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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY OCTOBER 9.1883
NEWS OF GEORGIA.
Jeptba Dalvs, of Coweta, is dead.
The Monroe Advertiser conies out again on
the half-shell
Rome is engaged in the registration of tier
city voters.
Valdosta expects s large number of visitors
from the north this winter
The Advertiser says the cotton crop in
Forsyth county will be decidedly short.
Captain H. 8. Talbert's steam gin in C'snton
narrowly escaped burning a few days ago.
Rev. J. T. Richardson killed thirty-seven
squirrels near Warnerville one day last week.
Ex-Senator Casey, of Columbia county, is
dangerously ill, and is not expected to re
cover.
Mr. John M. Barron, a Cokstiictiox prin
ter, is lying dangerously ill at the home of
his father in Newnan.
Ogletree, the notorious tramp child-stealer,
is thought to have once lived in Meriwether
county, acting as wagoner for the late John
8. Blalock.
Drayton, in Dooly county, came vety near
liaviug a serious conflagration, in which a
large quantity ot cotton in store would hnve
been destroyed.
There is a good deal of cow stealing going
on around Albany. The recent importation
of a number of Jersey cattle has made this
subject interesting.
Miss Grace Hancock, daughter of Colonel
C. W. Hancock, of the Americus Republican,
lias been dangerously ill, but Is now said to
be convalescent.
Colonel Jack Brown is spending a few days
in Americus, which place he finds much
more pleasant than Washington since Gres
ham has become the ruling power.
A cutting and shooting affray took place at
Wall's mill, Lowndes county, on last Sunday.
John Elmore was shot at twice by a stranger,
who was under the undue influence of corn
juice.
Messrs. A. J. Hinton, B. F. McLaughlin
and O, L. 1’eavy lefttireenville last Wednes
day morning for Marion, county, where they
propose spending several days in a grand
hunt.
Mrs. Maggie Comical's little boy, in Cow
of cotton. Before the railroad was built out I six boars after its death, the negroes refusing
there or Rome was a market, he hauled cot- to give any assistance, and bad it not been
ton to Wetumpka, Alabama, a distance of for the kindness of a white lady in that por-
140 miles, and sometimes to Marietta. tion of the city tbe child would have been
Herald - Mr J G Maddux, of I most shamefully neglected. As the negroes
Heard county, brought us some specimen a coffln forth* body, white
teeth of a large rattlesnake which was killed hands did so, the negroes refusing to dig the
by his mother, who is eighty-six years of age. g™®*. “♦if*
Mr. Maddux’s little boy stepped on the snake I “J°m , ried, J, nt * evcn the
hpfnrn sh#> uw it when she leathered a rail I hands refused to dig tbe grave. Then
and killed it. The snake measured three feet |J*ebody was‘broughtback to the city and
and four Inches in length and had eleven rat* buned at the public expense,
ties. Greenville Vindicator: The last news
A little son of Mr. Joel Moore, who lives h e »'<J trom Ogletree, the child stealer, was
on Mr. M. N. Coley's place near Lutherville, ' b8t h® was beyond the Chattahoochee river,
was smothered to death In a pile of seed cot- WM lost
ton last Wednesday, ft seems that there ' n y b J*?L^|F “PP" Meri
were a large pile of the cotton in the house and lower Coweta were in close pur
and the little boy was playing In It, burrow- JPj* 0 " *j|°h "" b “” ebacg ’ r.u?M ga ,h 8 , a ? d
ing a hole and crawling in, wiien the cotton do **' *°d it does appear remarkable that he
tilled in on top and smothered the lad. The ™»he information we
family knew nothing of the occurrence until I should judge that at least hfty men were en
sometime afterward, thinking that he was oir I 8“geo iu the chase.
on the farm somewhere. The Griffin News of yesterday says that _
Dooly Vindicator: Mr. Riley Bailey, a cit- ““ and " bo
izen living in the lower portion of thiscounty, I J*®®* Hapeville, and Iin the evening
arrived iu Vienna about an hour before day a beer ’
few mornings since without a particle of shirt *?fl*owed J*?.* 8 J? or '
or coat on, hare-footed and breeches badly I Rhine for the purposelof sell^ destruction,
torn- Ho woke up some of our cititans and R■* c A5" d hetbrew it all op, and
it was discovered that he waa crazy, but be-1 by tUattlme he bad concluded not to die. Ma-
--- ' mill troubles were the cause of bis dissi
POLITICAL NOTH.
then tried to pass on withontsaying anything I
when the negro, who was foolishly drunk, I
caught him. Tbe mechanic then whipped The republicans are whistling to keep np
out a billy and dealt tbe negro a blow, felling I their courage.
bim like a log and then passed out while one W E will ew. „„ „
of the prostrate man s friends pulled out a 1 „„„
revolver and pursued him beyond the door. I * ach ““ l f' There she standi-with Beu Butler
He was prevented, however, from using it by I t °P- 8t. Louis I ost-DIspatch.
the presence of several gentlemen outside. I The finter-state levee convention meets in
The negro was billed for his insolence with a I Vicksburg, Miss., next Monday, and will be attend-
very sore head for a week. » I ed by delegations from Arkansas, Louisiana, and
The Sumter Republican saya that the noto-1 Mississippi,
rious Henry Newsome, tbe negro desperado,
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
The Latest Sews A tent the S.ath aad IU Falha-Caa.
dcaaed far Ike Conatltatlon.
Philadelphia Call: "Georgia will not
permit tho Police Gazette within her borders. That
“Al-
fora jjg could be captured lie took to a nwanip I irouoies were trie cause w w
and has not been seen since. He is under P a “ on a , nd ™e> a »ohly, and he was to young and Mrs. Morris Wessolowsky, their relatives I Govebsoe Mubeat, of Utah, ia in the east. I SMQg th!lt thc Sunday school In America was
the impression that a squad of men are after with equanimity. He is now 'arid a few few friends were invited to spend gating hl , departure from Salt Lake City the Trt- founded la U86 by Bishop Asbury in Hanover
him with guns. working on a farm near the city, and will the evening with them at their residence and bunesald- --lie should be rramwtnted ami ndrirrt I county, Virginia.
