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Settle up you delinquent*,
A cold rain fell her* yesterday.
A heavy rain fell here Tuesday
night,
Th* Times needs every cent
that is due.
Rockmart, Ga., ie about to
on a boom.
Died young in the cause—Thk
Daily Times.
The Trenton boom is by no
meant dead.
A cold snap struck the town
Wednesday.
The thieves are trying to get in
thetr work now, 1 •
A.. G. Hickman took in Chatta*
nooga Thursday night.
Pay thy bill at this offiee and
He will bless you.
Miss Nina Jacoway is visiting
jn Nashville, Tenn.
Pay us what you owe so we can
pay what we owe.
Settle up or be sued. We are
waiting on you.
The Dailv Turns died from
starvation and nothing else.
Parties owing for legal ads are
requested to settle up at once.
Everything is lovely in Tnnton
and “the goose hangs high.”
T E TiMka N*-eEM wHxt yOu
(J ■> e ) P nOw.
John G, Jacoway, Jr., got back
from Nashville, Tenn., yesterday.
Pnide shows have been visiting
RU:ng Fawn rather frequent this
year.
Evnrr man, woman and child
in the county should read Ths
Timis.
Ths Times hopes to be out on
time in ths fature as the daily has
ceased.
Miss Lulu Corput is visiting the
family of Major Max Corput in
I heooomhas put several parties
on iheir fj:et onee more and they de
»trv« 10 he.
The sweetest music of all is
heard ia town —the hammer, saw
and trowel.
Copje, come, you delinquents
and settle up your accounts to this
establishment.
The Merrison company is eg
pected to be hero by the first of
next week.
John Btewart is sporting a new
suit of ojothes. This war caused
by the late boom.
Th* Times is not boring with
quite as big a gun as it was last
Week. Cause. Nd money.
The people of this section will
soop be able to meet all of their
bills when they fall due.
It ia rumored that Rising Fawp
is going to get on a boom. Wild*
wood will next be heard from.
The New England Land, Iron
and Manfacturing Company or
ganized for business last Wednes.
day.
T. H. Arnold, of the Chattanooga
Times, has bought out »the Cum
berland, Tennessee, Gap, news
paper.
“When the robine pest again,
and the fiowere bloom in the
epring,” then Will our delinquents
pay up.
Pay what thou owest this estab
lishment if you have any honor
Joft you delinquents of many years
standing
ft takes meney to make the mare
go, and it is necessary to have it
ground a newspaper office delin
quents.
A pa*n that wont pay bit sub
scription is meaner than “gar
broth” and will steal from his
blind grandmother.
“The dowers that bloom in the
spring, tra-la-lal” nas nothing to
whatever to do with our unpaid
subscriptions.
Our delinquents at Rising Fawn
will douse favor by calling on
Mr. E. 9* Mossly and settling up
as he is authorized to bring suit on
There are more tattlers in this
town than any other of double the
size in the United States. If a
few of them would only -hold their
tongues they would do their neigh
bors a great favor.
Capt. S. C. Bosler got back from
Ohio Wednesday. He reports
everything lovely in that bailiwick
and says after the election an ex
cursion will probably be organized
for the purpose of coming to
Trenton.
Tyra Havron has accepted an
editorial position on the Southern
Confederacy, a new magazine to be
published in Atlanta. He left for
•that place Wednesday. Tyra is
capable of filling the position.
There is to be a ahow at Rising
Fawn, and we will bet that men
will go to it that owes this estab
lishment and can’t pay for his
paper that will rake up enough
money for the purpose of seeing
the elephant.
SAP DKATII.
Mrs. W*r, Fulghum, ot Morgan
vllle, Prop* Dead.
Mr*. William Fulghtnn, on*
mile eaet of Morganville, dropped
dead Monday morning while on
her way from th* spring with two
buckets of water.
Two of her little children were
with her at the time. Toe only
words she spoke were, “Catch me
I am falling,’’ and when she struck
th* ground was dead.
it is thought that trouble was
the cause of her death.
About three weeks ago her eon
William was horribly mangled by
the care at Attalla, Ala., while
Coupling care. His right leg and
arm had to be amputated.
Mr. Fulghum was in Attalla
waiting on his son when the sad
news reachtd him oi the death of
hie wife.
Disgraceful Act.
Thursday night s crowd of hood
'ums acted very disgraceful ia town
They drove their ho/se end buggy
( Hough the hail of the court home
yelled sod abot off their pistols. Thf
partiea are knows to the authorities
and will he attended to and el*
hound over to the superior court, n»
doubt.
