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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 18SG.—TWELYE PAGES.
ISTKHE8TINO PREPARATIONS FOK
CHANGING THE GAUGE.
T i,e s.M-nc» A roil n*l tlie 81*op« or tho Cen-
tr „| Uailr..».l-S»»*e Fl,ure. aud
About the City', Pro**-
pcrity—Annual Taxon.
Interesting preparation* are being made
the Central railroad shops lor changing
the gauge in May. ... ....
A large force o£ bauds 18 at work Blterl °g
the trucks for freight uud passenger cars,
i.n.1 auother large force is at work altering
the gauge of the engines. A number of cars
‘ Sow iu readiness for tho new gauge,
ami one engine, recently overhauled and
remind, is also in readiness.
lu order to cause is little delay as pos
sible it is intended to have the greater por
tion of tho cars end engines altered before
the change of gauge is made. Several miles
of side tracks have been constiucted at the
junction, and, as fast as the cars are altered,
tht'V are sent out to those tracks, to remain
unt’il they shall be needed. The engines
that are altered are retained iu the round
^'As'the alterations in tho cars and engines
ore made, a number of improvements are
also made. Per instance, the passenger
cars are being provided with Miller pist
ons and couplers, larger wheels in some
instances, and the lettering “Central Rail
road’ is being discarded und “Central of
Georgia" substituted. In tho case of the
engines, many of them are being provided
with new steel tires, and are receiving other
needed repairs. Altogether, when the
change of gauge is completed, the rolling
stock of the road will be in the very best
condition. . . ,
besides the improvements in rolling
stock already owned by the road, several
handsome passenger ours have been built,
nnd about thirty new engines will be pur-
C *Areporter of tho Tei.eiiupii, who visited
the* shops yesterday, witnessed the process
of changing the gauge of the engines.
it will be remembered that the gauge
adopted by the Central railroad is not ex-
nctiv what is called the standard, but is
lour feet nine inches. The standard is four
fact eight und a half inches. Tho present
gauge, being live feet, tne wheels on the
ears and engines must be brought three
inches nearer together. To accomplish
this, Master Mechanic Gugel aud his as
sistant* have devised plans by which the
work is done quickly and cheaply.
In the first place, the ponderous driving
wheels, securely fastened to their axles, of
course, are taken from the engines nnd
jacked up so as not to touch the track. Iron
clamps are then fastened upon the tires sml
a metal pipe is slipped around them. This
pipe is about two Inches in dtnmeter, and
is tilled will* small holes on the side next to
the tires. Everything being in readiness,
gas obtained from the Macon Gas Works is
turned into the pipe and lighted. At the
sene time n current of air from a force
pump is sent into the pipe, causing the gas
to burn with great heal. The inteuwe heat
causes the tires to expand, and, by the aid
of the iron damps, they are then moved
hack three-quarters of on inch on each
wheel. Thus tiio gauge is narrowed one
inch and a half. This operation requires
shout nine minute's time to euch tire.
To gain the other inch and a half con
traction, a space thiee-quorters of on inch
wide is shaved oif of the axle just inside of
each wheel. This space is made just deep
omagh to allow the wheel to slip over il
w hen very great pressure is applied. The
sale sml wheels are then placed betweeu
the two sides of un Ashcraft Manufactur
ing Company’s hydraulic press, and press
ure is applied to the hubs. The pressure
required to drive the wheels up varies from
one hundred and twenty to two hundred
tons. The time required for the operation
is not less thou one minute to each wheel.
Thus the gauge is narrowed one inch and t,
half mere, making the three inches re
quired.
Twe work of replacing tho wheels undor
the engine is comparatively simple. Some
changes in the gearing are necessary, but
they ure easily made,
Ala future day a more exiended dcSCl.,.
ti»n will be given of the work now iu pro
gress at the shops.
ANNUAL TAXES, 1880.
Analysis of tho Report of tho City Tax
Assessors.
Tho report of Messrs. H. R, Brown, A.
T. Collins and J. C. Wheeler, city tax asses
sors, submitted to the city council at the
meeting on Tuesday night lust, contains
many interesting bits of information.
