The Weekly Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 7

THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUgfiPAY JANUARY 17 1888-TWELVE PAGES TOWN ELECTIONS rotim AMD A MASKED MOE A BELT OF STEEL mr mgn with CoL Wingfield ee pren-1 ident wko has held that poaitioo sine I The meetings have bees a source of great pleasure to the society of Fatontoa A change haa receatlr taken place in the management of the Eaton too Mweeger I Mr Dennia renting the intereau of I It A Dennfa and Geoege Adams Mr Dranu is still vith ths paper Dublin Jail Entered and a I Prisoner Missing NOT LYNCHED BUT UBER1TEDINEK NAMES ON THE BUCK UST vtvoTis from the Towns Vot- ing Yesterday HENNA'S VIGOROUS YOUNC BOOM 'Tlaer -kUrfa Wurk It jli nt WrliMnllta January The following was elected here yeeter- jlayor IVnny Aldermen Vies' vJlUm Dr onn I juJ JO Hamilton- Vienna I loti a to ito history ejy I -t dwelling i occupied and there ia an I I demand for both which are being fast as the capacity of our force of flentem Uow- Newcomen are a almost every day and at ita present iw 1 1 jate of growth! lennu will soon beme of tVlirgr-t and moat important towns in ifci Milion The cause of all thin is the near a Jh of iioupletitin to thb plaee of KLia Siutbcrn and Florida railroad Uli iK-nctrate the wire pass aertion and Jnhrr Ult at this point and will un- Aol'inllr lw one of the finest equipped I Ut aring mads in the South 1 tlie first town on the road after Maom a distance of fifty-ix and Vim hiving 1 3w5TS I Wilson ontlmhemlolish: HsjftsaHKs gun in being fired and the of the difficulty not known Convspoailcnae Baeoo Telegraph IVaycbum Gs January The ves-tibule train arrived here at 1 ctO from New York with 70 passengers direct to Florida There were at least 300 citizens out to aaa the train as it is the first vestibule train that ever passed through the place The vestibule will pass through from New York en route to Florida every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday and from Florida en route to New York on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays The train made the rate of 59 miles per hour between Charleston and Jacksonville as they were 55 minutes late leaving Charleston The Arthur Love Comedy Company gave a ierformaiire here last night before a good I hi use and wa well applauded giving general satisfaction The ticket headed by Dr WilHams will not contest the election as mentioned in the Telegraph Dr Folks and councilman were sworn in also the balance of the officers COCHRAX Three Good Rchuul Hrrcantlte Chai nit uf City Uertion Correspondrate Macon Telegraph Corn rax January 11 The throe school are in full operation here with large attendance of pupils to-wit: the college and the school of lWeMor Wynne and Mr Fred Martin Mr Taylor has bought the stock of goods known as the Maas property and ha moved hi stock in the commodious Maas building His business ia certainly on tlie mammoth order now Mr Mas will remain lie re for an indefinite time where he can lie found either at the store of Taylor or that of Mayer A Watts The election for city fathiere has just closed Everything paused off quietly though two full tickets were before tm people Mr Ham Mayer waa re-elected mayor The aldermen are Cook (1 I toff IX Kvie IX Loyall Dr 1 I Hudson IVoodward The new will go in a soon as the old can make reporb and wind up the busincm for the year 1887 ATTEMPTED AfMAMIBATlOB a Forty Fires Tkren Skats at Torn Yaang Man In Atfcana Athexs January Last night Metu-rs Arthur Long and Tom Cobb were going home they noticed a man under the amp post near Fuller's store but bring deeply in conversation they paid no attention to him As they neared the store the man moved to one side of tlie road and when the two parties got under the light he opened fire on them the first and second sliots grating Mr Cobb while the third tore through the lapel of Mr overcoat The party was evidently prompted by a desire to kill aa he advanced closer after each shot Neither Cobb nor Long was armed and until after the second shot was fired they did not realise that their lives re endangered Both young men highly thought of here and neither ha any idea who the guilty party ran be BLAKELY Besnlt of Ike Mnnlrtpal Election Bcfcoul Ha rringe Correspondence Mscon Telegraph Blakely January Tlie municipal election panned off quietly on Saturday rr- Atlaxta Janaary lls-ThefVraltryaad Bench allow drew a large' day and to-night the kalb i 'o-day the poultry judges and to-night the following i awarded: Grier BoatdrtaH- or light Brahmas first on pen first second and third on pallet second on eorkereL Grier Boanlman on white Minorca firat or pen find on cock first on pen: first second