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— PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
With an nverago of 18 suicides a
month in the German army, remarks
the New York Graphic, France may
count upon getting in her revenge if
she only has the patience to wait long
enough.
The Astorian states that since the
passage of the exclusion act the Chinese
servants in Astoria, Oregon, nave be¬
come wonderfully independent, and
“won’t oven tbiuk of working at the
former rate of wages."
The Suit m o: Turkey lias experienced
an attack of patriotism. Knowing that
his lleot ought to be stronger, and
knowing also that the national excheq¬
uer is empty, ho has resolved to build
a new iron-clad and pay for it out of
his own private purso.
Bobert Turner of Ghent county. Ky.,
died a short timo ago. In 1850 ho
bought two slaves at auction and mado
$1800 by tho transaction, and now his
will directs that that amount bo di¬
vided from his estate among tho four
Adican churches in Ghent
Ono of tl.e Icature*. of the educational
system of Mexico i< tho introduction of
schools cf mechanical training for
women. Girls nre taught carpentry,
weaving, and carving just as they are
instructed in drawing, painting, and
in us xx Tho theory of agiiculture is an
optional study.
Shaw university (colored) of Ilalcigr,
N. C., is thoroughly soil-supporting,has
more than 400 pupils now enrolled, and
is upon the point of enlarging its build¬
ing and fucidties for higher education.
It has been largely endowed by north¬
ern philanthropists, and is still domin¬
ate 1 by their ideas.
Tho subject of changing tho Jewish
Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday is agi¬
tated. Tho New York Hebrew Stand¬
ard and the Rochester Jewish Tidings
favor tho change. Tho latter paper
snvs: “Viewed in tlio proper light tho
question can roeffivo but ono decision —
the clur ge mast come.”
English st iteanion all agree in tho
opinion that tho French republic is ia a
bad fix, mid its downfall is imminent.
Those Ub cournging views all appear to
bo baled upon tho fact that Boulangor
is growing moro popular every day. It
is possible that “tho littlo god of tho
music hills’’ will yet play a Napoleonic
park _
Franco has now u national league for
the promotion ol ] hysieai education,
designed to lit her citis.ons to be sol
dies. Tho programme which hr.a been
completed includes out-door gnmej
throughout tho laud, fur which tho
local authorities will set apart a “groan,”
whereon the children shall regularly
“play.' 1
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According to the Atlanta Constitu¬
tion, f r fifty voars our government
paid $800 a year for guarding tho
“crvpi” constructed for Washington's
remains in tho national cnpitol. Tho
fact that W idiiagton had b.*cn interred
at Mount Vernon did r.ot interfere wit}
this iittlo job until a provincial Con¬
gressman oid -I tod and smashed it.
Twenty-seven miles au hour, with no
heated journals cor break downs, is a
good record for the trial trip of any
•Hamer, yet that is tlio rate tho new
United States dynamit.- cruiser Vesu¬
vius made in a twenty-nine minutes
trip recently. A fleet of such vessols,
hard to hit on account of the celority
with which they can change their posi¬
tion and of their comparatively small
S -, would be a formidable defenco for
American harbors.
The Broouly E ;gie h i ntlv ?' da "
*
e*aiod that . k eighth •
it-cuy n.os tne won
dcr of the wor;d in the per«ei of an
Irishman who i... ve l '.here for twen
ty years, snu who re u s ;o register
and vo:e, because, ho say# he is a
foreigner aud La- no right to interfere
in American pod'.ics. v :nce then tho
Kaglo has received a :ter from a
vusn who signs himself “An
man in his eighty-eighth ,7 • rear ’ and
who says: Ilc ■writer of this has
lived ia America fifty-six years, and bas
never voted, beiag of the opinion that
it wou il be for the iatere-t of foreign¬
ers. ax wcl as natives, if the voting
left entirely to the latter.’’
SOUTHERN NEWS.
