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Columbus
VOL. XXXI. NO. 308
COLOMBOS. GEORGIA. eATUiiUAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1889.
DON'T GET WET!
Preserve Your Health.
Ladies’, Children’s and Boys’ Rubber Gar-
ments aTe sold so low that they are within the
reach of all. One or two dollars invested m a
good Gossamer may save a'$10 doctor’s bill and
any amount of worry and uneasiness. Our
stock is full and varied in styles and prices are
low.
J. A. KIltVEN & CO.
Pond Lilies,
Apple Blossoms
AND
Morning Glories,
AU on Plushes of choice colorings for fronts to
Tea Gowns and Fancy Work. Also a large lot
of China Silk Tidies just received.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
COLUMBUS POSTOUFICE.
LAST WEEK
We announced a cut in the prices on onr Wraps,
for the reason we are overstocked Although
our business was heavy, we still have too manv,
and will continue the cut this week. fY n’t for
get we have a choice line of Wraps for babies in
long clothes and children from two to four
years old.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
We show the best $1.50 Blanket ever offered,
and our $5.00 white Wool Blankets are the
largest and best to be had for the money in this
•city. Downy Crib Blankets, Pulman Colored
Single Blankets $2.00 to $6.00. If you need
Blankets don’t fail to see our stock.
J. A. KIRYEN & CO.
The b?st 50 cents Ladies’ Merino Vest, extra
large sizes in Ladies’ Ribbad Vests. The best
Gents’ Shirt for 50 cents ever oifered. Gr rat bar-
gain in Ribbed Top Half Hose at 20 cents.
American Hosiery Company’s Tan and Brown
Colored Half Hose at 25 cents, warranted not to
fade or stain the feet.
,T. A. KIRVEN & CO.
Angora Hair Fringe,
In White, Brown, Tan and Black, new and very
stylish. Also new Silk Gimps. Cords and
Fringes. Keep your eyes on our counters if vou
would keep apace with all the new and stylish
trimmings, etc.
J. A. K ERVEN & CO.
Millinery.
Our Silk and Velvet Hats and Bonnets are
recognized as best workmanship ever turned out
from any Cclumbus establishment. We strive
to excell in style and quality, and are confident
of our success on this line.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
PREISTLEY’S
BLACK DRESS GOODS,
We carry the largest stock of these goods and
will make very close figures Our 46-inch All-
Wool Blank Henrietta Cloth for $1.60 is a grand
barga n. Our4o-inch Preistley Serge for 85 cents
is the best value ever offered, wananted to wear
equal to any $1.60 goods.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
CHRISTMAS
NOVELTIES!
WATCH OUR WINDOWS
THAD STURGI3S CAN BE POSTMASTER
IF HE WANTS TO.
Congress Adjourns Until Monday — Alton
Angler and the Census — 8tewart’s
Tariff Bill — Other Interest
ing Washington News.
Washington, Deo. 13.—[Special.]—Con
gress has adjouned until Monday. AU of
the members drew their mileage pay today
and look happier than at any time since
Silcott scooped them. He generously left
them their mileage money. The Georgia
tmembers drew on an average $150 mileage
each. The Texas and Pacific slope people
drew large sums. A member fr >m Califor
nia or Oregon, for example, will be
entitled to $1300. Major Martin, the cele
brated Texan, drew about $600 this mora-
ng in crisp new bills.
There is nothing of moment here today.
The weather is like summer and the streets
are filled with people, who stop and gaze
at the resplendant shop windows. No city
prepares for the holiday season more lit
erally than the national capital.
The Columbus Pontoflice.
I heard a Republican say last night that
Thad Sturgis could get the Columbus post-
office if he wanted it, but he doubled if he
would want it. This Republican is in the
postal service here and is close to the
throne. I presume he kuows what he is
talking about.
Jlton Augier and the Census.
It is rumored that Alton Augier, of At
lanta, will be appointed Supervisor of
Census for Georgia, Already a great many
inquiries are reaching the members aoout
the census work.
A Novel Tariff Bill.
Judge Stewart will introduce a novel
tariff bill. Its title reads to prohibit trusts.
It provides that when a trust or combina
tion is organized to control the prices
of merchandise or commodities that the
Secretary of the Treasury report the
fact to the President and, if after inquiry,
the executive finds 6uch trusts to exist, he
may defeat it by issuing a proclamation
putting such articles as are cornered on the
non dutiable list. The measure has at
tracted some comment by reason of its
novelty and has the approval of some of
the leadiug tariff reformers in the House.
E. P. S.
ried in Spain when he was appointed Min
ister to that country by President Grant.
She made the acquaintance of Diuham
while visiting her grandfathers home
stead. For some time while she was in
the convent at Montreal she kept up a
correspondence with Dinham.
A VERT STRANGE STORY
THE DAVIS MONUMENT.
Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, Scarfs,
Cuff Buttons, Studs, Toilet Cases,
Collar and Cuff Boxes, Suspenders,
And a variety of new things that will not be seen elsewhere.
000 PRICES WILL BE TOE LOWEST
Possible for the fine qualities we show. You will regret
making your purchase if you fail to examine our stock.
Chancellor & Pearce.
Remember we will receive so’utions to our XMVS
PRIZE PUZZLE until December 24. Correct solution and
prizes awarded will be published on that day.
Notes From Thomtstou.
Thomaston, Ga., Deo. 12.—[Special.]—
The Maconiand Birmingham railroad is the
general topic of conversation, not only in
town but throughout the county. Thom
aston has long desired to be on a grand
trunk line such as this road. It does a
large trade with Macon, and is one of its
strongest friends and supporters. To be
thus united with the Central City, and
convenient to Columbus via the Georgia
Midland is a consummation devoutly
to be wished. Who can censure the citi
zens of Thomaston for doing their best to
induce the Macon andBirmingham railroad
to run through the town, when so much
is at stake? When the road is thus built
it will have a solid road-bed and there
will be a saving in two or three bridges
and trusties. About five hundred hands
are now at work on that part of the road
lying in Upson county, and the line is to
be completed to the Georgia Midland by
the first of May. The M. & B., with the
G. S. -v F., will be the best road in the
South.