The Ifawklnsville News thus delicately tells v ®‘® ® 8t “ scd td! "‘ C1 tb ! bga ' . mther* «t about“haff past® "o’dock^and poven * h ° uld ** S* ren h,m '” The Tribune con- Virginia has a million and a half dollars in
tho news: "On 8unday last at the residence While out shooting, on Tuesdy last, John ■ Native, and frl.ml! ,1,lUe11 iu blUer 8 $*polygamy. the varlousbanks of the state,
of the groom, in tliiacounl*-Mr.^George ( W. whm'thStap SroM% mAiM bad assSnfl&d^ During theflrat partof the I The St. Joseph, (Mo.) Herald at last speaks The National cotton pi
daughter*of 1 Itav e<, R? ‘Bullneton'o/'limd v •hell burst iulo atoms, cutting and burning evening the guests were pleasantly entertain- *'!‘ K>d word ,or eI ; Sentttor ™ 0 '-. I‘eo“PW*>«of of America will hold IU convention In Vicksburg
county ThVceremoiiy was M^ormed by R his hands in a serioiis manner. The left fore * d by. on the_piano by Mrs. Fletcher | ‘he way In which be has suffered from the wild | on the 21st of November
E. Reynolds, J. P. Thi parent, of the /ride
linger hail the llesh torn completely oit from and singing by Miss Emma Wessolowsky and I vagaries of the humorists, and expresses the hope
were'absent from home at the time of the | join tto^U.eeud_an ddownto Th, D ' A |^ r „,^ Wh “ e . th ? I SP bbU “P aot Co ' onia wlu el “‘ hta
marriage.”
The Irwinton Southerner hits a live sub-
ject when it touches the following
Julian Todd got badly left at an entertain
inent given last week at the church. He ran
halt a mile for an umbrella to taken young
lady home, hut she preferred going home
Worth Carolina.
Raleigh, North Carolina, has fifteen facto-
hone. Tlie thumb on the same hand wua groom of twelve months announced | governor of the state. j ries of various kind*.
also split open ii.r more than an inch on thd ‘hat the guests were wanted I “It is understood that R. Hockett Mathews I The colored Baptists.of North Carolina are
outside and the whole hand more or less fj 1 the dining room. Just then a march was I will decline the nomination to be attorney general. I making arrangements far the founding In 'that
scorched. The right fore fingernnd thumb * ruck up on the piano, and at this signal a W hlch was given him by acclamation by the repub orphan^ar the founding In that
wero.isop.iufuifyeutjbutnottotariously ^^ ‘^0^^enventiouof Ma^Und, .S Thuf ay * U,<
On Monday l„t, while ginning cotton on ISSf 5? I g«emen*u e r^&r'^f. U fi e m. a . n, «; | GEEEavtt.EE, South Carolina, has a popula-
■g . .. .. II p-nnitlll. nl.,,0 UUUtJ uy ttll. Alien luablry >VUrO III OTUCr. Mr.
Witt her paps,as she went there under his es- Wessolowsky being first called upon,
cort. You are perfectly right young ladv; if J™"} S h fln Sh e Z'a very appropriate speech for theoc-
the young men can't go and take you from | J^hthand caughtln the «w«^,th. ginj^nd , After spending an hour or more I °f Hon. Henry B. Payne. Those who have seen
home.
Rome Courier: The case of Emily Kinne-
adjoining Forsyth county.
I a shower. But tho funny part about it is that I evening, we nave
SfisSiSrw , ^ , 2aiTS^iFSli -1
&ssftassja\iai3!:
approach of the old revolutionary war. | nrav.^Shtalf of {..» ra-o.L ,i~ tainclone horse and two.mules, and their
.1 uuiffiviu icYu.ui.tium, NOf. in order to Drove which of the two wba the ta,neU one “ora® two mules, ana tneir
T. J. Lane, of Americus, killed thirty-five stronger man began to wrestle with each oth- ci,arretI remains presented a horrible specta-
squirrels near Flint river. He say. that'they ‘e^^lnaHya Zputaa™?, and after some T'.e bar and stable were run by $a»m.
are ao plentiful that he killed two of them ,, re ttv roiiah words between them Allen Jones A Thomason, ot Toccoa, fill of which is
•tone shot, lie says that the, are now fat ’S B™T„.T.teve th.tor.ll3 wRh 2 '<«; a ”2
.... a. ^ Blat , which waa near at hand. Tho blow rahi. Y °Vo?hto? l.. h
■ fractured the skull of ilerry, who died at I DRWjrdtobl*. Nothing was saved except a
On last Saturday an altercation occurred I three o’clock Tuesday morning. No one I f. ew kw* 8 «*}« bugglw and Mr. Thomason s
lietween a white man named Holcombe and saw Allen when he struck the blow, but one | fjjf °5S!Li
a negro named Joe Forehand, In Cobb coun-1 or two witnesses say that they heard it. “ *’** "
wfal^a ferolted in the negro receiving RailiirMcMIchael arrested Riley Douglas,
several knife cuts, none of them considered I alias jliu Williams, in Columbus yesterday, i, . - , , w . , ...
cUngerouF. Riley is badly wanted in R.rnesville, Pike
On Wednesday night Mr. J. A. Daniel, re* county, to answer a charge of assault with
ceiver of tax returns of Sumter county, waa intent to murder. It seems that some time °1 « JITS’
attacked by vertigo and fell to the lloor like Moat winter he made an assault on a white I
hewasshot. For an hour or two his family I man, whose* mime we did not learn, and 1 5lSLJJ l i? , *h!S5Jh LS?
thought he would die, hut he ianow up and knocked hint in the head with a weighing it ^rou^h the woods ahead of the
■on all being absent, caused almost a panic at
the hotel.
