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The Fayetteville News.
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VOL. 2.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, Aljj
§8$T 23, 1889.
NO. 4.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIO US,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS 1'IIOM EVEETWHEEE—ACCIDENTS, STKIKE3,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Eighteen persons were injured by a
wreck on. the Burlington '& Missouri
Railroad near Lincoln, Neb., Sunday
morning.
William Kelly, a porter at Minneapo
lis, Minn.., dropped a trunk, and a re
volver in it was in -some manner dis
charged. The bullet passed through the
trunk, entering Kelly’s head, killing him
instantly.
The Brazilian steamer Alliauce, with
the three commissioners who were
sent as delegates to represent Brazil at
the international congress of American
nations, arrived at New York Saturday.
.John Lees & Son, cotton spinners,
who operate the Dover Mills at 1,717
Bodine street, Philadelphia, fa., made
an assignment Tuesdey. The firm’s lia
bilities amount to about $36,000, and
assets j 25,000.
There was no baseball game at Cincin
nati on last Sunday, as has beer. usual
heretofore, as the authorities threatened
on Saturday that if one -was played they
would break it up by arresting the presi
dent and ail the players.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
93. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone-
vile, Ind., who is charged with embez
zlement in liis office, shows that the
shortage amounts to $0,000, and may
roach more. Denny has not yet been ap
prehended.
^Chicago parties have bought out the
Toledo, Ohio, street railroad system, and
are negotiating for the purchase of the
street car lines in Findlay, with a view
of consolidating them under one man
agement, aud to ran them all by electric
motor.
.Dirt was broken Saturday, with impos
ing demonstrations, at Huntsville, Ala.,
for the line of the Cincinnati, Alabama
•and Atlantic Railroad, which is to run
from Ginciunat due south to Huntsville,
and then deflect either to Birmingham or
Savannah, Ga.
Tuesday evening a bomb, ten centime-
tore in diameter, was thrown from the
rear of the .chamber of deputies into the
Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the
progress of a concert. The bomb ex
ploded, wounding seriously six gen
darmes and a child.
Twenty Arabs, of both sexes, who
came'on the steamer La Normandie, are
detained at Castle Garden, in New York,
until the Turkish consul can be. con
sulted. It is said there arc 70,000 Arabs
waiting to come to this country provided
the twenty are passed through.
United States Attorney Carey, at San
Francisco, received a telegram Friday
from the department of justice, at Wash
ington, instructing him to assume, on
behalf of the United States Government,
the defence of Deputy United States
Marshal David Nagle, who shot Judge
Terry'On Wednesday.
A cablegram from Paris, received at
Pittsburg, Pa., announces the death there
of Win. Shaw, vice-president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, and one of
the most prominent,railroad men in the
country. lie was reported to be worth
at least $30,000,000. He was 01 years
of age.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Arlc.,
says: Great excitement exists among
the cotton farmers of five or more count
ies in this state over the appearance, in
the last few days, of,cotton worms. They
have appeared in the cotton lands of
Pulaski, Jefferson, Clark and two otlieu
counties, as far as heard from.
It is reported from St. Louis that the
fast mail train which arrived in that city
Saturday night over the Vandalia Road,
was robbed at Terre Ilaute, Indiana,
while the mail clerks and train hands
were at supper. It is said that one
pouch, containing registered letters, was
taken. The pouch was supposed to
contain about $10,000.
A lieutenant with a small detail of
soldiers from Sully, Dak., has just com
pleted a trip along the edge of the Sioux
reservation and reports everything quiet,
with not a “boomer” in sight. The good
effect of the assured opening of 11,000,-
000 acres to settlement can already be
felt, and a wonderful increase in alt
classes of business is plainly noticeable.
The company which is arranging to
pipe natural gas to Columbus, lud„ from
the Greenfield field, has just closed a
contract with the Sholbyvillc Natural
Gas company to pipe the cheap fuel to
that city from the same field. The work
of diggiug the trench and laying the
pipe on the main line will begin as soon
as the pipe can bo secured and distrib-
uied.
