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Australian papers state that raiein
grape vineyards in that country are
being planted upon a large scale, and
that land sufficient to produce 10,000,
000 boxes of raisins is already under
cultivation.
“Do you use the whole of your
lungs?”’ queries the Chicago Herald.
Of course, you reply that you do; but
the chances are that you don’t. For
physicians say that not one man ina
hundred uses all his lungs.
The New York Tribunc states that
¢in most denominations thereis a gen
eral feeling against consecrating a
church on which there is a mortgage.
A certain church which has a debt on
it, wishing to respect this feeling, re
cently had four-fifths of the building
ronsecrated, leaving the remaining one
fifth to be consecrated when paid for.”
A cablegram from Berlin, Germany,
tells that a missionary named Liemens,
in the small fortified town of Emden,
in Prussia, has b2en sentenced to one
week’s confinement in the city prison
for causing the death of a servant girl
of twenty years of age named Sophie
Frischer. He baptized her in ice-cold
water derived from an open tank on
the roof of the church during a violent
snowslorm last winter.
The California Academy of Sciences
is working hard to preserve the big
trees which still belong to the State.
A special committee is preparing maps
showing the area proposed to be re
served; and a bill to accompany these
maps will be drawn for presentation
to Congress. Some of the finest of
the big trees along King’s River are
already in possession of private own
ers, who are rapidly converting them
into lumber. But there are enough
left in the public domain to make a
magnificent reservation.
The horrors of cattle ships, accord
ing to Mr. Plimson, a member of the
British Parliament, equal those of the
former Portuguese slave ships, when
slaves were packed in the holds like
herrings. The beasts are packed so
close that they hold each otherup. If
one falls from weakness it is trampled
apon, and in rough weather it isim
possible to feed or water them proper
ly. When the ship rolls heavily the
horns of the animals are driven into
one another’s sides, and not infrequent
ly there legs are broken. Yet they |
are not put out of their misery, for
that would invalidate the claim for in
surance, so they must lie in agony un
til they die. »
The process of Russification to which
the until recently antonomous Grand-
Duchy of Finland is now being sub
jected resulted in an incident at
Helsingfors the other day, during the
annual visit of the Russian Emperor
and Empress, that can hardly bave
been agreeable to their Majesties.
The Finnish students are famous for
their glee singing, and have ou all
former occasions delighted their Im
perial visitors with their music.
When, however, on this occasion,
called upon by the Czarina to sing be
fore her and her consort, the former
leader of the glee club curtly told Her
Majesty that the club had been dis
solved as the Finnish Nation existed
no longer. ;
People in the Transvaal, says Labou
chere in London Truth, are hugely
“amuséd at the absurd fuss which we
have becn making about Stanley. His
so-called® exploits excite nothing but
derision, for there are dozens of old
Dutchmen who have performed the
‘actual journey that Stanley has talked
50 much about, and who think nothing
~ of it. They know all about the dark
forest, the dwarfs (they call them
~ #Vaalpensies,” or bushmen) and noth
~ing that Stanley can tell them is really
~ news.ln fact, friend of mine who
. knows what o s saying, assures mo
. that any old Dutch farmer would be.
o gamanawad o s 01l that Qe ok Moo
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
- Cordele is now a signal service station.
Cotton is sprouting in the fields in
} Oconee county.,
The citizens of Polkville, Hall county,
‘want a postoffice, and want it bad.
The inerease in the taxable property of
Watkinsville over last year is $22,000.
An Alliance co-operative store has been
established at Tippettville, Dooly county.
Wagons loaded with chestnuts roll into
Gainesville from the mountains every day.
Four hundred hands are engaged lay
ing track on the Macon and Dublin rail
road.
A great many hogs have died with
cholera in Pickens county during the past
month,
Augusta operates twenty-six miles of
electric railroad, with seven more miles
almost ready for the cars.
The directors of the Hartwell bank
have let the contract for the erection of
a handsome bank building.
There are seventeen colored Alliances
in Putnam county, with a flourishing co
operative store at Eatonton,
The prospects for a good sugar canc
crop in Decatur county are flattering, but
it has been too wet for potatoes.
Applications will be made at the next
session of the legislature to incorporace
the town of Etna, iz Polk county.
In Emanuel county cotton is sprouting
in the bolls, and that which has been
beaten in the ground is coming up.
