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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 Noticeper. line.'. 10 j Legal advertising must be paid in advance. jggr*Special reduction made by con- i tracts for advertising to go iu larger , space or longer time. py**AU bills for advertising are due I after first insertion of advertisement, uu- I less otherwise agreed. - - ■> j B. T. BIIOCK, Editor. E. C. GRISCOM, Local Editor. Price $ I .GO, in Advance. rjrmmm — gna—— ww*» . iwi—nmaw Probably the tallest chimney in tha world is one that is being erected at East Newark, N. J. Its diameter at the base is 28 feet, and it is to be 9 feet in diameter at the top. It is to be of solid brick to an altitude of 310 feet. A cast iron rim 30 feet in diameter and a bell will surmount the whole, making the total altitude of the structure 335 feet. One million seven hundred thousand bricks will be used in its construction, and its cost will be $85,000. Captain Wiggins, the fortunate Eng lishman who is opening a trade route to Siberia through northern waters, owes his fame to the correct interpretation of a single word. The Kara Sea has al ways been held to be covered with ice and unnavigable. Wiggins learned that Kara meant black, and pondered the fact till he concluded that a sea called black by the natives cculd not be covered by ice. Filled with this result of in ductive reasoning, the daring Captain has sailed the Kara Sea and shown that cargoes may be carried through it from England to the fertile lands of Southern Siberia. A striking iltustrati on of the facilities for travel which now exist is found in the recent departure of an excursion from Pans for Samarcand, a city of Cen tral Asia. The whole journey i 3 to be performed by railway except in a por tionof Circassia, when post conveyances will be used, and a short sea trip o twenty hours over the Caspian Sea. Six centuries ago the city was the capital of one of the mightiest empires the world has ever seen and the centre of Asiatic learning and commerce. Forty colleges were found within its walls, which now surround little but gardens. Tamerlane, the great conqueror, is buried there, and his tomb is still to be seen. Herr Anschutz, of Lissa, in Prussian Poland, lias succeeded by the aid of in stantaneous photography, in taking a remarkable series of photographs of lions, tigers, leopards and other fierce animals, practically as they appear when in a state of liberty. The animals ol the Breslau Garden, who have come under the lenses of Ilerr Anschutz’s cameras, have been turned out into an extensive arena, and allowed to accustom themselves to the new conditions till their attitude'and motions have become perfectly natural- An account of the methods is included in a little illustrated pamphlet entitled “ Verseichniss von Augenblicks-Auf namcn,” issued by the photographer. Contracts have just been signed for the construction of a marine railway across the neck of land which joins the province of Nova Scotia with New Brunswick, a distance of ten miles, thus enabling vessels to be carried from the Bay of Fundy to the Northumberland Straits, across the country. The object of the railway is to transport steamships and sailing vessels from the Gulf of St. Lawrence into the Bay of Fundy. Some years ago the Qomiuion Parliament voted a subsidy bonus of $5,000,000 to ward the work, and last session the amount was increased to $5,500,000, one-half that sum to be paid as the work progressed and the remainder spread over a period of twenty years thereafter. Inventions and discoveries always keep pace with each other. The dis covery of new ways of making paper from new materials, such as the cotton plant, is accompanied by wider openings for the use of paper. The very best material now known for wheels for the most enormous engines is paper belted with steel tires. Such whee.r are slightly elastic, will endure enormous wear and are not in danger of breaking. There is feature of our times more remarkable and characteristic .than the increased uses of paper, the application of appar ently fragile material to the purposes demanding the most intense wear and service. Its use in domestic utensils and in the place of cloth and crockery will surely follow. The Japanese precede us in such art and artifice for saving labor as we surp.*«» ’hem in labor-saving machinery. SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL- ROAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS—ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS. ALABAMA. There was a slight frost at Decatur on Monday and a white frost Tuesday morn ing, with ice in many places. Tender vegetation is killed. Five new cases of yellow fever are reported. Nearly all recent cases have been amongst nurses and persons greatly exposed, and all have been mild. A great many refugees have returned. W. A.. Schumaker, the postmaster at Carbon Hill, was shot and instantly hilled by his wife, who is only seventeen years of age. Schumaker was much dejected over the result of the election and began drinking heavily. He quar reled with his wife, threatening to kill her. He attacked her with a knife, but she succeeded in disarming him, and begged him to spare her life. Schumaker, who seemed to have become a maniac, then seized the kerosene oil can, and, cursing his young wife, told her he would pour oil on her and burn her up. As he