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The Fayetteville News.
VOL. 2.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1 89.
NO. 0.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS' If THE SOUTH.
A. CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
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Rev. Dr. Yast, chancellor of the Uni
versity of Florida, on Thursday presented
to Heidelburg collegte, Tiffin, Ol^o, a
museum'of curiosities valued at $G0,000.
In the criminal court of Birmingham,
Ala., Monday, the cases against John and
Ju!e Wyly, charged with complicity in
: the Hawes murders, were nol protsed.
There was no evidence against them.
Caterpillars have appeared near Pen
dleton, Anderson county, S. C. As the
planters of that section have had no pre
vious acquaintance with the pests and
Paris green, they are very much alarmed.
An incendiary fire was started in the
Palace hotel, at Tokiah, Cal., on Tues
day, destroying it, together with Wells,
Fargo & Co. ’s express office, the Western
Union telegraph office, Heed’s theatre
and Odd Fellows hall. The loss will be
very heavy.
At Jacksonville!, Ala., there was a un
ique reunion on Saturday last. Colored
men who served in the Confederate army
in various-capacities as teamsters,servants,
cooks, etc.., had a confederate reunion.
The day was celebrated with a barbecue,
speeches and baseball.
A charter was issued Tuesday to the
Lancaster Manufacturing Compauy of
Lancaster, S. C. Of the stock, more
than 50 per cent, has been subscribed and
25 per cent, paid in. The company will
manufacture spokes, handles, doors,
sashes, 'etc., ana repair machinery.
The damaged leaves of the iron Pal
metto tree, forming the Mexican monu
ment in the State House yard, at Colum
bia, S. C., are being taken down, for
shipment to Charleston, where repairs
will be matfe. The leaves were injured
by tl^e tornado and storms several years
years ago.
Leaf tobacop sales 'in tbe Danville,
Va., market, for August, were 2,817,000
pounds. Sales forthe first eleven months
of the tobacco year were 27,172,000
pounds. This is a decrease of 2,000,000
pounds as compared with the same pe
riod last year.
It is reported from Birmingham, Ala.,
that Jim Snow and George Banks, two
outlaws, who wore members of the
Simpson gang in the bloody Simpson and
Howten feud in the western part of the
county, were captured Thursday aud
lodged in jail there. There is a reward
of $400 for the capture of the two men.
The upper reservoir of the waterworks
compauy at Charleston, S. C., gave way
Tuesday, and precipitated about seven
millions gallons of water on the sur
rounding land. Fortunately the east
embankment, which gave way, fronts the
marsh, aud hence there was no .serious
destruction of property or loss of life.
The trustees of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical college, met at Raleigh,
N. C., on Saturday iu special session, to
elect a president of that college. The
election resulted in the choice of Colonel
Alex, Q. Holliday', who is a native of
Virginia, and for five years has been
president of the Florida agricultural
college.
The carpenters’ strike in Birmingham,
Ala., which has been in progress for
nearly a week, is virtually ended. An
increase of five cents per’hour all around
has been conceded by nearly all the
contractors. The carpenters had the ad
vantage of striking at just the right time,
as more than 2,GUO buildings were going
up under contract.
Another big railroad deal was made
Thursday at Nashville, Tenn., by which
Dr. William Morrow becomes principal
' owner of the South Nashville Street
Railway company, and Mr. Wm. Dun
can, the president, retires. The capital
stock of the compauy is $115,000, and
over half of this controlling interest was
sold by Duncan to Dr. Morrow.
The annual cotton statement of Mont
gomery, Ala., shows that total receipts
for the past year, 1888-80, were 108,507,
aud for 1887-88 receipts were 107,508.
During the mouth of August last year,
receipts were 1,701 bales and for the
same month this year 4.060 bales. Cot
ton is opening very rapidly, and com
parative high prices will hurry it on the
market. j
On Tuesday the caboose-of a freight
train which left Accotiuk,'Yu., eighteen
mile's from Washington, on the Virginia
railroad, loft the track and polled down
an embankment, instautly killing T. A.
Rainey and Ashton Rainey, brothers, and
well-known cattle raisers of Wnrrcnton,
Va. Conductor Faulkner, of Alexan
dria, VtjW’waa seriously hurt.
