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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1886.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Speaker Little is the Stonewall Between
th Demagogues and the People.
■r. B«nl», of Kfflnffham, Trlo« to Kill the Techno,
loglosl School uiul in Foiled by Spenkrr l.ittlc
■any Bill* Passcd-Adjournmcnt Amrosclilnc'
Other Items.
Atlanta, December 20.-The house met
at the usual hour, and alter the reading of
the journal Mr. Atkinson, of Coweta
moved to take up his resolution providing
for the appointment of a joint committee
to investigate the affairs of the agricultural
department. He charged that it was the
most expensive branch of the rtate govern
ment, costing §36,000 a year, and that it
made no adequate return for this heavv
expenditure. •’
Mr. Simmons, of Sumter, opposed Che
resolution, and moved that it be tabled
The motion was carried.
The house then took up the amendments
of the senate to the general tax bill, and
after a long debate, p irtioipated in by a
number of members, refused to concur in
the amendments reducing the rate of gen
eral taxation, and making the tax on tele
graph and express companies 1J per cent,
of their gross receipts,
A resolution by M r. Harper, of Carroll
providing that members should receive
mileage only one way this session and one
way at the summer session, us in the con
templation of tile law there was but one
session, was lost.
The resolution of Mr. Bawls, of Effing
ham, calling upon the technological com
mission to take no steps looking to the es
tablishment of a school until after the
summer session was next taken uu and
Mr. Rawls urged its passage. He said the
people of Georgia were against the school.
Mr. Little, ot Muscogee, the speaker, op
posed Mr. Rawls’ resolution. He said lie
went north with the special legislative
committee to investigate the technological
school system, and from an indifferent
man he became an enthusiast. He said
the act establishing the school was a law
passed by the general assembly and could
not be repealed by a resolution having a
simple majority, which was the purpose
and effect of the resolution. The law ivas
mandatory and could only be repealed in
the constitutional way. Though he should
have favored locating the school in some
other city, all praise is due to Atlanta for
her interest in the school. The state had
appropriated only 7* 5,000, and Atlanta had
appropriated §70,0)0 in cash and a s te.
Mr. Little spoke in strong terms in favor
of the school, and said above ail Georgia
should put upon her banner “Progress and
the best interests of iliu young.” The hour
of adjournment having arrived, a recess
was taken until 3 p. in.
The following conference committee on
the tax bill was appointed on the part of
the house: Messrs. Gordon, Har
rell, cf Webster, and Half.
Most of the afternoon session of the
house was consumed in discussing order j
proceedings, mid the technological school
question wont over under tho ruling order.
Resolutions providing for a visiting com
mittee to the lunatic asylum and peniten
tiary during the recess, and authorizing
the appointment of a commissioner to visit
the American exhibition in London, were
tabled.
Tho following bills were passed:
Defining the crime of incest.
Chartering the Buena Vista and Ellaviile
railroad.
Incorporating the Salt Springs and
North western railroad.
The conference committee reported
upon the tax bill, agreeing to the house
rate of two and sixty-hundredths, and the
senate amendment of one and a halt per
cent, on gross receipts of express and tele
graph companies. The house then ad
journed until to-morrow.
Siiniti 1 Pracee lings.
Atlanta, December 20.—The senate
met at 10 o’clock and was called to order
by President Davidson. Prayer was offered
by Rev. John Jones, D. D., chaplain.
The roll was called and the journal read
and approved.
Reports of committees were received.
Mr. Butt moved that the resolution pro
viding for adjournment be taken up in or
der to concur in the house amendment fix
ing the time of adjournment at 1 o clock
Wednesday. ,,,
Mr. James thought it would be impossi
ble to get through by 1 p. in. He favored
transmitting the resolution _ back to the
house to the hour fixed later in tue day.
Mr. Butt thought there was no occasion
for a later hour. He favored an hour cei-
tain and definite. , . ,
Mr. James said he had no personal inter
est in the matter. He had no bdl that he
was seeking additional time for. . te uu
been informed, however, by the clerk o
the Inane and secretary of the senate, ta.it
the bills recommended by tho join. com
mittee us important to be passed could not
be gotten throua'h with by 1 oclock.
Mr. Pringle thought if an hour certain
was lixod they woiild accomplish much
more than if it was left open. He hivort
the resolution as amended by the house.
The resolution was adopted and ihe leg
islature will adjourn at 1 p. m., Wednes-
frouse amendments to the bill il,c( ’ r P or j
ating the Rome and Carrollton raili .
were concurred in,
BILLS FOIl A FIRST READING.
On motion of Mr. Butt the rules werc
suspended to rend house bills the first tune.
