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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY AUGUST 7, 1883.
GEORGIA GOSSIP.
SHORT TALKS WITH THB SCRIBES
OF THE COUNTY PRESS.
A n wb.it Ti.ld-loat T.i.b:. Eatimim-Biott
la I«ukm-CMn & Mil pH Is T.ibattos-
wir..BMtiss is Dstwhinr Cownr-a
S«i Outs ob a Train-Bit.. B o.
Lauren, county haa eight lawyers.
be Swainsboro jail la agan empty.
Colonel W. W. Clarke, of Covington, b
seriously ill.
Dlpthcria exists in some sections- of Ueri
wether county.
Mitchell county shows an increase of $85,
000 in her tax returns.
Colonel John Stephens and family, of At
lsnta, will return to Washington shortly,
The tax books of Upson county will show
an increase of about $50,000 over the returns
of last year.
The Kastman academy will open Wednes
day, August 1st. The public school fund
will be in operation the 05 days.
The tax receiver of Irwin county, closed Ills
books the other day and upon investigation
fuund that there was but one defaulter.
The Clayton county Sundny school held
their annuul celebration at Morrow’s station
on the first Wednesday in August.
The residence of C. W. Asbury at Lula, was
entered by burglars on Saturday night, and
line suit of clothes and a .Smith A Wesson
volver carried oil.
Indcfaultof a bond of $2,000 Calvin Jim
merson was, last week, remanded to jail 'by
Commissioner Brown, before whom he was
carried for a preliminary hearing.
The Sumter Republican learns that Biles
Smith, of Mscon county, hud his residence,
kilchen and smoke house, with oil his fur
niture and provisions, destroyed by lira one
day lost week.
The artesian well ol Waynesboro has
reached a depth of 400 feet and the indica
lions are that end of the i|Uicksand has been
reached. II rock is now struck water may
lie reached in a short time.
Mr. J. K. Miller, of Henry county, owns
venerable llrearm in tho shape of an army
muskot that did duty in the revolutionary
war. It originally belonged to his grandfather
and is considerably over a hundred years old,
i Conyers Weekly: Mr. Kd Peek and Miss
Nellu Rice, both of Rockdale, were clandes
tinely married on lastBunday morning. Miss
Rice was probably the prettiest young lady in
the county.
Henry County Weekly: JudgeDicken owns
the largest and fattest shote for its age that
we evor saw. It Is only seven months
old, weighs ICO pounds, and is so fat that it
walks pigeon toed.
Washington Gazette: A root of a citron
eight fret long, from Hon. 11. F. Barksdale':
plantation, 1ms been added to our curiosity
shop. It was ten feet long, hut two feet were
broken olT in plowing it up.
Mr. J. ltuntcr McComb, lax receiver of
Baldwin county, says that returns of proimrly
this year foot up $1,241,575. Last year's re
turns aggregated $1,2.II.Mi2, an increase this
year over lust year of $U,7I1.
A night blooming cereus owned by Mrs. J
M. McDonald, of Henry county, was the can
. ter of attraction last Bunday night. It was in
full bloom, and the sight presented is mid
to have been Incomparably lovely.
Wrightsvllle Recorder: Mr. C. L. I’ag:
went to tho mouth of liuckeyo creek, at the
entrance of “Cow Hell,'' and caught 108 Halt
In tlireo hours. He said that he was going
again as soon as the “moon gets right.”
Walton News: Protracted meetings are
now going on throughout tho country. Mar
riage licenses will be in demand after they
are over. The ordinary never falls to receive
substantial benefit from every protruded
meeting.
Captain W. II. Morgan reports that the
caterpillars are on the plantation bordering
the Flint on the Dooly side, lie thinks that
they cannot do much harm to the old crop in
thirty days and by that time It will bo made,
but the top crop will sufTer very much.
A man is said to live In Washington county,
who has been keeping house for forty-live
years and has raised a family. When lie first
began he built a lire to cook the first meal.
He now cooks with and uses the same tire he
kindled forty-live yearn ago.
8andorsville Herald: The train hand re
cently run over by freight cars at Bartow and
killed was a young man named Jenkins from
Johnson county. It Is Supposed the noise
made by Hie moving trains prevented his
noticing that he was on the wrung track
Johnny Mobley, of Hamilton, baa a patch
ofcotton waist high that was planted on tho
first of June. After making him a good crop
of barley, the patch promises to yield a crop
of cotton the rami-year equaling n bale per
acre at least. If the entire county waa culti
vated as this patch lias been it would soon be
come the wealthiest section in the world.
'Bays the Lumpkin lnde|iendent: Not u
gnat while ago Mr. T, W. I silt had lightning
roils pul up on Ids dwelling. Ills house
Di ver bad been struck by lightning, but dur
ing the first thunder sturm that cante along it
from the ordinary ef Effingham county. Now I first married when be was fifteen yean old.
a man from Effingham turns up and claims I He is now sixty-four years of age, butdoea
the woman as bis wife, hut says that he never I not look very patriarchal, as he Is just turn-
had any license to marry Iter. He wants the ling gray. His youngest child is two months
new husband arrested for larceny, bigamy Jold.
and embezzlement.
