Newspaper Page Text
SoWbi Com Hews.
—PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT—
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA.
The Russian language hat now been
formally imposed on the German and all
other inhabitants of the Baltic prov
inces.
Near Salt Lake City in Utah, Is a salt
mountain, to which, if a short railroad is
mn, the whole country might well look
for a supply of salt. The abundance of
this indispensable necessary of life in this
country is perhaps one reason, surmises
the Boston Cultivator, why the English
and American capitalists have abandoned
their purpose to create a corner in it.
J-V___ i.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
predicts that a revival of the old spirit of
Arctic adventure will result from Dr.
Nansen’s expedition next year,- for which
he has succeeded in securing subscrip
tions amounting to $100,000. The ship
will be used to carry the party as far
(north as practicable, and will ffcen be
either sent home or abandon*#. The
explorers will push on with boats and
sledges, without depots of provisions and
without a baso for retreat, persevering in
their northward course so long as there is
any chance of approaching the pole.
Says the Atlanta Constitution: “The
German Emperor opened his eyes when
he saw the British naval review at Ports
mouth, England, the other day. He saw
blood and muscle and iron enough to stir
his pulse. He saw 113 grim war vessels
manned by 23,000 British sailors. The
sight impressed him. He must have felt
that although he represented a great mil
itary power England had a war-like arm
ament on the sea surpassing anything of
the kind in the world. Now, as always,
England’s strength is on the water. She
is still mistress of the seas. Her sturdy
sailors are able to w T hip anything that
'.ails the briny deep.”
The gradual diminution of the popu
lation in certain parts of New England
by reason of emigration to the West is
having a curious sequel, remarks the New
York Tribune. Steps are being taken in
Vermont to attract a good class of immi
grants from abroad, and thus the first
State to be admitted under the Federal
Constitution comes into competition with
the young Commonwealths of the North
west in the bidding for settlers. The
census of 1880 showed the population of
Vermont to be practically at a standstill,
there having been an increase of less
than 9000 in twenty years. Maine and
New Hampshire made even a poorer
showing, though in both cases there had
been some increase since 1870. The re
sult of the drift westward has been that
many farms are abandoned and the prices
of good farms, as we all know, have
fallen to a singularly low figure.
The New York Sun says: “David S.
Terry, of California, died with his boots
on, and David Colbretli Broderick, after
an interval of just thirty years, is at last
in some infinitesimal degree revenged by
a deputy marshal's pistol. He may have
been more revenged, however, for it will
not do to overlook the fact that Terry
married some years ago the notorious
Sarah Althea Hill, the blackmailer of
Sharou and of Sharon’s estate, and a
woman of almost as turbulent and fierce
a nature as Terry himself. Of all the
fighting lawyers and Judges of California
Terry may be said to have been the last,
although Stephen Johnson Field survives
upon the bench of the United States Su
preme Court and reposes upon the well
earned reputation of having in his time
been as handy with his pistol as any law
yer of distinction on the slope. Terry
has had little other business of late than
Beeking how best to shoot Judge Field,
who, among other things, had sent him
to jail for contempt of court during one of
the Sharon trials. It was a most neces
sary vindication of judicial dignity, and
Judge Field did it with the full knowl
edge that it would possibly cost him his
life. Judge Field has always been one of
the last men to be afraid of any such con
sequences, but he will doubtless rest none
the less easy now that his enemy is out of
the way. Terry was one of the most reck
less and desperate survivals of the early
days of Californian development. His slay
ing of Broderick embittered his life, ex
asperated and defeated him at all points,
and made him lawless, irresponsible, and
a menace to society. He is well out of
the way.”
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE— ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
in Ex-Surgeon Philadelphia General Joseph Beale died
Tuesday.
An extensive strike of dock laborers
has begun at Rotterdam, Holland.
Landore steel works, at Swansea, Eng
land, have been destroyed by fire.
The Temple of Heaven, at Pekin, con
taining the dragon throne, has been de
stroyed by fire.
Wilkie Collins, novelist, who has been
seriously ill for some time, died at Lon
don, England, on Monday.
The man-of-war, Ossipec, sailed from
Boston, Monday, for Ilayti with Fred
erick Douglass, the new minister.
The Baltimore Sugar Refining compa
ny has been incorporated. Capital stock
$1,000,060—10,000 shares at $100 each.
The reports from therhine wine grow
ing districts of Germany, indicate that
this year’s vintage will be the best of the
century.
