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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA. QBORGIA.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND IIIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The president has appointed John G.
Watts, of Virginia, marshal of the west-
ern district of Virginia.
President Harrison says that be in¬
tends to call Congress in extra session
for about the middle of October.
The President on Wednesday ap-
pointed William Walter Phelps, of New
Jersey, envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the Luited States to
Germany.
the The President on Wednesday William appointed E.
Clarke, following postmasters: vice Mat¬
at Newberne, N. C.,
thias Manly, removed-, O. D. Foster, at
Fredericksburg, Va., vice Frank T.
Foil)-s, removed.
The following postmasters of the fourth
class were appointed for Georgia on
Thursday: Cordele, Dooly. Ella Loguc,
Lewis A. Harper removed; Owensby-
ville, Heard. J. T. Wilson, D. W. Zachry,
res’gned; Melville, Chattooga, August
McLeod, W r . O. Eaton, resigned; Stiles-
borough, Bartow, John E. Hammonds,
Riley Milam removed; Camp Creek, M.
,T. Smith, William Thomas removed.
The president has appointed Frederick
Douglass, of District of Columbia, to be
minister resident and constpl-general of
the United States to Hayti; Daniel M,
Raimdcll, of Indiana, to be United States
marshal for the District of Columbia,
vice A. A. Wilson resigned, and Captain
Meredith, of Chicago, chief of bureau of
engraving and printing, vice E. O.
Graves, resigned.
Specifications, just issued by the post¬
master-general, for the guidance of bid¬
ders under tho next contract for postage
stamps, provide for two series of stamps
of different sizes—one of them being the
size now in use, the other about one-
third smaller. The color of the two
cent stamp is to be either carmine or
metalic red, the latter being the color
in use when the change to green was last
made.
On Monday, First Assistant Secretary
Chandler, in the contest for the posses¬
sion of a tract <4 land in the Gaine.vil e,
Fla., laud district, between Senator
Wilkinson Call, and a coloreel man
named Robert Swain, decided adversely
to Senator Call. The ease has been
pending in one form or another for many de¬
years, and there have been several
cisions in it—one by Secretary Teller,
in favor of Swain, and a subsequent one
in favor of Senator Call.
Au evidence of the fact that the ad¬
ministration will make a number of
changes the beginning of the present fis¬
cal year, has been furnished. Attorney
General Miller called for the resignation
of all but one of the attorneys wdi o rep-
resent the government before the court of
claims. These resignations are to take
effect on the 1st of July next. Among
those who will be cut off is ex-Represen
tative Wilson, of Wist Verginia. At¬
kins, who was once collector of customs
at Savannah, is an applicant for one of
the places which will be vacant.
Ex-Senator Bruce and Fourth Auditor
Lynch headed a delegation of colored
Republicans who waited on the Presi¬
dent Wednesday address adopted afternoon, and present¬
ed an at the Jackson,
Miss., conference, on June 13th, in re-
41 aid to the political situation in the
South, and expressing the utmost confi¬
dence iu tho President’s policy towards
the colored people in that region. The
President thanked them for their confi¬
dence, and said that they could rest as¬
sured that he would do the best he could
towards all classes. He commended the
conservative stand taken by them, and
said they would have his assistance in
every endeavor to improve their politicul
status.
ENGLISH CAPITAL,
BUILDING A TOWN IN KENTUCKY—BUYING
MINERAL LANDS.
A distinctively new era in the souths
iron and steel history is marked by th«
organization of English companies, com¬
posed of leading iron and steel makers oi
Great Britain,to bui d extensive steel and
iron work?, including four furnaces,steel
rail mill, rolling mill, etc., and a new
town at Cumberland Gap, on the divid¬
ing lino between Tennessee and Ken¬
Middlesborough, tucky. The name Kentucky, of the town and for is to be
ovei
a year the work of buying mineral lauds,
preparing for railroad connections, etc.,
has been vigorously but quietly pushed
by the American association (limited),
which is the name of the parent company.
Over four million dollars in cash has al¬
ready been paid out, and upwards of six¬
ty thousand acres of mineral land pur¬
chased, and over seven million dollars
have been pledged for new enterprises.
