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NEVER BEFORE
IN THE HISTORY
OF OUR BUSINESS
HAVE WE BEEN SO ANXIOUS
TO SELL GOODS.
We have written and telegraphed the manufac
turers not to ship our Iail purchases for two weeks,
but they ar like ourseives, crowded for room, and
continue to hurry them through. Now to state facts,
we are crowded for room, and must hive it at once
or rent quarters. To reduce our stock, we name a
few prices that cannot ce met.
U mbrellas! U mbrellas!!
Severity two Umbrellas, Gloria Cloth, Gold and
Oxidized heads, and natural handles, that we have
been selling for $1.50 and $2.00. will go to-day and
Saturday at 90c., $1.00 and $1.15. Many Silk and
Gingham Umbrellas in proportion Stock must be
reduced.
Two Hundred Neck Ties,
Walking Canes, at prices to close Call if nexhng
anything in our line. Will try and suit you in
prices.
Chancellor & Pearce
UPSON COUNTY MOON-HINEKS.
Numbers of Arrests Made—Deaths at
Thomaston—A New Railroad.
Thomaston,Ga., August 15 —[Special.] —
Moonshiners have had a hard time in
Upson county for the last two months,
llardly a week has passed without a
United States officer making an arrest,
and witness after witness has been taken
to Macon. At one time it appeared that
the United States court had been trans
ferred to Thomaston, for there were pres
ent the United States district attorney, the
marshal, and three or four deputy mar
shals.
Several deaths have occurred in Thom
aston recently. Mrs. Brown, wife of Capt.
Wiliiam H. Brown, after a lingering illness,
died. Then Miss Michael Butts, a beauti
ful and most excellent young lady, after a
short sickness, passed away. Mr. Ham
mond, in the eastern part of the county,
died yesterday.
Last Monday the fall term of the R. E.
Lee Institute opened with more than a
hundred pupils. A large attendance is ex
pected this term, and 300 names may be on
the roll within the next two months.
Yesterday a man who is supposed to be
Thomas Campbell was carried by the sher
iff of Polk county from this county to
Cedartowu to answer the charge of killing
Joe Hulsey, at Roekmart, Ga., at a circus
about four years ago.
The people of Thomaston are greatly in
terested in the Macon and Birmingham
road, as it will place our town on a main
line and develop this section of the
country.
It is said a new postmaster will be ap
pointed here within the next two weeks.
From Ohllderaburg.
Childebsbcrg, Ala., August 15.—We
are having good rains and the crops are
tine. Corn is assured and cotton bias fair
for a large yield. The health of the coun
try is good.
There is a representative of a syndicate
here taking options on ail the lands they
can.
Our Savannah and Western railroad
depot is progressing finely. It is a well
apportioned structure, and fills a Jong felt
want.
The reports about the sudden death of
Engineer John Hunter, of the A. & A.
railroad, at this place, and reported foul
play and robbery, on investigation seem3
to have gone into thin air.
The fruit crop has oeen enormous here,
but is just now about out, except water
melons. They are yet plentiful and
not worth their transportation from the
ground to the stores.
Goodwater Items.
Goodwatek, Ala., August 15 —Flatter
ing reports of crops come in from all sec
tions of the country. It does seem that
this will be a year of plenty, and that
farmers will certainly be in better condi
tion financially than they have been for
many years.
Miss Mary L. McDairmid, a charming
young lady of Oxford, who has been spend
ing some weeks with friends and relatives
in our town, returned to her home to-day,
accompanied by Miss Pauline Torry, of
Mississippi, who wili, after spending a few
days at Oxford, go to her home near Fay
ette, Miss.
Misses Susan and Lizzie Peterson, of
Opelika, returned to their home yesterday.
Major W. B. Shappard, president of tne
Bank of Opelika, dined at the Pope House
to-day.
Lientenant James A. Crawford, son of
Hon. Daniel Crawford, of Crewsville, is in
town to-day.
Reunion of Veterans at Ainericus.
Americus, Ga., August 14.—The streets
are alive to-day with the old “vets,” their
families and visitors generally attending
the grand reunion of the Fourth Georgia
regiment. Not less than five thousand
people are assembled within the old
square listening to Georgia’s silver-
tongued orator, Hon. H. W. Grady, who
has just commenced speaking. As usual,
he carries the crowd with him.
The burglars are still abroad. On last
night they entered the residence of Dr.
W. P. Eurt, where they relieved one of
the visiting veterans of a quite valuable
gold watch, as well as a sum of money.
Mayor Felder has offered a reward of £100
tor the capture of the thieves.
. “tof. A. J. M. Bizien, of Atlanta, was
elected to the superiutendency of the
Atnericus publictschools.
Over at Opelika.
r P PELI KA, Ala., 'August 15.—[Special ]—
j Protracted service whicn is being
^ucted bv Rev. W. H. Motley at the
reipodist church here, continues with
unabated vigor. Forty or fifty have been
received into membership.
Several parties left this evening, and a
good many' more will leave to morrow, for
the annual picnic at Society Hill, to
morrow.
The mineral well on Tallapoosa street
has become a very popular resort for not
only our own citizens, but those from
abroad as well. Its medicinal qualities are
fully recognized by those who were in
clined to doubt at first. Large quantities
are shipped daily to other places.
“Opelika will put on her holiday attire
on the 27th instant and turn out en masse
to witness the prize drill under the aus
pices of the Lee Light Infantry. Quite a
number of squad« have entered the con
test, and some good drilling is expected.
CALHOUN - WILLIAMSON.
Oov. Seay Declines to Talk About What
He Will Do in Regard to the Duelists.
