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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1889)
A STARTLING theory TBA Vere many WHITECHAPEL MURDERS committed by a woman. A startling and appalling story relat tom • „ to the Whitechapel atrocities, comes London, England, and if it proves I T it will show that the the horrible really crimes sensa t-nnal ! elements of e i t her heretofore been unknown to the police, or, if known, have been suc cessfully uDtil suppressed The from perpetra- the rvnblic now. | or n f the Whitechapel the story goes. butch- It pries is a woman, so is s tated that this allegation is not based a theory, but a fact. The letters signed by Jack; the Ripper were thus !kmed to lead to the supposition Great surprise that has the murderer was a man. been expressed at the fact that so many murders could be committed in such a thickly populated locality as is the East End, and that the man who did the killing could escape, London especially have as all been of the fallen women of on their guard for months past. The murderess could approach a woman with out being suspected, because she was a woman herself. She could discuss the murders with her dissolute companions, , in d on the pretense of illustrating how the butcheries were committed would pass her left arm around the vic tem’s head, covering the eyes and pulling her head back with the one hand while she drew her knife across the throat with the other. It is asserted that the fact that the killer was a woman was devel oped by an unsuccessful attempt to mur der a harlot in Whitechapel, made within the last few days, and the arrest of the would-be perpetrator, who is said to be a Spanish or an Italian woman, whose mo tive was to murder all the fallen women she could, in the hope that by so doing she would remove the one that had aroused her jealousy, she not being posi tive as to the exact woman who had farmed her lover from her side. In ad dition, it is alleged that the tigress mu tilated the corpses of those she killed in order to further satisfy her crazy desire for revenge. FREEMASONS GO TO LiOjV. IOWA MASONS ASK FOR AN INJUNCTION AGAINST THE GRAND LODGE. A special from Cedar Rapids, la., says: Aclion was begun Monday in the district court at Marion that will startle Masonic circles more than anything else, perhaps, of late years. Judge Preston, of the eighteenth judicial distret, on the peti tion of C. E. Barnes, af Burlington, J. G. Graves and Henry Bennett, plaintiffs and grand officers of the Iowa consistory of that branch of the Scottish rite of Ma sonry, commonly known as the Cereneau, ordered a temporary injunction against the grand lodge of Iowa Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, restraining them from putting into effect the legislation of the last session of the Grand lodge refer ring to Cereneau bodies and which com manded Master Masons to leave the con sistory of Iowa of that rite under puuish ment of expulsion. Tho petition states that as the body represented by the plain tiffs does not confer a blue lodge degree and the grand lodge or its subordinate higher lodges do not confer the twenty-nine jurisdiction degrees, the grand lodge has no whatever and its action is illegal, arbitrary, oppressive, prescrip tive of their individual consistories and Masonic relations and hurtful of their This standing is as good and reputable citizens. the first time a Masonic body has appealed to the state courts and the ac tion of the supreme court to which it will finally go, will be a precedent for other stales. The time for hearing arguments for a perpetual injunction will be during the October term of court at Marion. SEALING SCHOONER SEIZED. a British sealing schooner captured BY AMERICANS. A dispatch from San Francisco says: he steamer Dora arrived from Behring sea etaued Monday night and brought the first ntish news of the capture of the m ! ed Sealer, States Black Diamond, by the T , revenue cutter, Richard ook the on Black July lith. The Rush over e to Leave Diamond and ordered r to. The captain of Black n lamond . refused do to this. Thereupon e commander of the Rush ordered tho of the pnrts and the running , ? ‘ eave 8 u ns, which caused the schooner ^eut r . to. Captain Shepard and eD a at Tuttle boarded the English 1!:' the asked Black for her papers. The offi , , Diamond offered no thTi r ? s,stance but refused to deliver Bh iP • , Z e °he 8 , P'P'-™- Captain Shepard at . . open the cabin and forced rnni of the strongbox and the Un S c ^ es b thereby securing the pa ix r 8, * 8earch of rt, , ^ the vessel disclosed 8Ca s ns which had been taken in Bek Captain -^ioned officer Shepard placed °{ Rush in charge and