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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1890)
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N E K Has for 47 years cured Indigfstioiy, Sick Biliousness, CostivenessJDyspepsia, Sour Headache, Stomach, Low Loss Spirits, ok Appetite, Breatu, Foul Dr. J.R. Colic, Graves, Editor Etc. of The Memphis, Tenn.,tays: I received Bartini, of I.iverMedicine, and have a pack age of yaur used half it. It works like a charm, i want BO better Live: Regulator, and certainly |k . no more of Zeilin's mixture. C.F. Simmons Medicine Go., Propria, St. Louis, Mo. ESTABLISHED 1840. y \ SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM HIE TELE GRAPH AND CARLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. The entire royal family of Greece has the “grippe.” Steamships arriving at New York re port the stormiest passage for the past eight years. Two hundred and seventy five out of 1.000 of Ihe Elmira, N. V., reformary, are dow n with the grippe. Five hundred grain porters of the North and South docks, Liverpool, have struck for an advance in w ages. Dr. Talmage has cancelled all his en gagements in London, and in provincial towns, in consequence of the influenza. The influenza is spreading in Mexico. Several deaths from the disease are re ported as having occurred at Villa Lobas. The editor of the newspaper El Pro gress , published in tbe City of Mexico, lias been sent to jail for defaming Adelina Julius Barnes A Co., dry goods dealers in Laporte, Ind., made an assignment $53,000. Saturday. Liabilities $50,000; assets Senator John W. Daniel will deliver an address in Richmond, Yu., on January 25th, on the life and character of Jeffer son Davis. The German Czech conference, held in Vienna Austria, has succeeded in recon ciling all differences between the Czechs and Germans in Bohemia. The sultan of Turkey and kings of Greece and Rounmuia, have invited the crown prince of Italy to sojourn in their palaces during his tour in the east. The official report, of the Congo Free State publishes decrees granting civil status in legal matters to Catholic and Protestant missions in that country. Editor Parke, of the North London Times, was found guilty of libel in the ease against him brought by the earl of Euston, and sentenced to one year’s im prisonment. Artola Bros., foreign bankers, with houses in London, Paris and Madrid, have been declared bankrupts, Their liabilities are 400.000 pounds. During the past ten months ihe imports of woolen goods amounted in value to $4 7,167,423, against, $44,010,890 during the safne months of 1889, A telegram from Victoria mines, near Trinidad, Col., says that a cave-in oc curred in that mine Wednesday moruiug, and that five men were buried. An organization of Sons of the Ameri can Revolution was formed at Chicago Tuesday. The society gives membership to any male descendant of a revolutionary soldier. Alderman W. II. Porter, convicted of conspiracy and blackmail, was sentenced at months Pittsburg, in the Pa., Saturday, penitentiary, to eighteen western and to pay a fine of $50. The United States squadron sailed from Gibraltar Wed nesday. It will visit Carthagena, Barcelona, Toulon, Tristo, Malta, and Algiers and then return to Gibralter. Authentic news has been received at Cairo, Egypt, of terrible mortality among the natives in the Soudan, owing to a famine resulting from a lack of rain dur ing the autumn. A Belgians London dispatch says: The king of the has received several commu nications purporting to be from revolu tionary societies, warning him not to re build the palace at La Aiken. Influenza, in a severe form, prevails among the officers and crews of the American squadron of evolution, now in the Mediterranean. There are 130 cases of the disease on board the Chicago alone. A dispatch from New York says: The Argentine established republic has fully recognized Ihe newly republic of Brazil. The Argentine consul-general in New York has just received an official circular from his government conveying this no tice. The jury in the suit of Miss Caroline Cainmerer against Clemens Muller, at New York, for $100,000 for breach of promise, on Sunday attended the opening of their sealed verdict in the supreme court. They found for the plaintiff in the sum of $ 12 , 000 . Clatliu, Coburn A: Co., boot and shoe dealers, of Boston, Mass., were burned out Friday morning. Loss between $150, 000 and $200,000; insurance $100,000. The building w as a, four story stone, be longing to the Boston university. Loss $100,000, fully insured. The Standard Oil company’s works at. Constable Hooks, N. J., was the scene of another costly oil tire Saturday afternoon. A large generated tank exploded, presumably from gas by pumping hot oil on the cold oil already in the tank. The loss is estimated at $35,000. It was announced Saturday that an English trust had accepted terms offered for the sale of five Trenton, N. J.,potter ies. Eleven potteries at East Liverpool, Ohio, are also embraced in the transac tion, receiving about $5,000,000. Tren ton's share will be about $1,500,000. A dispatch Springs, from Shamokin, Pa., says: Locust Reliance, Burnside. Potts and Funncll collieries, operated by the Philadelphia down and Reading railroad com pany, shut Saturday evening, turn ing 2,000 men out of employment. Dull ness in the coal trade is the cause. A deputation from Barcelona, Spain, has