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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 Notice-, per line 10 advertising must be paid in advance. reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go in larger space or longer time. fW°All bills for advertising are due after first insertion of advertisement, un less otherwise agreed. B. T. BROCK, Editor. , E. C. GRI3COM, Local Editor. Price $ 1.00, in Advance. mmmmmmwmmmmammmmmmmttw ill mv- .u«cura uu ■ m——■— - London, with a population of over 5,000,000, complains of a dcath-rata of 15.1 per 1000 inhabitants. The butter which Senator Palmer, o* Michigan, mcs on his table is made tromtho milk of his own hig-bred Jer sey cows and costs him $3 a pound. But the senator is a millionaire many times over and can afford such luxur ies. Henry Price, “the father of Masonry in America,” died in Townsend, Mass., in 1780 Now, rather tardily, a monu ment has been erected over his grave. The location is prominent and overlooks the farm where Price spent his last years. London has a Christian Police Asso ciation with a membership of Is only five years since the association was started and it has prospered be yond expectation. It contains at pres ent 153 branches, which extend as far as Singapore, Tasmania, South Africa and Cana la. Blakely Hall, of the New York Sun, who has been studying the Chicago anarchist plots, has a remedy for the whole trouble. He says that if the anarchists were caught, well scrubbed, taught :h; English language and fed on wholesome fool for a month, anarchy would soon be a thing of the past. The Spaniard makes no distinction between Englishmen and North Ameri cans, but labels them indiscriminately as “Ingleses.” “American” in Spain means South American, arid if you tell the natives you are an American they are apt to express surpri-e that you do not apeak Spanish as fluently as they do. The Chicago News says: “Mr. Red stone, one of the Labor candidates for President,, has announced his willing ness to perform the duties of chief magistrate of the nation for S6OO a year should ho be elected. It will be observed that this is a departure of about $49,000 from the present stan dard. High life is barred against actors and actresses in Franco. It is evety where understood that no actress enters a fashionable front door in Paris save in her professional quality. She comes to act or to recite; says her say, and then departs; mingle» never with the audi ence 'who have applauded her to the skies. Klingenberg-on-thc-Maia enjoys finan cially a thriltine3s which few other German communities, or foreign ones for that matter, can boast of. It has no taxpayers within its walls. The yield of its clay pits not only defrays the whole of the communal budget, includ ing school money, but secures besides to every head of a family plenty of fire wood and 140 marks hard cash per an num. Happy Klingenbcrg! . • Under the name of John Kenwood there has just died in the penitentiary at Nashville, Tonn., while serving three yeais for robbery, a man who is credibly stated to have been the younger son of an English nobleman and brother-in-law of a high Canadian official, who throughout his trial spent money like water in the endeavor to save him from punishment. His real name is known only to the governor of Tennessee, and will Dot be divulged. The Biltimore but teiis of a well known baritone singer in a church in that city who inadvertently placed a slur on the wrong note. He had adapt ed the air of “The Jewish Maiden” to a hymn beginning “Before the Lord we Bow,” and instead of placing the slur on the first two syllables, he placed it on the last one, and rendered it thus: “B fore the Lord we bow-wow-wow.” The effect was immense. As he had and still has a powerful and beautiful voice, his hearers were thoroughly elec trified at his unwonted and unlooked for canine imitation. He has never en tirely recovered from the effect of his ludicrous mistake. SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL- ROAD CASDAT.TIE8 —THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS —ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS. Alabama. A. S. Kibbe, a telegraph operator at Decatur died from yellow fever. Governor Seay, has appointed W. A. Austin judge of probate of Elmore coun ty, to fill the vacancy earned by the rc signment of John A. Lancaster. The town of York, a town of 200 peo ple, on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, near the Mississippi line, has quarantined against the world. No pas senger from any point will be allowed to get off at that point. Armed guards meet every train, and no amount of health certificates will enable a passenger to stop there. An old feud between two prominent families in Shelby county, ended on Monday in the killing of George Turner, at Coosa. The feud ends forever with this tragedy, ns Turner was the last male representative of his family. Alex Mat tock, many years ago, married Turner’s sister against the protests of the Turner family, and out of this grew the feud, which resulted in many bloody encount ers. Florida. A commission of three, representing the striking cigarmakers in Havana ar rived at Key West. They telegraphed to all large cities North asking aid for