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J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME V.
Central & Southwestern Bailr'ds,
[All trains of this system are run by Stand*
ira (90) Meridian time, which is 86 minutes
•lower than time kept by city.]
Savahnah, Ga.. Jan. 24. 1886.
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS ou the Central and South
western Railroads and branchos will run as
follows:
GOING- NORTH.
Leave No. 81— No. 53
lav&nnah...t> 810 am.. D 81J p ni
Leave No. 18—
D 5 40 p m..
Airive No. 15—
Uillen D 8 45pm..
Arrive No. 61— No. 63
iugueta ....D 845 pm.. D 615 am
Uacon D 4 20pm., X) 320 am
Atlanta D 935 pm.. D 782 am
Columbus. ..D 623 am., D 215 pm
Perry DLS 8 45pm.. DES 1200 m
Fort Qaioea ."DES 438 pm
Blakeley DES 710 p m
Eufaula D 4 01pm
Albany D 10 45 p m.. D 245 p m
Montgomery!) 7 25 p m
Milledgeville DES 649 pm
Eatonton.. .DES 7 40pm
Connections at Terminal Points.
At Augu-ta—lining 61 and 63 connect with
outgoing trains of Georgia railroad,Columbia,
Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and Souf j
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects witb
outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road. Train 61 connects with trains for Syl
rauia, Wrightaville and Luuisvlile.
At Atlanta—Trains 61 and 53 connect r*“"
Air-Line and Kenuesaw routes to all pi
North and East, and with all diverging r
tor local stations.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave—Nob. Nos.
liillen.. .10 D 500 am..
Augusta.lß D 9 B>.im..2)D 930 pm
Macon.. .62 D 940a m. .54 D 10 50 p m
Atlanta.. 62 D 6 odam..s4D 650 pm
00l umb’s 20 D 900 pm.. 61) 1140 am
Perry 24 DES 600 a m.. 22 DES 300 p m
Ft. Gaines 23 “ 10 05 am
Blakeley 2G “ 8 15am
Eufaula 2D 10 55 a m
Albany.. 4D 4 10am..2iD 12 15pm
Montg’ry 2D 7 40 a m
MillMg’ve 25 DES 6 37am
Eatonton 25 DES 5 -15 a m
Arrive—No.
Savannah 16 D 8 05 am.. No.
Savannah 52 D 4 07 pm.. 54 D 6 00 am
Connections at Savannah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western Rahway for all points in
Florida.
Trains Nos. 63 and 64 will not stop to lake
on or put off passengers between Savannah
and Milien, as trains No. 15 an l 16 are ex
pected to do the way business between these
points.
Local sleeping cars on all n'ght passenger
trains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan
nah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Maoon
and Colurabui.
Tickets for a!l points and sleeping car berth*
on sale at city office, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gin. Pass. Agt. Gon. Supt., Savannah.
J. C. Shaw, W. F. SHELLMAN,
Gju. Trav. Agt. Traffic Manager,
Savannah, G.\.
“D,” daily, "DES,” daily except Sunday.
FIRE IN COLUMBIA.
Two Alarm, in o io Duy.-Llttle Damage
Done.
Two fire alarms were sounded in Col
'umbia, S. C., Tuesday. The first caused
Borne excitement, the fire being in a
closely-built and handsome block on
Main street. The stovepipe in the art
gallery of W. A. Reckling fired the roof,
and things looked badly for awhile.
Streams were soon playing on the roof,
and the fire was easily extinguished. The
loss is slight, is due chiefly to damage
from water, and is fully covered by in
surance.
The other fire was in a small wooden
building in the southern part of the town,
■ occupied by Frank Jackson. He was at
nis regular work clcsewhere, bis wife had
cone on some errand, and their three
children were locked up in the house.
Fortunately, the fire was soon discovered,
else the children would probably have
been burned to death.
SUNDAYS FIRES.
Ir.crmUnry Fir© in Lynchburg, Vn.—llice
Miil Hurtled at New Orleans*
A destructive incendiary fire occurred
Sunday morning at 3 o'clock, on Main
street, Lynchburg, Va., destroying the
Hill City livery stable, the feed store of
T. M. Ilarwood and W. A. Woody’s car
riage "factory. Sixteen valuable horses
and two mules were burned to death.
Two firemen were badly injured. Charles
B iford was arrested and partially con
fessed the crime, implicating several
other persons. The loss is $10,000; in
surance $5,000.
The Mariposa rice mill, Nos. 60 to 07
St. Joseph street, New Orleans, La., and
an adjoining building were burned Sun
day. The loss is estimated at $15,000,
fully insured. The fourth story of the
building on the eastern corner of Canal
and Chartres streets was burned also.
The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO.
