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THE NOBLE YOUNG GEORGIAN
PASSES OVER THE RIVER.
The Last Sad Scenes Which
Close a Brilliant, Grand
and Noble Career.
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HBNHY W. OUADT.
At 8:40 o’clock Monday morning, at
his home in Atlautu. Ga., the spirit
ol Henry Woodtin Grady took its
flight from earth. A nobler man, one
controlled by more generous impulses,
with heart more golden, never lived!
But a few days since it seems that the
young boy first caught the attention of
the people. He grew in their esteem.
He was true to their interests, He was
faithful to his friends. He had an ear for
tales of woe. lie hud a heart for the
poor. Such Henry Grady is seldom
a man as
given to the world. In the hour of his
triumph he is stricken down. Returning
a victor to the bosom of his people, lie
sinks in death, while in his ears ring the
plaudits of an admiring, loving and de¬
voted The people. the home during the Inst
scenes at
hours were most pathetic. It was shortly
after eleven o'clock that Dr. Everett an¬
nounced that Mr. Grady was sinking rap¬
idly and that the end was near. Then it
was that all the numbers of the family
and relatives gathered about the sick bed,
hoping against hope, yet praying that the
cup might, be taken from them. Friends
who had, at the doctor’s suggestion, left
the house a few hours before, were hastily
summoned. Among those who came
were: Captain E. P. Howell, Mr. W. A.
Hemphill, Mr. 8. M. Inman, Mayor
Glenn, Judge Newman, Major Kiser,
Captain J. It. Wvlic, Mr. W. It. Lowe,
Mr. IV. L. Peel, Mr. T. !>. Meador, Mr.
Donald Bain and others. 11 WHS M t'S.
Grady's wish that those who loved him be
permitted to take, a last look upon his face
while life remained; and one niter another,
those who had loved him with a love
that was exeeeded only by tint of the
nearest and dearest, stepped into the sick
room which was so soon to be the ehatn
her of death, Gradually Ida condition
grew worse until death came.
Late Sunday evening, when it became
known that the, end was only the a question
of a few hours at the most,, expros
Mons of sorrow became universal among
the groups gathered in public had places (lie as
well as among those who gone to
special meetings for prayer of the various
churches. About the hotel con-idol's sor¬
row was expressed by all to whom tlie sick
man’s condition was known. Men who
had but heard his fame, and who were
utter strangers to his wonderful personal¬
ity, mingled their regrets and admiration
with the anxious words and love of those
whose neighbor he had been, and whose
hand he had often grasped reigned in friendship. the
Sorrow and solicitude in all
city. As Mr. Grmlv grew worse inquiries
after his condition grew more frequent.
In a church vestibule a minister was seen
to stand at the entrance, stopping each
that came to ask of them the most recent
news from the sick chamber. Neighbor
inquired of neighbor, anil from early
morn till bed-time Sunday night anxious
tongues spoke anxious words ot inquiry
for him whose life their hearts inquiry were praying
There was a constant at the tel¬
ephone exchange all through the long,
lonely watches of the night. As the
replies grew more anxious, voices faltered
in calling tiie numbers, and when at last
the night the sail operators intelligence were that compelled there to
give sounds weeping could was be
UO hope, of
heard over the wires.
This time one year ago he was busied
in getting up a grand dinner for the little
ragged and tattered five hundred uews
boys who sold (^institutions on the streets.
During the night the little fellows stood
on the street comers in the bleak night
wind, and with chattering teeth asked:
“How’s Sir. Grady?” felt deepest in¬
Among those who tne
terest in his condition were the printers
in the coinjvosing rooms of the Constitu¬
tion. From the newest sub. up to the
gray anil grizzled veterans m ho have been
with the paper since its first issue. One
man who set up the first thing he ever
wrote for the paper, a letter from the
Virginia Military Institute, away back in
180S, and who has watched liis career
with surpassing admiration and interest,
exclaimed when the last sail moment
“We have lost our best friend: "
And in saving this, he but echoed the
sentiments of the army ot employes who
loved this man so well, not alone for Ids
brilliant attainments and dazzling slic¬
cesses, ing fi,r his generous heart and the
kindly interest he ever showed in their
behalf and welfare.
