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The Fayetteville News.
VOL. 2. FAYETTEVILLE, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER U, 1889.—SPECIAL EDITION. NO. 7.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIO VS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
STEWS FBOM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The king of Holland has again weak
ened and his condition is serious.
It is reported that the new German
army bill will involve the expenditure of
200,000,000 marks.
Six cotton mills at Blackburn, Eng
land, have been closed, owing to the
depressed state of trade.
President Harrison on Wednesday re
ceived the resignation of James Tanner
as commissioner of pensions.
Forest fires destroyed the Central Pa
cific railroad bridge, at Upper Cascades,
Cal., Friday, together with one mile of
snow sheds.
Charles F. Scott, of West Virginia,
has been appointed pardon clerk of the
department of justice, vice Judge Bote-
ler, resigned.
The Johnstown, Pa., distributing
committee have $1,500,000 on hand, and
there is consider'Able worry over the
nutter of its disposal.
The thermometer registered forty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
morniDg. A severe frost is reported at
Cheyenne, VVyoming.
The heaviest rainfall in the country
has been in New York. For twenty-four
hours, ending- at 8 a. m. Friday, the
rainfall was 2.40 inches.
Socialists attempted to hold an open-
air meeting at Httiiiburg, Germany, on
Tuesday night. The piliee broke up
the meeting and arr\ested thirteen per
sons.
The entire bench cof Judges, District
and Circuit, of Rigs, Russia, have been
arrested for using the \German language
after they had been ordered to u^e Rus
sian. \
The rate committee of the fiswJjicrB
Railroad and Steamship association met
in New York ou Wednesday, and decided
that at present no advance in freight
tariffs would be made.
A dispatch from Laramie, Wis., says:
The first snow fall of the season L..1 here
on Saturday. Storm seems over large
portion ot Amie plains. Leadville, Col.,
also reports a light fall of snow.
Duncan Campbell, Jr., of the firm of
.Duncan. Campbell & Son, of Montreal,
Canada, dealers in tailors’ trimmings,lias
disappeared, and it is found that paper
to the amount of $10,000 was forged by
>bim.
A boiler in the California sash, door
and blind factory at Oakland, exploded
Wednesday, killing four men outright
aud injuring several others, two perhaps
fatally. Two others are supposed to be
buried in the ruins.
A number of merchants have signed
a memorial addressed to Prince Bis
marck, in which charges of impoliteness
and general mismanagement arc made
against Mr. Edwards, United States
consul at Berlin, Germany.
Judge Sawyer, iu the United States
circuit court at San Francisco, on Mon
day rendered a decision in the habeas
.corpus cuse of Deputy Marshall David
Nagle, and discharged Nagle from cus-
• bodv.
Win. P. lliginbothiun, president of tlio
.Blue Valley Bank of Manhattan, Kansas,
lias been convicted iu the District Court
• of grand larceny. The case is ilie out-
.growth of the suspension of Higinboth-
ain's bank Wednesday, when the ledger
showed a deficit of §100,000.
The President,on Saturday, appointed
Charles S. Johnson, of Nebiaska, United
States attorney for • the district of
Alaska. E. G. Haywood, of North
Carolina, has been appointed chief of
the judiciary division of ■ tlio first
comptroller's office, vice J. A. Johnson,
resigned.
It was understood, from advices re
ceived in Rochester, N. Y., on Saturday,
that the big strike in tlie Pennsylvania
soft coal region is settled, and the men
will resume work Monday. The strike
was confined to the Connellsville district,
but over 3,000 men have been idle for
two weeks on account of it.
The portraits of General Grant, Sher
man and Sheridan, which were paiuted
by direction of George W. Childs for the
military academy, will be formally trans
ferred to that institution on October 3.
General Horace Porter will represent Mr.
Childs upon the occasion and will deliver
an approptiate address in presenting the
portraits.
Exports of specie at the port of New
’York for tile past week amounted to
$407,440, of which $141,080 wi.s gold,
und $318,300, silver. Of the total ex
ports, $2,000 in gold and $313,300 in
silver went to Europe, and $142,000 in
gold aud no silver to South America,
Imports of specie for the week amounted
to $7,205, of which $5,000 was in gold,
and $2,205 iu silver.
