The Orthodox democrat. (Barnesville, Ga.) 1885-1???, January 03, 1889, Image 1
THE ORTHODOX DEMOCRAT.
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llglrope&n Powr j haco come to
Blent bo extermi late tho African
VJfclo.
Mi not very remote future nil vc.xa-
Hidian questions may disappear for
■' Indians.
■Goschen, English Chancellor of
■chequer, has decided to a' andon
w posed wheat tax.
■ anches and large farms of South-
Rifornia are slowly but stead,ly
■Git up into small farms.
■ Farmers' Itevuw thinks there is no
■ reason to doubt that the potato
B the present season is the largest
Hpwn in the United States.
has been formed in Gcr-
Hinder tlie Presidency of Profe eoi
■ to introauec sun'tnry improve
Bin small dwellings in Gorlin.
■ordingto the judicial statistics of
lpd f .just issed, fifty murders a r e
Illy committed in London, the per
lors of which escape and are never
ted.
an evidence of the fact that Irc
has quieted down vc;y considerably
to the operation of the crimes act
len suspended in certain portions
e County of Clare.
l .e Olston, at Los Angeles, Cal., the
day, tried to commit suic'de lie
himself in the abdomen. The bul
ent through and struck a bystander
and Gillespie, killing him instantly.
11 will live.
Rochester Union says: “Small
vould ‘Esq.’be if Americans dis
■■it. It' is absolutely without
in its current use, and doe,
H to compensate for the time it
write it.-’
Hew cantilever bridge at Mem-
Han., will be immense. It will
a channel span 170 feet in
H There will be two other spans,
■) feet in length. The bridge
thirty-two feet in width. The
Hbc $7,200,000.
-
% a man intends to start a goat
thinks will bring him
Ho will stock it with
and as the oidiuary
Hn give three pints of milk a day
wiilatcs upon ninety quarts per day
Hve to fifteen cents a quart.
■ announcement of the death of
■leycr, the inventorof “Volapuk,”
'•fiidicled by Mr. Scheyler himself
the Vobiy’ikahled /.coodik.
■he has been dangerously ill, and
the last sacraments of tlio
Ijjfbut he has been cured by tho
ETf Radon.
■ leading minds of France bavo
Bo tlie conclusion that the national
Bof educaftm is defective ou its
Id side, and efforts are now being
Bto acclimatize cricket, football,
Bg and American baseball in French
■s. Tlie Minister of Education lias
Bkpaper in favor of athletic ex
Mbit-mouth (N. II.) Times recall,)
tly one hundred ycirs ago, in
■ neral Washington came to that
■in and remained there four days,
He of which, in coarse of a sail lie
Htiire for a few minutes at Kittcry,
was the only time that his
BHHaciicd tlie soil of the Fine
-V’ffMest of election incidents comes
HgEnßsylvania, where one Charles
Bbrough suit against *llO an
refused his vote. He was
hB a bal y in a cabbage field,
K as “cabbage” till he called
—and the election folk
Have li's ballot because they
IHHiot and could not know hit
|th there are now IG,OOO
Iprs, 1,000,000 pupils, 17,-
|e and female high schools,
■0 worshippers in the
Be sre sixty normal schools,
I and universities, and
Rplogical seminaries. They
Hi the Southern States,
Hg the Northern States,
Hpropcrty valuation.
■■k!,” of “great'’ ami
■- ruled in Kurope, and
Hkind.but not since the
from a supposed
SMs of Calvary lias one ol
Hi New York h'l-a/iln'--,
Hvrn Christian of Den
Punctuality is the
and it makes life a
luggards in his king*
Lshic? at the Danish
■he sovereign is not
Bil to the second,
else to follow his
■‘her wait for auj
Hut for him. The
Hvlia are rather an
Hibed him, tialfin
Mm in annoyance.
Hi the name luid
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OB' ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES—TUB COTTON CROP
—FLOODS —ACCIDENTS —CROF RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
The Republicans of Birmingham, have
forwarded to President-elect Harrison,
an urgent invitation to visit Birmingham,
before the date of liis inauguration, and
“they are hopeful that he will accept,
j Thomas Robinson, an old and respected
citizen and merchant of Montgomery, was
.shot and instantly killed by George
Holmes, a negro. Holmes had a diffi
culty with another negro. Robinson in-
Itcrfered and tried to quell the disturb
ance. Holmes drew a pistol and shot
Robinson, the ball penetrating his breast
and causing instant death.