The.jfompilation of-volumes of war
records-,•- comprising operations about
Chattanooga and Knoxville* Tcnn., -in
cluding the battle of Missionary Ridge,
is progressing rapidly. Two volumes of
the Ch ckamaucu battle havo been com
pleted, containing both union and con
federate reports, and some advance cop
ies will be printed for use at the ap
proaching reunion of the s ociety of army
of the Cumberland at Chattanooga.
At Montevallo, Ala., Saturday night,
John Lawrence saw a light iu his uncle’s
store and went inside to see about it.
Burglars were inside and opened fire on
him, and when all was over and the
burglars gone, Lawrence lay dead, shot
through the heart. Both of the burglars
were captured on Sunday. One of them
has confessed. When found they were
up a tree within fifty feet of where the
murder was committed.
Thursday morning, at Monroe, Ga.,
while workmen were tearing away an old
barroom, a human skeleton was un
earthed in the cellar. Excitement ran
high, and many theories were suggested.
Several times in the history of Monroe
men have disappeared suddenly and
were never heard of. The building is
quite old, and at different times in its his
tory it has been occupied by bad men as
a barroom and gambling house.
The committee of the Southern Rail
way and Steamship association, at Atlan
ta, Ga., concluded its work on Thursday.
The rates recently adopted by the Central
road of Georgia and the Piedmont Air-
Line wore considered. It was decided to
adopt the same schedule on all the roads,
with the exception of tbe marine insurance
clause of the Georgia Central and Savan- 1
nah fast freight line. The price on all
toads except this will be 1.16, and by
the Georgia Central it will be 1.08, al
lowing for the marine insurant, which
will also have to be paid.
The funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Julia Jackson Christian, daugh
ter of Stonew'all Jackson, who died in
Lexington, Va., on Friday, took place
Sunday morning at the Presbyterian
church at Lixington. The church was
jammed, the entire population of the
place being out. The body was interred
beside her father, General Thomas J.
(Stonewall) Jackson. Jinny of the bat
tle-scarred veterans of the Confederacy,
with heads bowed and in tears, watched
the remains laid to rest. Choice floral
offerings came from many places.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, on
Thursday, signed the following bills
which are now laws. An Act—To in
corporate the Planters Loan and Bank
ing aoinpang, and the American Trust
aud Banking company,- of Atlanta, and
An Act—To prohibit the sale of seed
cotton in county of Baldwin and the
county of Harris from the loth of August
to 15th of December of each year and to
provide penalties for a violation of the
same, also to prohibit the sale of seed
cotton iu the county of Washington from
tbs 1st day of August to the 24th day of
December in each year, and to provide
penalties for the violation of the same.
A GREAT STRIKE.
A MONSTER MASS MEETING HELD BY
STRIKERS IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
Two thousand coal heavers and barge
men have joined the already tremendous
ranks of the. strikers at London. The
council of the strikers held a meeting
Saturday cveniug, aud after a long dis
cussion decided to continue the strike.
A monster meeting of strikers was held
in Hyde Park Sunday afternoon. Burns,
the socialist agitator, and other labor
leaders, made speeches. Resolutions
declaring that the men would continue
the strike until their demands were fully
conceded, were unanimously adopted.
It is estimated that 150,000 persons took
part iu the demonstration. During the
progress of the meeting a collection was
taken up for the benefit of the strikers.
Money was received in hats and open
parasols, and a large sum was obtained.
Five thousand railway men held a meet
ing at Darlington and decided to strike
unless shorter hours of labor were
granted. Mi.ss meetings of dock-
men aud others were held also at South
wark, at which the strikers
voted to 'form a separate committee for
south London in order to have a better
voice in the conduct ol' the strike. In a
sermon, at .York, on Sunday, Canon Flem
ing expressed sympathy with the strik
ers. Meetings of sympathy are being
hold throughout the country.
A COLLISION,
IN WniCII SEVERAL PEOPLE AUK KILLED,
AND OTHERS DANGEROUSLY HURT.
An excursion train to Burlington,Iowa,
from the Horse Breeder’s meeting at Rut
land, Vt.puid a stock train bound south,
collided Saturday night four miles north
of Middlcburg, Both engines, one car
and u part of another car of the excur
sion train and ten or twelve stock cars,
loaded with hogs, were 1 wrecked and
piled in a heap. The dead are: Conduc
tor Hiram Blodgett, of the excursion
train, and one pausenger, whose body is
under the train, aud cafiuct be identified
The engineers of both trains were dan
gerouslv hurt, aud several of the pnsset;
erers on the stock train were seriously i:
jured.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
George Fawcett Rowe, playwright and
writer,died in New York Thursday night.
