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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MARCH 9, iooo.-TWELVE PAGES. .* .VTERV1EW with BALDWIN’S A> ' dual murderer. "TTvmTt TM» A ROUT TOWN. "How about that note to E. J. Hnm- ( \1 (jlll 11 ADUU1 IU 11 it i phnC3i your brother -did you write it?' v * 1 “108. “Did ypu sign your name?" “I don t think I did." “Have you a family?" “Yes; I have a wifo and three children " “Do you think that you will be convicted when you are tried?" ‘‘J,don't know anything about it. I can't soo that it will make much difference." At this point Humuhriep. declared that he had nothing more to gav. Daring theinterviow a crowd of prisoners Humphries, Baldwin county’s ft® 0 ' 1 “round Humphries. They listened "‘‘iirdtrer, speutlast nightin Macon, utont'y to what be said, none of them the bins ot the Bibb county jail. uttering a word. Iho flicker of tho dim L< . tr 11 , m ,i. r ; P 4. , u iirrj'st I liRht upon the fact s of the group, together fmiu the h°» r .® ' . } would be tlie iron ljars » deep darkness that wwch ha hru d be 0 . ^--^.-dtbe occasLal dank oft 11 . firnu.lit to Macon for SnrckeeplDB- “'c.« Between .be City ami the C N ,.„ itoad—The Social Thall- aus-furini Masquerade. Frank lonbl lynched. -urn. *•““ "^.iited were of snch an B . ce " ' Je ' ow > made a acene euf. «> 10 bats t ^ tl evidences of dmentto impress the most callous with the ragious character, anutue eviueiices or horrible consequences of enme. uuilt w. re cStotathat „ As J . mler Ulrd ?°“K and the reporter bade THE COVINGTON AND MACON. lie 1 outra! his guilt Baldwin the outn *«'■' f.Ua rS «VtioroHbe‘courts 1 ! 11 Tho o"f’-1 h,m “tanding alone in the darkness. to* were not mistaken. u . about 7 o’clock, in order 0 v irt the mob, should one attempt to The Proposed Contract Between the Rond C°, Hnniphries, Sheriff C. W. Ennis had and the City. ronerted in Milledgoville that ho would At the conference held by Col. L. F. Liv- P‘ w. Humphries from jail early Sunday ingston, Col. B. W. Frobel, Mayor S. B. 11 and carry him to Macon for safe- Price and City Attorney N. E. Harris, Fri- ... Instead, however, he went to I day morning, Messrs. Livingston and Fro- hii liUbont 8 o’clock, took Humphries boi submitted a contract betw een the Cov- and carried him five miles into the ( ington and Macon rnilrond and the city, for L mf to tile house of Harrison Barnes, j Mayor Price’s approval. After a careful fi-herc Humphries was kept all night under | examination, Mayor Prico refused to np- 11 Iron" guard. I prove the contract, upon the ground that it According to rumors in this city yester- did not properly protect the city's interest. , '1 ..[terncon, a muh of twenty men went On Saturday Mayor Price had a new con- t, the iail at I'd o'clock Saturday night for tract prepared. It w ill be snkmitted to the the unloose of lynching Humphries. An city council at the meeting to-morrow night ■ 1 1 - • . . hut, Humphries not | and, if it be approved, it will then bo sub lei. Livi: aforesaid to the limits of tire city reserve, to be located on the lunds of the said city, so as to connect with the present track, without any additional charge by the mayor and council for snch land, bnt in no event shall the obligation to pay said annuity he released, diminished or affected. In case tho Covington and Macon llail- rond Company ahull fail or rifuae to locate its general shops on the land given for that purpose by this contract the same shall re vert to and become the property of the city Macon. “Seventh, The said Covington and Ma con llailro&d Company shall erect and maintain a good, neat and durable fence on both sides of the truck from tho river to the line of the Enst Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia ltaiiroad, both ou the main track and branches. Said company shall also fill up all holes and excavations on the right of way inBide tho city made tor the purpose of obtaining dirt OVEKTHK STATE. be puri>„..- cff - ct0( j eltutfotind, it was supposed that Sheriff I niitted to Cil. Livingston for his approval Inis had taken him to Maeon. and signature. Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Ennia carried Th following is a copy of the contract: taambries back to Milledgeville, and at “State of Geoegia, Bibb County.