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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING RATES. Ooe inch, first insertion SI.OO Each subsequent insertion 50 Professional Cards, per year 5.00 Reading Notices, per lino 10 Legal advertising must be paid in advance. |KgF“Speeial reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go in larger space or longer time. All bills for advertising are due after first insertion of advertisement, un less otherwise agreed. B. T. BROOKS, Editor. E. C. GRISCOM, Local Editor. Price $ 1.00, in Advance. The New Haven News furnishes figure* to prove that the bean crop of this coun try has failed once in seven years, and advises some genius to invent ? tute. The French newspaper that pictures an “American gang” fomenting a war be- France and Germany to make a market for American products pays a high com pliment to American enterprise. There is a British officer in the Indian army who has killed sixty-four tigers in the last four year 3 and received no par ticular credit for it as he has disposed of the skins for an average of S2O each. August Burkhart, of St. Louis, has immortalized himself, according to the New York Commercial Advertiser. He has been drawing a pension of $5 a month for several years, and the other day wrote to the pension agent requesting that liis name be stricken from the rolls, as he is now perfectly cured and no longer needs the assistance of the government. The American hog, which is found to be entirely wholesome and satisfactory to American stomachs, patriotically re marks the Chicago Times, does not stand well in the estimation of the effete civilization of the old world. Denmark has joined in the crusade against him, the Government having issued a decree prohibiting the importation of our pork products in any form. It may be interesting to our readers to learn that every man when lie takes up his cards at a game of whist holds one out of 635,01 ?, 559,600 possible hands. As for the total number of variations possible among all the players, it is so enormous as almost to exceed belief. Mr. Babb calculated that if 1,000,000 men were to be engaged dealing cards at the Tate of one deal each minute day and night for 100,000,000 years, they would not then have exhausted all the possible variations of the cards, hut only 100,- 000th part of them. Owing to the increase of sickness, thought tp be due to impure food and poisonous liquors, the Municipal Council of Lima (Peru) ordered an analysis to be made of 245 different articles purchased from almost as many stores. The result showed that 86 were counterfeits and 12 were dangerous to health, 24 were adul terated or were not what they were sold for, 18 were decomposing or so changed as to be unfit for consumption, 46 were impure but not positively dangerous, 32 were imitations fairly passable, while only 32 were really good. The Chicago Ilcrahl makes the state ment that in 1800 there was not a fac tory child in all America. In 18G0 ne cessity had dragged 114.000 children out of the schools and for no crime but pov erty sentenced them to such lives of un derpay and overwork as the ignorant must lead among the better educated. In 1880, 182,000 were sacrificed to the modern Moloch. At the same ratio, 1890 will show an army twice as great as the population of Delaware, 290,000 children educated in the school of the factory, brutified by the bosses, demor alized by incessant labor and contami nated by association without moral re straint! The Popular Science Monthly says that the most extensive forest plantations in the United States, mentioned in the “Deport” of the Division of Forestry, »tc those of the Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, and of Mr. Hunnewell, near Darlington, Kan., of about 640 acres each, Mr. Burnett Landreth's plantation, of 300 acres, in Virginia; those of the Messrs. Fay and others, along t*he sea coast of New England, and some of con siderable extent in Southern California. groves abound in the prairie £ States, and are found less frequently in Eastern States, notably in New Eng Aiust arnounl to a considerable area, worest commissions or bureaus have been instituted in New York, California, Hbhio and Colorado. Things always look rather blew altei I ' - Cyclone. . SOUTHERN SPRAYS. INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFER FOR BUSY HUMANITY. MOVE/IENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE, MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLES —FIRES, ACCIDENTS—INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. North Carolina. Mad