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MACON AND FLORIDA.
.HKPIIOPUSRD airline from this
T " GItY TO FLORIDA.
«bolly Without Competition—Openloir Up
y (|l territory to Lumbermen, Fuuu-
tr ,, Tourists Mid Invalids—
Contribution* Made.
MACON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1886.—TNVKLVE PAGES.
Qcitmax, Ga., October 1.—Editors Tki-
sosifB; 1“® oK'bition o£ the desirability
:L| pecuniary success of the proposed Ma-
Mnaud Florid* air-line railroad has led
" 0J along lbs route to consider the matter
toth pro and con. With one accord the
verdict has been rendered that anch a road,
•bile pieyiD* a handsome dividend to the
itndi'ct 1 ', will also benefit materially the
cunntry through which it runs.
This road, built on an air-line from Sla
ton via Quitman, Ga., Madison, Fla., and
tod on tbe west side of the Suwannee river
to Fayetteville, in Fayette oonnty, Fla., and
thence, if desired, to Gaineeville, will p ins
Uueuph tne very best section of country,
to take the entire line, of any
joid taut has ever been constructed soutn.
for the simple reason that every rnilo
of country through ahiuh it will ruu, after
pthng ten miles from Macon, will not only
actualiy' support its mile, but «ill from
the day of its completion pay a handsome
dividend upon its investment The first
lit; or sixty miles from Macon is devoted
to sericulture and are aa fine farming lands
HMD be found in Georgia. A glance at a
mp of Georgia and Florida will show the
prupesed route, and that it will pass through
die fertile counties of Houston, Dooly, etc.,
ud thence to Brooks, the banner county of
Southwest Georgia. Before reaching
Bracks it will strike into the heart of the
«> foreata of Georgia, the best yellow pine
of the south, which when utilized by steel
ud steam is tbe coveted nier-
ebtodise of foreign countries,
lb-fore the road can be completed
ism comparatively unknown seotion will
tltnct the attention of the tnrpentine and
sill men, who will be ready to supply the
mod with on abundance of freightage as
fut sa it can be pasbed from station to
Mitten. As aoon us the eountry can be
puuslly denuded >f its forest it will becon-
rated into as fine and prontable farming
cmr.tr/ as cun bejfouud, while towns and vil
lages will spring into existence like nragio.
Sinking Brooks county, every ;®il« will
w for itself as soon as in operation. This
a the banner county of Sonthwest Georgia,
■ bar before been said, and improvement
ud progress are making rapid strides yet.
Witbia the-prut tea years the Increase In
attar shipping alone has been over three
ktadred per oent., that is from font
Ihou-and bales ten years sgo to between
twite and fifteen thousand this season.
Hot-over, Brooks will furniih truck-ship-
ftf for the summer months, and our nter-
diite who are d dug a large and prosper ju
testa-, trill ship via .this route, Quit-
sis, itoaro of Dta-riy tew thousand intrabi-
■htto, will' furnish ' many passengers.
(Mag the Savannah, Florida and West-
mnilway at Quitman, have many sdvan-
bp- our crossing the name line ulYalduetu.
It Uk-s the road out of the line of compe-
titi-o and sends it direct through tho richest
forming lands of Middle Florida, tapping
fie hurt of the short-staple cotton belt.
llonticello is anxious to connect with
tfiitman by rail, and has pledged heiself to
P*l« and cross-tie and donate the road
t) that company which will iron
uri operate the line. This, in itself, is
* bonanza, since Monticello represents
weof tbe cottou-growing districts, as well
>o one of tbe wealthiest in this portion of
Flotilla. From Monticello the line may be
rin, if desired, in an air lino to Newport
ud on to St. Marks, thus having a port of
«• o*a and a shipping point witnont coru-
ptiiion.
Tbe line running sonth of Madison and
J“t of the Su waru-o river crosses tbe F. R.
IS.railway at Madison, touches the Hu-
'u« at Irvine's ferry, and crosses the
burst Fayetteville, leaving all competing
bad* to the east, while it goes in a straight
®‘> by rule and compass, through the
j»»vit« timbered forests of America,
■rough the alluvial Unit hammock aud
*• fertile Annattiluggi hammock to Brooks-
bile, acd thence to Tarpon Springs, a town
•at has sprang np os a mushroom iu a
tight, with a hotel that can accommodate
tvo hundred guests. Running on to old
■ttttpi and making a detour around tbe
b"“ of the bay of Tampa find its terminus
■ Point Pinellas, thus opening np the
Ptodest and richest portions of Florida, to
“*fanner, to the home hunters, to the
■bntfs, wbo seok for adventure and amuse-
■“t, »nd to the invalid who desires health,
"boy breezea and sunshine.
, anvAXTioEs or this use.
J. n> ? to Quitman the road can be
2“•*“ opon wbtt nr known as tbe 'taler
a!’ 11 * > " ,n K tho riilgeway between tbe
I ir“bc on the east and Gulf on the west.
I »H the rainfall on the east flowing
1 w? '"“'•tariee of the Atlantic, on Ure west
Sf “• Gulf. The ex|iense of construction
•4 be small compared with other routes.
