Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — Page 2

®ljcJJemocratit Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Pubeisheb

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Dr. George F. Shrady, one of Gen. Grant’s medical advisers, publishes in the Medical Record of Aug. lan extended review of the “surgical and pathological aspects of Gen. Grant's case.’’ He believes that the disease had its inception in the month of June. 1884, and gives a succinct history of the progress and treatment of the case from the day in October last when Genera. Grant ‘first called on Dr. Fordyce Barker, his family physician, up to its fatal termination. It suggests no new theories in regard to the case, and is rather intended to lea connected narrative lor the benefit of the medical profession, being largely couched in terms familiar only to that. body. A dispatch from Mount MacGregor says: The letter from Mrs. Grant put in the General's pocket when he was laid in bis collin simply read: “Farewell, wo meet again in u better world.” It also contained a lock of Mrs. Grant’s hair. Mrs. Grant visited the remains Thursday morning, and remained alono with them seven or eight minutes. Then she went to her room and remained there until evening, when she again visited the remains. The “American Benefit Association” and the “American Benefit Society,” of Boston, have been declared fraudulent concerns bi' the State Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts, and will be suppressed by the authorities. A Mount MacGregor dispatch of the Ist inst. says: A considerable number of people came to the mountain to-day to view the remains of the dead General. The expression of the face remains very natural. A magnificent floral memorial was received from ex-Gov. Leland Stanford, of California, and Mrs. Stanford, representing the “Gates Ajar,’’composed of two gates six feet high by live wide, composed of white and purple immortelles, spanned by an arch inscribed with the name “U. S. Grant," and with a flight of steps ascending to the half-cpenel gates. A New York dispatch of the Ist inst. says: “Preparations for the great military pageant, which is to be the principal feature of the Grant funeral on the Sth, continue with great zeal. With the exception of the vast number of detui s which will now take care of themselves, these preparations may now be called completed. Gen. Hancock has appointed all his aids, and is now < ccupied during every working hour of the day in receiving and answering appli atlons fcr p’ace in ti e line, One hundred and fiity dollars has been ofi'ered for the use of a single window on Broadway on the day of thj funeral. The decorations of the City Hall, where the to )y is to lie in state, were finished to day and arc very imposing. The building is being girdled with electric lights, so that the somber center of interest while the remains lie there will be constantly illuminated. General Hancock issued an order charging Major General Alexander Shalcr with the formation of the escort column of treops, in which the army and navy and commissioned State organizations will be represented.” L. D. Munger, of Detroit, at Boston beat the bicycle road record of 207' 2 miles, making 211'i miles in twenty-four hours. It was decided in the New York Supreme Court that a bund of gypsies lately brought to this country on a steamer of the Bordeaux line must be returned to France. Five hundred boys were discharged from the Shamokin (Pa.) collieries, in obedience to a law recently passed by tho Legislature of that State forbidding child labor in mines and coal-breakers.

WESTERN.

Extensive ravages are being committed by grasshoppers in oat and corn Acids in Southern Illinois. In a wreck on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, near Delphi, Ind., the baggagemastqr was seriously hurt, eight head of cattle killed, and $40,000 worth of rolling stock destroyed. At Cleveland, Ohio, in the presence of 10,000 people Maud S. trotted a mile in 2:089a, beating her own previous record by half a second and the record of any other horse by 1 >4 seconds. Intensely warm weather prevailed throughout the West ana Northwest last week, the mercury ranging between 90 and 105 degrees at various points in Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan. For sixteen days the thermometer at Lohisville, Kentucky, averaged 90 degrees in the shade between sunrise and sundown, and about two hundred cases of sun-stroke were reported, of which twenty proved fatal. St. Louis and Cincinnati also suffered terribly from the heat. Valentine Wagner was hanged at Columbus, Ohio, for the murder of Daniel Sheehan, his brother-in-law. The culprit failed to preserve bis lourage when the hour of execution arrived. A desperate struggle between him and the officers took place before the sentence could be executed. Near Leadville, Colo., the engine and tender of a passenger train were wrecked by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge which unknown persons placed on the track. The passengers escaped unhurt. At Georgetown, Colo., Wm. Neff, a miner, lay down in his cabin and placed a stick of giant powder with fuse attached under his head. He then fired thofuse, andtho explosion blew his head from his body.

