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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING KATES. One inch, first insertion SI.OO Each subsequent insertion 50 Professional Cards, per year 5.00 Reading Notices, per line 10 §sgU°Legal advertising must be paid in advance. JSP’Speeial reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go in larger apace or longer time. 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 $ I .00, in Advance. j. - . The Russian military chiefs recently assembled at St. Petersburg unanimous ly declared that the country would not be ready for a long time to attack any European powers. Three now railways leading to the Austrian frontier were decided upon. It is said that railroads in this country are returning to lemon color for the body of passenger coaches. The Provi dence and Worcester and the Phila delphia and Reading roads have made the change. Experience shows that yellow outwears any other color. Ex-Mayor Morgan H. Bulkeley, of Hartford, Conn., celebrated his retire ment from office the other day by a very graceful act. lie presented to the city portraits of all its mayors for the past 100 years, which he had collected and framed uniformly at no small expense. Perhaps the wealthiest woman in her own right west of the Mississippi is Mrs. Warren, a Colorado lady who really deserves the title of Cattle Queen. A correspondent says that her fortune is at least $10,000,000, in “hard, solid cash, every cent of which she made cn cattle.” M. Perrotin, the French astronomer, has been observing the planet Mars very closely of late through powerful glasses, and has come to the conclusion not only that our neighbor is inhabited, but that the Marsians are actually building gi gantic canals after the custom of men of the earth. The Jackson Memorial Association, of Lexington, Va., has given Mr. Valen tine, the Virginia sculptor, an order for a statue of General “Stonewall” Jack son, of heroic size, eight feet high, in full uniform, made of bronze, and to cost S9OOO, the model to be ready by September Ist. The pedestal is to cost S3OOO. In calling cattle, some of the cries used in different localities are given in the Journal of American Folk-Lore: “Boss, boss” (Connecticut), “sake, sake” (Connecticut), “coo, coo” (Vir ginia), “sook, sook” also “sookey” “tlon, tlon’ (Russia), and for calling horses “kope kopo” (Mary land and Alabama). In a paper read by a Baltimore phy ician it was said that persons accept medical charity who would not accept it in any other form, and who are able to pay the doctor. The reason for this condition of things lies, in a great measure, in the willingness of phy sicians, especially young physicians who ■want practice, to give their services. No other profession is said to be so charit able as the medical. Colonel Cody, known to famo as “Buffalo Bill,” is well up in biblical knowledge. To Mrs. Jester, his sister, of Leavenworth, Kan., ho telegraphed as follows on his recent arrival in New City from Europe: “Read Second Epistle of St. John, twelfth verse. Your brother.” Turning to the verse indi cated Mrs. Jester read the following 'words: “Having many things to write Unto you, I would not write with paper and ink; but I trust to come unto you and speak face to face, that our joy may bo full.” Eagles and wild turkeys are still very numerous, lccording to the American Agriculturist, in the Blue Mountain Sange, that occupies a large part of the Sounties of Central Pennsylvania. Near Eottsvillo, Reading, Lancaster, and Har risburg, sportsmen find an abundance #f game. The wild turkey has in that l?ange natural breeding and feeding grounds, and eagles remain there be cause the food convenient for them is so accessible. They are indeed rather more numerous than the farmers like them to be. The turkeys aro hunted in the period from early fall until the winter snows are deep, Philip Freseviits, a New Haven (Conn.) brewer, who died recently worth half a mill ion dollars, in 1852 carried his kegs to his customers on his shoulders. NATIONAL CAPITAL WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS —IMPORTANT ACTS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND —AP- POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC. CONGRESSIONAL,. In the Senate, on Monday, the Senate bill granting land warrants to soldiers and sailors of the Seminole war, in 1836, was reported back adversely from the committee on public lands and was in definitely postponed... .After Mr. Hemp hill, of South Carolina, had made an earnest but unsuccessful effort to call up District of Columbia business, the House -went into committee of the whole, Mr. Springer in the chair, on the tariff bill, the pending question being on the Can non amendment. The whole day was spent on the tariff bill and amendment, after which it was lost. Mr. Weber, of New York, offered an amendment pro viding that no drawbacks shall be allow ed on sugar exported from the United States. He said that the original bill had contained this provision and he was for the time at a loss to account for its dis appearance. But he knew now that on a certain day after the original bill had been introduced, Mr. Havemeyer, of New York, appeared, and