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j.YING LEAD IN COCHRAN
ROBINSON SHOOTS 0. R. V^ILLIS
THREE TIMES.
,Ninon
then Deltas a I’ohbo of Citizen,
Fires on Them-They Keturn the
* fire, Shooting Him Several '
Times.
it'iiban, Dec. 18.—[Special.]—Cochran
b Mn greatly excited today by the
liBg 0 { Mr. O. R. Wilfis, the contrac-
j Mr. J. J. Taylor’s building, by Mr.
Robinson, one of the workmen em-
Tier disagreed in some way about the
e Willi* was paying Robinson. Rob
bing under the influenceof whisky,
t his pht 0 ' and shot Willis three times
( in the breast and once in file hand,
[founds are thought to be dangerous.
I iiEFIBD any one to arrest him.
[obinson immediately went to a house
r by, and armed himself and said he
id any one to arrest him. The mar-
j had made up a posse of men and
(tout to arrest him, hut he had left.
Inothtr posse was soon made up and
|t in search of Rob.nson, whom they
Id somewhere near his house just in
Wof leaving in a buggy.
IDVASCE ON THE rOiSE FIBINO.
ben lie saw them he jumped out of
img;; and went to meet them, exclaim-
Ithat iie was ready for them, ami corn
iced firing on them. The posse returned
lire and lie was shot down, being shot
trersl places. The posse brought him
(town about 2:30 o’clock. His wounds
|erv serious. He is now under guard.
lilCKHATS AND PISTOL B ALLS,
r Affray lletween a White Alan and
Negro at Mnclicn.
[icben, Dec. 18.—[Special.]—A fatal
occurred here this afternoon be-
i Thomas Bailey (white) and Perry
l ind brother (colored), the former
I attacked with brickbats by the two
wrs. Bailey fired two sho s, wound-
terry in the hand and bowels. Bai-
lu seriously hurt about the head.
ie triable originated from some differ-
Jof opinion iu the unloading of a car
licks.
e sounded negro waa brought into
Itpci and attended by Dr. Bullard,
excitement prevailed for a time,
being a large crowd of negroes
lot. Bailey was immediately escorted
. Perry’s recovery is extremely
kful. Much trouble was anticipated.,
place is comparatively quiet at
GRO KILLED NEAR AMKKICUM.
j Ibe Motive of the Deed—The Mur
derer Not Captured.
tires, Dec. 18.—[Special]-At 8 p.m.
hbt John H. Williams, a colored
kas found dead on the America.,
i and Lumpkin railroad, near the
t of Mr. Qeorge'Turpin, two and
f miles from this city. His Bp
'S plainly showed that he had not
led bv the train. The fathl wound
ho inflicted on the,hack of the
hid been working on the Americus,
i sod Lumpkin railroad, and had
'dofl yesterday, and was known to
1 considerable money,
coa pointed to a negro named
(Wiggins aa his murderer,
itr Parker held an inquest this
After hearing all tbs evidence
y decided flint Williams came to
Jklrom a wound on the back ol
H, inflicted by some deadly weapon
Wads of Robert Wiggins,
kin hss not been captured.
lor “ttroNewALL 1 ’ jackson.
l&tSol'l'era Who Elretl on Jackson
Dlesnt Athens.
*1, Dec. 18.—[8pecial.]—Mr. Y. B.
I> leading photographer of this
itkia morning of pneumonia. He
■tife of North Carolina and had
I in the city about four years,
he war Mr. Clifton served three
► Stonewall .Jackson’s oommand
(•leg in bat'le. It is said that he
Rile in the great general’s corn-
done of the number who fired on
.{* through mietake the night
|WI. Mr. Clifton leaves a wife
lebildren to mourn his death.
fStOS ilkroT FOB ATHENS.
[ sit rumors today of a union
[f depot toon to be erected in this
• Covington and Macon railroad
leompleted to the Northeastern
1* lew days, where the Georgia, by
J 1 • “Y" track, can get on a level
fo'her roads. It ia W& that the
P*ad Macon has pnrohaasd eoo-
rPnipertv on either side of their
I***Mitchell siri'ft ■ r. — in". and
(mmg with the other railroad
*• to locating the union depot
In E TIIltoriLE WIDE OPEN.
at Alapaha Steals a
"W Train ami Makes OH.
f| Dec. 18 —[Special.]—A strange
reckless set by a drunken
1 this city today.
tbi' Brunswick mill
Kr’uue here this evening, was
»t Alapaha. The conductor
[7, r * tnl into the telegraph office
f'ketr ususl orders.
