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Newspaper Page TextThe Fayetteville News VOL. 2. FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1889 NO. t9. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSA TION OF ' C^RIO U£, AMD EXCITING EVMNlb. **W» FHOM EVKUYWUEUE—ACOlEWrrS, SIMMS, *EBES, AND UAl-FKXIXUS OF INTFEXST. The government of Brux.il has’ re- •iloptou tho old flag. Ibartiii Farquhar Tupper, the author,- is dead; aged 79 years. Thanksgiving day was generally ob served throughout tho country. A heavy snow storm prevails in the midland counties of England. White’s drapery establishment at Al dershot, Emr., was burned Thursday. Los*is: ’00,000. There arc 7,500 doclcmen and lighter- nieu on a strike at, Bristol, Eng. The trade of the port is paralyzed. One of the buildings of the Hartford, Conn., carpet works was burned Friday. Loss $180,000; insurance if 175,000. Frederick Douglas has arrived at llayti, presented his credentials, and has been tendered a reception by the presi dent. An explosion look place in a colliery at Boehutn, Prussia, Thursday, in which fourteen persons were killed and four in jured. The Duke of Cumberland will insti tute suits in French courts to nullify the ■will of the Duke of Brunswick on tho ground of insanity. The Truth building, owned by Frank Wilson, proprietor of Truth,'tat Toronto, Canada, was gutted by fire Friday. Loss estimated at $90,000. The chamber of deputies at Rome, Itafo on' Saturday, voted urgciicy foi the consideration . of the bill to abolish anti-French differential duties. Tho Portugese steamer Alegoas, with cx-EmperorUorn Pedro and his party on board, arrived ut St. Vincent Saturday. ATI lacmfatY.-’&feJbe party are well. Tn ityab,. Jvjdge AbQefison has domed uitf application’ of these Mormons who have taken endowment oath for admission to citizenship. King Leopold, of Belgium, has sent a telegram to Henry M. Stanley, congrat ulating him upon the completion of his task, and inviting him to visit Brussels. The strike among .ho employes of- the Western Railroad company, at Paris, France, has CDdcd by the men yielding to the terms of the company. The strikers resumed work. An official statement by the assessors, places the assessed valuation this year ol burned property ,at Lynn, Mass., at $1 ,009,500, and the number of buildings -burned 380. The Andrew Jackson league, of Chi cago, have tiikeu measures to aid the ladies of Nashville Hermitage associa tion in preserving the home of Andrew Jackson. While the collector of the Commercial National bank wnS (ioutiting$2,800 in the general oflico of the • ‘German-American bunk at Cleveland. O., Saturday, after noon, a thief snatched $2,000 and es caped. Tho $5,000,000 world’s fair guarantee fund at New York,, was more than com pleted Saturday, the grand total is now $5,028,042. The world’s fair committee has decided to continue, to receive sub scriptions. ^ Secretary Krcnier, of the flood relief , commission, at Johnstown, Pa., practi cally finished, in connection with the local hoard of inquiry, the distribution of $1,600,000 in Johnstown. The last check left his office Saturday.- Saturday morning three boilers, of a nest of twenty-one, exploded with ter rific force at breaker No. 4. at Joansville, Pa., operated by J. C. Haydon & Co. 1 fireman Ceq-rge Peacock, aged twenty- live, was oiirhecl to a crisp. Tho build ing is a total wreck. A Lcechburg, Pa., dispatch says that estinlatcs of conservative citizens place the loss by Wednesday night’s fire at $150,000 to $175,OOO r with about $75,000 insurance. The lire is supposed to have originated from natural gas. The popu lation of Leecbbung is about 3,500.. Fire started in Kcyport, N. J., Fri day morning, in. Loyrer’s bakery, which -destroyed firp buildings and caused a! lo»s of over $.05,-000. Jacob Leyrer was burned to death, and Mis. Leyrer and Jacob Leyrer,: Jr,) were terribly burned, and may die; „-,v. ,ii t The Chicago Timet says,-that Maggie Schreiner, who pourod kerosene oil on her husband fefi'tJune. 55, 188&, and then set fire .to itj-j.^uruiug hun-fatally, is suing the order of Foresters for $2,000 interest nnd principle, on a death benefit of $1,000. which she claims, as ben eficiary of fhb derid niafi’k estate. President W. W. Young, who, with Cashier John Hocrr, both of the Law rence, Mass., bank, were charged with embezzlement'and accepting money from depositors after the buuk was insolvent. surrendered him.eit Thursdny uighte nnd gave bail in the sum of $2,500 for hear ing next Wednesday. Fire broke out in the Dcluvnn gns- houso at Albany, N. Y., Saturday morning, and the flumes, gaining head- vs /, communicated to the paper bouse of Jacob Leonard & Son, und the Albany Cidket. company, Both were a total toss. Several other buildings were dam aged, and the loss will reach $75,000. Corvillain, proprietor of the cartridge factory at Antwerp, which blew up an September and killed* so many people, and his engineer, have been convicted of homicide by imprudence. Corvillain was sentenced to four