Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE CONYERS WEEKLY v.;
VOL. X.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
Oosslp About the White House-Army und
Navy Matters—Our Relations With
Oilier Nations,
CONGRESSIONAL.
On motion of Senator Ransom, the
Senate bill appropriating $500,000 for the
erection of a light house at or near Dia¬
mond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, N. C.,
was taken from the calendar and passed. bills
The Senate took up private pension calendar
on the calendar. AVhen the was
exhausted, there had been Richardson, 108 private
pension bills passed... .Mr.
of North Carolina, from the House com¬
mittee on printing, submitted a report
upon the resolution directing an inquiry
as to why members of Congress could not
procure books standing to their credit ou
the books of the doorkeeper. The re¬
port shows that there is a small shortage
in the number of copies of five publica¬ that
tions, and it makes note of the fact
a shortage of 4,000 volumes in the pub¬
lication of the agricultural report for 1819
was made good by Mr. De frees, the pub¬ of
lic printer, he procuring that number
volumes from a private book'dealer iu
Washington. The House met in the
evening for debate upon the Pacific rail¬
road telegraph bill. The speakers were
Anderson, of Mississippi; Guenther, of
AVis*onsin; Lind, of Minnesota; Ander
son and Hopkins, of Illinois. All fa¬
vored the bill, and held that subsidized
roads should be compelled to fulfill lit¬
erally the requirements of their charters
and maintain telegraphs; and that their
contracts turning over to Western Union,
control of the telegraph service along
their lines were illegal, void and against
public policy. There was nobody pres¬
ent to champion the railroad companies
and Western Union.
In the Senate, Air. Beek introduced a
hill to reimburse states for interest paid
on moneys expended in raising troops for
the War of the Rebellion. Referred.
The Senate then resumed the considera¬
tion of the Blair educational bill, and was
addressed by Air. Hale in opposition. A
paper contributed by a constitutional
lawyer ou constitutional objections to the
bill, was read by Air. Alorgan, and after a
brief speech by Mr. Saulsburv against the
bill, the debate was closed by Mr. Blair
in a final argument in advocacy of the
bill. The bill was then passed, yeas, 39;
nays, 29. The bill appropriates annually
for eight years, sums to be “expended school to
secure the benefit of a common
education to all, children of the school
age, living in the United States.” There
are to be separate schools for white and
colored children... .In the absence of the
Speaker, Air. Cox, of New York, presided
over the House. Mr. Morrow, of Cali¬
fornia, presented resolutions of the San
Francisco chamber of commerce, urging
the Pacific.coast.delegation in Congress
to use all possible means to defeat any
action which contemplates a change iu
the present duty on sugar, and the estab¬
lishment of a bounty system. Air. Phelan,
of Tennessee, from the committee on
commerce, reported a bill for the con¬
struction of a revenue cutter for use at
Charleston, that S. C. Air. Burnes stated
offered the committee amendment on appropriations
propriation an making an build¬ ap¬
for the completion of
ings at the following points: Aberdeen,
Miss., $4,000; Charleston, S. C., $188,
000; Jackson, Aliss., $1,000; Lynchburg,
Va., $3,000; Pensacola, Fla., $3,000'
Richmond, Va., $33,000.
GOSSIP.
The House Committee on Territories
considered the questions relating to tlie
admission as states of Dakota, Alontana.
Washington decided and New Mexico. It was
to formulate an omnibus enabling
act for the four territories.
The House committee on agriculture
decided to report favorably the Hatch bill
to create a new executive department to
be known as the Department of Agricul¬
ture. Portions relating to the labor bu¬
reau in proposed new department
vvere ■ omitted at the request of the laboi
committee.
After daily sessions for the last two
weeks, the fisheries commissioners com¬
pleted their labors and signed the treaty,
which, isfactory it is believed, will result in a sat¬
settlement of the disputes that
have existed for almost a century between
this government and Great Britain over
the North Atlantic fisheries.