—This .7 odoik took the train on the Georgia 1 contract between the mayor and council, of tiilrofld ami arrived in Macon at 6:15 with-1 the city of Macon, of the first part, and the at incident. Deputy Sheriff O’Pry, of I Covington and Macon Bailroad Company of iibb county, who bad been to Milledge-1 the second part, witnesseth: file to place a lunatic in the nsylnm, ac- “That the mayor and council of Macon, —panted Sheriff Ennis and Humphries to party of the first part, by these presents Ilia city * *■'***'■* 4Vin TvrvtitiiDU in. I ennvavu nrwl nranla In Ilia ani.l Pawinnian iTrv'aml several citizens of Milledgeville I way through the city resc’rve near the park mmediately after their arrival in tho city, and through a portion of said park and rom tin nr the following information was down the track known as the Georgia rail- ^tdiied: road track, and the right to cross the river When Humphries arrived at home the I at the old Augusta railroad bridge. That oruiHg after the murders, it was alleged part of the said right of way from what is ...at Ike clothes ho woro tho day previous I known ns Anderson’s brickyard, in the city toil'd not lie found. It is certain thnt they reserve, to and across the Ocmnlgee river, 1 1 not produced before the coroner’s ja- is granted, subject to a contract between Having heard that they were in the 1 the Georgia Bailroad and Banking Compa- Butts Superior Court convenes on Mon day. Lumpkin has sold her lost drop of I A Sait anil Singular Death. Measles are prevailing again in Newton A special from Vienna to the Americas County. Becorder says: Nows has just roacheil this A telephone line between BarncBville and place that Mr. 11. A. Wood, Sr., was killed Zebulon is being talked of. about six miles southwest of this place, Mnj. O. A. Bacon has been attending I Bb°at foar hundred yards from hisi house. court at Eastman this week. I H? , iennft about 1 o clock for his home. . ,, . .j I Ilia mule got loose from the buggy in Herald. Prof. F. N. Means, of Butler, has a fine | 8ome WftV reached home late tins nv,.-1 . TU° Mavoi school—over 105 names enrolled. _ The survey of the Marietta and Austell I ofhirn anUfoundhimwith htofeet across I W. railroad will begin in a few days. the axle of the buggy. It seems an though I prosperity ou tho part of tho Tauusara, a. It 1. a Newton county will soon undergo tho the mule ran away and threw him against a Ne«?” tl010 “ d llbl)r ordeal pt a prohibition campaign. j tree. He did not breathe but two or three 1 A horse with hair kickedlike a negron’s timcs “ £ter ht) wasjouni is one of the curiosities of Wrigktaville. | A M>n tinder the Bed. of Humphries’s wifo, Sheriff I * went out to see her Saturday rnorn- Mra. Virgil Fergerson, wife of W. F. Fer- gerson, died of congestion of tho brain yes terday afternoon at quarter to five. She leaves a husband and a large circle of friends to mpurn her loss. It is not quite three months since Mr. Fergerson brought her to his place a bride. She was a Miss llaitord, of Cochran. A Failure In llaurklimvllle. IIawkinsyiu.e, March 5.—T. T. Single tary, Sr., a grocery merchant, was closed by the sheriff yesterday morning by an at tachment made by Campbell, Van Syckel A Co., Macon, who also nought the entire stock for $750. A Creditor's Hill. Talbotton, March 5.—Charles W. Mos ley, United States deputy marshal, was in Talbotton on yesterday to serve a creditor’s bill on Milo G. Parker, of Prattsburg. This bill was filed in tho Federal Court at the instance of Edwin Bates Co„ of New York, through their attorneys, J. W. Hall, of Talbotton, and Hill A Harris, of Macon. A hearing will be had before Judge Speer at Savannah, on the 10th inst Albany Now*: Maj. Bacon haa certainly lia«l a lar«e experience in public affairs, aud stand* be fore the people of Georgia with a record which chidlongoa admiration. Hie method* in oolitic* aru cle.nu and wuen you *hako hand* with him there follow* the general impression that you are ■baking dean hands. Madisonian: Tho contemptible flings such as •.Major A. O. liaeon retired from polities after every State convention and enters again in time for tho next campaign" would have some semblance of truth if he had over stated that he had retired from politics or authorized anyoue to make the statement for him. An opposition to any man’* candidacy based on personal spito la not commendable, and fortuuatoly ha* hut little weight. Major ltaron’s Democracy is true, his public act* widiout a stain, nnd hi* private life, so far a* we know, and we have known him from h.'