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THE CONYERS WEEKLY
YOL. XL
TERRIBLE cyclone
SPRIGS INTO BEING IN THE
GULF OF MEXICO.
Hy'aWlml. lilecirival Display is Sue
A cecde'd and Left. That Deals Havoc and
Death lti«ht
The recent storm which swept place ovei
Geoi-fda was dipped around from
to place in a manner at once bewildering
and sensational. From the fatal visit to
Lumber City to the house-smashing in Cal¬
houn was a long distance, but the coun¬
try between was pretty well spotted with have
smaller wrecks. The storm seems to
blown up from the Gulf, that fruitful
nest of tornadoes, and, upon striking the
western border of Georgia, to have come
in collision with something which caused
it to part into two columns. One of these
passed on through the Chattahoochee
valley, and escaped across Calhoun into
Tennessee, where it went careening on
its way of destruction. The other, after
its fatal work in Lumber City, crossed
the state iu'o South and North Carolina,
and spent its force on the Atlantic. Con¬
sidering the extent of the disturbance,
the fatalities were very few-.
The day was the most beautiful one
of the Spring. It was perfect Spring there
day and when the sun went down
was no indication of the storm, which
was then Ranging over the country, and.
the people with no thought of the dan¬
gers te which they were to be subjected
before another day came, sought their
homes. The disturbance commenced
about half past ten o’clock at night.
Then the lightning began to flash. At
first, the flashes were at irregular loud rumbling inter¬
vals and were followed by
far away thunder, but in a short time the
lightning became brighter and more rap¬
id, and the thunder louder, more dis¬
tinct and nearer. Finally, the flashes
became one continuous flame, and the
thunder kept pace with it. So bright
and continuous were the flashes that any
portion of the country could be plainly
almost constantly by those who were
up. Just as the electrical display was
most intense, rain began falling. At first
it came steadily in large drops, but in a
minute a perfect deluge, ensued. Then
with the rain came the wind; it was in¬
tense. It moved along only as a cyclone
can move, and with it houses, barns,
fences and timber went down. It roared
and moaned and went by like a flash.
For ten minutes it continued, and then a
calm ensued. The wind moved from the
west to the east, and went along with a
roll and dip, howling, whistling aroused. and
singing, until everybody was and houses
Its velocity was intense,
waved and rocked upon their foundations
until people, in many cases, fearing that
their dwellings would go over, rau out
into the drenching cold vain.
Austell felt the effects of the cyclone
most severely. The town is built upon
two hills—one upon the north side of
the railroad and the other upon the south
side. Between these two hills is a nar¬
row vale in which the business houses is
located. The hills are considerably
higher than the little valley, and upon
them the greatest destruction to property
and the loss of life occurred. The most
severe part of the storm—divided just
east of the town and leaving the vale
untouched, swept the hills upon either
side. On the north side of the road and
just upon the top of the hill, Rafe How¬
ard, a negro blacksmith, had a house
which was struck with full force.
Howard and his wife were in one room
in bed, and their son, a boy of sixteen
years, was in another room. When the
wind hit the house it rose and dropped
hack. Then it rose again and again
dropped back. Then the timbers began
creaking, dropped and in an instant the roof and
in, the walls tumbled down
: house was flat upon the ground,
completely stantly ruined. Howard was in¬
hurt; killed, and his boy was severely
the wife escaped serious injury.
A barn near the residence of Mayor N.
A. Morse was levelled, also a two story
(house built by Mr. Morse for Dr. Potter
|of I Calhoun Macon, who suffered was the to occupy of it in April. place
Ivisited most any
by the cyclone. About half a
punute before it manifested itself at Cal
poun, it struck the residence of Farmer
Plaines, west about a mile and a half south¬
of the town. He and his family
F’ ■heir ere sleeping house. when the storm covered laid with low
Pebris, but They were injured.
|The first building were not seriously that
of any importance
Pas struck was a saw-mill owned by Z.
P- Gray. This was leveled to the ground,
phe wreck was complete. The colored
paptist eously church, near by, was simultan¬
razed to the earth. The walls and
telling the fell and crushed the benches and
fc pulpit to the earth. Haynes’s hotel,
new and handsome building, w as not
Inuch damaged, but was fearfully
preached and thrown out of position.
