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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
CONSOLIDATED JANUARY, 1,1891.
VOL. XV.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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DENTIST.
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.
Geo W. Bar ax j W.T. Dicker.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MoDosoi'us, ‘*a.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
cf Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr27-lv
| AS. 11. TIRAI’.H,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, G*.
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 .1. KBAG AIV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, • .
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
othercollections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
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
given to collections. octs-’79
yy A. hrowx
* 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
|y A. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tiongivento Collections, Oet 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stewart. j R.T. Daniel.
STEWART & DAAIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
GairriN, Ga.
JOHN! L. TIE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
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GEORGIA BRIEFS.
Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
Press Day of the Georgia Chautauqua,
at Albany, notwithstanding the inclem
ency of the weather, was a grand success.
The Western and Atlantic rental for
March has been paid. It ann unts to
$35,000. This is $1,150.66 a day, $17.94
an hour and eighty cents-a minute—a
pretty goood inc me, $420,000 a year.
A movement is on foot to establish a
telephone lino between Dalton and Chat
tanooga, and efforts will be made to get
Chattanooga m< rchants interested in it.
It is understood that it will run its wires
to Ringgold, Tunnel Hill, Catoosa Springs
and Dalton.
Augusta is delighted at the fine pros
pects of getting the state fair in October.
If the efforts to get the fair are success
ful, it will be held in connection with the
exposition, which will mako a double at
traction. Augusta has made a tine offer
to get the fair, and the chances of her
getting it are good.
A negro peracher in Augusta says that
100 years ago the people were all Baptists,
but since that time many have falien, and
that was the cause of the earthquakes,
epidemics and murders. He also says
that the white Baptist folks used to go
down to the river to baptize, but now they
are so good they baptize in the churches,
where they can heat the water.
The most important testimony in tho
McKee trial at Rome was that of Prof.
White, of Athens, who as a chemical ex
pert has few equals in the south, lie
said arsenic was found in the stomach,
and his testimony was very clear and de
cisive on this point. Prof. White’s tes
timony created a sensation, for, although
it has been known that he analyzed tho
stomach of the poisoned woman, the re
sult of the analysis has never before been
made public.
The citizens of Molena are considerably
agitated over the owenership of the real
estate upon which the town of Molena is
situated. The Richards heirs are about
to revolutionize things. Some little doubt
has existed all along as to the ability of
those in possession to make legal titles,
but the matter was said to have been sat
isfactorily arranged some time ago and
improvement went on. The attorney of
the orphans gives notice that they expect
to push their claim. The claim involves
750 acres of land, embracing the entire
business portion of the town.
A change has taken place in the de
partment of the principal physician of
the penitentiary. Dr. H. V. M. Miller,
who was appointed by Governor Gordon,
stepped down and out. Dr. W. O’Dan
iel, his successor, appointed by Governor
Northen, took charge of the office. Dr.
Miller, it goes without saying, has made
a thorough going and highly efficient of
ficer, and his administration has given
complete satisfaction. Dr. O’Daniel is a
prominent Allianceman, a physician of
acknowledged position, and will doubt
less prove an efficient officer. This is the
last of the state house officers affected by
the last election.
Sunday was an important day in Epis
copal circles throughout Georgia, it being
the day of elections for the parish officers
and for delegates to the diocesan conven
tion to be held May 16th at Christ church
in Savannah for the purpose of electing a
bishop. Bishop Thompson, of Missis
sippi, has been asked to preside at the
Savannah convention, and will accept
A number of names have been suggested
for the honored position. Among them
are Rev. Chauncey Williams, of Augusta,
Ga.; Rev. I)r. Lindsey, of Trinity church,
Boston; Rev. Di. Rainsford, of New
York; Rev. Dr. Gaylor, of Sewanee uni
versity, ; Rev. Robert S. Barrett, pastor
of St. Luke’s church, Atlanta; Rev. Dr.
Robert Gibson, of Richmond, Va.; Bishop
Wingfield, of California, and others.
Judge A. R. Wriglit Dead.
Judge A. R. Wright died suddenly
Tuesday, near Glenwood, his country
home, and apoplexy was the cause of his
death. The news of his demise will carry
sorrow to many, for one of the grandest
men of this day has pissed away. Judge
Wright was in congress with Toombs.
