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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN
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PIK E C Oil >TY,
KEBSCItlP riON, $1.00 PER ANNUM.
Edgar L. Rogers!
Sweeping Summer Jteductions!
.1 ill® ARE Cri LOW IN WM 111:
From this date for 30 days I p opose to make
a cut in prices on everything in ray store re
gardless of cost- I do this in order to convert
goods into cash, and to CLEAR MY STORE to
make room for my Tremendous Fall and Win
ter stock that I am now buying.
THIS IS NO GUSH
or blow just for sentiment, but a plain,
COLD BUS I N KSS TRUTH.
I mean every word of it. My entire stock will be subjected to this reckless cut
in prices, but l will cut deepest on
DRESS GOODS AND CLOTHING !
I am not scared or overstocked on anything, but I want tho room tl at tiieso
goods occupy and the money that is invested in than..
star >1Y B A J? (jt V l X CJO17 ,s 1' ICR „.«*
-Will be a
NEW DEPARTURE FORBARNESVILLE
But I am going to have one on a big sede and show the people what a Bargain
Counter means. Lookout for my Bargain Counter! Cash is the
poweiUd lever with which I propose to rabe a sensation
in the dry goods ana clothing trade next
season, and cash I will have if low prices are any inducement.
Wow to the Point.
When you have a cent or a dollar to invest
call for next 30 days and ^et mv cut figures.
pure, IT TUI, IS TIE HITO,
YOURS TRULY,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnksvillb, Ga., July 1, 188!).
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
Osborn – Wolcott
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Man ufacturers of
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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
FINE VEHICLES MADETO SPECIAL ORDER.
* Repairing done neat ly, substantially ami with dispatch, Ilomt-made wagons war*
ranted. A car lorn! 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 own make anything you
want. Manufacturers, also, of
ENGINES AND
SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILL S FARM
MACHINERY. ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS
Carry a full line of Pipe and Pipe f ittings and engine Fixtures. Can make or
h pair anything from a Baby’s Cra-de to a Locomotive.
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HEADQUARTERS FOR
Cfarmag^s, Engglm a–i
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5 000 PLOW-HOES AT BOTTOM PRICES!
Barnesville, Ga.
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VOL. 1.
ZEBULON, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1889.
GENERAL NEWS.
V OND RN3A Tl ON OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM RTRHVWHRRK—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
TIRES, AND BAl'RENINOS Or INTEREST.
Tho flood damaged the property of
Pennsylvania to the extent of $44,250,
000 .
The king of Holland, who recovered
sufficiently from his recent illness has had to re
sume the reins of government, a
serious relapse,
A portion of tho Manningliam mills,
at Bradford, England, was burned Sun
day. Loss, £50,000. Two firemen were
killed by falling debris and several in
jured.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says:
Mr. and Mrs. John Leavitt were arrested
Wednesday, charged with the murder of
their two daughters, near Gresham, Sun
day night. No further paiticulars yet
received.
The withdrawal of gold for shipment from
to Europe on Saturday’s steamer
New York, has already set in, $4,250,
000 in gold burs being ordered at the
assay office-Thursday for export by for
eign brokers.
Courier DoBruxelles says that Primo
Minister Beernaert (who is also minister
of finance) will bill present authorizing parliament the issue at
Brussels, a
of bonds to tho amount of $2,000,000
for the Congo railway.
Rivers have overflowed their banks
and partially submerged the town of Bar
Leduc, Franco, in the department of
Meuse, and the surrounding country.
Many houses underminded and de
stroyed, and crops and vineyards have
been ruined.
The marriage of Prince Frederick
Leopold and the Princess Louise ot
Schleswig was solemnized nt Berlin,
Monday. The emperor and empress and
many royalties were present at both the
civil and religious ceremonies. A grand
banquet followed.
Official returns have bc^n received from
every county in the state of Pennsylva
nia. The majority against the prohibi
tory amenduii nt is 180,020/ The ma
jority against the suffrage amendment,
providing for a repeal of the poll tax
qualification, is 235,540.
General Cameron w'as prostrated Springs, on
Thursday at his home, Donegal and
Pa., with paralysis of the right arm Ex
side, and his condition is critical.
Attorney-General Wayne McVeagh and
wife, and Mrs. Haldeimin, General Cam
eron’s daughter, are with him.
