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VOLUME IV.
In the last six years the cotton mills of
the South have increased in number from
161 to 310, and in productions eighty
eight per cent. They have secured new
markets, and are now largely exporting
goods.
Rutherford B Hayes Is now the only
living ex-President, and Hannibal Ham
lin and William A. Wheeler the only
living ex-Vice-Presidents. Fremontand
Blaine are tire only livnt-cx Presidential
candidates of great partie., and I'cndlc
ton, V-o® English and Logan * the only living
.. .. . ..
.
11 lft CiU ’ ( u a 0,1 10 ,aM s
of * t these . prominent gentlemen have
thinned greatly by tho death within
eightcen months of Grant, McClellan,
Hancock, Tilden, Seymour and Arthur.
A more noted group has hardly ever be
fore passed oil the stage of life so nearly
togethcr.
"
Some idea of the value of water in
Southern California may b • gained from
the opening * of the C age Irrigating ^ Canal »nai,
^
near Riverside. . I hreo years ago land
sold above Riverside for $5 an acre. It
was without water and was counted
valuable only for grazing. Mr. Gage
made a contract with a large number of
owners of land to furni-h them abundant
water at #100 per acre. Then he dug
an eleven-mile canal, sup/died with water
partly from Santa Ana River, but mainly
from artesian wells. Recently water was
turned into the canal, and land which
sold for #5 now sells readily for $::()() an
acre.
A rock which the Sioux Indians near
Fort Yates, Dakota, have worshiped for
generations as the petrified form of a
young squaw was formally unveiled tho
other day and dedicated to peace and
plenty. It appears that the white settlers
in the vicinity have long supposed that
this strange specimen of nature's art
work exerted a restraining influence on
the Indians, but of late the rock has been
removed from its original resting place,
and it was feared that with its removal
its charm had disappeared. So the sug
gestion was made to Sitting Bull that
the statue be placed upon a permanent
pedestal and unveiled with appropriate
ceremonies. This pleased the chieftain,
and 5,000 Indians assembled to take part
in the strange medley of Christian and
Pagan rites by which the unveiling was
accompanied. Now the superstition of
the whites is satisfied.and the scepticism
of the savages—the first sign of civiliza¬
tion —is cheeked.
A drove of a hundred hogs that were
being driven through Allegheny, Penn.,
became frightened and stampeded.
About a dozen ran into a drug store
bleeding and covered with mud. Two
ladies who were waiting for prescriptions
screamed with fear. One of them sprang
on the counter and the other clambered
upon tho soda fountain. After upsetting
every article of furniture in thn store,
the fattest of the nlTritrhted hogs tried
to get behind the prescription counter
and overturned the stove. The stove was
heated by natural gas, and when it was
upset tho pipe was broken and a sheet,
of flame shot up almost to the ceiling,
A disastrous conflagration would hive
been the result but for the prompt action
of tho proprietor, who turned off the gas.
Two of tho ho its were badly burned.
The owner, of the .wine were compelled 1
to carry them out.
A Boston man tells how few in Eng¬
land understand American English, “I
had not been in Liverpool an hour,” he
says, “when 1 became convinced that I
had much to learn about the English lan¬
guage. When I entered my hotel I a^ked
the young woman who received me:
‘What are your terms V ami had I spoken
Choctawshe could not have understood
me less. ‘What do you charge a day?' I
next ventured. ‘Charge!’ she replied,
vaguely, aud 1 tried again. ‘Ah! you
want the tariff ?’ she said at last,and suro
enough I did Now, if 1 had used tho
word ‘tariff’ in that senee in Boston it
would have been considered slang. I
tried in vain to get a pair of suspenders,
>8 they ; would chow me now but thow
for , stockings, , . . but v succeeded ...... hnally ,a
buying some braces. 1 might prolong
tho list ad infinitum, but enough is shown
to warrant the publication of an English
American dictionary of -ynonyms for the
use of travelers. ”
Professor Charles A. Ashburner, geol¬
ogist in charge of the Pentisvlvania^Sur
vey, according to the Pitt-burg Ctniumr
riitl-fiiiuttr, is of th«* opinion that the
practical application of natural gas has
opened up a new era in fuel economy,
and the development ot heat and me¬
chanical power. “There is no doubt in
my mind,” says lie, “but that the greatest
advance to be made ii) the practical arts
and sciences during the next two de¬
cades is to result from a practical consid¬
eration of the qu-. stion of the manufac
turc and utilization of gaseous fuels and
the adaptation of plant and ma hincry w>
the new fuel relations that I believe we
are bound for economy’s sake to estab¬
lish.” As to the IprobubVe duration of the
«—* r,
region, the Professor ventures the belief
•that, although two-thirds of the product
h« been going to w.rie "very little
alarm should l>© entertained as to the ex
haustion of thu gas sands of Pennsyl
I* * vauia and the prostration * of the manu
facturing interest- .... that become depen- ,
1 4i»t upon its use.
