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—PUBLMHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
MATTERS IN
WASHINGTON.
OF COURSE, A CHANGE BEGETS
A CHANGE.
COMillKSS.
NOTEH.
Reports to the navy department from
Oapt. Schoonmaker, commanding the
warship Vandalia, and Commander Mul
lun. commanding the Nipsie, both at
Apia, Samoa, confirm the telegraphic re¬
ports to the Associated Press.
The Interior Department states that
the President’s homestead proclamation, will throw 22d,
open to entry on Apiil
about 1,800,000 acres. The amount has
frequently been stated in newspapers at
between five and six million acres.
Mr. Tanner, the newly appointed
Commissioner of Pensions, holds that
when an old soldier presents a claim
which is manifestly good, but which he
cannot quite substantiate by the required
technical proof, the pension office should
help him to secure that proof, instead of
arbitrarily ruling against him.
The Secretary of War has prescribed
regulations governing the issue of urma
for military instructions at colleges, un¬
der which each college or university
where an army officer is stationed, will be
allowed two 8-inch rifled guns of wrought
iron, valued at #450 each, two carriages
and appurtenances, 150 Springfield cadet
rifles and a corresponding number of
bayonet scabbards and appendages.
The Signal office reports, that in the
Gulf States, the general effect of the
weather was favorable for the planting
of corn, cane and rice, which is about
completed, and for cotton planting,
which is now in progress. More rain is
needed in Texas and Alabama, while some
injury resulted from heavy rains in por¬
tions of Mississippi. Reports from Ten¬
nessee and Arkausa*s, indicate that the
fruit crop is in good condition injured and up by to
the present date has not been
'rost.
OCEAN DISASTERS.
Tho New York shipping men say that
the steamer lost off tue Virginia News, coast
was tho Nanticokc, from Newport
Va., for Ruatan, Honduras, which was
loaded down to the gunwales. The sup¬
position is that the Nanticoke cticoun
tcred equinoctial gales, nnd being dan¬
gerously loaded, could make no headway
and put buck for Chesapeake bay. In
this attempt she probably foundered.
The pilot boat Edmunds reports at Phil¬
adelphia, Pa., that she picked up a
clinker-built whale boat in good condi¬
tion, bottom up, with “Conscrva” mark¬
ed on her port bow, at Fenwick’s island,
bearing \V. by N. 1-2 N., distant 16 to
18 miles. Four oars were lashed in her,
and a new painter and a new line on each
end, both of which were broken and
everything covered with fish oil, includ¬
ing the ropes. ...The schooner M. B.
Steadson, of Provincetown, arrived at
Boston, Mass , on Tuesday in distress,
having Ik on in collision. When twenty
five miles cast of the Highlands of Cape
Cod, the watch sighted a small fishing
schooner, slightly under their lee, and
quite close. No light was visible, and
<s the other vessel was on theport tack,
trying to cross, Steadson’s helm was put
hard up to round tho stranger’s stern,
but it was too late, and the vessels came
together with a crash. Nothing could be
found of the other vessel after the col¬
lision, and it is believed .-he sank with
all on board.
SPANIARDS REJOICED.
Queen Vie min paid lier expected visit
to San Sebastian, Spun, on Wednesday.
She was accompanied by the Prince and
Princess llenrv, of Bat ten berg and mem
bets of her suite, including Lady Church¬
ill. Sir Francis Ford, British ambassador
at. Madrid, and lcpnsentativis of Queen
Regent Chri.'t unmet the royal visitor at
Irun, ou the frontier, whine a train was
waiting to convey her majesty to San
Sebastian. The queen, upon alighting
from the train, kissed Christina ou both
checks. Alter mutual presentations the
two qm eus entered the state carriage
and drove to the castle, : t ended by a
brilliant military escort. Victoria form¬
ally received the mayor of the town.
Her m-jesty afterwards witnessed a se
ries ot B quo mine < ami gains in the
rquar.* from ,t window in the town hall,
and wash, artnychei red when she ap
tain peared upon the concluded. balcony after From the cuter- the
men t was
town hall the party drove ti the railway
station where Victoria and Christina
exchanged affectionate adieus.
WILL CELEBRATE.
The Centennial Committee of Germans
of New York and its vicinity, met at
Arion hall on Sunday to make further
arrangements h r their part of the groat
parade. Carl Schurz pnsided, and the
repie-entatm s of ah m 150 German or
<*anizatiot:s w re present V committee
of arti>ts, of winch Joseph Iveppler is
chairman, reported that thev had decided
to have three divisions to tlufir part ol
the parade, first, historical, second, in
dustrial, and third, rep esentin" of°the science
and art. It is the intention Ger
mans to make their parade the finest ever
undertaken tv the race iu New York;
to have it surpass even the great peace
celebration that was held in New York
at the close of the Franco-Prussian war.
