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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 4---TWR1/VB PAGBP.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Farmers Determined to Crush
tlie Bagging Trust.
THE CENTRAL GAMP - MEETINC.
A Wumtn Whipped There by a iinfc-^ln
Preaching Politician of the Ninth
District—'The Cotton Dying In
Worth-Still In the Field.
the race. His influence, and the inclina- ! under the management of Revs.E. R, Bar-
tion of the republicans to join the inde- j nett and W. W. Koop.
pendents, makes this a doubtful county in Prof. Patterson’s school at Butler will
the race. However, Mr. Candler has a' open Monday, Sept. 3d, and a large en-
strong following here, and in due time will rollment is expected, not only from Butler
make it interesting for Mr. Pickett in bis
stronghold.
Prot. Waite Still a Candidate.
Athens, Aug. 28.—[Special.]—It is an
understood fact that Professor H. C. While
will again offer for the chancellorship of
the State University before the hoard of
trustees when they convene in Atlanta in
October.' He is said to have gained one
vote by the election of Mr. George E.
Head by the Agricultural Society, and
those who claim to be posted affirm that
after giving the an;i-White side all doubt
ful votes, he will lack only one of a major
ity, even if there is a full attendance of
tile board, which is not probable. Prof.
White’s friends will be present to a man,
and are sanguine of carrying him through
this time.
Athens in Healthy Condition,
Athens. Aug. 28—[Special.]—Athens
was never healthier than at this time, and
not a single case of malarial .fever or gas
tric fever is reported by our physicians.
The city has been cleaned from cellar to
garret, all the pet pigs banished, and the
strictest sanitary regulations enforced.
There is no local cause for fever here, un
less it be the carp ponds on the outskirts
of the city. A physician remarked that
one little pond of stagnan water would
poison a city of 100,000 inhabitants. Our
council should investigate this matter.
Elected to a College Presidency.
Thomaston, Ang. 28.—[Special.]—Dr.
XV. A. Montgomery, pastor of the Baptist
church at Thomaston, received a telegram
this morning from the board of trustees of
Carson College, Tennessee, notifying him
that he had been elected Dresident of the
college. It is a Baptist institution, and is
to Tennessee what Mercer is to Georgia.
doctor is just the man for the place,
and the trustees could not have made a
better selection.
Athens, Aug. 28—[Special]—The cot
ton factories in and around Athens have
sold the last yard of second hand bagging
they had and farmers are clamorous for
more. This bagging was sold at four cents
tier pound less than the new and answered
every purpose. Planters are only purchas
ing enough bagging to answer present and
pressing demands and threaten to permit
tlicir cotton to remain unginned before
submitting to the extortion of the trust.
Hickoby Grove, Aug. 29.—[Special]—
The people have become very much con
cerned over the extortionate price of bag
ging, which places them at such a critical
time almost at a loss as to what to do.
They are farmers and the most of them
dependent. Therefore, they do not wish
to take any ground that would mar or dis
turb the even tenor of the merchants, who
for the present year have come to their
aid, but, if possible, they will certainly
form some plan by which they can bank
rupt the bagging trust. Hickory Grove
Alliance will meet Saturday and discuss
this subject and will come to some conclu
sions by which they can proceed.
CENTRAI. CAMP-lUnCTnO.
The Preachers Present—The Robbery— One
of the Suspected Parties Whipped.
Tai.botton, Aug. 29.—[Special.]—Cen
tral camp-meeting convened Friday morn
ing last at the Central camp-meeting
ground near Geneva in this county. Rev.
XV. M. Hays of this presiding elder’s dis
trict was in charge of the ministerial part
of the meeting, assisted bv Revs. M. D.
Morehouse, XV. E. Mumford, H. R. Felder
and Rev. Mr. Green of this county, and
Rev. J. O. A. Clark of Sandersville, Rev.
J. B. McGehee of the Macon circuit, Rev.
XV. H. Lovett of Macon, Rev. George Clark
of Valdosta, Rev. XV. L. I’ayne of Macon
Orphan’s Home, and Rev. M. A. XVilliams
of Columbus, Every one is well pleased
with this meeting.
Yesterday a Miss Martha Green was at
the camp ground and had in a small hand
satchel $700 in gold and greenbacks be
side a note to tlie amount of $1,000 or
more. About 4 o’clock in the evening
site laid her satchel down some
where and was unable to find it. One Har
riet Davis was suspected of stealing the
money, and she was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff L. D. Richard*, v
While Ilirriet was in the custody of
Deputy Sheriff Richards l&st night about
11 o’clock, a mob of some ten or fifteen
men, with coats and handkerchiefs tied
over their faces, took Harriet Davis from
Deputy Sheriff Richards, carried her to a
pine thicket near the camp-ground, and
irave her a fearful whipping, supposed to
f:, m "
accomplish their purpose, they returned
her to the custody of Richards, and she,
with two others, was placed in jail here
last night. Sheriff Richards says that he
was compelled to give up the negro, as the
mob presented pistols and threatened to
shoot him if lie resisted. This occurred
near the camp-ground, where there were
fifteen hundred or more people.
