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TRY AN AD. IN THE TIMES!
A Big Ad. Will
Sell Yocr Goods:
It attracts new customers and holds
the old ones. People will forget you
and your goods if you don’t constantly
“jog their memory.”
A Little Aifc Will
Bring back your stray animal,
find a purchaser for your house and lot,
horse and buggy, or anything else.
TRY AN AD. IN THE TIMES!
Happenings of the Past Week
Throughout the State.
SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS NOTED.
A Schoolteacher Lynched by a Mob For
Ruining One of His Assistants—A Sensa¬
tion Caused In Savannah by Two Men
Gigging For Buried Gold—Sale of the
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad.
Vienna, Ga., Nov. 27.—Will T. Sang¬
ster, a prominent citizen of the upper
part of this county and bailiff of the
Byronville district, was shot three times
and instantly killed by Mose Sutton, a
negro whom Sangster was attempting
to arrest. Sutton was recently confined
in Vienna jail, but taken out on bond
later by a neighbor of Sangster’s. The
latter was a good citizen and splendid
officer. Last year he was sent with a
bench warrant to arrest a negro. The
latter resisted and in the fight Sangster
was victorious and brought his prisoner
a corpse to the courthouse and delivered
it to the presiding judge, the warrant
calling for the prisoner “dead or alive.”
A posse is now hunting for Sutton.
SENSATION IN SAVANNAH.
An Old Woman Saw Two Mon Digging
and Foul Flay Was Suspected.
Savannah, Nov. 25.—The residents
of what is known as the Old Fort sec¬
tion of the city have not recovered from
a sensation which they had sprung on
ihem Saturday discussion and which has since been
the topic of there.
An old negro woman saw fwo men go
into a yard next to her- and dig up a lot
of ground. She asked, one of them
What he was doing; and ho said he had
buried a pot of gold there four years
ago, and having recently been liberat¬
ed from the penitentiary, ho had come
to get it. Other people who saw the
Lad digging were of foul the opinion play. So that the there mat¬
been some
ter was reported to the police there depart¬
ment and to the coroner, and was
considerable digging by the coroner to
see what had been done there and some
searching by the detectives of the city
to discover what it all meant,
The old woman said she saw them go
away with a pot of something and as no
Evidence of anything irregular was
found, there was little to do but accept
her story and quit. Neither of the men
have been seen since.
—
Meeting of the Southern Express Company,
Savannah, Nov. 20. — Tho annual
meeting of the Southern Express com¬
pany was held here. The meeting of
the stockholders was held first and the
board of directors for the ensuing year
elected. The directors then elected
officers as follows: President, II. B.
Plant; vice president and general man¬
ager, J. O’Brien; second vice president,
M. F. Plant, and secretary-treasurer, H,
H. Tiley. in'the There were no changes what¬
ever board of officers and di¬
rectors. The company reports a de¬
crease in earnings owing to the general
causes which have affected all transpor¬
tation lines.
A Sensational Lynching,
Savannah, Nov. 23.—A special from
Ailey, in Montgomery county, reports a
sensational lynching there before day¬
light. Professor Perdue, a school¬
teacher, custody was of held Sheriff a prisoner McGregor, at Ailey iu
the on a
charge of ruining Miss Willie Gra¬
dy, an assistant teacher in his school.
A mob overpowered the sheriff, took
Perdue from him and then cut Perdue's
throat, and afterwards riddled his face
and body with bullets. Perdue was a
married man and had a wife and grown
children.__
Heed and His Company Want Damages.
Macon, Nov. 23.—The damage suit of
Roland Reed, Mrs. Mary Myers and
Mrs. John G. . Whyte, members of
Reed's company, of $10,000 each agaiust
the Southern railway, were removed to
tire United States court here from the
superior court of Telfair county upon
motion of tho railroad. Reed and the
others were injured and delayed miles by an
accident at Scotland, last. 100 below
here on March 8
One Negro Kills Another.
Norwood, Ga., Nov. 25.—Brad Cren¬
shaw killed Luekle Reid with a shotgun,
the whole load taking effect killing in Reid’s
nec k just under the chin, him
instantly. Both parties are negroes and
lived near Barnett, Ga., where the tra¬
gedy occurred. Crenshaw is now iu
Warrenton jail. He claims that the
killing was purely accidental.
Three Children Roasted.
Forsyth, Ga., Nov. 22.—While se¬
curely locked in a cabin on the planta¬
tion of W. A. Ansley, about a mile from
this place, three negro children were
roasted alive. Their mother had left
them asleep while she went to the lot to
milk the cows, locking the door behind
her.__
A Woman Choked to Death Near Cummin*.
Gumming, Ga., Nov. 27.—The dead
body of Mrs. Mason, who lived a few
miles from here, was found in the
woods, and marks on her throat showed
that she had been choked to death. She
was on her way to visit a neighbor
When killed.
ponvicted of Arson and Sent Up For Lite.