As already stuted, the net iucreuse in the
value of real estate during 1885 was 8145,-
«_d the net increase in personal prop
erty $762/268, making a total net increase
ct 1817,47U. The increase In the value of
real estate was principally due to the new
buildings aud improvements. The increase
in the value of personal property was nearly
“11 due to the greater number and the more
liberal returns ot stocks uml bonds und
other securities and solvent debts, and also
to tbc iucresse o( bank stock and Uiat of
other companies.
Alphabetically arranged, the number of
taxpayers under each letter is as follows:
A. fill; B. 233; C. 222; D 127; B. 55; F.
hi; O. 74; II. 253; I. 11: J, 11)8; K. 40; L.
M 117; N. 33; 0.24; P. 03; Q 2; 11.
*.*'■; 8. 201; T. 104; U. 3; V. 11; W. 228;
"lli^ 3 ’ ^ ota * nun * bcr of taxpayers,
*h“ total amount of street tax for 1886 is
*-.n.i3. The aggregate vulue of ilie whole
l’ r < perty in the c ,ty is 89,066,072. The
total amount of taxes is 8120.028.84. In
the total amount of taxes was 8115,-
: *'l; so that the increase tor 1880 is
*11.436.14.
Bu lding was not very active in Macon
last year. It in true that a large number of
buildings were erected, but they were chiefly
ot a cheap character. Many of them were
workingmen’s cottages and small tenement
nousea. A noticeable tiling about the popu
lation of Macon ia that few people are with
out homes of their own. Alucon is not a
city of boarders, but it is a city where peo-
£..!** I* ru ' e * "pend their leisure hoars be-
heath their own vine and fig tree.
, " *“* regard to the outlook for building
'"'prove,“. nl , for 1886, it is very promising.
All tin, architects are busy with plans tor
new house; and, besides s Urge number of
mall residences to be erected, son* very
ubdsome und cosily homes will be built
" tore the end of the year. It is probable,
i ."'l‘ “«e erection of the government
building will l>e commenced Besides the
‘ev icc factory anil the Central railroad
in, c °mpress, several other manufacture
k enterprises are trailer consideration. It
i' . Y“ positively stuted. also, that the
i cbnessee, Virginia and Georgia rail-
will erect new Jepots.
or. /[c* l 8 nol fi>ng mushroom about the
; “f Macon. It is aomswhat slow,
eiiv 1 ’ * substantial. A more solid
tl... L* n . fcTet y respect, cannot be found in
commas Al ** bo “'gb* point to it as the
.iu L S ,. at f of 0 *orgU, and the people
m its borders are hopeful and vigilant.
for 10 * bew west front
** R*fi*b- and premiums
& . 8 xA° ,,5 - 0w "• "Cor'd tot de-
kbs. All nation all ties may compete.
Items of Interest to Railway People Gath-
ereil From Various Source*.
° nt »•» ma ke cut wages aud cut wages
make cutting remarks. **
Reasonable rates and reasonable officials
roa!l KU “ rttUt ° 8 1110 pro8 l ,eril y of any rail-
There is nothing better than a man's eye
• mouth for a cinder catcher-uud no
patent applied for.
The sleepers now run through from Chat-
tanoogu to Warm Springs, N. C„ by the
East iennesste, Virginia and Georgia rail-
i Ti C ?i e£ a 8 en ‘ s complain that passengers
hold them responsible for too many things
which properly belong to the board of di
rectors.
General Manager Henry Fink is men-
turned favorably for the presidency of the
reorganized East Tennessee. Virginia und
Georgia system.
It is too often tlio case that first-class
tickets fall into the hands of second-class
people and second-class tickets with first-
class people. It is a case of ups and downB.
At Galveston, Tex., the rumor is current
that a sale has been mode of tho Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe railway to the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe road, subject to
the approval of tho stockholders.
The annual report of the Peoria, Decatur
and Evansville railroad shows gross earn
ings for 1885 of $736,8U4 against $753,767 in
1884. The operating expenses were $481),-
3‘2'J against $227,846 in 1884. Net earnings
compared with 1884 show an increase of
$15,731.
President Jordan and Chief Engineer
Green, of the Georgia Midluud aud Golf
railroad, have returned to Columbus from
New York. The former states positively
be built. He has a proposi
tion from a syndicate to submit to the dj
rectors, and if they approve it work wil
be begun in a very short time.
