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1HE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1884.—TWELVE PAGES.
NOTES ON CURERNT TOPICS I Ho wore several rings and a small chain brncc-
I let, and was dressed in a handsome evening
Mart people in thi. country firmly believe •“«*- Alter keeping .mm.lly through the per-
thet Marshal Ney woe on American, and that formenee he went on the roufeud
he waa not shot after the battle of Waterloo
but escaped to the United States and died in
North Carolina. In addition to the romantic
story of his career recontly furnished by a Cox*
BTtTirnox correspondent, the New York Herald
publishes an account of the singular life of one
Peter Stuart Ney, a North Carolina country
school teacher, who was supposed by many
to be the veritable marshal himself. The
nt a table and ordered a bottle of champagne.
He emptied the bottle into a flowcr-j»ofc and
draiving a cigarette from his pocket
asked tho waiter for a match.
The waiter struck the match,
and the dude touched a twenty dollar bill to it
and lighted his cigarette with this expensive
taper. Then be made tho waiter a present of
a ten dollar bill. At this the crowd hissed, and
hading point, in thi, .lory arc that Peter I ‘I'* hendwalter made tho nub-waiter return the
Stuart Ney wn, evidently a French veteran, I W"- The dude tore the money into,bred,,
and twice when be was drunk and once when , »"'• th « manager of the Oasino promptly hu.t-
he wa, .obor, he informed ,omeofhl, intimate '"'I lllm »'« , ' l<,TRlor < and when ho reached
a newspaper man and auch evidence, in our
estimation, outweighs a ton of ordinary offida
vits. Hut to return to the burning boy. When
the little fellow is perfectly still the fireworks
seldom come off, but if he rubs his hands or
his toes the parts thus treated burst into a blue
flame and burn until tbo Are is extinguished
If the clothea difficulty can be aurmouutedthe
boy would draw well in our large citiei. Per
haps a sheet iron costume would answer all
practical purposes.
friends that he was in reality Marshal Ney,
These stories may aerve to while away an idle
hour, but it is needless to say that they have
very thin groundwork of fact. It is pretty
well settled that Ney was a Frenchman, and
that he was tried and executed after Water
loo.
Tub prevalence of cancer has brought that
dreadful disease prominently before the public.
According to a French authority the propor
tion of cancer in the wealthy classes is about
100 in 1,000; in the poorer classes it is 72 in
1,000, or o rate in the former case of about ti%i
per cent, and in the latter of seven per
Vegetarians seldom have cancer; it prevails
mainly among flesh enters. It is neither infer
tious nor contagious. It commences in cneh
individual whom it nttnrks. No pei
inherit the disease, but he run inherit a pre
disposition in that direction. Practically there
is not much significanee in this statement, ns
no one can he said to In; rancorous until the
cancer actually manifests itself.
M. Quad regards the negro of the south
far worse problem than the savage India:*, of
the plains. Year after year the negro goes on
without ehnnge. It is becoming more diffi
cult to handle him os a laborer. Ho will not
live in the country if bo can help if, but pre
fers to loaf around the town* and cities. E
bis education is n curse instead of a blessing.
The negro who ran read a newspaper or write
a letter will starve Injure lie will do u stroke
of work. If be cannot get an office or a light
genteel job he will steal for a living. The ag
riculture of thesouth will drift backward un
less the negro's place cun be supplied with
white labor, but so long ns the negro remains
a potential-labor factor white men are not
going to work by his side in the fields. For
Clin south Atlantic states M. (fund thinks there
is some hope, as the negriM** of that region are
gradually emigiiting to the Mississippi valley.
Ill another-decade there may lie a tremendous
tide of negro emigration to Mexico.
the street, jammed him into a cab and sent I
him home.
Ella Wiikkf.kk, or Mrs. Wilcox,the Wiscon
son poet, has written over 1,200 poems, and
has told more dollars worth of her.productiona
than any of her American contemporaries,
8he admits that she has tho disease called
“fatal facility," and she can produce almost
impromptu that easy writing which Byron
considered such hard reading. When she sent
Goon story writers by the score may he found I her first poem to Mrs. Frank Leslie it
this country, hut they are too ambitious. I written in such an unformed hand that the
They waste their time writing novels, mid then I editor was afraid some schoolgirl was trying
fail to find publishers, or, if they find them, I to perpetuate a plagiarism. A note was writ
their books do not sell. Now, there aro too I ten to Miss Wheeler asking if the was sure
many novel writers, but there is n great | that she had written tho poem herself. A satis-
ity of writers of short stories. Recently I factory answer being received, the sum of
prizes have been offered for the best short I dollars was remitted to the yonug lady, and
stories, but even this inducement has failed to I her jNietieul career became a fixed fact.
bring out anything of exceptional merit. I ♦ —
There is an open field in this direction with I G***** 1 ' Clikqmam, of North Carolina, relates
Tilk most notorious drunkard in Paris died
the other day nt th6 age of seventy. For fifty
years befit*) his death ho regularly got drunk
every day, but strange to say lie kept his head
clear enough to enable him to record in his
diary an itemized account of his drinks,
was his custom to take four bottle* of wine
day, so that in fifty years ho emptied 7.1,000
bottles. He took three drinks of absinthe a day
making an aggregate of 100,500 drains. In addi
• ion to theso triflles he drank twelve glass*
spirits ovory day, so that he imbibed 210,000
glasses of Ifipior in the course of fifty years,
Never during the half eentury^wa* the old
•nan at any time perfectly sober. "Probably
this wretched man's horrible record has never
been equaled.