dogs are doing great damage in | Bumcombe county. Nearly every dog i has been killed. Cattle and horses bit ! ten have in all cases been killed. W. ,T. Palmer, aged 54 years, formerly ! superintendent of the North Carolina j .institute for the deaf and dumb ’ at Raleigh, died at the insane asylum at i Morganton on Tuesday, from injuries in j flicted by another inmate. Two years ago, in a suburb of Char lotte, a negro woman named Jane Mor rison murdered her husband while he was asleep. She lied and made her es cape. After two years no tidings of her could be gathered. She was found at Lancaster, S. C., Sunday, and was arres ted. A party of roughs was causing a dis turbance on the streets in Matthews when Town Marshal Hurley came up and at tempted to arrest them. lie was forci bly resisted, and one of the toughs, named Bowden, drew a revolver and s wore he would shoot him dead. Hurley took a shot gun from one of his deputies aud put four hundred shot id Bowden’s body. S-gis-v _ , Alfred Blackwell, of Bardayville, [Sampson county, was found dead Satur day at his saw mill, and most fearfully mutilated. He had been trying to run his saw mill alone, and it is supposed ac cidently fell on the saw, when he suffered a most shocking death. He was a gal ilant soldier in both the Mexican and Con ifederate armies, and at the time of his I death was drawing a pension as a Mexi can veteran. Gcoriria. Dummies and an improved service will ;jnark the new management of Atlanta’s istreet railways. Gen. Fisk, the prohibition candidate /for President, will deliver a speech in [Atlanta in August. A discussion in Atlanta about the cot- Jton worm, develops the fact that no [other remedy than Paris green is of any ’use in exterminating*’]!. ■ Capt. J. Pinkney Thomas, a brave soldier and a popular gentleman, died suddenly on Tuesday after a few days’ illness, at Augusta. He was on Gen. Young’s stall in Hampton’s Legion. James Smith, a young plumber of At lanta, was drowned on Sunday, being seized with cramps while bathing in jAngier’s pond, rfear Ponce de Leon, a Ifamous resort. His body was recovered. | The “Veterans from Georgia,” of the :Army of Northern Virginia and. Army of the Potomac, leave Atlanta on the morn ling of the 30th, headed by Governor ‘Gordon, and escorted by the Gate City Guard, to attend the great reunion at Gettysburg, Pa. The round trip tickets cost only $10.40, and the party will be gone a week. Judge W. Lowndes Cal houn is in charge of the arrangements. Missouri. Ex-Treasurer Harry Carter, of St. | Joseph, has been discovered to be about I SB,OOO short in nis books and has turned {over his property to his bondsmen. At [the last election Carter, who had been J treasurer for two terms, was elected city J auditor. | The Southern Wire Company, of St. j Louis, which also has a large factory in j Pittsburg, Pa., have concluded to move the whole concern to that city. The presi jdent gives as a reason for this action that j the railroads have frozen them out by high rates to points of consumption, and |the cost of bringing their crude materia! to St. Louis. l.oiiUinn a. Charles E. Whitney, a member of the New Orleans press and for several years Ipast city editor of the Times-Democrat, 'died on Sunday evening of cancer of the Itongue. The Senate on Monday confirmed the {nomination of ex-Governor Samuel {Douglas McEnery to be associate justice 'of the supreme court for the term of {twelve years in place of Robert B. Todd, .whose term has expired. Peter McCartney, a noted counterfeiter, was sentenced in New Orleans to ten years’ imprisonment at bard labor in the Columbus, 0., penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $3,000, for raising bills and pass ing counterfeits. McCartney finished a fifteen-years’ sentence in Michigan re cently. Mayor Shakespeare, of New Orleans, ordered fifty copies of the license inspec tion books to be turned over to the po lice, with instructions that the force be required to report at once the names of all persons who have failed to pay or have underpaid their license. Chief Hennessey sent to the mayor the result of the first day’s work, showing that 853 persons and firms are doing business without having paid the liefense required by Jaw. South Cnrolinn. Columbia has organized a “flying ar tillery” company, under Capt. Barron’s command. Gen. Jas. W. Harrison, of Walhalla, and at one time a lawyer and politician of prominence, died on Mon day from paralysis. Before the War Gen. Harrison represented Anderson, both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. Prior to the War he was a man of wealth, but the end of the struggle left him almost penniless. He was prominently known in connection 5-;ith the Blue Ridge Railroad. DEVOTED TO TIIE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 15. 