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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY. $ 1.00 CASH, $ 1.50 ON SPACE: AND WORTH IT. VOL. XIV. pOYAt • POWDER Absolutely Pure. 'mis™ Pwder never vanes. A marvel of purity, strength and wnoTesonieness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Royal Bakino Powdkr Co., 106 Wall street, New York. novl3-ly GRIFFIN FOUNDRY . AND Machine Works. ITTe announce to the Public that we are It prepared to manufacture Engine Boil ers ; will take orders for all k'uds of Boil ers. We are prepared to do all kinds of repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of every Description. ONBOUA' A WALCO'IT, PROFESSfOXA L C.i R PS. jyt. «. i». awPBUMa DENTIST. McDosocgh (Ja. Any one desiring work done can he ac commodated either by calling on me in poi son or addressing me through the mails. Terms cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Geo W. Bryan j W.T. Dicker. BRYAN .V lUt KH.% ATTORNEYS AT RAW. YfcDoNOIC.H, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. api'27-ly ■j" AS. 11. TIIirWHK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counti< s composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. marl 6-1 y J 1 .1. RIIA<« AA, 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. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. j FWA.. ATTORNEY AT LAW, MoDonouuh, 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- 711 -yy A. BROIVY 'ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonocgh, Ga. Will practice in all the counties “compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. jnnl-ly J j A. PEEPLGB, ATTORNEY AT LAW, llajifton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court of the United States. Special and prompt atten tiongivento Collections. oet 8; IHBH Jno. D. Stewart. | R. T. Daniel. STEWART A IP AAI EI„ * ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. JjK. IC. J. AKAOEIP. Hampton. Ga. I hereby tender my professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country, Will attend all cal's night and day. LAW CARD. I have opened a law office in Atlanta, but will continue ray practice in Henry county, Courts regiilar'v, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited. Will he in Mc- Donough on all public days. Office —Room 26, Gate City Bank Build ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. JOHN L. TYE. January Ist, 1885.- ALL Notes and accounts of D. KNOTT k CO., must be settled now l’lea e call on me at tie old stand and find out your in- cbted ness. We need the money and know that vou cannot censure us for giving this, our last warning. M. i'. LOW E, 5-Ton Cotton Gin Scales, S6O btsili BOX Brass Tare Beam. Warranted for 6 Y ear* ' "7 acents"Wanted. ~ - Kcfid for lera*. “JONES HE PAYS THE FREIGHT.” Ftyr Frre Prire Lint, Addrta JONES of BINGHAMTON, Binghamton. N. T IMMOVABLE MURRAY The Defense Cannot Budge the State’s Star Witness. INCIDENTS OF THE LECONEY TRIAL Garrett Murray Sticks to Ills Story of the Crime During a Rigid Cross Kx umiuutiou —William Smith Gives Dam aging Evidence Against the Accused but Mixes Matters on Cross Examina tion. Camden, N. J., Feb. 12.—The pro ceedings of the Leconey murder trial were token up by the cross examination of Garrett Murray and William Smith, the witnesses upon whom the prosecu tion depend to establish Clialkley Le coney’s guilt. Murray is an interesting witness. There is a good deal of sang froid and easiness about him, and on several occasions he succeeded in evading questions which would have embarrassed more experienced and acute people. Mr. Grey questioned hfm closely and searchingly us to the details of everything that occurred on tlie morning of the murder. The facts stated in his examination in chief were not in any way affected, and he in no case contradicted himself. What he didn’t know he said he didn't know, and ho made no rash assertions as to anything he only partially remembered. Could Not Trip llim Ip. Much of the examination was devoted to whether Murray had told several peo ple that on leaving the yard with Le coney for the citron patch on the fatal Monday morning he had seen Annie standing by the shed with a bowl in h< r hand calling the dog. Murray emphati cally denied that lie had made any such statements and declared that many of the people to whom he was supposed to make them were unknown to min. The defense failed to trip him up in any part of his evidence. William Moitii’ii Evidence. Murray was followed by William Smith, wiio had been locked up in jail with him as a witness, and who gave some damaging testimony relative to Clialkley Leconey s alleged visit to him about 5 o’clock oil the morning of the murder, when he says Leconey told him he had hurt Annie; out the witness was mixed up on a number of little matters on cross examination. The accused was, as usual, calm and composed, and sat throughout the pro ceedings with the father and mother of the murdered girl on either side of him. rush For the reservation Roomers Take Possession of the Newly Opened Sioux Reservation. Chamberlain, S. D., Feb. 12.