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VOLUME IV.
TEMPERANCE.
Undeserving.
Myron Reed says that men drink bo
eauM unhappy. What a pity that some
ptoplff ate so constituted that they can¬
not bear anything but the sunshine of
4fe. A man or womnn who has not tho
manhood or womanhood to stand up un¬
der the trials imposed upon tie eitiro
without resorting to whi-ky or
drugs, desorves not to inherit the earth.
It is s most audacious piece of business
to rebel against the arrangements of tho
Universe. — tyuen Be,,.
Intemperance and Iiongevltv.
That axcessiye indnlgence in alcohol
•kirtens life is admitted by all, bat the
influence of the habitual though moder¬
ate use of ardont spirits and the free use
of the lighter drinks in causing diseaso
and death is not so well understood.
Indeed, it has been claimed that tho
regular use of beer is favorable to health
and longevity.
Facts are the strongest arguments, and
these are abundant to provo tho contra¬
ry. The evidence of physicians and life
insurance companies is most valuable as
being unprejudicial and based on busi¬
ness principles.
First, qs to the effects of intemperance
in general:
E. II. Slevcking, M. D., in “The Med¬
ical Adviser in Life Assurance,” says:
“For the purpo 64 oflifo insurance the ha
bitual spirit drinker ought to be declined
altogether. There is scarcely a degener¬
ative condition or the body that may not
result from the abuse, or rather the hab¬
itual use, of ardent spirits.” He also
tolls us that it is common in England to
add from ten to twenty per cent, to the
premiums paid by iryi keepers on account
of their trade alone.
Most companies now rofuso to insure
habitu il drunkarks under any considera¬
tion, us every-day expirienco shows that
they are the worst of risks. A few go
farther than this and reject moderate
drinkers, while others put them in a sepa¬
rate class and charge extra rates. In the
Temperance and General Provident In¬
stitution of London, where the two classes
are kept entirely distinct, it is found
that, while among the temporato drinkers
there is one death per annum to every 15 i
persons insured, among the total abstain¬
ers there is only ono to 201.
In another company it was found that
out of every 100 persons who should
have died in a given time, according to
the tablei showing tho average death"
rate, there was in reality no less than
thirty abstainors, but only a solitary one
of tho tomperato drinkers, who survived
the period.
Mr. Nieran, in the Journal of t'ie Sta
tidieai Society, states that in England,
from tho age of 10 upward, the relative
mortality of intemperate persons exceeds
that of the general population 8.25 times,
an l that an intemperate person of 20 has
reduced his expectation of life from tho
average of 44.2 years to 15.0.
In thi British army in India, in 1819,
the death-rate among total abstainers was
11.1 per 1,000 jnrnoug temperate drink¬
ers, 20.1 per 1,000; and among in cm
perato drinkers, 44.5 p.r 1,0 <0. Thcso
figures arc noteworthy, as slowing tho
difference in power • f endurance, undci
trying circumstances, of th; different
classes. —J. M. Fre.c'i. M. 1).
Adulteration mid Intoxication in
Paris.
The Paris correspondent of tho Daily
Newt (London), writing recently of the
prevalent liquor adulterations in the
French capital, says: “All kinds of
drink are now s) drugged an 1 doctored
that it is hardly safe for those who do
not press their own grapes and brew
their own malt to drink anything but in¬
fusion or plain water, owing to tho new
alcohols containing three and a half per
cent, more fuscl-oil than the brandies of
former times and artificial wine*. Intoxi¬
cation is seriously on the increase.” The
correspondent adds: “Last Sunday night
I counted in a distance of less than half
a mile in tho outskirts of the village of
Bt. Leu, in the Heine et-Oiso, five men
lying drunk on a country road. They
probably had not drank more than
their fathers were in the habit of drink¬
ing on Sunday evenings, but the liquor
they imbibed was more potent to upset
the nervous system.” An infallible safe¬
guard against tho perils of thcso druggei
and poisonous liquor?, alike in Paris and
New York, is total abstinence.— Nntioml
Advocate.
Temperance Note*.
A Portugese temperance society and
two Bands of Hope exist at Galle,
Cevloo.
A druggist at Topek* pays $800 flne,
and lays 150 days in jail for violating
the prohibtory law.
A newly formed church among th*
Zulus has the following among its regu
lations: “No member shall be peraitted
to drink the white man’s grog or aativo
beer, nor touch it with his lips.”
