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he CONYERS WEEKLY
VOLUME X.
bliTHEBN PROGRESS.
; r,„nvmE NTS i* rAnlous
jet factory will be established at
jam. \ c.
Brothers will build an opera
"atTroy, nai Ala.
imktt factory will be established at
yie " Ala., shortly.
' build $15,000
»Lutherans W ill a
at Little Rock, Ark.
jjstia will build a large hotel on
nut street, Lexington, Ky.
1} $ have been subscribed toward
hotel at Oxana, Ala.
an & Company have started a
pry at Galveston Texas.
jesY.Whitted has built . a new to- ,
I factory at Durham, N. C.
■ere is talk of building* one mile ol
I Icompany railroad at Roekmart, Ga.
has been formed to build a
If) hotel at Tuscambia, Ala.
Kmc L(iiis cotton factory is Rock, to be Ark. started
year at Little
C rr j 8 «e factory will shortly be built
Usboro, L Ky.,by Indiana parties.
Elvtoii Land company will build a
Lining L mill at Birmingham, Ala. the
machinery is to be erected at
[r mine in Montgomery county, N. C.
Iterations are to be resumed at the
ejold mine in Moon county, N. C.
company has been chartered at
Lille, 'stock Miss., to build a waterworks,
company has been formed to
[for oil and gas at Flemingsburg,
■tile factory has recently been eatab¬
le near Okolona, Aliss., by Brown &
L Keystone Lumber company are
Bing a saw mill at Bogue Chitto,
I candy and cracker factory will be
tit Florence, Ala., by James C. An¬
ion.
Lid Mitchell will start a factory at
tabu* da., to manufacture bed
hik
AbMOO stock company is forming
fcild a cotton factory at Jackson. Ten -
be Nashville Tenn., Gas company
[sect a brick meter-house to cost
LO
trustees of the Female academy, of
o!is, Ala., will erect a $5,000
fog
Iff. Collins is rebuilding his saw-mill
vas burned some time since at. Ca
|i, Ga.
Re Brush Electric Light company
s contracted to erect a plant at. Talla
i, Ala.
peBear e decided Mountain to build Alining stamp company mill at
a
r. Ark.
F A. Carlton will erect a three-story
f front building at Athens, Ga., to
f $ 10 , 000 .
(hi Arkansas Midland railroad compa- i
Ml extend their road from Clarendon ‘
“ot Springe.
rrangemeats have been made looking
™ erection of a large cotton factory
olumbus, Ga. i
1b Atlanta Ga., company have leased I
ri>le quarries near Sparta, Tenn.,and !
11 develop them. 1
t is reported that a comoauv has been I
kil to develop 75 000 acres of land
P Allardt. ’ ' !
Term.
H [Paris dock mmrwmT Ra„ i.,, ,. • ® ,
Rseed’seSmtor Kv to 'mamifar f * t S
m..,,. i t Georgia . Midland j railroad . i
und -L°u8e company and de- ;
f a ™
j umbus, Ga.
“s Bessemer (Ala.) Foundry and Mu
Bi works have been organized with i
^tock a
" of $25,000.
H. Griffin will start another brick- i
»hy at Goldsboro, of 24,000 N. C. with a dailv :
bricks *
Mn
. Ji ^ termed imported at Tyler, that a Texas, stock company lias 1
’-Miactory to build a
and an oil mill
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The < Ark ‘) Building and
i f * J ™°n tai1 - has been incorporated,
•"■»**•
Kliives, Kraft & mm u
wilding the contract to 8cko ^ °
'■’rgima. to cost *17 * non at wheeling,
The CaW er,
■ z&S * opm ‘ e • f,c
tSK® Kansas Citv and Gulf railroad
?V° fa « ilci a touch road from
Bessemer Ala., and have
!& cv, C0Dt ract to .T. W. Worthington
'■
^road Henderson & Houston
J » new company bridge have .Ir commenced VYi work
, ^«G ^ISO.OOO. & So g n T exR R 1 11
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Tbf. f ... Paris
and Dardanelle
chaTtered capital stock $1,000
F to build a rail
m ?, n Smith - Ark., to Darda- -
miles.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 1881.
