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THE'WTSEKLY CONSTmJTg)N, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1883.
L NEWS OF GEORGIA.
The Wrlghtavllle Recorder 1* feelirg some of the
effectfof the burinei*bocm, and announce* iu
laat issue that advertisement* had to be refused
order to make room for reading matter.
The valuation of pro,Tcrtjr in Cedartown rboir*
real estate, 1135,9/5; money and ml vent debt*, |74,
626; merchandise, £7,549; other pro.erty, 186,924.
Total value of property, 6307,1 lo.
The Columbu* Hun 1* waging war agalnat the gal
lery anlpe* in the theater at that place. When the
editor aucceed* in burying his dead we can furnish
him come more material in Atlanta.
Forsyth county ia in her atage of calf-love. The
Clarion aaya that two young men near Glllaville
tempted to marry the same girl one night laat week,
bat *bc went back on both promise* and left them
alone in their anger. Thla la common with foolish
girl*. In another inatauce a young couple walked
(or ran) fourteen mllea Monday morning to Cum
mins to procure lioenae to marry. Judge Hawkins
iamicd the neceaaary paper* for them, and ILL. Pat-
tenon, Esq., waa called inaud tied the knot that *
to hind them together in future for weal or woe.
The contracting partica were Mr. Green J. Bennett
and MiaaBoac Gunter. Berrien county, bowover,
preaena romance with all the element* of youth
and age. love and female uncertainty. An old man,
aUty-flvc yean old, near Irwlnville, made arrange
ment* to elope with a sixteen-year old girl recently,
but when he went for her ahe backed out, and the
Joke leaked out ou the old man.
Mb* HI la Mibet, daughter of Judge Jamca
Klabet. of Bollnghroke, la dead at the age of six*
Louisville New*: One night a* Hatk Whlgham
and hia wife were coming fmm Loflon'x camp-
meeting, they met with a bad accident. Aa they
were coming down the bill near Mr. K. W.
Holmea'a. the abaft atrap broke, and their hone
ran away. Hark waa thrown out but bla wife re
mained In the buggy. The hone ran down the hill
with great vloleuce. and being blind It left the road
at the foot of the hill. About twenty or thirty feet
from the road the bone atove lta head aquarely
agalnat an oak tree, and killed Itaelf outright. The
woman waa thrown out and received aovore brulaea
upon the head and body. Hbe waa carried to i
houaencar by, and Dr. Alewlue gave her medic*,
attention. Her tongue waa cut about half off, and
herakull waa almost fractured in one place.
Katonton Meaaenger: Met*n. Frank taverott
Jo* Quinn, Ed Brown and Robert Reid, had an op
portunity of bidding on over 100 bale* of cotton at
Dennis station Thursday evening. Messrs. Brown
and Keld bought the cotton; about 50 bale* by the
former and 60 by the latter. Price ranged from 9%
to 10^.
Columbu* Run: The Northern Liberties have __
laat reached such proportion! aa to almoat bo ciaaed
aa a city. It embrace* all the suburb* immediately
north of the city aud extending about one mile.
The population baa Increased very rapidly within
the past year or two and now tlio total whites are
•66; total colored are 1,100; total nopulatl
Of these there are 110 voters. The appra ...
of property baaed upou two-thirds valuation, aud
being taken In detail, ahowa property valuation of
K 1.586. We understand that a proposition haa
n made Profeaaor A. C, Flewcllen, of thla city,
to organize a school In that part of tko town and
that he haa already begun the undertaking with
very flattering show of success.
Wrlghtavllle haa already received over one thou-
aand bales of oottou.
Chlplcy lioader: The bam of Mr. II. F. Hardy
waa burned on Monday night and all its contents,
Mr. Hardy had that evening hauled up hia entire
crop of corn. The circumstances all sugaest that *
waa the work of an Incendiary. Great diligence L
being used to apprehend the villain who haa
wrought such a damage upon Mr. Hardy aa well aa
committed a great crime.
Berrien News; Mr. John Rapo waa shot twice In
the back laat Raturday, by sir. Hweet Glddenn,
near Nashville, thla county, aud at laat accounts
hia condition waa very critical. An old grudge had
existed between the two for somo ttmeou account
of the killing of a doe, (wo do not know which
owned or which killed the dog.) and they havo
quarreled several time*. Recently Rapo sued Gld-
but
On
and camo
separated and wont
Haturday laat Ulddena,
mmw. vmi r-m ilium j lin U1UUCIIR,
accompanied by Jeff Nermith, went to Uio Held
where Uapo was and called him to the fence, when
the quarrel waa renewed, aud Rape acclug that
Ulddena had aplatol sent Ida son to the house for
hia gun. The boy soon returned with the gun,ami
Rape turned to meet him, whereupou Glddcnx
fired. Two balls took effect In Rape's back—one
on eaoh aide of hia backbone—and he fell. Uld
dena and Neamlth theu lied aud at laat accounts
had not been captured. Mr. Rape moved to thla
count/ from Dooly not long ago, and his brothers
camo from that county last Wednesday to see him.
Jonesboro News: Judgei K. Barber, of our town, m uijioi jure, more rick
has one of the madstones that haa created ao much the county, among which Dr.
twice, and the drouth waa very revere. He haa a
heavy roller two feet lu diameter and six or seven
feet long which he has two mnlea to roll over hia
land aft*.r the oats havo been plowed in. This ia an
important matter, and certainly adds much to the
Franklin News: We learn that two bale* of cotton
bought iu this market by Askew Lane, and by
them sold at Hoganoville, have been thrown back
on the hands of the producers. One bale, it ia
claimed, waa water packed, and the other false
packed, having good cotton at the surface, while
the Interior was damaged. Every case of thla kind,
!>e*ides being a violation of law. Isa direct blow at
the intereata of planters generally, and should be
•lamped with public indignation, let it
fail upon whom It may. The moat
practical suggestion we have seen for the protec
tion of honest planters agalnat the effect of auch
fraudulent practices, on the general market, ia for
every honest gin tier to attach two of hia card* to
every bale he {tacks, one on the outside, tied and
slipped under a tie, so as not to be easily removed
by accident; the other Inside, where In case the first
should bo removed, It will remalu to ideutlfv the
cotton when the bale is brokeu up at the factory.