During Tuesday and Wednesday there
were great convulsions of nature and
subterranean commotions, followed by
tremendous explosions of gas and steam
in the upper geyer basin at Hot Springs,
Ark. All the larger geysers are in fu
rious activity. Scientists explain that
all of this phenomenal outburst is direct
ly traceable to and connected with the
atmospheric and sub marine demonstra
tions of the great storm that prevailed
along tbo Atlantic coast.
Tlio strike of the western window
glass workers at Pittsburg, Pa., was
practically settled at a conference of
workmen and a committee of manufac
turers. Saturday. The manufacturers
conceded the 5 per cent, advance de
manded bv the" employes. The matter
will be presented to a general meeting of
manufacturers, and if ihe committee’s
action is ratified, a general resumption
will take place next week. The settle
ment affects 6ixty-one factories in the
west, employing about 5,000 men and
boys.
During a roar of laughter in the aca
demy of music last Tuesday night at
Reading, Pa., at the eccentricities of the
character of Joshua Whitcomb in “ The
Old Homestead,” a lady in the audicne
was seen to throw up ner hands and fall
back in her seat in a state of hj sterics,
and she was eairied home unconscious.
It was later learned, that iu a spell of
laughter she had swallowed a silver plate
containing two teeth. The lady lingered
in agony until Wednesday, when she
died. At the post mortem examination
the teeth were found in her wind-pipe.
TO GEORGIA FARMER8.
A JOINT LETTER CONTAINING VALUABLE
SUGGESTIONS TO COTTON ItAISEBS.
Commissioner J. T. Henderson and
President of the Alliance, L. F. Living
stone, of Georgia, are back from New
Orleans, aud issue the following joint
letter to the cotton rauiV'y sf LVorgyjj,
which will be read with great interest by
those to whom it is addressed, and by
lAmuMiidpof others: “The action taken
at New Orleans on the 11th in^t. by the
convention composed of delegates from
the cotton, exchange* of the Uuited
States agrenng that all cotton should be
priced and sold net, and fixing the tare
at twenty-four pounds on each bale cov
ered in jute, aud sixteen pounds on each'
bale covered in cotton stuudurd bagging,
three-fourtlis’ pounds per yard, by their
action is to become operative on and
after the first day of October, which will
avail to every farmer selling cotton on and
after that date, covered in cotton bag
ging, fourteen pounds per bale over the
present taro allowed, and this, at ten
cents per pound, makes a net gain of
$1.40 per bale. Also, cotton covered
with jute, a gam of six pounds per bale,
at 10 cents, or a gain of 00 cents per
bale. This, on a crop of 7,500,000 bales,
estimated crop for 1880, is $6,100,000,
or a gain of $2,800,000 on 2,000,000
bales covered in cotton, and $3,800,000
on 5,500,000 bales covered in jute. Now,
will not all cotton producers fall into
line at once, and back up this liberal and
just action on the part of the cotton ex
changes? From October 1st, no man
need complain of less on cotton covered
in cotton, aud all using jute can thank
this noble body of meu lor the gain of
00 cents per bale on cotton thus cov
ered. J. T. Henderson,
Commi siouer of Agtieulcure.
L. F. Livingston,
President Georgia Farmer’s Alliance.”
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA-
R10 US POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
WORK OF THE STORM.
crews of abandoned vessels being
PICKED t'P AT SEA.
A dispatch from Lewis, Del., says:
The bark Sorriderin, previously reported
as having lost her second mate and stew
ard overboard during the storm ou the
11th instant, picked up twelve of the crew
of the Norwegian bark Fteya,250 miles off
Cape Henry. They had been twenty
hours in an open boat. On the 12th, she
took five men off the water-logged schoon
er, Carrie Hall Luster, Captain Howland.
Monday night, in the same vicinity, the
Sorriderin passed a vessel bottom up.
Those on board were unublo to distin
guish the name of the wricked vessel.
An abandoned four-masted schooner wan
alsojtassed.
ANOTHER VICTIM.
A MUTILATED HUMAN BODY FOUND IN
WHITECHAPEL, LONDON.
Tuesday morning, a policeman found
the body of a fallen woman lying at the
corner of the railway arch on Cable
street, 'Whitechapel. An examination
of tlio remains showed that the head and
arms had been cut off and carried away.
The murder is tlio worst of the whole
series of Whitechapel murders. The
manner in which the limbs had been
severed from the body shows that the
murderer was posseesou of some surgical
skill. Tho mos-t intense excitement
attain prevails in Whitechapel.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad Ma
chine shops, at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
were burned Friday. Estimated loss
$25,000.
