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VOLUME VIII.
SANDERSV1LLE. GA„ TUESDAY, MAY 10. 1887.
NUMBER 2.
E. S. LANGMADE,
attorney at law,
SANDERSVILLE, Ok.
B. D. Iuhi, Ja
EVANS & EVANS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
sanderville, ga.
P. H. SAFFOLD,
ATTORNEY at law,
SANDEBBVniiE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts of the
Middl* Circuit and In the counties
grounding Washington. Special at*
(fiition given to commercial law.
H.N.HOUIFIELD,
SANDERSVI|jLE, GA.
Office unit door to Mr*. Bayin'* Millinery
pnrr, on Harris * treat.
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spectaclesTNOSE GLASSES, Etc., Etc.
Watches, Clocks
JEWELRY
repaikbd bv
JBE/lsria ait.
FENIANISM.
Wken (tliiiletoiiB lli-mnir n llumr-Hu'er.
The libel suit brought in London, Eng.,
against William RiJgwny, publi-lii-r of
the Piradilly, for ifG.1,000 for im-crting in
the lilnr-k |>nm/ililet on the Ii isli one-lion,
recently 'issued by him, (lint-Sir John
llrennoti, plniutiff,^ farmer li.'inc mlo
/somber of Perl lament, >vus n I'tqiian and
.nlly of tlio Invincible* The ('i)ifrt rno,nv
«ucrowded in antici|mtiiin of■_develop
ments, Mr. Itidgway, defnndr.nl, being
celled,.pleaded tlinl tilt* allege I libel was
true. Ilrennon, tli-j plaintiff, being
■worn, Raid ho never was ii I'Vi i in' lie
left the blind.Iflonjeiiq, lii* Vniii, in .Nine,
1880, n ft I-r a quarrel with’its iniimgers
for opening liiTTelegraiiiR, ,Mo had nut
lime lbut time joineiVuny Irijtii league or
iSHiriation, or any Fenian'1bagji6 be m-so-
nation. Ho bail never interfered with
the work of tracing d'yniimi<ern. Sir.John
declared that Sir Lyuii l’| ay fair i.ulij him
flint \!i. V'l.wlo*-. 1. .1 . . * . .... ... 1
that Mr. ‘Oladstiine lud'in'eoine son verted
to the home ruln’tljomy in 18711, and that
liedc-irod Mr, I’.ii heli to accept the olHcc
of chief secretory fur Ireland.
A8.SAII.INH A dll KdlllAN.
Henry (teorgo’R Standard recently Hiiid:
"Archhisliop Corrigan, who, ns bishop of
New York, presumed-by secret circular
to instruct Catholic citizens-ho’iv they
should vote, represents that wing of
Catholics who are to make the church in
this country a political machine, while
"hat Dr. McGlynn stands for; is I lie
Political independence of the clergy and
laity.” The paper also informs its lend
ers that tfye archbishop of the diocese gels
a salary of $‘10,000 a year for his own
use. A headline in the '■{rtaj\dard asks:
“ What dues the archbishop ido with his
$10,00(1?” It is reported in Catholic cir
cles and the report comes from. i\ni ifp-.
parontly reliable .source—that the. fai th•
coming statement • defining 'Archbishop
Corrigan's attitude tOwitrd the.Catholic
Herald, and describing bis stand •on tl.ia
jwsiii t phase of the McGlynn•matter and’
other topics that are uppermost in the
minds of Catholics,' will contain pass
of a startling uaturo.
mssnges
111l’l.OII ITH (|ITAKill'l lN(J.
Considerable friction nod bad’ fqfiling’
exists between tire United Stateslegation
sod consulate general,-at London, Eng.,
Hm cause!being tile failure on the part of
the legation to include either the consul
general or his family in tim'.'ofil'eial iisl
furnished hy. Mr. Phelps to the lord
chamberlain for court outertaiumehts.
”bs. Waller tho wife of tho consijl geli-
Cral and her daughters are leaving for
■ l0 Upitcd States, am}'will be absent
from London throughout tho whole of
the jubilee festivities. It is asserted that
the consul general thoroughly disa-proves
°f the repeated efTorts of Minister Pfe-lps
t° tlirow cold water on the -Artieticau
Mhibition.
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ABOUT MONUMENT*.
Chinese Gordon is to hata colossal
hrmi/e statue in Trafalgar square, ,I.on-
~ on - Ynmo Thomycraft is tlio designor.
. 0 will represent Gordon in a patrol
jacket, unarmed, with a-Biblo in his
right hand and his foot resting on- .it
hroketi ,'cannon. ,
Io Atlanta, Ga., Mi the Wel
kin Ring with Protests
Against Coercion.
