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The Fayettevillfe News.
VOL. 2.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1889.
NO. 14.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND BIS ADVISERS.
AITOINTMEXTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHEIt MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Bids were opened Saturday at the navy
department for the constiuetion of three
2,000 ton cruisers.
The President, on Priday, appointed
A. E. Buck, of Atlanta, Ga., to be Uni
ted States marshal for the Northren Dis
trict of Georgia.
Secretary Windorn, on Saturday, ac-
„ cepted the resignation of Charles B.
Norton, commissioner of navigation, to
..4ake affect on tl.e 10th of November.
Dr. R. P. Daniel, president of the
state board of health of Florida, tele
graphed to the marine hospital service
that the quarantine restrictions imposed
i on Key West on account of Buspicious
V'peases of fever there, have been removed.
. - N The following postal changes in
South Carolina, were announced on
" Saturday: J. T. Crane appointed
postmaster at Bewerton, Laurens
county, and II. II. Lynch at Rock, Pick
ens county.
The superintendent of the free deliv
ery service has given further considera-
h tion to Postmaster Mowry’s proposition
' to increase the postal facilities at Charles
ton, S. C., by the establishment of sub
stations throughout the city. A post-
office inspector connected with the de
livery branch of the service is now in the
South, and be will probably be directed
to visit Charleston before returning to
Washington.
The ordnance bureau of the war de
partment has invited proposals for
the erection of one main store house,
commanding officers’ quarters, office,
guardhouse, workshops, magazine, stable
and shed, and two sets of barracks for
enlisted men to comprise an arsenal at
Columbia, Tenn. The proposals are to
be opened at noon on Wednesday, No
vember 20 h. The amount appropriated
for the actual cost of .construction of the
arsenal is $200,000. ’
^Argument was'begun in the Supreme
Court of i he United States on Thursday,
in the well-known case of Chase Cross
and Sami. C. White, defaulting presi
dent and cashier respectively of the
State National Bank of Raleigh, N. C.,
against the state of North Carolina.
Cross and White were indicted in the
North Carolina State Court for forgery.
It was alleged that they forged a note
for the purpose of sustaining certain
false entries they had made in the bank’s
books, the intention being to deceive the
national bank examiner, whose duty it
was to examine into and report on the
financial condition of the same.
Now that the sinking fund require
ments for the fiscal year have been fully
mU by the purchase of bonds to date,
the sole purpose of future bond pur
chase will be to prevent, so far as possi
ble, any undue increase in the treasury
surplus. Recent offerings of bonds have
been unusually heavy, and acceptances
during the past few days amount to
about $3,000,000. The continued excess
of receipts over expenditures has, how
ever, prevented any material reduction
of the surplus. According to the treas
urer’s statement, issued Saturday, this
now amounts to $40,345,000. Receipts
so far this month aggregate nearly $27,-
000,000, and expenditures) nearly $17,-
000,000, making a net gain of $10,000,-
000 for the month.
THE DEADLY AX.
AN OLD MAN KILLED, AND HIS AO ED WIFE
KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS.
A dispatch from Ilawkinsville, Ga.,
says: A horrible murder was committed
Sunday night eleven miles from here, just
across Houston county line. Mr. Wil
liam Miller, an aged farmer, was killed
and bis wife was nearly killed. Mr. and
Mrs. Miller lived alone. They were sit
ting by the fire reading and each had a
small lamp. Mrs. Miller heard her hus
band say: “Don’t do that.” Then she
felt herself struck, and was knocked un
conscious. When she regained con
sciousness she heard the clock strike
twelve. She saw that Mr. Miller was
apparently dead, and she was afraid to
call for help, fearing that her assailants
were still there. Sue lay there until four
o’clock, when her suffering were so great
that she called for help. Her calls were
soon answered by the cook, whose house
was forty or fifty yards distant. On the
bed was an ax which had struck the
blows and the mrable top of a b
which had been removed from its |
to enable the murderers to rifle the d
ers in search of money, jvljjch Millei
was supposed to have in therftSjSer-It is
supposed that Mr. Miller saw the
as they raised the ax,
not to stiike. Mrs. M
them. She was nearefet
was struck first with the u
knocked senseless, and w
thought to be dead. Then i
that Mr. Miller was uttac&ed. He was
struck five blows with tHe axp-aud his
skull was badly smashed. When found
he was still sitting in his arm chair, with
his head and arm hanging over the side.
