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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY, 1,1891.
VOL. XV.
PROFESSIONAI. CARDS.
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DENTIST,
McDosrouoii Ga.
Any one desiring work done can lie ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Gio W. Bey ah j W.T. Dickkx.
BRYAH A BMKT.A,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
el'Georgia and the United States District
Court. api-27-ly
JAN. ■(. TURNER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDosorou, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl6-ly
P .1. REAGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
othercollections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
| F. WALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonouoh, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing I he
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
givin to collections. octs-’79
A. HROWN,
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all tlie counties compos
ing tlie Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. jani-ly
1 j A. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888
J no. D. Stewart. | It. T. Daniel.
STEWART A DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
JOHN L. TIE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
"Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts,
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GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
Thomas Finch, age seventy-two years,
and Miss Addie Chambley, age thirty five
years, were married in Calboun last week.
There is no abatement to the building
boom in southwest Georgia. And every
day ushers in new enterprises in the pro
gressive towns.
Appropos of the statement that there
are no lawyers in Echols and Chmlton
counties. The returns for 1890 show that
Charlton has neither a doctor or a den
tist.
At’anta is preparing for another expo
sition this fall. The subscription com
mittee have already secured over half the
amount needed to insure the success of
the enterprise.
It is very probable that a bill will be
introduced at the summer session of the
legislature to amend the eh irter of Daw
son so that tl e mayor’s salary can be in
creased from S2OO to SSOO per year, and
provide for compensation for the aider
men.
Now that Columbus has- the money for
a public building, the selection of a site
is agitating the citizens, and is likely to
give as much trouble as did the location
for the world’s fair at Chicago. But Co
lumbus has the money, and that is the
big part of it.
The effects of the recent disastrous con
flagration in Vienna have been seriously
felt by the people, but they have goue
bravely to work to repair the loss. The
burned block will be replaced with hand
some brick structures, which are now be
ing contracted for.
There is no hoard of county comnus
s’oners in Lowndes county at present.
Messrs. C. M. Williams and George
Herndon, a majority of the new board,
have refused to take up their commis
sions, and this leaves Mr. William Mar
shall, who has taken up his, in the minor
ity an d unable to act.
The grand jury of Laurens county, in
their general presentments, recommended
that her representative pass a bill placing
the whisky license in that county at
SIO,OOO, which will practically amount
to prohibition, and also recommended
that the ordinary levy a tax for the pur
pose and build a brick jail with steel
cells, to cost about SI,OOO.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says: When ci:-Goverm>r Gordon, of
Georgia, arrived at the Pennsylvania
railroad station, in Jersey City, bound
south, this afternoon, he found that, h s
peyket had been picked, and he had
neither railroad ticket nor money to buy
any with. Besides his ticket, he had
lost $l4B. His grand hailing sign of dis
tress brought him relief at the railroad
ticket office, and after putting the mat
ter in the hands of detectives, the gov
ernor continued on his journey without
delay.
The Macon lodge of Locomotive En
gineers claim to have a grievance against
the Central railroad. They say that that
part of the railroad’s contract with them
relative to pay for over time has not b ec
unforced, and they claim that iueu in the
different branches of services have lost
over $40,000 in the Inst three months
from that cause alone. A committee
consis’ing of a representative engineer
from each division of the Ccntrel system
was appointed to go to Savannah for the
purpose of conferring with Manager
Gabbet on this question.
Georgia is infested with Gypsies, and
they are causing trouble in many section o .
Recently a Gypsy, ca ling himself “John
Shylock,” met a boy near Talbotton, who
was riding a mule which belonged to Mr.
Walter Baldwin. The Gypsy traded
mule* with him, giving the boy $lO to
bout. The mule left with the boy was a
very inferior animal, and the boy took
him down to Taylor couoty and sold him
for SB. He afterwards returned to Mr.
Baldwin’s house and related the whole
transaction, claimiag that the Gypsy
forced him to exchange, and afterwards
frightened him into leaving by telling
him that Mr. Baldwin would prosecute
him for theft. Mr. Baldwin started in
Eur-uit. overtaking the Gypsy, with his
and, in Barnesville. He recovered the
mule and $75 in money for damages sus
tained.