Cotton Abont Athens.
Athens, Aug. 28.—[Special.]—Farmers
in the city to-day report that in many sec
tions more than half the cotton is now
open and ready to be picked, even unma
tured bolls being forced by the dry weather.
The cotton crop will be very short, and on
an average wont make more than two-
thirds the yield of last year. In fact, it is
turning out even worse than expected.
The fields are getting white and there is a
great demand tor pickers.
Death from nn Accidental Shot.
Ty-Ty, Aug. 29.—[Special.]—Mr. Geo.
Tucker, of Irwin county, was ont hog
hunting some two weeks ago, carrying iiis
I gun on a somewhat contrary mule." In try'
ng to mount his mule the gun was acci
dentally discharged, the load entering his
person near the groin, and passing through
came out near the spine. "After lingering
in great pain until last Friday night, he
breathed his last. Mortification set in nnd
penetrated his whole system.
Damage to Cotton.
Ty-Ty, Aug. 28.—[Special.]—Rust is
flaying havoc with the cotton crop, hers,
It is now thought the entire crop will be
almost a failure. Caterpillars also have
attacked the late coiton und are using it
very badly. Dr. I’icket, but for the worms,
won!-? hire mrdo some of il.-bsst cotton
ever pioduetdin this country., HU crop
being laic ilan’ul was the firs*, the worms
struck. 1 iw»iit*vi* lie could now count r
EUFAULA EVENTS.
A Negro Throws n Stone and Breaks Mr.
* Darrctt's Leg—Local and Fsronnal.
Eufaula, Ala., Aug. 29.—[Special.]—
B. (iarrett, a workman on the cotton fac
tory, has met with a serious accident.
"While passing along the street in company
•with two of his sons they met a dray. The
smaller of the boys made some remark to
the negro driver, which resulted in a quar
rel. The older boy took hold of a paling
to strike the negro, hut the negro threw n
brickbat lnm, and missing li.m, hit his
fattier and broke the bone in his leg above
tlie ankle. It U a bad break nnd will lay
Mr. Garrett up for a long time. The negro
made ids escape and has not been arrested
yet.
The young folks enjoyed themselves
hugely at a german at the E. B. Young
fire company's hall last night. A few ol
tlie old folks were preseat as spectators.
It. Moulthrop and son Robert are home
from Decatur. It is rumored that Mr,
Moulthrop will engage in the brick bust
ness in this city again,
CapL McElroy of Anniston is in the city.
Several new firms will open for business
Sept. 1st. Among the number will be
Long & Co., who will open a dry and fancy
goods store on the corner of Broad and
Randolph streets.
M. M. Brannan’s paper, the Mail, will
be issued daily again after Sept. 1st.
A Fine Mule Stolen,
Davisdoeo, Aug. 28.—[Special.]—Yes
terday Mr. XX’. A. McCarty of Sandersville
employed two negroes to take a cow and
call through the country to a friend at
j —UtIIL TStvWwm,end on the jour
ncy here die negroes became separated and
loot from each other.
About 6 o’clock last night Mr. T.
Brown of this place, kindly loaned one of
them a fine black mare mule to hunt up
his lost friend (?) and to-day a half-dozen
telegrams over the country nave failed to
find the whereabouts of the negro or the
mnie. The negro claims to hail from Vir
ginia just a day or two since, and although
Tie appears to be half v.itted it is believed
iicrc to lie a clear case of stealing. He is
described as being a black negro about 5)
feet high, and appears to be thirty tears
old. XVhen last seen he _ wore a black
alpaca coat torn on one side, a manilla
straw hat, and leather strings around bis
-wrists.
The Preaching Politician,
Elujay, Aug. 29.—[Special.]—Rev
Tliad Pickett, independent candidate for
congress in the Ninth district, preached to
a large audience at the Clear Creek asso
ciation. lie bts a strong following in
that part of the county, and he expressed
himself as very sanguine in the hope of
being elected 'He seems to never tire of
talking, and he sandwiched his sermon, if
such you may term it, with many anec
dotes, evii-enllv t> please the crowd.
Mr. Pickett's father lives in this county,
SnlvL'.o tti.i. Homicide.
