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12 THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY. APRIL 0, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES. THE ALABAMA’S LAST FIGHT THE GREAT CONFEDERATE CRUIBER LOST THROUGH A MISTAKE. A Thrilling Account of Rer Plucky Fight With the Kennnge In the KnglUh Channel aa Told by the Ala bama's Executive Otticrr. Captain John Hclntoah KcU In Aprtl Century. We now get our course for Europe, and on the llth day of Jnne, 1804, entered the port of Cherbourg and at once applied for permission to go into dock. There being none but national docks, the Emperor had first to be communicated with before per mission could be granted) and he was ab sent from Paris. It was during this inter val of waiting, on the third day after our arrival, that the Kearsarge steamed into the harbor, for the purpose, as we learned, of taking on board the prisoners we had land ed from our two last prizes. Captain Semmes, however, objected to this on the S ronnil that the Kearsarge was adding to er crew in a neutral port. The authori ties conceding thia objection valid, the Kearsagc steamed out of the harbor with out anchoring. During her Btoy we exam ined her closely with onr glasses, but slie was keeping on the oppo site side of the harlior, out of the reach of a very close scrutiny, which ac counts for our not detecting the boxing to her chain armor. After she left the harbor Captain Senuues sent for me to' bis cabin and said: “I am going out to fight the Kear- sage; what do you think of it?" We dis cussed the battery and especially the ad vantage the Kearsage had over ns in her eleven-inch guns. She was built for n ves sel of war, and we for speed, nnd though she carried one gun less, her battery was more effective at point-blank range. While the Alabama carried one more gun, the Kearaage threw more metal at a broadside; and wbilo our heavy mins were more effec tive at a long range, her eleven-inch guns gave her greatly the advantage at close rango. She also had a slight advantage in her crew, she carrying ono hundred and * sixty-two all told, while we carried ono hundred and forty-nine. Considering well these advantages, we nevertheless decided to engage her as soon as we conld ooal ship. Captain Semmes communicated through our agent to the U. 8. consul that if Cap tain Winslow would wait ontside tho har bor he would fight him as soon as wo conld coal ship. I at once proceeded to get every thing snug for action, nnd by Saturdny we had finished taking in coals and had scrubbed the decks. I reported to Captain Semmes that the ship was ready for action. The next morniog, Sunday,' Juno 19th, between the honrs of nine nnd ten o'clock, we weighed anchor, and stood out of tho western entrance of tho harbor, tho French iron-clad frigate Couronne following us. The day was light and beautifnl, with a light broeze blowing. Our men wore neat ly dressed and onr officers in fall uniform. The report of our going out to fight the Kearaage hnd been circulated, nnd many persons from Paris and the surrounding country hod come down to witness tho en gagement. They, with a Luge number of the inhabitants of Cherbourg, collected on levery prominent point of the shore that would afford a view seaward. As wo round ed the breakwater, wa discovered the Kear- sage about seven miles to the northward and eastward. We Immediately shaped onr course former, called all hands to ipiatters, and cast loose the eterboard battery. Up. bn reporting to the captain that the ship was ready for action, he directed me to send all hands aft, and mounting a gun-car riage, he mode the following nddrOss: "Offioers and seapien of the ‘Alabama’: Yon have at length another opportunity of meeting the enemy—the first that has been presented to yon since yon sunk the Hat- Jtems! In the meantime you have been all over tho world, and it is not too much to say that yon have destroyed, and driven for protection under neutral tl*ga, one-halt of the enemy's commerce, which at the begin ning of the war oovered every sea. This is an achievement of which you may well be proud, and a grateful country will not be unmindful of ft. The name of yonr sjiip has become a