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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1896)
THROUGH GEORGIA. BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATE, Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬ penings From Day to Day. Alacon is preparing to have a great celebration and jubiiee on July 4th at Central Oitv park for the benefit of th^ public library. At an enthusiastic meeting of the projectors of the enter¬ prise organization was perfected under the name 01 the Fourth of July Asso¬ ciation. Airs. William C. Clarke, in behalf of the indies of Newton county, has pre¬ sented to the state the beautiful win¬ dow which was used in the exhibit of Newton county at the exposition in the state building. The window has been accepted by Governor Atkinson, and is npw in ths state library. * * * Following upon the heels of the state encampment of soldiers at Griffin will be the convention of the Baptist Young People’s Union, which will carry quite a large throng of religious young people to that city. The con¬ vention will Iu; in se-sion three days and will bo very interesting. * * * A pretty wrangle over the division of the rewards off red for the capture of old man Taylor Delk has arisen be¬ tween the parties interested. These parties are Detective Dave Looney, VV. fi. Mehaffey and Jmi Hewitt, of Atlanta, aud John Langford, who lives in the country near Sonoia. The mat¬ ter will probably' he takon to the courts. The jury in the Criswell case at Jef fcrrouville, brought in a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation of life imprisonment against Warren Criswell, on trial, charged with train wrecking, Criswell was as cool and collected dur¬ ing the trial as any person iu the conrtroom. He was very attentive to all that was taking place, but was •never excited or nervous. The priso¬ ner was in jail when the verdict was rendered. His counsel waived his presence. Sentence was theu passed jn accordance with the verdict. Old Taylor Delk and his son. Tom Delk, will not swung from the gallows ou June 19th. A motion for a new trial has already been made. The noted prisoners are now in Fulton county jail, where they will remain pending the action of the courts. A special guard has been pd&oed about the noted prisoners and all escape h«6 been made impossible. The ceils in which the mou are confined are in¬ spected four times daily aud every' -safeguard has been thrown around them. President II. M. Comer, of the Cen¬ tral, Ihs received a summons from the state railroad commission to appear baicro that body on June 12th and* produce the minute books of the reor¬ ganization, or any other books that will ehow who owns the Central’s stock. There is a well-defined belief that the Southern owns it, and the commission wants to make rule 1 applicable. Wheu Uflked about tho matttr, Air. Comer said he would be there, but as to what he might, say, ho only replied: “Well, the road’s there, and we’re operating it. Isn’t that enough?” Atlanta is steadily increasing in population. Since the publication of the new city directory at least ten thousand people have moved to the city and have taken up their perma¬ nent abode in Atlanta, When the city directory for 1896 was issued the pop¬ ulation, according to the census taken by the city enumerators, was placed at 114,340. Adding ten thousand names to this amount the population of Atlauta today is placed at 124,349. And steadily tho city climbs up the scale of figures toward the 150,000 mark. The annual camp of instruction for the Georgia volunteers will begin in a few days and the commands that have been ordered to be in attendance are making extensive preparations for the occasion. The tour of duty required for the present year is shorter than nstiol on account of the small appro¬ priation made by the last legislature, but ample time will be given for the ordinary work of camps of instruction, The days of iun aud frolic at camp have passed aud the young soldier who now ealists aud goe,s to Grifila with his command expects to do his full sliare of work, and vigorous regu a tions have removed the attractiveness of camp life from the tin soldier of ten or twelve years ago. Teachers’ Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the Georgia Teachers’ Association, which is to he held on Cnmberlan l island, from the 14th to the 31st instant, will be con¬ ducted on the grounds of the associa¬ tion with groat eclat. The first week wfli be devoted to the general business sessions, in which questions pertaining to school legislation and the general improvement