—The loud report of a eannou yesterday after noon was the signal for the boomers to enter the Sioux reservation in ac cordance with the president’s proclam ation. Hundreds of teams with great loads of lumber started on a dead run across the river and the hundred or more Indian police placed as a guard to prevent any premature invasion stood dazed anil helpless as they viewed the great and irresistable rush for the reser vation. A most novel sight was the moving of a large building under which had been placed heavy timbers and wheels. This, like the other wagons, was pulled across the river by galloping horses. There were a number of smasliups in the rush, but as yet no fatalities have been reported. Houses were being erected last night by the light of lan terns and the morning sun shone on scores of new house,-., many of them grouped in the new town on the west 6ide of the river. Tlie President’s Proclamation. Washington, Feb. 72. President Harrison issued a proclamation throw ing open to settlement tlie relinquished portion of the Sioux reservation in ac cordance with tiie terms of tlie act ap proved last March, dividing the reser vation into two separate reservations and providing for the relinquishment of Indian title to the remainder. The proclamation throws open to set tlement a. 000.000 acres of land which will l»e disposed of to settlers under the provisions of the homestead law'. In addition to fees each settler will be re quired to pay $1.2 ) ix-r acre, and upon the full payment of the money due will be entitled to a patent. A Mother*# Heroism. Belvidehk, N. J., Feb. 12.—Mrs. George Jeffries, of Pleasantville, ac companied her husband on his yacht to Ludley’s Thoroughfare. While Mr. Jeffries was absent from the boat their little son, in romping around on deck, accidentally fell overboard. The mother, who was in the cabin, hearing the loud splash, ran up on dock, and. upon dis covering her tioy in the water, leaped after him. She reached him just as he went down for the last time. <at hing him under one arm with the other she kept herself and her precious burden afloat until the stern of the ya lit was reached. Throwing her son up on deck she clambered in over ihe side and then fell exhausted. Neither mother nor son sustained serious ill effects from the accident. Proceeding, in Congress. Washington, Feb. 12.—1 n the house Mr. Henderson presented the conference report on the bill to remove snags, etc., from the Missouri river, and it was agreed to. Mr. Cannon, from the committee on rules, re ported back the new code of rules, and the house proceeded to consider it. The debate continued during the rest of the day. The senate passed a bid appropriating BS>I),- 00U for a site for a public building iu New Or leans. A bill appropriating shxi, 00 for a pub lic building at Chester, Pa., was pin -si on the calendar. Consideration of the bill to pro vide temporary government for Oklahoma wan resumed. Another strike in Salem. Salem, N. J-, Feb. 12.—Just as the fires in all of the Cram Bros, glass works had got start- ( an i everything working smoothly, the boys struck for an advance of $1 per week and work in all the factorii-s has again stopped and the streets are filled with men and boys thrown out of work. To Prevent G«rr> tntnd«rlns "Washington, Feb. 12.—Mr. Wick ham, of Ohio, iutrodu- ed in the house for reference a bill to prevent gerry mandering in the states. it provides that the representatives elected to the Fifty-second congress shall --■ returned from the same district > as similar repre sentatives elected to the Fiftv-tirst con gress. mcdonougil ga.. Friday. February 14, isdo. THE WORLD’S FAIR. The House Committee l’«rf©et* Two I lam* for tho < elebrai l«*n. Washington, Feb. 12.—A meeting of the sub-committee appointed by the world's fair committee of tlie house to prepare a plan for the selection of a site was held. Chairman Candler pre sented his report and lie was authorized to submit it to the full committee for action. The report submits to the house the two bills prepare 1 by tlie committee, one containing provisions suitable for holding tlie fair in Chicago, New York, or St. l.ouis and the other making it -possible for the fair to bo held in Wash ington. A resolution is also contained in the report providing that it shall be left to tlie house to decide on a site and that after a discussion of tlie two bills tiSfloting shall begin an ! shall continue until one of the four cities shall receive a majority of all the '■sites cast. When the site has been disposes! of. the bill suited to the selection will lie taken up for