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THE "WEEKL Y CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25,1883
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NEWS OF GEORGIA.
Juttuun superior court li.ln scission.
lbs Bullock Banner bas cessed to exist,
/ewnan received HO bales of cotton Satur
ay.
Cholera Is sweeping the hogs in Johnson
county.
Dalton will receive 20,000 bales of cotton
this season.
The Statesboro Eagle longs for > military
company.
Mr. Joseph K. Chastain, of Thomas county,
accidentally shot off bis thumb.
A box and keg factory will be started at
Graysviile next month.
Dalton receives eight mails by railroad
every twenty-four hours.
The building in Dalton this year, will ex
cecd, by $10,000 any year since the war.
Jerry Maxwell, a colored citizen of Liberty
county, was killed at a negro ball last week.
W. A. Wood, of Lanrena county, has four
pigs two months old that weighs 172 pounds,
an average of 43 pounds each.
The water in the Chattahoochee is so low
that boata cannot go higher than Eufaula.
The death of lion. Kartell C. Furman
spoken of by tbe press generally as a calamity
to the state.
Hawkinsville narrowly escaped a conflagra
tion the other day from a burning bale of
cotton.
A young white man named Joe Burns, near
Lula, lias been known to walk twelve miles
an hour.
Mr. Highland, who had his arm injured by
a gin in Nicholson, has since died from the
effects of his wound.
Mr. Cox, a well-to-do farmer, while cutting
potato vines recently, dropped dead in the
field, near Tifton, In Berrien county.
Rev. J. H. Jackson, of White county,
eighty-four years old, claims to have read the
Bible through 318 times and is still reading.
The safe ot W. A. McCarty & Co., of
8andersvlile was robbed of $300 in cash and
$300 in securi ties. How it was dono is a mys
tery.
The directors of the Cedartown cotton fac
tory held a meeting several days ago with
a view to increasing tbe cnpital stock of the
enterprise.
Mr. Green Webb, of Washington county,
killed a rattlesnake last week which meas
ured flvo and a half feet in length and four
teen inches in circumference,
f Sir. James A. Heckle, of Crawford, has a
smart setter that will carry his pipe from tbe
shop to his house, n distance of a hundred or
two yards, at its owner’s command.
Gainesville Eagle: Young men when court
ing generally say that they havo the "boss"
girl; when they marry they oftentimes find
that she is the “boas,” but never mention it.
Veacb's new mill in Adalravllle has a ca
pacity for two hundred and forty barrels of
llour per day. It Is well equipped with all
tbe latest machinery and cost about sixty-live
thousand dollars.
Carneaville Register: Tbe new courthouse
la now about completed, and is a substantial
structure that does credit to the county, li
looks well on the outside and has been well
finished on tbe inside.
A new band has been organized in Rome
with the following officers: J. R Black, presi
dent; J. D. Bonder, secrotary; J. J. I’rlntup,
treasurer, and Professor William F. Clark,
leader and musical director.
Tbe Crawford Monitor despairs of excelling
in snake stories, and turns Its attention to
the following: A negro woman came in our
•town last week carrying a gourd with a han
dle four feet long and perfectly straight.
A double wedding occurred at liaurensHilt
in Laurens county, last Thursday night, Mr.
Charles l'sge, of Wrlghtsvllle, and Mr. I. J.
Duggan, of Laurens Hill, leading to the hy
meneal altar two of the daughters of Mr.
Joaliua Walker.
James Bryan's storo at Rlddlevlllo, Wash
ington county, was robbed and sot on fire
Tuesday night last, but tbo flro was discov
ered by tbe citizens in time to save the build
ing, and on Saturday night following it was
again robbed and fired and was burned down.
; Deputy United States Marshal J. B. Gaston
has been promoted to deputy collector for the
Slate at large. His business will be to seize
illicit distiflerlea and look after all violations
of the internal revenue laws In the whole
state.
Tbe dry weather In some portions of Bryan
lias been distressing. Block could not get
water except in the river. One farmer who
lives some distance from the river asserts that
bis cattle have not tasted water in a month.
The dry spell however was broken last
Friday.
There is a well in Athens, the bottom ot
which leads into an underground cave, that
can be penetrated for some distance. It af
fords an unlimited supply of water, which is
never known to fall. All this is vouched for
by Larry Gantt, who has been drinking the
wells dry recently.
The territory from which Hawkinsville re
ceives her cotton and trade is dally increas
ing. Tbe News says that farmers from Macon
county, within gunshot of Montezuma, and
from Houston, six and eight miles beyond
l'erry, can be seen on our streets every da
Outie a number from Worth also bring
their produce.
On the farm of hr. R. C. Madden, near
Willtanisville, in West Pike, is probably tbe
largest grape vine in the cuuntry. It la eigh
teen years old, thirty-four inches in circum
ference at the base and is a quarter of a mile
long It bears live wagon loads of grapes,
which are said to be very tine, being of some
English variety.
The Augtiata News says: Georgia will hav
the proper rea|iect of her sister stales when
her legislators show enough respect for her to
encourage stale educational institutions and
a ecoril of a proud history in tbe post. Geor
gia, with its present third-class legislators
does not deserve to rank with progressive, eu
lightened and tlrst-clasa states.