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 26, 1887.
THE NEW SOUTH.
NEW8 NOTES GATHERED _ . _
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
worth cutomtv ....
A . horse
was bought for two dollars in
'»»>
* ,eW yC '' rS T Mr i A A t "■“ tso "’ of
SSSUi „ ,! f ‘a , y ’ ?° US n " F " Cn ,n “ ^ for
,U11K k ai a miiKing.
In Newberne work on Hotel Albert is
for progressing. Steam pipes for heat in in’ **
; water and for gas, have been put
, aud the plastering will soon be com
menced.
Iu Durham the large factories of R.T.
datcd \ Tuesday ant \ Po under K«® & the Cameron name and consoli- style
!! I ,e I’ au<ett Durham ,h lobacco aud
W ‘ “ Cap,tRl stockof
® U ,UUU '
Mr Adolphus Ilopson lives six miles
east of Durham. Last Saturday mornim?
, his two little daughters were plaviim in
the fire with a piece of paper, when the
dress of the elder girl caught fire and she
j w as so badl y burned that she died before
. bt
ni ^ '
Miss Parker attended divine service at
Juniper Primitive church, iu Kmithfield,
last Sunday morning, and, with other
young ladies, was sitting around afire
built in the church grove, when her
clothes caught lire, and she was fatally
burned before her clothes could he ex
tinguished.
A number of petitions are being circti
luted, one petitioning the legislature to
allow the county of Buncombe to vote on
thc liquor question, including Asheville
in the county vote; another petitioning
the legislature to urge congress to pass
the Blair education bill; and still another
to establish a reform school or a school
of correction in Asheville.
sot tii OAitoUNA.
The legislature has pnwd a law to pro
hibit the stealing of fruit and melons,
I he AVinnsboro .... national . . bank . . has <U- ,
elared a semi-annual dividend of 5 per
About one hundred and fifty nog r«»es
have left Strother’s aud the vicinity t f ,
seek their fortunes in the West.
In Greenville there wore 2* tires for
the year 1SHI5, just double the number
during 1885. The tire losses were ss*,»{>,
220 and the insurance on the building
and property #80,*20.
A former citizen of Wiunsboro, writ*
ing from Mississipi, wants to exchange
liis Mississippi property for property near
his old home. He claims that South Car
olitin is the best State in which to live.
A letter from Rossville, Chester emm
tv, states that the whites and blacks are iu
a destitute condition. A meeting of noth
races has been cant'd and resolutions
passed asking the government for help
Abbeville has a postmistress who car¬
ries off the palm as si pnictit sil sirnl ener¬
getic woman. She recently slaughtered
three hogs, whose combined weight was
eight hundred and sev* nty-t’our pounds
General M. L. Bonham, Jr., has sold
Out his interest in the Abbeville Messon
ger to J. S. Perrin, who will .hereaficr
conduct it himself, General Bonham
tice ";iU of hereafter law, and devote the discharge himself to of the his prac¬ du¬
ties as adjutant general.
The Aiken Recorder thinks that the
refusal of the lust legislature to allow an
appropriation for the Columbia canal a
great mistake. The canal having been
begun aud the sum of #200,00<) having
been already expended, the Recorder 1 >o
,ievc T> which •»?. the Mate «»». realize *-»'? the
way in can on
investment is to complete the work.
Mr. J. w. Creech, of Elko, has a cane
patch fourth of 7,400 have square feet. It costs him
one to the syrup made, leav
in him 77 gallons net, which would make
the value per acre three hundred dollars
at sixty-five cents a gallon. The cane was
manured with broadcast compost and
acid phosphate and cotton seed in the
drill, at the rate of 20 bushels of seed and
200 pounds of acid to the acre.
MISSISSIPPI.
There was quite a number of private
dwellings in Gloster burglarized last
week. It seems that there is an organ
ized band of night thieves of this elmrae
ter traveling from stntion to station on
the railtoad.
! William Bochiner, a German, aged
about fifty years, und in the employ of
Dr. Thurber on hi» pl».e at Back Day,
was found dead in tbe yard by a ladv
ncighbor who ira modiately gave the
jury alarm. they Upon investigation verdict by death a coroner s
found a of from
appoplexy. lie leaves no family. supposed From
1 the condition of the body lie K
to have been dead about thirty-six hours.
A meeting of tho members of the Mori
dan bar was held at the courthouse,
which adopted resolutions bill asking for the
introduction of a in the house of rep¬
resentatives United providing for the establish
ment of a States court at Meri
dian, to lie known as the eastern division
of the .southern district, and Hon. John
W. Fewell was appointed as a delegate to
proceed and * at once to Washington bill. to urge
assist in the. passage of the
1,01 1 st \ N A
, Captain Marstou's ginhou-e East
at
Point, on Bed River, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, #8.o;)0 to #4 <»•(»; no irisur
| ance.