The interstate commerce commission
rendered a decision iu the case of William
H. Heard vs. the Georgia Railroad com
pany. The commission holds that the
petitioner, fendant's a colored passenger on de¬
roads between Atlanta, Ga,, and
fare, Charleston, S. C., who had paid first-class
onable was subjected to undue and unreas
prejudice and disadvantage; being
compelled to travel in a car of inferioi
accommodations, of which only one-halt
was other assigned half to colored passengers, the
being used as a smoker for both
yvnite and colored passengers; and that
lit is the duty of carrier, under the law,
r ,J Ornish to passengers paying the saint
pjre, P equal accommodations and protec
! j>n, without discrimination account
P' to'or. on
But if the separation of white
pncl colored passengers is expedient for
(adequate reasons, such a separation is not
unlawful, if the accommodations and
comforts for colored passengers are in all
lespects equal to those for white passen¬
gers paying the same fare.
OHIO’S earthquake.
People in Akron, Ohio, were thrown
out of bed, and windows and ceilings
crumbled, while the ear.h rocked, the
convulsions being preceded by terrific re¬
ports of an explosion.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1888.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
Gadsden’s county roads are to be im¬
proved. ... DeLand’s artesian well is now
down 435 feet ... A revival is now going
on in the DeLand Baptist church... .Air.
John Holden, of Orlando, will plant six
acres in tobacco this season.... Mr. Llew
elleu, of Boston, shipped Gainesville 40,000 and tomato Loch
plants .The last week Cocoa to people indig¬
bie.. . are very
nant over the fact that express packages
for their place are put off at Rockdale....
The pear trees roundabout Archer are
blooming nicely. Over three hundred
frees in that section will bear this season.
The duplicate portions to the parts
....
3 f the Sanford post-office fixtures that
were lost iti the fire have arrived, and the
allice is now being put in fine shape.. .
Hawthorne has a Farmers’ Alliance. L.
VV. Fennel was elected president; AY. J.
Waits, vice-president; R. E. Johnson,
secretary; J. R. Tompkins, treasurer; AY.
C. Johnson, chaplain... Pensacola,sends
a petition to Washington asking that a
full corps of officers be sent to the Pensa¬
cola Navy Yard, and that a school ship
be stationed there for the training of
young men in the science and practice ol
seamanship.....The Gainesville Record
warns its readers against parties traveling
in Marion and Alachua counties claiming
to sell confiscated goods, and making
false representations to rope in the com¬
munities where they travel. It is said
they are sharpers, and are fleecing and
swindling many of the country people....
The Arcadia truck-growers are receiving
good returns from the vegetables they are
shipping off... .The farmers in the vicin¬
ity of Arcadia talk of organizing a club
for their mutual profit and protection.... Arcadia Ab¬
At the last meeting of the
stainers, A. II. Williams was chosen
president, Miss Mabel Arnold vice-presi¬
dent. and Soab Kinsey secretary .. .Rev.
Mr. Keeley and wife at Palatka from In¬
dianapolis, Ind., and the fol¬
lowing evening some one entered their
apartments there and stole $55... .Atthe
Orlando armorv the other night, just be¬
fore the drill began, Captain Shine, in
behalf of the company, presented Institute, toCapt.
Allen, of the Kentucky Military
an elegant gold watch ... A little Cuban
boy named Dominquez, the son ol a wid
ow was fouud drowned in the break
water at Fort Taylor, Key West..,..
Governor Perry has requested the resig¬
nation of Sheriff H. D. Holland, of Du¬
val county, in consequence of the escape
of George II. Carpenter. Governor Perry
holds that Carpenter's eseftpe displayed a
laxity of official duty that he could not
overlook.... Leroy is to have a 25-room
hotel.... About two-thirds of Orange
county’s taxes have been paid in ... The in
Waldo ice factory will begin'operations of
about a fortnight... .James Barrett,
Si 1 ver Springs Park, has twenty-two acres A
planted in oats, and three in rye....