Albany, Ang. 29.—[Special.]—Em
iloycs ot the Southwestern railroad
irought the news here of the suicide of a
gentleman said to be a Mr. King, living
about nine miles from Blakely, und also
the killing of a negro by a deputy sheriff
ol Early county while resisting arrest. De
tails are hut meagre as no definite facts
can be obtained touching these reports.
Using Too Mach Hugging.
Athens, Aug. 28.—[Special.]—The cot
ton buyers of Athena have issued a circular
to tlie farmers, complaining of tlie common
practice of using an unnecessary amount
of bagging on their bales, and stating that
they will hereafter make deductions on
this overplus. Many planters use twice as
many yards of bagging on their cotton
bales as necessary.
To Produce Ben Bolt.
Albany, Aug. 28.—[Special.]—Mrs. C,
M. Clark bus organized ail amateur theat
rical company and they are now rehearsing
the old favorite melodrama, “Ben Bolt,
which will he produced shortly with ap
propriate scenery at the opera house.
Demi!J Cnttle Contagion,
Ty-Ty, Aug. 29.—[Special.]—There is a
fatal sickness among some of the cattle out
west of Ty-Ty. Jac. Willis lias lost six
head. Dp to tlie last report the nature of
tlie disease has not been learned.
Prof. King He.elected.
Cochran, Aug. 29.—[Special.]—Tlie
hoard of trustees have again elected Prof,
It. J. King as principal of Ebenezer Col,
lege, and he will open the school Monday,
Sep. 3. He will be assisted by an able
corps of teachers.
OVER THE STATE.
Yesterday's Look Through tlie Telegrapl
Correspondence nnd Excliauges.
Inferior court meets at Madison on
Sept. 3d.
A large shipment of naval stores was
made from Ty-Ty Monday.
Madison young people had a picnic ex
cursion to Monticello Tuesday.
Late rains have encouraged Jefferson
county planters to hojie tor adflg crop.
Judge Harris is holding [court in Meri
wether this week. The judge has gotten
entirely well.
Gordon Institute at Barncsville opened
Monday with 175 scholars. This bcsjieaks
a large'scholarship.
An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. XV.
Wooten, at Dawson, was buried in the city
cemetery on last Sunday evening.
C. G. Kramer of Carrollton is erecting
brick front across his entire frontage, which
will make a continuous brick lront for
quarter of a square.
L. N. Batchelor, near Harrison, was re
cently thrown from a mule, breaking his
collar bone and receiving other injum
He is doing well.
The ball game between the XVaynesboro
Silver Stars and the Louisville club re
sulted in the defeat of the Louiavilliani
by a score of 9 to 0.
Hickory Grove correspondent: Crop* in
this section are splendid. Master Charlie
Bentley has a bait sue paleh that will
sine 1,900 pounds ot seed cotton.
and in his day was a very popular local ■ c wncre nu beau atru
politician, representing the county in the J A revival is going on at the Baptist | left of hu presence,
leglslslure whenever he desired to make | church in Carrollton, with good suceets, * lit on his head; this
hut from surrounding towns.
A Harrison correspondent, under date of
Aug. 28, says: There is intense excitement
here over the nomination which comes oil
to-morrow. The antis will not vote.
Superior court met at Butler Monday,
and after the charge to the grand jurv.was
adjourned until Oct. 1. Messrs. Miller of
Buena Vista and XVallace of Oglethorpe
were admitted to the bar.
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Pitt of Ty-Ty re
turned home from North Carolina Sunday,
where they have been visiting Mr. Pitt’s
parents. They report having had a pleas
ant time on the trip.
Rev. Dr. Gwaitney, president of Shorter
female college, Rome, preached at Madi
son Sunday and Sunday night in the Bap
tist and Methodisf - churches. Tlio-e who
heard him were much pleased with his
sermons.
Tom Dorsey and Joe Bostick, two noto
rious negro gamblers of llarri-ot, were
arrested last week and brought before Jus
tice XV’o.id, who committed Dorsey to jail
in default of a $100 bond. Bostick gave
bond.
A Hickory Grove correspondent says:
. R. Bentley has the champion jumper in
the way of a calf, just three months old.
Becoming frightened, it jumped- the dis
tance of twenty feet, clear over a ten-rail
fence.
Last Saturday’s 'primary in .Heard
county for representative resulted in W.
H. Daniels receiving 404 votes and Levi
Hollingsworth 260 votes, a majority of 144
for Daniels. Some think there will be an
independent in the field.
A Ty-Ty correspondent says: There will
soon be four gins running in onr town,
XV. E. XVilliams and J. L. Fordjboth hav
ing put in one each. Cotton is coming in
at a lively rate, 8j cents being about the
ruling price.
The democratic executive commttee of
Dodge county has been called to meet next
Saturday* for the purpose of ordering a
irimary election at the several precincts
n the county to nominate a democratic
candidate for representative.
