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The Irwin County News
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A. G- DgLOACH, Editor and Proprietor.
THE CONGRESS. ! ;
THE NATIONS’ LAW-MAKERS RE¬
SUME OPERATIONS. j I
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Tlie Proceedings of Both Houses
Briefly Epitomized. i
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THE SENATE. !
The senate was called to order
Thursduy by Mr. Harris, president pro
tern., in tlio absence of tlfo vice-presi-
dent. The reading of the journal was
dispensed with, and on motion of Mr.
Cockrell, democrat, of Missouri, the
senate went into executive session im-
mediately after meeting. The doors
were opened at 12:20 p. m., and tho
senate considered some routine busi-
ness. Mr. Peffev, populist, of Kansas,
desired to read at length a communi-
cation from certain sorghum maim-
facturers in his state, but Mr.
Gallinger, republican, because of New Hamp-
shire, objected of other
important business that was to come 1
up and permission was given to print
the record. The senate bill to revive
the grade of lieutenant-general in the
army was reported by Mr. Hawley
from the military affairs committee
and placed on the calendar. Mr.
Berry, dem., of Arkansas, submitted
a minority report favoring the passage
of the bill heretofore reported ad-
versely from the public lands commit-
tee forfeiting certain lands granted to
aid in the construction of railroads.
A bill to develop fourteen transporta-
tion routes to the seaboard was intro- j
duced by Mr. Butler, of South Caro-
lina, and one to provide a suitable ■
residence for the president by Mr. |
Quay, of Pennsylvania.
There were but few members on the
floor when the house conveued Satur¬
day. Six bills were passed .by unani¬
mous consent before the regular order
was demanded. Debate on the cur¬
rency bill was then .resumed. .Mr.
Coombs opened in favor of the bill.
Mr. Bell, of Texas, followed in oppo¬
sition to the bill. He said the argu¬
ments of the advocates of this measure
reminded him of Touchstone’s plea
for Audrey in “As You Like It.”
Touchstone confessed that Audrey was
not particularly favored but she “was
mine own.” Currency reform was to
become a fad, he thought.
THE HOUSE.
When the house met at 11 o’clock
Thursday Mr. Breckinridge (dem.) of
Kentucky, reported an urgent defi-
ciency bill, appropriating $300,000
for the census, $125,000 for salaries
and $175,000 for printing the report.
This appropriation was included in
the deficiency bill, which passed the
house a few days ago, and which is
now being held up in the senate. Mr.
Breckinridge states that unless this
supplementary bill was passed imme¬
diately the work of the census would
stop. Mr. Cannon (rep.) of Illinois,pre-
vailed on Mr Breckinridge to accept
an amendment appropriating $125,000
ior the fees of jurors, also included-in
he former bill and as amended the
bill was passed On motion of Mr.
Sickels dem.) of New York a bill was
passed Major to pension the widow of ho
!ate Generai N. P. Banks at the
rate of $100 per month. There was no
debate on the bill Mr. Outhwaite at
thia point presented a joint resolution
for the holiday adjournment to begin
Saturday, December 22, and end
Thursday, January 3 but subsequently
withdrew it The house then went
into committee and resumed the dis-
mission of the currency bill.
In the house Friday a joint resolu-
tion offered by Mr Livingston ot J
Georgia, was agreed to permitting
foreign exhibitors at the Atlanta ex-
liosition to bring laborers with them
trom their countries o put their ex-
h.bits into order and cpnduct them
while the exposition is in existence.
In response to a question from Mr.
Wilson, republican, of Washington,
Mr.' Livingston said the bill made no
provision for the entry of foreign
coachmen. (Laughter.) Mr. Sayres
presented the concurrent resolution
providing for a recess of congress from
Saturday, December 22d, to Thursday,
January 3d, and on its passage Mr.
English, democrat, of New Jersey,
demanded a division. Mr. Sayres
asked for a vote by yeas and
nays and it was ordered, resulting:
Yeas, 172; nays, 125. The house then
went into committee of tho whole to
resume discussion of the currency and
banking bill. The discussion of the
measure continued during niost Of the
afternoon, the speakers being Messrs.