Deadly Electric Wires.
New York, Dec. 13.—The general term
of the Supreme Court has handed down
a decision reversing the decision
of Judge Andrew in the matter of
electric wires. The decision dissolves the in
junction which has hitherto prevented the
city authorities from taking down the wires.
Notice was immediately sent to all electric
light companies whose wires have been
complained of as defective informing
them that the faulty wires must be re
moved. If the notice is not complied with
in ten days the department of Public
Works will undertake the work with a
force of bureau of incumbrances.
House Committee ou Elections.
Washington, Dec. 13.—The House com
mitten on elections held its first meeting
and effected an organization this morning.
Chester H. Rowell, or Illinois, son of the
chairman, was selected as clerk. A sub
committee on rules was selected, consist
ing of the Chairman, and Messrs. Houk,
Cooper, Crisp, and O’Ferrell. This sub
committee will be charged with the
iirangement of the seventeen contested
election cases now awaiting settlement.
The committee will meet again, subject to
’all when the sab-committee is ready to
report.
Engineer Allen Drops Dead.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 13 —W. B
Allen, a well-known engineer of the Geor
gia Pacific railroad, dropped dead on his
locomotive at Leeds yesterday. He was
unwell, but insisted on fulfilling his duty
snd went out as usual. He got to Leeds,
"where he reached for thq air brake, and
instead of grasping the handle fell in the
fireman's arms with the exclamation, “Oh,
my God,” and died. He was chief of di
vision 207, Brotherhood Locomotive En
gineers of Atlanta. He leaves a wife and
children.
Review Chicago Market.
Chicago, Dec. 13. — In wheat, good
trading characterized the speculative
market on the whole, though at times a
■quiet feeling prevailed. The * market
opened at about yesterday’s closing figures,
held barely steady for a while, and then
under large offerings declined 1 to 14c- for
May, and l]c. for December, closing 4 to
lower than yesterday.
Corn was exceedingly dnll. The feeling
Was steady, and values showed little
change compared with yesterday’s final
quatations, being about the same.
Oats were weaker and a shade lower.
May was the principal future traded in,
out fluctuations were only 4c.
Iu mess pork trading was only moderate
and the feeling was steadier. Prices were
advanced 5 to 54c, but with moderate free
offerings a reduction of 2] to 5c was sub
mitted. The market closed quiet.
in lard prices were advanced about 24c.
early in the day, but settled back again
and closed steady.*
In short Tib sides there was a fair trade,
and the feeling was firmer. Prices were
advanced 24c. early, but the appreciation
was not supported.
Baud Offerings-
. ^^bington, Dec. 13.—Bond offerings
’ * 151 ’300: all accepted at 127 for 4 per
cents and 1048 for 4J’s.
A Railroad Rumor.
Danville, Va., Dec. 13 —There is an
undercurrent of excitement here to day
because of the well authenticated rumor
that the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company has obtained an option on bonds
of Danville and New River Railroad Com
pany, and will soon purchase that prop
erty. The Danville and New River Com
pany is a short line from Danville to
Patrick Court House and in the direction
of the proposed extension of the Atlantic
and DaDville railroad westward. It is be
lieved here that the object of the Rich
mond and Danville Company is either to
build west from this point to the coal
fields or to handicap the Atlantic and
Danville Company in its proposed West
ern extension.
Colton Futures,
New York, Dec. 13 —The Sun’s cotton
review says: Futures opened depressed
by weak Liverpool and a general absence
of speculative interest. Late bulls gave
the market no support because
they received no encouragement
from other sources. A further
decline was caused by interior receipts ex
ceeding the estimates, and stock showing
an increase of about 40,000 bales, but the
close was steady on a rumor that forth
coming figures from Ellison. Ellison in
dicates a further increase in the cuirent
consumption.
The Strike at London.
London, Dec. 13 —The strike of the men
employed in the gas house of the South
Metropolitan Company was affected peace
ably. Twelve hundred meD,who were en
gaged to take the strikers’ places, entered
the works under the escort of the police.
The crowd outside the works groaned at
them. The pickets posted by the strikers
to intercept these men were outwitted,
aDd were unable to obstruct their entrance.
Charged With Poisoning His Wife.
LaFayette. Ind., Dec 13.—After two
days of preliminary examination before a
justice of tbe peace, the oail bond of Rev.
William F. Pettit, charged by affidavit
with administering poison to his wife, was
fixed at $10,000 Mrs. Pettit died last June,
her death indicating strychnine poison.
An analsya of the stomach revealed over a
half grain of strychnine, and Her husband
was arrested last week at Columbus, Oaio.
The accused is a prominent Meshodist
minister.
Pan- \merican Conference.
Washington, Dec. 13.—The Pan-Ameri
can Conference today completed the work
of formulating rules and appointing com
mittees, and adjourned until January 25.
Meantime the delegates will visit New
York, spending all of next week except
Saturday there. That day they will leave
for WilmingtoD, Del., eu route to Wash
ington from New York. It is said that
several of the committees expect to report
upon the subjects assigned to them at the
reassembling of the conference, January
25.
Virginia Oyster Flats.
Richmond, Va., Dec. 13.—The Senate
today passed a bill repealing the taw
opening of the Hog Island flits for plant-
ing oysters. The effect of the bill will be
to abrogate the lease of Lewis, which led
to the recent conflict between the dredgers
and the Virginia oyster navy.
