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Irwin County News. lonnty. tme z of the ^■the constpfioting rapidity naval with vessels which ■pushed II no lets than eight be added to naval lists and y far commission before the psxt July. ouse committee on public htrdered a favorable report on “nting to the state of Ala 0 acres of public lands for the industrial schools for o a bill granting a like land to the same state for ^the institute. Tuskegee Normal and ouncement is made that lay, of Pennsylvania, has £9 B to republican permit his convention name to go at B The senator is now in the ■ his friends, and his promi ■a factor in the race will de _in the their efforts. has It full is knowl- under senator the statement thus made pub Biresentativo Livingston, of Geor recently received an invita ■ from some of the leading citizens |Blaracas Bional to visit Venezula, assembles when next the congress ■>ntb, has decided to accept the iuvi He says that his public duties ■an be s^ arranged that he can leave ■Yashington for a period of three weeks ■n-March. It is his purpose, there fore, to sail for La Guayara on the llOth of March. It is announced in New York on 'high authority that Mr. Morgan’s re visit to Washington was for the Carlisle of consulting vith Secretary in regard to defaults by bid ders. It was arranged that Mr. Mor should buy all lhe bonds not ta bv bidders at the same figure, 10.8877, paid by the Morgan syndi te - The Graves combination, which for $4,500,000 of the new bonds, not pay their first installment Sat notwithstanding the fact that officials were notified that 20 cent, due would be turned in. With the close of Saturday the last expired in which the first payment 20 per cent could be made on the bonds. The total payments, as to the treasury to date, have $62,988,746, or more than per cent of the total issue. The syndicate paid in all of its money during the day, with object in view of catching any of defaulting bidders’ bonds, to which are entitled to render their blank bid of 110,6877 for $100,000,000, proportion thereof. How many Hers defaulted, and in what amounts they are, is not yet known at n m Cuba’s Sugar Crop. Ifcj^jSGlliiamB net of has state sub ta ■m potent igar ■ at on .Inunary ■sugar had been iSoDiiH year’s crop, ■ received at the ■nsul Hyatt at San Bfi' date of February prs in that part of finding the unburned re. ■s much retarded because [annot be induced to work w!w iring attack by the insur W If sugar making proceeds un lrbed the consul predicts a half in his district. The Correspondence Furnished. In response to a resolution adopted the house calling on the secretary of state for copies of the correspond between this government and in relation to the warfare in etc., the department of state sent to the house the data asked for. It is very voluminous, comprising of some 2,000 letters, the larger of them between the depart of state and Consul General Wil liams at Havana and with other con sular officers in Cuba. It also includes correspondence with Minister de Lome and with the Spanish foreign officers. The senate has confirmed the nomi of A. B. Clayton, postmaster, City. Va., and a list of pro taineii tiy iriineporitrs, merchants and others engaged in business pursuits. Business men have and will continu to and suffer increasing great losses depressions until in hfl£ toA| a adjustment is made. busineB Business men need aDd terests require, the report conclH a just and more satisfactory settleS of differences with those with wH they deal and upon whose laborH products successful business must* pend. The better labor is protect in all its rights the better will be tH for earnings. 1 Big Imports of Sugar. Mr. Worthington C. Ford, chief of the bureau of statistics, issues the ad-d SYCAMORE. IRWIN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1896. motions in the navy, headed by Lieu tonlnt Commander W. T, Swinburne, to Be commander. Statement as to Coast Defenses. In response to a resolution of in quiry the secretary of war has sent to the sehate a statement of the amount of money which could be used advan tageously in coast defenses. He says that $25,678,860 could be so nsed by the department prior to July 1, 1897, of which amounted,722, 000 should be made available during the present fiscal year. Of the total amount he recommends that $15,807, 000 be designated for fortifioatiou, $1,000,000 for sites, $2,500,000 for submarine defenses, $6,316,860 for guns, mortar projectiles, etc. The special advantage of the increased ap propriations as enumerated by the secretary are: The utilization of the army gun fac j or y to its full capacity; the more rapid armament of our ioitifications; t] ie addition of twelve mortars and carriages to those already estimated for j the purchase of an additional five hundred deck-piercing shells and the supply of heavy material for sea ser vice. Labor Bill Reported. The Phillips bill for the appoint ment of a non-partisan commission to collect information and to consider and recommend legislation to meet the problems presented by labor, agricul ture and capital, has been reported to the house. Accompanying the bill is a long report which says among other things that the