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GRIFFIN.
>mf» Point* About til© Metropolis of
Middle Georgia..
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Onftiu i* tlie county scat, of Spaldiag floss-
1.virgin, an I i* situate i in the c*ntr* o
iv.zt portion of the great Empire State of
fljatli, where ail of it* wonderful and
•ird i ml nuttier .ncct and are carried on
!i -re itest cuceiba. and is thus able to of
i:i iace.u mts to all classes seeking a home
*.| a.profitable career. These are the rea-
f-u n growth that has about doubled
population sine* the lust census.
It tar ample and increasing railroad faeili-
the second point in importance on the
utrul railroad between the capital of the
late, forty mile* distant, »ad its principal
.sport, 250 miles away; an independent
to Oh-itt »n>»< i end the West by way of
e Savuunah, Qriffln and North Alabama
adroad; th* principal city on the Georgia
Midland and Gulf railroad, one hundred
mil.* long,.built largely through it* own en¬
terprise. and soon to be extended to Athens
I the of the ' Northaest
,i system*
.1 ir-vt « lanection with t'.iegreir. Hist Ten
uease*. Virginia and Georgia r.iilro uiayatenv
mother road graded and avoir to be built;
il l.riiiKing in trade and carrying out good*
lid manufactures. -
Oridin’s record for the |ia»t half d. cade
■irovM it oue of tha mast progressive cities iu
. South. --------------•-.......... . ..... ——-——
ft h is built two large cotton factories'
presenting 4250,001), and shipping goods
over tlie world.
It has put up a large iron and brass ioun
v, a fertilizer factory, a cotton seed oi
aill, a sash and blind-factory, an ice factory,
oitling work*, a broom factory, a mattress'
actory, and various smaller enterprises.
11 has put in an electric light plant by
which the street* nre brilliantly lighted. .
it ha* onened np the finest and largest
granite quarry in the State, for building.
alluding and macadamising purposes
It has Secured a cotton compress wilk n
ill capacity for it* targe and increasing ' re
eipt* of this Southern taple.
It has established a sy-tetn of eroded pub
school*, with " a seveu years curriculum,
ifjsd to none.
It ha* organized two new banks, making a
•tal of four, with combined resources of
million dollars.
“ it has built two handsome new churches,
uakiag a total oi ton. ,
It has bu ilt several hand g
locks and many beautiful residences, the
uihl.ng record of 1&89 aloae being over
150 006.
It hat attracted around ita border* fruit
rowers Iroin nearly every State in the Union
n l Canada, until it is surrounded on every
<ie by-ochard* and vineyards, aud bn* be¬
en* the largest and beet fruit sefltion In the
tate, a singlecar load of it*oraches m tting
I,2fte in the height of the season.
* It ha* doubled its wine making capacity
alqlng by both French and German meth ode
It ha* been exempt from ryrlonee, floods
ad epidemic!*, and by reason of it* t.po
raphy will never be subject to them.
With all these and other evidence* of a
iveaod growing town, with a healthful uad
ytoanant climate summer and winter, a
sospitable and cultured people and a
unpaid# of producing nay product of the tesa
prrstr or ee**i-tropic zone, Grille ofler*
every induce mint and a hearty we me to
new cltisenn.
Griffin one nr ing need, and that (an
,rjn ;o accommodate trari-
rk.*r» -m aimer winter
H*M.etnap tor wtmFle <*>FJ «* the
»\h Nrv and (Imn-rifitlve ponipWet't Gnllln
FROZEN EUROPE!
Freezing Weather Reported from
All Sections of the Country.
People Found Dead in Their
Lodgings and Elsewhere.
Harbor. Frozen at Toulon and Laaayae.
Th« Seine Jammed with lee Ten Feet
Thick—Frozen Wire in Cellars— Dee-
perm ». Wild Anlmalz—The Great Sn«#r-
ll| or the Poor In Various Section*.
New York. Jan. 2L— Advices from
Europe in regard to the extremely cold
weather, continue to come, anti the re¬
ports of destitution and suffering are
terrible. Following are some accounts:
Paris, Jan. 21.— The most intense cold
of the winter has been experienced
throughout France. An aged manVwas
found frozen to death in his lodgings in"
this city. The thermometer yesterday
touched 7 degrees Fahrenheit-at Macon,
12 degrees at Toulouse and J at Greno¬
ble. Wells are frozen at Perpignan,
where a man wa9 found frozen to death
in the street.