A joint resolution was adopted in both
Houses of the Legislature today urging
Virginia’s Senators and Representatives in
Congress to vote for holding the Worlds
Fair at Washington.
Affairs in Italy.
Rome. Dec. 13 —A consistory will be
held at the Vatican on the 30th instant.
The epidemic of influenza in a very
tv.ua fnrm is Drevalent here. Dr. Cana-
bids director of the board of health, has
started for St. Petersburg to study the
disease there and to determine if possible,
why it burned eventually a malignant
form in order that he may do what sterns
necessary to prevent such a result in
Rome.
The Influenza Epidemic.
ANTWERP, Dec. 13.—The influenza ®P‘“
demic has made its appearance mtfos
city. Tnere are a large number of cases or
the disease among the troops in the g
son.
An Address by the Pregg Association Or
ganized at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Dec. 13.—Before the
meeiing of the Soutnern Press Monument
Association adjourned yesterday, President
Childress was instructed to appoint one
vice president for each Slate. He has
therefore made the appointments as fol
lows: South Carolina, J. C. Hemphill,
Cnariesiou News-Courier; North Carolina,
S. A. Ashe, Raleigh News and Ooserver;
Florida. W, C. E. Merrill, Jacksonviila
Times Union; Arkansas, George William
Caruth, Little Rock Gazette; Virginia, W.
G. Walter, Richmond Dispatch; Maryland,
Asa Bell, Baltimore Sun; Louisiana, F. E.
Davis of the Picayune, Page M. Baker of
the Times-Dsmocrat, Georgs A. Dupre of
the States and Joo. Fairfax of the Ukty Item;
Missouri, C. H. Jones, St. Louis Republic;
Kentucky, W. N. Haldemman, of the
Courier journal; Tennessee, W. A. Collier,
of the Memphis Appea ; Aiamama, W. W.
Screws, of the Montgomery Advertiser;
Texas, A. S. Below, of the Galveston
News: Mississippi, J. L Power, of tne
Jackson Clarion; Georgia, J. H. Estill,
of the Savannah News.
The following address was drafted by
the committee duly appointed at the meet
ing yesterday:
The purpose of the people of the South
to build a grand monument to Jefferson
Davis was syrehronous with the last breath
of the dying hero of the Confederate
cause. It is not, therefore, to create new
enthusiasm; it is to centralize and direct
the course of that which already fills mill
ions of patriotic souls that the newspaper
press of the South have organized to co
operate with the association of the United
Confederate Veterans whose coenmander-
in chief is general John B. Gordon, of
Georgia.
While the great soul of Jefferson Davis,
freighted with the indefeasible truth of
the Southern cause of constitutional liber
ty, has winged its flight to the throne of
tne God of truth, his earthly remains
must be duly honored by those for whom
he suffered, and we should be dead to
every sentiment of duty, every prompting
of gratitude and love, did we not now,
that he has been called hence, seek in
every fitting way to perpetuate his mem
ory and prove to the world and to poster
ity that we know how to appreciate so
pure, so noble, so unexalted character.
We now do no more than state the
object of the association to secure the
earnest and enthusiastic co-operation of
every newspaper in the South. Tnat
object in itself so noble, so patriotic, so
suggestive, that the heart of every man
and woman in all our broad fair land will
at once beat responsive to it.
George W. Dupre, chairman; Page M.
Baker, Thomas E. Davis, John W. W.
Fairfax, New Orleans; W. G. Walter,
Richmond, Va.; W. W. Screws, Mont
gomery, Ala ; M. A. Collier, Memphis,
Tenn.; E N. Carmack, Nashville, Team;
EdP. McKissick, Charleston, S. C ; R M.
Johnson, Houston, Texas; John Hender
son, West Point, Miss.; Laon Jastremaski,
Louisiana; John W. Childress, ex-officio
chairman.
Told by a Very Strange Old Man Who
Called on tbe Governor.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 13.—There was a
strange visitor at the capital yesterday
afternoon. An old man, nearly blind,
groped his way into the executive office
and asked for the Governor. Governor
Gordon was absent, and the old mart said
Judge Nisbet would do just as well.
“I have just come for some advice.” he
said: “I am a kinsman of President Zach
ary Taylor, Col. John D. Williamson, of
Rome, and Mr. Sam Inman of Atlanta.
My name is Tailiaferro. Twenty years ago
I was a detective and shadowed a gang of
counterfeiters in Mobile. I was dis
covered, and the counterfeiters shot
me twice, chloroformed me and car
ried me aboard a ship. I was
taken to Rome, Itaiy, and placed in a dun
geon near the Pope’s palace. There I
was left for fifteen years. Finally I es
caped and came back to this country.
What I want to know is, can I in aay way
prosecute the counterfeiters if I find
them?”
The question was a knotty one, but the
Judge was equal to it, and advised the
Monte Christo of this century to go to
Mobile and consult the United States Dis
trict Attorney.
The old man was well dressed ana said
he had plenty of moDey. He thanked the
Judge and left the office.
NAUGHTY MRS. KETCHUM.
She Left Sixteen Children and Took 8800
in Cash.
New York, Dec. 13.—Many people in
Bayshore, L. I., are wondering what has
become of Mr3. Sarah E. Ketchum, the
wife of Joseph Ketchum, a boss carpenter
well known in the neighborhood. Mrs.
Ketchum has not been seen in the village
since Wednesday of last week, nor have
any of her relatives and friends been able
to obtain any tidings of her. Her husband
and sixteen children, the youngest but a
few months old, are disconsolate at her
absence. The husband’s grief is intensi
fied by the disappearance also of about
$800 which he believes his wife took wrh
her.
