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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY VOL. XY. PRO FESSI ON A L CA Rlt S. I jK. *». DENTIST, McDonoi'oh Ga. •.iiv one desiring work done cun !>o n<w cnirmodatcd eilher by railing on nie in pei - «on or addressing me timing!) the mail.. Terms cash, unless special arrangements *:e otherwise matin. (■u> W. P.RVAN j "'.T. OIIIKEN. URVi> .V I>H'K li.’S, ATTORNEYS AT I,AW, '’ , Do\Ol UM . • '• A. Will practice in M-o aunties coiiijmsiiig ihe Flint Judicial v^ircuit,tin Supreme Court ci Georgia ami •1" I’uitr'l Stale. District Court. »prt!7-l y j**- «S. W HVFM, attorney at law, MrDojsoi’im, Ga. Wdl practice in the comities composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, ami the United States District C ouri. mariti-ly ]7 » attorney at law. McDonocuh, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and ..ther collections. Will attend all t lie Courts it Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. j * » U, V 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-’?J A. itKOH iV, ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit,, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly i| a. * ’ 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 ot the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888 «iso. D. Stewart. | U.T. Daniel. NTEtV tRT & UANIIK,, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, GRirttN, Ga. » **• j||lS. K. J. AinOM). Hampton. Ga. I hereby tender my professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding , country. Will attend ail cal’s night and j day. JoiiV i.. xvii. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Bank Building, Atlanta. Ga, Practices in Ihe State and Federal Courts. GRIFFIN FOUNDRY AND Machine Works. \\Tq announce to the Public that we arc tV prepared to manufacture Engine Boil ers ; will take orders for all kinds of Boil ers. We arc prepared to do all kinds of repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin ery, generally. We keep in flock Brass fittings of all kinds; also inspirators, In jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of every Description. ONItOUN A WALCOTT. EIO FOR TEXAS ! Here is the opportunity of a lifetime. A splendid farm and pasture about one mile and a half from Henderson, Texas, most under fence. The land lies well. Here you use no guano and make more cotton per acre than they do in the south with guanos. The lauds are mostly under fence and well timbered where not in cultivation. $4.50 per acre. Terms easy. Apply to, Oct. 24. J. Harvev Turner He dcrson. Tex. Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, snd ail Pat ent business conducted for Moderate Fees. Our Office is OppositeU. S. P^te wtOffic:e and we can secure patent in less time than tuoee remote from Washington. . . Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip tion. We advise, if patentable or pot. f ree of <iar<*e. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A Pamphlet, ,l flow to Obtain Patents, * with names of actual clients *in your State, county, or town, sent free. Address, C. A.SNOW & CO. Opp. Patent Office. Washington, D. C. FOR MEN ONLY! LOBT or FAILING MANHOOD; • VIE aadS£KVOUB DEBILITY; S ■ |W#Akne«§ of Body and Mind, Effect* Error* cr Excuse* in Old or Yoonf. Fobu•». S MAYWOOD fully Bwtftred. Mrw to ealarf* anJ Ftr*»?»he»WBAB,LRDSTKI,oPEDORI»ANg*PAKrtI OF BODY. Afeolsulr BBf»liiLtf MOMB TBIATMBKT—BmMM la a day. r>*p t««i!ry from fcO Stale* ao4 Ferelfa < ooatriea. Write thorn, PtWtfipth* Book, pxplaaatlra and proof, mailed for a lad) free, «**•£ fcfHE MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO, N. V. TEN DOLLARS will be oa:d lor the bestw r.’ption of theceKbrau-a Nvx Cnrtoon entitled “Tl* W».i "g,. <r d . Tn. Kaat Traiii'Si*. » irslnitv * Kuil»;>v. IH-, ription shall mrl'id. all jy.. '> *«! shown in the cartoon t ontest Dec ,*1 Onsa bps Ha S 3 and TuiSac7 Hshit? 11l B B Ucured at home with* P*B B B RMlout pain. Book of par- I mfl BVB ticiliars sent FRKE. THIS PAPES rt'koweiT* Go» sew»p»l** A SUGGESTIVE OPINION. . Judge laiwrcnce Thinks Congress Shout;! Limit tlw Bight of Appeal. New York, Jan. 27.—Judge Lawrence heard argument upon Convict Janies J. Whalen’s application to be released from Sing Sing. Whalen was sentenced under his sec ond conviction in December, 1888, for two years. When that term expired he demanded his release, hut the warden of Sing Sing claimed that he had the right under the law to hold him for the com mutation, which he received for good behavior on his former sentence. Wha len’;, Slot m ill once was for seven years, and his commutation was years. Judge Lawrence reserved decision, but in so doing took occasion to say: “I am not one of the judges who be lieve that every law should lie construed against the state and in favor of con victs.