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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, first insertion SI.OO Each subsequent insertion 50 Professional Cards, per year 5.00 Reading Notices, per line 10 l-W° Legal advertising must be paid in advance. reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go in larger space or longer time. lagT’All bills for advertising are due after first insertion of advertisement, un less otherwise agreed. B. T. BROCK, Editor. E. C. GRISCOM, Local Editor. Price $ k .00, in Advancer There is said t<s be only one survivor of a once powerful Indian tribe in Cali fornia. When he dies the language »poken by the tribe will become extinct. Religious Pessimism is carried to an extreme in Russia. In that country there are sects that teach suicide. Re cently eighty-four persons met in a cavern filled with straw. They fired the straw and those who were not burned to death killed each other with hatchets. One faint-hearted fellow “.scaped. Absinthe was introduced into western civilization by French soldiers after their return home from the Algerian war in 1844. It is a product of North Africa and the soldiers mixed it with their wine as a febrifuge. Its manu facture is now one of the largest liquor trades in Europe. It is chiefly made at Neufchatel, in Switzerland, where 2,000,000 gallons are produced annu ally. There are in America over 4,000, 000 farms, large and small. They cover nearly 20,000,000 acres of improved land, and their total value is something like $10,000,000,000. These figures are cot of course, very com; rehensive. They simply convey the idea of vastness of area and equal vastness of importance. The estimated value of the yearly pro ducts of these farms is between $2,000,- 000,000 and $3,000. 000,000. We have often suggested, asserts tho American Cultivator, that an important work for the horticulturist was to dis cover friendly insects, or those which would assist in killing the posts of the orchard. California fruit growers have recently imported some Australian para sites warranted to kill fruit pests. These little bugs feed on insect pests and rapidly destroy them. Congress will be asked to sanction the importa tion of these parasites, in order to clear California orchards of various insect pests that are increasing every year. ~ -i' Thirty million tons of coal and 6,000,- 000, tons of coke were mined in Pennsylvania last year. The coal mines of this country furnish employment for 273,000 persons. In Pennsylvania’s anthracite fields 110,000 persons are employed, and 52,000 in the bituminous beds. In Illiuois 26,000 persons are at work in the mines, 24,000 in Ohio, 7500 in Indiana and 6000 in Maryland. Tho imports of bituminous coal have in creased from 653,000 tons in 1881 to 906,650 in 1887, and the exports from 191,038 tons in 1881 to 643,563 tons in 1887. The imports are mainly received on the Pacific coast. In the sixth annual report of the di rector of the United States Geological survey Professor Shaler estimates that the improvable marshes of our entire Eastern coast amount to at least 3,000.- 000 acres. Fully 200,000 acres of salt marsh lands are situated between Port land, Me., and New York, all of which are capable of being reclaimed from tho sea by dikes and brought under culti vation profitable enough to make them yield a profit on a valuation of’ S2OO per acre, while the cost of reclaiming them ought not to exceed one-fifth of that sum. These lands are unsurpassed in fertility as garden soils, and are practi cally inexhaustible. The question of the propel location of the credit of organizing the Republican party, recently raised by the death of Deacon White in Pennsylvania, in whose behalf the distinction was claimed, is settled otherwise by T. C. Moore, a prominent citizen of Illinois, who, in a letter printed in the Chicago Times, gives some important, facts rel ative to the birth of the Republican party. Mr. Moore furnishes names and dates showing beyond question, ap parently, that the name Republican as a party title was first adopted September 19, 1854, in a Congressional district convention of Anti-Shvery Democrats, Free Soilers and Abolitionists, held at Aurora, Kano county. 111. WASHINGTON NEWS. HOW CONGRESS IS SPENDING ITS TIME AND ENERGY. OFFICIAL ACTS OF THE PRESIDENT —AP- POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS WHERE THE NATION'S MONEY GOES GOSSIP. CONGRESSIONAL.. The business on the Senate calendai was taken up on Tuesday upon the fol lowing bills, among others', were passed ; House bill appropriating $20,000 for the construction of a graveled or macada mized road a mile and a half in length to the fictional cemetery near Newberne, N. C. A bill to further provide for the disposal of the public lands in Alabama was reported and placed on the calendar. It sets apart the proceeds of the sale of public lands in Alabama for the use of the state, to be applied in the discretion of the state Legislature exclusively in promoting technical education. The House joint resolution authorizing the loan of tents and tent equipage for the veter an organization of the Society of the Army of the Potomac at the approaching Gettysburg reunion was taken up, ex plained by Mr. Hawley, and passed.... Mr. Townshend, of Illinois,offered a joint resolution, jn the House, authorizing the Secretary of War to loan tents and equip age tortbe Society of the Army of the Potomac on the occasion of the Gettys burg reunion. 