Pjj rD “ through a scope of oountry that
'.“It in iu virgin state, and which
1 Jr'"’'ttibute largely to tho immediate
RPwy of the road. There are no run* to
bridged, and but few small creeks to
Pf aut *l the Suwanee it reached in South
l From ita starting point in Macon
•hi* terminus at Point Pinellta it will be
“>bj yituout a competing line, and the
Pr which it crosses will only serve aa
I r. t V.° 11 in freightage and passengers,
the Monticello branch will oontribnte ita
gott from the fertile districts along the
“b Md will in tbe shortest time possible
re than f or i roD u g rolling atock.
£* nd ix»R it sontheaat of Tallahassee to St.
.°J Island, where there is a fine
Jr*™ harbor with deep water on the bar,
-i,“xed vessel to enter, a seaport town
a.. ,!’ nn k into existence, for the reason
« will afford not only the short-
J" the most direct railway Una
•mtT n » the u *xican, Central and
a judioious person, the donations in rigtat-
ot-way and contributiong in lands and
money would amount to an immense sum,
notilfss thttu Jii e hundred thousand dollar*,
and perhaps much more. Iudeed, thepeo-
ple are so eager for tho roads that a few
well-ohosen words and beat points from
one having both influence and authority
would swell the contributions beyond the
most sanguine expectations.
Joseph Tillman.
AN ENGLISH MAN'A VIEW'S.
He Cannot Hndentaurt Why English rarm-
ers Ho Not Come South.
Memphis Correspoudence Minclieetar, England,
'iextile Manufacturer.
I have often been surprised that there
has been so little emigration of British
farmers to the Southern Slates, and Ibis
applies to all European emigration. Whilst
the agricultural oistneta ot wintry Ounada
and the Northern aud Western States have
been freely settled by foreigners, yet the
sunny South has been almost neg
lected except in the cities, and the foreign
Jewish merchant, who is ever present
in the smallest country villages. Sev
eral German settlements have been made
in northwestern Arkansas, and thriving
towns nave in cnuaerjuence epruug up
where, twelve or fifteen years ago, was a
wilderness The fact is, that with the
English and Scotch farmers’ knowledge of
practical farming this section would be an
Eldorado for them. Land is cheup, and in
deed coats less per aero to purohaae than
many a farmer pays for annual rent in
England, and it can be bought, too, on
easy payments, extending over a term of
years if desired. The South and its peo
ple have been persistently trsdnoed for
many years for political purposes. When
learns South twelve years ago, I Imagined,
from reading the Northern newspapers,
that I was entering a land of semi-barka-
riaus, and was taking my life in my band
when I crossed the Ohio river, imagine my
surprise to find a country blesBed with
natural advantages nowhere exeelled, and
a population cultured, refined, impulsive,
warm hearted, generous and hospitable,
almost to a fault. Soon after entering Ken
tucky I waa stricken with typhoid fever.'
A casual acquaintance, a substantial farmer,
insisted on my removal to his residence,
where I was carefully nursed through a
long illness of two months’ duration, and 1
even found a Southern girl charitable
enough to marry me- a th ng none of n y
own country women hx.o ever don..
With the building of new railway*
South, the consequent travel attendui t
npon a constant interchange of commercial
commodities, and after twenty-four yearn
a Democratic President, prejudice is fast
disappearing and is held now only by the
professional politicians, aud even to these,
stubborn facts appeal with convincing
force. Thus, for instance, more pig iron
ha* been uifipped to Philadelphia Aom Ala
bama this year than Pittsburg has fur
nished, and fabrics woven at Southern cot
ton factories are taking precedence over
those of New Jersey and Massachusetts.
There is a floe opening in our city sub
urbs for ffuiarket gardeners, or, as they are
termed, "truck farmers." Lauds for this
purpose oan be rented in the suburbs for
lfis. to £1 per acre per annum, and a ready
market at good prices for tbe product
aured.
There is a vast mine of undeveloped
wealth in the South, which requires the
brawn, muscle, brain and capital of the
emigrant to bring to light, und to intend
ing emigrants, farmers, skilled laborers,
manufacturers and capitalism who wish to
improve their condition by leuviog over
crowded Europe for a country oflering
superior advantages for well directed effort,
I aay come South! In the words of an old
negro melody:
•''1 here’s room tor many s mors.’
VOI . I.?CT.
FIGHTING MONOPOLY.
GOV PATTISON ON THE ANTIIRA
Girs COAL COMBINATION.
The Attorn-y-G neral Ordered to Take Le
gal bteps—Kaormous Proflu Made
tty CUe Combination Monopoly
-IU Kvll Effects.
