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CONSOLIDATED JANUARY, 1,1891.
VOL. XV.
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||R. G. P. CAMPBELL,
DENTIST,
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Geo W. Bryan | W. T. Dicken.
URYAIM A DICKEN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
McDonoi oil, >!a.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
cf Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
JAW. 11. T|!R>l.£s,
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. marl 6-1 y
p J. KKAGAA,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonough, Ca.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
otkercollections. Will attend all the Courts
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J F. WALL,
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-’7D
jy A. IIIIOWN,
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
1| A. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flin t 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. | R.T. Daniel.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Griffin, Ga. •
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Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
SHOT AND HANGED'
FEARFUL FATE OF THE HEN
NESSEY MURDERERS.
The Enraged Citizens Take the
Law into Their Own Hands.
In the Hennessey case, on Friday after
noon, the jury rendered the following
verdict: Mistrial as to Politz, Monastero,
Seaffedi. Not guilty as to Macheca, Mar
ches'. Bnonetto, Marcbesi (the bovj. In
cardona, Alatranga. As a sequel to this
New Orleans struck the Mutia a death
blow Saturday morning. It rose in its
might almost at midday and wreaked a
terrible vengeance upon the Sicilian as
sassins who relentlessly slew David C.
Hennessey, and eleven men are cold and
rigid in death. The work of blood was
accomplished without unnecessary dis
order, without rioting, without pillaging
nnd without inflicting suffering upon any
innocent mau. It was not an unruly,
midnight mob—it was simply a sullen,
determined bo ly of citizens, who took
into their own Lands what justice had
ignorainiously failed to do. The chief
of police was slain on October 15th, and
that very night evidence began to accu
mulate, showing that his death had been
deliuerately planned by a secret tribunal,
and carried out boldly and successfully
by the tools of the conspirators.
THE JURY WAS TAMPERED WITH.
The trial lasted twenty-live days
and, though the evidence seemed
conclusive, the jury, currently charged
with having teen tampered with,
failed to convict. Friday night
a body of cool-headed men—law
yers, doctors, merchants and political
leaders—all persons of influence and so
cial standing, quietly met and decided
that some action must be taken and the
people’s justice, swift and sure, visited
upon those whom the jury had neglected
to punish.
THE CALL FOR THE MEETING.
Saturday morning a call for a mass
meeting at the Clay monument, on Canal
street, appeared in papers which edito
rially deprecated violence, and was as
follows: “All good citizens are invited
to attend a mass meeting on Saturday,
March 14th, at 10 o’clock a. m. at the
Clay statue to take steps to remedy tho
failure of Justice in the Hennessey case.
Come prepared for action.”
Down in a large room on Bienville nnd
Royal streets, there was an arsenal which
had been provided by a body of citizens.
The call was answered by the populace.
At 10 o’clock there was a crowd of
several thousand anxious people congre
gated around the Clay statue. They
hardly knew what was going to happen,
but they seemed ready to go to any
length, and while there were, of course,
many of the lower element in the crowd,
a large proportion were leading peo
ple of the town. There were three ad
drecses,short and not pithy and business
like, and the assemblage, unwillingly,
was soon keyed to a high pitch, demon
strative in its denunciation of the assas
sins. Each of the speakers said there
had been a great mass meeting months
before, which had met quietly and dis
persed peacefully, so that the law might
take its course. The law had failed.
The time to act had come.
WHO THE LEADERS WERE.
W. S. Parkesson, the leader, is a prom
inent lawyer, president of the South
ern Athletic Club, and the man who led
the vigorous city reform movement three
years ago. Walter D. Dcnegre, another
of the speakers, is one of the leaders of
the New Orleans bar. John C. Wickliffe
is also a prominent attorney, and James
D. Houston one of the foremost men of
the state. After denouncing Detective
O’Malley, who is supposed to have tamp
ered with the jury, the speakers announced
that they would lead the way to the
parish prison—Wickliffe, concluding with
these words: “Shall the execrable Mafia
be allowed to flourish in this city? Shaii
the Mnlia be allowed to cut down our
citizens on the public streets by the foul
means of assassination? Shall the Mafia
be allowed to bribe jurors, to let mur
derer's go scot free?”
