has recovered from bis recent illness- ... . Griff Alien, a well known bus driver of IncUhta, is fiend. Tt» buzzards are killing young lambs in Oglethorpe couuty. ... . j M Brosius, of Texas, is to establish a wagon factory in Rome. Mr. S. J. Joiner, of Jackson, has invent ed a fertilizer distributor. Hoffman's great ten cent circns pitches its tents in Amenous to-day. A lot in Eatonton, 60x100 foot, recently .old for *1-25 per front foot Considerable corn will be planted in Jlouston county this week. The Brunswick tiremen are preparing for their big time on the 25th inst. 1 Dawson negro killed an alligator nine feet long on Notcbawny last week. Albany has set out and boxed 125 urn- brclla china trees on her streets. The Jackson carriage manufactory em ploys only white men in their shops. ' The l’atnam Rifles of Eatonton added six new members to its roU Tuesday night. t \V Mann, of Houston county, owns a $1U goat, being a remarkable milker. The Quitman mills are running on fnll time, manufacturing yarns and rope. A gentleman of Perry contemplates plant ing aeveral acres in broom corn this season. A Fsirburn lady, seventy years old, has ne «r eaten a mouthful of ment of any kiud. There are fifteen lawyer* and five doctor* in active practice in the town of Waynes- boro, Oscar Cantrell, of Ora obeli county, biw removed to Macon itv -rder to study den tistry. '* Fifty-three acres of average land in Camp bell county recently sold for $764, or $14.80 per acre. I)r. David E. Butler, of Madison, has been made pastor of tho Baptist Church at Jackson. John Thrasher's new trick dwelling, on Sctiven street, will be tho handsomest house in Quitman. Fifteen whisky drummers visited Dawson last n eck. Four of them were in tho city the same day. li ra. Goer, a Chicago millionaire, once lived in Putnam county and went to school at Stanfordville. Washington has paid $275 for thirty-six street lamps, one hnndred gallons of gaso line and an iron tank. Some young Indies in- Campbell county were badly poisoned recently by chewing the mots of poison oak. ToIm Jackson, the Bartow dynamitard. has written a letter, in which he says he did not blow up Judge Collins. An epileptic named Turner, an inmate of the poor house at Vienna, fell in the fire, Snndsy, aud was badly burned. It required two traina Wednesday to hanl out the guano from Americas on the Amer icas. Preston and Lumpkin railroad. William Woodal, of Wilkes connty, has a violin that made music around the camp Area of Gen. Andrew Jackson's army. The waiters at the llswkins House in Americas gave a big ball to their colored friends at Head's Hall Monday night. All the busim as bouses in Madison were closed from 2 to 4 o'clock Tuesday as a mark of respect to the late Judge ltcesc. Henry Sullivan, a car coupler, was hor rildy mutilated by an engine in the yard of the Central Railroad at Augnsta Tuesday. In Hawkinsville, yesterday, Mr. Homer Walker, of Longxtreet, was married to Alias Lu Watson, daughter of Judge Jacob Wat son. A Perry man starts off with sixty hens, and will keep an itemized account for one year of the uxpenee and profit of keeping them. Itixon A Co’s, briek machinery haa ar rived at Quitman and they will go to work at once in the manufacture of Ant-class brick. A Georgia geologist says there are quan tities of diamouda waiting to be discovered soinewheru botween Atlanta and the Sevan nak river. s "me one threw potaah or other atnff upon a tine bone belonging to C. L. Smith, ■ Monroe, one day last week, ruining the animal for life. John Walker'* bone went on the ram page in Ainericus Tuesday, demolishing t ““e buggy and leveling signs that obstruct «1 the sidewalk. The M adisonian says a good • detective *<>nld And plenty of work in Madison. The people just now are suffering from an tyuieuiic of burglary. In the McDuffie County Court last week, * female witness alluded to the tribunal as » "ahehang." A prompt fine for contempt of court prevented a riot. On Sunday, on ths plantation of W. B. Weaves, in Pulaski county, a negro cabin •as harried and with it a negro child that had been left there by its mother. Americas into be given a rare treat in ■AtWee" who will appear in ••Mum'zelle" at the opera bouse Tuesday next. It will oe the theatrical event of the season. Steps have been taken and the necessary cash raised for the building of au eighty room hotel at Quitman, to bo formally opened to the public ou January 1st, 1887. Rear Milieu Sunday, while a lot of ne groes were gambling in the woods, a dispute «ose and ended in one of the party draw ls * uu d shooting another in the J - L. Mack, of Griffin, baa been put in Charge of J. Waxelbamns large business in Atuencus, vice Max Gross, who goes j^ r “ot°n, Penn., to open np a business of i J*. 