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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
VOLUME XVI.
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are otherwise made.
Geo W. Bktas j W. T. Dickkn.
BHVAti A »IC'KIIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAV.’,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
JAS. 11. TIIRVHK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court < f
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marlti-ly
P J. REAGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Ocorgic.
Special attention given to commercial and
etkercollections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
fn« V fEKKLT office.
J E.WAII,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
. McDonough, Ga .
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supremos ml
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to coflections. octs-’79
A. BROWS,
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
fffj; the Flint Circuit, tfi'*’"Supreme-Court of
Georgia and the United Stateß District
Court. janl-ly
A. PF.KPI.CS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flin t Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
Jno. D. St„i. art. | R.T. Daniel.
STEtVART & DAN IKK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
J 011 > 1,. TI E.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Hank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts.
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M, V. GRAY
MOW OAK GROWS.
To Produce n Good Grove Requires
From 140 to 200 Years.
The extreme limit of the age of tlm oak
is not exactly known, says the Ohio
State Journal, but sound and living
specimens are at least 1,000 rears old.
‘t he tree thrives host in a deep, tenacious
loam with racks in it. Stagnant water
is one of its aversions. It grows better
On a comparatively poor sandy soil than
on a rich ground imperfectly drained.
The trunk, at first inclined to be irregu**
lar in shape, straightens at maturity into
a grand cylindrical shaft,
The oak does not produce good seed
until it is more than sixty years old.
The acorn is the fruit of the oak; the
seed-germ is a very mail object at the
pointed end of the acorn, with the future
root, uppermost.: The acorn drops, and
its contents doubtless undergo important
tiitdo. ular and eheniicrfl -changes while it.
lies under its .winter ehvermg of leaves
or snow. • itt ike mild wan-nth of spring
the acorn swells, th* little root elon
gates, emerges from the end of the shell
and, no matter what the position of the
ttuoru, turns downward. The root pene
trates the soil two or three inches before
Hie stalk begins to show itself and grow
upward. The “meat'’ of the acorn nour
ishes both root and stalk, and two years
may pass before its store of food is
entirely exhausted. At the end of a
year the young oak has a root twelve to
eighteen inches long, with numerous
shorter rootlets, the stalk being from six
to eight inches higj>» In this stage it
differs from the sapling, and again Hi:'
sapling differs from the ire*. ' r o v- >*.■&*■
these transformations under the lens is a
fascinating occupation.
If an oak could be suspended in the air
with all its roots and rootless perfect and
unobscured the sight would be consid
ered wonderful. The. activity of the
roots represent a great deal of power.
They bore into the soil and flatten them
selves to penetrate a crack in a rock.
Invariably' the tips turn away from the
light. The growing point of a tiny outer
root is back of the tip a small distance.
The tip is driven on by the force behind
it and searches the soil for the easiest
points of entrance. When the tips are
destroyed by obstruction, cold, heat or
other causes, a new growth starts in
varying directions. The first roots
thicken and become girders to support
the tree, no longer feeding it directly,
but serving as conduits for the moisture
and nourishment gathered by the outer
rootlets, which are constantly boring
their way into fresh territory. These
absorb water charged with soluble earth,
salts, sulphates, nitrates, phosphates of
lime, magnesia and potash, etc., which
passes through the larger roots, stem and
branches to the leaves, the laboratory of
new growth. An oak tree may have
700,000 leaves, and from June to (ietober
evaporates 226 times its own weight of
water. Taking account of the new wood
grown, “we obtain some idea of the
enormous gain of matter and energy from
the outside universe which goes on each
summer.”
Oak timber is not the heaviest, tough
est nor most beautiful, but it combines
more good qualities than any other kind.
Its fruit is valuable food and its bark
useful in certain industries. An oak pile
submerged for 650 years in London
bridge came up in sound condition, and
there are specimens from the Tower of
London which date from the time of
William Rufus. To produce a good oak
grove requires from 140 tc 200 years. It
seems a long time to an American, but
forestry is a perpetual branch of econom
ics when once established
Wii.mam E. Knight, familiarly known
as “Billy" Knight, a Philadelphia drug
gist, who died recently, was one of the
“characters” of that city, says the Led
ger. “He had a regubc list of beggars,
whoeame at appointed days and received
a modest pension from the old druggist.