Taibotton Era: Major J. If. Walton, near
Baugb's shop, has a calf, a Hue red calf, that
came into Ibis world minus bis caudal ap
pendage, aud soon after its birth some little
boys saw it in the woods, ran to the house
and reported that they bad seen a deer, and
had the whole neighborhood excited until
they discovered tbe curious calf. The major
aays tbe calf is a wonderful curiosity.
The Statesboro Eagle says that an alligator
was recently tlshed tor with hooks in a pond
near that place, and was anally brought to
tbe surface of the water and kitted. The old
fellow had been paying nightly visits to the
town in search of prey until he became a
nuisance, when the citizens organized against
him and wound up his career.
Dublin Post: Several buildings on the old
John Perry plantation were burned to tbe
ground Tuesday night of last week, supposed
to be the work of an incendiary. There was
no one living on the place at the time, and
the origin of tbe fire remains a profound
mystery. While tbe buildings were old and
dilapidated, they still made rather an expen
sive bonfire, ana tbe perpetrator, if discovered
and so proved, would be made to suffer.
Sandersville Mercury: Mr. John Q. Adams,
a juryman, was detained on the jury until
after dark on Saturday evening last, and • hen
discharged went to the livery stable and got
his bone and buggy and left the rity; on reach
ing his borne, which is about six miles in ti e
country, he discovered a ben roosting on the
bind axle of the buggy, which had gone to
roust there during his auy in town while his
vehicle was at the amble. He returned tbe
hen next day.
died last Thursday, and a little daughter,
Belle, is now quite'aick at tbe residence of his
brother, Captain Henry Hughey.
Yesterday Mr. J. D. Robinson, of Hamil
ton. passed through Columbus en route to
Milledgevllie with Charles Johnson, colored,
who bail been adjudged a lunatic. If we are
not mistaken, Johnson Is the satuenegro who
was arrested and lodged in jail for stealing a
watch and chain from tbe residence of Mr.
Len Davis, in Harris county, a few days ago.
He claimed to be from Columbus when ar
rested.
Crawford Monitor: Mr. A. Little has a cat
that stays at tbe depot which is a curiosity.
Uncle Anderson says itis the best, ugliestand
smartest cat in tbe state. It never heard of
nor had it ever seen a lady oefore the tele-
grapb office was established here. When Miss
Bailie Furlow went into the office the cat
seemed very much alarmed and was in fact
serious. It was thought that it would aban
don tbe depot, but, however, he is now some
what gentled.
At Ebenezer, in Coweta county, there are
four female members who joined this cburch
in 1835, '30, '40 and '44. Their ages range
from seventy-five to ninety-two. They attend
almost invariably on Saturdayi.occupying the
front seat, anil never go away disappointed
in hearing a good sermon by the posior, Itev.
J. B S. Davis. At almost every service three
of theso venerable members can see their
children, grand and great-grand children in
the congregation.
Americus Recorder: A gentleman of this
city lias a rooster that is a phenomenon. One
night last week tbe gentleman happened to
retire late and just before going to sleep the
roosters began to crow. When they had fin
ished this rooster opened up and crowed just
twelve times The next moment the clock
in: hour of twelve. The same perl
nnce was repeated the night following, and
now the owner thinks that tbe rooster must
have swallowed a clock.
Coweta Advertiser: Yesterday morning at 3
o'clock the ginliouse of Mr. J. B. Wilcoxon
was burned. The house was comparatively
new, and, together with tbe gin, press and
about a bale and a half of cotton, the loss was
about $700. We do not think there was any
insurance. It was evidently the work of an
incendiary. Colonel Wilcoxon lost his gin
house two years ago by fire, and it is thought
it was burned this time by the same person.
Let this wretch be ferreted out and brought to
justice.
As manufactories increase such notices as
the following will be of more frequent occur
rence: "Wanted—Twenty-live or thirty girls,
from 12 to 20 yean of age, to box and label
matches. Work light and easy. Wages from
$2 to $5 per week, according to tbe industry
and capability of tbe girl. Apply at the office
of the Georgia Match company, Gainesville,
Ga. Work to commence October 1st. A
number of suitable men uud boys will also be
employed.”
Kastman Times: Tom Battle, the Irish ped
dler who was assaulted some time ago at this
place, by W. W. Smith, was knocked insen
sible by a negro near here last Friday evening.
It is thought that it was tbo negro's Inten
tion to rob him, but the screams of women
near by brought others to the scene, and the
darkey left without assigning any reason for
the ci uel act.
Sylvaniu Telephone: We learn that a dif
ficulty occurred on Tuesday last, in the neigh
borhood ot Red Bluff, in this county, be
tween Isaac Williams and Frank Smith, both
colored, in which Frank was seriously cut,
and Isaac recelvrd a heavy blow on the head
from a spado. Botli were drenched in blood,
and Frank hud to be hauled to his homo. We
did not learn the extent of the injuries.
The Jonesboro News says that it is proposed
to have a reunion of the 30th and 44th Geo--
feet, and crushing Hamilton between tbe 1 trial before Justice Kyle, who bound him
sills. Coley was cut and bruised in several over to the superior court, and yesterday
places, but not seriously. Hamilton was lit- morning our reporter found Couney behind
eraliy crushed and died of his injuries last j tbe ban in Floyd county jail. Tbe man ap-
Sunday. pears completely cowed, and his own evi-
W. F. Spann, of Webster, is in tbe front! dence woufd convince any jury that he was
line on the bog and corn question. Some fffiHty. He admits to speaking to the girl;
days ago a drove of tbree hundred and thir- but says he only assured her that he did not
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ill
Mr. J. P. Hughey, near Jonesboro, baa lost
three children within a month with typbo-
gia regiments at Jonesboro. The people will
be glad to entertain them and wilt make the
gathering pleasant for the war veterans. Let
us have a call meeting ot the surviving mem
bers living here and take the initiatory steps.
