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THE WEftgLT CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA. TUESDAY DECEMBER 7 1886
THROUGH DIXIE.
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.WHATSOUTHERN FOLKS ARB SAY
1NQ AND DOING.
Missouri,
The “White Ifora* Company" of Miller
county, have rouuucoced their work again. A
few nighte ago they- vtottod the boost of Jack
Lett, colored, and administered to him a nevere
wrltluning. Lett’* brother, while the Bald
Xmlbera were at tbrlr work, pot In an appear-
trre with a rifle, whirh he dbcharged in their
XnidsL onborring one of their number and It la
thtufht k till** hint.' ite wat picked up by hla
CttfidttioM who hastily carried him away.
Fellow tiouhle in (hocounty-WIth,night riders
Is expected, for they have left warnings at lev
t ral heaaoa. Tbe.dUtaaa.hare ail armed them.
ecWrjnhuweY W, are ropdy to give them a warm
It!:"' ' Ml—lxlppl.
The planters In thp hill acojiou «t tha state
Lave noticed of date with' a good deal of
tincatlneoa the tendency of the negroes to go
■way toward the Yaaoo valley, and. In fart,
feme portion* of the state have born almost to
tally denuded of their negro imputation. This
Is explained by the flirt that Measrs. Wilson
nod Iiootington have very sagaciously turned
the attention of the negroes to tho mild Ynioo
Isrttom lands along tho lino of their railroad,
between Vlekabprg and Mentphla, nnd snmo
6,COO negro families have located them al
ready. Tho raUrond company sells the land In
lota to wttfi, at the nt* of $3 an acre, In live an
imalpayments, taken oot of the emp* as raised.
The lands are principally In what was known
as the Yacto swamp, which waa a wilderness
prior to the time the railroad waa eitanded
through IL Tho charaetor of the soil is very
fertile and averages two halos of rotten to the
aete. The land is heavily timbered with gum,
oak, oak and hickory, ana can he clou red at an
expenie ranging from twelve to fifteen dollars
ptr acre. ■
Virginia.
fn n:t county, lu an aflhay, Thomas Smith and
John Dennis, the letter dud sod killed the former.
Friends of Smith assaulted Dennis, and cut him
nearly to death with a large knife, and It to not
thought Dennis can recover.
bent mountain was tho scene of a terrible
trap dr. A man liy the name of Thomas Web-
tier, who lives In that section, upon reluming
hr me found a dun by the name of Collins with
his wtfc. Webber remarked that he was going
to kill Collins. As soon as he said this ho
ahtatk-ColUne with sn ev, splitting hlo head
o|vn. Death was tnstantsnoous.
■ An attempt to burn the Jail at Powhalan
tVdirlhouso was made on last Tuesday night
by Jce TSylor, who to eenfinod upon a charge
or dialing a none and phaeton from an owner
lu Richmond and killing the hone when he
arrived In hto neighborhood, lie had attempt
ed to barn out the staple which confined him to
the floor by sjehaln.hutdkl notjuicccul. Finding
that lie would probably he burned alive, lie
made an outcry at 9 o'clock In tho morning nnd
nwukc the dtiirns, who all turned out ana ex
tinguished the fire. There were at tho time
confined In thejall two lunatics-* nun and
woman, both colored.
The oldest person In Vlrgtnlallvca nrarVarion
and it to such a remarkable ease I will
give it toyou for publication. Mn. Mary Crow,
widow of Thomas Crow, waa bom August 11,
1716; waa a Mlm Hnavrly, of Herman drecent, and
was married In ITCH. Hbe has great-groat grand
children, sixteen yean old—her fourth genera
tion. Iler eyesight to almost porfoct; can re*d
Herman without glasses; cannot read English
at all. For a nninls r of yean her lialr was whlto
as r cow. Now II to getting black again. Two
luehra or more of the hair next the scalp to now
perfectly black: It growing rapidly, and black
end full. title to quite childish nuw. When a
xlrraigcr visits her or cornea on'tho place she
becomes very much excited; to afraid of stran
gers. Uer liiolth Is good. Bho dare not hear
very well. She hat a very poor memory of
tl.lnga that have happened rarently, but will
talk of things that luipnened fifty or ninety
yiajykgoaa clearly as If they had only hap-
pentd. A week or two slflce the wont to bed
as usual, and slept for sixty boon without wak-
attarkrd and overpowered the jailor, nnd took
Mua Frldnrr, Alfred Jones and Kphrahu Joncl
tl.reo of the negroes Implicated In tho I
Deweea Holloa, at Flewellyn’s store —
county, on the wight of the election and lynch
id them. It wasi *
was not aroused.
Ilea of tho threo men
were found hanging to a tree In tho morning*
It to thonpht the feeling agilnat the men had sub
sided so that no further trouble wonld occur
rr.d Fhcrifir Dover brought them hack from
Houston, whlthor they had been sent for safo-
ker ping. There to no clue to any of the |ierpo-
Inter*. It to feared the unfortunate occurrence
will again caurorecoprtjadlcciind raise political
cxriUnirnt very high.