A woman was found frozen to death
in her beef at Ep inah, where the ther¬
mometer indicates 4 degrees below zero.
Slight snows have fallen in the Riviera.
Dispatches from all parts of France,
telling of great inconvenience and suf¬
fering, caused by the intense cold, are
continually The harbors being received here.
of Toulon and Laseyne
are frozen over for the first time on re¬
cord. Tlie olive crop iu the department
of Card is fast' 1 K>ing ruined. Whole
communes in the neighborhood of Per¬
pignan, in the Pyrenees, are cut off
from communication with the rest of the
world, and wayfarers iu those districts,
who had set out for mountain villages,
have been found frozen to death.
The Algiers mail steamer arrived at
Port Vendres, on the Mediterranean,
covered from stem to stern with ice and
enow, like a ship in the arctic regions.
A dispatch from Saragossa, in Spain, re¬
ports that the mercury there is at 14 de¬
grees Fahrenheit, and that snow is fall-
The Seine, at its confluence with the
Oise, is jammed with pack ice ten feet
high. At Nimee,
wide has frozen-in cajflfcra.
The Loire, at Neverse, is frozen ov«F. A
large tel number of vessels are icebound at
'Kizeif 1 an iT»ve*gone down fl&e
m,
river to anchor in the Verdun Roads.
Relieving the Great Distress.
Packs of wolves and numerous wild
boars invading isolated districts in
France* The unusually large fall of
snow and the terrible severity of the
weather have cut off their means of sub¬
sistence,-und through the animals have become
de«j>erate hunger, and fearlessly
prowl about the houses, to the great con¬
sternation of the people.
The same state of affairs are said to
exist in Spain, and from Cadiz oome re¬
ports of wolves being killed iu the streets
of the suburbs'.
Advices have been received from Al¬
giers covered to the effect that the country .is
with snow. A snow storm is
raging in Tunis, and the fall of snow is
already so heavy that traffic has been
stopped. The
dreds of municipal fires the authorities streets of lighted the city, hun¬
in
and large numbers around of wretchedly poor
persons crowded them, and in
the warmth afforded by the blaze en-
' deavored to obtain some relief from the
intense cold which prevailed. Every
effort is being made to relieve the great
distress which exists, and to this end the
Palais des Beaux Arts has been convert¬
ed into a night slieiter for the homeless,
and is” provided witha soup kitchen am
a large number of straw mattresses. The
building machinery is gallery iu the exhibition
used as a day shelter. Muni¬
cipal buildings elsewhere in the city are
also used for a similar purpose, and the
protection which they afford ia.eagerly
taken advantage of b y a larfee number*
of the suffering people.
The water supply in Versailles has bo-
come weather, very and scarce, owing to the freezing
venders of water are meet¬
ing with a brisk demand at four pence a
gallon.
Au epidemic of a disease resembling
influenza has broken out in Berlin. The
persons affected have a tendency toward
inflammation of the bowels.
Chilled to-Death.
London, Jam 21.—There is little or no
change in the severity of the weather
prevailing in and about this city. The
ice floating on the Thames, between Lon¬
don bridge and the Tower of London, is
so packed that the movement of lighters,
barges and all craft of that description,
in the usual maimer of sweeps, have en¬
tirely ceased. Steam power in the use
of tugs, as a rule, is necessary even to
move the barges inside the docks. Con¬
sequently the loading there and unloading is considerable vessels delay in
of at
this port
There is much suffering among the
poorer classes, and from various sections
of the country come accounts of many
cattle, and, in several instances, of hu¬
man trades beiugs frozen standstill, to death. Several
are at a owing to the
cold weather.
Newport, Heavy ice has blocked the docks at
in Monmouthshire, and it is
leave lmjiossible docks. for vessels -to either enter or
the A number of vessels
that are loaded and ready to proceed to
sea the are, breaking consequently, of the compelled to await
up ice before they
can sail.
in A lady has been found frozen to death
a railroad carriage at one of the sta¬
tions in this city.
Tbe Haiti® Sea.
Hamburg, Jan. 21.—A dispatch from
Kiel says that tbe Baltic sea, so far as
can be seen from the Buelk lighthouse,is
covered with ice.