ordered the to Sitka to await ns. A COTTON TRUST. SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AFPROACHED BY AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE. f ? rn Vi l proposition has been made to man , eadln Southern av y ^ g cotton mills by a i«ts Ca °* Eog'ish – nd Eastern capital vin° r r hase ii f P urc of their plants with tral t" com com hiuiug in interests in one cen thttt ^ pany, the same manner ° n 8eed rnills have heretofore comi ^he Row - l hands of proposal are in of ^rious mill owners , ® take^ b thCre a * 8te P 8 have been result. U no kuowin g final scHLifr cotrsrr? mww. trouble INM’RAE.GA. ONE MAN KILLED AND TWO OTHERS aa VERELT WwwNDKD. Saturday night wa* a tragic evening in 6 ^ c ^ ae > Ga. One of her citi zens bleeding from a severe stab in the abdomen, another lying stiff in death trom a pistol shot through the bowels, and still a no ther bleeding from a shot in the leg. While the evening mail wsu being distributed a disturbance arose in the postoffice between Mr. Wash Lancas ter, bis two sons, Wright and John, and a young man named Clark. The result was that Clark was beaten pretty badly. Clark was taken out of tow T n, and ail thought the matter was ended. But few minutes had elapsed when every one war startled by the rapid firing of pistols. Six of Talfair’s prominent citizens defied each other with but a few feet of dirt intervening — three Lan casters, father and two sons on the one side, and the three McRaes, Edward, John and Frank, two brothers and 8 cousin on the other. When the cloud ol smoke had cleared away it was found that Mr. Ed McRae had been seriously cut in the left side, and that Mr. Wash Lancaster had been shot in the abdomen and his son Wright in the leg. There are section no more the prominent families in this of country than the Lancas ters or McRaes. Each have held offices of trust and honor in this county, and deep is the regret on every side that thii tragedy occurred. A HEAVY RAIN STORM VISITS NEW JERSEY, DOING UNTOLD DAM AGE AND CAUSES GREAT ALARM. Reports from Newark, N. J., say that the most disastrous storm that has visi ted that vicinity occurred Tuesday after noon and evening. In the city cellars were flooded and sewers burst. Work had to be suspended in factories in the lower section. A washout occurred on the Morris and Essex railroad at South Orange, and trains were delayed for many hours. In South Orange several buildings, includ ing the postoffice, were carried away. In Orange Valley, the water is up to the second-story windows. The people were compelled to paddle around on planks and swim in order to go to places of safe Montclair ty on high ground. Bloomfield and also report great damage to property. The greatest alarm prevails around Millburn. Above it is the Or ange Water reservoir dam, which is not considered safe. Should it burst, it would overflow Millburn and other small towns along the Rahway River. Nearly every road in the country is im passable, as all bridges have been washed away. SUBSTITUTE FOR JUTE. A GEORGIA FARMER THINKS HE HAS FOUND THE RIGH THING. Mr. Pickens Hembree, of Alpharetta, Ga., has been experimenting with a weed that grows wild all over the country, and thinks he has found a substitute for jute. He does not know the name of the weed, but it certainly is a valuable plant, al though Mr. heretofore considered worthless. made of Hembree exhibited a cord the fibre of this weed, which is as strong as any cord of the same size. It was made from a weed that matured last Fall and stood in the open air all Win ter. The cord is about the color of twine used for heading cotton bales. On good land it grows from four to five feet high, and thrives in any kind of soil. Mr. Hembree is of the opinion that if cultivated, it would produce an immense quantity per acre. DISASTER IN OHIO. AT LEAST A DOZEN KILLED BY A RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A pusher,running wild,returning from Connersville, Ohio, to Hamilton, collided with a passeuger train. The latter was running at a very high speed. The place is remote from hard telegraph stations, and definite news is to obtain. It is known, however, that it was a bad smash-up. Fireman Lee and Baggage master Shields were killed outright. Engineer Dougherty was badly hurt, and a Mr. Brannan, fireman, was severely hurt. It is believed that the number of killed and wounded will not be greater than twelve or fourteen. SURPLUS OF THE FUND. The Express (independent the conserva- surplus tive, at Dublin, Ireland, says exceeds of the Parnell indemnity fund £20^000 £40,000. The accounts show that only has been used for legal expen ses, in connection with special commis sion. The