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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
VOLUME XVI.
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
jjH, S. P. CAMPBELL,
DENTIST.
MoDonovqb Ga.
Any ono desiring work done can 1)0 ac
commodated either by calling on me In per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Gxo W. Bar ah | W.T. Dicksn.
BRYA.H A DICHKII,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, t he Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
| AS. 11. TI'RYER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl6-ly
j; J. REAGAN,
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. Offiue 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
given to collections. octs-’79
A. BROWN,
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in ali the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
j j A. PEKPI.ES,
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. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, 0«t 8, 1888
Jno. D. Ste.. akt. j R.T. Daniel.
STEWART A BANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Grieein, Ga.
JOHN L. I’VE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Hank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts,
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M K GRAY.
THE BRIDGE COLLAPSED
Anti Forty-three Men Hurled to Their
Death.
A Cincinnati dispatch says: One of
the most fearful accidents in the history
of this vicinity was that of the fall
Wednesday of a bridge which was in
course of construction over Licking river,
between Covington and Newport, Ky.
Forty five workmen were on the struc
ture. So far a 9 is known only two es
caped unhurt. Others were either killed
by the crushing of iron and timbers or
wero drowned in the water. The cause
of the accident is surmised to be the
weakening of the wooden false work
The high river had washed out the earth
about the supports, and it is claimed that
one of the contractors said a day or two
ago that he was afraid the structure
would not stand under the weight of the
heavy material. Wednesday a force of
forty-throe men wero engaged in putting
in place the heavy iron work on the main
span. Suddenly there was a cracking
sound of breaking timbers, a swaying of
the structure and the headlong plunge of
the whole mass into the muddy waters of
Licking river fifty feet below. It was
almost like the foundering of a ship.
Very few forms were to be seen strug
gling on the surface, the others were
drowned or crushed by the material. In
a short time the river was lined with
rescuing parties on both sides. Tho
bodies of the following were recovered:
Richard Gorman, Covington; Thomas
Burke. Ohio; William Hartner, Jeffer
sonville, Ind.; John O’Neal, Covington;
Cbaries Schampor, Robert Baird, Cleve
land; Thomas Downing, Newport; Dick
Spooner, Newport; Fred Brent, Cincin
nati; Charles Deveneck, Newport; James
Johnson, George Burge, N. W. Burton,
Dennis Harlow, B. F. Phelps, C. F.
Pa£fenbach,B. Thomas, Pittsburg. Those
missing are:
Frank Muir, Charles Farro, William
Barton, William Alvis, Harry Kramer,
G. E. Sheehan, B. Krantz, Ed Nolan,
Ed Sullivan, Dan Brinkley, Pat Murray,
J. J. Murray.
Andrew Baird, Cleveland; William
Wilson, inspector; John Phillips, New
port; Elmer Barber, W. D. Robe, IleDry
Oliver were fatally injured.
Three of the men were only slightly
hurt and two escaped without a scratch.
The bridge was being built by a Cleve
land, 0., syndicate which has in view
the building and operating of the Belt
electric line of street cars in Covington
and Newport, in connection with the
Cincinnati line. It crossed the river at
Twclth street, Covington, and was to be
used for vehicles and foot travel as well.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
'Die Iml nst ri nl Development in the
Week Ending June lMtli.
The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tennessee, in
its review of the industrial situation in the
South for tho week ending June 18th, states
that the reports received from its correspond
ents throughout the Southern States are gene
ra ly encouraging. The confirmation of the
agreement to consolidate the large mining in
dustries in Tennessee and Alabama has been
announced during tho week, th» furnaces and
mines throughout, the South are mostly in full
operation, slid the active development of the
textile industry, before reported, continues on a
large scale.
The amount of tho damage caused by tho re
cent floods, and rains in the Mississippi val'ey
is now generally known. The first feeling of
docouragement seems to have passed away, and
there is a general belief that increas' d prices
fo.- cotton will do much to offset the pecuniary
losses which have been sustained.
Fifty-eight new industries are reported as (B
tablbhed or incorf orated during tlie week, to
gether with four enlargements of manufacto
ries, and eleven important new buildings.