Stephens and Cobb, tlie intimate friend
of all. During secession Judge Wright
whs a leader, lie and Mr. Stephens
stumped the state for Stephen A Doug
lass. As an advocate before a jury, he
was was without a peer; as a political
orator, there was none who surpassed
him. With his death ends the life of
one of Georgia’s greatest men.
Chicknmauga’a Encampment.
The location of the Georgia military
encampment for 1891 at Chickamauga,
(Crawfish Springs) Ga., by the Georgia
military advisory board will be a great
benefit, to that aspiring and attractive
resort, and will enable it to bid advisedly
for the p rmanent encampment of Geor
gia’s militia. In speaking of the award of
the encampment to Chickamauga, the
Atlanta Constitution truthfully savs:
‘‘Chickamauga is one of . the most beau
tiful places in the world. It is thirteen
miles from Chattanooga, on the Chatta
nooga, Rome and Columbus railroad, in
what is called MeLemorc’s cove, with
Lookout mountain on one side and
Pigeon mountain on the other. The
scenery in the vicinity is wildly
picturesque. The famous Crawfish
Spring is at Chickamauga. It flows 30,-
000,000 gallons of water a day, and just
below it is another spring of equal size.
The water is as clear as crystal flowing
over the rocks. For its historic associa
tions, no better place could been selected.
The federal and confederate lossesonthis
battlefield amounted te 33,000 men. The
government takes 7,500 acres for a na
tional park, and a surveying party is now
on the grounds. Over $300,000 have
already been appropriated.”
A Question of Tux.
An authority on the handling of cot
ton gives an interesting fact regard
ing the giving in of taxes on held-over
cotton, the importance of which has not
been generally appreciated. “There
never was in Georgia before,” said he,
“near so much cotton left on the Ist of
April in the hands of the farmers. It s
being in their han ls on the Ist of April
makes them pay the taxes on it. lou
are going to see a kick all over the state
when they come to give in their property
for taxation. They have been advised to
hold their cotton, as much as possible,
MCDONOUGH GA., FRIDAY, APRIL It), 1891.
and they have actid in c neert in tnat
direction. It wouldn’t help matters if
every bale iu the state was sold on the 2d
of April—it is in the hands of the farm
ers on the Ist of Apf.il, und they pay the
taxes on it. The stnte and county taxes
will foot up, iu the aggregate, a very
large sum to come from the farmers.
This is in the nature of an additional tax
upon them—something iu excess of what
they usually pay, for they never before
adopted a general policy of holding back
their cotton until the Ist of April. Not
long ago the list of questions to be pro
pounded by the tax collector were
changed iu the legislature, and this point
about held-over cotton is covered now.
The great difference this year, though, is
iu the amount of cotton held as compared
with the average. Where a man pays $1
tax on cotton ordinarily, he will pay $lO
this year, and in the aggregate this
amounts to a great deal.
Further Instrnellona.
An important order has been issued by
Governor Northen relative to the pen
sions for Confederate widows, and is as
follows:
“Whereas, The act of the recent gen
eral assembly, providing pensions for the
widows of Confederate soldiers, stipu
lates that each widow, entitled under its
provisions, shall receive SIOQ, ana the
general appropriation act sets apart
$60,000 to cover this expenditure;
“And whereas, There is now official in
formation in this department, furnished
by the ordinaries of the several counties,
making the number of applicants more
than 4,000;
“And whereas, It will be impossible,
under existing circumstances, to establish
any rules by which the money appropri
ated may be judiciously aud properly
distributed until all the applications shall
be filed iu this office aud passed upon
under the provisions of the law. It is
therefore
Ordered, That payments of pensions to
the widows of cenfederate soldiers will
not begin until ample time has been
given to receive and pass upon all appli
cations. Of this, due notice will bo
given through the papers and the ordi
naries of the several counties. ,The ordi
naries are respectfully instructed to ex
plain the provisions of this order and in
struct every applicant to send her proofs
to this department and await notice of
readiness to begin the payments.”
Judge Calhoun, of Atlanta, announces
that application blanks, settiug forth the
requirements in the affidavit made by the
widow applying, are now ready. In fill
ing out these blanks the widow must
swear that she is the widow of a soldier,
whose name must be given, with his com
pany, regiment and time of his enlist
ment, and tnat she was the wife of tho
deceased soldier, and has never married
since his death. She must also give tho
date of her marriage, and that she has re
sided continuously in Georgia, which was
her home on December 23, 1890, and
that since that time she has not resided
in any other state. She must also state
tho date of death of husband, and
how, when and where he died.
