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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA G*. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23 .185 6
THRQPGH DIXIE
WHAT THBSOUTHERN FOLKS ARE
saying and doing.
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jfsrssrr a,.MU-iM rncssfsr
umiinw-mii) mia at*.
Virginia.
Seo. 0. WIN wa, united 7"na*d*y onn warrant
marring him wiih Mat aboot to commit o
Incich of tho peace. Till arrest ti ths mult of a
publication ta to day'* piper* of 0 cud by Hr,
wire, denoondn*. In tta attoagort I*nga*t*, Ool.
William Lamb, tz mayor of Norfolk. Mr. trim
mat tot under a tbouaad dollar bond to keep
t ho peace.
1. a rottor, at the Norfolk nary yard, wai
r hot by George W. HU1 In the nary yard tut Mra-
day and dltd tbli monlot. Hill Mlegvd that Pot
ter, ako la a married man, made Improper prop>
Bala to hit dan*hto, • fin about Mitten yean ot
ate. HUi waa Indicted today In the I'nllel State*
touil. and ball waarefbaed.
Kentucky.
1AIU reports my that a truce hu been held and
retulUd in both peittea atynlnf an afreomenlto
leare their dlireiancealo an arbltxaUon commit-
lea. wboae deeMooaboald bo foal, pradlnz which
all rmHW aboald reaaa hoatllltlei. It la. there-
lore, quite probable that the Ferry county fenda
are at in end, at lean foe the present.
Courier Journal? The wnr In Ferry county,
between the French and Kveraoll farlljna
turn broken oat streak. Almost arory dtlaon
of the county haa taken ildaa with one or the
other of tbooe mountain merchant princes, ue
they are cal lad. Both faotlona aeem to oomo
to tbo conotniion that there can bo no oottlo-
ment exospt by aztermination. Both am
armed, and the drat ahot will briny about a
general war. The fend between French and
Evtnoli dates back aereral yenra. They are
rival* In bnalneas, and control the entire trade
of aararal monataln conntlea. The report
that both wore killed oomo time ago, waa not
true.
Mloelulppl.
Cholera hu appeared among the hoga la
Jaffertoa county.
The Canton oil mill hu got Into the huda
of the Oil Traci company.
Terry, Hinda county, ahlppod Ihla year
aM7S torn and peek *XM of fruit, vegetables,
etc., which aottoddl5i8S.no.
The editor of the Valiev Flag thlnka that
the Inauguration of prohibition in lodlaaola,
Sunflower county, hu canned that thrifty and
progressive people to pot on a aallow, sgoo-
^ D oiJTir^an. ahlppod from Moron
rttonUy a halo of Loroodtet hay to the pub-
llahor of the Now York Lodger, and alao oua
each to Ooraeliua Vanderbilt and Flam Lor-
lllaid. Colore! Crane thlnko II the boat bay
giown la America, and thlnka of establlsh-
tag a trade for It in New Oiltant when the
"Little J.” road b extended.
Ora While, who now naldee at Tlnllock'a Btyon.
Cordelia parish, Toe-day eworo before Uw fed-
crel grand Jorylbet be waatho father of lr.5 chil
dren. White la aevcoty-foor ycaraof age aodtjulte
lateUlgenk Ue laalau that be baa keptan accu
rate account of bb children and that they num
bered IK. When gated bow many wlrea ho had
be laid he had not bad any; "that colored people,
In hla yoorgci dayi, oarer paid anyattenUon to
marrrlag." A number of hla none, ho rays, won
gfttatdtn the war, and bo la now boro on ponalon
Tot now crop of pooau at Navaaot* art
comity in and dad ready taloa till per
William Dare. living on Un out lido of
Jgbt aomi
found the Inhuman
woman nnmerclfnlly. Throagh thoaeoteUuce
of tha neighbor* aho inrceeded in Baking hu
rccapo from the brute. Deputy Shortly Franks
eocrcrdrd In nrreetlng him, and ho b now
eafelr behind the barn
Galvmton Special: Nothing hu bun hoard
y t of W. J. Burke, the Dieting county
iieeenrrr. An Inreetigetlon Toraday revealed
the Ibet that Sheriff Ovooa had paid Hark*,
within the peat four monlhr, orer $5,000,
which huaet been tamed Into thobank when
the treeanrer anally dipoalted the money.
Blebondamtn are now ezamlnlng hla booke
and aecranta. The Improaalon la growing
that Bukohia oommltted mlddo. It iaoov-
bln that no nogotlablo bondo belonging to the
ached fund, which wore In the keeping of the
Ireaanrcr, aro mlttlng. It b reported thit
Borko wit ooon on n train going to Now Or-
leant on the night of Novoatav B.
Loulalnnn.
The cotton crop of Union pariah will bo
boiler than wuespnotod. Intelligent fkrmara
pieco the yield at about two thlrda of aa artr-
**Laat weak a colored men, whore naua It not
qaarral with acaafomcr. lb, Pipaa ordered
tho negro oat. Ho went to the door, tamed,
end drewing a rerolrer, 11 red deliberately at
Ur. Pipao, the boll entering the lab breati
and laBIcting a wound from whloh ha dltd (a
afcwhtnra. The negro waa raptured, escap
ed.^aed wu caught again and lynched by a
Judge Alfred Shaw died at Naw Orleans.
During the rrpublican admlnbtretioni la thb
rtate,from IMM to 1871, Judge Shaw hold
many pceltlona of honor, trait and proAL
Borne moetha ego Judge Shoe wu ataanlled
la hit hod, receiving two torero cub
on bit forehood with oomo blant taotraarent.
Dr. Biro thlnka that thou woaada wort the
primary enu of hb death, though ho hod
an arc oily entirely recovered from them, nnd
wu on the itreota u ueual until today, whan
howuabbkanwMh apoplexy.