0 i* 1 ® * r, *h inst, at the boms of the >n.le* f ,ihcr. Mr. Ed Littleton in Americus ••“•SaUia Littleton was married to Mr. J. °f Dawson, llev. John Jordan officiating. •mH* Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Fricker I * '* ‘fader an elegant reception at their june in Americas, complimentary to Miss Mi mie Frick, of Danville, Vs., who is vi«itin K them. evening, at Waynesboro, Mias Whan M. Cates and Jam<4 K. Carswell re married at the residenceof Mrs. James bride’s autar, Rev. W. L. Kit ratnek officiating. I a Thnmnm Powell, one of the parties con- «»*i m j, i wb ; lu j; op£ u.'*V ,r »°f Lewis Brothers at WarwickTSn ^onti county, was taken out Monday night I , “ > 1,0 ™d into tho celt. I t»v ofi!"* “ on *‘y. “ little Carrie, dangb- \uL£?L Hmlth, was cUmbtaT I wL"f„* '•‘"Tfl'm needle stock in her dree. I D r ii' J! , ‘ into flez breastbone ao bard that ^ d"^“ co “P* U « d «o ». both hrnsds _ In . ' Vi ' 1<e6 county lives two old men. Mr David Campbell is seventy-Bix years old and has lived in the same house forty-nine years. Mr. Isaiah Paschal is in his ninetv- sixth year. ' Tho application of Augusta's new gas company for u charter waa heard before Judge Roney Wednesday morning. The granting of the charter was opposed by the old company. Me-ara. Jeter A Bush will at once pnt up tbc-ir wharf ni)d warehouses at Brunswick l ie contract has already been given out. the warehouses, two in number, will bo 50x150 feet each. Doc Briscoe, the young negro who has been burglarizing in Madison, was captured Wednesday after a long and exciting ebaae. Photographs of him will be sent to every city in the State. There is a quilt being mode by a family near Forsyth, and it is padded with cotton made by slaves 34 years ago. The head of tho family, who is now 52 years old. was then n sprightly boy of 18. A. Sweat, at Quituiun, will commence the erection of two large brick etores, hand somely fronted, in the coarse of a feu* weeks. J. 8. Schofield A Sons, of Macon, havo tho contract for the front. A Brunswick man recently purchased a piece of land, 650 acros, in Camden county, on the Little Satilla, near Spring Bluff, for $250, out $1,500 worth of timber off of it, and Tuesday sold the same land for $150. The day passenger engine from Augnsta No. 88, broke down at Waynesboro Tues day by the blowing ont of one of the flues. It exchanged engines with gravel train No. 18, which happened to be stationed there, and caused only about twenty minute's de lay. Eatonton Messenger John Allen bonght » mule for six dollars and sold it to Will Griffin for 2A centa. Seab Lawrence bought it for 35 centa and sold it to Walker Mc- Dudo for $1. Walker bonght a bridle and went after it, bnt when he found the mule it was dead. Tho warrant sworn ont by a drummer charging conductor R. A. Harris of tho East Tennessee Railroad with ejecting a passenger from his train, was issued by Justice Carmicbicl at Jackson. The ease will be heard before the Superior Court hich meets in March. Henry Ponder and John Reeves, both colored, engagod tn a rongh and tumble tight in front of the Savings Bank, at Barneaville, Tuesday, during the course of which John Reeves hurled a brick-bat ut Henry’s head anil missing him, struck the $10 plate-glass window in tho bunk, break ing it to smithereons. Capt. L. E. Spivey, the only citizen of the nnco flourishing town of Danville, on the Flint river, was in Americas Tuesday, and said that with the daily steamboat visits, and the Savannah, Dublin and Aniericus railroad crossing the Flint at old Danville, tho town will soon bnd and bloom into a live and flourishing town. Tuesday Mr. J. F. McClnno manager on one of Col. John T. Fort's places in West Dougherty, was shot by a negro with a donlile barrel gnn. The shot were small and did no serions damage. Mr. McClung'a sister woe in range of the gnn and woe struck by several shot Three negroes were engaged in the difficulty. boose of another through freight on the sidling, A car or two waa wrecked and a man badly hurt. Tho engineer whose lo comotive did the damage was asleep. He whs promptly discharged by the authori ties and doubtless they did right to dis charge him. Rut there is something wrong that their prompt action did not remedy. I am told that the through freight schedule from Au gnsta to Atlanta begins st 5 p. in. and ends at 9 a. m. next day. That is, men are six teen hours on a strain of labor and atten tion. It is too long. The wonder is there are not more