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—rUBLWHKD WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
PICTURES OF
WASHINGTON.
MANY CHANGES BEING MADE
A MONO OF FI CIA LS.
CONGRESS.
With tho adjournment of the Senate,
on Tuesday, alt the noiniuutions sent of to
it are confirmed, vvitlt the exception
Eu.-eue Schuyler as Ass stunt Secretary
of State, und Murat JIalstcad ;is Minister
to Berlin. There are no nominations
han*^iiifcj fire, and everything wus closed
markable tip. The in special thing, session and has quite been differ¬ re¬
one
ent from nearly all other similar special of
sessions t > confirm the app hutments
newly elect'd pie-idents. It is not a
current thing in history for the Senate
to reject any appointments so early made
in a new admims. ration.
NOTES.
The Secretary of the Interior, on
Wednesday, approved the location of the
route for fifty additional miles of railroad
to be built by the Ilock Island Co. in tho
Indian Territory.
The three officers mentioned as likely
to succeed Adjt.-Gen. Drum of the
army are Cols. John C. Kelton, William
D. Col. Whipple Kehon, and however, Chnunccy tho McKeever. ranking
as
colonel of the corps, is considered most
likely to secure the coveted position.
Tho immediate relatives of those who
lost their lives in the great storm in Ha
moa, will bo entitled to pensions under
the general law. The pension is $6 per
month for a seaman’s widow, and |2 per
month for each child under 18 years of
age. Congress will probably also pass the a
special act making reimbursement for
effects and baggage of officers and men
lost, in the wrecks. This was done in the
case of the Huron, which went down on
the II itturas coast about fifteen years
ago.
Assistant Secretary Thompson, of
South Carolina, finally retired from the
Treasury Department on Tuesday, and
his successor, Col. Batcheller, assumed
the duties of the office. As a mark of
appreciation of their former chief, the
prominent officials of the Treasury gave
a dinner in honor of Mr. Thompson and
his colleague, Judge May nurd. Secre¬
tary of the Treasury Wiudom presided, honored
and Air Thompson, as tho
guest, sat on the right hand of the pro¬
dding officer.
The ten delegates that are to rep¬
rcsetri ine Untied (Stales at tho lu
ternationnl Conference to be held at
Washington this Fall, will have plenty
of intern-ding and important work to do.
The nations represented will be the
United States, Mexico, tho Central and
South American Republics, Hayti, San
Domingo and Brazil. The conference
was suggested by Mr. Blaine in 1881,
and among the subjects will be propo¬
sals for the establishment of internation¬
al arbitration, uniform coinage, weights
ami measures, customs and tariffs, and
plans for the more frequent and conven¬
ient interchange of commerce.
Corporal Tanner, the new Commis¬
sioner of Pensions, is creating some¬
thing of a sensation in his bureau. When
he entered upon his duties he announced
the Democrats must go. A clean sweep
at once meant chaos end confusion in
ihe business of the Pension Bureau, but
the new commissioner declared that he
meant what lie said, His friends conn
seled moderation, but the corporal “isn’t
built that way.” He prepared to revo¬
lutionize matters immediately, and made
so much fuss about it that it came to the
ears of the Secretary of the Interior.
The result was Secretary Noble’s order,
on Tuesday, to the effect that heads oi
bureaus and other officers of the Interior
Department would not call for resigna¬
tions except by his direction.
WHIPPED THE FIGHT.
After a vigorous light in Oska’oos
Kansas, the female candidates for city
offices won the day by sweeping msjori
lies. At Cottonwood Falls. K:;n. as,
the ladies were also elected triumphant, with Mrs.
Minnie M< rgun being the council mayor her
all the members of of
sex The c.-utcst for the mayoralty at
I.cavea worth lay between D. 11. Anthony,
Republican, and L. M. Hacker, Demo¬
crat. Suciin B. Anthony, sister of the
Republican candidate, worked her ically
for him, but Hacker was clectid by
about. 2,5(0 majority. Nearly 4,000
wotueu voted air ing the day, mosi of
them cast iu'' tWir ballots far Hacker.