Pendleton, Russell, Sickles, McLaurin
and Rawlins. Mr. Rawlins was the
last speaker. When he had concluded,
the committee rose and Mr. Springer
presented for information to the house
and briefly explained, its ' provi¬
sions, the substitute he^ould offer at
the proper time for the pending bill.
He stated that it was the work of the
majority of the members of the com¬
mittee on banking and currency, and
that the changes proposed had been
approved by Secretary Carlisle. To
expedite consideration of tha bill, Mr.
Walker, republican, of Massachusetts,
suggested that tho bill just read bo
substituted at onee for the pending
bill, but this vras not agreed to. It
y ? ftS agjreed, however* that it should be
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28,
printed in bill form and published in
the Record. The house then, at 5
o’clock, adjourned until Saturday at
12 o’clock.
There was hut a small attendance
when the senate was called to ordei
Saturday by President pro tom Hnr
ris, a number of the senators bavin,e
] 0 |q f or pome in anticipation of th
holiday recess. Mr. Galium, of Illi
nois, presented a series of resolutions
adopted by .a meeting of citizens ol
Chicago, December 9, expressing sym-
patliy with tho Armenians. After fur-
( bpr routine business had been trans-
acted, the holiday adjournment resolu-
tion was formally laid before the sen-
ate and Mr. Cockrell asked unanimous
consent that tho resolution bo consid-
ored. Mr. George, democrat, of Mis-
sissippi, however, objected. For the
purpose of bringing the matter before
the senate Mr. Handerson, republican,
of Nebraska, moved the reference of
the holiday amendment to tho appro-
j nations committee. Mr. George
then addressed tho senate ontliereso-
lntion. He said he was well aware
that an objection to a holiday
recess would i it meet with any great
favor. He believed it was the duty of
the senate (as on other occasions) to
sit during the holidays and he pro-
posed to take snehsteps in the matter,
lie did not do this to delay or annoy
members, but simply to have a fair
expression of the senate on the ques-
tion. If tho senate adopted the reso-
lution, one-third of the session would
have expired and not a single appro-
priation will have been passed,
In taking the step he did, he said,
he had the support of a number of
other senators. The senate had decid-
ed emphatically that no rules should
be adopted to facilitate business so
that in the two months remaining af-
tor January 1, the business transacted
will be what a small minority of this
body decide it' shall be. The senator
then named a number of important
bills on the calendar which would give
rise to considerable discussion, among
them being the Carlisle financial bill,
now pending in the house, and the
item in one of the appropriation bills,
making an appropriation to collect the
income tax.
The Special Will be Put on Again.
It is announced that the New York
and Florida special which has been a
feature of the southern travel for sev¬
eral years, 1 will be put in service again
this season over the Atlantic Coast
line, the first train running Monday,
January 7th. It will leave New York
daily except Sunday at 4:30 o’clock
p. m., and Washington at 10:48, ar¬
riving at Jacksonville the next even¬
8:15 ing at 7:05 o’clock and St. Augustine at
o’clock.
SUFFERING IN NEBRASKA.
Farmers in Some Sections of the
State in a Deplorable Condition.
A special from Niobrara, Neb., says:
The suffering among the inhabitants
f ^ drought-blighted g part of Ne-
brask ’ inclu in three-fourths of the
re6ide ts of flveoonntiea, is becoming °
more inW dftil Vent aiul immediat
4 lone can many deaths
by f starvation. Three years ago the
f( rmers of these drougblrbUghted
countieB raiBed a i/ iight b crop, nnd
h J two vear9 t e cr Lave been
all st total failures. Many / fami-
lies have not e ° h p oyision8
. their homc8 {or week’s
G no aus-
tsnance> an(1 no m / to purchnBe
tbo necessities of life Many of the
mercbants here feel that they have
aided the ^ {flrmerB to the extent
of their i]ity> / and are unable to do
more fo t hem or to sell them
goods on credit.
Tk(J 8{lfferer8 cannot obtaiQ o / loy .
ment ’ and unle9s th reeeive ai /
* ’ it is tbe general b 0 , jiuion tb t
mau ^ wi]1 starve to death;'and should
th eatker turn J cold> maa £ will
freeze tQ doath as it u a fac that
J ar0 bad 6& for cl(jtbcH .
AFTER MILLIONAIRE FLAGLER.
