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mt moot uumutfi wrong amts •A S*"*\ TOE. ti. TSTBIW PINGLAN D! IBIBOIMsfiB fill! milllllM! OF A lIIWA. A HOTEL TO BE BUILT ACCOMMODATE VKSITORS THE FIRSTTHING<rN DOC KET. ISNG NEERB PUT TO WORK Ht •SURVEYING OUT THE TOWN ip 'STorFiCE .v* puf.d f&ij, '.TteWITX l,<rv% TO BE PI7;T.Q|I THI r.VTARXET AS EARLY AS PRACTICABLE TO 83-SO. fHI)f«0«L IKD IRON LIKIFS OStBPASSEI). HTSSHIOR'NGfFXV CflilTl ES—NCTES The deed‘i« done and th» child i* horn and England is its immi. The * gentlemen that purchased flieteosi and iron fields :ht Morri son hare been busy pa\ing off this •wsok’and fatting ready to go to work in earnest. They are a fine looking body df jn>*n, besides having al I‘t essen tial parts that go to make a gen~ 'tUinm. Tiiis we»k 'has be»n spent in •.perfecting the organization and ■edleeting the town site. 'Th# aoal in fJßsnd mountain has tbeeli weed for the past twanty •***, and.ono mitu ai Fn'o Pity ewinloy 7700 miners mi thel*rmus Bustle '»ain of coal. This ccal.is of m sni'wrionquality e« a coking coal mad mate** a good -grttle coal, 'fffrree workable veins of coal are lfrtund in Sand mountain. Enough has not hu©n done to ;gire«a:i extensive article about the piece. New -England 'City. Gr... is wdll llocatel for its purpose. Nftarly ell, Oiie entire pines ia on high ground .and with but very little lo* land*. ’The draiuapetof .IjV place is exoel jter.t, the croaker* to the conirarv tf***-withe;a«ding. The vi»w from efwrn* Of the numerous nill* ar« •excellent indeed, and | r he country : fer miles around c*n be seen ds.- ifinc.tlr. The hotel at the point of IL >ok »ut mountain isan plain view rf>i ; R|!l at the small bill a, and with a three story building Cameron’* fKill ean be brought into plain view with the naked eve. For manufacturing purposes !t?ew EnglandihsH a bright future. iCoal is fount! in three miles of the , town, and the iroa ore is in a half itnils, while the limestone, for flux ing and -other purposes, can be found *ll around the place, and 4 th© water is in great abundance for i*ll purposes. There re also some dine ‘building stone around the down. New EngV.nd it well situated far the manufacture of iron,Jaav &eg a vain ot iron or* five feet in *thickn*e« ’n a quarter of a mile of ■.thv town. It. lies horizontally and passe* through the hills and.moun tains and i* easily worked. It has 'been cd'cdiated 'that .it can be wined and d«liv*t»d to the fur inaees for seventy-five cent* per don. The iron lands of the eom •jpany enuoraee 10,000 acre*, and dake it as it comes, it will easily average live feet if not more, and ■Ht-h the .'f.bove mentioned, q§her« is nothin* to hindurtthe town ISfting a large and prosperous marv i3B|Hi'.tariug piace at an early date. i The facility Tor shipping ican ! ,easily be arranged. There ids unly i jUftcri mil* haul to tho Tennessee -jW*r, whore the products can be 1 oaded *e nnrgey For a ! print* tit • the T»n ,■« «p Mississippi *n.d 1 j Ohir. riv*i a. K«jr- JSngUnti posW"*** greater fa' lipr roe nafacturing { and vi - d'.srn; Ad?. Ti mrnghHrO I*SaiJj coke from live lo thirty mile*, *; from five \o on« hundred miles,- and limestone about sixty miles,! .while <h* Dearest point *o weE navigation « over one hundred ■ ni iles. "Not nnir will the above facts: ! apply to fAirniipfliarn htft ic * very | roaro town in the i outh ; with s possible exception of one: or two. v Th» famous Dade coal mines, which has been in. operation for the ipaat 40 vos-*, on y three and on*-half miles by wee on road to New England, and the corn- 4 ! panv’s property joins that of the Dade Coal . 