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VOL. 6. THIRTY-SEVEN PARAGRAPHS OF LOCAL SIP ANl> A WEEKS WORK. BY THE TIMES REPORTERS IN THE NEWS FIELD. jltems Gathered and Harihaly Thrown Together for the Edifycatiou of the Hurried ; Header WRp is TO9 Busy For Long Articles. PIQVANT, t P,!TH,Y .PARAGRAPHS F. C, is to retjeiye and receipt for tliis paper fit fate has a list of all receiving the paper at that office and the amount due. Please settle .with him at once. Wc are feeding the money. This may bo an the order of the Arizoniakjcker but nevertheless it is true, Jiip Brock lied to us and if does not redeem his promise we wilh publish him for every tiling that is mean. Noqv Jimmie write if you don’t want to catch it and write often. Tom Gray, of Tullaboma, Tenn. is visiting his sister Mrs. G. W. M. •Tatum, at this place and the girls, occasisionaly, at jR;f-ing Fawn. The first thing he did on arrival was to get on a spree and cut a five cent watermelon and lit a two-fer. Bill Jones, the scoundrel that whipped his mother, has left for Alabama. He took his mother with him. Breedlove, the enly witness, has been pone for some time. If Jones was innocent woy hashe left? There hangs a f«te One of the heaviest rains that has fallen in this section for some iime fell here last Thursday night The creeks got out of banks and y great many was water bound Not much i f any corn was washed (^o\vn. Advertising attracts purchasers.; compels sales. There is no way for merchants to attract pur chasers so ( ysqomicolly as through a live newspaper that is widely road and appreciated by its readers, We hope to be able to announce .shortly the title of 'a serial story to be written expressly for The Times. Nowis the tjme to subscribe; only SI.OO a year. Reports say that squirels are, plentiful, ]H some will furnish' us a gun and ammunition we may be able to stave off Old Pete for a whistle. i * (- A protracted meeting wifi com mence at the Methodist church hero tomorrow It is said that Fuller will be here. This is only a rumor. There are some people in Tpnton .who try to put on a heap qf style for their pocket books. They should drop a peg or two. The doctors of Dade (Jqunty are to meet here to day to pass suitable resolutions on the death of Dr. M. J. Corput. Misses Lizzie Smith and Mary E. Cureton visited relatives at. this place last week. They petufned home Monday. We would like tq hear from opr Morganville corrispondence regular Say write and let us know if you are dead. Dr- Lumpkin got back from the east as advertised. His head is still red but little darker than when he left. The people of I)ado County have strange notions about sustaining their county paper. Merchants of Trenton can you give a good honest reason why you don’t advertize. Ed Amos and Whack Forester of Rising Fawn wrre in town this week. Don’t borrow your neighbors paper but .subscribe for cue of your own. • B. II vs ie.ii a Ison, of Fort Payne, spent a few hours liere Monday. lluj? ( {ial Taylor killed 24 squirels a few days ago. He sliot 25 times. J)ave Tatum was in town this week laughing as loud as ever. * Major Max Corput Returned to: his home in Atlanta Monday. Are you trying to increase the circulation of The Times. The Times is a liome institution and y<yj should subscribe. The Presbyterian meeting closed laft Thursday. Get your neighbors to subscribe fqr The Times. The sheriff has not had a sale in four months. Mack Ac,aff rides .a ftP-Jetf o get to walk back. Tlie County Alliance meets here to day. Advertise your fall goods in The Timet. J.ohnnieJqeowayis down with the fever. The Trenton boom is a long ways off. Trenton is a rather dull place. Pity up your subscription. Red Hill is booming. Court Monday week. Send in the news. 'Wildwood pot*. Wildwood, Ga., Sept. 2.—Smo l the ore trade has been consupiated we suppose yop yre happy whether we c our [letter right qr not. And as for ,qf course you expect it tq b e more gemiiucrative. 1 There are a few of our citizens who will he ejyichqd somewhat by the ,deal. SHE -JV. & A. LEASE BILL. Dqos it not look like the Legis lature is,of th<' opinion that a sub sequent body will be better qua.i fied fa deal with the lease or sale of the Suafa road? Wha.t has be come of the betterment question? I see nothing of it o,f late. We suppose fjb a ; t tkev, (the questions), will all die out when all the mon ey is out of the treasury, and the representatives haye gone liome with their scanty savings of the four cbjllars per diepi. HIGHER EDUCATION. I do wonder if our usual level headed Mr. Fefion has gone crazy. I think ,we need a lower education before we get to the higher. Put down# foundation upon which