Bhe “Western & Atlantic railroad agent’s
■ouse i occupied by Mrs. ‘Willingham as
• boarding house for school children, was
•lown to atoms. Near by was situated a
•andsome residence, belonging to N,
K i® 2 ’ an< ^ rented to a lady. The roof
K. mis house was blown off, the
■mnmeys I™ were broken to pieces,
window blinds blown away,
W n corner of the street was a one
F or - frame house, occupied by an aged
■ Tu W01nan t named grandchildren. Mary Montgomery This
■ii x '° was
■ erallv u lifted - off the ground and shaken
F Furiously . fragments, hurt. and the colored woman
lira. Dyer’s residence
ws:ted by the storm, and demolished.
tae rime, it was unoccupied. Old
, die ,
' on 7 truck mau at the railway depot,
‘ jsiuhisbed and was blown out into
e darkness, twenty feet or more. He
‘as severely cut in the head but will
'^ re
' rol' 8t »rm. le railway It is depot large, felt the furv
,,RK -. bu 'ldiug. a substantial
Every particle of the
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1888.
tin moling was blown off,, and much of
the sheathing through was unloosed. Heavy boards
were sailing the air, and even
the thick brick walls were broken.
The general merchandise store of Hicks
& Engrams was destroyed, entailing a
loss of nearly $2,000. The Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian churches were
badly injured, and altogether the injury
to property cannot be less than $30,000.
The following is a partial list of the suf¬
ferers: M. L. Mathews, Gray & Mims, J.
B. T. Horrell, Himes & King, J. N. Pat¬
rick, J. B. Johnson, W. M. Ilughy,
Hicks & Pitts, Mrs. Pitts, G. W. Reed,
Reens & Malone, J. M. Horlan & Co.,
County Courthouse, Mrs. Sue Foster,
Mrs. E. J. Simmons, E. J. Ricker, M. E.
Ellis, Daniel Ellis, T. M. Ellis, Samuel
Pullain, O. N. Stow, A. W. Reens. I.
M. Ballou, J. M. Neal, Ferguson & Rob¬
ertson, II. F. Ferguson, Mrs. Norcissus,
Dr. J. H. Malone,N. J. Boo/., B. G.Booz.
Three years ago there was a half-witted
colored girl in the place who professed
to be able to read into tlie future. She
would go up the side of the hill and stay
there alone hours at a time. One after
noon she came hack very much excited
and told several people that she had seen
a strange sight; that something had
come to her and told her that Calhoun
was to be destroyed by a cyclone, March
the 20th, 1888. She was so earnest, that
somebody wrote up the incident, aud it
was published. She missed, it only one
day. Wlndden &
The turpentine works of
Holland, two miles north of Lumber
City, were completely demolished, the
still, commissary aud every house and
shanty beiDg blown away. W. B. Whid¬
den was sleeping iu a house with his
partner, aud they rushed out to save
themselves, but had ran only a few steps
when the house was blown over on them
and crushed them so that they seemed to
have hardly an unbroken bone left in
their bodies, and were killed instantly;
all their clothing was blown from
their bodies, except a small fragment of
Mr. Whiddonfs under vest. Two other
men, sleeping and in another house, were
also crushed killed by the house be¬
ing blown down upon them. Several
other persons were wounded aud injured,
more or less seriously. There was a large
lot of saw logs iu Sugar creek. The
storm blew the water out of the creek
and turned the raft in a perpendicular twelve
position. The village consisted of
or fifteen buildings aud two stores, and
there is not the sign of a house left. The
goods from the stores are scattered every¬
where. Bolts of calico and shoes and
groceries are to he found scattered in all
parts of the storm area. On the railroad
side-track, before the cyclone standing, came up, of
there were several cars some
them heavily loaded with lumber, but iu
a few moments more they were one hun¬
dred and fifty yards away from the track
out iu an old field. One of the most re¬
markable tilings that occurred was the
switch target. It was twisted off and
carried away as if it had been a mere
shrub. The turpentine distillery and saw
mills were completely destroyed, and the
lumber was scattered for one-half mile
around. There were about 1,000 barrels
of turpentine in the building, and these
were sent up like rockets in the air, and
some of them were blown a half mile
and scattered everywhere. other buildings
In Lithonia a dozen
were injured, some blown entirely down.
The wind track was about one half mile
wide and took fences and trees before it.
Frank Boxby, his son, and son-in-law
were in a house when it was blown down.