'ompanv. The cmpryo town will in the course of two year* tie & icßjr of 5,000 inhabitants. XOTKti. Mr. Day. of Boston, will have in course of erection : in a few day* e fine residcnc*. John M McMahan proposed to give ‘three acres of lend to the company if 4 hey would build a SIOO,OOO ,m it. The prosotutiori was accepted. The engineers are getting ready to.go to work, will commence before the\we«k is ended. Dr. T. J. Lumpkin is getting his plans ready to build a. residence. Several of the stockholder* will make New England their future home. M. A. B. Tat uni sold 60 ocres of land M onday for $6,500 near New England. Property *ll lit* place and not in the company’s control, will bring S2OO per acre. ift.i.f one of the strongest com pany's ever .foracsd to -operate' in the Bouth. A petition is beingcirculate 1 foi a oostoffie.e. Arrangenrerits are also beingirpade far a depot, telw graph andw^pre* 4 office. It is the intention of the pro jectors to get^ererything ready to put ob the mardret by ti>> first of the vear at farthest. • MrthonsV tt*u.s,-uit' of spoliation I‘hiln-iHplii.i l'on*.' rt'e liviio 11) Virginia is s’mp'y s hut lo be’ esr-n ignore ce »nd ietell - ties • ti'-fctscw i thriftlessne*-* t n roj <•' y, betovO ’ ; !tor -'' v g"V<*i n ment and lic*ns«*d i r fl <'*os'; sr-- 1 h<- chief d tifo-i c. me* fr>- ill Ihe com plete osgan z ttion of the ;colote»l voter** for rt'Crusad*' of spoliation. I is ,probable that Mnhone would b* c inpelb*,! to chest I.is deluded col ored follower* if successful; hut hi* triumph *iu V would c-eel'l* the property interests of the whole S >uth. and give an iutensny to the already threatening race is«u<# that e ufd in t but he meet dios-rous t,i .Southern tranquility »' d prosperity. [ l heae graveconsidera*ions, however, '■ s*enQ to fade into insignificance with j the Ad ministration before the im- Iportsnce of! a Varty! victory that i would come in dishonor; and all th» j power and spoil* of the Government ! 4>e at ihe coiunaand ov Mahwr.e. for urscsrsi* y»e Brown’s Iron Bluer*. Physicians recommend it. AU dealers keep It. S’.oo per bottle. Geoliiwc ban trade-mark aud crossed red lines on wrapper. Mahoue’g Campaign of Corruption.; 1 i.il.ul*-l|’hia Record. Ciberoliv' supplied with money from (tie ear lus campaign fund »f lhe .Republican National Committee, j Mahone has organized a grand cam oaigu of corruption and bribery to j carry "he Virginia elections. Thai nothing may be wanting in thUi prn gr lamie, he* has'been accompanied by i Assistant Bo* 1 niHßii r-General Ciark !<>!,, who stands ready tu off r Gov ernment patronage to all whose poverty and weakness may consent tr> olfejisl adduction. In tbe pre-*»DC« of Uienc fact*, there in aomethimr ap proaching the sublime in the effront ery with whichitbe R-publ.c*n 1.-ad« j era • oa«t*of their devotion to the ! cause ofbiliot reform. THEN TON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER s>. 1S8». TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY! C'lFO EGECTH A I»ES;Ot’RATJ«T OOVERNOK AVD BEG!SHiATORE. ■— ■■ *tßr * lowa .loins the South -for the J-in.* Tiri*? Since Ma liowtr Defeatcil. T»3«‘ a dcv was. s gdorioua day for the:Dcmfwratic ffcrty. Boise, Deni era', was elected Governor of lowa, and the entire Democratic Bate ticket was .car ried through by 8,0(10 majority. Virginia, straight Democratic. Contest does in Illinois. •Forakor defeated for Governor' m Ohio. In New J*r*ey probably a straight Democratic victory. Massachusetts, Republican. Pennsylvania only elected ft State Treasurer, Boyer, Republi can, elected by.a majority of 65.- 115. A Democratic State Treasurer was elected in ’Maryland- Nebraska, Republican. Colorado, Democratic. Mississippi, Democratic. New York elected a Democratic Secretary of StgNe. A Straret Been*. If was a cold sndrldustering day. A great relig nus-convention in one of TYew York’s largest and most fashionable churches had just adjourned. Out of the doors •■streamed the pious delegsdes—the famous ora well known philanthropists and a host of lr-Mer lights. ' The delegate? bad ju*t finished a bard day’s work. 1 hay .had feean making arrangements for the dis tribution of large sums uf money