The following were read: ... f
To auth irize tae mayor and council ot
Atlanta Lo issue bonds, etc. _
To repeal tbo act establishing the comi
ty courtof Newton comity.
To repeal paragraph o, section 38^°™“®
code of 1882 aud amend same m r “"- rt ”' c
to testimony of members of the •
To incorporate the Atlanta and Alabama
Railroad company. p,,ii.
To incorporate the Austell .Street Rail
road Company. . . . a,
To provide stock law in certain districts
of Crawford county. r nwnpe
To prohibit lishing in Little Ooospce
ri Toamend the roads and revenues law of
^I’o change llie time of holding the su-
P 'tejite‘the G?mmnii'Loan and
Banking company. . 1{nme
To amend act incorporating the Koi
and Decatur railroad company. .. f
To authorize the mayor and coujcjJ 01
Fort Valley to issue bonds, etc.
To amend section U89 ot the code.
To amend act incorporating the town o
H k h amend section 4003 of the code.
To fix compensation ot the judge < .
city court of Richmond county in Bis
capacity as commissioner ot 10.
^To provide game laws for Richmond
To "incorporate the Washington ai-d
Elbertonrailroad company.
A large number or bills were read too
second time.
BILL1 PASSED. ,
The following bills were read the till
time and passed: ,
To incorporate the Augusta and C
Donga Railroad and Banking comp i •
receipts, and changing the general 8 'lax
from 2 and 60-100 mills to 2 and 40-100
raiimad pty thC Alhens and Ponton
in’cifflouSty. 0 ” rUfiiSt ‘' UUo ' 1 of votcrs
court i°„ h “5?i thn «° f folding superior
Tilf ? ?? d Colquitt counties.
InsurZe Satton Un * rWriterS Mutual
of T °^L d ? for a board of commissioners
revenues of Hall county,
o b, r °' ' c *° ior t\ board of commissioners
of roads and revenues for Calhoun county!
A message from the house was received
cn^nrbi"® ' i e i ro,usal of the bouse to
the tax Mll° Crta n 8UDate lunendmunts to
:J t hc . amendments to which the house ob-
I'mV 1 ? 80 ebantfing the tax upon
express and telegraph companies from one
rec < tUni= nd °!, lu it— S er ce ” l - of their gross
rate ..
mills.
Ihe senate voted, under a suspension of
rnu U es * ms * f ^ wpon its amendments,
rhe reading of bills a third time was re
sumed as follows;
To authorize the mayor and council of
the town of Jefferson, in Jackson county,
to expend for other purposes S250 raised to
macadamize tiie public square. Passed.
lo incorporate the Tallahassee, Bain-
bndge and Western Railroad company.
To amend acts incorporating what is now
known as the Marietta and North Georgia
Railroad company. Passed. ’
To amend aii act incorporating the town
ot Talbotton. Passed.
COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE.
A message from the house was received
announcing that they adhered to their re
fusal to concur in the senate amendments
to the tax bill.
Mr. Powell, under n suspension of the
rules, moved that the senate ad
here to its amendments, and that a
committee of conference be appointed
consis’ of three from the senate and
threi ': m. the house. Adopted.
OTHER BILLS PASSED.
The reading ol hills a third time was re
sumed, and t he following were also nassed:
To amend t he charter of Emory College.
To incorporate the Douglassville Bank
ing Company.
To incorporate the Southern Live Stock
Insurance Company.
To amend the charter of the Columbus
and Florida Railway Company so ns to
make the same the Columbus and South
ern Railway Company.
To incorporate the Elberton Loan aid
Savings Bank.
CONFIRMED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
On motion of Mr. Butt, the senate went
into executive session to consider a sealed
eonnnnnieation received from the gover
nor on Friday last, after which it should
take recess until 3 p. m.
In executive Session the following ap
pointments were confirmed:
Judge Howard Van Epps to be judge of
the city court of Fulton county for four
years from July 23, 1-88.
Max Meyerhardt, Esq., to be judge of tho
city court of Floyd county for four years
from October 6,1887.
IN TEE AFTERNOON.
The afternoon session of the senate was
devoted to passing bills.
Messrs. Powell, DeJarnette and Wafford
were appointed a conference committee
on the tax bill.
The following bills were passed:
Providing game laws for Pulaski county.
Appropriating 875 for an artificial leg for
Elbert Willis, a confederate soldier.
Submitting to the voters of Chattooga
county the repeal of the road laws.
Amending the laws governing proced
ure in the superior court in the counties
containing aci y of 10,01)0 inhabitants.
Amending the charter ol Atlanta.
Amending the charter ol the Macon Gas
Light and Water Company. (Two hills.)
Incorporating the State Bank of Gaines
ville.
Incorporating the Ellijay Telephone
Company.