* boyhood, sam puer, tant rrprncht. It i* this that cement* hi* friend* to him no closely and makes him the choice of his party for governor. SOME KISDLY~1mention Of Our Endeavors to Olve the Dew People a Good Newspaper. The Macon Teleoilu^h Is a daisy to clip from. It is always full of the latest news.—Paulding Kra. There Is no bettor or newsier paper printed in the State than the Macon Tki.kohai*h.— Marietta Jour- Tho Macon Tki.kgbah ha* so far gone on the march of progrc»n as to bo caraDelled to put Ih ex tra machinery in order to supply the demand* of its old and new reader*. The Telkurah is ably managed, ably edited, and we are glad that it la ably sustained and patronized.— 1 Talbotton Era. The Macon Telkobaph grows better and spicier, it seems to us. with every issue. Now and then it J ets on tho wrong line,but there is one thing about t: you can always depend upon it that It is from hon est conviction and not by weight of polioy nor hope | of plunder that causes the error.—Oreensboro „ -OOa. — 1 some way and reached home late this eve , , n.; . ? . :i . . . f wrmi, ituuuuni'eii tue iki ium owiub w ku lutmm) niUg. i-ome Of his family went 111 search | in circulation it ha* put in anew Cottrell pres*. ia. * - * 4 — a glad to note this evideuco of thrift and hakes CIIILD-BIliTII kast. Tho time ha* come at last when the terrible agony in cident to th la very crit ical period in a woman'* life can no avo'ded. A distin guished physician, who passed tlio greatest portion of hi* life (forty years) in this branch of practice left a child bearing mother this pricelc** legacy and life-sav ing appliance, "The Moth er*' Vrlen«h” and to-day there aro thousands of the best women of our land who having used this remedy be fore confinement, rise up aud call hi* name blessed. We receive letten from every section of tho country thanking u* for placing this preparation in the reach of ■uttering woman. One lady from North Carolina writes us that she would like to thank the proprietor* on her kuees for bringing it to her notice, as in a previous con finement she had two doctor* atul they were compelled to UHO chloroform, inatru* incuts, etc. And she suffer ed almost death; but thf* time she used Mothem* Friend, aud her labor wna abort, quick and almost like magic. Now, why should a e claim by living witnesses and any one interested can call or have their husbaud* do so, at our office, and see tho original letters, which we caunot publish. Uvlivstv Disease* of cither * ex. however Induced, promptly, thoroughly and permanently cured. Send 10 cent* In *tamp* Covington has n pet coca that will be When Miss Adeline Lofton, spinster, of ‘V'l?” 1 ,”. 111 "", 1 '?. 1 " 1 WertJ 1 . CUi*n..^ matched against any animal of its size for a Valdosta, went to her home about U o'clock U ’ J c41 A*"*^ 1011 . tc - M *-° ttrc,t ' Bn ™o, *• »• Brunswick Breeze: It Is better to know how to fight* j Tuesday uigkt, after a neighborly visit, she At a recent sale day, valuable lands with-1 felt on the mantel for a box of mutches | cook than how to play the piano, in two miles of Monticello sold for four I which she had left at a certain spot, bnt au.uc* dallare an aero. | thejr were gone. After feeling about in the | blaUetrickninV and"powi Thla remedy is one about which we cannot pnb Hah certificates, but it la a wonderful liniment to bo used after the first two or three months. Send for treatise on tho boalth and happiness of woman, mailed free, which gives all particulars. There is enough of Orton’s circus material Walton New*; The be*t preventive of hydropho- t _ , „ia is itrlcknlne and powder and lead applied to some time she found them on the oth-1 the dog before the dog ia cauterized. scattered about Dalton to start o pretty e J mantel. She thought strange Mambalinile Time*: The opinion prevailed in ‘ * * 1 Of it at first, but concluded that she must I town yesterday morning that a Macon dude hail good show with. Three and a half a bushel of corn tillery in Newton county. .. .. . . have been mistaken about where she put h*e“ upset during the night and bumted hia per il! gallons Of whisky from them She lit Romo RnlintorHnnd limit n fume Jug. Upon investigation, however, it was as- I s ±Lr