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' A BIG CRASH
•\Vhich was Like Unto a Mild
Earthquake.
THE FLOYD HOUSE PASSING AWAY.
iiw Kitcnpo from Dentil—Tho I.nst of a
M Hotel l '0»t Crombllne nuil Going
Out of Memory—One of the
Old Landmark* Gone.
People in the vicinity of Mulberry and
<p,ird atreetft were Friday startled about
quarter to two o’clock by a crash, and
,| ie stores in that section of the city were
soon emptied of their inmates, who thought
another earthquake had come along. The
crash was caused by a portion of the old
Floyd House, on Mulberry street, and for-
Lfly occupied by Mrs. Noone, falling
Jr ' evidently caused by the rain and
jt« tottering condition of the broken-off
6lr \way l back in 1832 the biicks that
formed the walls of this ancient edifice,
•ere moulded by hand at Evans Ilro.’s
brickyard, near the mouth of that little
stream which once wended its way from
the foot of College Hill to the river. The
stream is now a sewer and runs under the
Academy of Music.
The builder, a man named Carter^ was
ambitious, and he extended Ue building
from the alley all around the corner of
Mulberry and lip Third to the other alley.
It was constructed to accommodate travel,
hr the old stage lines and it was
A mo HOTEL
in those days. The way it got its name
WHS partly in honor of the Floyd Rifles
mid partly in honor of Gen. Hamilton,
who'married a member of the famous
fiord family.
All the old portion had passed away
■except that which fell yesterday, and a
portion on Third street next the alley, and
itwas condemned by Architect Woodruff,
for the city as dangerous, some time ago.
\ The building was three stories nigh,
sleeping apartments and above and stores
beneath. The old qucerly crooked chim
neys show how our forefathers built so as
to’utiliae all available space from garret
to cellar.
The lathing was not sawn but riven out
like they riv o boards in the pine region
to-day. It must have taken an awful long
time to have gotten them ready.
The old I'loyd House was the scene of
many grand events in its day. Here Gen.
Preston, Hon. William C. Dawson, Senator
Berrien, and other nantesi embalmed in
history, stopped; and from the balcony of
the Floyd House they thundered forth
those strong appeals for State sovereignty
that fired the Southern heart and shook
the nation from centre to circumference.
(Jen. Hamilton, who came into possession
of the house
SOLD IT OUT
to the father of Mr, T. C. Dempsey, and it
remains in the possession of the family
until to-day.
All around and about that little scrap
of the old house has been rebuilt, and that
portion recently occcnpied by Mr. Weeks,
«.* a butcher shop, is ol modern (lute. One
can look up at the end of the dilapitatrd
structure now, and sec theold timbers with
their queer mortises and tenons, as they
were cut by the carpenters of the olden
limes
It reminds one very forcibly of the open
ing Kene of John A. Stevens^ “Unknown”
ontke stage,pr. showing tho interior of
•otae old ruin, and fancy may play at
“hide and seek" among the broken gables.
During the war the old building wit
nessed many a sad scene. The Confederate
goTernraent converted it into a hospital,
tad there wsny a brave boy in grey lay
ud moaned Ills life away. One can imag
ine how dismal must liqvo been tho lot of
THOSE POOR CONVALESCENTS
Cribbed, cabined Jand confined” within
the narrow precicnts of one of those room*,
where all that could be seen of outward
ufe was a patch of blue sky seen through
the dusty window panes.
Wurata might lie written about that
•lone, hut it is sweet to remember that
th(*e days are no more.
The falling of the old wall did- not af-
•ect anyone very seriously, except Air.
necks, whose lloor gave wav, and Is now
urned down toward the bottom of the cel-
“r. Hut in a neighboring-building some
young ladies were badly frightened by
unearthly racket, and n young busi-
•essnmn across the way on Third street,
•tarted to turn on the fire alarm, hut
Icuml that tho smoko was only the ac
cumulated dust of half a century, and ae-
Wramgly desisted.
workmen were engaged at once to pull
®>*n the sides of the wall that remained
landing, snil soon the sound of the trowel,
aniiner and chisel of progressive Macon
o,i . h**"! there, ami a new and more
T? , r ‘ lle *bovc the mem-
nes.of a Half-forgotten era.
.... ,10 '' r IT FRIGHTENED THEM.
When the fim noise of the giving way
m heard, Mr. Weeks wasseated in a chair
e* r .a window nodding. Tho uoise of
”«k.ng timbers aroused him with such a
n that he jumped upon the counter,
gaining that the building was falling in,
ti.-roo 11 *’ *° * ,e fl°°r, and at the same mo-
tmr i ‘• l,rei ’iu ,, g building brought the
ai- i ib* ’’hop up suddenly and Mr.
