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HH O pc o > 2 O 2 Is. r o VOL. II. NO. 29. *1 PER YEAR. NOT TO BE JV1ENDED AGAIN. You can take a piece of china that’s been broken by the maid. Ami can put tho thing together if you know the mender’s trade; You That can Mend the thing so neatly that no one will ever know it has e’er been shattered by an unconsidered blow. You can take n heart that’s broken by some small flirtatious girl And can mend the fractured pieces till they're smooth as any pearl Ay, say that that heart’s possessor fools as sturdy as an oak ’ And forgets that e’er it happened that his heart was ever “broke ” You can fall from a bicycle and make pieces of your nose; You can break your collar-bone, or you can fracture all your toss’ You can crush your arm in splinters; you can smash your either lea And a doctor ho will fix it till it’s whole as any “’ egg. You can smash an ocean record, but that roconl still is there You may break a trotting record with a rapid little mare, ’ And As when leave it the sent old the one jockeys standing a-huzzaing just ns whole, through quite the as co’mpioto ’ street, But alas! if you are angry, and have angry words to say, Beware a broken silence, or you'll surely rue the day. Tor a silence that Is broken, by the women or the men Is a thing that can’t be mended, can’t be rendered whol e again. Ti-ib Cavern of Plies. V \B| /pgJERA Wf Mexico, CRUZ, June 11/# 21 —At Fee oh, A/-, State of Yuca- -^j CB. tan, and at other «pt places in that ss\2r x ; fp a soured for sev- clouds of flies, which eral days by came from the interior country.—The Now York Sun. Is this the proof of the story told by the late General Jo O. Shelby, tho Confederate who never surrendered, but who, nevertheless, died United States Marshal for the Western Dis¬ trict of Missouri? Has the Cavern of flflies broken loose? 1 It was near this same Fecoh, ac¬ cording to the General’s story, that Walter Andrews Balister, formerly Jiving near Kansas City, Mo., won k fortune by entering the famous Caveiu of Flies. The Cavern of Flies is one of tlio most wonderful and, at the same time, one of the most hideous places in the world. Balistor’s adventure, in daring and inexpressible terror, is not exceeded by the most extravagant flights of Ac¬ tion. The memory of his experience undoubtedly mind, wore upon Balister’s for he packed up six years ago and left his home, saying: “I am going to Greenland, where it is too cold for flies.” It is not known in what year he Went to Yucatan. By a strange whim of fortune this tall, thin youth, from tlio district of Missouri, where the James boys had their haunts, found himself shipping from New Orleans as one of a party to explore the ancient ruins of Yucatan. When he returned to Jackson Coun¬ ty in 1830 his old friends did not know him. His face and hands were cor¬ ered with countless tiny blue spots, ns if he had been tattooed, He had plenty of money, although ho went from the Missouri hills with nothing except the six-shooter iu his hip poc¬ ket. He built a fine house. Each window of the house was provided with firm wire netting. A summer house in the grouuds was built, enmeshed entirely with netting. When asked why lie used all this expensive wire netting, Balister replied, gruffly: “To keep out flies!” Soon his black servants told a strange story. Their master’s chief requirement was that they should let no flies into the house, If he heard house one buzzing, every person in the was ordered to kill that fly, to do nothing until the fly was killed. One day Balister found a black hoy asleep with a fly perched on his nose. Ho struck the boy a blow that all but killed him! > H was too near tho big up-to-date town of Kansas City for black boys to be struck down by thoir masters, hence Balister was arrested for assault with intent to kill. i He declared he aimed at the fly, not tho boy. This excuse was considered a bit of grim humor. It was this circumstance that led the strange man to tell to the late General J. O. Shelby the story of the “Cavern of Flies.” General Sliolby told the story several times iu con- vivial moments. Balister’s father was one of my bravest soldiers,” said General Shelby, “and rode to Mexico with me rather than surrender to the Yankees. I met young what Balister, but never asked him made his face blue. Gentlemen, that man wits blue all over! When he was charged with trying to kill the boy, he said to me: “ ‘General, it is no joke—-I did aim at the fly!’ “Then he told mo the story which, he said, had never passed his lip/j be¬ fore, it was so painful for him to tell. “It seems that somewhere in the in¬ terior of Yucatan, near Fecoh, two of the expedition, accompanied by Balis¬ ter, found a lot of ruins covered by forest trees. An immense hill of lava attracted them, and it was around the hill they found these ruins. “Among the peculiar features of an ancient temple was au underground tunnel, which, by observation, they found to lead into the hill of lava rock. “Iu their efforts to follow this tun¬ nel the party was driven back by swarms of flies! The walls and ceiling of the passage were covered with a species of flies which puzzled the ex¬ plorers. They had never seen nuy flies of that sort in that land of flics. “Determined to solve tho mystery of the underground passage, the party covered their faces and hands with cloths and pushed resolutely on through ever-increasing clouds of flies. As they went further the ancient air grew warmer and moist, and an intol¬ erable odor assailed them. They were driven back, “The next day they tried again, and were rewarded by signs of light. En¬ couraged by the light-, they fought through the swarms of insects and en¬ tered what- seemed the crater of an ex¬ tinct volcano. The terrible smell was from masses of flies underfoot. Warm fumes still arose from the rocks. High above thorn were the apertures through which came the daylight. “ ‘It is a burial place!’ exclaimed tho explorers. “Balister know nothing of the de¬ light t of unearthing the traces of ex¬ tinct nations, his business was to man¬ age mules, but. he was filled with won¬ der to behold rows upon rows of erect skeletons along the walls. The bones of the mysterious dead were covered with flies. “The next discovery was that the arms and ankles of the skeletons were decorated with bracelets. Pendants hung from grisly necks upon empty ribs and diaphragms! “It was Balister who cried, ‘Thev are gold!’ “Almost blinded by the attacks of insects, tho men began to wrest the treasure from the spectres of an un- known past. “Balister knocked grinning skulls of queens and nobles from their shoul¬ ders and strung his arms with rich necklaces of virgin gold. “Then arose a sound like the gib¬ bering of ten thousand fiends. “Frightened and half running for the mouth of the tunnel, the 1 men re¬ alized that it was not the angry mur- umrings of the ghosts of a forgotten race, but the uprising of countless millions and billions of flies! “The swarms blotted out the rifts of daylight. The torches were extin¬ guished, and the men fell upon their faces to escape the attack. “Then, joining hands, they sought to find the tunnel through which they hail entered. The pests got under their clothes, under the cloths over tlicir faces, and they were bitten iu a thousand “Balister said his companions screamed with agony! “They groped along the sides of tho cavern, but everywhere their frantic hands felt nothing but the bony legs of the dead. “Balister, gentlemen, was not a fat, spectacled scientist. He was a strong, fearless young man of the stuff that never surrendered, Yet he said that he felt his mind melting like a snow- ball in an oven. Ho wanted to scream and gibber! “But, observe Missouri instinct all this time-—he clung to his booty! “He does not know how long the three men struggled in that avalanche of insects that choked them, that bit them in the gullet even as they were swallowed. “Balister lost hold of his com- panions. Their screams, he said, sounded muffled in the angry roar of the myriads of flies which were eating them alive! “Almost ready to fall and have his bones picked, Balister, by Missouri instinct, drew his gun arid began to shoot! “Although shooting at flies was mere madness, Balister "aid that the act of shooting saved Vs sanity. It was so natural au act for •> Missourian, gentlemen! “ ‘I yelled,’ Balister said to ‘when I by the flashes, me, saw, the mouth of tho tunnel!’ “ ‘Como on!’ ho shouted to his com- panions, shooting as ho ran and stum¬ bled through the tunnel. The flies pursued him every step. ruined “Ho plunged into the court of the temple,-threw down his booty, and there tore off his clothes and brushed from his flesh tho flics that clung like leeches, He was black with them, black and red—for the blood ran in streams. himself “Running to tho cam]) ho smeared with ointment. “Bp engrossed was Balister with his own torments that he did not, for the time, think of his employers. “Gentlemen, they never camo out!” “Balister assured me on his honor that he weut back the whole length of the tunnel, in vain, thinking he might find them lying there unconscious. “He told ine he remained among the ruins several days. He couldn’t sleep because, at night, he thought he screams in tho tunnel. “Once he screwed up his courage to to the mouth of the passage and when he heard the screams. lie said he thought he heard mocking in reply. “Balister concluded that the Mexi¬ authorities would laugh at his story, shoot him as a murderer and his goid. “Possessed with this idea, he hid gold in the pack saddles of his mules and made his way to the coast expedition, attempting to find the rest of which searched vainly for the men who were eaten alive. population and drainage. MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 30. 1897. ‘"I am perfectly sane,’ he told mo, ‘but I can’t bear the sight of a fly.' ” —New York Journal. "SCOTTIE” WAS REVENGED, Sure Vengeance For Iteing Duped InU “Cooning” an Imaginary Dog* ‘‘I played a trick on one of the cow- boys we called 'Soottie, » »♦ said the ex¬ cowboy, in good “But he got even with me shape. Wo were on the round¬ up, gnd within two days’ drive of Eaton, but ‘Scot-tie’ couldn’t st-and it any longer, so he struck off for town early in the morning to fill up. We didn't see anything of him till night-. After the cattle had beep bedded and the night herders stationed ho came into camp maudlin drunk. The boy* began to tease him about being drunk, but ho swore that he was perfectly sober, and offered to bet that he could walk a scratch. “I noticed just then that the moon cast my shadow like a log across the creek. I said, ‘Seottie, I’ll bet you can’t walk across the creek on this log.’ Seottie looked at it a moment rather dubiously, then said: ‘I don’t know as I can walk it, blit I’ll bet I can coon it.’ ‘All right,' I said, ‘coon it.’ “So he got down on all fours to ‘coon’ it, and, of course crawled splash into tho creek. The boys set up a howl. He scrambled out, spluttering and cussing, pretty well sobered and swearing that he would ‘get even’ with the kid for that trick.’ And he did. “I had in my string of cow pouios the meanest broncho in New Mexico. No matter how often I rode him he had to havo his pitch-out every time he was saddled. I made it a point to get off before the rest of the boys were ready to start. Failing iu that, I waited until they wore out of the way. One morning, nearly two years after ‘Seottie’ had ‘cooned’ the log, I saddled up and mounted. The broncho put his head down to buck. I jerked him up sharply, and t-lie bridle bit broke and let the bridle off over his head. Then he began to pitch and run right toward a barbed wire fence. “I heard ‘Scottie’s’ voice say ‘I catch him for yon.’ Thon his lariat whizzed by my head and caught the horse around the neck. I glanced over my shoulder and saw ‘Seottie’ set his horse back. It came over me in an instant that he was going to throw my horse and ‘get oven’ with me. So I jerked my feet out of the stirrups and got ready to fall. I lauded about thirty feet away, flat on my back. After the boys had brought me around, examined me and found me all there and no harm demo, ‘Seottie’ turned to one of the boys and said: ‘I told you I would get even with tho kid. ’ ”—Chi¬ cago Times-Herald. Moving Slo-.jilliils. The railway hospital car is tho latest novelty in foreign railroading. In the event of a serious accident, theso cars can be nm to the place of the disaster, where the injured may be picked up and carried to tho nearest largo city for treatment instead of being left to pass long hours at some wayside station while awaiting surgical attendance, ft also enables the railway companies at certain seasons or upon special oc¬ casions to transport largo numbers of invalids to health resorts or places of pilgrimage. The interior of the car is divided into a main compartment, a corridor on one sido and two small rooms at tho end. The largest com¬ partment is tho hospital proper; it contains twenty-four isolated beds. Each patient lies in front of two little windows. Each bed is provided with a movable table, and a ool’d servos to hold all tho various small objects which tho patient may require. The corridors on the outside lead to tho linen