The timbers fell upon them, and they
were all hurt. Boxbv’s injuries are the
severest aud it is believed that he will
die. His sou-in-law’s back was broken.
Mrs. Sursin, living near the town, was
struck by a piece of falling timber blown
from her house, and badly hurt. West
Point, LaGrange, Palmetto, Newnan and
Griffin, Powder Spring, Marietta, Carters
ville, Cave Springs, Rome and Cedar
town did not suffer much. E. B. Hal¬
comb’s house, at Ackworth, was blown
down as well as the Baptist church, at
Tallapoosa.
The First well
Gainesvilip. was blown down, as as
Hood’s brick cotton warehouse at Har¬
mony Grove. Sims’ steam mill, at Wash¬
ington, was unroofed, and a colored
church in course of construction at that
place was destroyed. A freight train
from Lula to Athens ran into a tree,
which had been blown across the en¬
trance to a cut. The smokestack and
whistle of the engine were knocked off.
A negro brakeman by the name of Boh
Reese was sitting ou the top of a box car,
when the tree struck him in the back of
the head, killing him instantly.
Talladega, Ala., suffered badly One
of the dormitories of the State University
for the deaf, dumb and blind, had its ga¬
ble end blown in, and covering tbe deaf
mutes with the debris, breaking their
beds into splinters without
seriously injuring the boys. HI
Two miles from Talladega tbe beautiful
iron bridge of the A. & A. R. R., span¬
ning Talladega creek, was piled by the
wind, into a mass of ruins into the middle
of the stream. The storm seems to have
divided up into sectional cyclones, tak¬
ing various directions, switching, as it
were, from the main body of the hurri¬
cane which swept northwest. The wind
which passed over the asylum seems to
have been about twenty yards in width,
and was sweeping above the surface some
forty feet, as it carried away the roof of
the dormitory and other buildings with¬
out touching the shrubbery. hurricane
Dispatches state that the
passed over East Tenuessee. At aud
near Lenoir's much damage was done,
and several lives lost. The residence of
j. n. Williams, three miles east of Le¬
noir's, was completely swept away, and
his wife carried off in the wreck and
killed. The body of Mrs. Williams as
found next day in the Tennessee river,
where it had been blown. A few miles
distant,, anot her dwelling was mown down
au<l a yynmg man named Smith was kill¬
ed, ;nut several other members of the
family (injured, The next residence
struck',by the storm was that of Geo. W.
' building totally de¬
Hardin. ' The was
molished.! but the family escaped ridge, the
storm, tliCi’ crossed a timbered
and tore upyvery tree by the roots in its
track. The'.home of James Linginfolter
was reduced ■, to kindling wood. In it
were James II . Smith, who was killed,
and a little daughter of Linginfolter, dwellings
who had a leg ‘broken. The
of William King and John Gideon were
blown down. Seven members of the
King family were badly injured, and two
of the Gideons were\so seriously hurt that
they eannot recover, The liouse of La¬
fayette Prater wns a. total Svreck, and
Jackson Prater was Mown over the gar¬
den fence, but escaped with slight injuries.
The cyclone traveled in a northeasterly
direction. A bureau in the Williams
house was found half a mile from
where the residence stood. At London,
Tenn., the house of George Moses was
completely destroyed, aud every member
of his family badly hurt, Andrew Wor¬
ley's house was also carried away, and
the members of his family were seriously
injured. The bacon from Worley’s smoke¬
house was blown two miles away. The
storm was very severe along the Tennes¬
see river.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
Wliat is «t»in« on North, Bust anil Wrst
und Across the VVater-Tlie Coining Eu¬
ropean Storm.
A dangerous $5 silver certificate is iu
extensive circulation in the West.
The Pope is displeased because of the
misrepresentation of his views on the
Irish question. The misstatements he
says that have been circulated have great¬
ly increased the difficulty of his work of
conciliating England and Ireland.
A. collision occurred at Cisco, Cal., be¬
tween two freight trains. Two engines
were attached to the trains, aud all four
of the engines aud a number of cars were
badly wrecked. Engineer John Pickens
was killed instantly, and several others
injured.
Ex-Gov. Horace Fairbanks, of Ver¬
mont, died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
New York. lie ventured out iu the
blizzard in a close carriage, but, with his
naturally weak lungs, he caught a cold,
which rapidly grew worse,and developed
into pneumonia, from which he died.
