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The Jones County News. M. C. GREENE, Pub isher. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. JONES COUNTY GOVERNMENT. Judge Superior Court—.1. C. Hart. Solicitor General—H. G. Lewis. Senator—lion. W. H. Harrison. Repreientative—Hon. J . F. Anderson. Ordinary—R. T. Hom. Clerk Superior Court—AV. W. Barron. S heriff—R. N. Bthtdge. County TYeasurer—>F. M. Stewart. Tax Receiver—J. A, Chiles. County Surveyor—R. H. Bonner. Coroner—iR. B. Trapp. Judge County Court—>T. C. Barron. JURY COM'S.—AV. A. Card, J. M. Mid- dlehrooks, J. F. Barron, John Gresh¬ am, E. P. Morton. ■ COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION— J. D. AiK'hor*. Joe \V. Barron, J. R. Van Buran, S. A. Hodge, J, AV. Anderson. CHI'RCH DIRRCTORT. METHODIST. CLllNTON CTRCUIT—>R. A. Seals, pastor: Clinton—First Sunday at 11 a. ^ii.. and at niglit; Sunday school at J m., IV. H. Holsonhoek, Supt. ST. LUKE—'First Sunday, at .'{ p. ni. ROUND OAK—Second Sunday and Saturday before, at 11 a. m.. Sunday school at 10 a. m.; R, J . Smith. Supt. JAMES STATION—Third Sunday, at 11 am.. Sunday school at 3 p. m.; R. H. Kingman, Supt. HADDOCK STATION—Saturday be- *oro fourth Sunday, and fourth Sunday night., Sunday school at 3 pan.: W. M. Farrer, Supt. FORTVILLE- -Fourth Sunday, at 11 a Bonner, m., Sunday »chool at 10 a. m, R. H. Supt. BAPTIST. UNION HILL-Forth Sunday and Sat urday before ll a. m., T. H. Greer, pastor: E. Sunday school at 10 a. m., R. Hiitchin», Supt. NEM' SALEM - First Sunday and Saturday heforo at 11 a. m., E. AV. Sammons, pastor; Sunday school at 10 a. m., J. H. C. Ethridge, 'Supt. BLOUNTSVILLE— 1 Third Sunday ajid Saturday before at 11 a. m., E. AV. Sammons, pastor; Sunday school at 3 p. m.; R. T. Smith, Supt. ELMM—I'ourth Sunday and Saturday before at 11 a. m., E. AV. Sammons, paator. FOILV iMUHIIFRFD. A Citizen of New Turk Killed In New Orl'enn*. By Southern Associated Press. New Orleans, March 1.—The dead body of W. H. King, of Albton, New York, was ifemiid ing early this morning near the cross¬ of the Louisvillei and Nashville, on The Northeastern Railroad tracks. The remains were in about three feet of water and were face downward. A labor- cade ih,i discovery and notified Ihe police. Two officers were sent on a Inimical' to the spot where the body lav. IJxamiiiation disclosed three terrible gashes in the hack of the head, either one being sufficient to cause death. Upon turning the body over it was seen that there was another great gash in the fore¬ head just over the left eye. There was still another cut on the left side of the face just at the point of the jaw. The remains were placed on a stretcher and - carried with some difficulty, to the hand- car where thuy were placed. The body was brought to the city and transferred to the morgue at the Central station to be viewed by the coroner, 'there Is was identified by Mr. Lacosts, of No. 58 ltoyal street. Eacostc said that he had known king for about four years. He was employed by the Waterman Photo¬ graphers of Chicago and had frequently visited this city for the past few yaars. He had been continually here lor Ihe past year and a half. King was 32 years of age and has pa¬ rents residing at Albion, Now York. Rob¬ bery was evidontly the motive for the murder, as the pockets of Ihe deceased were found to be turned inside out. Fire In Wnrenboro. By Southern Associated Press. Savannah. On-. Mur-li, 1. A special lo the Morning Nows from Waresboro, 6a.. says:—Tlhiis moriiiiirg about 2 o’clock, a destructive tire occurred here, It was discovered in the grocery de¬ partment of the Wares boro Trading Uompany, from wtiiutl it spread. Tim principal losses are. The Trading < annipany $8,000, insurance $6,006; \V, ' Cannon $1,600, insiira.ii-e $ 600 ; M. • Spi-nee, $2,<8*0, with no insurance; r. -I. M. SpeiucY', $1,-5<Kl, no iusinraiiee. Chnuce* Swindling. By Southern Associated Press. London, Mareh, 1.