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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
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farm loans,
By W. COTT,
Covington, Georgia.
I nJI'J' N ’$ n |<ate Loans cm Farms in
on i’iv„ v 1 ’ V :i!lon mid Rockdale counties
rnRY T "*
1 von ,' l rm ! n (? wi* Cash, and sec how
thunY ,r, U ' Interest will cost voo less
redlt - . W. SCO^T.
LATEST TELEGRAPH.
L. Edwards, dealer in dry goods,
clothing and shoes, at Goldabnro, N. C.,
formerly of Wilson, N. 0., made aa as
signmant on Thursday. Liabilities
$28,000; assets not known.
The family of William Morgan, a
white farmer, of Suuimerileld, Ala.,
were poisoned, and some ot them may
die. They ate food prepared hy a ne
gro servant, who immediately flod.
Lord Ssckvillo and the Miaaea Sack
▼ille West, left Washington, D. C., Ftl
day morning for New York, and will sail
for Havre in the La Bourgogne, the ves
sel which will take Mr. Chamberlain and
his bride to France.
Felix H. Van Ardo, a prominent drug
gist, was assassinated at Osyka,Miss. The
assassin, hiding behind a pile of lumber,
emptied both barrels of a gun loaded
with buckshot into Van Ardo’s breast,
killing him instantly.
The bank of Omaha, Neb., has closed
its doors, and the proprietors, F. Scoville
and G. A. Crafts, have fled the country,
leaving many debts unsatisfled. As
nearly as can be ascertained, the liabili
ties will reach $500,000.
The principal bank of Oaceola, lowa,
closed on Thursday, and is in the hand*
of ar< ceiver. Over SOO,OOO is said to
havo been depo-ited in the bauk, and
there is $30,000 in the vaults. It is ru
mored that the president has been spec
ulating in wheat.
The board of survey at Charleston, 8.
C., of the steamship SandriDgbam, has
ordered that thirty bales of cotton dam
aged by Are and twelve hundred bales
damaged by water to be sold and all th
rest to be reloaded. The vessel has been
pronounced safe and sea-worthy.
Near Warsaw, Sumter county, Ala.,
Ilcnry Jones, colored, and his wife, went
to a church festival. They left their
three children, aged one, three and six
years, locked in the house, and when
they returned about eleven o’clock, they
found the house in ashes and the three
children burned to a crisp.
The cornerstone of the Florida Inter-
national and Semi-Tropical Exposition
was laid at Ocala, Fla., with imposing
ceremonies. The program was ns fol
lows: Prayer by Rev. C. B. Wilmer;
laying of the cornerstone with Masonic
ceremonies, under direction of Hon.
Henry W. Long, as Deputy Grand Mas
ter.
Patrick Durkin, a baggagemaster, liv
ing in Erie, Pa., had b >th eye a burned
out and his face horribly disfigured by
his wife dashing a teacupful of vitriol in
his face at tbe tea table. The woman
fled and was brought back by a police
man. and when Durkin heard her voice,
sightless and suffering as be was, he
sprang on her, and despite the officer,
nearly killed her. She was jailed, and
Durkin sent to the hospital.
A disastrous fire broke out on
Thursday night, and swept away almost
the entire business portion of Permoc
kee City, Worcester Cos., Md. The tire
broke out in the office of Dr. J. C.
Smith, and spread very quickly, entirely
destroying two hotels and six ware
houses, together with their contents.
The loss is estimated at nearly one mil
lion dollars. No lives are known to
have been lost.
Surgeon-General Hamilton received
the following telegram on Thursday front
Surgeon Ross, at Fernandina, Fla.: Oue
new case of yellow fever repotted for the
twenty-four hours Snded 6 p. m.
A careful analysis of the status
shows four casts of yellow fevet
under treatment in Fernandina. On no
day since my arrival here has the total
number of cases under treatment been so
small as yesterday. The yellow fevor
pabulum has about exhausted.”
At the closing session of the national
grange, held nt Topeka, Cal. Jos, 11.
Brigham, of Ohio, was elected grand
master and Leonard Rhone, of Pennsyl
vania, was selected to fill the vacancy on
the executive committee. A resolution
urging that United States Senators be
elected directly by the people was passed,
as was also a resolution advocating puro
food. Tho grange adjourned, leaving
the matter of the selection of tho next
meeting place to the executive commit
tee.
The Oueruatore Jtomanoe states that it
is unable to either confirm or fleny the
report that the Pope is to leave Rome in
the event of war. It thinks, however,
that he would leave, though regretfully,
if the Italian goverument. further con
tracted the iron circle that confines him
and deprived him of all freedom in re
spect to his acts and communication with
the Catholic world, or if his holiness had
reason to consider that Rome was no
longer a sure residence, either from a
material or personal standpoint.
Judge Emory Speer, presiding in the
United States Circuit Court for the
Southern district of Georgia, at Atlanta,
Ga., has decided that the purchase in tho
interest of the Central Railroad of Geor
gia of the franchises of the Savannah
& Dublin Railroad Company is void,,
because contrary to the Constitution . of
Georgia prohibiting any corporation
front purchasing the stock of any other,
or making any contract which would
have the effect of defeating competition
or creating monopoly. The decision
may have an adv, rse bearing upon the
recent consolidation of railroad inter
est*.
