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J. W. WHlTE,'Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME V.
Central & Southwestern Railr’ds,
[All trains of this system are run by Stand
lid (99) Meridian time, which is 86 minutes
■lower than time kept by city.]
Savannah, Ga", Jan. 24. 1886.
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS on tho Central and South
western Railroads and branches will run as
follows:
GOING NORTH.
Leave No. 61— No. 63
Savannah...D 8 40am.. D 810 p ni
Leave No. 16—
D 6 40pm..
Arrive No. 16 —
Hillen D 8 46pm..
Arrive No. 61— No. 53
Augusta.... D 345 pm.. D 615 am
Hacon D 420 pm.. D 320 am
Atlanta D 9 35pm.. D 732 am
Columbus...D 623 am.. D 216 pm
Perry DES 8 45pm.. DES 12 00 m
Fort Gaines DES 4 38pm
Blakeley DES 7 10pm
Eufaula D 4 01pm
Albany D 10 45 p m.. D 245 p m
Montgomery D 7 25 p m
Milledgeville DES 649 p m
Eatonton.. .DES 7 40pm
Connections at 'Terminal Points.
At Augusta—Trains 61 and 63 connect with
outgoing trains of Georgia hailroad,Columbia,
Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and Sout.i
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with
outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road. Train 61 connects with trains for Syl
rania, Wrightsville and Louisville.
At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 53 connect r*"‘
Air-Line and Kennesaw routes to all pr
North and East, and with all diverging r
for local stations.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave—Nos. Nos.
Hillen... 16 D 600 a m..
Augusta. 18 D 9 BJam..2OD 9 30 pm
Macon.. .52 D 940 a m.. 54 D 10 50 p m
Atlanta. .62 D 600 am.. 54 D 6 50pm
Columb’s 20 D 900 p m.. 6 D 11 40 a m
Perry... .24 DES 600a m. .22 DES 300 pm
Ft. Gaines 28 “ 10 05 am
Blakeley 26 “ 815 a m
Eufaula 2D 10 55 a m
Albany .. 4 D 410 a m.. 26 D 12 15 p m
Montg’ry 2D 7 40 am
Mill’dg’ve2sDES 6 37 am
Eatonton 25 DES 515 am
Arrive—No.
Bavannahl6D 8 05 am.. No.
Bavanuahs2D 4 07 pm.. 54 D 6 00 am
Connections at Savannah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida.
Trains Nos. 53 and 54 will not stop to take
on or put off passengers botween Savannah
and Mitten, as trains Noe. 15 and 16 are ex
pected to do the way business botween these
points.
Local sleeping cars on all night passenger
trains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan
uah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Macon
and Columbus.
Tickots for all points and sleeping car berths
on sale at city office, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Supt., Savanuah.
J. O. Shaw, W. F. SHELLMAN,
Gen. Trav. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Savannah, Ga.
"D.” daily, “DES," daily exoept Sunday.
A HORROR OF THE SLUMS.
Fivo Hand nnd Dying Cliltilren and o
Father llcsoir and Willi Drink.
A letter from Detroit, Mich., says;
“Isn't it terrible?”
“Yes, awful.”
There was a large crowd about the
house at No. 456 Woodbridgo street.
It was noon and the gathering was soon
Bwollen by people going homo to dinner.
Tit < women's faces were blanched and
tnen’s had a stern and forbidding look.
]f there had not been several city officers
present another dreadful tragedy might
have been enacted.
The house is a dilapidated frame
building, and in it Thomas Grears, a
stonecutter, thirty-three years of age,
lives with his family, consisting at
present of five children. La-t Sunday
Mrs. Grears died in childbirth, the in
fant living. She was buried on
Wednesday. Since the funeral nothing
was seen of Grears or any of the chil
dren. The house was closed and the
doors locked. A neighbor, becoming
suspicious, broke in the door one morn
ing and saw a sight which caused him
to retreat as from a pestilence.
Lying with the children upon tho one
bed was the father, crazy drunk. The
cold, naked and bloody body of another
child lay on the floor, where it had been
thrown by the brutal father to make
more room on the bed. The living chil
dren were down with an virulent attack
of scarlet fever. A girl three years old
was dead and cold. A boy eight years
old was dying, and the other children,
a girl of five years and a boy of one year
old, were so ill that they could not
move. A child a year old -was uncon
scious. The house was cold, the blanket
of the bed filthy and bloody. '1 lie
little sufferers on the bed were almost
naked, and the burly form of the father
lay partly over the younger lad and the
babe. Not a morsel of food was found
in the house except a little milk frozen
hard.
