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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY, 1,1891.
VOL. XV.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
|jK. G. P. CAMPBDUi,
DENTI ST.
McDonough Gi.
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.
Gko W. Bryan j W.T. Dicks*.
A DKKIIA,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonouoh, (J*.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint J udicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
ef Georgia and the United States District
Court. aprß7-ly
|AN. 1«. TI RYHR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl6-ly
P J. KIIAGAA,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Wili attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J r. H AM,,
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
givm to collections. octs-’79
A. IIUOWN,
* 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. jsnl-ly
lj A. PI3EPI.ISS,
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, Oet 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stewart. j R.T. Daniel.
STEWART A DA.HIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga.
JOHN L. I’VE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
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‘ONCE ON A TIME.* ~V
“Once on a time.”
How fondly falls that phrase
Upon our fancy, like a far-off chime
Of half-heard bells in some forgotten cthno,
Pealed from the kingdom of dead yester
days,
“Once on a time.”
1 . The tale we loved always
Began just so, and every fairy rhyme
Our mothers crooned commenced: “Once on
a time,”
And ended with a burst of childish praise.
As one who, in a lonely twilight land,
U auu litxi by tUo wraith of some Icvoi voice
Long since that joined the silences sublime,
So I, amidst the shadows where I stand.
Ring’d with dim dreams of unreturning
joys,
Awaken at the words: “Once on a time.”
—James Newton Matthews.
ROMANCE OF A HAT.
BY MAURICE BILINGSBY.
Socially speaking, the little hat factory
of Enos Badger was a hive ol industry,
and scores of the prettiest girls in Epping
and the surrounding country might have
been found within its four wall during
the busy season, which usually consumed
eight out of the twelve calendar months.
During these eight months the factory
presented a bustling and attractive scene,
with so much beauty, freshness and
vivacity concentrated under one roof.
Indeed, these lovely and sprightly crea
tures, decked out in showy calicoes and
muslins, were the busy little bees, that
made honey all the day, metaphorically
speaking, for their straight-laced aud
somewhat parsimonious employer. The
upper floor was occupied by the sewers,
and the ground floor by pressers, liners,
trimmers and packers—thus turning out
the hats in readiness for the trade, from
the commencement of the process to its
completion.
Fannie Wilbur, the prettiest girl in the
whole of Enos Badger's establishment, if
not the most intellectual, worked on the
lower floor, among the miscellaneous
crowd of employes we have alluded to.
Her part was to line the hat after it left
the hands of the presser. Three or four
more were employed at the same work
besides Fannie, all of them fresh, healthy
and attractive young ladies.
Annabel Drew, a very talkative but
pretty young womau, had been telling a
romantic story of an acquaintance during
the war, who had secured a good hus
band under the following romantic cir
cumstances : It was at a time when
ladies throughout almost every town and
village in the land were making and
sending their little donations to the sol
diers.
Miss Drew's friend contributed some
trifling articles of her-own handiwork,
and accompanied them with her full ad
dress. The package fell to the share of
an orderly sergeant, whom the changing
fortunes of war subsequently elevated to
the rank of colonel. The result was,
in his lonely aud unoccupied hours, lie
wrote to the young lady aud begged her
to enter into a correspondence with him.
Assenting to his proposal, she wrote him
a letter descriptive of herself, and her
real situation and prospects in life.
Thb orderly liked her style; thought
he could interpret her character through
this medium; and wrote agaiu, proposing
an exchange of photographs. To this
the young lady assented, and in due
time the exchange was made. Other
letters followed, gradually assuming a
more tender and lover-like tone, as then
correspondence rapidly advanced toward
what may be considered the culminating
point.
The upshot of the whole thing was,
they met at the close of the war, were
mutually impressed in each other’s favor
—so much so, in fact, that they went to
a clergyman on the very evening of his
arrival, and were privately married.
“Thus, at one siep,” said Miss Drew,
“from a poor girl she became a rich
lady.”
“Heighol I wondei if any such good
luck will ever happen to us?” queried
Fannie Wilbur.
“Perhaps,” replied Miss Drew, “if we
could only contrive to make ourselves
known to some romantic young man of
means.”
