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THE CONYERS WEEKLY ; •*
VOLUME X,
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR !
NATIONAL CAPITAL,
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What 1* Being Done fcy the Heads of Out
Government—The Week’s Review.
the new Secretary and assistant.
The president signed the commissions
of Charles S. Fairchild as secretary of
the treasury, and Isaac H. Maynard as
assistant secretary of the treasury Friday.
Mr. Fairchild at once entered upon the
discharge of his new duties. The officers
and many clerks of the department waited
on him early and extended their congrat¬
ulations. The crowd became so great
that, he was compelled to abandon, for a
time, all ideas of attending to the cur¬
rent work claiming his attention, Ue
caused a temporary halt by announcing
that he would receive his official friends
informally in the afternoon after he had
disposed of his mail, He received a
profusion of flowers and congratulatory
letters and telegrams from all parts of the
country. A majority of the telegrams
were from bankers and business men.
Judge Maynard in accepting bis new
office will suffer a loss of $5,000 a year in
salary. He makes the change at the
personal solicitation of the president and
Secretary Fairchild, with the latter of
whom he enioys the closest personal re¬
lations.
THE DEBT STATEMENT
issued Friday shows the decrease of the
public debt during the month of March
to be $12,808,467,71. The decrease of
the debt since June 30, 1886, was $70,
912,824,79; cash in the treasury, $453,-
117,086.64; gold certificates out-stand¬
ing, $94,046,015; $131,930,489; silver certificates out¬ of
deposit standing, outstanding, $7,135,000; certificates legal
tenders outstanding, $346,681,016; frac¬
tional currency, not including amount
estimated as lost or destroyed, $6,948,-
497.37. Total interest bearing debt
$119,571,112, Total debt, including
matured bonds, accrued interest and
debt which bears no interest $1,708,20V
513.64.
THE NEW DOCKS.
Secretary the Whitney board has approved select the
report of appointed to
sites for the two new dry docks author¬
ized by the last congress. The docks
will be located at the New York and
Norfolk navy yards, and will be built by
contract on the general plan of the Simp¬
son dry docks. They will be constructed
of timber, and the dimensions will be
about as follows: Length, 485 feet;
width, at top, 125 feet; and the width at
the bottom 60 feet. The amount of
money available for their construction is
$1,100,000. The New York dock will
cost more than the dock at Norfolk,
owing to the difficulty of obtaining a
good foundation. A good foundation of
the blue clay and gravel can be obtained
at Norfolk at a depth of 35 feet, while at
New York innumerable quick sands and
springs are found at a similar depth, ne¬
cessitating heavy piling to obtain, a foun¬
dation capable of supporting a vessel of
6,000 to 10,000 tons in weight. of the The
exact location in the yards two
docks cannot be determined, but borings
will be made within a short time to as¬
certain the nature of the foundation.
THE COMMISSIONERS MEET.
On Thursday all of the interstate corn
merce commissioners had arrived in the
city. Mr. Bragg, the last one to arrive,
came in on an early morning train.
They all met at the white house and
were introduced to each other by the
president. They were besieged during
the day by numerous correspondents, all
of whom utterly failed to get any ex¬
pressions from either of them. At 3
o’clock they called on the secretary of the
interior, before whom they took the oath
of office and received their commissions.
From thence they repaired to rooms where pre¬ for
pared for them on F street,
some time to come they are to perform
the duties of official railroad regulators, the
Judge Cooley was made chairman of
commission. Further organization will
be perfected at once, but nothing will be
j done before April 5th, at which time the
law goes into effect.
There are no five men in these United
States who are attracting the attention
of so many people. This little body of
men is to bold in its control thousands of
millions of property and the rights of
sixty million people.
mg.prepared a series of new designs of
embossed stamps for stamped envelopes
of one, two four and five cent denomi
nations The head of Franklin has been
selected for the one cent stamps, and
heads of Washington, Jackson and
! Grant f ° r the two ’ f ° ur f Dd d T e cent de ;
nominations, respectively. The general On
design of the e“tr new series t is unnonn.
£; States p r Postage,” ft instead of “U. S. Post¬
age,” as on the stamps now in use. This
j new series will be ready for use about
May 1. The border of the one cent
adhesive stamp has the been design slightly of the modi¬
fied to conform to two
cent stamp.
“So you’ve been out West?” he
queried of a citizen who returned the
other day. i
“Yes.”
“Lots of snow out there?”
“Millions of acres, I was snow
bound on a train for fifteen hours.
There Were twenty-two baUet girls in my
car.”
“And your wife was with you ?
“Alas ? Scott! yes.” but how must have
“Great you
suffered I ”—Arkansaw Traveler.
CINCINNATI'S ELEC1ION.
Workingmen Pledging Tlitttiselyes to Sup¬
port i heir Candidate.
