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VOL. XXXI. NO. 176
COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 30 1889.
The Crowning Sale
—OIE 1 -
THE SEASON.
For the next two weeks, preparatory to oar semi-annual stock taking, we will
offer the grandest bargains ever shown in desirable Dry Goods. Without reserve the
knife will go deep into every department.
200 dozen Ladiee Hemstiched Handkerchiefs at 4c each.
5000 yards Staple Prints, choice style, at 4c per yard.
5000 yards 30 inch White Lawn, at 5c, reduced from Sc.
5000 yards best Checked Homespun at 5c per yard.
2500 yards Dress Ginghams and Ohambrays in plaids, Eolids, checks and stripes, worth 10 and
1234c, all go at the uniform price of
7 l-2c per Yard.
200 pairs Ladies’ Lisle Thread Gloves
At 7 l-2c per Pair,
2700 yards 32 inch Linen Delnde, fine sheer goods,
i At 10c per Yard
worth 20c.
3000 yards 24-inch Sheer Plaid Organdies, lovely goods,
At 10c per Yard
worth doable the money. '
1500 yards Wool Dress Goods, nice for traveling dresses, in greys, tans, browns, etc., in plaids
checks, dots and figures, worth from 15 to 20c,
All Go at 10c per Yard
All onr fine dress goods marked at New York cost to close.
2500 yards combination Zephyr cloth, the prettiest wash fabric of the season, in plaids and
stripes with solids to match, worth 15 to!8c, this week’s price,
At lOc per Yard.
20C0 yards Figured Mohairs, the latest novelty of the season in Dress Goods,
At 15c per Yard.
25 dozen “Moore’s Perfection” corsets at 50c. This corset is made of fine contil and splendid
model, and beyond all donbt the best £0c corset ever offered the trade.
25 dozen French Woven Corsets at 75c, worth the world over f 1. Onr line of f 1 corsets is unsur
passed, twenty different styles to select from, including such popular brands as Common Sense, Thomp
son’s Glove Fitting, Sensible Side, Warner’s Ooraline, Warner’s French Model, Beatrice, Flora,
and others.]
Beautiful Chantilly and Giripnre mountings at 75c, $1, and $1.59 per yard, worth double the
money. 13 of onr $12.50 Lace Dresses sold in one day is the best evidence that onr efforts to furn
ish a nice lace snit at a nominal price has been appreciated. Remember, a suit includes 6 yards 50-
inch all Silk Drapery, in either dots, squares, checks, stripes or vine effects, and 8 yards of all Silk
Surah for under dress.
Everybody is Coming
to Colnmbds on Thursday next to the great Fourth of July celebration. To one and to all we ex
tend a cordial invitation to call and make onr place of business their headquarters.
Special prices will be made in every department for those who have any shopping to do.
Especially for tbe Ladies. *
For the convenience of onr lady friends, especially those visiting the city, we have nicely fitted
up a waiting room. This room will be in charge of one of onr young ladies, who will gladly wel
come at any time onr lady friends.
To the Public Generally.
We feel grateful to the people of Oolambns and vicinity for their liberal patronage since onr
opening, and in return will always endeavor to famish them with the cream of the |dry goods mar
ket at lowest prices..
Onr advertisement in this paper will cease for the present, bat we assure yon that every depart
ment of our business for the next sixty days will be more complete than ever. New goods will be
arriving constantly and Bargains, Genuine Bargains, will be offered daily.
MOOBB BROS.
1103 Broad Street, (McGough’s old stand.)
At the Old Shoe Store.
BUTCHERED m BARBOUR
The Planters Brogan, the most satisfactory shoe for com
fort and durability yet produced.
More of those Fine Calf Bals, noted for elegant fit.
Gentlemen’s Kid Oxfords, a dainty thing for evening
dress wear, and our usual full stock of goods for all wants in
foot wear.
New Stock of Fitted Uppers, for Shoemakers; Calf rem
nants, cheap stock. Iron Lap Lasts, Kit Lamps and Shoema
kers Supplies, Harness, Sole and Upper Leather.
WELLS & CURTIS.
Notice-Public Sale.
S TATE OF GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY—By virtue of an order from W.
