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DENTIST,
McDonough, Ga.
Any one desiring work done can he ac
commodated either hy calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
VM!W„ T. «»»<’!*li^f.
ATTORNEY A'! LAW,
Mc I to.Noron, il a .
Will practice in the count ie- composing
he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
af Georgia and the United States District
Court. apnJ7-ly
| AS. IS. I l RNEI!.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ha.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court di
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl 6-1 y
R.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. ("Iffice upstairs over
Schaefer’s warehouse. ianl-ly
| I\ WAI L,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDoxough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octs-’79
-yy A. HROAVA.
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
ATT TONEY AT LAW,
Hamcton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Ccorgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion jgi vt-n to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stewart. I H.T. Daniel.
STIAVAKT & IVAN 1 El.,
ATTORNEYS AT LA AY,
Guikkix, . Ga.
LA If CARD.
I have opened a law office in Atlanta, hut
will continue mv practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular'y, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Will he in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office—Room 26, (fate City Bank Build
ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L. TYE.
January Ist, 1885.
IcDciil lacle Works
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•sBRASS FOUNDRY.*-
AA r o announce to the public that we are
T T now ready to do all Winds of Machine
Repairing, such as
Steam Engines, Cotton <»in«*,
Separator ami Rill Vlacliin
erj. S iting niitl (aiiitiiiiing
<>in Maws it Specialty.
We keep constantly on hand all kinds of
Brass Fittings, Inspirators (of any size),
Iron Piping and Pipe Fittings ; Pipping Cut
and Threaded any Size and Length. We are
prepared to repair your machinery cheaper
than you can have it done in Atlanta. All
work guaranteed to give satisfaction.
J. J SMITH & CO.
May 24, 1888;
McDonough, oa., fhida v. January, is. isso.
DIGGING GOT THE DEAD.
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ll OKS AS 11A 1> A S FIHST
REROUTED.
Pittsburg's Corpses Apt to
' Number 24.
five of Four I'ei'Ulicd
in <!■«- I’uint Mkiji llln/c at
Keaillna;—The Dead Victim*
ot" s Ini Sills Alill Triioli lltij
.> 11 in tic ■' 100 —Tin* <lij l'nll of
■ ,11 lilt-11 ■;i tin 11 and Siitlering
Nonelury AIU tor Sunning
I';niiiii<‘N.
Reading, Pa., .Tan. 10. — There is
mourning anil sorrow in many house
holds in Reading to-day. A poll of
death hangs over the city Fathers
and mothers, brothers and sisters, rel
atives and friends are grief-stricken
over the work of last night Over 100
spirits are hushed forever in death as a
result of the wreck atu\ ruin wrought
in this city by the storm. The. cyclone
left the entire city in darkness, which
were 1 nly relieved by the electric
lights and huge bon fires which shed
their lurid glare on the scene of death.
All night long brave and willing hands
assisted in the work of removing the
dead. The disaster is fully as bad as
reported in these dispatches last, night.
This list of fatal cases will fully reach
100, and may be more. The hospitals
and undertakers establishments tire fill
ed with victims. The physicians are
all bu-v, and many private houses
have been opened for the accommoda
tion of the injured
DAWNING OF TIIE DAY.
When the first gray streaks of early
morning appeared in portended a beau
tiful and happy day, but not for the
grief-stricken residents' of Reading.
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The smiling sun appeared and every
thing was directly in contrast with the
fury of last night. Then everything
was dark, dismal and foreboding and
finally wound up in the, sacrifice of 100
lives. To-day all is ag on bright and
glorious in the heavens as though
mocking the work of last night.
The ruined silk mill presents a scene
of desolation. The Polish church dis
aster several months ago was one of
the most terr hie accidents that had
started the community, but the loss of
life by tint fatal cave in of the lloor
when the dedication ceremonies were
being conducted on a quiet Sunday af
ternoon sinks into comparative in
significance when placed in parallel
with the awful visitation of last, eve
ning. V\ ords of sympathy and heart
felt tokens of condolence will doubtless
not be wanted but they will be mean
ingless expressions if unaccompanied
with some substancial offer of assistance
to some of the families vvlto have
been suddenly and heavily strick
en.
A CAI.I. I OK HELP.
For the purpose of offering this need
ed aid, Mayor Kenney, at 2 o’clock
this morning, issued the following
P O
proclamation : •
1 earnestly appeal to professional, busi
ness and other citizens, whp mav be able to
favorably respond to meet at the court house
this afternoon at 1 ;30 o’clock to devise ways
and means to aid the injured and assist the
families of those who perished last night in
the fall of the silk mills and at the Philadel
phia and Heading railroads paint shops
The fearful cyclone that struck this city at
0:30 o’clock fcist evening has brought sor
row and want to many of our people, who
are in such circumstances as to be unable to
meet f'.io emergency, and the occasion calls
loudly for immediate actions. Quick to re
spond to others in distress, let us not fail
to do speedy justice to our own grief-strick
en people.
