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'finMMT HERALD, . - F'.rr.v rresr even.no. RATES: I’-'.'- al *‘ l ' :lll iii'i't“*l , ' r>llio " willl>o <lisi '°" ,u ‘" * L ADVERTISE ENTS „ a L,t ( lm. acterv ill be oharß Of» t r ®ilie Hist inserti**n, anil 50c insertion. (or^nmiiiiinienl inns intended for •rl°«L will be Charged for advertised rates. •'mid new sy eonnunniea -1)1 the s< “ licittsl General Directory. CIVIL GOVERNMENT* s [ Hutchins. Judge Sup. Court, i)V Cain. Clerk Sup. Court, j T nankin. Ordinary. tV p, Cosby, Sheriff. ’A - K. Brown, Treasurer. VV. Andrews, lax Receiver. I V v'truer, ’lax Collectorr y Maffett, Surveyor, l ||. Wilson, Coroner. ' COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. i p Spence, Chairman and Clerk, N jtonett.’j K Cloud, J. R llopirine, An- I jir* darner. BOARD OF F.DUOATION. y K Winn, School Commissioner J. IP Snence,'. T- I’atillo, .J. Webb jli' Noel. »’ K- ' viDn> JUSTICES. U.reDCtv'Jle, 407th dist-W. C, Idle, J- F., M. L, Adair, N. 1, Ist Fri | Berkshire, 405 dist—J, W. Andrews. IJ. I’.. Charles McKinney, N. I*. 3rd Tn Smith’*,3lG dist-W. I>. Simms Ij |> ,|.o. Hawthorn, N. P. 3rd Sat- I"b»j Creek, 1295diot — W. J. Bageett [jd’.'J. !’• McKlvaney, N. P. Ist Sat 408th dist— J. M, Arnold. J, 1., |g vv, NVb, N. P,2nd Saturday I Oaine’s SC2mJ dist- A. Adams, J. 1’ I OK Pool. N P , 3rd Saturday I Duluth 12G3 dist.— W. F, Brewer,.!. Ip, Marion Roberts, N P., Thursday be- I w4th Saturday. | Harbin’s 478 (list —G. L. kmght 1.1, P, J- W. Hamilton, N. P. I Thursday before Ist Saturday. I Hog Mountain, 444 .list—A. L Ifimmons. J. P., VV. L. Andrews, |}(.P. 4th Saturday. I Martin’s, 544 dist—Asa Wright, |j p., J. U. Nowell, N. P. 4tn Ihitiirday. I Noreross, 40G —W. R. Simpson, Ij.p.A. A. Martin, N. P. Friday Ik'.’ore 3rd Saturday. I fiock Bridge, 571 dist—A. J. ■Lowery. J. I’., E. ,T. Mason, N. P. Sid Saturday. I gewanoe, 40411 i * dist—T. N. ■Wb, J. I’., A G. Harris, N. P. ■ti l Saturday. I Buford, 550th diH —T. C. Bur |od. J P., J. M. Posey, N, P. Fri ■iy before 3rd Saturday. MUNICIPAL. I John C. Smith, Mayor. I COUNCIL. I A L Moore, K I) Herrin S A Townley w J Brown I ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAIN I Arrives from Suwannee. 5 50 p. m I Leaves lor Suwannee, 7 a' m. I ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF XAllf I Jtfferson Arrives 12 m, de par*a l>i, Monday and Thursday. lTswi.es Store.— Departs Gam ar itei|ipm, Monday and Thursday. ILooanvii.i.r.— Arrives 10 a m, de ■rtil p m.—Daily. ■ Yellow River. — Arrives 12 m., de fcts ti a ni,,VVelnesday and Saturday I w. ii. fiarvey, p. m I CHURCHES I Baptist- -Rev .I I, R Barrett, pastor ■trues every Sunday. ■ Methodist—Rev M l) Turner Castor ■nices on the Ist and 2nd Sundays. ■Sudav School.— A T Pattillo, Supt ■*rj Sunday at 3 p m |P**sbvtkrian-- ltev J F McClelland, ■•or, Services on 2nd und4th Sundays ■ach month. ■® md av School. —T R Powell. Supt Sunday at 9.30 a in* I FRATERNAL. ■ hwsKNCKvu.i.E Masonic Lodge. — J ■Sieuce W M„ g A Hagood, S W„ Meets on Tuesday ■plon or beloie full moon in each E*» Vkrnon Chapter, No 39, R A Ep 1 1* Spence, HP, a T Pattillo ■7 , Friday night belore the ■ Sunday in each month. Bassett Superior Court.—N. L. ■■duds,Judge. Convenes on the Ist 111 March and September. A a, HUNT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, I LA. Kciiun" ' f'' 1 l "' Coi.l'ts K„ ,1 s " 1 t>i<liimry of the comi |J‘ami Milton, and in K n'T " r counties. 11111,111111,1 ihvt'ii m. Johnson I ATTORNEY AT LAW. ■ fiAIXF.SVrr.T.F,, (IA. ■>l! pranic« in this ami adjoining KTp Supreme Court of the m Jr' nf9s " ,tr,lst( ‘'l to his cue attention. I E - &V. BRIAN!’, I BTCD ®T at LAW, I Logansville, Ga. [■Wness entrusted to Lie |L; rece ‘ve prompt attention. I Samuel C POE, r Sferpr and Brick* I mason. I Laweenceville, Ga. IT S|t i l ‘« i ''allv"!?' 