A boiler explosion occurred at a saw
mill in Berlin, Pa., Wednesday, and
John Pritz, Edward Pritz, Oliver Ross,
David Ross and David Baker were
killed.
The New York Daily Graphic, which
has for soaie time past maintained a
fluttering existence under financial diffi
culties, has ceased to exist. The last
number was issued Tuesday.
3 he state inspector of New Jersey, on
Monday, killed fifteen head of cattle at
Fleischm inn’s distillery, at Millstone,
Somerset county, and twelve head on
adjoining farms, that were affiic.ed with
pleuro-pneumoDia.
A dispatch from Marion, Ind., says
that the prevalence of dipththeria there
has caused such alarm that the public
schools were ordered to lie closed Tues
day for one week. About * dozen
deaths have occurred.
A cable dispatch from London says:
The stevedores employed on the East In
dia dock have again gone on strike.
They claim that the companies are not
engaging the old hands as they agreed to
do when the strike w r as settled.
The police commissioners of Kansas
City have ordered the chief of police
to suppress the Salvation Army in that
city. The order was issued on account
of the numerous cases of peace disturb
ance at the army’s headquarters.
Fire at Buckley – Douglass’ mill at
Manitee, Mich., Wednesday afternoon,
destroyed over a million feet of lumber
and three hundred feet of docks and
tramways. The loss is estimated at
$125,000.
On Thursday morning flames broke
out in Emery’s big soap factory, at Ivey
Dale, Ohio, and soon got beyond the
control of the department. The large
buildings were completely gutted, and
it is estimated thut the loss will be in
the neighborhood of $125,000.
The mammoth publishing house of
Belford, Clark – Co., of Chicago, which
has the largest establishment in the city
and branches in New York and San
Francisco, went to the wall Monday, and
was taken in charge by the sheriff. The
assets of the firm are supposed to be
about $350,000, and liabilities about
$ 100 , 000 .
Early Thursday morning, Laflin –
Rand’s powder mills, at Cresson, three
miles below Pottsville, Pa., blew up.
The explosion was terriffic in force.
Three workmen were killed and a num
ber of other workmen injured. Nearly
all the window glass in Cresson was
shattered, and the concussion was sensi
bly felt in Pottsville.
In the case of Henry F. Barber, of St.
Paul, Minn., arrested for selling meat
from cattle Monday, not inspected rendered on hoof, decision Judge
Nelson, on a
that the law is unconstitutional, as it in
terferes with commerce between the
states. The prisoner was ordered dis
charged. Notice of appeal to the su
preme court was given.
Lewis Bros. – Co., dry goods com
mission merchants of 88 Worth street,
New York, whose failure was announced
i-ome time ago, have just made their
formal oiler to their creditors to com
promise at 57 J cents on the dollar.
Creditors to whom the settlement has
been presented have all expressed a will
ingness to accept the terms and have the
firm resume business.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that there remains in
the treasury but $837,821 standard silver
dollars that are not represented by silver
certificates in circulation out of a total
coinage of standard silver dollars to elate
of $339,293,650. This balance is about
110,000,000 less than it was a month ago,
and about »85,000,000 less than it was
July 1st, 1886.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad com
pany at New York on Monday, it was
resolved to issue thirteen million dollars
of new stock, the proceeds to be used to
retire $0,462,000 collateral trust six per
cent, bonds at 110. A special meeting
of stockholders will be held in Louisville
to ratify the action of the directors on
October 1st.
A story reached London from St. Pe
tersburg, Russia, which recounts that
just previously to the czar’s departure for
Copenhagen, a chest of dynamite ex
ploded at Peterhof station. The station
was badly wrecked and a railway signal
man killed. It is fully believed it was
the intention to have the explosion take
place when the czar passed through the
station on his way to the tram, but
through some miscalculation, it occurred'
before the time of hia majesty's de
parture.
The official report of the trial board of
the new cruiser Charleston, was received
at the navy department from San Fran
cisco on Monday. Reports show the
maximum horse power developed to be
6,816, while the average power was con
siderably less, making a deficiency under
the contract requirement calling for
about $20,000 penalty. In other re
spects, the vessel was up to the required
standard. No action has as yet been
taken upon the report, but the vessel
will undoubtedly be accepted.
At the Carnegie and Edgar Thomson
steel works at Braddock, Pa,, Thursday
night, Captain W. P. Jones,general man
ager of the immense steel works, and a
number of workmen, were horribly and
perhaps fatally burned. One of the blast
furnaces gave way at the bottom, and
tons of molten metal, like water, escaped
from a reservoir and ran out. Captain
Jones, with a number of men, were near
the base of the furnace when the break
occurred.
WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED.
A SCHEME FOR THE RESTORATION OF ARID
LANDS IN TUE WEST.
Major J. W. Powell, chief of the geo
logical survey, arrived in Chicago
Thursday on his w r ay to Washington.
Major Powell said: “We visited North
and South Dakota, Montana, Washing
vada, ton Territory, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Ne
California, Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, Colo
rado, Wyoming and Nebraska, or every
state and territory in which there are
arid lands. We held eighty meetings
and heard over two hundred witnesses.
The arid land that can be irrigated and
thus made productive, will include the
larger portion of each state visited, in
all over 100,000,000 acres. The work of
the committee will be the preparation of
a report upon the advisability of con
gressional appropriations for uurveys in
the arid districts. There is not much
doubt that such appropriation will be
made. I do not believe Congress wilL
ever take in charge the construction of
the ditches and reservoirs. AVhoever
does it, when it is done, it will revolu
tionize the West.’’
FLOODS IN MEXICO.
A TOWN DESTROYED AND GREAT DAMAGE
DONE TO CROPS, ETC.
Advices from different parts of Mexico,
say very heavy storms have been sweep
ing over that country since August 15th,
visiting different prevailed states at different times.
The latest along the Pacific
coast, and reports from Mazatlan and
Manzaniila, are that the steamers Por
firio, Diaz and Alata have probably been
wrecked. After five days’ steady rain in
the state of Vera Cruz, a cyclone passed
over the town of Chicantepec, causing
great destruction, and to add to the ter
ror of the inhabitants, a great land-slide
occurred on the mountain back of the
town, part of which passed directly
through the town. There was no loss of
life, however, as the people had warning
and sufficient time to escape, but the de
struction to crops and loss of cattle was
very great.
TOO FAST.
HALF-BREEDS WARNED THAT THE CHERO
KEES MAY NOT ADMIT THEM.
The attention of the acting commis
sioner of Indian affairs, at Washington,
was, on Friday, called to the press re
ports that a large number of half-breed
Cherokee Indians, in the state of Geor
gia, are making preparations to emigrate
to the Cherokee nation in the Indian
territory. The acting commissioner
tnakes the following statement in regard
thereto: “Under "the decision of^the
United States supreme court iu the case
of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians
against the United States and theChero
kee nation, commonly called the ‘Cher
okee Nation West,’ the authorities o l
the Cherokee nation alone have the
right to admit or re-admit persons ol
Cherokee blood to citizenship in tha/
nation. Parties claiming rights of citi
zenship in the Cherokee nation by blood,
would be warned against incurring the
expense of removing to said nation be
fore their claims are allowed by the
proper Cherokee authorities.”
A DRUNKEN DRIVER.
A WAGON CONTAINING A PARTY OF YOUNG
PEOPLE THROWN OVER A PRECIPICE.
A special from Erie, Pa., snvs a party
of thirty young people went out in the
country, on Monday, On in a band wagon
for a picnic. their return, the driver
being under the influence of liquor,
drove over and a party bank, throwing precipice the horses|
wagon over a forty
feet and in height. Flaherty, All were badly injured,
Patrick of Springfield,and
James Neyland, of Erie, were so badly
crushed internally that they cannot live.
Others received painful cuts and bruises.
The driver, James Lewis, is severely in
jured.
FOURTEEN CENTS.
A GOOD TIME FOR FARMER3 TO nOLB
THEIR COTTON.
The London Times correspondent at
Preston says: ‘ There is a prospect that
American cotton may yet touch severs
pence a pound, and that a fortnight’s
stoppage in October will be secured to
punish thousand the spindles Liverpool ring. One hundred
and many thousand
looms are stopped in North and East
Lancashire, of and notices have been given
more extensive stoppages.”
QOTTTTTUT^Y x -Ul^lAJ-1 'N"TT ±\± j }}
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIO US POINTS' IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 18 GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Ex-Confederate General D. H. Hill
died in Charlotte, N. C., on Tuesday.
Every gambling house in Mem
phis, Tenn., was closed Wednesday night
on warrants issued by the judge of the
criminal court.
A party of gentlemen from Jackson
ville and St. Augustine, Fla., will make
a tour of inspection through the Indian
river country, which rumor says may re
sult in railroad and canal enterprises.
Fifteen miles of track have been laid
on the Columbus Southern railroad. The
work is being pustied with great rapidi
ty, and trains will be run into Cussetta,
Ga., in a few days.
