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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
There is apparently a pre sing need
for more suitable cavalry horses than are
at present bred in the United States.
“Millions for cotton bagging—not
one cent for jute.” That, announces the
Atlanta Constitution, is to be the farm¬
ers’ sliibWdeth in Georgia for the com¬
ing caraj a gn.
W. .J. App! gat • and John Bryant, of
Chicago, have a patent to make coal cut
of the slack by means of a chemical
composition and compressing machine.
They take the refuse coal and press it
into a brick. The patentees have al
ready sold their right in England for
$ 10 , 000 .
The Japanese arc rapidly turning to
Christianity, asserts the New York
Timet —not simply Christian civilization,
but organic Christianity. Nearly 7000
_
converts were baptized last year, and
the net increase of members was nearly
6000, or about thirty per cent., while
tbe contributions of native Christians
advanced more than fifty per cent.
The formal acceptance by Chili of the
invitation of the United States to the
Congress of American nations soon to
be held in Washington, followed by
that of Ecuador, which has just been
received, and by that of Peru and Bo¬
livia, which will undoubtedly follow,
completes the list of nations, and makes
certain the participation of them all in
the great American gathering.
James W- Romeyn, our Consul at
Valparaiso, in reporting to the Depart¬
ment of State upon the trade and com¬
merce of Chili, comments upon the fact
that while the imports into Chili in 1887
amounted to $48,630,000, only $3,200,
000 came from the United States, and
that while 15,000 vessels entered and
cleared at Chilian ports, the American
flag waved over only 221 of them.
“It is a curious coincidence,” said a
New York detective to a Sun young
nmn recently, “that nearly all the tene¬
ment-house murders occur on the top
floor. In fifteen years’ experience I
think I can count on my fingers all mur¬
ders in tenement Houses that did not
sustain my statement. The most fruit¬
ful cause of crime is poverty, and the
poorest people live in the cheapest rents,
wince are, of course, the top floors of
the big tenements.”
The first Arbor Day was observed in
Nebraska several years ago, when 12,
000,000 trees were planted, There are
now growing in the State 605,000,000
trees. In other States many millions of
trees have been planted, and at the pres¬
ent time thirty-four States observe an
Arbor Day. A hundred thousand acres
of valuolo s dunes on the Bay of Biscay
were planted with trees by Bremontier,
which now yield Franco an annual in¬
come of one hundred and thirty thou¬
sand francs.
The wav of the transgressor is hard.
A vagrant who died in New York hos¬
pital the other day turns out to have
been Ellery C. Daniels, who, in 1870,
was the cashier of a Boston bank, He
stole $86,000, served a year in prison,
was pardoned, traveled for a piano fac¬
tory, embezzled $8000 and then went
to New York, lie descended from
bookkeeping to clerking during a term,
and finally became a common vagrant.
Yet twenty years ago lie was a brilliant
social star in B >ston.
John Doe, a famous forger who was
released on parole from the Ohio peni
tentiary receu lv, has asked to be taken
back, as be finds it impossible to gain a
ivclihood outside of the prison walls by
reason of the fact that he is kuown to
be a convict. Doc is a tine accountant
and writes a beautiful hand. He would
have gone to California, where his
parents are sakl to be wealthy, but he
was not allowed under the terms of bis
parole to leave the state. When sent to
prison in 1STS he was a splendid speci¬
men of physical manhood, but today he
is a perfect wreck of his former self.
Just before going back to the peniten
tiarv the warden received $100 from
Doe's mother in California to keep him
ont until his time fully expires m Oeto
ber next.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
AN ITEMIZED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The business interests of Dublin, Ga.,
received a severe shock Sunday morning
by ihi destruction by fire on Sunday, of
ten blocks of stores, aggregating a loss
of nearly $50,000.
’ Some of the w holesale merchants of
Savannah, Ga., are talking of having a
bill introduced in the Legislature making
it an off' nsi punishable by a heavy fine
to underbill goods.
A brakeman on the Jasper branch of
the N. & C. Railroad, named Frank
Hoge, was caught between the bumpers
of the passenger coach while making a
coupling at Chattanooga, Tenn., was
mashed almost into pulp and was killed
instantly.
William Jackson, of Sampson, N. C.,
went to the town of Dunn, taking his
little girl with him. As they were and the re¬
turning home, Jackson walking
little girl driving, the horse became
frightened, ran away and immediately
killed the girl.
Grand River, near Chilhcothe, Mo., is
greatly swollen, and bottoms are flooded.
Great damage and some losi of life is
reported. Three teams and wagons were
found lodged in the driftwood around
the bridge at Jimtown, three miles
southeast of the city.
