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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY OCTOBER 16,1883
NEWS OF GEORGIA.
Proferaor Kelly, of Conyen, hzz returned
from Europe.
William Clements, of Dougherty, lost an
arm fn a cotton gin,
A large quantity of cotton was stolen from
Ur. J. A. Daniel, of Sumter county.
J. D. Weston, who was recently stabbed by
a negro boy in Albany, is very much ira
proved
Llncolnton Oairlte: Ground was broken
Monday for the foundation of the new Bap
tist church in Washington.
Thirty-one workmen passed through Ma
con on their way to Kissimmee City to work
on the Son tli Florida road.
A man by the name of Thomas Butler, nca
Roswell, while ro'uming from aGypsy camp
last week, fell dead in the road.
Captain Steven G. Pettus, of Wilkes, who a
few months ago was accidental y shot, di«J at
home on Friday last, and was buried on Sun-
day.
Mr. J. M. Spurlock, Sr., of Eufaula, haa an
ugly fore on his tongue; it la improving now,
but it was thought at one time to be epitbe-
lionii*.
Hon. .1. A. Wilder, one of the representa
tives of Decatur county, has taken a position
as mail mute agent between Albany and
Brunswick.
grew together, and from thence up made only
one tree and top.
Americua Recorder: Mr. Cbas. W. Gools
by, a brother of the unfortunate young man
who is misting in Eufaula, accompanied by
J. W. Brady, left on yeaterday for that place
to work up the matter. It ia stated that the
missing Goolsby bad nlargeamount of money
on his person when he left Americua, ana
the supposition is that be baa been foully
dealt with.
Eatonton Messenger: Sheriff Lawrence ia a
good oliicer and a fleet-footed one. The first
IS granted; the second was demonstrated last
Saturday, when he made a swift cut of the
park while in pursuit of Gus Johnson, color
ed, who was wanted on a charge of assault
with intent to murder. It is said that a scared
negro Is swifter of foot than a deer, but Cap
tain Lawrence, with some assistance, succeed
ed in bringingGus to bay to await trial.
On last Wednesday evening Doctors Beeves
and Malone made a search for the bullet
which caused the death of Finia Neal, in
Gordon county, and found It lodged between
the first and second joints of the backbone,
and within an eighth of an inch of the spinal
cord. It is a thirty-two calibre, but the pis
tol from which it came has not been foetid.
Andy Cherry will now be tried on a charge
of murder.
Calhoun Times: Mr. J. L. Sutherland
brought into our office last Thursday the
greatest cariosity of the age. ft waa a com
mon wagon chain with just nine links, and
through the fifth link i.as grown
a large sweet potato. The potato is abontfivo
An alligator, five and a half feet long, got
entangled and drowned in i , [J,,
he was not discovered soon enough for the
engineer to stop the train in time to save him.
He waa lying lengthwise the roadbed jnst
near enough the track to be struck by one
side of the engine pilot. He was taken up
anil carried to Snmner, when it waa found
that the left side of his face and head, and his
left arm and shoulder were badly maDgled.
Bis skull was not fractnred, but his left eye
protruded, and his left arm i.nd shoulder were
fearfully Clashed. A broken whisky jug was
found near where be lay upon the railroad,
which tells the balance of this sad story.
Cartersvllle Free Press: Many of our citi
zens, no doubt, remember the killing of an
infant in Kingston, Tuesday morning, June
15th, 1871, by its father, Joseph M. Hum
phries, who was tried, convicted and sen
tenced at the August term of the same year to
L« »».l l.’.LIa,, Oantnniliaw Off 1671 Tltrtao
be hanged Friday, September 29,1871. Jmige
Parrot was then on the bench, and try him
Humphries was sentenced, it will be re
membered, also, that Humphries, together
with six other prisoners, escaped from the
jail by cut'ing out the flooring and tunneling
under the walls, on Wednesday night, August
27, 1871. Three of the prisoners were cap
tured soon thereafter, and the where
abouts of the other one remained a mys-
COURTSHIP IN LUMPKIN.
II.v Ce.rso Acdfr.o. tl.l ll«| WltS A..I Pests’.
Or. i>k
From the Gainesville Eagle.
In Lumpkin county there resides an old
lady who fa the mother of eight of the pret
ties and best girls that have ever been wedded
in our county. She has one left, snd George
Anderson, a young man who has been work
ing for Aunt Peggy fell desperately in love
with the young daughter, end she with him.
tery. Humphries since bis escane has been
living in
entangled anu Any one ties!
son’s set-net, near the Dublin ferry, n Lau I at tbla ofBce.
rens county. I w.i,™ v,
lie opposite side of tho chain from the stem.
Any one desiring to see it can do so by calling
rens county.
The cotton receipts in Washington, up to
date, are (Ho bales, against OOi for the same
date laat year—making an excess of 81 bales
for this year.
Uncle “Ned Waller,” 78years old, the first
man who ever retailed market supplies front
a wagon in Washington, fifty years ago, has
been in the business ever since.
Major Wechler of Dawson was a staff officer
of General Van Dora during tho late war.
After the death of Van Dorn lie was transfer-
red to ihe stair of General Kirby Bmith.
SylvaniaTelephone: Mr. George Tice plant
ed eleven acres of cotton, used one toil of
guano, and after gathering all his crop and
i #_ _ Li. f«a.iiisAii iisii a? an inft rhis
jpaylrij? for his fertilizer hail ^7.35_ left,^ This
r specimen of the cropa of the county.
On 8undsy night the machine shop belong
ing to Joeian Boswortb, at Snapping Shoals,
wss destroyed by fire. Loss about $2,000. It
was evidently Ihe work of an incendiary. The
mill caught twice but was fortunately extin
guished.