accidents. It is not unlikely that not a few collisions and other railroad disasters are due to nervous exhaustion. Sixteen hours is too long n time to keep men on the strain to which conductors, en gineers, firemen and train hands are sub jected. Railroad managers do well to study economy, but is it economy to run such schedules? It is said that Cornelius Vander bilt, a few days ago, on bis own motion, reduced the working hours of many men in ilia employment, lie did not wait for n strike, bat he took tho best measures to provent strikes. May it not ‘be that he thonght it was right to be reasonable in his demands? Perhaps, in imagination, he tried to pnt himaelf in the place of one of hia employes. If he did this he knew what was reasonable and right. Many labor troubles may bo avoided by the simplest of all btisiness methods- fair dealing. Atticus G. Iuvoood. Oxford, Ga., February 15, 1886. THE CAMPAIGN. What the Editors are Haying About the Next Governor. Walton News: TheStato Press is express ing emphatic disapprobation st tbs coarse of some gubernatorial candidates. The bench was never intended as a step to the executive mansion. Units Connty Argns: The newspapers of the state are beginning to talk up a can didate for Governor pretty lively. We chum it rather early for this business, but will mildly snggeht the name of lion. J. 8. Boynton am most suitable man for the gubernatorial chair. Tulbotton Era: From all tho. indicationa Hon. A. O. ltacon, of Bibb, will be the next Governor of Georgia. The news from nil stations of the State is very encouraging to ins numerons friends. Hu will enter tho convention us be did the last time he run, far in tho lead of his opponents. Ho is n much stronger candidate now than he was then. Wo shall bo more than glad to seo him in the chair of the executive depart ment of the State. Under his gurdance the old Ship of the State will not ran aground or be cost on the rocks. *TBZ JEDOX PROM BIBB.” A plain old farmer thus soliloquised on bis return from the into meeting of the Georgia State Agricultural Society in Colnm bus:—Talbotton Era. "Thar’s a jedge from B An* he talks pollttx Jam mm ion,. All the time he’s longing for trtnunlns, From the (real big public crib. "As or travelin’ Jeilga he's er good nn. An’ puts tn hte llcke nitty sly, YU taea not took his eye off the ponduo. In the Zacuttva House rutty high. DEATH OK COL. L. N. WHITTLE. Heath of Air. Warren Partin. Hawkinsville. February 17.—Mr. War ren S. Partin died of consumption last night at 8 o'clock. Hia remains will be entered at the Oakland oemeteiy this evening. Ho leaves a wife and a large drclo of friends to mourn his loo*. Two Children Horned. A letter to the Albany Medium from Isa bella says: On Saturday evening Mr. Joseph Smith, living two miles from here, bad two of his little children bnmed badly from playing in the fire. One of them died since, and tho other is expected to die nt any mo ment.' Their mother hail gone to Mr. Slkca's turpentine ilill, some two or three miles from her home, and Smith, who was plow, ing near tho hoose. was attracted by the cries of the children. When he got to them one of them had its clothes entirely burned off, and the other was completely wrapped in the flames. The Artesian Welt at Amerlcus. Aniaicvs, February 17.—At the last meet ing of council Alderman W. P. Bart made a motion that tendril toward tho advancemeiit of the artesian well project. The motion was passed over until next meeting, when it will doubtless coma np again, and it is to be hoped, will be carried. Americas has •pent botween six and tight thousand Hoi lam on artesian wells, ana as a result, onl; has a little pump affair ".ike Atlanta,” ani two straight holes in the ground. The peo ple long since abandoned all hope of ob taining a flowing well and are willing for expenses to ceaao where they are. The Safe-Breakers In Ilrnnswlek. Tho office of Dr. Burroughs was burglar ized last night. The door was prized open with a crowbar and the safe, which was standing by the window next tho door, drilled, charged with gunpowder and blown open. The explosion tore off the front ot door, leaving tho lock exposed and render ing it au easy matter to slip the bolts back and enter the safe. The glass of the win ilow near which the safe stood was com. pletely shattered. Tho burglars did not seenre much booty however. They 'got three gold watches and about one hundred dollars in old coins. They left three brass watches and a small tin box of oi l silver coin. The work was evidently that of ex pert*.