Tbe channel separating tbe Island of
Febmaru from the Holsteiu shore is fro-
zeh over. 'The Lake of Cbnstance is so
covortKi with ics that ...............
lias i>et suspended. navigation upon it
n
i ThoAme7to^5^ankof
Kan-
or
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GRIFFIN GEORGIA TJ i>!*AY MGRNlNG JANUARY 22.1891
AFTER THE RAILROADS.
A New BUI IatrodKWd la tb*
legislature.
St.* Paul, Minn., Jan. 31— In the
house, Mr. Burner, of Blue Earth coun¬
ty, introduced a comprehensive r a i lr oa d
bill, drawn largely after the Iowa law,
but in many respects considered aa im¬
provement thereto. It is intended to
regulate the railroads and other common
carriers in this state, and to increase the
powers and further decide the duties of
the board of railroad commissioners, and
to prevent and punish extortion and un¬
just discrimination in passenger and
freight rates.
The bill is very long, and forbids any
discrimination whatever in favor of aay
shipper, It but permits joint rate making.
gives to the railroad commissioners
the right and power to fix rates after an
investigatiito'of ishable all circumstances.. Per¬
be favored freight is the only * kind that may
rates'are required, in handling. if Joint the railroads through
ana
do not make such rates the commission¬
ers must do it for them.
Common carriers are made liable for
three times the actual damages suffered.
Officials failing to comply with this law
are liable to a fine of from 4600 to $5,000.
corporation Proceedings may be brought against any
on the finding of the
commissioners and the disobedience of
writs sworn out makes the railroad liable
to a line of from $1 to $2,000. Annual
reports from all railroads to the commis¬
sioners are required. For the first offence
of extortion the fine shall be from $1 to
$5,000, and shall be doubled for each
subsequent employes, offense. All passes, save to
are prohibited.
POISON IN THE CQFFEE.
A Negro Girl Put* the Deadly Drug la the
Coffee and Denies It.
Lexington, Ky., Jan. 21.—One of the
worst cases of human depravity that
have occurred in this city has just been
enacted here.
Uly White,^ colored, was arrested,
charged with poisoning her father and
mother and other members of the fussi¬
ly ■ At the breakfast table, Eliza White
and'her husband, Peter, and Daniel Fra¬
zier and his wife, all colored, drank cof¬
fee prepared by Lily. Soon after they
were all token violently sick, and a phy¬
sician was immediately summoned.
Upon his arrival he declared that they
had been poisoned. Remedies were at
once administered, but they continued
to grow worse, and then other physi¬
cians were called in. Despite all they
could do, Dan Frazier died in a few
hours, and at noon liis wife also died.
In the afternoon Peter White died, while
his wife, who drank less of the coffee, is
in a critical condition.
Lily White, but the daughter, has been i
SSSKls rested, Jcfej^Ssenf^l^a^mfnlslered*^ denies all knowledge of t
her father a few days ago. The
only 15 years of age.
JOHN SMITH IN PRISON.
The Last »f the Perpetrator* of the LaSd
Murder.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 21.—The last of
the perpetrators of the Ladd murder,
committed near Blountsville, last fall,
has been received at the Prison Soutli.
John P. Smith is his name, and be will
serve two years.
The kilting created intense excitement
at the time, and it was charged by Re¬
publicans that it was the result of Dem¬
ocratic shotgun policy, but at the trials,
which have been in progress since May
last, it was demonstrated clearly to have
been incited by members of the opposite
political The faith.
crime occurred as follows:
Eli Ladd, a desperate character, in
company with two men, named Means
and Evans, terrorized the citizens of
Blountsville, by firing their revolvers on
the principal streets. The men threat¬
ened the life of Win. Rozelle, a drug¬
gist,aud for self-protection be shot Ladd,
who was then trying to escape. Smith,
'ho was acting under the instructions
fJrMr Lake, started iu pursuit,
and, coming close up to him, he fired in
tjie air, as he claims, but Ladd at this
moment fell dead, and the arrest of both
Rozelle and Smith followed.
A man named Smeltzer, and Lake,
caped were implicated through as accessories, but es¬
against the accused. turning state’s evidence
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IN THE COURTS.
