Newspaper Page Text
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
AMOrsaafENirs, decisions, and other matters
OF jjjaaaiEST f*om the national capital.
The statement is out that congress will
investigate the civil service commission,
and preparations for the investigation
are now being made.
Surgeon Posey has reported to Sur
geou-Oeneral Hamdton, of the marine
hospital service, that two new castts of
yellow fever have teen developed at Key
West, Fla. •
The new Catholic University of Amer
ica was on Wednesday formally opened
with impressive ceremonies in the pres
ence <J a large number of prelates of the
church and distinguished laymen from
all parts of the country.
A letter received at Washington from
Caracas, dated November 5th, states that
on Ociober 20th, the statues of Guzman
lflancO, in that city, were pulled down
and dragged through the strecls in
pieces, Similar statues in othercitha
met a like fate.
John itr W. it Mason, commissioner - of „ .
in
ternal revenue, has submitted to tbe sec
retary of the treasury reports of opera
tions of the internal revenue service for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1880. Ag
gregate receipts for last fiscal year $130,-
31)4.4-34, or $0,507,953 more than the re
ceipts the previous three year. The receipts
for the first months of the ii cal
‘rr
ceipts for the corresponding period
of the last fiscal year. The com
missinner says if this ratio of increase is
maintained the receipts of the present
“ f** wili “«“* 40 " Ter »‘«.0W,
050. He dors cot, however, think such
to be the case, and estimates collections
fertile current year at 35,000.000.
Asa result of several conferences of
Attorney .. 4 General ,, , Miller, £, Secretary . _ IVin- T .
dom and Solicitor Hepburn m regard to
thc «ise ot the twenty-five English glass
idowerg, employed at the works of
Chambers, McKee – Co., ol Jeannette,
l a., the first named on Saturday referred
m.c uie jMipeis in the case to United
states District Attorney Lyons, at Pitts
burg, with instructions to proceed
ngfunst the film named, and those officers
i i the local assembly of glassblowers,
who were instrumental in bringing the
English laborers to this country, provi
ded he is satisfied that suits can be main
tained against them under the provisions
of the alien contract labor law. Solicitor
Hepburn has given an opinion to the
secretary of the treasury that the depart
ment has ample authority to send the
imported glassblowers back to England.
TRIED FIVE TIMES.
AN KDQEFTKO, 8. O., MURDERER ESCAPES
THE 0ARROWS FOR THE FIFTH TIME.
*
News comes from Charleston, 8. C.,
that the filth trial of H. T. Jones, the
model Edgefield murderer,is now in pro
gress at the Edgefield courthou c. Some
tre or six ycais ago Jones, who married
* *; h ? 3 Pressley, got mad with his wife’s
relatives, took his shot gun and three or
four butcher knives, and went out into
: ’-1 where his father-in-law, aged sev
* years, and three brcthers-in-law.
were at w«tk. Jones established a hu
m.in abbattoir. He murdered his aged
■trothers aber-in-law and butchered his three
in-law. He then went in the
‘ 'Urthouse village and surrendered him
se murder occurred during the
.
' Won of the court at which the Cul
treath lynchers were being tried for tbe
murder of an innocent man. Jones has
oeen a hero ever since. Five times he
Ue * ' baa , ’ n brought to trial, and each time
escaped by a mistrial.
A SOLD ROBBERY
W TWO MEN, SUPPOSED TO BE RUBE
BURROW AND HIS PAL.
A Apfcial to the Birmingham Age-Her
‘/p ‘"graph U(),u office Sulligent, to Vernon, Ala., the nearest
Lamar the county
ot county, tells of a bold
r j, ,’y early Wednesday
J j a\ ay arm^i night. Two
of men rode up to the rcsi-
1 -ttce Mr. Summers, a merchant in
j '[non, 1(, t them and asked have him to burial go to his material storo
some
person who had ju 9 t died out in the
n r J‘ Bummers went and let them
into the store, struck a light, and
w surprised . to find
w dle barrel himself looking
l .° of a big revolver. In
’ [ 1 1 " co to instructions he opened his
1 -m l gave robbers four hundred
l rs ’ •‘‘L be had. The robbers arc sup
, , obe
Hu be Burrow and his part
/' ttom rrow’a home is only J seven mile*
Vem 0 u
poisoned hash.
ot kr v hundred
StJPPOSEo WEST rOINT CADETS
HAVE BEEN POISONED.