Habiusbuiio, Pa., October 2.—Governor
Pattison baa taken the important step of
directing the Attorney-General to Degin le
gal proceeding against the Anthracite! coal
pool, consisting of some of the leading rail
roads and coal companies which Isuve en
tered into a combination to restrict and
regulate the production of coal, and Main
tain and advunce its price. The Governor
says:
Recertly through the ofiicera of tho
syndicate ot tho capitalists there has been a
strengthening of the Anthracite coal com
bination, and tbe claim is now made by
some of its members that they can mofk up
coal prices to any figure they please, there
by subjecting the public to their mercy, lu
ll reside, aud imposing upon the cost con
sumers, financially, hardens which some
of these companies have engendered. Al
though the State constitution declares that
‘no incorporated company doing business of
common earners, shall directly or indirect
ly prosecute or engage in mining, or the
manufacturing of articles for transporta
tion over its tracks,' yet all, or nearly all,
of the common carriers represented in tbe
Anthracite coal combination are engaged
directly or indirectly in mining Cool.
The anthracite regions of the State are
practically under tbe control of this com
bination. For long periods it has kept the
mines tanning on three-quarter time, thus
putting nearly one hundred thousand work
ers on what umounted to thtee-quarter pay.
By hindering competition it has restricted
the development of our mineral region. It
has advanced or depreaaod the price of coal
as best suited to Us purpose. It has main
tained the priceB of oosl supplied to mine
und to city trade, at figures ranging more
tnan one dollar per ton over aud above
prices ut which it sold the same article to
consumers located further from the mines,
but in territory tbat,did|uot come within tbe
terms of the agreement. It has advanced
charges for transportation in the face of the
lucl ih.t the net earnings ot tne carrying
companies belonging to the combination
amounted to about nineteen per cent, per
annum of the ooat of roads and their equip
ment, and of the further fact that the
charges are higher than they were twenty-
six years ago, though the coet of tranport
iug a ton of freight doe* not to-day amount
to more than one-third of ita cost at that
time. By restricting production and by
advancing prices, it has crippled the van.
iron interests, decreasing the demand fn.
anthracite coal in the reduction of
THE FIRST SHIPMENT
Of Colton Over the Cov.listen amt Macon
Kalin ad—Other Note*.
The first shipment of cotton, or freight
of any kind, over tho Covington and Ma
con railroad was received in Macon venter-
day. it was a lot of cotton raised by Mr.
Ed Morton, of Jonea bounty, and was
loaded at Morton’s station and brought
to Mkcou in a box oar by tbe
handsome locomotive Empire State, with
Mr. Tom B. Holmes in obarge ot the throt
tle. The train stopped at the junction at
the park, where it was unloaded.
Captain George W. Holmes was in
the city last night aud reported
that the long-lookedfor shipment of rails
fer tbe road will soon be carried out. He
has on hand almost enough croasties to
build trie road to Alliens. When the rails
reach his camp the tracklayiug will be
pushed forward without delay.
The iron bridge across tho river ia bfiug
built as rapidly aa possible. A portion of
tho structure ia already in position
A parser gor coach will leave Macon with
a tew fricnoa to-day at 12 o'clock and re-
TOWNS AROUND US.
A PROBABLE WIFR-MUBDKR IN SA
VANNAH FRIDAY NIUHT.
A N'sro Shoots It’s Wife Through the Hr.-r.-t
—Havann.lr's New Public Iloilfllng—
The Muddle tu Chatham Pol
itics- Other Points.
Savannah, October 2.—What may prove
to be a case of wife murder orcurred in a
basement room near Gaston ami Abe'corn
streets about midnight last night Allen
Powell, a young negro recently employed
at the Western Union Toll graph office, did
net treat bis wife, Rosa, well and -otne
months since they separated, and Powell
went to Florida, where ha remained until
about a week ago. She received him kindly,
but refused to live with him again,
stating that aho was well ‘ satisfied
with her place. He oame to see
her frequently, tint aho remained firm in
turn about 0 o'clock, giving tho passengers her determination. Last night Powell made
an opportunity of seeing tbe road and en
joying the afternoon near Clinton.
Tho people tu Jonea county are expect
ing to come to tho State Fair on this
road, and Manager Frobel will not dis
appoint them, -f possible to get the mate
rial with which to push forward tho track
laying. It is almost certain that Judge
Roland lto*H, aud many other good men
of Jones, sod perhaps, Jasper, will come
over for tbe first time on a railroad at that
time. It is almost certain that many things
for exhibition at tho fair will bo brought in
over the road.
A COLunr.D n( I1UUL, MA'M.
LITERARY WOMEN.
In Jail on tha Chstge of ltateltrg Money
Order Figure
Addle Fulton is a S'tcr-n year-eld colored
school teacher at Buena Vista. Her sweet
heart is Sherman Barlow, of Amertonv, and
on tbe 14th of September, so it is alleged,
was reqnested by Addle’s mother to buy u
money order for oue dollar aud a
half and send it to Addiu in Buena
Vista, The money order, was
purchased and sent In due course of
time it arrived at ita destination. When it
was presented to the postmaster for pay
ment, that official noticed a slight discrep
ancy between the {order aud bis ad
vice. Tbo first called for one dollar and a
half and the other for five dollars and a
half.
The order was not paid and an i xamlnation
revealed tho fart that a semi-circular mark
bad been attached to tbe figure, aud in
other words ibe amount had been raised.