During the progress of the suit
brought against the Rock Island Cos., by
E L. Randall, an operator m the tele
graph office, Manager Wood, of the
Western Union Telegraph Cos., was or
dered to produce in court at Ksism
City, Mo., a copy of the ‘ black list,
which he refused to do. The operator
was in the employ of the railway com.
puny, a na he sued for |25,000 damages,
alleging that he was discharged for join
ing a labor organization, and that the
railroad blacklisted him so effectually
that he was unable to procure employ
ment. It is likely that a test case will bo
made of the matter.
Henry F. Woodall, a very prominent
citizen of Nashville, Tenn., accidentally
shot himself through the heart on
Thursday. He took his gun and went
into the garden to kill a rabbit his wife
had seen, tn a few moments the report
of the gun was heard. A negro boy
who works on the place went to .he gar
den to see if the rabbit had been killed
On reaching the fence the boy discovered
Mr. Woodail lying on the ground, a
stream of blood fl-w.ng from his left
side. From the location of the gun, the
body and the condition o f ,he ‘ t
i, supposed that Mr. Woodall had
crawled through this opening in the
fence, and was attempting to. get h.s gun
through after him, when the hammer
caught on the wire, and in this w y
caused hia death.
"MT COUNTRY: MAT SBR EVER EE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MT COUNTRY /”— Jeff*b*or.
The trouble with the local railway
switchmen at Indianapolis, Ind., which
has beou pending several days, reached
its culmination Thursday. The superin
tendents declined to hold further confer
nce concerning the demands of the men,
and three-four.hs of the employes in the
yards about the ci y, closed work. 8 one
tittle delay resulted to the passenger
trains, the strikers blockading the belt
line and some of the crossings with
fr< igbt ears, but the tracks were soon
cleared. The trouble is the resu t of a
demand by the men for $75 per month ol
20 days, aud 10 hours a day; also the
addition of one man to each snitch en
gine crew. This demand the company
decline to entertain. In the yards of the
Belt Railway company west ot the city,
a party of strikeis compelled three en
i. ineers to draw the fires of their loco
motives.
Charles Eyck and Eva Henreither wer<
to have been married Thursday afternoon,
in New York city. He is 27 and she 17,
and they sp nt Saturday in buying furni
tore for two rooms that Eyck had rented.
Lover and sweetheart worked togethei
laying the carpets Saturday night,
and when they parted it was to meet, at
the girl’s home on Thursday. From
there they were to go to a minister’s
Eyck did not ap|>ear at the appointed
time, and Eva hastened to the rooms to
see what could have detained her lover.
He had not been seen about the house,
and his door was locked. Eva knocked
repeatedly, but got no answer. Then
the janitor forced the door opon. There
on the floor, with his throat cut from ear
to ear, lay the bridegroom. Eyck was a
cook by occupation, but bad been out of
work ever since the Coney Island res
taurants closed for the season.
UNEARTHING HIM.
Great excitement was occasioned
Wednesday in the Whitechapel district
in London, England, when it was re
ported that another woman had been
murdered and mutulated. The police
immediately formed a cordon around the
premises, and an enormous crowd soon
gathered. It was learned that
auother murder had been at
tempted upon a woman by a man
but that in this instance, his work had
been fins’rated. According to the wo
man’s story, the man had seized her and
struck her once in the throat with a
knife. She had stiuggled desperately,
and had succeeded in freeing herself fr< m
the man’s grusp, and had screamed for
help. Her cries had alarmed the man, and
he had fledwiihout attempting any further
violence. Some neighbors, who had
heard the woman’s screams, followed the
murderer for about three hundred yards,
when he disappeared from their Bight,
The woman says she is fully able to iden
tify the man and gave a description of
him to the police. The police are hope
ful of soon capturing him. The woman
suffered only a slight abrasion of the skin
on her throat.
THE NATIONAL WEALTH.
United States Treasurer Hyatt has sub
mitted his annual report of the opera
tions of the Treasury, from which some
extracts are herewith given:—The net
revenues of the government for Ihe fiscal
year ended June 30, ’BB, were $879,266,-
074 aud the net expenditures, $267,924,-
801, the surplus receipts available for the
reduction of the public debt being slll,-
341,273, an increase of $7,870,176 over
the year before. The Treasury balance
increased during tbe year from $69,224.-
379 to (129,804,242 and total assets, in
cluding certificates of deposit in cash,
from $622,304,284 to $764,629,535. The
net change of $60,579,863 in the balance
was produced by an increase of $37,526,-
468 in assets and a decrease of $23,053,-
894 in liabilities. The new silver vault
in tho Treasury building havinga capaci
ty of one hundred million of dollars, and
said to be the largest Treasury vault in
the world, is being filled at the rate of
half a million a day. It will hold the
total coinage of three years, but at the
end of that period a still further storage
rook will probably have to be provided
unless coinage is suspended.
NEW YORKS VOTE.
