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VOLUME XX.
WRIGHT & RECK,
Attorneys at Law.
(OFFICE IX COURT HOUSE.)
JACKSOKT, - _ q. a
M. 31. MILLS,
Counsellor & Attorney at Law.
Will practice in all the courts. Money
loaned on r< al estate at low rate of inter
est. Long time granted with small pay
ments. Money obtained at.once without
delay.
(office in court house.)
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DENTIST.
JACKSON, - - GEORGIA.
Up stairs over J. W. Bun’s Rock
Corner.
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JACKSON, GA.
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branches.
Office at J. W. Lee fc Son’s drug store.
Residence first house west of Mrs.
Brady’s.
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Mrs. A. E, Wilkinson, Proprietor.
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JACKSON. - GEORGIA.
CONVENTION OF PRINTERS.
The International Typographical Union
in Session.
The fortieth annual convention of the
International Typographical Union be
gan in Music Hall of Drexel institute, at
Philadelphia, Monday morning. The
room was well filled, and the proceedings
were conducted with much dispatch and
parliamentary tact. Mrs. Lola Julian, of
Kearney, Neb., was the sole female
delegate. She represented union No. 109.
William B. Prescott, of Toronto, Can.,
called the convention to order. Prayer
was offered by Rev. Wilbur F. Watkins,
rector of the Protestant Episcopal t horch
of the Savior, and then Major Moses
Veal, as a representative of Governor
Patti son, delivered an address of wel
come. He was followed by Mayor
Stuart, wh-> tendered the delegates a
cordial greeting in behalf of the city.
George W. Chance, speaking for the local
compositors, welcomed their fellow typos
from other sections of the country.
Millions for Pensions.
A Washington dispatch says: The pen
sion appropriation bill was reported to
the senate Monday from the committee
on appropriation. It carries a total of
$146,787,350, which is an increase of
$11,912,284 over the house bill and
$827,200 less than the estimates. The
bill as reported exceeds that of last year
>y sn, 622,565. The principal increase
'over the house bill is $11,907,634 for
army and navy pensions.
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JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY. JUNE IT. 1892.
CYPRESS TANKS,
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PUMPS, ETC,
COTTON GINS,
FEEDERS,
CONDENSERS
AND PRESSES.
NATIONAL CAPIiAL.
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION —OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Thursday.— lmmediately after the
reading of house journal and the refer
ence of sundry senate bills the floor was
accorded to the committee on judiciary.
Friday —The only business transacted
in the house Friday was the few bills
authorizing the construction of bridges
over navigable rivers. Among these
were a bill authorizing the Mexican Gulf,
Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Com
pany to construct bridges across the Ala
bama,Warrior and Tennessee rivers, Ala
bama, and a bill authorizing the construc
tion of a bridge across the Tennessee
river in Madison county, Alabama. The
house took the usual recess till 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for the consid
eration of private pension bills.
Monday. —ln the house, Monday, on
motion of Mr. Peel, cf Arkansas, a bill
was passed providing that Indian chil
dren shall be declared to be citizens when
they have reached the age of twenty-one
years, and shall thereafter receive no
support from the government, provided,
that they have had ten years of indus
trial training. Mr. Otis, of Kansas,
asked consent for the present considera
tion of the resolution reciting improper
conduct on the part of Secretary Noble
and Commissioner Carter in regard to the
Maxwell, New Mexico, land grant—said
conduct being alleged to be in pursuance
of a conspiracy entered into some years
ago by Stephen B. Elkins and J. A.
Williamson—and asking for a special
committee of seven members to inquire
into the matter. Mr. Payne, of New York,
objected, and the resolution was referred.
The floor was then accorded to the com
mittee on the District of Columbia.
What is known as “District Day” is never
a drawing Programme in the house,there
fore, the second and fourth Mondays in
a month are honored with a very small
attendance and proved no exception to
the rule. Absenteeism and indifference
ruled supreme. After the passage of a
few local measures, the fortifications ap
propriation bill was taken up, but no
final action was taken. A few public
land bills were passed, and the house ad
journed.