WOLSELEY ON LEE.
“Jut, Gentle, Genernin nnd Honorable
Hl* Life n Record of Duty Nobly Dono.a
Gen. Lord Wolseley, in an article on
Gen. Robert E. Lee, speaks with un
bounded enthusiasm of the personal char
acter and military genius of that officer.
The article says: “If he had not been
controlled by the political leaders of the
Confederacy, he would have captured
Washington after the battle of Bull Run.
He was the greatest American of the
century, and is worthy of eulogy with
Washington. Among the world’s gener
als he was the most perfect of all. Just,
gentle, generous and honorable, his whole
life was a record of duty nobly done.”
THE DOCTOR WAS DRUNK
Anil ll© Gave His Patient Too Much Mor
phine*
Mrs. Ann Leonard Loth died at Rich
mond, Va., last Wednesday night under
circumstances which led to an investiga
tion by the coroner Thursday In the
absence of her regular physician Dr.
Charles K. Gardner was summoned and
lie administered morphine hypodermically
twice. The evidence of the family
physician, who was called before death
ensued is to the effect that Mrs. Loth
died from morphine poison and that
when he went to the house ho found Dr
Gardner lying on the bed under the in
fluence of liquor. Dr. Gardner was ar
rested.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWB NOTES GATHERED
FRPM VARIOUB BECTIONS.
ALAUAMA.
Mobile has secured nearly all of her
baseball team.
Mobile has a now afternoon paper
called the Evening Telegram.
Workmen are now digging the third
artesian well in Eufaula.
It is reported that a company will soon
be formed to work the phosphate beds
between Marion and Hamburg.
A convention will be held in Mont
gomery, on March 15th, looking to the
removing of obstructions to navigation in
the Coosa river.
Dr. J. 11. Reeves, a farmer near Eu
faula, takes off the hub of the horn of a
calf wlym it is five or six months old,
and thereby ho is getting a hornless lot
of cattle.
The county treasurer's report of Bul
lock county shows a balance of over $3,-
000 in the treasury, in addition to over
S4OO of fine and forfeiture fund, making
an aggregate of $3,437.
Selle.s report an increased demand for
guano up to date over sales for last year.
I here has been at the rate of an annual
increase of ten per cent for the last five
years in the sale of this commodity.
Oznrk, in Dale county, subscribed
SIO,OOO to the Alabama Midland railroad
on the first day the books were opened.
It is said that the county will subscribe
between SOO,OOO and $70,000. The sur
vey of the road will be completed in
about six weeks.
The assignment of the Bray Bros., of
Eufaula, is announced. It is an old
house, having been in the hardware busi
ness in Eufaula since 1858. Their liabil
ities are about $25,000; the exact amount
of assets cannot be determined until an
inventory of stock and other property is
had. .
Near Bilbra’s creek, in Washington
county, last Thursday, Willie Trotter, of
Montrose, Baldwin county, was stabbed
and killed by Charles McMillan, of the
same county. The coroner’s jury brought
in a verdict that the killing was a “cold,
deliberate murder,' 1 and recommended
the arrest of McMillan, who had fled.
The City hotel at LaFayette was con
sumed by fire Tuesday evening. The fire
was discovered about daybreak in one of
the lower rooms, and is supposed to have
been caused by a rat with a match. There
was a slow rain falling while the building
was ou fire, but the flames could not he
stopped. The hotel belonged to Mr. J.
D. Norman, who is in Montgomery in at
tendance upon the legislature. It was
insured for $2,500. The furniture, which
belonged to Mr. G. T. Johnson, propri
etor of the hotel, was insured.
Frank Winncy, a negro ex-convict,was
arrested in Tupello, Miss., Tuesday and
carried to Mobile and lodged in jail,
charged with the murder of Charles
Smith, a machinist, in that city on July
4tli, 1884. There were some nineteen
white men returning from a public meet
ing at Bull’s Head that day, aud as the
wagon passed by the Catholic cemetery it
was fired into by Frank Winney,who had
secreted himself in there for the purpose
of taking revenge for fancied insults put
upon him at the meeting. Charles Smith
was shot through the head and killed,
and other men were wounded. There is
strong circumstantial evidence against
Winncy, and if he escapes conviction by
the courts it is very probable that he will
be lynched.
TENNESSEE.
Professor E. E. Barnard, of Vanderbilt
university observatory, says of the new
comet: “Since discovery the comet has
been moving toward the northwest at a
very unusual rate, 5 degrees and 17 min
utes north and 14 minutes of right ascen
sion, west, daily. It continues very faint.
Its path since discovery has been oblique
ly across the milky way, and its rapid
motion continually brings it in front of a
small star, which in every ca.se shines
through the comet’s densest part with
undiminished luster. The rough posi
tion of the comet last night was about 8
or 10 degrees northeast of Sirius (the
dog star).”
