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THE VIENNA PROGRESS
TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.”
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XIII. NO. 14
VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
GEORGIA IN BRIEF.
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE OVER THE STATE
An<l Condensed Into Pithy and Inter
esting Paragraphs.
The people of Savannah are at pres
ent enjoying the street car war. Two
rides for a penny is the status of affairs
now.
* » *
Sam Jones, Georgia’s own and only,
has blossomed out as a Tennessee edi
tor. Rev. B. F. Haynes, editor of the
Tennessee Methodist, has secured Mr.
Jones as co-editor.
* * »
The telephone line between Macon
and Atlanta will be in operation within
ibe next two weeks. The long line is
to be extended to Chattanooga, and
from thence to Washington, Philadel
phia and New York. The price of
conversation over the line will be
placed at such a price as to be within
the reach of all.
• * •
The time is up for the depositing
with the reorganization committee ot
the Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road the bonds on that property.
Nearly $3,000,000 of the bonds in all
have been deposited, which is all but
about $4,000,000 of the issue, and it is
not believed that these will offer any
strenous oposition to the reorganiza
tion movement.
» * *
The colored exhibit at the Atlanta
exposition will be housed in a large
commodious building that will be one
of the most attractive and imposing
structures on the grounds. It was at
first intended by the officials of the ex
position to remodel the present ma
chinery hall. This idea, however, has
been abandoned and the proposition
now is to erect a new building and one
that will be large enough to accommo
date the proposed exhibit of the negro
race.
* * *
Mr. Georgo E. Hunt, the newly ap
pointed director of the weather bureau
for Georgia is expected to reach At
lanta in a few days. He is now in
Washington city for the purpose of
receiving definite instruction from
headquarters. Director Morrill will
remain in charge until his successor
arrives and is duly installed. He will
tiien leave for Washington city to as
sume the responsible duties of the new
position to which he has been called.
After many months negotiating for
a site for Augusta’s proposed reseTvior
and new water works, the city has fin
ally purchased the land that has been
always desired for that purpose. Judge
Roney has granted an order which con
firms the sale and perfects the titles.
The tract contains sixty-six acres, and
was bought for $6,600, or $100 an acre.
The work of building the reservoir, or;
in other words, extending or improv
ing the present water works system,
will not be commenced until some time
next year, under the administration of
the new mayor.
Secretai-y Carlisle has referred to
the attorney general the opinion of
Solicitor Reeves that Floyd county,
Ga., can issue bonds to be used as cur
rency. While Mr. Carlisle has ex
pressed no decided opinion, it is be
lieved among treasury officials that the
opinion of Mr. Reeves will be reversed
by the attorney general. Treasury
officials who are near to Mr. Carlisle
say the decision is absurd, and whether
or not it is reversed by the attorney
general the tieasury department will
fight any issue of one, two, five and
ten dollar bonds by a county to be
used as currency. The opinion of Mr.
Reeves has caused much criticism in
the department, but until the attorney
general renders a decision nothing
definite will be done.
An attractive feature of the Atlanta
exposition will be a chime of bells,
which will be one of the finest ever
heard in the United States. The man
agement has received from the Buck
eye Bell Foundry, owned by Van Du-
sen & Tift, a proposition to furnish
them with a finer chime than the one
at the World’s Fair. The matter was
discussed by the executive committee
and President Collier and Mr. Brad
ford L. Gilbert, the architect, were
authorized to prepare a place for the
chime, which will consist of from ten
to thirteen bells. Mr. Gilbert has se
lected for this purpose one of the tow
ers of the great manufacturers’ and
liberal arts building. The tower will
be extended to about double its height
in the original design, and thus the
chimes will be suspended 100 feet
above the "round.
■Whose Money Is It?
There is in the state treasury $19,-
031.03, which does not, as yet, belon
to the state, but which will be the
property of Georgia within the next
few years, if it is not called for before
that time. In 1891 the United States
government paid to the stare of Geor
gia $83,031.03, the sum coming to the
state under the law refunding to each
state the direct tax levied during the
war to keep up the government troops.
There were many claimants to this
fund, and when they had established
their claims it was found that the
money thev received amounted to
$64,000. This left $19,031.03 still in
the treasury. Under the law it m»st
be kept there for six years in case of
any claimant calling for it. If it is
not called for in this time, which will
be in 1897, it will become the proper
ty of the state. When that time ar
rives the legislature can take the fund
in hand and dispose of it as it sees fit.
To Discuss Five-Cent Cotton.
A call has been issued by John O.
Waddell, president of the State Agri
cultural Society, to discuss five-cent
cotton.
“I have issued the call,” said Col.
Waddell, “after conference with sev
eral prominent members of the society.
AVe believe that the time has arrived
for organized action among the farm
ers to see if something cannot be done
to get rid of 5-cent cotton. Our peo
ple cannot stand it, and we are going
to discuss the matter snd see if there
is not a remedy.
