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VOL. XXII On# copy one year. . One cops' aix months. One copy three months, 40 Will clnb The Herald and Ad- tmtibkx with eithci of the following named publications at f- 30 per annum Ibv both papers: Atlanta Weekly Con stitution, Macon Weekly Telegraph. I/onbrrllle Weekly Courier-Journal, Sou thern Cu.tivatoc. tT Remittances can be made by P. O. Money Order, Postal Note, Registered Letter or Express. D. H. DOUGHERTY ATLANTA, GA. Please stand in the shower for a few minutes and allow us to hold your hat and umbrella, and let us state that there must be some misunderstanding about the thing, for we did not capture a line of ocean steamers, nor we have not scooped in what few auction houses there arc in New York; neither did TERRIBLE SURGICAL OPERATION! A FATAL MISTAKE. The Cleveland (Ohio) Press, of February 23d, 1883, pub lished an account of a fatal surgical operation which caused a great commotion among med ical men throughout the whole j country, Dr. Thayer, the most eminent surgeon in Cleveland, pronouncing it scandalous. It we have all of Broadway, New York, wrapped up and shipped appears that a Mrs. King had out to us as a sample lot, for we don’t do things by halves, But here is the trouble for this week: An immense stock of choice new WHITE GOODS. 45-inch wide Lace Flouncing and all over and narrow to match. New Nottingham for yokes. Mull and Swiss—the largest and handsomest line we have ever shown. D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO. LEAD IN LOW PRICES. New White and Cream Mils. An immense variety of white fans. A whole car-load of Table Linens, and we lead the pro cession on low prices. It will pay you to consider well before you go elsewhere to buy Dress Goods. We know positively that no house can touch us on low prices. • DOUGHERTY & CO. IN LOW PRICES. Our lace and Swiss Embroideries arc superb. We are lower than ever, owing to “CUT RATES.” A big job in Ladies’ White Dressing Sacks, beautiful styles, formerly sold at $2 to $5, and we are closing them at $1 for choice. We beat the State on handsome Ruchings. Elegant lines of novelties in Handkerchiefs. SHOES. We have had to add two more men to our Shoe De partment, which sliows for itself how our trade runs. We out sell and undersell everybody on Shoes, and are prepared to prove what we say. Shoes for everybody and lower than any body. D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO., ATLANTA, GA. E. S. BUCHANAN, DEALER IN DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES, SNEAD’S ODD STAND, WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. NEW GOODS, K very thing Selected with Care and BOUGHT FOR CASH. We will Duplicate Atlanta Prices iu anything in the Dry Goods line. NOTIONS AND NOVELTIES Of all kinds; also a full line of BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, Ami a General Line of GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. I also carry a full line of been suffering for many years from some disease of the stom ach, which had resisted the treatment of all the physicians in attendance. The disease commenced with a slight de rangement of the digestion, with a poor appetite, followed by a peculiar, indescribable dis tress in the stomach, a feeling that has been described as a faint “all gone” sensation, a sticky slime collecting about the teeth, causing a disagree able taste. This sensation was not removed by food, but, on the contrary, it was increased. After a while the hands and feet became cold and sticky— a cold perspiration. There was a constant tired and lan guid feeling. Then followed a dreadful nervousness, with gloomy forebodings. Finally the patient was unable to re tain any food whatever, and there was constant pain in the abdomen. All prescribed rem edies failing to give relief, a consultation was held, when it was decided that the patient had a cancer in the stomach, and in order to save the pa tient’s life an operation was jus tifiable. Accordingly, on the 22d of February, 1883, the op eration was performed by Dr. Vance in the presence of Dr.’ Tuckerman, Dr. Perrier, Dr. Arms, Dr. Gordon, Dr. Capner and Dr. Halliwell of the Police Board. The operation consis ted in laying open the cavity of the abdomen and exposing the stomach and bowels. When this had been done an examin ation of the organs was made, but to the horror and dismay of the doctors there was no cancer to be found. The pa tient did not have a cancer. When too late the medical men discovered that they had made a terrible mistake; but they sewed the parts together and dressed the wound that they had made, but the poor woman sank from exhaustion and died in a few hours. How sad it must be for the husband of this poor woman to know that his wife died from the effects of a surgical operation that ought never to have been performed. If this woman had taken the proper remedy for Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration (for this was what the disease really was,) she would have been liv ing to-day. Shaker Extract of Roots, or Seigel’s Cura tive Syrut, a remedy made ex pressly for Dyspepsia or Indi gestion, has restored many such cases to perfect health after all other kinds of treatment have failed. The evidence of its ef ficacy in curing this class of cases is too voluminous to be published here; but those who read the published evidence in favor of this dyspeptic remedy do not question its convincing nature, and the article has an extensive sale. COMPENSATION. One woman. In fars and velvets; Another, in squalid rags; One rolled by in her stately carriage. The other stood on the flags. One woman, alone in her carriage; By the other a little child. Who, watching the prancing horses. Looked np in her face and s She stooped to her boy and kissed him, And gave him a boarded crust; The other had jast left costly blooms Where her one son lay in dost. One, back to her darkened mansion. Wealth cannot hold death at bay! One, back to the hut where labor Brought bread for the coming day. Perhaps, as over the sands of life, Time’s great tide ebbs and flows. More fates among us’a e equa 1 Than their outward seeming shows. ed to tell through the columns of the ; He Had to Wait. Fifth reader how swift he used to be j Detroit Free Press. as a warrior and that the warpath is overgrown with grass. He very sel dom writes anything for the papers except over the signature of Veritas, and the able yonDg stenographer who used to report his speeches at the council fire seems to have moved away. So they wander on together, waiting for the final summons. Waiting for the pip or measles, and their cough is dry and hacking as they cough along together toward the large and wide hereafter. They have lived so near Manhattan, where refinement is so plenty, where I the joy they jerk from barley—every other day but Sunday—gives the town a reddish colol, that the Shinnececk is dying, dying with his cowhide bools on, dying with hectic flush on, while the chnrch bells chime in Brooklyn Bill Nye Visits the Shinnecocks of Long Island. There can be nothing more pathetic thap to watch the decay of a race, even though it be a scrub race. To watch the decay of the Indian race has been with me, for many years, a passion, and the more the Indian has decayed and ^ew Yorkers go to Jersey, go to the more reckless I have been , D get their fire water, go to get their red- studying his ways. j eyed bug J' uice ’ E° to 8 et their cooking The Indian race for over 200 years i " has been a race against Time, and I * aI away at Minnehaha, in the CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. MY GROCERY* LIKE IS COMPLETE. PURE GOODS AT LOW PRICES “SELL” IS MY MOTTO. Come ami see me and be convinced. If you don’t buy you will be treated politely. W. C. tirace 1b with the house and will be pleased to see his old friends. E. S. BUCHANAN. BRADFIELD’S WHAT SHALL WE DO TO BE SAVED? HOW CAN WE SAVE MONEY? The latter I can regulate; the former I can assist you In. I have on hand a large aud well selected stock of SPRING GOODS, and they must be *old. My stock of SPRING CLOTHING Is complete and will please the most fastidious. Come and see them. Boys’ suits from $3 to 912JMV. Men’s Suits from |7-50 tc $2G All i waut is a chance to show them;—the goods will fell themselves. My line of DRY GOODS consists of Ginghams. Lawns, Muslins. Dress Linens, Table Dam- Checks. Bleach iucs, Sheet ’ * v ' 1_ * 1 * staple Drv Goods and Not ions. A big line of Men's and Boy a handsome lot of Men's soft and stiff Hats. I sell the best hand-made Shoe in town for the money—both for Gents and Ladies'* My stock was selected with care and comprises all the late novelties and styles. A large Jot of medium grade Shoes always ou hand. GROCERIES. Mv stock of Groceries consists of Corn, Meat, Flour, Meal, Syrup, Sugar, Coflfe, and ev erything needed to refresh and sustain the inner man. This department is replenished every * n<J foods sold are guaranteed to be fresh and sound, or money refunded. Will •eu low far Cash, or Oh Tnuc for approved paper. Get my prices before buying elsewhere; I can make it to your advantage to do so. . Bleachings, Sheeting Shirting—iu fact, everything and anything in the way of Joods and Notions. A big line of Men's and Boys* straw Hats; can't be beat in town for style or price. Also, bfttidcnmp Inf nf Mott’s enft nn«f stiff U«ic An infallible specific for all the diseases peculiar to women, such as painful or . suppressed Menstration • Falling of the Womb,Leu- corrhcea or Whites, etc. FEMALE CHANGE OF LIFE. If taken during this crit ical period, ereat suffering and danger can be entire ly avoided. REGULATOR! need hardly add that Time is away ahead as I pen these lines. But the Indian is on the wane, what ever that is. He is