attacked her the second time she drew a pistol and shot him through the heart, killing him instantly. FLORIDA. New cases reported at Fernandina 8, including 2 whites. No deaths. Still more cases developed in the country. The weather is very warm with sultry rains and indications not favorable. Capt. Fleming, the successful candi date for governor, has retired to his former home at Hibernia, on Fleming’s island, in St. John’s river, and will re main until the authorities raise the cor don and permit free entrance into Jack sonville. Owing to a suspicious death at Ella ville, on the line of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company, Madison City has quarantined against the former place until such time as the friends and attend ing physicians of the deceased consent to perform an autopsy on the body. There is considerable excitement in conse quence. There has been no frost as anticipated in Jacksonville. The weather is still cold, but fresh breezes precludes the proba bility of frost. The Government medi cal bureau was disbanded, only Dr. Porter and a few nurses remaining. Dr. Sheft all, of Savannah, Ga., a volunteer says yellow fever will probably continue in Florida all Winter. He stands alone in this opinion. All the other experts agree that a killing frost and thorough disin fection will result in the complete disap pearance of the disease. There were only 12 new cases on Sunday. There were six new cases, four white, two col ored, in Gainesville on Sunday. J. Leon Ponds, who was arrested by Special Agent Baker, of the posto.fficc department at Covington, was arraigned before Commissioner Wright and sent to prison in default of bail. It is stated that when arrested, Pond 3 had three let ters in his pocket that had been stolen from the mail pouch at the time of the mail robbery on November 3d, on the Northeastern road. Cora*Ellis, passing as Mrs. Girard, formerly from Tyler, Texas, came from Covington en route for Texas. She had been living with E J. Bunch, (who committed the train robbery) as his wife. When she reached New Orleans she was taken in charge by de tectives, accompanied by Superintendent Walker and Special Agent Byrne. Thirteen hundred dollars of the stolen money was found hid m her clothing. She finally confessed that Bunch gave her the money. The detectives believe they will capture Bunch within the next forty-eight nouis; $10,300 was all the ;ash secured by Bunch from the Express Company. MISSOURI. Col. John Knapp, for many years busi ness manager and part owner of the Missouri Republican , died at St. Louis on Monday, aged 72 years. At St. Louis, news has been received from Tiscomingo, the capital of Chicka saw nation, that Governor Guy was as sassinated. Serious trouble is brewing between the followers of Governor Guj and his opponent in the late election. A strike has prevailed at Bevier some months and there have been frequent rows between the strikers and the new men. A short, time ago a number ol Swedes were engaged to take the place of strikers and, on Monday, bad feeling resulted in a pitched battle. A. J. An der-on, a Swede, was shot through the breast and killed, and three othei Swedes were slightly wounded. The situation is critical, and the militia will i robably be called out. Thomas Warded, owner of the mine, was shot and killed by a mob of strikers about six mouths ago. NORTH CAROLINA. There was a stunning explosion in the southwestern part of Raleigh, which waked great numbers of people. A col on i man, Samuel Thompson, who, with his .wife was asleep in his cottage, w s nearly thrown from his bed by the sl.cck, and found that bis house was filled with smoke. The people gathered and the lights were brought. Upon in vestJgation it wss found that .a piece of two-inch gas pipe, fifteen inches long, which had apparently contained two pounds of powder, had been placed at the side of Thompson’s house and had been exploded by means of a fuse. The bomb had been placed at a point outside the house just oppisite the bed in which Thompson usually slept. DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON. GA.. FRIDAY- NOVEMBER 16, 1888. GEORGIA. During a Republican demonstration in Atlanta on Monday night, several ne groes, under the influence of liquor, be came very disorderly and attacked a posse of police. Officer Green bad one hf liis hands smashed by a bludgeon, |tnd will be unable to do duty for a paontb. A committee of the directors of the Augusta Exposition, headed by Hon. Patrick Walsh went to Indianapolis, Ind., on Monday night, to invite Presi dent-elect Harrison and his wife to visit Augusta. As Gen. Harrison is anxious to visit the South, no doubt the invita tion will be accepted. John Rutherford, a negro chain-gang convict, who was undergoing a sentence of 15 years at Atlanta, for burglary, es caped. Sergeant White and Policeman Wooten located him, and when they at tempted to arrest the desperado, he opened fire on the officers with two pis tols end wounded Wooten. He w r as overpowered and chained. On Monday night a crowd of colored people gathered at Willow Tree church, near Atlanta, to celebrate Harrison’s election, and Henry Alexander was ejected for being disorderly. Reaching the street, Alexander pulled a pistol and fireft into the crowd but hitting no one. Then some one downed Alexander with a shot in the thigh While intoxicated, Jim Henderson, a negro in Atlanta