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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
In France, the army, to a man, is for
General Boulanger.
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Not less ..... than $5,000,000 arc invested
in special palace cars by the railroad
companies of this country.
Hie last Rhode Island Legislature had
Cigty-seven Republican majority on joint
ballot; the present one has eleven.
There is only one physician to every
6500 of the population in Russia, and
yet the destitution among the members
of the profession is alarming.
At Harvard College $250 has been
subscribed for a cup to be given to the
man who, within the next ten years,
shall have kicked the highest.
The Mikado of Japan really has no
more power than the average monarch
of Europe, and his duties and privileges
are very similar to those of the queen of
Great Britain.
A new parachutist, W. S. 5 oung,
hopes to outstrip his rivals by dropping
with his parachute tied up in a
sack. He says he will go so high that
he will have lime to release the para¬
chute and come down as usual.
The common school system is meeting
with popular favor in Mexico and regu¬
lations for | rimary compulsory educa¬
tion will soon be completed, while for
the training of teachers a normal school
lias 1 (‘(‘ii established, and the furniture
and apparatus fora normal school for fe¬
male teachers is now being put in place.
The women of Chicago iiave estab¬
lished the first College of Practical Arts
for women in this country. It is dc
signed to give women a practical insight
into the avenues of business life, such ns
law, railroads, life insurance, general
office work, elc. The incorporators of
the college nre Mos lames Helen M. Mott,
Charles B. bmith and Miss Katharine G.
Todd.
The New York Nem says (hat the
wonderful success which Mr. Ilenry
George has achieved during his lectur¬
ing in England, Scotland and Wales has
attracted the attention of a great many
people who hitherto have given little or
no attention to the land question, and
his speeches have had an immense
amount of influence upon the political
situation.
The five Central American republics—
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sal¬
vador and Honduras—have taken an¬
other step toward a federal union, by
agreeing upon a treaty which provides
that any difficulties arising between
them shall bo settled by the arbitration
of some foreign power; that none of the
five shall form foreign alliances without
the consent of all, and that delegates
from all shall meet annually to consider
matters of mutual interest.
If tlie city of Chicago takes advantage
of the annexation bill of the Illinois Leg¬
islature, she will before 1899 become the
fifth city in number of inhabitants in the
world; and she can achieve this by tak¬
ing in the adjoining towns of Hyde
Park, Lake Jefferson, Calumet, Evans¬
ton and Lake View. All these vllages
arc almost a part of Chicago now; and
while their incorporation would still
make Chicago smaller in territory than
Philadelphia, it would give her 100,030
more inhabitants, and would place her
next to New York.
8ays the New York Cton/iie trial Ad
rath : “The immediate cause of the
downfall of Gladstone's ministry four
years ago was Mr. Childers' budget,
wiili its proposal of an increased tax on
beer. There is, therefore, a note of
confident menace in the protest of the
British brewers against Mr. Goschen's
last budget estimate, which raises the
beer tax one-fourttenth of a penny per
gallon. 1 bis is a point iu which the
British taxpayers sensitiveness may be
very sorely touched. M ho steals his
purse steals tru h, but he who filches
from him his ’arf-and-'arf is liable to got
into serious difficulties with the voting
public. The de-homes from Land's
End to the Hebrides were plastered on
the former occasion with placards de¬
nouncing with pitiless force the tyrants
who taxed the poor man's beer, and
passed over the millionnaire’s sherrv.”
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
AN ITEMIZED ACCOUNT OP WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Capt. Lucien L. Bass, president of the
board of aldermen, of Richmond, Va.,
died Saturday.
The Pullman Palace Car Co., have
sent a representative to Raleigh, N. C.,
and will fight the state tax levy in the
courts.
United States Senator Joseph E. Brown
is so sick at his home in Atlanta, Ga.,
that some politicians are log-rolling for
his successor.
E. B. Davenport, senior member of
the large importing and grocery house of
Davenport & Morris, of Richmond, Va.,
died Sunday.
Bishop Quintard’s beautiful residence,
at Suwaaee, Tenn., was burned Saturday
night. The bishop’s valuable collection
of curiosities w r as totally destroyed.
Ed win Harris, late deputy collector of
New Orleans, La., has been indicted by
the grand jury on ten counts for em¬
bezzlement of sums aggregating nearly
$4,000.
All the laborers at the government
work, on the Warrior river, near Tuska
loosa, Ala., -went out on a strike. They
demanded an increase of pay and the dis¬
charge of the present foreman. The con¬
tractors refuse to accede to either of their
demands.
