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VOLUME IV.
TETOimCE.
_. Eighteen Eighteen hundred Eighty-Seven. eighty-serve
Should and
be a year of jubilee •
Eor, Ih the Bight ot earth and Heaven
We’ve suffered long the slavery
Of habit and of crime.
Now Jet us snap the chain,
And with a deoa sublime
Our liberty attain 1,
The Old Year that has passed away
Saw Plenty, with her golden horn,
Despoiled And Ceres, and made the tyrant’s prey,
with her sheaves of corn,
Plunged And baptized in the brewer's vat
in the still.
Up, Intemperance heroes, and with coinbat will!
—G. W. n
Bungay in Temperance Advocate.
A Warning From the Scaffold.
A murderer, about to suffer the death
penalty, in a town not far distant, in his
last words, attributed his crime to drink.
While we have no desire to harp on or
weary our readers with the evils result¬
ing from this awful curse, wo cannot re¬
frain from appealing to those addictod
to the habit to heed the warnings and
profit by the examples set them day after
day in every portion of the world. Fren
•icd with tho fiery liquid, their reason
leaves them, transforms them into brutes,
and incapacitates them for tho perform¬
ance of anything but that belonging to
the wild animal. They lose all conscious¬
ness, and while in that state commit acts
acts, which in their sober moments thoy
would havo shuddered at. How much
stronger do they want the evidcnco put
before them? A fellow-being standing
on the brink of eternity, about to be
launched into the preschco of his Maker,
warns his brethren to be careful of the
false step they may take when entering the
abode of the devil—the drinking saloon.
What a powerful sermon it preaches, what
u vivid picture, what an awful doom! Wo
would that those possessing the weak¬
ness, tho cowardice, and the sin of nn
bibing this froth of ruiu could bo im¬
pressed with tho realization of tlicso
dreadful truths; that they are standing
on the brink of a precipice, jeopardizing
their lives with the risk of tumbling into
that awful, gaping chasm, ever ready to
engulf them, where mocking fiends de¬
light to damn each victim’s soul. This is
no overdrawn moral,only tho sequel to the
wine-bibber’x existence, confronting
every devotee of the grog-shop and flow¬
ing bowl.— West Croce (Penn.) Indepen¬
dent.
lx the Wine Hot do “Innocent.”
Rev. Theodore L. Cuylor, I). I)., says
in tho Ihonilrtic Jievicw; In dealingwith
tint question of abstinence from an iutox
irant, wc must keep in mind that it is
not a merely negative article about whose
use or non-use one may toss up a copper.
The essential nature of intoxicating bev¬
erages, as tending to kindle depraved ap¬
petite, as tending to provoke excess, as
tending to inflame the brain, and in pos¬
sessing a suitable influence to enslave
those who use them—this nature of tho
article itself must be taken into the ac¬
count. We do not pretend th?t every
one who drinks an occasional gigss of
wine becomes a drunkard. But w r o do
affirm that every one who drinks wine
throws the whole weight of his influence
in favor of the drinking usages which do
make the drunkards. A glass of intoxi¬
cating wine is not an “innocent bever¬
age” in the same sense that a glass of
milk or a glass of water is innocent. No
one can reasonably be asked to abstain
from either of these latter beverages for
the sake of his neighbor. They have no
tendency to inflame bad appetite, no ten¬
dency to breed excess, no tendency to
disorder the brain, no tendency to get
fatal mastery over both body and soul.
If wine and whisky (for some American
wines contain twenty per cent, of alcohol)
did not contain these dangerous qualities,
how could they make my weaker brethren
“stumble?” If not essentially dangerous
to others, why should I be asked, by-any
law of charity, to abstain from their use?
It is not enough for me to intrench my¬
self in selfishness nnd say: “3fy wiue
bottle does me no harm.” My wine-bottle
is my voluntary contribution to the drink¬
ing usages of society which are hurling
millions into eternal damnation! Can the
wine-bottle l>c pronounced “innocent?”
No! No!
Temperance Notes.
Twenty-five years ago there was but
otic representative of total abstinence in
the British House of Commous; now
there are over forty.
The success which has attended the
afternoon temperance mectiugs in Boston
and New York has led to their inaugura¬
tion in Chicago by the Rev. J. Bolton.
He who seeks in alcohol
Poetic inspiration
Is risking his immortal soul
To win a reputation.
—Boston Courier.
Mr. A. Barr, undertaker at Columbia,
Teun., says lie has buried forty-four men
killed in mortal combat in and near that
town, and in every instance whisky was
the cause.
