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BULLOCH TIMES.
STATESBORO, GA.
"New Orleans lias a smaller police
force than other American city of cor¬
responding size.
A French savant has discovered that
tears are bactericidal and may be de
pended upon to exterminate certain
microbes. •
_
John D. Rockefeller has given nearly
$5,000,000 to the Chicago University
and has what the Detroit Free Press
terms, “the good taste” not to demand
that it be named for him.
Sir Charles Dilke, recently said ii
the debate in the British Parliament:
“The most dangerous illusion any in¬
habitant of the united kingdom can
have is that we are a popular power.
We are probably the most unpopulai
«»f the great powers.”
A San Francisco woman disposed ot
ttu estate of $10,000 by writing a few
lines in pencil on an old envelope.
Lawyers say that the will cannot be
broken, and tbeir opinion that women
know nothing about business they re¬
gard as confirmed anew.
England is having hard times, note>
the Courier-Journal. Its leading
securities declined nearly half a bill¬
ion dollars in value during the past
year. Its imports fell off $88,0OO,OOC
aud its exports $32,500,000. Its trade
iu coal and textiles dwindled alarm
iugly.
John Hyde, expert special agent o •
statistics of agriculture, has written
an interesting monogram on what he
terms “Geographical Concentration.”
In it he develops the fact that the pro¬
cess of agricultural centralizatior
works very injuriously to the Ameri
can farmer, and that many of his vicis-~
aitudes are due to the single-crop sys¬
tem. He shows, for instance, that
while hemp is a product cultivated iu
Europe from the shores of the White
Sea to the Mediterraniau, and that it^
flourishes in extensive regions iu Asia,
Africa aud South America, its cultiva¬
tion in the United States is almost
wholly confined to Kentucky, that
State in 1889 having produced 93.77
per cent, of all the hemp raised in this
country. Obviously hemp is capable
of beinjj produced over a wide area in
the United States, but its cultivation
is almost wholly unknown outside ot
Kentucky. Mr. Hyde makes a strong
plea for mixed farming, aud says that
*40 long as American farmers persist in
devoting themselves to the production
iu great quantities of a few things, they
cannot expect to prosper.
Oklahoma is going to knock verj
hard for admission as a State, declares
the St. Louis Star-Sayings. The Ter¬
ritory was organized only three years
ago, but m population aud wealth it is
to-day far in advance of the other Ter¬
ritories seeking admission as States.
The report accompaying the applica¬
tion for admission as a State shows
that she has 2,372,182 acres of
land in farm use valued at $13,022,-
345. In the last year the farmers har¬
vested 284,251 acres of corn, 222,319
acres of wheat, 109,374 acres of oats,
21,311 acres of cotton, 18,755 acres of
sorghum, 14,121 acres of Hungarian
millet, and 4425 acres of broom corn,
ft is almost as large as the State of
Illinois, and has a population of about
250,000, which is greater than that o:
any other State when admitted to the
Union. Its assessed valuation of
property in 1891 amounted to $3,878, -
928, which iu 1893 had increased to
$13,951,056. Ithassix National banks
with deposits of$GS5,574. The Terri¬
torial Legislature has been attentive
to educational matters, and there are
already in nearly all the districts
school-houses, normal schools, col
leges, and an agricultural aud me
ehanical college at the town of Still¬
water. In religious matters it has also
kept pace with many of the older
States. In the Territory there ai;e
165 Methodist churches, twenty-five
Baptist, twenty-four Congregational,
twenty-five Catholic, twenty-four Pres
byteriau, six Episcopal, and fifty
Christian Endeavor Societies. This
is a remarkable showing for Oklahoma,
and we can scarcely believe, adds the
Star-Sayings, that Congress can refuse
her admission.
PECKHAM IS REJECTED.
TAe Senate Ay a Vote 40 to 31 Tunis
Him Dowd.
The Long and Desperate Struggle
Brought to a Finale.
Wheeler H. Peckham, Mr. Cleve¬
land’s nominee for justice of the su¬
preme court, was rejected by the senate
by a vote of 40 to 31. Fifteen demo¬
crats and twenty-five republicans voted
against confirming Peckham. Twenty
two democrats and nine republicans
voted to confirm him.