who has been arrested many times, got into a row and was shot Private Jesse Jones, another Atlanta negro, a member of a military company, paraded with his musket and cartridge box to celebrate Harrison’s success, and a white man of fended him. Jones attempted to run the white man through and was arrested. VIRGINIA. The bottom of the Roanoke city water reservoir dropped out. It is believed the damage cannot be repaired. A similar accident occurred six months ago, soon ifter the completion of the reservoir. A large cavern* directly underneath the South supply basins and the weight of water caused this to give way. KENTUCKY. Buck McCombs and Fulton French were shot dead while liding through the woods in Breathitt county, near Lancas ter. French was the leader of the French faction in the Frcnch-Eversole feu I, and McCombs was one oi his I friends. A MINE HORROR. The most dreadful disaster in the his tory of Kansas occurred at 5 o’clock Fri day evening. Wiien the men were pre paring to leave their work at Coal Shaft No. 2, at Foutenac, a suburb of Pitts burg, Kan., a terrible explosion was heard that shook the earth for a great distance and completely shattered the sh:.ft. Upon investigation, it was found that 164 men were within the mine at the time of the explosion. The com pany had more orders than they could fill, and in their attempt to keep up they have been running an unusually large force of miners. The explosion occurred on the east side, and is attributed to the inexperience of some of the new men. Before the men outside could recover their senses, one of the men appeared at the air shaft, nearly suffocated. He was helped out and followed by others until a large number had escaped, how many is not known. There was plenty of help at hand, and those at the top devoted their attenion to rescuing their neighbors. Most of the victims (100 in number) were shockingly mutilated. Some were 80“ disfigured as to be unrecognizable. All were covered with blood and dust, arid many were almost stripped of their clothes. There was nothing left of the first man brought up the dreadful hole but the bleeding, pulpy trunk. The head and arms and legs had been blown off. Many of the searchers fainted at their work. Others, stimulated by brandy and the entreaties of demoniacal women, contin ued their bloody task all through the night. Some of the victims were not disfigured. They were in the chamber least aff cted by the shock, and died of suffocation. AT WORK AGAIN. Another shocking murder of the well known Whitechapel type was perpetrated in London, England, within three hun dred yards of the spot where the woman Chapman was killed last September. Details of this tragedy are even more revolting than those which preceded it. The woman, twenty-six years old, Mary Jane Kelly by name, bad lived four months in a front room on the second floor of a house up an alley known as Cartin’s Court. The body was literally hacked to pieces, but there is no doubt at ail that it is the work of the person who has become known throughout the world as the Whitechapel murderer. Mystery in this case is as deep as iu the preceding crimes. The fiend got away without leav ing the sligliiest clew. Mrs. Paumier, who sells walnuts in Sandy’s Row, states that a respectably dressed man, carrying a black bag, came up to her and began talking of the murder. He appeared to know all about it. He did not buy any walnuts, and, after standing a few min utes, went away. Mrs. Paumier de scribed him as a man about thirty years old, and five feet six inches in height. He wore speckled trousers and a black coat. Several girls in the neighborhood say the same man accosted them and they chaffed him. When they asked him what he had in the black bag ho said, “something the ladies don’t like." MRS. GOULD DYING. Mrs. Jay Gould (wife of the million, dre), is reported to be very low. Dr. J. G. Baldwin, the attendant physician, en tertains but little hope of hex recovery. The Gould’s, home is at Yaruytown k N. Y. THE WORLD OVER. tj * INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE STYLE. THS FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES, SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED DEAD. The first through express train from Paris arrived at Constantinople on Sun day. An unknown mail jumped into the river from Prospet t Park, at Niagara Falls, and w T as carried over the Falls. •A mob of about ;><M) persons assembled >n .Monday in Madrid, and another out break occurred, but the rioters were soon dispersed by the police. The Vatican authorities at Rome ex press satisfaction with the election of Mr. Harrison, at who-e hands the Catho lics of America are not expected to suf fer. The Steam Gauge and Lantern Compa ny’s plant in Rochester, N. Y., was en tirely destroyed by fire. At least seven lives were lost. Loss upwards of $200,- 000. A stage was stopped near Downieville, Ca.,, by masked highwaymen, and an express package containing bullion and coin, amounting to about $22,500 was rifled of its contents. Sir Charles Warren, the chief of the London police, has tendered his resigna tion ia consequence of the severe criti cisms of liis conduct in connection with the Whitechapel murders. The Paris Temps and other journals, re gard the speech made by Baron Deßret cnil at the royalist banquet at Marseilles as an indication of the abdication of the monarchists in