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J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME V. Central & Southwestern Raili'ds. [All train* of this system are run by Stand pa (90) Meridian time, which is 36 minutes llower than time kept by city.] Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24, 1886. ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN GER TRAINS on the Central and South western Railroads and branches will run as follows: GOING- NORTH. Leave No. 61— No. 68— Savannah...D 8 40am.. D 810 p m Leave No. 16— D 640 pm.. Arrive No. 16— Utlleu D 8 46pm.. Arrive No. 61— No. 63 Augusta D 346 pm.. D 616 am Haoon D 4 20pm.. D 8 20am Atlanta D 9 86pm.. D 782 am Columbus...D 6 28am.. D 216 pm irxy DEB 8 46pm.. DES 12 00 m sprt Gaines DES 438 p m Blakeley DES 710 p m (ufatila D 4 01pm Albany D 10 45 pm.. D 245 pm Montgomery D 7 26 p m ktllledgeville DES 549 pm Batouton .. .DES T4O p m Connections at Terminal Points. At Augusta—Trains 51 and 63 connect with outgoing trains of Georgia Railroad,Columbia, Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and Sout.i Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxville Rail road. Train 61 oonneots with trains for Syl rania, Wriglitsville and Louisville. At Atlanta—Trains 51 and 68 connect r- Air-Line and Kennesaw routes to all pt North and East, and witli all diverging r for local atations. COMING SOUTH. Leave—Nos. Nos. ICillen...l6D 5 00am.. Augusta.lß D 93) am. .20 D 9 30pm Mac0n...52 D 940 am.. 54 D 10 50 pm Atlanta.. 62 D 600 a m.. 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 05am Blakeley 26 “ 815 a m But aula 2D 10 55 a m Albany .. 4 D 410a m. .25 D 12 15 p m Montg’ry 2D 7 40 am Hill’dg’ve 26 DES 6 87am Baton ton 25 DES 5 15am Arrive —No. Savannah 16 D 805am..N0. Savannah 52 D 407 pm.. 54 D 600 am Connections at Savanuah, with Savannah, Florida and Western Railway for all points in Florida. Trains Nos. 68 and 64 will not stop to take on or put off passengers between Savannah and Mllten, as trains Nos. 15 and 16 aro ex pected to do the way business between these points. Local sleeping oars on all night passenger trains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan nah and Maoon, Savannalt and Atlanta, Macon and Columbus. Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths on sale at city offioe, No. 20 Bull street. G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS, Gen. Pass. Agt, Gen. Supt., Savannah. I. C. Shaw, W. F. SHELI.MAN, Gen. Trav. Agt. Traffic Manager, Savannah, Ga. “D.” daily, “DES,” daily except Sunday. A SECRET OP THE CONCESSIONAL. Revelations that itartled People Shamed tlie Police. A sensation was created in Milwaukee, by tlie publication of a statemeut by the Rev. Father Anton J. Decker, pastor of St. Anthony’s Church, in that city, sup posed to be a dea'hbel confession made to the clergyman. About midnight on (ho 11th of November, 1883, a afreet car driver named Grothe was attacked by two high wayman in a lonely spot outside the city limits. They tired upon him and one bullet fractured his skull. He es caped with his money, but for a time was thought to be mortally wounded. His wife was so overcome by the affair that she became, and still remains, a raving maniac. The ptrect Railway Company offered a reward of SSOO for the arrest and conviction of the high wayman, and a few days later detectives arrested a nineteen year old boy, named William Puetz known among his com rades as “AVild l ill,” and Malilon Mc- Cullough, a member of a prominent family there, but known as a wild young fellow. On the day following the arrest McCullough was alleged to have made tt confession to the police, in which ho was said to acknowledge that he and Puetz, planned and executed the attack, but he charged Puetz with tiling tho shots. Puetz. was said to have made a similar confession. They were tried in May, 1884. Twenty witnesses testified to an alibi, but they were convicted. Puetz was sentenced to three years and one month's imprison ment and McCullough to three years. Both were released from the Penitentiary within a few days of each other, McCullough broken down in health and apparently dying from consumption. Puetz is now living with relati es in an interior town in Michigan, and McCul lough is with relatives near Bay \ r iew. At the time of the trial it was stated in their testimony by the defendants that their alleged confessions were forced from them. They swore that during their confinement of ten days at Police Headquarters they were starved, beaten, hung up by their thumbs and otherwise illtreated in order to force them to make a confession. Puetz swore that he fin ally confessed to keep from starving. The following card is published:— CARD TO THE PUBLIC. I have been authorized to state, for tlie in formation of the public and for tho purpose of restoring the moral reputation of Malilon Mc- Cullough and William Puetz, that thov were