closet and tho doctor’s apart¬ ment. Various trap doors in the floor, when opened, disclose to view an ico chest, a compartment for the disinfec¬ tion of soiled linen, and a provision cellar. If necessary, a portion of tho hospital chamber may bo transformed into an operating room for urgent cases. Finally, ns customary abroad, 1 a small chapel for religious worship is provided. This car will bo put in charge of a surgeon and nurses, and will bo chiefly used to carry invalids from Belgium direct to the health re¬ sorts of Franco. They Do Not Marry Young, The average age at which people in England marry has steadily risen for n good many years. Sir Brydges Hennikor, Registrar General for Eng¬ land and Wales, has only now com¬ pleted his detailed report for 1895, and he states that the mean ages of those who entered wedlock in that year were about twenty-eight and a half years for men and slightly over twenty-six years for women. These figures, how¬ ever, include the ages of widowers and widows who re-euter the matri¬ monial estate, and who ought properly to bo excluded from tho calculation, for the average age of widowers who re-marry is over forty-four, while that of widows is forty. If, therefore, wo deal only with the case of bachelors spinsters, wo find that the mean ages half and on marriage aro twenty-six and a twenty-five respectively. Tho number of under-age marriages regis¬ in 1895 was the lowest recorded for between forty and fifty yeurs. Clime Jn Italy* In Italy only half of the criminals escape detection according do Signor who has written a book on “Clever and Fortunate Criminals.” asserts that while 9000 crimes authors were not detected were in France fin 1825, tho number of such crimes is now A Ruslan Army Scandal, Russiau artillery officers stationed Otchaboff, on the Dnieper, have detected in selling large quanti¬ of gunpowder and other stores tu BURLESQUE ON A POEM ON V DISCUSSION* MRS. ARP EXPRESSES HERSELF. William Realizes That llo Is Only a Plain, Unrefined Specimen of tlio Genus Homo. The last, letter I had about the poem was anonymous. Of course it was, for it read— “Man wants but little here below, But So Young and Goldsmith say: woman wants it all, you know And wants it right away.” Mrs. Arp was sewing ou some infun- tile garment as I quietly laid the mis¬ sive on her lap. She neither smiled nor frowned nor stopped the play of her needle ns she remarked, “Maybe they do, but they don’t get it nor ex- pect.” “I reckon,’’ said I, “that some stingy old benedict wrote that; some fellow who would spend more money on his horse than on his wife.” “No,” said Mrs. Arp, “it was some old bachelor whose rejected addresses have made him cynical and like Byron he vents his revenge in doggerel. When you go down town I wish you would see Mr. Hicks about that dining room chair. Maybe he cau put a now cano bottom to it. YVe need i( some- times when we have company, and that old sideboard ought to be I't'YIll- nished and have new knobs. Do you know how old that sideboard is?” “Yes,” said J, “Jim Sumter made it iu 1852. He was one of the best men and best workmen I ever knew. I paid him $50 for the sideboard. He was a well-read, well-bred man, a good neighbor and a good citizen, and I have respect for the sideboard. It is like an epitaph on his tombstone and seems to read, ‘Sacred to tlio memory of —’ Yes, T will see Mr. Hicks ah',lit the sideboard. Is there anything else in his line that you want?” “No,’’said she, “hut yon know we are obliged to have another extension table. We gave ours to Jesse when she was married, and have been using one that was left here three years ago, and now the owner has settled down and wants it. Y’ou had better attend to this right away.” “Right away, right away,” I mused. “Jin!