Providing a stock law for a part of
Dougherty county.
Extending the public school term of
Gordon couuty.
Relieving the treasurer of the North
Georgia Conference.
Amending the road laws of Whitfield
county.
Amending the charter of Social Circle.
Incorporating the North Georgia tele
graph company.
Fixing the fees of tho sheriff and jailer
of Stvwart county.
A resolution authorizing the president
and secretary of the senate, the speaker
and clerk of’the house, and r ;rtain enroll
ing clerks to sign the mils and finish up
the business in three olujs alter adjourn
ment. . ..... r
A bill prescribing registration laws for
Richmond county was read the first time.
The senate then adjourned till to-mor
row.
Vo XitiI ar Krlton.
Atlanta, December 20.—The city coun
cil to-night passed an ordinance restricting
wine room lien uses and requiring the ap
plicant to give §1000 bond, state definitely
the place where the room into be kept and
to have the application signed by two ad
jacent reputable neighbors. No screens or
painted windows shall shut oft the view
livm the street and no wine shall be drank
in the rooms unless in a restaurant or a
hotel with a meal or at lunch, the license
not to exceed §100 and the mayor aim
council can in their discretion refuse or
grant the license.
An Accident.
Vti \nta, December 20.—The out-bound
Georgia Pacific evening train ran into an
open switch near tbo Chattahoochee river
late this evening and overturned two cars.
The road authorities claim that nobody is
seviou. l.y hurt, but they uro uncommunica
tive.
Charley Boss Arrested.
Atlanta, December 20.-A telegram
jYor.i Texas announces the arrest ol Charley
Ross in Dennison.
A Mnrringt*.
\ti \vta December 20-Unlted States
Commissioner William Haight married
Mrs. Ida J. Boyd this evening, in the Luna
rian church.
Handers Lynched.
A-riANTA, December 20.-Sanders, the
setnr in the Franklin tragedy, who was re-
burned, v.as taken from franklin
{idl and lynched last night by a band of 1-a
Tl e Xomimiiinasiinil ihe Claims Court.
Washington, December 20 -Thesenate
in d-iv confirmed the nominations of Kit-
h fosnek postmistress at Wesson,
Miss and Willis Lang, postmaster, Vai-
d °Th,’ court of claims to-day gave judg-
4 1 „ c,in gig in favor of the rth brigade
^|^&swssisws. ,, s
AiiiitherMMnia Falls.
Washington, December 23.-Tlmscoro-
tnwofte treasury has appointed L Ben-
‘" ’11 . , cr' m. of Indiana to be deputy
M ,,,, r of internal revenue, vice H.
C°Th'''mc The change will take
effect January 1.
A Wordy War On the Patent Law in the
House.
A Brief and 8|iicy Debate—The Government Is
After tile Roll Telephone Company—A Batch of
ltrlaht Items from the Nation’* Capitol.
Washington, December 20.—On mo
tion of Hoar the Pacific railroad funding
bill was postponed as special till the second
Tuesday in January. He expressed the
hopeth.it the matter would he taken up in
the house and disposed of one way or the
other.
On motion of Eustis the bill declaring
the forfeiture oflands of the New Orleans,
Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Backbone
postponed as specia
Wednesday in Janus
till tho second Wednesday in January.
Mr. Vest introduced a substitute for the
bill to incorporate the Atlantic and Pacific
Ship railroad company, and stated that it
simply provided for the naked incorpora
tion of the company without any guaran
tee by the government. It was made the
special order for the seetmd Tuesday in
January.
The senate passed tho house bill for the
relief of the survivors of the exploring
steamer Jeannette, and the widows and
children of those who perished in the re
treat from the deck of thnt vessel in the
Artie seas. Albo the senate bill to con
struct a road to the national cemetery at
Cornitb, Miss., and a number of others of
only local interest. The executive session
then adjourued.
The House.
Washington, December 20.—Mr. Wil-
kins, of Ohio, from the committee on
banking and currency, reported back the
Weaver resolution calling on the secretary
of the treasury for tho following informa
tion:
First—'Whether any portion of the
money appropriated by the sundry civil
bill of last year had been expended 111 issu
ing notes of large denomination in lieu of
notes of small denomination, cancelled or
destroyed.
Second—How many if miv of $1 and |2
notes had been cancelled and destroyed
since tho passage of the act; by what au
thority they wore destroyed, and what
sum was expended in their destruction.
Third—How many of such notes were
mutilated and whether notes of like de
nomination were issued in tlicir stead.
Adopted.