THE MARCH TO TtlF, JAIL.
By this time the croud had swelled to
3,000, and, before any one could realize
what had happened, the great thiong,
gaining recruits a’ every step, was tramp
ing down the streets toward the prison,
stopping only once, and that was at tho
arsenal, where double-barrelled shotguns,
Winchester rifles and pistols were handed
out to responsible and respectable citizens
in the party. The starting of the crowd
had an electric effect on the city. Soon
the strei ts were alive with people, run
ning from all directions and j ining the
main body, which moved sullenly down
II impart street to the jail, near Congo
square. When the main crowd from
Canal street reached the prison there had
already collected there a dense throng, all
eager to take a haDd in whatever mighl
happen when the vanguard of armed cit
izens reached the prison, which is many
squares from Canal street. That grim
( id building was surrounded on all sides.
TOO MUCH FOR THE POLICE.
Superintendent Gaster had ordered an
extra detail of officers to lx- sent to the
jail and a sma'l crowd kept the sidewalks
around the old building clear until the
great multitude, swelling all the time
like a mighty, roaring stream, surged
around the door and crowded the little
band of blnecoats away. Meantime the
prisoners were stricken with terror, for
they could hear distinctly the shouts of
the people without, madly demanding
their blood. Some of the braver among
the representativis of the Mafia wanted
to die fighting for their lives, and they
pleaded for weapons with which to de
fend themselves, and when they could
not find these they sought hiding places
HIDING THE SICILIANS.
The deputies, thinking to deceive the
crowd by a ruse, transferred the nineteen
men to the female department, and there
the miserable Sicilians trembled in terror
until the moment when the doors would
yield to the angry throng outside. Cap
tain Davis refused the request to oven
the prison, and the crowd began the
woik of battering the doors. This did
not prove a difficult task to the deter
mined throng. Soon there was a crash;
the door gave w«v, and in an instant
armed citizens wye pouring through the
small opening, while a mighly shout went
up from 10,000 throats ia glad acclaim.
MCDONOUGH GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 20,1891.
By that time the excitement was intense,
not less so when a patrol wagon drove up
with a detachment of police, who soon
were driven away under a fire of mud and
stones. When the leaders inside got
possession of the keys the inside gate was
un'oeked. The avengers pressed into
the yard of the *hite prisoner*. Tbs
door of the first cell was open, and a
group of trembling prisoners stood in-ide.
■ hey were not the men who wore wanted,
aud the crowd very quietly, though with
remarkable coolness, burst into the yard.
The inmates of the jail were ready to di
rect the way to where the Italians were.
“Go to the ferns e department,” someone
veiled, and thither the men with their
Winchesters ran. An entrance was forced
and the leader called for some one who
knew the right men, and a volunteer re
sponded and the door was thrown open.
r l he gallery was deserted, but an old
woman, speaking ns fast as she could,
said the men were upstairs.
THE MERCILESS AVENGERS.
A party of seven or eight quickly as
cended the staircase, nnd as they reached
the landing the asia sins fled down at
the other end. It was time for action.
The assassins darted toward the Orleans
street side of the gallery and crouched
down beside the cells. Their faoes
blanched, and being unarmed, they were
absolutely defenseless. In fear and trem
bling they screamed for mercy, but the
avengers were merciless.
THE IH.OODY WORE.
Bang! bang! bang! rang out the re
ports to the murderous weapons, and a
dend'y rain of bullets poured into ths
eroueliing figures.
Gcraci, Komero, Monastero aad James
Caruso fell under the fire of half dozen
guns, the leaden bullets entering their
bodies nnd heads and the blood gushing
from the wounds.
The bloody executioners did their work
well, and beneath the continuing fire
Comitz and Traina, two of the men who
bad not been tried, but who were charged
jointly with the others accused, fell to
gether. Their bodies were literally rid
dled with buckshot, and they were atone
dead almost before tho lusilade was over.
When the group of assassins was discov
ered on the gallery, Macheca, Seaffedi
and old man Marches: separated from the
other six and ran up the stairs. Thither
half n dozen men followed them, and as
the terror-stricken assassins ran into the
cells they were slain.
DANGLING TO TREES.
