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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
curiously enough, Illinois census re¬
turns show that outside of the cities the
population is decreasing.
Governor Swinefordof Alaska predicts
that the mammoth, alive and well, will
yet be found in the interior of his re¬
markable Territory.
It is predicted that we are to have
very shortly an age of pulp, in which
that super-serviceable material will take
the place in long measure of wood,stone,
clay and iron.
Shelby county, Mo., has a minister
who for usefulness breaks the record. In
one day the Rev. Charles McAnally
preached twd sermons, married two
couples and set three broken ribs.
The latest estimate of the coal supply
of the world gives us fuel _for the next
800 years, by which time some genius
will have invented a way to make one
corncob heat a big house for a week.
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker of Lon¬
don is going to start a series of smoking
sermons, lie thinks that the London
workingmen may be induced to go to
church if they can find a place where
pipe smoking and religions services may
be pursued together.
There lias been begun in P^iris a cam¬
paign against trained nurses and a return
to the old system of nursing by sisters of
charity litis been strongly advocated. It
is alleged that the mortality in hospitals
is four per cent, higher since the intro¬
duction of trained nurses.
A Washington correspondent draws
attention to the permanent nature of the
United States senate. Senator Hoar of
Massachusetts who has been re-elected
for a third time will find one-fifth of the
senators in their seats during the next
session who were there when lie first took
the oath of office in 1877.
Every new railway that comes into ex¬
istence increases the number of railway
employes at an estimated average of five
men to the mile. Hence, the 7200 miles
which were built last year have called
into the service about ,10,000 men. The
railway officials and men of tire United
States now number nearly 800,000.
They are still pegging away at the
Cape Cod (Mass.) ship canal, which was
begun nine year’s ago. The contract re¬
quire the work to be finished by Juno
20, 1 Si) 1, but as there are seven miles
yet to be dug, and a- during 1888 there
was only about seven-t ighths of a mile
opened, the prospects are not good, re¬
marks the New York A 'urx, for the ful¬
filment of the contract.
The latest census and year-book from
Ra-sia reveals a remarkable fact in tho
official statement that out of a imputa¬
tion of 108,000,000, but 724,878
Russians crossed the frontiers of
the country going or coming. The
exclusiveness of China is proverbial,
observes the Washington Star, but con¬
sidering the differences in civilization be¬
tween the two countries, that of Russia
is more wonderful.
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The French newspapers are said to
have been very •heavily hit by the col¬
lapse of the Panama bubble. They were
given advertisements very profusely, and,
were paid very liberally, but were ex¬
pected to puff pro ligiously. Some jour¬
nals received annual allowances, The
company never paid in money, but al¬
ways in shares, which are now almost
worthless, and the pa pens were bound
never to negotiate them.
The Washington Star says: “The
personal appearance of tire next Senate
will hold its own ite well. Sixteen
Sem.iors have been re-elected, which se
euros the philosophic beauty of Senator
Hoar's face, the rugged V v toll force of
Senator lk-ck" oun ton me, tho
fine profile of Senator t Iquitt, the
knightly features of Senator Ransom,and
the fine facial type rep mod by Sena
tor Chi The Lincoln-like Cullom,
the manly Plumb, the courtly Harris, the
statuesque D >lph, r
the Hembrandtian £ ierson, all re
main. Of the new Senators some are
acted for their good looks.
SOUTHERN
CULLINGS.
NEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST¬
INGLY BRIEFED.
ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILROADS, ETC.—DEATH OF
PROMINENT PEOPLE—TEMPERANCE, SOCIAL
AND RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
AI.ABA1M.
Elbert Stearns, the principal clerk at
the Evergreen postoffiee, is short in his
accounts and has gone away.
The Southern Yellow Pine Lumber
Association met in Birmingham on
Thursday. mills About thirty of the largest
in the South were represented.
The only important business transacted
was the adoption of a resolution to
maintain the prtsent prices of lumber
until May 1, when they will be ad¬
vanced.
A mysterious murder was committed
near Bushy, Birmingham on Thursday. A. W.
miles a merchant Birmingham, living near Gate City,
lour east of was shot
dead at his own fireside. lie was sitting
by the side of his wife with one of his
little children in bis lap, when the assaS
siu fired through a window. The bail
.struck Busby in the left car, passed
through his head, and he sank to the
floor dead.
In the city court at Birmingham on
Thursday, S. II. Minger obtained a
judgment for $0,000 damages against the
Elyton Laud Co. Minger was a member
of the fire department, and while going
to a fire, the reel was overturned by
striking dummy, the rails of the defendants’
which were above the street
grade. He was thrown on the front reel
cured and crippled for life, for which he se¬
the above damages.