A daring robbery wot committed at Molta, the
Drat aiding on the liuo of the Toxas nnd I'aclflr
railway, ten miles wiat of here, at midnight
last night. The only Inhabitants of tho place
are a gang of fifty Chinese section lisnds snd a
white foreman. At nbout midnight the China-'
men were Waited upon hy fifty masked men,
who demanded their money. Upon refusing to
give np their hard-earned cash they wore One
at a time hong np hy their queues unlil they
gave up their money.
The rchbrro, thinking they had not gel all
tlie cash In tho camp, returned and tortured
one of.the Chinamen hy holding him mi n hot
stove nntll hto comrades gavo up the hnlsnro of
their money, some $500 In all. One Celestial
had hto queue eut off and wha otherwise horri
bly tortured. No arrests have been in ado.
Temple narrowly escaped destruction hy
[Ire Tuesday night. - In the nfteruoon, a man
ranted Burton, informed officials of the exist
ence of a plot to burn tho city. A special force
|was rnminoned, anil tho city pot under tho
closest watch. At 7:90 tho Incendiaries up-
I eared and poured oil on tho wall of Williams's
ratoon In the sear, and applied a match, when
the flames leaped up. Hpeciat Officer McMahon
demanded the surrender of James Nash, the
' the match. Nash fled, nnd
. , killing Idm instantly. The
oilier conspirators made good their escape.
. North CaroMim.
Fayetteville to lo have a $“'>,000 hotel.
C hief of Felice Fowler, of Washington, N. C„
has added a ferocious bloodhound to his equip
ment.
The cornu of engfneera on the Chester, Aldie-
villc and Atlanta mil read are now lu Union
county, about four miles west of Monroe, en
gaged In locating the bod of tho road.
Governor Fettle* his received official notifica
tion of the death of M. B. Gregory, democratic
senator-elect from tbo first district. Ills death
occurred Friday evening. Tho governor sent
notice lo the shcrlffii of Currituck, Chmden,
Pasquotank, Hertford, Gates, Chowan, and
Perquimans, which compose the district, order
ing them to hold elections In their respective
counties Jdnnary sixth, to fill tho vacaruiy.
At I-aortnburg a negro man, Thomas Mock-
Ins, laid a wager that hr could drink over a
quart of whisky In a half hour. Uo succeeded
but too well, for in tho timo ho drank tho quart
nnd a pint more. Ills waa a short-lived victory,
however, for a few hours later ho died.
The surveying corps engaged at work nndcr
the direction of the eomnilasionen appointed
hy the states of Virginia and North Carolina to
survey and re-establish the boundary lino lie-
tween the two state*, are now at work In the
Dismal Swamp section. The engineers are fol
lowing very near the track of Colonel Byrd
Willis and hto surveyor* through tho forests of
tho great Dismal In tho early days of the colo
nies.
A new enterprise in North Carolina Is * broom
foctory established at Ashevlllo by J. Btralth A
Co. These gentlemen distributed n great many
reeds of the broom com in that vicinity, with
Instrartlona hew to cultivate and rare the
nme, with a view to making a market for tho
to t«0 per acre.
»iw» vti isiiiu,
vicinity have realtoed from $30
lug. When she nwoke she was very hungry,
end ale Vtrr heartily. In the prime of her lib
rlie welfhid between 97.7 and IIM pound* Now
rbe weighs scarcely 100 pounds.
Florida. |
4 piece of prcpvtty near Tnm;o, known as
Ft i]pltire's Grove, consisting of thirteen acres,
»old lecrntty for $3.1,000.
, 4 northern firm to about to ratabltoh a pack
ing Lbuta In Qnlncy to take care of the tobacco
,Cit'i' of that county, to cure and market It.
- A number of eastern taxidermists are on
.rent; cd among the Ten Thousand Islands, near
Ponce dc Peon hay. Fla., staying the how nest
.ing.ftathery'trlbe by the wholesale.
< lb unties were paid during the past year In
Ft. -I< hns county for the killing of fiftv-oue
wlldi p|» and nine bur*-$M for the former
amt $tu for tho totter.
Hen. A. D. Cone's son suicided at IaCnwse,
'Alachua county, but week, cutting Ida threat
with a rarer.
Itiapiopered to change the name ofWoat
LensWood to Nero Natira.
Over #0,000 hexes of oranges have already
kin aliipiaxl ftom I-ceshor*.
Gslnrsrille shipped 3,000 hoxea of oranges In
one day tost week to Chicago and Cincinnati.
A wild negro lias been disco vend In the
swamp ne
catch him.
Gi c of the results of the reeklrae killing of
the herons, storks, egret* etc, of south Florida'
to en increase lu theuambor of snakes about
the lakra snd ponds. The great blue heron to
without a rival as a snake catcher. Hive him
« chance to get them and he would consume a
doicti ordinary sired snakes la a day. He decs
<1(4 fear llic uost venomona reptile, and In a
tattle always comes out brat. He to a thorough
barbarian, nnd always cats hto enemy after toe
battle to over.