entirely innocent of tho attack upon ami shoot ing of tho stroot car conductor, August Grothe, on November 11, 1853, at Bay View, for which alleged crime said parties wore convicted and sentenced. This declaration and representa tion is made by request and upon the authori ty of the party guilty of tho assault and shoot ing of tho street car conductor. No further information will be given and no questions answered. ANTQN J. DECKER, Pastor of St. Anthony's Church, Milwaukee, Wis. A correspondent called upon Father Decker, but- the mergyman remained steadfast in the purpose stated in the closing words of his card, au4 it does not appear probable that it will ever be kuuwu who the guilty parties were. Im mediate steps will be taken to secure a formal pardon from Governor Rusk for Puetz and McCullough in order that they may be restored to the rights of citizen ship. A New York paper thinks that Pow derly should be paid a higher sa ary thau $5,000. It is hoped, however, that this suggestion will not induce Mr. Powderly to order himself out on a Strike for higher wages or shorter hours. — —' SOUTHERN ITEMS. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. SOUTH CAROLINA. The parties to the robbery of Mr. Elli son’s house, in Fairfield county, have been caught. The nurse and three of her friends are the guilty ones. They are all in jail now, having been incarcerated alter a preliminary hearing before Trial Justice Cathcart. The money was recov ered. The jail is rapidly filling up as court approaches. A company of twelve men from Illinois have leased for a term of years the gold mine of Frank Anderson, in the Willing ton' tleighbfrhood near Abbeville. The lease was entered into after a personal in spection sf tho mine by two of the party. The company has sufficient capital to de velop the mine, and from all accounts they will get rich at the business. Mr. J. J. Goodwin, who lived near Scranton, was killed in a very singular manner. He was hauling timber with two oxen, when one of the wheels of his wagon struck a stump. He went to the tongue of his wagon to guide it so as to let the wheel of the wagon clear the stump, and while thus engaged the oxen started off, and, before he could get out of the way, the piece of timber that he was hauling caught his leg between a log that was lying on the ground, and liter ally peeled the flesh off to the bone. Medical aid was summoned as soon as possible, but before relief could be ren dered he bled to death. An inquest was held in Greenville on the body of Echo Kilgore, an old colored man from Arkansas. He was once a tan ner in the city, but went to Arkansas several years ago in the hope of bettering his condition. It appears from the evi dence before the coroner that on his way home he was thrown or fell from a train on the Western and Atlantic road near near Lily Pond, Ga., on Friday, the 14th of January. Whe he reached Greenville he was in a semi-unconscious condition, and he never gave any explanation of his misfortune. It is thought there was foul play, and the case has been committed to Captain A. Blythe, who will investigate the matter. Robert Jones, colored, a convict from Richland county, was killed while work ing on the Columbia canal by the caving in of an embankment. Jones was digging out the earth from the foot of the embankment and had dug in until he had made a cave in the bank. Suddenly the mass of earth above gave way. and descended upon the unfortunate work man, burying him alive. The other con victs immediately went to the rescue and dug away the earth as fast as possible, hut when the man was found he was dead, having been horribly crushed and mangled, besides having been under ground a sufficient length of time to have been suffocated to death. Twenty-two months ago Jones was convicted of bur glary and larceny and sentenced from Richland county to five years in the pen itentiary. This is the second fatal acci dent of the kind which has occurred od the canal in the past six months. Ft ORIDA. The main building of the hotel at Silver Springs Park is up, and commands a splendid view. The hotel will be three stories high and have sixty-five rooms. A large corps of surveyors are at work getting roady for the great sale of the trustee of the Florida Winter Home com pany, who is soon to sell all the lands at Orange park and Ridgewood to the highest bidder at public auction. The shad fishermen of Palatka report the heaviest run of shad for the seffson on Saturday and Sunday nights, and on Monday night the eight boats in Reyn olds’ camp at E. S. Rugby’s place, in East Palatka, caught 2,500 very fine shad. The Fruit Growers’ association at Orange Park have built a large two-story packing house near the depot. This is a stock company composed of permanent residents, who have madeti great success in strawberry culture and small fruits. Captain Porter says that the mocking birds of Dade county do not sing. He has