disappearing from the face of the earth, and we find no better illustration of this sad fact than the gradual fading away of the Shin- necock Indians near the eastern ex tremity of Long Island. In company with the World artist, who is paid a large salary to hold me up to ridicule iu these columns, I went out the other day to Southampton and visited the surviving members of this great tribe. I give here a rough pic ture, representing the artist and my self as we appeared while entering the hostile reservation. The reader will see that we were calm. Neither of us knows the meaning of fear. If we had been ordered by the United States government to wipe out the whole Shinnecock tribe we would have taken a damp towel and done it. The Shinnecock tribe now consists of James Bunn and another man. But they are neither of them pure blooded Shinnecock Indians. One- legged Dave, an old whaler, who, as the gifted reader has no doubt already guessed, has but one leg, having lost the other in going over a reef many years ago, is a pure blooded Indian, but not a pure blooded Shinnecock. Most of these Indians are now mixed up with the negro race by marriage and are not considered warlike. The Shinnecocks have not been rash enough to break out since they had the measles some years ago, but we will let that pass. There are now about 150 >Shinne- cocks on the reservation, the most of whom are negroes. They live togeth er in peace and hominy, trying most of the time to ascertain what the wild waves are saying in regard to fish. The Shinnecock Indian has united his own repose of manner with the calm and haughty distrust of industry peculiar to the negro, and the result is something that approaches nearer to the idea of eternal rest than any thing I have ever seen. Theairseems to be saturated with it, and the mooD- liglit is soaked full of calm. It would be a good place in which to wander through the gloaming and pour a gal lon or so of low, passionate yearning into the ear of a loved one. We visited Mr. James Bunn at his home on Huckleberry avenue. He told us the thrilling story of the Spanish Sylph, and how she was wrecked many years ago on the coast near his house, and how the Spanish dollars burst out of her gaping side and fell wilh a low, mellow plunk in to the raging main. Now and then the sea has given up one of these “sand dollars” as the years went by, and not over two years ago one was found along the shore near by. What I blame the Shinne cock Indians for is their fatal yearn ing to subsist solely on this precarious income. It is, indeed, a pathetic picture. Here on the stern and rock bound coast, where their ancestors greeted Columbus and other excursionists as they landed on the new dock and at once had their*pietures taken in a group for the illustration on the green backs, now the surviving relic of a brave people, with bowed heads aDd frosting locks, are waiting a few days only for the long, dark night of merci ful oblivion. So be walks in the night time, ail through the long fly time, he walks by the sorrowful sea; and he yearns to wake never, but lie there forever in the arms of the sheltering sea, to lie in the lap of the sea. At least that is my idea of the way the Shinnecock feels about it. The Indian race, wherever we find it, gives us a wonderful illustration of the great, inherent power of ram as a human Ieveler. The Indian has per haps greater powers of endurance than thewwhite man, and enters into the great, Unequal fight with rum almost hilariously, but he loses his presence of mind and forgels to call a cab at the proper moment. This is a matter that has never been fully understood, even by the pale face, and, of course, the Indian is a perfect child in the great conflict with rum. The result is that the Indian is passing away under oar land of the Dakota, where the cyclone feels so kinky, rising on its active hind feet, with its tail up o’er the dash board, blowing babies through the grindstone without injuring the ba bies, where the cyclone and the whop, per journey on in joy together—there refinement and frumenti, with the new and automatic maladies and choice diseases that belong to the Caucasian, gather in the festive red man, take him to the reservation, rob him while his little life lasts, rob him till he turns bis toes up, rob him till he kicks the bucket. And the Shinnecock is fading, he who greeted Americus Vespucci when he landed, tired and sea sick with a breath of peace and onions; be who welcomed other strangers, with their notions of refinement and their knowledge of the Scriptures and their fondness for Gambrinus—they have compassed his damnation and the Sninnecock is busted. BADGES, MEDALS, BANGLES. ENGAGEMENT BINGS, ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC. MADE TO ORDER when the Indian agent wiil hare to seek some other healthful, outdoor ex ercise. So the consumptive Shinnecock, the author