HIS BREATH TOOK FIRE.
The Peculiar Death that Overtook a
Man in San Francisco.
“Twelve veer* ago last month—ln
August, 1877,” s<id an old settler,
“a man met death in a peculiar and
horrible manner in San Francisco.
I helisve that a full and succinct ac
count of this rare accident has never
b*en given public, the proprietor
e? the establishment where it occur
red keeping the facta from the re
porter for her of hurting hia trade.
They are about aa follows: James
Harley, the victim, had just recover
ed fFom an attack of delirium tre
mene. He had been a regular aot
and was thor< u«hly soaked with
alcohol. His last attack of the “jim
jHms” war the third he had under
gone within a few weeka. On the
morning in question he had Started
on another sprna.
“About 11 o’clock in the day be
had about all the liquor on board be
was able to carry. Stepping into a
saloon on one side of the principle
at reels be called for a swig of 'bn?
juice.’ which was promptly refused,
the bartender noting the condition of
the man and remembering his late
engagement with the snakes. Hur
ley scowled and turned to a gas jit
to light bis pipe. A scennd later
there wen a drunken moan, a flash of
alcoholic fl »me and Harley fell heav
ily on the floor, hie head and neek
▼oiled in smoke, white blue jets of
fltme were issuing from his ears,
m >uth and nostrils. As soon an
water could be procured (water in s
commodity rather scare? around nuoh
places) it was dashed in the sufferer’s
face, not in time, however, to save
his life. The face was aa black an
i hat of a negro. The earn were char
red, the inside of the mouth "black
and Kin tongue roasted to a crisp,
[t w*s a horrible and uncanny death
,ne for which a doplieate would be
oard to fio\”
If health and life are worth anythiug.
and you are feeling out of sorts and
tired out, tone up your system by tak
ing Dr J- H. MeLeaa's Sarsaparila.
At Colas,
TRENTON, GA., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26. >BB9.
MTTII tun.
WIIVI THE MORRISON
COMPANY IS DOIAbi
A PRESIDENT ELECTED.
EX-GO V I? R IN OR EOR
KJAM AT f’HE READ.
A St’ ong Board ot Direc
tors Elected I'* C'fmie
Her* to Ratify the
Boston Meeting.
The Mcrririoo deal now Is a cer
tainty.
The compsny hss taken steps for
permanent organization.
A preliroar.y organix.itinn has he**n
perfected in 80-ton last W< dnes lay
and the kite committee w#* increased
in numbers.
Ex-Governor Forham, of Vermont,
was elected preside ;t, with a strong
hoard of directors. The committee
appo.med to come south ami investi
gate and take steps to lay off Morri
aon are looked for early next week,
probably Tuesday or Wednesday.
The company is capital(*-d at
$5,000,000, arid there are about thirty
iinck holders.
The first thing on docket is to get
the ground cleaned off. Part ol this
hav alr.a ly been d<>ne and civil engi
neers will he put to iayiug out a
town.
Before lots will baput on the mar
ket the company expect, and no
doubt will, have several manufac
turing plants under headway.
They don’t intend to commence
with a brass band rod a big huirah
but In go along with a steady gat..
It is due to the untiring energy ol
Dr. T. J. Lutukln, A. Brown, Th s.
Cummings and G. J. HaJI trial the
big deal was fl«‘»lu consumated.
Old Fuporft.
Mr. Ssuouel Howell of S'oneham,
ham, formerly < f this town, furnish#-*
us with a number of old biila of lad
of date 1719, and ther-abouts, which
indicate conaideiable foreign com
merce then carried on from this port,
numbers of the shipments being
made to Lisbon. We give the fo *
owing as a specimen;
Shipped by the Gr-tce of GOO, in
good order and well conditioned, by
J ria B“lcher per Order A for Aeco'i
A Iti-qua of Mr, Hob,. Hack-lo w of
London itt and upon the Good Snow
Call'd, The S'erling Whereof i- M .s
er under GOD for this present Voy
age Capt. Richard Adams and now
Riding at Anchor in the harbor of
Piimouth and by GOD 1 .-Grace bound
f»r Lisbon; To nine hundred
and ninety='»ne Quintals of dry Mer
chantable Cod Ft-h Being Marked
and numbered as in the M-rgent,
and are to be ua.ivered in the like
good Order and well f!unditiened, a>
the aforesaid Port of Lisbon (the
Danger of the Heas only excepted)
onto Mesa Joseph Gulston A Sol ,
Marchts, or to their, as- gns, he or
they paying Freight for the said
Goods with Primage and Aveiage
accustomed. In witness whereol.
tha M"S*er nr Purser of the said
8 ow hath nffirmed to three Bills o.