Dr. H. F. Andrews, of Washington, h.s re
celved the acceptable present of a homo from
Ills brother, Garnett Andrews and Mias Fanny
Ani rews. It is the place formerly owned by
Mrs. M. L. J ones, In tho southeastern part of
town
Washington Gaselte: There was a negro
double cabin burned on Sunday on the piaco
of Mrs. M II Moss and it came near burning
ber dwelling, the latter having caught twice.
The fire began from a negro who was smoking
in the cabin.
Three children of l)an Crump, colored,
were burned to denth In hie cabin, four miles
from Lavonia, Hart county. The parents
were at work In a field half a mile distant.
The oldest child was five yoars of age; tho
youngest ten months.
Lust Saturday President A. I. Branham
tendered bis resignation as president of the
West Georgia agricultural and mechanical
s, at Hamilton, to the board of trustees,
college, ,
which was accented. Professor U M. Pocket
was elected president iu his stead,
Laat Monday Mr. and Mrs. Kxekell Harris,
of Catoosa county, celebrated their gulden
wedding, at their residence alCatooeasprings.
The affair was elegaut In every respect, and
Mr. and Mrs. Harris were the recipients of
many handsomo and costly presents, ,
Lumpkin Independent: During lsst week
Moors. W. B. anil Philip Simpson killed four
wild turkeys. -During laat winter the Simp
son brothers klllsd nearly fifty wild turkeys.
It they havens good luck this winter we know
where to look for a birthday present.
A negro by tho name of Ed Cothran, in
Rome, whipped a negro woman, and ufilcon
C. ami J. C. Brown went to arrest him, a lien
he shuwed fight to the officers, and for a time
they had a real rough and tumble time of it,
but Cothran waa landed in the station house,
with hie head beat upa little.
The following ia the municipal ticket
named in the new bill Incorporating Dublin,
and which will serve until July, when an
election wifi be held: Mayor, Joel K Perry;
Couucllninn, John J. Weaver, Martin L.
Jones, Elijah Bunion, Kincbcn 11. Walker
and Daniel A. smith.
The Gainesville Southron thus announces
the news of a friend's good fortune: “Mr.
1. B. Papy, of thla city, received on Friday
laat the uews of the death of a favorite stunt
in Savannah. Tho good old lady did uot
forget to leave our m'lglibor$28,000, for which
we, and no doubt lie, Is thankful.”
Emanuel Gulton, a negro who lives on Mr
James L. Latiiklii a plantation In Pulaski
county, at the beginning oPthls year bought
an olu mule for thirty-five dollars. lie lias
made with that mule eight hags of cotton
avenging 523 pounds each, 125 bushels of
corn and plenty of cane, |ieas, potatoes, eto
Calhoun Times: Mr. Gabe Hunt had on
exhibition this week a beet widen measured
thirty Inches in length, twenty-one Inches in
circumference, and weighed twelve pounds
If anybody cun beat that beet we should be
glad to have them step forward. He also has
what is known as the rich weed, over twenty
feet fn length.
Sbenfl Taylor, of Gordon county, has de
cided to use the same style gallows as the one
on which Johnson wu Iiung in Rome several
years ago, and will put it up on the county
laud recently purchased of Squire Pulliam.
The gallows lias a trigger underneath, and
wben this is jerked out by means of a rope,
the whole platform falls.
Wasbtngtou Gsxette: Depredations have
been committed at Ihe Catholic church in
this place of n very diabolical nature. The
blinds and glass have been broken in wttu
rocks and sticks and other like mischief en
gaged in. We hope the parties will be taken
In hand and severely dealt wi.h. We regret
exceedingly to know of such shameful cun
duct lu as guod a community as this.
Talbotton Era: Mr. Berry Milner, of Mil
ner's cross roads, Harris county, is the pos
sessor of two old coins which he has had for
more than fifty years and prizes them very
highly. Mr. J. T. Adams, of this county, has
an industrious little boy. who, while plowing
a week or two since, unearthed a small Span
tab com more than one hundred yean old,
having been coined about 1775.
Hawkiusville News: We were informed the
other day by one of our prominent planters
that the corn which ia now beiug harvested
in this locality is full of weevils. Said he:
“1 never saw so many before, but you may
say to such of your readers as may have graiu
infeeted with three Insects that the weevils
wifi leave, If they will spnukle salt on their
corn when it is put into their barns." This
is a simple snd cheap way to get rid of a very
deatructive insect.
Crawford News: The old Drown place ia the
most delspidated old place in the county. It
marks the place where wealth snd splendor
once were rulers but its landscape now takes
hold of the eye and leads him back to the
Walton News: Mrs. Harrison Broach baa
nine children and forty-seven grandchildren,
anil has never bought a pound of butter or
lard in her life; but she says if they adopt
<!>« sf/iol' law alia rlnn’f IrnrtV whflf ■hit’ll
the stock law she don’t know what she'll
have to do. Mr. Broach is the moet “pizen”
fence man in the county. He says Morgan
county is ruined; that the weeds are growing
so high around trie houses they can hardly be
seen; that it is the “snakyist" place in the
world; that the Walton county snakes have
heard what a fine place Morgan is and are
just going by his houso in droves, emigrating.
The colored people of Buck creek have bad
trouble with their pastor, Itev. J. C. Alien,
who disported himself in au uuseenly man
ner at a recent campmeeting. The trustees
decided es follows: “We the leaders and
members of the above mentioned cburcli do
make out a bill of charges against Itev. J. C.
Allen, preacher in charge of the colored
member* of the M. E. church on the Sylvania
circuit, for breaking the Sabbath day by sell
ing tobacco, cigars and other produce in the
way of gain, which was in violation of the
laws of God and our country.’’