Governor Taylor, in an interview, said:
“I notice that there is in prison a large
number of children under fifteen yenrs of
age. It is a shame that Tennessee should
not have some place of refuge for these
poor little creatures, and not place them
among hardened criminals Judges and
jury should not send children to prison,
and I shall deem it my duty to uphold
the honor of Tennessee by pardoning
them. lam confident I will benefit more
by this step than by allowing them to re
main in a school for crime. I have re
quested the wardens to prepare for me a
list of the names aud offenses of every
person in prisen under seventeen. They
nor any other child shall remain there
while I am governor of Tennessee.
The supreme court has sentenced Ben
Brown, colored, to be hanged in Nash
ville, April 15 next, for the murder of
Frank Arnold, colored,near Bello Meade,
November 9, 1885. Brown manifested
no emotion when Judge Snodgrass pro
nounced his doom, and at its conclusion
looked at Simon Fox, one of his accom
plices nnd smiled, The court affirmed
the verdict of the lower court in the case
of Fox, who was sentenced to twenty
years’ imprisonment at hard labor.
Nelson Joslin, Foster Joslin and Bill
Brown, the other participants in the
crime, are in jail awaiting trial. The
murder for which Ben Brown will be
hanged isjenown as the “Bellville street
headless horror.” Arnold, the victim,
resided six miles from the city and owned
a small farm, which Ben Biown wished
to possets. On the night of the murder
Arnold was induced to leave home on a
hunting expedition with Ben Brown,
Bill Brown, Nelson Joslin, Foster Joslin,
and Simon Fox. When in a thicket
Arnold was struck with an ax and shot
through the head. The body was cut in
pieces, and the head severed from the
trunk.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY
QKOROIA.
During Saturday’s storm in Dawson,
the outbuildings and sheds of the Dawson
Manufacturing works were blown down,
the water tank of Baldwin & Sharpe’s
mill, their shed and stables.
In Berrien county, while M. B. Clyaß,
son of M. B. Clyatt, was harrowing a
piece of ground, in some way the tooth
of the harrow, seven-eighths of an inch
thick and ten inches long, struck his foot
and penetrated through it, pinning it to
the ground.
Valdosta’s treasury is in a healthy con
dition. When the new council took
charge of the affairs of the town, in Feb
ruary, 1880, there was about S7OO in the
treasury and no considerable debts on the
town. They retired last week, and turned
over to their successors about $1,900, and
no debts amounting to anything.
A few fine white shadTfeve been taken
from the*river near Bainbridge this
spring, probably a part of the govern
ment plant made several years ago here
and at other points. Those caught were
taken with hook and line, although they
are seldom ever taken except with nets.
They were of good size, from two to
three pounds, fat and juicy.
Negotiations are pending now between
certain land owners in Decatur county
and a northern syndicate, which promises
the early sale, for cash, of 80,000 acres of
timbered lands at $1.50 per acre—a deal
of $120,000. If consummated there is no
doubt of its proving the largest single
transaction in timbered lands that has oc
curred in the state in a long time.
Ellijay Courier: We lfcarn of many in
dividuals in this county who intend rais
ing a crop of tobacco this year. The
movement set on foot seems to be gain
ing favor with the substan'ial farmers of
the county, and we hope to chronicle
their experiments as they progress in this
money-making business. Wo should be
glad to be informed by all persons who
engage in this branch of agriculture.
Joseph W. Graham was killed at Pax
son’s saw mills, near Mcßea, Saturday.
He was running the shingle machine at
the mill at the time of the accident, and
by some means his foot and leg was
caught in the cog wheels of the machin
ery, horribly crushing his leg nearly up
to the knee. Drs. Swinney and Blanton
and Hunter amputated the limb, but the
shock was too great, resulting in death
at 12:80 o’clock Saturday night.
A few days ago the Dade Coal com
pany bought of Judge Jas. R. Brown, of
Canton, and J. D. Thomas, of Bartow
county, about 6,000 acres of what is
claimed to be as fine iron and manganese
property as there is anywhere lying in
Cherokee and Bartow counties, on Stamp
creek. They paid for the same some
thing over $12,000. This property was
once owned and operated upon by Dr.
John W. Lewis, of Canton, and at one
time had as many as three or more fur
uaces upon it and paying well.
Mississn-r:.
The discovery of iron ore at Duck hill
has convulsed that town. Visitors from
a distance arrive on every train, and it is
almost impossible to keep up with the
sales of property, and some is resold al
most immediately at advanced price.
Northern capitalists are on their way to
town, and many sales are made by tele
graph.
