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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN
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PIIvE COUNTY,
scBscnrmoN, $ 1.00 per annum.
1881) EDG AR L. ROGERS 1889
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NEW QUARTERS, NEW GOODS!
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Contemplating a move, I made it a point last fall to run my stock down. 1 did this and can
now fay m iny customers that in my STOCK OF GOODS WORTH 8:15,000 there is not any old
style rubbish or shop-worn goods. 1 don’t boast of owning tho earth, or of control ing the dry
goods trade of the continent, hut my past record for KOllBY STYLES and LOW PRICES is my
plea for patronage ami leave au intelligent and critical public to make up the verdict in my case.
I have en’arged my store to
Double the capacity of any other Store
la our city—How ocupymg two large stores—and am gratified every day to hear ‘he expressions
of even visitor and customer ae to iho BEAUTY and CONVENIENCE of my stores. I have thc
good:, 'lie room to display them and the salesmen to arrange and sell them. J Puy everything
for iho oasii and get all the inside fiiguree, and take all the discounts allowed tee. and proclaim
to tho world that I can sell goods in most instances as cheap as other merchants t an hoy them.
J mat afford to waste my time and tax the people’s patience by trying to enumtwato even in part
My Array of Attractions for the
Spring So, just let that ♦«>»*»♦ in few things 1 have Season. the
me say a
-INSIDE TRACK-
7,009 mm WINDSORS PRINTS 5 – C CENTS
All other merchants have to pay to Mart tiieae goods from any market. C* remember that I
Will save you 1 or 2 cents per yard ou Caticoes. 0
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GOOD HI N OLOfEKN®.
l have seen red the exclusive control of Struuse – IlroB, and V oorheos, rfJ*er – Hupei's tine
clothing. Th se, with my other atlv.uitfiges in the clothiug markets, enable we to offer to the
trade i XTRAOHDINAttY INDUCKMKNTS.
C^- DRESSCS- —O GOODS. --O
My trade iu nil kind.- of fine dress—as well as cheaper—goods is a living evidence ot my power
to do and to dare! ASK THE I.XiliK- who cltrrn-- all the Novelties In lircaa Goods und Trim
mings ami t will be content to abide their decision. I carry everything, besides goods mentioned
Hats Shoes, Trunks, Notions, Donjestics,
Umbrellas, Parasols, Et Csetera.
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Give roe a chance to show roy goods. Tell
THE GLAD TIDINGS OF LOW PRICES!
and I will make the small fish swim close to thc shore.
YOURS TRULY,
EDGAR L. ROGERS,
BABNESV1LLE, GEORGIA.
j,. jp_Messrs. Lewis 4. Collier and John F. Howard are with me and are
ever on tiie lookout for all their friends.
PATRONIZE HOME INDOSTRY!
Osiorn – Woleott.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Manufacturers of
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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER.
Repairing done neatly, substantially and with dispatch. IIo<n«-made wagons war
ranted. A car load of
Tennessee Wagons Just Received.
Best hand made harness always on hand. Wo can suit you. Don’t lose your
money by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made harness. Dealers in
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Every kind of House Material constantly on hand, and '-an make anything you
want. Manufacturers, also, of
ENGINES AND BOILERS
SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS FARM
MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS
Carry a full line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine Fixtures. Can make o;
repair anything from a Baby’s Cradle to a Locomotive .
SHcMmcps Murph.ey s
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Clarriages, Ernggim as#
<N>+ WmA-G-O-N-S ♦c\*
5 000 PLOW-EOES AT BOTTOM PRICES!
Barnesville, Ga.
Pike Conte Journal 4
VOL. 'I
ZEBU LON, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1880.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS' IN THE SO UTH.
The cruiser Charleston is to have a
present from the city of Charleston, 8. C.
The Red Men assembled in council at
grand Brunswick, Qa., on Tuesday, and had a
time.
Cardinal Gibbons visited Atlanta, Ga.,
and left for his home, Baltimore, Md.,
on Tuesday. During his stay he was
given several receptions.
The Supreme Council of the Catholic
Knights of America enlivened There at Chatta
nooga, Tenn,, on Monday. were
over one hundred delegates.
The mayor of Fairbura, Ga., denies
the report that he pronounced the prohi
bition la*'a failure, and declares the
fault to be on the part of the officers for
not enforcing the law.