Information wa- rt-ccived at the peni
tentiary department Thursday of the
escape of seven convicts from the enmp
at LaFayet c, Walker county. The pris
oners, with assistance from an outside
negro, overpowered the guard and escaped
without injury to themselves. The es
capes are: S. F. Lucas, white, Decatur
county, eighteen years for burglary;
Mingo Melrose, black, Chatham
county, life, for murder; Char
lie Martin, black, Meriwether coun
ty, ten years, for burglary; George
Frank, black, Dodge county, life, for
murder; George Wright, colore 1, Talbot
county, t<n years, for burglary; William
W’ilson, colored, Echols county, life, for
murder; Bob Wiggins, back, Sumtei
couu’y, life, for murder. The guard was
first a-eaultcd and knocked down by a
free negro whose duty it was to carry
steel from the works to the shop for re
pairs. This negro has been arrested, and
an armed posse is pu suing the escapes.
Cm of Our Legislature.
Treasurer Bob Hardeman, on Thurs
day, completed his payroll for the last
session of the legislature. The figures
show what the legislature costs the state,
and are as f»!lows. The senate —Pei
diem, $13,613; mileage, $1,372.80; cx
jieuses of committees, $290.74; total,
$15,270.54. The house—Per diem, $40,-
210.50; mileage, $5,184.10; expen«es of
c mmittees, $704.23; total, $40,098.83.
So that a session of forty-eight days
costs the state $61,375.37. The corre
sponding session of the last legislatnre
cost $57,374.12.
Judge Speer’s Keply.
At the meeting of the house judiciary
committee in W ashington several day's
ago, there were severe criticisms of the
federal judge* for the suspension of sen
tences of offenders sgaicst the internal
revenue law. The northern Georgia dis
trict, in particular, was singled out for
attack, and Judge Emory Spter, of this
district, who temporarily acted in thai
district on the account of the disability
of Judge McKay, cane in for some sever<
and entirely unjust strictures for his,
MCDONOUGH GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUABY 20,1891.
course in that direction. Judge Speer
has sent a long dispatch from Savannah
to the chairman of the committee, in
which he states that he found the jail in
an cx rumely filthy condition, and filled
to overflowing with state and federal
prisoners, many of the latter having been
arrested for the most trival offenses, and
never indicted. Epidemics of measles
and other diseases prevailed among them,
and out of simple humanity he released
tbejn on their good tiehavior. In cor
elusion he gives this timely advice: “Th
committee can form no adequate eoncep
lion of the suffering endured by the fed
eral pr soners in many state jails, and,
1 cfore the power of the court to suspend
sentences is wholly abrogated, I respect
fully submit that federal jui s should bo
provided where confinement will" not
destroy life or endanger health.”
1 lie Wesleyau Female Collect.
Here is something that will interest
every M thodist in Georgia, and all
fiieuds of Wes eyan Female College, no
matter wh< re they may be. The college
belongs to the South and North Georgia
conferences, and has been based for a
long time to President W. V. Bass.
President Has pays tlie conferences so
much money for the college and he op
erates d. If the aitendancc is large or
small, that does not affect the price the
conferences receive year by year. The
attendance this year is the largest in the
history of the college. For several years
President Bass has teen contemplating
to cease leasing the college, partly on ac
count of his health and partly because he
desired to go back to preaching. Ho
notified the board seme time ago that he
would retire. Accordingly, the board
trustees met in Macon to discuss the plan
of operating the college aft- r the present
term. Ttie question before the board
was whether it should be leased, as at
present, or be run by the board. The
board resolved to continue the lease sys
tem, and left with its local trustees the
duty of miking the best arrangement
they could and report at a later meeting
of the board. The lease expires in June
next.
Fraudulent Pension Claim*.
There were several pensions paid last
year that won’t be paid this year, beause
the claims are fraudulent. A ease in
point came up Thursday at the capital.