It is reported from Berlin, Germany,
that the recent interviews between Prince
Bismarck and the Emperor Joseph and
Count Ivalnoky, resulted.in a modifica
tion of the Austro-German treaty where
by a casus foeder is established wheuever
vital interests of either nation are
threatened. Ilittsorto only open attack
has constituted cause for joint action.
The British bark Oneway, Captain
Anderson, which sailed from Philadel
phia June 5, for Bilboa, with a crew
of fifteen men and 124,000 gallons of
crude petroleum, valued at $8,856, is be
lieved ,lo have been lost, as nothing has
been heard of her since she passed out
Delewaro capes. The cuptain’s wife and
two children accompanied him.
The Minister of Finance at St. Peters
burg, Russia, intends to tax Protestant
churches in the Baltic provinces. These
churches have hitherto been exempt from
taxation. This is one of a series of re
forms, by which the government intends
to thoroughly Russianize old Baltic Ger
man institutions and diminish the influ
ence of the German Protestant clergy.
A dispatch from Butler, Pa., says:
The south bound train leaving there
Friday afternoon, on the West Pennsyl-
vania’railroad, was wrecked at Sni vel's
station. The latest report is that three
passengers were killed and twenty-five
injured. It is said that while running
rapidly over a small bridge the rails
spread and the cars went down an em
bankment.
A storm which prevailed in St. Pauh
Minn., Tuesday night, was one of Die
worst ever experienced there. Two
inches of water fell between the Lours of
2 and 5 o'clock. At Eau Clare, Wis,,
lightning struck a large agricultural
building on the grounds of the north
western fair association destroying the
building, together with several thousand
bushels of grain and a lot of machinery.
The loss is $6,000.
BREAKS THE RECORD.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MO YEMENTS OF TIIE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
A GHASTLY 8PE CTACLE.
CHILDREN IN TUE STREETS OF PHILA
DELPHIA USING HUMAN BONES FOR TOYS.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Ail OLD MAN FASTS SIXTY-SEVEN DAYS
AND DIES.
Robert Marvel, of Indianapolis, Ind.,
after fasting sixty-seven days, died
Tuesday morning. His case is extraor
dinary, and has attracted the attention
not only of the curious public, but of the
medical fraternity far and near. He was
85 years old. On June 13th, Mr. Mar
vel ate his last square meal. For thirty-
six days he took absolutely nothing into
hisstomach. On the thirty-eighth day
he bit off a piece of pie, but. did noteat
it. On the thirty-ninth day he drank a
small quantity of milk, and at regular
periods he has continued so. All told,
he lias drunk not to exceed one gallon of
milk in the sixtv-seven days that have
elapsed since he began to fast. The
faster was reduced to a “living shadow.”
Sores, came upon him by reason of his
long, confinement, and evidently Marvel
had.not only suffered long, but severely,
though everything possible was done to
relieve him. liis fast is the longest on
record.
INDIGNANT AMERICANS
.CLAIM THAT THEY WERE CRUELLY
TREATED BY GERMANS.
E. C. .Hill, widely known among flor
ists, aud president of the national floral
association, has just returned to Rich
mond, Ind., his home, from a trip to
Europe, and reports that while en route
from Belfort to Basle, in company with
Robert George, of Painesville, the train
was stopped at the neutral line
between France and Alsace-Lorraine,
and be and his companion were
arrested as spies. They aud their bag
gage was searched, their passports dis
regarded and they were not permitted to
cross the line. Mr. Hill says the Ger
man officers were obstinate aud brutal
in their treatment. They were denied
the privilege of continuing their journey
although there was nothing whatever to
support the suspicion against them, and
they were compelled to hire a French
peasant to take them back to Belfort.
Their treatment will be reported to the
state department.
“OLD BLACK JOE” DEAD.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Secretary of War has authorized
the expenditure of $500 for improve
ments to the Marietta, Ga., cemetery.
Wnt. Rule, of Tennessee, has been ap
pointed pension agent at Knoxville,
Tcnn., vice D. A. Carpenter, resigned.
Secretary Windom left Washington
Tuesday for a three weeks’ vacation, and
Secretary Rusk left (:i Wednesday.
Not a member of the cabinet is now in
the city.