- ’ He did not believe in the United States courts stepping in in the case of murder ers, and said it was about time congress should put a stop to it. This was a reference to the recent dis covery that by raising a constitutional question and applying to the United States court for a stay of execution un der a conviction in the state court, the convict, though the stay he denied on the ground that there is nothing, in the point raised, can of right appeal to the United States supreme court from that decision and can keep this up indefi nitely. SHOT HIS WIFE. (ieorgp Snyder’s Cowardly Aet Witnessed l>y Tlieir Children. San Marcos, Tex., Jan. 27. —George H. Snyder, one of the wealthiest citizens of this place and agent for the Southern Agricultural works of Atlanta, Ga., shot and killed his wife. The following is the account of the tragedy: Mrs. Snyder had just returned from church, when her husband shot her three times, killing her almost Distantly. No one witnessed the shooting hut two children of the murdered woman, who was a refined lady and well-liked in the community. Snyder was arrested, and refuses to talk. He gives no reason for his bloody act. Neighbors of his say he has often threatened to kill his whole family. They have three boys, two of whom were at home when their father killed their mother, but they lied, and up to last night they had not been heard of, nor can they be found. Snyder and his wife are from Rome, Ga., and have been living near San Marcos about two years, AGAINST LOTTERIES. Arelibishop Ireland Issues an Order —The I*Tan to be Abolished, St. PaFl, Minn., Jan. 27.—The Catho lic church, which up to the present time has permitted lotteries at church for the raising of money for church purposes, is to shut down on all such practices, at least in the sections of Minneapolis and North and South Dakota. Archbishop Ireland has issued thfl following order: •‘Sentiment has become so pronounced, and rightly so, against lotteries and chance games, that we deem it our duty to prohibit altogether, as we now do. the raising of money for religious and char itable purposes by the sale of chances, the sale of wheels of fortune, or by any method savoring of lottery or gambling. The rule which we now make admits of no exception. It applies to counties as well as to towns, to convents as well as parishes.” Arrested In a Cave. Wheeling, W. Va. , Jan. 2?. —A man calling himself John Stevens, but who Is believed to lie S. A. Shaw, who is want ed for the murder of James Rogers, in Jersey county, Ills., last summer, has been found in a cave near Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs and Jocked up. He has been living in the cave since Sep tember, going out at night when food ran low. With him were captured a sot of burglar tools, a Winchester, a re volver, four.knives and other arms, and also a quantity of line dry goods. He claims to have killed a negro nt Hinton, this state. Mrs. Jefferson Davis In Mail Health. Louisville, Kv., Jan. 27.—A friend of Mrs. Jefferson Davis has just returned to this city from New York, where she left her. In speaking of Mrs. Davis, she said that she was in a very critical state of health. She scarcely ever leaves her apartments at the hotel where she is boarding, and receives her guests reclin ing. Heart trouble Is said by her physi cians to be the specific cause of her ill ness. Her daughter, Miss Winnie, is with her, and is assi-tiug in finishing the life of her father, whicii Mrs. Davis is writing, Indignant at (tie Light Sentence, Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 27.—Two years ago at a hotel in Mexico, Oswegocounty, in an altercation between John D. Rior dan and Daniel Haley,the latter received a wound that proved'fatal. Riordan was arrested and indicted. In the court of sessions at Herkimer, Riordan was con victed and sentenced by Judge Evans to pay a fine of §I,OOO, or in default thereof to serve 1,000 days in Auburn state prison. Riordan, who Is in well-to-do circumstances, will pay the fine, Much indignation is expressed over the light sentence imposed for the crime. Houses I! I on-u lip With Dynamite. Bluefikld, W. Va., Jan. 2?.—The fourth instance in which houses in this vicinity have been biown up with dyna mite occurred here last night. Tiie home of James Collins was demoH-hed Thurs day night. Moses Henry’s store was partially wrecked the same night, and William Roan’s dwelling was demol ished and several jiersous injured. Three arrests have been made as a result of the explosion last night. The town is ter rorized. Violated the Lottery Law. Harrisburg, Fa., Jan. 27.—Levi Eichholtz, of DiUsburg, York county, was arrested by United -States Marshal Anderson, of this city, for violating the lottery law. He had sent money for lottery tickets to M. A. Dauphin. Eich holtz >va« brought to Harrisburg and held in SSOO bail for a hearing before United Stales Commissioner Wolfe, AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES. McDONOUGH/.GA., FRIDAY', JANUARY, 80, 1891. MONEY FOR LEVEES. Millions of Dollar* Krcomnwtuled by the Committee. Washington, Jan. 27.