Rumor says that Mrs. Ketchum, who is
a decidedly attractive woman, thirty seven
years of age, has eloped with a man who
formerly worked for her husband. That
Mr. Ketchum has a similar theory as to his
wife’s disaDpearanoe is shown by his visit
ing Brooklyn and New York in search of
her and the man in question. He, how
ever, says he thinks she is the victim of
foul play and robbery and is dead. She
left home Wednesday afternoon while
Ketchum was at work in another part of
the village and took a train for Brooklyn.
Besides tbe money, which Ketcuum says
was the proceeds of a mortgage which had
been paid off by a neighbor to whom he
had loaned it, Mrs. Ketchum took all her
jewelry and some articles of clothing in a
small satchel. It is reported that Ketchum
has been drinking heavily lately and that
his conduce has led to frequent quarrels
between himself and wife and that there
had been a more than ordinarily hot quar
rel on Wednesday morning.
The greatest sufferers oy the woman’s
absence are sixteen offspring, the younger
ones especially crying pitifuiiy for mamma
all day long. Neighbors are assisting Mr.
Ketchum in the care of his family.
A WHOLE FAMILY BROWNED.
TRADE AND TRAFFIC.
DUN & CO.’S REVIEW OF TRADI
THE PAST WEEK.
Business Generally Saiisfac ory — Woolen
Goods Trade — Iron Trade — Specu
lative Markets—Business Fail
ures For the Week.
NEWS FROM ATLANTA.
A Test Case—New Military Advisory Board.
Convict-d of Mu der.
Atlanta, Dec. 13.—[Special.]—Fulton’s
Sheriff levied today on the Atlanta and
Florida railroad tor $2443 tax and $500 for
feit. It is understood the road win make
a test of the consti utiouality of existing
exemptions of a number of Georgia roads
from raxes. The Atlanta and West Point
railroad returned mileage over which it
hauls sleeping ears, but will resist the tax
on tne ground of interstate commerce.
The Governor, the Gate City Guards,
and others of the Georgia delegation to
the Davis funeral returned today.
The Governor has appointed a new mili
tary advisory board, retaining most of the
old board. The new members are, Seaton
Gramland, of Griffin; C. M. Wiley, of Ma
con, ana J. W. Clark, of Augusta.
The trial of Will Henry for the murder
of Bell Thomas, was concluded today with
a conviction and life sentence. Both were
negro burglars serving a sentence when
this crime was committed.
A well known negro politician, George
Thrasher, was convicted in the City Court
today of larceny and sentenced to $1000
fine or twelve months.
A SOCIETY SENSAl ION.
In Heroic Efforts to Save Each Other—A
Sad and Thrilling Story.
Port Washington, Wis., Dec. 13 —A
terrible and peculiar drowning accident
occurred yesterday, by which a mother
and her three children were drowned at
Tankville, on the Milwaukee river. A 6 j ear
old son of Claude Augustine went to the
river bank and ventured out on the ice. It
suddenly broke, and he fell into the water
His mother heard his cries and rushed to
his rescue. Frantically throwing herseif
into the icy water, she endeavored to save
her drowning boy. In a few moments
she was beyond her depth, and drown
ing herself. Her seventeen-year-old
daughter, Augusta, heard the cries and
hastened to the spot. Seeing her mother
in the water she rushed to her rescue.
The ice broke with her and she was
thrown into the torrent. Mother
and daughter locked themselves to
gether «in the death struggle aud suuk
beneath the water and ice. They were
just disapoearing when a four-year-old
son of Mrs. Augustine, who had been
with his sister, toddled out on the ice with
plaintive cries of “Mamma, mamma, I
want you.” He ran over tbe ice until he
reached the hole in which his mother, his
sister and his brother were buried. The
little fellow saw bis mother and sister sink
and threw himself, as he supposed, into his
mother’s arms. In an instant he was car
ried beneath the ice. Christian Hellson
saw the tragedy, but was powerless to
render aid. He was on rotten ice and
broke in several times before he reached
the spot where the family had been wiped
out.
New York, Dec. 13 —R. G. Duu & Co.,
in their weekly review of trade, say:
But for one thing, business reports re
ceived this week would be exceptionally
satisfatory. Among all the reports re
ceived there is not one that does not men
tion mild, open and unseasonable
weather, as accounting for some depression
in one or more branches of business. The
effect is especially marked in the clothing
trade, which has not wholly recovered
from the unfavorable results of the last
open winter, and at Philadelphia it begins
to be feared that some misfortune will
occur unless good winter weather comes
soon.
Trade iu woolen goods and in heavy
boots and shoes is also retarded, and the
anthracited coal trade even more serious,
though the suppression of the detailed
weekly reports leaves much to the im •
agination. On the other hand there is
some compensation, in fact that the open
weather has enabled building operations
to be carried on longer than usual and
activity in that large department is almost
unprecedented. At many points, notably
at Philadelphia, where real estate is also
active, and at Boston, where rebuilding
after the fires there, and at Lynn, causes
especial demands for materials. The
holiday trade has also commenced early
and is of unusual magnitude thus far,
indicating that millions have had a pros
perous year and are inclined to spend
freely.
Strong evidence that the situation is
healthy appears in the returns of the iron
furnaces for December 1, which show a
weekly output of 169.151 tons against 163,-
225 for November 1, and 148,913 a year ago,
with an output at the rate of 8,750,000 tons
per annum. Iron does not yield in price,
though it is admitted that heavy sales
have’been made at figures below Phila
delphia quotations, and in many instances
probably at $19 with a guarantee against
loss if prices fall. It is hoped that $20 may
be established for the coming year, but
tnere is some evidence of uncertainty in
the market for bar iron and other fioisbed
products, though steel rails are firm at $35.
Advancing prices are noted at Pittsburg,
and great activity in ore at Cleveland,
where it is stated the entire Lake Superior
product for the next year has been already
sold, Bessemer at $6 per ton.