Among the new indtisirics reported are a $150,-
000 brewery at Birmingham Ala., brick and tile
wot ks to cost <65,000 at Columbia, 8.C., and
others at Houston, Tex., and Keyser, W. Va.,
canneries at Mil brook, 8. C., Memphis, Tenn ,
and Petersburg, Va., a <50,000 cotton compress
at Mineola, Tex., and cotton gins at (told Hill,
Ala.. Jackson, Ga., and Bethel anil Lancaster,
Tex. Electric lighting plants will be estab
lished at Cleveland, Tenn., and Front ltoyal,
Va., a SIO,OOO excelsior factory at Bessemer,
Ala., a 200 barrel flouring mill at Decatur, Tex.,
and one at Miltbrook, 8. C., a harness factory at
Atlanta, Ga., and an ice factory at Eastman,
Oi. A lock factory is reported at Florence,
Ala., engine works at Knoxville, Tenn., and
machine shops at Atlanta, Ga., and Hart-ell’s,
Ala. Iron mluos are to be op ned at Bow
el , Ala, Oxford, N. C- and llosn.y, Va., a
brown stone quarry near Chittnnooga, Tenn..
s phosphate c .mpatiy with <3,000,000 lias been
rharte e i at Ocala, Fla,, and a rice mill of 200
barr Is daily capacity will be built at Westlake,
la., a $400,0(10 cot ton and woolen mill at Mar
ble Fal 8, Texas, and new cotton mills at Co
lumbus. Ga., Shelby, N. C., Gaffney City, 8 C.,
Memphis, Tenn., and Houston, Texas, a tobacco
factory at Nashville, Tenn., a furmtnre fac
tory at Loudon, Tnn , and a lumber com
pany at Elizabeth City, N. C. A planing mill
will"be built at Cordeie, Ga., saw mills at War
! ren, Ark., Blythe,Miss.. Dyer.-burg and Loudon,
; Tenn., Hid Grove, Va., and Coketon, West
: Virginia. saw and shingle mills at
New Orleans, L uisiana, and Pittsburg
Texas, and spoke works ai Buford, Ga. Water
works are to be built at D. land, Fla-, Collier
ville and Milan, Tenn. Among the enlarge
ments reported for the week are fire brick
works at Cleveland, Tenn., cotton mills at Co
lumbia, Tenn., a manufacturing company at
' Charlc-ton, 8. C., and a lumber mill at Gifford,
| Ark. The new buildings reported include a
business house at Koauoke, Va., college and
school buildings at Athens. Tenn.. Beo tsboro,
! Ala., Seguin. Texas, an I Louisville, Ky., the
| las- roc st $75,000 A' $200,000 court house
will be built at Braidcn Toan, Fla., a $25,000
hotol at Llaoo, Tex., an 1 one at Buford. Ga.,
and a warehouse at New Orleans, La.
M'DONOi'GH, GA.. FRIDAY. JUNF. 24. 1892.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
flails for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAT TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS ANb MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION —OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Wednesday. —After the transaction <f
some routine business Wednesday morn
ing the house went into committee of the
wholo, Mr. Creary, of Kentucky, iu the
chair, on the fortification appropriation
bill. Mr. Brcckenridge. of Kentucky,
in charge of the bill, brieliy explained its
provisions. It appropriated $2,412,876,
being $1,362,427 lc-s than the amount
of the bill of last year, and authorizes the
secretary of war to make contracts for
certain work involving the further ex
penditure of $1,376,600. The appropria
tion made for the enlargement of tli
water and islet arsenal ahd for finishing
and assembling eight, ten and twelve
inch sea coast guns at that arsenal, the
committee on appropriation believed to
be amply sufficient. The bill also appro
priates $151,000 for the enlargement of
the heavy gnn (arriage plant at the Wa
tertown arsenal, Massachusetts.
Thursday. —The house went Into com
mittee of the whole—Mr. Blount, ol
Georgia ,in the chair—upon the tin plate
bill. The bill engrossed the timo of the
house during almost its entire session
Notwithstanding the importance of the
bill, little attention was paid to the de
bate. The exodus to Chicago had begun,
and the rcturu from Minneapolis was
slow. The hall was practically d< sorted
throughout tho session. Mr. Bunting, of
New York, spoke for over an hour in
fagor of the bill. Messrs. E. B. Taylor,
of Ohio, and Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
each occupied neatly as much time in
opposing it. Messrs. Atkinson, O’Neill
and Huff, of Pennsylvania, each spolf*'
briefly against the bill, and Mr. Hemp
hill, of South Carolina, addressed him
self to the financial question, and urged
congress to enact legislation which would
relieve the people of the south from bur
densome legislation, under which they
were now suffering. Without action on
the bill the house adjourned.