favor of Boulanger. The Cunard steamship Umbria, called “the ocean greyhound, ’ collided on Sunday off Rockaway, Long Island, with the steamship Iberia. The stern of the latter vessel was almost cut off, and she sank. No passengers were injured. A powerful American syndicate is about to be formed for the purpose of building" railroads in Siberia. Besides a large subsidy, the Russian government will give four million roubles yearly for the transportation of mails and convicts. The managers of the Spearman, Doug lass & Mobel and Claire furnaces, at I-thiirmu, Pa., have reduced the wages of their employes fifteen cents per dav. The prospects are that all the furnaces will be in blast all Winter. Henderson fur nace will resume next week, after a long idleness. Joseph Chamberlain, the distinguished British statesman, arrived at New York from England. He starred for Washing ton on the congre^sionaiprain, where his marriage with Miss Endicott, daughter of the Secretary of War, is announced to take place at once. Referring to the statement that the Pope is negotiating for diplomatic rela tions w T ith Russia as a card placed against Germany, the North German Gazette says Russia and Prussia have a common inter est. Any concession made by the Pope to Russia must be of advantage to Ger many. There was a wholesale discharge of workmen from the navy yard at Ports mouth, N. H., in the department of con struction, including all hands in the boat shop but one apprentice; also the ship wrights and laborers. This stops all w-ork on the training ships. Saratoga and Portsmouth, now under repair. The blockade of tlie East African coast will extend from Cape Gradafur, Mass w'orth to Madagascar. The German squadron will be increased by three ves sels. Tlie blockade which has been sanctioned by the sultan, has been defer red for a week at the request of the British consul, iu order to give time for the withdrawal of the English mission at Magila. A vigilance committee, composed of over one hundred prominent citizens, of the Creek nation, in the Indian Territory, was formed for the purpose of capturing or driving from the nation, a band of desperadoes, who have long been oper ating in.tbat section, making both life and property very unsafe. They sur rounded tlie house of Abe Carr, in which the notorious Barrett gang were con ;ealed, and demanded their surrender. The reply came in the form of a volley from their rifles. A battle ensued, and Mose Mclntosh, a prominent citizen of ;he nation and a member of the commit ;ee w r as killed, and one of the despera loes was killed and two others wounded. HORRIBLE CRIME. Peter Howe, senior member of the banking firm of Howe & Son, and bis wife, were found dead in their room, at Winona, 111., on Monday by their serv ant, as she came down stairs to begin her domestic duties. They had been beaten to death with a car coupling pin, and suspicion became fastened upon Charles Burkhardt, and a watch was set upon him. He discovered that he was being watched and he cut his throat in his bedroom with a razor and was dead in five minutes. Mr. Howe was 73 years old and his wife 69. Robery was not the motive for the crime, as nothing was taken from the house. A grudge of some sort was known to exist in Burk liardt’s mind, and this directed suspicion to him at once. Peter Howe, the mur dered man,had amassed a fortune of $250,- 000. He was very charitable and pos essed a spirit of philanthropy which led him sometime ago to endow the Ilowe Institute at New Iberia, La., and the Baptist Institute at Memphis, Tenn., the latter being a college for the education of indigent persons of both races. WASHINGTON NEWS. WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF FICIALS ARE DOING. A. T. Britton, a well known law-yer ol Washington, has been designated by the executive committee of the Republican National Committee, to take charge of the ceremonies attending the inaugura tion of President Harrison. He has been authorized also to appoint all the necessary officers and committees to look after the work. The Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the decision of the circuit court of the Southern district of New York city, in the case of ex-Alder man Jaehne, of New York city, now un dergoing sentence in Sing Sing. This keeps him in prison. He is one of those convicted of bribery in disposing of the Broadway Railroad franchise. The Supreme Court of the United States rendered an adverse decision in the somewat celebrated case of ex-Judge Terry, of California, upon his application for a writ of habeas corpus, in which he alleges that he is unlawfully imprisoned, under an order of the United States cir cuit court for the Northern district of California, in the jail of Alameda coun ty. He will now serve out his term in jail. Those who are in the confidence of the incoming administration, predict that John C. New, of Indiana, will be Secre tary of the Treasury, and Col. A. E. Buck, of Georgia, will be Postmaster General. Maj. Bill McKinley, of Ohio, will be either Speaker of the House or Chairman of the Ways and Means Com mittee. The latter gentleman made a fine impression on the Georgians who heard him last Summer at the Chautau qua near Atlanta on the subject of pro tection. Dr. Porter, at Jacksonville, Fla., re ports to the Marine Hospital service that there were forty-seven new cases of yellow fever and one death on