R. of said county, we will offer for sale to all buyers, at the usual
hour of side, at W. R. Bedell’s Shoe Store, belonging to said firm, all that lot
of Opera Slippers ranging in price from 65 cents to $1.25, will be knocked down
to 50 cents a pair. Bounded on the east by lot of Gents’ Hand-sewed Shoes, former
price $5.00, now U.50; on the west by a lot of Edwin E. Bosh & £0., and Curtis &
Wheeler Kid Boots at a great reduction; also, 600 pair Bedell’s $2.99 Gents Shoe;
on the south by the fbUowing lots: Ladies’ Kid Oxford Ties 75 cents, with patent
tips $1.00 a pair; Ladles’ Tan Oxford Ties $1.25 a pair; Ladies’ Hand-Turned Dongola
Button Boots $2.50 a pair. You will find several other lots, not fenced In, equally
as low in our tract not mentioned here. On an adjacent lot is to be found a lot
of Ladles’ Cloth Shoes at 50 cents a pair. Bounded on the north by as fine, stylish
and durable a lot of Gent’s, Ladies and Childrens’ Shoes as ever greeted the shelves
of a Shoe Store. Seeing is knowing. We ask an inspection from the public at large
throughout our mammoth stock of Boots and Shoes. If you are not m this city,
send in your size and last. We will save you money.
1849 ESTABLISHED
M. JOSEPH
1849
IMPORTER JL3ST1D JOBBER OF
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, JEANS
.AJSTF
CASSIMERE PANTS.
Headquarters for Georgia Manufactured
COTTON AND WOOLEN GOODS
Of Every Grade and Description.
A large stock and complete assortment always on hand,
at BOTTOM PRICES. A full corps of Traveling Salesmen,
who traverin Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, etc., etc.
Competition met and DEFIED on any ground, and informa
tion promptly furnished in reference to Goods, Prices or
Terms, on application
Nos. 1131,1133, 1135 and 1137 Broad Street, Colnmbus, Ga.
POST OFFICE BOX 274.
A NEGRO LITERALLY CUT TO PISCES
NEAR CLAYTON, ALA.
The Body Found In a Ditch With the Head
Almost Severed and Fearfully Muti
lated—A Woman the Cause—The -
Murderer Still at Large.
Clayton,’Ala., Jane 29.—[Special.]—On
last Sunday morning Willis Ranks, col
ored, presented himself at the drag store
for medical attention, having a cut extend
ed almost from ear to ear. He stated
that Ned Clayton did the cutting; that the
fight occurred about Mollie Johnson, a col
ored girl, and that he and Ned made
friends after the fight, and that Ned had
gone to Georgia to visit some of his kin.
Yesterday morning Captain C. W. Fenn,
passing through his thick forest grove, ad
jacent to his home, noticed buzzards flying
from a ditch. On going to the ditch to in
vestigate the matter, a horrible sight met
his gaze. There lay the body of Ned Clay
ton, with his throat cat from ear to ear,
several ghastly knife wounds in his chest
and back, and one leg nearly severed at
the knee joint, buried in the ditch under
a slight covering; of soil.
The sheriff is m pursuit of the murderer.
Another Account of the Murder.
Eufaula, Ala., June 29.—[Special.] —
Clayton, this county, was the scene ol a
horrible murder last Saturday night, which
was just discovered yesterday and given to
yonr correspondent this morning by L. H.
Lae. A negro, named Ned Clayton, was
out in a field with a negro woman when
Willis Banks, another negro, ran up and
struck Ned. The woman and Ned both
ran. Ned was followed and a fight took
place, in whicn he was killed, his head
being almost cut from his body. The mur
derer then bnried his victim in a little
gully near the road, and so complete wt 8
tbe job that, had it not been for sdme dogs
uncovering one of his hands, which at
tracted buzzards and resulted in the find
ing of the body, it never would have been
discovered.
After the killing Willis Banks came
into town covered with blood and a big
cat on his neck, and reported that he had
been in a fight with Ned Clayton, and
that Ned had cut him and ran off. He
supposed he had gone to Birmingham,
Ala., where he has a brother. Nothing
was thought of the matter after that until
the body was found yesterday. Then the
woman in the case told what she had seen
and she was immediately arrested.and pat
in jail.
Th9 murderer is still at large. He was
seen last night, but escaped. Officers are
on his trail. This is the second murder he
has committed. He got clear the other
time on a plea of self-defense.
MURDER AT GEORGETOWN.
One Negro Woman Stabs Another to the
Heart—The Murderess Arrested.
Eufaula, Ala., Jane 29.—[Special.]—A
murder was committed at Georgetown,
Ga., just across tbe river from this city,
last night. The victim was a negro woman,
aged thirty years, named Margaret Smith.
Her slayer was a negro woman named
Cora Hioes. The deed was done on tbe
way home from church. The weapon used
was a knife, with which she stabbed her
victim in the left breast, producing instant
death. She was arrested at once and
placed in jail. Both are married women.
The murdered one is said to be a very
quiet and inoffensive woman, while the
murderess is a quarrelsome, bad charac
ter, and evidently meant murder, as she
provoked the quarrel.
The coroners jury this morning found a
verdict of murder in the first degree.
McDOW NOT GUILTY.
After Deliberating for Two Hours the Jury
, Return a Verdict.