A medical journal states that “the two
elements of highest cost of human life,
as it is lived in the aggregate, are
' and tobacco, the one a stimulant narcotic,
. the other a depressant narcotic and that
more than one-third of the human race
prove by living without them that they
are in no degree necessary or healthful,
, but oft jtho contrary teud to depravity
and ucStruction.”
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTION8.
Mobile has secured nearly all of her
baseball team. $
Mobile has a new afternoon paper
called the Evening Telegram.
jszmszs — thothM
It is reported that a company will soon
be formed to work the phosphate beds
between Marion and Hamburg.
A convention will be held in Mont
gomery, on March 15th, looking to the
removing of obstructions to navigation in
the Coosa river.
_ *? r ‘ . ? fa rm ,? r ? ear E U *
/ faula, takes off the hub of f the hom of f a
calf when it ’S hvo or six months o d,
and thereby bo is getting a hornless lot
of cattle.
The county treasurer’s report of Bui
loc.k county shows a balance of over $3,
J™ in tre ry ; ?? ad ? ll T t0 ,f. VCr
$400 of fine nnd w forfeiture fund, making
an 8gg re g ft te of $8,427.
Sellers report an increased demand for
guano up to dptc over sales for last year,
1 here has been at the rate of an annual
incrense of ten per cent for the last five
years in the sale of this commodity.
Ozark, in Dale county, subscribed
$10,000 to the Alabama Midland railroad
on the first day the books were opened,
It is 6aid that the county will subscribe
between $00,000 and $70,000. The sur
vcy of the road will be completed in
about six weeks.
fri*_ rhe assignment • „ . of . the ,, Bray „ Bros., of .
Eufaula, is announced. It is an old
house, having been in the hardware busi
ness in Eufaula since 1858. Their liabil
ifies are about $25,000; the exact amount
of assets cannot be determined until an
inventory of stock and other property v is
had.
Near Bilbra’s creek, in Washington
county, last Thursday, Willie Trotter, of
Montrose, Baldwin county, was stabbed
and killed by Charles McMillan, of the
same county. The coroner’s jury brought
in a verdict that the killing was a “cold,
deliberate murder,’’ and recommended
the arrest of McMillan, who had fled.
The City hotel at LaFayette was con¬
sumed by fire Tuesday evening. The fire
was discovered about daybreak in one of
the lower rooms, and is supposed to have
been caused by a rat with a match. There
was a slow rain falling while the building
was on fire, but the flames could not be
stopped. The hotel belonged to Mr. J.
1). Norman, who is in Montgomery in at¬
tendance upon the legislature, It was
insured for $2,500. The furniture,which
belonged to Mr. G. T. Johnson, propri¬
etor of the hotel, was insured.
Frank Winney, u negro ex-convict,wms
arrested in Tupello, Miss., Tuesday and
carried to Mobile and lodged in jail,
charged Smith, with the murder of Charles
a machinist, in that city on July
4tli, 1884. There were some nineteen
white men returning from a public meet¬
ing at Bull’s Head that day, aud as the
wagon fired passed by the Catholic cemetery it
was into by Frank Winney,who had
secreted himself in there for the purpose
of taking revenge for fancied insults put
upon him at the meeting. Charles Smith
was shot through the head and killed,
and other men were wounded. There is
strong circumstantial evidcnco against
Winney, and if he escapes conviction by
the courts it is very prbbublc that he will
be lynched.
TENNESSEE.
Professor E. E. Barnard, of Vanderbilt
university observatory, says of the new
comet: “Since discovery the comet has
been moving toward the northwest at a
very unusual rate, 5 degrees and 17 min¬
utes north and 14 minutes of right ascen¬
sion, west, daily. It continues very faint.
Its path since discovery has beeu oblique¬
ly across the milky way, and its rapid
motion continually brings in it iu front of a
small star, which every case shines
through the comet’s densest part with
undiminished luster. The rough posi¬
tion of the comet last night was about 8
or 10 degrees northeast of Sirius (the
dog star).”
Govcrnor Taylor, in an interview, said:
“I notice that there is in prison a large
number of children under fifteen years of
age. It is a shame that Tennessee should
not have some place of refuge for these
poor little creatures, and not place them
among hardened criminals Judges and
jury should not send children to prison,
and I shall deem it my duty to uphold
the honor of Tennessee by pardoning
them. I am confident I will benefit more
by this in step than by allowing crime. them to re¬
main a school for 1 have re¬
quested the wardens to prepare for me a
list of the names and offenses of every
person in prisen under seventeen. They
nor any other child shall remain there
while I am governor of Tennessee.
The supreme court has sentenced Ben
Brown, April colored, to be hanged in Nash¬
ville, 15 next, for the murder of
Frank Arnold, colored,near Belle Meade,
November 9, 1885. Brown manifested
no emotion when Judge Snodgrass pro¬
nounced his doom and at its conclusion
looked at Simon Fox, one of his accom¬
plices and smiled, The court affirmed
the verdict of the lower court in the case
of Fox, who was sentenced to twenty
years’ imprisonment at hard labor.