Waycross, Ga., Nov. 23.—S. B. Leg¬
gett, white, was convicted at Blackshear
bf burning his father-in-law’s home
and sentenced to life imprisonment in
the penitentiary.
Sal* of the Marietta and North Georgia.
^arietta, Ga., Nov. 26.—The Ma¬
rietta and North Georgia railroad wa*
sold here for $956,000 to the Philadel¬
phia Car Trust company.
Hoke Smith Accepts.
Atlanta, Nov. 26.—Hon. Hoke Smith
has accepted the invitation of the legis
lati to address them ou Tuesday,
Yol. IV.
PLEA FOR POOR CUBA.
A Brooklyn Divine on the Suffering* of th«
Downtrodden People.
New Yohk, Nov. 26.—“Poor Cuba”
was the subject of Rev. Cortland My
er’s prelude to a sermon in the Baptist
temple, Brooklyn. He said:
“A magnificent illustration of .‘per¬
sistence in resistance’ is now before the
eyes of the world and demands the
sympathy of the heart of the world.
Poor Cuba! battered aud bruised and
beaten, but with undaunted courage,
still fighting for liberty and crying for
pity. The clanking of her chains is
destroying the world’s music and the
picture of her oppression is marring the
world’s beauty.
“This land, so recently drenched with
blood for freedom’s sake, stands near
the scene of this tragedy the' of Spanish cru¬ of
elty ingratitude and breathing atmosphere
into a heart of indifference.
Alas! alas! how quickly has memory
lost the name of a Lafayette and the
hands of love extended across the wa¬
ters aud from the very skies to help in
America’s righteous cause! But ‘Al¬
mighty God made of oue blood all na-.
tious of meu to dwell ou the face of the
earth.’
“Small Cuba is America’s young sis¬
ter, and in every Cuban’s veins courses
the same blood as mine. Science and
philosophy unite with revelation in that
sublime proclamation. Humanity is a
unit, a comprehensive whole. What
touclios oue part affects the other part
or the eternal law of God fails. The
universe is one, and every star and
planet and world depends upon the oth¬
er and all hold their positions by virtue
of that union. So the world of human¬
ity must hear tho faintest ciy from any
part of the body, even if it is the flick¬
ering star of Cuba.
‘ ‘This government is making itself tho
most efficient ally of Spain by this un¬
righteous and unlawful prevention of
lawful export of arms and ammunition
to the insurgents. In spite of court de¬
cisions this interference on the part of
officials has gone on. Poor, downtrod¬
den Cuba is entitled to the sympathy
which lends to help in her heroic efforts
for liberty. shackels May God speed the day of
her falling and heaven send
the power to effect it, and shame into
the American government for every
hindrance of it.”
CAMPOS TALKS.
Says the Cubans Have No Right to Recog¬
nition, Because They Hold No Seaport.
New Yoke, Nov. 25.—The World
published a special cable from Santa
Ciara, Cuba, signed by Martinez dc
Campos, governor general of Cuba.
General Campos says among otliei
things: flunk Cuban
“I the belligerents, po¬
sition at present gives them no claim
upon the united States for recognition.
There is an active rebellion in Cuba,
but the insurgents hold no seaport, no
interior town.
“There are numerous Tillages named
on the map which consist of five or ten
huts. Some times the insurgents re¬
main for a period of time iu one of these
hamlets. When I send a column of
•troops to it they disappear in the wild,
pathless country that exists in the only
districts in which they operate.
“The great North American soidier,
General Grant, recognition ably covered belligerency tho sub¬
ject of the of
the rebels in the former revolution. He
stated familiar in a public that document there with which
I for am was no ground
him to recognize Cuban belligerency
when the people who sought recogni¬
tion held no port or town.
“President Grant created a precedent
and I hear now from Madrid that the
government does not anticipate any
overt acts of unfriendliness ou the part
of the United States.”
Irishmen Celebrate.
St. Louis, Nov. 23. — About 3,500
Irishmen and a number of prominent
men of other nationalities, some of
whom were from out of town, met and
celebrated the twenty-eighth anniver¬
sary in commemoration of the Manches¬
ter martyrs. Hon. Marcus Kavanaugb
of Chicago, made the address of the
evening. He spoke strongly in favor of
Irish freedom, and said the end of the
struggle would only come when Ireland
as a nation, stands altogether separate
and independent of Great Britain and
not before.
A Murder at Nashville.
Nashville, Nov. 25.—In East Nash
ville, Thomas Jones, a quiet, peaceable
citizen, was murdered by George Hales,
a negro, about 10 o’clock Sunday morn¬
ing. Jones had gone to Hales’ house to
induce him to cease raising a distur¬
bance. Hot words ensued and Halos,
without warning, drew a pistol and shot
Jones, from which he soon died. Hales
also shot at Jones’ neice. The negro
has not been captured.