Dispatches report that a severe wind,
rain and hail storm, passed over Sunday, a large
portion of Western Missouri do¬
ing considerable damage to crops and
buildings. Near Warrensburg a church
was blown down and two persons dan¬
gerously injured.
Martin La Irvctt, a sporting Savannah, man well
known in Charleston, Ga., Co¬
lumbia and Greenville, S. C., dropped engaged
dead at 3 a. m. Saturday. He was
in playing a game of cards when he was
suddenly attacked by heart disease, and
died in a few hours.
A meeting of the Greenville, S. C.,
Farmers’ Alliance was held there in the
courthouse on Saturday. About one
hundred representatives were present.
Nearly a 1 the sub-alliances in the state
were represented. Resolutions were
passed adopting cotton bagging to take
the place of jute.
The Henderson Steel Co., let the con¬
tract for the erection of a thirty ton steel
plant, at Birmingham, Ala. The com¬
pany has had a small experimental months, plant and
in operation stockholders over have twelve fully sat¬
the become
isfied of the success of the Henderson
patents which they own. An excellent
quality of steel is made from the phos¬
phorous iron ore of the section.
One of the most dramatic incidents
ever witnessed in a church in Atlanta,
Ga., took place on the occasion of the
delivery of a sermon by Judge Howard
Van Epps on Sunday, who acted as sup¬
ply for Rev. Dr. Morrison of the First
Methodist Church. The judge’s subject
was the betrayal of Christ, and as he
described the scene and the agony of the
Savior in the garden of Gethsemaue, a
furious storm raged outside, and the
learned jurist’s remarks were punctuated of
by Hushes of lightning and peals
thunder.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Ark.,
gives tlie details of a terrible cyclone
which swept through that city Sunday.
The Methodist and Baptist churches and
several residences were wrecked, while
the roof of the Arkansas elevator, m
which is located the Missouri Pacific
depot, was blown across the tracks, de¬
molishing a number of loaded freight
cars. The only lives lost were those of
Kate Walton, aged 15; Ttidy Walton,
aged 9. Mrs. Walton, the mother, was
badly injured, and another daughter,
Lizzie Walton, had a hip dislocated.
All are colored.
Robert L. Howell, a youn* man 19
tears of age, and Each Aleywine, a
night watchman, had a dispute in the
round-house of the Marietta & North
Georgia Railroad, in Marietta, and the
lie passed between them. The dispute
was about some potato slips sold by
Aleywine to llowell: the latter went off
after a pistol and shot Aleywine through kind
the heart. There seems to be some
of fatality about the watchmen at this
shop. Almost exactly three years ago,a
negro watchman was murdered while on
duty there, and not ihe slightest clew
has ever been discovered as ro who did
the crime.
J. H. Benjamin, editor of the DeLand
Neies. shot and instantly killed Cipt. J.
W. Douglas, at New Smyrna, Fla..
Thursday. Douglas is a prominent citi
zen of Daytonia, and a well-known poli¬ of
tician. The shooting was the result
.hi old feud renewed by recent attacks
bv Benjamin in the columns of his
newspaper. Douglas assaulted Benja¬
min, knocking him off the pier into the
marsh and jumping on him, choking him
and holding his head under the water.
Benjamin managed to get hold of his
revolver, and placing it against Douglas’
body, fired. The ball entered his heart,
and Douglas died almost instantly.
A right between the strikers and scab
laborers at the Sloss furnaces. Bi ining
ham, Ala., was averted Saturday by the
timely arrival of Sheriff Smith with a
strong posse. The colored coke drawers
at the Sloss furnaces struck Friday for
an advance of ten cents per oven in wa¬
ges. New men were secured and put to
work Saturday morning. A large num¬
ber of strikers appeared on the scene and,
attacking the new men, drove them from
the ovens. The strikers then surrounded
the ovens and refused to let any one work.
The new men were mad. and wanted to
fight. The company appealed to the
sheriff for aid, and soon a strong placed posse
arrested six of the ringleaders and
them in the county jail.
Very few court attendants are
attending the Woolf oik trial at
Fort Valley, Ga. Many predict a mis¬
trial. Opinions differ as to the evidence
heard. Including the mistrial, 293 men
men have been examined as talesmen,
227 disqualified, 01 declared competent,
and four set aside by con
sent. There sre 650 names in
the jury boxes. Every had , , been
name
drawn when the twelfth juror was ac
cepted. A majority of the twelve arc
church members, two of them Primitive
Baptists, eleven h ive blue e} T es, one dark
brown. J. M. Frederick is a grand¬
father. Three hours were used in exatn
ining two jurors.
Just before sunrise on Thursday, as
Alfred Prioleau, a negro, was going to
his work, passing an unoccupied store
near the railroad track, at Ridgeway, S.