— Chairman Bur rows,from the house committeeou levees and improvements of the Mississippi i ver, submitted to the house a favorable report on a hill drafted by the committee hi appropriate $10,000,000 to repair and build the levees on the Mississippi from the head of the passes to Cairo, to be ex pended in accordance with the plans of the Mississippi river commission. The report says that the opinion formed by congress in 1880 that the levee system would form an important auxili ary in channel improvement, has ripened into the conviction in the minds of the majority of the commission in charge of the work that a continuous line of levees, sufficient to confine the overflow waters to the channel, is indispensable and nec essary to t lie complete improvement of the channel of the river for navigation, and that it would prevent destructive floods. The opposition to previous appropria tions, based on the ground that the real object in view was not the improvement of the channel, but the protection of private property from overflow, the re port says, is refuted by the statement of the Mississippi river commission that only tfboilt $8,000,000 of the $14,000,000 appropriated on the river have been ex pended on levees and that this expendi ture has demonstrated that the govern ment could-not if it would thoroughly improve the channel and protect the banks of -the Mississippi without inci dentally preventing destructive floods, and could not accomplish the latter without the former. The overwhelming weight of the testi- Pffiny in the opinion of the committee is that the Mississippi pan best be improved by providing a ourrent sufficient to scour out the channel. Any interrup tion of the flow of water, the engineers without exception say, results in the formation of a liar directly below the break which impairs the channel in very nearly the same proportion as the water diverted by the crevasse, As experi ence has shown that the work of river improvement is greatly retarded and rendered less effective and more costly by annual or biennial appropriations, the committee propose to place at the disposal of the commission the means necessary to a continuous and extensive prosecution of the work. The report then makes a strong argu- j meat in support of the constitutional j right and duly of congress to provide an j eitiejent system of improvement of the Mississippi. SOMETHING IS WRONG. Connecticut Girls lluii Away—Perhaps Their Homes are Not Pleasant. Middletown, Jan. 27.— Almost every ! week counter girl runs a Usually they are from 13 to 18 years of age. They pack a little kit of things, slip away from the. old homestead after nightfall, hurry to the nearest railroad station, and j are whizzed away to the great city. j The police of Connecticut cities are j looking for more than a score of run- j away girls now, all of whom quitted j their homes within the last six weeks. | Five girls disappeared from places in | the neighborhood of New Haven within | the past two or three weeks. Dora and Mary Berger ran away from this city, one from Berlin and two from New Haven. Fruit Trees Pruned by Ice. Middletown, Jan. 27.— The late ice storm wrought great havoc in the fruit orchards of Connecticut, In some towns, the farmers say, entire orchards were completely wrecked. The back 1 country roads leading through woods are still impassible in places on account; of creat piles of tree Jimbs jn the way. j Peach and pear trees sulferod worst, be- ! cause their branches are fragile, hut in i many instances apple trees, too, were i crushed. Many farmers think that next season’s fruit crop in the state will be almost a complete failure, hut old weather prophets do not believe the dir; ful prediction. It is said that an ice storm does heroic and beneficial prun ing, and at a time of the year when trees iire not apt to suffer on account of the wounds inflicted. Itellef Committee for Nelirankit Farmers. Chicago, Jan. 27.—Thirty-two ooun ties in the western part of Nebraska are in sore distress, and Congressman-elect Bryan, W. A. McKeighan and C. M. Ker of tlic first, second and third Ne braska districts, are at t lie Palmer house, on their way as a relief committee to s<> licit aid from congress. “From the state treasury,” said Chairman McKeighan, “the farmers of these counties will re ceive $.">00,000, and we want congress to make an appropriation of $1,000,000 to give them a start in the spring. I think they are worthy subjects for national as sistance.” Auleep Nine Month*. PIXON, 111., Jan. 27.—Mrs. Grace G. Ridley, of Amboy, XU,, who went to sleep about nine months ago, awoke Friday afternoon for the first time. She wandered about the house, but did not s)>eak a word. At tea time (die took her accustomed seat at the table, but could eat nothing, and when some one of the family attempted to assist her, she motioned them away with a gut ter ai sound. It is not known whether she went to sleep again, but her condition puzzles the doctors. A Woman Clmrgoil with I'nrgmy, Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 27.