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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING RATES. Cr.e inch, firs* insertion ?1.00 Each subsequent insertion 50 Professional Cards, per year 5.00 Reading Notices, per line 10 s3p"Legal advertising must be paid iu advance. ISlf Special reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go in larger space or longer time. .{KgjPAil bids for advertisirg are due after first insertion of advertisement, un ices otherwise agreed. B. T. BROCK, Editor. E. C. OROSCO AT. Local Editor. (Price $ s .GO s in Advance, The National Cemetery at Fredereks burg, Va M is the third in size, there being over 15,000 soldiers buried there, drawn from the neighboring battlefields of Chancellorsville, Spottsylvaniu and the ■Wilderness. The cemetery itself lies on the battlefield of Fredericksburg and in the midst of most solemn associations, yet only .two Decoration Day services have ever been held there. These were in 1886 and 1884. A Swiss engineer named Ritter wants the City of Paris to adopt his plan for obtaining an “inexhaustible” supply of water from the Lake of Neufchateb Switzerland, 312 miles away. The cost is given at about $60,000,000. Some idea of the extent of the use of natural gas in Pittsburg, Penn., and vicinity, and the profits of the business maybe had from the report of one of the ■ companies just presented. It states that on February 29 the last of the treasury stock had been sold, so that the entire capital stock of $7,500,009 is now sub ject to dividends. Rents, operating ex penses, interest and* taxes for the year amounted to 4G.65 per cent, of the earn ings, or $1,709,792.74. Monthly divi dends of one per cent., amounting tc $842,626.50 have been paid. The num ber of house connections made from the lines of the company during the year 1887 was 4712. A year ago the com pany contracted to operate the lines of two other companies. The united busi ness of these three companies amounted on March 1 to the supjilying of 678 manufacturers and 11,953 dwelling houses, and, through other distributing companies, the supplying of 113 facto ries and 10,961 dwellings, or a total of 23,707 contracts. “The spiritualists of France,” says the New York Commercial Advertiser , “have lately been celebrating the anniversary of the death of their great apostle, Allan Kardee, who was removed an almost in appreciable distance from this world in 1869. It will probably surprise people to learn that about a hundred spiritualist journals are now published, of which M. Birmann, who spoke at the Kardee celebration, gave some account, and that, according to his estimate, there are about two million spiritualists in the world. Wliat seems unaccount able is that more of their journals are published in Spanish than in any othei language. One is printed in Hindostanee, fourteen in France, one is issued at Geneva, four in Belgium and one in Buenos Ayres. The Sphinx , the great German spiritualist organ, is published atLeipsic, and is said to be ‘purely scientific,’ being problematically so and according to the science of the late ill fated Dr. Zollner, who, if we remember rightly, was a Professor at the University of Leipsic, went mad over spiritualism, and died in a lunatic asylum.” The New York Sun's resident corre-' spondent at Stuttgart, Germany, sends an extraordinary account of precocious depravity. A boy of eight, living in the little village of Oberudorf, became the possessor of a new pair of boots which excited the envy of a comrade of twelve. This premature highwayman led the little proprietor of the boots into a deserted quarry, crushed in his skull with stones, took off the coveted boots, put them on, walked home, and supped with a good appetite. The body was found, and the boots, of course, revealed the murderer. The boy’s monstrous de pravity appears to be hereditary, as his father had just finished a term in prison for homicide. To set off this tale ol youthful wickedness, here is one of even more precocious heroism. An inquest at Bristol, England, on the body of Frank Jenkins, aged six months, moved the jury to a vote of admiration for Johnny Jenkins, aged four years. Frank, hav ing been left to play with a lighted lantern, set himself on fire. Johnny', whe was in charge, took the baby out of his cradle and dragged him down stairs, shouting for assistants. A neighbor who came and put the names out was too late to save the child. SOUTHLAND ITEMS. PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT AND TERRIBLE. INU (JSTRIAL PROGRESS —ME EXCURSION FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDENTB-SUICIDES DEFALCATIONS — COTTON REPORTS, ETC. TrimeMce. The Morning Sun, ol Chattanooga, has suspended for lack oi patronage. Dayton policemen have commenced a rigorous raid on the gambling dens. The attendanee on the services of the Spiritualists, W'ho are camped on Look out Mountain, near Chattanooga, is quite large. Col, Jones S. Hamilton, who killed Rhoderick .Gambrell at Jackson, Miss., some months ago, has entered suit against the Memphis Appeal on account of pub lications of that journal concerning the tragedy. LoniMiana. T he Brush-Westinghouse electric plant, in New Orleans, was