—The Stanhud’s linjin-ial rejtorter wilj say: The chance* of sh.pit'cnts of gold to Ne-.v York are daily liecoming smaller. It the gold-buying syndicate crc.io* Bills in Ijoadon, in Neu York for the pnr- puse <>f keeping g"ld from ieaerng, the bills ('an be little el-"' tlicin drafts upon the gold bought or lujyabl» on tl is side by mean* of the loan. Grady IJuy. p, ytiiiillv'in Associated Press. Atlanta, Oa.. Mar 1 -h I.- There will be a Grady day at the Cotton States and International Ex p 'sition. President C ,>|li r will fix the date probably in Oettil'or. Mr. Grady was sponsor for the first Piedmont Exposition and de- vted hia whole time to it while it was underway. Rlclmrd O’Gorman Deail. New- York. March 1. - Richard O'Gor¬ man, the eminent Irish Nationaslt scholar and critic, died at in o'clock la i night a* his hom" in Brooklyn in Ihe 75th year of his age. Two years ago he had a se» vere fall and his death was the result. GRAY, JONFS COUNTY, GA ■i MARCH 7, 1895 MEN CRUSHED TO DEATH. \ CONDEMNED Ill'll .ding falls XX I’l'll A CIIVSII. dead ROIIies IIWE IIEI’.N REMUYFU FROM THE HI INS. The Men XX ere Engaged in I'nlling' llii- SlriK-Inrc llmin. tty South rn Yssoeiate t t ress. Now York. March, 1. -Shortly hel'ore 10 o'clock this morning the buildings at. Forty-third Strivt and Tenth A venue, kiim’ijn a« Hie old Mailt house, fell with a crush, carrying do»(n with i!t a dozen or'more men nit work uiioii il. All the workmen who were in the building ni I he time of the amohtaiit are nceouniteo for. It is now know In that 'three were killed, and thirteen injured, none seri¬ ously. The building, which was >a six story one, iwais luting torn down in order that four Hint houses might, be erected in ii'* place. The wjorkimen had taken down the tnvo 'tup floors and were at work palling down like fourth floor this morning and laid piled up a lot ot bricks on the floor vlliich the wheeCibar- row men were carrying away when, liutter the Heavy load, the iron beams supporting the floor broke, carrying the brick and iron rattlers, beams of wood and iron, and the dozen men at wlurk there down with it. Fire Alarm Seal 111. An alarm of tire was sent in and iu a few minutes a hook ami' ladder team and two engines wlere on the scene. After a few moments work rite firemen dug out a 'number of the unfontiinatt workmen who had lx-ien buried in the ruins and they were sent to the hospital. Tin 1 search for those who were more deepl.' buried, was continued and soon several men iwere taken out. Two ot them Were dead, which left little hope for those who were Will under the mass of bricks and iron girders. Several of those taken out had been badly crushed. Their legs and arms were broken and they were otherwise injured. 'Jtie list of the dead ’and 1 injured 1 , so far as known, is as follows: The Dead. ANGELO TKIUUORA, ail litiaHan, 668 Eleventh avenue. HI GH CULLEN, residem e uii'Uii'.nv'i. JOHN O’OONiNOR. a laborer 483, West Forty-"third Street, di'ed ill an ambulance on the wjay to Roosevelt Hospil'iti. The Injured. 1’AT RICK CURRAN, 40 ytfaa-s old, Ouk 1’oiiut. EDW ARD MEENEV, 30 years, 563 West Fortv-third street. MICHAEL GREELEY, 24 years old, No. 743 Tenth avenue. JOS. MALLOK, 26 years old, No. 743 Tenth avenue. IJ * I! 1S STERN, 22 years old, No- 226 Westt Sixtieth, stbreet. FELIX MORAN, 28 years old, No. 178 West Ninth, street. THOS. O'CONNOR, 27 yeans old, No. 533 West Forty-fourth, sitreeit. The llnilding Culideinned. Il is said ‘that the building, which w as owuied hy John M -Kelvey, was con i, ‘;ni,M'd by tlie depiaptmenit of building's nlboU't. Iwo yea is ago. George O'Keefe, the contractor who was tearing it down, said that, must, have been some rotton iron beam on the fourth floor which gave \ jay under the heavy load and caused the mufoi'tmva/te aiccident. '"It is said that l'orty-one men were ait work on the building when the floor gave way. Tile contractors, Cut risk Keegan and Geo. O’Keefe, who were tearing down the building, were arresited this after¬ noon and held oil the elvarge of man- sli lighter. RAILWAY SALKS. Mr. I ■■ >ii<i ■■ Sell* Two It