Horrified at the sight, the neighbors
rushed out and gave the alarm. Tho
Poor Commissioner took immediate
charge of the case. Physicians were
called and food and fire provided, and
several fiercely indignant women neigh
bors set to work to clean up the house.
Grears was put in charge of the officer.
He is said to be a fine workman at his
trade of stonecutting, and was recently
employed at Lett’s Stone Yard. The
family came from London, Out., five
months ago.
Euttcr and (horse.
From a report of tho New York Mer
cantile Exchange it appears that during
tho last yeur the receipts of butter have
been 1,048,220 packages, being 8,620
packages less than lor last year, while
cheese has fallen off 178,927 boxes. In
exports butter is 58,476 packages and
cheese 83,434 boxes less than last year.
The prices of Western creamery butter
have increased from 2 i 7-16 and 24 cents
to 25 1-8 and 26 3-4 cents. The price of
cheese and eggs also advanced. For
December there was a large falling off
in the quantity of butter, cheese, and
eggs received in this market. Five
thousand and six packages of oleomar
garine were reported as having been re
ceived duiing the month, and tho oleo
margarine and oils exported during the
month show an increase of 6,603 pack
ages over the same time last year.
~ Last year eight peaks of the Alps, hitherto
Inaccessible, were ascended by adventurous
parties, but eleven persons lost their lives in
climbing, ten being killed and one froze to
4etb.
Steam ami Jfcicmct.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
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NEWB NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUB SECTIONS*
GEORGIA.
There has been received at Milledge
ville 10,000 bales of cotton this season,
which exceeds last year’s receipts by fifty
bales.
Treasurer James M. Sapp has had
placed to the credit of Dodge county in
the Exchange bank of Macon the snug
sum of $2,816.28.
Some of Polk county's best citizens
have ordered pecan trees with a view to
trying the experiment of their growth in
that county.
The canal cut bv Mr. Sweeney and
others around the drift in the Oconee
river is washing out handsomely,
although there have been no freshets in
the river since the canal was cut.
Mr. Tol Lester, of Clarke county, last
week killed sixty blackbirds at two shots
besides wounding others. He also fired
at a covey of partridges in a patch of
broomsedge, and killed ten at a single
fire.
Wednesday while Allen Holt, a colored
man of Americus, was working in a cut
on the A., P. and L., about two miles
beyond Lumpkin, the side of the em
bankment caved in and covered him up.
He was terribly crushed before he could
bo extricated, and his life is in danger.
A man living in Haralson county went
home one night about ten o’clock, while
about three sheets in the wind, and feast
ed upon a buzzard, which his good wife
had cooked for the oil that was in the
fowl. It is said that the man ate all of
this bird, thinking it was a chicken, and
when he was told of what he feasted up
on, he then and there “swore off” and
went to preaching.
The season for woods fires has arrived,
and the woods are being “burned off”
throughout the piney woods, or wire
grass region. The open pine woods are
burned off annually for the benefit of the
sheep and cattle that have to subsist up
on what they gather from nature’s plant
ing. After the wire grass, which gets
hard with half a year’s growth, has been
burned off to the surface anew and ten
der growth springs up from the roots and
stubble, making the best of grazing for
sheep and cattle. A good portion of the
woods on the east side of Flint river has
already been burned.
Opposite the McAfee house, and jus!
in front of Charlie Hill’s barber shop, in
Smithville, in the road where vehicles
pass, a mysterious and well rounded well
can be seen as the result of the' sudden
and unexpected caving in of the earth
which has hitherto kept its locality a se
cret. The ground gave way as a heavy
loadtd wagon passed over it the other
day, and a well with 10 feet of water and
20 feet in depth from the top to the bot
tom can now be seen there. Various
speculations as to the origin of the well
were hazarded by the crowd which
quickly collected around it, bnt nothing
definite is known about it, though it is
supposed to be a well made by the rail
road men when the Central was being
built.
The legal tender silver mine, in Mur
ray, which so much excitement was made
about some years ago, is being operated
upon again, nnd a better quality of ore is
now being gotten out than ever before.
Considerable excitement is growing out
of the new find. Tho mine is in Cohutta
mountain, about six miles from Spring
Place. Mr, Mcllan, who owns a tract
of land near the mine, has had an option
taken on his land for $4,000. There is
millions of wealth in Old Cohutta which
only needs operating on to bring it to the
eves of the capitalists. Captain W. C.
Tilton’s fine talc mine, four miles from
Spring Place, is shipping tons of talc
daily. There is not a day passing but
what wagons unload the talc in the crude
state at the Dalton depot for eastern
markets. There are the finest talc mines
in Murray county that are now known in
the United States.
