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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1895)
TH KOI [fill Uvll * k A• \ BITS OF NEWS LATHERED FROM OVER THE STATIC, Being » Summary of Interesting llup* penlngs From Day to Day. The , bird . . . Morgan . reported crop m county is especially plentiful Savannah is waking up. The city council has decided to have the houses properly numbered and street signs put up. r * * A bid has been made for Glynn county 5 per cent bonds at par, less expense of issue, legal advice and other expenses. The county comniis sioners have not ns yet accepted the kid. Uncle Billy Davis, ot Coweta coun ty, has an ordinary shoe hammer that was made in 1777. The date is stamp ed upon it. Uncle Billy has owned it for thirty-five years and his father had owned it since a boy. The hammer is still in fine fix and is used ulmost da jj v * , «, At a mass meeting at Augusta called by the chairman of tho democratic ex ecutive committee of Kichmord coun ty, Henry C. Hammond was UIlftU1 . mously nominated as the democratic candidate for tho legislature to till the J“ John e “°A A ' Zrsl E “ rne8 , ' , y re " gaah<m «' , Governor Atkinson is receiving con gratulations from his friends. The new arrival who came in Sundav is a girl, but she has not yet been given a name. This is the first time a baby has ever been born to a governor of Georgia while he was an occupant of the mansion. The governor now has three boys and three girls. The telephone linemen have begun stringing the line from Romo to At lanta on the long distance telephone route. In about ten days the work will be complete and Rome and Atlan ta will be brought within speaking dis tancc, which will be a great convea ience to the men of the two cities. This places Rome in direct communi cation with Macon, Griffin, Columbus and the smaller towns in the Atlauta circle. Saturday, November 2d, will be the greatest . . of , all ,, exposition . . days! . , I T will be Atlanta Day at the great fair! Two hundred thousand people, at the , lowest . estimate, ,. . will pass through the turn styles of the south s great expose tion on that date. The management of every business establishment in At lanta, from the greatest manufactory to the smallest shop, will be expected to suspend ... business ou November „ , 2d _. and to give themselves and their em ployes a holiday. The federal grand jury at Atlanta returned a true bill against fifteen cit izens of Union county, charging them with conspiracy in the famous white capping case of that county. Some time in May of this year Albert Phil lips reported to a deputy marshal that two men by the names of Cavender and Thomason were operating an il licit distillery. A few nights after wards, May 27tb, these two men, to gether with thirteen others, went to the house of old man John Phillips, where Albert resided, and called him out. The father and sister of Albert went out at the same time, and a gen eral fight ensued in which the old man Phillips was killed. It seems that, the M. – N, G. rail road will be sold at last. The trouble in the past has been that tho large amount of receiver’s liabilities must be paid by the purchaser in cash. This time, however, the holders of rolling stock notes amounting to $20, 000,000 have agreed to go into a re organization for the purpose of buying the road. The holders of rolling stock notes are the movers of the re organization plan. W hen Judgd New man had the case up a few days ago it was stated that the re-organization scheme was practically completed. Of course, this does not keep other per sons from bidding, but unless other bids are had these security holders will buy the road. Governor Atkinson will be asked to pardon Adolphus Duncan, the negro twice sentenced to be hung at Atlanta for assaulting Mrs. Sanner. The ap plication for a pardon will doubtless be made in a few days. To those who have kept up with tho developments in the now sensational case that turn in it will be no surprise. For many wt-eke the turn of events in the case have indicated that the friends of the condemned negro have had such an end in view. Scrap by scrap the at torneys and friends of Duncan have been gathering evidence to show that the negro is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted twice and sen tenced to be hanged. That evidence has been shaped in its best light and presented to the courts and governor, Those interested in the defense now appear to have it in such shape that they deem it advisable to make applica tion for a pardon in due form. McIntyre’s Requests to'Charities. The will of Robert McIntyre, who died a tew days ago, was tiled and pro bated in the court of ordinary at Sa VRni,ah lufit Saturday. He