- woman wants it fill you know, And wants it right away.” Mrs. Arp looked ot me and re¬ marked, “T want tlie.se things for you and the children. It’s precious little that I want for myself now.” J don’t think she admires the song or the sentiment. “I know it, f know it, my dear,” said I. “There was a time when you wanted a good deal for yourself and it pleased me to gratify your every wish and more than you asked for. Nothing was too good for you when I had the money. Silks and sables, lawns and muslins, a carriage and horses, Wiltoif carpets and damask curtains, and so forth, and so on, et cetera, o pluribns unum. But anno domini kept rolling on and the war came and I discovered that you were gradually losing your concern for yourself, and all your oaro was for your children, l was rami liating about this while you were stitching away so earnestly upon that little garment, for now your love and care havo lapped over to another generation. The little grandchildren have come in for a share of your maternal love, and your persona! wants have come down to a minimum. Of course you must be clothed as becomes the maternal head of nu- merons and lovely offspring, for if you are not a queen you have reigned in our homo nearly as long as Queen Victoria has in England and—” “Well, that will do now,” said my wife. “You had better go to town. Aunt Ann r.ays the rice is out, and Iho cowfeed too.” “I was ruminating, ” said I, “how fortunate it was that your ambition surrendered about the time my money <1M. You ceased to crave ns fine things as I used to get you. You adapted your wants to our misfortunes. Why, forty years ago I would not have let you go about in that grizzly gray mus¬ lin. I had a contempt for cheap things, especially for you; didn’t I, my dear?” “Yon certainly did,” she said with a kind of sad, reminiscent smile in her tone of voice, “lmt thin muslin in good enough now. But you had hot¬ ter go to town. There are four little grandchildren hereto dinner,and Aunt Ann wants the rice right away.” “And wants it right, away,” I hum¬ med to the tune of “Auld Lang Hyue.” Homehow I can’t, get, that refrain out of my mind—“And wants it right away-” Sometimes I think that, men don’t understand nor appreciate woman’s nature. She was created with a love for the beautiful, for ornament, for gems, jewels and gold and silverware arid damask and fine linen. She can’t, help her nature, and this very nature proves that she is nearer heaven than we are. What do I care for diamonds? Not, a cent. I wouldn’t give, a dollar for a bushel of them. An old-fashioned tin waiter with flowers painted on it is as good as a silver one to mo. I wouldn’t wash the window glass more than once.a year, and a wash-pan suits me as well as a china basin. But I recognize the fact that I am a man with an unrefined nature. Tho twelve gates of the new Jerusalem that are made of precious stones are no attraction to me; neither are the gold-paved streets that St. John saw in his vision. But still I have hope of getting there and becoming mi re refined, for I do love flowers and pretty birds and orange trees and luscious fruits and beautiful sce¬ nery and mountains mid the great waters of the mighty sea. My wife and my daughters can spend half a day in looking at the beautiful things in the show windows in Atlan¬ ta, but I never stop to gaze or to ad¬ photographer’s mire, except, perhaps, to look at the models of display or the life-like lovely women that seem sin; ding at, my three-score and ten. Reading and observation teach me that all good men have reverence for womankind and are conscious of her better nature, her better morals and emotions. Shakespeare and Scott write of women as ministering angels. Wadsworth says of her creation: “A perfect woman nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command." No great poet save such a rake as Bvvon would have written: “As well believe a- woman, or an epitaph, Or any other thing that’s false." Even Solomon in all his glory with his wives and concubines said: “Young mall, rejoice with the wife of thy youth, her and be thou always ravished with love." Edward W. Bok says in The Ladies’ Homo Journal, “No economy is so false and misguided as that which seeks to withhold one pleasure from the life of a good woman, a true wife or a loving mother. The best home a man can give her becomes tiresome if ■she is asked to live in it and stay in it 865 days in a year, The Lord knows that woman’s life is hard enough. She travels a path of endurance and suf¬ fering to which the average man is an entire stranger. Then let ns make that path as pleasant, as easy and as bright as possible. Every dollar that a man spends on his home for the happiness and comfort of his wife will come back to him four-fold.” That is true—all true. Better mend the broken pane or that sash cord or that gate latch and sometimes take :■■- hour off from business and take her to ride. The Odd Fellows and Masons and Knights of Pythias are good insti¬ tutions,hut should not come in between a man and his wife. The mother wants help with the children, for