remainder, the Express says, cannot be legally distributed among evicted tenants and it therefore ought to be returned to subscribers to the fund. Polly, the Privateer. The schooner Polly, of Bangor, Me., Is probably the oldest vessel in service Hying the flag, having been builtin Ames bury, Mass., in 1804. She served as a privateer in 1812 and captured several prizes. She was taken by the English man-of-war Newcastle and started for Halifax, but the Americans left on board ove rpowered the prize crew and recap tured her. Subsequently she has been employed, as a fisherman, and latterly as a coaster. She has never been wrecked, but has suffered several collisions. She is so good a sailer that it takes a larger boat to beat her.—Nw York Telwrcm. RUSHING WATERS. GREAT FRESHET IN VIRGINIA— HOUSES AND STREETS FLOODED—UNTOLD DAMAGE. Reports from Richmond, Va., say that the James river is seventeen feet above the ordinary low water mark, and rising four inches per hour. The wharves at Rocketts are all uuder water and adja cent streets, houses and cellars and the gas works are inundated. A number of business houses had to suspend trade and move their effects in consequence of Schockoe creek backing up water from the river and overflowing their premises, Indications point to a freshet equal to the greatest for years. Reports through out the state, though meagre, lead to the belief that all the streams are swollen, At Fredericksburg the lower portion of the city is submerged from high water in the Rappahanock, and merchants and citizens are moving their effects to places of safety. At Danville, Thursday morning, there was more water in Dan liver than was ever known before. Factories and small ed, dwellings on the river banks were flood and the loss will be about $15,000, exclusive of the damage to the railroads. Travel on the Danville and New River road is suspended. Two bridges and one long trestle have been carried away, and the wires are all down. Cars on the Atlantic and Danville track are complete ly submerged and hidden from view. Harrisonburg, Va., the rains have been continuous for days, and all the streams are out of their banks. Much damage has been done. The rainy spell which has been almost continuous in that local ity for over two months, has destroyed much of the hay crop, and wheat is now sprouting in the shocks. The outlook is gloomy for farmers. Reports from Phil adelphia say: Waters in the Schuylkill river Thursday attained the highest point reached in this city for twenty years, in volving destruction to property estimated at from $10,000 to $20,000. Park drives were submerged, boathouses flooded, and some of the streets near the river banks were under water to the depth of be tween four and five feet, doing consid erable damage. HIS HOPE REALIZED. A DETROIT MAN MAKES A WISH WHICH IS FULFILLED. Several, days ago Patrick Galagher, ol Delroit, Mich., felt in his coat pocket for his pipe. It was not there, and its absence caused him to make a terrible wish. His wife reproved him. “Well, I don’t care,” he said, “Here, with this uplifted hand to Heaven, I pray that my creator will paralyze the man who has my pipe.” Before his utterances had died away Gulagher felt a severe twitching of the heart and complained of feeling unwell. A doctor was hastily despatched for and said that he had re ceived a stroke of paralysis and pro nounced the case a critical one. Death ensued in less than twelve hours. The grief-stricken family were at a loss to undeistand his sudden death. Tuesday, in looking through his clothes, in one of his outside pock ets was found the missing pipe, which had worked into the lining. Since the occurrence it seems as though the family w’ere afflicted with trouble. The death angel several days ago took away Patrick’s favorite child. A married daughter with several more of the chil dren, are now on the sick list, suffering with a mysterious malady, which is baffling the medical stirred fraternity. by The neighborhood affair. is up the pe culiar A GREAT EXODUS. 