Drowned In Cumberland River.
Nashville, Nov. 23.—Miss N. Work,
Thomas Davis and David Odium were
drowned in the Cumberland river at
Pond creek ferry, 12 miles from this
city. While attempting to cross the
river in a skiff it upset, and the occu¬
pants were drowned before assistance
could reach them.
Killing In Kentucky.
Louisuxlle, Nov. 23.— A special to
The Post from London, Ky., says:
Charles Young shot and instantly killed
T. C. Norville at 11 p. m. at Fariston,
five miies south of this place. Both men
had been drinking aud quarrelled.
Young made his escape and has not yet
been captured.
Sun Talking Fight.
Galveston, Nov. 25. —Martin Julian
says: “There will be a fight Jan. 10,
either between Corbett and Fitzsimmons,
or Maher and Fitzsimmons, and it will
take place three and one-half miles from
El Paso. Stuart leaves Dallas tonight
for New York, where he will sign Cor¬
bett or Maher,”
Walked Into the River and Drowned.
Memphis, Nov. 25. —John Bradshaw
walked into the Mississippi river here,
in the presence of 100 persons who only
thought he was intending to batho. He
held his head under the water until he
fell from strangulation. When taken
out he was dead.
BULLOCH TIMES.
Bulloch County, Georgia, Thursday, Nov. 28,1885.
A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Brooklyn Man Kills His Two Little Child¬
ren and Himself.
New York, Nov. 25.—Herman Hat
teuhaft, a well known pugilist and
trainer of Brooklyn shot aud killed his
two children and himself some time be
tween 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon and 2
o’clock Monday morning. Hattenhafl
was the proprietor of a college of physi¬
cal instruction iu Brooklyn.
Hattenhaft went out iu the afternoon,
taking the tw r o children with him
When he had not returned at midnight
his wife, started out to look after the
where three. Hattenhaft The door of the employed gymnasium
was was
found locked . and was battered iu by
the police. They found father and the
children The lying dead. shot and
two children had been
killed by their father, who then shot
himself.
The bodies were cold and the. pre¬
sumption is that the triple tragedy oc¬
curred during the afternoon.
Hattenhaft had been despondent for
some time, probably because of busi¬
ness troubles. Twelve years ago, lie
was a pugilist, and was well known in
Brooklyn as an athlete. He was at one
time the instructor in the Brooklyn
Athletic club.
WILL DAVID B. WED?
He Leases a Washington Residence Built.
For Two and His Friends Are Guessing.
Chicago, Nov. 22.— The Times-Herald
Washington correspondent telegraphs
that paper that Senator David B. Hill
of New York has leased a large house
on I street, in the most fashionable
quarter of Washington, and expects to
take possession soon after the meeting
of congress. He is either going to marry
or is going to avoid the discomforts of
hotel life in the capital. It is hard
enough for married people to live at the
hotels in Washington, but for batch
elors, hotel life is a burden indeed.
Senator Hill is not in Washington he at
present, though the rumor that is
about to many has percolated through
the oughly. political' atmosphere pretty thor¬
None of his friends are in a
position to throw any light on the re¬
port; but the fact remains that he has
leased a residence built for two.
WARD NOT UNDER ARREST.
An Arrival From Guatemala Says That the
Memphis Forger Is Still Free.
Memphis, Nov. 23. —William Rowton,
a Memphis locomotive engineer, has ar¬
rived in this city from Guatemala. He
has been working on the Guatemala
Northern railway, where he met A. IC.
Ward, the Memphis forger who raised
$300,000 on worthless paper here. Row
ton met Ed Mosely, the Memphis chief
of police who went to Honduras after
Ward.
Rowton says Mosely, during his stay
in Honduras and Guatemala, did not so
much as see Ward, (hough he talked to
Mrs. Ward Ward, so Rowton reports,
has never been arrested, and this state¬
ment is corroHorated by cable dispatches
from Honduras. Minister Young was
under the impression that Ward was
uus.er arrest and so advised this govern¬
ment. It seems, however, his informa¬
tion was not correct.
DIED FROM HIS WOUNDS,
And They Were Inflicted by a Shotgun In
the Hands of His Own Son.
Columbia, Mo., Nov. 22.—Brigham
F. Jeffreys, a farmer living near Provi¬
dence, died from a gunshot wound in¬
flicted by his 18 year old son, Joseph.
The young -man claims that the shoot¬
ing was accidental, and in this state¬
ment he is corroborated by an older
brother. Their sister, however, claims
that the shot was fired with murderous
intent. She declares that Joseph aud
her father that quarreled there in seized the dining shotgun, room,
and Joseph a
which was taken from him l>y his broth¬
er. Joseph then ran out and got anoth¬
er gun. she says, aud fired the fatal
shot. The coroner’s jury did not charge
Joseph with murder.
