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■Si “A he Jones County News
M. 0. GREENF. PUBLISHER.
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WE HAVE NOW COMPLETED ARRANGE¬
MENTS FOR A SALE OF POPULAR GOODS
AT PRICES WHICH WILL MAKE US THE
i We keep the boat Qinlities, Stylos and Assortment in
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MATTING AND mi GOODS
— AT—
SPECIAL PRICES
This season. See onr lino r.t S9c, $1.24, $1.49, $1.74, $1.99, it will pay you.
Just received a full lino of new White Duck aud Percales.
See tie Steel. Cash bought it -Low
Flies will sell it.
Our specialty— To please onr cu stemers.
Our aim—To save money for our patrons.
Our intention—To do butter by you than anyone else.
Stand up and toll u<, if y< u can, where goods can bo bought cheaper,
Tr none are allowed to undersell
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MIIjIiE GtjA-
B@“B. F. Tinuey and C, A. ( I'obn) Jones, formerly of Putnam, are with this
house, and will be glad to see their friends.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Jones County Cove nment.
Judge Superior Court—J. C. Hart
Solicitor Ueat-ral—H. G. Lewis.
Senator—Hon. W. II. Harrison.
Represent a ive—Hon. J. F. Ander-
sou.
Ordinaty—R. T. Ross. W.
Clerk Superior Court—W. B ir-
ron.
Sheriff—R. N. ElbriiLn.
County Treasurer—F. M Stewart.
Tax Receiver—J. A. Chiles’.
County Surveyor—R. II. Bonner.
Coroner—li. B. Trapp.
Ju Ige County Court—J. O. Barron.
Jury Commissioners— W. A. Card,
J. M. Middlebrookf, J. F. Bairoo,
John Grcsharu, E. P. Morion.
^^Iounty Board of Education—D.
^Hhors, S. Joe Hodge, W. Barron, J. W. Anderson. J. B. Van
A.
County School Commission: r—A.
H. S. McKay. P. O., Plentitnd-*.
County Commissioners — AY. F.
White. J. T. Speights, E. T. Morton,
H. T. Moore, John T. Glover.
Mile Georp & Atlantic R R.
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p;i W. PRESTON. General Manager.
A Town Burned Out.
The town of Big Stone Gap,Va., six-
\iy-five miles from Bristol, Tenn., short- was
Vnost totally destroyed by fire The
fifter midnight Friday night.
1 will be about $30,000, while the
.iterance is only about $6,000. . Ihe
originated in the Valley hotel.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Reports as to industrial conditions all over
llie south for the past week show that thinness
in maintaining prices, with prospect of farther
advances in values of southern products is in¬
dicated. The lumber industry iB selling its
output at better prices than have ruled hereto¬
fore, and if producers work together especially it seems
ns if the market will be maintained, manufact¬
ns lumber lias not bfton profitable advance to began,
urers thereof until the recent
Continued hot weather ia injuring the cotton
crop—planners are firm m their determination
t o sell their cotton at higher prices. The south is
in better condition to hold its crops for satis¬
factory prices than ever before. Iron and
i.nal are unchanged with an upward tendency.
poria from the furnace operators shows that
the demand for southern iron is sufficient to
take the entire ou put from week to week, and
that orders ahead continue to le plentiful. bu
Southern roll dr mills aro doing a lar^re of 1 -
ness. manufacturers of iron pipe better and than agn-
tvultnral implement are doing ever
before, and with the adjustment of fi eight
rates, the prospects for the future are #ood.
Among important new industries established
Or iucorporated during the week is a 150,000
lumber company at Ogamaw, Ark., one witJJ
$40,000 capital at Hitchcock, Va., a $10,000
lumber company at Texarkana, Ark., and a
$40 000 ice and cold storage company at Fort
Bmith, Ark. New cotton mills for the week
including a mill of 15,000 spindles at LaGrange
Ga., one a* Elizabethton, Tenn.,a cotton thread
mill at Charleston, S. C., and a cotton rope
mill at Selma, Ala. Brick works are reported
at. Donaldsonville, La., canning factoriei at
Aberdeen, Miss., and Alta Loma, Texas, an
electrical plant at Shreyeport, La., and n ui ing
mills at Maytown, Fla. and acapon, W. va.
