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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING RATES. l ue inch, first insertion SI.OO ~<ch subsequent insertion TO Professional Cards,-per year .3.00 leading Notices, per line 10 I-!# 11 Legal advertising must be paid in d vance. £3p , Special* reduction made by con tacts for advertising to go in larger ■ace or longer time. All bills for advertising are due ter first insertion of advertisement, un tss otherwise agreed. B. T. BIIOOKS, Editor. E. C. GRISCOM, Local Editor? wart ■■■: : Sii , 1.00, in Advance.. Wit < "'Qe England controls 600,000,000 people •oughout the world. The statistics on tobacco show that ine uses less of the weed than any er State in the Union. recording to an estimate in Brad ■et’s, the total number of strikes lasi r was 839, involving, 340,854 labor >ne hundred and twenty-seven pen . i bilh were passed by the L’nited i es Senate one day recently in ninety utes. . t is stated that at least 1,000,000 tons ommercial fertilizers are now annual ised in this country, at a cost to buy. of $30,000,000. f • n awful result of serpent worship it lia is the statement that 22,000 lives lost annually by the bites of venom l reptiles and wild beasts. #. and ai of the United States Sena cours< , . . , , ‘ end ,r o e n ien, their average weight ung close to 180 pounds. Their fk e weight, according to a coire T dent, is nearly 14,000 pounds. a single stroke the British Govern ha? converted its immense national of $733,000,000 in to three per cent, iff Is, with the -privilege after fifteen ; of reducing the interest to two and ’ < i per cent. IL *e 'ate Dr, Agnew, was wont to dc “t that ho man had lived to be 100 s old since Biblical days, and all such rtseame from ignorance or mistakes, of twenty cases he investigated not ■> proved to he authentic. ieUnited States import some 16,000,* 1 dozen eggs a year, for which we pay 1 00,000. and Mr. A. F. Hunter wants ! nov why we do not produce these ourselves. He answers his own tin, in the New England Farmer, by lgthlt we have hens enough, but d» nit lay as they ought to. tie United States there is one min t. 1 )0 people; in China, one or jtSqi sionary to 1,000,000. Of the »o',Ot L> of Afri a, 140,000,000 have ieti t fuelled by Christain teachers. Uiitfl 1 States has 80,000 preachers, § i ind: i, with five times the populu iss 710 o-'duined missionaries. I-L—itt .JJ nlr. Garner, of Charleston, S. jr io aannunced that she would be a late for the office of County School dssioner, is the first lady in the ' rtt ,so far as is known, to run for w bile is possessed of independent , is a hard student, and has been k , nent in church and school work. JWknly Senator who now habitually JjPP, e of the little black skull caps wB vsre so common among the Senators vears ago is Senator Edmunds, fljfiead is so baid as to be very ■pe to the draughts about the cor ,'jwK of the Senate Chamber. The IKn of wearing the caps was started Burnside and was quite Ur a time. Boulanger, the idol of the p.ipulace, is now just fifty years M jje is noted for his grace and and more than any other is the especial hero of the I No one ebc can o, cn a fan or IHfe a lady's cloak or mount a restless in sw graceful amt charming a way, (■ho jauie qualities are said to eharac |M a u Ids military actions. ■ N. •!., comes to the front with K Mperativo burial company that i-Mt< - Bwjcates all the way from $ 10 to sU> ( > HH-ii) enable their holders to be put ■■as plainly or as stylishly as they As all 3 tpplies are to be manu ■L C( i i,y the company and furnished ■p 0 le«ale rates, it may b- reasonably K members will get the worth of ■■money ... SOUTHERN SPRAYS. INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED FOR BUSY HUMANITY. MOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE, MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLES —FIRES, ACCIDENTS—INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. Alabama. Ol 83 saloon keepers in Birmingham only 30 have paid the state and county license .or 1888, and one paid no license for 1887. A deputy sheriff started out Saturday and arrested a out 20 of those slio have not paid. They were released on bonds of $4,0f)0 each. ‘ On Thursday night an attempt was made to burn the Lane grammar school building in Birmingham. A quantity of shavings and kindling wood was placed under the building, saturated