The Quarantine Conference met in
Montgomery. An interesting paper was
read by Dr. D. W. Burgess, of the Uni¬
ted States marine hospital service, sta¬
tioned at Havana. He urged greater ef¬
fort^ to prevent yellow fever from being
brought to this country by steamships
and in smuggled goods. The resolu¬
offered by Dr. Wilkinson, of New
Orleans, were adopted, calling on the
government for a better patrol service on
the coast of Florida. Surgeon General
Hamilton said the United States govern¬
ment should have a physician to every
consulate and in other foreign ports where yellow
fever infectious diseases are
liable to break out, in order to secure to
the government, reliable information through the consular
agents, for the pro¬
tection of the American people. Reso¬
lutions indorsing Dr. Hamilton’s propo¬
sition was offered by Dr. Foster, of
Georgia, and was adopted by the confe¬
rence.
(iliORRIA.
Rev. Sam Small is stirring up the peo¬
ple in Atlanta to go in for prohibition
again.
II. F. ■ Hover, an alleged anarchist,
who styles himself “Grand Worthy Sage
of the Co-operative Workers of Amer¬
ica,” is busy stirring up the ignorant
class of Atlanta's colored people. He
conics from Hickory, N. C.
A fatal accident occurred on Saturday
at the residence of Judge Cluirborne
Snead, on Greene street, in Augusta.
His little son, age 11), while playing po¬
liceman and soldiers with two colored
boys, killed one instantly and wounded
the other. They were playing prisoners,
tied lie was the policeman. They made
a break for libei ty and he ran into the
house and seized a gun, which he did
not know was loath d aimed it at them
and pulled the trigger. The shot entered
the face and head of one of the boys,
killing him instantly. The little fellow
ran in to bis father and asked him to
kill him, as he had killed a boy, but
did not intend to do it.
.\OltTH CAROLINA.
Near Rockingham, a cat, belonging to
a colored man, carried to his house the
foot and a part of the leg of tu infant.
The cat’s trail was followed a few hun¬
dred yards fn m the h use. An arm and
the head of ail infant were found, having
been simply covered up with leaves.
The child was a week old, and had been
placed iu the woods when alive and left
to die.
Samuel Hodges, a widower in Rich¬
mond county,75 years of age, it is alleged
went to the home of Robert Norton,ami,
by promises, enticed from home Nor¬
ton’s thirteen-year-old daughter. lb
went to Rockingham, and by statements
as to her age, preacher procured a license induced to marry
the girl. the A was When the couple to
pertorm ceremony. suspicion
walked the street, was at once
aroused by the disparity of age-, The
girl was questioned. It was soon made
manifest that she was au innocent victim.
Hodges would uot relinquish his claim
to his wife, and when people made ready
to use force, he fled, and, is in hiding in
the woods.
Letters received at Raleigh state, that
the negro exodusters, who have gone in
such numbers from Duiham to Missis
sippi, are not having such delightful
t rues as they looked forward to. Sam
Ruffin, Tom Holt and others went t<>
‘ Mississippi with the first of the large
parties. High discovered plots and
exposed them, whereupon Ruffin and
Holt attacked High, an.t iu a quarrel on
!' arriving in Mississippi, Ruffin was shot
in the arm and Holt in the leg. This so
■ - -asperated \ the Durham negroes that
they endeavored to kill High. The feel¬
ing" against him the ran so strong that planttr Mr.
j Richardson, great cotton
j who employed these him shipped laborers, to save
High’s life, had away iu a
S box, labeled as merchandise.
LOUISIANA.
Faranta’s theater iu New Orleans, was
burned on Thursday, and a number of
adjacent nuildiugs, including the Con
ent of the Holy Family, were badty
amuge i. The “Muldoon’a P.cn.c”
■ ompany < st their ( ntir ij vv a id robe, and
the Fo-epaugh band lost all their uni¬
forms and instruments.
SOUTH CAROLIN A
At Darlington, Joseph AY. James, a
young white man, and Lewis and Rob.rt
Arthur, two w grots, have been convict¬
ed of the murder of James’ father.
On Saturday at midnight, a party of
young men who had been drinking and
gambling in a barro m in the fight upper part the
of Charleston, got in;o a free in
street, and one of them, Wm. Munzen
tnaier, was killed, h s throat being cut
with a razor by O. Y\ ier, a young man
from August#.
