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J THE VIENNA PROGRESS TERMS, $1. Per Annum. Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.’ JNO. B. HOWELL, I Lacy a. Morgan, f VOL. XI., NO 42. VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. m NOTES. Interest Gathered at Random loin All Orer the State. frgin is growing to be the grent- Fiiit stnte in the country. Won- [ul progress has been made in the liree or four years, and the pace t id. Houston county is the ce»- development. The Arden Case. I " ill be remembered that about lays ago Judge Speer ordered the Vi tatement of Engineer Dan Arden, iho Central road, who was diseharg- : for refusing to haul Sam cars when ere was a strike on that rond. Judge Ipeer’s order was directed to Receiver >mer. The news comes from Savan- lnnit that Engineer Arden is drawing • nay but not doing any work. The gannah it begins to look Arden is going to have doing nothing except orting at fthe machinery department ily, putting in regular hours with- it labor and drawing $4.50 per day. fiere seems, to be some rnisunderstand- who should reinstate Mr. |\rden to his engine. The master eclianie is awaiting orders from the 1 superintendent, who claims to know nothing about it. Receiver Comer will probably give definite instructions in the matter nt an early day, The jff the court has put Mr. Arden company’s payroll since April fad it is not probable that he bo kept drawing pay without brk. was last year. There is an increase of 3 per cent in the acreage of corn, and 0 per cent in wheat over last year. Fruit is doing well and the peach crop will be large. Farm stock is in better condition than at this time last year. The supply of stock hogs is larger than in 1892. The farmers have a full supply of corn and wheat and in some counties they have corn to sell. Plan ters have more provisions on hand than last year. They have more sup plies on hand than usual at this seas on. Labor is not scarce, and the far mers generally can secure all they need. Tlio Red wine Cusp. From all that can he learned from Ihstriet Attorney James it would seem ■hat Lewis It'd wine will not be put on Irial before the fall term of the United Mates court. The calendar for the [March term of court, beginning May JiOth, hnH been completed and there arc many criminal cases that need atten tion very badly, but the case of the United States against Lewis Redwine lloes not appear. Judge Newman and liis assistants will very probably go to polumbus during the month of June .disposal—of "Irasiness in that court will take a week more, and court will probably adjourn by the 1st of July, as this has been Judge Newman’s habit for several years. I In regard to the liquidation of the Gate City bank there is some very in teresting news. The $160,000 will be paid in a few days, and was borrowed in New York. As yet there are certain details in connection with the sale of tlie property to be gone through with, but there is not the least chance of the sale dropping through or being called oil', unless there should be some very serious flaw in the titles. The titles .are now being, examined by Captain t JipAsori, who is acting ns the for the jmrehasers of the building. As soon as tlie money purchase of the bank is paid in UlM' bank force, with the exception [of tMe defaulting cashier, will return rto tfieir posts and the doors of the | baiyk will be thrown open to the de positors for the first time since the 21st of February, over ten weeks hav ing elapsed since the bank was thrown under by Redwine’s defalcation. President Waddell Talk* of the Fair. President Waddell, of the Georgia State Agricultural society, speaks en thusiastically about the state fair to be held in Augusta next fall, and says the indications are that it will he great success in every way. The liibition is styled “the Georgia State fair at the Augusta exposition. ” Thus the identity of both concerns is pre served. When the name of the exhi- tion was recently under discussion the management did not exactly know what to call it. The officers of the agricultural society did not wish for it to lose its identity, and the exposition company wished its identity retained. Various suggestions were made. It was suggested that the exposition he called “the Georgia state fair and Au gu6ta exposition,” but this and other suggestions were rejected. Finally President Pat Walsh, of the exposi "lion company, suggested that it bo called “the Georgia State fair at the Augusta exposition.” President Wad dell, of the agricultural society, ac cepted this suggestion, and such will be the technical name of the exhibi tion. President Waddell stated that the premium list would soon be issued. There will be some changes from the list of last year. He states that the contest between counties for tlie^best display will lie spirited and highly in teresting. Bartow, Sumter and Tal hot counties have already given notice that they will enter for the best dis play. Numerous other counties are expected to enter. The first prize at the state fair last year for the best county display was $1,000. Last year $100 was given to each county exhibit ing which did not win one of the reg ular premiums. This year, so Presi dent Waddell says, $150 will be given to each county which does not obtain a prize. cussing this question with an old friend of mine I suggested that it was possi ble, by a proper policy, to increase the value of much land iu our state to $50 per acre. Tlie old gentleman straight ened himself and exclaimed most ear nestly that if his land was ever worth $50 per acre, it would ruin him to pay the tax. He owned about one thou sand acres, valued at $2 per acre. I trust that some of the land companies of the state and those interested in the fruit growing sections, will furnish the information asked for,as there is noth ing in this department to supply the inquirers. ” Governor Northen favored the pub lication of a pamphlet, and the subject was