Brunswick Journal; J. J. Spears, the
Glynn county candidate of the party for
state prohibition, refuses to go into the
primaries with his candidacy. He claims
that he is not at liberty to do so, under the
conditions upon which he accepted the
nomination ot the prohibitionis's,
A few days ago, over in Irwin county,
Mr. James Sumner, one of the old citizens
of that good old county, while out looking
after his stock in Little River swamp, came
suddenly upon a bed of wild cats, five in
number. With tlie help of his dogs he
killed two of the young ones the remainder
getting away. ^
Dodge superior court was opened Mon
day hv Judge Kibliee. There was a large
attendance, but on account of the destruc
tion of the jury boxes the jury was ad
journed over until the first Mondny in
i)eeeUtt>er next. The ju-y commissioners
are id session again, having been ordered
to select another jury. •
The depot at Ellijay wn- broken iiit'o
Sunday night nnd what u on y the agent
had left in tho drawer was taken. --Mr.
Costeohens, the agent, says there was
about $7 in small change, including 100
coppers. AH was taken. Entrance was
effected through a window. There.is no
clew to the parties.
A big crowd from Butler attended Cen
tral campmecting Sunday, among them
Misses Mary and Clande 'Monlfort, Van
Mitchell, Lucy XVoodward nnd Messrs. J.
N. Mitchell, John Farley, Gray Montfort,
Henry Wallace, Prof, bteed, XV. Stewart
and John Respess. Col. Tom Hunt of
Sparta joined the delegation who attended
tne campmecting.
Forsyth Advertiser: There seems to he
a growing sentiment and a more fixedness
of purpose that has hitherto prevailed
among tlie planters of our county to gro«
all needed supplies on their farms. This
answers well for the future of our county,
and this determination i« doubt-css tlie
outgrowth of the Farmers’ Alliance, it
so, we hope this sentiment will he fed and
nourished by the alliance until it shall
ripen into full fruition. XVe see no other
channel through which future prosperity
can come to the planters of Monroe.
Albany correspondence: A most charm
ing and brilliant entertainment was given
last night by the children of tlie Baptist
Sunday-school, at XVillmgham’s opera
house. There was a succession of songs,
short plays and tableaux, which were
greatly enjoyed by the large number pres
ent. It was gotten up, mainly, by two 13-
year-oid girls, Misses Fonda Gilbert and
Mary Randall, and rellected great credit
upon their management, as well os upon
the little people who carried out so well
the enjoyable programme.
Milledgevilie Recorder: Men talk a great
deal about certain portions of a woman’s
dress and make fun of the way she has of
handling her dress, but a woman says men
are more ridiculous than women about
ugly habits. They pull their beards, twist
tlioir mustache, puli up their pantaloons
when they sit down and show some not re
cently laundried socks, hitch at their waist
bands, blow their noses on the public
streets, wipe their smelling apparatus with
a handkerchief, which they carefully fold
and put back in their pocket, as if they
hidn t another clean one at Louie, ole*
Forsyth Advertiser: XVe learn, through
report, that on Saturday last Messrs.
Charlie and Ben Standard, two brothers,
who had some difference of opinion anti
dispute about a land line, met each other
in the road, when they, under the impulse
of the moment, decided to settle the dis
pute by a personal rencounter. Both
parties used their knives and each one was
cut, Mr. Charlie Standard being cut in
several places. XX’e learned vssterday that
none of the wounds were likely to prove
fatal, and that on Sunday, througli tho
intercession ol friends, a reconciliation
was brought about and tlie two brothers
became friends again.
> Thomasville Times: A negro from Flo
rida, who was coming up on the trsin yes
terday morning, uikmi being told that lie
would be quarantined here, lie having no
health'certificate, jumped from tlie train
while jt was running at the rate of twenty-
five miles an boor A fleeting vision of
arms and legs wildly waving, and a tiodv
as it struck the nr-nmd with a thud, was
seen. Thedurxv Lit his baggage, which
looked very touch like it needed fumiga
tion. The conductor hacked the train to
the spot, thinking the darky was killed or
badly hurt, but he was no where to he
seen. A round hole in the solid ground
where bis head struck was the only sign
Fortunately he had
ved his life.
THE PENSION ROLLS.
Tlie Enormous Extent of tlie
Bureau’s Business.
CROWTH DURING THE PAST YEAR.
Over Sixty Thousand New Names Placed on
the ItollH in That Time—The Aggre
gate Amounts—The Number of
Vetoes ami the Grounds.
applications under the general law had ever
been filed in eleven.
It is also stated that in tlie fiscal years
from July 1st, 1882, to June 30th, 1885, there
were issued 191,222 certificates of all classes
and during the three fallow ine li-eal rears,
from July 1st, 1885, to June 30th, 1888, 379,-
537, making an increase for the last three
years of 188,316 certificates. _
CONTRACT I.AHOlt.