Birmingham, Ala., August 15.—Every
thing sent from Birmingham to the effect
that Governor Seay while here expressed
any intention of proceeding by requisition
against Calhoun and Williamson for duel
ing in Cherokee county, is the purest sen
sationalism and without foundation. Gov
ernor Seay positively declines to say
one word to anybody about his inten
tions, and to all interviewers merely
said it would be improper to taik. He went
from here to Sheffield and Florence, and
has done nothing more than communicate
with Solicitor Lusk, of the Cherokee cir
cuit court, calling his attention to the mat
ter. Governor Seay could proceed only on
warrants sworn out by some citizen, and
no Alabamian has been found who saw the
duel or can make an affidavit. Only Geor
gians were there. These sensational re-
orts are putting the governor of Ala-
ama in a ridiculous attitude before the
country. He could not, it he would, pro
ceed without evidence. It is not probable
that anything will be done until the Cher
okee grand jury meets, and unless some
Alabama witness turus up that body will
be powerless.
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
A Man Who Stole S40.000 to Buy Antique
Furniture au<l Works of Art.
Philadelphia, August 15.—William
Joues, for twenty years the trusted em
ploye of E. H. Butler & Co., educational
publishers of this city, has disappeared.
He is said to be short in his accounts with
thetirm to the extent of £40,000. Jones is
a bachelor, and lived alone in an old fash
ioned residence in Germantown. He is
said to have hac a passion for collecting
rare books, engravings and antiques of all
sorts. His house was filled from cellar to
garret with valuable effects. Every nook
and corner was stuffed with’antique furni
ture. The walls were heavy with rare
plate from masters’ works; the shelves of
his bookcases were weighted with rare
aDd uncut volumes jof standard authors.
Connoissseures nave already pronounced
his effects one of the most valuable private |
collections in the city. All of this collec- j
tion has, it is said, been turned over to his i
late employers in partial restitution of the j
shortage. The firm is disposed to be very '
lenient with Jones.
TWENTY PEOPLE KILLED.
The Result of the Storm Which Passed
Over the Missouri Valley.
Kansas City, Mo., August 15.—The
storm which passed over the Missouri
valley Monday night was the most disas
trous known to this section thi3 season.
Over twenty peesons, it is said, was killed
by lightning, and the damage in animals
killed, ruined crops and washouts, will
run up to over a half million dollars.
Among the killed were the son of H. H.
Silver, at Cortland, Neb.; George Warner
and George Richardson, of Dawson, Neb.;
E. Winkler, ofWinthorp, Mo.; H.Hunteri
of Hamlin, Kan., and Fred Case, of
Oolatbe, Kansas.
Killed by a Moonship er.
Jacksonville, Fla., August 15.—Late
last night Frans Weller, deputy collector
of internal revenue for the Tallahassee
division, In company with a deputy United
States marshal and Sheriff MeLoand, went
to the house of John Brasswell, an illicit
distiller, living near Westviile, Holmes
county, to arrest him. The deputy mar- i
slial went into the house with Weller, j
Brasswell thereupon jumped out the win
dow, shooting Weller as he jumped and j
killing him instantly. Brasswell escaped. ■
Weller’s body was brought to Tallahassee j
this morning. He was a son of Rav. Dr. ■
Weller, of this city, for many years rector j
of St John’s Episcopal church. He leaves j
a wife and one child. ,
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
THE BRADY FERTILIZER BILL PARSED
BY THE HOUSE.
Bib Introduced to Amend the Act Estab
lishing a City Court for Columbus.
The Fifth Section of the Lease
Bill Passed, Etc., Etc.
Atlanta, Ga.. August 15.—[Special.] —
The house in committee of the whole took
up the Western and Atlantic lease bill
The question was on the amendment to
section five, offered by Mr. Huff, of Bibb,
proposing to strike out the word “npon”
and insert the words “within sixty days
after,” referring to the time for taking the
final inventory at the expiration of the
lease.
The amendment was adopted.
Mr. Tatum’s amendment was next con
sidered.
This amendment was adopted as follows:
“Add after the word ‘management’ the
following: ‘Who shall, after making oath
that they are not directly or indirectly,
personally or financially, interested in the
present or future lease of said railroad, ex
cept as citizens of this state, shall pro
ceed,’ ” etc.
The fifth section of the bill was then
adopted as amended.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the house, Mr. McIntyre, of Thomas,
proposed a bill to carry into effect para
graph four of section two, of article four
of the constitution.
Mr. Fieming, of Richmond, offered a
joint resolution that the representative
hail be tendered the confederate veterans
for their meeting to-night. The resolu
tion was agreed to and transmitted to the
senate. Senator Rice offered a substitute,
amending by adding that the capitol
building be "lighted up for the accommo
dation of the veterans. Agreed to.
Mr. Johnson, of Floyd, offered a resolu
tion providing for the purchase of a life
size portrait of the late General Robert
Toombs. Referred.
Mr. Brady’s bill for pleading and prov
ing failure of consideration for notes given
for guano, which had been made the spe
cial order, next came up.
Messrs. Brady, of Sumter, and Hill, of
Meriwether, spoke in favor oi the bill.
Mr. Fleming, of Richmond, opposed it
on legal grounds.
Mr. Harrell, of Webster, and Mr. Patter
son. of Bibb, supported it.
The bill passed by a vote of 101 to 39
The bill is as follows:
Section 1. That any purchaser of com
mercial fertilizers, guanos or manures,
who shall give a promissory note, or
any other instrument in writing for the
same, may plead and prove, when sued in
any court of the state,’a failure of consid
eration of said instrument when said fer
tilizers, guanos or manures have proven
worthless or of no practical value.