By the official count of the city com
pleted, Edwin 11. MeAlpin, of the Harri
son electors, received the largest vote ol
the Republican electors. 100,925, and
James S. T. Strauahan 105.540, the low
est. Of the Cleveland electors, John M.
Bowers received the highest vote, 162,738,
and Oswald Ottendorferjwho headed the
ticket, the lowest, 102.020. The aver
age vote for Fisk, .prohibition ticket,
was 1,126. The union labor ticket,
Cowdrey, received an a crago of 178,
although James Red path and Victor A.
Wilde received 2,184 and 2,035 votes,
respectively. The socialist vote, headed
by Ernest U. Cook, averaged 1,722. In
all 606 votes were defective, and 178
blank.
THE BIBLE.
The case in which suit was brought by
Catholic tax-payers, in Javnesville, Wis.,
to prevent the reading of King James'
version of the Bible in the public schools
was decided on Monday. Judge Bennett
held that such reading was not secta
rian instruction, tho children of peti
tioners not being obliged to listen
if they did not desire and the Bible
having been decided upon by the au
thorities, as one of tho text books for
Wisconsin schools. There was, nothing,
however, to prevent children from read
ing a version of the Bible accepted by
the Catholic church, if they preferred.
SHUT DOWN.
At a meeting of the river coal opera
tors, held on Monday, it was unanimous
ly decided to shut down all the mines
along the Monongaheta River for an in
definite period. This will throw out of em
ployment 7,000 miners besides all the
river men engaged in taking coal down
the river and the mine laborers. The op
erators say the shut down will be for two
months at least. They claim they cannot
sell coal to an advantage now, as the
market is overstocked, and coal is selling
for five cents per bushel, the lowest for
many years.
mysterious murder.
T. H. Thomas, of Gainesville, Ga.,
and E. L. Cohen, of Madison, after a
game of cards in the Pitts House at
Covington, Ga., on Wednesday, retired
at an early hour in the morning. Two
hours after, a servant heard groaning in
the room occupied by tho two men, and
inv< stigation showed Thomas dead,
having been brained with a wagon
standard, and Coben was resting against
the mantelpiece stunned and bleeding.
A man named Echols and George Eddle
mau, the slayer of Tom Gresham in
Atlanta, are mixed up in the affair.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1888.
THE WORLD OVER
INTERESTING ITEMS 801118
DOWN IN BEADABLB STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LAVOH—SKEtIUNQ CAUIF
DIUW OF EUROPEAN INTIIIQUE—FIRE*,
SUICIDES, ETC. — NOTED DEAD.
Warren F. Copp, ex tar collector of
Saugus, Mass., is a defaulter to the ex
tent of $28,000.
Dispatches from points In Northern Il
linois, Indiana, and Eastern lowa, re
ports the first heavy fall of snow of the
aeason.
Gen. Harrison is a blood relation of
the Hon, Jefferson Davit, of Mississippi.
It appears that this interesting piece of
information was first made public by
Mrs. Harrison.
The sentence of one mo nth’s imprison
ment, imposed on J. D. Saehan, member
of Parliament for East Verry, Ireland, for
refusing to give bail for gooel behavior,
has been confirmed on appal.
The United States steamer Atlanta,
now preparing for a sea at New York,
will be sent for a cruise around the world
by way of the Pacific. The cruise will
probably last three or four years.
The Arbeiter Bund is the name of a
new anarchist organization formed in
Chicago, 111., only a block from the ter
rible affray at the Ilaymarkct, where so
many policemen were killed two years
ago.
United States Marshal E. 8. Mund, of
lowa, is at Fort Dodge, lowa, with war
rants for the ejectment of twelve hun
dred families on Dca Moine’s land.
Trouble is feared on the attempt to exe
cute the writs. *
The mayor of Havana, Cuba, has issued a
proclamation imposing consumption taxes
on all eatable-a, drinkables and fuel, to
take effect on the first of January next.
The press and public opinion condemn
the measure.
John W. Keeley, of motor fame, who
was sent to jail at Philadelphia for con
tempt of court, in refusing to give to ex
perts appointed by the court information
regardmg his mysterious motor, was re
leased on bail.
At Greene, Chenango county, N. Y., on
Monday, George F. Matthews, while
temporary insane, committed suicide by
cutting bis throat with a razor. He was
a native of Savannah, Ga., and forty
eight years old.
The Beaver Falla Roiling Mills, at Bea
ver Falls, Pa., was burned on Monday
night. Loss $15,000. Bix men were se
riously burned, two of whom will proba
bly die. The fire was caused by experi
menting with Lima oil for generatinggaa.
At the papal consistory in December,
a number of bishops will be created.
The nomination of cardinals has been
postponed until the March consistory.
The postponment is due to the
experienced in the creation of the
cardinals.
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The Russian government has inform ~
a number of Bulgarian refugees thi'C
Russia renounces all interest in Bulgar].,
and that this decision dates from t
time of Emperor William’s visit to VieV
na, Russia having abandoned all hopeiOs
German mediation.
