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ScWfiy tally News.
—PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT—
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA
A most unfortunate condition of the
Spanish people is their illiteracy. By
the census of 1877 “of the population
above 12 years of age sixty per cent,
could not read. The illiteracy of tho
■women is appalling, for they make up
nearly two-thirds of the dark percents
age. ”
Scientific evolutiou is as rapid as it is
cmarkable. Hides are now tanned by
electricity. In the old days when you
4nd we went fishing on a Sunday after
noon, muses the New York Herald’s
editor, our hides were tanned also, but
it was done in a primitive way by means
of a birch twig. It was done well,
though.
Senator Plumb of Kansas figures out
that there have been 40,391 desertions
from the United States army since Oct.
13 , 1873, up to which date all deserters
were pardoned by proclamation of Pres
ident Grant. Of this number only
8050 have been returned to tho service
by surrender and arrest, Over 32,000
fleserters are, therefore, now at large,
table to arrest.
The French War Department is rejoic
j–g in the possession of a gun which is
6hirty-five feet long and weighs forty
three tons. It carries a projectilo
weighing 800 pounds, and with 425
pounds of powder that shot is carried
ten miles and three-quarters. In other
•words, under ordinary circumstances the
projectile will fall at a point entirely be
yond the range of vision.
Two of the leading Japanese news
papers, the Glioya Shimbun and the Jiji
Shimpo , declare that they speak the sen
timent of the entire Japanese nation
when they say that the action of the
United States in granting an indemity
of $15,000 for the families of the Jap
anese who lost their lives by the care
lessness of an American man-of-war iu
target practice, has afforded strong satis
faction.
The Chicigo Herald states that the
American girl, in the gratification of
her matrimonial ambition, is invading
every race. England and the continent
have been the favorite scenes of her ex
ploits in the search for a title, but Miss
Wetherell has just captured an oriental
monarch, and there is a tendency to ex
tend the field of her conquests. It is
an insatiable desire, this, for a title
and there are doubtless American girls
who would willingly marry a titled Af
rican Hottentot, an Australian bushraan,
a cannibal prince of the Fiji Islands, or
even a ferocious king of Dahomey.
Nothing connected with the farming
iadmtry has grown more rapidly iu the
fest few years, according to the Farm ,
Wield and Stockman, than the business
•f, dairying. This has been accelerated
several ways, but probably as much
$3 anything else by the great, continued
and almost hopeless depression in beef
Jattle. Farmers must all keep cattle—
£]bey all feel that way at least; and while
beef is a consideration ■which cannot bo
overlooked, they feel much more hope
ful when they can connect with it the
sale of milk and its products, The
progress made in the methods of dairy
ing is as marked as tho growth in the
volume of the business, and those who
are in a position to observe will find
changes ten years from now of which
we do not now dream.
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Queen Victoria is now seyjyrity.
When she went to Sandringhjwh, tho
Prince of Wales’ palace, lately, some
gossips would have it that she was pre
paring for abdication in view of her
late anniversary: As a matter of fact,
declares the New York Tribune, noth
ing is further from the mind of the
queen. / She is in splendid health, and
there not a finer specimen of woman
hoodf in the three kingdoms. She
tic/fcr ails anything, never has a pain or
^fche, and her mind is probably keener
than it has ever been—which is saying a
vast deal. Abdication is not in the
iroyal dictionary, and folks who are so
anxious to see a new court arrive will
have to bide patiently, possibly for an*
other ten years. There is really no
apparent reason why the queen should
not reign longer than George the Thy-d.
COUNTY ' NEWS.
SCHLEY
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXULTING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
A shock of earthquake has been felt on
the island of Arran and mainland of
Scotland. The shock was so severe that
houses were violently shaken.
Addie and Kate Gordon and Myrtle
Cranbv, ranging in age from eleven to
fourteen years, were drowned while bath
ing at Paoli, Kan., Tuesday.