A new syndicate Is being formed lo bnlld a
canal from the uioulh of fit. Mary's river in
t!ubrgta through the Oksfoneker swamp, to Rt,
llerha on the Gulf of Mexico. This renal will
Save ships lJftO utile* Ingoing from New Or-
leans to Nrwr York. Twenty-two states and
: tertilurlu nip Vitally Intonated In opening
tbit waterway,throughout which the enormona
' traffic of IheTltoshwIppI valley could he ror-
rudhy ulh snd direct routs to New York by
water. ■
Texas. |
Btronloftherittenaflum near Lone Star
bad thidr hands poisoned while on n rami
kyat. Thenohoawupatoatatarihemouti
of t\ Ire creek, in Polk county.
TfcvlfcUaatoWyctu set to work Tuesday to
fTfontov s library nssortotlen, towards which
the 112 practicing lawyer* In Dallas agree to
IwyflWeaehfor the parehase of the hooka,
and HO each per annum to Sustain It.
uro it U thought probable
*** intolh#
. *“ "Whited at the hraianlng
-"f '»* season, and th. weed to ttUllrowiiu
«( predoeiog bulk that are stradily UKXg!
Poor persons ween piscoed at Uoyen Wed-
Bceday moreiubwitar Otocurlll*. Uto np
VT* J* 1 !? 11 ,**• “““A from poison in tho
knlem!®” 1 * ta V«au«re It git thee* U not
SundaynqMain Arrington, sheriff of Wheeler
£
te am* lTo-vc^
vf jy*f**” wlll> Wa toft hand and pat n Wll
rcandtaUhrah^* «
kndsj morning, sn srmed mobnt Brenhim
Alnlmtnft.
Tatkrgcc Iim only ono bar-room.
Tho colored normal school at Tuakegoo liaa
080 Ktudenta. ,
Tu^^A^^p^' 6 ^
The senate in exefuUve session Fridnr eon.
fl uned the governor's sppolntment of Mr. Julian
Whiting as nuOor-geneml of militia.
Bo far ftem any more being made lo abolish
the railroad commission, Iho legislature seems
In ill mil to still further Improve that court <
arbitration between railroads and tho people.
Monday afternoon, shortly after two
o'clock, A. II. Moore, of lronilnle, was shot
through the Inert hy hto lirothcr-lu-law, W. A.
Baldwin, and lustunlly killed. The murdered
man was rarrted to his Haber's house, nnd Iho
slayer, who waa severely wounded hlnianlf, wwa
Ishrii In charge hy Bqnlro Baas, Justice of Iho
pesrc, nnd brought to thto city on tho Alabaui
Great Boutbrrn train nt Sffifi p. no, placed lu
carriage, and at eaee driven to tliu county Jail,
where surgtral aid waa summoned.
Baldwin's wife was also dangrrenaly wound
'nl h* a bullet ftem Moore's pistol. Baldwin
stated ton reporter, this afternoon, that ho waa
Working on the railroad in Mississippi, and
rsmeto thto eity after his wife. Hilling nt
their Iwanllng house he found hto rirlfo had
gone lo her father's house nt Irondslo, He
went there at once, and called at
the hnua< of Judge Moore,
hto fothor-ln-lftw, found Ids wire and told her
hr hod found work at Vlckahurg, and wauled
her lo go there with him. which she agreed to
do. When ready In start, Ills wife said:
“Will, we *ra dlvurerd.”
Itahhvlq thru caught her hand and tried to
compel her te go, whru Moore ordered him to
release the woman, whirh ho refoard lo do.
Moore then drew a pistol and fired, the lull
f truing the woman's neck,and passing through
taklwln'a cheek, who then drew hto pistol and
fired, with the nhovereatilt. Baldwin's wounds
are net ennatdrrcd dangerous.
An elaborate report on the real Holds of Ala
bama, puls Alabama eighth In tho uulun in the
m irage of cvnl mmaurew nnd lint In quantity
urn! quality of coni. Tho Warrior fields con
tain $lSo 1 «K!,i»*i,tloa of which £10,000,000,<100
wonld he profit. This profit of tulnlug tho
cent fields of Alabama alone, would buy every
foot of Atohnina territory at $000 per acr .
The real production of Alabama Increased from
11,000 tens In 'TO, to 9,295,000 tons In '85.
l\ u r-fifths of this won eoiuumed by railroad
ami fornarra In Alabama. Thto showing makes
Alabama the richest state In the union when
Its resonrecs are developed.
Tennessee,
Tho Lincoln county Jail It empty.
Cholera baa killed a great many hags thto
snuon In tarts of Cheatham county, hi las Uar>
tto, who hot not purchased n pound of laid
since the war has bat one hog to kill.
The company that own the marble lands
about Craighead have surveyed a route for *
railroad ftom Craighead to Keegan's Button
ami Intend to hnlld n railroad for the purpoae
of chipping their marble. H la rumored that
arrangs incuts are already bring made for open
ing a stole at Keogan's.
, tine day Imd week while Mb* Susan Todd,
danahter of Mr. Thomas Todd, was pinching
Apples from n tree the earth suddenly gave way
under her foot and she started down, with it,
but fortunately ranght with her arms on the
hank at her side and a-rarubled hark to terra
firms. The hole Is ,described ru bring about
I he family conrlnded to make 'tho search to
quiet the whims, os they thought, of the aged
vxtpnn, when, to their astonishment, they
found buried In a barrel of ashes In the old
wheat house $175 In gold and $19 In silver In a
row horn, and >W) in a cloth, all in tho barrel.