A man who lives now in Jackson county
has been drawing a pension since ’79 for
the loss of an arm. lie enlisted in Com
pany B, First Georgia Regiment. His
affidavit states that this arm was lost at
the second battle of Manassas. By the
merest accident in the world this claim
was brought to the attention of Captain
F. M. Myers, of Atlanta, and others.
Tlmy remembered the m n and the par
ticulars of the loss of his arm. He de
liberately shot off his hand in order to get
out of the service. That was in
August, 1861. Thrie iflidavits
to that effect—from two officers
and one private in that command—are
now filed away in the executive deport
ment, a« airing the pensioner’s applica
tion for a pension this year. Still another
case is that of a man who lost a leg in a
railroad accident at Jonesboro, and has
been drawing a pension on the strength
of the affidavit, vouched for in due form,
that he lost his leg in battle. Several
other cases have been brought to the at
tention of the department, aud the list is
being thoroughly sifted; and it will be a
very bard matter hereafter for a fraudu
lent claim to get through.
Tlie Betti rnruta Claim.
The claim of the Western and Atlantic
lessees is $722,714.14, with interest.
Nearly three-quarters of a million. The
paper, which is a final and official and
complete presentation of their claim for
betterments, has been delivered to C 1.
N. J. Hammond, president of the com
mission. The petition begins by recit
ing the act of the legislature leasing
the road to certain persons on De
cember 27ib, 1870. Thero was nothing
peculiar in the transaction, and the state
occupied the position of ordination lessor
in the lease. They claim tuat one of the
incidents of the relation of landlord
and tenant is the right of the
tenant to remove, during his term, his
trade fixtures, and thnt the lessees could
have removed all the fixtures anucxcd to
the sale for the purpose of operaiing a
railroad, except such structure as bad
been placed as u substiiute lo a structure
existing prior to the lease, provided no
damage was done to the freehold. The
structures that could have been so re
moved are marked in “Exhibit A,” at
tached to the petition, and consist of
twenty-one squares and sidiegs, grading
not included, that cost $63,618.80, and
buildings in Atlanta at a cost of $3,810;
at other points on the road and in Chat
tanooga, structure* to the amount of $17,-
076, making the total $84,504 80. Fur
ther than that the company could have
removed substituted st uctures, marked
in ‘‘Exhibit B,” to the amount of $731,-
052.95, in the wav ot rails and bridge
work, und fences and other material, but
as an offset to this the orig
inal structures in “Exhibit C,”
to this amount of $323,669.30.
Attention is called to the sp cific act
of the legislature of October 24, 1870,
requiriug the lessees to give bond to re
turn the roal in as good condition as
when received, which act expressly recog
nizes the rights claimed by the petitioners.
Based upon this the petition* •- claim
the unimpeachable right to remove any
and all fixtures, provided the road was
returned in as good a condition as when
leastd, or even to sell the improvements
on the leased premises. The petition
cites the letter of President Joseph E.
Brown to Governor Gordon referring to
the rights of the company, with the fact
that the Georgia legislature immediately
afterwards, < n October 24, 1887,
denied most peremptorily the
rights claimed in the lettei.
and directed the state to use the entire
executive to prevent the removal of any
of the property, and by duress interfered
m ith t: e company’s rights in the matter.
Further, the state, as landlord, treated
the company's property as its own, and
even leased the trade fixtures, which iti
had a right to remove, to a new tenant
on December 27tb, 1890. The petition
then sets forth the agreement between
the company and the state, th; former
agreeing to allow its property to be
turned over to the new lessee, with the
distinct proviso that its claims were in
nowi-e abandoned, but were to lie upheld
a the courts of the country, and that the
-tate b* came bound by the agreement of
hat contract to pay petitioners the sum
»f money which their property is teasou-
AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES
ably worth. The conclusion of the peti
tion prays the fiuding and an award ol
the indebtedness by th • commission in
the sum of $722,714.15, besides interest,
as the amount due the lus ees on the
question of lights and betterments It
is signed by Joseph B. Cumming, Julius
L. Brown, Boykin Wright, petitioners’
at torueys.
NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap
pen from Day to Day.
The deficit in the savings bank at
Ayer, Ma-s., occasioned by Cashier
Spaulding’s transactions, w ill reach $25,-
090.