‘buraday report X l Newburg, N. Y.,
st W the corps of cadets
]) 0r t V '! hospital upwards ill of 150, had re
tnrrw from poisoning. It
] ’ h ^ ’at the illness occurred a few
f av ^hut it
troi ° U ',1 ^ f tho bowels, was not poisoning, but
was g and the attack
n‘evK !,7' lU w .‘ dl ad connected with the
/ | d rivers, gardeners, waiters,
th,.’ etc [ ,r • lri S ^ badly the cadets.
. as Even
ntnqo V| ’ had not. tasted food at the
Th* " tU BH badly afflicted the others,
as
‘^3 tor | Urge ° n ,lud his hands full of bod-
5 u Ume> |H
! < "“Rodent it all recovered. The
hivestigate has appointed ... a coinmis
the eause.
train wrecker CAUGHT
while IN the act op placing
GEROC9 OBSTRUCTION A DAN
ON TJIE TRACK.
The Central passenger (rain which left
Atlanta, Ga., I ou a d f °r Macon, Wedn W
-
wreck wreck. BwJV- By the o w3y esca P cd a fouM
Westview, McPherson tune the , train barracklT.
near
rear wTeh h 6 Sl W “ 8 Wh T f deT °° g k9 °° d af h ea«l way. tht *
Oakland ' er ‘ track8
near was walking the trank
£ ho “ 6U ddenly he discovered
bending the a tnan
over track just ahead of
bm. He s epptd’forwatd anda-kedthe
man what he was doing, when the latter
raised up and he recognized him a, ntnt
Latham, a negro well known in Atlanta.
° laiic mg at the track, the watchman
® aw a P'ece of railroad iron, curiouslv
v'ug on the rail. The headlight
°‘ train flashed full upon it, and he
Ba .T, 1 ^ had been tied to the track
with . and he
wire tugged away at it,
wWG*° f rad J ust as the
wirf> , tW «bs , ie did l oc , omot [ have ve passed over the
not time to disen
nn ..fa ' x..,J v ' as , at t>me ca P tured the negro later had in the es
K, Tv e ?P ot the iron tied
to the track was
, u within fifty yards of
pi ice where the the
by same train w r trad as wrecked
a cross-tie placed on the some
w.cks ago, when three- railroad men lost
their liveg.
A POWERFUL ORDER.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO
HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAY.
jEKt ^ 0 ***«*£*. es s t3iaa 75 ’ 0b0 Michigan
* , j . (nned . the . latronsofilua
ve
, , J • ? ce 08t May and the number
; - smg e ery week. They threaten
- , ofUto"!£.^U.T£
politic. .pnad
over the entire country. The pa'ro ns
claim to have been forced into being by
monopolies and trusts, and they propose
t0 organize a combination that will
strike terror to the hearts of their ene
mies. At present the patrons are devo
ting themselvee exclusively to merchants,
and in every town where they have a
foothold they enter into an iron clad
contract with one dealer in each line of
trade to purchase onlv from him, exact
ing a pledge that they shall not be
charged to exceed twelve per cent ad
vance on wholesale prices. The patrons
have lodges in forty seven counties, with
a membership of more than 5,000.
IN HOT WATER.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD SWAMPED
WITH LITIGATION.