Captain J. W. Craig, master of road¬
way and transportation for the Charles¬
ton & Favannah railroad, and President
or the Roadmasters’ Association of
America, recently expressed ths follow¬
ing rentiment: “The lime ia not far
distant when temperance will bo a re
» quirement of all grades of employes in
railway service. Tho demand of tilt
pfem if growing greater each day."
EASTMAN , DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1887.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS 8ECTION8*
OBOBOXAe
There has been received at Milledge
viHe 10,000 bales of cotton this season,
which exceeds last year’s receipts by fifty
bales. '
Treasurer James M. Sapp has had
the placed to the credit of Dodge county in
Exchange of $2,816.28. bank of Macon the snug
sum
Some of Polk county's best citizens
have ordered pecan trees with a view to
that trying the experiment of their growth in
county.
The canal cut by Mr. Sweeney and
others around the drift in the 0< conee
river is washing out handsomely,
although the river there have been no freaheta in
since the canal was cut. v
Mr. Tol Lester, of Clarke county, last
week killed sixty blackbirds at two shots
besides wounding others. He also fired
at a covey of partridges in a patch of
broomsedge, fire. ana killed ten at a single
Wednesday of while Allen Holt, a colored
man the A., Americus, was working in a cut
on P. and L., about two miles
beyond Lumpkin, the side of the em
bankment caved in and covered him up.
lie was terribly crushed before he could
be extricated, and his life is in danger.
A. man living in Haralson county went
home ono night about ten o’clock, while
about three sheets in the wind, ana feast¬
ed upon a buzzard, which his good wife
had cooked for the oil that was in the
fowl. It is said that the man ate all of
this bird, thinking it was a chicken, and
when he was told of what he feasted up¬
on, he then and there “swore off and
went to preaching.
The season for woods fires has arrived,
and the woods are being “burned off”
throughout the piney woods, or wire
grass burned region. The open pine woods are
off annually for the benefit of the
sheep and cattle that have to subsist up
on what they gather from nature’s plant¬
ing. After the wire grass, which gets
hard with half a year’s growth, has been
burned off to the surface a new and ten¬
der growth springs up from the roots and
stubble, making the best of grazing for
sheep and cattle. A good portion of the
woods on the east side of Flint river has
already been burned.
in Opposite the McAfee house, and jusf
front of Charlie Hill’s barber shop, in
Smithville, in the road where vehicles
pass, a mysterious and well rounded well
can be seen as the result of the sudden
and unexpected caving in of the earti
which has hitherto kept its locality a se¬
cret. The ground gave way as a heavy
day, loaded and wagon passed over it the other
a well with 10 feet of water and
20 feet in depth from the top to the bot¬
tom can now be seen there. Various
speculations ns to the origin of tha well
were hazarded by the crowd which
definite quickly is collected known around about it, it, though bnt nothing it is
supposed road men to when be a the well Central made by the being rail¬
was
built.
The legal tender silver mine in Mur¬
ray, which so much excitement was made
about some years ago, is being operated
upon again, and a better quality of ore is
now Considerable being gotten out than growing ever before.
excitement is out
of the new find. Tho mine is in Cohutta
mountain, about six miles from Spring
Place. Mr, McIIan, wbo owns a tract
of land near the mine, hes had an option
taken on his land for $^,000. There is
millions of wealth in CXd Cohutta which
only needs operating cn to bring it to the
eyes of the capitalist*. Captain W. C.
Tilton’s line tulc nvno, four miles from
daily. Spring Place, is shipping tons of talc
There is not the a day in passing but
what wagons unload talc the crude
state at tho Baton the depot for eastern
markets. Then are finest talc mines
in Murray coun'.y that are now known in
the United Stages.
ALABAMA.
Henry ounty has only nine barrooms.
There i* talk of a $10,000 hotel to be
built in Alexander City.
ball Birmingham talks of giving a charity
to raise funds for the proposed hos¬
pital.
Tier* am about 3,000 hands at work
on the extension of the Columbus and
Good water road to Birmingham.
The Macon and Tuscaloosa railway
company, Miss., and a projected line from Macon,
Tuscaloosa, has been incor¬
porated thought and that an organization work effected. It
is will commence at
once.
Uniontown is situated in the midst of
the noted canebrake lands of west Ala¬
bama, which are the finest and most pro¬
ductive farming lands in the south. This
town has been very unfortunate in being
twice burned; but its enterprising citi¬
zens have now rebuilt it more substantial
than ever. The business portion of the
place is solid brick. Near the town is
located the state experiment farm for the
black belt section, A fine artesian well
is the being bored in the business portion of
town. six hundred They have already reached
over feet.