C,, he was suddenly fired upon by Cor
nelius Means, also colored. The weapon
used was a double-barrel shot gun.
Means was about fifteen feet from his
victim, and as Prioleau fell to the
ground he rushed upon him and struck
him three heavv blows with the butt of
the gun, upon ""the forehead," breaking
the weapon at the breech. Returning to
the house, in front of which he had fired,
Means laid by his gun and got his pistol.
rhen, standing over the now dead body,
ae pointed his pistol downward and fired
slice, the ball entering the wooden
bridge on which the corpse lay. Means
was arrested.
The Augusta, Ga., exchange has just
compiled the answers of its correspond
snt, in reply to crop inquiries in seventeen in
counties in Georgia, and five counties
South Carolina. Seventy-six corre¬
spondents report the acreage as last year ;
forty-seven report a decrease of ten pei
cent, and six an increase of five pe$ cent.
Seventy-seven report planting as having
progressed favorably, sixty-six report
that it has not. Only one correspondent with
out of 133 reports the plant up
good stands. All report bad effect from
cool nights, retarding growth and pro¬
ducing lice. The general tenor of all
reports is that <the crop is not in good
condition. One hundred and eight cor¬
respondents reports the crops from ter
days to two weeks late.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—-ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The Bank of Omaha, Neb., has failed,
with liabiljtiesiof $75,000; assets nomi¬
nal.
Emperor William’s review of the Eng
glish fleet off Spithead, has been fixed
for August 5.
Eighteen miners at Essen, Germany,
who were recently on strike, have been
sentenced to imprisonment for terms
ranging from two to six months foi
rioting.
Herr Seigel, editor of the Vaterlaiul.
a clerical paper of Munich, Germany, lius
been sentenced to six weeks’ imprison¬
ment for libelling tlie late Dowager
Queen.
The Germans in Switzerland protest
against the German official press attacks
upon the Swiss government. Meetings
have been called in Berne to discuss the
matter, and great excitement prevails.
The French cabinet considered favor¬
ably the request of the American resi¬
dents for permission to hold a public
celebration in Paris July 4. President
Carnot has consented to unveil a statue
of liberty on that day.
A severe tornado Saturday evening
wrecked many buildings at Danvers,
west of Bloomington, III. A church was
destroyed, freight cars blown from the
tracks” a tile factory ruined and many
barns and dwellings unroofed.
Missionary letters to the Anti-Slavery
Society, in London, England, say that
the Mahdists have made Western Abys¬
sinia a desert. Whole flocks and herds
have been destroyed, thousands ol
Christians have been thrown into slavery,
thousands of others have been butchered
and hundreds of the noblest inhabitants
have been taken to Mecca as slaves in
violation of treaties.
On Sunday,Private William Young, of
Company C, Fourteenth regiment N. G.
P.. committed suicide in his tent at
Johnstown, Pa., the scene of the flood,
by shooting himself in the head with a
rifle. He was a farm laborer. He had
been sick for several days, but nothing
in his manner indicated that he contem¬
plated taking his life. He was 29 years
of age. and leaves a wife and two child¬
ren.
In a debate on the educational budget
in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris,
France, the effort of ex-Premier Ferry
to address tlie house caused a great up¬
roar. A member of the right shouted:
“Tlie blood of the Touquin dead chokes
you!” and many similar cries were heard.
De Cassagnac advised the house to sub¬
mit and listen. “We swallow our dis¬
gust!” exclaimed Bourgois, deputy for
the department of the Vendee, and order
was restored.
COTTON.
The total expansion in the cotton area
for all the states has been for several
years small. The changes this season are
a little larger than a year ago. A net
increase over 1888 of 2.34 per ceut, bring
ing up the total to 20.3G9,4S0 acres in
1889. against 19,845.430 in 1888,
GREAT LOSSES.
WHAT OFFICIAL FIGURES SAT
OF JOHNSTOWN'S HORROR.
the monetary loss placed at $35,000,000—
THE MORTUARY FIGURES PLACED AT 9 , 763 —
INSANITY, AND NOT CONTAGION, FEAREH.
Notwithstanding have the fact that many
messagos been sent from Johnstown,
i Pa., indicating that diseases, the result
of exposure, were exceedingly common,
j the fuct is> that in the tbree i ar „ egt hos
pital«, very few cases of any kind exist,
and in over ninety per cent of these, the
; individuals are suffering from injuries
occurring during and after the flood.