The Bank of England has advanced iiA
rate of discount from three per cent to
four per cent.
At Blackburn, England, 3,000 looms
have been stopped, owing to the depres
sion in trade.
Bond offerings Tuesday aggregated
$854,100, at 105J for four-and-a-half per
cents and 128 for fours; nil accepted.
The third bridge across the Ohio River
leading from Cincinnati into Kentucky,
was opened Monday for public travel.
L. S. Brooks’ bank at Lennox, Iowa,
has closed its doors. No one knows
anything of the affairs of the institution
yet.
The Protestant Alliance has rqsolvsd
strenuously to oppose the government’s
proposal to establish a Catholic Univer
sity iu.Ireland.
The official trial trip of the cruiser
Baltimore, built by the Cramps, of Phil
adelphia, for the goverment, will take
place Tuesday.
Lord Scotland will be sworn in as
lord lieutenant of Ireland on October
1st. He will muke his state entry into
Dublin by December 3rd.
' Serious floods prevail in the district
surrounding Tampico, Mexico, Many
families have taken refuge on the high
ground, their houses being' flooded.
The Catholic cathedral at Harbor
Grace, N. F., was discovered to be on
fire Monday morning, and was burned to
the ground. The los9 is placed at$150,-»
000, on which there is no insurance.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone-
vile, Ind., who i9 charged with embez- |
"Element In his office,' shows that the |
shortage amounts to $0,000, and may
reach more. Denny has not jet been up- ]
prehended.
Tuesday evening a bomb, ten centime- i
ters in diameter, was thrown from the t
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.
In accordance with a law recently
passed, the French government, on Sat
urday, took formal possession of the tel
ephone stations. The company protested
against the government’s action ns illegal
and only submitted to force.
Horace F. Shepard,of Sharon,treasurer
of the Shepard & Morse Lumber Co., of
Boston, Mass., failed and made an assign
ment to Oscar A. Martin, of Straugb-
ton, and H. A. Nash, of Bostou. L a
bilities $100,000, assets light.
Rev. C. A. Nybladn, of Galesburg, III.,
has instituted suit against thirty promi
nent citizens of Unit place, charging
them with false imprisonment and de
famation of character, and asks for $25,-
000 damages. Last full Mr. Nybladn
was arrested on a serious charge. He es
caped trial because the case was dis
missed.
A certificate filed in the county
clerk’s office on Saturday, shows that the
capital stock of the Commercial cable
company, of New York, has been in
creased from $0,000,600 $10,000,000. It
was signed by dilectors John W. Mackey,
George S. Coe, Hector DeCustro. A. B.
! Chandler aud DeCastro.
phia, Pittsburgh Cincinnati, Boston and
Jacksonville, Fla.
Counsel for Lazarus Davy and David
E. Harman, of New York, has obtained
from Judge Barrett, of the supreme court
a writ of injunction restraining
the Mobile and Ohio railroad company
from paying iu ensh the interest due Sep
tember 1st, on its general mort
gage bonds, and from pledging or selling
any of its bonds for the purpose of pro
viding money to make the payment of in
terest.
The first of the bear failures, which
has been expected on Wall street, New
York, to follow the recent advance in
the stock market, was announced Tues
day. The operator who was forced to
the wall was T. B. Musgrave, of Mus-
grave & Co. He was one of the most
prominent members of the stock ex
change, having been a member since
1809. IIi3 liabilities are estimated at
$100,000.
The new employes of the Allegheny
Bessemer steel works, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
who took the place of the strikers last
spring, struck Monday against the new
scale presented by the firm. On Satur
day the firm offered a scale to the em
ployes, by the acceptance of which the
firm claimed more money could be made
by the workers. The scale was presented
the men, but they refused to accept it
and struck. About five hundred men are
out.
William Murtrie Speer, secretary of
the World’s Fair committee at New
York, on Thursday received the follow
ing letter from ex-President Cleveland,
dated at Saranac Inn: “I acknowl
edge the receipt of nbtice of my ap-
pointmint as a member of the com
mittee on permanent organization for the
international exposition of 1S92. I shall
be v^ry glad to co-operate as a member
of such committee with other citizens of
New i'qpk to make the exposition a
grand success.”