ALABAMA.
Henry county has only nine barrooms.
There is talk of a SIO,OOO hotel to be
built in Alexander City.
Birmingham talks of giving a charity
ball to raise funds for the proposed hos
pital.
Thera are about 3,000 hands at work
on the extension of the Columbus and
Goodwater road to Birmingham.
The Macon and Tuscaloosa railway
company, a projected line from Maeon,
Miss., and Tuscaloosa, has been incor
porated and an organization effected. It
is thought that work will commence at
once.
Uniontovrn is situated in the midst of
the noted canebrake lands of west Ala
bama, which are the finest and most pro
ductive farming lands in the south. This
town has been very unfortunate in being
twice burned; but its enterprising citi
zens have now rebuilt, it more substautial
than ever. The business portion of the
place is solid brick. Near the town is
located the state experiment farm for the
black belt section. A fine artesian well
is being bored in the business portion of
the town. They have already reached
over six hundred feet.
A meeting of citizens was held in
Haynevilie to inaugurate a movement
having for its object the draining of the
swamps on Big Swamp Creek. W. C.
Griffin presided and Tom Baine was sec
retary. A committee was appointed to
arrange for a grand meeting of all citi
zens interested in the undertaking to be
held at an early day. Also a committee
to investigate and report to that meeting
the most practicable plan of draining
these swamps and the cost of same, and
also as to what amount of the lands re
claimed will be given by the owners to
any company doing the work. The lands
that would bo reclaimed are as fine as
there are in the world, there being act
ually no bottom to the soil. They would
amount to about 176,000 acres. The
drainage would also add vastly to that
section of the country,
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10.1887.
FLORIDA.
Bradentown is trying to erect a school
house on the joint stock plan.
Parties have been prospecting for the
past few days with a view to establish
ing a sanitarium at Cedar Key.
The Fernandina Building and Loan
association has completed its organiza
tion, and is now receiving subscriptions
to its stock,
Thomas A. Edison, who has been very
ill in New York, is recovering, and will
soon be able to return to his Winter home
at Fort Myers.
There is shipping from Governor
Drew’s mill at Columbus City, and John
W. Dowling & Cos., at Lake Ogden, from
125 to 150 cars of lumber per month.
Columbus county exported $750,000
worth of her own products in 1885, and
the acreage in tobacco this year will run
up the value of her exports to $200,000
more if the tobacco is sent out in its man
ufactured state. If it were, however,
made into cigars the value of her exports
would be much higher.
Cedar Key has been considerably ex
cited for the last two weeks over the
myiterious disappearance of T. W. Gore,
a young grocery merchant doing business
at the Bradshaw old stand. Mr. Gore
did not evsn take his clothes, but leaving
the store in charge of young William
Moore, took his gun and boarded a
freight train, since when no news has
been had of him. It is believed now that,
realizing the fact that his business was
in such a shape that it would be impossi
ble for him to pay out and continue, lie
became discouraged and concluded to
save something from the wreck and seek
anew field. It is not known what imount
of money he carried away. Attachments
have been levied on the stock remaining,
and those owing him have been garni
sheed by the creditors.
SOUTH CAROLINA,
An old woman named Pinde, livin'!
near Port Royal ferry, was burned to
death by her clothing taking fire from a
fire in the yard. She was 70 years old,
and her mother is living and is over 100
years old. The death of an old man from
this same neighborhood, some time ago,
123 years old, was reported.
In Port Royal many new buildings are
going up, the most important being tho
large planing mill of J. C. Cummings,
just put up and noiv in operation. A
track has been laid to the mill, and cars
are run to it and unloaded. This mill
gives employment to quite a number of
hands.
Robert Winn shot and killed Geoige
Downing eight miles from Newberry.
They quarreled Christmas about seventy
five cents. Winn hid behind a post
and shot Downing while the latter was
passing by, with his wife.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
A Cincinnati Jndiro Called to ilia Door
and is Fired Upon.
A bold attempt was made Wednesday
night to Assassinate Judge James W.
Fitzgerald, of the Cincinnati police
court, at his residence on Findlay street.
About 9 o’clock in the evening the side
bell of the judge’s residence rang, and
he answered it in person. He had no
more than opened the door when a man,
whose face was blackened, but whose
hands were white, fired a revolver.