Saved Money on Printing:.
Washington, Nov. 25.—Secretary of
the Interior Hoke Smith will bring out
quite prominently in his annual report
the fact that there has been a large
saving Gazette. in the printing It will of show the that Patent the
Office
government formerly paid $156,000 ev¬
ery year for printing being The Gazette, under aud
that it is now done com¬
petitive bias for $85,000 a year, aud as
satisfactorily as when had done the by work. the com¬
pany which for years
A Tribute to the Late Justice Jackson.
Washington, Nov. 25. — Attorney
General Harmon presented to the su¬
preme court the resolutions of respect
to (he memory of the late Justice How¬
ell E. Saekson, adopted by general the bar paid of
the court. The attorney
an eloquent tribute to the dead jurist.
Chief Justice Fuller responded in be¬
half of the court and the resolutions
were ordered spread ou the minutes.
New Line to the Isthmus.
Colon, Colombia, Nov. 25.—Bocasdel
Toro, state of Panama, is jubilant over
the establishment of a line of planters’
steamships to ply between that place
and New Orleans. The Messrs. Machea
Brothers of New Orleans are the owners
of the line. The pioneer steamer Clear¬
water is anxiously awaited at Bocas. It
has been suggested Colon. that the Machoas’
Steamers connect at
The Younger Dumas Seriously III.
London, Nov. 25.—Reports from Paris
indicate that M. Alexandre Dumas, the
younger, is seriously ill. A dispatch
says M.*Dumas was seized ou Saturday
wi'fh cerebral congestion, which Dr.
Pozzi diagnosed as cerebral abscess. The
patient was in a comatose condition
and his state is now regarded as very
grave.__
Ordered the Vessel's Release.
Washington, Nov. 25.— In view of
the statement from the deputy collector
of customs at Lewes, Del., to the effect
that a thorough search had failed to dis¬
cover arms, ammunition or men ou
board the Joseph W. Fester, tho secre¬
tary cf the treasury has ordered the
vessel’s release.
PRAISE FOR TERREIJ,
His Energetic Action In Turkey
Is Commended.
THE SITUATION IS NOW TRANQUIL,
An Earnest Effort Uelng Made to Main¬
tain Order In the Decently Disturbed
Districts, and It I< Thought All Danger
Is l’assed—The Latest Dispatches From
Constantinople.
[Copyrighted, 1S93, by Associated Press ]
Constantinople, Nov. 25. — From
what can be learned here, it .would seem
that the situation iu Anatolia appears
to be much more tranquil than for gome
time past, and there is no doubt that
,
efforts are being made to maintain ol¬
der in the districts where disturbances
are threatened and to suppress disorders
where outbreaks hare occurred.
All danger is now passed, however,
even in Anatolia. Tho governor of
H'idjiu. who had threatened to burn tiro
convent there, and set fire to the Parley
fields iu the vicinity, lias, owing to tho
strong representations made to the porte
on the subject ‘by Mr. Terrell, been re¬
called, and his conduct will bo inquired
into.
The members of the American residents colony
here, as well as other foreign prais¬
of this city and vicinity, join in of
ing the energetic and effective action
Mr. Terrell under very trying circum¬
stances. There seems to be no reason
for doubting that his representations to
the porte have been the means of saving
American lives and preserving Ameri¬
can property. question being discuss¬
The main now
ed between the porte and that the of represent¬ adding
atives of the powers, is
four extra gnardsliips to the little for¬
eign fleet in the Bosphorus, Great Brit¬
ain, Italy, Russia aud Austria aud de¬
manding firmly the right for a passage
through the Dardanelles of an extra
gunboat to be attached to their respect¬
ive embassies.
Although the demands were made
over a week ago on the Constantino¬ ground that
the foreign population of
ple then needed this additional protec¬
tion, the sultan still holds cut iu his re¬
fusal to absence grant the required from permission. Zeitonu,
The of news
which the Armenians arc still said to bo
holding in strong force, and tho failure
of the government to furnish any infor¬
mation regarding the concentration of
Turkish troops at Harash for the ad¬
vance ou Zeitouu, is causing some un¬
easiness. Besides no news is obtain¬
able concerning the rising of the Effuzes
agaiust tho Turkish rule, one of the
most serious features of the whole situ¬
ation.
The financial situation continues to
hamper the government in its efforts to
restore order in Asiatic Turkey, and
there does not seem to be any sign of
relief.
The United States minister, Mr. Al¬
exander W. Terrell, has received a dis¬
patch from Anaba announcing the safe
arrival there of the American mission¬
aries belonging to the central Turkey Fuller,
mission (Dr. and Mrs. Americus
the Rev. Charles S. Sanders, Mrs. A. M.