At Harlan, Ky., court-house, Monday
night, eight prisoners, by means of a
handspike, removed a log of the jail
wall and made their escape. Two or
three men charged with murder were
among the lot.
The board of state institutions at Jack
sonville, Fla., on Monday, awarded the
contract for state printing in classes B
and C to the Times-Union', in class A, to
C. W. Dacosta. Since the state printing
has by law been let out to the lowest
bidder the competition for it has been
very sharp.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation in the south, was
granted by the superior court of Building Georgia,
by which the Southern Home
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was incorporated, with authority to do
business in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,
000 .
An executive reward of two hundred
dollars was offered by Governor Tuvlor,
of North Carolina, for the apprehension
of J. N. Carter, alias Jim Carthy, who
stands charged with the murder of Wal
ter Chatham, in Horry county. A re
ward of one hundred dollars was offered
for John Cox, a negro, who is charged
with having committed murder in Jones
county.
The State Farmers’ alliance of Florida
met at Jacksonville on Wednesday. The
principal object of the meeting was to
make Jacksonville a wholesale market
for Florida raised cotton, the building of
a cotton warehouse there, and the start
ing of fruit and vegetable and canning
factories. Incidental to these is the
building of a cotton factory by Jackson
ville capital, a compauy being already
organized with $10,000 subscribed.
It is reported from Savannah, Ga., that
spirits of turpentine has dropped off in
the last few days. Buyers are a little
hopeful at the decline, but sellers smile
and talk of the matter at 50c. October
have sold at 44c and 46c. Just now
there is considerable stock on hand, 12,-
300 casks, 3,000 more than on the same
day last year. The receipts to date are
123,000, which is 17,( 00 more than the
receipts during the corresponding period
lust year.
M. Bateman, a member of the North
Carolina alliance, has made arrangements
to be married on the first of October
at the state fair to be held at Raleigh,
dressed in garments made of cotton bag
ging. He took that way of showing his
detestation of the jute bagging trust.
His wedding in public in his snow-white
garments will attract a great crowd, and
will be very novel. The governor will
be asked to perform the marriage cere
mony, assisted by the chaplain of the
state alliance.
At a meeting of the Memphis, Tenn.
Cotton Exchange, held on Tuesday, the
resolutions adopted by the New Orleans
convention fixing a tare of twenty-four
pounds and sixteen pounds on
bales covered with jute and
cotton bagging respectively, were
unau 'mously rejected, It was
recommended that factors in that
ma, ket tier in warehouses all cotton
covere d bales separately from jute
cover ed bales, and that it be sold upon
its merits, separate and apart therefrom.
The managers of the Alabama state
fair, to be held near Birmingham, last
week sold the bar privileges for $2,300.
Since then an act has been found, passed
by the legislature several years ago, pro
hibiting the sale of liquor within three
miles of a coal mine in Jefferson county,
except in incorporated towns. The fair
grounds are three miles from Birmingham
and within one mile of a coal mine, and,
as the law has never been repealed no
liquor can be sold on the grounds.
CHICAGO WANTS IT.
TnE CITY MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO
SECURE TUE WORLD'S FAIB.
and Chicago wants the world’s fair in 1892,
wants it badly, and she is doing
more than New York and all other cities
combined to get the fair. The city has
secured subscriptions to the original
amount she proposed to raise, Bay
$5,000,000; but her people have decided
to make the subscription $10,000,000.
It is published that Mr. Field, the dry
goods prince of Chicago, has added
$100,000 to the subscription in the past
few days, and prior to this the Pullman*
had subscribed $100,000.
WOMEN TO VOTE.
the statehood Wyoming, on Friday,
part of its constitution convention adopted as a
chapter; female the suffrage
citizens arc to vote The
severest qualifications are the require
ments that all electors shall be able to
read English, shall be full-fledged citi
had 8iX al0nth3, mideQce
DARING ROBBERIES.
TRAINS “HELD UP” BY HIGHWAYMEN AX
THE MUZZLE OP REVOLVERS.
The Mobile and Ohio south bound pas.
senger train was held up Wednesd ay
morning by train robbers at Buckatunna
Miss., a station seventy miles north of
Mobile. Just before the train left Buck
atunna, two men mounted behind the
tender of the train, and climbing over
covered the engineer and firemen with
their revolvers, and ordered them to pull
out, and to stop at a bridge two miles
below Buckatunna, and to pi ice the
train so that the express and mail car
should be on the further side of the
bridge from the rest of the train, the
bridge being a trestle over a deep creek
The engineer put the train just where
the robbers wanted it. When they
reached the place, a third robber *
Reared. These three men made ap. t£e
engineer and fireman go with them to
the express car, and the messenger was
made to open the door and dump the
contents of the safe into 1
a canvass sack
but noticing that he was not closely
watched, he shoved some of the
money aside, so that about a thousand
dollars was hidden, the robbers getting
$2,700. All this money belonged to the
Mobile – Ohio Railroad company.