Friday.—' The conferees of the river
and harbor bill reported a disagreement.
The house adopted a resolution to insist
on the disagreement, and the bill was
again sent to the conference. The pri
vate claim bill, known as the Sibley bill,
was then taken up. After a short time
spent in filibustering upon it, the house
came to the point, when no quorum
voted, and, in ordor to csca >e from the
stifling atmosphere of tho chamber, took
a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening ses
sion to be for the consideration of pri
vate pension bills. The house failed to
break its usual Frjday night’s record
Various efforts were made by the champ
ions of private pension bills to bring
their measures before the house, but each
(ffort was unavailing, and the house ad
journed.
Saturday. —The house appropriation
committe'e on Saturday completed the
last of the appropriation bills. Just be
fore adjournment the general deficiency
was reported. The amount appropri
ated by the bill is $4,780,535, of which
amount $910,000 is for the census bureau
during the next fiscal year. During tin
present session of congress appropriations
nave been made to supply deficiencies in
appropriations for the support of the gov
ernment during the current and prior fisci 1
years as follows: Act of March 8, 1892,
census, Indians, etc, $428,664; act ot
March 13,1892, urgent deficiency,sl,22B,
636; act of March 18, 1892, department
of agriculture, $160,000; act of March,
1892, public printer, etc., $479,641; act
of June, 1892, pensions, $768,882; mak
ing a total of $9,985,273. The cemu
act of March, 1889, limited the cost of
taking the census to $0,400,000, exclu
sive of the cost of printing. There has
been already appropriated toward the
work, exclusive of printing, $7 825 000,
and the sum appropriated in the bill re
Dorted is $600,000.
THE SENATE.
Wednesday. —ln the senate, Wednes
day, in presenting a petition from Riley
county, Kan., in relation to the prevalence
of lynch law, Mr. IMTer stated that from
newspaper reports the practice was grow
ing in all parts of the country, north,
south, east and west. Many poor people
—particularly colored people—are being
hounded and hunted and hanged or shot
to death when merely suspected of crime.
It was time, he thought for tho American
congress to take action in that matter,
and he hoped that the judiciary commit
tee, to which the petition was referred,
would report promptly. A conference
was ordered on the diplomatic and con
sular appropriation bill, and Messrs.
Hale, Allison and Blackburn were ap
pointed conferees on the part of the senate.
The bill to provide for the free coinage
or goto ana stiver was taken up and Mr.
Palmer moved to strike out all of the bill
except the first section which fixes the
standard of gold and silver dollars,makes
these coins legal tender and permits the
owners of silver or gold bullion to have
it minted for their benefit and without
charge. Mr. Morgan addressed the sen
ate in support of the bill. The silver
plank in the Minneapolis republican
platform was, he said, a step to the front
in the way of the restoration of silver as
a money metal. It was st 11 timid and
irresolute and dealt in equivocal phrases.
But it seemed to cut loose forever from
the single gold standard of the senator
from Ohio, and to demand the use of
both gold and silver as standard money.
The people had the right however, to
expect that the democracy would, in
Chicago, step to the front and demand
not only standard silver money equal
with gold, but that silver should have
the right of free coinawe. After a brief
free silver sp.ech by Mr. Cockrell, with
out action on the bill or on Mr. Palmer’s
amendment, the senate, at 4;40 o’clock
adjourned.