Thursday, making a total number of cases to date 4,355 and deaths 367. Dr. Pqrtcr sug gests that arrangements be made for con valescents and other persons who have escaped the fever so far, and wishing to go North without stoppage, to points where frost has appeared this year, to do so without quarantine detention at Camp Perry, with the restriction of disinfec tion and fumigation of baggage and per sonal wearing apparel. The Department of Agriculture reports a good season for cotton picking during in the Southwest, and only moderately favorable weather in the At lantic coast states. The wet weather of September proved very injurious to quality, prostrating plants and rotting bolls, fusing blight and shedding, and injuring the prospects of the top crop. There is much stained fibre, and the quality is much poorer than that of the previous year. The aggregate given on porn will exceed that of any previous American product, being very close to 2,000,000,000 bushels, or about thirty two bushels per capita, which has been exceeded in several previous years. Af ter three years of low yields, potatoes give an average of about eighty bushels per acre, or nearly the rate of yield of 1879. The yield has been increased in the South. It is high in the northern belt of territories. The total product on a basis of these averages is about 195,- 000,000 bushels or 61,000,000 more than the estimated product of 1887. Tho average yield of buckwheat is approxi mately twelve bushels per acre; and the crop nearly 11,000,000 bushels. There is a strong tendency to increase the area of hay in the South, and the yields, upon cultivated areas rather than natura ! meadows, are relatively large. GEN. HARRISON. The President-elect passes the time very quietly at his residence in Indian apolis, receiving a goodly number of neighbors and home frienas who called, and rending his letters and Eastern pa pers. Since the day of his election, Gen. Harrison’s mail has steadily ie.cn ased un til it has now reached mammoth propor tions. It requites an express wagon to haul the bundles of letter* and bags of newspapers that arrive. In view of these circumstances, Gen. Harrison reque-ted the correspondent of the As-mciateu Press to publicly convey bis cordial thanks to the several thousand friends throughout the nation who had telegraphed or sent by letter their w r arm expressions of congratulations and best wishes. Among the general’s telegrams and let'ers with held from the public out of the consid erations of propriety and refreshing modesty, are many of prime interest, and this time notably letters from such celeb rities as Gen. Sherman, Senator Iliscock, Joseph Medill and others. THE ANARCHISTS. The first anniveisary of the hanging of the anarchists was observed on Sunday bv Chicago sympathizers, but not within the limits of the city. The police regu lations prevented any proces ion or fly ing of red bunting, and there was no outbreak of any kind. About 5,000 people —men, women and children, gathered individually at- the depot, and two big trains carried them to Waldheim cemetery. The speech was made by Robert Pelzel, of Detroit. Compared wiih Robling’s heard a ygar ago on the sacie spot, his remarks w ere tame. A LIGHT VOTE. Mrs. Cynthia Leonard, mother of Lil lian Russell, the siDger, candidatefoi lie equal rights party lor tL j myoratiity .n New York, received a total of eight rotes. NUMBER 37. OODNTY munoE! _____ : t-t z -J COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary J. A. Bennett Superior Court Clerk 9. 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. B. P. Majois, B. T. Brock, J. P. Bond* J. A. Cureton, J. B. Williams. J. P. Bond, President, B. T. Brock, SecretaxjW 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 Conrt J. A. Bennett Ordinary. Meets first Monday in each month. Justices’ Court, Trenton District Sleets second Saturday in each month. J. A, Cureton, T. H. B. Cole, Justice*. Rising Fawn District meets third Sat urdny in each month. J. M. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. MASONIC LORE. Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M. 8. 11. Thurman, H. P M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary, Meets second Saturday in each month Trenton Lodge No. 179 F. and A. X. J. A. Bennett, W. M. T. J. Lumpkin, Secretary. Meetings Wednesday night on and be fore each full moou f and two weeks thereafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. mf A. 31. 8. H. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secretary. Meetings Saturday night on and befft_ each full moon, and two weeks thereaf, ter, at 2 o’clock pi. m. CHURCH NOTICES. M. E. Cnuitcn South.— Trenton Cir cuit, Chattanooga District—A. J. Fra zier, Presiding Elder; Rev. J. H. Har w H, Faetor in charge; S. H. Thurman, R cording Steward, 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 3 o’clock p. m. Rising Favtk.—Services first and thir< Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a, m. Prayer meetings every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cavb Springs.— Services first ai third Sundays in each month at 3o’cfo p, m. Furnace at night. BOIKO OF EDUCATION B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. Acuff, W. C. Cureton, John Clark. 2STOTXCEJ. Any additions to be made to the nbow changes or errors, parties interest**, would confer a great favor by notifying us of the same.