“I want it distinctly understood
that it is not our purpose to suggest
the holding of cotton to the injury of
creditors, and this is made plain in the
call. We simply want to see if there
is not some way to secure advances of
cash on cotton, so that cotton can be
held while, at the same time, the busi-
nefs world will get the benefit of the
money that it represents by having
the same put in circulation.”
The call is as follows:
“Office of President of the Georgia
State Agricultural Society, Atlanta,
Ga., October 17.—To the Members of
the Executive Committee, Gentlemen :
At the suggestion of, and after a full
conference with some of the promi
nent bankers and business men of this
state, I am constrained to ask as maDy
of the numbers of the executive com
mittee ns can do so to meet in the city
of Macon on Wednesday, October
24th, to consider the present ruinous
price of cotton and to take some steps,
if possible, to remedy and avert im
pending disaster.
“A brief suggestion as to the plans
indicated: “Money is plentiful and
at low interest in the banks. These
banks and commission merchants, who
are onr friends, can be induced to ad
vance a reasonable amount on cotton,
and thus allow the farmer to hold his
cotton another year, and, at the same
time, enable him to pay his obliga
tions to nearly the full amount of his
cotton. At present prices it is impos
sible to more than pay the cost of cul
tivation, picking, ginning and for
guano, leaving the farmer nothing
with which to meet other just obliga
tions. If the plans and suggestions
which you may promulgate shall be
adopted by the other cotton states we
believe good results will follow.
“There can be no doubt that the
cotton acreage will, of necessity, be
greatly reduced another year, the crop
reduced in consequence and the cotton
carried over command better prices.
“We desire to be distinctly under
stood as not advising the holding of
cotton to the injury of creditors, nor
would we willingly injure one spoke in
the wheel of commerce. Believing
that the best interests of debtor and
creditor will be subserved if advances
can be secured on cotton, and hold it
over, thus stopping the large daily re
ceipts, we respectfully ask you to meet
and consider the subjects suggested at
the time and place indicated, at Ma
con, Ga., fair grounds, Wednesday,
October 24th, at 2 o’clock p. m. Re
spectfully,
• John O. WaddeLl, President.”
Curious Arab Wedding Custom.
Among the Arabs a curious custom
prevails at all weddings. After vari
ous) ceremonies the bridegroom is led
iu the evening into a large, dimly-
righted room. Here, huddled on the
floor on one side, he finds the female
relatives and friends of the bride, all
of the same height and size, all wear-
: precisely similar clothing and
closely veiled. One of these is the
bride, and it falls upon him to find
out which it is. If he has been wise
he lias bribed some of the spectators
to give him a sign to guide him, but
if not he attempts to seize the veiled
figure whom he suspects to be his
bride. If possible she slips from his
grasp and runs away, with him in
hot pursuit. An exciting chase fol
lows, until lie succeeds in catching
her, when he tears the veil from her
face. If it turns out that he has
chosen correctly and that she is the
bride, the game is ended, but if nob
lie must try again, after the captured
girl has had time to arrange her dis
ordered dress and take her place once
more among her companions. Again
lie makes a selection, and, after an
other long chase, succeeds in unveil-
a second maiden, possibly only to
find lie has caught the same girl
again. Many hours are consumed in
this way, and it is often daylight be
fore the unlucky bridegroom secures
his bride.—-[Chicago Herald.
How to Avoid Seasickness.
BRTEF TELEGRA3IS.
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Morsels of General
Interest to Our Readers.
Persons intending to take an ocean
voyage should, for several weeks be
fore embarking, take daily exercise
in the open air to get the general
system in a good condition. To the
same end they should eat only a
moderate quantity of plain food, es
pecially avoiding what is heavy or
greasy. They should select a state
room as near the middle of the ship
as possible. Some tourists are never
sick as long as they lie on tlieir
backs and keep their eyes closed.
The passenger who is seasick should
remain in his berth until 9 or 10
o’clock in the morning, and have the
steward bring him what little food he
takes. lie should not go to the table
in the cabin until all symptoms of
seasickness have left him,as the very
sight and odor of the rich food will
surely make him worse. AATien t-lie
patient begins to go to the table he
should avoid pastry, fat meats and
all rich food; after eating lie should
lie flat on his back for half an hour,
or until digestion is well begun, when
he may go on deck and walk or sit in
a steamer chair, but lie should not
lean over the stern or side of the
ship.—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Curious Form of Gold.
A curious form of gold, which is
completely soluble in water with
basic acetate of cerium is described
in a German publication. The solu
tions are a strong violet-red color,
but when diluted, carmine-red. Tiie
intensity of the color is so great that
a solution containing l-50CM)O0th of
gold is still distinctly rose-red, Such
solutions are obtained by precipita
tion of a dilute solution of a cerous
salt mixed with gold by means of
potash or soda lye and solution of
the black precipitate formed in hot
dilute acetic acid, or by boiling mixed
solutions of cerous acetate, gold
chloride, sodium hydrate in the
proper proportions. From the red
solution sodium acetate precipitates
a violet-red precipitate which con
tains all the gold and some of the
basic cerous acetate. On drying the
precipitate, bronze colored glittering
mass is obtained, which is soluble in
water.—[New York Sun.