Two lines running nearly parallel have
been surveyed between Savannah and Dub
lin. The directors of the road will meet
at an early day, and, after examining the
surveys, will decide which of the two lines
is to be located. As soon as this has been
done and the chief engineer has located the
line the company will be ready to begin the
construction of the road. President Lin-
derman is still iu England, but is expected
to return about April 1st. The directors
say that everything hit* been niranged for
the building of the road, and that it will be
in operation before 1887.
The appropriation of $1,000,000 for tho
purpose of putting the Georgia division of
the East Tennessee, Virginia aud Georgia
railroad in good shape is to be used at once.
Receiver Fink is determined to make the
division a mo-lei institution. New rails are
uow being put down along the entire line,
and wooden bridges will bo repluced with
iron bridges. New rolling stock is to be
put on the road of the best and most im
proved character that can be purchased.
Resides this a new freight warehouse in to
be built in Atlanta, and a passenger depot
aud warehouse is to be put np in Macon.
Many of the railroads have already com
menced to sidetrack nil the freight cars that
can be spared, for the put pose of changing
the gauge of the wheels under them. Thu
cars will be jacked up, the trucks taken out
und the wheels und axles curried into the
machine shop, w here tho work will be done,
the work of changing tho gauge of the
wheels is done by putting tho axles into a
turning lathe, where the shoulders are turned
back about two Inches. The whoels are
then put on again and pressed back to the
newly made idioulder with a wheel peers.
As fast as the change is mode, the cars will
be run off on sideings. Freight cars caught
away from home when the gauge of the
track is changed sill bt> made to suit the
track gauge by the shops of tho road upon
which they uro caught, and the expense of
changing the guugo of the wheels will be
charged up and paid for by the company
owning the cars. In the matter of chang
ing the wheel gauge of Pulltnun and Mann
sleepers, a calculation will be made, where
tvery sleeper will be caught on the day of
the change, and new tracks and wheels of a
suitable gauge will bo there to meet the
sleepers.
“Kinory College'* Engine.
President I. 8. Hopkina, of Emory College, stiver-
tinea elsewhere thin morning sn engine built st tbe
Emory College School of Technology. It la s six-
borae power engine sml warranted to give 'id per
‘•out. more power than ordinary engines so rated.
A splendid opportunity Is offered to get a Arst-clas*
engine and contribute to s worthy Institution, both
st tbe same time.
OVER THE STATE.
Wiut’s the matter. Hi? Ton are not looking
well." **0, nothing, only s slight cold." In two
days after the above conversation "hi" was very
sick with pneuraouia. Had he at flrat taken a dose
of Hraith's Hilo beans (1 bean) he would have been
surely cured without harm. A cold ia congestion,
bile beaus will rellevs a cold quicker than any
other remedy, aa U relieves tbs congested part at
once. For sale by all medicine dealers. Price 95*.
per bottle.
Which was It ?
Wall 8treet News.
A granger-looking clmp cuts'red oue of tbe
Links at Elmira Ibe other day and damped
a lot of accmitieadown before tbe teller aud
asked him to estimate tbeir worth.
"About $2,666," was tbe reply, after tho
papers bail been inspected.
“What! No more than that?"
“Not a cent. I aee they uro all in the
name of a woman."
“Yes. She’s the 860,660 widder I’re
spent two years chasing after. Tell you,
stranger, thelo must hare been a h—11 of a
depreciation in bonds, or a thundering ad
vance in the price of winders.”
Catarrh sail llnmrhuu Cured.
A rleriiyman, after year, of .017.110. from that
lo.ttift.mie ilUeue, Catarrh, sail vainly tryius every
known remedy, at laat found a preeeriidlnn which
completely cured aud saved him from death, any
aufferiu. from this dreadful diaeuae aendios a eaU-
addressed .lamped envelop to l)r. i. Flynn k Co.,
117 Keel 15th Nlreeh New York, will receive the re
ceipt free of char...
—1’rince Bismarck is a wise man, and
uses the press as few statemen hare the
sense to use iL Half a million copies of
1’rince Bismarck’s anti.Polish speech hare
been ordered out of tbe funds of the "rep
tile press” from tbe North German printing
establishment,-by the direct order of Dr.
