The Weekly Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 3

The latest phase of the English-Russian trouble is that Russia proposes to ask England to re-imburse her for all the money expended in preparing to meet English forces in Afghanistan. Montgomery AI, Thursday, Map-14. 1885 I have just heard, with deep regret and sadness, of the death of my dear co-laborer in Montgemery, Dr. Petrie. He was one of the noblest and best men I have ever known.

He gave me the welcoming address on my entrance on my work, and has been to me a kind, sympathizing, courteous brother ever since. Truly a great aianand a prince has fallen in Israel! Cirenlt Court. The June term of the Circuit Court will begin on the second Monday, the 8th day, of June, and return day will be on the 19th inst. Attorneys and others interested will take notice. Ieath of Mr.

V. Ulenn. News has been received of the death at his home in Hurtsboro, Russell county, of Mr. D. V.

Glenn, the tax collector of the county. He was one of the best and purest men and his death is a great loss to family and friends and the State has lost an honest nnd faithful official. News Bit- from Selma. The of a Mysterious Murder ThcI.O. H.

InMeanlou. Sei.ma, May 12 Mr. Davis McGhee reached the city last evening from the vicinity of Dixie, a little town up on the E. T. V.

A R. and from him your correspondent learned the particulars of a mysterious murder, which came to light in a forest between Dixie and Staunton on Sunday last. A negro woman, the wife of Scipio Atchison, went to- Dixie Sunday afternoon and begged Dr. T. M.

(Jollier to go with her to forest near by and a-utist her In a search lor the remains of her husband, saying that she knew he had been killed; that he left home on Saturday to be gone a short while and had not returned; that she heard the report of a gun in the forest soon after hor husband left the house, and that she could not jjerjuarie any of the negroes in the neighborhood to accompany her and make an investigation. Dr. Collier accompanied the distressed woman to the forest and found the body of Scipio Atchison a ghastly corpse with tbe lite all lied from it. 16 was evident from the. riddled remains that the dead man been killed with a charge of buckshot.

Scipio Atchison, the murdered man, was the father of a young negro scoundrel who brutally outraged the person of a white lady in the vicinity about two weeks since and boasted that she was his fifth victim. After committing It is rumored that George Alfred 'Oath," is about to begin the publication of a Republican newspaper of his own. He is probably tired of dividing space with Jonmnr Me. Two ears ago an act was passed by the Legislature of Michigan providing for the probate of wills duriDg the life of the testator. The law was a novel one.

It was widely and, for the most part, favorably commented upon as a means of escaping the too common litigation over wills; but the Michigan Su preme Court has Just declared the law unconstitutional, on the ground it did not give a wife an opportunity to be heard touching the disposition by the husband of property in which she has rights. "A wife'd interests in her husband's estate," says the Court, "are not likely to be purely selfish and personal. The two co-operate in accumulating it, generally with an object in view that eventually it shall benefit children or others to whom they are mutually at and if the husband, while men To the astonishment of the world Alabama has suddenly loomed up toward the front rank of iron producers. But a very few years ago her pretensions to be considered an important factor in this great Industry were ridiculed, but she has forged ahead with such strides as the world had not reamed and has left long faces and gaping mouths in place of gibes and sneers. Those who were most ready to ridicule her claims in this respect now see with no less than chagrin the fulfillment of her most plowing anticipation, and the overthrow of all their arrogant prophecies.

For many months the Advertiser has steadfastly and persistently claimed that iron could be produced in Alabama cheaper than anywhere else In the Union. The assertion was denied in many quarters, and by none mora vehemently than by some of thosa who, from location and surroundings, should have been first to sustain our arguments. There was no reason why our efforts to show the advantages of Alabama as an iron producer should be opposed or, at least, only selfish reasons. We were arguing for the entire State, while some of those who opposed our arguments were only interested in keeping down competition. But this was one of the self-evident propositions that was bound to deino: -strate itself.

In the natural course of events the truth was destined to come out, despite all attempts to suppress it. The region of country and about Birmingham innat be the centre of the cheapest iron production in the world. Its capabilities and advantages can hardly be equalled, certainly not surpassed. It is bound to be the home of low-priced iron, and no amount of newspaper or other opposition can change this manifest decree of fate. Lately, our talented young mining tally incompetent or in the hands and under the influence of scheming and mercenary persons, is making disposi tion of it, no person is so justly entitled as the wif to make a showing of the facts to defeat it." The Bartholdi statue has been loaded on a French steamer for shipment to this country Some idea of the magnitude of the statue may be had from the fact that forty persons found standing room within the head.

A six-foot man standing on the lever of the lips only just reached the eyebrow. When placed in position on Bedloe's Island it will loom up 805 feet above tide water, the height of the statue being 151 feet, that of the pedestal 01 feet, and foundation 53 feet. It will be higher than the enormous to wers of the great Brooklyn bridge, or the steeple of Trinity Church, which is the loftiest in the city of New York higher, in fact than any of the colossal statues of antiquity. The Colosscs of Rhodes was nothing to it. The weight of the statue is 440.000 pounds, of which 176,000 are copper and the remainder wrought Iron.