1 to ioforin the ■Jj*>*i! l>lao» y ’ IHt is at ill at ■yti.rai j f 1111,1 >- s now pi cnarcd f 1 1" f 0... ‘"‘y kind of work in ■ M Mur,. ,f“!' vv ''OKat-'cd in the PM on 1 11111 k, and will do K'“ ll| im!.,, V ""'ioe. Satislae ■ ’ ' °nt rat img a apeo ■ ' — — NmPTION. I 1 ; 1 * w V r "t kind and of fun* ■ *• 1 ‘"iiujTi*-o*v®s ■ u “. I »ir««Vist,w,» rott flwinndl TVLRR M. PEEBLES, Proprietor VOL XV. EDITORIAL BREVITIES. Brooks county melon t ; neß are ten inches long. l’leilger, the politician, is going to locatejin Brunswick. Covington, Ga\ is going to build a 4t. thousaud dollar hotel and so is Washington. Some of the Georgia postmas' ters will hold on until they are unceremoniously kicked. Rev N. Keif Smith has been called back to the Third Presbytes rim ehnrch in Atlanta. A woman is said to be the best farmer in Oglcthrope county* Where is the Hon. James M- Smith '! A small cyclone passed five miles from Douglasvill Thursday night. It did considerable damage *o timber. H. H. Cerltou is having a $4,- 000 addition maue to his house. This looks like he does not exptet to move to the executive man sion. There is a nigger boy living near Ivanhoe, Bulloch county, a son of Ellis Hagan, 12 yesvs of age. who wears a No. 13 shoe, and it is said they are rather too small for his feet. A citizen of south Georgia sent a sample of dried LaConte pears to a dealer in Now York and asked his opinion of the fruit. “Send me all you Cat find at fifty cents a pound and 1 will take two tons at thut price,’’ was the reply. The Waycryss Reporter reports That a Mrs. Spikes, of Clinch coun ty, recce tly, became the mother of three babies, and the returns had not all been received when the in' formant left. Her patriotism how ever is excelled by that of a Mrs. Oynthina Griffin, of Waycross,who is the mother of 26 living children and is still hale and hearty. A colored woman died in Amerix cus some days sihee, and her su* persiitious neighbors lell ol a won derful phenomena attending her last hours. Th y say that fre quent and mysteiious knocking was heard on the wai's, tapping at the doors which refused to stay listened, and that the screws in her co ffin would uot hold. A day or twoagoßoze Kitchens brought a load of fish to Montezu ma, and among the lot he had two sturgeons. The largest weighed 177 pounds and measured 7 feet and 8 inches long aDd 3 feet 2 in ches around the body. His fins were 11 inches long and 6 inches wide. The small one weighed 71 pounds. They were caught in nets out of Flint rives. A few dajs ago two Montezuma negroes loaded a pipe with powder putting ohl' a small quanily of to bacco on top, and gave it to an old ontsarmed negro to smoke. When the explosion took place tbe old negro was knocked down, burning his face atul righ eye very badly, and it was thought that he had lost the sight of that organ. The preporators of the joke were arrested A remarkable snake story cornep from Early county. Mr. Burtel Roberis noticed, one day last week, in his rambels, a very large king snake that acted in a very strange manner. He went nearer, and, upon examining the snake, found that its head had been cut oil some clays, as the wound tad lieale 1 entirely up. His snake ship was in good condition and crawled on of! as if nothing were the matter. Gainesville Eagle: “Fanny Summerour, a Degro woman of this city, whose husband ran away during the war and joined the Federal army at Halt tn, and who was killed in battle, lately ascer tained that si e was entitled to a pension. The proofs being for warded to Washington, her claims have be n allowed. She now oolds a pension certificate entitle ing her to pay, amounting to the snug sum of twenig-seveu bun dred and sixty-six dallars and sevs enty-tbree cents; also, fourteen dollars per month as long us she lives or remains single. ’ Bertlrine’s Ruse, There was scarcely a sound in the forest as the snow fell upon the tree'-, a fiue snow that made their branches appear as if covered with an icy moss. Before the door of a house a your g woman was obopp-ug wood. She was tall and, though slender, she was stronS. She was a child of the forest. A voice was heard coming from house :—“Bertliiue. yon should come in soon soon, for there are Prussians and wolves roaming about.’’ Berfnine replied, as she split a block of wood witli a powerful, stroke, “I have finished, mother. lam coming. It is still light.” Then she carried in the wood, and went cut again to fasten the oaken doors of the shed, anil again entered tne house fastening the large bolts of the door. Her mother, an old woman whom age had rendered timoious sat near the fire spinning. “I like it not,” she said, “when the father is away. Here we are two defenceless women.” “Ah !” replied her daughter, »s glanced toward a large revo'ver suspended over the fireplace, “I can easily kill a wolfe or a Prus sian—it is all the same.” Berthiue's husband had joined the army at the beginning of the Prussian invasion, and she lived with her mo. her and father, the old forestor, Nicholas Pichnom who had obstinately refused to quit his woodland dwelling for the town. The nearest town was Retliel, an ancient stronghold perched up' on a rock. The inhabitants were pairiots and hod decided to resist the invaders. They had procured cannons and muskets and equiped a oiillitift. The soldiers were drilled daily by M. Lavigue, haber dasher, and exxoffieer of the dra- goons. Thus they i waited the ai rival of the Prussians, but the Prus sians did not appear. They were not far off, however, for twice al ready their scoui s had pushed through the wod as far as the house of Nicholas Pichnon, was the outpost in the forest of Aveliu. Twico each week Pichuon went to town for provisions and inform ed tke|citizens of whatever liadoc-. currad in his neigborhood. He had gone to town this very morn ing to announce that two days be fore a small detachment of German infantry had halted at his place for about two hours and then depart ed. The officer who commanded them spoke French. That evening, when Bei thine was about to put the pot on the fire to make the soup, two violent knocks were heard at the door- As the women made no reply a loud guttural voice said, “opeu the door!” Then, afiei a brief silence thb same voice continued, “open the door or wo will break it in.” Berthine took down the revolver from above the fireplace and slip ped it into her pocket. Then she said, “who are you ?” The same voice replied, “tbe de tachment of soldiers who were here the other day.” “What do you want ?’’ said the young woman. “We have been lost in /he wood since morning. Open the door or we will break it in !” Berthine had no choice. She She quickly drew the large Dolls, and opening the door saw before her six men— sixPruscian soldiers, the same who had stopped there two daye beforo. “Why do yon come here at this hour !” she said in a resolute tone. “We are lost,” replied the officer. “We recognized your house. We have had nothing to eat since morning.” “Come in,” said Berthine, as she stood aside to let them pass. They entered the house. They were covered with snow and ap* peared to be completely exhausted The young woman pointed to the wooden benches at either side of the large table, saying, “ait down. I will make soup for yon.” When the soup was prepared the Prussians ate vor icion-ly. As they were thirsty Berthine dec OUR OWN SECTION-WE LABOR FOR ITS ADVANCEMENT LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. MAY 26 1885. scended into the cellar to draw cider for them. She rouinined there a long time. The collar was a little vaulted cave, which it said had served both ns a prison and a hiding place. It was reached by a winding s tail way; to which accuse was gained through a trap in the center of the kiteken. When Herthine rt•appeared she wore a cunning smile. She gave the jig of cider to the Prussians. W hen the soldiers had finished eating tney lay down to sleep about the table. They stretched themselves on the door with their feet towards the fire, their heads supported by their cloaks’oiled up for pillows, and soon they were snoring in six cimVceui tones. Tney had slept sometime, when suddenly firinfi was heard without and so plainly that it seemed to be directed against the wal.s of the house. The soldiers rose at once. Two more reports were heard, followed piesently by three others. Bertbine appeared- She was apnarently