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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1883.
NEWS OF GEORGIA.
Hurt Cook bu been elected treasurer of
Harris county.
Albany received up to Saturday night last
317 bales of new cotton.
Twenty-five (rue-bills were found against
criminals In Hall county last week.
Mrs. Betsy Martin, of Liberty county, aged
eighty, bad her leg broken by a fall lust
week.
Aniericus chickens are the victims of a fatal
disease. G 11 llare, au enterprising citizen
Of Americas, is (lead.
Mr. Barter Hose, of Houston county,
spends his spare time In bunting wild cn's,
which be finds plentifully ill the swamps of
that county.
Mr. J. W. Gould A Bon, of Hall county,
have threshed this season 8,001 bushels of
grain, all wheat, cicepl 800 bushels of oats
and about 400 of rye.
Captain A. 8. Barnwoll, baa made the first
shipment, of rice un the steamerdt Nicholas
from Darien. Hesrnton eltiht hundred bushels
of splendid new rice, the first shipment on
the southern coast.
Gainesville Southron: William Miller, who
cutsui h a funoydido in confessing the 8hen-
er murder and Implicating others, was indict
ed by the grand jury last week for perjury
and is now upon trial.
Hartwell Sun: Dr. Haygood lias stirred up
quite a commotion among the state papers re
garding bi« rather extreme views on negro ed
ucation. LsLor education is what the negro
needs, not Lttin and Greek.
Wm Olass, of Walker, threshed during
this season 0210 bushels of wiieat, 4120 bush
els of nate 320 bushels of barley, and one-half
bushel of rye. The heat work done by the
machine was threshing 1107 bushels of oats in
alx hours.
Mr James Watson, living on tho line of
Dawson and Fursvih, went Into his yard be-
fore retiring Sunday night and was bitten by
a huge rattlesnake. The snake was killed, but
up to Isst accounts Mr. Watson was In a very
critical condition.
The Cunimlng Clarion says that there were
three couples married In Bell's district last
Sunday. Mr. Jasper llrown, an enterprising
wnnnn sit• rt nf flruarfnril TuV«« t/ifilr t<k him*
are known, and that It is Intended to call the I Ing.done, was represented, and has a brick
attention of the grand ju.y to tbe matter in in the wall also. The ceremony was im*
October. It would be improper to state what { pretnive and becoming. Twelve old bricks
they did in the columns of a respectable
young min of Crawford, Texas, took to him
self Miss Florence, daughter of Mr. John pool,
and left with her for his Texas home on Mon
day.
The lightning struck tho rod on Professor
B. T. Hunter’s residence in Albany with a
terrific explosion, shocking several of the
family considerably. The rod had rusted off
at the ground and was swinging loose. At
tbe bottom of the rod there was a hole os
largo a- a man’s hat, and looking like it had
been blown out with powder.
Waynesboro Citizen: On Thursday
morning a colored man, A. it
McKctiney, who was engaged in cutting cord
wood in Burke county, for Mr. Thoa. Quin-
ney’s steam gin, had the misfortune to nave
bis sx strike an off piece of wood, and glance,
the edge striking his left foot at the junction
of tho great toe, cutting bones diagonally
acro-s the foot severing it almost in two.,
Waynesboro Citizen: Last Saturday morn
ing Mr. Kd Fulcher and Mr. passed our
Oflhe with the first fox of tho season. Rey
nard whs “bounetd” from his “heathy
couch” just hack of Dr. Ford’s place, oven in
tbe edge of town and after a rapid chase be
fore Mr. Fulcher’s fast dogs oi fifteen min-
nisi, surrendered at discretion. Mr. F. has a
fine pack of dogs, and expect* to take tro
phies from the reyuard family this winter.
Sumter Republican: There is a peach tree
in a yard n^ar this phree that is about twenty-
five feet big't. It grew on the south aid** of a
bouse, close up. and had no room to spread.
no branches until at the bight of
newspaper and we desist.
LuO range Reporter: While Mrs. 8. E. New
ton was returning from Reulab church, I. '
county, Alabama, Tjeeday, the mules r
away, throwing her our and fracturing the
skull, from which ehe died at 12 o'clock that
niabt. She Woh fitting in a chair with le
babe in her lap, which i scaped unhurt. Mrs.
N. was a tno-t estimable lady, and a daughter
of the late Wil iam ilradfieid.
Tyty Star: One day last week Mr. Calvin
Walters, deputy eur veyor, was runnii g off a
lot of laud in (lie (southern portion or tbe
county, when bis axe roan dhoovered a huge
moccasin near an obi “clay root.” Toe rep
tile was soon dispa'ched. ansi then they dis
covered a swarm of them squirming and hiss
ing under the s lay root. Tuey were soon dis-
f mtciied, and the count showed up seveuleen
ar»re “cotton mouths.”
Oivington'Enterprise: Dempsey Hender
son, colored, will make enoueti corn on hia
bottom laml this year to la*t him two years
It is uunecehSrfry to say that Demos never
s usiieo Greek or Latin in his life. If he hail
a ihousiml chances to one that he wouldn
bo worth tho powder and lead it would taka*
to kill him. Ah it is he makes an abundance
ami possesses the confidence of ail who know
him.
D llion Georgian: Charlie Hsyden, rt col
oretl iiiun of our town, on Tuesday last told
his wife tha' they would go and hunt them a
home, and about one and olio half miles from
town in an ol l field told her that they had
nihsed the road, and starting through the
woods fell u foui of her and would have
beaten her badly, but wus disturbed by the
mail cariier on ins way from Horner to Bull-
ton. Tuere is policy in getting outside of the
incorporation to whip.
Louisville News: A negro house wus burned
on tbe Joe Trimble place last week. Every
thing in the house wa.i burned up. And t
house on Dr. Vaughn's place in which Mr.