Americua Republican: On Thursday morn
ing at two o’clock a bouse on theplaceof Mr.
G. A. Turpin, about two miles from the city,
which was used for storing cotton, was de
stroyed by fire. There was two bales of cot
ton, one hundred and fifty bushels of cotion
seed, two sets of harness and numerous oilier
articles burned. Loss about two hundred
dollars. No insurance The fire commenced
on Wednesday evening by a little negro boy.
utl H cniicmiuji wcuiug u iiihu zn>,z u uwjrr
wlio went into tlie room for a basket ana
lighting h match it burnt his fingers, when he
dropped it in the cotton. Instantly the
whole room was in o blaze, but it was extin
guished, the burnt cotton taken out and the
balance well sprinkled with water: hue from
some cause the flames broke out afresh in the
night, »nd when discovered it was tw !»te to
save the house.
Pickens and Cherokee counties, and
it seems, put himself to no trouble to get out
of the way of the law. Several days ago.
though he was recognized by Bond Harris at
Canton, who immediately notified Deputy
Sheriff vV. A. Kitchen*. He vfasrearrested and
placed in the jail at Canton, and the IS trtow
officials were advised of this fact. Deputy
Sheriff Franklin and hi* son, v Hort, went to
Canton last week and brought the prisoner
down. Humphries has been ip a stupor ever
since he was brought tnlre, and cannot be
aroused. While some surbeyfe“powuming,”
others claim that he is in ‘algpnce.” He re
mains stretched QUt all the time, never
arising, and bos uot eaten anything since he
has been placed ia our jail, 4
Waynesboro repudiates the recent insinuation
of bad health and malaria, and Instances the fact
that nineteen births and two deaths is sufficient
evidence that the town ia on the Increase.
John Blau, of Gainesville, take* strolls out Into
the neighboring counties, probably with the inten
tion of becoming acquainted with the voters of the
ninth district.
Rev. J. Howard Carpenter, of Burke county, went
to toulsvlllc, to see the art show. He returned
with a Kentucky bride, who has been cordially re
celvtd at the old home.
Kleven ears of corn, weighing twelve pounds,
are the latest productions of Burke county. While
on this subject the Waynesboro«Itlzen has seen
long which bad upon
ton was planted the 12th of June, npon lands from
which a crop ot twenty bushels of oats per acre had
already been taken If the whole crop of the
country ranked with thla sample, we should uot
hear of short crops.
From crops the Citizen sweetly turns to words of
love, in which it is chronicled that
—Milton' Fuldler and John Grant had a
serious cutting affray which came near
winding up the earthly career of
~ ’*-ppears that Grant fell desperately in
Hum's wife, who lent a too willing ear
sons in the family she concluded not to have
any more and gave George the walking
papers. A brother of George had married one
of Aunt Peggy’s daughters.
George concluded one day to go up and as
sist his brother in puiiing fodder. George’s
girl and Aunt Peggy also went over. Aunt
Peggy is subject to bad spells and always car
ries along her satchel, together with some
‘draps’ to be administered to her provided
she is taken ill. George knew this and we
leave him to tell his own story:
“Wben I went in I was afraid to speak to
Jennie, and only went to get a drink of water.
But seeing her, wanting to speak anyhow,
said “good morning, Jennie,” she, in a fain
ting fit grabbed me hy the arm and screamed,
“qgteh me George.” Aunt Peggy’ seed her
and shouted, “Turn him loose Jennie, turn
him loose.” She pulled ber loose and Jennie
fell to the floor. Aunt Peggy seeing what bad
happened screamed “Lord nave mercy,” and
fell to the floor with one of her bad
spells. Brother’s wife came running
in with him close behind andfdown she fell.
What in the name of goodness was I to do?
I remembered Aunt Peggy's *draps,’ and ran
and found two bottles, bet the corks from
them, 1 could not, and thought to strike the
necks oft* one against the other. I was so ex
cited that I hit them together and about a
peck of glass and ’draps' flew into
Aunt Peggy’s face and eyes. I wiped
the glass oft as best I could, and
smeared the ‘draps’ all over her face. 1 saw it
was no use, she was dead, and set to work to
save Jennie. She soon revived, and drew a
long breath and asked, ‘George, where’s moth
er?’ There she lays over there dead, I replied.
That made matters worse and I didn’t know
what fn the d—1 to do. I thought of water
and put it on rightly freely assisted by my
brother. We now have them all on their
feet again and if I am spared don’t think 1
will ever get into anothersuch predicament.”
POLTICAL NOTES.
ALLTHROUGH DIXIE.
Thb advent of Jumbo ia Milwaukee was I Latest New* About Ur south iu Fuiki-CM»
celebrated by voting the school children a half
holiday.
The physicians of Judge Kelley require
that he shall remain in Paris a week longer, and
they say that exertion of excitement may prove
jurioua
It is said that the Ohio democrats claim
that they will elect 73 members of the Ohio legisla
ture, and that Senator Pendleton will be sure of 46
voted in caucus.
Representative Ellis, ot Louisiana, thloks
Tllden has given up all desire fora presidential
nomination, but that he Is determined to secure
that prize for Governor Cleveland.
| Ex-Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, prints
a card in the New Orleans Picayune saying:
situation of my private affairs |g such as to place
“The
utterly outo: my power to enter public life. 1
A very significant dispatch from New Or-
leans: “Tho negroes throughout the state ex
cept those in federal employ, have gone over
the democracy to a man.” Verily, the republican
party is doomed.
The Chicago* Tribune of Thursday pub
lishes an editorial favoring Senator Edmunds,
Vermont, as republican candidate for president and
Senator Miller, of California, for vice president
Georgia Post-Offices,
Washington Con. Savannah News.