of “Shinny on Your own i Ground and Other-Games,” is soon to ! live only in the flea bitten records of a great nation. Once he wrote pieces for the boys to speak in school, and Important Measures Now Fending in the Georgia Legislature When the General Assembly of Georgia adjourned there were pending before the Senate thirty-one bills, one resolution, one report, two messages from the Governor and a memorial Senate matter—and seven House bills and one House resolution. The char acter of this matter may be thus de scribed: Prohibiting the acceptance of free passes by public officers, incor porating the Florida, Cbicamauga and Northern railroad, re-organizing the Stone Mountain judicial circuit, amending article 4, section 14, of the Constitution; amending the Code rela- tive to the wrongful sale of mortgaged personalty; providing for recording mortgages; allowing parties charged with crime to testify in their own be half; amending the Code in relation to the pay of State's witnesses; creating the office of Prison Inspector for the State; fixing the salary of Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts; al lowing amendments to be made to schedules of assets, and creditors re quired to be made parties to voluntary assignment; providing for appeals from one jury to another in Superior and City Courts; amending the act relative to life insurance on the assess ment plan; carrying into effect the amendment to article 7, paragraph 2 of the Constitution; numerous amend ments to the Code and various corpo rations. In the House there were 287 bills on the unfinished calendar. AmoDg the most important of this mass of bills we note the following: To make uniform the rules of law and equity in this State. Providing for the arbitration of labor disputes. Providing for pleading or proving a failure of consideration on promissory notes given for commercial fertilizers. Requiring railroad companies to re turn their property in the counties through which they run. Repealing the law for inspecting fer tilizers. Protecting the cemeteries of the State. Regulating the rate of interest. Establishing a bureau of labor and industrial statistics. Regulating the years at which mi nors may be employed in factories. Amending the Constitution regard ing the selection of grand and petit ju rors. Preventing the sale of opium to par ties habitually using it. Establishing two agricultural farms and an experimental station. Regnlating the employment of labor. Creating a reformatory prison. Creating a board of equalization in each county. Amending the Constitution so as to allow counties to aid in internal im provements. Providing for aboard of. bank ex aminers. Carrying into effect section 14, ar ticle 7, of the Constitution, by provid ing a sinking fund. Prohibiting the traffic in futures. Establishing a permanent peniten tiary and supply farm. Carrying into effect paragraph 3, sec'ion 1, article 7, of the Constitution in relation to maimed Confederate sol diers. Authorizing the commitment of ju- venile offenders to houses of refuge. Making void all agreements to pay 10 per cent, attorney’s fees. Taxing wine rooms $10,000. On a Michigan Central train the other day as the “batcher” came into the car with a basket of oranges an old man, whose wife sat beside him, was very anxious to buy half a dozen, but she waved the boy on with: “He can’t have ’em. He never eats one without the juice runs down on his shirt bosom.” “Shoo! but I want two or three, Hannah.” “You behave yourself ! you want to get cramps and raise a great row, don’t yon?" The boy soon returned wilh boxed figs, and the old man beckoned to him and began to lick his chops. “Pass right on!” said the woman to the boy, “He hain’t eat a fig for thir ty years, and I guess he cau go thirty more.” The boy passed on and returned with peanuts. The old man was ready for him, but the wife protested: “He can’t eat ’em. It’s been ten years since he had a tooth in his head, and he’d have to swallow ’em whole. No, Reuben, you let peanuts alone.” Twenty minutes later the boy was back with candy packages in which there were prizes, and the old man ex claimed: “I’ll hev one o’ them or—bust!” “Then you’ll bust,” she replied as she motioned the boy to pass on. “It's agin the Lord and law to take chances, and yon wouldn’t git nothing nohow.” “But I’m going to buy sumthin’, Hanner.” “Well, you wait. You can’t have ice cream nor lemonade, and if he comes with popcorn or buttermilk, don't you dare to raise a fuss. Just you wait. We’ll be in Detroit at C o’clock, and then, if there happens to be a grocery handy by, you can buy six berriDgs for 5 cents. Herrings is something to stay by you, Reuben and the heads and tails will keep moths away and are good for warts We’ve got too old for gewgaws, Reu ben. What we want is the wuth of our money.” The Country Press Heard From. Texas Siftings. When the inter-State commerce