Charleston, June 29.—The jury in the
McDow case were charged by Judge Ker
shaw at 12:30 o’clock to-day, and after de
liberating for two hours, returned with a
verdict of not guilty.
EXCITEMENT AT CHIPLEY.
Mr. Crawford Polls Capt. Hastey’s Whis
kers and is Arrested by the Marshal.
Chipley, Ga., June 29.—[Special.]—The
city was thrown into a very unusual
amount of excitement Friday. Mr. J. H.
Crawford and Capt. J. B. Hastey had a
difficulty which resulted in Mr. Crawford
attacking Mr. Hastey by the whiskers, it
seems, thereby creating disorderly con
duct. Town Marshal Hill arrested Mr.
Crawford, and in doing so pounded Mr.
C. a heavy blow with his club, catting to
the skull. Many conflicting reports are
flying as to the conduct of Crawford and
Hill daring the arrest. Some say Hill did
right; others that he *cted too hastily.
Some claim that Crawford had a knife
drawn on Hill; others that he did not. It
is to be trnsted that the matter can be am
icably settled. If not settled, trouble is
expected.
Mr. Crawford proposes to sne the coun
cil for $10,000. The whole affair grew out
of a doctrinal sermon preached at this
place last Sabbath. We have set forth the
facts as is our duty, and the public here
may judge accordingly.
The district meeting of tbe 1st district
of tbe Columbus Association is in session
here.
Col. W. R. Gorman, oi Talbotton, Hon.
W. A. Broaden, of Madison county, and
Felix Corput, of Cave Springs, tbe exec
utive committee of the State Alliance,
have been in the city this week, in con
sultation with State Secretary C. L.
Burkes.
Married, at the home of the bride’s
father, on Thursday afternoon last at four
o’clqck, Miss Mamie Pearce to Judge U.
H. Layfield, Rev. J. H. Eakes officiating.
The bride is an accomplished lady and re
ceives the congratulations of the commu
nity. The groom is a prominent and
wealthy farmer. They are both residents
of the city, and all wish them much hap
piness.
AN EARLY MORNING HANGING'.
Wesley Chisolm, tbe-Murderer of Robert
JDanforth, Pays tbe Penalty of His Crime.
LaFayette, Ala., Jane 29.—The negro
Wesley Chisolm, who murdered Robert
Danforth a few months ago, was hanged
here this morning by the sheriff The law
required the execution to be private, and
as there was no suitable place at the jail
the gallows was erected in D. C. Allen &
Bros’, warehouse, near the railroad depot.
The execution occurred about seven
o’clock. Wesley’s neck was broken by
the foil of eight feet, and after ffigbteen
minutes life was pronounced extinct. The
sheriff delivered the body to the negro’s
wife and brothers. The doctors tried to
get the body for dissection, but he de
clared that his weight in gold would not
bay it. There is a large crowd in town,
bat owing to the fact that the execution
took place earlier than was expected, most
of theifr arrived after it was over.
A good rain fell here last night and the
crops are looking very well. All through
this section crops are better than usual.
More corn has been planted this year, and
with continued rains very little western
corn will be needed in Chambers county
next winter.
The Baptists have began the erection of
their new church.
Mr. J. B. Duke has began to build an
elegant residence for his own use.
The protracted meeting at the Baptist
chnrch closed last night.
NEGROES TO GO TO MEXICO.
What a Colored Agent Says of the Scheme
to Colonize Them in Mexico.
St. Louis, June 29.—A dispatch from
the City of Mexico says that two colored
enigration commissioners from Texas have
arrived there to consult with the govern
ment officials in regard to procuring land
for a large colony of colored cotton raisers
from Texas. Ellis, one of the commis
sioners, a bright, well educated colored
man, stated he had an appointment with
Secretary Pocheeo, and would fully ex
plain the project to him. He farther said
that if satisfoctory arrangements could
be with the government for land
that a colony of at least 10,000 persons
would soon be in Mexico. Already 700
families in Washington, Wharton, Bra-
z&ria and Bastrop counties have signed an
agreement to emigrate. Tbeee, Ellis
says, are hard-working, industrious peo
ple. Many of them own forms and some
are large cotton planters.
“If we can find a proper location in the
cotton growing belt ot Mexico, this will
soon be the cotton exporting country, in
stead of an importer of staple. Many
formers and laborers from Louisiana and
Mississippi will join ns, and there is not
the prejudice in Mexico against colored
men that there is in the United States.
I have not a donbt that we will have at
least 2000 families pledged to the move
ment. As each family will consist of five
to seven persons, all hard working peo
ple, who are the largest cotton raisers in*
the world, yon will see that we will be a
very valuable contingent in Mexico’s re
sources.”
Iron and Stul Workers.
Pittsburg, Jane 29.—The wage scale of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, for 1888 9, expired to-day.