HE OBSERVED IT.
Representatives of every Catholic so¬
ciety i n New York city, w ere present at t
meeting held on Thursday night to con¬
sider what part the Catholic citizens
should take in the Washington Centen¬
nial Celebration. Judge Daily said that
there were many reasons why Catholics
should honor the memory of Washing¬
ton. He never fail'd to observe St.
Patrick’s day in the time of the Revolu¬
tion, au-I on tin day the British evacu¬
ated B iston, “St. Patrick" was the
wa'chw >r I given to the army.
EXCITEMENT IN C AN AD A.
The Quebec branch of the. Evangelical
Alliance decided to affiliate with th;
Dominion Alliance and endorse the peti
bon to the government to disallow the
Josuits’era es bill
SOUTHERN
BRANCHES
LOPPED HERE ; T1IEIIE AND
EVERYWHERE.
NEW E«rrERl*BlSE-i—MOVEMENTS OF KF.LICHOUS
nonius—AFFRAYS, MISHA.VS, K10. —IJtCUfl
tuial items—notes.
A I.AISA UA.
William Dallas, a young colored man,
employed at the Sloss furnaces at Bir¬
mingham, on Thursday, fell into one of
the furnaces, and was burned to nslies in
a few moments, He was doing some
work at the top of the furnace, when lie
suddenly lost 1.is balance and fell in
backwards. He had only time to utter
a despairing shriek.
A fight to the death, in a dark room
occurred at Blocton on Thursday night,
between two miners named Jim Brown
and Fayette Davis, in which the former
was killed. Tho two men roomed to
gether and quarreled about a loaf of
bread. They commenced lighting and
overturned the lamp, which was extin¬
guished. After a long fight Davis suc¬
ceeded in drawing his pistol and shoot¬
ing Brown dead. D .via escaped.
“That is the man,” said Mrs. J. U.
Lundy on Wednesday when Jim Will¬
iams, alias Ben Elgy, was brought be
fore her. Mis. Lundy was able to leave
her room for the first time since she was
assaulted by this negro, two weeks ago.
The negro was brought out of jail und
taken before Mrs. Lundy, in order that
his identification might be complete. she
As soon as she saw the negro’s face,
exclaimed: “That is the man.”
About eight weeks ago, the body of J.
W. Meadows, a railroad man, was found
about two miles from Birmingham. Sev¬
eral parties were arrested for the crime,
but no evidence against them being ob¬
tained, they were released. On Thurs¬
day, four negroes were arrested, and it is
beiieved enough evidence has been secur¬
ed to convict them of the murder. Their
names are Lawrence Johnson, Henry .Joe,
Linilsy Malachy and Gilbert Lowe.
Upon the person of one of them was
found the watch and scarf pin of the
murdered man, and a number of pictures
and photographs which he was known
to have had in his pockets.
Some of the doctors of Birmingham
are stirred up over the recovery of a ne¬
gro from what seemed to bo a well-de¬
veloped case of hydrophobia. J. E.
Brown, a colored man, had a small dog
that war attacked by a strange cur, and
in defending his pet, the negro wus bit
ten slightly in several places. Last
week Brown’s dog showed signs of hy¬
drophobia, and waB killed. Monday, and
Brown himself hecaruo violently ill,
developed symptoms of hydrophobia.
Ho grew worse rapidly, und on Monday
night it required the combined efforts of
six men to tie him on the bed. The
doctors applied the usual remedies to ro
lievc the man’s sufferings, but they were
surprised when he appeared and to be grow
ing better on Wednesday, will no
doubt recover
NORTH CAROLINA.
Senator Vance, who is at his home,
Gombroon, near Black Mountain, though
suffering from nervousness, is being
very much improved by rest aud the
mountain air.