KENTUCKY.
A cablegram from Pau, France, re
ceived in Louisville, states that Rev. Dr.
Boyce, chairman of tlie Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, was dying at that
place. He went abroad for his health
several months ago.
Near Harrcidsburg, Frank Green, who
killed three men in the course of his life,
w hi!e escaping from officers by crossing
the Kentucky river in a skiff, capsized
lvs bo it and drowned. Green was bora
in Ohio, where he killed a man when al
youth", moved to Eastern Kentucky,
where ho killed another; then into High
Biidgc, where ho dangerously wounded
two others. His last killing was two,
months ago, when he beat a railroad
baud to death near Chattanooga, Tun.
LOUISIANA.
At a meeting of citizens held in New
Orleans, it was decided to add to the
attractions of the coming carnival, by
erecting in Lafayette square a mammoth
cotton palace, in which the products ol
Louisiana and other states will he i-v.
hibited during carnival week.
MISSISSIPPI.
A telegram was received at Memphis,
saying there was a negro not in progress
st Lamar, Miss., and asking that some
Winchester rilles be sent on the first
train. Lamar is twelve miles south of
Grand Junction, Tenn., on the line of
the Illinois Central Railroad. Two
whites and five negroes have been killed.
The latest advices from Wahalak, the
scene of the late race troubles, are to the
effect that three negroes have been cap
tured, but their names are withheld.
From tho prisoners just taken, it is
learned that George Maury, Cash Maury
and George Coleman were wounded in
the fight of Sunday night, December 10.
Walter Crook, the most intelligent of
the fugitives, is supposed to be in hiding
at the residence of a white man, and a
search warrant has been secured to ran
sack the xiluce.
MISSOURI.
General Manager S. H. 11. Clark, of
the Missouri Pacific at St. Louis, has de
cided that the secret service of the sys
tem must go. Detective Thomas Fur
long is at the head of the service, and he
has fifteen men under his charge. The
cost of the service has been nearly $40,-
000 a year, and this, with the unsatis
factory work, has caused the abolishment
of the service.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The committee of arrangements for the
state convention of cx-Confedernte pen
sioners met at Raleigh on Thursday, and
made arrangements to meet in that city
January 22d. Speeches will be made by
the governor and by several prominent
ex-Confederates. The convention will
memorialize tlie legislature to increase
pensions to wounded soldiers so as to
give each a pension of S4O, or to pay
pensioners according to the character of
the injury or disability.
• SOUTH CAROLINA.
Cant. Benjamin 11. Massey, one of tl a
most prominent men in or k county,
died at his residence in I< ort Mill from
an affection of the heart,
TEXAS.
The wool groweis of Kimble, Menard,
Sutton and Schleicher counties, at a
meeting held on Thursday, adopted res
olutions urging Congress to so amend
the present tariff as to prevent the im
portation of foreign wool under the
names of ring waste, tliri a l waste, yarn
waste, which are now used to evade tar
iff dutv, declaring that it is largely due
to these fraudulent importations thal
they suffer.
L E. Rust, editor of the Rico News,
shot and instantly killed Signor Olson.
Olson insulted Rust’s sister some time
awo, and Rust demanded that he apolo
gise. Olson’s reply was that he would
whip Rust on sight. The men mel
in a saloon and Olson went behind the
bar, got two revolvers, laid them ou the
counter, aud told Rust to .take one ol
them aud go out with him and they
would settle the difficulty. A quarrel
ensued, and Olson finally jumped ovei
the counter, gun in hand. Rust was toe
quick for him. however, and drew Lis
own pistol and shot Olson twice, killing
him almost instantly.
VIRGINIA.
The Richmond Whig will discontinue
publication, the good-will and subscrip
tion list having been purchased by the
Daily Times.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Exchange, of Norfolk, has been merged
into the Chamber of Commerce, and
great interest is being taken in its ad
vancement.
On Thursday night, a house in the
eastern part of Rockingham county, in
which a number of colored people were
bolding a party, was blown up by dyna
mite, and several of tbe inmates wore
fatally wounded.
Robert Hull, fireman on tbe Norfolk &
Western Railroad, and brother of Allen
Hull, general passenger agent of tbe
same road, committed suicide on Thurs
day night by taking laudanum at Nor
vill Hotel.
At Southboaton, the large tobacco
factory of J. W. Easley was burned.