ii i I roods To Hie Southern. By .Southern Associated Press. Atlnn'n, On., March 1. The Consti¬ tution publishes-.the-announcement of the sale of lib 1 Asheville -and Spartan; lluii'g. and n Iso of the Spartanburg, Union and Columbia railroads t-> the Southern Raitivuy 'Company .by Mr. Jidiii II. Imnun. of New York. Mr. Inman und hi * 1 family have for a long time owned controlling interest- in these roads. Tlie contract price Tails for the ■ immediate payin' lit of $2,000,000 iu se¬ curities '•(' llm Southern Railway Com¬ pany and also a large cash payment. The Southern Railway Company took pni-st ssioii of both of tiles" properties today. A Humane Measure. By Southern Associated Press. lamdon. March I.—In the House of Commons today lion, Secretary Asquith Introduced the Factories hill, which pro- an allotment of 20 cubic feet of space lo every person employed; pre¬ scribes that dangerous machinery shall he unclosed, forbids the exacting of over time, from persons under the age of 18, and reduces and limits the period of over¬ time for women. A Mneon, Georgia Firm Full*. By Southern Associated Press. Macon, Ua.» March 1. —Judge Harde¬ man, of the Superior errurt, has appointed a receiver for 8. Waxelbaurn & Sou., olio of tho largest wholesale drygoods houses ia the State of Georgia. J. AV- Cabiniss, cashier of the Exchange Bank, is t'he receiver. The application was inside ■by S. Waxelbaurn. the senior partner- as against his son. Joseph AV-axi Ibaiim. wh«i wanted the Ibustness to continue. AVaxel- tmum >N Son were burned out a short time ago, sustaining a complete loss of the stock on hand. The assets, includ¬ ing amount of settlement with insurance coiniKiities, are a Brut $350,000, liabilli- ties $210,0**0. Financial depression is cited as the cause for having a receiver appointed at this time. i REVIEW OK THE TRADE. A Resume of ImluMtrliil CmnliOtMi* for llir Week. By Southern Assoataiteil Press. New York. Mniroh 1.—-Brudlstivet’s to¬ morrow, March -ml. will say: White the course of geiuoral trade during the first two mouths of ithe current your Jims been disappointing, February ends and M until begin with tangible, though not ms yet suitisfmetory, signs of improvement. It, is encouraging tnuwte that gains are re¬ ported in the volume of trade at almost every Southern city, nowithstandIng ad¬ vices from Northern cities where* jobbers supply Southern and Southwestern mar¬ kets; that low prices for products had curtailed the purehasiiinig ability at the South and Southwest. At the West there is least encouragement, improvement being reported only from Ixmievilie* Chicago, St. Liouis and St. Paul. Mi'.dtrr weather has not favored the business sit¬ uation at the Northwest. The move¬ ment of phosphates is more active ait Charleston, and business is increasing at Nadi vide, although Southern coun try roads are heavy. The approaching in¬ ternational fair ait Atlanta resulted in the employment of more peoploand mer¬ chants are more hopeful. believing re¬ duced cotton acreage and increased cul¬ ture iu other lilies will benefit >tihe plan¬ ter tinancially. Savannah, Jacksonville and Birmingham report u moderately In¬ creased demand, as does New Orleans, the Mail'di Gras having drawn many visitors, mud the action of the Senate as to sugar bounties having stimulated bet¬ tor feeing. Weather ion litious iu Texas have also resulted in gain. Diiii'm Review. New York, March 1 U. C. Dim A Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: No gold sum ml, though ster¬ ling exchange has risen dose to the cx- jn irting point. ami it dots not yet appear than the syndicate ins made any effort to control the exchange market. Ism- don has soil about 10.