A postoffice official attempted to carry mail matter for Mexico and Central America on a Pacific Mail steamer as extra baggage, and was refused. The mall was subsequently sent overland, and the point is being made that the steamer had no right to discriminate as it did as a common carrier, and there may be a hereafter. Chicago was visited by a rain storm of unprecedented violence, the fall in eighteen hours reaching 5.58 inches, which was in excess of the total rainfall for any month of 1884. Many basements in the business quarter, containing valuable stocks of merchandise, were floodeJ, the losses aggregating an enormous sum. In the outlying districts extensive areas were submerged, and thousands of dollars' worth of property destroyed. Fears are entertained in Utah of a general uprising among the Indians of the Territory, who, it is claimed, are being incited to mischief by Mormon emissaries. Gen. Howard has left Omaha for the West to investigate the situation. A soldiers’ monument erected by the citizens of Sandusky County, Ohio, was unveiled at Fremont, with imposing ceremonies. Addresses were made by a number of prominent men.

SOUTHERN.

The Hon. C. B. Stewart, one of the signers of Texas’ declaration of independ" ence, was interred at Montgomery, Texas, aged eighty-one. But one signer of the declaration now survives. Charles Davis, George Jones, and Mathilda Jones were executed for murder at Plaquemine, Lu. The woman fell olf the trap in a swoon before the preparations had been completed and strangled to death, and after the drop fell in her horrible struggles clutched the bodies of the other culprits, whose necks had been broken by the fall. A gang of masked men rode into the town of Monticello, Ga., an-l proceeded to the jail, where George Hopkins was confined. Placing the muzzles of their guns to the openings, they discharged hundreds of buckshot into the w’retch, who meanwhile was pleading for his life. Strange to say, the jailer did not learn of the tragedy until he brought breakfast to the dead man. During the progress of a ball at Rogersville, Tenn., a revolver dropped from the pocket of a young man and was discharged, the bullet passing through the heart of Miss Martha Brown, a beautiful girl,, killing her instantly. Extensive deposits of bituminous coal have been discovered in the vicinity of Lampasas, Texas. An old man named James Hall, of Teely County, Georgia, caught his foot while climbing a fence and remained hanging four days with his head downward before he was discovered. He is dying.

WASHINGTON.

Washington telegram: Immediately utter the funeral of Gen. Grant, President Cleveland, accompanied by two or three friends, will leave Washington for Northern New York to to absent a month. After this week no officii! appointments will be made until Cctobcr. Five American steamship companies have declined to carry the United Sta'es mails hereafter. A Washington dispatch says the Fostoffice Department has made satisfactory arrangements, so that the service wil! not be materially interfered with. Gen. Burdett, Grand Army Commander, declined to serve on the committee appoint d at Washington to present resolutions of protest against the interment of Gen. Grant at Riverside Park. Attorniy General Garland has reached the concluson that the cuttie leases in the Indian Territory are illegal and has so Informed the President. It is now believed at Washington that an arrangement will le made with John Roache's assignees, by virtue of which the Dolphin will be accepted by the Government, and will go to sen. The report of the Naval Advisory Board on the Steamer Dolphin has been made public, as has also the report of the committee appointed to specially examine the vessel. The Board holds that the boat is a subject for congratulation rather than condemnation, but the special examiners do not think so, neither does Secretary Whitney.

POLITICAL.

The Virginia Democratic State Convention, in session in Richmond, nominated General Fitz Hugh Lee for Governor on the first ballot.