. Dy tile name nf Smith,
i “iiuxicated, was standing near
”*** the engineer left it, and
|jif ,,? *d a devili-h idea in have
■sta * x P c nse of the railroad
‘Dorr on A WILD BUN.
*u on the engine, laid hold
“••adpulled her “wide open.”
i under a full head of steam,
|a**»M run up the road.
move off] the engineer
' l, hi n K in the situation,
(is l . r,n gine standing by and
j ,l< d therun away freight
1 > uangerona chase of four-
xia , ? ect * < i*d in overtaking the
Just as it was approaching
nr’ 1 *ABELT PREVENTED.
• , -landing III! ill,. Ill 11ll
. 1 a very serums collision
I ■•'■"i.
rior« ' elrne, i whether Smith
ItjufthappcMdibat
iJl^ beiwtM’ii >< heilule
i» no telling the
•*<>'>« have been done.
A Killing Near .Xnnesboro.
Jonesboro, Dec. 18.—[Sptcia!.]—A kill
ing occurred last night about four miles
north of Jonesboro. Constable J. D. Lee
had a warrant against Homer Griffin (col
ored) and was attempting to arrest him,
when the negro began stoning and beating
him so severely that the officer was forced
to shoot him in self-defense. The negro
died instantly.
STORIES OF GEORGIA TODDLEIW.
It is said that little Jimmie Latimer ef
Eastman bears about as much personal
resemblance to the Hon. John W. Daniel
of Virginia as a bov of his ago could pos
sibly hear to a middle-aged man.
A citixen of Houston county went home
the other day and asked his wife if the
servant had killed a goat, according to
instructions. Before the wife could answer,
a young daughter spoke in reply i “Yes,
lapa, and they have nearly finished hull
ing it.”
Clarkesville has a very bright little
black-eyed 4-year-old hoy. Not long
since a young lady friend ' was visiting
his mother, and, noticing the little fellow,
said: “I think Elbridge has the darkest
eyes of anybody I ever saw.” The next
day he and his sister were looking at somo
pictures, when he said: “Oh, Dittie, my
eyes are so dark I can’t see good I”
A negro woman living in Sumter county
left two children at home Sunday while
she went to church. The eldr, beiqg only
10, gave the younger, 5 or 6-y»ars-old, a
teaspoonful of laudanum, playiDg doctor.
When the old woman got back the little
darkey’s spirit had “climbed the golden
stairs.” The older sister said: “I tlunno
it gwine ter hut 'im. He jist quit playin'
an’ went ter sleep like, an’doan wake up.”
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ROUNDABOUT IN GEORGIA.
INTERESTING NEWS NOTES FROM
EVERY SECTION OF THE STATE.
A Man Killed Near Kingston by h Train—A
Phenomenon Reported Near Thom,
usrllle — Randolph County*s
Colt Show—Hurglary.
The Wonderful Memory nf a 3-Year-Old
1111ml Hoy.
From the Chicago Times.
Blind Oscar Moore, the 3-year-old col
ored boy with a phenomenal memory, was
on exhibition yesterday morning at Cen
tral Music Hall before a large number of
physicians and surgeons. All expressed
wonder at the child’a marvelous powers.
Dr. S. V. Qlevenger, who has made a
close study of the little fellow’s mind,
read a paper giving the results of his
study and answered questions propounded
by his fellow-practitioners.
The distinction was drawn between
idiots who have been able to repeat any
thing told them and the blind boy, whose
reasoning powers are developed be
yond his years. The boy is
able to associate names with ob
jects. He recognizes people by hi# touch.
He was introduced to many of the doctors,
and pronounced the name of each. As ho
repeated the name of each he felt of a ring,
and if the doctor wore no ring ho felt of a
enff button. Ia this way he was able,
after touching the jewelry, to pronounce
the name of the doctor. Col. Bundy,
editor of the Religio-Philosophical Jour
nal, took tho blind boy in hand, but was
himseli taken in hand, and in reference to
his baldness was questioned very closely
abont who had been able to cut Ins hair so
close to his head.
Those in tho audience were given long
lists of questions nf a character to Ust
almost any grown person’s ability to keep
in memory—large figures and technical
problems. The wonderful blind boy
readily answered any of these questions,
mid culinti (I in French, German, Danish,
Polish, Russian, Greek, Latin and Chi-
ne.-e. His gii'iiilain, Ii. 1*. Ynmim!, said
he learned by note, but at the same time
appeared to comprehend what was told
him and all that he repeated in a degree
beyond his years. Sometimes an instre-
tion would need several repetitions before
the child could fix it in his mind, but
when once he had learned a thing he never
forgot it.