bought some Leon county songsters to learn the naughty birds of his section to sing. Another strange thing about Dade county is that there is not a road in the county. People there generally travel by water, or ride along the beach or through the woods. The forest trees are all tropical and different from other sections of the state. A Tallahassee lady dischaiged her col ored servant recently and got up the next morning to find her choice flowers dug up and destroyed. Last week another lady discharged her colored servant, who was sister to the first girl discharged, the same thing having happened to this lady’s flower yard. Suspicion rested upon the girl, and after some investiga tion sufficient evidence was obtained to convict her, and she is now serving her country in the chaingang. Asa result of a call for a meeting of orange growers to convene at City Point on Saturday, February 5, a good number of representative men were present. Va rious questions of interest were freely discussed, but the chief interest centered on the Orlando exhibition It was re solved to send an exhibit of Brevard county products under the auspices of the Indian River Fruit and Vegetable grow ers association apd to invite growers to co-operate under this head. Thomas F. Moore, one of Lake'Jack son’s farmers, cut up his lands last year into six one-horse farms. One he culti vated himself, put on fertilizers and worksd it with system. The result was twelve bales of lint, cotton, besides other crops. The five colored tenants who leased the other five farms scratched over their farms as usual without fertilizers or system, and all combined only made ten bales of cotton. This is the secret of hard times among the colored people. At St Augustine another daring bur glary has been attempted, and tlie old city eneaped from what might have been A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND IN ITILLECrUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 24,1887. a dangerous conflagration. Burglars re moved a pane of glass from a front win dow in the store of Goorge Myers & Cos., on King street, and crawling through the aperture attempted to break open the money till, by cutting it loose, fearing the alarm attached thereto. Possibly be ing disturbed or alarmed they left it un ■ opened, but left a lighted lamp which they had used immediately under the drawer. Wnen the store was opened Thursday morning the till had the bot tom nearly burned and a lot of old papers wore just beginning to ignite. A few minutes more and all would have been a blaze. ALABAMA. The Tuscaloosa Gazette will shortly issue a daily. The population of Auburn is beginning to increu The citizens of Selma are raising funds to send a delegation to Washington City to make a bid for the negro world’s exposition to be held in that city. Sam Hogan, a negro brakeman, was killed Thursday at Howison, two miles below Stanton. While the train was in motion, Sain slipped, falling under the cars, the trucks passing over his thigh and a portion of his body. The Tuscaloosa Times gives this as an example of the rise in real estate in that city: “L. 11. Walter sold a lot on Broad street to Janies Gaudin for $950. The same lot was offered a few weeks ago for S4OO, but found no purchaser. They say the dogs in Gadsden have grown so in numbers and intelligence that, they will insist on going to church and other public gatherings, much to the annoyance of the people. Yet with such exhibitions of purity and sociabil ity tbe Gadsden papers would have them exterminated. On Monday morning when Sheriff Tidwell went into the jail at Blounts ville to feed flic prisoners, one of them knocked the jailer in the head and made his escape. One other prisoner escaped, but was soon captured. Thompson, the young man who knocked down the Sher iff, is still at large. R. Ogden Wat-on, of Mobile, was awakened Thursday morning by a noise in liis house. He arose and went out on tin; back gallery, where lie was as saulted by a burglar. The burglar slashed Watson on the arm with a razor, cut his night clothing into ribbons, and finally kicked him in tho abdomen and left him senseless on the floor. AVheti Watson revived the burglar had escaped. Near Abbeville there is a man who, for several years of his life, wore dresses and passed off as a woman, would visit young ladies and have them to visit him, stay all night with each other until he wa3 nearly twenty-one years of age, when one day. to liis surprise, he found out that he was a man, and pulled off his frock, and has since married and is now the head of n family. NORTH CAROLINA, A. board of aldermen of Goldsboro held a special meeting last week and decided to take immediate steps towards giving Goldsboro an adequate system of water works. Rev. Wm. A. McDonald, who has served a pastor of Philadelphia Presby terian church, of Mecklenburg county, continuously for the past twenty-two years, died suddenly of