burned on Monday. Loss SIOO,OOO. The city hall, parish prison, police stations, and levee were furnished with light firm this point. The ninety-ninth anniversary of the fall of the Bastile was celebrated by the Frenclj colony of New Orleans with great enthusiasm. A salute was fired at sunrise, and at noon, in the French Op era-house, patriotic addresses were deliv ered. North Carolina. Two freight trains collided on the Wes tern North Carolina Railroad, near Ashe ville, wrecking both engines and smash ing up a number of cars. A negro brakeman was killed, and five persons wounded, though not seriously. Kentucky. A battery of eight gas tanks in Lud ow exploded on Saturday, injuring fif teen men, four of them fatally. Gas is generated from naptha for lighting the railroad shops and for use in Mann bou doir cars. The escape of a small quanti ty from one tank caused an explosion, which exploded the other seven. Florida. John Woods shot and killed Joe Wil liams, at Jasper, on Sunday; both col ored. Williams had but recently come to the county from South Carolina, and was working on a turpentine farm within a few miles of that place. Officer J. C. Beasley', of Jacksonville, was noticed to be in an advanced state of intoxication while on diiy Monday. He remained on duty until about 9 o’clock, when he got on a street car and rode as far as the barber-shop of Dan Dandross, on Bay street, a short distance west of Bridge, when he dismounted and entered the shop. The barbers, seeing his con dition, helped him to a lounge, where he laid down and went to sleep. After re maining there for several hours in a stu por, he roused up somewhat, -when it was noticed that he was growing very pale. He soon went off into another stupor and died. His remains will be transferred to his former home in Madison for inter' ment. Alabama. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad let the contract for nineteen miles more of the Huntsville branch to John W. Worthinghnm & Co. of Birmingham. The contract specifies that the work must be completed and the road ready for trains within ninety days. A train on the Georgia Pacific Railroad went through a trestle near Coalburg. Engineer Jas. McDougal and Engineer Kitchen, both of Atlanta, Ga., were se verely injured. Three colore,d men — one fireman and two brakemen —were badly hurt. The engine and three cars were totally wrecked. An attempt was made on Sunday af ternoon by unknown parties, to wreck the west bound passenger train on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, near Lincoln. Just around a curve a heavy steel rail was placed on the track, in a position to strike the engine head first. Fortunately the train was running slowly when it rounded the curve, and a broken pilot was the only damage done to the engine. South Carolina. A Charleston grand jury recommends the establishment of the whipping post. It was tried in Georgia just after the War and failed. J. P. Kinard, of Newberry, and J. E. Coleman, of Marion, both graduates, of the Citadel at Charleston, have been elected to professorships in the academic board of the Citadel, Mose Hampton was stabbed to the heart by Gus Gray and killed instantly, near Hamburg. Their children had been quarrelling and Gray tried to stop them. Hampton interfered, knocked Gray down, got on him, and was stabbed while on Gray. Col. Jas. L. Davis was killed near Windsor on Saturday by being run over by the engine and cab of a watermelon train while lying upon the railroad track. He is supposed to have fallen there, over come by the beat of the sun while re turning home from his office. Joseph Supe, a crazy tailor, committed suicide on Saturday, in Columbia, by cut ting his throat from ear to ear with a pen-knife. He did this after trying to kill his wife with a saw file. He had been released from the insane asylum about a week before, and was undoubt edly insane. At a reunion of Confederate soldiers in Lexington county, two brothers named Reedy, forced- a quarrel upon Manuel Williams, a peaceably disposed man and a veteran, who, in self-defense, shot and killed one of them with a pis tol and st ibbcd the other through the heart. DEVOTED TO TIIE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY. TKENTON, GA.. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1888. Arkansas. The race troubles in Crittenden county are over. Temporary appointments have been made by the judge of the circuit court to till the offices vacated by the colored officials. The governor wil! have to appoint men to fill out the terms of the exiles. Six persons—three men and three wo men—were drowned while crossing the Arkansas river near Fort Smith, on Sun day. Their names were John Logan, Jess Morns, Tom Davis, Sallie Jackson, Mary Pettis and Carrie Davis. The party had been attending a dance, the night before, and were on their way horns when, in the middle of the stream, the boat upset. There are four coal mines in Jefferson county, employing convict labor, and about 1,200 convicts are employed. A few days ago a committee went to work to ascertain if any ex-convicts had regis tered to vote in the August election. The committee have not yet completed their labors, but they have ascertained