Ale* Fsott, son of tho deceased, said ho ear-
rii d the ashes snd plnnsl them in the barrel
when s iriiall boy, liy direction of hto father.
'I he youngest sou of the family, George Meott,
who found tho hidden money, was unthought
of In this world when hto futher pnt it there for
qofe keeping. Mr*. 'Fcott says her husband
<lbo hid nn -old cracked tea-
Ifotllr filled with money oomC'
where on the premises, nnd diligent search it
row being made for ft. Thto to one Instance
w here “money In a horn” proved that of real
By. and the finder* are Jubilant over their good
fortune. They are convinced that the aged
tody has a wonderful memory, and hereafter
when vhc speaks threan of tho inmates will be
open and strict attention paid her.
South Carolina.
Prohibition was defeated in Bpartanburg.
Anderson county to In the midst of s prolii.
Utica camjailgu.
Mm. Dsvhl Moorr, n beautiful ludy of Spar
tanburg, was burned to death lost week.
A fire, ueeurred at Early Bmneh, eighty-six
milt* from Augusta on the Port Koysl railroad,
which i.i dew riled us having been terribly
cm nil, Ike woods for miles being on fire around
Early Brain h. Tbo store of cCF. A. Fickin, a
acbtsilhousc and u fine nsldeuoe has been de-
enured by the flames, and the fire is spreading
havoc through the wood*, and no estimate can
Is- made of the damage Hint will ho done. Three
fiat iwrs, one hauled fr. '"lit ear, the telegraph
roles nnd about fift; erosoile* were burned.
Two paieeiiger and lw- freight trains writ pro-
ventid from moytntt nr. account of the destruc
tion of the track hy the fire fiend.
Destructive forest fires are raging between
thto rlty and Huinter, on the Central railway of
Foulh Carolina, a distance of ninety miles. At
Monlck's Comer, thirty-one miles from the
city, ninny plantation buildings are reported to
have lieu destroyed. At tho Htony Landing
brick work*, fire surrounded tho buildings but
was l«stcn hack after it hail destroyed over a
hundred cords of wood. The Central railroad
from Columbia tonight had to run between
walls of fire, miles in length; audextending up
lo the tracks.
Chsrlcston Is filled with smoke from forest fires
In Mirrounding country. Telegraph wires are
down on tho line of tho Northeastern road
and the foil extent of damage Is not known.
The village of l'lnopolis, in Berkrly connty.
narrowly ensiped dost met ton. Mrs. Kate
l'orrhrris dwelling house nnd a number of barns
nnd farm houses were burned. TTio fires are
raid to bn generally nndcr control, having
burned.out their fuel. Isirge hndici of turpeu-
,, tine woods have been destroyed nnd tho loss
will necessarily be heavy.
‘ A negro named Cicsar Bolduson was lyneh-
iil Wednesday for alleinptliiganontrago upon a
young whlto girl named Miss I.lxzic
Bowie, of unblemished reputation. The
girl was walking along a rnnntry road,
two tulle* from Florence, when she was necost-
rd hy ltoblnsou, who immediately began tak
ing liberties with her. Bha tried to jerk away
from him but was powerless
in hto strong grasp. JIo farced hor down upon
the grramd, when she screamed for help. For
tunately, at that moment a party of boys came
out of the woods. Tho negro seeing them, left
hto victim nnd mu iuto the thicket. Last
Monday night Kohlnnon was arrested, lint he
protested his Innocence. He was easily idontl-
fled, however, hy the girl and her roscuet*.
Yesterday afternoon n party of yonng men
organised * '
from Borne to Ayer's mill. Teat came ont of the
sate with an ax and made a brutal assault oa
him. Teat struck bis lather several times, both
with back and blade, and seriously Injured
him. When Mr. Erwin had been' knocked
down and brutally hurt Mrs. Teat came to the
Irene,grabbing the handle of the ox nnd call
ing loudly for help, and savid Mr. Erwin'a life.
The came of the attack waa that his father had
turned cattle out of a lot lu which Teat had
nnd repaired to (he jail in which
Koblnson was confined, and nttacked it from
the rear.
The jailer endeavored to repel them.bnt they
were determined lo lynch tho culprit. They
*“*■ ' mod him to n point a short
covering the bottom.
Compilations of reports to the Tradesmen
from twelve ■ nth. ro state* daring the quarter
ending December 1st, (hows remarkable derel-
rarionataduitrica daring th* period
and Incorporated In tho twelve states,
work having ac*a*lly commenced ea many of
•hunt Twenty-flvo bloat fomacee; 61 railroad
rcmnartra; 131 wood working establishments;
1$ electric light computes; 73 foundries, mills
•nd marh no shops; SO mining and smelting
companies and 9« Sear mills.
,Jr ' - d . W ““nt 11 * ago. Hto wife, an
aged invalid, told tho xarmhsn of the house
hold hut wick that Mr. tuleh Fcott. mo* after
the begtaning of the wwL^Ucrd money forsafo
MwKl the related tho aboro. Filially
Wheat
leek him nnd cm
distance away, nnd Imngcil him to tho llinh of
an i«k tree. IVlille thto work was going on, n
party of negroes armed with gnns uhd plstoto,
made an aunult upon tho lynchers, firing
a numher ef shots, none of which took effect.