A Requisition from Gov. Hogg, of Tex¬
as to Gov. Mitchell, of Florida.
Governor Mitchell, of Florida, has
received a requisition from Governor
Hogg, of Texes, for Henry M. Flagler,
of St. Augustine, Fia., the railway,
hotel and Standard oil magnate. Flag¬
ler and other Standard oil magnates
havo been indicted in the Texas courts
for violating the anti-trust laws of that
state, and Governor Hogg is deter¬
mined to bring the indicted million¬
aire to trial. Some time ago he for¬
warded requisitions to Governor Flow¬
er, of New York, for John D. Rocke¬
feller and others who reside in that
state, but Governor Flower refused to
honor the requisitions. Now he turns
attention to Henry M. Flagler, who is
a eitizen of Florida. It is said that
Governor Mitchell will honor the req¬
uisition.
Mills to Resume Operation.
The cotton mills at Gloucester, N.
J., are to be put in operation. The
old Washington mill formerly emr
ployed about 1,000 operatives. When
they open again under the ownership
of . the Argo Mill Company their pro¬
duct will be cotton yarns.
“I have come to stay,” is a declara- mar/
^ on too often true when a young
enters upon a career of vice.
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound. r
FROM WASHINGTON.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
Senator Teller has introduced a bill
to “incorporate a company to build an
elevated electric railroad between
Washington and Now York capable of
developing a speed of 100 to 150 miles
an hour. ” The bill provides that the
road must be completed within five
years; must run trains at the rate of
100 miles an hour, and must carry pas¬
sengers for 2 cents a mile.
Secretary Morton will leave Wash¬
ing about January 6th for a.visit of
several weeks in Nebraska. He is tho
president of the Nebraska Historical
society, and at its meeting January
15th will deliver an address on the
“Pioneer populists and their flnahce
in tho territory of Nebraska in 1855,
1856 and 1857, together with the re¬
sults; a parallel between past and pres¬
ent fallacies.”
President Cleveland and party reach¬
ed Washington on their return from
their duck shooting expedition in
South Carolina Sunday morning at 9
o’clock. The president and his asso¬
ciates were all in fine spirits and re¬
turned generally refreshed by their
outing. Several large hampers of
game were taken from the train and
their contents distributed among the
cabinet families and other favored
friends of the president.
Interesting, developments are ex-
pected at an early day as a result of
the strained conditions between the
United .States and European countries
over the tariff. Spain has already
placed the United States in “The
First Column,” and Gresham has re-
joined by directing Minister TayloT
at Madrid to notify the Suanieh gov-
ernment that if the United States is-
not removed from the “First Column”
this country will retaliate.
A Presidential Residence.
Senator Quay has introduced and ie
urging a bill providing for a presiden-'
tial residence in Washington. nis
bill appropriates §1,000,000 with which
to purchase the site on which the mag-
nificent Earlier residence stands out
on Fourteenth street, near the Chinese
legation. The bill should, and prob-
ably United will, pass. The president of the
States should be provided with
a residence separate and distinct from
the white house, which is his business
office and a public place. To the fam-
ily of a president there is little privacy
about the white house. Mrs. Cleveland
and children cannot venturi: out of the
few rooms in the white house designa-
ted for their private use without being
stared at by a lot of impertinent peo-
pie, The grounds are as public as the
streets. Everybody agrees that the
government should furnish a residence
for tho president separate and distinct
from the whiite house, where he nnd
his family may have absolute privacy.
Mr. Quay’s bill only provides for the
purchaso of the site. When that is
accomplished, a bill for the building
will be introduced and passed.
Springer’s Substitute.
The following is the Springer sub-
stitute for the Carlisle currency bill as
laid before the house:
1. Permitting the deposit of cur-
rency certificates issued under section
5193 of the Revised Statutes, to se-
cure circulation, as well as the deposit
of legal tender continually held in the
treasury, and the effect of depositing
certificates is, therefore, the samo pro-
cisely as to requre the deposit of uotes.
2. So amending the present law as
to permit state banks to deposit legal
tender notes and procure these cur-
rency certificates in the same manner
that national banks are now permitted
to do.