Tuesday. —On the opening of the ses
sion of the house Tuesday morning the
death of Representative Stackhouse, of
South Carolina, was announced. The
deputy sergeant at -nrms -.yas notified to
make arrangements for me iuueral, ami
the house, in respect to the memory of
the deceased, adjourned.
THE SENATE.
Thursday —There was even fewer re
publican senators present at the opening
of Thursday’s session than there has been
since the exodus to Minneapolis get in,but
among the half dozen were Sherrnau,
Morrill and Manderson. The chair was
occupied by the vice president. The first
thing proposed and agreed to was that
adjournment be had till Monday.
Monday. —The first iudicatiou of the
Democratic movement on Chicago was
the granting of leave of absence to Mr.
Voorhees by the Senate Monday morn
ing. The pension appropriation bill
with amendments was reported back from
the committee on appropriations and
placed on the calendar. The bill intro
duced by Pfeifer on the 26th of May to
increase the currency and provide for its
circulation, to reduce the rales of inter
est and to establish a bureau of laws, was
taken from the table and Pfeifer address
ed the senate in explanation and advocacy
of it. There is a section in the bill pro
viding for loans, at one third of one per
cent a month, by a bureau of loans for
less than twelve months, on security of
personal property, whenever any state
shall have provided warehouses for agri
cultural products, such as cotton, wheat
and tobacco, and for manufactured arti
cles that will not deteriorate by storage
for a few months. Much of Mr. P.effer’s
speech was in denunciation of usury,
which he said was breaking down the
republic. The people, he said, were in
earnest about that matter, The republic
would go down unless the people were
saved, and there was no way of
saving them except by destroying
the great evil of usury. This bill
was ou that line. It was suggestive and
helpful, and at least deserved the consid
eration of the senate. Mr. Chandler ask
ed Mr. Pfeffer whether he considered the
question of the constitutional power of
congress to lend money on real estate and
agricultural products. Mr. Pfeffer said
that he had examined the constitutional
question, and that he believed that con
gress had as perfect authority to lend
money to the people as it had to provide
for carrying mails or package?, or deter
mining the rates which railroads may
charge for the carriage of freights or pas
sengers. At the close of his speech the
bill went over without action. Mr. Mc-
Pherson gave notice of his intention to
address the senate next Wednesday on
the bill for the free coinage of silver,
and Mr. Morgan gave notice that he
would do so Tuesday, as he expected that
there would then be a quorum in the sen
ate. The senate, at 2:35 o’clock, ad
journed.
Tuesday. —lmmediately on the assem
bling of the senate Tuesday morning the
death of Representative Stackhouse was
announced and the body adjourned as a
token of respect to the deceased member
of tne house.
NOTEB.
Neither house being iu session Tues
day, members of both houses devoted
much of their time to talk about the
Chicago convention.
The contract for a wharf, etc., for a
quarantine station at Sapelo Sound, Ga.,’
has been awarded to Colin Mac Grant, of
Charleston, S. C., on his bid of $10,833.
Bids were opened at the treasury de
partment Tuesday for a heating apparatus
for the public building at Chattanooga,
Tenn , the lowest being that of Ischopik,
Blackburn & Cos., of Chattanooga, at
$7,298.
In the bouse Monday, ou motion of Mr.
O&tee, of Alabama, a bill was passed ap
pr pr.atmg $2,266 to tlie Mobile and
Girird Railroad Compauy for the trans
portation of paroled confederate priso
ners.
By authority of the president, two
small islands located .n the main channel
of the Matanzas river at St. Augustine,
►Fla., lying erst of and opposite what is
known as the old power-house lot, have
been reserved and set apart for military
purposes.