Another suit for foreclosure was filed
Thuisday in the United States court at
Charleston against the South Carolina
railroad. The complainant- iu this suit
are II. P. Walker and other holders of
old the original fiist mortgage bonds of the
road, whose securities were not con
verted in the reorganization. There are
now three suits for foreclosure pending
in the couits against the road. The first
being the suit of the first mortgage con
soli date cl bonds known as the Bound
suit, and under which ex-Govemor
Chamberlain was appointed re elver, and
the second in behalf of the second mort
gage in behalf (new') of bondholders, and the third
the first mortgage (old)
bondholders.
THROUGH THE SHOALS.
A MISSISSIPPI RIVER 8TEAMBOAT LANDS
at Chattanooga’s wharf.
The steamboat, A. C. Conn, a Missis
sippi river craft, passed through Muscle
Shoals canal and ariived at the wharf in
Chattanoogaf Tenn., Thursday morning.
This is the first vessel which has passed
through the great canals now about
completed. The construction of canals
to overcome obstructions in the Tennes
see river at Muscle 8hoals was com
menc d by the government in 1878, and
nearly four million dollars have thus far
been expended on the work. The open
ing of the canals, which will formally
take place in a few weeks, will give wa
ter transportation nine months in the
year from Chattanooga to the Mississippi
river.
EXCITEMENT AT PIERRE.
SETTLERS and squaw men preparing
FOR A REGULAR FIQI1T.
A special from Herald Pierre, 8. I), says:
The Fort Pierre contains a start
ling but earnest appeal for help. It says:
“We arc iu a deplorable condition, and of
goes on to state that a company
soldiers, with bayonets in band to
gether with a number of squaw men
and a band of redskins are on
the ground. Trouble has been expected
at the fort for some weeks, owing to the
conflicting claims of intending settlers
and squaw men for lands, and the people
of Pierre aro now awaiting, with intense
excitement and anxiety, news from the
©thcr side.
CAGED AT LAST.
after A YEAR’S FREEDOM NINETEEN
MURDERERS ARRESTED.
John Jackson was arrested in Wichita,
Kansas, Wednesday morning, on a charge
of murder, and brought to Topeka. He
was one of twenty-nine who, in July,
1888, murdered Sheriff Cross and posse
of 8tcvens county in the neutral itrip.
The murderers were not arrested at the
time because of a legal technicality, no
court, it was claimed, having jurisdiction from
over the neutral strin. Advices
Wichita Thursday night were that eigh
teen others were placed under arrest.
{SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
THE CRONIN TRIAL
BAD BLOOD BETWEEN COUNSEL—A WO
MAN’S 6TARTLINQ TESTIMONY.
There is much bad blood between
counsel for the prosecution and those
tor the defense in the Crouin case, which
is cot <onfi ied to the principal counsel,
but is shared also by the juni ors. There
was a wrangle Tuesday night in the
ch rk's office after adjournment, in which
Disuict Attorney Longenecker and At
torney Forrest exchaugid the lie and
u early came to blow-*. The dispute was
about the custody of exhibits which have
been placed in evidence. Counsel lor
the deftDse wishes them taken from the
prosecuting hands attorney and placed in the
of the clerk. This wrangle broke
out afresh in the court Wednesday
m ruing without any apparent reason,
except that Attorneys Forrest and Hynes
wished to emphasize the distrust and
dislike of Prosecutor Longenecker.
1 he matter was finallv dropped,
an l the testimony proceeded with.
The most important testimony, so far,
"Utside of the identification of Burke as
the man who rented the Carlson cottage,
where tl e murder was committed, is that
<f a washerwom n named Pauline Hoer
tel. She tesijfied that she passed the
Carlson cottage between 8 and 9 bn the
ni^ht of the murder. She saw a white
orse, drawing a buggy in which there
were two men, driven up to the cottage.
The larger man, who appeared like a gen
lcman, got out of the bu.«gy nu i taking
i satchel or box out of the buggy went
up the steps and entered the cottage.