that about 1,200 ex-convicts are now liv ing in the county, and about four hun dred of them have registered, expecting to vote at the next election. Texas. A north-bound passenger train on th» Fort Worth & Denver Railroad was pre cipitated through a bridge on Monday night, and Engineer William Smith and Fireman James Wilson were instantly killed. The accident was caused by r washout. O. E. AVitter, Fred Tucker and James Thompson, printers, who went to Dallas from Chicago two years ago, and Walter Wall, started in a boat to explore Trini ty river, which runs about four hundred miles through a wild country, in a ser pentine course, to the sea. On Sunday Witter was brought back dying. He re ports that the explorers were taken sick about forty miles from a human habita tion and all would have perished had not a hermit fisherman given them succor. AVall died and was buried near the an cient town of Talico. Fred Tucker and ■ Thompson were left behind, and theii fate is unknown. Ciieorsia. Atlanta is to have a new' market house. Burglars in Atlanta chloroform people and rob houses at their leisure. Several robberies in that style have taken place recently. Second Mate Brama, of the Belgian bark Brabant, loading naval stores was struck by a swinging barrel of rosin at Savannah and instantly killed. The “skilled” burglars that have been operating so successfully in Atlanta*, proved to be seven white and four col ored boys. All have been arrested. The chemical works of O. A. Smith in Atlanta, w'ere totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $7,000. The fire originated from a spark from the smoke stack of the works. A colored boy named Birdie Brown, was arrested on Sunday, in Columbus, charged with forging Superintendent Henderson’s name to street car tickets. The boy was employed in the office and managed to secure a lot of unsigned tickets. Officer Abbott, of the Atlanta police, attempted to arrest a drunken colored drayman named Stokes for acting inde cently, when he was set upon by a crowd of the drayman’s friends. Had it not been for the prompt arrival of Chief Connolly and a posse, the officer would Lave been killed. The location of the new brew'ery foun dations at Augusta, was settled on Sat urday, and the work of construction will begin at once. The owners have a rail road track already to their lot for the hauling df supplies and the transporta tion of the brewery product. The beer will be ready to flow by the time the Exposition gates are opened. Gen. James Longstreet, of Gainesville, was on the train which was wrecked on the Virginia Midland recently. He was jammed in by a mass of car wreckage, but finally managed to get out through a window. The general is said to have looked back at the window and said it was a wonder to him how he got through it. Two convicts escaped from the guards a week ago at Graysville, and all hands joined in the chase with blood-hounds, but they were so fortunate as to avoid re capture. Two men were arrested in At lanta and thought to be them, but Will Tyson went to them and found they were Dot the ones for whom he w’as searching. During his absence two more escaped, but after a vigorous search one of them was found near Cleveland, Tenn. The punishment for running away is fifty lashes on the bare skin. Col. John N. Dunn, of Atlanta, has lied from a surgical operation. He was born in Benton county, Ala., January 2, 1835, but at the early age of seven moved to Bradley county, East Tennessee,where he spent his early life. He was educated at Iliwassee college; studied law after leaving college, and practiced for a short while at Cleveland, Tenn. AYhen the South seceded he entered the Confeder ate army and fought bravely. He was lieutenant colonel of one of the regiments from eastern Tennessee. lie moved to Seorgia just after the War, and for sev eral years made Quitman, Ga., his home, practicing law there. He moved to At lanta in 1870, and opened a law office, but was forced to quit practicing, on ac count of bad health. He commenced ousiness in 1871 in the firm of Dunn, Alexander & Co., and from that time until this has made a great success of his business. He organized the Atlanta & Uawkinsville RaLroad and was elected president, which position he held at the time of his death. Why is a lover like a kernel of com? Because he turns white when he pot's. THE WOULD OVER. CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY 'PHONE AND TELEGRAPH. SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS, EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC. Gen. Diaz has been reelected president of Mexico. Italy is to give the elective franchise to women. Sir John Henry Brand, president of the Orange free state, is dead. Immense saw mills at Louisville, near Quebec, were burned on Saturday. Loss $109,000. Gen. Ben Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, has been quite ill at his home in Indianapolis, lud. The centennial celebration of the in auguration of civil government under | St. Clair was celebrated at Marietta, ! Ohio. , Littlefield’s boot and shoe factory at Avon, Mass., burned on Saturday, caus ing a loss of about $100,000; partly in sured. , The rate war from Chicago to the East