Glass works to employ 235 operatives machine are shop ve-
ported at Huntington, W. V., a Shreve¬
at Crowley, La., a stove foundry at Soap
port, La., and a rice mill at Fenton, La.
works and a starch mill are to be built at Lit¬
tle Hock. Ark., and water works at Birming¬
ham, Ala., and Greenup, Ky. Woodworking
plants are reported at Piedmont, Ala., Oran-
dall and Pensacola, Fla.. Derby and Lacey,
Miss., Itasca. Texa«, and Emporia, Va. Among
the enlargements for the week reported the aie Star an
electrical plant at Emporia, Va., $€0,000
thread mills at Atlanta, Ga., adding
to their capital, an increase of $30,000 to tho r
capbal of tbe electrical plant and water works
at Sherman, Texas, and a planing mill at Rus¬
sellville, Ky.—-T badesman (Cbattanoga.Tonn.)
PASTEUR IS DEAD.
The Discoverer of the Treatment of
Rabies Dies in Paris.
A Paris special says: Professor
Louis Pasteur, the distinguished chem¬
ist and discoverer of the Pasteur treat¬
ment for the cure of rabies, is dead.
He expired Saturday afternoon at his
residence at Garches, near St. Cloud.
His death was caused by paralysis.
China Paying the Indemnity.
A special from Shanghai says (hat
50,000,000 taels in silver has been de¬
posited at Shanghai by the Chinese
government with which to pay the
supplementary indemnity required hy
Japan as a ernsideration for the evac
nation of the Liao Tung peninsula.
GRAY. JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 181)5.
ERIN’S WRONGS
STIRRING THE PATRIOTISM OF
IRIS tl-AMK RICANS.
They Declure That Force Must be
Used to Gain Independence.
Thursday’s session of the Irish “new
movement” at Chicago was generally
regarded as the most important of all.
The principal business on the program
was the consul-ration of the platform,
submitted by the committee on resolu¬
tions and the report of the committee
on ways and means for national organ¬
ization.
Birth was given to an organization
which has for its object tlio independ¬
ence of Ireland as a republic by a pol¬
icy of physical force. The ashes of
tho Fenian Brotherhood are rekindled;
the Natioual League, with its trust in
legislatures and its reliance upon par¬
liaments and enactments, is buried
from sight; and in its place rises the
Irish National Alliance of the world.
Incidentally, too, the Irish parliament
party across the Atlantic is repudiated
and henceforward will be deprived of
the abundant revenues that have been
contributed from this country for its
maintenance and support.
“The new 1 movement of the organ¬
ization shall be known by the style
and title of tho Irish National Alliance.
It shall have for its object the secur¬
ing the independence of Ireland by
any means within its power consistent
with the laws and usages of civilized
nations.
The Platform Adopted.
The report of the committee on
platform and resolutions was presented
by O’Neill Ryan, of St. Louis, and
was unanimously adopted amid great
cheering. It read thus:
“The people of Ireland are a sover¬
eign people. Ireland is by nature sep¬
arate from every other country, and
liberty is tho birthright of her people.
Ireland was known throughout Europe
as a notion long before tho dawn of
Christianity and was the home of civ¬
ilization, while England was still bar¬
barous.
“England’s claims to authority in
Ireland originated in force and have
been maintained by corruption and
coercion; they havo never ripened into
a right to rule; the title to Ilia con¬
quest has never been perfected inns
much as the Irish people have contin¬
ually, by constitutional agitation oi
revolutionary movement, resisted Eng¬
land’s power and endeavored to de¬
stroy ber unlawful supremacy.
“Ireland is deprived of almost every
civil right which the American people
most dearly cheerish. Unexampled
cruelty and brutal vindictiveness have
been the distinguishing features o!
England’s rule in Irelund. England
has destroyed Ireland’s industries and
ruined her commerce; she has placed
upon her statute books laws making it
a crime to educate an Irish child ; she
burned Ireland’s schoolhouses and de¬
stroyed her churches; she has driven in¬
to exile, or left to perish in her dungeons
thousands of men whose only crime
was love of Ireland. Every measure
for the last century looking toward
legislative independence of tho Irish
people has eithor suffered defeut iu the
commons or been arbitrarily rejected
by tho lords. England lias violated
every treaty and broken every pledge
and with almost every year of the cen¬
tury she has imposed upon Ireland
brutal laws of coercion and one of the
most drastic character is now upon liec
statute books.