Reville says that some of the Greenville
stick and then escaped. He lias been "at I p *? s " m U08! V A most lively chase was h*d
work on a wood or vmvni train lii,m tn,........ I and the woods roaounded with the barking of
Columbus 8nn: Tho public gin belonging would be taken up again and away’the ca-
r to Cary J. 1 horn ton was destroyed by fire yes- nines would go, followed by yelling and mnt-
_ i n k sptJtsnien.^ Tlirough brier patches, over
Gainesville lias a cow I But cotton anil about BOO bushels of cotton I i 0Pi v4r„|ing swampsaqil^nto tho streets- ot Sl-V jeet of which w«.
_ a not had a calf in six {f®* 1 -. ^hfee bales of the cotton belonged to OfeeiWlle the chase went on, until the dogs fruit and truck grow
years. About tbs first of December every I h fa “| t 1 * te ' ,|na "i 5°'™[®* , > a,1 <* an ® to M®. W. I ilnaliy treed the coon skin in a china tree’
able to attend his dtilies.
The eherlir of Fierce countv was arrested work «m « wo«xl Qjnjtjayd «»|" '>«» {"“>“« I and y'eBVJfTh"."h*unto«r TfiFciulng
last Monday by the coroner. Aconetab o had ““ n ‘ b :'A nd 1 ®“" siderod mle trom tbe down two or three large swamp black gums,
levied on and acid •eUll, and the ehertlT had 01 “«“w. at which the dog. had come to a halt,thitrali
also levied on the same still, tjulte a nuin- 1 n.i» m i« , .o»«. ipi.« —i.h- -i- u -'—*—I
her of other* were arrested by tbe coroner
upon the eaute day.
A gentleman near
12 years old that haa
year the goes dry and in the following spring I " ® ,t : * Mr : Hs1Hlllnisn lo.t shout lix or I tho courthouse square. It it scarcely sale to
begins to give milk, yielding over a gallon at 12' r *, n hundred bushels of cotton seed and Mr. I stt y 'possum to any member of that parly.
eyerymUSIng. The habit is kept up with the “O<;kerloitabout2»» bushels. Mr. Thorn- Havaonali Times: Some time last month,
utmost regularity. I tons lot. Ismtwut *100. , while Mr. Harry T. Becket.awell known
The Perry Journal figures up that notwith- 1 4 Camming Clarion: The mlllhouso for a I young gentleman of this city, was passing by
standing the decrease of this yenr’a cotton I *?**}}/ Blaiun mill on the Charles mine on I the house of Rose White, a colored woman, a
crop in Houston, the people are in n better I J* 1 ® Etowah river, in this county, is complete. I vicious dog ran out and bit him on the right
condition than ever before. This conclusion I “ “ * ft, K e building, arranged and ready for I leg Mr. Beckett was not armed at the time,
f" reached from the fact that time purchases I !' rat cl* 8- machinery of the latest and best pat- I and did not kill the dog then, but afterwards
have very largely diminished. I { er J ,, i partly ready to be set up, and all will I went to the house and told tbe woman she
Gainesville Eagle: A cat was born near Sli". J2S? U ~ *„SUS2?!fJ**"* 1 8>yo up‘ho dog to be .hot or he would
Aumria last week with two heads. It is live- hmkMatSniJJforan PF°R cut * h , er ' „ 8b ®, Tal , u ®‘' ‘ h ® do B qoifo
ly and healthy, and can yowl with one mouth „ffil It£ toSndS.1“to h«?«and offered him JSO or a gold
and maul with the other. If this b.eed of I Sin'in onmUonlna short time ' ,tam P wftch if he would permit her to keep him and
cats become common it will just set the mil- „ ln “P®™* 1011 »“ “ '““U “me. bring her before court. He refusetf to give
lcmum back four thousand years. I Mrs. Harper, wife of Lucius Harper, of I up tlie dog which he then had killed. She
aatfa< iv- I Morgan county, was killed by a cow lost employed Mr. James E. Wooten, and had a
dr ruvadom? of^HenSr^iintv SThill I Monday. Mrs. Harper usually milked her cow »uit instituted against him for trover, claim*
aeverafv X?Ki«wtf7nnVo J 1 [n a having a i»ote to hold her there, ing one hundred dollars. The case was heard
dlv rJiffht 111 hninl The t ow became restless, and the pole was to day before Magistrate KIsinger. who, after
thrown against Mrs. Harper with such force I hearing the evidence, dismissed the suit,
that the is unexpected toji\t. hut ought | M t0 u, row | ier violently against the ground, I lion. Itufus E. Lester appealed for Mr. Beck
her head -striking a rock and breaking her I ett.
