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1889 EDGAR L. ROGERS 1889
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NEW QUARTERS, NEW GOODS!
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Contemplating a non, I mate it a point last t»U to nutny stoak down. ! <tid this and can
now any to my customers that in my STOCK OF GOODS WORTH f.T5,0<)0 tbeia is net any eid
style rubbish or shop-worn goods, i don't boast of owning the earth, or of ecatroHng the dry
goods trade of the continent, but my past record (or NOBBY STYLES and LOW FttiCKS is my
pica tor patronage and leare an intelligent and critical public to make up tho verdict in my ease.
1 have tm’srgeil my store to
_ Double , , the CHjPiiCi OI n H-UV' Otoe/ Ot,OI 0
L}7
in oar city—Now ocupymg two large stores—and am gratifled every day to lirae 'lie expressions
of every visitor and customer as to the BEAUTY amt CONVENIENCE of my st-rss. 1 have i lie
great , the room to display them and tho salesmen to arrange amt sell theta. 1 buy everything
tot the cash and get all the inside (figures, and take all the discounts allowed me- and proclaim
to the world thnt 1 can sell goods in most instances as cheap as other merchant* ran h ».r them.
1 cant afford to waste my time ami tax the people, patience by trying to enu.ow.te even .n pan
My Array of Attractions -J- for •> tbe
J
Spring ♦C\3 «N>+ Season.
So, just let me any thnt inh few things I have ihe
-INSIDE TEA Civ
l,m YARDS WINDSORS PRINTS 5 – (I
All other locrchaum have to pay W. to start these goods from any market. £• remomber that 1
will save vou J or 2 cant, per yard on Calicoes.
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I have NTuml (tie exolireive control of Strauso – Rros, and .au-hee*. ■e.Ji'oT A nii|«'l s fine
clothing. These, with my other lulv ratnp-s in the clothing market*, enable mo to offer to the
trade ll YT«Afltm>l.VA« V IMILC'LHE Vl S.
O-- D U E o S c— "-O GOODS. —O
Mj trade in all kinds of flno ilr--?s-as well as cheaper-good* U a living «vllcm» of my power
ton torture! ,v<K THE I..UMKS wh.» .-..nies ail Hus Novel He. in lire* ami Trim
mi.,'.- ..ml t will w .'ooient w> abide u.v.r darUhni. I bit; even thing, b.-.ets goods mentioned
Hats Shoes, Trunks, Notions, Domestics,
Umbre las, Pai asols, Lt (. cetera.
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^ Give me n chance to *Uov? luy good*. Tesl
THE GUO liDIK OF LOW PRICES!
and I will make the small fish sw im close io die sir re.
YOUHS TRULY,
EDGAR L. ROGERS,
p A UN ESVl LUC, G EO RGIA.
N, B.— Messr-. Lewis Collier and .Mm F. ILtwavv are with van and are
ever on tho lookout w»r all their trieiuto.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
Osborn k Wolcott
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER.
Repairing done neatly, substantially an
ranted. A car load of
Tennessee Wagons Just Received.
Best band made iiarness always on hand. We can suit you. Don’t lose your
money by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made harness.
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Kvery kind of House Material e mstan ly on hand._ and cam make anything yon
w nt. Mamffacturers, also, of
^SAW^nM, MILL!?FARM ^
SYRUP
MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS
Carry a fail line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine fixtures, Caa
repair anything from a Baby’s Cradle to a I.oc,,i:i ,*ivo ,
HEADQUARTERS FOR
®afffiai©s» Bmggt©®
to* WmA-C-OmNmS * ri
5 000 PLOW-EGFS AT EOTTOM PRICES!
Barnesville, Ga.
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VOL. 1.
ZEBULON, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 25. 1889.
southern items.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
iKm “ ,z ™* t ’ C0 ™ T0I ' WHAT ,s<!0l:,a01 _ , ‘ 01
imvobtanck is tub soi theiis statks.