Th* McKlaley Tariff Bill will b* Fought
by Importer*. ——— : —A—
St. Louis, Jan. 21.—Several St. Louis
importers, through their agents, Wyman
St Co., have filed suit against the United
States government to test the constitu¬
tionality of the McKinely law.
These firms bought goods in Europe
since the passage of the McKinley bill,
which went into effect Oct. 1, and were
assessed the duty on them when they
were taken out of bond. They paid the
excess duty under New protest, to the board
of appraisers in York citv.
The board decides that the ‘
posed properly assessed duty im¬
was under the
tariff act, known as the McKinley
bill. There will be no defendant in the
case, and it grill be filed as “in the mat¬
ter of Charles Wyman Sc Co., and the
board of appraisers.”
The law will be attacked from several
points. constitutional, It will Tor be claimed that it is un¬
the reason that the
bill passed by the senate was not the
same bill Bigned by the president, as it
was proven that, through a clerical
error, an entire section was left out.
Other equally important points wifi be
made to prove the hill unconstitutional.
These suits are similar to those entered
by Chicago and Cincinnati importers.
7 Both Instantly Killed.
Braddock, Pa., Jan. iL—Jacob Wai¬
ters and son Henry, firemen at the Car¬
negie works, were returning to their
home in Turtle creek, after working all
night, Brinton, and .had readied a point
when they were struck by an
east-bound passenger train on the Penn-
sylvania Both bodies railroad and iustantly killed.
were literal iy identified. cut to pieces,
and were with difficulty
What P»rw»« Think*.
Washington, Jan. 21.—Col. H. C.
Parsons) of Virginia, a Republican itt
politics, and a close friend of Secretary
* Blaine, ***** is out in au interview, ^ iu
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, and that the force bill ought to he drop-
1 ped as if it was a red hot stovs. ,»
SLEW iltf? BMTHER
Cleveland County, N. €., the
Scene of the Awful Crime.
Charles > Williaipsot Killed
Erasmus while Drunk.
New* of the Terrible Tim*4y Received
»l Shelqj-—Without Ollier 'Provocation
Thus Beloz Drunk. Uje franc Brother
* tlrin—jf Ww Deoetfptloa of the
"inhuman HCuther FuruUlel the PnMIe.
Shklbv, N. G., Jan. 3k—There has
been a terrible tragedy, tern milted
Cleveland county.
Charles Williamson sbotiwith a pistol
and killed his younger brotter Erasmus,
son of F* I). Williamson, Mknday night,
in a drunken frenzy, and without provo¬
cation. Erasmus, shot itt tie bock, died
next morning, and the fratricide rushed
home and confessed, with tears and
prayers, hfc awful crime, and then made
his escape.
He pulled his brother out of a buggy,
beat him with a black bottle and then,
shot hiln. /t
The murderer’s age is 23, weighs 150
pounds, short and dark, freckled, dark
hair, dark moustache, with projecting
teetii in front. - Has Lived iu Georgia,
Alabama and Texas. There was no quar-
rell; ail were drunk.
The murderer was to have been mar¬
ried Tuesday.
ARRESTED IN TALLAPOOSA.
TH© N>gro Wl»» KHlefll M«Uh«wfi, In the
Kitutmll, in Helthul lie liar*.
Atlanta, Jau; 21.—Doc Lcrwe, alias
Doc Long, is now behind the station
bouse bars. He is the negro who tilled
Lewis Matthews several weeks ago, in
the Kimball house kitchen.
Lowe was the coffee maker and Mat¬
thews was a cook. Both were at the
same table, when a quarrel arose, which
ended in the murder.
Lowe fled, aud has'since been at liber¬
ty, until Tuesday night, when Officer
Pelot arrested him. The officer was in¬
formed that Lowe was in Tallapoosa.
He found his man in a restaurant in that
town, and when he walked Up to him
the negro threw his hand on his hip
pocket. cuffed him The officer caught and hand¬
When searched, lie had a 38-calibre
pisti l in his pocket
zrun.v ,tt elected » M.....B|IF
nett I till lias been United States
senator to succeed William M. Evart*.
The vote by joint ballot was 81 to 74.
Every ent, including member Demoreet. of both houses the forger, was pres¬ who
voted.
Red Hat Iren Through Him.