Post-office Inspector Jas. D. Williams was
given the case and npon hia affidavit Ad-
die was arrested, and yester
day she appeared before
united States commissioner tor her pre
liminary bearing. The testimony of Bar-
low, the sweetheart, and the poetmaater at
iron ore*,, foiriug iron furnaces «WT Americas was heard and the case oontinuid
Something About the Way a Great Marry of
Them Hr*a*.
Olive Thorne Miller ia far from tidy.
Kate Field has exquisite taste in dress.
Frances Hodgson Burnett wean u.-sthetic
Miss Mnrfree (Charles Egbert Craddock)
dresses very plainly.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps drosses carelessly
ami with little regard to fashion.
Mrs. Sherwood is one of the few literary
women of America who dress really well.
Celia Thaxter is frizzed and banged, be-
rnched and beribboned, aud to are Lonise
Chandler Monlton and Ella Wheeler-Wil
cox.
Lucy Larcom affect* a Quakerish style,
and is frequently seen in a little, fiat, old-
fashioned bonnet, trimmed with a single
bow.
Charlotte Bronte's clothes were very sim
ple and quaint. She is said to have been
"dainty as to the fit of her boots and
gloves.”
Among the literary women of to-day Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe 1* usually ill-dressed, and
her “two scribbling daughters,' as she calls
them, follow their mother's example.
Mrs. Anagnos, Mr*. Howe’s lamented
daughter, the gitted founder of the Boston
Metaphysical Club, ws* excessively nntidr.
Her collar, when she wore one at all, was
invariably crooked.
Jane Ansten, though neat, waa quite re
gardless of the fashionable and beooming,
and Maria Edgeworth’s dress wss said by
one of her contemporaries to be “neither
beautiful nor fashionable.”
Grace King, the new writer to whom
Charles Dudley Warner is acting as literary
godfather, is with eccentric and untidy in
her sttiro. Her hair usually look* as « i«
had been brushed the wrong way. end her
hat seems to be chronically defying the laws
of gravitation.
(lanrge Sand was entirely indifferent to
whaVs'he summarily dismtLed as "the sUly
vanities of finery,” snd “sooffrir pour etre
belle" was whstshe invariably declined to
do. Doting her retirement st Nshant she
frequently Adopteds boy's oostum.focher
rough country walks, donning a blouse
American porta,’ also the West
*etth»«. M . w ®' 1 M th * P***: and gaiter*.
toailT t o! “F line that has been or can ; 8 „
tJr'F he constructed. Nor is this *11, T1IE ROPE BROKE.
"* lUh-m' 1 t h ® M 11 * *°°lh from Quitman Throw. » Honirod Foat-Ow
4,!,“*®*“’ keeping on the west stde of Tbr ** ... _ Twu ratallj lajxred.
hn,n„ ,* 0c ? w *ll afford facilities for con- I * tU *f\ . _ , ,r>«cUl to the
*j, JJ! In? hot forest ia Florida into mon- Cun-zoo, October -. says
2*“® "he the entire line from Macon to j Times from Charimton. w«« »irg ia, i
it**?’'* 111 , w henfecHilieis render it pos-1 at Cjperwo. .mining vUtagj^ he-nror,
I fcal-hy?** »n agricultural oountry iu 1 .ryette coun'. .1 Rich-
53*.tSSStfStfSisatSSSSS
|*££^tewiUh.T.wSght with any &? "SK^tS U jumped
I WI !*J"S£££f ST oertpaut* a hand
of blast and piaciug nearly alt tho industries
of Eaateru 1'- i-irsylvania at the mercy of the
managers of ibese companies "
The Governor also called attention to the
Trunk line pool, which ho says by Us ar
bitrary power bulda perpetual menace over
the material interests of the country.
In closing the Governor says: “Against
such combinations the individual is help
less. Tbe commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in creating corporations that are members
of the Anthracite coal combination and of
tbe Trunk line pool vested them with the
right of eminent domain and other fran
chises of a public nature. They ewe cer
tain obligations to their creator, and one ot
there ia to avoid the infringement on the
right of individuals, or the general well-be
ing of the State. Their interference with the
natural current and condition of trade haa
been in violation of what is believed to be
sound public policy, and against the
beat interests of the State.
It prejudices the public aud eppreases indi-
eiduals. It is a perversion of the puipuse
for which they were created,
“ t hese facts, which have been reported
to me measurably authenticated, I deem of
sufficient importance to rater to you for
your consideration, and for such notion a*
the circumstances may warrant,”
It ia understood that Attorney-General
Cassidy will at once proceed against the
cool pool, but in what manner he has not
yet decided
This is considered one of the most im
portant step* taken by the State adminis
tration, and wsa not decided npon until af
ter a very careful consideration.
FATAL POWDER EXPLOSION.
A ushleil Cigar Falls Into Healva Fltlort
with Powder wad Cnusv Heath.
