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DAILY ENQUIRER - RUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, U86.
THE MERIWETHER TRAGEDY.
The Vindicator's Account of the Killing of Hr. i
William Odom.
The Meriwether Vindicator publishes !
the following account of the killing of Mr. j
William Odom by Mr. Prank Freeman:
We have endeavored to get a correct I
version of the particulars of the killing
of Mr. William Odom which occurred at
Mr. Henry B. Blalock’s residence, three
miles from Greenville, last, Sunday about
11 o’clock.
William Odom came to Greenville from
Chipley over a year ago and opened a bar
on the south side of t he square, doing busi
ness for Murrah Brothers, of Chipley. He
boarded with Mrs. Martha Freeman, who
resides near the Methodist church. Last
January Mr. Odom and Miss Bessie Free
man were united in marriage, Miss Bessie
being n daughter of Mrs. Freeman,the land
lady. Though Miss Bessie possessed a most
amiable disposition, it is reported that
her husband was most unkind at times.
Several months ago the young couple be
gan housekeeping. Ueports increased
that Mr. Odom was subject to frequent
tits of passionate outbursts at which times
he abused and insulted his wife shame
fully. She bore everything patiently, hop
ing for a change for the better. Mr. Odom
told bis wife he would kill her brother
Frank if he interferred in any way in his
family affairs. After a passionate scene
Odom would often write his wife a note of
apology and promise to be guilty of simi
lar conduct no more. When in a good
humor he was kind and affectionate, but
his spells of passion came so frequently as
to render his wife miserable.
Matters went on this way until last Sun
day morning when Odom became enraged
about some trivial affair and slapped his
wife down. Drawing his pistol and point
ing it at his wife’s head he ordered her to
leave the house. Having no where else to
f o she went to her mother’s home. Mrs.
'reeman was absent but Mr. Frank Free
man happened to be at home. After hear
ing the story of his sister’s wrongs, Frank
said she ought to make up her mind to do
■one of two things ; either to resolve to live
with her husband and do the best she
could, or to quit him entirely. The weep
ing wife said she could not go back to
Odom for she feared he would kill her.
Frank Freemen told his sister so long ns
ho had a home he would share it with her.
As it was expected that Odom would
•drop in during the day and provoke a
difficulty, Frank procured his Uncle Henry
Blalock’s buggy and carried his sister to
the country. Mr. Blalock had just driven
to town and agreed that his buggy should
be used to convey Frank Freeman and his
sister to the residence of Mr. Blalock,
three miles east of Greenville. Fearing to
meet Odom on the square, Freeman drove
out of town by the back streets and took a
circuitous route through the country, going
a mile or two out of his way so as to miss
Odom should the latter be in pursuit.
About twenty or thirty minutes after
Frank’s departure, Mr. Odom appeared at
the residence of Mrs. Freeman, and flour
ishing his pistol in the faces of the fright
ened ladies, demanded his wife’s wherea
bouts. He said he would follow his wife
and kill her and her brother. Going to
his safe, he took out $96, telling his em
ployer, Mr. Murrah, that he was going to
the country in pursuit of his wife, and that
he might nave “to skip,” and wanted to
have money sufficient to do so successfully.
Mr. Murrah had just arrivefl from Chipley,
and Odom gave him the keys, notes, etc.,
so that Mr. Murrah could carry on the
business in the event Odom had to run off
Hiring a horse and buggy, Odom
drove directly to Mr. Blalock’s, arriving
half an hour after Frank Freeman had
reached the same place. Frank Freeman
and Mrs. Henry Blalock were at the gar
den gate when Odom was seen driving up.
Mrs. Blalock, her son and daughter went
into the dining room, the son being
directed to lock Mrs. Odom in a back room,
as it was feared that Odom would raise a
disturbance. Mr. Frank Freeman entered
the hall, which runs north and south, and
closed the front hall door. Mr. Odom
drove up to the gate, threw the lines over
the palings, opened the gate and walked
directly to the front door. Knocking at
the door, Mr. Freeman responded by say
ing, “Bill, you can’t come in.” Odom re
plied, “I will come in.” Freeman repeated
his assertion that Odom should not come
in the seeondland third time, Odom reply
ing more emphatically and profanely that
he would enter. After the third assertion of
Odom that he would enter, Freeman did
open the door, when Odom fired in his
face, the ball passing through Freeman’s
hat. Freeman fired also at Odom, grazing
his head and shooting off a portion of his
ear. Mr. Freeman then slammed the door
to and Odom went down the steps. While
Freeman was standing in the hall watch
ing for Odom to appear at the window of
the east room, Odom ran to the window
of the west room and shot Freeman in the
back. Freeman, turning quickly, shot
Odom through the bowels and, perhaps,
another shot was exchanged while Odom
was at the window. The hall that struck
Freeman glanced from the door facing
and inflicted oqjy a slight wound. Mr.
Odom was fatally shot, his watch chain
severed, a portion being found at
hho window. Mr. Freeman, think
ing Odom badly hurt, threw open
the front door, when Odom fired
twice more. Freeman returning both
shots and hitting Odom on the head each
time. Both pistols were then empty, and
Odom advancing. Freeman met him in
the yard, and knocked him down
with his empty pistol. As Odom would
rise Freeman would knock him down.
This continued until Odom sank to the
ground, exhausted by his wounds and the
force of the repeated blows. Mr. Freeman
then ran into the house to calm the ladies,
whose screams he had heard all during the
progress of the tight. He suggested to his
aunt to take her children to the home of
Mr. Andrew Mitchell, the brother-in-law
of Mr. Blalock. Mr. Freeman directed his
sister to go to the back gate, where he
would meet her with the horse and buggy
Mr. Odom had left at the gate. Passing
Mr. Odom, who was lying on his back,
Mr. Freeman asked if he could do any
thing for him. Receiving no answer,
Freeman stepped back, got a towel, and
spread it over Odom’s face.
Returning to Greenville Mr. Freeman
informed Dr. E. B. Terrell of what had
happened, who at once hurried out to Mr.