Valdosta Times: Front the examination of
the tax books, we learn that tbc amount of
real estate given in this year for Lowndes
county is greater than that of 1882 by $193,
k>
iPg t
was struck in two or three places. Mr. Lott
la not at all superstitious but lie pulled the
roila down much quicker than they were put
up and he now takes his chances allee samee
like poor folki. ,
Lumpkin Independent: The crons have
been laid by and lights are occurring in every
district in the county. The jsil is fast filling
up, and occasionally one of them climbs the
golden stair. One day this week a tight oc-
rurrrd on Dr. Tatum's place in the Antioch
district, about awoinnu, when one negro tired
two shots at another, tilling him with
bird s! ot from his head to his heels. We
Irani that on Thursday a negro was killed in
a fight at Green liill, but have not been able
to get any particulars.
JetT 8parks, who is charged with having
killed two negroes near Towns, in Telfair
couuty, some six or eight months since, ami
who is now in Dodge jail awaiting the sitting
of Telfair superior court, is trying to “play
crazy." This is an old dodge, anu one that,
in the past, has been very successful in cheat*
ing the gallows throughout the state.
Jonesboro Newt: There are two men calling
themselves elders in the Mormon church
■topping in the western portion of our coun
ty. They hail from Utah, and their presence
here bodes no good. To tolerate the preach
ing of their nefarious doctrines is a reflection
on the intelligence of our people, and utiles*
the lsw can be made to reach them, common
decency demands that they be notified to go,
and to stand not upon their going but to go
at once.
There is considerable falling of! in the
crops ir. Talbot county withiu the last few
days The corn, as well us the cotton, is
sutfVring very much for rain and has been
cut off at least ten per cent. The cotton is
small and blooming to the top. The farmers
think that the crop will be cut off considera
bly on account of the dry weather.
On Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Hill
boarded the Columbus and Home passenger
train for Chipley with a sick child. Just be
fore the train reached that place the spirit of
the little sufferer winged its way to heaven,
and left the hearts of the fond parents deso
late and almost broken. The passengers say
it was a sad n one to witnrea,the grief-stricken
parents weeping over the lifeluv form of their
little darling.
HinesviUe Gazette: A magistrate in this
count? the other day married a couple of
colored folks under authority of a license
381. This Is a gratifying increase and shows
that our people* are advancing in prosperity
and greatness. There are in the county eight
lawyers, five doctors and one dentist. There
are 1573 polls in the county.
Bumter Republican: Mr. Jasper Kasterlin
young merchant of Montezuma, was visiting
his brother, W. F. Kasterlin, near Anderson
ville, last Thursday, and went out bird hunt
ing. As he was leaning with his hand over the
muzzle of his gun, it fired, tearing his left
thumb off and a few shots striking him on
his left jaw. He had a narrow escape, as his
head would have been blown ofi* if only
inch or two further to the left.
Thomasville Times: Mr. Hefright, who is
now boring the well at Waynesboro, sends
a couple of petrified shark's teeth, taken from
the well at a depth of four hundred feet.
He struck a fossil bed and a large number ol
teeth, and what seems to he sections of the
buck bone of the shark have been brought up.
Joe Fass will soon be sporting one of these
teeth os a scarf-pin, unless something is soon
found in our well that suits him better.
Eliza Itoggs is a native of Screven county t
Ga. She went to Florida at years of age v
married at 13, and her first child was born
when she was only 11. She is now 31 and bus
had 18 children (twins twice), 15 of whom are
now living. She is huleand hearty, and has
the reputation of being one of the hardest
working women in Florida. There were four
sisters. The three living there have 18 child
ren each, and the one dead had 11 and died
at 20 years age. Kli/.a lives near Sumterville,
LfiOrange Reporter: The first pair of na
tive Georgia mules we ever saw were on our
streeis last Tuesday. They were raised by
deaf and dumb man—Mr. John L. Kay, of
Heard county. They are small, but healthy
and drew a home made wagon and seemed tc
be decked with home made harness. Mr. Hay,
notwithstanding his affliction, is an energet c
farmer and u hard worker. He has two
brothers and a sister who suffer a similar pri
vation. His wife and five children have na
ture’s gift of hearing and speaking. Mr. Kay
and a brother are subscribers to tho Kcporter.
Waynesboro Citizen: On yesterday ns the
up freight train which pusses this point iust
iter daylight was passing Thomas station,
one of the rods of the engine broke. The
wood passer, K. Carton, became frightened,
thinking that the accident was more serious,
and jumped off und was instantly killed, his
neck being broken. His remains were taken
to Augusta, his homo.
Hirminghum Age: The latest candidate for
notoriety at Washington is W. H. Letts, of
Alabama. Mr. Betts was out walking with
his pet dog, and funded that the unirnul had
been luistreutcd by two passers-by. Two shots
from the Alabamian's pistol convinced the
two gentlemen that it wus necessary to hasten
behind a convenient corner. At the police
station it wus discovered that Mr. Betts had
not confined himself to iced-tea.
A couple from Kockdale county, anxious
o get married, npplied to the ordinary of
Newton county lust Tuesday for license. The
would-be hrhJe not beingu resident of this
county, Judge Edwards declined to issue the
necessary papers. It was a sorrowful sight to
see tho loving pair go off without the docu
ment they so badly needed. Both were of
lawful uge and we hope they finally succedeil
in getting 'spliced,
Calhoun Times: Lust Saturday morning
while the up paisengcr was standing at the
depot waiting for tho down train, which whs
only a short distance off, a negro woman with
a child in her arms was deliberately walking
down the track paying no attention to the
coming Iruiu. The engineer blew his whistle
several times but still she seemed not to bo
aware of danger, and not until a number of
peoplo called to her did site turn her head
ami seeing the train, stepped olf just as it
rushod by. The spectators seemed more
frightened than the woman
One day this week tho carcass of a shoat
was found secreted under one of the bridges
near Mr. A. T. Fort's stables, iu 8tewart
county. The marshal wus having it removed
when he discovered that one of the hams was
missing. The shout belonged to Mr. Fort, and
it was quite evident that it had been knocked
in the head by some thief, who fortomo cause
contented himself with one of the hams and
hid the remainder of the shoat under the
bridge. Judging from the state of decompo
sition of tho hog the ham went to make a
tart of the celebration dinuer at Scottsboro
ost Saturday.
