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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
VOLUME XVI.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
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Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
]|jß. «. P. CAMPBELL
DENTIST.
AloDonocgh Ga.
Any one desiring work done can 1)0 ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing mo through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Gao W. Bryan j W. T. Dicken.
lIKYA > A DICKER)
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-lv
JA*. 11. TlIlSAI.fi, 0
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court <1
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl 6-1 y
J. P.EAGAiH,
ATTORNEY' AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
othercollections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J F. WALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
givin to collections. octs-’79
A. BROIYiI,
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in ail the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
JJ A. PEEPLES
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, 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. Spec#l aud prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. Sti. .. art. | R.T. Daniel
STEWART A DAHIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
JOHN L. TYE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Practices in ihe State aud Fedctal Courts.
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NORTH, SOUTH,
EAST AND WEST.
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TIBULE SLEEPERS
BETWEEN
ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE
MACON & CHATTANOOGA
BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA
WITHOUT CH * NGIX
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TANOOGA WITH THROUGH
TRAINSAND PULLMAN SLEEP
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Memphis end the West,
at Knoxville with Palliuiin
Sleepers tor
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Georgia .Midland A Gull'll, It.
SOUTH.
Leave McDonough 7:00 a. m
Arrive Greenwood 7.27 »
“ Louella 7:25 “
“ Griffin 8:05 “
NORTH.
Leave Griffin 4:00 p. m
Arrive Louella 4;40 “
“ Greenwood 4:48 “
“ McDonough 5:05 «•
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ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbuckle’s 19.60 18 100 lb.
cases Lion 19.60 c; Levering’s 19.60 c. Green-Ex
tra choice 20c; choice good 19c; fair 18c;com
mon iBJjC. Sugar—Granulated sc; oil granu
lated —c; powdered 5%c; cut loaf 5%C; white
extra C 4,'ac: New Orleans yellow clarified
i/c; yel.ow extra O 4c.' Syrup—New
Orleans choice 4S@SO; prime 35@40c; common
tation " VU6i25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green
40@60c. Nutmegs 65@70c. Cloves 25(2'30c.
Cinnamon 10@12>Jc. Allspice 10@llc. Jamai
ca ginger 18c. Singapore pepper 14c; Maco
SI.OO. Rice fair 7%c; good 6%c: common
OVaOd '; imported Japan 6 @7e
Salt—Hawley's dairy $1 50; Virginia 70e.
Cheese—Full cream, Cheddars 1 gL'r: flats
13o; White fish, half bbl-. 54 00; pails 00c-
Soaps—Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs f 3 00a 3 75;
turpentine, 60 bars, (10 lbs, $225 a 25) ;
Candles —I’»ratine 12c; star Matches—
400s $4 00; 300 s $3 00a3 75: 200 s $2 00a> 75; 60s,
sgross £3 75. Soda—Kegs, bulk sc; do 1 lb pkgs
sVje; cases, 1 lb 5%e, do 1 and ‘ Jibs Bc, do l /.lh
6)4<!■ Crackers—XXX soda 634<‘; XXX butter
XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell uml excelsior
7c;lemon cream 9c; XXXginger snaps 9c; corn
hills 9c. Candy— Assorted stick 6%0', French
mixed 12%c. Canned goods—Pond used milk
$6 00a8l)0; imitation mackerel $3 95;.4 00; sal
mon $6 00a7 50: F. W. oysters .#1 75a ; L.W.
$125; corn $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $l6O.
Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl 4c; lump
sc; nickel packages $3 00; celluloid $5 00.
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 OOal 40; ciuarts
$1 50al 80. Powder—Rifle, kegs $5 50; J 4 kegs
$3 00; J 4 kegssl 65. Shot $1 70 per sack.
Flour, <«ruin and Meal.
Flour —First patent $5 75; second patent
$5.25 ; »xtra fancy $4.75 ; fancy $4 50; family
$3 50@$4 00. Corn—No. 1 white 65j.
No. 2 white 64 \ mixed 63c. Oats—
Mixed 42a—o; white 44c; Kansan rust
proof 53c. Hay—Choice timothy, large bales,
95c; No. 1 timothy, bates, 90c; ch--ice
timothy, small l)ale«, 95c; No. 1 timothy, small
bales. 92%e: No. 2 timothy, small bales, 85c.
.Meal—Plain 62c ; bolted 59c. Wheat bran—
Lar«e sacks 95c; small sacks 97>£c. Cotton
peed meal—sl 10 per cwt. Steam feed—sl.Bs
nerewt. Grits—Pearl $3.15.
