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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1889)
Schley Cony Reis. — PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT— ELLAV1LLE, GEORGIA. About IS, 500,000 persons, it is esti mated, pursue the scheme of study laid down by the international Sunday-school lesson committee. The young German Emp^rcr is play ing sad havoc among the generals. He •hunled in 1888 eight corps commanders, tw r enry-one commanders of divisions, twelve brigadiers of cavalry and forty brigadiers of infantry. Age has no claim fo consideration in the young monarch's eyes. Soldiers, I 10 maintains, should be young and vigorous. The proposal to saddle tho Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland upon a member of the Royal family is grotesque thinks the New York Tr.bune. F’orty years ago the island might have been pleased with the compliment, but it is too late now to dignify the office when it goes begging among tho nobility, The proper course of action involves legisla tive abolition of the office. The American sugar beet is sweeter by about 33 per cent, than any other beet on the globe, asserts the New York Herald. We don't say this in a boast ng spirit, but with modest pride. The average extract of sugar from German, French or English beets is 12 per cent. But out in Nebraska the beet has got itself down to business, and insists on extracting 17 per cent, of “sweetnin”’ out of the “site.’’ Says the St. Louis Star-Sayings: “A monopoly, the most arrogant and grasp ing in this country, which is seldom scored by the press, is tho National As sociation. of Biff Posters. It is com posed of thc one man in each city of the Union who owns the largest amount of boards and fence privileges. Any show man who should come to this city and patronize any oue but tho association bill poster, would be immediately listed, and nowhere in the country could ha get his paper on tho walls, or at least the walls controlled by tho association, and that is about all the desirable space to he found.” A beautiful damsel was recently per suaded by her admirer to elope, and the ardent pair tied in a sailboat from the wrath of pursuing parents. The lover grew sick with the washing of the waves, and at last succumbed, much to the disgust of the bride, who ordered tho captain to turn the boat’s head and let her land. If more couples would try a sea voyage before marriage, instead ©f a trip to Europe afterwards, there might be fewer unhappy marriages; for men or women look their worst when the horrible sickness of the sea is upon them. The gallant British tar, who has been thc theme of so much laudation in poem and prose, seems, remarks the San Fran cisco Chronicle, to have fallen on de generate day*—that is if credence is tc be given to what Euglish shipmasters say. It is alleged that they favor Nor wegmn«, Swedes or Germans—anything in fact but their own fellow-country men. While the English sailor still possesses his old-time ability, if he cares to exercise it, nevertheless he is so given to drink that he is insubordinate and quarrelsome to a degree—characteristics which are lacking in aailors of other na tjonalitics. ' Fhe morphine habit, which is causing 4Ueh an amount of talk in France, is re ceiving attention from English reviewers and medical men. It would appear, ac cording to some of the commendations ®n the vices of dissipated folk, as re corded by the Chicago Herald, that all Borts of ghastly dissipations have been adopted by women who have nerves and other idiosyncrasies. On this side of the water tea cigarette* have been super seded by cigarettes filled with various herbs, including opium, which are smoked by women of London who run to that sort of thing, while the number of ingenious drugs which have been in troduced among the women of Paris is too long to enumerate. There is little serious doubt about the extent to which this particular form of dissipation has taken in Paris, but most of the talk in London apparently emanates from pro fessional alawnists, who are forevar writing to the editors of the daily press. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. A Lowell (Mass.) paper says that the outlook for cotton mills in thc North is dark. The words “patent applied for’* are invalid as a protection against infringe ments. Unless the patent has been actually granted, it is no good to the iu vent or. This is a recent decision of a United States court. Latimer, the Michigan matricide re cently sentenced to life imprisonment, can flatter himself that only five or six cases as monstrous as his have been known in criminal annals in the last fifty years. lie is being mentioned even in Europe. Tho Johns seem to be international, observes the Prairie Farmer. There are John Chinaman, Jean (John) Crapeau, John Bull, and Brother Jon-athan. The four Johns