There was a grim determination
manifested in the senate when it met to
push forward iu the Peckham case at
the earliest possible moment. The
contending leaders were on the ground
early, and there appeared to be little
change in the personnel of the opposing
forces.
At 12:25 the doors of the sen¬
ate were closed and the battle of the
day before was renewed. Considera¬
ble routine business was transacted
■first, and it was not until 1 o’clock that
Mr. Vilas got the floor and began his
speech in favor of Peckham. Before
the doors closed he occupied himself
arranging a great mass of letters aud
papers, which, it was supposed, formed
thb groundwork of his argument. Mr.
Hoar was similarly oeeupied with pur
poses the opposite of. Mr. Vilas.
MR. VILAS SPEAKS FOB PECKHAM.
/ The first half hour of the executive
session was spent in routine business,
when Mr. Vilas took the floor and be
gan a speech, which lasted for more
than an hour and was in defense of the
right of the president toappoint whom
he pleased for this or any other office,
qualifications alone to be considered.
He then entered into a long discus
Sion of the merits of the case, and read
numerous letters from distinguished
S";V“thrSted lie nominated.
place to which had been
Mr Mitchell, one of the republican
members of the committee, followed in
a brief speech, in which he. said he
had examined all of the alleged charges
and had reached the conclusion that
there was nothing in them that in any
interfered with the discharge of his
duty as a member of the supreme
court. For that reason he believed it
p/oper that he should be confirmed,
Mr. George, a democratic rtfember of
the committee, who it will be remem
bered opposed the confirmation of
Hornblower, consumed the time allot
ted to him in explaining why fie
endorsed Mr. Peckham. His reason
was that the charges in the two cases
were entirely different, and that in
Peckham’s case they had . been dis¬
proved.
It was the intention of the oppo¬
nents of Peckham to do no talking,
but when Mr. George had finished
Mr. White, of California, democrat,
and Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut, re
publican, spoke perhaps'three minutes
each, stating why they could not assist
in confirming Peckham. . -
The opponents of Peckham sought
to force the vote after each speech. The
vote" was finally taken as above given
and after some tinie spent in straight
ening out the pairs, the senate, at
4:15 o’clock, adjourned.
BRETON IS A SPANIARD.
The History and Real Name of the
Bomb Trower Discovered.
After considerable trouble the police
of Paris have finally established the
identity of the man who threw the
bomb in the cafe of the Hotel Termi¬
nus Monday night.
The authorities believed that the
name “Leon Breton” given by the
man when he was arrested was an
alias, and inquiries to establish his
identity were pursued in every direc¬
tion. It has now been ascertained
that his right name is Emile Henry.
He was born of French parents in
Barcelona, Spain, September 20, 1872.
He recently lived in London, where
the police knew him to be an anarchist.
The English police, it appears, were
aware that he had left London January
18 last, and proceeded direct to Paris,
where he has been since.
ANOTHER BOMB FOUND.
A bomb was found Wednesday
morning in the doorway of the Banque
de la Sairete Generale. It is now in
the hands of the police, who are having
its contents examined.
THE POLLARD CASE.
The Plaintiff Hustling Around Get¬
ting Up Testimony.
Calderon G. Carlisle, of Washing¬
ton, attorney for Miss Madeline Pol¬
lard, who was in Cincinnati in com¬
pany with his client for several days,
says that the case will come up in the
Supreme Court of the District of Co¬
lumbia next Thursday.
Carlisle and Miss Pollard left Cin¬
cinnati for Frankfort. The deposi¬
tions of Mrs. Dr. Buchanan and Mrs,
Dr. Perry, of Covington, which were
to have been concluded, have been left
unfinished, and Miss Pollard will call
no more witnesses. Such witnesses as
she needs will go to Washington and
testify at the trial.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs ot Goverament and Hews ot
CT> ora C!2D
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo¬
ple and Tlicir General Welfare.
The day of fjt. Valentine in Con¬
gress was one of exceeding dreariness.
There were probably fifty congress¬
men present, and they gave but scant
interest to the tedious speeches being
delivered on the Bland bill.
The debate over the seigniorage bill
continued Thursday in the house, and
was decidedly interesting at times.