—Mrs. AnnaS. Custer of Littlestown, Adams county, is charged with forgery. She had ap plied for a pension, and forged the name of a clergyman and notary public to the papers. She did not get the pension, and now says that she did not suppose any ' <xl> would be harmed by the forgery. She lias leen taken to Philadelphia to answer to the charge. To Commit an Atlanta Oculist. New York. Jan. 27.—0il his southern trip, Mayor Grant will, it Is s* l j i con . suit an eminent oculist now in Atlanta, and, if it Is necessary, undergo an opera tion.' His absence from the city may last anywhere from ten days to three weeks. Mgi'wl lor This Season. ( <.l CUBES, 0.. Jan. 27.—Mark Bald win, the baseliall pitcher, has signed a contract to play with the Coinin'; is as sociation team the wining season. THE AUTHOR FOUND. RKtanliouse, Col. Polk’.n Former Sefretary, Ha* Confofigcd. Washington, Jan. 2fi.—The Federa tion people met again Saturday, and all the notables—Powderly, Livingston,Ma cune and others were present. The meeting was a secret one. McClammy of North Carolina, ami Lewis of Missis sippi, Alliance members of the house, were amciig the eudiene?- Livingston and Macune made a siart- in the morning. The •di tor of the Kansas Alliance organ en closed them a letter written by ..ousc, Col. Buiko f w mui wAdutuTy, ac knowledging that he wrote the letter published in the St. G>u;s Uh.be-Demo crat, charging that Livingston and Ma cune were hacking Calhoun for senator for a monetary consideration. It will he recalled that this publication came near causing a rupture in the Ocala convention, and that it did subject Ma cune .Old Livingston to an investiga tion. The letter published in St. Louis was written here, but was dated at Atlanta. It seems that in Ids anxiety to down Macune & Co., lie clipi>ed the letter from the Globe-DeiwxTat and encclosed it to the Kansas paper for reproduce tion, acknowledging he was its author. Among other expressions he suggested that Christ had his Judas and the Alli ance laid its Macune. There was mani fest excitement in The Economist when this letter was read. The struggle over the cloture rujg is well under way, and an early vote will be reached, A DRUMMER’S GOOD LUCK. Picket! Up iig a Corpa<—A Stomach rump and a battery Saved Him. Chicago, Jan. 27.—Frank Kline, a salesman for a New York dry goods house, has had an experience iu Chicago that ho won’t soon forget. lie was laid out as a corpse in the city morgue, and was restored by an electric hart cry. Kline has a large salary, and enjoys life. His first few days in this city on this trip were more than usually success ful. lie bought a large diamond with his surplus cash. lie went out for astroll in the afternoon, and stepped into a sa loon. The first glass of the concoction the bartender gave him made him forget all alxiut his big sales and his diamond. A girl in the saloon, under the pretense of a caress, put her arm about ids neck and removed $75 ]■■ m his pocket book and a New York Central mileage ticket, and also took the big diamond. When Kline showed signs of reviving ho was thrown into tb« street, where he fell into a stupor. A few minutes later he was picked up for dead and taken to the morgue in a patrol wagon. Dr. McNamara, of the county hospital staff, happened to Itc in the place, and something caused him to believe there Wjg* life tpau. A jgymaeh pump and an electric haffcrWWFrfie work, and in half an hour Kline walked out. Ho returned to New York. SNOW IN RUSSIA. 1C very tiling Covered Up, mid Numbers of People Frozen to Dentil. St, Petersburg, Jan. 27.—Terrible snow storms have prevailed throughout the southeastern portion of Russia. Deep drifts have been formed, and whole villages and numbers of isolated houses have been almost buried in snow. The railroad trucks are entirely useless, and the only means of communication lie tween the villages and towns is by sleighs. Numbers of people are known to have been frozen to death, and it. is feared that, as the snow disappears, further loss of life will le revealed. The city of Kharkow, capital of the government of Klmrkow, on the Khar kova, is so completely isolated by snow that the only way of communicating with its inhabitants is by telegraph. Kharkow is a city of about 80 >,otto in habitants, and it is feared that, should its complete isolation continue for any length of time, there will be terrible suf fering, owing to the scarcity of provis ions among the poorer inhabitants. WEIGHING SPIRITS. Tlio Commissioner Lx perl men ting—Tlie System 31 ii 3’ Im* Adoptotl. Washington, Jan. 27.