passage. Mr. Candler expects to get Jlio full committee together today and should he be successful lie will submit his re port to the memliers. After action by the committee the report will be sub mitted todhe house at tlie first oppor tunity. Outwitted by Platt. Albany, Feb. 12. —The conference committee of the world’s fair met in Lieutenant Governor Jones’ room at 5 o’clock last evening. There was gen eral discussion on the bill,but no change of sentiment was noted. Mr. Hitt, of Albany, suggested that the bill be changed so as to recommend Albany as the spot for holding the fair. Judge Robertson suggested that tlie committee adjourn over until Wednesday morn ing and the Democrats voted lor it with the Republicans. After the session the Democrats discovered that this move had been ma le by direction of Mr. ITatt so as to allow the fair committee, which meets in New York today to pass reso lutions indorsing one of the bills. Collided with 11 Lamp Tost. Winthrop, Me., Feb. 12. —A serious coasting accident occurred here last rnglit. Five young men, Thomas Put nam, Walter Webb, Charles Reiuick, Ellie Martin and Ovid Howard, were sliding on an ark down High street, ar.d when near the depot collided with a lamp past with a terrible crash. Put nam was knocked insensible. Webb re ceived serious injury to his leg and a deep gash in his knee pun. Romick was insensible and apparently dead when taken up. Martin and Howard are un injured. Hitllot Reform in Jersey. Trenton, Feb. 12. —Chairman Mar tin, of the joint committee ol the legis lature appointed to draft a ballot reform bill, gives notice that the committee will meet ill the senate chamber of the siate lion-ie this afternoon immediately after the afternoon session of the senate. \t this time an opportunity will be given all persons interested to speak for and against tlie proposed bill. Earthquake in St. Eout#. •St. Louis, Feb. 12. —At 7.03 o'clock last evening two distinct earthquake shocks were lolt in this city. The dis turbance was most powerful m the southern part of the city, where many people were- so badly ;Tightened they ran into the streets. The bottles in drug stores and barrooms were sliakeu together and in some instances broken. The President Can’t Go to l*itt»biirg. Washington, Feb. 12. —Tlie President lias abandoned his proposed trip to Pittsburg. Pa., to open the Carnegie library in that city on Thursday. Feb. 13. Recent sad events here have inter fered so much with his attention to public business that he does not feel that lie can spare the time to go away for a few days to the neglect of urgent public business. Mrs. l’nrnell Appeals t*. Governor Abbott Trenton, Fab. 12.—Mrs. Delia T. Par nell last night called on Governor Ab bett and asked bis co-operation in se curing tlie passage of her pension bill now peopling in congress. The gov ernor wrote a warm letter of indorse ment and promised to write to the New Jersey congressmen in iier behalf. Joined the Strikin'* Spinner#. Nashua, N. H., Feb. 12.—The 140 em ployes in the carding room of the Nashua company joined tlie striking mule spin ners and weavers in a demand for restor ation of pay. The mule spinners and w eavers met and rejected the agents’ proposition to return to work at the re duction (lending arbitration. This makes the outlook more gloomy than ever. Cook County ltoodler* Sot Free. Chicago, Feb. 12. —Tlie Cook county Ixiodlers, ex-Commissioners Michael Wass uman. Adam Ochs, J. Van Pelt an t Michael Leyden and ex-Warden Harry Parnell finished their sentence of two years imprisonment yesterday, and were released from the Joliet peniten tiary at 4 o'clock p. fa. Redistricting Ohio. Colt; MBUS, 0., Feb. 12. — The redis tricting committee of the Democratic caucus lias completed its report. It is understood that it indorses the plan of los4. This gives tlie Itepublicans ten and the Democrats eleven of the twenty-one congressmen of the state. Tim Engineer Fatally Sea!de<l. Roanoke, Va., Feb. 12.—There was another wreck on the New river branch of die Norfolk and Western railroad. Several freight cars were destroyed. Engineer Drown was terribly and fatally scalded, and the fireman and front brakeman were seriously hurt. Tlie Cronin Juror Jlrlber.. Chicago. Feb. 12. —The trial of the men charged with attempting to bribe the Cronin jury, was begun in Judge Waterman’s court. In the absence of John Graham, the chief defendant, who is reported to have lied to Mexico, the j court adjourned until Wednesday. Notwithstanding Hi# Elf© Long Pall. Milwaukee, Feb. 12. Congress man Van Schaick announces that he will retire from political life at the end of his current term in congress, al though he has a life long puli in his district. Decline# an Increase of Salary. Pittsburg, Feb. 12.