The Vicksburg Democrat records a pe
culiar case tried before a negro justice in
Delta. An ordinance had bcn made
against running a skiff in certain places
as a ferry and in the first, case he decided
against the accused. In the second he
was accused himself and he fined his skiff
$5 and directed it to be sold for the fine
and costs.
Reports from Issaquena, Sunflower,
Boliver, Sharkey and Washington coun
ties are favorable relative to crop prepa
rations. There will be an approximate
increase in acreage of about 10 per cent,
and the largest part will be devoted to
cotton. Money from eastern and north
ern cities is freely flowing to which will
enable planters to put in all their land.
Labor is abundant.
The Young Mens’ Christian association
of Mississippi will hold a state conven
tion and training school for Christian
workers at Columbus, beginning Friday
night, March 25th, and closing Thursday
night, March 31st. Prominent members
are being engaged for the occasion.
Every Young Mens’ Christian association
and every college of Mississippi are in
vited to send as many delegates as pos
sible.
John Joyce, of Vicksburg, aged fifty
years, suddenly stopped talking to a com
panion Sunday night in the sitting room
of Mrs. Conley's boarding-house nnd re
mained motionless and quiet until alarm
was excited. When the silent man was
touched he fell forward, dead and already
beginning to grow cold and stiff. A doc
tor was called, but could do nothing for
n dead man. No inquest was held, as it
was apparent that heart disease caused
the sudden death.
FLORIDA.
An opera house is nearing completion
in Tavares.
The jetty contractors are pushing their
work at Fernandiua.
Shipments of oranges are over with,
and that of early vegetables are taking
their place.
A Gainesville advertisement reads as
follows: On and after this date the price
of the Simonson’s artesian mineral water
will be 2Jc. a drink, or $2 a month.
Reuben H. Stark, who lives some five
miles from Conant, was robbed and mur
dered by two colored men named John
D. Fuss and “Yankee” Patterson, who
were working for him. They also slint
Stark’s housekeeper, but she will recover.
The murderers secured $l5O in cash, a
shotgun and a gold watch.
At a meeting of the Florida Fruit
Growers’ association, held in Orlando, it
was recommended that a sub-tropical ex
position bo held at some convenient
point each year, commencing in Decem
ber and holding open till March, all the
counties to be invited to take part.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Stenographer Parrott is about to bring
suit against the county of Clarendon to
recover the fees due him for official serv
ices during the past year, On account of
the depleted condition of the county
treasury Mr. Parrott has never received
any remuneration for his services.
Mr. John E. Peoples, one of Anderson's
extensive stock dealers, made a corner on
mules last salesday. He bought out every
drover in the city that day, and lias been
selling a great many mules at retail here
aud at his stable in Greenville. The Jef
ferson County (Tennessee) Visitor makes
mention of the fact, that Mr. John Cottei,
of that county and state, sold on his last
visit to Anniston $5,000 worth of East
Tennessee mulos to Mr. John E. Peoples.
J. E, Peoples and J. S. Fowler wilt sell
this year $125,000 worth of mules.
A correspondent of the Newberry Her
ald and News, in a recent issue of that
paper, says that just before the breaking
out of our war, a highly educated Swede,
named Hammerskold, settled in Lincoln
ton, N. C., to engage in the iron business,
that abandoning his business to enter the
confederate army, he became impover
ished, and that after the war, in order to
raise money, he sold a valuable diamond
studded gold snuff box, said to have
been a gift of the king of Sweden, to
Colonel L. D. Childs, of Columbia, who
subsequently presented it to Colonel
Rion. The correspondent thinks that
this is the alleged Oi lcans snuff box. The
snuff box bears the letter 0., and a crown
set in diamonds. It has hot the Orleans
monogram. The initial is probably that
of Oscar I, king of Sweden and Norway,
born 1799, died 1859.
ARKANSAS.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Desha lumber and planing company’s
saw mill. It is to be the biggest saw
mill in the United States.
The safes in the sheriff’s and clerk’s
office in Roseville were blown open Wed
nesday night and robbed of, as reported,
$30,000. The amounts range from $lO,-
000 to $30,000.
A large number of the leading citizens
of Prescott are organized into a society
termed the “Loyal Citizens,” Its object
was for the purpose of suppressing any
attempt which might be made to break
the prohibition law, but its meetings are
taking a social turn.
W. P. Homan, assistant general man
ager of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Tex
as railway, offered a reward of SIOO for
the apprehension and conviction of four
unknown men, who, Wednesday night,
near the company’s roundhouse, hrutady
assaulted and left for dead Thomas
Bergold, master mechanic of the Arkan
sas division of the road.
In Russelville John Sherrill committed
suicide by shooting himself with a rifle
gun. Sherrill locked himself up in a side
room at his father-in-law’s house, loaded
his gun and tied a string to the trigger,
by which means he fired the fatal shot.