heart disease, at the old Morris homestead. The news from the fishermen in the Albemarle and Pamlico sounds section is that the catch of fish is large. Herrings were never so abundant thus early in the season, ana wmte snaa or large size are being caught in great numbers. - A bold robbery was committed on Bull creek, Madison county, on Tuesday night. The stores of John Bruce and Merritt White were broken into and robbed of money anil goods. Bruce recovered about SIOO worth of his goods, finding them hid under a rock cliff in the moun tains about three miles distant from the store. No clue to the thief. Henry Artis, colored, was recently sentenced to be hanged at Goldsboro, for the murder of his stepdaughter. He is in a dreadful condition of mind. He is to be banged tlie first Friday in March. He says he was drunk at the time he beat out the girl’s brains. He cries and screams ceaselessly, and it is thought may die of grief and fright before the day of execu tion. A CLEVER COUNTERFEIT, A Counterfeit Two Dollar a Half Gold Pleco at Philadelphia, Pa. The United States mint at Philadelphia Tuesday secured a counterfeit two dollar and a half gold piece of 1852, for which it has been in quest for years, for the purpose of completing its cabinet. It was presented to Superintendent Fox by L. H. Taylor & Cos., bankers, who got it in a SIO,OOO lot from the sub-treasury. This amount of gold was forwarded to New York in the afternoon and this one piece was returned as a counterfeit. By a Philadelphia bank it was pronounced genuine, and acid at the sub-treasury subsequently failed to show it anything but good. At the mint, however, the assayer de clared it a counterfeit—one of the most dangerous bogus gold coins ever made. “It contains only twenty-seven cents’ worth of gold,” he said. “Yet ita weight is that of the real article to a hair. Its size is exactly the same, save that the genuine coin is slightly thinner at the middle than the counterfeit, and it has the true ring of pure metal. We have been looking for an example of this counterfeit for ten or fifteen years to place in our cabinet here. I readily re cognized it by the head upon it. Thnt style of the head of ‘Liberty’ was not printed upon the two and a half pieces of 1862.” KILLED HIS PARTNER. Last Sunday at Houghton, in Bossier parish, La., Henry Bodenheimer shot and killed his partner, Wm. M. Mercer. Meroer had been drinking all day, been in several rows, and wound up by abus ing Bodenheimer and threatening him with a pistol. Bodenheimer then flrsd with tbs above rssult. A VESSEL SUNK. 4 Steamer Aucliored in New York Jtnrlior U Struck by Ice and Sink*. The British steamer Wells City, while anchored off pier 56, Thursday, was struck by a heavy field of ice coming down the river on the outgoing tide, which caused her to drag anchor. She had no steam on and was helpless. Site drifted a mile and a half, until she ran broadside on the bow of the Morgan line steamer Lone Star, which was also at an chor in mid stream. The cut-water of the Lone Star struck the Wells City just abaft the engine room and cut a hole in her large enough to admit a two-horse truck, and she sank in twenty minutes. Those on board escaped in their own boats. The Lone Star had all she could do to save herself, but finally got up steam and ran behind a pier. She suf fered only a few hundred dollars'damage. The Wells City is anew vessel, valued at $150,000, and had a cargo valued at $140,000, both fully insured on the other side of the Atlantic. The Wells City’s masts and smoke-stack tire visible above the water, opposite Christopher street. THE COAL HANDLERS. They Resolve to <!o ISack to Work at Old Prices. A committee of coal boat captains who struck in sympathy with coal handlers, waited upon Superintendent Stockton of the Deleware and Hudson company at Weekawken, N. JWednesday. A sli 'rt consultation was held and the committee reported to the union that they had been received favorably. It was then decided by the captains to return to work at the old terms. Although large crowds of strikers gathered on the streets no breach of the peace occurred. A laborer who had vis ited Broken Rock, in Hoboken, and was returning, was mistaken for a “scab,” and but for the ‘timely arrival of police would have been beaten. Non-union men are escorted to and from the ferry by the police. Freight handlers who were employed at the West Shore company’s docks have returned to work. A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY. flie Town of Adalrsville In aFerer of Ex citement. A special to the Atlanta Constitution from Adairsville, Ky., says: This place was thrown into a fever of excitement by the killing of Fayette Thoughber by Bob Gorham. Thoughber, who was a very nice, quiet gentlemen when sober, was a perfect desperado when under the influ ence of liquor. He was in town on Sat urday and was drinking, and it is said that lie threatened to kill