1888. Virginia. License was issued on Tuesday, by the County Clerk at Charlottesville, for the marriage of Miss Amelia Rives, the au horess, to John A. Chandler, of New York. A mortgage was recorded in the cor poration court at Lynchburg, from the Roanoke machine works to the Norfolk fc Western Raihoad Company for $5,000,- DOO. Franklin Stearns, one of Richmond’s wealthiest citizens, died Sunday, in the 74th year of his age. He was a Dative of Vermont, but had been a resident of Richmond fifty years. He was in prom inent sympathy with the Union cause during the late War, and was imprisoned on that account. lie was one of the largest property owners in the city. Fire broke out shortly after midnight on Monday, in the building belonging to the Boston Wharf and Warehouse Com pany, and formerly occupied by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad company, in Norfolk. The building and contents, in cluding 250 bales of cotton, were con sumed. The British bark Verona of Que bec, lying at the wharf, had her masts, rigging and sails badly damaged by fire. The total loss is estimated at SOO,OOO. The authorities of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad at Birmingham, will build a large car shed in connection with [their new shops. It will be loc .ted Le itween the Alabama Great Southern yards and the Georgia Pacific tracks, aud will be 00x150 feet in size?"*" ••■> Alabama. The Sheffield Stone works have com menced operations. Mrs. Skimmerhorn, of Selma, was fa tally burned by the explosion of a coal oil lamp. The road from Clayton to Louisville is completed, and will be in operation iu a few days. The firemen of Montgomery propose organizing a fireman’s association for o o mutual benefit. 1 The Alabama Educational Association will meet at Bessemer on Juue 20th and /?nntinii4i in scitsio!* three d.ivs lien nicky. Convicts to the number of 18, em ployed on the Versailles, Midway &■ Georgetown Railrpad, escaped from their ramp on Monday and are still at large. Francis Murphy, the world-famed temperance lecturer, stopped one day in Louisville en route to his home in Pitts burg, Pa. His 21 year-son, John, Sloped with Miss Lucy, the daughter of Law rence Richardson, one of the wealthiest men of the city, and the couple were married by Rev. C. R. Hemphill. Silas Richardson, charged with burn ing the residence of Peak Gastineau, re fused to surrender to a sheriff’s posse at his home in Somerset, but fired on the officers and the crowd with them. He inally escaped, hotly pursued, and was brought dqwn by a shot in the bowels, de was jailed in time to save him from ynching. Tennessee. Jay Gould, the millionaire, was in 'Chattanooga on Tuesday. Rev. E. A. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist church at Knoxville, has sent in ■his resignation, to take effect September Ist. The members of the church have not decided on a successor. The board of directors of the Perry Stove works (recently burned), met in (Nashville to consider the question of re building the burned factory. The board {decided to partition the foundry build iing, so as to make a mounting and a pat tern shop. They will immediately pro cure an engine and a blower, and lie igin the restoration of the lost patterns. Texas. Dispatches from Gainesville report that 500 cowboys are assembled in the southern part of the Chickasaw Nation lands, ready to resist the imposition of a tax of $1 a head levied by the Indians for cattle grazing on their lands. Gov. Gay has ordered out his militia—only 100 in number—and the U. S. troops, at Fort Reno, have been ordeted to be in readiness. ICoriila. A syndicate of Englishmen have leased the Palmetto House, at Dayton, and will enlarge it for the season of’Bß and ’B9. The guards of the desperado Dennis Williams were found in the jail at Ella ville, on Monday morning tied kid napped, and gagged, and the cell of the prisoner was empty. The action of the indtraders were so sudden that the gutrds were unable to give any account ■whatever of the proceeds, but it is sup posed that his friends released Dennis. A St. Louis firm is establishing a can ning factory at Southland. They have a capital of $50,000, and will put on a line of schooners to Central and South America to carry turtle to can. Ttiey will soon begin work on the wharf and buildings, and expect to get the Mor gan Steamship Line to