HAPPENINGS BRIEFED AND
btdumc STRUNG TOGETHER. -ljctd
movements of alliance men—bail
uoad casualties—the LABOR field.
ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
William Dickerson was arrested at
Collinsville for pa-sing counterfeit silver
dollars. lie is supposed to belong to a
gang whose headqminers are at. the
Round Mountain Furnace.
A special from Mchanicsville, says a
seventeen-year-old Weeks, daughter of Joel
colored, forced four of her
younger sisters to eat Rough on Rats.
Two of them have died and the others
suffered tctriblv. The girl admits her
crime.
WI at is believed to be the crater of an
extinct volcano has been discovered in
Red Mountain, two miles from Birming¬
ham. The opening is about 15 by 50
feet, and huge pieces of stone thrown
into this hollow, disappear and cannot
be heard to strike any bottom.
While resisting arrest near Holcombs
& Pratt’s sawmill at Calera, about three
miles from town, Joe Bowman was shot
and instantly killed by Deputy Sheriff
James Handley. Bowman was charged
with wife beating in the warrant issued
for his arrest.
George A. Pearce, secretary of the
Planters’ & Merchants’ Insurance Co.,
left Mobile ostensibly for Birmingham,
and dropped a note to the president,
postmarked Nashville, saying that the
company’s books were not all right. An
examination on Monday shows that
Pearce is $20,000 or more short.
News reached Montgomery of a fright¬
ful murder which occurred near Ozark.
William Williams and A. Batchelor,
white men, and respectable farmers,were
neighbors. Williams cut down a tree
and it fell on Batchelor’s garden fence.
Williams promptly offered to pay the
damages and compromise; but Batchelor
flew into a rage, picked up his double
barrelled shotgun and shot Williams,
killing him dead on the spot.
The people of Lamar county are wild
with excitement over a White Cap out
rage and the arrest of three prominent
citizens of the county, charged with
crime. A party of masked men went to
the house of Eli Johnson, a farmer liv¬
ing near Vernon, forced an entrance and
attacked him with clubs. Johnson was
beaten into insensibility and then two
of the White Cups turned their atten¬
tion to Mrs. Johnson. They were armed
with switches and with these they gave
her a terrible beating. The party then
searched the lisuse and after breaking a
quantity of furniture carried off $125 iu
money. Johnson bad sold his cotton
crop only a few days before aud this
was all the money he had. Several par¬
ties in the same neighborhood have been
a siultcd and badly beaten by masked
men during the past three months and
this affair has caused much excitement.
A few days published, ago an Associated Press
dispatch was announcing the
airest of George Crouch in the Indiau
territory for the murder of Mark White
in Cherokee county, Ala., in 1884. The
time should have read in October, 1882.
The Or< uch family was one of the oldest
in Cherokee county, but the men while
looked upon as honest and good citizens,
in the past they were inclined to rowdy¬
ism, drinking, and frequently experi¬
enced family broils. One evening in
October. 1882, George and Frank
Crouch were returning from the little
town of Cross Plains, having im¬
bibed rather freely and went
iv the home of Mark White, a brother
in-law. While there a quarrel induce arose and
White, while endeavoring to the
boys to go quietly to their own homes,
was shot down in the presence of his
children and his wife by an unnatural
brother, George Crouch, who van away.
FLORIDA.
As Dr. J. Y. Porter, surgeon in
charge of the government relief meas¬
ures, announced that all disinfection was
over, and that he intended leaving Jack¬
sonville, a large meeting of Sanitary citizens Asso¬ and
members of the Auxiliary
ciation was held in the board of trade
rooms. Dr. Porter was presentbd his with
a list of resolutions eulogizing work
there and a magnificent gold repeater and
chain costing $1,000.
31 YUYL.4X1J.
Hon. Jacob Tome, a native of Fort
Deposit, but for some years a resident of
Washington, L). has given $500,000 in
to found a free non-sectarian seminary,
which the industrial training of children
will be made a feature. Mr. Tome, who
commenced life a poor bov, has made a
Urge fortune in the lumber aud banking
business, and is the father-in-law of ex
l\»tmaster General J. A. Cres well.