DaVc Smith was living was burned last week.
He lost everything he possessed* There are
good reasons to believe that both houses were
There are no I
eighteen feet, and hut one trunk, most muich
trees branching rdf near the ground, it hat
Qeror borne fruit until this year,
TyTyStar: Ono Hiy lust week J6\in C.
Laugdale and another party went driving,
aud John succeeded in killing an old buck
that had eluded tho hunters tor years. He
was known «s the “Warrior.” from the fact
that he had made his home in the swamp of
the Warrior river. Ho sported a noble set of
antlers, with nine, prongs, aud was a “sly old
coon.”
Columbus Sun: Thero are no further de
veloptneuts as to tho burning of the trtstlo
ou the Coin tubus nud Romo railroad. The
most energetic efforts are being put forth to
ferret out the perpetrator of this diabolical
ctime. We learn that the ofilcials have offer
• cd a reward for his arrest with proof to con
vict. In the nieiintimo the road is carefully
guarded. It will not surprise us to learn at
any time that tho right mau has been chught.
Talbotton New Era: In this city on Sat
unlay evening, Mrs. John D. Odom, of Mus
cogee county, died at the residence of Mr.
1). A. llarroti. after a long illness. She was
buried st our Oak Hill cemetery on Hun
day, R»v. J. B K. Smith, of Butler, ullicia-
ting. Mrs. Odotu leaves a husband ami
eight children to mourn their loss. She w *s
a niece of the late Governor Alexander II.
(Stephens and slater to Mis J. H. Hichams,
Mrs. John Msxwell and Mrs. T. A. Greer, of
this county, Hhe whs in Talbotton under tho
treatment of our physicians at the time of
her d* atb, having come here for her health.
We extend our byinpalhivs to all the bereav-
cn relatives.
Leary Courier: Rev. Mr. Embry related the
following to u» on Wednesday: On Tuesday,
on the edge of Morgan, near the negro Bap
tist Church, he killed a very large rutrhsnake
which hsd eleven rattles and a button. In
the evening. Wist Berry, a negro, killed the
mate to ii, in the same place. Mr Embry
aa>s this the first ruttUsnuko he ever killed.
There sre five inmates in Hart county jail
Including a negro woman. One of the pris
oners is under the horrible charge of attempt
ing to rape two of his own daughters. A true
bill was found against him fourteen years
ago, but be lied the country, and was not cup
lured until the hist campim eting at the Hart
wdl cuittt ground, which he thought he was
safe in attending.
Mr. Briscoe, a young man about 17 years
old, go« into a difficulty with a negro near the
Rome railroad depot, in Rome, which ca ne
very near terminaling family to the negro.
Mr. Briscoe drew his pia'ol and presented it.
but the darkey snatcued it out of his hand
before lie could fire. The young mau then
drew his knife and a nrted out to carve liiaan-
(agonist, and was prevented from doing any
damage t>y a gentleman atandiug near.
Walker County News: Tom Fricka, a well
kn*wn well digger. was digging one on the
Gentry hill. Friday afternoon, when it had
reached the depth ot twelve or thirteen feet,
Noah Mar.-h, who was helping him and who
had just brought some water and peaches,
asked Tolu to c<due out and cool iff He
came up ami was in one ofhis jollies*, humors;
but after taking aHualldrink of water ami
eating a couple of peaches, he auddeuiy tum
bled over backwards from his seat. Noah
thought he w«s frolicking, but death bad
atrucK him aud he never spoke again.
Athens Banner: The negro educator, Dr.
AttuusU lir-ygiod, was Imrn aud rais<d in
Oconee count). His fa»h*r began life clerk
ing in Waikin villeat $40 a year, and from
this beginning saved quite a competency. He
wrs very close, but strictly an honest nun, aud
always gave the church a certain per cent
upon Ins incl ine The tir»t year that he
joined t*ls contributions were &0 cents, but fu
time tiny reached 140. Dr. llayg«»od*s
mother was a v* ry brilliant lady and c*iue
(rout a distinguished family,
Tbe I»l mar lite isyc On the Saturday
night during »l*«* con tin usnee of the C«lv«r*
ton can p meeting, afnr (be night sertiras,
set on fire. About three weeks ago Mr. Sin
quefield lost heavily by a fire in that vicinity,
uud a party is how in juil charged with the
burning. The origin of these fires should be
investigated, and. if possible, the offenders
should be punished.
Carlersville Free Press: The store|of Mr. \V.
A. Lumpkin, of Hall’s MiiJ'sJn this county,
wus burglarized on Tuesday night of last week,
and quite a lot of clothing abstracted there
from. Suspicion rested upon several, but
the guilty one was finally found iu the per
son of Green Bristow, a negro boy. Green,
after robbing the store, attempted to board a
freight truiu and broke his leg, and the prop
er authorities, not knowit g the uegr», sent
him to the county poor house. Soon Mr.
Lumpkin traced him up and brough: him to
our jail. The negro’s leg is in a terrible con
dition, and it it thought amputation will be
necessary,
Gainesville Eagle: Mrs. Gideon Murtin, of
Price, while getting vegetables from the gur-
Uen, wus alarmed by the noise of chickens in
the yurd, ami going to find out whut it wus
saw u monster rattlesnake crawling about in
the yurd. Toe husband promptly run front
the house and shot it. It had seven rattles,
and was within u few feet of the house when
shot, and in near proximty ton little child
iJnying in me yard. These snakes seem to
be very numerous this year and are always
found in sonic un-mspr cied quurtcr.