law went into effect and free passes were abolished, the country editor was too dumbfounded to speak for some time. He couldn’t realize that the time-honored custom of “dead-head ing” over railroads had been swept away. But he gradually recovered from his amazement, and then he was mad. He took the railroad time table out of his paper and killed every free railroad advertisement. Then he be gan to fire away at the roads and their management. Below are a few extracts from the country press that Texas Siftings has been able to cull: It doesn’t hurt us any to walk. It is good for us. It fact, when we had an annual on the X. & Q. road we ai ways walked when we were in a real hurry,—Flytoxvn Ranger. Hardly a day passes without an ac cident on the alleged railroad that runs—or rather crawls—through this town. It9 rails are often broken—like the company.—Borax Plaster. Can nothing be done to stop the shrill whistles of the locomotives on theY. I. & T. railroad as they ap proach the depot? People who live iu the vicinity find it impossible to sleep in the morning, and sick folks are driven almost crazy by it. It would seem that there are do rights in this country that a bloated railroad corporation feels bound to respect.— Coon Ranger. One of our most valued citizens had a narrow escape from being run over by the morning express on the Snap- ’ern-up line yesterday, owing to the failure of the engineer to blow his whistle. If our authorities do their duty they will have that engineer hauled up and fined.—Snag City Sentinel. Wonder where the general ticket agent of that combination of twin streaks of rust and right of way, call ed the “Great Ctesar route,” got his title of “colonel.” He was in Canada during the war, and no one thought of calling him anything but “Zeke" un til he got a position as ticket agent. Zeke, we are onto you.— Upcreek Snorter. A Car Coupler Wanted. New York Sun. Among railroad men it is universal ly admitted that the common method of coupling cars is about as primitive aud as dangerous to life and limb as can be devised, and that the man who invents a proper substitute for it will reap both fame and fortune. The pat ent office has issued over 3,000 patents for improved and automatic couplers, and yet noue has been invented which seems to be perfect UDder all the re quirements of railroading. Many men have spent the best portions of their lives in devising couplers only to find when they were subjected to prac tical use that they had defects that were fatal and could not be corrected. Said an inventor: “There are plenty of couplers that are practical and safe, but the great trouble is that their first cost is a little more than that of the ordinary man killer, and as money is dear and brakemeu are cheap they won’t adopt them.” “I hardly think that is fair to the railroadB,” responded a third. “In my opinion, the great obstacle to the adoption of automatic couplers is the lack of uniformity in the height of cars. The master car builders have adopted a standard, but they have no means of enforcing It on roads. If all the cars could be made of one uniform height, there would be but little diffi- Items of Interest Called From Our Ex changes. Grapes are ripening rapidly around Griffin. Tallapoosa needs more hotel accom modations. The crop outlook is better than for several years. A lady in Bulloch county is said to have 100 head of young turkeys. The Stale Agricultural Society will meet at Canton on the 9th of August The corn crop of Dougherty county is safe. Recent rains have insured good yield. The colored citizens of Washington. Ga., have organized a hook and ladder fire company. Work on the new boardiDg-house of the LaGrange Female College was be gun last week. The ex-Confederate soldiers of Heard county will have a reunion at Flat Rock on the 20th of July. Mrs. Cleveland will accompany the President to Atlanta when he comes to visit the Piedmont Exposition. Douglas county voted on the stock law question last week, which result ed in favor of “Fenci.” by a majority of 261. John Mitchell and wife, of Oconee county, have been married about sev enty-five years. They have a son 70 years old. There is a movement on foot to pe tition the Ordinary to order an elec tion on the whiskey question in Gor don county. The Second National Bank of Brunswick has been organized, with a capital of $100,000. It is called the Oglethorpe National Bank. A fine new boat for the Chattahoo chee river, called the Fanny Fern, is on her passage down the Mississippi for Apalachicola aud Columbus. W. M. Griffin, of the Twenty-eighth district of Sumter, has a four-year-old sow that has littered and raised sev enty-two pigs in the Ia9t three years, Members of the fifty-second Georgia Regiment are invited to a reunion at Dahlonega on August 10th, and of the Seventh at Powder Springs on July 21st. George Milton, an old gentleman of 65, residing