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n i m VOLUME I. Tssc Sews from Zebtilon. Zfeulox, April 9.—Work was begun to-day on the A. & F. depot at this place. The work of track laying is hindered by ilie trestle work, arid the trestle work lty the lumbar men. The track is within four miles of Potato creek, but it is probable that it will not reach there tn two weeks, as there are two trestles to build and some of the lend er has not yet been hauled One of the boxes became detached front a train of cars last week in Zchulon and ran into a train at Meausvilie. No serious damage was done. Mr. Ladsen, a conductor, had his arm severely mashed and torn last Thursday whileCoujding the cars. The election which was held 30ih ult, “for the $ffc or against the sale” of whisky has not yet been declared. An entertainment was given by the Academy. ^liool Friday Every night for the pronounced benefit of it the one a ■big success Zip. ‘I’ajctteTille's £S<>©m. The Atlanta* and Florida raTroad has brought into prominence the nicest, cosiest, prettiest little town iu Georgia, Fayette¬ ville, the county seat of Fayette county, a town that has existed for sixty years with, out a railroad. Now that the steam whis¬ tle has 3'.irrod its ambition, where hardly a tipple of forthwith exciten*8j)t .if broke its quiet poace fulnesg, is new 'Fayetteville, bo'ii of tluif Atlanta anil- Florida railroad, gets up a boom aud begins to put ou city airs. The Atlanta and" .Florida- rahroad has made wonderful progress since the grading first began early in 1887. The subscrip¬ tion books were opened in the spring of 188G. Th“y worked rapidly, and by the 29.h of December, 1887, the handsome new coaches rolled into Fayetteville, a dis , lance of 24 miles. To-day they go as far as Zj’ouIou, which is 52 miles from Atlan¬ ta. By the middle of Nay or the first of ■'June at the fartherest, the new road will reach Fort Valley, from which point it will connect at'some point in the Florida Rail wav and Navigation, in Florida. The Atlanta aud Florida is well con* strricted and well equipped. The road be.! is firm and compact and laid with the finest steel rails. It passes through the richest agricultural lands in Georgia and is des¬ tined to become one of the most p opuhiv roads in the South. Two heautilul pas¬ senger coaches arc already on. The sclmd ule is arranged for the convenience of the people living along the line, with two daily trains, arriving in Atlanta at 8 o’clock a. m , and leaving the city at 3 p. in. Now I want to tell you about Faycttc ville. The village has population of three bunclrecd. The town was organized m 1823. The present court house is 58 years old. A handsome appropriation has been recently made, of eight or ten thousand dollars, to repair and improve the building, with bell tower, clock, new tence, etc. Fayetteville has about a dozen business houses, three physicians, two lawyers and a most excellent school, under charge of Professor Parker, with seventp-five pupils. Professor Parker is assisted by an able corps of teachers, aud is muah liked. There are arruad Fsetteville about a dozen saw, grist mills and gins.—Atlanta Journal. Come and have O’Neal to take your p eture. He will please your. He will he here only a iew days, GEORGIA., APRIL 13, 1838 Siiutly i®oJ3it Siftiarpfts. Dr. Mosc Yarbrough was at the Pcint on professional business last Tuesday. Dr. Yarbrough lias just graduated at the Southern Medical College, of Atlanta. Ve predict fur him all the success that energy and ability can gain. The farmers are very Ira ay now prepar¬ ing for “King Cotton.” We have, riot heard uf any, as yet, who have planted. We were visited by' a very hard wind with much rainfall, on the 10th inst. Misses Lizzie Long and Mamie Dent were the guests of Misses Alice Williams and Alpha McManus last Sunday evening. Would mention the young men, but they are so timid we wsll spare their blushes. Miss Long is from Fort Valley, and has charge of the lluck Spring school. She has gained the love and esteem of all who have met her. Success to you Miss Lizzie, Miss Lee Ellis is visiting Mr. A. J. Ellis, of near Ceres. Some of our young people were much disappointed by not getting off to the candy pulling at the school house of Prof. II. F. Sanders. They were expecting a