T. J. Boa are, of tbeclty of Now Orbau.nndor
or memo of fourteen yonre Imprbonment for
forgiry, and John Koala! of Hi. Ludry par
fob, under Ufa ecntence, cere pad from the
priltcaUaty at Baton Donga Saturday
nUht, by biathlon thmngh tan wall of
the hoepllal fata the cotton factory and
boom la fha yard of hb fothor, Daniel Green.
Bono and SooK loll Orangeburg on Saturday
evening with the intention or vbltlag John
Green, end want tor hb bout, arriving florae
time after dark. On Sunday morning John
Green loft hb bento about a o’clock for the
pnrpou of attending n camp meeting at m
distance, leaving llano and Scott ulotp I
abed room of the home. Before daylight the
hcuM took Are, and Scott and But wore both
Dnrncd to death, being conanmed to aahea, ox-
reptnbotft half of the trunk of their bedba
Tbo bend and arms and feet nnd lege of both
wore totally conanmed. There wu bat on,
window to the room In which they slept, an I
that had oomo time before been eecnrolynallel
op.
The Booth Carolina legitimate, which coorenealn
rrinlar sen loo nut Toraday, will bo largely oom-
poacd oCncw men. 11 will be elmoet democratic,
there not bring ei many aa hall a doaon repnbll-
cans lnlbe two bonsee Manyof thenew memben,
In fact about two-lhlrdaoftaom, were elected on
what la known tbo economical platform, and they
will come to Columbia prepared to oppom all utra
•ppropilailona for the Booth Carolina college, the
citadel academy, the auto bourn and the Columbia
canal. They will Ukewfoe ha earnoot In their at
tempt to lemon Uxatloo and loduponae with all
■trperil uoui nr nnnooaamuy offices. It will be a re
form lrtUlalnre In tbo wont acnac of that term.
In Ed cogold county, when the cam against
B. T. Jonoa, for the murder of the thru
Preorieya, waa colled Major W. T. Gary, conn-
,ol for the prisoners, prauntod a petition
ilynrd by B. T Jon Of, totting forth that bo,
tbo prironor, bad marriad n grsndsoghter of
tbo oldeet Fnaaloy. and that bo hod Informa
tion and belief that hla honor, Jndgo Pramlay,
wu related to the Praeeleyo, and Mejor Gary
anbmlttod that If reeh wore tha feet It dte-
•lulldid Jndgo Protoloy from pnotding In tbo
run Jndgo Frostier laid that hla aneeotora
cane to tola country from the north of Ire
land In 1783, nnd ho wu tore that thodoooaaod
Prraoloyo In thla cue ware not da-
itended from hla brunch of the Preoeloya,
and ho, thonfora dented any relationship
whatovar with the family la qneetlon. Major
Gary remarked that thorn wu no donbt tut
there wu n likeneea between the judge nnd
the decocted, and ha thought it qoretionabte
whether It would bo azactly legal form for a
prodding Jndgo almply to doddo aa lane of
tbli kind without any tort of trial. Judge
Pier atop replied that If Major Guy know of
any form to try tho qneatloa ho wu ready for
trio', hot that rather than have hla name con
nected with a qnretlon of delicacy of tala oort
ha would not try tho cut, and ha therefore,
marked It con tin nod. ^
Florida.
Watermelon! are on the market at Bronron.
Several orange gtowora on tha WlthUeooohw
river have add their fruit on the trooe at $1.25
per box. -
A Mato prohibition papula to bo etarted la
Orludo Non by a itock company, with B. J.
Morgan at tho halm.
More corn hu been gathered in Colombia
county tho prceont year than bat over bun
before la a tingle you.
Very few orengea have boon ahlppod from
abont Galneovllle thit reason. Tha growen
are waiting for tbo Ault to ripen.
Bolt
thence making their way throagh tho luge
gate. They ware undoubtedly amletod by
nemo one eatable, u tho hlagm aa the gale
hid bou wrenched from bricks of the wall
froa ouUiCe.
A new foci er h tntnxl need Into tho labor prob
tamtaUotaana. It hu long bou Known
^r*««Ess7»Ki
knada on Falrvlew Mutation, onomlte about
SgMBisSaaarS
asisaifas.'sTSsy.aSi
tarUawu mutated by ordorof a loool lodge
Lut To today night the Holmes county
ronithoue, at Cerro Gordo, wu deetroyed by
Are. Tho Are was the work ofu lncedenlary.
The records and all property belonging to the
county was burned.
Tho loading nurserymen of tho state formed
at Palatka lut Wedneoday n Florida Nursery-
men’s association with the following ofldan:
President, A. I. Bldwelh vice-president, F. a
Cone; aecroUty, G. L. Tatar, troainrer, J. B.
Anderson. Tho ohjoet ot tho association to
for tho bonedt of all nnreorymen, and to oo
agree that there will ta a uniformity In prieu
ud tho description of fruit*.
It la reported In Apalachicola that John Bo-
now, no of tho ilnyora ot GriBla. wu olive
ud well, It Is reported whu the vigilante
Bred Into tho loll at Blonnte Town, John Bo-
now wu not hart, ud escaped by ploying off
dead. Ho escaped Into tho swamp, whore ho
tended an ox for a shot can, nnd then made
Dll way to the Thru II rothere, whore ho shot
and hilled n logger, rrosn there It la no!
known where he met
White tbo Indiana wore stepped it the depot
at Tallahaiieo one of of the papooeea began to
tqnlrm about la tho tag In which It
Wu tied n “ ’ - -- —
car with
erlckotthot was making him tqnlrm, cracked |
tho pouy laeect under nor thamh anil, tied up
tho youngster In klo bog, bang him op against
tha wall, nnd nil wusaruo again.