MISCELLANEOUS. The United Labor League of Amerca adopted the following resolutions upon the death of Gen. Grant: Resolved, By the Labor League, that we deeply deplore th-3. death of Gen. Grant, and send condolence to his wife and children. ReS'dred, That in his proclamation of the eight-hour law, to shorten the hours of toil, he gave the 1 onest labo er an opportunity to improve his own condition and educate and elevate his family. In actordance with the inc: easing wants of emancipation and human civilization. Resolved, That as the leader of the armies of the Republic he struck the shackles from the limbs of 5,000,(100 men, and struck a. blow for liberty which resounded throughout the worl 1. Resolved. That his name is inseparably linked with thd cause of human freedom: that his fame belongs to no nation, hut it is the property of all the people of the world. Ex-Surgeon General Wales, recently tried by a naval court-martial for “culpable inefficiency” and “neglect of duty,” was found guilty on both charges, and will be suspended from rank and duty on furlough yay for five years, and retain his present number in his grade during that period. A severe electric storm prevailed on Mount MacGregor on the evening of the 30th ult. One bolt followed the electric light wires into the Grant cottage and extinguished the lamp immediately over the casket containing the dead soldier. A por-

tion of the plastering was torn away. Four persons were stunned by the fluid, but revived upon the application of restoratives. In the afternoon the cottage was thrown open, and people on the Mount availed themselves of the opportunity to gaze upon the revered remains. Mrs. Grant visited the room twice during the day, and a letter from her, hoping to meet her husband in a better land, was placed in the casket. A telegram of condolence from the Duke of Argyll was received. President Cleveland selected the following pall bearers for the funeral: General W. T. Sherman, Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan, Admiral D. D. Porter,' Vice Admiral S. C. Rowan, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Simon B. Buckner, Hamilton Fish, George S. Boutwell, George W. Childs, General John A. Logan, George Jones, of the New York Times, and Oliver Hoyt, of New York. Business failures throughout the country last week were 178 in the United States and 23 in Canada—a total of 101, against 215 for the week preceding. Sunday, August 2, was memorial day at the Grant cottage, and the family held a sacred service of prayer in the parlor where rested the remains of the old commander. A telegram from Mount MacGregor says: This afternoon the widow asked that Dr. Newman should be sent tor. Wh -n he came, Mrs. Grant reminded the pastor that her dead would be hers only a little while loaner, an 1 asked him to be with the family while tuev gathered in the cottage parlor to say their farewells. Thus’it wits that about two o’clock Mrs. Grant and her daughter and eicliof her three sons an I the!'- wives were in the room with the dead. Dr. Newman and wife were also present. The family surrounded the catal'alco. Mrs. Grant, from a tab e, brought her dead husband's Bible, which she opened and passed to Dr. Newman. It was found that the book was opened at the eleventh chapter of Job. The chapter was read, and then the clergyman reread the sixteenth and nineteenth vers -s, and then a prayer ot gratitude was offered up—gratitude for the beautiful character of the silent one. After this the entire family, there alone with their pastor, entered with Ivm Into a religious conversation, an 1 then each an 1 all dwelt upon reminiscenees recalled of the General's last sickness. A New York telegram of tho 3d inst. says: It requires great watchfulness to pre tent relic-hunters from carrying away the bricks which are being used in the construction of the vault in Riverside Park, designed for ths last resting place of Gen. Grant. Trading booths have sprung up like mushrooms in the immediate n ighbortiood, their proprietors ex--1 ectlng to reap a rich harvest. President Cleveland has extended a special invitation to ex-Presidents Hayes and Arthur to attend the funeral ot General Grant. Men-of-war will be stationed i 1 the North River, and fire salutes as the pr ccs don moves to the burial place. Rear Admiral Worden has been appointed asonei f the pall-boar ;rs in place of Vice rdtnira.l Rowan, unable't > serve on account of ill-health. General Joseph E. Johnston, one ot the Confederate pall-bearers, telegraph" I fro n 1 ortland, Oregon, that he is on his way East. At the memorial services at Angus a. Me., Mr. Blaine will deliver the address. The jury in the case of Riel, leader of the Northwest Territory rebellion, returned a verdict finding him guilty of treason. A dispatch from Winnipeg says: “The jury retired at 2:15 p. m. At 3:15 there was a murmur in the court, and it was whispered that the jury had agreed. All was bustle and excitement. Riel prayed fervently, kneeling in his box, and looked unmoved as tho jury entered. A verdict of guilty was rendered. Francis Cosgrove, foreman, crying like a child, announced that he was asked by his fellow-jurors to recommend the prisoner to the mercy of the court. The Jud e said the recommendation would be considered. Riel was then sentenced to be hanged Sept. 18 at Regina. Judge Richardson said lie could hold out no pro-poet of a reprieve or interference bj- her Muje-ty. Riel took the result coolly." A dispatch from Regina, Northwest Territory, says: Gov. Dewdney has received a dispatch stating that eight whites had been butchered by marauding Indians thirty-eight miles south of Maple Creek, in tho Cypress Hills. It is believed that the Indians came on tho victims by stealth, and when a favorable opportunity presented itself pounced upon them. Some of the attacked escaped by swimming and wading across the narrow lake. The steamer C. O. Kelly was burned to the water’s edge at Lower Town Wharf, Pembroke, Ontario. Four sailors were burned Co death.