The Pratt Lumber company, at Little
Rock, Ark., has passed into the hands of
a receiver. The company own and op
erate five mills, and has done am mtmense
business, though in. the last year there
have been many losses. A wrangle
among the directors resulted in a receiv
ership. The liabilities are placed in tbe
neighborhood of $70,000, and assets are
nbortt $120,000, five mills, a stock of
lumber, horses, mules and probably 5,000
acres of timber.
THE WORLD’S EXPOSITION.
WASHINGTON, 1). a
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND IIIS ADVISERS.
iPPOUrMISTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER 1UTTE.M
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
GREAT PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOB
THE FORTHCOMING WORLD’S FAIR.
Tt is reported from St. Louis that the !
| fast mail train which arrived in that city j
i Saturday night over the Vandalia Road, i
j was robbed at Terre Haute, Indiana,
{ while the mail clerks and tram hands j
; were at supper. It is said that one |
j pouch, containing registered letters, was i
i taken. The pouch was supposed to j
! contain about $10,000.
(■* A special from Republic, Wis., says:
Roimoiul Holzhey, the lone highway- j
' man, who lias terrorized Northern Wis-
I cousin for live months past, robbing |
: trains, waylaying stage coaches and i
I holding up pedestrians, was captured !
! there Saturday morning. Iloizhev con- j
1 losses to all the stage aud railroad rob- j
\ beries.
! The Anti-Alcohol Congress held at '
j Paris, France, passed a resolution to the
I effect that the Governments of the world ■
! ought to be asked to place prohibition ]
j duties »n alcohol, and to exempt tea,
i coffee, etc., from customs dues. Statis- ,
! tics show thnt (he consumption of alco- j
i hoi doubled in Frauco botween 1875 and
i 1885.
j A meeting of importers of Florida
I orauges was held at New York on Tues- 1
j day. The object of the meeting was to !
i form an association to unite with the i
I growers aud stop the consignment:of !
j Florida oranges to irresponsible parties j
j who undersell legitimate' dealers. Rep- j
resentativv s were nresent from PliiUulcl-
New York has certainly entered heart
and soul into the pre.iininary arrange
ments for our great international exposi
tion of 1892, aud when this mighty city
commits herself unreservedly to any en
terprise, the ultimate accomplishment of
the undertaking is practically guaran
teed. Therefore, the history of Ameri
ca’s forthcoming world’s fair may be
epitomized in one word of reliable pro
phecy—success. Mayor Grant is being
congratulated by everybody upon the
excellent judgment he has displayed in
appointing the various committees. His
wisdom iu the discharge of that duty
reached its climax iu his selection of the
finance committee. There probably
never was such a galaxy of millionaires
associated together on any one board of
management. The combined wealth of
the twenty-five men composing that
finance committee amounts • to over
$500,000,000 or an average of $20,000,-
000 apiece. The following is extracted
from a report of the first meeting which
was held*in the governor's room in the
city hall on Saturday: The committee
consists of twenty-five members, ap
pointed by tlie mayor, with the mayor
and the secretary of the general com
mittee members ex-oliicio. Of the
twenty-seven membeis, only seven were
absent. Mr. Havemeyer, Mr. O'.Douo-
hue, Mr. Pierpont Morgan aud Mr.
Huntington are in Europe. Mr. Mills,
Mr. Jesup, Mr. Bhepherd and Mr. Van
derbilt were out of town, and could not
return in time for the meeting. -Those
present were: 'William L. Buli, Presi
dent of the Stock Exchange; Calvin. S..
Brice, August Belmoit, Samuel 1). Bab
cock, Robert Dunlap, Jay Gould, Henry
B. llvde. John II. Inman, Eugeue Kelly,
Frederick A. Kurslioedt, John McKes
son, Herman Oelrichs, Oswald Otteu-
norfer, William ReckafeUer, Charles
Stewart Smith, William Steinway, J.
Edward Simmons, Jesse Seljgman, the
mayor and the secretary,
A TOWN DESTROYED.
A special from Great Falls, Mont.,
says: News has just been received that
Barker was almost totally destroyed by-
lire Monday. The tire started in the
miners’ camp three doors below Zeigler's
house aud swept from there up the valley
burning all the eastern portion of the
camp. It is supposed that a man named
Ellis, his wife aud four children lost
iheir.lives. '■.There are also three men
missing. Barker is the business center i
of the entire Barker district and is about
sixty-five miles southeast of Great Falls. J
Louis Jacobs has been appointed dep
uty internal revenue collector at
Charleston, S. C.
