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The Fayetteville News.
VOL. 2.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1889.
NO. 10.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIO US,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
ketts moM EYEnrvvniM—accidents, steikxJ,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
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An extensive strike of dock .laborer!
has begun at Rotterdam, Holland.
Landore steol works, at Swansea, Eng*
land, have been destroyed by fire.
Five persons were drowned Friday in
pond near Fall River, by the capsizing of
a boat.
The Temple of Heaven, at Pekin, con
taining the dragon throne/ has been de
stroyed by fire.
The recent fire in the temple of heaven,
in China, was of incendiary origin. Sev
eral arrests have been made.
; A number of branches of the National
league in the counties of Waterford and
Tipperary, Irelaud, have been suppressed.
A boiler explosion occurred at a saw
mill in Berlin, Pa., Wednesday, and
John Pritz, Edward Pritz, Oliver Ross,
David Ross and David Baker were
killed.
K The firm of Gibson, Parish & Co., of
il Chicago, Ill., was forced to apply for a
'ecciver on account of the embezzlement
f $89,000 by Harry F. Clifford, theii
ook keeper.
A dispatch from Marion, Ind., says
that the prevalence of dipththeria.theje
has caused such alarm that the public
schools were ordered to be closed Tues-
| day for one week. About a dozen
deaths have occurred.
Fire at Buckley & Douglass’ mill at
■’ Manitee, Mich.,- Wednesday afternoon,
destroyed over a million feet of lumber
and three hundred feet of flocks and
tramways. The loss is estimated at
*125,000.
General Samuel D. Sturgis, U. S. A.,
died at lifs home in St. Paul, Mian., on
Sunday. He graduated from West
Point, in 1840;. along with George B.
McClellan, Stonewall Jackson,Stonemau,
PickeLt and many other famous soldiers.
On ThW1rsdlfy^t#f&rni8g»' {femes f broke
but in Emery’s big soap factory/at Tvey
Dale, Ohio, and soon got beyond the
control of the department. The large
buildings were completely gutted, and
it is estimated that the loss will bo in
the neighborhood of $125,000.
A boiler used in a quarry at Wrights-
ville, Pa., exploded with terrific force
Saturday. Mrs. Lemiel Barnes was
killed instantly. Her head was blown
from her body. Her husband had liis
skull fractured nnd cannot live. A small
rbuilding was blown to atoms,
' Shipping circles at Baltimore were
somewhat disturbed on Monday, at a
’ yellow fever flag displayed on the British
' v Reamer Recta, Captain Lowe, which ar-
iVed in ballast from St. Lucia, West
. dies, to load for London. She is at
uarantine with three seamen sick.
Action has been commenced by Attor
ney General Tabor against the assembly
ceiling contractor, John Scaitli,. in the
supreme court of Oneida county, New
York, to recover $250,508. Thu Albany
county shcrill on Monday arrested
Snaith, who gave bail in $50,000.
A cable dispatch from London says:
The deficiency in cotton stock strength
ens the corner which has now assumed a
serious aspect. It is reported that the
chief operator in the corner has made (
arrangements to send the bulk of cotton *
tendered him to Havre, and thus starvb
the Liverpool market,
s At a meeting of the creditois of Gib
son, Parish <fc Co., of Chicago, Parish
stated that Clifford, the ab.-conding
book-keeper of the firm had carried oil
between $40,000 and $100,000 of the
firm’s assets, and he was inclined to think
the latter figure nearer the correct one
thau^he former.
Leon Lconnrdi, Italian private banker,
at 41 Park street, New York, disap
peared on Monday, lcaviug his clients in
the lurch. They were principally of the
laboring class. Nothing was left in the
bank except the safe and all the furni
ture of Lcouardi's residence, was sold.
His depositors number 800 or 900.
Early Thursday morning, Laflin &
Rand’s powder mills, at Crcssou, three
inilfc 0 ibelow Pottsville, Pa., blew up.
The explosion was terriflic in force.
Three workmen were killed and a num-
cr^of other workmen injured. Nearly
11 the window glass in Cresson was
battered, nnd the concussion was- sensi-
ly felt in Pottsville.
J(, K. Tallier, leader of the gang who
bbed the train on the Sonora railroad,
icar Nogales, Ariz.-, a year ago last May,
and who killed Conductor Atkinson and
Fireman Forbes, and who was subse
quently convicted of the crime and sen
tenced to death, was shot early Monday
morning by Mexican authorities at Gu-
avanra.