The bond of Postmaster Denning, of
Augusta, has been perfected, but the
names of the bondsmen are withheld,
A company has been organized and a
charter applied for by citizens of Gaines
ville, who will build an ice factory with
home capital.
It is reported that the farmers of Henry
county are in a better financial condition
at present than at any piriod during the
past ten years.
Four years ago not a bale of cotton was
shipped from Brunswick. The Z%imes
says 250,000 bales will be shipped this
season.
The Franklin Gold Mining Company,
of Pickens county, has sent over $17,000
worth of gold to the mint since January
1, 1890. |
Arrangements have been completed for
running the trains of the Georgia, Caro
lina & Northern railroad from Green- |
wood, 8. C., to Auguséa, |
The people of Caire are not satisfied
eith the census returns, consequently ‘
Prof, J. M. Glenn is taking a new census
on his own responsibility. |
There were 22 carloads of lumber un- ‘
loaded at Brunswick in'one day lust week.
There are twenty-two vessels now bound
for Brunswick, for lumber alone.
The Georgia Phosphate and Mining
company, of Thomasville, has been or
ganized aund.is now ready to develop the
rich phosphate beds of Thomas county.
There are 8,027 registered voters in
Bartow ccunty, 2,386 white and 641
colored. There aretwo districts in the
county in which no negroes are regis
tered.
The benefits of the game laws enacted
by the last legislature are becoming per
ceptible in the unusual large quantity of
game reported in every section of the
state.
A canning factory company has been
organized in Savannah, which proposes
to go actively into the canning and
packing of fruits and vegetables early
next season,
On November 12th the Thomas county
stock breeders will have a stock show
and grand country basket picnic, shoot
ing match, tournament, etc., at Paradise
park, Thomasville,
Citizens of Oglethorpe county who own
swift fox dogs, contemplate making up a
pack and entering them to compete for
the prize offered by the Piedmont Expo
sition Company at Atlanta.
The cotton gin boiler on the plantation
of J. M. Stillwell, near Griffin, exploded
Monday evening, killing William Sims |
and Edward Forrest, and fatally wound- ‘
ing Mr. Stillwell and Peter McCann, |
So far only 60,000 bushe's of rice have
been received in Savannah from the Sav- |
annah district.: As the total receipts
should be about 00,000 bushels, it is
easily seen what an enormous quantiry is
in danger from a freshet. 1
.The recent rains have done incalculable 1
damage to the crops, fences, mills, ete.,
in Greene county, entailing great loss to
the farmers. Also in Warren county the |
cotton crop seems to be rottening in the
fields and the corn crop sprouting. It is
still too wet to gather either, |
Hon, Thomas M. Norwood has filed
with the clerk of the superior court of
Chatham county a petition for the incor
poration of an Alliance warehouse and
stock company, to be known as the Alli
ance Cotton House an@ Joint Stock Com
pany, with headquarters in Savannah.
The location” of the Abbeville and
Waycross railroad has been completed,
and construction is new in progress on
the extension from Swan, Ga,, to Ocilla,
Ga. From Ocilla the road will ultimate
ly extend to Willacooch, making the to
tal length of the extension thirty miles.
The Chronicle says that Augustn hghn
[ing a capital of 6,000,000, employing.
Ragre, GpeRHUE B £ locka Mgl 916
114 spindies, spinning 80,000 bales
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Monday evening the executive com
mittee of the Fulton County Confeder
ate Veterans’ Association met at Vet
eran’s hall, in Atlanta, for th+ purpose of
formu ating a programme for the annual
memorial exercises, to be conductel by
the surviviug veterans of the war, Sun
day, October 10th, was selected as the
day for holding the exercises, and a
beautiful and appropriate programme was
arranged ,
M. R. Heflin, who has been on trial in
the superior court in Atlanta for perjury
was, on Tuesday, found guilty and sen
tenced to five years in the penitentiary.
This Heflin case has become famous in
criminal annals of Tulton ocounty, It
was upon the testimong of Heflin nnd
McCord that George Eddleman was uc
quitted of the murder of Tom Gresham.
McCord was convicted and sent to the
penitentiary some time ago, and now
Heflin will follow him.
