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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1889)
SoWey Coil! News. —PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT— ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. >IT 1 _ The month of May in England, iu 1889, will probably take rank as the Wettest on record. The Utah Supreme Court has decided that Sandwich Islanders cannot become American citizens. Since 1872 France and Germany have been making inroads into England’s Spanish-American trade. The New Orleans 'limes-Democrat says that there is a great deal of unoccupied land in the United States, and immi grants of a good class are welcome. The New York Ilea-aid wants the vio let adopted as our national flower, be cause it stands for modesty and is, therefore, a true representative of Amer ica. There appears every reason to believe that the present year will prove the most flourishing ever known in the com mercial history of the United King dom. The newest idea in christening ships is to scatter roses over the bow, instead of breaking a bottle of wine. The in novation is certainly poetical, comments the New Orleans Picayune and a bottle , of wine is saved for those who can ap predate it. The Constitution of the Cherokee Na tion absolutely forbids any alienation of the tribal lauds, and the authorities of the nation could not sell the Cherokee strip even if they wished to. It can be taken by the United States by force, but there will be no opportunity to disguise it through a so-called negotia tion. The state railroads of Prussia make special concessions to invalids of the lower classes who are obliged to travel for the sake of their health. The blind, deaf, insane or diseased of any kind are transported with their attendants for the exceedingly low rate of one-sixth of a cent a mile. Poor children sent to the country on summer vacations and the officers of all benevolent institutions of whatever nature are also given the same privilege. Doorkeeper LoeflL-r of the White has a wonderful memory. Ho was with Stanton at the time of Lin coln’s assassination, and during the trials of 1869 was ordered to the White f 'r the duties he is still perform His recollection of faces is re markable. “You called on Mr. Gar field,” or ‘ T remember you during the Hayes regime,” be will sometimes say to » man whom he has never seen but ©nee, and that years ago. He cin tell a “crank” on sight and he saves the President a great deal of annoyance by his acuteness. The men at We t Guthrie, Ok’ahoma, are rough, lemarks the Chicago Herald, but tender. Not iifrequently they will take a drink or a ‘ ‘chew,” and over a disputed piece of land they will fight like tigers. But they are extremely gallant in their treatment of the fair sex. Tin y held an election for mayor out there the other day, and not only allow ed the 35 women of the place to vote, but procured carriages and drove them to the polls where they were treated with every mark of courtesy. Cultured Boston, in the recent election in which women participated, showed t: cm less polite attention than the rough pioneers at Guthrie.” ^ Ihe objection ,, . of ,, electricians :■ to the new' method of execution by electricity is said to be purely one of sentiment. lliey do not wish to see the science • de- a graded. As well, they say, put a man to death by music nr poetry as by elec tricity. “All of which is true, ” ad mits the New York Commercial Adver - User, “but these practical poets, the electricians, must remember that the protests of the civilized world its-If lias not been able to blot out that instru ment of torture, the hand organ, Doubtless the spinners of hemp were once much scandalized by the ignoble use to which their handiwork was put, but rope-making seems to have survived tbe ordeal.” SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. There is certainly something perpet ual about the perpetual motion delusion. The Washington Patent Office, in the bourse ot the last year has been favored •with not less than twenty-eight new projects for the construction of the il lusive contrivance. Robert P. Porter, chief of the census bureau assuies the public that the re turns of population will be made out be fore Christmas of next year, or within six months from the time the count is begun. If this is done the Fifty-first Congress can make the figures the , , basis . of representation in Congresa for ten years, beginning in 1892. Chicago will probably have one of the finest libraries in the world in the course of a few years. Mr. W. L. New berry, one of the earliest residents, left