MlSStSSIl'I’I.
Fred Hopkins and Jenkins of Vicks
burg, colored labor agents, were caught
i n North Lou:siaaa aud lynched. No
particulars have been received but the
report is believed, as it is as much as a
man’s life is worth to try to get hands
away from planters just now.
Governor Lowry is in receipt of a let
ter from the sheriff of Noxuoee county,
saying that he lias three white men in
jail wtio h id been arrested for complicity
m lute troubles. After their arrest,
wa f ra “ ,s Wer f, **' orn ° ut 8 S aiust tUe lu
mid they will be turned f , over to the ,
^geriff ot Kemper county. The govern
Vs a-suxuice to these sheriffs of his
earnest and unstinted support iu their
v ffbrt t > suppress crime ana restore order
n their respective counties, 1ms induced
confidence, and the sheriffs are working
to the law-breakers.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Delegates from nearly all the counties
in the state, ex-Confederate pensioners,
met in Raleigh Tuesday. It was the first
convention of this character ever held in
Norttl Carolina, and the interest in it
was unusually great. Several hundred
veterans were present, nearly nil with an
arm or leg missing, while some were
mere physical wrecks. All weie guests
of the city of Raleigh. They paraded the
and called on Governor Fowle, at
executive department, where they were
given a special reception, the governor
and staff and all state officers being
present. Governor Daniel G. Fowle win
loudly cheered when he rose to speak.
Like the other speakers, he urged the
claims of the disabled soldiers for more
liberal pensions, and also urged the es¬
tablishment of a soldieis’ home and its
maintenance by the state. The gover¬
nor was eloquent, and his eyes were full
of tears. The Legislature will certainly
increase the pensions, which are now
only a little over $S per annum.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A raid was made by the revenue offi
cers in the neighborhood “moonshiner’ of Glassj
Mountain, the famous
district of South Carolina. While the
officers were stealing upon the still, they
were fired at, from within thirty or forty
shots being fired, one striking Frank
Hightower in the knee, inflicting a pain¬
ful wound.
A distinctive feature of the coming in¬
auguration of President Harrison will be
furnished from Charleston. Arrange¬
ments are making to send to Washing¬
ton a picked company of colored militia
of that city, under the command of Gen.
S. T. Lee, who commands the first
brigade National Guards of South Caro¬
lina, and who is the only colored briga¬
dier in the United States.
Ti 1CrC iS fand l middT‘mr?s
i • zzfiz t/S &si
agents promise to get the worst of it.
The usual exodus of colored laborers has
commenced and the landowners are get
ting mad. Under the peculiar laws of
the state a negro who contracts with a
strict account. It he breaks ms ontract
F°or e t C ™ ! ‘ pas"
civil court S ome cmU
ur u t a e us have been at work n e
counties Chester*and eff KershawLancaster other*countierffin York
uaiToTthestate^n^itis saidffiat'lar^e the upper
iumber of negroes “ have ’^Soliciting' left the state
since Christmas, agents
and emigrant "various agents are scat
tered in pjut. of the
state, aud they are exerting all their ef
forts to entice the hands away. The
negro population of the state it esti*
mated at 600,000.
TENNESSEE.
A fire at Athens, destroyed the Ath¬
ens batik building and two stores. The
town is without a fire department, and
it was very difficult to get the fire undei
control.
Robert Day, a highly respected and
prominent young man, of Rocltwood,
was fatally shot about a mile from that
place on Wednesday. He was at the
home of John Martin, when an unknown
party knocked at the door. When Day
went to the door he was shot in the right
eye and face.
The Tennessee river convention met in
Knoxville Tuesday, delegates being pres¬
ent from all East Tennessee counties.