Alongside the express car door was a pile
of $70,000 government money en route to
Florida which the robbers failed to r no
tice. train After ordered securing pull their booty the
was to out at once,
which it did, and the robbers disap.
peared. The Mobile – Ohio road offers
$1,000 reward for the arrest and convic
tion of the robbers.
STILL ANOTHER.
At a late hour Wednesday night, ej
the north bound Santa Fe train was pull
ing out of Crowley, ten miles south o{
Fort Worth, Texas, three men boarded
the train and two others jumped on the
locomotive. The two ou the engine
placed pistols to the heads of the engin
eer and fireman and told them to stop.
One of the men then got into the express
car and ordered the messenger to show
them the money. He pointed to three
bags of Mexican silver. One of the men
ripped open a sack and shoveled the sil
ver out of the door, while the other one
threw out the other sacks. They took
each, two packages but overlooked said to three contain "$5,000
or four pack
ages for Fort Worth. The engineer was
then made to move on.
A HUGE JOB.
THE PRINTING OF THE TESTIMONY IN CON
TESTED ELECTION CASES.
The government printing office, at
Washington, D. C,, has just completed
the immense work of priuting testimony
in contested election cases, which will
come up for settlement before the fifty
first congress. The following are the
titles of cases: Chalmers vs. Morgan,
Mississippi; ginia; Langston vs. Venoble, Vir
Waddell vs. Wise, Virginia; Po
sey vs. Parrott, Indiana; Miller vs. El
iott, South Carolina; Bowen vs. Buchan
an, Virginia; Kcrnaghan vs. Hooker,
Mississippi; Threet vs. Clark, Alabama;
Atkinson vs. Pendleton, West Virginia;
McDuffie vs. Turpin, Alabama; Hill vs.
Catchmgs, Bullock, Mississippi; Goodrich vs.
Florida; Eaton vs. Phelan,
Tennessee: Mudd vs. Coynston, Mary
land; Featherstone vs. Cate, Arkansas;
McGinnis vs. Anderson, West Virginia;
Smith vs. Jackson, West Virginia. The
total number of pages in the entire work
is 15,554, which, at 3,000 ems to the
page (solid brevier), amounts to 46,662,
000 ems.
THE AMERICAN CONGRESS.
DELEGATES EROM CENTRAL AMERICA ARE
TUE FIRST ON THE GROUND,
A distinguished and significant list ol
visitors to this country arrived at the
port of New York, early Tuesday
morning , on the City of Para, being del
egates to the coming international con
gress from the various Spanish-American
countries. The delegates were: Dr. Ju
anto Castellanos,delegate from Salvador;
Dr. Joaquin Arrieta Rossi, attache, and
Sameul Vadioeso, secretary; Senior Juan
Francisco Velarde, delegate lrom Bolivio;
Alcibia Desvalarado and Mariano Velar
do, attaches; Geronimo Zelaya, delegate
from Honduras, and E. C. Fiallos,
secretary. Iu reference to the
coming congress, Senor Zelaya, said:
the delegate from Honduras,
“Our people are very enthusiastic over
this international congress, and expect
many advantageous results from it. We
wish to develop our mining and agricul- what
tural interests, but our mines are
we want to see in operation as soon
possible. We need railroads and foreign an en
largement of our commerce with
countries, especially the United States.
All classes in our country desire closer
relations with your people.”
A BIG SALE.
COAL AND IRON LANDS IN DADE COUNTY,
OA., BOLD TO ENGLISHMEN.
A trade with New England parties for
1C,000 acres of coal and iron land and a
town site, at a point on the Alabant*
Great Southern railroad in Dado county,
Ga., known as Morrison’s, fourteen mile*
from Chattanooga, Tenn., was closed on
Thursday. $50,000 of the money filed
paid down, and the papers were bank.
through the Chattanooga National char
Tbe purchasers have applied for a
ter of incorporation for a company to be
known as the New England Land, Coal,
Iron and Manufacturing company,of Dade
county, Gn., and they will organize j u ®
as soon as the Georgia legislature shat
grant their rights.