Boston, Mass., has something of a
Bonsation in the shape of a man who
shases girls and threatens to stab them
with a stiletto. He is a light complex
ioned man, with a smooth face, and
wears a Scotch cape over his shoulders.
Under this cape he carries the dagger,
which he tries to use.
It is stated in Mexican journals that
no more railway subsidies will be granted
by that government, as the railways al
ready provided for are sufficient for all
needs. A number of concessions al
ready granted are likely to lapse because
of the inability of the parties interested
to comply with their terms.
An explosion occurred at Bristol, Eng
land on Wednesday onboard the schoon
er United, which was loaded with pe
troleum. The vessel was wrecked and
three men who were at work on board
were killed. The force of the explosion
was so great as to wreck the windows in
the building near the scene of the etsplo
sion.
At the old concentrator, consolidated
works at Mcadville, Montana, tho boiler
exploded, killing M. G. Edmunds, engi
neer, W. O’Connor, carpenter, Jack Kra
mel, pipe fitter, Henry Winters, laborer
and fatally injuring Richard Wing, ma
chinist, George Heckman, pipefitter, and
John Eustiee, c rpenter, and Foreman
Hank Pickering.
Negotiations for the sale of the con
trolling interest in the. vast plant of the
Connellsville Coke and Iron Cos. to the
11. C. Trick Coke Go., were consum
mated at Uniontown, Pa., on Wednes
day. The plant ia the largest in the
Connellaville coke regions, aud embraces
9,000 acres of coal land, 1,800 coke
ovens and many miles of railroad track.
Gen. Harrison tandered Elijah Hal
ford, managing editor of the Indianapo
lis Journal, the position of private secre
tary. He was for a few private secretary
to the late Senator Morto. He shares
with Hon. Wm. McKisdey.of Ohio,the dis
tinction of having contributed a consid
erable share in the construction of the
national platform, upon which the late
campaign was fought and won.
Ten thousand people assembled at Rear
Cross, County Tieporary on Monday and
attempted to hold a meeting. The gath
criog had been proclaimed by the British
government, and before the proceedings
were far advanced, a strong force of po.
lice arrived on the* ground, ftnd charged
upon and dispersed the crowd. During
the affray many persons were injured.
Some fatally.
Jake and Joe Tobier, colored, were
(xeouted in the county jail on WedneS-
Jay at Wichita, Kan., by the United
States authorities. Deputy Marshal
Howard superintending. At the scaf
fold, in answer to the question whether
;bey had anything to say, both replied
‘No,” emphatically. The crune for
which they were eececutcd was the killing
)f Cssb and Godykuntz, near the Sac and
Fox agency, in August, 1885. -
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has made arrangements for its supply of
steel rails for the next year. It has
agreed to take 45,000 tons from the
Cambria Iron Company, at Johnstown,
Fa., the Pennsylvania Steel Company,
near Harrisburg, and the Carnegie works,
at Pittsburg, each company supplying
one-third of the amount, and the price
is to be S2B per ton updn delivery at
stated periods during the Mextyear.
The town of Leavenworth, Ind., situ
ated on the Ohio River, -and at the foot
of a high cliff of rocks, is in great dan
ger of destruction by reason of the fall-
ing bf immense rocks from tbe cliff.
Tbe residents are in a high state of ex
citement, and many, realizing their dan
ger, havo moved their families and good*
mil of the line of danger. The cause of
the sudden danger is said to be the re
sult of tbe recent frosts and constant
heavy ruin* which lias carried the loose
earth from about the rocks.
During the eviciious on the Drapera
town estate, near Dublin, Ireland, of
Robert T. O’Neil, member of Parliament,
a bedridden woman, aged 92 years, was
removed from her borne and had to be
carried to an adjoining house. A
woman who waa in a atate of delirium
and her four children, oue a baby three
months old, were also ejected. A tie ice
gale was blowing at the time, and the
evicted tenants' furniture was blown
into the mud. Fifty policemen were
present.
WASHINGTON NEWSI
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF
FICIALS ABE DOING.
Four staff appointments in the army
will be filled by President Cleveland at
urearly day. Quite a number of name*
rave been suggested, and it is reported
301. Dan Lament has been offered the
position of Judge Advocate General.
President Cleveland has appointed to
be postmaster: James Rodeffer, Wood
stock, Va.; Byron Lemly, Jackson, Miser
At tbe following postofnees which were 1
recently raised to the presidential class,
the President has reappointed the in
cumbents: Bessemer, Ala.; Oxford, Ala.;
Union, 8. C.
Lord Sackville’a surplus effects were
disposed of by auction on Monday, and
ihe sale drew to such portions of the
British legation as were thrown open, a
crowd the like of which was never in
the building b fore. Everything sold at
high prices, people frequently bidding
for articles ih y could not get near
enough to inspect.
An agent of the Vanderbilts ia looking
after Oak View, the President’s country
villa, with a view of purchasing it. Mr.
Cleveland has intimated that it will take
at least $150,000 to buy it, and there ia
no doubt that it is worth every cent of
that amount. This sum, however, repre
sents quite 200 per cent, profit on the
original investment. The President paid
$21,500 for Oak View when it was hard
ly more than ao enclosure of unimproved
suburban land. He practically rebuilt
the house, erected fine stables, fenced
the place handsomely and graded every
foot of the land. He is said to have spent
nearly $30,000 in this work, and the
property must, therefore, represent an
outlay of at least $50,000.