Nelson Joslin, Foster Joslin and Bill
Brown, the other participants in the
crime, are iu jail awaiting trial. The
murder for which Ben Brown will be
hanged headless is known as the “Bellville street
horror.” Arnold, the victim,
resided six miles from the city and owned
a small farm, which Ben BrowN wished
to possess. On the night of the murder
Arnold was induced, to leave home on a
hunting expedition with Ben Brown,
Bill Brown, Nelson Joslin, Foster Joslin,
and Simon Fox. When in a thicket
Arnold was struck with an ax and shot
through the head. The body was cut in
pieces, and the head severed from the
trunk.
“ Justice to AH. Malice for Hone.’'
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 9. 1887.
OSOROIA.
the During outbuildings Saturday's storm in Dawson,
and sheds of tlif Dawson
the Manufacturing works were blown down,
water tank of Baldwin & Sharpe’s
mill, their shed and b tables.
In Berrien county, while M. B. ClyaH,
son of M. B. Clyatt, was harrowing a
P ieco of ground, in some way the tooth
of the harrow, seven-eighths of an inch
thick and ten inches long, struck his foot
a °d penetrated through it, pinning it to
ground,
Valdosta’s treasury is in a healthy con- -
ruary, 1886, there was about $700 in the
treasury and no considerable debts on the
town. They reiired last week, and turned
over to their successors about $1,900,and
no debts am °unting to anything,
A few fine white shad have been taken
- the river near Bainbridge this
B pring, plant probably a part of the govern
ment made several years ago here
and at ot her points. £ Those caught ® were
taken with h ok and line aUho h , he v
ar0 seldom ever taken except ', with nets, ;
They wete ot good „ iM rom tw0 t
three pounds, fat and juicy.
Negotiations are pending ^catur now between
certain lawl owners in county
ami a northern syndicate, J ’ which promises
t he early 8ale> fo r cash> 0 f 80 00 0 acres of
timbered lands at $1.50 per acre—a deal
°f $120,000. If consummated there is no
doubt of its proving the largest single
transaction in timbered lands that has oc
curred in the state in a long time,
dlviduals Ellijay Courier: We learn of many in
in this county who intend rais
i°g a crop of tobacco this year. The
movement set on foot seems to be gain
* n S favor with the substantial farmers of
the county, and we hope to chronicle
their experiments as they progress in this
glad money-making informed business. We should be
to be by all persons who
engage in this branch of agriculture. °
Joseph W. Graham was killed at Pax
son’s saw mills, near McRea, Saturday,
He was running, the shingle machine at
the mill at the time of the accident, and
by some means his foot and leg was
caught horribly in the cog wheels of the machin¬
ery, the knee. crushing his leg nearly up
to Drs. Swinney and Blanton
and Hunter amputated the limb, but the
shock was too great, resulting in death
at 12:80 o’clock Saturday night.
A few days ago the Dade Coal com¬
pany bought of Judge Jas. R. Brown, of
Canton, and J. D. Thomas, of Bartow
county, about 0,000 acres of what is
cluimed to be as fine iron and manganese
property as there is anywhere lying in
Cherokee and Bartow counties, on Stamp
creek. thing They $12,000. paid for the same some¬
over This property was
once owned and operated upon by Dr.
John W. Lewis, of Canton, and at one
time had as many as three or more fur
uaces upon it and paying well.
MISSISSIPPI.
The discovery of iron ore at Duck hill
has convulsed that town. Visitors from
a distance arrive on every train, and it is
almost impossible to keep up with the
sales of property, and some is resold al¬
most immediately at advanced price.
Northern capitalists are on their way to
town, and many sales are made by tele¬
graph.
The Vicksburg Democrat records a pe¬
culiar case tried before a negro justice in
Delta. An ordinance had been made
against running a skiff in certain places
as a ferry and in the first, case he decided
against the accused. In the second he
was accused himself and he fined his skiff
$5 and directed it to be sold for the fine
and costs.
Reports from Issaquena, Sunflower,
Boliver, Sharkey and Washington coun¬
ties are favorable relative to crop prepa¬
rations. There will be an approximate
increase in acreage of about 10 per cent,
and the largest part will be devoted to
cotton. Money from eastern and north¬
ern cities is freely flowing to which will
enable planters to put in all their land.
Labor is abundant.
The Young Mens’ Christian association
of Mississippi and will hold a state conven¬
tion training school for Christian
workers at Columbus, beginning Friday
night, March March 25th, and Prominent closing Thursday members
night, 31st.
are being engaged Mens’ for the occasion.