It is expected to arrive In New York about the 25th of May, where it will be erected on Bedloe's Island, this being the location selected for it by Gen. Sherman, who was appointed by the President to make the selection. It is certain all the money needed for the pedestal will be contributed. The World fund is now over $40,000. ing crop and ten thousand darkies, plows and hoes receiving orders and marching forward to victory, dragging chained to the wheels of their carts General Green and his mighty ho-t as victims slaughtered in battle.

battles at Camp Drum may attract attention and win applause, but there are no sham battles fought her-. These are the fields on which victories are won deciding the destinies of all nations. James. A Few Lines from Autangn. Crops, JUui-rlageN.

Lav, Ac. Editor Advertiser The oat crop haa improved a great deal sitco the last rains have tnllen, which wtre greatly in need. Mr. J. B.

Golsou, formerly of this section but now of Montgomery county, is visiting his relatives and friends near this place. Come often, John; we are always glad to see you at any time. Marriages are very scarce and it really seems as if the business will play out entirely. What can be the matter, boys Come, urry up, and don't be so backward. The stock law Is being slowly agitated by some at present who say say they intend to have the law, it matters not at what cost.

Political aspirants have already begun work for the various of-ces to be filled at this early date, aad before ths Convention convenes, which will not bs until next year, candidates, no doubt, will be as thick us forty cats In wallet. Hold on, gentlemen, you are too soon. Wait awhile, for some of you will bite the dust of defeat soon enough. The native fruit trees are much preferable to any of those imported from Northern nurseries, for one-third of them die the first year or two and an average life is from only three to five years. We have just as choice fruit trees here as are bought from the Northern markets.

If orchardists would only consult their interests a little more, they could grow better fruit and at the same time save a considerable sum in the purchasing of this one article alone. Mike. The Cotton Crop. Memphis, Mav 12. The cotton crop report for the Memphis District, which embraces West Tennessee.

North Arkansas, North Mississippi and North Alabama, issued by Messrs HUI, Fontaine says As will be seen from the responses to 296 letters of inquiry, sent out on April 27th, there will be an increased acreage planted in cotton in this district of 4J percent, as compared with last year. The acreage planted in corn shows an increase of per cent. The weather has in the main been favorable for planting purposes. Arkansas is the only section where too much wet weather is complained of. The spring has been somewhat backward, but the farmers have had their lands in good condition and planting throughout the district is nearly completed.

The season opens with the most favorable prospects. Labor is plentiful and is reported as working well. Under these conditions and with- favorable seasons the outlook is quite promising to the planter. Of an an average of 296 responses on acreage, 168 report an increased acreage planted in cotton as compared with last year, 22 report a decrease and 106 about the. same.

The acreage increase is 4 per cent. On weather, 208 report that the weather during April was more favorable than last year, 62 report it less favorable and 26 about tha same. On labor, 276 report labor as plentiful and working well, 20 report a scarcity as compared with last year. Corn 100 report an increased acreage planted in corn as compared with last year, 36 report a increase and 160 about the same. The average increase is per cent.

Core For Hog Cholera. Troy Euquirer. Whaley, one of the most successful farmers in this country, has used oil of sassafras with the provender given his hogs with excellent success as a preventative of cholera, and also to cure swine affected with cholera. He uses two ounces of sassafras oil to a bushel of corn, when intended as a preventative. The oil should be sprinkled over tha car and as generally diat ributed through it as possible, and fed-as usual.

As a remedy for the cure of cholera; after the hog has become to sick that he refuses to eat, ho uses a teaepocnf til of sassafras oil to a pint of water and drenches the hog twice a day with it. He says he has never had a more thrifty and healthy lot of hogs than is now on his plantation, and that he believes he would have lost over half of them had he not tried his remedy. If the hogs are healthy, the sassafras will not injure them. cn. Shelley's Appointment.

Washington, May 11. Chas. M. Shelley, of Alabama, has been appointed 4th Auditor of the Treasury, vice Chas Beardley, resigned. He qualified to-day and will assume charge to-morrow morning.

Chas. M. Shelley, of Alabama, who was to-day appointed 4th Auditor of the Treasury Department. Is a native of mlmm ru -j A cable special says: "It is now an open secret that practical home rule for Ireland Is not far off. The arrangement will probably be for a central Irish council, with a formal resident representative of the Queen.

This, of course, is Impossible with the present Parliament, but it is likely the Government will make some such announcement of their intentions it re-elected." The present Administration has been in existence about two months, and the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald has ascertained that during ita brief career the following appointments have been made: State Department, Ministers, 18; consuls lfi; other places, total, 40. Treasury, 418; Postoflice, 1,050: Interior partment, 15; Department of Justice, 20. The whole number of appointmentp, therefore, is 1,543, which is 27 appointments for each day, including Sundays. This, as the correspondent 3ays, "certainly shows great industry, and is an evidence of very hard work, for Mr. Cleveland insists that the ineu appointed shall be known to be capable andhontst." A -farmer in Georgia rented some land last year to a colored man for third of the crop.

When the drouth came on his corn and cotton were af fected by it. He gathered two bales of cotton and two wagon loads of corn, The latter he penned up for his own and the 'eotton was sold. When his landlord called for his share he was told' there was none for him. He was thunderstruck and asked "Didn't I rent you the land for a third of the crop?" "Yes, boss," said the man, "but you fee dere was no third. Dere was only two bales of cotton and two load.s of corn all mine and nufliu' for you by de con tract." And the.

landlord could not mke Cuffee believe any other way. One Mackin was convicted in Chica go in the U. S. Court of fraud at the election last fall. His attorneys have stayed the proceedings by appeal and made the point that his conviction was illegal, because he was tried on infor mation and not by indictment.