Gorham before he left town. The two met in the square, Gorham with a shotgun and Thoughber with a pistol. AYho fired first is not positively known, but Gorliam fired one shot and Thoughber five, the shot of Gorham taking effect in the hand and breast of Thoughber, one shot pass ing through the heart. He staggered and fell against the hank of Adairville and died in four minutes. He was taken to the office of the Blanchage house and dressed, and was carried to his home in Robertson county, Tennessee. No in quest was held. HEAVY SNOW STORM. Much Suffering Among Human lining* - well as Cattle. Specials from Dakota and Montana re port accounts of heavy losses to stock from heavy snows and long continued cold. The snow has laid upon tho ground continuously since the middle of Novcm her, and it lias been necessary to feed dur ing the greater part of that time. Forage is consequently so scarce that straw stacks two or three years old are being bought up for feeding purposes. Heretofore it has been necessary to feed comparatively little during tbe winter. A special from Butte, Mont., says the cattle loss in Mon tana, near Fort Assini boine, is estimat ed at 75 per cent. Sixty dollars is refus cdfor a ton of coal, and green widow poles are selling at $lO a load. Flour and oil are also scarce. COULD NOT nOLD HIM. - # A man was arrested at Marietta, Ohio, Saturday on suspicion of being one of the men wanted at Cleveland for the Ravan na murder. He gave the name of John Cole, and answered the description of the prisoner who was rescued. A description of the man was sent the authorities at Cleveland, and an unsuccessful attempt was made Tuesday to photograph the prisoner. Wednesday night lie broke from his cell, released all the prisoners in jail, and all fled. Wednesday the fol lowing despatch was received from Cleve land : “By all means hold him. He is undoubt edly tho one we want. ” He was to have been chloroformed and photographed. THE FLOOD SUFFERERS. A special from Muir shows little en couragement for the flood sufferers at Lyons, Mich. The water has been rising slowly and the damage to the buildings continue The latest fear is lest the channel of the river be permanently changed, in which event the town will be compelled to go out of business. The water carried away part of the Camel! mill, and its complete destruction it feared. At St. Joseph tbe St. Joseph river is the highest ever known, and is cutting anew channel. MEXICAN PENSIONS. The Vetr&as Askotl to Htep Up to Thu Com mUsionel-’s Desk. The commissioner of pensions invites pensioners under the Mexican pension law to communicate directly with the pension bureau at Washington. The commissioner has prepared letters of in structions and blank forms of application and affidavits for witnesses, which will be furnished to each directapplicant, and which, if properly used, will greatly hr lon the adjudication of the rights of the applicants. INCENDIARY FIRES. Sioux City, lowa, In a State of Croat Excitement. Sioux City, la., is in a state of great excitement over the alarming number of incendiary fires and burglaries which have occurred there within a few nights. The town is infested by a set of desper ate criminals, who have been attracted by the spirit of lawlessness, shown by a considerable class of the community. Tuesday night a business block on Main street was mysteriously burned. At the same time a dozen residences on the “hill,” were burglarized. There were a dozen cases of housebreaking further down town Wednesday night. Late in tho evening the town was alarmed by fire. The livery stables at tached to the lowa house were burned to the ground. The house is kept by Frank Klepscli one of the men interested in the saloon fight last summer. Ilis place was enjoined and ordered abated. No special comment was excited by this fire, but when a second broke out, a half hour later, there was much excitement and speculation. This was a large stable at tached to the Planters house, kept by Henry Mielki, another man whose place was abated. Mielki and Klepscli both belong to the rebellious German saloon element. In the second stable, when a man entered to rescue stock, the halters of horses were found to be cut. Both fires were plainly incendiary. A third and very dangerous fire broke out suddenly in a large clothing house, within three doors of the Hubbard house, in tile centre of the city at 11 o’clock p. m The entire property was destroyed, but a spread of the flames was prevented. Remarks are heard on the streets that this is the work of prohibitionists. Others say the liquor men have done it to excite sympathy. AGAINST STRIKES. Representatives of l’reminent New York Firms Meet and Organize. Nearly 500 representatives of promi nent New York firms engaged in differ ent branches of the building trades met Wednesday afternoon at the headquarters of the Master Painters’ association. Architect Charles Bulk presided. Air. Bulk