Country Produce.
Eggs 14<©15c. Butter—Western creamery
23%a35c; choice Tenness* e 18a20c; other grade t
10a12%c. Live poultry—Turkeys 10(®13%c per
lb; liens 32a33c; young chickens
large 25a30c ; small spring 20a30c. Dressed
poultry—Turkeys 18a20e; ducks 15il6o; chick
ens 15alG. Irish pxatoee, 7v’@7sc i>er bu.
sweet potatoessl.lsal.2sper bu. Honey—Strain
ed Baloc ;in the comb 10al2c. Onions $3 50a
40Jperbbl. Cabbage—Green Florida 2%@3c.
‘per lb. Louisiana 2a2>g.
Provision*.
Cleai* rib sides, boxed iee-enred bel
lies Bc. Sugar-cared hauis Hal3c, according
tobranland average; California 8c; break
fast baron l ard—Pure leaf —c; leaf
7%; refined non -.
i Codon.
Market firm. -Middling 6 16-15 c.
CRASHED TOGETHER.
Fearful Wreck on the “Cotton Belt”
Road—Sine Lives Lost.
Dcta Is of a fatal hen i end c dlision on
the Cotton B It railroad reached St.
Louis at au early hour Saturday morning.
The accident resul ed in the immediate
death of nine persons and the serious in
juring of twenty others, some of whom
wi-1 probably die. The cilision occurred
at 7 o’clock Friday night 350 in ies south
of St. L- uis between the stations of
Humphreys and Golde', in Arkansas. It
was caused by the crew of an irregular
passenger t,ai« disobeying orders, and,
as a lesult, the engine of the passeuger
train ran into the engine of the
frieight. AII of the e rs of the pissen
ger train were thrown from tiie track and
up (t. Tne mines of the dead are H 9 fol
low'-. Mis Octave Anderson, Anurilln,
Tex.; William CLrystd, of Dent -n, fi x ;
J. T. Sanderson, of Pierce City, Mo ;
Mrs R. 11. Ciark, of Winchester, Tenn. ;
If. 1). C’rora tor., of Nashvi le, Tenn.;
Mrs. A. M. Menson, of Alabami; Jun.'s
Morgan, of Memphis. Tenu.; Fnnk
Nichols, fireman oi freight.
POLK’S WILL DECLARED VOID
And His Estate Will be Sold for Equa
ble Division.
A Nashville dispatch of Tuesday says:
The will of cx-President James K. Polk
lias been declared invalid, and his home
place, with his historic mansion and
tomb, being about one acre in the center
of the city, will be sold and the proceeds
divided anions fifty or more heirs at law,
who are scattered from New Yo-k to
California. President Polk, although a
fine lawyer, attempted to cstabi'sh a per
nctuity, and left his place to the state iu
tiust for the use of the most deserving of
the Polk family, and on this ground the
wiil was set aside. The place is worth
$50,000
Germany Against Bimetallism.
The London News’ Benin correspond
ent says: “In financial circles here the
belief prevails that the international sil
ver conference will have no satisfactory
lesults GermaDjg will only accept the
invitation because she does not desire to
hold aloof from the other power-. The
government and the reichstng have al
wiys bee'- ""rFMoJ to bim-tailism
Boston proposes to take half of a’l
earnings of its street railways above
par cent, r .. .
M’DONOUGH. GA.. FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1892.
NATIONAL CAPITAL,
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD— BILLB AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTE 3.
THE ROUSE.
Thursday. —lu tho house the third
party received recognition Thursday
morning, and Mr. Watson seat up to tho
clink’s desk and had read this terso reso
lution, “That the committee on ways
and means be requested to report the
subtreasury bill ” He naked unanimous
consent for its consideration, but Mr.
Beltzhoovet's demand for the "regular
order" operated as an objection.
After a fruitless call of the committee
the house went into c minittee of the
whole, Mr. L ster, of Georgia, in the
chair. After several attempts to emend
the bill had failed the chair delivered
his decision on the point of order made
against the amendment offered by
Mr. Bland of Wednesday for the
coinage of all silver bullion pur
chased, and now in the treasury, into
standard silver dollars, the cost of coin
age to be paid out of the seigniorage or
gain to the government the remainder of
the seigniorage covered into the treasury.