Jerry Simpson made one of his charac¬
teristic speeches in favor of the bill,
and, indeed, there were a number of
interesting speeches,
A cable message received at the navy
department from Rear Admiral Boham
confirms the report of the arrival of
the government dynamite cruiser,
Nicthevoy, in Rio barber, where she
anchored. The admiral says, in his
dispatch, that it was reported that the
rest of the loyal fleet will arrive at Rio
from Bohia February 22.
The president has sent to congress
another bulky _ batch j . of Hawaiiancor
despondence. It includes President
Hole s letter to Willis, already pub
fished, and Willis reply with seyeral
other communications Willis, in his
letter * transmitted ’ to Secretary J Gres
ham, “This . ... letter will, on _ my
says: the
part, end the correspondence upon
subject.”
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“••poted . . '-S' Postmaster-General t> . , r i
5J investigate the operations of the
Honduras National Lottery Company,
“ ltB relations with the postal service
“ “, re P ort ‘° the department says that
‘>! e lo “ er y ot P< f
t o“ brick‘budding estimated to
— -«* «>e printing outfit,
about $50,000. The foreign name by
which the lottery is designated, he
says, is a mere subterfuge.
Attorney General Olney has in¬
structed the United States attorney
for Florida to make full and accurate
. of the legal proceedings . the ,
copies ib
cigarmaker’s cases at Key West, Y la
with the view of having the record
complete, so that the cases, if decided
adverse to the United States, may be
appealed to the supreme court of the
United States. The absolute discre
* lon °* the secretary o. the treasury
to decide what constitutes a violation
t$. ie alien pontract labor law, has
beed uniformly upheld until now by
the inferior . courts, before whom the
question has been taken. The Florida
courts, iD two of the cigarmakers’
eases, have held differently, and re¬
leased contract laborers on writs of
habeas corpus.
Iilver and Ilnrbor Bill.
The and harbor bill will .... be
river re
ported to the house March 1. ihe
committee’s work is further advanced
in this congress than it has been lor
many years. The bill mil carry an
appropriation of about $9,000,000
exclusive of $8,000,000 in round
numbers in the sundry civil bill,
This latter appropriation is expended
nnder the contract system, which the
committee has found to be both a wise
and economical method of completing
public work. Work on eighteen rivers
and harbors is now carried on by con
tract. Under this system contracts
are made in advance and money ap¬
propriated as the work of progresses.
In many cases a saving from 25 to 50
per cent is made under this system as
compared with the methods of pre¬
vious years.
An Old War Claim,
An interesting caae has been report¬
ed to the house by the committee on
war claims, which recommends that
Mrs. Flora A. Darling, who was arrest¬
ed in New- Orleans in 1864 by the mili¬
tary authorities while traveling under
a safe conduct signed by. General
N. P. Banks, be awarded $5,633
damages, Mrs. Darling was the
wife of the confederate briga
dier general, Edward I. Darling,
and was a New Hampshire woman.
She had gone to New Orleans to at¬
tend her husband during his last ill¬
ness and was starting to return home
when arrested. Ten thousand dollars
in confederate bonds, $5,000 iu the
notes of Louisiana and Tennessee
banks, and valuable jewelry which she
carried, were confiscated. Mrs. Dar¬
ling’s claim was for $15,683, but the
committee ruled out the confederate
bonds, sustaining the claim for th*
state bank notes and jewelry.
FIRE AT THE FAIR.
Agricultural Building and Machinery
Hall Threatened with Destruction.
Fire broke out Wednesday morning
on the colonade between the agricult¬
ural building and machinery hall in
the world’s fair grounds. The flames
gained rapid headway am! the second
and third calls were sent out, but be¬
fore additional engines reached the
burning structure its destruction and
that of the large buildings adjacent on
either aide was threatened. The fire
was finally gotten under eonlrol. The
loss is nominal. The origin is sup¬
posed to have been incendiary.
SOUTHERN NEWS
The Drift ot Her Progress at! Pros
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
The international regatta recently
announced to be given in Austin,
Texas, next June, has been declared
off". The citizen refused to subscribe.
General Jubal Early slipped and fell
down the stone steps of the sprained postoffice his
at Lynchburg, Va., and
back. He was badly stunned and at
first was supposed to be seriously in¬
jured, but after being carried home he
rallied and his physician states that he
is not badly hurt and will be out in a
few days.