“One of the pleas of the people for
justice and their prayers for mercy,
England has responded to with Ilia
scourge and the scaffold, aud yet today,
Ireland enthralled but not enslaved,
crushed but not conqured, is in spirit
a nation.
“It has become evident after many
years of earnest endeavor to obtain a
measure of independence from the En¬
glish government by peaceful ag¬
itation, that appeals to reason for
justice are futile. It is loft, there¬
fore, for the men of the Irish race
to proclaim again the truth recorded
by all histories that the liberties of a
people and tho independence of a nn-
tion cannot be achieved by debate, but
must be won upon the field of battle,
and we declare our belief that the men
of Ireland who are being driven into
exile, or into the graves of serfs in
their native land by English roisgov-
ernment are entitled by the laws of
God and man to use every means iu
their power to drive from their country
the tyrant and usurper, and we believe
that Ireland has the right to make
England’s difficulty her opportunity
and to use all possible means to create
that difficulty.
“In view of these facts, the mem¬
bers of this convention appeal with
confidence to their American fellow cit¬
izens and all lovers of liberty toco-op-
crate with them in aiding the people
of Ireland in the achievement of the
same nuasuro of liberty enjoyed in
these United States.
“Resolved, That we earnestly pro¬
test against the continued incarcera¬
tion in English prisons of Irish patri-
ots. That we consider it inhuman and
against the policy of all civilized na-
tions to keep in prison men who have
acted only in the interest of their
country, and Lnman liberty; and that
the release of these men is imperative¬
ly demanded, not only by the Irish
people, but by civilization.
“Resolved, That this convention ex¬
presses L the hope that the people of
Cuba, . who , are struggling for political
independence and tho establishment
of a repulilic, will be successful, and
that we extend to them onr heartfelt
sympathy "
“Revived, That this convention,
recognizing the importance to the
Irish nation of preserving the lan-
gunge, literature and inusio of tin
people, commends tho work now bo
ing done by the Gaelic League, and
tho National Literary Society in Ire¬
land, and by the Gaelic sooictios of
this country, and itarnestly trust our
people will givo them hearty oo-opera-
tion aud generous support.
“Resolved, That this convention
recommend the formation of military
companies wherever practicable in or¬
der to foster and proserve the military
of the Irish race, and to bo prepared
for notion in tho hour of England’s
difficulty.
Officers Elected.
Nominations for officers and the ox
ecutivo council were next in order.
Chairman Finuerty declined to be
considered ns a candidate for presi
nont, and William Lyman, of New
Y’ork, at one timo treasurer of the
Irish National League, was nominat¬
ed and elected by acclamation. O’Neill
Ryan, of St. Louis was selected as vice
president and State Senator P. V.
Fitzpatrick, of Chicago, as treasurer.
Tho executive council was constituted
as follows: J. J. Donovan, Massa¬
chusetts; Chris Gallagher, Minnesota;
Martin Kelley, Tennessee; Captain
Mungau, WisconsinJ. Sheeby, Cali
fornia;J. M. Kennedy, Montana; T.
J. Dunden, Ohio;J. S. Lawler, Texas;
Thomas H. Greevy, Pennsylvania.
When the officers-elcct were intro¬
duced, President Lyman promised
that he would start the “work” forth¬
with, and Vice President Ryan de¬
clared that before many months the
organization would be planted in the
heart of Loudon itself. Then tho del¬
egates rose to their feet aud sang “My
Country, ’Tisof Thee” and “God Save
Ireland.” At C o’clock p. m. the con¬
vention adjourned sine die.
WANT THEIR BEER.
Open Sunday New Yorkers Havo a
Big Parade.
Fully 20,000 of New York citizens,
who proclaim themselves lovers of
liberty and against the enforcement
of excise laws on Sunday, joined iu a
parade Wednesday evening with brass
bauds and American Hags, aud with
floats showing liberty in mourning,
and a workman in the hands of the
police for drinking beer on Sunday, liis
while the millionaire tipples in
club.
The platform was crowded with
leaders of the liberal Sunday law
movement, including Dr. Auderson,
president of the German-American
Reform Union ; Excise commissioner
Ilurburger, James P. Keating and a
score or moro of brew Li s.
The head o f the procession passed
the reviewing stand and Commissioner
Roosevelt stood with bread and re¬
viewed the paraders. He received a
hearty reception and was almost in¬
stantly recognized by the men in the
lino. He was frequently npplaudtd.