At Murphryville, Texas a jail is to be
built not to cost over $12,000 andacourt
house not to cost over $15,000.
The Shelby iron company, of Columbi¬
an:!, Ala., contemplate erecting one or
more iron furnaces at that place.
The Norfolk Terminal company, of
Norfolk, will build a large coal and iron ‘
pier at Lambert’s Point, Virginia.
M. Crawford, of Vicksburg, Miss.,
will erect a mill for cleaning the lint
from cotton seed, at New Orleans, La.
The capital stock of the Gulf Coal and
Coke company, of Mobile, Ala., will be
increased from $350,000 to $1,000,000.
The Young Men’s Christian Associa¬
tion of Charlotte, N. C., will erect a
building to cost from $12,000 to $15,000.
The Dallas Tex., Ice company, capital
stock $50,000, has been organized and
have nearly completed their ice factory.
The Alabama Great Southern railroad
will move 1heir machine shops from
Chattanooga, Tenn., to Birmingham,
Ala.
The Ileyno, Iron Mountain and St.
Louis railroad company has been charter¬
ed to build a railroad from Rey no to
Corning, Ark., 20 miles.
W. D. Wylie and W. M. Alexander
have made arrangements for the building
of an elevated railroad at Dallas Texas,
estimated to cost about $200,000.
The Talladega Land and Improvement will hold
company, of Talladega, Ala., capital a
meeting May 9 to increase their
stock from $500,000 to $750,000.
The Morrow Alining company, capital
stock $140,000, has been incorporated Morrow, at
Birmingham, Ala., by John C.
W. A. Walker, Jr., and George M. Mor¬
row.
Subscriptions are being received to¬
wards the organization of a company to
build a cotton factory at Spartanburg,
S. C.
A Philadelphia syndicate has purchased Bris¬
several hundred acres of land, near said, to
tol, Tenn., with a view, it is
erecting a large iron furnace and lumbei
manufactories.
The De Bardeleben Coal and Iron com¬
pany, of Bessemer, Ala., have purchased mineral
lately about 50,000 acres more of
land and will build two more iron fur
naces and 300 additional coke ovens.
The Riverside Land and Lumber com¬
pany will enlarge the saw mill of Crowd
er & Smith, at Riverside, Ala., and will
build a large planing mill. The company
has purchased 6,000 acres of pme lands.
The Sloss Steel and Iron company, ol
Birmingham, Ala., have purchased the
entire property of the Coalburg Coal and
Coke company. Tlie Sloss Steel and
Iron company 11411 only build one new
furnace, and will, it is said, begin work
on a steel plapt at once.
The Decatur, Cincinnati and South¬
western Railroad company has been in¬
corporated to build a railroad from De¬
catur, Ala., to Danville, Cy., and thence
to Cincinnati, O. The same company
has incorporated the Decatur, St. Louis
and South Atlantic Railroad company,tc
build a railroad to St. Louis.
THE PRESIDENTS LETTER.
What the Toronto Globe Has to Say ot
the Document.