And let hia name ou the cards be a guarantee that
every bale of cotton that bears it i* of uniform
quality and as free of saud aa possible.
Fletcher Lowery, the Appling county murderer,
has been found guilty, and will be sentenced
during tho present term of court
Charlotte(N. C.) Observer: Mr. E. G. Hpillsbury,
superintendent of the Hallo gold mine, was in the
city yesterday, carrying 66,009 worth of gold lu hia
hand. There were six hats In all and it waa a
beautiful sight. From the frequency of Mr. Kpllla-
bury'* visits to the city with gold, we would imag
ine that tho Halle is doing good work. He brings
five to six 81,000 bars in from the mine every two
weeks and makes the other gold miners envy him.
We are told that well aa the Haile is doing, there
are three mines In the vicinity of Charlotte that are
doing as well, if not better.
HawklnsvIUe Dispatch: Our aldermanlc friend,
Pope Watson, ia a ‘'hardshell" In bit religious
faith, and, like a true believer in that doctrine, ho
la a plain, honest, candid fellow. He astonished
us tho other day when ho told us that the Primitive
Baptists in ono neighborhood In Georgia havo
erected a frame church building, painted It, put
glass windows in It, put on a steeple, put in a
bell, and are now being served by a preacher who
is a college graduate. The church la located at
Butler. Taylor county, and the preachei
John R. Uespess. Tho Primitive Baptist*. » wcv%.
in paying debts, oppose secret societies, and
>!aln, honest way*. They would not
allow 'their brethren to Join the grangers,
aud in some sections of the state they
expelled thoao who took advantage of the
homestead law. We don't remember that we
ever saw one of their church buildings protected
'(htnliig rod, for. according to the doctrine.
a to happen will happen anyway," Old
Doctor Lovick Pierce, the great disciple of Method-
lam in Georgia, and tho father of the bishop, op
posed the introduction of the organ and choir
singing in tho church, but the church becamo too
•trong for the old man, and the aweet-toned instru
ments found their way into the churches. On one
occasion, it la related, the venerable preacher had
•evorely lectured the church on its worldly ways—
the doing away with the old fashioned singing for
the organ-end,aa he gave out a hymn .he raised his
voice and laid: "Now let us fiddle and sing the fol
lowing hymn." It waa said of him that he waa at
the lime wearing gold buttons which glistened in
his shirt bosom. But he was a grand old man, and
ho dovotod a long life in doing good deeds and
proachlng for the salvation of souls.
Dr. J. It. Rtodghill, of Atlanta, has been to Co
der Rapids, Iowa, where ho waa united In mariiago
with Mini Meta C. Hess. Thus do the two states
come into closer union.
Robert McMurray, of Baker county, waa kicked
to death by a hsree on Wednesday morning last.
McMurray was at tho homo of his brother, and
started into the stable to bridle his horso. Ashe
entero d the door the horso gave him a fearful kick
with both hind feet, producing death almoat lu-
stantly.
Kinanucl county is developing the mulo Industry.
E. O. Bostick, of Randeravillc, has assumed edi
torial control of the Wrlghtavllle Recorder.
Waynesboro Citizen: A negro boy, some 18 or 19
years old, son of Gcorgo Jones, was careless enough
to get hia head Jammed between the lever aud up-
J htpost of a ryrup mill last Wednesday, in w* *
Union his ear in somo way got hung lu tho
chlnery, aud he brought It away with such a Jerk as
to nearly tear it from nis head—leaving It attached
only by a narrow strip. It appeals that ho waa run
ning tho mill alone, with a mule attachment.
When ho found himself entangled, he sounded a ve
hement "whoa!" aud tho mufostopped Justin tlmo
to prevent tho crushing of his head. Ho camo to
town and engaged the service* of Drs. Johnson and
Duncan to patch him up. which they did by takiug
eight or ulnu stitches to fasten It back to his head.
Katonton Chronicle: Tho Tszoo fishery, on
Oconco river, la one established many years ago,
whore the first settlers caught numberless of the
finny tribe, among which waa the luscious shad.
This fishery has uot been kept up. still it Is t‘
place fortlsh iu abundauco. K. F. Elliott caugl
no longer thau two years back, a sturgeon well
NEW YORK.
Bow tbs Yourg Man Found Bimsiit Pitying
Losing Game- I be Bldtr Gentleman's VI. w* cn
.Business—flaying Poltcy-Tbo Swindled
lost Bolters
Nr.w Yobk, October 16.—The reported pushing to
the wall of (young .William K. Vanderbilt is tho
quiet talk of the plubs.and while it Is energetically
denied by the young man and hli respected father,
yet It Is believed that be has been playing with
edged tools. The story is that bo is between tl.GQO,*
000 and 67,000,000 "in the hole." A year or so ago
W. K. Vanderbilt entered into partnership with
Henry N. Smith to bull certain stocks. Vanderbilt
waa to put up all the cash. They bought mainly
Vanderbilts—New York Central, Lake Shore,Michi
gan Central, Canada Southern, Northwestern,
and, it Is understood, Lackawanna.
Now, everybody knows what the course of these
stocks have been since. '1 hey were obliged to sup
port the weak parts in tho market.and tncy’vc put
up their limit.'' This limit he had heard was fully
84,000,000, which baa been sunk in the scheme.
Smith, it is said, ia out 8750,000, although he never
before got caught to any great amount. This gen
tleman wen ton to say (list the authority for Smith's
Iom waa Smith himself. Smith had, he understood,
a fifth Interest in the deal. So, If this be true,
Va’.derbllt's losses would amount to abou183.00*.•
000. William H. Vanderbilt, on being approached,
•aid it waa all a d—d He.
TUB lit’.INBRS FUTURE.