In addition to contracts for four new fur-
naces, steel works and rolling mills, pipe
works, etc., to cost in the aggregate
§8,000,000,thi re will be a $750,900 hotel
and sanitarium, in which many of the
leading physicians of Europe and this
country are interested, three hotels to
co>t $2('0,000, four coal mines represent-
ing 1^500,000, and a $505,000 tannery.
tHher enterprises, including electric
light and gas works, saw mills, brick
yards, railroad shops, etc., have been ar¬
ranged, and tho total investments already
secured aggregate ten million? of dollar*
in cash.
LOSSES AT JOHNSTOWN.
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE LOST, IS THE ES¬
TIMATE MADE BY THE BUSINESS MEN.
The time keepers in the Cambria of¬
fices estimate that from 400 to 500 of
their workmen in the Gautier aDd Cam-
bria Iron works were lost, Counting the
women and children dependent upon
them, they put their loss of people at
2,000. They estimate the entire loss of
le at 10,000. Mr. Haws, fire hrick
manu.acturcr, thiuks this gue-s is about
rignt. He believes at least 500 strangers
were m town at the time of the flood,
About ,00 deposit books of the Johns-
town the depositors Savings Bank are reported lost by
or their heirs. There
were $774 000 on deposit, and much of
this is the property of people having no
work of the sub-committee at
Johnstown, whose report of the liv-
mg and dead was given out Saturday,
does not give satisfaction The list'is
,4oo survivors and 1,194 drowned. The
morgue lists show that over 3,000 have
buued.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF URIO US,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS non EVEBYWHEEE—ACCIDENTS, STBIKE*,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
William HeDry Wood, president of the
Alabama Mining company, dropped dead
in his office at 7 Nassau street, New York,
on Wednesday.
Queen Christina, of Spain, ascended
1,000 feet in an army balloon on Friday.
It was her first ascent. The balloon was
chriatened “Maria Christina.”
Large quantities of gold coin from
South America are passing through Ant¬
werp for Russia and Austria, the same as
during the Franco-German war.
Maria Mitchell, the noted astronomer,
died at Lynn, Mass., on Friday morning.
She was for a great many years a mem-
^ er Q f faculty of Vttssar college.
in Thursday at Llma 0 while paying
a wh eat bin, which was being drawn
off into a car, Ben Marks and Judson
Horton, two young boys, were drawn
into the chute and smothered to death.
Thirty-six buildings, with a large
quantity of machinery, were destroyed
by fire at Luneburg, Berlin, Sunday.
Loss, 12,000,000 marks. Six hundred
workmen are thrown out of employment.
The new cathedral of St. Peter and
St. Paul, the seat of the Roman Catholic
diocese, of Providence, R. I., was con¬
secrated Sunday. It is a large sand¬
stone structure, and has been eleven
years building.
Tunis Lnbee was hanged in the county
jail, at Patterson, N. J., Thursday morn¬
ing, for the murder of his wife. The
murderer wrote a farewell!etter,in which
he forgave everybody, and expressed the
hope that everybody would forgive him.
The fourteenth annual four-mile eight-
oared race between the crews represent¬
ing the universities of Yale and Harvard
was rowed Friday evening at New Lon¬
don, Conn., and was won by Yale by six
boatlengths. Official time: Yale 21.30,
Harvard 21.55.
A dispatch from London, England,
says: One person was killed and two
dangerously injured by a balloon, in
which they were making an ascension,
catching in the machinery gallery at tho
Paris exposition grounds Sunday, and
detaching its fastenings.
The new rules providing for trading in
petroleum futures went into effect on
Thursday at Pittsburg, Pa., and com¬
pletely upset things at the petroleum ex¬
change in that city. The brokers did
not seem to understand the new system
and but little business was transacted.
Mail advices from west Africa confirm
previous reports of shocking privations
to which Stanley, the explorer, has been
subjected. turned It is stated that his his hair has
snow white; that clothes are
rags, and that he Is without shoes, being
obliged to use skins to cover his feet.
At Johnstown, Pa., Acting Surgeon
Foster, of the Fourteenth regiment and
the laboring camps, reported Wednes¬
day morning that within the last twenty-
four hours forty-nine laborers were taken
seriously sick with symptoms of typhoid
fever. Many of them cared were sent home,
and others are being for in the
hospital.