A number of banners carried by tho
paraders made caustic allusions to him
and he laughed heartily at them.
Some of the devices on the banners
read: “We don’t drink strong tea
“Home rule for New York;” “Wo
prize personal liberty;” “Away with
hypocricy and reform;” “Roosevelt-
ism is a farce and a humbug.”
At the end of tho lino of inarch the
paraders adjourned toSulzer’s Harlem
river park, where they listened to
speeches in favor of more liberal Sun¬
day law-s.
The demonstration was under the
supervision of the United Societies for
Sunday laws. Early in last July tho
board of directors of tho United Soci¬
eties met and selected September 25th
as the day when they would hold a
great outdoor demonstration to show
New York how many people want more
liberty on Sunday,
THEIR DOORS OPENED
To Union Men, lint They Mill Not
Sign the Amalgamated Scale.
The mill of the Oliver Iron and Steel
Company at Pittsburg, Pa., is declared
open to union men. This action, which
is satisfactory, to the company and tho
men, has beeu taken by the Amalga-
mated Association lodge at tliat mill,
When I). B. Oliver refused to recog-
nize the Amalgamated Association or
to sign its scale a strike was declared.
The mill has been successfully operat-
ed, however, and without union rules.
During the past year a lodge was
formed in the mill without objection
from the company. Many urgent re-
quests have been made to the national
officers to declare the mill open so that
union men could go to work. Union
wages havo been paid by the company
which has not, and likely will not,
sign the amalgamated wage scale.
Many former employes will now re¬
turn, but no skilled worker will be re-
moved to make place for the men who
have beeu on a strike for two years.
GOV. WOODBURY EXPLAINS.
Says He Was misquoted in Ills Chat¬
tanooga Speech.
Governor Urban A. Woodbury, of
Vermont, whose speech at Chaltanooga
as reported by several special corres¬
pondents has caused so much comment
says the paragraph in question was
misquoted. According to tbe governor
it should have read : “There is not in
my section of country the least bitter
or unkind feeliug toward tho people of
the south. We are willing to believe
that you thought you were right at the
timo, but we cannot do otherwise
than teach our children that you were
wrong. ”
Miners Refused - _ to . Come Out. .
Ttje miners’ , union at . Ishpeming, T ,
Mich., ordered the pump men, fire-
“en and orner union employes on-
gaged “t section 24 mine of the Lake
Superior company to come out, but
the men say the order is a ridiculous
OBe stick to their posts.
WASHINGTON NOTES
GOSSIP OFTHK CAPITAL IN BUI KIP
PARAGRAPHS.
Doings of the Chiefs un<l Heads of the
Vurlous Departments.
A rumor has beeu abroad in Wash¬
ington for several days to tho off-iot
thnt President Cleveland would in his
speech at the Atlanta exposition, on
October 21st, tnke occasion to deliver
a “solemn utterance’’ agiinst the third-
term.
A dispatch received at the state de¬
partment from Minister Denby Satur¬
day shows that good progress lias been
made in the matter of the investigation
of the Cheng-Tu riots, and that tho
Chinese officials have decided tho nec¬
essary assistance to be given the Amer¬
ican cammissioners.
All tho heavy expenditures of the
treasury for this month havo been
paid aud now for the first timo tho
figures show a slight excess of receipts
for the month. The excess is only
$112,744, but it is expected that by
October 1st tho excess will reach $2,-
500,000 aud the deficit for tho present
fiscal year, which is now $13,000,000,
will be reduced to $10,500,000.
The attorney general has sent addi¬
tional instructions to tho district at¬
torney of Wyoming, based on infor¬
mation furnished by the Indian office,
which will probnbly enable tho United
States officials to commence prosecu¬
tions against the whites responsible for
tho attacks upon tho Bannock Indians.
It is thought by the Indian office that
tho new material furnished the depart¬
ment of justice will result in bringing
to justice tho men responsible for the
recent trouble at Jackson’s Hole.
The Ransom case is settled. Actiug
Comptroller Bowers, of the treasury,
has signed the warrant for $525, drawn
by tho state department in favor of M.