NOTABLE JUDGES, STATESMEN,
SOLDIERS, CLERGYMEN AXD
LAWYERS ORATE MOST
ELOQUENTLY.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Lovely Ladle* Turn Ont In Great Foroo
to Hmoo the Occasion*
Governor Gordon had boon requested
lo preside over the meeting, recently
Imld in Atlanta, Ga., to protest against
tlie proposed English coercion bill, and,
although seriously indisposed, consented
lo do so. In calling the meeting to
order, he snid that the vast assemblage
was present to express deep sympathy
for a great cause; a great cause grandly
maintained by a great ixrople, “My
physical condition,” said ho, “ie such
that but for tho very great sympathy I feel
in the enuse I would not be hero to
night. I request Mayor Cooper to pro-
side over the meeting.”
Mayor Cooper uiado a very short and
timely speech in assuming tho chair, and
presented as tho first orator, Col. Albert
Cox, who presented tho following res
olutions:
“As part of tho Anglo Saxon race, Im
bued with tho principles of English law
and liberty, we resolve,
1. That tho policy propounded by
Pornoll-1
Gladstone nnd I’arnoll—home rule for
Ireland—has our profound sympathy.
Our own experience has taught us, and
we submit it to tho world, that local self-
government is the keystone of tho arch
of civil liberty and sufety.
2. Wo sympathize with all English
and Irish statesmen and patriots who op
pose the policy embodied in the “coer
cion bill,” viewing that policy ns sub
versive of those ancient English princi
ples, that men accused bo tried by a jury
of peers of the vicinage; that the freedom
of tlie press be preserved; that the right
peaceably to nsscmble, discuss grievances
and petition for redress be inviolate; and
that tho writ of habeas corpus bo sacred,
so that an honorable judiciary may
promptly adjudicate whether personal
liberty be restored or bo forfeited to just
laws.
3. Wc express the hope that the signal
failure of all other policies will induce
tlie statesmanship of England once to try
the policy of a generous justice toward
Ireland. ”
Gen. Colquitt, U. 8. Senator, said, in
a most eloquent address, that tho princi
pal appeal of thu Irish is, that they shall
have the
privilege so dear to all Ameri
cans as their birthright, to bo tried hy
tlmir peers. We love what is just and
wlmt is light. There is hopo that Ire
land will be rescued from tlie blow which
is is intended to bo dealt her. Ip the
ease of Ireland tho moral sentiment of the
world will stnnd by nnd applaud Parnell
and Gladstone.
Tlie gem of the evening was the mag
nificent speech of Judge Howard Van
Epps, anu .it was said by competent
judges to bo one of the most eloquent
addresses ever heard in Georgia.
After a long introductory speech,
which wns brimful of information about
Ireland and grinding laws. Judge Van
Epps traced the sources of Irish discon
tent, the remedies proposed, English ob
jections to these remodios, and the remedy
—-coercion, now proposed l>y England.
Irish discontent he said finds its source in
tlie infamous ngrarian laws of tho coun
try, snd in the aspiration of the Irish j
people for local self-government.
llenry W. Grady made a short but stir
ring speech, and was followed hy llev.
Dr. Hawthorne.
Lettors wero ready from Senator Brown
and others, and tho subjoined message
was sont by cable to Gladstono:
“Gladstone and Parnell, London, Eng
land.—The pooplg °f Georgia, at a mass-
.mooting, presided over by Governor Gor
don, and participated in by both tlie
United States .Bcnntors as well as judges
and clergymen, protest ngninst the coer
cion of Ireland, and wisli you godspeed
in your struggle for Ireland aiid human
ity”
When tho Baltimore & Ohio Express Co.
gained the franchise of tho Queen and
Crescent routo and invaded the territory
of the Southern Express Co., a war of
rates was predicted, and it has come.
The latter company made a cut of thirty-
five per cent in rnteB on fruit and vegeta
bles to all western points.
The Richmond & Danville Railroad
has assumed control of the East Tennes
see, Virginia A Georgia railroad. E. B.
Thomas, general manager of the Rich
mond & Danville Co„ will have charge
of tho East Tennessee Co., irl the Bnme
capacity, with head quarters in Washing
ton. Henry Fink lias been appointed
vice president of the consolidated com
pany, with office at Knoxville.
Nows of a torriblo accident at Coosa
tunnel, on the extension of the Columbus
andWestcrn railroad, Ala., is at hand. A
whito foreman and seventeen negro la
borers were at work in tlie tunnoT, get
ting ready for a large blast. While ram
ming the blast with nil iron bar a strata
of Hint was struck with tho iron, making
a spnrk, which ignited tho powder. Of
tlie eighteen men only six came out alive,
and nil of thorn were moro or less in-
iured.