Every Young Christian association
and vited every send college of Mississippi delegates aro in
to as many as pos
sible.
John Joyce, of Vicksburg, aged fifty
years, suddenly stopped talking to a com¬
panion Sunday night in the sitting room
of Mrs. Conley’s boarding-house and re¬
mained motionless and quiet until alarm
was excited. When the silent man was
touched he fell forward, dead and already
beginning to grow cold and stiff. A doc¬
tor was called, but could do nothing fot
a dead man. No inquest was held, as it
was apparent that heart disease caused
the sudden death.
FLORIDA.
An opera house is nearing completion
in Tavares.
The jetty contractors arc pushiug their
work at Fernandina.
Shipments of oranges arc over with,
and that of early vegetables are taking
their place.
A Gainesville advertisement reads as
follows: On and after this date the price
of the Simonson’s artesian mineral water
will be 2jc. a drink, or $2 a month.
Reuben H. Stark, who lives some five
miles from Conant, was robbed and mur¬
dered by two colored men named John
D. Fuss and “Yankee” Patterson, who
were working for him. They also shot
Stark’s housekeeper, but she will recover.
The murderers secured $150 in cash, a
shotgun and a gold watch.
At a meeting of the Florida Fruit
Growers’ association, held in Orlando, it
i was recommended that a sub-tropieal ex¬
1 position be held at some convenient
j point each year, commencing in Decem¬
j ber counties“to and holding be“invHed open till March, all the
to take part,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
^ Stenographer against the county Parrott of is about Clarendon to bring to
recover the fees due him for official serv¬
ices the depleted during the condition past year. of On account of
the county
treasury Mr. Parrott has never received
any remuneration for his services.
Mr. John E. Peoples, one of Anderson’s
extensive stock dealers, made a corner on
mules drover last in the salesday. city He day, bought and out every
that has been
selling his a great many mules at retail here
and at stable in Greenville. The Jef¬
ferson County (Tennessee) Visitor makes
mention of the fact, that Mr. John Cottei,
of that county and state, sold on his last
visit to Anniston $5,000 worth of East
Tennessee mules to Mr. JohnE. Peoples.
J. E. Peonies and J. S, Fowler will sell
this year $125,000 worth of mules.
A correspondent of the Newberry Her¬
ald aud News, in a recent issue of that
paper, says that just before the breaking
out of our war, a highly educated Swede,
named Hammerskold, settled in Lincola
ton, N. C., to engage in the iron business,
that abandoning his business to enter the
confederate army, he became impover¬
ished, and that after the war, in order to
raise money, he sold a valuable diamond
studded gold snuff box, said to have
been a gift of the king of Sweden, to
Colonel L. D. Childs, of Columbia, who
subsequently presented it to Colonel
Rion. The correspondent thinks that
this is the alleged Orleans snuff box. The
snuff box bears the letter O., and a crown
set in diamonds. It has not the Orleans
monogram. The initial is probably that
of Oscar I, king of Sweden and Norway,
born 1799, died 1859.
ARKANSAS.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Desha lumber and planing company’s
sawmill. It is to be the biggest saw
mill in the United States.
The safes in the sheriff’s and clerk’s
office in Roseville were blown open Wed¬
nesday night and robbed of, as reported,
$30,000. The amounts range from $16,
000 to $30,000.
A large number of the leading citizens
of Prescott are organized into a society
termed the “Loyal Citizens.” Its object
was for the purpose of suppressing any
attempt which might be made to d reak
tho prohibition law, but its meetings are
taking a social turn.
W. P. Homan, assistant general man¬
ager of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Tex¬
as railway, offered a reward of $100 for
the apprehension and conviction of four
unknown men, who, Wednesday night,
assaulted near the company’s and left roundhouse/brutaily for dead
Thomas
Bergold, master mechanic of the Arkan¬
sas division of the road.
In Itusselville John Sherrill committed
suicide by shooting himself with a rifle
gun. Sherrill locked himself up in a side
room at his father-in-law’s house, loaded
his gun and tied a string to the trigger,
by which means he fired the fatal shot.
The ball entered the left cheek bone aud
ranged toward the back of the head.
Drs. Ilill aud Drummond were called to
see the man before he died, He seemed
to be in his right miD<l when they arrived
at the place where he had committed the
deed, lie seemed to want to recover and
called for his wife, lie died in a few
hours.