discussed some last fall, but noth ing was done by the legislature. An elaborate book is not needed, but something concise would give the in formation desired and bring to the state in a year a hundred times as much capital as the publication would cost. THROUGHOUT THE SOOTH. A Committee of Iteceiulon. A committee of well-known citizens ’ins been appointed to meet the body f Mr. Davis, in addition to the other rganizations, when it arrives iu At- inta on the 29th of the month.. The fluty of the committee will be to meet jhe casket and also, in the name of the pity, to extend its care and hospitality Jo the members of the family who will ci-ompany the body to Richmond. It s likely that the whole family will ac- •ompany the body, and the citizens of Atlanta will have the pleasure of see- S ng Mrs. Davis and also Miss Winnie finis, the daughter of the confed eracy. Every military company in I he state, all of the county, state and I city officials, and all associations of j ueterans have been invited to partici pate in the solemn pageant that will •ompany the body to the capitol, iere it will remain in state for sev- al hours. The following report of he committee in charge of the arrangements lias been submitted : OoKFEDEBATE VETERANS 1 ASSOCIATION.—The miuiltea of arrangements of the Fulton Confederate Veterans’ Association for the roeep'ion of (ho hodj- of Pre-ident Davis, pee!fully invites the governor, the judges of supreme, superior, county and city courts, mayor and gcutral council, other state, county and city oftieia's, the military iu and out of the city. Lod es’ Memorial Association, all confederate vetoranV associations, sms of onfederatc veterans and confederate veterans, all other organizations and citizens -generally, to join in the procession on the afternoon of 'to-SD It invent. ---- t 0 participate will School .Statistics. The private schools are disappearing from the state and the public schools are reaching the masses, says Captain S. D. Bradwell, state school commis sioner, He is getting returns every day from the census takers over Geor gia and the statistics are interesting and valuable. This school census em braces not only the number of children of school age in the state, but it is complete roster of them, giving their names and ages and the time they have spent at school in the past three years and the character of the school they have attended. “We have very few children now above the age of ten who cannot read and write” said Captain Bradwell. “Georgia has made wonderful progress from illiteracy iu the last twenty years and the greatest advances have been made within the last decade. Blacks as well as whites have derived general benefit from the public school system. In former days when the private school system was iu vogue, a large proportion of the children, whites and blacks, did not get any schooling. Now every child in the state gets some schooling some time within a period of three years. All the children do not get to school every year, but they have a chance some time during a period of three years. The supplanting of the private schools by the public school means a great deal to the children and the cause of education. It is gratify ing to see the public system extend to the masses as it is doing.” The census statistics show the num ber of deaf and dumb children, the number of blind and idiotic in each county and is very thorough. The census is taken through the county boards of education. Each enumera tor is entitled to $2 a day while actual ly engaged in taking the census. The next apportionment of the school fund will he made on this census. Why Pork is IliRh. Housekeepers have noticed that their grocery bills have been larger the last month or two than formerly. The increase has been on pork and lard. The common explanation given by grocers when an article goes up is that the crop is short. For instance the sugar crop is always short about the canning season. Housewives have observed that each summer. The hog crop really is short this year and the prospect of lower prices is not bright. One thing will bring the price of hog products down and that is for the south to go to raising its own hogs. Statistics show that the west is not raising any more pork now than for years past. But nil the time the num ber of pig eaters is increasing. There are 11,000,000 more pig eaters in this country than there were eight years hack. Prices are just one-fourth high er too than they were then. For many years the crop of hogs has kept pace with the corn crop. There has been a relation between the two crops. This varied some but it was not large and generally speaking there has been a certain number of hogs to a hundred acres of corn year after year. The corn area in the west is standing still. Away up in the northwest the farmers are wheat grow ers and they do not raise hogs for the packers. In the big bog states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kan sas and Nebraska, only three-quarters of a million more hogs were raised this year than in 1885, and the corn area is three-quarters of a million acres more than in 1885. This is a small differ ence and doesn’t figure considerably. So neither the corn crop nor the hog product is going to increase in these states. Both will be apt to stand about where they are. Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska are the only western states where any material increase in the swine supply seems probable, with the exception of the southern states, where the hog will flourish if attention is given to him or if he gets half showing. The rapid increase of the urban population necessitates the in creased production of dairy and market vegetable products, and the pork crop is shortened. It is suggested seriously that if the outhern states, and especially Geor gia, would take to growing hogs, for packing purposes, good money would he made out of it. Here are the year ly average export prices of pork run ning back over a period of twenty- three years: 1870, 15.4 cents; 1875, 12.1 cents; 1880, 6.9 cents; 1885, 8.6 cents; 1890, 7.4, and 1893, 10.3 cents. So it appears that the price has in creased considerably in the last thir teen years. This increase has been steady, and it is a guarantee that hog growing will be profitable. Georgia could well raise a • couple of million hogs a year for packing. That would require two and a half million acres more to be planted in corn than the farmers grow now. In the west corn pays better fed to the hogs than sold by the bushel. Georgia’s razorback is not the packer’s ideal, but the breed could be quickly changed. With the increase in the number of hog eaters, the market price of the hog must ad vance unless more people go to rais ing pork. The corn area cannot be enlarged in the west to any extent, lienee the south’s opportunity for a profitable industry is all the better.— Atlanta Constitution. Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized similar outrages in other counties which he has referred to the district attorney with the urgent recommend ation that all possible steps be taken to bring the culprits to justice. And Important Happenings from Ray Mo Day Tersely Told. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Fire at Savannah, Ga., Tuesday morning destroyed the boathouse of Major Wilkins, of Waynesboro, on Hutchinson’s island, opposite the city, together with his fine naptha launch worth $3,000. Total loss about $5,000. t The grand lodge of Odd Fellows, of North Carolina, convened in annual session in Raleigh, Tuesday. The or- I der has gained largely during the year | just ended. It has 102 subordinate lodges and 4,200 members, a gain of over 500. Happenings from Day to Day in tlie National Capital CARLYLE HARRIS EXECUTED. Case Appointments in the Various Depart ments—Other Notes of Interest. A Raleigh, N. C., special of Tuesday says: A great deal of rain has fallen the past week all over North Carolina. The larger streams are very high. The Roanoke has broken the great levees built by convicts at the state farms and $15,000 of damage is already done. Eight hundred feet of levee is swept away. A handsome granite monument erected to the memory of the late James Barren Hope, known as the poet laureate of Virginia, was unveiled at Norfolk, Ya., Thursday. The confed erate camps of that section and the typographical union attended in a body. The monument was erected by friends of the dead editor and poet. The members of the National Repub lican Leagne met in Louisville. Ky., Tuesday, in annual convention. Be tween 2,500 and 3,000 republican vis itors from all over the union were present. The citizens, democratic and republicans alike, threw open their doors to bid them welcome, and the freedom of the city was tendered them. The executive committee of the peo ple’s party met at Nashville, Tenn., Thursday and discussed the situation. They decided that The Toiler should be owned by the alliance and that the financial question should be made the one great issue of 1894. A general discussion followed, in which opinions were exchanged and the prospects of the party talked of. A Columbia dispatch of Thursday says: The railroad board of equali zation for South Carolina have made assessments for the year. No material change was made, although in some instances there were slight reductions. The railroads were notified to appear in June and enter any protests they might wish to make. It is not known whether they will do anything but simply trust to the decision of the courts. All or^an zTtibns deairin port at once to General C. A. Evans, ct m- mauiler and marshal af the day, who will ar range for the formation. XV. L. Calhoun, Chairman. General C. A. Evans, the president of the Fulton County Confederate Veterans’ Association, will he in charge of the parade, and the column as it marches to the capitol will be one of the most imposing ever seen in the city. Quite a number of citizens wili accompany the remains to Richmond for tlie purpose cf witnessing the last sad rites in the career of the hero of the lost cause. deorfiia’s Cotton Acreage. The first crop report of the year to iuclude an accurate estimate of the cotton acreage is now being compiled in the office of the commissioner of ag- \ ficulture, Colonel Nesbit. This re- Oort is made up from the information ;ent. in by 800 correspondents scatter 'd all over Georgia. This year’s cot on acreage compared with au average •ear ik 97 1-2. This is an increase of p 1-2 Jer cent over last year. In some Af tkeffcading cotton growing conn Tf "special inquiries were sent out and complete information was solici ted on many, points. The condition of tlie crop in south Georgia is fair, hut in middle and north Georgia the condition is not so good. The crop is (- -.tie later this year than last in ' -n sections. f mmercial fertilizers were used naira extensively this spring thar. last hilt quantities of phosphate took the ply, of cotton seed, which was sold off close during the winter. There is He’ enough cotton seed Itfit in some parts of. the state to replant with. The er-uge. Of oafs is just about what it Our Fruit and Mineral Lands. Georgia’s fruit and mineral lands are attracting attention from one side of the country to tlie other. Inquiries are coming every day ic.r information concerning them. Most of these in quiries come to the secretary of state, A few days ago he General Phil Cook, secretary of state, received a letter from Ohio, and another from Idaho, asking for informntion. D. O. Web ster, a lawyer of Mt. Vernon, O., wrote that a number of young men of his city contemplate locating in the south and he asked for nny reports which the state may have on the fruit industry in Georgia. He said his friends wanted to get an idea of the field before they came to make a personal investigation. The other letter was dated at Camp Lost River. Idaho. This correspond ent wrote that he is a prospector, and