Politz, the crazy mao, was locked up
in a cell upstairs. The doors were flung
open nnd one of the avengnra, taking
aim, shot him through the body. He
was not killed outright, and in order to
satisfy the peop'e on the outside, who
were crazy to know what was going on
within, he was drsgged down stairs and
through the doorway by which the crowd
had entered. Half carried, half dragged,
he was taken to the corner. A rope was
provided and tied around his neck, and
the people pulled him up to the cross
bars. Not satisfied that he was dead, a
score of men poured a volley of shot into
his body, and for several hours the
body was left dangling in the air. Bag
netto was caught in the first rush upstairs,
and the fiist volley of bullets pierced his
braiD. He was pul ed out by a number
of stalwart men through the main en
trance to the prison,and from the limb of a
'ree his body was suspended, although
life was already gone. Just as soon as
the bloody work was done, Mr. Perker
son addressed the crowd and asked them
to disperse. This they consented to do
with a ringing shout, but first they made
a rush for Mr. Perkerson, and lifting
him, bodily supported him on their
shoulders, while they marched up the
street. The avengers came back in a
body to the Clay statue and then de
parted.
THE PRESS APPROVE IT.
The press of the city was unanimous
Sunday morning, in approving the action
of the mob. AH the commercial ex
changes, the cotton exchange, sugar ex
change, stock exchange, lumbermen, me
chanics and dealers’ exchange and the
board of trade all unanimously approved
the action of the mob as proper and nec
essary.
THE MEN BURIED.
The funerals of the men were without
show or demonstration. No'one claiming
the bodies of Marchesi, Monasterio and
Trahina, they were taken in a cart to the
potter’s field aud buried there, not a
friend or relative being present, nor any
religious ceremonies held. No one but
his wife attended Politz’s funeral. At
the funerals of Macheca and Caruso,
which occurred together, they living near
each other, there was a large attendance
of friends, as both of the men were well
connected by marriage. • Nearly all the
men leave large families.
OUTS DE OPINONS.
The members of the Italian legation in
Washington city are very much incensed
over the summary manner in which the
people of New Orleans avenged the mur
der of Chief llennessy. Indeed the case
is being generally discussed in diplomatic
circles. Baron de Fava, the Italian minis
ter, refuses to make a statement just
now, but he is in cable communication
with authorities of his home government,
and without doubt a heavy indemnity
will he demanded, if any or all of the
Italians killed are unnaturalized.
INDIGNATION MEETINGS.
Large representative meetings of Ital
ians were held at Chicago, Kansas City,
Pittsburg and other places Sunday, at
which excited rpeeches were made de
manding reparation.
THE MINISTER INSTRUCTED.
A cablegram from Itome, Italy, says:
The Italian government has instructed
Baron Fava, the Italian minister at Wash
ton, to present a vehement prot- st to the
United States government against the
action of the mob in New Orleans, and
the United State government has promised
to make an investigation.
COMMENTS OF FOREIGN PAPERS.
Al.ondon cablegram says: The News,
commenting on the lynching of the Ital
ians in New Orleans, says: “Italy’s in
dignation is shared by the whole civilized
world. In nearly all snch cases in
America the disease of corruption is at
the root of the evil. The Americans are
at once the most patient and most impa
tient people in the world. When toey
have grown tired of any grievance, they
move to their revenge with the swiftness
of a hawk. The people of New Orleans
could Lave soon discover 'd which of the
jurymen in the Italian trial had finger, d
he murderers’ go d, and it would be
better to keep the jail intact for them.’'
AND EENRY COUNTY TIMES.
GEORGIA BRIEFS.
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Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
The fai'ure of the Construction
Ccmpany startled Ma<j«n. She was not
expecting the collapse. Her citizens
have liimduds of thousands of dollars in
the entei prise. The great object now is
to save ihii from wrecka.
The secrc'arv of the tfeumry has adver
tised for bids for the location of the site
for the public bvitMW. for GntomLo.
Ga., the appropriation for which Mr.
Grimes induced the president to sign in
the dying hours of the last congress by a
clever display of tact. She bids are to b»
opened April oth.