Neither tin* physician! nor the child’s
guardian attempted to account for the
wonderful faculty otherwise than as a
freak of nature in which certain sei ses
were developed abnormally. His great
mental power teemed, in fact, to puzzle
the detors quite as much as it interested
them. After two hours of steady talk he
seemed not at all tired, and was given up
as an enigma.
Cotiaelln on American Audiences.
From the Philadelphia Press, Dec 9.
1 hare been particularly pleased to find
that American audiences have come to see
us, have applauded us and then hove come
again to see us despite the fact that we
have offered them no elaborate stage deco
rations or mountings. Our scenery has
been of tbe simplest, our costumes simply
such as have helped to portray more fully
the characters represented. I think the
tendency to over elaboration of scenery
and over gorgeousness of costuming, is,
from what I hear, as apparent in
this country as on the other side
of the Atlantic, and it is a ten
dency which I consider contains an cle
ment of danger for the drama. Not that I
would counsel a return to the rude sim
plicity cf earlier generations in this
respect—fir from it. I consider that his
torical correctness of costumes is often an
essential part of a character, that harmon
iously painted scenery is always an ad
vantage to the actors, hut I think that the
danger lies in tho destroying of the proper
relationship hetween tho scenery and
stage mounting and the acting. The Utter
is tnc essential, all else ia subordinate.
Nowadays I am afraid there is a tendency
to sacrifice the actor to his surround
ings { he is merely used as a foil to
beautiful scenery or as a lay figure on
which lovely costumes can he exhibited,
and I was not a little afraid that when we
appeared with our commonplace stage
settings our audiences would find some
thing lacking. They might be pleased
with eur acting, bat they would demand
something in audition. Luckily 1 found
my fears chimerical, and I leel and my
comrades feel that such encomiums as we
have earned have been bestowed on us a*
actors, anil we value them aa such mnse
highly than any poor words of mine will
express. '
Unnatural Selection. '
From the Boston G ote. . D
An ingenius chieken raiser near ro-
inona, Cal., has devised a way of prevent
ing chickens from scratching up his gar
den. He crosses the long-legged brahmas
with the short-legged bantams anil the
result is a new breed of fowls with one
long leg and one short leg. When they
raise either leg to scratch they lose their
bslanre and come to grief. After a few de
moralizing attempts they desist.
Ilarkls Illalno.
From the Philadelphia Time*.
It Mr. t’daine be not the Secretary ol
State in the new administration, it will
r.ol be the fault of nil friends and admtt-
ers. And it will not he the fault of the
correspondents if newspaper readers do
ot know all about it as soon as Mr. Blame
The young men of LaGrange are taking
steps to organize a cavalry company.
An apple tree near Americus is said to
have borne two mature crops os fruit this
year.
Mr. Jones, n merchant of Cartersville,
recently shipped a car-load of pumpkins
to Atlanta.
Mr. B. B. Broadwell of Elbert county
killed three squirrels at two shots the
other day.
. Recently Toccoa witnessed the novel
sight of two little hoys driving a gang of
turkeys into town.
J. _B. Parrish of Sparks, Ga., exhibits
turnips that measure over twenty inches
in circumference.
Mrs. Pierce, the wife of the late Bishop
George F. Pierce of Sparta, is dangerously
ill, with little prospects of recovery.
A few nights since thieves entered the
store of James Grindie of Lumpkin county
and carried off many valuable articles.
Mr. Joe Culpepper, of Henry county,
had the misfortune to lose his corn and
half bale of cotton by fire a few nights
since.
Two little.negroes of Washington county
got into, a dispute last week and one of
them seized an axe and cut off two of his
companions toes.
In Spalding county a calf recently lost
its life from being choked to death. Wh.n
cut open the cause of the mischief was
found to be a may pop.
“Sonnie” Milner of Calhoun connty,
charged with the murder of a man named
Watkins, has been found guilty and sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life.
The Presbyterians of Waynesboro have
called the Rev. A. D. Drown for the coming
yew. He will preach .his introductory
sermon on the four.li Sunday in December
There is said to be a man near Cummiog
65 years old who, up to a few days ago,
had never written nor received a letter,
and on that day bought his first postage
stamp.
Some thief entered the house of Mr.
Bob Culpepper, a citizen of Henry county,
a few nights since and stole thirty or forty
pounds of meat. The guilty party has not
yet been found.
Dock Livingston, who left Dahlonega
about two years ago to go to Honduras to
take charge of a large silver mine, has re
turned. He will leave for Honduras again
in January.