Tokonto, Ont.,—The Toronto Globe
of Monday says: The letter of President
Cleveland to the president of the fishery
un } on a remarkable and important doc
ument. It is not such a letter as Ameri
cans interested in the fisheries desired to
receive from the president, hut the letter
was evidently intended as a warning to
Canadians, also. While we desire that
the rights of Canada be firmly and effi
ciently asserted and maintained, we hope
that American fishermen will not here
fused any privileges to which they are
entitled, and that they will never expert
ence un ; ust or unfriendly treatment from
those employed in the protection of out
rights. piit It would be folly, however, 1o
out of sight the fact that many in
the United States, including, apparently, his
the president himself and members of
cabinet, assert that fishermen of the
United States hsve rights in our waters
which we believe thev have not under
whatever. From the misunderstanding
i f we assert what we believe to be our
rights, greater misunderstandings mav
arise. This letter although sfudiouslv
moderate in tone, intimates plainly what
max follow. The position is, to sav the
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LAND GBABS IN MEXICO
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A nericaBS W h„ Are Sec u.in* Large Tract*
of t' an<l
xs
ern Mexico. The tract is traversed by
the Mexican Central and also by the In
ternational road, which Huntington is
building from Eagle Pass to Laredo O
this tract 1,000,000 acres is the finest
cotton land in the country. It » the
famous Laquna district
Hartford.Vnn., A company composed principally . . bought of
capitalists has
500,000 acres lyingln Sonora and Chihua
hua, all grazing aud agricultural land.
A purchase of 235,000 acres has beeu
made in the western part of Chihuahua
by Utah men. As this tract is adjoining the
thr.Mormon colony, the purpose of
purchase can be readily guessed.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP,
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
,vhat u Being Hone by the nenrt* Of Our
Government—The Week’s Review.
THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
Mr. DeLeon, jeeretary of the national
drill, says he has written no general letter
on the subject of the participation of
colored troops in the exercises of the
May encampment and drill in this city.
Several commanders of southern conip-t
nies have made inquiries regarding accord¬ the
matter,and to each he has inquiry, replied he
ing to the nature of the hut
has kept no copies of his letters. The
letter-, however, have all been published
in southern papers. He has stated the
ruling of the board of management to
be that colored companies, regularly or¬
ganized as national guards, which applied
before the first of April, would have
their applications considered without
discrimination.
The only colored companies which
applied were one from the District of
Columbia and two of regularly organized he
troops in Virginia. Mr. DeLeon says
has also stated that there would he no
social equality except such as soldiers
might want. their Virginia contingent troops will under form
a part of state
command of Brigadier Virginia volunteers. General Anderson Only
of the First
three companies—the Montgemcry True
Blues and Greys and the Atlanta Rifles—
have decided not to participate in the in
drill. Two companies in Texas, two
Mississippi and one in North Carolina
made inquiries, but they have not an¬
nounced their withdrawal.
A NEW SET OF RULES.
The commissioner of agriculture has
issued a new set of rules governing the
operations of the department in the sup¬
monia pression and and other exterpation infectious of diseases. jfieuro-pneu- The
chief of the bureau of animal industry
may cause exposed animals to be slaugh¬
tered whenever it is deemed necessary to
prevent a spread of the disease from one
state or territory to another. Provisions
is made for the appraisal of and payment
for slaughtered animals. Whenever it is
deemed necessary by the chief of the bu¬
reau to supervise and inspect, any lines of
transportation doing business in more
than one state and boats, cars and stock
yards, in connection therewith, he is re¬
quired to designate suitable inspectors
and make all necessary regulations for the
quarantine aud disinfection of such boats,
cars and stock yards as arc suspected Should of
heimr affected with the disease.
it be found impossible to enforce rules in
any state, the commissioner, if he thinks
the exigency requires it; will declare the
state in quarantine, and any person re¬
moving animals therefrom, except upon
a certificate of the inspector of the bureau,
will be prosecuted.
MUTILATED BANK NOTES.
There ivas received at the United
States treasury Thursday for redemption
a package of perfectly new United States
notes of small denomination-$l,000
which were mutilated by punches had
through them, through which a cord
been passed and then sealed on the out
side of the wrapper. The package was
sent to Washington by express, by a Na
tional Dank in Texas. The mutilation
was evidently intended as an additional
safeguard in transportation. This is said
to be the practice of many of the soutn
ern express companies in the transporta
tion of money to the treasury for redemp
tion, but the present is the first instance
where new, umnjureu notes have been
treated in this way. It is not known
whether these particular notes by the were mu
tilated by the bank or express
company, butitisthoughtatthe bank depart
ment that it was done by the to se
cure exchange on New Y'ork at the ex
pense of the government. Acting Ireas
urer Whelpley refused to receive t e
notes and directed their return to the
bank at its expense, with the statement
that such mutilation is considered a vio¬
lation of law and will not be permitted
AN interestino report.
