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VOLUME IV.
There ira good deal of abuse heaped
upon Americans lor suu of omission and
commission performed while traveling in
Europe, but it is jto be set down to their
credit that the American travelers are
said to have lx*en the coolest and most
self-possessed class during the recent
earthquakes. Their superiority to fear
was marked and commeutcd on all sides.
The drummer is not to be a taxable com
modlty after all. The Supremo Court of
involves the right of one State or munici
polity to impose a license tax on drummers
or traveling salesmen from another State
seeking to sell goods by sample or other¬
wise. The decision is that such taxation
i» au interference with interstate com¬
merce, and is therefore unconstitutional.
A Paris paper reports that the drum
mere and trumpeters of the German army
are hard at work learning the bents and
calls of the French troops, It also nl
leges that in many engagements in the
war of 1870 the command to cease firing
was often given to the French army by
German buglers, and that the command
to halt, sounded by the same buglers,
often stopped a charge of French cavalry : j
and placed them in u position where they
Could be mowed down.
Now a scientific person 1ms explained
why IlanlAti is the great rower that he
is. Dr. Sargent, of the Harvard gym¬
nasium, has examined him, and says
that he has “a great head and an ex¬
cellent body nil the way down to the
legs.” Judged by a standard of per
fection tho oarsman’s legs and arins are
too short. Dr. Sargent says that this
defect has made Hunlan the oarsman
ho is, and that the power from the
shoulders, back and loins, together
with the immense leverage given by the
short legs and arms, is what has made
him almost the perfection iu build for
a sculler.
The people of Dodge City, Kansas, are
now marveling over the discovery of a
largo bone, which has recently been
brought into that city from a point ‘about
sixty-five miles southwest, near the Ci¬
marron river. This mammoth fossil was
unearthed by some workmen while dig¬
ging a well at the depth of about forty
five feet, and below a stratum of sand¬
stone. Tho length of this colossal femur
is about 6 feet 8 1-2 inches; weight, 96
pounds;circumference of shaft, 20 inches;
head of bone,(femur,) 24 inches in circum¬
ference; lower end or knee, .39 inches in
circumference. Further excavations will
lie made at an early date with the hope of
discovering the entire skeleton.
Do you know that people like to be
humbugged?” asked a physician of a
Philadelphia Call reporter. “It’s a fact,
and a largo percentage of the practice
of the most successful doctors is pure
humbuggery. A great many people are
filled with hnmaginury aches and pains.
They’ve had them for years in their
imagination, and lmvc grown to regard
them with a tenacious affection. When
they consult a physician about them
they do not like to have tho matte:
pooh-poohed. They do not wish to be
told there is nothing the matter with
them. They want to be told they aro
sick; to bo sympathized with, and to
be prescribed for. They then pay the
fee willingly. Some of the best and
most persistent patients I have are as
sound ns a dollar. I listen to their
recital of their symptoms right along,
prescribe some harmless as well ns use¬
less doso and charge it in my little
bill. It is to this little diplomacy of
mine that I attribute much of my
success. ”
The Department of Agriculture reports
an increase iu the total number of horses,
mules, cows aud oxen owned in this
country as compared with last year The
greatest)ncroaiso, says Broihtrut , is shown
in oxen, while mules show a.slight excess
over last year. In the ease of sheep aud
hogs considerable decreases ure shown.
The following table shows the total num¬
ber at this time and at a corresponding
jieriod last year:
Stock. 18*6. 1W,
Horses....... ...... 12.077,657 1?,496,743
Mules....... ...... 2,052,593 1.117,141
Milch cows.. ...... 14,235,388 14,552,083 {1
Oxen and other cattle. 81,275,242 33,511,750
Sheep...... ....... 48,322,331 44,759,314
Swine..... ....... 40,092,043 44,012,836
As to values, the decline lias not been very
large, being greatest in the ease of cattle,
which show the largest increase in num¬
ber. Horses, sheep and hogs have in
creased in value,while mules have slightly
decreased. The total values of the va¬
rious classes of animals are shown in the
following:
Stock. 2886. li>*7.‘
Horses.... $860,823,206 f901,6&»,755
Mules.... 163,381,070 107,057,538
Milch cows.......... 389,965,523 318,789,588
Oxen and other cattle 061,956,27 4 663,137,926
Sheep. 92,443,967 89,872,839
Swine 197,509,894 290,043,291
Totals........$2,365,159,862 $2,400, .580,938
The total value of all the farm animals of
the country is placed at $2,400,580,938,
an increase of $35,427,076 over this time
last year. The greater share of the in
. crease is due to the increased number and
value of horses. The decline in the value
of cows has been charged cluefly to the
low prioe of butter.