—E. S. Morrow, city controller, declines a proposition to increase his salary from $4,0u0 to $6.0U0 a year. He says the office is not worth any increase MORMONSCRYFRAUD Badly Beaten in the Municipal Election at Salt Lake. THE GENTILES WILD WITH JOY. Tlie Most Memorable Election in the History of Utah Result* in a Gentile Victory —The Saints Feel Sore ami Their Adversaries Indulge In a Jollifi cation. Salt Lake City, Feb. 12.—The muni cipal election yesterday passed off quietly. The city was crowded with special police detectives and deputy United States mar-dials fOA ,teu‘ purpose of preventing illegal voting, which, each party claimed that the other would re sort to. It w;is feared that an attempt to challenge and arrest voters would re sult in riot and bloodshed, hut this an ticipation was not realized: and though the excitement was so intense that half of the business houses were closed order prevailed. Rands paraded the streets anil the thoroughfares were jammed with cit izens, who realized that upon tlie re sults of the day’s battle depended the future of the Mormon church as a po litical organization. Oitly Six Arrests. The voting passed off quietly and only six arrests were made for illegal voting, and these were accompanied by no demonstration from either side. Snow began falling in the morning and continued until noon, when the sun came out melting the snow and turning tlie streets into rivers of slush. This did not deter the voters, many of whom waded through the mud to the polling places, while hundreds of carriages ran between the precinct headquarters and every part of the city, conveying voters to and from the polls. Ihe Mormons Voted Eitrly. Ily noon 3,000 votes had been cast, by which the poll books showed that about 75 per cent, of the People’s (Mormon) registered votes had lieen cast and about 50 per rent, of tlie Liberals (Gentiles.) At that hour it was estimated that the returns at the Gentile headquarters gave them a majority of 207 votes, though up to 11 o'clock the Mormons had a ma jority ranging from 200 to 300. At 5 o’clock it was estimated that the returns from every ward in the city ga,ve a total vote of 0,208. divided as follows: Gentiles, 3,443; Mormons, 2,- 855. The polls closed at 6p. in. The Lib eral leaders posted a bulletin claiming 1,200 majority. Gem He# Wild with Joy. The news spread rapidly and the Gen tiles became wild with joy. They literally took possession of the city, the Mormons retiring to their homes. Flags were run up in all directions and lan terns and fireworks illuminated the streets and buildings. Cannons boomed, lon Ores were lighted at every corner and hundreds of men inline paraded the streets with drums and torches, yelling like mad. No such scenes were ever witnessed before in Utah. Mormons Cry Fraud. The Mormons admit their defeat, but say that it w;is brought about by the most glaringly ilk-gal methods, and that the result will lie reversed by the courts. They do not think the majority shown by the returns will exceed 400. NORTH DAKOTA’S PERIL. Eminent Chicagoan. Express Solicitude Lest the New Legalise Lotteries. Chicago, Feb. 12. —Tlie following telegram signed by John R. Walsh, Chicago National bank; L. O. Gage, First Rational bank: William Penn Nixon, of The Inter-Ocean; Joseph Me dill of The Tribune; James W. Scott, of The Herald; Judge Gresham, Judge Gary, and a large numlier of other prominent business men of Chicago, was to Bismarck: Hon. John Miller, Governor, Bismarck, N. D.: The undersigned beg to ex pros# to you and through you to your legislature our deep solicitude in view of your impending peril in the astonishing consideration given the so called lottery revenue bill. We believe that instead of temporary and future relief its adoption will irrevocably fetter your state in all its financial credit and considerations and in all material prosperity. In our judgment you cannot Afford to assume the stigma of transferring to your virgin state and legaliz ing a practice so pernicious in its effect and so held in abhorrence by all good citizenship throughout the country and that in the last suite that pferforce gives it tolerance. SIX FIND WATERY GRAVES. A Towboat Sunk in the Mississippi Near Memphis. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 12.—The to v hoat Port Eads, Cnpt. Nelson Davis, of the Bt. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation company, was sunk at the site of the railroad bridge, two miles below the city. She carried a crew of about forty men, ami for a time tlie wildest rumors prevailed, tlie loss of life being placed at from twenty-five to thirty-five. It is now known that six of the crew, all colored, were lost. They are: Wil liam Hickey. watchman; Teerie Jones, Chambermaid: John McDermott, second cook; Firemen William Stewkrt and James Walker and an unknown. The only body «f> far recovered is that of McDermott Printer* Object to h Colored Girl* Washington, Feb. 12.