The quarterly report of . he . ... , ..
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bureau of statistics is just out, and soows
some interesting figures. of the report
s£s?i&x^HC£i‘» Seventy or more pages is
estimates made by recognized authority
are given upon various features of tins
subject. In round numbers the consump
tion of distilled spirits, domestic and
imported in this country, is shown to
S i ed reuarda wines
8 ^ twen ncreaS ine hun ’ dfe as t hs g to 'thirty
JK bund reths. and malt from less than
^ ^ ^ moretban eleven llons<
f ^ borate statement made bv F N.
Ba reM itor of the Ne w York Grocer,
bv request ‘ of the chief of the bureau, is
. .. ’aveZe exi' other
^ n 5^ tbe P nresent 8 n
diture C o Un tr f" v per annum for malt
,. q j h re tail
“ > - ’ The drinking 9§5 popula- P
at (ml88B)^-t’eTckpiU .. lg86 . 417,
average expenditure per cap
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con. lamokt’s answer.
A delegation of Irish-Americans called the j
at the white house Monday to invite
president to attend a meeting to beheld
in the city to protest against the coercion
policy in Ireland. They saw Col. La- ;
raont and were informed that whatever
the president’s private views on the sub
ject. might be, it would be manifestly
improper ing for him to attend such The commit- a meet- I
in his official capacity.
tee were convinced of the wisdom of this
reasoning, and withdrew without further
effort to see the president.
The president has accepted an mvita
tion to review, on Monday next* a pro
cession of colored people on the occasion
of the 25th anniversary of emancipation
of slaves in the District of Columbia.
WANTS A JUDICIAL DECISION.
In relation to the reported conflict in
Maine between the state and United
States authorities respecting the authority
of a state court to compel the production internal
of records of the collector of
revenue for use in the prosecution distilled spir- of
persons accused of selling
its in violation of the state law, .lie com
missmner of internal revenue says that
Ins office Inis no disposition to interpose of
any obstacle to the enforcements state
Saws but that a provision similar to that
ment^f 0 an* i nteriud re venue "tax as^liq
nor dealer prima facie evidence of a vio
lation of state law, has been incorporated
in the statutes of several of the states;
that the question in issue iu Maine has
been raised several times in other states,
but never settled, and that it is his desire
to obtain a judicial decision for future
guidance in numerous cases likely to
ar ; s( ,
NIPPED IN THE BUD
A a Election Fraud Detected in Jersey City
Entire Board Arrested.
.Jersey City, N. J.—The entire elec¬
tion board of the eighth precinct, second
district, Jersey City, whose polling place,
the 600th, is on Mercer street, was ar¬
rested Tuesday afternoon for tampering consisted
with a ballot box. The board
of Patrick Golden, Judge Patrick Mc
Ginnis and Owen McCabe, inspectors,
and Cormae T. Dolan, clerk. At the
uoon recess Policeman Murphy saw Clerk
Dolan puiting the registry contained book into about the
ballot box. The book
thirty democratic tickets. The tickets
were folded and dropped into the box
before the clerk could be arrested. Mur¬
phy took the registry book out and found
that about 35 tickets had been carefully
folded and placed between the leaves.
A number of citizens witnessed the at¬
tempt and great excitement prevailed for
a time.
Officer Murphy immediately sent for
assistance and the entire board, together
with the ballot box and registry book,
were taken to the Gregory street police
station. Subsequently a new election
board was selected in the precinct and
the voting proceeded as usual. The
prisoners were immediately arraigned
before Justice Stilsing. They waived
examination and were held in $1,200 bail
each to appear before the grand jury.