• Through error, the Reveille, of tit.
Martinvilh*. state l that tin* operations of
od factory would be suspended iu a
few days. Such is not the case
i petition for the pardon of Dr.
> cireuiated j u Shreveport, it has received
but a few signatures.
, h e affidavit of June. W. Knox
before Judge Burgess, C. W. bumrali
‘ arrested by Deputy Sheriff T. S.
was
Alexander and committed to Baton Rouge
^ tail on the charge of assault with a kuife
threatening to kill affiant. Both
parties are white.
“ Justice to All, Malice for None.”
ALABAMA.
Oscar Bard, formerly employed in the
office of the Alabama and Great Southern
, railroad at Birmingham, attempted sui
tide Wednesday by taking morphine, but
! his Physicians life. reached him in time to save
The right of way for a double track
. railway granted the East
was
Birmingham b, Laud company jinn Wednesday
thncity council. The hill run
thZom c0 ' np u aZ‘ ‘ n3 '' 0 " l ' P0 ' ‘ °
0/ Tisdale * R
■ livery and sale stables, which
large oc
curred > at Selma Wednesday, is one
of the most disastrous tires that ever oc
curred in that city. The lire was iucendi
a, Y; The fire companies were quick to
action, but owing to the rapid burning of
l^iue^ort^iHo^ the
building and its contents, l he whole
bli i c cremation of eighty head of Inux-*
and mules wms a sight beyond description.
As the flames would strike the lu-nst,,
and cat great chunks of flesh from their
bodies, they would plunge with suffering
fury and utter groans most horrible, mid
then fall dead,
A DISTILLERY BURNED.
The Building and Machinery Kntlrely De¬
stroyed at Terra llante.
At 3 o’clock Saturday morning an alarm
of fire called the department to the Terra
Haute distillery, where the fire was found
raging in the* upper floor of the main
building, in which were the wine and
beer rooms and wine vats, It was found
impossible to reach the fire with a stream,
and for a time thu rfTort of the f» rc ’^en
?' c ™ turnc l (l t() 8avin S the surrounding
b « ,ld,n . S 8 { ™ m destruction. , About 1.
000 ! uns of W was l ,acked in a yard
contiguous dly to the buildings. The firemen
l i rc iad Rp ate extinguished the flames which
sbttd ,n ro °f- s °f the dwelling
ad . acent The fire burned
1 ses J - north
und , 80111 h through the building. The
roar of the flames and the hissing of the
burning liquor was fearful. The crash
in ^ of tlie ponderous vats, rectifying ap
paratus, stills and all the .network of
the machinery was appalling. At 4:30
u . m . the upper floors and walls of the
south wing went down into a seething
mass of fire, with a thunderous crash that
made the ground tremble. The fire spread
downward through the building, anil
soon the boiler room was burning from
end to end. Tremendous clouds of sparks
and living coals filled the air and were
scattered broadcast by the wind. Great
fears were entertained for the safety of the
bonded warehouse, but it was saved from
destruction.
In the building were not less than 05,
000 gallons of high wines ancl 20,000 gal
^ ons <d "dues and rectified whisky,
aud a birge amount of rye malt and oats
were in store; also about 10,000 bushels
of corn. The building from top to bot¬
tom is a total wreck.
James Nugent, a watchman, is sup¬
posed to be buried in the ruins, as he
cannot be found, (‘rawford Fairbanks,
the principal owner, estimates the loss at
about #100,000. The insurance will ag¬
gregate about #70,000. The building
will be rebuilt as soon as possible.
At 9 a. m. there was nothing standing
except one back wall. One year ago this
month a boiler explosion at the distillery
killed seven persons and caused heavy
damage to the property.
A GREAT FIRE AT DENVER.
Tlie C’lifforil Iilork Entirely Destroyed—
Tho Lose Very Heavy.
The Clifford Block, a three-story build¬
ing, owned by W. B. Daniels, was com¬
pletely burned Saturday evening. The
ground floors were occupied by their Knight
& Atmorc, clothiers, who lost en
tire stock, and R. Douglas, china and
queensware, whose stock also was totally
destroyed. The contents of the upper
floors, occupied as office and lodging
rooms, were entirely destroyed. The
stock of Kilpatrick’s furniture house, ad¬
joining the burned building, was dam¬
aged by water and smoke. The losses
are estimated as follows: Knight & At
m ire #34.000, insured for #26,500; R.
Douglas #35,000 to #40,000, insurance
f<>r #54.000; offices and lodging insured; rooms W.
#15,000 to #20,000, partially #40,000, fully
B. Daniels, on building,
insured. Kilpatrick's loss is fully cov¬
ered by insurance.