* ml shares of stock during the week me I the market is distinctly lower for railroad shares, though a shade stronger for trusts. The stock market waits abjectly for Loudon, and foreigners show, time far, more dis¬ position to sell than to buy. Withdraw¬ als of goal by redemption of legal ten dens have not ceased, but since the clos¬ ing of the syndicate contracts have av¬ eraged about $ 120,000 per day. There is no essentia', change in the money mar¬ ket, though rates are somewhat higher. Agricultural Products. Agrieultural produrto are a shade high¬ er, but without any reason which looks to future operations. '.More people are idle in the great iudrstnos than were idle last week, but not lor reasons which distinctly affect the future. 'I’lie indus- trics make very .slow gains where they make any. Little is said of the stoppage of tile Edgar Thoimson Steel Works, though inany thousand hands Carnegie depend on its oipeiafion, because the Co. lias purchased .">0,000 tons of Bessemer pig at $.06 ao $10 at 11i<ttsburg, a price imlieating that the liiggist concern in Western Pennsylvania does not want to malke iron for less. At other markets pig iron Iras been <|uiotl, and elsewhere, as at Pittsburg, structural orders ac¬ count for a. large -share of tin' new busi- m*M reported, though activity ill wire, wire rials and baibed wire still continues. Bar iron and steel are tinner at Pitts¬ burg. lint without eliaugc in quotations, and on tlie whole the reduced consump¬ tion in Jit unary docs not seem to have more than matched the reduced produc¬ tion. Tlie Cotlim IommIh lliiikvt. The market for co|lon goods is fairly active and the demand improves in some grades, but Is on the whole decldely disappointing, though this week there has been no sensational l-edu itioe In prices. Undoubtedly the accumulation of goods continues and Is the most dan¬ gerous feature of the trade. Failure*. Thu failures for three weeks of Feb. have shown liabilities amounting to $8,- 523,028 against $11,420,418 for the same week last year, in manufacturing $2,557,- 050 against $5,045,847 last year, and in trading $5,260,330 against $6,281,693 last year. Failures for the weiek have beesn 250 in the United States against 261 last year, and in Canada 38 against 42 last year. Arrested For Setting Liquor. Aiken, S. C. March, 1.—(Speiial* Piat. Collins, white, a detect ive, from Holland's detective agency of Charles¬ ton, caused ei'ielidcra'ble exciteni‘MiI. on •the-street today. Colllius Inns been in Aiken for several days in the employ snf .the city, to run down “blind tigers,” and gambling. lie today, caused the arrest: of Mrs. HI:;i,.vS««-k, wife of .Ino. M- Blaylock, formerly of the Union Depot Saloon, of Augusta:, on the Charge of selling liquor. 'IMie case will lie heard tonion-ow morning by the mayor. What caused the chief excite- irteut, however, wias ,tihe -arrest of eight -ir ten coloredl men and boy* for gamb¬ ling. The negroes oil the street make tii re tlireals against Collins, but nothing probably will llie done by them. It is not U.sieved that any evidence can is- * found against .Mrs, Blaylock. POPULIST CALL. 14 I* Presumed Alubnin.-i Populist* Are Preparing for 1894 By Southern Associated Press. Birmingham, AJa.. March L—The fol lowing call has been issued by tihe Peo¬ ple's Party, the supposition being that its object 5s to formulate plan* for the campaign of 1896: Every member is earnestly requested to tie present, as questions of vital irn- poi lance wilti bo brought before the >tn- unt-l ee. Th- Candida Ies f<>r tin- z- ate ticket ;ir>- also invited (o attend hi* meeting. I Signed. I V. S. M. ADAMS, Chairman Exeoutimie Committee. T. M. POWELL. Secretary. At the request, of a. mucus of the Popu¬ list members of the I*;gi*]a,t ore held at Montgomery on the 16th tost., I hereby call a meeting of -the State Executive Committee of tlie People's Party at Birmingham, March 1.2, 1806, at 11 o’clock a. m., in the parlors of the Opera House Hotel. HEADLONG INTO A COAL CAR. AIV EXPRESS CAR MEETS AY Oll- S’l ltlX TIOX H.NOIXEEH VXIl ASSISTANT FIRE¬ MAN KILLED 1\ THE XX KECK A Number of Passenger* tlnxc it Narrow Enciiim-. By Southern Associated Press. Non York, Maivh I. The 6 o'clock express of the Royal Blue Line (New York and W’aMluiiiatim ever Jeisey (Vn- trail. I’biliidel'pliia and Reading, and Bal¬ timore and Ohio!, was wrecked while passing through Bayonne at 6:61* llii* evening. At leas! 611 paseeiiigel's had a muai’iiloiis escape. The dead are: WILLIAM TllOMAiS, of Philadel¬ phia, engineer. WiXIFIELD IIDI,LAND, of Philadel¬ phia. axsietant fireman. Nolr h h \va>s norhnisilyi iinjun'd ami only three trainmen slightly. An a>vi- rlenl In a coal Iratn had'hloiked tin- tracks .in.si a) the ‘iitoment Ihe expre*.