stated the object of the meeting to be to form a building employer’s pro tective federation for the protection of employers in every branch of building trades against the unjust demands and restrictions of labor unions. He said the step had been contemplated some time by employers who were out of patience with the many strikes which have seriously hampered building operations in this city. A committee appointed for that purpose had drafted a report giving the griev ances of employers, which was accepted at a previous meeting and issued in the form of a published address with a re quest to employers to take part in the proposed organization. He concluded by suggesting that em ployers organize in trade sections and elect representatives to a central execu tive committee to t iko charge of all mat ters pertaining to the trades. The sug gestion was not considered, but a com mittee on organization was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws. The committee as appointed represented the following trades: Painters, carpenters, iron workers, framers, plumbers, archi tects, roofers, builders, heating, plasters, gas fixtures, elevator makers, marble workers, electricians, plumbers’ materials, and blue stone cutters, The stone setters refused to join. A GAMBLER SHOT. A Representative of the l aw and Ordei Lenxur In Trouble. At Lavenworth Kansas, the “Sara toga’’ saloon was closed by the sheriff upon the complaint of two representa tives of the Law and Order League, Carl Miller and F. M. Anthony. While the two were passing the place that had just been closed by their efforts, they were set upon by a gang of roughs, who knocked them down, tore their clothes and otherwise maltreated them. Miller regained his feet, pulled a pistol and fired one shot, which took effect in the leg of a gambler named Ryan. The crowd did not scatter, however, and were pre paring to assault the two again when the police arrived and drove them off, taking Miller and Anthony to the county jail for Srotection. The closing of the saloons as engendered a most bitter feeling, and there is no telling what the outcome will be. AN OLD MAN’S DISGRACE Thu Treasurer of Texes Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Trouble. Judge Thomas M. Joseph, for several years treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Texas, is short in his accounts $28,185, being the entire fund of the Grand Lodge. Joseph was de feated for re-election last week. 11c says he lost the money nearly four years ago in mining. He was mayor of Galveston from 1858 to 1802, and stood high in tlie community. He is nearly 7(1 years old, and has a large family of grandchildren. He is utterly prostrated, by liis fall. Grand Master Gibbs declares he will prosecute the defaulting officer until the doors of tho penitentiary arc closed upon him. Joseph is practically under arrest now. ROASTED ALIVE. Throe Mon Porloh In a Bnrnlns Jail al Murfreesboro, Tenn. The jail at Murfreesboro, Tenn., burn ed Sunday morning, and three men con fined in it nerished in the flames. The fire broke out at 12:30 in the office, lioin an unknown cause. Jailor Jackßon, who was asleep up staira, rushed down stairs and opened the doors. Ten men in tho tipper cages escaped, but three men in the lower cages could not be reached. They cried piteously for help until the flames reached them. The names of the three are Moses Maney, Jack Irwin and Dilge Lyon. They are all colored. The first two were put is for wreaking a train last fall, and the third for forgery. Those who escaped were captured, but were released by order of the county judge, there being no place to keep them. DECLARED FALSE. A New IMiase to the Allegod Texas Elec tion Outrage. Ex-Governor Ireland, of Texas, ac companied by twenty-eight citizens of Washington county, Texas, is on his way to Washington, where he and his compan ions will appear before the senate com mitte which will investigate the charges of election outrages made against citizen of Washington county by those: republi cans who fled the contry for fear of being lynched, and who claim to have been driven out by democrats. Ex-Governor Ireland says that at the close of the election in Washington county Dewes Bolton, the son of a candidate for county commissioner, rode up to the pre cinct, dismounted and demanded admit tance to the polls and was told to come in, and upon opening the door \v s shot down in his tracks by a negro named Hill. Eight of the occupants of the room were arrested and three of them subsequently lynched. The others fled the country for fear of being similarly treated, and brought the charge against the democrats of the county that they were driven out. The ex-governor says: The whole story of these men is a pure fabrication. Every statement they have made to show they were objects of politi cal persecution is absolutely false and that will be easy to prove by all these witnesses. They