Governor Lee has appointed delegates
from Virginia to the National Fi raters’
congress to be held at Montgomery,
Ala., November 13th.
The hotelgit Bon Air, a summer resort
eighty miles from Richmond, Vu., on the
Richmond and Danville railroad, was
burned Wednesday. Loss $25,000; par
tially insured.
Jacksonville, Fla., will build a $100,-
000 cotton factory. The shares in the
3tock have all been taken, and the com
pany will organize and begin operations
at as early a day as possible.
On Friday night a freight and passen
ger train collided in the Baltimore and
Potomac lailroad tunnel, near the navy
yard, Washington, D. C., and ten or a
dozen lives were lost.
Dr. J. W. Owen, over eighty years of
nge. a prominent physician well known
throughout Virginia nnd Maryland, died
at his residence, in Stephens City, Va.,
Sunday.
Governor Buckner, on Monday, issued
a proclamation to the people of Harlan
county, culling upon them to aid the
state troops in enfotcing the law in that
part of Kentucky.
New counterfeit two-dollar treasury
certificates have made their appearance
in Chattanooga, Tenn. The engraving is
fine, but the paper is poor. All coun
terfeits, so far discovered, are numbered
B 105441741, nnd bear a p^ctunp of Gen
eralUiIUlW.Vv
Kenwood Cotton mills, near Lowell,
Gaston county, N. C., were burned Fri
day. They had been shut down for
weeks. Loss is sixty-tbousand dollars,
with $51,000 insurance. The mills were
jt new and had six thsustiiffriipt.tdles.
Dispatcliis to the Dallas News from all
sections of norih and northeastern and
northwestern Texas indicate general
damage to crops and property and delay
of traffic from floods, occasioned by
tains, which have fallen incessantly in
that territory during the past week.
A one thousand dollar verdict was
found against the Richmond and Dan
ville railway company iu the city court
at Atlanta, Ga., on Wedmsdav. The
plaintiff was Harry C. Beck, who sued
lor ten thousand dollars damages for be
ing ejected from a train in August, 1880.
At Fctuandina, Fla,, Wednesday, fire
destroyed the city jail, nnd one negro
prisoner, named Henry Baker, perished
in the flames. The origin of the fire is
unknown, but it is suspected that tho
prisoner accidentally set himself and
bedding on fire while lighting his pipe.
The Louisville & Nashvillo Railway
company, on Friday, let contracts for
forty-seven miles of road, from Cumber
land Gap to Princess Flat, Va., where
connection is made with the Norfolk aud
Western, giving a through line from
Louisville to Norfolk.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation in the south, was
granted by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was incorporated, with authority to do
bittiness iu Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000.
At the trial of Plientand Doll Tayhorn
two of the notorious Hatfield gang at
Pikeville, Ky., on Saturday they were
convicted of the murder of the McCoy
brothers, and sentenced to imprisonment
for life. Ellerson Mounts was found
guilty of murder of Elflora McCoy, aud
sentenced to be banged December 3.
G. L. Stallings, the chief of police of
Anniston, Ala., publishes iu the News of
that city a card in which he solemnly ob
ligates himself to the Pelham family to
leave the community of Anniston on or
before Monday, September 20th, never to
return. The card is a long one, and is
the outcome of the killing, some time
ago, of William Pelham by Stallings.
The triennial conclave of the grand
encampment of Knights Templar will
be held in Washington, D. C., next
month, and the event is attract
ing attention all over tho United States.
This conclave will be the most important
sad at the same time most interesting
ever held on this continent. The attend
ance will be very large, and it is expect
ed that there will be at least from 40,000
to 50,000 Knights formed in line on
Pennsylvania avenue on that graud oc
casion.
A substitute for cotton, in tlio shape
of chemically prepared ramie fibre, lias
been invented by Dr. Pankuiu, of
1 Charleston, S. C. The method of its
preparation is, of course, a secret, but it
is estimated that the cost per bale or per
pound will not exceed that for the prep
aration for market of equivalent amounts
of long cotton. Dr. Panknin b in com
munication with business men in New
York who are interested in the discov
ery. Something very interesting in the
way of the development of the industry
may be shortly expected.