THE DROUTH SUFFERERS.
Appropriation for Relief Recommended by
a Legislative Committee.
The special committee appointed to
investigate as to sufferiig section from the drouth
prevalent over a large of Texas
has submitted to its report to the
legislature Thu eommitte state that
there is a large section of the state west
und north of the Brazos river, and ex
tending far down the river edge to Ham
ilton, which has been visited by one of
the most destructive drouths ever known
in Texas. The reports state that in this
r ^P ion there arc at least 30.000 persons
*rho are, or soon will be, absolutely ( »es
titute, and who can not possibly subsist
without immediate assistance. The com¬
mittee recommends an appropriation of
, #200,000 for the relief _ of the suffer
ers under such provisons as may be
deemed best, until the crops can be
grown. The action on the report will be
taken to-morrow.
v tobacco factory strike.
About oik* hundred und fifty Knights
i of Labor, in Liggett Jc \iyer-’- tobacco
L.rtnry -truck Monday, ami a committee
from assembly N i 7 desired to talk tbe
matter over with the managers. The lat¬
ter refu-ed to treat with the labor or¬
ganization. About eleven hundred hands
ere employed in the factory, and it is not
J known how many of them are Knights.
No interruption of work had been caused
up to Tuesday afternoon.
| PENITENTIARY BURNED.
j Frankfort xh , pen itenti»rv * of Kentneky, nt
’and was burned Saturday "were The
building contents valued at
# 66 ,000, and tbe insurance was only
* ’ ooo Fortunately, all the prisoners
were locked up in the cell house, which
j is a separata building and fireproof.
OUR DEFENSELESS COAST.
UNCLE SAM URGED TO TAKE IM¬
MEDIATE ACTION,
Callins a Convention to bo Held at De
Faninli Sprlnp, Florida.
The executive eommitte of the Coast
Defense Association of the coast cities of
the South have issued the following cir¬
cular:
“We, the undersigned citizens of the
South Atlantic and Gulf coast seaports,
regard with alarm the unprotected con¬
dition of our cities, which in their
present defenseless state render them and
our homes liable to destruction or to the
exaction of tribute equally as ruinous in
the evout of war. This feeling of alarm
is intensified by the humilliating fact
that a single gunboat of any third power
may take posession of and destroy any
one of our seaport cities, while we are
unable to defend or offer successful re¬
sistance. While the nation lias expe
rieneed long the blessing of peace, we
cannot is imperative always expect this boon, and it
that our ports be placed in
have a state of defense, which would alone
“We a tendency therefore to avert war.
reccommend that a eou
veution be held at DeFuniak Springs,
Fla., a central and convenient point tc
convene the February 8, 1887, to counsel as
to best method of securing the pro¬
tection of our coast, based upon modern
improvements, We recommend that
his Excellency President Cleveland, the
honorable Secretary of War and the Navy,
both eommiteos of Congress on military
and naval affairs. General Gilmore and
Captain Greene, of the United States
army. General Newton, Hon. S. (’ox, of
New York and others be invited to at¬
tend. Also the governors of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor¬
ida, Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana and
1 (»xas. with four delegates at large aud
out • from each congressional district,
appointed by the governors of the above
States, and delegates from the cities of
the coast States. We would gladly in¬
clude all the coast States, but in a coun
try of such vast distances, each section
should move in convention or otherwise.
1 he circular is signed by wealthy and
prominent citizens of all the Southern
coast it ir Among the signers are
'•ovornor Drew, of Jacksonville, and
Messrs, Adgcr of Charleston, Fairbanks
of Fernandinn, Dunn of Brunswick,
Disinukes oi St. Augustine, Bethel of
Key W e>t, Orman of Apalachicola, Mc
Quuine of Cedar Keys. Chiplcy of Pcn
sncola, Cunningham of Mobile, and
Richardson of New Orleans.
HAZEN DEAD.
Tho End of the Chief of the Slfnal Sop
vice.
General W. B. Ilazen, chief signal offi¬
cer, U. S. A., died at Washington of
diabetes, at eight o'clock Sunday even¬
ing. lie had suffered from diabetes for
some years, but of late had improved in
health and strength, and hopes were en¬
tertained of his complete recovery. At
the reception president, of the diplomatic corps
given by the he took a severe
cold, causing him to keep his bed on the
14th. On the 15th instant he was up,
and saying reported he himself would much his improved, office
that go to on
Monday. On Sunday morning his phy¬
sician, P. F. Harvey, U. S. A., was sum¬
moned to see him soon after daylight,
lie at once repaired to his rooms and
found an alarming poisoning change of in his the blood. condi¬
tion, suggesting deemed of
The case was so extreme grav¬
ity that his relatives iu Washington were
informed, aud they at once gathered
about him and spared no effort to bring
him relief. Every measure that skill or
science could suggos* failed to rally the
sinking officer, and lie breathed bis last
at eight o’clock in the evening.