household wonl wherevor civ ilization extends! Shall that unme be u>r- ilehed by defeat? The thing is impossible! Bemember that you are in tho English Channel, the theatre of so much of the naval sslory of our race, and that the eyes of all Europe are et this moment upon yon. The flag that floats over you is that of a young republic, which bids defiance to her enemy’s whenever and wherever found! Show the world that yon know how to uphold it! Go to yonr quarters." fn about folly-five minutes we were some] what over a mile from the Kearsarge, when she heeded for ue, presenting her starboard bow. At a distance of a mile, We com menced the notion with onr onc-Unndrvd pounder pivot-gun from’onr starboard bow. Both ships were now approaching each other at high speed, and soon the action became general with broadside batteries at a dis tance of about five hundred yards. To prevent passing each ship need a strong port helm. Thus the action was fought around a common center, grndttally draw ing in the circle. At this range we used '■hell upon the enemy. Captain Semmes, standing on the horse-block abreast the mixzen-mast with his glass in hand, ob served the effect of onr shell. Ue called to me and said: "Ur. Kell, use solid shot; onr shell strike the enemy's side ami fall into the water," We were not at this time aware of the chain armor of the enemy, and at tributed the failure of onr shell to our de fective ammunition. After using solid shot for some time, we alternated shell and shot. The enemy’s eleven-inch shells were now doing severe execution upon ouripiaiter- deck section. Three of them successively entered our eight-inch pivot-gun port: the first swept off the forward port of the gun’s crew; the second killed one man and wounded several others; and the third ■truck the breast of the gun-carriage and ■pun around on the deck till one of the men picked it up and threw it overboard. Our decks were now covered with the dead and the wounded, and the ship was careen ing heavily to starlioard from the effects of the shot-holes on her water-line. Captain Semuies ordered me to be ready to make all sail possible when the circuit of fight should put onr head to the coast of nance; then he would notify me at the ■erne time to pivot to port and continue the action with the port battery, hoping thus to light the ship and enable ns to reach the ooeet of France. The evolution was per formed beautifully, righting the helm, hoisting the head-sails, hauling aft the four try-sail sheet, and pivoting to port, the action continuing almost without cessation. This evolution exposed us-to a rakin) fire, but, strange to say, the Keansrge die not take advantage of it The port side of the quarterdeck wee so encumlierr-d with the mangled trunks of the deed that I lisd to have them thrown overboard in order to fight the after pivot-gnu. I abandoned the after thirty-two-pounder and transferred the men to till up tho vacancies to the pivot-gun under the charge of yonng Mid shipman Anderson, who in the midst of the carnage filled his place like a veteran. At this moment the chief engineer came on deck and reported three fires put out, and that he could no longer work the engines. Captain Semmes said to me, "Go below, sir, and see how long the ship can float," As I entered the- warm-room the sight was indeed appalling. There stood Assistont-Sxrgeou Llewellyn at his post, hut the table anil the patient upon it were swept away from Ihim by on eleven-inch shell, which opened in the side of the ship an aperture that was fast filling the ship with water. It took iu4 hut n moment to return to the deck and rqport to the captain that “wo could not tltat ten minutes. ” He replied to me, "Then sir, cease firing, shorten sail, and haul dovu the colors; it will never do in this uinetaonth century for us to go down, and the de ks covered with onr gallant wounded.” l’he order was promptly exe cuted, after which the Kearaage deliber ately fired in o ns five shots. I ordered the men to ston to their quarters, and not flinch from the shot of the enemy; they stood every rtan to his post most heroically. With the firs shot fired upon us after our colors were lown, the quartermaster was ordered to sh >w a white flag over the stern, which order' as executed in my presence. When tho fii ug ceased, Captain Semmes ordered me o dispatch an officer to the Kearsage to ay tbut our ship was sinking, and to ask th l they send boats to save our wounded, as ir boats were disabled. Tho dingey, ours tallest boat, bail escaped dam age. I dispi ched Master's-mate Fullam with the req i-st. No boats appearing, I had ono of oulqnartcr boats lowered, which was slightly injured, and I ordered the wounded plac d in her. Dr. Galt, the sur geon who was in charge of the magaziuo and shell-rooi i division, came on deck at this moment nd was at once put in charge of the limit, with orders to “take the wounded to le Kearsage.” They shoved off just in tie u to save tho poor fellows from geing he n in the ship. I now gave lie ordor for “every man to jump nvorboan witli a spar and save him self from the linking ship." To enforce the crdi r I walled forward and urged the men ovi rboardl As soon as the decks were cleared, save oil the bodies of tho deal, I returned to tie stern-port, where stood Captain Semmes with one or tw o of tiie men and his fiatliful stewnrd, who, poor fellow! was deolied to a watery grave, as ho conld not s vln. The Alabama’s sleru- ort was now anuost to the water’s edge, ’artly undressing, we plunged into the sea, and made an offing from the sinking ship, Captain Semmes With a life preserver and I on-a grating. I Thu Alabama settled stern foremost, launching her bo s high in the air. Grace ful even in her eath struggle, she in a moment disappea ed from the face of the waters. The sea low presented a muss of living heads, striv ng for their lives. Many poor fellows sank for the want of timely aid. Near mo I si w a float of empty shell- boxes and called I a ono of the men, a good swimmer, to exanjne it; ho did so and re plied, “It is the qtetor, sir, dead." 1‘oor Llewellyn! he perfched almost in sight of his home. The young Midshipman Mafflt swam to mo and offered his life preserver. My grating was no(_ proving a buoyant float Breaking over uiy head uncomfortable, to say “r. Kell, take my almost exhaust- gallant'hoy did not consider h>s own conditiun, but his pallid face told mo that his heroism was supe rior to bis bodily suffering, and I refused it. After twenty minutes or more I heard near ino some one call out, “There ia our flrst lieutenant,” and tho next mo ment 1 waa pulled into a boat, in which woa Captain Semuies, stretched out in stern- sheets, ni pallid as death. He had received daring the action a slight eontnaion of the band, and the struggle in the water had al most exhausted hit:. There were alio sev eral of our orow ia the boat, and in a few moment! we wera alongside a little steam yacht, which had time among onr floating men, and by throwing them ropes saved many lives. Upi* reaching her deck, I as certained for the ?rit timo that she was the yacht Deerhound, owned by Mr. John Lan caster of Englanl In looking around I saw two French plot boats engaged in sav ing out crew, aul finally two Coals from the Kearsage. Ti my surprise I found on the yacht Mr. Ftilman, whom I had dis patched in the ilagey to ask that boats be sent to save onr wounded. He reported to that (our iliot had literally torn tho casing from the chain armor of the Kesr- been picked up; where shall I land yon?" Captain Semmes replied, “I am now under the English colors, and the sooner you put me with my officers and men on English soil, the better," Tbe little yacht moved rapidly away at once, under a press of steam, for Southampton. Armstrong, our second lieutenant, and some of our men who were saved by the French pilot-boats, were taken into Cherbourg. Our loss was nine killed, twenty-one wounded and ten drowned. It has been charged that an arrangement had been entered into between Mr. Lancas ter and Capt. Semmes, previous to our leaving Cherbourg, that in the event of the Alabama being sunk the Deerhound would come to onr rescue. Captain Semmes ami myself met Mr. Lancaster for the first timo when rescued by him, and he related to us the circumstances that occasioned his com ing out to see the fight. Having his family on board bis intention was to attend church with