3. Dispensing with the provision
which authorizes an assessment upon
the national banks to replenish the
safety fund for the redemption of the
notes of failed banks and, in place of
this provision, insert one providing
that the collection of tho one-lourth
of a cent tax for each half year shall
be resumed when- the safety fund is
impaired and continued until the
safety fund is restored.
4. Authorizing the comptroller of
the currency, instead of the banks
themselves, to designate the agencies
at which national bank notes shall be
redeemed. The c-ffect of this will be
to secure the redemption not only at
the office of the bank, but other places
accessible to note holders.
5. Dispense with the prevision com¬
pelling existing national banks to with¬
draw their bonds not on deposit, and
Jake out circulation under the system,
and, in lieu of that provision, insert
one permitting the banks Jo.withdraw
their bonds, if they see proper to do
so, by depositing lawful money as now
provided by law, and ! then to take out
circulation under the new system, it
they choose to do so.
6, Providing that notes of failed
national banks which are not redeem¬
ed on demand at the choice of the
treasurer of the United States or an
assistant treasurer of the United States
shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per
cent per annum from the date of the
suspension of the bank until thirty
(lays after public notice lias been given
that the funds are on hand for their re¬
demption.
This imposes no obligation on the
part of the United States to use its
own funds for the redemption, as tho
safety fund is in tho hands of tho
treasurer, and he will redeem uotes
out of that fund.
It is not necessary to repeat the re¬
pealing clause in section 7, as recon¬
structed, because section 1, as pro¬
posed to be amended, repeals all bond
requirements as to banks taking out
circulation under the proposed bill;
nor is it necessary in section 7 to set
out how tho notes of existing banks
shall be redeemed when lawful money
has been deposited, because the pres¬
ent law provides for all that.
In regard to the provision making
the notes of failed banks bear interest,
it is absolutely necessary to require
their presentation at some place be¬
fore they begin to bear interest, other¬
wise it is impossible to frame a clause
which would not make all of these
notes bear interest from the date of
suspension, even though, there might
he funds on hand to pay them. There
are ten su litre isuries in the United
States, and there would be no difficul¬
ty in presenting the notes if the holder
of them has any doubt about their
immediate redemption, and thus make
them bear interest.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIE 8 .
The first practical test of the bene¬
fits of the recently discovered anti-
toxine as a cure for diphtheria, was
made at St. Louis, Tuesday and proved
a succeess.
A private cable received at New
York Tuesday announces that White-
law Reid’s malady has continued to
grow worse since he arrived in Egypt,
and that his condition now is alarm¬
ing.
The _ Portsmouth , ,, company , s mi 1 at
South Berwick, Me., which has been
shut down for the past six months re-
«™fd work Tuesday. About two hun-
drcd lo °“ s are “ °P e ™tlon and tho
i m l H Wl11 be runnin « at £ul1 Ca P aClt y ln
j n a ^ S '
^ irden, the oldest and , . largest
- -
wholesale and retail merchant at Jack-
son,_Miss-, has made an assignment,
* a “ ia £ »• A- C. Jones
as assignees. Assets $55,000 habili-
tles aot Btatei:1 > but to b ^
heavy.
Walhalla, S. C., is to have a cotton
factory. The citizens of the town
have subscribed $50,000, and there is
as much promised by outside parties,
who are men of their word, and there
is no donbt but the dirt will be broken
by January 1st for the erection of the
mill building.
Fire at Rock Hill, S. C., destroyed
the Allen and Barber building, occu-
pied by F. H. McFadden & Co. with
a stock of buggies,- wagons and bar-
ness, also the boarding house of Mrs.
E. A. Allen. McFadden & Co. were
insured for about $5,000. Mrs. Allen
was not insured.
4 Memphis special says: State
Comptroller Harris has begun action
a g 'j a j n8 t e x-County Clerk Quigley and
h s bondsm6 n to recover $90,000 on
his bond to reimburse the state of
Tennessee for privilege taxes not col-
lected. There are $3,000,000 of these
uncollected taxes, one-third of which
are against the retail liquor dealers of
Memphis.