The trustees of Vanderbilt Universi
ty, Nashville, Tenn., have elected Bishop
K. K. Hargrove as the successor of the
late Bishop H. N. MoTyeire in the presi
dency of the board of trust.
An accident occurred on the Buena
Vista Railroad near Columbus, Ga., in
which an engine was mysteriously over
turned and Engineer Miller and Fireman
Phillips were both very seriously hurt.
Rear Admiral Edward Donaldson,
United States Navy, aged 78, died at
his home in Baltimore, Md., on Monday.
His physicians said that old age and
liver complaint were the causes.
Col. Samuel L. Fowler, president of
the projected Reading – Chesapeake of
Railroad, died suddenly Wednesday Fowler
apoplexy, aged 72 years. Col.
owned large tracts of land in the South.
Rev. G. W. E. Fisse, Episcopal mis
sionary, died at Brunswick, Ga., on
Tuesday. All efforts to relations get Mr. lailed. Fisse
to give the names of
His trunk was searched, but no clew to
his home was found. It is thought it is
Philadelphia or Baltimore.
The Clark University, in Atlanta, Ga., im
owns 450 acres of laDd lying in its
mediate vicinity which has never been
returned for taxation. The comptroller
genera! has decided that it is taxable
property, and that the state and county
taxes must be paid on it.
There is a remarkable state of affairs
at Lauren burg, N. C. W. R. Terry was
recently appointed the appointment postmaster there. offen- It
appears that is so
sive to the people that they will not send
or receive their mail through that office,
but they use John’s Hill, a town some
distance away as postoffice.
At Avondale, Birmingham, Ala., Fil
bert Hawkins, colored, took a sharp ax
and split his wife’s head wide opeq,
while she lay asleep in bed. Four ot
five people, sleepiug in adjoining rooms
and Hawktn’s mother-in-law, who was
asleep and the in the same room, discovered heard no noise until
crime was not
the next morning.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows, of
the hall of Cross Creek lodge. The at*
tendance was the largest in the history of
tile lodge. The secretary’s report shows
an increase of six lodges and five hum
died members. There are now forty-six
working lodges with fifteen hundred
members. The increase during the past
year was the greatest on record.
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The monument to dead soldiers of the
, four German ,, conpanies . . m the Contain- t i
rabt serv.ee in Bethany Wednesday cemetcr ,Charles
ton, 8. O., on The mono
ment was unveiled by ten little German
girls c sdm white while a German
band played a German choral. Theded
ffiraasr–ors
as-atts-ass -jss
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Frank Muse Jackson Bogle , shot , at , ^nd Nashville,
Bogle is a contractor, and unloads
ber car/*. He was behind with
employes’ wages, and Jackson aud
other negro threatened to get
mouey’s worth out of Bogle’s
Jackson advanced towards Bogle with
heavy stick in his hand, and the
shot him in the forehead, the pistol
penetrating his brain and causing
death. I he parties are all colored.
The sensation in Memphis, Jud^e J. J. Tenn.,
the impeachment of DuBose,
since September, 1888, judge of
county criminal court. The
cause of impeachment, as recited in a
in chancery, is that DuBose was
second of James Brizzolari in the
duel between Brizzolari and
Phelan, just over provision the Arkansas line, in
July, 1870. By o in the state
law that went into effect in May, 18.0,
participation in a duel forever bars the
participant from holding public office,
In the criminal court of Birmingham,
Ala,, on Tuesday, Ben indictment Elgy, colored,
pleaded guilty to an eharg
ing him with murder in the first degree
for the killing of J. W. Meadows, a
white man, last January. Elgy is prob
t bly the worst and most desperate negro
criminal in the country. About three
years ago, he murdered and robbed a
white woman in Cobb county, Ga., and
soon afterwards shot a policeman in him At
lanta, Ga., who was trying to arrest
for burglary.
Mrs. IJenry Thompson, a most beauti
ful and popular lady of Chattanooga,
Tenn., the wife of the master mechanic
of the Chattanooga, Rome and Colum
bus shops in Chattanooga, Tenn., met
with a tragic death Tuesday by taking,
through mistake, an overdose of oil of
tansy. She had been feeling very in badly
for several days, and persisted drug. Neither taking
a dose of the dangerous
sho or her husband knowing what
amount constituted a dose, she took two
teaspionsfuljfrom which she died within
two hours in great only agony. This danger
ous drug is given in extreme cases
of trouble peculiar to women, and four
drops is considered a dose.