The* tin plate and sheet iron workers of
Boston, Muss., and vicinity, liuvo de
cided to leave.tho Knights of Labor and
organize an independent union. The
immediate cause of withdrawal is said to
be the support given by district assembly
3Q and general offices to the cigarmakers’
lqcal assembly. A mass meeting will be
held Tuesday to act upon the question of
applying for membership in the amalga
mated., building trades council.
DISCUSSING THE TARE.
SOME RESOLUTIONS OP VAST IMPORTANCE
TO COTTON GROWERS.
The National Cotton committee and
the Tare committee of the National Al
liance held a secret session at Atlanta,
Ga., Monday night. It is rumored that
the joint committees are preparing some
instructions which will be wide-reaching
in their effect. These are instructions to
fell the primaries, wheels und unions, ad
vising nnd instructing them to hold
meetings and . petition the governors of
each of the cotton states to call the leg
islatures in extra session to suspend the
processes of the courts for the collection
of debts for. six months, The object of
this action, they say, is “to thwart and
prevent the robbery planned and deter
mined against them.’’ The tare question
was discussed.bv the committee, and af
ter a careful consideration the following
resolutions were adopted: “Whereas,
The association of the American Cotton
exchnnge met in New Orleans on the 11th
instant, and in conjunction with the va
rious commissioners of agriculture and
representatives of the farming interests,
did recommend that cotton be sold by
net weight as a solution oi tho tare
question; And Whereas, The action
taken by the New Orleans Cotton ex
change in favor of assisting the farmers to
get paid for the 8 pounds more cotton that
each cotton-wrapped bale contains than
the jute-covered bale is highly appreci
ated by the committee, and the determi
nation of said exchange to continue to
contend for the cause, in spite of the fact
that many leading exchanges had de
serted it, is especially commendable, and
will be co-operated in by the interests we
represent; and, Whereas, The justice
and equity of the farmer’s claim on the
tare question is bssed on the one fact,
whjph stands boldly out undisputed and
indispupTble, that, every cotton-wrapped
bale actually contains eight pounds more
of lint cotton than it would if covered
with jute; therefore, it is hereby Re
solved, That the action had by tho
Shreveport Cotton exchange be adopted
in the present emergency, nnd every far
mer is hereby instructed when
offering for sale cotton wrapped in cot
ton bagging, to demand payment for
eight pounds more cotton than the act
ual gross weight of such bale. Resolved
second; That this action is intended to
supercede and take the place of all pre
vious action and instructions in regard
to the tare question. In no case shall a
bale of cotton be sold subject to a dock
of sixteen pounds for cotton bagging, or
twenty-four pounds for jute bagging as
agreed upon in New Orleans, unless the
cotton be sold at a half cent per pound
in advance of the current price at that
time nnd place. R. J. Sledge, Chairman,
Texas; M. L. Donaldson, South Carolina;
W. J. Northen, Georgia; R. F. Kolb,
Alabama; W. L. Lacey, Mississippi; A.
T. Hatcher, Louisiana; Oswald Wilson,
Florida; S.-B. Alexander, North Caro
lina; B. 51. Hord, Tennessee; L. P.
Fcatherstone, Arkansas.
ORDERED TO STRIKE.
BOOKISH PROCEEDINGS OK A BIUXLAYERS’
r.-.j,, L'NION—TROUBLE EXPECTED.
Between three and four hundred men
were thrown out of employment at by a
strikesOTdered by the Bricklayers’ union,
at New York, an Monday. Some of the
contractors have beeu using brick and
cement made by Peck, Martin & Co.
Peck, Martin & Co., employ at theii
works, four uou-uuiou men, (colored
teamsters,) and it was to compel the dis
charge of these men that the strike was
ordered. Some of the contractors arc
placed in a bad position, ns they are un
der time contracts, and also under con
tracts to use bricks of Peck, Martin &
Co.’s make. The workmen all side with
the contractors and are loud in their de
nunciation of the union nnd walking
delegates. There is a prospect of a long
lockout.
BLACK BART FREE.
TIIE NOTORIOUS TRAIN RORRER BREAKS
JAIL AND ESCAPES.