A meeting of citizens was held in
Hayneville to inaugurate a movement
having for its object the draining of the
swamps on Big Swamp Creek. W. C
Griffin presided and Tom Baine was sec¬
retary. A committee was appointed to
arrange for a grand meeting of all citi¬
zens interested in the undertaking to be
held at an early day. Also a committee
the to investigate and report to that meeting
most practicable plan of draining
these swamps and the cost of same, and
also as to what amount of the lands re¬
claimed will be given by the owners to
that any company would doing reclaimed the work The lands
be are as fine as
there are in the world, there being act
ually no bottom to ths soil. They would
amount to about 175,000 aeres. The
notion drainage of would tho also add vastly to tbkt
oountry.
" Justice to All, Malioe for None.”
fbOKBA.
Bradentown if trying to arect a school
house on the joint stock plan.
Parties hare been prospecting for the
past few sanitarium days with a Oedir view to establish¬
ing a at Key.
association The Fernandina has completed Building and Loan
its organiza¬
tion, and is now receiving subscriptions
to its stock,
Thomas A. Edison, who has been very
ill in New York, is recovering, and will
soon be able to return to his winter home
at Fort Myers.
There is shipping from Governor
Drew's mill at Column us City, and John
W. Dowling A of Co., at Lake Ogden, from
185 to 100 cars lumber per month.
Columbus county exported $750,000
worth of her own products in 1885, and
the acreage in tobacco this year will run
up the value of her exports to $200,000
more if the tobacco is sent out in its man¬
ufactured state. If it were, however,
made into cigars the value of her exports
would be much higher.
Cedar Key has been considerably ex¬
cited for the last two weeks over the
mysterious disappearance of T. W. Gore,
a young grocery merchant doing business
at the Bradshaw old stand. Mr. Gore
did not even take his clothes, but leaving
the store in charge of young William
Moore, took his gun and boarded a
freight train, since when no news has
been had of him. It is believed now that,
realizing the fact that his business was
in such a shape that it would be impossi¬
ble for him to pay out and contiuue, he
became discouraged and concluded to
save something from the wreck and seek
a new field. It is not known what Amount
of money he carried away. Attachments
have been levied on the stock remaining,
and those owing him have been garni¬
sheed by the creditors.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
An old woman named Pimda, livinrt
near Port Royal ferry, was burned to
death by her clothing taking fire from a
fire in the yard. She was 70 years old,
and her mother is living and is over 100
years old. The death of an old man from
this same neighborhood, some timo ago,
123 year* old, was reported.
In Port Royal many new buildings are
going large up, tho most important being the
planing miff of J. C. Cummings,
just put up and now in operation. A
track has been laid to the mill, and cars
are run to it and unloaded. This mill
gives employment to quite a number of
hands.
Robert \\ inu shot and killed Geoige
They Downing eight miles from Newberry.
five quarreled Christmas about seventy
cents. Winn hid behind a post
and shot Downing while the latter was
passing by, with his wife.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
A Cincinnati Jndite Called to Ills Door
and Is Fired Upon.
A bold attempt was made Wednesday
night to Assassinate Judge James W.
Fitzgerald, of the Cincinnati police
court, at his residence on Findlay street.
About 9 o’clock in the evening the side
bell of the judge’s residence rang, and
he answered it in person. He had no
more than opened the door when a man,
whose face was blackened, but whose
hands were white, fired a revolver.
The bullet passed through the Judge’s
coat on the right *>kle, but not entering
tlie flesh. The judge hastily slammea
the door. The would-be assassin made
good his escape. The police have not
the slightest clue to the identity of the
miscreant, but his motive was undoubt¬
edly revenge for a judicial act. Judge
hundred Fitzgerald and is the judge before whom one
fifty men, arrested for cock
fighting, were examined Monday, when
forty of them pleaded guilty and contri¬
buted $25 each to the city treasury, and
the remainder were notified that the men
who stood trial and were convicted
should receive the full measure of the
law.
Another attempt to kill Fitzgerald
was made recently by throwing bricks at
him as he was going home after dark.
HER DIAMONDS.
A Memphis Hotel Clerk Decamps With
Fanny Davenport’s Jewels.
Charles Talbot, aged nineteen, em¬
ployed as night clerk of the Guyosa hotel,
Tuesday night, was on duty. After the
performance of an opera, at the theater
Edwin H. Price, Fanny Davenport’s
husband, left with him a jewel basket,
which contained Miss Davenport’s dia¬
monds, consisting of brooch, rings, neck¬
lace, earrings, etc., valued at $35,000.