Tomlinson Fort, of Hamilton county,
was elected president. The object of
the convention is to memorialize Con¬
gress to make au appropriation of half a
million dollars to remove obstructions in
the Tenucssee river between Knoxville
and Mussel Shoals, Ala.
A terrible explosion occurred at the
residence of G. E. Broyles, in Chattanoo
na, which resulted in tearing down the
walls of the kitchen, the blowing out of
two windows and serious injuries to s
servant girl named Lydia Hunt. A rat
bad appeared kill. in the It kitchen, escaped which Miss
Hunt tried to into a
box, which proved the to girl have a lot of gun¬
powder in it, but was not aware
of the fact. In oreler to get the rat out
of the box, she lighted a paper and put
it into the box, which caused the powder
to explode with terrible force.
A shocking tragedy occurred at Day
ton, on the line of the Cincinnati South¬
ern railroad, which will result in the
death of Col. S. B. Northup. Police¬
man Doughty and several friends went
into the livery stable to warm. They
made some noise, which annoyed Col.
Northup, who was sleeping off a spree
in the room above. Northup sent word
for them to get out, but they refused to
obey the order and the old gentleman
went down stairs, and taking Policemau
Doughty by the arm led him to the
door. When the men arrived on the
scene, Northup began beating Doughty
over the head with a cane, when the
policeman drew a revolver and shot the
colonel through the body, inflicting a
mortal wouud.
Bill Hum went from Memphis to
Nashville with a little money he had
saved, and shortly after his arrival here
received a letter from William Hassett,
of New York, offering to sell him some
railroad bonds at their face value. $Ui7,
which he assured would, when due iu
1893, be worth $G00. Hassett agreed to
send the bonds C. O. D. Hurn said the
proposition seemed to him a xery good
one, and, ha\- ;g this amount of money
unemployed, he wrote to Hassett to send
tbe bonds. Tuesday, Hurn receive*! a
postal card announcing that there was a
package of bonds, upon which was due
$167. in the express office subject to his
call. Hurn was sick, and so delegated a
friend to pay the charges and get the
package. When the friend returned and
Hurn opened the package he found it
contained, instead of bond*, -kps of old
newspapers.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE OFFICIALS ARE
SAYING AND DOING.
congress.
In the Senate on Thursday, after sev
eral bills had been reported from com
mittees, a message came from the House of
Representatives announcing the death of
Representativc Burnes. Resolutions
were agreed to, and as a mark of respect
to the memory of the deceased, the Sen
ate adjourned... .The entire delegation
in Congress from Missouri, together with
Speaker Carlisle, Mr. Randall, and the
other members of the appropriations
committee, met in the room of the House
committee on appropriations at 11
o’clock and took suitable action
upon the death of Representative James
N. Burnes. The funeral is to take place
at St. Joseph, Mo., the residence of the
deceased. Mr. Dockery then offered the
resolutions framed at a meeting of the
Missouri delegation. Accordingly at
12:10 the House adjourned.
note*.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, hat
ruined the sight of one of his eyes by
his great labors on the tariff bill, and his
physician informed him that it
would be necessary to remove the organ.
The Secretary of State received a cable
message from Acting Consul Blacklock,
at Apia, Samoa, by way of Auckland,
New Zealand, saying that a large fire re
eently occurred on the island, and that
the German consulate was among the
buildings destroyed.
A delegation of tobacco manufacturers
and other citizens of Petersburg, Va.,
headed by Representative-elect Venable,
telegraphed Representative-elect Cowles,
of North Carolina, that they will arrive
on Their
nsSvSyms: bill, and
C’owles’ internal revenue to
work up sentiment among Southern
members in favor of the early passage of
the bill when reported.
Senator Sherman rektion; , f rom the committee
0f fordgn ’ -ported and an amend
me nt to the diplomatic consular ap
P luter r «P riatio ? st % of “ tbe ^H.^ignecito 1 States protect a I>P the r °
P-^^g lor the execution of obligations
and to the interests of the
Umted States existing under the treaty
“uch betwee ? SeSoT" « Sta { “STf e ? TV-nn7.no'
t , expended under direction of £ the
me diately available.