Chicaoo, October 2'—A special from La-
Fayette, lnd., says: A horrible and fatal
explosion occuireu st Btinghnrst, Carroll
county, yesterday. A man named Britton
came to the store of Sbanklin A Kearns for
some powder. Mr. Kearns, with a lighted
cigar iu his month, poured ont the powder
from a large can into the scales. Acciden
tally his cigar was knocked from
hia mouth into the powder, which exploded
with great violence, tearing ont the front ot
the building, and scattering goods into the
street. Mr. Kearns'* arm was broken in
two places, his shoulders ware dislocated,
snd bis bead and face were burned In a
frightful manner. He died in a few boon,
in intense suffering.
Britton hail both arms broken and wss
teiribly burned. His injuries are fatal.
Shelving fell on Mr. Hhanklin and serious
ly injured him.
FIFTY-TWO DAYS AT SKA.
The Perilous Voyage ot Sailors I,*ft on e
Barren Island— A Shipwreck.
Sax FnAxciaco, October 2.—Tbe steamer
Alameda, which arrived to-day from Syd
ney and Hooolnln, brings news of the loss
on July R> of the British ship Dunnaltar
Castle on Ocean Island, 1,200 milea from
Houoluln. The Donnaltar Caatle left Syd
ney July !> for Wellington, California. All
tbe crew reached shore in safety,
hot ea the island i* barren, seven of
them left in an open boat for the Sandwich
Islands, which they reached after a peril
ous voysge of fifiy-two days. A relief
Steamer left Honolulu on the 141b of Sep
tember tosneoor tbe remainder of the crew,
consisting of twenty-two persons, and waa
expected back October 1st.
Gcroalmo Corroborated.
Has A*toxio, October 2.—Gao, David 8.
KUnUv. deputy commander held a Jong
iourvM* Vito Gerooimo and Kalahaa
jeetarday, and it ia undentood that
Geronimo corroborated tbo report of Gen*
etal Mil*a, regarding the eonditione under
vhich the Indian* *anentered.
until thU u/urui&t; to hear tho evidence o!
tbe DOHtnmHtcr nt Jbiena Vivta.
Audio U a yotiupinb looking girl of a gin-
gt-reako but*, aud ih uou-cjiumittul in ber
uLhwerB. She i« in jfil.
P. T. HAHNUM Id COMING.
The Combined Show*—JBjrlad* of Attrac
tion* and Waturr*.
Ill* pr***nt toHon form* th* *lxth In th*
pact that bind* togwtbvr P, T. Btrauu'* OrettMt
Hhowru Earth and th*gr*at London Olrcn*. tb*
two bliwat *how« tbi* country *v*r produced, and
iow and forevar more from tula Uni* out varlUbly
•n* iuMvparabl* *nt*rprl*« under thn Arm tiatn* or
I*. T. Uatnuni H <3o. in presenting tb* magnificent
combination tbi* y*ar. It can safely b* said that
everything of *uy value a* an object of measure,
•ourre of amusoment and laughter, or that pro
duce* delight, afford* lnRtruction. cau*ea wonder,
crsaU* aatonUhueut or in anyway conduce* to tb*
Innocrnt recreation of tbe public 1* this year to b*
found within ita mammoth tenu. f .VJO.OOO ba* been
expanded iu purcboaing uoveltie*. feature*, wonder*
and marvel which, added to those already pos
sessed by three monarch* of tbe show world, ren
ders tbe exhibition truly an immense one in each
and *11 it* many deportmeD'*. To enumerate Its
myriad* of eurprleing feature* would be to occupy
too ranchsp*ce; suffice it (bat th* show consists of
a triple circus with three full comj-onle* in three
big rings, elevated stage performance*, a Homan
hippodrome for the*xpoaliion of the numberle**
thrilling race*, a ameaui of living human and
other wonders, two monster double msuageri** of
th* rarest wild beasts, birds and reptile*, an ele
phant pavilion containing a herd of thus* big ani
mala, besides clown elephant aud others, all trained,
The huge canvas be* a seating capacity of 'io.too and
r* fully eight acre* of ground, while th* other
tent* ere simply number!***. Four train* of car*
or* necessary to transport the stock, cage* and ma
teria*- ; and b* pay roll contain* th* enormous nuin
ter of NJ0 names—truly * mammoth show. 210
perton* employed In advance in various capacities,
and 300 ia stated oath* number of It* performers,
who or* to be ***n in 100 acts of a startling charac
ter. Th* greet free street parade will take place tbe
morning ih* ehowe arrive, after which two per-
foruioncee will be given, at 'X and H p. m. Tha *n
tire show will be here on October 13,
A Panel nt Fraud,
Mention boa been made several times of a negro
who raises fend* occasionally by soliciting contri
bution* from sympathising people with which to
bury some dead relative. . The police succeeded in
stopping one of tbe most notorious who was work
ing the city, bat it now appears that the country is
being victimized.
A few week* ago a stoat negro with agingercaki
coat of complexion nomad McCarty, went through
CoillMvUi* and bUnaotivllle asking money to
fray the expenses of burying hi* child. H* ■
the child died on Pleasant Hill. Last %
the child attained full growth and died on Mr
Will Laney’a, on Copt. Park’s piece at Holtoo, and
McCarty waaUd help to tend lam a short distance,
to be buried among hi* people, and many other
reasons for levying contribution*. Various earns,
varying from a dim* to e dollar, were donated.
