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Chicago Market.
Chicago, I1L, February 9.
Opening Closing
on the way the death punishment was inflicted
upon men something over a century ago.
Nathan Hale, the young American martyr,
patriot and hero, was executed in the vicinity
Broadway and Market
street, Itew York city, Sept. 22, 1770. The
gallows was the limb of an apple tree in Col.
Rutgers orchard. A ladder was placed
against the limb and Hale ascended it a few
feet. The only words addressed by him to
the sympathetic spectators were: “I onlv ro-
DEAD PBINCE UUDOLPH.
HIS LIFE WAS NOT A HAPPY, THOUGH
IT WAS A GILDED ONE.
Some Interesting Points ia “Hi* Rather Ro
mantic Career—His Life as a Don Juan,
a Litterateur and a Conrtier—Sail Lot of
the Princess Stephanie.
for
T VXC*' \
THE WE 7 iK
AXSER-WATCintAX, ATHENS. GEORGIA, EEBTUJAllY 12, 1883.
How
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Necks
SOME HISTOBIG EXECUTIONS.
Row 9faJ° r Andre Was Strong Cp-What
the Advocates of Capital Punishment
Think of iisnging—How the Rope Was
Used at Old Newgate Prison.
v«rlv all educated men, no matter what
opinions about capital punishmentj
that hanging I* a barbarous way of
Sing a criminal The question bas been
In mucb agitated or late yean, that many
"LSiait scientists have been making invcs-
KSw a* to the least painful way of legally
ffing a criminal. The strong advocatesiof
535 punishment protot against th IS ,
Suing that by giving criminals a painless
a n the terror of a legal execution is
S 2*ay, and tough citizens, with but
JX use fer life anyhow, would have lea
tompunctioa in committing capital crimes if
So horrors of the noose and trap were taken
from out their ken. But, as is well known,
thea lvocatesof painless capital punishment
rained a great point when the law for exccu-
hon by eSectricity was passed by tbe New
”ork legislature.
early executions.
n,e first man to be executed in England by
the “drop" was Earl Ferrers, May 6, 17G0.
Formerly malefactors stood in a cart under
th0 ‘ rallows. with a rope round their necks, *
unt : ) tho signal was given, when the cart
was driven away end tho criminal left hang
ing The execution of Earl Ferrers was a
eery primitive one. After his arms were
secure*! by a b’.aek sash and a common halter
pissed around his neck, “ho then mounted a
part of tho scaffold eighteen inches above tho
rest, and, the signal being given by the
sheriff, that jiart of the floor sank under him
to a level with tho rest, and he remained sus
pended in the air."
Everybody who has read Dickens’ “Bar-
cnLv Budge” will retain a vivid recollection
nf the Newgate prison hangman therein
pictured with such masterful touche*, es
pecially the part in
which, during the
Gordon riots, b 6
gloats over the
criminals ho is soon
to hang. The scaf
fold used at tho
prison of Newgate'
Eight years ago the newspapers of both
Europe and America were filled with ac
counts of the ceremonies, the pageants, the
festivities attending the marriage of the
Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and Ste
phanie, the daughter of Leopold, king of
Belgium. Now there are to tie more pageants,
not to celebrate a wedding, hut. the funeral
of the groom of eight years ago, for, as the
cable has told, Rudolph is dead, and he died
of violence, and Stephanie is a widow.
THE OLD KNOT.
face to that rare
and marvelous
compilation, “The
Nowgato C a 1 p n ■
dar,” as follows:
“Condemned fel
ons are executed in
scaffold, called the
new drop, which
Is kept in the prison yard for this purpose.
The malefactors stand on a false floor, and,
when their devotions are finished, on a signal
being given, the floor suddenly drops, leav
ing the victim suspended iu the air.”
The first private execution in England was,
carried into effect at London, within the
walls of Newgate, Sept. 8, IBrtS. Alexander
JlcKav was hanged for tho murder of Lira.
Grossmith. The London Times said, com-
raenting on tho aspect of Newgale, as con
trasted with what it used to be when execu
tions wore public: “Death by banging now
means a silent, terrible execution.”