The old gentleman, who is looking remarkably
well, ventured a word or two on badness ahead,
"In six weeks." said he, "you will see all the tail-
roads driven to the utmost with business. Money
is ouiy 1% aud a drug on tho market. Whoever
saw money at that price In October before? There
is plenty of money, but people have not the confi
dence to Invest It. Too many worthless securities
hare been put on the market, and the trouble ia
people have not discriminated between them and
the good ones. My brother used to tell me that
people invested to secure the interest without look
Ing at the principal. 1 do not mean to say that all
the socurlties that have lately been put on the mar
ket are worthless, but far too mauy of them are
not worth the paper they are written on, *"* ■*
ones have been borne down with them.
look into the Investment to see that it is
do not drag people in to loae their money. It.,
strange how different people are. A man who ac
quires money quickly is apt to lose it in the same
way. A man who earns his money by hard work
knows the value of It and takes caro that he docs
not loselt."
PLAYING POLICY.
Though driven Into dark quarters, the game of
policy still prevails and haa many votaries. In one
of these places I found the entrance door flanked by
a desk, where the "spotter" sits, and if the caller is
all right he nulla a wire which opens all the doors.
A gray-bearded old mau named Pease, well known
as an old policy mau, is employed aa the writer.
He la stationed at the further end of the room be
hind a counter with a book lu which the plays are
recorded beforo him. In this room you can invest
any amount of money from one cent to 8100. and If
yon name threo numbers you get two hundred for
one. lu this place the envelope game, aa It la
called, la a specialty. On the left hand side of the
blackboard is struug on a hook a package of en
velopes, numbered from one to ono hundred, each
containing a slip of fourteen numbers. An en
velope la drawn every five minutes, and If a player
S eta three numbers he wins. This goes on every
ay. and on Haturday night it Is kept up
until midnight. Ono young man, the son of ouo of
tho leading stationers In New York, has lost within
a short time over 810,000.
THE SWINDLED POOL SELLERS.
Rportlng circles have gossip enough concerning
tho tapping of the wires Saturday. The losses ag
gregated over 825,000. The reports from the first
racecame all right, but In the second race Eclat
waa subailtuted for tho Brltomarto coltaa the wlu-
uor. Vocalic, who won second place, was properly
credited. Aa soon ax the news of the race was re
ceived tho gsrnblerx began paying their bets with
out a suspicion of the correctness of the reports. Iu
the third raco Aclla, the winner, waa given second
place, And Bella, who camo In xecond, announced
aa the wiuner. Beta were paid accordingly. In the
fourth race General Monroo was given as the win
ner lustead of Kolo. The reporta of the last two
races were uot meddled with. Tho fact that the
wires were being tampered with was not discovered
until tho race* were over. The Brighton beach pool
rooms are said to have lost 818,ouo. Bauer's club-
home 87,500, and the Jumbo pool.rooms 84 6CO.
quick to Insist that the effect of the Ohio election 1
will be to materially aid his chances for the office J
to which he aspires. It is difficult to rco upon
what ground the claim is based. The tariff cut no
figure at all aaa party issue iu Ohio. It affected the
canvass no more than would a discussion
upou the merits of the British
constitution. The gght waa solely
upon the liquor question, and It finally narrowed
down to a trade In votes between democrats and
prohibitionists, the former giving votes for the
►amendment, which they knew would not be suffi
cient for it* adoption, and the latter supporting
Hoadly and carrying him to victory. Why do not
Randall ■ friends comment upon the remurkable
result In Iowa, where the democrats gained instead
POLITICAL NOTES-
MURRAY’S MORMONS.
Governor Murray Make* hia Krpirtla Which ha Pie-
lares tha Monitors.
Washington, D. C.,*October 15.—Governor Mur
ray, of Utah, has made a report to the secretary of
the interior on the condition of affairs in the terri
tory. With reference to the Mormon problem he
says: "A combination to nullify the laws of con
gress has long existed in Utah. This conspiracy
held open rebellion at one time, and continues at
all times to evade and defeat the plain will of
congress and the president and adjudication of the
supreme court. I am compelled to warn you
Mr. Hecretary, and through you the country, of the
dangers that beset the couutry in this, another
irrepressible conflict, and to make in this report an
earnest appeal for the adjustment of all wrongs and
the establishment of good government in Utah, by
congress, which undoubtedly possesses the power,
and I may be pardoned for saying, I believe it to
be the duty to do thla quickly. The history of all
states demonstrates that timescome when military
aid ix necessary to support the civil authority. I
kuow of no reason that takes Utah out of this
law. Utah organized under the law and
proper proclamation of my predecemors, but pur
posely organized to be Independent of the federal
authority. It, therelore, only remains for this terri
tory that the military forces of the United States be
made available, and I present, with the necessity
the recommendation that it be made Jawful for sol
diers of the United 8tatesto be used for the execu
tion of processes out of the United States courts, in
the hands of the United States marshal of Utah,
andthat. their services, under proper restrictions,
T Insurrection, domestic violence,
the preservation of peace
may more readily bo made effective, than under
the presont provision of law. I trust, however,
such security of person and property as Is right,
and which every citizen may reasonably expect,
will be granted to all alike. Here he says further
that at no time since 1852, has there been a lawful
territorial government in Utah.
THE MURRAIN IN TENNESSEE.
Daagersr Its Introduction Into Georsln-Ncceultjr of
WatrhfalneM.
Special to The Constitution.
Nashville, October 15.—Colonel D. Lee
writes: My neighbor, Pete Tumble, bos late
ly lost two valuable cows by murrain, anoth-
Thk tidal wave of 1882 seems to be chronic.
It really seems as if the g. o. p. must go next
year.
N. P. Banks has taken the stump against
Butler.
The anti-Pendleton democrats of Oh
already organlzingto elect Durbin Ward
senate.
‘‘Octobf.r’s sere and yellow leaf’—The fall
ing condition of the republicans in the great Octo
ber states.
George H. Pendleton has grown three feet
in height since last Tuesday, and his hat band
had to be let out a couple of inches. It sometimes
improves a man to be read out of the democratic
party.