MR. GRADY'S LIFE.
Hon. Henrv Woodfin Grady was horn
in Athens. Ga.. in 185U During his boy¬
hood he enjoyed the Inst educational ad¬
vantages. but the four years of the civil
war SC riously interrupted his studies, and
much of his time was spent in visiting
the various points where his father. Col.
Gradv, was stationed with his regiment.
When peace came it found the lad father-
THE 0GLETHORl’Ki Vi H0, LEXINGTON/ GA.. FRIDAY. JANFAKT 3, 1890.
less, Colonel Gradv having fallen in battle
while leading his men in a desperate had
chaTge. Young Grady found that he
no time to lose in equipping himself for
his career. After graduating at the State
university he went to the university
of Vir;inia, where he took a
post graduate course, He was, during
nia term at each of the -r institutions, the
youngest student in attendance. He
studied diligently what suited his intel¬
lect beat, and paid little attention to
branches in which lie fell no interest.
tracted' History, belles-lettlrs, standing Anglo Saxon at¬
him, and his was very
high in all of these. His pen transferred
his thoughts to the paper in graphic and
glowing phases with almost lightning-like and
rapidity, and his ready, magnetic for
ringing style of speaking “silver-tongued soon won
him the name of the
orator.” In the literary societies of the
two universities he carried off the highest
honors as a speaker. student he letter
"While still a wrote u
to the Atlanta Cunstitutimi. It was
prjpted, and the editor was so much struck
munication with the sparkle that he and signified dash his of Hie.com¬ desire to
hear from the writer again. When the
first press excursion after the war was
tendered a ride over the State road, the
editor telegraphed his boyish correspond¬
ent, who had then returned to his home
in Athens, that he wished to have him
rrptetunt the Constitution on that, trip, and
write up tin; country and its resources
along the line of the road. Mr. Grady
accepted the commission, and of the hun¬
dreds of letters written on the occasion,
his, over the signature of “King Hans,”
worn the most popular and most widely
copied, Jt js quite likely that this pleas¬
ant experience caused ibis thoughts precocious seriously boy
of seventeen to turn bis
to journalism. At all events, he was, a
year or two later, the editor and one of
tin; owners of the Rome Daily Commercial,
a sprightly, newsy and enterprising that time jour
nul. Koine, however, was at to
small to support » daily run on such a
scale, and in 1872 Mr. Grady Herald. purchased
an interest in the Atlanta Here
lie found a field wide enough for him at
that stage of his experience. of the bril
The Herald was one most
liunt newspapers ever printed in the
South. The young editor from Rome,
who hud established himself in Atlanta to
compete with the alder journalists started who
were co nducting the Constitution,
out with audacious pluck, and proved and
himself to be so fertile in resources
expedients that his esteemed contempo¬
rary recognized the fact that it, had a
strong rival to fight. The Herald's Sun¬
day editions and trade issues were the
marvels of that day. After the sharpest
competition with the Constltutwii ever
known between any two papers in the
South it disappeared from the field. By
this time its editor’s abilities had made
him many friends abroad us well as at
home, and James Gordon Bennett at
once made him the, Southern correspond¬
ent of thf New York Herald. On this
great journal Mr. Grady did some of the
best work of his life. In 1880 he purchased
a fourth interest in the Constitution,
taking the position of managing editor,
which he held at the time of his death.