Information of General llnzen’s death
was conveyed immediately by Colonel
Huntingdon and Captain communicated Greely to the the
secretary of war, who
sad intelligence to the president.
A TOWN TERRORIZED.
A Bad State of A flairs Reported in a Texas
Villmre—Two Men Murdered.
A perfect reign of terror exists in the
town of Uatulla, the county seat of La
Salle county, Tex., eighty miles south
of San Antonio. As the result of fatal
fueds existing in the community County
Commissioner Hill and and another man
have been shot down and killed in cold
blood within the past month, and the
slayers of both, although arrested. perfectly well
known, have not been Half a
dozen vigilant committees have organ¬
ized to hunt the assassins, but they seem
t o make no headway, although it is un¬
derstood that the murderers have never
left the county. The town is practically
under martial law, and business is almost
suspended, in fact so great is deserting the feeling the
of insecurity that many are
village for fear of losing their lives. Cap
fain Schmidt has a company of State
Rangers, who patrol the streets night and
day to prevent an outbreak of hostilities
between the two factions into which the
community is divided.
THE C4I.AN11FRS IN ATHENS, <JA.
I)r. W. 11. Ro-c.thc veterinary surgeon
<>f the agricultural department. Washing¬
ton, D ( '.. tini-in-d hi- ill’ i--tigation
at At ben-. G . Tin -d lie dug Up
the b ulies of two hor-e which had died
from the prevalent di -CUM . and split
ting •i) s; their no-* - found evidences ol
glanders. He recommend- the destruc
tion of the .-tables formerly occupied by
the street car stock, the burning of the
manure and the quarantine of the ani¬
mals. Dr. Rose does not think there is
danger of a spread of a disease, which’
though contagious, is not at all infect¬
ious.
LUMBER DEALERS COMING SOI TH
♦ The fourth annual convention of the
Union of Associated Lumber dealers, af¬
ter session ju-t held at Cincinnati, left by
a special train over the Louisville and
Nashville railroad for Nashville aud
other points where they will visit and in
s|»ect some niilis in the lumber regions of
the south. The visit will extend to Bir¬
mingham, ville. Mobile, Pensacola and Knox¬
MORE ABOUT THE BOOM.
Items fTom Montgomery, Tnscnloosa, Bir¬
mingham and Bristol.
The declaration of incorporation was
filed Saturday for the charter of the new
railroad to be known as the Alabama
Midland railroad. It will run from Mont
fahooebee tS’ “ d TroJr *° C *“'
The Highland Park «nd f Tmnrrtm
in a» the eastern aasaasftfe suburbs of the city. The
is *
stock all taken
tusoai.oosa , s mo compamt.
Articles of incorporation of the Coal,
Iron and Land company have been tiled,
and a stockholder's meeting held for the
election of a board of directors. The
capital stock is fixed at one million dol
lars, and every dollar taken. The com
pany has secured, in addition to its live
thousand acres of suburban land and city
property, a large and ample acreage of
the finest coal and iron land in the state,
which lies at a comparatively short dis
tance from this place. After paying for
all lands, the company will have in its
treasury a cash capital of five hundred
H„d ..igbiv-fn,. th„„ s? „,i dollar.
It is now an assured fact that the mm
end railroad a branch of the Louisville
and Nashville system, the terminus of
which is: now only f.venty-six nuies di,
Z ZWtXi
south. most important railroad lines in the
Capital has also been secured for build
ing the Macon, Mississippi and Tusea
loosa railroad, and one of the officials of
this road has been there to secure railroad
privileges and facilities.
A party of New Oilcans capitalists
have made large purchases of land in and
about the town of Northport, just oppo
site Tuscaloosa, on the Warrior river.
'
NEW INDCSTKIES IN BIRMINGHAM.
The East Birmingham Land company
has closed a contract with a company,
which will at once erect a large foundry
and machine works on the company's
lands. The new company is headed by
It. W. Ballard, of Birmingham. Among
the stockholders are the presidents of two
of the city banks.
Mr. II. F. Debardeleben announces
that he has perfected arrangements for
the erection of a large rolling mill at
Bessemer.
THE BOOM AT BRISTOL, TENS.
The city councils of Bristol and Good*
60 n have unanimously voted a subscrip¬
tion of #50,000 to the Bristol and South
Atlautic railroad, and the road to Eliza¬
beth, Tennessee, They also offer a do
nation of #10,000 to the first person or
firm building a 100-ton iron furnace in
their town.
WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION
in. President Tnider. — Reception in tbe
Diplomatic i'orpa.