years and six months, and the engineer to one year and one month’s imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 2.500 francs each. Arrangements nave been made by alt the coal operators of the Monongahela, Valley, to close down their mines indefinitely, as the. I'e^v works in operation have demonstrated that the demand of the npners can not b * con ceded,. with the price of coal as low ns it is at, present. The suspension will effect 5,000 men. .. Exports.mf specie from the port of New York for the Week ended, Novem ber 30th, amounted to $319,110,of which $8,(147 wap in gold,.and $311,167 iu sil ver;' All the'silver and $2,300 in gold went to Europe, and $5,257 iu gold went to South America. Imports of specie for the week amounted to $195,005, of which $109,485 was gold and $£0,120 eiiver. The d8y after Dom Pedro sailed from Rio Janeiro, the provisional government of Brazil telegraphed to the Brazilian minister, at Lisbon, directing him upon the ex-emperor's arrival to tender him a general reception.- The Brazilian colony hero regarded this action as dictated by ! delicate consideration on the part of the provisional government toward Dom Pod ro. 1 Thursday forenoon John Chana, a hopeless paralytic, aged 35, was louud j dead on the floor of his hovel at Potts- 1 'vo\Vn, ra.-j -w-i.rh a-loather strap loosely ! WvVL-ned arn'nnd'kfs ncjcfc. SutHtUttM'M'-i- tain that it was suicide, while others stay that it is a caso of foul play, thougU sui cide is the generally accepted theory. ; Until recently Chana was a fine specimen of physical manhood. Jt is related that one day he cursed his creator in a terri ble manner when ho fell ' over, struck dumb and paralyzed from head to foot. He remained in this condition until his deuth. ■ SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM, VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE BOOTH. D. M’LUCAS k SOU, THE SILVER QUESTION. SOME OF TIIE RESOLUTIONS PRESENTEE : BY T1IB CONVENTION. The National Silver convention was called to order by the chairman Wednes day morning at St. Louis. Delegatt Morse, of Colorado, iutroduced the fol lowing resolution: Resolved, Thai Senators and Representatives ic tho Congress of . ttie United Statei be and arc hereby requested to es tablish a unit for the coinage of silver with the S r 'Uth American States tlial shall make silver coin pass current on pui with gold in all the Americas of tilt western hemisphere, and that they aUc be requested to’open negotiations with the Congiess of all Americas now ic ses sion in Washington for tho building of a railroad from the Ufiiied States to aud through the States of South America. After a lively discussion flic resolution wai referred to the committee on resolutions. The lollowing resolution offered by Mr. Jacks, of California, -was received with cheers and referred under the rules; Whereas, Wall street and eastern bondholders are now actually at tvorS striving to elect a speaker for the ap proaching congress, whose record is en tirely opposed to silver interests; and, Whereas, Representatives in congress should he the servants of the people; and Whereas, This great convention shows the unanimity of public opinion in south ern ami western states and territories in favor of more coinage of silver; therefore, bo it resolved, That western and southern representatives in congress be requested to support some friend of silver for tho speakership of the-present house of rep resentative and that their failure to dc so will be the betrayal of the people, warranting their political death. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOllMI ON OF 1HPOBTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Granville Young, postmaster at Rugby, Tenu., has been arrested on the charge of rifling letters. Tho Debardaleben Coal aud Iron com pany, of Birmingham, Ala., has increased the pay of miners, at Blue creek mines, from 40 to 42J cents per ton, commenc ing December 1st. Six cars loaded with 275 negroes passed through Annieton, Ala., on ike Georgia Pacific railroad, on Sunday night. Thu negroes were from North Carolina, on their way to Mississippi. The will of the late Mrs. Charles Crocker, of San Francisco, was filed for probate Tuesday. She bequeathed her entire estate, valued at about $11,000,- 000, to her four children. The committee which has been inves tigating the affairs of tho office of the late A. R. Woodson, city collector of Richmond, Va., have found a shortage in his accounts of about $45,000. A furnace company with a capital stock of $30,000, all held by local capi talists, was organized at Birmingham on Friday. The company will build a one hundred ton furnace at once. A conflict between the States of Vir ginia aud Maryland seems imminent in consequence of the proclamation of Governor Jackson throwing open the waters of Hog Island flats to oyster dredgers. Bishop Keener, of the Southern Meth odist church, nt Columbia, S. C., on Sat urday delivered an officia •’fterunce con demning the peculiar doctrino of “holi ness'’ which has many adherents in both Northern and Southern churches. Peter McLaren, of Canada, purchased on Friday the Doutlia survey, contain ing 84,000 acres, lying in ijdlengheny •'■filJJJfcXL Virginia, Jrom Philadelphia parties *ior fTTO.OOO.f- • T4..