were not driven from the country, but left of their own free will and desire. SHOT THE WRONG MAN. An Innocent Ulan fails a Victim to a Posse S of Pursuers. A double tragedy occurred in Pike county, Arkanas, Saturday. Alfred Mc- Clinton, a desperado, waylaid Allen Wil liams and robbed him of SSO, then stabbed him and rode away; A posse, under the command of officer Henry Wood was organized and started in pur suit of McOlmton. It was decided to surprise the desperado, and the posse secreted themselves in the woods along the roadside, where McClinton was ex pected to pass on his way homo. Soon after twilight two men rodo down the road, one of whom was James Savage, cousin of Officer Woods, and the other was G. W. Trout, a well-known citizen. Both carried shot guns. Wood, mistaking Savage for McClin ton, told him to “halt.” Savagepaused. Wood then ordered him to throw up his hauds. Savage wheeled his horse and raised his gun, when Wood fired. The ball entered the breast of Savage, who fell from his horse and died shortly. When Officer Wood discovered his mis take he was overwhelmed with grief, and would have killed himself had not a friend interposed. TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, Curs iiemolislioc! Hut No Loss of Life Reported. At Watertown, 111., on the Chicago old lowa railway, Tuesday morning, the Dubuque train, with two sleepers,, had just passed the station when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train, which fol lows it, crushed into it, completely wrecking the sleeping cars. The en gineer of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train broke his legs in jumping from the cab, but by almost a miracle none'of the passengers on the train were injured. Each engineer claims that. the other was two minutes out of his time. At Robinson creek, five miles west of Shelbyville, 111., Monday night the en gine of New York express, on the India napolis and St. Louis railroad, became disabled and the train stopped for a few minutes. A brakeman was sent back to flag the freight train, but too late and the engine crashed into the sleeper de molishing the rear end. The freight en gine was also wrecked. The passengers escaped uninjured. THE HUNGRY RED. Thn Drought Coramssioners of Texno Be gin Their Work. The drought commissioners appointed by Governor Ross to distribute the SIOO,- 000 appropriated by the legislature for tlie relief of people in the drought stricken district of Texas, arrived in Fort Worth on the midnight train Sat urday night and spent Sunday there, leaving for Eastland, the county seat, Monday. The commissioners began their labors at Lampasas and have visited and inspected the condition of affairs in six counties up to the present time. They say they find the people in need of assis tance wherever they have been, but the principal things they need are seed and feed for their stock, and these the com mission lias not the power or authority to furnish them, tlie legislature having re stricted them to simply furnishing flour and meal to those in actual need of bread and who will make the required oath to llliit. effect A SHOCKING AFFAIR. Charles Kloze, a Schleisingerville, Wis., saloon keeper, loaded two shot guns Sunday evening, and emptied the contents of one into his wife’s head, as she was kneading bread, killing her in stantly. He then tried to shoot himself, but merely blew away one cheek. He locked the door, poured kerosene over the furnifure and set it on fi e. When the neighbors tried to enter, lie loaded one of the guns and blew out bis brains. ACCIDENT AT A SAW MIDI. The saw in a portable sawmill on the farm of L. D. Wriglit, a wealthy farmer living eight miles from California, Mo., flew to pieces Saturday, one part of it cutting open Wright’s breast, exposing his heart and killing him instantly, and another piece carried away part of the head of Miss Thompson, a young lady who had gone to the mill to call the men to dinner. She died from the wound. A VALUABLE INTENTION. Mr. Charles M. Noble, mining engin eer, the present popular superintendent of the Woodstock furnaces, nt Anniston, Ala., has received letters of patent for an improved arc electric lamp. Applica tion has been made for pntenls in Eng land, France, Belgium and Germany. It is the cheapest, simplest, best and most powerful lamp ever invented. Subscription $1.50 in Advance NUMBER 8. A TENNESSEE SENSATION. A Lover’s Attempted Ravens® in Unvidnon County. The arrest of Elisha Greig at Nashville Thursday reveals a diabolical plot to commit murder and arson. On Sunday night the residence of Mr. Joss<* Nolan, a farmer of Davidson count y, was burned, and tho inmates of the house, Miss Mat lie Orment and Airs. Hamlet, barely es caped cremation. The fire was supposed to be incendiary, and now Grcig makes confession of having set fire to the house. He said he had been hired by a farmer neighbor, Jim Bullayjack, to burn the place. Bullayjack