—For the pur pose of securing the most accurate method possible of ascertaining the con tents of packages of distilled spirits for taxation, the commissioner of internal revenue has for the past few months been conducting a series of ex iieriments in order to determine whether more cor rect results may not lie reached by weight than by- the system now prac ticed. The investigations thus far made indicate that about all the imperfections in measurement caused by manipulation of tiie packages may be overcome by the system of weighing. It is also Ixi lieved that the expense of officers may be reduced under the promised system. All the correspondence and interviews thus far held with nnmiiers of the leading spirits producers in the country warrant the statement that they are almost universally in favor of the change, Should tiie facts developed mi further investigation continue favorable, it is very probable the coinmisioin-r will take the necessary steps for establishing a system of weighing spirits for taxa tion in the near future. FIRED BODILY. Jolm L. Sullivan I>ecl»r®<l to be u Shame and Discredit to the 101k*. CINCINNATI, Jan. 27.— Dr. Quiuliu of Chicago, the head of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, has been h re since last Thursday. Friday night, at a meeting which he attended, the doctor suspended the prize fighter, John L. Sul livan, as a person “who is unworthy to associate with gentlemen, and whose conduct has brought shame and discred it upon the order.” Sullivan gained admission to tiie order at Newark, N. J., where he gained ad mission as an actor. Dr. Quinlin, in his order of suspen sioD, lias forbidden any lodge to admit Sullivan. Tho headquarters of the order were removed from New York to Cin cinnati last July. Ru.pocted of Murdering Hlh Mother. Springfield, 0., Jan. 27.—John Doyle, aged 30, has been arrested, charged with murdering his mother. Neighbors found her sitting up in bed and her face horribly distorted. Finger marks showed plainly on her neck. THEY ARE DISAPPOINTED. Maple Sugar Men Say the McKinley Tariff Bill Downed Them. Rutland, Vt., Jan. 27.—The senti ments of Vermont farmers toward the McKinley tariff bill have undergone a ; very decided chango during the ptist week. They had been told that the sugar bounty would benefit them in making maple sugar, and, acting on that, they i made preparations to largely increase and improve the yield this year. The 1 decision of the attorney general that no : bounty can l>o paid this year on sugar | produced before July 1, has rendered all i tlieil piqwiutiuu. useless lor the present | season, and a large number have gone to | a considerable outlay, for which they I can get no compensation for another year. Many email producers can ill af tonl the expellee and 'lie inconvenience tor which they will get no return this season. The farmers are not the only sufferers. There are factories in the state which make a specialty of the manufacture of sap buckets, evaporators and other uten sils used in maple sugar making. The managers of these enterprises were over run with orders from producers, and had made extensive preparations for hand ling a largely increased trade. Now the orders are tioiiig cancelled and the man ufacturers suffer. Before the announcement of the decis ion more tiian 500 applications for licenses had been received from sugar producers at tho office of the collector of internal revenue. SPORTING ON THE ICE. A Nuinlwr of Young People Sustain Very Serious Injuries. Anhonia, Conn., Jan. 24. —Since the ice storm of Saturday and Sunday the; double ripper has lieen enjoying a har vest of broken bones and lioodH. The first accident to occur was to Miss j Alice Cotter, prominent in ihe King’s : Daughters, who had lier right thigh j broken. Henry Fagan crashed into a j freiglit car on his ripper, and besides ' breaking his left arm stripiied the bones of the flesh and muscles. Tuesday night Sterling Lockwood struck a curbstone with his ripper, and cut a gash iu his leg from the ankle to the knee. Daniel Willsey.of White Hills, plunged off a bridge on his ripper yesterday and fell Into a river. Ho was 'taken out with five ribs broken. Fred Konnison was struck by the ripper of another lioy, and his leg was stripped of flesh and muscles from tho knee to the Ankles Maggie I’halen was picked up by £#le>l and hurled twenty feet into the uir. Badly in juring her internally, and a little soil of George Gotul was injured in the same way at another coasting place, Essie Marsella, aged 14, was struck in tho back by a ripper, which knocked her off her Hied and inflicted injuries. In-plitCdw it itJffiT'f Jonh' ‘MTifnWw" brought out an ancient pung and filled it up with twenty people. The awkward vehicle got the lietter of tho pilot, and the wliolo twenty were thrown out. Morrissey sustained sovero injuries to his back. A TERRIFIC GALE NORTH AND WEST. Thousands of Wires Down—>Tl» Western j Union System Wrecked. Washington, Jan. 27.