Klee, who belongs to the no-culled “literary
bureau.” It appears that these copies of
tho chancellor’s discourse are intended to
he circulated gratis throughout the length
and breadth of the country at the expense
of a state-supported fund The speech is
not only reproduced in fnll from the
reporter's notes, but is also divided into
paragraphs, each of which is provided with
a striking heading.
—Mme. Patti was not altogether a (access
ia Paris this winter. Her dresses, in which
pronounced and glaring colors jarred upon
each other, offended tbe Parisian eye. Tbs
pries of seats wss enormous, and, thoi
reduced st laat to nearly one-half,
audiences were not large, and instead of
the old-time brilliancy of costume half the
ladies were in street dresses, pat on for s
rainy day. All this made Patti exhibit
very marked signs of nervousness, s thing
unusual in hen
A I’esslyiaama man hat invented a me
chanics! cow-milker which can be operated
by pulling a string. He should presen* an
accident insurance policy to everyone who
burs the instrument, as the milker most
stand at short range while working tbs ma
chine.
Clay Connty's prohibition election occurs
April 8th.
Borne says "hello central” through 107
telephones.
There i< an active demand for land on
St. Simon's Island.
Dooly county is endeavoring to hold a
prohibition election,
Greenville is now well lighted in all its
streets by gasoline lamps
Munroo’s new hotel will be ready forbns-
iness about tho first of May.
Judge Simmons has contributed ten dol
lars to Tslbotton's military company.
The dog-poisoner is at work in Lawrence-
ville, and valuable curs are dying right and
left.
Nearly seven hundred acres will he
planted in watermelons iu Clay County this
season.
Tho people of Augusta are considering
the establishment in that city of a femalo
college.
While playing with a dog lost Saturday in
Bronwood, Mr. Eason Smith was bitten on
the month.
Mr. David Thompson, of Walton county,
has given each one of five sons a splendid
gold watch.
One hundred nnd twenty-five hands are
employed by the American marble works
at Marietta.
A new postofilce has been established in
Houston county. It is Oak Lawn, with E.
J. Fuller, postmaster.
Tho dwelling nnd kitchen of A. F. Tan
ner, living sovon miles from Sanderoville,
were burned Inst Sunday.
In Monroe the other night while Mr. Geo.
Malcolm was engrged in a friendly wrest
ling match, ho fell and broke his collarbone.
Mr. Muiligan, who is boring sn artesian
well at Stevens' Pottery, has reached a
depth of 200 feet, and is in hard limestone
rock.
Snow fell in Sandersville Wednesday.
The Mercury says it was a strange sight,
that of snow fulling upon budding peach
trees.
Mr. Bailey, of Marietta, has a hen that
Blands by a rat hole patiently and when the
rat rnnkes its appearance she seizes, kills it
and devours it.
Twenty feet in the rear of a store in
Greenville sold Tuesday for 8100. This
may be taken as evidence of Greenville's
rapid growth.
The announcement of Mr. G. Gunby
Jordan that the Georgia Midland will surely
be built, has thrown Greenville into a
nervous flutter.
Mrs. Caroline A. Smith, mother of Col.
C. H. Smith (Bill Arp), died at the resi
dence of her son-in-lnw, Cupt. H. D. Coth
ran, in ltome Tuesday.
A stray bullet, fired by some malicious
person, was fired into tho window of Mr.
1*. II. CivlmuH, at HawkinsviUe, the other
night, but did no harm.
Jordan Dennis, negro, of Pulaski county,
recently beat a horse to death. He was
tried ia the County Court aud goes to the
chain gang for six months.
Tho ink found in an excavntion at the
foot of Kenuesaw Mountain a few years
ago, is used by the ordinary of Cobb coun
ty in recording official papers.
The cornet was introduced into the Sun
day school at Lnwrenceville lost Sunday,
and the older members now want to accom
pany it with a fiddle and tambourine.
While bird hunting near Cnthbert Tues
day, Mr. H. B. Mathews was accidentally
shot in the faco by Mr. Sol HcHan. The
wounds though painful are not serious.
The town council of Monroe has passed
an ordinance against the shooting of sling
shots in that town, under a penalty of one
dollar and costa or thirty days in the guard
house.
The editor of the Houston Home Journal
desires to be pnt on record as being opposed
to the playing of baseball and marbles by
tbe business men of Perry daring the com
ing fly time.