P 1 . ^ ruruored . t ,, | lat , Congressman „ Mil
,. ham Warner, of Missouri commander of
the Grand Army of the Republic, is out
as a candidate for the secretaryship of
the interior. His fnenas have pre
sented him to Gen. Harrison for that
portfolio, and they say the president
elect is inclined to look with favor upon
the suggestion. Warner considers him
self a feouthern man, and by his appoint
ment, Gen. Harrison would have a
Southerner in his cabinet and would be
relieved of the embarrassment of having
to choose between the many Southerners
who are applicants.
The interstate . .
commerce commission
has promulgated an opinion on the sub
ject of passenger tariffs and the rate war.
The commission recommends that the
interstate commerce act be so amended
as, first: To define what is considered
excursion and commutation tickets:
second, to prohibit at the payment of
commissions on the sale ot tickets for
interstate business, except by the regular
agents of carriers; third, to require car¬
riers to provide for the speedy and con¬
venient redemption of unused tickets or
coupons. Previous recommendations in
respect to amendments relating to joint
tariffs aud notices of reduction of rates
are renewed.
Major Barnes’ House bill to establish
a U. 8. Court in Augusta, which, upon
Senator Brown's motion, passed the
Senate, places the court in what will be
termed the northeastern division of the
southern district of Georgia. This will
make Judge Speer the judge of the
court, and will necessitate his presiding
iu Augusta, besides in Macon and Sa¬
vannah. The bill, as it passed the
House, put tbe court in the northern
district, but, at Judge Speer's request, it
was amended by the Senate so as to keep
Augusta iu his district. The division
will include the counties of Warren,
Glascock. McDuffie, Columbia, Burke,
Richmond, Jefferson and \Y asliington, of
the southern district, aud Lincoln,
Wilkes and Talliaferro, of the northern.
It now goes to a conference and then to
the President.
Senator Edmunds, when made ac
quainted with the unfriendlv utterances
of the Berlin press, said: “I suppose if
Bismarck wants to express his opinion
upon udv subject, he feels at perfect
liberty to do so; but I also suppose that
the expression of such opinion will not
serve to deter the American people from
curry in «■ out anv policy tliev may adopt
as desirable or necessarv. Tbe Samoan
islands are on the lughwav of commerce
across the Pacific ocean and are of great
importance with relation to the develop
ment of trade via projected and canals across Nica
the Isthmus of Panama across
ragua. To a power whose ships are sent
ou long cruises, the establishment of
coaling stations is a necessity, and the
location of one on the central island of
the Samoan group, as provided for iu
the proposed amendment to the diplo
matic and consular appropriation bill.
reported bv the committee on foreign
relations, is looked upon as of the great
~
sst importance 1 to us.”
. the , cabinet . .
A serious rupture in is
threatened over the bn moan dime ulty.
Secretary Bayard has been roundly ent
lcised for his inaction, and Secretary
Whitney does not seem disposed Whit¬ to
shield his colleague. Secretary
ney did not bear with equanimity the
strictures placed upon his department the
for the week-kneed foreign policy of
administration. The cabinet meeting
a few days ago was very brief, in conse
quence of a row between the premier
ami the secretary of the navy, and the
latter, Mr. Whitney, says to his friends
that he dees not propose to have the in
competency and cowardice of the State
Department saddled upon the Naval
Department, and the climax was reached
when he transmitted in his letter to Mr.
Heibert, chairman of the naval commit
(; ee 0 f the House, a copy of the letter
sen t to Secretary Bayard over a week
a g 0 asking what the policy of the Uni
, be toward the German
ted States was to
aggression at Samoa, in order that he
nd ght intelligently instruct his subordi
nates,
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Atlanta had the first snow on Monday
morning.
Atlanta is moving for a United States
prison to be located within her borders,
c ap t. j 0 } in A . McCool, a well-known
railroad, conductor, died at Atlanta or
Wednesday.