Blalock’s. He found Mr. Odom dead with
the towel over his face. The ground
around gave evidance of a struggle while
numerous pistol balls in the hall showed
the frequency of the pistol shots.
Quite a number of gentlemen from the
town and country assembled and Mr.
Odom’s body was placed in a casket and
brought to Greenville. Monday the re
mains were sent to Columbus where they
were received by a brother of the deceased
and interred in the city cemetery.
Mr. Odom is represented as having been
a man of violent feelings and quick to pro
voke a difficulty. To us he was polite and
gentlemanly in his deportment, though we
seldom saw him. He wofi said to have
been frequently unkind and cruel to his
wife. Frequent threats are reported as
made by him against many citizens of the
town. He is charged with always carry
ing a pistol in his hip pocket, and was in
the habte of throwing his hand behind him
when he anticipated getting up a row.
Freeman, on the contrary, is known to
have been a quie t, peaceable young man,
never having a difficulty and
unskilled in the use of firearms.
The great wonder is that he was not killed
instead of his antagonist. He dreaded a
meeting with Odom and left town to avoid
it. Being forced to fight he turned at bay
■and risked his own life to protect his sister
from what he supposed would prove a
murderous assault from an infuriated hus
band, whose threats were still ringing in
Jter ears. While the entire community re
grets the tragic affair, public sentiment ap
pears to be on the side of Mr. Freeman.
Me came at once to town and informed
themnrshalof what had happened and
has made no effort to leave the community.
He linn not and, perhaps, will not be ar
rested.
BEAUTIFUL NEW DOLLARS.
The Prettiest Silver Ortlllcnti's liver Iks I hj
Hie Government.
Washington, Septemper 17.—The new
one dollar silver certificates are the pret
tiest notes ever issued by the government.
The work on the tuns and t he twos is Hie ,
first of such an ambitious character that
lms boon done since Mr. Graves took
charge as chief of the bureau. The work
on all the notes is very elaborate and beau
tifully combined, and that on the ones is
particularly fine and effective. The gen
eral appearance of the certificate is hand- ,
some, and the line detail of the work is j
considered tl^e best ever done at the I
bureau. Only an imoerfect description of j
tlie note has been given, and an exact one ;
would be difficult. The head of Martha ;
Washington, the principal figure on the |
face, is beautifully executed. On the other !
end of the note is an ornamental figure i
standing out boldly from a background of j
lathe work, and in the centre, “one silver ,
dollar” is engraved in handsome lettering
on a background formed of u combination '
of fine lathe work.
The back of the certificate is a mat- |
ter of particular pride with the bureau.
It is probably the most effective back
ever designed. It is composed of a va
riety of styles ot lathe work and fine
liues of engraving combined, in a very art
istic manner. Five different styles of
lathe work are represented. On each end
is a highly ornamental figure, one on a
background formed by a combination ot
lathe work. In the middle is the signet,
set in a frame of lathe work, back of which
shoots out rays of cycloidal work. The
plate from which the twos are to be printed
is not yet completed. It is expected that
as soon as the department begins to issue
the ones many millions will be taken into
circulation.
SNAKE STORIES ECLIPSED.
A MiiKsarliiiselts heightiorliood Terrlfloil by I he
Presence ofn Itc|>tllc That Lives on l.lve Stuck.
Boston, September 17.—A special to an
afternoon paper from Clinton, Mass., says :
The interest In the sea serpent in this vi
cinity has suddenly been extinguished by
the appearance in the immediate neigh
borhood of an enormous land snake, which
is playing havoc with live stock. The
most extravagant stories have been told
within the past few days of the serpent’s
size. The length given varies from twenty-
five to forty-five feet and its circumference
from that of a two gallon jug up to the size
of abarrcl. It is believed to be the same rep
tile that escaped from a traveliug menage
rie some four years ago and waB never
heard of afterward. The lost serpent was
a magnificent boa, some twenty-five feet
long. The serpent that is now causing
excitement has been seen by several
people, and nightly sheep and calves dis
appear, it is believed through the in
strumentality of the monster.
Bands of hunters have started out from
Clinton, Charleston, South Bridge and
Dudley to kill the serpent, but they are
badly frightened at the prospect of meet
ing it. The serpent haunts the locality
known as the Dismal Swamps, to the
northeast of South Bridge, which is im
passable. The loss to stock is considerable.
-The towns are to hold meetings to devise
some means of ridding the country of the
dreadful visitor.
A YANKEE ENOCH ARDEN.
He Clubs Husliiind Number Two. Tells His Wife
She Is Homely unil (lien Tnkes Ills Lcuve.
New York, September 17.—A special
from Portland, Maine, says: An Enoch
Arden ease passed almost unnoticed here
Monday night in the midst of the political
excitement. A couple were married here
in 1880, and in 1882 the husband disap
peared. He returned last night and sought
out the home of his wife. Looking in at
the window he saw a family group that,
as he said yesterday, made him feel lonely.
He went away, hunted for a club, found
one, returned to the house,"walked in and
gave husband number two a terrible beat
ing, almost killing him, in fact. This feat
accomplished, Enoch quietly took a seat
in ,the midst of the broken furniture
and other evidence of the conflict. He
calmly looked at his wife and said: “Lydia,
you’re homely enough, I swear.” with
this parting siiot, Enoch walked off Yes
terday afternoon he said: “I am satisfied,
and hope there'll be no coolness between
us. Lydia’s just as handsome aJs she was
once, and 1 guess she’d be more happy
with George. I got drunk after I made
the row; then I got drunk again, and now
I’m off.” Enoch admitted that he had
done pretty well while away, but seemed
to feel that he had better keep hiB money.
He gave no explanation as to what led him
to leave home. The man pounded last
night is under medical treatment.
A CRUEL PRACTICAL JOKE.
left the note. Ho was furnished with a
description ns closely as it could be given,
and then ho wanted the note In question,
which was also furnished him.
“J think wo have a clow now," said ho,
"and we can place the matter in the hands
of the police.”
