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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, first insertion SI.OO Each subsequent insertion 50 Professional Cards, per year 5.00 Reading Notices, per line 10 PSP Legal advertising must be paid in advance. |3PSpecial reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go in larger apace or longer time. bills for advertising are due after first insertion of advertisement, un less otherwise agreed. B. T. BROCK, Editor. E. C. GRIBCO Vf, Local Editor. Price $ I .OOj in Advance,. WASHINGTON NEWS. Doings of Congress and the United States Officials. CONGRESSIONAL. The Senate spent Tuesday debating the tariff bill. In the House, Mr. Plumb, of Illinois, from the committee <ju labor, called up the bill to settle the accounts of laborers under the eight hour law r . Mr. McMillin, of Tenncsse3, moved to adjourn, and this motion was defeated; yeas 27, nays 31. Mr. Oates said that he had failed in his effort to get the House to adjourn, and he would now like to adjourn himself. He asked leave of absence for the remainder of the session. This was granted, as was also a similar leave to Mr. Lanham, of Texas. In the Senate on Monday, Mr. Brown presented a petition of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Georgia for the repeal of the internal revenue laws and addressed the Senate. He re fered to the fact that there was no quo rum of either house in the city of Wash ington, and that no business cculd law fully be done in the face of a single ob jection. There was, therefore, he said, but one thing left to be done, and that was to adjourn at the earliest day possi ble. The discussion of the adjournment resolution stopped after Mr. Allison had spoken. Ths Senate proceeded with the considera’ ion of the tariff bill,and Mr. Vest took the floor to speak upon it Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, asked the unani mous consent ol the House for the imme diate consideration of the Senate joint resolution relative to a conference to be held to inquire into the methods for the suptession of yellow fever. E. B. Tay lor, of O.iio, objected, and reiterated his statement that no more legislation should be enacted this session.* The Speaker proceeded to call the states for the intro ductions of bills and resolutions. Mr. Oates, of Alibama, introduced a resolu tion for an adjournment of Congress on Wednesday, and there was much ap plause, coupled with cries of “Vote, vote vote,” by the few members present. Ev ery one entered into it, and it seemed ev ident from the press gallery that ihere was not a member w'ho opposed it; it however went over. CJOSSII*. The President has approved the act to include Sapclo sound, Sapelo river and Sapelo island in the Brunswick col lection district of Georgia, i Janie 3 Longstreet, Jr., of Georgia, has Deen promoted from topographic assist ant at SOOO to assistant topographer at $720 in the interior department. TheTteasury Department has denied the petition of Duckworth & Co., "Wilder Co., and others, of Savannah, Ga., for allowance of drawback on jute coverings of cotton exported from that part after May 19tli, 1887, without preliminary en tries. Superintendent Horan, of the National Museum, left on Mo day for Augusta, Ga., to superintend the placing of the government exhibits from that bureau at the Exposition, which opens in that city on the Bth of November. Maj. Charles S. Hill, commissioner of the government exhibits, will also leave for Augusta in a few days, and Hopes to have the govern ment exhibit historical and illustrative of the functions of the bureau of the dif ferent departments, in readiness by the time the Exposition opens. Dr. Hamilton, surgeon-general, of the Maiine Hospital service, received the following telegram on Monday from the Board of Health at Gainesville, Fla.: .“We have two new 7 cases to-day in dis tant parts of tlie city. The outlook is not good.” Dr. Hamilton also received the following report from Surgeon Hut ton, at Camp Perry: “Five deaths, eleven employes, fort} 7 new refugees ar rived. Discharged 32, remaining 113; yellow fever camp 6, all convalescent; no new cases in eight days. ” The case of the North Carolina special tax bond case was called in the supreme court of the United, States on Tuesday. After counsel on both sides had announ ced their readiness to proceed, the justices held an informal consultation. The ; chief justice then announced that the jcouit deserved a full bench to hear this case, as it involved a constitutional ques tion. As Justice Matthews was ill, the court would adjouru the hearing for the present. The case of Bernard P. Hans rs. the State of Louisiana, involving a similar question was disposed of in like '■manner. ' THEY TOOK HOLD, About twelve women were arrested find brought to Grand Forks, Dak., from rhompson. All attempts have fai.ed to !