She must state, in case
he died of disease, positively how the
disease is known to have resulted from
the service of the soldier in the army,
and not from any other cause. Three
witnesses must testify to the facta that
she sets forth in her affidavit. There
must accompany these a certificate from
the ordinary of the county in which the
applicant resides. Last of all, she must
sign her name to a power of attorney for
the collection of the money on any war
rant that may be issued in her favor.
QUIETING DOWN.
The Italian Embroglio Assum
ing a Milder Aspect.
It is reported that the president and
his advisers are very much gratified over
the latest message from Premier di Ru
diui, which was the subject of considera
tion at the cabinet meeting Friday. They
re inclined to think that it indicates an
early settlement of the diplomatic war.
The milder tone assumed by Rudini in
his mes-age to Marquis imperiali is, it is
considered, due to the clear state
ment of our government’s position by
Secretary Blaine, supplemented by the
very able presentation of the case at
R ime by Mr. Porter, United States min
ister there.
If this government considers the ques
tion of indemnity, the inquiry will no
doubt be made into tho ch iracter of the
alleged subjects of Italy killed in New
Orleans, whether they were compelled to
leave their native land, under a promise
never to return and were compensated to
leave, etc. Should it be found that these
men left the country for their country’s
good, this government would hardly con
rent to compensate their families. It was
al o repored that at the cabinet meeting a
letter was read from either Baron Fava
or Marquis Imperiale, intimating that the
recall of the minister was really but a
leave of absence.
The dispatch from Marquis di Rudini,
Italian premier, was laid before the cabi
net by Secretary Blaine and discussed for
a time. Later, Secretary Blaine said that
he would not be able to give out any
thing for publication now, as the exact
text of the marquis’ note remains a se
cret, and it is regarded as possible that it
will not be made public UDtil the secre
tary has prepared his reply.
ROASTED TO DEATH.
A Conflagration in Which Ten
People Lose Their Lives.
In a fire at Rochester, Pa., Saturday
night, a large frame structure, in which
was located the tea arid coffee store of
George Edwards, the millinery store of
Mrs. Hall, and the shoe shop and resi
dence of E. J. Keene, was dcstroye L A
number of Italians lived over the
millinery store and were burned
to death. There have been nine
bodies found; only two recog
nized. They are Mr. Keene and his son,
who was a shoemaker. One hundred and
fifty dollars in gold was found in the
ruins, supposed to have belonged to the
Italians. An Italian, who is the only
one of the family saved, and who jumped
from a second-storv window, says there
is SSOO more st 11 in the ashes. The
conclusion arrived at is that the Italians
became confused and could not fin 1 the
stairway, which was a narrow one, and
to reach it required the jope un" of two
doors ip the rear of the building.
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NEWS AND NOTES
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome of Incidents that Hap
pen from Day to Day.
The grip is epideojie at Oshkosh, Wi».,
to an alarming extent.
The senate of New York has passed a
bill appropriating $200,000 for tka
world's fair.
A disastrous explosion occurred in a
coal mine at Apedale, England, Friday,
and ten persons tu-H
The police authorities of Buenos Ayres
have closed the salvation army hall,
claiming that the army was not recog ■
nized by the church.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that there was was a
net increase of $11,641,145 in circulation
during the month of March.
Fireman Morris a»<i Brnkernan Fred
Moore and John Coijroy were killed in
an accident on the Erie railroad, near
IlorneUsYillc, N. Yn|Thursciay.
The secretary of the treasury has paid
the direct tax chiitnaf f the state of Ohio,
amounting to $1,8ffe,025, and of the
state of New Jersey, amounting to $382,-
615. *
The printers’ strike in the job offices at
Washington, D. C., is ended, the em
ployers conceding 42 cents a thousand,
with extra rates for more than nine hours
a day.
The East German conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, at Balti
more, voted 41 to 1 aga nst admitting
women as delegates to tho general con
ference.
A strike was ordered Thursday in all
Washington job offices that have not
complied with the union’s demand for an
advance from 40 to 42j cents per thou
sand and a nine-hour day.
The utmost tranquillity prevailed
throughout the coke region Sunday. It
is reported that several of the coke com
panies in the region will make strenuous
efforts to resume work at once.