shortly after that a changed bill came before the House. He charged that the amended bill was in the interest of the sugar trust of this country. The effect of his amendment wou' d be to do away with the other end of tne line, ! which promoted fraud upon the reve i nues of the government. It was impos sible for sugar to be exported upon the 1 basis of a drawback equal to the amount of the original duty paid. Mr. Weber’s amendment wa9 rejected, and he offered another, requiring drawbacks to be paid only on polariscopic tests, saying that this was the last resort of the sugar trust and that the gentlemen on the other side had now an op portunity to free themselves from a sus picion which would become a certainty if they voted down his proposition. Mr. Mills replied that treasury officials al ready had authority to make polarscopic tests. After further debate, the amend ment was rejected. This concluded the consideration of the sugar clauses. The next paragraph relating to tobacco was, upon Mr. Mill’s motion, left open for further motion. GOSSIP. Nearly every train that arrives in Washington has a dozen or more water melons for Mrs. Cleveland. Reuben Jones, of Baker county, Georgia, has sent the largest thus far. He sent two fine melons that weighed sixty-two pounds each. An order was issued from the War Department announcing that by authority : of the President of the United States, July 2, 1888, the military reservation of Fort Pickens, Fla., located on the west end of Santa Rosa island, is modified and extended so as to include the whole of said Santa Rosa island. For the second time the conferees on the agricultural appropriation bill have disagreed. The only point at issue is the Senate amendment appropriating SIOO,OOO for sorgum sugar experiments. The House conferees refuse to accept this provision and will ask the House for instructions before proceeding further. The President on Monday nominated Col. Thomas L. Casey, engineer corps, to be brigadier general and chief of engin eers; William C. Weaver postmaster, Front Royal, and James H. Itodeff post master, Woodstock, Va. ;John W. Judd, of Tennessee, to be associate justice of the supreme court of Utah territory, and a large number of cadets to lieutenancies in the army and other appointments and promotions in the army and revenue ma rine service. Senator Daniel on Monday introduced a bill directing the head of the interior department, commissioner of agricul ture, United States fish commissioner and secretary of the Smithsonian to prepare suitable exhibits for the Vir ginia exposition, to be held at Rich mond, beginning October 3d next. Twenty-five thousand dollars is appro priated to defray the expenses of the ex hibit. A counterfeit five-dollar silver certifi cate of the new issue made its appearance in Washington on Saturday- It was pre sented at a gentlemen's furnishing store, by an Italian named Guissoppe Crugiora, in payment fora pair of socks. Its peculiar appearance aroused suspicion and a po liceman having been summoned, the would-be purchaser was taken into cus tody. The note was examined at the treasury department, and proved to be one of the dangerous issues of counter feits discovered in Detroit in February last. The proposition to submit to the peo ple of the several states a constitutional amendment to prohibit the liquor traffic in the United States, was favorably re ported by Senator Blair on Monday from ; the committee on education. The pro posed amendment reads as follows: “Section 1. The manufacture, import a | tion, exportation, transportation and sale J of all alcoholic liquors as a beverage shall Ibe hereby forever prohibited in the ! United States in every place subject to 1 their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress j shall enforce this article by all needful legislation.” The weather crop bulletin issued by the Signal Office says: For the week ending' July. 7tli, the weather conditions were generally favorable for all growing crops throughout all the agricultural re gions east of the Rocky Mountains. A decided improvement is reported in wheat, corn and cotton regions in the DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON, GA.. FRIDAY, JULY 13. 1888. central valleys. The weather has been especially favorable to cotton in North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama, although more rain is needed in South Carolina. The high temperature during the past week in the corn regions has greatly improved the condition of that crop. Improvements are reported in the conditions of the tobacco and corn crops of Kentucky, due to the favorable weather of the past ten days. Reports ' from Minnesota and Dakota, state that the “weather conditions have been very favorable, all crops growing finely and promise abundant harvest.” TERRIBLE DOWNFALL. The most disastrous storm that has ever visited Kansas City, Mo., for years, raged from 9 o’clock on Monday night until 12. During the height of the storm, Eighteenth street fOr seven blocks, became a turbulent river, which flooded all houses to a depth of two feet, and at Twenty-third and Vienna, a fifteen-foot culvert was inadequate to the immense volume of water which backed up, carry