the sum of $250,000 for the purpose, and a temporary building has been used for some time. It is now intended to erect a magnificent edifice, capable of holding 300,000 volumes. A Kentucky swain has just been wedded after a courtship that lasted fifty years. Just think of it! exclaims the New York Mercury. Half a century of moonlight walks, seaside strolls, picnic junketing, fireside hugging, ten der tones, Summer drives, Winter sleighride3, and whispers of devotion. That Kentuckian was certainly a phi losopher, and deserved the prolonged bliss which all the world mu 3 t envy. The Churchman , speaking of the death of Damien, the leper priest of the Sandwich Islands, says that outside of the w r alls of Jerusilcm is a leper hospital tended by deaconesses from the German religious houses. “Year after year these heroic women, without pretentiousness, without any trumpeting of their w r ork, almost unknown to the W'orld, have waited upon lepers, while themselves literally dying by inches. Their courage has only come to light by the chance notice of travelers.” A work of engineering begun by the Romans under Nero, in the second cen tury, will be finished this year; that is, it has been in process of construction for over 1700 years. The work to which we refer is the cutting of a canal through the Isthmus of Corinth. The canal, when done, will be only four miles long, and wdll have a depth of eight meters, which will allow the passage of the largest vessels used in Greek traffic. It is not so great a matter from an interna tional view as the Suez and Nicaragua projects, but it will do much to further the rapid progress made by modern Greece in the arts of civilization and commerce. Says the New York Tribune: “It is nine years since a census was taken. If the best estimates are not in error, the population is now over 65,000,000, an increase of thirty per cent in nine years. In some things the industrial growth of the country lias not kept pace with the growth of population, it is true. In number of sheep the increase has been but seventeen per cent, and in milch Cuws twenty-three per cent, and the in crease in swine last January seemed small. In acreage of wheat there has not been a proportionate increase. But in corn and oats the gain has been greater than in population, and the re turns of cotton acreage show an increaso of forty per cent since 1880. The sup plies of beef are assured by an increase of forty-seven percent in the number of cattle.” A Chicago medical student recently evolved a great scheme which has sel dom been surpassed for ingenuity and effrontery. Before he received his doc tor’s degree he started a medical college, all on paper, of which he was president, ^ fictitious faculty of twenty-two persons. Then he advertised that any one enclosing $25 he would receive a n s t of questions. When these were sat isfactonly , answered , the , applicant would , , submit a thesis on some medical subject and when this thesis was approved ho would receive a degree of M. D. or Ph. D . from the Chicago College of Science, As soon as he began to advertise the in quisitive reporter camped on his trail an d there was a sudden end.of the Col lege of Science. His scheme would have proved a bonanza if he could have guarded it against exposure. As it is, we may count on hearing from him again. A fellow of his speculative gen - i u s will not keep his light hiddea under a bushel. t GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS , AND EXCITING EVENTS. »nr8 FROM ivebtwheeh—accidents, btbikm, nil*8, AliD HAFPBKIKG8 OF INTEREST. Philadelphia ii inXTucial diSrels!^ ^ Texas fever is reported as playing sad havoc among cattle in Indian Territory, The shah of Persia arrived in Paris on J ^ ues( J?J- 'arnot. He wa * welcomed by Presi Snow storms and rains prevail through out 8wirzerlancL Mouu t a in passe* are partly blocked. A fire at Hastings, Neb., destroyed the Gazette-Journal plant. Loss $25,000; insurance $15,000. The United States cruiser Rush has made several captures of British sealing schooners in Alaskan waters. Abraham Finkbone, a prisoner in Read ing, Pa., jail, committed suicide Thurs day by hanging himself in his cell. day Bethlehem, Pa., iron company Thurs issued a notice of an increase in wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80 per day. A company has been formed in Chi cago which has secured rights in Indi ana and will pipe natural gas into Chi cago. Twenty-seven storekeepers and gaugers places were appointed Wednesday to take the of democrats in California and Kentucky. A machine gun exploded on board the