At Tollohumo, on tho night of tho oltrtln,
while tho hoodlamo wore pomdlog tho smote
of tho city, muling tin pnu, ringing row
I bells end boating drums In celebration of tholr
triumph over the Intelligence and virtue of
tho county, tha mansion halted la front of
the reeJdauoe of lion. FrtdT. Myorv, thodem-
oerotle eanldato for tharenate, and hooted and
| j died Ilka Infuriated demons. After singing.
“We’ll hang Frod Myore on a soar apple tree? 1
they ytUod at Mn Myers, who wu alone In
the house with her children—Mr Myers being
absent at ono of tho precincts whore tho cunt
wuoUHgotnf on-and ordered tho blinds
thrown open, accompanying the order with
threats to boil brickbats through thu windows
■Mrs Carrie I vans, of Palatka, tho mother of
Wednesday at noon on going Into tha room
whore hot child had ten leftaalecp about dvo
minutes before to NO some white rata polo of
the hues, eating the fore of tho shtld. Bor
■creams soon brought at tho inmatu of tbo old
Putnam boon cottage, where oho resides, to
herraaia, whonttwudfooonradthatthochild
had been severely bitten about tho loos by tho
rate, ud probably the toft eye ortho little one
totally destroyed. Mrs. Erase eayl thorite
were drinking tho Mood which wu dewing
form tbo wounds whu ako entered the room.
IThechetke, lips, font no end nooo won bitten,
•ad whu it ires first mu Its face wu covered
with blood. Tho child wu sleeping quietly
Wednesday aftoinoon, tat no ono knows what
isrlll ta tho result oft' c wonndo It recetvsd.
South Carolina.
Ttaitackkw Ingrowing In fovor.
tr °* “* r * port * d »k*»«gta«*
B JP»U^^ i ln Onuvillo hu bou found
th *
A largo black boar wes killed In a Savannah
Jl ter swamp last weokhy Mr Henry Boyte, ot
gSk'yigrtMf esrwss.
large opu field near Mauldin's mill su day
neuUv whu the dropacute pattering daws
•non him and on tho vogeUUu around him.
The ehy wu dear of cloud,, ud ho wu u as-
tanlied that ha went In Ally to hla honm te
taow tho family tho dote on hie roatanl
handa. No ono can azplnln thla mystery,
Henry Bane and Daniel Soott, two negro
kye crar Uraegvkorg, met n moat torriMo
dnth at tho ylanialicn of Daniel Green, on
Bunu.'ey eight loot. Jehnare.n oeci^“
The hog trade hu opened briskly. Rather-
fold county will chip a largo number of tho
fiseot hogs In tho world this fell.
Throe demoenu wore emetsd atonatinooon
Tho tides on choree of illegal voting at tho In-
mareNIU Hutchins. Ike negro wu wee re
cently elected to the latfolotnre by otahl majority.
Umchlni frare that his sou wlU ta contested
since fctrrel republican Illegal voter* hare been
1 ter Illegal voting. Mr. Drunbu, the
candidate, vrill cutest tha eteelfon
ud wtll gam hUieat.
JesN Wooten wu eurted to Noshvtlte from lack-
too. ud lodgtdlaltalaaau asytnm Saturday.
Bio trite woo poisoned some month, ego by a negro
■errant, and this so preyed u hla mind that it
gave way. On tho train bo taoame very violent,
end the oMcon tads desperate battle with tin
before ho could be securely bound. The aherid
wu badly cot u the bond, ud too train mu bad
Ntaonlted In tourist tho oterets.
comptroller Pickard has AnUbed the lax aggre
gate ter the pan rear. The totals are oe follow,
ItetTrnnuct No. acrei of land s.om.coa. value
maee.tM town tom jo,gs. vaiw tit^e,ai»,
value of other property, total volne,
J«aw tax, WT2.W.U
Middle Tunsmu Acres of land. le.cK.'ZU;
vaino, Ht,7M,M9; town loa, **.!*>; value, t.\-
«51,t«;valu ot other property. nMM.tr: lout
voluo. »io*,*».rvi; state loz.
WrriTeoneterr-Acres of land, e.tn.iei: valna
IT>*,»;»: town lets, tri.tll valee, value
of other property. mArtate; latet voluo, fn.im,-
S(4; arete tea, tlra.M>,Mt. '
The local, for mo Mate are: Acres at land,
value ll«,wi,;n. loan lota vel-
srv«,»2r,5S5!»d.% 5W ’ m:
Tbcmagnna show aoooreaw tnrials tan nr
nrerlyKOW from that ofl'ts. Tbli drertateb
allte middle and west lUavmu at Ikiem
tanumu tu hv ttlt yurta M.OM Isreav tau tev
Tta body er Dr. Knu.ofBimlluacovnty.wbo
ra, found data table bed at Bos apttaga Ark, a
■»■■«»» were hold at Itefoy
■ that Dr. Knox moteUh tettl pity In Hot
I day pravtoos W kle damn hs had
cloth ea. and the following morning bo wu found
deed end Mtmonsy ud valuables gone. Noln-
MsUgation of the cause of bis death wu made,
end It la now believed that he vat ttavtorimofa
foul crime. An oBoer will go wool to terrel out
the mystery.
A few days ago Dr. N. B. Knox, n well-
known phjslciah at Palsy, la tta upper ond of
BsmUton, left tor Hot gprtogs. Ark., In the tape
of curing a troublesome bowel complaint, andcar-
ited with him a largo inm of money. Last Bator-
day be was found dead In bedaubs Hot bpnngs
hotel, and bis pocket book, mooty and aU valua-
bks were mlsriog Uls widow wu advised of bis
death, ud notified that the body would ta ter
warded C. 0. D. Ha, to pay ter tta cofiln and trans
portation. She boa but (to, but bsr neighbors
relied the Ulscoe. and tta body wussst, reach
ing there on Tuesday lost, but Instead of ISA
ebarers, tta amount wu IMO. The poor woman
wu unable to meet tala sum, and until It was
ralud tbs body would not bo surrendered. It was
In a cheap deal cofiln, ud soon became very of
ten*! vs. The facti were not learned nntll Turn
day, when lbs oorourr atones took charge of the
mailer. The body bad br mat the oAice four days,
ond bod tan la the cofi, i tlx days. The whole
tnamcHon aavon of bl>- small In the moat tuft-
riblo non, a eocptc bolr., tbo ransom.
