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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY CONSOLIDATED JANUARY, 1,1891. VOL. XV. PROFESSIONAI. CARDS. ||R. «. p. ( AnpncM., 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, THE— w. va. /et x •V , ‘TEN N chattahoodH^,^'^ / 4^u-« : - IMiiipill MISS ‘ —--Yn • \\ t r Y oe\oroiaY 3? 1 MOgf'CaMflty ,!X<taAr,4T! > -flomatun j* ' «** u *'swicVci o n Ti>- A .AI JACKSONVn.L£'%\ ■lOTf-WtlMB- r tt.MIGUSTIS{\, East Ton. Tam & Be. R’Y. SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THK NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAN’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS BETWEEN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA w i l li o i r <ll \>u i ’„ Direct Connections at Chat tanooga with Through trainsand Pullman Sleep ers to Memphis and the West, at KuoxtMli' trills I'ulliuan Sleeper* for WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, B. W. WRENN, CHAS. N. KICHT Oenl. Pas-*. Ag A,C. P. A . KNOXVILLE. ATLANTA A Ofe A YEAR! I mfotak* to IrriHK I I 8 B I & I tetrh any fairly iutHlif'-nt p. „„„ of either Tk % ■ 111 | ■ ***. who <■in read and write, and who. lilal 11 11 ll«tfer instruction, will work industrious! v, w|r W ww W how u* earn Three Thread Dollars \ Year in their own iGeaHties. wherever they lire.l will also furnish the aituati.»a »r employment .at «Mdi you cm ram that amount. No money for n.e nnteaa ancct-aaful as above. F.aafty and quickly •earned. I desire but s*»e worker iron each dial net nro-nnfjr.j ba-e already fe*n(tt>t and provided witli employment a ‘*rw* number, «h •> are iii.tkinr over a tear each. It » X E W and S4ILIO. Full uriicalinFßEE. Address at one*. K. C. ALLEN. ISux 4 540. Auiuitu, Maine. f*o - ':»tWt fur?isoevliaeabeanmai*at ,v " r ' ,vr w*. by Ai.it* i*»ge t JkUttii., ' < ' home ram over f uOAhO is t k t££ESeJ|B*t UutJie. where*-,. ~u are. tvan h*- 7T* ’ & are' '« ’v ear.ib»jr front fo to M'.W a w uu'erfai. farthrtrriftet. H. II a lie t 4 A fa., I Joy * *«> Portia net, Malay 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. * * * 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.