The next step in the way of postal reform
suggests the New York Hun, "should be an increase
in the maximum weight for a single letter from
present standard of half an an ounce to a full
ounce."
The New York World says there is no doubt
of the union of all city democrats on a single coun
ty ticket, Tammany to have the register and one
supreme court judge, the county democracy a su-
f >reme court judge, and a city court judge, aud
rwfng hall a city court judge.
You might as well expect to run a powder
mill in hell," declared Philosopher Sunset Cox,
'as to run an honest government with an overflow
log treasury." It will be noUced that Mr. Cox
duces the argument in favor of putting democrats
General Wickham, the former straigbtout
republican leader of Virginia, who recently
joined the democrats, in a speech the other day
stated that he had been induced to become a can
didate for the senate because he foresaw that the
teaching and incendiary appeals of this coalition
party waa Inciting the negroes to hostility
against the whites, and was tending to bring about
“ conflict of races.
Lord Colebidoe’s statement at the Acad
emy of Music, in New York, that while he waa
follower of Mr. Gladstone he was in sympathy
as a radical with John Bright, haa produced
great impression among the liberals. John Bright
THE LATE L. M. HILL.
Mun-Oaaof
-WE
claimed for them. H they pomes* the curative
power* claimed for them, Mr. Barber certainly lathe
owner of a very valuable stone.
Last spring, aaya the Louisville Newt, Chany
Brown, colored, was put In the chaingang for six
months. But she preferred to make her own living
and not depend upon the oounty, ao she stepped
off one day. But the gram was growing fast, aud
Mr. A. needed her and he hunted her up. She
was brought before Judge Cain and he doubled her
time. Few days ago she ran off again, but waa
•oon captured. Rhe wax brought into court again,
and her time waa doubled for attempting to escape.
Her time haa Incteaaed from six to twenty-four
months and if ahe runs off a few time* more, aho
will find herself In for life.
The Griffin News has recently developed into
new proportions, Increased tho quality and quan
tity of lta reading matter, and shown such evi
nces of life aa ludlcato that Griffin must be ou
Mug ground. The paper may always be taken as
Index to the town.
A young lady In Union county has over three
ounds of natural hair eu her head.
Cartcravllle Free Prem: Humphries, the child
murderer, haa at laat awoke from hia Rip Van
Winkle num-p and talks fluently concerning hlx
crime, cwpecially when ho has been struck with a
good stiff dHukofcoru whiskyHe isja he has
twelve yean ago.TTas'beeu living very i’\ cTlwt thb i»
relatives, and when arrested a week or so ago he
had a good crop. When asked where hta wife waa
he stated that abo waa near Kingston, and also said
that she waa "a very clever woman." The unfort
unate mau eats very little, and Is a mere skeleton,
not being able to sit up without support. Jailer
Franklin does all he can for his comfort, which ho
seems to appreciate greatly,
The sugar ratio crop is said to have been ruined
by the long continued drouth.
The Kastman Times has found a primitive justice
of the peace in Cochran, who bad au important ease
before him a few days ago. Just aa ouo of tho law
yers was beglnlug tho argument, the justice, who
was looking out tha window, discovered a black
cloud looming up In the west, and rising forward
"(ieutlcmcn. you may talk about thiscaaeaa
much as you pirate. But I've got to go homo aud
set out somo potato slips. When you get throtiRi.
you will find my dictalon written out there
pointing to a piece of paper on his desk as be
walked out.
lien7 Contity Wrekly: Last Monday Jack tiles-
the northern portion, and Dr. Brown, oTthe city,
tavo the most attractive. Mr. J. W. Maddox also
is* ono which begins to yiold an abundanco of fish.
These ponda are stocked with tho carp which now
create so much newsnapor talk all over the state.
The Icglslatu ro could do nothing more to the Interest
of the entire people than to pass laws encouraging
fish culture and making necessary appropriations
for stocking tke streams In tho state.
Augusta News: It will be pleasing information to
bis many friends In Augusta to learn that Rev. Dr.
W. K. Boggs, of tne Columbia theological somluary,
will in future give a part of his time to ministerial
work lu this community. He has engaged to un
dertake the mission work ou the hill aud at the uew
church now being erected near the Rlbley mills.
effect was made lu the First Presbyterian church
yesterday, and the regular services at the Reid Me
morial church, on the hill, will be resumed. Tho
Sunday school, ton, will be reopened, and Dr.
Boggs will renew the interest and pleasure lu all
these exercises, which have been discontinued for
some time.
. Gainesville K glo: The skin of a monster rattle
snake has been sent us. killed not long xinco by J.
R. Gaston lu the yard at the Davis place. It Is sur
prising that so many of these poisonous reptiles are
being killed in such frequented places aud uoblua
tiling. We think we have recorded the killing
Dsatk *r a UemsrkntU wad Wealthy Unn-Oat
tka Hardy Ycataaary *r Wtlkss Uo
From tho Augusta Chronicle.
The death of Mr. L. M. Hill, of Wilkes county
has already been announced. Friday, midnight,
after a severe lllucss which it was evident must
termiuato fatally, this vonerablo man breathed his
last, and on Sunday was buried on his place about
fifteen miles from Washington, Ga. Mr. Meriwether
Hill, as his friends called him, was one of the roost
promlneut and successful planters in eastern Gcor
gia. Indeed, Wilkes county haa given to the state
some of the most remarkable and substantial men
of this age. There are the Toombs brothers to be
gin with, who havo each made fortunes from
planting. General Robert Toombs, the younger
brother, has given to history a record of so much
fire and so much power that people aro not apt to
think of him as afarmcr-and yet those who know
contend that he is one oi the best iu tho state. His
brother, Gtneral Gabriel Toombs, has made a for
tune from the ground, and is regarded by hia
brother, tho general, aa the shrewdoat and the
soundest man of his day. These two eminent
brothers came from a race of farmers whose bouca
lleln Wilkex county, not far from Washington, and
Ills In this light that they beat like to regard them-
■chuncertain It ia that for the past two or threedc-
cades a rrceof thrifty, honest, faithful and wealthy
farmers have been bred in the fields of old Wilkes
—and from this noble yeomanry a "bold peasantry,
their country's pride"—have grown out some of the
strougeat, moat succcxHuland brainiest men ef the
day. Besides the Toombs there are the Alexan
ders, tne Popes, the Keeacs and the Hills and num
bers of others who date a sturdy ancestry aud have
inherited uame aud wealth from this Illustrious old
county.
procured a shotguu and concealed I
bushes near the road where G lea too was expected I
to pass on his way to work. G lea ton came along In
a few minutes, when Huxhey let him have the cn-1
consider them necessarily fatal. Hus hey escaped,
but was captured next day and now languishes in
McDououxbjall.