Fannie paused for a momeut in a
brown study. Suddenly she looked up
smiliDg. •
“I have it!” she exclaimed, triumph
antly; and taking one of her hat linings,
she hurried to the desk, and wrote, in a
delicate, fine hand, “Frances Wilbur,
spinster,” giving the name of the town
and State.
Then she sewed it in the lining, laugh
ing all the while at her own cleverness.
“There, now, I wonder if I shall be as
lucky as the girl you were telling of?”
“I hope so,” responded Miss Drew,
but she didn’t mean it.
In due time that identical hat filled its
legitimate niche in the great world of
trade, and was purchased by a wealthy
young fellow iu the city of New Y'ork.
On the evening of the day it came into
his possession Walter Leslie, the young
gentleman in question, was seated, iu
company with a friend, in his own suite
of apartments at the Windsor. Each had
his feet elevated on the back of a chair,
and each was drawing consolation from a
cigar of a choice brand. Indeed, Walter
Leslie was rich enough to indulge in the
best the market afforded. He had" al
ready dipped so deeply into the fashion
able follies of society as to have become
a little blase at the age of five-and
twenty. But we will listen to the brief
dialogue between the two, and let the
reader draw his own inference.
“I tell you, Percy, lam thoroughly
disgusted with these fast and fashionable
young ladies of the period,” said Leslie,
knocking the ashes off his cigar. “I
tell you I feel as thaugh I had been
steeped to the very lips and surfeited
with these questionable pleasures and
follies of the day. It is impossible for
a fellow in my situation, with plenty of
money at his command, to venture into
society at all without being besieged by
a score of maneuvering mammas, who
will fairly throw their gushing daughters
into jour arms, and run the risk of jour
MCDONOUGH GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 1:1,1891.
making toys and playthings of them, to
be cast aside as such whenever any new
whim or fancy seizes you.”
“I can appreciate your idea, Leslie,”
said his friend, laughing, “though I have
never been one of fortune’s favorites, like
yourself, to be bored by the actual ex
perience from which you have too palp
ably suffered. I think, Leslie, if you
were to get out of this artificial atmos
phere into some quiet nook in the coun
try, and get acquainted with somp good,
honest, truthful girl, who has been
brought up to be unselfish andj|to culti
vate a conscience, and who, having no
knowledge of your wealth, wyuiJ marry
you for love, I think that life' might be
rendered tolerably endurable to you. It
would to me, were I iu your situation,
with ample means to gratify every reason
able desire.”
By Jove, Percy, if I could find such a
one as you describe, I would marry off
hand!” exclaimed Leslie, with an en
thusiasm which was new to him iu his
indolent indifference.
“What? If she were poor?” queried
his friend, picking up the hat that Leslie
had that afternoon purchased.
“Yes,” he replied, “if she had but
one dress to her back !”
“The friend smiled incredulously, and
casually glanced at the inside of the hat.
“What is this?” he exclaimed, sudden
ly, holding it up, so that Leslie might
see. “Frances Wilbur, spinster!”
“Probably a romantic method of ad
vertising the maker's name,” responded
Leslie, without manifesting any particu
lar surprise. “The playful freak of some
young miss in her teens. I’ve half a
mind to open a correspondence with her
—it would be something fresh—wholly
out of the beaten path.”
“Supposing she should turn out some
ancient maiden lady!” suggested his
friend.
“No; it is the work of some restless,
tantalizing young lady I" Lcslio persisted,
and the subject was dropped. He re
curred to it again, however, after the de
parture of his friend. lie studied the
chirography carefully, grew more and
more interested, and flually, after some
little reflection, and feeling the want of
a new excitement, to break what he con
sidered the dull monotony of his exist
ence, through his life had been one con
tinual whirl of excitement since he had
come into the unrestrained control of a
fortune, he determined to write to her.
He had no other purpose iu writing but
to beguile tho tedium of an idle hour,
and quiz this unknown Frances Wilbur,
spinster.
The subjoined letter, which reached
Epping on the following evening, was
the legitimate result of this resolve:
“New Yohk, June 30, 1880.