Near Roseville, Mr. J. C. Pendargas,
living on the farm of W. P. Van Hoozer,
had his house burned, and with it five
out of nine of his family. The unfor¬
tunates were all boys—hearty, robust nnd
the pride of their father. The house , on
account of the high winds, was quickly
consumed. The house was a little double
story log house, with the stairway lead¬
ing into the hall entering the upper
rooms by doors from the upper hall. It
is supposed that the boys, who slept up
stairs, set their lamp on a shelf near tIn¬
door, and going to bed left it burning
and that the lamp was overturned by the
wind, firing the house near the do>r,
thereby closing the way of escape. The
father awoke just before the house fell iu
and escaped through a window with his
wife nnd two little girls. The screams
of the boys, whose ages were from six to
sixteen, calling for their father to aid
them, was heartrending in the extreme,
but the flames were beyoud the power of
any living person, and on account of the
argry winds was but a short time in de¬
vouring their work.
THE FIRE FIEND.
Twenty Parana* Lose Their Lire* oa tho
Steamer Gardner of the Tombigbce
River.
The steamer W. H. Gardner one of the
largest boats plying on the Tombigbe river
from Mobile, was burned Tuesday after¬
noon three miles below Gainesville, Sum¬
ter county, Alabama. The boat is a to¬
tal loss, together with four hundred and
sixty-four bales of cotton. Loss of life
is very large, as follows: 8. C. Black¬
man, Jule Rembert and two children, of
Demopolis. Mrs. W. F. Rembert and
three children, of Demopolis ; Theo L.
Graham, R. G. Rutes. And the follow¬
ing colored persons: John Bryant, stew¬
ard, Green Jenkins, Henry Ford, Hay¬
ward Hudson, I.. Lindsey, Virgil Jones,
Amos Harris, and three unknown.
Mrs. Rembert is the wife of the clerk
and part owner of the boat. The remain¬
ing whites were passengers district. living No details in the
upper Tombigbee of the fire have of
the cause and progress
.»cen received.
The Gardner was valued at $25,000 and
is reported to lie fully insured. The
cotton on hoard was insured for $25,000.
A NEW TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The certificate of incorporation of the
New filed York Monday, Southern Telegraph that its company, capital
was states
is $1,000,000, divided into shares of $100
each, with the privilege of increasing its
stock to $5,000,000. The incorporators
and number of shares held by each are as
follows: James B. Pace, Richmond,
3,500 shares; John S. Wise, Richmond,
1.000; Thomas M. Logan, Richmond,
1,000; J. G. Moore, New York, 4,000,
and J. C Weaver Page, New York, 5,
000. The wires are to run from New
York to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash¬
ington, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah
and New Orleans and to all intermediate
points.
SEARCHING THE RUINS
Farther Detail* of the European Earth
Wake.
caused Heartrending details of the disasters
rive. by the earthquakes continue to ar¬
At Diano Mariano, a child of
twelve years and her father were extri¬
cated from the debris, when the latter
expired upon the spot. The survivors at
Diano Mariano say that a majority of the
victims were killed by the second shock,
people having re-entered their houses to
procure shrouds, clothing. The bodies, wrapped
in lie in the middle of the
streets.
At Bassano the soldiers are still search
ing the ruins. They have rescued
twentyseven persons, all of whom are
more or less injured. The people sleep
in carriages and improvised places of
shelter.
Signor Ganaja, minister of public
works of Italy, has visited Bejardo, and
attended the funeral of 230 victims of
the church cellar, who were buried in a
common trench in the cemetery. He also
made arrangements for a temporary hos¬
pital for the injured.
The relief committees are being organ¬
ized throughout the country, but it is
impossible Remo to supply is deserted. the numerous There wants.
nan were
808 that persons killed and 150 injured in
town.
back, Troops have point been compelled to keep
at the of the bayonet, the
crowds of despairing men and women
who were impeding the work of excava¬
tion, in their efforts to find missing rela¬
tives, The bodies of the victims of the
disaster are terribly disfigured. The suf¬
ferings of the survivors are great, The
supply of provisions and drugs and inade- am¬
bulance apparatus being painfully
quate . The work of the re=cuers is at
tended with considerable danger. In
some cases they have been obliged to flee
from the battery walls, although they
could hear the groans of the victims bur¬
ied beneath the debris. All the members
W the family outright, of the mayor of Bajardo
were killed Of another fum
ily, consisting of twenty-two persons,
named Maestria, only a The"half-clothed single member,
half demented, is left,
posed people are wandering inclement on the seashore ex¬
to the weather. At
Diano Mariano a woman and child were
taken out alive after being entombed
three days.
HEAVY WINDS.
fwo Ohio River Steamers Sank at Louis,
ville Ky.