The readjustment of salaries ot postmasters
of the presidential class in the state of Geor-
gi/», to take effect from October 1,1883, as re
quired by act of congress,passed March 3d last,
has been made. Savannah has been advanced
from $3,000 to $3,200. According to a state
ment prepared in the post-office department
the readjusted salaries of Georgia post
masters will be as follows: Albany,
$1,800 before, $1,700 after; Ameri
cas, $1,800 before, $1,600 after; Ath
ens, $2,000 before, $2,000 after; Atlanta, $3,000
tho egress of the doughty Jobu with ready razor,
and wheu he made his appearance proceeded *
carve him In the most scientific manner.
Tho Douglasville Star says that a gentleman care
rled »lx bushels of wheat to Dr. Pool's mill, one
day last week, and got two hundred and sixty-nine
pounds of flour. Tho wheat was that known
the, Dallas wheat and was well dried, and it always
yields a laigo percentage of flour when properly
Waynoaboro Herald: A negro man named ,n- aa- «..» „ .
Chzrlca Hickawa. found dead in tho public I ver^'^wiiia»Sd h.it7tormTWMdtL n 0 rt^
road near l itis branch. The deceased had em portion of this com-ty. lu many place* the
been stabbed just nbovo the right collar bone. * *- ,J “
the knifo severing both the jugular vein anu
caroltld artery and entering tho wind pipe.
The deceased, in company with West Barnes
and three other negroes, left Waynesboro
Saturday evening on a wagon. On tho way
Charles Hicks requested of West Barnes the
privilege of smoking his cigar, who roplied
that HI *- * “ ‘ A
inks might smoke it after he got
through with It Whereupon a feud arose and
the two men got out or the wagon and sottled
ns above seen. A long keen knife was found
iu tho right ban 1 of the deceased and a
bundle in his left, also an empty whisby flask
in Iris pocket:
Columbus Times: The particulars of the
murder in Tike county Wednesday evening
shows that a quarrel between the two
brothers,•Joseph and JeffGordy, originated
about tho division of some groceries which
they had bought in Griffin. They both lived
In the same house with their families, and
When they arrived home about dark and at
tempted to divide their goods, a tight ensued
which resulted in Jeff' being shot. The bail
lodged In his liver. Ho wus not dead late
Friday evening, but the doctors say there is
no chance for hitu to recover. Joseph fled
immediately after tiring tho shot, and no
active effort has been ntaue to capture him.
The family are regarded as very had char
acters Jetr shot a man at Thundering
springs a year or two ago.
C. T. Johnson, who lives in Henry county.
nearOtho, bad some difficulty with some oi
the hands concerning work on the farm. He
thereby gained,the animosity of these negroes
the cousequeuces of which were verv disas
trous to him. Mr. Johnson came to Columbus
on husiuess, ami Friday night the negroes
tired a dwelling aud the out-houses on his ad
oining farm, and also attempted to fire the
(itchen of his home place where his wife was.
hut an old negro aud a lice dog were in the
kitchen, and the ffm waa discovered in time
to extinguish it before any material damage
toil wasilone. But the other farm,about a linif
mile distant, which ia known as tlie Miller
ilacc, did not come out so easily. A dwelling
iou*e worth $t,800 and three barns contain
ing 3,000 bushels of oats, 1,000 bushels of corn
and other produce was consumed
Lincolton News: On Tuesday evening last,
Mr. I). W Sale got into a difficulty with
thoughts of good old days of yore, when
Sambo an d D nat
t nab tilled the soil that is now
in red gullies and the deserted halls of the old
building give a striking resemblance of deso
lates of the sweet sunny south.
Dooly Vindicator*. Mr. Tom Wood has just
returned from Irwin county, and among otner
curiosities he saw there was a large pine tree
with two separate and distinct bodies and
with only one top. At a distance of about
five feet from each other they grew out of tba
ground, hut the trunks at forty feet high
was very instilling ami
ensued he attempted to strike Mr. Sale with
a rock and failiug iu this proceeded to draw
his knife. Mr. Sale thus driven to straits,
drew his pocket knife and defended himself
as best he could, without, however, a view
of seriously injuring tho negro. The negro
threw up his arm aud received a cut which
severed the left axillary artery. He immedi
ately desisted from the attack on Mr. Sale
and the latter then went to work with all
his might to stop the bleeding. Dr. Fer
guson, sworn at the Inquest, said he could
easily have saved the life of the negro if he
had been present,
Walton News: A row occurred near Vine
gar hill at a negro party, last Saturday night,
heard of in this county. A four-gallon jugot
whisky was in one corner of the room, aud
was freely patronized by the crowd. It was
sold publicly and at tho usual price,^en cents
a drink. The consequences can be
readily imagined. A fuss soon arose
as to who had paid the fiddler,
and pistols were drawn. The man of the
house tried to put them out, and they turned
on him saying: “Kill him, kill him; they
lo nothing 1 *“
would do uothing with you, hut send you to
the penitentiary like they did Van Maicotu ”
At this stage of the game the assaulted party
drew bis little gun and fired into ihe crowd,
the ball striking a negro squarely iu the
breast. He wore a thick coat, and the ball
struck the lapel of the coat, went through it
and lodged iu his vest. Both sides are in town
bunting for warrants.
Albany News: On Sunday morning Mr.
Johu J. McMillan, a worthy and industrious
young man engaged in the naval store bust-
at Sumner, Worth county, while lying
upon or near the track of the lirunswisk and
w—t. '
Western railroad, about two miles this side of
Sumner, in a helpless state of intoxication,
was struck and (sully injured byttied«>wn
passenger train which left.this city at 7:15 a.
in. There was a curve in the road just before
the point where tke unfortunate young man
was lying waa reached, and on this account
i ty. in many .
leaves were stripped from the trees aud many field*
of cotton were left with uothing except the stalk*
standing. The leaves and bolls were beaten to tho
ground. Bird* and youug rabbit* were killed by the
hall stones, which, In m**ov instances, were two ‘
chc* long aud an inch wide. These stones fell
Monday afternoon and on Wednesday morning.