The conviction and sentence of three
negro lynchers in Pieken* county for
lining what thousands of white men have
lone—hanging a man on account of a
negro girl—is beginiug to raise a stoim
on all sides, which will hardly be quieted
unless the governor grants the men a free
pardon. A peculiar phase of the verdict
in the c .se is, that the only white man
who was included in the indictment and
who ltd the lynchers was acquitted.
For the first time in the history of
South Carolina, three lynchers have been
convicted in the courts. At Pickens,
Tours lay, Bolton, Heyward and Wil¬
liams, colored men, eliarged with mur
dcr, were found guilty, with a others, recom¬
mendation to mercy. Three
charged with the same offense, were ac¬
quitted. The case is a remarkable one.
I t is the first one on record, in the histo¬
ry of the state, of a negro lynching a
white man. The man lynched * victim was a
half-witted mountaineer, ami his
a young negro girl. .
TKNNESSER.
Outlaws attacked a railroad camp near
Cumberland Gap, and a fight ensued, in
which several men were wounded.
A boy passing along a Nashville
street, on Sunday, wanted to light his
cigarette and stepped behind a cotton
bale to shield his match from the wind.
Accidentally he touched the lighted
inatch to a bale of cotton, lying on the
jiavement in front of E. Hancock & Go.’s
warehouse. The cotton ignited and the
flames quickly communicated to other
hales on the pavement and at the end of
Jifteen minutes were badly burned, caus¬
ing- damage to the extent of about $250.
TRULY HORRIBLE.
On Spruce Creek, a father with nine
motherless children, joined with a wretch
of a womau in attempting to destroy the
lives of his entire family. Frank Conk
wright, the father of the children, is a
farmer.in good circumstances, who, prior
to this tragedy, had stood well with his
neighbors. His children are from three
a ears to nineteen years old, and because
they had objected to their father’s bad
conduct, they had been severely chas¬
tised by the use of the lash and driven
from home out into the cold, and often
into driving storms. This has been go¬
ing on since Conkwright lost his wife,
an upright woman, more than three
years ago. As the children grew they
protested tho ni> >re. until the father.who
had become desperate, joined with Gal¬
lic Holden and her cruel brothers—Jim,
Bill and Noble Holden—in a plan to ex
terminate the entire family. A bot¬
tle of deadly poison was entered procured,
Jim. the woman's brother, the
same room and crept, stealthily to the
lied and administered a dose, first, to a
little bov aged three years, and then to a
daughter nine years, old. These two
poisoned unto death, the fatal dose was
then mixed in molasses and the drinking
to be taken into the stomachs of
the. vest of the children at breakfast. The
bov died, and in the afternoon the
daughter was also * corpse, and in the
me antirue the other children, except the
eldest son, aged 19 years, who w.-.f sr.s
pieious of bis father, had taken th<
poison. nothing" The neighbors are justly enrag¬
ed, and short of heavy stone the
walls and iron doors could protect
nrisotiers from the wrath of an indignant
people.
ENGLAND’S NAVY.
In the English House of Commons on
Thursday, Lord George Hamilton, first
lord of the admiralty, stated that tlie
delay in supplying the navy with guns
was due to the failure of the system of
lining. The government proposed to
build 8 first class men-of-war of 14,000
tons each, and two of 9,000 tons, 9 first
class cruisers, 28 smaller cruisers, 4 of
the Pandora type of cruisers and 18 of
the Sharpshooter type of torpedo vessels.
The total tonnage of all these vessels
will be 818,000 and the total cost £21,-
500,000. Lord Charles Beresford com¬
plained that hy the just government ships—no gave no
real reason w so many
more and no less—should be built. He
gave notice of an amendment declaring
that England’s naval strength to out
npial the navies of France and any other
ereat power combined.
CLEARING THEM OUT.
The United Stat s troops will cleat
Oklahoma of boomers shortly. General
alarm pacvails in all the camps of boom
ers, and they are ready to move at a mo
ment’s warning. They are greatly inter
v'b ted to know whether they wi l be fa
ken to Aikansis City or to Purcell,
f hey have serious objections being
liken back to the Kansas line, particular¬
ly if they have t > walk. Soldier* ar
moving "from Fort Reno, but it is sup¬
posed the expedition is bound for the
Pottawattomie country, where they wi’
remove a large number of intruders.
THE WORLD
AT LARGE.
PICK-UPS HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
LUSOP* GETTING HER ARMIES AND NAVIES INTO
CONDITION—THE LABOR 1T1ELD—PROGRESSIVE
IDEAS BEING AGITATED.
Isaac V. Williamson the venerable
millionaire philanthropist, die.i in Phil
idelphia, Pa., on Thursday.
The British man-of-war Sultan has
been wrecked on the island of Comin, in
the Mediterranean.