frightened. Her feet were bare, she whe wore a short skirt and oairicd a candle in Uer hand. “The French are coming she exclajined. “There are at least two hundred cf them. If they find yon here they will burn the 1 oust. Go into the cellrr quickly and aiake no noise. If you make a sound we are lost. The officer thoroughly frighten el, said in a low tone ‘we will. How shall we descend ?” The young woman quickly open eb the tsap door and the six men disappeared, one after ano'her down the little winding stair. When tne point of the last hel' met hau disappeared Bertihine lowered the heavy oaken plank, ihich as a wall and hard as steel, which was Held in place by hinges and a lock, and, turning the key in the lock, began to laugh. It was a low hysterical laugh. Then she suddenly evinced an irresisti' ble desire to dance over the heads of her prisoners. Soon, however, she heard mnr murings under her feet. The prisoners had divided the ruse, and presently the officer mounted the little stair and began to pound tlie trap door with his fist. Again he cried, “Open the door!” “What do yon want ?” she asked. “Open the door.” “I will not. ’ The man became angry, and ex~ claimed, “Open the door, or I will break it in ” Then she begau to laugh,say ing. “A’reak it, my good man; break it,” and he began to knock with the butt end of his musket against the door of oak closed above his head, but it resisted the forca of of his blows. The young woman went to the outer door of the bouse, and, open ing it. looked out into the night and listened. A distant sound fell upon her ear. Then she cried with all her might : “Ho, father!” “Ho, Berthine!” a voice repli ed. Presently the large shadow of a man appeared where the moon light fell between two trees. “I haue the Prussians in tbe cellar ? What Prussians ? How did they come there ?” Z/erthine sard, laughing;—“They are those who were here the other cay. They were lost in the forest and I am keeping them cool in the cellar.” Then she related the ad venture, how she had frightened them with the report of the revols ver, and bad fastened them in the cellar. “Well, what would you have me do at this hour?” asked the old man. “Go and fetch M. Lavigne aud h’s troops. He will make them prisoners, and will be glad to do it.” “Yes, be will be glad said fath er Pichoo with a smile at he de parted. For a long time Berthine rer mained alone, with her eyos fixed on the clock. From time to time the Prussians were heard ratter ing away at the trap door with /heir muskets. A/ length, trunk ing it time for the troops to ar rive. Soon she saw shadows moving in the forest. They were the shadows of M. Lavigne’s men. There were 200 of them and each carried 200 cartridges. M. Lavigne arranged his troops so as to surround the house. Then he entered the dwelling and in formed himself of the f rce and position of the enemy. M. Lavigue stamped ou the trap door, calling to the Prussian officer. The latter made no re ply Again M. Larigne called, but in vain. After a lapse of 20 inimOes he summoned the officer to surrender, promising that the lives of himself and his men should be spared and that they should receive good treatment. There was no sign of ca[ itulation Then the commandant arranged his plan of attack. “Let Plane 1 nt and his nen come here,” he said. Planchut, W'o was a zinc worker, amt two of uis assistants approached. “Tear down the gutters and the waterspout from the roof.” In a quarter of an hour fully fifty feet of these wooden gutters weie brought. Then he hau a little hoie mude at the edge of the trap door nud formed a conduit from the pump to this opening. “Now we will give these Prus sians something to drink,” he said. Then he ordered a number of men to the pump, who relieved each other every five minutes. A stream of water glided through the conduit and fell into the cellar The w’ork of pumping was continu od for three hours, the command' ant in the meantime ma.ching up and down kitchen, the wondering why the men did uot capitulate. About eight o'clock in the morn ing a voice was heard at the little