ing awaj two houses, the inmates of which were only rescued with the great est of difficulty. Those who saw the storm say that it was undoubtedly a cloud-burst. Reports of death and de struction are numerous, but thus far no fatalities have been verified.... A heavy and disastrous flood prevails over Central Illinois, rains having fallen in sheets for the past thirty hours. There are proba bly twenty thousand acres of corn under water in one county, while the oai crop, which was almost ready to harvest is damaged to such an extent that it will scarcely pay cutting Two destructive storms have visited Parkersburg, W. Va., during the past two days. Rain, with thunder, lightning and hail and violent winds swept the territory within a radius of thirty-five miles, doing a large amount of damage. On Monday night a second storm added to the destruction. Houses were blown down, cellars flooded, foun dations undermined and a large amount of damage done Heavy rain on Mon day night has created freshets in all streams around Pittsburg, Pa., and rail road travel has been impeded by numer ous washouts. At Brownfield, Pa., the yard tracks were washed out, and twenty feet of water is standing in a cut of the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad. Two rail road bridges above town have been car ried away and lodged against a tr: stle in Uniontown. The Uniontown express is still lying there unttbleto proceed further south on account of washouts. The rain is still pouring down, but it is thought the worst has passed. The rain will do much damage to growing crops, espe cially corn. At Washington, Pa., there was a terrific rain storm, which flooded the cellars and yards. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bridge at Triadelphia was carried off by high waters during the storm. BY THE SEA. The U. S. War Ship, Swatara came to anchor off Nonquit, Mass, on Sunday afternoon, after a run of seven hours from New London. About two hours afterwards Gen. Sin riclan was brought ashore without any appareut discom fort, and is now in his own cottage. A large number of strangers was at tracted to the spot. The Swatara passed Dumpling light and cast anchor at more than a mile from the shore, and as soon as the ship was sighted, the shore and landing place were thronged by curious spec ators, as well as by friends of the general. After about an hour’s delay, several boats left the Swatara for the shore. In the first boat were Mrs. Sheri dan and two Sisters of Mercy, who have been faithful attendants upon the gen eral. A party of sailors was in the second boat. These boats pulled to the landing, where the party landed, and the women proceeded to the new cottage for General Sheridan. At the same time, a launch belonging to the ship, towing a boat in which was a stretcher wheieon the general rested, steamed in toward the shore, to the north and nearly opposite the cottage. As the boat came to shal low' water, a dozen sailors waded out to it, and carefully and tenderly lifted the stretcher up and bore it to the shore. The crowd of spectators, among whom were a number of photographers, pressed for ward in the hope of getting a view of the general’s features. They were disap pointed, however, for a large umbrella which was held over him to shield him from the sun’s rays, also acted as an ;f --fectual barrier to curiosity. Mrs. Sheri dan is evidently very happy at the success ful termination of what was regarded as a very hazardous exoeriment. IMPORTANT DEAL. A tripartite alliance has been formed between the Central of Georgia, tdie Richmond Terminal, and the Plant In vestment Company, of Florida. The Terminal Company embraces the Rich mond and Danville and the East Ten nessee, Virginia and Georgia roads. The alliance or agreement is to endure ten years. Under it the, Central contracts to put on a daily line of steamers between Savannah and New York. The S. F. & W. will continue to enjoy equal facili ties of ocean transportation with the Central. The Southern Express Com pany will enjoy exclusive privileges over the entire three systems. No system will invade the territory of any other. COTTON New York advices state that the in crease in amount in sight, as compared with last year, is 508.382 bales, the in crease as compared with 1885-6 is 402,- 074 bales, and the increase over 1884-5 is 1,256,235 bales. I'IIE WORLD OVER. COHDEKSATION OF FACTS BY ’PHONE AND TELEGRAPH. SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS, EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC. The rate war in the West still contin ues, another cut in dressed beef rates having been announced. Many shops in the market place in Athens, Greece, were destroyed by fire recently, involving a loss of $750,000. A government decree has been issued to the Strasburg authorities ordering the lawyers to keep their books in German. The Irish Catholics attacked an Orange procession at Manchester, England,while proceeding to church, and hatchets, kuives, pokers and bottles were the wea pons used. David Clark and his wife were found hanging in a corn crib, on A. Gage’s farm, near Sandwich, 111. They left a paper, signed by each, saying that they died for each other. At Cincinnati, Ohio, on