W. Ransom, United States minister to
Alexico, aud tho warrant has boen for¬
warded to Minister Ransom. Auditor
Holcomb, of the treasury, originally
held up the warrant ou the ground that
Mr. Ransom had not been confirmed
by the senate, and, therefore, could
not be paid. Secretary Carlisle over¬
ruled the auditor. Acting Comptroller
Bowers sustained tho secretary. Under
this decision Miuister Ransom will
draw his fall salary from the time of
his second appointment.
An Important Decision.
Secretary Smith has rendered an
important decision regarding railroad
right of way. Tho road affected is tho
Montana Railway Company, This
company applied for right of way over
public lauds under tho act of 1890,
making such grants; this act provided
that the road should be completed
within five years after tho map of tho
location was tiled. The company did
not complete its road in that timo
hut subsequently offered new maps of
location.
Tho commissioner of the general
land office reoommeuds that tho maps
be not approved because tho road was
not completed within live years aftor
the first map of location was tiled. The
secretary says there is no reason why
the company should be denied the
right to file a new map of location
even after the expiration of tho five
years, the new map to operate upon
such lands as are free from claim. Ho
therefore approves the new maps for
the Montana Railway Company.
Pension Roll Increases.
A year ago Commissioner of Peusious
Locbren said that tbe limit had prob¬
ably been reached in tho number of
pensions, or rather in tho amount to bo
yearly appropriated for pensions. It
was his opinion that there would bo a
slight reduction in the number of pen¬
sioners ou account of deaths, but that
the allowance of new pensions with
back pay and arrearage would prob-
a bly keep the amount about eveu.
While tho amount of money paid for
pensions will not be materially differ-
ent from that of past years it appears
that there has been added to the peu-
»>on rolls during tho year about a
thousand names in excess of those that
have dropped out, so that there has
been an increase instead of a decrease.
There have been a great many out-
standing pension claims adjusted dur-
leg the year, and that accounts for tho
large increase. Tho year has not been
ver y fatal to pensioners, the death rate
being loss than would be anticipated
at tho time of life at which tho veter¬
ans of the late war havo arrived.
World’s Grain Crop.
Consul General Max Judd, of
Vienna, has forwarded to the depart-
ynent of state a report on the grain
crop of the world for 1895 compiled
from the report of the international
grain fair which Mr. Judd commends
as trustworthy. Judd
The abstract furnished hy Mr.
ihows that the wheat, rye, barley and
oat crops of Europe are somewhat be¬
low the average—while corn is exceed¬
ingly promising and it is expected that
the yield will be one-half again as
large this year as it has been on an av¬
erage for ten years.
Canada shows an increase of about
0,000,000 metre centals in wheat while
Jrieia shows a loss of about double that
quality—both as compared with 1894.
Most of tbe Russian provinces indicate
an increase in wheat and rye.
The Arfstria-Hungarian wheat crop
is poor in quality land less in quantity
than usual. A lighter wheat crop is
ajso indicated in the United States.
The French wheat crop is estimated ut
98 per cent—rye at 105 and oats at 85
per cent of the average. Tho wheat
crop of Great Britiau and Ireland is
put down ai poor arid is estimated at
loin 40 to 50 per cent of the average
'.he English barley crop will be better
than the wh at crop but the quality
VOL. I. NO. 40.
will be poor, Egypt will export con¬
siderable wheat.
It is anticipated that tho loss on
wlient in India and the United States
will bo compensated for by the grain
in Canada and Russia — and that tak¬
ing this crop througout tho world tho
result for tho year will bo about equal
to tho average season.
GENERAL SCHOFIELD RETIRES.
It is Reported that. Gen. Miles Will
He Ills Successor.
General Schofield issued an order
announcing his retirement from tho
command of tho army Saturday. Later
in tho afternoon ho received tho offi¬
cers on duty in Washington and bade
them farewell. Tho reception was in¬
formal aud the officers and tho retiring
lieutenant general were in citizens’
dress. Captain George A. Armes,
United States army (retired), who was
placed under airest Friday by order of
General Schofield for insubordination
in writing a personally offensive letter
to tho general, was released under a
writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge
Bradley, of the district supreme court.
The case will be heard next Saturday.
The Now York Tribune says that
General Nelson A. Miles was seen
Saturday night by one of its reporters
aud replying to an inquiry said that he
had beeu officially informed by tho
president of his appointment to the
supremo command of the army.
TO PREVENT THE FIGIIT.