The invitation of the United States to
France to be represented at the world’s
fair iu Chicago has been formally ac
cepted by the president % of France.
The two farmers! organizations of Ar
kansas have r organized under one head.
'I he order will heiealter lie known as the
Farmers’ Alliance and International
Union of Arkansas.
•At Rochester, N. Y., Sunday night,
the watchman at St. Mary’s hospital dis
covered the eastern wing to be on fire.
There were 250 putjjcuts, nineteen nuns
and a large number of emp oyfcs in the
building. All were taken out.'
The Kansas house of representatives,
without a dissenting vote, has passed a
bill rem -ving political disability from all
persons who volunteered their services to
the confed rate states. The Kansas con
ititution now debars volunteer confeder
ate soldiers from the right to vote or hold
office.
The world's fair directors have created
the office of solicitor gemral. Con
gressman Blitter worth, who is now secre
tary of the local board, will also assume
the duties of solicitor general, to attend
to the legal and leg s'aiive affairs of the
board until his services are otherwise or
dered.
A cablegram of Sunday, from London,
says: The Shippiug Federation has issued
an ultimatum which declares thntthedic
tation of the unions is unbearable, and
that the federation will refuse to employ
auy man unless he pledges himself to em
bark on any vessel w ith which he signs
articles, whether the remainder do or/tot.
A dispatch of Friday from Ayer, Mass.,
says: President Hartwell lias received a
letter from the missing cashier, Spald
ing, in which ho states that he began
taking the banks’ money about four years
ago, and that ii was all lost in specula
tion. Examiner Q*tchell states that the
loss to the First National bank is appar
ently about $27,000.
At the instance of the International
Brotherhood of Railway Employes a bill
has been introduced in the Massachusetts
legislature providing for the election an
nually by the people of state railway
commissioners, who shall have no rail
way stock or interests. They shall re
ceive $4,000 each pgr year, SSOO each for
traveling expenses and free transporta
tion over all roads.
STEEL MANUFACTURES.
Labor Commissioner Wright’s
Report Before Congress.
The president, on Saturday, transmitted
to congress the report of G'airoll 1).
Wright, commissioner of labor, on the
co t of the production of steel and steel
rails. The inquiry was directed by the
act establishing a department with the
view to ascertain the co k t cf producing
articles dutiable in the United States in
the lea dng countries where such articles
are produced, by the units of production,
iu order to show the difference in thceost
of production between this country and
Europe, and the po si hearing of these
differences upon the ta ~i rates.
The report covers three features, the
first relating to the cost of production of
the articles selected; the second, relative
to rates, wages, time, earnings and effi
ciency of labor employed, and the third
relating to the cost of living and the total
earnings and expenditures of the men
employed. The comparison of cost of
materials used in the northern and south
ern districts of the United States shows a
difference in favor of the South in the
cost of ore and coal to be very great.
The ore used in the n< rth rn district
costs per ton an average of $4.40; cinder
scrap, etc., $2 04; limestone, 79.8 cents;
coke, $3,014, and coal $2,095. The cost
in the southern district lor ore is $1,513;
cinder scrap, etc., $1,031, 70,01 cents;
coke, $8,084, and coal, $1,500.
The table shows the results of the in
quiry as to the cost of producing steel
rails in thirteen establishments, two of
them being in the Uuitcd States, eight
on the continent of Euiopc and three in
Great Britain Id the United States, the
net co‘t of materials was $21.40, at one
establishment, and $25.11 at the other.
The cost of labor was $1 54 and $1.38.
The total c st at one, $24.79, and $27.08
at the other. On the continent the cost
of materials varied from sl7 09 to $19.-
88; to cost of labor from $1.02 to $4.64
per ton. In three establishments in
Great Britain the net cost of materials
varied from $lO 39 to $lB 05; to cost of
labor from $1.30 to $2 54. The totals
therefore vaiied from $lB 58 to $21.90.
The average earnings per hour for
workmen ranges in the northern district
from 9 cents to 18 cents; in the southern
district from 11 cents to 13 cents; in
Europe from 4 cents to 5 cents, and iu
Great Britain from 5 cents to 10 cents per
hour.