Lading, all of this lennr anti Dale-
One of which billa Being Accom.
pli»hed, the other to stand void,
and so GOD send the Good Bnow to
her desired Port in safety, AMEN.
Dated iu Piimouth 30th July 1720.
p Mee KICH’D ADAMS.
A coastwise shipment to Plimou h
from Boston by the sloop Endeavor,
Joshua Buulc Master, enumerate:! six
half hour glasses, six bowls and
platters, three coils of cordage and
one barrel of pork for acct and risque
of Jobu Watson. Cod fib seems to
have been the staple of foreign ex
port.
A light colored mulatto woman
wan knocked off the track bv a Cen
tral locomotive, near the rear the
rear of the Union depot, Morulny
evening, at Macon, just aft r dark.
Two women were at the crossing,
and one who gave her trimeas Sallie
Johnson, attempted tocro>a tne track
in front of the locomotive, which
was moving slowly. The engineer
s<>unded ttie alarm, but at that mo-
meat the worn to was struck and fell
tooneside. The engineer and fin
man at once picked her up and laid
her in a safe place. \ switchm n
an to call a policeman to watch tier
hut when the officer came she w*«
gone. A short s*»ich revealed her
in a neighboring bar-room taking a
Ith-rsl snpply of ‘ cordial” to q lie
her nerves When found she wan
ju-t drunk enough to not care whether
-he was run over or not. She was
taken to the city prison,
Ttie ijate Cily Guards, of Atlanta,
wiil p tbshly hold a fair soon.
Dart'd ha* over 800 shares In th.
Intermiionsl Building and Loan
Aeaociition.
Big tJreek district, of Forsyth coun
ty, h*i voted for fence by seventeen
mnj e-fty.
The vsult for »he Wa»Mnpton Ex
ehang. hank '» ill soon he finished.
I* wilio ist s:> 00(1.
Ch fiprrvitle w ants a board of trade,
hut utl eff ot* up to the present time
hnve'fatled of "Ucces-.
Th* Sibley cotton mill* at Au u
ta, tvs just d dared a semi-annual
dividend ofBA parent.
< ; ene county h*" a new poa ( -
• fflc>, Jcs'Mfc Penni*, <U Daniel’s
Springs, with W. U. Griffin as poat
(iiastr.
J. jv. Ps'tersnn, of Doles, Werth
couti«y, has an ox that can trot a
mile in five minutes, lie wilt ex
hibit Tim at the State fair.
LsGr-ange is to have a ?ew Meth
odist parsonage, as the ladies are sure
to so eeed in raiding the needed
funds, tne gentlemen having already
liberally responded.
The Milledgeville R°eorder Is
quite pleased with the new iron
bridge just put across the Oconee
river by Mr. Geo. H. Craft, of At
lanta, at a cost to the county of sll,-
GOO.
Rev. W. H. Pat'erson, of Eufsula,
has been called to serve the Bsptls
dtur.-h at Dawson next year. R*v.
B. W. Davis, who recently resigned
its pastorate goes to Plains-of-Dura.
A dny or two ago a negro corn
shucking at Dorsey, Marion county,
. nded in a row, in whieh Genus
Mitchell, colored, fruetured the skull
fD. P. Waters with a stone. Wa
ters will probably recover.
The tnemiars of the Aagustn lire
department hsva orgsnl*>-d » mutuxl
benevolent association. The in.m
htrsof th* department pay monthly
du*s, and in the event of sickness < r
injury $lO a week is received; in the
rvetife' d‘ ath SSO is pwA-to the fam
ily.
The next prize drill in which the
B<>uthern Cadeis of Macon may taka
part will be at the 8f)-Tropical ex
position at Jacksonville next Aagi'.
It is said that the exposition n“n
agement proposes making this the
largest drill ever held in the south.
The present expaciaiiona ia to make
.he first i rize $5,000.
The C-rmll county grand jury,
after a wo weeks *e«Bion. concluded
thair labors lasi Saturday and ad
journed foi the term. A number of
indictments wt« preierred, ai d
every nad conomiaaioOer iu the
county presented for neglaat of duty
Bix inontha from now a marked ira
proveinent io the roads will be seen,
Aifinug the r* commendations of the
late grand jury ia the building of a
new court house, and it ia to be hoped
that the proper authorities will act
upon th>a lecommendatren ai once,
a- the present bouse iii totally inade
quate to the demands of th* business
of the county.- Carrollton Times.