X
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1887.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH.
Sfuafaetnlifs and Other Busies#* La tar
eats Beonleg—New Rail reads. Ere.
A barrel factory Is being erected by
Chicago parties at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Arrangements have been made for
huildmg * furniture factory atPIoreooe,
latin, Tenn.
The stock of the Planters’ Compress &
Warehouse Co., at Greenville, Miss., is
$ 100 , 000 .
Garner & Son, of Tampa, Fla., con¬
template niston, erecting a steam laundry at An¬
Ala.
The Rayides Compress Co., capital
stock $30,000, has been organized at
Alexandria, La.
Subscriptions the erection are being received to¬
wards of a hotel to cost
$60,100, at Americus, Ga.
Iiitt & Co., will erect a Taylor compress
at Americus, Ga. They will probably
erect several other compresses.
Allen Fort has organized a company to
build a cotton factory at Americus, Ga.
Tho capital stock will be $100,000.
The mayor of Anniston, Ala., will re
ceivo bids for the erection of the city
hall. It is to be two stories, 120x120.
E. F. Gould, of Lake Helen, Fla., is to
build a 9-story building on Decatur
street, Atlanta, Ga., to cost about $150.
000 .
The Montgomery Iron Works, of
Montgomery, have contracted to furnish
machinery for a 15-ton ico.factory at Eu
fauln, Ala.
A national bank with a capital of
$100,000 has been organized in Anuiston,
Ala., and a dime savings bank, with a
capital of $30,000, has been formed.
Arrangements have been made for run¬
ning a regular line of fteamers between
Brunswick, Ga., and European ports, to
commence on or before the 1st of August.
Works are to be erected in Birming¬
ham, Ala., to manufacture sad irons.
1 lie capacity will be 10 tons daily. The
East Birmingham Land Co., are inter¬
ested.
Tho Atlanta, Ga., Cotton Compress &
Warehouse Co. have changed their name
to tho Atlanta Compress & Warehousing
Co., and have increased their capital to
$500,000.
The Catawba Falls Manufacturing &
has Improvement incorporated Co., capital stock $200,000,
been at Catawba, S. C.
Tho object of the company eventually is
to purchase the Catawba falls and build a
cotton factory.
A Western syndicate purchased recently
through a local real estate broker, thirty
four tho: s ind acres of timber in Escam¬
bia county, Ala. It is the intention of
the syndicate to commence at once the
erection of a large saw and planing mill.
THE APACHES MOVING.
Over Four Hundred Indians to bo Sent
to A In be mu.
The Apache Indians who were moved
from Arizona to Fort Marion. Fla., last
fall, nre to be removed by direction of
the secretary of war to Mount Vernon
barracks, Ala. They number about 450,
in addition to Geronimo and seventeen
bucks, who are confined at Fort Pickens.
The wives of the latter will not be re¬
moved from Fort Marion to Mount Ver¬
non, but will Ik* permitted to joiu their
.husbands at Fort Pickens. Captain
Pratt, superintendent of Carlisle India 1 )
school, has gone to Fort Marion to select
150 or 40 young Indians, before removal,
to be instructed at this institution.
The removal is made on account of the
crowded condition of the quarters at
Fort Marion. Although the health of
the Indians has been good,it was thought
a ivimible to send them to a healthier lo¬
cation, where they will have plenty of
room and be free from tlie gaze of hun¬
dreds of curious people, who flock about
them every time they appear in public.
Mount Vernon is considered as peculiarly
well adapted southwestern to their needs, of being situ¬
ated in the part Alabama
on the Mobile river, not far distant from
Mobile, and consisting of a tract of 2,100
acres.
The barracks are occupied Indians by two will com¬
panies of artillery. The live
in touts, and it is hoped that they may
•income self-supporting. Geronimo and
ids renegades are not kept in solitary
confinement at Fort Pickens, but are re¬
paired to work under guard.
EMPLOYES SHARING PROFITS.
i'roetor <& Gamble, of Cincinnstl, Agreo to
Divide with Their Employes.