Street cars stopped running in Athens,
and w j d not , un again for some time,
The Comp any controlling them found
tliat tbey were not paying, and decided
j0 s t op them,
About a week ago, in arresting a young
man, Pat Davis, Police Sergent Powers,
of Augusta, clubbed him with his stick,
covering his head and face with blood,
jJavis filed charges of cruelty againsl
the officer, and the matter will be inves*
tigated by the police commissioners.
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open Rifled “mmv letter
of their
contents £
John Conl of E astpoint, was con
vic ted on Wednesday in Atlanta, of sell
ing * mol hf . tgaged property to the Plowboy
T court is allowed no discretion
in such but must impose a fine
double the a.nount for which the mort
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seutence the defendant to imprisonment than
^r not more than one year or less
month,
Governor Gordon addressed a letter tc
tbe ordinary of Worth county directing
y proC F ure and forward to the exec
utiye de F tment fllU particulars 1 of the
out f on colored !e committed
near y Ty ^ recently, and to ascertain the
name £ perpe £ trators in order that
Aa f ffered for their appre
henBion an 1 dcli J t0 the sheriff ol
Worth Gounty J with 1 roo f to convict,
_ ^ soldiers who served _ . the
e t eran m
Federal army, have formed a department
for Georgia of the Grand Army of tht
Republic, with headquarters in Atlanta,
John R. Lewis, of Atlanta, was choser
Commander; _b A. E. Sholes, of Augusta,
seaior vice ommander ; David Porter
of SaTannah junior J vice-Commander
Lewis ^ the head of the organization th«
. one . ar edt ’ u. S . Army officer,
Fresident of t he Atlanta Rubber Co.
d identified with tbe leading interest* held it
f Atlaata . A camp-fire Confederate was
rooms of tho Veterans,
and Dr Am(>s Fox> pi . om inent Con¬
federate, lighted the tire.
The western half of the guano shed of
the Central Road wharves, just north ol
J he Philadelphia ... slip, m . Savannah caved ,
in Thursday afternoon. The schoonei
II. P. Simmons was discharging steamship guano Des
aud across the slip was the
song. As the guano was unloaded it was
piled up on the wharf. Suddenly there was
a terrible crashing of timbers, and in a
twinkling a section of the wharf, 50x150,
disappeared iu the river with 2,440 tons
of guano. The longshoremen were taken
by surprise and had no time to escape.
A few sprang for the schooner. As the
wharf went down she careened and
struck the Dessong, knocking off two of
the hatch covers. Charles Williams and
Dennis Lloyd were buried under the gu¬
ano. The total loss will reach $80,000.
I AM AN AMERICAN!”
Senators Allison and Cullom went tc
Indianapolis, Ind., on Sunday, and were
met at the station by Private Secretary
Halford and taken at once to Gen. Har
rison's house, lunching with him. Mr.
Cullom said the Samoan question was
discussed, and while not at liberty to
say what Gen. Harrison thought of the
matter, still it is believed he reflects
Gen. Harrison’s views when he said: “I
am not in favor of permitting any coun¬
try to throw brickbats at us. I am an
American all through, and think we are
big enough to take care of ourselves
under the circumstances. However,
while th '’ Samoan matter looks serious at
Present I believe the coming adrmnistra
tlon rea ek an adjustment that will
je satisfactory to the country. I think a
solution will be reached withoutdiffi
u,t '
A FIGHTING EDITOR
The Honolulu Bulletin, reaching San
Francisco, Cal., by steamer, prints what
purports to . be a circular ... jusc sent out . . by
German officers at bamoa regarding the he
late disturbances there. In general
^cular denies that the Germans of the
lsland ^ oppressed or mistreated the
natives, and reaffirms the statement that
tfae ]&te fcattle in wh ch twenty-two Ger
maD9 Wf -re killed was led bv an Ameri
( a „ newspaper man named Klein,