Months agn correspondent asked Tiir Cox
•XTiTt'Tinx if n woman bud over invented any
dliing useful. Tho records of tho patent ofli<
•for the past few iqouths answer this question
-very satisfactorily. It ap)>ear* that Ada H
Kcplcy.of Effingham, 111., has patented n trnv
-oler's treasure belt. Fannie 8. Smith, of Tope
• kn, Kns., has patented a fence post. Helen M
Wiiydcr, of Pine Bluff, Ark., has secured,a pat
cut for a luce shoe fastener. Marian Wnlloek
of Cambridge City, ludt, lias taken out a put
cut for a railway frog, Harriet K. Baker,
Hpringfirld, Massachusetts, has patented u
scrubbing brush. Kiniiia 8eligniaii,of Irving
ton, New York, has n patent for a mechanical
telephone. Ellen 8. Gctelicll, of Bosk
a patent for an improved book cover. Mary
llartlctt, of Detroit, has a patent for n clot he
liue pole. Abide A. Jackson, of New York
patents a gnmrbonrd, dice ls>x, etc. Elisabeth
Bateson, of Detroit, collies to the front with
nsh sieve, and Marion W. McCann, of Poi
Indiana, has patented a cultivator. This is
j» pretty good showing.
TiiKinan of few ideas, and a limited vocabu
Inry, ia generally chipper, snappy and glib.
The man of many ideas and a copious vocabu
lary, speaks deliberately, and hesitates now
and then to pick tho word lie wants. Of nil
ipeople in the world, young women are
. most fluent in conversation. It is no*trouble
for them to pick their words, as they have but
few at their command, amt arc ready to rc|Nuit
Micm over and over again. In this connection
it may lie noted that the man of few ideas and
much misinformation, expresses himself in
long words. Short words are used for the ex
pression of stalwart ideaa. Grand thoughts
are always expressed in few and simple words.
What is commonly called fine language is sel
dom employed bv the greatest writers and
novels u year.
little .Iron* competition. The tniguino * w " n ' l, ' rf " 1 cure eflectc.l upon himielf l,y the
ait,1 newspaper. »re all looking out for tiri^lit | 1,80 of tobnceo. Onee in New York hi. right
young writer, who hove stories to tell an,I jaw- I 1 ' received an accidental blow which tempo-
aeaa the ability to tell them briefly, breezily rnril >' <l*»‘roycd the »ight and caused him
and eri.ply. Tho writer who allow, him.elf I « rc »tpnin. Tho general at once made a tohne-
pahle of' furnUhing *uoh production, will 00 »•>•* “l'i’ 1 ' 0 ' 1 il t® the injured eye.
find a ready market, and will make more I The J'hyaiciaus prote.ted, but tho stubborn pa-
y than the man who wriloa two or three 11'" 111 ll,,l * t * d ‘ ,1B ‘ 1,0 kn<w what ho was about.
Iii tho courso of a day and a night
- oiling went down, the eye
It is now thought that the Panama canal I reMitncd its natural color, ami
II have to bo constructed with lock*. Tho on the flfth ,| ny lhe 8lgUt wo(l e^mpletoly rc-
tnles in the Atlantic and Pacific differ very stored< General Clingman claims that ho lms,
materially. Moreover, high water nt Colon is at dlvori timca by tho uso of tobacco, cured
about nine hours Inter than at Panama. When himself of various troubles, ranging from gun-
tliotbb- nt Colon is half way between high and „ hot woull ,| g to corns. While these marvelous
low it is low tide nt Panama. These facts have I ,.„ rcs n, a y have been performed, it would not
been known for half n century, and tho engi- 11 )0 n d»ni*imblo for any reader of this paragraph
now admit tho impossibility of making L,, rush off blindly and begin doctoring hiinsdf
this a sen level canal. Work is progressing I with tobacco. Further testa will bo required
very slowly. The majority of tho employes I jo demonstrato tho healing powers of tobacco.
Jamaican negroes and their wages are two I ♦- —. aL.
dollars per day. It is the custom for u hand to I Tub latest thing in begging in Nlw York is
*rk five minutes mid rent two hours. At this I known ns the confederate soldiers* racket. A
rate there is no telling when the canal will he I haggard and unkempt njpn attired In a linen
finished. | duster buttoned up to tho chin will walk up to
a group of gentlemen and introducc'hiniself as
n confederate colonel, shot through tho lungs,
and in n starving condition. Ilis appeal seldom
fails to draw a few times, and tho l^tity beggar
then makes tracks for the ncarest^Boon. Of
itirsc the fellow was never in th^Rr nt nil.
hut ho has caught on „ to tho
brotherhood feeling between tho north and
south and works tho idea for all it^i* worth
W EVVS OF G EORGIA shipment of Sheep to the market men of that city. Thompson, of ferry, and whlc/l has been in con-
’ ! Mt fate expressed it as his opinion that there 8tant use cvcr since, and has ground all the coffee
! will be a good many*hcep sold for mutton and . . . . . . ... . - _
Mr. Isaac Kenny's mule, In Carroll county, died driven /mm this sectiou the present summer, j used in his fatnil> of five persons for forty-one
i nst ,i* mnnlho.^i Owing to the favorable prices paid for wool for years, including the ante-bellum, pro-bellura and
r m few year, sheet rsleert have allow,,1 the ! genome coffee, and all the auhatl-
j worked him thirty-three years number of wethers to increase in their flocks. . . . ...I t.ii A i,u a n*
; Wool is now down to 20 to 2! cents per pound, j tutes, and says half of the time the family used the
—-»-wnentof fl. ' ~ ” * " * jnj J —*'
Aid If fair i
probably I
red sheep i
on the first
sixteen days. lie
and turned him out to rest.
Mrs. Mary Long, near Banning,
- a wbimr ifvfniv aD< * ° wn cr* of flocks are disposed to sell off the } beverage twice, and the other half three times per
llL . ,, . ' nving wethers, and If fair prices are gfven, many of the ; The mill looks to be In cood reDair now
with her widowed daughter, committed suicide on eweawlil probably be sold. A ahipment of over
l.l. nnp hlintlrml «lus>n trn< mmU frmn I ruin ciinnlv GlllllCSVille SOUthlOD. Developments Of the llU
perpetrated In this city two years ago. It
looks ns though the whole matter will come to
light in a very short time, and the cold blooded
She lingered until Wednesday night and died. I 10 -Savannah lust week.