Thursday.—Nearly all the senators
who attended the Minneapolis convention
were in their places in the senate Thurs
day morning, but the first action of the
body w.s to provide for adjouoment till
Monday. Mr. Morri 1 ! addressed the s-‘ti
nt e in opposition to the bill for the free
coinago of gold ami silver. Mr. Stewart
took the floor os soon ns Mr. Morrill left
it. Taking up and replying to some of
Mr. Morrell’s statements he said that the
utterance of such noncscnsc would be
come. lie should think, “damnablo iter
ation,” after a lime. The press in com
mercial cities was,he declared,subsidized
and spoke only the lntiguage of the gold
power, which was itself an ‘‘arrogant
moloch.” The bill went over without
action. Thehouse'bill defining options in
futures and imposing special taxes
on dealers therein was laid be
fore the senate, and Mr. Wash
burn moved its reference to the judiciary
committee. It had been expected that
the reference of this bill would provoke
a somewhat bitter controversy, but that
expectation was not realized. After a
short disn.ission it. was referred to the
judiciary committee. Conference report
on the river and harbor bill was made by
Mr. Frye, who stated that an agreement,
had bcon reached on all but two amend
ments—which were for a boat railway
armind the dalles of Columbia river and
fora canal in the state of Washington, to
conneot the waters of Lake Washington
with those of Puget sound. After a long
discussion the senate insisted on its
nmcudmcnls and agreed to a further con
ference, and then the senate adjourned
till Monday. Messrs. Frye, Dolph and
Hansom were appointed conferees on the
river and harbor bill.
Monday. — The senate was in session
for four and a quarter hours Monday.
Although the attendance was very small,
part of the time was given to the consid
eration of bills on the calendar, a part to
executive business and the chief portion
to a speech by Mr. Call in support of the
resolution heretofore offered by him for
an investigation of railroad corporations
and their interference in politics and elec
tions. Senators Chandler and Gal
lingcf expressed their gratification, that,
the investigation if authorized at all, as
they hoped it would lie, would take in the
state of New Hampshire, the former as
sorting that it would prove that Florida
was not the only state where the evil ex
isted, and the latter expressing the con
viction that it would only prove the
falsity of representations made by certain
pi rsons in that regard. No action was
tak'-n on tho resolution and the senate
ndjourned to Wednesday. In the busi
ness transacted that was of general intcr
ist was the concurrence in the house
amendment to the senate joint resolution
authorizing the president to proclaim n
general holiday commemorating the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery
of America. It was to substitute the 21 «t
for the 12th of October.
notkb.
The seuate judiciary committee, to
whtcli the anti option bill was referred
last Thursday, held its first session for
weeks Monday, and after considering tho
measure for two hours, adjourned until
nixt Thuisday, when its consideration is
to be taken up again and pushed to com
pletion. It is expected now that the bill
will be certain ly reported next wcok.
In the senate, Thursday, Washburn, of
Minnesota, who has ft bill similar to the
Hatch anti-option measure, moved that
the Hatch bill be taken from the table
and sent to the judiciary committee.
Tlrs was done. Washburn is confident
his bill will pass. Other senators, equally
well informed, say that it will not pass.
A poll of the senate will be necessary to
decide this question.
The Appropriation Bill.
The history of the first session of the
fifty-second congress is practically made,
and it is probable that from now on to
the end of the session the efforts of both
branches will be confined principally to
the settlement of disputed points in the
appropriation bills. These measures
are really much farther advanced' than
the simple statement of their parlia
mentary status would indicate to the tin
prncticcd eye. By an extraordinary dis
play of energy the house has succeeded
in passing every one of these bills ex
cept the general deficiency hill, and is
transferring them to the senate with such
rapidity as to tax severely tho working
capacity of the committee on appropria
tions of that body, conseqently it appears
from the record that the senate is far be
hind the house in passing upon these im
portant measures.
No Reciprocity With Canada.
In a state paper sent to the senate
Monday an answer to the resolution of
Fcbrurry 24th last calling for informa
tion relative to reciprocity negotiations
with Canada, the president sounds the
death knell of that project and plants a
mile post in American history by delib
erately in effect recommending that con
gress proceed to retaliate upon the do
minion for its persistent denials of the
rights of American citizens, guaranteed
by tho treaty of Washington in con
nection with the navigation of
Canadian canals. The failure of the
reciprocity negotiations is due to
the position taken by the Canadian rep
resentatives at their recent conference in
Washington with Secretary Blaine and
John W. Foster, which, in effect, was
that it would be “impossible for the Can
adian government, in view of its present
political relations and obligations, to ex
tend to American goods preferential
treatment over those of other countries.
As Canada was part of the British em
pire they did not consider it competent
for the 4 om i n ' on government to enter
into any commercial arrangement with
the United States from the benefits of
which Great Britain and its colonies
should be excluded.”
BURIAL OF GEN. STACKHOUSE.
His Remains Sent to Little Rock, S.