Msjov J. W. Sparks, of Murfreesboro, hu at
bis residence qnltoannmhsr of Indian relief,
or rather, Indmn weapons of war, aneh u war
clubs, bow and arrows, qnlvore, tomahawks
end all tho bloody Implement* of dnth that
tha wily rad mu of tho forest wu wont to us
and still oh In tholr marc Horn ravages. In
hla collection tea war clnb used by Crezy
Bone la tho massacre ton years ago of
the bravo General Cutter and Ms
galiut bud, when there wu not
one of tho United Slates soldiers loft to
tell Ihn molucholy lain, Another clnb hu
duglingfrou Itahnmu scslp-tho scalp of
awosnuwith long, black, silken hair. Thla
te. no doubt, the only genuine human scalp In
Tcnnemco. Major Sparks says he would gira
uythlngtoknow theaad history of the wo-
numwhomothu cruolfato at the handa of
tho inthleu savago Bat It will donbt Ul
never bo known.
Charlie Dinwiddle, colored, wu arrested
ot McKennis, charged with robbing one
Jennings, a white mu. Preliminary azsmlna-
* * eforo ’Squlro
, _ mod from 10
o’clock yesterday
negro wu under guard at tho
eatetaON, being in charge of Marehal
Bryant and olban. Abont 10 o’elook
lut night, twenty muked mn rode Into
lows, ooriOag from tha direction of Hunting-
Ion, ud proceeded directly to the calaboose,
where a portion of tho crowd Instantly nuked
into tho ealaboou with drawn pfotola, ovar-
C waring tho gaud. They thu riddled tho
Ay of the negro with plaiol tails. Ho, In his
ftantiecflortatoe *—‘" ‘
errapo, burst hla chain loose
word. Tbs negro wu a desperate char-
North Carolina.
North Carolina Oc an worth 1131.50 In tho
Tta cotton mill* of tan state are doing tbs
tam business they have enloyed for many
ysart.
A diamond found la n spring in McDowell
county, North Carolina, some Umo since, r
been pronounced by Tiffany, of Now Yoik,
ta worth *61.
In a difficulty between J.1I. Frailer ul Ha
and Frank Biotdfoot, aU white, at Mllbnnnte,
7 mUrefiom Kalelgb, Baturday, Frazier wu riabtal
sad kilted by Broadtoot. Hsster hu ban lodged
in Jail St Raleigh. Broadtoot Aad ud aa, not yet
bren apprehended.
Tta earn crap Is tha boat arm gathered In
tbo state, Mnyo the Poreon County Courier.
In ioom coon the crop It font Mmaa u luga u
list yeu, aad aN a fa» Non declare that they
kava mads u Nash earn thin season as la
tana or loor SMS—i past, all
gather.
Got error ScalN hu received oSdal tnfec-
nation from W.D. Pradu
of tta disputed boundary U
rate ud Virginia hutagna. Tta Una in dim
puts te tho northern bard or ot Cnrritoek.
Coaden, and Gates oonntfoa. It te thongta
that it trill reqa’n a fortnight to complete the
•oirty.
Fran tho report of tbo Baptist orphanage It
teleernsd that to thla saw enterprise, tat Ul-
tie orer one year old aad nlmert without ant-
mde holy, 115.000 hu bean given. Thru
boHdlnga have boon completed, tbo foundation
of dvo • there laid, and fifty children hare tasn
received. Tho orphanage owns 3f» acres of
tend, and new buildings wiU ta added from
time to time.
The Asheville Advance says of tho totaceo
crop In thatvoettoo: ’ThoproopooN aro tail
the farmers will obtain good prieu for tholr
tobacco this nshb. Tha crop thongh te
nothing like u Urge u that of lut ysar, bat
good, bright tobacoote bringing an advaaoe of
six to sight dollars over tho prieu paid for
■amt grodao taat year. Tha quality of light,
brnrhy tobacco te thought to bo perhaps la
excvisofthat of last season.
A ItUar from that place dreaded by naviga
tes!—Cape Hattcras—rtports that tha grail
porpoise fishery located thoro, hu nenmad
operation for this muon, and with muked
On Iba day pravtoos to b
tab, a fin* watch aad
■■■■in UM first tlx daya It hu canght 405
Iporpoisaa, ud all huda are kept buy, Tho
Moure who prepare tta hldN for market are
all Englishman. Tta leather mannfoetaral te
Mid to ta superior to uy mods nt toy other
factory of tho same kind.
Mr. John Koltand, of Anion elite, wu elec
trified by tho earthquake shock, u wu alao
hie little ion. a Ud of moo twelve yean. They
wore In Marion, B C, at the I’jno, ud it wu
fully an bonr altar tha shock before they Ml
the • ffmt of the electricity. Itcamonpon them
all of a sadden. In tha foot and lags, nnd it
took oomo Utofy cobbing to giro them relief.
They an fibred no Injury—only n very dlugroe-
able sensation, aneh u ono fool* whn a limb
“gneoto sleep, which luted for usual honm,
[before It entirely won off.
■ A fow days ago Mr. Isaac Little, who livU
Inrar White 1 * Store, white at work in hit cotton
fio'd, fait asmathlng crawling np hla log. Bo
I thought It wu a mourn and grabbed It. In an
Instant he felt a pocollar amerting sensation,
ui on tiamlna lon, found ho had boon bit te
a big black spidu. In aa lnconoalvahly short
I while hU 1<« tann to (wall and the poteonto
■p oad la every direction. Bat for tho lucky
procuring of whiskey and tho arrival of Dr.