She hail procured the laudanum .Saturday at Hutch-1 the escaped Jail bird from Bartow coun-
erson's store and kept it concealed. Her daughter f w ^ 0 WM captured last week in Brownvllle,
left her In ordinary health at noon. She found her I Tex , u ?' ha * ***“ reI L eMed ’ nutl now roams the
in a stupor when she returned at evening. The j P™ir!es as proud as the eagle, ns bold and us free.
rnnv>nf the net In not known . The dispatch sent by the authorities in Bartow .
cause of the act I. n t known. ha<1 divided j . . . re ^, h . nff destination and 1 crime would be revealed. God has so decreed that
her money onong her three grandchildren. »Miour aajz in reatntng lt» aestmation, “o- 1 SU c|, thlmst shall not be hidden long, even hi this
General Toombs*wlll attend the di . trict mect . S“SS» was released uudera write! habeas corpus w | Pk „i „S r id.
Ax English physician asserts that the
natural lifetime of a man is M)0 years. Un-
iloubtedly the average of a huiiinn life
the direction of longevity. But when does
Id age commence? The English doct
plies to this by dividing lifi* as follows: Jloy
h(, ten to fifteen years; youth, fifteen to
twenty-five; manhood, twenty-five io tifty-
tive, maturity, fifty-five to Ai-vt-nty-ft\e, | ^yj ipn t j 10 , im ttor is investigated otur northern
friends will find that these alleged confederate
ajM-nkers. For all the purposes of graude
beauty and force, our plain Anglo-Saxon is
amply sufficient.
Pismi RAtiiNu re|H>rts come from Texas. The
state was visited Tuesday by the thin! extra
ordinary rainfall of the season. The same dis
trict bss Wen flooded each time, and in area
it is nearly equal to Illinois and Indiana com
bined. The damage to the agricultural intar-
csU will amount to many millions of dollars.
Thousands of acres of ripeued wheat are pn*s-
(rated and the third planting of cotton is des
troyed.
Puu.ADKi.rttia lawyers are in a fair way ft*
lose the reputation for fine oratory which they
have so long enjoyed. A well-known judge
aavs oratory at the bar has been killed by the
practice of Allowing each lawyer to baud up
an epitome of his argument to tie read at the
court’s leisure, au«l also by the prejudice of the
youug lawyers against crimiual eases. Many
young men come to the bar these days with
the fixed resolution to have uotliiug to do with
crimiual business. They eontiue themselves
to civil cases and soon acquire a slovenly style
of speaking. Undoubtedly legal eloquence is
rapidly declining.
A New Yoaa dude succeeded in making
himself conspicuous the other night. He went
into the Casino half drunk. His hair was
parted in the middle and elaborately banged.
ripeness, seventy-fivo to eighty-five, and old
age, eighty-five and upward. Under the
favorable conditions of our civilization death
will- be gradually removed to a greater dis
tauco from iim, but there is a certain limit
n lifetime of 100 years that limit? *
veterans are imposters. Tho genuine con fed
have learned to tAko care of themselves
and in cases where they are permanently dis
a bled they are looked after by thoir friends
I and relatives.
It is said that the elder James Gordon Ben
nett was the first Washington eorresjiondeiit
who had the audacity to originate the present
IHipulnr style of letter writing. Dennett was
naturally a fro., lanon. and ho wrote without I Th."rJ'i'e ...ore zlrengtl, in two of
feur of censorship anil with all the euse which 1
A Ccbax smokes every hour that he is awake.
He generally manages in n day to 4jnoko fe
five eignr* and two packages of cigarettes,
each pneknge containing nineteen cigarettes.
^ cigar
ettes than in tho ordinary cigar.
a ........ «r Ireodom in.pire.. HI. letter, were Btw#g ; c „ ba t ,„, W0 „ 1Ql
lively, .«r....tl,.nd | dren .moke ju.t n. the men do. The Ameri-
can nt first takes a dislike to the gcutiinc Ha
vana cigars. They are jet black, and etch one
. i 1m rolled in silver foil. Tho highest priced
r ^... •» .re yo u«» K ..,»
in personal allusions and described freely not
only senators, but the wives and daughters of
senators. This sort of thing was a novelty in
cravats of the president and the habits of noted
|>coplo tickled the fancy of tho rcudiug public
A host of imitators sprang up, and from thntdny I
down to the present time the free and easy style 1
of correspondence inaugurated by the founder
f the Herald bus been olio of the distinctive
features of American journalism.
very good flvo cent cigar. Tho nverngo Ha
vana is only fit to smoke after a hearty meal.
mpty stomach it strains the
nerves and muscles and makes the brain
ilizzy. As only ouc-third of the laud in Cuba
is under cultivation it will be seen that thoro
is room for a large iuerease In the tobacco
Tub immense statue of Liberty presented by I
I ranee to the l uited States, nnd now being I Tmk danger of the quinine habit has been
mounted on Ilcdloc'* island in New York liar- I alluded to more than onco in these columns,
bor, will overshadow all the monuments of the I Hit is growing into such a menacing evil that
old world. Tin* total height of the pedestal I jt deserves more than n passing uoticc. A
I statue will he 329 feet. This raises the | distinguished New York physiciuu says that
torch in the hand of the gigantic godd<
e vein I feet above the pinnacle of Trinity
hureh spire. A powerful electric light will
flash from the torch at night, and a coronet of
lights will crown the statue. Theso light
lenr night will be visibb
eighty-eight miles. It will now be in order t-
the list of the seven wonders of the
world. This heaven-kissing image of Ameri-
«'s patron saint certainly deserves u promi-
nt place in the list.