Price took a receipt. it The had been basket locked, was
not put in the safe, as
and Talbot did not know the combina¬
tion, but was placed in the cosh drawer,
together with several packages of money
which late guests had deposited and
which amounted to about $3,000. This
money, together with the jewels, is miss¬
ing. Talbot had duplicate keys of the
cash drawer at the cigar stand cf the ho¬
tel, and it was rifled of $10 in change.
He cannot be found.
DR. MATT ALEXANDER SUICIDES.
Dr. Matt Alexander, of Knoxville,
Tenn., committed suicide Tuesday after¬
noon by taking five grains of morphine.
He was one of the leading physicians dissi¬ of
Knoxville, but had recently been
pated. He left a note saying: “I die
with malice toward none. I go to hell.
Tell my son to go to heaven.”
Dr. Alexander was a member of the
board of examining surgeons of the pen¬
sion department.
KILLED BY BURGLARS.
William Gallaway and a clerk named
McLease in his employ, were shot and
fatally wounded Monday night at the
former’s general merchandise store in
Galloway, Ark. Galloway and his clerk
went late in the evening to his store and
found a gang of burglars going through
the premises. Galloway opened fire upon
the intruders, who fired back and mor¬
tally wounded both Galloway and his
> clerk. Tha burglars escaped unhurt.
A QUEER STORL
RESURRECTION OF BRIGHAM
TOUNG,
A Queer Story Told by the HeeeekeePer of a
Wealthy Eaelleh Mormon—Mach Ex¬
citement Among the Mormons.
Two miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska,
stands a palatial residence owned by an
Englieh gentleman long 1 identified with
the Mormon church. Th e residence has
been unattended for the last two years,
save by an old servant named White,who
was connected with the Jezrels, of Lon¬
don, a sect similar to the Mormons.
White claims that he was defrauded by
them out of his property, and latterly be¬
came converted to the Mormon faith.
He was considered a trustworthy man,
and was, therefore, partially through ne¬
cessity, leaders taken into the confidence of the
of the Mormon church of Zion,
which, according to his statement, is
about to perpetrate a fraud to which he
is unwilling to become a party.
He says: “Two months ago there ar¬
rived at the mansion an old geutlemaD,
bearing letters from my master in Lon¬
don, the purport of which was to obey
his every wish, and to keep his presence
a secret to all except those to whom he
saw fi t to reveal himself. Within a week
person s began to arrive at the house in
twos and threes. They were from Salt
Lake City, and held long, whispered
consultations with my mysterious guest.
At first I did not care w ho or what he
was. Little by little I gathered from
stray remarks that he was a person of
note, and soon after the truth burst upon
me that he was none other than Brigham
Young, the great prophet of our church,
who is apparently to be resurrected from
the dead, and preach to the people of
Zion as one having returned from the
grave to tell what lies beyond. That his
death and burial were a deception will
soon be seen by the whole w orld, while
thousands of his ignorant believers bow
at his feet, and he dictate to them their
ways of life.
My guests, the visitors, are men of
high standing, as their appearance indi¬
cates, and it was in conversation with
one of them, who supposed from the way
I talked that I knew all, that my sus¬
said picions were verified. My informant
that Brigham Young had risen from
his grave in Salt Lake City, and was in¬
structing his disciples here, in order to
prepare help for tne great event of his
coming. My only reason for telling
these facts is that I am an old man with
but little to gain in this world, and do
not want to see the people deluded as I
have been. The Jezrels absorbed my
competence and now the Mormons have
broken my faith.”
IDENTIFIED AS BTUOHAM YOUNG.
The old man told the story with sin¬
cerity that w-arranted- further investiga¬
tion, and a merchant who formerly did
business in Balt Lake City drove out to
the mansion, and rapped at the door.
Receiving the house no response he the started around when
through to long apply at he rear, the
the window saw
form and features of the old man, who
was sitting inside. As he was unaware
of his presence, the merchant approached window
to within a few feet of the
scanning the old man’s face closely, ana
stepped back immediately, pronounced whoso
the man to be Brigham Young,
marked features he had often studied in
Balt Lake City, and which once Been, he
says, can never be forgotten. For a fow
moments the man sat silently, and then
raised his hand to his brow, revealing the
scar about the wrist that still further es¬
tablished his identity.