Occasionally one of these vagabonds,
many of them unworthy of the charity
bestowed on them, would return before
his day, when, with a mild reprimand,
usually in the shape of information that
it was not his time to call, the beggai
would receive some money. His cus
tomers usually addressed him as ‘Doctor,’
and he prescribed for all who asked hit
advice, and often, when his patient was
unable to pay for medicine, the prescrip
tion was filled, and renewed, if neces
sary, without charge. If there was on«
characteristic more strongly marked than
another in the dead druggist, it was hit
utter disregard for his personal appear
ance. Although he sold soap and othei
articles usually considered necessary foi
the toilet, he evidently felt that they
were not essential for his happiness. The
hat he wore would have been fitting foi
a dandy of 1872, while his clothing was
anything but fastidious. His twinkling
eyes shone out of a weazened, grizzled,
and unshaven countenance, while no
comb had ever apparently attempted to
guide the silvery strands which straggled
aimlessly over his nearly denuded head.
Another peculiarity of his was his lack
of interest in monetary matters. A hand
ful of small change placed on his counter
in payment for a bottle of medicine was
never counted, but brushed off carelessly
and thrown upon a shelf, with the re
mark “I guess it’s all right.”
M’DONOI GH, GA . FRIDAY, AUGUST lit, 1892.
COMIUTS LET OUT.
Riotous Miners Once More on tho War
Path in Tennessee.
TUB STOCK AIF It AT TRACT CITY BURNED
AND Sit HUNDRED AND NINBI’Y
CONVICTS LIBERATED.
A, dispatch of Saturday from Tracy
f -ity, Tgaas, says: Once more Tennessee
li.-is rTßtoiTs ininers, prison stocka les have
been burned again and convicts have
been temporarily driven from their com
petition with free labor, Tracy Ci'.y is
tie sceue of the trouble. This is a point
where trouble was least «Xpeeled. Last
-aminer when the c nvicts were released
a Coal Creek, Olivet Springs and Brice
v'.lle an unsuccessful attempt was ma le
.o have Tracy City to take similar ac
tion, but it failed for tho reason that
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company was working its free ininers on
full time and they wera injured by the
convicts being them. Recently,however,
the company found it necessary to reduce
ihc coal output and during July the out
put was only twenty-eight thousand tons,
whereas a year ago it was thirty six thou
sand. This loss foil on the the free
miners who were put on half time, while
the convicts worked full time. This
caused tho organiZation of the band that
burned the stockade Saturday.
THE BREAK MADE.
The stockade was burned at 9:80
o’clock and 690 convicts were liberated.
All was quiet when the laborers quit
work Fiidny night. At 5 o’clock, after
a masi meeting had been secretly held,
a committee of miners called on Mr. E.
O. Nathurit, superintendent of the Ten
uissec Coal and Iron compauy, Saturday
morn ng, and asked that the miners be
allowed ty work as many hours per day
ta the convigts. He promised to submit
the matter to the company. After the
committee “eft Mr. Nathurst feared
trouble, knowing of a se
cret-hound organization formed
some time ago with unknown
purposes. He, with Deputy Warden
Burton, circulated among the miners,
who were in groups, and tried to keep
things quiet, but their efforts were of no
avail. Things grew worse till 9;30
o’clock, when an armed body of men ad
vanced and took the stockade. There
were about, one hundred and fifty armed
men in the party that went to the stock
ade about 8 o’clock. The men approach
ed each guard. Two disarmed him while
tho third took his place. The convicts
were then ordered out of the mines and
off the grounds, There were GOO of them
They were marched to and loaded on flat
cars an’d were then turned over to Warden
Burton and he was ordered to take them
away immediately. The train then pro
ceeded to Cowan, where they waited for
the special sent from Nashville.
When the convicts had left the free
miners removed four sick prisoners from
the hospital and placing all the arms,
ammunition and other property in places
of safety, the stockades, which cost about
$5,000, were burned. The guards in
charge of the convicts were allowed a gun
iipuce and the otheis were confiscated by
the miners. Not a shot was fired during
the trouble.
A BREAK FOR LIBERTY.
Within a quarter of a mile of Sewanee
the coupling pin was drawn from the
back cur, and between twenty and thirty
convicts made a break for liberty, The
guards fired, and two convicts were
killed. One is said to be wounded in
the wood- and one captured alive by
mountaineers. It is known that only
five havo been recaptured.
The miners are very reticent, and Bay
they have no statement to make and
would not give the names of the leaders
or state their intentions in case the con
victs returned. They say the time they
worked was not sufficient for them to
n a re a living.