Dr. W. N. Shoemaker, a prominent
wa^senf 1 to the state" lunatic asylum!
having become suddenly insane from the
use of morphine and cocaine. He filled
his pockets with pistols and knives, and
going on the streets, chased every one
be met in doors until he was overpow
ered. While alone in his room one night
ho in nil e an opining in his nbdomen
large enough to insert his hand, and then
with a knife removed a tumor, which
was almost as large as an egg, from
which he suffered for years. Ife then
sewed up the wound without assistance,
llis recovery was considered as little
short of a miracle.
The supreme* council of the Catholic
Knights of America met at Chattanooga,
Tenu., on Tucsdny, every state and ter
ritory in which the order exists being
represented President except Montana—Supreme of Orleans,
presiding. Coleman, The New
auditing day was spent in re
ceiving and reports of officers
and in general discussion of matters to
come before the council. The report of
the supreme treasurer showed receipts
of the general purpose fund of the order
from April 23, 1887, to and including
hand April 35, 1880, including the balance on
Tho membership April asf 1887. to lie *42,131.
now numbers 17,872,
and there have been during the time 452
deaths.
The northern part of Tuskaloosa coun
ty, Ala., has for somo time been over
run w ith illicit distillers. It is a wild,
and rough with country, their along the Warrior river,
stills concealed in the
caves, tho moonshiners have defied the
law, and it ha* been a long time since a
revenue officer, ventured in that locality.
Made bolder by their success, the moon
shiners have recently become a tovror to
the law-abiding citizens of tho commu
nity . Thursday about fifty of the best
citizens of that locality held a mass
meeting and adopted resolutions, and
then a vigilance committee was orga
nized to aid the officers in breaking up
tho stills and capturing the moonshiners.
The largest crowd that ever gathered
in Mount Olivet cemetery, Nashville,
Tenn., was attracted there Thursday by
the ceremonies incident to tho unveilling
of the beautiful monument erected over
the Confederate dead. The Confederate
Monumental association was srganized
about two year* ago for tho avowed pur
pose of erecting this monument, and it
was unveiled in tire presence of about
eight thousand people. Hon. William
C. P. Breckenrrdgc, of Kentucky, made
the oration of the day. The base of the
monument is fifteen feet square, and is
composed of ftmrblocks of different sizes.
Then comes a die, on which tho shaft
rests. The shaft, is surmounted by the
figure of a Confederate soldier of white
Carrara marble. This was carved in
Italy, and weighs nearly 4,000 pounds.
The statue is nine feet high, and stands
on precisely a granite pedestal, back, and with overcoat
on thrown exposing belt,
cartridge is box, bayonet and canteen. His
gun grounded. Tho soldier wears a
soft felt hat, well thrown back, and tho
countenance and general appearance of
the statue is that of a typical soldier,
around the shult is wrapped the Confed
The erate flag, showing the thirteen stars.
whole monument stands forty-five
feet high.
BEGGED IN VAIN.
Lee Carson, alias Charlio Armstrong,
colored, was hanged at Shelby, N. O.,on
Monday for burglary. Sometime last
y cto be r * Armstrong and his brother en
* _ J' 1 ^ Angelina
erG ? 10 " 0l { 80 ra * Dean
during her absence, and stole A
everything she had. In November the
two men were m rested for tho murder
*hilbeck, and the goods stolen
from Mrs. Dean were found in their
murder Zl'r and was taken from tho county t0 Z J
jai j , on t(d , h(J nillt of Decemhcr ut ,
J ntil February Armstrong remained in jail
u / 28d, when he escaped,
He wag re . Br egted April 12, curing the
„ itti e of thc C9urt tried, ’ convicted and
s^–zxsxd£ geDteu ced to be ,, d for burglary.
“ d
soon as
breakfast was over, he was given a bath
and dressed in ids burial clothes, when
hig Bpiritua t adviser was admitted and
stayed over an hour. Rev, J. E. Ilarbe
gon conducted religious exercises, nfte r
which Armstrong addressed tho crowd
for near i y an hour. He said he had be
glln in crime try stealing a quarter from
his brother, From this lie descended in
deeper murder. crime,hut He had he had never committed
stolen from a number
of bouses and stores, ha d broken into
two freight trains on the Charlotte, Col
umbia – Augusta R. R.,and had set fire to
several buildings. He did not think he
ought to be hung for what he did. Ilis
continued downfall was due to gambling
and not to and drinking prayed whiskey. five He knelt
in prayer for minutes,
As the sheriff began pinioning his arms
fainted, caused by great excitement
intense heat. He quickly recovered,
as the black cap was adjusted, be
the sheriff long and piteously for
his iife, and after the props had been
he called the sheriff to him
again sheriff and begged told him him to release him.
he could do nothing,
and Armstrong asked time to repeat the
Lord’s Prayer. When the prayer wss
he said, “Lord, Jesus, have
and at 11:91 the platform was
withdrawn and hia body fell four feet
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STATESMAN DEAD.