The firm of Proctor & Gamble, manu¬
facturers, has made an elaboiate proposi¬
tion for allowing their employes to share
in the profits of the firm. The plan is to
and appoint three trustees, two bookeepers
ploy, a who superintendent shall in the firm’s em¬
twice a year ascertain
the amount of profits during the preced¬
ing six months, allowing as expenses six
per cent interest on the capita! employed,
and reasonable salaries to members of the
firm devoting their tiino to their inter¬
ests, and divide profits between the firm
in proportion to the capital and wages
earned.
The employes have accepted the prop¬
osition with thanks, and resolved to al¬
low no outside influence to disturb the
relations between them and their em
ployws.
FATAL CYCLONE IN VIRGINIA.
(leases Blew* Dawn and Several Lives
Leet.
Monday night a cyclone visited Suffolk
Va., section with fatal and destructive
effects. Its track was about one hundied
yards wide. The house of John Wright,
six miles north of Suffolk, on the Norfolk
and Western railroad, was completely
demolished. Wright and his wife and a
young sister and James Luke were in the
house at the time. Mrs. Wright and
Mr. Luke were killed, the young girl
fatally injured and Mr. Wright seriously
hurt. Much other damage was done to
property along the path of tbe cyclone, .
“ Ju»fi«e to An, Malice for Rone.”
MEMORI AL SAT.
BMDtitkl Weather, Greet Crowd*, Fie#
Displays ef Military mad Clrlo Bodies
and Patriotic Orations.
In Atlanta the procession comprised
the officers of tho police force under
command of Chief Connolly. Following
came the Confederate veterans, about one
qundred strong, under command of Col.
der George command T. Fry. of The third W. division, D. Ellis, un¬
the Capt. attractive, including
was one of most
the Gate City Guard, under command of
Capt. Sneed, Burke, Atlanta Rifles, under Capt.
Means Cadets, under Prof. Edwards
and the Patriots Militant, commanded by
Captain William Kinyon. The Atlanta
Military Band was with this division, W.
J. Lotg, assistant marshal, was in com¬
mand of the sourth division, which in¬
cluded three tribes of the Independent
Order of Red Men, with the Marietta
band.
Maj. J. Gadsden King was in charge
of the fifth division, which included two
divisions of the Uniform Rank Knights
of Pythias, the Governor’s Horse Guard
and the Atlanta Artillery with their four
guns. The 6ixth division, under the
command of Frank M. O’Bryan, assistant
marshal, including riages the Knights Templar
escort and cai containing the ora¬
tor and chaplain of the day and the
members of the Memorial association.
Following this came various officials and
citizens in carriages under the command
of GeorgeR. DeSaussure. At Oakland an
address full of partiotic lire was delivered
by CoL Albert II. Cox.
The day was fitly noticed at Macon, Ga.,
Montgomery, Ala., Milledgeville, Ga.,
Amcricus, Ga., Athens, Ga., Covington,
Ga., Albany, Ga., Jacksonville, Fla.,
and many other places.
the Chattanooga, Tenn., was honored by
presence of Miss Winuie Davis,
daughter of Jefferson Davis, and in the
evening a reception was given at the
Stanton House.
At Augusta, Ga., Governor Gordon
delivered an oration before the Confed¬
erate Survivors association, and an im¬
mense audience. His address was di¬
rected to u review of the South tinder the
old regime, showing its civilization and
prestige in directing and controlling gov¬
ernmental affairs. Governor Gordon was
sick when lie began his address, and was
compelled to end it suddenly, on account
of intercostal neuralgia.
RICH FIND.
DISCOVERY OF RICH UNUSED
GOLD MINES IN MEXICO.
In a Chapel Maps are Found which Give
a Clew.
Special dispatches from the City of
Mexico announce the discovery of two of
the lost seven bonanza mines by an Amer¬
ican party of prospectors. Humboldt and
Hamilton speak of the fabulous wealth
obtained from these mines by the Span¬
iards. They were worked up to the
middle of last century. In 1776 the In¬
dians swept over northern Mexico and
destroyed Chihuahua and all the miners
were driven out. The Indians held con¬
trol of the country so long that records
were lost.. Recently, Lieutenant Kepper,
formerly of the U. 8. army,W. K. Glenn,
of Illinois, Capt. Allen and J. McIntyre,
of pedition Chicago, went out on a surveying ex¬
in the interest of a land com¬
pany, and in an old chapel found maps
and other data. Dividing into four small
McIntyre’s parties a thorough search was is thought begun.
party located what
to be tho Lapoya silver mine. It is in
the midst of thousands of ruined build¬
ings, among large churches and forts.