skull. She lived only a short time. Her | Jackson News: Quite a lively race
one uight uring dcourt
which we neglected
sume a virtue if you have it not”
Courier Journal: The boy-stealer of Geor
gia seem* to be unpopular down there. The Geor
gians Are a queer people. Up here a boy-stealer
. ___ "America may be a republic.” remarks I ? ou l d be 5 P« b hc benefactor, and he would have
»ta 0 r. W "t“S^“aIl°tam^f nl “ro% r rior ^ “bEt tod.llr.nd tontimentally it ^&Sf^SlSBJsSSS!! ,m,
SS5 Ind who ettapid from toe chaining! * Fntm Cape Cod to Ute V.rg.ttta,
some time last April, was recaptured out at I °lj d ® 11 ® ate R 1 ® American woman tsqoeen. Large quantities of walnut and poplar logs
Ciay Bagley’s place on Monday and brought I The stalwarts elected the chairman of the J from touthweit Vlrginlft are chipped north,
to the city by Mr. Rouse. Newsome had re-1 New YorK republican state committee, and the New Roanoke college, Virginia has more schol-
tamed to bis old haunts, and became a terror I York Times think, this will have an unfortunate atI q, an ,, j,,. n a ,j , or Jea „ 1
tothe neighborhood. He has been shot at I effect upon the republican prospects this year. Tnrnnnin.1 «t»ht nf
three or four times, and escaped unhurt everv Haebisbueo Pateiot- If the nresident , , 1 gbt seagu11 ’ salIm K ovcr
time, and the negroes thought he bore a , . R , L f pateiot. H tne president I Jameg r)reri leseen now oppo,^ Lynchburg,
charmed life. He^hired himself as a hand to I w< l?i d .,? x 1 f cat 1„ a ^ esl ^ly dever stroke of^practical The peanut crop in Virginia, according to
work tbe road asa substitute for another, I P“ IJt,cs h * * 1U ra * rry Anthony, end I Uteit reports, Is a great failure. It U believed that
and was betrayed and delivered up by two ^,52““ ,h ® womsn suffr ‘ gti,s ln lty0T ol hls owing to drouth not much more than a fourth of a
other hands, for ftve dollars each. A reward I conc , u9 , on on tbe , abor crop will be made.
his recapture. Newsome is now in jail await-1 question is: “The waste of earnings on drink I It is expected that the number of students
,ing a guard to return him to his keepers. I leaves the wage-workers poor, and poverty renders at ftnd Lee university, Virginia, will
Albany News: Thursday, September 27th, I them discontented. The reform most needed is reach 2 00 ' R large Increase over last year,
being the anniversary of the wedding of Mr. | temperance.” | -A- new history ot Methodism in America
r two thousand In
^ Ir * * Judge Hoadly arrived in Cleveland, from I t J® n °* 8,S55, An Increase of c
1 three years,
Tub Columbia. South Carolina, canal is now
I Philadelphia, on Saturday night, and is the guest I
liiv /tiuiij; Hit'll utu mm iiinu /uu iiwiii It* ,1 , ** . . , . . , .- •, . ...... .... „ VU4 u , , MW , W —,
home, then don’t accept their escort hack | inJSSfS found the table, the parlorwas again sought, the Judge «y he U .nythtug but a well “*».■"'<« '° re '° f 1,0
and good cheer, sweetjttusic and social con-1 fears are expressed by leading democrats that he | “ Bn d*> and fair progress Is being made.
Florida.
Gbeen turtles are selling at tan cents per
arm up to tlie shoulder was sawed into rib-
I bona, and the right side of his face badly cut. verge ~ruled the hour. The party dispersed at I will not be able to make his promlied speech,
eta county”live years old, picked "in one day I niore vs. the city of Rome took up nearly all I , pl The n / the Carroll about 1 o’clock, wishing Mr. and Mrs. Wess-1 General Sickles, Captain Biographer Ba-
last week seventy-two pounds of cotton. He of the court’s attention yesterday and the I “Jjj;... “* olowsky ‘many happy returns.” I deau and other officers who resign to go abroad I pound at St. Augustine, Florida,
began an hour and a half after sunrise, and jury were out laat night unable to agree upon bi ,,,ocket book 8 contatnina M in monw' . Frou i f al h° lln . eounty cornea a remarkable for their country and are reinstated,Hud themselves The banana trees about Madison, Florida,
quit work before night. a verdict. Emily Klnneruora it a colored “‘d’valuablo nanere but had tlroKoml tortone L tory ol i 10 ",? nin e-y« a r-ol<l son of Mr. W. P. in trouble by a decision ot the second controller of ate nearly all bearing flue large bunches oi fruit
Moor is In Philadelphia and *»“»• i?l, ab « baa *“«*, , tb ® f ? r •«» Si reaver jUhXtgh Mr. flnum^ fwSd £l r 7' ot Calhoun county, saved bis father’s u.« treasury.whotefoaMto pas. the par account.
New York ensaaed in m-irotistinir with and I which she claims has been done a | Jr wHE, JtJ xflSrJSS life by a remarkable display of courage and I of officers so reinstated. An appeal will be taken I « 7 .. , . .
forminga company w^t^aMrtyo? capitalists I loi ,ier ’ a »>y turning a ditch into said lot I a fcfiSffS deliberation. This little son of Mr. Perry to tbe couru. ^ Shipments of lumber from Florida are be
forming aconipany with a party.or capitalists | an<l Allen also lost a $J0 bill in torn Mtt and ft 8tout ne g ro marif named P ] e asunt Postmaster-General Gresham has been c° min g my lRr «e.
Woodson, were driving tbe gin of Mr. Perry. I W hat some people—with uncomplimentfry I A cassava root in Hillsboro county, Fla.»
t little after 1 o'clock, 8am ^“ro bSv on^nlace.' 1 PiZi^wantad I °» Mon ‘ ol la ™ r “bluet. offl«r™id®r a 1 '^"^fV^’twenty-threc
took it fiv force cliokim? And ntherwiMA tre/tl I thing—viz lookiogup some fresh facts upon which I children of their own, are in Gainesville, Fla.,
IrZ th* fSini JiriMU to base hls annual report. He has a notion that It Is KO i nK .outhward.