The annual parade of the fire depart
ment of Columbus, Ga., was a gra^d af
fair. Champion No. 0 won tlie flrsA-prlzc
in the colored companies’ contest.
Deputy United States Marshal John
Knox, at Lexington, Ga., arrested onu
Adam Pope, colored. Adam is accused
of cheating and swindling, though- lie
claims to ho blind.
Fire hugs in Macon, tia,, are ojtilhg
tlie police plenty of anxiety. Recently
Policeman Wntkins caught Jim-Williams
starting a firo under a house, hut two
companions of tho incendiary escaped.
Capt. Dawson, of the Charleston, S. C.,
News and Courier, lias just returned from
Europe where he was decorated hy tho
Pope for using his iullucnce as a journal
ist ugainst dueling. Ilis first action on
landing from the steamer was to sue the
Now York Sun for libeling him.
Tlie coroner of Cartersvillc, Ga., hold
un inquest over tho body of a negro,
Babe Stafford, who died from tho effects
of a blow on the head inflicted with a
post of a chair by ono Doo 'Stafford.
This was a most unprovoked murder, and
the accused will doubtless suffer thu ex
treme penalty of the laiv.
A shock of earthquake was felt at El
Paso, Texas, recently. It was percepti
ble in every portion of tho city and so
alarmed the citizens thnt only invalids
snd the helpless wero loft within doors.
For probably two minutes proceeding the
shock, many persons recognized the dis
tinct and offensive smell of sulphur.
While the vibrations lasted, many-urticles
hanging on walls oscillated nnd some fell
to tlie floor, while plastering fell from tlie
fronts and codings of ninny dwellings and
husinsss houses.
An elevator at Louisville, Ky., owned
hy Brown, Johnson A Co., containing
hay, bnrlcy, rye, corn and oats, wns re
cently destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000;
insured.
WILLING TO MARRY ALL
John C. Breckinridge is to have' a
inoimtnent, too. It will be unveilod ht
Lexington, Ky., next Octobor.
IIOBSB thibTbm.
.Felix Griffin, a notorious outlaw, was
killed recently near Webber Falls, Ark.,
w >'ile stealing horses. Felix wits leader
of an organized band of horse thieves.
Robert Vann, ownor of the horses, heaid
“^ Griffin wns lurking around his place
adlaidinwnit for him and shot him dead
nen he entered the stables with two
companions, The other* escaped, though
u bkdly wouud*d.
IIo Oliilinod to Haro 100 Wlveo.
• A handsomely dressed young man
boarded'an elevutod train in New York
recently. As soon ns it pulled out from
the stntion lie bogiui wandering from oar
to car, looking nt every lady with such
closo scrutiny thnt some of them became
incensed and complained to tho guards.
Whon ho readied the last ear lie turned
and was about to return, when a guard
told him him he was drunk, and if he
did not sit down and behave he would lie
put off at the next stati -n The young
man sat down, but as noon 11s the .con
ductor left the car he arose and addressed
tho crowd, saying:
“That mnu has accused me ot being
drunk nnd I wish to deny tlie allegation
I am a member of tlie church and a teeto
taller. I neither smoko nor chew, I have
but one weakness, and that is an inor-
• dinatc for the beautiful. I consider wo
men the mostbeautiful tilings Oil « ui tli.
I adore tliom all and would like to mnr.y
them all. If there is uuy lady in the car
who will have me I will get off at tho
next station and make her my wife
Bv the time the young man had finish
ed the people in the car had .concluded
he was crazy and a general % tush was
made for the forward, cm*. On being
Questioned he said his name was Wallace
$$ he lived iu West Thirty-fourth
i He claimed he had 100. wives
and was getting new ones every day. An
officer took him homo.
CA*TBR8Vn.L.B»* BOOM.
The Etowah Iron and Manganese com-
nanv have entered into an agreement
with the Cartersville Land company by
virtue of which the location of the woiks
of the former are assurred to the town,
and tiie immediate erection of a 150 ton
lurnace promised.
A pnrty of eighty-three survivors of
tho 57th and 50th Massachusetts volun
teers, who served in the army of the Po
tomac during the late War, went to Nor
folk, Va., recently, by a Boston steamer.
Tho party was entertained by commit
tees of military and citizens.
Patrolmen Moss nnd McCullough of
Atlanta, Ga., succeeded in reconciling a
husband and wife. They were approach
ed by Henry Hood, a negro who com
plained thnt Ills wife had eloped with
Jim McGinnis, nnd thnt tlie pair had
come to Atlanta. Later in the day they
came upon tho woman at a house near
tho cometery, on Gullott street. Hood
wns notified thnt his wife had been found,
and called at'the city prison. The meet
ing resulted in a reconciliation.