Allen Ihorndykc Rice, the newly sudden- ap
pointed minister to Russia, died
ly at the Fifth avenue hotel, in New
York, where tie was a guest. Mr. Rice
had been suffering from throat affection
for a few days past, but was not sup- his
posed to be in any danger. He took
bed three or four days ago, suffering
from tonsilitis. His tonsils had former
ly given him considerable trouble and
had been clipped. Dr. Fuller says the
glottis swelled suddenly and shut off the
breath. Such cases are of very rare oc
currence, aud this instance was unlooked
for, though every precaution had teen
taken. It is thought that Col. Elliott F.j
Shepard, editor of the New York Mail
and Express, will be appointed ministeii
to Russia to succeed Mr. Rice. Col.
Shepard will ask for the appointment at
at once.
AERONAUT KILLED.
„ Prof. St. Clair, an aeronaut, , attempt- ,, ,
!M . Fair Ground park, If 1 ' at .°» Houston, L, ov’^ Texas,
j??* Jus grip on the parachute and Jell
® to the earth. He was instant! j
OYER THE GLOBE.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
fbance’8 peril—strikes—the western boom
—DEATHS OF EMINENT MEN—ACCIDENTS, FIRES
AND SUICIDES.
An enormous land slide has occurred
villages, at Spiessback, Geimany, destroying the
forests aud cattle.
The strike of the weave s lathe cot
ton factories atTiizy, Frame, is ended,
mutuil concession having been made.
The Illinois House of Representatives
passed a bill appropriating $50,000 for a
monument to the lute Gen. John A. Lo
gan.
Mrs. Mary Lambrccht, a bride of
ten days, was run over Wednesday in
Yerkes’ Chicago, Ill., and killed by one
cable cars.
Many arrests were made Wednesday in
St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, in
connection with the discovery of a new
plot against the czar.
Two Germans were nearly lynched at
a socialist meeting in Zurich, Switzer
spies. land. They They were arrested. suspected of being
were
Coningby Disraeli, nephew of the Into
Lord Beaconsfield, made his first, public
speech day. at the bar In London, Wednes
He denounced homo rule.
Th» country around Newnan, Ga.,
was visited Monday with an infant cy
clone, accompanied by bail and wind
und rain, blowing down trees and fences.
the The Chefoo claims riots for damages have i rising out by of
been settled
Iho Chinese. The English and American
(lags have been rehoisted, the Chinese
troops saluting them.
Thc strike at Dortmund, Germany is
ipreading, strikers are assembling at the
pits aud parading streets and menacing which
employes at the water works
supply the districts.
The president of tho fruit exchange
of Vienna, Ails., announces that iu conse
quence of the Jewish boycott, the street
market will not be held unless the gov
ernment intervenes.
The London Standard says, tbo Ulster
peers end unionist members of the
House of Commons abolish are the pressing office the gov- lord
ernment lo of
lieutenant of Ireland.
A syndicate Thomas of Philadelphia Cochran, capitalists, has
headed by pur
chased grapahono rights for the world
outside of the United States and*, 'anada.
The price paid was $500,000.
Richard Pigott, the forger suicided of the Par
nell letters ami who in Spain,
hud his life insured for $5,000 in the
English und Scotish Law iife office. The
that he committed suicide dries not
the
8. F. Anderson, aged fifty, widow, of Nebras- aged
ka City, Neb., married a
fifty-nine, a few night days ago, and during
thc wedding became violently in
sano. lie tried to kill her and then
made several unsuccessful attempts to
commit suicide.
The east gable wall of an old high
stoop house, on Spring stroot iu New
York city, which is being torn down to
make room for a big business building,
fell on Monday while some men were ot
work under it. Two men were killed
outright; unother was fatally hurt.