Of Munning, Powell it Co’s , turpentine
works, ihe Eastman Times says: This is the
largest turp. mine distillery iu the stale, and
is perhaps tho most successful one. They are
wot king sixty crops of boxes this yeur uud
calculating 2U0 acre to the crop, which is u
low estimate, makes a total of 12.000 acres of
laud that are being operated ou by this coni'
tuny, giving steady employment to between
J25 and I flu hands all the ye.tr round. Tuey
make aq average of 12 barrels of spirit* daily
during the distilling^oason, besides tho rosiu
accunng therefrom.
The Eastman Times says: '’Marshal Gus
Fulghuii) n quests us to state that if the tax
payer who i us heeti inquiring what went with
the five dollars per month appropriated for
keeping the street lumps lighted will make
out iiis account fur his pro rutu share of this
appropriation, the money will be refunded
him the fi at of every month.” When
Marshal Fuighum grows a little
older ha may learn t hat such answers as this
alone will do huuself more harm than unyone
else. Public otlicers make themselves ridicu
lous when they tnaketuch petty answers in
stead of giving the legitimate information
called for.
Dawson Journal: Despite tho dull times,
justice is moving noisltssly along, and if it
was not for the reporter even “court house
dots’' would hardly be noticed. On last Mon
day a cate of ”assault” through Judge James
Hiiutiions was made out aud the party (a
negro school teacher) bound over for his ap
pearance at the next term of the superior
court. The boml was fixed at $2fl, uud
the boniLmau was Dick Beall, a nearo who
bos a farming interna of over #2,500. Now
uud then we find a negro who wisely takes
udvautageof his surroundings uud is able to
benefit his rate.
A colored msn by the name of Frank Cau-
dell, who whs in the employment of Mr. He
bron Ducket luit spring, attempted to com
mit a rape on a little daughter of his etu
plover. hu» w.ts prevented by the brother of
the father. Mr. Kllaco Ducket, made his es
cape, and has not been heard of until lust
wet k in Jackson county near Harmony
Grovi-, He wits arristed by some of tne good
.‘itix**ns of Buiks, put lit jiii to wait his
rial, who dottbiirss will be con victed of the
crime in winch lie is churged, if tiny can
keep him in the Homer j til until court.
The LsGrange Reporter says: On Thursday
night week the house of Mr. T. H. Caudle, on
Vermni street, was burglar zed to the aiitouui
of 170.00 iti money, one stiver wa'ch and
gold chain and two gold rings valued at
#18 00 ami $10 to), ami other Jess vatuabie
j -welry Mr. C. and wife and little girl were
sleeping in tlie room at the time. It is sup-
p<>sed i hat the burglars catuv in at the win
dow over the little gin’s bed. Tne bureau
drawer wus first plundered, where were
found Che jewelry and trunk keys. Tne
watch aud ui .uey were taken from the trunk.
Franklin News: What's the matter with
Buie Hhiu? About a mouth ago Mr. Allen
Beil w\»s pr« sc tiled by his wife with a pair
of twin giri babies. And uow we are told that
last week a cow t.f Mr A. P. Daniel's gave
birth to twin female calves. We protest that
these imertsting events, although coincident
with the appearance of the Mormon teach* n
iu that section, are by no means to be taken
au indorsement, ou the partof dame nature,
of their uefarious doctrines. Mr. Darnel's
cow i» for sale with one or both calves.
A tire Sunday afternoon destroyed a dwell
ing l-otiee ou Miiu street, in Dawson, owned
by Dr. Farrar; insured. U«d the wiud been
high the adjoining residence would have been
burned. A* it was. sparks as large as a man's
hat fell upon buildings hundreds ol yards dis
tant. The do mical engine, widen cost |1,-
2to), was inadequate for lh«* work amlliieimd
of a hawk and ladder company grratfy felt.
Not« cistern in the place. Tub tiie was in
the populous part of the city, aud tne safely
of the « j •iuiiig buildings wai terrioiy men
aced Tne fire u supposed to be the work of
carelessness.
Rome Courier: Yesterday quite a number
hso c«d ecied on the site for toe new Baptist
ci'Urch. After appropriate remarks aud
prayer by the pas or, Krv U A. Nunnalty,
the first nrick was laid t*y Mrs A. E. Bowen,
suie Hist little Edith L Mer laid on
from the former church were laid in the cor
ner, thus connecting tbe old house with the
new. The building will be a beautiful struc
ture—audience room octagonal, with a seat
ing capacity of seven hundred.
Douglaavilie Star: On last Sunday as one
of our young men was returning from Sait
Springs campground in company with a
young lady, the tmile he was driving became
frightened at the care and ran away, throwing
tiie young lady out and totally wrecking the
buggy. Another buggy was obtained, and
this same mule attached to it, and thia time
he succeeded in getting the young lady home,
when the mule taken another fright aud de
stroyed tbe second buggy. The young’lady
received some very bad injuries, front whicn
site was confined to her room several days.
Saturday night in Birmingham
Alabama, is not without its amuse
ments. The Age says that in
dispute over some keys to the premises, in
winch J. B. Marshall, the proprietor, on one
side, and two employes, John Robertson, the
engineer, and Wm. Gordon, a ctrpenter on
the other, were the parties involved. Rob
ertson was struck on the head with a ham-
mer and stunned. Gordon was also hit. In
another case United States Deputy Marshal
John F Ttiomassen, was knocked down by a
negro. A dispute occurred over a game of
dominoes, in which the negro put in. He
became incensed and going out-tide the
loon re>limed with a brick with which he
struck Thonm-sen in the head, knocking him
down. The negro then fled.
Early County News : A recipient of one of
tho*e vile and iniumotis circulars that have
been so freely circulated in our community,
bands us tiie following : “We regret hat it
has been thought necessary or proper, by par
ties a*. Cedar Spring, to invade many homes
in our midst wit h sickening and disgusting af
fidavits in regard to a lady’s character. If men
have difficulties «nd must fight, let them have
it out—that’s their business and notours. But
for God’s sake and for the sake of the Nacred
name of woman, let no man who wishes and
pretends to be u nma and expects to be re
spected as a nmn, ever dreaui that be cansive
himself from disurace by traducing tbe name
woman. We protest against Mich a pro
ceeding. It is not legal tender in this com
munity.