the strikers. The strikers and their fami lies number 20,000. Georgia. Augusta will levy a tax of 1 per cent, in order to get the city in shape for the Exposition. Mr. Itober H. Richards, a prominent business man of Atlanta, died of heart disease while on a visit to Asheville, S. C. On account of flood damages, Augusta has postponed the opening of the Expo sition until November Bth. It will close December 15th. Henry Kennedy, a carpenter, of Au gusta, Supervisor Farmer of the Port Royal Railroad, Higgins, and Mr. Williams,, a boatman, and an unknown man and woman were drowned in the recent floods. The Confederate Veterans of Atlanta dedicated a* beautiful hal\ on Monday. Gov. Gordon, Judge Wm. Lowndes Cal houn, Capt. E. P. Howell and Henry W. Grady made speeches. Many G. A. R. men were present. The Georgia Railroad ran eight en gines and loaded cars on its bridges across the canal at Augusta to keep them from being spept away by the flood. The bridges gave way under the exces sive weight and several wrecked engines is the result. The flood in the Savannah river has covered the rice plantations near the Sa wanna, and the rice crop is nearly, if not quite, a total loss. Reports from the country districts state that the low lands are all under water and the roads and bridges carried away, so that travel is almost impossible. A cold-blooded murder was committed in Atlanta Saturday night. A colored man named Si Campbell, quarreled with his wife late in the afternoon, and when the woman had retired for the night, and was sound asleep, Campbell deliberately placed the muzzle of a pistol close to the woman’s face and fired twice in rapid succession, killing her instantly. North Carolina. At Charlotte, Sunday, a daring incen diary set fire to the ice factory, and but for quick work the building and ma chinery would have been destroyed. The factory had been idle since August Ist. The incendiary bad used quanfitiA of rosin, cotton waste and shavings to start the tire. Fire broke out at Beaufort Sunday and spread rapidly, burning the sheriff’s of fice and three other buildings on Turner street; Handlers and House, on Dicken son street, and a two-story house occu pied by colored people. The Winfield Chadwick building was partially burned. Loss about SIO,OOO with very little in surance. A white man named Clauduas Parish, of White county, was before a justice of peace Saturday charged with com mitting an assault on his twelve-year-old daughter. After hearing the evidence of the child, her mother and brother, which was conclusive, Parish was com mitted to jail. The case caused a de cided sensation. Parish was brought away quietly to escape lynching in his own section. Tennessee. Nashville authorities ordered a close observance of the liquor law, and all sa loons were closed last Sunday. The preachers have organized a vigilance committee to see that the Sunday law is rigidly enforced. Jim Shackleford, a farmer living on Dog Branch, whipped his twelve year-old daughter to death. He had ordered the child to bring a bucket of water from a spring, and because she did not come as quickly as he thought she should, he seized a piece of plank and brutally beat her so that she died after a few days. Texas. State Health Officer Dr. Rutherford, who was at Galveston on Sunday, de clared a strict and absolute quarantine against New Orleans. Quarantine offi cer Blount, at that point, was notified to quarantine against all vessels coming to that port from New Orleans, and a similar embargo has been placed upon railroads. DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON, GA„ FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1888. Kentucky Another raid was made by the McCoys on the Hatfield settlement at Cattletsburg. The West Virginians were worsted. The McCoys attempted to arrest an innocent citizen —Richard Carey. He never had anything to do with thp trouble. They were stopped before they succeeded, and their action so enraged the neighborhood that nearly every man on the creek (Peter) took his gun and went in pursuit. They came upon the West Virginias* at Paw Paw mountain, where a lively bat tle took place. In the melee two of the West Virginians were killed and two were badly wounded. None of the Ken tucky crowd was hurt. Louisiana. New Orleans is* discussing a belt line railway scheme, intending to build a grand union depot, into which all trains can run. As it is now, the traveler who passes through New Orleans has to .make a transfer, and the belt line and union depot is intended to do away with this. An awful crime was perpetrated at Breaux Bridge. Friday night, when a gang, supposed to be composed of five members (so far unknown), attacked a negro cabin, and shooting through the walls, mortally wounded a colored woman, who died a few hours afterwards. From there they went to another cabin where they outraged colored women, and then whippeel a colored man. The negroes have made no affidavit as yet. The white population are very much ex cited over the matter, and resolutions were adopted pledging protection to the colored people, and declaring that the perpetrators of the outrage shall be pun ished. South Carolina. The breaking out of yellow fever at Hendersonville has created considerable