—A terrific galo completely prostrated the Western Union system most of tho distanco between Baltimore and New York. It is esti mated timt alxiut a thousand poles arc down in the district. About a thousand are re|x>rtod down between Washington and Grafton, W. Va., along tLe line of tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The wreck is more com plete and covers a wider area than the celebrated blizzard of tlireo years ago. The storm completely isolated New York, and Western Union officials say it will lie two or three days before things can lie righted, They have hut three wires out from New York, and they are to Buffalo via Albany. The streets of New York are blockod with poles and wires. Advices received from other sections stato that immense damage was done, hut notidng definite can lie learned now. A GHOST SHIRT. Fergeant Fluher Rent It um m Relic of tli« “(»lio»t Diiiicc’* by tlie Indiana. Leavenworth, Jan. 27.—A relic of the Wounded Knee fight haw come through the mails from Pine Itidgeagen cy, add ressed to C. M. Halinger, of tliis city. It is a “ghost shirt,” worn by a Brule chief in the fight, and in the ghost dance the night before the fatal day. It was sent to Mr. Malinger by First Sergeant Edward Fisher of troop I, first cavalry, who vouches for its genuine ness. It is made of canvas, trimmed with buckskin and feathers, and daubed with paint, rings and stars decorating it. “Ghost shirts” were worn by some of the more superstitious Indiras in the fight to protect them from the bullets of the soldiers. The chief who wore this shirt was slain, but there is no mark of a bullet hole in the garinont. A PATHETIC STORY. A Dying Child in Michigan C'nlU for Her Father. Atlanta, Jan. 27.—Mayor Hemphill, of this city, is in receipt of the following letter, which speaks for itself. The let ter was turned over to the chief of po lice': 144 Pkquejt’b, Avk., Detroit Mich. Deak Mr. Mayor—My father, Jere miah Marr, age #5, eight 190, height medium, sallow complexion. Left here last June after meeting with many losses, since when wo have not heard from him. Now his dying child calls for him, and I ask that for love of God and humanity you make this inquiry as public as possi ble. By so doing you will do much for an afflicted family. In anticipation of your good offices, I remain yours gratefully, Caj.berne Mark. KI«:1u*<1 an Innane Man to Death. Richmond, Ind., Jan. 27.—The jury in the case of James A. Woods, the attend ant at the Easton hospital for the insane, charged with kicking T. Jay Blount, a patient, to death, returned a verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter, fixing the |*malty at twemy-one years in the lieuitentiary. The jury was out three hours. Wood was overcome by the re sult. WIRES AT WORK AGAIN. The Great Telegraph Hloeknrie Raised uml Business Greatly Relieved. New York, Jan. 29.— New York’s greatest telegraph blockade has been par tially raised. Western Union officials were congratulating themselves at 9p. m. that they had fifteen wires in work ing order, witli the prospects of having communication opened today to all prin cipal points, either directly or indirectly. The line weather meant a great deal to the different companies. A thousand men were at work in tlds city and the neighborhood, putting telegraph, tele phone, tire, and light lines into shape again. The telephone service, winch suffered more heavily by Sunday’s storm than all the other lii As together, had im proved hut little. Thirty-five hundred subscribers are still cut off. District messenger calls all over town were prac tically useless. Western Union’s fifteen wires ran to the west and Boston. All the southern business was transacted through Cliiea- S's Philadelphia was finally reached by way of Chisago, I’iitHlxirg and Washing ton. One wire was working on tho di rect line to Boston. One wire was given to the Associated Press. Up to midnight business had linen uc ; cumulating in the office, hut the acting wire chief said that it could all be I worked off before daybreak. The regular subscribers ~f the Postal were clamoring for wir. s from the West j ern Union, hut all their matter wan ro j fused. The Postal had two wires in uso, ; and was refusing United Pres; business, i Uue wire hud boon run through direct lo Boston and another, quadrupled, was I being used, half for Albany and ball' for ; Montreal direct, where all Pacific coast ; business was sent. Both companies were I j utilizing their surplus oj orators to de- I liver messages by train through Now- Jersey and Ixing Island and in the towns | along the New Haven road. Special I trains on all tho roods leading to New York were put at the service of the Western Union officials, w ho despatched tho men in gangs of ton or twelve; s fust as they reported at headquarters. MIZNER’S DEFENSE. Tli« Kx-Mlnister Believe* He Did ill, Duty In the Bar ratal In Affair. San Francisco, Jan. 29. Lansing B. Mizner, ex-ministor to Guatemala, has decided to make public bis official de fense in the Barrundia case, lie justi fies this on the ground that Mr. Blaino’s letter dismissing him wus given to the press tlireo weeks lxiforo it reunited him and two weeks before congress met. Ilia