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CONSOLIDATED JANUARY, 1,1891. VOL. XV. JPROFESSIOXAL cards. ||R. G. P. CAMPBELL, DENTIST, McDonOCQH Li*. 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. 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 at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. 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. BTEWAKT A WAN I HI., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. • JOHN E« TVE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gate City Natioal Bank Building, Atlanta, Ga, Practices in the State and Federal Courts, THE— Y '*r-:rA Lt ■ yfrniNCINNATI CHAT T» MOOGyr, ’ K'IVU MI-S 7 - ! ' 4 A ' cr im MACD N*' V i lAr p • • o e7%0 kr> < a T, ' AO R r t> _a , . S, I JACSSONVIILC%\ East Tei. Virginia & Ga, R’Y. IS TIIE ONLY SHORT AND DIRECT LINE TO TIIE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. PULLMAH’S FINEST VES TIBULE SLEEPERS BETWEEN ATLANTA & KNOXVILLE MACON & CHATTANOOGA BRUNSWICK & ATLANTA WITHOUT < U Direct Connections at Chat tanooga with Through TRAINS AND PULLMAN SLEEP ERS TO Memphis and the West, at Knoxville with l*ullinan Sleepers* lor WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS, B. W. WRENN, CHAS. N. KICHT Gen’l. Fas*. Ag A,C. I\ A. KNOXVILLE. ATLANTA A Xfc A4W 'A A YEAR ? I nndwtakr to briefly AT" |l|| ■ 1 teach any tmir’.y intelUfrent person of either C | S || a Isex, «he can :ead ar.l write, and who, ■ Rafter instruction, will -.vo.k industriously, War W* V V'-.McrlO ec.ro Three Thtumnd Dollars a Tear in Ibs'h-own k»calitias.wli«rever they Hee.! will alaofursiah the rituati"n or eraploymenijit which yon can earn thatanioun*. No money for me uu tcae aorreaatal »» above. Earfly and quickly learned. I drain but iwie verker front ea< b diatrirt orct-nniv. I have already taught and |»rovided w itit employment a ia’nra number, who are leaking - ver fSI-WI ayeareacbv It'a SEW and MO LID. Full particular* FREE. Addrers at once, L. C, ALLEN, Box 41SO, At:u>i*ta, Maine. little Tortones hare been trade at Hbrt fSiV'^yo^ mnftSirl Smic*'! i t borne, when -er ) a arc. Evan V - J J I nntit tre >i’r r.i -'nz from 15 l » ll.llalictt A Co.,D#lWOP«rliaa< l Maluo 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. —-fx 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.