A small riot occurred Monday in the
Phanix packing house, ct Kansas City
by a crowd of Italians proposing (o work
for $1 a day. They were driven off by
a shower of stones from the workmen.
A telegram of Monday from Bridge
port, Conn., states that P. T. B irnum,
the veteran showman, who has been ill
for several days with the grip, has suf
fered a relapse, and it is feared can live
but a little while loDgcr.
The will of the late General Joseph E
Johnston has been Hied at Washington,
and the court directed that letters of ad
ministration be issued to James A. Mc-
Lane, of Baltimore, executor. The value
of the estate is estimated at SBO,OOO,
A number of French capitalists have
made an offer to the Russian government
to Ifuild a Siberian railway, from Tchel
cabuisk to Vladivostok, a distance of
7,198 versts, receiving payment either in
railroad bonds of by a loan of 300,000,-
000 credit roubles.
During the post week, ending at noon
Saturday, there were 1,100 death in New
York city, against 895 for the preceding
week. There were fifty-six deaths from
grip, against ten from similar causes tlie
week before. The police department has
244 of its force on the sick list.
Governor Boyd, of Nebraska, Friday
morning, returned the Newberry maxi
mum rate bill to the legislature without
his approval on the ground that it was
unconstitutional. The bill passed the
house over the veto, but it is believed
that the veto will be sustained in the
senate.
The many conferences that have been
held between the steel company and their
employes, at Joliet, 111., have resulted in
an arrangement of the wages question, at
least until the close of 18m5, after which
six months notice must be given of a
desired change by either side. The slid
ing Beale is adopted.
Dispatches from Carson City, Nevada,
say: The men employed in the Holmes
mine at Candelaria have suffered terribly
from the ravages of the grip. Out of 600
men employed about the mine more than
400 have been prostrated, and over 100
have died. Work in the mine had prac
tically to be abandoned.
General Albert Pike, grand commander
of the Scottish Rite Masonry of the
southern jurisdiction, and chief of the
Royal Order of Scotland for this coun
try, died at 8 o’clock Thursday evening,
at the home of the supreme council of
the order in Washington, D. C., where he
bad lived for several years.
A London calegram of Sunday says:
Von Caprivi, the German chancellor, has
notified Lord Salislmry, the British prime
minister, that Germany will abandon
southwest Africa, unless the Anglo-Gcr
mau syndicate succeeds in raisimr the
proposed capital. It is doubtful whethei
the sum required can be secured.
A London cablegram of Sunday says:
A movement has been st irted to create
a gigantic trust to conti ol the output of
the collieries in Yorkshire, Lancashire,
Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The uvow
(d object* of the new trust are lo bring
the consumer id direct contact with the
producer, aDd to place the profits on a
less fluctuating basis.
About 200 honorably discharged vet
erans, who have served in the United
States army and navy, met in New York
city Tuesday and adopted resolutions
favoring an organization to be known as
the United States Regular Army and
Navy Veterans. A copy of then-solutions
were sent to varioua organizations with a
request for endorsement.
Twelve brick manufacturing firms ol
Trenton, N. J., announce a reduction ol
wages, beginning Tuesday, of 15 to '2<
per cent. The reason assigned is the
falling off in the demand for brick.
There was aa oversupply last ycr, nnd
the prospect is not good for this season.
Employes are considering the advisability
of striking.
The Waverly oil works, at Pittsburg,
Pa , covering an area of four acres, were
totally-destroyed by fire Fiday night, to
gether with 80,000 fe-.-t of sawed timber,
owned by George S. Lacy. During the
fire several tanks of benzine exploded, but
no one was seriously injured. The total
loss is estimated at $150,060. fully uov- |
(red by insurance. The origin of the
fire is not known.
The French government has decided to 1
allow Prince Louis Bonaparte to v'sit
Paris. The Bonaparte family council at
San Remo, resulted in Prince Louis re
taining the property left by his father,
Ex-Empress Eugenic grantiug Prlneo
Victor a sum to raise his annual income
to $22,500. The ex-Emprcss Eugenie is
still wealthy, though part of her fortune
wa* involved in the receut troubles of the
Baring Brothers.
A dispatch of Friday from New Castle,
l'a., says: A naturalized Italian, named
Gabarrlo, who owns property at Wam
pum, and ia he’d in good repute, has
made public the story of his having been
approached by some of bis countrymen
w ith a proposition to join 20,000 Italians
iu a plot to capture and destroy Pitts
burg. Gabarrio says every Italian in
Allegheny and Beaver counties has been
similarly approached.