It was conceded, said the chair, that the
umendmeut changed the existing law,
and therefore it would not be io order,
unless, being germane, it reduced the
amount covered by tho bill. The clause
in the bill related to the recoinage of
abraded minor coins, and the amend
ment was germane to the subject
matter of the clause. Did it teduce
amounts covered by the bill? The
mere fact that it struck fiorn the bill
the appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the re
coinage of minor coins did not reduce
the amount because it appropriated the
seigniorage, which might amount to
$2,000,000. It did not reduce the
amount covered by the bill and might
increase the expenditures. He sustained
the point of order aud ruled out the
amendment. Mr. Bland then re-offered
his amendment with the proviso attach
ed to it, “That the cost of this coinage
shall -not exceed $95,000 —$5,000 of
which shall be for the coinage of tub
Bi liary silver, and $90,000 for tho stand
ard silver'dollar.” At ihe conclusion of
another long debate the chair said that
he had heard nothing to change his
opinion that the amendment was not
germane, and he, therefore, ruled the
amendment, as modified, out of order.
Mr. Blaud appealed from the decision,
but the committee sustained the decision
of the chair by a vote of 120 to 75. Mr.
Cogswell, of Massachusetts, offered an
amendment appropriating $1,016,445 for
continuing the work of the eleventh cen
sus. In n standing vote the amendment
was defeated by a large majority. The
committee then arose and the house ad
journed.
Friday. —Once more Mr. Watson, of
Georgia, attempted to secure considera
tion of the resolution requesting the
ways and moms committee to report tho
subtreasury bill in the house Friday, and
once more the demand for the “regular
order” operated as an objection. After
the call of committees for reports, the
house went iuto committee of the whole,
with Mr. Lester, of Georgia, in the chair,
on the sundry civil bill. After several
amendments had been rejected with little
debate, Mr. Dickerson, of Kentucky,
moved to strike out the appropriation of
$150,000 to enable the secretary of wnr
to complete the establishment of tho
Chickamauga and Chatanooga Nation
al park. This also was lost, Mr.
Dickerson and Mr. Compton being the
only members who had anything to say
in its favor, while it was vigorously op
posed by Mr. Pickier, of South Dakota;
Mr. Snodgrass, of Tennessee, and Mr.
McKaig, of Nebraska. The vote stood
thirty to eighty-eight. On the motion of
Mr. Cox, of Tennessee, au amendment
was adopted appropriating $11,500 for
improving grounds and fences around
the arsenal at Columbia, Tenn. Mr. Hol
man gave notice that, hereafter, the ap
propriations committee would insist that
the river and harbor contracts be provid
ed for in the river and harbor bill.
Mr. Kilgore raised a point of
order against the clause in
the bill appropriating $50,000 for
the preparation of the site and erection
of a pedestai for the statue of the late
Qen. W. T. Slurmau in the city of Wash
ington. At the conclusion of a long de
bate upon a point of order, the chairman
(Herbert) said that he would like to over
rule the point of order if he could see his
way clear to do so, but he could find no
law authorizing the appropriation, and
was constrained to suntiin the point and
rule out the clause. Mr. Henderson, of
lowa, then asked unanimous consent to
reinsert the clause, but Mr. Kilgore
objected. Mr. Henderson then gave
notice that he would call the matter
up in the bouse Saturday in the sbape
of a separate bill, and ask unanimous
consent for its consideration. Pending
further action, the committee rose
The house took a recess until 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for the consid
eration of iiriva'e pension bills.
Saturday. —ln the house Mr. McMil
lan, of Ti nnessee, from the committee on
rubs, reported a resolution that the hour
for the meeting of the house each day
shall be 11 o’clock. Adopted. The house
then went into committee of the whole,
Mr. Lester in the chair, on the sundry
civil appropriation bill. Mr. Forney, of
Alabama, offered an amendment provid
ing that the board of managers of national
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers
shall apply the excess over $5 per month
of pensions of all inmites to the support
of the home—except where an inmate has
a dependent wife, child or parent. This
gave rise to a good deal of discussion and
was vigorously opposed. In advocating
the amendment Mr. Snodgrass, of Ten
nessee, said that the pension roll, which
should be a .roll of honor, had become,
owing to the legislation of the republican
party, a roll of dishonor. Mr. Bland,
of Missouri, commented up n the
large expenditures made by the present
congress, and attributed many of them to
the legislation of the fifty first congress.
Mr. Forney’s amendment was adopted.
On motion of Mr. W. A. Stone, of Penn
sylvania, the house adopted an amend-
Bi-oti drafted at the suggestion of the
government, accounting officers to cor
ii et abuses arbiug from attempts on the
>nrt of court "lucevs to increase their
fees, the principal requirement being
bat prisoners shall be taken to the near
est judicial officer of the Ilniied States.