and third on pullet on black Minorca find on pen firm on cockerel firm second thud and fourth on pullet on'wflite Wyandotte first on pen find on hen first or cockerel find and second on hen first and second on pullet Fred 8cbt-ll of Belleville I1L on Buff Cochins find un pen' find on cock first second and third on pullet first and second on cockerel first on hen Henderson on light Brahmas second on pen first on cockerel wmi vu ivH um wa cwbctti ticudder A Townsend of New York or Plymouth Rucks first on pen first and second on cockerel first and second or pullet first on hen Hayden tSoa on Cayuga ducks first prize The other award in the poultry department will he made to-morrow Judge Beckham and Taylor of tha bench show will go through their departmenta to-morrow and award the prises WAR Xl'R PRISED Bis Wife Faand Ont te Have Temper and Hold Iihtj Thlnua Atlaxta January 11 A divorce suit out of the usual order of such affair wag filed in the clerk's office lutlljfi Usually he wife sues tlie husband for diVotoe but in thb care the Ln-liand brings tha salt Zack A Iteid an ex-isiliceman brings suit fur divorce from hb wife Mary Reid who at tlie time he married her in 1882 was Mi Mary McNeillen of thb city The petitioner claims that soon after he married hb wife he ascertained' mnch to hb surprise that she possessed a violent disposition which she made known to hint by coming and aimsing him also striking him with anything she could get her hands on when her temper waa aroused When a child waa bora to tVim a few yean after they were united' she informed him that he waa not the father bf it He waa disinclined to believa thb and attributed it to her violent wild talk Ha finally found her conduct go objection-abb that ha waa forced to leave her and remora to another Sine leaving hb wife he haa learned that aha waa untrue and unfaithful to him- there grounds he asks for a totg divorce The defendant in the suit liras on Dzcatnr street and rervica of tha anil upon her to-day THE BLACK Three Hero Hthbers Gatina tleas Likely te Arise In Atlaxta Ga January 11 Chief Connelly's black list growing To-day ho added to it the names of IL I kfdConnell a tr a i i ra i A Almond and Charles Aikia Thr men have been found guilty by police Judge Anderson of being drunk on the streets the second time Clerk Carl fab haa to keep a list of every man who found gnilty of drunkenness before tha recorder and tha second oflenaa pula him or tha black list It will require a good deal of work to go over tha list of names when tbulbt runs in to the thousand to find ont whether or not an offender haa been drank the second time: and where the John Smith contingent cornea in it will be interesting to know how Carlfab will ha abb to dis tinguish one John Smith from another so aa to do justice to the John Smith wko haa been drunk only one time and at the i time carry out the law with reference to hb namesake who has been fare prudent There are so many ways jn which tha law likely to become inoperative that in time it not improbabb that it will be found failure (r Atlaxta Jiiinary The Inry whbh adjourned a few ound 183 true bills Of thb nuum were for felonies and 98 for misdemeanor A dawification of the offmaea shows felonies: Murder 6 assault to murder 20 larceny from a ear 6 pointing a gun 1 bigamy 4 adultery 1 grand larceny 1 arson other felonies 4: bdiblaiy 32 larceny after trust 3 perinry' I forgery 1 manslaughter 1 rape 1: larceny Iron person 1 robbery 1 total ML Violating prohibition law 8 selling liquor to minora 2 other meanors 60 total 98 Hi: Atlaxta January Geri Farm today filed a bill against A Fume Mil II A Furse and Marion Funs He al-bgea that he a ciliaen of Birmingham and that in January 1887 lw forwarded to hb mother Mrs A Fure of thb city $13000 and requested her to deposit the money in bunk to kb credit The money wae not deposited and instead hb mother loaned about $600 of the amount to hb brother A Fume and appropriated the balance to her own nan The bill aska for relief injunction and tha appointment of a receiver and a hearing et for the 14th instant Atlaxta January IL MraIL ITil-on thb afternoon filed with the clerk a uit for divorce from her husband Samuel IVibon The petitioner alleges that aha waa married to heir husband on the 12th of December 1883 and that she lived with him until some time ia April 1887 Since then they have been separated During the time- that they lived together she charges that he waa very cruel and nakind to her and often beat bar in the amt brutal i Atlaxta January 11 Mrs Delta Burton the last victim of Bra Barton in kb matrimonial investments called upon GoL Bob Sibbv who waa Burton's lawyer to-dav and' intimated in her