Tho license courtof down Philadelphia, I’a.,
on Tuesday, handed its second in
stallment of decisions in cuscs of appli
cants for liquor licenses. Only 400 li
censes were granted out of 1,800 appli
cants, The licenses decreased 4,000
in a year.
Frank Ryan and Harry Sadler, two
young men arrested upon the chargo of
attempting to wreck thofNew York and
Chicago limited vestibule train on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne – Chicago
Road recently, broke down and signed
a confession their of guilt crime. Monday, giving
the details of
An accident occurred at the Michigan
Oar Works in Detroit, by which one man
lost his life outright and three more were
fatally hurt. carload A gang of of laborers were
unloading the a holding iron, the when some
part of brace load broke
and several tons of iron fell on the men,
completely burying them.
A conspiracy has been discovered
among the military officers stationed in
St. Petersburg, Russia. A large number
of the conspirators have been arrested.
In their possession were found papers
which proved that they intended to
muke an attempt to assassinate the czar.
A number of bombs were also found,
Employes of the lapweld and buttweld
departments of the National Tube Works
Co., at McKeesport, Pa., tiled for an ad
vancc in wages of ten per ccBt. Two
thousand men are rolling out. Employes of the
galvanizing and departments also
threaten to join employed the strikers. this About
fi,000 men are in plant.
A disast.ous fire broke out Inured ay
in Saint Sanveur, in the house of Mrs.
McCann, on Vallier street, in Quebec,
Canada, and wooden spread with district great which rapidity
through the sur
rounds it. The streets burned are por
tions of Vallier, Chenel, St. Peter aud
Ste Maria. Nearly 500 small houses
were destroyed
A terrific storm passed over the
aarsttza rsa* –
blown down
The ferry boat Peerless plying . be
A, tween Philadelphia, Pa., and Gloucester,
J., collided with the Philadelphia <fc
Reading Schultze, Railroad ferry boat J. 8.
’Wednesday, m Delaware river,
badly injuring five young women passen
gers on the Schultze, and carrying away
a portion of the latter’s ladies’ cabin.
Two of the injured girls will probably
die.
The families of W. P. Shoretz and W.
?■ Denham in Lake were Trout, spending Bartow the day fish- Fla.
mg The twelve-year-old county,
son of Denham
stole away from the party and went in
swimming. be Getting beyond bis depth,
began screaming, when Miss Sheretz
NUMBER 2G.
| went into the water to assist him. The
j boy clutched drowned. her frantically and both
wore
I Ten brigands were hanged in the
courtyard of the prison at Sofia, on Wed
nesday. They were led separately to
the scaffold. Eight were hanged in
succession. Eacli man was enveloped in
a the bag waist. passed Their overhead and ri aching to
longed several minutes. struggles were pro
A mob broke
through jail, the cordon, surrounding the
and the gendarmes had great diffi
culty in keeping them away from the
scaffold.
The steamship Columbia, which has
just arrived at Astoria, Oregon, bound
; from San Francisco to Portland, reports
the loss of the Oregon Railway and
iron Navigation Co’s magnificent side-wheel
steamer, Alaskan, which foundered
at sea off Cape Blanco while on her way
j steamer from Portland fortunately to San carried Francisco. Tho
no passen
gers, and having when on board only hor officers
crew she went down. Five
men are reported drowned.
Tho theater at Worcester, Mass., burn
ed Thursday. Tho tiro apparently
started in the roar of the building near
the stage. Explosions followed each
other in rapid succession, and in a short
time the roof fell in. Bay State hotel
stands in close proxmity and its H-.ir
wall was blistered and was only saved by
heroic work by the fireman. “Faust”
was and played that night by Lewis Morri
son company. Mr. Morrison places
his company’s loss at $11,000, including
costumes.
A dastardly attempt was made Thurs
day night to wreck a passenger train
3tt, bound west on the Fitchburg Rail
road at Shelbourne Fal is, Mas i. The train
leaves that station at 10:54. Shortly be
fore this hour the track walker found a
pile of ties on the track at a sharp curve.
He attempted to remove the obstruction
and was vigorously atosusA Fy Bom©
kuown persons. If the obstructions had
not been discovered, a terrible smash-up,
attended with loss of life would have
resulted.
Meddle Manifee, a laborer nt furnace
No. 4 of the Tennessee Coal, Iron –
Railroad Co., (Eusley City, Ala., plant)
met a terrible death. He went up on
the ore elevator, and was engaged in
dumping toward some the ore into the receiver. He
turned elevator-way, but was
overcome with gas and fell just before he
reached tho elevator. Instead of land
ing on the elevator, tbe ho fell under it und
was plunged to ground below, a dis
tance of eighty-fivo feet, breaking his
neck.