Governor Fowle has issued a death
warrant for the execution of Eli Ward, a
negro burglar, , , at ... Jackson, xt N* r .v hiunp ,
county, May 30. 5\ urd set lue o o
jail recently and m now in jaff at Ila t a .
llis execution will be public am vsi e
the fouuh during the present year.
Clifts. JVI. Dudley, a white man, wuis
instantly killed ou Thursday at AN il
mingtoii, on board tho old bark Albados. j
A colored man, John Johnson, had liis
thigh cru-hed. The accident was caused :
by the billing of the ship’s muinyard j
from a height of thirty feet to the deck, j
On Thursday night the Wilson, planing mills Wil- J
belonging to John M. at
son’s Mills, together with a large ware
house adjoining, were burned. The
Richmond and Danville depot was also
destroyed. The main line of track was
so warped that trains could not pass un¬
til it was repaired. The loss on the mill
amounted to about $25,000. James
Wallace went into the mill during tho
fire for his tools aud was burned to
death.
The colored people in the Kinston sec
tion are wild over the matter of offices
under President Harrison. They are as¬
pirants for places to be made vacant by
turning out Democrats, aud in addition
to employing a special instructor, are
sending their petitions to the Throne of
Grace. They hold prayer meetings
daily, 8ud ask that the hands of the
President may be laid upon them, and
that their services may be required by
the government
A large party of negroes left Raleigh
on Tuesday for Arkansas. Attempts
thus far in the more eastern and southern
counties to induce the negroes to emi
grate, have proved an absolute failure,
The labor agents arc hard at w ork to in
duce them to go to Kansas, Arkansas or
California. It is now believed that the
exodus has almost ended uutil in the late
Summer. when it will become more ex
tensive and far more systematic, as it will
then, it is claimed, be under the auspices the
and control, to a great extent, of
state immigration association.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Detectives Baldwin, Robinson and
Wallace, coal police for the Elkhorn re¬
gion Mercer countv, went to Tug river
on Wednesday to arrest a desperado and
moonshiner, named Will Moran. A
fight ensued and Moran was killed; not,
however, until be bad wounded eerioua
ly all three of fhe detectives.
ARKANSAS.
lion. C. R. Breckenridge, congress
man-elect from the 2nd district, visited
Li tie Rock on Thursday to confer with
the governor about the efforts being
made to catch the Clayton murderers.
Ti e congressman told the governor tc
let him know when he needed funis, tc
speak as often as he needed money, foi
all he needed and he (Breckenridge),
would undertake to go over the 2nd dis¬
trict and raise as many thousands of dol¬
lars as was needed, to exhaust all human
efforts to bring the guilty to justice.
FLORIDA.
Fred Douglas, the well-known colored
orator, was the guest of the colored peo¬
ple at Jacksonville on Thursday. A
procession numbering five hundred, in¬
cluding the military companies, escorted
him fiom the station to the Sub-Tropical
Exposition, where he delivered a short
address, congratulating the colored peo
pie of Florida upon their progress since
Emancipation,
Ex-President Cleveland and party ar
rived at Jacksonville on Thursday by which the
plant steamer, from Enterprise, and
stopped enroute at Orange Grove
the winter residence of H. B. Plant, at
Fort Gates. An informal breakfast was
given them. No speeches or toasts were
offered. The breakfast over, the party
took carriages aud visited the Sub-Trop¬
ical. “I make a prediction,” said Mr.
Cleveland, “and it is this: Jacksonville
is destined to be one of the finest cities
in the South, and next year you will
have a tremendous influx of Northern
visitors, for every one who comes here
goes away with regret, and P assure you
that I only wish I could linger longer.”
GEORGIA.
The safe of the Sandersvillo postoffice
was blown open and robbed on Wednes¬
day. The safe front was literally blown
to pieces, and the debris covering the
end of the room. The money in the safe
did not amount to $100. hut a number of
valuable papers, useful only to Postmas¬
ter Roberts, were taken.