<arry out the liquor law, the ladies took ®old themselves, and gutting the saloons ami pouriug liquor on the ground, for which they were arrested. Tney all wore wigs and spent their time on the train iu Pingmg temperance songs. SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —HATL- KOAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS —ACCIDENTS —CROF RETUItNS. BEimuiA. The Macon Board of Health has raised the quarantine against the infected dis tricts. John W. Nevitt, of Athens, 73 years old and a former resident of Savannah, died at Athens. Bill Johnson, a sort of tramp negro employed by C. O. Newman, near Coch ran, was lynched by about 500 citizens on Saturday. Five prisoners attempted to escape from the city prison in Atlanta on Sun day, and were only discovered by acci dent. They had easily enlarged a hole in the planking, which had been started by a rat. Col. J. G. Hiser, of Rome, bas been granted a pension as a Mexican veteran. He was surgeon in the 2d Kentucky in fantry.- in the Mexican War, and com manded the Cherokee troops during the last War. Lewis Edwards, a colored man of Jesup, who, in January 188 G killed Robert Smith the proprietor of the Sunnyside House, and under a life sentence, was riddled with bullets by a crowd on Monday, who broke into the jail. Bill Lewis, the colored bill poster of Albany, was burned to death on Sunday. The neighbors smelled burning flesh, and broke into liis room, the doors of which were locked. They found him lying dead with his head in the fire. He was an epileptic, and fell in the fire while in a fit. Angus J. Morrison, a Scotchman em ployed as a granite miner at the Lithonia quarries, bored three holes and tilled them with blasting powder. Two of the blasts went off, and while examining the third, to ascertain what the trouble was, the blast suddenly exploded, taking Morrison’s head completely off. The steamship Nacoochee arrived at Savannah on Sunday, having on board the captain, his daughter, and a lady passenger and seven men, composing the crew of the schooner Nava May, aban doned off Cape Henry, water logged. The schooner was on a voyage to Phila delphia from Patalico Sound, with a cargo of lumber. NORTH CAROLINA. At Mt. Zion church, iu Surry county, as Rev. F. McNanghan, who had been invited to preach, was in the pulpit and in the very act of opening the service, he fell dead without the least struggle. He was 72 years old. As a passenger train was moving slow ly into the depot at Fremont, Stephen Davis, a white man got directly in front of the engine, and was crashed to death. No one saw him until the wheels had cut him to pieces. It is alleged that he w 7 as drunk at the time of the accident. H. D. Robinson, who, for nearly two years, had been manager of the Western Union telegraph office, at Raleigh, was displaced some days ago. He has insti tuted suit against the telegraph compa ny for about six thousand dollars for damages and services. Police Detective B. F. Turlington, of Wjlmington, was shot, probably fatally, by a negro burglar whom he was attemp ting to arrest ou the street. The ball en tered his jaw and ranged up, lodging in lus head. Tite negro would have ki.led. another man had his pistol not failed to Hi e. Two white men, William Venters and William A. Branch, set upon Calvin Cox, at it political meeting in Calico, and tear ing planks from a fence, beat him on the head until they had driven into his skull the nails which projected from the planks. Cox was a prominent man some years ago, and was grand lecturer of the grand lodge of Masons of North Caro lina. He was a man of genius and an inventor. This fatal affray was not due to any quarrel about politics, but was the result of a lout: standing feud. ALABAMA. Police Officer Woolridge, of Decatur, died of yellow fever on Monday. M. 11. Amcrine, of Montgomery, wholesale dealer in tobacco and cigars, made an assignment. Mr. Amerine’s fail ure was caused by short collections, owing to the yellow fever scare in North Ala bama. Two thousand miners, employed by the Cahuba