The ball entered the left cheek bone and
ranged toward the back of the head.
Drs. Hill and Drummond were called to
see the man before he died. lie seemed
to be in his right mind when they arrived
at the place where he had committed the
deed. He seemed to want to recover and
called for his wife. He died in a few
hours.
Near Roseville, Mr. J. C. Pendargas,
living on the farm o: W. P. Van Iloozer,
had his house burned, and with it five
out of nine of his family. The unfor
tunates were all hoys—hearty, robust nn l
the pride of their father. The house, on
account of the high winds, was quickly
consumed. The house was a little double
story log house, with the stairway lead
ing into the hall entering the upper
rooms by doors from the upper hall. It
is supposed that the boys, who slept up
stairs, set their lamp on a shelf near the
door, and going to bed left it burning
and that the lamp was overturned by the
wind, firing the house near the do >r,
thereby closing the way of escape The
father awoke just before the house fell in
and escaped through a window with his
wife and two little girls. The screams
of the boys, whose ages were from six to
sixteen, calling for their father to aid
them, was heartrending in the extreme,
but the flames were beyoud the power of
any living person, and on account of the
argry winds was hut a short time in de
vouring their work.
THE FIRE FIEND.
Twenty Persons Loss Their Live* on the
Steamer Gardner of the Tomblgbeo
River.
The steamer W. H. Gardner one of the
largest boats plying on the Tombigbe river
from Mobile, was burned Tuesday after
noon three miles below Gainesville, Sum
ter county, Alabama. The boat is a to
tal loss, together with four hundred and
sixty-four bales of cotton. Loss of life
is very large, ns follows: 8. C. Black
man, Jule Rembcrt and two children, of
Dcmopolis. Mrs. W. F. Rembert nnd
three children, of Demopolis ; Theo L
Graham, R. G. Rules. And the follow
ing colored persons: John Bryant, stew
ard, Green Jenkins, Henry Ford, Hay
ward Hudson, L. Lindsey, Virgil Jones,
Amos Harris, and three unknown.
Mrs. Rembert is the wife of the clerk
and part owner of the boat. The remain
ing whites were passengers living in the
upper Tombigbee district. No details of
the cause and progress of the fire have
ueen received.
Tiie Gardner was valued at $25,000 and
is reported lo he fully insured. The
cotton on hoard was insured for $25,000.
A NEW TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The certificate of incorporation of the
New York Southern Telegraph company,
was filed Monday, states that its capital
is $1,000,000, divided into shares of SIOO
each, with the privilege of increasing its
stock to $5,000,000. The incorporators
and number of shares held by each arc as
follows: James B. Pace, Richmond,
3,500 shares; John S. Wise, Richmond,
1,000; Thomas M. Logan, Richmond,
1,000; J. G. Moore, New York, 4,000,
and J. C Weaver Page, New York, 5,-
000. The wires are to % run from New
York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington, Richmond, Charleston, Savannnh
and Now Orleans and to all intermediate
points.
MARCH 10, 1887.
SEARCHING THE RUINS.
Further Detail* of the European Earth
quake.
Heartrending details of the disasters
caused by the earthquakes continue to ar
rive. At Diano Mariano, a child of
twelve years and her father were extri
cated from the debris, when the lattei
expired upon the spot. The survivors at
Diano Mariano.say that a majority of the
victims were killed by the second shock,
people having re-entered their houses to
procure clothing. The bodies, wrapped
in shrouds, lie in the middle of the
streets.
At Bassano the soldiers are still search
ing the ruins. They have rescued
twentyseven persons, all of whom are
more or less injured. The people sleep
in carriages and improvised places of
shelter.
Signor Ganaja, minister of public
works of Italy, has visited Bejardo, and
attended the funeral of 230 victims of
the church cellar, who were buried iu a
common trench in the cemetery, lie also
made arrangements for a temporary hos
pital for the injured.
The relief committees are being organ
ized throughout, the country, but it is
impossible to supply the numerous wants.
San Remo is deserted. There were
303 persons killed and 150 injured in
that town.
Troops have been compelled to keep
back, at the point of the bayonet, the
crowds of despairing men and women
who were impeding the work of excava
tion, in their efforts to find missing rela
tives, The bodies of the victims of the
disaster are terribly disfigured. The suf
ferings of the survivors arc great. The
supply of provisions and drugs and am
bulance apparatus being painfully inade
quate. The work of the re'euers is at
tended with considerable danger. In
some cases they have been obliged to flee
from the battery walls, although they
could hear the groans of the victims bur
ied beneath the debris. All the members
(V the family of the mayor of Bajnrdo
were killed outright. Of another fam
ily, consisting of twenty-two persons,
named Maestria, only a single member,
half demented, is left, The half-clothed
people are wandering on the seashore ex
posed to the inclement weather. At
Diano Mariano a woman and child were
taken out alive after being entombed
three days.