- train e.amit> uiong, amd Ihe heavy train plunged into a loadedl couli ear at fall speeil. The passt'iiger eiigini' wa* re¬ duced to 'scrap iron. The baggage ear wa* telt sei >|h i] and ii I h-rly drmo!i.died . A portion <>l ije roof now rests on top of the coal Iraiin. The smoking ear left the railis ami slid over Ili<- top of lln- tender. Tile day e>ach and lilt' sleeper left lie- track Inn remained on Ihe ground. XX reekiqge on Fire. The wreak 1 .1 ugh I tire from tin- en¬ gine and the Bayonne lire department was summoned to the si'enc. Tliey put out tlie tire and assisted, tlie raiinoad nmn in removing the wreck. AVilliain Thoma*, flu- engineer, sI nek to his post, lie was taken out and laid on tie' hank, where lie died. His leg* were broken and he wa* injured in¬ ternally. El 11 1 ni.in < lireII was taken out and carried to Ihe -19th street sta¬ tion: an ambulance surgeon attended to hi* wounds and lie win* taken to the Bayonne hospital. He :i,s badly bruised, built not fa'laily injured. Baggage Mas¬ ter Geonge Hopkin* d|oes not know how lie got mil of lit* car. Nothing remaintsl of the the sMi- hut a pont'iim of the roof. Frank Applegate, a passenger in the cmioktT. was slightly injured, lie pro- cei'de'l on Ir* journey later tonight. The body of Winfield HcUfUid’ was taken from lie- wreak after the tire had been extinguished. THE MEXICAN WRECK. Sixty People Killed In tlie Inter- Oeeonle Hnilmiy UlMiiHter. By Southern Associated Press. lOity of Mexico, March 1.—A wreck¬ ing train arrived here early tills morn¬ ing from the scene of yesterday's ac¬ cident on tile Inter-Oceanic Railway. It brought 40 persons who had been in¬ jured in the crash and the derailed care witli Francis Crosson and two other surgeons, who were sent out yesterday afternoon soon after the new* of the dliba*ter wati received here. 'Many persons were left dead on the spot where the train left the track. Others were on the point of death and of (hose brought hack, one or two ca'Miofc possi¬ bly recover. The crew of Ihe wrecking train told the first story of the accident. The train consisted of tea coaches. It was chartered 1 to Pilgrims from Amecamcca and the engineer was under orders to run carefully. It wa* filled with pil¬ grims—many of them women ami child¬ ren . At the city station shortly before \ (/dock, nlsml 28 utiles from the capital, and midway between Tamella and Ten- ango there i* a sleep down grade and a sharp curve. The engineer took the grade and curve without slowing vud the engine jumped ihe track. The engine and tendet brook* loose from tint coaches and (polled down tlie embankment. The coaches ran off about 50 yards furthei on. The rear coaches crashed down against tlie engine and tender and trestle and vi(enl to pieces at. the foot of the embankment. Five coaches were smashed so as to he little more Ilian pile* of splintered boards and holts and 1 avis ted iron, .Scal'lemd among the wreck were human bodies. When the doetoris arrived with a wrecking train they found the bodies of siixty pi'ligrim* near the tvreilk, amd five more had nol been taken from lire ruins beiatiKe then- wa* no way of cutting them loose. The live wfer-r neNcued. the ihx'tors worked for ii.'.‘ hour* to get the injured into eoncMtioni to make tie' journey back All the doctors agree Ilia: 'tie- seeie-s n,( tie- wreck and tile c*a(hes ihliring if.