C., for Interment.
The congressional committees charged
with the duty of conveying the remains
of the late General Stackhouse, of South
Carolina, to the place of Interment, left
Washington for the south over the Atlan
tic Coast Line, at 10:57 o’clock Wednes
day morning. There were no services at
the late residence of the deceased. The
party consisted of Senators Butler, Kyle
and Gallioger and Representatives Till
man, Lanbam, McKeighan, Lewis, Shell,
Jolley and Waugh and the son and pri
vate aecretary of the deceased. The
arrangements were in charge of Door
keeper Turner. On reaching Marion, 8.
C., the remains were taken thence in a
hearse across the country twenty miles
to Little Rock, where the inteiment w*»
made.
TWO RECEIVERS
Take Charge of the Affairs of the Rich
mond and Danville Properties.
SECURITY HOLDERS BROOME FRIGHTENED
AND ABE FOR A RECEIVER—EXCITE
MENT IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.
At 4 o’clook Thursday afternoon the
great Richmond and Danville railroad
went into the bands of two receivers.
At that hour, Judge Bond, of the
United States circuit court at Richmond,
Va., made the appointment on the peti
tion of three creditors and security hold
ers of tho company. These receivers are
Fred W. lluildekoper, of Washington,
and Reuben Foster, of Baltimore.
The receivership comes about in this
way: William P. Clyde, James Maben
and W. H. Goadby, of New York, loaned
the Danville $600,000 last winter to tide
It over while the Olcott committee figured
on a plan of reorganization. That was
an emergency loan, and it was under
stood at the time that theso three parties
were to be protected, no matter what
happened. They say that they aro tired
of waiting for their money, und feared
that they would never get a cent if some
body ehe got a receiver.
For a long time, tho Richmond and
Danville has been slow to pay its bill*.
A few days ago it was reported that the
company owed the Western and Atlantic
SBO,OOO on account of traffic balances.
Claims of this kind can probably be
collected. President Oakmnn stated that
the officers and employes will uot he
disturbed, but tho same staff will re
main. Salaries will be paid, it is said,
and all operating bills incurred during
the past six months are to bo paid by the
receivers out of fundß in hand. Theso
recovers, by tho way, take charge imme
diately. Every bit of tho Danville’s
property is turned over to them. They
are directed to give SIOO,OOO bond nrh,
and to deposit tho Danville’s money in
Richmond, Washington and New York
banks. The case is set for argument in
Richmond,before Judge Bond, on August
16 th.
THE DANVH,LE’B FINANCES.
On January 1, 1892, the books of the
Richmond and Dnuvillo showed the fol
lowing state of affairs :
Bonds and guaranteed stock outstan
ding in hands of public... ... .$69,927,661
Stock - unpreferred 10,707,854
B. and D., Oar Trusts 895,100
Georgia Pacific Car Trusts 647,724
Floating dobt 5,100,000
Total $87,277,839
This was on a mileage of 15,520 miles,
divided among thirty seven roads, and a
water line of 200 miles. The annual fix
ed charges wcie $4,834,566.69, and the
net earnings of the Richmond and Dan
ville company, divisional and leased
lines, for 1891, comtdled from official re
ports, were $4,578,778.71, or about
$140,000 in excess of the flxod charges.
OLD OFFICERS AFI'OffITKD.
Mr. Huilekoper has been ouc of tße
Danville's vice presidents and is a Dan
ville man. Mr. Foster is general manager
of the York river line of steamers. These
steamers ply between Baltimore and
West Point, on the York river, where they
connect with the railroad up to Rich
mond. Mr. Foster is thoroughly familiar
with transportation affairs. Thus both
of the receivets arc practical transpoita
tion men aud able ones. The follow ing
orders were sent out Thursday :
Office of the Iteccivers of the Richmond and
Danville ltailroad Company -Circular No. 1.
By decree of tho olrcu t court of the United
States for the eastern district of Virginia, the
west' rn district of North Carolina and westorn
district of South Carolina, the undersigned havo
been appointed receivers of ail the railroads,
property, assets and money of said corporation,
with instruction* to take immediate possession
of all such railroads, property, books, papers and
accounts, and hold and operate tho said rail
roads.