'lhe resolution differs from that offered on Monday mainly in referring to the “survivors of the battle of Gettysburg,” and not to the “two armies.” Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, ob jected, but Mr. Burrows, who bad ob jected the day before, having stated that the resolution was unobjectionable, and should be passed, he withdrew his ob jection, and the resolution was passed unanimously. The Senate could hardly have pre sented a more listless and languid ap pearance or shown more utter indifference to the ordinary legislative business than it did on Monday. Two bills, affecting Indian matters, were read and passed, and then the calendar was taken up and bjlls to which no objection was made, were passed, among them the following; House bill, to authorize the construction of a wagon and foot passenger bridge across the Noxubee liver, near Gaines ville, Ala. The conference report of the Indian appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. The Senate then pro ceeded tn executive business, and when the doors were reopened, adjourned. During the hour that the doors were closed the Senate ratified the long pend ing treaty providing for an adjustment of the Venezuela claims. GOSSIP. Gen. Sheridan is rapidly recovering his health. Secretary of ti e Navy Whitney will soon retire from President Cleveland’s cabinet, The comptroller of the currency au thorized the First National Bank, of Talladega, Ala., to begin business with a capital of $50,000. The post-oflice department announces that “inner registered sack exchanges” have been ordered between Jacksonville and Ocala, begininp* July 2, daily except Sunday. There are 14 silver watches belonging to South Carolina soldiers who served in the late War, now in the keeping of the War Department, which can be had by ■proving ownership. In the House of Representatives Mr. Burrows, by objection, defeated a bill making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the Gettysburg celebration. He did so because the veterans of the army of Northern Virginia were to be present. There is a good deal of interest in the Naval Appropriation bill and the feature relative to a navy yard on the Gulf Coast. Pensacola, of course, stands the first show as she has the prestige of having already a yard and the finest harbor on the coast. There is evidently to be a strong fight in behalf of a point on the river above Mo bile. Lindsay Muse, a colored messenger in the Navy Department, died on Sunday of old age. He had the distinction of being the oldest employe in government service, and being very polite to all per sons. He was appointed a messenger in the Navy Department in 1828, and served there continuously in that capacity to the day of his death. He served under twenty-seven different secretaries and shook hands with every President from Monroe to Cleveland. The Treasury Department has decided that the cost of granulating imported rice is a part of the value of goods, per 86. This action overrules the claims of certain importers that the cost of gianu lation is a non-dutiab!e charge. It was asserted in their behalf that the rice was imported in a granulated condition, and not in entire grains, because the advance duty imposed on granulated rice amounts to more than the duty at the specific rates prescribed for rice imported as grain. The House Committee on Commerce has made a favorable report on the bill for the construction of a light-house on the highland to the westward of Crooked River in Florida. The original bill was for a light on Dog Island, but Vice Ad miral Rowan, in a letter to Congress on the subject, said: The amount named in the bill ,$40,000) is sufficient for the es tablishment of the light. But the board is of opinion that the bill should be so amended as to permit of the erection of the light “at or near” instead of “on” Dog Island, as it may be found that it will be better to place the light on the mainland a little to the westward of Crooked River. DEVOTED TO .THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON, GA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1888. Postoffices have been established at “Christmas, Holmes county, Miss., and Tilton, Lawrence county Miss. Star ser vice has been discontinued in Texas from Richardson to Frankfort, and from Nevada to Royce City. Mail messenger service has been discontinued in Texas to Ben Franklin, Delta county, Texas, from 1 the G. C. AS. F. Railway. Special ser j vice has been discontinued in Texas to j Gibbs, Dallas county, from Grapevine and to Bransford, Tarrant 'county, from ; Bedford. The following fourth-class i postmasters have been commissioned; John Briggs, Manfred, Ark.; Moses C. Gresham, Peerson, Ark.; Jas. A. Et&ds, Moss Bluff, Fla.; Isaac L. Saids, Tilton Mias. The weather crop bulletin, issued by the Signal Office, says; Generally throughout the United States, the weath er during the past week has been the most favorable of the season for growing 1 crops. While all the crops have im proved in Nebraska, the conditions