Sumter Republican: Joe Honey and Jesse
Gyles crawled out of their beds, about three
o'clock Friday morning to catch coons. The
mellow notes of their horns sounded clear
ami shrill on tho still air, and Bulger, Bess
and Carlo yelled in joyful glee. They scud
ded to the woods, followed by the pack of
dogs, traversed corn fields, swamps, briar
patches and creeks, for the ring-tuiled var
ments. They piled mile on mile, but the sly
old coons kept out of their way, and the
weary hunters turned towards home, having
caught nothing but a small o'possum, which
the dogs tore up.
A distinguished Methodist minister says
that the preaching of Dr. Lovick Fierce was
once heard a distance of three miles by a gen
tleman who recognized his voice. On one
occasion, caught his wonls In conversation
with others seventy-five yards away. The
great preacher’s voice, in its prime, was like
a deep-toned hell. The doctor, iu a sermon,
was relating some of his losses and crosses in
the ministry. In loud, strong, energetic
notes, that rung out like u clarion peal, he
declared thut, among other sacrifices made,
holmd worn out the finest pair of lungs that
Go*! ever gave a man. Of course, the smile
went round at the good doctor’s bull.
Milledgeville Recorder: We counted on
Friday afternoon seventy-nine negroes,mostly
growu men uiul women, silting on the plat
forms opposite the armory of the Baldwin
Blues, waiting to see the intrude. The Blues
were not out. and the vagrant negroes retired
sullenly. Every negro there could have
made from ten to fifty cents by work, but
they preferred idleness. How did they get
their supper?
Talbotton Era: We have received in Tal-
botton since September 1, 1882, 7,700 bales of
cotton, lacking 300 bales of our mark und
with thirty more days to goon. We will re
ceive not quite 8,000 bales. This is a line
showing for us, and this is is our second sea
son since the railroad came. Geneva has re
el ved something over 3,5oO bales, making
he receipts for Talbot county 11,200 bales to
date.
'ulumhusSun: While Mr. Massey Free
man and Miss Willie Whitehead and Mr.
J anus Whitehead and Miss Foster, of Wa-
verlv Hull, Harris county, were out riding,
the horse driven by one of the young gentle-
n ran away and ran into the front buggy.
This frightened the other horse and they
both ran, throwing the young ladies from the
buggies. Mist Whitehead had an arm
broken. One report says that Miss Foster’s
* ck was broken, while another says she was
ly slightly injured.
HinesviUe Gazette: John Waring, a colored
youth was brought to jail last Wednesday
with about fifty bird shot lodged in his body,
lie entered the house of Mrs. Johnston. Upon
approach Mrs. Johnston tied to Mr. Ed-
and informed him of the presence of
the unwelcome guest. Mr. Howard went
here with gun in hand and founJ John in
the hou.se. John ran and Mr. H. overtook
him with a load of shot.
Mores Walker, a reliable colored man who
es in the ICth district in Liberty county,
has a history that is the moat remarkable we
have ever heard. He is the father of forty-
living children, born in wedlock! He is
La Grange Reporter: There waa a happy
family re-union at Major Egbert Beall’s on
last Saturday.. The venerable pater-famillaa,
Judge J. M. Beail—hia head white with the
froata of honorable, well spent years—like a
patriarch, eat among his children and grand
children, gathered to do him honor. His
daughters, Mrs. Ridley, Mrs. Hornady and
Mrs. Toad, were present. Sixteen olive
plants “round about" the "table” verified
the scripture thatchildrcn are "a heritage of
the Lord."
Sumter Republican: The young men and
boys around town have queer charms about
their person. Some of them carry buckeyes,
some rabbit feet, some pigeon legs, an4 some
one thing, others something else. John Mil
ler came back from a visit to the country the
other day with an alligator egg, and just as
soon as it is found out that alligatoreggs worn
or carried about theperson isa specific against
ail diseases and a sure guarantee that the per
son carrying it will be successful in every
undertaking, then every clerk in the city will
go to hunting alligator eggs.
Albany was full of rumors Sundny and
Monday to the effect that a Mr. Furlong, of
Furlong’s mill, about four miles this&deof
Tifton, had cruelly whipped his wife, and
when she ran from him, he took the lurge
end of hia buggy whip, with which he had
been beating her, and struck her on thgjicad,
One report was to the effect that he killed
hea, but it was learned since that such was
not true. The deed was committed on
Thursday, and Furlong defied arrest. A large
posse of men, however, went down and ar
rested him.
The tax returns of Johnson county show:
White polls, 703; negro polls, 202. Total
number of acres of land owned by whites,
105,030; aggregate value, f308.873; aggregate
value of town property owned by whites, $33,
778; value of stock owned by the
:ieiti, $123,064.
Total number of acres owned by negroes, 2,-
014; aggregate value, $5,300; value of town
property owned by them, $300; aggregate val
ue of stock owned by them, $0,405. Total
number of acres of wild land, 13,135; aggre
gate value of it, $0,100. Total amount of
property, $077,583.