The official vote of the recent election
in Harrisburg, Pa., as received and com¬
puted at the state department is as fol¬
lows: For the prohibition amendment,
286,617; against, 484,644; majority
against, 188,027. For the suffrage amend¬
ment abolishing poll tax qualification,
183,371; against, 420,324; majority
against, 236,952.
Joliet, Ill., has of a happy son of St.Cris¬ who
pin in the person John Ryan, on
Friday won the international prize of
$500 offered by the “Boot and Shoe Jour¬
nal, ” of Boston, for the best essay on boot
and shoe making in all its branches.
Every state in the Union contested for
the prize, together with Canada, New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
A terrible accident occurred Wednes¬
day morning at Bledsoe, on the Chesa¬
peake & Nashville railroad, running
from Galla'in to Scottsville, Ky. The
passenger train due at Gallatin at 11
o’clock jumped the track, and the pas¬
senger and baggage cars went down
about sixty feet. About eight persons
were seriously injured, and several child¬
ren were more or less hurt,
John T. Robbins and Henry F. Hall,
trading under the firm name of the Rob¬
bins & Son Iron and Steel Manufacturer.*,
Beach and Vienna streets, Philadelphia,
Pa., failed Wednesday. The liab.lities
are said to be $120,000, and assets $70,-
000. Most of the firm’s papers are held
in Philadelphia, the Kensington National
bank being creditor to the extent of
$14,300.
One of the gieatest failures in the his¬
tory of the noithwest occurred Wednes¬
day at St. Paul, Minn. The Eureka Im¬
provement ing assignment Company, of that city, mak¬
an with liabilities between
$600,000 and one million dollars. As¬
sets have not been estimated. Most of
the outside creditors aie in Chicago, Los
Angeles, Philadelphia and New York.
The company was engaged in land deals
and an electric motor enterprise.
A large cave near Hermosa mining
camp, sixty miles from Las Cruces, N. M.,
has been opened up, and rs interior is
lined with veins of almost pure silver.
It had for years escaped the eyes of old
prospectors because there was nothin^
about the cave to indicate mineral. It is
now thought the cave will exceed in rich -
uess the famous Bridal Chamber cave at
Snake Valley, N. M., from which over
$500,000 in silver was taken,
Exports of specie during the week
ended June 29tb, amounted to $3,416,-
580, of wrhich $3,047,610 was in gold and
$868,970 silver. Of the total exports,
$2,611,951 was gold and $340,215 was
silver, went to Europe; $2,611,000 in
gold bars goiDg direct to Paris, and
$435,659 gold a.d $278,755 silver to
South America. Imports of specie for
the week amounting to $357,650, of
which $309,448 was in gold and $48,202
in silver.
master “RedNosedMike,”whomurderedpay- MeCluie and the stable
Hugh Fiannagan, in October boss,
last, was
hanged Tuesday morning at Wilkesboro,
He gave to one of the clergymen
who attended him a confession of his
crime, covering fifty-two pages Italian
manuscript. been The confession has not vet
fullv translated, but he admits hav-
ing killed both McClure and Flannagan,
though he asserts that he acted under
compulsion,
NOT YELLOW FEVER.
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A dispatch from New York says:
Surgeon discharged Duncan, of the steamer Colon,
was at 10 o’clock Wednesday-
morning from Swinburne Island hospital.
He is the supposed yellow fever patient
over whom the recent excitement was
raised.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
ICAKT LIVES LOST BY A RAILROAD COLLI¬
SION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
A triple collision of freight trains oc¬
curred near Latrobe, Pa., forty miles east
road, of Pittsburg, on the Pennsylvania Rail¬
about 2.30 o’clock Wednesday
morning. Thirty cars were wrecked and
seven known. persons killed, four of them un¬
A freight train, west bound,
left Latrobe and had just reached a
bridge about fifty yards west, when it
collided with an extra freight train com¬
ing in an opposite direction. Anothei
east bound treight was standing on 8
side track on the bridge, and the wrecked
trains crashed against it, causing one lo¬
comotive and a number of cars to go
over the embankment into thg^reek. a
distance of fifty feet. Engineer Cald¬
well and his fireman were supposed to
have been killed instantly. Their bodies
are still in the creek. Brakeman Miller was
terribly crushed. The bodies of four
tramps were taken from the wreck.