Mr. G. R. Banks, f who lives near
C’aruesville, has quiuHculiection of an
tiquities. A mong them are a powder and
sin t gourd that have seen service in the
tevolutionary war, and • rifle that was a
prize gun of James Jackson, who fought
under Washington nnd lived in Banks
county at tho time of his death. Be
sides these lie has other cuiios dating
Luck to the first settlement of Georgia.
The young n:en of Savannah propose
to establish an “Information Bureau” for
eligible young women who are willing to
marry on SIOO a month. They say that
very few clerks are Snaking SIOO a
month, and that those who do reach that
figure cannot afford to marry, unless
they can get girls of economical ideas.
'1 lie bureau is designed to reach thst
cla's, and it is predicted that it will do
a rushing busii css.
One of the results of tlic failure of the
Macon Construction company is tho
closing up of the Capital Bank of Macon.
This institution had advanced largely on
the stock of the construction company,
and when the news of the collapse of the
construction company got abroad, a run
was made on the Cfttital Bank. The
bank steadily paid to ]all depositors for
several hours, and tiuilly the directors
held a meeting and male an assingment
to Vice-President W. IW. Collins, und
practicully closed doors.
Green Howell, a Safannnh negro, is
gradually turning white. His hands are
perfectly white, his forehead and his
throat aud neck likewise. Howell told a
doctor recently that he Lad liccti turning
white gradually for years, and that the
only black portion left Las his face. He
said the charge of eblor gave him no
(rouble or inconvenience, and he seemed
rather pleased wifh the idea that ho was
In coming a white man in his old age.
lie is over sixty years old.
The case of Mr. John W. Hawkins, of
Oglethorpe county, is a pecular ouo, and
has excited the sympathy of the citizens.
Borne time ago his two little children
died, and his mind gavo way under his
grief. He bet ame (i.-ssca-i.-d with the
idea that they would return to him, and
evinced unmistakab’e signs of lunacy.
A jury was empaneled to inquire into his
care. He was adjudged a lunatic, and
will be sent to the asylum. He is a very
young man, who had a bright future be
fore him.
The old saying, “The farmers swear oil
from buying guano in the fall, but buy
more in the spring,” seems about to be
verified in Georgia. A few days ago 100,-
000 fertilizer tags were sent out from the
agricultural department, making the
total amount of tags sent out up to date,
2,750,000, showing that 275,000 tons of
guano have been inspected. Last year
there were 2,881,120 sent out during the
twelve months, showing that 288,112
tons of guunq were inspected. Only two
months of the year have passed, but the
amount of tags sent out is almost equal
to that for the twelve months of 1890.
The purposes of the recent Alliance
meeting in Albany were two-fold. Ist.
To perfect a congressional district alli
ance organization, composed of all the
county allinnces in the district, and similar
in the details of organization to the state
alliance. 2d. The establishing of an al
liance organ for that district. This sec
ond matter was disposed of summarily,
by deciding not to have a separate organ
of the alliance for the district. The mat
ter of organizing a district alliance was
postponed. President Polk has writteu
a letter,calling such a meeting to be held
in all the districts on the 6th of April.
The drowning of Mr. Lamar and Miss
Conrelly cast a gloom of sadness over
Augusta, where they were very popular,
Bnd the favorites of society. Mr. Lamar
was a nephew of Hon. Joseph B. Cum
mings. Miss Connelly was a grand
daughter of the late Judge John P. King,
niece and ward of Henry B. King, and
niece of the Marchioness of Anglcsby.
Her philanthropic and Christian works
made her the worthy successor of her
noted aunt, the late Louise King, who
was worshipped by rich and poor in Au
gusta. Miss Connelly was also an heiress
and only nineteen. Mr. Lamar was
about twenty-six years of age.
The people of Home and Floyd county
are naturally interested in the trial of
George H. Snyder, at San Marcos, Tex ,
for the murder of his wife. Snyder will
play the insanity dodge for all it is worth.
When brought into court recently he tried
to convince peop’e of his insanity by bis
actions and the rambling manner in
which he answered any questions. When
asked if he had employed counsel he re
plied that he had not, although it was
well known that he had employed one
lawyer in Austin and another in San
Marcos. His relatives are assisting him
financially. He says that his head is
split half in two, and that be once bad a
brain, but has none now.