leuves an estate valued at $250,('00, which he di vided up among the different churches and charitable institutions, bis wife and !lbont fifteen nopht , WB( nieces and grand nephews. He leaves Trinity ohurcb, Savannah, real estato valued at about $15,000 and 100 shares of Southwestern railroad stock. He leaves Wfisley Memorial church 100 shares of Southwestern stock; Emory college, $1,000; tho orphans’ home in Macon, about §3,000, and half a dozen other institutions, from $500 to $1,000 each, McIntyre came to Savannah from Ire l an d in 1839, and made all of his money in the' grocery business. He has been noted for his donations to charities during his entire lifetime. _ 1 _ , , '* „ , Gate City Guards, . o –u ft, have invited the Fifth line* ’ a es Infautary, the Governoi s °™° ’ ^ Atlanta Arti ery am 10 Fifth Regiment of Georgia \ oluuteers to take part in the parade on Presi l ^ ent 8 ^ ajr ; management P the ara Gate < io City eat,re1 uar<is, / V n . u the lr magna han f® f. mons action m in viting their somet.me enennes, the 'i i eg.men , ” P > ) u the celebration has met with much favorable comment. whether the in vitatioD will bo accepted remain, to bo seen. Dispit, the fact that (he governor has given the guards the right to bear arms un til the attorney general re P°rts upon the legal side of the mat ter, some of the state militia, and es pecially the Fifth regiment, seem to doubt the advisability of appearing in a parade with the Guards. However, Governor Atkinson has no doubt about the matter. When seen by a reporter he said that the Guards have every rig p t to p ear armB( adding, “I expect t urn ou t with them myself on presi den t’s day.” Col Can j n regard to the failure of . d i er to invite the Guards to take part j n t p e Liberty bell day parade, the governor said, that was an entirely an exposition matter, and was not a con cern G f fp 0 state’s, Interesting War Itelics. Probably' the largest and most in teresting collection of confederate relics ever brought together was sent from Savannah for exhibition in the H hall at the Cotton States and M a ternational Exposition, T ^federate ooraprise everything, from a pair of socks to the guns and arms used by famous soldiers, These relics have been collected from every where, principally through the efforts of Mrs. L. H. Raines, the presi dent of the chttrte r chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, of Savannah. An interesting story is told in connection with tho old confed erate socks. It was customary in many cases for the young lady who made them to put her name and address up on them and for the soldier who se cured them to begin a correspondence with the fair manufacturer of his foot wear. Iu this way it is said many cor respondences were started, the fruits of which were strong friendships and, in some cases, love and marriage. There are also many old muskets and weap ons of all kinds from many a famous battlefield, and among other things a piece of the hull of the old Confeder ram Savannah, which was blown up at the close of the war. Miss Annie C. Harmon, Went up as the custodian of the relics, all of which are-quite valuable. Mrs. Raines will preside at the meeting in Atlanta, on November 9th, when a state society of the Daughters of the Confederacy will be organized. Col. T. P. Stovall Dead. Colonel Thomas Pleasant Stovall, one of the most prominent men in the state, died at his country home, Eto wah Heights, near Cartorsville. He p nd p een jjj f or several days and had p een attended by the very best of un d ^ ca j g pjip jj e d j ed 0 f malarial fever aQ( j p ad p eeQ jp on ]y three weeks, jq wa8 p DO wn that his attack was seri ous, but a fatal issue was not feared until two days before his demise, when a change for the worse occurred. Af ter this he sank rapidly. He was about seventy years of age and was a native of Augusta. During his life he accumulated and spent Bev e ral fortunes. He had large landed interests when he died. He was tho largest flour manufacturer in the south au d was a gallant soldier in the confed erate army. He raised and equipped a company at his own expense, and was a pioneer in the direct trade and immigration movements. Colonel Stovall was a specimen of the old southern gentleman, a race fast disappearing; a man of splendid ability. As a statistician he had few equals. He was au indefatigable work er, enthusiastic about the south’s re sources. Colonel Stovall and Mr. Benjamin W. Hitchcock, of New York, acquired the Tarver estate in Twiggs county, a tract of valuable farming land com- SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. prising some 28,000 acres. They at once began founding a community of immigrants on this land, and a number