FOREIGN.

Descriptions and plans of Russian forts and lortitications were found on the person of a German reserve officer arrested at Jacobstadt, on the Baltic, as a spy. The Earl of Carnarvon,Earl Spencer’s successor at Dublin Castle, will shortly make a tour Of Ireland, to ascertain the condition and wants of the people. The« Provost of Glasgow declared ata meeting held in that city that a system of vice prevailed there similar in its character to that recently exposed in London. A petition for the passage of the criminal amendment act for the protection of young girls was presented to the House of Commons by a delegation from the Salvation Army of London. The petition, which is a mile and a half long and contains 500,000 signatures, was previously conveyed through the streets in a carriage, followed by a long procession. Inflamed by jealousy, M. Gautier, a capitalist of Lille, France, shot and killed Madame Linant as she lay in bed, and then committed suicide. Dysentery and fever are causing frightful mortality among the French troops in Ton quin. It is proposed to hold a demonstration at Genoa, Italy, in 1892, in honor of Christopher Columbus, features of which wili be an exhibition of relics and American produce. Ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland Forster fears that the lapse of the coercion act will induce a renewal of boycotting and intimidation in Ireland. Count von Munster, German Ambassador at London, has declined the mission to France, and will retire from the diplomatic service. His successor at the British court, is Count von Hatzfeldt. Li-lTshni-Fun succeeds Marquis Tseng as the Chinese Minister to France. G. V. N. Lothrop, the new American representative at St. Petersburg, hue presented his credentials to the Czar.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