Mr. D. J. Bush, of Hancock coun
ty, while engaged in drawing up «
itale of hay iroin the first to the sec
ond floor in Premium halt, at the
Mac >q Monday morning, re
ceived < scalp wound by the bal<
tailing Upon him, which is of a d*-
cid*d gnriuus naiure. Mr. Rush
tune upseveral days ago and Mon
day started at work ou the Hancock
exhibit, lie had drawu up tour
hales of hay by the block and tackle,
but whi* drawing up tbe fifth one
Hie ropej broke, lelliog the hay fait
up n hit head, aud throwing him
violently against a tab e, which he
■truck wiili his forehead, Sayiug the
scalp balk for several inches.
At Taylor, Friday, a negro boy
aged seven years, shot his brother
sg«d f« iy, and secretly buried him
a short distance from the house. His
parents vsre picking cotton and htd
Jett the t»>ys at the bouse where the
. filer cue was to care for the younger.
This they had been doolng for some
lime. It seems that the older one
had grown tir**d of looking after his
orother, and decided to shoot him to
gd him out of the way. He shot
him with his uncle’s pistol.end when
asked as to the child's whereabout*
~n hia fi.thei’s return, he denied
kuowing anything concerning him.
rhe body i f the mtn-mg child was
| afterward# found hick "f 'he garden
•'ivwrul with -ai d and grass. He
was shot only onco the ball entering
hi* head. After tha body was found
the older boy confessed the deed and
told where be found the pistol.
WORK OE NEGRO FIENDS.
A CRIME RARELY SURPASSED
IN HORRIBLE DETAILS.
Five Negroes Drive a Lady from Her
Hous., Rob and Burn the Dwelling
and Torture Her Littf* §*b!
—Threa of them Caught.
Birmingham, Ala., Oc’. 22 —A
aoecial to th.* Age- Herald from L«-
Fayeftee records a crime in Talla
poosa county th >t La* rarely been
surpass'd In horrible details. I'
aeeuis that while Albert 8m th and
his tliree olde»t children had gone
a me mllesto chutch, five negro men
approach d the house and asked
Mr*. Smith togiveth-m aomething
to eat, and being refused they went
into the house, and learning the*
there was no on.i at home hut Mrs.
Smith and a little babe, lorced her
into the yard and began ransacking
iho house. After appropriating all
that they could fi d <o th* way ot
money and valuables, they aet fire
to the house and added horror to th*
terrible scene by forcing the de
tracted mother to witneae the aaosl
nrotal of fiendish deeds, which was
th* tossing of her liit I* baby in the
air and letting it fall back almost on
the point of sharp knives which
(hey held under it. Th* brutes fin
city heeded the frantie woman’s en
treaties and went away, leaving her
with nothing to greet#tho return of
her horror stricken hushmnd snd
children but her half dead babe and
a smouldering heap of coals where
was, only a few hours befoie, their
home. The pteple for miles cround
n*ve been searching th* country for
the villians, and at last accounts
three of the negroes bad beta cap
tured.
Middle Georgia ie now picking
th* best crop of cotton she has
made since 1880
The new pension commissioner
has a name familiar to Georgians,
Green B. Baum, of 111.
The Harvard senior claes has
elected Clemeua Morgan, a colored
man, as elaaa orator.
Judge Will J. Winn, of th* Blue
Ridge circuit, died at Marietta, on
Monday, aged 36.
Ferdinand Phinizy, of Athene,
one of the ncheet men in the
State, is dead. Hia prosperous
years numbered 71.
In the dead of the week are two
ex-Goveanore, Perry of Florida,
and Hartranft, of Fsnnsylyenia.
On la«t Friday, at Dalton, Den
nis Taylor was found guilty of the
murder of Senator Fields, ani sen
tenced to imnrisor.ment for life.
Gen. Anderson says that the W.
& A. R. R. has not sold the famous
engine “General,” that the Empire
Lumber Company are only using
it while theirs is being repaired.
Knowledge does not bring happi
ness. The farmers with A. prefix
es to their names, would be much
better off in mind if they knew
not that their cotton bagging cov
ered bales were wrapped before
export in the hated jute.