The factory was occupied by Norman &
Evans, and contained a stock of old to
bacco valued at $85,000. It was feared
at one time that tbe whole town would
be destroyed, and Danville was asked
for assistance, but the flaffils were finally
ejslingui>hed, V
“Error Ceases to be Dangerous When Reason is Left Free to Combat it.’’—Thomas Jefferson.
BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1889.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
fioveral shocks of earthquake was felt
on Thursday in the eastern and southern
parts of Spain.
The official French journal announces
au increase in the army of 13,000 foot
chasseurs by tho addition of two com
panies to each third battalion.
Breiuigsville, Pit,, is the center of a
district where diptheria is raging with
fearful results. The terrible disease is
spreading havoc in that locality, particu
larly among children.
At a meeting of tho National Republi
can Committee, held in Paris, France on
Thursday, it was unanimously resolved to
support Gen. Boulanger’s candidacy for
a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for
the Seine, made vacant by the death of
M. Ilude.
The postoffice at Sunbury, Pa., was
robbed on Thursday night. Tlie rob
bers pried the doors open with a jimmy,
hut they secured only 75 cents. Tho of
fice at Northumberland, two miles from
there, wes also entered, and all they se
cured at that place was 24 cents.
Governor Beaver issued a proclama
tion, declaring that the state debt of
Pennsylvania has beer reduced during
the past year sl,ll 550. One of the
governor’s pet schemes is the total ex
tinguishment of the state debt, and he
is bending every energy to accomplish
this before his term expires.
A riot occurred near Tripp, Dakota,
between Russian Menuonites and Ameri
cans. A public sale was held at the
farm of a Russian named Sink, and an
American farmer named Merchant pur
chased a dozen chickens. When ready
to start home, he found two of the
chickens missing, and complained to
Sink, who told him to take something of
equal value. He caught a goose and
started home, but was overtaken by a
party of eight Russians, who claimed the
goose as their property, and a fight en
sued, in which some twenty .men were
engaged, with the Russians as aggressors,
When two brothers, namod Johnson, who
were passing, joined in the melee with
knives. A Russian named Mayer was
stabbed, and ho in turn split Charles
Johnson’s head with a neck yoke, inflict
ing a fatal injury. The same weapon
broke the arm of George Johnson, aud
knives were used to slash up three other
Russians badly, but not fatally.
STEAMER DISASTERS.
The iteamer Kate Adams, an elegant
passenger packet running semi-weekly
between Memphis aud Arkansas City,
was burned near Commerce, Miss., about
forty miles south of Memphis 6n Sunday.
She was hound to Memphis, aud had
about two huudred people aboard, in
cluding her deck and cabin crew of
eighty, twenty five cabin
passengers, and twenty-five coloied cabin
passengers. About twenty-five persons
p risked, mostly by drowning, aud one
of the clerks last his life trying to save
tho colored women who were ou the
lower deck. Only three women were
saved. The boat was built in 1882, and
cost $102,000. She was the finest and
fastest steamer of her type. She was in
sured for $83,750 in Sr. Louis, Cincin
nati and other foreign offices. This
would have been the completion of her
902d trip in the Memphis and Arkansas
City trade.. The steamboat John 11.
Hanna, from Ouachita river, with a large
number of passengers and a cargo of
2,500 bales of cotton on board, was
burned on Monday near Plaquemme, La.
It is stated that of the one huudred per
sons on board at the time of the disaster,
only fourteen are known to have been
saved. The John H. Hanna was built
in Madison, Ind., in 1876, and hailed
from Louisville, Ky. She was of 877
lonnage, and was owned by tho Ouachita
river consolidated lines. Cnpt- J. W.
Blanks, president of tlie company, says
that the latest advices he has are to the
effect that the steamboat left Monroe,
La., Sunday morning at G o’clock with
1,1)00 bales of cotton. The captain
estimated that additional cotton
had been picked up on the way down to
make the total number of bales 2,500 ...
Late dispatches confirm the report of the
loss of the steamer Leife Errickson off
Alkali point, five miles west of Seattle,
W. T. Five lives were lost. The
Errickson was a propeller and plied be
tween Seattle and Sydney, Mason county,
and was en route to the latter point when
the accident occurred. Fire broke out
in the pilot-house, and it is believed to
have been caused by a lamp explosion.
There were thirty-six people aboard at
the time. The fire spread instantly
throughout the interior cabin. The boat
w as about two miles from shore when thf
fire broke out.
UNCLE SAM INSULTED.