Governor Culberson Calls an Extra
Session of the Texas Legislature
Governor Culberson, of Texas, has
issued a proclamation for a session of
tho legislature to pass a law prohibit¬
ing prize fighting. Tho legislature is
to bo convened in tho city of Austin lor
the following purposes: fighting
“1. To denounce tho prize
aud kindred practices iu clear and un¬
ambiguous terms, and prohibit t ho
same by appropriate pains and penal¬
ties, putting the law into immediate
operation and making neoossary pro¬
vision for the enforcement, so that the
proposed exhibition of this character
within tho state may bo prevented, the
undoubted will of tho people upon this
subject respected and the affront to the
moral sense and enlightened progress
of Texas averted.
“2. To consider aud act upon sneh
other matters as may bo presented pur¬
suant to section forty, article throe, of
the constitution.
TALMAGE ACCEPTS.
l'ho Brooklyn Dlvlno Goes to »
Washington Church.
Rev. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, has
accepted tho call to bo co-pastor of the
First I’rcsbyteiiad church of Wash¬
ington city. This decision wsh com¬
municated by him to tho special com¬
mittee of ciders, deacons and trustoes
who extended the call.
Dr. Tulmsgo is to be co-pastor of
tho church, of equal authority with
Dr. Sunderland aud probably will
preach one-half of tlio sermons be¬
ginning Sunday evoniug, October
27th. Dr. Sunderland and Dr. Tal-
mngo havo long been intimuto friends,
and the Brooklyn preacher has many
warm admirers among tho congrega¬
tion of tlio First church. Dr. Sun¬
derland huH been the pastor of the
church rnoro than forty-two years,
having preached his fortieth anniver¬
sary sermon on February 5, 1893.
ON A LARGE SCALE
Will Lands In Fast Tennessee He De¬
veloped .
A dispatch to The Manufacturers’
Record states that tho LaFollette Goal
and Iron Company of New York City,
which owns between 30,000 and 40,-
1)00 acres of timber, coal aud iron
lands in East Tennessee, is preparing
lo develop this property on a large
scale by building several railroads to
connect with surrounding points. The
dispatch says: will
“Tho LaFollette railway be
constructed immediately from Coal
Creek to tho town of LaFollette, with
branches to Middleboro and Jellioo,
and that tlio line will probably be ex¬
tended from Coal Creek to Knoxville.
A considerable part of the grading on
tho section from Coal Creek to LaFol¬
lette is done and enough ties for that
section havo been gotten out and par¬
tially distributed.”
ENGLISH CONSUL INSULTED.
The Inquiry Into the Chinese Massacre
May Take a More Serious Turn.
Advices from Hong Kong state that
obstruction of the inquiry by foreign
consuls into the Kn Cbeun massacre is
still being kept up by Chinese officials.
Forty men suspected of complicity in
the riots have been liberated by tlio
local authorities without the consent
of the consuls. Mr. Mansfield, tho
British consul at Ku Cbeun, has boon
insulted by Chinese soldiers. The con¬
suls are considering tho advisability
of returning to Foo Chow and refer¬
ring the matter to their respective gov¬
ernments.
Furnace to Btovr In.
At a meeting of stockholders of the
Grocey Woodward furnace, at Clarks¬
ville, Tenn., recently it was decided
to resume operations at once. A force
of men have already been put to work
making preparations, and the 'i he furnace
will start np November 1. plant
is one of tho largest aud best iu the
south, having a daily capacity of 150
tons.
A Town Burned Out.
The town of Big Stone Gap, Va., six¬
ty-five miles from Bristol, Teun., was
almost totully destroyed hy fire short¬
ly after midnight Friday riigLt. The
loss will he about $30,000, while the
insurance is only about $0,000. The
fire originated in the Valley hotel.
ABMES ARRESTED.
GKN. SCHOFIELD HAD T1IK MA«
JOR LOCKED CP.
An Insulting Letter to the “Acting
Secretary of War.”
Major Armes was arretted at Wash¬
ington Friday and confined in tho bar¬
racks. The order for his arrest was
signed hy Assistant Adjutant General
Vincent, “by order of the acting General sec¬
retary of war.” Lieutenant
John M. Schofield was tho acting sec¬
retary of war. Merely as command¬
ing officer of tho army ho would not
havo authority to order the arrest.
There liaa been a personal quarrel
of twenty-five years’ standing between
General Schofield and Major Armes.