Cincinnati, Unusual interest has been developed in
Ohio, within the past few
days in the municipal election, which
takes place next Monday in that city.
The labor party has been active in its
campaign work, holding meetings and ob¬
taining the pledges from voters to have support
ticket. They now claim to se¬
cured 11,000 on such pledges. The plan
was followed last fall in New York, and
the labor vote there was double the num¬
ber of pledges. Reckoning upon the
same increase tire re, the labor candidates
claim that they will poll 22,000 votes,
which would enable them to elect their
ticket. The total vote of the city will
not be far from 50,000. It is announced
that in the second, tenth, eleventh,
twelfth twenty-third and twenty-fourth
wards the democrats have indorsed the
ward officers nominated by the labor
party. A leading democratic local pol¬
itician says the increase of the labor vote
above the.number of pledges will not be
realized, but, on the contrary, there will
be fewer votes than pledges. will It is be clear, far
however, that the labor vole in the
from insignificant. Workingmen arranged take
large factories have time to work at a
holiday and give their to
the polls on election day.
TO BE DISCHARGED.
The Cotton Factors of New Orleans Will
Have No Union .Hen.
At a meeting of the cotton factors and
cotton buyers of New Orleans Friday,
President Walnisley in the chair, the fol¬
lowing joint resolutions were adopted :
Whereas, The experience business of six years
has demonstrated that can no
longer he profitably conducted, city as cotton
labor unions of this are now organ¬
ized. as our business is constantly being
rupted and is liable to interruption at
any time, we having practically and no busi¬ con¬
trol over our employes; as in our
ness is virtually suspended which conse¬ did
quence of a controversy we
not originate and in which we had no
part; be it, therefore, and
Resolved, By the cotton factors
buyers of New discharge Orleans, that the we weighers, pledge
ourselves to
classers, and others employed by us all un
lass they shall at once resign from impede or¬
ganizations that may m any way
the commerce of the city of New Orleans.
The following resolution was then
adopted with but two dissenting votes:
Resolved, That the New Orleans cot¬
ton exchange in general meeting asst*m
bled, indorses and approves the action
the cotton factors nnd cotton buyers,
embodied in the genera! resolution hen
with presented.
CORRUPTION IN OFFICE.
The grand jury ot Chicago investigated
a job Tuesday connected with the build¬
ing of a sewer from one of the public de¬
schools and it is said lias as good as and
cided to indict the two contractors
county commissioner on account of their
share in the transaction. The story goes
that the commission will be charged with
bribery, a penitentiary offense, and pur -
ishable with greater severity than any of
the other charges against .the boodlers.
Conspiracy will be charged against the
contractors and the evidence is repre¬
sented to be conclusive. . A common
rumor has all along stated there was $5,
000 involved in the artesian well job at
Ravenwood, and that this money was di¬
vided among the commissioners and one
warden. The jury gave up part of their
time to-day to fiud out the truth of this
story. Witnesses are said to have per¬
sonal knowledge of the transaction.
THE SNOW DRIFTS OF CANADA.
The snow blockade on the inter-Colon
ial railroad is unprecedented. One train
has been one hundred hours in covering
two miles and snow drifts where it now
stands completely cover the telegraph
poles. The outgoing English mail,
which left Friday, is still stuck between
Riviere de Loup and Remouski, while
the increasing English mail and an emi
grant special train are likely to Temain
over tonight at St. Flave. Every effort
is being made to have the line cleared
and no expense will be spared. The
Canada Pacific railroad cancelled all out
going trains Monday and Tuesday. The
drifts on the road are very deep.
A TEXAS BATTUE.
terrib { e fiht D occurred Friday J
^ miles below Hemphill in
county) between Captain Scott and
^ fa ^ of state rangers « on
side and Connor nd his
Qn ^ other> Three of the Connor fam _
ily ^ and one ranger £ were instantly killed,
captain ^ bad ott and another wounded of
men , if t fataU .
rangers are in hot pursuit. The
brought on the fight by firing from
bush upon the rangers, who were
ing timber thieves. A doctor has
sent for by the rangers to attend
wounded.
BLOWING UP A CANAL.
the A few nights sgo Cecil aqueduct on
canal at Defiance O., was blown open.
Next night armed men drove away the
guards who were watchiDg the reservoir
and blew out the banks in two places
and finally dynamite was used to destroy
toe locks. It will take half the summer
to repair the damage already done. The
governor has been asked for instructions.
There was a strong effort made recently
to have the legislature vacate the canal at
this point.
HE SOLS THE RACE.
The Captain of the Defeated Yacht, Danat.
lee* Tell* a Tale.
owner
denouncing all on board had left the
vessel. Soon a dozen or more prominent
yachtmen boarded the Dauntless to get
further particulars. But little informa¬
tion was volunteered to them by Mr.