ldtttBaBby ' 8 ^ Is5rfss f «arjgK ,B,,t sat down on the hearth to pnll off A fine liorso belonging to Dr. H. A. her shoes, preparatory to retiring, Brown, of Newton County, killed himself and Miss Lofton stopped into an adjoining I the other day by jumping over a wire fence, room. Tho littio girl tnmod round and pawing i north .Id. of thl. office would uatunlly iiippoM It to bo a thlrd-rmto crematory, „ the .moke .teck of Ur, ' " protrudlnit throuah one i window, would In- A panper in the Newton county poor spied some one under the bed and gave a dlcatc. owing to a defective flue we take thl. house annoys tho citizens of Covington by I scream, Miss Lofton rnshed bnck in time I nnw'*°^ warJl our mortA ^ frame, during coming to town at will and getting drunk, to see a largo negro man roll from under the ___ 11 ny with the mayor and council of the city , i-1 of Macon, assignor hereinafter referred to. lie told her tliut ho wanted the I Tho said party of the first part also conveys lotla'S Humphries wore the day of the I and grants to the said Covington and Macon curlers. Shu denied knowing anything Bailroad Company lots of land in said re- ibont them. j serve below Seventh street, known as blocks "I know that yon linTo the clothes," 28 and 34, for the purpose of locating tho sheriff Knnis said, “and if yon do not in-1 general shops of said company thereon, untiv produce th-tii, I will take you to I “Also permission to locate a across the lillcdgeville and put yon in jail." I rf serve from the track near the brickyard Tbi< threat frightened Mrs. Humphries, I aforesaid to tho lots aforesaid, in such di ul, without further protest, sho got the rection ns may be proper to ninke a connoc- ilothes nnd gave them to Sheriff Ennis, I tion between tho main track of the said hey were muddy and bloody. Tho under Covington and Macon Bailroad to tho’said nrments were particularly bloody. The shops. it was missing, Sheriff Ennis instituted I “Tho mayor and council of tho city of arch for it and discovered it in a charred Macon also agree further with the Coving- audition, an attempt evidently having I ton and Macon Bailroad Company to assign eti made to burn it. to said Covington nnd Macon Bailroad A close examination of tho bodies of 1 Company the contract entered into between Jiss Bains nnd Miss Humphries revealed I the mayor nnd council of tho hut snmc of the wmls from tho mtirdorer’s I city of Mncon nnd the Georgia adhered to tho tlesh. They were com-1 Bailroad and Banking Company in r,for- d with others found in llnmphrics’B I ence to the right of way from the brickyard ami were discovered to bear a close I aforesaid to the junction with the Central semblance to them. They were evidently Bailroad, beyond the river, omc-made. They fitted Humphries’s gun. “A map nnd survey of the lands nnd The note sent to E. J. Humphries, father right of way aforesaid ia annexed to this >f Miss Ella Humphries, tho morning after contract and made part thereof, he murders, bore no signature. I “In consideration of the premises, said Turner Benford, tho negro at whose I Covington nnd Maeon Bailroad Company, muse it is supposed Humphries spent the I party of the second part, agrees and con ight after the murders, was arrested Hatur- tracts with the mayor and council ot the i and taken to Milledgeville and lodged city of Macon aa follows, viz; First, to jail. locate aud keep permanently their general Further investigations at the scene of the I shops in the city of Macon, npon the lands urilers suggested that Miss ltaius was I bereinbeforo mentioned, or nt some other iille.1 fint, aud that afterwards a desperate I point within the limita of said ettv, anil Itniggle took placo between Humphries agrees and covenant! never to remove said ml Miss Humphries. It is believed that tho I shops from the limits of said city without iflrderer spent the greater part of the night tho consent of the mayor and council of tne >t the scene of his horrible doulflo crime. eity of Maeon. Second, the aaid Covington Thirty minutes after Humphries was and Macon Bailroad Company agrees to pay Jged in jail last night tho reporter inter- annnally to the treasurer of the mayor und "wefi him. lie was found in the upper council of tho city of Macon, for the use of "tailor in the rear part of the jail. The I said city, the aum of ono thousand dollars 'lace