Surgeon Porter at Jacksonville, Fla.,
.telegrapher! to Surgeon-General Hamil
ton on Monday as follows: “The agent
djjf tbe Clyde steamer at Mayport assures
j.nre that if steamers are permitted to
passengers for non-infected points
Florida, he will guarantee not to al-
Bo *' them to land at Mayport, but will
)terc e them transferred to other steamers.
for Jacksonville need not be
rT*4ped at all, as it is not my desire to
-dlmper commerce any more than con
* tristent with public safety. Under tbe
above agreement I think steamers could
continue to run. Tickets to Jackson
ville could be sold to acclimated refugees
holding permits from me.” Dr. J. F.
Hartigan telegraphs that he has inspected
Dade City and Brooksville, Fla., and
that both places are healthy.,
In a letter written to Surgeon Porter at
Jacksonville, Fla., Surgeon General
Hamilton says: “My opinion is that the
class of articles that need necessarily be
destroyed is an extremely limited one,
mattresses and their contents; pillows
and comforts cannot well be disinfected
—at least without employment of process
so expensive as to render it useless from
an economic point of view. With these
exceptions, I think all articles in sick
rooms can be properly disinfected. Bed
fhamber walls should be sponged and
washed with a solution of bt-chloride of
mercury, aud such articles ss sheets, pil-;
low cases and blankets should be first
plunged in disinfccting-solution and af
terwards put in boiling water. Wearing
apparel hanging in clo s ets adjacent to
bed chambers; carpets of bed chambers
and rugs in bed chambers should be sub
ject to disinfection by steaming. All
houses should be exposed to air currents
as much as possible. Upholstered furni
ture should be treated by spraying with
bi chloride of mercury solution.”
President Cleveland’s future plans are
still undetermined. It is believed that he
will spend one or two years traveling in
Europe, which he has uever visited. He
will leave the White House at least $75,-
000 richer than when he entered it.
This, added to his other investments,
will give him a comfortable fortune of
upward of $200,000. Mrs. Cleveland,
through the division of the Folsom es
tate in Omaha, is an heiress in her own
right and is probably worth not less than
ia!f a million of dollars. Col. Lamont,
as has already been stated, will locate in
New York in the employ of a life insur
ance company, at a salary of SIO,OOO a
fear. Secretaries Whitney and Fairchild
will both return to New York and en
gage in the practice of law. Attorney
General Garland is also considering a
proposition to make hi% future homo in
New York. Messrs. Endicott, Dickia.
<on and "Vilas, all of whom are lawyers,
will return to their respective homes and
resume the practice of their profession.
Secretary Bayard lias not decided
whether he will remain in Washington
or return to Wilmington and practice
law, but it is believed that he will adopt
'the latter course. Judge Hawkins, the
assistant secretary of the interior, will
retire to his farm near Cape Girardeau,
JR)., and spend the remainder of hia
days in the quiet and seclusion of pas
toral life.
STARVINQ.
The depopulation of Western Kaniru
continues with wonderful rnp lity. In
Ness city, Dighton, Scott City, and
many other places, not 100 people will
winter in any of the towns. Two years
ago most of the towns had from 600 to
8,000 inhabitants each, but the street!
and almost the entire villages are de
serted, and the few inhabitants left are
unable to get away. A year ago thesq
people passed a Winter almost without
coal, there having been a fuel famine
from the beginning of cold weather till
Spring. Already the fearful blizzards
have set in and one or two fearful
stoims have swept the plains, killing
much stock. The people aro discour
aged and heartbroken. They raised no
crops this year, and have been compelled
to leave their homes from the fear ot
starvation.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGB STRUNG TOGETHER.
uoTMuurra or alliance mbk—rail
road CASUALTIES—TUE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS— ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
The vote coat for presidential electori
waa counted on Tuesday by the governor
and secretary of atate. Cleveland re
ceived 117,810 votes; Harrison 57,107,
and Fiakc (prohibitionist) 588.
The passenger agent of the Kansas
City, Memphis & Biimingham Railroad,
on Tuesday, ticketed two Mormon elders
nnd fifty converts to Ogden and Salt
Lake City, Utah, from Birmingham.
The converts are mostly from Cullman
county, a few coming from south of
Montgomery. About fire hundred con
verts from East Tennessee will be ship
ped from Chattanooga to Utah.
Ft.OKIIM.
The town of Macclcnny report* nine
cases of fever under treatment and one
death—W. P. Home, white, a valuable
citizen.
Superintendent B. M. Turner, of the
railway mail service, on Monday rcT"'eel
the following telegrams from Green Cove
Springs, a town of about 2,500 inhabit
ants, thirty miles south of Jacksonville:
“Green Cove Springs—Fast mail train
14, refuses to take the mail, claiming we
havo yellow fever. Advise me at once.