touch at their dock. • The proprietors of Southland made them a donation of half the land iu the place yet unsold. Green Cove Spring is excited over the following occurrence: One of the highly respectable and wealthy citizens died last Winter, and at his requeat was buried iu a beautiful little cemetery. Some days since the family of the deceased deter mined to remove the remains to their Northern home, and upon leaving them selves they left orders with the under taker to forward the body. The body having been in the ground only about {four months, it was not believed to be {prudent or legal to remove it at this sea son of the year. However, the under taker, with sufficient assistance, repaired to the tomb during the night and re moved the body without the knowledge ior consent, of the town Board of Health or the trustees of the cemetery. WASHING!(AS MAY'S. 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. In the Senate on Tuesday, Mr. Chand ler offered a resolution leferriug the credentials of Senator Gibson, of L ouis iana, for his new term, to the committee* on privileges and elections, instructing that the committee inquire into all the facts of the senatorial election, and to ascertain and report whether or not, at the iccent state election in Louisiana, which included the election of a state legislature, and inquire and report whether the legislature was actually and duly elected by the people of Louisiana, or was, in fact, solely the creation of the returning and canvassing officers, and whether the state of Louisiana had, on the 22d of May, 1888, (the day of Senator Gibson’s election), a republican form of government, including a legislature, enti tled to choose a United States Senator. ’. The House spent two hours and a half, discussing the resolution reported from the committee on postoflices and post roads, calling on the postmaster-general for a tabulated st tement of disallowed postmaster claims presented from the state of Kentucky. The contested elec tion cases of Frank vs. Glover, of Mis souri, and Lynch vs. Vandever, of Cali fornia, were disposed of by concurring in the reports of the elections committee awarding seats to the sitting members. The House then went into committee of the "whole on the tariff bill. In the Senate on Monday, among the bills reported from committees and placed on the calendar was the Senate bill to withdraw public lands in Florida from all but homestead entries. ABo the post office and District of Columbia appropriation bill. On motion of Mr. Sherman, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the fisheries treaty in open executive session, and was address ed by Mr. Gray, in support of its ratifica tion. At the close of Mr. Gray’s speech Mr. Hoar obtained the floor and the fur ther consideration of the fisheries treaty was, on motion of Mr. Sherman, jiost poned till Monday, the 25th of June. The Senate then ad jour:.ed .... Under the call of States, the following bills were introduced ar.d referred in the House: By Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, a resolution rteiting that at this time there stems to be co probability of the passage, at this session of Congress, of the Mills bill, that there is a large surplus in the treas ury which is daily accumulating, to the detriment of general business, and which tends to the eoutractioiJkf the circulat ing medium of the couiffr; that the un ceitainty as to whether the Mills bill, in its present shape, will ever become a law, almost certainly not in time to give the relief demanded, and that the late unfortunate and unnecessary civil War made an enormous aud daily increasing pension list just and necessary; that the success of the army of the United States, made possible and secure the accumula tion of large private and corporate for tunes all over the country, and instruct ing the committee on ways and means to report the House bills: 1. Repealing all laws providing for internal revenue tax ation, and removing all of the said tax except that now collected on spirits dis tilled, in whole or in part, from grain and upon malt liquors. 2. Providing for the levy and collection of a graduated tax upon all incomes of persons, corpora tions, associations aLd trusts of $5,000 and upwards per annum, the proceeds of said income tax to be devoted exclusive ly to the payment of pensions. 