Moore, it te tailored that Mr. Little wrald
have died from tho effects of the spider Mto.
Speculation u to tho cure of tho rtpnbUou
victories In North Carolina are rtfo. Some of
the politicians ucrlta them to tho slock law.
I Others to democratic apathy. Others to tho
I prohibition party- Other* to civil varvioo re
form. Major Finger, who oauu to ta a kind
«f P^UUoal prophet, thinks the poo pit wore
dissatisfied because the ‘internal rerenn* n
not re Mated;" becaun "the tariff te not re-
dneod;” became "pensions are Increased,”ud
became "national aid to tdncnUu hu not
been giren.”
Tbo Charlotte Chronicle says "From all wa
can gather thus te a feeling of unrest aad a
principal aofferera. Chocks were taken from
tho stolen letters, ud in two or three cum
tha amoonta of these wore raised, in on* c*m
from »!W to 1420. Tho dtecovenr has boon
made by tho dotectlrea that tho thief 1a a no-
■ro ochaol teacher named W. A. Saxton, of
Asheville. Ho wuarrested Monday night, hot
while tho officer wu taking him to Jell (led
ud hu not taw recaptured.
The extension of tha I mu* asylnm te said
Iota Imperatively neceuary, and tha archi
tect’! plus have progressed so rapidly that they
will to reedy In a fortnight. Thor wUI ta
(Uhmltted to the legislature, together with a
bill nuking aa annual appropriation nntU tho
work te completed. Tho praowt building, of
brick, hu a front of 730 foot. It coutete of
neuter building nearly sqmre, with wlnp
extending north ud south 300 foot each way.
Tho plan of extension proposed te to add wing*
running east ud west to each ud of the pres
ent wing*, ud to give to etch oxtaur---
deptb of itant 350 fact. Thto will giro t
tqoal to that afforded by tho prount bolldlng,
or in other words. It trill doable tho asylnm 7 !
capacity.
Chambers county
Mr. Thomu Clanton shot at a negro named
0*BorJomln la Montgomery on Monday for
stepping on Mo foot, bat failed to hit him.
Thursday morning n negro tnopaasar named
Noilly wu found deed on top of a boiler at
tha Alice foresee, near Birmingham. Bo had
climbed np there daring tbo night ud wont
to (Imp, and It te aoppond escaping gas killed
him.
Abner B. Hill, u octoganariu, died nt the
residues of hil son-in-law, Hon. T. K. Brant
ley, In Troy, Thunday night. Be recently
returned from Toxu In very 111 health. Ha
wu the fothor of Dr. B. A. Hill, * prominent
physician of Coffee oonnty.
Mia. Presley Parry, wife of one of tho old
est and meat highly respected dtlsraaof Ma
rion, wu accidentally banted to death Thurs
day. Bho wu uwlng In front of n grate fire,
ud her clothing ought ud her body almoot
burred to a crisp. 8hc lived abont eight
boors.
To meet tha requirements of the Uw by
hleb tha trnlteN got tho property, tha
Alnbtmn State Land company" la to be or-
gutetd, and tha unsold Alabama and Chatta
nooga railroad tends, held by Swoon and Bit-
‘ v, u trustees, are to ta made over to It,
_ -retention hu already bow filed In tho
probate office at Birmingham potting down
tta capital stock at *177,000. Tbo property
comprise* oomo 000,000 acre*. It will soon bn
on tha mukot again, having taw noeeaurily
taken off lait May when the trust expired.
In Bniooll circuit ooart this track, n very
Interesting cue wu tried. A negro wu
•rraltncdln court charged with adultery, in
that ho wu living with a wMta woman. Tns
woman wu pot npw tho stand, and testified
that aho know nothing of her parentage.
~ her earlloet recollection oho
-on living with noxroev.
She had bow told that her mother
wu a white woman, aad her father either n
mulatto or an Indian. She had. boon living
with tha defwdut since oho was nlnataw
yean old, and they had two children. Tha
womin had no traced negro blood abont her
that wu apparent, tat u there wu a donbt
abont her parentage, ud they had lived to-
gvther n long u man nnd wife, tho Jury ren
dered a verdict of not gnilty.
Montgcmary Advertiser: At Martin’*
bridge, fenitoen miles gonth of Greenvlllt, g
party often men were rafting logs In a creak,
aed had s nnmtar of othor loys fastened with
atakw some distance np an ombankmwt.
While ill wart buy at work tha stakes hold
ing tho logs np tho embankment gave way and
taalega ram* trashing down with terrible fores
runateg over, terribly mangling ud Instantly
killing S. L. Planoy, of Greenville, who super-
Intended tho rafting of tho logs. Thomu
Jmu wu terribly mangled nnd hu aino* died.
Tho ethers escaped unhurt. Pinnay wu a
ftowlaiot citizen of Orewvill*, between forte
and forty fir* non of ago and loaves a wire
sad are children. Jonrewus
yean of ago and unmarried.
A an whn hu taw Bring without a eknl
foe nearly fire yetis died Bomrday at Hsrtnll,
boa tjM. often of a tall from o train. Nearly
firejenaoago,T. P. Woodall wa*found lying la
It before wopw hearth, hla hand amid the hot
mtan of an expiring Are. Whan rmcood nearly
too wUr* top of hia bead down to hla oyoa had
brea bnracd to a criip, and Instant death seemed
heritable. Ho wu carefully cared far, however,
teat resort tbs surgeon
entire shall u low
down >s the rockets or too eye, oqnallyts farm
tbo rear, ud w artificial covering wu placed
over lb* brain to protect It from exposure. In n
kw weeks nthln film formodortr It, and, strange
to my. the mu lived ud ratal nod all hla tammies.
The m< mbrane nerve hardened, and np to tha
bonr at bit death, which remitted from owns not
remotely affected by iho abstnoe of a tknli, in*
ewvnlrtwoflhabrainoonldta ootlly dissented
and Ul throbbing* dearly nan.