THE THEORY OF BANGING.
The theory of banging,” remarked a well
known hangman, “is that the neck of tho
culprit should In* broken. If this is done suc
cessfully second cervical vertebra is dislo
cated.” (The tremendous learning exhibited
by the hangman had a great effect on tho
reporter to whom he was talking, and hi:;
pencil stumbled confusedly.) “Tho odontoid
process ruptures tho transverse ligament of
tho atlas, tho first bone of tho neck, which
sustains tho glebe of tho neck and compresses
tho spinal cord against tho posterior arch of
tho vertebrae. Tho cord is hero just expand
ing into tho medulla oblongata, wherein is
situated tho ganglion that presides over res
piration.” iliero tho reporter collapsed com
pletely.)
"Itscompression stops respiration atone©
by stopping cli de
sire for it, and
death in such a
cose would be im
mediate and prob
ably painless.”
“But,” inter
jected the reporter
when ho had in a
measure recovered,
“does d e a t h fre
quently take place
from suffocation?”
“Y os ; ns fre
quently the second
vertebra u only
partial iy dislo
cated. Death then
takes placa from
slow and painful
Jsuffocation, tho vic-
jtim getting just nir
Hough through tho
'Rif closed wind-
>po to prolong liis
« . - - wuw mu vu iubo iur Lily
country. Tho provost marshal gave the
command, “Swing tho rebel off," the ladder
was turned, and Nathan Hole was no more.
reason J. Lossing, fa «. ‘ ^rk, “The T
Spies,” thus describes the execution of John
Andre-. “At noon on tho 2d day of Octobef,
1780, Maj. Andre was executed upon an
eminence near Tappuam village, in the pres
ence of a vast concourse of people. He was
dressed in military costume and white top
boots. He was taken to the gallows—a cross
piece between two modcrate'sized trees—by a
procession of nearly all the field officers, ex
cept Washington and his staff, who remained
at headquarter*. Gen. Greene led the caval
cade which passed between two files of sol
diers, extending from tbe prison to the fatal
spot. The prisoner's step was firm, and be
did not falter until he saw tho gallows and
knew he was to be hanged as a felon and not
shot as a soldier. His hesitation was only for
a moment.
“A baggage wagon, bearing a plain white
coffin, had been driven under the gallows. A
grave had been dug near by. Into the wagon
the prisoner stepped, and, taking -the rope
from tho hangman, adjusted it to his neck
and tied a white handkerchief over his eyes.
* * * The wagou was driven swiftly from
under him, and hi a few minutes he ceased to
exist.”
Daniel P. Rinkloy, the tall, dark hangman
of Kansas City, Mo., adopted the profession
from pore love of it. According to Tbe Kan
sas City Times, the
thought of broken
ropes, slow stran
gulation or r u p
tured skin wasf rem
early childhood re
volting to his ar
tistic soul. There
fore ho has made a
study of neckwear,
and after some six
teen years of ex
perience claims to
I,, | . jjijij hp able to tie a
* hempen cravat as
skillfully as any
gallows habar-
L 8 * dasher in all the
country. Binkley has witnessed fifty-six
bangings and bas himself executed fourteen
criminals.
- , . , . , “Peoplo generally suppose I am cold
Las obtained a wide blooded,” he said, “but it is a mistaken idea,
celebrity from its j a warmer hearted man than I am does not
early pcrlection five, but 1 consider it an act of charity to put
and tho number j „j en w ho must bo hanged out of the way
who mot their doom , neatly and with dispatch. Personally 1 am
upon it. It is do- j opposed to capital punishment. I do not
scribed in tho pro- think it adequate to the crime.”
Hero tho visitor attempted a correction of
Mr. Binkley's quotation from the “Mikado,
but was interrupted with: “But if it must be
done it should bo done artistically. When
go to bang a man 1 study his physique and
past life. If he is a stout, athletic man with
a strong nock I drop him seven or eight feet,
front of tho (.risen ,j if ho has led a sedentary life, is thin skinned
on a large, movable \ jmd small of neck I ninkp the drop shorter.