State offlems are moving into the new
State Capitol of Georgia, in Atlanta. The
md be sold. building, in all probability, will toon
The Union Point and ........ TVhito I Iains
railroad will soon be in operation, '1 ltd
contracts have been let and work will
begin at once.
Zaehavins McDaniel, the oldest citizen
j„ Rockingham county, Va., and it pen
lil)ncr o{ thc Wlr of 1 gi 2 < died near Elk
ton, Va., Tuesday, aged 102 .
Tbe International majority, Typograpbieal accepted Union tho
has, by a large
invitation to hold its next annual meeting
at Atlanta, Ga., next June.
A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., says: road
Subscriptions to the Americus
amount now to nearly $110,000. There
nmining $30,000 will bo raised next
week.
Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga.,
U 1, struck by lightning Tuesday instantly while
standing in his store door and
killed. He leaves a wife and several
children.
postoffice At 11 o'clock Wednesday night broken the
of Waycros*, Ua,, was
f;; “ ,u wbbed Of over twelve hundred
dollars in currency, and thirteen regis
tered packages.
A middle aged negro entered Magis
!n>, ° HusselU court, hi Savannah, Sat
Rn ‘linsisted on tui rendering him
f , «"'? l‘T n^«ed *7-it f ,K
m „
mud hole In the western pan of Uaines
Yille, Ga., Sunday afternoon, by Rev.
Green Hunter. Numbers of people at
tended and witnessed the proceedings.
In Atlanta, On., on Sat unlay, attacked an I ful
mil vendor cf imitation dogs was
by a large bull dog, wl o thought the
dogs were genuine ! lie Italian escaped
but tho dogs were broken and scattered
0,1 ihe sidewa k.
A lie contain pin ted Piedmont exposi
tion, whi< li .whs to have been h id in
Charlotte, N. in the fail, has eol
lipgod on m .count (>f sonic If disiigrecmeut exposi
unions the committee. any
lion is held it will now require anew
orgauizHtiiW—
Professor Richard W. Cone, recently
a teacher in ill- Nannie Low Wurthcn
institute at Wrightsville, Ga., tins been
adjudged a burnti«. and was taken to
Stiliedg. vide Friday night. He and is a
graduatedd the state nuiverait^ was
a luan of unusual natural endowments.
A dispatch from Birmingliaim AIt
Hd road left tor Grenville, Miss.,
where they go to Inspect the newly putting com
pU-tod extension to arrange for
on through trains by July 1st.
News reached Augusta, Ga., of tho
burning of lire bn, n and rtables of Mr.
Dunbar Lamar, at Beech Islands, ft. 0.
Resides the building, eighteen mules,
three oxen, several hogs, and tlneo
thousand bushels of oats were consumed.
It was evidently the woik of an m
cemliary.
A very severe wind aud rain storm vis
Charlotte, N. C., Wednes lay after
noon, and considerable damage The was wheat done
to rati crops, < 8 ;.eci,lly also suffered corn. little d»m
fruit crop no
nge. Corn was blown down, and in some
fields uprooted entirely. The storm only
‘f e <* “ * h ' jrt a,ne ’ b,,t Wals lernfl0 flnU
ll8astruu9 '
The surveying . corps of the Columbus
is within a few iiulcs of Cuth
Ga. They are running a line from
Richland, a point on their mam me in
county, to Cuthbert. With thU
for the road, soon to Duthbert be built
Culhbert to Buinbr.dge, in railroad
have superior advantages
The Danville and East Tennessee rail
company organized at Duuville, Va.,
Among the directors are
E, Bateman and R. YT. Stuart, New
bankers. The road is ready a
extension of tbe Atlantic und
railroad, which will be com
he.ween Danville and Norfolk by
1.