Three firms have signed the scale np to
noon. They were the Maumee Iron Com
pany, of Toledo; the River Side Iron Com
pany, of Cincinnati, and Elba Iron and
Bolt Company, of this city. With the
close of to-day 40,000 men will be thrown
oat of employment and nearly as many
more will be indirectly affected. A strike
or lockout is not apprehended. Repairs
are always made at this season, and it is
expected before thi middle of July a ma
jority of tbe iron and steel miUs will again
be in operation. I&the scale is not signed
by that time a protracted shot down is
g robable. A number of manufacturers
ave stated that the scale will not be
signed in its present shape, bat the iron
workers say they are not alarmed at t e
situation and express confidence that wh n
the iron masters are ready they will affix
their signitures to the scale.
Raised the Lief nse Fee to 81000.
Chicago, Jane 29—A dispatch from
Joliet, 111., says: At the present meeting
of the city council the saloon license
question again cams no, and an ordinance
was passed fixing the license fee at $1000,
a threat which has been in force here for
some time past. The vote for $1000 stood,
10 yeas and 3 nays. Billiard rooms were
abolished in this city three years ago. An
attempt was made to psss an ordinance
allowing billard and pool tables in saloons,
the license to be fixed at $25 per table.
The ordinance passed the council all right,
bat the license fee was changed from $25
per table to $5000 per table, much to the
disgust of lovers of billiards.
Row Among Negroes.
Nances, Ga., June 29.—A big row
occured among the negroes on Mr. P. J.
Biggers’ plantation. The weapons used
were weeding hoes and rocks. Etta Hill
was cut badly in tbe head. Six warrants
have been issued for the rioting parties—
all women.
The crops in this part of Muscogee
county are looking well. Harris county
crops are also looking splendidly.
The big Alliance meeting will take place
at Bethel next Saturday. Mr. Livingstone
will sneak.
Awarded the Gold Medal.
Washington, June 29.—Miss Marietta
Minnegerode, of Alexandria, Va., was
awarded the gold medal to-day for the
best drawing at the Corcoran art school
nnder the instruction of Professor An
drews. There were competitors from va
rious parts of the country.
ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL.
Trouble jewing Over the Matter of the
De>agoa Bay Railway.
London, Jane 29.—A dispatch from
Delagoa Bay reports a serious state of
affairs there, arising from the railway
trouble. A portion of the railway has
been destroyed by the Portugese. An
English engineer who tried to defend the
work was fired upon.. Foreign residents
are greatly alarmed, and are crowding to
the British consulate for protection. The
Portugese have placed a British interpre
ter under arrest. English residents de
mand his release.
The Standard, commenting on the reso
lutions adopted by the shareholders of the
Delagoa Railway company yesterday,
blames the shareholders for imprudence.
It urges it will be useless to force Portu
gal to fill her concession to the company
and thinks Portugal should merely be
compelled to return to the company
the money it has expended and nay an in
demnity for the disturbance it has caused.
It says even Lisbon must be blockaded if
that step is necessary to obtain justice.
The limes is in fovor of forcing Portu
gal to fulfill the concession.
The report received by the Chronicle
from Durban, that tbe Portugese decree
cancelling the concession has been re
scinded is not confirmed.
Washington, Jane 29.—The depart
ment of state has been informed or the
cancellation by Portugal of the concession
granted the Delagoa Bay Railroad Com
pany, bat has no information of serious
trouble having arisen in consequence of
the action of the Portugal government.
London, June 29.—At the cabinet coun
cil to-day, it was decided to send an addi
tional war ship to the Delagoa bay.
Clayton Personals.
Clayton, Ala., Jane 29.—Messrs. Gay
Winn, Ned and Robert Alston, and B.
Warren are at home from the State Uni
versity for the summer.
The two daughters of onr former rector.
Rev. DeB. Waddell, are visiting their ola
home.
A GHASTLY FIND.
The Bodies of Four Women and Two Men
Found in a House of Ill-Fame.
Patterson, N. J., June 29.—Later de
tails of the finding of six asphyxiated
bodies in the den at 47 Ryle avenue last
night are revolting. Three of the female
victims were less than twenty years old.
Their names were Bella and Sarah Mc
Nally, sisters, and Emma Wright. The
other woman, Kate White, twenty four
years old. Godfrey Gerlade, the seventy
year old keeper of the resort, had evi
dently died many hours before tbe others
succumbed. The body of an unknown
Turk, aged about thirty years, was found
in a better state of preservation than the
others. Broken china and toilet articles
literally covered the floor, and filth
abounded everywhere. The White wo
man sat in a chair near the window and
in a sickening attitude and presented a
horrible spectacle in death. All had evi
dently been crazed with drink and had a
drunken brawl. Evidently somebody had
tripped over the rubber tube which con
veyed the gas from the iron pipe to tbe
gas range.