A good number of the boys were engaged iu
the battle at Jonesboro and would be glad to
View the old field of strife.”
The Gumming Clarion modestly saya: ''Tbe
rosy aconunt given by the Gainesville corre
spondent of Ttix Atlanta Constitution of
tbe seduction case was uncalled for and tin
just.” As part of the seduction cose alluded
to wits local mat.er to tbe Clarion, und no
mention is made in its columns ns to what
it is, will that journal kindly furnish wit. tit
conceives to be tbo truth of the case? lie
member tbe old lines beginning, “Truth
crushed to earth, oto.”
It Is a matter of general remark, aays the
Americus Recorder, the large percentage of
fat stock. A poor horse or mule la hard to
Hud. Last year's heavy corn crop did the
business, amt there will be fewer mules to be
bought this season than for ten years past.
The darkies generally make a heavy business
for western stock men, but with plenty to eat
the mules have come out ahead this year.
Ou Saturday Miss Ellen, daughter of *Cap
tain T. M. Allen, of Sumter county, aged
about eleven, accidentally shot hctself. A
derringer of forly-four Inch calibre, fell from
■ lie top of a trunk which was being closed by
Miss Ellen, ami upon fulliag to tbe floor was
discharged, the Mill cutering near tbe ankle
of the young lady. A surgical examination
by l)r. Hawkins tl
ball.
Berrien News: George Paulk, a progressive
colored farmer of Irwin county, called at this
office yesterday and paid his subscription lo
tills pai-er. lie isnn old subscriber and strong
friend to the paper, und says lie could not be
induced to do without it. Buys he believes a
newspaper is an educator and an essential to
every family, anil that be intends to keep his
subscription account paid. Borne of our oili
er subscribers would profit by emulating his
example.
Conyera South: We regret to learn of the
accidental injury of Mrs. Lawson on Inst
Wedmsday evening. She, in company with
Mrs. Uienn, went lo spend the day with Mrs.
WI9. VIH llH, nt tit iu ept llH tUV »l«j mill .1113,
'.Vhite, eight miles in the country, and on
their return the buggy wheel run in a hole,
throwing Mrs. Lawson out, breaking ootli
bones in her right arm between the elbow
and wrist and otherwise inflicting pain Bhe
was brought to town and l>r. Russer railed to
set her arm. Being a lady of good nerve she
is enduring her acute puins well.
BumterRepublican: On Wednesday last,
Mrs Rebecca Mize's house, one and a half
miles west ot the city .caught fire on the roof,
and was in a full blaze when discovered. Miss
Virginia Tyner, aged thirteen, intrepidly
mounted to the roof, and while others went
for assistance, kept the flames from spread
ing until Mr. J. Rogers arrived, who took an
ax and cut the burning roof away. A hole
about ten feet was burned through to the
lloor, and house would have been consumed,
only for the extraordinary pluck exhibited
by Miss Tyner.
Cherokee Advance: While a wagen with
one mule, attached to it, was being unloaded
with iron, in front of Howell A Biiumous'
store, In Jasper, last Wednesday, Mr. Hill
Bimmons, while taking off a bar of iron from
the wagon he standing between the wheels,
one end of tbe bar struck tbe mule. He was
frightened, jumped aud threw Mr. Siiu-
moosin iheair. He came down head tint
One standard on the wagon caught in the
waistband of Mr. Bimmons' pants. The mule
ran, carrying him in this position for one
hundred yards, before he was released. He
was but slightly injured.
Dublin Post: Un reaching Raoul station
Tuesday of last week tbree et tbe crow of the
steamer Colville inegroes) walked up the rail
road to station 14. to draw inspiration at the
throne of Bacchus. About dark they started
back, and when about a half mile on the way
oue of the tbree stopped at a house The
other two, Bhade Coley and Anthony Hamil
ton. procetNied onward a short distance and
then lay down to wait for their com
panion, Coley choosing a railroad sill for a
pillow and Hamilton snugly reposing be-
silis. While looked in the arms of
ty-eight cattle passed through bis lane on
their way to the west. On their passage
through this lane their way was obstructed
by a Trove of over two hundred of Spann's
bogs. In order to make a way for the pas
sage of the cattle the rails of one of tbe side
fences were taken down and the bogs driven
into a field until tbe cattle passed. Mr.
Spann has twelve boga that will aggregate
2 500 pounds. Besides, he baa in his crib
about nine hundred bushels of last year's
com.
Mr. Thad C. Sturgis, the appointee for post
master of Columbus to succeed Mr. John W.
Arnold, removed, succeeded in making his
bond and forwarded it by express to the post-
master-general. He expects to receive his
commission in a few days and enter on tbe
discharge of his duties by tbe first of October.
The names of his bondsmen and tbe amount
for which each becomes liable is withheld
from the public, as Mr. Sturgis was requested
by most ot them not to furnish it for publica
tion. Tiie bond required of him was $40,000.