in Bibb county, has se cured the first pension granted to any Mexican seidier in Georgia,—$8 per month. culty in devising an automatic coupler ; that would work; but at present you The remainder is of a mixed char- j might as well try to make a straight acter. No arrangements have as yet been made to start up the Pioneer paper mill at Athens, but it is hoped that something will soon be done looking to that end. There will be a reunion of the sur viving Confederate soldiers who went to the war from all of what was origi nally Campbell county, at Douglas- ville on July 23. The majority for “no fence” in Mus cogee county is about 200. The city districts voted almost unanimously for “no fence,” and the country dis tricts heard from voted for “fence.” Mr. Ham, of Hall, says he will press his bill in the Legislature to prevent the sale of tobacco to minors under sixteen years of age. He will cite the Illinois law of that nature now in force. The first regular shipment over the Georgia Midland was received at Griffin last week, and consisted of 136 bales of cotton from Columbus, and was consigned to parties in Knoxville, Tenn. The Athens Board of Education is nvestigating the charges of drunken ness and indecency against W. H. Davie, one of the coiored teachers, and if they are sustained he will be dis missed. Aaron Crosby, of East Mitchell, brought to Camilla eighty-two pounds of collard seed a few days ago, which he sold at twenty cents a pound. That is cheap, but it beats cotton. He raised them on half an acre. A bill was introduced in the Legis lature last week authorizing the Gov ernor to re-lease the State road, sub ject to the approval of the next Leg islature, and providing for an adjust ment of the question of betterments by the Governor and lessees. The friends of prohibition held a preliminary meeting last week to wards making an effort to get rid of the sale of intoxicating liquors in Greenville and Meriwether county. An executive committee was appoint ed and a vigorous effort will be made for prohibition. U- A- Pope, of Leesburg, says that the melon crop of Lee is the largest he ever saw, and the melons the finest in the world. In the last three or four weeks they have been shipped nu merously and have already turned loose about $10,000 in the county, and the prices still hold up. Maj. McCIung, of Gwinnett county, has been living in the same house where he now lives for fifty-three years. During ail that time he has been in Ben Smith’s district. Recently the district lines were so chaoged as to cat him off in another district. He says he does not feel at home. The Brunswick Sera Id understands that A. B. Sherwood, representing a large lumber firm in Michigan, has obtained an option upon 16,000 acres of timber and land belonging to the Tison estate. If the sale is made the purchaser will establish a large saw mill on the property this fall. The river bank at Augusta, from McIntosh street down, presents abusy It is not justice to put one lawyer contributed largely to McGuffy’s and °“ the at a “““ and Sanders’ periodicals, but now you ! ° tber to , *** h *f never hear of an Indian who is a g^od j J 6 * 01 and C0l,ect large fees for extemporaneous public speaker. ___ _ . , He no longer makes the statement j Rooms in real estate have created j cause school teachers are, as a rule, W . JCL. A V iliK X , i he is an aged hemlock, that bis j $150,000,000, of wealth since January j women of sense; and no woman will PiMBTitlt Street, Jr R. HERRING. THE JEWELER. limbs are withered and his trank at- j l”t. Next to industrial growth this j give np a sixty position for i lacked tptfaecmwtabie. Bebaaceas- J showing is good for the country. j tea dollar i stick without two ends as a coupler that will do the work required by the ; scene daily—two different forces en- present circumstances.” ; gaged in boat building. Already the — • : shape and style of the first boat for the “How does it happen that there are ! Augusta company has become appar- so many old maids among the school ent , and now that lumber is In plenty, teachers?" asks an exchange. Be- work will move ahead rapidly. C. E. Williams, living about eight miles from Americus, says he has eight acres in eotton.tbat is literally epramdwitb bolls nearly grown, and thinks he will get in a bale of cotton by August 1st. The weed is the finest he ever had, and promises the largest yield of the staple he has ever In accordance with a petition Cram a large number of voters, the ordinary of Butts county has ordered an elec* tion on the question of “whiskeyorno whiskey,” to be held on August 4th, next. This will be the third time an election on this question has been held in that county; both of the form* er ones went for whiskey. Collector Crenshaw has forwarded to Washington his report for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1887. This shows the office to be in excellent con* dition. For the year endiDg June 30, the collections from all sources were $336,69S.77, as against $303,971.91 for the year ending June 30, 1SS6. The balance in favor of this year is $32,726.