Lutheran Church has been Pennsylvania organized at
Martin Station, among the
colonists ...The Ocala Grace improved, Episcopal
Church is being enlarged be added... and .It is
ami a new tower will
stated that- the Tavares, Apopka A Gulf
Railroad will soon resume construction
southward... .The J., T. & K. AY. Rail¬
road has purchased the steamer S. v.
White, now on the Indian River, to be
run as a mail boat between Titusville and
Melbourne... .Baron Luttuchan, who lias
a handsome place in Alachua county, near
Earl ton, has 2,500 grape vines out in his
vineyard, 3,000 iu a nursery, and over
10 000 cuttings set out ...St. Clouds'
immense sugar mills will start up, and
continue operations until the present stock
of cane is used up. At St. Cloud there
is about one thousand acres of cane now
nl anted, and hundreds of acres around on
the lake shores. Next season the acreage
will be vastly increased.
A HANDSOME GIRL
Chainedto a Negro Because Slie Forged for
n finall Amount.
At the Inst term of the district court at
San Antonio, Texas, Rosa Schmidt, a
German girl 18 years old, was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary for forg¬
ing a check bearing the name of Dr.
Corcoran, head veterinary surgeon at the
United States post, in that city. She had
been employed as a servant in his family,
found his check book lying around, and
;liolight it would be an easy way to get a
little money, and forged liis name for a
small amount. She made no attempt to
imitate his signature—did fact—and payment not know
enough, in was
promptly refused. She was a fair, deli¬
cate blue-eyed and golden-haired and naturally girl,
utterly inexperienced, shy and retiring. Great
bright and very
efforts were made to secure her pardon.
The judge who condemned, the jury who
tried, the attorney who prosecuted peti¬ her,
and numerous outsiders signed the
tion, because her fate has excited a gene¬
ral ’sympathy. Governor The Ross, papers but were action for¬
warded to no
has been taken. The penitentiary con¬ and
tractor called for the prisoners there
left with them for the Schmidt. penitentiary. She
Among them was Aliss
was very submissive, making no outcry.
Despite her quietude, the man in charge
placed a chain around her neck and yoked
her to an exceedingly brutal negro convict,
who goes up for a term of years. In this
condition she was driven through condition the
streets to the depot, and in this
she will probably make the long trip to
Huntsville. The action of the contrac¬
tor has awakened wide-spread indigna¬
tion.
CORNER IN SUGAR.
Men in the sugar trade in New York
were excited over the report that the
members of the sugar trust had decided
to ship large quantities of the best refined
sugar to London, in order to keep up the
price of refined sugar in this country by
relieving the market here of any surplus
and creating a shortage, or what would
practically be a “corner” in sugar.
A CYCLONE
VISITS AN ILLINOIS TOWN AND
MAKES HORRIBLE HAVOC.
.Unity People Are Killed—Churches, liunks
and Hotels Laid Low-Fire Added to
to the Horrors—Ol her Seelies.
At about 5 o’clock in the afternoon a
cyclone struck Alt. Vernon, Ill., and left
it in ruins, and killed fifteen to twenty 1
people, and it is feared many more than
are known to have been killed will be
found among the ruins of the buildings.;
Fire immediately broke out all over the
city amid the ruins, spreading rapidly, (
owing to the damage done to engines by
the wind. The storm passed from the
southwest and had a rotury motion. It
swept down with fearful fury, then’car¬ striking
first just South of the city ball,
ried away the third and fourth stories of
the Mt. Vernon mill. From there it
swept on in a path five hundred yards
wide. The Methodist church fell. Just
a few minutes before 250 people left the
Sunday-School room. The Commercial
house lost its third story. Next the wind
struck the county courthouse, and ren¬
dered it a heap of ruins. By rare luck,
however, the county records were saved.