Last Wednesday night, says tbe Crawford
Monitor, after that big rain occurred and
ha<t every little gully swollen out of its
batiks, all the branches were furiously rag.
ing. J. N. McCombs, the colored Methodist
preacher on this circuit, attempted to cross
a little branch about a mile from here and
came very near meeting witli a fatal acci
dent. He drove in and the water took his
horse and buggy out of tbe roadway and
washed them oil down the stream. By cut
ting tbe horse loose from harness, all bands
swam out without damage, with the excep
tion of McCombs missing his slippers in the
struggle.
Athens Banner: Ccroner Jennings was yes
terday summoned to examine the body of a
colored woman, named Eliza Derrico'e, who
died in tbe yard of one of her neighbors, near
the thick spring. It seems that Tuesday
night a negro woman heard a noise in her
yard, and upon going there found tbe de
ceased lying upon the ground in the agonies
of death, with a turn of wood in ber arms.
She summoned one of her friends, but in
about twenty minutes Eliza breathed ber Inst,
without bring moved or relieved of her
burden. The jury returned a verdict of
death from natural causes.
Hawkinsville News: Many of our readers
remember Mr. C. A. Love, a former citizen of
Hawkinsville, but now a resident of Lake
Jcsup. Florida. Well, tbe other night Bhink
as lie is familiarly called) went fire hunting
for deer in the woods near his house. He anti
ills companion had not gone far before they
saw what was supposed to have been the eyes
of a big old buck shining within gunshot of
them. Quicker than thought a load of shot
found a resting place within tbe bead
of the animal. With a shout of victory
the delighted sportsman ran to secure his
fallen deer; but what were his feeling when
be found on investigation that, instead of
deer, ho had killed his neighbor's horse.
Tallulah has been honored by a visit
from Colonels Wm. L. and Edward C. Cal'
boon, grandsons of the illustrious John
Calhoun, of South Carolina, accompanied by
Mrs. William L. Calhoun and her two
charming little sons, William L and Edward
U, the first named of whom weighed only
two and’a half pounds at birth, and is now
eiplit years of ago and full grown. Colonel
in L. Calhoun wears tl.e watch, fob chain
and ring of his grandfather, whoso memory is
so cherished by the people of South Carolina.
The walch is of the old English style, uud
on it is the following inscription; “John
Caldwell Calhoun. Born in South Carolina,
March 18th, 1772, and died in Wasliimiton,
D. 0., Marcii 31st, 1850.” The total value of
these relics of one of tbe greatest statesmen
that ever lived was, at the time of the put'
chase, more than $400.
Waynesboro Citizen: Mrs. A. Blount came
near committing Involuntary suicid/oho daj-
this week. Mrs. Blount has an eruption on
her hand resembling poisonoak, and con
ceived the idea that nicotine from a pipe
would cure it. Another old lady and near
relative, who solaces herself with the weed,
was visiting Mrs. Blount, and taking advan
Inge of the opportunity, abe procured a quan
lity of nicotine from tbe second old laily'
pipe, and applied it to tbe breakingout. Tli
effect was instantaneous, and so powerful,
and so alarmed Mrs. Blount that she washed
it off immediately. Sbe felt the effects for a
day or two, and is satisfied that if tbe bad
not washed off the nicotlue so promptly it
would have killed her. Nicotine is a power
ful narcotic poison and should not be tamp
ered with.
Gainesville Eagle: A young man, wbodocs
not wish his name known, writes to us from
White county, that lie took a very large dose
of hard luck on Friday. In attempting to
cross the river ill a bateau, it capsized and
threw him into the wuter. Trying to reach
the boat again Ids foot caught into u snag and
wrenched it, losing at the same time a $20
watch, Ids lint, a shoe and tbe boat. He fili
ally reached tbe shore and was hobbling
across a field when a large ferocluus bul
signed for hint. Beaching a tree he skinned
it lively enough to escape the hull, but also
lively enough to get imon hornei’s uest. The
Imrurts objected and be sprung to another
limb which broke, letting hint fall to the
6 round, fracturing Ids wrist. With the broken
much be kept the null at bay and managed
to escape, but is now laid up for repairs.
Rome Courier: A right amusing Incident
occuned near Noble's foundry yesterday
muridng. A man crossing the railroad tracks
got Ids foot caught fast in s disjointed “frog,”
and while trying to gat loose lie saw the Chat
tanooga train on the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia road come dashing over tbe
bridge. Wild with fright, the man jerked
bis leg almost out of joint, and came uear
breaking his foot in his efforts to get loose.
But the train was almost upon hint and he
decided to unlace his shoe, pull his foot out
aud leave tbe shoe to be mashed. He acted
upon tbis thought, and as he got bis font out
the train glided by on another track. It
made tbe man so utad to think that he was
only on a plagued little sidetrack all tbe time
that lie took the shoe up and kicked blmself
all the way up to the depot.
Columbus Bun: A difficulty occurred in
Browneville yesterday afternoon between
James Day and William llatliffe, in which
the former struck tbe latter a terrible blow
on tbe head with a crowbar weighing 2U
pounds, llatliffe was knocked unconscious
and has not spoken since. It was reported
yesterday that be was dead, but a gentleman
who lives in Browueville informed a reporter
ot tbis paper last night that be was still alive.
Ratlitle was drunk and made an attack on
Day while they were in a blacksmith shup to-
^ ether. Day picked up a crowbar and struck
ini, with the result reported above. Another
report, however, aays that Day was tbe ag
gressor. Day had not been arrested at last
accounts.