At a meeting of the Farmers’ Alliance,
held at Ellaville, Ga., the following res
olutions were unanimously adopted : Re
solved, First, By the Schley county al
liance now in session, that we demand of
the cotton buyers of Ellaville, an allow
ance ot eight pounds tare on cotton baled
in cotton bagging. Resolved, Second,
That if said demand is not complied
with, we insist that every member of the
alliance of Schley county do refuse to
patronize said market or any other mar
ket where said demands are refused.”
Adopted September 10th, 1889,
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis ruilway, was held in the office
of the company, in Nashville, Tennessee,
on last Wednesday. The gross earnings
for the year were shown to be $3,000,-
105.16; operating expenses, $1,951,444.-
59; leaving net earnings, $1,348,720.58.
Out of this sum there has been paid in
terest and taxes, $808,095.54; improve
ments, $50,903.30—925,588.90: leaving
surplus, $418,121.08, from which four
dividends of 1 1-4 per cent, each upon
the capital stock have been declared,
$333,426.58; leaving a balance, $84,-
095.10.
THE RAGING FLAMES.
FATAL AND DISASTROUS FIRES AT LOUIS
VILLE, KY., AND JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
Bamberger, Bloom & Co., one of the
three largest Z’-hs'ex&te Jrv goods and
tYfitir®. houses in Louisville, Ky.,"- TTtaj
completely destroyed by fire Sunday
morning. Four firemen were caught by
falling walls and killed nnd two more
ete reported uuder tho debris. They
were working close up in the rear when
the walls fell and tuey were crushed
beneath. Four have been taken out
dreadfully mangled. A conservative es-
timafe oUtlie 'loss'tin the stock iff' $750,-
000. The I uilding was a double six
story, owned by the firm, and valued at
$75,000.
Fi£o broke out Sunday in the im
mense warehouse of the Clyde Steam
ship compuny on the pier at the foot of
Hogan street at Jacksonville,Fla. There
was very little freight in the house at
the time. About 250 bales of hay oil
and a small amount of miscellaneous
freight were destroyed. The loss is not
exceeding $2,000. The value of the
warehouse was about $5,000.
The exposition which is now being
held at St. Joseph, Mo., met with a
great disaster Sunday night. Fire broke
out iu the main hall, a great building,
1,100 feet in length, and filled with all
manner of exhibits. The entire building
and contents were consumed in spite of
the most heroic effort on the part of the
tire department. The origin of the fire
is said to come by electric lights. The
loss must exceed u quarter of a million
dollars.
A LATER ACCOUNT.
The following is a list of the killed
in the Bamberger, Bloom & Co. fire:
Edward Early, captain No. 1 hook and
ladder company; Lawrence Steiglitcr,
pipeman; Thomas Whalen, reel driver;
John Monahan, pipemau; Patrick Foley,
huklerntan; Frank Bess, ladderman; Den
nis McGrath, ladderman, was so badly
injured that he will die. Losses anil in
surance on the property destroyed, ac
cording to estimates by the firms burned
out, are as follows: Bamberger, Bloom
&Co., building$215,000, stock $785,000;
Louis Grautuan & Co., shoes, stock $65,-
000; L. Bretzfelder & Co., hats, stock,
$55,000; W. C. Cave & Co., shoes, stock,
$10,000; Isaac Baer, saloon, stock and
building, $2,000; Kohlhepp estate sa
loon, stock and building, damaged by
falling walls, $5,000. The total loss
will probably reach $125,000. This
makes the grand total loss $1,203,000.
The losses in the St. Joseph fire are
placed at $259,000.
STILL DISSATISFIED.
DI8A8TROU8 8TORMS
•WEEPING THE ATLANTIC COAST, DO IN#
UNTOLD DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
A terrible and disastrous storm Swept
along the Atlantic coast Monday, doing
considerable damage. At New York^
the North and East river fronts and thSf
cellars of warehouses and tenements otf
both the east and west sides of tho loweF
part of the city are in a decidedly cha
otic state. Some of the piers are en
tirely covered by the tide, and some that
arc usually twelve feet above
high water mark have theiF
decks licked by the angry waves.
The Jersey shore was inundated in many
places. On the East river front, buildings
from Fiftieth street to Fourteenth street,
are affected by the great rise of water.