A BAPTIST CONVENTION
TASS BTIIONG RESOLUTIONS ABOUT
DAY OBSERVANCE AND PROHIBITION.
Southern There was only ouo session of
phis, Tenn., Baptist which Convention at
concluded its
and adjourned on Tuesday. Dr. W.
Hatcher, of Georgia, introduced the
lowing adopted: resolution, which, after
Sabbath was Union is “Whereas, The
national legislation laboring to secure
as will allow
ployes of the national government
day in seven as a day of rest;
Resolved, That we fujly sympathize
this important object of the
Sabbath Union, and request our
to promote its work, as far as may
practicable.” Tho following
offered by Dr. J. II. Scanfill, of
were also unanimously adopted:
as, The liquor traflio is a most
hindrance to the Gospel of Christ and
whereas, aggressive enemy traffic to social order; und,
this is steadily
ing upon all that Christian men
and the human heart holds dear; and,
whereas, it seeks to destroy the
ian Sabbath and annihilate public
and public conscience; and, whereas, all
Christian bodies should speak out in
uncertain tones on this question; there
fore, Resolved, by the Southern
Convention assembled, that we favor
speedy and entire prohibition of
liquor this traffic traffic; in that and we oppose all of license its forms for
any
through which men buy tho right to de
stroy human hope and happiness and
blight human souls as an offense against
Dublic morals, and a sin against God.”
COURT-ROOM MURDER.
A NASHVILLE MAN KILLS ANOTHER FOB
CALLING niM A LfAIt.
JJm Tamer and Tom Holton, of Nash
v in e> juflgo Tenn., had a lawsuit to be tried,
| )u t Quarles, Turner’s lawyer, was
no t present, having He been called to the
criminal court. had been in the office,
however, a few minutes previous. Jus
tiee Brown volunteered to go himself to
the court-house and see Judge Quarles,
This he did, and returned a half hour
later with tho information that he would
continue the case, since Turner’s lawyers
would be unable, on account of other lo
gal engagements, to be present. Turner
secured E. T. Holman, nud came c into
the office with the announcement that he
had secured another lawyer, and was
ready for trial, but was had told been continued, by Justice
Brown that the case
and that he was not at liberty to do this,
lor the reason that his lawyer was not
there at the hour when the case was
called. “Yes, he was here,” replied
Turner, betraying anger and excitemcnt
»•"" – “Y ou are a
k s
covered Holton, who sank limp, and
apparently lifeless, to thc floor. Justice
Brown leaped f rom behind his desk and
grabbed Turner. As speedily placed as possi
pie the wounded man was on a
etre t c her, and removed to his home,
t,,. d ; cd
THE FIR8T ONE,
William Kemmiler ol Buffalo, N. Y.,
who is convicted of murder in the first
degree for the killing sentenced of his mistress, “suffei
Tillie Zeigler, of dpath was be inflictedt to bj
the penally of electricity.’’ to within
tho application June 24th. Thi(
the week commencing
is the first death sentence under the saw
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ALLIANCE NEWS.
TURPENTINE YIELD.
Jeff Lucas, of Dormlny’s mills, Wil
cox county, Gn., got 550 gallon*, of
►pirits turpentino out of 50 barrels of
arude turpentino and distilled it in two
days.
CATERPILLARS.
Bumpter county, 8. G., is infested
with stnull caterpillars which eat tho
gum harm. leaves, but do not who seem to do any
A gentleman l as observed
these insects states that hogs and fish
are them. about the only things that wilt eat
GOINO TO FIGHT.
Tbe Waynesboro, Ga., Farmers’ Al
liance has fallen gracefully into line ami
has deciffeil to lock arms with their
brothers in fighting the bagging trust
And, showing that they are in earnest,
they have placed their orders for 5,000
yards of cotton bagging.
SOUTH UAItOHNA MOVEMENT.
A meeting of the business agents of I I
banco thirty-two Alliances held of the Farmers’ Al
was in the court-house at j j
Greenville, S. C. The most important I
mutter acted upon by the agents was
making a move to establish, iu the city I I
of Greenville, a central business bureau
ter with of a prices county agent, to arrange the mat- j
merchants and ol supplies between the | j
farmers. It is intended I
that this action shall take effect at as
early a day ns possihlc.