The windows and doors of the house
were fastened, and the undertakers and
embalmers were overcome in preparing
the bodies, which were conveyed first to
the fat and hides works of freeholder
McCraney, and then to the city pesthoose,
where they now are.
The house where the bodies were dis
covered has been the scene of two sui
cides and one murder prior to last night’s
ghastly find.
The most teaching incident connected
with tbe affair was the frantic efforts of
the mother of the McNally sisters this
mornipg in attempting to see the bodies
of her daughters, whom she believed to
be virtuous.
Cotton Futures.
New York, June 29.—The Son’s cotton
review says: Cotton futures were without
feature, except moderate business of An-
S ist contracts at hardening prices. The
verpool market was stronger, and crop
accounts were good. Cotton on spot was
quiet and steady; middling uplands 11c.
SACRIFICED HIMSELF.
After Getting Fire to His House, a Man
Leaps Into the Flames.
Chicago, Jane 29.—A dispatch from
Clifton, Texas, says: H. D. Oieson, who
livsd with his son-in-law on a form a few
miles from here, made a sacrifice of him
self Thursday night. He was abasing his
daughter, when her husband ordered him
to stop. The man procured a shotgun,
chased the family out of the house, and
then set fire to the premises, keeping the
neighbors out of the house with bis gun
until it was almost destroyed. Then he
leaped into the flames and was horned.
FELL WITH THE TRESTLE
TRAIN WRECKED ON THE CINCINNATI
AND GEORGETOWN ROAD.
A Trestle Gives Way and the Train Falls
Fifteen Feet—Fourteen Passengers
Injured—Three People Killed
at New Haven.
Cincinnati, June 29.—Last evening the
passenger train from Portsmouth to Cin
ema ti, on the Cincinnati, Georgetown and
Portsmouth railroad, with the directors’
car, two passenger coaches and a baggage
car went down with a trestle one and a
half miles west of Batavia. The trestle
was one hundred feet long and from
twelve to fifteen feet high. The engineer
felt it sinking when he went over and
turned on full bead of steam and saved the
engine and baggage car, bat not the three
coaches with the passengers.
A heavy rain was foiling at the time.
The coaches turned over and piled np a
miscellaneous wreck. No one was killed
outright. About fourteen, as near as can
be learned, were injured, some mortally.
Among the latter was General Manager
Samuel T. Hunt. This is not General Sam
T. Hunt, tbe attorney, bat of the same
name. General Passenger Agent T. D.
Rhoades was sitting at the sapper table.
The table was driven into his side, inflict
ing, it is feared, mortal injuries.
H. L. Sanderbrich, wife and child, of
Cinmnnati, were seriously, but it is hoped
not dangerously hurt, though Mrs San-
derbrich’s injuries are quite serious.
Wm. Kain, conductor, suffered a broken
shoulder blade and broken leg.
Wesley Griffith, colored porter, was
badly bruised.
Can Newton was hart badly in the hip.
Chas. Hunrod was badly hurt in the
bace.
Lon Helman was painfully hurt on the
band and arms.
W. H. Frazer, of Springfield, III., right
legbroken and head braised. Serious.
H. Balman, right 1% broken.
E. B. Showman, of Covington, Ky.,
painfully injured on the right leg and hip.
Mrs. Williams, of Williamsburg, serious
ly injured.
Mrs. Hayward, of Portsmouth, Ohio,
bad a babe in her arms. She was thrown
throngh a window and the babe left in
the car. She recovered soon and screamed
for her babe. It was found inside the car
entirely unharmed.
All of the above list, when not desig
nated, are citizens of Cincinnati. All the
iDjored, except Manager Hunt and Passen
ger Agent Rhoades, who could not be
removed, were brought here and placed in
the hospital.
ANOTHER RAILROAD WRECK.
Three People Killed and Several Others
Badly Injured.
New Haven, Conn., June 29.—The
limited express, which left Boston at 11 a.
m., via the Boston and Albany road, was
ditched just outside the city limits this
afternoon. Three persons were killed
and several badly injured. The killed are
Miss Mary A. Brigham,of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
who has recently been elected principal of
Mount Holyoke seminary at SouthJHadley,
Mass.: Clarence May, drawing oar con
ductor, thought to belong at Stanford,
Conn. The third person killed was the
baggageman ter, but his name could not be
learned. The injured are Rodney Beers,
conductor, arm broken, was thrown
through the window; Drawingroom Con
ductor Ellis,thrown through a windowjand
cut about the heart; Brakeman McLean,
thrown through a window with the porter
of the car, bat was not badly hart; George
Craig Meriden, badly injured internally
and externally.