Section 2. That no waiver of warranty,
or any other waiver, promise, agreement,
condition or undertaking expressed in any
promissory note, or other instrument in
writing given for for commercial fertil
izers, goanos or manures shall defeat the
right of the maker thereof to plead and
prove a failure of consideration of the
same.
Section 3. That no transfer of any prom
issory note, or other instrument in writing,
given for commercial fertilizers, guanos or
manures to any person claiming to be an
innocent purchaser without notice, or
holding the same under any other con
tract or agreement, shall defeat the right
of the maker thereof to pltad and prove a
failure of the consideration of the same.
Section 4. That any agent for, or dealer
in, commercial fertilizers, guanos or ma
nures, or any other person who shall sell
the same, and who shall take a negotiable
promissory note, or any other negotiable
instrument for the same, aud shali fail, re
sue or neglect to state in the face of said
promissory note or instrument in writ
ing, that the same is given for commercial
fertilizers, guanos or manures, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convic
tion shali be punished as prescribed in
section 4310 of the code of 1SS2.
The following new house bills were
then read:
B Mr. Oliver, of Early—To repeal sec
tion 659 of the code.
By Mr. Crenshaw—To prevent stock
from runniug at large in Randolph.
By Mr. Patterson, of Bibb—To amend
an act prescribing conditions on which the
state will consent to the holding of land
by non-resident corporations.
of Muscogee—To amend
a city court for Co-
By Mr. Gilbert
the act establishin
lumbus,
By Mr. Tuck, of Clarke—To amend the
charter of Athens and to authorize the
municipal court of Athens to impose
fines, not exceeding £500, or public street
labor not to exceed twelve months.
By Mr. Tigner, of Muscogee—To extend
the limits of Columbus so as to include the
newly purchased cemetery.
By Mr. Murray, of Schley—A stock law
for his county.
By Mr. Tanner, of Coffee—To enable
Coffee county to levy an ad valorum tax
for school purposes.
By Mr. McDonald, of Ware—To prohibit
the issuing of license for the sale of liquor
in quantities less than one quart in any
Mynatt holds that the bill is unconstitu
tional.
Mr. Henry R. Goetchins, of Columbus,
addressed the committee.
“I appear,” said he, “as an opponent of
this bill, and as a representative of what
might be termed the new railroads in
western Georgia—the Georgia Midland,
the Columbus Southern, the Alabama,
Florida aDd Georgia, and a road from
some point on the Georgia Midland to
Carrollton.”
He thought Mr. Mynatt had covered the
iegal points very clearly on the question of
uniform taxation, and he would not take
up the time of the committee in repeating
the argument.
He called attention to the original char
ter of the Central Railroad and Banking
Company, in which occur words limiting
the tax on the railroad to one-half one per
cent on its net income. He traced the
same provisions through the amendments
to the act. Taking the argument of Judge
Warner in connection with the original
act, and the amending act of 1335, he did
not see how any one could conceive how
the Central road could be subjected to tax
by counties or by municipal corporations.
Colonel Mynatt struck the nail on the
head when he said tne policy of this state
is to tax the incomes. Some of the rail
roads did not pay, and it was unjust to tax
them or their property as against old and
well established lines.
“Columbus put £S10,000 in railroads from
1SS1 to 1SS5. Every one of them was gob
bled up, aud for years the city was under
one railroad. An enterprising citizen went
to New York, and the argument he used
with capitalists was that there was a uni
form tax of I per cent on net incomes of
the old roads" and only a uniform state
tax on the new lines.”
The reports showed an increase in Co
lumbus of £1,750.090 of taxable property in
one year, and three millions had been
added in three years. All tnis had teen
done by the Georgia Midland directly and
indirectly. No fair minded man would
deny it. The railroads are public institu
tions. The railroad commission has them
under its thumb. Under our laws the rail
roads have got to track a line They be
long to you just as much as this capitol
does, and are for the use of the people,
subject to their laws. Do not strangle
the weak aud newly born Hues.
“A negotiation is going on now for a
northern firm to Invest £2-00,000 in Warm
Springs, and another concern has invested
a large sum in Chalybeate Springs and
proposes to put thousands upon it.
Woodbury, a flourishing city, has sprung
up. All this in Meriwether county, on
the Midland. Are you going to put *4000
on that poor little railroad which did all
this? What boots it to the counties when
this magnificent improvement is being
made? In Pike county, Moiena, Concord,
Hale and Williamson, four flourishing
places, have added to the taxable values
of the county. The Midland road did it.
Look ou the’table and you will see how
the taxable values have grown. Nearly a
million dollars is being invested on the
Columbus Southern—all due to this little
road. It is the only system competing
with the great railroads you can’c touch.
“This bill comes back to the senate
every season and the senate kills it. Tnat’s
right. Tne senate is the regulator. I
know it is a popular measure. They say
tax the railroads because they take up
nearly all the time ot our courts. Don’t
they distribute lots of money in your
counties when they do it?”
He referred to Reuben Jones’ statement
in the agricultural convention, that with
railroad facilities his section of the coun
try would be one vast melon patch. “We
are going to build dowD directly into that
country ff let alone aud allowed to do so.”
He read an extract from Colonel Mc
Clure’s description of the magnificent
resources of Georgia,and said the railroads
are developing them. Tae step the com
mittee was about to take would be a re
version of this policy He appealed to
them not to adopt any such narrow
minded policy and change what had been
the liberal policy o ? qur state from the
beginning of railroads. Alabama, our
sister state, voted nearly one hundred
thousand dollars state aid in her last
legislature to some of the roads com
peting with our newly built lines.