MOUSTACHE FIRST.
She—Do you think of me as much
as you did?
Ckolly—No, not quite. I’m rais-
g a moustache now.—[Life.
Advices received at Berlin from
Walfish Bay, southwest Africa, say
that the rebellious Damaraland chief,
Witbooi, has surrendered and express
sd his willingness to submit to a Ger
man protectorate over his territory.
O. A. Larrazola, attorney for Vic
tor L. Ochoa, one of the leaders of the
Mexican revolution of last winter, who
was arrested a few days ago at Ft
Stockton, Texas, went before the fed
eral court and demanded that Ochoa
be produced in court.
At Milwaukee, Monday, Judge Jen
kins dismissed the petition of Ives et
ai., to have T. J. Oakes dismissed as
the Northern Pacific receiver, and
confirms Special Master Cary’s report
exonerating Oakes from making any
money out of the road illegally.
A dispatch from Ogdensburg, N. Y.
says: Petitions for the nomination of
General N. M. Cnrtis, for representa
five in congress, are being circulated
in all of the accessible towns of the
county, and are being signed by re
publicans and democrats indiscrimi
nately.
The steamer Moyune, recently pur
chased in England by the Japanese
government, has arrived at Yokohama,
having made the passage from Cardiff
in thirty-three days, steaming the dis
tance without stopping. Although
Chinese warships were on the lookout
for her, she had no difficulty in elud
ing them.
The famous hat trimmings ease, in
which importers of millinery seek to
secure a return of money collected for
duties on certain styles of ribbons im
der the McKinley tariff law, came up
before Judge Dallas iD the United
States circuit court at Philadelphia
Monday and was continued until Jan.
8th, next.
A squad of police visited the Tech
nological institute at St. Petersburg,
Russia, and, proceeding to the dormi
tory, arrested thirty of the students,
who had retired. The students are
charged with being engaged in a nihil
ist conspiracy against the government.
The visit of the police was a complete
surprise to the authorities of the insti
tution, as well as to the students.
A strike of the weavers at the Hath
away and Aeuahnet mills at New Bed
ford, Mass., is threatened. When
settlement of the recent strike, which
involved all the mills in the city, was
reached, one of the conditions was that
the mills were to conform to the de
mands of the weavers’ particulars law.
All of them have done so to the satis
faction of the weavers except these
corporations,
Alexander, the eighteen-year-old
king of Servia, arrived at Potsdam,
Germany, Wednesday evening from
Buda-Pesth on a visit to Emperor Wil
liam. Great preparations had been
made for his reception, and it was
generally understood that this meant
that the visit had political significance.
The railway station was beautifully,
decorated and a guard of honor was
drawn up on the platform.
A fire occurred in the yards of the
Thayer Lumber company, at Mus
kegon, Mich., Wednesday morn
ing, which caused the loss of a few
thousand dollars. During its progress
a pile of lumber forty feet high top-
tied over and caught Assistant Fire
Chief John Ellens. His back, arms,
legs, skull and chest were broken, and
his body was frightlv burned. He died
in ten ininues after being taken out of
the wreck.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
Wednesday afternoon reported a true
bill against ex-Governor John L. Bev
eridge, president; F. D. Arnold, vice
president and Samuel M. Biddison,
secretary of the State Mutual Life In
surance Company. The indictment
charges the defendants with using the
mails to further a business of a lottery.
It is alleged that the concern is in its
essence a lottery. The officers were
arrested some time ago, and gave bail
before Commissioner Hayne.
A special from Harrisburg, Pa. says:
Iron and steel mills in this locality are
enjoying an era of unprecedented pros
perity. At the Pennsylvania Steel
Works the production of rails and
Bessemer steel the past week was the
heaviest of years. The three furnaces
in blast averaged nearly three hundred
tons daily. For three days the Besse
mer mill averaged 120 blooms every
twenty-four hours. The rail mill made
1,000 tous of rails during the week,the
largest production in its history.
CHINA WANTS PEACE,
But the Victorious Japs Refuse all
Overtures.
The Central News (London) claims
to have the highest authority for the
statement that overtures looking to a
declaration of peace between China
and Japan were made a few days ago
but that Japan rejected the proposals,
considering them inadequate.
According to the Central News,
however, there is every reason to be
lieve that the proposals were eminently
satisfactory to China, and that her
representatives signified a willingness
of their governments to acquiesce in
them.
THE JAPANESE PARLIAMENT MEETS.
The Japanese parliament, which was
convoked for a seven days’ session, to
consider war measures, met at Hiro
shima Mouday. Count Kusumoto was
elected president andM. Skimada vice-
president.
THE PALACE DIVIDED.