A dispatch from Bessemer, Mich.,
says: The Gogebic stage robber, Rei-
mund Holzhny, otherwise known as
“Black Bart,” together with several
other prisoners, made his escape from tho
county jail here Friday morning. He
was brought here from Republic, where
ho was nrrestod some days ago for hold
ing up a Gogebic stage and murdering
one of its occupants, Mr. Fleishbeiu, of
Illinois. Tho sheriff has called a posse
to pursue the fugitive. Citizens nre
much excited, and are turning out in
lame numbers to ioiu in the mm huut.
SOUTHERN SEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA-
RIO US POINTS IN TEE SOUTE
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 13 OOINO ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SQUTHEBN STATES.
Ex-Confederate General D. II. Hill
died iu Charlotte, N. C., en Tuesday.
Every gambling house in Mem
phis, Tenn., was closed Wednesday night
on warrants issued by the judge of the
criminal court.
The Atlantic nnd Danville railroad was
formaly opened Monday’‘between Dan
ville, Va., and Mi If bn, N. O., by an
excursion, of business men.
Fifteen milqs of track have been laid
on the Columbus Southern railroad. The
work is being pushed with great rapidi
ty, and trains will be run into Cussetta,
Ga., in a fow days.
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
business in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000.
The statement is now made at -New
Orleans upon what appears to be good
authority, that irregularities have been
discovered in what is known as the
“baby” bonds, commencing at numbei
102,000. Nearly all of the “baby” bonds
above 102,000 are fraudulent. The de
falcation- already in sight will reach more
than 1,200,000.
An executive reward of two hundred
dollars was offered by Governor Taylor,
of North Carolina, for the apprehension
of J. N. Carter, alias Jim Carthy, who
stands charged with the murder of Wal
ter Chatham, in Horiy county. A re
ward of one hundred dollars was offered
for John Cox, a negro, who is charged
with having committed mtirder in Jones
county. .
The Chattanooga, Tenn., Crimes, pub
lished reports from seventy-five of ninety-
six counties comprising the state of Ten
nessee showing an increase of value of
real and personal property of twenty-six
million dollars over assessment of 1888,
and an increase of one hundred million
over the assessment of 1880. An increase
of one hundred million dollars in taxa-
bles in three years is unprecedented in any
state in the union.
The State Farmers’ alliance of Florida
met at Jacksonville on Wednesday. The
principal object of the meeting was to
make Jacksonville a wholesale market
for Florida raised cotton, the building of
a cotton warehouse there, and the start
ing of fruit and vegetable nnd canning
factories. Incidental to these is the
building of a cotton factory by Jackson
ville capital, a company being already
organized with $10,000 subscribed.
The Mayo Bridge & improvement com
pany was chartered in the circuit court
at Richmond, Va., on Saturday. The
objects are to run a toll bridge between
Richmond and Manchester and other
points over the James River and else
where. Also to construct steam, elec
trical, horse and other railways, to erect
buildings, mills, etc., to furnish gas and
electric light, to utilize water power,
etc. The capital stock is to be from
$50,000 to $100,000.
It is reported from Savannah, Ga., that
spirits of tu:pentine has dropped off in
the last few days. Buyers are a little
hopeful at the decline, but sellers smile
and talk of the matter at 50c. October
have sold at 44c and 40c. Just now
there is considerable stock on hand, 12,-
800 casks, 3,000 more than on the same
day last year. The receipts to date arc
123,000, which is 17,( 00 more than the
receipts during the corresponding period
last year.
Monday closed the Danville Va., to
bacco year. The sales of leaf tobacco on the
warehouse floors for the year were 28,-
803,303 pounds, a decrease from last
year's sales of two and a half millions.
The average price was $8.75 per hundred.
The decrease iu the sales was due to a
short crop. The sales of the manufac
tured product since January were
§5,807,000 pounds, an increase over the
same time lust year of nearly two million
pounds.
DARING ROBBERIES.
A BRIDAL COUPLE KILLED.
AMBUSHED WHILE RETURNING FROM THEIR
WEDDING TRIP.
On Big Heart creek, Lincoln county,
W. Va., Al Brumfield and his newly
married wife were returning homo after
a brief wedding trip, when they were
ambushed by a man who shot them both.
Mrs. Brumfield died in a few hours.