The exempted railroads he enumerated
as follows: The Centra: from Sivannah
to Macon, the Brunswick and Florida,
the Augusta and Savannah, the old Mil-
ledgeville road, the Muscogee, the South
western ou nearly all its line, the Rome,
the Georgia, and others.
In the railroads he represented it would
take £300.000 more to carry out the plans
of construction if this bill was passed.
Mr. Rice asked how that was, when he
said the tax was only £4000.
Mr. Goetchius said that the lines to be
added would make 293 miles of road, and
the tax would be sixteen or seventeen
thousand dollars. It would take £300,000
of capital to pay this tax, rating the bonds
at 6 per cent.
The above is but an outline of what was
a very strong argument against the bill.
Hon. T. J. Chappell next spoke against
the bill. Columbus had suffered keenly
from stagnation in railroad building, but
to-day rejoiced in the new life of railroads.
They were, therefore, in a position to feel
the benefits of railroads. It was a matter
of experience, aud, as most of the towns
of the state had been through this, it was
unnecessary to recite it.
This tax fell upon a class of railroads
least able to bear it. It will be accepted
as true tnat the state is restricted to a tax
of one half of 1 per cent on incomes in
taxing the Central railroad. The judiciary,
legislative and executive departments
have recognized this as true in the past,
and what they have recognized is very apt
town or city of the state.
By Mr. Harper, of Carroll—To iucorpor-! to be true. This exemption is in favor of
ate the Carrollton Street Railway Com
pany.
The committee of the whole rose, after ,
adopting the fifth section of the lease bill, ! log money,
to allow members to attend the meeting ’ ‘
of the confederate veterans.
The senate amendment to the house
resolution, providing that the capito
should be lighted to-night for the euter-
toinmeut of the veterans, wa3 concurred
in by the house.
Tne house passed bills to provide for the
registration of voters in McIntosh county;
to’empower the town of Camilla to issue
bonds for school purposes, and to incorpo
rate the Griffin Street Railroad Company.
Adjourned.
the old road3 who are best able to bear
tax. In spite of the railroad com
mission the old roads are mak-
They have been con
solidated and made strong. The
tax of this bill will fall on these new roads
e | who for years will have to fight these
1 ! strong combinations. The combinations
IN THE SENATE.
The senate concurred in a resolution of
the house tendering the use of the capitol
to the confederate veterans for their meet
ing to night, adding an amendment that
the capitol be lighted up lor their accom
modation.
The general judiciary committee re
ported against the bill proposing to make
it a misdemeanor for any minor to enter a
place where liquor is sold.
The bill providing for the appointment
of the trustees of the university by the
governor, was, on recommendation of the
committee, read a second time and re
referred.
The following senate bills were read for
the first time:
By Mr. Boyd—To incorporate the bank
of Dahlonega. Committee on banks.
By Mr. Whitfield—To authorize the
mayor and aldermen of the city of Mil-
ledgeville to issue bonds, not to exceed
£50,000 in the aggregate, for sewerage,
drainage and other improvements. Com
mittee on corporations.
By Mr. Bovd—To incorporate th6 bank
of Dawsonville. Banks.
By Senator Bartlett—To recognize and
make legal primary elections in the state;
to designate who shall not vote at such
elections, and to prescribe a penalty for
the illegal holding of or voting at the
same. The bill proposes to punish the
offense indicated as a misdemeanor. Gen
eral judiciary.
Senator Sanford’s bill to protect farmers
from the impositions of venders of worth
less fertilizers was read a second time.
The bill requires dealers to deposit in the
offices of the ordinaries of the various
counties sealed samples of all brands of
fered for sale. Tnese samples are to be
used as evidence in case the fertilizers turn
out to be worthless.
On account of the meeting of the con
federate veterans, at 11 o’clock the senate
adjourned till 10 o’clock to-morrow.
OPPOSING THE BILL.
Argument of Columbus Lawyers Against
the Bill to Tax Railroads in the Comities.
Atlanta, Ga., August 15.—Strong argu
ments were made before the senate
finance committee yesterday afternoon
against the bill to tax railroads in the
counties. Speeches were made by Colonel
P. L. Mynatt, Hon. Henry R. Goetchius
and Hon Thomas J. Chappell ~
cannot be reached by legislation, although
i it seems to be in the teeth of the constitu-
: tion. The way to meet it is by new roads
j that are to be built. They try to prevent
' a new road from being built, and after it is
! buiit to starve it out. The new roads are
1 struggling to overcome this opposition.
; Where does the state of Georgia stand ?
| It is her interest to encourage the new
i roads. “I do not see why the’ legislature
: is called upon to pass an act that does not
i affect the old roads, but will fall heavily
j upon the new. All we ask of you Is
simply hands off. Not that you give us
additional bounty, but that you put no
burden on the new roads which is not on
the others.”
He thought if it were in the legislature’s
power, he could show that it would be to
the state’s iuteresti to aid these new
roads.
The tendency of things, he said, was to
an independent line.
He produced a map showing the Central
road in bine and the Richmond and Dan
ville in red. Between two suns the blue
lines had become as red as the Richmond
and Danville itself. The few other lines
were to be connected in an independent
system. It was not tbe interest of the
state to discourage the building of this in
dependent line. The placing of the tax
would be as sure to prevent the building of
some roads, and every cause is sure to have
its effect. It is out of the auestion to argue
that it will not have any effect.