Crew’s block, oil the south side of the
square, is leveled with the earth, and un¬
der it was found the body of John Crew,
(lie owner of the block, formerly of Chi¬
cago. The roof and second story of Strat¬
ton A Co.’s hardware store was blown
away. A large two-story brick school
house did not withstand the terrible
shock any better than the smallest house
in the track of the cyclone. The Ward large
two story frame house of George
was picked up and carried about twenty
feet, and left unhurt, while the two brick
buildings within ten feet were left in
ruins. The loss cannot be estimated, but
not less than a million dollars worth of
property has been destroyed by the cy¬
clone and fire in that neighborhood. Tin
sky lias cleared, and no clouds give any
intimation of the disastrous storm of a
few hours ago. It is growing colder, and
many homeless people will suffer if the
weather becomes severe.
Reports are coming in from the coun¬
try, and the storm seems to have swept
everything for miles. Incalculable loss
of life and great suffering will follow, un¬
less outside assistance is given to Mayor
G. II. llarnell, who will give it to the
proper committee. A meeting of busi¬
ness men was held, and committees ap¬
pointed to care for the dead and wounded,
and to protect property as much as pos¬
sible. Many people who escaped with
their lives have nothing besides. Many
are walking the streets with no home to
go to. The north side of the courthouse
square is injured considerably. Howard No build¬
ings were wrecked except &
Stratton’s. The wounded are being cared
for by the physicians in the best possible badly
manner. The railroad shops were
damaged, and a great number of homes
destroyed. The people are out doors who
lived in the track of the storm. The dead
and the dying are scattered throughout
the city. All the doors of the remaining
houses have been thrown open to the less
fortunate.
Three-fourtlis of the. business portion of
the city is ruined financially. The public
square is in the center of the town. The
courthouse is in the center of the square.
The school building is iu the northwest
part of the city, and all the dwellings in
that part of the city are destroyed, and
the ruins of some are still burning. In
all, five hundred buildings are destroyed, dead
and many others injured. The are
now being gathered at the converted supreme court¬ into
house, which has been a
hospital for the dead and wounded. This
building is also damaged, but not seri¬
ously. The last reports show twenty-nine
dead and about 100 injured, some of whem
will die before morning. Later reports Eddy
say two more have died. Theyare
Alexey and Airs. Colonel Cooper.
A number of men who were struck by
falling timbers, and whose names cannot
be learned at present, are reported badly
injured and dying. The storm was pr e
ceded by hail, but not more than five
minutes elapsed had until the the doomed fearful
destroyer from swept the over southwest. The
town. It came
buildings were wrenched and twisted,
and then dashed into pieces, total
wrecks. The storm passed a little
south of the city hall, missed Joe
Chance's house, swept away the third and
fourth stories of Alount Vernon mill, and
destroyed nearly every house from the
mill north foraspaqeof about fifty yards.
The entire west side of the square was
wrecked. The county house was struck
and the building reduced to a
massive pile of ruins. The clerks
have worked into the records,
and they are saved. R. E. Ryan escaped
in a manner almost incredible. He was
standing by told J. C. Murray, in Crew's
block, and him to run, but Murray
remained and was killed. Ryan ran west,
and finding the street full doorway, of flying he'd tim¬
bers, jumped into the which to
the latch and the building against
he was standing, fell around liim, but In
escaped untouched.
A. B. Cox's store, G. W. Alorgan’s jew¬
elry store, Maxey, AVest A Swift’s store,
and Jackson’s saddlery store, are in ruins,
and on the south side of the square.