defense, in brief, is that the Ear rundiu affair was a mere incident in comparison with tho settlement of tho war between Salvador and Guatemala, which lie, as dean of tho diplomatic corps, brought about on| the very day Barrundia was killed.. and which ro “qrffrend Ma- aVM •*- .ittwfMilh. «■ ' - Aside from this, however, he asserts that his course was strictly in accordance with international law, as Barrundia was guilty of non-political i,s well as political crimes, and cites, in justifica tion of his position, the action of Secre tary Bayard in the Gomez case. lie quoted President Harrison's mess age to the effect that diplomacy should Do frank and free from intrigue, and says it would have been intrigue to have abetted the captain of the steamer Aca pulco in evading international law by preventing liarrundia’s arrest. He points out that on July 4 last tho authorities of Salvador were allowed to arrest Senor Delgado, minister of foreign relations, on Ixxird the same vessel. Mr. Mizner says bis course was ap proved iu writing by the entire diplo matic corps in Central America, except ing the Mexican minister, and lie con cludes by submitting his case to his countrymen. FOUGHT TO THE LAST. A Mad Stallion and a .fiirkaMM, In Morccr, Fight a Terrible Hattie. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 29.—A buttle to the death took place in Mercer county, between a valuable saddle stallion and a jackass, l>elonging to William Thomas, a stock raiser. A few days ago a mad dog bit Thom as’s little boy and the stallion. Tire horse went mad, and kicking dow n the door of the jaek’B stable, commenced biting him. The jack retaliated, and for fifteen minutes they fought, using their tooth, heels and fore feet. Finally the jack tore tiie stallion’s left ear with ins teeth, and tiie stallion then bit a piece from the jack’s neck. This seemed to make tiie jack more ferocious than ever, and, grabbing the lower part of the stalliou’s neck in Ins teeth, he tore out his wind pipo. But the high mettled stallion did not give up. and before falling lie kicked the jack's left bind leg, breaking it just below tiie hock. He then fell dead. The jack uttered a long, loud bray and went into his stable. Ho was covered with blood and wounded unto death, so that his master killed him to put him out of his misery. Tiie isiy was taken to a mudstone. The stone stuck tlireo times, and tie shows no signs of madness. It is bo lieved lie will recover. They lire Working to W'in. Ogden, Utah, Jan. 29. —There is no little excitement hero over the coming biennial election. Tiie present Gentile administration has made many enemies and there is a strong anti-ring feeling in the Liberal party, and a citizens party lias been formed which ignores old party lines and will endeavor to place .Mor mons on its ticket. This new party has secured control of a number of tiie wards, aiuMl is expected that the citi zens’ party will receive many new votes, and by securing tiie Mormon vote make a close race for tiie control of the icity. Found With HU Head Cut Off. ATHOL, Mass., Jan. 29.—The headless body of a man, who had been run over by the cars, was found by Trackwalker Fay, on the railroad track eight miles east of this station. The remains were later identified as those of Frank lajou ard, of this town. The body was fear fully mangled, and the head, which was found at some distance beyond, was cut so as’to he unrecognizable. It is proba ble that Leonard was intoxicated, and was lying across the track, when struck by a train. Charles McGlinsey, an engineer on tiie Birmingham Mineral road, was caught under an overturned engine and killed, Tuesday, THE VERY LATEST NEWS ITEMS. Interesting and Pithy Point* Gathered From Kvcry Section of the Conntry. A Revere snow and wind storm struck \v ashingt-on city early Saturday night, alia lasted about eight hours. Jack Gist, a negro, while out hunting, in the lower part ot Union county, S. C., accidentally shot himself, which proved fatal. Henry C. Berry, who robbed Grace church of two silver candlesticks, in Louisville, Ky., was yesterday held to answer by Judge Thompson. James T. Hayes has sued Alfred Lynn, at Birmingham, for $5,000 damages for libel in telling that he (Hayes) during the war, stole a horse from a widow. Congressmen are commenting upon the action of several southern legisla lures in declining to take steps to par ticipate in the world's fair pending con sideration of the election bill. The Augusta carnival was a success in every sense. It paid its way; it at tracted thousands of visitors to the city, and gave a Ruperb advertisement to Its commercial and manufacturing enter prises. George Joyce, a farmer of Shelby county, Lid., while engaged in felling a tree on his farm, met with a terrible death, caused by a falling limb, which mashed him into the ground, killing him instantly, I. F. Fojco walked out of a second story window of his residence at Roches ter, N. Y., while in