“Miss Francis Wilbur, .spinster:—l dis
covered your address ov the lining of a hat
I recently purchased,’ aud have conceived a
romantic desire to open a correspondence
with you in view of a nearer and more satis
factory acquaintance. My object in doing
this is strictly honorable and commendable,
and if you grant my request, I shall always
treat von with the respect that is due a lady
from a gentleman. lam twenty-live vears
of age, and generally esteemed good-looking.
-1 am in moderate circumstances, but like
all other young men, I am hopeful of the fu
ture. If you should deign to answer this
istter, and would be kind and condescending
enough to exchange photographs with me, 1
will cheerfully inclose inino in my next.
Very respectfully and interestedly yours,
“Walter Leslie.”
Fannie Wilbur received this epistle,
and perused it with an electrical thrill of
pleasure. She hurried to Miss Drew,
whom she accepted as her sole confi
dante, read it to her privately and asked
her advice a 3 to what reply she should
make.
“Answer it, of course, and enclose
your picture,” said Miss Drew, decidedly.
“You take splendidly. He will fall in
love with it, I am sure. You are in luck,
Fan, and I almost envy you”—which
was the truth—“for you can tell by the
writing that he must be a scholar aud a
gentleman.”
This advice was exactly what Fannie
wish and expected. She had no picture
of herself that exactly suited her, so she
went to Mr. Badger next morning and
asked leave of absence to have one taken.
She arranged her toilet for the occasion
with exquisite care and taste, and hur
ried to the village artist to have her
glowing impression taken; and beautiful
as she was, she had never looked more
beautiful than on that day. The artist
was successful beyond his most sanguine
hopes, and in about a week he turned
out a photograph that he felt proud
of, and that Fanny felt not ashamed to
forward to her gallant New York cor
respondent.
She sat down and indited the follow
ing letter, which Leslie received by re
turn post:
“Eppjno, June 30, 1880.
“Mr. Leslie— Dear Sir:— l received your
very acceptable and gentlemanly letter about
a week ago. When I wrote rny name on the
lining of the hat you alludo to I had no ex
pectation that it would be the means of pro
curing me so agreeable a correspondent.
“I was pleased with tie tone of your let
ter, and should be happy to hear from you
very often. I send you my photograph,
agreeable to your request, though some of
my friends tell me it does not do me justice.
I think, however, it is a very fair picture. I
shall expect yours at your earliest con
venience.
“I will mention, in conclusion, that I am
an only child. My father is dead, but my
mother is still living. My father was a
clergyman, and was settled in this village
prior to my birth, which was eighteen vears
ago the fourteenth day of May last. I havo
a good education, for it was my father’s
especial province to see to that while living,
and he has been dead only a trifle over three
years.
“Our circumstances are humble, and I now
work in a hat factory for the joint support
of mother and self. Hoping to hear from
your again soon, I remain your interested
correspondent, Fannie Wilbur.”
“Noble girl!” exclaimed our hero, as
he finished the perusal of this letter;
“she is working for the support of her
self and mother, while I, an able-bodied
mao, am frittering away my existence in
idle pleasures and useless pursuits.”
He had examined the photograph care
fully and critically before perusing Fan
nie's letter, auu he could not deny what
was evident to him at a glance, that the
picture represented a very intelligent and
lovely girl. He again picked it up, and
examined it with incre3ing interest.
“There is not a girl among my fash
ionable acquaintances that will compare
with her in noints of beautv.settuur aside,
AND HENRY COUNTY TIMES.
their vanity anti selfishness, and their
lack of moral culture. It is evident, that
this girl is good and pure, unless her face
very much belies her—such a girl, in
fact, as any man might safely trust with
his purse or his honor. The tone of her
letter is modest, and evinces a con
siderable degree of culture, much more
than I should have expectod from one
condemned by circumstances to a life of
toil; but her being tho daughter of a
clergyman—and doubtless a very worthy
and conscientious one—will explain that.
I will have my photograph taken at pnee,
and send it to her, with my warmest
thanks. I will dress in a very modest
and tasteful manner, so as not to shock
her sense of propriety. I feel more and
more anxious every minute to make tho
first impression as favorable as possible.”