frame buildings, though injured, escaped
destruction. Ilasserman’s bakery, the
Baptist church, Cook’s drug store, Man
ion's saloon, Perry’s hotel and Stratton A
Johnson's brick store, were leveled with
the ground. The entire east side of the
square is destroyed, and in one of the
buildings John AV aIters and child lost
their lives, as did Henry "Waters, father
of John. Airs. Waters was found with
her babe in her arms, both dead. On
the northeast corner of the square IIow
ard Bros. A Co.'s grocery was blown
down and the roof and second story of
O. L. Stratton A Co.'s hardware store
was blown away, while the frame hotel
adjoining was unharmed. Across to¬
wards the northeast portion of the city
swept !>v the storm,and u number of people
.were killed and a school building was
blown down. The Louisville A Nash¬
ville railroad passenger and freight de¬
pots and round house at Alt. Vernon were
badly damaged, and the freight and mas¬
ter mechanic’s offices were wrecked. Two
cabooses were blown from the track and
turned bottom up. The following em¬
ployes were killed,or injured: Engineer
Charles Cummings, of Evansville, in¬
stantly killed; Engineer P. Lillicrap,
dangerously wounded; Brakemau Kelly,
hurt in back, knee and left foot; Tele¬
graph Operator Allen, bruised nit
about the head; find a number of
other employes, and members of tlieir
families, were more or less injured.
Twenty-seven dead bodies have been
taken from the ruins, and 350are in jured
and missing.
The south portion of Mt. Vernon is the
newest part of the city and has many
large and tine buildings. The court¬
house lias not been injured, but it
stands alone. All around it is ruin and
desolation, and it is now being used as a
hospital for the wounded. Many are
suffering greatly. It is uow thought that
the northern portion of the town will es¬
cape fire, which is couiined to the east
and south and west sides, and being
fought manfully. A pathetic incident of
the disaster is the fact that the operator
at Mount Vernon and of the Louisville
and Nashville wire, whose name is Year
wood, has an uncle, aunt and cousin dead
in the ruins, and the poor fellow, with
heart bursting with grief, staid manfully
at his post of duty. Four men in Evan's
bank were imprisoned in the ruins of the
building and burned to death. Their
cries of pain and distress were agonizing reach
in the ex'reme, but nothing could
them.
SERIOUS FIRES.
{Manufactories* Hotels and Newspaper Of¬
fices Destroyed iu the North.
The entire building of the Elmira, N.
Y., Advertiser was burned. Nothing was
saved but a few files. The bindery,com¬
posing room and editorial employes all
bad narrow escapes. The Sunday Tid
inys office, next door south of the Adver¬
tiser, was also totally destroyed.
The large four-story furniture store
of J. AL Robinson & Sons, one
of the finest between New York and Buf¬
falo, was also burned, Charles Bently,
a member of book and ladder company,
No. 1, was struck by a falling wall and
fatally injured. Steamers were sent for
funu the Reformatory, La France fire en¬
gine manufactory, Corning, Oswego and
Ilorseheads.... A big fire is raging over
several blocks situated west of the Union
Depot, in Providence, It. I., and involv¬
ing tially a number of big brick buildings par¬ and
occupied by manufacturers
jewelers, several hotels, including the
Aldrich house, and stables and carriage
houses. The four-story brick block, where
the tire started, was tlie Robinson house,
owned bl William II. Robinson’s widow,
and it was filled with carriage stock,sash
and blinds and other inflammable mate
rial. The whole block, enclosed by
Fountain, Eddy Union and Washington
streets, was totally cleared out....
The extensive works of the Collis Paper
Manufacturing company, at North Wil
braham, Mass.", caught fire in the morning
and was destroyed. The fire was
discovered in the fifth story,
where the storage department is
located. The flames soon spread made to rapid the
elevator shaft, and then
progress. The main building was and 200
feet, 60 feet wide, five stories high,
had a large extension. It was built of
brick, and contained many thousand dol¬
lars .worth of machinery, some of which
may be saved. Loss estimated at a
quarter of a million dollars, covered by
insurance.
BOLD OUTRAGE.
A Boy Stolen in Chnltunooca. Tenu., nut*
Carried Ofl'to the Mountain!!.