Mrs. W. A. Howland, wife of I)r. W. A.
Howland, of Belleville, Fla., met death by
drowningon last Wednesday. She was missed
from home and no one being able to account
for the cause of her absence, inquiries were
made os to her whereabouts. These proving
fruitless, a search wus commenced. After
some time her dead body was found in the
Withlacoochec river, about one-half of a mile
from Bell ville. It is thought that Mrs
Howland in attempting to ford the river—it
being very low at the time—fell into deep
water, and being unable to swim, was
drowned.
Darien Gazette: On Tuesday last Fortune
James, colored, was killed by lightning
while standing near a well. There was also a
woman standing who was washing nepr the
well, stunned by the same bolt. aShg was
engaged iu washing clot lies. It seems that
James was standing under the center branches
of the free which wus struck, and the lightu-
ing rati down the tree und of! the end of the
branch, striking him on the bend and killing
him almost instuutly. Tho woman soon re
covered. Fortune James wus the uncle of
Toney James, tho negro who was hanged in
Durieu on the 29th of June.
Berry Journal: We certainly hope that the
(jamugo done to the corn crop iu Houston
county by the drouth this summer
has been greatly exaggerated. Early
corn 1ms not been hurt enough
to cut it ofi below a fair average crop, but
there is so much thut was plunted lute, on uc-
count of tho cold spring, that the damage
will cut the crop, as a whole, much below an
average, if the unfavorable reports have not
been exaggerated. We have not heard
of any western corn being bought in Houston
Ibis year, and it-will be unfortunate 4P0or
farmers have to seek foreign provender.
Eastman Times: Bill Bembry, the black
scoundrel who shot Mr. W. 1*. Hartman
through the left wrist, a few weeks since, bus
not yet been captured, though several efforts
have been made to this end. It is )>ositively
stated, however, that ho was shot
twice—once in tho left breast
and once in the leg. Wo saw something last
Friday afternoon that wo had nover seen be
fore—two snakes in mortal combat. One of
them was a highland moccasin and the other
a king snake. The latter hud entwined hint
self around the former, just below the head,
and was slowly hut surely choking It to death,
when the lookers-on interfered und killed
both of them.
The Covington Enterprise says that Rev.
W. F. Robinson was kicked from his buggy
by his frightened horso on Friday last and
badly bruised about the face, body and legs.
His wife und little daughter were in the
buggy when the runaway occurred, und the
former received slight injuries while the latter
escaped unhurt. Tho accident took place
while going down River's hill, between Cov
ington and Oxford, und the buggy was badly
demolished. The Enterprise says also that
last Friday afternoon while street overseer
Burns was preparing to fire a blast at the mill
pond on Dried lndiuti creek, a premature ex
plosion took place, which came neur costing
a colored man by the name of Burton Wallace
his life. His lmnds and arms were badly
lacerated and one of his eyes put out, while
the other was seriously injured. At last ac
counts tho wounded man wus getting along
well as could be hoped for.
Savannah Recorder: We understand that
George Wallace, the negro who is uuder sen
tence of death, to be hanged on Friduy, Au
gust 21th, for tho murder of Murtin Jensen, a
sailor, last year, has given up nil hope of ex
ecutive clemency, or of a com mutation of his
sentence to life imprisonment. We learn
that he is getting u religion* frenzy, or os some
of the negroes call it, "getting through or
finishing up the process of ucquiring holi
ness." lie is a mail of very weak iutellect,
and is, we are informed, totally unconscious
of the enormity of the crime with which he is
charged, and which he will expiate by death.
It was rumored after his sentence that a pe
tition in his iuteresl would be sent to Gov-
rnor McDaniel, hut the manner in which
the chief executive treated similar petitions,
left no hop* iu this instance. Many enter
tain the idea that before the day of his exe
cution arrives Wallace will be hopelessly
razy.
Columbus Sun: Colonel W. A
McDougald infoms us that a few
days ago a party of young gentlemen,
who were standing on the south commons,
fired several shots at his house. He says that
one ball passed entirely through the building
and another cut ofi’ a branch of u tree under
which his nurse was sitting with his baby.
Mn*. McDougald was sittingou the front piazza
ami was forced to go into the house for safety.
now living with hi. fourth wife whom he „
married when she waa just fourteen. Malkcr w i crc they will be met by an officer from
After about fifteen shots had been fired Colonel
McDougald went out and shouted to the party
to cease firing, which they did and left the
grounds. He says that he hss no doubt that
they were shooting at his house, os the range
of the lull is satisfied him that they could not
have bet n shooting at a target.
Henry Wilcox, who escaped from Sheri it
Rutherford, of Berrien, some weeks ago, has
been to town several times since, but each
time has succeeded in evading the otlicers.
The News says that last Tuesday Mr. A. J.
McCrea, our town marshal, heard of his
whereabouts and left on the four o’clock train
arrest him. He fouud Henry pirooting
around Yanceviile, arrested him and return
ed early Wednesday morning with him and
lodged him in the guard house to await the
arrival of the sheriff. Sheriff Rutherford
came Thursday morning and carried the pris
oner to Nashville, where he will be assigned
place in the jail until the sitting of the fall
term of the superior court.
Waycross Reporter: Sberifl Miller and bis
jailer, Jack Bird, left last Tuesday night with
: of the prisoners convicted at the last term
the county coart of this county, for Macon,
Stevens Pottery, who will take charge of the
festive law breakers. Three of them are
entenced for six months, and tbe other three
for twelve months. During that space of
time, at least, they will be of some use to tbe
country, and it Is to be hoped their expe
rience there will prove sufficient to deter
them from the commission of crime when
they become free men again.