T1|P negroes *rro boon rented. Considerable
rtxcitriuciit.rxlsta tonight In Florence, and tho
negroes threaten vengeance tipon the lynchers.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Tlie News of the Week Throughout the State
Briefly Told.
MHIedgevillo to to have a foundry and a ma
chine shop.
Hears nre plentiful In llie swamps a few inllcs
from Darien.
A little over 10,000 I slice of cotton has been
marketed in Eatoutim thto fall.
The town council of Blakely has fixed tho
Hqnor license for 1087 at $500,
The Folnc murderers In I.pmpkln county, are
unable to give bond, and will bo contiiiod in
jail until their trial. M
Janies Bltnonn made this year, tin one onarter ?
■'fall acre of land, on Christopher McRae'*
place, three milcsbclow Mt. Vernon, flvohar-
re!s of good nyrup.
Judge Branham to having nn office fitted up
in Home, and Will return lo tho practice of tho
'■■w.
Near Ilowcnvllle Mr. Will Mason hns made
I>n a two mule farm 1104 bushels ef corn, 17
l«l<« of cotton, 75 bushels of wheat aud a good
rep of uats.
There are 1,toll convicts on the chalngang of
Hcorpis, 51 females—to colored—1 white, ltll
white males anil the balance colored.
Three gmtlemen, a father and hto two sons,
residing near Ami ricuo, were rcecntly married
to three stolen, each mremony having bocn
performed hy the same minister.
ormpoudeut ftom t'ounmaoga relate*
many errnrreucra of his neighborhood, among
which bespeaks of tho chase. He says Mr.
Tom 1 ■sinter nnd sons have caught twenty
cnona thto'muon.und Is paying cash for oil fore
and skins be nm get.
Mr. T. D. Rockwell, of the Griffin Snn, says:
lr Mr. ub'aucr, idiu.r Slid proprietor of tho Urtf-
n Psllv Nows, means to rar wo stole ono of hto
pspera. no Is a liar. If that Is not plalu euouxh wo
will try to make It clear If Mr. illenner will call at
our office any time between the hours of 10 a.m.
and 12 p.m.
To thto Mr. Glessner replies:
If T. 1). Rockwell, editor ortho S>nn, feels thst no
reference can be made to his paper without nuklua
arc irons matter out of It, we shall hoglad to meri
hfm iwvr fn Alal«ma at any time when he has a
lew hour* Moire and scute the uiicstiou with him
In a gentlemanly way.
Myrtle Isle, of Rome was painfully, if not fatally
burned. Friday she was standing In front theof
grate,Ashen her ai-ron Ignited and the flames rap.
Idly consumed her rlothlng. Dr. West dressed the
burns, and thinks she may receiver.
Mr. K. Fincher, who forms near Rome,
killed three bogs one day this week which
weighed 911 pounds, an averago of 301 pounds
each. They were only twenty-one months and
a half old, and were of tho Big Guinea nnd
Berkshire breeds. line stock pay*.
t'harlea Blackman, who seas to hare been
hung In Schley connty on Friday for tho mur
der of Stonewall Torn!re, baa gained a respite
pending an appeal tu the supreme court. The
trial of lilacktixan for the oflbnao has occupied
the greater portion of two term* of the anpcrlor
eoart, and has coot the county over $->,(Wa
Every one admits hi* guilt, aud ha hat uover
denied the atrocious tnunlcr.
A bottle of liquor waa an important foctor In
settling a criminal case at tho last Walnut
(trove murt. On* man had drawn a pistol na
another hr lb* tailor * house and a proserntioa
followed. When the trial crime on the pbuol
fiend treaded the prosecutor a time or two,
they mode the thing np, paid half the cost*
each, and stopped It. They were really good
friends all the while, and llw whisky soothed
the mu* enmity arm made everything serene.
The Augusta News says: “About ten yean
ago a negro man, while working In a field about
four mile* from UmnftevUle, In that couaty.
was abet and hilled by a white bun, who had
ambushed him. Th* whit* awn. fearing the
caaarqarwr** of his art, fled to Texas. A cor-
reepnudent visited the Irene of the kiDIng re-
rcntly, and asked about the efaenmatanres.
■Yea, replied th* perron addressed, ‘he was
killed jnat about here, and Fonder, on that
stomp, Iim hto hat, where It ha* beau aver since
the day be sea* shot down.' ”
LtwtoO. Erwin write* that aa hla father.
noun.
A very nt range occurrence took place near the
Rome Sunday. A little twcivc-year-old no-
fio Kiri, apparently In perfect health, told her
mother to drew her in her grave dress, be-
ratine ehe was going to die. Her mother, to
Lumorthe child's whim, partially complied,
and before *hc had finished the child was dead.
The facta are vouched for by a responsible gen-
man who resides in the neighborhood.