consternation at Charleston, Henderson ville being the Summer resort or a large number ot wealthy Charlestonians. Im mediately on receipt of the news of fever at that place the mayor issued orders quarantining, it and this complicates mat ters, as many' women and children were on their way home, having run from the fever. No person from Hendersonville or any place in that vicinity is allowed to come to the city now without certificates. Reports from all sections of the State continue to be of the gloomiest kind as regards the crops. One of the strangest and most serious causes of the damage to the cotton is the sprouting in the bolls, a feature which has heretofore been com paratively unknown in the annals of cot ton planting. It seems that a good (leal of cotton was open when the rains began about September fir-t. The continuous rain prevented picking, and the rq -m bolls bad to be left in the fields. The seeds in the bolls are now beginning to sprout, rendering the cotton useless for market or any other purposes. Sprout ing is reported from almost every section of the state, and what promised in Au gust to be the largest crop of cotton ever produced in this state looks now to be in a very bad condition. Virginia. Henry W. Grady, of Atlanta, Ga., has been invited by the committee at Stans - ton to receive the Confederate monument to be dedicated there on October 27th, to the Confederates from other states that are buried at Staunton. Governor Fitzhugh Lee will tender the statue as representing the soldiers, and Mr. Grady has been invited to receive it in behalf of the younger element in the South. Steps have been taken for the construc tion of an electric line of cars from Rich mond to the historic battlefields of Seven Pines or Fve Oaks. The distance is seven miles, thousands of old Union soldiers visit the field annually from Richmond, at a large expense. This line will minimize the cost of the litt'e trip. The directors of the Atlantic & Danvibc railroad have secured the money neco ry to complete the line to Danville. THE CROP BULLETIN. The weather crop bulletin, issued by the signal office, says that reports from the corn belt, including Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, indicate that the weather during the past week has been especially favorable, and that the corn crop, which is. very large, is generally secure and past injury from fros*. The frosts which occurred during the week along the northern border of lowa and in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan did some damage to the grow ing crops. Over the west portion of the cotton region, including Alabama and Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louis iana and Texas, favorable weather dar ing the week greatly improved all grow ing crops, and cotton picking is in progress in all these States. In North and South Carolina all growing crops are seriously injured by heavy rains and dangerous floods. The weather during the week was especially favorable for tobacco in Kentucky and Tennessee. The weather in New England and the middle Atlantic States was generally unfavor able for ripening crops. Farm work is retard od. THE LATEST. Dr. 11. S. Tanner, who became famous about eight years ago l>y fasting forty days at Clarendon hall, New York City, arrived at Chicago, 111., from New Mex ico. He is apparently in perfect health, and his girth is such as to suggest any thing except abstinence feom food. The doctor is pursuing another branch of semi-suspeuded animation, viz., hiber nation. He declares that bears and other hibernating animals do not use their lungs duriug the hibernating season, and he is convinced that man can hibernate, and will permit himself to be sealed up in an air-tight coffin and laid away until such time as he shall designate for it to be ! opened. THE WOULD OVER. INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE STYLE THE FIELD OF LABOR —BKETUING CAUL DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES, ' SUICIDES. ETC. —NOTED PEOPLE DEAD. i' , Bismarck will follow Von Moltke’s example and resign. Charles A. Percy made a second trip through the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Fails on Sunday. Samuel Pruett shot and fatally wounded his wife in a courtroom at Kokoma, lad., during the progress of a divorce suit, and also shot J. C. Blacklidge, he claims accidentally. Political correspondence at Vienna, says the negotiations between Russia and the Vatican for the establishment of diplomatic relations.have collapsed, ow ing to the opposition of Pobiedonesteff, procudator of the holy synod in Russia, of the Polish clerical authorities in Aus tria and of the ultramontane cardinals in Rome. ' Bitter feeling has been engendered at Pittsburg, Pa., over the establishment of a parochal school by the Catholics in the first ward public school building. Seven Protestant ministers denounced 'Catholocism from their pulpits on Sun day. Arrangements were made for mass meetings in that city and also in Alle gheny to protest against the use of public school buildings for religious purposes. T. J. McGuire and Samuel Remer, em ployed in a South Omaha, Neb., packing house, engaged in a beef-skinning con test. The maten was for SSO a side and the gate