At the white house on Thursday even
ing, the long corridors and large high
rooms were brilliantly lighted, while in
every varieties. niche were placed tropical plants of
all
In the east room the decorations were
supplemented by a great profurion of !
choice cut flowers, while gilded columns
were wreathed with fern and palm leaves
and the large chandeliers twined with
smilax. The Marine band, stationed in
the corridor, furnished the music.
The gaily decorated rooms were crow d- j
ed from 9 till after 11 o’clock with con
officials, gressmen, diplomats, judges, department
army and navy officers and other
prominent lady friends. people with their wives aud
The receiving party consisted of the
president and Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. Man¬
ning made and Mrs. Vilas. Marshal Wilson
the presentations. Behind the re¬
ceiving party in the blue room stood
Secretaries Bayard, Manning. Endicott
and Whitney and Postmaster Vilas; Mrs.
Charles W. Goodyear and Mrs. George J.
Sicard, of Buffalo, and Miss Hastings,
the President’s nieces, who are new guests
at the white house; the young ladies of
the cabinet, and Colonel an<i Mrs. La
mont.
Mrs. Cleveland wore a trained gown of
ruby plush, cut square in front with a
moderately high and pointed back; short
lace sleeves, a single rosebud, diamond
necklace with pendant, aud diamonds in
her shoulders. hair and tan glov’es reaching to the j
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THE E. T., V. & GA. RAILROAD.
Becomes n Dependency of Ihe Richmond A
Danville Sy*iem.
An important event of the past few
days was the sale of the East Tennessee
Virginia & Georgia railroad to the Rich
motid and West Point terminal com
pany. It is officially stated that the main
points for the sale, compiling named,have 1,423
miles of railway in the States
been agreed upon with representatives Point ol
the Richmond and West company.
Parties holding control of the East Teu
r.esscc s ell their preferred stock for #4 -
400.00b in cash and 40,000 shares of Ter¬
minal stock at forty. Richmond and
\S cst Point company "ill put the East
Tennessee preferred stock in trust, a?
colatteral for #8,500,000 of colatteral trust
bomb, which the .yntatc has agreed tc
♦ “•_______
PIG IRON FROM ENGLAND.
The Shickle, Harrison and Howard
Iron company, of St. Louis, in conse
quenceof their inability to obtain suffic
ient supplies of pig iron from the south,
has contracted for ten thousand tons of
number three from a Middleborough,
England, foundry for immediate ship
ment via New Orleans. The price is
about *21, duty included, on the wharf
in St. Louis, which is one dollar less than
the present ^notations on a similar grade
of iron from the south.
A BOILER EXPLOSION.
The boiler of A M. Morris’s mill, at
Jeannette, La., exploded Saturday, de¬
molishing the boiler bouse. Demos
Morrissee and C4odfrey Proust were bad
ly scalded. E. Pelleriu aud a negro
called Gus were slightly scalded, and a
girl who was pulled from under the ruins
19 belitvsd to b« fatally scalded.
ROBERT EYAN SPROUL.
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j HANGED AN1 > THEN PROVED TO
I ^°UENT.
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j O.th. BcfT.ld ll« i. Notm.d ih.t n. I. nelr
I _ For the
! six m O“ths preceding the 28th
v!’ 'hen uuder sentence ?'“i of
1 d 1 1 Vc ^,* a ’ B - C *> for “«rder. It
j was a case of life or death with the ac
cused, and being an American citizen,
a »d that government being impressed
w ilh Ids innocence, taking every possible
le gal action to prevent the hanging of
tlie condemned, tended to create moie
than ordinary interest in each step of the
proceedings Robert which were then going on.
Evan Sprout was a miner who
had moved to Canada from Kennebec
county, Me., in 1880. He was the part
owner of one of the richest mines in the
Kootenary district of British Columbia,
On the 1st day of Jannary, 1885, one
Thomas Hammel, also a miner, and a part
owner of the Sproul claim, to’ was killed,
£>-*•••> Sproul as the guilty pointed man. .be He accused was ar
rested and charged with the offense but
stoutly Ms maintained his innocence, and on
failed."^ trial, which was had at Victoria, B.
certain irregularities Afte^riietria^hlscounselaiiegcd in the
which hearing,
among was the non-description of
the court, but the provincial supremo
court sustained the decision of the lower
court. Five respites however were
granted the condemned man by the gov
ernment, and at last he was hanged by
order of the minister of justice, who re
fused to interfere, although urged to do
so by Mayor Fell and some five hundred
residents of Victoria, as well ns bv the
secretary of state of the United States.
