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—PUBLISHED EVEKY WEEK AT—
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA.
The young Emperor of China doei
not take kindly to the chief bride chosen
for him and has publicly expressed his
displeas ure.
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New York continues to be the one
important port of entry for immigrants,
but the destination of the mass is the
South and West.
Remarks the New York Mail and de
press: “It is about time the snobbery
of having reputed ‘old family servants’
in the front pew on the occasion of a
church wedding was discontinued, for
it has been done to ridicule.”
A civil engineer who has been in
specting the water powers of Massachu
setts says there are no less than thirteen
dams in that state liable to give way at
any hour, and cause great loss of life
and destruction of property.
A Texas steer tackled one of Barnum’s
elephants on the highway the other day,
and the results were eminently satisfac
tory to everybody but the elephant. He
was so well licked inside of three min
utes that he turned tail and ran away.
Female authors are numerousin China
and have always been honored. Their
favorite subjects are flowers, the moon,
birds, the zephyr, music, and kindred
themes. There has never been known
among the women of that land a single
politician.
The death-rate in European Russia is
35.1 per 1,000. The yearly increase of
the population is a little over 1 per <!–nt.
Of the 21,028 deaths by “accident” or
misfortune, 8,313 were by drowning,
1,230 persons were frozeu to death, and
911 were suffocated.
If there is not a decrease in activity in
organizing “Wild West” shows, is the
warning given by the Detroit Free Press,
the United States will have difficulty in
securing an Indian for the Washington
zoological garden. New York is full of
actors who wish, they were aboriginal in
stead of original.
According to the French astronomer,
the cooling of the terrestrial crust ap
parently goes on more rapidly under the
sea than with a land surface. From this
he argues that the crust must thicken
under oceans at a much more rapid rate,
BO as to give rise to a swelling up and
distortion of the thinner portions of the
Crust that is forming mountain chains.
California has abolished the exclusion
of women from voting forschool trustees.
California has 158,360 square miles and
1,350,000 people (official estimate).
The “woman suffrage belt’ is enlarged
to 2,788,000 square miles, and now in
cludes the whole Pacific coast from
Mexico to Alaska. Twenty-five out of
forty-five States and Territories have
now enacted some form of woman
iuffrage.
John Dawson of Atchisou, Kan., re
cently from Nebraska, has been a
pioneer in railroad and town site busi
ness for many years. A few years ago
he gained considerable fame and created
a great furor among settlers by plowing
a single furrow a distance of over 10C
miles through Scott, Greely and Wichita
counties, Kau., and into Colorado. He
aaid nothing but kept on plowing, and
the people, imagining that ho was locat
ing a railroad, began to take up claims
along the furrow. Afterward Jay Gould
came along and bought ihe Dawson
right, and the D. M. and A. branch of
the Missouri Pacific was built on the
famous furrow.
In this country the star of empire is
supposed to hover over the center of
population. In 1790 that center was 23
miles east of Baltimore; in 1800, 18
miles west of Baltimore; in 1810, 40
miles N. W. by west of Washington, D.
C.; in 1820, 16 miles north of Wood
cock, Va.; in 1830, 19 miles W. 8. W.
of Moorfield, W. Va.; in 1840, 16 miles
south of Clarksburg, W. Va.; in 1S50,
23 miles S. E. of Parkersburg, W. Va.;
in 1860, 20 inilei south of Chillicothe,
Ohio; in 1870, 48 miles E. by N. of
Cincinnati, aud in 1880 it was eight
miles W. by south of Cincinnati—one
mile from thq^ south bank of the Ohio
River, one and a half miles from the
village of Tay lorsville, Ky.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
The New Orleans Timet-Democrat
thinks Canada lost more by Converting
itself into a dumping ground for Ameri
can thieves than the United States did.
A copy of the code of 1620 of the
laws of Connecticut has been found,
from which it seems the Blue Laws pro
vided that an incorrigible child should
be put to death.
One of the novel sights on the North
Pacific coast railroad will be a tunnel
through a tree, as it is proposed to run
the line directly through the stump of a
large redwood tree that was recently cut
down.
The situation in Oklahoma is another
evidence of the truth of the saying that
human nature is never satisfied, Men
rush into the new territory and compel
their fan.lies to undergo the severest
hardships, fight and slay each other, to
find after all that they were better situ
ated in the old place. Truly, man is of
a few days, and the most of them he
spends making a fool of himself.