- Brunswick Breeze. A FREAK OF FORTUNE. Maty Million of Dollars Inherited by Wilkinson Couuty Family. A few days ago Colonel New. Murphy of this connty, received a communication frou a lawyer in Covington, Ga., asking for in formation concerning the heirs of one Wit Ham Potts, who, he stated, had been de clared by the court of England to be the rightful heir of sixty million of dollars. The attorney states that investigation haa shown by attempts to procure the money, by two parties already, bearing the name <>l Potts, one William Potts, and by W. F. Potts of Atlanta, that the only surviving heir had been traced to Wilkinson connty. This heir is said to be Wm. Potts, who left England in his youth and after living in Kentucky awhile, finally drifted to this county, where he lived nntil hi* death, which occurred about twenty years ago. Ha had a brother who waa drowned in the Ohio river. Thia Wm. Potto married here, and Mrs. Colson, of this connty, is an off spring of that marriage. To Ler will revert this enormous fortune, if secured. This Wm. Potto is the only man bearing that name who has ever lived In this county and he was known to hive had wealthy rela tives in England. Mr*. Colson and her family are poor but worthy people, and this freak of fortune is romuntionUy strung* We trout there may be do trouble in their iden tifjing themselves aatha heir*, and obtain ing this property.—Irwiuton Appeal. TOP. ENGINEER WHO NODDED. Home Words Ft. m Dr. narzood Aaaa Editors Augusts Chronicle: Last them waa a^uul accident al the Covington deooL Georgia rail mad. A locomotive puling a through freight ran into the cn- Sketch of liU I*lf«—Meeting of the liar— 111* Funeral. Col. L. N. Whittle died at hi* residence on Jefferson street at 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Lewis Neal Whittle waa born on the 151h day of May, 1818, in the city of Norfolk, Vo. lie waa the son of Fortescue Whittle, a gentleman of good family in Ireland, who immigrated to this country an t became quite a prominent merchant in Norfolk, hut was, like thousands ot otLers engagod in foreign commerce, very much reduced by the war of 1812. Ilia mother was Marv Ami Daviea, the daughter of the Rev. William Davies, a very distinguished minister of the Presbyterian chtireh, whp was once connected with Nassau Hall, better known as Princeton College. Hie father, a few yearn after the war, re moved with hia family to the country, and settled in Mechlcnburg connty, Vn., nn the banks of the river Meheering, where a brother. Dr. Conway Whittle, still resides. When abont aeventeen years old, Lewis N. Whittle left his father's house to seek liis fortune in Georgia, and was engaged for a time upon the Georgia railroad board. In 1836 he came to Macon as an assistant en- I linear under the late Daniel Griffin, of Co- Inmbns, on the Monroe railroad, and re' mained connected with that rood in differ ent capacities until it became bankrupt, and was reoiganized as the Macon and Western road. Whilst engaged in the eervico of thst road, between Macon and Forsyth, he and Mr. Griffin lived for some- time in the family of John Powers, near the line of llibb and Monroo counties, and af terwards, on the 11th of December 1842, he married Sarah M. tho beautiful and nccom- dished daughter of Mr. Powers, by whom ■e bad twelve children, only one of whom, i James Murray), snrvivea. Some time after Bui this Jeitce from Bibb bein' greet. Aud uo objecahnna to dlitance st all Taka hia grip and Urklta tber stele. “To the farmers' coavenshuahsaoeu And teksell the leadin' once ealde. An' gtu ao agur ha treed* on thar toes Bui rich sa ms he never spied. “But I don't beer, 1 can Ull yer, Far I han't got very ranch eenae, ’Sides er political ledge might sell yer. An tear's nhar I lose my confidence. “To er good old fsrmtr what's humble. And looks things eqonr In the eye 'Hich dolne as this Jsdga'a Jumble. • it etui worth much when the election's nigh. “But Bibb has another named Bakin, An' he's winter set the state tn aglow. Ue'U glee the sly Jedge etch a ehaklo, Ae will make bis ambtsh atop Its grow. “The folks understan er thing er two. An IPs no use to say that they don’t. They kno er good man thoo and thoo, ■ An' go back on One Bakin, they won't." "So! They won't!” NOTES FROM LUMPKIN. The Ohio F.ieDnlonlete-The New Kallrnad —Mad Dogs Again -llunaway Train, Etc, Lumpkin, Ga., February 17.