»ng the little fellow tery roughly. About tbe fij,duty to know a good deal more about hls de- g g ,00 ' Alabama,
time Pleasant attacked Allison Mr. Perry I partment than hls subordinates tell him. t.. n.h.n,. I. in..., ti,.,
«p , in ,h ls , buggy. a '‘ d seeing his The Boston Herald’s London correspondent The Alabama nver is lower now than any
little boy in the hands of the enraged ruf- |^ K ia.«. year since 1839.
flan ran up with his buggy whip, when “ a '“' . I ‘^"‘®" ad F *'' ,ay " Pdnl j® a ” d *’ bcd Selma, Alabama, expects soon to have elec-
the negro drew his knife anffritshed Spon Mr. " hotbcr „ ,t waa bl * lnt ® ntl011 10 ««®Pt the uomina- - ^
Perry, who, being unarmed, struck the negro «on for lieutenant-governor tendered him by the ™
vith the butt end of his whip, hoping there-1 Massachussetts democratic convention. Ho replied I Talladega, Alabama, is about to organize
•by to cbeck his advance. The whip broke, I that he would decline tbe nomination because he I a board of trade.
however, and Mr. P. stepping backwards, hu tampotyrily withdrawn from polities iu ">nso-I Alabama marble is being much used for
■tumbled nvarnwafton lira nnH fell l.i... I quence ot Ihcillness ln Ills family, lleremn.no 1
raii.ftt'. L a tlr0 and tell, his as-1 America, October 17. In tho Ccplmtou, »!.,r the
aallants knife piercing his clothes and I meeting of the nutlonal democratic comuilttec,
■lightly cutting uis thigh. Tbe negro fell on I February 22. he mnv come bacx to Burop
Mr. Perry with open knife, and was just in I lengthened pt-ri-d.
the act of plunging the long, keen blade in I
Mr. Perry's heart when Allison, seeing his PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
father’s extreme p^ril, picked up an old ax, I
and with the courage and precision of a man | It "°st Missouri *10,000 to vindicate Colonel
struck the negro a stunning blow on the I Frank James.
head, so completely demoralizing him that Mb. asd Mbs. Blaine will return to Wash
he scampered away with addled brain and , n ......ml*,
bruised head. Thus it will he seen that a I ’ft 1 „ . . .
nine year old boy saved bis father from a Minnie Haik says that autograph hunters
horrible death by having pluck. I are the bane of her life.
Waycross Reporter: In accordance with “Colebidoe. England,” was the British ju-
previous notice a meeting was held at the I riit'sslgnaturc on a Cbicagotaotel register.
monuments and other purposes.
One evening, near Selma, Alabama, a party
of two in two hours sbooUng, killed fifty four buU
bats.
The building outlook in Montgomery, Ala.,
is still very promising.
Jacksonville, Ala., proposes to rise trom
her ashes iu tbe shape of substantial brick edifices.
The shores along Mobile bay, ou both sides,
are becoming lined with orange groves.
THEREare 180 students at the University of
Alabama at Turealoooa.
Mississippi.
The Mississippi river is very low, and can
to be done with tlie rascal ?
Doiiglasvllle Htar: Mr. F. N. Winn and ... _
wife both died at Denver, Colorado, with I husband found hls wife lying on the ground I occurred
smallpox during the month oi September, in tho cow-pen. He picked her up and car- week, wu.ou we u,™™ lo
,e TI,. d »* y r..»i ft t I If C fl,IMra,f e -i 1 t!ra!f J 1 " 1 ''f •? tbo l,ou,e wberc ,l, » e*i’ired in a mention nt tlie proper time. Arrange negro
ilnf'.’raiJo!'.?,? i' i«rV I * w ,u * ,iu t® a - I imd been ltidiug about in the neighborhood
laIgB ,,u,1| h® r I Gainesville 8outhron: Mrs. Theodore Mo-1 for several days, when it was deemed best to
of relatives iu Dougins count}. I reno, of this city, has a baby dress Llo years I arrest him on suspicion. He came into town
Caterpillers Itate appeareil In many of thc I old that was worn by iter children's great-1 about dark, and, and waa arrested and turned
cotton fields of Butta comity, but tlie crop | grand fat iter, Francis Hawks. Hls two sons, I over to the sheriff. He asked permission to
lieing so far advanced and well mntured but I lie Rev. Francis I,. Hawks, of New York, go to the public well for water, and he was
little damage will be done hy them. The tnd Bishop Hawks, of Missouri, are well I given the opportnuty to run if he
Klberlon New South, hu changed hands late-1 known In the Episcopal church us celebrated desired to do. As soon as he got
ly. Mr. K. B. rale and Hon. I’hil. W. Davis I orators and tlie former a writer of considera-1 the opportunity, ho ran, and the sheriff and
are the proprietors now. I hie distinction. Mr*. Moreno has also an old-1 others juined in tho chase after him. That
Mr, Green A. Cox wu found dead in his I fashioned needlebook, or "house-wiie” made I negro did some good running, but some of
potato patch on the 15th instant, near Tiflon, I by Iter children's great-grandmother, whose I those after him proved to bo u tleet of foot us
llerrien county. Mr. Cox moved from Dooly I name, "Julia Airay Hawks, June 1st, lili;i," I lie was, and picked bim up within a quarter
to Berrien a year or two ago. Thirty-seven I »tay be seen marked upon It in line needle I of a mile. The negro acknowledged that be
years ago he wu stricken with a disease of an I work which rivals that done on sewing ma-1 had committed aoiue minoroffetises in Henry
apoplectic character from which he never re-1 chines of the present day, and which nt a I eounty, and he wu held until the sheriff of
coveted. It seems that he Lad gone out iu I »hort distance resembles printing. I Henry called for Uitu.
the field to feed bis hogs and died there alone. I HawkinsvilleNews: An old colored woman I Waynesboro Citizen: A letter from Mr. J.