Last Sunday st Houston Factory Charles
W. Houser and Miss Julia K. Bryan sat in
a buggy in front of E. L. Dennard’s resi
lience while Rev. C. W. Suctr made them
man and wife.
Bnnday morning the kitchen ot R. B.
Peters, in Fort Gaines, was consumed by
fire. The fire company turned ont without
tbeir engine, whieh, owing to carelessness,
was ont of order.
The other night Mr. 8. W. Kirvin’s sons
went out on a “bush hunt" for birds and
succeeded in bagging aixty-three. Early
tbe next morning they alio captured two
coons.—Americas Uecorder.
presents were numerous and quite hand
some.
A T.ivily Accidentally Shoots"IIt-riMf.
At Greensboro, Monday night, Mrs. L.
A. Griffin, while placing a pistol under her
pillow, was accidentally shot, by tho ham
mer of the pistol becoming entangled in
the clothing. The wound is only slight,
entering the hip and ranging downward.
Why Clinton wns Left.
The Covington nnd Macon railroad does
not run through Clinton. Tho nearest point
to Clinton is a mile and a half. The people
subscribed 820,000 ti get the road into
town, but it whs too expensive for the com
pany, and so the engineers passed it by.—
Covington Star.
The Muutezuma.
The steamer Montezuma loft Montezuma
Tuesday on her seventh trip. She had a
cargo ol guano for Drayton, Gum Creek
and Warwick. On each of tho trips she
carried eighty tons of guano besides mer
chandise. The river never gets so low that
she will not be able to run.
The liriite Retd the Reins,
Saturday while Mr. George B. Johnson,
of Tattnall connty, was on his way homo
from Sandersville with bis marriage license,
he was thrown from his horso and his right
arm broken. He was married the noxt day
to Miss ltuth F. Price, nnd when they
drove away from the minister's the bride
held the reins.
Illoody Fight at a Haw-MIU.
A bloody fight occurred last week at Bry
an’s saw-mill, on G. \V. Singleton's place,
about two mileH from Perry, between Joe
Timmons, white, and Zeko Bryan, a negro,
both mill hands. Timmons was severely
cut in the lung and other places, but his
wounds are not necessarily fatal. Zeke
Bryan has lied.—HawkinsviUe News.
Hrunswlck's New Hotel.
A 8f>0,IKJO hotel iM now on the tapis at
Brunswick. Mr. Milbank proposes to sub
scribe $30,(XX) anil the old hotel Bite op
posite the big artesian well at its assessed
valuation, if the citizens will subscribe the
remaining $30,000. It is proposed to have
the building, exclusive of furniture or tbe
loud on which it stands, cost 860,000.
Davenport Tries to Ksrape.
Davenport, the safe blower who wns re
contly arrested at Fort Valley and carried to
Americas, where he had previously com
mitted a burglary, has made an effort to
escape from the jail at that piece. The in
mates of the jail were aroused by a tapping,
On an investigation there was found the
tracks of the person who hail mode the
noise. In the room of Davenport it won dis
covered that ho had torn nu overcoat into
shreds and knotted n ropo to reach to the
ground, whether to draw up tools with
which to effect an escape, or only to com
municate with a friend, is not known. Tue
attempt was foiled and Davenport is not
free yet.
Awsy Rack Yonder.
A Cobb connty correspondent of tho Ma
rietta Journal writes:
Mr. Eli Folds, living near Acworth, is 107
years old. He wns born in 1770. He is still
in good health and active. He has alway
voted the Democratic ticket and been indus
trious.
An old colored man named Nick Lee hns
a piece of pound cake that he hns kept forty
six years in memory of the wedding of his
young miss. Ho has also a pieco of salvo
and a Mexican dollar which he bus had
thirty-five years. The writer has a clock
Unit has been running sixty-Bix years and i>
a good tiino-pieco yet. Mr. william Bui
leuger has a slate that has boon in nso sixty-
five yean nnd is still perfectly sound.
SOUTHEltN NEWS.
BUTTONS, NEW AND OLD.
Odd Design. Which Have Gone Out of Fash
ion—Popular Dutton. To-Day,
New York M.U .ml Kxpre...
“One trade which has seen a decided
change during the last twenty-five years is
the manufacture of buttons, said a manu
facturer to a reporter recently. “At that
lima tho buttons used on dresses and cloaks
were made chiefly of metal, sometimes in
imitation of silver and sometimes of gold.