The pension appropriation bill was re
ported to the senate Monday from commit
tee on appropriation. It carries a total of
$146-,737,320, which is an increase of
11,912,294 over the house bill and $327,-
200 Itss than the estimates. The bill as
r< ported exceeds that of last year by
$11,522 565. The principal increase over
the house bill is $11,907,634 for army
and navy pensions.
A special of Saturday from Washing
ton says: Amid the talk of congratula
tions at the White house, in political cir
cles Friday, the name of Chauncey M.
Depew was upon every one’s lips, and
the president himself struck the keynote
by a r< mark concerning the yeoman
service | er(armed in his behalf by the
distinguished New Yorker. It would
not be much of a surprise if Depew be
came the successor of Blaine.
Senator Morgan* of Alabama, in the
senate Thursday took occasion to refer
to the split in the democratic party in
his state. He said that it was induced
mainly by the poverty and affliction
which had followed the demonetization
of silver. The democratic party, it was
true, had not had the power to correct
that evil. He wanted, however, to warn
his fellow democrats, when they were
preparing for the coming presidential
campaign, to remember Alabama, and
that they might lose the electoral tote of
that state in a certain contingency.
BIG BLAZE AT BALTIMORE.
Several Vessels Damaged and 5,000
Bales of Cotton Destroyed.
The big warehouse of the Bay Line of
steamers, at the foot of Union dock, Bal
timore, took fire Ttiesd >y afternoon from
an unknown cause, and within five min
utes was a roaring mass of flames.
Stored inside the warehouse, which is
several hundred feet long, were between
five hundred and one thousand bales of
cotton, several shiploads of rosin in
barrels, and a great number of hogs
heads of molasses. The inflamma
ble nature of the contents of the
warehouse caused the blaze to
spread with lightning-like rapidity.
The big four-masted schooner Augus
tus Weil, the steamer Caroline and a
number of other vessels lay at the pier
when the fire broke out. The Caroline
caught fire, but the tugs made a desper
ate fisrht to save her. Ihe schooner Wirt
**ks wrappeef in flames m a lcw-sainutes.
The heat from the burning warehouse,
together with that of the weather, was
terrible on the firemen, and several
dropped at the hose pipes.
The loss will approximate $1,000,000.
The fire is thought to have oiiginated
from spontaneous combustion among the
cotton. None of the vessels lying at the
docks were totally destroyed, because a
tugboat drew them into the stream,
where the fireboat, Cataract, and streams
from the tugs saved them from total loss;
but several fine vessals were badly dam
ag< and. Among these were the
steamers Caroline and GastoD, schoon
ers Wesley O iver, Mamie Howard,
William Wirt and Augustus Weil. The
latter had just arrived with 1,200 tons of
ice. All the top hamper of the schoon
ers named was burned off and the hulls
damaged. The Bay Line warehouse was
totally destroyed with its contents, in
c!u ling 5,000 bales of cotton and over
one thousand, two hundred barrels of
whisky, iutended for foreign shipment.
GEN. STACKHOUSE DEAD.
He Was an Alliance Congressman from
South Carolina.
General Eli B. Stackhouse, a member
of congress from the sixth district of
South Carolina, and a prominent member
of the Farmers’ Alliance, died iu Wash
ington City at half past one o’clock Tues
day morning. He was one of the party
that accompanied the remains of the late
Colonel L. L. Polk, president of the
Farmers’ Alliance, to Raleigh, N. C.,
last Saturday. Mr. Stackhouse returned
to Washington Monday morning. He
went to the house of represenfatives,
which is only one block from his resi
dence, and at two o’clock went home
to luncheon. He complained of a
slight attack of indigestion, but seemed
to be in good sprits. He remained at
home for a while, but returned to the
house before adjournment of that body.
Representative bate, of Arkansas, a mem
ber of the Farmers’ Alliance, who has
room3 iu the hotel where Mr. Stackhouse
stayed, says that the general did not re
turn to the hotel for dinner. About 12
o’clock Tuesday night Mr. Cate was call
ed to the rooms of Mr. Stackhouse and
was told that he was dying. A physician
was immediately summoned, but before
he arrived Mr. Stackhouse was dead.
