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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, fus; insertion $ 1.00 Each subsfctfueut insertion 50 Professional Cards, per year 5.00 Reading Notices, per line 10 |2F“Legal advertising must be paid in advance. USlP'Special 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. BROCK, Editor. E. C. GRISCOM, Local Editor. Price $ i .DO, in Advance^ A gigantic ancient well has just been found in the middle of the Place of St. Mark, Venice. It was evidently sunk in the fifteenth century, and is choked up by immense masses of sand which have drifted in from the sand heaDS on the Lido. The amount expended up to date on the Panama canal is $177,910,000, and it is estimated that it will require $230,- 000,000 and four years more labor for its completion. The figures are a trifle larger than those used in the ordinary object lesson. There is said to be a great deal' want among the German population of Paris. It appears that the German Aid B ociety there has in the course of a few years sent back to Germany nearly 0000 persons who could not earn a livelihood in the French capital. The Louisville Courier-Journal says that “with half a million dollars repre sented in a single dog show this country has no reason to be discouraged. Twenty years from now we shall bo worth many millions in dogs, though wo may possibly lose a few sheep.’* The duke of Sutherland has become so impoverished by the agriculture de pression in England and Scotland that he contemplates selling Stafford house, the wonderful mansion, which, when Q iaen Victoria entered, struck her a 3 being so magnificent that she said to the duke, “I came from my house to your palace.” The London Printing Times reports a rather peculiar fraud upon the French customs. Printed papers pay no duty in the “Grande Republique,” so certain manufacturers print just a narrow line upon the extreme edge of the sheets, and import the same duty free. Oace over the border, the edge is trimmed off, and the sheet reappears in pristine purity, though of smaller size. A petroleum pipe line is about to bo laid in Russia that will connect the Caspian and Black Seas. The lino will fork on the Black Sea end. Its capacity is to be 1,200,000 gallons daily. Tho company is to pay the Government a royalty of one-third of a cent for every five gallons. The capital invested is $10,500,000, and tho entire property after sixty years is to go to the Crown. On tho return voyage from England of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show he lost his famous old horse Charlie just before entering the New York harbor. The old horse came into the scout’s pos session twenty years ago. When he died he was wrapped in an American flag and was buried in the sea. Tho scout, with his company around him, deliv ered a little funeral oration, in the course of which he said: “Charlie, but for your willing speed and tireless cour age I would havo lain as low as you are now and my Indian foe have claimed you for his slave. Yet you have never failed me, Charlie, old fellow. I havo had many friends, but very few of whom I could siy that. Men tell me you had no soul, but if there be a heaven and scouts can inter there, I’ll wait at the gate for you, old fellow.” The Chicago Herald says that there is one fact in regard to the records of men prominent in public life which is a perennial source of surprise to people looking up those records, to wit: That General Jo- ph R. Hawley, who usually passes as a tvpj of New Englander, it not of the ‘Connecticut Yankee,” is a native of North Carolina. The only representative in congress from a dis trict east of the Alleghanias, who was born west of them, is Luther F. McKin ney of New Hampshire. The states west of the Mississippi havo sixty mem ber.?, and of these forty-r.iac were born cast of the Mississippi. Of the eleven representatives of lowa, not one was born in the state. Texas, with eleven members, has but one native-born rep resentative, and California, with six, has but one who is not a native of the state. ! SOUTHLAND ITEMS. i PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT AND TERRIBLE. —‘ i INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS —THE EXCURSION FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDF.NTS-SUICJDE6 j DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS,ETC. Alabama. Joel J. Merritt, postal clerk from i Cleveland, Tenn., to Melina, was arrested ! in Selma for robbing the mails, i N. F. Thomson, a Birmingham real es | tate and insurance agent, and a candidate j on the prohibition ticket for county I treasurer, was arrested for faise pretense s 'in connection with a land trade during | the late boom. The grand jury returned ian indictment against him. He was re | leased on $2,000 bond. j J. T. Sullivan, an engineer on the ; Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was ar- I rested in Birmingham on Saturday, | charged with manslaughter in the first | degree. About three weeks ago, while running a freight train, Sullivan ran into [ a switch engine at Warrior, killing a I man named John Beasley. The suicide of Maggie Jones, of Birm ingham, a woman of unsavory reputation, was the eighth suicide in that city within four weeks. They