In compliancs with such decrees we havo
taken possession of all the system of railroads
and property of said corporation, and assumed
the operation theroof as tho officers ol said
courts. With the approval of the court the of
fice of tho receivers will ire maintained at
Washington, D. C. The following officers are
hereby appointed r
W. 11. Green, general manager; Sol Haas,
traffic manager : John W. Hall, treasurer j M.
C. Figg. auditor- Their orders, as such officers,
will be obeyed and respected accordingly.
F. W. HUIDEKOPER,
Ukuben Fosteb,
Becelvers.
What will happen to the Richmond
Terminal and the East Tennessee is a
matter of conjecture. All these proper
ties are controlled try the same parties
and that they are smooth Thursday’s
developments would prove, if thcro was
no other evidence.
BIG WARRANTS
Issued by Governor Jforthen for Hchool
and Pension Funds.
Georgia’s stale treasurer, on Saturday,
received from Governor Northen two
warrants covering disbursements of over
half the state’s revenue for the year. One
for $910,504.10 covers the school drafts
fur the past year, and another for $400,-
003 covers the amount paid out on wid
ows’ pensions. A third for $22,415 cov
ers amounts paid out recently to redeem
past due bon is which had not been pres
ented to the treasurer until a short time
ago.
It should be said in this connection
that the $910,504 is not all the school
fund. The $200,000 poll tax, which
goes into the school fun i is paid by
county tax collectors to the county school
boards and docs not pass through the
state treasury. The school fund for the
year just cl >sed was over one million,one
hundred thousand dollar*.
England at Chicago.
A London cablegiain says: On the
supplementary vote in the house of com
mons Tuesday, granting £IO,OOO to the
royal world’s fair commission, A. C.
Morton (liberal), member for Peter
borough, asked if in'ending exhib
itors were satisfied with the arrange
meets made by the commission, fir
John Gorst, financial secretary to the
treasury, replied that Ihe vote was in
creased to £OO,OOO, in order lo give free
space and render the exhibit worthy the
United Kingdom. Mr. Morton said he
hoped the government would do its utter
most to make the British section a great
fuccees. The vote w»s agrtod to by the
house. ■>—
IN OHIO
The Democracy Hold Their Stale Con
vention.
The democratic - state convention of
Ohio was called to order in Columbus,
Wednesday. Allen W. Thurman was
defeated for delegato at large. On a
second test vote Frank Hurd wa9 sent
under. In the platform adopted, it is
declared that ‘‘the federal government,
uudor tho last democratic administration,
was so wisely, ec momieally end patriot
ically administered, as to commend tho
patty to the confidence and support of
the American people, and to entitle it, in
the interests of good government to a
return to power. An effort wns
made in the convention to have
tlie election of do’ega'cs precede
the adoption of tho platform, which
would make tho policy of the convention
f ubservient to tho men. This was defcat
i d and the platform was first adopted.
I’he section relating to the Chicago con
vention declared “that confiding in tho
careful judgment of the national demo
cratic convention about to assemble in
Chicago, wo hereby pledge our earnest
and sordini support to its nominees for
president and vice president, hoping to
see a glorious and lasting victory us tho
result of its intelligent action." As to
the tariff and silver, the platform
declared: “Wo are opposed to all
class legislation, anti believe in
a tariff levied for the sole purpose
of producing revei ue sufficient to defray
die legitimate expenses of tho govern
ment economically administered, and we
protest against the policy of so-called
orotection, illustrated by the McKinley
hill, ns championed by the republican
party, and in the interest of agriculture
mid labor, we demand reform of the
present tariff and reduction of unneces
sary burdensome taxation. Tho demo
ratio party has always favored tho use
if both go d and silver as money, and
nstored to the people the silver dollar
of our fathers, which the republican con
gress demonetized in 1873. Denouncing
ihe Sherman act of 1890 ns false in priu
eiplo and dangerous in practice, and be
lieving that both gold and silver should
circulate as money with a parity main
tained and willi equal rights and equal
value, we submit to the wisdom of tho
democratic party about to assemble in
national convention, to deiclare a method
by which that end may In: reached.
Tho selection of delegates at largo was
renched, ami was an interesting feature
if the convention. The speakers were
heered as well as the names whom they
presented as follows: A. W. Thurman,
Frnuklin county; L. T. Neal, Ross;
Calvin 8. Brice, Allen; Robert Bice,
Cuyahoga; John A McMahon, Mont
gomery, and James E. Campbell, Butler.