A sensational wedding occurred near
nolly, Tcnn. James Smith some months
ago married the daughter of a widow
lady named Lea, and film being a poor
woman, everybody said it was a good
thing for her, ns Smith wns considered
an industrious man. They lived togeth
er peacefully a month or two, whon their
connubial bliss faded away. They sepa
rated, and a divorce was applied for and
granted nt tlie last term of the court.
Sevornl weeks ago, Smith again came in
tho neighborhood, nnd hovered around
the scene of his withered affections. 1 hoy
were this time, however, centered on tlie
mother of his former wife. They were
made husband and wife.
UNCERTAIN EARTH
AR1/.OXA AND CALIFORNIA EAR
LY SHAKEN.
A Volcano Appears on n Mountain Crrst In
Aticono.
An onrthqudke occurred at Tucson,
Ariz., nnd considerable damage was done
to buildings. Goods were thrown from
tho shelves of stores, and many houses
were more or less cracked. Tlie shoes
was accompanied by n rumbling sound.
Many clocks were stopped nnd the entire
population of the city took to the streets,
terror-stricken. The courthouse cupiilo
swayed like tho mast of ii ship in a tur
bulent sen, and the building itself seemed
ss though it were toppling over.- When
tho shock strnck Santa Catlmlina moun-
LABOR'S AGITATION
tain, great slices of the mountain were
torn from its side and thrown to ifs Iwse.
Vast clouds of dust arose above its crest,
7,000 feet abovo tlie sea level, at ^liiee
different points, from three to four in$lj's
apart. -v
A volcano broke out at a point twenty-
two miles south of Tucson, in Total
Wreck mountains, nnd a volcano is in
active operation in San Jose mountains,
on tho border of Sonora, Mexico, south
west of Tucson.
A severe shock was felt at Wilcox
Tho vibrations were from north to south
and lasted one minute and forty-live see-
finds.
■ Ten miles from Tombstone, nlnke cov
ering nn ncro of ground wns completely
dried up in twenty minutes. Embank
ments along tho New Mexico nnd Arizona
railroad were moved from their former
positions in mnny instances as much us
twelve inches.
A severe shock occurred, which extend
ed from Centerville, Cal., through Ari
zona and Now Mexico to El Faso, Texas.
PERSONAL,
Patti taxed New York $80,000 for
six concerts.
Ruv, J. W. Lee will preach tho com
mencement sermon at Hiwasscc College,
Tcnn., and will also deliver tho annual
address.
The popular fund for Mrs. J. A. Logan
lias been closed. One hundred thousand
dollars was asked and $07,000 was given.
Hon. S. S. Cox is writing a hook which
ho will call “The Diversions of a Diplo
mat," It will deal with his brief experi
ence in Turkey.
Rev. George White, who was rector of
Calvary Episcopal church, in Memphis,
Tcnn., from 1858 to 1870, died recently
in tho 85th year of his age.
J. C. Latham, of Latham, Alexander
& Co., New York, has erected a boauti-
ful monument of Scotch granite ot IIop-
kinsvillo, Kentucky, in honor of tho
Confederate doud who arc ot rest there.
At tho great anti-coercion meeting in
Hyde Park, London, Eng., a huge coffin,
beariug Mr. Balfour’s name, was paraded
about and fmnlly set up behind Mr. Sex
ton as a sounding hoard duriug his ad
dress.
Mauy Andejison, tho actress has de
veloped such vocnl talent recently that
her friends arc urging her to introduce
music into somo of her well-known role*,
while some oven advise the operatic
stage.
JonN S. Looan, who had charge of
the printing department of tho railway
mail service, in the United States court
house nt Atlanta, Ga., is dead. The re
mains were enrried to Opelika, Ala., for
interment.
Ciiahi.es Kohler, who died recently
in San Francisco, went to California in
1852 ns a musician, and in 185} founded
tho wino industry of that State, •which
lias grown to an annual consumption of
7,000,000 pounds of grapes.
Vienna hns decided to erect a bronze
statue to Joseph Haydn, the execution
of which has been intrusted to tho Aus
trian sculptor, Natter. It will he un
covered on the 81st of May, the seventy-
eighth anniversary of the composer’s
death.
Strike* Ordsred all Ovar The Canatry.
Bricklayers, bricklayers’ laborers and
carpenters, to the numbor of two hun
dred, bavo gono on strlko in London,
Ont., for an increase of wages.
House painters in all Wilmington,
Del., (hops struck for $2.50 per day, a
raise of 25 cents. Two of tho lnrgest
employers have granted the increase, and
aha it Is probable that others will follow.
All the carpenters in Washington, City,
numboring,ncarly 800, quit work to-day,
because employes refused to give them
the same wages for nine hours work us
they rocelvod last season for ten hours.