The will of Mrs. H. P. Clarke, who
died at Columbia, S. C., last week, was
probated Thursday. She was a grand¬
daughter of the late P. T. Barnurn and
inherited a large part of his estate.
Her estate is worth $600,000 and is
divided equally between her husband
and their two children, one a girl five
years old and the other an infant. The
husband is sole administrator.
A sensation which has cast the dis¬
pensary excitement into the shade for
the time being has been created at
Charleston, S. C., by the announce¬
ment of a shortage in the accounts of
John L. Weber, late school commis¬
sioner of Charleston county, The
shortage was announced in Columbia
by the state superintendent of educa¬
tion, who places the sum of the defal¬
cation at $1,237.
Application for charter was filed at
Chattanooga Thursday by A. S. Ochs,
Newell Sanders, J. P. Smartt, J. W.
Trigg and Z. C. Patten, incorporators,
for the Chattanooga and St. Louis
Steamboat Company. This organiza¬
tion is the finale to the transfer last
fall of the property and paid up stock
of the Chattanooga Steamboat Compa¬
ny to a few of the wealthier share¬
holders.
The citizens of Jackson, Tenn., are
on tiptoe of excitement expecting the
return of “Rev.” G. F. B. Howard
from the Columbus, O., penitentiary
to stand trial for suborning witnesses
in his late trial. Wlien he went away
he was exquisitely attired and wore a
magnificent suit of hair and beard, the
latter worn full and flowing. Now he
is shorn of all glory and pride and will,
through his attorneys, try every plan
to keep from coming back.
• Upon the application of unsecured
oroditors to tha aqiount of $28,000,
the Chester Manufacturing Company,
of Chester, S. C., has been placed in
the hands of a temporary receiver.
There are tw'o mortgages against the
company for $50,000. The mills have
been running for some time under an
arrangement with Woodward, Baldwin
& Co., of New York, who handle tlieir
products. They will resist the ap¬
pointment of a permanent receiver.
The old Kentucky Paper Compauy
at Louisville has been placed in the
hands of a receiver on the supplement¬
ary petition of Granger & Co., who
hold a mechanic’s lien on the property
for about $1(5,000. Suit to establish
this lien was brought last November.
Thursday the Louisville and Nashville
railroad sued the paper company on a
claim of $8,500. The paper, company
is indebted to the amount of . about
$100,000 aud the plant is valued at
$300,000.
The attorney for the bank of Reids
ville, N. C., the Planters’ National
bank of Danville, and the People’s
National bank of Lynchburg, Va., in a
suit agaiust the Leaksville, N. C., cot¬
ton and woolen mills, in behalf of
themselves and all other creditors, has
obtained an order appointing Hiram
Ford, of Spray, N. C., receiver of that
corporation. There being a quantity
of raw material' on hand, the order di¬
rects the receiver to continue the op¬
eration of the mills until all this ia
worked up.
STORMS IN GERMAN-/.
Many People Lose Their Lives and
Much Property Destroyed.
Cable advices of Wednesday from
Berlin state that the hurricane that
swept over the northern part of Ger¬
many has caused great loss of life.
Six fishing boats belonging to Kinder -
ort on the Baltic sea were lost and
twenty-two men on board of them were
drowned. Eighty crafts of various
descriptions were sunk in the river
Elbe. Advices from Altona, on the
Elbe, show that eleven persons were
drowned there. Eight foresters were
killed in the woods near Ziegnort, in
Pomerania, by trees that were blowD
down in the storm falling upon them.
WHOLESALE MURDER.
A Man Kills His Family of Seven to
Keep Them from Freezing.
A dispatch from Oklahoma, O. T.,
says that seven persons were found
dead in a house there. It is reported
that their throats were cut and that
the father of the victims left a note
saying that he had murdered his family
to keep them from freezing to death,
adding that he would commit suicide.
The dispatch says that twenty persons
had frozen to death in Oklahoma.
ODE LATEST DISPATCHES.
Tlie Hoppings ot a Da? COrooicM to
Brief and Concise ParagrapAs
And Containing the Gist of the News
From All Parts of the World.