to build a higher education. Let the Sjate appropriate # sufficient amount to make good ppblic schools and encourage the masses tp higher education. state’s SURPLUS PROPERTY IN CHAT TANOOGA. Whep Chattanooga .confiscates fae surplus property of the State road in that city and the legisla tqrq carries the next years rentals home in their pockets the people will begin to think that they had better give the rpad to some bene r factor of the State. Jpe E. Brown for instance. AllLanoomen Take Xqfiee. There will be a called meeting ot tbe Dade County Allianpe at Tren ton on Saturday, September 7, 1889. Important bpsiness. J. A. Bennett, ' G. A. R. Bible, Secretary, President. Notice. Mpney to fie loaned on real estate security at a lower rate of interest than usual. This proposition good only to Qctober 1, 1889. Apply to W. U. Jacoway at office of W. U. & J. P. Jacoway, Trenton, Ga, Aug 1(5. 23tf VV. U. Ja/oway. —— I I A No. 1 white hickory wagon for sale at the Alliance Store, Rising Fawn. Devoted to the Financial Interest of T A> J, Majors: TRRNTj&N, ,GA., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1889 AN EXPLOSION. f CARTR,!DC*3 -EX PLODES A^’D MIAS Til I! EE MEN, RISING PAWN FURN'CE THE SCENE ,QF THE ACUQENT, The Men Killed Were Convicts—Horri bly Mutilated—Tip' Coronor’s Jury E xonerates theCompany_—Care er isnps3 ,thf Cause, Etc. Thrqc coi^v ictg were jbkwn into >tcrnitv at Rising Fawn lapd Tues day^ They were working inqi Vennell. It was t ; Ue work of g dynamite cartridge. They wqrp loading a hole with' dynamite and in tamping it it was hit too hard t,he above was the result. An outsider ssyspne of the remains looked liked watermelon would if it had been thrown to the ground and burst id into a thousand pieces! and iiad been picked up’and tried to he put hoyk together again, it' was so badly mutilated. Fred Fennel, Fred Heard and John Cqjlins were the .unfcq tuprate one?. The following is th« evidence given to the coi;pr\or jury : Jim Maddox, convict—r“ That in loading .a hv' e in the mines Fred fKenneJ, W(h<? .was loading, 4he cartridge L>o hard an<}l the .olas.t went off and killed Fred Fred Heard and John He furtlie wears that every o?an the raipe.s where the bl,?st occurred had bee# cautioned and ed with Jime and aga.ii? shout to load their holes yjid is of the opinion that it was carelessness on the part of Fre.d Fennel that the blast went off.” Adam convict—“That he was in the mines, close by the sgid Maddox,Fennel, Heard and Collins and corobqrates in substance the foregoing evidence.” Wm. Carmichael,convict---“That the foreman of the mines where the death of these men. Fepnefi Heard and Collins occurred has made it a daily practice to caution the ipen abouf handling explosives and heard Mr. Connor caution them (frequently on the same subject,” L. S. Ferguson, white convict, said, “That he canopt remember the number of times he beprd Mr. Connor caption the men gbout handling ieNplosives, and knows from experience that it was care lessness on the part of tlje three men.” Jonas Cruse, convict, says', “That he is satisfied the blast \yeqt off through the carelessness qf Fred Fennel in tamping the hole too hard.” After hearing tbe aboyp evidence the jury returned the fpllowjng verdict: We, the jury sworn to investi.- gate how Fred Fennel. Fred Heard and John Collins caipe to their death, find affar examining several witnesses, thgt the aboye named parties came to their death by the carelessness ofFre.dFennel in load ing a whole in the ore mines at Ris ing Fawp Furnace at Rising Fawn. Ga.;Tbb Sept. 4, 1889, J. W. Morton, Foreman. The Sparta Ishmajite says there is confusion among our legislators be cause there is not a recognized “lead er’’ in either house. We don’t agree with tips diagnosis. Tbe present Georgia Legislature is as strong, in tellectually, ps any like body that ever met in the Georgia eapitoi. There are more thinkers than com mon among them, and they are handling greater problems of legisla tion than usual. Our present consti• tutiou was mainly the work of a ,tw “leaders,” and it needs doctoring as as much as any we ever • 1 —° - torav? I !nr»nr'in* IN MEMORY OK MAXIMILIAN <J ('()l!l‘l'l. Wbe re as<G od in :i. i s wisd am and provide nee has taken from our ryidst pur beloved brother, M. J. sOsirput, iu >tlie prime of life, and yjger of rnanhcod yho had ibeen a tfaitkfpl anf. flevpted -member of the Cv, :) be?lany Presbyterian aim rdi of C >1 fro up bis childhood f ;md lately bad been .ordained a ~Macon in said church at Trenton, Ci,".. and his bretberon looked upon tarn with qiuch confidence for the future of the chprch and as one of pillars among the children of the tlMvenly