They wore mado very large; in fact, larger
than the present silver dollar. Agate but
tons were made in nil colors, the purples
and reds predominating, and they were used
adorn calicoes and chintzes. After these
had had a good run smaller buttons wore
mado, and a button made of lava became
very popular. At the sume timo huge but
tons of pearl had a very large sale. Then
there were nickel buttons decorated with
designs of stars. Then came the queer
brass and glasB buttons. The brass buttons
were mado of open work, at the back of
which was placed a piece of red liniDg."
"When did small buttons become fash
ionable?"
“About ten years ago. Tbe most popu
lar were small pearl buttons. They were
then called sbirt buttons, and are now uboiI |
for that article of dress. They were set
very thickly together on a dress and for a
time were so small as to ho scarcely visible.
The metal nnd glass buttons also decreased
very materially in size, until the rage for
small buttous was as great os the mania for
large ones has been.”
Were not buttons representing fruit
onco popular?"
“Yes, after the erazo for smnll buttons.
Tbe fruit buttons were mnde in designs of
gooseberries, currants, raspberries, black
berries and grapes. Masses ot little red
currants used to fill in the front of a indy's
dress, and great black berries worn on silk
attire used to bulf tempt the unwary into
taking a bite of tho lusciotiH fruit Solid
jet balls, too, were used at this time aud
formed a trimming for dresses not unlike
tbe jets used nowadays. Those now worn
are selected with great oare. The
colors of them must harmonize with
those of tho dress, down to the finest shad
ings, and tho stylo must he fashioned ac
cording to the style of tho goods nsed nnd
the design of tho toilet followed. Street
suits made of rough goods are now adorned
with buttons of enormous size, mostly in
kronzo, and decorated with various designs.
Some of them sro medallion heads, some in
landscapes and some in whent-shcaves.
Others are mnde of shell, and are many-
colored nnd brilliant; others are imitations
of esmeoes, and oliters are a curions imita
tion of gilt and silver. The old-fashioned
button-molds have been revived in crotchet
buttons, and will bo used soon on black
cloth nnd silk suits. Tho gaudiest buttons
ased arc tbo big gilt ones which are usually
affected by gclioot-girls aud very young
ladies.”
A Watch Free
Wo will mail n .Nickel-Silver Weterbury Watch of
tbo Htylo represented In tbo cut below to anj one
who will send ui a club of ten xkw Rubacriboni to
Thk Wir.KLr TBijuiHAi u at one dollar each. This
will enable each aubacriber to aecuro the paper at
tbe loweat club rate, and at tbe aame time compen*
nate tbo club agent for bin trouble.
Ovvr new hubscbibebs—that is, thoee whoea
namea are not now and havo not been within alx
month* prevloua to the receipt of the order on our
books. WILL BE COUNTED. »
Theno watchea are not tojrn. but accurate and
serviceable time-keepers. They are simple, dura*
ble and neat. The cases always wear bright Tens
of thousands of them are carried by people of aU
classes throughout tbe United States.
“The Waterbury.”
-Captain Genital, of the Austrian army,
• •• Kht
On two days of this week two shipments
of cotton were made from McCaulin's ware
house, at Greenville—one hundred hales in
each shipment. This is given as the largest
shipment made from any small town at so
late a date.
Cspt. Boland T. Boss, ordinary, of Jones
t of 1
County, says that the amonnt
'off* ‘
his bust
ness and of the sheriff’s in recording mort
gages and in the foreclosure of mortgages
due, is almost unprecedented in the history
of the country.
Augusta emphatically denies that “the
Chinese population in thut city runs into
the hundreds," or that they are “running
the white traders from the town.” The
Chronicle says there are not more than
thirty Chinamen there.
The Chatham Gun Club, ot Bevannuh, at
tbeir meeting Tuesday night, decided to or
ganize a joint stock company for the pur
pose of fencing in grounds for their shoot
ing contests. A committee was appointed
to carry out the details.
It is reported that Mr. James Neill, of
Savannah, who recently married Mina Annie
Helen Blanche, proposes to start tbe com
ing season with the Neill-Blancke Combina
tion, producing “Chief Bedmoml,” "The
Vigilantes,” “The Danites," and kindred
plays.