commission is designed also to benefit the business men. The disturbed condition of affairs has en tailed great loss upon the business community. The loss of $34,000,000 in six years to the employers of labor as shown in tables presented by the report is, it says, but a fractional part of that sus vance figures of the import of sugars in the month of January, 1896, and slates that the imports have not been so heavy in the corresponding months of any years in last ten years, with the single exception of January, 1890. The five ports of New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Galves ton, imported in January, 1896, 233,- 264,828 pounds of sugar, valued at $5,115,608. No account is taken of the imports at San Francisco, of New Orleans, and in addition to what those two ports might bring in an al lowance may be made of eight mil lions for the rest of the country which would bring the total up to at least the point reached in January, 1890, when the imports were 246,647,- 863 pounds, valued at $7,046,422. A further feature of the January imports the improved price of sugars, which a shade below 2.2 cents per pound. A year ago the price was 1.8 cents a showing an increase of nearly per cent, in import value. ' he will thus get more than in revenue for the imports the last month. Senator Sherman is Happy. A Washington special says: Sena tor John Sherman, is gloating over the defeat of silver in the house. He has given out an interview in whioh he ad vises as to what should be done now. Here is what he says: “The vote in the house on the free silver substitute may be considered a final verdict against free coinage. The last congress had a much larger silver element. The next congress, I firmly believe, will be for ‘sound’ money in both house and Benate, and the free coinage movement will be at an end as a political issue. “The measure of greatest import ance now is the tariff bill, the consid eration of which the democrats op posed and were supported in their op position by certain republican senators of free coinage views. I do not see why the democrats should oppose the tariff bill. It is not framed on pro tection lines, and would increase the revenues sufficiently to relieve the and the administration from embarrassment. “I am entirely confident that Presi dent Cleveland would allow the tariff to become a law if it passed con even though he did not sign it. the situation now is, President would be justified in sus all public work which is not necessary. By so doing he stop the deficit and place the treasury balance on the other side.” ANALYSIS OF THE BIDS. The Morgan Syndicate May Get Less Than bfifty Millions. Late Friday afternoon Assistant Secretary Curtis announced that he was able to state that from a complete analysis of the bids for bonds they showed that bids aggregating $66,788, SfcO ^^he above 110,6877 has been received B|be 780 persons making those bids ■kjjfa awarded bonds. The Morgan bids of $110.6877 for $100, ■uj^gyir KgSI " eJor any tho part balance thereof, of $33,211,350. 110.6877 are gold reserve Friday stood i Lday at New ieen those h success “In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.” FIRED BY PLANT. Engineer Fetch is Summarily Dis missed. Engineer William E. Futoh who is the chairman of the committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers for the entire Plant System has been dismissed from the service of the road. Mr. Futch’s position at the head of the Brotherhood’s committee makes his dismissal significant. The story of the difference between the Plant System and its engineers has been fully told by the press. It dates back to the accession of General Su perintendent Dunham. The engineers asked a renewal of their contract and their request was deferred. A number of conferences were held with Superin tendent Dunham, Mr. Futch.by virtue of his position, being the spokesman of the complainants. Finally Presi dent H. B. Plant himself consented to meet the engineers. He did so at Waycross some days ago. Mr. Futch was spokesman of the engineers and made a matter-of-fact talk,setting forth the claims of the men he represented. President Plant responded in a happy vein, and the newspapers the next day published that everything was settled and that harmony reigned su preme. view of This conclusion, however, in the latest developments, seems to have been in error. It has also been published that the system has had men ready for some time to take the places of the Brotherhood men in case their positions should be oome vacant. The dismissal of Mr. Futch is taken as an indication that the other six members of the brotherhood commit tee and those engineers who took an active part in the demand for a con tract, will meet the same fate. PROCLAMATION BY WEYLER. Dlsposed to Use Harsh Measures Against tile Enemy. General Weyler, the new captain general and commander-in chief of the Spanish forces in Cuba, has issued proclamations to the volunteers and ■firemen, regular soldiers and marines and the inhabitants of Cuba, and also to the generals of the army, civil and military governors, chiefs of columns and military commanders. He says among other things: “But I think it convenient to add some