Everything was quiet at Tracy City
Saturday night, and will remain so until
further action from the other end of the
line is taken. The trouble grew out of the
lease system. The miners at Tracy City
have been among the most conservative
in the state. The mines are situated in
Grundy county, and are among the most
extensive in the state.
MAY ABANDON THE I.EASE.
A dispatch from Nashville states that
d e 400 convicts employed at Tracy City
reach* d that city Saturday night, and are
now safe in the penitentiary. What the
authorities or lessees will do is not known,
but there is a probability that the lessees
of convicts will abandon the lease.
A committee of miners from Coal City
called on Governor Buchanan Sunday,
and asked to have the troops removed.
He took the request under advisement.
It is expected in many quarters that an
other uprising will be the result.
MINERS CAPTURE INMAN.
The fears expressed by Governor Buch
anan, and by the lessees of the state pen
itentiary, have been justified bv Monday’s
developments. The news of the action of
the I racy City miners caused great excite
ment among the Marion county mines,
and led to their marching upon the stock
ade at Inman and forcing the removal of
the convicts. A force of forty guards on
th" way to Inman from Nashville, were
c ptured by about two hundred free
miDfrs, about four miles from the town
Lffly Monday morning, and disarmed,
fhey were then started hack towards
JiiSjKT. The mob of miners hnd mnrehod
1 ver the mountains from Whitewell,
all ut eight miles distant, and their inter
cept.ng the guards was an accident. The
mob then proceeded to Inman, and were
not resisted. Sheriff Morrison had
eon warned of the mob’s com
-1 n - 1 but was powerless, as he could
not secure a posse to a‘gist him
in defending the stockade. Judge Morn,
of the cireuit court, ordered him to the
seme, but he refused to art. The mot)
at oDce marched to the stockade. There
were only about thirty guards, and these
surrendered on demand. The convicts
were in the mine*, and were at once
called out nnd loaded on flat cars. The
engineer of th" ore train was ordered to
take them away at once.
After the men were placed on the cars,
tiny were turned over to Warden H. 11.
Bradley and the guards. Mine Supcrin
t' dent Anderson appealed to the mob
□p
o not horn tho sh •*-«c. as the railroad
running just above 6ti9 side of it would
be ddstoyed. The men were advise,! by
their loader to tear the stockade down,
which they did. There was not a shot
fired during the wl*ols trouble. Th re
were 200 convicts in the party, and none
escaped Bp to the time they arrived at
Stevenson, oh the tnawline of (he Nash
ville, Chattanooga pqWlSt. Louis railway,
fenian is simply a convict mining camp
in Marion county, nmLis on the property
of tho Tennessee CoaNptid Railroad com
pany. Tlu-y had 29b‘N>nvicts and a few
free minrrs digging -iron ore, which was
shipp 'd to their furnaces at Cowan and
other points.
NITRATION A/>NAB!IVII.X,E.
A Nashville tele tram stales that
neither GoVr t-nor Buchanan or the lessees
of the petittuhtinrv it rc surprised at the
action of the Marion c-unty mini rs
M< nday. Governor Buchanan antici
pated this result and was only afraid that
there would be bloodshed. All of the
Tracy City guards had been s arted for
Inman Sunday, and it was thought .that
they might reach there in time to protect
the prison.
Etrly Monday wmiing the governor
received the fallowing telegram from the
warden at Inman : “The convicts have
ljqen released by a mob of 200 m< n and
arc awaiting twins at Victoria. Wiiat is
the reward for the leaders and inen in the
Inman mobT
To this Governor Buchanan did not,
reply, but he will probably offer the
same reward as he offered for the Coal
Creek rioters, and which was never
claimed, viz: ss,ooo'for the lenders and
$250 for each member of the mob.
Shortly after the news (f tho release
had been received tlu fallowing telegram
was received from j Superintendent of
Prisons Wadoi “I hive done ail I can to
prevent trouble at Intnan by sending all
the men I can get to go, which are in
adequate to meet the emergencies. Can’t
you strengthen the !aco with troops?”
As to sending t ops. Governor Bu
chanan is absolutely powerless, as he can
only call them out ca request of the civil
authorities. He has heard nothing from
Sheriff Morrison, although lie wired him
instructing him to summon as many men
as needed, and asking if ho needed mili
tary assistance. No reply was received.
TENNESSEE’S CHWDED rItISON.