XVasiiington, Aug. 29.—The commis
sioner of pensions has completed and sent
to the public printer his report of the opera
tions of tbe pension bureau for the year end
ing June 30, 1888. It shows that there were
during the fiscal year ended June 30,1888,
added to tbe pension rolls 60,252 new names,
the largest annual increase in the history of
the bureau, making a total of 452,557 pen
sioners on the rolls at the close of the year,
Classified as follows: 828,352 invalids, 92,928
widows, minor children and dependent rela
tions, 37 revolutionary widows, 806 survivors
of the war of 1812, 1,087 widows of those who
served in that war, 1,660 survivors of the
war with Mexico and 5,104 widows of those
who served in that war. The names of 2,028
previously dropped were restored to rolls,
making an aggregate of 62,280 pensioners
added during the year. Daring the same
period 15,730 were dropped from the rolls
on account of death and varions other
causes, loaving a net increase to the rolls of
46,550 names.
Since 1861, 1,166,926 pension claims have
been filed and 737,600 claims of all classes
have been allowed since that date.
The amount paid for pensions since 1811
has been $963,086,414.
Increase of pensions was granted in 45,716*
cases. The average annual value of pen
sions at the close of the year was $125.30, a
decrease of $4.80. The decrease in average
annual value is due to the fact that a large
number of Mexican war pensioners at the
rate of eight dollars per month, which is
below the average rate, was added to the
rolls during the year, and furthermore that
the death rate among high grade pensioners
was greater than among pensioners of the
lower rate.
AGGREGATE AMOUNTS.
The aggregate annual value of pensions is
$56,707,221, an increase of $8,882,579. J The
amount of pensions paid during the year waa
$78,775,862, an increase over the previous
year of $5,380,280. The total amount din
bursed by pension agents tor all purposes
was $79,646,146. The cost attending such
disbursements was in the aggregate $3,262,-
621. it being a fraction less than four psr
cent, of the total expenditures of the bureau.
The total amount expended for all pur
poses was $82,038,386, being twenty-one and
a half per cent, of the estimated gross in-
come of tbe United States government for
tlie period. The total expenditures of the
government for the fiscal year 1888, were
$267,424,801, so that this amount expended
for nnd on account of pensions was nearly
thirty-one per cent, of the entire outlay of
the government.
Tlie average duration of lives of pension-
era ia 07 ac.'.rc. The average length of time
served in the army by those who are receiv
ing pension* on account of the late war is
more than two years. There were received
2.608,000 letters during the year, nn enor
mous increase over previous years, an aver
age of 224,833 letters per month, or 88,993
per working day, while 94,493 letters were
received from members of congress nlone.
The total Dumber of letters sent out was
1,83G,182. Many inquiries were answered by
the issuance of pension certificates or by
printed circulars, and frequently a single
letter was found to be sufficient to answer
several inquiries in the same claim.
There were filed daring the year 47,840
applications for original pension, 11,789
widows, 2,446 dependent mothers and 1,883
dependent fathers, making a total of 65,704.
The highest number of claims on account of
the lato war waa received from Ohio, Indiana
followed next, then New X’ork and Pennsyl
vania, and from Montana, Utah and South
Carolina mine were rei-i-ivi-d. Tlo- work ot
the board of review nnd revision it practic
ally up to date.
The law division has submitted 170 cases to
the department of iusticefor prosecution—
sixty for offenses by attorneys and 110 for
offenses by other persons. Of this number
six bare been acquitted and four ignored liy
grand juries, leaving 160 await’ng trial. The
spirit of tlie bureau is, “No compromise witli
those who wilfully violate the |..-li~ir.n law-
and no prosecution of those who have sinned
through ignorance or who are willing to
make restitution when the same is demanded
of them.’’ The amount of $15,330 of illegal
fees have been recovered And refunded to
the pensioners interested.
special acts.