F. J. Canova, Postmaster.” “Green
Cove Springs—Dr. Williams, of the
United States marine hospital service-,
says we have yellow fever. Our mail hat
been refused. Please authorize futniga
tion, so our mail can go forward. P. C.
Fisher, W. 8. Banks.” Superintendent
Turnejyvired the superintendent of the
service at Washington, foi
authority to establish a fumigating sta
tion. This will be done at the railroad
station, which is half a mile from Green
Cove Springs.
GEORGIA.
The Legislature elected U. 8. Senator
A. H. Colquitt fur another term. Only
one candieiate appeared to contest, Col.
8. A. Darnell, of Jasper, who received
one vote. -
Plans for the new union depot to be
built by the Richmond Te rminal com
pany in Atlanta, are now being prepared.
The finest union passenger station in the
country, the one at Indianapolis, is to be
duplicated in the Atlanta station.
Bud Thrash the well-known locomo
tive engineer, who ran the engine which
hauled Presieicnt Cleveland’s train (when
he visited Atlanta a year ago), and a man
named Sullivan bad a dispute on Mon
day, which ended in Sullivan slashing
Thrash across his neck, inflicting an ugly
wound. The people are getting very
tired of tbe frequent murders and affrays
in which deadly weapons are used.
J. F. Hill, a prosperous farmer of
Madison, left home, tolling his wife that
he was going away never to return, and
that she might take the farm, stock,
corn and eight bales of cotton, valued at
about ten thousand dollars. He sold be
fore leaving about fifty bales of cotton,
and some suggest that he carried with
him not less than five thousand dollars
in cash. Pefore leaving be paid all of
his accounts. He is fifty years of age,
has been married more than twenty
years and left a wife and four children,
all daughters, three of whom are mar
ried.
KENTUCKY.
Couit of Appeals at Louisville rendered
a decision in the case of David Roberts,
charged with murder. Their decision
sends Roberts to prison for twenty-two
years. Roberts is sixty-four years old.
In 1884 Roberts cut the throat of James
Kendall, of Morgan county, and hid the
body in the brush and escaped to Mis
souri.
LOUISIAN*.
The steamer Maud M. Fish sank on
Monday night at Mould’s landing, twenty
miles below New Orleans. She bad a
cargo of rice and sundries. In making a
landing she careened and the engine room
soon filled, and the boat went down in
thirty feet of water. Mate John Fox was
asleep in a stateroom, and the boat sink
so rapidly that he failed to escape, end
was lost.
MARYLAND.
Two inches of snow fell at Cumberland
on Monday. A heavy storm is reported
on the mountains.
Robert Garrett, the millionaire lunatic,
will be removed to Clifton, one of bis
fine suburban homes near Baltimore.
This decision resulted from the announce
ment of his doctors that he cannot live
much longer, and that he is daily becom
ing more violent and unmanagable.
W. S. Stier and James Ewach, who
wore respectively conductor and engineer
on the f i eight train that was the cause of
the collision on tho Baltimore & Ohio
road, near Dickerson station, on No
vember 6th, in which three men were
killed, hnve been indicted by tho grand
jury of Montgomery county for man
slaughter, and arrested on that charge.
MISSOURI.
The state supreme court passed on the
caso of Dave Walker, and affirmed the
judgment of the lower couit. Walker
was sentenced to be banged December 28.
It did not take this news long to reach
the stronghold of tho regulators iu Ozark,
and vengeance will Le wreaktd on the
state’s witnesses, who formerly affiliated
with tha Bald Knobbers. Prior to the
killing at the Eden’s homestead no less
than twenty murders and lynchings were
credited to the regulators.
VIRGINIA. '
The official returns of the vote of Vir
ginia, are: Cleveland, 151,977; Harri
son 150,442. Cleveland’s majority 5,535.
The vote in 1884, was: Cleveland,
145,497; Blaine, 139,856. Total 284,-
853.
The Home Savings bank, of Norfolk,
Va. suspended on Wednesday. The rea
son assigned for the failure by the board
of directors, is that reports recently circu
lated affecting its credit, produced a run
on the bank. The Home Savings bank
was founded upon the ruins of the old
Freeman’s Savings bank and had among
its depositors a number of colored people.
The great tobacco exposition and
trades display at Danville, Va., opened
on Wednesday with an immense crow and in
attendance. The parade represented the
great business and industries of the city,
and was a mile long. The tobacco ex
hibition embraces 1,800 samples of all
grades of tobacco from Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee,
and is a magnificent display of the weed.
The colored people took a conspicuous
part in the street parade.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Two colored men were before the
United State a commissioner at Ileleigh,
upon churges of having intimidated une
ot their race at Oxford on election day
because he had voted tbe Democratic
ticket. They threatened to take him
out of town and whip him. The com
mia-ioner held the men, whose names ar-
Ne Iso Bass and Major Herndon, in bail
for appearance at court.
MOUTH CAROLINA.
Tho fishing smack Puritan capsized
off Charleston, and several of her crew
were drowned.
TENNKMSRII.