The Senate of Georgia has in it
many warm admirer* of Robert
Toombs. By a unanimous vote it
will insist thst the House shall
consent to an appropriation of
$6,000 to hnve a worthy portrait of
him paintea for the aew eapitol.
It ia interesting to note the con
nection of distance event*. Gev
ernei Hill rode in the srme car
riage Friday which Mr. Cleveland
occupied when he visited Chatta
nooga.—Chattanooga Republican.
Au Attempted Robbery.
There has been several attempts a*
robbery here of late and »ome of
«h**m has been successful.
On last Saturday night an attempt
was made to break into B. P, Majors’
store in tbe ro >m under Thi Times
office, but the thief was uusucceesfel*
The only damage done was the break
ing of a window pane.
Tatnall county elaims to be entit
led to the State Sen itorshlp next
year.
Iroa and Coal.
The recent ris* in th* pr ; ce of
iron is sensing capital to |*rif
field* where it can successfully
compete with furnacts already in
t operation.
Jo glancing ay*r th* various
point* laying claim to superiority
in thil respect, it ha* been con*
ceded that Lavkant Vallay lands,
because jt ha* th* coat and iron
near each other, but at no point
more conveniently situated than
at Tf*»’on, O*- This place is on
th* AUharpg Great Sauthern rail,
road, eighteen wile* southwest of
Chattanooga, ig on* of th* most
beautiful valleys jn th* South. It
is peculiarly situated for manufac
turing iron, haring a vein fir* f#*|
in thickness within a mil* of th*
railroad on both side*. It lie*
horizontally and passes through
the bills and th* mountain* and i*
easily worked. Jt has beep cal
culated that over thirty million
tons of this ors can be mip*d and
loaded on cars at a cost pot to sit
eeed 76 cents per ton There ia
a.eo a ooel field in Band Mountain
within two railee of the railroad at
Trenton, ia whioh are fonnd tha
same vain* of oo*l that java beep
■o successfully worked by tha Dada
Coal Conspany at Coal City forth*
past twenty years. This would
settls th* matter as to th* supply*
quality and cheapness of coke,
Unlimited quantities of tha very
best limestone abounds on tb*
ground. And last hut not least af
nil, n haul of bat fourtean mils*
by rail will taka th* iron to th*
Tennessee river where it can ba
loaded on barges for all points on
the Tennessee, Ohio and Jfiseit
eippi rivers. Birmingham haul*
eok* from five to thirty milas, or*
from fiva to eighteen miles, tad
limestone about thirty miles,
while the nearest point to river
navigation is over one hundred
miles. Hence it will be seen that
Trenton possesses greater facilities
for making cheap iron than Bir
mingham. Birmingham furnaces
are supplied with water by the
water company, and this it not a
■mall item. Water is her* in
abundance. Inangh to supply
fifty furnaces and cam* number of
other industries,
Not only will tbs sbeve facts
apply to RirmlPghem but in nsarly
evsry cass to tbs otbsr iron far*
usees in operation and in eourss
of construe tie*. Dr. Little, lats
geologist of ths State ef Georgia,
who sorted in both Alabama and
Georgia is that sapacity, says thst
thsis are three coal measures is
Sand Mountain, eaeh from three
to fits feet in thiekaeoo. These
▼sine crop out on the Sect side of
the mountain within two miles of
Trenton, end they are the same
frem which the Dade Coal Com
pany ii now mining the coal to
furnish th* furneees at Chatta
nooga and Rising Fawn, whieh
makes e very superior artiele of
iron. The coal field extends weak
to th* river et Steyeson, Alabama,
a distance of twenty miles. Thio
coal field is praeticelly in*xbaus‘—
bio, end only until recently has it
become known to capital iota ea
their attention has been attracted
tp Birmingham end other point*.
The feet is new known, V *wcv#r t
and this knowledge hae censed ths,
recent influx of eepital to this im>
mediate section, and, au a come
quenee, the recent rise in reel es
tate values at this plaee. But the
end ie not yet, and the little tow*
of Treaton will became, ip tbe
near future, an impertant factor
in the manufacture of iron. We
make this prediction—that in Use
than five years the smoke from
five furnaces will arise within twn
miles ef Trenton, and n desen
other factories will contribute to
wards starting anothsr Leneigb
Valley.
In the M. E. conference nt Nash
ville, last week, reaolutiens wane
passed memorializing the general
conference to abolish the title of
Doctor of Divinity, on the ground
that it had become empty end vain
by indiscriminate distribution
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