Arsenic was placed in the food of four
children of Joseph Hunter, a planter, liv
ing near Star City, Ark., Tuesday, and
three died. The criminal and motive are
unknown.
Lennox, assistant of Higgins, the par
achutist, Tuesday was killed at Manchester, Eng
land, by the collapse of the
balloon in which they had made an as
cension. Higgins escaped without injury.
Another application for the release of
John F. Beggs on bail was made Wednes
day at Chicago. Beggs is in jail
charged with conspiracy to murder
Dr. Cronin. Application was made to
Judge Altgeld, of the criminal court, and
was refused.
Iu the circuit court of Chicago, on
Monday, a tresspass case was filed by the
Goodlander Mill company for $200,000
against the Standard Oil company. It is
believed that this is the first move to
prevent the Standard Oil company lay
ing a pipe line into the city, as proposed
by the city council.
The extensive car shops of the Eel
river division of the Wabash road, located
at Butler, Ind., were almost destroyed by
fire Thursday, throwing over one hun
dred men out of employment. Several
fine coaches and much valuable machinery
were burned. Loss nearly $10t),000.
John Thursday morning the bodies of Mrs.
McGregor and two children were
discovered in ten inches of water in a
small creek near Youngstown, Ohio.
The woman had first drowned her chil
dren and then herself. Her husband had
left her in destitute circumstances, and
she was recently seen begging for foad.
A. W. Callcn shot and instantly killed
Byron J. Charles and Frank Work at his
mining camp at Oro Fino, Arizona, Mon
day evening. Witnesses state that the
trouble arose over a mining claim which
Callen had been working,and that Charles
and Work attempted to drive him from
the claim when he shot them.
A mob of 100 men, with black masks
over their faces, attacked the house of
Nancy Vincent, a notorious resort at
Montpelier, One Indiana, Thursday night.
male inmate was whipped with
switches. The Vincent woman was
caught and tarred, and the house and
furniture demolished. The occupants
have fled.
The emperor of Brazil attended a the
atrical performance in Rio Janerio on
Wednesday night. As his majesty was
leaving the theater, at the conclusion of
the performance, a Portuguese fired a
shot from a revolver a him. The bullet,
however, missed the emperor and he sus
tained no injury whatever. The would
be assassin was taken into custody.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany, at New York, on Wednesday,noti
fied the produce exchange that it stood
ready to furnish tuat institution with
Chicago prices as regularly as before the
period when they were suspended. There
is a strong sentiment against receiving
Chicago prices, yet there are operators,
like aiore especially have in provisions, who would
to them.
The fishing schooner Edith Emery, Cap
tain Patrick Sullivan, arrived at Boston
Tuesday, with only three of her crew of
nineteen men. Sunday morning when
the Emery was about seventy miles off
Highland Light, the missing men set out
iu dories to tend the trawls. The
weather was very thick and the fog be
came so heavy as to shut out all sight of
them from the vessel, and nothing more
has been seen or heard of them.
A dispatch from San Francisco says:
“J. J. convicted Creighton, ex-state senator, who
was of jury bribing nearly two
years ago, and escaped lrom the city be
fore sentence was pronounced, arrived
from Victoria Tuesday night and sur
rendered to the police. He states that
he could not endure his exile any longer,
and determined to come home and give
himself up so that he could be near his
wife and children.”
A cablegram from London says: “The
community has been greatly startled by
another horrible murder, thought to he
cojflmitted by the butcher of fallen wo
men, known as ‘Jack the Ripper. ’ The
body of a womao, mutilated in the usual
frightful manner, was found Tuesday in
Castle alley, in the Whitechapel district.
Although the police have used every
means of to him apprehend the murderer, no
trace has yet been found.
It is reported that the Illinois Steel
company, recently incorporated as a con
solidation of the three great iron and
steel companies in Chicago, have decid
ed to go into the business of builing steel
vessels for employment iu lake commerce.