Since this trial has been on hand the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Grey delivering the opinion, has held in another and similar case that all convictions in the United Slates Courts must be upon indictments and not upon information. The statement of this case has -been mislaid by the Adver tiser, but the main point is as above stated. Attorneys would do well to get a copy of the opinion. The paper from which our information wa3 obtained stated that the decision had been rendered very recently. The Democrats of Illinois have been punished in a way that ought not to be without its effect, not only on the party there, but throughout the United States.

By indifference they allowed the He- publicans to elect a member of that party to the House of Representatives thus getting tbe majority where the Democrats had it before. The Democrats had one majority in the House and the Republicans one in the Senate. A Democratic member of the House died and the district was so largely a Demo cratic district that it was thought the Democratic nominee could be elected without trouble and the great bulk of the party remained at home on election day. The Republicans were wiser and turned out in fore'e and scored an un expected victory. The Democrats had a prospect of electing the U.

S. Senator, but this seems to have ruined all pros pects in that direction. Lively times are expected at Springfield for a few days to come. LAVISH EXPENDITURE. Texas is a great State, and naturally does things on a correspondingly colos sal style.

A commonwealth with counties in it containing over ten thousand square miles could hardly be expected to conduct it3 affairs on such a limited scale as do those leas favored States whic'a might be planted bodily in some portion of Texas without causing inconvenience to the settlers. To give three million acres of their domain for the building of a new State Capitol is only one of the extravagancies marking the conduct ot their busines3 affairs. It matters not that this land may in the near future be worth ten million dollars; with the usual extrava gance of those who have more of any. thing than they see a present use for they give this magnificent domain about as large as Connecticut for the erection of a building large enough, we suppose, to contain all the expansive ideas of even Texas statesman. It must be admitted that the Texans use the public moneys as lavishly in car rying on their State government, as they do in other respects.

A glance at their annual appropriations would throw the average Alabama legislator into spasms. For example, the amount appropriated for the annual salaries of State officers and their clerks for the present year, corresponding with our departments: Executive Department 7,500 Secretary of State 8.835 Treasury ...16,300 Comptroller 61,540 Attorney General 8,375 Adjutant General 4,700 Educational 5,200 Add to this Land 58,370 Insurance Department 5,200 and we have a total of about one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars for salaries, against some twenty-five thousand in Alabama. This, it must be remembered, is but a portion of their annual expenses. When we add the Capitol building commission, the commissioner of public grounds, and various other bodies and offices unknown in Alabama, the expenses run up to a figure appalling to our economical ideas. The truth is Alabama has the cheap est State government, all things consid ered, in the Union, and those who complain of high taxes and high salaries do so through ignorance of what is going on elsewhere.

If they would look around among their neighbors they would have cause to congratulate themselves on living under an economical government; President Cleveland's Pun. Washington Tost, "Mr. President," said Mr. W. L.

Chambers, of Alabama, a former law partner of Representative Herbert, when introduced to Mr. Cleveland, "we are Democrats in my State from the two motives which control the world principle and interest "Yes, principal and interest," replied the President, with an approving nod. The veteran Sam Colvllle, in New York, calls himself a janitor because he keeps a theatre for other managers to play in. M. B.

Wharton. Talladega Notes. Mysterious Child Harder The Oldest Woman Yet-Tlie Uolden Metal Still Attracts Attention. Spedal to the Advertiser. Talladega, May 12, 1885, At the Boaz Ford on Tallasahatchie creek, four miles above Childersburg.ln this county, on Monday evening, a fish erman named Jones saw a box floating against a shoal.

The box was nailed up and had stones attached to it. The cu riosity of Jones was aroused and breaking the box open he found a dead male infant with a cotton cord tied 5 times around the neck and a knife wound in the risrht side. There was every evidence of foul play. Sus picion attaches to an lnaiviauai in neighborhood, but nothing definite is known. The Methodist Sunday-School pic-nic tour miles down Rogers' itoad, to-mor row.

Dr. M. J. Ureene, me superintend ent, Mr. W.

E. Yancey, T. S. Plowman and J. A.

Saverv are tne working- com niitteemen, and they are doing up the thing just right. I heard the Presbyte rian Sunday-school nan a pic-nic last wee', but cannot state it of my own knowledge. Talking about old people, let me par- Hlyzo vou with this statement: Annie Wilson, living at Mardlsville, Talladega county, was born in Prince George county, Maryland, in the year A. nay. sne is one nunurea ana sixteen years old and Is active and hearty, hav ing cooked regularly for 50 years past until mo present year.

tier youngest child died 6 vears ago at the acre of 40. She is the mother of 10 children, 50 07 great-grandchildren and 25great-greaWrandchildren. She has lived to see the storms and sunshine psss over four generations of her One last word on the subject of Talla dega gold and then I am done. Fifty years ago Dr. Stevenson, then the most distinguished geologist in the State of ueorgiaand, at the time, the chief ex ecutive officer aad superintendent of the Dahlonega mint, spent two months in tne nuts soma ot nere prospectant.