HEAVY WINDS.
-Two Ohio Itivcr Steamers Sunk nr Louis
ville Ky.
A telegram from Louisville Kv., says:
Early Saturday morning, tjie wind com
menced to blow here heaviiy, coming
from the northwest. It continued to
blow a perfect hurricane at intervals un
til G o’clock this evening. Many acci
dents are report! and and considerable
damage has been done. The stern wheel
steamer Reindeer, lying at the city wharf,
was so roughly treated by the waves that
she sprang a leak and sunk* in four feet
of water. After she had settled upon
the bottom, a much larger steamer, Hi
bernia, which was tied to the wharf a
few yards above, was seized by the whirl
wind. Her three large cables wire snap
ped like twine, and she was cast against
the lumber vessel. The latter was badly
smashed up and the Hibernia reached
her moorings witli her side smashed.
The river is rising two. inches an hour,
and if the heavy rains of the last week
continue, much suffering will follow.
The water lias already reached many
houses. The hurricane today also smashed
in about 150 feet of the western wall ol
the southern exposition building, doing
41.000 damage.
THE WEEKLY REVIEW.
.tinny Million* Invest oil in Southern Enter
prise*.
During the past week there have been
received reports of the incorporation of
the following new companies in the
South: Nashville Light and Heat com
pany, two millions capital; the car com
pany, Anniston, Ala., one million cap
ital'; the South Baltimore Car company,
$200,000 capital; the Consolidated Coal
Coal and Iron company, Chattanooga,
$2,500,000 capital! United States Crude
Petroleum and Gas company, Baltimore,
$1,000,000 capital; the stained glass fac
tory, Chattanooga, $2,500,000; five blast
furnaces as follows: one at Rome, Ga.,
one at Calera, Ala, two at Cartersville.
Ga., one at Gadsden, Ala., gas machine
works, Chattanooga; sheet rolling mill,
Atlanta; Pawne Mineral company, Ash
ville, Ala., $1,000,000 capital; Consoli
dated Mining company, Memphis, sl,-
000,000 capital; spoke factory, Lexing
ton, Ky., SIOO,OOO capital; Bessemer
Steel Rolling mills, Bessemer, Alabama,
half million capital; saw mill supply
factory, Chattanooga, $150,000 capital.
Among the small new organizations are
thi ee flour mills and a factory at Chat
tanooga; seventeen lumber companies,
three in Arkansas, two in Tennessee, one
in Alabama, two in Florida, three in
Georgia, two in Louisiana, four in Texas,
and four railroad companies, two in
North Carolina, one in Alabama, and one
from Chattanooga to the top of Lookout
mountain.
A COWARDLY ASSASSIN.
A Young Mnn anil Woman While Riding In
n Wngon are Fired Upon nnd Killed.
One of the foulest crimes ever commit
ted in East Tennessee, occurred in Roano
county. A young man named Newman
was employed to move a woman and her
daughter named Weaver, from Kingston
to Rockwood. Ho was driving on a
mountain road in a wagon loaded with
household goods, and beside him sat the
fifteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Weaver,
when suddenly a man named Epps sprang
from the roadside in front of the team.
He carried a shotgun in his hand, and
without a word he leveled it at Newman,
and tired beth barrels, which were load
ed with buckshot, Newman rolled from
his seat a corpse, and the young girl fell
hack in the wagon with a dozen dullets
in her breast. Mrs. Weaver was sitting
in the rear of the wagon and escaped un
injured. The alarm was given, and in
an hour one hundred men were in pursuit
of the murderer. No one can assign any
cause for his assassination of Newman
nnd the innocent girl.
A BIG CLAIM,
Virginia Heirs to fln Site of tiie City I
Louisville.
Developments whieli have recently
come to light seem to establish the claims
of the heirs-at-law of the late Daniel
McDonald, of Virginia, to the land on
which the. city of Louisville, Ivy , is lo
cated. The particulars are these: In
1782 a warrant was issued by Governor
Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia, for mil
itary service to said Daniel McDonald for
a certain tract or parcel of land lying in
the district of Kentucky, on the Ohio
river. No disposition was made of this
land by said grantee, and it seems to
have been lost sight of bv his descend
ants until recently one of them, a grand
son, General James McDonald, of Rich
mond, adjutant general of the state, in
making some investigations in the land
book of Virginia, came across the war
rant. lie sent a copy to the register of
lands of Kentucky, asking if he could
locate the land.