Agreeably to Fannie’s request, he
wrote a warm—we had almost said lover
like—'reply to her letter, inclosing the
much looked for picture. Leslie was a
very handsome man, aud would have
looked well in any garb, no matter how
commonplace.
Space will not permit of our entering
into a detailed account of the delightful
correspondence that now ensued between
the really interested young millionaire
and the modest, warm-hearted country
girl, whom he had never yet seen except
in miniature.
Suffice it to say, so constant and unin
terrupted had this correspondence been,
that one month later found him, by Fan
nie’s permission, on his way to the rural
home to visit her. To admit the truth
they were already much in love with
each other, and this eagerly longed for
meeting, as might be expected, fairly
capped the olitnax; for our hero and
Fannie were affianced in less than an
hour after his arrival in Epping.
He kept up the delusion regarding his
humble circumstances till after they were
married, and he had removed her to pre
side as mistress over a palatial abode on
the Hudson. He was more considerate
and obliging than most sons-in-law, for
he gladly seconded Fannie’s request that
her mother should accompany them; and
what is more unusual stiff, she has never
attempted to make herself a bone, of
contention between them.
Leslie, every one says, is justly proud
of his young wife, and has never re
gretted tho day that he purchased that
hat. He intends to keep it as a heir
loom in his family.— New York Weekly.
Novel Solution of Bimctalism.
General Berdan has proposed a novel
solution of the silver coinago problem.
His scheme is to make a dollar of gold
and silver, mechanically combined, by
tjrst making a silver aoin worth twenty
five cents, with n hole in the centre, and
then pressing into the centre a plug of
gold worth seventy-five cents. On the
face of it, this seems a good idea, as it
would do away with the objection raised
by all to tho size and weight of the
silver dollar and the minuteness of the
gold dollar. In other words it is an
average—a concentration of advantages.
But the point of the matter lies in the
“mechanically combined” detail, which
is more important than at first sight j
would appear. It will be a delicate and j
difficult task to so join tho gold and [
silver parts as to enable the coin to stand j
the wear and tear to which metalic legal
tender is subjected.
As usual, electricity, goddess of power
and progress, can lend her aid and assist
to practicability the germ of a good idea.
If, instead of “mechanically combined,”
we substitute the words “electrically
welded,” the scheme becomes more
practical aud the coin more beautiful and
cheaper to produce. By electrically weld
ing gold and silver together aud then
subjecting the composite piece to the im
pression of a die, a coin with slightly
concave surfaces could be produced with
the great advantage that the welded joint
would be tho strongest portion. Con
caving the faces of the coin would throw
the maximum wear on the outer ring of
silver. Such a scheme brought to per
fection would be bimetalisrn with a
vengeance.
As a design for the obverse of this new
coin we would suggest an ideal repre
sentation of the Goddess of Electricity.
Columbia would thus be given a well
earned rest, and the coming power would
be symbolized and immortalized,although
such actions might offend tho pretty
Philadelphia girl who posed for tho pro-
I file of Columbia. — New York Electrical
Review.
Hill Tribes Deserting the Caucasus.
The mountain tribe* of the Caucasus
are emigrating in large numbers to Tur
key. Russian settlers are not slow to
take possession of their lands. The Gov
ernment has been petitioned by such set
tlers to divide the lands that were va
cated by the Caucasians into regular set
tlements and to establish proper judiciary
circuits there. But the Governor of the
Koobau district has informed the peti
tioners that their demands cannot be ful
filled—that the time has not come yet
for the central Government to take into
possession and to dispose of the lands of
the aborigines.— Chicago Herald.
A BI? Crop From One Barley-Head
Four years ago Miss Lena Woodard,
living on Thorn Creek, Washington,
sowed the seed from one head of barley.
She harvested the crop with a pair of
shears and sowed the amount received the
next year, again harvesting it with her
shears. The third crop her father cut
with a grass scythe, getting enough bar
ley from this crop to sow forty acres last
spring, which averaged forty bushels to
the acre when threshed, making a total
I yield of 1600 bushels from one head of
barley in four year*. — San Francisco
| Chronicle.