A large number of carpenters struck
at Hamilton, Ont., for on increase in
wages to 22$ cents an hour nil around.
Printers in the llamiltoqtPAUadiuiu office
are to be called out beeafise the proprie
tors refuso to discontinue the use of
stereotype plate mnttcr. The Palladium
is a labor paper.
Tho gloss mixers and teasors, of Pitts
burgh, Pa., who struck two weeks ago
for ton per cent advance, returned to
work at their old wages. Tho recent
decision on the coke question was tiie
principal argument against’ arbitration,
and the fact that tho Knights of Lnhor
did not support the Btrikc, left tho men
without resources.
A goncral strike of the coko workers
of Conncllsvillc, Pa., region ii ccrtaiu.
One-half of tho men refused to go to
work, and others it is thought will strike.
Tho operators issued their ultimatum in
which they refused to make any conces
sion nt present, but promised to consider
the matter as soon as there is an advunce
in ooko. They are preparing to close
down for a long and hitter fight.
Some of tlie hands employed hy Mo-
Glnty & Co., on tlio public school build
ing at Athens. Ga., demanded nil incrcasu
of wages. Toe demand arose from tlio
fact that tho hnnds employed by R. L.
Bloomfield on his Clayton street improve
nients wero getting higher wages. Mc-
Ginty & Co., acceded to tho increase,
stipulating however, that work should
begin earlier in the day thnn heretofore,
ana that the stopping time should ho
inter.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES,
Gossip About the President, His Cabinet
and Other Notables.
tVhnt Bouthern M*a are tlrlni II»co(bIs*4-
I utcrrallnc Ham* Abaat (he Nallaaal
Brill, Hie., Kir.
During tlie reign of Queen Victoria,
7 0,500
Dennis Maher wns shot and killed in
New Orleans, La., recently by ids son-in-
laiv, Richard Creely. Family trouble is
assigned as tlio emise of the crime.
John R. Bright, a young commission
merchant, left Birmingham, Ala., leav
ing, it is alleged, about $2,000 of indebt
edness. lie came from Atlanta, and by
his pleasant address made many friends,
and was a favorite in society circles.
Tlie question of using tho organ in tlie
Methodist church at Sparta, Gu., wns
carried before tlio quarterly conference
by appeal, but the presiding elder decid
ed that lm had no jurisdiction in the
matter, so that instrument will be here
after used in the regular church services.
The wine dealers of Milledgeville, Ga.,
have relented und Friday night wns tho
Inst night tiiut the wine Dibbers were
permitted to cut the dust from their
throats with the ardent. The wine men
have done no business at all since the
prohibition committee begun their war
against them.
George Ayers and Henry Lindsay quar
relled about nn indebtedness of $5, at
Bowling Green, Mo., recently, nnd the
hitter wns killed. Lindsny was on horse-
bnck when the quarrel began, nnd as ho
dismounted Ayers seized him by the
throat and quickly drew a knife across
it, cutting it from ear .to ear.
Two wife heaters were arrested in Ma
con, Ga., recently. The first was Theo
dore DeLouis, from sunny France, who
whipped liis wife terribly, and the sec
ond w as Thomas Reid, a colored citizen,
who used his authority to an excess. He
heat his wife unmercifully, and was
caught and caged along with his whito
brother.
A nihilist printing press has been dis
covered at Odessa, Russia, and thirty-two
rfttEato have h«n amitad.
there hnvc been erected 0,500 buildings
for worship in the Church of England, ns
against 3,000 by all other religious com
munications put together. Seven new
dioceses have been founded at home, and
sixty-two in the colonies.
Te Hen IIen has pre»ented to the
New Zealand government for a public
park the “wouderlund” of that country,
including the volcano Tongariro, tlio ex
tinct •volcano Ruapehu, Mount Ngarun-
hoe, nnd tho hot-Inkc district. Te lien
Hen is a great chief of the Ngututaw-
bareton Maories.
The late Mrs. Catherine Van Renssel
aer, of Mobile, Ala., wns the last
surviving daughter of Gen. Philip
Schuyler. Left an orphan in childhood,
she was adopted by her aunt, Mrs. Alex
ander Hamilton, and after the fatal Hnm-
ilton-Burr duel she went to live with her
uncle, the Patroon Stephen Rensselaer.
Canon Liddon, replying to some com
ments on ids refusal of tlie Edinburgh
bishopric, writes: “I can sincerely say
that my motive in declining tho See of
Edinburgh was that which has led me
before now to decline higher English
preferment than I hold at present, name
ly, the belief that I could serve God and
His church better by declining it."