Homo were brought to thla office by Mr. V.
McLarty, which ho had collected that morning.
Carrollton Times:' r homa* York shot Jasper
Turbyvllle in a difficulty at Ta* ** ’
epunty, on Thursday night of .
ball entering tho sl^e and ranging downward, and
one striking the thigh bone crushing It to piece*.
Wo did not learn the origin of the difficulty and as
menu. YorL, „
thousand dollars, Is now in Buchanan jail,
Griffin 8un: Lizzie Adams, an eight vear eld
negro girl, who lives about four miles from town
on the Meriwether road, on the farm of Mr. Henry
Wllllsmson. 1> remarkable for her large size. 8he
having the appear
girl. Her parent* wore
ordlnsr) negroes of medium size, and there Is no-
this 1st girl.
Tho cotton pickers of Harriscountyare becoming
iufcctid with modem civilization. They organized
a strike last week for an advance of flvo cents
hundred, but as tho cotton crop, like life, was too
iliort, their effort failed.
Holt Ayres la a colored citizen of tho old capital,
whose love wss too big to bo corraled up by one
wouia —hence his trouble, filterin' Ayres knocked
tno offender down, whereupon the colored lover
arose end fired two erring shots at tho sheriff. No
body hurt.
after dark, three negroes
jail succeeded in making their escape. They were
confined in a cell that had been brokeu through on
a former occasion and It was through the patched
part of tho tloor that they worked out. lit the
cell* are Iron wedfes about an Inch and a half
long that is used to faaten the sheet Iron with The
priMonera got two of these small wedges out and
used them as chisels, doing the driving 111* thought
with the heels of their tnoes. After gelling the
flooring up it wo* au easy matter to kick off the
celling on the room below aud drop through to the
dwelling part of the jail lu which no one waa liv
ing. The «M*aped prisoners are Milton Flewcllen
and Peter Berry, charged with as»auU with Intent
to murder, and Walter Carter, charged with aa
saultaud battery. The patched place lathe ceil
was supposed to bo perfectly secure and no noasi-
bie blame can be attached to the sheriff or jailer.
There is a little uegro In I.umpkiu who is a
natural runaway and It isalmoat Impossible for his
parents to keep him at home. He is about twelve
years of sge aud is the sou of Willi* Pleasant. Tho
Independent says that he left home eome time last
week, and up to Thursday night kept hid out In
the woods, coming to town at ulght aud as he says
>lecplug uear his father’s house. He went to one or
two stores and bought cheese and crackers telling
the clerks that he was sent for them by Dr. Banium
with whom hi* father lives. On Thursday night
Maifchsl! Kirks- y caught him and turned him over
to hi* father, who took him home.
Over the way. In Waterboro, South Carolina, the
body of 8. C. Godey waa discovered yesterday after
noon lu the woods, about two mtlea from town, in
advanced state of decomposition. The unfor
tunate man, who U generally supposed to have been
suffering from temporary aberration of the mind,
had seated himself at the foot ot a Urge plue, being
supported on each side by an oak and a dog word
tree. He had taken off his hat, and while in thla
position bad placed bia pistol to hU head aud shot
himself. Ilia features were too much swollen, dis
colors d and decomposed for recognition, but bis
clothes, shoes and pistol easily identified him.
Concerning the recent publication of Mr. T.C.
McLendon, regarding the robbery of the confeder
ate treasure, the Washington Gazette says
Judge W. M. Reeae and Mr, J. W. Handers who
were with the party which recovered aome of the
Alexander being at the head of them, but none of
— know anything of the disarming of the party
or any tmmicrof it, nor anything of a race after
the gold aud put up brick stores with it, was in.
prison near Chicago at the time of the robbery, and
did uot get back home for over two month* after
» 9t back home for over two months after
umerous dtsmpaucks in the article are
established oymauy li-ing witnesses.
trsl; Ureal.
From the Griffin fiun.
The Atlanta Coxsrmmox D never behind the
progress of the May, and is appealing its own tame
at well as that of Atlanta. Tax CosarmnoN isa
truly great paper.
*■**•’, ULlUir, -P—UlIC1 , XL 11(1111u,
before, $3,300 after; Augusta. $3,000 before,
$2 900 after; Rainbridge, $1,300 before, $1,300
after; Brunswick, $1,700 before, $1,700 after;
Cartersvi lie, $1,500 before, $1,400 after; Colum
bus, $2,100, $2,000 after; Cuthbert, $1,500 be
fore, $1.5oO after; Dalton, $1,000 before, $1,500
after; Darien. $1,300 before, $1,100, after; For
syth, $1,200 before, $1,000 after; Gainesville,
$1,000 before, after; Griffin, $1,800 be
fore, $1,000 alter; Hawkiusville, $1,200 before,
$l,200(ii(ttr; LaGrange, $1,100 before, $1,400
after; Macon, $2,500 before, *2,70GaiUr; Mad
ison $1,500 before,$1,400 after; Marietta.$l,700
before, $1,000 after; Mllledgeville, $1,000 be
fore, $1,400after; Newnan,$1,400 before,$1,400
after; Rome, $2,200 before, $2,300 after; Sam
dersville, $1,100 before, $1,000 after; Savan
nah, $3,000 before, $23,00 after; Thomazvilie,
$1,700 before,$1 700 after; Washington, $1,200
before, $1,100 after; Wezt Point, $1,100 before,
$1,100.
ccuotui miiiri, ui v.uuiui mu, iui vice
the beet candidates for seeming victory.