A wn.i.irt's-WAi.i.irra, whatever that may
In*, has made its nppcaranco near Ularksvilli
Tcnn. Several persons have seen it, und one
limn deliberately shot at it live times, Imt th>
monster did not oven bat his eve. Just what
the willijnis-wnllipus is nobody is able to snv,
but from all accounts it is ns terrible a creature
as the bivulpiis which created such terror in
neighboring suburb of West End, « v
quinine is frequently resorted to by men and
•n whoso nerves are overtaxed, nnd they
I so much brighter and better that before they
aware of it they get into the habit of taking
the drug in daily doses. In three months the
habit becomes tiriuly fixed, and in all pn*ba
bilily the victim cannot then count upon more
than five years of life. Morphia has no tueh
•fleet. It will in two or three years transform
the most truthful man or woman
into an inevitable linr, hut
nearly nlwnys possible for
the morphia consumer to recover. Quinine,
on the other hand, so shatters tho system that
suicide is frequently the result. Quinine in
•ry small doses is a tonic and nervine; in
niiHlcrnte doses a stimulant, and in largo
ipinntities intoxicating, producing a drunken
ness similar to masked epilepsy, in which
while performing customary actions and talk-
vith perfect coherence the victim is really
nscious of what he is doing ami totally
Tin Hon. Randolph Tucker delivered an I irresponsible. Experienced medical praeti-
iliieatioiml address in Baltimore the other I tioners are beginning to be as cautious with
lay and placed himself squarelvon record as I quinine as they are witfi morphia.
against compulsory education bv the state. I - •
Mr. Tucker zaiU Aral ho boUorod tb. true N«vor««*z i. a lo.. „f power in thoncVve.,
curlier, were a boy-, parent., .nil when Am®"* thee.u.c. of the compl.int .roinhori-
joygot lo u .Mint heyoml tho te.ehing of I *»'•«-. indige.'lon, .tino.ph.ric eondilioii. nnd
the parent, he believed in the right of the |
state to come in as an ai«l to parental instrue- * k * -****- 1 -»«*•. *** * h *“* , ‘
, but not as an usurpation of ib E«luea
lion should make the l*oy tit to do his duty tt
rnmentg to society, to himself, to hi:
Maker ami to tin* church. The boy must
Ing nt Harmony Grove as a delegate from his
church.
Alfred Honey, a negro, attempted an outrage up
on the person of a respectable white woman a few
miles below Cotton Hill, Randolph county, the
latter part of last week. He was a stout fellow, but
her cries brought her assistance, and the scoundrel
ran away as he saw two men approaching,
ward will be paid by the citizens of the communi
ty for his apprehension.
A bridge is being built over the Sntllla river at
Waterboro.
Rev. J. R^Bottle.who has been traveling through
Thomas nnd RrookN, reports crops as being In ex
cellent condition.
As soon as the case of .Sam Williams, held for the
murder of Policeman Allen, in Lowndes comity. Is
ready for trial, Judge Humcll will order a special
term of court.
While Mr. J. A. Wlckor, one of the mechanics
nployed on the Baptist church edifice, In New-
m, was removing some rubbish from the Interior
of the building last Friday afternoon, lie noticed a
small puncture of the flesh In the palm of his left
hand. Thinking that a splinter had caused it, he
examined the place with the point of a knife
blade, but found nothing. In a few minutes the
hand begnn to pain him so much that lie was
‘ompelled to quit work, and by night
the suffering became so intense that
was feared he would lie throwii into fpusms. Dm.
Davis and Smith administered morphine enough
to kill two or three men under ordinary circuin
stances before the suffering could be alleviated,
Very soon after the first symptoms tho hand and
forearm began to swell considerably, and are still
ery much inflamed. The physicians cannot say
positively as to the cause, but seem to think that
lorpion’s sting did it. The sudden acute pain
nnd swelling is more easily accounted for on tills
supposition, the virulence of the poison difiusiug
Itself through the system. It is also thought by
some to be an acute attack of erysi|K.‘Ias. He lies
in a dangerous condition.
There are industrious, worthy colored men
Cobb county, says the Marietta Journal, who, by
good deportment and di*i»osltioii to accumulate
property, deserve mention. Among them is Henry
Sorrels. He bought of Mr. Dick Sogers
an 80-nero farm, 2% miles southeast of Mari
etta, for $WX). He paid $200 down and gave his note
for $000 nt 10 per cent interest. In four years’ time
he had It all paid for and the title deed in ids
pocket; the farm costing him $020. Besides this he
kept all of his other expenses paid up. During the
latter part of last year he experienced a loss by fire
of a splendid Isirn containing corn, fodder, peas,
fine cow, 30 chickens and a wagon, which some
envious colored person saw fit to put the Ineendl
ary torch to and burn up. But Henry has the
pluck, sticks to his business, lets other people’
business alone, nnd is pros|H*rlng. He stands fair
with our merchants nnd can get credit whenever
he wants it. This year he expermented on straw
berries nnd off of a small garden patch soldeuoiigh
to realize 825.10, which Is n nice cash surplus for
him at this season of the year.