It is a well known fact that the elders
of the Mormon church throughout Utah
have of late been preaching the return of
Ihe prophet. This, together with the
fact that it was claimed by a St. Louis
man some months ago, that Young was
seen and recognized in London, that a
number of prominent Mormons from Salt
Lake City have lately been upon legis¬ the
streets of Linooln; that important
lation is about to be enacted to the detri¬
ment of the Mormon church, and the veil
of mystery with which shrouded, the prophet's
death has always been makes
it almost certain that the Mormon ban¬
ners throughout Utah will soon be. un¬
furled, announcing that “he is risen.”
ROBBERS CAPTURED.
A Fatal Enconnter In Which One Mnn Is
Killed.
Two detectives, accompanied by four
determined men, with bloodhounds,
started a short time ago in pursuit of a
gang of train robbers, who-have been op¬
erating in the vicinity of Albuquerque,
N. M., for the past six months. The
robbers were tracked into the halls of a
canyon near Belen station, 80 miles south
of here, and when they discovered that
they were surrounded, they made a
bloody defense at close range. The rob¬
bers proved armed. to be detectives four in number, demanded and
well The
their surrender, but they answered the
demand with a volley of lead, and a reg¬
ular battle commenced, The detectives
and their party were victors.
the During robbers, the fight Hardy Foster, wounded one of
was fatally but
lived long enough to make a confession
implicating the whole party. Two others
were captured, but the fourth made his
escape. One of the captured men proved
to be Charlie Rosa, who murdered Mar¬
shal McGuire, of Albuquerque, last No¬
vember, and subsequently broke jail. The
name of the other is Leslie Boise, and he
is a native of West Herford, Texas. Both
men are now lodged by a sheriff’s feared posse.
Lynching will be is favored, and it is that
it carried out.
TAKEN OUT AND H ANGED.
Last Monday William Lud Cornish, of
Sharpsburg, Washington county, Ky,shot
Miss Lulu Green through the heart and
brain because she would not marry him.
He also tried to kill the girl’s mother
and sister, but failed on account of his
pistol getting out of order. The mother
received a severe wound in the head, and
was knocked down with the pistol. Corn¬
ish was captured and taken to Spring
field, the eounty seat. Saturday night
a mob, composed of seventy-five men,
entered the jail and secured the prisoner.
He was tiken to a farm about two miles
north of town and hanged.
OUR MINISTER TO GERMANY.
He Arrives Is Nsw York oat Talks Ahoat
Affairs Across The Water.
Hon. George H. Pendleton, minister to
Berlin, has arrived and will remain in this
country about a month. He intends to
go to Washington to report to the secre¬
tary of state. After that he will go to
his home in Cincinnati, where he will re¬
main for a brief period before his depar¬
ture for his post of duty. Being inter¬
viewed, he remarked:
“The situation when I left Berlin was
very much strained. The power of Eu¬
rope, from a general feeling of insecurity,
have been making immense preparations.
There are tremendous military works and
armaments on every side. I heard Yon
Moltke say that it vas a condition of af¬
fairs that must have a solution. It may
have Mr. changed since then.”
Pendleton said that he could not
see that anyone in Germany desired war.
’In fact, every effort was being made to
avoid it. Bismarck was not ready for
war now. He would not be ready UDtil
the military bill had been passed and the
army “In reorganized. fact,”
added the embassador, “it
seems to me that Bismarck wonld accord
heartily with any proposition for peace
with honor. Public opinion does not
count in Europe as it does here. In
America all questions are discussed freely
by the press, who in reality form public
opinion. In Germany public policy is
decidedly different. Yon Moltke, Bis
mark and two or three others settle such
matters. In France General Boulanger
leads. Americans One in peculiar Europe, thifrg that would is strike
how little
people influence the policy of rulers.”
80UTHSBN TELEGBAPH SALE.
rh# Property Purchased lu the Interest * f
the Western Union.
The Southern Telegraph Company,
which was sold under foreclosure pro¬
ceedings bought at Richmond, Va., Tuesday, was
in the interest of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, which has
owned a majority of the bonds for nearly
a year. The price at which the property
was sold was $460,000, but the price
would have been carried considerably
higher, it is said, if the United Lines
Company, had whose last bid was $450,000,
continued the contest. The acquisi¬
tion of the actual control does not effect
the relations of the companies, boause a
contract was made between them even
before the Western Union bought a ma
jority of the bonds. Since that time the
contract has been altered to meet the
wishes of the Western Union Company,
which was known to be the actual owner
of the property. The sale now gives the
company legal ownership.
OFF FOB CANADA.
4 Clerk of tbs First National Bank of Balti¬
more Visit* the Province.