Bristol, Pa., Jan. 21.— Charles Car¬
penter, an employee of the Bristol roll¬
ing mills, was pierced through by a red-
hot iron bar while at work. The bar
struck him in the small of the back and
passed entirely through his body.
The Firm Has Dissolved*
Mac-ox. Ga., Jau. 21.—Oueof tlie larg¬
est dry goods firms in the state expired
by limitation on Jan. t5. It was the firm
sold of Danenlierg his St Dooley. Danenberg, Dooley has he
interest to and
wifi make a stock company of it.
DAILY MA R KET REPORTS.
Naval store*.
Savaitoab Jau. at.—Turpentine Arm at Me.
Rosin firm »t $1.S >.
m - ; j Tie* :u aid Il*f|i*(.
AVLaSta, Jan. 21.— Arrow tics $1.45. Bagging—
Hi 6«c; l«ft, rftjc: 21b, Sljc; 2^15, 9c.
Produce.
N*w Fork. .Inn •}!.- Flour dull and weak,
city mills eitrn. $l.»ti,i.5.75 for West Indies; Min¬
nesota extra. $340^5.50; Une, $-.*.(X)(&8.M; super-
line $3.00@a.75.
Wheat active, “»c higher. No. 2 red win¬
ter, $I.U0iRl.inj4 cash; do May, <1.03)6.
Corn strong, and active. No. 2 mixed, tlj^c
cash; do FeDmary, (Wr.
Oats quiet and steady; No. 2 mixed, 51c cash;
Febmurj 5l^e. '
New York Futures. ___...
The opening an I clising quotation* of cotton
futures in .\e-,v York.
N«w Yunx, Jan. <1,
Opening. Closing-
Januaiy........ 2.1 Of. ...........a.....
February........ »-»* *.W®.....
March................. ».**<*.......
May................50* April........ ....... - ......... ».«* 9.35<»...
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June............... .W*.. HAS*....
July ».«* S.<£*..... #«*....
August Sepi.-inber............ ...................... 2.51*...,
k. ..i*..... ........*....
October................ ....*...
Novciuuer—........9..S*.............&.....
December .......9.20*.............. <£.. „
Spot cotton barely steudy. Sales 88,000. Mid¬
dling m _____
Liverpool Futures.
opeuhi4 Inffilv.
future! t lnBiverp>K>l.
I.ivauipooL, Jan.41.
...............-/.«i....... Opening. Ciotstof.
January &.UU
Jan .un jmkI jp\f ruary.........5.0i b.U&
February mid Mai-cU........... i.ld &.J0
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April und .»*ay...........* —. 5. pi 5.16
May aud j aut*. ................5.1V 5.‘<2 5.19
Jun<* and wUijr ............ *•'. 5.^1
July •I Ult fiii>i HIM Au AU A 0 gjjdembcT. <$4i.......*.....5.3d i4n....... «•»« 9.<wQ 6.38
August and ............
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Ckiwl quiet. Spots— middling uplands, 5 3-W
rate* S.Uju; rvoei|>ts
L'Hleago Market.
Cmczoo, Jan. 2L
Wheat. Opening. Closing.
November...
May......... July....... 2K.
Oorn
November
December..,
May.........
Oats.
November...
Ueeeutbvr.... 45H
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Skies.
IweuiOor. w
January...
May.......
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I Jom»i ........ 32.20
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SNOW, SLEET, RAIN.
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CoMiieclti-Mt SheatMl In Icicles—Great
Destrortle* Fenced.
Norwich, Jan. 21. -The most remark¬
able and deatruciivo i, .u.rm in modern
times has prevailed iu Connecticut for
three day*.
Firs! came snow, Uh-ii Aleet, and then
aedd iai:Vthutfroze as fJ-i! an it fell.
The suit, in the •mi.ii.-njr, though cur¬
tained with opaque ilouds, lighted a
world ?hot seemed to ee of gla-«. Roads,
fields. Louses and trees were r-.i~.nl in a
rattling armor of ioe. There was fine
skating all day in the streets of this city
and in every countr; u»ad and tiehl.
January ice storms ate not rare, but
never before in the.memory_i4 ^nv, one
did a storm of the kind deposit so thick
and heavy a plating of ice on the roads.
The forests, even at a distance, Uiro ujjb
tlte gray mist. Looked like the white bil¬
lows of au oncoming sea.