Rumors of an intention on the part of
four colored men of Washington county to
mob a negro prohibition lecturer led to
their arrest. They were discharged how
ever fur lack of evidence.
M. S. Gilbert, of Smyrna, who has had
for some time quite a reputation as a fruit
grower, now heats hit former record by ex
hibiting, in the middle of December, fine
ripe strawberries.
Mr. Zack Aimand of Conyers killed
three pigs 18 months old, this week, that
netted 1,227 pounds. Their respective
weights were 495, .381 ar.d 301.. This
might be called raising meat on the inten
sive plan.
Recently a colored woman of Lexington
went to church, leaving her children
locked up in the house. As usual, the
house caught Src, and when sue returned
she found it in ashes and her children’s
charred remains.
The store of Brown & French of Ameri
cus was burglarized night before last. Mr.
French happened to return to the store
while the thief was loading up, but before
lie could call an officer the thief escaped
through a tack door with his booty.
Dr. Smith of Eiberton was called last
Sunday to extract a piece of hog’s foot
from a negro’s throat. The negro took a
larger piece than lie coaid swallow, and
came very near being strangled to death.
He says he will be more careful next
time.
Wilson E. Roberts, who ia engaged in
the sawmill business up in the northwest
corner oi Talbot county, says that from a
poplar cut 18 feet long he sawed 996 feet
of squire heart lumber, and that tbe en
tire lumber sawed form tbe cut amounted
to 1,200 feet.
It is reported that several fanners of
Houston county have entered into an agree
ment to plant five acres of corn, for live
years, ami each year each farmer will give
five bushels as a premium to the farmer
producing the largest number cf bushels
of corn on the live acres.
Messrs. Reynolds, Hargrove and Davis
of Orlando, Fla., will at once erect a large
planing mill and variety works in Thomas-
ville, Ga. The firm is said to he a strong
one and will employ a large force of
skilled workmen. Tuey will manufacture
to order, blinds, doors, sash and all kinds
of bidder* material,
Mr. Root,a Chicago drummer, died at
Dalton a few days since uuder somewhat
suspicious circumstances. He left Rome
for Dalton apparently in perfect health,
but was taken sick on the train and died
just after reaching his designation. It is
said that the symptoms attending his ill
ness were those of poison.
Mrs. J. Y. Arnold of Eiberton happened
to a painful accident last Saturday. Her
son Lofton threw a rock at a cow, and it
glancing on tbe ground struck her. in the
forehead slightly breaking the skin,, and
knocking her senseless. She was picked
up, taken in tbo house and quickly re
gained consciousness. \ i
The pesple around Kingston are very
much excited over the depredatioes of
some night prowling animal. It passed
through that section last Friday night
fighting fiercely with the dogs. Several of
the d igs were so badly wounded aa to be
unable to walk. One gentleman, Mr.
Lumpkin, says that he shot at it.
The grand jury of Brooks county, which
has recently been in session, has returned
indictments against Messrs. Arrington and
Williams for murder and, also, one against
Genrge West for the same offense. Readers
of the Tbleobapii will remember that
West was accused of killing a negro last
summer.
I.a«t Wednesday evening, just below
Kingston, the Western and Atlantic pas
senger train knocked from the track and
instantly killed -Mr. Tom Kenney. He
hail been walking the wagon road ard
hadn’t been on the track more thin fro
Mr. Lassnter oi Maishallville
tho
owner of an old bill Issued by the state of' h“ husbaad ‘° Tim ‘men ’ T hic - h 11 ha *
orthr Carolina in the yj 1778. The m&dford’s tajSKtaA foun'S’ JSSflK 1 the
him in bed with his children. A struggle * • _ mrinuiaie
bill is a promise to pay the bearer foer
Spanish milled dollars’in gold or silver,
and is signed by II. Exum ami J. Williams.
The bill is printed on thin card board and
is 21 inches broad and 3J long, and was
printed by James Davis.
In Spalding county Prof. Janies Miller
had a heifer calf that by the Jews would
have been rejected as food. The hoofs
were not cloven but made like a horse’s.
From the knee down, the leg was so short
that it amounted to a deformity. It grew
up and made a handsome beef. The pro
fessor, instead of keeping it for Barmim,
sold it to a butcher.
Charles Smith (colored) of Franklin
county, has been making quite a reputa
tion as a successful cotton raher. This
year he had only two acres of cotton
planted, and up to date has sold four
heavy bales. Recently the secret of his re
markable success was disclo-cd. A neigh
bor of Smith missed 500 pounds of cotton,
which he found concealed near Smith’s
house. Smith immediately fled. .