Cases of pneumonia are very few, and
the report that measles is, to a large ex
tent, ing epidemic is false. The water sweep
through the valley with enormous
force, has carried the soft mud of the
river banks to distant and low-lyiDg bot
tom lands and lias covered the entire site
of Johnstown with a layer of pure sand
and gravel, varying in depth from a few
inches to a foot. As the consequence of
this, all cesspools have not only been
thoroughly washed out but afteiwards
filled with sand. Every particle of dirt
and city filth has been washed away and
B would De hard to find, hygemcaRy
speaking, a more cleanly spot than the
main portion of what was once Johns
town. The danger will be the accurau
lation of new filth, owing to the large
number of strangers living in tents and
the out-door life of the survivors. The
mental condition of almost every . former
resident of Johnstown is one of the
gravest character, and the reaction which
will set in when the reality of the whole
affair is fully comprehended can scarcely
fail to produce many cases of permanent
or temporary insanity. Most of the faces
that one meets, both male
and female are those of the
most profound melancholy, associated
with an almost absolute disregard of the
future. A nervous state is further evi¬
denced by a peculiar intonation of words,
the persons speaking mechanically, while
the voices of many rough looking men are
high changed into such tremulous notes of so
a pitch as to make one imagine that
a child, on the verge of tears, is speak¬
ing. Crying is so rare that a corres¬
pondent of a newspaper says, he saw not
a tear on any face in Johnstown, but the
women that are left are haggard with
pinched features and heavy, dark lines of
under their eyes. Indeed, evidence
systemic disturbance is so marked in al¬
most every individual who was present
at the time of the catastrophe that it is
impossible, with the eye alone, to sepa¬
rate the residents from those outside.
A lad named Dennie Fisher, whose
mother and sisters and brothers had lost
their lives in the flood, on Thursday
committed suicide while in a fit of de¬
spondency by hurling himself
from the top of a building
into the water and drowning.
Attempts to form statistics of the loss¬
es, show that the number of lives lost
foot up to 9,673 and the financial loss is
$35,000,000, of which the Pennsylvania
Railroad lose $10,000,000.
The work of recovering the dead goes
on with undiminished vigor, as the
workmen become accustomed to their
ghastly finds and tlie horrors of the
scene become commonplace, they apply
themselves more diligently to their duty
and labor with a system that produces
rapid results. One gang of workmen on
Thursday located the day express, which
was swept away at Conemaugh. The i
ruins of the train lie about one hundred
feet from the fourth buttress from the
western end of Stone bridge. Parts ol
the parlor cars have been found, as well
as traces of the passengers. The bag¬
gage of Miss Clara Christman, of Beaure¬
gard, Miss., was found. She was a mis¬
sionary on her way to Brazil for the
W Oman’s Foreign Mission Society of the
Methodist church. It is evident that
many lives were lost on this train, more
than at first supposed. The whole
train’s fate is still a mystery, at least the
passengers have not so far been found
and located.. There was a small-sized
riot at the labor camp on account of there
not being food enough for the men oi
utensils to cook it with. Mr. Fiinn,whe
is at the head of the labor bureau made
a speech to the men and stated that
it was impossible to get things
down from the railroad, but that they
would be obtained as soon as possible.
He also stated that they did not want
men who expected to live on the fat o
the land, and that this was principally
a work of charity, even though men did
get paid for their work. A few minutes
alter black this, as coffee Mr. and Fiinn eating was some drinking hard
some
crackers and cheese, two workmen came
up to him and commenced to complain
because they did not have soup and meat.
This enraged Mr. Fiinn, and after telling
them that he thought he was used tons
good eating as they were, he ordered the
guards to take themen out of town and
not permit them to come back again.
This seemed to have the desired effect,
and there was no more trouble.
The people breathe a little easier now
that al: apprehension as to further suf¬
fering with hunger have been dissipated.
Seven cars of supplies, brought up
Thursday * evening, are ready to be un¬
loaded. The track is not repaired fai
enough to bring cars opposite to tbe
center of the city, and boats cannot get
down to where they are. Tbe mayor
i telegraphed provisions the governor the that to last enough tne
are on way
| people several days. The relief commit
tees have been exceedingly busy, and are
constantly finding cases of suffering,
There is a verv large class who are not
applying for relief, but who have lost al]
their household goods and all theii
clothing. These include good lWed classes oi
j people, many of whom
principal streets, A wall has been
thrown around Johnstown, and
no one can enter it unless it
is shown that he has business
in the city. The Pennsylvania Railroad
has been making every effort to keep out
crow'ds, but the Baltimore & Ohio Rail¬
road. which opened Thursday, brought
in a Hood of people from Somerset Valley.