The Lauderdale hotel, at Florence,
A j a ^ a re ] io 0 f the boom of 1889, has
been burned to the ground. Tho build-
ing was one 0 f the largest hotel struo-
tures in that section, but had never
Been successfully operated. It was
va j ued at $80,000. It was owned orig-
j na ]iy by the Railroad and Improve-
ment company, but had been in litiga-
tion for some time and was not in-
sared- The origin of the fire is not
known.
BEFORE THE COMMITTEE.
Schmittberger Exposes More Rotten.
ness in the Police Department.
A New York special says: Friday-
was tlio most memorable day of any in
the history of the Lexow committee.
Captain Schmittberger wus the princi¬
pal witness, and it lasted nearly all
day and was full of sensations. He
put into so many words his conclusion
drawn from his experience that the po¬
lice department of New York is rotten
to the core. He made one exception
to this general condemnation. Ho
expressed tho opinion that Superin¬
tendent Byrnes is an honest man nnd
means to do right when he is per¬
mitted to do so.
One of the minor incidents of the
day previous to Captain Schmittberger
taking the stand was the disoovery that
bogus subpoenas have been sent to peo¬
ple who were not wanted by the com¬
mittee. Lawyer Goff also stated that
he had received many scurrilous letters
respecting the character of private in¬
dividuals, to Which he had paid no at¬
tention.
Peace Commissioners Appointed.
Minister Denby cabled the state de¬
partment that the Chinese government
has appointed two peace commission¬
ers, Ghang Yin Huan and Fha, who
will proceed at once on their mission
from Peking to Japanese capital.
|)TT I 1j T A 4 [) 1)!O io T IjEj UTTER 1 A EllA.
I) ILL
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T
IN KCSTACY OVER FLORIDA’S
BEAUTIFUL SUNSETS.
Stories of the Tide Interspersed With
Fish Yarns.
How rapidly the old landmarks are (firing lu
away—yielding to science, discovery and peti¬
tion. Tlie time was when wo knew but little of
tho big, round world and mcasur. d everything
by our own latitude and longitude. isothermal Civiliza¬ lines,
tion came from the east in
'that is a big word for tlie children, and .-o I
venture to tell them it is tlie line of equal heatB
or temporature. Palestine is the oldest coun¬
try we read about, and it is about tho same
lititndo wish most of the southern states, and
has the same kind of climate. And so when
people urally sought began to the move climate westward they they very used nat¬
were to.
is They do the same thing now. Northern North Texas
full of emigrants from Tennessee aud
Carolina. Middle Texas abounds in people
from nortli Georgia aud north Alabama.
Southern Texas has more settlers from the
southern portion of do the older states change and from lati¬
Louisiana. People not like to
tude jnth id hence until the northern foroed people by will pul¬ not
com they their are and some
monary disease or long vigorous
winters, or are tempted by a spirit of specula¬
tion. Nor! hern people have an idea that tho
summers in Georgia are awful hot and full of
fevers. They call it away down south and look
at the the parallels that of latitude on the map, when
truth is Georgia summers are not so
hot as they are np north. Tho line of equal
heats is a very crooked one. It dips from
eastern Virginia down through the Carolinas
into north Georgia and circles up again north •
west to the state of Washington. That is as far
north as Maine, but far more temperate. Boys
can go barefooted all winter in Seattle.
Time was when we got all our history and
poetry from England, and we believed .lt all.
My first geography had a picture of a Cliina- pole.
man selling rats that were strung on a
But a Chintso laundryman told me he had
nevar heard of such a thing, Tlie same ceoR-
rapliy had a picture of Florida that was awful
—all mixed up with Indians and alligators and
6w£raps and horrible snakes hanging from the
trees, and it took me forty years to get unde¬
ceived. Mis. Heroans wrote a beautiful pieco
of poetry, beginning—
“Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north wind’s
breath.”
But had she lived in Brazil she would have said
the south wind’s breath. The north wind down
tiuro ootwn from the equator, and is gonial,
warm aud balmy. How strange it must seenl
to our people who go to South America to find
July h and August very cold and January from very
it. All the great Eng’ish poets wrote an
E igbsh standpoint, jnst|as though there was no
country but England, Cowper wrote ugly lines
about our Altama (Altamaha) river that he
knew nothing about. Byron showed his ignor¬
ance aud his spleen when he wrote:
“As soon seek roses in December—iee in Juno.
Believe a woman or an -epitaph.