I tell you, my brethren, there is no care nor anxiety like nursing and earing for a little child, and nobody but a mother will do it willingly. A mother who has reared eight or ten children from infancy to maturity, and four years of the time during a pitiless war, when she had to flee from the foul invader with her little ones and hide thorn, half clad and always hiuisrrv, can say with Paul, “I have fought a good tight; I have finished my course. ” Yes, Paul said t at, but ho was an old bachelor, and knew nothing of wliat a mother suffers. The most pathetic line in nil poetry is that of Fitz-Greene Halloek, where lie apostrophizes death; “Gome to the mother when she feels For the first time her first-horn’s breath." The death of a young mother in child¬ birth is the saddest of all nature’s calamities. Maternal love—maternal interest! What is it that so inspires a wo’man to bear her fate —to suffer and he strong? Binr, Am> in Atlanta Constitution. BRUNSWICK CREW WINNERS. They Ilefcnt Savnnniih’s Boat Crow In Naval Reserve Drill. Brunswick’s naval reserve’s crack boat crew defeated Savannah’s boat crew Wednesday morning and a crew of trained men from the gunboat Wil¬ mington in the afternoon. The courso was two miles, from the sea lmoy to St. Simons sound buoy. Brunswick pulled the American stroke. Lieutenant Taylor, of Brunswick, who promoted the races, was referee of both. The race was witnessed by two thousand people. All of the of¬ ficers of tho reserves and tho Wilming¬ ton were on the Wilmington’s deoks watching its progress. A QUESTION OK DATE Auto When tli© N*'w Tnrlflf I>nw Hooohhi* Operative. The question of the day and hour when the new tariff law will go into operation, since it was signed by the president before 12 o’clock Saturday night, has been raised ut the treasury department. Tho question is a new one so far as tariff hills are concerned. The mutter has been considered by the treasury officials anil it is very probable they will hold that the now act went into effect at 12 o’clock Saturday night. The department, however, lifts ten days before filial liquidation in which to determine tho question. ALL RECORDS BROKEN. fttenmer R1 Rio Makes New Orleans t-i New York in 4 Diiyn anil (1 Ifnin-M. The steamer El Rio, Captain Quick, from New Orleans, July 21st, with merchandise, reached New York Sun¬ day afternoon, making the run from liar to liar in three days, twenty-three hours and thirty-seven minutes, arid from dock to quarantine four days, six hours and fourteen minutes, breaking all records. The best previous record from liar to bar four days, two hours and ton minutes, was made by the steamer El Norte, on April 27, 1897. FATAL OPERA HOUSE FIRE, Tlio Aufllonco Panic Htrlcken ami Many Were Trainplod Under F«8t. The Casino summer theater at Ra¬ mona park, Paducah, Ky., was burned Friday night. A performance was being given to about 600 people when the fire, broke out from a fireworks display on the stage. The audience was panic-stricken. Probably over 100 persons were in¬ jured by being trampled. It is reported that three or four children perished in the flames. All the doctors in the city were required to look after the injured. T. P. GREEN, MANAGER. ! STATE GEOLOGIST AND GOVERNOR HAVE A GOOD SCHEME. BULLETIN TO EE ISSUED OH SUBJECT Will Contain Valuable Information on ltoiul Construction, and May Solve Con¬ vict Dense Pvolem. Professor Yeates, state geologist of Georgia, has inaugurated a movement for the improvement of every road in the state, and has already taken the first stops toward the materialization of his plans. Professor Yeates is a strong believer in good roads, and ho will exert every effort to make every thoroughfare in Georgia comfortably passable. Considering the unsettled condition of the convict question, the movement is particularly opportune at this time, and may aid in the solution of the problem of disposing of the state criminals. Professor Yeates has the hearty indorsement of Governor At¬ kinson in his plan, and their efforts may result in wonderful good to the rural districts of the state. Professor Yeates will soon issue a good roads bulletin, which will largely aid in llio progress of the work. The bulletin will Vie compiled with great care, and will be largely conducive to the. future prosperity of the state. Professor MeCallie, assistant state geologist, will have charge of the bul¬ letin, and lias already begun securing