Mrs. Hayes, wife of Ex-President
Rutherford B. Hayes, died last Tuesday
morning at Ftempnt, O, At the bedside
were members of the family, together
with Mrs. Mitchell, of Columbus, coudn
SKSSSWSK–rS ........../***«•,.
A boy named Snyder, thirteen years
old, residing at murdered Highland, near fotirboys, lerre
Haute, Ind,, was by
whose ages range from nine to fifteen.
'I he hoys are two brothers, mimed I eat
man, and two named Douglas. Snyder »
body was found in a creek, lie had >cen
stabbed and shot. All the boys are un
der arrest.
George McCann, who was awaiting
trial for the murder of his wife, hanged prison,
himself in his celt at the county
Philadelphia, early Tuesday morning. that
His cell was but a few yards from in
which Mrs. Whittling was at the
time awaiting execution. He hanged
himself with a pocket handkerchief
fastened to the door knob of his cell.
Two veidiets were rendered Tuesday
in two murder esses at Admits, Gn. The
first was that of M. T. Whitlock,charged
with the murder of ,J. G. Welding. Whit
lock was found guilty of manslaughter,
and sentenced to ten ye r- in the peni
tentiary. The second verdict was in the
ease of Arthur flayne, tried for the mur
der of the Itdian fruit vendor, Christo
phinc. The jury found him “not guilty.”
“Red Nosed Jlike,” who muidered pay
master McCluto and the stable boss,
Hugh Fiuunngan, in October last, was
bunged Tuesday morning at Wilkesboro,
l’a. Hu gave to ouo of the clergymen
who attended him a coufetsiou of his
crime, covering fifty-two pages Italian
manuscript. The confession lias not yet
been fully translated, but lie admits hav
ing killed both McClure and Fiannagan,
though ho asserts that he acted under
compulsion.
Harry H. Flamm, who was an cm
ployo of the Marine National Bank, at
Pittsburg, Pa., was lodged in jail Sat
urday night on the charge of having em
bezzled $35,000. About 4 o’clock that
afternoon, W. W. O'Neil, president against of
the hank, lodged information Flumui
Flamm for embezzlement, was
taken from bis desk. $20,000 bail was
demanded for his bearing Monday. Be- he
ing unable to secure that amount,
was lodged in jail.
A disastrous fire, accompanied Friday by se
rious loss of life, occurred early
evening in the, fireworks establishment of
Heycr Bros., corner Summer and Hawley
streets, Boston, Mass. Three dead bodies
have been taken out, and others
and one probably fatally injured, and
two boys mining.
^ dispatch from Providence, It. I.,
says: The fifth amendment to the con
stitution of Rhode Island, the prohibi
tory amendment, was on Thursday re
pealed by a vote of 5,469 more than
three fifths of the total vote necessary to
carry the amendment. The vote will be
officially counted on or before July 15th,
and will be announced by proclamation
on or before July 10th. The election
was quiet, and the result created no ex
citement in the city streets that night.
At midnight a sa'ute of fifty guns was
fired in consequence of the repeal.
$144,722,425 The liquor interests ot Pennsylvania they have
invested in roa! estate; $ft,!2I,b80 em- iu
ploy 17,000 men; pay annually Govemm"'^’ permits
wagoj?, and stamps, $12,502,S2» *1,743,570 for in Htato red county
license fees, $4,401,073 in twees pa real f Et.de.
and $27,172,873 fo? -xgg.terf.ftl used.
CALLS HIMSELF CHRIST.
A KEORO IN OEORGIA CREATES MUCII EX
CITEMENT AMONG III8 RACE.
For ft month, ft man culling himsell
Jesus Christ has been going about
through insane Liberly which county, ho called da., preaching. raving in
an way
The negroes have come, to believe in him,
and have a ceptod his words as inspired
teachings. “Give commanded. up everything ‘Let ami fol
low me,” ho your
crops go. Turn your cittjo into the
patches. The Lord will hundreds provide tor of
you.” And, obeying him, little
negroes have quit weak Their
crops have grown up with weeds. The
planters have been deserted by their la
borers, who absolutely refuse to work.