A pica of illegality by the G'orgia
Railroad and Bunking company was
filed in the clerk’s office in Atlanta a few
days ago. The company objects to pay
ing the county tax assessed in accore’a iee
with the provisions of a bill passed in
1889. Quite a number of roads have de
murred from the payment of the taxes,
and fi. fas. have been issued by Tax Col
lector A. P. Stewart, in accordance with
instructions from Hon. W. A. Wright,
comptroller general of the state of Geor
gia. In the plea of illegality, the rail
road company, through i!s president,
Charles H. Phinizv, sets up the claiiu
that the charter of ihe company was
granted by au act of tbo Georgia legisla
ture, December 31, 1833. in sect'on 5 oi
which act it was provided that the stock
aud branches be subject to not more th .n
one half of 1 per con' per annum of the
net protends of the investment.
Press Day at the Georgia ( hautauqun
will be the best of all the days. The
Albany A r <s us <ir,d Advertiser speaks of it
iu the following glowing terms: “It
will prove a uit-moruble occasion, on
which notable men will honor the Chau
tauqua. The Georgia Press Association
will be represented by the brilliant editor
of the The Macon Acres, Mr. John T.
Boifeuillct, than whom there is no mare
graceful or pleasing speaker in that body
of brainy moulders of public opiuion.
The Weekly Press Association will be
ably represented by Mr. Edward T.
Ye Wig. n f The <Wem shorn }t**j*ld
uournat, wnose natural endowments of
the highest order have bean polisl ed aud
strengthened by a culture rarely encount
ered. To these associations Georgia is
greatly indebted for its present pros
perity, and Georgians will flock to see
these great factors iu her development.”
The I urn in pm cut.
It is claimed now, apropos of the dis
cusion about the military encampment,
i hat the law passed at the last session of
'he legislature—the law under which the
advisory board has beeu acting-is void
aud of no i fleet because of technical
errors. If the eirors should prove seri
ous enough, in the opiuion of the attor
ney geueial, to invalidate the law, then
what the advisory braid has done is also
void and of no effect. Two errors aro
alleged to have been made. 1. There is
no title to the resolution, to set forth the
subject matter thereof. 2. The resolu
tion, which has the effect of an act, was
read only one time in tho house, whereas
the constitution of the stnte requires three
readings before eicli branch of the legis
lature. Until an opinion from the attor
ney general is had, no further action in
the matter will be taken.
The Money Paid Back.
As is well known, Governor Brown
some yrnrs ago, after the death of his son,
Charles McDonald 8r0w.., made a dona
tion of $50,000, which his sou, if living,
would have inherited, lo tho State
University at Athens. The ftiud was
mimed in honor of the deceased son, who
was h'mself for a time a student there.
The interest annually, $3,500, which is
paid by the state for fifty years, is loaned
to young men of promise, who are unable
to educate themselves, with the pledge of
honor and the legal obligation on their
part that as soon as they make the money
to spare after their graduation they will
pay back the amount to the university
with 4 per cent intercstr This privilege
is confined exclusively to young men of
merit, who are neither able nor uro their
parents able to educate them. One oi
the beneficiaries of this fund is Professor
Peacock, who lives in Texas. A few
days ago he paid the treasurer of the
university the amount of his indebtedness,
with 4 per cent interest, nnd wrote a
letter of thanks to Governor Brown for
tho loan.
A BOISTEROUS WIND-UP.
Exciting 1 Scenes in the Kansas
House of Representatives.
A Topeka dispatch says: The assembly
chamber was a scene of great excitement
Tuesday evening during the final session
of the house. Tho report of the com
mittee to investigate metropolitan police
syutem, created for the purpose of en
forcing tho prohibition law, stated that
the prohibition law had beeu a fuilure,
so far as applied to the cities of Kansss,
and recommended that the governor
withdraw the state polieo from such
cities. The report was amended, making
tho withdrawal of the police discretion
ury with the governor, ant then ndopted.
A question arose on the adoption of the
report of the committee investigating the
conduct of the statchouse commissioners.
Sfvcral republicans denounced the oom
tnitlee and the Farmers’ Alliance in bis
ter terms. Mr. Bice, a republican,
rose to speak, when Spenker Eldar
demanded the previous question.