cenvenauoa that she had given np all hopes of oaring her husband again She says that all that she want to do now to live qnbtly and work for a living RnnkBrsI the Uouflasville Star A recent dispatch from Detroit aaya: John Pulfoid who arid to be the only man who ever sarvirad being his with a solid cannon shot Douglas county proud to claim aa one of her best citiaens one who waa struck bidl and ho daad by a bag shot Tran he area a but the livalimt John alias Ttg" that yon lul night in the interest of the Methodist church wr the younf ladies and gratia- men of thie place The entire perform- much enjoyed and heartily applauded by the audience I fj-Green the new paator of the 1 Methodist Church haa arrired and haa entered reafously noon hia work He haa' nad quit a favoratila imptwioa upon his charge her Retr Alexander Kirkland will euntinue aapaatorof ths Presbyterian Church the protest year much to the delight not only of his own charge but to that ol the citizena generally With' eadneea we chronicle the terioua illnem of Mr Ol lWhil one of our beat citizen He haa long entitled here and the eympathiee of all are enliated in hi behalf There is much activity manifested in this vicinity he the farmers preparing for the liuaneas of the new year The jmibbai can we make farming pavf is con- discussed We are fisppv to note that the blighted prospect of ntoat promfa- fog cn in this sect it in last summer and the omaetjuent failure at the time of har vest has not in any degree paralyzed the energies of the hardy and worthy tillers of theeoiL FAIRBl'KX xegra KUlml hr AiMthar-Xanirlpal Else Farmers Alliance Corrnponlcnrv Bacon Telegraph Fairburx January Kin Blalock colored was shot and instantly killed by Owen Wilson colored on Saturday last The killing took place near the Fulton county line in Sand Town district Wilson fired the contents of a single barrel shut gun into the heart of Kin lilabs-k The burst Our municipal election quietly The following ('ieurLatham mavorV Ntrickbmf llalhcuck and passed off were elected: Chapman conncilmen They entered Uion the duties of tlieir office last night Mr John Oomp has moved to town and will keep the hotel during this year The fanners alliance dull are being formed all over the western iortiiin of this county They allow mi one to join except farmers who are not connected with the mercantile business in anv way- Their mnin object I understand is to raise lew cotton and more hog and horninv Tlie Fairbum academy opened it spring term on Monday under the management of I)r A Patterson The trustees ara well pleased with the success of the school under Dr Patterson's management The first quarterly conference of tlie Church for Fairbum and Palmetto was held at the latter place on Monday at 10 o'clock Rev IV Wadsworth presiding THOMAMVILLE Inina of Winter Vlsltnra-Unily Ca purity of tka Water Works Uorrw-iioiidence Baron Telegraph Thomarviu-e (a January The Mitchell House opened to-day for the aea-i and a good rnuny guest are already quartered there ruoids in many instances having been engaged ahead With through sleepers from Washington and New York the tide of travel is turning ranidly this way and will soon fill hotels and boarding house There are many more winter visi tors here now than ever before at this season- of the year The popularity of the place has steadily increased for fifteen vests and many who have been to California and Florida say that Tliomasrilfo is the best plaee to spend the winter they have found Tlie Thomasviiie Time came out yesterday as an evening daily The Enteptrise haa been planning to do the same thing for some days past but has not made its appearance yet Two of them cannot succeeu but if they would combine force and get out one good daily paper it would he a good thing for tlie town and the owners of tlie paper The rivalry! though will he better for the town than for the publishers The mistake of your (Mate newt comiioM-tors in using tlie figure seven has mode two recent communication from here ridiculous The insertion of one of these however will make amend It ia the one left out in the statement of the capacity of the water works tank to lie erected here diameter 25 feet altitude 100 feet make the capacity 875000 gallon as written and not 35UU0 galfona as published WKIGH1WVILUL Destiwrtlon of tka Artlno Hotel by Fire-Mayor nMl Connoll fleeted Correspondence Mscon Telegraph righto vi LLE January The Ar-line Hotel at this place waa destroyed by fire last night about 12 o'clock The fire hen first discovered had gained such headway that it waa impossible to check the flames Aa the building wa remote from other houses no other damage waa done Nearly all the furniture waa saved except a