of families from Germsuy uud the eHslern states settled there, ft was the purpose of Me-srs. Stovall and Hitchcock to bring to Georgia lhous ends of thrifty farmers and settle them upon thi* vast plantation. They planned oa a gigantic scale and spent many thousands of dollars in prelimi nary advertising. The panic of two years ago seriously interfered with ‘heir undertaking and retarded their movements, Recently, however, the enterprise hal taken on new vitility, and vvi rylh’ng promised well. Northeu A few years ago Governor appointed Colonel Stovall commission er of immigration and direct trade for the state of Georgia. Colonel Stovall appointed Colonel Avery as his associ ate, uud together they worked sedu lously for ilie success of the great movement, which had been inaugura ted by Colonel Stovall many years be fore. These two gentlemen worked together for several years, until Colo ix-l Avi rv reb’ qnished his labors tem porarily to represent the exposition in foreign countries. MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAD. Mrs. Nobles and Gus Gambles Will Not Hang Yet Awhile. The superior court of Twiggs county convened Monday morning which ,fudge Smith on the bench. A motion was made by Marvin Harris, counsel for Mrs. Elizabeth Nobles, and by J. R. Cooper, counsel for Gus Fumbles, for a new trial. judge Smith has not set the date for the hearing but it will be iu about two weeks. Pending this, tho execution of Mrs. Nobles and l am bles, which was set for October 18th, hns been postponed. pronounced quite Mrs. Nobles is nn well and is apparently oblivious to the efforts being made in her behalf, the ladies of the state who employed conn sel to defend her are yet zealous iu their work in trying to save the neck of the woman charged with complic ity in the murder ol her bus mnu, aiu i is generally believed that she will nev er hang. Her attorney s, as are a so ie attorneys of the negro, . am >n s, mi. confident that a new rm wi h granted. . It is reported that lam ) cs is »> *■_> grateful of the efforts being made m his behalf and even en er ams that he will not hang. a P to P I wiggs county, where e *° rr! >e murder ot old man 0 > '■* " as p° n ceived and effected, are c e ermii.M that the negro shall hang Public sentiment was strong against them but has been tempered somewhat as to Mrs. Nobles, who was old, ignorant and perhaps 1 r partially demented. A. P. A’S. MEET. National Convention Held by the Or der at St. Louis. The ’national conference of the American Protective Association met at St. Louis, Mo., Monday morning. All of the supreme officers and most of the state presidents were in attendance and the hall was packed. The object of the meeting was to organize the national advisory board which was ap pointed last year at the Milwaukee meeting of the supreme council and to outline a plan of action with regard to the next national campaign. After the conference was called to order by President W. J. H. Trayner, of Detroit, Mich., Mayor Walbridge was introduced aud made a welcoming address. Other addresses followed aud the conference became executive. At the afternoon session the work of the credentials committee was rati fied and a resolution passed congratu lating the members in Nashville, Tenn., upon their recent victory. It is possi ble that Judge Stevens, of Michigan, will be chairman of the advisory board. Speaking of the proposed national political movement President Trayner said: “It is not our intention to form a third party or independent move ment. All we want is recognition from the national political parties. The party that recognizes us will get our support. The advisory board, when organized, will evi dently appoint a committee to pre sent our principles to each nation al party, and demand recognition, Ours is a representative body, com posed of all nationalities. Nationality or creed is no bar to membership. Our organization is working moro openly now than ever before and if I had my way about it all our sessions would be public. We have nothing to hide.” THE STEEL FEN MAN DEAD. Richard Esterbrook, the First Manu facturer of Steel Pens, Dead. A Camden, N. J., special says that Richard Esterbrook, founder of the B t ee i p 0n manufactory in the United States, and manufacturer of the Ester brook pens, died Thursday evening, He had been ill several weeks with a complication of diseases and his ad vanced age rendered recovery impossi ,ff e . He was a member of the Society 0 f Friends. He came from England aD d established his factory in 18(50 in a little frame building on the site of the present big establishment, which employs nearly 400 bauds, Possessing gifts amounts to nothing unless we possess the power to use them. CAPITAL