Of his work in this position, Colonel
A very, in his History of Georgia, inimitable says:
“Mr. Grady’s (lashing and
sketches, editorials and articles gives an
unremitting sparkle to the paper, His
contemporaries on the journal will con¬
sider it no derogation to their high claims
to say that- Mr. Grady is the genius of
this powerful piq »T. There is a vivid
mss, an audacity and a velvety splendor him¬
about his articles that are approximated.” peculiar to
self, that noothermsn has
Mr. Grady's interest in state polities
was such as to attract toward him the at¬
tention of the republic, llis ulitorials
in the Constitution were quoted in every
section; demands upon him for speeches
came from Texas to Maine, and every
word lie wrote, and every word he spoke,
hut added to his rounding fame, llis
speech at the New England dinner, two
years ago, was a revelation. It aroused
such an interest, and a friendly interest,
too, in tho north regarding the south,that
its delivery has become epochal. with Spoken sincer
with all proper boldness, and
ity welling ui from the heart, it disarmed
criticism unit invited friendship. Texas Fol¬
lowing this came Mr. Grady's great
speech, one year ago, in which he spoke
of the white and colored people of the
south. While claiming definite, Anglo 8nxon he spoke su¬
periority as final and
also for the humane and Christian treat¬
ment of the colored people. During the
same year lie addressed the visiting
legislators of South Carolina and
Georgia at the Augusta which exposition. he
The last great speech in Boston—
delivered- but a few days ago life.
was the crowning event of his Such
an occasion, such au audience, such an
orator, seldom meet, The words spoken
there have not diisl away before the sad
intelligence follows that the gifted orator
is stricken unto death.
THE ILLNESS.
When he left Atlanta to go to Boston
he was threatened with pneumonia—he
went, in fact, under the protest of his
physician. his" “To objection stay now,” he replied to
physician’s on the eve of
starting, “is out of the question.”
After the Thursday night speech in
Boston he contracted a new cold from ex
posure. Tlie visit to Plymouth Hock was
unfortunate in this respect. Mr, Grady
stood for some time in the raw atmos¬
phere with his head uncovered. Friday
night he was seized with a chill, and for
the first time seems to have realized that
his health was iu a critical condition.
In New York he was treated by Dr.
Goldthwaite. Before the party started
homeward. Air. Grady was assured that
all danger of pneumonia was past, and
that it would be entirely safe to return
home at once.
Shortly after 10 o’clock loving hands
bore the bier into the large parlor of the
beautiful home, and there many friends
looked upon the loved features which
death had left unchanged. A few min¬
utes before noon, Mr. Orion Frazee, the
sculptor, was permitted to take a mask Frazee ol
the features. The last time Mr.
had looked into that face was
when Mr. Grady had arranged tc
send him to New Orleans to take a death
mask of Jefferson Davis. The mask of
Mr. Grady is perfect, erection and will doubtless
be used in the of a monument tc
his memory. All the afternoon there was
a constant stream of eailers—friends whe
lx'frgf.fl tin; privilege of looking into the
face of the man they loved. Among the
callers who asked, and were granted this
privilege, were number many of prominent colored citizens
and, too, a men; and
there bier were many bore affecting the body scenes about
the that from which
the Upon soul had departed. of Mr. Grady's
the announcement
death, teleg rams of condolence and ex¬
pressions of sympathy and sorrow began
pouring in from all parts of the country.
Those from the North, where the great
man was sowing the seeds of brotherly
love, show the high estimation in which
he was held in that section—in fact, such
a high tribute was never before paid to
any Southern received man. Among Ex-President the thous¬
ands was one from
Cleveland, Sam’l .T. Randall, David B.
Hill, E. B. Haskell, of the Boston Collins, Herald;
Roswell P. Flower, Patrick ,V
./onn fi. mtnan, Clinton B. Fisk, K. jj.
Thurber, James E. Campbell, Governor
of Ohio; Daniel 8. Lament, John A.
Cockerill, C. M. DePew, Edward Atkin¬
son and a host of other well-known and
prominent Northern the Southern men. States the
wires Throughout overburdened with
were messages
of sympathy. Every city in the broad
southland sent some fitting expression of
sorrow and grief at the death of the no¬
ble son of Georgia, whom they had
learned to love as man was never loved by
people before. At his own home in At¬
lanta, strong men shed tears of sorrow
and regret at the sad intelligence. The
whole city was shocked from center to
circumference, and a pall of sorrow over¬
hung everything. of Grady’s
The press the country, Mr.
contemporaries, were unanimous in theii
expressions of talented grief at brother the loss journalist. of sc
brilliant and a
Henry AVoodfin Grady was loved every¬
where.