A new feature of the report as the discus
sion of special pension acts and their rela
tion to the administration of the general
laws. It shows the various stages through
which a special act posses from its receipt at
the executive mansion to the issue of the
certificate. In addition a table is published
showing the total number of special pension
acts which have become laws since 1861
follows: 186f to 1865, 41 (Lincoln;) 1865 to
1869,431 (Johnson): 1869 to 1877,490(Grant):
1877 to 1881, 303 (Hayes); 1881 to 1885, 736
(Garfield and Arthur); total 2,001; 1885
to 1888, 1,369 (Cleveland); grand total,
3,370. It appears that while during I’resi-
dent Cleveland’s administration 1,369 special
acts became laws, 291 were vetoed. Of this
number seventeen were vetoed in the inter
est of claimants, because they would be en
titled to a greater amount under tbe general
i law THps* apventppn pa*m icon*
wards allowed by the pension bureau and
saved tlie beneficiaries $17,249 more than
they would have received had the special
acts become laws. Twelve were vetoed be
cause of charges of desertion or became of
dishonorably discharge; two dependent fath
ers’.claims were vetoed because the fathers
abandoned their sons in infancy and never
resumed their care and custody nor mani-
tested any interest in them until a pension
was involved; two coses because they were
duplicates of precisely the same special acts
already approved by .the executive and in
full force; seven because death was by sui
cide and had no connection with the mill*
tary. service; 121 became the soldiers’
disabilities or deaths were in no wise due to
service, but arose from causes entirely dis
tinct therefrom; seventeen because cases
were pending in the peniion bureau, where
they were being properly investigated,
(these cases also involving arrears); nine
because the special acts fixed no rates and
the claimants were not receiving pensions,
commensurate with the disability found to
exist by a competent board of
surgeons and the spe ial act would lie of no
benefit; two more alleged dependent cues
because no dependence was shown; one be
cause the President refused to set aside the
limitation fixed by tbe law of 1879 go era-
ing arrears, and <>ne became tbe benelirisry
waa decal at ihe time ot tbe passage of the
s,eciai set Ninety-three of these vetoed
claims bail been rejected by the pension bu
reau prior to July 1st, 1865, ana fifty four
subsequent to that time; thirty were pend
ing unsettled in the pension bureau, and no
How tho Itnllnna arts Induced to Emigrate
—Fraudulent Naturalization.
Washington, Aug. 29.—Mr. Ford's com-
mittec on contract labor returned to XVash-
ington this morning after an absence of five
weeks, during which time the committee
accomplished an ulinost unexampled amount
of work. Speaking of the results of the trip
to day, Mr. Ford said: “XVe have taken over
twenty-five hundred pages of type-written
testimony. I do not believe that we shall
make a report until the entire investigation
is completed and we have more important
testimony to take. But what we have taken
has convinced tlie committee that something
must be done. The laws relating to con
tract labor have been violated to an alarm
ing extent, because of the lack of machinery
to enforce them. The whole of Italy is
flooded with steamship agents, who are
telling lies about the United States to induce
immigration. XVe could have closed the
inquiry at Vew York, for we had enough
testimony when we got through there to
show the necessity for additional legislation.
One of the facts brought to light inci
dentally was that naturalization papers are
being issued fraudulently to an alarming
extent. It is very easy to get out these
papers underjour law, as any one having
access to the seal of a court can get them
out and sell them. Another fact developed
was that the New England fishermen about
whose rights we have had so much trouble
are really made up of aliens to the extent of
seventy five pur cent. As to the remedy,
although wc- shall uudoubtediy recommend
some legislation, the committee has not yet
agreed upon the form it shall take.
Mr. Ford, in conclusion said, that tbe
committee wonld probably resume the tak
ing of testimony in about sixty days, but
just where he could not say.
A REGULAR EPIDEMIC.
No Longer Any Doubts About It—Action
ot Lending Colored Men.
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 29.—There is
no longer a shadow of doubt that we have
on our bands a regular epidemic. Thirty-
four new eases were reported to the board of
health for the twenty-four hours ending at
six o’clock this evening. They are princi
pally in the central aud eastern part of the
city, tbe infection apparently having been
carried by the southwest winds of the past
few days in a northeasterly direction.
Among the cases are Mrs. Judge McLean,
and two children; Miss Lead, telephone
operator; Mrs. Hopkins, stamp clerk at the
postofiice; J. H. Stephens, local agent of the
Savannah, Florida and XVestern railway;
who has stood at his post and is chairman of
the railroad relief association, and Fayette
Dancy, clerk in the internal revenue office.
Four dentils were reported for the same,
aiming them iiugh D. Roberts, A. H. Smith
and Sister Itnsa Deli nut, of St. Joseph’s.
'1 he eiti/enV II--" -intion pas-i-d resolutions
to-day requesting Surgeon General Hamilton
tncMablisha hospital near t'ainp lYrry.
Leading colored citizens to-day organized
an auxillinry association to assist the relief
committee nnd help to keep order. A
strong resolution was passed denouncing as
false telegrams to several northern papers to
the effect that the colored people of Jack-
sonville were lawlessly plundering aband
oned houses. These false Btories wcie cor
rected two weeks ago by a telegram o! the
committee of citizens, consisting of tbe
acting mayor, the president of the board of
health, the president of the Citizen’s Sani*
tary Association and the editor of the
Times-Uaion. The colored people passed
resolutions voicing their appreciation of the
efforts of white citizens to relieve the dis*
tress of colored.working people thrown out
of employment, but expressing the opinion
that It will be utterly imp ssihie to sustain
the needy, and urged th- importance of
government aid in th* matter. They assert
that 10,000 colored people w ill soon be de
pendent on the relief committee, and that
$10,000 per week will be required to furnish
them with the bare necessaries of life.