The driver of the white horse at once
turned around and drove back toward
Chicago. The man knocked and was at
once admitted into the cottage. As quick
as the door was closed Mrs. Hoertel
heard sounds as of blows and the fall
f a heavy body and what sounded to her
ike some one caliiug, “Oh, God.” 'In
the confusion oi sounds she also heard
toe wmrd “Jesus.” Then in a very short
time everything became still. She said:
•‘It was ns if somebody was fighting and
hen as if somebody fell.” Witues- said
his occurred soon alter ei^ht o’clock at
Lht. . ■ The man who went into the
ottage,” she continue I, “went into the
touse if unhesitatingly, the and it seemed to
me as door was opened or as if
■< m • on" opened it for him ns became
up the s eps. When I turned from Ash
land avenue and started east I s iw a man
-funding between the Carlson house and
'he cottage. He was inside in the fence.
Tnere was a light in front of the cottage
nd the night was
FATAL EXPLOSION,
SIX MEN KILLED AND TWO OTHERS
BLINDED BY GIANT POWDER.
A Pioneer Press social on Thursday
from iiutie, Mon., sus: A bad accid' nt
occurrtil ou the construe on branch ol
the Northern Pacific, fifteen miles west
of here, in Jeffers, n county, on Tuesday
n'ght. Tu men were at work in a cut
maBting took. A bias: of giant powder
w as tiled but faihd to have the desired
effect. Whereupon, it being close t *
quitting time, and the men being anx
ious to complete the blast before ih*y
quit, they poured a quantity of bla' k
powder into the drill hole. Some sparks
from the giant powder blast must have
remained in the hole, lor instantly an ex
plosion followed, before the mi n cou d
retire to a place of safety, tdx men
were killed and two others had their
eyes blown out.
ANOTHER SUSPECT
FOUND IN <?HE CRONIN CASE, BUT HE IS
IN EUROPE.
The Chicago Inter Ocean, oi Thursday,
says another important Cronin m-pect
has come to light in the person of a
former resident of Lakeview—an Irish
man, named McDonald. He is now said
to be in Europe and the police are mak
ing strenuous murder, tfforts to locate him.
Before the McDonald was em
ployed by the public works department
in Lakeview. After the disappearance
of Dr. Cronin, McDonald suddenly
appeared to be in affluent circumstances,
and talked to his neighbors about a trip
to Europe, and exhibited steamship
tickets. May 19th the family disap
peared. The neighbors assert that prior
to May 4th McDonald was frequently
vis ted by suspicious characters.
SWINDLED THE EMIGRANTS
GALICIAN PEASANTS INDUCED TO COME TO
AMERICA UNDER FALSE STATEMENTS.
News comes from Vienna that at Wu
doice, Thursday, the trial opened of
sixty-five persons who are charged with
swindling a large number of Galician
peissnts by inducing them to emigrate to
America by false statements, and iben
obtaining commission on their passage
money. Among the persons implicated
are a commissary of police, comptroller
of customs, Hungarian judge and a num
ber of customs guards. Several Austrian
and Prussian gens-de arm were bribed to
assist organizers of the swindle.
HE WAS REINSTATED.
Rev. L. Barrow, a theological student
in the U. S. Grant university at Chatta
nooga, Tenn., was editor of the Lookout,
the college paper. Chancellor Spence
demanded that one-half space of the pa
per be devoted to the other.branch of the
university at Athens, which Barrow crit
icised severely, and was suspended for
writing this editorial, The Lookout
then stopped publication. Chancellor
DeWitf, of the Chancery court, on Fri
day granted a mandamus compelling the
trustees of the University to reinstatf
him.
The Forest Flower.
Life is sweet, O forest flvwer l
In your leaf encircled bower,
Gentle breezes sing to thea,
Bird and bee are company,
As, with song or noisy hum,
In the summer days they come,
Morn or even brings its dew,
Priceless bounty unto you,
Safely guarded, hour by hour,
Life is sweet, O forest flower 1
Iiife is pure, O forest flower 1
When tbe rain drops are your dower.