A farmer living three miles from Law-
rencevilte began recently to plow np some
land on a place he hod a short while before
taken possession. While thus engaged he
plowed np the dead body of a babe appa
rently two or three days old. The matter
will be investigated.
Matters of Interest Gathered From Laat
Night's Exchange.*
Ninety-nine maniacs on one train will be
transferred from Nashville to Knoxville
next week.
A disease called pink-eye is spreadiDi
among the horses of Greenville, Ala.,
vicinity, and is of quite a fatal type.
An injunction has been served on tbe
contractor of the Green Covo, Fla., Water
Company to prevent his sinking an arte.iatt
well.
Selma has contracted for thirty electric
lights for two years, dating from April 25th.
is cost of the lights will be 83,600 per
year.
AtElkborn, Henry connty, Tenn., Mr.
Smiley's 3-year-old daughter was hilled by
tbe mistake of a druggist, who sold mor
phine for quinine.
Uicharil Dcnnet, janitor of Odd, Fellows
Hall, ia Mobile, fell down a flight of stain
.Sunday night and was found dead at the
foot ot the stairs next morning.
Tbe brutal murderer of Mr. Frank E.
Cock, at Scott's Station, Ala., last Saturday
night, has been captured. He is a, negro
named Henry Smith, and the blood, of his
victim was found npon his clothes.
Captain Dixon Beed informs the Pensa-
cp!n Advance-Gazette that quite a number
of the little codfishes, recently turned
loose in the Gulf, have been found dead
along tbe Golf beach on Santa ltosa
Island.
At the sale of the lands of the George
Franklin estate, at Tampa, on Monday ot
last week, a piece of wild land containing
twenty-two acres, located on Lake Theno-
tossa, eight miles northwest of l’lsnt City,
sold for 82,176, nearly $166 per aero.
Hennessey, alias Howard, alias Davis,
alios Brown, alias Van Dorn, o; Kt Louis,
who swindled O. F. Neel, of Nashville, out
of $6,066 by the gold brick method, has
been sentenced by Judge Allen to five years'
imprisonment. Hennessey will appeal to
the Supreme Court, but will not ha likely
to get a new trial.
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT
was tried by a court-martial for n sligl
offense nnd convicted. A sentence was
imposed upon him. He heard the sentence
with composure, bowed respectfully to the I run
court, drew a revolver, and, placing it to | BEST
bis head, fired two shots and fell dead. ‘« u
—Countess Ircuo Toaffc, the wife of the
Austrian Premier, is suffering from sirions
mental disaffection. She believes herself
to be poor, and at abfuiquet lately bold, told
her neighbor at tbe table in n most earnest
manner that she would have to sell her
toilet to givo a dowry to her eldest daughter.
—Mrs. Davis, wile ot the late Tom Davis,
who was shot nnd killed by Holland, the
Texan, called npon Dintrict Attorney M »r-
tine, of New York, yesterday nnd made a
demand tor the 8506 found upon the person
of her dead husband. This is the money
that, it is claimed, belongs to Holland. Mr.
Marline declined to pay tbe money until
after a consultation with Holland's counsel.
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end one of the above described watches to any ad
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m w»>ll *a thoee who are not
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watches by mail, jiacked in a stout pasteboard box,
and our renponsibility for them will cod when they
are deposited iu the poat-ofllce. They can be regia-
tered for ten cent* aud turtles who wish this done
should inclose this amount, or wo will tend them
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—Tho ceming ilrsmo by 8yilnoy Oruilny ,
smnVilson BsrreH will tali astory of Athe- A PRIZE.
man life in the fifth century before Christ 11 - — * -
—tho time of Pericles. Aspasia, Alcini- -‘■A
mb's, the great dramatists and several of
the chief philosophers of Athens will be
represented therein,
—The New York Town Topics, diseuss
!ng the circumstances anil ownership of the
World, declares thst it b*« rea-on to w
Here that at this date the paper is actually
the property of Oeorge W. Childs, who
holds a note for 8256,066, the World being
aecnrity for its payment.
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v'tch. to any a<Mrnw. lllu*trai«N amt tuts
bcviTj thing tor Ladlca’. ttenty, Chiltirena*
J* nil Infant.' wr.ir nnd BOOH 'keeping
at price* 1<»rer man Umj*« of ..ny
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goods which will help al), of either sex, to
moro money right away than anything elae In
this world. Fortunes await tbo worker* absolutely
sure. Terras malted freo. Taux k Co., Augusta.