The nineteenth annual sission of the
Colored Missionary Baptist Convention
of Georgia was held in Atlanta, Ga.
There were 52 associations, 1,500
churches and 167,000 colored Baptists
represented. There were about 400 del¬
egates present.
The recent discharge of conductors in
the upper division of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, was followed by the
discharge of three on the South and
North division, running between Mont¬
gomery and Decatur, Ala. No cause is
given. The conductors are simply served
with notice to quit.
St, Coleman, the rich merchant of
Macon, Ga., died on Sunday. A strange
futality has recently attended Mr. Cole¬
man’s business firms, two of his partners
and himself dying within two months.
About two months ago N. M. Solomon
died, and about six weeks ago Charles
Wright died, and now comes Mr. Cole¬
man himself. The surviving members of
the firm are W. II. Burden and Eugeue
Harris.
The jury in the case of Louis Claire
and John Gibson, clirrged with murder¬
ing lion. Patrick Mealey, on New Year’s
morning 1888, in New Orleans, La.,
rendered a verdict of “guilty without
capital punishment.” This is the second
trial Claire and Gibson have had with
similar results, the verdict in the first
case having been set aside by the su¬
preme court on the ground that the tes¬
timony of a material witness for the de¬
fense had been improperly excluded.
Augusta,Ga., business circles has spent
the past week, in discussing what is gen¬
erally looked upon as a sensation of un¬
usual magnitude, involving, as it does
the most prominent young brokers in
the state. James U. Jackson is the man,
and rumor has charged him with being
over $50,000 short in bis account with
George R. Eager, president of the North
Georgia Improvement Co., which virtu¬
ally is the Marietta & North Georgia Maj.
Railroad Co. He is a relative of
Jackson, whose troubles several years
ago afforded considerable discussion.
Suit has been entered in the United
States Circuit Court by Charles Edward
Lewis, of St. Louis, Mo., against the.
City of Shreveport, La., for $70,800.
This is the amount involved in the dona¬
tion made by that city for the depot of
the Texas" & Pacific Railway. The
United States Supreme Court has decided
that the bonds upon which the money
was loaned were illegally issued, but this
time the holders come into court and say
they were induced to loan the money on
representation made by the mayor and
council of Shreveport, it having been
loaned by mistake.
The civil engineers and those of the
Savannah, Americus& Montgomery, col¬
lided iu the upper part of Tattnall coun¬
ty, two or three days ago. The Ceutral
corps started out ten days ago to locate
the Eden extension west towards East¬
man. Col. Hawkins has had a corps in
the woods for three weeks, running e
line from McRae to Savannah. To the
surprise of both parties they ran plum
against each other this week. The Cen¬
tral men were surprised to find their ri¬
vals so far north. No blood was shed,
and each party went on its way. Where
the two lines are t.o strike the East Ten¬
nessee, they are fifteen miles apart.
D. W. Harvey, hundred when opening a new the
road about two yards up on
side of Pigeon mountain, near LaFay
ette, Ga.. a flat rock was moved. Be¬
neath it was a stove pot, that contained
$2,688.60 in specie. Fifteen years age
there was a find near Trion. Some
hands were at work cutting down a hol¬
low post oak. As it broke off the stump,
a Mexican dollar rolled out. When a
thorough ; j v.V w as made, a number
them w r. * \ were
. .. .
Some shin «f t v,» >r had in
j ! past use-: , his a : tbe keeper of
secret.
HISfiLD.
i When Ky ’h the English
1 tor. appe«n 1 - D Yrs. James firown
Potter on ’In; • Chicago, III., the
j _ y he
went on
CHICAGO’S HORROR.
A DETECTIVE CHARGED WlTn DECOTING
A MAN TO A HOUSE TO BE MURDERED.
Dr. P. IL Cronin, of Ireland, and a
resident of Chicago, III., was murdered
a few days ago. One reason for the re¬
moval of'Dr. Cronin was the minority
report which he had prepared the as National a mem
ber of a committee of
League, which had been nusappropria- appointed to
look into certain rumored
tions of League money. This report of
Dr. Cronin is raid to have implicated and a
number of prominent officials,
would have been read before the meeting
of the League next January. There was
scarcely an Irish benevolent, political,
literary or social society of which he was
not a member. He was an ardent sup¬
porter of the policy of Parnell, and was
prominent in Irish-American political his
movement. Ilis friends attributed
disappearance to a conspiracy of his
Irish political enemies, and asserted that
he had several times said to his wife: “If
I lose my life, or anything happens to
me, Alexander Sullivan will be tbe one
back of it.” A member of the Chicago
police force is implicated in the taking
off of Dr. Cronin. The officer in ques¬
tion is Detective Daniel Coughlin. On
the morning of the day on which Dr.