Trowbridge, Miss Ellen M. Prico aud
Miss Elizabeth M. Trowbridge and (bo
English governess, Miss McDonald.)
The missionaries add that full protec¬
tion was afforded them by the Turkish
authorities when it was demanded from
the porte by Mr. Terrell. The latter
now says he is satisfied that the 172 mis¬
sionaries in Anatolia are safe. The sit¬
uation here is still grave aud more com¬
plicated. Definite information has been receiv¬
ed hero that the missionaries attached
to the station at Kliarput have loft that
point under escort for Constantinople.
An Appeal to Christians For Aid.
New Yohk, Nov. 21.—The civilized
aud Christian world is horror stricken
over the reports of the massacre of A r
meniaii' Christians by the Turks. In
addition to the destruction of life, whole
villages have beeu burned, all the prop¬
erty belonging to tho Armenians lias
beeu destroyed or confiscated, and tho
survivors—mostly men and women—
have been left to starve.
Tho disease is so widespread, aud the
number in actual need of oven a crust
bread is so established large, that in relief agencies and
have boon London
New York, and an appeal is made to the
Christian world for aid.
The New York committee is made up
of men like Bishop Potter, Archbishop
Corrigan, Morris K. Jeshp, Rev. W. H.
P. Paunce, Jacob H. Schiff and Rev.
David T. Burrell. Spencer Trask, 27
Pine street, New York, is the treasurer,
and contributions forwarded to him
will be distributed among the Armenian
sufferers through a mixed commission
of American missionaries, English con¬
and others.
Says Terrell Should Be Hanged.
St. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 26.—A special
to The Daily News from Jefferson City,
Mo., says: Rev. J. T M. Johnston,
D. D., pastor of the First Baptist
church, of (his city, who has just re¬
turned from a three months tour of
Turkey ami the Holy Land Sunday
night iu a sermon on the Armenian
troubles, made the sensational state
ment that Armenian minister lerrell
ought to be hanged. the . lur
He declares that minister to
key has joined the Mohammedan church
and is aiding in the persecution and
killing of Christians, instead of protect
iug ihem; that the situation is far worse
than lias been reported to the papers,
and that Terrell prevents time reports
from being scut out, sencing out false
reports himself.
Rev. Johnston aud signed his entile petition party
of 34 members lpive a to
President Cleveland, begging him to
remove Terrell.
Missionaries Ajse .Safe, Says Terrell*
Washington, Nov. 26.—The latest
dispatches to tho state department from
United States Minister Terrell state that
lie is now officially assured of the pro¬
tection of tho three ladies at Hadjin;
that the provinces have been quiet for
the bust three davs and that the outlook
is better. He adds that telegrams from
Antaba and Mars ',van report that mis¬
sionaries are safe and protected, all and 173
that he is able to report that our
missionaries in Turkey aro row pro¬
tected. -J
FOUND DEAD IN A BOAT.
Mon ILmleretl ami Mobbed on Rod
River, In Tt ‘.:i..
Pa ins, Nov. 26.—United States Mar¬
shal Williams received a telegram from
Arthur Qity, 10 miles north of here, on
Red river, stating that a man had been
found dead in a shanty boat at the month
®f Wild Horse creek, on the Indian Ter¬
ritory side, by a man named Tom Car¬
ter, who started on board the boat and
had been driven away by a savage dog.
Severid citizens of Arthur City went
at once to investigate and found the in
port more than true. They went to the
boat, but a savage dog was in the room
in which the bodies were and would not
permit the then men looked to enter. through window
They ghastly sight. Three a
and saw a men
and a boy lay in their beds murdered.
Marshal Williams sent Jim Chandler
and Red Harper, two of his best de¬
tectives, to the scone.
Arriving there they thS saw lying three on a
pallet at one end of cabin men
and a boy, with the faithful dog keep¬
ing guard over them. The animal made
a savage attack on the officers, who had
instructions to take it alive. stand¬ They
pressed it back to the bodies and
ing on one of the prostrate forms it
growled and whined piteously at tho
intruders until it was finally roped and
dragged officers away. found that the, three
The men
had been shot in the head—two with
revolvers and one with a shotgun—and
the boy had been killed with the gun
barrel or a club, ns his skull was terribly
crushed. There were three empty
shells, telling how the bloody work \vus
done.
So close wore the murderers to their
victims when the fatal shots were fired
that the clothing of the men had been
set on fire, but had been extinguished
by the blood from their wounds. The
men had never made a struggle. The
bodies weiv all in an advanced state of
decomposition and some wild animal
had preyed upon them.
It was a sickening, shocking specta¬
cle. The men’s clothing was scattered
about the room with the pockets turned
inside out, showing that there had been
robbery as well as murder.