stove a sewing 1 except a atove a aewing machine aud fevrother article After the conflagration Mr Ariineand family with all their boarders were taken tn the lioapitaMe homes of kind hearted ciliaen and were well cared for during the remainder of the night The origin of the fire not known hut it is aupiMwed to have been the work of an inndiary Tlie building being owned ft A Bostick of Kandereville vour eorreMindent haa not yet been able to foam whether or not there waa any insurance upon it Our municipal election came off last Saturday with the following result: Maddux mayor A Limler Brantley 1 Kennedy Braikly and IV A Crawford council men They are all honest fair-minded gentlemen and will do everything in their power to promote the best interest of our town KATU9TYOM Anniversary Entertainment mt Ike Llsrt Elliot Mewiyper Change Correspondence Mscon Tekimph Eatuxtox January On Tuesday night last the Lisit-Ellfott Club met at tlie hospitable home of Judge Frank Lerrrrtt to celebrate its anniversary Very ex ten sive preparations had been made for the occasion and it waa certainly the entertainment of tlie season The programme which waa arranged etqwcially fur this event wa lwsulifully executed The features of the evening were a recitation by Miss Nina Dnvi entitled ami an instrumental aofo by Mis I-ucy I none of Baraesville At 10 the guest repaired to the dining-room here tlie most tempting eatable were arraiqred The siiread waa just such a one a Mrs Lwrar-ett only can prepare IVrhaps the same length of time waa never more enjoyable pent than oa this occasion The Lisxt-Elliot waa orgaaMd only Charter Issued for a Road Around Atlanta Two Fetitlaoa Dtvarro FIM-Feeltrj HU Criminal Baalaass IHapaaad of Trsa UllUla Balk Matox TzLznaxrx Bcacar No 3 Whitehall bnrr Atlakta Ua January 11 let Under tbs general railroad law a charter was to-day issued to Howell Inman Henry Jackson Alfred Sully Thomas Smith Isaac Rice John A Rutherford Emanuel Lehman Calvin 8L Brier Sami Thomas John 1L Inman George Scott Logan Pope Bar-end James White for the Georgia Terminal Railroad Company whose capital stock is put at $1000000 The charter recites that the object of the corporation is te construct a belt road around Atlanta The list of stockholders embraces several directors of the various railroads centering in Atlanta It is more than probable that the company will also build a union passenger depot XV IB IT Mr Hancock Repnrt MwUte tks Grand Jury 17 His Cnranslttce Atlaxta January To-day's Constitution contained the following: Tlie grand jury's presentment made a few days ago and published in last Saturday's Constitution has caused a good deal of comment IVrhap that part which lias provoked tlie most talk is the subjoined report of a special committee This extract was given in the Telegraph at the time tlie report wa made public and declares it the sense of a committee of the jury that it is a wrong policy for a county commissioner or firm which he is a member te become a contractor fur public work and also intimate that in the matter of hire the charges were sometime 33 per cent in exces of the daily wages paid that class of labor "To whom does the committee waa asked Mayor Coojier who is secretary of the board of county commissioner "Mr Ilunnicutt is tneonly commissioner who is interested in the plumbing business and the inference is the committee refer to "Tell me about this matter I there anvthing wrong in the f'The report apeaka for itself but no far as I am informed there is no fraud -practiced Indeed it is safe to conclude that the committee did not fiix nearly an many irregularities as some folks did the investigation come about "You had better see others better informed on that point than 1 am I am told however that rival plumber instigated the charges against Mr Ilunnicutt and that after the various bida for work were examined it waa found Ilunnicutt' bid were lower than any of them I think anything to publish in the matter A great deal has been made about a very Mr Hancock chairman of the committee of the grand jury making the report said that since the matter hai gone into the newspapers he did not mind telling what he knew about it honest dealings Because he had better facilities for filling the contracts he could underbid other In some instances the work had to lie done in a hurry and there was no time to advertise for the lowest bidder I will say however that had I been in Mr place I would not have taken many of the small jobs but would have given the other dealers a showing" the err of frauds and irregularities not sustained by the there has been no fraud Mr Ilunnicut was awarded many contracts but in every instance he was the lowest ATLAMTA