Mr. McGeer, living on Chattaliooche river, I by the name ol Annie Flair, living in Wit-1 A. Watkins to Mr. D. B. Wells, our town
Decatur county, shot a man iut Saturday, I cox county, ia probably the oldest person I marshal, says that he in company with
2Jd, who wu entering his house with knite I living in the state. 8he wu born in May I another gentleman, goton track of Joe Ty-
drawn, threatening tlie life of himself and 11"**. in North Carolina, and is now in her son, tlie uegro who escaped from jail last
family.. He had buck shot in one barrel of 1115th year. Sho wu brought from that state week, and after following bim nearly all
bis gun and bird-shut in the other. He gave I toDooly county by a man named Key. Af-1 night, captured him at the house of an old
him tlie contenta of tlie latter, only aiming >®r the deatli of Key, his widow willed this I negro woman, ill Emanuel county. They re
st his legs. I old negress to Mrs. Lewis, mother of Mr. I., I turned to No.!) Central railroad, about break*
Montezuma Record - We were ihns . net. I lewis, of this county, and wu owned by I fest time tlie next morning, and niter securely
t i tied clam'ey XDF E Hartiootiwho ?s«-1 >‘er until the emancipation of slavery. The chaining Joe in the gear house of a Mr. Wig-
eaited on the river imurovement force below I *** of ‘he old woman ia recorded in tlie old I gins, went In to breakfast. Joewu left alone
AlW There sre ereat'shoals in She rive^ taml 'y b "’ le now ln lb « ix»®«>”» of Mr. about fifteen minutes, and when the party
down there'and Mr* Hftrrisou tells'thftt L®"'*- Old Aunf Annie is able to go in and returned it wu discovered that some one
Shitdem wmien’ U^u of ‘ b ® h ^»e, but i. nearly bUmT (who It i. suspicion^ wu a negro man on
the Record office. He alto had a sea globe Cedartown Advertiser: Mr. J. W. F. Thomp- l h» P>»ce) bad broken a link of the chain,
taken from tbe same reck in a perfect state of I ww* oi Hickory station, Miss., who has been I ftn " J°c’ was KJ> n ®- «r. \\ • wore off
petrifaction. spending several montbsat thUplace with his a F air of handcuffs, the half of a trace chain
The Wavcroes Citizen oavs that "Wavnes- * on - 1)r - u - Tboiupaou, left yesterday lor a a F» dl ? cl ‘-, B , utJ <>® 15 8»ne again, and
boro Is no^onW now buT^has™ been"duriue I v ‘*' 1 *° Alabama, whiMe be has relative, re- *'>l doubtless be hard to capture a second
the^hifleVear as healthy a town u 'therc ' is I Mr - Thotupson. though 75 year, of “me
in the state Besidea we have tlie anertlou I ***' “hows wonuerful vitality, and would be I Charleston. N. C., Obeerver: From parties
of one of otir leading physicians who ltu l .° °® '- w 5'e*™ younger. He Is a farmer who arrived in the city on the Carolina Cen-
been acquainted with tfeLeues of this mc- f' ,d ,nto , ttu * ““Sh W ! ,te ir ,‘ bl, „'i¥ y *“ he traltrain yeeterday afternoon we learned of a
lion for yean, that our returning people are ! n , on ® da > »P«|»» »'!• a «d quit the job an fatal affray that occurred Sunday night at
In no danger whatever of malarial Jrcllmatic He hu of ten split and Cameron’s mill in Richmond county, be-
ji n- I laid in) rails in a day. He never took a drink I tween negro men over a sum of money that
|of|whisky, a chew of tobacco, or swore an | had been stolen front one of their number.
r--,. -- ,, z —-r-z——rwrwr t- - i John Bright, is doing missionary work near Hono-1. AN unpouimon stalk of cotton wu exhibited
aaSocialion. On too* , In Natchcx recently. It Wu seven feet high, with
and W. A?Wright appointed nrareto ° h Bv Rav - Jon * Kinnxar, D.D., a liberal member long, cion branches, all ol which were tilled wills
request Dr. Wm. B PP FoIks addressed the l o1 1»'l la “® n ‘ fr0In Donegal, Ireland, died Sunday, bolls. Then numbered over 2S0. It wu raised by
meeting, stating the object and advantage of aged 59 r o C T auar will m»V«
organizing an association of the kind; the I M. Worth, the Parisian fuhion king, is flf- Senator L^Q. C. Lauab will maxe some
importahce to the citizens, the adaptability ty . fiv0 ycar , oMt ut> pieasant-looklng, and most PoUUc^PWheiln illsslmippl this fall,
of thi« section to the production of /ruits and I Thk cotton crop around Jackson, Mississip-
vegetables, and the Necessity wd enUw de- n > pi. will be quite snort.
pendonce of th» portion of the state which is 1)8 St . e ' ’ th . Euaalan mi " ister at P Extensive preparations are being made for
sure to arin In a few years from now. The Washington, hu token a house there with remark- P j. P p™„ s 7 l „,„ InnI s ,or
doctor’s remarks were well received and ap- ably lino interior decorations. I the state fair, at Jsckion, Mississippi,
proved by every one present. Other gentle-1 JudokJohn A. Peters, tbe new chief justice I !■* heaviest man in Mississippi weighs 340
men gave their views and experience in the 0 , Maine, has been on the bench for ten years. Ht P™* ItlsT.R. Griffin, of Holmes county,
business, advantages, importance etc., of or-1 cmu, congress lor two terms. I Tnx number of homesteads entered in Mis-
th a " a M° r ci “ t f? n s ot klnd l SThe latest gossip about Professor Fiske, who ““®® thQ P™«« o' th ® llw "■ 1862, Is 13,885.
Waycross, and Mr. J. ' M. | sucsCornell university for hls dead wife's lortune, * Fiee Insurance airenta are cettine alarmed
Fire Insurance agents are getting alarmed
I at the small water supply ln Vicksburg, ln cue of
fire.