After the; trial, the chief witness for
the prosecution, one Charles Wolfe, made
an affidavit in due form that the evidence
given by him at the trial was false, and
the American counsel at Victoria reported
to the lieutenant-governor of British Col
umbia that after the investigation he be
licved the prisoner to be innocent. Not
withstanding in the order of the highest
court Canada, Sproul was hanged on
the 28th of September. He maintained
his innocence on the gallows. Now a
witness whom he could not procure on
his trial has turned up in San Francisco,
and in order to satisfy the relatives of
Sproul that he had been hanged for a
crime of which he was innocent, Beatty
went before a judge of competent juris¬
diction and made an affidavit that he was
with Sproul from eight o’clock in the
evening of the 31st of May, 1885, until
half past six of the night following, and,
moreover, that they were at least fifteen
miles from the scene of the crime
*i tlie murder was committed ... ■, , between . tliose
horns, according;to the prosecution, till.
disposes of the theory J that the accused
^prou! AiA the deed.
This affidavit has been filed with the
Secretary of State. Acting ou tlie iwlv tce
of ( ounsel Frar ? k Sproul, a brother o the
****** and admimstrator on Ins estate
ba s begun action a .^ r -unst he 1 rovinte of
Rntish Columbia for #.»0,000 damages on
Jw*[ One strange n th f thing m h «ngiug. connection with
tk e affair is, that four davs befoic 1ihe ex
^ution, a friend of the prisoner died in
Boston bequeathing him #100,00(1, which
was n( >t made known to the condemned
man un Bl he walked out on the gallows,
CHATTANOOGA SCOOPED.
Th. CUT Aatoundcd .. Ik. R.c...
Change*.
Chattmooga . wrought , . to . pitch . .
» up a
EaatTenneaaee of high excitement over the ac .op ot the
aystem Official hy the Richmond
endDanv'lle. of the former line,
Mate that information from the contmll
ing elements is to the .fleet hat the
headquarters of the system will be re
moved to Atlanta, and that the consoli¬
dated shops will be built there, as that
city is the geographical center of the
new consolidated system. The headquar¬
ters have been retained at Knoxville in
consequence of local influences, but uow
that the control has passed to others, the
the natural conditions will be carried out.
The scoop leaves the Norfolk and Western
bottled up at Bristol, and already an or
der has been issued that all freight from
the South and West should be sent via
Morristowm aud Asheville, instead of
Bristol, as heretofore. The Norfolk and
Western, it is thought, will unite with
jLq Baltimore and Ohio to build a UCW
ii ne through East Tennessee to make
western and southern connections at Chat
tonooga, and will hasten the building of
the Tennessee Midland from Bristol to
Memphis, Tennessee, a line diagonally
across the State. The effect of the scoop
will also be to cause the immediate ex¬
tension of the Memphis and Charleston
from Stevenson to Chattanooga.
A WOMAN ON FIRE.
her ^ rg p u ti er) an old lady living standing with
family, at Athens Ga., was
near an 0 p en fi re Tuesday, when she dis
covcre( j tHat her dress was ablaze. She
„, ls bv hersel{ in the hou8e . she r „ shed
7* °. f i° i on ‘° ‘o tbe nreT, , but . , before *
she had gotten out ot the yard was
enveloped in flames from fright her clothing.
Framie with pain and she began
tearing them from her and when first
s ccn was sitting on the frozen ground
trying to puli off her stockings all that
was left on her. Dr. Benedict was at
once summoned, and reached there in
about fifteen minutes. When it was
found that nbe was literally blistered all
over, and some places tbe burn extends
through the skin. Her left hand is badly
burned.
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mE 4T TOION SP „, N<;S .
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A fire at Union Springs, Bullock , coun
tv, Ala., Tuesday, consumed the follow
ing buildings in a new block in the busi¬
ness part of the city: The Pulmanhouse,
the po.--t office, J. P. Roberts’ and L. J.
Frazer's stores with contents,the Bullock
County bank, the opera house, the West
ern Union telegraph office and Wright’s
new brick store. The loss on the build
ings and stock is over #40,000, partly in
■ured.
NUMBER 35.
WRECKS ON THE RAIL.
gavn-al Lively Shake Ups and Oars on Sn4«
hat No Casualties.