“ j was “hut but of
„ . < ™ r »« if sent from
qn |t 1 wnd landed on all-fours
, 7; "hlewalk. In this instance the floor
, P n . d .«*> him, for it saved his life.
I 1 ’® butcher shop was the
leaking ,h„p n f George Bell, colored.
left the shop to go to Uernd's
“oTuiP**®? 1 leatl,er - B 'it for ‘his he
•JMfiave been killed, as the timbers
down through hU shop.
irj«i , f®J?l e h*r shop was the dim
uLir’" 0 - Chief " Henry Davis’. re*
to? 1 ’ a, ''.l •“ “ were fifteen or twcuty
R esting .linner. When thecrasi.
iut n I 1 ' -'' !’ r ou * °f ‘he door pell-mell,
r« none of them were hurt.
I Iromo h *." C * “••piibllran Party.
I in iT l ‘| llil a‘lcl(,ht* RnurJ.
*his a - v ! n 8 “‘ruggle of 1862, the
I cir„lltJ art ? * brilliant aoldier its
-j“; : e i f°r i’re,ident. .Getoeral Scott
1 bar v. ln *" a ‘ con ‘ e *‘ Hie votes of jnst
* U !~ nan * | y. Kcntuckv, Tonnes-
Uki„i 1 r. ,ch, "T‘ ,U and Khode Island. By
h*iifi»Sheridan, another
I Tr«i.l«,o o 1,1 '"’ “ ‘he candidate for
I •nsblefl 1 '* . Be P u hHe»n party might be
Ihtroi^l.;?? la ^ e “similarly graceful aud
I exit from the political stage.
iJh... _ Another Bod Turin.
I Valley enterpriiM.
IdSL*** » farmer who has 800 bnshels
* ' :••(,f L!** U *11 made last year, and
ton, _ “Tlflhboreare buying' Western
ICS,*!? - ? .Now why VtbhrW.
Ikhs-j H in on* way, and Ik
KreL., . ‘K’ “°t work.
I oLrL. Ur a some of the South*
ought to ffjST
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1888.-TWELVE PAGES.
A DESPERATE BATTLK WITH BATS.! nhscess on the brain, caused by a foreign
j substance, but how the substance got into
Advonturoor n “Dope Jinn” Inn Cnblo Cor 1 ,i, ‘i., ,
Conduit. *" e Jr:l n ‘here was no evidence to show
From the Mcmpbti Avalanche. Wrote Hlmselr a Divorce.
It is Hie custom of the Ninth Street l ' rom the Louisville News.
Cable Company, in Kansas City, and in "““Holmes, colored, living in the 79th
r_„, n y ..I, ■ ■ . ■ district, took a great notion to get rul of
fact, of .ill ti.e cable companies, to send , his better half and get him n new one.
men into the conduit* after the cable bas 1 Finding a woman who was willing to mar-
been stopped at piglit, to oil the wheel* or 1 ry him, he determined to make such a
pulleys over which the cable runs. The showing as would cause a preacher
grease used for ibis purpose is of the con
sistency of tallow, of which it is largely
composed. Beeswax is another constituent
of the “dope,” os the men call the
material. Tho presence of this “dope”
attracts to the conduit largo number* of
rats, which feed upon it. The rodents are
larger than ordinary housc-rnts and are
possessed of greater strength and courage.
One morning Edward Duffy, one of the
dope men, entered the couduit at the
opening just west of Walnut street. He
carried with him a bucket of dope and an
ordinary railroad lamp. Duffy was dressed
in a suit of yellow oil-eloth. such as butch
ers wear when at work in large packing
houses. A slight rain was falling and a
stream, of muddy water was running
through tlie bottom of the conduit. When
Duffy entered the opening lie left a com
panion, McMahon, on the outside. Duffy
had moved west to the second wheel, ana
was applying the dope, when a squealing
noise in front of him attracted his atten
tion. Through the gloom he could see
forms of. an army of rats pressing ou
toward him up to the inclining conduit.
At sight of the light the foremost ones
seemed endeavoring to stop, hut so great
was the pressure of the swarm behind that
the rats in the rear were piling pell-mell
over those in front.
Duffy had often encountered the rats
while at his work, but they hail never he-,
fore come so close to him.’ As they ap
proached he cried at the top of his voice
nnd gesticulated wildly in an effort to
frighten them, but they seemed impelled
Jiv some greater fear, and on they came.