Now, there was Pat Harnett, who was
hanged in tho penitentiary at Columbus, O.
My, what a botch that was”—and Mi*. Bink
ley's artistic nature seamed to riso up in
horror at tho remembrance—“Pat was a
white skiuned effeminate sort of follow, but
ip spite of ray pleadings tho sheriff let
liim drop nine feet. The consequence was
that his neck snapped like whipcord. The
skin parted near the base of tho neck and na
turally contracted, leaving tho flesh exposed
well down on the shoulders. The rope
tightening gathered tho skin of the neck to
gether iike a tightly bound sack of grain.
Tho headless trunk jumped and danced about
exactly like a chicken with its head chopped
off. I uyo a hemp rope altogether. ! bavo a
silk rope, but do not uso it. 1 only use three
‘wraps’ in my knot. Most men use live, but
I consider so many unnecessary and then
they raaho n eurabej-somo looking bundle un
der a man’s car. With a good hempen rope
and n»y three twists I will guarantee to break
a man’s nock every time."
“What do you think of tho guillotine, or
tho Now York plan of electricity ('
“Of tho guillotines 1 know nothing, except
from hearsay, and I have beao iu tho old
country and whilo there kept a lookout for
them too, but I bavo made a study of the
electric battery plan, and 1 don’t like it. If
tho machine is not placed exactly iu tho right
position on the back of tho neck death will
bo slow and very painful, if in fact it ensues
at all A U experiments so far bavo been fail
ures. They bavo tried it on dogs and goats
and have slammed them around a room and
against the ceilings without accomplishing
tho desired result. No, sir; if we must have
capital punishment 1 believe tho plain, old
fashioned hanging is tho best method. But,
as I said before, I am opposed to it. Take
Michigan fer instance, whore they do rot re
sort to capital punishment In that state
the number of cases where the extreme pea
alty of tho law—imprisonment for life—is in
flicted is smaller per capita than iu any other
state that 1 know of. And that state has m
rough an element iu its lumber regions m
any in tho Union."
Binkley says that the men who show the
most nerve are those' who are expected to
display tho least.
“Tho worst caso of weakening I ever saw
was in an old man named Wagner, hanged
in tho Coliunbns penitentiary a few weeks
before Harnett was executed. He had been
the bully of four counties, and had murdered
his brother-in-law in cold blood. When the
deputies attempted to tako him from his cell
on the day of his execution he fell flat upon
the floor and begged and prayed and screamed
and cursed. On tho scaffold wo had to bold
him up while adjusting the rope. On the
other hand, Harnett, of whom no
great thing was expected, showed great
nerve and all tbe time wo were try
ing to get Wagner from his cell
kept urging him to brace up, bo a man and
show some of tho grit ho had been boasting
if. Those cases where men show the white
leather aro the worst wo have, but they don’t
iother me much. I have pretty strong
nerves myself, and have never seen a com
bination of circumstances that could shako
them. Hanging a'man iscertaiuly no great
trial to them. I would rather sco a mau
hanged thou to see you run over by a cable
car. But I have seen sheriffs faint on the
gallows, and have had to take the death war
rant from them and finish reading it.”
Daniel F. Binkley is a peculiar fellow, and
the profession ho practices when opportunity
affords is one few men would care to follow.
But he fills a place in tho great body of
humanity, and is not half a bad fellow.
That bo has wonderful nerve ono glance in to
his eyes will suffice to prove. They are in
deed a splendid pah- of eyes, clear, stern and
piercing enough to cow the fiercest brute, h4
says. During tho three years ho has spent it
Kansas City, a portion of which timo he wj
a police officer, he has not officiated at a
hanging l>ce, although he assisted in tho exe
cution of Edward Sneed, at Independence,
Mo., ia June, 1887. He is a native of Ohio.
FOOD FOR FICTION.