Gen. Hastings heard of it and after a
conference of officers it was decided to
send company F of the Fourteenth regi¬
ment to Somerset, for the purpose of
preventing auy further rush of people
that way. Another regiment of soldiers
will be ordered out to do guard duty.
SERIOUS COMPLICATION.
PATRICK EGAN TO RE RECALLED FKO.V
TIIE UNITED STATES MISSION AT CHILI.
Irish circles in New York are full of
the report that miuister to Chili Eagat
has been recalled to explain the refer¬
ences to his name in the Chicago trial.
John F. Scanlan, who was in Washing¬
ton, stopped there on his way to Chica¬
go, and it is stated that it was on his
statement that the recall is to be made.
James J. Rogers, the Brooklyn lawyer,
whose name is signed to the Clan-na
Gael report as one of the executive com¬
mittee, has given an interview to report¬
ers, in which he affects to believe that
Dr. Cronin is not dead at all, and that
the body found -was never conclusively
identified as that of the missing man. He
says there was no reason for Cronin’s
death, and adds: “The body might
have been placed in the catch basin by
men interested in helping the enemies ol
the Irish people. There are evidently some
men deeply bent on bringing out to the
public the purposes for which these
moneys were expended. If you have
noticed the reports of the alleged the Cronin first
murder in all the newspapers
three days were remarkably alike as if
inspired by the same set of men. To
me the whole thing looks more and
more every day as the clever work ol
some smart men interested in making if
appear that Crouin was killed. The
doctor, I feel convinced, is still living,
and has been sent out of the way to help
the scheme of an alleged murder, He
may not be cognizant of the scheme, but
he is all the same being used skill¬
fully to help it.” Rogers is an ardent
admirer of Alexander Sullivan, the Chi¬
cago lawyer, accused of complicity in
the murder of Cronin, and this is the
latest theory that is said to be now talked
continually inside the circles of the Clan
ua-Gael camps.
FRATERNAL GREETINGS.
UNION RECOMMENDED BETWEEN CONGRE
RATIONALISTS NORTH AND SOUTH.
At a meeting of the American Home
Missionary Society, held at Saratoga, N.
Y., to decide the condition on which
Southern white churches that have re¬
cently applied for congregational fellow¬
ship shall be aided by the society, aftei
a very earnest discussion of the present
and future relations between them and
the congregational churches region, the and associa¬
tions already in that members
of which are mostly colored, the follow¬
ing resolutions were unanimously adopt¬
ed: “In the full conviction that these
churches are in accord with the princi¬
ples of this society, and with those held
by the congregational churches which it
represents, Resolved. That we heartily
welcome them to fellowship. We com¬
mend them to the fraternal sympathy
and prayers of all our people, and we
request the officers of the society to ex¬
tend them such financial aid as they may
need, as promptly as its treasury shall
permit. Resolved, That this society
rejoices to learn that an effort is being
made to unite the Georgia Congregation¬
al Conference and the Georgia Congre¬
gational Association on principles of
equal recognition and the and fellowship of
all churches of each body, trust that
such union shall be accomplished.” the
Great satisfaction was expressed at
unanimous adoption of these resolutions,
as at one time it was feared that there
might be a serious split on the casts
auestion.”__.
SEATTLES’ LOSS.
^ fire broke out 0 n Thursdav in the
Pontius buildin „ in Seattle. Washington
'Territory and was raging over a district
ftf five or gix blocltSi wltb tremendous
£ ur y The wind was from the north,
an( j ^ be <}j rec tiou of the fire was along
the water on Front street, and from the
wa t er front to the big brick block, be
tween Columbia and San Francisco
streets> To add to the peril, a smart fan
bre eze began blowing off the bay,
nine the flames, and about the same time
a thousand feet of hose was caught in
tbe advancing blaze and destroyed. Be
f()re tbe fl ame3 were extinguished, nearly
^ , be bus j Dess ])ar t 0 f the place was
q estr cyed. J
GERMANY ANGRY.
The German papers say, that unless
the Swiss Bunderath reproves the official
concerned in the Wohlgemuth affair,
Germany will take reprisals by restrict¬
ing the frontier intercourse with ft eight,
postal and passenger service. Wohlge¬
muth is a German police inspector, whe
was arrested in Switzerland on the
charge of bribing a Swiss to act as agent
provocateur, and was expelled from the
country.
A HERO.
Bv the capsizing of a boat in the har
nor of Providence, R. I., John Morafi.
..L aged eighteen, James McNiff, ninetefibj
and William Hart, sixteen, were
drowned. James Hamilton, McNiff aged elgh* |Q§Q
teen, was savefl. was a aSslst-'
swimmer and declined proffered
q n op in favor ol Hamilton _ ..