Dropping, dropping, one by one,
Till their blessed work is done,
Winds boar on your sweet perfume,
Outward from the forest gloom,
Where the grassy meadows are,
Over hill and mountain far,
’Tis your gift of soothing power,
Lite is pure, O forest flower!
— J. B. M. Wright in Picxymne.
HUMOROUS.
The railroad tie is no four-in-band.
The waiter girl is different from a
poet. Sbe is not born; sbe is maid to
order.
The highest grade of impudence—to
wait in an umbrella shop for a shower
to pass over.
Be not quick' to nn^er, but if you arc
chased by a mad bull take of-fence as
quickly as you can.
It makes no difference whether or
not bad poetry is written on both sides
of a sheet of paper.
Guard—Sir, if you want to smoke in
this carriage you must either get out or
throw your cigar away.
Little Annette—“Mother, do plearn
buy me a new doll; my old ono is quite
ashamed when asied its age.”
Teacher: Wb it great event occurred
in 1878. Small Boy (after a pause):
Piease, Ma’ru I was born then.
It is instinct that prompts a girl who
knows nothing of the world to ask to
drive when you strike a lonelv road.
A sure sign that the door bell is go
ing to ring: Wiien you are the only one
in the bouse and are in the bathtub.
Young men hunting heiresses should
remember that “Miss Fortunes never
come singly.” You have to marry ’em.
The man who kicked a collector out
of his office remarked that if he couldn’t
foot his bills one way he would another.
If you save one cent a day, E icnezer,
you will not have to lose a friend at the
end of tho year by trying to borrow a
dollar from him.
Reginald—“I Have a vague idea—”
Grosvcnor (interrupting)—“What, that
is a positive improvement! Let me
congratulate you.”
Rather Rough.— “You are gowing?
It seems to me that my society is not
enough for you.” “On the contrary, it
is too much for me.”
Author—I always tost my sketches
by reading ihetn to. my wife. Fr end
—Ah, yes—and you use those she likes?
Author—No, those she doesn’t.
The lay of the poet and the lay of the
hen differ in several important features,
and none more signally thin in the
readiness with which the lay of the hen
is convertible into hard c ish.
“Do you remember how ten years
ago in this very place you offered your
self to ine?” “Oh, yes, and you re
fused me.” “I have been reconsider
ing the matter.” “So have L”
Mesmerism in Surgery.
There may be moro in mesmerism—
now called hypnotism—than the medi
cal fraternity generally arc ready to ad
mit. Medicine under medern develop
ments, says a London journal, ha3 been
so engrossed with tho fascinating theory
that mind is a function of matter that it
has quite forgotten to discuss tho possi
bili y of the converse and equally fas
cinating hypothesis that matter is a
function of mind.
A severe operation has jast been con
cluded in Paris ou a young woman dur
ing a mesmeric tranco. In the Hotel
I) eu the patient was subjecte l by a
Paris surgeon to a painful cutting oper
ation “of tho class called dangerous
and requiring great delicacy of manipu
lation,” she bein? at the time “wholly
insensible to pain, showing no sign of
suffering, and awakening’’—not from
an ansesthetic of the ordinary kind,
but from a mesmeric sleep—■“wholly
oblivious of what had taken place.’’
These and like experiments are unmis
takable evidences that the medical pro
fession is awakening to the pissibihty
of establishing under tho banner of tho
nineteenth century science the essence
of the ancient doctrine of tho supre
me cy of mind.
SCHLEY COUNTY.
•chlejr County is composed of t «ri tory out
off from Sum tor, Marlon and Ma> on counties.
It was organised in 18C6, and mim. 4 t i one o t
tRo old Colonial Gove* nors of < 1 org i; Gov
.
ernor Sehlej.