in Africa, Chin* and India. They wort in a glow of enthusiasm over their efforts in behalf of toe naked heathen ft the other end of* the world. It wts a splendid looking .bop? of men. Their faces bore the stain pofeuUucr. They were aleck and portly, end their warm gsr jseeuta sheltered t.i&ro from the raw northern tittle. The .inkling, happy possession filed out of the gorgeous church, and turned aside te avoid con'act with ike crouching figure on the marble steps. Only a woman and her babe—a young woman in scant an 1 tattered drapery, with an old tLawl wrapped around her infant, dhe mothers face was blue with cold, and pinch ed >th hunger, and ‘'she gazed ; niteouslv up into the faces t.f the «!©ct. % Bb« w asted her time, and w&sied her'voicaless appeal. Such sights were too common in the Streets of t .30 great city to attract attention. Tho well fed clorgytnen, the dea upn* and the directors of the .mis sionary societies passed bar by without a second look. Not one of j (hath pause* to ask a question — not one stopped to drop a penny in i the outcast's hand. The crowd passed on, and the shadows of evening gathered around the helpless woman and child. The .massive door* of the church closed with a clang. A stalwar raau was walking down the *traet. He paused in front of : the homeless wanderer —-paused bent over her and spoke; •'Move out” the speaker va* a policeman. AfUn-.ali, it whs only an every uirv incident. It is hardly worth moralizing over. Just such things happened yesterday, and tp-day, and will occur again to-morrow. Man’s inhumanity to mau is an 'old story. —Constitution. TO DEUMOUEoTS. DeAlt Dej LNurErsTs: —We bar# t&dly asked you, through the mails am. pa er, far wha you are due this;establishment, “ lit you mem to .not care a cent wtetb.er wa pet |t or L >t, We are being jui-hed for jijouey which we ju-lly owe, but cm account ol vour indifference, we can not par. You •* # -* * iy e us honestly aed justly. The money jjjlj.ST come by mild or harsh me?ns sud l Uat Its all there is about it. There is wr* •’1 -hundred dollar* on our books which te e Teen due for years and now we want it. , Here is a few facts we will give you: :Q*n the first of December John A. Cureton will have all the accounts due u* at the *v Denton postoffice, John Mi Maha in His dis ti Let, J. E. Pa tterson, agent, wild wood, I. ;t . Moreland, at Rising Fawn, the justice of peace at Smith’s, also at (foie City. Pay up and gave c«id and at once- You have a statement of your account. Money must eon,e or we will he forced jso suspend, and it we -are iojrcf.xd;to tsn.‘ latt.m v\ i 0 show no quartet Respectfully, T. A. J. MAJORS, Mahoae's Disgraceful Cama*s, PlAsWiirg Post. From the «peou« f s received from muny quarters w» judge there ha* never tieen anything quite so dis graceful in American politics as the wry the public patronage is being u«rd by Mahrwie, with the ssseot of Hprrjson at the iji*tigHAon of Qyiay, ► K.X’ '- ■ ~ _i'r_ T " WUltltr pttronage of the grate has been nanded evtr to and., worse than ttiis, screws have been put In Washington officeholders to compel aasessmeuti fortnddso by iaw. Toe Republican id one of nrinerytfnd intimic^tion. lowa ItejinlilfcaiiK on the IBn. 81. l.onis K -pu-ili’-. The-Republicans are on the run in lowa, anti 6«, e prospect is excellent for redeeming : bs>t great gtate from ,he shameless R put-tiesm na ti>-* t ha* heretofore tainted its record and im paired its standing *>sorju conmu n areaiths. The nomination of Hutch ison has pro ed too much for the Re publican farmers, and they are head ing a revolt which hss thrown (he Republican leaders into a panic. T tere is no Bt*!e in the West so securely Republican ifcat the Denv er*:* cannot win it if ihev will fight f-;r it *s they fight lot JS’ew York and Indian*. Shepard M-a* Broken lioose Again. Clevolan.l Ulitiu 0«*nl«r. N >w. we suppose, the Democrats of Ohio in»y a» -.vc'.l