Tux Harrisburg Telegraph (protection rep,
has solved the whole tariff.qucsdoa and reduced
it to the followiug formula: “Tariff, should
modified as the needs of development require,
aud die true laws of trade are those that leave
each people to control their owu economies accord
ing to tho.r needs.
Somebody claims to have discovered that
If Presldcat Johnson had been removed by Im
peachment and Ben. Wade thereby became presi
dent ot the Untied States, Theodore Tilton would
have Seen made postmaster-general, aud E. B.
Ward, of Michigan, secretary of the treasury. There
are several very large lfs In our country’s hlitory,
and this Is one of them.
CossiDKRiNu what Governor Butler has ac
complished In one’year, it Is not ttraugo that tho
republican leaden and their organs are frantic over
the prospect of his re-election. They know
means such an overhauling of republican misgov-
ernmeutin Massachusetts as will snow them up In
a worse light than ever.
The Charleston News (democrat) strikes
General Hancock from its listot possible demo
cratic presidential candidates. It says:
... the qualifies -vblch uro Indispensable lo success.
What he s.ld shout the tariff showed him to bo
hopelessly muddled on th.t vlrtatly Important
supject, while his telegram to Mr. Tislsted, con-
. -■— 0 [ -i 1B greenback-
nine, shucked the
gratufatiughim on thevlciory of the greeuback-
democmlc nomination In Mi *
business sens ^-f the pubic.’
A novelty in tbe way of campaign docu
ments Is to tie scattered through Mzssachusetta by
Butler's managers. It is headed “Regular Republi
can Ticket,” aud is primed in hallos form on mate
rial watch Is au lmltafiou of the human cuticle
after being tanned aud dressed. The reddish
buck of the ticket ,1s rough like tho reverse sides of
a piece of leather, and tne trout Is of a light brown
color. It nears the names as candidate, for state
officers of gentlemen previously connected with aud
prominent in the defense of the manage men t of tho
Tewksbury almshouse.
PBKBOMAL INTBLLICENCSt
Great Hunters.
From the Lumpkin ludlpcnitcnt.
Stewart county's .sheriff must bavo been a
great burner wben be was a young man. On
Wednesday afternoon two Lumpkin sports
men came in from the woods with only one
tqolrrel between tbnpi: Tbe sherjff glanced
at tbe game a'bd clearing np his throat said:
“In the fall and winter of ’U51 killed 178 fox
squirrel up on tbe Colochce.” Tbe Lumpkin
sportsmen felt tired aud took a seat for a rest.
The ordinary had not said anything up to
this time, but he thought probably be could
raise Joe a few beansand remarked: “Before
the war an uocle of mine, who wus a good
rifle shot, paid me a visit and we bad sumo
comparatively good sport. He staid will: me
from tbe 15th of November until tbe 10th of
January, and during this time we killed 382
fox-equirrels, 13 deers, 48 wild turkeys, 36
wild geese, 82 wild ducks, and quite a num
ber of coons, beavers, and others. The cat-
squirrels killed wore never noticed as we had
so many that it was troublesome to count
them.” Gritfis is willing to admit that be
wasn't living in '65 and never killed a fox-
squirrel in bis life.
One Hundred and Fifty Lashes.
From the Columbue Times,
A young farmer iu Barbour county, Ala
bama, discovered a few days since that cotton
was being stolen from his field, and set about
to catch the thief. Soon a burly negro made
bis appearance, and was followed to a dense
place In a neighboring thicket, where a large
die of cotton was found. The young mun
■sd provided himself with a buggy-trace and
a trusty negro servant, and springing upon
tbe tbtef bore bim lo tbe ground. With the
assistance of his servnnt be soon reduced tbe
man to pussiveness, and compelled him to di
vest himself of bia clothing. After this was
done, tbe young man administered one hun
dred and fifty well nirned lashes upon tbe
back of tbe cotton thief, who was tuen per
mitted logo bis way, not rejoicing, but hav
ing a very feeling remembrance of bis cotton
stealing adventure and its resalts. If every
thief was punished in tbe same manner, ft
would have a decided efiect on tbe followers
of tbe profession.
Tne Prince of Wales weighs 224 pounds.
Jay GoL'lu will not go to Europe in bis
yacht for another year.
The kingof Greece and the emperor ot Rus
sia aro each thirty-eight years old.
Mrs. Lanotry, it is said, will live ip a fiat
durlug her stay in New York, and not at ahotcl-
Goverkor Cleveland, of New York, is at
his desk from 0 o'clock to 1, and after luneb until
C. He keeps no horses.
Senator David Davis’s wifo is reported to
be tbe happiest of bildes, and thus far her married
life has been one round of pleasure.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, at eighty years of age,
is represented by a correspondent as a festive widow,
“gay as a butterfly and morry as a cricket."
Prince Bismarck owns n distillery from
which VO,000 litres of German eau-de-vlo are turned
out momhly: He It also a At in per merchant.
Earl MountcasueL, of England, aged 02, is
about to contract a marriage with the daughter of
Colonel Kennedy, of the Rlsbteenth Hussars, aged
10.
dcsMd far the CessUtatlea.
' Alabama.
Tbe Alabama boating business is growing.
MANcrAcruBEs have increased the value of
Birmingham real estate 87 per cent in twelve
months.
The drouth in Dade county, Ala., ia drying
up the wells.
Retorts from all over Alabama announce
the failure of the tumip crop.
.The Birmingham Age boasts of the many
improvements going on In thst place.
The Birmingham, Ala., college for young
ladles opened a few days ago with one hundred
and forty pupils.