Colt, who looked upon the sudden de¬
parture of the famous skipper as an out¬
rage. He declined to make a statement
beyond the assertion that Captain Samu¬
els and five of the crew had deserted the
vessel without satisfactory cause. Cap¬
tain Samuels is particularly bitter against
his former employer, and says in a most
positive way, that Mr. Colt is responsible
for the failure of the Dauntless in the
race. He charges that shortly after the
yacht lost sight of Fire Island light, Mr.
Colt became abusive. His language was
ungentlemanly, and it was only when,
Captain Samuels alleges, he was accused
of trying to allow the Coronet to obtain
an irrecoverable lead, that he refused to
listen further to his employer’s utter¬ the
ances. During the passage across,
progress of the yacht was handicapped
by her owner. When Captain Samuels
saw that Mr. Colt’s ill-advised instruc¬
tions were acting to the detriment of the
vessel’s speed, he determined to fill the
place for which he was engaged, or Colt re¬
linquish all responsibility, But Air.
disregarded his protests entirely and con¬
tinued to give orderB to the various men
at the wheel, notwithstanding Captain
Samuels ordered otherwise. Finally,
Captain Samuels says, the control of the
vessel devolved upon Mr. Colt, and he,
the captain, had only an outside voice.
He therefore, attributed the defeat of
the vessel to the mismanagement of her
owner, and his interference with the
standing and well regulated rules of sea.
A HORRIBLE MURDER.
A Fiend Murder* oud then Burn* His Wife
near Ada, Ala,
The particulars of the most horrible
crime in the criminal records of Alabama
have rust come to light. Last Tuesday
morning Tarleton Steele, colored, mur
dered and then burned his wife, near Ada,
in Montgomery county. About two
o’clock in the morning they had a quari el
and hot words led to blows. Tarleton
struck his wife on the head with an axe
handle, killing her almost instantly. He
then took the body and carried’it off to
a lonely place in the woods, a mile from
home, threw it in a gully, piled trash and
straw on it, then poured kerosene oil on
the heap nnd stuck fire to it. He then
returned home and left the body to be
cremated. The gentleman on whose
place he was living missed the woman,
but said nothing about it, and the mur
derer remained on the place a day and
night after the crime was committed.
Thursday morning he went back to the
woods and found that the body had not
been entirely burned up. lie put trasli
0 2L h R re aiDS ’ matCh t0
Suspicion fi 6 H Aroused,
had been and the
neighbors searched the woods and found
the remaining portions of the body. The
murderer was captured ten miles distant
and brought to Montgomery to jail. He
made a bill confession of the terrible
deed, and Bays he burned the body to
conceal the crime. The murderer is a
,„,U buck »g,o about twenty-five
EVIDENTLY A CRANK.
A Man Creates a Sensation In Clmttnnuuca,
Tenu.
A genuine sensation was created in
Chattanooga Friday by the arrest of a
man who gave his name as Doyle. Doyle
took supper at a Restaurant in the city
Thursday night, and refused to pay the
proprietor, and was in consequence he arres- took
sted. In submitting to the arrest the propri
occasion to lavish epithets on
etor of the restaurant, and another war
rant for profanity was secured. He was
taken before a city magistrate and com
mitted to the county jail in default of
$500. and remained iu cell all night. Fri
day morning, on his agreement,
to pay the cost of the arrest
and the restaurant man the warrant was
withdrawn. After this was done, he
I having in the meantime taken on a good
supply founded of officers whiskey, showed to the as- of
and bystanders rolls
greenbacks that were bestowed in various
parts of his person, amounting in all to
$19,000. This at once excited surprise,
and it was at once set down by the offi
cuds that Doyle was one of the notorious
express robbers about which so much has
recently been said. Deputy United States
Marshal Hill telegraphed the man’s de
seviption at once to various places in
hopes of identifying the man bnt received
no answer- Doyle, as soon as he gWt free,
left on the first train for parts unknown,
He was evidently “off” in some way, and
the officials think they have caught it
rich if they can only find out who he is.
KAUiROAIlS AND NEWSPAPERS.
Cincinnati newspapers appeared Friday
without the customary column giving the
time of aarival and departure of trains.
This is m accordance with the proposition
the railroad but but to accept tickets in
payment for all advertising. The railroad,
replied, accepting the proposition for ad
vert 1st int/madng merits which they should ordei.
and that the dady regeided p.m icat.or,
of time tables should not be a
an advertisement.
NUMBER 6.
AN EX-GOVERNOR SUICIDES.