Under the call of states the following
bills and resolutions were introduced and
referred:
By Townshend of Illinois—Resolutions
calling executive information. The fol
lowing is the text of the resolution: That
the secretary of the treasury be requested
to ascertain whether any national banking
association located in the city of New
York has during tbo present month loaned
its surplus money or deposits to brokers or
other persons operating instock and bonds
without security and merely upon receipt
of interest on the same for the purpose of
enabling speculations to lock up
and prevent tho ufe of money in business
transactions, and thereby produce a scarci
ty of money and greatly increase the rates
of interest on loans, and also whether
during the same period any of said hanks
tur purpose aforesaid knowingly permitted
total liability of any person, corporation or
firm to exceed t.ne amount limited by
statute in such eases, and that said secre
tary report all facts to this house ss soon
as practicable with such recommendation
as he may deem proper.
By Tauibe, of Kentucky—A resolution
reciting that it is stated in the newspapers
that the secretary of the treasury has paid
interest on certain bonded indebtedness of
the United States before the interest was
due and without rebate, and that it is also
stated that said advance of iuterest was
made for the purpose of affecting the mar
ket value of certain stocks in Wall street,
and requesting the secretary to inform the
house if such interest has been so paid, and
if so, why and by what authority.
By Findly o' Missouri—To prescribe the
rate of standard silver for certain coins of
the United States, to enlarge the legal
tender quality of the half dollars, and to
permit the issue of silver certificates on
deposits of the same.
By Johnston of New York—Resolution
instructing the committee on ways and
means to report a bill repealing the inter
nal revenue laws.
By Mr. Wilkins, of Ohio—To reduce the
amount of United States bonds to be re
quired of national banks and to resture to
tile channels of trade the excessive ac
cumulation of lawful money in the treas
ury. It provides that the compulsory re-
ouirement of the deposits of bonds with
the treasurer by national banks be limited
to §1000 of bonds for each and every na
tional bank, provided that t he voluntary
withdrawal of the bonds for tho retrench
ment of national bank notes shall not ex
ceed the sum of §3,000,000 in any one
month, without the approval and consent
ot the secretary of the treasury; and further
provided that this act shall not apply to
the required deposits of bonds to secure
deposits of public moneys in. national
banks.
Section 2. On the surrender by a national
bank of any sum of its circulating notes by
the required deposit of lawful money with
the treasurer of the United States for their
redemption, the entire liability of said
bank for its said surrendered notes shall
utterly cease, and they shall be redeemed
by said treason r for the account of the
United States and destroyed, as now pro
vided by law; and this account shall be
construed to determine the liability of tho
nalimuu banks which have heretofore thus
lawfully surrendered any or oil of their
circulating note:!. But no national banks
sh ill be required nor denied the right to
appoint an agent at its own expense to
witness and attest the destruction of its re
deemed and cancelled notes,
Sections. In lieu of the fund of lawful
money heretofore set apart for the re
demption of surrendered notes of national
banks amounting to the entire sum unre
deemed of said surrendered notes, the
treasurer of tho United States, under the
advice and direction of the secretary of
the treasury, shall establish a reserve fund
of lawful money in amount not less than 5
per centum, nor more than 20 per centum
of the entire sum unredeemed of said sur
rendered notes.
By Air. Warner, of Ohio—To provide for
the investment of lawful money deposited
in the treasury by national banks for the
redemption of their circulating notes. Tho
following is tile text of the bill:
Section 1. That the secretary of the
treasury be, and is hereby authorized and
required to invest 00 per cent, of the lawful
money deposited with the treasurer of the
United States a! the date of the passage of
this set, and 00 per cent, of all such money
hereafter deposited for the redemption of
the circulating notes of national banks, as
provided by section 4 of the
act of June 20,1874, and the amendments
tin reto, in United States bonds not subject
to call at the lowest market rate, tho bonds
so purchased shall be held in the treasury
iri lieu of such lawful money to secure the
redemption of the circulating notes of na
tions! banks.
Section 2. That the interest on the bonds
purchased as required in this act, as the
same aecrues, shall be conveyed into the
treasury, and whenever the bonds at tlicir
par value exceed the amount 01" the out
standing circulating notes of the national
banks for the redemption of which lawful
money has been deposited, the excess of
bonds over such outstanding circulating
notes shall be cancelled and destroyed.
Secion 3. That the circulating notes of
national banks for the redemption of
which lawful money has beou deposited,
may bo redeemed out of any money in tho
treasury not otherwise appropriated; and
whenever in the judgment of the secretary
of the treasury such circulating uotes can
not he redeemed out of the money in the
treasury without impairing Its general effi
ciency. he may order the sale of as many
of the bonds purchased and hold as pro
vided in this act as may be necessary to re
deem the circulating notes of the national
banks, as the same are presented for re
demption, but not to accumulate at. any
time a redemption fund to exceed 10 per
cent, of such outstanding nbtes.