Brice, Cumpbcll, Neal and Bloc were de
clared nominated.
STATUS OF TRADE.
Dun & Co’s Report on Business for
the Past Week.
The review of trade for the week code I
Juno 17th, published by It. G. Dun A
Co., says: Hot wcntlier and hot politics
together have affected business at many
points, but there is, nevertheless, an im
provement both in actual trade and in
prospect. One obvious cause is theswift
improvement of the crop outlook. After
weeks of soaking, grain lias now just the
weather for most rapid growth. Floods
etill makesoino trouble iu the lower Mis
sissippi valley, but elsewhere throughout
the west ainl northwest excellent farm
prospects stimulate trade.
At the east the demand for manufact
ured products is largo for the season, and
the settlement of many labor controver
sies, especially in the building trades,
while the four of thu long strike in west
ern iron works also stimulates purchases
of iron and steel products.
The political movements have much
encouraged conservative men witli re
gard to the monetary future. The iron
output June Ist was 175,174 tons weekly,
only 2,712 tons less than May Ist, while
the unsold stock lias decreased 20,427
tons. Iu spite of some increase at the
south, the output is now 18,728 tons less
than the greatist ever attained on March
Ist, or about 9 per cent, but it is 28,000
tons greater than a year ago. At Pitts
burg the demand for finished iron is good,
the prospects of wage difficulties stimu
lating, workers demanding last year’s
scalo, and maufacturors are reducing.
Hardware is very active.
IMPROVED TRADE AT THE SOUTH.
Improved trade is noted at Louisville
and Nashville, and business holds on well
for the season at Savannah, a decrease iu
the production of naval stores being con
templated. High water mark makes
business dull at New Orleans, but sugar
is quiet and steady and money plenty,
with little demand. Butter weather and
a decrease of only 12 per cent in cotton
acreage, according to the most reliable
report, have caused a fall of five-six
teenths in that price, with sales of 813,-
000 bales, receipts and exports b-iug
larger than lust year. Cotton spinners
are taking more cotton than a year ago,
and unsold stocks of goods arc compara
tively small. Exports of products con
tinue heavy for the half of June, 23) per
cent larger from New York than last
year, with a moderate increase in im
ports. Money is everywhere abundant
and unusually cheap, and complaints of
collections fewer than usual. Business
failures occurring throughout the country
during last week number, for th United
States. 153; Canada. 2(1; total. 179.
AN EX-CONGRESSMAN KILLED
While on His way <o the Chicago I’oii
ventiou.
A Memphis, Teen., dispatch says: Ex-
Congressman Morgan was shot and killed
in u'erowded train Saturday morning liy
Henry Forster, an attorney of Memphis.
Morgan beat Forster with his cane some
time ago. Saturday ihey met for the first
time since that occasion. 15 th at once
pulled pistols and began firing, with the
result that Morgan was killed. Pande
monium reigned in the car. Many of the
passengers were ladies, and they were
terribly frightened.
Joseph Berta so, a half breel Indian of
tbe Pokagon tribe of Fottawattouics, <lie>t
•t Boulh Bernl, lad., a few ilov- sin e at
th* age of 110. He is jh>»iv-v*l/ known to
UT* been lOu /ear* oU.
SINGLE COl’Y 5 CENTS.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The Sews of Her Progress Portrayed la
Pithy ana Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMFI.F.TE EPITOME OF HAPPEN-*
INCB OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAV
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
Jnmrs M. Baker, formerly judge of the
fourth judicial Florida district, died at
.1 icksouville, Tuesday, ile was a senator
from Florida and a Confederate congress
man.
Tho Sheriff's Association, of Alabama,
met at Anniston Tuesday. There are
sixty-six sheriffs in the state, and a
large number of deputies and other peace
officers, nearly all of whom were in at
tendance.
A Baton Rouge dispatch of Wednesday
slates that the demociatic state conven
tion has agreed upon a compiomise by
which an equal division is made of all
the appointments and the party stands
united henceforth.
Fire at Elizabeth, W. Va., Wednes
day, destroyed ovir three hundred thou
sand dollars’ worth of property. It broke
out in the Independent bung factory, tho
largest in the United States, which was
destroyed. The loss was $250,000. The
flames spread to Barnes Bros.’ & Hoff
man's works. They were also destroyed.