There was nothing about their clothes
to ride identify them. They w T ere stealing a
and were coming west. The cause
of the accident has not yet been learned.
A dispatch from Greenburg, ten mile3
from Latrobe, states that a party of
about twenty-five workmen from Johns¬
town were stealing their way home on a
freight train when the accident occurred.
Tne wreck caught fire from lime and the
men were cremated. The story is not
credited, and Pennsylvania railroad offi¬
cials know nothing about it. Two men
injured in the accident were carried
to Flannagon, Pittsburg. One of them, named
says that he is a Johns¬
town laborer, returning to Pittsburg,
and that twelve persons were on the car
with him when the accident occurred.
He knows nothing of their fate.
The debris of the wreck was being rap¬
idly cleared away, and up to 8 o’clock
Wednesday night ten bodies had been
recovered. Thirty-one cars went down
over the bridge, and are piled upon each
other in the water. A carload of lime in
the center of the train was the last to go
down, and it was scattered over a pile of
shattered cars. Then the debris took
fire. It is probable that thirty people
were killed in the wreck. The water in
the creek at the point where the acci¬
dent occurred, is about twelve feet deep,
and it is expected ten or twelve bodies
are in the bottom of the creek.
WONDERFUL MONSTROSITY.
A CHILD WITH TWO HEADS—-ALIVE WITH
NO INDICATIONS OF DYINO.
The parents of this curious freak of
nature are Mr. and Mrs. Jones, who live
about five miles north of Kempton, in
Tipton county, Indiana. They are young
married folks, probably about 30 years of
age, and this is the mother’s second con¬
finement, the first child being two years
old and nothing abnormal about its de¬
velopment. TUe monstrosity, for such it
is, and a wonderful one, too, consists of
a single, continuous body, on each end
of which is a well formed head. It is
provided with four arms and four legs,
which are also well formed and about
the normal size and shape. The arms are
located at the proper place and on natu¬
ral shoulders, one pair at each cud of the
long body, but the lower limbs protrude
outward each side at the middle of the
elongated being. The two heads face
the same way, and the legs are so attach¬
ed as to extend at right angles from the
middle of the sides of the body. There
is but one umbilicus, that being on the
anterior surface aud middle of the body,
showing that the entire form has been
nourished through one and the same cord
during the entire period of embryonic life.
There is a duplicity in so far as there are
two heads, two pair of limbs, two sets of
genital organs and that the voluntary
movements of the two portions are not
in conformity. On the other hand, there
was but one umbilical cord, and tt.e
junction of the two halves presents no
line of original separation to prove that
the being lias been joined together from
the start. One half of the creature may
be sleeping while the other is awake, and
at such times it is noticed that one leg
on each side conforms to the other vol¬
untary movements of the end of the
body nearest to them, or, in other words,
the two legs on the same side of the
body are not controlled by one half.
The entire length of the body from head
to head is about two feet, and the weight
of the creature is twelve pounds, figures
which show ample size and weight for
two healthy children. Up to the pres¬
ent writing the babe or babos is or are
enjoying good health, and the mother, a
sm ill sized woman, is doing very well.
A HUMAN FIEND.
A WOMAN SAID TO HAVE POISONED HER
HUSBAND AND TWO SONS FOR MONEY.
Mrs. Lizzie Brenan was arrested at
caused Holyoke, Mass., on suspicion of having
the death of her husband and two
ic. sons by poisoning their food with araen-
The Brenans had six children, and
Mrs. Brenan succeeded in insuring the
lives of all, including herself and her
$2,000, husband, for sums ranging from $300 to
the policies being made payable
to herself. The husband, Michael Bren¬
an, died about ten months ago under
suspicious circumstances, James Bre-
nan, a son, died suddenly about six
weeks ago. She supposed his life insur¬
ance had been increased, but on claiming
it at his death, she found the increase
had been made by mistake in policy of
his brother Thomas. It was Thomas’
tu n next, and he died on Thursday.