Section 4. That no national bank shall
be required hereafter to deposit or keep 011
deposit to sceuro circulating notes, United
States bonds to an amount exceeding one-
twentieth of its capital stock, and in no
cose more than $20,000; and hereaftorall
national banks shall bo entitled to receive
circulating notes for such bonds at their
par value equal to the par value of the
bonds so deposited.
Mr. Morrison introduced a resolution for
a holiday recess from December 22nd to
January 4th. Referred to the ways and
means committee. .
Mr. Hlscoek called up his motion to sus
pend the rules and pass the bill relating to
the duties on tobacco. The bill amends
tbo statutes relating lo the duties on leaf
tobacco ns follows:
Leaf tobacco in any bale, box, package
or bulk, any part of which is suitable for
wrappers, if not stemmed, 75 cents per
pound; if stemmed, $1 per pound upon
the whole contents of such bale, box, pack
age or bulk.
Section 2. That this act shall tako effect
on and alter its passage.
Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, opposed the
bill. He said that since the introduction
of this measure, and only as late as last
Saturday, the house, vvitli the concur
rence of the gentleman from New York
(Kiscock), had decided not to have any
revenue legislation, neither to increase nor
diminish the revenue, and indeed not to
consider the question. He had been ill
hopes that, obedient to tbo will of the
house, the gentleman would h ive with
drawn llda proposition to increase a tax
already enormously high.
Mr. Iliseoek’s motion was lost—yeas !K),
nays FIS.
Mr. Forney, of Alabama, on behalf of
the committee on militia, moved to sus
pend the rules and pass the senate bill
amending the statutes making an annual
appropriation to provide arms and equip
ments for the militia, with an amendment
proposed by the house committee making
tho annual appropriation §100,000. It wus
agreed to—yeas IBS, nays It).
Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, on behalf of
the committee on patents, moved to sus
pend the rules and pass tho bill limiting
flic jurisdiel ion of t iio United ytati a courts
in patent oases, amt to protect persons
who without notice are bona fide lminii-
fojjurers, purchasers, venders and users of
patent articles. The bill limits the juris
diction of United States courts in patent
eases to cases wherein the amount in con
troversy docs not, exoced §200 against one
person or citizen.
Section 2 provides that the purchasers of
any patent right for actual use shall not tie
liable to damages, royalty or for the value
of the same, or for infringing tiie same in
any maimer, who ot the dale of such pur
chase had no knowledge of the claims of
any third person, or that tiie inventor of
the same has an interest therein adverse to
the seller thereof; that no person who
shall in good faith purchase, use, manufac
ture or sell without previous knowleege of
the existence of the patent there for any
article, machine, machinery or other thing
for the exclusive use, sale or man
ufacture of which any patent
has been, or hereafter may
be granted to any person, persons or cor
poration whatever, shall be liable in dam
ages or otherwise for an infringement of
such patent, until after a written notice of
the existence thereof shall liuve been per
sonally served on such person nr persons
or corporation, and such infringement
shall ho thereafter continued.
Mr. Townshend says the only purpose of
the measure was to protect innocent pur
chasers against blackmail.
Mr. Hammond opposed the bill and de
clared that the first section would strike
down seven-eighths of all the patents in
the country while the second section
would place a premium upon scoundrel-
ism.
.Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, regarded tbo
bill as a bold attempt to kill this goose that
laid the golden egg. it was due. to the
patent system I liat the United States ex
celled every other nation to-day as a man
ufacturing country. The bill practically
wiped out the patent system, while it
would leave monopolies, if any such ex
isted in tliin country, unharmed.
Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, sai l that the
real purpose of the bill was to prevent the
masses of t lie people who did hot enjoy
the benefits of the golden egg, but who
bought patent instruments, from being
mulcted in damages and dragged intu-
oourt by wealt hy corporations until they
were served with a written notice,
Mr. Moigan of Alabama, regarded the
provisions of the bill as a restraint on the
able o of the law n ,il thought that they
would improve instead of breaking down
the patents system.
Mr. O'Donell of Michigan, contended
that the p. lifting provision would not in
terfere vriLh patent rights but would cre
ate abuses. Under the law men were per
secuted aud swindled by tiie operations of
the patent laws, and the people of the
agricultural districts were growing restive
under it system of puti nt robli ry.
Mr. Townshend saw in the opposition to
the bill a rc-neival of the old struggle be
tween onupoly and anti-monopoly.
In order lo prevent a vote being taken
on tne bill. Air. Mills of Texas, moved to
adjourn. It was agreed to, yoas 121, nays
12i, and accordingly tho house at 4:19 ad
journed.
llellw! Central.