A Carious Writing Habit.
One curious habit of the venerable
| J.ules Simon is that he does most of his
writing in bed. For many years he has
pursued this practice; he lies fiat on bis
back, holds a tablet of paper above him
and does bis writing thereon—seemingly
an impossible thing- Y'et the old gen
tleman's chirography is a marvel of neat
ness and exactness; it is as prim and tiny
as a schooimarm s.— Chicago News.
NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap
pen from Day to Day.
Yellow fever is increasing iu Brazil,
The sudden fall iu Scotch iron was a
feature of the iron mailcet Friday iu Lon
don.
The union bricklayers and plasterer*,
of Mobile, Ala., went out on a strike
Friday.
The Missouri annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has voted
against admitting women to the general
conference.
j Tho Kansas house of representatives
. lias passed the senate bill making eight
j hours a legal work day for slate, county
' mul municipal employes.
'J lie Baltimore Methodist conference,
jon Friday, by a vote of 14.7 to <l9, de
cided to not allow women delegates to
the general conference.
Secretary of War Proctor issued a gen
eral order Friday afternoon authorizing
the enlistment iu the army of not more
than 3,000 Indians.
Specials received from many points
throughout Kansas say that the heaviest
suow of the winter fell Saturday, averag
ing six inches on a level.
The amount of silver offered for sale to
the treasury department Friday was 1,-
030,000 ounces, and the amount purch
ased was 270,000 ounces, at 98.27, 98.37.
Judge Beach in the New York supreme
c urt, on Saturday, appointed J. E lward
Simmons receiver of the American Loan
and Trust company, fixing his bond at
#200,000.
The president, on Saturday, appointed
James 11. Beatty, of Idaho, United States
district judge for Idaho. The president
nominated him to the senate, but the nom
inate n failed of action.
The Wanskuck strikers at Providence,
R 1., have decided to go to work at the
old schedule of prices, pending a confer
ence concerning the differences between
them aud their employers.
The Methodist Episcopal conference of
Philadelphia, by a vote of 120 to 98 lias
decided against admitting women as
delegn’.es to the electoral and general
conferences of the churches.
The Berwitter Manufacturing Company,
sash and door manufacturers, at Grand
Cross'ng, 111., failed Monday. Assets
placed at $110,000; liabilities SOO,OOO.
The trouble is believed to be tempoary.
A dispatch of Suturdaj, says: There
are uow over 1,500 carpenters and plain
ing mill employes idle in Indianapolis in
(on sequence of the strike ordered by the
building trades council, Hiid there arc no
indications of an early settlement.
Mrs, Frank Leslie will nnkc a now
will by which the bulk of her fortune,
amounting to at least SOOO,OOO, will bo
left in trust for the establishment of a
great institute for the instruction of wo
men and the advancement of higher ed
ucation of the sex.
Miss Mary Anderson (Mrs. Navarro)
has created some stir in theatrical circles
at London by advertising tbe sale of her
stage dresses, theatrical scenery and stage
properties, ilius confirming tbe announce
ment that it is her intention to retire
definitely from the stage.
Coroner Levy, of New Y'ork, issued
warrants Friday morning for the arrest
of the officers and directors of tho New
Y'ork, New Haven nnd Hartford railroad,
who have been held responsible by the
coroner’s jury four tho deaths of the vic
tims of the Harlem railroad tunnel dis
aster.
Attorney General Miller, on Saturday,
informed the secretary of the treasury
that the alleged ill treat merit of the
Hungarian laborers employed iu the con
st ruction of a railroad near Pocahontas,
Va., is a matter for state supervision only,
there being no United States law cover
ing sucli a case.
At a mass meeting of the journeymen
carpenters of Chieugo Sunday, afternoon,
it was decided that should the master
carpenters not conclude to accede to the
proposition to arbitrate the difference*
between the carpenters and employes a
strike of great magnitude w ill be inaugu
rated. Fully 3,000 men were present.