1 he man saw that he was in danger, and
thrust his hand under his oilskin overalls
in a vain effort to reach his pocket-knife.
The cramped position made him awkward,
and in his hurry threw him from his bal
ance. The left hand, on which he had
been leaning, slipped on the muddy side
of the conduit, and he fell upon his face.
In au instant, before he could rise, the ver
min were upon him and bore him down by
the very force of their accumulated weight.
. Duffy says that in the danger of his po
sition lie seemed to think with a rapidity
that he never knew the human intellect
was capable of.. His whole life passed in
review before him. lie soon found him
self arguing the reason of the strange at
tack. He thought, as was the case, that
tho water had filled up tlie conduit in the
down grades, and had driven the rats up
tlie incline. All these thoughts occurred
to him in tho moment of his fall and the
rush of the rats. Tho next moment the
teeth of the rats called his energies to the
defensive. He could feel them on nearly
every portion of his body, but most cruelly
upon his neck and hands. Duffy screamed
for McMahon, and fought with the desper
ation of a dying man.
He clutched the rats in a grip that
crushed their bones into a pulp, but the
few lie thus disabled were nothing to the
host lie bad to meet. Fortunately for
Duffy, just as lie was about to succumb'
the lamp he carried was overturned and
tlie globe broken. In a second the flames
caught the rope and communicated to the
greasy coats of the rats. With sere
that were almost human, the rats lied
direction,- leaving long streaks of
flame behind them like tlie trails of living
comets.
McMahon by this time reached a trap
near Dnfl'y, anil catching him by the heels
drew himi more dead than alive, to the
street. Restoratives were administered,
nnd the sinking man was carried to a drug
stone, where his wounds were dressed. An
ambulance was then called, and Duffy was.
sent to his home. Tba affair was kept as
quiet as possible, ns it was feared Duffy’s
experience would deter others from en
gaging in the work.
A ItEMAUKAItl.E CASK.
marry them. So be tat down and wrote a
strong legal document in which lie used
the words said and aforesaid quite often,
and framed what he thought would pass
for a divorce. He added to the document
the names of W. L. Phillips, solicitor of
the county court, and P. J. Stratford,
clerk of tlie Superior Court. Armed with
the.home made divorce he and liis dusky
maid appeared before Rev. Burton, a col
ored divine, to be pronounced one. Tho
preacher examined tlie divorce, and con
sidering it genuine and according to tlie
requirements of law, he performed tho
marriage ceremony. Some of the neigh
bors have looked into the matter and dis
covered Sam’s fraud and they say they will
'require him to answer to the charge of
bigamy.
FREE FARMS.
The
I this week. The funeral services were con-'
• ducted by Itev. J. F. Griffith at the family j
I burying ground at Union church in the '
Mortgage Almost Un- K^airSTC^hS I
and eight interesting children to mourn !
her untimely loss. She was a consistent)
Christian, a devoted wife, affectionate
mother and a kind friend.
The railroad authorities are hauling j
large quantities of dirt preparatory to rais-!
ing the embankment at Beaver creek. This j
creek has caused much trouble of lato
years. It came very near running over the
embankment during the freshet last sum
mer.
Mr. J. A. Adams and daughter and P.
E. McDaniel attended the Jasper Festival
at Savannah during the week.
known in the Wiregrass.
POLITICAL NEWS
Judge Lc.ter*. l'lntforjn-Cliild Killed by
Kilting Potash in Thomas County—
Agriculturo in Mitchell— Ca
milla Notes—Triplet.
For Ayer’s
;
Twin. Among tho Cherokee..
From the Dahlonega Signal.
An old gentleman who lias lived in Ilab-
erriiam county for fifty yearn, a short time
ago was relating to us some of the Habits
and customs of the Cherokee Indians when
they lived in this country, and he told of
a barbarous custom practiced by theso In
dians, which will probably interest some
of the rising generation as well as being au
item of news to the older ones who were
not familiar with their habits. We give
it as related by him. The Cherokee In
dians were averse to rai-ing twin children,
and one of the twins bad to die. Various
way. were used in disposing of them.
If they were boys, and when a
few months old, were carried to the
nearest creek or river and thrown in, be
ing watched anxiously by those present.
The one which struggled the hardest would
be taken out to live, and the oilier being
allowed to drown. The Cherokces claimed
that the ono which struggled the longest
aud hardest would make the bravest war
rior, and was therefore saved from a watery
? ;rave. In case one of the twins was ,le-
ormed in any way it was the one to die,
nnd was usually carried to some secluded
spot, and put down to die from hunger or
be destroyed by some wild animal.