The case of the Mansfield Drug Co.,
Term., against some thirty.four
Imndon which hire been on trial in the
United States circuit court for the past
week, was ended this morning, the jury
returning Limed a verdict for $88,800, the full
amount by the plaintiff company,
res II. ». Pullen, Pullen of ot Carrollton i.arrouton, ua., Ga who ynw
sttr®
asylum. Mr. Pullen has been asueccssful
{ alm er, and has accumulated a nice little
property.
^5^55 $tJSSrSS5fSa56Tt
coaches of an excursion (ruin standing
on aside track. Morris was caught be
tween the coaches and tender of the en
gi„e and his head was crushed to pull),
£lh been inlimate nt L„n with vi W Mrs. Campbell (hamnbell several several
months ago, upon which statement a bill
for divorce is now pending.
The total pafsenger earnings of the
railroads in South Laroliua lost month
as reported to the state railroad commis
Gfcft 79- ci-Awiriff a dc
rohree dur Sl.“ ng thc same period earnings last year tor
of $2,754 The freight
the month were $327,455.42, showing
increase over thc earnings irom the same
of sourco $.52,349,10, during the Same period Inst year
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There is a now railway war at Durham,
N. C. Early on Tuesday morning a huge
force of hands began the extension of tho
Richmond and Danville side track along
Peabody street. Tho commissioners
hold a meeting and passed resolutions
forbidding the road from extending the
tr:u'k.. The chief of police was Instructed
, 0 use t(l0 f urC c fl) st0 p ,j, e track-layino. |Jg
jj 1B ma ft cr „ ocs j 0 ( tbo oou ,. t3 |ln j n(
( 0 j] l0 complication,
The Georgia Bacifio railroad is now
open regular to connections Greenville-, Miss., and making
with the road from
that point, to Arkansas City on tho other
s jde of the great fiver. The road between
Warren and Caawtea beyond Arkansas
(jj tv j 3 |_, e iii<r pushed rnmdlv and wlimi
'
it s h ,,j| be completed Him there will be n new
auc j direct route Atlanta to Texan
kana. It i> exported that by tho 1st of
August (he Georgjft schedule Pacific railway will
be running trains between At
anta A dispatch and Tcxarkajjt. fronfRaieigb, N. C.
A test made ®«sday tho Raleigh says:
was railro® on
and Gaston in the presence of a
number recently of promi–nt invented railroad men Cade, of a
process foil by Bavins
of this county, telegraphing to aud
from moving trainis. A current is tnnin
tabled by means cnTjllnd Or a drug which is nt
(ached to the which slides over
a set of wifts r«j#jdfc.m IcIWalong the track. A
message w» tte offices at
o , (hirtv miles
«>“'»# at r,lte of th,rt y ”” k *
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• m.dfcht J and day
Between . Sunday
monHog the Cen^l iwlurad put ft fotre
*' furht'nf J-,v
" about i mile from
’ ( , tahrevenl the Columbus
Southern from ’cmiim- in on it An
'XlkAvns finlTfinished’ tli'^Chnl’lnlmm
: Brick iniiinet–^and rtimnsto 1 tiled a bill asking
J Iiulsrc Bmith
^ w#g at
:
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. ^1i, T S t that U htt
t •‘••‘ott, wno nnu H ui in T Dttsou ccsWw g,
«?'• hey 1": say t^ntW teat lnn tairly v wa was tnk?n taken to to
Sumter Citv foe interment. While tak
iWrots nv–< bc#ine vevv much flight- 5
emd und ran leaving tho body in
the road. One t»gro remained with it,
mid lie ' secur ' d an ax and broke open trhr
N(( was this accomplished
t),,,,, Aui-I;ev („ the unutterable amazement ol
tl LniIn.Flo out jumped The the supposed
corpse C °V woods iostamly.
,w^ » TT' s of J dm 8 w er ulined fi™t gov
(r t l'U Mon
d ,*1 Pmiiiir, near magnilLn, Montgom
cry, A.U., and eo,lined i , n
aud s ail. The train was draped in
mourning. The funeral train was met,
in addition to the local military, by tlie
officials of tho city and county and a
delegation of citizens. The procession
marched to the chamber of commerce,
rt.ro ho casket owed was paced instate.