Washington, Deccinboe 20.—The gov
ernment wil! t-ooa institute proceeding in
Boston to test the validity of the patent
granted (lie Bell Telephone company.
Solicitor-General Junks his prepared a
draft of the bill against the company and
copies of it have been sent to Judge Thur
man iu Ohio, Judge Lowry in New York
and other special attorneys employed by
the government in this place, fur their
consideration. Action will tie deferred
until thesfe gentlemen have expressed their
views in regard to the proposed bill.
They "Want Tlmt Little Long.”
Washington, December 20. -Tbo pres/
dent to-day nominated Wil Us Long to he
postmaster at Valdosta, Ga.
Tilt' Went l’>lint 1'i-opli*.
Washington, December 20. -The mili
tary academy appropriation bill was com
pleted to-day by the house military com
mittee. It appropriate! $383,337.' Thu
estimates were §483,253, arid the appropri
ations for the current year were $286,687.
Ill) IN A
A Dying Woman Unfolds an Awful Story.
Tw«Stato onirinlK Visit Kicliiiiontl, Va M and An*
Nofor Hoard of Again—Whore Olio of Them
Wont-Tho Murderer Still at Large—ll« Wrltea to
a Deflective.
Richmond, Va., December 20.—Rich
mond is again stirred by a murder sensa
tion. This time it is the result of a de
serted wife’s ante-mortem statement in re
lation to acts committed by her husband.
It appears that some months ago Richard
Shinnick, keeper of a barroom in tho
vicinity of Second market, on Sixth street,
which is patronized promiscuously by
whites and blacks, sold out liis business
and soon afterward left the city for the
west, leaving his wife behind. Last Satur
day Mrs. Shinnick, who has been
ill with consumption, complicated
with other diseases, finding her
end fast approaching, and having
received all tho religious ministrations of
lier faith, made known her desire to make
a public statement. Police Justice Rich
ardson was sent for ami to him the dying
woman related the details of a murder
perpetrated by her husband over a year
ago. Shinnick lived over the bar-room
and his wife was frequently called upon to
assist him. She said that one night last
fall, between the hours of 11 and 12 o’clock,
she happened to enter by the back door
when she saw her husband, who was in
front of the bar counter, strike and knock
down a white man with a pair of brass
knuckles; thnt he turned, and, seeing her,
ordered her to go upstairs, which she did.
She could not rest, however, and creeping
down again she peeped into the bar, when
she was horrified by seeing her husband
drag the man’s body behind the counter,
rob it of a roll of money, raise a trap-door
at. the end of the bur and push the hotly
into an old well under the floor. Upon
this information tho police wont to
work to find the remains by pulling up
the iloor and dragging for the hidden
well; but up to 0 o’clock to-night they
made no discovery. Tho whole place,
however, will ho thoroughly overhauled.
Last fall state officials J. M. Carroll, city
treasurer of Htaunton, and W. JI. Craw
ford, clerk of Bland county, left their
homes for Richmond. Since which time
neither of them has ever been luard from,
and the belief strongly prevails that one
of these was Bhinnick’s \ietim. The wife’s
description of the murdered man, in some
respects agrees with the appearance of
both, but more in regard to
Crawford. She describes tho
murdered man as lame, and Crawford had
a sort of shrunken leg arid used a crutch.
The last that was heard from Shinnick,
lie was in Cincinnati, whence ho wrote
last month two letters to an ex-detective,
asking for information as to what was
going on in Richmond, and if ho was
talked about in any v..»y and what
was said; if his wife had
ever given out anything about him and
saying ho hod gotten a divorce, from her
and that be wanted to come back to Rich
mood, tie warned the ex-detective to s .y
nothing about, bis writing to him. Tho
Cincinnati authorities have been telegraph
ed to arrest Mhinnkk if he can be found.
WAS IT A MURDER?
A Ibmf Mule and Ills A HI mi cod Suddenly Dlsnp*
Raleigh, N. C., December 20.—Friday
morning Walter Bingham, a deaf mute,
son of William Bingham, formerly a prom
inent educator, hired a horse and buggy
here, and took M iss Furlinglon, also a deaf
mute and matron in the state institution
for deaf, dumb and blind, apparently to
ride. lie was engaged to be married to
Miss Furlington and procured a license
here. The couple did not return. They
took tiie road to Durham. They were seen
riding together Friday afternoon within
eight miles of Durham. That evening
Bingham alone took the train at Durhi.m
and on the train inquired the
time of arrival at Atlanta and New
Orleans. Foul play was suspected
and telegrams were sent out after Bing
ham, and officers from this city are in
search of the lady. A telegram received
to-(lay says, Bingham was in Carmans-
ville, New York, (the upper part of New
York city) on Sunday, that he was erazy
and bad disappeared. Ite was of violent
temper. Miss Turlington was n remarka
bly discreet and intelligent woman. It is
feared that Bingham insisted on an im
mediate marriage, that Miss Turlington
demurred, and in the heat of
passion ho lulled her when near
Durham. Miss Turlington did not know
thut Bingham had the license. She hud
promist 1 to marry him next. Rummer.