up to aate nave not been most favorable for the corn crop „ More rain in portions of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and New Jersey would doubtless improve the crop of small grains, grass and fruit. The weather has been favorable for har vesting in Kansas, Arkansas and Tennes ste, and conditions favorable for heavy ; wheat yield in the Smoky Hill valley of Kansas and in Tennessee. The weather has been especiallv favorable for the growth of the cotton plant throughout the entire cotton region. AROUND THE GLOBE. ITEMS GLEANED FROM TELE PHONE AND TELEGRAPH. INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT THE NORTH, EAST AND WEST —THE EUROPEAN SITU ATION —DOINGS OF KINGS AND QUEENS. Walt. Whitman, the poet, is dyiDg at CamdeD, N. J. No foreign officers will be allowed to attend Russian military maneuvers this year. Maj. J. C. Tibbetts, city tax re ceiver of Lambertviile, N. J., is short in his accounts. He has disappeared. Ex-Warden Reed, who attempted sui cide on Monday at Minneapolis, Minn., is in better condition and may possibly recover. Harrison Voorhees and his wife w'ere killed by lightning at Princeton, N. J. A furious thunder storm, accompanied by hail, prevailed at the time. Seven coke works of McClure & Co., in the Connellsville, Pa., region, shut down on Monday on account of a strike of the employes against the discharge of a woman. About 2,000 men are idle. Myriads of grasshoppers have appear ed iu many parts of Southern Indiana and are devouring all vegetables ns they go. They destroy meadows and then the foliage of trees. Thousands of acres of meadows have been devastated by them. All the window glass factoiies in Pitts burg, Pa., will close down in accordance with the resolution adopted at a recent convention. The shut down will con tinue until September Ist, and longer unless the workers and employers agree on a wage scale for the next year. An explosion occurred on Saturday in the two-story brick warehouse of Bailey Bros. & Co., druggists, at Zauesville, 0., which blew the building from its foun dation and demolished several surround ing frame buildings. Four persons were taken from the -wreck badly burned and bruised, and will die. The supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias in session at Cincinnati, 0., ac ed on the Pennsylvania case. They ap proved the action of Supreme Chancellor Howard Douglas in suspending the grand lodge, and agreed that the grand lodge charter should be restored conditionally upon their complying with the orders of the supreme chancellor heretofore is sued. Lord Salisbury, on Monday, introduced in the House of Lords a bill to reform the constitution of that body. The measure proposes that no more than three life peers shall be appointed yearly, those to be drawn from the superior courts, rear admirals, major generals, ambassa dors and privy councillors; the queen also having power to appoint two others yearly not so qualified. A change has occurred iu the plans ol the ag nts who bought out the franchise of tb j Gatling Gun Company. They in tend manufacturing the machine, both in Hartford, Conn., and in England. The works at Hartford, therefore, will not be closed. The new Gatling com pany which Dr. Gatling has organized at Richmond, Va., is for the manufacture of guns with a tensile strength hitherto unknown. Fire broke out on Monday afternoon in the Baker house at Dubois, Pa., and owing to the high wind blowing at the time, it could not be controlled until it had destroyed the whole business portion of the town and several hundred resi dences. The loss is put by insurance agents at a million dollars. An area, a mile long by an average of almost half a mile wid- is complete ruins. Blackened walls aud piles of coals is all that is left of one of the most prosperous towns within a hundred miles. Three thous and are homeless and destitute, and in need of immediate aid or they must suf fer. It is said that in going trom his palace to Westminister A Obey, the Bishop of London passes buildings devoted to the liquor inter ests in w hich the commissioners of the Church of England ha' e invested trust funds of the Church t the extent of (350,000. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed the Penal Code bill making penal legislation uniform throughout the country after a period of twenty-eight years. SOUTHERN SPRAYS. INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED FOR BUSY HUMANITY. MOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE, MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLES —FIRES, ACCIDENTS—INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. Alnbaina. John Allen, a miner, at Henry Ellen 3lines, fifteen miles from Birmingham, issuicided on Monday by taking six ounces *of laudanum. Allen's suicide was on ac- Yiount of his mother-in-law. Otto Franks, an eight year old boy, a few miles from Birmingham, found a large rattlesnake near the house. The boy bad often said that he w-anted a pet snake, so when he found the big rattler he began to stroke it on the head and back with his hand. The snake seemed pleased for a time, but finally became angry and hit the boy on the right leg just below the knee. Medical aid was obtained and the pain and swelling were relieved