“In the bands oi the police? Why, what
Is the matter ?’asked a Plain Dealer re
porter, wlio was present.
Mr. Stark then explained that his brother
hurried to his home, No. 82 Parkman
street, as rapidly av possible, fear, hope
and excitement keeping him up until he
reached the gate of his home. There he
saw his mother alive and well, seated
ON THE FRONT POUCH
ill conversation with the other members
of the family. A sudden reaction or pos
sibly joy, which sometimes kills, unnerved
him and lie had to be carried into the
house in an unconscious condition. A
doctor was instantly summoned, but he
dcclnred the case a critical one and a sec
ond physician was called. All day yester
day fie hung between life and death, re
quiring the almost constant attendance of
two physicians. When questioned young
Stark could notsay whether the Illness will
result, fatally, but the case, lie said, was pro
nounced to be very serious, requiring
the utmost attontiou. The brother
could not advance any conjecture or
motive for the young girl’s actions, but it
mny be possible that jealousy was at the
bottom of it. An experienced detective,
who listened to the story, remarked:
“Very likely this girl heard that he had
invited some other young lady to the
theater, and she made up her mind to spoil
the evening's entertainment, and so did it.”
Nathan Stark is twenty-four years of
age, and a mattress maker by occupation.
Han Girls liny Natlneo Tlrkels,
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Will Palmer, Hayman and the staff of
the Baldwin theatre, were in the box office
busy selling tickets for the matinee. It Is
not' offten that it takes more than one
man to sell tickets at our theatres, but the
novelty had brought them all out just to
see the people rushing to buy them on this
occasion. They were admiring the vnriod
beauty of the young and giddy things who
came up to the window. You know how
girls buy tickets for a matinee?
“Have you got any' good seats?”
“How many, miss?”
“Have you got any good seats ?”
“How many, miss ?”
“Have you got any seats ?”
“Tell me how many, and I’ll show you
where I can please you.”
“Three.”
“Where, miss?”
“Three.”
“Dress circle or orchestra ?”
“Dress circle.”
“There, miss,” showing place.
“Have you any in the orchestra ?”
“There, miss, three good ones.”
“How much ? ”
“Four dollars and a half.”
“Oh, my! That’s too dear. I’ll go up
stuirs.”
“These here in the balcony?”
“I’ll take these.”
“There you are, miss; two and a quar
ter.”
“I think I’ll go into the dress circle.”
“These three, miss ? ”
“Those will do.”
“Four dollars and a half.”
“I guess I’ll wait until next week.”
The Foolklller Missed One of His Vletlms in
Cleveland.
M ARK L I N BY TULKURAPH.
i’inudnl.
London, September 17. —4 p. m.— Consols—
money 100 13-16, account 100 7 „.
NBW YORK MOSSY MARKET.
New York, September 17—Noon—Stocks quiet
and strong. Money quiet, S/ii 8. Exchnuge—long
$4.81%rt $-1.82, short H.M'ofo-HtW’V State
bonds neglected and dull. Government bonds
stroug.
Nbw York, September 17.—Exchange $4.81%,
Money 4'g.5% per cent. Government’s dull,steady:
new four per cents 126%; three per cents 126 .
bid. State bonds dull.
SUB-TREASURY BALANCES.
Gold in the Sub-Treasury $127,565,000; currency
$28,311,000.
STOCK MARKET.
New York, September 17.—The following were
closing quotations of the stock exchange:
Ala class A 2 to 5.... 105 C & N 66k
do class B 5s 107 IN. O. Pac. lets..... T5':7
Ga 6's —- N. Y. Central 112'.,
Gil 8's mortgage.... Ill’ll Norfolk&Wnpre.. -l.i 7 ,
N C6’s cjl28% Northern 1'acllic... 27 6,
dot’s 99% dopreferred 8u'.,
S C con Brown 107 Pacific Mail 57%
Tenn. seltlem’t 3s 78'., Reading 33„~
Virginia 6s 46 i Rich. 5; Alleghany 8\,
Virginia consols... 51 Richmond & Dan.. 110
Chesap'ke & Ohio 8k Rich A: VV. P. Ter’l 28%
ChicagoA N. W 117%)Rock Island 127%.
do preferred 142% St. Paul 97%
Del. & Lack... 132% do preferred 124k
33k Texas Pacific 14 k
6 .Union Pacific 59%
89 IN. ,1. Central 57k
48k Missouri Pacific 112 7 7
tainty that large amounts Prom recent purchases
were going forward to he delivered on September
and October contracts at Liverpool, also luul
somewhat of a weakening influence.
New Orleans,September 17—2.40p.m—Future,
inegulnr; sales 18.100 bales, as follows:
September H 98-lOOia 8 OiMOii
October 8 80-UKkg 8 87-100
November a 78-100M8 70-HX
Decomber 8’HO-lOOfoiS 81-100
January H 89-lOO.s 8 90-b 0
February i 99-100W.9 Oil-lOu
March 9 09-100.4.9 10-100
April n 19-100M9 20-100
May 9 29-100M 9 30-100
June 9 40-100.1.'9 41-1110
July 9 47-100TO9 48-100
TOTAL NET RECEIPTS AT THE POUTS.
New York, September 17. -The following are
the total no*, receipts of cotton at all ports since
September 1, issti:
Galveston i 55,91.8
New Orleans. 20.509
Mobile 1,47
Savannah 38.407
Charleston 10,351
Wilmington Til
Norfolk 1,138
Hall in..,re 727
New York 19
Boston 13
Newport News
Philadelphia Iso
West Point 351
Brunswick 200
Port Royal 9"
Pensacola 839
Imlianola
Charleston. September 17—Turpentine firm
84 1 .jo. Rosin quiet- good strained Hito 90c.
Cot Ion Seed Oil.
New Orleans. September 17.—Cotton
eed
products scarce amt firm prime crude oil
delivered 25<iu2Qcj summer yellow 36*<t37c. Cake
and meal, long ton, $19 00.0 20 00.