A Hall county fanner is said to be drinking a
cask of peach brandy made by himself over forty
yoaiaago.
Dr. J. W. Ansley, o! Macon county, has aims
Georgia raised almonds. They were grown In the
d etore garden where he has several young trees
and compared favorably with the imported nut the
only difference being that the bull on the Geor
gia out waa the thickest.
West Point Enterprise We were shown a very
« u*iut and old Spanish coin the other day, by Dr.
r. R. Christian, that he lately picked up in Harris
county. It Is dated DBS, and has a bust of Queen
Label on cue side of iL The coin seems to be made
of a combination of metals, gold, stlrer and copper.
The Echo haa been shown a curiosity in the shape
of a bunch of Mmlina. Although this vegetable
does not g« u*rally grow in bunches, this was a
bunch containing twenty simlina and six blooms.
It waegrown by a lady in the Flatwood*.
CntsbertKnterprtee: Mr: Dsn Hammock, mid
lot IS miles below town, is e practical and auccem-
fal tamer. Hia crib ia full of big can of com.
while be nude ef ^ ■-
notwithstanding
Dooly Vindicator: Mr. Tom Wood killed a rat
tlesnake a few days ago five feet in length, which
contained sixteen small snakes about oue foot long,
each having oue button.
The Walton News gives some further particulars
of the cilme of Henry Curry, In that county. The
arrest of Curry and the Interesting dotaila were
fully given in The Constitution several weeks ago.
The News says:
Just one year ago to-day one
the most horrible murder* ever perpetrated was
committed iu this county, some three mllea below
Hoclal Circle, near the residence of Mr. Robert J,
Green. Henry Curry and Powell Reid were rivals.
Both were seeking the affecUons of Caroline Harris,
a notorious lewd mulatto woman. The two men met
at her house on the uight of the 17th of October and
slept together. About sun-np the ueat morning,
white Keld waa still asleep, Curry got up and struck
him three terrible blows ou the head, each aendiug
the ax up to the eye into the skull of the sleeping
negro. Held died and Curry made his
esrnpe. He had threatened the life
of another negro man, and it was
through this man that Sheriff Ammons worked in
order to capture his man. A few weeks ago Curry
came to Atlautaaud sent for the woman. Caroline
Harris, to come to Atlanta. The sheriff was noti
fied of her departure and followed her to Atlanta.
Curry heard of the sheriff's presence and skipped
out. A negro woman in Atlanta, who knew of
Curry’a flight and his new place of abode, was
lodged in the city pitson for stealing. Rhe told the
officers if they would help her to get out of prison
she would tell them something they wanted to
mow. lly close questioning they found out ahe
knew where Henry Cutty was. Sheriff Ammons
waa sent for and the stealing ease was made up,
and the woman told him Curry was at DarlingUm.
8. C. The sheriff of that oouuty was telegraphed
to arrest him. which waa promptly done. A
requisition was obtained for him and he
was promptly and safely escorted to Jail in
“—-- by Sheriff/ 7 ^ **
General Toombs ranked bis regard for his
Meriwether Hill. Mr. 1(111 graduated at Athena
with first honor, and returned to hi* plantation lu
Wilkes comity, where he bax since lived faithfully,
thriftily, successfully a quiet life, strengthening
his stores with each harvest sun and raia-
lug up to himself and the state boys who were des
tined, like their father, to be meu of business and
men of usefulness, lie was not a pemm who
boasted of hie poaseaxtons or who chanted h Infeeds
of charity or of goodness. He aimed above all
things to be honest, and did his duty and his whole
duty to his family aud his fellow-men. He waa
well known and often seen iu Augusta, where he
Iiw. inu Iuiuuuiv iuuiimii, OUUIU-
er farmer hoe lost thirteen, another five and
the contagious malady appears to have a wide
sweep over several counties, if not the whole
state. Many fat cattle are sent from Tennes
see to Atlanta and other cities in Georgia for
consumption, and as cattle brought into this
state often bring tho germs of disease with
them, thoso sent out uf tiro state may not be
in a more healthy condition. I remember
the time when Colonel I’eters, of Atlanta,had
murrain (not indlgeneous to bis farm) strike
his costly herd of Devons,destroying msnyand
involving heavy loss. Borne yeass ago Mr.
L'uckrill and bis associates paid $7,000
in Canada fora dntchess male calf six mouths
old to improve the bovine stock of middle
Tennessee. This has proved a profitable
investment, but pestilence among costly live
stock is more hurtful for its discouragements
then its direct losses. Tho time has come
when farmers and all citizens should give
tuore attention to the living parasites in the
bodies of man und beast, which produce hun
dreds of distinct, and often fatal maladies.
Knglnnd lias lost in forty years from lung
fever in cattle imported in 18-12, $500,000,000.
We have five times as many cattlo as Great
Britain and mast defend this valuable prop
erty.
A CAROLINA TRAQBDY.
Cm M.h killed. Ap.tlt.r W.H.drd, As, tha Per.
petrat.r Leached.