THE WORK OmiKSCUE SLOW.
The work of rescue was greatly re
tarded from the singular manner in
which the silk mill collapsed. It did
not b’ow over as might have been ex
pected from the terrible force of the
wind, but was bodily crushed down fall
ing in upon itself in one /nass not a
vestige of the walls remaining stand
ing about the stone foundation. Rat
ters and the timbers of the flooring
projected in all dirctious. As the build
ing was steam heated most fortunately
the ruins did not take fire, otherwise
not one of the unfortunates could
have escaped death in its most appall
ing form. 'Fhe only eye witness to the
disaster so far as is known was Mrs.
Gemmel residing at No. 1150 Mulber
ry street. “At about 5:30 o’clock,’’
said she to the Associated Press re
porter, “1 heard the awful crash and
thinking that it was a new house
which is being put up along side of us,
ran to the front door.”
iiiddenJin a cloud of dost.
‘ A great cloud of dust hung over the
silk mill and 1 could hear the crashing
of timbers and the roar of the falling
walls. The next moment 1 saw the
whole mill a great heap of ruins, from
the midst ot which came such awful
moaning and groaning and terrible cries
as I never want to hear again. Not a
soul did 1 see out of the mill and it
seemed many minutes to me before
anybody <aiue to the spot. 1 stood
there in the “oor li .e one struck dumb
until my husband came running from
his work.”
Tenuis of every deser pdon, omni
buses. funeral coa, lies, fire wagon*
hospital vans ami private vehichs we e
pressed into service and were running ]
rapidly to a:id tr*'ni ti e scene of the
disaster all night bearing the bodies of
the wounded, dying and dead to their I
homes <>r to the dillereni hospitals.
XVI NT DOWN IN AN INSTANT.
From the statement of some of those
who escaped from the building it ap
pears to have gone down in an instant.
There was a loud crash of breaking
timber and the persons all rushed to
ward the main door. A good many of
them succeeded in getting out, while
four girls saved them elves by jumping
from a second—story windows. The
first rumbling < oise was followed in
stantly by the falling of the building,
the upper story going first, with jts
human load. Had it not been for the
fact thai but a few of the hands were
on the third and fourth floor at the
t ime scarcely a life would have been
saved.
George (Jrimsbaw, one of the pro
prietors of the mill, who was in the
office at the time, and barely escaped
with his life, having received several
severe w. utids on the head stated that
there were, to the best of his knowl
edge, about 275 person?, principally
girls and hoys, in the establishment at
the p’.ne of the occurrence. Up to 8
o’clock this morning a large majority
of the victims were still in the ruins.
Mr. Grimshaw just before daylight
gave out a list of the killed, injured
and missing reported to him up to a
few hours before. The list accounted
for about 200 of the employes.
.SAW THE KALI. FROM THE TOWER.
The big tower and smokestack at
the silk mill and ten feet of the western
wall lemained standing, are all that is
left of the huge structure.
Charles Sell wan kc, aged 18, was in
the high tower when the accident oc
curred. lie said to a reporter: “1
had gone up for pulleys and was look
ing out of the window, when, all a sud
den, i heard a loud noise, mid was al
most paralyzed to see the building fab
in. I don’t know how I got down from
the tower.
Five men were killed ami two in jur
ed at the Philidelphia and Reading
raihoad paint shops, which was struck
by the cyclone and the men enveloped
in Haines by the explosion of the gas
chambers in the nine passehgar cars.
The loss to the railroad company by
the burning of its paint shop and pas
senger cars is probably $65,000, ami
to the silk mill and machinery about
SIIO,OOO.
An Associated Press reporter was at
the silk mills ruins all night and wit
nessed some of the most heartrending
scenes it probably ever befell a human
being to witness. Relatives and friends
were running about iu their frenzy
and grief seeking for lost ones and al
most deranged.
it developed to-day that at the rail
road paint shop five men were killed
and three badly injured.
At the silk mill twenty-eight dead
bodies have been taken from the wreck
and 112 people were injured. A con
siderable number of the injured arc
very seriously ami several fatally hurt.
The work of examining the wreck is
still going on. A number of operatives
are believed to be still in the debris,
and it is nor thought possible that any
can be there alive.
A PATIENT PHILADELPHIAN.
According to the following from the
Philadelphia Record, one citizen of the
City of Brotherly Love has had his pa
tience rewarded :
St. Peter —S ' you canre from Phila
delphia, eh ? G"t your feet wet on
freshly washed sidewalks and died of
consumption I suppoife ? You were a
hard swearer, were you not?”