John Ruskin is not a friend to the bi
cycle. He says: “To walk, to run, to
leap and to dance are the virtues of the
liuinau body, and neither to stride on
stilts, wriggle on wheels or dangle on
ropes, and nothing in the training of the
human mind with tho body will ever
supersede the appointed God’s way of
slow walking nun hard working.
Rev. D. H. Webster, who is now a
preacher ia Illinois, is tho author of .the
famous song, “Lorena.” It was sung
everywhere on its appearance fifteen
years ago. Its origin lay in the refection
by Miss Blockson, of Zanesville, Ohio, of
Webster’s addresses. Miss Blockson
afterward married Judge Johnson, who
lately resigned from the supreme bench
of Ohio owing to incurable ill-health.
THE PRESIDENT'S INTENTION.
United States Marshal McMahon, of
New York, says: “1 had a pleasant chat
with the President nnd invited him to
attend the meeting of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac in Suratoga on
June 22. He did uot make a direct prom
ise, hut gave mo to understand that he
would certainly go, if possible. Wo are
going to build a now Homo in California,
in Napa valley, nnd the President thinks
of going out there witli us in September.
In fact, ho snid he desired to visit all the
Homes, and if ho could fl id time this
summer or fall, would make tlio trip."
GUILTY OP BRIBERY,
Urinli Cornoll Allen pleaded guilty in
tho criminal court to two indictments
charging him with .having offored a
bribe of n certificate of stock in the Pratt
manufacturing company, valued at $500,
to James B, Rogers, an examiner in tho
patent office, with a view to influencing
his official action. Judgo Hugner sen •
tonced Allen to pay a fine of $1,500 and
to imprisonment in jail for eighteen days.
DEATn OP IlPoQUAPHEtt
Frank IJ. Alfriend, assistant libnrinn
of tin- Senate, died aged forty-seven
years. Tlio deceased was born in ltieli-
mond, Va., and for many years was a
prominent politician and journalist. He
was a personal friend of Jefferson Davis,
Secretary Lamar and other eminent south
erners. Mr. Alfriend was the first bio
grapher of Jefferson Davis.
VISIT OF A QUEEN.
Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, and her
suite, nrrivod recently. At Baltimore
they wore met by the Hawniian minister,
Mr. Carter nnd Sovollen Brown, Cspt.
D. M. Taylor, nnd Lieut. R. P. Rogers,
who were detailed by tlio state, war and
navy departments to extend the courte
sies of tlie government to the distin
guished guests, nnd were escorted to
Washington.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Chnttnuooga National
bank to begin business with a capital of
$300,000. Tlio debt statement, just is
sued, shows the decrease of the publio
debt during tlie month of April to be
$13 053,008.75. Decrease of the debt
since June 80th, 1880, $88,005,023.58.
Cash in treasury, $400,105,800.41; gold
certificates outstanding, $04,484,485;
silver certificates outstanding, $187,740,-
430; legal certificates of deposit out
standing, $8,850,000; legal tenders out
standing, $34(1,081,010; fractional cur
rency (not including amount estimated
as lost or destroyed), $0,048,472,87.
Total interesi bearing debt, $1,108,450,-
308.72. Total debt, $1,704,174,057.88.
Net gold in treasury April 80th was
$180,002,431 or $ 037,410 less than on
March 31st. Circulation of standard
silver dollars April 80th was $155,785,-
205 or $1,000,450 less than March Slat.
MESS iOl.
Honey Pouring into the South for Hi!
Foundries, R&llvays, Etc.
▲ brewery is to lie started at Florence,
Ala.
The Fountain Head Railroad Oo. will
build a dummy railroad at Knoxville,
Tenn. ..
Solon Dean, a young man about thirty
years of age, of Elktou, Va., was found
dead near the Greene county lino. His
body ahowe&fiat ha had been killed -by
Note*.
The comptroller of the .currency lias
declared a third dividend'Of ten per cent
in favor of the creditors of tlie Exchange
National bank, of Norfolk, Va. This
makes in all forty per cent on claims
proved, amounting to $2,888,086.
It is reported that Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland, the President’s sister, .will, be
come a teacher in a prominent private
sahool for young ladies in New York.
POIMON IN MILK.
The Atlanta Gas Light Economiser
Co., capital stock $100,000, haa been in
corporated.
The Birmingham, Ala., Water-Wocki
will build a reservoir with 1,000,000
gallons capacity.
Tho Georgia Pacific Rnllroad Co. are
building a Branch road from Birming
ham, Ala., to Bessemer.
Many men doing business at Sheffield,
Ala., aro now living in tents, and somo
in tlie adjoining town of Tuscambia.
A company has been formed to build a
rolling mill at Florence, Ala. Asito haa
been selected and work will so in begin.
Tho Marietta & North Georgia Rail
road Co. will change their road to the
standard gauge, and extend it to Knox
ville, Tenn.