The state or municipalities can offer no
money inducement for building roads, or
give them .such encouragement as sister
states do give them. If then we discour-
ege them, how far will we fall behind
other states? Tennessee encourages rail
roads. The city of Chattanooga gave aid
to the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus,
and Alabama gave the Alabama Midland
£18,000 or £20,000 a mile. South Carolina !
also gives aid. The railroad mileage is the
measure of prosperity of any state, and it
would be a mistake to enact legislation
which will cause us to fall behind in this.
Mr. Chappell regretted the absence of
Mr. G. Gunby Jordan, who, it was recog
nized, had done as much as any one man
in building railroads in Georgia. The
counties get tax out of the increase in con
sequence of railroad building. The in
crease had been in Muscogee § per cent, in
Spalding 12$ per cent, in Meriwether 12$
per cent, aggregating over 25 per cent, as
the total amount that may be attributed
j to the Georgia Midland and Gulf railroad,
j There had been 50 per cent more rail
roads built in Kansas in one year than
there are now in Georgia. This was due
to friendly legislation.
New York Republicans.
New York, August 15 —The republican
state committee met at the Fifth Avenue
, Hotel to-day and decided to held its con-
Colonel ' ventioa in Saratoga in September.
HE WINKED AT DEATH.
BILL WESTMORELAND HANGED AT
JACKSONVILLE FOR MURDED.
He Walks to the Scaffold With a Smile ou
His Face and Winks Significantly at
an Acquaintance—He Mur
dered His Wile.
Jacksonville, Fia., August 15. — Bill
Westmoreland, a negro murderer, was
hanged here to-day. He was in the com
pany of Father Kenny and Sister Mary
Ann from an early hour this morning, and
up to the moment he swung through the
scaffold exhibited a degree of nerve almost
unprecedented.
At 11 o’clock he was led from a cell in
the county jaii, and in passing through the
office to the yard was permitted to tarry a
few minutes to bid good-bye to his brother,
a prisoner in jail for wife-beating. The
scene was very affecting. The brother
broke down and wept, but Bill said: “That
won’t do any good; brace up, and whan
you get out do right and you won’t have to
die like me.”
As he was led up to the scaffold by
Sheriff Broward, the condemned man
recognized several acquaintances on the
wall of the jail yard, to several of whom he
nodded, and to one he smiled and gave a
significant wink. He repeated all the re
sponses after Father Kenny in a loud,
clear voice, and when his hands bad been
pinioned by the sheriff he straightened
himself up and said, “I’m ready.”
The sheriff dropped his handkerchief as
a signal, and a young Englishman named
Hall, who had volunteered, then sprung
the trap at exactly 11:24 o’clock. His neck
was broken in the fail, and life was ex
tinct in four minutes.
Through. Sister Mary Ann, Westmore
land sent a parting message to his mother
in Georgia. He also left a written state
ment addressed to Hamilton Jay, city edi
tor of the Times Union, in ’which ha
avowed complete repentance, and ex
pressed no fear of death.
The crime for which he was hanged was
committed in this city on the night of
April 5, of this year. Westmoreland went
home drunk, and after quarreling with his
wife, shot her through the heart in the
presence of several people. He was a
habitual wife beater. He was born in At
lanta, and was twenty fire years old.
The execution was witnessed by about
100 people in the jail yard, but the sur
rounding trees, roofs of houses and streets
were filled with negroes anxious to catch
a glimpse of the terrible scene.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
Tbe Speakership Contest Between Reed
and McKinley.
Washington, August 15.—The republi
can speakership contest is growing quite
interesting. McKinley, of Onio, who, with
the protection plank in the Chicago plat
form, will be here m a day or two and
establish headquarters at the Ebbitt
House. He hopes to catch the straggling
congressmen who will be here fiom time
to time looking after appointments for
their friends. Tom Reed has not ventured
near Washington for some time, but just
now he is hobnobbing with the presi
dent at Bar Harbor, and he may
be laving wires that Will secure to him
the administration influence which, with
the spoilsmen of the party, will have
considerable weight. Joe Cannon is in
Illinois, but although Joe is a good fellow,
! he Etands no show of being elected
speaker by a republican congress. Joe is
too much of a people’s man. He wants
to have the mighty excessive tariff re
duced, and that is enough to defeat him by
the party of monopolists. Julius Caisar
Burrows cuts no figure whatever, though
he may play his candidacy to secure an
important committee.
The chances for a southern republican
getting there are about the same as for
the traditional camel to get through a
needle’s eye. Judge Houk, of Tennessee,
is probably the best man in the southern
republican delegation for the place, but
he will be satisfied with a chairmanship
and a promise to repeal the internal rev
enue laws which will never be granted.
It is said that Representative Brower, of
North Carolina, has got all he expected
out of the “bluff - ” on the speakership of
the next house, and will not be heara from
when congress meets. His proclamation
that he would be a candidate for speaker
gave a little fright on account of the very
small republican majority and the conse
quent danger of having any “kickers” in
tne party. Since then he has got three
presidential postmasters in his state—one
at Greensboro, one at Winston and one at
-5,'dsville. At Winston he has offended
the republican paper by getting the ap
pointment of a man who does not live in
the town. In order to appoint his man at
Greensboro, the wife of judge Settle, who
was a candidate for the place, had to be
turned down.