The great wild west show will soon be
in Atlanta. Pawnee Bill has written
President Wylie, of the Piedmont expo
sition, to that effect. He says the show
was never so good as now, and that it
has won golden opinions in every north
ern city where he has taken it this sea
son, The tented village of the western
ers wiii adorn the exposition grounds
with its many little, canvas-covered
homes. Stables for more than twenty
five Mexican ponies are being arranged
to accommodate the steegs of the
warriors,
About ninety-five miles of the Macon
& Birmingham railroad have been
graded and about sixty-four miles of
track laid. The road is projected to run
from Macon to Birmingham, Ala., a dis
tance of 230 miles, of which 110 miles
are in Georgia and 120 miles are in Ala
bama, There will be iron bridges across
the Flint, Chattahocchee, Tallapoosa,
Coosa and Cahaba rivers. Nearly all the
richt of wav has been obtained. The
principal business of the road will be in
I‘\'2:,o coal, timber and general merchan
dise,
The exhibitors at the Piedmont expo
sition, which opens in Atlanta on the
15th instant, have no time to lose in put
ting in their displays. By a special order
from the managers it is necessary that
every exhibit should be in its place by
the time for the gates to be thrown open.
Every exhibitor 1s urged to hurry his dis
play to the grounds, and get it in shape
at once. The exhibits this year are more
varied and more extensive than ever be
fore, and the main building will espe
cially offer a scene of dazzling beauty
It will be a world within itself.
A letter from the officials of the Mid
dlesborough Belt Railroad Company to
the Piedmount Exposition Company at
Atlanta, states that this road will have
an exhibit at the exposition of much
significance. The road will have a track
built into the grounds will place thereon
a train of cars, consisting of an engine
and twenty-two cars, extending over 800
feet of track. In these cars will be
specimens of iron, gold and silver ores,
agricultural products, and many wonder
ful displays, setting forth the advantages
of this road and the rich country it
traverses. The exhibit will be un expo
sition on a small scale itself, :
Colonel Thomas, president of the Nash
ville and Chattanooga railroad company,
was in Atlanta Monday, to transact some
important business for the road. He
came to look into the workings of the
Western and Atlantic, concerning the
lease of the road by his company, which
will take effect December 27th; also to
investigate the details of the management
of the State road, to note the condition
of the road and its needs in every partic
ular, and especially the condition of the
rolling stock. Col. Thomas says the
road will be put in first-class condition
and that the officers are preparing a full
report of the condition of the road, and
will forward it to him in Nashville at an
early date, and work will be begun at
once toward supplying the road with
good equipments,
Woolfolk Sentenced.
Thomas G. Woolfolk was, on Tuesday,
resentenced to death in Houston superior
court. At 4:05 inthe afternoon Sheriff
Cooper came into court with Woolfolk.
The courtroom [contained about 200
poople, Judge G. F. Gober presiding in
place of Judge A. L. Miller,
In response to the question from Judge
Gober, Woolfolk replied: ‘I have noth
ing to say except that I am innocent of
the crime charged., I didn’t do it, but
I would rather be in my grave than be
alive under the circumstances that sur
round me. I am an innocent man.”
Judge Gober then read the sentence .of
death. The execution will take
place in Perry within one mile
of the jail,’ and in public
The prisoner is to be kept in the Hous
ton county jail until Wednesday, October
&9th, and on that day he is to be taken
to the gallows and hanged until he is
dead. It is not known whether any fur
ther attempt will be made to stay the ex
ecution.
Irregular Returns,
Secretary of state, General Cook, gives
notice that a number of returns have%een
made irregular, and this may seriously
interfere writh the organization of the
legislature, The law dgoverning the mak
ing of returns is found in the constitution
of the state. Theo returns of the election
for governor and state-house officers are
directed to the president of the senate
and the speaker of the house, in care of
the secretary of the state. These returns
‘are not opened until the second day after
the organization of the general assembly.