Turpentine manufacturers and the saw
mill men have difficulty operations. in getting help The
enough to continue
colored population has boon completely
demoralized for three weeks. To such
an extent had the craze spread uud the that the
intelligent colored people whites
joined in discussing Thursday sonic plan to put a
stop to it. So a warrant was
issued for the man’s arrest. He calls
himself Jesus Christ, declaring cloud. that ho
desceudod from heaven in a Ia
the warrant the name jCampbell prophet was told ap- his
plied to him. The new
people not to offer any resistance. They
feared that ho would he crucified, but lie
told them that he would not bo put to
death again, When tho officers wont to
arrest him no resistance was offered, but
a largo crowd soon joined the favored
disciples, who aro almost constantly
about him. They wore ready to tear the
officers to pieces, but at the
Lord's request suffered him
to be taken quietly away. The
constable drove to 1'lemington, where
Justice Fleming resides. Friday he was
tried. There is no telegraph office near
Flemington, and the result of tho trial
could not yet be learned. Ho shows scars
in his hands which he says were made by
the nails wheu he was crucified on Onl
vary. Jlis hair and beard are long and
ahaggv, although he evidently endeavors
to Him his beard as the Sivior’s is rep
resented in sumo old pictures. The
negroes fall down and worship and anoint him,
and kiss his hands and feet
him. He dresses shabbily sometimes,
ami at all times poorly. Tie refuses
moil ey publicly, but is suid to have mon
ev. Campbell ciimo from the West, it is
believed. At his bidding women their fami- have
left their husbands and men
lies to follow him about. His familiarity
with tho scriptures is exceptional. will back Hu
lias told the people that ho go
to Heaven in a chariot of tiro at uu early
date.
MURDER C^5NFES8ED.
AN OLD WOMAN 'fiti !W SHE KILLED
it Knit .vfJLiN LtNi).
fe'wrersjraT:™ .A S* »■;;, o.
„ cnr j,j s | I0US „ with his throat cut from
cftr to e „ r j t waa thought to he a case
and no inquiry was made. A
fcw ( |., ya a ,, 0 w hilo laboring under re
jj„j 0Ua excitement, Mrs. Charlotte Allen,
tlu , 8CVC1) tv-year-old widow of the dead
nlnn confessed to two colored servants
J j tu £ ,|j C ted tho crime. She said
she and her husband hid trouble ns to
who was the rightful owner of the farm,
and in order to settle the dispute she
gave her husband morphine in his ten.
Allen fell sleep in the garden. She then
procured a table knife and rope, and tied
the rope around his body, and, making
several slashes at his throat, half severed
his head from his body, She then
dragged the body to a tree and tied it
there.
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
KNOCKED DOWN BY AN ENGINE AND DRAG
OED THREE HUNDRED FEET.
Savannah Brown, a workman, was
killed by a Georgia Ruilroad switch eu
engine near Atlanta, Ga., Thursday
morning. He was walking along hand. the
track with a dinner bucket in ids
After he was knocked down some
pirt of the dragged engine caught three him, hun- and
lie was nearly machine could
dred feet before the
be stopped and his body extricated. _
When it stopped ho was dead. The
engine had to back before the b sly
could be pulled loose from the ash-box,
to which it was fastened. The right foot
v. ;is crushed off, the left firm crushed ground and to
a pulp, the face and chest
mangled and the neck broken. lit owe
wafi about twenty ax years old, body and bar
a wife arid two children. The was
taken charge of by his relatives.
LITTLE ENGINEERS.
PHIL A DELPHI A BOfS KILLED BY THE EX
PLOSION OF A SOME-MADE BOILER.
Harry and W/dinm Jerscr, aged 16
and IT year.-', wort killed Saturday, and
are victims of tied mechanical pieco
ciousncs'. They were inventive lad-, and
employed much if their time running a
small engine. Ticy had been get lending
steam in i.n old rtngo boiler and convey
ing it to tho eiigi in by mi ana of a gas
pipe. They to reived the idea of at
taching the engine 10 the family icc-crc.nu with
fretz-r, and thejiby doing away fire
bund turning. 'Jlmy Saturday were getting in (-mull a
• for iliis purpose a
brick furnace uirhr the boiler, when a
teirdie cxplosion;took place, killing both
boys, and tnjtiriJg Mrs. wild FloraKriesoand nearby.
little Henry KrU* , were
FIRE IN JOHNSTOWN.
THE FLAMES DEM 1 HOY A LARGE NUMBER
OT HOUSES.
A sweeping fire broke out in Johns
town, Pa , at 12.30 Monday afterm on.