—A handsome young colored girl named trances Flood is raising a hornet's nest in the bureau of engraving and printing, where she is at work as plate printer's assistant. She came from New- Y’ork and was recommended by Senator Hiscock. One of the plate printer-; said that the rela te nship between a printer and his as sociate were so confidential v and close that lie thought all of them should have a choice in their assistants. He thought everv printer in tlie office would walk out if the authorities insisted upon hav ing Miss Flood among them. A M- tlnwil.l University. Washington, Feb. 12.—The Past iui nounces that tlie Methodist church in tends to found a national university in tins city, and that arrangements are making” for the purchase of a ninety acre tract of land on the lenallytown road, neir the Oakview, ex President Cleveland's country home, as - site for tlie university. liisiiop Hurst, whose residence is ill tliii city, is at the head oi ihe move 111 ut. and has paid an op- I tiou oi oi .boo on the property, which is I to be sold for *IOO.OOO. THE RUSSIAN MISSION. Editor Charles Kmoij Smith Appointed. Other I*l ares Filled. Washington, Feh. 12.—Tlie presi dent has nominated Charles Emory Smith, of Philadelphia, for minister to Russia, and Dr. Edward Ik-dloe, of Philadelphia, to lie consul at Amoy. The place of Mr. William Rood Lewis, as United States consul at Tan gier, Morocco, has been filled by the re appointment of Mr. Felix A. Matthews, who held tlie office before Mr. Lewis was sent there by Mr. Cleveland. Among other nominations are J. Fed ner lee, of Maryland, secretary of le gation at Rio Janeiro and John W. Scliall. postmaster at Norristown, Pa. Dr. De-lloe was an applicant for tin consul generalship at Cairo, Egypt, and it is beliavi*l lit will not accept the Amoy mission. Tlie New Minister to Russia. Mr. Charles Emory Smith, who has been appointed United States minister to Kimsia. is at present the editor-in-chief of the Phila delphia Press. Mr. Smith was born in Mans-. Held, Conn., Feb. 18, 184 J. Seven years later he removed with his pH rents to Albany, N. V. Here lie was educated in tho public schools and at the Albany academy, graduat ing from the latter in 18 »M. He graduated from Schenectady university in iMtii. When only 18 year# old he wrote leading articles for The Albany Evening Transcript and in 1885 became editor of The Albany Express. Jn he wuh appointed private secretary to Governor Reuben Kenton and in 1870 joined tho staff of The Albany Evening Journal, be coming sole editor of that newspaper in 1870. He had by this time achieved a prominent, place in the journalism and politics of the state. In 1870 lie removed to Philadelphia, becoming editor and part proprietor of The Press, since which time he has been promi nently identified with Pennsylvania politics. TWENTY LIVES LOST. Estimate of Damage Done by tlie Storm on tlie < liesapeaWe. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 12.—The storm which prevailed in this section .Satur day night and early Sunday morning proved very destructive to life and ves sels. A number of oyster ptingies were blown to sea. The sloop Golden Rule sunk in Lynn Haven inlet and ( 'up tain Andrew Jones died from exhaustion after being rescued by life saving ser vice men. The sloop Annie is missing and her crew are tliouglit to have per ished. Tlie crew of tlie sloop Wyan dotte which went ashore at Virginia beach, were rescued by the life savers, as was also the clew of tlie schooner T. M. Thomas, which sunk iu Ocrucoke inlet, near Hatteras. It is estimated that twenty lives have been lost in Chesapeake bay and vicinity during tlie storm. IraprUonect In an Icepack. New- York, Feb. 12.—The Dutch stealuCY Amsterdam, which arrived at tiiis (xirt from Amsterdam, reports that on tub. 5 site passed six icebergs appar ently 150 feet high and proportionately fiirge. When aliout six miles north of a big Held of pack ice on Fob. 5, uhe spoke tlie bjirk Oliver Emery, of St. John, N. B. The Emery reported tieing out seventy-five days from Dublin, bound for Halifax. For thirty hours she hud been imprisoned in tlie icepack and was leaking from damages sustained t<> her hull from the ice. She lost a piece of her stern, and was short of pro visions, which tlie Amsterdam supplied. Tlie Cotton Crop. Washington. Fei>. 12. —The cotton re turns of the department of agriculture for February give local estimates of tlie proportion of the crop which lias left the plantation. Ihe consolidation makes DO 4-10 per cent., leaving 9 0-10 percent, still to forward, and aliout nine-tenths of the crop lias therefore been reported in sight. The state averages are as fol lows: Virginia,‘B7; Nortli Carolma, 89; South Carolina, 90; Georgia. 90; Florida, 93; Alabama, 90; Mississippi, 91; Louisiana, 89; Texas, 92; Arkansas, 90; Tennessee, 87. Tli« first Colored Nurse. Philadelphia, Feb. 12.