instructions at present and to state that the insurrection and the re cent march of the principal leaders thereof, without its being possible for the Spanish column to prevent it, in dicates indifference on the part of the inhabitants and also fear and discour agement. I cannot understand their inactivity while their property is being destroyed. Spaniards can not sympathize with insurgents. It is necessary at any cost to oppose this state of things and re animate the spirit of the inhabitants. I have come disposed to help all loyal citizens. I am at the same time dis posed to make use of all the rigor of the law against those who in any form help the enemy, speak well of them or discredit the prestige of Spain, of its army, or volunteers. All who are with our side must demonstrate the facts with acts and leave in the attitude no place Spaniards. for doubt in proving that they are WEYLER PROCLAIMS. Rigid Rules for the Oppressed Cubans. Captain General. Weyler issued a series of proclamations Sunday night, in which he still further defines his proposed policy toward the insurgents and their sympathizers. The first proclamation reads as follows: “Article 1. All inhabitants of the district of Sancti Spiritu and the provinces of Puerto Principe and San tiago de Cuba will have to concentrate places which are the headquarters of a division, a brigade, a column or and will have to be provided documentary proof of identity within eight days of the publication this proclamation in the munici “Article 2. To travel in the country the radius covered by the in operatian it is absolutely indispen to have a pass from the mayor, commandants or chiefs of de tachments. “Article 3. All owners of commer establishments in the country dis wid vacate them and the captains columns will take such measures as success of their operations dictates, such places, which, while for the country’s wealth, serve the enemy as hiding places in the and in the interior. “Article 4. All passes hitherto issued become null and void.” GLADSTONE FOE PARLIAMENT, Probability that He Will Stand for Re-election. The Herald, of Glasgow, Scotland, it learns that Mr. Gladstone is inclined to stand again for at the first available op-. in order to support the Ar measures. The Herald adds Mr. Gladstone does not conceal conviotion that both political par in Great Britain have betrayed Ar< THROUGH GEORGIA. BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATE, Being a Summary of Interesting Hap penlngs From Day to Day. At r. meeting of the Dooly County Confederate Veterans’ Association it WftB decided to locate the confederate soldiers’ monument at Vienna, in the center of the park or public square. Subscriptions are rapidly coming in, and the monument will undoubtedly be built. * * * Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb, principal of Lucy Cobb institute, is confident of being able to raise the $1,000 fund for the enlargement and improvement of that college. She says that a good start has already been made and that the movement is sure of success. Mr. Albert Guerry, of Atlanta, has just finished a life size portrait of Robert Tombs for the state. The por tait will be hung in one of the nails of the capitol, the place to be selected by Governor Atkinson. Mr. Guerry will receive $1,000 for the portrait. The work was done in three weeks. . * The taking of testimony for Major Black in the Watson-Black contest for a seat in the fifty-fourth congress was concluded at Sparta last Tuesday, so far as the contest concerns the oounty of Hancock. Hon. John T. West, of Thomson, was present representing the interests of Mr. Walson, while Major Black was represented by Judge Frank L. Little and Hon. Robert H. Lewis. Thousands upon thousands of peach trees have been put out at Adairsville in the past four years, but this season has seen more trees set out than any other. This is a guarantee that the town will be a live and industrious one, in a dull season to other places, for the fruit and wheat will cause money to flow. We need a crate fae tory to handle the crop; and a bank to keep the money in. Will somebody establish them? The Wilkes Immigration Company has been organized with the following members: B. D. Irwin, O. 8. Bar nett, J. M. Callan, James A. Benson and G. C. Jones. This means a good deal for the future welfare of Wash ington and Wilkes county. The gen tlemen who compose this company are some of the most substantial, and en terprising citizens of Washington. Its purpose is to encourage in every way possible immigration to the county and the sale of surplus land to immigrants; Mr. Theodore Clark, of Grand Rap ids, Mich., the owner of land lot No. 725, 12th district and first section, has had the same laid off into two hundred and forty beautiful town lots, and has named it Clark’s first addition to Dah lonega. Mr. Clark has ordered Clerk of the Superior Court, John H. Moore, to make for him 240 certificates of the abstract of title to the property, and forward them to him in Grand Rap ids. It is Mr. Clark’s intention to dispose of these lots to his Michigan friendB, who, when the proposed Dah lonega railroad is finished, will erect elegant winter hemes. The annual meeting of the