The master workman of the Augnsta factory
aar«mhly Kigbtsof tabor, received a letter
from Ceil
minittman Wright, stating that tho
if the amount of m
knights for bills contracted
ly,
lid
balance of the amount of money owed by the
during the strike,
accounts. He also said he would publish
account in the next iwuc of the Journal of
Union tabor of the disposition of the money
sent here for the support of the knights daring
the strike. This publication will show in full
bow the money was disposed of, nml by whom
a large amount of it was stolen. The member
of .the relief committee who skipped town
with, St is said, $2,000, ha* not been heard
from and it i* supposed, he is- in New York
Mr. J. T. Cannon, living two milos cast of
•Dawson, whs visited by a mad dog one night
last week. The dog created a great disturbance
during his vbit to the plantation and put
• very thing to flight that cuine in his way. lie
hit two or tlircc of the dogs on the place and
completely devoured three young pups in Mr.
Cannon's yard, as there was neither hair nor
hide of them left to tell the story. The mid
canine washhotat a few times when he left for
parts unknown.
Information has reached Drnmwick of tho
arriage of a former Brunswick lady in Key
West, Fla. Mrs. Mary Harris, mother of W.
W. Watkins, lately deceased, is the bride. Hho
is just eighty years old, and was married on
November 17 to Captain John Lowe, of that
city, aged dghty-two years. He has been
blind for ten or twelve years, but is possessed
of means ruflicient to take care of his new wife
in flne shape.
Tom Curtis, n negro employed by Mr. A. II.
Hlmmohs, of Jao county, while workingaround
Mr. Himinons' steam gin, attempted to replace
the belting on the pulley wheel with a small
piece of plank, while tho gin waa running, one
day last week. The piece of plank was caught
in the wheel and thrown around, striking him
in the stomach. Uo was knocked senseless,
and iu this condition takon tip and carried
homo. Medical assistance was called In, but
Tom lingered until Saturday night and died.
taut Tuesday ono week ago, George Johnson,
ilorcd, a cook in Hpicr & Ilor/'s restaurant,
threw a glass of whfcky into tho face of an-
WX'Ilfc UUIUU, UUU ™ BOOH quuo SICK
(•fleets of it. IIo lingered until Mon
day morning, when he died. An inquest was
held and an autopsy made. The jury decided
that ho diod from inflammation of too brain,
but did not know the cause. Johnson Is in jail.
It is a strange ease, as tho negro was in good
health before tho whisky was dashed in his
face.
Mr. John Parks went to Thotnaston on
Thursday, nnd coming hack by Brooks Bros.'
ccraroisrary, ho atcppul in and began cursing.
Brooks knocked him down and fell himself.
Parks arose first, and drawing his knife, cat a
deep gash on Brooks's cheek. Willie Brooks,
seeing his kinsman's danger, jerked tho knife
from Parks’! hand and stabbed him In tho sido,
then cut his throat from car to oar aud a silt
from bis chock to car. and also ten times in tho
back. Parka is hardly expected to recover.
About a year ago Parks weut to a field in which
Brooks waa plowing and cut him on tho chock,
find they havo been enemies over since.
■A, tevr days ago Mr. Newton Sprsy-
berry, of Coweta connty district, and
another gentleman, while naming through a
skirt of woods, came upon a honey bush, which
was bunchy topped, and nndcr the top was a
swarm of bees, which, doubtless, from the
amount of comb nnd honey woven about tho
body of the bush, had been there a year or so.
Mr. Hprnyberry says he got n gallon and n half
of honey, well tasted. The bees were working
finely, just ns though they had been in n gum.
An amusing incident of tho late term of Tu-
laris! court was tho ease of John Stripling, a
white man under indictment for shooting n
colored man. Alter the evidence was heard
aud the speeches made, the jury retired. Strip-
Hug, who was under bond, was afraid that ho
would be convicted, nnd he went out in town,
jumped on his horse, nnd fled. The jury soon
returned with a verdict, lmtit could not be
read because tho defendant, or prisoner, was
absent. The Judge, held tbo Jury together for
acveml hourx, when it at lost became kuown
that Stripling was gone. TUcu tho verdict was
mid, ana it «iid he whs not guilty. Tho ncktj
day the sheriff received a message from Strip*!
1 ’>ff» saying that if lie wits acquitted it was all
right, nnd if ho was convicted It nladc uo dif
ference, as he had the start.
Burly County News: Sheriff Black had an
exciting timo nt the Jail laat Friday morning.
There are five negroes in thejall, and it seems
they had formed a conspiracy to escape. When
Sheriff Black carried them their break Cut, two
of them expressed a desire to exchange cells,
which he kindly consented for them to do and
opened the doors of both colls to allow them to
exchange. When he did this two of tho dar*
keys began n playful wrestle to attract his at
tention, when u third one quickly grabbed him
from the rear and pinned bis arms closo to his
sides, at tbo came time shouting: "Come on
boys, I’ve got him.” Mr. Black had on his
overcoat, in ono pocket of which was his pistol,
and in scuffling to get loose from tho negro, he
managed to get his hand on the pistol, but
could not pull it from hts pocket. Ho
succeeded in cocking it, however, and this be
ing heard hy his asuiUant, he was quickly re
leased by the darky, when he shouted, '‘Tmn
inc looae, or I will shoot you.” When the ne
gro released Mr. Black two of the inmates of
the jsll had gotten out and were runuing for
dear life towards the open door of the stockade,
hut the plucky officer was not going to let
them escape so easily, to he fired two shots at
the head one, I«arkin Robinson, both of which
took effect. The other negro then hollered,
"Don’t shoot me; I will go back.” Mr. Black
then hastily locked him In thejall and began a
chase after Lark. Hoeing a horse at tho black
smith shop, near Mr. J. M. Stewart’s gin, tins
sheriff mounted him and soon overtook the
fugitive near the residence of Colonel B. IL Rob
inson, and returned him to the prison.