represent more millions of humanity than any other four nations on earth. Lord Wolseley, Commander-in-Chief of the English army, has been lecturing to the Woolwich cadets, and adjured them to avoid the conceit which he said was the beset ing sin of t e British offi cer. He also advised them earnestly to continue their studies after they had re ceived their commissions. A rather curious course has been taken with his employes by the proprietor of a broom factory at Duluth, Minn, lie in creased thc wages of the married men and notified the single men that their services would not be required after the end of the month, unless they were mar ried by that time, when they would be retained at increased wages. “Whether he lias found that marriage is a success ful institution which he is anxious that others should enjoy, or is selfishly act ing upon the general principle that matrimony hai a tendency to promote the broom trade,” comments the Chicago Herald, “does not appear.” Talking base ball cost three bank of ficials of Forest G’ity, Mo., $4500, the other day. They were caught, as it were, writes the base ball editor of the Now Orleans Times-Democrat, off their base outside the bank railing by three daring bank robbers wearing slouched hats and masks, taken into tho bank, where they were considerably put out by having to give up their bag. r Fbe robbers, however, put a short stop to their victims’ protestations, and, after committing their foul outrage, left on the fly for parts unknown. The bank thus lost all the cash there was in its coffers; and the moral is that it is a bad plan to let business interfere with base ball. That is, it is a bad plan for bank robbers. Secretary Tracy has issued a general order calling the attention of the officers and men of the navy to the repeated acts of heroism performed by William Fooye, a seaman of the wrecked Trenton. On February 23 and on March 9 last Fooye jumped overboard and rescued ship mates from drowning, and again on the latter date, when the ship’s propellor was fouled by a rope, he went overboard under the counter during a heavy swell and removed the obstruction, which had temporarily disabled the engines at a time when the vessel’s position in the harbor was unsafe. In the order Secre tary Tracy says that such bravery and devotion and duty merit the highest praise. He directed that tho order be read. The bridging of the Rio Grande at point after point suggests to the New York Times how slight the geographical barrier is between our country and the republic to the south of us. Such a spanning of the river has just been com pleted at Laredo, while at El Paso, some hundreds of miles further up, a bridge is further supplemented by a horse railway between the two coun tries. There is a certain suggestiveness, also, in the names of tho towns which face each other at points along the boundary. Thus the two between which the latest bridge has been constructed are Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. The town opposite El Paso is El Paso del Norte. Closely joined to the American town of Nogales in Arizona is thc Mex ican town of Los Nogales. It is true that often these opposite towns have been thc scenes of contention between the citizens of the two countries, but ceremonies like the bridge opening at Laredo should suggest that there are ties to bind tho two republics in inter est and sympathy, ns well ns a natural end an artificial boundary to separate them. GENERAL NEWS. condensa tion of unions, AND EXCITING EVENTS. nvi non BVBKTvrHKwy— acciidkktb, stbikbs, KmaR, AND BAFPENINGS Ot INTSIUE3X. Leader* of the striking miners who took part in the riot at Dortemunde, Germany, May 10th, last, hate been sen tenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to five years. A waterspout broke over the city of Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, doing great dam age. ilie rain came down in torrents, overflowing the streets and bursting damage. sewer*, and causing widespread r>t Philadelphia, Thursday, Dennis Donovan, twenty-live years old, acci dentaliy kliot his brother, Thomas, four year* younger. Dennis was so overcome with remorse that he fled from the room and cut his throat with a razor. A *»*ci»l from Guthrie, Oklahoma, »«y« the grand stand from which 1,000 people were witnessing an exhibition of firework* at Oklahoma City, Thursday evening, collapsed, and several persons were killed and seventy-five seriously injured. The miners employed in the Bennett vain of the Woodward shaft, at Wilkes bane, Pa., operated by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western company, struck Tuesday. They claim that they are being unjustly docked for “boney’’ coal min'd. The official vote of the recent election in Harrisburg, Pa., as received and corn puted at the state department is as fol lows: lor the prohibition amendment, 