Cronin disappeared, Coughlin engaged
at a livery stable, not far from where
Dr. Cronin lived, a horse and buggy,
which he said a friend of his would call
for that evening; that he called and was
given a white horse similar to the
one attached to the buggy in which
Cronin was decoyed away; that the time
of going and the description of the man
corresponds minutely, both with the time
when the man came for Dr. Cronin and
with the appearance of the man himself;
that Coughlin subsequently cautioned
the livery stable keeper to say nothing
about the matter. Coughlin w T of as
a member of one or more societies
which Cronin was a member and
they were enemies, The matter was
finally brought to the attention of Chief
of Police Hubbard, who seems inclined
to take a serious view of the matter and
promises to probe it to the bottom. It
is reported that C. I Long, who sent
dispatches from Toronto to several Chi
cago papers to the effect that he had seen
and conversed with Dr. Cronin in that
city several days after he was murdered
there, ha9 been seen in Chicago within
the past week. The rumor cannot now
be veiified. The whole affair is a singu¬
lar one, and seems to bear out the theory
of the police that it was a political mur¬
der, and that Detective Coughlin is cog¬
nizant of the particulars, if he did not
take part in the actual murder.
TEXAS ROBBERS,
A TRAIN HELD UP NEAR DALLAS, AND THE
ROBBERS SECURE CONSIDERABLE CASH.
An eastbound Texas and Pacific pas¬
senger train reached the crossing of the
Santa Fe, between Dallas, Texas, and the
fair grounds, Tuesday night about 9
o’clock. At this point two men boarded
the the* express car, knocked Messenger Ray,
of Pacific express company, in the
head with a six shooter. They bound
his hands, and at the muzzle of their pis¬
tols, forced him to hand over the key of
the safe. The train, while this was go¬
ing on, was making its usual speed, obliv¬ the
crew and passengers being utterly transpiring in
ious to the thrilling events
the express car. From the safe it is esti¬
mated the robbers took $5,000. In a
deep cut, one-half or three-fourths of a
mile cast of where the robbeis boarded
the traiu, they pulled the bell cord. The
engineer answered the signal, thinking,
of course, the conductor wanted him to
stop. The train slowed up. While the
speed was being slackened, tbe robbers
jumped off and fired two shots at the
messenger. Not until the train came to
a standstill, was the robbery brought to
the notice of the passengers and crew.
By this time, the robbers were out of
sight, leaving no clew behind. The
train proceeded on to Mesquite, and from
that point the fact of the robbery was
communicated to the officers at Dallas.
It has leaked out that the robbers were in
Dallas an hour after their work was fin¬
ished, and that they opened the package
of money there, aud buried the paper in¬
closing the notes. Noticeable absence of
several suspicious characters, who have
been seen on the streets the last few
days, was remarked by an officer ^ next
morning. He accounted for this implicated by in¬
timating that they have been
in the robbery. "The express company
claim it is unable to give an approximate accurate ac¬
count of their loss, or even
it.
PRESBYTERIAN HELP.
CO-OPUBATION AT HOME AND ABROAD
RECOMMENDED BT THE CONFERENCE.
In the Presbyterian General Assembly
on Thursday,the report of the committee
of conference on fratcrnalties in Chris¬
tian work with the Southern church,
which bad already been presented, day. The was
called upon the orders of the
report says that the committees of both
churches agreed upon co-operation in
the home field, aud in reference to co¬
operation in the evangelization of the
colored people recommended: that the
relations of tbe colored people in botb
churches be allowed to remain in statu
quo, the work among them to proceed
on the same line as before; that the sym¬
pathy of both churches be expended to¬
wards the evangelization of tbe colored
race, and, third, that the work under¬
taken by the Southern Assembly, such
as the Tuscaloosa Institute, for the edu¬
cation of colored ministers be mutually
recommended. Co-operation in by publi¬ the
cations had been’ agreed upon
committees.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MO VEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Secretary Windom signed the sailing
orders of the revenue steamer Rusk, di¬
recting that she sail immediately to Ou
nalaska, and then to cruise diligently in
Behring Sea to protect Alaskan fisheries.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson appointed Thursday, 367 fourth-class batch post¬
masters on the largest
made under the ad ministration. Among
them were J. T. Hightower, at Hinton,
Pickens county, Ga., and J. G. Connor,
at Tallulah Falls, Rabun county.