Was dismally dark, there being no I (11,0011), on the first day of January of each W empt that of a small lamp carried by I year, commencing with tho date ot this '»ilerBirdsong. contract; said sum to he paid for the privi- Humphries is a tall man, with rather a lege of the right of way aforesaid through “1 l.cs. About his nose and month he the reserve of the city and tho right to cross evidences of being a heavy drinker, said river. Third, said Covington and Ma- - Vos dressed in an ordinary snit of con Bailroad Company further agrees to w*. and wore a black felt hat which pay to the mayor and council of the city of ktely covered his forehead. He did not Macon the amount claimed by tne mayor I*or to be disturbed on acconnt of his and conncil to bo dno by the Georgia Kail- ‘AiUon, but in conversation ho frowned road and Banking Company on account of ‘I nervously moved his hands abont. the annuity contracted to be paid by the "ibis is Mr. Humphries?" inquired the said lost named company to the said eity on I’nder. June Oth, 1878; said amount to be paid in "“s, sir; Humphries la my name.” the tint mortgage bonds ot aaid Covington ''' ill you make a statement concerning and Macon Bailroad Company, "murder of Mina Bains and Miss Hum- their pur equivalent in cash, Fries?" the option of the mayor and counciL "f have nothing more to say than I laid "‘Fourth, the aaid Covington and Macon .in t '" ,0 “ e r’» jnry." I Bailroad Company agree* to put brick or I Jon know why yon wen arrested?” atone culverts on their right of way, or pro- I Tea, sir; the people think that 1 mur- vide a sufficient water way wherever the pred the t»- 0 ladits/' same may be needed. I’ " here did yon spend the night of the “No standing or stagnant water shall he ■mi'’ left on the right ot way of the said com- ’* “wdly know. I was nncnnscions. I pony within the eity limits. If at anv time popose I spent most of it right by tho the mayor and conncil of the city of Macon . r e * - ” should desin to put sewers tor drainage "Bid you not spend it at the boose of a purposes nnder the right of way of said 'Em named Benford?" company, the said mayor and conncil shall I didn't. 1 don’t know anything have the right to do so without farther was Golden, B. E. Allen was elected mayor pro tern. screams roused tho neigl they got there the black villain had fled. There are a Few Druggist* ■ .......... more to make a large profit on a worthies* lim. Her I article thau to wait lor tlie prosperity that ultimata ora, hut when I ly result* from boneHt dealing. These ero the men who, when aeked for a llenioli'a Capclne. Plaster. of Butler, Thursday, whereupon a box of I_ n f| nn l m ,l i-ui dollam h> mnnov in wUl rocommend aome cheap and traahjr aub.t tnto fine oienrs were contiacated at his einecBe “ ll8 “ J ' OIlon “ au * Ju . collars,. m money in I or mutation, naylng It I* "piat a* good." Somotliuea nne cigars wore connscaiea nt ms expense. Her trunk, nnd upon examination she found they will do up and tall the miserable Imitation ’ ■’ ’’’ ' ’ e.—'VaMi 1 ' Times, with J. F. Saivtell ns editor, hns ap peared. It is a neat 8-pnge paper, nicely gotten np. A mail line from Flovilla via. Indian Spring. Hammond's store and Bell's store DODGE SUPERIOR COURT. they without remark, allowing the cuatomer' to euppoeo he has lleneon’a. If the valuelee* plaster la re lumed. Cheap John will any he made a mUtako:—If not, tio has done a good stroke of huelncre. The putdic are cautioned against John and all hi* Ilk, m Butts county, is under consideration “l| session Dodge Superior Court adjourned ... I I I putdic are cautioned against soun and all nt* us. Work of the Grand Jury-The Ellierldge I |, uyo f re«|iectable draggieta only. The genuine Trial, Etc, I jjcmwn'a planter has the “Three Seal*" trademark Eastman, March 7.— After a two weeks’ I and the word • ■Capclne" cut In the centre. T. G. WOOL FOLK, General Commlmion merchant " and wholesale and retail dealer n FAMILY GROCERIES, FARM BUPPLIK8 And the BEST IJQC0R8 GOODS BOLD AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRIGE8 120 Third St, 9 - - Macon, Ga. Opposite Baer's corner. febSdawlm Kemkhy faKr.