On his return to the then village of Talladega he said that in a century not all the fertile fields of the. cotton belt would be able to buy one mile of the hills where he had been wandering. He said there was gold enough in those hills to make Croesus' of the paupers of an, Empire. The half century has rolled around and it seems as if the prophetic word of the Georgia geologist is about to oe veimeu. it is not told in liattr or published in Askalon, yet the precious metal is oeing round in incredible a uan tities.

The prospectors and speculators are naturally very reticent on the sub ject, the stranger who comes here on the hunt for lured by what I nave written, wsll get but little satisfaction except he has the courage to prospect for himself. Let no one be satisfied with less than a visit to the gold fields and a personal examination or tne deposits. Startling gold discoveries have been made since I last wrote you, and the excitement Is subdued, but It has been known for half a century that gold was hidden in these The Creek Indian con jurors and chiefs knew of its whereabouts but true to the superstitions of their-race thev fear ed the anger of the Great Spirit if thev revealed it. A tradition in Chinnabee's tribe, who dwelt in the hills east of the city, ran to the effect that on the place owned by Mr. Seay seven miles southeast of here, was a cave filled with gold guarded by the evil spirit of their tribe anu that death would visit the Indian who found the place.

A few years since a gentleman from here visited the Creek tribe in the Indian nation and brought back one of the Chinnabee tribe to identify and find the spot, but either iroin unwillingness or superstition the Indian failed to point out the mine. Prof. Tuomey the earliest geologist and one of the most accurate as-ain and again called to the indications of gold deposits in Talladega 1 1 i wuutjr aiiu il tiuy uiits wui i-aae Liltt trouble to read any one of Prof. Smith's (the State geologist) reports for the past ten years they can assure themselves tnat am trutnruim asserting the existence of gold here in abundance. Six teen pounds of virgin gold has been milled by the Shenker company here in three months.

Twenty-five thousand aoiiars was out or the storey mine in one ear. Individuals have earned a competence for years with pick and pan and et there are persons who doubt the truth of the statements in my letters in regard to gold. He that doubts is damned, in a theological maxim ana win alter it only so tar as to conclude the gold matter by saying that he that doubts, why let him doubt ana, come ana try it tor himself. The men who are making the money out of it and panning out gold by the nanaiui every aay are not going to in sist on anybody else taking a share, nor are iney Doastiui or now tney are getting rich, but on the contrary, I haven't seen a man yet who is in any way connected with the quartz mill but who on being asked about it pulls a long phiz and Bwears they are starving at it nevertheless, the fact remains that with a da ly expense ot ten dollars they are milling one hundred and six dollars of gold every day. Now I propose to give your readers a rest on the gold subject, but the facts that I have stated can be proved and I stand ready to satisfy any anxious truth seeker.

Dive. Georgia Will Contest. David Dickson's Relatives Attempt-ins to Break Bis WUI. Sparta, May 7. The will of the late David Dickson, in which he cut off his white relatives with small pittances and left $400,000 to his negro concubine, is to be contested, and promises to be one of the ugliest legal fights on record.

The woman, AmandaEubanks, to whom he left this fortune, is a repulsive looking, copper-colored negress, while the relatives who have been cut off are among the best people of the State. The woman says she will be satisSed if given $40,000 clear, but the white heirs are not disposed to grant it. The will ia one of the most tightly drawn ever probated, and while attempt to upset it will be an allegation of insanity against Mr. Dickson, it is plain that the great hope of breaking it consists in the prejudices of jurors. A will bequeathing property under such circumstances to negroes has never vet been allowed to stand in Georgia, "in any event there is half a million now to pay for a lively legal fight.

Doctors lose their heads when they have rich and distinguished patients. They lose their fees when they have poor nobodies. It Is as 8 are as the Sun JBise To-mor- As sure as to-morrow's sun rise is the Grand Drawing ef The Louisiana State Lottery at New Orleans, monthly. Tbe next, tbe 181st, an Ex traordlnary Grand Drawing, wUl take place on June lbth, when over SS22.000 will go hither and yon, to holders ot 100.000 tickets at $10 each, or fractions of SI, of which full information can be had of M. A.

Dauphin, New Orleans, La. At the 179th Grand Drawing, on April 14th, 18M, the following was the result: Ticket No. E9.075 drew the First prize of it was sold in fltths at SI each one to John W. Haywood L. M.

Verdery, No. 38 Charlton St, Savannah, one to J. A. Putman, Mt. Pleasant, Texas, one to F.

Spendrup, Donaldsonvlllo, one to W. O. Parker of Windfa'l, and another to a parts' In Washington, D. O. Tbe Second Prize 38,000 won by No.

81,818, sold also in fltths one to Henry Orban, U. S. Marine Hospital, San Francisco, Cat; one to Fred'k Maas, New York city; one to Fred 8. Beach, 2C6 Fifth N. Y.

city the other Of ths went elsewhere. No. 61.689 drew the Third Prize of was also sold In fifths-one held by Dan M. Moriarty, No. 596 Second New York city; one by W.

J. Collier, 121 N. Washington, D. C. one collected by Britton two others by John M.

Gles, Ne. 217 Cro-ghan street, Detroit, Mich. The Fourth Prizes, each drawn by Nos. 6,517 and 29,671 were scattered In fractions to Boston, San Francisco, St. Paul, Hanly, Gainesville, Texas, and Montgomery, Aa, -1 mm 4 0 0 0 0 0 III- iii 'I CD 53 Pi Hon.