New York, September 17.—Cotton seed oil, 24(9
26c for crude,-lOc for refilled.
Wool mi l If III on.
New York, September IT. Hides firm- New
Orleans selected. 46 and 60 pounds. tl'./nlOe:
Texas selected. 50 and 60 pounds. 10'.. lOkc.
New York, September 17. -Wool steady
—domestic ileece 80m 38c, Texas lOfci 25c.
Whisky.
Chicaoo,. September 17.—Whisky steady $115.
St. Louis, September 17. Whisky steady; $1 in.
Cincinnati, September 17. Whisky linn
$1 in.
Freights.
New York, Sept. 17.—Freights to Liverpool
steady - critic'll pci sleamer 9- }..'12(1; wiieaf
per steamer S < :1 ; „k
Catarrh
ELY’
Erie
East Tenn
Lake Shore
L. & N
Memphis & Char.
Mobile & Ohio...
68\
Cotton.
Liverpool. September 17. — Noon.— Cotton
market firm and in fair demand; mid
dling uplands 5‘.,d, Orleans 5 5-10d: soles
10,01)0 bales—for speculation and export lOUQ
bales.
Receipts 3,CG0 bales—00 American.
Futures opened steady, at the following quo
tations :
September 5 13-64'a5 14-Gld
September and October 5 8-64 .J 5 9-64d
October and November 5 4-6-1 -<? 5 5-64d
November and December 5 3-64d
December and January 5 3-64d
January and February 5 3-64d
February and March not quoted
March and April not quoted
April and May d
Tenders of deliveries for to-day’s clearing 900
bales of new docket and 00 bales of old docket.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A practical joke, or a dastardly trick,
almost unparalleled in meanness and au
dacity was perpetrated at the Cleveland
theatre on Wednesday night by a young
woman said to be rather handsome and
attired in a dress of light material. While
the play “Lights ’o London” was in pro
gress she walked up to the box office win
dow and handed Manager Drew a note,
written in a feminine hand, which she re
quested him to read or have read from the
stage. The girl seemed anxious that her
request be complied with, and after a brief
consultation between Managers Frank and
Drew they decided to read it, as its con
tents seemed to be of the greatest impor
tance to the person interested.
The note, the most important words of]
which were understood, read as follows : 1
“If there is a gentleman in the audience j
by the name of Nathan Stark tell hitu he I
is wanted at home just as soon as he can I
get there.”
The girl was questioned further for ail
explanation of the contents of the note
and she replied that the young /man’s j
mother was dying and that if he wished to
see her alive he had better go to his home j
as quickly as possible. .
The curtain dropped on the mimic play, j
the mysterious young girl in white clisap- j
peared into the street, and the plot of the |
real drama began to develop by the ap-
oearauee of Manager Frank, with the note
in hand, behind the footlights. He read
the note as hurriedly as possible, and a
young man
GREATLY AGITATED,
accomponied by a young lady, was seen
rising from his seat. All eyes were fixed
upon him. He made straightway to the
box office, where he asked for further par
ticulars. There he was told as gently as
possible that the lady who left the note
made the further statement that his
mother was on her death bed. He turned
deathly pale and disappeared.’
The matter was almost forgotten by the
people about the Cleveland theater, but
the note was preserved as a safeguard in
case any trouble should result from it, and
sure enough last night between 9 and 10
o’clock a young man, claiming to be
Nathan Stark’s brother, went to the box
office and asked Managers Frank and
Drew for particulars about the person who
Sales of the week 77,000
American 60,000
Speculators took 5,000
Exports took . 3,400
Forwarded from ship’s side direct to spin
ners 6,800
Actual export 1,700
Imports 25,000
American 11.000
Stock 381.000
American 224,000 I
Alloat 59,000
American 27.000
2 *p. m.— Sales to-day include 7,800 bales of j
American.
2 p. m. — Futures: September delivery, 5 14-64d
sellers: September ana October, 5 9-64d sellers; ;
October and November, 5 5-64d buyers; November
and December, 5 3-64d sellers; December and
Janury, 5 3-64d sellers; January and February,
5 3-64a value; February and March, 5 4-0td
sellers; March and April, 5 6-64d buyers; Apiil
and May, 5 8-6P1 buyers. Futures quiet and (
steady.
4:00 p. m.—September delivery, 5 11-61*1 sellers;
September ami October. 5 8-G4d sellers; October
and November, 5 3-H4d buyers; November and
December, 5 2-64d sellers; December and January,
5 2-64d sellers; January and February. 5 2-64d
buyers. February and March, 5 4-6Id sellers;
March and April, 5 6-64d sellers; April and May,
5 8-64d sellers. Futures closed easy.
New York, September 17. —Cotton firm—-
sales 603 bales; middling uplands 9 5-16c,
Orleans 9 1 ..c,
C'onsolpfated net receipts 12,955 bates; exports
Great Britain 2092, continent 75, France 00;
stock 208,986.
Weekly net receipts 32, gross 23,767; exports
to Great Britain 16,558, to France 2105, continent
1322; sales 6133; sales to spinners 1608; forwarded
—; stock 98,943.
NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
New York, September 17—Net receintsO, gross
2220. Futures closed barely steady: sales 61,300.
as follow*
September
9 11-100 % 9 12-100
January
February
March-
9 35-100'" 9 36-100
May
9 60-100(tf9 61-100
July
9 76-1000? 9 77-100
Green A Co. in their report on cotton futures,
say: The generally unfavorable construction
E laced upon foreign advices induced selling out
y many longs, and the market went off 3«y4
points, clotting only barely steady. As no new
demand was attracted, intimations of increased
supplies to come forward next week and the cer-
Total 120,252
Galveston, September 17— Cotton firm ; mid j
lings 9c: net receipts 3457. gross 3457; sales
1135: si o-k 37.033; exports to continent 00, Great
Britain 00.
Weekly net receipts 29,231, gross 29,231; sales
6642; exports to continent 00.