Or any other thing that’s false.”
There are plenty of roses in December and
plenty of ico in Juno, and woman Tom Hood is a scari¬ more
truthful creature than man.
fied November as the meanest month in the
year. But it all depends upon where you live.
English people used to pay tribute to Italian
sunsets and celebrated them in song, but I have
Heard southern ladies who have seen them say
they do not equal ours. Any clear, brilliant
sunset was glorious to an Englishman, who
was born in a fog and was never out of it until
he left England. It is impossible to conceive
of a sunset more magnificent than we have
almost every evening on the gulf coast of
Florida. I say every evening because it is so
seldom that we have a rainy day here in the
winter. Even if we have a cloudy day the sun
is sure to find its way out before it goes to bed
and tlie illumination is all tlie more gorgeous
for every cloud is gilded and then reflected
upon the glossy surface of the bay in pris¬
matic colors that I never saw elsewhere. My
folks 0 vn’t find adjectives euough to exp ress
their admiration. They have exhausted tho
since dictionary. Not a drop of rain has fallen
we came, a month ago, and none is ex¬
pected until about next April. But the dew—
oh, the dew that sheds its tears upon every¬
like thing every night. It drips from ground tlie below. eaves
rain and puddles upon tho
It saturates everything and revives all kinds of
vegeta'ion. Like the mists of Peru, where it
never rains, the dews of Florida are heaven’s
substitute for showers.
But I am studying the tides now. We have
had very low tides in the bay and the boatmen
told mo wo would have seven days of high tide
this week, viz : The day of the full moon and
three days before and three days after, and
sure enough,we did, .but I don’t understand the
reason satisfaction. why, and the books don’t explain tide to my
For three weeks past water
has been away out on the beach, nearly 100
feet from our front fence, and now it has
crawled up almost to the fence, leaving a nar¬
row passway. Twice a day it goes and comes.
As the Irishman said: “An’ faith, it is a great
kedentry—two freshets a day and nary drap of
Somebody told the children that there was a
great big, long giant sleeping in the gulf, Ila
was 10 1 miles long and as big round as a
mountain and the watery waves were his
blanket, side and and whrn turned he got tired rolled of sleeping the on
one over be cover
that way and it made the tide. Then be
turned back again and it made the tide on the
other side. He just keeps on turning every
day and rolling the wet blanket that is over
him. Tho ohildreu are very enrious about this
giant and are on the lookout for him every
time we go to the island. How eagerly the
youthful mind absorbs and ponders superna¬
tural stories. Credulity is not confined to them
altogether. Last Sunday I was standing in front
of the Methodist church waiting for the preach¬
er when a serious solemn man said that yes¬
terday was an oncommou good day for fish
—that the neighborhood at the Rookies got to¬
gether and stretched a long seine across tho
narrows and hauled it to shore with 7,000 fine
fish in it. It ’em was The an awful pull, he said, preach¬ but
they hauled in. like man could era lead sent in a
er, but he looked he prayer.
Then another man nps and tells how endurin’
the Injun war the soldiers saw a big school of
mullet run up the mouth of the creek and they
hemmed ’em in with nets and seines and sent
down to 8t. Petersburg for a schooner to oome
and load up, hut the tide went out and the
schooner didn’t come, and tho fish died there
Oil the banks by.tho niiles thousands and perfumed buzzards
the air for ten round and tho
came from Tampa to Cedar Keys. He said
there must have been over 100,000 fish besides
those that got away. This man dident look like
a preacher, but they said lie used to oarry
round tho hat. So I have no donbt about their
telling the truth. When tho preacher oame and
took bia text 1 expected him to select Ihe mir-
aole of the fishes, but he didn’t.
Business calls me home, where I shall spend
Christinas and then return, and I am going
out to the coral reefs again with my venerable
friend, Major Shaw, and then I will be able to
tell some fish stories Kentucky myself. Mr. Phillips and
Mr. Kerr, our friends, went ont yes¬
terday after big game—sharks and such things.
A 200-ponnd Jew-fish was hooked and they
played him round gently for an hour and
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tlionglit It was broken down, but when they
haul«l him up near tl»» loat he Rave a last
plyuRn arid broke the linn. The dia«pi>omt-
inetfKi* f,<r so long » struKg-Je whs awful. I
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Ar.p, in Atlanta Constitution,
BLOOD FLOWED.