Rome Courier:
malarial fever. A son aged sixteen yean and I Morpheus tbe night train came thundering
a girl aged. nine yean,died in leas than a week I along, the cowcatcher striking Oolev on the
of each other. Tom Cobb, aged three yean, I bead and aboulden, knocking him about ten
Yesterday our reporter
secured the following particulan concerning
William Couney'a brutal attempt to outnge
tbe person ot a little ,thirteen year old girt,
near Brice's station last Batunlay. The little
girl in question is well developed for her
yean, is an orphan and lives with the family
of Mr. John Davis, who resides within three
quarten of a mile from Brice's
station. Saturday Mn Davis sent her to the
store for something, from which place she
was followed by Couney, who overlook her
as sbe was passing through a little thicket,
ala so repulsive as to fright.
and made proposal
en the little orphan and 'cause her to run.
Couney jumped in front of the girl and she
turned into the woods aud escaped him by
running through a briar field to ber borne,
where sbe told her story In a voice cboked
with sobs aud fright. Information of Cour-
sey’s brutal
intend ber any barm. He also admits that be
followed ber through tbe woods, but saya be
did that to find out where abe was going.
Couney is a very dull looking man, aud talks
with great effort.
The Anniston Hot Blast furnishes the fol
lowing: Thursday afternoon there arrived in
a bony on tbe East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad five cypnans,
who invaded the city, meaning
to take up tbeir abode in
Anniston. They immediately set to work to
find snitabie quarters, but before they bad
proceeded far our marshal, Mr, Hunter, was
notified of tbeir character and be proceeded
to ascertain from them their business. They
frankly admitted the object of tbeir visit,
whereupon be notified each one that It found
within the city limits after six bouts be would
arrest tnetu and carry them before, the mayor
to be dealt with. They took bis advice and
tbe next train for Beltna had aboard tbe five
forlorn women. Anniston is reaching out for
a population, but not of that sorb
The Primitive Baptists are holding a camp
meeting at Bilver Creek church, ten miles
from Rome, and lust Sunday the attendance
on it was very large. About noon, during
the progress of divine service, the preacher
and his congregation in the clmrch were in
terrupted by what appeared to them a general
row outside. Excited curiosi y got ibe better
part of their devotional in erestf, aid the
ctowd in the church began .u P ,or out at
such a rate as to cause tbe minister to sus
pend services for awhile. Tbe row oulside
was created by a lady who discovered that her
daughter had just slipped off to another part
of thegroupdsand got married. Mr. Will
Culver was the name ot the bold groom and
Mila Nannie Nicklos was tbe name of tbe
young bride. The bride's mother objected to
the union, and when sbe heard of the trick
that had been played on her, she discussed
the whole proceedings from Dan to Bersbe-
ba. We wish the newly married- couple
happiness and prosperity.
Eatonton Messenger: We learn that a house
on the plantation of Mr. J M. Williams was
burned to tbe ground on last Tuesday. The
house was occupied by colored people work
ing for Mr. Williams and when they get up
of mornings, they generally leave a fire burn
ing. On Tuesday a negro woman loft not
only a fire, but ber infant child, in tbe bouse.
The consequences were not exactly as they
usually are, for tbe child was not burned,
owing, we arc told, to the bravery of a lady
who risked more to save a human life than
the negro mother dared risk to save her own
child. The house, however, was burned in a
short while after it had been left by its occu
pants. Negro women fail entirely to appre
ciate tbe danger in leaving their children in
rooms containing fires. As long as this is so,
bouses are going to bum down and infants
are going to meet a horrible fate. If we kneiv
o' anything to say that, being said, would
check tbis habit, wc would say it. As it is,
nothing can be done in tbis way.
A. F, Fuller, clerk of court of Heard coun
ty, in resigning his office, gives bis reasons
therefor, as follows: “The chief reason is tbis,
I have held the clerk’s offico nearly seven
years, how faithfully* and well I have dis
charged the duties thereof, I am willing to
leave to your judgment. I came into office
ont of debt and with some ready money oil
band, and I candidly s'ate that
I resign in rather a worse con
dition financially than when 1
entered upon the official duties of my first
term. The thought of spending tbe prime
of my manhood In a capacity in which I can
realize no surplus Income, with the needs of
my family constantly increasing, has forsome
time pnst caused me to b* restless and upon
the alert to better my condition, Buclt an
opportunity seems now to present itself, and
desiring to be truo to the allegiance I owe my
family, and aa I consider that allegiance par
amount to all other earthly allegiances, I have
coucluded to resign tne office and seize the
opportunity.”
Newnan is making efforts for the Erection
of a cotton factory. The Advertiser says that
last week Dr. A, J. Lyndon started a subscrip-
POLITICAL NOTES.
New York Frenchmen think that the count
of Paris will be the next president of France.
Govrbkob Crittenden declares himself “i
antl-prohlbltlonlst from the crown of his head
the sole of hts foot”
A special election to fill the vacancy
the North Carolina delegation to congress caused by
the death of Mr. Pool will be held on November
tion list and metsnccess at the very beginning
Mr. R. D Cole subscribed $10,000, anil R, D.
Cole Jk Co,, $5,000. These gentlemen are
manufacturers—they know whatcan be done,
and the profit that can be made. Their large
subacriptions assures tbe merchants and other
men of means, who have not given tbe
subject ntucb attention, that tiie thing
will do. Dr. Lyndon made only a partial
canvass of the city and raised about $25,000.