he wanted to know if there are moun tain mineral lands in this state belong ing to the state. He wished to know about the terms and conditions given to prospectors by the state for acquir ing title. “Similar letters are constantly re ceived at my office,” said General Cook, “and I am sorry to say there not a single paper published by the state for distribution giving any his tory of its geologic formation, or of its products of any kind. The state’s "mines and mineral resources, its tim ber, its water power, its products and more recently, its fruit culture, its ehureljes, schools and Tailway facilities EIGHT-HOUR CELEBRATIONS. Lon- Great Annual Demonstration in don by the Workingmen. The annual eight-hour demonstra tion of London workingmen was made Sunday in Hyde park. The weathei was fine and all the proceedings were conducted with exceptional enthu siasm. All the principal unions had appointed delegates to take part in the procession. These delegates met or the Thames embankment, were formed line and marched through cheering crowds of laborers to the park, where they were di vided among the audiences at the numerous speakers’ platforms. The entire open space in the park was filled with men and women. At twenty- one plat "or is resolutions were passed in favor of a legal eight-hour day for every trade which voted for it. At every meeting collections were taken for the Hull strikers. The most nota ble speech of the day was made by John Burns. The eight-hour move- men nt, he said, was making rapid progress. The success of the eight- hour bill for miners was an evidence of progress as well as an evidence of further success. The calendar of the United States district court at Atlanta for the March term beginning May the 29th, has been made up. The Redwine case does not appear on it—the reason given at the United States attorney’s office being that the case will not be ready for trial at that time. It begins to look now as if this famous case will have to go over until the fall term, unless it shall be taken up as a special assignment some time in the month of June. The colored teachers of Georgia and others interested in the education of the negro children of the state will meet in convention at Atlanta on the 20th of June. The educational con vention will last three days, and be largely attended. A number of lead ing negroes from other states have been invited to be present. The colored press convention will also meet at that time. They will be joined by repre sentatives of negro papers from other states. The stockholders of the Georgia railroad met in annunl session at Au gusta Wednesday. The fifty-eighth annual report was presented, showing resources, liabilities, expenditures and income of the road. The report was accompanied by a full statement of the business and expenses for the past business year. The capital stock is $4,200,000 and surplus $1,387,264.98. The annual rental is $600,000, The net earnings of the road for the past nine monts were $280,367.68. A Jackson, Miss., news special says: Sheriff McNair arrived at 5 o’clock p. m. Tuesday bringing the six white- cops who were sentenced to the peni tentiary for two years. They were at once placed in the penitentiary, donned the stripes and will be put to work at once. About forty indictments have been found against the parties who at tempted to release the white caps and bull-dozers. Quiet prevails at Brook- haven, and the sheriff does not think there will be any further resistance to the law. In the United States court at Charles ton, S. C., Tuesday, argument was re sumed in the Augusta and Knoxville railroad case for the appointment of a receiver. This case is merely a contin uation of the proceedings instituted in Georgia and South Carolina recently which resulted in the making of J. H. Averill receiver of the port Boyal and Augusta railroad. It is generally be lieved that the present suit will result in transfering the receivership of the Augusta and Knoxville railroad from Mr. Comer to Colonel Averill. IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS Begun the Do Bose Case by the Tennessee Senate. The Tennessee state senate, sitting a court impeachment with Chief are all inquired after by intelligent I Justice Benjamin J. Lea presiding, people from the west who wish to move I met at Nashville Tuesday morning to south. A "cheap handbook published try Judge Julius Dubose, of the Shelby by the authority of the state for dis- I county criminal court upon the thirtv- tribution among such inquirers would | six charges preferred by the house do more to diffuse' a proper knowledge representatives. The greater part of of the resources of the state among I the day’s two sessions was consumed the people of distant states and bring J in reading the charges and the defend- A Columbia, S. C., special of Tues day says: "When Governor Tillman read Solicitor Jervey’s latest letter concerning the prosecution of the Denmark lynchers he said that the constitutionality o"f instruction to Mr. Jervey was unnecessary of discussion, but that if Mr. Jervey persisted in his declination to obeying his instructions he might find himself a subject for impeachment. The governor said he had ample law to uphold him, and cited the order of Governor Jeter directing Solicitor Cothron to prose cute the Clisbv-Blnnd “ise •■>« Solici tor Bonhom it as a relative of the de ceased. more immigrants into it than all the agents that have ever been or will be appointed by the state. Is it not strange that the legislature com posed entirely ~ of land owners should persistently refuse to make any appropriation for the publica tion of Buch information? In dis- ant’s reply thereto. General Chalm ers, of counsel for the defense, said he expected to prove, that not only lias not a single impeachable article been pre sented, but that as a question of law the house has exceeded its authority- in presenting the impeachment at all. The trial will probably last