WILL NOT CLOSE HER DOORS.
The Americus llo.-ml of Health Again Re
fuses to fjuarantlne Against Florida.
AtfitBIcus, Aug. 28.—[Special.]—'The board
of health held another meeting this after
noon and again refused to quarantine against
Florida.
Our people are very much divided on the
quarantine question. The boaid of health,
after two meetings, decided not to uoaran-
tine, and -h large portion of onr people sus
tain tbeir action, firmly believing that yel-
low fever will not spread here, but there are
many of our citizens who fear to take the
riik, as they do not know what effect the
miles upon miles of new gas and water mains
which nave bepn opened and refilled in our
streets this summer might have in
feeding the contagion. Besides, they
fear that by throwing open our gates to the
refugees from Florida some cases might de
velop here among them which would be cal
culated to excite the country people and
prevent them coming to this city on business
of marketing produce, etc., nnd might also
result in causing the towns around to quar
antine against us. The result ot this ilivis.
ion was a petition, which has received many
signatures, asking the hoard of health to
establish a quarantine, with result as above.
CHOLERA IN MICHIGAN.
Tbe People 8atil to be Dying Like 8heep
from Some Such Disease.
Cheboygan, Mich., Ang. 28.—It is re
ported here that cholera is raging in I’reaque
Isle county and the people are dying like
thtep, with so doctors is the imsudUte
vicinity. Nine persons died in one day.
XVhile the report may be exaggerated, it
it known that a short time ago people there
were suflering with a bowel trouble. The
officials of that county will investigate the
matter.
Killed b; Grief ami Slinme.
St. Louis, Aug. 28.—A special from Little
Rock announces the death, under pecnliar
circumstances, of Rev. Jesse Pratt, the old-
est Baptist minister in Arkansas. His son,
J. R. Pratt, was on trial for assaulting a
woman and the father expressed the hope
that he wonld die before tlie verdict was
rendered. He expired five hours before the
jury came in, sentencing his son to five
Grief and shame
years’ imprisonment,
killed him.
Libby to bo Sold Again.
Richmond, Va., ,tug. 28.—Dcfanlt having
been made in the second payment on Libby
prison, it will be sold again at public outcry
within the next ten days. XV. II. Gray of
Chicago bought the property in February
last and made the first payment in cash. He
then sold it toaChicagosyndicate, who have
failed to meet tbe terms of the sale.
A CHARGE OP-CRUELTY I
Brought Against One of The Guard, 0 . lk I
.Comity Chaln-Gaug. lh ® I
John Ganuhon who waa sent to tt I
chain gang last April for four month,. ■
released several days ago and has [Tl
giving some frightful accounts of them I
ner in which he was treated. This st? I
ment was made a day or so sgo but I
published because Mr. Oloaler, (he *J!?|
and against whom tlie charge of cruelty ’ I
directed, has not been in the citv l “ I
his version of the matter. ’ ® 1Ye I
Gaughon claima that he was I
unmercifully by Glosier and struck 2? I
seventy lashes with a leather strap 5* I
says a negro stole some peas that hi. I
mother had sent to him and because t I
threw a cup at him and displayed “ e I
Glosier, who is one of the guard*I
the oilier prisoners hold him while a® I
licks were struck. He has been threVea I
ing to kill Glosier on sight, bin after*,rf I
said ho would prosecute him to n- f ? I
extent of the law. ‘ 11 j
Mr. Glosier came into the city vette, I
day after prisoreis, and gave his I
of the affair. He says tlfat he ta, “ I
under the orders of Superintendent McgJ I
to preserve order and enforce discipline h, I
the camp. Ganglion, he says, was uiter , I
worthless when it came to work and h I
could not be made to do anything excent 1
to lie down. As tho time approached fo I
his release, he waa made a trusty, as is the I
rule, nnd light work assigned to him I
I-or instance, the gang was at work on a I
road about a mile from camp, and it *„ I
Gauglion’s duty to bring the dinner to the I
road from the camp. On one occasion the
dinner did not arrive at 12 o’clock and the
prisoners were kept at work until 1
o clock waiting on him. Mr. Ofo.
sier then sent another trusty
after the dinner and it was then found that
Gaughon was lying about in the woods.