THE FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
In deference to Mr. Grady’s expressed
wish, the funeral ceremonies were very
simple and unostentatious. Wednesday morning the
At 10 o’clock
remains were removed from the residence,
on Peachtree street, to the First Metho¬
dist church. It had been arranged by the
committee in charge, that Mr. Grady’s
body should lie in state in the church,
that the people who loved him so well
might he permitted the dear to take a Men, last farewell
look upon face. women
and children— white and blank —all clas¬
ses and conditions, were waiting for a last
look at the still, white face of the one
friend on earth they had in common.
When the doors were thrown open, at
11, the crowd filed into the church.
Looking over the shoulders of those in
front, the first view was of the floral dec¬
orations about the chancel. These were
strikingly beautiful. The pulpit was
banked in tube roses, palms, japonicas,
hyacinths, roses, violets, immortelles, xmi
lax, ferns and ivy. The rarest artistic
taste was shown in the individual pieces,
and in the general arrangement. Crowns,
crosses, crescents, columns, and a score or
more of other devices, together with a
great number of beautiful boquets, fes¬
toons, and the like, made tip a picture of
wonderful beauty.
For nearly three hours the steady march
was maintained, and when the doors
were shut a crowd was waiting at
the steps, and others came up in
tens and twelves, only to be turned
away between disappointed. and nine It is thousand estimated people that
seven
passed through the church to view the
remains. A grander tribute, or a truer,
than that of tears and sorrow was never
paid a mortal man.
THE CONSTITUTION FAMILY,
At 12:30 the big Constitution family,
about one hundred and fifty strong,
formed at the Constitution building, with
Captain E. I’. Howell and lion. Patrick
Walsh, an honored guest, in the lead.
By twos they marched, the editorial and
reportorial staffs first; then the business
office, the mailing departments, the com¬
posing room men order, and the employes of the
job room, in respectively. It was
the first time this great family ever
turned out as an etirety. There were
aged veterans of the stick and rule, who
helped articles to of set Ids, up which the first made of those the Constitu¬ brilliant
tion and himself household words in
America. There w ere little boys in short
pants, and there were young ladies, who
find honorable employment building, within whose the
walls of the great on
foundation stones are the prints of his
own facile fingers. Many a tear was shed
as reared they passed beside with bowed his heads and be
hearts cold form as it
lay in state.
The ceremonies at the church were sol
etun and long impressive, procession and formed at their conclu¬
sion the on Reach
tree street, then swept around into Broad,
which was lined with people standing
four or five deep on the curbstone, and
with bared brows watching tlie sad pro¬
cession as it wended its way toward Oak¬
land Cemetery.
The first carriage contained Governor
John B. Gordon, Chief Justice Logan E.
Bleckley, Mayor J. T. Glenn and ex-Gov
ernor Henry 1). McDaniel. The twenty
three other carriages that preceded the
hearse the were honorary occupied bv the pall-bearers
and escorts. After the
hearse came other carriages containing
the immediate family, relatives and
friends of Mr. Grady, who knew and
loved him in life, and who, in death,
came forward to pay tribute to his mem¬
ory. AH the way along Hunter street the
pavements were linen with throngs ol
people, even women and children, oi
every age and every calling. Fulton
county court house was filled with people,
as were the porticos of the eapitol and the
second stories of business houses and
dwellings church along the street. The fire bells,
the bells, and the bells on the
public buildings tolled mournfully as the
vast mission. concourse Crowds moved along on its sad
of people followed on
foot, so that the walks and drives, and
every vacant space in the cemetery, were
all filled with sad faces. At last the pro¬
cession halted, as the hearse reached the
Grant family mausoleum, where it had
been arranged that Georgia's well-beloved
^tor^davlank down
in of a men golden was giorv laid £U. to sleep this m great golilen ma f I
prime. _____—
It is said that Postmaster-General
Wananiaker means to recommend free
postal delivery in all places having 3,000
inhabitants or $8,000 annual reports for
uotiace.
CURREST NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CARLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE TO lIir.D, r FIXED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
A revolution litis broken out in the de¬
partment of Cuscattan, San Salvador.
A disease resembling epizootic is prev¬
alent in Chicago. A number of horses
have died.