THE LAST SPIKE DRIVEN,
And the United States Connect
with British Columbia.
A dispatch from Fairhaven, Wash.,
says: The last spike in the track which
unites the state of Washington and Brit
ish' Columbia was driven at 11 o’clock
Saturday, in the presence of about 3,000
persons from both sides of the line. The
Fairhaven and Southern road forms the
American line, and the new Westminster
Southern the British Columbia. A trie
gram was read from Jnmes G 111®' e,
secretary of state.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Proceedings of the Second Ses
sion of the 51st Congress.
SENATE.
The senate resumed consideration of the
copyright bill Friday—the pending ques
tion being on Mr. Sherman’s amendment
to strike out the word “prohibited” uud
to insert the words “subject to duties
provided by law,” so that foreign editor*
of books, etc., which are copyrighted in
the United States may be admitted to
this country on the paymeut of regular
tariff duties. After considerable discus
sion a vote was reached on Mr. Sherman'*
amendment and it was agreed to. The
president's message announcing the death
of Admial Porter was laid before the sen
ate, and the remainder of the afternoon
was devoted to eulogistic speeches upon
his life. The speaker* were Messrs.
Chandler, McPherson aud Hale. The
senate then adjourned.
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house.
The house spent nearly all of Friday in
wrangling over the appropriation for the
civil servico commission. Many of the
ri publicans and many democrats wanted
to cut off the appropriation for clerk hire
for the commission, in order to practically
abolish civil service. The debate over it
between the republicans was highly luiid
at times, aud there were many sharp per
sonal encounters. Most of the democrat*
applauded the attacks upon the commis
sion during the early part of the day, but
later, wheu they learned that the motive
of the attack, which was led by Mr.
Grosvenor, of Ohio, was because Com
missioner Roosevelt had the fairness and
courage to recently notify the southern
people of the offices they were entitled
to, and gave them to young southerners,
they turned about and voted a full appro
priation for the continuance of th; civil
service board. Thus the commission will
continue to operate just as it has in the
past. The amendment to the legislative
bill providing for clerks to members, was
voted down during the afternoon on an
aye and no vote, by an overwhelming
majority.
NOTES.
The Sioux Indians, after a visit of two
weeks left Washington for the west on
Friday.
Secretary Noble has ordered the de
partment of the interior to be closed and
flags to be displayed at half-mast on the
day of the funeral of A. H. 11. Stuart, at
Staunton, Ya.
The advocates of ‘free coinage in the
house are growing white-hot ovi r the do
lay in reporting the silver bill, and on
Friday they declared they would com
mence to force the fighting on Monday.
Notwithstanding the Cleveland letter,
they say the house is for free coinage, and
a free coinage bill will pass if a vote can
be reached.
TRADE TOPICS.
Weekly Review of Business by
Dun & Co.
R. G. Dun & ( o.’s weekly review of
trade says: There is somo improvement
in business at the cast, und a more confi
dent fi cling, nnd at Chicago the tone is
very hopeful. But at n ost otlnr Wi st
ru and Southein points busi-.ess shows
no increase in volume, Hnd is rather lies
iiatlng. The industrial outlook is modi
fied By the great strike of the Connells
villc cok ' workers, which must cut off
large supplies of iron if it lasts, and by a
gieat decrease in the output. The coal
mark't is du 1 and weak. The demand
for wool continues strong, and worsted
goods arc lising. Bales at Boston in Jan
uary were 17,040,400 pounds, against
11,330,900 last year, an increase of
about 50 |er cent, nnd the market for
dress goods is particularly active—agents
looking forward to a time of extraordi
nary prosperity. Trade in cotton goods
is fair in volume, and print cloths are a
shade strongt r in price. The boot and
shoe trade show some improvement as to
volume, though the price* obtained are
not highly satisfactory. 'I he grocery
radc is fairly active, and indicates no
decrease in the demand for consumption.
Provisions have been n shade weaker,
with a fall of If cents in corn, and wheat
and oats have declined < aeh a fraction on
-■mull sales, but coffee and oil are stronger,
n> d cotton unchanged.