The United States steel cruiser Boston,
now at New York, will be ordered to
Hayti in a day or two in command of
Capt. O’Kane. Secretary Tracy says
that the order is in pursuance of re¬
lieving frequently vessels on West In¬
dian stations when they are exposed to
yellow fever.
At last, the 4th United States artillery,
with their magnificent band, all under
command of Cob H. W. Closson, have
domiciled at Fort McPherson, near At¬
lanta, Ga., and the Gate City fashiona¬
bles are happy. Germans, hops, picnics,
concerts, etc., will enliven the life of the
Atlantians.
The Indian Defence Association, com¬
posed mostly of Eastern peop le, and Sec¬
retary Noble of the Interior Department trouble
are haviug a warm quarrel. The
is caused by the Sioux Reservation
schools, and the will endeavor to protect
the Indians by inducing President Harri¬
son to influence and overrule Noble’s
action.
The recent change in station of two
artillery regiments is giving rise to nu¬
merous protests, and it is said that a
strong eff ort is being made to have the
details of the Fourth artillery from Fort
Adams, Newport harbor, to Atlanta,
Ga., revoked. Atlanta is the. new army
post, aud the objection to occupying it
on account of its being unhealthy, has
been suggested, but the health authori¬
ties of the city have filed affidavits at the
War Department as to its salubrity.
Mose Mims, a section band working on
the Augusta & Knoxville Road, a few
miles from Augusta, Ga., was run over paid
and killed Sunday. He had been
off and wanted to come to town, but the
boss refused to let him off, declaring that
he could not spare him from the work.
An engine with a couple of flat cars
started off towards town, the cars in
front, and it is supposed the negro tried
to steal into town by hiding himself un¬
der one of the cars on the brake shaft.
Fourth Auditor Lynch, who has the
distinction of being tbe only colored bu¬
reau officer in the service of the govern¬
ment, lias performed an act rvhich causes
some comment, in the selection of Miss
Sommerville as confidential secretary, an
office entirely within his own jurisdic¬ this
tion. There are three features of
appointment which make it particularly
notewoithy. In the first place the ap
pointe is a woman; in the second she is
colored, and in the third she is a near
relative, being the auditor’s sister-in-law.
It is reported to the Navy Department
that the United States steamer Yantic,
Commander J. C. Rockwell, arrived at
New York Saturday. On May 21, in
latitude 38, longitude 68, while on spe¬
cial duty destroying wrecks, she was
struck by a hurricane from the south,
which lasted three hours. She was
thrown on her beam ends, and lay in
that condition for one hour. To right
the ship, the launch, which was full of
water, was cut away. This proved un¬
successful however, and the foremast
had to be cut away. Three small boats
also were lost, and the main and mizzen
topmasts and part of the bowsprit were
carried away. Some of the crew’ were
slightly injured. The Yantic had been
running away from a southeastern cy¬
clone for two days previous.
LUCKY TENNESSEEANS.
A PEDLER's FORTUNE WILL BE DIVIDED
AMONG SOME DESERVING PEOPLE.
State Representative Jones, of Benton
county, passed through Nashville
on his way to Plainfield, N. J., to look
after a large fortune left to some of his
clients. About fifty years ago through a mau
named Latimer was tramping
North Carolina with a pedler’s love pack with on
his back, when he fell in a
poor girl named Sarah Mitchell, whom he
saw working in a field, lie at once pro¬
posed to her father to work in the girl’s
place for his board, if she would go to
the house. In a few weeks he married
the girl and the two went to Plainfield,
N. J., to live. They prospered, aud five
Tears ago Latimer died worth $1,000,
000. Half of this he left to his relatives
and half to his wife. A few weeks ago
the widow died, leaving something over
$500,000. One half of this she willed
to the children of her brothers an t sis¬
ters, who had removed to Benton and
Humphreys counties, Tenn., soon after
she had gone to New Jersey. Mr. Jones
says the $250,000 will come to about
twenty heirs in his county and Humph¬
reys, and will lift them out of poverty
into affluence. One of the family, A.
H. Mitchell, is a trustee of Benton coun¬
ty, and gets by the will $40,COO.
THE MINERS’ FATE.
The roof of the colliery, at Merthyi
Tydvil, Wales, fell in Thursdav, killing
one miner and entombing actively fifty-eight
others. Work is being the imprisoned prose¬
cuted for the rescue of
men.
FRUIT AS EVIDENCE.
FIVE SUPERSTITIOUS MURDERERS FUR¬
NISH CONVICTING PROOF.