The bullet passed through the Judge’s
coat on the right side, but not entering
the flesh. The judge hastily slammed
the door. The would-be assassin made
good his escape. The police have not
the slightest cine to* tho ideutity of the
miscreant, but his motive was uudoubt
edly revenge for a judicial act. Judge
Fitzgerald is the judge before whom one
hundred and fifty men, arrested for cock
fighting, were examined Monday, when
forty of them pleaded guilty and contri
buted $25 each to the city treasury, and
the remainder were notified that the men
who stood trial and were convicted
should receive the full measure of the
law.
Another attempt to kill Fitzgerald
was made recently by throwing bricks a)
him as he was going home after dark.
HER DIAMONDS.
A Memphis Hotel Clerk Decamps With
Fanny Davenport's Jewels.
Charles Talbot, aged nineteen, em
ployed as night clerk of the Guyosa hotel,
Tuesday night, was on duty. After the
performance of an opera, at the theater
Edwin H. Price, Fanny Davenport’s
husband, left with him a jewel basket,
which contained Miss Davenport’s dia
monds, consisting of brooch, rings, neck
lace, earrings, etc., valued at $35,000.
Price took a receipt. The basket was
not put in the safe, as it had been locked,
and Talbot did not know the combina
tion, but was placed in the cash drawer,
together with several packages of money
which late guests had deposited and
which amounted to about $3,000. This
money, together with the jewels, is miss
ing. Talbot had duplicate keys of the
cash drawer at the cigar stand of the ho
tel, and it was rifled of $lO in change.
He cannot be found.
DR. MATT ALEXANDER SUICIDES.
Dr. Matt Alexander, of Knoxville,
Tenn., committed suicide Tuesday after
noon by taking five grains of morphine.
He was one of the leading physicians of
Knoxville, but had recently been dissi
pated. He left a note saying: “I die
with malice toward none. Igo to hell.
Tell my son to go to heaven.”
Dr. Alexander was a member of the
board of examining surgeons of the pen
sion department.
KILLED BY BURGLARS.
William Gallaway and a clerk named
McLease in his employ, were shot and
fatally wounded Monday night at the
former’s general merchandise store in
Galloway, Ark. Galloway and his clerk
went late in the evening to his store and
found a gang of burglars going through
the premises. Galloway opened fire upon
the intruders, who fired back and mor
tally wounde 1 both Galloway and his
The burglar* escaped unhurt.
A QUEER STORY.
BESURRE C TION OF BRIG HA M
YOUNG.
A Queer Story Told by the Housekeeper of a
Wealthy Kns’llsh Mormon—Much Ex
citement Among tho Mormons.
Two miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska,
stands a palatial residence owned by an
English gentleman long identified with
tho Mormon church. The residence has
been unattended for the last two years,
save by an old servant named White, who
was connected with the Jezrels, of Lon
don, a sect similar to the Mormons.
White claims that he was defrauded by
them out of his property, and latterly be
came converted to the Mormon faith.
He was consider';a a Trustworthy man,
and was, therefore, partially through ne
cessity, taken into the confidence of the
leaders of the Mormon church of Zion,
which, according to his statement, is
about to perpetrate a fraud to which he
is unwilling to become a party.
Ho says: “Two months ago there ar
rived at the mansion an old gentleman,
healing letters from my master in Lon
don, the purport of which was to obey
his every wish, and to keep his presence
a secret to all except those to whom lie
saw fi tto reveal himself. Within a week
person s began to anive at the house in
twos and threes. They were from Salt
Lake City, and held long, whispered
consultations with my mysterious guest.
At first I did not care who or what lie
was. Little by little I gathered from
stray remarks that he was a person of
note, and soon after the truth burst upon
me that he was none other than Brigham
Young, the great prophet of our church,
who is apparently to be resurrected from
the dead, and preach to the people of
Zion as one having returned from the
grave to tell what lies beyond That his
death and burial were a deception will
soon be seen by the whole world, while
thousands of his ignorant believers bow
at his feet, and he dictate to them their
ways of life.
My guests, the visitors, are men of
high standing, as their appearance indi
cates, and it was in conversation with
one of them, who supposed from the way
I talked that I knew all, that my sus
picions were verified. My informant
said that Brigham Young had risen from
his grave in Salt Lake City, and was in
structing his disciples here, in order to
prepare help for the great event of his
coming. My only reason for telling
these facts is that I am an old man with
but little to gain in this world, and do
not want to see the people deluded as I
have been. The Jezrels absorbed my
competence and now the Mormons have
broken my faith.”
IDENTIFIED AS BRIGHAM YOUNG.
The old man told the story with sin
cerity that warranted further investiga
tion, and a merchant who formerrv <1 id
business in Salt Lake City drove out to
the mansion, and rapped at the door.