sweet time. Dave. An itislorical Triakct. Judge Williams, of Thomaaton, has ,a singular tiiuket attached to his watch chain. It is a miniature brass quiver, full of arrow’s. It was recently-found in the old camp of the Indians, Jim and Tom. near the river. When the Indians were moved from Upson county, long years ago, Jim mid Tom refused to go with the others. It was never known why, but it was supposed to be because they’ bad coni niitted some offense against the Indian law and were afraid to risk themselves with their copper-colored brethren away from the protection which the laws of civilize tion offered. They made a camping place under an overhanging rock on the banks of Flint river. They would nut live in a house, but ah de iu their savage' dwelling place until death removed th-m to the happy- hunting grounds. One died during the war and the other soon after. Recent¬ ly the brass trinket before mentioned was found and given to Judge Williams. Antcricus’ 1.Gjasov Trade. Amcncns Republican A firm iu this city sold to a turpentine company- yesterday tlvrty-one empty whisky- barrels, which tad been emptied in the retail trade in three months. Estimatieg each barrel to hold fifty gallons, we have 1,550 as a total, which at $4 per gallon amount's to the neat little sum of $8,200. But this is for three months only: add the other nine months iu the same proportion and we have the enormous sum of $24,890. This is the retail trade ot one house onlyj and one which also does a large wholesale bus¬ iness in liquors. Now there are twenty houses in Americus toat handle whisky, and this number, multiplied by §2-4,800— but hold there; we did not intend to expose the amount of business done' when we started this article, so desist. (Suddenly Speechless. Leouard Braswell, a prominent and wealthy farmer, who resides a few miles front Monroe, was standing on the street, and in conversation, when he became sud¬ denly speechless and fell down, and is now thought to be beyond recovery. He is unmarried, and had willed his property to hie sister and two nephews. Hie Wouldn't Swear, Atlanta Journal: Mr. W. E. Lively, a well known young man, was sent to jail this morning by Judge Marshall Clarke, for contempt of court Deputy Clerk Walter Venable had just called the twelve jurors to the book to be sworn, when Mr. Lively, in a vorv em¬ phatic manner exclaimed: “I can’t swear; I can’t swear.” “Well, then, affirm,” said Mr. Venable. “I can’t do that, either ; it’s the same us swearing." Mr. Venable then called Judge Clarke’s attention to the fact that Mr. Lively re lused to swear or affirm. Judge Clarke turned in his seat and asked what flic trouble was. Mr. Lively replied: “It is against the teachings of the Bible and ol the Lord Jesus Christ. He says sweat not by the heavens, neither by the earth.” “Don t you believe iu government, Mr. Lively ?” asked the judge. “Yes, sir, but I can’t swear. I am a preacher of the wotd. 1 edit a paper and I don’t want to he in contempt of court, but. 1 just won’t swear.” “Then I’ll have tq send you to jail,” said the judge in his firmest maimer. Altai s ad right, sir, the saints were all P er fep'iteJ, and I exjioot the sa-me, Man ca - n mid c | l;ir he S e walked of my body, with but not ofiny out a bailiff on I'' ' 8 lS ''''Y '"‘’J to 11 j ? a 'h <,ec " L 1 eie 'd he ®h. was put Ha into S.un ’ ‘- lll c was seen afterwards by a Journal reporter. Amml him looking out upon the mot Uy crowd gathered iimnud the door to know why he had been put in there, " hy would.yum not take the oath ?” the,reporter. * "'h Fell you. The devil, J believe, . i*i!'it. R on money-. I serve that with m Y body, but with my mind I servo the Uud. 1 hat judge sets in the court- room for the salary he is paid. He gives judg¬ body ment aud under if money. he Ho has charge of nTy didn’t I wouldn’t be here. He wants me to go into that jury room aud put my mind on men’s trials and diffiren ees, and how can T do that and serve God ?” “Wi'l you employ a lawyer to se;-ure your relesse .fit becomes necessary ?” “No. sir,” exclaimed Mr. Lively ri-ing up with a smile on his tace, and stretching out his hand in a solemn manner he said j ’ Jesus Christ had no lawyer; Paul had no huvyer, neither did Peter, and I care for uone. They were sent to jail and were brought