A band of Gypsies camped on Lookout
Alountaiu, were riding along Boyce
street, in Chattanooga, Tenn., when one
of them threw a lasso and caught James
AYilliams, all year old boy, around the
neck. He was hauled into the wagon,
and, notwithstanding his cries, he was
compelled to surrender. The capture
was made in the residence portion of the
city. Tlie boy was taken to the moun¬
tain, when he again began crying and
wanted to return home. He was tied
with ropes and brutally beaten, so that
his body is covered with stripes from
head to foot. After the terrible beating
had been administered he was takeu and
tied to a tree and left there for a few
hours, until the The* Gypsies could get ready
to move on. little fellow watched
his chances and managed to untie the
ropes, and while the Gypsies had tlieir
hacks turned, made his escape and ran
all the way to the city. The circum¬
stances were reported at police headquar¬
ters and Deputy Sheriff Spencer, armed
with a warrant and summoning a posse
of men, started in pursuit of the Gypsies
who are living on the mountain. The
injured boy is badly hurt and is in a seri¬
ous condition.
KAll) ON ALABAMIANS.
Deputy Revenue Collector John T u Aliekle i .
returnee to Montgomery from Randolph
* n d Clay counties, and reports that the
following large illicit distilleries have
been captured. Bethel Wheeler’s still,
Fern Cliff, Larkin ^ A Duncan s still, the
stills of Isaac Barnes and J. M. & S. A.
Nicholas, Harty Coffee s still, John Fit
ner’s still, near Wheelerville, and Randolph
county, six large fermenters 300 gal
b )ns mash. Toni laylor and Lute
A ates, AV edowee, Randolph county, a
iarge still, and Andrew A Harrel s still,
containing 2,000 gallons of beer.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
ROILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES INTERESTINGLY STATED.
Accidents on Laud ami at Sea—Suicides—
New Enterprises - Religious, Social ami
Temper unco Mutters.
Mack Boyce, a young son of Postmaster
Ken- Bovce, of Augusta, Ga., was thrown
from a horse and badly hurt.
A bill lias been introduced iu the Flor¬
ida Senate to compel railroads to furnish
convenient and comfortable accommoda¬
tions for passengers, white and black, tire
same, however, to be separate.
Another railroad accident occurred on
the Port Royal A Augusta railroad.
About 5:30 o’clock one morning the
third section of the up through freight
train, No. 14, ran into the second section
at Beech Island, S. C.
Wes Brinkley was arrested in Russell
county, structions Ga., charged the with placing Girard ob¬
oir Mobile & Rail¬
road track. There are six negro prison¬
ers confined in the Russell county jail,
charged with attempting to wreck trains
on tliis road.
As a freight train was approaching
Douglasvilie, Ga., John Mabry, a colored
brakeman, while attempting to step from
the caboose to a box car, slipped and fell
between them. The deceased was about
25 years old and lived in Carrollton, to
which place his remains were sent.
Louis Edmunds, colored, was accident¬
ally shot and killed by Paul Roberts, a
clerk in the store of AY. A. Kelly &
Bros, at Mouticello, Ga. Edmunds had
borrowed a pistol from Roberts,and went
iu it iu the store to return fired, it, and in putting
a drawer it hitting him in the
abdomen.
The frame building of Asbury A Son's
gas works, at Greenville, S. C., caught
lire through the carelessness of a colored
man. The fire burned rapidly, making a
blaze which illuminated the city foi
squares from the fire. The property was
uninsured. The town will probably be
without lights for several days.
The Cisco bank, of Texas, was robbed
by four men, who entered on the pre¬
tense of wantingabill changed, “held up”
the cashier and two customers, who were
in tlie bank, cleaned out the safes of
about $(>,000 and some valuables on stor¬
age, mounted their horses and escaped,
firing a salute with their revolvers as they
rode out, of town.