Receiving no response he started around
tho house to apply at the rear, when
through tho long window he saw file
form and features of the old man, who
was sitting inside. As he was unaware
of his presence, the merchant approached
to within a few feet of the window,
scanning the old man’s face closely, and
stepped back immediately, pronounced
the man to be Brigham Young, whose
marked features he had often studied in
Salt Lake City, and which once seen, he
says, can never be forgotten. For a few
moments the man sat silently, and then
raised his hand to his brow, revealing the
scar about the wrist that still further es
tablished his identity.
It is a well known fact that the elders
of the Mormon church throughout Utah
have of late been preaching the return of
the prophet. This, together with the
fact that it was claimed by a St. Louis
man some months ago, that Young was
seen and recognized iu London, that a
number of prominent Mormons from Salt
Lake City have lately been upon the
streets of Lincoln; that important legis
lation is about to be enacted to the detri
ment of the Mormon church, and the veil
of mystery with which the prophet's
death has always been shrouded, makes
it almost certain that the Mormon ban
ners throughout Utah will soon be un
furled, announcing that “he is risen.”
ROBBERS CAPTURED.
A Fatal Encounter In VVbich One Man !■
Killed.
Two detectives, accompanied by four
determined men, with bloodhound*,
started a short time ago in pursuit of a
gang of train robbers, wlio have been op
erating in the vicinity of Albuquerque,
N. M., for the past six months. The
robbers were tracked into the halls of a
canyon near Beleu station, 80 miles south
of here, and when they discovered that
they were surrounded, they made a
bloody defense at close range. The rob
bers proved to be four iu number, and
well armed. The detectives demanded
their surrender, but they answered the
demand with a volley of lead, and a reg
ular battle commenced. The detectives
and their party were victors.
During the fight Hardy Foster, one of
the robbers, was fatally wounded but
lived long enough to make a confession
implicating the whole party. Two others
were captured, but the fourth made his
escape. One of the captured men proved
to be Charlie Ross, who murdered Mar
shal McGuire, of Albuquerque, last No
vember, and subsequently broke jail. The
name of the other is Leslie Boise, and ho
is a native of West Herford, Texas. Both
men are now lodged by a sheriff’s posse.
Lynching is favored, and it is feared that
it will be carried out.
TAKEN OUT AND HANGED.
Last Monday William Lud Cornish, of
Sharpsburg, Washington county, Ky,sliot
Miss Lulu Green through the heart and
brain because she would not marry him.
He also tried to kill the girl’s mother
and sister, but failed on account of his
pistol getting out of order. The mother
received a severe wound in tho head, and
was knocked down with the pistol. Corn
ish was captured and taken to Spring
field, the county seat. Saturday night
a mob, composed of seventy-five men,
entered the j til and secured the prisoner.
He was taken to a farm about tvyq pules
north of town and hanged.
OUR MINISTER TO GERMANY.
lie Arrive. In New York nnd Talk. About
Affair. Aero.. The Water.
Hon. George 11. Pendleton, minister to
Berlin, has arrived and will remain in this
country about a month. He intends to
go to Washington to report to the secre
tary of state. After that he will go to
his home in Cincinnati, where he will re
main for a brief period before his depar
ture for his post of duty. Being inter
viewed, he remarked:
“The situation when I left Berlin was
very much strained. The power of Eu
rope, from a general feeling of insecurity,
have been making immense preparations.
There are tremendous military works and
armaments on every side. I heard Von
Moltkc say that it was a condition of af
fairs that must have a solution. It may
have changed since then.”
Mr. Pendleton said that he could not
see that anyone in Germany desired war.
In fact, every effort was being made to
..void it. Bismarck was not ready for
war now. He would not be ready until
the military bill had been passed and the
army reorganized.
“In fact,” added the embassador, “it
;eems to me that Bismarck would accord
heartily with any proposition for peace
•'ith honor. Public opinion does not
count in Europe as it does here. lu
America all questions are discussed freely
by the press, who in reality form public
opinion. In Germany public policy is
decidedly different. Yon Moltke, Bis
mark and two or three others settle such
matters. In France General Boulanger
leads. One peculiar thing would strike
Americans in Europe, that is how little
people influence the policy of rulers.”
SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH SALE.
Th* Property I’uroha.ed la the latere.t of
the Western Union.