grated aperture which served to ventilale the cellar, saying : *“I want to speak witn the French officer.” Lavigne replied from the wiih dow, advancing his head only a little:*— “Will you surrender ?” The Prussian office answered that he would. “Then pass your muskets out,” added Lavigne. Presently one musket was pass ed through the aperture and fell upon the snow, then another and ano'her, until all nad been passed out. Then the same voice said:— “Wo have no more. Make haste and let us ouq for we are nearly drowned," The commandant opened the trap door. Four dripping heads appeared—four heads with pale faces and long dripping hair, Then, one by one, the six Prus sians emerged, wel, shivering and lightened. They ware seized and bound. The commandant at once led away his prisoners, with whom he entered Reihel In tri umph. M Lavigne was decorated for having raptured a Prussian ad vance guard. SHE WAS A GOOD WITNESS. Sometimes a lawyer meets big match on the witness s/and. Not lou r since there was a breach of promise case in an Ohio town. The usual bully-ragging lawyer was there but an unusuai witness ia /he person of a country school inarm met him. “Ah, Miss,” said the lawyer when she had taken the oath, ‘will you state your name?” “El'zabe h Martin,” she re sponded quietly. “Yonr occupation?” “Teaching school.” “//ow old are you?" he next in» quired, with a side-long smile at the large crowd. “Old enough to know that it is none of your business,” she an swered as gentle as a ••ing dove cooes. “Objection sustained, ’ remarked the court. The lawyer's face tamed red, but he braced up and went on without /'te smile. “Do you kn ow the nature of an oath?” he asked spites illy. “Oh, yes, 1 heard yon damn the court yesterday on the street for ruling against you, and I knew yon were not your prayers” The couit looked at the lawyer Herald the lawyer looked at the ceiling and the witness looked a' ease, “Confineyour answeri to iho case, if you please,’’ sp.id the law yer. “Now will you cell the court, if you know the plaintiff?" ‘ Yes, sir, I know her." “What do yon know of her ?’’ “More good than I know of any lawyer sir." “That’s not what I want to kuow “I presume not si r, r continued the witness softly. “I want to know shouted the exasperated questioner, bringing down his fists on the table if you know anything about the ense bes fore the co’irst ’’ “More than you do possibly." “Well tell it the court, and have done with it.” ‘ Thanks. I know your Honor, that Joseph Hill the defentant, asked (Vary Jacksou the plaintiff, if she would be ns wife. It was cione iu my presence.” “Indeed! Isn’t it rat her an im usual way of popping the ques tion !” ‘.‘l don’t know, sir I have had no experience. I happened to be present, because / came into the room unexpeet/y and found the plaintiff sittiufi on the defendant’s lap, and he to show me that she had a right *o save the furniture in th it way, asked her again to be his wife, as he had already done a week earlier.” “By lhe way. Miss Martin, how much docs the plaintiff weigh ?" “Doe hundred and forty pounds “How do you know so exactly ?” “By the weight, of course ” she smilingly repliod, and the lawyer went oil another track “Do you think the defendant was telling the truth ?” “Oh, yrs ; you know he is not a lawyer.” “The will confine her self to the facts,” iuterupted (he court. “Very well your Honor, I shall pay no more attention to the state ments of the attorney.” “That will do,” said the provok ing lawyer, “the witness may stand down.” “May it please the court,” she remarked, “she would like to sit town.” The sheriff will please provide the witness with a chair,” said ihe court. “She seems to have sat down on everything else in ibis court room; and there is reason why a chair should be exempt.” The witness smiled placidly, and took the chair to await another call to to the stand. SAM JONES IN NASHVILLE. Nearly every devi'raent that is done in Nashville is chaperoned by Christians and members of the church. I went into Jones county to dedicate a church. A young lady had a hood Bible