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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. VOLUME XVI. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. DoYaI Baking 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. THE m jr* 'ntWOtlfiW^ East Teen,, Virginia anil Georgia Ry. SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAN'S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS BETWEEN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA WITHOUT CH * NGIX Direct Connections at Chat TANOOGA WITH THROUGH TRAINSAND PULLMAN SLEEP ERS TO Memphis end the West, at Knoxville with Palliuiin Sleepers tor WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, B.W. WRENN, CHAS. N. K4CHT aj*., a. g. r, a. XNOXVTI.I.B. ATIAJTTA 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 «• M. E GRAY. Sup’t 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.