He will push this subscription very soon, and
when tbe list is completed, a meeting will be
called. When the matter comes before that
meeting in proper shape; when the suh-
sertberasee what can he done with $50,000
and what profit it wilt likely yield, they will
doubtless take tiie whole amount of stock and
possibly more.
Mr. H. C. Lcwiswrites to the Henry coun
ty Weekly: “1 was born in Morgan county
and lived there until l was 12 years old. In
1823 I moved to Henry county aud settled on
Lillie Walnut creek, and now live within fire
tulles of where I first settled. Henry county
was an entirely new country at that time.
The sedge-grass was hip high nearly every
where. Tiie branches were surrounded on
every side by cane brakes, and the awutups
were so dense that one could not see
his way through the cane aud grass. I have
seen front six to sixteen deer in a drove and
as many as twenty wild turkeys in a gang. I
could hear wolves howling at tbe dead hours
of night. At that time there were also a
great mauy rattlesnakes, some of the skins of
which would bold tbree pecks of wheat bran.
John Fargason, father of Daniel Fargason,
was one of uty neighbors. Wade H, Tur
ner lived on an adjoining lot Ki-
ah Boynton, father of Governor James B
lloyiitott, lived in tiie same settlement
Francis l’earson, an uncle of Willis Goodwill’
lived near by. James Bellars, another prom!
nent cltixen lived on «u adjoining lot, and
represented Henry county in tbe legislature
several yean. My neighbors were all clever
and obliging, and would help each other
about tbeir farms when work
became too pressing and urgent
tor one man to uo. They would fre
quently come a distance of tbree or four
mile* to assist at a log rolling. At that time
wc did not have preaching ot’-ener that once
a year, and sometimes two years. The peo
ple were all united and friendly, and such
occurrences as political disturbances or family
broils were not known. Then, tbe young
men did not notice the girls until they were
twenty years old. Now tbe boys think they
are grown at sixteen, aud want lo marry,
whether prepared nr not.
He Hart l'p Ilia Pile — Demand.
StProRD, September 19 — F. N. Hill, of Newcos-
1**., a wealthy oil producer, while driving
through a lonely piece of woods on bis way from
Rlchburg. S. Y., to Kidred, Pa., was stopped by
two mesked men. One held the horse and the oth-
presented a revolver and demanded his money.
Hill bad $1,125 on hl« person. lie sunendered
pile and was allowed to go on. He had receiv-
.he money in Richburg and had noticed twosus-
picious characters dogging bis footsteps.
a Statae.
New You;, September 19 —A statae of General
Robert E Lee was successsully cast in bronze to
day, in this city, by the Bronze Manufacturing com
pany. The statue is sixteen feet high and weighs
four thousand pounds. General Latham, of Geor
gia, a member of General Lee's staff, witnessed the
casting of the statue.
20.
It is the opinion of Hon. George
Jonca of Tennessee, that the people of that state
are almost unanimously for Mr. Tilden for presi
dent
Sib Edwin Watkins says that the London
Cab Drivers’ association has more political influ
ence than the whole of the railway interest in
kingdom.
It is said that Captain John 8. Wise stated
in a recent speech in Virginia that if President
Arthpr were renominated he would stump
state for him
The New Hampshire legislature has decided
to stand by the rotten old school district system,
anybody wants to know why we call it rotten, the
auswer Uftt hand.
The voting population of the state of Indi<
ana now numbers 499 833, au increase of 48,8 >7
six years. The colored voters have increased about
25 percent, and now number 10,298.
Two republican and two democratic mem<
bers of the new congress have died since their e\ec
tion, and the chances are that three, possibly four,
democrats will be chosen in their places.
It is conceded that a majority of the repub
lican convention In Massachusetts next week will
be favorable to the nomination of Henry u Pierce,
Objections from the temperance wiug of the party
may possibly affect the result
Congressman Beltzuoover, interviewed
Denver, says he has information enough to blow
General tlazen and the signal service all to pieces.
Edmunds vs. Tilden is his view of the presidential
fight.
Senator Jonas, of Louisiana, says that the
'old ticket” would run well in his state, but that
Butler is not considered a serious candidate. The
republican organization in Louisiana, he says,
solid for Arthur.
The centenary of tbe constitutional con Yen'
tiou is In 1887, and one of those anonymous
statesman who are always suggesting something be
lieves that there should then be another constitu
tlonal convention to overhaul the senate and do
prlve the states •. f equal representation. Delawaie
and Rhode Island will not second this motion.
Perhaps such a convention could reach lor tho cor
porations through the organic law.
The story that Price Bismarck. '* .ring his
stay at Kissingen,was guarded by six Bavarian gen
darmes, »ix Prussian policemen, one Bavarian
commissioner of police, one Prussian police coun
cellor from Berlin, four detectives from Munich
and two detectives from Wurabusg, and that he
was still able to work three hours a day, has raised
a hope in this country that secretary Chandler may
be similarly guarded.
Two-cent postage goes into effect October
1st, and the postal experts are wrestling with this
knotty problem: What rate of postage should be
charged upon a letter weighing two ounces, pre
paid by one three-cent stamp mailed iu New York
at 9 p. m , September 30, arriving at the Washing
ton city postofllce at 4 a.m. of October 1? Thous
ands of letters, mailed before October 1, with iut-uf-
fleent postage, will bo delivered after that date,
and tho department is trying to answer that ques
tion before it rises.