—Miss Minnie Hogan, a young colored womun, has just concluded a course of two years' training as a nurse at the training school of the University of Pennsylvania. She is now in tlie employ of Dr. 1). Hayes Agnew. The colored people of tlie city take great pride and interest in this the first of their race to graduate from this institution. Dlflu*t Want to Kuu Out of Cigarettes. New York, Feb. 12 William Murphy, an errand boy for John Moan, a grocer at 825 Seventh avenue, was held for trial in the Yorkville police court on a charge of larceny made by his employer. When arrested he had forty-eight packages of cigarettes in his possession, which Mr. Moan charged him with stealing. Itevislou Agaiu Rejected. San Francisco, Feb. 1 2.—The vote on the question of revision of the confession of faith, which was taken by the pres bytery of Han Francisco last October and which resulted against the revision, was reconsidered by the presbytery. The ballot again resulted against tho re vision, the vote being 27 to 22. Revision Rejected. Philadelphia, Feb. 12.—The vote on the confession of faith at the Presby terian meeting stood: For revision, 14 ministers. 9 elders; against, 2b ministers and 14 eiders. The Weather. Warmer; fair; variable winds, gen erally southerly. NUGGETS OF NEWS. Aaron McGoldrlch, of South Bethlehem. Pa., was found lyin'* on the Lehigh Valley railroad at the Bethlehem Iron works, with one leg cut off. It l# suppott. d he had been struck by a train. Count Tolstoi, tlie eminent Itussian novel ist, is dangerously ill. The Chic kies <P#.) rolling mill resumed op erations after a Jong suspension. About fifty men are employed. The senate committee on territories ordered a favorable rejert on the bill for the ad mis sion of Idaho into tlie Union. The biennial congress of the National Trot ting association convened In Bcffalo. A band of twenty-five to thirty female negro ’block cap'* in Jiarnwell county. South (.’iii diua, dragged Hattie Froze, a n egress, front her home and flogged her. The victim had failed to uxuressdisapproval of the lynch ing of the negroes at Barnwell court house. The Chicago presbytery voted in favor of rev sioi: of the confession of faith. Tbl gos eminent has decided to sentence tho Luke of Orleans to two years' imprison uiciiL after which he will be pardoned and exiled. OIL SUCCEEDS SNOW Lubricating the Lumber Slides in Northern Pennsylvania. THE LOGGING INDUSTRY SUITERS. The Unseasonable Weather Cripples the Lumbermen and Will Advance Trices of Timber, of Which *550,000,000 Feet Are Still in the Woods—Pennsylvania’s Forest# Nearly Kxhau#ted. Williamsport, Pa.. Feb. 12.—1 n thu lumber regions of northern Pennsyl vania a curious expedient has been re sorted to for the purpose of getting the logs out of the woods. Hundreds of barrels of crude oil have lieen sent to the camps and this fluid poured over the “slides.” This was intended to take the place of snow. Logs can only begotten t > the market over slippery paths, so when there was no snow or ice they gleased the mountain slides, but in spite of that the vast lumber’in terests of the state have suffered to a serious extent from this uiild winter. Tlie snow that fell Friday gave the ltimiH'r princes of Williamsport and tho idle camp men a gleam of hope. The thaw immediately succeeding knocked out all this hope. A snow would have to fall a good week and be maintained by thirty days of freezing weather to bring into the streams the lumber now lying in the forests. A New >eh«m<i» This is tho first time that crude petro leum lias been used to lubrn ale the slides to any extent. Some of the slides are twelve miles long, starting away back on the summit of a mountain and rounding through the passes; in some Instances shooting up one hill and down another in a series, of inclines. The momentum the logs gather with dis tance sends thorn along with a furious rate of speed, and the crude oil has been found not to wear off for nearly a week. At tho upward incline horses are hitched to the last log. and by pulling this pushes possibly thirty logs in front, so easy does the petroleum make the slide. Last week’s snow caused a sensation in Williamsport. Thuso figures will tell why. There are today 25ti.900,000 feet of timber lying in the woods which ought to have been in the booms of Williamsport by this time. In other words, Feb. 1 lias usually seen that won derful amount of timlier lying in the river here, and much of it iu the mills being finished for the market. This forest blockade is worth millions of dollars. Tho logs as they lie felled are worth $1.50 per 1,000 feet far hemlock and from sll to sls for pine. Five Tlioumi»d Idle. Twenty different firms of this city are suffering from the blockade, while 5,090 wood cutters In the camps are idle, drawing no pay. In addition to all this there art scores of sawmills, port able and stationary, up through the forest counties which huvy been shut down most of the winter because they could not get the logs from the woods. This would add Lens of millions of feet to the above figures. For instance, A. C. Hopkins, of Lock Jlaven, has 31.