Norfolk, September 17. - Cotton steady; mid
dlings 9n; net receipts 438, gross 438: sales 274:
stock 3467; exportr. to Great Britain 00.
Weekly not receipts 90-1, gross 904; sales 1428;
exports to Great Britain 00, continent 00.
Baltimore,September 17.—Cotton steady: mid
dlings 9' ,c; net receipts l, gross 4; sales 150.
spinners 150; stock 4244; exports to Great Brit
ain 00, to continent 00.
Weekly net receipts 177; gross 1474; sales 3115;
to spinners 2815; exports to Great Britain 2300,
continent 00.
Boston, September 17.—Cotton quiet; middlings
9%(<'>9’i>o; net receipts 648, gross 648; sales 0; stock
—; exports to Great Britain 0.
Weekly net receipts gross 2879; sales 00;
exports to Great Britain 292.
Wilmington, September 17.—Cotton firm;
middlings 8 7 H c; net receipts 227, gross 227; sales 0;
stock 911; exports to Great Britain 00.
Weekly net receipts 523, gross 523; sales 00; ex
ports Great Britain 00.
Philadelphia, September 17—Cotton dull; mid
dlings 9 'hC; net receipts 9, gross 9; sales 00:
stock 6959; exports to Great Brit ain 00.
Weekly net receipts 53, gross 110; exports to
Great Britain 00.
Savannah, Ga., September 17.—Cotton firm;
middlings 8'.,c; net receipts 4400, gross 2424;
sales 2200; stock 21,025. '
Weekly net receipts 19,370, gross 19,394; sales
11,350; ex porta Great Britain 00, France 00, conti
nent 00.
New Orleans, September 17.- Cotton market
firm; middlings at 9 l ,c; net receipts 1829, gross
1875; sales 300; stock 23,76(5; exports to Great
Britain 00, to cofitinent 00.
Weekly net receipts 12,907, gross 13,584; sales
3700; exports to Great Britain 2092; continent
00, France 00.
Mobile,. September 17. -Cotton market quiet:
middlings 8).|C;net receipts 165, gross 24l;sales 200;
stock 2960.
Weekly net receipts 1125, gross 1513; sales 1100;
exports to continent 00.
Memphis,September 17 -Cotton firm; middling
0c; receipts 288; shipments 37; sales 500;
stock 4048.
Weekly net receipts 1150; shipments 921; sales
1100, to spinners 00.
Augusta, September 17.—Cotton firm; mid
dlings 8\s.c; receipts 447; shipments 1548:sales 343;
stock 6533.
Weekly receipts 1727; shipments 1518; sales
1533—spinners U0.
Charleston, September 17.—Cotton quiet,
firm; middlings 8-’, 4 c; net. receipts 2042, gross
20-12; sales 500; .stock 9563; exports to Great
Britain 00.
Weekly :iet receipts 7081. gross 7081; sales 4600;
exports to Great Britain 00.
Montgomery, September 17. - Cotton firm:
middlings 8 v wc: weeklyr eceipts 2642; shipments
2323; stock this year 2511, hist year 1356; sales
2323.
Macon, September 17—Cotton quiet; middlings
8|.j;receipis 1837; sales 1723; stock this year 125-1.
last year 1539; shipments 1707.
Nashville, September 17.—Cotton steady; mid
dlings 8 7 h c; receipts 156: shipments 157; sales
206, spinners 00; stock this year 102. last year
62
Port Royal,September 17—Weekly net receipts
90; stock 90.
Selma,September 17. -Cotton steody;middlings
8 7 hC; weekly receipts 1195; shipments 700: stock
2405.
Rome, September 17.—Cotton—market not re
ceived.
Atlanta, September 17.—Cotton receipts 230
bales middlings 8; r c.
I’rovlMioiiM.
Chicago, September 17. -Flour unchanged;
southern winter wheat $4 15'<i4 50. Mess pork
active, prices very irregular and closed lower;
cash $lu 30, October $10 25<u$10 60, November
$10 30. Lard quiet, firm - cash $7 27(<t$7 30, Sep
tember $7 30, October $6 36ia $0 45, November
*6 30. Short rib sides steady—cash $7 35. Boxed
meats steady—dry salt* d shoulders $6 12,‘ v (u 6 25,
short clear sides $7 25m $7 30.
St. Louis, September 17.—Flour active, firm,
choice §3 25m 3 40, family $2 60<3)2 75. Provisions
dull and unsettled. Mess pork *$10 87'.jto $11;
laid $6 60 ; bulk meats -loose lots -long clear
and short rib sides $7 60 ; short clear sides $7 90;
boxed lots—long clear sides and short rib sides
$7 50, short clear sides $7 82'./, bacon easy—long
clear sides $8 12! y, short rib sides $8 15. short
clear sides, not quoted; hams $12 25'cv$13 50.
Cincinnati, September 17.—Flour heavy
family $3 25. Pork dull -flO 50. Lard fair de
mand—$6 85. Bulk meats fair demand- short
rib sides $7 40. Bacon quiet—shoulders $7 25,
short rib sides $8 25, short clear sides $8 50.
New Orleans, September 17.— Rice steady,
good demand— Louisianna fair to prime 3* a «i
i : 4 c. Molasses, dull; Louisiana open kettle
-good prime to strictly prime 32c, prime 20m/22c,
fair 15*5 16, good common 13^14c; centrifugals,
firmer—prime to strictly prime 16m.20c, fair to
good fair 12(*>13c, common to good common lira
12c.
Louisville, September 17.—Provisions steady,
dull: Bacon, shoulders $6 75, clear rib $7 75,
cleur sides $8 35'«. Bulk meats—clear rib sides
7 1 ./a7'*vc, clear sides7 T n c; mess pork |11 00. Lard
—choice leaf $8 00m 8 25; hams, sugar-cured, 13c.
Grain.
Chicago, September 17.—Wheat active, lower
—September at 74’%c, October 76 5-16, No. 2
spring 74' 4 m 74 4 t. Corn weak, lower-cash 37 s ,
September —c, October 38 ; ya397 4 c, November
—c. Oats dull, weak—cash 25 1 ,c, September
24' 4 c, October 25 ! 4 m 26 1 „c, November —c.