still continues. Dressed beef is now sent to New York at seven cents per 100 pounds. At Maryboro, Ireland, on Saturday, the Kerry moonlighters were sentenced to penal servitude for terms ranging from . seven to teu years. The Russian government will take measures to compel the use of the Rus sian language in German preparatory schools in the Baltic provinces. The Deßers mine in Kimberly, near Capetown, the scene of the recent acci dent, has been explored, and the fatalities foot up 24 whites and 200 natives. The Emperor William - departed on Saturday on his St. Petersburg. The royal*yacht Alexandra, bearing the emperor and his shite, sailed from 'Pots dam for Spaudau. The heat has been unparalleled in Ath ens, Greece. The temperature stood at 104 degrees in the shade. Many deaths occurred. The currant crop has been damaged 25 per cent. Gen. Boulanger, who was wounded in the neck a few days ago in a duel with Premier Floquet, of the French govern ment, is in a precarious condition and may die at any moment. Gambetta's statue, in the Place du Carrousel, was unveiled on Friday. M. Floquet, prime minister, who fought a duel with Boulanger in the morning, delivered the oration. Leroyer, De- Freycinet, Meline and Spuller also spoke. David M. Pascoe, a compositor on one of the daily papers in Philadelphia, Pa., was arrested on a charge of having ap propriated $1,2: the International Typographical Troion of North America, of which organization he was formerly treasurer. M. Frippel introduced a bill in the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday providing fer the abolishing of dueling. M. Frippel, in introducing the bill, re ferred to the recent Floquet-Boulangei duel, and demanded urgency for the bill, but the Chamber rejected it. A fire occurred on Saturday afternoon in the storehouse of the Hamilton Cotton Mills at Lowell, Mass. There were 1,200 bales of raw cotton and 800 bales of man ufactured cotton in the storehouse ready for the print works. All of it w r as more or less damaged. The raw cotton was valued at $60,000. The officials of the Burlington Road at Nebraska City, Neb., claim to have unearthed a plot to blow up the new bridge over the Missouri river with dy namite shipped there for that purpose, it is claimed, by the striking engineers. Officers also claim that dynamite was Shipped to Pattsmouth and Rugo for similar purposes. The wife of John Putnam, of Neosho, Wis., has been for years seriously afflicted with rheumatic trouble, and was in bad condition up to the time when her home was struck by lightning and she received a terrible shock. Strange to say since then she has been entirely free from any symptoms of her old complaint. Five thousand persons assembled at Uyde Park, London, on Sunday to take action with reference to the imprison ment of Dillon and the death of John Mandeville. The resolutions adopted protested against the course of the gov ernment in the case of Dillon and de claring the death of Mandeville due to ill treatment he received while iu prison. An express train was wrecked about daylight Sunday morning, thirty-three miles west of Winnemucca, Nev., by a broken rail. The engine passed over safely, but a fruit, baggage and United States fish commissioners’ car were badly wrecked. All the sleepers were thrown off the track, but no passengers were hurt. The Chateaugay River country, N. Y., was visited recently by a terrific cyclone. For miles the northern Chateaugay country has been devasted. Inestimable damage has been done to property, such as buildings blown down, trees uprooted, fences carried away and farm land laid waste. A man and boy at Westville and a man at Port Covington were killed. Laffin & Rand’s large powder works, near Cressona, Pa., blew up on Saturday, killing George Gilman, Charles Reed and Henry Birnich, who were the only per sons about the place. The bodies were throwr 200 yards from the scene of ex plosion. The buildings were destroyed by the fire which followed the explosion, the force of which was felt ten miles away. Mayor Hewitt has issued an appeal to the citizens of New York on behalf of Mr. Hartt, who was foreman of a shoe factory and discharged one of the work men for theft. The Shoemaker’s Union demanded Hartt’s removal and secured 1 it. They secured his discharge from ■ other factories in which hp obtained em ployment. Reports from John Zacliar, the faster of Racine, Wis., are, .that ail attempts to obtain nourishment fiom the light food administered to him have proven futile. The milk and other food taken is not re tained on the stomach. This has left him in a very weak and exhausted condi aon, and he will most probably suffer ieath as the penalty of his fifty-three lays’ w'illfu! fast. There is great excitement over reports from Skeena river that Mr. Clifford, who was in charge of the Hudson Bay com pany at Hazelton, and one of the special constables sent from Victoria, B. C., had been murdered by Indians The Indians are thoroughly excited, and threaten to exterminate all the whites in that part of the country. H. B. Roger, of Provin ce!, left for the scene of trouble with a force of special policemen. The steamer Caroline arrived Saturday night and will probably