A mill owner of Sumter was looking about
his mill Wednesday or Thursday, when he
found two or three dogs lying around the
mill. Turning to his miller, be told him
they must go or he would kies them out. Tbe
miller replied, "If you want to kick my dogs,
kick me.” The proprietor made a motion
if lie would kick him, the miller caught L_
ankle and lifted him, when bis opponent
threw out his hand, caught the miller by the
collar, and both tumbled into a ten foot mill
pond. Then commenced a struggle.
The proprietor had lost his hold
on the miller's collar, but the
lutter held on to his ankle and submerged his
foe occasionally. A friend went to the assist
ance of tbe mill owner, and a brother got a
boat paddle and helped tbe miller. The fight
kept the other spectators in a roar of laugh
ter, as the were only ducking one another, ai
the water was too deep for them to give force
to their blows. As the ridiculousness of the
afiair burst upon them, their wrath was wash
ed out by the water, and they come out good
friends. This is all true, and can be proven
by the parties.
Miss Emma Bullard, the young lady of
Dooly, who killed her offspring to hide* her
shanir, 1ms escaped. The Vindicator says
' On Thursday night the guard in charge re
ported that a rescue was attempted, and that
s'une unknown persons were passing about
the yard during the night. The guard fired
at one of tbe party three times; the party ran
and os he did so, returned the fire. The skir
mish was soon over, and |oll was then quiet.
Other suspicious movements about the
premises led the guard to believe that a move
was ou foot to get the prisoner out of reach.
A few moments before we go to press we learn
that Miss Kimnn Bullard made her escape
while tbe guard waseatingsupper. She went
in a hack. Some of the parties are identified,
The guard pursued in the direction of Hawk
insviile. Law in Dooly is too easily evaded.
Gainesville Eagle: There are several vigil
ance committees, or what was known in after
war times, as ku klux klans, in operation
about here. Over on the line of Banks a col
ored man w'as visited and given a good beat
ing because he had pushed a white lady off
the railroad track. A negro woman was
soundly whipped, below Harmony Grove, and
she said it wus all because she diu not keep
her cotton clean. A negro boy. also near
Harmony Grove, was whipped ana shot in
the cheek because be made so much fuss. The
parties are unknown and embrace a good
number. A cose of the same kind was tried
in Quillians district recently which de
veloped the following facts: Mr. John
Haynes, with a traveling thresher, stopped one
nigut at the house of Elisha Smallwood. After
going to bed they were aroused by men calllni:
at the gate. Smallwood went out and talked
with the party, came back into the house and
lit a lump. Three masked men then came in.
Haynes awoke and said, laughingly, that they
were a queer looking set of men. One of the
party drew a pistol, presented it at Haynes
and, without speaking, motioned him
him to he quiet. The other two
hen went to a bed where Dock, a sou of
Mr. Haynes, was lying, dragged him out into
the yard and whipped him unmercifully.
Smallwood and a man by the name of Fur
POLITICAL NOTEA.
New Hampshire records one divorce for ev
ery ten marriages.
Ro sec ran s says the Pacific coast democrat
are flatly opposed to Tildea.
Lieutenant-Governor Ames, of Massachu
setts, will probably retire from politics at tbe end of
his present term.
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
Tk« Llle.1 Jm Ab.at U« 8..U1 „d IU F.lk.~
C..d..Md f.r Ik. CuiUtutl...
gerson, living in White county, were bound
over to UaiT county superior court, Small
wood as accessory before the luct. The others
have not been arrested.
Washington Gazette: The cheapest wny to
have a dining room floor covered with a nice
new matting that we have ever known of, bus
justcomo under our observation. A little
more than a year ago a lady in this place had
u small pig put in a pen near the house. It
was fed on scraps from tho table, und not a
nlckle’s worth of food lias ever been bought
for it. Now it is grown and has a litter of
pigs of its own. It wus sold not long ago
witli tlie pigs, for ten dollars, and a uico new
matting bought for tho dining room lloor.
Tills is a lesson in small matters thut it
would be well for ail ol our people to learn.
The Gazette lias the following concerning a
mail who bus been the subject of gossip in
Atlanta: General Heard wrote to Wadley,
Georgia, the home of Mr, Cheatham, who re
cently played a sharp game on the general in
tills place, and asked auout the character of
tlie man. A letter was received which stated
that Mr. Cheatham had relatives there who
stood as well as any one, bat that nothing
good could be suid of this man. It is sai.l
that Mr. Cheatham and a young man who
bud ubout one thousand dollars, went on to
Cincinnati together, when a mysterious
robbery look place by which both
appeared to liavo neon robbed of all they had.
General Heard tliiuks of trying to have
Cheatham indicted for the sharp game he
played here. In his last letter to Cheatham,
tlie general referred him to that portion of
scripture where Felix said to l’aul, "When I
have a convenient season I will call for thee."
meaning that wliea he got the hooks of the
law in proper position he would clamp down
on him. He said he wanted to give him some
thing to think about.
Columbus Sun: Joe Williams, who was
found in nn unconscious condition on the Mo
bile anil Girard railroad track Saturday night,
died, tram his wound Wednesday night. Be-
fore his death lie rallied and stated that Dill
Averett held him while Jesse Thomas knock
ed him in tlie head, crushing his skull. We
learn that one of tlie negroes, was taken in his
presence and be identilled him. Justice Darr
was notified of tlie death yesterday morning,
and he instructed Bailiff Tucker to summon a
ury for the purpose of holding an inquest.