Thomas was taken violently sick about
two weeks ago, and went into the coun¬
try, where he rallied. On returning
home to board, he was taken sick again
and died in great agony. All medicines
hive been seized by the officers, who be¬
lieve Mrs. Brenan deliberately poisoned
the members of the family.
HANGED TO A TREE.
A KENTUCKY MOB STRINGS UP A MAN WHO
IS CHARGED WITH MURDER.
A mob went to the jail at Shepardsville,
Ky., ^ at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning
aud demanded of Jailer Bowman thesur :
render of Thomas Mitchell and Charles
Ardell, confined there charged with the
murder of a pedlar named Joseph Lavine.
Bowman refused to surrender the mm
and took his stand in front of the door
with a shotgun, declaring he would kill
the first man who tried to pass. Mrs.
her Bowman, hearing the threats and fearing far”
husband would be killed, ran
ward and gave the mob the keys, big-
ting Bowman not to provoke them. The
leaders then unlocked the doors and
went to the cell where the prisoners were
■onfined. The jailer followed, beggiDg
them at least to spare Mitchell, who he
believed was innocent. They yielded to
his intreaties,'telling Mitchell he might
Bowman they took for him his life, the and binding
to woods, about
mile and a half from town, anil, bung
to a tree.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A new postofficc has been established
it South Atlanta, Fulton county, Ga.,
with Luther S. Price as postmaster.
In Dawson, Ga., a number of boys are
the frequently seen peddling frog’s legs on
streets, which are readily sold at ten
cents a leg.
Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga.,
was struck by lightning Tuesday while
standing killed. in his store door and instantly several
He leaves a wife and
children.
The keeper of Bosa Grande lighthouse,
near Jacksonville, Fla., has discovered
the skeleton of John Cone, a young man
from Jasper, Fia., who was drowned near
Punta Gorda last March.
Adjutant-General McIntosh Kell has
issued a call for a convention of the mil¬
itary of Georgia. The meeting will take
place at the capitol in Atlanta on Mon¬
day, the loth of July.
On the premises of C. C. Hallman,
near Spring Place, Ga., has been discov¬
ered a quarry of very fine black marble.
Mr. Hailinun sent a sample of the rock
to had the Chattanooga and Marble proved works, be and
it polished, it to very
fine.
Reports from Charlotte, N. C., say that
the recent heavy rains has done no small
damage. Bridges over creeks and rivers
are gone and low lands crops nre greatly
damaged. The rain is said to have been
the heaviest known in western North
Carolina in some years.
Mrs. Ann M. Pierce, wife of the late
Bishop George F. Pierce, died at “Sun¬
shine,” near Sparta, Ga., on Wednes¬
day, at the age of 78. She was a nota¬
ble landmark of Methodism, a truly
grand exemplar of the religion she pro¬
fessed, and was universally esteemed.
David A. Nunn, the new internal rev¬
enue collector at Nashville, Tenn., cre¬
ated a commotion by appointing a negro
to one of his best places, a thirteen liun-
dred-dollar position. The appointee is
8. W. Crosthwait, for some years princi¬
pal of one of the city schools, and an in¬
telligent negro.
Ralph Graves, professor of mathemat¬
ics at the state university, attempted to
commit suicide at Raleigh, N. C.,
on Sunday, by cutting his throat bad
wit i a pen-knife. He had been in
1 ea'.th lor months, and at times showed
symptoms of derangement. Hen signed
his work at the university last February.
A disastrous fire occurred at Savannah,
Ga., Monday night, involving a loss of
over $100,000. When the fire was rag¬
ing firemen had ascended on ladders,
when a wall of a building fell suddenly,
killing John Weir outright and injuring
H. P. Goodson seriously and Richard
Hart perhaps fatally. Ed Paceiti, Messrs.
Lipinski, Davis, McEvoy and Strobhar
and Maurice Butler, were badly wounded.
Natural gas was struck Monday neat
Cordova, Walker county, about thirty
miles west of Bumingham, Ala. It has
a pressure of sixty-five pounds to depth tha
square inch, and was struck at a
of 700 feet. It was discovered on the
property of the Cordova Coal and Coke
Company, and the experts in charge of
the work say there is no doubt of the
gas existing in paying qualities.