Wm. H. Lockwood, of Hartford, with
his two sons and two daughters, together
with Berry F. Fisher, of 76 Farmington
avenue, Hartford, woe on their way to
Sbort Beach. All were badly shaken up
and bruised. Lockwood is now at the
hospital, with a broken ankle. Mrs.
Bertha Lockwood was badly hart on the
wrist, bat has left the hospital.
Tfiere were several hundred passengers
on the train, and the majority of them got
badly shaken np, and were more or less
braised and cut. They scattered so
quickly after the accident, that it was im
possible to get their names. Some of
them were brought in on the relief train,
while others took horse cars from Cedar
Hil).
The accident was caused by the spread
ing of rails where a gang of trackmen
were kt work relaying tne track. The
engine passed over all right, bat they
spread under the baggage car, turning it
across the track and the other cars behind
it, poshing it into a ditch. The smoker,
one passenger coach and two drawing
cars aho went over on their sides and
landed in the ditch. The rear car left the
track but did not turn over.
It was 3:30 whan the accident occurred,
and both tracks were blocked until 7:15,
causing a bad delay to all east and south
bound trains on tbe Hartford division.
Sheepshead Bay Races.
New York, Jane 29.—First race—Seven
furlongs; Loantark won, Banoock second,
Jav Gedee third. Time 1:261-5.
Second race—Six furlongs; Petersboro
won, Leoconia second, Drizzle third.
Time 1:17.
Third race—Six furlongs; Fides won,
Seymour second, Blue Rock third. Time
1:15.
Fourth race—Mile and three furlongs;
Firenzi won, Eorius second, Bella B.
third. Time 2:24 1-5.
Fifth race—Mile and three-sixteenths;
My Own won, Sam Wood second, Panama
third. Time 2:04 3 5.
Sixth race—Two miles, on the turf; Sel-
lic won, St. Luke second, First Attempt
third. Time 3:34.
washington;kews.
Marshal Nelms, of Georgia, Resfgos—The
Public Debt, Etc.
Washington, June 29.—Bond offerings
to-day aggregated $56,500; accepted, $36,000
of 4£ per cents at 106J.
Tbe Fourth National bank of Chatta
nooga has been authorized to commence
business with a capital of $150,000.
It is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that there has been a decrease of
about $15,500,000 in the public debt since
June 1. This will make the debt redac
tion for the fiscal year ending Jane 30
$88,182,200.
Tbe resignation ot John W. Nelms,
United States marshal for the northern
district of Georgia, was received by the
attorney-general to-day.
The president will leave here Tuesday
evening for Woodstock, Mass., and will be
accompanied by a party, including Mrs.
Harrison, Secretaries Tracy and Noble and
Sir Julian Panncefote, British minister.
The president and Mrs. Harrison expect to
return to Washington Friday evening.
Judge Speer Fines Jailer Birdsong.
Macon, Ga., Jane 28.—Judge Emory
Speer, in the United States court here to
day, imposed a considerable fine upon Nat
Birdsong, state jailer, for chaining up by
the neck for several hoars Joe Warren,
colored, a United States prisoner. War
ren hod been disorderly. The judge held
that the punishment was cruel and un
usual. in tbe meaning of the constitution,
and inflicted unjustifiable torture on the
prisoner. The jailer’s counsel demurred
to the jurisdiction of the court, bat it was
held that as to United States prisoners,
the jailer was an officer of the court, and
as such was amenable to punishment for
cruelty. The case creates some excite
ment.
THE CRONIN MURDER.
Detectives Trying to Find a Policeman
Who is Connected With the Case.
Chicago, Jane 29.—Ever since the in
vestigation into the murder of Cronin be
gan, there has been a persistent search for
a policeman, who appeared at Dinan’s
lively stable late on the night of Cronin’s
death, and inquired if all the hones were
in. It was at Dinan’s stable and on the
order of Detective Coughlin that the horse
and boggy were second in which Cronin
was decoyed to his death. It was a natural
supposition that the policeman who in
quired whether the horses wen all in had
this particular horse in mind, and that he
was therefore implicated in the crime.
The Times this morning says John De
laney, the lock-up keeper at the East Chi
cago avenue station, which is about a
block distant from Dinan’s stable, is the
man. It bases this statement on the alle
gations that Delaney is a member of the
notorious No. 20 (Jlan-na-Gael; that he is
an intimate friend of Dan Coughlin, and
has been identified by Dinan’s hostler as
the man in question. The paper says De
laney, when questioned about the matter,
made a nervous denial of its troth, bat
showed signs of breaking down,
Chicago, Jane 29.-5:30 p. m.—The
grand jury has indicted Martin Bnrke,
Patrick Cooney, John T. Beggs, Daniel
Coughlin, Patrick O’Snllivan, Frank
Knnze and Frank Woodruff, for complicity
in the murder of Dr Cronin.
COLUMBUS REAL ESTATE.