For some months past a number of
Mormon elders have been preaching in
llie counties about Augusta, Ga., and it
is said have been quietly doing theii
proselyting work among the factory peo¬
ple. Six elders and two women came
into Augusta on the fast train from Gl ove
town. There is much dissatisfaction at
their presence in Augusta, and if any
pretense for it is given by tlieir conduct,
they will be driven out.
Edward Best, of PhilaJelphia, James
Parker, of Indiana, and William Andrews,
of Richmond, were arrested at Norfolk,
Va., for robbing the post'office at Salis¬
bury, Aid. Best had on his person about
$200 in money, a tin funnel for using
powder to blow open a safe, and a bull¬
dog pistol. thread Andrews had $100 and a
spool of for use as a signal cord.
Parker had $150 in money and $500 in
Stamps, and a bull-dog pistol. The ex¬
tent of the robbery was about $1,500.
The superior court grand jury at Sa¬
vannah, Ga., made special presentments
against Magistrate Thomas J. Sheftall for
malpractice Wethcrhorn in office; against Constable
Henry for extortion, and
against Julius Kaufman for keeping a
gaming room. Magistrate Sheftall is pre¬
sented for two offenses. The first
charges that the justice issued a warrant
against AY. At Shinall, charging him with
keeping settled a gambling room and afterward
the ease for $25.
An attempt was made to wreck a freight
train road on the Memphis Rock, sixty & Charleston miles Bail
at Paint west of
Chattanooga, Trim. A freight ear stand¬
ing on the siding was run down the
switch so that it projected about two feet
over the main track, A west bound
freight train miles tunning at the rate of
twenty-five an hour, struck the car,
turning the engine over on its side and
wrecking the whole train. The engineer
and fireman were badly hurt.
J. H. White’s dental office at Elizabeth
City N. C., was and robbed, kerosene thrown
on the floor a stove overturned. The
building was only partially burned. De¬
tectives were put at work. A kerosene
bottle was found, and also foot-prints
which were clearly those of a lame man.
Supicion has centered on Dr. E. B. Dob¬
son, a dentist, whose office is not far
from that of White’s. Dobson has been
arrested and part of the stolen propeity
found in his office concealed in an old
trunk.
THE COLONEl/S generosity.
An Atlanta, Ga., committee of ladies
having charge tabernacle of tlie called erection Col. of a L. tem¬ F.
perance on
Grant, whose liberal public spirit has so
often shown itself. lie received the com¬
mittee quite cordially, and agreed to
donate a site for the temperance taber¬
nacle. The committee will now turn its 1
attention to formulating designs for a
tabernacle that will seat at least 10,000
people. The edifice will be used for
holding large temperance, educational
and other mass meetings.
AVHAT ni! SAYS.
Frank AI. Irion, who lately levanted
from Birmingham, Ala., has written
from Havana, Cuba, saying lie would sail
for America ou the next steamer, and
would settle be in Birmingham in a short time
to all claims against him. His
shortage amounts to about $30,000.
NO. 52.
Y/ORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTER BY A
CORPS OF COMPETENT ARTISTS.
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ami Across tlic Sen«-The Coining:
European storm.
I). R. Locke, “Petroleum V. Nasby, ”
died at Toledo, Ohio.
Count Corti, lately Italian Ambassador
at London, died of gout affecting the
heart.
The grain warehouse of J. S. Smyth &
Co., at Chicago, III., was burned. Loss
$ 100 , 000 .
A terrific earthquake has occurred in
the province of Yumui, in Gfiirfa. Two
thousand lives are reported to have been
lost.
'J'lie recent rate war in the West is es¬
timated to have cost the companies en¬
gaged in it, about $3,000,000 in two
weeks.
The Rodgers A Sheldon Ironworks, at
Bridgewater, Mass., were' destroyed by
lire. Loss $15,000 to $100,000. Insur¬
ance $40,000.
conductor, James Curtice, has colored, a palace ear
brought suit against the
management of the Windsor Hotel, at
Montreal, Quebec, charging hotel that he was
forcibly ejected from the on account
of his color.