with oil and set on lire. The lire department ar rived in time to save the building from serious damage. Mr. H. B. Tulane, Mrs. J. A. Bates, anil Mrs. L. V, Kidd, of Wetumpka, Ala., have returned from Princeton, New Jersey, where they went to attend a set tlement of the estate of the late Paul Tulane. A partial settlement of the es tate was made, and as heirs of Paul Tu lane they received a half million do'lars equally divided between the three. Michael Duffy, the oldest member ol the Montgomery police force, died on Monday. He was a native of Ireland, and has been in the service of the city for thirty years, except when in the Confederate army. He was corporal of the Montgomery Greys, and fought gal lantly from Manassas* to Appomattox, receiving eighteen wounds. At Appo mattox he tore the colors of the Sixth Regiment Alabama Volunteers from the staff, wrapped them around his body and brought them home. ’ Delaware. By an accidental explosion of dyna mite, Thomas A. Martin and Kendall Palmer, workmen engaged in destroying an old railroad pier, at Lewes, which was wrecked during the severe blizzard, were blown to atoms. Flnridn. . Polk county watermelons are in mar ket. R. C. Breland, of DeLand, has cut three hundred bushels of outs from three acres of land. One hundred dollars a foot was offered for ground on the square, at Odala, by a new-comer recently, but was not accept ed. Frank P. Fleming, of Jacksonville, was nominated for governor by the Dem ocratic convention on the fortieth ballot, after a tedious contest of two days, and the nomination was made unanimous amid great enthusiasm. Prof. A. Q. Holliday, from the Uni versity of Virginia aud University ol Berlin, and president of the State Agri cultural College of Floiida, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Science, Letters and Art of London, England. Dr. Kenworthy, the health officer of Jacksonville, stated that George Hughes supplied his store recently with a soda-water fountain costing $2,400. A child drank some of the water and was made eery ill; and Mr. Hughes directed his aPmtion to the fact, and insisted upon an analysis being made. A small quantity of lemon-syrup was drawn from one of the taps and tested by Prof. Lynes, who made tests determining be yond question the presence of tin as a stannous salt in the specimen of syrup. The health officer stated that he found verdigris (subaeetate of copper) in a number of the faucets, and in connection with the analyses of Prof. Lynes he sondemned the costly fountain. Georcia. A Democratic mass meeting held in Atlanta was easily captured by the Pro hibitionists, who proved they were well organized and officered. A. H. Osborne, who went to Athens from Anderson, S. C., a few months ag'o, and was employed at the planing mill of of Dr. Lyndon, committed suicide by shooting himself through the hi ait with a pistol ball. Cause: unrequited affection. For about a year, the people of Thom son have been annoyed at the operations of a bold and successful series of bur glaries, most of them perpetrated in the rooms of young ladies. Recently, Mrs. Willie Burnside, of Augusta, who is visiting her mother, Mrs. Basford, found Allen Sturgis, a young negro, under her bed, and he was arrested, and he impli cated four others who were arrested and bailed out. Sturgis was left in jail, as he could not get bail, and Saturday night he was lynched, being hung on an oak tree near the colored Baptist church. I.ouisiana. The Legislative caucus, at Baton Rouge, elected Judge E. D. White, Uni ted States Senator for the term begin ning March 4, 1891. The small steamboat, Fulton, exploded on Thursday at Paso a Houtre, Ed ward Perkins, pilot, was instantly killed and Capt. W. P. Baddle fatally wounded. There were seven men on the boat. Two colored deck hands were badly hurt. At Milnburg, a resort on Lake Ponch artraiu, within a few miles of New Or leans, on Wednesday, one man was killed and ten others injured, it is feared mortally,'by a lightning stroke. About 3 o’clock in the evening a sudden storm came up from the lake, and a large'num ber of people sought refuge iu a tent in one of the gardens. The storm lasted but a few moments, but during its height the tent Was struck with the above re sult. DEVOTEE E DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES O. COUNTY'. TRENTON, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE B,'IBBB. Missouri. jay Gould is seriously ill iu his private car at Kansas City. He will go at once ' New York. The Missouri supreme court has fixed the day of execution of Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, murderer of Arthur Prel ler, for the 13th of July. While the Mississippi river boat, In verness, owned by McDowell Bros., of LaCrosse, Wis., was towing a raft to Hannibal, Mo., two lower flues collapsed and ten men were blown overboard or jumped in the water to escape the deluge of steam. Five were drowned, all boat hands North Carolina. A young white man named Edward York, a nephew of Dr. York, of Wilkes county, who was the last Republican candidate for governor, was stabbed on Saturday night by another young white man by the name of Reese, at Holly Grove. The young men were traveling through the c >untry. Y’ork was recently married, and the oc currence grew out of an old feud be tween him and Reese in regard to York’s bride. Both men had been in love with the woman Y’ork married. She rejected Reese, who said before he left that he had sworn to kill Y’ork. One of the mo-t terrific cyclones that has ever visited that section passed near Milton, Saturday evening. The length of the track was about twenty-five miles and five hundred yards wide. The destruc tion and devastation was immense. Whole plantations of recently planted corn and tobacco were wiped out and buckets full of hailstones, as large as guinea eggs, could be easily gathered, and the weather has since been so cold that hail is still seen on the ground and people are Sitting by fires. The woods are strewed with green leaves like the .fall of dry leaves in Autumn. Mr. Greene, a defeated candidate foi the nomination for lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket, has caused a sensation by the public announcement that J. C. Pritchard, who was nominated for the place he wanted, is a murderer. Greene charges Pritchard with the kill ing of an old man by the name of Snyder and his son, in the mountain.-. Bills of indictment were entered in the state court. Pritchard took refuge under the law- allowing an appeal to the federal court, where the, charges preferred against him were not investigated, and he went free. Pritchard is a brother-in law of Ed. W. Ray, who was tried as one of the Mica mine murderers of Mitchell county, and who afterwards made his escape from Asheville jail. “outh Carolina. The proposed Charleston Hotel, “The Eden,” will, it is hoped, be ready foi guests on New Year's- Day 7 , 1890. It will cost $1,000,000. Henry Fuller, a voting white man, ol Columbia, accidently killed himself with his shot gun while engaged in conversa tion with a lady, lie held the gun with the muzzle under his arm, when, from some unknown cause it was discharged, killing him instantly. Airs. Lewis L. Wingo was killed by lightning in Spartanburg on Thursday. Her husband,and children were at work in the field, and on the coming of the storm they took refuge iu a stable and escaped unhurt. Shortly after the shower they went to the dwelling house, and there found the dead body of Mrs. Wingo cn the floor of one of the rooms. The house was not damaged, and two children in the room when the stroke came, escaped altogether unharmed. Some weeks ago Annette, the daughter of YV. M. Maness, a well-to-do white farmer of Darlington county, was strick en with dysentery, but the disease soon yielded to the treatment of a regular physician. In the meantime, a corps of the Salvation Army came along, and with it Miss Mattie Gordon, a faith cure physician. ' Miss Gordon appeared at the girl’s bedside, and soon induced her to leave off the doctor’s medicine, and adopt the faith remedy. As a consequence, the disease took a firmer hold, and with nothing to check it, raged with more violence than ever and the patient died. Triinessp e. Mr. W. F. Gordon, Jr., has been ap pointed chief engineer of the S. A. and O. Railroad with headquarters at Bristol. United States officials liavp succeeded in capturing Fred Fowler and William. Ferguson, two members of a counterfeit ers’ gang who have been working the sec tion around Chattanooga for over two months. It is estimated that there is up wards of fifteen thousand dollars in counterfeit coin now in circu’ntion, be sides a large number of five dollar silver certificates. Au other shooting affray occutred in Paris on Monday, in which