The imperial palace at Pekin is said
to be divided by two factions, con
tending, the one for peace, the other
for war. The war party consists of
the Emperor, the Imperial Tutor Ung-
Tungho, and Olohopu, director of the
board of war. On the side of peace
are the Empress Dowager, Prince
Kung and Li Hung Chang.
TRADE TOPICS.
R.
G. Dun & Co.’s Report of Business
for Hie Past Week.
B. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Business is still waiting
for the development of retail trade.
There is a little better demand in some
industries, bat not so good iu others.
Wholesale dealers in nearly all branches
are halting because retail business does
not yet show distinctly what it is to he.
Lower prices for the great farm staples
and lower wages in some establishments
hinder purchases for consumption, while
political interest and uncertainty also
have some retarding influence. Mean
while largo imports and small exports
of merchandise with inadequate employ
ment for money here are raising the
rates of foreign exchange, so that pos
sibilities of gold exports sometimes
affect the stock market. The halting
attitude for the money is disturbing to
those who have looked for continued
gain, though rightly considered it is
the natural consequence of conditions
which were to be expected at this season
“Reports from the different cities
show, as they did a week ago, that
while extreme low prices for cotton
and wheat are checking retail
chases in the west and south, there is
nevertheless a gradual gain. Monetary
movements indicate that tho expected
expansion of interior trade has not
been wholly realized, and the demand
for currency from this city has mate
rially slackened. The demand for
commercial loans is weaker, and 3 per
cent is quoted for prime four months'
paper. Foreign imports for two week
have been $6,900,000, of 56 per cent
larger than last year, while in exports
of domestic products a decrease of 11
per cent appears for two weeks in Oc
tober. Yet custom receipts for the
two weeks are only $280,000 larger
than last year, and internal revenue
$1,280,000 smaller.
“The iron industry records a larger
production in September than in any
other month this year, but as prices
are gradually weakening because of in
sufficient demand for finished products,
some works are preparing to close or
shorten time.
The demand for cotton goods has
materially slackened, and prices have
been irregular, although resumption
of work at Fall Biver and New Bed
ford with only five per cent lower wa
ges indicates confidence in the future.
The woolen mills still have numerous
belated orders for fall goods, but the
demand for spring does not increase,
though in nearly all the lower-priced
products domestic makers appear able
to command most of the business that
exists.
“Failures for the week ending Octo
ber 4th show liabilities of $1,714,276,
of which $805,885 are of manufactur
ing and $892,391 are of trading con
cerns. The final report for Septem
ber shows liabilities of only $7,307,-
124, of which $3,254,373 are of manu
facturing and $3,710, 092 of tradin
concerns. The failures of this week
have been 231 in the United States,
against 293 last year, and forty-three
in Canada, against forty-two last year.
A RICH HAUL.
FROM WASHIXGTOX.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
Highwaymen Rob an Express Train
and get Nearly $200,000.
The north-bound express between
Richmond, Va., and Washington, leav-
Rickmond at 7 o’clock Friday
night, was held up by a gang of rob
bers at Aquia creek. As the train
rolled into the station two masked
men leaped upon the engine, covered
the engineer and fireman with revol
vers and forced them to leave the loco
motive. In the meantime a number
of confederates in the daring deed
were engaged iu uncoupling the ex
press car and driving therefrom the
passengers. This done the engino
pulled up the road about a mile, bear-
only the express ear. The safe
was rifled.
It is believed that the robbers se
cured in the neighborhood of $180,-
000, as an unusually large amount of
money went out of Richmond Friday
evening, to say nothing of the through
currency. When the men secured
their awag they started the locomotive
off at a rapid rate of speed, alighting
themselves. On towards Washington
rumbled the engine with no one at the
throttle until it reached Guantico,
which place is only thirty miles this
side of the national capital.
As soon as the other train officials
realized what had happened, the news
of the fiying locomotive was telegraph
ed ahead and a number of cars were
rolled upon the track at Gnantico to
stop the engine and probably prevent
oss of life as well as property. The
engine crashed into the cars demolish-
them and playing havoc with itself.
The messengers, according to reports
received, were not hurt. They were
B. F. Crutchfield and H. Murray, both
of Richmond. The safe in the express
car was not blown open. One of the
messengers was carried up the load
and commanded to open the casket of
treasure which he did in compliance to
the dictates of half a dozen pistols.
There were seven robbers in the gang.
The express messenger said that the
safe contained $150,000. The robbers
secured this and all of the express
packages containing money. It is
thought this amount will foot up to
about $180,000.
TO COIN A BRITISH DOLLAR.
The Government Sanctions it and it
Will Be Put out in 1895.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Chartered Bank of India, Australia
and China, held at London, the chair
man announced that the government
had given their sanction to the coinage
of a British dollar for circulation in
Straits settlement and Hong Long.
The fall in the price of silver, - he said,
had affected the eastern trade and les
sened the export of the Mexican dollar
to sncli an extent as to threaten the
eastern colonies with a total absence of
currency.