The iLiues spread rapidly, and burning. at ont
o’clock twenty houses were'
Among those burned is the fits, ward
school-bouse. All engines lit the intense place
wire called out. and tho most
excitement prevailed. Nearly all the
houses burning were n ore or less de
stroyed by the tl od. The wind was
high, and tin tire -picad rap'dly beyord towards
Kernvi'R It->.is soon
of the tire dtp.r m.nt», and at lust
c mots coy., fed five acr a,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND 1U8 ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DEOISIONS, ANJ1 OTIIEll MATTV.nS
OF INTE11UST FROM TUB NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The President on Wednesday appoint
ed Johu 11. Lewis to be po-tmaster at
Atlanta, Ga., vice John W. Renlroe, re
signed.
Tho pension offico on Tuesday made
requisitions for upon the treasury depart
ment $15,000,000 out of the appro
priation amount will to bo bo available placed July the 1st. credit This of
to
pension agents on the first or second of
tho coming month. There are said to be
between 8,000 and 10,000 first payment
vouchers awaiting the depositing of this
money.
Mr. made Porter, brief superintendent of before the cen- the
su<, President, a Wednesday argument
afternoon, oppos
ing rules the proposition to apply civil service office,
to appointments in the census
iu tho course of which he said that ex
puriencc lias shown that for this particu
lar service better men can he secured by
election, on account of specialties, well-known qual
ifications in ceitain than by
selection from a list of persons willing to
enter competitive examination.
A delegation of colored men waited
on tho President Wednesday morning
and urged the appointment of Air. Calvin
Chase as recorder of deeds in Washing
ton. Tho delegation took occasion to
thank the President for tho disposition
shown by him not to restrict tho ap
pointment but of colored consider men their to elegibility particular
<>IUecs ; to
for offices other than these Another previously colored
held by colored men.
delegation, led by ex-Representative asked
Smalls, called later in the day and
tho appointment of Mr. Webster us col
lector of internal revenue for South Car
olina.
Twenty-seven tho President postmasters wero Tuesday, ap
pointed them by the following: on Joseph II.
among vice L. B.
Manly, at Augusta, Me., Shaffer, Ra
Fowler, removed; A. W.
leigh, N. C., vice Samuel A. Ashe, re
moved; Hansford Anderson, at West
Point, Va., the office having become
presidential; Louis OcLaRue, at Ash
land, Va., the office having become
presidential; William Worth 11. Logan, Rmieffer, at
Woodstock, expired; Va., vice William J. Gibb-,
commission 11.
at Jackson, Miss., vice Weit Adams, de
ceased; Byron Lemly not having been
confirmed by the Senate, James E. Ever
ett., at Yazoo City, Miss., vice Claiborne
Bowman, commission expired.
The President on Friday appointed A.
T. Wimberly collector of internal reve
nue f r the district of Louisiana. To be
United States attorney, William E.
■ 'r.aig, of Virginia, for the western dis
trict of Virginia. To ho Cunningham, United States
marshal, George I. of
South Carolina, for the district of South
Carolina. Frank Mason, of Ohio, lias
been appointed consul Trait, general of Maryland, at Frank
fort; Charles B.
consul at Marseilles, and IT. G. Knowles,
of Delaware, consul at Bordeaux. The
following consular appointments Simons, of were Col
made later: Olivet'll.
urado, consul to Hong Kong; Chatham, Win.
loriaghan, of Oiiio, consul to
Ontario; Win. T. Rice, of Ma-sachu
itls, consul to Leghorn; Lyell T. Ad
,ms, of New York, consul to Ilorgen,
.■Switzerland; Henry W. Diedcrick, of
Indiana, consul to Nuremberg, and Ro
land J. Hcmmiek, of Pennsylvania, con
sul to Geneva. Switzerland.
VOTING INSANE PEOPLE.
AN INDIANA POOR-HOUSE SUPERINTEND
ENT CONFESSES HIS GUILT.
Hiram W. Miller, ex-treas.ircr of Mn
■imi county, Ind., and Smith Williams,
Hiperioteinleut of the county poor asy
lum, who were indicted tor voting the
idiotic and insane inmates of tlie county
asylum at the Judge last election, Thursday. pleaded
guilty before Woods
Miller, who, ns election inspector in too
precinct, disregarded the challenges in
receiving the votes of the unfortunates,
Was fined $250, and Williams, who the
preliminary hearing showed conspired
with Miller to vote the paupers, was
fined $50. The result of the prosecution will
ia regarded as important in that it
stop' the of voting the county of idiotic throughout and insane the
inmates
state, a practice that has become common
during recent years.
mail pouch stolen.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARSNE OF A NABII
VILLE, TKNN,, MAIL POUCH.