FABMEltS LISTEN'
We clip this extract from the Chicago
correspondence to a trade paper:
“Oats have improved iu value, owing to
an urgent cash and speculative demand.
The South lots louyht freely and is still
ducing hungry. This has had the effect of re
our small stock still fuither, tho
reduction being 48,300 bus. for tho week,
O c'nlv' JH iff , 1 UR na (ttflfllc
in still store. in the There May option, is a large and short unless interest holdf
era of contracts can get a fair settlement! foi i
we are liuble to see higher prices rule
present month. ”
HOW TO DO IT.
Here is our own state of Maryland,
fruitful in hill and stream, but largely
undeveloped; possessing all the attri
butes of soil and deposit which for high cul
ture, with a climate ever her own
wanderers bless on their return. Her
farming, her dairy interests, her cattle
breeding, her mining.hcrmanufacturing, sadly need
her fisheries—all her blessings emigration
advertising,jt° invite of the
better class and the development of her
vast opportunities. The coming exposi
tion is a strong, searching, entering
wedge, and if properly will followed be long with
sledge-hammer this blows aniH re
membered by
tions.as the initial f^HH
gentlemen, well wnrtrre
hearty support .—Balthnt •/
Allot T FLAX.
Prof. Wilicttsf ffie'Assistant Secret^ D. O.,
of Agriculture, of Washington,
has under consideration a letter from
Ireland, which he thinks may offer a so
lution of the economic problem: wheat “What farms
shall take the place of on
where it can no longer be raised at a
profit?” The writer, who has been fa
miliar with flax-growing and linen man
ufacturing since 1840, says in his inter
esting communication: There are only
two establishments weaving—one nt
Webster, Mass., and the other ot Apple- and
ton, Wis., the latter doing but little,
neither weaving anything finer than
crash. There is nothing in the climate
or Goil conflicting witli the assertion, that
just as good flux and lii cn may be pro
duced in every stato in the American
Union as in any country. > Germany 1.0 1
spins and weaves the finest linen, and
sho has no essentially differing things become climate
from America, Many
successful in America from the facility
with which the people take up and adopt
any improved processes aud appliances, the
aud this may be the salvation of
linen industry, of the importance of
which there is no question. erica# There farmere is
every reason why tho Am
should produce 1,000,000 acres of flax
for ho til seed and liber, over and above, j
what is now produced, which would gi vtj J
12,000,000 fo 15,000,000 bushels of seed,
wortli as nnuiv millions of dollars, and
2,500,000 tons of flax straw, worth $50,
000,000, and from which 500,000 tons of
flux fiber would he obtained, worth
$100,000,000. Once established, Amer
ican invention would, as in all other in
dustries, soon work up an industry to
consume tills material. I wish the Btate
experimental farms to grow a small
amount in each state, and such private
farmers as are disposed to do the same.
The flax should lip sown on any good,
mellow soil which has been manured the
past year, or active chemical fertilizers
may be employed to a reasonable extent,
Tbe seed should he bowii at thc rate of
two and a half bushels on an acre of
land, brushed in, aud no further aiteh
tiou is needed, excepting that any large
weeds may be removed until the flax has
“turned” for half its length, when it
should he pulled, cured and cared for to
keep it bright, in the tame manner as is
done with hay. The seed may he taken
off by rippling or by roller threshing,
and there will he a market for all flax
straw thus grown at $20 per ton. The
crop should give two and a half tons of
straw to an acre, and twelve to fifteen
bushels of seed. Tho cost of pulling is
in Canada $5 per acre. Prof. Willetts
has informed.the sender that tbo subject
of bis letter would bo earnestly consid
ered by the Department, which would
lend its aid to any effort to increase or
diversify th« agricultural industries of
the country.
A PROSPEROUS ORDER.
Tho sixteenth annual session of the I
supreme began lodge at Indianapolis, of the Knights Ind., of Tues- Hon- (
day. or One hundred delegates were on i j
in the UnionA pres
ont Tho representing of evety tbo state reporteiB
report following balance supreme hand iifl
showed the on
the various funds: General fund, $32,-1 i
719; widows and orphans’fund membership (benefit.) of tho i
$6,174. The total
order is 127,000. While the number pU
working lodges is 2,501, during the httSm
year, death benefits were puid amountiM M
to $82,210.