V number of these amendments, having
the approval of the attorney geneial and
substituting salaries for fees to a large
extent, were offered by Messrs. Sayers
und Culberson, but went over.
Monday. —The house met at 11 o’clock
Monday with less than 75 members in at
tendance, Mr. Butler, of lowa, made a
request fur the consideration of the sen
ate bill to grant a nension to ex Senator
George W. Jones, of lowa. Watsou, of
Georgia, objected Then Mr. Watson's
resolution requesting the committee on
ways and means to report the sub-treas
ury bill was adopted without objection
or debite. Mr. Watsou, having achieved
his object, withdrew his objection to the
Jones pension bill, "land, on motion of Mr.
HendersoD, of lowa, it was taken
up and passed. Mr. Kilgore was
also in attendance, and his objection
was defeated by the request of Mr.
Bryan, of Nebraska, for the consider
ation of the hill for the erection of a
pedestal for the statno to General W. T
Sherman. Mr, B ifiev, of Texas, was also
on baud with his demands for a quot um
on the private bill called up by Mr.
McKinney, of New Hampshire,and almost
three quarters of an hour elapse ! before
a quorum appeared, and the measure was
pa-sed. The floor was thou accorded to
tho committee on the District of Colum
bia. A bill giving the district eommh,
sioners authority to supervise the man
agement of all street railroad lines within
tho city was passed; also an amendent
was adopted providing for all-night ears
running at intervals of half an hour.
After passing a few more local bills, tho
house adjourned.
Tuesday.— ln the house Tuesday, Mr.
Stewart, of Texas, from the committee on
rivers and harbors, reported back the
river and harbor appropriation bill with
the senate amendments thereto, with the
recommendation that the senate amend
ments be non-coneurred in. Objected to.
The bill was referred to a committee of
the whole. The house then went into a
committee of the whole, Mr. Lester in the
chair, on the sundry civil appropriation
bill. The only action of importance wns
the decrease of the appropriation for the
Alaska boundary survey from $35,000 to
SIO,OOO. Pending further discussion the
bouse adjourned and a democratic caucus
was announced for 8 o’clock Tuesday
evening.
THE SENATE.
Thursday. —The senate resumed con
sideration of the bill exempting American
coastwise vessels, piloted by their Ameri
can masters, or by a United States pilot,
from the obligation to pay state pilots for
services not rendered. Mr. Butler op
posed tho bill in the interest of pilots in
the southern waters. He said they daily
and n-ghtly imperiled their lives to save
the property of ship owners. Mr. Butler
offered an amendment repealing such
parts of tho navigation laws as prevent
the purchase by citizens of the United
States of ships in foreign countries, nnd
their right to American registry aud to fly
the Americau flag. The amendment wns
tabled. The river and hurbor apDropria
tion bill was then taken up, and Mr. Mc-
Pherson made a mot’ion to recommit the
bill with instructions to reduce the
amount 50 per cent. Mr. Dolph
moved to lay the motion on the
table, and Mr. Dolpb’s motion was agrcod
to, The clerk procedcd with the reading
of the bill for amendment. A large num
ber of amendments reported from the
committioon commerce, a majority of
them increasing the appropriations, were
agreed to. Among them were the fol
lowing: Reducing the appropriation
for the harbor at Charleston, 8 C., from
$300,000 to $225,000. Increasing the
appropriation fur Cumberland Sound,
Ga., from $122,000 to $200,000. Re
ducing tKe appropriation for the harbor
at Savannah, (in., from $425,000 to
$318,000. Reducing the appropriation
for the harbor at Mobile, Ala., from
$350,000 to $282,500. Increasing the
appropriation for Roanoke river, N. C.,
from $15,000 to $50,000.
Friday. —After a little routine business
the senate on Friday returned the con
sideration of the river and harbor bills.
Mr. Pugh move I to take $50,000 from
the appropriation of $202,000 for Mobile
harbor and to add that sum to the ap
propriation of $150,000 for the improve
ment of B ack Warrior river. After u
long discussion, into which politics enter
ed largely, Mr. Pugh’s amendment was
agreed to. Some other minor amend
ments having been offered and acted on,
the bill was reported back to the
senate. AH the amendments agreed
to in the committee were concurred
in in gross, and the bill was passed
without division, although Mr. McPher
son remarked a few minutes afterwards
th :t he had intended to ask the yeas and
nays. A conference was asked, and
Messrs. Frye, Dolph and Hansom were
appointed conferees on the part of tho
senate. A considerab'e number of bills
were, at the request of various senators,
taken from the calendar and passed. All
were of local interest only, two or three
being public building bills. The senate
went Into executive seesiou and, at 5:20
o’clock adjourned till Monday.