‘The returns of the election for members
of the general assembly are directed to
the secretary of state. He opens these as
soon as they arrive, sud furnishes the %;5
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tary of state. In event the returns of the
election for members of the legislature
are directed to the presiding ofticers of
the two houses, t?}e secretary of state has
no right to open them; and cannot, theres
fore, certify to the governor as to who
was elected in that county. New mem
bers-elect whose names are not on that
list cannot vote in the organization of the
general assembly, General Cook fur
nishes this listo{ counties where the re
turns are made irregularly: Burtow, Ber
rien, Bibb, Burke, Chattooga, Cofice,
Dawson, Decatur, Dodge, Dooly, Eman
uel, Floyd, Jeflerson, Madison, Mclntosh,
Milton, Mitchell, Montgomery, Morgan,
Pike, Quitman, R ckdale, Schley, Stew
art, Towns, Twiggs, Uvson, Warren,
Washington, Wilcox. Wiikes, Worth,
'No returas of any sort have come in yet
from Cobb, Bryan and Walton.
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‘ Heat Makes Your Hair Grow,
It is generally understood that the hair
and nails grow faster in hot weather than
in cold, but, perhaps, few are aware that
any temperature can impart so great a
stimulus to the growth as Col. Pejeval
sky, the Russian traveler, says the Cen
tral Asian heat did during his journey in
those regions during the summer of 1889,
In June the groung and the air became
excessively hot, so great, indeed, as to
render travel in the daytime impossible.
Within a fortnight after this oppressive
weather began 1t was noticed that the
hair and beard of all the party were grow
ing with astonishing rapidity, and,
strangest of all, some youthful Cossacks,
whose faces were perfectly smooth, de
veloped respectable beards within the*
short period of twenty days.—[St. Louis
Republic. {
THE TRIAL CONTINUED
NOTWITHSTANDING THAT DILLON AND
O'BRIEN HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY.
A Dublin dispatch says: When the
magistrate’s court at Tipperary resssem
bled Saturday morning, Crown Prosecu
tor Ronan stated that the crown had de
cided to prosecute the charges of con
spiracy against all the defendants, not
withstanding the fact that Messrs. Dillon
and O’Brien had, of their own volition,
abandoned their defense and left the
country. The courts, he said, had de
cided that under the circamstances such
as had arisen in the present case, it was
not necessary to stop the proceedings. __
AN HARBOR WANTED
AND A COMPANY ORGANIZED WITH §l,
500,000 To BUILD IT.
A San Antonio dispatch of Wednes
day says: Another enterprise has been
formulated and work is soon to begin,
looking to the securing of a deep-water
harbor on the Texas wharf at Padre is
land. The harbor will be secured by the
building of a via%nct sea wall, the esti
mated cost of which will be $1,500,000.
The syndicate is composed of local and
eastern capitalists, and is backed by un
limited capital.
A New Trick of Sharpers, |
A new scheme to victimize retail jew
elers has been devised in New York. A
young man enters a jewelry store and
after pushing his elbow through the show
case began to apologize to the owner for
the alleged accident and argues that the
glass must have been very thin. When |
e professes the utmost sorrow for the
occurrence the jeweler demands reim
bursement for his loss, but the man claims
he has no money with which to pay.
As he speaks the victim notices a S2O
bill peeping from the stranger’s pocket,
and in an instant has snatched it and is
handing the man sl7 in change, saying as
he does sothat he has deducted $3 for the
damage. The swindler appears satisfied
and leaves the store with a sorrowful ex
pression on his countenance, Presently
the jeweler takes another look at his cash,
and then discovers that the bill he has
taken was one of $2 raised to S2O.
This (?a.me was recently successfully
operated, and when arrested the swind
ler claimed that he had committed no
crime, as the bil' had been taken from
his pocket.—[Jewelers, Weekly.
The Memory Hoop.
The ‘“memory hoop” is the newest
craze among society young ladies. Any
hoop will 50, for it is covered up by
pieces of ribbon, presented by girl
friends, upon which must be painted or
embroidered the name of the giver and
the date when given. The ribbon must
have beemn worn, else it possesses no
charm. From gentleman friends a cop
per cent is obtained, highly polished and
engraved with the initials of the donor.
These are suspended by ribbons from the
hoop, which in turn, is suspended in the
owner’'s room. If a piece of ribbon
fades, or one of the coppers turns dark,
it is a sign that the giveris ill, in trouble,
or false, and the owner immediately sets
to work to find out which. Of course,
it is an infallible test.—[Mail and Ex
press. i R
Biting the Tongue,
“I.think I have done as much think
ing as anybody about this matter of to
bacco biting the tongue,” says a phys
ician in the St, Louis Globe-Democrat,
“and I'm quite sure that the effect de
pends ntirely wpon the helths of the.
smoker. It's ir ..Liéi 1e stomach of the man
{3B e e 00, s. o
men to agree upon any m&fi; ‘:,2
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DVERTISE NOW,|
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER:
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Guadalupe county is said to be the
banner A]lli):nce county of Texas,
Free delivery service has been ordered
for Durham and Greensboro, N. C., ot
the Ist of November.