St. Louis, September 17.— Wheat dull and
lower—No. 2 red, cash ami September 74 ‘ 4 c, !
October 75 :t „M7 ! 4 c, November —c. Corn weak 1
and closed V" 10c lower than yesterday—No. 2 i
mixed, cash 35c, October 35>*M‘36e, November ,
Oats dull, firm No. 2 mixed, cash 25! „m 25' 4 c,
October 25 :, *c.
Cincinnati, Sept. 17.—Wheat dull, lower; No. 2 j
red 77c. Corn easier—No. 2 mixed Dc. Oats
heavy—No. 2 mixed 27c.
Louisville. September 17.—Grain easier and i
lower: Wneat, No. 2 red 73c. Corn, No. 2 white
43cc. Oats nominal, new No. 2 mixed 28c.
Siiuar iiihI Coffee.
New Orleans, September 17.—Coffee mar
ket easier -Rio, in cargoes, common to prime, i
9 1 12*.jC. Sugar market dull -open kettle; prime '
5*“c, good fair to fully fan ! ,1 7-lGc fair 4 j 4 c,
common to good common 4 1 . • 1 _c: centrifuals ;
linnet: white 5': < m5choitt yellow clarified
5~„c, prime yellow clarified 5; r "6c, seconds )-,
New York, September 17. -Coffee, dull,fair; Rio :
quiet -lPjc: No. v Rio, September $9 oo '• 06,
October $9 05. November $8 95'" 9 20. Sugar firm, ;
active Muscavado 4 9-16, Barbadoes4‘ 4 c.centrifu- •
gal 5‘5; *c; fair to good refining 1 : 4 m4' c,
refined firm—extra CJ 4 c, white extra C
5 - pa 7 l-16c, yellow 1‘ 4 m Uoff, A 5 ll-16M5 ! 4 c; '
cut and mould 6* „c; standard A 5"*c, confeo- !
tioners A 6c. cut loaf and crushed 6;-he, pow
dered 6 : >*'m6)y»c. granulated 6 l-16c, cubes {
6'a6 5-16c.
Chicaoo, September 17. —Sugar quiet—stand
ard A 6^6* Ac.
Cincinnati, September 17.- Sugar quiet; New
Orleans 5)
Roniii ami Tiirppnf ine.
New York, September 17. -Rosin firm-
strained $1 02‘yafl 07‘y. Turpentine firm—37Jv,c.
Savannah, September 17.—Turpentine firm.
31' ^; sales 0 barrels. Rosin firm—good strained
90c; sales 00 barrels.
Wilmington, September 16.—Turpentine firm;
34c. Rosin quiet—strained 75c; good 80c. Tar
firm—$1 86; crude turpentine firm—hard 75c,
yellow dip #1 80, virgin $1 80.
in Head
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’owder. Free fVom
injurious drugs and
jffensive odors.
A particle is applied into each nostril and is
agreeable. Price 50 cents at Druggists; by mail,
registered 50 cts. Circulars free. FLY BROS.,
Druggists. Owego. N. Y. uug3 eod&wtf urin
John H. Henderson vs. Green McArthur. Rub
Nisi to foreclose Mortgage. May Term, 1HK€
Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia.
It appearing to the Court by the Petition o)
John H. Henderson that on the first day of Sep
tember, in the year of Our Lord eighteen lmn
dred and eighty-two. Green McArthur, of suit
county, made and delivered to said John H. Hen
derson a certain instrument in writing commonl:
called a promissory note, whereby he promised t(
pay to said plaintiff the sum of one hundred and
thirty-nine dollars twelve months afterdate with
interest trom date at eight per cent. Per annum
lor value received, and that afterwards on the 1st
day of September, 1H82, the better iO secure th<
payment of said instrument executed ami deliv
ered to said plaintiff his deed and mortcaw
whereby he conveyed to said plaititilf all thai
tract or parcel of land situated, lying and betas
in the County of Muscogee, known and hounded
as follows : On the north by the lands of Jamei^
Hu If, on the west by the St. Mary’s road, op tin
east by the lands ot James Huff and on then •
by the hinds of Philip Owens, containing
four ami one-half acres, more or less, whic
mortgage was conditioned that if the said defend
ant should pay off and discharge said promissorj
note according to its tenor and effect, that ther
said deed of mortgage and said note should be
void. Audit tarlher appearing that said promis
sory note remains unpaid, it is therefore orderet
t hat said defendant (fo pay into this court by tin
first day of the next term thereof, the principal
interest and cost due on said mortgage and prom
issory note, or show cause to the contrary,if there
be any, and that on failure of said defendant sc
to do, the equity of redemption in and to said
mortgaged premises he forever thereafter barred
and foreclosed. Audit is further ordered that
this Rule be published in the Columbus Hn
qt iher-Hun once a month for four months, or »
copy thereof served on the said defendant, or his
special agent or attorney, at least three month?
before the next term of this court.
By the Court:
TOL. Y. CRAWFORD.
Petitioner’s Attorney.
J. T. WILLIS, Judge H. C. C. O.
A true extract from the minutes of Muscoget
Superior Court at its May Term. 1886. on the 10th
day of May, IRho. GKO. Y. POND,
jy3 oain 4m Clerk
Used for over *25 years with gri nt pu •oopsby tlx#
physicians of Paris, N< w * -rk nn I Loudon, and
superior to ii'l o;U« rs l rt. r ... r t cure of idL
capes, recent « r oflong nami in*. Pu* up onlviu
(damHot;i-se >ioa:mag 64 C pMtl. si.rh. PltiriS
75 CK.V IS, MAILING IIIKM T.1L L 7!HAULS’!
iS§LES£
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
All parties having claims against Mollie Jones,
lute of said county, deceased, tire hereby notified
to present the same, duly authenticated, to me,
within the time prescribed by Inw; and all par
ties indebted to said Mollie Jones, are required to
make immediate payment to me.