A horrible conditiii of affairs exists at
the state penitentiarjjr The prison is in
the center of a thickly settled portion of
Nashville and was bnilt fifty years ago
It would be an uujaalthy place for a
small number of It is small and
iily ventilated, three tiers of
cells cun accommodqßonly 820 prison
ers. There were 84j®fhis mers prior t->
the Tracy City trouofi'Wmd when the 850
*rom that place werqjfcceivtd some were
compelled to bunk in a cell, while
the others slept on ttfSt- ne floors of the
wings. Now that reached
the city from Inman there is not loom
lor them to sleep on the floor even,
so that there are three times ns many
prisoners as cells. Not only will they
have to be crowded together at nigbt but
there is absolutely no work for them to
do, and to avoid danger of outbreak they
will have to be kept up all day. To add
to the perplexities of the s-t ,te official*,
the lessees, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company gnv • notification
that they would not feed the Tracy City
and liimnn men. so th ,t besides les ng the
lease money, the state will have to feed
the 620 idle n.en. The lessees arc heart
ily siek of the troubles of tho p ist year
and would he very glad to surrender the
lease.
CANDIDATE BUCHANAN
Will Run for Governor of Tennessee ns
nil Independent Democrat.
A NusUvdlc nows special says: Gov.
John P. Buchanan on Monday announced
that ho is an independent democratic can
didate for governor. This announcemt ut
was expected, as Gov. Buchanan with
drew his name from before the recent
convention ns soon as he was defeited at
tho primaries. He has recently been call
ed upon by delegations from several
counties and asked to run in au
independent. The people’s party,
it is suid, lias pledged him 25,00 1
votes. In making his annom cement,
Governor Buchanan says he believes h •
is doing go in obedience to the will of
tho majority of the rank and file of the
democracy. He announces his platf rm
to be free coinage, an increase in the
circuiting medium, abolition of the na
tional banking system, graduated income
tax, tariff for revenue only, election of
United States senators by the people,
against trusts and dealing in futures, op
position to tho force bill, against alien
ownership of lands, abolition of the lease
system, arbitration laws and a constitu
tional convention.
CROPS IN TEXAS.
The Largest Yield of Corn Ever Known
in the State.
A dispatch of Friday from San Antonio,
Texas, says: Abundant rains continue
to fall over the southwestern Texas dis
trict and the suffering among stock has
been completely relieved and crops great
ly benefitted. Many farmers in the
drought-stricken district planted corn in
July, and with late’ fall rains will make
good crops. The recent rains through
Mexico enhance the prospects of fine
crops in that republic, and the importa
tion of American corn will soon be dis
continued. Some fear that with the pres
ent contracts the Mexican markets may
be overstocked. This will leave Texas
practically without a market for its enor
mous crops, and cattlemen are pre, ling
to feed large quantities of beef cattle
with 20 and 25 cent corn. Never in the
history of Texas has she harvested such
a large corn crop, and many farmers are
now beginning to harvest and contract
their crops while they can get 25 to 40
cents p< r bushel.
The Eight-Hour Low.
Solicitor-General Aldrich, of the de
partment of justice, is prep .ring an opin
ion in regard to the application of the
provisions of the eight hou’ law, passed
at the last session of congress, to apply
to the public service in all the executive
departments, hut raoie especially wi'h
reference to the c instruction of public
works ui der contracts with private firms,
such as the building of naval and other
vessels, ond Ihe cur st ruction and repair
of public buildings of nli classes.
BUCHANAN SCORED.
Denounced for Having Coimnnted H.
Clay King’s Sentence.
BURNED tN EFFKIY IN THE PUBLIC STREET
OF MEMPHIS—KINO SAFELY IN
THE PENITENTIARY.
The city of Memphis was thrown into
a state ot intense excitement when the
announcement appeared in Wednesday
morning’s papers that Governor Buchan
an had commuted tho sentt nee of Co'oncl
H. Olay King, who was to havo been
hanged on the l2ih instant for the murder
of Mr. Poston. Wednesday morning’s
Appeal-Avalaucho said:
If the governor’s power in tho matter la nliso
late and ooiioliiaivo, tho responsibility is his
a one. He is not required to givo rca-ons. He
m.v yield to any passing caprice, to appeal to
his sympathies, to prejudice, and yet his author
ity remains undisputaole and supreme. If his
d termination of the King case is to be taken ns
a precedent, then we see no reason whv any
other criminal should bj hanged in Tennessee.