The dinner was carried, and while the
prisoners were eating Gaughon put in an
appearance. Glosier says he did not say
much to him about the matter and wzs
prepared to let it pass. There were not
enough dinners by one for the prisoners
and as Gaughon had not worked he was’
told to go without. This angered him,
and he went to aprisonerliavinghisbucket
.and taking the cup threw it against a wall.
Glosier thought it time to interfere and
tried to make him stop, but he wouldn’t !
He told Gaughon that lie would be com
pelled to whip him, whereupon Gaughon
drew his knife. The prisoners were told
to take hold of him and he waa laid upon
the ground and given fifteen lashes with a
leather strap. This did not have the effect
of stopping liim and he was given eleven
more strokes more severe than the others
Gaughon said he had enough and he wu
let up. This, Mr. Glosier says, was the
sum total of the cruelty indicted, and that
it waa brought about by Gaughon himseli.
GauguOu aaya ho waa Betti to the gang
on false testimony. He says he will pros
ecute Glosier and put a stop to his erne ty
to prisoners.
GONE WITH TIIE CASn.
A Trusted Servant Skips the Town With
Twenty-seven Dollars.
Some time Friday Mrs. Nelson, daugh
ter of Mr. J. T. Callaway in X’ineyilie,
sent a negro man on the place with a draft
for $17 and $10 in money to her sister,
Mrs. Logan. The negro returned to the
house and reported that he had lost the
money, and though ho made every eflort
to find it he had been unsuccessful. The
negro bail been with Mr. Gsjiaway ior
about three years, and in tho fruit season
had sold peaches, etc., for him and was
trusted considerably. His story of Friday
waa believed, and perhaps nothing mote
would have been thought about it but for
tlie fact that he disappeared. Investiga
tion revealed the fact that he had been
seen with money, and that be had also
been seen in the vicinity of the depot
Yesterday Mr. Callaway went down to
Leesburg, where the negro came from
originally, supposing that, hi- would make
his way down there.
a scientific question.
The Flow ol one ArtealanWell Cut ofISy
Another.
The people of XVadley submit the iol-
owir.g to Prof. XViilet or Dr. Clifton for
a satisfactory explanation:
Messrs. Speir and Bedingfield, of XVad
ley, have bored a six inch artesian welt
anti are preparing to bore two others for
the purpose of running a grist null sod
gin. This wpll, although located half *
mile distant front the XVadley well nu
materially affected the flaw, cnttinj! it off
fully one third. Now, if the boring ®j
one well lias reduced the flow of oat w*“
one-third, the boring of two others of tne
same capacity would, according to bin-
ford’s arithmetic, stop the How <>*
entirely, which would be a great cslsmi j
to our town.
Nelson Fays a DepoeUe*.
Atlanta, Aug. 29.—C. C. Nelson, the
defaulting Atlanta hanker who migr*!>
to Canada a few months ago, leaving,
large number of creditors behind him, 1
been heard from again. .
Ye-terday a lady, while in conversation
with Mr. John Colvin, tho baggage-muter
at the union passenger depot, tolu
that she hail a lew days previous [ cce
$100 from Nelson, and that he had pr
ised in a letter which accompanieu
money to pay her back every cent ol
money which she had deposited in
bank at the time of its failure. Ibe /
stated that when the bank suzpenileil
nesa she had several hundred dolla
posited in it. She expresaes the
that Nelson will send her tlie remain —
her money os soon as he can spare i •
The Fenny Grabbing Machines at 1 1,r
No. 1.
From the Newark Sunitay Call. , , -t-K.
There are probably more mckel-«*w
ing devices at pier 1, New \ork, t u_
any other place of ils size m thu ,
A Ncwarker who encountered th® .
delay at the pier one evening ,'L
and waited until nine o clock for th'
o’clock boat, spent bis time in c
tlie devices in the centre of theu Pl* , r ; p
He found two automatic scales, Ithree a r
testers, three machines to test the s
in lifting, one to show how ^
power a man * handle
could exert in _ twisting • nl -»
four instruments which dispense* 1 n
worth of electric shock to al
the cent
which
cent in tne slot; uiree or |of
Clevel irul’n Victory*
From tbe Nuhville Democrat.
Tbe republican Henate corner op very
CfOggy aficr it* terrible knock down in tlkt
last match with Cleveland on the fisheries
question.
b ot electric enoca 10 ~ 3 Iimer t
:ent; one small fountain of P • _\
h was operated bIbo by
■«»in the slot; three or four t ., r
which disgorged chocolate and co«>»
a nickel, and a handsome inode o %
motive, in a glass case. lij ar°V1 j0
nickel into an sperstnre In the .
nickel into an a|
invtatar could Frt- tlie wm
All ot these uiacliint - have
so often that the owner* h
placards stating that it is
the machines without tqui
ing rewards for tlie detect
who defraud, them.
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