The following composed tlie jury: John
Griggs, Nornum Williams, Samuel Alexander,
W111. McLendon, Janies Jewell and J. H.
Harris. Tbe inquest was held on Mr. Geo.
Fontaine's plantation, whore the negro died.
Twenty-eight witnesses were examined, but
tlie principal testimony was that of tlie dying
man, which was made in the presencs of
tlie attending physician and several
others. Several witnesses testified that
they saw Rill Averett and Jesse Thomas in
company with Joe Williams an tbe same
night that he received tlie blow which cauaed
his death. Tlie jury found that the deceased
came to hia death by violence at the hands of
Rill Averett and Jesse Thomas, and that the
same was mutder. The two negroes were ar
rested and had a preliminary trial before Jus
tice Barr yesterday. They were committed
to jail without the privilege of bail to answer
the charge of murder at the next term of the
Russell circuit court.
Lumpkin Independent: For some
time post a yonng white man,
about 35 years of age, has been roaming
through the southwest portion of the county
and acting in a manner that greatly annoyed
some of the citizens and frightened others,
llis name is Sellers Miller and is a son of Mr.
Lewis Miller, who committed suicide in this
jaunty several years ago. Oa Tuesday lost
be was arrested under a warrant de lunico by
-Sheriff Griffis and Railin' Holder, who brought
i-imtotown. A jury was summoned to in
vestigate hia sanity, with Judge John M.
Scott as foreman and Dr. W. A. Gregory
examining physician. Miller is a
v set young man with dark complexion
an exceedingly idiotic expression. His
mania seems to have taken a matrimonial
. rn and upon this subject he is crazy while
apparently sensible enougli on other subjects.
Tue investigation brought out the facts that
lie would importune almost any young ladv
it he knew to marry him. Recently he
-it to a house in the 2lst district and lock
ing the door upona young lady, intreatedher
to marry him so earnestly that she became
frightened and called for help. Her sister
c.une to her rescue with a carving knife and
Miilerwos driven off. Oa another occasion
he avas sleeping at a farm house when in the
night the gentleman of tlie bouse was awak-
.Mississippi.
Okolona, Miss., ia to have waterworks.
There is a splendid prospect for a good or-
Tiiebe is talk of a revival of the old demo- j “ ng< j cr ° p ,u ' tou * bout 0c ““ Bprings, Mtuis-
critic plan to divide Texas io order to increase the ' r !’' ... , . .
southern representation in the senate. A north Mississippi man has made thus far
Congressman Mobrisok, of Illinois, is be- Und planted in water-
lleved to be willing to accept the democratic noml- j ~ , T
nation for governor of that ztate. Crops in Iraquena, Mira., are the finest
David Pullsifer, of Boston, has presented Com made and -will give an abun-
to the Massachusetts senate a gavel made ol the j an r e ’
wood of the old Hancock mansion.
A die* declaring owners and managers of
slceplngicars common carriers has passed tho third I watermelons.
Florida*
The Palatka, Fla., market is flooded with
reading In the New Hampshire legislature.
Figs are worth three dollars per bushel in
The Richmond (Va.) State says that it does Sl * Augustine, Fla.
not believe that tbe democracy can make anything j Seville, Fla., expects to ship at least 1,-
but a blunder by assailing the character of Gar- I 000,000 oranges this season.
Held now. I Bears are said to be plentiful on the south
John C. New, assistant secretary of the I side of Lake Dora, Florida,
treasury, is said to have been finally converted to Three thousand alligator hides were ship-
the idea of abandoning the coinage of standard I ped from Orange, Fla., last week.
dollara * A seven-foot rattlesnake was killed a day
Since the passage of the pension law the or two since at Gulf Hammock, Fla.
number of attorneys before the office has increased | Immense phosphate beds have been diacov-
| ered at tho mouth of Hillsborough river, Florida.
There are thirty springs of clear water
I within two miles of the courthouse at Lake City,
from 4,COO to 7,000.
Pension-Commissioner Dudley, who bails
from Indiana, is urged in some quarters as the
for second place on a national republican ticket, I *
with Arthur at the head. r Forty-five bushels of corn to the acre, Is
The house of the New Hampshire legisla- thea , *
turc has passed a joint resolution providing for jq a
final adjournment ou the 10th of August, and it Is T ‘ , ... T .
thought tbc senate will concur. Tim waterworks are now furnishing Jacfc-
tSoMEBODV in South Carolina is anxiously “"J" 6 ’ IU " wl,h over ,00 ' 000 S* 110 ' 1 ' ol W4,er
and vainly asking who was lieutenant-governor of .... ,,, , , ,
the state In 1791. The official record, of the state Ua , T ' Y. ' °' F '“" ,1 ‘
from 1780 to 1790 have been lost. ready 11 nct pr ° flt of {00u0 u P° n one » cre ot wllter -
Two days before the new civil service rule .
went Into effect the Chicago postoffics received CoMmBonraE. of Enterprise FiA i. noir
thirty one new employes, oaly two of whom hnd e»«»sed in rotting out between 10,000 and 17,000
passed tho civil serviee examination. Other civil orange trees.
service candidates may wait a few years. Columbia county, Fla., will send thirty-two
Prohibition iu Maine does not quite pro-1 varieties of wood to the Louisville exposition, bo-
hibit, for the Portland Prcsssays the liquor deputies sides tending sixty-five other articles for exhibi-
of Portland made thirty seizures last week, captur- | tlon.