One victim was a large man, about 45
or 50 years old, with a heavy, sandy
mustache, shaved so as to extend to his
lower jawbone, and prominent fore¬
head. Papers that were found under
his head indicate that his name was E.
C. Canody, and that hq was tiro owner
of the outfit.
. The boy was about 12 years old, heav¬
ily built, and was evidently a son of
Canody. He wore knee pants.
The third body was identified by citi¬
zens of Cliieola and Arthur City as that
of Henry Thomas Rice, who had been
a music teacher. He was about 28 or 80
yeays old, with a black moustache aud
was rather handsome.
The fourth body was that of a man
about 35 or 40 years old, red complexion, short
beard of two weeks' growth and
moustache.
They had been drifting along the
river for some time, having bought the
boat several weeks ago from a man
named Clifford at Ragsdalo, Tex., about
50 miles above there. <ffhey had stopped
at several points, remaining several
days at each place. On the thirteenth
they were in Arthur City, where they
displayed considerable money.
The younger redfaced man gave his
name as Maddox and said ho was from
Atlanta and that his father was a gro¬
cery merchant there.
They left Arthur Wednesday and
were probably murdered ou Thursday
night, the fourteenth, as several shots
were heard on that night where the boat
was found. The place was an out of
the way spot, the nearest house being
two miles away.
There is no clew whatever and the
officers have no hope of ever reaching
the murderers. They returuod here and
brought the dog.
MURDERER LYNCHED.
Tli© Negro Ha<l Confessed His Guilt and
(Vss Swung to a Tree.
Nashville. Nov. 21.—A Knoxville,
Tenu., special to The Banner says:
Charles lim'd, a negro who murdered
Jasper Kelley near Harriman a few
weeks ago, and who confessed to the
crime Wednesday, was taken from the
jail at Warthburg, the county scat of
Morgan connty, aud lynched at about
midnight. masked gathered at
A mob of 200 men
a point three miles from the jail and
marched in fours to the prison. A de¬
mand was made ou Jailer Langley to
“open up.” This he refused to do and
the door was broken open with a sledge¬
hammer. When (he mob was on the
inside the jailer was placed and under finally the
point of pistols aud guns
gave up his keys.
The negro was taken from his cell
and a rope placed around his neck. He
was then' dragged to an oak tree about
100 yards distant, where he was swung
up and left, hanging.
May Meet a Similar Fate.
Louisville, Nov. 21. —A special to
The Evening Post from Ashland, Ky.,
says:
The dead body of Mrs. James De¬
witt was found in the woods six
m ii es beyond ' Grayson during tho night
with a s i lttW i tied tightly around her
threat and face and marks of choking
alif ) beating plainly visible, Thursday
ylic disappeared last husband oven- his
ing after visiting her mother’s at homo,
boardinghouse couple have near her living apart for
The been
time. Her husband assisted in the
ge arcli for her aud wai with the party
f oum i the' body he
Jnst before discovery chill shook oom
pla j n ed of having a and so
the search was delayed for some
time.
Dewitt has beeu arrested charged
With the murder. He protests his in¬
nocence, aud claims that his wife com¬
mitted suicide.
Excitemeut is intense, mid if' he is
held for the crime he may be lynched.
Steamer Ashore; All Hands Saved*
London, Nov. 21. —The British steam¬
er Nessmore, Captain Richardson, from
Montreal on Nov. 5 for Liverpool, is
ashore ou Coll island, off the coast of
Scotland, with 14 feet of water in her
hold. The crew were built lauded safely.
The Nessmore was at Barrow,
England, in 1882. She is a screw steamer
of 2,216 tons net register and is owned
by William Johnston & Co,
No. 27.
DR. HILL’S PAMPHLET
A SUPPOSED SILVERITE WRITES
AGAINST FREE COINAGE.
It Would Lower Our Standard of Value
and Would Not Give U* 10 to 1 C oinage.
. A Pamphlet Which Has itumfouuded
the Free Silver People.
Dr. W. P. Hill of St. Louis has just
written a pamphlet entitled “Argument
Against Free Silver Coinage at 10 to
1,” which has dnmfonnded tho free sil¬
ver people. Dr. Hill is tho youngest son
of the late Britton A. Hill, one of tho
ablest champions of fiat money of tho
old Greenback party. Dr. Hill was edu¬
cated in the best universities in Europe.
It has been generally supposed that ho
would follow in tho footsteps of his
father and advocate cheap money. There
is little doubt but that lio ruado a
special study of finauco for tho purpose
of securing arguments against tho gold
standard. Study changed his opinions,
as is apparent from the following quo¬
tation from his excellent pamphlet:
Many people innocently imagine that
the free coinage of silver is simply a
proposition to open our mints more
freely to silver and to maintain our
money at its present standard of value
ou the gold basis, and that by adopting
freo coinago we are not going to debase
and lower the value of our Money, but
raise the price of silver all over tho
world to a 16 to 1 ratio with gold.