The brigantine .Tosefa, which arrived
at Philadelphia, Pa., from Montengo
Bay, Jamaica, brings news of an outrage
suffered by that vessel at the bands of
tbe Spani-h government. While dis
charging her cargo on her return trip
from New York at Arroya, Spanish cus
tom officials discovered that twenty
packages of corn-starch, winch were
marked on the vessel’s manifest, were
missing. After a search the goods could
not be found, and the vessel was seized
by the authorities, who held her until a
flue of $4,000 was paid, although the
value of the goods in question did not
exceed S2O. The master and crew were
forced to suffer many indignities at the
hands of the governor of the island and
other official o . After the fine had been
paid it was ascertained that the missing
goods were delivered by mistake on board
the ship Josephus, which lay next to
Josefa, in New York, but were placed on
the Josefa’s manifest. The owner of the
Josefa has filed a complaint against the
Spanish government, and it is said that
the war ships, Galena and Y antic, will be
ordered to continue their cruise to Porto
Rico and summarily secure redress for
the imposition suffered by the Josefa.
RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE.
A conference between the committees*
of the Southern and Northern general
assemblies of the Presbytery of the Pres
byterian church has convened in New
York City. The object of the confer
ence is to" secure perfect co-operation be
tween tbe assemblies in lieu of union,
i whieh canned be effected at prj sent.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
I)6WN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF t.AUOR SEETHING CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES,
BUICIDF.B, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
Owing to the protest of the British
representatives at Zanzibar, the Sultan
has cancelled his order for the wholesale
execution of criminals.
Gov. Hill, of New York, has ordered
an extraordinary session of the court of
oyer and terminer for the trial of the sd
called “boodle” ildcrmen.
The Pope ’ sent to tho Bishop of
Piacoi.za $4,000 ior a training college fop
missionaries, to he sent to America to
care-for Italian emigrants.
Tlie Catholics are organizing associa
tions throughout Italy which, conjointly
with similar associations all over the
worid, will raise a fund for a vigorous
anti-slavery campaign.
By au explosion of naptha a fire was
started in the hojise furnishing store of
D. B. H. Powcisfin Marblehead, Mass.,
and bdfcra the firp was controlled, prop
erty to the value of nearly a million of
dollars was destroyed.
The police and military are making
preparations for extensive evictions on
the Olphort Landsmore estate at Letter
kenny, Ireland. The houses of tenants
have been strongly fortified and a despe
rate struggle is imminent.
Commander G’bnaigoy, of the lowa
department of the Grand Army of the
Republic, has been looking up Union
veterans among the evicted settlers of
Des Moines rivet lands in order to aid
the needy. He there .-.re few Union
soldiers among them. There is a large
number of ex-Confederates however.
Ex-Judge Robert Q. Johnston shot
himself through the head Thursday
morning at hi) residence in Atondale,
near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was promi
nent and popular in law and politics, and
wns in good circumstances. About two
months ago his wife died, and there is no
cause known for his suicide, except her
loss.
Ex-Queen Natalie, of Sarvia, has been
received with royal honors duriug her
tour. Upon her arrival at the Kussian
frontier the imperial chamberlain wel
comed her on behalf of the czar and
czarina. At the various towns at which
she stopped, the burgomasters presented
bread andsalt, and all expressed the hope
that she would reascend the throne.
The Denver (Colorado) Gas Cos., had
100 men employed on Thursday in exca
vating a ditch alongside of and under
neath the' track )jf the cable car line,
neu sratrlnn),, ,! - - ... -
block fell, crushing the life out of and
imprisoning the men underneath. Foul
dead and two badly wounded were
found. Other men escaped with more or
less bruises.
Sebastian Hobbs, a farmer living three
miles south of Bird’s Eye, in Dubois
county, Ind., was called out at his bouse
and two shots were fired at him. One shot
struck him in the abdomen, producing a
fatal wound. One Smith was arrested
on suspicion of having done the shoot
ing. Hobbs has made himself obnoxious
to the White Caps by procuring evi
dence against them and urging prosecu
tion.
Mrs. Lucy P,arsons, the anarchist, ah
tempted to deliver an address in Chicago,
but Chief of Police Hubbard at once
squelched the affair. “Is this what you
call a free country?’*cried out the an
archist’s widow, as she waved aloft a big
red handkerchief, which had been con
ceaied in her muff. “Why they would
not think of trying to stop such a meet
ing as this ia London or in Scotland.