NOTES. GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON IN BRIEF PARAGRAPH*. Doings of the Chiefs and Hoads of the Various Departments. Saturday’s statement of the condi tion of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $12,322,881; gold re serve, $03,021,1(57. Justice Httgner has rendered the de eision of tho supremo court of tho District of Columbia in two cases in volving title to the Potomac flats and by it gave full effect to the govern ment’s title to those lands. Reoeipts of the government for the first ten days of the current month aggregated $9,157,668, and the ex penditures $1(5,573,000; deficit, $7,- 415,331. This deficit will probably be reduced during the remainder of the mouth. Tho district grand jury began its consideration Wednesday afternoon of the case of Miss Elizabeth M. Flagler, who shot and killed a twelve-year-old colored hoy, August 2d, last. Neither Miss Flngler nor her friends appeared before the grand jury, but it is under stood that the statement made by her before the coroner’s jury was placed be fore the members. There is a strong impression that an indictment will not follow. Attention is called to a very import au t but much neglected source of na fional wealth by United States Consul Chancellor at Havre in a report to the state department upon the peat imlus try. As America possesses an inex haustible supply of pent, the consul points out how, in view of recent de velopments in Europe, it may some day open up an extensive field for the employment of capital and labor. Tho application of this substance seems to be practically eudless. The B ( enm yacht, Oneida, with President Cleveland aboard, arrived at New York Sund mornirig from Gray Q a p] es> The yacht anchored off East Twenty-sixth street about noon. The president left the vessel at 2 o’clock and was driven to the home of his family ^ physician, \y' Dr. Jos. D. Bryant, ftt st Thirty-sixth street. Ho dined with the doctor and his family and left after a visit of an hour and a Half for the yacht, arriving there at a quarter of fonr. At half past four the Oneida ^ passed Liberty island bound doWQ b The cruiser Marblehead arrived . at Naples Saturday morning according lo “ dl spatch received at the navy de partment, and her commander pre sumably found awaiting him the orders cabled previously for the ship to pro ceed to the gulf of Alexandria on tho Syrian coast to protect the interests of American missionaries and other American citizens whose life and prop erty may be jeopardized through the perturbed state of Armenian affairs. The state department has received nothing further about the Armenian troubles from Minister Terrell. The solicitor of the state deoartment has concluded his examination of the assignments against the Mora claim and finds that after all of these are paid there will be dtie Mr. Mora about $700,000, for which amount, less $118, 000, Secretary Olney will give liis check on the assistant treasurer of the United States. The $118,000 will be reserved for the liquidation of the claims of certain attorneys, tho pay ment of which Mr. Mora wishes to as sure, but will be returned to him when the department settles with the original attorneys under the original contract made by them with Mr. Mora. 8niall Republics Are Cautious. It is learned from an authoritative source that none of the South Ameri can governments will take the initia tive in recognizing the belligerency of the insur-revolutiouistB in Cuba. The press of these countries, so far as can be judged from this point, is unani mous in its sympathy with the Cubans. The fear is expressed, however, that the recognition of the revolutionists by Venezuela, Nicaragua, Brazil, Guatemala, or even Mexico, would be followed by the dispatch of several men-of-war to their principal ports demanding both an examination and an explanation. As none of the coun tries on the western hemisphere, ex cepting the United States and Chile, possess a navy worthy of tho name, no recognition of Cuban rights will be made by them for fear of the conse quences. SUPREME C OURT CONVENES. Proceeds , to . Business „ , Without ...... , Await- . ,, ing the President’s- Return. The United States supreme ;court convened at Washington Monday for the October term, 1895. All the sur viving justices Mere present. Presi dent Cleveland being still absent from the city, the ceremony of calling u'p'on him on the day of meeting had to be omitted for the second time during his presidential tenure. When the jus tices had taken their seats, Chief Jus tice Fuller said: “The court reassembles again sad dened by a vacant chair. Mr. Justice Jackson died at Nashville, Tenn., on tlie 8th of August last, This was fol lowed by the departure of