David Sanndcit, white, ahot ud klUtd
Martin Boblnon, a negro, 'w the Clovoland
place, neu Selma. Saunders wu making
■yrnp. Robinson, riding np to the mill, de
manded jay for $15 debt duo another negro.
Saunters repllod that ho did not owo it, Bob-
Iuron called Saundirr a rascal. Soandon ottered
to lrave the matter ton justice of tho poaoo.
lioMuan said Bauntfon wu * llu. Blunders
atgrted at him with g stick bat stopped, order
ing Robistw away. Kobluon seized n billot
of wood ud Halted U Bound ora. Ho wu
1 ami 10» pounds, OOTW ounce*, of the Iron Clad
ned Cuban Qnow variety.
Than Is a growing tendency amongst the
whit* tenants of Wilku county to Iren tho
tend they cultivate for a long term of years,
Instead of renting almply for one year.
Mr. Slow Brae* wu ahot at from ambnah
neu Yow’a mill, In Franklin eonnte, one
night last week white retoraiog from Toceoa.
Thru shot! entered ono aide of Mt face. Tho
wound 1a not dugerou. It te snppooed that
moonshiner* mistook Mm for a revenue officer
or Informer.
A fow dayi ago Bou Souks, a eon of T. N.
Sparks, wu up * muscadine tree, neu tho
public toad in the vicinity of Waverly hall,
Butte county, ud n passing gug of Georgia
Midland railroad bands teeing tho boy up tho
tree, dressed In light clothes, making a good
target, fired upon Mm, atrikleg him In tbo
right hud, making n very aerioua wound.
Two fingtre ware partly amputated ud the
hand dressed by Dr. L. W. Stanford.
Tbo Bemo Courier lays: A party consisting
of two grown women, a newly grown giri, two
boyi ud three amiU children left vt* tho
Home railroad yeaterdiyafteraoon for Colorado,
io join tho Mormons, This te tho result of the
work of the Mormon olden who have lately
visited thla section. Such people, h
can ta eerily spared from this country.
Tho old hoon standing In front of Bunott’o
hotel, in Heines, hu been tom down nnd s
new on* te being built A largo nnmtar of
old letter*, written by tho ooldlan stoat the
time of the tattle In tut place, ware fund be
tween tho celling ud weothorboarding. ThMO
loiters wen written tofatiun, mothers, wives,
sweethesita ud friends, bat novor roaohecl
their destination.
Monts. William Henry, Mulo A Co., seeds
men, of Philadelphia, Po, offered in tho spring
a premium of $50 for tho largest melon grown
in the United StstM from tholr celebrated
Iron Clad watermelon good. Yesterday Mr.
Miller received tholr check for $50, ho havlog
raised tha lugeat watermelon in the Doited
Sintra of that vulety, the melon weighing 128
Messrs. W. Atlee, Burpee A Co., of Philadel
phia, ibo offered a premium of $76 for tho
largest watermelon grown from tholr celebra
ted Co ban Qnau watermelon seed. Tho melon
raised from Iho Cuban Qneu teed weighed
lnponndt. Mr. Miller hu not yet heard
from Burpee A Co , but no donbt will esptare
their prize also.
Mr. John B. Burrow andhb little ion wut
out ’pOMum banting Wedneoday night, ud
after they had taeh oat a short while the cries
of tiro boy attracted the attention of Mr. Nolu
Wright, who wut to tha boy and found Mr.
Borrow pinned to tho ground by a tree, dead,
whtebhahidMlodla aa attempt tooatetha
possum. Mr. Borrow was s hard working far
mar, ud 1 tares a wifo ud several small chll-
dreo, who are quite dependont Ho lived only
a fow mllM from Waco.
Mr. Sam McCart, of Covington, ought a fall
grown wildcat in a hollow tree, by twining
t out with a lug awltoh Ilka a rabbit.
Tha Sumter Republican says: Jim Lowe, o!
Drayton, Dooly connty, who waa a good and
bravo confederate toldler, earn* home dnriog
tbo wu ud married, rotarned to hla port, and
afer peace wu established wut bravely to
work to rebuild Ms fortunes. Ha also built a
family ud had nine children up to list weak,
wbm Ms wifo unrooted him with thru
. Mother and boys aro doing
well ud Jim te happy, saying that hn will
roving disposition taking bold of many of the
colored people In this county ud abut tha
city, llhas tau tat a abort whit* since a
largo number loft this notion fist Liberia. W*
Icaraad yaotarday thu tha subject of Immi
grating to California te tatog dbenasad among
them now, ud a colony propoaM to otare from
here about tho 90th of Dtetasbar for that
state. A colored sun by tha name cl J. n.
Sheppard is working in tta interact ot thte
SteteSMS,*"* mrtthttaMrnUni ^-
The affair wu tho recall o( adkpnu abut a
small aam of money. Gay and tovenl of Ms
nogs* friends advanend toward FUthfnll. Tho
latter moved off, hot being closely peered,
ohU Gay In tho hood, canting luteal death.
Aaaou aaOay foil tta other nogroor sprang
upon Faithful!, aad baton he euld nubia
revolver, A In mod Mm sad best him almoot
ted rath. They would kare killed him had
they not tau frightened away by tha nob* of
•ODtcaehir people.
BUtarire of poatofllre boxes U Asheville
attracted attention aad plane wore mate for
tto restore eftta thief Th. nUeH-s lu
An*ue* Ud laeL C. K. Gtaaeu A C* ware tta
•ud
llobluios __
again, relied him a llu and a rascal. Saun-
dsn thu left tho molassca mill, going toward
tho gin, Boblnoon following. Sound era wont
lota tho lint room and got s gun. Robinson
■till approaching Saundin find. Robinson
foil on hit knees, aroro, scrambled a short
distance, dying ooon after. Ssnndore surren
dered himself and stood a preleralnary trial.