The main building of the Western col¬
lege, in Toledo, Iowa, burned Thursday.
Loss $150,009.
New A terrible thunderstorm and passed considera¬ over
York state Thursday
ble damage done.
France, acting in accordance with Eng¬
land, is about to recognize Hypollte as
President of Ilayti.
The Pope has sent an autograph letter
to Don Carlos, congratulating him upon
his accession to the throne.
The citizens’ warehouse at Vasoo City-,
Mass., with six thousand bales of cotton,
burned Saturday afternoon.
Carnegie's lower nuicn iron mills at
Pittsburg, Pa., are closed puddlers. down on ac¬
count of a strike of the
Two old ladies, who were living by
themselves, near Syracuse, N. Y., were
found asphyxiated by coal gas Thursday.
The Daily News, of London, Eng.,
says that Germany will send an ironclad
to Brazil to protect German colonists on
the Rio Grande.
The town of Real, in Sicely, was shaken
by an earthquake Thursday, Several
houses collapsed ifnd many persons were
buried under the ruins.
During the past ten months the imports
of woolen goods amounted in value during to
$47,107,428, against $44,010,890
the same months of 1889,
Two young men blew out the gas in
their room at the Pacific hotel, Bethle¬
hem, Pa., Wednesday night, and were
found dead Thursday morning.
The Philadelphia Typographical union
has voted to insist on their demand for
increased w ages, and the matter has been
referred to the executive council.
The Wabash Manufacturing Company, assign¬
stationers, of Chicago, made an
ment Thursday. Liabilities $200,000. It
is claimed that 1lie assets will reach the
same figure.
Edward P. Babst, general delivery
clerk in the Buffalo, X. Y., postoflice, stealing has
been arrested on the charge of
from the United Starts mails. He con¬
fessed his crime.
The steamer City of Berlin, from New
York for Liverpoil, which arrived at
Queenstown Saturday morning, reports of
passing two large icebergs in the track
trans-Atlantic steamers.
A report comes from St. Petersburg
that there is some disaffection in the
army, and that several arrests have been
made of officers who have given too free
vent to their opinions.
The first of the series of the tariff hear¬
ings mapped out by the house committee
on ways and means was held on Thursday.
Gentlemen interested in metals, ores and
coal being permitted to give their views.
General Boulanger has General sent a De message For
from Paris, France, to
nesa, Chief of the Provisional Govern¬
ment of Brazil, congratulating despised monarchy.” him upou
“Theoverthrow of a
Alexander Beck & Son, carpet manu¬
facturers of Philadelphia, for benefit made of an their as¬
signment Saturday the estimates the
creditors. The assignee barely
liabilities at $180,000 and assets at
$ 100 , 000 .
The New York grand jury, on Friday,
made a presentment in regard to electric
light wires. It says the business of gener¬
ating and distributing electric currents
should be investigated by the next legis
lat lire.
Mr. Gladstone has received two hun¬
dred telegrams and live hundred letters
congratulating him upon his eightieth 29th.
birthday, which was Sunday, the
The earliest telegram to arrive was from
the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The secretary of the navy has adopted
a new design for the flag of the navy to
take effect July 1st, 1891. It will be
'applied to both the flag and the union
jack of the navy, and consists of a rec¬
tangular arrangement of forty-two stars.
Details have been received of the se¬
rious ravages of scarlet fever and diphthe¬
ria in Campbell county, South Dakota,
forty eases fiirh being reported, Other twenty- adja¬
six of w proved fatal. several deaths
cent counties also report
from these diseases.
A terrible accident- occurred on the
Frazier River road at Vancouver, British
'Columbia. Saturday. Six young men, out
sleigh riding, were driving along the
road, when a tree fell, crushing the
sleigh, killing four of the oct upants and
aorses. The other two escaped with se
tore bruises.