Cotton manufacture continues undis
turbed, and chough receipts and exports
of raw cotton both fell below last year for
this week, the price is unchanged. In
spite of the effect of the unseasonable
weather on woolen manufacture, sales of
wool at Boston were exceptionally large,
4,014,200 pounds at firm prices, with signs
of improvement in Delaines, Ohio, and
Michigan-
Speculative markets have been stronger,
but show no unwholesome activity. Cff.e
has risen 8c. witn sales of 316,030 bags, and
the enormous exports of cot to a thus far in
December amount to $47,555,036 in value,
against $38 929.210 last year, 'with prices
uuoiiau^ed. The general levil of prices
has slightly declined for the week, but is
about a 5lh of one per cent above that of
December.
Fears of monetary difficulty have flown
away, but the market has not grown easy
as yet, nor have reinforcements come
from any quarter. The East, is in want of
funds; the Ws:8t finds in tbe phenomenal
business activity employment for a large
amount sent thither, and anticipated im
ports of gold from Europe do not arrive.
Foreign exchange indeed is a shade
stronger than a week ago. The Treasury
has managed to avoid accumulation, and
holds $100,000 less cash than on Friday
last, but there is thought to be some pros
pect that speedy action on the tobacco tax
may cut down the revenue without wait
ing for a general revision of the tariff and
tax laws.
Business failures occurring (throughout
the country during the last week number
for the United States 260, Canada 30: total
290, against 316 last week.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
liberation that ever guided him in public
affairs. Having been called to the gravest
duties as the Executive of tbe Confedera
cy, he accepted the task in the same con
scientious appreciation of duty that ever
characterized him in every relation of life;
and when failure and desolation came as
the result of the desperate conflict, he felt
that he owed It to his own sincere faith and
to the people of the South, to live and die
an alien to the Govei nment he had strug
gled to overthrow.
Sad as was the day in the South that
told the story of Lee’s surrender, the
saddest day that ever cast its pall over that
section was that which dated the murder
cf Abraham Lincoln. In tbe natural
tempest of passion that followed, the next
President intensified the violence of public
sentiment, and the fleeing President of
the broken Confederacy was proclaimed a
murderous conspirator and a large reward
offered for his arrest. Unfortunately for
the country, but fortunately for the fame
of Mr. Davis, he was captured, imprisoned
and suffered wanton indignities and cruel
ties in his prison life. It soon became ap
parent that he was absolutely innocent of
the charge of implication in the assassina
tion of President Lincoln,and it was equally
clear that there was no law that could
punish him for treason after his Govern
ment had been conceded belligerent rignts
for four years; but law and passion were in
conflict, and it was not until he had been
imprisoned for two years that the Gov
ernment found a method of escape from
its own universally confessed blunder. He
was then admitted to bail in the sum of
$100,000, and the records of the United
States Court at Richmond show
that he was released from the bond
only when summoned to the Great
Judge of all the living. This persecution
logically awakened the keenest sympathies
for Mr. Davis in tbe South, as he was
made the sacrifice for the whole people of
tho insurgent States. Resentments which
were keen and aggressive when the war
ended were speedily effaced by the natural
sympathy for one who was suffering
for a common people, and he lived and
died generally respected and widely be
loved in the entire South.
It is the common impression in the
North that Jefferson Davis had no sym
pathy with the Government of the re
stored Union. In that impression great
injustice has been done to him. He be
lieved that, as the voluntarily chosen ex
ecutive of the Confederacy, he could not,
in justice either to his convictions or to
the responsibilities he had accepted in the
conflict, resume'his citizenship. He be
lieved it best for the history of the strug
gle for the Confederacy and for the inter
ests of the Southern people that he should
remain single from his fellow-actors in the
bloody drama. The war left him with
out home or country, and he lived in
honorable dependence and died an
alien to the restored Union that has made
the South emerge from the devastation of
war to enlarged prosperity. He cordially
sympathized with the Southern people ia
their restored citizenship, aud the bond-
men for whose continued enelavement he
had battled, were ever encouraged by him
in the new responsibilities of citizenship.
While Mr. Davis hasolten inconsiderately
criticized the policy of the Government
to which,he voluntarily made himself a
stranger, the unshackled black man never
heard other thin words of generous sym
pathy from the de posed insurgent ruler.
The death of Jefferson Davis removes at
once and forever the irritation that his
frequent deliverances on public questions
provoked, and now for tne hrst time his
name and his money will be severed from
the passions of the present and he will go
into history as one of the most sincere,
conscientious and self-denying of all the
Confederate leaders. He was born and
nursed in the lap of States Rights;
he was steadily schooled in the
ultra faith of Southern mascry and
advancement, and he is the one of all who
believed aud taught as he did, who pro
claimed and defended its faith even when
its cause lived only in sorrowing memo
ries. History will say that Jefferson Divis
was honest in faith, expression and effort
a like at Montgomery when he was
crowned amidst the smiles and roses of the
sunny South; iu the prison celi when hope
and friends seemed to have perished, and
in the hour when the long halt was called
that summoned him to the- dreamless
couch of the dead.
WEALTH AND Tiax.E TO WED AGAIN.
AWAITING THE VERDICT.
the Murderers of dr. cronih
hanging in the balance.
The Argument Finished, the Judge’s
Charge Delivered, but the Jury Had
not Agreed on a Verdict at II
O’clock Last Night.
Chicago, Dec. 13.—Judge Longenecker-
made the concluding argument in the Cro
nin case.
At the close of Judge Longeuecker’s ad
dress Judge McConueil read his charge to
the jury. Iu opening his instructions to
the jury, Judge McConnell, after defining
murder and accessory circumstantial evi
dence and conspiracy, the Judge said In
regard to Beggs that it was not sufficient
for them to find that a resolution was
adopted for the appointment of a secret
committee in camp 20 Feb. 8, but it must
farther appear, beyond a rea
sonable doubt, that such committee
was appointed by Beggs, and iu further-
ence of a conspiracy to commit murder.