receipts. Two dead beeves were brought in, and when time was called, both men set to work. McGuire removed the skin from his subject tirSt, doing the job in four minutes and fiftv two seconds. Remer’s time was five minutes. A Roman cablegram to the New York Catholic News announces that the decree of the holy office on the Knights of La bor question, favorable to that organiza tion, has been forwarded to Cardinal Gibbons. It will be remembered that in April, 1887, his holiness, concurring with ideas set forth in a letter of Cardinal Gibbons in favor of the knights, decided that there was no cause for action. The Pope also decided that in Canada, where a mand ament had been issued against knights, members of the order could re ceive ..b3olutiou on promise of obedience tfuture decisions of the holy see. The matter having been placed before the holy office, th;s decree is the result. It settles for good the question as far as Rome is concerned, —provided, of course, that the constitution and aims of the or der remain the same. THE FEVER. One feature of the epidemic at Jack sonville during the past week is the fre quency wi'.h which it has attacked phy sicians and clergymen and other active workers in the cause of the sick and suf fering. Drs. C. J. Burroughs and C. H. Mallett were bo;h prostrated on Thurs day, and Dr. Daniel gave up and went to bed on Friday. The ranks of the clergymen have been thinned, but all who are sick give signs of early recovery. The condition of Rev. J. B. Bickrell is not so hopeful as could be wished, but has not as yet become critical. Bishop Edwin G. Weeds is still well and doing good work at all times and places. Bishop Moore and the ltev. Father ny (recently recovered) are both active in the work of nursing charity, and may be seen at almost any hour of the day en gaged in the noble mission of relief to tie suffering. Just about enough new doctors have come in to fill the local va c icits caused by sickness. More are n eded. Ihe following temporary as signments have been made by F. H. Caldwell, who has charge of the medical corps. Dr. A. W. Knight will take the territory east of Market to East Jack sonville; Dr. Clay will take Lavilla, north of Beaver street, i,nd Hansomtown; Dr. Donohue, of Cary ville, Fla., will take Campbell’s addi tion, Fairfield and Oakland; Dr. George C. Mathews and Dr. Eddy, of St. Louis, will take Lavilla, south of Bean street; D . Yahoo, of Ocala, will take charge of Eat Jacksonville, with headquarters at Dr. Fairlie’s drug store. Dr. Bryant, o! Houston,and Dr Shetral,of Savannah has been assigned to the district bounded by Clay stre et, on West Market street on the east, and Springfield and Hausom totvn ou the north. There is room : t St. Luke’s hospital to accommodate thir teen more patients, and the hospital is now in excellent condith n. Six private rooms, suitable to patients who desire isolation, are vacant and they are neatly furnished and most comfortable apart ments. Dr. Sollace Mitchell says be has thiity patients now at the Sandhills and ample accommodation for sixty or seven ty more. He proposes to move on' and make his home there until the frost puts an end to his labors. Dr. Porter received the tele gram: Camp Perry, September 16. Dr. S. Y. Porter, Jack-onville: “Suggest to the people coming here that they may bring sheets, pillow cases and towels, ami _g(t them some evening after fumigation. No piL.ows. Will fill cases with fresh pine straw. —Hamilton.” Saturday’s weatlur was somewhat pleasanter as no rain fell, but a hot sun pound scorching rays down without mercy and exhalation arising could be s en line thin mist. “This is yellow fever weather,” said a doc'.or, “and you may now look for a large increase in the number of cases, but it is a great relief for the sick, and that we think good,” NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE WASHINGTON SOLONS GET TING IN THEIR WORK I WHAT 18 BEING DONE FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY LIVELY DEBATES IN CONGRESS —NOTES. f —— -—m CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate on Monday, Mr. Mitchell introduced a bill to reduce letter postage to one cent an ounce. Laid on the table. A motion to reconsider the vote passing the Chinese exclusion bill was defeated in the Senate—yeas 20, nays 21. So the bill remains passed. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution (which was adopted), in structing the committee on finance to in quire as to the cotton tagging trust and what legislation is necessary to counter act it. The House bill to enlarge the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and to create an executive department to be known as the depart ment of agriculture, was taken up, the question being on the amendment strik ing out section 5, which transfers the weather bureau of the signal service to the department of agnculture. A lively debate followed. Without action, the bill was laid aside In the House, on motion of Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, Mr. Cox, of New York, was elected speaker pro tern to act during the ab sence of Mr. Carlisle. No quorum being present, no business was transacted. GOSSIP. If President Cleveland signs the Chi nese exclusion bill, Secretary of State