Ex-President Cleveland was, on Thurs¬
day, elected an honorary member of the
New York Chamber of Commerce.
The Minnesota House of Representa¬
tives on Thursday, refused to submit to
the people an amendment in favor of tho
prohibition of the liquor traffic.
Labor organizations which took sides
with the strikers in the recent tie-up of
Atlantic avenue railroad, iu Brooklyn,
N. Ah, have placed a boycott on that cor¬
poration.
A writ of mandamus was sued oul
against Governor Wilson, of West A ir
gin, on Thursday, by Gen. Goff, to com¬
pel the former to surrender the office of
governor.
The British ship A r andalia, from Pertl:
Amboy, N. J., for London, England,
with petroleum, has been sunk off Bog
nor by a collision with an unknown
steamer.
A marked increase in hostility to for¬
eigners is noticeable thrpughout China.
The native soldiery at Chefoo are sus¬
pected of plotting to attack the foreign
settlement.
Dr. Tanner, member of Parliament for
Cork, who was arrested for violating the
crimes act, was tried at Tipr icrary, Ire
land. He was convicted and sentenced
to imprisonment without hard labor.
The British vessel El Dorado, 270
tons burden,has passed through the Pan¬
ama canal from Aspinwall to Cliagres, a
distance of fifteen miles. This is the jQrst
foreign vessel that has passed through
the canal from one port to another.
El Tiempo, conservative journal, inaugural says
it. sees in President Harrison’s
address a menace to the peace of the
Spanish American republics, especially
Mexico. The same journal also expresses of
a fear as to the policy which Secretary
State Blaine may adopt.
The physician who made the posl
mortem examination of the body of
Pigott, the British informer who com¬
mitted suicide at Madrid, Spain, declares
that he never saw such a well formed
skull and brain, the latter indicating a
man of superior force of character and
imagination.
A dispatch from Rome to London,
England, says that President Harrison’s
cabinet i'uily satisfies the Vatican, and
that information has reached the propa¬
ganda that under Harrison’s administra¬
tion the relations between the United
States and the Holy See will be of the
most cordial character.
Chance has led to the discovery of a
cure for hydrophobia. In Ayacutho,
Peru, a man was bitten by a mad dog,
and shortly after the dreaded disease de¬
veloped. Iu his madness the man rushed
from the house, and falling among a lot
of “peiica” plants, some of the juice of
these plants entered his mouth, and he
swallowed it. Ho was carried to liis
house, and soon regained his health.
A dispatch from Oklahoma, I. T.,
says that the situation in Oklahoma is
growing critical. Between two and
three hundred men have taken up claims
in rise immediate vicinity of the place.
Nearly all the valuable land on the river
bottom from the neighborhood of Fort
It no on the west to "the Pottawattomie
reservation oh the east has been taken,,
and is held by the usual squatters:
3, ores of men are slipping in on all sides,
and an influx of boom rs by railroad has
be^un. _
A GUIDE’S STORY.
A liolf-breed hunter and trapper, who
arrived at Clieyenue, Wyoming, on Sun¬
day, from the extreme northwestern part
of the territory, reports the atrocious
ma sacre of a party of live French tour¬
ists iu Yellowstone National Park. The
bearer of the news heard the story at
Canyon City, a new mini vg town near
the park, where Hank Ferry, guide and
^5oh; survivor, reported the slaughter.
Ferry said his charges included M. Le
Clairc and wife, J. Vincent and wife, and
Paul Gerst, father of Mme. Vincent. He
entered the service of the sightseers at
A’itginia City, Montana, tfie contracting to
show them through Tal k iu violation
of United States statutes. The strangers
were very wealthy, and said they jour¬
neyed overland from San Francisco for
the express purpose of going through the
Pars during the absence of the horde of
Summer excursionists, The party cn
joyed themselves hug' ly in the Park, af¬
filiating with poachers who were
slaughtering game for hides. Their
camp was always headquarters for pto
tessioual hunters, whom they supplied
with luxuries. The guide’s story of the
murder, which he says was committed by
the Indians, reads like a dime novel, and
will be thoroughly investigated by the
United States officials, and ilauk Ferry,
who is a great rascal, w ill receive atteutio:.
Officers at Canyon City have organized
a posse to secure the bodies of the mur
Jere i people and, if possible, proceed avenge
their deaths. They will with
ill possible haste, as the place is isolated
and wolves are liable to devour the re¬
mains before the park police or hunters
jtumble on them.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON,
OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
CONGRESS.
Vice President M rton was not present
at the opening of the Senate on Thurs¬
day, and Secretary McCook read a note
from Mr. Morton, stating that lie would
be absent from the session. Thereupon.