Bugg Chapman has two cages of mocking
birds hung tip in his restaurant at Ameri
cus. One of tho waiters had prepared
food for the birds of egg and potato on
Saturday and left it on| the table. A
countryman strolled in aoout this time,
picked up a piece of bread, spread the
bird foot on it and commenced eating,
with the remark that it was the best butter
he had eaten since he left home.
Recently, while Miss Ella Stuart was
standing near the grato in the parlor at
the Stuart Hotel in Tlioinasville, her dress
caught fire. Master Willie Williams, who
is a guest iu the house, happened to he
standing near, and seeing the llime, sprang
to Mies Ella’s side and succeeded, witii the
aid of the young lady, in extinguishing it.
The hands of both were badly burned.
IN now ........ —-
; r Mr. Harrison himself, if cot a little: minutes when he wa* knocked off. He
loatliV Maenwhile Mr. Blaine appears I a az walking very rapidly with felt »•«* »
nightly in his favorite character ot Barkis, [the triin.
The contractors around Eiberton are
complaining greatly about tho scaicity of
lumber. They say that there are about
twenty saw millsjbetween there and Toccea
and that it is nearly an impossibility for
them to get lumber enough to keep their
hands at work. They attribute the cause
to be so much building in the towns
nearer the mills, and that they get it all as
fast as it is sawed.
Mr. Cicero Mitchell of Cherokco Corner
had the misfortune to lose his burn by fire
last Thursday night. He came in late
from thegin with a load of cotton seed and,
as it was dark, he had a torch-light to sec
how to unload them in the barn, and lsy
some means it caught and was burned, to
gether with all his fodder and shucks, about
2,000 bnshels of cotton seed and 2,000
pounds of teed cotton.
An agent of the Singer Sewing Machine
Company, named P. B. Solomon, who lias
been working Murray county, skipped
with the 14-ycar-old daughter of J. M.
Crim, last Monday night. Solomon left,
with the stated purpose, so his confidants
report, cf carrying the girl to Walker
connty for marriage, but was traced to
Talking Rock, in Pickens county, where
lin anld » mule that he had hiicu. Ho had
not then married the girl.
An Americus paper says that a gross
wiilowjliving below there has a penchant
for kissing all young groomsmen. At a
wedding recently she bussed the bride
heartily, but when she came to the groom
she seemed to throw her whole soul into it
and clasped him around the body with her
arms like iron bands, anil at a later wed-
dirgshe greeted the groom so afiection-
atcly that lie gave a yell of delight and
fainted outright.
Mr. J. R. Boggs, of Olgthorpe, had
hatched out on his lot the other day a
monstrosity in the shape of a threa-le»»«,l
chicken, i'be third limb comes from the
body between the two usual ones, and is
about as Urge, hut it stands out behind
the fowl and does not seem to bother it
any. The chick is now several weeks old
and is ns lively ns if it had teen built in
the usual way.
A large chicken hawk, a few days ago,
flew down into the yard of one of the citi
zens of Catersvillo in thethickliest settled
part of tile town. Seizing its prey, a go-d-
aized chicken, it was preparing to hear it
off in its talons, when a lad of tho family
rushed to the scene with a broom, and
with a blow broke tho prowler’s wings. It
attempted to fly, but failing, darted^ into
the dwelling, where it was soon caught.
It was reported to the police ol Griffin
last Saturday night that a crowd of ue-
groes had congregated at one of the livery
•tables beyond the depot, and were engaged
in throwing dice, or as they term it, traps,
fur money. As soon as tlity received the
informal ion the )aliceimm*ediaicly started
to the place described to them, and pro
ceeded to “pull” the whole gang.
A farmer in Baker county accidentally
found a s.alk of cotton in his field two or
three years ago that attracted ids atten-
lion. He saved the seed, and the variety
is now commanding special attention for
its prolific qualities, as well as for its fine
ness. It is claimed that land which to. ■
merly. produced only an average of 200 to
300 pounds will produce 800 to 1,000
pounds of this cotton.