The Minnesota Iron company voted to
place its $1,500,000 surplus iy the hands
of the directors. The company is con
trolled by the Illinois Steel company,and
the voting of this surplus was to put it
at that company’s disposal.
About GOO dock laborers and freight
handlers for the various Chicago steam
ship companies went on a strike Wed
nesday night. The affair was inaugura
ted by the freight house men of the An
chor line steamship company. The cause
of the strike was due to the fact that the
company refused to pay the men twenty
five cents an hour in place of twenty cents
they now receive, and thus make it possi
ble for them to make $2 a day, working
eight hours a day.
The large stable of the Lowell horse
rai road, on East Merrimac street, L >w
ell, Mass., was burned Wednesday night,
together with 120 horses, about thirty
cars, four car-loads of hay and one car
load of straw, 400 bushels of oat ; , lie
sides tools and other material. The sta
ble is a total loss. Besides this, several
families on Howe and Davidson streets,
back of the stable, were burned out.
The loss to the car company will be from
$100,000 to $125,000.
Capta n Abbott and seven other secret
seyvice descent men. Thursday morning, made a
on the United States hotel, near
Dayton, O., to capture a gang of counter
feiters. Officer Douuella was wounded
twice in the head, but not fatally. An
escaping counterfeiter was shot in the
side, but the extent of his injuries is not
known. Two carpet-sacks of counterfeit
ten dol’ar bills have been found, and the
search is not ended. The hotel belongs
to Nelson Driggs, an aged and noted
counterfeiter.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind.,
says: The Cairo-Vincennes north bound
passenger train met with almost complete
demolition two miles south of Mount
Carmel, Ill., and twelve to fifteen pas
sengers were seriously injured. The
train was running at a speed of thirty
five miles an hour, and was composed ol
a freight car loaded with fruit, a bag
gage car and two passenger coaches. The
freight car jumped the track and threw
the remainder of the train into a uitch
and down a t- n-foot embankment. Most
of the paseengers were extricated only by
cutting into the coaches with axes.
Wednesday A frightful explosion occurred
on the Union Pacific Rail
way, three miles west of Topeka, Kan,
A switch engine placed in the yard there
was where hauling a train of cars to a -point
the track was being repaired.
Just as it was slowing up the boiler of
the engine exploded with terrible force,
scattering it into fragments for the dis
tance of several hundred yards. Fire
man James Dutton was fatally injured,
and Engineer R. T. Seacord received
injuries which will probably prove fatal.
The track was torn up for a distance of
150 feet, and the cars were scattered
promiscuously around.
The celebration of the one-hundredth
anniversary of the fall of the Bastile,
was begun Monday by Frenchmen of
New- York. The French societies, num
bering about 5,000 men, gathered at
their headquarters and marched through
Washington square and some of the
streets in that vicinity, and finally pa
raded to Union square, where they were
reviewed by Mayor Grant and a number
ot distinguished Frenchmen. In the
procession were three carriages with
children. One group represented Al
sace-Lorraine under past French rule,
the other under present German rule, and
the third picturing the glorious future
when again under the French flag. The
Alsace-Lorraine society was represented
larcelv in the procession.
DRIVEN TO THE WALL.
ASSIGNMENT OF AN IRON KING, WITH LIA
BILITIES NEARLY A MILLION.
A special from Elkhart, Wis., an
nounces that John E. Burton, known as
the Gogebic iron king,during the mining
craze two years ago, has made an assign
ment to Gage E. Tarbell, of Milwaukee.
The liabilities of Burton are stated to be
about $825,000. Secured claims against
Burton amounts to about $G00,000, and
there is no prospect that there will be
anything to pay the unsecured claims,
the assets being stated to be $701,000,
including $000,000 in real estate and
$100,000 in personal property. The real
estate consists of property in Lake Gene
va valued at $300,000, a business
in Chicago valued at $200,000, and prop
erty in Hurley and other places valued at
$100,000. Besides this, there is stated
to be $100,000 personal property, con
sisting of mortgages, notes, stocks, etc.