After taking due time for the investi
gation to be made an answer came from
the Kentucky land office that from all
the information that could be had the
1,000 acres of land in the name of Daniel
McDonald was located at the falls of the
Ohio river, and that the city of Louisville
was built thereon. The letter went on
further to state that a number of years
ago the said land escheated to the com
monwealth of Kentucky, but as an
escheat is only good in ease of the de
fault of heirs, that amounts to nothing;
indeed, is an advantage to the claimants.
Another fortunate circumstance for them
is that the compact entered into by the
State of Virginia with Kentucky when
the latter was permitted to set up as a
State solemnly bound the new State to
protect and defend the claims of Virgin
ians owning lands in Kentucky and their
heirs forever against any and all comers.
Lawyers who have examined the ease say
that it seems to lack no element o f
strength.
AFTER THE COUNTY SEAT.
A liilllcnlty In Kniimin ItcMiltN in Ilia Killing
of Several Men.
A serious shooting affray occurred on
Sunday night at Coronado, Wichita
county, growing out of a contest between
Coronado and Leoti as to which place
should be the county seat A general
shooting occurred, which resulted as fol
lows; William Pains, a druggist, nnd
Charles Cotter, both of Leoti, were in
stantly killed; Emmet Dimming, livery
man, Frank .leanness, son of the mayor,
David Johnson and Albert Bovey, mana
ger of the Chicago Lumber company, all
from Leoti, were fatally wounded. Frank
Lilley, real estate agent, Charles Loomis
and Ezra Loomis, all from Coronado,
were slightly wounded. The scene of
the fight is distant several miles from the
railroad and telegraphic communica
tion and all details of the tight are not
yet. known.
COTTON SEED OIL MILLS.
Organization Will be Completed Within
Ton Days.
A special dispatch to the Manufac
turer's Record, of Baltimore from an of
ficial source, as to a syndicate now form
ing to build cotton seed oil mills in the
south, says the company will be organ
ized under the laws of New Jersey, with
a capital of $5,000,090. The mills will
be "built of large capacity at points
throughout the ■whole cotton seed terri
tory. The incorporators are best oill mill
men in and the largest consum
ers in the north. Four times the neces
sary money could be obtained. The or
ganization will be completed within ten
days.
SOUTH CAROLINA SHAKEN.
ChnrlcHton anil Summerville Again Shaken
I p by Earthquakes.
A 1 out six o’clock Saturday morning
a slight earthquake shock was felt at
Charleston and adjacent country. The
shock continued five seconds. The di
rection of the wave was from westtoeast.
In one house a vase was thrown down
but no damage was done anywhere. The
shock was so slight that many persons
sleeping at the time were not disturbed.
The first disturbance worth mentioning
since the first of the new year. A spec
ial from Summerville says: a decided
earthquake shock was felt hero at six
o’clock Sunday morning. It was vetf
short and no damage resulted. Coming
after the earthquakes in Europe, it lias
made rather a sensation.
OFF FOR UTAH.
Two Iliinilred Converts lo the Fnltli Lenve
for the “I.nml of Milk nml Honey”
The semi-annual liegira of Mormon
converts from the Southern States to
Utah took place Tuesday. Chattanooga
is the Southern headquarters of the
church, and the converts assembled there
on that day and left at night, about 200
strong They were in charge of John
Morgan, chief elder. They came from
all the Southern States, and the most ig
norant and illiterate class of people. The
converts labor under the delusion that
Utah is a “land of milk and honey.” All
of the men had large families, and many
had only a few dollars left after purchas
ing their tickets. There arc now 200
ciders at work in the South.
MURDERED HIS CREDITOR.
It. V. Loggins, prominent merchant
of Winona, Wis., was murdered Tuesday
afternoon by Alexander Crawford, col
ored. Crawford had been purchasing
supplies from Loggins nnd hail become
involved. He failed to bring a mortgage
note of a trustees’ sale and Mr
Loggins xvent to see him about it and
was murdered by the negro, who had
prepared himself for tho horrible work.
Loggins was found cut to pieces. The
murderer escaped, but will doubtless be
captured.
ELECTION FRAUDS.
The federal grand jury, which has been
investigating frauds committed at the
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 heretofore
found. A special jury has been called to
try these cases at the March term of the
court.
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NUMBER 10.
SNOWED UNDER.
Of a thousand things that the Year snowed
under.
The busy Old Year that has gone away.
How many will rise in the spring, I wonder,
Brought to lifo by the sun of May?
Will the rose tree branches, so wholly hid
den
That never a rose-tree seems to be,
At the sweet spring’s call come forth unbid
den,
And bud in beauty, and bloom for me?
Will the fair, green earth, whose throbbing
bosom
Is hid, like a maid's in her gown at night,
Wake out of her sleep, aud with blade and
blossom
Gem her garments to please inv sight?