The iow pric.- of cotton tends to make
trade dull i.t the south, the farmers hold
ing hack for higher prices; but at New
Orleans the general trade improves ma
terially. At Nashville it opens very dull,
though buyers are cautious, and at other
points reporting it is only fair or dull.
Bt. Louis reports a fair volume, but no
improvement, while Kansas City finds a
better wholesa’e and a quiet retail trade.
At Denver and Bt. Paul trade is fair; at
Minneapolis, veiy active in lumber, with
excellent logging prospects; at Omaha,
without improvement, and at Milwaukee
and Detroit, quiet. The dry goods,
e. *hing and shoe trades considerably
exceed last year’s. Philadelphia reports
an improvement iu wool and a fair trade
in dry g‘ods and clothing; good orders
in jewelry and a fairly satisfactory trade
in paints and chemicals. Throughout
the country the money markets are com
paratively easy and undisturbed, though
the demaud is good and the supply hardly
adequite; at Cleve’and aud at Omaha
the market is c ose.
Business failures throughout the coun
try, during the last seven days, number
for the United State*, 262; Canada, 35.
For the corresponding week, last jear,
the figures were 240 in the United States
and 62 in Canada.
THE “SURRENDER HOUSE”
Purchased as a Museum for
War Relics.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: Captain M. E. Dunlap has pur
chased, for a company formed at Niagara
Falls, the old mansion at Appomattox,
known as “Surrender House,” in which
Lee’s surrender to Grant was concludid.
It is proposed to make it a museum for
*ar relics,
HIS LAST BATTLE.
Death of General Sherman at
New York.
General W. T. Sherman died ot his
home in New York Saturday afternoon.
The history of hia ailment dates from
last Wednesday one week ago, when in
company with a number of army and
naval < Hirers he attended the Casino
then're and contracted a cold. Iu a few
days erysip Ins developed, terminated in
pneumonia from which the general never
rail ed.
The end came peaeefuly nnd quietly
at 1:50 o’clock p. in Saturday, while the
gunernl lay unconscious, surrounded by
all the members of his family, except
Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, who is
now on the ocean, on his way to this
country.
Arrangements for the funeral are in
charge of General Hcniy W. Slocum.
The funeral services over the n mains of
the general takes place on Thursday, from
his late residence, nithough it may be
deferred, if his son does not arrive thnt
day from Europe on the Majestic. Thurs
day evening tl.e body will l»e taken to St.
Louis in t special train of three ca t. It
will be in ehargo of General Schofield,
and will be accompanied by a delegation
from Post LaFayctte, Grand Army of the
Republic, of New York City.
ORDERS TO TflK ARMY.
General Schofield has i sued the follow
ing order: On the dny of the funeral
the troops at every military post will be
paraded and the order rend to them, after
which all labors for the day will cea«e.
The national flag will he displayed at
half staff from the time of the receipt of
this order till the close of the funeral.
On the day of the funeral a salute of
seventeen guns will be tired at half hour
intervals, commencing at 8 o’clock a. m.
Officers of the army will wonr usual
badge* of mourning anil colors of regi
ments, nnd battallions will be draped
in mourningfor the peiiod of six months.
The day nnd hour of the funeral will bo
communicated to the department com
manders by telegraph nnd by them to
their subordinate commanders. Other
necessary orders will be issued hereafter
relativo to appropriate funeral ceremo
nies.
A meeting of the hoard of officer* of
the New Yord state commnndcry of the
mi itary order of the Loyal Legion was
held at the icsideuce of General Wagner
Swayce Sunday morning. Thu offer of
a guard of honor, consisting of comrades
of the cominandery, to watch over the
remains of the dead, was sent the family,
nnd a formal meeting was ordered to
take action on the general’s death. About
3,000 telegrams have been received at
the house since the general's death. The
funeral service proper will be held in St
Louis. The pallbearers will be: General
J. M. Schofield, General O. O. Howard,
Rear Admiral I). L. Brnine, Hear Ad
mini L. Kimberly, General Thomas L.
Casey, General J. C. Keiton, Professor
11. L. Hendricks, General Joseph E
Johnston, General 11. W. Slocum. Gen
eral Daniel E. Sickles, General L, M.