Charles i ttcott. Hon. Charles L. Scott, the new Minister to Venezuela, passed through the city last night en route to Washington, ne will spend a few days at the Capital and will then make a short visit to relatives in Richmond, after which he will sail for his post of duty in South America. The best wishes of a host of Ala-bamians follow him.

cn. Shelley's Appointment. The people of Alabama will learn with pleasure that Gen. Shelley has been appointed to the' position of 4th Auditor of the Treasury, ne has already entered upon the discharge of his duties- The office is an important one and the salary $3,600 per year. For eight yeara Gen.

Shelley was an able and faithful representative of the State of Alabama ia Congress and he will bring to his new office a clear head and an honest heart. The llontcomery rout Office. The present Postmaster, Judge Buckley, received his commission in June, 1S81, but did not take formal possession of the office until July 4th, 1881. This delay was that Mr. Roberts might give up the office at the end of a quarter, thus preventing the making of two sets oi reports.

On the 4th of July next, therefore, Judge Buckley's four years occupancy of tho office will expire, and it is highly probable that his successor will be announced Vat or before that time. teal Estate Sales. Montgomery real estate is all right, as may be seen from the following sales made within the past day or two by J. R. Adams Co: Lot 80 by 150 southeast corner Madison and Ripley t-treetp, to Mrs.

M. E. Rice, 91.250. Lot 80 by 150 north dast corner Monroe and Ripley streets, Mrs. Daisy Glaze, $1,250.

Lot 75 by 150 southeast coiner Monroe and Union, Mrs. S. C. Power, Lot on Monroe street, 50 by 150, S. $525.

Lot on Madison street, 50 by 150. M. Barnett, $525. Lot on Madison street, 70 by 150. J.

K. McDonald, $800. Lot on Monroe street, 70 by 150. J. Cobb, $900.

Lot on Monroe street, 75 by 150, S. B. Marks, $900. Supreme Court Decisions The following Supreme Court decisions were rendered yesterday Stone, C. J.

Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. vs. John R. Hill; from Greene Circuit Court. Affirmed.

The State of Alabama, Swann Bil-lups, trustees, vs. William Kidd; from St. Clair Circuit Court. Reversed and remanded. James Timplin vs.

Jnlia A. Still, from Bullock Circuit Court. Reverstd and remanded. Clopton not sitting. Somervtlle, J.

John G. Farley vs. Dunklin and Reese, from Lowndes Chancery Court. Reversed and remanded. Clopton not sitting.

M. S. Skinner, et vs. S. E.

Chapman, admr. et from Marengo Chancery Court. Reversed and remanded. Clopton, J. U.

w. Knight vs. W. W. Knight: irom iiowndes Chancery Court.

Af firmed. J. VV. Bingham Co. vs.

Felix W. iariisie; irom Lee Circuit Court. Re- verseu ana remanded. United States Court, The following cases were disposed of the United States Court yesterday Lehman Bros. vs.

Jas. C. Hill. Verdict for plaintiff. Jiloom Co.

vs. M. C. Osborne and others; suit on bond, Judgment for $445.35. ri.

Jti. Clsfilin Co. vs. A. S.

Nord- linger. Judgment by default, writ of Inquiry. H. Clarlin Co. vs.

J. H. Winkler Co, garnishees. Garnishees rtq ulred to answer in open court. lioages Bros.

vs. Wilkinson and W. L. Wilson. Judgment by default.

The United States vs. Eli Fickland. Plea of guilty, sentence sspendcd. Many witnesses in the Crenshaw county pension case are in town. Bon.

H. C. Armstrong. lhe newly appointed Consul to Rio spent yesterday in the city. Some days ago ne telegraphed Senators Pugh and Morgan to withdraw his application, as circumstances were such that ho could not accept if appointed.

Tho Senators declined, however, to follow his request ana tne appointment followed. Family Considerations altogether caused his proposed withdrawal, and they have as sumed such shape that he can accept the position and will do so. It is a very important office for Alabama and all the Gulf States, aad Col. Armstrong, no cioubt, will get up a greater inter est in our ports than has been shown in many years. All of the heavy cotton goods required in Brazil are such ai are made in Alabama, and they will have a friend at court who can perhaps induce Inquiry in this direction.

Much of Brazil's coffee ought to enter this country at Mobile. Col. Armstrong will make an able and effectivo commercial representative of the United States at tho most important South American Consulate. Rio de Janeiro is a lovelv city of over 600,000 and has a refined and cultivated society. Small Shot.

The many friends in Montgomery of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Holt, of Selma, will regret to hear of the.death of their little son.

Rev. Dr. Hawthorne was chosen by the Baptist Convention, last Saturday, in Augusta, to deliver the Convention sermon at the meeting next year in Montgomery. The Baptists are rejoicing over the ac ceptance of the invitation of the South- i Baptist Convention to meet in Montgomery next year. The Methodists are raising $1,000 to repair their Court street house of worship.

Dr. J. T. B. Foard, of Pollard, an ac complished gentleman, it is reported will get the position of Consul at Caracas.