convey a force and “C” bat tery to the mouth of the Skeena river. The Indians who are causing the trouble are the worst on the coast, and are large, powerful fellows, and nearly all well armed. HE DIED ONCE. The latest about Gen. Sheridan is that he actually died once but w T as brought to life again by the matchless human skill of his physicians. It was on the after noon of Thursday, June 7. A hem orrhage of the stomach had been fol lowed by a hemorrhage of the bowels. There w'as no pulse, no respiration. The firm jaw had dropped, the eyes were wide open and glazed and the bands were cold as ice. Father Chapelle turned from the bedside and said: “All is ovei,” and then passed sadly from the room. Mrs. Sheridan sobbed in prayer for the dead hero’s final rest. Suddenly, Dr. O’Reilly discovered that the heart began to beat after fine minutes’inaction; the proper aids were applied and the general soon grew better. The general is slowly recovering at his sea side cottage, at Nonquit, Mass. WILL INVESTIGATE. The Riforma, commenting on the pas sage of the resolution by the United States House of Representatives for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the evasion of the contract law, Jfcth special reference to the influx of Ralians into America, says: The Italian government will be on its guard to see that neither the American nor any other country shall take measures contrary to «ternational law in opposition to the ™ghts conferred on Italy through diplo matic relations. INTERESTING MEETING. Quite a large attendance is looked foi to attend the Southern Secretenal Insti tute at Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, August 13-26. The object is for the de velopment of workers in the Young Men’s Christian Association, combined with pure air, healthful exercise and refresh ing rest. THE EUROPEAN WAY. German policemen broke into the house of Queen Natalie, of Servia, seized her child and shipped the young prince back to his father. Before the abduction the queen made an affecting appeal to Em peror William, but it was of no avail. AT AN END. The great iron lockout is practically over, and a general resumption of the Pittsburg, Pa., mills is expected. There are still fifty firms in the Manufacturers’ Association that have not yet granted the demands of the workmen. MURDER WILL OUT. • Bowles and Smith, who were among the locomotive engineers arrested at Chicago, 111., for complicity in the crime of placing dynamite cartridges on the rails of the “Q” road, have confessed. Bound to a Tree for Tortnre. Playing Indian is the latest diversion of a party of youngsters whose wealthy parents live in the pretty cottages at Glen Ridge, near Bloomfield, N. *J. They adorn their hats with feathers from domestic fowls and dusters, and prance around in the woods and fields of the neighborhood to the terror of timid boys and girls who are not in the game. The boy’s ages range from 10 to 14, and they make as much noise as a band of full grown Arapahoes on the warpath. Recently' they caught Willie ZtJ-ler, a nine-year-old boy, and prepared to tor ture him, and perform a war dance around him. They tied him to a tree and piled brush around iiis feet, making it appear that they were going to burn him. Whether they would have carried out the plan or not is impossible to de cide, for before any matches were pro duced the terror-stricken prisoner faint ed. The boys thought they had killed him, and were so badly scared that they ran away, leaving him bound to the tree. Willie’s mother was informed at his plight by a little girl. She ran to*the tree, and after cutting the clothes liua with which he was tied, carried him into the house and sent for the doctor, who said the child would probably be a loug time recovering from the shock. NUMBER 20. COONTY iRECTOBY 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. Jacoway. Surveyor .W. F. Taylor. TOWN COMMISSIONERS. W. N. Jacoway, B. F race, 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 Ordi nary. Meets first Monday in each month. Justices’ Court, Trenton District. Meets second Saturday in each month. J. A, Cureton, T. 11. 8. 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, 11. P. M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary, Meets second Saturday in each month. Trenton 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 tln-reafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. ai A. M. S. 11. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secretary. Meetings Saturday night on and befc_. 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. m. Prayer meetings every Sunday uight. Byrd s Chapel. —Services second and fourth Sundays in each month at 3‘ o’clock p. m. Rising Fawn.— Services first and third Sundays in'each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Praver meetings every Wednesday *ud Sunday nights. Cave Springs— Services first ,ar third Sundays in each mouth at 8o’c!o p, m. Furnace at night. BOaRD OF EDUCATION. B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. AculT, W, C. Cureton, John Clark. NOTICE, Any additions to be made to the abov changes or errors, parties interested would confer a great favor, by notifying us of the same.