training France, frigate Courens, at Hyeres, Wednesday. Eight persons were killed and seventeen injured. Andrew C. Drumm, who has full charge of the cattle commission business of A. A. Drumm – Co., of Kansas City, has disappeared and $15,000 with him. The Peter Schoenliafen Brewing com pany, with of capital Chicago, has $3,000,000—one-half been incorporated a of taken in Chicago; the other half in Lon don. Nine persons in Burlington, Wis., were poisoned by eating dried beef firm. shipped to local dealers by a Chicago Four of the victims are precarious ly ill. Eight thousand bunches of overripe bananas were seized by the New York board of health Thursday. The fruit wasf on the steamer Alps, of the Italy line. Eleven houses were burned at Fenn ville, Mich., Wednesday night, involving a loss of $35,000. A tramp caused the conflagration, and he was arrested and jailed. According to the latest statistics care fully compiled by the board of injury, at Johnstown, Pa., Wednesday, the num ber of lives lost in the devastated district was about six thousand. The pcstoffiee department has received the resignation of Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, whose administration of of fice was recently severely criticised by the civil service commission. Three young ladies—Misses Flanagan, McCabe and Farrell, were drowned Tues day night while tiying to cross Menomi nee river at Ishpening, Michigan. Their bodies have not been recovered. Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royee, late of the Willimantic Savings institute, was arrested Thursday in Willimantic, Conn., on a new charge of embezzlement of $15,000 from the institute and making false entries. W. F. Johnson – Co., leather dealers, doing business at 244 Purchase street, Boston,have failed. Liabilities $225,000. The cause of the failure is the general condition of the leather business for the past three years. John Hronek, one of the Chicago an archists confined at the prison, made a desperate attempt to commit suicide Wednesday. During working hours he severed the arteries in his arm with a saddle knite. Acting Secretary Batchelor has issued an order suspending payment on all bills against the Treasury Department for tel egraphing during the current fiscal year on account of the question of fixing rates not being settled. The New York Herald says the cotton crop of Texas is worth $84,000,000, and that reports of the corn, cotton and wheat crops have been underestimated. Such cotton was never seen, and wheat and oats are up to the averygg. Forest fires have been raging in the vicinity of Glennwood Springs, Cal., for several days, and covers an area of over ten square miles. Reports from Red Cliff, Leadville, Aspen and New Castle report the sun completely obscured by Bmoke. occurre d in the western portion of the Island of Kiou Siou. The town of Kum wnoto was destroyed. A great number ot people perished. A vast amount of property was also destroyed. qq ie ,, rail( j national monument, in honor of the pilgrims, was dedicated at Plymouth, Mass., on lhursdav. I he £7,fgraSlumbers! also Sow from f ar an{ j near . The dedicatory exercises were carried out by the Masonic grand lodge, according to the ritual of their order, and were very interesting. A committee, consisting of William Onalian, of Chicago, chairman, and Henry J. Spaanholst, of St. Louis, and Daniel H. Rudd, of Cincinnati, Wednes day issued a call for a general congress of the Catholic laity of the United States t0 p 0 held in the city of Baltimore No vernber 11th and 12th, 1889, to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the estab lishment of the Catholic hierarchy of the United States. McKean – Appleton, shoe manufac turers at Salem, Mass., have assigned to J. Beebe, of Boston. The estimated lia bilities are from $65,000 to $75,000. Mc Kean – Appleton did the largest shoe business in Salem, their yearly sales reaching nearly $400,000. The assets, as near as can be determined hastily, are about $40,000. The colb-pse was has tened by recent losses through failures, aggregating $7,000 to $8,000. The worsted mills of Scheppers Broth ers,. Philadelphia, American and Diamond streets. Pa., were closed down on Saturday, in consequence of the failure of Lewis Brothers – Co., who were the largest do purchasers of their goods. They not desire to continue their manufac turing business until Lewris Brothers A Co. make a statement to Cornelius N. Bliss, assignee, so that tha Scheppers may know how they stand. The debt statement issued at Wash ington, D. C., Thursday, show£ an in crease of debt during the month