The casket was v during the day
by hundredr of citizens. I he party left
he city Wodnesdny for Knoxville, where
the Interme nt too k place at 3. JO p. m.
f i-naniiiwm_m ,qu T . n q , n COURT '
spveb’ai constable si'i cTAToiis prisoner and
blvebai, s pectato rs killed.
, , ehoot(nff south*’of „ ffra „ 0CCU rred
• , , miles ^v. Austin four’ Tex
nino in whieh whip
men and five negroes were killed and
many others wounded. It appears that
in the neighborhood where the trouble
occurrt . d a oolored justice of the pence,
o.ange rf Wickes, imd a colored constable,
l8Hac W | ls oe, were recently elected. The
justice j, had issued a warrant for one It.
uttc and it wat put int0 the hand*
of W llson. Soon afterwards, tho lattet
ni et Litton, and Informed him he had a
warfivnt for his arrest, and proceeded It, to
rend it. Little remarked that was no
free to read ihe warrant, for he would
, 10 t be arrested by n d- nk’ger.
Quite a crowd had gathered and Wilson’s the
friends advised him that be piece
warrant in the hands of a white constable,
This he did and Litten was arrested, bnt
declared he wou’d not be tried before a
colored justice. Notwithstanding Justice his
protest he was carried before
Wiokes, whose court was in session
very abusive, and finally words led to
blows, Winchesters. then to the iitse^six-shooter*land
were riddled with bullets and died ini
mediately, i ho conMable was also killed
as whs a negro named Bell. A spec at ot
fljj 0 d w tb lead and soon djod.
a? «
died arened men gathered around ready
r(jnew the flght> but all has been quiet
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^ DARING . B , wr MimnpR MURDER.
DEAD IN A BIR
ih.m k . f«~~ «
the Louisvillo – Nashville Railroad, was
murdered and robbed Tuerday night in
on open square on First avenue, l»ir
mingbam, Ala., within one hundred toot
stolen st ice. The mmdeied man leaves a Wife
and four child ren^________
NEWS FROM STANLEY,
Letters received at Zanzibar from TJjyi,
dated March 10, say that Smutey met
Tmnno ^rtofiowera Tib att^l sent a uunabcT ot “ !8
bmk with him byjay of
the (;„„go. Stanley .nleadml cmmng to
ih<s East rt-a-t sitfl Emm 1 a^na. 1 p
Tib would arrive a, Zanzibar u
| u ty,
FARMING HINTS,
GARNERED FROM
ALLIANCE SOURCES.
The Alliances ot Georgia are solid for
cotton bagging.
Many Ailances nro having their lec
tures read at every meeting from the
Southern Cultivator , of Atlanta, Ga.
The Alliance men of DeKalb county,
Sta.,will ing at Wee have ley a Chapel grand fourth in that of July meet
county.
Tho ftcroven county, Ga., AUianoes
oppose the passage of a unenclosed law prohibiting landB.
bunting and fishing on
The agricultural headquarters of Geor
gia have been located in tho Fr.inkliu
Publishing Housr, of Atlanta, Ga., in
rooms tendered for the purpose.
Tho Dougherty county, Ga., Alliance
bought a lot and will commence tho
erection of a warehouse at an early dav.
The lot purchased has a front of 103J
h ot, running back 810.
In the last report of tho condition of
crops in South Carolina, it is estimated
that 4 per cent, luf j commercial fertiliz
ers has been used on cotton limn fast
yenr, and that 2!) per cent, of tt.3 fertil
izer used this year war home-made. As
10 corn, 53 per cent, of the crop Lis been
fertilized, and over one-half of this
amount with homo made manures.