The gentleman said that he had never
seen nor heard of twin children growing
up among the Cherokces, and he could not
explain this custom of theirs, hut it was
nevertheless true.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Baxley, Ga., February 23.—I notice in
yesterday’s issue of your paper you ap
plaud Liberty County for not having a
farm in lur limits under mortgage. I
have just seen the clerk of this county
(Appling) and he assures me that there is
not a farm in this county under mortgage,
and I think the same can be said for most
all tlie counties in the wire grass region.
Indeed, the year credit mortgages, etc., be
tween farmers, merchants and bankers,
that seems to prevail in the upper and
middle portions of the State, are not known
in this section.
CAMILLA.
by
Farming Operations—Child Killed
Drinking PotaaU—Colored Triplets.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Camilla, February 23.—Some of the
watermelon farmers have been forced to
postpone an earlier planting, which is
more compatible with the time of year.
Many farmers are disposed of late years to
crowd the seasons. This is a fast ago so
far as agriculture is concerned in all of its
departments, as veil as inventions. It is
questionable whether this go-ahead-ative-
ncss is for the best in all cases, and it ap
plies to agricultural pursuits as well ns to
many others.
All vegetation is, however, growing rap
idly, and especially oats. Corn planting is
going on now, as the time of year lias about
come for this work. Irish potatoes for
home use are lojking well, with a good
stand. There has been more of this crop
planted for market this season than for sev
eral years. The truck farmers, ns well ns
in general agriculture, are becoming more
concerned on the variety or diversity ques
tion than heretofore. \\'c say, let the good
work go on until there is a greater weaning
off from “King Cotton.”
Dentil of n London Clerk from n Penholder
In hi. !!m!n.
From the London Time.
On F’riday Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, the
coroner for tlie Eastern division of Mid
dlesex, held an inquiry at the London
Hospital, Whitechappel, respecting the
deatli of Moses Raphael, sged 32, a com
mercial traveler, lately residing at 100 8t.
Paul’s road, Bromley-by-Bow, who died
on the previous dny in the above hospital.
Moses Davis, of the Stanley House Bow,
identified the body as that of his brother-
in-law. The deceased ha* been in witness’
employ for a numtier of year*. About six
weeks ago lie complained of pains in his
head, and also of shivers. Dr. Fordham
was died in to see him, and _ gave an
opinion that deceased was suffering from
bronchitis. lie ordered spirits *.o be applied
to the head, which was done, but the pain
still continued, and eventually it was de
cided to remove him to the hospital. Un
til the last few weeks the deceased had
been in apparently good health. He was
a wonderful brain worker, and had kept a
set of books most accurately. Henry
Muir Doyle, house surgeon attached to the
Isindon Hospital, stated that he received
the deceased on his admission. He ap-
penred drowsy, and complained of a pain
in his head. He continued in that state
till tho Kith instant, hut ap|reared quite
clear-headed and rational. On the 10th
symptoms of apoplexy appeared, and the
deceased expired at 12 o’clock the same
night. Witness said that since the death
had made a most searching examination of
the head and brain. , On opening the
former he discovered an abscess in the
brain. It was about the sue of a turkey’s
egg, and had evidently liccn there some
time. On removing the abscess from the
base of the brain a penholder and nib were
found protruding from the top of the
right orbital plate. The pen was ex-
credingly sharp, and together with
the holder measured nearly three
inches. This had produced
the abscess, and the abscesa had caused
death. The holder and nib were of the
ordinary kind generally used in schools,
and they must have entered the brain by
way of {be right eye or through the right
part of the none. There was no evidence
to show how long they had been in the
brain, but it was probable that they had
been there for a considerable time, as the
bone bad grown over them, and it was
with difficulty that they were separated,
lie bad examined the eye, but had failed
to detect any injnry. I‘ was, however,
quite possible'for such a thing to enter be
neath the lid of the open eye, and the
wound to heal up, showing no sign of fhe
entry. Tho widow of the deceased man
wss called in, and said that her husband
never mentioned to her anything aboot
being burl by a pen. The coroner said
ihatthecaac was the most e’tlraord inary
that bad tvi r come before him. The jury
found that the deceased bad died from an
A Voice from North Georgia.
From tho Franklin News.