several weeks. A Jackson, Miss., special of Monday says: The United States grand jury is now after the white caps among whose crimes is that of driving settlers, in all cases negroes, off their home stead entries. It is said that sufficient evidence has been obtained in several eases to identify the guilty parties. Some of the homesteaders driven off ABOUT THE DEPARTMENTS. The secretary of the navy has ap pointed Medical Inspector J. Rufus Tryon surgeon general of the navy to si'cceed General John Mills Brown, who retires. Judge Lochran, the newly appointed ci mmissioner of pensions, took formal charge of his office Tuesday. The two thousand clerks of the bureau formed in line and each in turn was presented to the new commissioner. The following Georgia postmasters were appointed Tuesday: Beach,Ware county,W. C. Swain ; Sylvania, Screven county, J. M. Bazmore"; Lyle, Wayne county, R. J. Madray; Recovery, De catur county, J. H. Emanuel; Vienna, Dooly county, W. J. Harvard. Ihe gold reserve, which has for the past two weeks been below the limit, was made intact by the west. Secre tary Carlisle accepted the gold offered from St. Louis, $2,000,000, which, with the gold in the treasury, makes the total $100,196,000, or $196,000 free gold. As a result of the discussion in the cabinet Tuesday of the serious condi tion of affairs existing in Nicaragua, arising out of their revolution, the United States war steamship, Atlanta, Captain Higgins, has been ordered to proceed immediately to Grevtown on the East coast of Nicaragua to protect American interests in that country, es pecially in connection with the work on the canal. The following Georgia postmasters were appointed Thursday: Butler, Taylor county, Sarah L. Neisler, vice Mary E. Wallace, removed; Conyers, Rockdale county, G. W. Weaver, vice J. T. Adair, removed; Oglethorpe, Macon county, Nettie Gilmore, vice Sallie Oliver, removed; Seville, Wil cox county, G. W. Brown, vice J. W. Stevens, resigned; Wellston, Houston county, G. W. Watson, vice H. S. Teagin, removed. The president announced the follow ing appointments Monday: H. W. Smith, of Utah, associate justice of the supreme conrt of the territory of Utah; Everett E. Ellinwood, of Arizona, at torney of the United States for the territory of Arizona. Marshals of the United States—John S. McNeilly, of Mississippi, for the southern district of Mississippi; Nat M. Brigham, of Utah, for the territory of Utah; Wil liam K. Meade,of Arizona, for the ter ritory of Arizona. On Wednesday the president ap pointed Frank H. Jones, of Springfield, 111., first assistant postmaster general, vice H. Clay Evans resigned; Stephen P. Condon, of Tennessee, to be mar shal of the United States for the east ern district of Tennessee; Edward C. Russell, of Oregon, to be appraiser of merchandise, district of Willidmette in the states of Oregon and Washing ton ; Erastus D. Fenner, of Louisana, to he special examiner of drugs, medi cines and chemicals in the district of New Orleans; Edwin Myers Gilkson, of West Virginia, to be collector of internal revenue for the district of West Virginia. The announcement has been made at the state department that Mr. Blount will act as minister to Hawaii. This, however, does not mean that Mr. Blount is to hold the office throughout the term of the present administra tion. He would probably not accejit it under those considerations, but he will remain there until the present complications have been settled. It was decided at the cabinet meeting Wednesday that it would be best to make Mr. Blount minister in order that he could better handle the ques tions with which he must deal in Ha waii. He will, therefore, be required to accept the place just vacated by Minister Stevens until the complica tions have been smoothed out. Secretary Herbert has authorized the statement that he will decline to extend the leaves of absence of any officer of the navy who is engaged in private business. He will not inter fere with the orders of his predeces sors, but will grant no new leaves of this kind, and will call in all those al ready granted at the expiration of the terms assigned them. - The secretary says that he does not think it right that an officer educated by the govern ment should be permitted for his own private advantage to utilize his knowl edge and experience against the gov ernment, and at the same time to re main on its pay roll. This decision refers to officers on leave who are em ployed by private firms, those on lect uring tours and those employed in private capacities at the world’s fair. End of a Most Unnsual Murder at New York. Carlyle W. Harris was executed by- electricity in the death house of the prison at Sing Sing, N. A"., at 12.40 o’clock Monday afternoon. The exe cution was a i>erfeet success. The death warrant was formally read to Harris at 8.30. He displayed indifference and its rending did not noticeably affect him. He showed no signs of breaking down and appeared cheerful after the reading of ihe death warrant. At 11 o’clock the witness assembled in the warden’s office. There were twenty-seven—seven phy sicians and twenty newspaper men, state officials and friends of the warden. Warden Durstin, at 12.16, announced that everything was ready, and invited the witnesses down stairs. Harris was brought in looking pale. He paused an instant on the threshold and looked over the assembled wit nesses. He walked entirely alone, and when the guard pointed to the chair, without even a look of curiosity at the thing which was to end his career, he dropped into the seat. As he did so he said he had a word to say if the warden would permit. The warden asked what he wished to say. Harris, in a weak voice, as though each word cost him a powerful effort, sjjid: “I have no further reservation to make. I desire to say that I am absolutely in nocent.” n ’hese were his last words. After uttering ilmm he seemed reliev ed and settled back in the chair to which his legs had already been strap ped by the two guards. The electrode was placed on his head and the wires attached to the two electrodes. There was an instant’s i/anse, while every man in the room held his breath. A sharp click from the lever, and the form in the chair straightened up till the straps creaked, and the death deal ing current of 1,760 volts passed through the body of Carlyle W. Har ris. at the time of my wife’s death I desired mar riage wiih some other woman. Sacha person has never been found, nor does she exi.