The Paris Times says that extreme ac¬
tivity prevails at all of the French arsen¬
als, and that a fighting fleet is being fitted
for active service. In a few days, it says,
the state of the naval stores will lie far
better than at the beginning of the year.
Fearful snow storms prevail on the
Continent. In Switzerland the snow is
seven lanches metres have occurred, deep, and attended numerous ava¬ loss
by
of life. One outlet of St. Gotliard Itail
,way tunnel was blocked by snow, and a
train was detained inside the tunnel for
an hour.
At Shenandoah. Pa., the news of the
intended calling out of the colliery en¬
gineers and firemen, lias raised a storm of
indignation even among miners,'who de¬
clared that (lie step would be the most
ruinous that could lie taken, as it would,
by flooding the mines, throw them cer¬
tainly idle for months.
Gen. Lawton, United States Minister
at Vienna, lias accepted from Harry Ear¬
lier, a rich American, a relative of Presi¬
dent Cleveland, who is studying law $1,- at
the Vienna University, the offer of
000,(100 to the American government,
with which to endow a university at
Chicago ou the Vienna model.
The London Standard, discussing the
position in Europe, says: “With so many
friends as she now lias, why should Aus¬
tria yield to Russian menaces? We im¬
agine that unofficial negotiations now in
progress, will make it quite clear that, if
Russia formally re-opens the Bulgarian
question, the result will lie either a fresh
rebuff or war.
THE PREACHER SKIPPED,
Anil Took Wltli Him a Viry Uloouiliijf
Young Willow.
There is great excitement iu Cleveland
county, North Carolina, over the elope¬
ment of J. P. Steirs, an ex-preacher, and
Afrs. J. Beam, both of whom were re¬
cently convicted of crime, the woman
being sentenced to jail for three months
and also tkied $200. Pending an appeal
to the supreme court Steirs was released
on bond. The direct cause of the elop
meut was charges by interested parties,
who suspected husband something; of the wrong; that
Andrew Beam, woman,
had been poisoned. Beam has been dead
nearly two years. His Dody was exhumed
recently, and several witnesses examined
by the coroner. Tliis frightened the
guilty pair, who took the Air-Line train
at Gaston for the North. Another in¬
quest was held over Beam’s body, and
uiuny witnesses were examined, The
stomach and intestines were taken out
and taken to Raleigh for examination.
The last jury rendered a verdict accusing
Mrs. Beam and Steirs of the murder of
Beam. Prior to the latter’s death Steirs
and Beam hud a store seven miles from
Shelby, and after Beam's death the busi¬
ness was continued bv Steirs and the
widow. Steirs is forty-five years of age,
and leaves a wife and ten children. Airs.
Beam is a handsome woman, about thirty
five years of age, but leaves no family.
She was Beam’s second wife. The last
seen of the guilty pair was at Gaston,
and there is some belief that they have
gone to Texas.
WHO Mi;iM>KUED HIM.
The man who assisted at the murder of
Millionaire Snell, at Chicago, III., by
standing watch outside while the resi
lienee was being robbed is behind the
prison bars, and the police have already
secured a full confession. It shows that
the murderer is young William B. Tas
cott, a son of Col. J. B. Tascott, a weal¬
thy manufacturer. He and Tascott went
to the house together. Tascott went in¬
side leaving his comrade on the sidewalk.
After the murder was committed Tascott
hurried out, grasped his companion Tas- by
the arm and together they Madison went to
cott’s lodgings on AVest street,
where they remained several hours.
BALING OF COTTON,
The national board of fire and marine
underwriters at New York have investi¬
gated the recent cotton fires, and have
decided that the fault must be laid to the
planters. The underwriters contend that
the sewing of bales is so faulty that large
spaces are left, which expose the cotton
to danger from fires. Rules and regula¬
tions which must be adhered to in the
baling of cotton, if planters and shippers
wanted insurance, will be issued.