Within four miles are 420 workings
of old Spanish furnaces and tons of
slag. A few days later the Bowers party
reported the discovery of the Madre Guayanopa
in the heart of the Sierra moun¬
tains. Around it are the ruins of 118
arastras. Advices from other points con¬
firm the rumor and state that the great
placer field has been located, where the
Jesuits of 200 years ago found fortunes
for the church. Great excitement in
mining centres prevails.
RESTLESS INDIANS.
The Blows* end Sioux on the War Path.
Advices from Auadarko Indian agency,
in the vicinity of Fort Worth, are to the
effect that there li*s been great excito
ment theie owing to the action of the
Kiowas. A band of them roamed over
the cattle country, visiting residences
and greatly frightened the women and
children. They made such demonstra¬
tions throughout the territory as to ter
rarize the children. Troops were at
once sent to regulate them aud went into
camp on the Wichita, eight miles from
the Indian position. They advanced to
the base of the mountain on the follow¬
ing night. After three days’ parley the
Indians agreed to give up the offending
Indians to the soldiers located near the
fort, where they could be watched. Ths
troops returned to Auadarko with the
prisoners.
The Indians, covered with war paint
and armed with Winchesters, mounted,
followed the troops. A company of the
latter, reinforced by a mob of Indians,
proceeded to carry out instructions. Half
Breed Gillum, a scout, fears trouble with
the Sioux, and reports them quietly leav¬
ing the Big Sioux reservation.
XIDNAPPING A SENATOR.
A Bold Plan to Gobble General Sherman’s
Brother.
It has just leaked out, that a party of
kidnappers of the or outlaws, comprising much
ditti, had dangerous elements of Cuban ban¬
John Sherman arranged to capture Senator
on his recent visit to Cuba.
The project only failed by a notice in
time. The plot was well arranged, and
tho banditti were in sufficent force to
capture Sherman’s party, but they left
the plantation intended as the scene of
the outrage just five minutes before the,
outlaws appeared. It is thought the
ow ner of the plantation was a party to
the scheme. While in Havana, Senator
Sherman took occasion to congratulate
the captain general on the peace prevail¬
ing throughout the islands. When the
visit senator, the however, expressed a desire to
the military sugar plantation in the interior,
and guard was sent as an escort,
the entire party barely escaped an
unpleasant surpriae.
HONORING k STATESMAN.
CALHOUN’S STATUE UNVEILED i
AT CHARLESTON, & C.
Is*areas# Crewde Attend the Ceremeny
A Ultcaiflecnt Oration by Rea.
I* Q. C. Lamar.
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TBK OALHOUN STATUE.
One of the finest davs of the year offer¬
ed the people of the South a chance to
unveil, at Charleston, South Carolina,
on Memorial Day, a magnificent statue to
John C. Calhoun, and the procession
numbered nearly 5,000 military and civic
associations.
The statue, situated on Murion square,
was draped which by both state and national
colors, little were drawn away by six
children, while thirty-five young
ladies and misses stood around as spon¬
sors. The young ladies were appointed
to be present With at the unveiling few exceptions of the mon¬
ument. relatives very Calhoun. they
are of Mr. Two of the
young ladies are the nearest relatives of
their age of Gen. Francis Marion, of the
Revolution,the directresses believing that
the two distinguished Carolinians to have
been kindred spirits, though in different
departments of the service of the state.
Six babies pulled the rope under super¬
vision of attending Julia Calhoun, young ladies. The
babies were: great grand¬
daughter Lowndes of the statesman; William
Calhoun, great-grandson of the
statesman; B. Putnam Calhoun, Jr.,
great-grandnephew great-grandson of the statesman and
of General Putnam;
Sadie Ancruro, great-grandniece of f lie
statesman; Floride Calhoun Pickens and
Floride Peyne Johnson.
The dedicatory prayer was made by
Rev. Dr. C. C. Pinckney, who was pre¬
sented to the audience by Mayor Court¬
enay, who presided. The unveiling then
followed.
An ode to Calhoun by Miss E. B.
Cheseborough was read by Rev. A.
Stakely.
Secretary Following this came the oration of
Lamar, which was followed by
another Calhoun ode, written by Mar¬
garet J. Preston and read by Iiev. Dr.
Junkin, and then came the benediction,
pronounced by Rev.* John O. Wilson.
Secretary Lamar’s speech, which occupied
two hours, was received with the deepest
attention and frequent applause.