Friday, the strike of the Brewers’ Union, because a member was discharged by his employer for disobedience of rules, was formally declared off after a continuance of three months. As a coal train en route for Monmouth Junction was passing through Dayton, N. J., it was struck by.a cyclone and Conductor John Dyer, of Trenton, and two train men were blown from the train and fatally hurt. Mr. Manderville a member of Parlia ment, arrested by the British govern ment for creating trouble in Ireland, died in jail at Tullamore, and M. O’Brien, in Parliament, accused the government officials with starving the prisoner. The editor of the Cologne Gazette has been sentenced to three months’ impris onment in a fortress for publishing an incorrect statement that a landlord had refused to sell to the government, land on which it was proposed to erect a statue of Emperor William. The German training squadron, con sisting of four cruisers and fourteen tor pedo boats, will accompany the iron clads selected to form the escort to Em peror William on his Russian trip. It is announced that Prince Henry will have supreme command of the fleet. The Academy of Music building at Haverhill, Mass., was pretty thoroughly Eiuftedffiy fire, causing a loss of about $ iV‘O,OOO, of which $50,000 was on the building, $25,000 on the scenery and furniture, and SIO,OOO on the Common wealth hotel. On Saturday night, the immense brick building on 18th street, between Broad way and Fourth Avenue, New York, occu pied by the Century Publishing Com pany, was fire, entailing a loss of nearly s3lUdPbo. The Everett House, adjoining was somewhat dam aged. A seventy-horse power boiler exploded at Adelaide silk mill in St. Cloud, Mich., on Monday morning, instantly killing Frank Stoner and H. Y. Borree, firemen; Hiram Sell, engineer, was caught by the legs by a crank of the engine and pinned fast. He was terribly injured and died after one of his legs had been amputated. Herr Dietz, an Alsatian railway offi cial, Mine. Dietz, his wife, and a railway assistant named Appel, who were charged with having sold the French government information relative to German military arrangements, have been convicted at Leipsic. Dietz was sentenced to teu years and his wife four years’ penal ser vitude. Otto Lueger, the state entomologist of Minnesota, has returned from the scene of the gras-hopper invasion in the southern part of the state, and says the efforts at destroying the insects have been so successful that at least a half yield may be expected. The fact has been re pealed that each insect is attacked by so many parasites that their future invasion is quite improbable. A farm house belonging to George Dobbs, located about seven miles from Sault Ste Marie, Mich., on the Canadian side of the river, was destroyed by fire early Friday morning. Four of the in mates —George Dobbs, aged 72 years; David Memfield, aged 21; Alice Thompson, aged 9, and another child— perished in the flames. The fire started from a smudge, and when discovered by Mrs. Dobbs, who is 70 years of age, was beyond control. As passenger train No. 17 of the Bur lington railroad was leaving Chicago, 111., on Saturday, a rock was thrown through the cab window of the engine, narrowly missing Engineer Farnsworth and Fireman Corkery. The windows of both sides of the cab were broken. At Riverside, and again at Napierville, the engine was bombarded. At the former place a peiiect storm ot stories was thrown, bat’ering the side of the en gine and breaking more glass. A destructive storm struck the town of Edwardsburg, Ind., on Saturday night, creating sad havoc throughout the vil lage. The town consists of about 700 inhabitants, and contains between 250 and 300 buildings. It is located on the Grand Trunk Railway, 113 miles from Chicago, on the shores of Diamond lake. The wind struck the village with terrific force, overturning and carrying away many of the houses. There is not a bus iness house in the place but that is dam aged to a more or less extent and the tow n is almost a complete wreck. The oldest active chemist of Germany, Herr G. Bauer, died recently in Berlin, at the age of ninety-four. He had been employed in one factory since 1523. SOUTHLAND ITEMS. PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT AND TERRIBLE, INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS—THE EXCURSION FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDENTS-SUICIDES DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS,ETC. Arkansas. Articles of association has been filed by the Memphis, Little Rock & Indian Territory Railroad Company with the secretary of state. The road runs from Little Rock to Hot Springs, thence tin ough the counties of Pike, Polk, Howard, and Sevier to Indian Territory. The capital stock is $4,G00.00(h The length of the road is to be 320 miles. (•sorcia. The 35th Georgia regiment of war veterans meet at Conyers, July 25th. Kenny & Werner, wholesale liquor | dealers in Atlanta, are in financial trouble ind a receiver has been appointed to take | charge of their affairs. C. C. Gordon, for many year n teacher of the boys at the orphan asylum, in Au gusta, died from a stroke of paralysis received last Winter. He was an es