The blood had run from nis wounds and
made a pool on the floor. His death
must have been instantaneous. Mr. Mil
ler was one of the most respected citi
zens of Houston; a well-to-do farmer,
upwards of sixty years old. El. John
son and Sam Chimney, two negroes, are
suspected of the murder, as they have
disappeared from the neighborhood.
LEADER S OF m
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WORK OF THE FLAMES.
A TWO UUNDHED THOUSAND DOLLAR FIRE
IN SELMA, ALA.
A fire broke out in Leopold Brothers’
dry goods establishment on Broad street,
in the center of the business portion of
Selma, Ala., on Sunday morning about
2 o’clock. The people wore all asleep,
and the fire had gained considerable
uoad vay boforo it was discovered. A
brisk wind was blowing and the flames
spread with great rapidity. In a short
while the entire block was in flames. In
two hours an whole block of buildings
was consumed. Nothing was saved.
The destruction was complete. The loss
will foot up about $200,000, distributed
,as follows: Gill’s hotel, $50,000, owned
■by Mr. W. B. Gill, no insurance; Leo
pold Brothers’stock and building, $100,-
000; Rock way & Co., $20,000; Selma
Fraternal lodge, $5,000; Fitzpatrick
Bank saloon, $14,000; Rothschild & Co.,
confectionery, $10,000. There is inaar-
ancc on all buildings and stock except
Gills’ hotel.
Almost seven million bales of cotto*
is the record of the South for the last
crop year. The outoome of the present
season promises to be even larger.
What is more encouraging is tho rapid
increase of cotton manufactures in the
South. Southern mills consume about
one-quarter of the cotton employed in
manufactures in this country.
DISASTERS AT SEA.
SEVERAL VESSELS GO DOWN—FRIGHTFUL
r • IiOSS OF LIFE. ,
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says:
The schooner George T. Simmons, of
Camden, N. J., was wrecked off False
cape, Thirty miles south of Cape Henry,
in a storm last Wedne.'-day night. When
the vessel was first seen sunk in the
breakers, by the life-saving crew Thurs
day morning, five men were lashed in the
rigging. One by one the doomed men
t have been swept away into the sea. Sun
day night two men were left. Life-sav
ing stations No*. 4, 5 and 6 have kept in
readiness a crew of picked men, watching
an opportunity to go to the rescue of the
wrecked men, but tho surf has run too
high for the life boat to make an attempt at
relief....A large three-masted schooner,
flying a flag of distress, is ashore eight
miles outside of Oregon Inlet. Assist
ance will be sent from Norfolk Tfca
schooner Lizzie F. Haynes, lumber lad
en, from Savannah to Baltimore, has been
wrecked on Body’s Island. The captain
and steward were saved. Five men were
drowned. Two of their bodies were re
covered and were buried. The vessel is
a total loss, and the cargo is washing
out on the beach... .The schooner A. E.
Blackman rolled over when two miles
out at sea. Captain Charles Edwards,
by aid of a cork jacket, swam to
New inlet and was saved.
The other five of the crew were lost....
News from Charleston, S. U., Sunday,
says: The steamer Carbis Bay arrived
from York on Friday. She reports thatj
fifty-four miles northeast by east of Hat-
teras light she passed the abandoned
schooner Mabel L. Phillips, of Taunton,
lumber laden. The hold was filled with
water. All the masts were gone, and the
deck bowsprit was standing in the track
of the steamers, and is dangerous to
navigation. She left Charleston for
Philadelphia on the 12th with 558,000
feet of lumber on board.
TAILORS ON A STRIKE.
BECAUSE THE MANAGERS REFUSE TO DIS
CHARGE THE FOREMAN.
Between six hundred and fifty and
seven hundred journeyman tailors, em
ployed in twenty-six of tho largest »nd
first-class tailoring houses in Chicago,
went out on a strike Friday morning,
pursuant to a decision reached at a big
meeting held Thursday night. Indica
tions are that the difficulty will not be
soon adjusted. I he dispute originated
in the tailoring establishment of Mathews
& Co. The men were dissatisfied with
their foreman, a man named Hendrick
son. They made coinpluin of this man
to Mnthcws, but the latter claims that
no specific charges were made, a simple
demand being presented for Hendrick
son’s dismissal. The firm refused to dis
charge the foreman and the men quit
work.
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