Prince Rudolph was just entering on the
prime of manhood, having been bora in 1858,
his father being the present emperor of Aus
tria, and his mother the Empress Elizabeth,
who has found so many admirers for her
dashing feats of. horsemanship. The prince
was the second child; a girl having been born j
before him. He received his education from
the first scholars in Europe, not only being
instructed in ordinary branches, but study
ing the art of war under Maj. Gen. Rhein-
landcr. He showed great proflciuqcy as a
linguist, aud is said to have mastered nearly
all the seventeen distinct languages of Aus
tro-Hungary, thus being enabled to con
verse with representatives from tho prov-
inces in the tongue of each.
His natural bent was most decided iu zool
ogy and ornithology, in which branches he
became distinguished. To this was allied a
tasto for hunting, the two falling naturally
together.
Realistic Tales Taken from Dally Life and
Jolted Down-Hastily.
The failure of the Pacific Guano com
pany has created a sensation. . (1 ]
Senator Bill Chandler s term has al
most expired.
A wi d man is creating te ror in the
mountainous regions of Georgia.
W. S. Bradley, of Chicago, shot and
ki led his wife and then committed sui
cide.
. Mr. Blaine has leased the Seward man
sion in \\ ashington fur a period of ten
years.
Mad dogs are spreading terror through
West Virginia. Many larmers are in
fected with rabies.
Ex-Senator Windom is quoted as say
ing that no Oder of a cabinet position
has been made him.
Y'ice President-elect Mort n has leas, d
a furnished dwelling in Washington for
use during Inauguration week.
A son-in-law of the late Gov. Williams,
of Indiana, his been sued for $12,010
damages for an a.leged criminal assault
on a woman named Mullen.
Coming Secretary of State James G.
Blaine Las stated his desire to annex
Cuba. It is immaterial whether the
executive elect is of the same mind or
not. Cuoa wiil be' annexed. •
A delegation of Ohio state senators,
headed by Major Rathbone, called on 1
Gen. Harris, n yesterday, it is said that
their mission was to uige ex-Gov. Foster
for the treasury department.
Pub! c Printer Benedict has been sued
for $10,000 damages by a discharged sol-
d er, who claims that Benedict falsely
stated before a house committee that
plaintiff was discharged for loaning
money to his associates at an un awful
and exorbitant rate if interest.
While counting the vote for governor
in the West.Virginia legislature Friday,
the rc-publ.can m mbers withdrew from
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HOT BREAD MADE |WH0LES0ME.
The marriage between the prince and the _
Princess Stephanie, which caused so great a ! the ..omt t ession. The point of order was
sensation and which was celebrated with such ! made that no quorum was present, but
splendor, took place on May 10, 1881. It is speaker ruled that inasmuch as a
said that Rudolph hail met and fallen in love I l ,j* “ e l m ! ,e / 3 wa * in “ nd
with tho Infanta of Spain, aud that a be-i ab ° Ut the hal1 and bui dmg: there was a
trothal had been arranged. Tho princess
died, and the priuco for a time was inconsol
able. Being an only son, it was desirable
that ho should choose a wife, so that by hav-
<•noi i.ni present, and ordered the canvass |
to proceed.
It is stated at St. Fetcrsbirg tlntj
Count Tolstoi bus tendered hi; rcsigna
ticn as m nister of the in erior, and that I
ing a male child of his own the succession it ha; been accepted by the czar,
might remain unbroken at his death. Then j A young man 'named Goldin was ar- j
a marriage was arranged with the Princess rested in Bant well county, S. C., as Ed.
Stephanie, who was but 17 years old. i Goodloe, cha' ged with murder in I exas.
There is a story about the bride which is so ' Golden has been in. Barnwell county ]
flavored with romanco as to furnish food for °' 61 a • ear ’ and m toried there.
The Royal Baking Powder possesses a peculiar merit
tliat is not possessed by any other leavening agent. Bread,
biscuit, cake, muffins, or rolls, made with it may be eaten
when hot without inconvenience by persons of the most
delicate digestive organs. With most persons it is neces
sary that bread raised with yeast should lose its freshness
d>r become stale before it can be eaten with safety. Dis~
tressing results also follow from eating biscuit, cake, pastry,
etc., raised by the cheap, inferior baking powders that con
tain lime, alum, phosphates, or other adulterants. The
hot roll and muffin, and the delicious hot griddle cakes,
raised by Royal Baking Powder, are as wholesome and
digestible as warm soup, meat or any other food.