The steamer Ohio has been sunk at
Cotton Wood Point, Mo., 130 miles
above Memphis. She is likely to
prove a total loss. The vessel was m
sured for $10,000.
Latest developments at Knoxville
show conclusively that the pulling ca¬
ble of the aerial cable car in Sunday’s
terrible accident, was cut by a cold
chisel or other sharp cutting tool.
The Ukala Park company will use
every means to discover the culprit.
A rumor was published about a week
ago telling of the loss of the steam tug
Mallard, of the Nicaragua Navigation
company, off the Nicaraguan coast and
having on board sixty men. The news
of the terrible loss of life has just been
confirmed. It is true that not a single
man aboard the vessel survived to tell
the story. Tennille road,
The Sandersville and
which was recently leased by the Au¬
gusta Southern road, has now been
bought by that road for $22,500, and
the two roads are merged into one.
Tennille will now be the terminus, of
the Augusta Southern. The Augusta
Southern reorganization plan has been
adopted by the stockholders.
The report of Deputy Commissioner
of Insurance Michael Shannon on the
affairs of the United States^ Mutual
Accident Association at New York, has
been made public. He finds the asso -j
ciation with a splendid plant and in a
condition to commend itself to people
desiring such indemnity as it offers, anil
effectually disposes of the cherges af¬
fecting its financial standing.
John Y. McKane, the convicted
Gravesend political boss, has been
sentenced by Judge Willard Bartlett,
in the court of oyer and terminer at
New York, to six year’s imprisonment
iu the state prison at Sing Sing. The
sentence was a great surprise to every
one. It was expected that the jury’s
recommendation to mercy would in¬
duce Justice Bartlett to be more leu
ient. ■S
Major John F. Degnon, chief en¬
gineer of the South Brunswick, Ga.,
Terminal company, with E. Bailey.
Dorsey, an expert, have just returned
from a personal inspection of the route
of the South Brunswick Terminal from
Atlanta to Brunswick, with several
parties representing ' English Arid
northern capital. These representa¬
tives are pleased with the proposed
route and will report favorably.
The supreme court at Jackson,Miss.,
has denied the motion of the attorney
general to resentence Will Purvis, the
whitecap, who escaped the death noose
by the bungling jeb of Sheriff Magee
in Marion county. The supreme court
stated that it had nothing whatever to
do with the case, and that it? • was a
matter for the circuit court. Purvis
cannot be resenced until the June term
of the circuit court at Columbia unless
Judge Terrell shall sooner call a spe
cial term of court for that purpose.
TENNESSEE IN LUCK.
Her Bonds lo the Amount of $000,090
Safely Floated.
Latham, Alexander & Co., fiscal
agents for the state of Tennessee, have
concluded one of the most important
financial operations that has been made
in benalf of any southern state for a
long time. They sold to Blair & Co.,
bankers, $600,000 of 4J per cent Ten
nessee bonds at par and accrued inter
est. These bonds were authorized by
the last legislature of Tennessee for
the purpose of building the state peni¬
tentiary. This negotiation insures be¬
yond doubt the calling iv of all out¬
standing 5 and G per cent bonds of the
state of Tennessee without delay, an 0 '
the refunding of the Same in a new
bond bearing a lower J&te of interest.
A LEVEE FREAKS
And Thousands of #res of Valuable
Land Overflowed.
A report reached/Memphis that the
levee at the Horn Jake landing, about
fifteen miles belowhe city, was broken,
sweeping about Si&OO acres of valuable
land worth seve»l thousand dollars.
There is a narnw strip of land divid¬
ing Lake the at the Missisjflipi pant where river the from break Horn
oe
curred. The/vater is reported to be
pouring intofhe lake at an enormous
rate, and feared that the channel
of the riyr will be changed into the
lake. If/his should occur the loss
will the/ater be £#?at, as the lake is not leveed
and will sweep over its banks
and flo/ the the tracks surrounding country and
inunilae of the Yazoo aud
MissisfPpi Valley railroad.
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Neville, Rectors.
7 ;er one © New York
in a of
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.° and fraudulently ma
L? in & t ‘ ie election returns, was
9 Veanesday | sentenced by Judge
zy rt » lu cour t of oyer and tejy*’
one year’s imprisonment.