Sunday’s dispatches say: Secretary
Blaine is not yet prepared to make public
! anything throwiug additional light on
I the Italian situation, and unless there
should be, contrary to all expectations,
another bombshell as sudden and start
ling as the recall of Baron Fuva, it is
probable that the Italian entanglement
will not again be a subject of all-engross
ing public interest, aud that it will take
the usual tedious course of diplomacy.
Up to Monday night several Morewood
rioters had bccu arrested, and eight depu
ties who did tho shooting. Tho squire
before whom the heariugs were held
found a precedent somewhere, held those
charged with riot and carrying concealed
weapons in SI,OOO hail, while the depu
ties charged with murder were released on
S3OO. It is said that the wounded strik
ers, previously reported as having died
Saturday, were privately buried Tuesday.
A Boston dispatch of Saturday, says:
Thursday night’s storm has resulted iu
tho general demoralization of the tele
graph service out of Boston. The poles
have beeii blown down, the wires tangled
arid wrecked, and it is said that tho gen
eral condition of tho telegraph system is
worse than that which resulted from the
blizzard of January 25th last. Neither
the Western Union nor Postal had a wire
working to New York Saturday, and the
Associated Press wires were down iu all
directions.
DUN’S REPORT
Of the Condition of Business for
the Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: The uctuul condition of bus
iness does not improve, however hopeful
the anticipations warranted. Unfavora
ble weather has prevailed over a wide
area, nffectiug local trade and making
country roads still more difficult. Labor
troubles are becoming an important factor,
strikes having begun at many localities
in tho building trades, and tho great
strike having resulted in riots and tho
calling out of troops.
Money is temporarily closer at some
points on account of April settlements,
but at nearly all interior markets quiet
and comparatively easy. Philadelphia
notes slow collections in most lines; wool
quiet, with liquors, tobacco and jewelry;
trade in chemicals fair, but iu paints
light, and in shoes troubled by slow col
lections, though the prospects are con
sidered good. Pittsburg notes no im
portant change, and Cleveland only a
fair trade, with Cincinnati, Louisville,
St. Louis and Kansas C'ity in the same
condition. Chicago observes an increase
over last year in the receipts of grain and
cheese, and 50 per cent in wool, no
chnnge in cured meats and hides, and a
decrease in flour, lard, butter, and 60 per
cent in dressed beef.
REPORTS FROM THE CITIES.
Merchandise moves more slowly than a
few weeks ago, on account of bad roads.
Memphis finds trade not yet near normal,
but at Atlanta it is improving, and at
New Orleans sugar is active at lower
prices, rice scarce and cotton quiet. Bad
weather affects trade at Montgomery, and
at Jacksonville there are fears of a disas
Irons spring and summer trade.
Iron docs not mend at all, for the con
fidencc that the strikes will soon end,
consumers are awaiting. Tho lowest
prices on record are made by »omo works
for bar iron, aud structural movis 'lowly,
while wrought pipe is terribly demoral
ized. Pig iron is duller than for years,
and buyers generally hold off as to rails,
disliking to help tho combination. Coal
is flat, official prices being about 15 cents
above last year, but with some cutting.
FLUCTUATIONS IN PRICES.
Speculation in breadstuffs does not
abate, and with sales of 33,000,000 bushels
here wheat is 1J cents higher than a week
ago. Cotton has not changed, and trad-
ing is light. The new tariff has taken
effect as to raw sugar, and the price is
now 3$ cents against 5.10 a week ago,
while granulated is selling at 4$ cents
against (ty cents last week. The average
of all prices is a shade lower than a week
ago. In the stock market there has been
some weakness on account of the total
indifference of the public and the pros
pect that the new Nebraska law will cut
down the earnings of many railroads
seriously.
Business failures throughout the country
during the last week number, for the
United States, 211; Canada thirty two.
For the corresponding week last year tin
figures were 180 in the U nited States and
seventeen in Canada.
THE INDIAN IS AVERSE
To Enlisting in the United States
Regular Army.
