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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. VOLUME XVI. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—La*e6t U. & Gov’t Report. Rc&feil Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PROFESSIONAL CARDS. jy*. e. is cAnpnij.L DENTIST. MoDonocoh Q». Any one desiring work done can lie ao eommodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails. Terms cash, unless special arrangements 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. THE East Tenn,, Virginia and Georgia Ry. SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAN’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS BKTWE BN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA WITHOUT <ll \ SGL Direct Connections at Chat TANOOCA WITH THROUGH trainsand Pullman Sleep ers to Memphis and the West, nt Knoxville vritli IMilltunn Sleepers for WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. rou n»fHR bwowuw* swim, l.w. W«ENN, OHM. ».«ia 7 ttaS. Rase. A*’.. A. f. V. A. KStimLI.K. ATLANTA Georgia Jlidlsnil A Gulf H. K. south. Leave McDonough 7:1!0 a. in Arrive Greenwood 1 .ill “ “ lamella ‘ . 7:25 “ " Gridin 8:05. “ north. Leave Gridin 4:oft p. m Arrfve Louella . 4:40 “ “ Greenwood 4:48 “ “ McUpnough 5:05 '■ 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.