The Southern Telegraph Company,
which was sold under foreclosure pro
ceedings at Richmond,Va., Tuesday, was
bought in the interest of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, which has
owned a majority of the bonds for nearly
a year. The price at which the property
was sold was $460,000, but the price
would have been carried considerably
higher, it is said, if the United Lines
Company, whose last bid was $450,000,
had continued the contest. The acquisi
tion of the actual control does not effect
the relations of the companies, be ause a
contract was made between them even
before the Western Union bought a ma
jority of the bonds. Since that time the
contract has been altered to meet the
wishes of the Western Union Company,
which was known to be the actual owner
of tho property. The sale now gives the
company legal ownership.
OFF FOR CANADA.
A Clerk of the First National Bank of Balti
more Visits the I'roYince.
John D. Liste, discount clerk in the
First National bank of Baltimore, failed
to put in appearance on Saturday last
while an investigation of the accounts of
the bank was proceeding by the direc
tors. It is now said that be is a default
er to the amount of about eighty thou
sand dollars, though the investigation is
not complete. The amount of cash
which disappeared with him was $3,500,
and he is said to have deceived the na
tional bank examiner by substituting
forged notes which he destroyed as soon
as the examination was completed. Liste
left his home, about twenty miles from
the city, Saturday morning, since which
time he has not been seen by bis family,
nor by the detectives who are looking for
him.
UNION MEN TO BE DROPPED.
Knlahta of Eabor Assemblies Ordered to
Oust Trades-Unionists.
A sensation has been created among the
Knights cf Labor of Indianapolis Ind.,
by the receipt of an order, purporting to
have come from the general executive
board, to the effect that all cigarmakers
belonging to the international union must
be dropped from membership in local
and district assemblies. This is thought
to be the first step toward carrying out
the programme adopted at Richmond by
the general assembly, which struck a blow
at all trades-union*. The typographers
moulders here are very indignant, and
feel the blow quite as severely as the
cigarmakers.
WESTERN WEATHER,
The signal service reports extremely
-old weather in Northwestern Montana,
the mercury at Fort Assinaboine regis
tering 46 degrees below zero at 7 o’clock
Wednesday morning. Throughout Da
kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin it is con
siderably warmer, Northern Minnesota
points reporting zero weather, while at
St. Paul it is three degrees above zero,
LaCrosse, Wis., 11 degrees above, and
Chicago 20 degrees above. Snow is re
ported throughout the Northwest, and
in nearly all the states north of the Ohio
river, also heavy thunder storms at Knox
ville, Tenn., Louisville and Cincinnati,
and the telegraph service throughout the
southwest is very much impaired in con
sequence.
A NEW PLAN ADOPTED.
It is stated that the next step to be
taken by the leaders of the strike is to
put into operation the Irish plan of cam
paign—that is, orders will be issued to
all members of the Knights of Labor and
other organizations which can be con
trolled by district assembly 49, to refuse
to pay any rent to landlords, but to pay
rent money into a fund which will go to
the support of the strikers. This plan
has been discussed in seriousness by the
strikers, and it is asserted, positively, by
some that it will be put into operation
next Monday.
STRIKERS WIN IN PENSACOLA.
The difficulty between the Stevedores’
Association and the firm of Lear & Gon
zales, at Pensacola, Fla., has been ad
justed, the firm paying the association
SSOO to compensate the men for loss of
time, and agreeing to hereafter conform
to the rules and requirements of the labor
organization.
THE GREAT STRIKE.
VESSELS UNABLE TO LEAVE THE
FORT .
Tlie Striking Isongntioremen or New York
Parade tlie Htrects—Mnss Meeting
at the Cooper Union.
Thirty-three thousand men were on a
strike among the coal shovelers, long
shoremen, freight handlers and men em
ployed on the river front in almost every
capacity, on the Brooklyn and Jersey
shores, Wednesday. An order went forth
from the headquarters of the longshore
men’s union, which was backed by the
Knights of Labor, assembly 49, and the
men turned out. Beach walkers were
sent out to cover all the various points on
the river fronts where trouhle was con
centrated and they had particular in
structions to use every means in their
power to prevent any disturbances, and
none worthy of mention occurred.
The White Star steamship Britannic,
which was to have sailed from New York
to Liverpool Wednesday, was delayed,
owing to inability' to obtain her supply of
coal, on account of the strike. The State
of Georgia, of the State line, and the
Servia of the Hamburg line, and the In
dependent and the Torio Rubatino,of the
line to Italy, were also delayed by the
strike. Coastwise and southern bound
steamers, Quinidad for Bermuda; City of
Columbus, for Florida ports; City of Col
umbia, for Charleston and southern ports
and the Algiers, for Galveston, were also
delayed.