Review of a frubjactof Never-Falling Inter
est to Onr People.
Columbus real estate is a subject full of
interest, to all the readers of the En
quirer-Sun, whether they live in Colnm
bus or at a distance. The advance in
values during the last few years has been
very remarkable. The increase has on the
average been eqaal to abont three hun
dred per cent, and yet the advance has
been so steady and uniform that many of
our cit zees have not fully realized wnat
has beSn going on. The happy effect of
this gradual advance, as contrasted with
the sudden and. in many instances, ific i-
tions booms of some of onr neighboring
cities, has been that of maintaining a per
fectly steady market, and obviating any
thing approaching a panicky desire |of
holders to unload. A sudden and abnor
mal advance in the value of any commod
ity always superinduces a speculative
demand beyond the natural limit, and
capital is temporarily diverted from legit
imate enterprises to engage in the haz
ardous effort to double itself and return
to its original channel because its absence
has been sensibly felt. Even mere tempo
rary success in such efforts is the rare ex
ception, and permanent success almost
unknown. The unerring law of supply
and demand will inevitably assert itself,
and the moment the demand is checked
the supply is enormously increased. The
effect of such a state of affairs is most dis
astrous to a community in which it occurs,
as it shakes confidence and forces con
servative capitalists to “handBoff” until
time has Testified the error of a mad m -
ment. The fact that Colnmbns has been
able to successfully steer between this
“Soylla and Charybdis” (stagnation and
speculation), is due to a combination of
causes. The financial institutions of onr
city, daring its period of transition from
a retail trading town to its present im
portance as a manufacturing, commercial
and railroad centre, have been presided
over by men of marked ability, ripe in
years and experience, and conserative to
a degree that, at times, was exasperating
to the hot-headed, wonld-be Napoleons
of finance. The important enterprises
which have marked onr progress have
been inaugurated consecutively, one fol
lowing another, usually after the wisdom
of the preceding venture in the same line
had been demonstrated; and thus from a
town of seven thousand—by the official
census of 1870—we grew to twelve thou
sand by 1880, and will show np thirty
thousand by 1890.
So much for the past—now for the pres
ent. We can safely say there has never
been a time when Colnmbus real estate
commanded so high a degree of confidence
among the most conservative capitalists;
a deed to a quarter acre of Columbus dirt
is about as easily nogotiated at its assessed
value as a government bond. The aver
age banker will lend within a very small
per cent of its value, and the retired capi
talist will take it as a permanent invest
ment, feeling sure of obtaining a steady
annual revenue therefrom, and of seeing
it enhance in value each year as long as
he holds it.
The question is frequently asked,
“Where are the people coming from to
occuoy all the new nooses and to settle
the hew territory?” Now, if the “doubt
ing Thomases” will take tbe trouble to
post themselves they will find that, start
ing as we did, from a very small begin
ning, we are necessarily obliged to grow
or burst. Colnmbns, as originally laid
oat, consisted of just about thirteen hun
dred quarter acre lots, and the commis
sioners of commons have since sold about
three hundred lots, and the annex con
tains scarcely five hundred available lots.
Thus it is seen that with a population of
fifty thousand by the year-1900, we have
only about two thousand lots averaging in
size less than a quarter ot an acre; from
this number most be deducted such tracts
as may be reserved for parks, or granted
for terminal grounds to railroads and for
other public purposes. From this view of
the case it appears that we most inevita
bly again enlarge onr limits, and those
who now think they most wait until they
can “find something cheap” in the imme
diate vicinity of the bell tower, before
providing themselves with a home, will
wake up to the foot that very few eligibly
located lots can be bought within a mile
of that useful but not very ornamental
structure.
A very encouraging feature of onr city,
just now, is the disposition of all classes of
citizens to own their homes. This, in a
measure, is a result of the evident and
steady advance, past, present and pros
pective, in values. A clerk,or bookkeeper,
or mechanic, or laborer, grows restive un
der the constant drain of rents. If he is a
close calculator he discovers that, with a
small snm in hand, be can borrow the bal
ance needed to purchase a home. For a
lew years, instead of rents he pays inter
est, taxes, insurance and repairs, and im
perceptibly, even to himself, at the end of
five or ten years the home is paid for, in
terest ceases, and the value of his place
has increased fifty per cent, and Colnmbns
bas gained a permanent citizen, perhaps a
well-fed alderman; while his companion,
who was waiting for “something’ cheap,”
has drifted off to Birmingham, and thence
to Chattanooga, and thence to Brnnswick,
and finally back to Colnmbns, and is still a
renter, who will probably not be here long
enough to vote in a three-cornered race
for mayor next December.