- Stewart county people did not entbn*e worth a cent over the Ohio excursionist* anil the at tempt made to give them a reception and big dinner here was a failure. Too many of onr citizens met them during the war, and one of our old veterans tells na thst the first Ohio man that got off the train Richland was the identical yankee that captured him at the battle of the Wilder ness. It does not appear that any of the Ohio ans were much inclined to invest in Geor gia soil, and the majority ot them seemed willing to hire ont as day laborers. A rich planter of Webster connty is said to have entertained on* of them royally for three or four days, feeding him on cake and wine while showing him his 3,010 acres ot fine lands. The Ohioan did not purchase, but ou the fifth day is arid to have hired to a ncighiior of the rich planter for ten dollars a month. TUB A., P. AND L. RAILUOAD. The last spiks bu been driven in the Americas, Pn ston and Lnmpkin railroad, and passenger trains will commence a regu lar schedule this week. This road wu com menced in October, 1881; U forty miles long; is equipped with new steel rails, mogul engines and very handsome cars. The entire out of building and equipping the road ta only $5,000 a mile; the entire amount having been paid by the citizens of Sumter, W brier and Stewart counties. At a negro supper on Saturday night last A fight occurred between the town negroes and the negroes engaged on the railroad. Several heads wero badly braised though none were broken; one negro wu shot in the arm and another severely cut with a knife. MAD DOOS AOAIN. The mad dog excitement is at a high pitch bore. A negro woman wu badly bitten by a dog last night, which is thonght to have been suffering with rabies. The dog wu killed this morning. A calf in town bu developed a genuine case of hydrophobia, is attracting considerable attention. A rabid dog wu killed at Richland Sunday, and two or three others that acted strangely were killed her* to-day. Within the put eight months, at leut fifteen dogs have been killed in Htewirt connty tbit were supposed to have been rabid. As the legis lature seems to be too weak-kneed to peas a dog law, the people of Utle section pro pose to tale the matter into their own hands, and shoot every dog that.liowed his teeth or the white* of his eyes. A kt'NAWAT TRAIN. Last night u the train on the Americas, Preston, and Lumpkin, palled up at Rich land, thru freight can wen detached from the tnim JWng on an upgrade and “°t being scotched, the thru can started on a wild urn back towards Americas. The train wu ran hack after them bnt did not find them util they had sons thru miles bejpnd Prntoo, the freight can having mad* a rapid run of seven or eight mike without the aid of an angina, S A $10,000 open Loom 1* to bo bail: st Tana. that a monument be erected to the memory of Col. L. X. Whittle. ••All cIium aud every »Re, ,# the wiiter my*, “I etn confident, would chrerfully give their iiilto toward » monument to be erected to hU memory, from tuu liUld schoolgirl end the little ■ctioolboy to the oldeet citixen of the county," The hiiKge*tion ia given m a nutter of iutereet to the people of Macou aud Bibb county. 8aveil by m Volley. Late Wednesday night one of the colored military comi.auIt** .iiurched to the house of one of it* member*. neerNew street aud Walnut, and eeluted hitu with Muctj volleya iu ,'touor of hU rveeut iuur- rt F, . Will Taj lor. whose home i* At the corner of New end WAluut. waa Awakened by the firing. While wondering wliAt waa the matter he obaerved that hia room waa filled with amoko. Haatily springing out of bed, he fouud that a coal had ilropt>cd from the grate to the floor. He hurriedly atamped the fire out, aud tbeu diacovered that the “ *or m well an the carpet had been burned. Mr. Taylor feela thankful to the tueu who fired the volley that awoke him—particularly ao, aa the fire in hia room waa between him and the door. Counterfeit Silver Dollar*. l)y the Sr**) a. m. train from Savannah Tuesday, a young man and a young woman arrived In Macon aud weut to the Commercial Hotel aud registered their names aa •'Thomas Mmith and sister, Bavau- " They occupied separate rooms, and escited no unuaual comment About U o'clock vcMterday afternoon Police-officers Alien Jours and McCloaky appeared at the Conn cial and arrested Smith upon the charge of passing counterfeit silver dollars. It waa alleged that he had defrauded Mr. O. IsAgerquist, Messrs. Cl bliss k Brother, and several other*. He waa takon to the city prisou and lodged In a cell. To a reporter of the Tki.eoiu**»i who visited him. Smith denied all knowledge of the counterfeit money. Late 1c the afternoon Smith's "sister" announced hor intention of going io ih« city je«Uon to visit him. She left the hotel and haa not since been NIP AND TUCK. IBB USABLY OLD MKASL2S. I've just received your note, John, Ilcquiriug leave to call Ami Fjtcu'l the evening