A North Carolina man exolained to-day
how_ Thomas Keogh became “a discon
tent” and got behind Brower in the
speakership scare. James Boyd, former
district attorney in North Carolina, who
was a life-long republican and delegate at
large at Chicago for Harrison, wanted to
be appointed district attorney. He is as
sociated with Keogh in a newspaper down
there, but Judge Mott, who is the Mahone
of North Carolina, secured the appoint
ment to the place of Charles Price,
who is a man of high character,
but an independent iD politics, wno,
on getting the appointment, made Judge
Mott’s son his assistant. Keogh and Boyd
are much diesatisfied over Price’s appoint
ment, and, it is said, resorted to the
Brower speakership scare to force their
recognition with a s uitable amount of pat
ronage. The three postoffices are the only
outcome of this move ud to date, and
there will probably be not much more of
of it unless Keogh should come into the
field himself as a candidate for one of the
offices of the house—doorkeeper or ser
geant-at-arms.
So the speakership contest is really be
tween Reed and McKinley. While Reed
has been the recognized leader of the re
publicans and has received the empty
honor of a caucus nomination when the
republicans were in the minority, he has
at the same time made many enemies in
his party. McKinley is smooth, and has
a large number of friends who will vote for
him after a few ballots. It is yet mere
guess work as to how the different
state delegations will stand. New
England, with few exceptions, will be
for Reed, and possibly New York and
Pennsylvania will divide, Ohio will be
solid for McKinley, Illinois for Cannon
and Michigan for Burrows. The other
western states will be divided among va
rious candidates. A majority of the south
ern republicans are claimed for McKinley.
It is the fellows who cast complimentary
votes for friends and have a second choice
who will settle the contest.
CHICAGO MARKET.
Review of Speculation in the Grain and
Provision Market.
Chicago, August 15.—There was a nota
ble absence of snap in both cash and
speculative branches of the wheat trade
to-day. Business in the pit dragged
heavily all the forenoon, with fluctuations
in prices so narrow as to attract but little
attention, ic covering all changes up to 12
o’clock. From 78$ December shrunk to
78ic. The market;remained limp and un
interesting up to the last. Near’the close
December settled to 78, the latest quota
tions being 78$c.
Corn was fairly active early in the day,
but later ruled quiet. The feeling on the
whole was easier and the bulk of trading
was at lower prices. Influences on the
mar ket were much the same as noted for
several days past, the operations of a
large local holder having considerable
to do with the market. It opened at yes
terday’s closing prices and was easy.
Prices declined in all § to Ac, but final
quotations were g to $c lower than yester
day.
Oats were traded in with less freedom,
and a quiet and easier feeling prevailed,
and prices averaged a fraction lower. In
pork prices ruled irregular and lower,
with quite an active business reported.
Opening sales were made at 10 to 12$c de
cline, and prices fluctuated considerably
and settled back 10 to 10$c. Later prices
rallied 5 to 7$c, but soon weakened again,
and the market closed easy.
Quite a good business was transacted in
mess pork and lard. Early the feeling
was steadier, and prices ruled slightly
higher. Later, a weaker feeling was de
veloped and prices were slightly im
proved, but declined again to inside fig
ures, and closed easy.
Short ribs were active. Prices ruled 7$
to 10c lower, and closed quiet at outside
figures.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Extent of Bnsinegg Done in Listed and Un
listed Stocks Yesterday.
New York, August 15.—Dullness in the
stock market was further increased to
day, and total transactions for the day
were the smallest for any full day for a
long time. The only features of the day
were the pressure upon southwestern
stocks, which found expression toward
the close in a sharp attack upon Atchison,
which forced that stock off over one poiut,
and the nnusnal strength in Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas, which advanced upon talk
of a favorable outcome of reorganization.
Sales of stocks were 110,000 shares. Final
changes, except in the case of Atchison,
which is down l$c, are for small fractions
only, and about equally divided between
gains and losses.
VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS.
McKinney Nominated for Governor by Ac
clamation—Convention Proceedings.
Richmond, Va., August 15.—The state
democratic convention met at 10 o’clock
and proceeded to the second ballot for
governor. Before the roll call was com
pleted Capt. Pnil. W. McKinney was nom
inated by acclamation.
The convention nominated J. Hoge
Tyler, of Pulaski, for lieutenant governor,
by acclamation. The convention next
proceeded to make nominations tor attor
ney general. The names of R. Taylor
Scott, of Fauquier, George Perkins, of
Charlottesville, and R. A. Pollard, of King
and Queen, were presented when a recess
was taken until 4 o’clock.
Upon reassembling the convention pro
ceeded to ballot for attorney-general,
which resulted in the selection of R. D.
Scott.
Basel B. Gordon, of Rappahannock
county, was then elected chairman of the
state central committee, vice Senator Jno.
S. Barbour, declined.
The following platform was then uuani-
mously adopted, after which the conven
tion adjourned sine die:
The democratic party of Virginia, in
convention assembled, proud of its past
achivements, both in state and national
affairs, pledge the same steadfast fidelity
to the best interests of the people in the
future, and declares to the people of Vir
ginia-
First—We congratulate the peoDle of
Virginia that through the wise legislation
and administration of the democratic
partv public schoois have been preserved
in efficient operation and their accommo
dations extended; that the resources nec
essary for the conduct of the government
in all its departments have been secured,
and that the debt question has been put in
train of a final acceptable settlement. We
would reprobate as mischievous to all in
terests the reopening of an issue which
has been the source of so much embarrass
ment and vexation to the commonwealth,
and to the continuance of party adminis
tration, which has dealt with it ably and
wisely. We confidently look to its solu
tion upon the lines of adjustment, which
the people has endorsed, and which the
democratic representatives have faithfully
executed.
Second—The democratic party founded
the public school system of this common
wealth. The present efficiency of the sys
tem is the result of democratic laws and
democratic efforts. We will care for and
support the public schoois until every
child shall be able to secure the benefits of
education. To this eud we favor liberal
appropriations by the federal government,
apportioned among the states in ratio of
illiteracy of their population.