The lower end of Blackwell’s island i»
submerged, and the keepers were engaged
early in the morning in removing pa
tients from frame out-buildings on that
portion of the island. It is the general
impression among sea faring men, that
tho tide is the highest known for twenty-
five years. No vessels arrived at New
York up to noon Tuesday. The storm
came from the seaward, nnd was full
grown when it struck the coast. Along
the Jersey coast the surf is reported the
heaviest ever known. A similar condition
prevails all along the coast of New Eng
land and New Jersey. Reports from
Coney island are to the effect that Mon
day night’s storm and its accon panyingj
high tide were the most disastrous iu the
history of that storm-beaten isle. The
Marine railway has been swept away.
The esplanade in front of Manhattan
Beach hotel washed out, and the sea is
flowing into the basement of Manhattan
Beach hotel. A greater part ©f th*
Concordance is gone.
Reports from Philadelphia say: The
damage to railroad lines entering Atlan-
.jjejCiiy, Cape May, Sea Isle City, Ocean
City,'aad other coast resorts, by the great
storm is^e?y heavy. The Camden and
Atlantic and Jersey roads were un
able to get a train in or oput of Atlantic
City on Tuesday. The coma canned
away telegraph poles and
communication 1
d all
old Camden
house at Atlantic City is Tour or 1
high, and in the meadows it is as high,
se that it is difficult to calculate the dam
age that has been done to railroad prop
erties. Ocean City is almost entirely
under water, and the beach road, which
is floated by every high tide, is
believed to be an entire wreck.
The news from Lewes, Delaware, is that
the tide was the highest since 1867.
Telegraphic communication with the
Breakwater was destroyed. The
schooners Alena Covert, Henry McLarke,
J. F. Becker, Byron M, Maud Seward,
Neuona, Gertrude Summers and four
unknown schooners are ashore. Both
wooden piers have been destroyed.
A COSTLY BLAZE.
A LARGE SUGAR REFINERY IN BROOKLYN,
N. Y., REDUCED TO ASHES.
THE LONDON STRIKERS REJECT PROPOSI-
SITION3 FOR A COMPROMISE.
I The dock companies at London, Eng-
! land, have agreed to tho demauds of the
strikers, but the rates of wages to be paid
! are to continue as at the present. The
i advanced rate not to go into
! effect until January 1st. It was made a
condition of the arrangemout that all the
1 strikers should resume work on Monday,
i Mossrs. Burns and Tillett signified their
ucceptancoof the company’s terms. Wheu
notified of the action of tho dock com
panies, the strike committee issued n
manifesto stating that the strikers would
not accept the dock companies’ terms,
namely, au increase of wuges from Jan
uary 1, 1890, ou condition that the men
return to work ou Monday. The situa.
tion is. therefore, unchanged.
A very disastrous fire broke out Satur
day afternoon in the mammoth sug&i
plant of the Dick & Meyers Co., on
North Seventh and North Eighth streets,
in Brooklyn, N. Y. The entire estab
lishment, which consisted of a collection
of buildings eight stories in heighth, ex
tending about 000 feet on North Seventh
street, 300 feet on North Eighth street,
and 250 feet along the dock, w as reduced
to ashes. It was filled with very valua
ble machinery, and the loss on the build
ing an t machinery is estimated at about
$1,500,000. Within the building were
| 17,000 barrels of sugar, valued at about
i baif a million dollars, making a total
loss of about $2,000,000. The filter
| house, next door to the refinery, soon
j caught fire, and shortly afterwards the
j second filter house, adjoining, was seized
i upon by the hungry flames. Almost at
j the same time, the machine building,
office building, and a number of sheds
were attacked. In a short time the
flames bad reached the storage house on
North Seventh street, where 8.000 bar
rels of Bugar were stored. In half an
■ hour all this was burned up,and soon the
I entire plant of twelve buildings were in
; ruins. The capacity of the burnt re-
1 finery was 1,000.000 peunds daily.
] About 20,000 barrels of sugar went up in
; smoke.
STANLEY HEARD FROM.
MOVEMENTS OF TIIE GREAT FXPLOREB IN
THE WILDS OF AFRICA.
Cablo dispatches from Zanzibar to the
government of Congo state say: “Henry
11. Stanley, ou leaving basin of Albert
Nfrauza, endeavored to make his way up
ward by passing to the west of the Vic
toria Nyauza. He failed, however, in
this attempt. He then went northward,
aud reached the eastern shore of the
lake. Emin Pasha accompanied him.
After a long stay on tho lake, awaiting
supplies, he marched in the direction of
Bmubassa. He is expoeted to reach the
‘.astern coast about the end of October.”