During the month ending July 1st Cedar
Keys, fla., shipped by express 3,350,102 pounds of
‘fruits and vegetables, 2,474,606 pounds of fish, 24,-
121 turtles, and 683,400 oysters.
Enterprise, Fla., will ship 15,000 boxes of
oranges this winter, and the rest of Volusia county
three or four times that number. The net value of
the whole crop will be from $150,000 to $200,0C0.
Alabama.
Talladega, Alabama, is to have a cotton
ing a large amount of liquor of various kinds.
Nine persons were brought before the court during
the week charged with being engaged in the liquor
business.
Mr. Oliver Xorthcote, son of Cir Stafford
Northcoto, who was recently married to a daughter
of ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish, is sail to be named
for the position of secretary of the English legation
at Washington; but the report is not official.
The oldest business man in Connecticut is
Colonel Georgo L. Perkins, of Norwich, who is in
his 93th year, and Is treasurer of the Norwich and , . .
Worcester railroad company. His recent order to *“? 011 ral11 ' * nd
ticket agents concerning trade dollars read, as fol- IlCnoiiBA is raging among the hoga iu some
lows: /‘The trade dollar, socafled, is generally | portions of north Alabama.
„ ... . The population of Birmingham, Ala., has
increased 25 per cent in the lust year.
MontLE, Ala., neve/ saw "so much building
An intelligent young Englishman of good going on" as Is under way this summer,
family, a baronet’s son, who has been Investing ill* mbb furnace, of Uirmingham, Ala., is
largely in lands in Texas, was asked how It was I taming ou t,d«ilya V erago of 14 tons of good Iron
that so many of his countrymen were buying land ., T wiU , ake 3 000 000 brick t0 baild the
in this country Just at this “me. "I wilt teil you,” ho >torea thttt nre , 0 bc ercctca 0ad . dcn , Ala „ thI ,
said. “There Is a very general feeling that there 1
refused in payment, and you will please not receive
them. They were lmeuded (or China, and U is
inexpedient to delay their departure for tho place
of destination.”
year.
Over 450,000 watermelons have passed
through Montgomery, .Via,, in the past 30 days for
FBK8QNAL INTELLIGENCE.
will be a great chango in England soon, equal to
that made In tho south by yourclvil war. Although
they would laugh at the idea If you suggested it,
niue men outoi ten in Euglaud believe that Albert nftPth p rn M | n .„
Edward, prince ol Wales, will be the last king Eng- nortnern P 0 ;” 1 *'
land will ever have. A revolution is silently but Captain Kolb, of Barbour county, Alabama,
Tit r - oldSrafii mtVm." Upr00t 1411 l!l “ rcmn ' 1 " u shipped to northern markets, a lew days ago, 2,o;«
1 ' ’ watermelons of hlsowu raising.
Cotton worms have made their appearance,
.. ■ and arc doing damage lu Lowudes, Perry, Wilcox,
General Sir W.u.iau Fenwick Willums Momgomeryaad Dallas counties, Ala.
Is dead.
Mrs. GAr.FiF.LD and the boys are back at
Mentor from Saratoga.
General Sherman and Ills party have ar
rive at Missoula, Montana.
Cktewayo’s brother, Dabulmanzi, has also
been killed by the insurgents.
Mr. Phelps, the new minister to Peru, ex-
Toxnn.
A mammoth cave has been discovered uejtr
Mineral Wells, Texas.
The boll worm Is doing much damage in the
Brazos bottoms, Texas.
The cotton picking has become general
around Brenham, Texas.
Twenty-two bales of new cotton were re-
pecu to sail for his post this week. I ***«*., * _ .
Admiral Houart Pa 8 ha, commander of tbe ce ‘ v , od ,l ulenl “ r *' Thu ^\
* 1 Mrs. Helen Cooper, of kerrvillc, Texas,
Turkish navy, looks like Mr. Blaine.
The late Martin Milmore, of Boston, left
eal estate valued at about $100,000.
editress of a local paper, has fallen heir to $89,000.
The college building in course of erection
Mn. Khickhon, the Inventor of tbe monitor, Tc *“' wl " «»“*"> «*> »tudenU.
huju.t completed hi, eightieth year. 1 «'»*«* ".ourand ° P«PP* P
Prince Birmarck atilt look, ill and bear. « Llredt> ' Tex “'‘ ,ew da)r ” **“•
trace, of hi* recent attack of jaundice. I Una. Mabel Day, of Aaitin, Texav, bos .old
Pope Leo XIII. ha. aent n painting from ono h(!rltock c>tUe , ud ,
the Vatican a. , gift to the Detroit art Mroclatton. Ieucd „„ randl( , „ 6i0Wll , Mr .
Pr'NCE HoltENLOttE-LUNOENBUB 0 , Ot Q»f ^ ^ T „„„ hun( , rcd
many, 1. about to nuke a tour of iho United state. and wtlh „ conluop .
Tom Tiiumii was a .piritualist, and may , Umo( Uvc hundred carload., of beer.
Ilgnro tn future m.lerlalfzAtion., with the paraffine Co j, IBi McCunnv & Farru have leased for
b*"* 1 ' . ten yean the penitentiary at Rusk, Texai, having
General Chamberlain, at hia own request, golw<l o m en, a bloat furnace and rovorallargo ma-
has been relieved from the command of the Maine I chlnc lhops j n tho i eaH0>
milltU. I K t -
Tue youngest brigadier general in the I
United States army is General Mackenzie, aged I ^ horned pig Is a .Simpson county, Ky.,cu-
orty-iwo. rloalty.