Ail the mail that left tho Nashville
postoffice for the Soutli on the night fact of
May 17th has disappeared. The
bus been withheld by the postoffice ofh
cials, that investigation might not be
hampered. Up to the pnseiit nothing
han been learned iurthor than that the
mail was made up ns usual and delivered
al the door of the postoffice to the keeper
of the wagon which carries the mail to
the depot. The pouch was locked up in
this wagon, which drove off toward the
depot, and that is the last heard of it.
It. i- impossible now to learn how much
money was in the mail. It was destined
for a large and important territory, and
the presumption is that the pouch con
tained much valuable matter._
COLORED ALLIANCE.
A MEETING IN COLUMBIA, S. C.— A LARGE
ORGANIZATION.
Delegates from most of the counties in
which there are colored Farmers’ Allian
ces met Wednesday morning in the
Court House, in Columbia, S. C., to
perfect a State organization. The risso
elation in South Carolina is a branch
of the “Colored Farmers; National
Alliance nnd Co-operative Union.” The
<)rder seems to have been first founded
ill Texas, and lias rapidly spread R. over M.
eighteen states. Superintendent Carolinian, and
Humphrey, who is a
graduated nt Furman in 1858, report*
that there are n w 358 Sub-Alliances
throughout the state, with a membership
^ of 49,000. The Order has 575,000 mem
hers in the United States.
NUMBER 32.
WOOLFOLK GUILTY.
UlS TRIAL ENDED AT PERRY, GA., WITH
THE A110YE VERDICT.
On Monday, the jury in the case of
the Woolfo.k murder declared as their
verdict, after having retired fur only
forty-five minutes, that Tom Woolfolk
was guilty. The jury was called, and
Foreman Joe Frederick gave it to Solic
itor Felton, wise slowly and distinctly
said: “IVo, the jury, find the defend
ant guilty.” A defense, poll of the jury ordered. was
asked for by the and so
Each juror said the verdict was his.
The verdict was received iu absolute si
lence, very few having left the court
room white the jury was ont. with Though the
tho verdict is in accordance
convictions of the people, there ■was
positively no demonstration possibly of approval the
whon rendered, except
1 ilcased expression on tho expectant
aces. It. S. and J. IV. Woolfolk, cous
ins of the prisoner, left the courthouse
and town after the jury retired and bo
loro the verdict was rendered. The
aggregate exact time occupied the by tho
argument on both sides, after evi
dence was oil in, was thirty-one hours
and thirty fivo minutes; by the prosecu
tion thirteen hours and twenty-nine
minutes, by tho defense eighteen hours
and six minutes.
ing, When Judge court Gustin opened asked on tho Tuesday prisoner morn. if
be had anything to say, why sentence of
death should nut ho passed upon him.
With subdued emotion ami hands
clasped tremblingly ill front, Woolfolk
answered: “Nothing, except that I am
an innocent man.” Captain Rutherford
then asked tliut sentence lie postponed
until a motion for a new trial could be
perfected, us the case would be carried
to tho supreme court if a new
trial is not granted. This
r< quest was denied, and Judge Gustin
proceeded to puss sentence, which pro
vides that Thomas G. Woolfolk shall be
hung iu Houston county on tho 10th of
August next, between 10 a. m, and 3 p.
m.. in an enclosure, to which ro specta
tors will he admitted, save the relatives
and friends designated by the con
demned, the guards chosen by the sheriff,
and Drs. M. \V. IJav s and O. R. Maun,
examining physicians.
MRS. WHITELING HANGED.
the woman who poisoned her whole
FAMILY IN PHILADELPHIA.
Mrs. Whileling, who poisoned hanged her
husband and two children, was yard
Tuesday morning in the jiil at
Philadelphia, Pa. The drop fell at 10.07
o’clock, and the bo ly was lowered and
reruov ed at 10.41. The woman's bearing
throughout tho terrible ordeal was the
most remaikabie exhibition of fortitude
and resignation to tier I'a’.c. During the
entire morning she never for ofweakness, a ni-.mcnt
showed tiio slightest evidence
and frequently expressed her pleasure husband at
the prospect of “meeting her
and children.” Several p; ysicbins who
were present at the execution, uml who
have, more or less, frequently been with
the condemned w oman ijince her incar
ceration, expressed surprise at the wo
man’s exhibition of calmness in meeting
her death, although they agreed time in shown tho
statement that she lias at uo
any evidence of an unsound mind.