Anarchists march the ctreets of London
singing the Marseillaise and are not in
terrupted. yet they call this country
free.”
A dispatch from Malta says that neither
the duke nor duchess of Edinburgh was
present at the theater there when the at
tempt was made to blow up the build
ing with a bomb. It was reported at the
time that the duchess was present, and that
she was the intended'vietim of a nihilist
conspiracy. The bomb was discovered
in the lobby in the rear of the stalls, by
an attendant. Attached to jt was a
burning fuse, which an attendant
promptly extinguished. It is Slip posed
that the perpetrator was actuated solely
by a spirit of wanton mischief.
Three fatalities and a number of minoi
casualties resulting from accidents at
Christmas festivities in the vicinity of
Chicago, 111., are reported. At (Geneva,
111., and Danville, 111., men personating
Santa Claus at Christmas church festi
vals, each of whom used cotton batting
for beards and wigs, caught fire from
candles on the trees and were fatally
burned; and at Milwaukee, Wis., a four
year-old boy waked early, and. slipping
out of bed, undertook to light tbe
candles on the Christmas tree, as he hail
seen it done the night before. He set
his gown, the tree, and bedclothes on
fire ancl was burned to death and his
friends had difficulty in rescuing other
children and saving the house.
RAILWAY PROGRESS.
Notwithstanding the widespread im
pression that additions to the railway
systems of the United States during 1888
would be comparatively insignificant,
the railway mileage of the country was
increased during the year by no less than
7,120 miles of main track. While this is
much less than a phenomenal increase in
the years 18S7, 188(5, 1882 and 1881, when
the new mileage was respectively 13,000,
9,000, 11,560 and 9,796 miles, the record
of the past year exceeds that of every
other year in history, with the excep
tions named, and of the year 1871, when
7,379 miles were added. Kansas still
leads the list in extent of new mileage,
as she lias done for several years. Cali
fornia comes next end the South follows.
PROTECTED.
The authorities of Batoum, Russia, re
fused to sanction the Rothschilds,scheme
to lay pipes throiAn that town to convey
petroleum from, Ua wells directly to tho
ship’s side. to the plan
is that it to small
GEORGIA ITEMS.
John Peabody, of Columbus, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself with
a, revolver.
The Mr in behnlf of the Confederate
Veterans, recently held in Atlanta, will
net nearly $4,000.
Ti o Atlanta Zouave squad won the
first prize of SIOO at Selma, Ala., on
Thursday. This is their second victory.
They won first prize at Opelika last
August.
The letter if Col. George W. Adair,
addressed to Uovernor Gordon with ref
erence to the establishment of a state ine
briate asylu-n, has attracted considerable
attention. The subject is < neof marked
importance, and is being widely dis
cussed.
There was a small war at Prior's. A
crowd of drunken negroes employed
abort tl.c mii es become unruly, and a
collision occurred between them and
some white men who attempted to quiet
them. One negro was shot in the slum'
der and arm and another was shot in ’
leg.
A man named Pritchett, livir.
Somerville, while working ou: m ,
field, hung fiis coat on the fence. The
coat contained three S2O-greenbncks,
which dropped out of the pocket, and a
hog chewed them until they were reduced
to a pulp. J. 11. Reynolds, president of
the First National bank in Rome sent the
pulp to the Treasury Department in
Washington. Mr. Reynolds says that it
was impossible for him to make anything
out of the pulp, and that it looked like
so much dark colored paper. Mr.
Reynolds received a reply from Wash
ington to his le‘ter. On two slips of
paper were neatly pasted fragments of
two bills. It was the work of an expert
and showed his wonderful skill. The
Treasury Department said that they
could only make two hills out of the
pulp, and would pay that on an affidavit
stating how the money was mut lated.
CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY,
The War Department at Washington,
D. 0., has received no additional parti
culars concerning the arrest of Gen.
Stanley, commanding the Department ol
Texas, and lias issued no instructions to
Inin in regard to his future action. He
has, it is explained, full discretion in the
matter of the taking possession of the
property and can order troops to Austin
for that purpose if he deems it necessary.