-t. It has been reported in ihe nave-papers that during my stay hero in Sing sing I have so ffed at the devotions of my fellow prisoners and indulge! in irreverent j >kcs. This is cruelly false. I still enjoy the hop's of my childhood's faith and believe that I shall no: be nrsjadged through all eternity. No one bad so many reasons—all sentiment or love aride—for dcsiriDg my wire to live as I bail. She would have brought mo money and E roftBdoual i access; she would have graced my ( ome, and had I known of her sad liabit would htfve been my happiness to shield and cure her. I have now to die. The manner of my death is of small moment to me- I have waited patiently eo long as there was the re motest c-ance of obtaining justice, refusing to run away even nnder sentence of death. Stay God iir His mercy bless and guard those I leave behind and give ihoui peace. And now, face to facs wi'h the greatest mys tery known to man—knowing that no conceal ment or nntruth cut mitigate my end— I do solemnly d< clare that I ain inno cent of the crime for which I am condemned to die. I beg that those who think or speak or write of me in years to come wi 1 do so as kindly as they can. not forgetting that, when ranch proof of my innocenco was found, it was inhumanely thrust aside. This statement to be copied for publication and the original given to my mother. Carlyle W. Hareis. Sine Sing. May 6. 1493. WORLD’S FAIR BANK CLOSED. THE FLEET DISBANDING. The Naval Review YVar Vessels Leave New York Harbor. The first break in the naval fleet oc curred at New York harbor Wednesday morning when the British flagship Blake and her associates, the Mage- cienne and the Tartar hoisted their anchors out of the North river and steamed through the Narrows for Ber muda, whence, after a ten days’ stay, the three vessels will proceed to Hali fax. The Australia, on account of her being put out of commission in a couple of months, goes straight to the latter port. A few hours after the departure of the Britishers the grim Jean Bart started for the French port of Rochefort. Another . loss to the line will be the caravels, which start for the world’s fair at Chicago. The tiny Pinta will be towed to Hali fax by the United States steamer Chi cago, and the Nina by the Bennington. The Santa Maria will attempt to carry THE CRIME OP HARRIS. Mary Helen Neilson Potts was a beautiful girl of seventeen years, re siding with her parents, who were peo ple of wealth, at Ashburry Park, New York city. At the time of her death she was attending the Comstock Fin ishing school, on Forty-first street. She was considered the belle of the school, and had that light heart and charming nature which won the affect ion of teachers and schoolmates alike. On Saturday night, January 31, 1891, she was invited to attend an ovening concert, to which other scholars in tended going. She agreed to make one of the party, but at dinner time complained that she was so tired that she thought she would go to her room and rest rather than accompany the others. She kissed them all good night, and that was the last time any of them saw her again clothed in her right mind. BEAUTIFUL DREAMS. At 10:30 p. m., two of the girls, who occupied the same room with Miss Potts, returned from the concert and, bursting into the room, aroused the sleepy Helen from what they thought was a deep sleep to tell her of the good time they had enjoyed. She aroused herself drowsily from her sleep, and stretched forth her hand as if still in the land of dreams, said to them: “Oh, I have had such beautiful dreams! such beautiful dreams! I could dream on forever!” Then she sank back upon her pillow and let her eyes close slowly, dropping again into the blissful dreams of death. Her companions gave her a good night kiss and gently folded the arm extend ed over the edge of the bed, and then proceeded to prepare for bed. It was half an hour before they were ready to turn off the light, and just as the room was plunged in darkness they were startled by moans, which came from the corner where Helen’s bed was. A light was struck, and the two frightened girls bent over their com panion’s flushed face. She was toss ing on her pillow and nervously fin gering the lace edges like one who is preparing for death. Thoroughly frightened, the girls rushed down the hall to where Miss Day, the principal, slept and aroused her. Miss Day im mediately rang for messengers, and in a short time three physicians, Drs. Fowler, Baur and Kerr, were striving with all their skill and might to save the oung life. For eleven hours they worked upon the dying girl, while her companions looked on with frightened looks and streaming eyes, but to no purpose, as the rosy cheeks paled into gray, and finally took on the grim, blue tinge with eyes that shrunk into the head as if the child had suddenly added a century to her age; at last they gave up in despair and sadly watched her pass away into the sleep that knows no awakening. The suspicion that Harris had killed the girl did not arise immediately, their relations being unknown at the time. The fact soon developed that they had become secretly married, that Harris had grown weary of her, and being a medical student with some knowledge of drugs had administered poison to her under the pretense that it was a harmless medicine. The Chemical National Bank of Chi cago Goes Under. The doors of the Chemical National bank at Chicago did not open for bus iness Tuesday morning. This notice