At the last annual meeting of tlie
American Public Association, at Brook¬
lyn. N. Y.. a resolution was adopted
calling upou officers of tlie l niteil States
Marine Hospital Service to exercise the
same watchful vigilance to prevent the
introduction into the United States of
persons suffering with leprosy, as it docs
to prevent the introduction of yellow
fever, cholera, etc. In accordance with
I the tenor of this resolution. Surgeon-Gen¬
eral Hamilton has prepared a series of
resolutions having this end in view, which
will be sent to the proper officials for their
guidance From iu dealing w ith persons suffering
this disease. The regulations have
been approved by the President.
j CARLOS CROWNED.
Portugal does honor to her new - kino.
ENTHUSIASM AMONG THE PEOPLE.
^J'Vari^'i/as i,:
king of Portugal and
j WH? thw ; t wit ^ ,. nt!u . >iaM ; c
The king left the castle at Belem at 11
j o'clock, and the journey to the place
where the kinsr to k the oath of office
j i>efore the ei-rtes. was made without the
nvurreuio of any incident of au unfaror
able character.
A TERRIBLE WRECK
ON THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO, IN WHICH
TEN ABE KIM.ED AND MANY INJURED.
A dispatch from Charleston, W. Ya.,
says: A terrible accident occurred Sat
urdav morning on the Chesapeake and
Ohio road, at W T hite Sulpher Springs, 125
miles east of this place. Reports have
been very hard to get. One of these from
an eye witness says: Vestibule train No.
8. westward on the Chesapeake and Ohio,
left the track, demolishing six ears, killing
ten persons and injuring about twenty
five. The accident was caused by the
rails spreading. The complete list of the
killed is: ffale Morrison, Charleston,
mail agent; J. W. Thomas, newsboy.,
Lexington, Ky.: O. B. Barksdale, Prof¬
fitt, Ya., baggage master: J. B. West,
Howardsville, Ya., engineer; Heath, E. colored, Wilson,
Caldwell, Kansas: Nelson
Claremont, W. Ya.; II. Faltka, Grand
county, South Dakota; Edward Brown,
colored, Alleghanv, Ya.; Ividder Kidd,
Hannibal, Mo., had his mouth filled with
mi id, and died of strangulation; unknown
man described as white, tall and slender,
fair complexion, gray eyes, sandy mous¬ plaid.
tache, dressed in dark brown
Among the injured are: -T. R. Karesch,
Blackstone, Ks.; Conductor Schewitkert,
Huntington, W. Ya.; R. S. Branton,
Farmerville, Ya.; C. TI. Cline, Chicago;
William Dell, New York; W. Clarke,
Clifton Forge, Ya.; P. P. Burch, M. M.
Dell, New York; .T. W. Clarke, train dis¬
patcher, Clifton Forge, Ya.; John Wood
folk, Alleghany, Ya., section hand; W.
D. Clark, Cliff county, Va.; Louis
Karzth, Blackstone, Ky.; H. C. Gregory, will
Cliff Top, Ya. Many of the injured
probably die.
It was a fearful wreck, and the damage
to the railroad at this time cannot be even
estimated. The engine did not leave the
rails, but the tender was without any
trucks. The rear sleeper had its front
trucks on the ground and remained on the
rails. The train which was wrecked, was
the west bound vestibule which left New
York Saturday, and was due at Cincinnati
Sunday. The train was behind time, and
running forty or fifty miles per hour. The
conductor says it was only running thir¬
ty-five miles,' but others say forty or Jary’s fifty.
The wreck occurred on a fill over
run, which is 190 feet high—said to All be the
highest fill in the United States. ot
the killed were in the smoking ear, which
was telescoped by another ear. Every
person in the car was killed except the
conductor, who had his leg broken and
seriously injured. The dead were taken
to Ronceverte, eleven miles distant from
the scene of the wreck.
Another wreck was reported Sunday on
the Chesapeake and Ohio road, at Fort
Guy, Greenbrier county. Thirteen
freight cars out of a freight train of sev¬
enteen cars, were broken up. Fireman
Leighton was killed, and Engineer Murray
.seriously injured.
THE “LA GRIPPE.”
INFLUENZA RAPID LT SPREAD¬
ING OYER THE COUNTRY.
MANY NORTHERN CITIES INVADED—ONE
THIRD OF THE POPULATION OF PARIS
DOWN WITH T11E PLAGUE.