Fire, Monday morning, destroyed the
printing house of Gibson, Mall, Wilier &
Richardson, at Omaha, Neb. Loss $200,-
000; insurance $140,000. The fire was
caused by a boy smoking a eig.rette in
the press room. Brunches’ wagon stock
house, adjoining, was damaged to the
extent of $31,000, covered by insurance.
fc dispatch of Saturday from S'. Paul,
Minn., says: Examiner Knox has pro
ceeded far enough with the account of
Deputy County Clerk Jay I’. Davis to
discover that he is short between $25,000
nnd 30,000. He obtained all the money
fr- m County Treasurer Nelson on forged
jury certificates during the last four years.
A cablegram of Sunday from Paris
says: Under the pretext of aveuging tLe
insults which were offered to the Empress
Frederick during h-r recent visit to
Paris the German forest guard at Epinal
have c ropc-lled the French woodcutters
to cross the frontier from Vexuincouit,
thus depriving them of their only means
of a livelihood.
Aa express train for Phi adclphia,
while running at a very rapid rate of
speed, near Penn Haven, Pa., Monday,
r; a died into a crowd of boys walking on
the track. They were on the up track
and stepped on the other track to escape
a special passenger train. They did not
see the express approaching, and two of
them were struck and instantly killed.
A cablegram of Sunday from Madrid,
Spain, says: Ac mmission of six medi
cal men, appointid to investigate the
Koch method of treating consumptives,
hag reported in favor of the total suspen
sion of that form of treatment, it having
been found, according t> the committee’s
report, that not a si ,gle cure bad been
effected there by the use of the method
in question.
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Louisville and Nashville roid at
New York. Monday, the office of chair
man of the board was created, and Au
gust Belmont was elected to occupy the
position in control of the New York of
flee of tho company. Milton H. Smith,
the present vice-president, was elected
pres’dent, with Ins offico at Louisville,
Kentucky.
A dispatch of Monday from Madrid,
says: The Spanish government is about
to dispatch 6,870 troops to Cuba on ac
count of the increased political agitation
on the island. If tho situa'iou bccom-s
w’-use General Campbell will be appointed
viceroy. The Spanish press is protesting
against A meric ms encouraging the Cuban
separatists in connec ion with the pro
posed treaty of commerce.
The United States supreme court, on
Monday, dismisso l four tax coupon cases
between individuals and representatives
of the city of Lynchburg on the ground
that nccuniarv matters were involved.
and that the amounts in controversy were
not sufficient to bring the case before the
court. In thr. o other cases motions to
dismiss were denied, wi bout prejudice,
because the papers were not sufficiently
explicit.
The exports of specie from the port of
New Y’ork for week ended March 7,
amounted to $1,495,065, of which $900,-
541 was in gold and $304,524 in silver.
Of tlie total export $075,400 in gold aud
$560,749 in silver went to Europe, and
$225,051 in gold and $27,745 in silver
went to South America. I lie imports of
sp-cie during tho week amounted to
$24,765, of which $139,681 was in gold
and $109,084 in silver.
A dispatch of Monday from Ida Grove,
lown, says: The epidemic of trichinosis
iu the German settlement continues, and
two more deaths have occurred, making
live deaths iu nil. Several new eases
have developed, and two more deaths
are expected. Advices from Washington
say that an investigation will be made by
the bureau of 'animal industry to prevent
the further infection of swine in that lo
cality.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says: The
long strike of the coal miners of the
Monongabeln vnlley has ended in a com
plete victory for the men. Friday morn
ing tho operators met and decided to
concede the demands of the strikers for
an advance in the mining rates of J cent
per bushel, and resume work at onco.
The strike was one of the longest nnd
most deteimined ever known in tills sec
tion. It lasted ten weeks, and the men
lost, in wages alone, over $1,000,000.
The resumption of work will mean pros
perity and happiness to upward of 25,000
people.
DELUGE OF RAIN
WHICH HAS SWEPT OVER THE
COUNTRY.
Terrible State of Affairs in Va
rious Sections.
A Montgomery dispatch says: The
heaviest rainstorm for months pre
vailed there Sunday. During the hours
from 8 to 9 o’clock in tho morning two
inches of rain fell. Tho storm was ac
companied by a great deal of electricity.