We have grown too large now ever to
seriously think of backsliding. If we were
a community of mossbacks from Swamp
Town, onr city would still grow, for tbe
outside world has its eye upon ns; and
should we drop a real good thing some
smarter man, from another city or state,
would soon pick it up. 1887 brought ns
the Georgia Midland, 1888 the Colnmbns
and Western, 1889 tbe Bnena Vista and
tbe Colnmbns Southern. 18S9 will proba
bly bring the Chattanooga, Rome and Co-
lumbns, and extend and widen the Co
lnmbus and Rome. Each new road brings
new industries and capital and population,
and population brings demand for real
estate. We have none too much to supply
the demand, and values a few squares
from the bell tower will stand a decided
advance over present figures.
The Miners* Strike.
Altoona, Pa., Jane 29—Indications to
day are that the strike among the moun
tain miners will be far-reaching in its
effects. Those employed at Gallitzins,
Lilya and Sonman ana Ben’s Creek are
now reported out, with a single exception
of the miners in the employ of W. H.
Piper A Co. Also, about 1000 are affected,
and it is probable that those employed by
Crosson & Co., at the Port Coal Coke Com
pany, will also go out.
FROM JOHNSTOWN.
Ten Thousand Laborers Wanted-Lumber
Badly Needed.
Johnstown, Jane 29.—The citizens of
Cambria City met lost night and ap
pointed a committee to adjust the loss.
The greatest need of the people at the
5 resedt time is lumber and carpenters.
here is work enough here for 10,000
laborers and 3000 carpenters. If the
work is not done daring the summer,
when the snow foils there will be a num
ber ot people homeless and without
shelter. Colonel Douglass is catting his
force of workmen. The number, as nearly
as can be estimated, has been reduced
from 1800 to 900. James McKnight, con
tractor, will have only 200 laborers at
work Monday.
International **e»ce Conference.
London, Jane 29.—Advices from Paris
state that the first informal session of the
international conference of delegates
from legislative bodies in the interests of
peaoe and international arbitration,
opened this morning. The conference is
largely attended.
The Fourth of July
—IN—
Columbus
Grand All Day Celebration at
Exposition Park,
Where there are handsome
buildings, beautiful grounds
and the finest mile track in
the South, ending with a mag
nificent display of fireworks,
interspersed with music by a
splendid Brass Band at night
at the beautiful suburban
There will be a continuous
round of sports, spectaculars
and amusements at Exposition
Park, from 9 o’clock in the
morning until late in the
afternoon. The day will open
with a grand civic, spectacular
PARADE
THE HAYMAKERS
of the Improved Order of
Red men, Creek Tribe No. 11,
headed by a crack brass band.
This will be one of the most
interesting and attractive
street parades ever seen in
Georgia. When the Haymak
ers’ parade reaches Exposition
Park the sports will commence
there.
Exposition Park Programme.
The following is a partial
programme of the splendid at
tractions arranged for the cel
ebration during the day at
Exposition Park. Others are
being considered and several
will probably be added:
One mile running race, parse $50.
Half mile running race, purse $25.
Boys’ pony race, parse $10.
One mile trotting race, best two in
three, parse $50.
Half mile slow male race, the last male
to cross the line the winner, each mule to
have a rider that is interested in having it
beaten, parse $10.
Bose ball between Troy and Columbus,
parse $25.
Tag of war between fifteen Georgians
and fifteen Alabamians, best two in three,
second contest in a series ot three for the
interstate championship, parse $15.
Grand regatta on the Chattahoochee
river, at the foot of the park, under the
auspices of the Crescent Boat Club. There
will be a number of boats in the race, and
an exciting contest is assured. Purse $20.
Quarter mile foot race for whites, purse
$10.
Quarter mile foot race for blacks, purse
$10.
Potato grubbing match, purse $5.
Wheelbarrow race, purse $5.
Sack race for boys, purse $2.50.
During the day a number of beautiful
balloons will be sent np by a Columbus
amateur balloonist.
A very fine brass band will furnish
music all day.
Admission to Exposition Park for the
entire day only 25 cents.
Fireworks at Wildwood.Park at night
free.
The dummy and horse car lines run into
Exposition rark, and carry passengers for
5 cents.
There will bean abundant supply of free
ice water at various places in the park all
day.
Lunches and refreshments can be had
in the park at reasonable prices.
Railroad Rates.
The various railroads lead
ing into Columbus, the At
lanta and West Point Railroad
and the Western Railway of
Alabama, will sell tickets on
July 3d and 4th, good to re
turn until and including July
6th, for one fare for the round
trip. Children under twelve
years of age half of fare for
adults, or one-fourth of one
full fare for the round trip.
These special excursion tick
ets will be sold at all ticket
agencies of the roads. Passen
gers must purchase tickets
before getting on train, as
conductors will not be author
ized to observe the above
rates.
A royal welcome and a
grand time guaranteed to
every one who comes to Co
lumbus on July the Fourth.
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