Athens is to have a new daily paper.
The paper will be an eight page morn¬
ing daily, and will contain the Assoc¬
iated Press dispatches and special cor¬
respondence. It will be edited, in all
probability, by Col. Albert 11. Lamar,
of Macon. 'I he Athens Evening Chroni¬
cle is to be merged into the new daily,
thus leaving the city with two first-class
papers, both morning.
Thomas Woolfolk, in confinement at
Macon, on Tuesday made a display of
that temper some time exhibited by him
during his recent trial. When Jailor Bird¬
song entered that part of the jail where
Woolfolk is confined, he asked the jailer
to let him out in the corridor, The
jailer told him he should come out in a
few moments, but because the jailer
would not let him have acc ss to the
corridor immediately, he flew in a violent
rage and became very abusive and pro¬
fane, and his curses could be heard in all
parts of the jail.
The trial of Hardy Hamilton, charged
with the murder of the Ch nanian, Joe T
Lee, was concluded in Rome, Ga., on
Wednesday. The evidence made out a
clear case of cold-blooded and atrocious
murder, whose only motive was robbery.
Several silver dollars, stained with blood,
were introduced in evidence. The money
belonged to the Chinese, and was found
in Hardy Hamilton’s trunk. The case
was given to the jury, and they returned
in a very few minutes with a verdict <4
guilty. The jury did not recommend to
mercy and the penalty will be death.
A man who registered at the King
Hotel, at Stone Mountain, on Monday
11 jgy 1 t > as Charles Thompson, of Atlanta,
j ound early Tuesday morning along
0 f the railroad track with a bullet
hole his head> and his sku n crashed.
^ ear him was a burglar’® “jimmy,”
„hicli had been used no doubt to batter
out his brains. He had been seen in
company with A. D. Reviere, of Gwin
net ^ couu ty ) and Reviere was arrested on
* general impression is,
SUS pj C ;ou. 'Ihe
jjjg two j iad planned a robbery,
quarrelled about it, and the murder was
the consequence,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
At Yorkville on Thursday, Charles
Colston, John C. Feaster, and Charles
McMenus, all colored, were tried for the
murder of W. C. Abernathy, white.
Colton and Feaster were convicted and
McManus was acquitted. the jail, The but Jenkins lynch¬
Rifles are on guard at
ing is not feared, as the people are satis¬
fied with the verdict.
TENN ESS TtH.
Sheriff Greenlee, of Granger county,
was shut and instantly killed while at
tempting to arrest John Woltbargcn, an
escaped convict from the penitentiary.
Iu a collision of two freight trains, the
two miles South of Nashville, on
Decatur division of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, on Thursday, M.
L. Eby and Earnest C. Green, both
brakemao, were intantly killed, and Al
bert Finds had his back broken. The
trams were running at about twenty-five
miles an hour at the time of the acci
dent. An adjacent curve prevented he
engineers seeing each other till it was too
bite.
One of the boldest schemes for robbing
the county treasury has just been un¬
earthed at Murfreesboro, by Attorney
General Moses Priest, In the looking over bis
the cost of maintaining county,
attention was attracted to the fact that
costs had been allowed to over 800 cases
for burying paupers being during the last
year. Those figures somewhat
large for a county of less than investigation 20,000 in¬
habitants, he began an
with the result,that not one-tenth of that
number of actual paupers had died dur¬
ing the year. One woman, according to
the books, had l>een buried three times,
»nd is yet alive and well, in the town of
Murfreesboro.
A Romance of Tennessee.