“MILLIONS IN IT.”
Tbe WestluBhonse Air Brake laveatlen
Claimed by a Poor 91a*.
Theodore Mungerwho lives in Detroit,
Mich., is a tall, rather powerful-looking
man, rather wearing close, a full gray beard, trimmed
cloth, usually dressed in gray
and wears cowhide boots. Mr.
Hunger has been a resident of Detroit for
ten years or more, but until recently has
attracted no attention. He now comes
forward with the claim of having been
the inventor of the Westinghouse air
brake, from which invention he says he
never realized a dollar. He claims that
he invented this valuable Improvement
about eighteen years ago, at the time an
attempt w as made to produce the result
with steam on passenger car brakes.
lie Being in poor health at the time he says
revealed his invention to those work¬
ing at the steam brakes, who have since
taken advantage of it to deprive him of
pecuniary and other benefits. Mr. Mun
ger talks rationally about this invention
and backs up his claim in the most cir¬
cumstantial manner,and if legally proved,
will make him a millionaire.
I
VIOLATED ORDERS.
fit. Men *.« UDMI B, . Tr.i.™..,
A west bound train, pushing a flat car
loaded with laborers, was going around
the curve leading to a trestle at. a good
rate of speed on the Cascade division of
the Northern Pacific railway, when it *
i an into an engine which was running
east, backing up. The flat car passed 1
half way through the tender of the light !
cugiue and the other end crushed up I
against the pilot of the west-bound train,
on which were two men. The unfortu¬
nate men were crushed to a pulp. Five
men were killed outright, and one bai
since died. The injured number eight de¬
men. The scene of the accident, as
scribed by those present, beggars de¬
scription. Blood is scattered in every i
direction, and the fearful neighboring rocks The
bear evidence of a carnage.
accident was the fault of one of the
train’s crew neglecting to flag, as per
orders.
TEMPERANCE LECTURE,
Illustrated la a Terribly Practical Way
Owen Griffin and Martin Wilds, a
couple of young married men, of Way
cross, Ga., received by express a jug of
down whisky from Savannah, and started
the Brunswick and Western rail¬
road for home, carrying the “little brown
jug” under their arm. They soon be¬
came tired and Griffin lay down by the
roadside, while Wilds occupied the entire
track.* using one of the rails for a pillow.
They fell asleep, and a train came along,
and as it was then about 10 o’clock it
was very dark, and the engineer, not
seeing the sleeping man, ran over him,
entirely severing his head from his body
and dragging the body for some distance,
totally demolishing it to an unrecogniza¬
ble shape, scattering part of it for fifty
yards along tbe rail.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL .
IV hat la Being Dene by the Head a ef Oar
Government—The Week’s Review.
OUR REVENUE RECEIPTS.
The total amount of trade dollars re¬
deemed for nine mouths to date is $5,243,
000, which amount will be increased
$400,000 by recent importations at San
Francisco from China.
The total collections of iuternal rev¬
enue during the first nine months of the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, were
$83,981,204, being $575,788 less than
collections during the corresponding
period of the last fiscal year. Collections
from spirits were $46,668,141, a decrease
of $3,927,737; from tobacco $21,443,631,
an increase of $1,306,276; from fermented
liquors $15,182,758, beiug au increase of
$1,519,603; miscellaneous from oleomargarine $481,-
246; from objects $201,-
807, being an increase of $41,203. Re¬
ceipts for March, 1887, were $341,819
greater than those for March, 1886,4he
increase being fermented mainly in liquors. receipts from
tobacco and There
was a small decrease in receipts from
spirits. Commissioner Miller estimates
that the receipts for the present fiscal
year will aggregate $118,000,000 as
against $116,902,869 for the last fiscal
year.
Notes.
The interstate commerce commission is
in the South. Their labors will be prin¬
cipally in Georgia and Alabama.
James H. Marr, chief clerk to the first
assistant postmaster-general, died re¬
cently. Had he lived until June he
would have been in continuous public
service fi“y-six years. m
Gen. C. C. Auolk, U. S. A retired,
will command the encampment of the
national drill. He is a resident of Wash¬
ington.
The treasury vaults contain 2,000 tons
of silver and 48 tons of gold. This is
tho limit of their capacity, and the treas¬
ury officials are puzzled to know wha 1
to do with the constantly accumulating
store of precious metals. An appropria¬
tion for a new steel vault failed to pass
the last Congress.
pointed Acting Secretary Wheeler, Thompson of Virginia, has ap¬
James H.
a watchman in the treasury department.