In the United States there is a question
which is constantly pressing itself, and
which is never solved, and that is, Shall
the railroads build up the country, or
the country the railroads? To put it in
a little different form, Is it the better
policy to build a railroad through new
country and trust to the effect of rail
road building to settle up the country
through which it passes, or to wait until
the country has settled up of itself and
demands a railroad ?
One of the curious results of the work
on the Panama Canal is the change in
the climate of Panama and Acapulco.
The tall trees on the heights of Calebra
formerly shut off all wind from the Pan
ama side of the isthmus. Now these
trees are all cut down and 60 feet of the
mountain top has been sliced off. Hence
the northeast trade winds of the Atlautic
sweep across through this cut and do
much to mitigate the heat of Panama.
With the canal cut down to the original
plan Panama might become a fairly
healthy place.
The London Times and Chambers
Journal have been figuring out the per
centage of profits to capitalist \ work
men aud Government iu England, France
and the United States. According to
their calculations in England out of
every $100 56 per cent goes to the
laborer, 21 per cent to the capitalist and
23 per cent to the Government. In
France 41 per cent goes to the laborer,
36 per cent to the capitalist and 23 per
cent to the Government. In the United
States 72 per cent, they say, goes to the
laborer, 23 per cent to the capitalist and
the Goverment secures 4 per cent.
Perhaps the most striking proof of the
financial resources of the republican
government iu Frsnce, states the New
York Tribune, is to be found in the
magnificent proportions of the present
Exposition. In 1867 the Champ de
Mars offered sufficient room for the in
ternational exhibits; in 1878 the Troca
dero palace and gardens were added;
but this year the Quai d’Orsay and the
Esplanade des Invalides are required, so
as to furnish an aggregate area of nearly
200 acres. The legislative appropria
tions for the Exposition have exceeded
by several millions the outlay in previous
years, $8,600,000 having been voted
with a lavish hand. The preparations
have been conducted on a scale of un
paralleled magnitude, and it is evident
that the splendors of all previous world’s
fairs are to be eclipsed.
The government of Europe is fast
falling into the hands of women. The
Queen of the Netherlands is about to be
formally appointed to the regency; and
it is not at all impossible that before
very long Queen Natalie may bo virtual
ly, although perhaps not formally, re
gent of Servia. Spain, too, lias a queen
regent, under whose firm and prudent
rule she flourishes. T wo queens- regent,
with the possibility of a third, and one
queen regnant; that is a considerable
proportion of the sovereigns of Europe.
Infant monarchs and long minorities
are not good in themselves; but they
have very frequently afforded openings
for that female rule which, somehow or
other, seems to succeed so well when ap
plied to nations. Perhaps the good
fight which most maternal animals will
wage for their offspring is the secret of
the success of queen mothers. And
Queen Emma, of Holland, has made so
devoted a wife that it Ls reasonable to
expect sho will make yet another good
regent.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
HEWS r–Olt rTEBYWHKRE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKER,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
V llliam Henry nr Wood, i president of the
Alabama his olheeat Mining Nassau company, street, dropped New \ork, dead
in t
on W ednesday.
in Thursday, at Lima, <)., while playing
a wheat bin, which was being drawn
i ff into a c–r, Ben Marks and Judson
Horton, two young boys, were drawn
into the chute and smothered to death,
Courier DeBruxelles says that Prime
Minister Beernaert (who is also ministei
of fiuance) will present parliament at
Brussels, a bill authorizing the issue
of bonds to the amount of $2,000,000
for the Congo railway.
Tunis Labee was hanged in the county
jail, at Patterson, N. J., Thursday morn
ing, for the murder of his wife. The
murderer wrote a farewell letter,in which
he forgave everybody, and expressed the
hope that everybody would forgive him.
The marriage of Prince Frederick
Leopold and the Princess Louise ot
Schleswig Monday. was solemnized at Berlin,
The emperor and empress and
many royalties were present at both the
civil and religious ceremonies. A grand
banquet followed.
The new rules providing for trading in
petroleum futures wentj into effect on
Thursday at Pittsburg, Pa., and com
pletely upset things at the petroleum ex
change in that city. The brokers did
not seem to understand the new system
and but little business was transacted.
Mrs. Hayes, wife of Ex-President
Rutherford B. Hayes, died last Tuesday
morning at Fremont, O. At the bedside
were members of the family, together
with Mrs. Mitchell, of Columbus, cousin
of Mrs. Hayes; Mrs. Huntington, cousin
of Mrs. Hayes; Lucy Keeler, Mrs. A. H.
Miller, and physicians.