Brumfield is dying. Ho claims to have
recognized his assassin, but refuses to say
who it was. It is believed that a former
suitor of Mrs. Brumfield, who failed to
win her. is the murderer.
TRAINS “HELD up” BV HIGHWAYMEN AT
THE MUZZLE OF REVOLVERS.
The Mobile and Ohio south bound pas
senger train was held up Wednesday
morning by train robbers at Buckatunna,
Miss., a station seventy miles north of
Mobile. Just before the train left'Buck-
atunna, two men mounted behipd the
tender of the train, and climbing over,
covered the engineer and firemen with
their revolvers, and ordered them to pull
out, and to stop at a bridge two miles
below Buckatunna, and to place the
train so that the express and mail car
should be on the further Bide of the
bridge from the rest of the train, the
bridge being a trestle over a deep creek.
The engineer put tho train just where
the robbers wanted it. When they
reached the place, a third robber ap
peared. These three men made the
engineer and fireman go with them to
the express car, and the messenger was
made to open the door and dump the
contents of the safe into a canvass sack,
but noticing that he was not closely
watched, he shoved some of the
money aside, so that about a thousand
dollars was hidden, the robbers getting
$2,700. All this money belonged to the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad company.
Alongside the express car door was a pile
of $70,000 government money en route to
Florida which the robbers failed to no
tice. After securing their booty the
train was ordered to pull out at once,
which it did, and the robbers disap
peared. The Mobile & Ohio road offers
$1,000 reward for the arrest and convic
tion of the robbers. --?T. .
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STtLL ANOTHER.
At a late hour Wednesday night, fu
the north bound Santa Fe train was pull
ing out of Crowley, ten miles south of
Fort Worth, Texas, three men boarded
the train and two others jumped on the
locomotive. The two on the engine
placed pistols to the heads of the engin
eer and fireman and told them to stop,
One of the men then got into the express
car and ordered the messenger to show
them the money. He pointed to three
bags of Mexican silver. One of the men
ripped open a sack and shoveled tho sil
ver out of the door, while the other one
threw, out the other 'sacks. They took
two packages said to contain ’$5,000
each, but overlooked three or four pack
ages for Fort Worth. The engineer was
then, made to move on.
RAILROAD ACCID E NT.
A COLLISION IN Wmcn FOUR FEOPLE ARE
KILLED AND TWENTY BADLY INJURED.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF TEE PRESIDKNl
AND EIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTI REST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The St. Louis express which left Al
bany, N. Y., Friday night, met with a
bad accident about two miles east of
Palatine Bridge at about midnight. The
first section broke down and stopped for
repairs. The rear brakeman was sent
back to signal the second section, but for
some reason failed to perform his duty.
As a consequence, the second section
telescoped into the first section, which
was made up of the baggage, mail, ex
press and three passenger cars,
packed with people, and a Wagner
sleeper on the end. Four dead bodies
have been taken out of the sleep
er, and twenty others who were in the
sleeper were seriously injured.
ST. LOUIS IN THE RING.
EFFORTS MADE TO HAVE THE WORLD’S
FAIR IN THE METROPOLIS OF MISSOURI.
A well attended meeting of prominent
officials of roads centering at St. Louis,
Mo., revealed the fact that great interest
is being taken by them in the World’s
Fair and that active efforts will be made
by them to have it held in that city.
An assessment of $1,000,000 on the rail
roads will be promptly subscribed and in
all likelihood that sum will be exceeded
by them. A meeting of newspaper pro
prietors also brought out subscriptions
largely in excess of the sum assessed
upon them. The individual subscriptions
of the duily papers are: Globe-Democrat-,
$20,000; Republic, $20,000; Post-Dis
patch. $15,00u; Star, $5,000; Chronicle,
$2,000. ^
NEWS FROM MEXICO.
It is estimated at the treasury depart
ment tl at there Las b:-cn a decrease ol
$13,500,000 in the public debt since the
first of September.
The board of the navy yard, the com
mandant, appointed to investigate the
navy purchasing system, has adjourned
after deciding that the present system
is efficient aud only miner changes in the
direction of reducing the number of
vouchers checks, etc., can be made with
out detriment to the service.
The secretary of the navy decided
Friday to revoke orders commanding the
Ossipce to convey Minister Douglass from
Norfolk to Hayti, it having been repre
sented that the Ossipee’s boilers are not
in condition to make steam. The Ker-
sarge, now at New York, has been or
dered to perform this service.