Mr. Bice protected against this
action, and termed it a “damnable dis
grace.” Speaker Elder in reply b. esme
exceedingly angry, and said that the Far
mers’ A liatice was running the house,
and the republicans must subm t, whether
right or wrong. Then tho excitement
began. The galleries hissed, the Farmers’
Alliance cheered and the republicans
groaned. Speaker Elder demanded that
the lobby and galleries be cleared. The
hissing, shouting and groaning continued
nnd the chair, unable to restore order,
said he would give tip the chamber to the
voice of the mob. The sergeant-at-arms
and doorkeepers attempted to clear the
lobbies, and several lively encounters
took p’nco. Several senators, who were
witnesses of the proceedings, were un
ceremoniously hustled out of the cham
ber. A general riot became imminent,
but finally Speaker Elder resumed the
chair and said he was ashamed of his con
duct and his motion to close the debate,
und appealed to all present to maintain
order. Quiet was then restored, and
Speaker Elder’s motion to continue the
investigating committee was adopted,
with an amendment. The house thee
adjourned.
THE FARMERS MAD
Because of the Action of Moore
and Cockrell.
A dispatch of Thursday from Spring
field, 111., says: Dissension is rife among
the agricultural organizations of the
State. The election of Gen. Palmer by
votes of Representatives Moore and Cock
rell has caused a division among the
Farmers’ Mutual Beneficial Association
lodges of Illinois, awl tins breach will be
but widened by an sddreim issued bv
Streeter, the recent senatorial ouudidate,
and Representative Taubeneck, the
single farmer m mber who remained
true to the independent candidate
on the last ballot. The address »< di
rected to the Farmers’ Mutual Beneficial
Association and other ijds[>eiid«nt and
industrial organizations. The statement
accuses Moore and Cockre.lj of bad faith
and unfair treatm«nt of their associates,
and concludes thus: “We believe that
Rcprerentaiives Moore nnd Cockrell have
not treated us fairly. When, in the hi*
tory of events, was u smi ataxia! candidate,
on the eve of an election and the remain
ing votes promised to secure the prize
thrown overboard without notice and
without cause? We mbmit this state
ment to the public and let them draw
their own conclusions.”
NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap
pen from Day to Day.
The Sherman statue fund amounts to
$38,635.
Lippencott’s lamp chimney works at
Findlay, ()., were destroyed by fire Sat
urday. Loss, $45,000.
Enlistments in the navy have been
stopped for the present, us the number of
men allowed by law have been secured.
The supreme court of the United States
will hear arguments oti the New York
electrocution case on tho first Monday of
next mouth.
A congressional rcdistricting hill has
been introduced in the New Jersey legis
lature. It provides for a new district
under the census.
A dispatch of Tuesday says: The trial
of Charles E. Kincaid for the killing of
ex-Congrossmun Taulbcc, of Kentucky,
has beeu postpoued until Monday next.
A fire at Fowlerville, Mich., Monday,
destroyed the post office, express oflice,
opera house and a large number of busi
ness blocks nnd dwellings. Loss SIOO,-
000, with very small insurance.
The first application for repayment of
the direct tax has been received at the
treasury department. It was from Gov
ernor Hill, of New York, and the amount
of money called for was about $2,225,000.
The California assembly has passed an
anti-Chinese bill. It provides for the
issuance of certificates of residence to
Chineso now in tho state and excluding
nil others. The bill had already passed
tho senate.
Bev. J. A. White, who was expelled
from the Washington, I). C., conference,
Colored Methodist church, has entered
suit for $50,000 agniust that body. The
charges against him were not made public
when ho was expelled.
The journeymen plumbers of St. Paul
have been locked out by the master plum
bers. This has been done in retaliation
for the boycott began by the journeymen
on a boss plumber who employed a cor
nice maker to do plumbing.
A committee of girls employed in the
Clark thread mills at Newark, N. J., held
a secret meoting Sunday afternoon and
decided to call all the girls out. At a
general meeting of the girls, it was de
cided to abide by the decision of the
•committee.
The jury in tho Lupzc murder trial, at
Witchita, Kan., on Monday, rendered a
vcidict of murder in the secoud degree.