The destruction or shade'trees in east-
era Connecticut is incomputable. The
country with fallen roods branches. are almost The impassable here
streets
are orchards, piled high in with broken instances, limbs, aud the in
trunk mauy standing, only
bare of a tree reniaius
begirt with huge piles of branches that
have been lopped off by the shining
ax of the ice king. It is dangerous to
walk tree-emlsiwered streets for
wrenched off limbs and a shower of ice
missiIs tali Constantly. If a high wind
should Come the orchards and forests of
eastern Connecticut would be complete¬
ly wrecked.
A GRAND GIFT.
A Home for Young Women who ars la
*- Search of Work*
Nkw„York, Jan. 21.—The Margaret
Louisa Home of the Young Women’s
Christian association at 14 East Sixteenth
street was formally opened Monday
night.
It is the gift of Mrs. Elliot F. Shepard
to the Y. W. C. A., and bears the name
of Mrs. Shepard and her daughter. • The
building is six stories high, is built of
stoue and iron, and cost about $300,009.
It is designed as a temporary home for
young women who*ure in the city in
search of employment. There are eighty
- rooms in the house, twelve of them
double. The single rooms will be rented
at 50 cents a day, and the double rooms
at 80 cents. The building Was presented
to the Y. W. C. A. completely furnished.
The restaurant,which is for women only,
will be open to the public after Feb. 1.
Miss Jane P. Cottell is superintendent
of the home, which opened with half a
dozen lodgers.
THE GAS EXPLODED.
Werhtnen Ut a Match In the Cellar.
New Yobk, JiuT, 1 * ^TJS^&enry Dish
lueyer an employee iu the New York
Wire Mat company’s works in Ferry
street and Berkley place, Jersey City,
went down into the cellar to ascertain
the source of a gaseous ordor which
filled the building. He took Michael O.
Meister with him, The cellar was dark
and, on opening tlm door, Dishmeyer
lighted a mutch. There was a loud ex¬
plosion, the and Dishmeyer was Hurled
against the head and wall. He was burned about
face, and bruised by con¬
tact with the wall. 8o:nething, lie does
not know what, struck Meister on the
leg and bruised it. Both men thought
they had been killed, but they soon re¬
covered on being carried out into tbe
air. An alarm of lire was given, but
the services of tlie department were fiot
needed. Gas had been escaping from a
broken pipe.
SHOT HIS WIFE.
Barker Fired Five and all Toek
Kffeet—The Woaauu Alive,
Syracuse, N. Y., Jan 21.— John
Barker shot his wife, a teacher in
Basset's school, in this city. They Imd
lived unhappily together aud a short
time ago she separated from him. He
went to the house of her sister and tak¬
ing his -sixteeii-inouths-old baby iu las
arms, the proceeded to the school-house and
in presence of tlie children fired five
shots, ali of which-took effect He then
jumped and out of a window, got into a cut¬
ter drove rapidly toward the .south.
The woman is still ai'ive. Tiie police are
in close pursuit of the man. Barker,
until recently, was in the employ of
Rand St McNally, of Chicago, as a com
mercial traveler.
A Veteran 107 Year* Old.
TROY; TT., Jan. 21.—Tliecaseof
John MuHigao, who Lives with bis wife
near Jonesville, Saratoga county, wae
recently worth Poet brought G. A. to R., tlw of attention Mechanicsville. of Elia-
Mulligan charity. is blind, and has become an ob¬
ject of he At the breaking Ifundred out of
tbe war enlisted in tlie One’
and Fifteenth New York volunteers and
served until 1864. At the time otitis
ltttmeat.be was nearly 80 years old, and
he is now in his 107th year. The poet
has given orders to provide tbe old vet¬
eran with supplies.
Investigating the Can*e «f the Kxpleelon
Findlay, O., Jan. 21.—Coroner
Howell made an official investigation of
the explosion at the Hotel 1 Marvin yes¬
terday. workmen The searching Gas company had a force
of for the leak in
tbe pipes all night, and at an early hour
this morning it was discovered on East
Main, the cross street. The ground was
frozen, and the escaping gas could not
rise to the surface, and followed the
course of the pipes into (he hotel build-
>“£• * ... ;
They Have Ntrnek |t Bleb.