An earthquake shock in Tashkend, Asiatic Russia, ruined several cities. In Belvoodek a church was shaken to fragments while it was crowded with worshipers, a large number of whom were killed. The reorganization of the consular service will be completed about January next. About two hundred posts remain to be filled. Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland will remain in Washington during the President’s absence. The other members of the Cabinet will take a vacation. Caterpillars and boll-worms are ravaging th j cotton fields in several counties of South Carolina. Henry Vanderfeight leaped from the Suspension Bridge across the Cumberland River at Nashville, Tenn., striking the water, 111) feet below, with terrific force. He is alive, and will probably recover from his injuries. The census of Albany, N. Y., just completed, shows a population of 93,000 —an increase of 6,000 since 1880. A monument to the memory of the late Sir Moses Montefiore will be erected in Central Park by the Jews of New York. About SIO,OOO has already been subscribed to the fund. The Spiritualists of the United States held their sixth annual catnp-meeting at Cassadoga Lake, Chautauqua County, N. Y. It is announced that the Pacific Mail Company will withdraw its Australian steamers Nov. 1. A fire which broke out in a glucose factory at Toronto proved the most destructive in the history of the city, Involving the loss of two lives and over $1,000,000 worth of property. More than a score of steamers moored at their docks were burned to the water’s edge. The Opera House block, at Bowling Green, Mo., burned, with a loss of $28,000. Census returns from the leading towns of Wisconsin show a uniform and gratifying percentage of gain in population. The net earnings of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for tho six months ended July 1 were $3,114,928, an Increase over tho net earnings of the corresponding per o 1 of 1884 oi’ $121,011. At Minneapolis tho suit of Col. Willi iam King against I’nilo Remington, of New York, involving 4 3,000, CO J worth of property, was decided in favor of the plantin'. An appeal will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. • An election held in the Cherokee Nation for members of the Legislature, resulted in a choice of an equal number by the “Downing” and “National” parties, the “Independents” holding the balance of power. A cyclone passed over Philadelphia, wrecking two steamers, and destroying an immense amount of property. Several lives were lost. The storm then passed to the Jersey side. In its ravages in Camden scores of dwelling h< uses were unrooted, and damage to business property alon; the river front was enormous. Cressing to Delaware it cut a swarth 300 yar Is wide, neur Smyrna, and miles of property were destroyed. The following telegraphic correspondence passe 1 between Fitz. Hugh Lea and General Hancock: G.nVEIiXC it's Ist and, N. Y . Aug. 3. General Fitz Hugh Lee, Alexandr a, Va.: Would it be agreeable to you to be appointed as aid on the occasion of the ceremonies in connection with the ob.se plies of General Grant? If it would, you will be so announced. l’ica-e reply by telegraph. W. S. Hancock, Major General. Alexandria, va., Aug. 3. To Gen. W. S. Hanccc:, Mount MacGregor, N. Y.: Your telegram received. I accept the position, because by so doing I can testify my respect. lor the memory ot a great soldier, and thus return, as fir as I can, the generous feelings he has expressed toward the soldiers of the South. Fitz Hugh Lee. The thimble has only been in use about two hundred years. Previous to that time a boy’s head had to be thumped with semething else.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK Beeves.... $4.50 @ 6,ik HOGS 4.50 (@5.25 Wheat—No. 1 White 98 @ .99 No. 2 Red 99 & 1.00 COBN—No. 2 52 @ .54 Oats—White 41 @ .45 Pork—New Mess 11.50 @12.25 Lard 06lg@ .97 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.50 @6.00 Good Shipping 5.00 @ 5.50 Common 3.75 @ 4.50 Hogs. 4.50 @ 5.00 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 5.00 @ 5.25 Prime to Choice Spring. 4.00 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 87 @ .87’£ Corn—No. 2 45 @ .46 Oats—No. 2..., 25 @ .27 Rye—No. 2 58 @ .59 Barley—No. i 65 @ .67 Butter—Choice Creamery 17 @ .18 Fine Dairy 13 @ .15 Cheese—Full Cream, new o«J<.@ .09 Light Skimmed 03 @ .04 Eggs—Fresh 10 @ .11 Potatoes—New, per brl 1.00 @l.lO Pork—Mess... 10.00 @10.25 Lard 6.50 @ 6.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2 46 @ .48 Oats—No. 2....... ..... ... .30 @ .31 — MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 87 @ .87’$ Corn—No. 2 45 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .27 Rye—No. 1 58 @ .53 Barley—No. 2..... 58 @ .60 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 98 @ .99 Corn—Mixed 41 @ .42 Oats—Mixed 24 @ .25 Rye 54 @ .55 Hay—Old Timothy 14.00 @16.00 Pork—Mess 10.25 @10.75 CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red, New 94 @ .96 Corn—No. 2. 48 @ .49 Oats—Mixed 26 @ .28 Rye—No. 2 Fall .60 @ .62 Pork—Mess 10.50 @10.75 DETROIT. Flour 5.50 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 94 @ .95 Corn—No. 2 47 @ .48 Oats—No. 2 White 35 @ .37 Pork—New Mess , 11.00 @11.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 93 @ .95 Corn- Mixed 44 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 24 @ .26 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.50 @ 6.50 Fair 5.00 @5.50 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 5.00 @ 5.25 Sheep 4.25 & 5.00

THE PUBLIC DEBT.