- 000,000 logs lying in Elk and CJlearfleld counties. Thus far he has only been able, with the aid of greased slides, to get enough timber down into Sinnaiua honing creek to form 30 rafts, and even sinco he has hud them there, there has not been water enough to liring them into tire west branch of the Susque hanna. Cochran, l’ayne & McCormick, and Deemer & Co., of Williamsport, are the largest operators in the state. Mr. J. O. Payne said: '‘There is not more than 50,000,000 feet on the river in the neigh borhood of Williamsport. This is loss than a fifth what we usually have on hand at this season of the year As it will require at letist one month of con tinuous cold weather to get the 250,000,- 000 feet of logs out of the woods, and as this is already late in February, it begins to look doubtful whether we will have large stocks on hand this summer. II Will A fleet Frlrea. “Of course I think this will affect market prices for Philadelphia lutnlier. Tlie very fact that we have had to go to so much trouble to get out wliat little we now have must make a difference on prices. ” Just to what extent prices for lumber will increase cannot, of course, be de finitely stated. There has been a good demand all along, but not enough to in dicate a famine. Yet ail these facts are worth weighing when people begin to figure on tlie next building season. Were the roads good they could lie utilized largely by the woodsmen in hauling lumber wagons, but Gen. Co bum, of Bellefonte, says that by the time the state legislature rebuilds the Cublic roads in Pennsylvania there will eno lumber to haul. And that ii nos very long, either, he says. He allows six years yet for the exhaustion cf Penn sylvania forests. Curious Question, for the Courts. Ebenkbukg, Fa., Feb. 12.—Who died first, husband or wife? That is tho question raised in several contested will cases growing out of the Johnstown Hood. It is going to be a mighty hard problem to settle. Investigations into the books of the orphans’ court of Cam bria county give some intensely inter esting results. Nearly three Hundred estates have been taken Iteforo that tpi bunal since the deluge for settlement, hi most of the cases the wills were lost, and in many instances heise perished simultaneously with tho testators. In Johnstown today it is easy to find wills extant involving personal property, but no such property remains, property, but no wills; wills, hut no legal heirs; heirs, I sit neither will nor property. Th. C.ru.al. l.ihritry. Pittsburg. Feb- 12. —A’t the meet ing of city councils an ordinance providing for the acceptance from An drew Carnegie, Esq., of a free library was introduced. In his letter Mr. Car negie offers to expend not less than *1,000,000, and proposes a central li brary building with four or five branches located in various parts of the city. Mr. 1 t :arnegie requires that the city will con tribute not less th m $40,000 i»er annum to the support of the libraries. If© Tr**a«:li©«l for Slaty Years. W aynlkbi'Ko, Feb. 12.—Eider David White, who died at his home in Oak Forest, this county, had preached the gospel regularly for nearly sixty years and had preached several times within the last year. He was horn ;ind raised jn Greene county, and was a contein borary of Alexander Campbell, whose doctrine he armored to. PLYMOUTH TRIBULATIONS. Tile Rival Polish and Hnngartan Can fresattsm SKII In Turmoil. Wilkesrarre, Pa., Fob. 12. Tho Poles held a meeting in the Willow Street church, at Plymoutli. The new pastor, Kev. Father Szaimanski, pre sided and Martin Wilkes, the ringleader of the late troubles there, wanted to act os t rustee, but the priest said ho would he his own trustee and treasurer, too. Hearing this WilUee and a dozen of his followers left tho church. Tho faithful remained and paid the priest over fIOO for current expenses. The Hungarians held another meeting in the Girard Avenue Catholic church. They resolved ts pay Rev. Father Kosalko no mono money. They want a different priest. Kev. Father Kosalko foresaw this state of affairs about two weeks ago when he went to Scran too and tendered his resignation to Right Rev. Bisliop O’Hara. ,lt seems the re signation was not accepted, for the priest returned. How the trouble is gomg to he settled remains for the fu ture to develop. HE DOCTORED THE BOOKS. A Cairtiler Ui«n Hank l'wtwl* for lluiinmM Speculation. Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 18.