The local branch of the Nat ional league
in Mansion House ward, in Dublin, Ire¬
land, passed * a resolution condemn¬
ing Mayor Hewitt, of New York, for
refusing to allow the Irish flag to be
hoisted on the city hall on St. Patrick’s
day and declaring that such refusal was
an insult to the race throughout the
world.
The low lying districts along the banks
of the rivers Elbe aud Vistula, iu Ger¬
many, are inundated. The village of
Dornitz is isolated iu the midst of a
great lake. A number of soldiers from
the nearest garrison, after arduous effort,
succeed iu reaching there with a supply of
food for the inhabitants, but fifteen of
them were drowned in the attempt to
reach their destination.
lvcely’s secret of the manipulations of
his mysterious motor, which he has
guarded so securely for many years, iu
spite of the efforts for disclosure made by
dissatisfied stockholders of the Motor
Company, is at last to be divulged. opinion
Judge Finletter handed down an
in Philadelphia, Pa., in the suit brought
by Bennett C. Wilson, who claims to
hold an assignment of Keely’s motor in¬
vention, made to him in 1869, which
grants an order for the inspection of all
the motor machines as made by Keely,
and compels him to explain the theories
of their workings to Wilson and such ex¬
perts as may be named.
The Burlington company will shortly
begin legal proceedings in Chicago, Ill.,
to compel the Northwestern and St. Paul
roads to handle “Q,” freight. The three
companies are the only ones still refusing
an interchange of traffic, all the other com¬
panies having lifted the boycott. The
Burlington began legal proceedings re¬
cently against the Wabash & Western at
St. Louis. The latter road backed down
before the case went into court, and is
now handling Burlington cars, There
are rumors that the Rock Island, North¬
western and St. Paul companies have en¬
tered into an agreement with the Broth¬
erhood not to touch “Q.” freights until
compelled to by the courts.
HIS SPEECH.
When John A. Matthews, a “Bald
Knobber,” of Ozark, Mo,, was convicted
of murder, he addressed the jury thus:
“Gentlemen of the jury, I want to say
a few words to you before you leave.
You have convicted me, and I suppose
you think you have done your duty, hut
there is a day coming, gentlemen, when
you will know you have convicted an in¬
nocent man. Yes, thank God, at the day
of judgment, when we all appear before
the great white throne, you will find out
you have convicted an honest man.
Thank God, no blood will be required at
my hands.” By this time Matthews was
sobbing aloud but still trying to speak
when J udge McGregor ordered him to stop.
Such a scene was never before witnessed
in a Christian county court, and the
crowd surged around the unhappy pris¬
oner trying to get a view of the tragic
spectacle. Trie wretched man was ut¬
terly prostrated by tbe intensity of his
feelings, and continued to weep and talk
to himself.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
W oSsip About I lie White House-Army and
Navy Mallei’®—Our Relation® With Oilier
C'onutrie® nml Nation*.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, a bill from the House
was placed on the calendar to authorize
the construction of a bridge across the
Tennessee liver at Chattanooga. The
consideration of bills on the calendar in
their regular order, to which no objec¬
tion was made, was taken up, and passed pri¬
a number, principally of a local or
vate character. Among the bills so
passed are the following: Authorizing
the construction of bridges over the Ten¬
nessee river between Bridgeport and
Sheffield, in Alabama, aud over Carey
Fork river, between Rock Island aud
Carthagena, Tenn. To provide the alcoholic for a
commission on the subject of is be
liquor traflie. The commission to
“non partisan.” Its members shall be
chosen with regard to personal following fitness. hills
.... In the House, the
were passed: To divide the northern
judicial district of Georgia into two di¬
visions to be known as the eastern and
western districts of the northern district.
To provide for holding terms of the
United States courts at Mississippi City.
Amending the statutes so as to provide he
that the record of a state court may
certified by the presiding the magistrate Author¬ or
any other judge of court.
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to re¬
mit all duties collected upon animals
heretofore imported for breeding pur¬
poses, whether for the Importer’s use or
for sale.
GOSSIP.
The tariff bill prepared by the majority
of the ways and means committee will
make its advent in the House, and will bt
placed upon tlie calendar soon.
The House judiciary committee, perfected after
two weeks’ work upon it, has salaries of
the Oates bill, fixing the ordered its
United States judges and re¬
port to the House. The judges in the
South only get an increase of $500.