Mr. Elisha Davis of River Bend, in Ber
rien county, was hauling a load of corn in
a carl a few days siuce. His little hoy
was riding on the corn and, by some mis
hap, tbe cart tilled and dumped the load
of corn on the ground, completely burying
the chi.d beneath ils_ weight. Mr. Davis
lost no time in getting the child from
under the corn, expecting to find him
badly hurt, but, instead ol showing signs
of injury, or even fright, the little fellow
quietly asked, “Where is my hat? ’
A tramp entered Mr. A. S. Thompson’s
room at his father’s house, in Smithville
last Wednesday night, and stole all of his
clothing, including his underwear. The
trump indy I* It >1"' t-hirt Mr. Thomii-
suis iiau been wearing, which was on a
chair near the bed. He came to Ameri
cus Thursday and bought an en.irely new
outfit. Mr. Thompson has been in had
luck lately, as he was robbed of some
money in Americus recently.
The annual colt show of Randolph
county was held la-t Saturday, and was a
success. More than 200 colls were entered,
and several hands >ir.e prizes swarded. Be
sides the colts a number of county raised
bortes and mules attracted much atten
tion. Three line jacks and two fine slab
iions, each vfllued away up in the hun
dreds, were amonglhe number. Thecoun-v
can probably boast of as many fine bo
raised horses as any county in the state
Monroe Fuller. Spivey Fuller, R. Grier,
R. M. Mitchem, F. M. Cody and K. F.
Lindsey, all citizens cf Walton county,
have been arrested, charged with attempt-
ing to murder Green Ford, sbo of Walton
county. Ford and his wife separated
some time ago, and he retained the chi!
dren. Since then Mrs. Ford ha.
times attempted to g?t pos-i-Hon < f ll
children, and last week the induced the
ensued when Ford learned the purpose of
the visit, in which he was dangerously
wounded.
It is reported that Col. Nelson Tift of
Albany, C,a., lias l,00t) young pecan trees
now growing. These trees came from tho
nuts of his large trees that are now of huge
proportion?, from forty to fifty feet high,
and their wide-spreading branches cover a
circumference of 150 feet. These trees are
about 25 years old, and fruit most proli-
ficallv. The nuts are of unnsual size, and
are greatly relished by all who have ever
eaten them.
It is said that Dr. W. W. Wolcott of
Grilliu possesses a pair of spectacles that
are known to he over 268 years old. They
were worn by Mrs. Mary Eggleston, Dr.
Wolcott’s great-great grandmother, who
was a passenger upon the Slay Flower,
that landed in this country November 21,
1620, and were med by her on this memor
able voyage. The glaises are large and
perfectly round, while the frames are very
heavy. They have been in the family of
descendenjs to the present generation and
will continue as an heir loom greatly
prized.
Dr. J. L. O’Neal, of Talbotton, relates
that not long since he heard a colored
divine preach from the text: “Be ye as
wise as serpents and as .harmless as doves.”
The doctor thinking the text rather a deep
one, watched with interest tho manner in
which the colored brother propounded it.
The exordium is an index to the sermon:
“Well, bredderin, in order that we may all
know what we are talkin’ about, I will jes
drap the word serpini and say snakes. You
has all seen a snake when lie didn’t want
to hear nothing. Hb jes puts one ear right
down on de ground and sticks he tail in
do odder.”
An interesting case came up before
Judge Roebuck of Eiberton last Monday.
It came under the charge of larceny. It
seems that a negro went 'possum hunting
and his dog jumped up an animal, which
be thought was a ’possum, and treed it on
Mr. Sam Lovingood’a place. The negro,
of course, followed the dogs and found the
animal in a hollow log of lightwood from
which he cut some torches. Mr. Lovingood,
hearing the noise made bv the negro cut
ting, got up, dressed and arrived on the
scene just m time to catch him in the act
of carrying off some lightwood. Mr.
Lovingood swore out a warrant for the
negro, and he was immediately arrested.
Judge Roebuck linen the negro five dollars
and cost or lorty-five days in tho chain-
gang. The case was appealed.
Aaron Sibley, E»q.. of the tenth district
of Meriwether county, is 87 years obi and
lie works regularly on his farm. Mr. Siblev
came from Massachusetts to Savannah
when.he was sixteen years old. There lie
secured employment as a clerk anil held
that position seven years, when he went
into business on his own capital. He met
with success, lint having become involved
by a security debs to Ibe amount of $5,000,
lie was nn»b!» to run the mercantile busi
ness any further. l?r. Sibley was once
sherifl of Chatham county. When lie
failed in Savannah, lie onnctl the land on
which he now resides, and having a wife
and sever I small children to care for, lie
came In it in the early settlement ot l hi -
county. He erected a few log houses and
cleared a smali farm, on which be lias
lived well ami reared alargo family. Mr.
Sibley was justice ol the peace in this
connly a long term of years. lie now
promises to live a long lime.