The qiressure for the repeal of the inter
nal revenue is stronger in Georgia than in
most sections of the Union. The internal
revenue laws are said to lie obnoxious to
the people. The same can be Baid of all
other laws for gathering the taxes. Tlie
complaint does not come from men who arc
paying the tax but from men who are vio
lating the law. The repeal of the internal
revenue laws means there will be no reduc
tion of the tariff. We now pay a high pro
tective tariff on most of the articles of ab
solute necessity. Iron, clothing, sug
farming implements, etc., are all highly
taxed. If tlie revenue laws remain of fore
there must be a reduction of the tariff oil
something, nnd our Congressmen will
doubtless see to it that the reduction is
made (,n article* of ncro-ity.
Hatch Itlght, It,in,hill Wrong.
,un the Nciv York World.
Congressman Hatch i* economical
Democratically and incontestably right
saving that “as long as a dollar of the w
indebtedness remains unpaid, whisky and
tobacco arc fair subjects of taxation.’ 1
Mr. Randall is wrong in desiring to ex
empt these 1 ixurics, indulgences or vice
in order to qierpetuate war taxes on tlie
food, fuel, clothing and shelter of the peo
ple.
The expenses due to the war are: FV
(tensions, §80,000,000; for interest on the
public debt, $44,000,000: total, $124,000,000.
The internal taxes produce but $118,000,'
000.
The taxes to be first repealed or reduced
arc those on the universal necessities of
the people.
tier Girls All Hoys.
From the Wsrrcnton Clipper.
There . is a family in Warronton
which has never been blessed with the
smiling presence of a girl child, but In
this home may la< found lour of the finest
boys ever seen. Willi commendable energy
anil kindness (lie bovs in this fauiilv try,
by assisting the mother, not to make her
feel the loss ol a girl. One ol them, be it
said to bis praise, though he is still quite
young, call nuke a biscuit that would
tempt the appetite uf an epicure; an
other one is an expert in milking cows; a
third ono dusts a room so that one would
think the skillful hands of a woman had
keen called into use. And thus the moth
er finds herself surrounded by the best of
servants, whose only remuneration is the
hope of winning her approving smile.
Tlie First Colorist Administrator.
From the Dahlnncga Signs).
A colored man applied for letters of ad'
ministration a short time ago, has gone
through with his business and applied for
uml received letters of dismission. The
ordinary say* that this one is the only
negro who ever administered on an estate
in this county, anil that he went through
with his business quicker than any ad-
miaistrator ever In the county.
Wonderful Unlience.
From the Wsrrcnton Clipper.
Dave Bounds has boon ploughing In oats
this week with a whole drove of Texas
ponies. They would make any other man
use language a little too emphatic to paaa
as genteel in the presence of the fastidious,
but when they begin to paw the earth,
break trace chains, tear up plow stocks am
run over niggers, Dave only winks his left
eye a little quicker and chewa his tobacco
a little faster, all the time meditating on
the uncertainties of life.
Only Thirty-six Per Cent
Of those who die from consumption Inherit the
iltoenae. In all other esses It mutt cither be
contracted through carelessness, or. according
to the new theory ol tubercular parasites, re
ceived directly from others as *n infections
disease. Hut In either esse Dr. Fierce's "G "
Medical Discovery’’ is n positive remedy fi
disease in Us early stages. It Is delay that It
(lftngcrnuft. If you are troubtal with ibortneM
of breath, •|*lttin« of blood, night awcata or a
Uniterintt «*ou*u, do not bestt*** to procure thU
Movcrcign remedy at ouce.
Your reporter interviewed John Brim-
berry, colored, on Saturday last, about
whom we wrote you some months ago.
John lives on the plantation of Mr. John
Mize, of Pelhain. lie reports himself over
80years old; that he went with his master,
then of Augusta, Ga., to the Mexican war;
that he was 39 years old when he left
home.
In 1886 lie made seventeen bales of cot-
n, two hundred and fifty bushels of
►m, two barrels of syrup, good crops of
potatoes, peas, etc., with one mule, and
making a full hand himself. In 1887 he
made twenty bales of cotton, two hundred
and eighty bushels of corn, four barrels of
syrup, peas, potatoes and other crops cor
respondingly, with one-and-a-half mule.
John told of many incidents connected
with his war record. lie says that he
planting this year for twenty-five bales of
cotton and other things to correspond
with the same plow force and workers, all
of L-i- family, that he had l:i-t yt-ar. V
com -pondciit has known this remarkable
an! enterprising colored man for about
thirty years, and he looks now nea riy as
yoiug a* then.
Tlie delegates from our county give
KKSt favorable report of the Woycroo ag
ricultural convention, the best ol the’ age,
The Rev. T. C. Boykin, the State Bap-
tis'. Sunday-school evangelist, was in Ca
milla on last Sabbath, and occupied the
pu pil of the Baptist pastor, Rev. FI II.