News received at the war department
Friday of the results of efforts becing
made by western army officers to carry
out the provisions of the array appropria
tion hill authorizing the enlistment in the
regular army of 2,‘WO Indian recruits is
verv discouraging. The offioers report
that the Indiras will not enlist in the
infantry under any circumstances, a«
they adhor walking. They will not enlist
in the cavalry except as scouts, because
they do not care to Lind themselves to
five years’ service, nor to lie subject to
removal to distant parts of the country
Then, too, they want their women with
them, and a great majority of the bucks
are physically unfit for military service
It is doubted whether a single Indian
company can be recruited in the west.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
A break in tho levee south of Green
ville, Miss,, is reported.
The cotton receipts to date in Augusta,
Ga , amount to 200,557 bales.
The superintendent of the census
places the ponulatlon of California at
1,208,130.
Tho confederate veterans of Richmond,
Va., have decided to erect a monument
to General A. P. Hill
At a meeting of tho citizens of R ch
mond, Thursday night, resolutions were
panned v pon tho death of General John
ston.
Falk & Bentsohner, retail clothiers,
at Charleston. 8. C., made an assignment
Saturday. Liabilities $50,000; assets,
$40,000.
Tire governor of Tennessee has applied
to the secretary of tire treasury for the
refunding of the direct tax collected in
that state, amounting to $392,005.
Two-thirds of the town of Grctua.La.,
has boeu submerged by water from the
Ames crevasse. Many of tho people from
tiro overflowed section ure moving to
New Orleans.
Tho North Carolina legislature imposed
a tax of twenty-live cents per slmro on
the stock of the Raleigh and Gaston rail
way. It is now discovered that by an
error in engrossing the bill, the tax levied
is only twenty cents per share.
Lexington, N. 0., is terribly wrought
up over the appearance of smallpox. Sev
eral cases in the worst stages of the dis
ease have developed there in the last few
days. Some of the citizens are leaving.
The city and town are iu a state of in
tense excitement.
Octavius Coke, of Raleigh, has been
appointed secretary of state by the gover
nor. Coke was born at Williamsburg,
Va., fifty-one years ago. He served in
the Thirty-Second Virginia, was wounded
at Sbarpsburg and Five Forks. In 1878
he madeEdenton, N. C., his homo.
The Louisville leaf tobacco market has
been featureless the past week. Baler
have been moderately large, consisting
chiefly of tobacco of an inferior quality,
with now and then a first-class hogshead.
All colorv and clean red hurley are very
strong, in fact slightly higher than Inst
week.
Peter M. Dox died at Huntsville, Ala.,
Thursday night, in his 78th year, lie
was born in Geneva, N. Y., and served
in tho legislature of Unit state. He
moved to Alabama in 1855. In 1805 he
represented Madison in the rcvisional
constitutional convention. He repre
sented the eighth Alntmma district in the
forty-first and forty-sPeond congresses.
, The St. Augustine, Fla., gas works
were burned Monday morning. Tho fire
was caused by the giving way of a sealed
door in a tank holding decomposed
water, while it was being ehurged with
illuminating power from kerosene. The
entire p’nnf, except ilie oil and charging
tanks and gas meter and generator, was
destroyed. The loss is estimated at $65,-
000; insurance unknown.
A Parkersburg, W. Va., dispatch of
Friday says: There is considerable com
motion among tho railroad lines in this
state, and there are indications that the
Italians arc avenging their countrymen by
the destruction of property. Two at
tempts to wreck a fast express on the
Baltimore nrrd Ohio railroud were de
tected in time to prevent the loss of life.
Three thousand barrels of sugar wer ■
freed from bondage at tho custom house
st Charleston, the duties, amounting to
SIB,OOO, having been rebat'd, under the
recent act of congress. Of this amount
over 1,000 barrels were shipped to mer
chants in the interior of the state, and
most of the rest will go out at once. The
price of granulated sugar tumbled to 7
cents a pound at retail, a fall of 2 cents.
STORMS IN THE NORTH.
Fourteen Inches of Snow in
Western New England.
A dispatch of Fridry from Boston,
says: Tire storm throughout New Eag
land is very severe. A stiff northeast
gale is blowing with heavy rain on tire
coast and snow in the interior. There is
fourteen iuchca of snow throughout wes
tern England. All trains are from one
to four hours late.' The wind reached
the velocity of sixty miles an hour. The
center of the storm passed over Boston at
6:30 o’clock a. m. In the harbor the
tide is highest for six months. Cons'd
erable damage has been (lone to shipping.