‘
Memphis. Tenn., Jan- 21.—Five
months ago several citizens of Memphis
bought five square mile*, comprising the
whole of a mountain Talley, in north
Alabama, find commenced drilling for
oil. It ia now said a twenty-five-barrel
well has been struck at the depth of
1,596 feet in Trenton strata, producing
heavy green oil 33 per cent, superior to
the average prod uct of Pennsylvania.
Morris Arret*ted la New Orleans.
Atlanta, Jan. 21.—J. E. Morris baa
•been arrested and is now locked up in
New Orleans. Chief Connolly received
a arrested, telegram and saying asking that what Morris had bees
must be dona
with him.
The chief amt a telegram telling
officials to bald Merits and heMi
send for him. t
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.. •
Higher i ' >:■ • ■ ' 1. .
of all in Leavening Power.—!’. 55. Gov’t Report, Aug. i
j'm .O, Ate*
IN ALABAMA.
County, Ala., Is All
Excitement,
Oil Company’s Long Work
Rewarded.
Well Gives Promise of Yielding Im¬
mense Quantities of the Finest Grad*
of Oil—Laud Option* llelug Taken Fast. ’
Holder* Jubilant, J ar* • and Price* ‘■j® . Going
are
Up AU Round.
Moulton, Lawreuce Co., Ala., Jan.
21.—Last Saturday, the R. 8. Moyer Oil
company, operating in this county,
struck a mixture oLsanfi and oil.
After drilling ten feet in this sand a
sand pump was put in, and with it &
good show of oil was brought up.
Dr. McUee, the county geologist, who
was the first to call the attention of the
present operators to tlie indications of
oil in this region, says the strike gives
promise of being a fifty-barrel wolf
The Moyer Oil company controls about
8 ( 1,000 acres of land by lease and pur¬
chase.
The company is composed, mainly of
Memphis business men, and they wifi
develop all of their territory. They and
other land, speculators arc taking options
on lands at $25 per acre, that up to last
Saturday from could 30 have been purchased for
5 cents to cents an acre.
Dr. McRee is satisfied that tbe valle>
in which Lawrence is situated is rich in
oil. yw* The abc liirUHflB farmers dliw and land bum Un owners tNnB are WTO
jubilant at tlie news, as the crops havo
already pgtirtJWIWi I kOi^ ^v f
putting money in circulation. ■
GOESSER’S WIFE.
Chancellor Van Fleet Hays th* Wife Hunt
lie Hn|»ported.
New York, Jau., 21.—Theodore C.
Goesser, u clerk in Herman Son tag’s mu¬
sic instrument store, in Park place, was
ordered tpv Vice Clianeeiior Van Fleet Of
Newark, to pov^iis wife $2.50 a week
for the'support-W herself and child, to
pay her taxed bill of costs and to give
bonds for tlte carrying out of the .court's
order.
When Goesser, who lives at I.eonia,
N. J., wns married, r little more than
year avo, he had his wife sign a paper
releasing curred him from nil responsibility Vice in¬
Chancellor by the marriage fleet ceremony.
Van declared that, no
matter what GoesserV■intention or pur¬
pose was in engaging in the marriage
ceremony-admit confer legitimacy that it was simply to
niton tlie child when
it should be U>r«i—there ean be no doubt
that by it he became the husband of the
complainant, and as sncli subject to all
the unties (hat tbe relation iniposes.
Any oilier conclusion would, as I view
the defendant's conduct, jiermit him to
practice a fraud upon tlie complainant
even more offensive to justice than the
original wrong.”
A GOOD MAN GONE.
Roy. WHIM White, the Oldest Baptist
Minister iu Kentucky, is Dead.
Paducah. Ky., Jan. 21.—News of tiu>
death of Rev. Willis WLiite, at Clinton,
has been received. Ho was 86 years old,
and died of general debility. He was a
native of North Carolina, but- ha4- Uved
in the ‘‘Purchase” since about 1820, and
was one of the oldest Baptist ministers
as well aa cit izen, of thisend of the state.
He bejpn preaching in 1888, but in the
meantime served Ballard county as
sheriff and magistrat e. He was tlie
builder of many churches, and was also
a leading educationalists, being the main
founder of tbe Baptist ooUegeat Clinton.
He preached in Clinton and wm presi¬
dent of the Clinton college there, also.