had planned, he said, to burn Alies' Orment, who had refused, him in marriage. The plan was to catch her if she escaped burning and murder her. They took a rope along to drag her to the river and throw the body in. Vfier they set tire both got frightened and moused the ladies, who were alone, Air. Nolan being in Nashville. The men ran off before the ladies, whs had barely time to get out, could See who they were. Greig was arrested on suspicion, and con fessed as above related. Bullayjactf has disappeared, but officers are after him. Aliss Orment was to have marnou Bullay jack’s rival next week, and heucabts de sire for revenge. ARE TO BE SUPPLIED. The Texas Drouth Siillerers to be Supplied with Seed. Commissioner Colman of the agricul tural department, in speaking of the sug gestion contained in the president’s mes sage vetoing the bill for the distribution of seed to Texas sufferers said: “The suggesting of the president that members of congress relinquish their quota of seed for the benefit of distressed districts is an excellent one. It is en tirely feasible and if adopted will enable me to do a great deal of good. There are now remaining to the credit of sen ators and representatives 228,000 pack ages of seed. On the 11th instant. 1 ad dressed a letter to those who have city constituents suggesting such a donation of seed, but have obtained thus far in this way only 13,000 packages. County judg es throughout the drought-stricken re gions arc sending in the names of the sufferers at the rate of nearly 1,000 per day, and whatever is done should be done quickly. If this suggestion of the president is adopted. I shall give mv per sonal attention to the distribution and carefully divide tbe seed among the regions affected.” AN UNEXPECTED TURN. The People of West Virginia to Vote < the Prohibition Question. Aii unexpected turn was taken by the senate of West Va., Thursday morning when the bill which had been passed by the lower bouses to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors and drinks wn ;iin the state came up for its passage. Op ponents of tlie bill discovered die last that they could not defeat it, and in order to do tbe next best thing they called lor it vote on the joint, resolution which pro vides for tlie submission of the question to the people of prohibiting the manufac ture and sale of intoxicating liquors in this state, which had not been announced. L'pon tlie call of the vote on submission, three members who had voted against submission changed their votes to aye, which gave the resolution a two-third majority. Submission will be voted on in November, 1888, at the ncx’ general election. The lower hou-e passed the resolution two weeks ago. The. bill pro hibiting sale of liquors and drinks was then laid on the table. The prohibition ists are very enthusiastic over their v ic tory. JAIL DELIVERY. A Note Wliicli Ilatl tlie Effect of Gixln* Prisoners their Liberty. Information lias been received of a wholesale jail escape at MorgautonN. C., which occurred on Monday night. Among the number of criminals confined in .tho prison was one Sam Pearson, a notorious character, but a scion of one of the best families in the state and a fellow having many friends. The sheriff lives several miles in the country, and entrusts the prisoners to his jailer. Peirsou’s iriends wrote to tlie unsuspecting jailer a note and signed the sheriff’s name. This or dered the jailer to allow Pearson to go outrto visit liis relatives, his aunts family, who lives in the town. As the jailer came to lei out Pearson, tlie signal was made, and by a preconcerted arrange ment, tin- prisoners overpowered the jailer and escaped. The alarm was given and a posse pursued, but only two were cap tured. DASHED INTO A RAVINE. Andrew Joselynn, a farmer residing on Lookout mountain, his wife and two small children, bad a thrilling experience while descending the steep mountain road on a wagon. His team became unmanage able ana ran away. The wagon was pitched over a precipice, carrying all its occupants, who were dashedinto a ravine. All were more or less injured, and it is feared Joselynn and his sou will not re cover. A MURDERER LYNCHED IN TEXAS. Deputy Sheriff Upchurch, at Dedias Texas, on Monday, had a negro rained Jim Richard under arrest, and the latter, watching his opportunity, jerked bis pis tol out of its scabbard and shot and killed Upchurch. About sundown Mondny evening over seventy-five masked men, armed to the teeth, took Rithurd from tho custody of guards and swung him to a neighboring tree. election frauds. The federal grand jury, which has been investigating frauds committed at tho election in St. Louis last November, made its final report to Judge Treat in the United States district court Thurs day, and returned twenty-two indict ments in addition to those lieretofoie found. A special jury has been called to try these eases at the March term of the court.