The question of his defence before civil
courts has been referred to the attorney
general for such action as he may think
proper. The trouble grows out of the
attempt of private parties to squat upon
the old arsenal property which has re
cently been donated by Congress to the
city of Austin for public school pur
nhfi/ v 7n the Interval between the lO
linquishment by the government of
property and its reception by the school
board, the premises were squatted upon
by a man named isnydor The- school
board then applied to Gen. Stanley to
, put them in possession. Gen. IStaulcy
and bis aide went to Austin for this pur
pose; but he no sooner reached the
ground in company with representatives
of the school board than a constable,
, armed with a warrant from Justice
Stuart’s court, arrested Gen. Stanley for
an alleged attempt to commit an assault
on Snyder. They quietly submitted and
were carried before Justice Stuart, who
bound them over in SSOO to keep the
peace. Stanley refused to give bond,
and said he would go to jail first. The
constable proceeded to take him to that
institution and arrived at the door of the
prison. Sheriff White asked Gen. Stan
ley if he had authority from the govern
ment to transfer the property in question.
The general said he had and produced
his orders. The sheriff then said he
would not recognize the order of com
mitment from Justice 3tuart and told
Gen. Stanley so. Snyder still holds pos
session of the property. Sheriff White,
who refused to put Gcu. Stanley and his
aide in jail, was arrested afterwards on a
warrant issued fcy Justice Stuart for con
tempt of his court, and his trial is now
in pfegress. United States District At
torney Kleberg is expected there to insti
tute legal proceedings against Stuart.
BRITISH SLAVERY.
It has been discovered that an agree
merit in relation to slave dealing exist;
between English East Africa and th.
sultan of Zauzibar, and Arab slave deal
ers of Slonbaza. By this . tent the
Arabs are authorized to carry on tradi
in slaves and to flog or otherwise punish
them. A company upon hiring slave!
must make an arrangement with tlieii
owners. The wages of slaves must br
paid to owners. English mission sta
tions are obliged, under the agreement,
to return runaway slaves to their owners.
After the agreement bad been signed, the
agents of the company, Mr. Mackenzie
and Gen. Matthews, accompanied by
Mcnbaza Arabs, went to Rabat Church
mission station, and demanded the sur
render of certain runaways, who had
taken refuge at the station. Theßiitish
missionaries refused to give them up.
The secretary of the English East Africa
Cos., at London, England, denies the au
thenticity of the story from Zanzibat
about an agreement between the com
pany and the sultan and Arab slave
dealers. He further says that the only
action of Agent Mackenzie in regard tc
slaves has been to pay for the liberation
of 1.400 slaves. The newspapers gen
erally believe tbe first account to be true.
THE HAYTIEN INCIDENT.
Advices have been received from Ilayti
to tbe effect that tbe dispute over the
seizure of the American steamer, Ilnytien
Republic, has been settled. The steamer
has been delivered to the American men
of-war, and the latter have honored the
Ilaytien flag with a salute of twenty-one
guns, Among tbe people the action of
the United States government is con
sidered an abuse of power against a help
less nation, and this opinion is said to he
shared by some of the foreign diplomatic
representatives. Gen. Legitime has been
unanimously elected President of the
Republic and is taking cuergetic steps to
repress the rebellion.
A BiLt'ha been passed by the South
Carolina Senate making it a misdemennor
punishable by dismissal for any member of
- tbe Legislature to accept a free pass from
I any railroad. m
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF
FICIALS ARE DOING.
NOTES.
The Comptroller of Currency has au
thorized the First National bank of John
son City, Tenn., to begin business with a
capital of $50,100.
The Comptroller of Currency has de
clared a second dividend of 10 per cent,
in favor of the creditors of tho State Na
tional Bank of Raleigh, N. C., making
in all 30 per cent, on claims proved.
Michael Keating, messenger of the War
Department, fell over the balusters on j
the fourth floor of that building on •
Thursday, and was instantly ki l I. Tin
fall was about eighty in -
toxicated at thetijgs*** ®
T’ Prc 'althas granted a pardon to |
P ‘0 A. A. Kimball, of the Mormon
:cn, convicted at the September
'a of the first district court of Utah of
uultery, and sentenced to eight months’
imprisonment. The Prpairlijnt'a notion i3
because the prisoner is in au advanced
stage of consumption.
The remains of Gen. John Logan were
removed from the Hutchinson vault, iu
Rock Creek Cemetery, where I hey were
placed two years, to the new Logan
Chapel in the National Soldiers’ Home
Cemetery, and the guard of seven artil
lerymen who have kept watch over the
body since it was deposited in the Hutch
inson vault, was relieved.