236,617; against, 434,644; majority against 138,02 ,. F or the suffrage umend ruent abolishing poll tax qualification, 109071 . nwainst ’ 400324 ’ - ’ maioritv acminAit uginuAi, 236 95° Etuclare, Wis., held its first election for a board of education, Monday. It brought out a heavy woman’s vote, prominent society ladies spending the whole day with their carriages diking women to the polls. The anti-Catholic question was made very prominent in several wards, but the candidates al leged to represent the Catholic side were elected. The big brewery ot F dk, Jung– Bar chert, in Wauwatesa. just beyond the pity limit* of Milwaukee, Wis., was to tally destroyed by fire Thursday after noon. The loss is $1,000,000, and there is an insurance of but $300,000. Two bundred men were thrown out of era ployment until the firm can rebuild, The firm bad just completed a $100,000 addition, and put on a $50,000 ice ma chine. A large cave near Hermosa mining camp, sixty miles from Las Cruces, N. M., ious been opened up, and i s interior is lined with veins of almost pure silver. It had tor years escaped the eyes of old prospector* because there was nothing about the cave to indicate mineral. It is now thought the cave will exceed in rich ness the famous Bridal Chamber cave at Snake Valley, N. M., from which over $500,000 in silver was taken. Jack Snyder, of Danville, Ill., died of hydrophobia Monday, on the public highway near Unit city. He and his family set out in a covered wagon from Lehigh county, Pa., lor Missouri, Shortly afterwards, Snyder was bitten by a stray dog. At Danville, his coudi tion was so serious, that the family came to a halt. They wore in a destitute con dition, and the body was buried in the potters field. “Red Nosed Mike,” who murdered pay master McCluie and the stable boss, Hugh Flannagan, in October last, was hanged Tuesday morniDg at Wilkesboro, Pa. He gave to one of the clergymen who attended him a confession of his crime, manuscript. covering 7 fifty-two confession pages has not Italian yet no been fully translated, but he admits hav ing though killed he both McClure aud Flannagan, asserts that he acted under compuliion. The World’s Sunday-School Conven tion opened it* *ession in London, Eug land, Tuesday. There were 900 foreign delegate* present, including over 300 from the United State*. Lord Kinniard delivered an address of welcome, and Couot Bernstoff, of Berlin, and Rev. Jlr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, responded in behalf of tbe delegates from the European and American continents. The convention is •itting in Dr. Parker’s “temple,” Memo rial hall having been found too small tc accommodate the delegates. Judge Cummins, who has charge of the cash relief fund, arrived at Johns town. Pa., Tuesday. He says all suffer ers will not get a share of money, only needy onee receiving will.be funds. It is prt>b able money given out on the per centage plan, but the age of person, how many children he lms dependent upon him, and the amount of property he still possesses, will all bo taken into consul oration. Each applicant for cash reliuf will have to uiske affidavit as to his loss, and will have to have witnesses to the same. The jury in the Mungqnmaier murder case, at Charleston, 8. (A,on Wednesday, returned a verdict of “not guilty.” The ease excited a good deal of interest at the time of the tragedy (March 9th), but was entirely swallowed up by the McDow rrial, which preceded it. Six of the McDow jurymen were on tho jury. Public opinion was directed to those men who had acquitted in a judgment confessed murderer, and were to sit on a man who at least had a good plea of self de fense. The jury was out about two hours and then returned a verdict of acquittal, Ihe grain . firm . of . T L. „ 1 . ,, Webb T , , – . „ Co., of Dalton Ci ty, the Ill., have brought suit for damages in United States district court at Springfield, against the Peoria, Decatu'r and Evansville railroad, compa ny for $10,000,for alleged discrimination in freight rate*. The plaintiffs allege that IS. P. Heilman, vice-president of the compauy, is interested in the milling bus iness, and that the firm gets a rate of six cents, while Webb – Co. have to pay eight cents. It is the first case brought in court under the inter-state commerce bill, and will doubtless be taken to the United States supreme court. It is to be a test, case. WONDERFUL MONSTROSITY A CHILD WITH TWO HEADS-—ALIVJS WITH NO INDICATIONS OP DYING. The parents of this curious freak of nature are Mr. and Mrs. Jones, who live about five miles north of Kempton, in Tipton county, Indiana. They are young married folks, probably about 30 years of age, and this is the mother’s second con finement, the first child being two years old and nothing abnormal about its de velopment. The monstrosity,for wuch it w, and a wonderful one, too, consists