presented a petition to the govern ment agaiust thp Anglo-Spanieb treaty of 1838, under which men-of-war of both countries hate the $jght to search vessels trading in African w aters. The petition holds that the measure is injurious to commerce. On Saturday, at St. Paul, the Grand lodge of Minnesota, A. and F. A. M., by an overw helming vote condemned that branch of the Scottish rite known as Ce renauisrn, and hereafter Minnesota, like New York. Pennsylvania and other states of the southern jurisdiction in general, will have nothing but “straight Masonry.” It was reported Saturday that six of the leading breweries of Cleveland, Ohio, had been purchased by an English syndi cate, the price paid being 975,000. They are the S.oppel company, Operative A. Brewing Schneider, company, Cleveland George – Muths, J. Oppman. Brewing Brewing compa ny, company and Airs. J. Bachr’s. The Brazilian government has issued a decree dividing the country into three hanking issue districts, and providing for three banks with a capital of $250,000,000 in government st-ock, the circulation of each bank’s notes to be confined to its own district. Ten per cent of the earn ings will be applied to the redemption of the capital stock. It is reported from Rome, Italy, that the Pope has issued an encyclical which sits forth the principles which shall guide the Catholics In their relations toward state, which, the encyclical says, they must obey when such course does not en tail disobedience to divine laws, In countries where the state opposes Cath olicism, Catholics must combat the ene my, but must not tie the church to any political party. The following circular was sent out from New York, Thursday: “To all Sub scribers of the Commercial Telegram Company: The Commercial Telegram company is compelled to announce that the property heretofore operated by it has been sold at sheriff’s sale to satisfy judg ments against the company, and now finds itself unable to continue to distrib ute, after this date, quotations which have heretofore been supplied to its cus tomers. George AY. Caspar, Secretary.” ^ * s understood that the Postal Telc : graph company were the purchasers. A BAD WRECK. SE.VEKAL PEOPLE KILLED AND A NUMBER SERIOUSLY INJURED. A Cincinnati dispatch says: Friday bound evening, as the Glendale accommodation, for Cincinnati], was leaving the station, near College Hill Junction, the Chicago Vestibule train ran into the rear of the accommodation. There were three passengers cars of the Glendale train, containing about seventy-five peo ple. The locomotive of the vestibule train ran half way through the rear car of the accommodation, piling passenger ears fire m a department heap and setting them on fire. The and patrol w r agons were called from Cincinnati and the fire extin guished. The following persons were taken from the wreck dead: John Wil son Life , superintendent of the Metropolitan Insurance company in Cincinnati; F. W, Witherbce, conductor No. 77, res idence Toledo: an unknown woman; James Staley, baggemaster, train No. 77, of Dayton, 6.; William Klamitz, a boy of Carthage, Ohio. About a dozen peo yle were badly injured, some of them perhaps fatally. ONE MILLION DONATED. FOR ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL BAPTIST UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO. It was announced at Chicago, Sunday, that. Mr. Marshall Field lias supplied a site for the proposed new Baptist Univer sity. He has done it by donating for the purpose ten acres of land, valued at $100,000. The tract, is in the southern portion of Chicago,and fronts on Ellis Ave., between Eighty-fifth and Eighty-seventh streets. Mr. Field’s gift fills the last of the requirements of the originator of the university project, J. I). Rockefeller, the oil king. Mr. Rockefeller gave $600,000 to found the university, on the condition that $400,000 should be raised, and that none of the total $1,000,000 should be used for the purpose of a site. The value of Mr. Field’s land,together with the money already raised, more than completes the $1,000,000. It is intended, however, to consider it as no part of that sum, but to complete the Field the round amount, regardless ot donation. AFTER THE OFFICIALS. ASKING FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ACTS OF MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE. A Topeka. Ivan., dispatch says that a petition is in circulation asking Judge Guthrie to call a special grand jury to in vestigate the acts of certain members ol the state legislature and other state offi cers. One of the circulators of the peti tion stated on Saturday that the peti tioners were after State Treasurer Hamil ton, Insurance Commissioner Wilder and Messrs. Burton and Gillette and two or three other members of the legislature. The charges against them are not made public. Judge Guthrie will probably summon a grand jury if euough petition ers usk it. KUNZt ON EXHIBITION. A DIME MUSEUM MANAGER SIGNS HIS BONO AND WILL EXHIBIT HIM. John Kunze, who was one of the four men found guilty of murdering Dr. Cro nin, and whose imprisonment the jury fixed at three years in the penitentiary, is a free man again. Judge McConnell granted him a new trial a few days ago, and he was admitted to hail in the sum of $5,006. This was furnished Saturday by a dime museum manager, who signed Kunze’s bond, and the.little German, in return for the favor, will