Michael Kane, of 201 Wayne street,
made an additional charge against Dolan.
He swore that when he went to vote he
was told that his name had been checked
and that some one bad already voted for
him. The bail bond was then increased
to $2,400 for each of the prisoners.
Assemblyman Quinulty became their
surety.
THE BUBNT DISTRICT
Great Damage Dona to Farmers-SeTeral
LWei Lost.
Lincoln, Neb.—Along the branch line
of the Burlington and Alobile railroad, a
large number of settlers have lost their
all by prairie fires. Railroad men say
that for miles every foot of ground Cove 18
burned over. In Sheridan and
counties the fires have raged almost as
fiercely, and in one settlement four lives
were lost.
The report reached the telegraph thirty sta¬
tion, through a man who travelled
miles, and he said that not one house in
three in the fire tract remained unscathed.
Across the line in Nebraska, Beaver Bot¬
tom has been on fire for two days. A
large force of railroad graders on a line
being built in southern Furnas county
were surrounded in camp by the fire and
escape was only made by the greatest ef¬
fort, the men leaving their tents, clothes
and everything behind at the mercy of
the , flames, „ One man was so seriously
burne d that he cannot recover. A private of
telegram to this city from an officia
the road m th t vicinity estimates that at
:r tsrjsr sisr-sr *
very re ticent as to the damage incurred,
but among homesteaders and settlers in
northwestern Kansas, they must be very
great _ Part 0 f t h e town of Norcatier,
that was burned in the high wind, is re
nock river, Virginia, reports the destruc
tion of the village of Farnham by fire on
Monday last The population was three
hundred, and was entirely swept by due.
It 18 situated about seven miles from
-sharp’s wharf,on the Rappahannock and
midway betweeniHeathsville and \V,nr
saw. Among the heaviest losers are L,
L. Mozings, F. Mozings and R. L. Rey.
m.lds, whose dwellings were consumed.
The old Protestant Episcopal church )
built in colonial days, and one of the old.
est houses of worship in the state, was
burned to the ground. The amount of
could not ^ ascertained,
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
.
XTEMS OF INTERES T FROM VARI
orrs POINTS.
short Paragraphs That will Prove Enter- i
taining to Our Headers.
Montgomery, Ala., will select city
officers by primaries instead of by a con
vention.
Senator Wall proposes to amend the
coust j tution so that women can vote on
the j- 1 r quest 1 j on } n Fla. '
Greenville, 8. C., ... . ,
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before the interstate commerce convention
,n Atlanta, Ga„ on the 26th.
Real estate continues to change hands
in Fort Valley, Ga., and many inquiries
are made for both building and storehouse
lots.
Mallory’s bill prohibiting free
p asscs ove r railroads to delegates to po
]j t jcnl conventions will probably become
n p w j n Florida.
Hastewoodtownship.in 277to37,decided Chester county, in favor
s . c by a vote 0 f
q{ r subscription o{ $ U 0 00 to the cap
st£)ck of the chester and Camden
railroad company
The money to build a hotel at Oxford,
Ga If all been subscribed and work is
to be begun on it at an early date. It
will be located near the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad depot,
In Fayetteville, N. C., Mr. Andrew
Deal, while digging out the foundation
for the dam and wheelhouse of the elec
trie light mill, timbers came across a rock wall
and heavy five feet below the bed
of the creek.
The general government, at the solici¬
tation of Colonel W. H. Yarborough,
collector of internal revenue in the fourth
district, North Carolina, has located a
bonded warehouse in Fayetteville for the
storage of grape brandy.
A Mobile Ala. newspaper says at a
recent ball a gentleman wore the swallow
tail coat in which he was married fifteen
years ago, which seventeen other bride¬
grooms had worn, and which had done
duty at forty-three weddings.