The only persons at his bedside when he
died were his son and Representative
Cate. His remains will be taken to Little
Rock, S. C., for interment.
England at Chicago.
A London cablegram says: On the
supplementary vote in the houss of com
mons Tuesday, granting £IO,OOO to the
royal world’s fair commission, A. C.
Morton (liberal), member for Peter
borough, asked if in'ending exhib
itors were satisfied with the arrange
ments made by the commission. i“ir
John Gorst, financial secretary to the
treasury, replied that the vote was in
creased to £60,000, ;n order to give free
space and render the exhibit worthy the
United Kingdom. Mr. Morton said he
hoped the govrrnment wmuld do its utter
most to mwke the British section a great
euccers. The vote was agrted to by the
bouse.
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Judge J hn T. Headers n a Bounces
his candidacy for Commissioner of Agri
culture for the state of Georgia.
It will be remembered that Judge
Henderson filled this position acceptably
for fourteen years up to November, 1890;
and now, complying with the urgent re
quests of his friends, he has en
tered the race and has become a candi
date for the same position.
NEWS IN GENERAL
Happenings of the Day Culled from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT is transpiring throughout our
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OP INTER
EST PROM FOREIGN I.ANDB.
The Crescent Manufacturing company’s
mills, of Hartford City, Ind., were de
stroyed by fire Sunday. Loss, $150,000;
insured, $75,000.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Provi
dence, R. 1., says: Nelson W. Aldrich
Was re-elected United States senator to
day. The vote was Aldrich 04, David
Thatcher 30.
A cablegram of Tuesday from Con
stantinople states that the plague has
broken out in Mesopotamia. It is
thought to be cholera, which, traveling
east from Persia, has entered Asiatic
Turkey,
It was reported in Washington Mon
day that George V. Massey, of Wilming
ton, Del., had been tendered the office
of justice of the United States supreme
court, made vacant by the death of Jus
tice Bradley, but the report has not as yet
been verified.
The presbytery of New York met in
New York city Monday. The new trial
of Dr. Briggs, on the charge of heresy,
was decided to bo impracticable during
the summer, but it will ieceive the a'-
tention of the presbytery wheu it reas
sembles in the fall.
The total visible supply of cotton for
the world is 8,756,674 bales, of which
3,026,074 is American, against 2.667,696
and 1,991,896 respectively last year.
Receipts of all interior towns, 14,552
bales. Receipts at plantations. 18,807
bales. Crop in September, 8,853,529
bales.
A New York dispatch of Monday says:
Rachel Elikant, of Cefcescowicz, Austria,
a passenger on the Dutch steamer Peca
land from Amsterdam, was removed by
the health officer to the smallpox hospital
on North Brothers island, suffering from
the dread disease. The steamer was at
quarantine for disinfection.
The whole business portion of Rock
fort, Mo., burned Sunday. Tfie fire
started at noon and, fanned by a strong
wind, spread with such quickness that it
was impossible to check it. It stopped
only when it had consumed everything
in its path. Sixteen business buildings
were destroyed. Loss, $75,000.
A cablegram from Paris says: As
President Carnot was leaving Long
champs Sunday between double lines of
troops and police three well-dressed mer.
head,” and giving utterance to other
abuse. They spoke with a foreign accent.
Before they could be arrested the crowd
had nearly lynched them.
A Minneapolis dispatch of Saturday
says: The first thing done by the nation
al committee after adjournment of the
republican convention was to unanimous
ly choose J. S. Clarkson as temporary
chairman of the committee and I). E.
Young as temporary secretary. The
committee will meet at Washington, June
27, when a permanent organization will
be effected.
An earthquake shock, lasting nearly
thirty seconds, was felt at Santa Anna,Cal.