COURTS Tbo ClUssns Bank Cnse-BnHnessIHspesed eC in the Rnperler Cmut Atlaxta January The bank case progressing slowly To-day Judge Adam discharged tha jury for the dav and heard the attorneys discuss the law upon aurne of the evidence introduced in the care It not likely that the care will jie given to the jury until Friday afternoon In the criminal branch of the Superior court Judge Richard IL Clark disposed of several cases Lucinda Mathews waa tried upon the charge of areault with intent to coremit murder The evidence showed that she had a difficulty with another negro girl at a dance during Christmas week the malt of which was that she drew a knife and cut her opponent in the arm The jury returned a verdict of stabbing: Sentence waa suspended in her care Bonnie Brown and Fanny Brown appeared to answer the charge of receiving stolen guods The evidence was not considered strong enough to convict and in consequence the jury returned a verdict of not guilty Henry Wilson a boy of eighteen yean of age entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of anon The prosecution attempted to show that IVilsim had set fire to a negro shanty cansing it almost complete destruction As the evidence was of rather a flimsy character a verdict of not guiltv was rendered A rase of wsault with intent to commit murder against a white man by the name of Jim Smith waa dismissed oa the payment of costs: Tlie prosecution in the case spiraled in court and asked that the caw be disposed in thb way Louis Mitchell charged with burglary waa adjudged guilty sad sentenced to even year ia the penitentiary servbeof the State: i Jira fforitk a negro who waa aareaated with Mitchell in the same ertare and who entered pbn of gnilty a few days ago as also sratsnoed to aerrs a term of seven ran ia the peRitontiaty sreviee of the tcuv: Rata Correspondence Macon Telegraph Dnux January IS On the night be-1 fore Christmas Mr Reinhart Jr one of the proprietors of the Bar'' started home having with him all the I money notes etc belonging to the firm of which he was a partner they having no safe at their place of business Just as he turned the corner in front of his house some one struck him lick which fellea him to the ground then another lick and he became unconscious and the robber ran off with the contents of his pocket-book which was about one thousand dollars in cash and draft Mr Reinhart gained cua-sciouaaem just in time to recognize in the retreating figure one Henry Burney and to end several shots from Isus pistol in the direction in which the negro disappeared The sheriff arrested llumey end lodged him in jail upon the statement of Mr Reinhart that ne positively knew the negro who atriu-k him and that the same was Henry llumey The next morning Mr Reinhart was up as usual and opened hia bar for business but later in the day he had to close bis doors and go home and A preliminary hearing ed for several days fact that Mr Reinhart be in attendance on the court owing to tlie injuries received At the commitment trial the prosecutors exhibited in court a pole about ten feet tong and about aa large as a man's arm with which it waa claimed that Reinhart was struck and aa no sign was left on Mr Reinhart's head or body aurne entertained doubt as to whether Mr Reinhart waa struck at all and whether he waa nibbed or not TAEEX YWAY BY A MOB Henry Burney waa committed to jail in default of bond in the sum of 1000 There ha remained until Tuesday night last when a crowd of masked men numbering in all about twenty went to tlie iaiter's house which situated near the ail hmka through his door and demanded the jail keys Being powerless to mist alone with a family nearly frightened to death the jailer waa compelled to deliver the jail keys to the mob and they repaired to tna jail took the prisoner therefrom and even of them with guns on their shoulders went np a back street carrying with them the prisoner The remainder of the crowd went up the main street past the court house end took the direction leading to Huger and Hardship creek and Black-hear' ferry This is the last heard from the mob the prisoner and whether they lynched him or fore him hi liberty remains aa yet a mislery but it ia uniipoaed that he wa liberated as the majority of the crowd eing only were negroes there being only three white men among them according to the report of the jailer who did not recognize any one however GRIFriM Harrjr Brown's Kiltortnl From all Engel Retires Ing Lsnp Yw Faity Correspondence Macon TKLBGaxra Griffix January The rumor mentioned last week regarding the Daily Sun of this place assumed recently the form of fact and yesterday it was current on the streets that Mr ifarry Brown for many paper