Justice Strong on the 19tli day nf same mouth, who during his retirement -had inain tamed his companionship with the members of tlie bench lie had adorned. “It has been the inmemoriid usage .'or the court, on the first day of the term, on the* first day on which a qn(V ruin appeared, to proceed' in tile transaction of no business, but to ad* jonrn to await upon tho president of tlie United States, The president is absent, and we-shall follow the course j *>nrailed last v< ur, namely, to dispose of such matters as rnav be properly brought before us. All motions not submitted to-day may bo brought on to-morrow, and the usual order for the call of docket ou that day will bo on tered.” At tho conclusion of the chief jus tice’s remarks, Secretary Olney said: “I beg the indulgence of the coirtt for a moment to present my suectesor in the office of attorney general of the United States, Mr. Judson ('. llar mon.” Chief Justice Fuller: “The court parts from the retiring officer with re* gret and is happy to welcome his suc cessor.” A number of applicants were admit ted to the bar ond several, motions submitted. Then, after a session of twenty-five minutes, the court ad journed for the day. Memorial to Justice Jackson. Before the assembling of the supreme court a bar meeting was held to take action on the death of the late Associ ate Justieo Jackson. Mr. Secretary Olney presided and a committee was named to draft an appropriate memo rial. The committee will report at an' adjourned meeting of the bar to be called by the chairman. A. P. A’S. WIN THE DAY. Elect Their Ticket In Nashville by Several Hundred Majority. Nashville was tho scene Thursday cT one of the hottest municipal elections in its history. The American Protec tive Association had a superb organi zation in every way, while iu a num ber of wards the democrats were de ficient in this respect. The Amer ican Protective Association has been laying plum all the summer for this election, and the democratic workers could not budge them from their allegiance to the or der. There was a big falling off in the vote in a number of strong democratic wards. Nevertheless over 8,000 votes were cast out of a total registration of over 14,000. There were Numerous fights at the polls, but no serious diffi culty was reported. The feeling is very high, however. Sheriff Sparks had deputies at a number oftiiowurds, although tho election was altogether under tho city marshal’s jurisdiction. At 11 o’clock p. m. it was conceded on all sides that the American Pro tective Association’s ticket had been elected. McCarthy’s majority will be about 800, while the conncilmanic ticket will have majorities of from 500 to 1,800. The ticket elected is as fol lows : , Mayor, William McCarthy; council men, General T. Steir, T. J. Robert son, J. H. Bruce, J. Ellis, J. I.Vande grift, A. F. Howell, A. J. Allen, Jesse It. Foreman, A. F. McConnell and Al bert S. Williams. TYPHOID AT THE CAPITAL. Twenty-Five Deaths from tlie Disease During the Past Week. Tho health officer of Washington, D. C., says that an epidemic of ty phoid fever exists in that city and that unless sanitary precautions are observ ed by the inhabitants generally a seri ous condition of affairs will follow. Health officer Woodward estimates that at least six hundred cases are un der treatment iu the district at pres ent. In the first four days of the past week eleven deaths were reported and he has no doubt tb®t some deaths re ported as due to kindred complaints really resulted from typhoid. For the week ended September 27th, there were twenty-one deaths. New York city, with seven times .the popu lation of Washington, reported only seventeen typhoid deaths for the same period, and most of the cities of the size of Washington reported not more than two or three deaths, if any at all. The epidemic is attributed to the low stage of the water in fhe Potomac river, which constitutes the city’s sup ply, and the use of well water in fam ilies. The disease is an generally dis tributed in the best sections of the city as iu the poorer quarters. Assignment of a Cigar Factory. The Roper – Baxter Cigar Company at Chicago made an assignment Friday morning. The liabilities are estimated at $100,000. ’p The assets exceed that flmouut ^' about §25,000, but they afe j ODea afiCountB . The cause of tbe f a ii ure *i s said to be the difficulty of collections and the general depreS8ion in business, Leprosy in Iowa. Two cases of leprosy in Towa have been reported to the governor and the matter turned over to tho state board of health, which is dow investigating. Secretary Kennedy and Governor Jackson refuse to divnlge the location of the cases. It is known that the per sons afflicted are children in one fam By-