Monday —fn the senate Monday Mr
Vest offered a resolution, which was laid
on the tabic for the present, discharging
the committee on finance from further
consideration of the house bill to put
wool on the freelist and to reduce duties
on woolen goods and directing the com
mittee to report the bill back to the
senate for its action thereon. The senate
bill appropriating $50,000 for an eques
trian statue of General Francis Marion,
at Columbia, B. C., was taken from the
calendar and pa-sed. The calendar was
then taken up. Among the bills passed
was the following: Referring to the court
of claims, the claim of the Citizens’ Bank
of Louisiana for specie taken from the
bank by General Butler, with an amend
ment excluding the allowance of interest.
At 2 o’clock the calendar was laid aside
and “unfinished business'’ taken up,
being the senate bill to provide for the
punishment of violations of the treaty
rights of aliens. 8- vernl speeches were
made for and against the bill. Pending
discussion the &"nate adjourned.
Tuesday. —lmmediately after opening
proceedings in the senate, Tuesday, the
Cilendar was taken tip and a large num
ber of bilia dHpoeed of. Among those
passed wore the following; Appropriat
b g $300,000 each for public buildings at
Oakland and Bau Diego, Cal.; senate bill
to submit to tho court of private land
claims the title of William McGarrahan
to liaucho Panochc Grande, Cal. This
claim aiiscs out of a grant made by
Manuel Mieheltorena, governor of Upper
California, to Vicente P. Gotut z, in 1844.
and purchased by MeGirraimi. It lias
been before congress in one shape or an
other for many years. Tho calendar was
laid aside at 3 o’clock p. tn.. and the bill
to provide for the punishment of viola
tions of the treaty rights of
aliens wns taken up, Mr. Morgan
continuing his argument in ad
vocacy of the bill. At the c'ose
of his argumout Mr. Morgan movtd
with the assent of the committee ott for
eign relations, that tho bill should go
over till next December. Debate on the
bill was continued by Messrs. Turpie,
Gray, Iliscock, George, Teller ami
others. The matter finally went over
without action. Mr. Pettigrew, from
the committee on quadri-centennial re
ported a joint resolution directing tho
president to proclaim a geueral holihty
commemorating the four hundredth an
uiversary of the discovery of America on
October 12, 1892. Placed ott the calen
dar. The senate then adjourned.
NOTES.
The senate, on Friday, confirmed tho
nomination of B. F. Carter, postmaster
at Ccdartown, Ga.
President Harrison, on Friday, pro
claimed a treaty of reciprocity with Gua
temala. It goes into effect May 30th.
Baron Fava, Italiau minister, was re
ceived in the blue room of the white
house Monday morning by President
Harrison.
There was a desultory discussion upon
the general subj ct of tariff legislation by
the renate finance committee Tuesday,
but no i ffort was made to secure action
upon any of the house tariff bills thnt arc
now on tho calendar of tho committee
It appears that there is no probability of
an early report by the committee upon
these measures.
Mr. Mitchell, from the committee on
privileges and elections, on Tuesday, re
ported to the senate a joint resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
providing for the election of United
States senators by the popular vote, lie
said that the members of the committee
were divided on the subject and would
make separate reports. The joint resolu
tion was placed on the calendar.
| [Representative Livingston, of Goorgiu,
has*made a request of the committee on
rules to get aside one or two days f.,r the
consideration of the sub-treasury bill by
the house. It will be granted. There
is a disposition among aft the members
of the house to bring the matter up and
dispose of it finally. When it does come
up, there enn be no trimming. Members
will have to show their hands as being
squarely for or against it.
The senate has made such rapid pro
gress with tire regular appropriation bills
that but two of these measures, which
have been sent to it by the house, await
the action of the senate. One of them
pension appropriation—is purposely
withheld in committee, and the other,
diplomatic and consular, it is ex
pected, will bo reported to tho sen
ate and passedjat once. The un
finished business is a bill to punish
violation of tho treaty rights of aliens,
but the consideration of this measure
tnay be further delayed by the calling up
of one of the pending special orilirs.