Robert McCarroll has received the con
tract to build a pier for the U. S. gov
ernment at Charleston, S. C. It will
coat $88,000.
The Missouri Paciflo Railroad Co. will
build a union depot and machine shops
at Fort Bmitli, Ark., and a bridge acres*
the Arkansas river.
Bush Bros, lire testing their olay at
Clrauncey, Ga., and will, if it ia satisfac
tory, erect a plant with a capacity of
about 80,000 daily.
The Falls of Ncusc Manufacturing
Co., at Raleigh, N. C., have built nn ad
dition 40x75 feet, to their cotton factory
and added 40 plaid looms.
A number of furnacos will be built
during 1887 and 1888. A number of
oompanius have lately been organized to
build furnacerin Southwest Virginia.
The East Alabama Railroad Co. hnvo
increased their capital stock from $2000,-
000 to $400j000, and have let tlie con
tract to grniJolhQ.extension of.their road
to Roanoke,’’ 17'lllWft.
Mr. Slovens, .a large builder and con
tractor of Birmingham, Ala., 1ms secured
ground nt Cboccolocco, 8 miles from An
niston on the Georgia Pacific railroad for
a large brick plaqt.
Tho Armour Packing Co., of Chicago,
havo signed a contract with the Sclmn.,
Ala., Land, Improvement & Furnace
Co., and work will commonce immediate
ly on a large packing concern and refrig
erator there.
The Clinch Valley Railroad Co., re
ported as inaugurated, 1ms been organ
lied with Joseph 1. Doran, of Philadel
phia, Pa., ns president. Tho object of
the company is to build tho extension of
the Norfolk & Western Railroad from
Graham, Tazewell county, to a connec
tion of .tho Louisville & Nashville Rail
road, now being extended eastward from
Corbin, Ky.
The wholesale milk poisoning which
occurred at Long Branch last summer
has conclusively , shown for the first
time, that milkwarm from the cow, when
placed in tight cans under conditions
which greatly retard the dispersion of its
heat, will undergo change, witli the de
velopment in .the course of five, hours of a
poison called tyrotoxicon.
LATEST NEWS.
Tho anti-German feeling is so strong in
Paris that tha proposed performance of
Lohengrin ha* been prohibited.
Tho Chinese government lms ordered
that every foreign missionary mint hold
a passport from hii own government, in
order that hia nationality may he ahown.'
All other passports aro declared invalid.
United States Marshal Mood has arrest
ed three men charged with robbing tlio
express car near Tucson, Ariz. They are
named Barrock, Swain nnd McCussifek.
All fhrcO'woro saloon keeper*.
Rev. Charles W. Ward, the Engle
wood, N. J., tcctor, recently accused of
attempting to murder his wife, was found
dead nt tho homo of Judge Drew, hia
counsel, nt Rockland Lake, from an over
dose of chloral.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt used to return his
personal property at $1,000,000. Shortly
after his death tho snmo property wns as
sessed at $10,000,000. The executors
offered to pay on $5,000,000 or move out
of New York. A compromise of $8,000,-
000 has just been agreed upon.
FIGHTING POVERTY.
Wkal Henry Gear** and Rev. Dr. MeGlyna
are D*li(.
The nnti-Povorty society, of which
Rev. Dr. McGlynn is president nud Henry
George vice-president, held their first
public meeting at Chickoring hall, New
York. The hall was packed to overflow
ing, and on tho platform wero a largo
number of leaders of the united Labor
party. The oxercisos opened with sing
ing by a chorus of fifty voices led by
Miss Mullier. Henry George presided,
and Dr. McGlynn, in addressing tlio vast
audience, said: “I am intensely con
scious that wo stand here to-night on a
historic platform. The founders of this
society, in years to come, will look hack
upon to-night’s meeting with pleasure.
It is said a priest of Christ should not
stand here to speak of a cause which pro
poses to abolish this horrid crime of pov
erty, which is the injustice of man, in
violation of tho laws of God. I would
b« recreant to my sacred priesthood if I
should falter to speak the word which I
am commanded by my Lord and Master
to apeak.” At the closo of tho services
an anthem wns sung hy the choir.and
audience. The society proposes to hold
a meeting every Sunday night.
The storekeeper of the warehouses
known as Almocons do Deposits at Ila-
vanna, Cuba, lias disappeared and is
said to be n defaulter in the sum of
$500,000.
The Glasgow steamship, John Knox,'
laden with liquor, brick and rolling
stock, struck tho reefs near Channel har
bor, at St. John's, N, B., and sank in
half an hour. Evqry soul on board per
ished.
The Hounslow gunpowder mills, at
Hounslow, England, were destroyed by
an explosion, which occurred in the mill
ing room. One man was killed. Much
damage was dono to property in the
neighborhood.