The Czar Dying.
It is announced at St. Petersburg
that the condition of the czar has per
ceptibly changed for the worse. His
symptoms of general debility and
weakness of the heart are more pro
nounced.
Ready to Move Forward.
The New York Herald's special ca
ble dispatch from Shanghai, Wednes
day morning, says: “Fifteen thousand
Japanese troops, under Field Marshal
Oyama, are encamped across Regent’s
Sward promontory, to the north of
Port Arthur apd wither. sight of the
uaval stronghold. They are waiting
for a favorable moment to move for
ward, whiie outsicA: the port the Japan
ese cruisers are ready to intercept all
retreat seaward.
Secretary Carlisle has asked Attor
ney General Olney for an opinion on
the constitutional question involved in
carrying out the dispensary law in
South Carolina, in cases where tho
disputes occur between the United
States and the state officers of South
Carolina, on the occasion of liquor
being held in United States bonded
warehouse, being seized for violation
of state police ordinances.
Without issuing a direct order Sec
retary Smith has allowed it to be un
derstood that all employes of the inte
rior department may go home to vote
at the coming elections. There are a
number of employes in the interior de
partment who intend to avail them
selves of this privilege. The superin
tendent of the railway mail service has
issued an order allowing all postal
clerks to go and vote who can get
away without serious detriment to the
service.
Secretary Carlisle has referred to
the attorney general the opinion of
Solicitor Beeves that Floyd county,
Ga., can issue bonds to be used as cur
rency. While Mr. Carlisle has ex
pressed no decided opinion, it is be
lieved among treasury officials that the
opinion of Mr. Beeves will be reversed
by the attorney general. Treasury
officials who arc near to Mr. Carlisle
say the decision is absurd, and whether
or not it is reversed by the attorney
general the treasury department will
fight any issue of one, two, five and
ten dollar bonds by a county to be
used as currency. The opinion of Mr.
Beeves has caused much criticism in
the department, but until the attorney
general renders a decision nothing
definite will he done.
Vincent Bounced.
S. S. Vincent, United States mar
shal for the district of West Virginia,
at the request of the attorney-general,
has resigned and D. Garden has been
appointed to the vacancy. Mr. Vin
cent was appointed in 1893. In Sep
tember last Vincent and several depu
ties were present at a political meet
ing at Wayne, W. Va. At the conclu
sion of the address, which did not
please him, Vincent arose to reply,
whereupon many of the audience left
the hall. This seemed to have an
gered Vincent and an altercation arose,
which culminated in an affray, during
which one man was killed and three
others wounded. The marshall and
his deputies were arrested and are un
der bond to await the action of the
grand jury. Complaints have been
made to the attorney general that
twice before Vincent or his deputies
had been guilty of creating disturban
ces at political meetings at Bluefield
and Huntington.
Expenditures and Receipts.
Official figures obtained from the
treasury books show that up to last
Monday the expenditures for the fiscal
year have exceeded the receipts $9,-
500,000. For the corresponding pe
riod of 1893 the expenditures exceeded
the receipts $22,500,000. The annual
report of the commissioner of customs
to the secretary of the treasury con
tains the statement that the “under
mentioned districts and ports reported
no transactions” during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1894. In
the appended list are the follow
ing: Annapolis, Md. ; Apalachicola,
Fla.; Atlanta, Ga.; Beaufort, S. C.;
Brunswick, Ga.; Chattanooga, TenD.;
Cherrystone, Va.; eastern Maryland;
Fernandina, Fla,; St. Augustine, Fla.,
St. Mark’s, Fla.; St. Mary’s Ga.;
Georgetown, S, C.; Stonington, Conn.;
Natchez, Miss.; Newport News, Va. ;
Pamlico, N. C. ; Pearl Biver, Miss.:
Pensacola, Fla.; Petersburg, Va.;
Richmond, Va.; Rappahannock, Va.,
and Tecke, La. All the ports named
have a collector, and many of them
deputy collectors and clerks. The
collectors either receive a stated salary
or fee compensation.
THESE GOT GOLD.
Bold Bandits Hold Up a Train In
California.
The Coastbound overland train, due
at Sacramento, Cal., Friday night,was
held up by two masked men about six
miles below the city. The robbers,
armed with revolvers, compelled the
engineer and fireman to accompany
them to the express car, where Mes
senger Page was told that if he did
not open the doors the engineer and
fireman would be shot. Page, how
ever, at first attempted resistance
and fired twice, but, fearing
that the trainmen would be killed,
he let the bandits in the car, wher*
they secured four bags of gold, con
taining about $1,500. The robber 1
then uncoupled the engine and afte:
running it toward the city a short di-
tance, reversed it and jumped <71!
making their escape. TSie engine r*i
into the uncoupled train but as th
steam had run low, no damage wa?
done.
STAMP STEALERS
Make
THE LATEST BY WIRE
Big Haul From the Bureau
of Engraving.