The plans of the boys’ school in Annis¬
ton, Ala , have been received and put in
the hands of the contractors. The length
of feet. the building will be 128 feet, width
55 It will take the $10,000 donated
by Air. Sam Noble to complete it.
Sunday Mr. W. J. Bridges’ burned saw mill in
Fayette county, Ga., was to the
ground. It caught from carelessness in
regard to burning lumber saw dust. About $1,
000 worth of was destroyed and
about the same amount of damage was
done to the machinery.
The Athens council only appropriated
about $8,000 this year to the support of
the city schools, when the board of edu¬
cation asked for $9,500. This will be
supplemented by about $2,000 from the
state and poll tax, which will be amply
sufficient for the support of the schools.
The sinking of the artesian well at the
creosote works at Fernandina, Fla., was
put in full operation and has reached the
depth of over 100 feet. So far as the
work has gone the contractors find the
indications favorable for a speedy com¬
pletion.
The crib of Mr. Joseph AIcClelland,
full of corn and three horses, was burned
to the ground. A few hours later, Air.
Emile Poiret’s crib, situated at Plaisance,
La., eight miles north of Opelousas, was
also burned. The fires are supposed to
be of incendiary oriran.
Owing to the colff; dry weather which
has prevailed for several weeks the stand
of corn is very poor throughout the en
tire section around Minden, La., and
until it rains cotton will not come up.
Even now farm work is very much re¬
tarded by the dry, cloddy condition of
the ground.
Fort Valley, Ga., is a good site for any
kind of a manufacturing enterprise. Oak,
hickory and ash are found in abundance
around that place, and the hickory is
said to be of the finest and most durable
quality and of any handle in the south. A spoke,
hub axe factory is badly need¬
ed there.
Frank A. Butler three months ago
went out into a place north of Plant City,
Fla., which was then an old field covered
with persimmon bushes and weeds six
feet high. He went cleared to work—built land; cultivated fen¬
ces and a house;
it, and last week was selling and ship¬
ping vegetables from it.
Reports have reached New Iberia, La„
of a shooting affray that took place be
fore the Catholic church of Loreauville.
Pierce Herbert and F. Fourne't had a
misunderstanding, when one sought his ad¬ re¬
dress by attempting to cowhide
versary. After a short fight for the whip,
both parties began firing and both were
slightly wounded.
Ou Sunday night last, a negro tenant
living in a house on Mr. Jake Rhodes’
place about eight miles east of Greene
ville, Ala.,went off, leaving five children,
the eldest eleven years of age, fastened
up in the house. While absent the house
death. Cause of fire un n w .
On Monday night of last week Jackson
Ga., was visited by burglars. The store
of Bryan & Williams was entered and the
contents of their iron safe stolen. The
safe contained $700 in currency and two
gold watches. Six hundred dollars of
the money belonged the town council.
The safe seemed to have been opened by
an expert, as there was no evidence that
force was used to open it. Four hundred
dollars was offered for the apprehension
of the thieves,
NUMBERS.
%£
was found upon the battle ground 1867, of
“Guilford court house” in the year
eighty-six years after the battle was
fought. It was uncovered by the rains,
which washed a deep gully in Ihe field
near the spot where the deadly struggle
t o0 k p] ace between the Scotch Jiighland
ers and the Maryland Continental line.
The sword has beautiful chasing upon it,
and bears the coat of arms of some dis
tinguished family.
Col. R. J. Brownfield, of Statesboro
township, S. C., has the fossil remains of
some unknown animal, which has been
taken from a well over 75 feet in depth,
The fossil consists of the teeth and frag
ments of the jawbone of some small ani
" tc eth greatly resemble those
f a 8hark) although much smaller.