with me; Hut you must not come stall. Your iMit has got the mcseles. John, Without a single doubt Aud she’* covered over with plmnlaa. F»uiu toe to dainty snout; ^ And the agravating, bumptious things Are still a-breaklng out. Cotton raising is to be tried in Amador connty, Califotnis. Los Anoei.is, Cal., police arrested 118 re tail liquor dealers one day recently. Ta* town of Sapnltepee, Mexico, has three thousand inhabitants and no sohools. In one month a Sonoma connty (Cal.) banter killed twenty-five wildcats, forty coons, eight foxes, four eagles and six wild hog*. —Mr. Whittier says that yellow ia bis fa vorite color, because be can always distin- (iiish it, while the red apples and green eaves on a tree all look alike to him, as far color ia concerned. A divorce suit recently tried at Frank- fort-on-the-Muin waa settled in an ingeni ous manner. Incompatibility of tempeT waa the declared gronud on which dissolu tion waa asked. The tribunal ordered a separation of the couple for two years, nt the end ot which time they are to come to gether and begin their married life anew; if, after a few months, the experiment is a failure, ths conrt will renew consideration of the matter. A COOL SCOUNDREL. liUmarriago be went to bis fsther’s house in Virginia, where he studied law, anil returning to Macon, was admitted to the bar in 1844. Soon afterwards be formed a copartnership with hia brother-in-law, Abner P. Powers, which continued nntil Mr. Powers won elevated to the bench, being elected the flrat judge ot the Macon circuit He afterward* prac ticed alone, until a year or two before the war be associated hia brother, Powhatan 11. Whittle, with him. That copartnership was dissolved by the election of bis brother ns judgo of the Connty Conrt, and in 1866 he formed a copartnership with George W. Gnstin, Esq., which continued littlo more than ten years. Abner P. Whittle, his son, wss admitted into the firm in 1873 and continued with his father until hia death in 1883. Col. Whittle, though not olahomtely edu cated in hia profession as otherwise, and with none of the talents of an orator, was nn eminently successful practitioner of the law, ntul enjoyed a larger professional in come than the great majority of hit brethren. He was not permanently connected with the movements of political parties in ths connty or in the State, thst he was elected to the Legislature in 1863 and again in 1876. At tho time of his death he wss president of the board of trustees of the State Luna tic Aaylnm, of the Academy for the Blind, of the Board of l’ablio Education and Or- thanage, and of thc(Mscon Free School; a rustee of the University of the South, st Suwanee, Tenn.; a trustee of the Alexander Free School; Senior Warden ot Christ Chnrcb, in this eity, and ono of the most zeslone and perhaps the most prominent laymen of the Episcopal church in Georgia. He wss a director in the Maoon and West ern railroad and in the Macon snd Bruns wick railroad, and attorney for both ot tbnae corporations, and was, before his health fsiled, more or leaa intimately connected with overy enterprise which had for its ob ject the advancement of the interest* of Macon and of it* people. In reference to all snch enterprise, we conld have truthful ly said, "Quorum magna pars fni.” He leaves one son, Jo*. Murray; two grand-daughters—the children of his daughter who died on the 14th inst., and four brothers, Janie* Murray, •diatic"'!! < ‘h- ed lawyer of Danville, Va.; Conway Davies, a physician of Mecklenlmrg County, Va.; Frank M. of Richmond, Va., the Episcopal Bishop of that State and I’owbatan B. a lawyer of Valdosta, Ga., and formerly Judge ot the Connty Court of Bibb. At 3:31) o'clock yesterday afternoon tho members of the bar held a meeting in the judge's room in the Court-house, to take suitable action regarding Colonel Whittle' death. The report following wu made by the secretary: Wednesday, February 17,1888.—A meet ing of the Macon bar having been called for the purpose of taking action relative to the death of Colonel L. N. Whittle, the ber as sembled at the Judge's Chambers, Bibb Superior Conrt, this afternoon at 330 o’clock. On motion, Jndge Simmons wu invited to the chair and Mr. Clifford L. Andcram -equated to act u secretary. On motion of Judge Manet the following resolution* were unanimously adopted: 1st That the bar attend the funeral of Col. Whittle in a holy. 2d. That a committee of five be appointed by the chair, at hia leisure, to draft a me morial and suitable resolution relating tn the desth of CoL Whittle, to be submitted in open court at the next term of the llibb Superior