New Spirit—Oh no, St. Peter; I n<3v
er swore.
“Eli? Didift you ever fill the air
with profane language when you step
ped on a loose brick on a wet day and
you bad your new clothes on?”
“No sir.”
“Didn’t you curse under your breath
while having the life-P ushed out of you
in crowded street cars ?”
“No sir.”
“Nor when jolted half to death when
riding in a carriage or hack over cob
ble stones ?”
“No sir.”
“Humph ! Didn’t you used to swear
in summer time when nearly choked by
the smells fri>m gutters, garbage boxes
and sewer inlets?”
“No sir.”
“Nor when your lungs were plastered
back with soft coal smoke from Read
ing and Pennsylvania locomotives ?”
“No sir.”
“Go up there and tell .Job I want
him to give you his seat ”
FIELDING IN Him .
HIS X A lino ir ESC A I'E FltOM
HEA TH 11 ¥ STARVATION.
Hi* Upcoming Private Nerrem.
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Ball'll ll* T 111 ii || till' Illtov in :| 1 1., ■■ *.
a* to lloimi l.ito of ’i'lii* VI if* l».
•y Killer- —After a Time Field
iiiK l eariii* for ISi Native Noll
mill Einipixi from Port an
Peine*' l»i Heim** of a 1 nit oil
Stain* Via■■-•«>f..TVar ..*1 n*-l ■■•
U lets laid*. Which Will he lie
corded a* is VI a I ter of IIInIoi*) .
New York, Jan s.—When Mr.
Legi'iuie, who was to a certain extent
president of llayti, asked me to accept
th position of j fixate secietary to hi*
august person, I at once referred the
matter to Gen. Harrison. This was
while the President-elect, was still en
gaged in choosing his own secretary, so
1 wrote to ask whether 1 should Wait
any longer for him or go to llavti. I
understood him to reply that 1 could go
to llayti; at least the place he mention
ed was spelled with a big 11
1 then wrote Mr. Ligiiime for terms,
and the amount of my fare by steamer
to the llaytian palaof*. He replied that
he was just starting in, and couldn't
give m • much at first, but if 1 would
begin for my board and washing, and
grow up with the business, he thought
we might be happy yet As to the
fare he had been unable to find the
change anywhere about his official ap
parel, hut he suggested that I could
brace his representatives in this city
for it, and use the national credit if I
thought it wßuld do any good. 1 suc
ceeded in making the necessary raise
and in a few days later 1 pulled the
door-hell of the national palace at Port
au Prince 1
The palace is a handsome, square
rigged building, of two stories and an
attic. A couple of coats of paints
would put it in fairly good repair.
President Legitime received me cordi
ally, and we sat down on the front
stoop to smoke a pipe before supper.
He appeared to be well, but was look
ing thin. 1 xxas feeling a little hollow
myself, but the hasty shadows of a tro
pical evening closed in, and still the
supper hell did not ring.
“Mr. Fielding,” said Legitime, at
length, “I trust that von are of a fru
gal disposition.”
“I am indeed,” said I. “An ances
tor of mine was the celebrated Connec
ticut farmer who died suddenly in or
der to avoid a doctors bill; and, more
than that, he died on his birthday, so
that the estate wouldn’t have to pay
for chiseling any odd months and days
in the record of his age on his tomb
stone.”
“I am glad to hear it,” said he.
“If it is the supper you’re thinking
about,*’ said I, with a sudden inspira
tion, “don’t make any apologies on my
account. Just bring out anything that
the neighbors have sent in, and no ques
tions will be asked.”
lie went inside presumeably to see
what he could scare up, but in a few
moments lie returned, and resumed his
seat with a sigh
“It was cold when you left the states
I presume ?” lie remarked.
“Cold as blazes,” said I.
“Overcoats and that sort of things?”
he inquired.
“You bet.”
“It’ll be warm all winter iu Ilayti,”
I understood.
“Don’tsay another word,” said I.
“Tell me where to take it and about
llow much we need for a good supper,
with fixings down in this latitude.”
‘lie grasped my hand.
“You appreciate the situation,” he
said.
Then I took the overcoat around the
corner, and, a few minutes later, Legi
time and I filled the vacancy in the in
terior department with a good square
meal. It was my first great diplomat
ic stroke.
• “Now,” said the president as we
lit our Havanas, after the meal, “you
see how I’m fixed. What are you go
ing to do about it ?”
Is there such a thing as a board of
aldermen around here ?” said 1. “If
there is, I might get into it and
help my regular work with odd jobs.
I have known it done in New York.”
He shook his head.