PERSONAL INTELLIOBNCI.
Lord and Lady Rosebery have gone to
Newport.
Brady, in bis poor days, wrote short-hand
for a living.
Prince Dolgorouki, governor of Moscow,
has arrived in Paris.
Beecher was introduced by a woman to an
audience at Portland, Maine.
||Daualla, Sarah’s husband, has quit soldier
ing for tho Comedie Francaise.
Rufus Hatch lost $5 at the three-card mon
te trick at Rockford, 111., tho other day.
John McCullough treated the interview
ers courteously in Denver aud carried away $18,000.
A wealthy old gentleman, who died in
Springfield, Mass., has left Dr. Mary Walker $2,000.
Lord Coleridge is quoted as saying that
Governor Butler is one of the most charming men
ever mot.
Junius Brutus Booth, a veteran actor and
manager, is dying at Mascomo house, his homo, in
New Hampshire.
Ex-Senator David Davis and Mrs. Davis
are vUlting the old homeef Mrs. Davis in Fayette
ville, N. C.
It is said that Mr. Gladstone is in better
health than he has been since 1880, and that he has
no thought of resigning.
Five hundred men have applied for Mar-
wood's place. They probably think it far plea
an ter to hang than be hanged.
The late Thomas Agnew, tbe great print
publisher of Manchester, England, left a personal
estate valued at more than $2,650,000.
Ex-Governor William Smith, of Virginia,
celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday on Wednes
day, the 5th instant. His walk is still erect, and
bio mental faculties are well preserved.
Pope Leo’s purpose in opening the Vatican
library to students is to vindicate the characters of
of all hU predecessors. Students are expected to use
the library for this purpose.
Miss Maud Banks, daughter of ex-Congress-
man Nathaniel P. Bauks, of Massachusetts, la to
take the platform this winter aa a reader. General
Banks was ouce an act -r.
Professor Paul Jean Oden all, of the uni-
versity of North Carolina, who died In Norfolk on
Wednesday, came to this country in 1825 as the
private secretary of Lafayette.
Mr. John Guy Vassar has just added to his
numerous beuefacUous to Vassar college by glvlug
the institution the sum of $ 5,000, the income of
which shall be used for certain special purposes.
General Crook is now living at Fort Whip
ple, near Prescott, Arizona. His home is a pleasant,
roomy house of two stories, surrounded by piazzas,
and commanding a fine view of bill and vailey.
The Indians of the section call him "The Gray
Fox.”
The oiheers of tbe Tallapoosa are said to be
glad of the accident to their boat, because it rids
them of Mrs. Secretary Chandler That lady
seems to hate led them a wretched life, forcing
them to carry ber bundles and regulating the
wbole life of the ship to suit her wishes.
At a reception tendered General 8herman
in San Francisco the other day he said in his bluff
way that when he first knew the city it was the most
forbiddlug, God forsaken place between Cape
Horn and the uorth pole, and that he would not
have given 25 cents for the whole place, or for the
inhabitants either.
Mrs. Trevino, wife of General Trevino;
and daughter of GeneralOrd, of Texas, is slowly dy
ing, audit is sold that herjfcaby, “the international
baby,” wlllftie, too. General Dias, the child’s god
father, gave him a ^valuable testate. The treason
of his geueiosity lies in the fset that both he and
Trevino were at one time rivals for the Mexican
pr. sldcncy.
General Zach Taylor it thus eulogized by
Jeff Davl*: ^Though richly endowed t» a soldier
by nature, the precision he exhibite »n active
campaigns was not merely intuitive, foi in military
history 1 have known few men so deeply read or so
profoundly learned As genUein peace ss formid
able in battle, the figure which would be emble
matic of his t harmetet would be a composite of the
Uou and the lamb.”
A novel and pretty ceremony, not without
its moral value, has beeu borrowed from France by
a London priest. Father Nugee, of a charitable re^
lixious mission, has crowned with roses, in tbeCrys*
GrMl Arm la V#u for K alis-
Emory A fitotrt to a Chicago Reporter.
In talkiug with General Grant I found that he
uU was immediately conveyed cherished no resentmeut toward Mr. Blaine. In
to parties at the station, who promptly fict.bc said that he would cheerfully support Blslne,
arrested the man and gave him a committal i{ the latter shculd be nominated.
know her life. The London Telegraph. In speaking
of the occasion, says that Father Nngee did not ex*
sxeratewhen be said that the miserable existence
of the sewtug machine gtrl was a necessary surren
der of health os the price of virtuous industry.
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
Florida.
The building boom has fairly opened at
Tampa, Florida.
Polk county, Fla., will gather 5,000,000 or
anges from 10,000 trees this season.
Florida wants somebody to try the culti
vation of the cinchona tree within her borders.
Tallahassee publishes a long list of her
improvements for the post year. They speak vol
umes.
In Florida, as in Texas, heavy purchases of
land have been made during the past year by Eng
lish capitalists.
Twelve and a half by sixteen inches is the
size of a leaf from a mulberry tree recently meas
ured by the Jacksonville (Fla.) Herald.
During the past year over a third of a mil
lion of dollars was received at the United States
Und office at Gainesville, Fla., and nearly a half a
million acres of land were disposed of There were
also 1,655 homestead entries, and the number of
cash eutries was 2,181.
