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GENERAL NEWS. It is said that there are 208.000 Baptists in Georgia. A man ninety years old was baptized near Butler, Ga.,’ last Sunday. The fitting up of a building for Griffin’s broom factory will begin to'-day.. The colored Episcopalians of Augusta,, let the contract for a $5,000 church. Grade Henry, of Spriug Place, is only 11 years of age-and weighs 130 pounds Predictions are made that a car load of melons will be shipped frem Quitman on June 8. T he rails are being Very rapidly laid on the St, Simon’s railroad from the ocean docks to the hotel. Teimille is to have a newspaper of its own, with Editor Huff, of the VVrigbtsville iffeadligld, as manager. Tho handsome two-story building which is to contain the Library Hull, at St. Simon s, is nearing completion. J ;. A citizen near Eastman has become the happy father of triplets—all boys—their ‘aggregate weight being 2J-J poimds. A seining party caught a cavp last Wednesday in Rocky creek, Wilkes 'conn-; ty, that weighed twelve pounds. It was ■UG inches long. At Sasser, Saturday, a white man by ’the name df Brown was married to a negro, woman and the ceiemony was performed by a negro preacher. The iron mine sold bv Samuel Earle, of Bartow county, for $20,000, has'since been sold to tho Tallapoosa Land Improvement 'Company for $ 120 000. The Messrs, Callahan, of the Saiem neighborhood, in Greene county, had a vat killing a few days ago, and killed 300 rats in one crib and 80 in another. Mrs. Mifctie Giddens attempted suicide ■at Eastman, a day or two ago, by shooting herself. She is not in her right mind and will be sent to the State Lunatic Asylum. Horace Bradley, a Georgian, in the em¬ ploye of the Harpers’ Publishing Company of New York, has recently been elected president of the Art Student's League, of New York. Almost the entire amount needed has been subscribed to the LaGrange Cotton ■Factory stock, and every cent will doubt¬ less be put down by May 14, when the books close.’ The first whistle of llie cotton factory at Gainesville was heard in October last, and on April 1st, at which time the stockhold¬ ers held a meeting, a dividend of over 12 per cent, was declared. Friday a large four-horse wagonload, of corn in the car, and pulled by ' four sleek fat mules, was sent into Americus Irom a Sumter county plantation a,nd sold, the ow ner having a surplus. Hon. P. W. Jones, the first bale man, reports that he has the best cotton crop be ever bad at this tune of the year. He has over three hundred acres of cotton that will average over ten inches high, and is full ol squares. At Oxford, Sunday Williams, of Ala¬ bama, a student at Emory college, died at the Mavven house. He was well iu the 'morning, but became oveiheated and drank heartily of ice water. Resulting congestion ■caused his death. Franklin Register : A low days ago a herculean negro known as Big Dave was found dead in a field in that part of the free State known as Africa. A coroner’s in quest was held, and the jury, after viewing the dead body, rendered the following ver diet: “We, the jury, find that the nigger was killed by the providence of God.” Saturday the morning train oft the Americus, Preston and Lumpkin brought into Americus sixty-three big cotton bales from the Stewart county plantation of 8. P. Kimbrough, consigned to the several warehouses in Americus. John Williams was fishing in Whitewa¬ ter creek, near Butler, a few days ago, when lie espied a turtle eating something, lie paddled his boat up to the turtle, caught him, pulled him into the boat and, found-that he was eating a large trout. While rummaging about in a box of old plunder at Americus Wednesday, W. B. F. Oliver, the tailor, found an old purse con¬ taining $70 that he lost one night several years ago. Mr. Oliver thought the purse had bien stolen and gave it up as lost long ago. A 9-year-old colored girl was stolen from her lather, Sam Bailey, in Post Oak district of Cobb county', while he was in the field plowing, Friday'. A negro man, Sterling Bryant, is thought to be the kid¬ napper, and a warrant has been sworn out for his arrest. All kinds of business men are seeking openinge and buying lots at Vienna, now that the Savannah and Columbus railroad is assured. This road wiH cross tbs Geor¬ gia, Southern and Fieri da at Vienna and insures the rapid growth of Vienna to the proportions ‘of a city. William A. Mallory, a book agent who forged the name of F. H. Buchanan, of Buena Visfta, to a check for $100, drawn on S . W. Wheatley 16 Co., of Americus, was tried in Marion Superior Court last week, found guilty, and sentenced to eight y'.ears in the penitentiary. As the result of an investigation by a committee appointed to examine the books and records of I ho Stewart county officers, it was found that the Treasurer is indebted to the county in the sum of $3,700, and a true bill was found against him by the last grand jury for embezzlement. Capt. Bradcen states that about twenty miles of the Macon and Athens railroad have been graded between Madison and Athens, nud that cars will be running into Athens about. July 1. The entire distance of twenty-eight miles is graded with the exception of a few short gaps. James McCart, a gentleman about V0 years of age, was found dead at Mt. Zion church, in Gwinnett county, near the Wal¬ ton county lino, oh last Friday. Thecorpse gave evidence of having lain there several days, a portion df the flesh being eaten off by the fowls of the air, and was very offen¬ sive. .Tesup Sen Uriel: We still advertise for thirty or forty good fighting billy goats. We want them to butt our Town Council. There must la) tackling done. Our city fathers won’t tackle the goats, then let the goats tackle them. One or the other must reign. There is not room in our town for the cos noil and the goats too. J. B, Hawkins, who lives a couple of miles from Zebulon, some twenty-seven yearn ago was on a spree in Griffin and broke