The First Georgia regiment will meet
in annual reunion at Perry, Houston
county, Ga., on the 7tli of August next.
Governor Gordon has been invited to at¬
tend and deliver an address, and Gener¬
als Johnston and Andetson have also
been requested to participate in the cere¬
monies. When the First Georgia was
organized it numbered fourteen hundred hundred
men; only about four arc now
living.
At Hawkinsville, Ga, on Thursday
night, Charley Horn colored, killed and Will Nich¬ the
ols. Both were about
same age—fifteen years. They had beer
to church, and while the re had quarreled.
The quarrel continued after leaving
church. After walking some distance,
Horn pulled a paling off the fence and
struck Nichols on the side of the head
over the left ear, crushing his skull.
Nichols died within two hours. Horn
tvas arrested.
A vein of iron ore, nine miles in length
with an average thickness of seventeen
feet, has been discovered in Red moun¬
tain, only a few miles from Birmingham.
Chemists and experts sty it will make
Bessemer steel—in fact, has less phos¬
phorus than much of the ore now in use
in Pennsylvania for making steel. An
analysis made by chemists shows the ore
to contain metallic iron 45.87, silicon
22.18, phosphorus 0.06. Several mine?
will be opened at once, anti the ore fully
tested for steel making.
SIMON CAMERON DIES.
SHORT ACCOUNT OF A VARIED AND EVENT
FUL CAREER.
General Simon Cameron died at Lan¬
caster, Pa., on Wednesday, at the age of
60 years. He learned the printer’s trade
and became editor of a Democratic jour¬
nal at Harrisburg, about 1822, after
which he acquired a large fortune by
operations in railroads, banking, etc. In
1845 he was elected a senator of the
United States from Pennsylvania. In
1855 he separated from the Democratic
party and in 1856 supported Fremont
for the presidency, aud was again
elected senator of the United States
in that year. He was secretary of war
in Lincoln’s cabinet from March 4th,
1801, to January, 1862, and was then
appointed minister to Russia, He re-
turned home in 1863 and was again
elected to the Senate of the United
States from Pennsylvania in 1866. He
served several successive/ terms in the
Senate, and was a potent factor in the
politics cf his state.
A MOCK MARRIAGE
FOUND TO BE GENUINE--CONSEQUENT
TROUBLE OF THE PARTIES.
Mr. J. Fletcher Marcum, of Cattles-
burg, and Miss Laura Duke Smith, oi
Lexington, attended a social gathering
in Ashland, Ky., and a young minister
and the county clerk were among the
guests. After awhile some one suggested
a mock marriage, and Mr. Marcum and
Miss Smith volunteered to be the bride
and bridegroom. The county clerk was
appealed to and made out the license,
and the minister performed the cere-
mony. Nothing more was thought of
the affair until it was mentioned to a
lawyer, who declared ihat the marriage
was a legal one. This view is accepted
as correct, and the make-believe bride
and bridegroom are intensely distressed,
To add to the complication, Mr. Marcum
was engaged to an estimable young lady
of Ashland. The courts will have to be
appealed to for relief.
“NOT GUILTY.”
m'dow, wno Kir led pawson, in chables-
ton, 8. C., GOES FREE.
The last day of the McDow trial wai
one ___of intense excitement and interest.
Not even on the day that Dawson’s body
was found lying in the office of his mur-
derer was the community so worked up.
The crowd in the courtroom was some¬
what m xed in character. Nearly all the
clergymen in the city, including Bishop
Northrop, were there, and leading citi¬
zens of all professions were scattered
around in the crowd. McDow came iuto
court ns usual and sat through the argu¬
ment and the charge of the judge with
his usual confident stare. He looked,
however, a little less chipper than he did
during the examination when Marie Bur-
deryon was telling the story ofhershnme
and his disgrace, and he did not smile
quite so frequently save, perhaps, when
his eyes rested on the seven negroes in
the jury box. Judge Kershaw charged
the jury, who retired to their room at
about 1 o’clock. Judge Kershaw’s charge
wa? short but to the point. The follow¬
ing extracts will give a fair idea. After
defining the various grades of homicide,
he said: “I can find nothing in the law
to assert that a man’s home extends more
protection than an office, except that
only those having n right can enter the
house, but the office being public to If
certain extent, any one can enter it.
the young lady’s connection with the
Dawson family was such as she describes,
it was a high duty for him to divert her
from wrong, an l if he went into the of¬
fice as her guaidain, he is not to be re¬
garded as a trespasser. A man, after
legally entertng an office, may, by offen¬
sive conduct, become a trespasser. An¬
gry words are no excuse for homicide.