—Ellis Bard, cashier of the Lincoln National hank at Lincoln, this county, is a defaulter to the extent of $25,000. The peculations have extended over a considerable period, and the money was used to as sist an Ephrata firm. An investigation of the link's ailairs is now in progress. No arrests have been made. third, who is a young man, has no means of his own, hut his bondsmen are liable for #BB,OOO, which amount will probably cover Hie deficit. Tho de faulter is not believed to have profited bv the roblery, the whole amount hav ing been swallowed up in the business of thu Ephrata firm, where large sums were loHt. The directors of tho hank claim to Iwvvo been deceived by Bard, who doctored the tsjoks and advanced large sums without their knowledge. Bard has resigned his position, but no criminal steps have yet boon taken against linn. The bank is doing busi ness us usual, ami President Nissley rays H cap meet fIU demands. A RwSagkt’n SuleUls. Sccttuaak, Ply, Feb. 12. Hubert Kusegeu, a Germain of Beaver Kails, Pa., committed suicide here last night. By means of a raaor he butchered himself in a horrible manner, lie cut a deep gash iu his threat, two in each arm and one in eacli leg. fie is lielieved to have lieen slightly demented, but his letters to the public are well worded and dem onstrated that he was an educated man. He ciuno hero about a week ago ami se cured work in the Kenney foundry. He is believed to lie a Socialist, as in one of his letters addressed to the public he says his I wart is full of liberty, and rather than be a slave for either his friends or enemies he would die. He leaves a widow and three children wiio reside at Beaver fjalls. Tb# Caiupslgu In ftinlly'* IHstrlct. Philadelphia, Feb. 12.—William H. Ayres, the Democratic candidate for congress in the Heurth district, is mak ing a vigorous fight against John E. Reyburn, his Republican competitor. Mr. Ayres leeis confident of polling a larger vote than any 1 icmocratic, candi date in the district and says he is cer tain the opposition will lie surprised at the inroads lie will make into their ranks. l'ow<l«rl> 11 an CaliiHcUaa Arr«ate<L SooTTDAUC, Fa., Feb. 12.—Hon. Ed ward Callaghan wan arretted here on , Grand Master Workman Powderly’s warrant for criminal libel. Sheriff Kranbar, of Scranton, made the arrest. Hail was not asked, its Mr. Callaghan as sured the sheriff that he would !x> at Scranton for a hearing on March 2. Mr. Powderly wants SIO,OOO damages, ( ' lie Chloroformed Hln Victims. Oil City, Pa., Feb. !2.—Samuel D. Wnyman, wanted at Springwater, N.Y., on three indictments for chloroforming and robbery, was Arrested hero by Sher iff Hampton, of Genesee, N. Y. He is now in the Venango county jail await ing requisition pa|>ers. Miss Guild, a maiden lady of Livingston county, N. Y., was one of his victims. Draining Floutlctl Mines. PornmLLK, Pa., Feb. 12.—Prepara tions are being math; to drain the Eber vale coal mines, which have been drowned out for some time, by driving an immense tunnel. The tunnel will extend from the mines to the foot of Buck mountain, a distance of 11,500 yards and will oi>on into the Sutler val ley. THE MARKETa Price* on the Stuck, Produce and Pe troleum Kxchangeil. PaiUDO,rau, lfeb. 10. The market was doll Pennsylvania was quiet, but strung, heading declined. The preferred income bond* were steady. Lehigh Valley and Lehigh Navigation were firm. Following were the closing bids: Lehigh Valley Itending g. m. 45.. 0094 N. I’ae. com Mhi Heading Ist pf. 6s. 0094 N. Pac. pf 7b Heading 3d pf. ss. 5094 Pennsylvania .. WH Heading 3d pf. ss. 4194 He;ulii,g .... ASAi ii.andlLT.com. 17 Lehigh NaV 806 H. ami K. T. pf. 44 St. Paul » W. N. Y. and P.. 394 New York Produce Market. Nww VoltK. 7. State and western Aeur steady; moderate demand; low extras, city rw*ir $4.35®L45. city mills patcHts. yaavft-hhx Wheat No. 3 red, dull; Vi@Mc. lower and weak; February. S4»«c.: March, i&Hc.; April, 8614 c.; Ma*’, June, 8594®<*c.: July, 54)40.; August. S4M*®o4 7-16 c.; September, 84>evd October, *794®=: 5-l#c. Hye—Steady; slate, 57©80c.; western, 50® the. Barley- Quiet: state, 33@58c.; western, 4«® «Bc.; Canadian. 50®76c. Corn—No. 3 weak; Lye. lower and fairly ac tive; mixed western, 3u®3794c. Oats -No. 3 in moderate demand and easier; state, 3714®Lc.; western, 37®3.V;.; February, 38'4c.: March, *3 3-10 c.: April, 3794 c.; May, 3714 ®3?Hc. Beef Dull; pkite, }7.75®5; extra mess, s7® 7.3 b. Pork Quiet and Arm; new mess, $10.75 ®1I; old mess, extra prime, $0.35®0.75. laird -Quiet and Arm; steam rendered, $0.30. Butter - Quiet and steady-, state dairy, 0® 17c.; state creamery, H&3Jc.; western dairy, 8®17c.; western creamery, 12®2796c. Kggs Steady and quiet; state and Penn sylvania, 14&14V4C-; western, 13J4®14c.: south ern, Ki®s4c.; limed, lOSslle. The (HI Market. PbiladeiJuiia. Feb. 10.—Oil opened at $1.071v and closed at $1.00',4- Pittsbuiui. Feb. 10.—Dali but steady. Mar ket opened at 51.07. touched $1.0794. declined to $1.0094, and at soon $1.07 was hid. NO. 42-