King, in cokl blood, after careful deliberation,
sliittt down David H. Poston, unarmed and un
suspecting. It was a highway assassination in
which tho Victim was given no ehsnoo to defend
himself. There could not havo been a murder
more heinous. When the trial was had, the
murdorcr himself, with most extraordinary as
surance, protested against the introduction of
the insanity plea.
Discussing the review of tho case by
th : supreme court, the Appeal-Avalancho
continues:
The opinion was welcomed by all lovers of law
and order. Its effort was not oenfimd to Ton
nessee: It was felt throughout tho whole United
States, and the supreme court of Tennessee was
entitled to enduring honor for advancing civili
sation to that degree. The court did not over
look a phase of thocasei it considered every ex
cuse Kmg mado for ins act.
But the governor lias brought all this to
naught. Having greater power to save, lie lias
mot the court’s power to condemn and has
whistled the latter’n judgment down. With a
strekr of his pen lie lias given hope to every
murderer in the jails ot Tennessee. He his ro
)ulted tho jury and made light of the stato's
highest tribunal of justice. It Wore infinitely
better if the jury of the trial court had bade
King go free. We now wish sincerely that it
Had ilono so. It were even better if the governor
had granted au absolute paadon. Ho lias actod
without the support of a trial, judge, jury or
prosecution, usually an osseutial p requisite in
gubernatorial olomoncy, anil it now remains for
King’s attorney to solve tho question ctf hiß t'rye
dom.
The Evening Scimuter vehemently de
nounces tho governor in a sensational
article abounding in such sentences as
these:
“Ho has spit on tho carpets of tho state and
nation and field out Ins hand to save an assassin
In whoso person was centered and upon who-e
fate dependod tho question whether any inllu
enco in tho south was sufficient to make dis
tinction botweou p rsous convicted of cold
bl oiled murder.
“Tho rescue of H. Clay King from the cal
j tows to winch all courts of the country, af er
1 t oirefui review of tho evidence,had condemn d
I him, wa‘ a crime more damnubio even than the
I murder of Poston.
“Ho has risen above all law, all right an I all
justice. What. Kmg did as a vitjfr ir,,.ho has
| dono as ohief executive of the staU. tie Aw *
j taken tho law in his own hands; he has justify)' 4
j the murder of Boston; he has saved an oSaaStinj
, h has taken tiie smoking pistol frma King's
! hand, stepped into his shoes, dipped hi’ hands
j in th ' blood of his victim and trampled upon
1 tho already outraged law. He has turned a deaf
ear to the pleadings of tho victim’s family for
justice; ho made a governor of a stato a cham
pion of murderers.
“The governor’s conduct tears the bandage
from the eyes of justice; it pulls down the pillurs
of the temple; it paralyses the strong arm of tho
law; it stifles the cry of tho widow and tho or
phan, and makes of the court a sham; it shakes
the very foundation of society, and malios every
man a law nnto himself.
“If Buchanan should bo shot down from be
hind a pillar on the portioo on the capitoi to
' day if King should be slain on his way to the
p nitentiary, who shall say that tho gallows
would bear fruitV”
These publications aroused intense
feeling. A mass meeting was arranged
for at which Governor B.ichannn was to
have boen ljung in effigy Wednesday
night. It was given out that the jail
would he attacked and the notorious pris
oner would 1)0 lynched. So groat was the
anxiety that Criminal Court Judge J. J.
Dubose issued tho following order:
It appearing to the court that there is now
undue excitement in the publio mind because of
the commutation of the senlenoe of H. Clay
King, who was by tho supremo court sentenced
to bang on the 12th day of August, 1892, and it
furthor appearing that beeau e of threaten d
mob violence, it is not safe to longer keep said
King in the county Jail of Oholby oonnty; it is
therefore ordered by the court that tho sheriff
of Hhelby county, without delay, take said King
and deliver him’ to tho keeper of the penitentia
ry at Nashville, in pursuance to tho order, as
made by the governor, commuting his sentonce
to life imprisonment in the penitentiary of thn
state.
KINO TAKEN AWAY.
Sheriff McLendon took King from jail
in the meantime nnd out of the city, on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, en
route to Nashville where they arrived
safely. The sheriff hurried his prisoner
to the penitentiary.
HUNO IN EFFIGY.