King. But we must with reverence and humility to the will’ ff God,find givin a Christian spirit l tieLcrd’s will be done for l£<; dorth 1 ,all thongs right-:—for we know that, the Lprd giveth and the Lord taketh ay ay. blessed he the name, of fhe Lord- And <0 the sorrowing* pamnts, sisters and brother t,hat, although, nvucli of yqur prideand' comfort has been taken away here' yet your sorrows pot like tfeoEC# 110 have nq liope ter \ve kpoy tj?f,t bis Christian life is prqod sufficient to! prove that he is noy-fitihome wilJd God an d tin children of glory, and fth#t if are ibut faithful that after a while-you may go to him where sorrowing and parting are no more. We therefore request and direct that a copy of these proceed ings be given tbe bereaved family and also a copy for publication be sent to tbfiCumberlandPresbvte -ian Nashville, Tenn., and also that the editor of The I)ade CoryjrY Times be reejuesred to publish t-hem Done in open church session J, R. Wai.ker, Mode* ator, Wherqas, it has pleated out Heayenly Fajther to remove faom earth to tbe shore s^®f Heavenly bliss and happiness. Our much esteemed and worthy Brother, Dr. M. J. Corput. who x was a faithful member of the Sout®rn Methodist Sunday School at Trenton, also its .Secretary anfi Tpepsprer. And wheregs, As the life which had just bloomed ,on earth for a long ar»d useful life aipong the children of ,pf ropch proipise in many ways, one that wopJd have giy,en much pleasure and satisfaction to his dear old parents, brother, sisters and many, many friends and rela_- tives. As all who ever had the pleasure of knowing him, only knew him to love and cherish his good name gp4 bis noble cjharaetei which was all sunshine apd love But amid all tnis, and right in (he midst of a useful life he bt lß been taken away from us for some grept and good purpose, entirely un known to us. Because Dr. Corput is no more here lie is asleep in Jesus, for we have the blessed promises of Our Heaveply Father iliat alj those who make the neces sary pippeiatfops in life shall be happy |n de.alli, apd have p glorious part in the first reserectiou apd live with Jesps and the Hoi)’ Angles in Heaven with all that Heaven means, through out the ceasless ages of eternity, pud we know that Dr. Corput has met all the demands of Gods Laws, and is now blooming out in that Glory Land, his useful life begin on earth. And whereas, It is vith sad heart that we have tq knov that our Brother can not any more meet with u 8 on earth yet we will try to imitate his noble life so as to live with him forever and forever in the Gloy Land- Tkprefore be it resolved, Ist That it is the sense of this Sundpy School that the noble Chris tian character of Dr. Corput is one yery much worthy of our imitation. 2nd That the bereaved father, motner, oiother and sisters have >ur most, warmest and sincerest sympathies and condolence in this, their sad hour of affliction and i Hffrrpvc Cor put this Sunday School as well as the community generallvlias lost a faithful Christian worker and! wi/.osr- place will be hard to fill,yet' wo must meekly submit to the will ofHim who doeth all flyings well feeling assured that our loss ; i.s his eternal jffiio 4th Tbgi a copy of these,re sola tit ns and preambles be published in Tyi: Dade Cot-xtt Times end that the family be furnished g.cppy. B. 11. Tnr ayt x, ,1 A. CruEToy. J. A. Cas£. • “rin’wrtl. .re *»>v«r,more t>ir Hire Tlie Mir will mini' lip tlir r^ulrrr I r'e'it lii nr.plorlh sunshine s3upl pr To foroo foml tienrt-. nml emMened eyes.” Th re ate those,yrho for Die Inst lon/r sice# Shall sleep a- -rcefl v re ter more, # Shall weep lieeitn-e thou ran-t no f weep, And jt«'o' P i)ecan,seyi‘T are o’«r. I Ri<2 tin it tot love* The’crtair-tieast JTu ivhjs’i thy ihfant form yens pressed, Gave up thv weary head to re«t, (But Deeps,the aching tor her o*vn. I t hgs long since grown dark, vet I cannot sleep—a vision of the palo .dead face and the lifeless forjn ,of a "father’s pride ai d a joy, (Dr. floats ever before nay eyes. In imagina tion I cgn see each member ef that grief stricken family moving from room to roqm .seeking for relief and finding none. R*t it is not fancy this sorrowing sympathy which causes piy heart to palpitate so that ce&t j.s impossible. OS? how I wish that I could say something tihat would lessee the anguish of affiicted ones. Rut .sad ex perience has taught me that hu man words are unay tiling. Komo. none hut Closes can sweeto* Makati’s bitter >vaters. He is ever bv the brjnk with synjpa.