South western railroad was held at Macon a few days ago. More stock was repre sented than has been at any meeting in years. There were thirty-six thou sand shareholders present out of fifty one thousand. Dr. John S. Baxter, of Macon, presided. R. T. Wilson, of New York, declined re-election as pres ident, and Vice-President JohnS. Bax ter was elected as president. The fol lowing were elected directors: W. G. Raoul, of Atlanta; W. B. Cox and J. M. Johnston, of Macon; T. B. Gresham, of Baltimore; J. F. Minis and B. A. Denmark, of Savannah, and R. T. Wilson, of New York. » * * Some of the military officials at Sa vannah are making objections to Gov ernor Atkinson’s proclamation calling for the arrest of the Zeigler brothers in Soreveu county, because it calls on all civil and military authorities. The military officers say if they were to at tempt to arrest the man and any one was killed they would be subject to trial and conviction for murder. They do not relish being called on, as it ap pears from the proclamation, to do 6 *hing which, under the law, they riugjt not be justified in doing. They have not made any open statement, but that they have made criticisms and strong ones has just become ap parent. / _ Ballew „ _ . Is Guilty „ ... The supreme court of the United States has confirmed the conviction of A. W. Ballew, of Rome, sentenced to two years in the peni entiary on ac count of pension frauds alleged and proven against him. I hat is, the su preme oourt confirmed the conviction on the count which charged Ballew with illegal and exborbitaut charges; but revet sed the lower conrt on the count which charged the illegal with holding of pension money; since it ap pears that Ballew first paid his client what she ought to have received, but gouged her afterwards. Ballew will be resentenced on October 24th. The penalty for the count under which Baliew’s conviction was sustained, is two years. A Valuable Relic. Mr. W. TT. Harrison, of Taliaferro county, owns a canteen that once be longed beyond doubt to General An drew Jackson. He prizes it highly because of the fact that “Old Hick ory” used it in the war of 1812. He came into possession of it in the fol lowing manner: General Jackson gave it to a Mrs. James Moore, who, before her marriage, was a Miss Jackson, and probably a relative of General Jack son’s. Mr. James Moore and wife were blessed with several children, one of whom was named Jackson. The latter received the canteen from his mother and in turn gave it to one of his sons named Isaac Jackson. Isaac Jackson Moore has one daughter, whom Mr. W. H. Harrison married, Mr. Moore gave the canteen to Mr. Harrison about twenty years ago. The canteen is of a peculiar pattern. It is of earthenware and holds seven eights of a pint. It is about six inches high and about five inches wide. The reservoir is perfectly circular. A hole goes right through the center of it, and through this hole the Btrap that was used to carry it was passed. The Soldier’s Home Case. The Soldiers’ Home at Atlanta, is still in litigation. About seven years ago the , , home was built by the con federates of the county. It was erect ed as a home for indigent ex-confed erate veterans, but no disabled soldier ever slept a night or lived a day under its roof. It was erected at a cost of over $40,000 and paid for by the sol diers, the money having been raised by subscription, About a year ago the trustees of the home asked permission of the supe rior court to sell the home, as it was a burden for them to ke»p up the insur ance policies on it while it was stand ing unoccupied and not paying a cent in any way. When the trustees ap peared in court, stockholders of the Atlanta Land and Improvement Com pany appeared and asked that the trustees be not allowed to sell the property. They claimed that they donated the land upon which it was built with the understanding that a soldiers’home be built there and used for nothing else except a soldiers’ j iome Both sides employed attorneys to represent them, aud after a trial be fore Judge Lumpkin, he ordered a de cree for the sale of the home. The decree was passed on the 17th day of last December, and on the 13th day of last month the attorney for the land company entered a motion for a new trial, which motion will be heard at the spring term of the superior court. No matter what may be the result of the hearing of the motion for a new trial, the matter of the sale of the Soldier’s Home will undoubtedly go to the supreme eourt, as either side will carry it there if defeated in the superior court. BOILERS BLOW UR. Five Mill Hands Killed and Many More Injured. Informatiou has been received that a battery of six boilers in the sawmill of the Southern Pine Company of Geor gia, at Offerman, a station eleven miles east of Blackshear blew up Wednesday morning with frightful loss of life. The mill was shut down for break fast when the explosion occurred, otherwise the fatality would have been much greater. Five negroes, mill hands, are now dead and two others are expected to die. ■ Some of the bodies are terribly mutilated. One boiler was broken half in two, one end being hurled in one direction and its fellow in the opposite. Three boilers were lifted