appear on exhi bition at the museum. * AT THE CAPITAL WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON— MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Morgan’s On Wednesday the sonata took up Mr. United States resolution of Brazil recognizing free, indepen- tht as a dent and sovereign state, and Mr. Tur pie proceeded to make a speoeh in sup port of it, but the i evolution went over without further action. The senate then took up the calendar and passed a number of senate bills, among them one granting the use of certain lands to the city of St. Augustine, Fla., for a public park. sideration On Wednesday the house resumed con of the report of the special committee to investigate the Silcott defal cation. A vote was taken on the Hemp hill bill (as substitute for the majority bill) permitting members to sue in the court of claims. It was defeated by a close vote, of yeas 136, nays 138, and a motion to reconsider was offered by Mr. Bland, Missouri, who had voted in the itive. in order to enable him to make the motion. The motion was promptly tabled, how ever, and Ihe vote recurred on ordering the majority bill (appropriating $75,000 to refund members for their lost salaries) to be engrossed and read the third time. This having been done. Mr. Bland de manded the reading of the engrossed bill, but the speaker held that under general parliamentary law this was not necessary. A vote was then taken on the bill, and it was defeated—yeas 126, nays 142. The senate has passed the concurrent resolution, reported from the committee on finance, requesting the secretary of the treasury not to take any steps towards making a new lease of seal fisheries until after February 20th. The house committee on election of president and rioe-president had set apart Thursday for a hearing for the delegation of colored men, appointed at the conven tion held at Richmond, Va., some time ago, who desired to speak on the subject of an election law. The delegation did not put in appearance, however. Although the world's fair bills occupied the attention of the house on Thursday to the exclusion of other matters, still there is vet a chance to reconsider the vote of Wednesday by which the house refused to appropriate money to pay its members for the loss by the 81icott defalcation. On Thursday the judiciary committee decided upon a favorable report on the bill recently introduced by Mr. Stewart, of Georgia, for the establishment of two national penitentiaries, one to be located north of the 39th decree of latitude, and the other south of it. The bill appro priated $500,000 for each building, and $100,000 additional for machinery and im plements. Atlanta, Ga., is favorably men tioned as a good location on account of the number of prisoners sentenced from Georgia and neighboring states. NOTES. The President, on Wednesday, nomi nated the following postmasters: Robert Moorman. Newberry Courthouse, S. C., and Blanton W. Burford, Lebanon, Tenn. The follow-ing fourth class postmasters were appointed Marcy, for Branch, Georgia on Saturday: .T. O. Dry Bibb county; A. C. Johnson, Effie. Whitfield county; .T, T. Ruston, Rutland, Bibb county, W. T. Cromley was appointed light house keeper at Sapelo Island. Secretary Windom, on Thursday, senl to the speaker of the House a letter rec oran laiming appropriations for the follow' ing named public buildings, for the pur poses set forth: Charleston, S. C., cus tomhouse. $21,00C, for the general repair of the building and heating apparatus; Macon, Ga., courthouse, postoffice, etc., $5,000, to construct a sewer from the building the boiler to pit the in river, and waterproofing the basement. examination Secretary Noble is busily engaged in the of papers in connection with the appointment of supervisors of ihe eleventh census. Of 175 supervisors pro vided for by the census act. quite a large number have been practically decided upon, and it is the intention of the secre tary to make his recommendations to the president at once in as many as eight or ten states. Others will follow as rapidly as is consistent with the importance of the positions to be filled. The following nominations have been confirmed by the Senate; Civil Service Commissioners Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, and Hugh 8. Thompson, of South Carolina: Collectors of Customs .1. H. Deveaux, Brunswick, Ga. : .Tolmson, F. R. Gungy, Tampa, Florida; T. B. Charleston, S. C.; H. W. Dangerficld, Tappahannock, Va.; Va.; T. J. Jarret, Peters burg. J. W. Fisher, Richmond, Va.; E. J. Pennypaeker, Wilmington, N. C.; Robert Hancock. Jr., Pamlico, N. C.; \\\ G. Henderson, Pearl River, Miss.: VV. R. Sheppard, New Apalachicola,Fla.; H. I)eB. Clay. port News, Va.; Surveyor of Customs, C. C. Wimbish, Atlanta, Ga. The following is the first section,-of which there are fourteen, of the bill pre pared by Secretary Windom for presenta tion to congress, authorizing the issue of treasury notes on deposits of silver bul lion, in accordance with the plan pro posed in his report to congress: Be it enacted by the senate and house of rep resentatives of the United States, in con gress assembled, tliat any owner of silver bullion, the product of mines’ of the United States, or of ores smelted or re fined in the United States, may deposit the same at any coinage mint, or at any assay office in the United States that the secretary of the treasury may designate, and receive thereafter the treasury notes date hereinafter deposit provided for, equal at the of to the net value of such silver, at the market price, such price to If determined by the secretary of the tions treasury prescribed, turner based the rules and r> ? I I current in the leading silver upon mark ‘ • ',' the whole world: or in but part no of deposit, silver bullion consistin or'fJ ] eign silver coins imported into this melt,-,!’ try, or bars resulting from refined foreign silver coins, shall' received under the provisions of the .] THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK DUN AND CO.’S REVIEW OF “BADE WEEK ENDED JANUARY 18. R. G. Gun »fc Co.'s trade review week says: Important improvement business is noted wherever the rf'f'pG change to cold weather has been fej Elsewhere the unseasonable weather i the chief complaint, but everywhere! terniption of business and by the factories prevailing sickness is ohserv.-.l. ! many have been forced to < v because so many of their employes unable to work. The export of ions are heavy, the lard movement week reached 14,582,862 pounds. Q| e ,., ings of banks last week were not only largest on record for the past year, j) U j show r ed aE increase over last year of twelve per cent, outside of New York. The weekly output of pig iron January lq was 174.038 tons, against 109,151 Decem ber 1st. and 154,398 a year ago. This in-, plies a slight increase estimates. in production last year over previous COTTON AND WOOLEN GOODS, The cotton industry is disturbed only by sickness; the demand for goods U slightly improved. Staple and prints firm. Now, for the first time, wool mar. ufacturers are busy and hopeful, and demand for such wool as they can use strong, prices bring firm. Reports H various quarters are, on the whole, men favorable. The mild weather has much depression, but wherever weather has appeared then- is a clear quick recovery. Collections of retarded are quiteR generally slow, because trilmtion, but uneasiness is reported only a few points. All southern reports note an active trade. Exports of cotter., provisions, oil. and breadstuff*, in ber. were $74,449,727, against $07. 545 in 1888. which points to an month, of exports and exceeding again surpassing $94,000,000 imports for the| lv $26,000,000. The speculative markets for products are! irregular, but not very active. Wheat is nearly a cent higher with sales of only 12,000.000 bushels for the week. Corn a cent lower with sales nearly as large, and pork products a shade shade, weaker. Cotton has been marked up a though re ceipts again exceed last year’s. Coffee is steady. Oil lje higher on light dealings, shade, and raw sugar is again advanced a though estimates of the European beet crop is 3.445,000 tons against 2,764.457 for the previous year. The general level of prices is a shade lower occurring than a week ago. Business failures throng) - out the country last week, number for the United States 807; Canada 31, a total >4 356 against 375 last week. THE MELON GROWERS ARE DESPONDENT OVER THE OUTLOOK —UN FAVORABLE FREIGHT REPORTS. The melon growers of south Georgia feel rather blue over the prospect for tie coming year. At the last meeting of the South Georgia Fruit and Melon Growers’ association, a committee was Steamship appointed and to confer with the Southern Railway association as to correcting its errors as to weight per car. Complaints are made that the weights at Albany being are carelessly determined, the cars thf weighed without while passing being uncoupled. over scales, weight Thousands of pounds of excess have thus been put upon the cam. Fur thermore, they are re-weighed by each connecting road and in many cases a c much as t wo thousand pounds are addfd by each road until the overcharge of weight would amount to seven or eight thousand pounds. The committees wert met cordially, but no concessions wtrt made. PORTUGALS TROUBLES. SHE ( I.ALMS SHE IS BEING IMPOSED U'l'M BY ENGLAND-—ASKS FOR INTERVENTION. A cablegram from Lisbon says: The Portugese government anticipates a favor able reply to its note to the powers, ash ing their intervention in the Britain, dispute between Portugal and Great concerning the territory in Africa. A vigilance committee has been formed in Lisbon for the purpose of denouncing re ceivers of English goods. French finan ciers have declared to negotiate a loan for Portugal. II is srated that crowds of people assembled in the streets Saturday night and shouted “Viva Portugal!’ and “Down with England.” Similar scene? were enacted in provincial towns. BANK STATEMENT. The following is the weekly statement of the associated banks for the week end ing Saturday, January 18th: ,$1,765,429 Deserve increase.............. 8,214,400 Loans increase................ . 1,704,20i> Specie increase................ . 1,436,906 Legal Deposits tenders increase......... . 6,502,700 increase.............. . 0,200 Circulation increase................ 1 Banks now hold $7,781,125 in excess" the 25 per cent. rule. SIX INDIANS HANGED. Six Indians, Austin,Dilley, Willis, J onft * (Join and Burris, were hanged for inurdrn. committed in the Indian territory Austin was a Chickasaw ; Dilley, VVill’b Jones, Goin and Burris were Choctaw*’ The victims were all white men and rol* bery was the object in each ease 1 r ' 1 , other Choctaws were to have been hang'" 1 with them, but their sentences wore con muted by tbe president.