man he has by close application ana atudy fitted himself for his chosen work One of the oldest landmark! in businesa here retired yesterday when Mr Joseph Engel arid out He has been at kb present stand opposite the post-office since 1845 and during all these yean Uncle Joe as we ara wont to call him ha had the bounded confidence of every man woman and child Of him it may be truthfullv said: an Israelite in whom there is no Mr IL Herts of Macon spent ester-1 dav with hb friends here the usual Leap Year party furore haa I truck us a full broadside and extensive I preparations ara now going on for a large I gathering of young maidens and maidens not so young The party will be held at the elegant home of Mia Lewis North! Griffin We have a full doien of splendid catches among the autumn-tinted bachelors and if tnev are not brought into har-Mua thb year these Ephraims may be safely arid to have pawed all hope Gentlemen don't lose the opportnnity COCHRAX Dwelling Destroy by Flre-He OUtnnrrS AUtheBefsta (be Bare CocnRAX January Fire broke out about 8 thb morning in a dwelling owned hr the railroad company and oecu- pied by Mr Wood' anti Family Mr Vr'ood foreman of the bridge gang on the railroad and haa been living in the house for several yean The bouse was formerly used as a hotel The flaoMe had mads such headway when discovered that nothing could bis sw was gotten out Tha inmates had barely time to get oat with a few clothes that they caught up aa their ran rhe Menu Tucker brother depot agent etc occupied 4 front room and were very hard to arouse and they just were almost dmggad out when the fire was into and all over the room They saved hardly anvthing: Mr Wood waa absent on hbworiL The fire originated in the storeroom as is supposed There wae no insurance Mr Mnrdock Pipkins died at hb residence four miles from town last night of pneamoaia Mr Pipkin waa 63 rear old and baa farmed for many yean at the place where be died Mr Perry waa united in marriage by CL Newman on last Sunday to Mbs Maiaenb Pnmtr Mr Persy ia over 60 and the bride is about SO the iter of the late John Purer ought hy as aha waa forti- I yean Mibtant editor of the News would become editor-in-chief of tlie Sun with IV 1L Searcy aa proprietor and that Mr Brown wouhl make the change next Monday Harry has a host of friend not onlv suiting in the election of Ewell I him but throughout thin section who will I aearching examination of the contracts IX IV James Chipstead I send their very best wbhes after him in I The bids were sorutiniied and the utuwst 1 hi upward atep and hope he will be the I care taken to bring out all the facto He wnue genial avul racial Harry as editor I found nothing that was tainted with fraud that tner always found him to be as local I Ami I will say that I esteem Mr Ilnnni-IIe taken the position well competent to I cult a gentleman of the highest fill it for besides being naturally a news-1 character I know be is above any dun mayor Janies Freeman II IL Buchanan Fryer councilman John Chancer marshal ami Smith treasurer The Blakely academy opened Monday were made against a member of the board of county commissioner Mr Ilunnicutt that he liad secured contracts by virtue of lib position' The matter waa brought to the attention uf the grand jury and a committee waa instructed to make A il if fi I gff bound to grow Already several Hv mill ere in active operation to supply demand furlumher I command a Jt 8 building lots can lie bought qnite low TY-TT rhout A Itklr-Farmers' riah-The Trad Fersanel Cntiinnce Macon Telegraph Ty-Ty January Mayflower Academe njK'iied on yesterday morning under ttrr favorable auspices Prof Hill and hb arimiiplbhed lady were early in their pin! and forty-one pupils answered to the first ndlcali for 1888 There was a goodlr number of the patents of the numerous children in attendance on the opening of the school Prof Hill will adopt a far a possible the plana of Prof Brant-hr in the preceding term which all will agne were good plan of instruction Editor James Hanlon made hia ajipear-aik in Tv-Ty yesterday afternoon and ia canrassing the town in propect of estab-iidiing hi aicr hose It to lie hoped there ia one more mora-aiHit taking shape in our community in the right directum for more progressive farming that is the formation of an agricultural society It ia a nettled fact in farming as in every other calling that in union there is strength and we do hope the good farmers of our county will so view the matter and come together and organize There is a good dual of excitement in town over the sale of guano especially among the merchants who sell it It u-ems that the farmers are clubbing together aud unde the direction of a former