Tuesday morning. The vibrations wre
from east to west. The same report
comes from River bide, Cal. The shock
must have been felt on two continents,
as a cablegram front Athens, Greece,' says:
Several earthquakes occurred in northen
Greece Tuesday, the shock being special
ly noticeable at Thebes.
A dispatch of Monday from Guthrie,
Oklahoma, states that a party of thirteen
deputy marshals returned to that place
Sunday night from the pursuit of the
Red Rock train robbers. They have
given up the chase. They followed the
robbers 250 miles and were oblidged to
give up, their horses giving out. The
thieves had the route marked out and
were furnished relays of horses.
All the governments of Europe, with
the single exception of Prussia, have
either formally or informally accepted
the invitation issued by the president to
participate with the United States iu a
monetary conference looking to a more
ex ; ensive use of silver money. A favor
able response from Russia is confidently
expected. The time and place for the
conference havo not yet been settled.
Cable dispatches from Madrid state
that terrific thunder storms prevailed in
various parts of Spain Sunday, and
heavy loss of life and injury by light
ning is reported at Melia e , in the prov
ince of Orenses. The parish church was
struck while worshipers were attending
inass. Ten were killed and twenty-eight
seriously injured. At Muccenles, in the
province of Yalladoliet, a church was
struck and five were killed and ten in -
jured.
A dispatch of Sunday from Topeka
says: The people’s party (Farmers’ Al
liance) of Kansas, -will probably nomi
nate Jerry Simpson, member of congress
from the seventh Kansas district, for
governor. There is a bitter fight in al
liance ranks over the nomination, and
Jerry Simpson will be sprung as a dark
horse in the hope that he will secure the
nomination and heal all factional differ
ences.
A statement is going the rounds at
Washington, which is said to come from
a reliable source, that a petition is in
course of preparation which will be cir
cuiated among the labor unions of the
country calling upon the national repub
lican comm'ttee to withdraw the nomi
nation of Mr. Whitelaw Reid on the
ground that he has ever been an oppo
nent of organized labor, and that his
name on the ticket would cause a very
great loss in labor votes to the republican
ticket.
A special from Chicora, Penn., says
about midnighg Monday night, fire broke
out in a restaurant in that town presuma
bly from natural gas. The water supply
gave out almost immediately and on ac
count of the intense dry weather the
buildings burned like tinder. To stop
the progress of the fire, buildings were
tcra down by the hook and ladder com
pany and several blown up with dyna
mite. One hundred buildings were
NUMBER 24.
burned, including the postoffice. Many
families are homeless. It is thought no
livts were lost.
A statemet t las been recently pub -
lished showiug the condition, acreage
and probable yield of the vurimn crops
in Kansas. .This statement shows the
reported damage to Kmsas crops exag
gerated and at pres nt promises to b: one
of the most prosperous iu the history of
the state. The yield of winter wheat is
estimated at 68,386,208 bushels, an in
cro se over last year of 2.415.514 bushels-.
Spring wheat 4.827,168, increase 2,447,-
-09 bu -h< Is. Corn 137,347,720 bushels,
dec ease 2,016,286 bushel-* Oats 43,-
9(51,100, increase 4,056,057 bushes.
L. L. POLK DEAD.
The Great Alliance Leader’s Work on
Earth is Ended.
I'HE ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH CAUSES
UNIVERSAL SORROW —AN IRREPARABLE
LOSS TO THE ALLIANCE CAUSE.
L. L. Polk, president of the Farmers’
Alliance, died at the G; rfie and house, in
Washington City, Satin day morning at
11:15.
The death of Colonel Polk is nn ir
tepnrable loss, alike to the alliance cause
iod to the people’s puty. He was to
have been the caudicn t * of the people's
party for the presidency. He was loved
by the alliaucemen throughout the coun
try, and was resiectcd as a courageous
and honest man by all parties.
SHORT HISTORY OF POLK.