He wee eft nrards seen fn a drunken condition et
Berkner’s store, three miles from town, the burial
money perhaps paying for tbe ilqnor.
People In toe neighborhood of Holton shonld
keep a lookout for McCarty end bis convenient
! *‘* brought
or * people along U
. r LuT IauUv tnjar.Lg the i *ere to be rogmnled a, prier r.tra
well and ; feet, killing bcott and - J • and their Live, aparod.
the rout* by ether two.
The Endive tMtMsjr,
7 he tolly sheets forth* general Hut* election
next Wednesday war* prepared in the ordinary’
office yesterday.
This la the general Hut* election for Oovernor
and 8 nto boose officer* and for member* of th*
General Assembly.
In addition to the ticket for the various officer*,
an amendment to the ooneUtutlou will be voted
upon, namely, that section relating to the aid for
f'isabled Confederate soldiers. Th* amendment le
to erticl* 7 aectton 1, paragraph 1 of tbe constitu
tion of lb77 by the addition of tbe following word*
“And to make to make suitable provision* for such
Confederate soldiers a* may have b«*n permanently
injured in each aervt e,” so that said senterco
when so amended shall read a* follows; **To sup
ply tbe soldiers who lust e limb or limbs in tbe mil
itary service of too Coufodeiote HUUe with auiUklo
artificial Umbe during life, and to make soluble
provision* for each Confederate soldiers ov n
neve been permooeoUy injured tu such service.*
Tbe tidUU on Wed* sod ay will have printed on
them th« words “MUradon” or -max ratification.''
Kind Be Went.
About un months ago Everett Tanner, a negro,
from Irwin county, wee sent to the penitentiary ‘
Alban*. M. Y. for perjury. Twtudoj Ever ..
made bis eppeerence In Macon, returning a full,
fladged ebneemker. having he* taught tee tnult
during hi* Imprisonment. He e*j* he bad moat
comfortable quarters. —~~ * **
*• * «g
and then. r
other amusement*
of learning a good
of sentence bae nptrud th<
cletbee. five dollars and a to
v* Un^.kMIw. lie......
»f a. [An m., a. UgUd U
bis uppenrsmctr ami remained talking with
bis wife and another woman wbo waa in
tb, room nntil about 12, when be arose and
■aid:
“IVell, lleht me oil, now, and I will go.
Kuna picked np tho koroaeno lamp and
atarted out the door into the parmage way to
light him out, when Powell grabbed his
gun, a doul le-barrelled breach-loader, and
aimed it at her. Rosa dropped tbe lamp,
which -xploded, and at tho wine time Pow
ell fired. The ball took tffect iu her left
breaat. She waa ao oloae that the hand of
her dreeti waa badly bu-nt. Powell mado
hia eacape. His wife was very dangerously,
perhaps fatally, wounded
A constable named Burk* got into an al
tercation with a woman near Lanri 1 Grove
cemetery last night about a bill of eoats. In
the melee the constable knocked the woman
down with i chair, lie will be prosecuted
C. M. Auzit, special agent of tne tna-iury.
with Collector Wheaton, to-day bad a con
ference with the members of the board of
trade with reference to tbe location t the
new government building, to he Used aa n
poat-offloo and court house. lie
will make hia recommendation
in a few days. Tho building will be within
a short distance of the buaiuesa oentre of
tbe city,
The p ,
the f Actions ..to prosecuting a vigorous cam
raigu. Fortunately It will bo briei. There
lave been no developments of interest to
day, except that Dr. Duueun, vice chairman
of tbe Democratic committee and of the
party of tbe county, who presided at the
great mass-meeting, has declared bis inten
tion to back the nominated ticket, and
contends that the party ia fully Iround to
sustain tbe nomination as against the ticket
composed of the present legislators,
r.r'avll],-Co«,vl£Ud o! Harder.
Ei.ijivii.li, October 1.—The owe of the
State va. UuarWa Blackman, oharged with
the murder of S. J. Tender-, was called last
Monday. Messrs. J, G. Mathews, R II.
Wilkinson, E. F. Ilintou and J. 8. McCords
appeared for the defense, and Meears. 0 R.
Hudson solicitor-genera!, E. M. Britt, E l
Simmons for tha prosecution. The defense
was exorptionally strong and able, consid
ering their drnperate ease and the couolu-
aive evidenoe of the defendant's guilt. A(
6 o'clock Thursday evening the case waa
given to the jury, and at H-.'M p. m., they
Drought iu a veruiot of “guilty.” The oa-e
will probably be agaiu appealed. It will
lie remembered that Blackman waa tried
on the same edarge a year ago and oonrict-
td, the v-rdiet being then as now. and
ha urns sentenced to he bauged tbe li b ot
last November Tbe ease was carried to
the Supreme Court and remanded. The
community beta are aatiafiid of the guilt of
the accutcd aud are very weary of the law'
delay.
Judge Fort sen lanced him to hang o: the
2Rth of November next.
The evidence waa all circumstantial, but
sc strong uo one doubts his guilt.
Ha, lieu Butler's 1'ioctlvltjr.