It has a great deal of business with this country, and the interests of the people will be faithfully looked after if Dr. Foard is appointed. A correspondent of the Advertiser writing from Sandy Ridge, Lowndes county, says "the prospect for a good crop was never better. A large acreage in grain and cotton looking immensely well. Labor is good, and everybody seems happy and contented, with a set determination to yet get from under the depressing burden of King Debt.

Under a Democratic government we all feel better, and hope we look so too," PL-, w'llViT-'iitlfiiirT the dastardly crime he lied. A band or resolute white men pursued him hotly, but all efforts at capture proved fruitless. Since that time Scipio, the father, is said to have made murderous threats and sworn vengeance against the white people of the community. He said that, charges against his sou were false and that the white women circulated the reports maliciously and with develish motives. He openly threatened death to the white people who had endeavored to bring hU son to a just punishment.

The neighborhood, already indignant at the outrage committed by the son, is supposed to have been embittered an1 exasperated by the father' threats; and this is the accepted explanation of the finding of the dead body in the forest. The dead man had fallen on tbe bank of a small creek, and it presumed that the fatal shot was fired upon him just as he stepped upon the foot-log crossing. Who did the killing the public does not know; cannot even surmise. The flair ha3 raised a big excitement in the community. Notes from Birmingham.

New York and Pennrl vaulu Men liOOklec for Oil. Special t) Hie Advertiser. Birmingham, May 12, 1885. For several days a party of New York and Pennsylvania petroleum and natural gas experts have been smelling and looking and tasting about here. They are looking for oil and gas and are trying to get leases on about 5,000 acres of land.

They only want the oil and gas rights and the necessary working privileges. I have come to look upon expert geologists with a degree of doubt since I came here. Some of them have no doubt that petroleum will be found here and others are equally certain that the formations here make such an idea for one, have no fixed opinion on it, but await developments. Several New Orleans gentlemen have been here for several days, with a view to investing in the Hnry Ellen coal mine, on the Georgia Pacific. This is the DeBardeleben mine and it gives every promise of being a splendid ona The mine is located near Leeds, and quite a town has already sprung into existence at the place where the switch leaves the Georgia Pacific.

Banker Roberts Attempts eiulrlde. Augusta, May 12. Wm. Roberts, president of the defunct bank of Augusta, for whom requisition was made by Gov. Hill, of New York, and is now pending in the courts, cut his throat with a razor from ear to ear this morning.

While the wounds are gaping and ugly, the physicians say they will not be fatal. The jugular vein and arteries are not served. His recent complications have so effected Roberts' mind as to render him partially insane. The grand jury now in session found true bills againt him for perjury and embezzlement. As the president of the bank of Augusta, he was required to furnish a bond for his appearancs in the sum of These true bills with other troubles led to the rash attempt to take his life.

Augusta, May 12. Mr. Roberts, who attempted suicide, is resting quietly. There is no danger of his deatn. He attempted to shoot himself, but was prevented by his son, who left him lying down in his room.

A few minutes later hearing him walking rapidly back and forth up stairs, his son went to his room and found his father with a razor in his hand and bleeding from wounds in his neck. The Canebrake Country. A Lovely Section of the State Splendid. Crops Ureat Improvement in Jb'anufns Condition Enhancement of Value or land Croakers all JDead Weneral Ureen Completely Boated. Special to the Advertiser.

On Board Pullman Car, May 12, 1885. Without bragging, we can say that no railroad in the world passes through a finer, richer or more lovely country than tne is. v. wnenit runs tnrougn the Canebrake from Demopolis to Uniontown. We suppose that next to personal enterprise, there is nothing more interesting to the inhabitants of earth than the products of the sail brought forth by the farmers of our county.

The prospects for a fine crop, thus far, in the canebrake, were never more flattering. A few days ago we arove out several miles ana saw tbe fields from Demopolis to Gallion. and to-day we come from the former place to Selma and never before have we een the cotton and corn more beautiful at this season of the year. Mr. H.

A. Stol-lenwerck, a prominent farmer from Uniontown, said to me on the train this morning that the canebrake country was never since the war in such fine condition. The plantations are cultivated almost like gardens. The ditches and ditch banks are well kept, and the fields, divided only by turning rows, there being no fences, all in a high state of cultivation with splendid growing crops, presents to the traveler a sight that is lovely to behold. Nearly all the croakers this section are dead and there is but little com plaining of hard times.

There are not so many poor mules anu ragged negroes as there used to be, but stock of all kinds is in better condition than for many years, and men generally have gone to work most of whom realize handsome remuneration for their labor. Faithful service with judicious economy will bring success to any man whether he be white or black in this section of Alabama. The farming in terest is increasing here every year and real estate is rapidly enhancing in value. Land that could have been bought for live now sells for twenty dollars and upward per acre. Four hundred acres near Galiion were sold a few days ago for ten thousand dollars, and it is confidently predicted that in a few years improved lands can't be purchased at any price In the canebrake.

There has been a great deal said about Florida and other States, the improvement of property and so on; but, without a doubt, there is no State like Alabama. Our great commonwealth possesses everything that conduces to the prosperity and happiness of man. For agricultural purposes, and stock and grass growing no part of the State is equal to this section. This portion of our State is bound to come into special notice, and all we ask is for men of energy, enterprise and money to come and see, and when they come they will exclaim, "behold, the half has not been There are new and live towns growing up all along the road from Selma to York, all of which denote gradually increasing prosperity. Uniontown, Faunsdale and Demopolis are the principal cotton ports on this road.