One of the incidents of the great strike
reported is that one of the East River
Ferry companies became so short of coal
that it sent out grocery wagons and other
vehicles and bought coal by half tons
from small yards, both in Brooklyn and
in New York, but that the frequent calls
of this kind exposed the scheme and
the dealers refused further supplies to
their new customers. In Brooklyn,
longshoremen, grain shovellers, freight
handlers, coal handlers, trimmers and
other laborers went out quietly, peace
ably and determined, The entire police
force of Brooklyn, including reserves,
were put on duty. Sound steamers suf
fered along with the rest, although they
employ a large permanent force by the
month. The French steamship line is
doing more work than any of the ocean
companies, having large gangs, princi
pally green hands, and the White Star
also has a considerable force. Late in
the day more or less men went to work
unloading all the ocean steamers which
arrived this morning, but they are work
ing at a disadvantage. The striking
longshoremen and coal shovellers had a
large parade previous to their mass meet
ing at Cooper Union. They included
men from New York, Jersey City and
Brooklyn. They formed at Pythagora
Hall, with about five hundred men in
line. The music was a drum and fife
corps. They marched through Broad
way to Eighth, then to Cooper Union.
There was no disorder. Lower Broad
way was deserted, as the stores had
closed up for the day. When the parade
arrived at Cooper Union, they were una
ble to gain admission, as the hall was
packed, so an outdoor meeting was or
ganized.
Cooper union hall was packed with
men engaged in the strike and their sym
pathizers. Resolutions were presented
to the effect that in view of the alleged
oppression of workingmen by coal barons,
all granted franchises should be repealed,
and that the system of hiring men for the
purpose of robbery an 1 murder is highly
condemned. The resolutions were adopt
ed with a yell. The principal speakers
were Victor Drury, a prominent home
club Knight of Labor; a man named
Grecnau, asocialist, and John McMackin,
Henry George’s lieutenant The speech
es all denounced corporations in general
and coal corporations in particular. Mc-
Mackin laid the existing labor troubles to
the prevailing land system.
BREAKING A MONOPOLY.
Planters of Louisiana Start a Cottoa Seed
Oil Mill.
A serious attack has been organized on
the American Cotton Seed Oil Trust by
the purchase of the Maginnis mills, for
three months. Tho Trust has been in
control of the cotton seed oil mills of
New Orleans, La., having a complete
monopoly of the field. Two Memphis
capitalists, formerly in the oil business,
have organized a company and perfected
plans for new mills to be run on a co-op
erative plan that will assure it a constant
supply of seed. Nearly all the leading
planters on the lower Mississippi have
been given stock in the new mill, and
have pledged themselves to furnish so
many tons of cotton seed annually, thus
assuring the mill 50,000 tons per year, as
much as auy of the mills of the Trust
company here receive. The Bite for the
new mill has been selected, and necessary
barges and steamers contracted for. It
is a direct attack on the Oil Trust, in
which planters take a prominent part.
A MOB POSTPONES A MARRIAGE.
Michael McCoy, a grocer of Louisville,
Ky, made a narrow escape from a mob.
McCoy is fifty years old and a man of
family. A year ago he began to visit a
Miss Long and to neglect his wife, where
upon Mrs.McCoy sued for a divorce nnd
the restoration of her maiden name. Her
petition was granted, and McCoy’s atten
tions to Miss Long, before secret, became
open, and Saturday it was learned that
the couple were to be married. As the
ceremony was nbou: to take place at Miss
Long’s house a mob gathered and mado
threatening demonstrations Miss Long
fled with a female friend, and the mob
pursued but did not catch her. McCoy
in tho meantime slipped out and after a
search found his intended and they were
married by a magistrate.
GADSDEN'S FURNACES.
Work was begun Tuesday on two new
blast furnaces to be erected by the land
and improvement company at Gadsden,
Ala. They will be completed by Decem
ber next. The real estate boom is more
favorable than ever before, and sales are
reported aggregating more than $250,-
000. There aro a number of capitalists
in the city prospecting for sites for vari
ous kinds of interest,
Subscription $1.50 in Advance
NUMBER G.
CANADA GAINS COURAGE.
England I’roinises to Rend Men-of-War t#
Keep Oil American Vessels.
It is officially' stated that the govern
ment of Canada, in response to an appeal
to the mother country, has just received
from the imperial authorities that men-of
war will be dispatched to the maritime
provinces in the spring for the purpose of
co-operating with Canadian cruisers in
the enforcement of tho fishery protective
service. The promise of the English
government creates great satisfaction in
official circles, and indicates that Ameri
can vessels will be more rigidly exclu
ded from Canada waters during the
next season than in the past. A cabinet
minister, speaking on the subject, ex
pressed himself as follows. “I have come
to the conclusion that the American leg
islators having gone so far, will never
yield their consent to the appointment of
a commission. Gloucester fishermen will
not venture into our waters again in force,
and next April will witness the first start
ling falling off in their trade. Two years
hence the splendid Yankee fishing fleet
will be a thing of the past. Let them
resort to retaliation if they will, and the
result will be that that game will work
both ways. Portland, now the winter
port of Canada, will decline, while Hali
fax, under the new order of things, will
flourish. Civil war between the Eastern
and Western States would follow the
adoption of the retaliatory bill.