Director-General Recorder Joseph, ex-Represen- Trotter, all
tative Smalls and
colored men, appeared appropriations before the request House
committee on to
an appropriation of $400,000 to aid the
national colored exposition to be held iu
Atlanta, Ga., next Winter. Appearances
indicate that the request will be granted.
John Peabody appeared public lands, before favor¬ the
House committee on
ing Mr. Oats’s bill providing lands given that the
government shall iorfeit to
the Mobile & Girard Railroad under the
land grand act when the railroads failed
to comply with the regulations of said
act. Five hundred and seventy thousand
a cres were granted to the Mobile & Gi¬
rard company, provided their road was
completed in ten years.
Chief Justice Waite, of the Supreme
Court, died at his residence. The Chief
Justice was in his usual health, though
exhausted by his recent severe labors,
when on returning from Senator Ifearst’s,
where, with his daughter, he attended a
reception, he complained of a chill.
In two days circumscribed pneumonia
showed itself and he died adjourned suddenly.
Both Houses of Congress Cleveland issued at
once, and President a
proclamation acquainting the country of
the fact of Judge Waites’ death. Dr.
Caroline B. Winslow (a lady), has been
the family physician for 13 years. Mrs,
Waite was visiting in California at the
time of Mr. Waite’s death. The deceased
jurist was appointed in 1874.
A heavy storm, accompanied by thun¬
der aud lightning, broke aud over interrupted the city,
which flooded the streets
all overhead telegraph and telephone capitol
wires but two, connecting the
building with the rest of the city. The
lightning either struck the capitol the build¬
ing, or was carried into it on many
wires which enter it, because the occu¬
pants of all parts of the building were
startled out of their usual serenity and
treated to a rather exciting electrical
display. It brought every judge of the
Supreme Court, every lawyer at the bar,
and every clerk at his desk to his feet
with a sudden jerk, as if they were all
moved by some spring. Then they all
sat down again and tried to look as if
nothing had happened.
THEY DECLINED.
The engineers on the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad at Decatur, Ala., re¬
fused to pull a freight train to which a
“Q” car was attached. The car was
then taken out and turned over to the
Memphis & Charleston, whose engineers
also refused to move it. The Illinois
Central engineers at Jackson, Tenn., re¬
fused to pull a train until three Burling¬
ton cars were cut out and side-tracked,
which was done. At Fulton, Ky., the
company was obliged to refuse several
Burlington cars from the Chcsapeuive generally oi>
Ohio for the same reason. It is
understood on the line of the Illinois
Central South that the engineers will
handle no “4” cars.
HIS WEALTH,
The late Emperor William’s will shows
that his total savings do not exceed $12,-
500, 000. The larger portion of property
is left to increase the crown treasure or
the general fund of the crown, estab¬
lished by his father. The remainder is
divided ’ among the Empress Augusta,
Emperor Frederick and the Grand Dueh
e-s of Baden. Btbelsburg castle and
and Coblenlz palace arc bequeathed to
the Empress Augusta.
WEATHER HINTS.
For April, Rev. I. R. Hicks makes
these predictions:
A disturbing astronomical cause is cen¬
tral on April 1st, the period will end
about the 4th, cool weather and frost for
several days will follow. From the 11th
to 17th of April showers will abound,
with a heavy storm possible duriag“dan- the
ger days.” The heaviest storms of
month may he certainly expected during
the period beginning about the 22d and
ending the 28th. Expect according the phenomena the
to vary in character, to
general progress of the season,from South
to North. All storms, of whatever char¬
acter, at this time will be hard. Frost
will follow.
before We fully tested the predictions and of believe 1887
using those readers of 1888,
we have done our and the gen
al public great service thereby. We
should state, perhaps, that the Jovian
period to which Rev. Mr. Hicks refers is
“at the bottom” of ouv bad weather for
the past year and will be responsible fol¬
ks continuance during the present year.
He explains it by stating that the planet in
Jupiter is nearly twelve of our years
going once around the sun; that is,
twelve years on earth is one year on Ju¬
piter. As there are two months—for equinoxes
every year—one every six
the year, so there are two about equinoxes
every Jovian year-one in every
six years—for Jupiter. These Jupiter
equinoxes cause a gradual and continual
excitation of the electrical elements of
our earth, and for the whole planetary
system, lasting more than two of out
years for each equinox of Jupiter. This is
what he cnllsthe Jovian period.