A young lady in Meriwether county has
adopted a novel way to raise funds where-
with I" I >11 i III a i lillli h. Mn- thus m.l
claim original,'* fur the method oi calcu
lation, bat as applied 10 church building
it is decidedly new. She wrote letter No. l
to a friend asking him to write two dupli
cate copies of this letter numbering them
2. To send back to her the letter No. 1,
enclosing her four cents in stamps and to
write asking his two friends to whom the
letters No. 2' were addres'ed, to do the
same thing. Each one of them to write
two letters duplicate ol No. 2 numbering
them 3, and forward them to two other
fr ends requesting them to send her four
cents and to write more letter?, raising the
number each time, until the number ol is
sues bad reached twenty. Then the last
issue, letters No. 20 to be returned with
four cents each. If this chain is carried
out and each one rends fouintents, she
will raise $41,973.40, and tbe lettera will
have reached over 1,000,000 person*.
Sixteen or seventeen miles west oi
Thomasvillc tho track ol the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway crosses th e
dividing ridge between Wolf and Big
Tired creek*, which are about two miles
apart. The point ol the dividing ridge
is something like eighty feet above the
beds of the creeks; this point ia reached
bv an easy grade from cither direction,
with a cut ol several hundred feet ia
length, andabout fifteen feet deep at its
summit. Immediately in this cut and un
der the road bed for years whenever a pro
tracted rainy apcll occurs, the track rises
about two feel, and has the appearance of
retting on a bed of quick BaniL Tbe aides
of the cut are constantly shelving off and
falling on the track. The authorities of
the road have tried several plans to check
the rising of the track and the sinking o
the hanks of the cut, but without success.
Now they have a steam shovel at
work there, and during the month of No
vember hauled out 500 car* of quicksand.
Dougherty county Coast* of a little girl
who has made a wonderful success this
vear as a f irmer. She is the daughter of
Mr. E. L. Giidner, manager of the Kauf
man Lumber Company at Poulan. Mr.
Uirdner came to Georgia eighteen months
ago, and is now willing to endorse every
thing that can be said in favor of Georgia,
so far a? its agricultural possibilities are
concerned. L—zt spring be ten • (ins
of the large Western peanuts for his little
girl, from whirls she has gathered ten
bu htls of very fine peas. Tb« little girl,
however, not content with her gronnupen
irop, planted 100 stalks of sugarcane. Tbe
result was a magnificent crop of sugarcane,
which, af er reserving enoijgh for home
consumption, was sold for $15. With tins
sum, together with the profit of her |>ea-
nu, crop, the little girl has bought five and
a half acre? of ai good land as that on
which tbe crops were grown, and she has
enough money left to fence the most cf her
land.
At its recent eeu'on at Athens the
synod of Georg a adopted the t-Bowing
resolutions in regard to a Presbyterian
Univer-iiv: Resolved, That the syned has
heard with gratification the paper pre
sented hr the commission appointed by
the convention Held in the city of Atlanta,
in the month of June, and charged with
the mal'er of concerting measures for the
establishment of a Presbyterian collmor i
a! I univirsity in the slate of Georgia, liiat j
synod recognises the commit*ion and cor-
, di,!ly end rses the purpose for which itj
- plan
lor the proposed ticiversitv or ‘col
lege, to secure subscriptions for (he
same, to adopt any method, not vio
lative of Presbyterian usage, to raiso
money for said institution, to secure a
charter, and to determine its location, and
generally to do anything which mav he
necessary for its establishment. Tha't in
asmuch as the commission declare their
belief that there can be secured in the city
of Atlanta $75,000 and a location, the
commission be specially directed to in
augurate measures to ascertain if a liko
sum can be secured from the church and
its friends inside the city of Atlanta, the
payment of these funds to he conditional
on the payment of the same sum by the
citizens ol'Atlanta. That this commission
and its work be commended to the whole
church and the friends of the church
throughout our bounds.
A superstitious rumor is current in
Athens to thceflect that there is a rock in
Clarke county, about six miles from town,
upon which no man dares to tread. The
Biipcrsti'ious say that about twenty or
twenty-five years ago an old gentleman
buried a coffee not lull of gold at the foot
of this rock and has since died; and that
when a man passes that way his ghost
appears and drives him off. Parties hunt
ing near the place have been run for more
than a mile by this invisible ghost. They
say that when they come near the place,
even though it he a perfectly still dav, a
noise can be heard like a terrible cyclone,
and the tall pines, which surround
the rock, begin to bow, and
many of them fall to the ground. On
Sunday last two gentlemen of Athens, who
heard the rumors and doubted them, viB-
ited the “rock*’ with the intention of
proving the reports to he false, hut they
did not stop long. They climbed to the
top of the rock, when they beenmo
astounded by hearing a terrible crash.