Wheeler is the man who was so badly in¬
jured at Richmond, Va., last year by the
premature discharge of a cannon, while
firing a salute iu honor of the visit of
President Cleveland.
PERSONAL.
Rev. Sam Jones will go to San Fran¬
cisco in June.
Subscriptions to the Henry Ward
Beecher memorial now aggregate about
$ 12 , 000 .
W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, D.
C., pays taxes on $9,000,000. He has
always been a real friend of Southern
people.
Miss Abigail Dodoe (“Gail Hamil¬
ton”), sister-in-law of James G. Blaine, is
said to be the author of the Arthur Rich¬
mond letters.
Lieut. Jepiison, author of the popular
novel, “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” is
among the Englishmen in II. M. Stanley’s
exploring expedition.
A movement to erect an equestrian
statue of Gen. N. B. Forrest in Memphis
has been started, Gen. Grant once said
that Forrest was the greatest cavalry colli¬
mander on either si de of the Civil War.
Chaplain General Gleig, of the
British army, dates further back in mili¬
tary experiences than the Emperor Will¬
iam. lie is well over 90, but is still able
to preach. He was present at the battle
of New Orleans and wrote an account of
the siege of that city.
Pin Edward Thornton, formerly
British minister at Washington. S. M.
Braithwaite and E. O. P. Bouverie ar¬
rived in New York recently from Eng¬
land. They cam6 to negotiate a settle¬
ment with the Virginia legislature, rela¬
tive to the bonds of that state held in
England.
Col. James F. Farrel, at one time
associated with Col. James R. Randall on
the editorial force of the old Constitu
timalist , of Augusta, Ga., has returned
from the North and made Atlanta his
home. The colonel’s sister, Mrs. San¬
ford R. Gifford, the widow of the dis
th.gui.hedI artist, died a few daja ago at
P nn £ a e, x .
David Preston died suddenly of heart
disease recently at Detroit, Mich. Mr.
Preston is best known as a leading Meth
odist and prohibitionist. He was a dele
gate to several general conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1881
was a delegate to the ecumenical council
at London, Eng. His estate is worth
nearly $1,000,000.
The funeral of Lieut. John W. Danen
hower took place in Oswego, N. Y. The
escort was composed of the Kingsford
(corn-starch factory) band, forty music¬
ians, and the 29th and 88th companies of
the militia. Tbe casket was draped
and covered with an American flag. The
floral offerings were by the elegant, deceased’s several bro¬
pieces being sent
ther officers.
John Bright, advocating a continu¬
ance of free which trade in he England, that has the written
a letter in says reason
other nations maintain high tariffs is that
those who are protected are an organized
army, while consumers are merely a mob.
United States under a system of protec¬
tion aro burdened with a large surplus
revenue, yet refuse to lessen duties, thus
promoting a system of corruption un¬
equalled in any other country.
Rev. William M. Crumley, one of
the oldest aud most respected citizens of
Atlanta, Ga., died at the residence of his
son. He was born at Lawrence Court
House, S. C., February 29, 1816, and was
but a bov " when he began preaching he the
gospel. For fifty-three Methodist years Episcopal was a
minister of the
church, having been twice pas tor of Trin
ity chureh in Atlanta, and having b held
also important charges in Savannah, Au¬
gusta, Columbus, Macon and other prom*
meat plaoes.
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Burke oouniy jail at Waynesboro, Ga, ■>
was recently destroyed by fire.
Columbus, Miss., has voted to donate
$100,000 to the Tombigbee railway.
Judge William F. in Wright of Atlanta, in
Ga., who was born Coweta county
1821, died recently at Alexandria, Va.
Alabama's State encampment in June
will be a fine affair, and will do much to
increase the efficiency of the military of
that state.
Calhoun county, Ala., intends to send
a loaded special with train specimens of cars as of far as New York of
the resources
that section.
A jury was summoned by the sheriff of
Baltimore, Aid., to determine the mental
condition of Lambert Gittings, one of the
wealthiest men in that city. His property
is estimated at $2,000,000.
Mrs. Edna Mullen, of Columbus, Ga.,
answered a ring of the door bell recently
and some unknown ruffian tried to kill
her by a blow over the head with a bar
of iron. She escaped death, but received
a terrible wound.
In Jefferson City, Mo., Judge Henry
and State Auditor Walker quarreled.