Third—The democratic party regards
the encouragement of fostering agriculture
as all important to the prosperity of Vir
ginia, and that securing valuable immi
grants is necessary to the full success of
agriculture in the state. Therefore, we
declare that the democratic party in its
sympathies, its principles and its policies
is the friend of agriculture, and will, by
all proper legislation, advance, foster and
secure the agricultural interests in the
state.
Fourth—The democratic party has been,
is, and will be, the friend of the laborer.
Its efforts has ever been to dignify labor
and elevate the man. As far as practica
ble, it will prevent a conflict between con
vict and honest labor. It is opposed to
and will resist the introduction of foreign
pauper labor, and we favor the collection
oi statistics by the labor bureau of the
United States aud the consideration by it
of all matters which tend to the improve
ment and advancement of the laborer.
Fifth—The democratic party will foster
the oyster industry of Virginia for the
benefit of her own citizens, and favors the
enforcement of a policy of p -eserving to
her own citizens the free use of all natural
oyster rocks, beds and shoals, as regulated
by law, and will oppose the transfer or
surrender of public rights therein to indi
viduals or corporations.
Sixth—The party renews its adherence
to the principles and policies on the tariff
and internal revenue,*so often enunciated
in the platforms of the state and national
conventions of the democratic party, and
sustained by the voice of the people at the
polls, and especially docs it insist upon the
immediate aoolition of ihe tax upon tobac
co aud fruit brandies.
Seventh—Tha democratic party of Vir
ginia favors a complete remonetization and
free coinage of silver.
Eightn— We are in favor of a law requir
ing the agricui’ural institu'.ions of the state
to be placed under the control of political
farmers.
Ninth—We recommend a revision of.the
laws imposing taxes on land with a view
to relieving it of auy unjust or unequal
taxation now imposed in it.
Tenth—We endorse the wise, patriotic
and judicious administration of Governor j
Fitznugh Lee.
Eleventh—We believe that the men |
who were disabled in the service of the I
state during the late conflict between the
states, and the widows of those who lost j
their lives in such service, are deserving j
of aid and protection, aud we favor such j
liberal appropriations within the revenues
of the states as wili tend to this end.
Twelfth—While earnestlv in favor of
reform in the tariff upon just, conserva
tive and economic principles, we recog
nize that the issues and conditions whic h
confront us in Virginia in the impending
contests, are of immeasurably more im
portance than tariff' reform or a reduction
of federal taxation. Important as those
questions are, every business interest in
tne state, every social interest, every polit
ical interest, demands the democratic :
party, the party of the people, the j
party of peace, good order and good gov- J
eminent, which has safely and wisely con- i
ducted the government of the state through
the trying and troublous times of the past, i
shall be continued in power. We oppose j
the republican party as the party of boss i
rule, asithe party of sectional strife, as the I
party of high taxes, of corrupt and ex
travagant expenditure of public revenues, j
of unjust and oppressive treatment of the
people of the southern states, the creator
of trusts, the promoter of monopolies. We
oppose the republican party as the stirrer
up of strife between the races, as the false
friend of the colored race and the enemy
of the white race, and the candidates
which we present to the judgment of an
enlightened and patriotic people.
Disastrous Prairie Fires.
Milbs City, Mon., August 15.—The
prairies a few miles to the north and
soutbeast-of here are on fire. The fires
cover an area of thousands of acres.
Timber north and south of town, which
are separate from each other, seem to
have caught fire simultaneously, and were
probably struck by lightning Sunday even
ing. Extensive prairie fires are raging in
this county below the falls and traveling
toward Giendive, and it is feared that the
range in the vicinity wiii be lost.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
CONVENTION MEETS IN ATLANTA AND
FORMS A STATE ASSOCIATION.
. Governor Gordon Elected Cominander-in-
I Chief—Other Officers Elected—A Sen
na-ional Incident—A Man
Stabs His Wife, Etc.
Atlanta, August 15.—[Special.]— Be
tween two and three hundred veterans
assembled in the hall of the house of rep
resentatives at the old capitol this morn -
j ing, in response to a call issued by the
| Fulton Veterans’ Association.
Hon. Rufus E. Lester, of Savannah, was
made permanent chairman, and delivered
an eloquent address on the subject of the
“Old Vet,” and the necessity of a state
organization.
A motion was adopted that a telegram
be sent President Davis, conveying the
greetings and affectionate regard ol the
convention.
General Longstreet, General Colquitt
and General Walker entered the hall, and
were received with thundering applause.
On motion, they were invited to seats be
side the chairman, and were escorted
there.
A committee of three from the state at
large and one from each congressional
district was appointed to prepare business,
and the convention adjourned for dinner
The veterans’ convention this afternoon
perfected a state organization and elected
the following officers:
| Commander-in-chief—General Gordon,
j Commanders for the state at large—
; Generals Colquitt, Cook, Young, Adju-
; tant-General Kell.;
Division commanders, one from each
congressional district—Gen. G. M. Sor
rell, Cols. R. T. Crittenden, A. 9. Cutts,
Georee H. Carmichael, W. L. Calhoun, I.
T. Crowder, A. M. Foute, R. B Nesbit,
Claiborne Snead.
The association had a reunion meeting
at the new capitol to night, and speeches
were made by Governor Gordon, Dr. J.
William Jones, Senator Massengaie and
Representatives Glenn and Grady.’
A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT.
A Man Stabs His Wife While She is Prom
enading With a Legislator.