The treasurer of the United States has
issued instructions, subject to the con
venience of the treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of 1he United States at New
York, to supply notes and silver certifi
cates of small denominations to banks
ordering them in sums not less than
$1,000.
The department of state on Monday
received a cablegram from the United
States vice-consul at Porto Rico, an
nouncing the death of Consul Edward
Conroy, one of the oldest members of the
consular service, having been appointed
in April, I860. He was fully eighty
years of age.
The Secretary of State is informed that
his imperial majesty, the emperor of
China, has approved for the use of Chi
nese legations and consulates au oblong
yellow flag bcarirg a dragon in dark
blue and a sun in red ; and for the use of
Chinese merchants a triangular flag of
the same desigu.
The Inter state commerce commission
has received complaint by the Holly
Springs, Miss., Compress Manufacturing
company, against the Kansas City, Mem
phis & Birmingham Railroad company,
charging, among other things, unreason
able and excessive freight rates on com
pressed cotton between Holly Springs,
and Memphis, Tenn.
The President, Saturday, made the fol
lowing appointments: Robert A. Mosely
to be collc-eior OX Internal Ti-vcnuc for the
district of Alabama, Postmasters: Sam
uel P. Burns at Talladega, Ala., vice
Richard R. Hunley, removed; James G
Hughes at Marietta, Ga., vice James B.
Blackwell, removed; George G. Alexan
der it Camden, S. C., vice Daniel C.
Kirby removed.
The Treasury department has granted
the application of a New Orleans firm to
have an assignment of percussion caps,
intended for transmission to interior
points, taken from the list of explosives,
so that they may be forwarded under
bond in the ordinary manner. This ac
tion has been taken upon a report from
the collector at New York, that actual
tests show that these caps, used for
sporting purposes only, are not explosive
articles, and arc not, therefore, properly
included in the list of explosives.
Civil Service Commissioners Lyman
and Thompson had an interview’ with the
President on Saturday in regard to cer
tain contemplated changes in the civil
service rules. Commissioner Lyman pre
sented to the President a rough draft of
the contemplated amendments, aud, to
gether with Mr. Thompson, discussed
with the President the probable effect of
the proposed changes, and the reasons
that, induce the commission to recom
mend them. The President is understood
to favor the changes. It is believed that
one of the rules, us amended, will place
all chiefs of divisions within the classi
fied service, and thus provide that when
changes occur in these positions, that
they shall be filled by a certificate from
the commission.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
REFOPT OF R. G. DUN A: CO. STILL EN
COURAGING.
Property owners and residents in the
vicinity of Twelfth and Carpenter
streets, Philadelphia, are indignant at
the careless manner in which human
bones are being handled by laborers in
the new three foot sewer down Carpenter
street, which is the site of the old pot
ter’s field, where the victims of the yel
low fever of 1832 and the cholera of
1845 were buried. The laborers broke
ground on Thursday, and late on that
afternoon the first coffiu was struck. It
was carelessly throwu on top of the
dirt pile, and in the fall the partially
rotten boards fell apart, and the skeleton
rolled upon the oirt. When the excava
tion was enlarged and extended, the la
borers found that they were cutting a
sluice through ground literally packed
with corpses. Coffins that lay parallel
with the trench were torn out aud thrown
upon the embankment, and others that
lay crossw ise were torn out by a stalwart
laborer, who, with an ax, quickly cut
through the coffin and inclosed body un
til the width of the trench was secured.
The parts were then picked up on a
shovel and throwu upon the embank,
ment, to be thrown into barrels. Bones
were scattered on all sides. The scenes
at the trench were horrible in the ex
treme, and the odor was nauseating.
About fifty bodies, or portions of bodies,
had been taken out. Children living
near the scene were running over the
embankment handling the remains of
the epidemic victims and many of them
were carrying away the smaller bones.
Rib and breast bones were scattered all
over the sidewalks, and some of the
children were “building houses” by pil
ing up the bones. At one point thirteen
coffins lying in a heap had been cut
through, aud half the remains were still
sticking in the ground. At another
point six coffins were cut through, and
along the sides of the trench the dis
gusting spectacle of partially destroyed
coffins aud bodies was discovered.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VAs.
RIO US POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON Of
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
“OLD BLACK JOE” DEAD.