The cotton seed oil mills at Tuscaloosa will
soon be in operation.
The sugar cane crop of Alabama is almost
an entire failure around Eufaula, Ala.
On some plantations near Montgomery,
Alabama, water for drinking purposes Is hauled a
distance of tbree miles. Some parties haul It from
the city.
Arkansas.
Very extensive land sales are reported from
Arkansas.
North Carolina.
A salt well has been discovered in Transyl
vania county, North Caroiloa.
The total school fund in North Carolina
latst year amounted to (722,153 07.
Bicycle racing will be introduced at the
North Carolina fair, October 18th.
North Carolina has 117 tobacco factories.
Month Carolina.
The synod, of South Carolina, meets at
Andenon on the 24th of October.
A prominent physician of Sumter county,
South Carolina, thinks thst lager beer is unfavora
ble to longevity.
Mr. William Hancock, of Chesterfield
county. South Carolina, killed s rattlesnake which
had thirty-three rattles.
Captain J. Odom, of Chesterfield county,
South Carolina, has a razor thst his grandfather
carried through the revoluUonary war.
The university of South CaroFna, at Colum
bia. has opened for tbe season with a larger attend
ance than at any opening since the war.
There will be a bicycle meet and race at
Columbia, South Carolina, during the state fair
commencing November 14.
Tennessee.
The population of Knoxville,. Tennessee,
is 21.382.
Sullins college, Bristol,'Tennessee, has
enrolled 150 students.
Rcory, Tennessee, has a public library con
taining 0,000 volumes.
The Tennessee grand division. Sons of Tem
perance, meets in Knoxville, October 18th.
A sweet potato measuring two feet in cir
cumference, and weighing coven pounds, Is exhibi
ted at the Nashville World office.
At the Tracy City, Tenn., coal mines, on
Cumberland mountain, 030 hands are employed,
end 404 coke ovens In use.
Texas.
Good rains arc reported from all points in
Toxm.
The pecan crop of Tom Green county, Tex.,
valued at (15.0 0.
The Texas University has 167 students, 49
whom are women.
The peanut crop this year is estimated at
two snd s half million bushels.
Cities in the south are growing so fast that
they must be supplied with street railways.
I.oulstnnn.
Cotton is yielding better in some parishes
Louisiana than wss anticipated.
’Tts said that many of the planters of Lou
isiana will finish picking cotton within a fortnight
Louisiana is being grid-ironed with, rail
roads, and a cousequeuco land Is advancing In *
prices.
A bridge over the Mississippi river at New
Orleans, at acost of thirty million dollars, Is .talked
A Familiar Fox.
A fox was seen, on last Saturday morning,
by Bob Johnson, a darkey living near this
place, playing with a dock of sheep in the
woods near the place of Mr. Bunk Mills, He
says it would run around and bead tbe flock,
and when they turned in another direction it
would run around and turn them back, acting
very much like n dog. He reported tbe fact
to Mr R. T. Mills, who went out to thoscene,
about noon, with bis pack, and soon had old
Reynard making tbe best use possible of bis
Heels, but to no purpose, for after about two
hours chase bis foxanip found it necessary to
take a tree, from whicn he was led by Bob
Johnson, who went up and tied a cord about
his neck. Mr. Mills now has bim and says it
is the largest one be has ever seen.
A Curious Rustic Chair.
From the Cherokee Advsuce.
Mr. Nathan Brooke, about tbree miles be
low Canton, has made a double chair that is
an ingenious curiosity. It is made of swamp
ivy. The posts, rounds and back are just as
the wood grew. Tbe middle partition is a
forked bush, the large end being next the
floor and the two limbs of me fork extend
ing to the top of the back. It is just that
sort of a piece of furniture that can't be de
scribed. It is worth a trip from here to Mr.
Brooke's to see it, and one must see it to ap
preciate its strange and ingenious construc
tion.
Carried Away by Rata.
From the Berry Journal.
On Tuesday a new plate was put in Mr.
Geo. W. Klllen’s store, in Perry, aud wben
tbe old plute was removed, quite a lot of old
papers that bad been earned beyond tbe
oeQii ' ' -
ceiling by rata was taken out. Among these
papers were many orders for good*, written
n 1858, to Russel, Hopson A Co. One o*
these orders, written by Mrs. Catherine Bunn,
uad attached to it a sample of white and
blue striped silk, the color still fast and
bright, except where soiled by dirt.
Nilkb Cask, of Buffalo, has a mule that has
been towing on tho Krio canal sluco ( 1858, and haa
uot lost a day. He has towed an average of 5,000
miles every seasou.
Rosa Bonhkur is sixty*one years old, but is
said to bo still full of eucrgy aud lu txcellent
health She has rowcutly developed a great fancy
for paiutlug zebras.
Tux Duko of Hamilton won £15,000 on the
Lcger, but, as several friends shared lu hU bow, bis
net wlnuiugs are ubout £10,000. Lord Arlington
won £6,000 ou the same race.
Tux collection of pennies for the erection
of a monument to the lai8 Peter Cooper progresses
at even a slower rate Uun the Bartholdi Mtatue
pedca.al fund, aud the scheme Is likeiy to prove
a barren failure.
Mil Paul Dana, who is heir to the New
York bun, owns eight hundred pup dogs, if, In
addition to this, tho youug tuau is up lu the mys
teries of baseball, he will undoubtedly become a
great journalist.
lux two younger daughters of tbe crown
priuceof Germany are enjoying themselves iu a
quiet way at Bournemouth, Kuglaud. The two
little girls, their donkey-rides, their diggings in tho
Baud, their in cks of a fashion four years old, aud
their general air ot German simplicity, are ul aeeu
lute rest lo the mixed crowds oi outlier*.