Its location is Southwest-Central. Area 180
square miles. General features, hilly, inter
spersed with level plateax. The soil is very
fertile all over tho county, but varloBn color,
some places being red clay, some dark brown,
very sticky in wet weather, some pet.bly and
some sandy, under-laid with clay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota
toes, pumkius, melons, rice, wheat, rye, bar
ly, peanuts and cliufas; peaehes, pears .prunes,
pomegranates, plums, apples, apricots, quin
ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries,
raspberries, goose berries, beets, cabbage, cu
cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips and oth
er field, orchard and garden products, grow
here to perfection.
The fence corners, waste places in old field
and forest, abound in all kinds of wild fruit,
such as blacktrerrics. blueberries, gooseberries
whortleberries, May haws, black haws, plums,
cherries, crab apples,persimmons, fox grapes.
Winter grapes, muscadines, cbinquepins,
hickory nuts and chestnuts.
Besides the native crab, crowfoot an»l other
grasses, many of the best varieties of import
ed grasses do well here, especially Barmuda,
herds, blue and orchard grass.
The no fence law prevails in the county, yet
stock raising is rapidly becoming one of the
leading industries of the county some of the
finest horses in the South are raised here, and
the rich golden butter and sweet country hams
that are daily brought to market by the far
mers of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere.
Cotton is the money crop of tho county, but
happily the day has past and forevevr gone
whon the poople of Schley depended on other
sections for their meat and bread. Nearly ev
ery farmer in the county makes plenty of corn
and bacon for homo consumptions and many
of them make a surplus to sell. No particular
attent'on is given to poultry raising, yet the
people have all tho 7 want for home use and
one man with a horse and wagon koeps busy
the year round hauling chickens and eggs from
Schley county to Ainericus.
The health of tho county is excellent, theav
erage elevation boipg near two thousand feet
above sea level and drainage is generally good
an epidemic of any diseases, was never known
here.
Tho fnrminar people of Schley aro inteligent
cultivated and refined ns any agricultural peo
ple in the world. Tho county is dotted with
school houses and churches, and a half grown
person who cannot read and write Is seldom,
if ever met wiih, and of the nogro race most
of them sinco freedom can read and write.
CENTRAL-:- 1I0TE J JU,
-I
Under New Management.
The Central Hotel, at Columbus Ga., is
fast becoming a great resort for
tbe traveling public.
This hotel has been thoroughly renovated
Inside and out and put in first-clasa order, and
the fare, as well as the accommodations, is all
that could be desired. This hotel is centrally
located, large rooms, well ventilated and fur
nished In modern style. Polite and attentive
servanf*. The table supplied with all the del
lcaciesof the season, making it a most popu
lar resort for drummers and the traveling
public generally.
GEORGE W. DAVIS
BARBER
Shop east sido court honse square. Hair cut
20 cents. Shave 10 cents. Shampoo 25 ccnts.Sat
isfaction guaranteed.
”W“ILL PAREIS
Repairing done with neatness and dis
patch.
. Prompt attention given to all orders.
Shop Southeast corner of public square.
Ellaville Ga.
A GENTS W ANTED
TO SELL AN EN
TIRELY NEW BOOK
The most wonderful collection oL pructlca
real value ar.d every-day use lor the poopl: ev
er publi he., on the glode. A marvel of money
saving ard money earning for every one owing
it, Thousand.- of beautiful, helpfnl engravings
showing just how to do everything. Nooo.mpe
tition; nothing liac it iu the universe. When
you select that which is of true value sales are
sure. All sincerely desiring paying employment
and looking for something thoroughly first-elm
at an ex inordinary low price, should wrte for
description and terms on the most remarkable
achievement in book making sinco the world
begun. SCAMMELL –CO., 5003,
Box
ST. LOUIS or PHILADEPIIIA.
PATENTS
Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and ail Pat
ent business conducted for Moderate Fee*.
u.-e
remote from Washington.
Seud model, drawing or photo., with descrip- of
tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free
charge. Our fee not due till patent Is secured.
A Pamphlet, “How to Obtain Patonta,” with
names of actual clients in your Stale, county, or
town, sent free. Address,
C. A.SNOW – CO.
Opp. Patent Orrics, Washington, D. C.