Tenneaacc.
Johnson City, Tennessee, is to have a gun
factory.
There are 1,356 convicts in the Tennessee
penitentiary.
Jonesboro is to have the largest livery stable
in East Tennessee.
A three legged chicken is on exhibition at
Morristown, Tennessee.
Franklin, Tennessee, has a musical genius
five and a half years old.
Cattle in almost every part of Tennessee
continue to die of murrian.
The Rugby colony, in Tennessee, has a
perfect building boom.
Knox county, Tenn., farmers are preparing
to row tho largest wheat crop ever sown.
There are to be an unusual number of fall
fairs to be held in Tennessee this year.
Pickett county, Tennessee, wants an im
migration bureau and real estate agency.
There are more Baptist churches in East
Tennessee than-post offices or grist mills.
The Tennessee conference of the M. E.
church, south, meets at Shelbyvllle, October 17.
The Tennessee Baptist state convention
will be held In Chattanooga the 25th of October.
The demand for building lots in Knox
ville, Tennessee, was never so great hs at present.
Mrs. Moreland is tbe oldest person in
Washington county, Tennessee. Her age is ninety-
six.
Bedford college, Tennessee, opened with
more pupils on its tolls than in its thirteen year’s
history.
Memphis, Tennessee, people have expended
about $15,000 tor watermelons since tho season
opened.
The Knoxville, Tenn., Chronicle claims that
in less than ten years ftom now, Knoxville will con
tiln 40,000 inhabitants.
A worm similar to tbe army worm is mak
ing terrible havoc with the pea crop in portions of
West Tennessee.
Mrs. Matilda Field, the youngest daughter
of the celebrated David Crockett, lives iu Gibson
county, Tennessee, and is sixty-two years of age.
MiMHfMMlppl.
The Mississippi State fair at Jackson begias
October 29.
The “herdica” are no longer running in
Natchez.
Vicksburg, Miss., is to have a thorough,
system of waterworks.
Owing to the want of rain, the Mississippi
turnip crop promises badly.
The tax assessment of Mississippi was $129,-
808,345 in 1879: this year it is $210,288,810.
Aberdeen, Meridian, Jackson and Brook-
haven, Mississippi, ore all to hold fain Id Oc
tober.
Pecans in Mississippi are said to pay as well
os any other orchard and it is not difficult to have
bearing trees.
R. A. Minnis, of Monroe county, Mississip
pi, has a scuppernong grape viue that covers an
area of 180 feet in diameter.
Colonel W. B. Montgomery, of Btarkville,
Mississippi, has the second largest herd of Jersey
cattle In the United States.
Texan,
The public schools of Texas appear to open
auspiciously.
At Franklin, Texas, $1,000 has been raised
by citizens to sink an artesian well.
Over $14,000 has been subscribed to the
fair and blcod.horse associaUon of Grayson county,
Toxas.
Dallas, Texas, bricklayers are now getting
$6 per day—the highest wsgt sever paid in Texas for
mechanical labor of any kind.
The salt mine near William’s ranch, Texas
issald to bo in danger of volcanic eruption, a num
ber of explosions having been heard,
The University of Texas, situated at Austin,
opened Its hospitable doors on the 15th instaut. It
expected to complete the education of its stu
dent* in the most approved style.
The highwaymen are cutting up high didos
southern Texas, much to tbo terror of ladles and
luvalid travelers. So far they havo evinced a pe
culiar hoktillty to doctors, not caring whether the
doctor be one of physic, dentistry or theology.
Kentucky.
A pink tube rose is a Midway, Ky., curios
ity.
Kentucky conference M. E. church, south,
met in Cynthia September 12.
Toe News says there are more bogs in Owen
ciunty, Ky., than there is corn to fatten.
The want of rain throughout Kentucky, is
becoming a matter of serious concern.
The Glasgow, Kentucky, Times reports a
child two yean old which weighs 187 pounds.
The hickory nut crop of Clark county, Ky.,
the largest and finest oue known for years.
A Somerset, Ky., merchant advertises for
twelve car loads of dried apples, and offen f*.80
per bushel.
There is a child in Jesamine county, Ky.,
only fire weeks old, that haa already cut two
large front teeth.
A great portion of the blnegrass seed of
Bourbou county, Kentucky, has been shipped to
Germany and Scotland.
The Lexington, Ky., Press says that Bar-
num took away $20,000, and the people who patron
ized the town and show left $80,000 In the city.
A cow in Simpson county, Ky., seven
yean old is the mother of eight living calves. She
had twins three times, and the other two one at a
ne.
Mb. Charles Exocho informs the Marys
ville, Ky., Bulletin, that he mi ked from one of his
cows in the presence of witnesses, twelve and a half
gallons of milk at a single milking.
Fifty-two varieties of wood grow in Pom-
county, Arkansas. Also the biggest grape
vines are claimed for that county.
Peculiar sounds are being heard in various
parts of Arkansas. Seme think that these sounds
caused by the explosion of foul air meteors,
which generally follow a dry season.
An Arkansas man found that after he bad
married a woman that she was a widow, and he had
helped to hang her first husband. It is presumed
that sbe married him out of revenge.
The Little Rock, Ark., univerisity is near
ing completion. In a few days the contractors will
turn over tbe building, which will be famished in
time for the opening of the fall term, September