THE ORIGINAL OF THE FAMOUS OLD SONG
PASSES AW AY.
The original “Old Black Joe” died ai
Mount Holly, N. J., Sunday, in the little
cabin where he has lived for years, just
on the outskirts of the town TTh proper
name was Joseph Queen, and he was
undoubtedly the oldest man in the state,
being 112 years old. He was born in
Virginia in 1777, and the fact is recorded
in faded characters in an old family Bible.
“Old Joe” was a runaway slave, and
came to New Jersey in 1827, where he
was takeu care of by some of the resi
dents qf Mount Holly, one of whom is
still living and remembers that he was
well along in years when he went there.
For years past the townspeople have
minister.d to his wants and kept him in
comparative comfort. He was very pa-
triarchial in appearance, and his form
was bent nearly double with the weight
of years. A monument will be erected
to bis memory by the citizens.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GEORGIA
THE ORIGINAL OF THE FAMOUS OLD SONG
PASSES AWAY.
The original “Old Black Joe” died at
Mount Holly, N. J., Sunday, inihe little
cabin where he has lived for years, just
on the outskirts of the town. His proper
name was Joseph Queen, and ho was
undoubtedly the oldest man in the state,
being 112 years old. He was boru iu
Virginia in 1777, and the fact is recorded
in faded characters in au old family Bible.
“Old Joe” was a ruuaway slave, and
came to New Jersey in 1827, where lie
was taken care of by some of the resi
dents of Mount Holly, oue of whom is
still living and remembers that bo was
well along in years when lie went there.
For years past the townspeople have
minister, d to liis wants and kept him in
comparative comfort, lie was very pa-
trinrchiul in appearance, and his form
was bent nearly double with the weight
of years. A monument will be elected
to bis memory hr the citizens.
K. G. Dun & Co., in their review ol
tjacie for the week ending August 17,
report the number of failures in the
United States a; 181, and in Canada at
32; a total of £13, against a total of 201
a week ago, and 219 in the correspond
ing week last year. In regard to the
general outlook, the report says: “Inall
directions business prospects continue
encouraging, and changes during the last
week have beer on the right side. Ex
ports increase and the speculative rise in
breadstuffs has been checked. Interior
cities report a: increase iu the volume of
trade, aud the money markets continue
nmply supplied, though rates arc gradu
ally hardening. The great industries
appear to he ia fully as good condition
ns last week. Further crop uews sus
tain government advices and estimates as
to cotton, con and oats, and strengthens
the prevailing impression that the Au
gust report, in to wheat, was less favor
able than the actual situation.
Grant was tlo youngest President at
his first inauguration.
A I’HENOMINAL INCREASE IN THE VALUE
OF PROPERTY.
j The tax returns for 1SS3 showed that
property had increased throughout Gcor-
I gia $18,000,000. Every year siuce that
i time the returns have shown au increase,
i but never lias the amount for the year
! 1883 been equaled. This year, how-
i ever, the high water mark will be passed
i find a new record established. The lu-
! crease of 1883, which, for many years,
i was quo’ed as something phenomenal,
, included the improvements iu railroad
■ property, which was a very large factor.
The $19,000,000 worth of improvements
this year come solely from the tax di-
; gests, leaving ihe railroads out. Should
they be included, the statement would
prove that Georgia is $25,000,000 richer
than slue was last year.
HONORING EDISON.
Edison is expected at Milan, Italy, i:i
I September, where elaborate preparations
are being made for his reception. No
where in Europe are Mr. Edison's genius
and his service to the cause of science
better recognized than in Italy, and on
his visit to Milan, King Humbert will
confer on him the dignity of a grand of
ficer of the Italian crown.
I Prof. Perry, the aeronaut, whose ter-
■ rible fall from a balloon at Mount Holly,
j N. C., was reported several days ago,
! died at Charlotte, Tuesday,
j On August 30th, the Eighth Georgia
! battalion will hold a reunion at Adairs-
j ville, Ga. Prominent speakers will be on
hand and great preparations are being
I made for the su cess of the reuuion.
The boli worms arc attracting a good
| deal of attention in the vicinity of
i Brownings, Texas, and are making sad
havoc with the cotton. The leu worm
i also prevails iu different localities.