of the 6tate will be dis¬ cussed. A convention of county school com¬ missioners will be a feature of the ses sion. The state school commissioner has called them in annual session to meet with the etatp teachers, and to¬ gether consult for the best interests of the state. Among the lecturers will lie Governor Atkinson and Dr. Carry. On Sunday, July 19th, will be deliver¬ ed the annual sermon. Ou Alondav, July 20th, will begin the normal session of the association, continuing two weeks. Dr. Curry has given sufficient funds, added to help elsewhere, to make this the mo3fc com¬ plete and comprehensive summer nor¬ mal in the south. There will be twelve courses and nine instructors. More Trouble for the Lessees. Further trouble is brewing for con¬ vict camp No. 2, better known as Camp Kramer, in Wilcox county, ou account of the reported inhuman beat¬ ing of the crazy convict and two of his fellows on Alay 8th by Whipping Boss Price. Several days ago Governor Atkinson issued orders suspending Price and commanding him to appear at the Capi¬ tol and show cau*e why he should not be discharged for his cru-alty to the convicts. The governor has since carried the matter further by issuing an order in¬ structing the lessees at Camp No. 2 to appear before him on June 10th ut 9 o’clock and show cause why their lease should not be canceled and the con¬ victs at that camp turned over to the state. The order was issued at the instanoe of Principal Keeper Turner, who has been to the camp and made a personal investigation of the charge of cruel whipping. The three convicts who were beaten on Alay 8th are named Williams, Marshall and Petersou; These men will be carried to Atlanta at the expense of the state to bear wit¬ ness iu the case. The order is issued under n law passed by the legislature in 1881, in which it is provided that the whipping bosses must be appointed and dismissed by the governor and that the leases shall be held responsible for their con¬ duct. The convicts at Camp Kramer are leased by Air. W. B. Lowe, but are working at present for the Gress Lum¬ ber Company. The arrangement with Mr. Gress is made by Air. Lowe, who is held by the state for the lease. Dr. H. V. M. Miller Dead. Dr. H. V. M. Aliller died at his home iu Atlanta last Saturday after a protracted illness. With the death of Dr. Homer Virgil Alilton Aliller, one of the most distin¬ guished of Georgia’s public man passes away. For fifty years ho has been actively identified with public life in Georgia, and in his prime was regarded as one of the ablest men that the state ever produced. He was the contemporary and at times the political opponent of some of the greatest figures in ante¬ bellum public life in the state, and it is said that in his active political career he never met a man who could cope with him in public debate. But though so highly distinguished in public life, he was not less so in his chosen profession of medicine, to the study of which he brought all the powers of mind of rare natural strength, and adorned by long research in the study of science aud literature. Dr. Miller was born in the Pendleton district of South Carolina in 1814, in the stirring days of the second war with England. His father, Alajor Gen¬ eral Andrew Miller, who was of Welsh descant, moved to Georgia in 1820, when Dr. Miller was only six years of age, and settled in Rabun county. On his mother’s side he was de¬ scended from the Cheri family, one of the leading Huguenot families of fckmth Carolina. It was from his mother that he inherited most of that rare culture and intellectual strength which made him iu his time a giant among some of the giant intellects of his day. Mrs. Miller is said to have been a lady of rare culture and piety, aud he always claimed that it was to the stimulating influence of her dis¬ cipline that he owed the formation of his moral and intellectual character. * * * The Chicago Fiasco. Commissioner Nesbitt in speaking of the postponement of the Southern States exposition at Chicago, said: “We were all very much disappoint¬ ed at the the turn affairs took which matte it necessary for us to temporarily abandon the idea of the exposition. Georgia was all right, and would have made a splendid showing. We have been organizing exposition club3 all over the state, and had the other states been as well prepared as Georgia the scheme would have been a complete success. When we got together at Augusta, however, and compared notes, we found that with the exception of Georgia aud one or two other southern states, the progress had been very unsatisfactory. Tennessee, which