If the jury believed any or all of the de
fendants had conspired to kill Cronin,
they were guilty of murder, whether the
identity of the actual murderer be estab
lished or not, or whether such defendants
were present at the time or the killing or
not; whether Burke rented and furnished
the Carlson cottage or not, and notwith
standing that the jury might believe that
Cronin was murdered iu the cottage, yet
they would not be justified in concluding
that Burke was a party to the alleged
conspiracy unless Burke’s acts were in
tended by Mm to assit iu the murder.
The same applied to Coughlin’s act in
hiring Dipan’s horse, and to O’Sullivan’s
c ontract. The jury could not legally con
vict upon the mere doctrine of chance and
probaoility, and if after a careful consider
ation they did not feel morally certain of
the guilt of the defendants, it was the
jury’s duty to acquit them.
After the retirement of the jury, and be
fore the prisoners were escorted back to
jail, there was considerable discussion over
the question of which of the articles of
feree iu evidence should be taken to tho
jury room for the inspection of the jury.
This discussion lasted fifteen or twenty
minutes, and in the course of it counsel for
the defense formally renewed the various
motions before made against the introduc
tion in evidence of those specified, consist
ing mostly of the trunk and valise in
which the clothes were found, the instru
ment case, O’Sullivan’s card, the trunk
strap, doctor’s memoranda book, etc.
In short, the only articles which were
offered in evidence, which were not taken
to the jury room, were the doctor’s
clothes, and had the State insisted they
would probably also have gone to the
jury, but Longenecker did not pross the
point and the defense objected. It was
decided that the clothing saould not go to
the jury’s room unless it was so requested
by tne jury later in its deliberations.
At 4:35 p. m. court adjourned until 8 p.
in., at wmch time the jury in the case, if
it nas agreed upon a verdict, will be
brought into the court room.
AUhougU there is naturally no well
founded ground for the supposition, it is
generally expected that the delioeratious
of the jury will be long, tiresome and
stubborn, and no one expects a verdict be
fore late in the night or soma time tomor
row.
Judge McConnell came into court at8:20
and after waiting a few minutes left again
without opening court, as there was no
communication from the jury. He said
ne would return at 10 o’clock.
At 10 o’clock the Judge entered the court
room, and finding no communication from
the jury, announced that if there were
nothing at 11 p. m. be would adjourn until
tomorrow.
Daughter of General Sickles Elopes With
a Bartender.
White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 13.—An
elopement came to light here yesterday
when Ihomas Dinham and Miss Alta
Sickles applied to the Rev. F. B. Van
Kleeck, pastor of Grace Episcopal church,
to get married. Miss Sickles is a daughter
of General Daniel Sickles and a grand
daughter of George E. Sickles, who died
about three years ago at New Rochelle,
leaving an estate valued at about $2,000,000.
Miss Sickles is eighteen years ola and was
recently graduated from a Catholic con
vent in Montreal. D.nham is about
twenty-five years of age and is employed
as a bartender at New R ichelle.
When the young couple arrived in
White Plains tney first went to the Rev.
Father Dunphy, pastor of St. John’s Ro
man Catholic church. When Father Dun
phy was informed that the intended bride
was a daughter of General Sickles be re
fused to perform the ceremony. They
were disappointed, but sooa afterward
called on Mr. Van Kleeck and told him
they wanted to get married. Dinham said
nothing about an elopement, and did not
mention the fact that Father Dunphy had
.efu-ied to marry them. Dominie Van
Kieock asked the usual questions, and
then performed the ceremony.
Dinham slipped a $5 bill into the domi
nie’s hand aud tnen departed with his
bride. Tbe bride is a daughter of General
Sickles by bis second wife, whom he mar-
A Dangerous Game.
Atlanta, Dec. 13.—For several days
pa3fc a crowd of boys have amused them
selves by dropping linch pins and heavy
pieces of iron from the Georgia railroad
bridge, over Grant street, for the purpose
of frightening pedestrians who were pass
ing underneath. They made no effort to
strike any one, but the heavy missiles
were drooped either in front or behind
the victim.
Wednesday afternoon Lucy Weaver, a
small negro girl, passed under the bridge
about 3 o’clock. The crowd of boys was
ready and a piece of railroad iron, five
foet two inches long, was thrown over.
There was a miscaieul&dou in the dis
tance the child had to walk, and a corner
of the iron struck Uer on the head, felling
her to the earth. The child’s screams
brought assistance and she was taken
home. Her injuries are very serious, the
skull being fractured. Tne boys made
their escape.
Collapse of a Flour Mill.
Lancaster, Dee. 13 —This morning the
walls of James Suavely’s four story stone
mill, near BrunDerviile, fell in with a
great cre.sh. The wreck could not have
been more complete had dynamite been
placed under tne building, which, though
not new, was considered safe and was full
of grain, and the floors are supposed to
have been too heavily weighted. The
mill was recently fitted up with roller
process machinery, which is either rained
or badly damaged.
When the walls fell in John Hollinger,
the miller, was on the fourth fl lor and
made a narrow escape. He fell to the first
floor, where he was found pinned down by
a door frame, but slightly injured. L.
Yeakel and William Blales were in the
mill at the time, bat succeeded in getting
oat before the walls fell.
A Horrible Discovery.
Washington, Dec. 13.—Two ladies en
gaged in house hunting today went to
examine the premises No. 1205 G street,
which has been for some time in caarge
of a colored watchman named Mardilla. As
they were about to enter the house they
detected a horrible odor, and without
going in informed the proprietor,
who immediately had an investigation
made, which resulted in the finding of the
dead body of a young negro and the watch
man in a dying condition. The young
negro had probably been dead for three
or four days. There is no solution of the
myst-ry as yet. An autopsy will be held
tomorrow.