General Schofield retires on Sunday,
the 29th, aud Friday was tho last but
one ou which ho could excroiso any
authoiity whatever ovor Major Armes.
Smarting under injustice which, as
ho professes to bo the victim, General
Schofield had done him, Major Armen
visited the war department during tho
day uuaware of the fact that General
Schofield was actiug secretary of war,
and requested an interview with Gen¬
eral Schofield, which was refused. Ho
then sent a letter to General Schofield
reading in part us follows: Schofield,United
“General John M.
States Army—Sir: Before you aro re¬
tired from active duty I thought I
would call your attention to the in¬
justice, wrongs and persecutions you
have inflicted upon me during tho
years 1808-70 and up to tho present
time. As to my knowledge, I havo
given yon no cause, I would like to
have an explanation as to your grounds
for making my life a hell and trying
to ruin nie in the way you have.
“The indorsement upon the charges
I preform! against Lieutenant Colonel
A. D. Nelson iu 1870, denouncing mo
as a worthless character, etc., was the
first attack upon me. In addition to
ignoring and failing to investigate the
serious charges which I then submitted,
lieoanse I considered it my duty to do
so, the next wrong was to select a few
characters from the army, called in a
court and approve of their sentence of
dismissal, you, ns judge, having select¬
ed tho jury. You sustained Colonel
Nelson in not bringing Captain
Graham to trial, and after I was dis¬
missed for these charges Colonel Nel¬
son found that Graham would have to
be tried because of the great pressure
of all tho officers aud others at Camp
Supply, I. T. Nelson, to save himself,
recommended Graham’s trial upon the
charges thnt I had submitted long be¬
fore I was unjustly dismissed, and ho
was not only enshierod, but sentenced
to the penitentiary fora term of years.
“After my retirement you caused
another court to bo soleote.d and tried
to ruin and disgrace me. You also is¬
sued an order, and I was published as
a person whoso sanity was questioned,
but aftor tho mischief was done you
stopped tho investigation without any
request upon my part that you should
do so.
“Lately, I am informed, you liavo
secured the marks to affidavits of a few
negroos who cannot read oud write,
and telling a lot of falsehoods and
stuff that lias a tendency to injure mo
with those who would be influenced by
wliat you say or do on account of your
position.
“f am a goutlemau and have always
conducted myself as such. I have
done my duty as a military man, as
tho true records will prove, and auy
charges that aro on flic tomling to re¬
flect discredit upon me aro instigated
by personal enmity or unfounded ma¬
lice aud aro unworthy of belief. Com¬
mon justice on the part of a superior
officer, the manly instincts of a gen¬
tleman when shown that be is mis¬
taken, should cause you to apologize
and show a disposition to amend the
wrongs, as far as possible, which you
have so many years heaped upon mo.
“Respectfully, etc., A. Aiimes.”
“Ggoiiok
Major Armes was sitting in bis par¬
lor after dinner whon Lieutenant Com¬
ings, accompanied by Becond Lieu¬
tenant Gordon Heiner, appeared and in
the doorway with a file of soldiers
road the order of arrest. Major
Armes attempted to resist arrest, but
finally requested a few minutes to
prepare himself, and then accompanied
the officers to tho arsenal iu an ambu¬
lance which had been provided.
Speaking of the matter to ureporter,
General Bchofleld said:
WHY HAAS RESIGNED.
Ills Jurisdiction was Interfered With
by Finley’s Election.
Mr. Hob Haas, traffic mauager of
the Southern Kailway, has resigned
from his position. It is supposed that
the reason which lead to the resigna¬
tion was that Mr. Haas was deprived
of a largo part of bis jurisdiction when
Mr. W. W. Finley, who was commis¬
sioner of the Houtliern States Passen¬
ger Association, was elected third vice-
president of the Southern Railway.
Mr. Finley was given charge of the
service which Mr. Haas has had
under his control.
Advancing Wages Voluntarily.
The coke workers’ convention, held
at Scottdale, Pa.,Wednesday, passed a
resolution stating thnt the operators
had promised au advance in wages
when the prico of coke advanced call¬
ing on all men on striko to return un¬
til October lOlh. The labor officials
expect that by that date the price of
coke will be advanced. Notice* have
been posted at tbe Charlotte furnace
giving tho ten-hour men u voluntary
.
advunce iu wages of 10 per cent. Tho
advance will date from S •pteinbey
ltith,