ICE GORGE AT FORT DEPOSIT.
Mach Dninie Done to Property—l'cople flea
to the IIIIIs for Safety.
The Susquehanna river at Fort Deposit,
Md., became blocked with ice Wednes
day causing tho river to overflow with
disastrous results.
In thirty minutes after the flood from
above reached the town tho water had
risen clear over the wharves and to the
hight of six feet in Main street of the
town, doing uncalculable damage. Every
house on the river side of Main street was
flooded in the cellars and the first floor
and some on the opposite side, and in
habitants had to take to higher ground or
to the hills and the country back of town.
The water alternately rose and fell during
the night and ail day Wednesday varying
several feet in a couple of hours. In the
meantime the pile of ice increased hourly,
became more dangerous. The damage up
to Wednesday evening had been confined
to the lumber, coal, fertilizers and kindred
objects on the wharves and such build
ings as were built of wood. The outlook
is not encouraging, for even substautial
brick and stone warehouses and factories
in the submerged district. The remark
able sight drew throngs of sight seers
from the country to the hills above the
town.
LABOR LEADERS ARRESTED.
A Hull Instituted Agnlnat Them lor Dam
age by a Steamship Company.
James E. Quinn, of the executive
board of the Longshoremen’s Union, was
arrested at noon Saturday by Deputy
United States Marshal George Holmes,
for conspiracy to injure the business of
the Old Dominion Steamship Company,
in an action brought in the United States
Circuit Court to recover $20,000 damages.
He was released on $5,000 bail.
The suit is brought not only against
Quinn, but also against J. J. McKenna,
T. B. Putnam, Patrick McGarland and
Thos. McGrath, who with Quinn consti
tute the executive board of the Ocean As
sociation. Counsel for Quinn said that
none of the accused would run away and
that as soon as bail could be procured for
them they would be delivered to the
marshal. After Quinn’s bondsmen had
been acoepted it was concluded that no
more arrests would be made. Their
counsel promised to deliver the other
members of the executive board to the
United States marshal.
A BIG HAUL.
One naadretl and Fifty Men Arraigned iu n
Criminal Court.
An unusual scene was presented in the
police court of Cincinnati, O , Tuesday
morning, when 115 men were arraigned
for aiding and abetting a cock fight. Of
this number forty entered a plea of
guilty and were fined $25 each with
costs, making an even SI,OOO to go into
the school fund. Judge Fitzgerald an
nounced his determination to punish to
the full extent any who choose to exer
cise their legal rights to a trial and who
may be convicted. The cocking main
had progress in a regularly constructed
pit in a fourth-story room of a building
nearly opposite the court house on Main
street.
A STRIKER’S FINE.
One of the drivers of a brewery wagon
in Philadelphia, Pa., who took s striker’s
place was brutally beaten by three strik
er’s, who were placed on trial Wednesday.
Only one was identified and convicted.
In passing sentence, Judge Mitchell said:
‘ ‘This man was badly beaten, and I am sat
isfied it was done for the purpose of pre
venting him from going to work. There
can be no more aggravated offense than
to beat a man who is going to his honest
toil, and I propose to stop it so far as is
in my power.” The prisoner ws then
sentenced to eighteen monthc at labor
in the county prison.
AN EX-SLAVE’S PENSION.
The first colored woman to receive a
pension from the government is Mr*.
I lezekiah Gibson, wife of the pastor of
the Union churoh of Christ Jamestown,
N. Y. The pension was granted on ac
count of the death of a son who was in
the service on the union side during the
late war. Wnen this son joined the fed
eral forces his mother was a slave. The
back pay amounted to about SSOO, and
hereafter Mrs. Gibson will draw sl2 per
month.
THE PROSPEUITY OF CHATTANOOGA.
The registered real estate transfer# at
Chattanooga, Tenn., in the month of
January amounted to $2,618,385. It i*
stated that there will shortly be estab
lished a horse shoe factory, a stove
foundry, a woolen and cotton mill and an
edge tool factory. Work will begin in
March and April on buildings which or*
to coat mor than $1,Q09,000,