John D. Liste, discount clerk in the
First National bank of Baltimore, failed
to put in appearance on Saturday last
while the bank an investigation of the accounts of
It is was proceeding said that by the direc¬
tors. now he is a default¬
er to the amount of about eighty thou¬
sand dollars, though the investigation is
not which complete. The amount of cash
and he disappeared said with him was $3,500,
is to have deceived the na¬
tional bank examiner by substituting
forged notes which he destroyed as soon
as the examination was completed. Liste
left his home, about twenty miles from
the city, Saturday morning, since which
time he has not been seen by his family,
nor by the detectives who are looking for
him.
UNION MEN TO BE DROPPED.
Knlsrhts of JLabor Assemblies Ordered to
Oast Trades-Unionists.
A sensation has been created among the
Knights the cf Labor of order, Indianapolis purporting Ind.,
by receipt of an to
have come from the general executive
board, to the effect international that all cigarmakers
belonging be dropped to the from membership union in must local
and district assemblies. This is thought
to be the first step toward carrying out
the programme adopted at Richmond by
the general assembly, which struck a blow
at all trades-unions. The typographers
moulders here are very indignant, and
feel the blow quite as severely as the
cigarmakers.
WESTERN WEATHER.
The signal service reports extremely
cold weather in Northwestern Montana,
the meroury at Fort Assinaboine regis¬
tering 46 degrees below zero at 7 o’clock
kota, Wednesday morning. Throughout Da¬
Minnesota and Wisconsin it is con¬
siderably warmer, Northern Minnesota
points reporting zero weather, while at
St. x Paul aui it it is ia three turcc degrees uegrees above aoove zero,
LaCrosse, Wis., 11 degrees above, and
™ Chicago SO degrees J above, ^ Snow is
re
ported nearly throughout all the the Northwest, and
in states north of the Ohio
river, also heavy thunderstorms at Knox¬
ville, Tenn., Louisville and Cincinnati,
and the telegraph service throughout the
southwest is very much impaired in con¬
sequence.
A NEW PLAN ADOPTED.
It is stated that the next step to be
taken by the leaders of the strike is to
put into operation the Irish plan of cam¬
paign—that is, orders will be issued to
all members of the Knights of Labor and
other organizations which can be con¬
trolled by district assembly 49, to refuse
to pay any rent to landlords, but to pay
rent money into a fund which will go to
the support of the strikers. This plan
has been discussed in seriousness by the
strikers, and it is asserted, positively, operation by
some that it will be put into
next Monday.
STRIKERS WIN IN PENSACOLA.
Th* difficulty between the 8teved ores’
Association and the firm of Lear & Gon¬
zales, at Pensacola, Fla., has been ad¬
justed, the firm paying the association
$500 to compensate the men for loss of
time, and agreeing to hereafter conform
to the rules and requirements of the labor
organisation.
THE GREAT STRIKE.
VESSELS UNABLE TO LEAVE THE
PORT,
The Striking Longshoremen of New York
Parade the Streets-Maas Meeting
at the Cooper Union.
strike Thirty-three thousand men were on a
among the coal shovelers, long¬
ployed shoremen, freight handlers and men em¬
on the river front in almost every
capacity, shores, on the Brooklyn and Jersey
from the Wednesday. headquarters An order went forth
of the longshore¬
men’s union, which was backed bv the
Knights turned of Labor, assembly 49, and the
men out. Beach walkers were
sent out to cbver all the various points on
the river fronts where trouhle was con¬
centrated and they had particular in¬
structions to use every means in their
power to prevent any disturbances, and
none The worthy of mention occurred.
White Star steamship Britannic,
which was to have sailed from New York
to Liverpool Wednesday, was delayed,
owing coal, to inability to obtain her supply of
on account of the strike. The Btate
of Geor gia, of the Btate line, and the
Servia of the Hamburg line, and the In¬
dependent line and the Torio Rubatino,of the
to Italy, were also delayed by the
strike. Coastwise and southern bound
steamers, Quinidad for Bermuda; City of
Columbus, for Florida ports; City of Col¬
umbia, for Charleston and southern ports
and the Algiers, for Galveston, were also
One of the incidents of the great strike
reported is that one of the East River
Ferry companies became so short of coal
that it sent out grocery wagons and other
vehicles and bought coal by half tons
from small yards, both in Brooklyn and
in New York, but that the frequent calls
of this kind exposed the scheme and
the dealers refused further supplier to
their new customers. In Brooklyn,
handlers, longshoremen, grain shovellers, freight
other laborers coal handlers, trimmers and
ably and determined. went out quietly, peace¬
The entire police
force of Brooklyn, including reserves,
fered were put on duty. Sound steamers suf¬
along with the rest, although they
employ a large permanent force by the
month. The French steamship line is
doing companies, more work than any of the ocean
pally having hands, large gangs, princi¬
green and tho White Star
also has a considerable force. Late in
the day more or less men went to work
unloading all the ocean steumers which
arrived this morning, but they are work¬
ing at a disadvantage. The striking
large longshoremen and coal shovellers had a
ing parade previous to their mass meet¬
at from Cooper Union. They included
men New York, Jersey City and
Brooklyn. They formed at Pythagora
Hall, with about five hundred men in
line. The music was a drum and fife
corps. They marched through Broad¬
way There to Eighth, then to Cooper Union.