Bte bond wu fixed at $300.
Gro. Hart, the murderer of young Waldrop,
Is still at luge. It wu ascertained last Sunday
that ha wu still la tha vicinity or tho crime.
On Mudny a search was made by the cltiuns.
They arretted a negro by tta name of Anthony
Williamson, who was believed to bav* tau
harboring George Hut. At flint ho denial
knowing anything about Georg*, bat after It
wu proven on Mm that they worn aeon to
gether, ta told them thu If they would save
its life ho would tell them all hoknew.
Ha thu confessed that he wu with George
_i San day, ud that they won to mrot u a
certain spot Monday night, nnd rathe Tuesday
night following they would go to Mr. Goto’*,
mnrdtt Mm and take Mt money. A negro
wrman, stare urcatrd, con foasod that they had
hind hu to go to Ur. Cola’*, ta order that
•ho might hpu the door whu they cam*.
Then tha mnrdaren wan to go to Mr. Hay’s,
kill him ud take hla monay.and Into tho
country. Thor* wen many other nogrore who
tad a hand to thare Intended murders tatidca
tho ones named. They have all tau arreatad
•xcvj* Gretjgt, who la atltl talag pursued by
GE~ORGIANEWS.
lh« Newt #1 the W«k Throughout tho State
Briefly Told.
Tho far ours of Houston art taking ad van-
tag* at tta recent ralna, aad are parting tan
largo acreage of oar*.
Hr. Contents, father of Hon. Jad son C.
Clemen'*, eoagnonau from tho seventh dis
trict, died at hla homo ta Walker county Turn-
day.
Frank White, of Hancock county, mad* six
heavy total *f cotton on tta flvo acre patch**
about hia kenae. Boll worsts aad try waattar
cut abort tta yield.
Undo Jo* Walker, of DoEiIh connty, wUI
aou to77yoaraold, and he tan’t dnakn
rep of eoflto to TO year*, nor a drop of whtaky
ta 45 yoare, and ta don’t nro tobacco.
Mrs A. J. Carver, of Terrell county, killed
pins ta it* gtaaord. oom ot thorn tool: nearly
douhla. Tta chlcku waa porfsetiy healthy
J. O. Vliter, ot IteKa'H. tta horn water
r*lsw> soSmr of Waited tea'-a grew thla
jaag three wa.cruu !v. twtlgUa- each lte, U<
bonnetag boji.
waUudJlm li. ...
•top whu ho goto a regiment ud hs te the
colonel of It. Hia old army friendi send him
greetings.
Hr. Nawton J. Wheeler, living In Cherokee
(oonty.loot bte barn and it* contents by Are
l«tt Sal nrdsy night Thteyear'a crop, con-
* abont 2,000 baitab of com, 12,000
of fodder, several wagon loads of
shucks and a nnmtar of baleo of hoy, besldos
udtr ud things which wore stored
s ban, wore totally destroyed with
Ha managed to gat Mi stock oat,
ud that waa all that wu saved. His lost
amounts $2,500, Ho had no insurance what-
for. The origin of tta ffre is unknown.
Notwithstanding tha fact that tho cotton
crop ta Terrell te short thte year, thoro aro
a m* who hare mad* good crop*. Whu mak-
1 g arrangements for a crop ta tha spring Mr.
D e Melton laid offa uo male form to toot tho
I Itt-slre system, and ho te more than satisfied
with tho malt. On the land hanaad $140
worth of ferUllstra and mid* levontoen baleo
of cotton, 300 bushels of corn, 150 bushel* of
potatoes, 4.000 italka of cane ud 100 bushels of
" ilton ran too other ptowi
expend ao much for for-
t Users and made abont cloven bates of cotton
to thomulo ud othor thlnga ta proportion.
Thirty years of litigation hu bou cloood at
Hadloen by tho aettlomut of tta Eubanks’
estate. In 1840 a young mu named Alfred
Enbanka came from North Carolina, and
btcam* overseer for Dr. Budolph. By sharp
trading ho aeon became tho owner as well as
tbeoTonecr of tha estate. In 1857 ta died,
childless and Intestate. Eight brothers sot op
a claim for the property. 01 thcat brothers
flvo worn whole blood ud three were halt
The five frill blood brothon enjoined tho ad
ministrators from paying anything to the three
half bloods. It wu abown that tha half
bloods wore the children of the eldsr Eubanks’s
seond wife; that she had marriad Mm with
out tho formality of a divorce from her first
husband, whom iho nppooed to be dead: that
after tha blith of her third ehUd, the Enoch
Arden ta the care reappeared, ud created a
MMalion 1a tbafomlly.
Thte lajonctlon nit wu carried to tho itato
rupreme court In 1858, whloh decided that
tha haif-blooda trero illegitimate. An appeal
wu tabu to tha United Elates supreme court,
which decided that tta unfortunates ware le
gitimate, Tho war prevented farther settle-
mut nntll Ite clots, whu tho original $30,000
wu rodnoed to $3,000. Thte thru thousand
bad to ta collected ont of tho only solvent se
curity on tha list, who fought Ite collection In
tbo curia util this year, when ho tad to
pay over, Instead of the original three thou
sand principal, six thousand ta addition as
intenat.
Within that thirty yean tha rotate hu tau
Inthahoadi of thru separate administra
tions; all tha flvo Aril-blood brothon are dead
as wall as tha fonr lawyers orlgtiatlr retain-
id. Eton nnder tho Nttiement thus ntchod
tha Ihn* snrrivtag half brother* will only
gat $300 apiece, at all the mt will goto tho
lawyera.