Sliger, of Glenmore. After discussing the 11> that be is courtlngan Italian countess,
subject at some length, it wu decided to or-1 Bishop Horatio Potter, of New York, is
ganize, and upon motion Cmitain N. Dixon I j a his s2d year, and has administered theaffairaof
wu elected permanent president, G. 8. Roach hlj , reat di^e for nearly twenty-nine years.
S Tlie follow,ng^gentlemenwere Bxckx, the general of the Jesuits, who ^
appointed by tlie chair to draft a constitution hu ordered thc election of bis successor, has held . .
andby-laws: Captain E. II. Crawley, C'olo-1 his position since 1853 and Is neatly 89 years of age. . \ _i,„rah t. i,„:„„ o
nei J. C. McDonald, Dr. W. B. Folks, Mr. Api-leton Oaksmith, the slave trader, who A ” w t Ca »“? Uo cburch ia bel " 8 bulIt at
Wm.Miller andJ.M. Btiger. This commit- es0 ft PC(1 / rom a Iiotton prison, «ml was .ubrequent- Ab b® TlUo ’ T it
tee will report at he next meeting to take ly par(ln „ ed by Grtat , has become a wealthy raff* CoTTO! * P^inginLouisitma develops the
place at J o clock in the afternoon of the first I raft owner. | f»ct that the crop will be short.
LonlMlnna.
The hickory nut crop of Louisiana promises
to be a fair one.
Southern Louisiana will only make half a
Monday in October. Before adjournment
thc following gentlemen were enrolled as
members of the association: J. G. Clough,
H. Linzer, 8. F. Miller. J. Barnes, T. M.
Sweat, L. A. Wilson, J. R. Knight and T. B.
McDonald. On motion the meeting ad
journed till 3 o’clock n. in., first Monday in
October, when all are invited to attend.
Tcrriblt Death.
From the Baroesville Gazette.
Mr. George Bancroft will celebrate bis I Louisiana instead of making 300,000 hogs-
eighty-third birth day at his Newport home next I heads of sugar, thinks it will be 150,000.
week, and will then go with Mrs. Bancroft to Wash- I The New Orleans Times-Democrat expres-
Ingtonfortho winter. Mrs. Bancroft's health hu I ses the opinion that the cotton crop ofl883 84 ia
greatly improved. v I owned by the producers, and will leave more sur-
Accorino to the Louisville Courier-Journal, I plus money in the country than any cotton crop of
Gcbhard must go, and Langtry must snug up to a I receQl years. Teams,
new dude when she gets back to "dear America” I «.*.■ i. t tm
with her "voleu ot vootl velvet amt tbe lost arma of | Wa™ Texas, is noted for its handsome
the Venus de Milo.” churches.
General Francis E. Spinner, the ex-treas-1 Texas railroad trains are infested with.
_Ji5fij!lf l ioM l0 2^L ,b i e **' D**" >U his life, and hu always maintained I in tbe quarrel Frank Williams drew bis pls-
b * aln Wafr *° t0 ? cheerful spirits. His manner of life could be toi and shot Geor, “
pctober Sith, and continue until tbe follow- we ,j luad , „ amp | e by the young
ingW ednmriay night or Thurolay morning, would shorten their existenci by l
He®- °* P; " »«“"•. O.V., of Kentucky, will and other sure methods.
Gto be bmratdurina I Green .boro Journal: On last Tburaday Mr. I ®r >>®gro named Arteu Bennett and on 8at-
to tte present during j T i. 0 i v (n, who lives in this county, met “f> la >; evening tliey were all paid their wages.
be pmenL The citizens of Warrenton in
vite all lovers of bollm
th Ch!riCT D Hicksand JWest Barnes, two ne-1 * Ub a r v * r ® lo “ ‘“.‘h® of •""““hf® I l b l! b .^-^“^f.„ , ^ g *i b ! r : a ? d . i^i’iL be
groef, while returning home Saturday-
after spending the day in Waynesboro,
of hls barns and with them a quantity of his night B*nnett s money was stolen, he alleges.
Stock feed. The fire destroyed six log cribs b.v in, two compauiona Sunday they got
about'five miles out ouarrefed and foavS and,u, h'®»- The contenta consisted ol into * figbt over the tuatter which resulted
over a trivial nStlerw^tah muitad in the ,, h ou, fi »» hundred bushels of corn, the full in the killing of Brown. Williams, who did
•tabbingand “ta^t’ killing oTSurta llith c f°P of ‘he fodder and shucks from ‘he shooting, has been arrested and jailed at
derett a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, /’"‘J ,ir ® , wa * aupposetllohave Savannah Times: Three negroes went intoa
and Barnet waa ladged in jail. "°. rk “ tncendiary. it thu be barroom in the western part of the city last
Rome Courier; The model man was lu 1 l r “f.^P d , tba i ul . ,cl ?° al ?. tdl * c £*® l T d ’ heshfiuld [ ,,-ening and wanted a drink. Two of them
town yesterday. Mr. Herman White, who ^ ** „ ^ C ii Tb ' *?* e " ta ®', 1 were pretty drunk and behaved ruffianly. A i
resides near Rock Run furnace, informs us **? a b ®?I y ”??‘Vf 1 ®- BolriD ' w ho t* one of w hite man, a mechanic, was in the
that be baa lived there for forty-eight yean. olu mo5t worth > «“«»*• '' '
He is now 63 years old, and never m his life Americus Rettublican: A negro woman on
took a chew of tobacco, nrore an oath or got 1*idt of this city lost an infant a few . 5 w.a« B vu . ...... VU w v. »**«<
gJxunk. He plant* field* of corn and patch** days *go and the child waa uncared for thirty- 1 ruffian, stopped and wanted him to treat. He ' saw.