The crime was a cold-blooded one, and
tlic verdict meets with general condemn
ation and threats are being made of
lymhing Lupzo.
The signal corps observer at Gray-
Head, Mass., reported Sunday that the
United States vessels Nina ' and Galina,
ashore at that point, nre now away up on
the beach. The Nina will probably bo
saved, but the Galena will be a total
wn ck. No lives were lost.
The French government, on Ruuday, ac
ceded to the request of the Chilian revo
lutionists, who asked that the Chilian
warships just completed at Toulon, and
destined for the si rvice of I‘resident
Bn 1 maced a, should not be allowed to
depart.
The Guatemalan government is buying
artillery mules in the City of Mexico.
Guatemalan dispatches say there is no
reason for talk of war, though Salvador
is showing d strust of other Central
American governments. President Baril
las, of Guatemala, is stimulating agricul
ture and commerce us a preventative of
war.
Henry Hull, who killed his wife last
year, at Council Bluff, la., was ou Friday
found guilty of murder in the first degree.
The jury recommended that he la; sent
to the penitentiary for life. Hall is sev
enty years old and very feeble. His hair
and long beard nre snow-white. He can
not live long. His two joung daughters
were compelled to testify against him.
The Variety Iron Works company, of
Cleveland, ()., made an assignment Tues
day morning. Liabilities about $250,000;
assets $150,000. The deed of assignment
states that the board of directors held a
meeting on Monday and decided that it
was necessary, in view of tho embarass
nu'iits of the corporation that it make a
general assignment of property for the
benefit of its creditors.
A dispatch from Hjracuse, N. Y., says:
At 5 o’clock Sunday morning, before the
firemen had left the scene of the disaster
of the previous day, fire broke out in St.
James’ Episcopal church, and, having
destroyed that structure, spread to and
destroyed McLonnan fiats. It is believed
one woman was burned up. The loss is
about SIOO,OOO, making the total fire loss
during the twenty-four hours $1,200,000.
A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch of Satur
day says: Humors of an additional short
age in the accounts of ex-Trcasurer Wood
ruff are again flying fast and furious. It
is said he is short more than SIOO,OOO in
script. Members of the joint committee
who are investigating the office, without
exception, refuse to talk at all upon the
subject, aud it is impossible to learn any
thing authentic.
The bureau of American repbulics has
information that the overtures made by
the government of Canada to the govern
ment of British Guiana, for a reciprocity
treaty were rejected by the latter on tho
ground that an arrangement of this char
acter with the United States is preferred,
and the government of British Guiana
would not enter into any agreement
whch wou'd prevent reciprocity with the
United
CARBON HILL AGAIN
The Scene of The Rioters’
Escapades.
A Birmingham. Ala , dispatch says:
The old trouble of Carbon Hill, Walker
county, has broken out again. Monday
night, incendiaries burned the store of
Major J. F. Anderson. The loss is $3,003.
Anderson was warned to leave some time
■go by a gang of toughs because he called
on the governor for the military at the
riot in January, lie didn’t leave, and
now his store is burned down. No arrests
h »ve been made.
I Henry County Weekly, Established 1870,
\ Henry Oouuty Time*, Established 1884.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
A conscience contribution of $5 lias
been received at ihe United States treas
ury in an envelope marked “Mt. Vernor,
Oa.”
The Italian residents of Ban Fiat!cisco
strongly denounce the hew Oman* trag
edy, and a call has been issued for a mass
meeting.
While Officer .Tames E. Penn was at
tempting to arrest two negroes in a dance
house, nt Houston, Tex., Monday night,
he was Bhot and instantly killed.
There will be a meeting of the Yellow
Pino Lumber Associa iou of Alabama,
Florida and Mississippi at the Exchange
hotel, in Montgomery, on March 26th.
A large saw mill belonging to the Car
abclle, Tallahassee and Georgia railway,
at Carabelle, has bceu destroyed by tire.
Two million feetof first-class lumber were
also dest oyed.
The eighteenth annual convention of
the Georgia State Sunday School Asso
ciation will be held at Columbus, Ga.,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursduy,
April 21st, 22d aud 23d, 1891.
Rev. J. A. Speight, associate editor of
the Biblical Recorder, of Raleigh, has
purchased the outfit and goodwill of the
Western North Carolina Baptist, of Ashe
ville, ami will in April renew its publica
tion.