SOUTHERN
CURLINGS.
NEWSY ITEMS MOST INTEREST¬
INGLY BRIEFED.
ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILROADS, ETC.—DEATH OJ
PROMINENT PEOPLE—TEMPERANCE, SOCIAL
AND RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
AI.ABA.1IA.
“Yes, I cut the nigger’s head bff and
I’d do it again.” Tins was the admis¬
sion made by Jane Simmons, a negro
woman, w hen she was arrested in Blount
on Sunday. The woman had cut off the
head of a negro named Dave Brooks, a
miner, with an ax. The crime was
committed at Orconta, a small town on
the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, about
thirty-live miles north of Birmingham.
B. M. Huey, Jr., agent of the Southern
Expn-83 Co., at Blocton, on Thursday
prevented the robbery of the company’s
< flice by killing the would-be robber.
The safe in the office contained about
#6,000 besides belonging to the Cahaba Coal Co.,
several smaller sums. About ten
p.m., Huey and a friend were seated in
the office, when a whiteman, with his
face blackened, entered and pointing a
bull-dog revolver at Huey, ordered him
to throw up his hands. Instead of doing
so Huey reached for his pistol, which was
lying on his desk. Seeing the movement,
the stranger fired, the ball passing
through Huey's right shoulder. Grasp¬
ing his pistol in his left hand, Huey fired
and shot the man through the body.
The would-be robber ran out the front
door, and fell dead as he reached the
street.
ARKANSAS.
John Chambers was tried in Texar
kana on a charge of highway robbery,
committed near Bassett last November.
Chambers and a pal named William Ball,
engaged to work for a Mr. Giles, and
learning that their employer had, on No¬
vember 1, come into possession of sev¬
eral hundred dollars, they held him up
in the road ns he was en route home and
relieved him of his money. The jury
found a verdict of guilty with twenty
years iu the penitentiary. He has been
identified ns an ex-convict from Georgia,
and received the verdict with a light
laugh.
Plummerville, the town where the
ballot box was stolen, and Col. John M.
Clayton was assassinated, is writing its
history iu blood. Sunday, the thugs
added another chapter, ending the life
ot a well-to-do colored man by the name
of Joseph P. Smith. The leading de¬
tective agencies in the United States
have for weeks been working on the
Clayton case, and it is generally believed
that the web woven by ibe Pinker¬
tons is about completed, and there will
be a number of arrests made as soon as
the newly appointed U. S. district attor¬
ney and marshal for that district take
their offices. Smith was a very valuable
witness in w’orking up the Clayton engaged as¬
sassination. Joe Smith was at
Plummerville gathering testimony, and
it was thought lie would be able to do it
quietly and successfully, but the result
proved otherwise. Two colored men,
Eil Williams and Thomas Edwards, tes¬
tified at the coroner’s inquest that they
saw the shooting. There were very few
words exchanged before a man named
Richmond drew his revolver and opened
11 e on Smith. Constable Dick Gray and
Deputy Sheriff Tom McGee secured
horses* and in less than three hours cap
tu t (1 the murderer and placed him in the
e> uniy jail at Morriltou, where he is now
eonfiui d. The murderer is not over
eighteen years of age.
FLORIDA.
Secretary Adams, of the Sub-Tropical
Exposition, at Jacksonville, announces
that eighteen military companies from
the Southern states have already signed
the agreement to participate in the inter¬
state prize drill April 10, 11 and 12, and
enou .h more will sign dining the present
week to swell the total to thirty com
panics, Tim c thousand dollars are of
fered in prizes.
Atlanta is going thr u .1: the throes ot
a raoid transit .ever, and if plans now
p-ejected 1 are carried through, it will be
one of the best -railroaded" cities in the
country.
At the session of Dooly superior c mrt
just closed, the grand jury discussed of and
decided upon the election a new
court house at \ ienna. A commitltee
" as njtpoiuted by the grand jury to pre
j arc plans and specifications.
Yom) „ Moore , the l . S. postal clerk.
° the murder of
m triA[ at AtIauta lor
L( , o .; slat0r n unt , was ou Thuursday
fou no guilty with a recommendation to
mercy, Ami will be sentenced to life irn
prisonment. He was vt iy much pros
trated when the verdict was announced,
John Weathers who killed his brother
la-t Christina* was taken from Monroe
jail, and he goes up Icr three years. It
» short s ‘ , v ? e for the homicide of liis
brother, lie leaves a wife an; »e\er.i
small children in absolute i.estitiuc u.
camstacces, and all ol his r. -aim s are
P* or people. Starving childienu d wife
in r;1 s ‘ Ungnig to a departing lather in
~
stripes, was indeed a sad spectacle.