at the first meeting in Chicago had been very enthusiastic about the exposition, had backed completely out. Major Thomas, of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, who had been an ardent promoter of the enterprise, found that he would Pave to give all ms spare time and en¬ thusiasm to the Tennessee Centenial project, and othur prominent Tennes¬ seeans were iu the same fix. Besides this, the fact that this year is the year of the presidential election militated against the exposition,and when we had gone over the whole situation we found that in the limited time at our com mand it could not be carried to a suc¬ cessful issue. “I still hope,” continued Colonel Nesbitt, “that the scheme will be re¬ vived next year, wheu the people will not be given up so entirely to politics. It, of course, rests with the Chicago people as to whether the movement will be kept alive until that time, but I, for one, believe that the idea will yet be carried out. If the time ever comes to revive the idea, and I believe it will, Georgia will be ready, a3 she was this time, to bear her part iu a creditable manner and to make an ex¬ hibit second to none of the southern states.” TRADE CONDITIONS. Bradstreet’s Review of Business for the Past Week. Bradstreet’s review of trade for the past week says: “General trade continues depressed in almost all lines. Demand is smaller than a week ago, and requests for and offerings of commercial paper have de¬ creased. Alercantile collections con¬ tinue complained of, and the tendency of prices, particularly of cereals, gar, coffee, pork products, cotton and cotton goods and iron and steel, con¬ tinues downward. “At the south the more favorable features are the rain which visited South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama with benefit to the crops, about one sixth increase in the cotton acreage of Texas, higher prices for resin and a larger volume of business at Nashville, Charleston and Baltimore. Nebraska’s crop prospects were never better. There is a moderate increase in the demand for dry goods at Chicago, but business there generally is disappoint¬ ing. The check to trade at St. Louis is in part the result of delays in dis¬ tribution of merchandise on account of the late storm. Unseasonable cool weather and rain have interfered with the retail trade in territory tributary to Kansas City. “Alay bank clearings, 1895, are heavily reduced, reflecting the quiet¬ ness in trade and specalation. They show not only a heavy falling off from Alay a year ago, but are smaller than the April total, something which has ocearred only twice in thirteen years. Total clearings at sixty-nine cities for May aggregate $4,218,000,000 —a decrease of 13 per cent, from April 1st this year. “The total number of business fail¬ ures throughout the United States this weMi, as reported to Bradstreets, is 236; compared with 227 last week; aud 236 in the first week of June 1S95. “Makers of oottou for export are doing relatively the best business. Over-supply of cotton fabrics con¬ tinues to depress prices. Aluch woolen goods machinery continue idle, and sales of woolens for fall delivery have not held up, as expected. Shoes con tiuue firm, and factories report a large number of orders ou hand, wnich strengthens leather aud hides. Iron and steel prices iu some instances are resisting demands of combinations by withholding orders, or nearby wants for staple makes of iron and steel have been over-estimated. Production tends to decrease. TALK OF BOLTING. Sound NIoiscy Men of Illinois Hold a Conference at Chicago. There was a conference of gold stan¬ dard democrats from all parts of Illi¬ nois at Chicago Saturday to debate the advisability of holding a “bolting” -state convention. A score of prominent men were made pres¬ ent. Ex-Congressman Forman a strong protesting speech against the bolting idea, which originated with the Cook county faction, and urged that the radical bolting step be de¬ ferred until after the Peoria sta*e aDd Chicago national conventions of the party have passed into history. It practically agreed to send a contesting uelegation to Chicago in July so as to be prepared to have them seated if the majority in the convention is favora¬ ble. SpeakiDg for the gold demands of Illinois and placing patriotism before uurty in their estimation, the conferees agreed that if the republican platform hectares for gold aud the democratic platform for silver, the gold democrats will vote for the republican ticket. If the republican money plank is not satisfactory, the gold democrats will name an independent