Another greatly superior quality possessed by tha
Royal Baling Powder is that by which the preservation
of important elements of the flour is effected in raising the
’!jFead by the mechanical operation of the gas, without fer
mentation. Yeast, and all baking powders that produce
the leavening gas by fermentation destroy a portion of those
nutritive elements of the flour which are the most healthful
and the greatest aids to a perfect assimilation of the food.
The Royal Baking Powder, while perfectly leavening, re
tains without change or impairment all. those elements
which were intended by nature, when combined in our
bread, to make it literally the staff of life.
No leavening agent or baking powder, except the Royal
Baking Powder, possesses these great qualifications.
novelists for many
a day to eoaio. It
has been sui.l that
on a visit to Paris,
incognito, with her
father. Stephanie
met a young Amer
ican, who fell des
perately iu lovo
with her; that be
followed her to Bel
gium, and, on dis-
wherever she ap-
iljpoared, showing
t himself before her
in the crowd on her
wedding journey,
prince Rudolph. and in tho chapel
attbo marriage ceremony. The story ends
The j resident ye ter day nominated
■Ci rroli D. Wright, of Mas. ac.iUKe.ts, to
be commissioner of labor, and Ti omas
M. Va ce, of No.th Carolina, to i.e re
ceiver of public moneys at North Yaki
ma, Washington territory.
Tho Paris 1 igaro publishes two short
letters, one from Crown Prince Rudilph
to the duke of Braganxa, and the other
from Baroness Yetsena to her mother,
in wh'ch the writers announce their in
tention to die. The mother of the ba
roness, who is now iu l aris, denies th .t
she was a a are of h r daughter's liason . ,.
covering who she wi h Rudolph. It is stated that the prior HlvG C|llcllltY-
Iwas, shadowed her of the Capuchins, at Vienna, o'nly coa-
sented to receive RudoL h's boJy 'on re
ceiving the pope's autli rity.
The computations made by treasury
experts upon the probable effect of the
senate amendments to the tariff bill
rescind the committee in ways and
means Friday, and were immedi
ately sent to ti.e printer. A democratic
n'timber of the committee says the table
Guano for 1889.
Dobbs’ Ammoniated Cotton Fertilizer, and
Dobbs’ Chemicals for Composting
The above well known brands of Fertilizers are
now ready for the trade. I shall sell my fertilizers as
low as any dealer can or will sell a Standard goods of
it
to be of
know them
W. O. 33olblb!S.
with tho princess catching sight of the Amer
ican, and interrupting tho nuptials by a Hood siiows that one half cf the rtduct on ol
It LeadsI Others Follow
of teara —r
Tho crown prince met Stephanie in Brus
sels, where the betrothal was arranged, and
ho is said to have fallen in lovo wit h her. The
princess went to Vienna for tha marriage.
Her father and mother and sister and a num
ber of Belgian dignitaries accompanied bar.
Rudolph met the party at Salzburg, aud es
corted them to tho capital, into which they
drove through immense crowds of spectators
in great pomp and splendor. Tho next day
twent.-nve inill on dollars effected by I
changes in the sugar schedule, is wired
out b. changes in ot! er tariff schedules,
which, in themselves, wo id result in a
considerable’increase in revenue. T. is
would leave the net reduction of revenue
about twelve .or thirteen millions, leav
ing the internal revenue sections out of |
the calculation.
THE LIGHT-RUNNIHG
DOMESTIC.’
Played with a Pistol.
