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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1887)
THE CONYERS WEEKLY ; •* VOLUME X, )RUGc DE, M. R. STEWART 1 BMERCE street I CONYERS, GA. tesh Line of Drug 8 and Fancy Goods just received, and will from kept constantly on hand. All kinds of DRUGS, MEDI dale be ^ES PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES- TOBAC ’ FANCY TOILET SOAPs, giGARS , STATIONERY, ld m fact every thing to he found in a Class DRUG STORE. My terms are STEICTLY CASH! jid this ccount I can offord to sell my goods low, in fact on CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST MY PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT IS COMPLETE! null prescriptions sent to me will be promptly and carefully Compounded. I Sell The Famous A. Q. C. onceeded to be the best blood purifier known to the science* m you want any thing in my line call on VERY TRULY DR. M. R STEWART, HYERS i GEORGIA, —ALL KINDS OF— JOB WORK. —SUCH AS I tads, letter Heads, Note Heads, Statements, [metopes Cards, Pamphlets, Circulars, k, Executed ip $tyle! I have an extra fine Press, Iarg*e well-selected line of Type and stures, and will not be Underbid su on any Class of work. Give me a Call! CONYERS. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1887. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR ! NATIONAL CAPITAL, * 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, r