He was twice married, and was
father of eleven children, only tv
whom, Judge J. D. White, of Biandville,
N. C., and Mrs. William Kemp, of ~
ton. survive him.
A NEGRO LYNCHED.
He ws» Identified by the lady, lint
Protested.
Glasgow, Mo., Jan. 21.—Elias
eon, colored, was hanged by a mob
mile north of Fayette early in the
ing.
On last Friday. Maggie Crews,
daughter of a farmer living near
was attacked on tbe road by a
negro, who, after robbing her,
to before assault he her, but-was frightened purpose".
could accomplish his
Thixson was arrested, accused of
crime and was identified by Miss
as her aasailant.
A mob gathered at the jail,
down the door, secured the
and, dragging the negro to a ravine
the scene of his crime, hanged him to
tree. He protested his innocence.
Three Xsipsrtl ArrrstsA
Lafayette, Ga.. Jan. 21.—Mr.
about whom a telegram was published
these dispatches, saying that he had
knocked in tbe head with a sledge
mer and robbed by negroes, ia
Two hundred dollars wore taken
th# person of the old man. Throe
groes are under suspicion and bars
arrested. - to-
PARAGRJ
Ovtir the Oesmtey. ,
A new convent le to be bjtiltat Tam¬
pa, Fla., by the Order of Holy Nunet o*
The Illinois Preae association contem-
plates a visit to Florida, fifty strong,
next month.
Alabama tup passed a’ law forbidding bo?5
the selling or giving cigarettes to
under !8 years of ago.
o 3 AM*asras
company Lexington. to develop a granite quarry t
Vice PresidentA. ’
ceeded the lamented
____
Patty, of the Nux County
The Milwaukee Bridge ______
bu iid the steel bridge across the
river, Augusta at Augusta, Pand Ga., for the
company.
There is a young negro girl,
years of age, serving a term in
gomery (Ala.) city She prison for
concealed pistol. was fin
costs.
A $30,000 fire broke out in
dry of Golden inisHs. St Bros.. C<
xs&aa
$ 12 , 000 .
Bretiiren Jesse Engle,'a church, bishop and in the
an extern
owner, has made an ae '
Knn. liabilities, $35,i m
linlf as much. *■ £’ :
By an early morning »l®*, “ fir*
«
500,000 was suffered in
The. The )■
says the only
\
ted into v
I w w ho liave <
meats I
years ago
properly 1
There ■
Carolina
o’clock
Break man
hurt, aud he
ant!
Tlie
uati, 1
-
are raised that will test the
ality of the law.
Tlie 65-year-old wife of
”
son, a
111! ‘
village bl
farm fiefore _
took the mopey
Seward
died Sunday
aiashSKT was 0 Ipct 3 inches In |
ton, was a prosperous p
Tbe Alabama t
dist College Ecumenical of BishOj
in Washington
delegate is C. B. 1
and lay \
Tbe prospect is
siieedy removal
the importion
France. Tire
cliamber of
recommend such
ment.
Heavy snow* aud extreme "
again invaded southern ”
commerce is almost entire!
The village of Seddon, to .
potted drifts, cut and off from is i
it i
wifi perish of:
Tlie Press and ]
erside, Col., thinks!
ports that there
the Farmers’
approve of the i
tionable features c
ad at tlie Ocala <
An
York (
The;
stove I
fused to take part
vfihout their o
ion cannot be made effective. jj
Buncombe Con*
bacco ranged a schedule < at
warehousemen
C., dnd the warehouse
an order earnest recognize appeal to this the action 1
to -i
upon them until theexperimenttettbesH
fully full i- tried. trio.! mm
Tbe three Alliancemen in
legislature and have taken hold the defc 1
a
assert their power,
opt* Alston 1. Streeter ut
for United States senator, to
Farwell, and declare i!
support him for an indsfe- *
Jacob C, Ku tk *, o.
sick at bis fatlici .use *
form of smallpo , Phe j
I quarantined quarantuieri am am tlu -very - -pread jiroart very »i p.. < y
tn m iirwvuiit prevent tin n
! Kunkle weeks tetunn <1 from
:igo and o i tbs train \
Ub a doctor who!
ing t he disease.
. Mi-s. At Lucy), Burgiu. Kp.,
wif
went to sleep 1
an open the, a
Ian wliicbfmr to tie# grate ai
dothin
wac____ .
Blie live.
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