The judge struck his opponent over the
head with a cane and the auditor re¬
sponded and with neither a pistol seriously shot. Both are old
men was hurt.
The convention of the Shipping League
of the South Atlantic States, held a
meeting recently in Charleston, 8.
and after passing resolutions favoring the
increase of means for the Coast defences,
adjourned to meet in Washington next
April.
Johnnie Ryols, a white boy while play¬
ing with tops colored in company chila with Willie Ga.,
Harris a at Macon,
became involved in a quarrel, which ter¬
minated by the white boy killing the ne¬
gro by a stab-wound with a pocket
knife. Both were employed in a cotton
factory.
The Georgia railroad is laying steel
rails on the Athens branch.
Mobile, Ala., petitions the interstate
commission to suspend some of the en¬
actments of the law.
The Grays and Blues of Montgomery,
Ala., will enter the prize drill at Louis¬
ville, Ky., about the middle of June.
A middle-aged man riding a small
mule, is going over the state of Georgia
passing off bogus silver dollars on the
people.
W. P. Fowler and Mr, Stivers, rector
of the Episcopal Church at Grenada,
Miss., had a difficulty recently, in which
Mr. Stivers was mortally wounded.
A freight train on the Valley branch of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, was
wrecked near Timberville station.. Billy
Cooley, of Strausburg, Va., brakeman,
was killed, and Edward Russell, con¬
ductor, badly hurt.
William Garvin, who murdered William
Hankinson, near Waynesboro, Ga., a
year ago, was arrested a few days since.
Garvin killed Hankinson to prevent the
latter from testifying against him in a
and hog-stealing case. He buried the corpse
escaped. Both were negroes.
Tom Sheely, a farmer living near Op¬
elika, Ala., about a month ago was bit¬
ten on the little finger of his left hand by
a fine dog. Recently symptoms appear*
ed in the form of intense pains through¬
out his left side, and water being shown
him he at once went into violent convul¬
sions.
Three young sons of Geo. W. Hay¬
wood, of Solomon Island, in the southern
part of Maryland, were drowned recent¬
ly. The boys, with a colored man, were
returning in a small sail boat from a visit
across the bay. The boat was capsized
in a heavy gale and two of the boys,
Frederick and Guy, were swept away in
the darkness. The colored man and
Bernard, the youngest boy, clung to the
mast till daylight, when Bernard lost his
hold and drowned. The colored man
was picked up by a passing vessel.
A REMONSTRANCE
From Certain Citizens of Atlanta* Ga*» to
the Railway Commissioners*
The interstate commission, in session
at Atlanta, Ga., received a formal docu¬
ment from a delegation of colored people
which recited that they are assigned,
peaceably if possible, by force if neces
sary, by the officers in charge of the trains
who claim to be acting under orders from
superiors, to some particular car, known
in the common parlance as the “Jim
Crow car,” “smoker,” or “negro annex,”
which is always inferior in every respect
to cars occupied by and white passengers pay¬
ing the same fare which traveling between
the same points, drunkards and car is also the
retreat for all low and un¬
principled public other characters thereby of the subjecting traveling
of races,
maidens, wives, children, mothers ana
sisters to horrible outrages and indigni¬
ties, and forcing them to listen to lan
cruaire which is heard in, the brothel and
AN ARCTIC EXPLORER DEAD.
Suicide of Lieutenant Dnnenhower, of the
Arctic Exploring Party.
Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, of
Arctic fame, was discovered at 10 o’clock
Wednesday the morniDg dead in his quarters
at naval academy, Annapolis, Md.,
with a bullet hole in his right temple.
He was found lying on his rug in front
of the fire place with a tag tied to his
button hole, saying:
“Send to my brother at Washington.”
Although he has had mental trouble
since he returned from the Arctic regions,
what thought immediately have led to the suicide is,
to been the recent ground¬
ing of the Constellation on its way to
Norfolk, which he had charge of, and for
which it is supposed he had fear of being
courtmartialed. Furthermore, he was
veiy intimate with young Robert W.
Gatewood, who recently committed sui¬
cide on the Carolina, and whom he saw
in death: It is supposed that this death
suggested the mode to him. His wife,
formerly with Miss Sloan, of New York, is
away her parents. Lieutenant
Danenhower leaves two children. He
was about 35 years old and an intelligent
and polished officer;
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LATEST NEWS.