—A victim of jrouthfnlimpn » uiin* Trsmstur* Decay, Nervous Dvbiiity, I snhnotL Ac., having tried In vsln every know* ■nmrtly.liaa (|i*cnvnr*dssiuipin s«lf-oiire, which h« vlll M*»<l KUKK, to lilsfallnw-saff«r*n. Addree% 1.1L ltKKVLh, 43 Uhathem Sb, New York Uity. dnc2fltus thu-Bun awly Washington. last night. During the term a largo num- At Amoskeag, Dodge county, Wednesday, bor of the 250 coses were disposed of. a littio son Of Mr, O'Kelly fell from a fence I Jndgo Kibbee presided every day and die- nnd pulling an nnuinged guto after him, patched the business with his usual energy broke his kg. I and ability. Property Bold before the court house [ The most important case was that of the door in Dnblin Tuesday remarkably low. I State vs. Peyton T. Etheridge for tlio hom- Lots of land containing 21I2J acres sold for kide of Dr. J. W. Tucker, near Channcey, it 1 —I l it .* I fin Volimnrv 1 HM'I Tim vnw.linl nf I five and six dollurs. Tho Messrs. Behofleld have rented Mr. Moss’a hotel at Tallulah Falls. It is re- lorted that the, Jainesvillc nnd In Tronp County a few days ago a six. r' lt benford." I I . charge. Fifth, in case the Covington and ‘1 you try to conceal the clothes yon Macon Bailroad Company, or its assigns, I of , lc , m Rbt of tho munlers?" I .,!.! lon 1 Know anything about them." Tour clothes bloody?" 1,.!.“°“ 1 know. I suppose they were. L ‘on claim that you were struck on —. „ . „ rv ibv four masked men- where is the I the said river (hall revert to the mayor and r““ " I council of the city of Macon, and tho right I * w ii not wounded. The blow atnnned of the Covington and Macon Railroad Coni' should fail or refuse to pay the annuity herein provided for, then and in that event, should the mayor and conncil of the city of Macon so desire, the lands aforesaid as well on were struck on the | aa the right of and the right to croea mi’.' 1 1 if “as not wounded. The blow etnnned of the Covington and Macon Railroad Co r.- Here’s the place.’ pany to use the same shall be forfeited Itaimokrita, took off his hat, and, bending the city of Maoon. pointed to the right side of his head. “Upon these col = ' * '• I takes said proper" lorter Covington and J _ I nr «♦** uwwi ■’Ata yon in the lub.tdrinking?" Aall" 1 ’ *i lr ' ^ or “bout nine years I * i’tot of liquor every day." ■ tv ,' t0 you druuk the night of the conditions the said company takes said property and rights. In case the open, i loca ■'"“tinning tho interview, the reporter I Covington‘and Miicon Railroad Coin ■ “ | or its assigns, should fail or refuse to locate its general abope inside the city of Macon, have I or ever remove the general shops of sail! I company from the limits of the city of Ma< mnr-1 con without the consent of the mayor and conncil of the city of Macon, then the ■ 1 h«d taken four or five drinks. I will lauds upon which the shop* are authorized |h .1 ; ‘UUI or UTC UnUSBa * *■**» I wuun wwivu *— 1 — , E ‘hat if I murdered the two ladies, to be located shall revert to and become the Tit ' mi '"5«i°n* when I did it. * “ J ■' L : low “Id were the ladies ?" [ Hi-i Haius was forty, and Miss Horn- L-.(Kp.u. »* ■“•p was thirty-three.’^' ■. '"‘ “M are you?" } “m thirty." 'on ." Ua kuow *by yon were brought to property of the city of Macon, and the said Covington nnd Mucon Railroad Company, or assigns, shall forfeit the right of way through the said reserve and the right to croea the river and all other righto nnder the contract. . . „ , .. “Sixth, In case the .Georgia Rati road -"A Banking Company, nnder the con "• *k; Capt. Funis waa afraid that I trect herein referred to, should ever decide rould ’ ‘ to resume the exclusive use of the track and right of way from the bnckyard to the -™ n iuau die I river, then the Covington and Macon Beil- * JT’ if 1 to-night. I shall die road Company shall be enuUed to another ill; co ?* c ‘«“ce. I did not nmrder right of way on the southern side and along bxTS’.'sriaf.'S; I .i. * c wouia km me. ,;“ m .