A telegram from Louisville Ky., says;
Early Saturday morning, the wind com¬
menced to blow here heavily, coming
from the northwest. It continued to
blow a perfect hurricane at intervals un¬
til 6 o’clock this evening. Many acci¬
dents are reported aud considerabla
damage has been done. The stern w r hecl
steamer Reindeer, lying at the city wharf,
was so roughly treated by the waves that
she sprang a leak and sunk in four feet
of water. After she had settled upon
the bottom, a much larger steamer, Hi¬
bernia, -which was tied to the wharf o
few r yards above, was seized by the whirl¬
wind. Her three large cables were snap¬
ped like twine, nnd she was cast against
the lumber vessel. The latter was badly
smashed up and the Hibernia reached
her moorings with her side smashed.
The river is rising two inches an hour,
and if the heavy rains of the last week
continue, much suffering will follow.
The water has already reached many
houses. The hurricane today also smashed
in about 150 feet of the western wall ol
the southern exposition building, doing
£1.000 damage.
THE WEEKLY REVIEW.
Many Million* Invented In Southern Eater
prise*.
During the past week there have been
received reports of the incorporation in of
the following new companies the
South: Nashville Light and Heat com¬
pany, two millions capital; the car com¬
pany, Anniston, Ala., one million cap¬
ital; the South Baltimore Car company,
$200,000 capital; the Consolidated Coal
Coal and Iron company', Chattanooga, Crude
$2,500,000 capital! United States
Petroleum and Gas company, Baltimore,
$1,000,000 capital; the stained glass fac¬
tory, Chattanooga, $2,500,000; five blast
furnaces as follows: one at Rome, Ga.,
one at Calera, Ala, two at Cartersville,
Ga., one at Gadsden, Ala., gas machine
works, Chattanooga; sheet rolling mill,
Atlanta; Pawne Mineral company, Ash
ville, Ala., $1,000,000 capital; Consoli¬ $1,
dated Mining company, Memphis, Lexing¬
000,000 capital; spoke factory,
ton, Ky., $100,000 capital; Alabama, Bessemer
Steel Rolling mills, Bessemer,
half million capital; saw mill, supply
factory, Chattanooga, $150,000 capital.
Among the small new organizations Chat¬ are
three flour mills and a factory at
tanooga; seventeen lumber companies,
three in Arkansas, two in Tennessee, one
in Alabama, two in Florida, three in
Georgia, two in Louisiana, four in Texas,
and four railroad companies, two in
North Carolina, odg in Alabama, and one
from Chattanooga to the top of Lookout
mountain.
A COWARDLY ASSASSIN.
A Young Mae and Woman While Riding la
a Wagon are Fired Upon aud Killed.
One of the foulest crimes ever commit¬
ted in East Tennessee, occurred in Roane
county. A young man named Newman
daughter was employed to move a woman and her
named Weaver, from Kingston
to Rockwood. He was driving on a
mountain road in a wagon loaded with
household goods, and beside him sat the
fifteen-year-old when daughter of Mrs. Weaver,
suddenly a man named Epps sprang
from the roadside in front of the team.
He carried a shotgun in his hand, and
without a word he leveled it at Newman,
and fired both barrels, which were load¬
ed with buckshot. Newman rolled from
his seat a corpse, and the young girl fell
back in the wagon with a dozen dullets
iu her breast. Mrs. Weaver was sitting
in tbe rear of the wagon and escaped un¬
injured. The alarm was given, and in
an hour one hundred men were in pursuit
of the murderer. No one can assign any
cause for his assassination of Newman
and the innocent girl.
A MG CLAIM,
Vlrflnlm Heirs te the Site *f the City- *f
Louisville.
Developments to light which to establish have the recently claims
come seem
of the heirs-at-law ot the late Daniel
McDonald, of Virginia, to the land on
which the city of Louisville, Ky., is lo¬
cated. The particulars are these: In
1782 a warrant was issued by Governor
Benjamin Harrison, of Virginia, for mil¬
itary service to said Daniel McDonald for
a certain tract or parcel of land lying in
the district of Kentucky, on the Ohio
river. No disposition was made of this
land by said grantee, and it seems to
have been lost sight of by his descend¬
ants until recently one of them, a grand¬
son, General James McDonald, of Rich¬
mond, adjutant general of the state,.in
book making some investigations in the land
of Virginia, came across the war¬
rant. He sent a copy to the register of
lands of Kentucky, asking if he could
locate the land.
After taking due time for the investi¬
gation to be made an answer camo from
the Kentucky land office that from all
the Information that could be had the
1,000 acres of land in the name of Daniel
McDonald was located at the falls of the
Ohio river, and that the city of Louisville
was built thereon. The letter went on
further to state that a number of years
ago the said land escheated to the com¬
monwealth of Kentucky, but as an
escheat is only good in case of the de¬
fault of heirs, that amounts to nothing;
indeed, is an advantage to the claimants.