Companies F. and I. of the third Georgia veter
ans will have a picnic in Toombsboro
fourth of July. They have
Resolved, That every confederate soldier rcsid
Sumter Republican: Mr. J. W. Jones, brother-
Mr. George I). M.theson, clerk in the in lu'v of Mr. W t„ <lil^ner. nnd formerly one of
. ... ,.. | the proprietors of the barrel factory at this place,
id Phenlx mills, Columbus, who died the hlw -jo.000 walking sticks from wood cut off
because the rapid evaporation in our out-door
air ami in our overheated rooms heighten* the
rapidity of the processes of waste and repair
| in the brain ami nervous system, and this tier-
oiisness is increased by the streaaof poverty,
have »• l,r.ml » foundation a. j^a.iWe.“bttt I ,h * ur K , *"'>‘ of • nd hol - li “* u,e “•«“*
mint concentrate upon wine apeeialty. With l ,,f Uvin *- "'•' , ,hc a " lrf r»*h "head »»'!
univeraal auSVnge we are in danger of going
precipice iinleia the »uffrage of the. mudir of Ittmgola ia *afe! At thi-
the country i» educated. I ,i ar ,|i n ^ intollig«>nee cornea by cab';c there ia
electric girl, are very .mall potateea by I no rcaaon to doubt it. and the rejoicing lull-
the ftide of a newly di*-ovcred Xew Orlean, Ilona may accept it a. a cold fact. In thi, era
hcnonteuon. ThU phenomenan i, a hoy. I »f upheaval,, con.pirueic,, dynamite, cholera,
and if the new,pa|wea tell the truth he i, cer- etc., nothing could he more rea,,uring nnd re-
tninly the mo.t remarkable urchin in the I frehing to the average mind than the new,
, r i,t. The peculiarity a hoot thi, boy i, hi, that the mu.lir of Dungoln i, ,afe. lu the nat
tendency to etch on lira and break out into a tiral eicitement following the receipt of auch
blaze at any moment without the tlightrat I thrilling tiding, there may be
warning. The conflagration i, w uncertain I wme uncertainty, n hazy perplexity, na it
aud occur, ,o often that he ha, to be n.n,tant I were, cinccrning the mudir himwlf, but all
watched, and a, n matter of I that will wear off. Nine men out of ten when
onontv he i, not permitted to wear any I they road the cablegram felt overjoyed, and if
.thing at all. What i, the in. of putting they had hoard of the death of tha mudir of
lothing on a bov who i, liable to break .Hit IVmgola there would have been as much la-
iuto a blaze everr minute in the day. That I mentation among new,paper reader, a, there
thi, wonderful’Ud exi,U we have not the wa, when we received the mournful intelli
•lighteet doubt, iu fact, he t« vouehe.1 for by 1 gcace of the death of the Akhoond of Swat.
lug in tho county of Wilkinson and tho surround
ing cnnntlcM. arc invited to attend suld picnic us
our special guests; nnd the citizens nt large are
rnvltpd to asajstus iu making the outcrtalumeitt
a sncceas. to whiMi nil are Invited. And the good
ladlfts to bring their baskets well ill
good things of life.
Dublin Post: Mr. William Jackson exhibited
nt this office last Saturday evening n curiosity In
the way of n cun of honey. A few weeks ago lie
put three quart cans in the top part of the gum
with some of the lioxes, and after filling the boxes
the bees went to work In the cans, and it was one
of these cans well and beautifully filled by the bees
with tho purest honey that created the curiosity,
It was only an experiment of Mr. Jneksoa's.
There Is a man in Ty-Ty who claims to run a
mile In four minutes.
Rockdale county seems to be well pleased with
the stock law, after trying it for two or three years.
Whooping eou^li Is prevailing extensively III tho
lower part of Twiggs, and ill many eases proving
fatal among the colored children.
Mr. A. C. Smith, of East Point, was In to see us
last Saturday, and made several inquiries In re
gard to the reunion of noth Georgia regiment. Hi
' * ■' to how it should
>Ject, we will state
tiiat Is it has l»ceii suggested that the banner
whieh Mrs. Mitehel, tic.) Miss Klin Galloway pre
sented to the, regiment, nt this place, U* sought
mid returned to her. lad the meinlK*rs, through,
out the country take an Interest in thfs move.
Luinpkiu Independent: One of our popular
young merchants has a fine mure that is
not only fleet and nimble footed, but exhibits
taste decidedly aesthetic, ller little colored hostler
has a i*eiichnut for the mouth-organ, and while he
is playing the mare will leave the moat tempting
liny or other gtaxl food nnd go nnd stand with her
hand close down to the hnrp, and shows evident
signs of great pleasure in the musical sounds.
Valdosta Time*: News of one of the saddest
dents which we have lieeti called upon to citron!
In the history of the ,
Mr. David Mathis, u young man with a faml .. _ .
living with him a !nd of a brother who was the
proprietor of a pistol. The boy had the deadly
weapon out nnd had Just loaded it. when a little
four year old child, son of Mr. David Matms, came
up, and, inuoceut of the danger, reached out for
the pistol. The l*>y unwisely let the child take it
iu Its hamK and in an instant the deadly instru
ment fell to the tliN*r and fired off, sh<N>tlng the
child through the body. The little victim soon
died from the wound.
Berrien News: On tlfe battlefield of Mharpsburg
Mr. lhitiiel A. Fulwood. of this place, fell with a
serious wound in the thigh, which necessitated
the amputation of the leg near the hip Joint. After
that notable battle had eudetl and the field was
shrouded in dnrkmjm, brave comrade* sought out
the wounded and ls*re them to the Held hospital a
short distance in the rear. On a litter made of a
blanket and two rails Mr. Kulw«>od was Imme by
four men, neither of whom he knew. It was no
time for exchanging cards and soon they
hail separated, not knowing they w ould ever meet
hour after
ing the: -
again. On Thursday last, however, while Mr. Ful
wood with several others were in conversation,
and rvmlllng some of the events of the war, it oo
ctirred to Mr. It. J. Gunnell, who has Just re]
timed from Florida, that he had met Mr. Ful*
w«mnI under less favorable circumstance*. Then
began the inquiries: To what command did you
belong, Mr. Fulwood? The 50thGeorgia regiment.
Where were >***u wonnde«l? In the liattleof 8hai
burg. IK» you remember when you were
from the battle-field? Alaiut
dark. On a blanket and
Ye*. 1 was carried about two miles to the tear and
the following morning carried across the river.