Tlie Russian influenza, the genuine
“LaGrippe,” has shown itself and proba¬
ble head in Chicago, .and already a large
number of cases have been reported. All
of these cases have shown unmistakable
signs of Russian developed influenza, and some ol
them have into very serious
ones. The “Grippe” is officially ignored
at City. the sanitary headquarters representatives in New York
Unofficially, the of
the health department say that probably
50,000 people in New York are suffering
from more or less severe attacks ol' influ¬
enza, but they refuse to give it official
recognition. The disease seems to have
found a goodly number of victims among
the employes of the New York postoflice.
Saturday’s absentees in the general office
numbered sixty-five, the sick and in many instan¬
ces persons on list were letter
assorters. Eighty-one members of the
Brooklyn police force grippe. are reported to be
suffering with mortality the in Paris,
The recent from the
ravages of the influenza, is as follows:
Wednesday, 318; Thursday, 393; Friday,
844. The sudden drop from the figures
of Thursday to those of Friday is taken as
an evidence that the dreaded epidemic is
on the wane.
A prominent physician of Philadelphia
says: “There are fully 25,000 persons now
in this city being treated for influenza in
some form or other. All classes of citi¬
zens are numbered among its victims, and
some of the leading business men of th<
city have been compelled to absent them¬
selves from their places of business on ac¬
count of the grippe.”
The disease has also made its appear¬
ance in Detroit, Boston, Baltimore, New
Brunswick, N. J., and Kansas City. At
Detroit over five thousand are down with
the disease. Fifty policemen, more than
half the city's officers and their assistants,
are laid up, and there is hardly a store oi
factory in the city whose clerical and
w orking force is not seriously crippled.
DIAGNOSIS OF THE INFLUENZA.
The Medical Neics. of Philadelphia, says:
Influenza comes suddenly: goes as quick:
least robust at any age and women seem
to be its first victims. It is here a ques¬
tion of condition not of sex. The large
numbers simultaneously attacked attracts
general attention and thus those most im¬
facilitated pressionable are seized, the onset being
fear illness. by any There depressing emotion, like
or is no rigor, prop¬
erly to be t-hus designated, but rather a
series oi chills and a feeling of heat there¬
with, sometimes malaise of a general kind
is experienced, but. like the attack itself,
is of short duration, lasting but a few
hours. With the first access of nasal and
facial irritation, come a chilliness, which
is followed by some feverishness with
more pronounced malaise, and in a gen¬
eral headache, weakness and soreness of
the members, and especially of the larger
joints. epidemic, With the progress of the ease in
some there is considerable gen¬
eral weakness, even a marked depression
of the vital powers. The pulse becomes
small, and the mind gloomy and rest¬
lessness ensues. When a fatal termina¬
tion is to occur, as a rule, an extension
downward into the trachea and bronchi
takes place.
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A FATAL RIOT.
CONFLICT BETWEEN WHITE MEN AND NE
OKOES AT JK3UP, GA.
Four white men lying in the cold em¬
brace of death and two more so desper¬
ately wounded that they can’t recover, is
.Jesup's record for Christmas day
of 1889. A telegram from that
V place on Wednesday morning says;
riot, one of the most desperate and
mo't unprovoked ever known in the
south, has cast a gloom over this plate
and throw n the people of this section into
a nervous excitement never known here
before. In that riot two men of worth
were killed, and two equally valuable to
any community were critically wounded.
A later report says: several wounded
Six dead, and and riddled men, with
and bullets' a jail broken open
were among the most attractive
features of the situation. The dead were:
Mr. W. M. Barnhill, deputy marshal; Mr.
N. C. Wood, a visitor from North Caro¬
lina; Mr. Henry Anderson, a member of
the guard from McRae; William Fluid, a
negro man; Pete Jackson, an unknown
mulatto; William Hopps, a negro dead, boy
living in the town. Of the the
deputy marshal was at his home at dawn;
Woods was on the train, en route to his
home in North Carolina; and Anderson
was in the union depot. Fluid was found
upon the street in front of his home,
and Jackson and Hopps were in
their cells in the Wayne county jail.