The wholesale hat dealers and manu
facturers of New York, have formed a
combination to control the market in
Floridu ‘'sheeps’ wool sponge.” Six
firms in that city have practically con
trolled the trade.
Mrs. Tom Williams, living near Brad
yotte, Tenn., has given birth to five chil
dren in a year; twins at one time and
triplets at another. The triplets arrived
Monday, and are all girls, weighing six
pounds each.
Tho party of congressmen, military
men ana uowspaper correspondents who
have been visiting Chattanooga aud its
old battlefield environs, on thoir return
to Washington, expressed themselves aa
delighted with their trip.
A disastcrous wreck occurred at Led
better trestle, on the Carolina Central
railway, at 8 o’clock Saturday night. Tho
through freight from Norfolk to Char
lotte was wreck'd at that point. There
were twenty cars in the train, and all ex
cept seven went down.
Henry Stanton, a young man wanted
in Greenville, Miss , was arrested at Bir
mingham. Ala., Monday night. At the
time of his arrest be had iu his possession
a forged check on a local bank, which he
tried to destroy. Tho authorities at
Greenville were notified of his arrest.
The National Civil Engineers’ Associa
tion will meet in Chattanooga, June 30th.
The organization is a representative body
of professional men. Tliev are lenders in
their line of business, and represents it
in the highest branches. Those attending
will be principally from the large cities.
The real estate men of Atlanta are con
templating the establishment of a general
real (state exchange, or real estate mar
ket, such as almost eve ry other city of
Atlanta’s size and pretensions has, aud it
is understood that definite steps toward
the establishment of such an exchange
have been taken.
A dispatch of Monday from Mt. Sterl
ing, Ky., says: A inob went to the house
of Mrs. Wiggington. whoso husband and
sons are charged with poisoning Ferguson
and Watts, and hanged her, and are now
searching for Wigginton, who has fled.
Two of the Wigginton boys arc in jail,
which is strongly guarded.
The Spartanburg, 8. 0., Construction
compuiy was organized Saturday by
electing 11. T. Trowbridge, of Atlanta,
president; 11. E. Kavenei, of Spartan
burg, secretary und treasurer, and Robert
Mills manager. It is tho purpose of the
company to build houses, and do a gen
eral building and supply business.
The entire property of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Street Railway Company, and the
Atlsuta and Edgewood Electric line has
been sold and formally transferred to a
syndicate, lately composed of n< rthern
and eastern capitalists. The first of the
three payments being made Saturday.
The price paid for the two systems will
be between ♦750,000 and *BOO,OOO.
The commissioner of agriculture of
Alabama furnishes a comparative state
ment of fertilizer tags for the seasons
commencing respectively October 1, 1889
and 1890, to March 15, 1890 and 1891.
The number of tons reported sold last
year was 94,843; this year, 10G,440; in
creased , sales this year, 11,003. The
amount for tags received last year was
*47,421,56; this year, *53,823.05; this
year’s increase, *5,801.49.
After Chinese Trade.
A Tacoma, Washington, dispatch of
Monday says: It is stated that the North
ern Pacific is negotiating with the own
ers of the ships Abyssiuia, Partbia and
Batavia, for the past three years under
charter to the Canadian Pacific railroad,
in the China trade, for the purpose of
placing them on the run between Tacoma
and the Orient. The Northern Pacific, it
is stated, has already made offers for the
ships, and the chances are that either the
Canadian Pacific railroad will pay a big
bonus to keep these ships out of the
trade, or else find that the fre ght taken
by them will be a serious pull-back to
the profits of the Canadian Pacific.
Disbanding Colored Troops.
A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
s-ys: As a result of the failure of cou
gress to make the nece-sary appropria
tions for armory rents, General Ordway,
commandirg officer, l as issued an order
disbanding the Seventh and Eig'h (col
ored) battalions of district national
guurda. The order has caused consider
able comment among those interested in
colorrd troops. General Ordway, in
speaking of the matter, explained that
the battalions mustered out have n < regi
mental organizat on, and could, therefore,
be spared without iu any way disturbing
the icuimea’s.
NO. 29.