Ex-Governor Remold*, of Miuourl, Jam**
Down atn Elevator Shaft.
act was mental derangement he superin¬
duced by hallucinations that was
about to become insane. In his pocket
book was found a letter to his wife, stat¬
ing that two years ago be contracted
malaria at Aspinwall and had failed to
recover, the disease settling in his spine.
Recently he had been troubled with
insomnia invited and him frequent join nervousness. his dead
Visions to
friends, and fearing lest he should be a
burden to his wife by becoming a luna¬
tic-having twice before been troubled
with dementia, and his estate of $25,000
being in order, unimpaired and product¬
ive, he determined to end his life.
Governor Reynolds was born in Char¬
leston, S. C. He studied in the university
of Virginia, and continued his studies in
Germany, graduating at Heidelberg in
1842. He spent one year in the university
of Paris; and was admitted to the bar in
Virginia in 1844. He was secretary or
the United States legation to Spain in
1846 and 1848. In 1859 be located at St.
Louis. In 1860 he was elected lieutenant
governor of Missouri on the same ticket
with Governor Caleb Jackson, and in the
civil war sided with the confederacy. At
the close of the war he went to Mexico.
In 1868 be returned to St. Louis. He
was a member of the commission sent to
South America about two years ago in
the interest of commerce with the United
States. In 1854.he fought a duel with
B. Gratz Brown, with rifles at thirty
paces, on the islands opposite Bt. Louis,
over a political discussion. Mr. Brown
was hit in the knee, but Governor Rey¬
nolds was not touched. It is believed
that Governor Reynolds only intended to
maim Mr. Brown. t
THEY WANT THE OFFICE.
Qno-Warranto Salt* Brought in a North
Carolina Court.
. . ,
nffirp^f veriste^of 0
• ,th ® g deeds of
Asnvrne, r». the f ees of which amount
., ,
about three „
to ro monthsawakened wakened
»um, deep has public for scyeral interest at. that £ a
democrat, J. R. a > ^Robert
tie .
meumbent, Cole a republican, and elect* ^ or nt 1S th e w
electron and failed to file a bond on tl e
day directed by ^ *■£*• * learned
argument was made>bj^ Major W.H.
^ alo “ e f° r the rea ‘ , ,Y 1 If." 1 jr;
M. E. Carter for the defendant Ilm t ,
honor Judge Graves, decided in favor of
the A defendant decision was and the also Tel rendered “^ 1 a PPf in a1 ^' the
similar coupon tax case ot IT A. Carper
F RichardL. llar ° f Fitzgeral . PR lai’from the
Um^ States mrcuit court lo t he east- ast
ern district of Virginia, FrizgeriUd, ^ the
appellee in this caB “’&
man for the firm of Austin, ™ & Co.,
doing business
without license, after he had madefan of
■
fer of tax-receivable coupon m payment
for such license. Upon a ^rom wn< custody ’ .
corpus he was discharged
by Judge Bond, of the n ‘b-tnet of ,
circuit court for the eastern
as circuit
chambers at Baltimore. The
mg*
at Asheville. This court holds that the
act of March 3, 1885, allows appeals decision in
habeas corpus cases only from a
of the circuit court, and that the decision
of the circuit judge sitting in chambers
is not a decision of the court, even al¬
though such judge may order the papers
filed, and his order recorded in the cir¬
cuit court. The appeal is, therefore,
dismissed. Qpinion by Chief Justice
Waite.
THE LONGSHOREMEN SUIT.
Ttae Case Against the Longshoremen Stri¬
ker* In Court.
Louis F. Post filed Monday, with the
clerk of the York, United States toJanies cncuit f ol jrt i.
of New answers Patrick Mr
Quinn, Timothy B. Putnam,
Gartland, John J. McKenna and James
McGrath, Knights of Labor, against
whom the Old Dominion Steamship com
pany brought suit for $20,000 damages,
and who were held in bail for trial. I ne
case grew out of the boycott of freight
handled by the company. In their an
swers Quinn, Putnam and McGaruano
deny all other allegations and claim that
the longshoremen were “locked out bj
the company because they refused to ao
cept a reduction of wages; that employe*
were paid by the hour only, and wer«
under no contract for any term of servic
whatever; that the longshoremen loi met t in
a peaceable and orderly manner e
purpose of maintaining the rate ot wage*
of their craft, and that they, tne deten -
ants, only acted as mediators to set e
the dispute. McKenna and Ac ra
admit being officers of the Ocean associ¬
ation of longshoremen, and claim that
thev were justified in their actions, being
under no contract to the Old Dominion
comp8n y The defendants ask lor jwig
ment rliemisaing the case, with costs,
moaloe J> to death.
gta(; . in tlle gecon ^ division. A west
bound engine and caboose smashed fun
5 R freight § train coming east. The
had no time to ^neer jump, and the
^ ^ ^ ^ McCom
^ p ; Dnod u d gcalded to death,
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