data with which to begin. He will start soon on an inspection of the whole state, and the report of his observations will ho published in this bulletin. The bulletin will contain informa¬ tion exceedingly valuable toward the construction of good roads. It- will be handsomely illustrated, and will eon- tain the most up-to-date methods for road construction. The pamphlet will contain practical lessons on the details of roadhuihling, will point out the best materials, and the most approved methods for grad¬ ing. It will make tho work so plain that every man can understand it, and improve his property accordingly. Cop¬ ies will bo mailed to every farmer al¬ most in the state. The soil of Georgia contains some very line material for road construc¬ tion, which, if properly utilized, would make the very bent highways in the country. The red shale, near Rome, is particularly liue for roadbeds, large quantities of which are now being used in and around that city. Tho chert is also very fine for this work, and the bulletin will locate and describe these natural materials, giving their quantity, how best prepared and laid. The preparation of this pamphlet means an immense amount of work and a good expense, but the state will no doubt bo fully repaid for the out- lay. If tho convicts are ever put to work on the roads,and the directions of Ibis bulletin followed, there is no reason why Georgia should not have as good roads as any state in the union. A wheelman could then ride from one end nf the state to the other without any trouble, and general travel would he made much easier. FURNITURE WORKS DESTROYED. Rlc Flu-lory Itiiinc.l („ AxIiiik nt. Cam- bridge, Mhkh. The furniture factory of Keeler <t Go., East Cambridge, Mass., was vis¬ ited by a fire Wednesday night, and although tho blaze was confined to the top floor, the loss will be about $25,000, fully covered by insurance. The top floor was taken up by the furniture just finished for J. Reed Whipple’s new Boston hotel, La Toii- raine, which was of special design and very costly. This was all ready for shipment and was destroyed. Cobb, ISizzol & Go. had a large quan¬ tity of furniture stored on the floor beneath and their loss will leach $5,000. Wholesnle Arrests For Murder. Sit men and two women are under arrest at Trinidad, Col., for the mur- der of Deputies William Green ami William Kelly, who were iu search of cattle thieves, in 1.89(5. Officers are in pursuit of two more men who ure implicated. MURDERED THEIR HUSBANDS. Hungarian Wodipr to SuflVr Deuili for WlioloHtilo Poiftonlng. The trial of twelve women and two men oharged with wholesale pois¬ oning, was concluded ut Buda pest, Hungary, Friday and sentences were passed upon fdx of the prisoners. Four of them were condemned to death, one to penal servitude for lifo and one to u term of six years’ impris¬ onment. The series of crimes which occurred in the Hodmczoevasaholy district ex¬ tend over some years past. The vic¬ tims were in most cases married men, who were killed by their wives, the motive for the crime being generally a desire to obtain insurance money. LARGEST GEORGIA MELON. Weigh* 78 Pounds, anil Will llo Presented to President Mcklnloy. The largest watermelon grown in the south this season was shipped from Atlanta, Ga., Monday, for Wash¬ ington, and will be presented to Presi¬ dent McKinley. ,'i he melon was grown in Georgia, weighs seventy-eight pounds, and took the prize of $25 offered by W. N. Mitchell, southern agent of tlio Balti¬ more & Ohio railroad. THROUGH GEORGIA. At a meeting of the executive com¬ mittee of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars held at Athens,it was decided to put a lecturer in the field, and about 8-tOO was subscribed for that purpose. The grand lodge will meet in Atlanta ■September 5th. The commission in charge of Au¬ gusta’s proposed new waterworks sys¬ tem mid for organization a few days ft go. New pumping stations and res¬ ervoir and filter will bo constructed. The improvement will cost at least 0250,000. The hoard of directors of the Eagle and P he nix Mauufaeturing Company met in Columbus the past week in an¬ nual session and elected the following officers: President, Charles A. Collier, of Atlanta; Secretary and treasurer, E. N. Clemencc, of Columbus. Mi. C'ollier succeeds Judge Bigby, who was re-elected president two years under the bylaws. Ex-United States Marshal Harrell, receiver of the Woodburn