have occurred two per week now for four successive weeks, and a common inquiry is “Has any one com mitted suicide to-day ?” Suicide seems to be epidemic there, forty-three having occurred during the past twelve months. ArkmißßM. Two deputy sheriffs attempted to ar rest Fred Conway, a farmer, near Con way. While Deputy Sheriff Witt was reading the warrant to Conway, the latter drew a knife and stabbed the officer in the left side. Conway's wife and two sons then attacked Wilt, who drew his pistol and fired at Conway. The ball struck the other officer, Deputy Sheriff Lloyd, in the breast, inflicting a fata l wound. Florida. Twenty-four alligators were killed in one night by a boy at Spring Garden, The inland lakes in Volusia county are lower at present than at any time during the past ten years. The catapillars are seriously injuring the pea and potato vines in certain lo calities in Pasco county. The state authorities have ordered that the entire village of Plant City be burned to the ground, includiug all buildings, furniture, bedding, &c., in order to .stamp out the so-called yellow or mala rial fever there. The growers in and around Orlande have netted 50 cents per pound for white grapes. [t is not improbable that in a tew years grape culture in Florida will become one of the leading industries. Alachua county has a large acreage of vineyards. There is a man in Palc.tka who imag ines that he is a teapot. He is perfectly sane on every other subject, but nothing can convince him that he is not a teapot, and an earthen one at that. He sticks out one arm to represent the spout, bends the other to represent the handle, makes a hissing noise to represent the escaping steam, and then, if any one comes near him, is very uneasy lest they hit him and break off either his handle or his spout. The relief measures to be inaugurated by the Marine Hospital Bureau will in clude a house-to-house inspection of the infected villages and the guarding of them for a period of ten days, or until the fever shall have entirely disappeared; and also the disinfection of all premises wherein the inmates have had fever. Guards will be immediately placed to prevent the refugees from infecting other places. Persons wishing to leave the in fected villages will have to pass the usual detention period and have their clothing fumigated. (aeorffin. Speaker Carlisle declined to leave Washington, D. C., to deliver a speech iu Atlanta. The 43d Georgia infantry held a re union at Ponce de Leon Springs, near Atlanta, and out of the 1,000 men that composed it, in 1861,0n1y 13 were present. S. P. Shatter & Go’s, rosin oil mill and chemical works at Savannah were burned on Sunday. The works were located on the West Ogeechee canal beyond the city limits. The origin was spontaneous combustion. The Augusta Exposition received an application for space from one of the biggest loom ma: facturers in Massachu setts. The exhih lone wilt cost several thousand dollars lo place, and the six fancy looms will be operated by six blooming Yankee girls. South Carolina. The river phosphate miners around the South Carolina coast have entered into a pool to put up the price of rock. This, of course, does Dot include the land miners. The production of river rock amounts to nearly 20,000 tons an nually. A committee was appointed in Charles ton on Wednesday to open books of sub scription for the purchase of a steamship to run between there and Baltimore. The steamer is to be built outright, with a capacity of 6,000 to 8,000 bales of cot ton, and to have first-class accommoda tions for 100 saloon passengers. Lightning struck ’.he shed of Hughes & Brunson’s store, at Brunson’s, under which were a group of people, and killed Frank Rivers, colored, outright. Col. L. F. Hughes, one of the proprietors, re ceived painful injuries from both the shock and a fall to the brick pavement. Others were considerably shocked. Two or three houses were struck and will need repairs. DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY". TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1888. Tennffliee* Memphis is to have a police patrol wagon. The steel rail mill of the Roane Iron company at Chattanooga, has shut down until September, on account of the depressed condition of the steel rail market. Sam Watts, a clerk, and Charles Hum phreys, a married miner, fought at Coal Creek while on a drunken spree. The latter was shot through the body and will die. ' Policeman W. T. Russell, who a week ago killed Jesse Bishop while, it is al leged, Bishop was resisting arrest, was taken before Judge Shepherd on a writ of habeas corpus at Chattanooga on Wednesday. As a result of the examin ation, Russell was held to bail in the sum of $5,000, which he readily gave. A number of Southern capitalists and manufacturers met ou Monday at Nash ville to discuss the location there of an international mineral and metallic expo sition. It was resolved to hold the expo sition at Nashville in 1890. A commit tee was appointed to organize the enter prise, secure a charter and put it on a practical basis. Conductor Frank Cushman was ar rested in Nashville and jailed there on Sunday. Cushman was in charge of the extra freight train which collided with the Louisville & Nashville fast