All these towns have oil mills, factories, compresses and other enterpriser that would do credit to larger cities. Inter-State drills are grand affairs, but the glory of military display i3 eclipsed to the eye of the man who moves over a few hundred thousand acres of first-class canebrake land, with a fine grow contemporary of the Magic City, tbor-. oughly po3ted on the subject, comes forward with its testimony in support of the arguments so frequently advanced in this journal. It shows that iron at $10 or $11 per ton is no longer a a dream or a boast, but an accomplished fact, and time will in all probability reduce those figures. But cheap iron is only the Btartmg point pf Alabama' duty and destiny in this direction.

It is not enough to turn out the raw- produci at prices to practically defy all competition, but it must be advanced beyond the rude products of the forge and the rolling mill, aid it must be diffused. Mobile ought to be the gateway of such a stream ot metal as never ilowed from rany port. Bought to be the mouth of mighty trumpet, scattering to the four quarters of the earth the products of our mines and gathering in the merchandise of all climes and peoples. Yielding rivers and iron rails ought to be brought into subjection and made to converge on and through our Gulf port such a constant afflux of iron and coal as would astonish the earth. Given, an illimitable supply of material at one place, a splendid port at another: the remaing problem is to bring them "together.

This will be solved. But this is not all. within our. own borders, with' our own skill, we must transmute this rough product into something finer and more valuable. It is not enough to make rails and car-wheels, stoves and cotton-ties, invaluable as these are.

We must convert some of our materials into fine tools and finished products. We have among us the skill and the motive power and the capital, and they should be brought into requisition. Other and less favored countries should have the opportunity to exchange their products for ours. Montgomery might take an important step in this indus ry and help to develop the superb possibilities of our State. To supply the artisans and the farmers and the soldiers of the world with the implements of their several callings would be an achievement to be proud of.

A saw or a sword, a pruning knife or a razor, a sewing machine or a broad-axe with the imprint of a Montgomery manufacturer would delight the hearts' of Alabamians abroad, and add to the wealth and importance of our State. Our iron has been fairly tested, and the teat proves that it can be manufactured into goo 1 steel. To manufacture it into fine tools and other goods would not only give employment to many skilled laborers and add wealth to the people and the State, but would diminish the cost and burden of exportation, while adding to the profits. At almost every stage of manufacture, from the ore to the hairspring of a watch, the article grows in value as it diminishes in weight, and as its price increases the expense of its handling and transportation decreases. What we desire to see, what we ought to see, and what we expect to see, is a large proportion of our iron products manufactured at home into fine wares, and to see Mobile become, the gateway through which cheap iron and coal shall be distributed to all the earth.

Southern Baptist Convention, jr5; Augusta, May 9. Editor Advertiser The mass meeting last night, held in the interest of foreign missions, was ably addressed by Rev. F. M. Ellis, D.

and Rev. T. D. Anderson, D. of Baltimore.

At the close a collection was taken up to build a chapel for Rev. M. T. Yates at Shanghai, China, amounting to $2,450. The result of the meeting was cabled to Dr.

Yates immediately. To-day, just before the Convention met, at the earnest request of Dr. Burrows, pastor of the church, and an artist of the city, the Convention stood in front of the church to the number of about five hundred, to have their pictures taken. I wish this custom could be more honored in the breach than in the observance, as it is very annoying to many delegates. The subject for the morning's discussion was "Woman's Work," and it called forth many speeches.

At the hour of twelve came the regular order, which was the delivery of the memorial discourse by Rev. J. L. Burrows, D. of Norfolk, Virginia.

The Convention was organized in this church May 8, 1845, and the reason for the new organization was the position taken by the Triennial Convention (to which the Baptists of the South have belonged since 1814) on the subject of slavery. Dr. Burrows gave an interesting statistical review of the work of the Convention during the forty years of its existence. From small beginnings the Convention has assumed gigantic proportions. Of all the delegates present when the Convention was organized forty years ago only the following are present in the Convention now: Dr.P.

H.Mell, Georgia; Dr. Burrows, Virginia; Reuben Jones, Virginia; Dr. E. Watson, South Carolina; Jonathan Miller, Georgia; T. S.

Bledsoe, Texas; Dr. C. M. Irwin, Georgia; Dr. T.

R. Syd-vor, Virginia; T. P. Lide. South Carolina; Dr.

S. G. Hillyer, Georgia; E. R. Carswell, Georgia.

"If the names were called," said Dr. Burrows, "not one in thirty of those who were with us then would answer to their names." Many able addresses were made this afternoon on the subject of missions to Cuba, Brazil, A resolution was introduced and adopted changing the basis of representation in the Convention. To-night a mass meeting: will be held In the interest of Home Missions. if: A NEEDED INVENTION. A physician claims to have discovered a bacillus, taken from the blood of a man afflicted with portumania, which will produce drunkenness when injected into the veins of a sober man.