Col. James F. Casey, who married a
younger sister of Mrs. Gen. Grant, died
at his residence in Georgetown. He had
been ill only a week and died of pneu
monia. Col. Casey came from Kentucky
stock. A brother of his was in Congress
from that state during the War and the
family were once wealthy. He had been
a ha ml soma man in his youth, but be
aged rapidly after liis misfortunes be
gan, and his later appearance was that of
a bent and seedy old man, who moved
about without spirit and apparently in
different to all the world. His wife and
four children are left destitute.
The proposed plan for a Chickamauga
Memorial Association, copied after the
organization for the preservation of the
field of Gettysburg, but composed of
the veterans of both armies, meets with
general favor among the ex-Conlederate
officers, in Washington, who fought at
Chickamauga. A large number of promi
nent Union officers have signified their
approval of the plan for a joint memorial
association, and the whole subject for
preserving and marking that field, w ill
soon receive the formal consideration of
the committee appointed by the Society
of the Army of the Cumberland to report
some plan for carrying the project into
effect.
The question of curtailing suffrage in
the Southern states by the requirement
of educational qualifications now being
discussed in the states of South Carolina,
Alabama, and elsewhere, has created
pomo talk among the Southern men in
Congress. Most of them are, however,
of the opinion that, tL<>- -]g n 0 nccessitv
of discussing litis question at present,
and very few of them seem at all anxious
to be quoted on it. The large majority
of Southern men are, however, opposed
to changing the present suffrage laws un
less some means can be devised by which
the negro can be excluded from the bal
lot box without limiting the representa
tion of the Southern states in Congress
and in the electoral college.
Col. I. W. Avery, of Atlanta, Ga.. whe
in connection with his duties as chief ol
one of the divisions of the Treasury De
partment, holds the position of private
secretary to Senator Brown, of Georgia,
came near being killed Wednesday night
while going through tlie stieets on an in
valid’s tricycle, which he has for the
past two or three weeks been compelled
to use, he having, not long since, had a
slight attack of paralysis. He was over
taken by a careless cab driver, who
claims not to have seen the colonel. The
cab was going with some degree of
rapidity when it struck the tricycle,
throwing the occupant several feet into
the middle of the street with great Arne.
Chairman Button, of the In ngnral
Committee, says, that it lias been pm
tically determined to In, no carriage j
in the procession, except those Jor
occupancy of the retiring ud incoin _
presidents, the new vice-president and
the joint congressional committee. Air.
Button says that on account of the great
length of the parade it will be imprac
ticable to allow members of tbe com
mittee to ride in tbe procession, and also
that no place in line can be given to any
persons until about a week befoie
the 4th of March, when the marshal
will make an assignment of posi
tions to various organizations.
Colorado reports that one hundred cow
boys and a band will leave Denver tc
take pait in the parade. They will bt
dressed in the characteristic style of tin
plains and will travel under tic name ol
“The Ihrrison and Morton Club ol
Marching Cowboys.” The sth Maryland
regiment has also signified its intention
to take part in the inaugural ceremonies.
A Long Story.
"I found ‘Old Hutch’ in a down-town
restaurant one night last Fall,” said a
board of trade man to a congenial crowd.
“He was in a sociable mood and I asked
him to give me the secret of his success,
as he certainly must have found the true
secret of money-making. He sized me
up for a minute and said if I was in earn
ed he would like to tell me the history
of his life. Well, sir, he began from tbe
time be was born and never skipped a
single thing regarding his life. He ate
three different times while he was regal
ing me with his story. lie began
about 10 o’clock and kept at iUw
the next morning. Then I quijflß
lie was only thirteen years old aJB|
made a cent."— Chicago Mail, ifi
A Western man came to selH
fellow’s house which had been ™
Washington’s headquarters dlirin
War of Independence; and when li*
taking leave of the venerable poet j
had most courteously shown hipJ
the ii!ace, shook hands and said J
gssfeMua-ai ; 1 am
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NO. 11
FOR FARMERS.