0. Pro viding that all articles or products not manufactured or produced iu the United States shall enter ports of the United States free of all import duty. Mr Grosvenor took the floor upon this bill and made good his threat of a few min utes previous to get h : s preamble into the Record in the shape of a speech. He started a general political debate, which ignored entirely the business be fore the House for the greater part of day. During its progress a colloquy arose between Messrs. Woodburn, of Neyadn, and C x, of New York, turning upon the reference by Mr. Cox in his tariff speech to Nevada as a rotten bor rough. Mr. Woodburn defended his state and was bitterly personal in his at tack upon Mr. Cox, but the latter gen tleman replied in a more good-natured manner, although he also indulged in some biting persona! remarks. Finally the House got back to District of Co lumbia business and passed a num ber of bills, local to the district. Judge Stewart, of Georgia, introduced a bill to pay S7OO to Henry Clay, of Clayton county, for property destroyed by the Union forces during the War. Also a petition to refer the claim of 11. G. Forsyth, of Atlanta, for $400,000 to the Court of Claims. GOSSIP. From the evident improvement of Gen. Sheridan, hopes are entertained that he will recover. Commander C. L. Huntingdon, of the navy, has been ordered to Pensacola,- Fla., as commandant of the navy yard there, to succeed Lieutenant Commander Gibson. The new German minister. Count Ar soually, was presented to President Cleveland on Tuesday by the Secretary of State. The usual exchange of court esies was observed. Prince Roland Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien Bonaparte, brother of the Empe ror Napoleon, arrived in Washington on Monday, lie is there with the special Mention of payiDg a vi>it io the Presi ient. Indian Comnrssioncr A tkins will tender i:s resignation, to take effect at the pleas ire of the President, and will leave Wash ington for his home at Paris, Team, to mter upon an active canvass for election o the United States Senate. Senator Chandler has introduced, by request, a lid appropriating $150,000 for the development and encouragement if silk culture in the United States. It /rentes a d.v e on of silk culture in the* D/partment of Agriculture, and author izes the establishment of experimental fiik culture stations throughout the country. It provides for free distribu tion to farmers and others of mulberry seed and si k worm eggs. Attorney-General Garland, who has been confined to his residence for a week past with a severe attack of rheumatism in his back and side, is reported as being much better, and it is hoped that he will be able to resume bis duties at the de partment of justice soon. In addition to the rheumatism, he has been afflicted with a disease popularly called the “shingles.” This is an eruptive disease, caused by a bad condition of the blood. It starts around the waist and grows like a lingworm. .... . According to the crop report of the Department of Agriculture, the acreage of cotton appears to have increased in every state except Florida. The increase is largest west of the Mississippi, as jusual. The preliminary survey of the iacreage makes the increase 2.2 per cent., |and brings the aggregate planting close jto nineteen million acres. The state av ■erages are: Virginia 105. North Caro lina 100, Dakota 105. South Carolina 101, Georgia 1< 1, Florida 90, Alabama 101, Mississippi 101, Louisiana 102, Texas 105, Arkansas 102, Tennessee 103. The President has approved the act of Congress providing that pensions hereto fore or hereafter granted to widows of soldiers of the War of the Rebellion Shall commence at the date of the death of their husbands. This legislation fn ■vorably affects all claims of widows of the late War which have been filed in the •pension office on or after July 1, 1880, and which have been allowed to com mence from the date of the filing of the claims; but will not favorably affect the cases of such widows as were tiled befor • July 1, 1880, and which have been al lowed, pensions having already been granted in these cases 1 rum the date of 'their husband’s death. BOLD TRANSACTION. American Express Messen ger Z mmenn in an I Baggage Mas ter Joe Ketchum were alone together in the express and baggage car of the Cin cinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and t hi cago Railway train, which is due at Cin- Ohio, at 11 o'clock. Zimmer man, when the train led Delhi, a station twelve miles west of th-re, called Ketch uni’s attention to some tramps that he saw through the glass of the car door leading to the front platform next to the locomotive’s tender. Both men arose and went toward the front door. When within ten feet of it the tramps began firing through the glass window. Ketchum