A lar{?o m , mber of f|irmor3 cam0 (lc l
ogates ,Local to the meeting of the County Al
Seneca, ft. 0. Resolutions con
demning the bagging trust and pledging
lho numbers of the Alliance to use only
cot i on doth to in.le cotton, were adopted,
TIl0u ? h 11,0 AlUnnco declined as a body
b> endorse; the proposed cotton seed oil
ml,l > m,n v ot ', ho !"' B,l ', cr * soWrlbed
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Tho 7 , 070,000 farmers and farm labor
ers Of the United States (4,000,000 of
farms) labor chiefly to feed 60,000,001
people and the domestic animals, and to
furnish wool, tlax and other flbeis us raw
materials for partly clothing our _ than own
nation, and cotton to clothe more
1«0.«00,000 people besides our own; be
s id ea i« bt5f r g ( . (jnnntities of sugar, molasses,
’ l “ ri1 ' “ D<1 boro »
whictl „,,, fft( , tot ics work into forms ami
, u , f „ ,i . 0 »
~fr* of r
Aibm/y, <■»«., pcop.cspcnf and buying of iminydol
tors in finding off an lieu
erant florist the clematis, when the wild
clematis of that section is far inme beau
tt fal ' A resident discovered one of there
P lan , la in one of his incursions into to
l ' ountr v > !lu ‘i that for delicate be, i y, t
. clematis that bloom
f f * r suvpasscs the in
tho 8 ilrden ;- The « Tit of that section
»h.eh are as e i .o.ee as ever we ’ I e fash- t ?
^
,:ou!d 1,0broughtihrousU
“ laI ';
A Georgia tor . his formula . .
met gives
, makioif a superior fertilizer. It is
about the same as the popular Turman
fP[ n ’ ut *' e P at l b ? r ’ in lll y < T--‘.
, . 1 JOo"
.f 01 'SoXle sprinkling in pounds
1 and flftv pounds
k ai„ it In this wnv o^four ho builds no the
a P height g?" feet Ileal
re weeks then
(nudes bushel's over mid applies fr.-in thirty 10
to the sfoa. He makes
feitilizer with cotton seed meal
without tire stable manure. One
pounds col ton seed meal, fifty
acid phosphate, fifty pounds from
mixed together, hundred applying pounds
hundred to three to
acre.
T he following experience of a French
was tnmslated frem a Mox
journal: "Two peach trees of my
were covered with insects, just
they Jer.il we.-o about to flower. Having
80 tomato vinos, the idea occur
to me to place them arouml tho
und branches of tile peach trees,
shelter them frera the rays of thc sun.
What was my surprise, on tire following
to notice that, nil the insects had
except from the leaves be
vena the Influence of tbe tomato plant.
carefully separated these leaves and up
the tomato to them, when the in
disappeared and from as that though time by the eucliant- peach
beg u to grow luxuriantly. Wish
to carry the experiment further, I
some of the tomato leaves in water
sprinkled other plants, such as tho
roB6 bush, orange tree, apple tree,
tbem 0 [ insects within a few days.
gout i,.Carolina papers mention a somc
astonishing to the "oldest inhab
, ho fln(iing 0 f wild –mo in seed:
‘bothered . av j 8 in question is a growth aud
b oak somewhat,
v ^
flat, pmmp g • recent dis
havtogbeen observed,'infact,
until within tho past few days’’Both the
large and small cane bear seed, though
not freely, as is tho case with mod
n'ants, which increase tree y by running
root-stocks. The latter fact, well knowu
to botanists, accounts for the almost in
variable sterility of that pesiiferoiu
grass, the "maiden cane.” But i. H.
Bimpson, of Manatee, discovered it,
seed last year, and proved it to be » va
riety of a certain swamp gra-s, the
cum Cnrtisi. Dr. George Vasey, of the
I)cpar ment of A'.neu'ture, r-otith
linn, has recommended botani-ts to rec
ognize it- ire ‘ variety Simpsbni.