Thu*, by going from one incident to auothcr. the
fact was established that Mr. Gonnell was one of
the four who bore our fellow-citizen from the field
of battle over twenty years ago. Until this con
versation was had neither knew w hether the other
had survived that bloody struggle. The renewal
of their slight acquaintance wa* pleasant 111(11*1*1.
and can be better imagined by the reader than ex-
prc»ed by the writer.
AnderavUte Herald: That rare event, a
S ldeu wedding wa* quietly celebrated on
e 14th of May at the residence of
our venerable and respected country man, Mr.
James F. Northlngton near Oconee. The annl-
before It waa received.
It was
Engle and I
other day, nnd not Mr. A. 8. Mathesoiu hi* father, I of the Andersouville grounds and shipped them
who is suoerintendent I to Chicago fqr sale. They reached there in time
I to be durchased by the members of the republican
In Flint river, in Sumter county, Georgia, onFrl I convention which assembled In that city yester
day, three sturgeon were caught that weighed re I fl**)"- . a u nm .
, , . - , ,. ai *.«- . I Covington Star: Mr. Franklin o right boa a
zpoctlvely zlxty-dve, clghty-flvu »ml 105 pound* J , m „|i pntfh of inultl-hond wheat on hi» lot in
Hancock county Is preparing for an Immenafll Covington, which is certainly very fine. From
barbecue I ‘»»e head he rubbed out 147 well-matuled grains a
... , . ... . I few days ago. He expects to gather it with great
Mr. A. I-. Harper, of Hancock, nhenrcd hl» sheep I ,. lirv th J, H wlu gct m fxe<l with other varl-
last week, and clipped from a one-year-old half I eties, hikI will see how much it will pr J *
Cotswold lamb twelve |>ounds of wool. Mr. I ^ C8r ’ iV-^it^wifr certa~•
Harper intends devoting much of his attention to I for this^country.
wool raising. He now hits a flock of about fifty Watson Woods, in Franklin county, is said to be
head of his own raising, having lost but two dur- J hhunted. It is believed by some that n man was
ing the past year. J murdered at that place at the close of the late war.
.Sparta has a horned owl among her curiosities. Thwc who te *tl/y to the truth of the above say
The Hawkinsville News states that the storm I «y have heard at different times ft strange noise
which passed above that place some days ago was , ambling the low muttering thunder of the dis-
more terrible than at first supposed. On Dr. A. R. tant wwtf and that seemingly under the ground;
Taylor's place, cultivated by Henry Ravis, colored, j and strauger still, they say that a spot of ground
it blew down six houses, including dwelling, I (the haunted spot) is entirely destituto of com
smokehouse, com crib and *tables. It blew Henry’s I |, u8 tlbl e matter, though the trees stand very
bacon and corn Into adjoining fields. It took off I thickly around.
the top of Mr. Henry J. Anderson’s glnhousc and I “Aunt" Annie Gaines Is the oldest person In Hart
blew down two or three outhouses on Mr. James I tt)UU ty. being 91 years of age, She is indeed A
McDonald's place. I “Mother iu Israel," having been a consistent mem-
Gwinnett Herald: W. F. Clawson h’/t «t our I bc r of the M. E. church for 62 years. She has 11
I dUWwn. rnamnM’UdmuMivaiftSMadddMinHi
inches long nnd 1* nlmost t
old-fashioned goun*
it closely and have been nimble to find the name I lent, general health, She drives to Hartwell fre*
of tlie next president on it, or any trace of resoinb- j queutly, a distance of six miles, can read the Tcs-
lnnee of the same. I lament without spectacles, and attends to her
Gwinnett county crops are suffering for the I household duties os well as most oi ladies half her
want of rain In some places there has not been | n} ~
water enough fell for live weeks to run. Oats and I There will be a postoffice established at Watson’s
gardens are suffering badly, but wheat Is doing J mills, in Oglethorpe county,
well, nnd farmers have had a fine opportunity to I 0 n Saturday last Henry Raines, the Daniel Booue
get their crops In a good condition. I of Oglethorpe county, had nn exciting race after
Xi,V, anTuh “ 1 fiXfftfli.. T .» ’m'akln'^TrSa.mtio^; I and caught a wildcat that mcHUnd about three
for the*
llinesv
rehnrd was in easy reach.
!Inw|;insvUlc News: Mr. W. A. Roush, of the
Industrial manufacturing company, and Mr. T. J.
Beatty, of the .Springfield, Illinois, Iron works,
have perfected nrningcmcnra to erect a cotton
i .i V ii.. .v-i I wki oiUBUk n wiiuivi Hint luinaurcu uuuui iiiiit-
d the little folks aro making propnnitlons 1 . „ ...
Ir parents to lay In a supply of drugs. Even and a half feet from tip to tip. It lmd kittens, for
'jllu would be an unhealthy place if a plum j which it fought manfully, but Henry Joined lu tho
melee und came out victorious. He also shot Its
mate, but did not kill It.
Jasckk, Ga., June 9.—[.Special.]—One of the most
, - ------ - . . disgraceful riots occurred at the marble works near
inT& C “.mnX H thc^K biSSSht'to s “ turd ">- ha PPf 1 f d ,n
this market. Mr. Roush started from Savannah our county. The boss, Mr. Connolly, got into an
Monday, and when Interrogated by us in regard to I altercation with a young man, Chumplon, lit
his trip, he wild: "You are at liberty to state posi-1 . . . , W1UJ ^,11.. bruised
lively that we ore to have a cotton ' V l ' cn l,,c 0088 wwff uruuea
compress nnd that it will l»c in posi- I with rocks. Connolly left to
tion in time to compress the next I get an officer. Clmmtdon being drunk, was joinod
crop. The only arrangement we have to perfect I h - noth _ p ,. n , nk milI1 who wcnt to the houw n /
now Is the sec uring of the grounds and erecting a r, > «notncr drunk man wno went to tne nouse 01
suitable building. This wo hope to do in a few I Connally,riotously assailing tho house and running
days. Wc promise to locate the building in Hawk- I the family off. entered the bouseaiml destroyed the
iiisvillc, provided we are *
incut*. It we can not seen re a
SfthuildIifiramfcmiinds I lumlturc. The young men are in jail awaiting i
«hJLiVmmtSn«Prn preliminary trial. The occurrence is condemned
nrtfonl.^enrourman- resretted by our citizens.