August ft, 1886. GEO. Y. POND,
Au5 oawew Adlninistrator
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
1 T NDER and by virtue of an order of the Court
* of Ordinary of Muscogee county. Ga., will be
sold, in front of the store of I’. M. Knowles A*
Co., corner of Broad and Tenth streets, in the
city of Columbus. Ga., on the first Tuesday in Oc
tober next, between the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, at public outcry, sixty-
seven and one-half 1 «7 acres of land, more or
less, lying and being in the southwest corner of
lot number 286 and northwest corner of lot num
ber •.‘•m m the 17th district of said county. Sole*
us the property of John D. Stripling deceased,
for the purpose of paying debts and distribution.
Terms eauh. R. A. McFARLAN,
Adm’rde bonis non of John D. Stripling, dec’d.
sep7 oaw4w
Supreme Court of Georgia.
CLERK’S OFFICE,
Atlanta, Ga., September 14. 1886.
I T APPEARS FROM THE DOCKET OF THE
Supreme Court of the State of Gc rgia. for the
September Term, 1886, that the order of the cir
cuits. with the number of cases ,7 »m each county
and from the city courts, is as follows :
ATLANTA CIRCUIT.
Fulton 32 (1 contiruedi,City Court of Atlanta
13 (1 continued) 45
STONE MOUNTAIN CIRCUIT.
Clayton 3, DeKalb 4 7
EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Chatham 17, Efllnghnm 1, Liberty 2, City
Court of Savannah 10 30
MIDDLE CIRCUIT.
Bulloch 1, Emanuel 1. Jefferson 1, Screven 2,
Tat nail t, Washington 10 16
AUGUSTA CIRCUIT.
Burke 3, Richmond 18, City Court of Rich
mond county 2 23
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Elbert 2, Glasscock I, Hancock 3, Hart 2, Lin-
Csiln 1, Taliaferro;] 12
WESTERN CIRCUIT.
Clarke 1, Oconee t, Walton 3, City Court of
Clarke county 1 9
NORTHEASTERN Cl RCUIT.
Hall 3, Lumpkin 3, White 1, city Court of
Hall county 1 8
BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT.
Cherokee 1, Cobb 3, Dawson 1. Forsyth 1, (con
tinued), Milton 2, Pickens 1 9
CHEROKEE CIRCUIT.
Bartow 8 (2 continued!, Catoosa 1, Dade 3,
Gordon 4, Murray 1 17
ROM E CIRCUIT.
Chattooga 1, Floyd 8 ^2 continued), Haralson
2, Polk 4 16
COWETA CIRCUIT.
Carroll 7, Coweta 1, Dougins 4, Fayette 2,
Heard 1, Meriwether 2 (2 continued),
Troup 1, City Court of Carrollton 3, (1 con
tinued) 21
FLINT CIRCUIT.
Butts 2, Henry 3, Monroe 5 (3 continued),
Newton 3, Pike 1, Rockdale 3, Spalding 4.. 21
OCMULGEE CIRCUIT.
Baldwin 3, Green 1, Jasper 1, Jones 3, Morgan
3, Putnam 1 12
MACON CIRCUIT.
Bibb 4, Crawford 2. Houston 2, City Court of
M|con 5 13
CHATTAHOOCHEE CIRCUIT.
Chattahoochee 4, Muscogee 7, Talbot 2, Tay
lor 3 16
PATAULA CIRCUIT.
Early 2, Terrell 2 4’
SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT.
Leo 3, Macon 3, Schley 4, Stewart 1, Sumter 5,
Webster 2 18
ALBANY CIRCUIT.
Baker!, Decatur 8 (2 continued), Dougherty
9, Mitchell 2, Worth 3 23
SOUTHERN CIRCUIT.
Brooks 4 4
OCONEE CIRCUIT.
Dodge 2 (1 continued), Dooly 2, Laurens 2,
Pulaski 2 8
BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT.
Appling 1, Charlton 1, Clinch 2, Glynn 3,
Ware 3, Wayne 1 11
342
The Macon Telegraph, Columbus Enquirer,
Savannah News and Augusta Chronicle are re
quested to publish this notice once a week for
two weeks, and to send their bills to this office.
Z. D. HARRISON,
Clerk Supreme Court of Goorgia.
NT ATE OF GEORGIA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
PROCLAMATION.
/ 1 EORG1A;
* » By HENRY D. McDANlEL,
Governor of said State.
Wherrab, The General Assembly, at its last
session, passed the following Acts, to-wit:
“An Act to amend the Constitution of the State
of Georgia by striking therefrom paragraph 15,
Section 7, Article 3.”
Sec. I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of Georgia,and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, that the Constitution
of this State lie amended by striking therefirom
paragraph 16 of section seven < 7 >. article three (3),
which reads as follows, to-wit: Paragraph XV.—
All special or local hills shull originate in thn
House ot' Representatives. The Sneaker of the
House of Representatives shall, within five days
from the organization of the General Assembly,
appoint a committee, consisting of one from each
Congressional District, whose duty it shall be to
consider and consolidate all special and local
bills on the same subject, and report the same to
has been i
two-thirm
or renon.
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article of food, even in liquor itself, with »i«*err«
failinn results. Thousands of the worst drunk
ards have been cured, who to-day believe they quit
drinking of their own free will. Endorsed by every
body who knows of its virtues but saloon-keepers,
Send for pamphlet containing hundreds of testi
monials from the beat women and men from ail
parts of the country. Address in confidence,
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Mort^i.Kt.’, «Vc —
R. H. GORDON. J Superior Court. May term, 188t>.
IT appearing to the Court by tlie petition of
Win. L. Tillman, accompanied by the notes and
mortgage deed, that on the fourth day of May
Eighteen Hundred and Fighty-*hree, the defend
ant made and delivered to the plaintiff her twe
promissory notes, hearing date the day and yeai
aforesaid, whereby tin- defendant promised by
one of said promissory note- t<» pay to the plaintifl
or bearer, twenty-four months after the date
thereof, Eighteen Hundnd and Eighty-eigh'
Dollars and Twenty-two Cents, with interest
from date at eight per cent per annum, and i‘
said note was not paid : l maturity, ten per cen»
attorney’s fe<.- tor the c ollection thereof, for
value received: mid by the other of .-aid prumi
sorv notes the defendant promised to pay totht
Plaintiff. ' r tier, ihi.t
date thereof. Eighteen
eigh» Dollar- and TV- nt
he House; and no spcciul or locul Gill shall be
' nsidered by the House until the same
reported by the committee, unless by a
- vote; ind no bill shall be considered
. to tin . louse by said committee, tin-
tine shall have been laid before it with-
n title* u days after the organizaiton ot the Gen-
■rul /. * ... iy, except by a two-thirds vote.