The Official Treasury Statement for the Month of July. The debt statement issued on the Ist instant shows the decrease of the public debt during the month of July to be $8,662,789.96: Cash in the Treasury $488,418,719.43 Gold certificates outstanding.... 140,611,320.00 Silver certificates outstanding... 139,213,086.00 ■ Certificates of deposit outstanding 31,680,000.00 ■ Refunding certificates outstanding 233,200 00 Legal tenders outstanding. 346,681,016.00 • Fractional currency (not including amount estimated as lost or destroyed) 15,337,126.88 Net cash balance on hand The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist Instant (new form): Interest bearing debt — Bonds at 414 per cent $250,000,000.03 Bonds at 4 per cent 737.728,900.00 Bonds at 3 per cent. 194,190,500.00 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 233,200.00 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.. 14,000,000.00 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent 64,623,512.00 Principal 1,260.776,112.00 Interest. 8,557,003.00 T0ta151,269,333,115.00 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity— Principal $4,014,485.26 Interest 225,856.19 Total $4,240,341.45 Debt bearing no interest— Old demand and legal-tender notes $346,738,931.00 Certificates of deposit 31,420.00 Geld certificates 123,289,000.10 Silver certificates 98,887,106.00 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934 estimated as lest or destroyed) 6,961,192.78 Principal $607,281,229.88 Total debt— Principa151,872,071,827.14 Interest 8,782,859.73 T T0ta151,880,854,486.87 Less cash items available for reduction ot the ♦ bt $260,230,397.83 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,600,00 Total $360,230,397.83 Total debt less available cash item 551,520,624,289 04 Net cash in the Treasury 44,052,920.35 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Aug. 1.188551,476,571,359.00 Debt, less cash in Treasury, July 1. 1885 1,485,234,149.65 Decrease of debt during the month as shown by this statement $8,662,789.96 Cash in the Treasury available for reduction of the debt— Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $123,289,000.00' Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 98,872,106.06 United States notes held for certificates of depcs. t actually outstanding3l,42o,ooo.oo Cash held for matured debt and increst unpaid 6,647,925.02 Fractional currency 1,366.81 Total available for reduction ot the debt.... $262,230,397.83 Reserve fund held for redemption of United States notes, act July 12, 1882 100,000,000. COUn vailable for reductfon of the debt— Fractional silver coin $25,358,020.23 Minor coin. 857,072.02 Total $26,212,092 25 Certificates held as cash issued, but not outstanding $57,923,200.00 Net cash balance on hand 44,052,929.35 Total cash in Treasury, as shown by Treasurer's general account $488,418,719.43

REFUSED TO CARRY THE MAIL.

The Pacific Mail Company Defies Uncle Sain. (Washington telegram.] The Postoffice Department is in receipt of information that to-day an agent of the department attempted to sail on a Pacific Mail steamer from San Francisco for ports on the west coist of Mexico aud Central America, taking with him a trunk, for •which he offered to pay the regular charge for extra biggage. The postal officials in San Francisco presumably are too familiar with the Pacific Mail Company's officials, for the purser on the steamer had information that the trunk contained the usual mail matter for Mexico and Central America, and he promptly refused to accept pay for the trunk or permit it to be put on board the steamer. The mail was then ordered to be sent by rail from San Francisco to New Orleans, and thence by steamer to Mexican and Central American ports. By this route mail sent from San Francisco will reach ports on the east side of Mexico and Central America in twelve days. The Pacific mail from San Francisco to ports on the Western coast is nineteen days, so that a week will be saved in the new route. On the Ist of April it ceased to be compulsory with American steamers to carry the mails, but it ban not be pretended that this change of the law relieves the steamship companies from any of the obligation of common carriers. They have a regular published tariff of charges on freight of different classes and on extra baggage, and it is cerlainly an extraordinary proposition that they can discriminate against United States mail matter when packed in a trunk, and taken with, him by one of the passengers.

A “RATTLER.”

A Snake Ten Feet Long and Carrying Around Twenty-five or Thirty Rattles. [Jonesboro (Ga.) special.J The people on the line of Fayette and Clayton Counties are in terrible excitement to-day over the appearance of a monster rattlesnake in that section. A little off the McDonough road there lives a man named McJunkin. Last night he was called upon by a friend, who sat up late with him, while Mrs. McJunkin retired. The two men drank quite freely. When the husband retired his companion was mystified by peculiar noises inside. Striking a light, he went in and found coiled up between the couple a huge rattler. The appearance of the light broke its charm, and, gliding across the body of the sleeping woman, it crawled under the bed and through an opening in the floor and out. The reptile was not less than ten feet in length, rusly and scaly, and having between twenty-five and thirty rattles. The settlement turned out this morning with shotguns in pursuit of the reptile, and at last succeeded in running it into a hu e hollow log. where its body was perforated with a hundred bullets. Wonderful stories are being told of other reptiles by the excited people.