Both parties arc of age. Miss Turlington
is oi Wilmington, and Bingham of Oaks,
Cobalt-!.am county. Bingham has never
heretofore b< en thought. *r> he of unsound
mind. Both parties are highly esteem d
by their frien !s. Bingham is about
years old, six feet high, has black f air,
brown eyes, sunken nose, and is intelli
gent and well educated for a deaf mute.
SHEFFIELD’S BiG BOOM.
soon rallied when the selling pressure was
removed, but there was a drooping ten
dency throughout the day and toward tho
close another attempt to liquidate long ac
counts induced a renewed selling by the
bears, which, notwithstanding free offer
ings of money at low rates broke the list
badly, and the market closed very active
and weak at material declines from yester
day’s figures. Reading, Union Pacific,
Lackawanna and St. Paul were tho
special objects of attack late lu
the day. the weakness i»
Union Pacific being attributed to the fail
ure of the house of representatives to con
sider the refunding bill. Sterling ex
change rates were advanced J cent in con
sequence of the sales of securities iu thin:
market. The opening this morning was
remarkably weak, stocks showing a de
cline from Saturday’s final figures of
from 1 to 15 per cent. There were
other declines in most of the
active stocks during the first
half hour, which was followed by a com
parative dullness with prices fluctuating
within a narrow range. The last hour,
however, saw the renewal of selling prices
again yieldirg materially and the close
was weak and active at tne lowest figures
of the dav. The total sales were 11(1,000
Everything on the active list is lower
this evening with very few stocks in whiebb
the net decline is lower than 1 per cent.
OVER THE WATERY WASTE.
Tho Cani|»l»«*ll Divorce Suit Kn«ls In ii Faroe—
London. December 20.—The argumen.SK
on both sines of tin* Campbell divorce casor
was concluded to-day, and the judge pro
ceeded at once to sum tin t he case for the
jury. Ilis charge leaned strongly in favor
of Lady Campbell. He said the evidence
of the doctors that Mary Watson, with
whom Lord Campbell was charged with,
adultery, was intact, ciicl n . negative tho
testimony of Lady Miles, ; *' * die had seen
the pair in a compioimping position.
Campbell, however, \viu» entitled to the
benefit oi the doubt if any existed in tho
minds of the jury. At the last trial in
which Lady Colin secured a
decree of separation, it wus shown
that Lord Colin had given the
plaintiff a disease in such a manner as to
amount to the cruelty which she alleges
as a basis of her plea for separation. Tho
evidence against, Lady Campbell, the judge
said, was wholly that of the servants olT
the defendant and should be regarded with
suspicion. He pointed out inconsistencies-
and contradictions in this evidence and
declared his belief that portions of it were
pure inventions; and ho discredited the
story of tho key-hole peeper, O’Neill.
Lord Colin’s conduct toward
his wife, while she was in-
Paris on the occasion when’
tho telegraphed the Par.'s police to arrest
her and lodge her in the prostitutes’'
prison, Justice Butt characterized as out
rageous, remarking that lie bad never
known of anything more dishonest than-
Lord Colin’s allegation to the Paris olli-
cials, that his wife wus living in open adul
tery with one of the correspondents andf
should be arrested ana treated as a com
mon woman of the town. Generali
Hut U r’s failure to appear on the
stand* the judge characterized os
incx; re*-ibly mean and a desertion of Lady
C.«.mjih'.>,i,but lie caulionud the jury against
e.e ■.'.mi.' ' t ids absence as an evidence of"
guilt on the part of either himself or La ly
Campbell. The case was then given otho
jury, who soon reported a disagree nenfc.
They were sent hack and returned at 10
o’clock and reported that they found
that Lord Colin Campbell ha l not
cnnunitUd adultery, uru that Lady Colin,
laid not committed adultery with any ot
the co-rt spoiidonts. The jury added ther
rider that the conduct of (Jen. Butler was
unworthy of a gentleman and an officer^
and had caused tiie only difficulty'which
the jury experienced in reaching a de
cision. The announcement of the verdict
was received with applause.
Kiigluml.
WHAT TIIE STANDARD BAYS.