Anniston Ilot Blast: Wednesday morning
Allen Taylor, colored, engaged in digging a
well at u place known as the washer, near the
ore banks on the outskirts of tbe city made a
narrow escape from sudden death. He hud
just tied a knot in tbe rope preparatory to de
scending to commence work when the knot
slipped out and he fell feet /oremost to the
bottom, landing on bis feet. He says he went
like an arrow to the bottom, and when he
struck tiie ground, fall back against the curb
ing. bruising his back. He was soon drawn
out and found to be badly demoralized. Dr.
linger was sent for and found he had sus
tained no serious injuries, only suffering from
a had case of fright and a few bruises. It was
a miraculous escape.
A correspondent of the Darien Gazette
writes: Tiie citizens of Darien have just heard
with profound regret and indignation that
the custom house has temporarily been re
moved to Doboy, thus conveying abroad, the
absurd idea, that a malignant fever or other
dangerous diseases prevails in her limits.
The city on the contrary has never been more
healthy or iu better sunttury condition. The
motive, unexplained fur the change cun con
vey no other supposition, and it is calculated
not only to impair her commerce, but to de
preciate her property and to bring her into
suspicion, to put the mildest construction on
the change, wnich was made without even
centering with her business men or letting it
bo kuown to them. I hope, therefore, that
the mayor will call an curly meeting to adopt
measures to vindicate her health, her cotu-
itierco and her business generally.
£ Jack so i) Herald; Last Wednesday a run
away couple arrived In our city ir.A'^ych of
ft* in arris go li ceils 6 and somebody To tie the
knot. Ttie gentleman escorted the lady to
Whitehead’s store, and they amused them
selves us best they could under such ctreum
stances until Judge Beil returned from din
ner. Upon Judge Bell's return the necessary
paper* were obtained, and sonio of tbe boys
ctt led in Fleas Roberts to de the knot. The
blushing bride refused at first to be married
before such a large crowd us had gathered in
tho store, but was finally persuaded to do bo,
when Squire Roberta told them to get into
position, and tie soon made them one, and
after a hand-shaking by the crowd, they re
turned home as happy us could be.
Columbus Times: On Sunday forenoon,
Rev. J H. Campbell narrowly escaped serious
injury, if not death, by a runaway horse. He
hud been over to Girard to conduct the
fuueral of Mr. Gtiswold’s child. He was seut
home in a wagon, drawn by a large fiery
home, and driven by an impetuous young
man. Several times during the trip Dr.
Campbell found ii necessary to expostulate
the Rome railroad dock, and drove
them op the river stern fore
most. The rain, let In by tbe roof being
blown off, damaged the stock of Messrs. Har
dy & Co., to the extent of five or six hundred
dolors, and that of Mr. Karlsruher two hun
dred and fifty dollars. Both parties will
claim damages in these amounts of F. L.
Ames, owner of the building they occupy,
Mr Ames lives in Boston, and his agent here
is Mr. R G. Clark. While the play of elec
tricity, wind and rain did considerable petty
damage aronnd town.it, at tbe same time,
hail the salubrious effect of purifying and
cooling tbe atmosphere.
Rome Courier: The coroner’s jury on the
poisoning case met again yesterday to finish
their in vestigution*of the causeof the death of
Leah Smith. Professor Lynes reported that
the result of his analysis snow* d tbe poison to
be arsenic. Several new witnesses were in
troduced, and a strong chain of circum-duu-
tial evidence pointed to Walter Price as tiie
murderer. Tne jury returned the following
verdict: "We, the jurors aforesaid, upon
our oaths, believe that the said Leah Smith
came to her death by artenic
having been put into a sack of flour by Walter
Price, of said county, and who turni.-died the
same to be cooked by Julia Smith for several
persons to eat, with malice aforethought, for
• he purpose of poisoning rome person, and
Leah Smith came to her death from eating
bread mad of said flour.” The evidence be
fore us fills several pages of foobcip, and
which was deduced from five or six colored
witnesses, is very strong Hgainsi WalterPrice.
We suppose he will be given a cucimitt.il
trial soon, and then we will be able to get ut
tbe full bearings of the case.
Notwithstanding 'lie increase of population
and tbedemands for better and more extend
ed facilities and improvements, affairs in
Richmond county are carried on without in
crease of taxation. Tiie Augusta News says
that this noteworthy a id pleasing fact may
be gained by a peru.*al of the assessments for
18871 for couuty nurpo.-es, published by Hon
Win. F. Eve, judge of the ciiy court and
commissioner of roads aud revenues Thia is
a practical compliment to Judge Eve’s ad
ministration aud a matter tor general con-
grutulafion. In only four counties in the state
was the rate taxation last year less than in
Richmond, and in these four there was no
pauper tax, no road tax, and the facilities for
schools were not equal to those in Richmond
county. Richmond, on account of its manu
facturing aud city interests, has a larger pau
per element than almost any county'In Geor
gia, and the fine care given them by Judge
Eve is amply attested at our poor house. Im
provements, too, aro going on in bettering
tbe roads and the schools. The state tax of
1883 is 25 cents on tbe $100, same as last year;
tne county tax tbe same, and the school tax
23 cents, or two cents less on the $100 than
last year. The total levy is, therefore, 73
cents on the $100, and Judge Eve says that
many more improvements on the roads and
county affairs will be carried out without in
creasing the rate of taxation.
POLITICAL NOTE*.
Representative Dunn, of Arkansas, will
stump * bio for Beadly.