A Washington special says: The
stamp robbery at the bureau of en
graving and printing, discovered a lew i
days ago, turns out to he much larger i
than at first supposed. Instead of one j Brief Mention of Daily Happenings
package containing 50.000 2-ceni
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
tamps, it is now believed that over
200,000, and possibly 250,000 stamps
of various denominations are missing.
Postmasters in all parts of the country,
it is thought, have received fewer
stamps than they ordered, and failed to
notify the department of the deficien
cy. When their quarterly reports ar e
made up these shortages may be found.
It will take two weeks to discover the
full extent of the robbery. When it
is known that Thursday’s shipments of
stamps were served to 1,800 postmast
ers, some idea of the enormity of the
task of ascertaining what offices have
received short packages, is had. The
stealing has been going on for thirty
days, and seems to have been the re
suit of a plot.
William B. Smith, formerly of Plain-
field, N. J., and George W. Longstreet,
who were employed in the stamp de
partment of the bureau of engraving
and printing, are under arrest and the
detectives are looking for William A
Beach, who was until recently em
ployed in a billiard room in a hotel iu
the city, and a man, whose name is
believed to he Simmerslitz. Both men
left Washington Thursday for the pur
pose of selling stamps.
Friday Smith made a proposition to
the police authorities to turn state’s
evidence and make a full confession i ;
they would sign a paper guaranteiug
him full protection. He said he would
implicate govornment employes much
higher than himself. He was told
that such protection could not he
granted. Smith then told the author
ities that he knew where Beach was,
but would go to jail before he would
tell his whereabouts. The authorities
are at a loss to know what to make of
Smith’s offer, as he has told so ma, y
conflictin'! stories since his arrest.
Throughout the World.
FIRED UPON TIIE MOB.
Three iften Killed ill an Attempt to
Save a Rapist’s Life.
In the criminal court at Washington
Courthouse, Ohio, Wednesday, Jasper
Dolby, the negro who assaulted Mrs.
Mary C. Bird, of Parrott’s station, a
week ago, confessed the crime and was
sentenced to the peniteutiory for twen
ty years. There was every prospect
of a bloody fight as a great mob was
in town bent on lynekiug Dolby, and
the sheriff had two companies of state
militia present to help him protect the
prisoner.
A special grand jury was called.
Dolby was indicted aud his trial and
sentence followed promptly. The
county officers hoped by this means to
quiet the mob anil avert a fight.
As darkness came on, however, a
crowd of 1,500 people surrounded the
jail and had battered down the doors
when they were fired upon by the
guard iu the fight which followed
three men werekilled and ten wounded.
A $120,000,000 MORTGAGE
Fled at Knoxville, Tenn., by the South
ern Railway Co.
The first consolidated mortgage deed
of the Southern Railway Company was
filed at Knoxville, Tuesday. It includes
all the road-bed, buildings and equip
ments of the road, in Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia, and the District of
'Columbia.
The mortgage is for $120,000,000, in
favor of the Central Trust Company,
of New York. Gold bonds to run one
hundred years, at 5 per cent, are to he
issued. The mortgage will be regis
tered in 176 counties through which
the road runs. It contains over 50,000
words, and Deputy Registrar J. L.
Faulkner will require two weeks to
copy it. No mortgage for as large an
amount was ever before filed in Ten-
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting an Epitome of tho
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
A new electric light plant with eight
large dynamos is being erected in Mer
idian, Miss. The old one was burned
down several months since, leaving the
city in almost total darkness.
The general life insurance agents of
North and South Carolina met at
Raleigh Wednesday to form an associa
tion. There has been an association
of general agents and solicitors, hut it
was thought best to have a separate
organization.
The postoffice at New Albany, Ky.,
was robbed Thursday. While Post
master Schindler was at dinner a thief
slipped into his private office and took
$4,000 worth of stamps and $500 in
cash from the safe. The robbery was
not discovered until Mr. Schindler’s
retnrn. There is no clue to the thief.
Contrary to expectations of manu
facturers, and much to the surprise of
the pnblic iu general, the striking
weavers at Fall Biver continue to
manifest a decided opposition to re
suming work under the terms offered
some weeks ago. Though there are
hardly 30,000 out of 56,000 looms in
operation the idleness seems to run in
streaks.
Thursday morning a strike was de
clared iu the cigar factory of Gonza
lez & Moera, at Ybor City, Fla., and
all hands went out. The factories say
the strike is due to an anarchistic ele
ment which prevails in certain factor
ies, but the men claim to have a griev
ance in the rate of compensation and
say that they will demand New York
and Chicago prices.
The postmaster general lias declared
the Co-operative Loan and Investment
Company, of Mississippi, with head
quarters in Jackson a lottery, and the'
same has been refused the use of the
United States mails, and newspapers
carrying the advertisement of such
lottery have been notified that publi- |
cations containing such advertisements | ah saved, as he threw them in a pile of
There is great aud growing discon
tent throughout the whole cotton pro
ducing region of Mississippi over tho
arbitrary and unreasonable manipula
tions of the cotton oil trust which dic
tates and enforces the price of cotton
seed.