The Farmers’ Alliance is becoming a
powerful and influential society in Mis
sissippi. ft has able public speakers and
well-informed agents visiting ail of the
counties of the state, organizing al l aces
and instructing the termers in regard t<
their interests, their rights an l then
wrongs. Their lecturer, are itine ant
tbelr school-masters, lectures exactly *l»at a f* tliey an ■£
t0 der know. wv-l ! ass And It round «heme*£re t® A Je 0 o ; * -
who do not belong to.the oid- . T to
ar (act* e not >» onlyJaught agriculture,, but rapm facts relating.
NUMBER 31.
commerce and trade, how they should
sell their crops, how they are affected by
"rings” and "corners” and "combines’
and "trusts,” and by paying dearly foi
important the credit they get; and "they are taught
facts in political economy, in
relation to labor and national wealth,
where the money comes from, and wllere
It goes, and who gets it. And they are
taught thnt thoy must have more farmers
in state legislatures, and in Congress, and
in state governments to look after the
agricultural interests of tho country, and
that they must vote for triod fiiends of
the farmers for all offices from the Prcsi
uent m thi TJaitsi States down to tile
officer and thnt tests Farmers the honesty have of deep weights in
moasures. a
terest in weights and measures, as well as
in presidents and law makers.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
hf.ws iwom evebywhehb accidents, stikees,
nans, and usmssiNcts of interest.
The black vomit has made its appear
auce at Vera Cruz, New Mexico.
The total amount of contributions re
raved by Governor Beaver, of Harris
burg, for the flood sufferers to date is
about $700,000.
Three of Captain Wissman’s steamers
are Bemufeir reported coast. to have German been lost men-of-war on the
have gone in search of the missing ves-
General Greely is about to turn loose
three hundred weather prophets on the
country. On and after July 1st, the ob
servers at the signal service stations will
JoVn »d
the schooner Mwtin, are ashore nt
damaged. Two It .rlmrs. The Minnesota, and are badly
steamer is valued
(100,000 and the schooner at$38,000.
The Russian army will soon be which provided will
with hr. ecii-loading rifles,
calry „ distance of 6,000 feet. Noiseless
pow(icl . wIU „i ao be use d i„ the future by
, arming7f Uo 8rm „ Th s0 improvements in the
troops involved immense ex-
1 p ,, n(li ,|,res ‘ ■
f c u Friday, Four dead burying and fourteen nearly forty wounded per
90ns<
have already been taken out. Soldiers
are removing the rubbish aud searching
Cor tlle bodies.
Severe hail storms prevailed on Mon
a | jn mftu ‘ (lrt8 ()f u crm , in y nterfer
in passion gr8at! y th railway traffic. Whites
w as passing through the street*
of a BicHian town, ’, live of the p,under* killed.
, re^^hoeks. , iglltniDg nnd
^fy others
de-alt the saloons of Missouri the most
8cVcf0 b i owever received when he prohibits signed
jsj ew i )erfy bill. The bill
m „ e ; c c „ rc j 8 d j COi billiard tallies,
tables, bowling alleys and boxing gloves
in 8aloons - a,,<1 wlU lnto cffcct Ju! y h
A Chicago paper contains the follow
ing paragraph: "The euivivors of
Johnstown flood are throwing away their
Bibles and openly disclaiming any and be
lief in a divine providence. Men
women, who saw their loved ones swept
away and drowned, Have m their despe
ration The turned their has hacks made on religion. ntho
great calamity of Ingersolism more couhl
ists than a century
have done.
Tho mayor of Belfast, Ireland, has
sent £500 by cable to thc Johnstown
julhrers, as an installment of the Mjourt
to, be raised by.the c.Uzem ,ot
The liukash, sultan for the of Turkey tclief of the don.to^ fl f
feren. Mr. Blajno directed the ministe
to express the grateful appreclatioa of
the President and^government of ho
United States for tho generous donation
of thc sultan.