alter a trial, but immediately the boy began to crawl and twist him self, imitating the action of a snake. He continued in this condition with brief, lucid intervals until he died. Georgia. The Fulton County Confederate Vet erans, of Atlanta, presented Hon. Jeser son Davis with a beautiful gold medal. George Dyson, who for 25 years has been ordinary of Wilkes county, and clerk of superior court, died at the age ol 74. Stone Mountain and the country round about is suffering from the depredations of a gang of burglars. Half a dozen houses were entered in one night. The Salvation Army in Atlanta com plained of Policeman Barnes for disturb ing the services, when he forcibly took bis wife from their hall, and the officer was fined five days' pay. Citizens of Marietta are rejoicing over the success of Mr. Clements in securing an appropriation from Congress of $5,- 000 tor the street running from the pub lic square to the National cemetery. Ten thousand persons from four coun ties, assembled at Palmyra, Lee county, Sunday, to witness the baptism of con | verts in Fowlton creek, by the noted col ored preacher, Wallis Warren, who num bers >*i3 followers by thousands, and his bai.Hsms by hundreds. Rev. William Coolson, a prominent Baptist preacher, of Paulding county, was found dead in the woods near his residence, at Villa Rica, on Tuesday. | He walked over to the postoffice after | his mail, and took his gun. He was J found on his face dead, the gun beside I him. The jury of inquest held an in ! vestigation, and after examination, deci ! tied that the cause was heart disease. An accident ocMrred on the Macon & Covington RailWd. Five negroes, belonging to Powell & Davenport camp, were excavating a cut, when the whole embankment suddenly, and without warning fell upon the laborers, burying them beneath the enormous weight. A squad of workmen in the neighborhood rushed to the rescue, and succeeded in • digging the unfortunate men from their perilous prsition before any of them were dead. South Carolina. The King’s Daughters, of Charltston, are doing a great deal of effective work among the deserving poor. Fire at Yorkville, on Sunday morning destroyed the dry goods store of T. M. Dobson A Son, and gutted two brick buildings used as stores. The total loss is about $30,000. Kentucky. A freight train on the Newport New A Mississippi valley Railroad went through the bridge over Green River, at Rockport, on Sunday. Lum Coleman, a brakemao, was killed, Engineer P. Cai roll, Conductor J. C. Compton, and J. G. Love, yardmastcr at Central City, were seriously hurt, but may recover, Florida. Burglars are plying their nefarious oc cupation in St. Augustine, and seems to succeed in escaping the vigilance of the police. Articles of incorporation have been filed in the clerk's office, at Kissimmee, for the St. Cloud Sugar Belt Railroad Company to extend from Kissimmte to Runnymede. The dead body of a man was found or. the Louisville A Nashville Railroad track, at Mississippi City, with u.e head lying on the rail and the skull crushed in. The body was identified as that of a carpenter, who has bee a working at Gullort. He had been there during the aft< rnoon drinking. A fia.-k of whiskey was found on his person. Vlrtlnla. The bodies of Charles Mayo, a tele graph operator, and Lee Makely, fireman on a train which was wrecked near Pope’s Head Run, were found buried beneath the engine. The list of de d so far ns ascertained at this time, is as follows: Dead—Edward Hantzman, en gineer; Lee Makely, fireman; Charles Mayo, telegraph operator, and H. T. Post, baggage-master. A passenger train ran into a freight train on the Richmond, Fredericks burgh A Potomac Railroad, near Hun garv Station, on Saturday, resulting in wrecking a number of freight ears-. En gineer Bowen, A. G. Berkheimer, mail agent from Wilmington, N. C.. and Charles Tinsley, colored fireman, jumped from the pas-enger train. Bowen was slightly scratched, Bt-rkheiiner’s thigh was broken “.nd Tinsley was injured iu ternally, probably seriously. North Carolina. At a meeting of the executive commit tee of the State Horticultural Society held at Raleigh, it was decided to hold the next state fruit fair in that city on the Bth and 9th of August next. The formal opening of the Sea Coast 1 Railroad, connecting Wilmington with the Ocean Beach at Wrightville, took place in the presence of over 1,000 per sons. The silver spike was driven by President Latimer. The road is of great importance to W ilmington. The crop report for June, as made up from the reports of a thousand corres pondents in every county in the state, is as follows, one hundred being taken as the estimate of a lull crop: Wheat, 83j; oats, 91 1-7; corn 87; cotton, 78 3-4; to bacco, 82 5-6; rice, 93 1-7; sorghum, 80 1-3: apples 66 1-4; peaches 66; hay, 95: clover, 90; peanuts, 86. Tennessee. The Salvation Army has descried from Chattanooga. F'sk university, at Nashville, came very neir being destroyed ‘by fire on Wednesday. Joseph M. Hood, superintendent of the Knoxville & Augusta Railroad, died suddenly at Marysville from an unknown cause. John Orton, of McMinn county, and William Weir, were arnested at Dayton for passing counterfeit coin. Twenty two counterfeit dollars and four counter