. .jo capacity of the com-1 Columbi m, Junc9.—[Special.]r-Rtiring a thui
press, Mr. Roush Informs us, will lie lietween int) stonn which visited Chattahoochee county al
nnd 000 bales !K*r day. It will cost between $2->,000 tlitv mnmlnir th.. hmt*n of Mr T !
and 810,000 nnd will give employment to not less | tL “ *> Gotk thLs morulng, the house of Mr. T. I
.. ... urea
over hereon fair term*, we si—
erect the compress in oldjlartford, near
u factory
there.’
, . condemned
uml regretted by our citizens.
COLUMBUS, June9.—[Special.]r-Ruring a thunder
about
L. P.
than twenty hands. " ’ ' I Halmonds was struck by lightning and one of hi*
James J. Townlcy Is the bee mnn of Ianwrence- I sons instantly killed,
vllle. He has been very successful In managing [ I’almktto, June 9.—Fine rains, crop prospect*
and raising bees. From one gum which he robbed I very flattering, bustiiess quiet,
last week, begot fifty pounds of honey. I Wheat Is being cut.
Colonel I. E. Hhumate. of Dalton, has been se- I Our new Baptist church will be completed by
cary societies of Kinory and Henry coIIckcz, Vlr-1 Tho cotton wed oil mill l«*tlll run.iInR.
nlnla, at the npproachlnjr commencement. I Cctiibkkt, On., June !>. [Special.]—Uc have had
Kortyflvo convert, have Joined tho Methodist I fln0 •“ t'HUibert and Itamlolph county d".
uhnreh in TallKitton. •"* > ho I«“* (cw »'™ks. The ground wasagala Inst
The ladle, ef Tnlbotton hnve signed nn agree 1 1 nl 8 h t thoroughly zaturated. Oats aro bettor than
ment not to lmd. with dry goo.1. stores which “jnnd^toVl'ngU'u ptonM J'the^ffith”
keep open after 60 clock. I are necessarily higher than fall oats would be.
The Neuman Baptist church held a centennial I Com and cotton both look well. A large amount
meeting las, Sun,lay when a strong and forcible g ggggtmjg* ^-1^*
mid row was rlellverol by Colonel A. D. !• recmiiu I BnWi
In behalf of the movement. About 1700 were sub-1 cou sim-H, Juno 0.-[S|welnl.]-Georgo Powell,
scribed, with tho prozpcjt o( securing the *I,«H an oporatlve In the Engle nnd Phenlx mills, was
naked for when a thorough eanvw. ol the church I t m ccl „„ g H turilay ulght by a fellow workmnn
Is made. I named Bud Hill, near tho upper bridge, opposite
Hr. Jacob Starr, of Kcwnan, says that n baby waa thc city. Both men were drinking nnd 1'owcll'a
bom to Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Morgan, 111 Cedar Crock I throat was cut from carlo ear. from the effeeta
township, which had a well Moped front tooth v^UJ.f'thS
nnd another almost through. It Is the Hrst case of j ury ..hunzen 1III1 with murder, lie won arraigned
lie kind which ha* come under his observation iu I before Justice Barr for a preliminary hearing this
inn.i,.i■ i ici of mane v.H.p* I evening, but waived examination ami was ordere(l
hirge practice of inanj >ears. to Jail without bail, llill is very feeble from thc
Professor Seomp, of Emory college, is thc new I ; fWW „( blood, having received several wounds iu
president of the Nowtou county Sunday school as- j the arm.
elation. j Savannah, Juno [Special.]—Savannah waa
Uncle Bob Weddlngton, near Dnnghizyille iigeil | vlalu il nt 3 o’clock this afternoon with a very
heavy wind nnd rain storm, completely flooding
the streets. The firemen’s parade had just closed
and the laddies were about to enter the various
... - - | contests when the rain come up, uml compelled
V. / a.,. . r i . • * ... them to retire. To-night, with their f
Tho fratricide in Laurens last week, In which I tt re enjoy lug collations lu their halls.
Stephens Padgett killed his brother Joe, has elicit-1 v„.la Rica, June 10.-[8peeisl.l-Thc wheat
cil much comment. It seems that Joe Padgett had cro p is Udng harvested nt a rapid rate. The farm-
threatened to kill Ills brother .Stephen, and he and j ew nqxirt It better than for several years. The late
another brother went to the House of the latter I rain* have improved thc oat crop wonderfully and
with the firm purpose of executing the threat. I nn average wheat crop is expected.
They entered the house nnd beat Stephen, finally I Villa Rica, June 10.—[.Special.]—Mr. Nichols,
Jeering him from tho house, and knocked I living near Old Carrollton,was In town with a load
him down in the yard, when he got up, I of peaches, selling them at two dollars j»cr bushel,
d awing his pistol, snot Joe dead. Bad feeling I ftnd engaged another wagonload at thc same price.
. engendered between the brothers, ami in fact | jj e they v “— **- **
the entire fainily, a year or two ago, on account [
venty years, Is rejoicing over the birth to him
of a line son.