Count Kalnoky, tho Austro-Hungarian I Nathan & Co’s, circus is working up east
minister of foreign atlWirs, has had an audience I crn Kentucky,
ith the emperor of Germany. j Mad dogs are becoming very plentiful
It is stated tbut the late Henry L. Kendall, I throughout Keutucky.
Providence, K. I., made a bequest of $600,000 to I Oil bus been fouuil in paying quantities in
the public library of thateity I the mountains of eastern Kentucky.
Dr. G. IIornidge Porter, who bus been for | C. H. White & Co. have leased tlie Lexing-
many years surgeon la ordinary to Quecu Victoria I ton. Ky., race-track for six years; price paid, $13,0 0.
Ireland, ha» been knighted. I Frank Judd caught a catfish, last Saturday
The king of Corea is thirty yean old, eligbt I morning, iu the Ohio river, opposite Ashland, Ky.,
suture, with a small black moustache and thin I which weighed seventy-six pounds,
beard, upou a mild, pleasant face. I Mrs. Tom Spink, of Hardin county, Ken-
Mrs. Harriet Prescott SrorroRD is now at I tacky, gave birth to three children August 21,1881,
her pleasant summer home on Deer Isle, New- I and on July 24,1883, gave birth to two more,
buryport. at the mouth of the Merrimae. A Bouruon county, Ky., man has a game
*$Lori> Beaumont, a Roman Catholic, and I rooster which has won four battles and $123 in hia
cventh in the roll of K. glbh barons, Is said to be J life and besides has raised four broods ol chickens,
anxious to wed the California heiress, Miss Flood. | hovering over them the same as a hen.
Hon. Augustus Paget, the newly appointed
igllih ambassador to Austria, has tbe reputation
being the fleau Brummel among diplomates.
King Humbert, wisely setting aside all the
Arkansas.
The Arkansas oat crop is proving excellent
in quality and quantity.
In Dorsey county, Arkansas, the corn crop
formalities of court etiquittec, paid a long farewell 11* *he largest and best ever known,
visit to Lady Paget, wife of the retiring BritUh min* I Tue St. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad
liter. I has Just sold 5,000 acres of land in Saline county.
The son of General Booth, of the Salvation I Ark.
army, is about to marry Miss Charlesworty, the I Farmers of Bradley county, Arkansas, are
heiress, whose fortune lu her own right is estimated I of the opinion that the corn and cotton crops will
£10,000. I be the largest gathered for 15 years.
The queen of Portugal’s eldest ion, prince Cyrus Fbistol, of Hot Springs, Ark., has
BragKtiza, is a water color painter of much prom-1 been awarded tbe contract for building the army
ise, and a member of the club in Rome. He is A I and uavy hospital at that place. HU bid was $86,335.
n< k* I Virginia.
Miss Charlotte Stark, of Dunbarton, N. H. Ax the electlon in Virginia in November
granddaughter of General John Stark, has been I p4 rto { the senate and a full assembly will be elect-
elected an honorary member of the KYw Hampshire I e j
Antiquarian society.
Gold mines in the famous Wilderness, in
SoAfOR Vrav now, own, the entire prop- 8poUjlr .nU count,. Vinfiula. an Lein* worked
ty bought in Kansas City, some time ago, by nim-1 with p ro fl U
Mrs. E. P. Newman, for thirty-eight years,
erty bought
self aud Senator Pendletoz jointly, the latter sell-
him his interest.
• , T . the efficient matron of the Alexandria, (Va.,) or-
The wtJow of Lord tredenck Cnveaduh haa „ rlam , dled Monda n „ bt ,
ill be married again before the termination of the e i g hty.Kcond year of her age.
baud's relatives. I . . NKINUnAM sold, a few days •so.
_ , f , „ , I his splendid farm, “Elkwood," lying on the Rap-
SENATOR L. t$. O. U*a« do« all he can to river. In Culp.-pper coun.y, comainlng
encourage women worker*. Whenever he can give Kre ., t0 M r. T. B. Salle, of Culpepper for
cterici! work to a wonua he Invariably doe, <o,
tint pay, her well for It, too.
Purs IX's atatne ia now in the cbnrch of
The population of Virginia by the hut cen-
„ .. , . ,n.iwa« 1.512,5®, comprising AM,MS white,and 031,-
Santa Start. Maggiore. Borne, under the chief altar. 61Snegroei There were ln tbe , ute i i:6 b! e
Plus 1\ t, repreronted on hia kne« pray n, The KhooU . of which I.Cb* were separate rohooU for
atTHnah. 1 50 '°* ) tnaa ' * ni1 w “ P* 14 ,or hf 'he j colored children. There were 4.1S7 white teacher,.
Mr.- Abram S. H.wtrr had mad. for her, ^“^'^‘utn^ra^S’wKip^.T.rand?^
ened to find him prowling around in the 1 Ju.t before her departure for Europe, a large cameo therohooU waa 152,455. The total number of 'em-
room where his wife And himself were sleep- portrait of her father, the Late Peter Cooper. It L
ing. Miller was promptly kicked out of the I oral, about two inches In diameter, and was made I ocraUc rule. Remember that.^ coodT Deoffic o? tae
house by tbe artist Zoeilner. I north. w w