The Wabash railway roundhouse, at
Desmoines, la., containing fourteen en¬
gines, was burned recently!
Mrs. Hetty Green, a forty million
dollar New York widow, ii going to buy
the Baltimore Ohio railway.
Being refused a ten per cent, advance
in wages, about 1,600 window-glass
workers have quit work at Pittsburg, Pa.
Harry Gill, Michael Bohannan, Harry
Morrison, Daniel Finn and Eben Frances
were killed at Tunnel colliery at Ashland,
Pa., by a fall of coal.
The speculators who bought up trade
dollars made over a million dollars profit.
About $5,250,000 of this depreciated cur¬
rency has been redeemed at par.
A Central American confederacy with
a firm constitutional basis has been
formed. The treaty of peace and friend¬
ship which has just been made public,
will probably promote the welfare of all
the Central American republics.
Fred Reeves, one of the militiamen
guarding tho reservoir and state property
in Paulding county, Ohio, where the cit¬
izens have partially destroyed tho old
canal reservoir, accidentally shot and
killed himself while on guard duty.
Mr. Gladstone, in his speech at the
dinner given by the labor members of
Parliament, in London, Eng., declared
his entire disbelief in the accusations
made against the Irish leaders of being
concerned in tho Phoenix park massacre.
Customs officers throughout Great
Britain and Ireland have received string¬
ent orders to search all vessels arriving
from America, China and the east, tho
government having been warned that ex¬
plosives have been sent from San Fran¬
cisco to ports in the east to be transhipped
to England.
The cases of a number of druggists and
merchants charged with keeping open
their places of business, on Sunday, came
up for trial in Washington, D. C. Judge
Snell, on authority of Webster’s Diction¬
ary, held the words “Sabbath” and “Sun¬
day,” to be synonymous. A fine of
twenty dollars, or thirty days in tho
workhouse, was imposed in each case.
J. H. Burns, of Mansfield, Ill., a farm-*
er, employed three men to paint a barn.
They stood on a bracket scaffold twenty
feet from the ground. A calf running at
large with a rope around its neck man¬
aged to get the rope entangled in tho
•upports of the scaffold, pulling the posts
away, and two of the men were killed by
the fall.
The United States soldiers are evicting
white settlers from the Crow Indian res¬
ervation.
Ned Forrest, a well-known gambler of
San Francisco, Cal., has turned over a
new leaf and come out as an evangelist.
The Pennsylvania railroad has boycot¬
ted thirty-two Western railroads for not
complying with an agreement to abolish
commissions on through tickets.
Some of Buffalo Bill’s Indians, who
are now in London, Eng., raised the war
whoop the other night in Drury Lane
theater and created a stampede.
The great powers of Europe have de¬
clined to take part in France’s great ex¬
hibition of 1889, on the ground that the
affair is intended to celebrate the fateful
revolution of 1789.
Dr. A. J. Grant, the noted English
bigamist, died in the Cambridge, Mass.,
jail after an illness of several days. He
was awaiting trial for robbing and desert¬
ing a maiden lady named Torrcy, and
there were half a dozen other victims.
A papal allocution was submitted to
the council of cardinals at Rome recently
and will be pronounced at the coming
consistory. It refers to the peace made
with Prussia and the changes in the hi¬
erarchy of India. It has finally been ar¬
ranged that Msgr, Rampolla shall become
papal secretary of state.
The Pope has sent confidential notes to
the French and German governments of¬
fering to act as mediator in the Schnae
bles affair.
Copies of the French “Vie Parisienne”
have been confiscated in Berlin on ac¬
count of an illustrated article ridiculing
the German imperial family.
The silversmiths employed at the Gor¬
ham Manufacturing company works at
Providence, R. I., have voted to disband
the local assembly of Knights of Labor.
Arrangements are being made to
hold a mass meeting in Victoria park,
London, Eng., on May 21, to protest
against the crimes bill. Thirteen Irish
constables, who have recently recigned,
have sailed for America.
John W. Franklin, who ran for mayor
once on the labor ticket, summoned sev
oral member, of the Bricklayer.’ union ,
to the New York police court, charging
them with conspiring to -deprive him of
work and to prevent him from earning a
living.
A dispute has arisen between the Bel¬
gian government and the Vatican, which
threatens to lead to serious trouble. The
Belgian cabinet wanted the Vatican to
instruct Catholics to vote for the army
bill, which makes religious students liable
to military serrloe. The Vatican fatly
refeMd to do $q, : h ■