Tho Johmtown sufferers have received
enough clothing, in the shape of coulri
tuitions, to last tho people twenty years,
6,000 men are now at, work clearing
away tho debris, with the aid of dyna
mile and Are engines. Newspaper and cor
respondents have taken sick, many
have returned home. A hundred porta
ble houses are being erected, will and be if sat
refectory, a thousand gore put
up. Seventeen more bodies were found
on Monday,
HERO AND HEROINE.
. BRAVE WOMAN SAVED FROM DROWNING
JlY A BBA VE MAN.
A dispatch from Wilmington, N. C.,
tar-- Thu iu' st d-ii inn re-cue ever made
on this coa t has made Kb hard Warren,
of Wilmington, the hero of the hour.
M'res Currie Moil'd was crowning in tho
surf She is a heroine, and tohents her
fearless spirit. Her grandfather of Confederate was
Captain John N. M< fib.
fame. Her fatner was lute Ensign Lu
ge., o Moil'd, who distinguished hlmrolf
in th<-fight of the Alabama with tho
Keaisagc. fitfe «how< d her true south
ern pluck by saying to her nearly ex
hausted rescuer: "I do not think you can
save me thewavtsare to high. It unot
well you tliould perish in trying to should save
me It is not nee ssary that both
die, so if you find yourself growing loose
weak under your burden, turn releare me
and let me die alone. I will my
hold ” People in Wilmington Moffit win pro- and
sent testimonials to Miss
Warren.
CHARLESTON’S COURT.
'Pile corning session of the cnmiirel
court, which commence* ou M'-ndav
next, promises to be the most important
ever held iu Charleston, S. 0. The jury
is composed of fourteen mulattos! and
negroes and iwentv-one whites —an unu
ana ily large proportion ot the colored
race. The docket In s over 61 cases to
b- tiled—13 for murder, 16 of msault
with intent to kill, 6 burglary, 8 of va
oraney, 2 of carrying concealed weapons,
° of 3 of house-breaking, 8 of lar
rape. and the rest of minor offences. The
ceny, interest attaches to the case o
E eatest charged v,ith tbe murder of
McDow, W. Dawson, ihe 12ih o'.
[Japtain F. on
March last. It is probable, however,
:imt this case will i»e postponed.
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ZEBULON, - - GEORGIA,
—BY—
PARRY LEE,
A SPLENDID ADVERTISING AGENT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND JIJS ADVISEES.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHF.lt MATTK11S
or INTEREST EBOU TUB NATION AT. CAPITAL,
Reports received from 8;m Francisco
indicate that thc cruiser Charleston will
bo ready for anolher trial in about three
weeks. Several improvements are being
made in her machinery,
The attorney-general lies received the
resignations of Peter 8. Knight, United
States attorney ior tho touttiem
of Florida, and E. M. Boykin, United
Btates marshal for South Carolina. They
have been accepted to take effect upon
tho appointment of their successor.
The postmaster-general appointed the
following fourth-class postmasters for
Georgia: Mrs. T. R. Beavers, Dunwoody,
De Kalb county; Cornelius English,Leb,
Thomas county; John II. Sims, Mazcp
p», Milton county; Geo. J. Tiuchcr, Zeb
uion, Piko county.
There is considerable talk of on extra
session of Congress. The northern men
are of tho opinion that it will bo held,
while the majority of southern mcm ex
press Ihe opinion that the President will
await the October elections in the newly
admitted territories.
Tbe following fourth-elms postmasters
for Georgia were Rockwell appointed: John G. T.
Adair, Congress, county; N.
B. Jenkins, Felton, Haralson county;
B. Bunnell, Rising Fawn, Dado county;
F. M. Garner, Bpringdale, Bhellman, Randolph
county; Mrs. M. A. Metier,
Randolph county.