Easton, Md., Feb. 9.—Eva B. Bur-
C 10PYING it In form and style as nearly as
j possible, hereby tacitly acknowledging it the
standard of excellence in sewing machines, n o
matter what dealers may say of their machines;
j seethe “DOMESTIC” before purchasing; ex
amine its simple, yet splendid mechanism, ob
serve its wonderfully simple set of attachments
and notice the wide range of work, from the
simples and most practical kind executed, to
Agents wahted In unoccupied territory,
the wedding took placo in tho coiu't chapel of roU gh 8 , aged fourteen, daughter of Mrs. | tiie finest embroidery^ as no other machine'cau
St Auptto. At to boll which follow^ g R Burrnl , 1Si of , hi8 ]aM> , vas ... U It '
when to minuet was ilancod, to orchestra c rdemaily killed ut the re. idence of Mrs.
played a pieco of music especially composed ^ K. L'a-v oa. where there were sever,, lj ,. .,
for tho occasion. It was named for iko bride, children playing with pistols supposed ress *
being called the “Stephanie Gavotte,” and at to be unloaded. Eva had snapped it n nm9 q*ip Rau/inff ManhitlP finmnsiW
once became very popular, not only in Eu- several times, when El as Dawson took | UOHlSSlIB OSWlng maOniflS U0fflp2n|,
' and snapped it. One chamber was dis
ci;a ged, the ball staking Eva in the |
right eye and killing her inttantly.
rope, but America.
bixkley’s knot.
stmgglus, or from apoplexy following tho
Budfieu cerebral congestion, which is caused
both by tho suffocation and by tho pressure
Df tlio rojx> upon the great veins of the neck."
It is fairly settled that sensation, reflection
md^ mental horror accompany tho physical
Icoutortioas of those perishing by stranguia-
ftioiL
Examples nro frequent of those who com
fit suicide by hanging attempting to regain
their footing, finding the tortures of strangu-
ution greater than they have conceived.
A criminal who was hanged, but resusci-
[tated by the application of electricity and the
skill of a surgeon, upon his final recovery has
eft his account of his experience: “The final
prayer was said, tho usual thanks tendered
md greeting given, the cord was adjusted on
Sny neck, 1 was placed upon the trap. I looked
for tho lost time upon familiar objects. Tho
~ 2 P was adjusted over my face. - 1 felt an in-
teased heat around my heart, a fullness of
2U throat, a slight weakness of tho muscles
I uiy limbs, then an involuntary shrinking
hf tho nerves and*a catching of tho breath as
I felt myself falling; then a fierce, fiery pain
£hot through my whole frame, my head
bursting and my consciousness was
There were two notable exccut ions of spies
auring.tJig American war cf independence—
Nathan Katonnd John Andre. The motives
1 the two spies and their personal history,
ad tho history of their times, are too well
uovvn to bo' detailed hero; hut tho manner
their execution will servo to throw light
A splendid marriago does not necessarily
bring a happy married li/a Tho prince,
following the example of so many royal
parsonages, was a rake, and his wife,
who is said to be a lovely and virtuous
woman, was of course scandalized by bis
escapadea The prince was also subject to
epileptic fits, which cast a gloom over him.
His time was passed in incongruous occupa
tions: in dissipation, in hunting, in amours
nwH in study. His wife, in order to escape
the degradation of a continuous life with
such a man, spent much of her time at her
former home with her family in Brussels. It
is said that about a year ago she fled from
her husband at Ischl and declared that she
would never rejoin him. Representatives
from the courts of Vienna and of Brussels
finally succeeded in patching the matter up;
but last fall there was another quarrel and the
princess announced that she intended to
apply tor a divorce.
It Is singular that so profligate a prince as
Rudolph should have been so profound a
scholar. It is true that royal personages
who write easily find admirers for their
works, but when a man masters a dozen
languages, there is good reason to suppose
Mm to bo a scholarly person. Rudolph
found pleasure in the society of eminent men
of science and of letters. He edited a peri
odical and literary history of the Austro-
Hungarian monarchy, which appears in in
stallments and is not yet completed. He
wrote also himself, or published under his
own name, “Fifteen Days on fhe Danube"
nnd “Travels in the East.” His tastes ran
largely to tbe natural sciences, but be was
most distinguished in ornithology.
Tho royal family of Austria branches in
this vriso: There are two brothers directly
interested in the crown—the present em
peror, Francis Joseph, and his younger
brother, Carl Ludwig. Rudolph was the
only son of the emperor, and bodies without
male issue. Therefore, unless he leaves a
posthumous male heir Carl Ludwig is heir
apparent. Ludwig has sons who will also be
in line of succession. His ollest son has re
signed bis right of succession, and his brother,
for a disgraceful proceeding during a drunken
brawl, was publicly disgraced by the em
peror.