Burton says that he has been so liarrassed
by creditors that he was forced to assign.
He said Wednesday night: “Nearly one
hundred suits have been brought against
me in eighteen mouths, and my credit
ruined, and my property depreciated and
slaughtered from $2,200,000 to less than
$1,000,000, and in nearly all cases it was
wholly unnecessary.”
MURDERED HIS TENANTS.
,, Mrs. Eatenshaver ,, , , and . child , were , bru
tally murdered on the farm of John Gil
man, near Coquille City, Oregon, Thurs
day night, and buried m agulch near the
house, where they were found Monday.
The husband was working up the river,
returning home Saturday. They were
tenants of Gilman, who wanted them to
eave, which they re used until their
tease expired Af er the murder of the
wife and ch.ld Gilman laid in wait Sat
and gave the alarm, which resulted iu
the discovery of the remains of his wife
and child, and a ready-made grave for
the husband. Gilman and his wife were
arrested.
WILL BE TESTED.
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At the request of Govenor Merriam, , ol
Minnesota, Attorney General Clapp ren
uereu an opinion upon the John Day
bmitli law to regulate executions, and
pronounces it constitutional. The law
becomes of interest, as it will be tested
r riday, when Albert Bulow will be
hanged at Little Falls. The law pro
vides that no newspaper shall be repre
sented at executions, and no paper shall
print any facts about them except the
hour of occurrence. The newspapers
have arranged to print extended reports.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
R10 US POINTS IN THE SO UTII.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
At the Pratt Mines, near Birmingham,
Ala., Thursday night, burglars entered
the residence of R. W. Baker, and se
cured $180 in money, and $!,800 in notes
and checks.
A tragedy was enacted in Atlanta, Ga.,
Tuesday night, in which ex-policeman
W. J. Pelot was shot and killed by A. J.
Wylie, watchman at the East Tennessee
Railroad shops. Pelot.’s intimacy with
Wyly’s wife is the alleged cause. Both
men were well known, and the killing
caused great excitement. Wylie was
arrested.
The tax digest of Dougherty Co., Ga..
was forwarded to the comptroller-general
Tuesday. It shows an increase of taxa
ble property in this county of $300,000.
This is mainly from new enterprises
started within the last year in Albany,
Ga. Lands are given no higher than last
year, and the stocks of merchandise, as a
general thing, make a meagre showing.
Dr. D. T. Lupton,state chemist of Ala
bama, has just completed the analysis of
the stomach of Mrs. Henry Duncan, who
was supposed to have been poisoned a
few days ago, by her husband, a free will
Baptist preacher, not far from Ozark, in
Dale county, Ala. The analysis shows
the stomach contained morphine. Pub
lic sentiment is very strong against Mr.
Duncan.
Thursday the body of Mrs. Fulmer,the
wife of Engineer Fulmer, of the Duck
town branch of the Western North Caro
lina railroad, was found in a pond in the
suburbs of Asheville, N. C., and near the
Fulmer residence. The deceased, a
young wife, conceiving the idea that her
husband did not show the attention to
her that he formerly did, threw herself
into the pond.
A man, named Gaston, committed sui
cide at Brewton, Ala., Wednesday, by
throwing himself upon a circular saw
in a saw mill. He was killed in
stantly. From papers found on his
person, it was learned that his home was
in Iowa. It is thought that the cause
letter was disappointment indicating in love, as he had a
that an engagement be
tween him and a Miss Smith, of Des
Moines, la., had been broken.
James A. Patterson, Jr., of Waynes
boro, made an assignment Monday to A.
C. Braxton, an attorney of Staunton, Va.
His less than assets $10,000. are over $60,000, and'debts
Patterson owned and
operated the largest flouring mill in the
valley, and did a large business. He has
left the country. No reason is given for
his absence or for his assignment. He
was a prominent and influential citizen,
and chairman of the democratic county
committee.