There are a few republicans in llliuois
who can’t go John A. Logaa for president.
A Kentucky newspaper is anxious to enter
the prt&ideuliaJ canvass on a platform calling for
whisky for snakebites only.
The Reagun inter state commerce bill will
be strongly a j pported by iu friends during the next
session of congress.
Thk clerks are now running the govern
ment. When the civil-service reformer get in
their perfect work they expect to run the clerks.
The effort to induce Rutherford Hayes, of
Ohio, to re enter politics should ba discouraged.
Mr. Hayes hasseeu hts share of me world’s wicked
ness.
QTue Massachusetts greenback state commit
tee has reorganized, with U. P. Fields, of Boston,
as chairman. Iu uext meeting will be held Au
gust &>.
According to the Trenton Times Governor
Parker's tiu signs, “Not a candidate,” have ou the
reverse sides ihe words: “Unless tendered the demo
cratic nomination."
bENAToR Pendleton, of Ohio, intimates
that he will yet wipe the floor with McLean, of tbe
CiuclnnaU Enquirer. The senator insinuates that
he carries the longest purse.
Ovkb 5,000 tons, or 5U0ordinary carloads, of
light-weignt silver dollars, 116.187,077 iu number,
are J>Jug idle in the treasury vaults, and $100,000 is
to be »peni in providing more storage.
Judge McDonald, of Indiana, pronounces
the leceut “interviews” with him bonus, aud de
clares that be bos expressed no opinion as to Mr.
Arthur's candidacy or Mr. Tildeu's aspirations
The convention to be held in September of
the Irish national league, of Great Britain, will de
mand self-government for Ireland and direct repre-
seutaiiou for the laboring classes iu parliament.
In these dajb of large, many-syllabled
names for popular political movements it is refresh
ing to remember how, when the tecoud French
revolution broke out. the plain minded Heligoland-
waved taeir iiais aud said modestly to Heinrich
him -Tlii. ruMir dmoiiIm havu u-oti “
all through dixie.
THBSLAtuR FUND.
These w«r«- fo io*r»!by IL r Mr Nuuuahy.Mr.
kui rou p incr*•••• •— L-»— P.octor, Mr*. 8orops .tr*-, Mr. Norton, H A
tirriailt young nun win* hsd no respect for Smith, little Etuiiy Smith (for
ImniM-lveK revrrenca f**r religion,or regard I her grandmother, who is con-
for il eir fei'ow not), blew thr horu snd be-1 fiued to tier b«d by »icknr»«), and
bsved otherwim» in a scandalous manner at I men rusny of the mem ers tnj<»ycd the
the stand. We are glad to (earn tbat ail who 1 privtbge ot placing a bnk in *be wait. Tne
hich he saw the latter
tirade out to reach home safely. But no
stxtner had he left the wagon than the driver
begiiu applying the whip again, when the
horse ran away, threw the driver out, and
smashed up the wagon generally. Dr. C.
thinks he narrowly escaped serious Injury, if
not death. This is the third time in the last
few years that lie has been ex|awed to iiumi
nent danger from runaway horses. He
wishes to exnresa thunks to some unknown
friend for live collars sent hint “for the
needy.”
The Oglethorpe Echo gives the following
particulars of Mrs C C. Hamiuock'saccuirnt:
Ou Wednesday morning of last week there
happened in Lexington what came v*ry neur
being it sad affair, mention of which we did
uot make, at tiie n quest of the family to wait
umi see what the t*iminus might be. About
lOo'olock « stuail thunder cloud passed over,
ttccoiupuiih d by one vivid Hash of iighlutng
uud usunrp clap of thunder. Iu a lew mill
utea after our town w as thrown
into excitement over the news
that Mrs C. C. Hammock, who was
visiting Mrs. W. E. Faust, hud been killed by
the shock. We went to where she was
uud was told that she waa
ting near a door when the Mash catue and
knocked her senseless. It was thought at
first that she was dead, but happily she soon
began to revive aud by time tbe doctors ar
rived she was able to speak, tiiie rapidly im
proved daring that and the next day, when,
we are glad to say, she wrs herself again, ex
cept being very sore aud nervous. Tne same
shock knocked Mr. Jes»ie Rowe down, but he
iutmedtu eiy recovered.
Gridin News: It is reported to us that there
is a latut-y on the extreme west end of Tay
lor sir* ei, the head of which is an old man
in hts dotage, who. instead of being tender
ly cared for iu is declining years, is most in
humanly treated by bis son and daugh
ters. Only night before last, the police were
attracted to that quancr by the plaiutive
‘ after seeking ref-
cries of the old man, who
uge fiotu abuse iu the street, was being driv
en bacx in the home with blows. Hts uu-
hatuial children treat him with the greatest
cruelty ana neglect. Last wiuter some char-
iU*»t*« |i4opt* p earned him with a new over
coat to keep hU old hones warn., but it was
woru out t»> ht.i grown up son. Such install-
c*s as these an Um Lelihg-i of the deepest iu-
d-guadon which ihe human breast is capa
ble of experiencing, and somethii gshould be
doue to leiuidy »uch a state of atf.irs.
Rome Bulletin: A regular little one horse
fjrcJoti* viehed Route Sunday everting fast.
At six o'c-utk in the atieruoon low, mu.ter-
itig'thunder attracted attention to a heavy,
black cloud advauemg upon the city Iran tne
northwest. F«-r a wnue ns progr*-** appeared
slow, hut at hall p.st seven toe cloud eWcpt
o’er the c*tjr like an ar«ng>iig nemrsis,
dropped iu bououi, and flooded the sheets
witn water. Alter tt teen or twenty tninuies
tbe ram abal*d to be followed by hail and
wind. The Wind blew down * number of
Haw It It to bt Uoed— 1 talk WUh Or. AttUu«!G.