Tho house of bishops of the Episco
pal church met at New York Wednes
day night with fifty-nine bishops for
the election of a missionary bishop for
the diocese of Olympia, Washington.
The day was occnpied with prelimin
aries.
I he first consolidated mortgage deed
of the Southern Railway Company has
been filed at Knoxville, Tenn. Tho
mortgage is for $120,000,000, in favor
of the Central Trust Company, of New
York. No mortgage for as large an
amount was ever before made in Ten
nessee.
The new naval dry dock at Port
Boyal, S. C., is expected to be com
pleted within a month. In anticipa
tion of this, the bureau of yards and
docks has contracted with Rittenhonse,
Moore & Co., of Mobile, Ala., to
dredge out the channel necessary to
open the dock to our large, new battle
ships.
The United Mine Workers of Ala
bama held their annual meeting at
Birmingham and elected the following
officers: John G. Smith, president;
William Malley, secretary and treas
urer; J. B. Atkins, vice-president;
John Stitch, W. G. Cantley, Dick
Hooper and H. B. Hamper, executive
hoard.
The express officials at Richmond,
Va., now think that theQuantico train
robbers did not get over five thousand
dollars. Mr. Murray, who handled the
pouches and cut them open for the
robbers, says he is satisfied from feel
ing of them that the amouut did not
exceed this. He says the bonds were
A Bank Goes Under.
The Buffalo County, Neb., National
bank closed its doors Friday. The
closing was caused by a $19,000 judg
ment against the Sands clothiDg house,
in which the bank was interested, and
a couple of directors demanding their
deposits. The Sands clothing house
was closed at the same time, but no
other business houses have been affect
ed so far as known. The assets and
liabilities are not yet known.
The Short Day Discussed.
THE DECISION REVERSED,
And O’Brien Can Be Tried for Em'
bezzlement.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: Last
spring the county circuit court
quashed the indictment against M. J.
O’Brien, ex-supreme court chancellor
of the Catholic Knights of America,
for the embezzlement of $75,000 from
that order. Tho decision of the court
was based on the Tennessee statute
which denies legal redress to corpora
tions not having an abstract of charter
granted in the state. Tuesday the
Tennessee supreme court, sitting
at Knoxville, reversed this decision
and made O’Brien liable to criminal
prosecution pending the examination
of authorities cited by Mr. O’Brien’s
counsel.
AN INSANE MOTHER’S DEED.
She Sets Fire to the House and Holds
Her Children in the I-dames.
Mrs. Jennie Harrigan and her three
children perished by fire iu a barn
upon their farm iu the outskirts of
Elizabeth, N. J., Monday. The resi
dence was also burned. The husband
and father was absent at the time of
the calamity. The general belief is
that Mrs. Harrigan became suddenly
insane and set the house on fire, and
that she then took her children and
went into the barn, and, locking the
door, set it on fire. As the flames be
gan to close around them, the mother
gathered the children about her and
held them there until they were over
come. The eldest of the children was
six years of age and the youngest four
teen months.
A Solid Company This.
It is stated that the report of the
Friday morning’s session of the In | American Cotton Oil Company, for the
ternational Typographical Union >* j fiscal year ending August 31, 1894, to
Louisville was principally devoted t-
a discussion of the short day question.
The original motion was that aflei
September 1st, nine hours would con
stitute a day’s work. It was finalL
decided that the motion he referred t.
referendum.
A Paper Mill Combination.
The Raleigh, N.C., Paper Company,
whose mills are at the falls of Nense,
has purchased the plant of the South
Fork paper mills, at Lincointon, and
it will be at once brought here, making
the Raleigh mills.among the largest in
the south.
be submitted at the stockholders’ an
nual meeting at New York on Novem
ber 1, 1894, will show that the com
pany, daring the year, paid oft - about
$250,000 of its bonds, all of its inter
est charges, 6 per cent, dividend on
its preferred stock, and earned in ad
dition a small surplus on its common
stock. ^jn -
Spilt at Fall River.
The weavers, at a meeting iu Fall
River, Saturday, voted 875 to 75 not
to return to work. The carders voted
to go to work 290 to 94.
are not mailable matter.
A Baltimore dispatch says: Dr.
John D. Kremien, recently adjudged
guilty of murder in the second degree
for poisoning John Forres, alias Her
man Hanbureh, formerly of Philadel-
aphia, has been sentenced to ten years’
imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
Kremien, who was Forres’ physician,
was arrested when he presented the
forged will to the orphans’ court, pur
porting to give lnm Forres’ estate val
ued at $6,500.
A sensation was caused at Omaha,
Nel)., by the publication of an affida
vit by J. E. Coleman, proof reader of
the last state senate committee on en
rolled bills. He swore that during
the session Thomos J. Majors, the
[ resident of the senate, and lieutenant
governor, approached him several
rimes, asking him to steal several hills,
•mong them the maximum freight bill,
in order to prevent its becominga law.