Hon., Isaac Stone, formerly United
States minister to Japan, died in Deland,
Fla,, Thursday night. :
A receiver was appointed by Judge D.
M. Roberts, at Eastman, Ga., on Satur
day, for the Empire Lumber Company.
Estimated liabilities $200,000; assets
$150,000.
George Adams, agent of a Europecap '
government premium land lottery scheme,
was, on Tuesday, arrested in Birmingham,
Ala., for mailing matter in violation of
the anti-lottery law.
During the first nine months of 1890
8782 miles of new railroad were con
structed by 212 different companies, ac
cording to the Railway Age. The largest
amount of mileage constructed in any
one state was in Georgia—323 miles.
While six persons on horseback were
passing over an unfinished bridge near
Webster Spring, W. Va., Saturday, _th.e
structure gave way and all were precipi
tated into Elk river, forty feet below.
Five of the six persons were wounded,
two fatally.
On Saturday, Mrs, H. L. Whiteside,
mother of Vernon Whiteside, the de
faulting city auditor of Chattanooga,
Tenn,, sent a letter to the mayor inform
ing him that she was ready and willing
to pay any amount the ex-city auditor
owed the city, The shortage amounts to
$25,000.
The owners of the Atna coal mines,
near Chattanooga, have decided to use
convict labor. The miners employed by
the company went out on a strike some
time since and considerable trouble has
resulted. Fifty convicts were sent from
the main prison at Nashville to the mines
on Thursc?ay.
The San Antonio, Texas, Street Rail
way Company began operating its system
with electricity Wednesday. This system
is one of the most extensive and best
equipped in the whole south. It em
braces forty miles of track, while fran
chises have been secured and work begun
on twenty additional miles.
A Raleigh dispatch says: Secretary
Beddingtield, of the State Farmers’ Alli
ance, sends to each congressional nomi
nee what is known as a ‘‘demand card.”
On this are the demands of the Alliance
and the nominee is asked to sign the card
and return it, thus showing that he con
siders the demand just and proper.
A Greenville dispatch of Friday says:
The hoard of Mississippi levee commis
sioners have let the contracts for the work
of closing the breaks in the levee, caused
by the disastrous overflow of last spring.
The work let will cost about $135,000,4
The board will have ample funds on hand
to rebuild the levees in broken places and
to build them above the high-water mark
of this year.
A dispatch of Thursday, from Rome,
Ga., says: 'The search of Mr. McKee
and Deputy Marshal Brown for Mrs. Mc-
Kee has so far been fruitless. They bave
been absent from Rome since last Thurs
day, and no news from them. It is sup
posed their long absence and silence is an
indication of good results, for Brown and
McKee would have returned if they were
not on track of her. Witnesses were be
fore the grand jury, and a bill has been
drawn against Mrs. McKee by the solic
itor general.
CAROL INA SWAMP LANDS.
A DEAL IN WHICH 100,000 ACRES ARE IN
VOLVED. ;
The state board of education met at
Raleigh, N. C., and received a proposi
tion to buy swamp lands in Hyde county,
known as Hyde park, and containing
almost 100,000 acres. The lands were
taken tvrenty years ago by a company of
northern casitalists, which failed, and
they reverted to the board. The propo
sition to purchase is made by the %Vilm
ington, N. C., improvement company,
which offers 45 cents per acre. The
board will probably accept the offer, and
sixty days have been given to examine
into questions as to the title.
THE CABIN BOUGHT. )
THE LOG HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN LIVED TO/
BE EXIBITED AT CHICAGO.
A committee from Chicago, in the in
terest of the World’s Fair, has visited
Washington county, Ky., and purchased
of Henry Reed the log cabin in which
Abraham Lincoln liveg as a boy and
where his father was married to fignb%g;;
Hanks. The price paid was SI,OOO, and
it will be torn down and erected on a
prominent site at the World’s y‘l}‘@w fi*fls
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