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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. Practices in the State and Federal Courts, THE— >/' ' „ T E V * 50/7Mr< /* r o> XSHCV'LLI CHATTA I c u R f .\o $ miss., yJf'cy, —r— sti’i M KCQH+ V r E/%.0 no i*a V aiontg<sha«;r» • V : / y -MnufkittaotHit «S. V J ilrtiaf'Uj, Si ON VI LLewi East Ten. Virginia k Ga. R’Y. IS THE ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAN’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS B ETWEES' ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA WITIIOI 1’ I'IB I AG 13. Direct Connections at Chat tanooga with Through trains and Pullman Sleep ers to Memphis and the West, »t Knoxville with I’mlliiiihi Sleepers lor WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, B.W. WRENN, CHAS. N. KICHT e.en'l. P<is«. ~ A. U. P. A. KNOXVILLE. ATLANTA 4fh 4b #h A YI’AR ! I undertake to briefly ||l “1 1111 II teach any tair’.y in*. ! I ; pra*T»t j-rv r, «,♦ either K 1111 11 tar, wbo mn read and write, and who. ■ Ilallllll ■ after instruction, will w ork indaatrioua!;-. W V W V how to earn Three T ben*, and Itolicr* a Tear in their own localities,wbeffrrer they lire. I wS" elec furnish the aitoation or employ t « bid* yon ran «am that amount. J»o money for me imicee aitcceasfa* r.a above. Eaetiy and quickie ! -anted. I deelre but one w orker from each district or county, i Irave already taught and provided with etnphn meuf a iaraa number. »» bo are making om WM a tear te< l> it a fc' Ew' and MOJ.I D. bull particulars FKF.E. Address at once, 1.1 . ALL£N. llox 4*O f Augusta, Mnlne. ■ _ bn<HT little fortune* hare been made at i..r ui. by Anna luge, Aj‘'i.i. ■ 1 1 x-«. skM .i.io. 1-'loltOa, Ohio. ( .• Others arc <!• Uif wwtll. V'fcy y Ijoc » huin r«rn over f iC¥-t-tl a , J fffe-V. ruth. Van can do u,e work aiid )-• a .my ' f^?wltt berue. wfecrrtr \ « are. Eeea b«- » t ftenere ere *-*e!ly ra r.'m* frimfStJ / / *f&qjr fllhaday. A :i tf***. Wrabew yoofcew *y* üBK. end atari yoiu can w«rU In ar*refinu tP* or all ’he time. money tor work.- } arf era. Failure unit now n a men a them. K KW aud waadorfttL I*nrtiruWrs free. n.Balltlia Portland,M>l>« ‘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.