The accused is not the judge of the ne¬
cessity of taking life, but the jury are the
judges on this point.” Shortly after two
o'clock it was announced that the jury
had agreed upon a verdict. The verdict
was ‘‘not guilty,” an announcement that
was received with applause by the negroes
and McDow’s white friends. They had
been prepared for the verdict. They knew
the negroes on the jury would never
convict him, and the worst
they apprehended was mistrial.
As soon as Judge Magrath had written
out a motion for the di-charge of the
prisoner, and Judge Kershaw had signed
it, the sheriff removed his deputy from
beside the dock and told the prisoner he
could go free. Then his friends pressed
around him with congratulations. Ho
was driven to his house on Rutledge
disguised street. The negroes rejpiced the verdict. in an They un¬
manner over
regard it as a victory over the white
race—a retaliation for Dawson’s editorial
on the Pickens lynchers.
HORRIBLE FIND.
SIX CORPSES FOUND IN A HOUSE OF ILL
REPUTE IN PATERSON, N. J.
Details of the finding of six asphyx
iated bodies in a den kept by Godfrey
Gerlade at 47 ltyle avenue, Patterson, N.
J., on Friday night, are revolting.
Three of the victims were young gir'g
less than twenty years old. Their names
were Bella and Sarah McNally, sisters,
and Emma Wright. Another Woman,
Kate White, was about twenty-four years
old. Gerlade, the seventy-year old
keeper of the resort, had evidently died
hours before the others succumbed.
The body of an unknown Turk, aged
about, thirty years, was found in a better
state of preservation than the others.
Broken china and toilet articles literally
covered the floor, and filth abounded
everywhere, as all had evidently been
crazed with drink and had a drunken
brawl. Evidently somebody tripped
over the rubber tube which conveyed the
gas from the iron pipe to the gas range.
The windows and doors of the house
were fastened. The undertakers and
etnbalmers were overcome in preparing
the bodies, which were conveyed first to
the fat and hides works of freeholder
McCrane, and then to the city pest house,
where they now are. The house where
the bodies were discovered has been the
scene of two suicides and one murder prior
to Friday’s ghastly find. The most
touching incident connected with the af¬
fair was the frantic efforts of the mother
of the McNully sisters in attempting to
see the believed bodies of her daughters, whom
she to be virtuous.
KILLED BY A BURGLAR.
A burglar entered the house of Juhc
Webber, at LaCrosse, Wis., Thursday
night through a window in the room oc¬
cupied by his two daughters, Kate and
Lena. The girls were awakened while
the robber was searching their clothing
and Lena, the youngest sister, aged
eighteen years, attempted to escape. She
stumbled and fell and before she could
arise she was seized by the burglar who
plunged a knife into her body, killing
her instantly. The a'sa^sin then went
to the bed and made a thrust at the oth¬
er girl, who managed, however, to evade
the knife. The family were aroused by
the noise, but the burglar escaped.
A RUINED CITY.
A special from Durango, Col.,
Monday afternoon a fire broke out in
southern part of the city, and in an
credible short time the flames,
by a strong wind, spread in every
tion, leaping from building to building,
until half of the town was in ashes. The
fiie was extinguished after the total
struction includes of tight business blocks,
all the principal business
and churches, and a portion of the
dent portion of the town was also de¬
stroyed. The loss is estimated at
000, with light insurance. The origin
the fire is supposed to be incendiary.