There are three of these orders, namely:
The silk cultural bill, the bill to fix the
compensation of United States district
attorneys and the revenue marine trans
fer b.'ll.
THIRD PARTY CONVENTION.
L. L. Polk Will Prolmbly bo Nomina*
ted for President.
The third purty in North Caroliua met
,in convention in Raleigh Monday.
Seventy-live counties were represented.
/The following wits unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this being the first reg
ularly organized, people’s party conven
tion of the state of North Carolina, we
'cannot let this occasion pass without say
ing to the people of the United States
that in the jier on of L. L. Polk, we have
the patriotic statesman, the Christian
gentleman, iD whom we have every con
fidence. His ability, integrity and pu
rity fully qualify him for any position in
the gift of the American people, and at
Omaha, Neb., in July we propose to pre
sent our valued citizen as a candidate for
the presidency.
The chairman of the executive com
mittee was directed to tako immediate
action in having tach congressional dis
trict represented at Omaha on July 4th,
and has issued an address to the people
of the state in behalf of the People’s
party. According to this address, coun
ty conventions are ordered to be held
June 11th and congressional conventions
June 10th, and former to choose dele
gates to the latter and to determine
whether they will put a county ticket in
the field. The various dietrict conven
tions will elect four delegates and alter
nates to the Omaha convention.
Tbs following are announced as having
been elected delegates from the state at
large to Omaha. Harry Skinner, T. H.
Long, Otho Wilson, George E. Hunt, A
C. Shuford, D. H. Gill, A. J. Dally, N.
N. Seawell, The alternates are: P H.
Massey, J. M. Bateman, H. Sears, C. N.
Jervis, Daniel Worth, H. H. Nichols, J.
E. Pier*< n. O I, Swinson.
NEGROES THREATEN REVENGE
For the Numerous Lynching* In Hie
South -Dynamite Discussed.
The Boston Republican printed by col
ored people in Boston, Mass., contained
an article in last Saturday’s issue to tbe
effect that certain colored men of Cam
bri ige and B-.ston, belonging to secret
societies, have for sometime b en earnest
ly discussing the numerous lynching* of
colored men in the south. According to
reports, these men have been taking les
sodb from the soeiali-t< and Ru sians or
to the making of drnsmite bombs and
other explosives, with which they pro
pose to return to the south and tako re
veo.c unless the outrages are stopped.
The men are bound together by a solemi
oath, and indignantly refute to be eland
fieri as ansrehists.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The News of Her Progress Porfrayel in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The democrats of Trimble county. lCv.,
have instructed for John G. Carlisle for
president.
Dr. J .mes H. Randolph, for a term of
years supetintondeut of the Florida insane
asylum, died iu Tallahassee Monday, nged
83 years.
N. B.Taylor, 8. L. Moore and W. I’.
Phillips, lumber ruttois, were stiuck by
lightning near Suffolk, V» , Monday, and
instantly killid.
The ninetieth annual commencement
of Salem, N. C., Female academy began
Monday with the baccalaureate sermon
by Rev. Dr. W. W. Moore, of Hampden
Syndey, Va.
A dispatch of Saturday from Dennison,
Texas, says: Rewards for the arrest an I
conviction of the murderer of the four
Dennison women the other night now
aggregate $5,000. There is as yet no
trace of the criminal.
A telegram of Friday from Raleigh, N.
C.,reports tho assassination of R D. Mc-
Cotter, cx-membor of tho legislature.
Ho was waylaid near his home in Pam
lico and shot dead. There is no clue to
tho nssnssin and no rensou for Ihe crime
as lie was a quiet citizen, a farmer aud
merchant.
A special of Monday night says a cy
clone swept through Bertie couaty, N.
C., wrecking all tho houses on Wiley
Askew’s farm. It leveled the trees on
William Pritchard’s placo. Home of tliloo
fell on his house and crushed it, killing
one of his children iustautly and broakittg
the other’s back.
Carl Matsou and W. R. Sherman were
arrested in Macon, Ga., ft few days ago
charged with counterfeiting. On Monday
Matson made a cleau breast of the affair
and took the officers three miles below the
city ard shqwed them their little mint.
The dies, metal, etc., were secured and
will be used as evidence ugninst the men.
A dispatch of Friday from Milan,Tenn.,
says: Two thousand panels of wire fence
have been cut in this county by an organ
ized gang opposed to tbo wire fcnco law,
made legal by recent legislation. Wliite
cap notices have been served on several
farmers that they will bo tarred and
feathered and if noccssary killed, if the
fencos are rebuilt.