UmjkuoJ.
Yesterday Rev. Atiicua G. Haygood, D. D.,
president of Emory college and agent of the
Slater fund, passed through Atlanta. He
was on Ins wuy from Chautauqua to his home
in Oxford.
A Constitution representative met him
during his brief stay iu the city and inquired
what arrangements he was making for tho
disposal of ihe Slater fund.
“Nothing definite has yet been done,” said
the doctor. “I have been surveying the field
and trying to ascertain where the money can
be best used.”
‘‘Have you been through most of the
south?”
"Yes, I have visited schools in Georgia,
SouMi Carolina, North Carolina, Tenuessee,
Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. I hope
to goto Virgina in the early mil ”
“Vfnat do you find to be the condition of
a Haunt .nliniil. in tltovn «4tiltn«J?"
the nenro schools in these states?'
“1 lind them all In need of what the Slater
fund (imposes to do for them. The object
of the fund is to supply the Degrees with
better teuchers, trained teachers ot their
own race. Kvery one of the states I men-
lioned, indeed, all tbe southern states, fur
nish u school system for the negroes. Ap
proprlutlons are necessarily smud and tne
m'thuds of education imperfect because
.ner" arc no teachers trained especially for
the work. Wo want to cooperate with the
states and enable them to do clliciently what
they are now doing imperfectly.”
"How is it proposed to apply the fund?”
1 On two general principles. First, to give
it to Ibosu schools best lilted for preparing
the negro youth to tench; und, secondly, in
that clasa to prefer those schools which cou
ples industrial education or traiuing in the
practical acteucics with a regular academic
course."
-'Bo yon find any such schools for the ne
groes?”
"Several. Thero are others which are con'
forming to thia standard, and 1 have no
doubt we shall soon have scuools enough to
use the income from the fund to goud advan
’"“"what amount will be spent annually by
tbe trustees ot tbe Slater fund?”
"They have appropriated $20,000 from
April to October of this year. Tho trustees
will meet in October to see what had best be
d .tie then. I suppose that between $50,000
und $00,000 wilt he spent annually."
Are you hopeful of national aid to eiluca
tion?”
"Yes. It wss the ohj.ct and aim of my
Id revs at Onatiauqua to p cad for national
aid aud tosliuw why the south has a righ to
ask it, though tiie meager telegraphic sum
maries of my rimatks hardly indicate their
purpose or their general direction. I took
there the same position I did before the con'
venllon of srate reboot superintendents in
Washington isst February. The government
ia responsible for the freedom uud enfran
chisement of the negro, and it ia the duty of
tiie government to help prepare _ him for ttie
place it has given him. To be lit for tile cit
izenship he lias received lie must he educated
and the southern stales have r. right to ask
the national government to aid them in tbe
wurk. Any of thu proposed pluns of nation
al aid will Delp our common
school systems wondetfuily. Tbe best of
them, to my mind, is that which proposes to
distribute whatever sum is annually appro
priated between Ihe states on the Oasis of il
literacy and leaves it to be applied under our
own state regulations.”
Tne doctor uever looked heartier ar better.
He terms to have the slater business welt iu
hand and speaka with couttJence of the good
results to come from the great work in which
he is engaged.
StsVuN MOoD-KBRS.
rstua C.aatr a .11 Saw It.U. S.TCB Mrs tVhaM
Live* nr* la Jc«»$r4).
There are now confined in the Fulton
county jail sixty-nine prisoners. All aaes,
clusiev, colon* and s**x»-» are represented and
every grade of crime has its txponeut within
the prison wall. Ttiereare among the num
ber Seven men charge*! witu murder. D-»yle
whose crime was commiuetl in tiriflio.is prob
ably the most refined aud g*nileuianiy pris-
in the jail. Tobe Turner,
who must answer tbe charge of
murder iu the Mt-rtwether, courts is greatly
liked by Iiis L-Ilow prisoners. He is jovial,
clever aim kind, aud devotes much of his
time to alltv a iug the distress of those about
him. He has a kind wor t for ail. Tben
Smi<b,whose double homicide is located at
Covington, closes the list of white prisoners
charged with murder. Smith is a quiet sort
of fellow, and is *-xceediu*‘y d*-p»c«ed. Tue
cu'ored murderers arq Johuson, Broun and
Stviuger, charged witu killing old man
DrF'<or and b>s wife, and a negro who killed
a fellow laborer near Fairburn.
Heine, “Tiie poor people have won.
Tuk French legislature has decided by a
majority of 415 votes to 46, that senators aud depu
ties, on becoming railway directors, should vacate
their sea s, and it was only by a nraj >rhy of six 1225
to 219) that they were subsequently declared to he
eligible for re election.
A North Carolinian has asked permission
from the post-office department to send four pound
cans of whisky by mail. He says they will be easy
to handle, and there will be no breakage, and that
it “will break up a lot of blockading through the
conntiy, aud throw freight mouey into the postal
office.”
Jersey justice has a fine name, but it is
sometimes a tritie hasty aud iudLcrimlnatlug. A
mau in Ceutreton who had failed to pay his last
year’s poll tax. owlug to absence in Kurop-% was
seized upon a«d taken to prlMm in hissnirtsleeves,
leaving no one In the store where ho was a cieik.
The king of Cambodia has tendered to
General Ualderman, Uuited Suites minister i » Siam,
the decoration of “the Royal Order of Norodom 1,”
with the rank of commoder. This 1* an honor rare
ly fhown to foreigners, aud ft partly in recognition
of General Halfteruian's efforts tocouuectNiam aud
Cambodia by telegrspu, and especUUy as a compd-
meut to the Uuited suites.