his wife and children, when the gathering of the spectators on the shore attracted their attention, the report having been widely circulated that the Alabama was to go out that morning and give battle to tho Keuisage. The boys were clamorous to see the fight, and after a family discussion ns to the propriety of going out on tbe Sabbath to witness a naval comb «t, Mr. Lancaster ageed to put the question to vote at the breakfast table, where the youngsters carried their point by a majority. Thus many of us were in debted for our lives to that inherent trait in the English character, the desire to witness “passage at arms.” That evening we landed in Southampton, and were received by th6 people with ever; demonstration of sympathy and kindly feel tog. Thrown upon their shores by the chances of war, we were taken to thei* hearts and homes with that generous hospi tality wliiehthrought to mind .with tenderest feeling our own dear Southern homes in antebellum times. To tho Rev. F. W. Trcm- lett of Belsize Park, London, and his house hold I am indebted for a picture of English home life that time cannot efface, and the memory of which will he a lasting pleasure till life's end. number of orders for making clothes, a tailor named Hughes hurriedly left 8yKa ma, and the Telephone says a number of young men of that place are losers. Mayor Freeman has been wrestling with a case of chicken pox, and his face resem bles a target that had been used at a shoot ing match where number eight shot were fired at short range.—Cuthbert Literal. The prohibition election, to take place in Newton county on the 22d of April, is exciting public interest The antis and prohis are working with great zeal. The cft8_ race will be warmly contested by both parties. An attempt to rob Rosser & Neal’s dry goods establishment in Covington one night last week proved unsuccessful, the burglar being promptly met by Mr. Charles Echols, who sleeps in the store, with a seven- shooter. Harry Reeves and Tom Bell, two negroes in Dodge county Thursday, engaged in a free fight with each other. The result was that Harry was cut in three places—once iu the right arm and twice in the left shoulder. Mrs. G. H. De-Jarnette, for many years a teacher in the Americas public schools, ten dered her resignation to the board of educa tion Friday. She left Americus to accept a similar position in the Alexander free school at Macon. A large delegation of Americas business rill ~ " Diseases front Pimples to Scrofu la Cured by Cuticura* Hundred* of letter* in our possession, copie* of which may be h*d by return mall, report this sto ry; I have been aterrible sufferer from Diseases of the Skin and Blood; have been obliged to shun pub lic places by reason of my disfiguring humor*;h*ve had tbe best physicians; have spent hundreds of dollars, and got no relief until I used the Cuticur* remedies, which have cured me, and left my skin and blood as pure as a child's. Covered with Salt Itlicum. tact died from It 1 believe Cuticur. would have uved her life. My urns, breant .ad head were covered for three you., which nothin* relieved cured until I used the (— " ‘ a Cuticur. Resolvent, internal- OVER THE STATE. shell upon the ememy, that they struck the sides ami (ell Into the water.” Captaiu Window, in his report, I think, states "that hit ship waa struck twenty- eight times!" anil I doubt if the Alabama was struck a greater number of times, I may not, therefore, be bold in asserting that had not the Kearsage bean protected by her iron eublee, the result of the fight wonlil have been different. Captain Semmes felt the moro kt nly the delueion to which ho fell a victim {not know ing that tbe Keur- eage .was cL.uu-clad) frugi the fact tliut ho was exceeding hie instructions in seeking an action with the enemy; but to seek a fight with an Iron-clad he conceived to be an un pardonable error. However, he had the sutiefaction of knowing thutshe was classed on a woolen guu-boat by the Federal gov ernment; also that ho hnd inspected her with most excellent glasses, and so far oh outward appearances showed she displayed no chain armor. At the name time it must be admitted that Captain Winslow had the right unquestionably to protect