A telegram of Surujay states that a
tunnel on tho Savaqmfc and Western
branch of the Georgia Central railroad
was discovered to be on fire Bunday.
The tunnel is near tho Coosa river, in the
Lkjnsa cool flat da, soma twanty.fivu mituv
southwest ot Birmingham. It runs
through the seam of coal, and this to
gether with the framing wns burning.
A Mobilo telegram of Monday says:
Twenty-oight mules of the Mobile street
Railway Company, affected with glan
ders, have be> u isolated and right killed.
Seven more have since taken the disease
and will probably be killed at oucj. It
may be necessary to isolate ail the well
mules, and if so traffic on the street rail
way will stop.
A Baltimore telegram of Tuesday states
that Calonel Charles Marshall, who
served on General Rob rt E. Lee’s st iff
during the late war, has been invited by
the U. 8. Grnnt post, Grand Army of the
Republic, of Brooklyn, to deliver an
oration at the Memorial Day exercises at
Grant’s tomb. Colonel Marshall has ac
ceptcd.
Advices of Friday from K'-y West,
Fla., are to the effect that Garza, Un-
Mexican bandit, is positively in that city,
but he is being kept in hiding pending
the receipt of authentic inform di n from
the Mexican government as to tho reward
for his capture. He has not been ar
rested yet, and the local officers, who
know those guarding Gurz t, refuse to
talk.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch says: 'lhe
jury in the case of Ilev. Gc< rge J . Lind
ner, on Friday, brought in a vurdiit of
guilty of obtaining money tinder false,
pretenses, and he was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. Lindner is an
alleged minister of the Christian faith,
who secured money on worthless cheeks
and panned diamond rings which he had
secured from a jeweler to show to a
young woman, to whom he wns to he
married. He was captured at Savannah,
Ga. He will be tried ott five other in
dictments.
The Atlanta paper hangera we ( out
on a strike Friday morning Horn i time
they ago arranged a scale of prices, and all
wall-paper dealers adopted it. Lately,
however,they say the dealers reduced ttre
pay, and as they failed to res tore the scale
they ordered a strike. The strikers claim
that wall paper costs the dealers < nit
four cents a roll, that their sole d
rnands ten cents and twelve and one-ball
cents a roll for hanging, and the dealers
charge customers thirty-five cents a roll
for the paper and hanging. They intend
to start a co-operative store, and will re
dues the price on wall-paper to eighte- u
cents a roll.
EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS
W'reck a Building and Causes the Death
of Several People.
At 4:35 o’clock .Saturday afternoon t”o
factory of the Etna Pyrotecnnic Com
pany at Hartford, Conn., blew up with
tremendous noise, which shook the city
and was he ird some miles in the country.
The contents of the budding flew high in
the air and were scattered in every direc
tion, some of the fragments being carried
a mile or so from the scene. J. L. B.
Sibley was at the works paying off help.
His was ihe first body taken out of the
wreck. He was apparently killed in
stantly. EmmaTarbox, Emma Tregur sa,
a widow and Maggie Copen, employes,
were found dead in the ruins, recogniza
ble only by their clothing. They were
fearfully blackened. George Z nsnthand
one woman employed there are missing,
but wid probably be found in the ruins.
A number of others were more or less se
riously hurt.
Advertising always pays, just put an
tdvertiwnaot in this paper and m
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS.
ANOTHER HOLD-UP IN FLORIDA
Train Robbers Again at Work —A Sus
pect Now in Jail Confesses.
A Jacksonville dispatch of Tuesday
says: Only one of the Monroe junction
murderers is in custody. He is in Or
lando j til and has confessed. The other
suspects are not identified, but are still
held. The authorities refuse to give tho
name of the man who has confessed and
will allow no one to see him. He has
furnished an accurate description of his
four accomplices and claims to have had
nothing to do with the killing of Saun -
ders, the express messenger, and was one
of the men who boarded the locomotive.
TIIET TRY IT AO A IN.
A Gainesville special Tuesday says:
“Alfred Davis, engineer of the swith en
gine at tile Savannah, Florida and \\ cs
tern yard, was held up by two white men
Tuesday morning at 2 o’clock. They
first made inquiries about the departure
of trains. Then they asked wheiher or
n .t tho train robbers had been caught
and what was known of them. Then
placing their pistols close to Davis’s head
they demanded all be had, which they
took from him. One wanted to kill him,
saying, ‘Dead men tell no tales.’ The
other objected, but ordered Davis to walk
off. Davis’s pistol was in the cab and no
one was down there at the time except
tho night telegraph operator, who finally
came up town and told a policeman, but
the policeman refused to leave his beat,
to notify the sheriff, so nothing was
known of it until morning. Both mon
were white and answered very closely
the published description of the Monroe
junction train robbers. The authorities
are searching for them with a vengauce.