and Cuyler railroad, has just taken possession of the road, under orders from Judge Speer. The railroad was sold to A. A. Adams at public sale for $20,600 in April. Only $-1,000 was paid in and the failure to pay $22,500 in 90 days resulted in the United States taking charge of it again. ■ * . * Captain William Forsyth, of the United States secret service, left At¬ lanta a day or two ago for Dallas, Texas, where he goes to-assume his duties ns superintendent of the Dallas district of the secret service. Captain J. M. Wright., who has held the post of assistant superintendent of the At¬ lanta district for nearly a year past, has temporarily assumed charge of the 1 superintendent's work and will held the place until a permanent appoint¬ ment is made. The Atlanta district embraces Virginia, North Carolina, ■South Carolina, Florida and Alabama, and is one of the most important in the entire secret service. H. S. Perry, the murderer of Beley Lanier, now iu DeKalb county jail, must hung. Tho supreme court lias handed down a decision iu which a new trial is refused, Unless exeoii- five clemency is shown him Perry will pay the penalty of his crime on the gallows in the little jail yard at Deca¬ tur. The decision was prepared by Justice Lumpkin and assented to by Justices Simmons, Little and Fish, Just-ieos Atkinson and Gobi) dissent iug. The <>n l.y b1 ho opinions of Justices Cobb and Atkinson may have on the case will be the influence upon tho governor in any appeal for a commutation of the sentence. Comptroller General Wright ban written letters instructing the tax col¬ lectors of different counties to investi¬ gate and collect any taxes due tho slate and county under the provisions of the act of 1896 which went into effect in 1897, The law reqifires the payment of $10 as professional tax by all practitioners of medicine, dentistry, law and president of banks, express railroad, telegraph, telephone and olootrie.aiid gas light companies. There arc many defaulters and some aro be¬ hind as much as ten years, never having paid anything since the passage of tho law in 189(5, Of those who are behind all back taxes will bo required before they can legally perform the functions of their professions and collect fees for such work and bofore the heads of corporations subject to such special (axes tion can legally continue tlio direc¬ of tho affairs of their several in¬ stitutions. The property of the Georgia Min¬ ing, Manufacturing and Investment company was sold at public outcry at Atlanta the past week for $24,805. Tho properly is estimated by a promi¬ nent capitalist acquainted with the iron industry as being worth $1,000,- 006 and is bonded for $500,000, with $250,000 underlying bonds, making nearly a million with other incidentals. It was bought by Captain Clifford L. Anderson, with tho exception of the office furniture. It is understood that Captain Anderson represented some of tho heaviest certificate holders and that the sum paid for the property was just about enough to liquidate the costs of court and to satisfy other small demands with a view to preserving the property intact Tho stockholders concerned in the movement which was represented by Captain Anderson will proceed at once to reorganize and to place this property on a paying basis. * * * The Waters of the Chattahoochee river are to he bridled to furnish elec¬ tric power for the entire city of At¬ lanta. A strong stock company, con¬ sisting mostly of New York and Balti¬ more capitalists, is under way of or¬ ganization, and this company will in¬ vest something over a million dollars in tho materialization of their plans. They have carefully surveyed the waters of the Chattahoochee, and the engineers have pronounced the power sufficient to supply a large current of electricity for the city. The company have decided to begin work at once, therefore, and the surveyors are now at work. It will be perhaps four or five weeks before tho survey is com¬ pleted, when the construction of the (■hints will probably he begun. There will bo three separate plants at dif¬ ferent places in the river, each to cost in the neighborhood of $500,000. Only one of these plants will bo erected, however, nt first. As soon as tho power therefrom is all taken, the others will bo erected according to the demand. Tho company is not ham¬ pered for the lack of funds, and the concern is one of the very biggest that has ever been started in Atlanta,