During the trial of Gilbert Lowe Li
Birmingham, Ala., for murder, the testi
mony of Ben Elzey disclosed the fact
that the superstition of live negro mur
derers was largely instrumental in the
identification of their victim and their
arrest. One night last January, Ben
Elzey, Lawrence Johnson, Joe Halachi,
Gilbert Lowe and Henry Joe, all negroes,
found J. W. Meadows, a white man,
drunk on the streets; learned he had
about $100 dollars in money in his pock¬
et, and they took him ont on Red Moun¬
tain and robbed and murdered him.
Meadows had a cocoanut in his hand
when murdered. One of the negroes
picked it up and was going to eat it, so
Elzey testified on Thursday, but the
others told him if he ate the fruit the
ghost of the dead man would haunt
him. This frightened him, and he left
the cocoanut laying by the body. It was
six weeks before the body was found,
and then it was little move than a skele¬
ton, and could not be identified. The
shell of the cocoanut was still laying by
the body. A fruit dealer, hearing of
this, remembered selling a eocoanut to a
drunken white man, who went away
from his place in company with five ne¬
groes. This was the first, and one of
j the most important links in the chain of
evidence which led to the identification
of the body and the arrest of the mur¬
derers.
SOLDIERS SETTLED
A SUNDAY MORNING QUARREL ABOUT A
BUILDING SITE IN OKLAHOMA.
E. A. Weed, a claimant to a lot oe
First and Harrison streets in Guthrie,
Oklahoma, also claimed by a Mr. Hayes,
engaged a large force of men and began
Sunday morning to erect a building ovei
and around the other claimant. Thfl
aggrieved party was soon reinforced by i
large party of friends and idlers, and at
a preconcerted signal picked the frame by of.th« th«
building crowd was carried into up the
and street,
In doing this, part of the men carrying
the frame in walking backward stumblec
over a pile of lumber, and the men and
the timbers were piled in a confused
mass. While the disturbance was at it*
height, U. S. Marshal Needles arrived
and commanded the crowd to disperse.
He was opposed by argument by someol
the leaders. He at once secretly sent a
messenger for Uni:ed States troops, one
half a mile distant, and in order to hold
the people in check until the soldiers
arrived, sent two deputies into the center
of the crowd. During the next few
minutes, one or two fights of little con¬
sequence occurred, one of which was
occasioned by a thief. There was much
excitement at this time, but as soon as
the regulars were seen coming, the
turbulent element quieted dow r n,
and in five minutes the carpenters were
at work with the military formed in a
hollow square around the site of the
proposed structure.
THREE VERY BAD BOYS.
Chief of Police Wood, of Philadel¬
phia, Pa., received a telegrom from Jer¬
sey City, signed by John M. Deemer,
requesting him to arrest three boys who
left there on a train over the Pennsyl¬
vania railroad. Two detectives were
accordingly detailed and when the train
arrived at Broad street station the boys
were arrested. At the Central Police
Station they gave their names as C. E.
Burges, aged 14; Volney Gilbert, 14,and
Charles Dupret, 15. The boys provided were
•walking arsenals. Each was
with a rifle, cartridge belt and revolver,
and a search of their baggage brought
to light a small brass cannon, ammuni¬
tion therefor and fully 2,000 cartridges.
In addition to this, they had fishing
tackle, dark lanterns, base-hall outfits
and the other paraphernalia accoutrements of sports- of
men. All there were
the finest kind, They had through
tickets from New York to Louisville,
Ky., and one of the lads stated that their
destination was Sacramento, Cal.
ALABAMA’S INVITATION.
XIIE PRESIDENT IS ASKED TO VISIT NEW
DECATUR, ALABAMA.
Brickenridge Jones, of Decatur, Ala.,
called on President Harrison on Thurs¬
day, and in the name of the citizens of
New Decatur, invited him to attend the
ceremonies to take place there in cele¬
bration of the opening of various indus¬
trial enterprises. The President received
Mr. Jones very cordially and assured
him that he took a warm interest in the
industrial growth of the South, and ex¬
pressed his gratification at the many
evidences of material advancement which
the South was exhibiting. The Presi¬
dent said ho regretted that the state of
public business would not permit him to
be present in person at tbe opening oi
the new enterprises. At the suggestion Noble,
of tbe President and Secretary
Judge Shields, assistant attorney-general attend
for the Interior Department, will
the ceremonies at New Decatur and will
represent the administration on that oc¬
casion.
A GREAT CANAL.
The steamship Alvena sailed on Sun¬
day for Greytown, Nicaragua, carrying
fifty men and a the quantity of implements of thd
and stores for commencement
work on the Nicaragua canal. The first
work to be done will be the erection building of
the pier at Greytown, the of per¬
manent quarters, and hospitals, warehouses
and slips, the putting up of tele
graph wires along the line of the pro¬
jected canal.