J. B. Wisliendoiff, book keeper for B.
Love-man & C->., the largest retail dry
goods house in tho South, ba< disap
peared from Chattanooga. He leav-- a
wife and child. It seems that his spe -
illations have been in small amo..uts
covering a period of two or three years
JUMPED TO DEATH.
The programme at the Columbus, Ga.,
Exposition on Thursday, closed wiih a
tragedy that will long be remembe red by
those who witnessed it. Tho crow-1 in
attendance was the largest that has yet
passed through the gates, many drawn
hither to witness the balloon ascension
and parachute jump of Prof. Vandegrift.
A higli wind prt-venteei an nse-ent, but at
4 o’clock he notified them th it the wind
having subsided he would go up, and at
once proceeded to iuflate the balloon. In
a few moments the vast air ship had
lifted itself from the eirih and the dar
ing man was swinging from the trapeze
rope in the air. He performed Ids usual
wonderful feats as he ascended, and
when about h if a mile high, and just as
he had pulled himself back on the bar
and was kissing his hand to the eager
gazers below the balloon burst. Women
screamed anil men stood paialyzed, ex
pecting to see the daring aeronaut, dashed
to the earth a mangled mass, but with
wonderful presence of mind he cut the
parachute loose, and descended with
lightning rapidity some hundred feet, its
vust wings unfolded and Vandegrift
swung it from beneath the falling mass
of canvas, which came to earth like a
wet rag. The crowd greeted the narrow
escape with thundering applause,
and the parachute suited westerly.
The relief was but momentary, when the
cry arose “He 18 going into tbe river,"
and a vast crowd of men rushed to tho
bank, an eighth of a mile away. Tho
parachute, with its priceless burden of
human life, sank slowly into the rustling
current of the Chattahoochee, just above
the jetties and near where two young
men, John Dirkm and C. H. Hamburg,
who had been down the river duck bunt
ing, had anchored their boat to watch
the ascent of the balloon. As he struck
the water he saw them and cried: “Bring
your boat here; come quick, for God’s
sake.” Casting anchor they pulled for
him, and both going to the forward end
of the boat and catching him and the
parachute, tried to pull him in, but the
great weight of the three men and the
parachute sunk the end of the boat,
which fast filled with water. Seeing
that the boat was sinking they turned
him loose, and rushi and to the other end
to restore the equilibrium. The boat,
which was now half filled with water,
floated away and the unfortuuate mau
sank entangled in a mass of rope about
the now saturated parachute, to rise no
more in this life. He was bound to the
parachute, else he could have swam to
the bank. The body was recovered a
few hours later. F. 11. Vandugrilt, the
unfortunate man, was about 24 years of
age; was bom at White Sulphur
Bprings, West Virginia, and made his
first ascent in a balloon and jump with a
parachute in August, this yeir, Bince
which time he has made forty-six suc
cessful ascents and jumps.
GERMAN AFFAIRS.
The German Richstag assembled on
Thursday at Berlin. The emperor
opened tho session in person. In bis
speech he said the tours he had recently
made, convinced him that the desire f r
imperial unity was deeply rooted in tho
people. The emperor made no refer
ence to any military bills or credits and
touched but briefly upon East African
affairs. Settlements in Africa are a mat
ter of interest to Germany. He said in
the task of winning Africa to Christian
morality, friendly England and its par
liament had recognized a century ago
that they must begin by repressing tno
trade in negroes and 6lave hunting.
With reference to foreign relations he
said: “Our relations with all foreigu
powers are peaceful. My efforts have
been unceasing to strengthen this peace.
The alliance with Austria aod Italy has
no otner object. To bring without ne
cessity, the miseries even of a victorious
war upon Germany would be incompati
ble with my Christian faith and my du
ties towards the German people.”
WILL NOT COMBINE.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
on Monday, M. Goblet, minister of for
eign affairs, stated that Franco had not
engaged to co-operate with England and
Germany in the blockade ot the coast of
East Africa. Both powers, he said, had
reqmsted permission from the French
government to search ships flymg the
French flag, which wire sus'iected of be
ing engaged in the slave trade or im
porting arms into Africa. Ihe govern
ment had replied that to seareli for aims
was the natural result of an effective
blockade, but it could not recognize tho
light of Englaud or Germany ro search
all vessels under the French flag.
ON THE WAR PATH.
T. B. Barry has preferred formal
charges against Grand Master Powderlj
of the Knights of Labor, and they are
now under consideration by the conven
tion in session at Indianapolis, Ind. Mr.
Barry proposes to agitate the matter un
til the Generul Assembly of the Knighte
of Labor adjourns. He will then put
out organizes and look after the forma
tion of his new order, which will be
called the Brotherhood of United Labor.
A DUEL.
A duel between Andrieux and Guyot,
resulting from tho charge made by the
latter in La Lanterne that the Nimis trial
was the outcome of the collusion between
Numa Gilly and Andiieux, was fought
on Tuesday near Paris. Swords we e
used, and Andrieux received a slight
wound in the chest
STANLEY SAFE.
Sir Francis DeWinton, in a speech at
Kensington, England, snid that he be
lieved that Henry M. Stanley reached
Wadtlai, Africa, last December or Janua
ry, and that he was compelled to wail
there longer than he expected.