told up their banners and .go home, leaving tiie field to Forsker and hi* Stranglers. The doughty Col in*-l Shepard of the New V »ik Mm, and Expr-s*; tiie combined Captfdo B 'hadil MtVjl j Acuinidab Sleek, who has thiust himself into the newspaper world to i i lie nuuisemeat and disgust of news j man, has broken lotwe with a 1 torrent of alush and mush on “the liemyof Navarre of the Ohio IV - publicans, the gallant, heroic, el— quetit hod hard-fighting Governor ! Foraker.” Somebody should tint j ice on Colonel S'lepard’s head. He ;is m ire than ever justifying his j imltSMu-bw’sviftws »s t<< the infinite j vsirety of hss fool ghness. Au Honest and Capable Candidate. Sjirii gliu.d Republican. Ttie drift, in ths Stiue House is toward exuavagauce and loose meth ods of administration, and the elec tion of a Governor like William JE. Russell would do something toward checking and correcting abuse- that exist. Tms ex-Mayor of Cambridge is honest, capable, firm and thorough, and the people will do well to eu *age his service* as Governor of Massachusetts. Two Anxious Men. Detroit Free Forsker and Mahone, Federal and G<>n federal a, slaveholder and Aboli dooist, and now representative Re publican*, are the tw> moat suxious men in the Uuittd Sutea. Fine Types of Massachusetts Men. J Boston Pilot. Two better type* nr Ibe future of | Massachusetts than Rus*ell and Cor-j cor*n, ths Democratic standard j hearers this.year, oou!d not he found, j They illustrste tn « aingtilarly truth- | ful w*y the natural alrengtk *f the gfftie *rud the S’range *-,f TTTTT*. UhsseTl I* the I’urTTsh VfIHBC Tmm spiritual and intellectual hon<l age, with *heawin K «.f thoipenfutlr m • teadied by a couple of generations. tC 'rc-wan in the Celtic American, mada prso'ical anrt masterful by large I •-'Tnerierice and I)»rn< cratlc b lity. T gerWe*-these elements <* ,n- Htinpe yta s-.clnt*etq in her strength and sympathy and i»elf-respect, and -they cont*ia g« rms of a growth of unparalleled grandeur. A Word of Advice to MeKiipey. 1 harlestou N.*sr- Miih'CeuS.rr. William McKinley is cock sure tl a' the ißspuhli-ccn* wPI elect their Hcketin-,©hin. William McKinley, we have admired yon ! n the past a* « straight up and down worn, griev ously in error on political Rubj°otfi, but f»r too honest for afii istion with tiie .party of Iputlbc plunder; hu*. Wil! : am Mi Kir lev, you a-e straying from the path of rectitude, ondw* shall have to let vo*i drop if you d > not speedily-mend yaur war*. You hsve a perfect to shout for Old ! Glory, to run for .Speaker of the House, to voir ss you pleast;; hut j you must keep out of bad company and not tell improbable stories, even | for tha porp ise of securing a triumph ifor your party—a p*rty.which you, William McKirlef. k now 88 well »r i wek-h'iw to.be a parly i f forgery and jtalsn pretenses. A Neoeasary Fact of the Machinery. St. Louis iiej.ubiic. It turns out that tbe affidavits on which the Republican Canvassing Board threw out the Tunnel Pi«c uci votes in Montana were forgeries. It is getting to be mighty difficult of late to recqgnize a* Republican any j campaign in which forgery and fraud do not pity a promdnent part, Their Reputation Gone Long Ago. Detroit Free Press. The dishonesty of the Republican campaign in Ohio ought to defeat that party if there were not a scot* of additional sreasons for its defeat. There i* a certain class of politicians who believe that everything isfair in politics, as in war; but it ts not good for any party to keep such men at the front. It is not good for the Republican party iu Ohio to be led by men who hotd that doctrine, even though they qualify it »s Halstead did by half confession when found out. Such leadership, if fatal to i nothing else, is certainly fatal to Ihe reputation on which the Republicans have plumed thrm-elves ir the pest ■ f f being the party of moral ideas. v 0,35. tIUPERSTITIOKS. Nations Aroony -Civihz*d ;Peqple. TnTiriffftr>v are jfveieliip dw «mi K ipp-Tinoera >«nd ‘funlV.ipru held in grent aversion ti*. Germftiiy. coos»*»r* and *ro said tbrnujfhoot >Franee to h* uih lucky persnnf,, and gruatlv fe»r»d. Tn Sardinia fh»>rf» ia •.