Mrs. John P. Richardson, of Chatta-
I nooga, Tenn., arrived at New York a few
; days ago, and. upon opening her bag
gage, lound she had been robbed of
| $3,000 worth of jewelry, probably on
i the railroad. There is no clue to the
; robber.
; The Keating Railroad Company, of
| Reading, Pa., closed a contract Saturday
with the Stauntou andWest Augusta Rail-
j road Company at Staunton, Va., to build
j twenty-five miles of railroad from Staun
ton to the anthracite coal fields. The
work 13 to commence in thirty days.
A report from Raleigh, N. C., says
that Dr. Eugene Griscom will tender his
resignation as superintendent of the
North Carolina insane asylum. The res
ignation of Dr. Grisrom will end oue of
the greatest sensations in the state.
Nine-tenths of the people and newspa-
| pers have clamored for i; for weeks.
There will be a grand reunion of na
tive North Carolinians, now residents in
other states, at the state capitol, Raleigh,
October 14-19th, at the Southern Indus
trial Display and Annual State Fair.
The lowest possible rales have been fur
nished by the railways, and there will be
no obstacle iu the way of those who wish
I to revisit the old scenes and renew the
tender associations of past years.
The board of directors of the cotton
exchange A New C. leans, has sent to all
exchanges and hoards of trade an invita
tion to a convention of the cotton inter
est, to take place iu that city on Sep
tember 11th, to agree on a uniform
method in adjustment of difference in
tare between cotton and jute bagging.
The proposition is that from a certain
date all cotton shall be sold bv net
weight, allowing 5 per cent, of gross
weight for jute and 3 V per cent, for cot
ton bagging. __ -
In n^wer to certain inquiries made by
the collector at Charleston, S. C., rela
tive to drawback on the jute bagging im
ported as covering of cotton in bales, the
Treasury Department holds: First, that
the official supervision of lading should
be as cartful and thorough ss possible.
Second, whenever it is found impracti
cable for the exporter to give in prelimi
nary entries, the numbers of the various
brands of bales ia each lot, it will be
sufficient if the numbers are stated in the
inspectors' return. Third, sworn state
ment of exporter required l.v the regu
lations should be made by an active
shipper who has knowledge of the fact.
Fouith, agents or attorneys should not
be allowed to sign the final entry and
oath of exportation when the exporter
himself is present at the port of ship
ment.
ASKED TO RESIGN.
THE PEOPLE OF A NORTH CAROLINA TOW
MAD W ITU THEIR MAYOR.
There is a very decided sensation ;
the town of Windsor, the county scat i
Bertie, N. C. It culminated in a ma
meeting of citizens, which unanimous!
adopted the following resolutions afti
mature deliberation: “We believe thi
A. J. Pritchard, mayor of Windsor, hi
willfully, maliciously and corruptly pro
tituted the office of mayor to his person
ends, and thereby brought shame an
lisgrace upon the office and reflection
upon the go. d citizens of said town an
community; therefore, be it Resolvet
That the aforesaid A. J. Pritchard, ma\\
ol Windsor, be requested to resign tl
ffiee of mayor forthwith.” A cornmi
tee presented the resolutions to tl
mayi r. who refuses to pay any attentio
to them.
A HOLOCAUST.
HEAVY FINE.
THE RESULT OF IMPORTING FOREIGN LA
BORERS UNDER CONTRACT.
A FIRE IN NEW YORK IN WHICH NIN*
LIVES ARE LOST.
The United States Court at Austin,
Texas Friday morning, James Wilkee
and Abner Taylor pleaded guilty to the
importation of skilled laborers from Eu
rope, to work on the new capitol. and
were fined $1,000 and costs, each, of
sixty-four eases.
Early Monday morning fire broke out
in a big five-story tenement at 305 Sev
enth avenue, New York. Nine of the
sixty-odd occupants of the house lost
their lives. The dead are: William
Cienr.oa, Nellie McGloghun, Mary Wells,
Jane Wells, Thomas Wells, Bertha Jus-
tig, William Mokee, Jano Jeffrey, and
au unknown woman.