Forty-one postmnsiors President, were appointed
on Tuesday by vacancies tl e of whom
fifteen were to created by re
moval. Only two wore Southern:
Zachariah B. Hargrove, nt Rome, isla.,
vice William H. Atkins, removed, and
Waller Brock, at Tallapoosa, Ga., the of -
fice becoming presidential. gjlii
'The President on Saturday wadt lonaR;
following appointments to be
Gen. Joseph A. Leonard, cf Minnesota, Fryuf
at Shanghai; Wakefield G. of
Maine, at Halifax; Zachary T. Sweeney,
of Indiana, at Constantinople; Oliver H.
Dockery, of North Carolina, at Rio de
Janeiro; Oliver II. Simons, of Colorado,
nt St. Petersburg; George W. Roosevelt,
of Pennsylvania, consul nt Brussels;
W. Brown, of Ohio, consul at Qlus
A delegation of members of the Order
of Patriotic Sons of America,on Wednes
day paid a visit to President Harrison, at
the White House. Mr. b. \V. Bpottmd
made the introductions to Mr. Harrison:
After they were over, and the vim tot.
were standing around the Presulent m u
s..rt of circle, Spofiord attempted to pm
and said bnm quely 1 o > mt do that, it*
The party left, but not in very great
B 106,
A . mybtcbv
__
Dtscovxnv made n an old oravkta.iD
NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
a. mysterious child murder was un*
earthe ,| Monday afternoon. Two young
men were walking through an old grave
Jflrd in the suburbs of the city, and were
surprised to see a fresh ffiound. As the
placo bll8 not been used i;s a burying
gr , mn d for many yean, officers were no
tifled and the mound was uncovered.
Buried only a . few , box ‘ nc, ‘ containug e * . "“f"
was found a pmo
the dead body of a child apparent
ly ( *«mt „^ ^7hMtni- §
ft^^htow^W^W h «
mi. , rccognitioa The
tlothing PW^J^hnnce wtorn of recognR Lurate^witb oa. i to
^ t b „ t
blood from the terrible terrible wound wouna in in the ti e
head. No one has. yet idLntillet no
Body, ine 1 n» g ” ’
w ill develop a _g
DRIVEN TO 8UICIDE.
A SON SHOOTS HIMBEL? TO AVOID A FATH
ERLY THRASHING.
A voung man named Jarvis Odam
commuted suicide in Rutherford county,
N. 0., under peculinr circumstances. He
had whipped a smaller brother who had
repor-cd the occurrence to his father.
The latter is rery severe in correcting hit
children and several times chastised ids
oldest son very cruelly. On this occa
sion he sent word to him that he would
give him a terrible thrashing for Whip
ping his brother. The young man knew
what this meanfftond wont up stairs of cry
ing. In a few minutes tho report a
gun was heard, and when the young
man's room was entered, he was found
lying on the floor with a hole in his head.
He died in a few seconds.
GENERAL TAFT INSANE
TOO MUCH RELIGION SEEMS TO HAVE BEES
THE CAUSE,
It is nimored thnt General Taft, ex.
postmaster and present candidate tor tho
postmastcrshlp of Churleston, S. C.,
»...nin lost his mind, mid been sent to the,
state lunatic asylum. Talt lost his mind
about two years ago, went crazy on tho
subject of religion, and after remaining
in ihe asylum for some time, was taken
north by his wife. He recovered and re,
turned here,apparently perfectly restored,
although lib friends thought candidate he for was tie a
lit Geoff. He was a Wash
postmastcrsliip, and lias liven to
recently looking after .... lire interests
in"ton thought that this might
there, and it is
have unsettled his mind
robbing graves.
Three young colored women-—Sylvia
Green, Fannie Williams and Ziky Magee
weie arrested nnd jal.ed *t Albany, Ga., the
on Monday, charged with robbing
Albany cemetery. Their two-room cabin
near the graveyard was found, to be a
oerfect curiosity store, so packed of with the
ornaments stolen from the graves
bad This desecration has been go ing
on for several months, and other negroes
residing in tho same house have been
hold as witnesses.