teemed gentleman and a member of the Confederate Survivors’ Association. Lou Maury, a colored hand on Conduc tor Micheli’s construction train, was run down and killed by passenger train No. 12 on the Western «fe Atlantic Railroad on Saturday night near Dalton. The re mains were taken back to Dalton where an inquest was held, resulting in a com plete exoneration of the company. The state authorities have ordered an encampment for tw T o weeks, of the state military, beginning on the 12th of July. The railroads have given a rate of one cent a mile both ways, to companies of twenty-five or over, while individuals may make the journey on one fare. Among the companies which will be there are the Columbus Guards, Floyd Rifles, of Macon; Elberton Light In fantry, Gainesville Blues, Atlanta Zou aves, Atlanta Gate City Guards, detach ment from Rome, the Clark Light In fantry, Augusta, and others. Kentucky. At Hardingsburg, County Judge A. M. Pulliam shot and killed James Miller. Miller’s brother is county clerk. The shooting is a mystery. A first-class social sensation is furnished in the elopement, from St. Louis, of Henry W. Moore, managing editor of the Post-Dispatch, with the wife of John W. Norton, manager of the grand opera house and Olympia theater. Mrs. Norton before her marriage wa9 an ac trejt of high reputation, named Emma Sti ®man. Moore is married and has one son, aged six. Texas. Meyer’s opera house, in El Paso, one of Hie most beautiful buildings in the Soa®i\vest, is in ruins. The floor in one of the stories of the building gave way and brought down into the cellar several pillars and girders that supported the proscenium and octagon dome. The building cost about $60,000, and will probably be a total loss. Moses M. Camp, proprietor of the Camp hotel, opposite the depot at Nava sota, was shot and instantly killed by J. 8. Loring, proprietor of the Enehange hotel, and his son, a youth of about 18. Considerable rivalry existed between the two men. At noon Sunday they had a fist fight at the depot, which culminated in the tragedy at night. Both meD are old citizens of the city, aged about 50 years, and have lived there since early boyhood. Both were men of family, and were highly respected by the community. Virginia. A committee of professors and direc tors of the Virginia Agricultural College, at Blacksburg, have gone North for the purpose of purchasing an outfit for the experimental station to be located there. They will go to New York and Massa chusetts, extend their trip up into Cana da, and coming back, visit the Michigan and other agricultural colleges. PITCHERS HARD LUCK. The Union Bank officials of Providence, R. 1., received a cable dispatch saying the whole bundle of securities, bills re ceivable, and other property stolt-n by Chas. A. Pitcher, the defaulting teller, has been captured in London. Pitcher had mailed them to “J. A. Roberts,” his assumed name, and believed them safe from the bank, and that it was :in his power to keep their billing place se cret until the bank would be ready tc compromise and come to terms on the basis of Pitcher holding on to $150,000 ca»h. FORESTRY CONGRESS. At the last session of the legislature of Georgia, that body extended a cordial invitation to the American Forestry Congress and the Southern Forestry Congress, to hold their next annual meet ings in Atlanta during the Autumn of 1888. These invitations were conveyed to these bodies at their late sessions in Springfield, 111., and Huntsville, Ala bama, a id were formally accepted, and decided to call their respective societies together in Atlanta on Monday, Novem ber 12th. SEVERE EXPLOSION. A battery of boilers at the taunerv of A. J. Greetzinger, Allegheny City, Pa., exploded, wrecking several buildings and seriously injuring six persons, three of whom will probably die. NUMBER 19. COUNTY DIBECTORY , COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary J. A. Bennett, Circuit Court Clerk S. 11. Thurman. Sheriff \\\ A. Byrd, Tax Receiver Clayton Tatum Tax Collector Thos. Tittle. Treasurer B. P. Major 3. School Superintendent.. .J. P. Jacoway. Surveyor W. P. Taylor. TOWN COMMISSIONERS. W. N. Jacoway, B. P. 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 Conrt. J. A. Bennett Ordinary. Meets first Monday in each month. Justices’ 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. 60, 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, and two weeks thereafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. af A. M. S. H. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secretary. Meetings Saturday night on and befo 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 Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. Prayer meetings every Sunday night. Byrd s Chapel. —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. Prayer meetings every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs,— Services first ai third Sundays in each month at 3o’clo p, m. Furnace at night. 803RD OF EDUCATION. B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. AculT, W. C. Cureton, John Clark. KOTICB. Any additions to be made to the abov changes or errors, parties interested would confer a great favor by notifying us of the same.