was no disorder. Lower Broad¬
closed way was deserted, as the stores had
up for the day. When the parade
arrived at Cooper Union, they were una¬
ble to gain admission, as the hall was
packed, so an outdoor meeting was or¬
ganized.
Cooper union hall was packed with
pathizers. men engaged in the strike and their sym¬
Resolutions were presented
to the effect that in view of the alleged
all oppression of workingmeu by coal barons,
granted franchises should be repealed,
and that the system of hiring men for the
purpose of robbery an 1 murder is highly
condemned. The resolutions were adopt¬
ed with a yell. The principal speakers
were Victor Drury, a prominent home
club Knight of Labor; a man named
Greenau, a socialist, and John McMackin,
Henry George’s lieutenant The speech¬
es all denounced corporations in general
and coal corporations in particular. Mc¬
Mackin laid the existing labor troubles to
the prevailing land system.
BREAKING A MONOPOLY.
Planter* of Louisiana Start m Cotton Seed
Oil Mill.
A serious attack has been organized on
the American Cotton Seed Oil Trust by
the purchase of the Maginnis mills, for
three months. The Trust has been in
control of the cotton seed oil mills of
New Orleans, La., having a Memphis complete
monopoly of the field. x Two
capitalists, formerly in the oil business,
have organized a company and perfected
plans for new mills to be run on a co-op¬
erative plan that will assure it a constant
supply of seed. Nearly all the leading
planters given on the lower Mississippi have and
been stock in the new mill,
have pledged themselves annually, to furnish thus so
many tons of cotton seed
assuring the mill 50,000 tons per year, as
much as any of the mills of the Trust
company here receive. The site for the
new mill has been selected, and necessary
barges and steamers contracted for. It
is a direct attack on the Oil Trust, in
which planters take a prominent part.
A MOB POSTPONES A MARRIAOB.
Michael McCoy, a grocer of Louisville,
Ky, made a narrow escape from a mob
McCoy is fifty years old and a man of
family. A year ago he began to visiUa
Miss Long and to neglect his wife, where¬
upon Mrs. McCov sued for a divorce and
the restoration of her maid«-n name. Her
petition was granted, and McCoy’s atten¬
tions to Miss Long, before secret, became
open, and Saturday it was learned that
the couple were to bo married. As the
ceremony was abou to take place at M iss
Long’s house a mob gathered and made
threatening demonstrations Miss Long
fled with a female friend, and the mob
pursued but did not catch her. McCoy
in the meantime slipped out and after a
search found his intended and they were
married by a magistrate.
GADSDEN’S FURNACES.
Work was begun Tuesday on two land new
blast furnaces to be erected by the
and improvement company at Gadsden,
Ala. They will be completed by Decem¬
ber next. The real estate boom is more
favorable than ever before, and sales are
reported aggregating more than $250,
000. There are a number of capitalists
in the city prospecting for sites for varj.
oue land* of interest.
NUMBER 37.
CANADA GAINS 00TOACM.
England Promises to Bead Moo-of-Wa* I#
Koep Off American Vessel*.
It is officially stated that the govern¬
ment of Canada, in response to an appeal ;
to the mother country, has just received
from the imperial authorities that men-of-'
war will be dispatched to the maritime!
provinces in the spring for the purpose of 1
co-operating the enforcement with of Canadian cruisers in;
the fishery protective!
service. The promise of the English
government official creates great satisfaction In
circles, and indicates that .Ameri¬
can vessels will be more rigidly exdu-•
ded from Canada waters during the'
next season than in the past. A cabinet;
minister, speaking on the subject, ex
pressed himself as follows. “I have coma
to the conclusion that tho American leg¬
islators having gone so far, will never 1
yield their consent to thq appointment wili ofi
a commission. Gloucester fishermen
not venture into our waters again in forces
and next April will witness the first start¬
ling falling off in their trade. Two years
hence the splendid Yankee fishing fleet
will be a thing of the past. Let them
resort to retaliation if they will, and the
result will be that that game will work
both ways. .Portland, now the winter
port of Canada, will decline, while Hali¬
fax, under the new order of things, will
flourish. Civil war between the Eastern
and Western States would follow tho
adoption of the retaliatory bilk
ICE GORGE AT FORT DEP08IT.