Physicians say her death was instant
from strangulation, though the heart
continued to beat spasmodically Thc body for
sometime thereafter.
was turned over to Dr. Alice Ben
nett, of Norristown hospital, for tho
insane, for an examination of the brain,
after which the body will be buried by
the side of the murdered husband nnd
children. Tho only witnesses of the ex
ecution weic the sheriff and his deputies,
prison officials, physicians, and about a
dozen newspaper men. This was the
first execution of a female in Philadel
phia county. There have, however, been
aevornl women hanged in other counties
in Pennsylvania.
THE OTTAWA,
THE WRECKED NORWEGIAN HARK OTTAWA
FOUND BV A PHILADELPHIA TUG.
Shortly before midnight Saturday, tht
tug “Argus,” of Philadelphia, having iu
tow the wrecked Norwegian bark, Otta
wa, arrived at Lewis whurf, Boston.
The Ottawa was abandoned at sea about
May 15th, while on passage from Pensa
cola to Buenos Ayres, laden witti bard
pine lumber. Her crew were received
and taken to Loudon. The Argus made
an unsiiccetsfid cruise in search of the
bark about three weeks ago. She left
Boston on a second cruise June J4ih, and
found the balk on the 19th. The wreck
piesents a hard looking sight and gives
evidence of battling with the elements
for some time, Hvory available spar,
with the exception of the foot fore lower
mast and mizzen mast, are gone. The
fore yard is hanging in the slings, look
ing as if it might fall at any moment.
On it the foresail hangs in rib
bons, and that is the only piece of
canvas left, except the mizzen gaff top
sail, which is furled on the ma t. Her
cabin is completely gutted, and a lot of
boards arc piled up m the center of the
cabin floor. A portion of the deckload
of hard pine lumber remains on deck.
Tho bulwarks are completely washed
away, and a portion of tho stanchions are
broken off. Masts, yards, blocks, a vast
amount of ropes, rigging, etc., are
strewn about the cicqks.
FLOOD IN KANSAS.
FOUR FARMERS KILLED— RESIDENCES,
RAILROADS AND BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY.
A dispatch from Wichita, Kansas, says:
The violent rain storm on the head wa
ters of Walnut River caused an immense
flood to reach Augusta and Eldorado.
About midnight of Sunday the waters
cainc rushing into tho towns, and washed
away 1,500 feet of the track of tho
Missouri Pacific Road arid car
ried away twelve residences. Monday
four farmers were drowned a few
miles north of Eldorado. East of Eldo
rado, on tho branches of Walnut river,
the Missouri Pacific lost six bridges. At
Augusta three hundred feet of the Santa
Fee track was lost and the bridge of the
Frisco ltoad was carried, away. Great
damage was done to wheat in tho rich
bottoms, and over a million bushels de
stroyed.
PRINTED EVERY TUESDAY
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ZEBTJLON, - -
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PARRY LEE,
A SPLENDID ADVERTISING AGENT.
FARMING HINTS,
GARNERED FROM SOUTHERN
ALLIANCE SOURCES.
Rose culture is on a boom in tho vicln
ity of Atlanta, Ga.
Grifiin, Ga., expects to ship ten thouav
and bushels of peaches this season.
Tho Surry county, Va., Alliance are
moving the matter of organizing the poa
nut growers.
The Alliance of Oconee county, S. O.,
has saved $i,000 in the reduction on the
price of fertilizers.
The Summer session of the State Agri
cultural Society of Georgia will bo held
in Cedartown, August 11th.
The State Farmers’ Alliance of Geor
gia will meet in Macon on the 20th of
August. It will be an important meet
ing.
The John II. Dent Alliance of Floyd
county, Ga., have their scalping millets knives
sharpened for light-weight and)
sellers of corn meal.
The Horticultural Society of Georgia
will meet in Griffin, July 31st and Au
gust 1st and 2d. President P. J. Berck
mans is preparing an attractive pro
gramme.
Dr. A. F. Pharr, of Decatur, is one of
the moat successful grape growers in tho
state. Major G. A. Ramspeck, of the
same town, has a vineyard of twenty
acres that yields enormously.
