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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