Mauy vessels lost or dragged their anchors
arid drifted on the flats. A few schooners
were dismasted. Others were badly
damaged by being driven against the
wharves.
IN NEW TORE.
A New York telegram s tys: The heavy
storm which swept over this section Fri
day night did conridcrab’e damage,
particularly to the east of New York.
The storm outside of the city was accom
panied in mmy places by heavy, wet
snow, and this, aided by the high wind,
demoralized the telegraph wilts to a
great exlent. .
A SUGAR COMBINE.
Spreckles and the Havemeyers
Form a Trust.
Dispatches of Thursday from San Fran
cisco say: The combination between
Spreckles and the Ifavemcyers is com
pieted . The new organization is known
as the West Coast Sugar Refining Com
pany, and the arrangement is that the
two local refiners shall work alternately.
When the American refinery Is shut
down, Spreckles' establishment will be
working, and vice versa The removal
of duty on sugar had 1i ■ tie effect on the
prices listed. The prices of American
and California refineries were alike in
every respect. Both showed a drop in
prices of cube and crushed sugar of 5-8
cent, and 3 4 cent in dry granulated
sugar. Quotations on yellow sugars
showed a rise of 1-4 to 1 rent.
You should subscribe for this piper
and see what is going on in the world.
t Henry County Weekly, Established 1876,
/ Henry County Time*, Established 1884.
AN AGREEMENT
Between the Jute Trust and
Alliance Representatives.
The alliance and the jute trust have
agreed upon the basis of future transac
tions in bagging. A maximum scale of
prices has been fixed, and with free com
petition below the scale, the business
agents of the alliance have accepted the
proposition of the Cordage Bagging
company, representing all but one of the
factories that were formerly included in
the trust. Ihe regulations began with
the nationul bagging committee, com
posed of Oswald Wilson, manager of the
Florida state exchange: M L. Donaldson,
manager of the South Carolina exchange,
and \V. L. Peek, manager of the Georgia
exchange. At the recent meeting of the
alliance state business agents at Birming
ham, all the cotton states were represent
ed except Muith Caro
lina. Colonel W. L. Peek, of the
Georgia exchange, cou’d not go because
of illness in his family. There Mr. Os
wald Wilson, the chairman of the na
tional cotton committee, submitted the
proposition of the Cordage Baggage Com
pany and it was adopted by all the states
represented. The Cordage Bagging Com
pany proposes to guarantee a maximum
price of OJ cents per yard for one and a
half pound, CJ cents for one and three
quarter pound, 7i cents for two pound,
and 7J cents for two and a half pound
jute bagging, and agrees to meet compe
tition below tins scale. They agree to
supply all the jute bagg ng the alliance
men want. The alliance business agents,
in accepting this proposition, agree to
take what jute bagging they need from
this source, always provided that it meet*
competition and supplies the goods
promptly. As Georgia was not repre
sented in the Birmingham meeting, the
same proposition was submitted to tho
directors of tho Georgia state
exchange at a meeting in At
lanta, and it was unanimously accepted.
The importance of this action by ull the
state agents of the cotton belt but one is
very groat. Even if the action does not
bind the Sub-Alliances, the recommend
ation carries great weight. When the
Alliance passed resolutions boycotting
jute bagging, there were few Ailiancemeu
who did not stand up to tho lint of tho
order, though it cost them over a dollar
a bale. When they make a fiat which
relieves them of this extra cost, there is
every reason to believe that they will nil
stick. It simply menus that, by ono
clever stroke, half the bagging for the
coming year has been sold in advance, on
terms mutually advantageous to maker
and consumer. The recommendation of
the business agents leaves the fanners free
to buy cotton bagg ng if they prefer, but
as the jute is cheaper, it is not likely that
many will now buy cotton bagging. Ono
of the directors was asked how this would
leave the southern factories which put in
machinery to make cotton bagging.
“Their machinery was bought with a view
to coiiv. rting it to other purposes,” said
he, “and they can do that now. They
have had a large sale at good prices, and
they are not hurt.”
All merchants who want to build up
their business should advertise in this
paper, as it will pay them to do so.
A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL.
A Boy Makes a Big Haul From
the Atlanta Postofflce.
Several days ago SII,OOO worth of
checks and notes for the Atlanta Na
tional bank were stolen from the hank’s
private drawer at the Atlanta postofflce
by a ten-year-old boy. On Saturday the
boy wus arrested and $10,215.00 were
recovered. There are still several
other checks missing, which will run
the total up to SII,OOO or more.