‘ kn . owth “. Id °. A '“hat'll." Another Swell Jleception ! on February 28th, 1883. The verdict of I acquittal, wired you last night, wus tho ad journment of the court, Tho charge of I will also run botalu 'at I JaJ 8« Eibbee was able and clear. ' Tho grand jury, presided over by Major C. R. Armstrong, was an industrious body. The presentment disclosed a thorough in- ev v I Sit. Airy. ago year-old ctiild, daughter of Dan Kendrick, I vestigation, and showed the county of colored, fell into a well abont ttfty-ttvo feet pi 0( ] g e in a flourishing condition financially, deep and was instantly killed. surplus in nor treasury of nearly A Monroo county former says that he has three thousand dollars. The conviots in quit swearing, drinking whiskey and chew- the two camps in the county were reported ing tobacco, and that to make the reforms- in good physical camlition, well fed and tion complete, he will qnit guano. well clad. Tho county board of education Walter Stewart, a prominent yonng man were re-elected. .... of Taylor county, has been appointed post- Among tho gontlemen mentioned for master at Bntler, Mr. D. A. Jones assistant, senatonal honors from tbu. district is Hon. Tho bond has been made and returned. I D *«>? iL ltuberta, of Esalmau. J. W. RICK & CO. : IN THEIR ELEGANT ESTABLISHMENT, I From 7 a. m. until 7 p. m. DAILY, t'NTTI. THF, CIOSR OF TIIF, REASON The Receptions will he more attractive as . _ Vll . , _ , . . m . the Season advances. The public is covdiallu (V ,. I Judge Kibbee goes to Dooly, when he will M at Americas,'and who was captured at Fort hold conrt thl * W6tk, 0 tUVltCfl. WRAPPED IN FLAMES. Money for Farmers. Valley, turns out to be the man who blew open the safe of Dr. Burroughs in Bruns wick. I A lady of Augusta Narrowly Escapes llelnz It was a Mr. Rankin who waa in the boat Hururd tom-nth. with Mina Fannie Wilder, of Cumberland . Mre. Millie A. Hutchins, wifo of Mr. Pat . Island, when she was accidentally shot in nc * "• Hutchins, engineer of the Angnstn A farmer who knows what farmers need, comes to the res one. The great question is the arm, one day hut week. It was an ugly ““A Summerville railroad, living at 1146 Ubor and fertilizers. THU MEUCHIt CULTIVATOIt settles the labor qua*- wound. *55 8tr . ee *» w, “ Jf e nnfortnnato victim I tj on> xt bars off and dirts up the cotton at ono furrow to the row, doing four times m Mr. L. J. Glenn, Jr., a small dealer in ot V „ ,^ Mter » ftnd thc circumstonces aro WO rlras the old way. Try it, and if not satisfied, your money wUl bo refunded, family groceries in Madison, was closed out ... rrto L: n ,, v n u v PHoe, $10,00, by Brannon A Bro.. hi. Atlanta creditor^ h « at ruinous 0 lktir'h ^ ‘ h# ““ | ever boug, at ruinoas Bgurcfc. I tiro and lay upon it rocking the cradle. I and Kairut in any quantity. Three-fourths of the manriage license, while lying there it U snppoHcd that a timos, ono of the boat selected stocks of Isaacd by the ordinary of Brooks county spar k caU(! ht the quilt. Tho first intiraa- STANDAIII) FRItTILIZHltS at from 10 to 20 per cent, leas than yon havs read a pullet on the floor near the ever bought them. Tho Soluble Pacific is espc ' ” ’ Beddea the above i especially recommended. Acid Phosphate. 1OV0A. 14. SMALL keeps on hand at all daring the present year have been iaaned tfon of her danger that Mrs. Hutchins had eolored^ candidates. Cupid and the | waH the blazing up ot her garments and the GROCERIES AND PROVISIONL in this market, tneh as Bacon and Balk meats, Flour, Lard, Sugar, Coffee, Tobacco, Balt darkey laugh at hard times. sensation of pain in her burning limb*. i m tiff, market, snch as Bacon and Bulk meats, Flour, Lard, Sugar, Coffee, Tobacco. Salt AMni. Giles, while visiting Mrs. Wm. hhe retained her self-possession suffi-1 Potatoes, Mackerel, White Fish, Cheeae, etc., for cash or ou time. A large lotofTexiutBeei Warren, in Jasper County, a few days ago, ciently to direct her little five-year-old son Oata; also a largo lot of OeorgU Cane Syrup. I mean busiueu. Don't fail to send you* went too near the fire. Her clothes were to bnng the bucket of water and pour upon orders, or call in person on* soon in flames and her hands were badly her. tie brought it immediately, hut was burned in trying to save herself. not strong enough to ponr the bucketful of On Wednesday, 21 miles from Oconee, water upon her, and so dashed it on a cap on tho Central railroad, a negro fell from a tortured woman, no wagon that was heavily loaded with guano, longerable to bear the pain, sprang to her Two wheels ran over his head, crushing his the flames hiking up about her waiat, skull, and cauring his death in a f BW and ru.hed ont upon the l 1 *™ screaming hours with terror, where another backet of water ww _ ... _was on a shelf. She directed her little boy George Washington, wrho kUled h» wife k, dash it on her, and he did so aa well » in Brooks county abont three yew. since he coaId , )Qt