Carroll County Times.
It is said Norris, the condemned Haral
son oonnty murderer, hides every spoon ho
can get. The jailer informed ua that he
gave him at different times a spoon to eat
with, but they were not returned with the
vessels, neither could they be found. The
jailer also informed us that Norris said that
it would do no good for a board of physi
cians to examine him for be was not lonane,
neither would it do any good to send him
to Hiiledgeville. The gallows, on which
he waa to have been executed, is already
irspared, and it is the opinion of many of
iuebanau’s citizens that he will bo huog
October 10th. , *
rlc.
Nearly fifty crates cf Georgia persimmons
wtre shipped to New York from this place
on Werlncsdsylast. A bandsomeprofit wan
mude upou this crop last aeaaon. Now, if
some one wonld establish a 'pos-ruiu ranene,
we could give Mr. Yankee an insight into
Uncle Tom’s” «nd “Aunt Dinah's” life
never portrayed by Mrs. Stowe.
CHURCH MRt-H.
cssiihist Wb!?»! HnrnrliM Clmrrh Pan*
pie ss to the Hut nluff of Churches.
The editor ot the limit* w York Advertiser,
having an idea that cbfirche* seldom burn, and
viewing them a* vrry desirable inaurance risks,
•ugaesta that t. general ■ jstem ot mataal tniurauce
be entered into by all the eoupMk religious organi
zation* or the country, with » vlow to reducing the
cost of insurance on chnrch MUlcc*. tVh- mipon
th* Chronic!*, a prominent weekly Imuran. .* Journ
al of New Yurt city, which ha< eiitAblinhed quite a
reputation as a compiler o ftreM»ti*‘ic, j.r..
o .mment upon tho Advertlaer’a id*•* km r>liownr
During the eleven year* ending with i.o&i
chuiehea of various denominations were burned in
thn United Ota tea Tbi* give* an avarmo* of ni ety.
six fire* per year, eight fire* per month, uo fire*
per week. The average church fire tinring Ing und
1KH0 caused a property Ian ot Ou tbi- na
si*, tbe whole number of ftiafi tolM ttoni ««■
period caused a property loss of about Ate and
three fourths rrillloe of 4 !!•*•.
If we may asanm* for a moment that tho chu h-
men of the United HLatos should be eo abort-aUht-
td as to resolve to luaur* themselves and cast axlde
as unworthy the OMistauce will h they ic.. lve from
non-churchmen through “Insurance machinal)* in
the ordlnanr way," it le plain that the contribution
box would be perpetnaby on tbe move t • make
good tbe ioMM-a by fires “here below." Twice a
week th* “contribution* or ratner aaseasnieuta"
provided for by th* Advertiser would heve to be
A Murderer mill nt Utge,
Kavaknah, Ga., October 3.—Kona Powell
who waa shot by ber buHbaoil bight before
lout, died butt night, and her remninn were
tuki n to her former home nti heater, 8. C.,
for interment. Powell hnn Dot been cap
tured, nod it in anid that no Attempt hnn
been unde to catch him.
hTATK NKWH.
A Had Accident.
Booth Georgia Clarion.
Mr. ThotuAH Holland, of Poore’H Mill,
Colquitt county, wan a punenuer fr
Thomanville on the north-bound cannon
ball train, passing Cam ill» just niter mid
night, on hut Friday night He wa* «ouod
asleep when tbe tram r. ached thed« p »t In
n f-w minutes after it lrtt he awoke and
nak< d Conductor WightmuD to put him off.
Thin w&h <ton«*, he **>*, near the trvntle
ficro»a the slough ju*t above town. Later
in the n glu the attentio • of Mr. Burt An
dc-raon, Mr. Laban lUckley and home ne
groes waa attracted by crivs of distreae, aud
ou going un tbe road they found Mr. Hoi-
laud with his left leg badly mnbgied. It
wm fractured below the knee and the
bones were protruding tbrongh the
tleoh. He hod crawled gome dis
tance toward town. He was taken to the
depot end kindly cored for bj Mr. W. W.
Culh-n.H, the agent of the rood, Mr. Glenn
Kwntz, the night watchman, and others.
Dr. Wood wm summoned and the wound
skillfully dremted. A telegram won oent to
Superintendent Fleming, wbo replied, mhe
Always docs in such cases, "For humanity’s
sake have the unfortunate man cared for
snd provided with necessary comforts. M
He wss carefully moved to the residence
of Mr. Hwatz, 'where he receives the kindest
attentions. Dr. A. F. Taylor, of Thomas-
ville, the surgeon of the rood, came up ou
the Saturday’s morning train snd rendered
all possible assistance.
The Nutting Hro*oo.
North Georgia Citizen.
The nutting season is here, and gay par
ties hie to.the woods every pleasant after
noon in quest of chsatnats, chinquepine,
hickory-nut* sod boxe s. As the crop of
nuts is large this season it is no unusual
thing for these parties to return after • few
hours with bssksta amply laden. By
the way, the habit of cutting the limbs
from the ch« tout trees, in order to secure
the fruit, should be stopped. Where many
of the limbs sre lopped off, the tree dies,
snd even though it survives the mutilation,
tbe succeeding crop of nuts will be greatly
diminished. Unless this useless desuue-
L u ese6ce the chestnut tree will »oon be-
t :r .1.1 IL ■ < ■■ . r, u : r»
L-. *ryef rt»L J u-nl to iru-rve the
tree not to destroy ih
tic*.