Wilts the prince of Wales made the tour
of this country he attended a ball at Uuclnnatl,
aud was astigued to dauce the liul set with Miss
Mary W hlstler, a noted belle. Thu youug lady,
however, refused the honor, saying she would
dauce with any gentlemau whoreque* ed her prop
erty, but she would be assigned to no one.
Of Mr. Blame’s house in the city of Wash’
ingtou, tho Ualumoro American’* co respondent
says: “Mr. Letter, who haa reuted it, gives for it
fl 1,000 a year, and an authority on affair* of this
kind has estimated that it will cost year to
run the house on a scale commensurate with iu
grandeur aud Mr. Letter's ambition; so that at this
rate Mr. Letter will be called upou to expeud some
thing like a quarter of a million In Washington In
the w..y of tiviug aud keeping up appearances
durlug the coming five years.
Mu. Pluxgkh Walton haa taken to a heavy
amount the long odds offered against his mare
Gliofie for the Czarowitz aud Cambridgeshire
stakea. He *ay« he Uconfident he will repeat Fox*
hall's double event, aud if he does his winnings
each at the odds of f .25, 00 to 85,000.
eut odds are ftA0 »o}45, and are decreasing, while
the exciiemeut among the bookmakers is on the
increase.
F. B. Habpcb, owner of Longfellow and
Ten Btoeck, says: “Longfellow Is now *6 years
old and Ten Uroeck 12. 1 always keep a watch over
them both night and day. 1 have been offered
860,0 0 for Lougfellow, but I wouldn't sell him for
tlUO.OeO, nor would I sell Ten Broeck for the same
money. I will keep them a* long a* they live, or
until idle. I am uot married, but X have some
poor kin down iu Woodford county who would
tike to have 'em."
Kxw York Wobld: “Lotta Crabtree, the
actress, writes from Paris (hat she is still being pur
sued by Mr. Bolton Hulme, the crank, who insists
that he is her husband. No woman on the stage
bos been more annoyed by self-appointed husband*
than Lotto. Every season some crank rbes up auu
claims that she is his lawful wife. Lotta should put
a stop to this sort of thing by marrying some
brawuy fellow with fiulUvan-like attributes aud
turning him loose upon the fools who are annoying
her.'
Ttfx expected litigation in Brooklyn in the
family ot the late Mrs. Gloucester, said to have been
the richest colored woman in America, has been
averted by a friendly settlement of the claims of
Dr. Gloucester, ber husband. The children hav*
•equfetced in the pro position that th doctor should
•eive about |50,ii00 in addition to the use of the
me-seveu h of the crate left to bim by the will,
i he entire estate is valued at about D0\OQO.
Oilmen choir singers are very poorly paid
Bow Orleans, Twenty-five dollars a month!#
considered very good pay, and many good singers
* not get that.
XIISNlSHlppI,
Meridian, Mississippi, will have Its street
railroad running In a few week*.
The question of turning Yazoo river so as
force it put Vicksburg is again under discussion.
The demand for cotton picker* bus taken a
great many idlers off the streets of Natchez, Miss.
A Pike county, Miss., colored woman re
cently died over 120 yean old.
At the recent term of tbe Newton (Miss.)
court, A. M. Vaner, a Presbyterian preacher, was
tiled and convicted of perjury and sent to the pen-
itary for seven yean. He swore to a false school
report.
Florida.
The orange crop of Florida this year will
one-eighth in excess of last year, so 'Us esti
mated.
Florida’s display at tlie Louisville expoai-
Uon Is attracting as much attentiou as that of aay
other state.
The southern states have pine timber
enough to lut the whole country, at the present
rate of consumption, 260 yean.
Virginia.
Richmond, Va m ia to have a new city hall,
to cost *300,000.
The new wqplen mills at Richmond, Vo,,
cover half an acre of ground.
More dwelling houses have been erected in
Richmond, Virginia, this year than in any like pe
riod of her history.
Twenty establishments in Richmond, Va.,
manufacture rgricultural implements and other
machinery, employing 3,500 hands.
Bxtwxxh the 17th and 30th September the
Petersburg, Va., street can carried 30,3t5 passen
gers, or some 8,000 more persons than tbe estimated
population of the city.
Kentucky.
Tux storm Sunday carried million# of grass-
hoppen to Frankfort, Ky.
A seventeen year old darkey at Fayette,
Ky., weighs 317% pounds, ,
A White Hxath peachtree in Bourbon conn
ty, Kentucky, produced 160 worth of peaches this
A Jersey calf ten inches high, and fourteen
inches long, is the chief attraction of Brookaville»
Kentucky.
Lxxinuton, Ky., haa a small colored boy
whose skin is scaly like a fish. At regular iuterval*
he sheds his covering and another comes.
\ Defaulter Saattaec*.
Milwaukee, October 9 —Judge Blodgett, in the
United States district court to-day, sentenced Hen
ry I. Wtight, defaulting assistant postmaster of Ra
cine, Wis., to five yean and one day imprisonment
at Chester penitentiary, IU., and to pay a fine of
*5,000, which was the amount of his deficit.
Trial «t r re usurer Wu-sh.
Kxw Orleans, October 9.—The city councU to
night organized itself into a court impeachment
to try city Treasurer Walsh. The trial wu fixed
for Wednesday. Walsh’s offense consists in refus
ing to pay warrants issued in obedience to the or
dinances of the city council, bo»ed ou what gen
erally conceded to beau illegal budget. ,
Piuuru-PacaaiuBfs la Ptaasjlruala.
HaxkisBUXti, Pa., October9.—The state board o!
agriculture is notified that pleuro pneumonia ha#
appeared among the cattle In Lehigh county, aud
investigation haa been ordered.