I
An epidemic is spreading ajnon
horses. The disease is anew line l
veterinary surgeons, and they are Mafflf
in its treatment, it apparently MffeJ
the glands of the thioat, and in tiBL
jority of cases it causes swelling,
extends from the point of the jaw tlfi
breast. This makes breathing' andflj
ing very difficult ind, consequently®
animal rapidly grows weak and EK
flesh.
j Hon. C. C. Moore, of Huey, 111.®
| rived in New Smyrna, Fla., to -penfß
Winter there. He has valuable pro]*
at Eidora, and also h fine young gr<i\(S
town, from which a box of oranges 1
pi'k 1 this year. While in the Nil
"St. Summer, he l ad arranged with I
LuuisvVli* -jQfashvilic 1 1 for a sel
of .-xcursio!.-" i7-.cn point . fa.
direct to Ni Smyrna, but th ■ yclj
fever icare played havoc with ta
though there is a prospect that latere
the season, when confidence has been|
established iu the minds of the Noil
erners as to 1" lorida’s advantages, that!
plans may yet be consummated. '
The orange groves of Oviedo, W
have the reputation of being tlie fin||
in tho state, and the growers have eariH
the reputation of packing their fruit®
the neatest manner. As evidence of tB
latter fact, William Cleaver receive™
letter from the well-known commissi®
house of L. AY. Sherman & Cos., of B|#
ton, Mass., iu acknowledgement ofs
shipment of fruit a few days ago, H
which this senlence is found: “Hurra
to X ’ ' His ;■ "king is the best and
1 •en this season. This is certain
1 in inctali- coining froriMM
and experienced dealers iu Fin
Ida fruits.— Jacksonville Times. Union. W
An event of more than passing intoreß
and one of vast importance to the people
of Florida, is the forthcoming meeting ot
the American Pomological Society to be
held at Ocala on February 20, 21 and 22'.
This is the first time that the Society has
ever held a meeting in the South—that is,
in that part of the country comprising
the extreme southern belt of tlie semi
tropical states. Tlie society was organ
ized in 1848, and has since then held bi-S
ennial sessions in various sections of the*
Eastern, Western and Middle StatesJj
with one session at Baltimore, Md., and*
one at Richmond, Ya. The last meeting®
was held in Boston, Mass., and at
time an invitation from the Florida'
Horticultural society to hold its next
session in this state was unanimously ac
cepted. Sanford was originally selected
as the place, and February 6 a9 the time
for holding this convention, but owing to
a lack of time for suitable preparations it
was deemed expedient to make the
change as above not- i
The weather edit) • be N- w. Xr.-rk
Herald goes over the indications of out
Winter laboratory, the great Hudson’s
bay and Manitoba sections of British
North America, and concludes that,
“this Winter’s gales on the western and
northern margins of the Gulf R trc.ro re
likely to be somewhat more v tit than
la an ordinary season, and pr eipititi u
on t-lic seaboard in excess, m e
rain than snow. The presen’ t
does not indicate an excessive! -igorc )
winter in the Mississippi Valle ’ ' 3
Northwest, but on the ,,r->on
more favorable for crops that ... .. J
1888. By March 1, however, it UVrel v
the present Canadian high press .b;,
have disappeared and a simi:
have formed in the Northwest, i w b
thp Wintor, tiding MtvrfVi
close with milder weather than am
the Atlantic states and a late Sp .ng in
the Northwest.” Which would naturally
give the lower Mississippi Valley and
the Southwest a late Spring also. These!
are the tentative probabilities dedu(j|
from scientific data and long
md not tlie vaporing guesses of a oR
gins or other “weather prophet.” VI
I/erald's weather bureau is in all |
pects superior to the one that is loeatVi
at Washington.
YELLOW FEVER w S.
Prof. H. J. Delmer, of the
Unit ersity at Columbus, has c eluded
tbe task f photographing the g-t os
causing yellow *i'.:'\. , -that lin- lieqc si;
‘ im by Dr. James E. Reeves, of Ch ttlP
nooga, Tenn. ihe prolcssoi -ays this is
the first time yellow fever germs have
been fouud in tho tissues, scientists
heretofore searching f'-r them in vain.
They have been fount in tho zoogloea
masses in the capillary blood vessels,
which appear .distend and ruptured,
and at these ruptures L.cse zoogloea are
dense and large. The bacilli present
themselves in four forms: First, in a
plain dark round mass; second, an oval
with a dark point at each extremity ;
third, an obloug disk with dark points
as in the second; and fourth, dark
united by film and strikingly resqH
a dumb-bell. Being asked ns
tbe discovery regarding the cause
low fever came to be made, heH
“Dr. Sternberg, of Johns HopkinSSsgßgj
versity, for a number of years has |
an exhaustive search for vcilow jaj
germs, but without success in tho tiagH
During the last epidemic he made
ral post mortem examinations at Deta
Ala., and the liver and kiilnjjttHß
two persons, at least,
to l)r. Reeves
f• • r ini<
i 'vend iii'c^
B i‘"
masses ” w
Aith tht