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
The 1 mited express, which left Boston
at 11 a. m., via Boston and Albany road,
was ditched just outside the city limits
Saturday afteinoon. Three persons were The
killed and several badly injured.
killed are, Miss Mary A. Brigham, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., who has recently been
elected principal of Mount Holyoke sem¬
inary, at South Hadley, Mass. Clareuce
May, drawing car conductor, thoujbt to
belong at Stamford, Conn. The third
person killed was the baggage master,
but his name could not be learned.
DEATH FROM SEWER GAS.
Thursday afternoon, at Kansas City,
Mo., Thomas Linques.t, John Winter,
John Best, Otto Albach and George
Schultz, were making a sewer connection
at the corner of 18th and Flora avenue,
when, by mistake, Linquest knocked a
sole in the sewer vault. The escaping
gas overcame him and he died a
instantly. Winter and Albach jumped
into the ditch to rescue him, and they,
t o, were overcome by the foul gas.
Winter died in a few hours, and
is in a serious condition.
NEW FIRM.
M°ALL1STER & SIMMONS
Have Just Opened Up With LARGE STOCKS Of
HEAVY GKOCEBIE
Bought for Cash by the
CAB LOAD f
CONSISTING OF
MEAT, CORN, FLOUR, BRAN AND HAY,
Also, Large Stocks of
STAPLE DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHIN G, Etc
We Carry a Full Line Of
Stoves, Hardware, Furniture, Mattresses. Bed-springs
We Have Just Received
Old HICKORY and White HICKORY.
WAGONS.
-IN--
CAR LOAD LOTS-
j\j
Our New Stock in this Line is Complete, Embracing all the Latest
Styles. We invite our Friends and Customers to call and Examine
our Stock before Purchasing elsewhere.
Having bought all the above Goods
We are able to afford superior inducements to our Customers.
MCALLISTER & SIMMONS,
LAVONIA, TOCCOA,
GA. GA.
ES. !*• SIMPSOM
TOCCOA, GEORGIA-
Ml! j]
And Machinery Supplies, Also, Kepairs All Kinds of Machinery.
FEBBEEi SNoniBS,
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
GEISER SEPARATORS
Farmers and others in want of either Engines or Separators, will
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. 1 am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
<*IESTEY 0RGANS.t»
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines,
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be-
cre you buy. LoDlicate Darts of machinery constantly on hand.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The U.iderstgn ’d is Prepared to Furnish MARBLE,
■0 I 5^0 Of All Kinds and Styles from the
r 9 plainest ?t elaborate and lowest and costly. prices, up All to work the
, m
•jjk delivered, set up and satisfaction guar-
•n m anteed. Call at my yard, examine
C?, |§ samples and learn prices I efore pur-
I'J J g chasing elsewhere. Address,
L. COOK,
TOCCOA,
iOB£RTS HOUSE I
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
MRS.E. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mrs. Roberts nls > has charge of th<
Railroad Eating IJ use at Bowersvillq
Ga. Good aceumnv *alious, good board,
at usual rates in first-class houses.
BLACKSMITHING 5
Manufacturing HORSE-SHOEING,
and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
—AND—
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
J“ EETT &
“CRANSTON”
Cylinder Presses
EIGHT RUNNING IN ATLANTA AND GIV¬
ING ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION.
The best press f°r the money ever built. For
Prices and Terms write
Godson’s Printers’ Supply Depot,
ATLAS IA, C»A.
Everything Office
U-ed in a Printing or on a Press, no
matter by whom advertised or manufactured,
for sale by
Dodson’s Printers’ Supply Depot,
•A-T-L-A-NTJV . GA*
1 t LEWIS DAVIS,
ATfOPNEY ATL.AW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
I
Will practice in tlie counties of Ilaber*
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frankl n and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be g.ven to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have epec-
ial attention.
REAL - ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In the Piedmont R. gion, Georgia. Also
Farms Orange Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
for sale in Florida. Address
J. W. JVcLAURY,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don’t Fail to Call On
1 MOTSON,
Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS GOODS,
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC.
—ALSO—
HARDWARE OF ALL KINDS.
Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬
terial, Locks, Blacksmith's Tools, Hinges,
Bolts, Doors ami Sash.
—EVERYTHING IN THE—
HARDWARE LINE,
COOK STOVES. STOVE PIPE.
AND WOODWARE,
-ALSO-
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOCCOA, GA.