« proverb, ‘•God gmard uji from th« learned •m«n’-« eye.” Men of letters are there accounted unlucky. There is, even amono. tie, n prepw dice aguinsl hunch-th«dseil persouq, nod they are particularly feared .in European countries. in (Russia it is s g-rpst miefortur*i • o meet -any o«u ; i n ,:nourt>ing, sntl ituch persons sre carefully excluded Ik>iu social eejoyments. •Id S 'rtm it ie roost unlucky te meet u one eyed an»n in the street, and a proverb in Cairo is : ‘you see a one-eyed -nrtsn .pass on your •ide, return hina a stone.” Masons and sawyer* in parte of France, and millers in Saxony, are proscribed men. whom it is danger ous do h»vfc‘tiee 1 tngs with except ip the way of necesisary tnrdnea*. In a certain -Scotch village, the fishermen will have -nothing 1 to do wi'h the members of certain families named fftotwjOtfl.y-or White, fl'hey bring dowlet <»n their boats, and it is a had omen to meat them in the morning. Le pers are thought to hrtrng mis fortaue with them, .and are shunned everywhere!. Epileptics and those afflicted with Rt. 'Vitus’ dance are careful ly avoided iin yasious.parts af Fu rope. EL*utP or ddforpnefi ipersona ava ntep regarded as •bringing ill luck to the passer by in many countries dq Sicily *.tt w dangerous to imeet lheu\. O'* even to hear their names pro~ rmunced. The »ri«wli is frequently represented as being :Prie«ts were Jong thought parficti Jarly unlucky passengers on >boarfi Ship 8«y ■-»-*■>titer "TfrfisTft fishermen will not pronounce their names; -nr that of their calling-wltile out in liieir hotis. *'A pnrt ridge'” soys *he \\ . Pie-s, “fl w into a .Fait h**ld saw mill I net welfc, t.nd iremnined there a day in spits of the uff-uM of the crew to drjre her <>ut. lit any of the crew believe in the-old superstition that the presence nr h partridge around the haunts ©f men da a sjgn of death, they must be unhappy jiwt now.” IBeptenaher 80 is a favorite date with Frederick Douglass. On tha£ day in .1838 he arrived in New York a fugitive slave, without frlench, money or food, and spent the night on <coMon bale*. <on the same date* fiftj -one year* later, he embarked on the famous war ship Kenraarge as the Minister of the .United States to a foreign country. Birat i-mnus b? everywhere, evpn among us, regarded as unfortunate. Sportieg men par’icularlv tiread t** meet a cn'i—eysd [icfs >n when about to play or <-n the road to the rare*, ttqoini-eyad poop e are a Iso dreaded., and-many-think sore eyes a danger ous possession. Persona whose heavy eyebrows nearly meet are in many places regarded with great disfavor. Shepherds have a bad reputation in meat European countries. They must be carefully saluted when tlrey are encountered, fllse they will lisuse you harm. Rati cular .precautions are taken dn parte of iFrance to keep the children out of sight when shep herds are near, tor fear of evil con sequences. Ragpickers are thought equally dangerous ,in NeufchateU Switzerland. The prejudice against red-headed men is an old one and widespread. Judas was declared to have had a ruddy beard, but the origin of the antipathy to red hair is particularly traceable to Christian influence against the heathen gods, Odin, Thor, Indra and others being represented as red-haired. This was p—Kbly aided by race antagonism, the red haired barbarian being feared and avoided by -the conquered .latic races. ’A Blow at Popular .•overelgntii, N*w Orleans Times- Democrat. ;i hls attempted rape of Montaoa ; i« a palpahle Meal. Util* tho method of the Louisiana Returning Beard tran* planted to the* Northwest. B&t it cannot thsiva there any more than it did here, dt is a blew at,popular sovereign tv that