ticket appealing to all citizens of like sentiment to sup¬ port it. While they will uot “bolt the regular ticket unless compelled to, they decided to organize “honest money ” clubs at once in every county of Illinois so as to be prepared toboit, and a permanent organization was ef leeted with Charles A. Ewing, a Deca¬ tur banker, as chairman. “Coin” Harvey’s Father Dead. Col. Robert T. Harvey, aged 82, father of W. H. Harvey, author of Coin’s Financial School, died suddenly at Huntington, W. Va., Friday night from apoplexy. VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS Hold Their Stale Convention at Staun ton—Platform for Bimetallism. The Virginia democratic state con¬ vention assembled in Staunton Thurs¬ day and was called to order at noon by Hon. J. T. Ellison, chairman of the state committee. The committee on permanent organ¬ ization submitted the name of Micai.i Woods, of Charlottesville, as perma¬ nent chairman abd J. Bell Bigger and Joseph Button, secretaries, These recommendations were confirmed by the convention. Air. Woods, in assuming the duties of permanent chairman, impressed upon the body the importance of the minority submitting to the domina¬ tion of the majority. While waiting for the report of the committee on resolutions, Senator Alartin mnde a speech on the cause of free silver. He was confident that if all the democrats of the country were inspired as those present they would elect their president this year, and one, he said, who would be in accord with his party. Senator Alartin said there were some things upon which he differed with his party, but there was never a time when he was not in accord with them on the money question, representative Tucker in a speech strongly commend¬ ed Air. Cleveland as an honest, upright democrat. This was heartily cheered by the gold delegates. The committee on resolutions sub¬ mitted the following platform, which was read by its chairman, Senator Daniel: The platform declares adherence to the principles of democracy as enunci¬ ated by Jefferson, Aladison, Alonroe and Alason and the patriots of their day; opposes “AIcKinieyism, which proposes to tax the poor man for the benefit of trusts and capitalists;” fa¬ vors a tax for revenue, limited to the necessities of an economically admin¬ istered government; opposes “the re¬ publican party because, while profess¬ ing to protect our laboring men and mechanics, it is in practice filling our mines and factories with pauper labor from Europe;” opposes a third presi¬ dential term and then declares: “We are for ‘sound money,’ sound¬ est the world has ever had or can have, the money of the constitution, the money of the people, the money of civilization through ages past and des¬ tined to be such as we believe for ages to come. “This sound money should consist of gold, silver and paper redeemable in silver or gold at the option of the payer, the units of the whole mass to be kept at parity by coinage rights and equal legal tender function, the only method by which the parity of the two metals has been contin¬ uously and successfully maintained. We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage. The immediate and com¬ plete restoration of the bimetallism of mone y which existed in the United “ 1873 is, in State from 1793 to our opimon> demanded bv the inter egtg of commerce, manufacture au({ ag rj cn i ture) which are alike suffering from the continuous fall of prices and the consequent embar¬ rassment of bankruptcy of those en¬ gaged therein, and in order to restore it we demaud the full and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the assent or concurrence of any other nation. It cannot be that this great nation, the foremost of the earth in riches and power, is unable to form a financial system of its own, and while we would welcome an interna¬ tional agreement that would settle the vexed question, we are unwilling to defer action or make the interest of our own people dependent upon the course of others. “We warn our countrymen that un¬ less silver is upheld as- money of re¬ demption and sustained at a parity with gold by equal privileges at the mint and by equal tender func¬ tion a further contraction of the enrrency and the further accumula tion of public indebtedness will be in¬ evitable. We have S4 less per capita in circulation now than we had in No¬ vember, 1893, when the Sherman law was repealed, and fu the present strained condition of our resources, t*he deficits of revenue and the fall of prices each further contraction of money and accumulation of debt would paralyze business, lower