Grrrge, Geucrai J. M. Corse, Gcueral
Wagner Swayuc, General S. L. Wood
ford.
A BRIEF SKETCH OF OENEHAI, BMKUHAN’A
CAREER.
William Tc< urns'll Sherman was born
in Lancas'cr, Ohio, February 8, 1820.
His fath r was Charles R Sherman. In
1836 he was appointed a cadet at the
United States Military academy, nnd in
July, 1846, was graduated and np|>ointcd
a second lieutenant in the Third artilery.
He served in the nrmy uutil 1853, when
he resigned and engaged in the banking
business iu San Francisco. He removed
to New York in 1857, and the affairs of
his firm were closed up. In 1859 he was
elected superintendent of the Mili ary
academy in Louisiana and held that posi
tion uutil the state seceded.
At the begiuung of the war
ho wis appointed colonel of the
Thirteenth regular infantry. Hu took
part iu the first battle of Hull Run. He
rose rapidly, aud his military history is
well known. The enmpagn against
Johnston, which started at Dalton and
ended at Atlanta, followed by his maret
to the sea present some of the most in
ti-resting features of the war. His army
was dissolved in Washing on after a
grund review iu 1805. On June 27th. of
that year, he was appointed to command
the military division of the Mississippi,
lie w h promoted to lieutenant general
and assigned to command of the military
division of the Missouri. When Grant
was made president, 8: erman was ap
pointed general. He was retired Febru
ary 8, 1884.
IN NEW HANDS.
Idle Cotton Mills of Mississippi
to Start up Again.
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., says:
On Saturday Governor Stone approved
the charter of the Delta cotton and wool
en mills, at Carrollton, Miss. The in
corporators are A. E. Randle, of Wash
ington city; Cyrus W. Field, Jr , of New
York, and William 11. Martin, Oscar C.
Brothers, J. Walter Head and T. M.
Miller, of Mississippi This company
bought the plant of the Carrollton cotton
mills, which had been idle for years, and
will at once prepare to begin operation.
The capital stock of the new company
will be $1,000,000. Mr. Artlier E.
Randle, the proprietor of this purchase,
was a potent factor in securing the pas
sage by the ordinance of the late consti
tutional convention exempting new facto
ries from taxation for ten years.
A SLICK BANKER.
After Fleecing His Depositors
He Skips Out.
A cablegram from Paris, France, says:
A private banker, named Victor Mace,
has disappeared, leaving debt* aggregat
ing 20,000,000 franca. He attracted de
posits by paying high rates of interest
and wide advertising. It is said that he
bad over 20,000 depositors. The bubble
bursted Saturday, when it required the
bust effort* of the police to save the es
tablishment from being wrecked by the
angry depositor*. On Tuesday it was
announced that * letter had been received
at the establishment from Mace in which
he hin.'t at suicide. Nobody credits that
suggestion, however.
) Henry County Weekly, Established 1870,
) Henry County Times, Established 1881.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting 1 and
Newsy Paragraphs.
Alexander H. 11. Stuart died, at Staun
ton, Va., Friday. He was in Fillmore’s
cabinet.
Judge Wilson Lewis, of Pinevillc, Ky.,
was kiiieu Thursday by his sou, wiih
whom he was quarreling.
Three hotels, wooden structures, burned
at Wichita, Tex., Friday. Loss, $50,-
000; insurance SIO,OOO.
The Chattnuooga Chamber of Com
merce. on Thursday, < udorsed the re
ciprocity agreement with Brazil.
The government, on Saturday, awarded
the contracts for the completion of the
jetties in Brunswick harbor, to Gayuor <k
Green, of Savannah, Ga. '1 hey havo
orders to make preparations, secure mate
rial and commeuce work March Ist.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Thursday
says: Judge Warder’s physicians declare
him insane and say his life is in great,
danger, llis hind, which was wounded
in the fight, has quit healing, and msv
have to be amputated. His condition is
very critical. His mind is undoubtedly
dethroned.