F. C. Jones had an altercation witn
a special policeman. Robert Walker, in
Albauv ou W ednesday. Jones had ad
vauceel towards Walker in a threatening
manner, and some claim had drawn a
knife upon him, when the officer drew
his pistol and fired twice, shooting Jones
through the right arm. When the po
liccman tired, a number of little girls
were directly behind Jones, and they
were terribly frightened.
KENTUCKY.
Deputy Marshal Russell Wiremac
raided some moonshiners at the Cross
Forks of the Kentucky river, in Knott
county, and captured ten prisoners.
These he lodged in jail, and then went on
another raid with four bailiffs. They
ariested J. Draughn, J. Adams and Jesse
Oium, and started back to Prestonburg.
They had only gone a short distance
when twelve men, armed with Winches¬
ter rifles, stepped out from behind some
rocks and opened tire on Wireman, their
bullets being apparently directed at him
alone. The officer returned the fire with
his rifle, as also did the special baliffs
and several rounds were exchanged. One
of the bullets struck AVireman in the
head, and he was wounded in several
other places. Two of the attacking party
were killed. The men who committed
the murder are supposed to be the same
ones who fired upon Deputy Marshal
Greer and were indicted during the Feb¬
ruary term of the U. S. court at Louis¬
ville.
LOUISIANA.
Thomas Rigby, one of ihe wealthiest
men in New Orleans, and for many yean
president of the 'Vicksburg & Meridian
Railroad Co., died on Sunday, aged
ninety years.
MISSOURI.
A well-dressed man, apparently Hotel about Parle
50 years of age, went to the
in St. Louis, accompanied by a good
looking, neatly dressed woman, regis¬
tered as 8. M. Waite and wife, of Flor¬
ida, and the couple were assigned drank a
room. During the night, Waite a
great deal of beer and had his supper
served in his room. The next morn ng
the woman left the hotel and did not re¬
turn. Later, Mr. Waite was found in a
dying condition with a bottle of mor¬
phine near him. Soon after being taken
to the hospital, Waite died. The police
are looking for the mysterious of oman, Flor¬
and the body of “8. M. Waite,
ida,” lies on a slab in the morgue uni¬
dentified.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Large crops of Irish potatoes on the
farms along the Dismal Swamp canal,
are entirely destroyed by water.
The grand jury of Perquimon has
found a true bill forthe murder by Henry
Lowe, who shot ex-Sheriff Wood’s
brother. The defense will be insanity.
Wiley Reed, colored, living in Carabus
county, while filling a lamp, left the
wick burning. An explosion took place,
severely burning Reed, and fatally in¬
juring kis son, who died.
Several Beaufort citizens have been
dealt with by the White Caps and are
staying at home nights. This is the
only county in the state in which the
White Caps have so far begun their
operations.
In Granville county, Spencer Weaver,
a half-witted white man, killed his sis¬
ter-in-law jry striking her on the neck
with a sticli of wood. The victim was
Mis. M. Longwis, who, having no home
of her own, spent a portion of her time
with her sister, Mrs. Weaver. She often
quarreled and fought with the man who
had killed her.
A warrant was issued at Franklin for
the arrest of Lee Lyons, a desperate
net;ro just out of the penitentiary. When
Officer Porter presented his authority
for the arrest. Lyons refused to be taken
to the magistrate before whom the war
rant was returnable, Tbe officer sum
raoned help and went back to arrest
Lyons, who stationed himself in a corner
of a room armed with a hay fork, and
said he would kill the man who put his
hands on him. He said that he had a
pistol, and under no circumstances would
lie surn nder. The officer used reasona¬
ble effoits to make him surrender and
stand trial, and finally, after remaining
with him two hours, attempted struck to put
irons on the prisoner. The bitter
at Porter furiously with the fork, when
ihe latter ordered him to be shot, at the
same time firing on him himself. Six
bullets were at once fired into Lyons,
from the effects of which he died.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
All Charleston is up and in arms foi
Port Royal for the naval station. The
executive committee of the Chamber of
Commerce held a meeting on Monday,
Mayor Bryan indorsing P. rt Royal.