Coal Mining company, at Blocton, went out on a strike against a reduction. The Cahaba Company has been paying 50 cts per ton for mining since the sliding scale was adopted by the mines in this district last Summer. They announce a reduction of five cents per ton and all the miners stopped work. James "Ware, a well known contractor and former circuit court clerk, of Bir mingham, was thrown down stairs by a man named Place, and was fatally injured, his skull being crushed in on the right side. Place keeps a boarding house, and J at night Ware came to the house very drunk. Place met him at the head of the stairs and ordered him away. Ware began cursing and refused. After some words, Place pushed him down the stairs. MISSOURI. Fire broke out in the Vandalia railway freight depot in East St. Louis, and be fore the fire department could reach the scene, the depot was doomed, and the fire had spread to adja cent buildings, including a hotel filled with people. The Vandalia freight Louse was a total loss; fifteen freight tears and 'IOO bales of cotton being de istroved. DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON, GA.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER Ml, 1888. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Marion County Fair will begin on October 31 and close' on November 2. I. A. Porcher, for many years a pro fessor in the college of Charleston, died on Monday, aged 82 years. Rev. P. B. Jackson, the pastor of the Methodist church at Abbeville, has ac cepted an appointment to a church in California. Rev. E. T. Hodges, who left the state last year to accept the pastorate of a Methodist churcn in California, will re turn to his old home this Winter. An accident »ook place ou the Spartan burg & Asheville road, whereby Jenkins, son of J. H. Jenkins, of Greenville lost his life, lie wuis flugnqm of a freight train and while walking on top of the train near Fletcher’s station, stepped be tween two cars and was mashed to death, his left arm and leg being crushed. Eight of the elders in the Presbyte rian church in Charleston have Sent a paper to the South Carolina synod now in session at Greenwood, protesting against the recent action of the Charles ton presbytery. This action is instigated by the recent adoption of a ri solution forbidding the discussion of the theory of evolution. An attempt was made to assassinate J. L. Stoppelheim, supervisor of regis tration for Charleston county. While driving in the suburbs tome one in the bushes fired at him. The load of shot entered his foot. His wounds are not serious. Stoppleheim had frequently re ceived threatening letters from a man whom he had refused to grant registra tion certificates, all of which breathed threats of vengeance. The Magnetic Iron Ore and Steel Company, composed of capitalists from » Atlanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala., purchased, for SOO,OOO, the great er part of the magnetic iron ore tract, near the town of Black’s in York county. It was known that there was iron ore in this section, but it had no railroad connection, and nothing was done toward " utilizing it until the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago was run through it. A small part of this property was bought a few years ago for $150,* and it was sold to the railroad for $12,500. David E. Durand and his wife left home in Bishopville to spend the day, leaving their little daughters, Eva and Cora, with their brother-in-law. Late in the evening, while the children were playing, Carues was informed that Cora bad fallen from a bed in the room in which they had been playing. Carues hurried in where she was and picked her up, but she died in a very few seconds, her neck having been broken by the fall. The next morning Eva died from the shock caused by her little sister’s death. Their ages were seven and thir teen respectively. LOUISIANA. Thomas D. Miller, a member of the cotton exchange, a wealthy sugar planter and widely known in commercial and so cial circles, died ou Tuesday, at New Or leans, aged Go. John Chaffee, one of the most promi nent members of the cotton exchange, well known in the cotton trade and one of the largest cotton planters in the Unit ed States, died on Monday in New Or leans. aged 73. Mr. Chaffee was funding agent during the War, for the Confeder ate government. Hon. John Wentworth, better known as “Long John,” a man as well known as any in the West, died on Tuesdav. Mr. Wentworth was