NUMBER 6.
Tallest Clin roll Spire* la America.
The twin spires of Bt. Patrick'*
Cathedral are the tallest in America and
rank among the tulle-t In the world.
They mesaured in ihe architect’s plan
328 feet, but (here has been a certain
amount of ga’n over this in construction
which makes them about 340 feet from
the curb. The only tower over a build
ing in this country higher than this ia,
it is believed, tbe uncompleted one on
the public buildioga in Philadelphia,
which w II be 550 feet high when it i*
done. Thore ere a number of h gher
spires over European cathedrals, among
them those at Vienna,Cologne, (banters,
Antwerp and Salisbury. Tr.iuty spire
in this city is 281 feet high.
St. Patrick's spires, with the whole
cathedral, were planned by and built
under the supervision of James l.enwick
of this city. Tho cathedral was tint
projected by Archbishop Hughes about
1950. In 1854 Mr. Heuwick drew the
tirst plana. T hese were reduced in size
and otherwise changed by Archbishop
Hughea. nnd in 184a Mr. ltenwick drew
tbe final plane. The corner stone waa
laid on August 15th, 1848—thirty years,
ruin month and nineteen days before the
topmost stone was set in tho last of the
steeples. • '1 he cathedral was dedicated
neatly ten years ago, but the spires
were then only to a level with the roof
of the building. They were left in that
condition until tbe fall of 1885, when
tbe work was resumed. It has been
continued ever since, except when the
weather prevented.
Ihe epires are of white marble
throughout, e’erptthat e copper rod
through the centre holds the extreme up
per pieces composing the finial in pi ice.
The spiree ere octagonal in form, mounted
on octagonal ianiern towers that rise
from the evel of the roof. Their design
is very elaborate, and it has been carried
out with exquisite workmanship that is
ilinost wasted at the great heights at
which it is p!a ed.
Tho accompanying picture gives their
general appearance, but the finer por
tion of the work cannot be reproduced
on such a small scale. There is batons
accurate picture of the spires as they will
appear when completed. The b’ua’t
picture is as good a reproduction of that
as i an be made upon so small a scale by
photography.
Exact figures as to the actual cost of
the cathedral up to this time are hard
to obtain, on account of the manner in
which tho work has been done and the
long time over which it has extended.
It was begun under a contract, but the
war interrupted the work and it was re
sumed by days’ work, and that system
loutinued until its dedication. Then
the work of completing the spires waa
ngain given out on a contract. Three
years ago, before the spires were begun,
ii was said that $1,900,000 had been ex
pended. and it was estimated that $600,-'
0()0 more would be required. Mr. Ren
wick said that he believes that the total
co3t has been between #2,000,040 and
$ ’,500,000, and he thinks the h'gher
figure would not be an exaggerated one
for such a work. —Nett York tiun.
Dishonest, Bnt Clever.
Frederick, the Great, King of Prussia,
Dne dav sent a basketful of beautiful
cherries to the t ueen. The messenger,
a page, was unable to resist the temp*a
t on to taste them, and ended by eating
them all.
9ome da s afterward, when the King
discovered the boy’s theft, he railed the
page to take a note to tbe guard house
and wait for a reply. The boy, suspect
ing there was trouble in store for D m,
>eut the note by a banker who happei ed
to be crossing the courtyard. When the
olticer opened the note he read as fol
lows: “-.ive the bearer twenty-fi e
lashes, and take a receipt for the same.”
In spite of the banker's protests he was
seized and Hogged. Then he was com
pelled to sign a receipt for twenty-tie•
lashes. When the King heard of the
affair, he laughed most heartily, but was
compelled, ne ertheless, to apologue to
the poor banker, from whom he fre
eiuently received considerable loans of
money.
LOANED TOO MUCH.
Macon, Ga., had a eensation on Wed
nesday over the shortage of O. F. Adams,
city treasurer, amounting, according to
hi, own statement, to $18,790.56. A
week ago tho finance committee board,
Aldetman John D. Hudgins, chairman,
in examining the books for the last quar
tir ending September 17th, discovered a
ea-h shortage. Adams stated to Mayor
Price that he did not know how the
shortage occurred. Adams has been
treasurer about eight years, and has been
very accommodating in the office, fre
quently loaning money to friends and
would constantly loan the numerous em
ployes of the bit? government.
A Blfe SHOWING.
Tho official returns in Pa. from the coun
ties, have reached the state department.
For President almost a million votes
were cast as follows: Harrison, 526,-
091; Cleveland, 446,520; Fisk, (pro.)
20.748; Streeter, (labor) 8,865, solid
997,224. Harrison’s plurality, 79,571;
Harrison’s majority over all, 54,958. Ths
vote for President in 1884 was: Blaine,
474,804; Cleveland, 892,795.
“GOD SAVE IRELAND!”
Tnvincibles Mullet and McCaffrey left
Dublin. Ireland, under strong escort, for
London, where they will give evidence
before tho Parnell commission. When
ihe train reached Down Patrick station
McCaffrey shouted: ‘‘God save Ireland!
We want the people to know that we are
coerced and go unwillingly.”