According to his theory, in which he
lias the fullest confidence, dining tbe
Jovian period there is a greater readiness
in the meteorological elements of the
earth to express themselves in every kind
of phenomena common to our globe. the
The regular storm periods, caused by
equinoxes of the smaller planets, and
shown in the storm chart, are not* oblit¬
erated or changed by the Jovian period, found
only these regular storm periods are
to be much more active and continuous;
they are simply reinforced and intensified
by the steudy pressure of the Jovian pe
riod.
Rev. Irl R. Ilicks, of St. Louis, is the
pastor of the Olive Branch Congregation¬
al church, he is forty years old, and has
from the time he was a boy been singu¬
larly fond of studying and speculating he
upon weather changes. Years ago
arrived at the conclusion that astronomy
held the explanation of all the weather
phenomena as seen by the inhabitants of
the earth.— Atlanta, Ga., Southern Cul¬
tivator.
AGRICULTURAL FIGURES.
The following figures have been corn
piled and show a remarkable increase of
Southern crops. Comparing the yields
of 1870 and 1887, it is shown that the
cotton crop advanced from 3,011,996 hales
to 6,800,000 bales, coru from 249,072,000
bushels to 402,415,000 bushels; wheat
from 33,841,000 bushels to 52,384,000
bushels and oats from 31,973,000 bushels
to 81,506,000 bushels—a total increase of
8,780,000 bales of cotton and 311,000,
000 bushels of grain. The percentage of
increase in grain productions in the South
was greater than the percentage of gain
iu grain in the rest of the country. The
number of farm animals in the South in
1870 was 28,754,000, and in 1887 the
number had risen to 44.830,000. Com¬
paring the yields of 1879 and 1887 there
was an increase of 1,044,000 bales of cot¬
ton and 195,250,000 bushels of grain, the in
total grain production in the South
1887 having been 020,305,000 bushels
against 431,000,000 bushels in 1879, an
increase of 45 per cent, while in all the
rest of the country the increase in grain
production was only 16,000,000 bushels,
or less than 1 per cent, though live stock
in 1887 shows an increase of value over
that of 1879 of $182,238,296, and of agri¬
cultural productions of $170,968,006.
WAGE-WORKERS MEET.
The Alabama State Convention of or¬
ganized workingmen met in the Hall of
Representatives in Montgomery, Ala.
There were fifty to seventy-five delegates
present, representing the following labor
organizations: The Knights of Labor
the Wheel, Carpenters’ Union, the Farmers Land
the Farmers’ Alliance, the
and Labor Club and the Tailors’ Union.
A resolution was entered by a member of
the Wheel, that after twenty-five years of
unredeemed pledges and broken prom¬
ises, the convention thinks that the time
has now come for independent political five
action. Adopted. A committee of
to examine the statutes of the country,
and to draw up such laws as would be of
benefit to every class of labor or trade,
was appointed.
MADE HIS SPEECH.
Editor 'William O’Brien addressed the
Ponsonby tenants at Youghal, Ireland,
recently, and afterwards attempted to
hold the meeting, which has been pro¬
claimed by the government. He mount¬
ed a car with the intention of addressing
the people, but was seized by policemen
and dragged to the ground. crowd T he police
then charged upon the with drawn
batons, and a serious melee ensued.
O’Brien escaped to the priest’s house,
and subsequently harangued the crowd
in a stable.
ALMOST FREE.
Jailer Birdsong, of the Macon, Ga., jail
hearing a noise in Murderer Woolfolk s
cell, quietly investigated, and found that
Woolfolk with a saw, made from a watch
spring, had sawed off his double irons.
This is the third —almost successful at¬
tempt—the murderer has made to get
away.
NO. 5.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWS FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES INTERESTINGL Y STATED.
Arciilents on Laud and ou Sea-New Enter¬
prise®—suicides—Religious, Temperance
and Social Matters.
The first train over the first section of
the Lookout Mountain, Tenn., Railway
passed over the road recently.
Several young men caught Balaam
Sims at Lansing, Tenn., cut off his hair
and threatened to kill him, when he be¬
came so alarmed that he died ill a few
hours.
The first Chinaman in the South to
embrace the Christian religion—Chung Savannah
Wung—was immersed in the
river, at Augusta, Ga., and made a full
fledged Baptist.