one of Chicago’s oldest residents, and in his day was mayor of that city, congressman and editor of the principal daily paper there. He was 73 years of age, and a man of wealth, his estate being worth at least $1,000,000. I * FLORIDA. Drifton postoflice has been re-estab lished. The sentiment in Florida is strongly in favor of the policy of nonintcrcourse with Cuba from May to November by an iron clad quarantine. It will be the most prominent question in the state before the Winter travel between the Gulf ports aud Havana sets in. TENNESSEE. While playing around a cane mill, which was in operation uear Midway on Wednesday, John Carroll, aged 11 years, had his head caught between the lever and frame, and was instantly killed. His head was crushed almost to a jelly. The Broad Street Amusement Hall in Nashville, the largest hall iu tho city, is to be purchased for an undenominational gospel tabernacle. The ju ice agreed on was $21,000, and under Sam Jones’lead, $19,500 vvasgiven on Sunday. The hall seats 3,000 peojile. John Atkins, while crossing Smoky Mountain from his North Carolina home to Tennessee, was attacked by a wild boar. A figlu of twenty mmutes re sulted in a victory for the boar, ho hav ing killed his antagonist. Atkins was terribly mutilated by the furious animal. E. T. Steele, dealer in confectionery goods, of Chattanooga, made an assign ment on Monday. Nearly all of his cred itors are local parties, excejit one Balti more house. The assets will jtrobably pay about fifty cents on the dollar of lia bilities. Colonels Duncan P. Cooper, Sjtarrel Ilill, and John W. Childress have pur cha-ed the Daily American newspaper, of Nashville. Col. Cooper will be the edi tor-m-c 1 ief. The paper will be Demo cratic, but the Wntter=onian idea will prevail in the treatment of the tariff ques tion. The American has hitherto been a jirotection journal. Col. Colyar, who has been editor-in-chief, will retire, as well as the former stockholders. THE WORLD OVER, INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE STYLE. THE FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIItES, aCICIDES, ETC. NOTED DEAD. Noted “Long John” Wentworth, atone time mayor of Chicago. 111., is dying from sof .cuing of the brain. Eniperor William presented to the Pipe a old snuff box, set with jewels, with hisi’tiwn portrait in the middle. The sultan of Morocco will send an embassy to the United Stites to com plain, among other things, of the con duct of Reed Lewis, United States con sul at Tangier. The grip cars of Chicago, 111. are to be hettufter run by new men, nearly all the new hands being supplied from Kan sas city, Mo. The police have their hands full guarding the new men. Forty thousand copies of Dr. Macken zie’s book have been seized by the po lice of Leipsic. The police are visiting the. bookshops in Berlin, and are seizing all copies of Dr. Mackenzie’s book where ever tney arc found. The Pall Mall Gazette states that Dr. Bergman, one of the physicians vho were in attendants upon the late Emperor Frederick, will bring an action for libel in English courts against Dr. Mackenzie, for statements made by the latter in his book on the case of Emperor Frederick, reflecting on Dr. Bergman’s ability as a physician. The Gazette says that Dr. Gerrarat will probably institute proceed ings against Dr. Mackenzie. The Pope is making arrangements for the holding of a consistory, at which he will deliver an allocution concerning the visit to his holiness of the emperor of Germany. Cardinal Rampollo, papal secretary, has sent a circular letter to the various uuucios in which he says that the Pope is much satisfied with Emperor William’s visit to the Vatican, and that Eniperor William recognizes the Pope’s high sovereignty. E. D, Davison & Son have shut down their lumber mills on Lallase River, near Halifax, N. 8., throwing 400 men out of, work. Cook & Co., have also shut down their lumoer mills, throwing another large number out of employment, and other lumbermen are preparing to do T t>cw««c. This action is taken or. ar count of the enforcement of the law preventing sawdust from being dropped from the mills into the river. THE YELLOW FEVER. Dr. Neal Mitchell, President of the Board of Health, of Jacksonville, Fla., issued the following official bulletin for the 24 hours ending Tuesday. New cases, .78; deaths, 2; total cases, 3,075; total deaths, 418. T\™ physicians re-* signed Tuesday, and left for Camp Perry. Others have