was posted on the door of the bank: “The business of the Chemical Na tional bank of Chicago is suspended, and I am in possession in the interest of the comptroller of currency. Jas. D. Sturoiss, “National Bank Examiner.” THE BRANCH OF THE LIVY AT THE EXPO SITION GOES UNDER. A special from the World’s Fair Grounds, Chicago, says: Among the exhibits at the exposition Tuesday was a national bank nnder suspension. The exhibits was not an attractive or pleasing one in the eyes of the for eigners who had money on deposit, but the fears of not getting it back are unfounded. The World's Fair branch of the Chemical National bank of Chicago, now in the hands of Uncle Sam, usu ally opened its doors on the second floor of pavilion D, the administration building at 9 o’clock. At 9 :25 came telephone message from Cashier Baden at the down-town office of the sus pended bank, to close the doors of the exposition branch. This was done and soon there was line of anxious, complaining deposi tors, some representing themselves, while others represented states or con cerns. They wanted to get in close to the paying teller’s window, but he talked to those who understood Eng lish in a reassuring way and some went away. The paying teller said he would have paid the checks presented before the doors were closed, but he had not the combination to the vault. Treas urer Seaberger, of the exposition, was an early caller. He said he had a small account with the bank, but was confident every de positor would be paid in full and quickly. THE QUESTION OF A SUCCESSOR. The question of a successor to the Chemical national bank at the fair is one to be decided by the directory at its next meeting. The U. S. govern ment and national commission of Mis souri have money in the bank. The Chemical National hank paid $10,000 for the privilege of doing bus iness in the world’s fair grounds, and has always done a good business. The troubles of the bank people will begin when the foreigners from the midway Plaissance villages, who speak little or no English and have excitable natures, learn of the suspension. The bank has a good deal of their money in large and small accounts, and depositors will want it back in a hurry. TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. Tlie News or tlie World Condensed Into Ply and Pointed Paragraphs. Interesting and Instructive to Ail Classes of Readers. KAISER WILLIAM TALKS. T . , . , ,, _ i her lumbering and odd-shaped hull bv ; esi e m meoln county, the seat J means of her own canvas. From Hali- j u.euace toth - . _ __ the recem uprising and it is known , f tt calavels wii i proceed through j ° «• hs gotten and their tho* , 1 - e ■»!-- '— r ° I afiain may ga on as before. CAF.LTLE HARRIS STATEMENT. The remains of Carlyle Harris were buried in the Rural cemetery at Albany, N. Y., Tuesday afternoon. The lot was purchased several days ago, but by whom it could not be ascertained. After the burial Harris’s last statement sent by the warden to—the prison de partment of the state was given out. Harris in this, his last writing, opened with a reference to the review of his case by the governor. Harris canvas ses the review, refers to his giving himself up when he learned of a war rant for his arrest, recurs to his re fusal of proffered means of escape from Sing Sing and then says : So, hi ay ;s Uia - , in a case whrre so many facts end the entire behavior cf tie defendant all invite t-xectnve demenev, together with the petition of over 50,000 ciiize: s, among them many who arc prominent in the nation and state, snch ciemener should be denied? Because the action of the court wjs not jus tified by th-facts iu the ease, and hence pub lic outcry must be sic need up by a seeming justification of the court oot-ide cf tlie fac s. ■vhen there was no doubt of gni.t Governor Flower h e not hesitate 1 to interfere, as in the ■•a*c of Jam s Mraiangli. : !x>nt a year ago. but in that c-Sj lb - be:- juatifii'd the court, and th re \va- n llecorder Smyttk clamoring to bj uphel Carl. In Ilarr.r. living, would b - a daily ateerof Sun h, Weiintau end that the new registrar of the land I m , t ltd. ,t“. t turaus may go on as oerore. office at Jackson Jias been notified ^' tinatfon lt ChiSgo^ ^ ^ 1 ‘ Tner, w an idw n> the minds of many tbatj An Address to the Army Which Caused a Profound Sensation. A special from Berlin, Germany, says: While reviewing the troops in the field at Tempelhofer Tuesday the German emperor ordered the principal officers of the imperial guard to gath er around him and addressed them as follows: “ I have been seriously disappoint ed in the patriotism of the late reich- tag. I hope the coming reichtag will adopt the military bill, but if the com ing reichtag should refuse to adopt it, I am determined to carry the bill into ef fect, despite the unpatriotic opposition. I know myself that lam alone with the federated princes and the people.” The speech of the emperor is causing enormous excitement among the people. It appears in the North German Universal Gazette in double-leaded prominence. Those who heard the emperor speak say that he spoke with unusual emphasis, pausing at every word in order to convey the sense of his determination to abide by his de claration. There is a profound and widespread impression that the em peror would not hesitate to risk a con flict with the new reichstag should it prove hostile to the bill. The em peror’s concluding words in addressing his officers were : “I felt the necessity to tell you can didly my decision as I told you my hopes when the bill was first pro posed.” The officers who heard the emperor’s words maintained absolute silence, al though evidently in deep sympathy with the kaiser’s views. Leading men in German politics who have heard of the emperor’s speech now consider that he has embarked on a policy of Prussian high toryism, and that the chances of the freissinnage party to bring about a moderate liberal era have vanished. Mrs. Elise Depew, wife