his ship and craw. In justice to Captain Semmes 1 will state that the battle would never had been fought bad he known that the Kearaage wore an armor of chain beneath her outer coverta*. Thus waa tbe Alabama lost fay an error, if you please, but, it must be ad mitted, a most pardonable one, and not until ‘ father Neptune" claimed her as his own di 1 she lower her color*. The eleven-inch shells of the Kearsage did fearful work, and her guns were served beautifully, being aimed with precision nnd delibirate in file. She came into action agn bccntly. Having tie speed of us, she oat took Lor own position nnd fought gallantly. But she tarnished her glory when she fired upon a fallen foe. It was high noon of a bright, beautiful day, with a moderate breeze blowing to waft the smoke of battle clear, nnd uoiliing to obstruct tbe view at five hundred yards. The very fact of tbe Ala- ban i ceasing to fire, shortening sail and bnuhng down her colors simuitaneonsly, uiu-i have attracted tbe attention of the officer in command of the Kearsage. Agaia, there is no reason given why the Kearaage did not steam immediately into the midst of the crew of tjie Alabama, after their ship had been stink, and, like a brave and generous toe, save tbe lives of her enc- mif s, who hail fought so nobly aa long as they had a plana to stand upon. Were it no* for the timely presence of the kind, hotted Englishman and tbe two French pilot boats, who can tc'.l the number of ns tl. it would have rested with onr gallant little »Lip beneath the water* ot tbe English chan- n- L I quote the following from Mr. John I-tneaster's letter to the London I>*ily New*: ' I presume it was because he would not or enud not eave them himself. The fact i* that if the captain and crew of the Alabama had depend«l for safety altogether upon Captain Winslow, not one of them would have been saved." When Mr. Lancaster approached Captain I Semmes and acid, “I think every man has Upson county is to have another vote on the fence question. The North Georgia College at Dahlonega is without a president. In Upson county Thursday the frost did great damage to the gardens. Greensboro has nominated a prohibition ticket for mayor and aldermen. A president is wanted for the Baptist Fe- malo Seminary at Gainesville. Hon. D. M. Roberts of Eastman is a can- delate for Senator in the Fifteenth district. It is said that John Coffee, the Merritt murderer, is hiding near Harmony Grove. EldridgeCntts of Americas has been made official stenographer of the Ocmulgee Cir cuit. The cost of the two weeks' session of Dooly Superior Court is estimated at three thousand dollars. Tho father of Otis Ashmore of almanac natoriety, once Uved and taught school in Buenn Vista. There are five churches in Buena Vista - three for white people and two for the col ored population. Two negro girls indulged in a street fight in Americus Friday, in which one brained the other with a rock. D. G. Ilillyer, Jr., of Rome fans been ap pointed to a position to tho Treaanry De partment at Washington, Seven thousand and five hundred dollars have been appropriated for the improvement of the Oomnlgee river, J. O. Smith of Colquitt county owns a hen that always perches upon tho limb of a tree to lay and never breaks an egg. Upson connty did not suffer mnch from the recent storm, although the Flint river was higher than at any time Bines 1802. Coley Thomas, oolored, for breaking into a market house in Sumter connty, was cap tured and given aceU at Americas this week. A company of aawmlU men from the North visited the section about Hawkinaville this week for the purpose of bnying t timbered lands. Cora planting having received what little attention it will get from the from farmer*, they have now turned their attention to cotton. The pupils of Prof. Branham's Academy at Kylvania nailed np the doors and boy cotted the I’rofessor. They had struck for an off day. The funeral of John Drake, the wife mur derer, hanged at Thomnaton, was largely at tended, tiie negroes coming from all sections to be present. The Kendall Comedy Company have boen in Aiueriens for the post three nights. They have a military band and give very credit able performances. A great many shad are now being caught in tbe Ocmulgee river. Some fishermen brought five to Hawkinaville the other day that weighed thirty-two pounds. We counted sixty wagons at one time in sight last Saturday on our streets- and nearly everv one was loaded with some kind of fertilizer.