juen-hant ami dealer in guano are ordering there fertilizers direct from wholesale dralere tliua leaving to themaclvea the roniiuissions of the focal agents Several of our dealers are laying in new essU among the most noticeable Mr on tlie soutliside of Railroad street aiid Mrs Cora Pitt our good post-Uibtro on the mirth sfde As i yet there are no candidate announced for city fatlu-rs and to-morrow ia tlie day fur the election Mr Jaim O'Connor our railroad agent again at hia imst Mr IV l'arka ia out of nsM Mr John Thomion ia confined to his ld with something like eonumAfon and leai are entertained that he will never get He is one of our good farmer TIIK El'PAl'LA FIBE Vsljr Oar HulldlaR Burned ta Itndljr Tka Losses ('irrrsiNiniU-uce Bsron Telegraph Kupaela Ala January 11 The fire in the atone of Tullia last night smotiliU-ml in the cellar for several hours bnt finally when tlie water supply was al most exhausted it burned through the floor and soon had the entire building wrapped in flames The store and stock totally oonaumed Dr A Ifobertaon occupied rooma up ftaiis and his entire outfit waa destroyed Dr A A drag store on the west nd adjoining the burned building waa Mveil with difficulty Hia stock waa very much damaged by Ire and water A vacant store on theeah ofraedby Mr 1 isKamsen was eonaiderably damaged UndCT- with great difficulty the saved ware 1rthoyHeJf hrd mZ freJ iMt wTimm riilliM ptuiu wail daniniMui'-rl wf I Tlie window were burned out and the wall ho Iiadly damaged that a portion of it will have to be rebuilt Arorly all tlie aufbrera bv the fire had inMiranee but not enough to cover tonne 1 uung llixon clothier who was doing business at comer three doom burned bnildin(L had no insu- and lie moved out hi entire stock 1 wished for the water works nighL i ldlv cut on the he leg hy piece of giarei1 Dutiaappeure aa "Alvin ftou house to-night There wui be a theatre party out to hear him umither correspondent It is estimated that the loss by the fire ia this eitv night is between £10000 and uiugh lak-r investigation may prove the bunage to be much greater GEXETA Tha ItrT Tear her EtadaSKatre The ntrwn-tamd 'ra-spi indent Te t'EXETA January The election of omm-ilinen wr the govern ment of this I lie present year waa heU last wet tirheta were in the eLL The dry triumphed bv nearly Jwetoone The town for the past two waving a prohibition flag -V1 jOifying experience under that uln iV" ha led to the most tri- umphant victory she haa rat won rTfn torts in mant consisting of music "de tableaux eta wa given I I I I 1 I 1 I morning with a la attendance for the first day than ever before Professor Fitzpatrick and Mr Fitzpatrick remain at the nelm and stand deservedly high aa teacher Mr May of Madison Fla and ML IVillie Frver of thb place were married at the residence of the mother at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning Dr Lonard officiating and left on the train immediately for their future home in the sunny Land of Flower Death! Captain Yen LHctendm Mt Yerrox January Correa-ponence-Captain Vernon McLendon of thb place died yesterday evening at 4 from aa attack inf pneumonia He waa a lawrar of decided and recognized ability scorning to stoop to any chicanery or trickery to gain hb cases but planting himself the principle of justice and equity he conducted hb case as he did his private transaction honestly and without evil or the appearance thereof He waa a gentleman of the school loving the right and hating a wrong May he rest in peace until the resurrection morn ami then enter upon a glorious im-mortality the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at Marriage of (Wndnrtar AnJnwn A oaiksville January Lorre pon- At the residence of Wood yesterday at 2:30 clock Mr John Andereonand Mr Cordelia Reeve were joined in holy wedlock Rev Mr Mitchell officiating Mrs Anderson was an acquisition to our social circles besides being a aLEi ductor on the Western and road whew he recognised aa of great value and popularity Mr snd Mrs Anderson left ycstenlavfor their future home Ringgold and they carry with them the best wbhes of host of friend Metes Eastmax January 1 2 The Aid Kncietv will five an ovstersupfier at lull to-night for tlie benefit of the Methodist Church Hon IVm Kit Eastman has returned home after several weeks stay in Macon with Lb daughter Mr Monroe Ogden Hbease seems to bslfle the skill of hb physicians lie complain of neuralgia especially in the right arm Hb many friend wish for him a speedy restoration to health and happincwL Dew Well Mnch InRce raJ ArvrRX Ala- January 12 T8peebl Dr Mell some better to-day and hra physicians now regard his chances far recovery aa very good I I I rt lU''VV $1 re r-1.