M«eh Drnnie Done to Property—People floo
to the Hllla for Safety.
The Susquehanna river at Fort Deposit,
Md., became blocked with ice Wednes¬
day causing the river to overflow with
disastrous results.
In thirty minutes after the flood from
above reached the town the water had
risen clear over the wharves and to the
hight of six feet in Main street of the
town, house doing uncalculable damage. Every
on the river side of Main street was
flooded in the cellars and the first floor
and some on the opposite side, and in¬
habitants had to take to higher ground or
to the hills and the country back of town.
The water alternately rose and fell during
the night and all day Wednesday varying
several feet in a couple of hours. In the
meantime the pile of ice increased hourly,
became more dangerous. The damage up
to Wednesday evening had been confined
to the lumber, coal, fertilizers and kindred
objects on the wharves and such build¬
ings as were built of wood. The outlook/
is not encouraging, for even substantial
brick and stone warehouses and factories
in the submerged district. The remark¬
able sight the drew throngs of sight above seers
from country to the hills the
town.
LABOR LEADERS ARRESTED.
A Bolt Instituted Asnlnst Then for Dam¬
age by a Steamship Company.
James E. Quinn, of the executive
board of tho Longshoremen's Union, was
arrested at noon Saturday by Deputy
United States Marshal George Holmes,
for conspiracy Old Dominion to Injure Steamship the business Company, of
the
in an action brought in the United States
Circuit Court to recover $20,000 damages,
lie was released on $5,000 bail. against
The suit is brought not only
Quinn, but also against J. J. McKenna,
T. B. Putnam, Patrick McGarland and
Thos. McGrath, who with Quinn consti¬
tute the executive board of the Ocean As¬
sociation. Oounsel for Quinn said that
none of the accused would run away and
that as soon as bail could delivered be procured the for
them they would be to
marshal. After Quinn's bondsmen had
been accepted it was concluded that no
more arrests would be made. Their
counsel promised to deliver the other
members of the executive board to the
United States marshal.
A BIG HAUL.
One Hundred and Fifty Men Arraigned In m
Criminal Conrt.
An unusual scene was presented in the
police court of Cincinnati, O., Tuesday
morning, xvhen 115 men were arraigned
for this aiding and abetting a cock fig!it. Of
number forty entered a plea of
guilty and were fined $25 each with
costs, school making an even $1,000 to go into
the fund. Judge Fitzgerald an¬
nounced his determination to punish to
the full extent any who choose to exor¬
cise their legal rights to a trial aind who
m iy be convicted. The cocking main
had progress in a regularly constructed
pit in a fourth-story room of a building
nearly opposite the court house on Main
street.
A STRIKER’S FINE.
On# of the drivers of a brewery wagon
in place Philadelphia, Pa., who took a striker'*
er’s, who was brutally beaten by three strik¬
Only one were placed identified on trial and Wednesday. convicted.
was
In “This passing sentence, Judge Mitchell said:
man was badl y beaten, and I am sat¬
isfied it was done for the purpose of pre¬
venting him from going to work. There
can be no more aggravated offense than
to beat a man who is going to hiB honest
toil, and I propose to stop it so far as is
in my power.” The prisoner was then
sentenced to eighteen months at labor
in the county prison.
AN BX-SLATFR PENSION.
The first colored woman to receive a
pension from the government is Mrs.
ilczekiah Gibson, wife of the pastor of
the Union church of Christ Jamestown,
N. Y. The pension was granted on ac- in
count of the aeath of a son who was
i he service on the union sh}e during the
late war. Wnen this son joined the fed¬
eral forces his mother was a slave. The
back pay amounted to about $500, $12 and
hereafter Mrs. Gibson will draw per
month.
THE PROS PE It ITY OF CETATTANOMML
The registered real estate transfers at
Chattanooga, Tenn., in the month of
January amounted to $2,618,385. It i*
stated that there will shortly be estab¬
lished a horse shoe factory, a stove
foundry, a woolen and cotton mill and an
edge tool factory. Work will begin in
March and April on buildings which
to oost more than $1,000,000.