We notice that the Advertiser speaks of churehca
torif*. The fire record contain* almost as many
churches aa sew mills or printing offices
Inoeudiariem. lightning and imperfect heating
apparatus are the tbren chief causes of church fires.
No style of architecture is more open to criticism
on acoouut of Ita comhnstable n»‘uro than tha
church architecture of the present day.
We jafige from the Advertiser's belief that a mu
tual system of Insurant* •meed not coot an extra
penny," *tc., that in addition to their present dutle*
of writing sermon■ and lifting mortgagee, clergy
men might be expected to ran the ne «r sort of Insu
rance machinery. I? Gil* !••«,*• *n t>it»r»*tin0
item of tenor m\r information, it may t* worth
knowing that th*prrwrat fire loo* by the destruc
tion of churches is sufficient to pay every clergy
man in the country an annual pension of $100 or
more.
So every time a member of th* ctmgfvgftiioa
looks et hi* p«»tor be should recollect that be (tho
pastor) represent* *very year $100 or more of
church property burned, burning or to be burned.
If every ciorgyiuan he* a church, then l*t It be
borne in mind that hie congregation will have to
contribute every jeer, under ta* Advertiser* plan,
not lose than $10 to rebuild destroyed churches.
On th* whoU. It would *eem tob* wise on the
pxrt of church members to avoid narrowing their
chance for in lemnlly to their own numbers end to
allow outsiders th* privilege of helping to furnish
th* eleven thousand dollar* per week, which for
some time he* been about tb* amount of tho
church Are lose. When you think about It, there t*
something strange in th* feat that while there U
only one day of worship per week, two churches
are burned per we k. Iu other words, there la a
church fire for every Sunday aud on* for every
Wednesday night prayer meeting.
A YOUNGWOMAN .MURDERED.
U,r Hurl) Found Iu ■ Well—A Trump flap.
W-tl tu bu thn Munl.r.r.
St. Lduik, Heptnmbnr 30.—A spsoinl
from Furminffton, Mo., ssjrs: A Brutal snd
ho-rible mnrusrof s yoaug woiuuu nsmsd
Annie Vnstb, dsui(bt«r ot ■ respeoUbls old
Gertnau niautd 1‘aUr Vostli, wss oon m.t-
terd In st. Gcnetrtsrs county, about ud
niilss from this piece, ysuterdsy. While
tbs mother of tbe young women
wss absent st u neighbor’s end the boys
were At work in thn fiebi, some one went to
the house, murdered b.r snd throw her
body in the well, whore it wss found by the
family. Some of the fnrnitnre drawers wets
Opened, ss if robbery wss the object of ths
munler. A tramp who had been to the
house earlier in the day end bod asked for
something to eat, is supposed to be the
murderer. Officers sre now on his track,
snd shonld be be caught and brought to this
vicinity, be will doubtless be lynched.
AROUND THEWORLDIK CO DAYS,
The I n,trot Trip on It.card From Nyrln.r ta
Ban Francisco.
Sax Fuancim o, October 2.—The steamer
Alameda, which arrived to-day, made tbe
fastest trip on record between Sydney and
Hon Francisco, her time being 23 days, U
hours and 30 minutes, whieh beats tha bent
previous record by six hours.
The Alameda wss detained at Auekltnd
for six bonrs on September IS to
allow merchants to answer their
mail, which bod just arrived
by the steamer, thirty-seven days from
l,ondon. This mail wss sent east to-day.
It will leave New York for Liverpool Satur
day next, and is expected to arrive at the
latter place October 16th. This will usks
the time o( tbe trip from Auckland to Eng
land, via tbe United Statee, five days leas
than from England to Auckland by direct
.tamer. It will also reduce tbe time of
tbe trip around the world to sixty nine
days, ________
CHARLES TON. -
No Shock*-A It:£ excursion Prcnx Itlch-
mottifs Washington and Baltimore.
Ciiahlcatox, October X—There bare
been no shoeks here in the put forty-eight
hours, and only two or three slight tremors
at Summerville. The weathet wax pleasant
to-day, and cool enough for light overcoats
snd fires. Religions servieaa were held by
all the congregations. Th. Presbyterians
held a anion meeting at Westminxter, and
tbe other congregations worshipped wher
ever practicable in chnrch buildings.
To-day about 800 sxenrsioniats arrived by
the Atlantic Coast line, many coming from
Richmond, Washington and Baltimore. Tho
proceeds of tha excursion will be tamed
over to ths reiki fund by the Atlantic Gout
line and connecting roads jcin:r.„- in tho
excursion.
On* Hundred MlI<-« «»u a. Hirji le.
Boorav, October 2.—Tb«- AuiiM.il ICO
mil* race of ifc.» Boh ton Bicycle Club to-day
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