Recently the Anniston Pipe works
sent out tho heaviest shipment of pipe
Unit was ever hauled from a southern
city. It was consigned to Lancaster, N.
II , and consisted of a solid train of
twenty-live cars, and was tho heaviest
tnin load of pino that ever left a south
ern city to cross Mason un Dixon’s line.
A Savannah telegram of Sunday says:
Three p issenger coaches and eight freight
ears belonging to tho Richmond and
Danville railroad, which came here in the
course of regular business, were seized
by local creditors of tho road Satur
day. Other seizures will follow when
ever property of that company can be
caught in this section.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Robbers attacked tho office at Stevens
mines Monday night and murdered the
bookkeeper, A. 11. Ross. They shot at
young Stevens, son of the proprietor, but
lie escaped. The robbers were four or
live in number, and cone up while the
men were quietly at work. It is not
known how much they secured, but a
deputy sheriff in charge of a posso has
gone to the scene.
H iker Bro.’s turpentine still, between
Tifton and Alapaha, Ga., was destroyed
by tire Monday morning. Over four
hundred barrels of spirits of turpentine
and rosin which had boon sold on Satur
day hut not delivered were destroyed.
The fire was so hot and dangerous that
trains on the Brunswick and Western
railway were delnyod until it had spent
its fury. No estimate of the loss is
given.
The sub-associations of the General
Turpentine Operators’ Association of
Georgia, Florida and Alabama, met tho
factors-iu private session at Savannah a
few days ago and decided, in view of the
piesent prices being so low, that opera
lions wero conducted at a loss. Each
operator showed a reduction in the
working of yeurlings and old boxes of at
least 2 per cent. '1 hey believe that this
soon will have an effect on the receipts
and a bciitficial result on prices.
A Jackson, Miss., dispute^says: Judge
Cooper, of the supreme court, on Wed
nesday entered suit against the Alabama
i.nd Vicksburg railroad for $4. 30. Tho
circumstances were that the judge
bought a ticket to Columbus, the road
failing up to the time of the purchase of
the ticket to note un its bulletin hoard
the fact that the train was five hours late.
When tlie delay was bulletined the judgo
demanded the return of the money,
i ffering to return the ticket, winch was
refused. Hence the suit is intended
doubtless to settle the rights of the pub
lic and roads in cases of delayed trains.
THE TITUSVILLE SUFFERERS
Are Being Well Cared for-Incidents
of the Disaster.
Tbo following is given out officially to
tbo public by the relief committee of
Titusville, I’a., and speaks for itself:
“The prompt ahd generous assistance
given to our afflicted citizens in their re
cent calamity by the people in all parts
of the country is most gratifying. It is
due to the public that we make a Btato
ment of our condition as exactly and
correctly as is possible. Six days after
the calamity we have our relief commit
tee* thoroughly organized and the distri
bution of lood, clothing, bedding and
other supplies progressing with system,
and perfect order prevails. A large force
of laborers arc employed in removing the
wrecks from the streets and iu clearing
up the remains of houses. Fifty-nine
bodiis have been buried, and there are
several persons still missing. We do not
need clothing, food or other supplies. Our
need will be for money to relieve these
who have lost by the tire and flood and
to repair the enormous destruction of
property. The district devastated by tire
t.nd flood extends through the entire
length of the city, for about a mile and a
hal.. Its breadth is from one-cighth to
one quarter of u mile. The estimated
loss of properly exceeds $1,000,009. The
losses fall chiefly upon the poor and the
laboring people. Within the bounds
named there were more than 150 dwell
ings, as well as many shops, manufacto
ries and oil refineries, where the labor
was employed. The loss of personal
property in homes of the people was al
most the total loss, while very many lost
not onlv their houses and contents, but
the ground on which they stood. The
streets are, many of them, destroyed, and
the loss in this particular and in bridges
is very large. Everything possible is be
ing done to alleviate the distressed, anl
our people are recovering hope and spirit.
The Census Count.
The census bureau on Thursday finished
its last count of the population of the
country, according to the returns of the
eleventh census. The population, in
cluding Alaska and the Indians on reser
vations, is 62,979,768. These figures are
absolutely final, and not subject to
change,