George McCann, who was awaiting
trial for the murder of his wife, hanged
himself in his cell at the county prison,
Philadelphia, early Tuesday morning.
His cell was but a few yards from that in
which Mrs. Whiteling was at the
time awaiting execution. He hanged
himself with a pocket handkerchief
fastened to the door knob of his cell.
At Johnstown, Pa., Acting Surgeon
Foster, of the Fourteenth regiment and
the day laboring camps, reported Wednes
four morning hours that within the last twenty
forty-nine laborers were taken
seriously sick with symptoms of typhoid
fever. Many of them were sent home,
and others are being cared for in the
hospital.
Two verdicts were rendered Tuesday
in two murder cases at Atlanta, Ga. The
first was that of M. T. Whitlock,charged
with the murder of J. C. Belding. Whit
lock was found guilty of manslaughter,
and sentenced to ten years in the peni
tentiary. The second verdict was iu the
case of Arthur Hayne, tried for the mur
der of the Italian lruit vendor, Christo
phine. The jury found him “not guilty.”
A terrible accident occurred Wednes
day morning at Bledsoe, on the Chesa
peake – Nashville railroad, running
from Galla’in to Scottsville, Ky. The
passenger train due at Gallatin at 11
o’clock jumped the track, and the pas
senger and baggage cars went down
about sixty feet. About eight persons
were seriously injured, and several child
ren were more or less hurt.
John T. Robbins and Henry F. Hall,
trading under the firm name of the Rob
bins – Son Iron and Steel Manufacturers,
Beach and Vienna streets, Philadelphia,
Pa., failed Wednesday. The liabilities
are said to be $120,000, and assets $70,
000. Most of the firm’s papers are held
in Philadelphia, the Kensington National
bank being creditor to the extent of
$14,800.
One of the greatest failures in the his
tory of the northwest occurred Wednes
day at St. Paul, Minn. The Eureka Im
provement Company, of that city, mak
ing an assignment with liabilities between
$000,000 and one million dollars. As
sets have not been estimated. Most of
the outside creditors aie in Chicago, Los
Angeles, Philadelphia and New York.
The company was engaged in land deals
and an electric motor enterprise.
“Red Nosed Mike,” who murdered pay
master McClme and the stable boss,
Hugh FlamiagaD, in October last, was
hanged Tuesday morning at Wilkesboro,
Pa. He gave to one of the clergymen
who attended him a confession of his
crime, covering fifty-two pages Italian
manuscript. The confession has not yet
been fully translated, but he admits hav
ing killed both McClure aud Flauuagan,
though he asserts that he acted under
compulsion.
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER.
TROUBLE BETWEEN HUNGARIANS AND
NEGROES AT HAVERSTRAW, N. Y.
There was a bloody riot between the
Hungarians and colored men working at
DeGroat's brick yard, at Jones Point,
Ilaverstraw, N. Y., Monday. Four
Hungarians were shot. Oue is dead,
another is dying. The riot was started
by the Hungarians trying to drown a
colored man. A friend of the colored
man, named Morton, drew his revolver
and fired seven shots. Then the fight
became general, and knives and stones
were freely used. Officers from Haver
straw vi-ited the place Monday morning
and arrested four of the ringleaders.
But the trouble has not ended. Sheriff
Shankey has been sent for, as the Hun
garians will not allow the colored men to
go from to work. They have driven them
the banks. The whites outnumber
the negroes four to one*
DAWSON’S MURDER.
m’dow, on the stand, EXPLAINS how
HE KILLED HIM, AND WHY.
The horrible story of the murder* of
Captain told Dawson, in Charleston, 8. C.,
was on the stand Wednesday by the
only living eye-witness of the tragedy—
T. B. McDow, r his slayer. “I was sitting
j gating room; heard the office gong
r j n „. went down stairs and opened the
i o jjj C0 door; Dawson asked if this was Dr.
McDow; I replied yes, and invited him
in, closing the door; Dawson said, ‘Dr.
McDow, I have just been informed that
you have been guilty of ungentlemanly
conduct to one of my servants.’ I re
plied, ‘It is untrue.’ Dawson said, ‘I
give you to understand that I «nm re
sponsible for again.’ that girl, and replied you must would not
speak to her I I de
speak to her as often as I
sired until I was convinced that he had
authority to prevent me. ‘Then ’ said
Dawson, ‘If you fk> I will publisn your
conduct In the papers.’ ‘And if you
do,’ hold I replied, ‘you infernal scoundrel,
I’ll you personally responsible. Get
out of my office.’ At that time Daw
son struck my hat off with his cane and
hit me with his hand, kuocking me down
to the lounge. The two blows were al
most simultaneous. He followed me up
and struck me again. I drew my pistol
and, raising, fired at him. I had my
pistol in my hip pocket. I habitually
carry a pistol. Have done so every since
I entered the practice of my profession.”