There could be no greater mistake.
They fail to see that it also involves a
change iu onr unit, standard or meas¬
ure of value.
If the proposition was that the United
States should give a gold dollar for ev¬
ery 371>4 grains of pure silver brought
to the mints, then that would really be
an attempt on the part of our govern¬
ment to raiso the price of silver, and
how long wo could raiso it would de¬
pend on how much silver there was in
tho world and how much gold wo had.
But this is not t he proposition. Tho fieo
silver idea is that wo must stop insult¬
ing the silver dollar by redeeming it
and giving a gold dollar for it, and
their proposition is simply grains to of stamp standard as
a dollar every 412 %
silver brought to the mint, aud that
this piece of silver so stamped shall be
our unit or measure of value.
Is it possible to believe, when tho
tho now law shall say that 4I2)£ grains
of standard silver shall constitute tiio
value of our dollar, that tho dollar will
be worth auy more than that? Under
the present system wo havo issued mil¬
lions of silver dollars on the ratio of 10
to 1. Tho world has steadily refused to
accept our dictum as to their value, and
wo are compelled to maintain a largo
gold reserve, aud not only stand ready
to redeem all those dollars, bnt also
constantly to redeem many of them in
gold to maintain their value.
We aro staggering under our load
now with our present silver circulation
aud havo difficulty to maintain our gold
reserve. Will our load bo lighter when
we undortuko to coin the world’s sur¬
plus of silver? Will tho world accept
our dictum more readily, when, on tho
'one hand, we will loudly assert tho 10
to 1 ratio, and, ou (ho other hand, reso¬
lutely give the lio to our own words by
refusing to exchange them at the ratio
of 16 to 1, which is tho only way wo
can mako our words count fur anything?
Tho director of tho United States
mint estimates tho coined silver money
of tho world at $4,055,700,000, which
is about 53 per cent of the total. Of the
coined silver money more than $2,000,
000,000 passes current at exactly the
same valuo as tho silvor bullion iii tue
market, and would flow just liko so
much bullion to any place where it
could obtain a higher price, The
world’s annual production annual amounts to
$200,000,000; the production in
this country alone to $84,000,000. Our
gold reserve amounts to barely $100,
000 , 000 .
Suppose that by free coinage woconkl
possibly raise the prico of silver in this
country to double what it is now—we
need not say double, bnt even a fraction
more than now—does any man need to
be told that that would start a flow of
silver to this country, and that onr lit¬
tle gold reserve would bo completely
overwhelmed, aud that tho mighty
stream would never stop flowing until
all vostigo of a higher price had been
completely annihilated? Aud when that
had been accomplished, does any man
need to be told that our dollar would
simply bo worth what 412}£ grains of
standard silver would be worth iu the
market as bullion? This fact is unan¬
swerable—there is no free si Ivor country
in the world where the dollar or unit of
value is worth one particle more than
the silver in it as bullion in the market.
Our attempt would be about as ridic¬
ulous as if we tried to stop tho ebb and
flow of tho ocean tides by an act of con¬
gress, or to regulate the movements of
the planets.
“Poor Man’s Money,”
They call silver “the poor man’s
money.” Well, maybe it is. It is the
money of Mexico aud India and China
and other unprogressivo countries, where
the common people are certainly about
as poor as they can be.—Minneapolis
Journal.
_
Where Silver I* Well Thought Of.
First Church Member—What are the
charges agin Deacon Jones?
Second Church Member—Slanderin
the parson. Said he wa» as good as gold.
—Harper’s Bazar._____
Result Would Be Disaster.
The Richmond Dispatch (Dem.),
which favors international bimetallism,
declares that “unlimited free coinage
at a ratio of 1C to 1 of all the silver
which would under the operation of such
a ratio be carried to the mints for re
coinage wonld result in universal disas¬
ter.”
Cotton is advancing and the free silvei
craze is declining.
THE TIMES JOB OFFICE
Is prepared to print
Letter Heads,
Packet Heads,
Bill Heads and
Statements, Envelope*, Etc.
Also— Wedding
Cards, Tickets, Programs, Invitations,
Invitations, Party or any¬
thing you want in that line.
Pa?" Satisfaction guaranteed at
THE TIMES JOB OFFICE.
MS. IMS'S REPORT
The Postmaster General Wants
the Civil Service Extended.
■
POSTAL REFORMS RECOMMENDED.
He Also Believes In Bhlarflnf the Scope
of the Free Delivery Advantage*—A»
Honest Adminiatratlon of the Eight
Hour Law—Want* Train Wrecking Se¬
verely Punished, Etc.