The indignation against Governor
Buchanan for commuting King’s sentence
found vent in hanging and burning him
in effigy at the corner of Main and Madi
son streets Wednesday night. The crowd
was composed not of toughs and street
arabs but of weli clad, unusually orderly
and respectable young men. AVhen the
figure burned in two and the lower half fed
to the ground the crowd vented in wrath
! by kicking the burning embers about the
streets. The governor was cursed nnd
abused with every contemptous epithet
Imaginable.
BUCHANAN TALKS.
Governor Buchanan, iu an interview
with an Associated Press reporter, gives
his reasons for the commutiation of King’s
sentence as follows: “First,” said the
governor, ‘‘l thought that King sh mid
have had a chance of venue. Affidavits
to the effect that Juror Smith ha 1 com
municated with outside parties and ex
pressed an opinion ah -ut the case were
filed with me. I’hese affidavits could
not be introduced in the court of record,
because it was too late. The action of
Juror Mustin and of the jury going to
Arkansas to deliberate upon the case
also had their weight; the dissension
of one of the supreme judges
in defense of partial insanity; the
pleadings of his wile nnd children and
the most prominent men of the country,
besides hundreds of letters and petitions
they were my reasons for commuting
the sentence. I am responsible for my
action,” added the governor. “I
thought I was doing right, and I acted
according to my belief.” He then
handed the reporter a petition signed by
twenty-six senators and congressmen,
GEORGIA DEMOCRATS
Hold Their State Convention In Atlan
ta Wednesday.
The Georgia state Democratic con
vention was held in Atlanta Wednesday
and the following state ticket nomina
ted :
Governor— Hon. W. J. Nnrthcn.
Secretary of State—Gen. Phil Cook.
Comptroller General—Hun. W. A.
Wright.
Attorney General—Hon. Joe Terrell.
Treasurer—Hon. R. U. Hardeman.
Com. of Agriculture—Hon. R. T. Nes
bitt.
THE ELECTORS.
For the Stale at Large—Joo James, of
Douglas. Allen 1). Candler, of Hall, al
termite.
W. T. Garcj, of Bibb. DuPont Guerry,
of Bibi>, alternate.
From the Districts:
Ist. Alt Herrington, of Emanuel. Dan
R. Groover, of Bulloch, alternate.
2d. J. W. Walters, of Dougherty. S.
G. M’Lendon, of Thomas, alternate.
81. E. T. Hinton, of Sumter. I. E.
D. Shipp, of Dooly, alternate.
4th. W. C. Adamson, of Carroll. F.
D. Peabody, of Muscogee, alternate.
sth. B. M. Blackburn, of Fulton. J.
F, Hutchinson, of Clayton, alternate.
6th. Frank Flynt, of Spalding. G.
W. Bryan, of Henry, alternate.
7th. P. M. B. Young, of Bartow. W.
S. Coleman, of Polk, alternate.
Bth. S. P. Shmnon, of Elbert. G. W.
Adams, Putnam, alternate.
oth. William F. Simmons, of Gwin
nett. W. E. Chandler, of Union, alter
nate.
10th. J. W. Lindsay, of Wilkinson.
Ben Walker, of Glascock alternate.
11th. M’K. F. MoCook, of Glynn. B.
M. Frizzell, of Telfair, alternate.
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Fiom Stato of Large —Allen Fort, of
•Sumter; J. W. Nelms, of Fulton; J. T.
Hardeman, of Ilibh; G. R Brown, of
Cherokee; Clark Howell, of Fulton, mem
her of tho national committee, ex-offioio
member.
District members:
Ist. Gazaway llartridge, of Chatham;
U. P. Wade, of Screven.
2d. H. C. Schtffield, of Early; J. L.
Hand, of Mitchell.
Bd. J. H. Hodges, of Houston; W. E.
Steed, of Taylor.
sth. B. 11. Rirhard'on, of Muscogee;
T. C. Crenshaw, of Troup.
sth. J. W. Ilale, of Rockdale; W. T.
Kimscy, of Clayton.
Oth. M. 11. Sandwich, of Upson; E. E.
Pound, of Butts.
7th. D. B. Hamilton of Floyd; J. C.
Foster, of Cobh.
Bth. James M. Smith, of Oglethorpe;
H. W. Baldwin, of Morgan.
Oth. George L, Bell, of Forsyth; How
ard Thompson, of Hall.
10th. A. L. Wooten, of Jefferson; T.
M. Hunt, of Hancock.
11th. JaOoh_L. Beach, of Glynu ; Wal
ter M. Clem#. of Dodge.