Hardly before they knew it n largo nino
tumbled to the ground right at their feet.
While an examination of the tree was be
ing made, which was twisted from the
ground, another one fully ns large came
down with a crash. Tho “explorers” then
“skipped out,” but are determined to visit
the “haunted rock” once more. They re
port that tho trees are piled up to a depth
of six feet from the ground, having fallen
at different times.
It seems that tho question of alliance
and anti-alliauce is causing some trouble
in Warren county. The little town of
Mesena lias been ibecenterof the disturb-
Rumor says that Mr. B. F. Thomp
son, a prosperous merchant of Mesena
finding himself unable to serure the alli
ance trade, became so opposed to the alli
ance that lie organized a negro trade club
of about thirty members, the members of
the club agreeing that they would nut do
any work Tor any alliance man or wife of
an alliance man except for spot cash, nor
hire out to an alliance man nor farm on
shares with them. They were only to rent
land from tho alliance men, and lie was to
Supply them. 'When these rumors came
to the ears of the alliance farmers
they were highly indignant, and the
more tiicy thought over the matter the
more indignant they grew. On last Friday
night a large number of men, estimated to
have been all the way from two hundred
down, very quietly appeared in Mtecna,
from nobody knows where. So quietly did
they work Hint lew ot the peopleof Mesena
knew of their work till next morning.
When morning came, it showed an open
grave in front of Mr. Thompson’s store,
with the door decorated in crape, and a
notice pinned to it warning him to disband
hi-negro club, conduit hinm-lf li.-ti.-r in
tho futtiio it ml cease fighting the alliance,
or he would hear from them again. They
also dug a grave before the door of Dave
Burnley, the president of the club, warn
ing him to look to his conduct.
On Monday last Judge W. J. Gross of
Sylvania held a court of inquiry on the
case of the state against George Ledbetter,
charged with the offenseof burglary. The
facts of the case, as related by theSylvania
paper, arc about as follows: Robert Zeig-
ler, colored, had by close economy saved
about $40, which he had buried in the
smokehouse where he lived. (Jn Saturday,
the 1st day of December, he discovered
suspicious appearances about the ground
where his treasure was hid, and upon dig
ging down he found that it had been ta ten
away. He waa at a loss to know who had
removed his wealth, but hearing that
George Ledbetter bad been seen with a
considerable amount of money that day,
he at once suspected that it was ho who had
robbed him. Acting on this suspicion he
procured a search warrant and Deputy
SheritI P. K. Kemp went to hunt for the
missing money. IIu found George and
bis wife at home making preparations for
George to visit the city to invest tbe
money. Searching the premises, he found
$17.65 in oasli, and learning of a number
of small amounts which had been paid out
by George during the day. Not being
able to give a satisfactory account for his
his sudden possession of so much money,
George was taken in charge by the officer
and lodge in jail to await the investiga
tion, which was had on Monday last,
when Judge Gross was satisfied that the
evidence demanded his being bound over
for trial at the superior court. He waa
therefore committed to jail in default of
giving bond in the sum of $500 to await
the next session of the grand jury.
SOME AGRICULTURAL CUKIOSITIE*.
One Hundred and M* rotator* In Eight
mil* and Eight Clastei’t.
Mr. T. J. Pendley, a Henry eountv
farmer, lias three potatoes that weigh
twenty-five pounds.
Mr. J. F. Jones of Newnan ha* a pear
tree on his premises that has borne tore*
J it, in a, crop- cf iizit tuUjvM.
Mr. R. N. Rodgers of Milton, has a
large and perfectly formed ear of corn
around which ia clustered ail “nabuiua.’*
Mr. John Hutto of Appling county
grew a cotton stalk this year that measured
sixteen feet. in hight and eight inches in
circumference.
Mr. John Sheffield, who has a farm near
Eastman, possesses a stalk of sugar cane
which lias nineteen aiatured jaint*. The
stalk measures nine feet in length.
Mr. G. W. McDowell of Houston ex
hibits 104 yam potatoes which, he says,
grew in eight hills in eight clusters. The
yield iaavery remarkable one and core
so from the fact that the vints were not
cultivated.
Why Not Abolish Murder Outright.
From the Hartford Couram.
New York is going to kill a min by
electricity on February 1. Now let’s
have some scheme for minimizing paid to
the mmdered. The interest so far seems
to have been exerted main v lor the mur
derer*.
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