reconsidered their former action, and will remain. Dr. J. M. Fairlie, Seen tary of the Board of Trade, died. He had been down with fever nearly a week, and was already worn out with continuous watching of sick in his family. He was a native of Scotland and has resided in Jacksonville since 1879. The prevailing opinion still holds that the epidemic is nearing its end, al though the new cases are numerous. The physicians say that oftentimes the dis ease is more fatal at the close than at the height of an epidemic of yellow fever. Dr. J. F. Hnrtigan, reports to the marine hospital bureau, from Titusville, Fla., that he has investigated that city, and Sanford, and finds them both healthy. He will leave for Orlando. Burgeon Hutton telegraphs from Camp Pcrrv, Fla., that ten nurses will leave there for New Orleans. Montgomery lias re moved quarantine regulations agaiust all points iu Alabama, except Decatur, Ala., I and Jackson, Miss. Three cases of yellow fever, all colored; no deaths. HUNGARIANS KILLED* A wreck occurred on the Pottsville division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Tamarind, Pa., between a Lehigh gravel train and a Pennsylvania fast freight. The flagman did not get back far enough to signal the freight, which struck the caboose of the gravel train, the latter containing a batch of Hungarian laborers, six of whom w 7 ere instantly killed. Twenty-six were injured, tw?o of them dying while being conveyed to the hospital. The gravel train was backing on a siding when the freight train, which was running on orders, appro ichcd at a high rate of speed and went crashing intfl the cars ahead. The killed and in jured men were all on the gravel train, with the exception of one brakeman on the Pennsylvania train, who was killed on his own train. So far as is known, the responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the bagman, who failed to flag the freight train in time to prevent the accident. HE WAS REMEMBERED. A statue of Shakespeare was unveih d in Paris, France, with great ceremony. The municipal authoiities and a number of distinguished persons were present. M. Knighton, donor of the statue, M. Clarebic and others made addresses. | Passages from Shakespeare’s works w ere recited by Mounet Sully. COTTON, The report for the week shows that ,the total visible supply of cotton for the j world is, 1,200,797 bales, of which j 959,897 arc American, against 1,94G,041\ ! jand 1,403,149 respectively last year.! LReceipts at all interior towns, 174,994;' Receipts at plantations, 292,101; crop in | tight, 913,527. J Skill of the Hands. Wo hear a great deal about tho won derful precision and accuracy of machin ery in these days, and of courso it is wonderful; but tho degroa of accuracy to which tho human hand rnn be trained is equally wonderful. P.aying-cards ara roquirod to bo cut with tho sides quito parallel to each other, becau3o if a pack bo trimmed by a machine slightly wider at ono end than the other, and they bccomelurnod “end for end” in dealing, tho excess in width of some cards over others at tho end of tho pack will bo double tho variation in any one card, which would facilitate cheating, a very miauto variation being perceptible. The men who tost these cards for this make calipers of their fin ger and thumb, and by passing them along from ono end to tho othor, detect a difference in width between the two ends which it is difficult to measuro 1 y any other means. There are men employed in factorio3 where dried yeast is made, whoso busi ness it is to put the ycait into packages weighing a certain amount each. It is on a table in front of thorn in a large plastic mass, and there aro tho scales for weighing it. But tho men do not use tho scales. They simply separate from the mass with their hands a lump of it and put it up, and you may choo.so at random and put it on tho scales, and it will weigh exactly tho right amount, the scales beam just balancing. Whero largo numbers of oggs aro handled and shipped to market, there is a process known as “candleiag” eggs, which consists in taking them into tho hands, usually two eggs in each hand at a time, and holding them up boforo a lighted candle. Tho light shining through them reveals to tho practiced eye tho exact condition of the contents. But some of tho men soon get so that they do not need to me tho candle, tho mere contact of their hands with tho shells denoting tha condition of tho egg just as infallibly and much more quickly. And they distinguish in that way not merely cg<js which aro dccid cTry“Ua(’l,”but those which are just barely 1 eginning to lose their freshness. Here are three different ways in which extreme skill of tho hands is shown by p rsftcnt training: First, in detecting slight differences in magnitude; second, in weight; and lastly, in texture or character of surface handled.