a fit of somnambu lism, and fractured his right logon the pavement below. F.mile Van Marcke, who is said to have lieon the most famous cattle painter of modern times, died at Hyeres, on the Mediterranean, a few days ago. C. P. Huntington has one of his pictures, for which he paid $11,500. Itishon Howe, of South Carolina, ac companied by Gen. Ellison Capers, of Columbia, passed through Atlanta, Fri day, returning from Selma, Ala., where they had gone to assist in the consecra tion of Bishop Jackson. Sid Morgan, a convict, who escaped from the Georgia clmingang some time ago, was captured in Atlanta Friday. Morgan was married to a young colored damsel the day before, and was enjoy ing his honeymoon when arrested. A young woman engaged in taking subscriptions for a liook, while pursuing her avocation in Moser’s tannery, in Now Albany, on East Eighth street, fcdl into an open vat filled with tho pungent liquid used in tanning, and was rescued with much diiiiculty by the workmen. Last Sunday, tho 25th, a new sleeping car line was inaugurated between At lanta and Louisville via tho Western and Atlantic, Nashville, Chattanooga ami St. Louis and Louisville and Nashville railroads. The sleeper leaves Atlanta at 11:10 p. m., arriving at Chattanooga 4:40 a. m. Leave Chattanooga ha. m., leave Nashville 11 a. in., arrive Louisville S p. in. •H-flitr Cniiied Elective Railway com pewy. of Nashville, which has brought charges of discrimination against tho Louisville and Nashville, anil Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis roads, has prepared a hill to bo introfflioed in tho Tennessee legislature providing for tho establishment of a railroad commission in that state. Miss Eliza Shrader near Jeffersonville, Ind,, while [sissing through an enclosure in which a drove of hogs were roaming, was attacked and terribly lacerated by tho brutes. The young lady’s lower limbs were frightfully lacerated, and when discovered she was lying uncon scious upon the ground. Her condition is said to be critical. Three years ago they were digging people out of the snow-drifts in North Dakota, and the cattle as well as human beings were freezing to death. In tho same localities the thermometer regis tered 82 in the shade a few days ago, men walked about in their shirt sleeves and picnics were numerous. The south is the place to live in. Superstitious people living in St. Louis Euchre-town, a small village near Sey mour, Ind., are puzzled ana perplexed by the sounds of a hell which apparently rings three times about 1 o’clock each morning from the basement of an aban doned distillery. All efforts to unravel tho mystery are unavailing, and many people are greatly alarmed. Tho report of the engineer officers de tailed to watch the performance of the engines of the cruiser Newark on her recent trial trip, has been submitted to the secretary hf the navy. It shows an indicated horse [lower of about 9,000, an excess of 500 horse power over tiie con tract requirements and entitling the con tractors to nearly $50,000 premium. Another train has been put on by the Ixiuisville and Nashville road between Nashville and Louisville. It leaves the former city at 11:20 o’clock a. m., making connections for Louisville witli the morning train from Chattanooga, 1 Atlanta and Jacksonville. The train | will arrive at Louisville at 6;20 o’clock i p. m., or in time to make connection with the bridge trains for the north west. Mrs. Betsy Averall, who died Friday at the age of 108 years and eight months I and eleven days, at her old home, New I’reston, Conn., was a remarkable in stance of vigor at a very advanced age. The three weeks’ illness that ended in the death of this woman, who had lived through every presidential administra tion, was the first that had confined her to her bed for a week in the course of her long life. \V. B. Webb, the well known tobac conist, is lying dangerously ill at his home, 1108 West Jefferson street, Louis ville, Ky. He is afflicted with inflam matory rheumatism, lie has been in poor health for several years, but his last illness dates from about two months igo. His condition has been so serious for the past week that recovery is des paired of. He may die at any time. It is estimated that since the founda tion of this government to June 30, 1890, no less than 15.540,707 immigrants have landed in the United States. The num aer who came last year was 455,302. Of this number 57.020 came from England ; 53,024 from Ireland ; 12,000 from Wales; 52.427 from Germany; 56,199 from Aus tria-Hungary; 51,799 from Italy; 33,047 from Russia, aud 29,652 from Sweden. The 2-year-old son of Mr. E. P. Line berger was burned to death Thursday evening at Belmont, twelve miles south of Charlotte. N. C. His mother left tho house for a few moments, and the child’s clothing caught fire. He ran out in the yard to his mother, and the wind mad dened the flames, which soon complete ly envoi oisil him. He soon died from his burns. NO. 22