out bodily and buried with great force, doing great damage to buildings and machinery. Two boilers remain in position. There were two explosions, the first not so bnt immediately followed by the second, which did the greatest damage. Discovered the North Pole. A . dispatch , , from „ _ Irkutsk, , . , Siberia, . received at St. Petersburg, Russie.says a Siberian trader named Kouch who is acting in the capacity of for Dr. Nansen, the arctic ex has informed the prefect of Kolymsk that he has received informa tion that Nansen had reached the north where he found and and tnat he now on his way back. Sound Money I'exans Meet. The single standard faction of the of Texas met in conference GaJveston Saturday. The recent ti O n of the free coinage faction was a8 revolutionary and the more rftd ical were for an immediate while the more oonssrva advoca t e d making the fight for «« 60nn( j molie y” inside of party lines, 1.00 A Tear. VOL. VI. FIENDS IN COURT, Juekson and Walling are Under In dlctmeut. The grand jury of Campbell oounty, Kentucky, sitting in Nowport Thurs day morning reported to Judge Per kius indictments against Scott Jaek son and Alonzo M. Walling for the wilful murder of Pearl Bryan. When the patrol wagon drove to the jail door on Sycamore street to take Jackson and Walling to the police court there was a curious crowd on the sidewalk to catch such a glimpse °* ^he prisoners as could oe had as they mounted the stairway from the jail door and crossed the walk to the "’agon. Both were handcuffed. They enter ed into no conversation as they met f° r the first time for several days. They were driven quickly to the city Hall and were placed in the cells until they should be called for their hearing, Meantime a most unusual scene was witnessed in and about the courtroom. There was a wild struggle for adrnis sion into the little P°Bee justice, jammed and all with the hfiliwaiys and adjacent were men women "ho were unable to even look into the doorway of the courtroom. UNITED WORKMEN MEET. Four Hundred and Fitly Delegates In Session in St. Louis. Four hundred and fifty delegates were present when the first day’s ses sion of the Grand Lodge of the An cient Order of United Workmen of Missouri was called to order at St. Louis Wednesday. Mayor Walbridge made an address of welcome and was responded to by Supreme Master J. E. Riggs. The re ports of officers were submitted in printed form aud accepted. Commit fees were appointed and submitted re ports, The question of expelling or admit ting liquor dealers to membership in the order, which has been under ad visemeut for some time and has caused considerable feeling, will cause much discussion. MORGAN DEMANDS THEM. Claims All Bonds that Have Been De faulted Upon. Quite a number of , the bond bidders have failed to make their deposit of 20 per cent on the amount of bonds awarded to them, and these bonds, to the extent of something like $10,000, Oou, will have to be sold to others. Mr. Graves, of New York, alone has defaulted upon $4,500,000 award ed to him at a fraction above 115. For all these bonds that have been de faulted upon Pierpont Morgan has , laid .. claim as coming under his blanket bid for the entire issue or any part of the same. He has notified the secretary Hie treasury that he is entitled all that have been defaulted upon and Be demands them, FOUR MINERS DEAD, While a Number of Others are Se riously Hurt. A terrible accident occurred Satur day morning in the Republic mine at Republic, Mich., while the men were coming up in the skip from work out of No. 1 shaft. The skip jumped the track and it was pulled on until it caught and turned over on the men. The killed are: Wm. McGraw, James Dodge, Adolph Boite, Matthis Tegellberg. The injured are: Charles AndersoD, three ribs broken; Erick Matti, log broken; James McGraw, Back hurt; Andrew Peterson, hurt in ternally; recovery doubtful , GLASS WORKS BURN. Property Worth $150,000 Destroyed j, y incendiaries. The Buckeye Glass Works at Mar tin . s Ferry< Ohio, were destroyed by fire early Monday morning. The works were to have 8ta rted up during the dav with non-union hands. The firet ^ aB of incendiary origin and the j n „ wag ( | on btless set on fire to pre vent the resumption. Several previous attempts bad been made to burn the fag WO rks. The works were valued at $150,000. The building burned as if saturated w j t h oil. '__ WHISKY TRUST REHABILITATED. Plans Promulgated for a Reorganiza tion of the Old Concern. A New York paper says: Richard B. Hartshorne, John I. Watterbury, Frederick M . Lockwood, Jules S. Baohe aQd Wm E Hutton> appointed , 0 reorganizo the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company, have completed their j plan n tho pr0Rrefis of reorganization it waB sngge8te d to the committee that the Bew corporatioll s h ou ld control the distribnt ion of its products through a distributing company. The sueoes sor company, the American Spirits Manufacturing Company, accepts the suggestion. Tobacco Factory Burned. Luoket & Co.’s tobacoo factory and stemmery, iu Clarkesville, Tenn., has been destroyed by fire, consuming 1,500.000 pounds of tobacco and oans ing a loss of $75,000. The loss is fully covered by insurance.