The report of the special committee
appmnte ; by tjie diocesan convention ol
the Protestant Episcopal church the to color try
and arrange a settlement of
qmstion which led to .he sece-sion of
nearly all the Charleston churches two
years ago, is just pub-idled. Ihe report
recommends a comnn mise which pro
ogeg to !U f m it such colored clergymen
to the convention \\h> have been in con
ncct 5 on with the church twelve months
_ r j or t 0 Mav, 1889. It also proposes a
separate convocati m for the colored
c!iU ichcs under the ministration oi the
bishop,
TTgvXKSsny.
Ground was broken on Thursday ai
the line between Georgia and Tennessee
Ur the Chattauoga Southern Railroad,
to run to McLemore's Cove, penetrating
an important mineral and coal region,
The road will connect with the Chatta
uooga l uion Railway at the state line.
GAINING GROUND.
The three months of this year show t
continuance of the remarkable industrial
development of the Southern States. A
number of strong corporations formed in
the South, resulting in the influx of
millions of Northern cap.ta! in Tennessee,
Alabama and Georgia seem to have re
ceived the most attention at the bands
of Northern capitalists, although much
cu side money was invested in Kentucky
and \irginia. Nearly^ ibO i:.du>trics
were established in the South during the
past three months, against 625 new in
dust ries establ shed during the same pe¬
riod last year.
THE WORLD
AT LARGE.
PICK-UPS HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE.
EUROPE GETTING HER ARMIES AND NAVIES INTO
CONDITION—THE LABOR HELD— PROGRESSIVE
IDEAS BEING AGITATED.
Heavy snow storms prevailed in Aus¬
tria on Thursday.
A Genevan banker who lost by copper
speculation, has committed suicide.
English newspapers welcome the nom¬
ination of Mr. Lincoln as U. S. minister.
Twenty-one business houses were
burned down in Dixon, Ill., on Thurs¬
day.
Advices from Rome, Italy, say that
Pope Leo’s fainting fits have become
more frequent and alarming thun ever.
Detectives have arrested a dangerous
counterfeiter named L. S. Brown, at
Minneapolis, Minn., in the act of casting
a number of coins. His plan was old to
thinly plate the corns. He is an
soldier, and draws a pension.
On Thursday morning, Vernon G.
Simpson, of Norfolk, Va., died from the
effects of gas asphyxiation in New York.
The gas was found turned on in his room
at the Northwestern hotel, but whether
by accident or design is not known.
Simpson was alive when found, and a
doctor was called in, but he died shortly
afterward
All the mills were running in Fall
River, Mass., on Thursday except the
American Linen Mills, nearly all with
their full complement of weavers. The
linen mills were not ready to start on ac¬
count of the non-completion of some re¬
pairs to the machinery. It is expected
they will be ready to start old at looms. once.
The weavers were given their
There were some exceptions, however,
which caused some unpleasantness.
TELEGRAPHIC.
The German printers of New York
City announced on Sunday, that they
would demand #3.50 a day and go on
strike if refused.
The Council of State, at a meeting held
in Luxembourg, resolved to invite the
Duke of Nassau to become the regent of
Luxembourg.
While father Agostino was preaching
in the St. Carlo church, in Rome, Italy,
a bomb was exploded. Great excitement
followed and several women fainted,
but the preacher continued his sermon.
Postmaster General Wanamaker made
his first public utterance on Sunday in
Philadelphia, Pa., on the question of
high license and prohibition. He de¬
clared in favor of the consti
tutional amendment, and exhorted the
audience he addressed, to work, pray and
vote for it.
At a meeting of Central Labor Union,
in New York on Sunday, a communica¬
tion was read purporting to come from
Jay Gould, through Washington Davis,
railroad contractor, stating that “Mr.
Gould was willing to hand over to the
Union #11,000,00 ) in gold, with interest
from 1869, if the Central Labor Union
would be willing to adopt the plan for
co-operative industry proposed by Mr.
Gould.”
John A. Duff, a well known theatrical
manager, was attacked with a stroke of
paralysis, in the box office of the Stan¬
dard theater, of which he was manager,
just before the opening of the matinee
performance on Saturday, falling lifeless. from a
chair and to all appearances,
An ambulance was summoned, and he
was conveyed to a New York hospital
and thence to liis home, where lie died
on Sunday.
TO BE PUNISHED.
Th.° French cabinet decided to ask the
Chamber of Deputies to prosecute Gen.
Boulanger. The refusal of M. Bpuchez,
public prosecutor, to sign the indict¬
ment against Boulanger, on the ground
that there was not sufficient ha-is for the
charge of conspiracy, caused a great sen
sstion. If iVr. Bouehez should persist m
i< refusal he wifi be suspended from
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