feit nickels were found in Orton’s clothes. Beverly Thornton, Fred Matthews and Thad Jones, were arrested on Sunday, at Chattanooga. They are charged with waylaying W. J. Tuttle, a prominent railroad man, and robbing him of a com fortable sum of money. Miss Clara Moffat was arrested in Clarksville on the charge of forgery and brought to Nashville. It seems that she had passed herself off as Miss Ella Mc- Wiizht and collected three checks signed by Mrs. Martha McW r right, and made payable to Ella Me Wright, her daughter, the checks being for S2O, S3O and SSO respectively. On reaching Nashville the matter was compromised. *—**-- Jos. P. Rose, transfer clerk of the Louisville A Nashville railroad at Jellico, was shot and killed on Monday, by the accidental discharge of a pistol. Two white men and a negro gambler were “shooting craps” on the railroad track. Rose was sitting on a rail looking on. A large revolver dropped from the negro’s pocket as he was playing and was charged in two chambers. Both balls * went through Rose’s head, killing him instantly. Thirty of the largest shippers of Chat- have signed an agreement to send East over the East Tennessee, Virginia A Georgia, the Louisville & Nashville, and the Cincinnati Southern Railroads. This agreement grew out of iuelusal of these roads to allow Chatta- merchants rcbilling privileges. The Louisville A Nashville discriminated in favor of Nashville. The East Tennes see, Virginia A Georgia, rather the Rich mond A Danville, a feeder, in favor of Richmond, Va. V. S. Stevens, V. M. Barrett and J. B. Storms are under arrest at Corbin, Ky., for swindling the merchants of Knoxville. Stevens and Bariett con ducted small stores at Loudon and Cor bin, Ky., and would order large quanti ties of goods which they would never pay for. After their game had been discovered they brought Storms into play and had goods shipped in his name. They also had goods shipped to fictitious names at small stations near Loudon, and then hauled them several miles in wag ons. Texas Sheriff John Raines and his son were killed at Jacksboro by W, W. Terrell. An old family feud caused the fight. Terrell was shot in three places and may . die. WHAT CAME OF IT- Notwithstanding the urgent entreaties and protest of the widowed empress that no autopsy should be performed on the body of the Emperor Frederick, the new emperor, disregarding the ap peals of his mother, caused a post mor tem examination to be made. The post mortem has revealed the fact so long de nied by Sir Morell Mackenzie and other surgeons, namely, that the malady with which the late emperor was afflicted was cancer in its most malignant and incura ble form. This I ring the case, Emperor Frederick was deb irred by certain clauses in the Prussian constitution con cerning princes afflicted with incurable maladies front succeeding to the throne, and according to the letter of the law Lis accession was an illegal act. Not only the legality of certain acts of the late emperor are about to be called into question, but even the rank and po sition of his widow as dowager, are se riously compromised, especially as re gards her appanages and title. Young America ou Independence Day. jaJ - / * iig 28, .v* w>, i \ _ i *> "* VA. ‘/hj s' f r* y K v v ? sl __ .-w t) ¥ ■.jf, /V NUMBER 16. mm DIRECTORY nniniTu arripmc buumi urnutno. 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. Jacoway. Surveyor W. F. Taylor. TOWN COMMISSIONERS. W. N. Jacoway, B. F. Pace, J. A. Cureton, J. A. O’Neil, B. P. Majors. W. N. Jacoway 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. Jnstiees’ Court, Trenton District. Meets second Saturday in each month. J. A Cureton, T. H. B. Cole, Justices. Rising Fawn District meets third Sat urday in each month. J, M. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. MASONIC LORE. Trenton Chapter No. 00, R. A. M. S. H. Thurman, IT. P. M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary. Meets second Saturday in each month. Trentou Lodge No. 179 F. and A. M. J. A. Bennett, W. M. T. J. Lumpkin, Secretary. Meetings Wednesday night on and be fore each full moon, and two weeks thereafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. and A M. S. 11. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secretary. Meetings Saturday night on and befor each full moon, and two weeks thereaf ter, at 2 o’clock p. m. CHURCH NOTICES. M. E. Church South.—Trenton Cir cuit, Chattanooga District—A. J. Fra zier, Presiding Elder; J. A. Prater, Pas tor in charge; S. H. Thurman, Recording Steward. Trenton services second and fourth fundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prayer meetings every Sunday night. * jm n Byrd's Chai*el.—Services second- and fourth Sundays in each month at 3 o’clock p. m. Rising Fawn.—Services fir-t and third Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prajer meetings every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs.— Services first nnO third Sundays in each month at 3o’clori p, m. Furnace at night. B(HRD OF EDUCATION. B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. Acuff, W. C. Cureton, John Clark. 3sroTiai3. Any additions to be made to the above, changes or errors, parties interested would confer a great favor by notifying us of the same.