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f MIGHT UP UN TIIE CITY.] railroad BA.CKET u 1 • Item* Of In for—* 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. FOR $3.50 we will send The Weeely Teleobapb one year end one of the above described watches to any ad dress. Tbis propostlon Is open to our subscribers m w»>ll *a thoee who are not .Act Promptly. The above propositions trill be kepi np*n tor a limited time only und parties who wish to take »d- ventaffn ot cither should do so st once, M^UnlcH* othcrwiM directed we wtil send tho 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 by expreaa, the charges to be paid when they art delivered. Address TUE TELEORAPU. Macon. Qeorglo. I Make money orders, checks, etc., payable to (NTH* WORLD roa a Business Education IAUJULLEGEoAKEntuckv - - ^ owurra cneapest^'- & COMMERG 01KT.*sS21^53—-p Hook-fcMulai awl 0imr«-. (Ml*4la( TmHtaa, OtaHsaarf IW4, nlxjntJ* k Hkarl-llMOS*4TypWWVttlaM •aehflflk S>.'a full Mart*. Tr|.-gr»|.b» uiuht. No Vacation. Enter Now. Wrt|ihjr Uu«hl nuurs ganraatrost Wl WILBUR R. uMITH, LKX1NOTON. KT. foi> l «4t i ltlt* OF FI*'It. To Introduce them, we wil *IVi5 AWAY 1,000 Helf-Operating Washing Macdlne*. If vou want one, send us your name, P. O. and express ofttce at once. TUI NA tONAT. CO.. **» pLicet. N. II. octtfwfim IM.W \ IM 1 f Of $10—960 t«» every person IVLvlAIllM Mending ns valuable informa tion of school vacancies and needs. No trouble or oxp&nuc. Send “tamp for circulars. CHICAGO SCHOOL AGENCY, 186 South Clark atmet, Chicago, 111. N. 11. We want all kinds of teachers for schcolt and families, Jy34 ly —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. IOCH& SON’S sTniTbeWSSS 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 \ bon-* in iba Untu**l Mate's, t'otnplrtw lifeaxEtSSTsg P.piy^iSEH araleUvljr. Im teMUwoeiaJ., »t>4 U* - »**i7 wm ’n* .n u.kwv,\ wi 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* W ANTP! “ An Active Manor Wo- 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. S3?TH0RNS'«i!f FLESH Dial’s iiuuu ...ixiR rsraSssasss U ’, ,"s!.MrA5K-£ TO IfM MENj£33BF£ 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 V >Sv Will ».- w U ; FRKi: !o*llw1wi writ* a,r M E-JEfeS CCCftQ SSSsShSSSSBEsftaMiaJl■ Em” "?*.• OCCUdi rase | W^atlee hiihpee a. CO., PHIlADELPHiA, PA.I l«el»s»»«W