WANTED MTV4RU* AH DaUQ CLKttK £j g.
a young mm two ysAKstxperisnt*. Oo< d
references given. Address J. O. 11UNTER. her
166, Litchfield. HI. fsMlwQt*
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ZVAl A la * roan t n ©very county toaali
our goods. Ralary $”5 per Month and Ex-
Canvassing outfit and pa**'rularg
freo. KTAWDABD BlLVKBWABE Co., HostOU. MSSS.
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menhnod. etc. I wilt Mind you a valuable ivustips *poa
Money for Farmers.
A farmer who know, what farmer, need, cornea to the rescue. The great question U
labor and fertilizers. THE MKltCEK CULTIVATOH settles the labor quea-
tion. It ban off aoa dirt* up the cotton at one farrow to the row, doing four tinea aa
X? ch SSHLf* to* oId Tr J i4 » U Rot MoUafied, your money will be refunded.
Price, $10.00.
STANDARD FERTILIZERS at from 10 to 20 per cent, leaa than yon bin
ever bought them. The Boluble Pacific ia eapecially recommended. Acid Phoaphata
and Kaiuit in any quantity. Beaidea the above A. D. SMALL keepa on hand at all
times, one of the beat selected atocka of
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONL
Pro*ra»lv. Towns.
A preacher passing Bronwood a few day,
•m said that three places on this road had
changed namea within the laat three yearn,
viz.. Brown Station, Word Station and
Hell. It la now Bronwood, Shellman and
Hbeob—Dawson Journal.
Trials of Provincial Jonrnalum.
By an overnight we tailed to have auf-
ficient ink to work off our entire edition
laat week, and when we got about two-
thirds printed found that the ink was ont.
We bad to improvise a substitute, and
part of tbo edition was very defectiy
printed. We will try not to hive such a
mistake again.—Gwinnett Herald.
Matrimonial.
Gann,. March 11. -Married, at the raoi-
donos of thabrides father, city sexton, J.
C. Higgins, lost night at 9 o'clock, Mi. E.
A Bradford, Pennsylvania, special says a
enrions accident happened at Vsndegrilt at
well No. 1, on the Wcirich lease, in the
Washington field. Tbe well was beinR
tubed with two-inch pipe, and tubing had
been lowered in the hole to the depth ol
280 feet. In inserting tubing it is neces
sary that a man shall atand at tha top of
the derrick, which is about forty feet from
tbe ground. James Murray was on this
perch while tbe tubing wss being lowered
in the Vandergrift well. The pressure of
gas was very strong In the well, and it
suddenly seemed to take on still
greater force, for, with a noise like
a cannon, it horled the entire
string of pipe deer of the well, and it ahot
upward fifty feet in tbeair above the derrick.
As it passed np through the derrick frame
it demolished the board on which Murray
wee standing at the top, barely -»i—*
striking him, end threw him several feet
higher in the sir. He turned a complete
somersault, and dropped toward the ground.
In felling be accidentally throat his arms
ont, and his bands came in contact with a
crosspiece » taw feet below where he had
atoad. He clutched his Huger, on the crou-
Piece and kept his hold. He bong there
until aid ranched him and h, was rescued.
tent that it fell to the ground Uka a coil of
ia maiket, inch as Bacon and Bulk meats, Flour, Lard, Sugar, Coffee, Tobacco, Balt,
toes, Mackerel, White Fish, Cheese, etc., for each oron time. Alarge lot of Texts Seed
; Also a Urge lot of Georgia Cane 8yrap. I mean buxine**. Don’t fell to tend you
in this matket, such
Potatoes, “
Oats
orders, t r coll in penon onj
A. B. SMALL,
141 and 143 Third street. Macon. Oa.
Groceries and Supplies.
Wo are offering Grocercs and Supplies to farmers for loss
money and on easier terms than Aliy House ill Macon.
Where good papers are made, we guarantee we will Save
you Money. Wo also s«U goods for cash at very low
rates. Cull and sec ns.
WARE & OLIVER,
>b7-ann&wfim 18V Third Street, IVIiicon, Oa.
iS farm amnSXlhK is
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