- thizing hearjt and willing hapds jready to His suffering folio W . they cyy for aid. But it jis not. ins fatlj.er’s family who mourn his loss, it is our whole community, for,phi tve can ilj af ford to lose so good a 3’oung njan— they are so scarce. NA ver ., before did we so nctoally realize tlie truth of t’lpe old“saying” “Death loves a shining tnprk” tor nearly every time he moves liis sruelj scythe in Trenton ive mourn the fall of fiur best, our noblest. Often we ask why does he not cut <hown some of the “cumlters of tffi? ground.” We could jveii fcpare # few of them and their loss wooid be society’s gain. Truly the wstys of Providence are somotimes very j mysterious tq us. Often we are surrounded bv clopdsand <jarkpe« 8 we capnot see “far nop near,” Yet to the believing, trusting heart there comes a still small voice from out the darkness “Wtp'.h forxjw hearts When hewiesi weighs life’* gaUitig chain, ’Tis heavepi tljat ivhispers. Dry your tears, The pure in heart spall meet af ain.” This should bo ?ne consoling thougnt to the family and friends of Dr. Corput, for all who were fortunate enough to know him, knew him tqbe almost as gpiltiess as p child. Bjut tijs fife’s work isove the good he did h#9 apt been inter.- ed with his bones. It still lives, and wifi contique tq do so, a mon ument to the yfi-tpes, apd tplente qf the man. Jle bqre hjs pprt \yell in the war r fare ot life “and natpro could well say to all the world this was a man.” Ife has been called up higher fq pieet the blessings and rewards of a well spent apd worthy life, ft was meet thpt he should enter op rest after 51 shortlife crowned with successful labor, fake Thackery’e model gentlemep h® 3puld well say ( ‘adsum” cheerfully and wfilingly wpep the Greqt Mpsfer called to go, ‘•Like one who draifs tfte drapery of Lis couch around bi;,/. And lies Uoxlii to pleasant dreams.” Aunt Pqllie, Do you need letter, bill or note leads? If you do stnd to this of fice for them ... .. -- ——■ ii#y - ** " ■ ■ " / ■ . , i . • * o?}ce. KILLED! RUN OVER BY THE FUR. E EryGl'NE WA« JOHN HOLBROOKS THE TERRIBLE ACCII>eN T UN AVOIDABLE . ! i ’‘Done All I Could to Prevent the Acci dent. But Could Not Though H Been My Sa; Engineer Ranvltoj^ .Tolinnic Holbrooks is dead. IH was killed by tlie W t Tron -find Coal company train rt 'Rising Fawn Tuesday evening. 'How he came to be run over is a mystery. He was a man that v «er ffsi sem under the influ . • of 1 iquor. He was run over at about four o’clock in the evening ypd liv'd til seven. Wednesday morning the coronor oned a jury which rendered the following verdict: We, the jury s.VQjr.n to investi gate how Johnnie Holbrooks came to his death. fill he was killed by the Walker, «kon & CV company’s ftnginc a-nd train of cars on thek irvad- This September 188 V. W. R. Allen. IPoremac •Following is tlie evidence gi -e at the inquest: Dr. J. R. Brock —* l l was on t' e engine that killed Johnnie Hol brooks-; was qn the,en£ inter’s side. Dul iwt see Holbrooks until lie .was ooerby the train. The The ygilroad .curved to the left so it wi,s to see anpthirg on th?. track fa&m engineer s;(,Te. He was killed :hv Wall e IWi .A Coal iGop*pany's (Cjngine and train of cars. Triu 11 was goinu fopr or five miles foafcr/’ i Las. StowarL—T tvs* oi the Vt alker, Jrqn & Copi company’s ! engine whep Johnnie Holbrooks was killed. We were leaving Ris ing Fawn: I was firing niv engine and looked a head, a man on the track about two car lenghts ahead of tbe engine. I rung tbe hell, hollowed at him to get off and t.ohl Mr. Hamilton that he would run of.-er a man. The engineer, Mr. Hamilton, reversed bis engine, blew for brake# and done all he could do but too close to do any good.” A, M. Hamilton —“My fireman rpng the hell, hollowed at some one. I reversed my engine and asked the fireman what it was. He said, ‘Johnnie Holbrooks.’ I done #ll I could to prevent the accident hut j&ould not though it had been my own Child, This was Sept. 3, abopt 3:30 p, m., 1889/’ W. E. Hamilton—The engineer blew for brpkjes, I applied my brakes. Saw the fireman looking under ifie train, know something \y#s wrong, I found Johnnie Hol brooks fiad beep run oyer and ter, rible torp pp, JJe died at 7 o’clock I wa,s tqld, To the Kilitor of Tuk Times. Brotlier J, Jf. Corppt requests rpe bo return to (lie kind people of Trenton, the surrounding community and many other? in the county, the sincere thanks of the family for many favors and high regards shown tohis dear boy during his protracted illness and for tjieir sympathy in this sore be reavement. Words are inadequate to expressthejr appreciation of spGh “brotherly love.” May the Lord comfort this dear family find help them to look to JHrn who c#n heal all their sor rows. JL S. Bettis Trenton is in need of another physician. Send your Job Work tp tfiip pfa fice, NO. 2C