Over the knoll in the valley yonder
The loveliest buttercups bloomed and grew;
When the snow i3 gone that drifted them
under.
Will they shoot up sunward and bloom
anew?
When wild winds blew and a sleet storm
pelted,
I lost a .jewel of priceless worth;
If I walk that way when snows have melted,
Will the gem gleam up from the bare, brown
earth?
1 laid a love that was dead or dying,
For the year to bury aud hide from sig>.t
But out of a trance will it waken crying,
And push to my heart like a leaf to the
light?
Under the snow lie things so cherished—
Hopes, ambitions, and dreams of men,
Faces that vanished and trusts that perished
Never to sparkle or glow again.
| The Old Year greedily grasped his plunder,
And covered it over and hurried away;
Of tho thousand things he hid, I wonder
How many will rise at the call of May?
O wise Young Year, with your hands held
under
Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray!
—Ella IF. in Boston Globe.
PITH AO POINT.
A game leg—llindquarter of venison.
It is rain or shine with a boothblack.
The German Army Bill—EmperorWil
liam.
Taken aback—A boy playing leap
frog.
Europe is so peaceful now that it is
impos-ible to supply the universal de
mand for arms.— Post-Dispatch.
A New York man advertises to restore
old paintings. Wonder how many he
has stolen. — Burlington Free Press.
To admit that our city is well laid out
doesn't necessarily suggest the inference
that it’s dead.— Philadelphia Call.
Scientists believe it impossible for a
man to have a double. If tins is so, how
can a man be beside himself?— Life.
As you can now get two hundred
quinine pills for a dollar, we should say
that quinine is getting to he a drug in
the nurket. — Purl .
The World says that the woman’s bus
tle must go. The World Lmi taken. It
is the woman that must go. The bustle
must follow. — Bazaar.
When we see a goose with a lame leg
trying in vain to keep up with the rest
of the fleck, it always reminds us of a
non-ndvertising so called business man,
endeavoring to hold his own against his
neighbors who advertise.— DansHUe
Breeze.
“Papa,” said little Jimmie Briefless,
• -what and > you wear when you go to the
court house—vour law suit:” “Oh, no,
my son,” replied tiie good barrister,
kindly. “That is the suit a man puts on
when lie goes naked. Only the clients
wear that.'’— Burdette.
The gray-bearded man wlio carefully
husks a pi anut, throws away the meat
and tries to eat the shell probably will
not be accused of being in love, as he
would have been thirty years ago, but
he risks winning a reputation for absent
mindedness. — Somerville Journal.
“The great trouble with you, John,is,”
said a lady to her husband, who was suf
fering from the effects of the night be
fore, “you cannot say ‘No.’ Learn to
say ‘No,’ lohn, and you will have fewer
headaches. Can you let me have a lit
tle money this morning:'’ “No,” said
John, with apparent ea^e.— Puck.
The Baby Kin? of Spain.
The baby King of Spain is a fine,
handsome child who enjoys robust
health, and does credit to the immense
amount of care with which he is sur
rounded. Though court etiquette re
quires that the six months-old Alphonso
XIII. should be treated with the most
rigid ceremony, his mother will never
call him ‘the King” unless on very strict
occasions, but uses the simple term of
“my child.” His Majesty has his own
vast suite of apartments next to those of
the Queen Regent; and a special guard
keeps h s bedroom door at night. His
foster mouther, the sturdy peasant Ray
munda, feeds and amuses the baby; but
hois washed and drcsted accoidingto
traditional ceremony by a bevy of ladies
of honor under the direction of his “gov
ernes,” who held the same office toward
his father. Doctors visit the baby twice
daily, and every day he drives out with
his governess and liaymunda, sometimes
with the Queen. In court ceremonies
ltavmunda must not carry the King;
that is the duty of the mistress of the
robes or of his aunt, the Infanta Isabella.
Queen Christina is a most devoted
mother,spending all her spare time with
her boy, and the Infanta Isabella is
•qually attached to her nephew. — Lon
don G rapid ■.
Her Heavy Conundrum.
“Hilly,” quoth Fophronia, as she lis
tened to the thundering tread of pater
families come thumping down the stairs
at 11 I*. m., “when you leavo here each
evening, ‘by request,’ why is papa, when
he pnrts with you at the font door, like
your own dear self when you make me
a nice present or taaemeto the rink?”
“I couldn’t say, I'm sure, love,” trem
blingly replied her best fellow William,
whi e preparing to ‘dust” at her parent’s
bidding.
“Because he nlways foots the Bill!”
Sifltng.".
Bagdad contiins the largest Hebrew
colony in Europe. There are twenty
synagogues and about 40,008 Hebrews in
; the city.