Several weeks ago,agents of the Amer
ican Building and Loan association, of
Minneapolis, Minn., appeared at Cuth
bert, Ga., and succeeded in interesting
quite a number of the citizens iu this
project. A branch -was organized here
and several hundred dollars carried off
by them. Recently, the members have
received their certificates of membership,
which are so widely at variance in the
contracts and the statements of the
agents, that those who took stock
unhesitatingly pronounce the whole
scheme a fraud.
The people along the line of Lee
county, Ga., are greatly excited over the
alleged appearance iu their midst of
John Pickett, a negro, who was hanged
in Lee county, on the 14th of June. Af
ter his body was cut down it was placed
i n a pine boat, and hurriedly driven off
t 0 Sumter county, where he was born
for burial. A week later it was rumored
that he had been resuscitated and nursed
back to health. When asked as to where
Pickett was living the negroes refused
to talk, alleging that he would throw a
3pe il over them if they should betray lus
whereabouts.
PAYING OUT THE MONEY,
THE FLAN BY WHICH TnE JOHNSTOWN
SUFFERERS WILL BE GIVEN RELIEF.
At Johnstown, Pa., Monday, the board
of inquiry met and issued orders for re
lief to those entitled to it. The commis
sion at Cresson classified the sufferers m
to classes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and reccom
mended that immediate payment Uing be made
to cla9Se8 t 3 and 8< req ^ « $406,000. ’
Cla ., es 4 and 5 woul 1 ire $ 686
OOQ> As the commUsion onl y
ated $ 500) 000 without intimating when
aQOther di8tri butiou would be made, the
l)0lird determined to apportion l ? $500,000 * i
a * tbe five classe8 nstcad of t lree
cla8S a9 a t first proposed. Accordingly,
they J, will be paid ] on the following f basis
cla 1 will et $000 w.-. clas9 ci; 2 $4( 0 class
ES 5*^0.
A COSTLY FIRE,
A disastrous fire occurred at Columbus,
Iowa, Thursday. Half of a four-story
business block on North High street,
owned by the heirs of the Breyfogel cs
tate, was completely gutted by the
flames. The German Furniture Com
pany and their occupied the first and second floors,
stock, valued at about $40,
000, was totally destroyed. The upper
floors were occupied by J. A. McAuley’s
awning and tent factory. His loss was
about $6,000. Loss on the building was
about $20,000. The roof on the King
building, a handsome, six-storv brown
burned. stone, supposed to be fire proof, was
The loss was about $1,500.
The total loss is estimated at about
$75,000 or 880,000. Three firemen were
injured, but not dangerously.
AN ELECTION PROHIBITED
ANTI-ADMIN ISTRATIONISTS IN OKLaHo*
SAT DOWN UPON. *1
A dispatch from Oklahoma says: Tues
day morning, in defiance of Mav ot
Crouch’s proclamation, and the spe t -j a
order of General Merriam, an attend
was made by the anti-administration f., '
tion to hold a charter election.
polling places were established. ^ ear
each were stationed squads of United
States soldiers and detachments of sn e
cial police. Mayor Crouch, .
by City Marshal Kuntz, approached accompany
polling place at Broadway, and demand.! the
edof the men in charge, by what ri»U
they authority were of holding the people,” an election. they “By'the
The and marshal then replies
mayor took po s .
session of the poll books and ballot-box^
and conveyed them to the city hall
where they locked them up. They then
proceeded to the second polling pl ace
and repeated the proceedings. A
minutes later the mayor and marshal
were both arrested on warrants sworn
out by United States Commissioner
timidation, Spears, of Guthrie, on the charge of i n .
but were later released by
Commissioner Sommers, of Oklahoma 1
who discharged them after hearing the
evidence.
ELECTRICITY’S WORK.