of Julj to be $1,017,311.51; total interest bear ing debt $895,391,886 96; total debt ol all kinds $1,646,777,309.91; total debt, less available credit, $1,077,663,932.96: legal tender notes outstanding outsiami- $346,- 681,016; certificates of deposit ing $17,575,600; gold certificates out standing $118,541,409; silver certificates $29,557,125; fractional currency $6,916,- 690.47; total cash in treasury $634,728, 023.44. The American Iron and Steel associa tion, ed at Philadelphia, Pa., has ascertain from reports from manufacturers that the total production of Bessemer steel in gots in the United states in the first half of 1889, amounted to 1,268,496 gross tons of 2,240 pounds, against 1,275,189 gross tons in the last half of 1888. The association also reports that the quan tity of kinds and sizes of Bessemer steel rails, rolled by the Bessemer Steel Pro ducing works of this country in the first half of 1889 was 652,475 gross tons, against 673,724 tons in the last half of 1888, and 692,197 tons in the first half of 1888. THE CITIZENS ARE MAD. BRUNSWICK INDIGNANT OVER THE FALSE REPORT OF A YELLOW FEVER CASE. The Advertiser and Times oi Brunswick, Ga., both appeared Thursday containing strongly worded editorials condemning Savannah’s action in regard to quarantine- fever ing Brunswick on account of the rumors. Further investigation proved that false rumors were started by a wild drummer who left here some days ago, and without any regard to truth circula ted the report that a man named Night ingale had died of yellow fever. A dispatch from Washington states that owing to the prevalence of rumors of suspicious cases of fever at Brunswick, Ga., the marine hospital bureau ordered Sanitary Inspector Posey investigation. to proceed to that place and make an The lollowing telegram from Dr. Posey, dated at Brunswick, Ga., was received at the marine hospital bureau Thursday: The cause of the death of B. Nightingale, which occurred July 24th, was hemor rhagic malarial fever, confirmed by an autopsy held by Drs. Dun woody, Bur ford and Hazlehurst. No cases of fever here of a suspicious character. ANOTHER ASSIGNMENT. A BOSTON ROOT AND SHOE HOUSE IS FORCED TO SUCCUMB. E. – A. H. Batchelor – Co., among the largest boot and shoe bouses in Boston, Mass., doiDg business at 106 Summer street, have assigned. Mr. Batchelor, one of the firm, states that the liaoilities, as near as can now be ascer tained, will reach *1,250,000 with nomi n-il assets about the same figure. The as signees are Thos. E. Procter, of Boston and R. Batchelor, of North Brookfield. The larger amount of indebtedness is said to be on paper held by parties who are at pre sent unknown to the firm. The firm is one of good standing, and was rated by Bradstreets “G. A.” The failure creates great surprise. The business was estab lished in North Brookfield, and the fac tory there is one of the largest and best equipped in the county, aud gives em ployment to 1,100 hands, calling for a weekly pay-roll of over $100,000. The immediate causes of failure are large loans made by A. H. Batchelor outside of business, aud the fact of the recent large failures in leather trade, followed by Lewis Brothers – Co.’s failure. THE BAGGING QUESTION. FARMERS DETERMINED NOT TO USE BAG GING MADE BY THE TRUST. Col. Polk, of Raleigh, N. C., state secretary of the farmers’ alliance, on Tuesday, received a telegram from the business agent of the Louisiana Farm ers’ Union, which stated that the New Orleans mills made the first shipment of Odenheimcr cotton bagging. This is made of cotton, and is forty-four inches wide. The mills will run day and night to meet the pressing de mands. A dispatch received from Texas, by Col. Polk, states that the farmers of one of the largest counties in the state held a mass meeting, and decided that they made would on no account use bagging by the trust, but would pen their cotton in the fields until they can ob tain cotton bagging. Col. Polk says this fully illustrates the determination of the Southern farmers in regard to the bagging question. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SOUTB. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OP IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., took charge of the office Thursday. W. H. Heyward, one of the richest and most prominent rice planters of the olden times, day, died at Charleston, S. C., Tues aged seventy-two years. In Sampson county, N. C., the heavi est rain ever known in that section fell for fifteen hours Saturday. Hundreds of barrels of turpentine were swept from Johnson's mill. Two other parties lost large quantities. The lo<s Will amount’ to $3,000. while Thirty-five editors of North Carolina, at the press convention recently, were interviewed on the insane asylum matter. the removal Twenty-eight of them favored of Superintendent Grissom, while four opposed his removsland three were non-committal. The largest gathering of farmers seen in Charlotte, N. C. in many years, greeted Harry Tracy, the alliance lectur er fair Wednesday. Mr. Tracy spoke at the least grounds, and it is estimated that at 2,500 farmers heard him. Much enthusiasm was manifested. W. F. Lecroix, seventy-five years of age, of Chattanooga, Tenn. was mar ried Tuesday night by a justice of the peace to Miss Lou Black, of Rising Fawn, Ga., aged sixteen. Tlie bride was very pretty, and the groom the opposite. The young lady, it is understood, ran away from home to marry her aged lover. This is the fourth time that the groom has led a blushing bride to the altar. The case of John P. Hunter, justice of the peace, who was clubbed and hand cuffed on the streets of Charlotte, N. C., some days ago, was called in the magis trate’s court Tuesday morning. The de fendants, Police Sergeant Joe Boyle and Policeman G. J. Morris, waived exami nation, and were each bound over to the criminal court. The case is attracting widespread attention, and is being watched with peculiar interest. A storm broke over Richmond, Va., on Thursday night, during which the city railway stables, located just without the city limits in West End, were struck by lightning. The building took fire r the flames spread rapidly, and before aid ar rived the entire structure was consumed and sixty mules and horses were burned up. Seven street cars were also de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $24, 000; insurance $46,500, all in foreign companies. Two new industrial enterprises were organized at Charleston, S. C., Tues day—the Imperial Box and Envelope Manufacturing $10,000, Company, capital stock and the Tropical Refrigerating Company, capital $25,000. Books of subscription will be open in 8 few days for the Mount Pleasant butter and cheese factory, the Charleston Mattress JIanufacturiug Three Company,and the Charles ton Dollar Pants Company most of the stock of which has already been subscribed. Martha York, am old woman, was on Tuesday placed in jail in Randolph county, N. G'., charged with murdering her grandchild, a boy eleven years old. While delirious the child said repeatedly that his grandma had beaten him to death. The child’s mother testified that its grand ma was the murderer. There had been a quarrel in the family, and it is said the old woman whipped the boy with hick ory switches until she fainted from ex haustion. The affair is creating excite ment among the citizens. A dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala., re ports the mysterious death at noon Mon day of Arthur Fitts, superintendent of the Tuscaloosa cotton mills, and son of J. Fitts, a prominent banker. He was seen last walking back and forth on the grounds of the mills, and finallv disap peared under an old building. A pistol shot was heardy and an employe lound Fitts lying on the ground with au ugly wound behind his right ear, and the pis tol with one chamber empty at his feet. There is nothing to determine whether it is a case of suicide or murder. Rube Burrows, a train robber, mur derer and hunted outlaw', is creating a reign of terror in Lamar county, Ala. He is strongly fortified in a mouutain cave, almost within sight of the eourt house and jail of the county, and sur rounded by an unknown number of des peradoes,. defies the civil and military slieriif authorities to capture him. The of the county, who has a posse of seventy-five men and twenty detectives working with him, lias applied to Gov. Seay for troops to aid him in the captuie of the gang. SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS. A WONDERFUL FLENTY—PEACHES FIF TEEN CENTS A CRATE, ETC. The abundance of fruit this year seems to be general throughout the whole state of South Carolina. In Columbia fruit is actually a “glut” on ihe market. Farmers bring into that city wagon loads of melons for which they are un able to find a market at any price. Can taloupes of the finest quality sell for a song; the nutmeg variety is sold at fif teen or twenty cents a dozen. One of the fruit commission merchants bad a a number of crates of peaches in front of his store marked “fifteen cents a crate;” they Country were fresh and of good quality watermelons sell for five or ten cents. In fact there is a superabundant* of all kinds of fruits.