There's a discovery that the world has been waiting for. Getting drunk is quite a task to some persons. Some palates and some stomachs revolt against whisky and brandy and gin, and have to punish themselves in order to get up anything like a decent drunk. They force the liquor down their throats, even at the imminent risk of an upheaval, so that they may achieve and enjoy the pleasures of inebriation. But here Science step3 in, as it usually does at critical periods, and provides.

the and means of accomplishing the desired result without offence to the most sensitive stomach. All that is necessary, if this discovery proves' practicable, is to cultivate a little garden patch of the convenient baclllii, provide oneself with a hypodermic syringe, and the trouble Is at an end. Any man can then vaccinate himself with a first-class drunk at small cost and with little trouble, and without any risk of nausea. If he chooses, he can doubtless get up a first-rate case of jim-jams by frequent renewal of the dose, or it may be that science will advance a step further and provide the baclllii of graduaded strength, so that any desired stage of intoxication can be produced at will from a mild "happy-go-lucky" to a fully developed cut-throat, wife-beating drunk. It's a great invention, and opens' up a range of possibilities hitherto unheard of.

If it is desirable to get a man out of the way for a short time he can be inoculated while asleep and wake up so drunk that he wouldn't know a funeral from the fourth of July. And when a man comes home just drunk enough to raise Cain and break things, his wife can find an opportunity to fire a charge into his skin that will make him as quiet an Egyptian mummy, and if she finds it desirable she can keep him in a state of beatitude till she can make arrangements to elope with the coachman. Nor need it be an expensive business. The item from which we quote does not go into the cost or trouble of breeding these little embryo drunks, but if they are always to be found in the blood of drunkards, even Maine or Kansas could provide a liberal supply for all ordinary demands, without drawing on the limitless resources of Chicago and Kentucky. There can always be found, in almost every community, some hardened sinner, of no possible use to himself or to the country, but who will furnish a first rate breeding ground for the bacillus, and every well-regulated hospital will keep one of its own, from which to draw a supply In case of emergency.

There are grand developments in the future of this invention. THBAGKOFIBOH. Iron rules the world. In peace and war, in shop and farm, in house and wood, it is the one metal for which the present race of men could find no substitute. More than any and all metals it is entitled to the name of precious.

Mea once lived and run their course, died and were buried, without ever having conceived the wonderful uses and advantages hidden away in the dirty or a beneath their feet. The alchemysts and the philosophers of the olden time wore out their lives and their brains in the vain endeavor to discover the secrets of transmutation. To find a way by which the baser metals could be transformed into shining gold was the dream of their lives and the one object of their being. But the time had not come. Modern science and skill and industry have solved the perplexing problem which eluded the earnest and mistaken enthusiasts of a long past age.

The skill of the mechanic is the true philosopher's stone which transmutes the dull and sordid iron into forms more valu able than the gold of Ophir. It is es sentially an age of iron. If the metal and its products should be suddenly blotted from the face of the earth man must relapse into barbarism. The present members of the human race, at least, would fail to accommodate themselves to the change and return to the savagery of the stone period, 5Lr Tennessee and is 52 years old. His pa rents moveu to AiaDama wnen ne was a child and he has since that time resided in that State.

He learned the trade of architect and builder and followed that business for many years. During the war he served in the Confederate army rising to tne rank oi urigauier uener- al. He served in the 45th, 46th. 47th and 48th Congresses as a Representative irom Alabama. Middled With Mullets.

Selma, May 11. Yesterday in the woods near Dixie Station, on the E. V. (i. railroad, thirtv miles above here, the body of Scipio Atchison (col.) was lounu riaaiea witn Ducusnot.

isy whom the murder was committed is not known. Last week Atchison's son James outraged a white woman named Mrs. Hester ear the same place. James was pursued by a number of white men who scoured the country for him, but failed to find him. Scipio was terribly enraged at them for pursuing his son and several times threatened to kill them.

On Friday last he went to tho houses of some white men in the woods where the men were goiog to saw logs and said, "this is your day but to-morrow is mine. I will get your scalp." lie also advised white families to leave there at once. These threats are believed to have caused his death at the hands of some white men of the neighborhood. The son is a desperate man and has boasted of having assaulted four other white men. If caught he will be lynched.

Annual Convention District No. 1. It. U. Selma, May 11.

Thfl annual convention of the Dis trict Lodge, No. 7, of the Independent Order Jiaai a ntn assemoiea at Harmony Hall in this city yesterday. This District Lodge is comprised of the lodges of seven States, those of Texa3, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Sixty-two Lodges are represented in tho convention by about 125 delegates. At twelve o'clock yesterday the convention met and was promptly called to order at Harmony Hall.

The meeting was opened with religioas exercises. New officers of the lodge were elected as follows: Joseph Hirch, of Vicksburg, President; Goodchaux Levi, of San An-tonia. Vice President; M. J. Meyer, of Selma, Second Vice President; Gabe Kohn, of New Orleans, Treasurer; A.

S. Myers, of Memphis, Secretary; S. Jacobs, of Natchez, Mississippi, Sergeant-at-arms. Our good people have begun preparations already for the entertainment of the Knights Templar of the Grand Commandery of Alabama. They will meet in grand conclave in this city on Wednesday of next week, May 20.

and continue in session three days. The devotional exercises will be held at the Baptist Church on Thursday evening, May 21, when the annual address will be delivered by Eminent Sir Knight George F. Moore, of Montgomery. An elegant banquet, complimentary to the knights and ladies present, will be given at the St. James Hotel, Friday evening, May 22.

We all look forward to the occa- sion with happiest anticipations. AD 4-.