—Eutonton Messenger. A bell tower and band stand is being erected at tbs intersection of South Wayne and llnncock streets in Milledgeville. Tin tower will be seventy-five feet high. A day or two since an Albany lady said that during the war sbs paid *20 for one spool of thread, $2110 for one pound of tea and gave $100 for a simple gingham dress. Last Sunday we saw a red headed young man, with two red headed yonng ladies, driving a red mule to a red buggy. They were going to New Hope Church.—Dawson Journal. A contract has been closed between tbe {overnment and the authorities of the Amer- cos, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad to carry the mails over their road, to go into effect Monday. A lady iu Campbell county has just woven sixteen yards of jeans and is now spinning warp and filling for summer clothes for her family, and she is fifty-eight yean old. One night last week thieves entered the stnoke house of Mr. Jim Hay, aliout three milts from Dawson, and robbed it of three sides of bacon, three shoulders and four hams. Mr. Sam H. Rhodes of Crawfordville while on one of the late fishing excursions, caught a very fine white perch that meas ured fourteen to length and six or seven inches brood. Monday night, near Ty Ty, a white man men will go to Brunswick Sunday night to attend a railroad meeting to be held there, looking towards the building of a branch from Americus to tap the B.- and W. 11. R. at Isabella. The total indebtedness of Newton county as found by the last sitting of the grand jury is $36,5(10, to which an additional sum of $8,000 will be added on account of the damage done by recent rain storms, making a grand total of $44,500. Mr. J. V. Oliver at Bronwood had the misfortune to lose five hundred panels of fence last Thursday by fire, which left his entire crop unprotected. Neighbors and friends promptly aided him and by noon Saturday his fence was replaced. On lost Friday A. J. Thompson & Co., of Cochran, received a cargo of guano from Port ltoyal, S. C., which had been jnst a week on the road, and perched on one of the sacks, when the cor was opened, was a beautiful hen, seemingly happy and con tented. Last Sunday morning a negro boy, Rener Turner and a negro mnn had a difficulty near Ledbetter branch in which the man seriously stabbed in tbe left breast by the boy. Dr. Brooks dressed the wound and the man is doing well.—Fort Gaines- Advertiser. Mr. James R. Andrews, near Haddock's, Jones county, on a stogie hunt a few days ago, killed four wild turkeys at three shots —three gobblers and one ben. He killed two gobblers at one shot, and one gobbler and one her at two shots flying, the longest shots he ever made. A mulatto girl, 16 years of age, named Catherine Burney, was fatally shot about five miles above Sylvania on Saturday, by Washington, colored. Ho was carelessly handling a shot-gun when it was dis charged, tho contents entering the side of tho girl's bend, killing her almost instantly. The big rains of Monday and Tuesday have caused the wutein of the Flint river to rise higher than since the freshet of 1861 Head, Face and Body Raw. Joljr body wore almost rew. My head was covered . scabs and sores, and my suffering wss fearful. _ hod tried everything 1 bad beard of in tbe East and West. My case was considered a very bad one I have now not a particle of Skin Humor about me, and my case is considered wonderful. Decatur, Mich. Mss. 8. E. WHIPPLE. Eczema from Head to Feet. Charles Eayre Hinkle, Jersey City Heights, N. J., writes: “My son, a lmd of twelve yearn, was com pletely cured of s terrible case of Eczema by the Cuticur* Remedies, From the top of his head to the soles of his feet was one mass of scabs." Every other remedy and physlclaus had been tried in vain. Cuticura ltciiicdics Arc sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, 50c.; Resolv ent, $1.00; 8oap, 25c. Prepared by the Potter Dhco & Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. Send for “llow to Cure Skin Diseases.” ftPTTlW! ^ lln P* e# * Skin Blemishes and Baby vJ IIL j Humors cured by Cuticur* Soap. CUTICUBA ANTI PAIN PLASTER is k* new, original, elegant and infallible •antidote toPaln and Iutiammatton, ban ishing Rheumatic. Neuralgic, 8ciatic, Sudden Sharp and Nervous Pains as by ■ magic. At druggists. 