Bayard, will resign his position. A leak occurred in the new silver vault at Washington during a recent storm, and when the doors was opened the next morning, there was four inches of water in it. Senator Brown has had passed through the Senate, Mr. Clement’s House bill to pay Charles Bradwell, colored, of Gaines ville, Ga., for four bales of cotton de stroyed by Sherman’s army in Savannah, during the War. THE ENGLISH COMMISSION. The commission appointed by the Eng lish Parliament to examine imo charges ma le by the London Times against Mr. Parnell and other Iri'h members of the House of Commons, (tyened its first ses sion in the probate court. Owing to the limited size of the court room it was impossible to admit more than a select few of public representatives of the press, who Bccuprwi the- bulk of -the space, two hundred reporters, represent ii A provincial, London and American newspapers, having obtained tickets of admission. After a day spent in legal “sparring for position,” the commission adjourned to October 22, without having gatop into the merits of the-case at all. Tire commission will make the iqjkiry as thorough it was an itsue O’Donnell and the Times, reserving to themselves the power to gall anybody who might be able to throw light on the issues therein involved. The .inquiry would be carried on in accordance with rules of ordinary courts. Before pro ceeding, Judge Hannen asked Sir Charles Russell for whom he appeared. Sir Charles replied that he represented 84 Irish members of Parliament. FOREST FIRES. A dispatch from East Saganaw, Michi gm, says a fire has been burning in the woods of northern Michigan two weeks, and although several towns and valuable property have been threatened, no serious us es have resulted up to this time. A disaster is reported on Saganaw, Tusko !a an 1 Huron railroad, resulting from f >rest fires. An express train, while uinning twenty miles an hour, ran on a piece of track beneath which the ties had burned, and the engine, express and baggage car and two coaches left the rails and ran along the ground about two lengths of the train and the engine turned over in a ditch. lhe engineer, fireman and express messengers were thrown clear of the wreck and escaped v. ith bruises and burns. The fire on the tr ick was immedeiately communicated to the conches and the passengers and crew barely had time to run through the train and escape by the rear coaches be fore every particle of wood work in the train wis burned. A STRAGE BET. Two Swedish farmers named Ole John son and Hans Erickson, of Nebraska City, Neb., made a strange bet on the presidential election. A written agree ment was drawn up and placed in the hands of a prominent business man. According to its terms, in the event of Cleveland’s election, Mr. Johnson for feits to Mr. Erickson his wife, Johnson to have and to hold against the lawful claims of any and all persons whatsoever. If, on the other hand. General Harrison is elected, the agreement stipulates that Mr. Johnson shall receive fr-m Mr. Erickson one Jersey cow, valued at $ >O. All the parties to the wager are in earn est, including Mrs. Johnson, wh > ex presses a hope that Cleveland will <-e re | elected. THE PHILADELPHIA IDEA. Mayor Fitler, of Philadelphia, Pa., has transmitted to Washington, D. C., a resolution’adopted by the relief commit tee of that city, which asks that to pre vent the spread of yellow to Northern cities, the U. S. Government establish a military cordon. NUMBER 29. iiOITY DIBEGTBBY| COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary J. A. BeuueU Superior Court Clerk ft. 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. P. Taylor. TOWN COMMISSIONERS. B. P. Majors, B. T. Brock, J. P. Bondi, J. A. Cureton, J. B. Williams. J. P. Bond, President, B. T. Brock, Secretary. B. P. Majors Treasures, J. T. Wool bright, 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. Justices’ Court, Trenton District Meets second Saturday in each month. J. A, Cureton, T. H. B. Cole, Justices. Rising Fawn District meets third Sat uicljy in each month. J. M. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. IYISS9NIC LORE. Trenton Chapter N<>. 60, it. A. JL 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 thereafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. aT A. M. S. 11. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secretary. Meetings Saturday night on and befc_ each full moon, and two weeks thereafv 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; S. H. Thurman, Recording Steward. Trenton services second and fourth B•■days in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prayer meetings every Sunday night. Byrd’s Chapel.— Services second and fourth Sundays in each month at 3 o’clock p. m. Rising Fawk.—Services first and thir< Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prayer meetings every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs.—Services first a; third Sundays in eaeh month at 3o’clo p, m. Furnace at night. 'mm eg :d of education. B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. Acuff, W. C. Cureton, JohD Pink. # NOTICE. Any additions to be made to the abov changes or errors, parties interest®* would confer a great favor by notifyir,_ us of the same.