- retin ii Inune were 11 )-‘ most pitulde ill their experie'P'e. Th- wrecking train arrive J at the scene wliere the wlrcdk oiourreii a: 1 o'Hm-k. anil ii did not, stand back until nearly midnignt. All the plkgiiiii* vvei’e Mexican* The engineer and conductor of the train are Hlipposed to have e*ea|*'d. serious in¬ jury and they have tted. Sixty-five persons were hilled and 40 injured. The dead list is likely to be increased, a* several pm-wenger* who were brought ba'dv In the wrecking train are expected to die within 24 hours. llroke HI* Neck. Statesboro, 6 ( 1 ., Maivh 1. lS|*< i,d. I Mr. Fred Worth got rid of one of hi* tine horses u'lisaitiMunitory ycsterdisiy in a ratlier peeidiar mild, way. His 4*»y, George, was -in tin- horse's I>.i>*k to ride him out for a few minute* exercise, when tii- aniiral, I* ing very spirited, reared up and fi ll over backward, br-nk- ing his neck. Tlie rider wa* Hie same I*>y who cm me is, near being killed last week by by rum way horses, and saved himself this time only by sliding off an t getting out of tihe way before the home f-M bn-k. Mr. YY’ortli held the animal at alxnit $160, and was expect¬ ing to trade him off yesterday evening. A MURDERER PAYS THE PENALTY THE SLA l EH OF FAItHF.lt LEIGH EVI'IATES HIS PRIME. THE EXEPtTlOX WAS XXITXESNKI* BY THOUSAND*. Tlie Hurilereil Hun XX it* u Ho*4 I'roN- lierou* I’lnuter Atlanta, (lit., March 1. (Sp<*‘iul.) Joe Dean, the negro murderer of Farmer A. L. 1 avigh. of Oannipliell county, paid the penalty of his crime on- tlie scaffold to day. The exeoufioui occuiTcd at Fairborn, the county seat, of Onimpflvcll enmity, in the presence of six or seven t'hbiiHivnd people. .history the Few hangings in the ol State have been of a more «eusat.iomil character. The first attempt to perform the executiiou made a. t hrill of horror run through the immenBo crowd of «pec- ta-tars. When tlie trap was sinning the negro's weight snapped the rope in two. and he fell to the ground unconscious, but still alive. lie was 'pickol up Iby Sheriff Camp and hi* assistant* and placed upon the scaffold a, second time, amid a second time swung off at the end of the moose before his neck was broken. People began to arrive in Fnirbiirni II*-- fere dawn today, conning in vehicles from aill parts of the .surrounding coun¬ try. Tto* scaffold was erected mwv the jail inside of a fenced enclosure. The crowd would not consent to ‘being deprived of a full view of the honging and the fence was 'torn down long before Doan mount- ed 'the scaffold Dean made a speech jin the court house ibeflore being taken to the scaffold. He haraimgued 'the crowd onii the ’forgiveness and mercy of God* and declared limit he was perfectly willing to hang for the crime lie had (Manumitted. He described in dotiai 1 ] the killing of Mr. Leigh, who was tine Hve»t friend he had ever had. But he said he was seized with a craving for money and 'to get. i't he eomimllbnl the murder. The derails of t he imurder, which occurred last eunmmer, are famdiur Do the reading public. tMr. Detigih, who was one of t lie most pros}>erous fa rimers of Gajnq»lbe<lil <m minty, was called to his door one lifighit hy Dean, who worked on the place. Dean said one of 'the other tenants was sick and wanted Mr. Leigli ixj go to him. When tho old gentleman reached tiro spring in a clump of bushes, a few hundred) yards from the house, Dean sprang upon him and crushed kite head vvii'th a boulder, lie then returned to the house for the purpose of robbing it* ‘but Miss Tjcigli, the daughter of the murdered man, hav¬ ing her suspicions aroused by his acthwrs drove hiiim off at the muzzle of a shotgun. The country was scoured by parties of citizens for several days, when the murder, became known, limit it was not nut ill a week later Iha.n Doan was ctup- l/ured near Tallapoosa. He confessed, amxl to prevent him from 'being: lynched, lue was placed in i'hjltiom couinty jail and kofft hen*, untii yesterday evening, when he was 'taken to EaiTbum by Sheriff Camp to be hanged today. II. F. West, of Atlanta, has been appointed assistant commissionary gen¬ eral of the Stab* troops with the rank of lieutenant: colonel. Mr. Went is tin* son of Col. A. .1. West, postmaster general. He is thoroughly competent for the office and will bo a valuable aid to