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Violations of the Oleomargarine Law.
Haktford, Ombj December 2.—Eight pro
prietors of second rate hotels and raataorants in
this city were a meted yesterday far using oleo
margarine on their tables without displaying
the placard: "Oleomargarine Used He**,* as
required by law. under a penalty of $50 fine.
The curs weiv continued ono week under $23)
bonds each. These will be regarded as teat
THE WEATHER.
Chicago, Dcecnilwr 1.—The mercury hero
this morning dropped to ci^Jit degrees above
zero, a fall of seventeen degrees in the spree of
frur hours. Lvcry indication is for a fall be
low veto tonight. The wave extends in a
breadth of 1,000 te 1,SWJ miles, nnd indications
aie that it will sweep down the Mississippi
vaihy rk far as the Ohio river, then diverge
tc.waid (be cast. A blizzard prevails all over
takes Michigan and Hupcrior, and several
wrecks ore re|K»rtcd.
Chicago,*December 2.—The weather is clear
with the t<-roi<rratnre as reported at six o'clock
this morning by the signal service bureau at
2° below zero. At Dubuque, Iowa, the temper
ature is 10° below zero.
Washington, December 3. — Reports aro
coming in of marine dhaders on the lakes and
north Atlantic coast, which Indicate even great
er hardship to the mariners in the present than
fn the recent storm. A large schooner bound
for Chicago came in eight of thst harbor, but
was to covered with ice that sho was blown
jso-t and finnliy beached at Michigan City,
where the crew got ashore so badly frozen tliat
they nre in the hospital. A number of vessels
are missing, and every one that has made the
haihor in the last two days was almost un
manageable, because of the weight of ice which
leaded Hum from the wafer lino to the cross
trees. All report frost-bitten crews. Two ves
sels are in sight off the New Fngland coast
stranded and flying signals for help. Ono is a
large rchooncr nnd one ia a square-rigged vessel
on Handkerchief shoal. In tho present gale
no hOlp con reach them.
Cnttle Freezing to Death.
Chicago, December 3.—A report reaches here
that 210 carloads of live stock nre in danger of
freezing on the Streator branch of the Chicago,
Burlington nnd Quincy railroad. The bridge
over Fox river is broken, and a number of
trains have been toinpclli d to await tho repair
ing of it. The trains should have been at tho
itcck yards at 7 o'clock this morning.
lu Atlanta.
From Sunday's Dally Constitution,
Snow, sleet and rain!
Atlanta has bad more than her share of the
three dlragrcenble eleincuts within the past forty-
eight hours.
The weather has been cold, too.
Friday night the snow began falling, and all
through the night large, white flakes canic down.
At four o'clock the full was more severe than ui
any time during the night, and when day dawned
; ridew ulks, streets and housetops were covered
lift thin, white crust.'
Iind the snow Friday night been rain the fall
would have been 12-100 of airinch. Today we have
hed sleet, rain inuha very little snow mixed, * *
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Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
General Hoke, now at the ;hrad of the
new Georgia, Carolina and Northern rood, and one
of the great indwtrial fiocees or the aouth, waa a
majorgvneral at 2? ye*re of age. At the close of
th, war he wanted td go to New York and start life
anew. IU bad no mil but hla old gray uniform.
Ilr had this dyed by an old servant, while his
mother covered the buttons with pieces of aa old
«*n moving well all day-’
“la the kiio w general?’ r
""Let’a ico," want her
ig like a war map. ,
hcnvlcH about llie lalce*. Chicago, New York-
1 hilftdclphia are catching it, too, but west they art
having Phew. There Indications arc no snow south
of the 40th degree." ,
The w arden for the poor had received but two or
..m-c complaint* from Mitferlnff poor nnd wax in
vesicating them. At police roll call at ono o’clock
this morning an order was read to tho foree direct
ing each member to Investigate any case* of dead
tut Inn reported to them and transmit the result of
the Jo vet tlpntlon to the warden tomorrow. There
will plot ably be need of help, and auyono desiring
to extend help can send any douatlotui to tho war
den, corner Pryor and Hunter streets.
A Constitution reporter climbed up into
tbo signal office In the custom house, last night,
and found Mr. O’Donnell, tho assistant observ
er, busy making weather notes.
"Was tho snow storm uow prevailing pre
dicted by the department at Washington?*
"Yes; that is, a cold wave was predicted on
the lot instant, and this office was directed to
put up the cold wave signal. Since tho 1st the
predictions bavo been fair weather, slightly
cooler, light rains, followed by lower tempera
ture.”
"But was there any positive prediction of
snow?”