We learn that Mr. A. J. Yates’s little son, . .. ^ . . . . . i.
ten or eleven years old, came to a horrible I urer of the United Stotes, he of the famous signs- three card monte men.
death last Monday morning. He was up in I ture, has been visiting Boitou. The signature is Austin, Texas, is happy in the possession
tbe ginhouse while tbe machinery was nt I still cut like Oscar Wilde’s hair. 1 of the first young lady matriculated as a student of
work, and in some way, we have not learned I King Alfonso's face is said to lack the I the State university.
how, was caught in the band wheel. His I bloom of freshuess which characterized it five years 1 There are thirty-five Sunday school mis-
bouy was thrown literally to pieces—the head I ^ jj A if ongo were aD overworked clerk his I slouarles at work in Texas, under tho auspiceiof
d the condillon would ** ^mantle. the sute gua( u y gchool aswcUUon.
hotly even tofti saumler. 'We learn' that on , Among tl,c passengers on the steamer Elbe j N Texas, new Methodist church building.'
the same day Mr. Zack Williams, of this I from New ^ork for Southampton yesterday, was I are being erected In Houston, Austiu, 8aa Anto*
county, came near losing his life in the same I Miss Alice W. Longfellow, d ^«bter of the poet. I n [ 0 and Georgians revivals have been general,
way at McCord’s gin. near Martin’s m ui. Mis* Longfellow will remain abroad a year. Angelina Stevens, of Galveston Texas
Every shred of clothing was stripped from I Mr. Robert Browning is now in excellent f divorce on the ground that her husband
his body, and the body badly bruised and healtn audspirits. Henaaspent the past season at * f ®“ h rnn.id*
lacerated so he may yet die from the wounds. I a newly discovered retreat, under the brow of g™Sow fi^ds out f£tK Sn*”offfi P ~SnL’ She
Monte Rosa, 5,000 feet above sea level, and is about (thinks she should l>e set free inasmuch as she hat
Well Perfumed. I to take up hls abode in Venice for the winter. I an “offer” from a man who can support her in the
The San Francisco Argonaut thus speaks of I Tenneoe*.
Henry Ward Beecher: “His biblical vagaries have I East Tennessee farmers are introducing
A desperate stniggle took place on l*>t| ceiue< i | oaxnuge the irreverent, and his irrever-1 more new and Improved stock this fall than ever
Thursday ntght between one of our most cn0M have caue q , 0dl0C k , h e rcli*toua. Nothin* bet V re.
prominent darkies and an animal that out-1 caa mm next lecture season but anew douLL” I c.,.., thnummt doltara cAutd nnt t, n . .tat,,
stinks" all other beasts of tbe animal crea- would a new tcrepe wltn a woman affect I »x thousand dollar, could not buy eight
tion. Moss Turner, colored, while on hi. him? exhibited at Lebanon, Tennessee'*
way home about 80’clock, on Thursday night I Minister Wallace la not going to keep to I fair.
laat, was attacked bv a pole-cat near tbe col- I himself all the honor, to be reaped from a rest-1 Jackson, Tennessee, la to have water world
lege with which be had a considerable fight. I deace abroad an( | - aa intimate acquatnttnce with I to cost 1100,009.
Fortunately, however, haying a good stick in kh , dl _„ H1 , wl(e no w purposes to share Kentucky,
hand he soon put an end to its catship and mlmwlth him and haa taken the flStstep In that The Kentucky institution for deaf mute, has
greatly rejoiced. The night being dark, and direction tor publUhlne a book about "The storied wlth „ 5 puplu _
Mose probably having hie "smeller, out of I Sea," whlcn b the Meffiterranean. I p ^ , ... T ,, r „ ,
order,’® be could not tell with what kind of I The visit of Mr. Edwin Booth to tbe Jewish I honey crop of Jlr. J. \\. Egbert, of
an animal he bad come in contact, but sup- e,, mctcry at Newport recalls the fact that the very M ® rcer coun ^' Ky ” hroughtprim this year 1707.
something of extraordinary | MWer(u , 1 Jewldl ' at Newport ad J reared to | •*“!<>“ of ‘he Kentucky legisla
tures commenca December 8taL
More than one thousand doves have been
killed iu a hemp field, near Frankfort, Ky„ this
From the Butler. Ga., Herald.
pored it to be something of extraordinary j.-t* ™niTm Newoort 1
1ET A light.betog famished hint the.fact | ^“l^^tre^^etterolcon-
. , , . , J7Z . : | eratuaUou In whlcn tncy tnvoaea tne oinwug 01
probably tbe largest pole-cat that purfumes ffie tom upon him. Washington's reply U among
the piney-wooda. I hls published tetters.
It is related that not long ago John Bright uli -
A Carroll County Snake.
Champion In Carroll County Times.
..tended an auction sale of high-priced taorffiom | A hcnt.e of Laurence county Ky .hot
caule lu England, and lu response to an Inquiry and killed one hundred and seven squirrels in two
, .. , .aid: "No. I have not come to buy. but to see the dayi.
On the 13th instant. Mr. Beard and Joseph fool who wlll „ y x2i000 for a bulL " "There he U. "
Stamps living on Buckcreek near ft yatt s U dy Nkeimenidale prompUy, pointing:w'her j 0 ” williams, of Kentucky, isrill be worth Rron
bridge, killed a very large cotton-mouth moc- husband. The reply made by the People s Tribune I (]00
»aiu, estimated to be between three and four 11« not a matter of record. Mnra-nvMV countv Kv ia excited over
feet long. When it was struck with an axe it A Braiika missionary to England gives Montoohxbt county, Ky„ u excited over
disgorged thirty five young cotton- mis description of John Bright: John Bright eats | valuableoff determents,
mouths ranging in length from IS to 24 inch- | hu breakfast tike a lion, and digests It, too; but he Good green apple, sell at fitly cent, per
As toon aa they appeared on the field of drlnk He u a b road, middle-sized man, bushel ln Bowling Green, Ky.
" - —mated a hostile attitude, stri-1• 1 - - - --