Mr. Sherman offered a resolution that
during the absence of the Vice Presi¬
dent, Mr. Ingalls should be president of
the Senate pro tern. An amendment for
that resolution was offered by Mr. Har¬
ris, substituting the name of Mr. Yoor
hees for that of Mr. Ingalls, The
amendment was rejected—yeas 27, nays
29, and the resolution was agreed to. Mr. du¬
Ingalls thereupon entered upon the
ties of presiding officer pro tern, the oath
of office having first been administered
to him by Air. Sherman, and it was or¬
dered that the President of the United
States be notified of Mr. Ingalls’ election.
The Senate then adjourned.
NOTES.
Secretary Windom has begun the re¬
organization of the Treasury Department
by the selection of Geftrge C. Tichenor,
of Illinois, as Assistant Secretary, it
place of Judge Maynard, resigned.
The three sick Congressmen—Buch¬ of New
anan, of New Jersey, Spinola, all
York, and Lee, of Virginia, Sunday, were and re¬ it
ported to be improving immediate
is thought none of them are in
danger.
One of the first things the State De¬
partment will dispose of is the appoint¬ confe¬
ment of delegates to the Samoan
rence at Berlin. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler,
John A. Kasson and William AValter
Phelps will be sent to represent the Uni¬
ted States, and they xvill bq accompanied
by ex-Consul-Gen. Sewell and Augustus
Cowherd, of Illinois, who negotiated the
treaty between the United States and
Samao.
On Thursday, the first cabinet meeting
of the new administration was held. It
is understood that it was an informal
meeting of the newly appointed cabinet might
officers, called in order that they
become acquainted with one another,
but from what leaked out, there is a very
general feeling, which is encouraged in a
very marked degree by the more promi¬
nent members of the party, in the confi¬
dence of the cabinet leaders, that every
Democrat, no matter how large or how •
small his position, must go.
The weather crop bulletin issued by
the Signal Office says: The season has
been favorable thn ughout the central
valleys and Southern states. The season
is well advanced, and farm work is in
progress from Texas to Minnesota and
Dakota. Notwithstanding the deficiency
of moisture in the Winter wheat region,
the report indicates that the weather in
that section has affected this crop favor¬
ably. Reports from Tennessee, Arkansas
and the Gulf States show that the
weather has been favorable for farm
work, which is well advanced, and crops
arc iu good condition.
Mr. Townshend representative Harri- from
Illinois died on Saturday. Mrs. Bowers
son seiit a beautiful bouquet of to
Mrs. Townsend, accompanied by the fol¬
lowing note, expressing her sympathy
and that of the President: “Executive
Mansion, Washington, I). C.—To Mrs.
Townshend: I was very much shocked
to hear of the sudden death of your hus¬
band. Your grief is too sacred to ap¬
proach with words. Accept these flow
ers witli my heartfelt sympathy. sympathy The
President desires to add his
tvith mine. Sincerely yours, Carrie S.
Harrison.”
TELEGRAPHIC- •
The weavers at Fall River, Mass., are
firm in their determination to strike.
For some time past they have been un¬
successfully endeavoring to get recog¬
nition of their organization. The man¬
ufacturers refuse to recognize this or¬
ganization.
A passenger train on the Trans-Caspian
Railway in Russia was on Sunday thrown
from the track in a tunnel, owing to the
removal of rails by train wreckers. The
result of the derailment was frightful,
the killed and injured numbering fifty.
The baud robbers who tore up the track
were captured.
A sensation has been in Cashmere by
the unearthing Resident. of a plot against discovery the life
of the British The
was made through letters left by the late
premier of Cashmere. These letters re¬
veal the design on the part of the Ma¬
harajah to poison the British Resident,
besides ofher treasonable plottings.
The steamer Cobean arrived in New
.
on Sunday, bringing news of a bloody
battle between Legitime’s and Hippo
litfc’s forces, and the massacre by the
victors. Legitime’s men were so «la|pd that
over their success at Graudsaiiap
they immediately commenced to pillage shot
the town. One drunken soldier
one of the prisoners for some trifling
matter. This was the signal for n gen¬
eral outbreak on the part of the soldiers.
They rti-lied at the prisoners, shooting
and stabbing them right horde and proceeded left, and
the undisciplined and smash furniture, to
break into houses
abuse the women and behave generally
like demons, winding up the atrocities
by firing the town. m
_
IN PRIVATE LIFE.
Ex-President Cleveland visited his
taw o flics in New York city on Thurs¬
day, and made arrangements with his
u minors to commence law practice right
away.