Washington, Nov. 26.— Postmaster
General Wilson has made his first an¬
nual report to the president. The re¬
ceipts of the postoffl.ee department for
the year ending June 80, 1805, were
$76,171,090, and expenditures $86,790,-
173. Mr. Wilson estimates the revenue
for the year ending June 00, 1897, at
$89,703,120, aud the expenditure at $94,-
817,900, the difference to be made up by
congressional appropriation. Speaking
of tho deficiency, Mr. Wilson says:
“The regular annual deficiency in the
revenues of the postal service, unusual empha¬
sized as it appears to be by tho
amount of the deficiencies for the past
two years, may call forth comment from
those who believe that the postofllco But de¬
partment should be self sustaining. the free
it should be remembered that, for
business other branches dono and by this departments department of tho
government, if paid for at regular its or
cost rates, would more than wipeout
deficiencies*” refers to the
The postmaster general
growth of tho free delivery service, and
says: believe policy for
“I it is good con¬
gress and for this this department service to by foster judi¬
tho extension of
cious appropriations and judicious ad¬
ministration.
“The vigorous and effective efforts of
my immediate predecessor havo pro¬
duced at last an honest administration letter
of the 8-hour law, and made 6ar
riers’ trip and official time service.” reports actu¬
al and truthful records of
Mr. Wilson reiterates traiuwrocking the necessity
for legislation to punish
and obstruction to mails urgod by his
predecessor, and recommends legislation pbstal
authorizing the uso of private
cards.
Postmaster General Wilson says that
tho eivil service rules should be extend¬
ed wherever practicable. Ho says:
“The continuity of the department of ad¬
should be preserved only in along changes tho lino of
ministration, not service, but
its subordinate aud separate its
in that larger grasp of its history,
daily work and its healthful progress,
which is found alono with those
direct and eoutrol its chief bureaus.
concur, therefore, in the
one of my recent predecessors, that at
least three should of the hold assistant offices postmasters by
civil general service merit tenure their and not by a
or
a political tenure. from alike opinion
“I refrain offering
as to the fourth assistant postmaster
general, whoso appointment becauso fonrthclass is primarily postmasters, allotted
to him, are yet ontsido of that tenure.
“The question of extending civil ser¬
vice methods to the selection of fourth
class postmasters haH naturally received
my attention sinde I havo been at tho
head of this department. But I do not
find myself able to make as yet any
specific recommendations ou this impor¬
tant subject in the line of tho legisla¬
tion which has been proposod. proceed under
“It is my purpose to
tho authority of this order as discreetly
as I can, and will in justify, tho long run as far as
experience so as to secure
these commendable results."
FIVE FOUND DEAD.
A Gold Prospecting Party Pcrlsli In n
Wild Section.
Mazatlan, Mexico, Nov. 20. —'The
dead bodies of five men, two of whom
aro recognized as being Americans, havo
been discovered northwest of here, in a
wild section of the Sierre Madra moun¬
tains. The bodies are supposed gold to be
those of some members of a pros¬
pecting party who left here soveral
weeks ago.
The two Amercans were from Cali¬
fornia, but their names are not known
here. The others were Mexicans. It is
supposed that tho party lost their way
in tho mountains and all died together
from starvation and exposure.
MILES IS DISPLEASED.
Recommend* That Troops at St. Francis
Barracks Be Removed.
Washington, Nov. 26.— In his annual
report as commandor of the Eastern de¬
partment, General Miles makes some
sharp criticisms on the condition of the
military conveniences in Florida. This
is especially the fact with the St. Fran¬
cis barracks at St. Augustine. He says:
“The officers’ quarters and soldiers’
barracks at St. Francis barracks, St.
Augustine, were iu wretched condition,
unfit either for officers or men, and I
recommend, unless some definite plan is
immediately adopted for a permanent
post at that place, that the garrison be
removed to another station.”
Death on the Gridiron.
Charlottesville, Va., Nov. 26.—
George R. Phelan of Memphis, Tenn.,
a participant in a football game be¬
tween the medical and law classes of
the university, has just died. His death
was dne to rupture of a blood vessel
which was in a diseased condition and
likely to burst during any violent exer¬
tion. Tho coroner’s jury rendered a
verdict relieving all participant* of
blame.
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Two Killed In a Wreck.
Jackson, Miss., Nov. 26. —At 7 p. m.
a fast freight on the Ulimois Central
struck a box car at Lamar station,
winch had been blown from the Engineer siding,
aud was completely wrecked.
J. C. Woolsey and a negro tramp were
instantly killed.__
Shovel Factory Boraed.
St. Louis, Nov. 36.—The St. Louis
Shovel factory at Fortieth street and
Duncan avenue has boon insured. destroyed The by
fire. Loss, $75,000, fully in the dry*
fire caught from the furnace
Ing room.