Other dead and wounded may yet be
found, when the excitement subsides suffi,
ciently to allow a thorough investigation.
The town is yet under military rule, and
the swamps are still infested by a lawless
mob of armed negroes, who, defying the
officers, are inviting an attack. The gang
is variously estimated at from the original
dozen to a hundred well armed, reckless
negroes.
A FATAL RIOT.
CONFLICT BETWEEN WHITE MEN AND NE¬
GROES AT JESUP, GA.
Four white men lying in the cold em¬
brace of death and two more so desper¬
ately wounded that they can't recover, is
Jesup's record for Christmas day
of 1889. A telegram from that
place on Wednesday morning says:
A riot, one of the most desperate and
most unprovoked gloom ever known this in place the
south, has east a over
and thrown the people of this section into
a nervous excitement never known here
before. In that riot two men of worth
were killed, and two equally valuable to
any community were critically wounded.
A later dead, report and says: several wounded
Six men,
and a jail broken open and riddled with
bullets, were among the most attractive
features of the situation. The dead were:
Mr. W. M. Barnhill, deputy marshal; Mr.
N. C. Wood, a visitor from North Caro¬
lina; Mr. Henry Anderson, a member of
the guard from McRae; William Fluid, a
negro man; Pete Jackson, an unknown
mulatto; William llopps, a negro boy,
living in the town. Of the dead, tha
deputy marshal was at his home at dawn;
Woods was on the train, en route to his
home in North Carolina; and Anderson
was in the union depot. Fluid was found
upon the street in front of his home,
and Jackson and Hopps were in
their cells in the Wayne county jail.!
Other dead and wounded may yet be
found, when the excitement subsides suffi¬
ciently to allow a thorough investigation.
The town is yet under military rule, and
the swamps are still infested by a lawless
mob of armed negroes, who, defying the
officers, variously are inviting an attack. The gtiag
is estimated at from the original
dozen to a hundred well armed, reckless
negroes.
MONUMENT FOR GRADY.
THE TEOFLE DETERMINED THAT IT SHALL
BE BUILT.
Close upon the announcement of Mr.
Grady’s death, a number of prominent
Atlanta gentlemen set to work to organize
a Grady Monument Association. A com¬
mittee was appointed and went to work at
once. Subscriptions were called for, and
the spontaniety with which responses
were made to the call from all sections of
the country has been unprecedented, and
is a touching tribute to the man whose
death is deplored more than any other
that could have occurred in the South.
It is the desire of the committee to pro¬
ceed as soon as possible with the arrange¬
ments for the erection of the monument,
but will not do anything on this line un¬
til every subscription that will be made
has been received. There are hundred*
w hose names will he added to this roll <>t
honor who would not have them omitted.
WILL NOT BE NATURALIZED
FOREIGNERS IN BRAZIL WILL EMIGRATE
BATHER THAN BECOME CITIZENS.
A vast number of foreign residents of
Brazil have protested against the natural¬
ization scheme of the provisional govern
tui-nt. A number of French, Portugese,
German and Italian merchants residing
and doing business in Brazil, have applied
to their respective governments for pro¬
tection. They say they do not wish to
interfere with Brazilian polities, and they
will not submit to the loss of their na¬
tional right s. Should the provisional
government will dispute those rights, they
leave the country after disposing of
their business, to the detriment of Brazil.
Benin l)e Penedo, late imperial minister
if Brazil to England, is preparing a pam¬
phlet in which he will reveal the intrigues,
if republicans prior to the overthrow oV
the empire.
A MINNESOTA BLIZZARD.
A Pioneer Press special from St. Cloud,
Minn., says: The first genuine blizzard
of the season struck the city Saturday af¬
ternoon. The storm began at 1 o'clock,
and is still raging with unabated fury.
AIuch snow has already fallen, and trains
will undoubtedly be blocked.
LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE.
Kitty—So George has jilted you!
Why. the wretch 1 But you wiH get
over it, dear. reconciled
Minnie—Oh, I’m almost
already. ‘‘Why, I rather like it. ?”
what do yon mean
“I can eat all the onions I want now.”
—[Lowell Citizen.