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RICHMOND, VA.
DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
iSPBCIALLY REPORTED BY USA DOR A GRIFFIN.]
Atlanta, Ga., February 9.
Opening ent closing ai otutiona of cotton fu
tures iu New York to-flay.
Opening Closin'
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August 10.s3«fclt>.24
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October 9.03® 9.65.... 9.61® 9.63
November ® ®
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dlings^ 10>jt; receipts 20.966; exports 19,495;
L893,211.
Wheat.
February
March..
May
Corn. _
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February
March
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6.15
.6.15
Atlanta Has Hundreds of Negro Children
Dying on Her Hands.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 9.—The city war*
den’s report for Iasi m nth, which has
caused so much comment, and which
induced tie relief committee to make a
change in the expenditure of the relief
fund, makes some startling di^losures
in regard to the burial of pauper babies.
The report shows that during t e
month of January nearly fifty paupet
babies were buried' at the expense of the
city. This seems incredible, but it is a
fact.
A look over the register of deaths fi r
the month of January shows that there
were pennies issued for the interment of
forty eight children under one year ot
age, and of this number tlii.ty-eight
Ribs.
March 6.10
May 6.25 ...
Cotton Markets.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 8.—Cotton steady: middling
m-
Galveston, Feb. 8.—Colton firm: middling,
10: net receipts, 533 bales: gross. 532; sales,
1759: stock. *1,931; exports coastwise, ; to the
continet, ; to Great Britain,
Savannah, Feb. 8.—Cotton steady: middling l ..ram the o'^sorinff of inroove ished wo-
** *« -vs«»”; -»i E*TiStSf o‘ snStoSU*
colored. Of these, sixteen were still-
WORK N'CONGRESS.
»0; stock 8758; exports coastwise : to
Great Britain ; to France ; to the conti
nent -
New Orleans, Feb. 8.—Cotton very firm; ■mid
dling 911-16: net n c.-ipts 3027 boles: gross 3674;
soles 2000: stock 352,725; exports to Great Bn tain
48.681; coastwise ; to the continent ; to
France .
AuacayA. Feb 8.—Cotton firm: middling 9%;
net receipts 617 bales; shipments 1997; sales
none, stock 20,589.
Liverpool. Feb. 8.—Cotton firm: middling
uplands 5 middling Orleans.5}^; sa’es 10.GU0;
■population and- expoit 1000; receipts 110C0,
all American.
bo.n. an 1 in nearly every one of thet6
instances pauper burials were given.
Such ca-:es could noi be overlooked,
and. the warden could not do otherwise
than issue a certificate of burial when a
young babe lies dead in a house aud cir
cumstances show that the parents are
not a .’le to give the child a bur al. Es
pecially is this so in cases of stillbirth.
Of the eighty odd paupers buried Iasi
month, two-.hirtls were infants.
Senator Colquitt’s Bill for an Arsenal—-
Creek Jury Controversy.
Washington, Feb. 9.-r-In tha senate
the certificate of re-election of Mr. Ran
som, of North Carolina, was received.
A concurrent resolution of the Kansas
legislature was presented requesting
Kansas senators and representatives to
use their influence to secure a sugar
bountv, to take the place of any reduc
tion that may be made in the sugar dutv.
Senator Colquitt introduced an amend
ment to the sundries civil service bill
appropriating $10,000 for construction
of a brick hospital the United States
arsenal at Augusta, Ga.
Mr. Dawes reported favorably on the
bill ratifying and confirming the treaty
with the’Creek Indians in the Indian ter
ritory. The bill to establish United States
courts in tho Indian territory was
-taken up.
Mr. Jones, Oi Arkansas, s^oke in oppo
sition. to the bill. He did not think the
condition of civilization in the territory
has progressed enough to establish a jury
systc-m there.
Mr. Butler raLsed a point, that if the
Indian cannot bo made a cit izen, he cex*
tainly could not servo property as a ju
ryman.
Mr. Edmunds spoke in support of tha
bill.