-'- vrpocrtyflias^ on it line tiilYber anc^,valuable 1 iiuueTaw. ~ r McLeod & Anderson, tobficco ware housemen, of Louisviilh, Ky., failed Wednesday. The firm con sists of Dr, George W. McLeod and James A. Anderson, both of Versailles. Alley asMgucd all property belonging to them, no. subject to homestead exemp tion. Sheffield, Ala., celebrated Thanks giving Day by sending, by river route to St. Louis, three hundred tons of pig iron. Tho shipment was the first iron ever sent by river. It was the virtual opening of the new route, and a matter of great consequence to Sheffield, and proportion-lb ly to the entire mineral district of Alabama. A dispatch from Nashville, Tenu., says: Miss Emma Abbott sent for the secretary of the Ladies’ Hermitage Asso ciation on Saturday, and after express ing her admiration of the character of Andrew Jackson, and wishing the ladies success iu their efforts to beautify and preserve the hermitage, sho presented them with 11 check for $100. Near Huntingdon, W. Va , on Wednesday, the Chesapeake nnd Ohio railroad bridge crossing Guynndottc river, fell while a freight train was crossing it, precipitating the entire train into the liver. Engineer R. V. Free man was killed. The rest of the crew had a miraculous escape, sustaining only slight bruises. The wreck was complete. The bridge litis been condemned for soint time. A dispatch from Aspen, Col., on Wednesday says: The heaviest snow in years has fallen during the past three days. Many snowslides have occurred. No loss of humau life is reported yet, thougli several parties are known to have been iu the neighborhood of slides. Two men were caught, in Lincoln gulch and buried, together with their team and wagon. The men were slightly injured, and the horses were killed. f INMAN - GEORGIA. —DEALER IN— BOOTS, SHOES, TIN^WARE, HARD WARE, NOTIONS, amt FANCY GOODS. LARD, CLOTHING, MEAT, CALICOS, RICE, LINDSEYSt LARD, JEANS, and CLOVES, COFFEE, All Qualiks. GRITS. SUGAR <vf Dry Goods. FLOUR, SPICE and DRESS GOODS. MEAL, GINGER. ; We sell as cheap as the cheapest. We compete with any man, or any town; deal fair, make shoit profits, and handle the best geexfc. We thaok our costomers for their past liberal patronage, and sottk.^ a continuantf.; of the same. .Prices on all goods GUARANI EE£K QUICK SALES! SHORT PROFITS! FAIR WEIGHTS. D- Mclusas & Son. S. I T WHOLESALE DEALER IN Wines, Whiskies, Brandies, Tobacco and Cigars, Carries in stock a full line of Imported aud Domestic Good?. Leading iiadrSpslS Rye, Corn and Bourbon Whiskies. jfirst'-elass Corn Whisky from $1.50 to $2.09 per grtl'ion. Rye True* $.155 to $*2.09, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 to $G.U0 per gallon. Mi kinds of Gin for $2.00 per gallon up. If you want samples send for quart in cartoon boxes. No charge for jcapL ORDERS BY MAIL WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. We ask tho people of Fayette, Clayton and Campbell r for family or Medicinal use, as we don't keep any '.mice to trj owe ‘ BAR-ROOM LIQUOR.” On®g#®ds nre recommended by doctors, preachers and the best ciiitcnaol AChoSz. S. S. SELIC, 35 Mitchell St., cor. Forsyth., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Manufactory .Baltimore, Md., ) 213 W. German Stref.t f A WIDOW S REWARD- A dispatch from Wilkesbnrre.Pa., says: I A few months ago, Chief of Police Wat kins, of Parsons, while under the influ- 1 dice of liqutr, wus killed by being struck.hy on engine while sitting on the plnt(o.fiivpf the Delawnro and Hudson ( railroad-" Efis Widow filed a claim in court for $10,000 damages against John | Schumacher, a very wealthy saloon keep er, «who had sold her husband liquor A’hile he was visibly affeoted by it. The case was up before threo arbitrators, who, on Wednesday afternoon, awarded the widow $2,600. A CELEBRATED CASE, THE QUESTION OF THE VALIDITY OK AN ASSIGNMENT SETTLED. The court of appeals at New York hat decided to be valid the celebrated as signment of Keinsdopf & Co., clothing merchants, who assigued iu September, 1884, to J. W. Mack, with liabilities ol $1,288,000 and preferences about $000,- 000. Eleven suits on behalf of on* hundred creditors were brought to set aside tho assignment. The court de cided that the preferences which were attached were bona fide and correct iu every particular. T..o decision affects many litigations in various states where attaching creditors have attached large sums of money owing to debtors, aud a large amount of money locked up for five years past, will now be distributed j among the preferred creditors. j Washington. L>. C« \ (Tor. 7th & ELSst f BROS. PRICE EISEMAN ONE Clothiers, Tailors, Hatters, FURNISHERS. ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. E i s e man Brothers. 17 & IdWHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.