of Chauncey M. Depew, died at her residence in New York city at 12:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The prominent firm of Brueder & Wolff, manufacturers of carpets, at Vienna, Austria, have failed. The lia bilities are stated to be 1,000,000 florins. The New York Central’s new engine, No. 999, in a run Wednesday between Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y., made a mile in thirty-two seconds, equal to 112 1-2 miles an hour. The Chicago city council Monday night passed unanimously a resolution declaring for an open Sunday at the world’s fair grounds, and, as represen tatives of $5,000,000 worth of stock in the world’s Columbian exposition, criticised the financial management which closes the cates one day out of seven. The train and power house of the Grand View Beach road at Rochester, N. Y., which runs along the lake shore for several miles, was burned to the ground Thursday morning. Thirteen out of fourteen cars, 500 tons of coal, all tools and appliances destroyed. Loss, sixty thousand, covered by in surance. Judge William L. Niblack died at his residence in Indianapolis, Sunday, aged seventy-one years. Judge Nib- iack served fourteen years in congress and twelve years on the supreme bench, where his decisions attracted the attention of the bench, and bar of the whole country for their clearness, - " conciseness and strength. General Manuel Gonzales, ex-presi dent of the republic of Mexico and governor of the state of Guanajuato, died Monday afternoon. He was born near Matamoras, in Tamaulipas, in 1820. He was the possessor of great personal courage, which was largely instrumental in securing him a consid erable following. He was president fro*u 1880 to 1884. Lieutenant R. T. Peary left Phila delphia Sunday for St. Jones, N. F., to complete his arrangements for the vessel to take the exploring party to Melville bay. The party will be com posed of ten, seven of whom have already been chosen, and the route will be the same as that followed by the way of New Foundland, Baffins bay and Whale Island. A Melbourne, Australia, special says: The bank of Victoria, limited, has suspended. According to the bal ance sheet last December, the deposits amounted to over seven million pounds. The failure is of great im portance. The bank had several branches, and its London office was at No. 28 Clements Lane, E. C. The subscribed capital of the bank of Vic toria was one million two hundred thousand pounds. The liabilities are about double that amount. The village of North Galveston, ten miles northwest of Warsaw, Ind., was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday. The residence of J. J. Jackson, among others, was consumed, and the entire family, consisting of himself, wife, two sons and a daughter, perished in the flames. Several .other families were badly burned. Many families lost their entire earthly possessions, and made their escape clad only in night clothes. Loss, $75,000. A south-hound freight train on the Ohio River railroad went off the track at Walker’s, twelve miles south of Parker.si mrg, W. Va., Thursday morn ing, falling thirty-five feet. Fire com municated with oil from the freight cars, burning five of the cars, caboose and two enrs of general merchandise. Two men were killed, one being burned until he was unrecognizable. Another was fatally injured. Conductor George Ernest was badly injured. A special dispatch of Thursday from Detroit, Mich., says that one-half of Spring Lake, a village two miles above Grand Haven, has been destroyed by fire. The village has five churches, a graded public school, a library, three hotels and several sawmills. For the second time within five years the town has had a terrible visitation from fire. Eighty families are homeless. The loss will foot up to $160,000. Amount of insurance is not known. A Chicago dispatch of Wednesday says: Vermont’s day at the world’s fair grounds was a glorious one. The dedication of the Green Mountain State building was the feature of the day, and fully 1,000 persons assembled to participate in the exercises. The delegation, which come from the vari ous cities of Vermont, was headed by Governor Fuller. The governor was accompanied by a host of state and ex-state officers, among them being ex-Governor Dillingham’, ex-Governor Farnham, ex-Governor Pingree, Lieu tenant Governor Strandhan, ex-Lieu- tenant Governor Woodbury and a number of others. The “Deacon” Paying Up. A New York dispatch says: S. V. White, whose failure was recently an nounced at the 6tock exchange, sent the following communication to the president of the exchange Monday: “Please announce to the members of the exchange that I have collected from brokers in the exchange who are doing business for me sufficient bal ances that I am able to pay the 25 per cent of my adjusted differences to members who are my creditors. If they send statements to my office to morrow morning I will send checks as above.’* Specie Movements. The imports of specie at the port of New York for the past week were $42,411, of which $33,265 were gold and $9,146 eilver. The exports of specie from the port of New York for the week $1,237,471,of which $528,184 was gold and $709,287 silver. Of this amount $508,102 gold, and $686,698, silver, went to Europe, and $20,082 gold, and $22,589 silver went to South America John J. Matner, an old resident oi Ironton, Ohio, was drowned in the back- water in Storm’s creek a few days ago, having accidentally fallen into the water. His fate was not positively known till the finding of his hat on the bank set searchers to work who found his body. After dragging iu vain for many hours, peculiar plan was resorted to locate the body. * A shirt lately worn by the man, and which had not been washed, was placed in the creek. It floated at the surface for seventy-five feet or more, then suddenly sank. At the spot wheie the shirt disappeared hooks were lowered and there the body was found ana brought forth.