Atlanta, August 15.—[Special.]—There
was a seusational incident at Grant Park
this afternoon Representative Dodgen.
of Milton, was promenading with a iady,
when her husband came up and stabbed
her six or seven times with a pocket knifs
and ran, leaving her weltering in blood,
and Dodgen paralyzed. The man was J.
J. Patterson, connected With the street
railroad. He and his wife had had a great
deal of trouble, and separated Monday.
He has been very jealous since, ana seeing
her with another gentleman this after
noon, tried to kill her. The woman was
carried to the Ivy street hospital, but the
wounds are not serious. No arrests.
Will Levy a Special Tax.
Atlanta, August 15.—The house finance
committee finds the treasury snows a de
ficit of between £50,000 and £100,099, and a
special tax will have to be ievied. The
legislature has appropriated more than
there was money to pay.
BOULANGER’S SENTENCE.
j It Occasioned No Excitement iu Paris.
Press Opinious.
Paris, August 15.—The senteace im
posed on General Boulanger, Count Dillon
and Henri Rochefort by the senate, yes
terday, occasioned no excitement in tnis
city. Thus far tha utmost quietness has
prevailed. Republican journals are con
vinced that public opinion wiii ratify the
decree of the court. Conservative and
Boulangist papers are sanguine that tha
general elections for members of the cham
ber of deputies will show that the people
do not approve of the verdict.
It is alleged that M. Waddington,
French ambassador to Eneland, has been
instructed to s.und the English govern
ment on the question of extraditing Gen
eral Boulanger, Count Dillon and Henri
Rochefort.
MRS. MAYBRICK CASE.
Au Expert Chemist Says Maybrick Died
Through His Own Secret Habits.
Liverpool, August 15.—Mr. Stewart, an
analytical chemist of Glasgow, who was
prepared to testify at the trial of Mrs.
Maybrick, recently sentenced to be hanged
for poisoning her husband, and whose evi
dence, the condemned woman said, wa3
kept back, has written a letter, in which
he says that Mr. Maybrick died through
his own secret habit of taking a desidera
tum—that is, arsenic drinking.
London, August 15.—The Lancet, the
noted medical journal, publishes a five
column review of the trial, and comes to
the conclusion that the evidence warranted
the verdict.
New York, August 15.—The lawyers in
this city of Mrs. Maybrick, under sen
tence of death in Liverpool for poisoning
her husband, have received important
evidence in favor of their client. The
attorneys are Roe & Macklin. Alfred
Monck, a lawyer of Montreal, sends a
letter to the firm stating that a Mrs. Yapp,
who was the chief witness against Mrs.
Maybrick, had to leave Montreal about
three years ago to escape the possibility
of being indicted for peijury. At that
time a man named Malvin Smith brought
action against his wife for separation.
Mrs. Yapp was the chief witness for
Smith and gave very damaging evidence
against the wife. It is shown, however,
that Smith’s mistress and the woman
Yapp had, with Smith’s aid. plotted a
deep conspiracy to blacken Mrs. Smith’s
character. The plot failed, however.
Mrs. Yapp fl9d the country immediately
thereafter.
Dudley M. Holman, managing editor of
the Portland, Me., Evening Express, also
sends a letter, stating that Mrs. Maybrick
once lived in Portland, where she was
highly respected. He asas the advice of
tbe lawyers regarding the propriety of
getting a petition, signed by leading citi
zens of Portland, and forwarding the same
to Secretary of State Blaine requesting
him to interest himself in the case.
The lawyers wrote a reply in approval
of the idea.
A well known lawyer, who arrived to
day from England, and who was present
during Judge Stephens’ charge to the jury,
was seen at Roe & Macklin’s office. He
does not wbh his name published While
in England he gave the Maybrick case
careful study. “I never heard such a
prejudiced charge delivered,” said he, “by
a judge ia my many years’ experience at the
bar. Mrs. Maybrick’s lawyers could not
get in a word edgewise. When they en-
deavorea to curb the judge in his charge,
they got snubbed for their pains. Ail the
people in England were opposed to con
viction except the judge. I do not think
the home secretary will allow the woman
to be executed. I called to see her after
conviction, and she presented a pitiful
sight. She t-xclaimed:
“‘I did not do it; I did not do it. My
folly I admit. I wa3 led astray by a man
who had au unnatural influence over me.
That wa3 my only sin. I would sooner
have lost my life than hurt one hair of my
husband’s head.’ ”
Messrs. Roe & Mackiin, her lawyers, will
forward the evidence they have to Secre
tary Blaine at once.
Tbe Smokeless Powder.
Berlin, August 15.—All accounts of ex
periments with smokeless powder at the
Spandau sham fight, concur in saying that
no smoke was visible at a distance of
thirty tirards, and no smoke was heard be
yond a Blight tapping. A strange effect
was produced by the spectacle of a large
mas3 of troops in a firing position seem
ingly inactive, but really pouring forth a
deadly fire.
The Oesippee at Key West.
Washington, August 15.—The navy de
partment has received a telegram from
Commander Kellogg reporting the arri
val of the United States ehip Ossippee to
day at Key West. On the 11th inst., he
rescued Seamen King and jones, who
were left on Arena’s Key, Yucatan, by
the American schooner Anna O’Brien.
The third man died on the Sth inst.
Hon. Win. Milne* Dead.
Harrisonburg, Va., August 15 —Hon.
Wm. Mimes, Jr., died last night at 7
o’clock at Milne3, Va. He was born in
England, and was sixty-one years of age.
He was elected to congress in 1SS9 from
this district, and served one term. He
was proprietor of the Milnes Iron Works,
and was’one of the most prominent busi
ness men of the place.