a rib or so. a few days ago lie •Coughed lip the pieces of rib and a cork still encircled with the neck of a bottlo, which had evidently been broken off, show ing that he had bitten it off and swallowed it. D. L. Mauldin, who was convicted at the last term of Union Superior Court of two misdemeanors, and who was charged with poisoning a whole neighborhood, but was discharged on tho latter for want of proof sufficient to convict, and by paying the fines in the former, since his return to liis home in Gaddistowu, has been fatally shot by Pink Cbochran, who claims the shooting was in self defence, while Maul din claims he did it without provocation. No hopes are entertaiued of Mauldin’s recovery. i ROBERT COLEMAN BOLIVEK H. RAY JOHN N. BIRCH COLEMAN BAT & CO., I J, !il I 0 Macon, - - - *. - Georgia, Dealers in Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Kentucky Mules and Fertilizers. The following brand of fertilizers on baud : NAVASSA ACID. NAVASSA COTTON FERTIL¬ IZER, GEORGIA PACIFIC GUANO. convenience We keep a supply Crawford of the above goods at Fort Valley which for the be of our county customers, can had on application to us. MSS. M. B. PIEBCE MILLINER & DRESS MAKER, -—KNOXVILLE, GA- Dresses Choice Let of Mi lline'ry Goods. STYLES, Cheapest to Fro found in any country apt! town'* made in the LATEST’ Culloden, J. 0. HOLMES, Georgia* - - - - - - - - general' . 'DFAIE’Fi ] xt merchandise & UNDERTAKER’S SUPPLIES I keep a Full Line of Family Groceries and Heavy Dry Goods, SlioeS, Hats Ac. Large lot Crockery, Glassware, Farm Undertaker’s Implements supplies & Cutlery. Country Produce taken in exchange at Fair Prices. goods, both Metal Wood a Cases. specialty. Wood I always have keep a complete stock of those & 1 from iness the (so cheapest much appreciated to the best. by Burial patrons Robes since & Wrappers. its introduction) To this 1 line give of special my bus¬ at¬ tention, my merit liberal patronage from the public. I shall and bv so doing hope to a will spare no pains in serving you promdtly. burials My charges miles with be hearse move reasonable without extra thou voir can buy elsewhere. Will attend 15 charge when cases are worth ¥20 or upwards- In connection with me Miss Achsah Holloway has an immense line of Dress Goods, "White Goods, Notions Millinery and profusion Ladies’ which she is offering at remarkably low prices. Di and Novelties in line esses of cut, made and fitted promptly to order. Her superior skill and tact in tnis her business inst cant be excelled. Then she naturally loves to see you and show von through her stock of goods. She invites all the ladies to call to see her w hen they come'to our little city, and don’t be in a hurry; spend the day and she will make it pleasant tor you. Vmtv nEsi'ECTFOi.nv, J, O. HOLMES, Culloden, Ga. A couple of negroes living on the Hu guenin plantation, near Americus, “fell out and fit* a day or two since, during which one of them bit tho other’s under lip 'entirely off. The negro said that he did not nii’nd the loss of a part of his lip as he had entirely too much anyway and could get along .pretty well with what was left hi is . A West Point, Neb., bridegroom is spending his honeymoon in jail. A party of young men went to give the newly married ccuple a charivari, which so in¬ censed the bridegroom that he emptied a shotgun loaded with salt into their midst. The entire charge was received by one of the party in the face. lie will lose both ’eyes and be otherwise disfigured for life. John Willingham, of LaGrange, lias some peculiar kittens. There are three of them and each has about as much tail as a rabbit. One of them has a foot exactly like a rabbit, and all of them have the movements of a rabbit. They have the peculiar walk of a rabbit, and instead of running they jump like a rabbit does. They arc rabbits iu everything but ap¬ pearance. An explosion of dynamite occurred on the ditching train of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, while switch¬ ing in the yard at Dalton, a few days ago. Fire originated in the car in which the I dynamite was kept, and the flames coming j i terrific n contact force, with demolishing it, caused it to explode with portions of the car and seriously injuring a negro train hand named Joe Worthy, who was endeavoring to extinguish the fire. At tire February term of Hall Superior Court quite a batch of charter? were grant¬ ed numerous enterprises. Among them were charters incorporating tho Gainesville Improvement Compnny, Gainesville Com¬ press Company, Gainesville Fait Associa¬ tion, Piedmont Rifles, and the Gainesville Light Company. With the exception of the first and last named, organizations have been effected. A lot of Indian bones were unearthed in a field in Baldwin county a few days ago that has been in cultivation over fifty years. They bad been placed in a pot which was broken to pieces. The bones were much wasted owing to the long time they had been buried. Among them wn a a jaw bone, with several teeth in it. There was also in the lot a stone pipe, winch was much worn. v At Marietta last week a man, represent¬ ing himself to be a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazclec, wished to enter a special coach on the Marietta and North Georgia railroad, which bad been locked and kept in reserve for officers of the road and othcis who were going out that morning. This man became very indignant, although there were other coach¬ es for his accommodation. He turned loose a stream of profanity that scorched ami blistered all rules of refinement or polite¬ ness. He was reminded that his conduct; was reprehensible, and ho was liable to be arrested for using profane language in the presence of females who were near by. It didn’t soothe his feelings at all. lie asserted his father helped Geu. Sherman burn this blasted village, and another tour of devastation ought to be taken by Gem. Sherman again. The Major let him off with a fine of five dollars.