Com missionary General Battle, of Columbus, largely upon whoso recom¬ mendation the appointment was made. The newspaper publication* regarding the visit of Biehop Becker of the diocese of Savannah to 'Home, to sec* tin* pope*, have called forth a statement from Father B. Kelley, vicar general of this parish. Father Kelley takes a foremost posi¬ tion in the affairs of the Oatholc Church in the State, and hs statement regard¬ ing Biidiop Becker will be read with general interest, in view of the publica¬ tion to which it. refers. Father Keiley gays: “Bishop Becker lias gone to Rome simply tand solely IsM-ause every bishop in tho United Btatco is bound Vyy law to visit. Rome and render an account of his diocese, every ten years. The bishop has been to Romo before while he was bishop of Wilmington, Del. If is not the opin¬ ion of a large number of the clergy that a new province- will he created out. ot tin* province of Baltimore. Even it this was contemplated no new diocese could la* created in Georgia. “■Bishop Becker is not, and never was, a rival to the cardinal. I am honored by the intimate fricnduluip of both 1 these gentlemen and I know whereof 1 spea k. ‘"Bishop Becker did not become a •Catholic in Rome. He was received into the church by Rev. Joseph Plun- ke't at Martinsiburg, who died while pastor of Portsmouth, Va . Bishop Beekqr d'id not. attend) the Vatican council, bccnuee only recently appont* ed and to -a new diocese he did not w r ish to leave his work- He did not have charge of the religious services I wlmt'ver that mny mean in Baltl more during the rbnence of Archbishop j SuiildiriK, hut Kind ]v offlriatl'd on<-* oi- ! i„ t |„«„ of a bishop were required. , “Bishop Oihhott* was nol in Rich j mond a*»i«tii>K Bishop McGill when Archbishop Spald died. Bichop Gibbons was sent to Richmond u* suc- censor 10 Bishop McGill after the lat¬ ter'* decth. It was at the suggestion of Bishop Becker that Bishop Gibbons S VOL. 1. NO. 9. was transferred to Richmond a* locum tenens until n successor was selected. The fact of Rev. Fr. Honchy leaving the Jesuit* and entering the secular priesthood did not cause, occasion ot precipitate a trouble ln'lwoou Bishop Becker and the Jesuit*. There was * question I vet ween Bishop Becker ami llie Jsuitx which was referred to Rom* and decided by (lie propaganda, ami Flit her llenrliy Imd nothing to do witli it. Having had no war, Bishop Becker did not have to make pence with the | Jesuit*, whom lie always esteemed highly, as all right, thinking and unpre- judved men do. He gave the Jesuits the college and pa nil at Macon for other reasons. THE HEAVENS FOR MARCH. On Hn* 2UIli, at I o’clock in the after¬ noon, (lie «un will arrive at the vernal equinox and the days and nights then will he of equal length. On the 10th a total eclipse of iiu* moon will occur, visi¬ ble throughout the country In meridian time as follows: 11. M. S. Eclipse begins ........... ..... C 3 68 42 p. m. Total Eel Ipso........ ..... — - ol 30 p. in. Middle of Eclipse ...... o 30 18 p. in. Total Ends .............. ..... 27 00 p. m. Eclipse Ends .......... ..... 0 24 48 a. in. 'I’he first contact will ouccur on the moon’s eastern limb 120 degrees from the north point, and the Iasi contact on the western limb 0!) degrees from the north point of tlni moon. The full moon will be totally obscured when high in the heav¬ ens, and altogether the pheomenon will bo totally obscured when high in the heavens, a rare, and Interesting one. Every one should make It a point, to wit¬ ness il. On the 28th there will be a partial eclipse of the sun, visible in the North Atlantic. It will not lie. visible in the South. Mercury. This shy planet has Just passed Us In¬ i’. »rior conjunction, and c-n the 24th it will attain its greatest western elongatlm, at which time it may be seen as morning star Just ahead of the sun at daybreak. On tUn 23d the moon will pass within one third of a degree of Mercury, but the cond- junction will take place in the evening when the planet is invisible