A Nashville (Tenn.) dispatcli says:
A suit to recover a fourth interest in an
estate, reckoned at $300,000, filed in the
Davidson county courts, recalls a rom¬
ance of unusual interest. Isaac Frank¬
lin was once the richest man in the
South, owning home four big plantations. visitors’ At
his princely lie kept a
register, and one day a frolic, party of young and
Nashville people on a called Hayes,
inscribed their names. Adecilia
the then belle of the South, was one of
these, and, careless of consequences,
wrote opposite her name her intention
of “setting her cap” for old man Frank¬
lin. The rich widower was caught in
the trap, and married Miss Hayes.
Franklin soon died, leaving a young aud
lovely' widow worth $4,000,000. Some
time later Joseph Addon, a yovmg law¬
yer of Huntsville, Ala., proposed to a
party of friends that if they would give
him $1,000 for expenses he would en¬
snare the wealthy widow. Acklen was
smart and handsome, and his friends
provided him with the requisite cash.
With a show of wealth Acklen laid siege
to the heart of Mrs. Franklin, and soon
they were married. They built a coun¬
try home called “Belmont,” a superb
place, surrounded by seventy-five acres
of ornamented grounds, with conserva¬
tories, music hall, billiard pagoda, entertained and.
zoological garden, and
regally. Acklen died during the war,
leaving four children, one of whom,
Hon. Joseph H. Acklen, formerly a
member of Congress from Louisiana, is
plaintiff in the suit spoken married of. Mrs. Dr.
Acklen, some time later,
W. B. Cheatham, of this city. Fifteen
lmndren invitations were issued, aud
many guests from Europe were present Mrs.
at the nuptials. After the war
Cheatham sued the government for
$1,000,000 for damages to a cotton crop,
and won her case. Her attorney was
the Confederate general, receive $100,000 Gideon J.
Pillow, who was to as
his fee, but the widow demurred and
the demurer was sustained. Since theii
the estate has wasted away until, when
Mrs. Cheatham recently died at the
5th Avenue Hotel, in New York, it was
not estimated to be worth more than
$300,000, for a fourth interest in which
young Acklen bring suit.
Feats of a Noted Steeplechaser.
One of the most enthusiastic of the
German, steeplechasers was Lieutenant
General Rosenberg. He is now fifty-five
years old, but, up to ton years ago, he
had no superior as a rider on the Con¬
tinent. Nearly every bone in his body
has been broken at one time or another,
and last year ho rode in a race, came a
cropper and broke his arm. Among tho
friends ox Ms younger days was Count
Fritz Metternieh of Austria, with whom
he had many a hot contest over fenco
and wall and ditch. One day, in 1866,
General Rooeubeig, then captain, four was
out on patrol with throe or men,
when he met an Austrian patrol, and
recognized its leader as his old friend
Metternieh. The latter wheeled about,
and, putting spurs to liis horse, followed, galloped
off at racing speed. Rosenberg fugi¬
and after a hot chase overtook the
tive, but instead of taking him prisoner
or putting him down, he increased the
speed of the Austrian’s horse by prod¬
ding him iu the flank with the point of
his sword until he got tired, when he
turned and rode back to his regiment. the
The incident created a laugh among is still
racing in men in both armies, and
told tlie clubs of Germany for the ed¬
ification of tlie rising generation. In
1885 the General was at Breslau, in Si¬
lesia, and made a bet one night that ho
would leave that city on horseback at
the same time that tlie express train left
and arrive in Berlin, 400 miles away,
before it. Relays of horses were station¬
ed along the route, and he won the bet,
arriving some time ahead of the train.
That evening he attended the circus,
where he was recognized by tlie people
’ and received with a cyclone of cheers.
West Point cadets always attract at¬
tention and favorable comment from
the public. A number of them, when
in Washington, were thus described:
“They were covered with buttons and so
tightly laced and walked so straight that
a ramrod looks puffy and humpbacked
beside them.”
THOMAS F. FARLEY
Furniture, Stoves
—AND—
All Kinls of House Furnishing;
C-OODS,
•248 Broad St.. -2nd door south
of 13th Street,
COLUMBUS, GA.
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Augusta, Ga.
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