The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-28

there extensively.
1t is said that the state Of Kentucky will
have candidate for every office laid down in
the blue DOCK.
S. X. swimne, of Paintsvilc, Ky, is about
to retire from the Courier of that place.
in order to enter the ministry. He is lin the
swim" now.
The authorities are after the gamblers Of
Tennessee Chattanooga is waging o. vigorous
against them, and they are making them
selves scarce in that city.
Catchem, Kilum & Robbem is said t.,
the rather curious name of an Alabama
notwithstanding its suggestiveness thEa:,
is said to be doing a thriving buslnessyrds, y.
Near Greensboro, n. G., a strajo,d G
attacked two little girls, who We
the timely appearance Of hulN
The animal resembled bear,
GENTLY TO be Identified as one. IIngs.
1t is said there is some doubt ablsr w" fo
sanity of Joe Griffin, who recently Il.
from the asylum in Alabama. He ,wast-
yicted of murder secured new trial, and
OF on a plea Of insanity. ~.
shrewd investors are said to have taken adj
vantage of the era of depression to buy up Il
great deal of real estate in Middlesborough,
Ky, 'at low prices, trusting to an advance
when the iron and steel works get into fun
operation
Six old men, the youngest being sixty and
Thursday, having walked all the way from
near Winston, n. c. They announced that
their mission in Texas was to grow up with
the country.
1t is reported that Mr., George w, Wander
bilt has decided to build forty ten-thousand-
dollar houses on his estate, near Asheville.
This great outlay of money, nearly S50O,O00.
will be of great advantage to Asheville and
western Carolina,
Complaints Of the ineffciency of the mail SER
vice in eastern Kentucky are always more or
less in order, but just now they are partfcu-
larv loud and deep. The Courier-JOurnai
says that the Star Route system in Kentucky
merits is the early attention of Postmaster
General BisSeU.
A Florida man last week selected most
frghtful but eticacious method OF suicide.
He employed In mill. and. when
he thought 1t time to end his dreary
istence, he threw himself on the log which was
being carried to the saw, grasped the log
firmly and the work was done-he cut
into two equal parts.
town of Spartanburg. said North CAROLYN
ian, Captain Davis, yesterday, Ito deliver an
address, 1T The laying OF the corner stone or
CONVERSE college, which viii occur ON the list
OF April. lour governor has consented 10
make the chief address and our people VIII
give him cordial reception"
The Owensboro, Ky, Messenger hns this
item: 'As time rolls on 1t Is more ana more
OF the great democratic maJorlty-Wil not
get u blamed thing that is not tied down in
Tie way OF federal appointments, ana II
will be thus just 50 long as western Ken
lucky has no representation In The United
States senate.
On Sections creek, in Clay county, Ken
lucky, the natural gas from spring Is being
used to heat and Ilgnt Il large scnoolhouse
which Is used also for church PURPOSES. There
is another spring Il lew miles distant, on the
same creek, where gas Is constantly escaping.
of hIr htlH tn.t1A
10 sink a well III his yard last tai to supply
his house with water, and struck the gas forty
feet from the surface
A stranger in town the other day saw Cap
Joyner and his cart gong TO a nre IN that
csiILon-ball fashion that has become famous
There is a ire SomeWhere"' said IL by
stunder shortly afterwards.
lies; L saw it going down the street few
minutes ago. replied the stranger.
You Gid!'
Il reckon 1 did saw a streak of red some
thug going down that way like blazes'
and poured it down on the mule. The mule
shook it Off and trod 1t down as fast as Jase
poured ii in, and at the end or the fourth day,
when Jase had the Old wel-hole filled with
dirt the mule stepped out from the top OF the
filling and walked OFF to the trough to get
drink of water If we don't watch pretty
close 1t is more than likely that when we get
done burying the third party. we may find it
stepping on us as clipper and sassy and hun
CRY Jase's old lnule!
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany has just awarded n contract for the
building of 800 freight cars. These
all to be built at Admission, Gadsden and De-
catur Ala The Louisville and Nashyille'S pol
icy is to sustain the industries along its line.
These contracts mean a good deal of money
distributed through that section. The Annis
ion News figures it that the contract of the
works there for 700 will require the work
of 500 men for seventy days.
A Texas hunter, wearied with the chase for
game, sat down upon a log to rest. Suddenly
he heard rustic, and looking up spied big
black buck looking straight at him. He got
shot at the animal which bounded away and
disappeared. The hunter gave chase, but after
half an hours search he gave it up bad
job Suddenly a partridge whizzed out Of a
tree and shot crippled the bird. 1t futtered
away among the underbrush and the hunter
pursued it. He got the partridge and had
scarcely taken two steps when he came upon
the deer stone dead