Mf. W. (’. Baggett, of iKMiglasville, has , a Bible
wliiidi his great-grand-father brought from'lrelaml
ami in fact j ife snys they will pay more than cotton,
joe purloining i» deed to a piece of property J SANDEBSVILLE, June 10.—Mr, A. M. Mago, thc
Heh Iris father had executed properly and le-I clerk of court, says that the heaviest mortgage
lly ami only awaited Joe's evidencing symptoms j cvcr recorded on his books is mortgage from Cell-
^formation, to deliver the deed. Joe a*eer-I
led tlie wher eabouts *»f tho imijht. ami while }. ,,n,In!, n i w vnr
family were absent, he btole the deed und lmd I . * ai1 ^' °^ LW ' or *,
i-eonled. ami on .ladng remonstrated with by I <,u ' , * ixccu tcu In 18#..
father, drew hi* pistol ami spit defiance at his I Sanpkiwvillk, June 10.—Mr. W. B. TL
ithing ha* ever 'saddened the iuurts of our ia*o- I "ftyj* that he has gnuleil six miles of hi*
pie, or filled them with greater indignation ami I ? wo * . J m wh Hll
"I'ln'kiS. W A txrnt'l ,C a?ctoI:k h yc.tSriUy "(BunSSy) I “S’ 11 «ta“tho avS*o Sh
irti&ig several of our eltlzen* heard patois firing, I tJ^VwIin'it^Band tl°5» f HUmnttairaiit him
soaie hearing two uml others up to a* many as j fEJ0Oand$l,.i0L. llULrosstleseost him
seven reports of firearm*. Mrs. Dykes, who wa* in I ou ^ twenty cents apiece.
!k*(1 with her hushaml asleep, did not hear the I CrniBKirr, Un., June 10.—A meeting of thc cltl-
firing, nor did Mr. James Clark who wu.* in an- | zoliso f (uthbert and Itnndolpli county waa held
other room of the house. Mr*. Dykes was I . .. .
awakened l»y the difficult breathing of her I courthouse in thc interest of the Bain*
hushaml. and trying to arouse him. and failing, she I bridge. Cutlfljcrt and Columbus railroad. Captain
got Mr. Clark to will up the cook to heat Mime 1 Tumlin read letters from partlca Interested in the
I IrutMln* of the road, and; Mean. Cooper and
. hich he wa* subject at time*. On raising a llglit,
the sight of blood on hi# pillow led to thc awful
discovery that he had Wen shot In the head, the
lull entering just above ami a little backward from
the left ear. fro m whieh orifice blood ami bruin
re exuding. Horrified ami mvstifled beyond
conception, help wa* summoned, aud although
a few minutes the house was filled with
friends and the medical fraternity, all wa* of no
avail, Joe wa* dead. A bullet hole was found [
through a p ine of glass and the curtain whieh was
‘ own. showing the direction from which the ml*-
aged couple. Their long, half century of wedded
Rife we prnuime has all been passed in thi* eoun-
tty. ana they have thc pleasing reflection, that it
I has been so passed that they can claim all their
fellow citizen* as friend*. _ While they may^j
many friends wish for thc good peop}-.—
urn* of the anniversary of their bridal day.
Gumming tlarion: Tin* upland oat crop in For
syth county U almost an'entfre failure.
Barry ami Judge* Hood and Kiddoo made speeches
showing the practicability of constructing tho
road on account of the desire of all parties along
the Hue to have it built The following gentle
men were appointed a committee and Instructed
to proceed at onee to procure subscriptions look
ing to that end: Captain W. M. Tumlin, O. A.
Barry, A. J. Moves, t\ N. .Simpson and George
McDonald. Cuthbert and Randolph counties are
ready to do their i>art prom ptly and in a sub
stantial manner.
Mr. J. M. Roger*, of Sumter county,
Friday last shipped three dozen crates of
from SmithvRle to Jacksonville, Fla., and Rich
mond, Vo. Mr. Rogers has an orchard of four
thousand trees which are Just coming Into bearing
Rev. J. \V. Ford, of Boy City. Michigan, who was
The character of the man mSwmliT^idoTof | recently crile.1 to the Baptlzt chnreh at Quitman,
assassination, as Joe Dyke* had no enemy, never I has virtually accepted the call,
havintt been known ta have the leaat Aiffieulty I Mr. J. J. Wall’a mill, located on the !!»v»nn*h.
with anybody. The most plausible solution ap-1 ... . . .. .
pears to be that some drunken or reck less person* I Florida and Western railroad, six miles east of
going home were firing at random, and astray hall ( Valdosta, was entirely destroyed by fire Mon-
ail lt» deadly work There waa anewro hall In | llay; loMji-ooo. So Inaurance. Mr. Wall went,
town Saturday night, which broke up a short j ,
time before the tiring was heard, nnd os several of j wor ^ once building up again. III* mill
thc negroes had to i»om this house cn route for 1 oue of the best equipped on the road and turned
their home., .u.plclon rata upon tlmm out , luir ver) - nptaiy. He will be under lull head-
as the careless parties who did the shoot-
itur. fan there never he a stop to tn e [ wa> tna few weeks.
■ *' practice of this promiscuous
it Joe ** ’ * “■“*
i death came. Xlr*. Dykes wa* oil the side of j
bed, which waa five feet apart from thewindo
at the rear end of the room, the chimney and
auothcr window being between thi* one ami the
street. Many theories are speculated on ns to
how ami why the act wa* perpetrated
aud mo*t useful citizens. He moved here, from ! ton * male Seminary In another column. Those
hi* farm four mile* above, last January. He wa* ' having^daughters to educate w ill do weE to send
the youngest son of Judge B. B. Dyke*, of thi* I £> r *“'• examine a catalogue of this hwHtution.
place, and was twenty-nine years old. The heart- | The advantage* offered in literatare Ungu«»«e.
vorvJjot. Areom-
cononTueiKUy. g.miumcn me m ine caz- being interred to
Ik and sheep range* of \\ile»»x and IKwlv, and ne - r colcv's station
we had a few minute* conversation with them nc *: ^ w ^
•boot the .uwk bustne*. Mr. lloli wo. imlnxup „* r h v? ( v*Sin Kev. James WUIli, Principal, Staanton, Vt
to Macon lo make arrangement* for thc sale and which, he says he bought In IH3 from Mr. Neman
strong recommendation. Send for a catalogue to