express at Oxmoor ou the morning of the 17th, killing Engineers Nichols and Austin, and Fireman Cummings. Cushman was indicted by the grand jury last week for manslaughter in the first degree. Virginia.. Three colored section hands on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad were caught under a gravel bank which caved iu a few miles below Richmond, Va., on Mon day. Fred Y’ates was killed and the other two seriously injured. Miss Ella . Barnes, daughter of Con gressman G. T. Barnes, of Augusta, Ga., with a party of Iricnds, was witnessing a pyrotechnic display at Winchester, when some sparks fell upon the dress she was wearing, which in an instant blazed up around her. The gentleman who accom panied her snatched off his coat, and together with it and Miss Barnes’ wrap, which she had over her shoulders, the flames were extinguished. Mies Barnes’ dress skirt was destroyed, but she es caped all injury, except a slight burn on one of her hands. The coroner’s jury assembled at the scene of the recent collision on" the Nor folk & Western Railway, rendered its verdict on Wednesday as follows: “We, the jury, find the Norfolk & Western Railway Company guilty of neglect in sending complicated orders not oasib, understood by employes of the company, as shown by the evidence adduced before the jury, and for its failure to designate engine No. 3, which would have pre vented this collision; and it is the opin ion of this jury that the Norfolk & Western management should be held responsible for the results of this disas ter.” Louisiana. A special to the New Orleans Tirnes- Dcmocrat from Monroe says: A. Dcmm ler, for a number of years book-keeper for the Monroe Oil Company, committed suicide by jumping from a bridge. Gen. G. T. Beauregard, elected com missioner of public works at New Or leans, finding it impossible to keep the streets in good condition with the sum of money allowed by the city, has ten dered his resignation. While a cargo was discharging from the Cromwell Line steamer, Knicker bocker, at New Orleans, a cylinder of compressed ammonia exploded with great force. Thomas Russell was killed. An other man, William Somat, and three colored men, E. Bowers, Gabriel Bennett and E. B. Johnson, were injured. The explosion is attributed to the extreme heat of the sun. Texas. The first bale of cotton of the crop of 1888 was received at Galveston on Wed nesday. It weighed 569 pounds, and was classed as middling fair staple. It was sold at auction at 12 cents per pound, and will be shipped to Liverpool via New Y’ork. * Lieut. Flipper, the colored officer in the United States army, who was dis missed some years ago, and afterwards joined the Mexican army, has turned up at El Paso, with a story of two old gold mines which he has found in Mexico, ju-t bursting with ore. Missouri. George Taylor, a prominent St. Louis cotton factor, is authority for the state ment that jute bagging manufacturers have formed a pool or trust and advanced the price of bagging from seven to eleven cents per yard, while there has been uo advance in raw material. Mr. Taylor could not purchase such stock as he wanted iu St. Louis, and telegraphed orders to Eastern manufacturers and received the reply that he had better purchase from the St. Louis makers. ‘‘WHITE CAPS” SHOT. “White Caps” in Crawford county, Ind., whipped two women nearly to death —one will probably die—and then proceeded to the house of a reputable citizen in the neighborhood and ordered him to spread the news of their doings as their warning. The plans of the “White Caps” had been overheard, and the citizen had three friends with him. He accordingly refused to do the bidding of the “White Caps,” and was threat ened by them. A fight ensued, in which three of the “White Caps” were shot, two of them fatally. One of these is named Gregory, a country merchant, aged fifty years, with a family of grown children. Another is a saloon keeper named Saun ders, a worthless fellow. The wounded men have been hidden away, and the country is uu in arms on a hunt for them. THE WORLD OYER. CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY ’PHONE AND TELEGRAPH. SOil-ETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS, EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC. John Robinson’s circqs people posted their bills ou a Vir.cennd, Ind., church, and were heavily fined for doing it. The Pope sent a telegram congratulat ing Emperor William upon the birth of his fifth son. The emperor, in reply, thanked the Pope. Emperor William will visit the Pope immediately on his arrival in Rome, be fore going to Quirnail, in order not to offend the Pope. One thousand miners employed in the coal mines at St. Etienne, near Paris. E'rance, have struck, and it is expected that the strike will spread. A fearful storm caused much destruc tion in northwest France. Many fisher men were drowned. The duke of Gra mont’s yacht foundered off Quetteville. A volcanic eruption at’Bandesan, fifty leagues from ’Yokohama, destroyed sev eral villages, and killed 1,000 persons, including 100 visitors at the Rima Springs. The Copenhagen Dog Blad says that Emperor William mutt not be allowed to belive that the Danes have renounced hope of retaining restoration of Scheil werg Holstein. The latest