Sec. li. ‘L it further enacted, That whenever
he above proposed amendment to the ( onstitu-
ion shall . • . greed to by two-thirds of the mem-
hereby authorized and instructed to cause said
amendment to be published in at least two news
papers in each congressional District in this State
for the period of two months next preceding the
time of holding the next general election.
enacted, That the ubove
... hull be submitted for rati
fieu'tion or rejection to the electors ot this .State at
the next general election to be held after publi*
cation, as provided tor in the second section of
this Act. in the several election districts in thia
State, at which election every person shall be en
titled to vote wno is entitled to vote for mem
bers of the General Assembly. All persona
voting at said election in favor of adopting the
proposed amendment to the constitution shall
write, or have printed on their ballots the words,
“For ratification o! the amendment striking par
agraph 16 of section 7, article ;i, from the constitu-
tion:“ and all persons opposed to the adoption of
the aforesaid proposed amendment shall write,
or have printed on their ballots the words,
“Against ratification of the amendment striking
paragraph 16 of section 7, article 3, from the con-
Htitution.”
Sec. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Gov
ernor be, and he is herebj authorized and direct*
ed to provided for the submission of the amend
ment proposed in the first section of this Act to a
vote of the people, us required by the Constitu
tion of the State, in paragraph 1, section 1. of
article 13, and by this Act, and if ratified, the Gov
ernor shall, when he ascertains such ratification
from the Secretary of State, to whom the return*
shall he referred in the same manner as in cases
of election for members of the General Assembly,
to count and ascertain the result, issue his procl&>
nmtion for the period of thirty days announcing
such result and declaring the amendment rati
fied.
Sec. V. Be it further enacted. That ull laws and
parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
Approved September 24, 1885.
“An Act to amend the last sentence of Article
7, Section l. Paragraph 1 of the Constitution of
1877.”
Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assem
bly of the State of Georgia, That the last sentence
ofartirJt 7. section 1 paragraph 1 of the Constitu
tion of 187' be. and the same i« hereby amended
by adding thereto at the end of said sentence the
following word*. “And to make suitable provision
for such confederate soldier* as may have been
pornianentiv initired in -.mil service. ’ so that said
sentenrt u in n -i> .• mended shall read us follows;
“To supply tilt -oldiers who lost a limb or limbs
gin
. fees IV»i
said tl
i i.t <.t
id.int ib
Eighty-
. amM;
am
vali u
11 v *
i l ,o tin " on ill her deed «-f mortgage, w herebj
• %, . 1. r. ..*ii i :. , g. . •• :I.• li... I. rt a
rmr< elo! nan ! n th« west
side of Broad street in the city of Columbus, am:
in said roun’y and siuti, b« :ug about tw. nty-five
Let m front ..n Broad street and runningb.ick tin
full depth of said lot, mil known as part of loi
number sixty-live, with all the improvement!-
thereon, upon wiii« h i- -ituuted Store House
number one hundred and fortj-three; and it fur
ther appearing ihat -aid n tes remain unpaid;
It is, tin re fore, ordered that the said defendant
pay into Court on or before the first day of the
next term thereof, the principal, interest, attor
ney’s fees and . "-!?* due on said notes, or show
cause to the contrary, if any she can : and that or
the failure of tiie defendant so to do, the equit)
of redemption in and to said mortgage premise*
be forever thereafter barred and foreclosed.
And it is further ordered that this rule be pub
the next term of this Court, or served on the de
fendant or her special agent or attorney, at least
three months previous to the next term of thi»
Court. J. T. WILLIS,
C. J. THORNTON, Judge C. C. C.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
A true extract from the minute* of Muscoget
Superior Court, May term, 1886.
nuke
the confederate State*
, irtifl imba during life, and to
)>l« i ■ • -ions for such confederatesol-
ln.v< been penmuieruly injured in
nd be it further enacted, That if thi*
t shall be agreed to by two-thirds of
i>-.-letted to eucn of the two Houses,
• ..I b<- entt red on their journals with
■ : .• ty- : 1- n thereon; and the Gov-
<. - id amendment to be published
e i ! < i- in each congressional
_* ino.’ii h- • u \ ions to the next general
■ .in .nn shall fie submitted to the
)•-?.. \t general .-lection; and the legal
in .. \t general election shall have tn-
uinteu on their tickets the words,
n‘ or “nun-ratification,” as they may
ut«-: and if a majority of the voters
• ole for members of the General As-
ing thereon, shall vote in favor of rati-
in this ..lmmlment shall become a
article 7. st ction 1. paragraph l of the
1 the Governor shall
the
of.
mytt) oam4m
111. Beit further enucted. That all law*
and parts of Jaws militating against the provis
ions of this Act be, and the same are hereby re
pealed.
Approved October 19
No
thereto
Henry
ernor of said State,do issue this my proclamation,
hereby declaring that the foregoing proposed
amendments are submitted to the qualified voters
of the State, at the general election to be held on
Wednesday, October 6,1886, for ratification or re
jection of said amendments tor either of them) a*
provided in said Acts respectively.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Ex
ecutive Department, this 31st day of July, 1886.
HENHV D. McDANlEL, Governor.
By the Governor,
J. W. Warrex, Sec. Ex. Dep t.
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