He fired the shot, he said, because be
didn’t know but the next blow would
hurt him seriously. Immediately after
he shot him Dawson turned and began to
stagger, syaing, in broken language and
almost inaudible: “You have killed me.”
Witness replied: “You tried to take
my life; now I've taken yours.”
Dawson, he said, fell with the back of
his head to the ground. “I stood for a
moment; then stooped down and felt
his pulse. Next I dragged.him by the
feet so as to get his body in a recumbent
position and thought of calling for med
ical assistance, but saw death approach
ing and wondered if I could do anything
to revive him. He was dead, however.”
He professed to have a most indistinct
recollection of what took place after the
shooting. liceman He remembers seeing a po
on the corner when he rang the
gong. The body was at that time in the
closet. He had removed it. He had
no difficulty in getting the body into the
closet. He broke the nails off and tore
open the door. As soon as life had left
the body he closed the windows of his
office and taking the dead man’s hat and
cane threw them in the privy, got a
spade and returned to the office, picked
the body up under the arms aud
dragged the it out of the office through
and hallway to the closet
put it in the grave. There were no
bruises on the dead man’s face when he
put it in the hole. Then he tried to
take the body out again, but it was too
heavy. Then he laydown in his sitting
room to rest awhile; went out aud
brought the candles, and returning suc
ceeded in getting the body out. He
raised the body up, dragged it back,
brushed the dust from his clothes, wiped
the blood from the face of the corpse
and laid it out. Then he went and
fished the cane out of the vault, washed
it off and put it on the sofa. He hunted
for the hat, but couldn’t find it. When
he had arranged everything he went out
to surrender himself. He gave as a rea
son for removing the body from its
grave, that he wanted the benefit of ths
giving up of the corpse at the same time.
WOOLFOLK GUILTY.
HIS TRIAL ENDED AT PERRY, GA., WITH
THE ABOVE VERDICT.
On Monday, the jury in the case of
the Woolfo k murder declared as their
verdict, after having retired for only
forty-five minutes, that Tom Woolfolk
was guilty. The jury was called, and
Foreman Joe Frederick gave it to Solic
itor Felton, who slowly and distinctly
said: “We, the jury, find the defend
ant guilty.” A poll of the jury was
asked for by the defense, and so ordered.
Each juror said the verdict was hia.
The verdict was received in absolute si
lence, very few having left the court
room while the jury was out. Though
the verdict is in accordance with the
convictions of the people, there was
positively no demonstration of approval
when rendered, except possibly the
pleased expression on the expectant
faces. R. 8. and J. W. Woolfolk, cous
ins of the prisoner, left the courthouse
and town after the jury retired and be
fore the verdict was rendered. The
aggregate exact time occupied by the
argument on both sides, after the evi
dence was all in, was thirty-one hours
and thirty five minutes; by the prosecu
tion thirteen hours and twenty-nine
minutes, by the defense eighteen hours
and six minutes.
When court opened on Tuesday morn
ing, Judge Gustiu asked the prisoner if
he had anything to Bay, why sentence of
death should not be passed upon him.
With subdued emotion and hands
clasped tremblingly in front, Woolfolk
answered: “Nothing, except that I am
an innocent man.” Captain Rutherford
then asked that sentence be postponed
until a motion for a new trial could be
perfected, as the case would be carried
to the supreme court if a new
trial is not granted, This
request proceeded was denied, and Judge Gustin
to pass sentence, which pro
vides that Thomas G. Woolfolk bIuvII bo
hung in Houston county on the 16th of
August next, between 10 a. m. and 8 p.
m.. iu an enclosure, to which r.o specta
tors will be admitted, save the relatives
and friends designated by the con
demned, and the guards chosen by the sheriff,
Drs. M. W. IIavis and C. R. Mam^
oxamiuing physicians.
FARMING HINTS,
GARNERED FROM SOUTHERN
ALLIANCE SOURCES.
Rose culture is on a boom iu the vicin
ity of Atlanta, G».
Griffin, Ga., expects to ship ten thous
and bushels of peaches this season.
The Surry county, Va., Alliance are
moving the matter of organizing the pea
nut growers.
The Alliance of Oconee county, 8. 0.,
has saved $4,000 in the reduction on the
price of fertilizers.