Colonel Polk was a relative of Presi
dent Polk. He was a native of North
Carolina, where he w 3 born about fifty
five years ago, Ilis education was re
ceived in the coffimou schools. During
'the war he served for a time in the Con
federate army, and resigned to go to the
legislature, to which body he had been
elected.
Later, he filled for several years the
office of commissioner of agriculture for
North Carolina, and later still he began
the publication of the Progressive Farmer.
At the time of his death he was serving
his third term as president of the Farm
er’s Alliance, to which he has given so
much of his time and attention. Colonel
Polk’s home was at Raleigh, N. C. lie
leaves a w r ife and three children.
The 11 o’clock ftain over the Richmond
<fc Danville railroad Saturday niht ear
ned the remains of Colonel Polk from
Washington to Raleigh. N. C., for inter
ment. The rtmains were accompanied
by a ] arty of about twenty-five of Colo
nel Polk’s friet ds, among wh om were
Georgia; Kcm. of Sfinncslita';
han, of No raska; Stackhouse, of South
Carolina, and Simpson of Kansas, the
atter accompanied by Mrs. Simpson .
THE BURIAL OF COLOXEL POLK
A Raleigh dispatch of Sunday says:
The greatest respect was paid the mem
ory of Colonel L. L. Polk hero to day.
The car bearing bis body and the escort
from Washington did not arrive until 3
o’clock, and was met by 500 people.
The procession was made up, atid made
its way to the First Baptist church, of
which Colonel Polk had for years been a
communicant. At 4 o’clock the services
began. Over a thousand people were in
the church. Among the audience were
Governor Holt and all the state officers,
judges of the supreme court and officers
of the state alliance.
After a brief sermon in which Col.
Polk was eulogized for his earnest work
ihe entire audience passed by the casket,
which was covered with flowers. Thu
expression of the dead man was quite
natural. The casket was borne into aud
out of the church by pallbearers who
came from Washington, among whom
were Senator Puffer, Jerry Simpson,
Weaver, Irby aud others. All the party
left directly after the services on their
return to Washington. The pallbearers
chosen at Raleigh, among whom were
thefficers of the state alliance, then
took the remains in charge. The burial
was in Oakwood cemetery, in a pictur
esque spot. The attendance there was
very large.
The Atlanta Constitution, in an edito
rial comment on the death of Col, Polk,
says: “The death of Colonel Leonidas
L. Polk, president of the National Far
mers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, will
be generally regretted. Colonel Polk
died in the prime of manhood, after a
painful illness, and it is a sad disappoint
ment to his frieuds and followers to lose
him at a time when they so greatly need
his counsel and leadership. In many
rerpects the late president of the alliance
was a remarkable man. His tongue and
pen had gifts of commanding power. In
other ages and countries movements
somewhat similar to the one he presided
over h ive been attempted, but they were
not as powerful nor so ably directed
as the present farmers’ . crusade.
Colonel Polk gave his whole heart to the
cause, and in the educational work of the
alliance he wo s perhaps the most import
ant factor. His eloquence and magnet
ism held his followers together, and few
men evir had more devoted friends.
Concerning the political fu me of this
popular leader it is idle to indulge in a
speculative forecast. IPs part in the
great reform work will not be forgotten,
and bis admirable traits of character as a
man and as a citizen will cause his death
to be sincerely mourred. His removal
leaves a vacant place not easily to h?
filled, and it may be that it cmnotbo
filled. Leaders with the abilities and
and accomplishments of Leonidas L. Polk
ere not to be found < very day.”
CHICAGO’S BIG STORM.
Seven Lives Lost and SIOO,OOO Damage
to Property.
A Chicago dispatch siys: Monday af
ternoon’s storm did much more destruct
ive work than was at first reported. At
least seven lives were lost in Chicago and
vicinity, and fifteen persons more or less
injured, while it will probably take SIOO,-
000 to repair the damage done by the
tornado. Considerable damage was done
the huge democratic national wigwam.
The canvas roof was torn to shreds and
will have to be replaced with one of tim
ber.