Tbey were em bedded in a smooth, dark
co i ore( j roc } £; which contained glittering After
p ar ticles supposed to be mica.
striking these fossils, in a distance of a
very few feet the workmen met with
eleven distinct strata of soil, all varying
.neatly in color and quality,
About sunset on Saturday Alcide evening Fils, last
a little colored boy named
aged nine years was playing on the rail¬
road track near Jeannerette, La. A bru
tal negro called Ben Williams came along
carrying a loaded shotgun. He ordeied
the boy to kneel and say his prayers. The
terrified little negro obeyed the^ orders,
when the monster drew the trigger of
the gun, lodging a load of shot in the
neck of the boy, who expired evening. in great ag¬ On
ony at 3:30 o’clock next old
being arrested Williams mac?e the
plea of not knowing that the ,S un ' waa
loaded.
MUTINOUS CONVICTS.
The North Carolina Penitentiary the Scene
of (treat Excitement.
Raleigh, N.C. —This city was thrown
into a state of high excitement Saturday
by the riot alarm being given. The cause
of the alarm was a telephone the message aid of
from the penitentiary asking Governor’s
the police and military. The
Guards, under the command of Captain and
Englehard, assembled at the armory
thence went to the penitentiary, a half
mile west of the city, while the police the
and many citizens also hastened to
scene of trouble.
Just before seven o’clock, while the
convicts were in the yard, a negro pris
oDer named Jim Lewis, from New Man
over county, drew a knife and threatened
to kill anybody and everybody. The
guards surrounded him, and finally one
of them struck him such a sharp blow
that he dropped the knife. He was then
seized and taken to the hospital. As
soon as Lewis was struck some of the
other convicts shouted out that Lewis
was killed. Upon this it appears the
convicts made signs as if preparing for a
rush and the guards ran for their guns.
It was not desired to kill the convicts,
but to overawe them. The convicts ga
thered in the rear of the yard and blocked
the corridors and shouted and yelled,but
refused to enter the cells. Thereupon sent a
call for the police and troops was
out. The negro Lewis, who started the
trouble, is in for life for rape, and is a
bad man. An official at the penitentiary ringleader
said that he was no doubt the
in what was a plot for mutiny. The con
victs are so well and kindly treated that
they have become hold, and the people To
in the city were greatly alarmed.
add to the trouble the gas went out, and
altogether it was decidedly an unpleas¬
ant evening.
the troops enter.
The troops entered the penitentiary At that
about niue o’clock at night. and fifty
hour, all of two hundred con
victs were in cells save about sixty, all of
whom were negroes. These tore up a
part of the brick pavement of the cell
corridor, but made no attempt at attack.
At midnight f he gas was again turned
on, and the great building was illumi¬
nated. No further attempt was made to
force them into the cells. They waved
red flags from the windows of the prison
which were observed by hundreds oi
persons who had assembled near the
building. The talk they indulged General in
was very violent. Adjutant prison,
Jones and Warden Hicks, of the
had a conference with Governor Seales,
who gave instructions that bloodshed
must be resorted only as an extreme
measure, but it must follow the slightest placed
attempt to escape or attack. He
the military under the control of Warden
Hicks. The latter and a member of the
board of directors of the institution
spoke to the convicts. The latter refused
to go iu the cells, saying that they
wanted certain grievances redressed. The
authorities informed the convicts that
they must surrender and obey the regula
lions, and refused to make any terms.
The convicts then promised to obey and
enter the cells, which they did at the
usual hour for locking up. The excite¬
ment here was remarkable, and was made
more intense by the evident sympathy of
some outsiders with the mutinous con
victs.
A TERRIKl-E CASUALTY.
1 alestine, T I „ s s., _ whi i e viewino - the
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fatally and a number seriously injured by
the bursting of a large water tank. It
is supposed the collision of the freight
trains in the immediate vicinity in the
morning had jarred the immense tank.
containing one hundred thousand cracked gallon? the
of water, and loosened or
hoops, which gave away while the large
crowd of country people were standing
under the structure, when it collapsed
and fell, burying people under the wreck¬
age and water.
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