Lightning struck the house of Love Mor
ris, in the southern poition of the city,
damaging it considerably, and severely,
but not seriously shocking six of the
inmates. Balein, n town twelve miles
south of Opelika, was visited by a severe
cyclone about 11 o’clock Sunday. Twelve
or fifteen negro cabins and the negro
Methodist church wore blown down.
The rear end of Mr. Crowder’s residence
was blown off. The large two-story res
idence of Mrs. Holt/.claw was completely
demolished. Mrs. lloltzclaw, the mother
of General J. T. Ilolizclaw, of Mont
gomery, died the day before, aud her
remains and a large number of friends
and relatives were in the house at the
time, but fortunately escaped injury.
The cyclone was from the northwest. A
trestle on the East Alabama railroad was
washed away, aud the trains stopped run
ning.
A Charlotte, N. C,’., dispatch says: For
the past four weeks this section of tho
state has been visited by the largest raiu
fall for a long while. The country roads
are simply impassable, and the roadbeds
of the different roads in tho state arc
iu a bad condition, but are carefully
watched all along the liues. This state'
of affairs has demoralized trade in a great
degree, as the farmers cannot get to town
with their cotton. In the tobacco s«c
lion the recent rains have done damage
to that staple. That which was packed
down iu the warehouses or in the barns,
is reported as moulding badly, and in
tome instances has become perfectly use
less. The streams throughout the state
are very much swollen, anil much more
of this kind of weather will do much
harm.
The news fr im Nashville is as follows:
The heavy raics in this seclion did not
c ase until Sunday morning at daylight.
The river reached forty-six and three
tenths feet This is a rise of live feet and
six-tenths iu twenty-four huurs, a very
considerable one, considering that the
river had encroached upon the lowlands
along its course. Finally the river w ill
r each fifty-one or fifty-two feet. This
will run several hundred familiis from
their homes in the northeastern and
northwestern suburbs. A great many
have been compelled to move.
From Memphis the report is that the
rainfall in that city and section of the
south is unprecedented. Nearly five
inches of rain had fallen there during
the pn<-t forty-eight hours. The entire
lower part of Canton, Miss., is under
water, and all the trains on the Illinois
Central railroad are delayed. Pearslev
river raised three feet in twelve hours,
and all the trains are delayed at Jackson,
Miss., no trains having arrived from the
south since Saturday. The Mississippi
at Memphis is one snd a half feet above
tbe danger line, and is still rising.
The engine of the train which left Ma
con, Ga., Sunday night at 9:30 o’clock on
the Georgia road for Augusta, plunged
into a washout near James station, eigh
teen miles from Macon. The engine
turned over nnd the engineer, Charlie
Davenport, of Macon, was tuashed to
death. No one else was hurt and do cars
were wrecked.
A Greenville, Miss., dispatch of lion
lav, says: The river has reached the
iiDger line aud is dill risiug. Great
ilarm is felt. Levees are being strength
ued, but cnnnn* stand the strain much
onger.
\ Henry County Weekly, Established 1870,
l Henry County Times, Established 1884.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtaiied into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
The census bureau gives the popula
tion of Texas as 2,235,029.
The census bureau gives the popula
tion of Louisiana, as 1,118,547.
Ex-Senator Jnnhus Hill died at his
home, in Madison, On., on Friday after
noon. ’
The commission appointed to select a
site for a dry dock on the gult has re
ported in favor of Algiers, La.
On Friday the North Carolina senate
p ssed the bill making the changes in the
congressional districts, in accordance with
the new census.
The courthouse at Archer, Texas, was
burned Friday night, together with
nearly all the county records. Loss esti
mated at $50,000.
The state senate of West Virginia on
Friday, fixed the sum to be spent at the
world’s fair at $40,000 double the sum
spent at the centennial in 1876,
The indications are that the American
Tobacco company, in addition to its
cigarette factories, is buying up all the
leading factories of Virginia.
The census bureau lias announced the
population of the state of Georgia by
races as follows: Whites, 073,462; col
ored, 862,710; Indians, 64; Chinese, 110;
Japanese, 1. Total, 1,837,883.