“We need capital in this country,”
hit said, and capitalists. The>* is noth
ing in the alderm m or senator business
without them. Youv’egot to work for
your salary down here, and youv’e got
to work to get that.” he added very sad
ly.
* “Taxes?”
“No use; played out.”
“Is there anything we could—er—
confiscate ? ’
“Don’t know of anything,” he re
plied. “We’ve got a steamer on our
hands now, the Haytian Monarch. Be
longs up in the states, but I don’t see
how lam going to raise a cent on her.
“Want to go down to the harbor and
see her ?”
1 agr-ed. and we went d"wn to the
shore xi here the national gunboat Dess:
lines was tied. The captain sat with
Ids legs over ihe rail whittling out a
pair of thole-pins. I got aboard ; Le
gitime untied her and pushed her off,
stiaddling the eft: water adroitly as she
slid tutu the deep water. The captain
threw some turpentine on the (ire and
we steamed away for the llaytian Mon
arch.
“You’ve got some pretty cannon on
board,” said I. picking up a couple off
the deck ami cleaning out the barrels
with tnv lead pencil.
At this moment xve pulled up along
side the Haitian Monarch. I made
an examination vf her, and reported
her sound and kind.
“It'll ta'-<- money to run her, though,”
said he.
“Yes*it would be cheaper to mortgage
her.”
Then we started to return. About
half way in our machinery broke down,
bat the captain took up a spare oar and
sculled us ashore.
For the next xveok or two I busied
nivself trying to dispose of the llaytian
Monarch. At the end of that time 1
reported t > the president.
“Well, howdy,” said he, “what can
you get ou her ?”
“Wev’w got thirteen nigger soldiers,
*nd the yellow fever on her at pres
ent,” said 1 despondently, “and I don’t
see how we can get anything else, at
present.”
“W ill you take her f< r arrears of
salary ?”
“No, 1 thank you,” said I, “although
I have an a;cd family depending sl
most entirely upon what 1 can steal, I
am not taking the yellow fever just at
present even with a steamboat thrown
in.”
“1 hear that the United States navy
is coming down to recover her,” lie said
with some apprehension. “Won’tthey
uiaka it rather hot for us ?”
“How is your channel into the liar
v _ nvv
oo r :
“All clear.”
“Any mud bn;iks ?”
“Only one, and that’s five miles out
of their course.”
“Five miles out of their course? It
couldn’t lie better. Piovidence had the
United States navy in mind when it lo
cated that mud hunk. Don't he dis
turbed Not a hulk in the whole fleet
will ever get by it ”
This made him feel so good that be
to kup the carpet in his ro m, and
having gone ar und the comer with it.
xte had a real nice supper from the pro]
coeds.
The next morning I opened the cor
respondence as usual. One letter in it
affected me painfully.
“Legit,” said I, “we are in hard
luyk.”
“What’s the matter now ?”
“One of your secret agents has suc
ceeded in smuggling false charts on
board the American fleet. They locate
the channel right ox er that mud bank
yon spoke of.”
He rubbed his hands, gleefully.
“Yes,” sai 1 he. “it was a plot of n.v
own.”
“Well, youv’e done the business for
us all. Don’t you s-e that they’ll steer
right for that bank, miss it about five
miles, and come into the harbor with
out breaking an egg. When shall Ihe
able to teach you the piineiples of in
ti igue?”-
Legitime w is abashed; and he exer
ted all his energies in trying to square
himself with me. He offered to make
me Secietary of the Navy, genetai of
the army or to abdicate in my favor.
But I would not be pacified. I told
Legitime that I should have to give
him thu usual week's notice. 1 told
Legitime that I did not object to him
personally, hut that hi« blamed republic
was too small for a man of my abili ies.
1 was afraid I might walk of! the edge
of it some day in a lit of absent Hand
edness, and get drowned.
On the last day of my stay, the Uni
ted St ites navy hove in sight. At the
sight of the dear old flag my patriotism
returned and I replied hotly to Legit
itne’s criticisms on the size and equip
ment of our vessels. I said that they
could knock the stuffing out of his old
cat-boats, and never open a seam.
Legit, drew himself up with haughty
dignity, and said that the sooner I ac
cepted safe conduct out of the country
the more likely I would be to get it.
He offered n.e his flagship if I would
send her back by express. But I de
clined his courtesy on the grounds of
prudence and chartered a native to pad
dle me over to St. Thomas in a ca
noe.
Your correspondent feels that these
personal'recollections of tiie home life
of the president of our sister republic
constitute an interesting contribution to
history fu'ly worth the I am char
ging you for them. I think that you
will be moved by the above to send the
same by return mail. I shall not put
my salary claim against Hayti in the
bands of the United States government.
I have beeu on the inside and know
how much the claim would be worth.
NO. 88