Court It wu agreed that the bar should assent Ide in a body st tbs late residence of Col. Whittle, at the proper time, to escort tho fnneral procession from there to the church and thence to tho cemetery. There being no farther bnsiness, the meeting wu ad- joorued. Curroan L. Anukiison, Secretary, At a meeting of the board of public nln cation, the following action wu taken: By order ot the board of pnblie education and orphanage, the exercises in the city school* and in the suburban schools of Vineville, East Macon and Uilesvilte will be suspended for this day in respect to the memory of L. N. Whittle, tho late president of the board. The members of the board are requested to eaumble at the Lanier House at 3 o'clock p. m. to attend the funeral of Mr. Whittle Jas. T. Nisbet, Secretary. Colonel Whittle's funeral will take place at Christ Cbnrcb st 3 o'clock this afternoon. The services will be conducted by Bishop Beckwith, ltev. J. R. Winchester, and Rev. C. C. Williams. The remains will be Interred In Bou Hill cemetery. lie llutctiersa Young Man amt Dines With Ills Victim's Mother. Coi.iTMuns, February 18.—George Davis brutally murdered Arch Reams in Russell county, Ala., yesterday. Both wero white and lived ou the Fitzgerald plantation Davis, who was an overseer, sent Reams to look for cows, then followed him and shot him twice in the back of the bead and the shoulder anil stabbed bim in tbe throat anil broke hia skull with tbe butt of his gnn. After committing this brutal murder lie told persons on the place nliont it and then left for parts unknown, without giving any reason for committing the deed. Davis is married and it ia said bad been too intimate with lteama's sister. After Davis hud murdered McClellan, better known as lteums, be told tho negroes on tbe place and Mr. Fitzgerald what he had done. Davia then w, nt on to tbe house of Mrs. McClellan, the mother of his victim, where he boarded, aud atediunor. He told hor that Arch was sick and would not conic tt e house aud if she would fix his dinner, he would carry it to him. Mrs. McClellan prepared the dinner in a bucket, and Davis carried it down to the field whero the negroes were nt work. Afterward he returned to the bouae of Mrs. McClellan, who was still in ignorance of the awful fate of her son, and told her that be had killed one of the negroes nml would have to leave. He asked her to loan hint Arch's valise. She not only consented, hut helped him to pock his clothes, snd he left. It is said by some that Davis had stolen corn and oats from Mr. Fitzgerald, snd endeavored to indues Reams to dispose of it. Reams refused to do m requested and Davis, fearing that he would give him away, decided that dead men tell no tale*. An other report say* that Davis and Reams had a difficulty some time last year on acoonnt of Davis's attention to lteama’s sister, in consequence of which Davie snd his wife separated. It it thought that both or one ot these circumstances prompted him to murder tho yonng man. t'ulaskl 11 os, Drjr. ITawkinsvili.z, February 18.—The pro hibition election came off to-day, All tho principal bnsiness honses wero closed all day. The poles opened st 6 o'clock this morning and closed at C o'clock this even ing. Hawkinsville goes dry by one hun dred and ninety majority. No official re turns are yet in from tbe connty, but it con be safely put down that the connty goes dry by at least three hundred an I flftv ma- . ority. Col. P. W. Edge and Ur. W. U. >IiU, of Macon are here. Funeral of Col. L. N. Whittle. Ths fnnsrs) of Col. I- X. Whittle occurred . • hrtet church at s o'clock j—lsrOsr eirnmoon. The odtetatlBE clcffiy were Bishop J - - - with and Her. Mown. J. R. Winch* ■Rta W. I. Pmtm end C. C. WtUlsms. she servRoo wen Impnsolso. Tho church wss filled with a lew coasrcffsUoa. The ratty Chrtotcharth. the board ot eabile orabsssco. tho trustees of tho school, |h* trustoco of ths os; tho tratose of tho IsssUc so)L hen of tho Macon bar. o. cooled souls io*etbrr. Tho papUa of tho Aloundcr fra school ead the ■ of IRC Appleton Church .Ibmio ' (onl effortngo ( Atesuodor fra of lbs as)turn fur the blind, »}»■, the cuacturtnu of the i hocus to Romm Blit ton (uuMtuty, wturs they t (uU-buMutu were Boa. O. . «. n. WLUInma. Cot- EA. N Is hot, Judes Sues* T. Klsbot. cot JoAaO. Dstts. Hue. Vn*U rower* Hu*. A. o. Bucua uud Dr. T. O. FuwsIL Monument to Col. Whlttla. fit* a wott-tuswu Illlra of Become ^Lonuv MOST PERFECT MADE Prepared with »pedal rcgnrd to beslth. No Ammonia. Lima or Alum. PRICE BAKI/IC POWDER CO., CHICAGO. OT. LC'J'Xh MOST PERFECT MADE aiiriuo. Prico Baiting Powder Co. ffr.tuui