"uhablottk, JT. C., October 10.—A large
crowd gathered at Statesville Monday to wit
ness the circus. Many of the visitors were
from Wilkes and Alexander counties, and
some come in wagons from long distances,
camping out on Saturday night. A white
man named Byan was badly beaten by a
nrgro, whose name is unknown. Bad feeling
existed in the crowd. On Monday a white
man named Kedmond quarrelled with a
negro named Campbell, who fired three shots,
killing Redmond instantly, the second bullet
going through his heart The first
shot struck a bystander named Tom Ball,
indicting a painful wound. Campbell was
arrested. Lost night after midnight about 30
maaked men took Campbell from jail and
hanged him to a tree. They did their work
•oquietly that the occurrence was not known
generally until Campbell’s holy was found
dangling to a tree at daylight. Kvery thing is
quiet now.
WiLMiauTON. N. C., October 10.—A quarrel
between Asa 8mith and John W. Hill on Sat
urday night, in Waccama township, Bruns
wick county, resulted in Hill being fatally
stabbed, dying in a few minutes. Smith es
caped.
THB DEATH HIDE.
Son rue
Mad toon.
.round hts nrrk. furry coufea.es bis i-afil to every
one. lie ray. he hit him three blows with the ax.
while asleep, but aye Heed thieeieeed to hlU him.
end he thought the beet time to hlU him was while
he was ailiep. lie plead. Mil detente, hat he will
never !ndu« twelve Juron of Wallou county to
r by their verdict that anything lew. than twenty
mute.' .uipeneion by the neck .hall be the pen
alty for iuch e brutal crime. Jeslouiy caused the
crime, end Its horrible detail, oaly .how to what
depth, a deptaved negro wtU go in order to wreak
hi. revenge.
Thomaivllle Is nuhinf her new hotel, and
hopes to have the new Hructuie la readiness for
guests by January. Three mouths Is a short time
which to build e hotel.
The approaching exhibit, of the Thomxj
county .lock breeders’ .aocialion (on the 15th
and Nth of November, el ThomoivlUe), now bid.
fair to be.ptendtd.
•hares .
lor In the Atlanta and Wen Point and Central mil-
mod. , and tn the three corpomUons owned some
thing like t.300 ihsm tu all. Iu the loo former com-
pan let he had been (or m.ne yean . director, lie
as a itockholder In and dtrecurrof the tUnk of
ugusta, and wu eice-pmldeut of the ii.te city
national bank, of which hb sou, L. J. Hill, woe
f ireatdenL The latter instiiuUon is better knowu
a Atlanta as the "Hill Hank," and It is aid the
son. will continue Its conduct, os at present, with
their consolidated capital He owned and worked
about 5.0a) acme of land at the time of hi* death,
aud every year made a crop of between 500 and
tiCO bale, of cotton. In all of hb bustner. venturer,
as tu hb planting operations, he was ohrewd, far
sighted. tirelea aud prudent: hb hand did with
au iu might whatever It found to do. and he waa
consptcuoualy successful in making aud lu Invest-
ng hb money.
Mr. Util laves eleven children. 11b wilt, which
.1 is sold was made two yean ego, dispose, of an
atale valued at KdO.WO. To hb widow, hts second
wife, he lava about 150.000. The remainder of
hb Mate U divided up between eleven children
and two grandchildren. L. M. Hill, Jr., and Harry
lull, the latter two having ban robed by him and
being favorites of hb, getung each a child's portion.
Mr. HlU waa TV years or ageal the Ume of hbdeath.
He had repreanled Wilkes county In the state leg
islature and had been conspicuous for hb penetra
tion and cotuerratbm. He mu buried
quietly Sunday morning tn the family gmverard
near hb home, alt funeral pomp aud euiogr hav
ing been at hb own requeot omitted. A vllbge
preacher sold prayer, at the grave beyond thb
there era no ceremony. Hb nalt bearem were hb
■ana, and tboa who spread flowers upou hts grave
srera Use grandson, whom he had imbed. Hi. l.rg
family gathered about the old burial grounds and
he wu bid auletly and unateumtloiuly to rest
beta he had lived and by thoa
Bui* Oal HTcsL
from the Baltimore Hay.
Rome of the friend, of Mr. Bendell, the candi
date at the democratic and re public an prottetiou-
bu for ipeeker of the bows of representative, are
A Mediated Kigl.ar Thaw, the Throttle Wig.
Ohs and tilde. Tilt Kxh.iuted.
rmsBCRU, October 15.—While John Bley
anil Jama Maloney, two switchmen, were re-
miriog some damage to a freight car attached
a a train standing at Derry station, on the
Pennsylvania railroad, yesterday, the engin
eer, not being nware of their presence tinder
the car, started the train. Bley was crushed
and mangled beyond recognition, and died
instantly. Maloney was crushed against the
tender of the engine, anil hb scalp was almost
torn from his head, and an arm and leg were
broken. The train wu quickly stopped,
and Maloney wsa carried to the engine anil
laid upon the floor. The train men then
started for Bley's remains, and were hurrying
them towards the engine when Maloney,
crazed witlt pain, suddenly jumped up anil
threw the throttle wide open. The engine
started with fearful rapidity down grade.
When Lotrobe was reached,six miles from the
scene of the accident, Maloney closed the
valve and fell unconscious to the floor of ttie
cab. He was picked up and taken to the hos
pital, where be is at present, with very slight
hope of recovery.
CRMB AND CASUALTY.
A Dlscarg.g WU. ah«*t. hawker Tw«, Wh.a th«
ll.sb.ad Kill. tk. Wife.
Dxxvn, October 15.—A dispatch from
Grand Junction, Colorado, to the Tribuoe
says: A year ago the wife of H. A. Herrick,
a well-to-do ranchman of this county, left
him. Herrick afterword obtained a divorce
and married Margaret Thompson. Mrs. Her
rick, number one, returned a short time ago,
and meeting Herrick and nia wife shot and
instantly killed the woman. The murderess
day
Herrick were at the ranch looking at the cat
tle, Herrick shot and killed Mrs. Herrick, and
then gave bimoeif up to the sheriff. The ex
citement over the aflair is intense.