wages and bring upon the country wide¬ spread panic and ruin. “We hereby instruct all of the dele¬ gates from Virginia to the national democratic convention at Chicago to vote for a platform declaring for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 and for the candidates for president and vice president who openly advocate that principle,” adopted expressing A resolntion was shall be a desire that John W. Daniel named by tlia national convention as one of the members of the presiden¬ elected tial ticket. The convention as delegate at large to Chicago H. S. Job_ K. a W. Daniel, W. A. Jones, Alorrflon and C. A. Swanson. The electors at larse chosen are: James W Marshall and W. B. Aiell ; waine. J. Tayior E[[ mi ,.*-**«*;* , muu of tne s: all; tlOll gated Of to Wl«li« the e I,-,®”;' 1 *. «K com t r lltt “f. IS NOYV A The Senate P asses r 0 ar ‘d H ai eleven The .e M W passed^’ ; a "';«»- by to one, odds * harbor hill over the ° e riv « Thus the ofVen^sseVcL^ big biUbe^ 1 ^^ Late, » 8£ve * Hill, of New Tork oi\S!^. 0iT « Jersey, and Vilas, oi 3 ator Hill not only V M ed ^ 8 measure, but defended the a gain s t in a speech. ae presid pied about four honr § th ^ ote °« favor of overriding the'v^ 1 *^ by Senators Dakota,’ Vest, Sherman ? of’^ p7 em of South Eer r Stewart of Nevada, flakier m““ & trout .and Butler Norih 0 Speeches of m favor of misW veto were made ^SCEM by Sen** Vil.. ** introducing amend the a joint resohL ..he president constitution ^ power to * item in an appropriation veto a| which the bill —a p Q , Now constitution of the state York gives to the governor that state. Mr. Pettigrew's characterized the veto fpee »Z of the which power as i3 past, had no place president fres government. in He denounced] him with utter severe terms, chaH, cred oath an of disregard of his. the laws, office, with ovenalii the influencing congressmen ] use of patronage, enriching 1 favorites at the public expense, aa in fact, permitting no restraint but] imperial will. There was a group of more tu twenty members of the house stand seats in the while space the back vote of the in republic] was PMp* m. They showed a lively interest! very the matter, and withdrew as sootj the result of the vote was annoiiJ HANGED IV EFFIGY. Congressman of Nebraska Made Constituency Angry. The most intense excitement been engendered at Omaha and out! the Kem, state of by the sixth action congressional of Congiessmj di the trict of Nebraska, in opposing, out] floor of fha house of repre&eniuiiw Waslji-ugtou, the passage of the trail Mississippi exposition appropriatii bill. Denunciation of his -policy general and the wires have been ktj busy conveying messages deploring! action and demanding a reconsider tion. Sentiment antagonistic to the eol greesmau found expression Saranii night and he was Benson, hanged in suburb efcgy i| j the citizens of a Omaha, A crowd formed early in tfl evening, raded the and, headed dragging by a drum, a dmnaj pj streets, appropriate! made of straw and labeled. Finally the effigy was strung up t< pole in the public square and rid® with bullets. As a climax to the evening’s cut* the straw man was cut aowu and l® 1 ed at the stake. In explanationo* action Mr. Kem says: J “I am contending for a puna? higher than all the expositionM represent earth, viz: The trnsfLoor, right to acu no u. J constituency on purpose will swerve me from my this.” his inability t Air. Kem refers to secure recognition for a bill baring focal significance. GEN. LEE IN HAVANA The United States Consul is *o w3 1 His Post of Duty. General Fitzhush States Lee, consul vecenuj «Pj pointed United vjq at Havana, in succession to - 1 mon O. Williams, of duty Wednesday resigned, »n«J mo® * his O Mascotte CD mer «•»* The steamer was met - by a er * * decorated tug, upon Sprmgen * p, Messrs. Williams and Burgess, Senor Zaldo. rep ^ t>of the captain general, and - ^ the the Ward line. The pany Mascotte and extended a cu. - come to General Lee. a0( l» General Bradley T ‘. J °„ “ !»rga of other America aC j a number , r crowd of people whar f^ e ashore. On the ' wfr e s<> respectfully. r hand most end he j a demonstrations &r j some carnage, vith the ga a footman in Senor Bog was driven to the ^ where Mr. Williams rooms mr secured a fine suite o successor. ARIZONA’S OEhECjAT inter est of GO to in the W U1 -: I eos fe# " terf ^^ a The democratic tion of Arizona in se ’, V^ : ^ elected SiX 9te - Monday convention,p . e a resold " national . ^ 5 - denouncing Fresiuent ta¬ naneial policy and *- w r il free and unlimitea of 16 to cow^ the ratio tne action of 0u ' a "