out, and so will I be brought out. 1 will say this, however, if a la wve r cans to take up my case without charge, I would consent to it, I am confined here illegally, for the constitution says every¬ body shall worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. It- is m/ belief that I would be disobeying God’s commands by taking an oath, and I have a perf- ct riggt, under the constitution, of refusing to swear. I will stay in jail until God sees fit to set me at liberty, and not one minute longer. It is not pleasant lor me to be here, I can assure you, but I ant happy, for I am but following in the foot¬ steps of the apostles of Jesus.” Mr. Lively has quite a remarkablo his¬ tory. He has been known for a number of years as a merchant on Capitol avenue, at the oorncr of Richardson. He became impressed with the belief that he was called of God to preach to the people through the columns of a paper, and he invested a por¬ tion of his money in printing oatfit. He established the paper “Last Days," and NUMBER 12. fell, he says, as if ao was serving God with his means in publishing it, while he served the devil in running the grocery store. He says Jesus was a carpenter and Paul wai a tent maker, and his occupation was that of a merchant. In speaking of the different sects Air Lively said: ‘•Jesus Says, ‘If t be lifted up I will draw a!| men unto inc.’ The sects have never iitted Jesus up. for all men have nut been drawn unto ltim. .They are hence from the devd an 1 bur a lie on their face When this proclaim! ion goes forth that I lie earth is the Lord’s then will Jesus have been lifted up.” Mr. Lively says ho will stay tn jail for¬ ever before making an oath. Judge Clarke passed the following order: Wiliiiam E. Lively having been regular¬ ly summoned to serve in this court during the present week ns o petit juror, and ltav ■fig this day, in obedience to such sum - minis, come into court, and having, when called upon to be sworn in as a juror re¬ fused to take dm oath and serve, he having shown no legal reason for such refusal, t is ordered that he be confined in the jail of this county for five days on account of such contempt.. ____M. .T. CtAKKE. Kiiiii-oad .icciOent. Saturday while (billing cars at Wadlcy, 'a loeal freight train Savapnali-bound ran overall killed a,train hand named J. S. Cannon. He endeavored to uncouple cars while they were moving slowly, and in going between the cars stumbled ami fell actors the vail, “and one cat of lumber passed over his body above his hips, nearly cutting him in two. Wadlcy being his home, his body was taken in charge by relatives. AtAtlanta Monday a wild steer, the property of H. C. Saw tell, the butcher, created quite a stampede among the citi¬ zens of Peters street. The steer escaped from a stock pen on that street, and as soon ns he became convinced that lie had the freedom of the city before hint he com¬ menced to charge about in every direction . Several people were knoked down, by the animal, A small boy Was horned very painfully, and a negro man who had taken refuge behind a telegraph pole was charged upon by the wild steer. One of his hands was caught between the steer's horns and the telegraph pole and badly mashed. The animal \v;i. finally killed. Frank Willis, of Richmond, Va., is at Washington on a vis t to his half brother, Col. Samuel Barnett. Tuesday he donated to the town of Washington $25,000. Five thousand dollars of this amount will be u.-ed to build a public library building. $10,000 to furnish it with books and $10 000 will boused as an endowment fund tor library work. E. J. Croaeh, of Chicngo, who is con* nected with the large pork packing firm of P. D. Armour & Co., has just purchased 800 acres of cultivated land just back of Thompson. The pvice paid is unknown, and what use Mr- Croaeh will make of it is also Kept a secret. It is understood, how¬ ever, that Mr. Croaeh purchased the land for Armour & Co. Near Wrightsville a day or two ago a young son of Dr. W. J. Ilicks was ridiug his father’s horse, and when just outside ot the city limits the animal suddenly com¬ menced to rear on his hind feet and otlu r wise act in a peculiar maimer. The boy proceeded to dismount No sooner had he struck the grouud than the horse piling -d forward, and pawing the sir wildly, (ell dead.