proposals of Signor Crispi in the negotiations from the Franco-Ital ian treaty, do not suit M. LeGramle, the French minister of commerce, and there may be trouble. The paper mill of John Devarrenes, at East Lee, Mass., was destroyed by fire on Sunday. The mill employed about one hundred and fifty hands, and the loss will be about SIOO,OOO. Chairman Hoge, arrested in connection with the Locomotive Engineers’ troubles, has sued the chief detective of the Bur lington road and the Lincoln, Neb., Daily News for libel. It is stated in official circles, that in consequence of the protest of the Amer ican authorities against the existing reg ulations with respect to the St. Lawrence canal, the Canadian government will re move the present discrimination in favor of grain bound for Montreal. Tax Collector Pratt, of Pittsfield, Mass., lias disappeared. Pratt is said to be several thousand short. He charges his difficulty in his leniency to some tax payers who were his friends and Horn whom he could not collect withorwp'e sorting to legal measures. Charles Cummings, second steward of the Brighton hotel, and Henry Boyd, also an employe of the hotel, Atlantic City, got their depth while iug on MoWKiy, and both were drowned, although heroic efforts were made to save them. Cummings’ body was recovered. Both men were from Philadelphia. A gunsmith, named Rudolph S*bic, was arrested in Chicago, 111., on Wednes day, and is now behind prison bars, un der bonds of $7,000. He is charged with being the individual who furnished dynamite to the conspirators who intend ed to assassinate the three law officers most prominent in the Ilaymarket prose cution. While prayer-meeting was in progress in a church in Indianapolis, Ind., the people present were alarmed by groans as of a man in agony, and an investiga tion being made, Eugene Zinzis was found on the floor in a pew, with an empty bottle at hand. The bottle had contained carbolic acid, which Zinzis had swallowed and died before he could be removed from the church. A constable and pcsse of cowboys had a fight in the mountains, near Benson, Arizona, with three Mexican horse thieves, belonging to a band which has a rendezvous in the White Stone and Si erra Nevada mountains. Two of the Mexicans were killed and the other thieves escaped. One of the dead men has been identified as one of tlie Sonora train robbers. All the cable lines have advanced rates. On September Ist the rates will be advanced to 25 cents per word be tween all points in Great Britain and Ireland, France and Germany, and New England cities ou the land lines to New York. South and west of New Y'ork full rates will be charged by the land companies in addition to the 25-ccnt rate. The rate on press dispatches will be raised from 6 to 10 cents per word. John Forh m,an Irish boycotted farmer, while returning from Tralee with three laborers in a car, on Monday, was shot dead near LDtowee, Kerry, by two dis guised men, who jumped oyer a fence, fired and escaped through a wood. While Farmer Macauliffe was working with a laborer named Iluare in a field at Glounamukle, Cork, on Saturday, a man disguised with a white cloth entered the field and demanded their names. Ruare gave a false name. lie was or dered by the stranger to fall upon his knees, and he did so, whereupon the stranger shot him twice, and he died an hour afterwards. The old armory of the 11th regiment at Elm and White slrcet, in New Y'ork city, has been used for commercial pur poses for some yeais, although still owned by the city. The Lovell Manu facturing company, of book printers and binders occupied a wide gallery around the hall fifteen feet from the floor. In this gallery were five heavy folding ma chines and tons upon tons of printed matter. The gallery was supported by wooden uprights resting on the floor of the hall. Under this hung heavy iron pipes in stock. On Wednesday the dou ble strain leached its breaking point and the northeast pait of the gallery fell. The five folding machines carried down the floor of the main hall to the ground floor. Six girls who had been working at the machines went down with the wreck to the ground floor. One was killed instantly, two were protected by debris which had formed an arch over them and were unhurt; others were more or less injured, but none fatally. Over 200 women and gil ls were at work in the building at the time. RUSHING FOR LIBERTY. A plot for the escape of four hundred convicts at Piatt Mines, Ala., was dis covered several days ago, but the prison officials kept the matter so quiet that the facts only leaked out on Wednesday. At slope No. 1, about four of the seven hun dred convicts are confined, and there is only one entrance into the mine at that place. It seems that one of the veins or leads at this slope has been worked until it was within a lew hundred feet of the surface on the other side of the mountain. Some of the older convicts some time ago conceived a plan to dig out of the mine. Others were let into the plot, and the convicts would work turns on their tun nel after completing their day’s task of mining. The number into the plot was increased, until nearly all of the four hundred convicts working in the slope knew about it, and aided iu the work. Saturday, it is said, wa9 