of a.single, continuous body, on each end of which is a well formed head. It is provided with four arms and four legs, which are also well formed and about the normal size and shape. The arms are , , , thc , ! H<3 , F al ^u Idera, ? one P r0 P pair 3r . P at f each a « end of the ! °ng b uly, but the lower hmbs protrude outvuir d each side at the middle of the elongated being. The two heads face !i ‘ e same W:J N> an< ^ tbe a ‘o s are so attach ed as to extend at right angles from the middled * “" ' " ti.? *V«i”bilicu8,‘ sides of thaVSg the bony. ouVhe I here is b t 0 an terior surface and middle of the body, showing . that the entire . form has been j i the through one and the same cord ur ue: =• entire period of embryonic life. Th a duMhVitv cmpncity in in.so so far lar as ns there mere are are two . , heads, two ot limbs, two sets of genital pair organs and that the voluntary movements of the two portions are no.t in conformity. On the other hand, there was but one umbilical cord, and t..e junction of the two halves presents no line ot original separation to prove that the being has been joined together from the start. Ope half of the creature may be sleeping while the other is awake, and at such times it is noticed that one leg on each side conforms to the other vol untary movements of the end of words, the body nearest to them, or, in other the two legs on the same side of tht body are not controlled by one half, The entire length of the body from head to head is about two feet, and the weight of the creature is twelve pounds, figures which show ample size aud weight for two healthy children. Up to the .pres enjoying cut writing the babe or hair s is or are good health, and the mother, a small sized woman, is doing very well. NUMEROUS .... ..^ A i ■« IMlrn HUSBANDS. . „ A -north carolin.^ , woman has five liv * !A ^ JS ‘ Qn Wednesday, Samuel Nickson ap peared before Register Cobb,at Charlotte, N. C., and requested a marriage lice, a tor himself to Isabella Davis. The L cense was promptly issued, but before ft had been used it was discovered that the woman was already married and her husband was yet living. Furiber inves tigatioo revealed the fact that the was a bigamist, aud consequently a warrant for her arrest was put in the hands of an officer. She was arraigned before a jus tice of the peace. The evidence accumu lated against her, and it soon was proven that she has no w living five husbands, The woman is only about thirty-two years old. Her son, a lad about sixteen years old, testified against her in court. She married tne first time at fifteen, and has lived with no one husband more than eighteen months. She married first in 1872 to Amos Johnson, and separated the following year. In 1375 she married A. B. McCowe, and lived with him till Christmas of 1876. Again, in 1878,she married lied Abram McElmore, and left him in 1879. In 1885 she married Paid R. Holton, and left him the same year. Sb e married William R. Ferguson last year, but only lived with him a few weeks. All are now living. All parties have been bound over to the criminal court, A MADMAN’S FREAK, Persons passing along State street, in front of the Palmer house, Chicago, Ill Tuesday afternoon, were bonified at see i w CJ g a man, V clad only J in a sheet, climb ---.. w— out of a window and deliberately walk a ' on g a projecting cornice. Suddenly, w ‘th a shriek, he fell to a projection be * ow> ^ ladder was procured and an at tompt was made to rescue him, when, a ^ream, he threw himself to the pavemeut below, fracturing his skull and receiving other injuries, whieh will prob a biy cause his death. He was evidently ' n3UllP > aD d proved to be George W, Howe, a prominent young civil engineer, Leadvillc. He was on his way home from Washington, where he had been in attendance as a delegate to the conveu tion of Patriotic Boris 01 America. A RUINED CITY. A speeial from Durango, Col., says: Monday afternoon a tire broke out in the southern part of the city, and in an in credible short time the flames, assisted by a strong wind, spread in every direc tion, leaping from building to building, until h»lf of thc town was in ashes. The fire was extinguished after the total de ^ . . , , , . . . bI cks „ ' ° ? >' vhlch . inc luf ‘ c8 a " u ' ^ P^'P^ m busincss houses ^ <icnk . churches, portion of and the a portion town was of the also run- de jtroyed. The k>»s is estimated at $300, qqq, w j tb light insurance. The origin of %e ie nupjjose^ to £§ju§eudtjiry. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. 