Another fortunate circumstance for them
is that the compact entered into by the
State of Virginia with Kentucky when
the latter was permitted to set up as a
State solemnly bound the new State to
protect and defend the claims of Virgin¬
ians owning lands in Kentucky and their
heirs forever against any and all comers.
Lawyers who have examined the case say
that it seems to lack no clement o f
strength.
AFTER THE COUNTY SEAT.
A Difficulty in Kansas Results in the Killing
of (Several Men.
A serious shooting affray occurred on
Sunday night at Coronado, Wichita
Coronado c ounty, growing out of a contest between
and Leoti as to which place
should be the county seat. A general
shooting lows: occurred, which resulted as fol¬
William Pains, a druggist, and
1 ; karles Cotter, both of Leoti, were in¬
stantly killed; Emmet Dimming, livery¬
man, Frank Jeanness, son of the mayor,
David Johnson and Albert Bovey, mana¬
ger of the Chicago Lumber company, all
from Leoti, were fatally wounded. Frank
Lilley, real estate ageut, Charles Loomis
and Ezra Loomis, all from Coronado,
die were fight slightly wounded. The scene of
is distant several miles from the
railroad and telegraphic communica¬
tion and all details of the fight are not
yet known.
COTTON SEED OIL MILLS.
Orgnnizntiou Mill be Completed Witkla
Tun flnyti.
A special dispatch to the Manufac¬
turer's Record, of Baltimore from au of¬
ficial source, as to a syndicate now form¬
ing to build cotton seed oil mills in the
south, says the company will be organ¬
ized under the laws of New Jersey, with
a capital of $5,000,000. The mills will
be built of large capacity at points
throughout the whole cotton seed terri¬
tory. The incorporators are best oill mill
men in the south and the largest consum¬
ers iu the north. Four times the neces¬
sary money could be obtained. The or¬
ganization will be completed within ten
days.
SOUTH CAROLINA SHAKEN.
Charleston and Hu miner ville Agnlu Shaken
Up by Earthquake*.
A* out six o’clock Saturday morning
a Charleston slight earthquake shock was felt at
and adjacent country. The
shock continued five seconds. The di¬
rection of the wave w as from west to east.
In one house a vase was thrown down
but no damage was done anywhere. The
shock was so slight that many persons
sleeping at the time were not disturbed.
The first disturbance worth mentioning
since the first of the new year. A spec¬
ial from Summerville says: a decided
earthquake shock was felt here at six
o’clock Sunday morning. It was vc*£
short and no damage resulted. Coming
after the earthquakes in Europe, it ha«
made rather a sensation.
OFF FOR UTAH.
Two Hundred Convert* to the Faith Leave
for tbe “Land of Milk and Honey”
The semi-annual hegira of Mormon
converts from the Southern States to
Utah took place Tuesday. Chattanooga
is the Southern headquarters of the
church, and the converts assembled there
on that day and left at night, about 200
strong They were in charge of John
Morgan, chief elder. They came from
ail the Southern States, and the most ig¬
norant and illiterate class of people. The
converts labor under the delusion that
Utah is a “land of milk and honey.” All
of the men had large families, and many
had only a few dollars left after purchas¬
ing their tickets. There are now 200
elders at work in the South.
MURDERED HIS CREDITOR.
R. V. Loggins, Wis., prominent merchant
of Winona, was murdered Tuesday
afternoon by Alexander Crawford, col¬
ored. Crawford had been purchasing
supplies from Loggins and had become
involved. He failed to bring a and mortgage
note of a trustees’ sale Mr.
Loggins went to see him about it and
was murdered by the negro, who had
prepared himself for the horrible work.
Loggins was escaped, found but cut will to pieces. doubtless The be
murderer
captured.
ELECTION FRAUDS.
The federal grand jury, which has been
investigating frauds committed at the
election in St. Louis last November,
made its final report to Judge Treat in
the United States district court Thurs¬
day, and returned twenty-two indict¬
ments in addition to those heretofore
found. A special jorv has been called to
try these cases at tae March term of the
court.
*
SNOWED UNDER.
Of a thousand fchingTthat the Yearsnotred
under,
The busy Old Year that has gone away,
How many will rise in the spring, I wonder,
Brought to life by the sun of Mayf
Will the roue-tree branches, so wholly hid¬
den
‘ That
never a roee-tree seems to be,
At the sweet spring’s call come forth unbid¬
den,
And bud in beauty, and bloom for met
Will the fair, green earth, whose throbbing
bosom **
Is hid, like a maid's in her gown at night,
Wake out of her deep, and with blade and
blossom
Gem her garments to please my sight}
Over the knoll in the valley yonder
The loveliest buttercups bloomed and grew;
When the snow is gone that drifted them
under,
Will they shoot up sunward and bloom
- anew? Mm
When wild windt blew and a sleet storm
I lost pelted, jewel of J priceless worth;
a
If I walk that way When snows have melted,
Will the gem gleam up from the bare, brown
earth?