The North Carolina legislature has
wouud up its business. It has redis
trictcd the state, making eight demo
cratic and one republican district. It
has appropriated $25,000 for an exhibit
at the world’s fair, and SIO,OOO for a
geological survey.
The Texas senato and house met iu
joint session Saturday and adopted reso
lutions of respect to the memory of the
late Jefferson Davis. After prayer by
the chaplain, the members paid glowing
tributes to the deceased chieftain of the
confederacy.
A special from Luray, Va., says: I).
F. Kogg and J. W. Miller, Luray bankers
who failed iu business last December,
were arrested in Newmarket, Va., Sat
urday morning, upon warrants sworn out
by various depositors in the bank. A
preliminary examination was waived, and
they were bailed in $20,000 for their ap
pearance at the March court.
Josiah Morris, the oldest and best
known banker and capitalist of the
south, died suddenly at his home at
Montgomery, Ala., Monday morning,
aged seventy-llirce. He was the founder
of the famous Elvton Land Company, of
Birmingham, und was one of the greatest
developers of that city. His estate is
valued at from $3,500,000 to $5,000,000.
A fire at Hhelbyville, Tenn., Sunday
morning, destroyed five store houses, to
gether with their contents. The build
ings were valued at $20,000, and the
total loss on buildings und stocks is be
tween $45,000 nnd $50,000; nearly all
covered by insurance. Tho Bedford
County Timea was also burned out and
the stock of several other merchants dam
aged by being removed.
A Charleston dispatch says: The United
States court has issued an injunction re
straining the state authorities and their
licenses from mining phosphate in the
Coosaw river beds. The Coosaw lliver
Phosphate Company, whose monopoly of
business was recently disturbed by tho
state phosphate commission, will make a
stubborn fight to retain their exclusive
franchise. Millions of dollars are in
volved.
J. H. Mooring, president of the Annis
ton, Ala., National Bank, received a tele
gram Friday afternoon, from the receiver
of the United States Bolling Stock, A.
llegewisch, instructing him to draw on
the receiver in New York, for the amount
necessary to pay creditors. The Annis
ton Plant, Mooring’s bank, is trustee for
the attaching creditors, and the amount
due them is $l‘0,<)00. This payment re
leases the Anniston works.
At a joint meeting of the CAtton ex
change and Merchants’ exchange, of
Memphis, held Saturday, action was
taken against the measure now pending
in the Tennessee legis'aturc, prohibiting
the movement of freight trains on, Sun
day, a resolution was adopted setting
forth “that such legislation must result
in turning the business that now comes
to and passes through this state, on to
and OY* r the lines of transportation
around Tennessee, and will delay, hamper
and injure our own trade and traffic.
Our senators and representatives are peti
tioned to reject this measure and leave
the matter free, as heretofore, until such
time as congress may see fit to subject
all lines and all markets of the union
alike to such restrictions.”
THE PAPER PROTESTS
Against a Supposed Scheme of
Uncle Sam.
The lkraldo, a newspaper published at
Madiid, in an article protesting against
the supposed scheme of the United St .tea
government to annex the island of Cuba,
says that Mr. Blaine ought to recollect
that the congress of American nations
plainly proved that the Spanish-Ameri
cans are not disposed to allow themselves
to he abaorlied by the great northern re
public. The ]>eople of Cuba, it says, are
strongly Spanish, and aie equally op
posed io becoming part of the United
States. Piobably, with the exception of
a few tradesmen, there is no one on the
island who is at all desirous of annexa
tion. Spain, the ] aper continues, would
shed her last drop of blood in resisting
auy attempt to deprive her of her colony,
fearing neither Cuban revolution nor war
with the United States,
A Test Case.
The supreme court at Washington, on
Monday, advanced and assigned for argu
ment cm the fourth Monday in April, the
cuse of Boyd, Sutton, Cox and Stenback
a ,-ainst the collector of customs of New
York, brought for the purpose of testing
the tariff law. The government and
counsel for importers were both united in
asking this action.
NO. 28.