1 CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING OH Of IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. A new postoffiec has been established at South Atlanta. Fulton county, Ga., with Luther S. Price as postmaster. The third annual conveution of the Georgia Weekly Pre.s association began its session at Cartersville, Ga., on Wednduday. There was a large atten dance. Frauk Smith, of Smith Statioa, Ga,, was struck by lightning Tuesday while standing in his sto^re door and instantly killed. lie leaves a wife and several children. The county court on Tuesday, awarded a contract tbe for building a steel bridge across Tennessee river at Chatta nooga, wlU to cost about $225,000. W ork be begun immediately, On Wednesday morning a serious ac cidcnt happened three miles west of Ge neva, Ga. The Central passenger train, due at Macon at 7:30, jumped the track while roundin 09 a curve, turning the coache? over an Cu injuring|severalpersons. _ The false Christ, who has been a source of so>much disturbance among the colored people of Hinesville, Ga., for several weeks, was tried for lunacy and convicted, It is now hoped he will have apartments where he can do less harm. Beports from Charlotte, N. C., say that the recent heavy rains has done no small damage. „#’cone Bridges over creeks and rivers / g°ne and ana low low lands unus crons crops are .ire greatly nreatlv imaged. The ram is said to have been the heaviest known in western North Carolina }a some years. „ , P , b Graves, _ professor of mathamat . !lt ,bc stat lt attempted 1CS e unl J er ^ J, to comBait . suicide . , at T Raleigh, N. C., 01 \, bumiay knif J b . v cutting his throat ' v:t ha I )en ' f Ue hadbeen \ Q bild lea , tb lor ni otU ls » aiul , at tll 11 es showed symptoms of . derangement He T I resigned lus vvork at tLe last Februar y Parson Duncan, residing near Newton, -\hu, of his eloped neighbor, Saturday Miss with Baldree. a daughter Dun po Can’s wife was b a ried ihursday, and he is known to have bought both strychnine and morphine. The eloping couple de P ait ed on foot towards Florida, and offi tera are in pursuit. Mrs. Duncan’s body will be exhumed and an examination made. The first bale of new cotton was re ceived at Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday, from Primus J'ones,being two days earlier thau the first bale last year. P was car ried to the warehouse of S. R. Wiston – Son. It classed middling, weighed 390 pounds, and was auctioned off and bought by George W.Swiudell for 12 1-2 ^ ^ ^ ^ N * W York. The vestibule train, eastbound, on the Chesapeake – Ohio Railroad, was wrecked by a slide in the chute near Gaa „ ^ r _, ^buisday , . There _ ’ morning. bad been a \eiy se\i re rain, which caused tbe sli(ie - Geor – e W - Walsh, the oldest en g lneer on tbe roa( T and bis fireman, A '-n° s f name canu0 *' be learned, were ^hled. It was an unavoidable accident, No passengers were injured, A disastrous fire occurred at Savannah. Ga., Monday night, involving a loss of over $100,000. When the fire was rag ing firemen had ascended on ladders, when a wall of a building fell suddenly, killing John Weir outright and injuring H. P. Goodson seriously and Richard Hart perhaps fatally. Ed Pacet ti, Messrs. Lipinski, Davis, AlcEvoy and Strobhar and Maurice Butler, were badly wounded. Natural gas was struck Monday near Cordova, Walker county, about thirty lailes west of Birmingham, Ala. It has a pressure of sixty-five pounds to the square inch, and was struck at a depth or 700 feet. It was discovered on the property of the Cordova Coal and Coke Company, and the experts in charge of the work say there is no doubt of the gas existing in paying qualities. On last Tuesday, a new born colored infant was found abandoned in James City, a suburb of Newberue, N. C. When found, it had only some strips of clothes wrapped around it. In the bas ket with it was $150, and a can of con densed milk. Investigation led to the arrest of Rev. C. H. Smith, colored, pastor of St. Peter’s A. AL E. Zion Church, on the charge of abandonment. He was judged guilty, and fined $50 and costs. J. B. Dickens, formerly a prominent lawyer and politician nt Manning, S. C., charged with forgery and burglary, was arrested a few days ago at F’ort Worth, Tex., and brought back for trial. Dick ens stood high in his profession in South Carolina, and, several months ago, when warrants houso breaking charging him with forgery and were sworn, his friends at first refused to believe the charges, but Dickens fled before he could be ar rested. A big reward was offered for his capture, and he was finally located and arrested at Fort Worth, Texas. The Young Men's Christian Assoclfl tion lms grown to vast proportions. There are 1,248 associations in America, 2,392 in Germany, and even in Japan there are 200. It is un interesting fact that there is an organization in Naza reth, where Christ lived, and at Jerusa lem, where He was crucified. The number of old persons in Tokio, Ja pan, who received a gift of money from tho run purer iu celebration of the declaration of tho constitution was 5560—5339 persons above eighty and three. years alKJve of apje, l–Oyevs. 218 above ninety years