Three People Burned to Death.
Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 13.—A special
to the Evening Wisconsin, from Hancock,
Wis., says: The Huron mine office, a
large building formerly occupied as a
store, burned last nignt. The second
story was used as a boarding house. Ot
twelve boarders eleven were working on
the night shift. One man jumped, injur
ing himself badly. Two Finlander women
and a six weeks-old child perished in the
flames. The fireman succeeded in getting
one of them to the window, bat on ac
count of the dense smoke was compelled
to leave the insensible woman to save h ; s
own life. Portions of the bodies of the
victims were found this morning.
The Character of the Confederate Leader
Viewed From a Northern Standpoint.
The following article from the Philadel
phia Times will be read with special
interest:
The death of Jefferson Davis severs the
most vital link that connected the aims
and actions of the present with the South
ern Confederacy that perished with Lee’s
surrender at Appomattox nearly a quarter
of a century ago. During the last score of
years Mr. Davis has been the most
unique character of American his
tory, and he was more potent
during that period to rekindle the
smouldering fires of sectionalism by his
frequent public and always heroic defense
of the Lost Cau3e than all the ocher sur
viving champions of the South combined.
He was one of the few of the Southern
leaders who accepted self-expatriation and
lived a stranger to our institutions and
died without a country. He did not teach
or cherish resentment; he had accepted
the highest responsibility and discinction
of the rebellion; he had failed in revolu
tion and fallen with bis cause, and he
never yielded in conviction or bowed to
expediency.
The present generation knows littie of
what manner of man Jefferson Davis was.
He is known to tbe new generation of the
South as tne cnosen leader of the Confed
eracy wbo had been imprisoned aud hu
miliated as the representative of rhe cause
for wnich the South had fought with hero
ism that challenged the homage of the
world, and the new generation of the
North know him onxy as the Chief Magis
trate of the Confederacy that gave us
bloody war and countless sacrifice and as
the persistent defender of the overthrown
rebellion. Neither section aoes even ap
proximate justice to Mr. Davis, and oniy
when all tne passions of the present shall
have faded out with the people who
cherish them, will history present him in
his true character. He was not the au hor
of rebellion and war; he became an in
tegral part of it from the siacerest convic
tions; nor was ne the implacable foe of the
reunited Republic that Jne has so long
been regarded in the North.
Mr. Davis was one of tbe most conscien
tious of our public men. He was not brill
iant, but he was able, painstaking aud
earnest in everything. He was born, edu
cated and thoroughly indoctrinated in the
theories of the ultra 3tate Rights school,
and he became a leader in the battle for
the sovereignty of the State at an early
day. Sent to West Point by President
Monroe and a graduate of the military
school of the nation, he maintained the
methods of the martinet tnroughout his
eminent civil career, and as President of
the Confederacy he was too muca of a
military student to be a successful popuiar
ruler, and too much of the civilian mingled
with his early military schooling to make
him a great Commander-in Chief in the
Executive chair. The ablest of the South
ern chieftains, such as Lee and J. E. John
ston, did not command his hearty sympa
thy, arid when the arbitrament of the
i sword decided against him and his cause
1 he was widely and douotless justly cen
sured in the South for hislfailures as Presi
dent.
Mr. Davis was not a rampant secession
ist is 1861. He then boldly advocated the
right of secession, as he had ever done be
fore the people and in the Hohse and
Senate, but he was not of those who pre
cipitated armed rebellion. He gravitated
into it with his State and the South, and
when Mississippi notified him of her
formal withdrawal from the Union, he
bade farewell to the Senate in a speech
that is memoriable for its dignity and
pathos. Nor did,he seek the Presidency
of the Confederacy. On the contrary,
while a dozen or more were openly am
bitious to wear the chief lauruls of the
new Confederacy that was founded
at Montgomery with such imposing
ceremony; he was preferred and called
to the fearful trust because of his sincere
devotion to Southern conviction, of his
ripe statesmanship, of bis military educa
tion and experience and of the careful de-
The Engagement Announced of Miss Stokes
of New York and Baron Halcott,
New York, Dec. 13.—Another American
heiress is to marry a foreigner of title.
The engagement was announced today of
Miss Stokes, eldest daughter of Anson
Phelps Stokes to Baron Halcott.
Miss Stokes is not kaown to the gay
world, having only made her first bow at
a reception given by her parents on Tues
day afternoon. Sho is about nineteen,
and has a Btrong, interesting face, dark
hair and eyes, and is unusually tall, being
nearly six feet in height. She met Baron
Halcott while abroad with her parents
during the summer of 1888.
Both Miss Stokes and her younger sister
are heiresses. Their mother was Miss
Phelps, a daughter of Isaac N. Phelps, and
their grandfather’s large property,amount
ing to several millions, will probably be
left to them. Through their father, who is
the son of the late James Stokes, they will
also inherit a large property.
Baron Halcott, it is understood, is at
present on his way over, and it was said
this evening at the opera, where the en
gagement was discussed with much in
terest in the boxes, that the wedding
would take place very shortly. It is rn
mored that Baron Halcott is himself heir
to a handsome estate.
DEATH FOLLOWS TOOTH-PULLING.
A Lady Dies of Blood Poisoning, Presuma
bly from a Decayed Tooth.
New York, Dec. 13.—An unusually viru
lent and fatal case of blood poisoning, de
veloped presumably from a decayed tooth,
has been reported to D-. Nagle, of the
Board of Health, by Dr. Francis M. Nye.
Mrs. Daie Armstrong, wife of Mr. Dale
Armstrong, died last Saturday of pyaemia.
She was subject to neuralgia, and had
lately been suffering from toothache. One
morning she called upon Dr, Nye asking
for an opiate to relieve the pain. The doc
tor advised her to have the tooth pulled,
and went with her to Dr. Odell, at Third
avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-sixth
street.