A fatal difficulty occurred at Lnla Totada
night, In front of a restaurant near tha depot,
between Jamas Frick*, a revenue Informer,
and Ben Clark, a mu wall known abut town,
who earns a scanty living by peddling lnnekN
at tha depot. Frlcki aad Clark, It atoms, bad
a -,narrel ta tha nsturut, and tha proprietor,
aoataf that th* probabilities wore that that*
would ta a serious difficulty, ordered tho mu
mt
They walked ut upon tha veranda, the man
haring opu knlvoa in tholr hands. Fricta.
aoon after coming mt of tho naturant, closed
op fate knife ud thu struck Clark a couple
of blows with kla fiat, tho fore* ot
whloh tended Clark In th* at not.
Clark recovered quickly, and getting np.
rushed open Fricta, indicting two womdn
out table neck on the left aid*, nnd th* othor
ta tho loft breast, tho buds of th* kolfo en
tering th* left long. Clark thou walk* luff,
hot has net left town. Fricks was carried into
tta hoot* of Mr. Wllkoreu Smallwood, and
Doctors King ud Wlisher called ta. An in-
ventilation of tta wounds showed that tho
jotuTar vein wu errand aad that tha triads of
tho knlfo, whu tho second thrust was made,
utired th* loft long.. Tta attending phyti-
clans, white they did everything in tholr
power to niter* lb* anfforer, their effort*
accomplished nothing, ud ho died in abont an
boor.
The Marital] villa Times say* that o a Thurs
day night of last we«k n bold burglary wu
perpetrated by partita for da« u entrance
mto the residence of Mr. J. J. Hurph. Anon-
true* wu obtained by breaking a tint area a
blind which permitted tha utranre of tta
hud to onteotu tta blind* ud rain th* win-
daw. Ozreta they wool throagh tta honm
go erelly-
Deputy Csl’ector of Internal Revenue J. D.
Dnnwody tan rerun: cd to Savannah from a
trip through fourteen of the eastern and wnth-
ewttreerta'leerfteertata. Harereetettat
MV,ml of thu oij ceuuure un oau Imbibing
largely of Jtmi'ea glrger. ' A thriving bail-
nr ro was being done at Wayo.-ou before tho
dvpnty collector dropped diwa upon tbo town.
Ten draterewere handling tho hot nnd spicy
liquid, and were making a good thing out of it.
Ozo dealer rema'ked that Jamalct ginger had
becoma th* moat popular medicine in tits
Pharmacol ip. Ho aofd twolve down bottles a
day, whereas a year ago a dozen tattles
would have luted six months. Tae
thirsty of that to err In carting about |’or
a aubatituto for whtaky, hit upon the ginger.
It cornea ta two-onnea bottles for tho retail
trade, ud ua bottle of It will overcome tha
moat hardened toper. Commercial Jamaica
stager b almost pun aleohol, and physicians
that aa a tavern
Iterated article.
Griffin Newt: Thursday a young lady of
remarkable beauty arrived la the city and
registered at one oitbe hotels. On Friday she
left for Carrollton on Captain Littleton's train,
luring her hotel MU unpaid. Bho appeared
to to struck at ones with tho handsome con
ductor and called on Mm for numerous fa
vors, which with bte unvarying polltcnem, ha
granted. Before aho reached Carrollton aha
unfolded to him a tale ofa sick brother whore
•ho wu going to tee, and after a large display
of grief stated that her means ware Uaritod,
and asked Captain Littleton to lather have
five dollars. At thte tlmo his suspicions worn
aroused si to the truthfulness of her story,
bathe resisted her to got a team when they
reached Carrollton to toko her out to where
she said her brother was sick—which team ha
had the pleasure of psytag for. Yeatordty
she esm* hack on the passenger to Nownau,
when she boarded the Anuta ud Ware
Point train for Atlanta, tearing a nnmtar of
Milo to bo Nttlod fey the sympathising friends
aho mzdo along her route.
ExpontlroWall Paper.'
From the Detroit Free Pram.
There la no longer any markot for confeder
ate bonds. Tbo chaps who hold the big Iota creat
ed a market aad unloaded, and when ghat object
wu •ecompltehed the bottom fell ont of Uw
bucket
Sam Jones on tlio Other Sam,
From tta Omaha Bee.
Wo have a fow old red nosed dorilo who will
drink ssloog as they lire, bnt they will sou go
out "am SmaU saga It take* more money to pilot
a note red ttan It dost to paint tho capltol at Wash
ington with the belt while load loth* world. Ho
spent tiff 000 In bag Jnloo to put on bte note, and
only got It to a pals ptnk at late.
Died In tha Woods.
Fobt Kcoob, Mont, November 31.—Lett
Tuesday the remains of Jla Swan, alias Jack
Stoppard, the priaoe of northwestern highwaymen,
were found among the Big Ham mountain*. He
* from the sheriff some time ago, white
tbd, ud was never canght afterward*. HO
died from starvation, u hla manacled condition
prevented h Im from proenrieg food. A knlfo and
beti < aoh/m ,Ul Ul * ch “ nb *"« m I , ‘F.wer* found
Salesman Wanted.
A few'good traveling'men to rell our
Cigars. Commlialon oc Salary. Ad dross
Barcher, its Bearbuatiecl. Pint National
Building, Chicago, Name this paper. i
MARRIED lit OgOBOIA,
Ur. Thomu H. Loner and Him, Mamie loo WU-
smson, Decatur ......Mr. L. D. Dreary ud Mire
Clara Gray, Grlffln.—Mr. John Coop r. Jr., and
Mils Janie.!. Farrow, Haora....Mr. Fared Iceland
and Him Maggie Thompson, GrtSlo„....Captaln J.
V. HarMaon and Mlaa Mamie Brittain, Dahlenegn
Mr. Willi* 0. Brower aad MiroBlBe Boyd, Svt-
vanla. ________
DIATR3 IN GEORGIA.
eaten B. Williamson, Sjlr«nIa„....G. w. Coog
ter, Bnmu.~.Mra. Jnlla Anderson, Litbonta
Hannla Holbrook, AlUnta. William Jatfrtea, At-
POWDER
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