The Loadou D.iily Nevs publishes, without
comment,a slguwd communication iu which, with
refereuco to nihili'iin iu HugUnd, U is said: “Eng
land oppresses Ireland by denying her the right of
seif-KOVt-rumeiit, thus making every Irishman au
enemy. To sucu a Hystem of government, nihilism
Is thu answer in England as ii is iu UumiU. i no
removal of tho danger Is to bo found, uollu hasty
explosion act*, but n< the determination to allow to
Ireland the exetdsu of ihe same constitution which
wo have vlr.uicated for ouraeives."
PERSONAL IN tHLLiQBNCB.
August Riedel, German painter is dead.
Georoe William Curtis favors a postal, tele
graph. ** « ^
Blanchard Jkrrold is writing a life of
Gustave Bore.
Senator Hampton is a sojourner at Dagger’s
Sprlnss, Virginia.
Ocsau Wilde’s new play of “Vera” has
proved a failu re.
Montgomery Blair left all h!s property
($75,000) to his wile.
Senator Maxey says that Texas will supply
Mexico with wagons.
John Morey has retired from tho editorship
of the Pali Mall Gazette.
The funeral of the Count deChambord will
take place on September 3d.
Editor Dana has $10,000 worth of chickens.
“They must go” every spring.
Ex-President Hayes has subscribed $5,000
to au Ohio Methodist church.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, has two sons
wh) draw salaries at Washington.
Henry Villard’s distinguished German
gue«U have arrived at Hoboken.
It is reported that Henry M. Stanley has
closed the upper Cougo to commerce.
Emory Storrs, of Chicago, now at Saratoga,
b said to have ihiee hundred neckties.
General Josxpii E. Johnston weighs 1G0
pounds and wears a black suit and a straw hat.
Ex-Governob Lkland Stanford, of Cali
fornia, has au iucome of about $i,00u,0uu a year.
• Mr Parnell will contest the county Down
at the uext elec l m for m^rno *r of p trll uncut.
Sitting Bull and four other Indians have
been granted permission to atteud the fair at Bes
Moines, Iowa.
Senator Sherman, Sonator Pendleton and
ex-Goveruor Noyes are expected at the coming
Green Township Harvest Home veleOeadon.
Asmsstant Secretary New of the treasury,
has returned to Waabiugtou from a short vbit to his
home iu Indianapolis.
Walter F. Pool, oongressman-elect from
the drat North Cardins dbtiicf, succeeding Louis
L*. Latham, died at Elisabeth City, N. C., yesterday
morning.
Mmb. Carla Serena, the explorer and writer,
has been made a uhouorarycorresponding member
of the Geographical »>cieiy of Manwiile*. bbe b
the tint womau ever thus distinguished.
The Philadelphia Press thus photographs
the gaud-Lots orator: “Deub Kearney dressei like a
dude, acts like a fool and look* like au ape. but be
kUil imagines himself a statesman."
It is reported that tbe marquis of Lome is
to be called to the bouse of lords by one of his
father's minor titles, shortly alter nb return from
the dominion.
President Abthub’ssob has cutoff the tip of
his forefinger while testing hbraur. The piiuce
of the republic may be comforted by the fact that
the world will uow iufer that he h is a beard.
Caspar Gross, who was killed by a train in
Illlnob, belonged to a family Angularly unfor
tunate iu unuatural deaths. Hh oldest brother
fr ze to death iu Napoleon's retreat from M*«cnw in
1912. one vr*s drowned iu the Rhine, oue wo* gared
t.» deatn by a bull, oue dropped dead in a grave-
ya>d whtl -attendtug the funeral of a neighbor, aud
tbter w«s run over b> horses and killed.
Archibald Fosses, tbe well known war
correspondent of The Lmdon News, made a fiyiug
trip through tbe Uuited States on hb way home
from a lecturing (bur in AustralU—driving at San
Fraut-t co on th 8*h cf AugUkt aud Mtiiiug from
New Y* rk for Liverpool uu Saturday la-t. only leu
da>a later. Mr. Faroe* Is in greatly better health
than when he left the Uuited Siaus. bu is dbap-
pz.intiug bis frieud* here by falsing now of an
ulttmitf seiiitnicui, not in thb country, but iu
Auiiraita, where he thinks the inducements
greater.
Tkm Latest Sew* Adbat the **oath and !U Fa)l»-Cm»
denied fur tbe CunstUntles.
Florida*
Thi hog cholera has appeared in Tallahas
see. Florida.
Camphor trees flourish in the neighborhood
of Starke, Fla.
The Eagle paint mills, of Cedar Keys, Fla.,
employ* 75 hands.
Volusia county, FJa., will ship about 0,000,-
000 oranges this year.
Cedar Key’s fish business will be larger
than ever nexUeafon.
Eighteen of the Florida state papers art
published on Saturday.
Tobacco culture is pronounced asuccessand
source of profit to Florida.
The work of laying the foundation for tho
new Catholic church iu Pensacola was begun on
Monday.
Enterprise, Florida, has a “Green 8ulphur
spriog,” which b making quite a reputation for its
medicinal qualities.
Alabama.
The gas works of Eufauia, Ala., will soon
be completed.
Anniston, Ala , is 871 feet above the level
of ihe sea at the depot.
There are now thirty brick store houses in
course of erection iu Birmingham, Alabama.
Tuskegee, Alabama, will raise $1,000 to
have an srtedan well on the public squire.
The Alabama State Sunday-school conven
(ton will be held at Tuscaloosa September 4th, 5th
and 6 h.
There are thirty-four lodges of Knights of
I’yihias under the jurbdiction of the grand lodge
of Alabama.
The farmers of Lauderdale county, Ala.,
are raising more hogs this year than at any time
6iuce tbe war.
Each county in Alabama bos tbe right to
send one student to the medical college of Alabama
located at Mobile.
The mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, has
issued bis proclamation establishing quarantine
against Pensacola.
In Selma, Alabama, cotton is rolling in
freely. It is thought the receipts this month and
next will be ahead of last year.
Ex-Governor Coub and the other owners of
the Alabama Central iron works, at Helena, are
changing their rolling mill machinery, so as to com
mence the manufacture of nails.
Dennis, who keeps a stund in the Mont
gomery, Alabama, market, sold on Wednesday a
watermelon which weighed eighty six pounds. He
sold it for $2 25. It was raised near Moutgomery.
Tiie news from the cotton crop of Alabama
Is more encouraging during the past week, although
it is conceded all arouud that the Iras In the cotton
field will be about twenty-five perceutoff last year’ll
crop.
Tennessee*
valuable silver mine has been discovered
in Carter and Johnson counties, Tenn.
There are now 037 inmates answering to
roll c 11 in the Tenue<*see penitentiary.
East Tenne.-skb farmers report a heavier
crop of apples than tbe croakers predicted for them
someilmr
The .Monroe, Tennessee, Democrat, says the
farmers now plow by mooulight and sleep in the
sbsil** all day.
The new flouring mill at Sweetwater, Ten
nessee, turns out 156 barrels of flour in twenty-four
hours—one barrel every ten minutes.
Reports from the cotton in the Nashville
distiiut, Including middle Tennessee, a portion of
west Tennessee aud north Alabam t, show a larger
aggregate ylo d than last year's crop.
Mrs. Georoe Anderson, colored, in De-
Kalb county. Tenn., gave bir h recently to a double-
faced child. It has one ear on each sldo of IU
faces, four eyes, two noses and two mouths.
Texnm.
The school fund of Texas will reach fully
$1 400,000.
Fifty and thirteen have just been married
In Texas.
Galveston, Texas, is to have a new bank
with a $500 000 capital.
Cleburne, Texas, will have waterworks and
a system of electric lights.
The cotton season will open regularly in
Galveston. Texas, by the 1st of deptombor.
The Colorado river at Austin, Texas, bos
never been known to be as low as at i resent.
The Springtown, Texas, Post boasts of see
ing an onion that weighed twenty-two pounds.
Denison has tbe largest steam whistle in
tne state of Texas. It can be heard fifteen miles.
Ninety-four schools have been organized
in Navarto county. Texas, during tbe present year.
It is told that Angora goats are being large
ly rai^d in portion* of Texas aud tho enterprise is
turning out profitably.
Major Penn, the Texas evangelist, has con
verted 19 000 persons!a eight years, of whom 600
were avowed infiJels.
MiNslasippl.
Senatobia, Mississippi, is to have a cotton
s i ed oti mill.
Crystal Springs, Mississippi, ships 400
boxesef peaches dully.
The Catholics are erecting a new church at
Pascag tula, Mississippi.
Several houses at Yhz k) Ci*y, Mississippi,
were recently struck by lightning.
In Vicksburg, Miss., there are 20 men and
boys and 17 women in the aoikhuuse.
Thr Pascagoula, Mis*., ice factory runs
night and day, and is ittll behind with its orders.
Boys who throw rocks in the streets of
Natch**, Ml«s., catch ft at the rate of $3 and costs.
Columbus, Mississippi, pays larger salaries
to her teachers than any other town in the state.
Sixteen Mississippi Biptistassociations have
26 046 members.and they had 1,599 additions by bap
tism but year, or oue new convert to every 17 mem
bers.
Loaf si Ann*
Owing to the drouth, vegetables are scarce
and inferior throughout Louisiana.
Colfax, Louisiana, has a full fledged col
ored constable, duly commhvioned.
Monroe, Louisiana, fishermen have been
catchiug flue barfl-h in front of town.
Shreveport, Lmisiana, complains of the
manner In which her street cars are run.
The cotton worms have put in an appear
ance iu several of the river |«rlsht s of Louisiana.
The cotton crop of Louisiana bos been
damaged by drouth, but a very good corn crop has
been made.
The rice crop of Jefferson, Louisiana, is
panning out fiuely, aud the sugar crop will be the
btst since the war.
Kentucky.
A fine sulphur well has been discovered in
Allen county, Ky.
Nearly all the choice mutton in the Bos-
tou market Comte from Kentucky,
An apple tree 100 years old, near Mtiso’s
station U full of applet this season
The fair at Lexington, Ky., commenced
August 28vb, and cojtluues five days.
Tuomai Berey and wife, who lire in John
son county, Kentucky, sre an old eunple. Mr.
were engaged in this disgraceful proceeding Courier, as usual, warn any good thing is be- several steamers that were lying at > good results.
Once, when a band of Indians wrecked a
Union Pacific train, each buck tied a piece of calico | Beny i-9l>earsof age and his wife i» 89.
or flannel to bis horse's uil. aud tiding fioceiy A poplar tree was recently cut in Lame
Smith’s Extract of Myr Flower Is no VBs aw*> unrolled tbe goods ts a jumper unrolls fire county, Kentucky, which was seven feet in diameter
*..««*. * H * H,..u -• uu u.a^. ut IVcoction of Nauseous drugs and dangerous h#e. and thegrouad wosin a sort of ierre»Ua! 4 h j at me butt, made six tweive-foot cuts, toe topone
tre«s. tore the tin roofs off tue store «if Her- Chemicals- It 1s nature’s own *f l 5 w y r 'of July for miles round. It is aafe to say ibet Guv- i being five feet In diameter. It »as clear of limbs
dy «fe Co., and C. Kan*runcr, ana br^ke loose can be given to tfiS gmsHeil cnliurea wiu ernrt r Charley P*s'er. of Ohio, learned bis political, wind shake, and made 8,535 feet of irst-cias
method* from that tribe.
{lumber.