fell, shot in four places. Two balls entered his abdomen, one in his breast and one in his left shoulder. Zimmerman tried to draw his pistol, but it stuck in his hip pocket and he retreated to the rear platform of the car, where he met the conductor. The latter pulled the bell rope and stopped the train. While this was going on one of the tramps climbed on the tender, where he was met by the engineer and fireman and knocked stiff by two blows from a monk ey-wrench. The engineer and fireman then rolled him off the tender, while the train was at full speed. Before he was thrown overboard, however, a second robber attempted to climb on the tender, but he weakened and dodged back at the sight of the prostrate form of his com panion. The robbers ran away, but were captured in Kentucky. DEVASTATING STORMS. Dispatches to Chicago, 111., from the : Michigan peninsula, report Saturday’s j rain storm to have been iu the nature oi | a flood from the heavens. The Calumet j and Hecla mine was nearly drowned out. The whole country was covered with water and every railroad on the penin sula suffered from washouts and lost bridges. The storm also did some good. It extinguished a fire that was destroying the town of Norway, before the town , was quite swept out of existence. As it 1 xvas, forty-seven buildings were de stroyed. . . .A waterspout burst out over the district of Armtiz, L.dian Territory, flooding the entiie section. All the bridges on Big and Little Cabin Rivers were washed away. The Missouri, Kan sas and Texas Road loses three wooden bridges and one iron bridge, also several miles of track near Blue Jacket station. ....Red Lake River, Minn., touched eighteen feet above low winter mark, and is at the top of the bridge. Some six ty-live families have had to leave their homes, some losing all their effects. At Cloquet the St. Louis River is still ris ing. The bridge between Junction and Tliomaston was swept away, and a big log boom is in great danger. LOOK OUT! We are to have some weather during the latter part of June. Afb r he 20th several storms are to be expected. Their paths will lie north of or along the for tieth parallel, and the principal disturb ances will cross the Mississippi valley from the 20th to the 22d and from the 26th to the 28th. A storm will cross the Mississippi between the 14th and 16th and rage with considerable force in the Eastern states about the 17th. NUMBER 15. CUm DIRECTORY COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary J. A. Bennett. Circuit Court Clerk. S. 11. Thurman. Sheriff W. A. Byrd'. Tax Receiver Clayton Tatum. Tax Collector Tiios. Tittle, Treasurer B. P. Majors; School Superintendent. .J. P. Jacoway. Surveyor W. F. Taylor, TOWN COMMISSIONERS. W. N. Jacoway, B. F. Face, J. A. Cureton, J. A. O’Neil, B. P. Majors. W. N. Jacoway President. B. F. Pace ..Treasurer. B. P. Majors • • • • Secretary. Jchn Cuzzort City Marshal. COURTS. Superior Court. J. C. Fain , Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr. ... Solicitor General. Meets third Montlays in March hnd September. Ordinary’s Court. J. A. Bennett Ordinary. Meets first Monday in each month. Justices’ Court, Trenton District. Meets second Sat .relay in each month. J. A. Cureton, T. H. 3. Cole, Justices. Rising Fawn Distiict meets third Sat urday in each month. J. M. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. MASONIC LORE. Trenton Chapter No. (10. R. A. M. S. 11. Thurman, H. P. M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary. Meets second Saturday in each month. Trenton Lodge No. 170 F. and A. M. J. A. Bennett, W. M. T. J. Lumpkin, Secretary. Meetings Wednesday night on and be fore each full moon, aud two weeks th reafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. anil 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 |jbarge; S. H. Thurman. Recording Steward. Trentoo services second and fourth Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. in. Prayer meetings every Sunday night. Byrd's Chapel,.— Services second and fourth Sundays iu each month at 3. o’clock p. in. Rising Fawn. —Service! first and third* Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a, m. Prayer meetings every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs.— Services first and third Sundays in each month at 3 o’clock p, m. Furnace at night. BOSRD OF EDUCATION. B. F. Pace, Prcsideut; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. Acuff, W. C. Cureton, John Clark. FOTICE, Any additions to be made to the above, changes or errors, parties interested would confer a great favor by notifying us of the same.