A. P. West was on Tuesday appointed
postmas'er of Leesville, Lexington
county, S. C., vice J, P, Brodie re
moved.
President Harrison made but two ap
pointments Monday: George O. Eaton,
of Montana, surveyer-general of Mon
tana, and John Little, of Ohio, commis
sioner on behalf of the United States in
the Venezuelan claims commission. He
has accepted, and will be in Washington
at a meeting Tuesday.
The Argentine Republic has appointed
three delegates to the International
American congress. They are Do a
Raque Pena, at present minister to Uru
guay ; Don Manueal Quintana, a promi
nent lawyer who has never held office,
and Don Ninciente Questa, minister to
the United States.
The debt statement, issued Monday,
shows the increase of the debt during
August to be $0,076,092.22; increase
since June 31, 1889, $7,094,003.76; total
interest bearing debt, $881,000,058.19;
total debt of all kinds $1,045,826,102.00;
total debt less available credits $1,083,-
740,625.24; total cash in the treasury
$033,275,215.83; legal tender notes out
standing $34G, 081,010; certificates of
deposit outstanding $16,515,000; gold
certificates outstanding $123,393,519;
silver certificates $203,580,620; frac
tional currency outstanding $6,915,690.-
146.
It is not probable that the war de
partment will take any steps m the mat
ter of removing the. bapd of Apaches
from Mount Vernon. barracks, Alabama.
Secretary Proctor said Tuesday .morning.:
‘'There is a mandatory statue’ providing
for the confinnrent of the Indians at soma
government barracks, and there is no
better place than where they now are.*
The Indian Rights association has made
b propostion to purchase a large tract of
land iu North Carolina, to which the
Indians could be removed and where they
could live in partial freedom, headed by
that old worrior Geronitno; but the sec
retary is not disposed to act until he
sees the purchase cousumatea.
Postmaster General Wanamaker and
President Norvin Green had a consulta
tion, Saturday, respecting the telegraph
service furnished the government by the
Western Union Telegraph company. It
is understood that satisfactory progress
is being made toward an agreement upon
the lines laid down by the postmaster-gea-
erai. The question of rates to be paid by the
government for telegraph service is the
point at issue, but by no means the prin
cipal question, as Postmaster-General
Wanamaker’s plans contemplate a consid
erable enlargement of the functions of the
post-office department in the direction of
co-operation with the telegraph compa
ny’s service, to secure a cheaper and bet
ter service.
LABOR DAY.
ITS CELEBRATION IN THE VARIOUS CTTIE
OF THE COUNTRY.
Monday was Labor Day in the United
States. Delightful weather favored the
first observance of the day at Philadeidhia.
Banks and exchanges were closed, as
were nearly all the mills and factories.
The day was appropriately alebrated by
picnics, parades, merry making, g..uies
and dancing. A number of speakers ad
dressed the assemblage on the eight hour
question. Nearly all the stores and bus
iness establishments iu she eity were
closed in the afternoon. The day at New
York was ushered in by bright sunshine.
From early morning the sireets were
crowded by the sturdy sons of toil. It
was noticed, however, that large nuni-
l.Hrs of.working, girls trudged along as
usnal with pheir lunch iu hand. In a uu-
ji'fltv ofj r.aSes it was found they worked
in cigar factories and ether concerns, the
owners of which had no icspect for labor
d;iy. J 'Ail the exchanges weie closed,and
to the custom house was kept open from 9
10 o’clock purely for clearance purposes.
The day was honored in Chicago hy two
processious and numberless picnics. The
largest .procession was that of the trades
mid labor assembly in which thousands
of meii marenCd to the mm-ic of numer
ous blinds. The I fades taking part in
this celebration'were printers, switch
men, horse-sheers, carpenters, wood-
curvers, iroivmoulders, gas fitters, »ii-
Dlwner.y constructors, harness makers,
brick layers, stone cutlers, cigar makers
and waiters. Cincinnati’s celebration
was obstructed 'by raiu, which began
falling in the night and kept on until af
ter 12 o'clock. • -A parade for the after
noon was arranged, however, and was
followed by a picnic at one of the hill top
resorts.