1 laid a love that was dead or dying,
For the year to bury and hide from sigM;
But out of a trance will it waken orying,
And push to my heart like a leaf to the
light?
Under the snow lie things so cherished—
Hopes, ambitions, and dreams of men,
Faces that vanished and trusts that perished
Never to sparkle or glow again.
The Old Year greedily grasped his plunder,
Aud covered it over and hurried away;
Of the thousand things he hid, I wonder
How many will rise at the call of May?
O wise Young Year, with your hands held
under
Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray!
—Ella W. Wilcox, in Boston Olobe.
PITH ANDPipT.
A game leg—Hindquarter of Venison.
It is rain or shine with a boothblack.
The German Army Bill— Emperor Wil¬
liam.
Taken aback—A boy playing leap
frog. . j
Europe is so peaceful now that It is
impossible to supply the universal de¬
mand for arms.— Post-Dispatch.
A New York man advertises to restore
old paintings. Wonder how many he
has stolen .—Burlington Feee Press*
To admit that our city is well laid out
doesn't necessarily Philadelphia suggest the inference
that it’s dead.— Call.
Scientists believe it impossible for a
man to have a double. If this is so, how
can a man be beside himself?— Life.
As you can now get two hundred
quiniue pills for a dollar, i © should say
that quinine is getting to cr a drug in
the market .—Purity
+ The World says'thattlie woman’s bus¬
tle must go. The World is mistaken. It
is the woman that must go. The bustle
must follow.— Bazaar.
When we see a goose with a lame leg
trying in vain to keep up with the rest
of the fleck, it always reminds us of a
non-advertising so-called business man,
endeavoring lo hold his own against his
neighbors who advertise. —Dansville
Breeze.
“Papa,” said little Jimmie Briefless,
“what d.» you wear when you go to the
courthouse—your lawsuit?” “Oh, no,
my son,” replied tho good barrister,
kindly. “That is the suit a man puts on
when he goes naked. Only the clients
wear that.”— Burdette.
The gray-bearded man who carefully
husks a peanut, throws away the meat
and tries accused to eat the shell in probably love, will he
not be of being as
would have been thirty years ago, but
he risks winning a reputation for absent
mindedness. —Somerville Journal.
“The great trouble with you, John,is,”
said a lady to her husband, of who was Buf¬
fering from the effects ‘No.’ the night Learn be¬
fore, “you cannot say to
say ‘No,’ John, and you will have fewer
headaches. Can you let me have a lit¬
tle money this morning?” “No,” said
John, with apparent ease.— Puck.
The Baby King of Spain.
The baby King of Spain is a fine,
handsome child who enjoys robust
health, and does credit to the immense
amount of care with which he is sur¬
rounded Though court etiquette re¬
quires that the six months-old Alphonso
XIII. should be treated with the most
rigid call him ceremony, ‘the his mother will never
occasions, King” unless on very strict of
hut uses the simple term
“my child.” His Majesty has his own
vast suite of apartments next to those of
the Queen Regent; and a special guar I
keeps foster h monthcr, s bedroom door sturdy at night. Ray- His
munda, feeds and tho the peasant baby; but
amuses
he is washed aud dressed according to
traditional ceremony by a bevy of ladies
of honor under the direction of his “gov
erne-s,” who held the same office toward
his father. Doctors visit the baby twice
his daily, and every day he drives out with
governess and Raymunda, sometimes
with the Queen. In court ceremonies
Raymunda must not carry the King;
that is the duty of the mistress of the
robes or of his aunt, the Infanta Iaabella.
Queen Christina is a most devoted
mother,spending her boy, and the all her Infanta spare Isabella time with is
don equally’attached Graphic. to her nephew.— Lon¬
Her Heavy Conundrum.
“Billy,” quoth thundering Sophronia, as she lis¬
tened to the tread of pater
familias come thumping down the stairs
at 11 i*. xi., “when you leave here each,,
evening, ‘by request,’ why is papa, when
he parts with yoti at the f ont door, like
your own dear self when you make me
a nice present or taxe me to the rink!”
“I couldn’t say, I’m sure, love,” trem¬
blingly preparing replied her '‘dust” best fellow her William, parent's
while to at
bidding. he always foots the Bill!”—
“Because
Siftings.
Bagdad contains the largest Hebrew
colony in Europo. There are twenty
synagogues and about 40,000 Hebrews in
the citj. •
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