London, December 20.— 1 The Standard!
assuming that the rents were not collected!
in Ireland yesterday under the plan ofth®
campaign, says the absence ol rent col
lecting yesterday in Ireland, and the fact,
that the Parnellites are confining them
selves to heroic talk, indicates that Lh&
campaign L ended. The Standard inter
prets Parmdl’s sudden appearance in Lou
don as showing an intention on his part to
rn ake a virtue of necessity by refusing to
sanction the continuance of the campaign.
The ParncDito leaders, t ho paoer says, are
not likely to support Win. O’Brien’s hint-
to let loo.-.e the energies of crime.
Irrhuiit.
THEY HOODWINKED THEM.
Duhmn, December 20.-—Jas. Richard^
Hex, Jeremiah Jordan and Joseph Edward'
I Kenney, Perncllite members for east and
j wc .t Clare and south Cork respectively*
i succeeded yesterday in totally hood win k-
I ing the police and in collecting and eseap-
; ing with all the rents due from the tenant®
, of the. Vundqlcur estates in County Clare,
j Some of the County Clare authorities are
; yet in doubt as to wh< ther the Vandeleur
, rents w< n* certainly collected yesterday or
| whether the statement that they were iff
j not u p ».rt of a stratagem to throw the po
lice ofl Citii' guard against postponed col
lections.
It is Auothnr Manic. City Springing Up.
Montgomery, Ala., Dccemb r 20.—The
Sheffield directors met here to-day, Presi
dent C.dycr in the chair. meeting
was large and enthusiastic. The directors
declared a cash dividend of 10 per cent.,
payable on February and March 1, and in
structed the executive committee to de
clare* dividends as rapidly as the Binds ac
cumulate in the treasury. The officers
were authorized to Mib:.eribo to
wards building a ruilrt aii from km (field
in a soul ii westerly direction. Okie con
tract with tho Lomu file and
Nashville railroad, recently cntcrml
into by the committee, was rut find.
Gas works v. ere ordered to bo < reeled, tne
work* to commence within sixty di*s.
Electric lights will also be placed. Shef
field stock is rapidly advancing, .£! 5 Doing
paid hero to-day. Vice pr,:sid : »t and gen
eral rnanager, A. II. Mo.es says tfiat the
rapid sales of loU in .Sa-dliold is u-ipr ce
dented at daily advancing p-.ces. Tele
grams received advise the arrival of a
number of buyers in Sheffield to lay.
ON ’CHANGE.
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A Day of Fluctuati
Mini No Kvents.
New York, December 20.—There was
heavier Belling for London account this
morning t-han has been noticed since the
decline first began. 'The market opened
decidedly lower, in sympathy win the
London market, and the bear.] mid hi come
trader* also, which resulted in further ma
torial declines. During Um first hour sell
ing for foreign account had a decidedly
unsettling effect upon the opinion of tho
street. While there was no news of any
special character to affect values, except
ing the reports of earnings by tne
Northwestern arid O.wth.i companies,
which were favorable, the market
Figures.
Washington, December 20. -Tho col
lections of internal revenue during the
first live months of the present fiscal year
amounts to *IS t 005,80o, being $7J2,50'J less
than the collet lions during the correspond
ing period of the Just fiscal year. Ther®
was a decrease of $2,(>11,014 in the collec
tions on spirits; an increase of f507,489 om
tobacco; an increase of £1,041,093 on fer
mented liquors, and an increase of £75,223'
on miscellaneous objects of taxation. The-
collections from oleomargarine up to Nr>-
vember 30, were £225,299. The total col
lections during November were $375,734
greater than those for November 1885.
There was an increase of $101,939 on spirits;
of $19.),012 on tobacco, and of $166,015 out
tciinented liquors.
A M itr.U rt r in thi* Tolls.
Winchester, Va., December 20.—Rite-
nour, who is charged with the murder of
Bray, was re arrested to-day by tho com
mon wealth’s attorney, who’ was absent at
the time of his first examination. The re
hearing brought out new evidence impor
tant enough to justify the sending of the*
prisoner to jail. His pistol aud horse-
blarlke' have been found, both with blood'
on them; and the bail taken from Bray’s,
head tits an empty cartridge shell in the
| pistol. It seems likely that Hitenour will
be convicted of the murder hv a strong-
j chain of circumstantial evidence. His
: counsel will apply for a writ of habeas cor-
i pus.
\ Test iasi*.
I Wash:noton, December 29.—The s»i-
pri me court granted to day a motion to
advance the important bank tax case of
the M " a rib* -rational bank anntnst tho
city or New York, involving the legality of
taxjH aissssed up <ti the shares of national
banks in Mu’tcity It) the amount of two*
j million dollars. 'Phis is one of thirty-five
similar eases, and is intended as a tustTcase.
| The case is set. for argument on the first
1 day after the February recess.