—[Amer ican America’s Largest Tree. Mr. Warren, who has soon the big trees of Mariposa, thorn of the Big Tree Grove in Calaveras county, Cal., and all the big trees of the coast range, says there is no place in California a tree that approaches in size that on the K iwcah. The men had with them no rule, tape line or measure of any kind, hut Mr. Warren measured tiio treo with his rifli, which is four feet' in length. He found it to bo 44 lengths of his gun in circumference, at a point as high above ground as he could reach. The top of the tree ha 3 been broken off but it is still of immense height. Thi3 monster tree stands in a small basin near the Kaweab, and is surround ed on all sides by a wall of huge rugged rocks. There is so much brush in tho vicinity that the little valley in which tho big tree stands is almost inaccessi ble. A landmark and a uotablo feature of the landscape is an immenso rock known as Homer’s Noso. This reck stands on a mountain that has an elo vatiou of from 8000 to 9000 foot abovo the level of tho soa. The rock itself is about 500 feet in height. It is visible above the pine forests from Tulare val ley. The small valley in which the big treo stands is a milo or two east of Ho mer's Nose. About it are many giant trees, several larger than the big trees of Mariposa. Lower down the Kaweah is what i 3 called tho Giant Forest. At this placo a colony of socialists have taken up ten square mile 3ot tim >or land. On their land are many trees that are from 12 to 18 feet in diametor. Tho mountain men say the big trees (tho sequoia) aro a cross between tho redwood and tho fir.—[Nevaia Enterprise. A Cajtarisoned Horse at a Funeral. The leading of a caparisoned horse be hind the body of a dead soldier as was done at the obsequies of General Sheri dan at Washington is always an impres sive and suggestive feature of a military funeral, ar.d it is perhaps on this account that a custom which comes from heathen times is kept up. It is probably a mod ification of r.n old practice which was mdntained to some extent as late as 1720 of slaughtering the horse of a dead warrior on his grave. The rever sal of the boots is probably associated with the reversal of guns and swords.— Cincinnati Enquiry NUMBER 33. ■ffl DIBEMI COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary J. A. Bennett Superior Court Clerk... .8. H. Thurman Sheriff \V. A. Byrd Tax Receiver Clayton Tatum. Tax Collector Tiios. Tittle* Treasurer B. P. Majors. School Superintendent.. .J. F. Jscoway. Surveyor W. F. Taylor. # _____ TOWN COMMISSIONERS. B. P. Majors, B. T. Brock, J. P. Bond% J. A. Cureton, J. B. Williams. J. P. Bond President B. T. Brock, Secreta*^ B. P. Majors, Treasure*, J. T. Woolbright 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 Sleets second Saturday in each month. J. A, Cureton, T. 11. B. Cole, Justices. Rising Fawn District meets third Sat urdr.y in each month. J. M. Cant-ell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. • MASONIC LORE. Trenton Chapter No. 69, 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. Benneit, 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. 11. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secret irv. Meetings Saturday night on and befa w each full moon, and two weeks thereah ter, at 2 o’clock p. m. CHUO NOTICES. M. E. Church South. —Trenton Cir cuit, Chnt'auooga District—A. J. Fra zier, Presiding Elder; J. A. Prater, Pas tor in charge; S. 11. Thurman, Recording Stewa^L Trenton services second and fourth Sundays 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 S o’clock p. m. Rising Fawn.—Services fir>t andthir< Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Praver meetings every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs.— Services first at third Sundays in each month at So’clo p, m. Furnace at night. EOIRD OF EDUCATION. B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. Acuff, W. C. Cure ton, John Clark. ILTOTJOIEJ. Any additions to be made to the abov changes or errors, parties interested would confer a great favor by notifying us of the same.