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
Tn ChlMm Mima «a. Tn rmwi r.ullr Is*
long
CosgXLLsvtLLE, I’n.. October 16.—This af
ternoon a distressing and fatal accident oc
curred on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad a
few miles from here. A yonng lady named
Curran and three children named respectively
Dan and Mary Farrell and Alice King bad
gone out for a walk, and while coming along
the railroad track the little party stepped off
one track to get oat of the way of a aonth-
bound freight and wen struck bv the ML
Pleasant accommodation coming in the op
posite direction. Two of the children were
killed instantly, and Miss Curran and the
other child were badiy hurt and will proba
bly die.
•ration* for the coming visit.
Congressman Mills, of Texas, is a warm ad<
herentof Mr. Carlisle, and thinks the Kentucky
candidate will receive the undivided vote of tho
Texas representation. He believes that tho demo
crata will win the presidency
next year, if a popular western man head
the ticket. Tho colonel expressed himself in favor
of McDonald, but thinks Thurman would make
strong run.
FKR8QNAL INTELLIGENCE.
Charles Francis Adams is visiting Salt
Lake city.
General Grant denies that he’s a million
alre. It's Fred.
Lord Lyons has been English ambassador
toTarls since 1867.
Lord Coleridge is as bald as an egg, but
he can tell some hair-raising stories.
Disraeli described Lord Coleridge's elo<
qucnco as a silvery flow of mediocrity.
Mr. S. A. Echols, well known in this city,
is engaged ou the St. Louis Republican as writer.of
iketches.
Salvini, who is about to retire from the
stage, will begin on November 4 a farewell tour
through Italy.
The girls who have disappeared from St
Louis within a year have got together uud formed
a lawn-tenuis club.
Mrs. Btowe, the dress reformer of San
Francisco, says women beforo long will display
tholr leg* as fearlessly aa they now do their arms.
Mr. J. W. Mackey is in Nevada. His old
miulng friends say that he w> ul 1 rather be among
the mountain* than to bo roaming round tho
world.
The princess of Wales looks lovely on
hoitebfrii.^nd 1 a’4ea like a bird. She takes her
fence* bcautUolly, and has simply no sense of ner-
vouaneta.
Everybody b glad to learn that John Bright
ia coming to America next year. He will get the
grandest welcome ever tendered any Englishman
In the United States.
The Washington Continentals, of Schenec
tady, are going to sue Henry Ward Beecher for 8500
damages for failing to keep an engagement to lec
ture for them.
Captain Scott Siddons, the hnsband of the
reader and actress, has been placed in a mad house
lu Australia. Hia wife separated from him because
ho squandered her earnings.
Dion Boucicault says that Mrs. Langtry
asked him: "Am I aa beautiful as Maty Ander
son?" "No." ho replied; "you have a beautiful
bust and waist and that is all. 1
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, although more than
threo-scoie and ten, believes the better part of her
life ia yet to come. 8he haa cleanly cut and refined
features, aud long braids of hair. She is fond of
tho society of young people.
Mr. Irving's engagement in New York, be
ginning on October 29 at tho Star theater, will laat
till November 21. He will subsequently visit
twenty-nine cities of the United States and Canada,
including Cincinnati.
Altuougu the prince of Wales is also colo
nel of a Prussian regiment, be ia not hhsed when
he visits Paris, because, like the nice, clean young
man that ho ia. he haa a moral character that looms
up likes ten foot fence.
Jay Cooke ia now an old man, hia family ia
scattered—some member* of it dead—and returuiug
prosperity haa not brought with it that full meas
ure of happiness which, on tho surface of things,
he might seem to be enjoying.
Mr. Hr»kin has had acaffolda erected around
the ducal palace. Venice, iu order that casts may
be taken of the sculpture. He keeps two artists
constantly employed iu making drawings from the
best continental examples of old master’s works.
Mr. George Scoville, who defended tiui
teau, la visiting hi* daughter iu Denver. Hia form
ia bowed and the wrinkles in hia face are deep. He
will not talk about Uuiteau or hia own wife and
daughter. IIU daughter in Denver U seeking a di
vorce from her buaband.
A son of John F. Andrew, the great war
governor of Massachusetts, was marnei last Thun
day to a Mias Harriet Thayer, who is reputed to be
worth 88,000.000. An item haa been going the
rounds lately stating that the groom has been earn
won't have to hustle to pay board bills hereafter.
Judge Howell Glenn wax halted in the
Markham bouse the other night by Captain
John Rutherford and introduced to
strikingly handsome man. The
. MM .ger waa called "Mr. Jones." After a few mo
menta’ conversation Judge Glenn asked Mr. Jones
for hU initials, saying be would be glad to send
him cards for the Capital City club while he was in
the dty. Mr Jones gave hU initial* and the judge
moved off. He was called back by the stranger,
who said: "Howell, have you forgotten me?"
“ hen the judge discovered it waa Major A. O.
icon, you could have floored him with a feather.
Mrs. Brown, the widow of Mr. Buchanan's
first postmaster general. U the subject of this little
story: She bad been married before, and so had
Postmaster General Brown, and each had a daugh
ter left over from the first marriage. Then they
had another. Mrs. Brown used to present them at
her receptions In this way: "ThUia Mias Brown,
Mr. Brown's daughter by hU first wife; thUUMiaa
.Sanders, my daughter by my first husband, and
thU is Mias Brown, our joint daughter."
The receipts at the Porte Saint Martin
theatre in Paris since Sarah Bernhardt opened the
boose with "Frou Frou" aro the largest on record
in its annals. The takings on the opening night
exceeded 81.800. The second night showed a con
siderable increase on this amount, and on the third
night the receipt! were over 82,125. The next piece
in which the popular actress is to appear la M.
Richeptn's drama, in verse. "Nana fcahlb;" but
MX. Mellhac and Halevy’a piece U such a succcaa
that U will doubtless hold the boards for a long
time to come. There is, therefore, little prospect
of Mme. Bernhardt’s appearing in "Macbeth." the
third piece on her list, till next season.
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
Virginia. ,.