The drawer was out of order, and
could bo opened from the outside
by a little shaking. The boy stood
on the outride and took the letters
as oitenly (is though he imd been in the
employ of the batik.
If you want to reach the peeple voU
should advertise in this paper.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLT.
Flour, Grain mid Mewl.
Flour—First patent *8 50 ; second patent
S 8 0(1, extra fancy $5 75 ; fancy #5 80 ; family
$4 75. Corn—No 2 white 90c ; mixed H9c.
Oats- No. 2 mixed 65c ; whito 67c ; Kansas rust
proof 88c. Bar—Choice timothy, large bales.
#SO ; No. 1 timothy, large bales, 90c ; eh ice
timothy, small bale*, tßc ; No. 1 timothy, small
hales, 90c ; No. 2 timothy, smsll bales. 85c.
Meal—Plain 78c ; bolted 75c. Wheat bran—
La ge sacks *1 80 ; small sacks $1 35. Cotton
seed meal- *1 30 per cwt. Steam feed-tl 35
per cwt Grits—Pearl $4 50.
(sr«rerif>.
Coffee—Rowjted—ArbueUe t * 26' $ 100 TN
cases; Levering’* 25‘/ic. Green—Extra choice
23Wc; choice 23c; good 21JsJ; fair 20c; common
18(8! 19c. Hugar—Gratm ated sJic; off yr ulu
lated 6%c; powdered 7%-, cut loaf 7%C; white
extra C 6c; vehow extra 0 5%c. Syrup — Ntw
O leans choice 48(350; prime 35@400; co muon
30(335c. Mol.sses —Genuine Cuba 85@33; imi
tation 28(330. Bice—Choice 7>fc;
fibjc; common imported Japan 6(gio;
81ft—Hawley’s dairy *1 50; Virginia 7oe-
Cheese- -Full cream, Cheddars 13c; flats
igi/r- ,km White fish, h If hhls
$4 00; pails 80c. Soaps—Tal ow. 100 bars,
75 tbs #8 00.3 75; turpentine, 6J bam, 60 lbs
$2 00s2 25; tallow, 60 bars, 60 lbs $2 25a‘J 50.
Candles—Paraflnc lU'<c; star 10c. Ma’ches—
400s $4 00; 300 s #3 00*3 75; 200. $2 OOa2 75; 60s
5 gross *3 75. Boda-Ki gs, bulk sc; IH> pkgs
sc; cases, assorted, lbs 6Ji&B<tfe. |4|)» 6J£a6e.
Crackers—XXX soda 6>*o; XXX butter
ftke; Gandy -Assorted stick
mixed 12%e. Canned goods—Condensed milk
tti 00a8 00; imitation mart-tel *3 95a4 00; sal
mon $6 00a7 50; F. W. oysters »2 20a2 50:1. W.
#160; corn #2 00a2 75; tomatoes »1 .5a2 50.
Hall potash *8 20. 1 lump
bV.r: nickel packages $3 50; celluloid s■> 00.
Piekies, plain or mixed, p nts $1 OOal 40; quarts
$1 50al 80. Towdcr—lt fl •, kegs $5 50; ke„a
$8 00; y t kegs 41 05. Shot $1 6 > per sack.
Clear rib sides, boxed c6V; ice-cured bel ies
7c. Sugar-cured bams Static, according to
brand and average ; California 6V»c ; breakfast
bacon &y,~. Lard— Pure leaf 8c ; leaf 78,a7
%c ; re lined 6c.
t’oualrv Pruduce.
Eggs 18c. Butter—Western creamery SOa
35c ; choice Tennessse 25a30c ; oth.r grades
15al8o. Live poultry —Hs ns 30a32%>-; young
chickens, large 20a25c ; small 12a14c. 1> eased
poult re—Turkeys 17al8c ; ducks 14c ; chickens
15c. Irish potatoes $4 50 per bbl. 3wo po:a
roes 75c per bush !. Honey-Strafned Bal<te;
in the comb 10a 12c. Omons $6 00 per bbl.
Cabbage 2a3e per ib. Aimeria gripes, 50 ll»
packages $6 50a7 50.
• Cotton.
Market quiet.—Middling 9c.
NO. 82,