religion A brother said to me, did you noiice that Miss Anna was a little crack ed on religion ? No I said. Well she is. Then, said I, if she >s ciacked I want her lo bust wide oper. We have been playing re„ ligion. We have had about enough to mahe cue man happy and then they br« ak it up and di vide it up, Look at the Christians of the nineteenth century. A Christian will have a billiard table in his house. A Christian will go to the thea'er. Progressive euenre and a box at the theater are all the devil asks to keek any man dancing after him. A christain will want wine on his table, and champagne so that he may make his home attractive to his triends. Oue of his friends is the devil When wine comes in at my door you may know that Jones coips is laid out and he is dead. A generous man gives like the gush of the stream. He has noth ing too goolforGod or humane ity, I never could understar d how it was that a man could givj one hundred dollars a year to his club and and only ter dollars a year to the church. I have no respect for she nun that gives more to a Godless institution than for the salvation of the world. A club man in Atlanta Atlanta tola me that hie club was JOHN T. WILSON, Jii„ Publisher reformatory, and / asked him how many men had professed there. Home men say 1 don't know wlist I am talhing about. Take around to your clubs and if if I don' I will take it all back tos morrow night. /’h«se clubs give entertainments every once and a while, and tlie wives go around and evrything looks beautiful. Oh, the bullibility of woman ! SHOES MADE FROM A NE (i ROES HIDE. There is no accounting for tastes, but a distinguished Philadelphia physician lioos a little ahead of any tliing yet seen it this country. For sometime pas he has been wearing shoes so. peculiarly Ins nous iu theii their blackness that his friend wondered if he used some magical blacking or utilized die muscles of some extraordinary boot black. An acquaintance recently asked the physician how it was that his shoes retained such a lustre in a/1 sorts of weather. Ttie reply was stai/ling, The shoes was made of human leather, the shin of a negroe man. The physician staled ttia‘ he lmd worn the shoes seven months. The leather was soft and pliable aDd moae enduring tfcan calf skin. Further question ing elicited the information that human skins are tanned in lurge quantities in Pennsylvania and made into shoes, inrteh safes, cigar cases, and cases for surgical in struments. The skins are obtain ed from the bodies of the subjects dissected it, the medical colleges. It was old Ben Butler, while Governor of Massachusetts, \ylio unearthhed the Tewksberry hor ror of taming negro hides. It appears that the “business” is uot conqned to the “hot bab’’ of abol litioi.um but find its iu the city of ‘ brotherlv loye.” It seems the yankres are not only determinod to utilize the negroe us a voter while* living, but when dead /hey tan and convert his hide into shoe lea*her and other useful articles. Wo are glad that (Geor gia trouts ovon a dead niger bot tlian that. CHANGING THE SUBJECT. ‘'Always,” said papa, as he drank his coffee and enjoyed his morning beefsteak, “always, children, change the subject when anything unpleasant has been said. It is both wise and polite.’’ That evening on his return from business he found his carnation bed despoiled, and the tiny im-. priot of slippered feet silently bearing witness to Hie small theif. “Mable,” he said to her, ‘‘did you pick my flowers?"' “Papa,” said Mable, “did you see a monkey in town?’’ “Never mind that. Did yon pick my flowers?” “Papa, what did grandma send me?” “Mabel, what do yon mean i Did you pick ray flowers ? An*- swer me yes or no.” “Yes, papa, I did; but T though* I’d change the subject.” WELL POSTED. Mrs. Slimdiet—“You seem lo know everything about horses. Won’t you explain to me how you tell a norse’s age V ’ TLiiu bearder—“Certainly. By the teeth.’’ “Oh, yes I had heard of that but I had forgotten it. Can the ages of all animals he known the same way ?” “Yes, I can teil a chickens age the teeth.” “A chicken has no teeth. ” ‘No but I have. BEST TIME TO GATHER * PEACHES. At the Agricultural College at Bryant one of the prifesoors asked Prank Elliot, one of the most promising students:— “Which is the best time to gather peaches ?” “When the farmer has got his back turned, and the dog, is ded up,” was the reply of Frank who has had considerable experience in raising fruit. Call on Almand & Co’s for stoves and furniture. G H 'LYjVE TT n ERAL D. OUR -/ Olt J) KVA HA M ENT IS COMPLETE. ALL ORDERS FOR yt'/ yO • s /C m / ■lY'9'T V f *-7 , NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECU- TED, Enlived in the Post (Mitre at Law n'll i ville, tin., us seeoud class mall matter. NO 11 OENERAL NEWS. It is said that, there art more than 20,000 persons in New York city who depend upgn gambling for a living. In Japan physicians draw their pay from the government and d > not have to depend on their pa tients for their livings. According to Senator Yarre's own statement, his wife is suffering from a “regular old fasldoned ton commandment cold.” Waiter L. Stanton, of New York a young capitalist, lias purchased ihe entire bonded debt < f the state of Indiaua, which amounts to #1,(185,000' lie is the stni’s sole creditor. In. less than two months the New York World has raised #40,- 000, by popular suoscription, for tlie Bartholdi Pedestral Fund This sum was contributed by over 42,000 people. Tho Governor General of Cana da receives a salary of #50,000 a y«.ar The New York World yesterday contained a ticket to Coney Island in each copy sold. A girl Li years old is said to bo roaming in the swamps in tlie vi cinity of West Tccoli, Fla, and has evaded all at tempts at capt ure, John W. Yonng. tlie head foth« Mormon efiureb, i« staying in Birmingham, Conn., superintend ing the manufacture of some heavy machinery, The Macon Telograpt, after two years of ridicule, comes ont on thasiasiicalJy in favor of base ball. The little seveo-year old daugh ter of Mra. Lee, who keeps a res** laurnut in Meridian Miis., was poisoned ou Monday evening by eating three or four yellow ja.sa mine blossoms and died in about two hours. A Spaniard named Phillips a butch ir Poplar Creek Agency, M. T„ recently lost one of his children by death and to commemorate the event cut oil his left forelingei, and sacratiied aline mure ami a three year-old steer on tlie grave of tqe child. A Philadelphia doctor, being questioned as to the shineness of his shoes, stated as a scientific fact that the human skin fanned takes a high polsb. It developed that by way of experiment he had sausod the skin ol a subject to be dresed and made into shoes. About (130 o’clock Thursday morning slierc was a Bevere thun dor starm northwest of this city. The rain which followed /his storm was exceedingly heavy—in fact the “bottom 101 l out” Afier ti{e rain hundreds of tiny terrapins were picked up in all parts of the city. The boys declare that the terrapins fell from the sky during the rainj It it not an unfrequent oeburreuce for fish to fall in tnese shower and peahaps the terrapins were taken up by a waterspout from ponds and dropped here, twy years ago there was a rain of blood not far from Raleigh.—Rais eigh News and Observer. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Marlow, near Washington (J a, were absent from home on May 11th When thoy returned they found their house burned to the ground, Their infant one mou/h old, was consumed iu the conflagration. Thomas .Schofield, aged yi years recently walked nine miles to pay his subscription to a paper. Grasshoppers rre destroying rieids of corn and other grains iu Henry and Panola counties, Tex- Sberiff Ragsdale was shot and killed near Bonham, Texas, on the 12th while endeavoring to uneat a band of desperadoes. As a part of the marriage cere monies in Sei via, the bride has to hold a piece of sugar between her lips os u sign that she wili speak jii/tle and sweetly during her mar ried life. It might be well to in troduce such a custom in this country- Dr. Mary Walker has been oue ol ihe leading attractions at a dime museum in Chics# >.