to us. Venue. Venus Is now rapidly taking her place as queen of the evening sky, and low in the west Just alter sunset her resplen* d nl beams may bo seen struggling with the dense atmosphere near the horizion. Jts altitude and brilliancy will continue to increase every evening for several months, during which time it will he the most prominent object in the western heavens. The telescope shows Venus now to have a crescent shape, Indeed, this planet undergoes all the phases of the moon in its journey around the sun. On the evening of tin* 28th, the neiw moon will make a pretty conjunction with Venus, passing about four degress to the nor! li¬ Marx. If the observer will turn his eyes to the Pleiades or Seven Stars nigh up in the south at dark, and a little past the meridian, he will see a bright red star about two degrees to the southeast of this group which Is slowly changing its posi¬ tion from night to night. This red star is the planet Mars, which not many months ago was attracting so much ot- tonlion among astronomers on account of its near approach to the earth at that time. It Is now much farther away from us, and is still receding. The planet Neptune is also very near the same group about three degrees distant from Mars, but Invisible as It always Is to the naked eye The red star to the east Is Aide- bara.ii in Taurus. Jupiter. Jupiter crosses tho meridian at seven o'clock, and is by far the most conspicu¬ ous object in that part of the heavens. The only other star that rivals It Is fchrlus, or the Dog Star, farther to the south. Jupiter Is now In the constellation Tau¬ rus and in a, splendid position for obser¬ vation. The telescope always reveals beauty and Interest when turned upon this gigantic world. More than thirteen hundred times as large as our earth, It swings majestically in space with its live moons revolving around it in even vary¬ ing positions. The discovery of these moons, it will be remembered, was the first triumph of the telescope, and the po¬ tent witness that, swept from the human mind the fallacious doctrine of Ptolemy. Dttturn ami IlrniuiN, Both' those* planets are In the constel¬ lation Libra, now nearly on tho opposite side of the sun from us. Their great, dis¬ tances' from us now prevents a satisfac¬ tory observation of them for several weeks yet. The OoiMhdlutloiiN und Fixed Slam Almost directly overhead and a. little to the north Js Auriga, with the bright star ('a pel la. Near by is a small trl- angle of tiny stars called the Kids. .High up in tho northeast is Gemini with the two large stars Gastor and Pollux. The first of these Is a beautiful double. About twenty degrees to the west of Capella is the wonderful variable Algol, which Is regularly eclipsed by a dark companion. On the meridian In the south Is the con¬ stellation Orion, the richest quarter of the sky for the teloscoiM*. The three stars in a lino are called the Belt,and be- cause they form a line nearly throe do¬ grees long it is some times called the as- tronomer’s Yard Stick. It is a convenient, approximate standard of measure in osti¬ um ting distances between the stars. Just below the Belt are three other faint stars, the central one of which Is the nucleus of the celebrated nebula In Orion just considered the greatest marvel In the heavens. A telescope will reveal its faint nebulosity extending over an enormous area. The largo bright star east of Orion Is Sirius, or the Dog Star, so celebrated In Egyptian history. It is by far the bright- *•«(. of the fixed stars, and Its size has been estimated to be one thousand times o ul ' H,jn - The ancients de- scribed It. as n red star; Its color Is now distinctly whtto. II has a small compan¬ ion revolving around It about 9 years at a distance 28 times tho sun’s distance from the earth, and yet ho near Sirius does II appear, that only the largest tele¬ scopes can seperate the two. .Sirius Is receding from us at the rate of twenty miles per second, and it requires seven¬ teen years for Its light to reach us. OTIS ASHMORE.