The Atlanta Horticultural Society is
investigating the matter of peach yellows
in Georgia. This society meets overy
Saturday in the quarters of tho Depart
ment of Agriculture iu tho new capitol.
Hon. W. J. Northan, one of the con
tributing editors of tho Southern Cultivai
ior, is of the opinion that tho farmers
will stick on cotton bagging and says so
in thu July number of the Southern CuD
timtor.
The Interstate Farmers’ Association, 188f,
organized in Atlanta in August,
will meet in Montgomery, Alabama, on
August 20tli, of this year. Hon. L. L.
Polk, of North Carolina, is president of
the association. The attendance will b»
large.
The county Alliance met nt Cutlibert,
Ga., and after consultation purchased
the Rawles – Perry guano house, which
they will couvert iuto an Alliance ware
for the handling of the coming
cotton crop. The price paid was seven
dollars.
Edgcwood (Ga.) Alliance ia a plucky
They are arranging plans
fora co-operative cotton seed oil mill,
an extensive cannery, and a grand county
exposition in DeKulb county of the work
of Alliance meH. Major W. B. Ilender
son is the live president.
The lato Road Congress in Georgia ia
attracting attention, Several Southorn
states ure moving in the matter of hold
ing similar meetings. It is said that one
count/ in Georgia has subscribed for one
thousand copies of the proceedings of
the Georgia Road Congress.
THE INTER STATE FARMERS’ ASSOCIATION.
This body was organized is composed at Atlanta, of
Ga., in August, 1887, and
Georgia, from Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas^
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes
Texas and Virginia. These repre
(five or more from each con
district) are appointed by tho
presidents of the states respectively. Kalb,
vico presidents are: R. F.
Montgomery, Ala.; L. P. Featherston,
City, Ark.; J. T. Petterzen, Pen
Fla.; John P. Foit, Mount Airy,
John Dyrnond, Belluir, La.; J. X.
Henry, Greenwood, Miss.; Elias Carr,
Sparta, N. C.; E. R. Mclver, Pal
metto, S. C.; L. D. Yarreli, Belifield,
Va.; B. M. llord, Nashville, Term,; G.
I). Pickett, Decatur, Texas. The asso
will meet in the city of Mont
Ala., on tho 20th of August
next. Reduced rates, on ait lines of
will be secured, as also at the
hotels and boarding houses of that city,
will bo furnished to dele
in due time by the secretary.
Composed of h ading practical agricul
turists of tho south, this body progressive will rep
resent tho which enterprise conditions and. anil sur
thought, have evolved, new and which musk
roundings economic questions
solvo thu great be
now confronting us. Let every state.
fully and strongly represented. Important
questions, affecting tho material advance
ment and industrial development ol tbs
south, and especially the promotion ot
her great agricultural interests, will be;
considered,
A TRAGEDY.
NORWOOD, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA.,
AND TWO ITALIANS, KILLED.
Gov. Norwood, of CumOerland Birmingham, Valley Ala.,
contractor on ttie
extension, was murdered Saturday at his
camp near Cumberland Gap, by an Ital
ian, known us Tony Cravasso. Cravasso
and his brother were bakers at the south
end of Cumberland Gap, and had sold
bread to some of Norwood’s men, and
had requested him to hold the men’s pay
till they could collect their bills. Nor
wood tolrl them he could not withhold
men’s pay except on garnishee, and di
rected the Ituliuns to a magistrate. Sat
urday they called on Norwood and
asked if he had their money. Ho told
them he did not have any money for
them, and walked out of the commissary
store and entered a cabin adjoining.
Just as ho stepped in the door, lony,
who had followed him, shot him in the
buck, killing him almost instantly. The
Italians escaped to the woods, but they
wero captured Saturday night back jn Ten
nessee. They were brought to
Kentucky Sunday, and were being Judge eon
ducteil to tho Pineville jail, when
Lynch took them in charge and tias-e
them a trial, resulting in the hanging oi
the elder Cravusso,and the Sending of the
brother to jail. The officers started for
Pineville with the younger Cravasso, and
as they were traveling al. ng the load, a
W.nchcster rifle cracked on the moun
tain side, and the prisoner ft 11 in the
road a corpse.
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The President amt directors of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal have boen authorized
to restore tho channel to a navigable 1890,000. con
dition. The cost will.be about