* S6. Barnesville Gazette: Tke colored people crowded the cars to Griffin Monday. The inspiration, we learn, was a poster announcing that John Sherman and Fred Douglas would speak that day in Griffin. Our infor mation is that a colored preacher in Griffin originated the idea and worked up the circular announcing the false* hood to fool his people. The farmers living on the Mulberry - river, in Jackson county, are very much excited about a strange animal that is roaming around in that part of the county. Ben Arnold, a negro, sent his little girl to the spring after water, when this strange animal attacked her aud inflicted such fearful wounds that the child died from it on last Sat urday. It is thought that it is a wolf. A Walker county constable by the name of Hayes was arrested last week on the charge of obstructing the mail. Hayes levied an attachment on the horse used in carryiog the mail from Uiuggold to Rock Spring, compelling the mail boy to walk the entire dis tance. Haye9 was taken before Com missioner Walker, and in default of bail was committed to Fulton county jail. At a meeting of the Confederate Veterans' Association of Troup coun ty resolutions were unanimously adop ted inviting all of the survivors of the Thirteenth aud Sixtieth Georgia regi ments C. S. A., to meet their comrades in LaGrange on the first Wednesday in August to attend the annual reunion of this association. Ample provision will be made for their comfort and en joyment. The Eagle makes the following gratifying statement concerning the success of the match lactory at Gaines ville: “The demand for these goods is constantly growing, and it is prob able that it will not be long before they will supersede, at least in the South and Southwest, all other kinds. This factory is a great thing for Gainesville, and it is a pity more such enterprises are not inaugurated.” The Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company has offered the cit izens of Vienna, Dooly county, land to build a new town on, and also to build new Court-house if they will remove the town to the road. The road will run within two and a half miles of the present town, but a9 the company have not purchased the lands in that section yet; they are not prepared to say just now bow far off the new town will be located. A hitch has occurred in the prelimi nary arrangements of the anti-Prohi- bition party of Whitfield connty. The petition, praying for an election, presented to the Ordinary last week, was found upon examination to have been improperly drawn up, or not in accordance with the law bearing up on the subject. So a uew petition will have to be made out and signed again, which will necessarily cause a ■delay of another month. The Albany Rows and Advertiser says that castor oil is an infallible remedy for the sting of bees or other insects. It has been tried by a num ber of persons in that city, and has given almost instant relief in many cases. The castor oil seems to coun teract the poison and allay the pain as soon as applied. As the remedy is said, by reliat.'e persons who have tried it, to be a prompt and never failing one, it is worth remembering. A few days ago H. C. Bagley, of Americus, received a letter from a firm proposing to locate in Americus for the manufacture of agricultural implements if the people would take some stock in it. Mr. Bagley replied that the people would take stock in anything that promised to be profita ble and invited them to come and look over the ground. The firm said they had read such reports of Americus as to convince them that it was a grow ing city and had a prosperous future before it. S. J. Denard, the defaulting Tax Collector of Wilkinson county, has given bond for his appearance at the adjourned term of the Superior Court, ' which convenes in that county this % week. Mr. Denard has repeatedly promised his bondsmen to get up the money and pay the balance, but has failed to do so. According to the Comptroller-General’s statement he is due the Stale about $1,100 and the county a balance of $870. There is much speculation as to how the trial will result. The sympathy of the pub lic is with his bondsmen. In the Senate last week Mr. Peek introduced a bill which is designed to be a great auxiliary to the local option laws. In fact, it is no more nor lese than a direct stab at the popular “jug train.” The bill makes it unlawful for any railroad company or express company to carry spiritnons liquors for distribution into any county in the State where the sale of such li quors is prohibited. If this bill Is passed it will bring about a mighty dry spell in a large portion of the State, as the express company is the great feeder of spirits in <