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ENACTED
IN AUGUSTA, GA.
Four Men Shot In Attempting to Arrest
a Murderer.
A blood-curdling tragedy occurred
in Augusta, Ga., as a result of which
one man was killed and two others fa¬
tally wounded.
A negro desperado and murderer
from South Carolina shot three police¬
men nnd an old white man named Da¬
vis; two of the officers—Detective Mur¬
ray and Policeman Stringer—are both
shot in the head and will probably
(lie. Policeman Wrenn is shot in tho
leg and Davis was shot in the breast,
dying within an hour. The terri¬
ble affair was precipitated by the
attempted arrest of James Wig¬
gins, a South Carolina negro, who tho
night before shot down another negro
named Anderson Williams and mur¬
dered him in cold blood. Wiggins
went to another old man’s house and
tried to kill him, hut the old fellow
escaped.
The murderer crossed over to Au¬
gusta and tho officers wore notified of
his presence and hiding place. They
surrounded the boils* where Wiggins
had taken refuge. The party consist¬
ed of Detective Murray, Policemen
Stringer and Wrenn, Sergeant Dam-
ash and Lieutenant Desmond. The
house was surrounded. By this time
hundreds of people had been attracted
to this place. Murray knocked at the
d.oor, but as he did so he saw a negro
peep out through the crack of tho
door and then slam it and evidently
lock it.
“He’s there !” the crowd began yell¬
ing, and Murray, with his pistol drawn,
threw himself againsnt the door and it
crashed in. A negro was insido With
two long, nickel-) iateci pistols drawn
and ready for fight, As the detective
forced himself in the room tho firing
began and it was so fast that the shyts
could uot be distinguished apart. Po¬
liceman Stringer had also curst in tho
other door.
The excitement was terrific. The
shooting occurred in the space of five
seconds, then the negro sprang from
the back door and rushed towards
Eeynolds street. Neither Murray nor
Stringer appeared in the pursuit.
They had been shot down in the house.
Policeman Wrenn and Lieutenant
Desmond followed, firing at every
step. Hundreds of people joined in
the chase, many of them having a pis¬
tol trying to bring down the desper¬
ado. Wiggins was finally brought to
bay, but he turned on his pursuers
and Policeman Wrenn was shot twice
in the leg and old man Davis received
.-I bullet in his breast. It was not un¬
til the negro had emptied his pistols
that he was captured. The crowd was
infuriated and wanted to lynch the
prisoner. But Lieutenant Desmond
and all the policemen, in fact, had
their pistols drawn and warned the
crowd to keep away or some one would
be hurt. Had some leader appeared
the crowd would undoubtedly have
tried to take the negro front the offi-
cers. Detective Murray’s condition
is precarious. He is shot twice in the
face. Policeman Stringer’s eye was
shot completely out. The negro re¬
ceived a slight flesh wound in the
breast.
Mr. Davis, who was killed, was '
standing outside of his house, and was
B disinterested party. He received a
ball in the left chest, an inch above
the heart.
Cannot Use the Tracks.
The court of civil appeals at Galves¬
ton, Tex., has affirmed the decision in
the case of Olcott versus the Interna¬
tional and Great Northern railway on
the appeal from Harris county. This
is a suit of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas to secure entry to Galveston
over tho tracks of the Galveston, Hous¬
ton and Henderson railway, now under
lease to the International and Great
Northern, and knocks out the Mis¬
souri, Kansas and Texas.
Freight Trains Collide.
Two freight trains collided Christ¬
mas morning on the Big Four road
about three miles southeast of La-
Fayette, Ind. Both engines were de¬
molished. Engineer Elijah Campbell
•was killed and buried under the wreck
of his engine. .An unknown tramp,
who was stealing a ride, was also kill¬
ed, and several injured.
Western Pioneer Dead.
A. H. Loveland, one of the leading
pioneers of the west, is dead, aged 69.
Loveland was born at Farnstable,
Mass. He built the first railroad in
the Rocky Mountain region leading to
Georgetown and Silver Plume. In
1878 he bought tho Rooky Mountain
News and made it a democratic paper.