doclftwsdthnrfrisunly LETTERS OK GEN. IL E. LEE. Interesting Documents Hhnwlog Ilia Pur pose to Free 8lures. Tho originals of the following readable tapers are the proper y of 0. F. Johnston, £sq., of this city, who has also the envel op* in which they were mailed. Onthenp- rnr right-hand corner was written "R. E. see, General,” which was a frank that would have carried the letter through the mailo, hut Gen. Lee, aa if seeming to re member that it was ou pnrateandnot pub lic business, and with that conscientious ness which distinguished hi* life, attached beneath the frank two five-cent Confedrate rastage stamps, which wars duly cancelled jy the postmaster. “Camp Frzdksicxhsubo, January 3, 1883 —My Dear Sir; Mr. Charles Scott tula- ’replied me from Lynchburg yesterday thst te had there ail of the men btlcnging to the estate of G. W. I’. Custis. 1 have re quested bim to send them to you. Will yo* be kind enough to send ms their name* and eudeavnr to uid them in getting em pluyiuent fur their support? It is my in tentiun to liberate them a* soon a« the pa pers can be prepared. Their wages are for their use. Will yon inform them and give them such advice as may tend to their ben eat? 1 have written also to Mr. James K. Caskie to rid me in this matter, end will b« obliged to yon for any suggestions you can give me. I have sent to Ur. Caskie an emancipation deed to have properly re corded un which are the names of all these men as well aa the women hired in Rich mond. I believe my son. Colonel Custis Lee. spoke to yon on this subject, snd he may have given you their names and the bonds of those to whom they were hired. "Very respectfully, your obedieot servant, '•R. E. Lex, “Executor O. W. P. Custis.' ‘Mr. V. D. Eaeho." “Spotsylvania Couktt, Va.—Know all men by these presents, that I, Robert E. Leo, executor of O. W. P. Custis, do here by constitute and appoint Mr. E. D. Eaeho my true and lawful attorney to collect for toe and in my behalf tbe ainnnnt* due for the hire of the negroes of the estate, and to give receipts for the same; anil I hereby ratify and confirm his legal acta in tb* premise* as full as if done by myself. Given under my band and seal this twenty-seventh day of January, in the year eighteen hun dred and siity-three. "R- E. Lie, [Ssall "Executor ot G. W. P. Custis. 1 Mr. E. D. Eaciio, Richmond. Vs.—Dear Sif—I send yon a power of attorney to col lect the hire of negroes belonging to the es tate of U. W. P. Cu.tis, which, as stated by my son, yon bar* been kind enough to ex press your willingness to undertake. Throe of the men—Harris n, Reuben and Parka- have not jet been returned to Richmond sa far *a I know. Will you endeavor tor lain where they ate, and g*t them to Rich mond and procure them their free-papers' Pleas* uUce amount collected to my credit in tb* Bank of Virginia. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, IL E. Lex.” Two carload* of colored Uborers recently arrived at a rand near Los Angsts*. Celt fb.nU: CLINCMAN’S TOBACCO I REMEDIES ill ■w-.- v m$ir mm i -'VCtV e" mtm THE CL1KGMAN TOBACCO 01HTHEHT ■ ‘ifJrlm 1HE CLINGMAN TCBACCOtPLASTER (!.•• tea siftSn __Sisi'ia ff tK-TT.-m. iSoSm Afshm 1 16 rla. .jsOrwriUtothn CUNGMAN TOBACCO CURE CD. DURHAM, N. C.s U. 8. A rtr m BT!S1H8S~52.H ae*ip*p«rs mil Mnaulse of the cost of Ktrwtlatnc- Tbs a It srtUsr who wuts to speed out dollar, find* ta It Um tafurmsttoa ha nquisM. while for him who wilt Invest oris hasdred thousand dollar* ta ad Tertians, e scheme Is Indicated which will meet his every i*.|air«uaL or can bmmede to do so by •lhtht changes rally arrived nt by correspond«*on. Onn hundred nnd fifty-ten* sdlUuns hare been Is sued. fimk post-Mtd, to say uddrae for 103. Ao- ply to OXO. P. ROWELL h 6o., NEWSPAPER AD- VEKTI8IX3 BUREAU. 10 Sprites BL (Prtnttag Hons* fig.). New York. UsVMA.lv BEST Cheapest^‘^5^' Business Education & COMMERCIAL COLLEGE of >•>»«« HIGHEST HONOR « World's Gobi f.trn l-.l aim liwlMh MTnrkvn , t.yof. r*a 0,1 hr WILBUR *. bMITH* U1LNSTOK.KY. f*t>|.Id-lot-Wit I’ortulilo Mills $80 and upward*, to make bwt quality of T»bl* MmL Mill* filtHiffi Mil I>«■!.«! it It W.fitrr WI.pfK 8t»plo*t and Clrenp* e»t Id Ut market. Kend for finely ill—tret* ctnruUni nnd mc what tb j Hoath U doing. A. A I (•'LOACH A I lltO., Mhnnftturen, Atlanta. -Jinr. A im. OH IK. To tatrod—• them, ww wfl Oiv* AWAY LUO ftrlf-OfwraUa* Wuktag U*cdiD—. if rou want on*, —nd nn your mrm, P. O. nnd express office at rare. THIS RATluXAL Oft. BP»y g—i X. K. octSTtaa REWARD! •IJMDM. WD4 lUiup for rti m-feooL AOEXCT. 1W Month Cl Ill. N.H. Wo want all kind* of t and fault—. pnrarolu. Dm. P-0.VkR.ry. fi-fe*