The Summer session Of the State Agri
cultural Society of Georgia will be held
in Cedartown, August 11th.
The State Farmers’ Alliance of Geor- ,
gia will meet in Macon on the 20th of
August. It will be an important meet
ing
The John H. Dent Alliance of Floyd
county, Qa., have their scalping knivei
sharpened for light-weight millers ana
sellers of corn meal.
The Horticultural Society of Georgii
will meet in Griffin, July Slst and Au<
gust 1st and 2d. President P. J. Berck
mans is preparing an attractive pro
gramme.
Dr. A. F. Pharr, of Decatur, is one ol
the most successful grape growers in the
state. Major G. A. Ramspeck, of tit
same town, has a viaevard of tWentj
acres that yields enormously.
The Atlanta Horticultural of peach Society ij
investigating the matter society yellow
in Georgia. This meets everj
Saturday in the quarters of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in the new capitol
Hon. W. J. Northen, one of the co–
tributing editors of the Southern Cultiva
tor, is of the opinion that the farmeri
will stick on cotton bagging and says so
in the July number of the Southern Cul-
The Interstate Farmers’ Association,
organized in Atlanta in August, 1887,
will meet in Montgomery, Alabama, on
August 20th, of this year. Hon. L. L
Polk, of North Carolina, is president ol
the association. The attendance will b«
large.
The county Alliance met at Cuthberlj
Ga., and after consultation purchased
the Rawles – Perry guano house, whicll
they will convert into an Alliance warn
house for the handling of the comloa sevel
cotton crop. The price paid was
hundred dollars.
Edgewood (Ga.) Alliance is a plucra
organization. They are arranging plsal
fora co-operative cotton seed oil mill
an extensive cannery, and a grand coin*
exposition in DeKalb county of the wo*
of Alliance men. Major W. B. HenieB
son is the live president. |
The late Road Congress in Georgia*
attracting attention. Several South®
states are moving in the matter of hi*
ing similar meetings. It is said that o®
county in Georgia has subscribed for®
thousand the copies of the proceeding!®
Georgia Road Congress.
TUB INTEK-8TATK FARMl-'RS’
This body was organized at
Ga., in August, 1887, and is
representatives from Alabama.
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
see, Texas and Virginia. These reni®
sentatives gressional district) (five or more appointed from each bj cojS t®
are
vice The presidents presidents of the states respective^ F. ft®
vice are: R.
Montgomery, Forest City, Ark.; Ala.; J. L. T. P. Petterzen, Feathersto® P®
Ga.; sacola, John Fla.; Dymond, John P. Bellair, Fort, MountAi® La.; J. ®
Old Henry, Sparta, Greenwood, N. C.; E. Miss.; R. Mclver, Elias Ca® P®
Va. metto, B. S. M. C.; Hord, L. D. Nashville, Yarrell, Tenn,; Bellfif® ®
;
B. Pickett, Decatur, Texas, The
ciation will meet in the city of Ho®
gomery, Ala., on the 20th of Aw
next. Reduced rates, on all line*
railway, will be secured, as aDo »t»;
hotels and boarding houses of thtt ci?j
and gates will in due be time furnished by the to secret »j
Composed of leading practical agrN
turiBts of the south, this body will
thought, resent the which enterprise conditions and progr^'l
new aun
roundings have evolved, and whiahn
solve the great economic quest' 1 !
now fully confronting and us. Ijet every J
strongly affecting represented. Impo! aivsj
questions, the material
mcnt south, and and industrial especially development the promitiof] of]
her great agricultural interests, will
HANGED TO A TR£E
A KENTUCKY MOB STRINGS UP A MAN
IS CHARGED WITH MURD2B.
A mob went to the jail at Sheprdsw
aud Ivy., demanded at 1 o’clock of Jailer Wednesday Bowmtntbe® niortj
render of Thomas Mitchell am Cb i!
Ardell, confined there charged
murder of a pedlar named Josejli
Bowman refused to surrende) the
and took his stand in front ofthe
with a shotgun, tleclariug he
the first man who triad to pa*.
Bowman, hearing the threats aid f cl
her husband would be killed, ran
ward and gave the mob the kys,
cing leaders Bowman not to provoke teni. *
then unlocked the dots a
went to the cell where the pristiers' 1
confined. The jailer followed bog?
them at least to spare Mitchell
believed was innocent. They
his intreaties,^telling MitchelUe n
thank Bowman for his life, an -
Ardell they took him to the wods.
a mile and a half from town, inu l>
him to a tree.