The committee on resolutions entered
’the hall and reported (lie following:
The democratic party of Georgia, in conven
tion aMemblod, pledge* anew it* loyalty and
devotion iotlio time-honored principle* of de
mocracy a* promulgated and practiced by tho
ftttln r* and sages of th party.
It endorse* tho platform adopted by the na
tional domocratic convention of 1892 and
pledges ita united and onthuiia*tic • unport to
tho election of it■ nominees —Grover Cleveland
and Adlai E. Steven* >n.
It commond* to tho people of Georgia the
adininintration of Governor W. J. Norihon ami
the Hfate hotiHO ofFicera whose most honcHt nnd
economical manag merit of the affairs of tlio
ntato have conduct! d ho largely to tho progreiw
and prosperity of the peoplo.
THE COTTON REPORT
As Issued by the Agricultural De«
purl niuii t.
The August rspnrt of the statistician
ot tho dcp.Bitincut of agriculture at
Washington, issued Wednesday, shows a
reduction in tiie condition of cotton dur
ing July from 80.9 to 82.8. This is tt\e
lowest average since August, 1886, when
the general cotidit’ion w.is one point lower.
The season has been almost everywhers
too wot, though in South Carolina and
Georgia alternations of an excessive rain
fall and a blistering sunshine have been
injurious. Iu Texas the need o(
ruin is reported by some cor
lespondents. Tho natural result
of these conditions appears in grassy
fields, rank plaut growth and small
fruitage, with considerable shedding,
Giassworms and caterpillars have ap
peared in the inoro southern ant}
western districts, but no material
damage has yet resulted. * The state av*
crag, s of condition are: Virginia, 83)
North Carolina, 82; South Carolina, 885
Georgia, 84; Floridu, 81; Alabama, 88 1
Mississippi, 80; Louisiana, 83; Texae,
86; Arkansas, 75; Teuness' e, 79.
FRICK’S LIFE IN DANGER
From the Machinations of Anarchists
and Guards Doubled.
A Pittsburg special of Friday says: The
report that Chairman Frick’s life may
again be in danger from the rnnehinations
of anarchists seems to be credited to some
extent by Frick, ns well as by the Car
negie officials and police authorities.
Tho force of detectives is more than
doubled at the offices of the Carnegie
company on Fifth avenue, and every one
visiting there, unless well known to the
officers on duty, is subject to striet and
searching scrutiny, and has to ran the
gauntlet of inquisitive and interested
eye*.
The Banner Wheat State.
Advices of Thursday from Sioux Falls,
S. D., state that the figures on South
Dakota’s prospective wheat yield by com
petent men, are simply astounding,rang
ing from fifty million to Mxty million
bushels of wheat, besides immense quan
tities of other grains. E'evator experts
place the yield at sixty millions, while
Milwaukee and Northwestern railway ex
pert* place it at fifty five million and
fifty million respectively. Even at the
lowest figures it is claimed the state will
carry the banner of the entire union.
Representative Warwick Dead.
Rcpre-enlaiive John G. Warwick,
democrat, who succeeded William Mc-
Kinley hs representative from the six
t- enth Ohio district, died in Washington
811 day night aft' r a protracted illness,
in ids sixtty-secon 1 year. The death of
Co:igr< s*m m Waiwick removes oneof the
nuat s rikmg figure* iu nation-d uditics.
SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS.
SWITCHMEN STRIKE
On the Reading System and Resort to
Riot and Incendiarism.
FEARFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS ON THE LE
IIIOII VALLEY ROAD—THE MILI
TARY CALI.KD OCT.
1
A dispatch from Buffalo, N. Y., says:
There is no further disguising tho
fact that the strike of the Erie and Le
high Valley switchmen is a serious mat
ter. Hint ami incendiarism mark its
tidal wave.
Things began to put on a more serious
inspect Sunday morning, when a series of
incendiary fires broke out simultaneously
in the Lehigh Valley yards. Eighteen
or tweuty freight cars, tilled with woo!,
cotton, hay and various ofher merchan
dise, two passenger coaches and two
watchmen’s houses were burned. The
fires occurred at places where the firemen
could not successfully stiy the flames on
account of the absence of water, and, be
sides, of the difficulty of access to the
fires.
A water tank adjacent to a coal trestle
was smashed, and an engine, that was
taking water there, wrecked by & string
of ten runaway coal cars that had been
turned loose from the trestle. A dozen or
so ears were thrown from the Lehigh
hacks, and a similar number from tfia
Eri ', by misplaced switches.