Carroll, in the inurning at 11 o’clock, anu
at night. He also talked to the children
at 3:16 o’clock p. m. His sermon in the
morning was instructive and just such ns
all enjoyed. Ilia subject was the training
of cbildVcii. Ills lecture in the afternoon
was much enjoyed by the children aud the
old folk* as well. The sermon at night
your corrcs(H)mlcnt did not hear, but had a
most favorable report of it. His visit to
our place wss highly appreciated by all.
A new bouse of worship has just been
completed some two miles west of this
place. The ltev. 4V. II. Haggard, a Bap
tist minister. has been pastorot this church,
Hopefield, for a number of yfears, and to
him much of the credit and honor belong
for the building ol a large and beautiful
houseof worship at the above named place.
“Like people, like priest” is an old
aphorism, and applies to this case as well
as to many others. On the fifth Sunday in
April the union meeting of the Bowen
Association will convene at this place, and
at the same time the new church building
will be dedicated.
The Hotel Georgia remains in statu quo.
When it Hill be re-opened is not known to
the writer, lie hopes to be able to nqiort,
ere long, this bouse filled to overflowing.
Tbe hope is rather faint.
Colonel Gentry was in our town last
week in the interest of the Savannah
Times. Tbe Colonel is still a fluent talker
aud can present bis side of the qneslion in
a very favorable light. lie propore, to de
liver an address in Bennett’s Hall during
tuv term of our Match Superior Court for
the benefit of n Baptist parsonage, which
said denomination is making an effort to
build. Wa hope tbe Colonel will have a
large house, as, no doubt, tbe lecture will be
entertaining and instructive and, we trust,
a psjing one.
An attempt was made a few days ago at
a aelf-jail-ilelivory, by a white man who
was committed to our jail a short time
ago for a misdemeanor of some character,
to await the action of tbe grand jury at
the -March term of tbe Superior Court
Some friend or outsider furnished the
criminal with a piece of iron, with which
he punched a bole through the iron door.
These iron cage, are of the kind that defy
. Jones, of the seventeenth
* county, met with the
their youngest child
in,, years old, on last
IrinUi’iig potx-h that had
a tin can for washing
dottier. It was swallowed
lealli i n-in ■! (,n Tu, -day■
n in the lower portion of
LUMPKIN.
A Mail Dug Kllleil-Mcooplni; tho Nickels—
A Curious Heirloom—Proposed llanli.
Correspondence Macon Telegraph.
Lumpkin, February 22.—Last Sunday-
Master Sidney llaliiday killed a mad dog,
but not before it had bitten another dog
and a hog, both of which are confined to
await results.
The “flying-jenny" is taking the nickels
of the small boy and the darky at present,
and very rapidly does it go. It is quite a
show for the school children as is verified
bpr their constant attendance after school.
The combination is supposed to have made
$200 clear, this week.
Judge J. L. Wimberly went to Macon
to-day to bring his daughter, Miss Jamie,
home from Wesleyan to remain until she
recovers from a recent nttack of sickness.
Miss Del Carter possesses a curious me
mento of the workmanship of old times.
Jt is a beautiful seashell with the Lord's
prayer nicely engraved upon it in Roman
characters. This shell she received from
her great-grandmother. It has been in the
family more than fifty years.
The bank of Stewart county, which lias
had a charter for some time, is being talk
ed of again, and we hope it may gain foot
ing enough to be established. There is
nothing our county more greatlv needs,
right now, than good banking facilities.
Farmers and merchants here, as elsewhere,
need money in the spring, nnd as this is
one of most thickly settled and prosperous
counties in Southwest Georgia, a largo
amount of money is necessarily obtained
by the business men of this section. As it
is now, all this money must be procured
from Americus, Columbus, or Eufaula, and
the profit is stored away in these towns.
Ilacl we banking facilities, this large
profit would remain in our own town, and
the county would bo greatly benefited by
its convenience. A business man or cor
poration with capital would find it a pay
ing business here.
uJE.
An Krrnr In Nnmes Corrected.
Albany, February 23—[Correspond
cnee.]—In my letter in the Telegraph of
tiie 2’2d I wrote tiiat Col. C. B. \yooten
was favorably mentioned as a candidate
for Congress, but the name erroneously ap
pears as “Col. C. B. Martin.” Col. Wooten
is the gentleman referred to.
A Shotgun Goes to Pieces*
From the Fort Valley Enterprise.