The Odd Fellows’ Home and Nation
al Sanitarium at Gainesville, Fla., was
formally opened by the board of trus
tees Wednesday for the reception of
-ick Odd Fellows and Daughters of
Rehekah of the entire world. The
home was built at a cost of $18,000
ind is fitted up with all conveniences
or the comfort of its inmates. Appli
cations have been received from all
>ver the United States and Canada for
he entrance of sick and afflicted mem
bers of the order.
Depositions taken at Cincinnati in
the case of Dr. Amick vs. Beeves, de
velop some remarkable facts. It was
shown that the Amick Chemical com
pany,of Cincinnati, has supplied forty
thousand doctors with Dr. Amick’s
chemical treatment for consumption,
is much as $1,000 worth of sample
medicine being distributed daily.
Each patient receives a trial outfit and
m inhaler. The company offered as
evidence its files, containing thousands
>f reports from physicians of cures
levering every stage and phase of the
iisease.
HAD FORTY PASSES.
Debs’ First Lieutenant, Mr. Howard,
Traveled Like a Lord.
A Chicago dispatch says: George
W. Howard, vice president of the
American Railway Union, and widely
known as the first lieutenant of Delis
in the great strike last July, recently
lost a pocketbook containing forty
annual passes, and he advertised for
them. The passes were over all the
leading railroads, and among them was
a Pullman pass. The passes were
subsequently found and safely re
turned.
The news of Howard’s loss was a
great shock to laboring men. They
recalled that Mr. Howard often scored
labor leaders who were so faithless to
their trusts as to receive subsidies from
railway managers in the shape of free
tickets. He was especially severe on
Labor Commissioner Carroll D,
Wright for having a Pullman pass.
A BANDIT BAGGED.
stuft - the robbers discarded.
A rumor to the effect that the head
quarters of the western system of the
Southern Railway will be removed
from Washington to Knoxville, has
gained circulation in the latter city.
It is believed to have some founda
tion as Knoxville was headquarters for
the old East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia system which is npw tho wes
tern system of the Southern.
He Was Heavily Armed aud Had
Much Boodle.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch says:
Governor O’Ferall has received a tele
gram stating ihat a man supposed to
be one of the daring bandits who held
up and robbed an express car of
$50,000, on a train just south of the
Potomac river, last Friday, was cap
tured at Cumberland, Md., Wednes
day. A pistol, eartridges, and $1,050
were found upon his persoD, and the
authorities are certain that he is one
of the robbers.
LUMBERMEN ORGANIZE.
Saw-Mill Owners Hold a Convention
at Brunswick and Elect Officers.
The lumbermen of Geoegia and
Florida met in convention at Bruns
wick, Ga., Monday. Hon. J. W. Ben
nett delivered the address of welcome
on behalf of the city. The object of
the meeting was to organize for the
purpose of restoring the price of lum
ber to living rates. No industry is
more demoralized than the lumber
business, owing to the unprecedented
ly low price that has prevailed for the
past two years.
HARDIN AND ELROD ACQUITTED.
Finale of the Sensational Express Rob
bery Case in Nashville.
At Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, a
verdict of not guilty, as to all the de
fendants was rendered by the jury in
the case of Charles Hardin, Charlton
Elrod, Charles Taylor and James Nor
ris, who have been on trial for two
weeks on the charge of embezzling
$35,000 from the Adams Express Com
pany. Hardin was indicted as the
principal and the others as accessories
before the fact. A large number of
witnesses were examined.
Watching John Bull.
A dispatch to The London Times
from Berlin says that troubles at Lou-
renzo Marquez, Delagoa Bay, create
the greatest concern in Berlin. It is
assumed that England intends to seize
the occasion to extend her possessions
northward along the const of the In
dian ocean, anil, possibly, to attempt
to acquire the whole region belonging
to Portugal.
Pleaded Guilty of Embezzlement.
Cashier Buchanan, of the Sonora,
Texas, hank, pleaded guilty Friday
morniDg in the United States court of
embezzlement from the United States
postoffice and was sentenced to eight-
teen months in the penitentiary. He,
with his brother, the president of the
hank, and his deputy postmaster,
raised $3,000 on fictitious postoffice
money orders.
SLIGHTLY ABSENT-MINDED.
A well-known Oxford professor of
mathematics is so completely ab
sorbed in Ids profession that lie is be
coming more and more absent-minded
everyday. One day "icently he re
marked to one of the students:
••Something very stupid happened
to im- the other morning—I believe
I am becoming a little absent mind
ed.”
“What is it?”
“You see.! wanted to take my wife
out for a drive and give her some
fresh air, and, when I came to think
over it, I remembered that I never
bad a wife.”
Fight the devil at every point. If
he sees that he cannot make you com
mit a big sin, lie will try you with lit
tle “no harms.”
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