The iirst intimation of anything wrong
was when tho coal cars were si t loose ana
demolished the water tank. Then the
tins broke out simultaneously. The po
lice officers were unable to find any sus
picious characters in the yards.
the trouble extends.
Other anil later dispatches from El
mira, New York, state that tho strike of
switchmen inaugurated at Buffalo has ex
tended toWaverlyand Sayre on the Lehigh
nml all tho freight traffic on that lino is
at a standstill. A train of beef stands
on an cric siding there, the switchmen
refusing to allow it to lie switched to tho
L high track to proceed to its destination.
The division superintendent of the Lehigh
telegraphed to Oswego for the sheriff to
come to his aid. Although ttie men are
not making any demonstration, it is ex
pected, tho Erio men will also go out
and then all traffic through those towns
will bo at a standstill. Amen arc non
communicativo and their future move
ments arc unknown.
THE SOLDIERS TAKE A HAND.
Dispatches of Monday from Buffalo,
N Y., state that tho strike of the switch
men on the Erie, Buffalo Creek and Le
high Valley roads, equivalent to a strike
on the combined Bonding system in this
part of the country, is no longer a simple
demsod by a body of organiz d workmen.
Freight trains and passenger trains have
. Seen thrown from the tracks; sw ilcnmcn’a
liouses have been burned; coal trains have
been started down tho immense trestles
of tho Lehigh and Beading roads, and
have been crushed at the bottom of tho
inclined into a twisted and broken mass,
and for two nights tho eastern sky has
been red with incendiary fires, while
huuilreds of freight and refrigorator cars
have been destroyed by the torch of tho
firebug. Every passenger train coming
into this city over the lines affected by
tho strike has been held up by the
strikers, and tho passengers have been
subjected to a searching scrutiny. Trav
o'ers have been asked where they came
from and wlure they were going, and
any one who looked at ull like a working
man has been made to give a full and
comp’ete account of himself.
When the Erie passenger train from
llornellsville was derailed by an open
rwitch Sunday night, and as the passen
gers emerged from the cars they were met
liy a gang of roughs, who followed io the
wake of the strike, and were stood up
and robbed. Men who remained in the
employ of the companies were set upon
and clubbed with coupling pins and sent
to the hospital. Engineers and firemen
were ordered to their engines under pain
of violence, and then the fires were dump
ed, the steam cut off and the trains cut
to pieces, and the pins and links thrown
away, so that the trains couldn’t be
moved inside of several hours.
THE MILITARY CALLED OUT.
This lias been done on every road. The
yards are choked with stalled traius, and
no business has been done for two days.
All this led up to the climax which came
Monday afternoon, when Sheriff Beck
called out the Sixty-fifth and Seventy
fourth regiments. Before this order was
given, however, forty special deputies
had been routed by the strikers. Col.
Fox, of the Seventy-fourth, and Welch,
of Sixty-fifth, were sent for, and they
soon hud 800 men under arms in the
armories waiting the order to march.
The strikers were ugly and threatened
troub'e if the militia came out to protect
the yards.
During tho afternoon a carload of men,
employed by the Reading road, wa*
brought into the cily from points along
tho road. The car was guarded by Read
ing officers. The strikers got wind of
the arrival, and threatened that, if tho
men were put to work, they would kill
every one of them. “And they won’t be
killed like men, cither,” was the boast.
“We will kill them like dogs.”
This was the situation at 8 o’clock Mon
day evening with the soldiers under
arms in their armories and the strikers
preparing for trouble out in the yards of
the different companies.
PERISHING CATTLE.
Thousands Upon Thousands Dying in
Mexico for Want of W ater.
Dispatches of Sunday from Zacatecas,
Mex., state that there is intense suffering
among the people and live stock in that
state owing to the prolonged drought.
Although bountiful rains have fallen iu
all parts of Mexico during the past two
weeks, this section has not been blessed
with a drop of moisture for nearly three
years. There have been enormous losses
of cattle. The following is a list of the
larger ranches and the number of cattle
on them which have died for lack of
water and grass: Hermosa, 20,000 head;
Lctillas, 10,000; Guadalapelas Corientos,
10,000; Elfurte, 6,000", Mezuuite &
Norie*. 5.000.
SEAMEN are very scares iri Qiet>»c. U to
ads, and bounties ot five an 1 tea dollars are
pa! ‘1 tor man.