"Yes, such a prediction wns received thi>
morning. This office was notified that a heavy
now would fill! in Georgia, followed by lowei
temperature. This ofllcois supposed not to
fcjakc predictions; but I will venture one of ray
own: The probabilities are that snow will con
tinue to fall some timo longer. I do not think
Ihcre will be any material change In the weath
er before Wednesday.”
"Well, yon know that last night a very high
wind prevailed. Thla morning at 7 o'clock tho
wind was blowing from tho northwest. At
three this afternoon It was blowing from tho
north. At 7 o'clock It wns blowing from tho
northwest, nnd It Is still blowing fronr
that direction. At this hour, fk30
o'clock, the sleet and snow
together nre six Inches deep on a level. If tho
mow continues to fall all night it will, perhaps,
lie twelve or fourteen Inches deep in the morn
ing. I am of the opiulon that it will continue
to fall.*’
Mr. Foster and Fils Storm.
Two weeks ago we printed a prediction from}
Frofeeeor Foster, «n Istra storm profit, in which U,
wax predicted .that from .December dth to Dacem-
Icr 17tli would occur tho most, destructive winter
shams of recent year*. Heavy snow, howling
blizzards, railroad blockades, electrical disturb-''
a nre*. accidents by land and ,aca, were the main!
features of FeUcr’s Morin. ‘
Yesterday was December 4th. and Foster’s storm 1
wan on bund early iu the morning. Klcetiug, snow-;
Ing and raining. Our telegram* indicate that the
storm is general, and it looks very much like Foo
ter bad hit it. Wo nre not prepared, however, to
say that next week will develop the horrors.that
Fr*Ur bos predicted, rpto the hour of going td
pre», advices from all along the Hedmpnt escarp
ment ibow that it Is solid.
A ROr.FST BLIZZARD.
Chew “Maud Ilarrt* Teb.-aceu.’*
How the Hello of a Dakota Village Lost Her
Life In a Storm*
From the Chicago Herald.
A man just in from Fort Niobrara was warm
ing himself over a register in the Sherman house
Into yesterday afternoon. “You people In this part
©t the country," he said, “have little Idea of tho
terrors of a blizzard nn the plains. Out where
cunie from one of theso storms means death to man
and beast. Nothing can live in the blinding,
piercing gale. The bli/zanl in western Knusas and
Nebraska nnd Dakota about ten days ngo was as
disastrous to human life as any we had lost winter.
It bund upon the country with a fierceness seldom
equaled In that land of elemental disturbances.
The ranges were piled high with drifting
miow, und cattle, becoming coufUred In tlio
flying crystals, perished In their tracks. Ono of
tho melancholy Incidents of the rtorm was the low
of a very pretty young woman—tho belle of a
Dakota village. She had Just left her home for the
purpote of relieving a poor family who were In
distress when the blixaaid roared up on her. bon
ing her way in the darkness and swirling snow,
she fell from exhaustion, and was not found nntll
her feet and hands were ao badly frozen that am
putation waa resorted to to save her life. When I
left the country the unfortunate gtrl was lying at
the point of death. Another sod incident of the
storm was the low of two children w ho were at
play In the outskirts of a Nebraska town. The
bUzxanl swept them from the face of the earth as
completely as though they had been swallowed up.
As soon as tb*y were tftfssed 300 men and boys
out In the teeth af the gale to rescue them.
Tiny scorched the country over, but raw a vesttje
of the little : el lows could befuund. It is not un-
jktly that the bllzrard picked them up aud bore
them a long distance from the spot wh.uv they
were last teen at play. There were many other
fatalities which I cannot now recall, but which
were folly aa melancholy as the ones 1 h *ve. de
scribed. Nothing can compare with the fory of
one of utir blizzards. U sap* ones breath, inflames
the eyes, and roan in your earn nuUl you tbinjt
your head will surely split. Tho flying nuow which
pelts you in the Uce stings like so many. uezdLS
end nearly drive* you mad with pa'n. Tour legs
t-owr weak. natiM-a subis to vour misery, and
finally, when life cease* to be worth battling
for. voir fell to the ground and slowly freeze to
death." <
From the lion. Henry Arthur Herbert, ex-member
cl Parliament; Proprietor of tho workl-fiuaed
Lakes of KlEaroey and Mnckrom Abbey, etc.,
etc.
ICrcxKom abbey, .
Liliansey, Ireland.
Leibig CCf Coca Beef Toole deserves all tho
praise it ia receiving.
HENRY ARTHUR HERBERT.
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The Largest Poultry Yard in
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Next vreok wc will print a story or an lutmcuM
to nitty form near FavnniiaMla., that wtll'M'terrat
every fanner nnd farmer’s wife. At this form th*
'blekcns ore hale lied by*. utai3tItiery''''qin)odcd' >
Ly urllflclal hens; the capacity of llic'iiumfoiton
IctiiB 2,100 chicks at ft listdhlny. '
.tailed two years ago with . '.T ,?V
SEVKNI'Y-FOt'ttp^ICf^Dt
Of n w hteh tho profits have been stirpfftlnx. Tho
management of ehlckcito, wf wjulMtqcjjdef tho
patent brooders, Is detailed fir * graphic way. Bo
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