25c. MONEY FORJiANI) OWNERS ^T SPECIAL RATES ON EASY TERM8. Apply to CLEM P. STEED. Macon, Ga., No. 3 Cot ton Avenue, over Payne’s drugstore. sprOwOm J- W. BURKE & coj PIONEER MUSIC HOUSE! No. 7 Cotton Avenue, Macon c Cheap and Inferior Porous will inevitably disappoint you, and sis zu* even the few cent* asked for them. Ai numerous porous plasters offered for i&l e Capclne Planters alone merit implicit comma They have won their great popularity with 5?, pie, and gained the voluntary indorseinmaJ medical profession, by their unequal**,.* powe*, and by that only. When purch**in»i!?!l your guard against worthless imitations » «,!*!■ leading names, such as “Capsicin," “Cmmw “Capucin,” "Capsicine,” etc., as certain ing druggists way try to palm them oft onrmJ E bicc of the genuine. It is better to deal wrCZI ut reputable at d honorable druggist* Benson’s and see that it bears the “Three *3 trade mark and has the word Cspcine cut i?3 centre. Jones Sheriff Sale. GEOnOIA, JUNKS COUNTY,—WILI. BE SOU J the first Tuesday iu May, Ibwi.at the courti!3. door, in said county, between the legal boniH sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the folSJj property, to-wit: 217 acres, more or let* Jj in the Eighth District of -aid county, and boon uorth by lands of E. W. Finney and John HT don, east by John C. Green, south by Robt c don sod Zach Gordon, and west by 8. B. GUti. Raid land levied on as the property of H;. ‘ »*1 il Gordon to satisfy an execution United fro* j J Superior Court iu favor of Willi. B. SparlanT R. A. Gordon, Zach Gordon ot. al. Tec * session notified. This April 5th, lftsfl. H, J. Hi I LIES, SWl| Stock Law Notice. QKORGIA, JONES COUNTY.-NOTICE IS E ll by given that a petition of freeholder of D ion’s District, G. M., No. —, Jones conntr, for an election for stock law in said district Un ou file in thia office; and unleM some valid a bo shown to the contrary an order for naid e will be granted on Monday, the 2fith i April, lHHfi, at hour of 11 o'clock, a. m. Take n witness my hand officially, March 29, lftaO—aprti Uw4w. It. T. R0S9, n 17 I J. W. MICE C0\ THE FASHIONABLE DRY GOODS DEALERS] Would invite the attention of the public to tho magnified line of 1 SPRING i<l SUMMER GOOD! Th* KtoamboM 1 *Montezo^a'liMnow^iinpI now being shown by them. Great care was exercised ini below the Drayton bridge, and win have to selection of this 6tock, and it is replete with the latest style wait for tlie water to fall enough for it to . , - ! . ^ ,, Pakh under tbe bridge before it can return 11H till tUQ HOW QHQ fllSlllOn&blc fllbriCS for the SCtlSOH. ^Oneof tbe'most attractive features of th. I WHITE GOODS AND EMBROIDERIES, | “ elc 8 ant 8t ° c A k J U8 t received. LACE SUITINGS in Edge tonste in again securing CoL 0. A. Niles, at i' lOlincCS and All-OVCrS. “t ,ro “ Mr 1 Orancl Openin'** Monday! We invite everybody to call and look through the prett est stock in the city. J. YV. RICE «& CO. A NEW PROPOSITION their correspondent from Atlanta, Mr. Nilea ia a finished echolar nnd high toned lentleman, and his words written or spoken lave weight with the people,—Greensboro Howe Journal. A dastardly incendiary applied the torch I to Mr. W, J. M. Oriner’e barn, at Excelaior. on Tuesday morning. He barely saved his stock, tools, vehicles, ete. The neighbors gathered np and tracked the incendiary to and from the bam and to a hnnse in the neighborhood. This is the fifth or sixth | _ house that has been burned in Mr. Orlner'x Dry w ______ n tt r to^c W om h ^flo?