50,000 NORTH CAROLINA NEGROES TC LEAVE THE STATE NEXT FALL. The committee appointed by the col ored emigration convention which mel at Raleigh, N. C., last April to the go to the west and southwest, examine country and learn what arrangements can be made for the movement of a large body of col ored people from North Carolina, expect to leave Raleigh at once for the southwest. The committee says that over 78,000 Dailies of those who will move have been enrolled, and that they have agreed tc start in forty-eight hours alter notice has i been given them, provided the commis sion makes a favorable report. If the conditions are favorable and the commit tee shall so report, it is thought that at least fifty thousand people will be moved Eext fall. Louisiana, Tennessee, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and California seem to be making preparations to increase their colored population at the expense of North Carolina. A PHENOMENON. AN ALABAMA WELL WHICH GOES THROUGH THE IMIOCESS OF BREATHING. The Texas and Pacific Company sank a bored well some years ago near Eagle Flat Station, Ala., in order to obtain ar tesian water. The well was abandoned when it had been bored 800 feet, but the tubing is still intact in it. For twelve hours etch day a furious gust of air rushes into the tubing, and the next twelve hours an equally 6trong gust rushes out. The well is supposed to pecotrate into some large subterranean cavern which contains a large body of water. This water having connection, uy an underground passage, with the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean. As the tide ebbs down in this cavern, a vacuum is made underground, which is filled by the air rushing in through this well, and, conversely, when the tide comes up, the air is forced out through the same opening. CLARA BARTON. Founder of the American Red Cross Association. Hsr Noble Ministrations to the Sick, Wounded and Afflicted. “Relief in war, famine, pestilence and other national calamities. ” Such, says the New York Press , is the motto of the American Red Cross Association, whose president is Miss Clara Barton, who hast ened to Johnstown among the first to afford personal relief to the afflicted val ley of the Conemaugh. The story of Clara Barton and the Red Cross is familiar in outline to all. It was she who, on the morning after the capitulation of Strasburg, in the Franco Prussian war, entered the conquered city and—her sole password the scarlet £ross on her sleeve—began that noble ministration to the sick, the wounded and the afflicted which has made her name famous. From Strasburg Clara Barton hastened to Paris to continue her ministrations amid the horrors of the Commune. Clara Barton next appeared upon the scene in the midst of the Mississippi floods of 1884. The terrors of that time are readily recalled, when thou sands upon thousands of once thriving inhabitants were left without homes, food or money, and there was no means for them to purchase even the seed for the spring sowing. Then it was that the founder of Red Cross appeared upon a steamer loaded with food and susten ance and money for the seed time. The ministrations of Clara Barton in our own great war are well known. Her philanthropic spirit ultimately found vent in the Order of the Red Cross. The organization is an associa tion of relief societies in various coun tries. Its prime aim is ministration to wounded soldiers. The idea of the order is said to have been conceived by Henri Durant, a Swiss gentleman, who at Solferino was impressed with the swift and sudden suffering borne in upon the wounded soldiers and with the need of more rapid and effective relief. M. Durant pre sented his thought to the Society of Public Utility, which corresponds to the Society of Social Science in this coun try, and on October 26, 1864, a conven tion was held at Geneva, composed of delegates from various countries—our own Minister to Switzerland, Mr. Fogg, taking an active part—and resolutions were adopted providing that the ambu lance and military hospitals in battle should be held as neutral, and relief service likewise, even after the field had been carried and occupied. Twelve nations at once agreed to the adoption of this international measure, and all civilized nations now recognize it. Miss Barton is a native of Maine. In early life she was a teacher, and she founded several free schools in New Jer sey. In 1857 she became a clerk in the government service at Washington. Re signing at the outbreak of the war, she entered the hospital service, and her tender ministrations are still told of by those who suffered on the field of battle and were prisoners at Libby prison, An derson villc and elsewhere. The Mexican Wasp. The Mexican wasp bears the same re lation to a tarantula that a kingfisher does to a hawk. A hawk preys on chickens and small birds, and king fishers, that are little birds, will kill a big hawk. A tarantula will kill the most pugnacious birds and beasts, but a Mexican wasp will make short work of a tarantula. A traveler in Mexico tells the New York Sun all about them. In five seconds after the wa3p has entered the spider’s den the tarantula will be dragged out as a butcher drags a dead porker out of a pen. But the wasp’s poison has not killed tne tarantula; sinjply put it in a trance. It is now embalmed alive. Sometimes the