On lo*t Saturday Mr. Lonnie Gullcdge,
brother of our townsman, Mr. W. F. Gul-
ledge, was out gunning and from some
cause the gun exploded, leaving only the
stock and a short piece of the barrel in bis
hands. The young man’s face nnd fore
head were fearfully gashed with the Hying
pieces of gun barrel. lie was brought to
towu, where I)r. J. T. Boss dressed his
woundri and made him as comfortable
possible. The wounds are not serious, but
are very painful, and will disfigure tho
voung man’s face to some extent. \Vc hope
he will soon recover.
Jlo Caught It for Her.
From the Lumpkin Independent.
A few days ago a dude, w hile walking
out with hU sweetheart, gathering violctH
nnd other early snring llowers, sdw a beau
tiful little Mtripet! animal near, which ap
peared so tame and fearless that he proposed
to catch it for his dulcinea to pet. He
caught it, but when he got home he had
urgent need for an entire outfit of clothing.
He is now enabled to Jot down one point in
the study of natural history.
Sarsaparilla, ami bn sure you get it,
when you want the best blood-purifier.
With its forty years
’y of unexampled suc-
1/ cess In the cure ot
Blood Diseases, you
can make no inis-
tako in preferring
Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla
to any other. Tho
fore-runner of mod
ern blood medicines,
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
is still tlie most pop
ular, being in great
er demand than all
others combined.
*• Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is selling faster
than ever before. I never hesitate to
Tecommend it.” —George W. Whitman,
Druggist, Albany, Ind.
14 1 am safe in saying that my sales of
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla far excel those of
nny other, and it gives thorough satisfac
tion."— L. H. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa.
*i Ayer'fl Sarsaparilla and Ayer’s Pills
are the best selling medicines in my
store. I can recommend them conscien
tiously.”— C. Bickhaus, Pharmacist,
Boseland, Ill.
"Wo have sold Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
here for ovetf thirty years ami always
recommend it when asked to name the
best blood-purifier.”—W. T. McLean,
Druggist, Augusta, Ohio.
41 1 have sold your medicines for tho
last seventeen years, and always keep
them in stock, as they are staphs.
4 There is nothing so good for tho youth
ful blcrkl* as Ayer's Snraanaiifia:” —
K. L. Parker, Fox Lake, Wis.
“Ayer's Sarsaparilla gives tho best
satisfaction of any medicine I have ia
stock. I recommend it, or, as tho
Doctors say, * I prescribe it over tho
counter.’ It never falls to meet tho
cases for which I recommend it, oven
where the doctors' prescriptions have
been of no avail.”-*-0. F. Calhoun,
Monmouth, Kansas.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,
PnEfABED BY .,
Dr. J. C. Ayer tc Co., Lowell, Mass.
Price f 1; ,1s Utile., Si. Worth $S a bottle.
NPKLCKUL^TKII ATTkAcTIO.N 1 T~
Over a Million DiMtribut^d.
Capital Prize, $300,006.
Louisiana State Lottery Co.
Incorporated by the Legislature in 18G8 for Ed
ucational and Charitable purpose*, and it* fran
chise made a part of the present State constitu
tion in 1879 bran overwhelming popular vote.
Its Grand single Number Drawings tnk4
plnco monthly, nnd tlie Grand Quarterly
l)r:i\vlngM, regularly every three mouth*
(March, June, September nnd December).
‘We do hereby certify that we supervise tho
arrangement* for all the Monthly and Quarterly
Drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery Com
pany, and ln person manage and control tho
Drawing* themselves, and that the same are
conducted with honesty, fairness, ami In good
faith toward all parties, and we authorize the
Company to use this certificate, with fat--si mile*
of our eiguaiurcs aiiucucu, iu ii» uuvciiiiw
ments.”
Tlie Spicndo
»f D.
And the artificial effects of cosmetic*, no mutter
how deftly applied, can neTermake beautiful or
attractive one who is subject to emaciation,
nervous debility or any form of female weak*
dcs*. These must be reached by inward appli
cation and not by ontward attempt at conceal*
meat, and tbe ladles may take hope f
themselves ntor«- radiant and U autifu
use ol Dr. Fierce’s “Favorite Prescript!
they could ever Hope to do by the aid <
pliancea of the toilet.
The cleansing. 1
ties of Dr.
qualtal.
the
district, of The
misfortune of lo*
1 •« ■! Min- :tml
Thursday,
been <li*-»-«»I
punx-f' bi
on Monday
. ilii
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.1 Mr. an.l Mr
last S.it.l
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1 Mr- ’ l .l/.NUr-lral’i, rifi.-r
- .,f ■H'ViTal month*, died :it hi
Absolutely r ure.