Fire broke out in one section of Phil
lip’s & Parish’s cotton warehouse, at
Helms, Ain., Thursday afternoon. Eight
hundred bales of cotton weie burned.
Two negroes, suspected to have set the
buildir.g on tire, were arrested and com
mitted to jail. All the cotton was cov
ered by insurance.
At Armor’s ferry, near Eutonton, Ga.,
Saturday evening, six negro men were
thrown into the Oconee river while cross
ing in a bout. The stream was very
much swollen from recent heavy raius,
and when about midway the river the
bat capsized. Two succeeded in reach
ing the opposite shore, und four were
drowned.
A Charleston dispatch of Friday says:
Mr. Cleveland’s silver letter has been
much commented ou by all classes here.
The bankers aud the old-line politicians
are loud in their praise of the stand taken
by Cleveland. The alliance element is
for free coinage of the freest kind, and
they regaftl his letter as political suicide.
The Anglo-Australazian Steam Naviga
tion Company got a judgement for over
SB,OOO, against E. L. Peuniman in the
United States district court, at Savannah,
Saturday. The complainant chartered a
ship to the respondent to carry a cargo of
cotton from Brunswick to Europe. Mr.
I’ennim.in, who is a cotton shipper of
Brunswick, broke the charter.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL PORTER.
An Eventful Life Brought to a
Sudden Close.
Admiral I’oitcr died suddenly at 8:1.5
o'clock Friday morning at hix resilience,
in Washing on, I). O Death resulted
from fatty degeneration of the heart,
which relentless disease asser ed its fatal
fatal clutch upon him at N< wport, It. 1.,
last summer, when, contrary to the per
sistent advice of his physicians, he over
taxed his strength by taking violent ex
ercise, and was stricken down with a
complication of diseases, including con
gestion of the lungs and dropsy. As soon
as he could be moved with safety ho was
brought to his home in W ashingtou and
all means known to science and medicine
resorted to lor his benefit, but to no avail.
He was a son of Commodore David Por
ter, who distinguished himself by captur
ing several British vessels during the war
of 1812. Admiral Porter ente ed the
service in 1820, and had,been very porrui
nent in naval affairs siuce.
Herretary Tracy issued a general order
announcing Admiral Por'cr’s death, and
order ng that on the day of the funeral
the navy department will be closed.
Flags will be deployed at half mast at all.
navy yards and statioi s, and on board all
ships in commission. The navy depart
ment will In- draped in black, and all
oflicces of the navy and marine corps
will wear a badge of mourning for thirty
days.
WILL SERVE THEIR TERM.
Dillon and O’Brien Voluntarily
Surrender.
Willim O’Brien, accompanied by John
Dillon and Thomas P. Gill, left the port
of Boulogne Sur-Mer, France, on Thurs
day, for Folkstone, England. It is ex
pected that Dillon and O'Brien will be
arrested the moment they set foot on
British soil in ordtr that they may be
compelled to serve the terms of impris
onment imposed upon them some months
ago, by the Tipperary court for conspir
ing to incite tenants on the Sraith-Barry
estates not to pay rent.
A later dispatch from Folkstone says:
Dillon and O’Brien, upon their arrival at
th's place from Boulogne-Sur-Mer, vol
untarily surrendered themselves to the
no I ice authorities there.
A DISASTROUS BLAZE.
One Hundred Thousand Dollars’
Worth of Property Destroyed.
At 1 o'clock Sunday morning a fire
broke out in the large dry goods house
of S. Feld & Co., at Greenville, Miss.,
the stock of goods of which was being
sold for account of the First National
bank of that city. The conflagration was
one of the largest that has visited the
city for years. Five stores and their entire
contents were entirely consumed in two
hours. The total value will approximate
1100,000.
THE FUNDS MISSING.
The Arkansas State Treasury
$40,000 Short.
A telegram of Sunday from Little Rock,
Ark., says: Investigation shows that
about 440,000 belonging to tne interna
tional improvement fund, accumulated
from the sale of tends granted to Arkan
sas by the United States gov ernment forty
jears ago, is missing from the state
treasury, although reported on hand in
ex-Treasurer W oodrufTs report for the
fiscal year of 1890.
NO. 25.