tarantula killer drags its victim a mile distant, although the spider is many times the wasp’s bulk and weight. Then it punctures its victim’s body at the base of one of its hind legs and lays an egg deep in the opening. The wasp then digs a hole in the ground and buries the tarantula. When the egg is hatched inside the spider the result is a most voracious grub, which at once be gins to eat its way out of its storehouse. It is as if the spider had been kept on ice, nice and fresh in aU its flesh and juices. Distribution «*f Seeds. Mr. Darwin found that the small portions of earth attaching to the feet of migrating birds contained seed. Nine grains of earth on the leg of a woodcock sontaincd a seed of the toad rush. From six and a half ounces of earth rolleJ into a ball and adhering to the leg of a wounded partridge has raised eighty-two separate plants of live species. Migra ting birds often frequent the edges of ponds ere their departure, and in six and three-quarter ounces of such mud he raised, under glass 537 plants. Seeds furnished with crowns, hooks, or prickles readily stick to the plumage of birds, which ail such birds, and es pecially such wanderers as the albatross, might carry long distances. Applying these facts to the case of the Azores, Mr. Wallace found that most of the plants of the Azorean floro are well adapted to be carried by the methods just suggested—45 of the 439 flowering plants belonging to genera that have either papus or winged seeds, 65 to such as have minute seeds, 30 to those with fleshy fruits which are greedily eaten by birds, some have hispid seeds, and 84 are glumaceous plants w r ell suited to con veyance by winds and currents. The only trees and shrubs of this isolated group are bearers of small berries, such as the Portugal laurel, myrtle, laurus tiuus, and elder, while those with heavy berries, which could not be conveyed by the means suggested—oaks, chestnuts, hazels, apples, beeches, alders, firs—are absent, common as they are in Europe. The character of the flora is that of the southwestern peninsula of Europe, and, if we assume that one half of its species is indigenous, the other introduced by European settlers, there is still a rich and varied flora which Mr. Wallace thinks has been recently carried over 900 miles of ocean by the means just indicated. There is probably no better example of ocean migration than that offered by the Azores, and it is believed that the phenomena in question are still in progress, and that 900 miles do not form the limit of the distance to which this same ocean carriage of plants ex tends .—Edinburgh Review. Educated Africans. A remarkable story is told in a recent issue of the Paris Societe de Geographie records. M. Camille Douls recounts the experience he underwent in a jour ney in Northwestern Africa. Disguised as a native, it appears he landed on the west coast near Garnet, several hundred miles south of Morocco, pretending to the people of that region that he had been shipwrecked. At first he was roughly dealt with,but finally he gained the confidence of his captors, and after five months’ wanderings, by dint of craft he made his way to Morocco. Hero his disguise was discovered and he was thrown into prison, to be released pres ently at the instigation of the British minister. The adventures recorded are of inter est, as they give a new version to the popular story of the great desert. The Oulad Delim,into whose hands M. Douls fell, he says are unusually intelligent. They speak a pure Arabic, founded upon the constant study of the Koran. They are monogamous, and treat their wives with the greatest affection and respect as equals of the men. The girls share the education of the boys, learning to read and write with them; hence, the women show an intellectual and moral elevation far beyond that of any other Moslem women. Getting Our Oar In. The British Government some weeks since advertised for bids for furnishing oars for use in the naval service of the United Kingdom. The contract was to be a large one, and a Toledo, Ohio, company sent in a bid and captured the job for which all the oarmakers in the world had competed. A Commercial representative called at the works and inquired the number of oars specified in the contract. “It calls for 240,000 lineal feet,” was the response. “They are the regular English oar and vary in length from eight feet six inches to eighteen feet.” “From what kind of lumber are they made?” “Ws use white ash, which we receive from Leipsic, and are n«w working on them.” “How many men will it require?” “There are forty at work on this con tract and they will be busy for some time.” Some men never foot a bill without kicking.