This Rockingham, Virginia, Register has.
been published sixty-two years.
Bedford county, Virginia, is raising corn-
stalks seventeen feet high.
Thirty visiting military companies are ex
pected to attend the Virginia state fair at Rich
mond.
Three newspaper editors have been chosen
os judges of apple brandy by the Pulaski agricul
tural fair, of Virginia,
Petersburg, Virginia, people are sitting
around coal fires, which cost not exceeding twelve
sud a half cents a bushel.
The old house in which Stonewall Jackson
wu born, in Clarksburg, Vliglnit, was torn down
s few days ago, to make way for Improvements.
Virginia planters complain that Mahone is
demoralizing the negro laborers and encouraging
them in habits of idleness, ignorance and dis
honesty,
Richmond State: "Georgia is the only
southern state In which northern syndicates do not
control the principal railroads, and the people are
determined they never shall, if they can prevent
North Carolina.
The Xorth Carolina Fruit Growers’ associa
tion will hold their annual meeting in Raleigh,
October 17th.
Tee cotton factories and nine gold mines
are in operation within a radius of thirty miles of
Charlotte, N, C. The cotton factories yield the most
gold.
Sonth Carolina.
Two hundred workmen find employment
in the erection of the Newberry, 8. C., cotton fac
tory.
The corner-stone for the Catholic church at
Spartanburg, S. C„ will be laid Sunday by Bishop
Northup.
The Associated Reformed Synod of the
loath will hold 11s next annual session In Chester,
8. C-, beginning the 25th Inst.
Stock-BAI81HO is assuming large proportions
InBouth Carolina. There aro twenty-seven cattle
farms, devoted to raising various grades of cattle.
Florida.
Leoh county, Florida, is raising fire-pound
sweet potatoes.
The Key West,Florida, spongers ore having
good luck around Anclote and Rock Island.
Within a radiance of three miles from
Orange city, Florida, there are 30,000 acres of
orange orchard.
Japanese persimmons are produced in Flor
ida to measure nine Inches In cltcumforence and
weigh eight ounces.
The building boom has reached Lake City,
Florida, and a large number ol houses are being
erected. Tho same all over the state.
Kiqiit hundred thousand cigars, sixty bales
sponge, thirty seven bales leal tobacco, and a lot of
bides and turtles wero shipped to Now Yotk last
Saturday from Key West.
Alabama.
Birminoham, Alabama, is to have 600 tele
phone stations.
Wells and springs are failing in ML Meigs,
Shorten, Autauga and other sections In Alabama.
Sandbars, which were never, or rarely, seen
before In the Alabama river, are plainly visible
now.
A little son of Rev. Mr. Wyatt, of Bibb
county, Alabama, bos caught 18 coons since com
was laid by.
Mb. James Edwards, owner of the Edwards
opera house, in Selma, Alabama, died a day or two
;o. Age 83 yean.
From two to six miles is the distance water
is being hauled for drinking purposes from the ar
tesian basin, in Montgomery, Ala.
In the public schools of Montgomery, Ala
bama, 1,100 pupils have been ontered. nearly
equally dlvldod between the two races.
Cisterns and wells ore becomicgexhsusted
In Montgomery, Alabama. In the country it is
wone. On some places two or three hands are em
ployed exclusively in hauling water sud (driving
stock to and from the creeks.
There is a water famine in the Prairie
country out beyond Selma, Alabama. On many of
the laige plantations, wagons are buay dally haul
ing water from the llmo creeks for miles. Cattle
e often driven several miles to water, and many
nmols arc actually famishing.
Mississippi.
The scarcity of water in Vickeburg, Miss.,
is causing alarm.
The cotton crop of Mississippi is said to be
below the yield ol lost year.
Mississippi is building more railroads this
year than any other state In the union.
The demand for public land in Mississippi
for the hut few months has been unprecedented.
Mbs. Maquis Fleasaets claims to own one
half of the town site of Crystal Springs, Mississippi.
About 300 students are expected in the
various departments of the University of Mlsslsslp-
Bv the Mississippi overllow of 1892 twenty*
eight parishes In Louisiana wore Inundated, and
It Is rsUmsted that the losses In the state by the
overflow will amount to more than 160,000,000.
I.oiilsliuin.
Caddo, Louisiana, has a colored man 135
years of age. a native of Africa.
There are in New Orleans three hundred
and ninety odd persons employed as teachers In
the public schools. Of this number 370 are women
with salaries ranging from 135 to let) per month,
which ia aometimea paid to them and often not.
Tennessee.
There are said to be more Baptist churches
Fait Tennessee than postoffices or grist mills.
Tens,
The peanut crop of Virginia this year is a
failure.
Tub educational fund of Texas, present and
prospective, ia (109,000,000.
Labor quantities of cottonseed are being
marketed in Brenham, Texas.
Waco, Texas, la not pleased at drinking wt-
from tho Brazos river. It la pronounced abom
inable.
Some $1,758,000 has been thrown away in
the effort to get deepwater on Oalveaton harbor
bar by building Jetties.
Thebe are about 2,000,000 acres of state
school lands and 17,714 acres of county school lands
Presidio county, Texas.
The southern part of Arkansas boasts of a
big pea crop.
A bale of cotton has been Bold in Hope,
Ark., that weighed 1,69* pounds.
Ten dollars per ton is the price of cotton
■ted at the mills in Van Boren, Arkansas.
Keno, faro, roulette, “crape,” and all the
other fancy games ate in fall blast In Pine Bluff;
Arkanmi.
Kentucky.
The dried fruit trade is a very big thing in
portiontof Kentucky.
The different lunatic asylums in Kentucky
are full to overflowing.
There ore 121 soldiers of the war of 1812
■till living tn Kentucky.
Thebe are seTen candidate! for state libra
rian in Kentucky. AU females.
A grand jury in Madison county, Ky„ re
turned 230 indictments recently.
Lump cool is delivered at Owensboro, Ky.,
at eight and a half cents per bushel.
The bog crop of Kentucky for 1883 will be
larger than it has been for ten years.