PASSES FOR THE EDITORS.
Further f'ourlMiM Extended the Geor
gia \\ eekly Editors by Hie Railroads.
Mr Ch rles D. Barker, correspon dog
secretary of the Georgia Weekly Press
Association, nnnounci s that in addition
to courtesies secur d for members from
Colonel B. W. Wrenn, of the East Ten
nessee road, Colonel I). G. Edwards, of
the Queen and Crescent route, has ten
dered the use of his road from Meridian
to New Orleans, or Shreveport, La.
From either point connections cun bo
made with the Texas Pacific railway,
which lias tendered through their
general r agent, Hon. G"ston
Mealier, the use of their road to Ei Paso
Texas, a distance of 1,200 miles more.
It seems now that tho Mi xiean roads will
not extend court, sics. This being the
case, au effort will be made to secure
transportation from roads extending into
southern California or Colorado. Mem
bers going on the exeu s on should notify
the secretary at once. Roads in Georgia
will uudoubted y furnish passes to Romo
to inembeis not having some and the sec
retary wi 1 secure such if notified in t pie.
ANOTHER LEVEE BREAKS.
The Most Serious that T as Yet Oc
curred this Season.
A New Orleans dispatch says: A crev
asse occurred at 8 o’clock Sunday i ight
on the Fester place, three mi'es below
College Point. I bis is regarded as the
most serious break that ims s> fir oc
ctirrcd in the levees of the lower Miss s
sippi ibis season. The water from it will
oveiflow a large part of St John the B'p
tist’s parish, and greatly damage the Mis
sissippi Valley railroad. The crevasse
was caused bv a crawfish hole. At ten
o'clock Monday night ihe break waa
forty feet wide. There is no material on
band to repair the dam g \ and it is
hardly possible that anyih ng can be
done. Aid is being telegraphed for in
eveiv direction.
ANOTHER LEVEE BREAKS.
The Most Serious that Bus Yet Oc
curred this Season.
A New Orleans dispatch says: A crev
asse occurred at 8 o’clock Sunday night
on the Kesrcr place, three miles below
Collego Point. 'lbis is regarded as the
most serious break that has so far oc
curred in the levees of the lower Missis
sippi this season. The water from it will
overflow a large part of St. John the Bip
tist’s parish, and greatly damage the Mis
sissippi Valley railroad. The crevasse
was caused by a crawfish hole. At ten
o’clock Monday night the break was
forty feet wide. There is no material on
hand to repair the dam ge, and it is
hardly possible that anyth ng can be
done. Aid is being telegraphed for in
every direction.
THE GLENN TAX BILL
Has Been Forestalled In so Far as It
Affects the Columbus Southern R. It.
The case of the Columbus Southern
road brought to test the constitutionality
of the Glenn railroad .ax bill, in which
the supreme court of Georgia de
cided against the railroad and it
favor of the people of the State, has gone
to the supreme court of the Unite!
States. There is involved in the result to
the people of the state ov r three huudn d
thousand dollars a year, which the peo
ple will save if the act be sustained l.v
that court. Hon. W. C. Glenn, formerly
of Whitfield county, now of Fulton, the
author of the bill, is a candidate for at
torney general of Georgia.
BLAISE FOR PRESIDENT.
He Will Get the Republican Nomi
nation if He Will Accept.
A special dispatch of Monday from
Washington says: Uule‘B .Mr. Blaine
wiiteß a !e ter, p sitively refusing to ac
cept the nominution, he will be ihe re
publican nominee for president. That is
as definitely fixed as anything political
can be, and the possibilities of his de
clining are almost infiaitesim d. The
thing i«, ind"ed. fixed. A senator who
is in a position to know, if the future
can be foretold, is reported as saying that
there was no longer any di.ub’ about the
republican nomination.
Will Benefit Orange Growers.
AWa hington dispatch says: Sena’or
Pasco, of Florida, submitted in ih- sen
ate Tuesday, a proposed amendment to
the agricultural appropri tio i bill appro
priating $5,000 for conducting an invest
igation of riiserses of the orang- and
ot* er citrus fruit t ees, and their cause,
and for eaperimeotiog as to their euro.