*hl - v.accented th. I whiskvmcn are closing out for cost, and in order to keopi invitation extended by the Americus flro with the procession and maintain a proper equilibrium, 1 B. SMALL guarantees to soil Stonewalls ot Griffin, Nos. 3and6 ofMucoon _ , , , ... „ , Groceries, Provisions, Tobacco, Guan| —AND— MERCER CULTIVATORS and the Alerts of Montezuma. Other com panies are expected who have not yet acted I upon the invitations. In all, abont ten visiting companies will participate. The track lias been inclosed ana is being put to I splendid order, andsll the necessary arrango- incuts made to entertain royally the visitors. [ for cash or on time, wholesale or retail, at prices that can Tuesday’s storm. be discounted. Call at the old stand, or send your orders t| The Damage Dons In and Around Amerlcnr* All day Tuesday the clonda were dark and low, ami towards the close of the day a heavy wind, accompanied by thunder and lightning came on. Those of our people who haifcyclone pits sought refuge to them, fearing a cyclone. The wind was very vio lent to this city the greater port of the PROHIBITION PLANTER !■ jitT the greater port of the | (All Iron.) Mowtog'down°a few^nc*»*and°treem e ^TTio I ‘eithcr^wcTordrv seed oi^rollel* tilU *’ * b °^ rUD “• P Unt * 3: Aepo ho^The“toring iiSit . 1T *ILL PROHIBIT PLANTING CROPS WRONG .nd wasting yonr pm i Deoule. was entirely demolished, bnt no one I *°P nnmb<ir J ou Wttnt - d “ Unce »P* rt - * or “>« »>y 31. .1. HATCHER, Mnoon. Oh. lay night, . .. named Murphy went into the smoke house of s willow lady anil filled a sack with meat A farm hand fired into the smoke house killing Mnrphy. Thursday night, near Sylvania, Henry Kemp, a negro, waa accidentally shot in tlie stomach and it is feared he will die. Another negro named John Lule had been fooling with a pistol. Ur. Hibbard Brown, who is now chief cook at the hotel at Camilla, Georgia, wjs (onr Tears cook forWm. H. Vanderbilt, and for eighteen months was chief cook on Jay Gould's steam yacht the Atlanta. After a stay of a few weeks and getting deelSdemAwlm A. B. SMALL, 141 atnl 1 t:t Third Street, Slaeoii,fl$J people, wa* entirely denioliebed, bnt no one was seriously raiured, though one or two were hurt by falling timbers. In tbu bouse a colored woman wa* very aick with pneu monia, and she wu* thoroughly drenched with ruin before she conld be removed to another house near l>y. All tho fencing along that road was blown down. Un Mr. U. S. Lockett and G. A. Herndon's place, near by, the fencing was down. One house on Lockett's place waa lilted a little. Mr. J.D. She; down, from town totally dest down. The fencing along that road was down also. We are told that near Friend ship fonr or five negro houses were de stroyed, bnt no one wa* injured.—America* Recorder. Groceries and Supplies. ...» „„„„ ___ Wo are offering Groceres and Supplies to farmers for raherdai«o had some fencing bimra I money and on easier terms than Any House ill from town a^Mro^MttUment'vriis almost 1 Where good papers are made, wo guarantee \ve will *V<1 totally destroyed, five honsee being blown 111 Oil J)fOllCl/. We also Sell goods for Cash at VCr)' ‘1 Jaix-m Tbo f..*w>iti>w alnhif Unit foa,l UTr.E ! ^ . __ .. *' . I rates. Cull and sec us. WARE & OLIVER) 130 Third Street, Macon. 6*1 A Family Poisoned. Dr. R. E. Canon and family, of Carters-1 tilie, were poisoned recently from eating I tome meat, cooked in a large brass kettle, a qnantity of vinegar Wing poured upon it, [ producing a powerful !>oUoning agent Tbe l)< ctor worked with them several hours be-1 fore he got them out of danger.—Marietta | Journal. A Captnln's Fortunnt« Discovery. Cspt. Coleman, schooner Weymouth, (dying ! tween Atlantic City and New York, had been trou bled with a t ough ao that he waa unable to sleep, I and wu induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery I for Consumption. It not only gave him instant re-1 lief, bnt allayed |he extreme aorensas in his braul* [ His children were similarly affected and a single dose had the aaue happy effect Dr. King’s Sew [ Disco rery is now the standard remedy In the Cole- man household and en board the schooner. Free trial bottles of this Standard Remedy at Lamar, Rankin k Lamar’s drug store. —General J. A. Hill of the llth Main#, I baa just suffered second amputation of an! arm U*t to Uio elbow at th# Deep Bun I fight in 1*01. feb7-tmndw(*>m as'ilfe'5 $ 'i-ARM AXHUALFOUl gjy aua balm vSSnxra&sBI KLIZSTS cccne 3jKSa.5!«S- W. ATLES BURPEE & CO., PHlUCStPiM THREE l*BMM*vtarrtl H l W« nrys. Monurli nnd