Dudley Por ter, son of ex-Governor James D. Porter, was killed. It was a sequel to the quar rel iu which Will Edmondson seriously wounded Ivinuey Porter, the sth of last April. Kenney Porter had recovered, and he and Dudley were together. Kin ney shot at Edmonds u, who returned the the, killing Dudley Poitcr dead. Virginia. Judge N. B. Meadp, of the cnrpo ration court of Alexandria, died at Mar shall. Farquier county, of disease of the heart, from which he had been suffering for some tinr\ He was oi his way to his country home. GARIBALDI’S STATUE. A statue of Garibaldi, the Italian pa triot and liberator, was unveiled in Washington square, in New York on Monday. The monument w 7 as paid for by popular subscription of the country men of Garibaldi and the donations ranged from five cents to a thousand dol larsT Mayor Hewitt, in a shorU address, accepted it on behalf of the city. WASHINGTON NEWS. HOW CONGRESS IS SPENDING ITS TIME AND ENERGY. OFFICIAL ACTS OF TIIE PRESIDENT —AP- POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS —WHERE TIIE NATION’S MONEY GOES —GOSSIP. CONGRESSIONAL. On Monday, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of bills on the calen dar, and passed, among others, the fol lowing bills: House bill to authorize the county of Laurens, in Georgia, to construct a bridge across the Oconee River at Dublin, Ga. Senate bill appro priating $30,000 for the extension of the public building at Lynchburg, Va. Senate bill granting the right of w r ay to the Mobile & Birmingham Railway across Mount Vernon arsenal reservation, in M bile county, Ala. Senate bill appro priating $0,900 for an addition to the public building at Jackson, Miss. The Senate at 4 o'clock adjourned, having passed in all seventy-eight bills, fort/ of which were pension bills. ... .A bill was introduced in the House, by Mr. Oates, of Alabama, to restrict the immigration of foreigners into the United States. It also imposes a tax of twenty five dollars on each immigrant. Diplo matic representatives are excepted. GOSSIP. The Pri sident returned to the House without his approval, the bill providing for the erection of a public building at Columbus, Ga. The sub-committee of the House Com merce Committee has made a favorable report on the bill for a light-house at Dog Island, Fla. The very latest report from the bedside of Gen. Sheridan is unfavorable, and a decided change from his condition in the latter part of last week, when he rallied under the inspiration of the news that Congress had raised his rank to that of full general, equal to the honor conferred on Gen. Grant. In the case of the Woodstock Iron company, located near Anniston, Ala., ■the Secretary of the Interior, on Thurs day, decided that the.purchase of unoff ered lands by said company under pro visions of section 1 of the act of June 15, IS'BO. was illegal, and directed the can cellation of all unpatented entries to said company. Senator Sherman, from the Committee o i Finance, on Weelnesday reported fa vorably, with amendments, the bill to reimburse the depositors of the Freed men’s Sayings and Trust Company for losses incurred by the failure of that company. The bill appropriates $1,000,- 000 to be placed to the credit of the commissioner of the company. On Saturday afternoon a note of thanks, signed by Gen. Sheridan himself, was telegraphed to Presiding Cleveland, and a note of acceptance t.Jhe Secretary of War was also signed by Sheridan. Sheridan took the oath of office before night, and issued an order announcing as his staff Maj. Michael Sheridan and Capts. Kellogg and Blunt, (his present staff,) with the increased rank of colonel. Pensions have been granted as follows to people of Florida: Original invalid, Samuel Puleston, Monticello; original widows, etc., Mary J., widow 7 of John W. Brannon, Jacksonville; Mexican widows, Olive, widow of Neill Monroe, Fort Meade; increase (old war), Nathan iel F. Chapman, Bartow; Mexican sur vivors, Alfred Iverson, Kissimee; Mexi cali widows. Martha C., widow of Pres ton S. Brooks, Jacksonville. Thy weather crop bulletin issued by the Signal Office says: The weather through the week has been generally favorable for all crops in the states of the Mississippi. Ohio and Missouri valley, wh(re the crop conditions have doubtless improved, although in the extreme northern states the temperature has been toojlow for rapid growth. Portions of Michigan report too much rain for corn, anil some damage from hail is reported frein Kansas. The season is well ad vanced in Tennessee and South Carolina, where harvesting should be in progress. Tlte weather conditions have particular ly favored the crops in the former state, H not so much in the latter. In the st|tes on the Atlantic coast, excessive raps and almost total cloudiness have not been favorable for rapid growth and hive delayed planting in some localities. ANOTHER CANDIDATE. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk was nominated foi President by acclamation by the pro h’biti ni ts, at Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. Sain Small was one of the candidate? maned j'or vice-president, but he refused to.aUpw’ nis name to be considered. The natirftid committee was announced. S'Tutfiern members are ns follows: Ala bama— L. C. Cob 'D, T. F, Whit-ton, Aik at -ns;—T. J, Rogers, J. L. Palmer, FJoijga—l. J. Morgan, S. 11. Cummings, Gtofcpa—Sam Small, A. A. Murphy, Mhyssippi—J. R. Gambrell, Noith Csro tioa*»D. Yv". C. Benton, Henry Shaffers, Si-utlrCaroiina —James A. Tate, W. S. Smith Virginia—J. W. Newton, R. H ){ollens. John A. Biooks, of Kansas, \yas nominated for vice-president, and the convention adjourrol sine die. RECKLESSNESS. A collision occurred on the Cheyenne and’Northern branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, near Bordeaux, YVyo., on Thursday, between a work train and a pas#nger engine, which resulted in the death of a passenger. Conductor Haden, Fireman Elm and Brakenian Mayfield, and the probable fatal in jury of engineers Brooks and M rsden, and serious injury of four other employes. A ROUND TIIE GLOBE. ITEMS GLEANED FROM TELE PHONE AND TELEGRAPH. INTERESTING JOTS ABOUT THE NORTH, EAST AND EST —THE EUROPEAN SITU ATION- INGS OF KINGS AND QUEENS. Tli -J Paul knitting works, at St. Paul Paikx /*., burned on Thursday with ino-tVi the contents, Loss, $117,900; insurance. $77,000. The trouble between Emperor Fred erick and Bismarck, in regard to reforms, appeared to affect the health of the eni peior unfavorably. The Blaudon Iron Company, near Reading, Pa., which operates an exten sive rolling mill, has closed indefinitely on account of the low 7 price of iron. Irish Catholic archbishops and bishops have issued an address declaring that the Pope’s decree relative to Irish affairs af fects morals only and does not interfere with politics. A fire which broke out in the Hotel Roma, Panama, at two o’clock Sunday morning, entirely gutted ten large build ings. It is estimated that $300,000 worth of property was destroyed. One hundred farmers, encouraged by the papal rescript, have bought turf from L.ndlord Hussey’s bog at Ahabeg, in County Kerry, Ireland. Hussey had been rigidly boycotted for four years. The English gun boat Mistletoe visited the Minquiers group of the Channel Is lands and warned the French to quit Maitre lie, upon which the tri-color was recently raised. It is claimed by the English. There has been a falling off in the .price of seats of the ccAtou exchange, at New 7 Y’ork. Some years ago seats w T ere worth $6,000. The sale of three seats tinder the rule recently realized $970, S9OO and $955. The vigorous enforcement of the Ger man frontier regulations commenced on Saturday at Strasburg. A number of travelers with irregular papers w ? ere turned back, and direct trains from Paris were almost empty. The bark Monrovia sailed for Liberia on Sunday from New Y’ork, carrying thirteen colored families from Gainesville, F.orida, who are to settle there. They ur« emigrating under the auspices of the African Colonization society. In the Methodist Conference in New 7 York on Wednesday, the six new Bishops were consecrated with impressive cere monies. The name of the Freedman's Aid Society was changed after much op position /o the' Freedman’s Aid and Southern JAlucational Society. A suit has been started in New Y’ork,to restrain the controlling stockholders in a baking powder company from being too magnaninious with themselves in the matter salaries —the president gets $50,000 a year and the vice-president $30,000 —develops the fact that baking pow der makes the profit rise. The divi dends of this company have regularly in creased frosn 73 per cent at first to a ratio of 450 per cent for this year. A monster meeting was held in the city park at Cork, on Sunday, to take