th * e danie . wer , unchecked and was sentenced to ten yean in the peni- 1 - • - - - - - decl8demAw4m A. B. SMALL, 141 and 143-Third street, Macon, Ga. Groceries and Supplies. We arc offering Grocercs and Supplies to farmers for loss tenttarr/dieifabont two'yean^sitKefbuThis I ! ^ n ° y easier tcriUB than Ally IIOUSC ill MilCOn. friends here have just been notified of his I ^ Davis, living next door', I WllCrO good papers RTO made, WO guarantee W6 will SU VG llui anthoritlea ot the Americus, Freaton aftor < duffiing^them'npon’ the bnrniog wo-1 MOWV. Wo also Sell goods for Cash at Very low WARE & OLIVER, 130 Third Street, Maeon, tin. * **“ "* isreeiiviw, a I DUCI XIIMUIU^ IUC1U U|MJU tUU DUIUIU|J W U- 1 . and Lumpkin railroad have at last ordered I man, ran in tho house and seized a blanket, | ItUCS. a new whistle for their passenger train, the I which he wrapped about her, thus smother- old one having worn out They are now i D g the flames. considering the purchase of an additional llis wife followed and rendered all assist- first-class coach. ance possible to Mrs. Hutchins. Her clothes Can it be possible that this is a chestnut? were burned entirely off, from her waist Tbu Georgetown Echo says ; There is a down, and her limbs were terribly burned, young lady in town who keeps a book of — Augusta Chronicle, all the thiags she onght to bny bnt cannot feb7-annAwfim afford to wear. We presume this book Is her onght-to-bny-ogruphy. The Palmer Comedy and Specialty Com pany, after two nights of bail weather,came near stranding in Lumpkin tost week. Their baggage a as seized, bat some of the sympathetic young men of the place raised the money and paid them out. The Southeastern Tariff Association, which includes all the insurance companies doing business in the South, and fixes rates for them, has scut an agent to Athens to rate the town according to the tariff. For several yean Athens has had lower rates than other cities in the State. On Monday, says the Thomaaville Enter prise, Mr. J. M. Cox, of Mitchell county, exhibited bis newly patented cotton thrash ing and fire extinguishing attachment in oar city, and it is the universal testimony of those who saw the experiment, that ft was a success. In the cotton to be tested. Mr. Cox pat • whole 1 ox of matches and also act tbs seed cotton on Are before it waa started through the gin. Not a spark caul, out with the lint. tostkers iTrtde. Hawxixsvtus, O*., March 7th, 188C.— THE NEXT tloVKllNQB. Divers Opinion* Clipped si Random From I th. Htate Eichangc*. Albany Vellum: Bacon la popular In wiragnaa Georgia, and don’t you forget it. GUANO! up of Georgia U about over. It is now conceded on all sides that the lion. Augustus O. Doron. one of Georgia’s ahleet statesmen. «ill be nominated hr acclamation when the convention meet*. This will he a gnat day for Georgia, and the people will then have occasion to rejoice. l'erry Journal: If the ruce for Oorernor of Geor gia has. or ia to he, narrowed down to a choice be tween Hon. A. O. IUcon am) Judge T. J. Simmon*, we are emphatically in U'u.r ot Judge himmon*. We are satisfied that, betr cen the*c two. the rote I of Houston county would be for Simmon* by an overwhelming majority. Gwinnett Herald: Maj. Bacon'* long sendee as I speaker of the Hoaee of Representative*, where be gained the sobriquet of the * mud del speaker," hoe given him a large acquaintance all over the State. I and uosetring devotion to the interest* of the Dem ocratic party, in the troahloo* time* after the war. and hia cheerful acqalMcence In the eotee of the party, which brought disappointment in a worthy ambition when be had reason to expect a different reenlt, hoe given him a strung following in upper Georgia, where he had only a weak support hereto fore. We admire M*J. Bacon’s frsakneee. He lei aa aspirant for the ofltoe of Oorernor and dcee not J hesitate to answer on all proper u Plow Brand Guano, Reliance Guano, XX Acid PilOLphatQ (imported). The old and popnlaijbrands. Foijtale by WALTON & WHANN CO., Mncon, On. janlQ»n.toAHinAw2m FACTORY, WILMINGTON. DEL. SEEDS, SwS- |W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO.' ANNUAL FOR l$i Will lx* «*-ut fBKC to all Who write llnn.la i 1 of I2s i*j,« 4 .. Iasi ,-al Mvl l-IU^ti about lfo« «-nrdcn. ^ Bsii. Thurowtrhbrvti HforU and^k -»•.rw M [»:i: \V»i »:t.n> h tn n M.KrAnil3 2 PHILA