Governor Fowle, of Nerth Carolina, in
reply to the letter from the secretary of
war, suggesting the removal of the In
dians at Mount Vernon barracks to thi
mountain sections of North Carolina, ex
presses disapproval of the proposition, as
that section is in process of rapid settle
ment by the whites, aud suggests that
the Indians be located on the abandoned
lands of Vermont.
The secretary of agriculture, Rusk, has
returned to Washington after an inspec*
tion of mills for the manufacture of su
gar from sorghum cane by the new dilu
tion process, winch was lately subsidized*
by cuHgi'efl by an appropriation of
$80,000, to encourage experiments in the
new industry which now has about a
dozeu establishments in the United
States. Secretary Rusk reports that tho
process looks like it will be a failure,
and unless some improvements are made
he is very doubtful about the profit of
making sugar from sorghum cane.
The Postal and Cable Telegraph com
pany will open offices simultaneously all
over the south on Thursday. The com-
pany is ten years old, and has fifteen or
twenty thousand miles of wire, reaching
from Portland, Me., to California. It
has forty or fifty lines from New York to
Chicago and has invested altogether $12-
000,000. It is owned by McKay, the-'
California bonanza millionare. whose
wealth is estimated at thirty millions.
The other leading stockholder is James
Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New
York Herald.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
issued an order abolishing the postofiice
at Luverney, Ala. A colored man was
recently appointed postmaster, and the
citizens, it is said, showed their appre
ciation of him by boycotting h m in
every way, and finally iu burning down
the old building which he had succeeded,
with great difficulty, in securing for a
postofiice. In view of these facts, Mr.
Wanamaker decided that the 500 inhabi
tants of the place could go three miles
for mail and do without a postofiice for
a time.
The president on Saturday appointed
the following named postmasters:
Charles C. She its, at Deca’.ur, Ala., vice
L. II. Grubbs, commission expire t; Fe
lix G. Lambreth, Florence, Ala., vice
Bessie McCallister, resigned; Columbus,
Browning, at Da.ton, Ga., vice Jefferson
T. Whitman, removed; JosephP. Smith,
at Thomasviile, Ga., vice 11. 31. Sapp,
resigned; Thomas W. Hicks, at Hender
son, N. C,, vice R. B. Henderson, re
moved; Mts. Ada Hunter, at Kingston,
N. C., vice W. J. Barrett, removed;
Samuel II. Vkk, at Wilson, N. C., vice
N. M. Gay, removed; D. J. Taylor, at
Pocahontas, Va., vice J. L. Deaton, re
moved; John II. Blunt, at Ashland, Va..
office having become presidential; Am
brose H. Lindsay, at Portsmouth, Va.,
vice W. A. Fiske^ removed.
A BIG SALE.
COAL AND inON LANDS IN DADE COUNTY,
GA., SOLD TO ENGLISHMEN.
VISITED BY TERRIBLE STORMS—CROTS
RUINED—MUCH SUFFERING.
A dispatch from Mexico says: The
mum force of the storm that visited Ba-
jio country within the past few days has
abated, although iu its track desolation
is apparent on ail sides. Tho second crop
of corn, which was very large, is a par
tial loss. This will entail great suffering
among the laboring classes. Trains on
the Mexican railroad are again running
regularly. The town of Cclaya still re
mains inundated. Inhabitants living in
tho lower streets have beeu removed to
the old San Franciscan convent for safe
ty. Fields iu the vicinity of Leon are
all un ler water. It is estimated that the
loss of crops in Bajio country will be
over $500,000.
A trade with New England parties for
16,000 acres of coal and iron land and a
town site, at a point on the Alabama
Great Southern railroad iu Dade county,
Ga., known as Morrison’s, fourteen miles
from Chattanooga, Term., was closed on
Thursday. $50,009 of the money was
paid down, and the papers were filed
through tie Chattanooga National bank.
The purchasers have applied, for a char
ter of incorporation for a compauy to be
known as the New England Land, Coal,
Iron and Manufacturing company,of Dade
county, Ga., and they will organize just
as soon as the Georgia legislature shall
grant their righta.
william J. fry. a weu-sr.own young
man in Allegheny, Ponn., committed suicide
recently by plunging a lead [xmcil repeat
edly into his breast directly over the heart.