Dr. Odell examined the tooth and also
anvised ner to have it pulled. Mrs. Arm
strong, who was of a very sensitive and
nervous temperament, explained that her
teeth had always been difficult to draw
and that they generally broke, so the
dentist was unusually careful
The shell of the tooth did break, how
ever, and not long after that Dr. Nye was
called to see the lady, and discovered con
sidorable suppuration in the jaw. Soon
this spread to the right eye and then to
the left. Dr. McKay, of No. 40 East Tenth
street, was called in consultation, and Dr
Nye, his wife, who is also a physician, and
Dr. McCay did all they could to arrest the
poison, but it was impossible. They only
succeeded in allaying the sufferings of the
patient, which were intense. 3he lost
consciousness on Tuesday and diea on Sat
urday.
Dr. Nye said last night that he did not
know what was the original cause of the
blood poisoning, and he would not assert
that tne failure to extract the root of the
tooth after the breaking of the shell re
suited in the disease.
Mrs, Armstrong was a very handsome
woman, and at one time was one of the
belles of Baltimore, to which city her body
was taken for burial.
The Ex-Empress of Brazil Robbed.
Lisbon, Dec. 13.—The Ex-Empress of
Brazil has received a telegram from Rio
Janeiro informing her that all her jewels
have been stolen, and that the police are
investigating the case. The loss will be
a heavy blow to the Imperial family.
In the collection of jewels were com
prised the finest Brazilian diamonds there
are in the world. If the Brazilian Repub
lic should decline to continue Pedro’s in
come the loss of these treasures will be
severely felt, as they were looked upon as
the chief immediate resource of the
family.
The Pratt Mines Strike Settled.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 13.—General
Manager Bona, of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company, returned
from New York this morning, and after
conferring with a committee of the Pratt
Mines miners all differences were arranged
and the miners agreed to return to work
tomorrow at the present prices. Their
BIRDS BO BO’S DOGS ALL MAD.
Citizens Go Around Like Walking Arsenals
Killing Every Brute They Meet.
Birdsboro, Pa., D8c. 13.—This place is
undergoing the sensation of a genuine
mad dog scare. The very sight of an un
muzzled dog on the streets is sufficient to
call for shrieks of torror, and always
causes a stampede. Today fifteen dogs
were shot, and dozens of hunters could be
seen leading their pointers and setters to
the hills to kill them. A large number
have been buried along the river bank.
About fifty-five dogs have been killed
since Monday, when the scare began. L.
H. Focht, the contractor, had a valu
able pack of fox hounds, but all have been
sent to the happy hunting grounds.
The hardware dealers are reaping a har
vest, as everybody is buying a revolver.
The entire dog population of South Birda-
boro has been wiped out. Councils held a
special meeting today and passed an ordi
nance forbidding unmuzzled dogs to run at
large. The Chief of Police was given the
authority of the dog catcher, and any dog
he may capture will lose its life if its own
er does not pay a fine of $3 within 24
hours. The reason for the general killing
of the dogs is that nearly all were bitten
by a mad dog on Saturday and Sunday.
The dog belonged to Franklin Kline. He
had been bitten about one month ago by
a mad dog at Gibraltar. Persons on the
streets tonigbtean be seen carrying clubs
and other weapons, ready to slay any dogs
coming near them.
Farmers Swindled Out of 8150,000.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. 13.—The American
Sugar Company, which was organized
here about a year ago, and which induced
several townships In the State to advance
about $150,000 toward enlarging the plant,
has turned out to be a gigantic swindle,
and all its officials have disappeared with
the money. They purchased superior
sugar, and represented that it was made in
the refinery from sorghum grown in this
State.
Skipped With 875,000.
Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 13.— What
was at first considered a simple assignment
by E. B. Hemmingway, druggist and pri
vate banker, doing business at Whitney
Point, is now a matter of grave import
ance, Hemmingway haviDg disappeared.
Hemmingway’s creditors ascertained
that he was an embezzler to the extent
of probably about $75,000. His safe was.
opened last evening and only about $30 in
cash was found. Hemmingway had lived
in Whitney’s Point ali hia life. His wife
and blind daughter, aged about sixteen,
are completely prostrated by the shock.
A Free Advertisement.
Washington, Dec. 13.—The “Oride
Musiu” Company gave a grand concert
here tonight in the presence of a distin
guished audience which completely filled
the house. The Musins grand perform
ance on the violin were received with
warm and prolonged applause, and Annie
Louise Tanner, the prima donna of tbe
company, created a sensation aHd was
repeatedly recalled. The company will
begin a tour of the Southern States to
morrow.
River News.
The river is getting low again, and a
nicW rain would be appreciated by the
steamboat men
The Naiad left for Chattahoochee with a
good freight yesterday morning. She
went oat in place of the Pactolus, which
will probably remain at the wharf until it
rains.
The government steamer, Chattahoo
chee, which has been at the wharf for sev
eral days, left yesterday morning.
Phenix City Notes.
Dr. Smith and family, of Apalachicola,
Fla., are visiting relatives and friends in
Phenix City.
Messrs. Lon Richardson and Tom Sum-
mergill, of Tennessee, will spend the
Chris:mas in Pnenix City with relatives.
Mr. Louis Bloodworth, ot Taylor county,
Ga., is visiting in Phenix City.
Mr. R. E. Searcy will leave for Bruns
wick to visit bis parents this afternoon.
Ran Over by an Engine.
Late Thursday night, or early yesterday
morning, T. J. Morrison was strnek by a
switch engine in the Central yard in this
__ ^ ^ city. Morrison was badly braised about
wages are to be raised as the price of iron I the head aDd body. He was attended by
advances. ! Dr. George J. Grimes.