The royal commiaalon at Dublin, Ire
land, for arterial drainage'has recom-
nien led tho expenditure hy tho govern
ment of $1,325,000 in improving the
river Shannon; $825,000 iu improving
the Barrow, and $100,000 in improving
thu llann.
Advices from St. Petersburg, Russia,
state that tho nihilists set fire to a police
station in that city and that eight police
men perished in thu fiernes, while nine
teen othcra were moro or less injured.
The day following a timber yard was de
stroyed by fire and several workmen and
firemen wore killed.
Caspar ii. Borgess, Catholic bishop of
Detroit, has resigned. Tho resignation
was sent to Rome six weeks ago, and a
formal acceptance was received. Bishop
Borgess was consecrated bishop April
24th, 1870, and during his seventeen
years, incumbency has had many troubles,
especially with tho Poles and Freucb.
Before sending in his resignation, tho
bishop promulgated a sentence of ex
communication against all who were con
cerned in tho Polish riots in connection
with tlie Stalbcrt’s church troubles a year
ago.
Six men escaped from the county jail
at Worcester, Mas*., recently. George
A. Barton, who was serving a term for
polygumy, hud been trusted to work in
the corridors and cells and had a cell key
during the day. He had a fight with
George French nnd both of them were
put in solitary confinement, in which was
also another prisoner. Tlie fight was a
part of a plot. Three men by tho use of
Barton’s key, which had been concealed
iirone of tho solitary cells, opened the
doors nnd attacked the grated windows,
pried tho bars apart, got into the yard
and over the fence and made their es
cape.
D1ATHB HARVEST
htOtkl Mine Loomed Iu British Colombia.
A terrible explosion of gas took place
recently in a shaft of the Vancouver Coal
Co.’s mine, in which there were upwards
of 150 miners at the time. Tho .first in
timation those on tho surface had of the
explosion was a terrific shock, followed
by an outburst of thick, black smoke,
through the air shaft. The first explos
ion was quickly followed by a second
one, stronger than the first. It carried
pieces of wood, miners’ lamps, etc., hun
dreds of feet in the air. In a few minutes
flames began to issue through the air
shaft with a loud, roaring noise. The fan
house soon caught fire and was quickly
consumed. The scenes around the shaft
head were most heartrending. Friends
of those imprisoned below are looking
for the missing, but little hopes arc en
tertained for the safety of about 150
miners who. are in'the pit.
FORGOT HIS KINS’FOLKH.
The will of Alexander Mitchell, the
millionaire bahker who died at Milwau
kee, Wis., recently, has been made public.
No approximation of the value of tbe
estate is made,' and the terms of the will
will avoid the filing of an .'inventory, so
that tlip exact wealth left by Mitchell
will never be known. It is Believed to
be from fifteen to twenty.,five millions.
The. entire property, real and personal, is.
left to his only son, John L. Mitchell,
after deducting several trifling legacies,
leaving but small sums to the rest of his
relatives. ‘ •
CHICAGO STRIKE.
. Over 5,000 hod-carriers of Chicago
quit work because they cannot get an
increase in wages from tweuty-nve to
l i. ty cent* per nour.
- ■ ■ .
A west bound passenger train on the
Atlantic A Pacific railway, which left
Albuquerque heavily loaded with passen
gers, wo* derailed fifteen miles west of
Coolidge, N. M., and the train badly
wrecked. Several persons were killed
and injured.
Advices from St. Petersburg, Russia,
■ays that after a fortnight’s quietude, the
country is again in a state of uneasiness.
Large armaments are being pushed for
ward with feverish activity. An order
of the war ministry points to the concen
tration of great masses of troope on the
frontiers of Russia.
Mrs. Herman Lyons was murdered on
her ranch near Napa, Cal., in February,
by a farm hand, Peter Olsen, who esoaped
and for whose capture a large reward is
outstanding. A report reached there that
Qlsen was recently killed while resisting
arrest, near Bakersfield, Col. An inves
tigation made Ihowed, however, the
wrong man had been killed, the viotim
being W. H. Beibeit, a Burner, who late
ly settled near Bakersfield.
Judge Hilton, of New York, has given
Meissonier’s painting of Friedlond, 1807,
to the Metropolitan museum of art. He
has also presented the museum with
“DetaiUe’s Defense of Champaigny.”
The first was bought by Judge Hilton at
the sale of A. T. Stewart’s collection for
the purpose to whieh it is now devoted.'
Judge Horace Russell, Hilton’s son-in-
law, has also presented to the museum
Piloty's painting of “Thusnelda at the^
Triumph of Germaricus,” purchase*}^
tha sale of the Stewart collection.-'''^