action with reference to the papal re script. The meeting endorsed the reso lutions adopted by the Irish bishops, at their recent meeting in Dublin. William O’Brien, member of Parliament, in a speech, said that the people had the sup port of the bishops. The leaders of the Itish movement, he said, wished to drop the rescript agitation, but they would continue it if necessary. BIG STEAL. The investigation of the affairs of the defunct Maritime bank, in court at St. John’s, Neb., has developed some start ling facts. The evidence adduced justi fies the suspicion that Mr. McClellan, the manager, kept two sets of books iu order to conceal the true condition of the bank’s affairs from the directors. One of the liquidator’s clerks swore that the deficiency of the bank, after deducing the value of its assets, was over $1,300,- 000. JEFFERSON DAVIS. Ex-President Jefferson Davis celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birth on Sunday at his home, Beauvoir, Miss. His house wasWlled with flowers sent by his neigh 1 ors. Mr. Davis received in person those who called. He also re ceived lame numbers of congratulatory letters from old army and political friends. He expressed kindly solicitude for the health of Gen. Sheridan, to whom, as secretary of war, he gave his first com missil u as lieutenant in the army. DIFFERENCE IN SENTIMENT. The celebration of the anniversary # of the birth of Queen Victoria took place on Saturday. The weather was bright and clear. The most notable features of the celebration were the reviews of .the troops. At Limerick. Ireland, the troops cheered iu honor of the Queen’s birthday. A crowd which lufd assembled outside the barracks immediately responded with cheers for William O'Brien and the plan of campaign. MET A DEFEAT. Gen. B ulanger attempted on Monday in the French Parliament to get the con stitution revised, and in his speech claimed France could get along without a president. The general's motion was defeated. NUMBER 14. (UNITY DIEECTOHY ..... — ■■ COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary J. A. Bennett. Circuit Court Clerk S. H. Thurman. Sheriff W. A. Byrd. Tax Receiver Clayton Tatum. Tax Collector Thos, Tittle. Treasurer B. P. Majors. School Superintendent.. .J. P. Jacow 7 ay. Surveyor W. F. Taylor. TOWN COMMISSIONERS. W. N. Jacoway, B. F. Pace, J. A. Cureton, J. A. O'Neil, B. P. Majors. W. N. Jacow'ay President. B. F. Pace Treasurer. B. P. Majors Secretary. John Cuzzort City Marshal. COURTS. Superior Court. J. C, Fain Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr Solicitor General. Meets third Mondays in March and September. Ordinary’s Court. J. A. Bennett Ordinary. Meets first Monday in each month. Justices’ Court. Trenton District. Meets second Saturday in each month. J. A. Cureton, T. 11. B. Cole, Justices. Rising Fawn Distiict meets third Sat urday in each month. J. M. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. mASONIC LOBE. Trenton Chapter No. 60. R. A. I. S. 11. Thurman, IT. P. M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary. Meets second Saturday iu each month. Jfc’ * Trenton Lodge No. 179 F. and A. M. J. A. Bennelt, W. M. T. J. Lumpkin, S*cretary. Meetings Wednesday night on and be fore each full moon, and two w r eek* til- reafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 2?)3 F. and A. M. S. H. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secretary. Meetings Saturday night on and before each full moon, and two weeks thereaf ter, at 2 o’clock p. m. CHUR H NOTICES. M. E. Church South.—Trenton Cir cuit, Chattanooga District—A. J. Fra zier, Presiding Elder; J. A. Prater, Pas tor in charge; S. 11. Thurman, Recording Steward. services second and fourth Sundays m each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prayer meetings eycjry Sunday night, Byrd’s Chapel.—Services second and fourth Sundays iu ecch mouth at 3 o’clock p. m. Rising Fawn.—Services first and third Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prajerjmeetiugs every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs.— Services first and third Sundays in each month at 3o’clock p, m. Furnace at night. EOSRD OF EDUC&TION. B. F. Pace, President; G._A. R. Bibp-, R.' W. A Cuff, W. *QT* Cureton. John Clark. ■ • ITOTIOB. Any additions to be made to tW above*' changes or errors, parties interested would confer a great favor by notifying us of the same.