the day set apart to force the tunnel through the mountain and escape. After all the con victs had entered the slope that morning, the entrance was blocked on the inside, and then they began to dig for liberty, the tunnel lacking only a few feet of completion, but the plot had been be trayed. and the guards were ou the look out. The obstruction at the mouth of the slope was removed and the convicts were driven away from their tunnel, and forced to return to work. The ring leaders were punished, and every pre caution has been taked to prevent an es cape by the tunnel route. Only three iuonths ago five convicts escaped from Coalburg mines, by the same means, and only two of them were recaptured. COTTON. The New Y’ork Financial Chronicle, in its weekly review of the cotton move ment, says that the total receipts since the first of September, 1887, 5,488,937 bales, against 5,204,670 bales for the same period of 1886-7, shows an increase since September 1, 1887, of 284,258 bales. The exports for the w r eek reached a total of 27,285 bales, of which 14,819 were for Great Britain, 7,218 for France and 2,238 to the rest of the continent. The total sales for forward delivery for the week are 330,400 bales. For immediate delivery the total sales foot up 6,406 bales, including 3,430 for export, 2,976 for consumption. The imports into con tinental ports have been 18,000 bales. There is a decrease in the cotton in sight of 315,282 bales as compared with the same date of 1887, a decrease of 239,283 bales as compared with the corresponding date of 1886 and a decrease of 278,735 bales as compared with 1885. The old interior stocks have decreased during the week 3,286 bales, and are 5,113 bales more than at the same period last year. The receipts at the same towns have been 2,037 bales more than the same week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 111,204 more than for the same time in 1886-7. RECOVERED. Gen. Boulanger drove in the Bois du Bologne on- Sunday for the first time since he was wounded. His carriage was followed by sixteen carriages filled with reporters and admirers, who shout ed: “A has Flouquet!” “A bas Ferry!” “Vive Boulanger!” A great crowd of gamins escorted the general back to Paris. ARRESTED. Nineteen emigration agents have been arrested at Cracow Au-tria, for inching natives of that district to emigrate to America. Bonds representing 1,000,000 florins were found in their possession. Other agents have been arrested at Brody and Czeinowilz. The Well of Blood at Cawnpoor. We gave a day to Cawnpoor, thirty miles further on. This is city of 140,- 000 souls, has a large native leather in dustry and some fine rice mills, and a jute manufactory which was very in teresting. We drove over the vast mili tary" cantonment, admired its comfort tide officers’ bungalows and its line of large two story barracks, arranged en echelon on one side of the great parade ground. Here the fury of the mutiny was unrelenting, and the tiger-like heart of Nana Sahib had an opportunity to ex hibit its ferocious quality. I stood by the monument which covers the great well into which lie hurled 700 men, wo men and children—unoffending, non combatants, butchered in cold blood— and many thrown in while yet alive: some of the children as yet unhurt. I hen ceased to wonder at the bitter feel ing so many English here have for the natives. The memory of the butcheries of ’57 is y r et- fresh in their hearts. A solossal winged augel in pure white stands over the spot and in marble beauty looks down with touching pity, which every one must feel who recalls Ihe horrible massacre. From Cawnpoor to Agra is about one hundred and seven miles. We travelled it by night, ar rived here this morning, and now I will close by saying I' have seen the •* laj.” NUMBER 22. liOUNTY DIRECTORY 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. 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 anc September. Ordinary’s Court. J. A. Bennett Ordinary Meets first Monday in each month. Justices’ Court, Trenton District. Meets second Saturday in each month J. A, Cureton, T. H. B. Cole, Justices Rising Fawn District meets third Sat urdnv in each month. J. a-,. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. MASONIC LORE. Trenton Chapter No. 60. R. A. M. S. H. Thurman, H. 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 tin reafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. af 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. CHUR H NOTICES. M. E. Church South.—Trenton Cir cuit, Chattanooga District—A. J. Fra zier, Presiding Elder; J. A. Prater, Pas tor in charge; 8. H. Thurman, Recording Steward. Trenton services second and fourth Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. in. Prayer meetings every Sunday uight. Byrd's Chapel.—Services second and fourth Sundays in each month at 3 o’clock p. m. Rising Fawn.—Service? first. aDd third Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a, m. Prayer meetings every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs.— Services, first ni third Sundays in each month at 3o’clo p, m. Furnace at night. BO*RD OF EDUCATION. B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible* R. W. Acuff, 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.