h, ? h 7^7 P MS «>g er tl * ,n . ». dug
1 efftfe raolA, i ££*£*& M ica N TJtoK Y _ Tho
on their sides. Only one passenger and
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clock Ihursday s?&»
o morning, was thrown
from the track by the rails spreading,
near Middletown, N. Y. .The tender of
the engine, two baggage, three day
coaches and three sleepers left the track
and ran an eighth of a mile before stop
ping, pointed where the v still stood upwri"lit but
in as many directions as there
were but cars. the Everybody was well shaken
jury up, only man sufferin'' actual in
was the baggage ° master, upon whom
a heavy trunk fell. The train was run
ning fifty miles an hour when it left the
track,
A second wreck occurred 'I hursday af¬
ternoon at Middletown, N. Y., growing
out of the first wreck on the Erie. The
^th^Wu.e^k^ wreckers i ‘ bar! thm. w.irrbt
Hlu on m Je£
near the station, vi„ tl.e express due in
r : fv „ t r- o° n r .i, .i,^
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A * s enous collision occurred Thursday
. at two o’clock, between the
frcl £‘ri and passenger trains on the Sa
y annan, Florida and Western railway,
seventy-eight miles trom Savannah. Tha
scnville passenger and tram the was coming from Jack
freight was going south,
The passenger engineer heard the whistle
of freight,but was unable to discover
“ clearly, , as it was very foggy. The
P^enger ho was backing at the rate of four
an " r > aud the frei g ht running at
ei b rllte cn miles. The engineer and fire
m en °? bo th trains < from their
en
. . thcir lives and
S mes ln save - n ®
one was injured save one colored man,
who was slightly bruised. The freight
engine was a total wreck, and the pas
senger engine telescoped considerably damaged. One
car was by the freight tender,
and fou y frei g at cars w< ?re thrown from
ie f rac a- The track wns also torn up
, \? T 8om ® dlstanc e. The passengers on
the northbound train were considerably
shaken up, and the train was delayed
fhree hours, but no one was injured,
CONSTITUTION’S CENTENNIAL.
The I’rpaident Sends a Message Regarding
Its Celebration.
The President hasr sent the following
message to congress:
To the Senate and House of Represen
As a matter of national interest,
......one solely within the discretion and
„ r vl ,' nitrivl< , trommit tho ac
; ttm,„ in ; VIIIv memorial of tile executive
• et ,• the ,, sub-constitutional , ... .. ,
e. uttnmcc , , ecn
tem.ial commission, proposing to cele
, M1 t]u< 17th 0 f September, 1887, in
(lu . ( . ifv l){ Philadelphia, as the day upon Jon
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u llit . h all( j the w! the c on
linIl |lml Fedcral constitution
, on( ., u<ll . t | ]., 1)0rs nn( ] submitted the
|( . s||h nit itication to the thirteen
.tate> then composing {,ne the United States,
Tlll , was of the deepest interest
j ( , V(1 , uortllv 0 f commetm,ration. I
iin aware that as each stale acted iude
peiidcntly in giving its adhesion to the
new constitution, the dates and nnniver
‘mies of their several ratifications are not
C( 'incident, so action looking to a national
expression iu relation to the celebration
of the close of tlie first century of popu
the written nonrti
tution has already been suggested, and
whilst stating “, tlie great interest I share
in renCT cxll ,„i„„tion bv the Amer
k ,, thl-ir n , c of the historic „i ■f„u„ <ln ,i on
„f government, dlacriminitlng I <lo not feel war
,1 in * in favor J of or
„j, |st the |iroposition t0 8elect 0 e day J[
pluc0 1 in 1 t0 M other ,
then fore, content myself with convey¬
ing to congress these expressions of pop¬
ular feeling and interest upon the subject,
hoping that in a spirit of patriotic co-op¬
eration, rather than of local competition,
fitting measures may be enacted by con¬
gress which will give the amplest oppor¬
tunity all over these United States, for a
manifestation of the affection and the con¬
fidence of a free and mighty nation in the
institutions of the government, of which
they are the fortunate inheritors and
under which unexampled prosperity has
been enjoyed by all classes and condi¬
tions in our social system.
Gjiover Cleveland.
A LAND GRANT DECISION.
The Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
Cannot Condemn Certain Lands.
In the case of the Alabama and Chat
tanoogn railroad company against tho
Tennessee and Coosa railroad company,
the secretary of the interior has affirmed
the decision of Commissioner Sparks, of
July 23 1885, which held that a tract of
land within the six miles granted limits
of the grant to the state of Alabama by
the act of June 8, 1856,to aid in the con¬
struction of the Tennessee and Coosa
railroad is not subject to selection by the
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad com¬
• demmty - ., uotw.thstau, . , th.. ,
« n ,ng
the fact that the Tennessee and Coosa
., d has b con8tractcd . Th ,
decision is made on the ground that the
grant in question has never been forfeit¬
ed by congress. The case involves sev¬
eral thousand acres of land in tbe Hunts¬
ville, Ala., district.
A MURDER IN INDIAN TERRITORY.
? „ e ° r y S mlt £' *? f.g „ ™ 1 *!. aai , ? nf
.. United States , . Deputy Marshal John Phil
JW ““ rd " ed ‘’.T^r “Zn’at ' EuteiZ’ 3
particulars hived. , of the T aflat , have - . been , re
territory Marshal serving Phillips writs and and party arrest- were
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ing violators of United 8tates laws,
GOL.D AND SILVER IN VIRGINIA.
Botetourt county is excited over the ■
discovery of gold and silver deposits oA *
the line of the Shenandoah Valley railh . -
road. The arsava range from #16
of ton flft«en for surface feet. rock to * #60 at the depth i
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