FIREMEN AND CITIZENS OF EVANSVILLE
IND., PROSTRATED.
ad., A special dispatch from EvansviU^ ’
►H says: “This city was visited by a
heavy rain and wind storm Monday af
ternoon, doin^f much damage. About 10
o’clock at night, whan the power at
electric light station for the street ilium
ination was turned oh, numerous wire*
which bad been blown down, charged
buildings and pools of water in the
street with electricity. Fire a foot high
was emitted in places, causing an alarm
to be sounded. The fire department re
sponded, and being unaware of the con
dition of things, rushed into what wji
almost certain death. Horses and fire
men alike were knocked down with elec
tricity. Others rushed into a building
that was apparently on fire only to be
thrown violently down. Citizens rushed
in and met a similar fate, and excitement
ran high. A messenger hastened to the
station and had the electric power shut
off, and then the work of resuscitating
began. A dozen or more men were
found unconscious, but their lives were
saved by laying them upon the wet
ground. Several firemen are yet in i
precarious condition.”
TERRIBLE WIND STORM,
AN OHIO TOWN NEARLY DEMOLISHED
FIFTY PEOPLE REPORTED KILLED.
A wind storm, which nearly demolish
ed the village of Princeton, Ohio, occur
ed Monday afternoon. Before reaching
Princeton it blew the roof off the ban
of John Stinson, throwing it into acorn
field some distance away. The dwelling
house of Finley Whitehead, in Prince
ton, was carried away, and his wagon
making shop, near by, was demolished
A large brick school building in the vil
lage was torn down to the foundations,
and the rafters of the house carried 20C
yards by the force of the wind and lodg
ed in the top of a large oak tree, while
desks and other furniture were scattered!
in every direction. The blacksmith shop!
and a barn of Gus Ninnear were both
elled to the ground. The houses of
Lennard, Rose Miller and Stephen Claw while! |
son were completely wrecked, !
W. II. Walter lost everything he possess
ed. The oats and corn crops were ruin-1
ed and the village was deluged with!
water. A report from Hamilton, Ohio,!
says ed, but that this fifty has people not yet were been killed continued.! or injur-j
A MAGISTRATE JAILED.
OFFICERS CLAIM THAT HE CURSED TIlESi
AND RESISTED ARREST.
Considerable excitement was caused
Charlotte, N. C., Wednesday, by the ar
rest, of John P. Hunter, justice of tfe
peace, lives four on Independent square. Hunts bai
miles in the country, and
driven in town, and was sitting in bit
buggy talking when to a friend on commanded the public |
him square, to a policeman refused dc
move on, which he to
and he cursed the policeman. The po-,
lice man reported the affair to Sergeant!
Boyle, who arrested Hunter for insultin?]
his officer. The two policemen started I
house, with the justice of the peace to allowed the guard'
but Hunter asked to be to
give street, bond, he called and seeing him, a friend according across the]
to his to when, downj
with statement, billy. he was knocked that*
a The officers claim
Hunter resisted, but he denies it. The I
lick struck made a fearful wound on the 1
magistrate’s head. The affair caused*
decided sensation, as Hunter is a man 0 ’
quiet disposition, and has a record of 1
law-abiding citizen. He is a well-to-do
farmer.
TOM CONDER HANGED
Tom Conder,, who murdered Jack R’ -
ley, near Troy, Obion county, Tenn., in
September last, was hanged Monday i°
Nashville, Tenn. Governor Taylor sev
for eral days ago received a petition asking
a commutatioh of sentence, but de
clined to interfere. Conder and 31 rs
Riley, wife of the victim and mother-in
law of the murderer, were arrested
the killing of Itiley and tried. Condet
was sentenced to be hanged and Mr 8,
Itiley to ihiprisonment for life. 8b e
made a confession, saying that Itiley was
shot and killed by Conder, and that sh«
was present at the time the crime J va8
committed. Conder was forty-tkren
years old and a Mormon.