West Point, tin., had quite a fire,
which started in R. W. Wood’s store,
causing a damage of $20,000. The losers
are J. J. Crawford, drugs; Courser,
tailor; George N. Craft, confectioner; I.
M. Scott, W. G. Shadier and Miller &
IJarris.
An epidemic of measles is raging at
Buckingham C. II., Va. Whole families
are down w ith it. One family consisting
of a man, his wife and fourteen children
are prostrated, and an old couple, aged with
respectively 91 and 87, are down
the disease. A great many have died.
There is excitement at Durham, N. C..
growing out of the arrest of a number of
liquor dealers, on the charge of violating
the local option law. A New Y'ork de¬
tective went there, and soon got evidence
against a number of them. Arrests fol¬
lowed, and the defendants were required
to give heavy bonds for their appearance
at court.
At Wilmington, N. C., S. B. Dudley
and F. F. Aldrich were tried upon a
charge of publishing a libel upon Judge
O. P. Mears, of New Andover superior edi¬
court, in the Weekly Bulletin, their
torial charging that Judge Mears colored grossly
discriminated between white and
people in court, and was very abusive in
tone.
At Loveless convict camp, near Bir¬
mingham, Ala , Archie Stokes, a negro
convict, was shot and killed and Henry
Allen, another convict, severely wounded.
When ordered to work Allen refused to
go and would not let the other convicts
leave the barracks. They stood in the
door armed with picks and defied the
guards. Birming¬
The Elyton Laud Company at
ham, Ala., closed a contract with the
Biughampton Hoe and Tool company, of
Binghamton, N. Y. for the removal of tijeir
entire plant to Birmingham. The capital
stock of the company will be $100,000,
of which the Elyton Land Company takes
$40,000. The plant will be in operation be
by August 1st, and 200 men will em¬
ployed. W.
Revenue officers F. F. Fowler and
T. WestCottle returned from a raid in
Butler county, Ga., raided and captured The
an illict still in Butler county.
news is specially interesting because
heretofore moonshiners and wild cat dis¬
tilleries have, been unheard of in that
section of the state. The still was out
in the lonesome piuey woods where the
timber depredators are constantly work¬
ing, but the moonshiner is a stranger.
Two more of the indicted Bald Knob
bers, at St. Louis, Mo., have presented
written confessions to the sheriff. Amos
Jones and William Stanley follow John
Mathew's in the plea for mercy, and man¬
age to weave a story showing their pres¬
cnce had a tendency for a peace gather¬
ing. 'They accuse Charles Graves of
being responsible, with Bill Walker, in
the atrocious murders, while they used
every endeavor to restore order and prtf
vent bloodshed.
East Nashville, Tenn., has suffered by
an epidemic of fires, a dozen stables and
__ burned.
several residences having been
The stable of W. Moore was fired seven
times, and the other night was destroyed,
as was his house. The police have been
watching, as there have been two or
three alarms every day. The thirteem
year-old son of Moore burned was caught stables. start¬ It
ing a lire which two
appeared on investigation that he was
was incited to incendiarism by larger
negro boys, who robbed the neighbor¬
hood houses while the people fond were of seeing out.
Moore was engines, passionately and thus easily in¬
the fire was
fluenced.
ANARCHISTS MOVING.
Otto Reichelt, book-keeper of the Ar
heiter Xeitvny, in Chicago, Ill., was placed suit
in jail on a capias issued under
brought against him by the Socialistic
Publishing Company, the officers of which
claim that he filched $500 of their money
during 1887. Reichelt denies this and
promises to make things lively for the
directors. He claims that the real reason
for his arrest is that his enemies believe
that he was a spy for Capt. Shaack and
State’s Attorney Grinnell when they were
prosecuting Spies, and the other. Anar¬
chists who were hung. He denies that
he divulged any of the Anarchists’ se¬
crets, but avers that he will open his
mouth now and tell some things Anar¬
chists will not care to hear. “Why,’ he
said, “the Anarchists meet every week.
Several groups meet away out on Blue
Island avenue, several on Claybourne Milwaukee
avenue, aud some meet on
avenne. They are getting stronger than
ever.”
NORTH CAROLINA FAIR.
The executive committee of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society met at Ral¬
eigh. N- G’., aud fixed October 16tb to
19th as date of the next state fair.