This powder never vane*. A marvel ot pur
ity. strength and wholesomenes*. More econora
leal than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be
*»!»! in competition with the multitude of low
iest. short weight i*Jum nr phosphate powders-
Solti only In ran*. ROYAL BAKING POWDER
COMPANY, MO Wall Street, New York.
dedSU'Wiv
COLD MEDAL, PARIS, lt> <e
BAKER’S
vm
anted absolutely pars
Cocoa, from vhk'i the excr-s* of
Oil boa been removed. It has*hre*
Um/t tAt ttrtngih of Occoa mixed
with Btoreh, Arrowroot or Sugar,
and ia therefore far moreecooom
teal, cotilnj Wu Man one cent a
cap. It te delicious, nourishing
|strengthening, easily digested,
id admirably adapted for inval
isos well as furpersooa In health.
Sold by Crocen everywhere
V. BAKER & CO., Mester, Mass.
Notice.
an order of the Court of Ordinary
inty, will be sold before tbe court
Bibb county on the first Tticnday
t* one hundred and ninety-two
nore or !•••■-. lying and being in
itrbt of Itibb county, tNitii.-ded
of K. K. Fork. c«*t by Ilollinga-
by Henry Jewhtt, west by Hubert
V^ttan l j"‘ 1
Commissioner*,
We, the undersigned, Hunks and hanker* will
pay all prizes drawn ln Tho Louisiana Htatc Lot
teries which may be presented at our counters.
.1. If. (Hil.l.NltV, rrew. I.oiiiwinna Nal l Ilk.
ril.Klii; I.AN.XI \, 1*1. H. Vifl Ilk.
A. BALDWIN, Pres* New Orleans Nnt’l Ilk.
CAUL KOIIN, Pres. Union Nnlloiiul Hank.
Grand Quarterly Drawing-
In the Academy of Music, New Orleans,
Tuesdny, March 13, 1XMH.
Capital Prize, $300,000,
100,000 Tickets nt Twenty Dollars each.
Halves, Kio; Quarters, *0; Tenths, *‘4.
Twentieths, Ol.
lut of nuns.
I PRIZE OF **W,U00 is JNyBOn
1 PRIZE OF 100,000 Is 100,000
1 PRIZE OF SO,000 is 60,oa>
1 PRIZE OF 2 »,00l) is 2&.0Q0
!I PRIZES OF 10,000 are— *jo,ooo
6 PRIZES OF 5,000 arc-. 25*000
©PRIZESOF 1,000arc—. 2..0JJ
100 “ . 500 arc—. 50,000
200 “ 300 arc—. co.ooo
500 ” 200 are— 100,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Prize* of I WO approximating to
t tW0,MU l’rizc are 50,000
zca of $U0 approximating to
9100,000 Prize are 30,000
100 Prizes of 9200approximating to
950,IWO Prize are. 20,000
Prize are.....
. 100,000
3,130 Prizes, amounting to 91,0.V>,(00
For Club Kate*, or auv further information
apply to the undersigned. Your handwriting
must l*e distinct and signature plain. Moro
rapid return mall delivery will be assured br
your tntlcNflngan Kuvelope bearing your full
address.
Send POSTAL NOTES, Express. Money
Orders, or New York Exchange iu ordinary let
ter. Currency by Express (at our expet i*e) ad
dressed .
31. A. DAUPlflN,
New Orleans., La.,
or 3L A. DAUPHIN,
Addri-Ht Itegifttcrcd Letter* to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL ll.VNK,
New Orleans la.
licauregoru and Early, who are
In charge of the drawings, isaguaninn eof abso
lute fairness and integrity, that the chances are
all equal, and that no one can possibly divine
what number will draw a Prior.
SCEKMlIKll that the payment of all Prizes
Is GUARANTEED BY FOUR NATIONAL
HANKS vf New Orleans, and the Tickets «re
slgtK’d by the Pividdcut of an In-titut: 11. whose
chartered rights are recogni/* 1 in the highest
Courts; therefore, beware of any imitations or
anonymous schemes.
Planters, Take Noticel
SMALL cl MALLORY
Is sole proprietor in Middle Georgia for
Soi.lT.U; PACIFIC GCA NO,
>OI.lT)I.K PA< lilt* ACID PHOSPHATE
AND DISSOLVED BONE,
For Caj'h or on Time. Qi-ods equal to
the liesL
Prices uncqualed by any rctijHinsibU
house.
Analysis furnished on application.
SMALL A MALLORY,
Third Street, - - Macou,Ga.
janl5dAw4m
WEAK Advice Free 1 How to let I