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THE CONYERS WEEKLY.
VOL. XI.
If ten of the richest men in this coun¬
try, says the New York World, should
withdraw their capital from railroads
mines and factories more than 800,000
men would be thrown out of work, aud
more than one million people would suffer
by it. _________________
The Richmond Religious Herald has
raised the inquiry as to what proportion
of the beneficiaries in our Southern Bap¬
tist colleges use tobacco, and what the
indulgence costs. One estimate places
the number at fully one-half, and $15
as the annual expense to each devotee of
the weed.
The immigration into the United
States in the seven months to January 31
was 236,845 persons, against 206,968 in
the same time last year. Here is an ad¬
dition to the population in seven months
sufficient to make a city as large as
Buffalo and twice as large as eithe r
St. Paul, Minneapolis, or Kansas City.
New York city educates about three
hundred thousand children annually, in
one hundred and thirty-four school
buildings, covering an area of thirty-five
acres. These buildings placed side by
side would extend more than two miles.
There are about four thousaud teachers,
and the annual expense of these schools
is about four million dollars.
The barb-wire industry is in a fair
way of being overdone. According to
the Iron Age there are forty-four manu¬
facturers in this country who own 2,191
machines. It is estimated that in 200
working days, running single turns, they
will make 300,000 tons of barb wire,
while the consumption ranges from 130,
000 to 150,000 tons a year.
It seems, remarks the New York Sun,
that the State prisons of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and New York undersold each
other in what is known as hollow ware,
namely, pots, pans and kettles, which
are made in the prisons, and at last they
saw that they were cutting out profits so
that the work was nolongei self-support¬
ing. Then they formed a combine, and
; up went pot and kettle prices.
A novel idea is to be carried out at a
Presbyterian Church at Bethany, Penn.,
at a date set for celebrating the lifting ot
Its mortgage. A mock funeral service is to
be held, and the mortgage is to be sol¬
emnly cremated, amid the thanksgiving
of the congregation, after which the
ashes are to be deposited in an urn pre¬
pared for that purpose. A funeral ora¬
tion will be delivered, and the pastor
will recite a memorial poem.
It would be almost impossible, says
Franklin S. Pope in Scribner’s Magazine,
to catalogue the number and variety of
purposes for which the electric motor is
now in daily use. Some of the most
usual applications are for printing
presses, sewing machines, elevators, ven¬
tilating fans, and machinist’s lathes. At
the present time every indication un¬
mistakably points to the probability that
within a very few years nearly all
mechanical work in large cities, especial¬
ly in cases in which the power required
does not exceed say 50 horse-power,
will be performed by the agency of the
electric motor. It is an ideal motor, ab¬
solutely free from vibration or noise,
perfectly manageable, entirely safe, and
with the most ordinary care seldom ii
ever gets out of order. Indeed there is
no reason to suppose that the limit of 50
horse-power will not be very largely ex
needed within comparatively short
period, when it is remembered that
scarcely five years ago the production of
a successful 10 horse-power motor was
considered quite a noteworthy achieve¬
ment.
The War Department has prepared at
interesting tabular statement showing
the number of army officers born in each
State, Territory, and foreign country.
Of tne States, New York takes the lead
with 447, Pennsylvania takes second
place with 370, and Texas and West
^ hginia come in for 3 officers each in the
service, and Nevada has but one. Of
the Territories, the Indian Territory has
onI yl, New Mexico 2, Utah 3, and
Washington Territory 4. Four officers
were born at sea. Of foreign countries,
‘reland has the largest representation,
having 83 officers in the army who were
born within her boundary. The follow
ing is a list of the foreign countries rep¬
resented in the American Army and the
number accredited to each': Asia, 1;
^astria, Lhuta- Xagjioor, 1 ; Belgium, i Corfu, 1; Canada, 17; In
<3les ; 1; East
- 1; England, 23; France, 9; Ger
” lan L 32; Hungary, 1; Ireland, 83;
Malta, 1; Italy, 3; Netherlands. l;New
Brunswick.- 2 ; Nova Scotia, 5; Poland,
U Prince Edward Island, 1; Prussia,
L5: Sandwich Islands, 1; Saxony„ 2;
■ i f'riand, 15; South America, 3; Swe
tien ’ 3 i Switzerland 3, and Wales, 1.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1888.
N -ri-llull A TTOA T iLlj AT PA VvAI PIT 1J ill., A \
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS.
About tii© Whit© House— Army ami
Navy Ulntters—Our Relation* With Other
Countries ami Nation's.
congressional.
In the Senate, Mr. Stewart introduced
a bill granting a pension of $5,000 a year
to the widow of Chief Justice Waite, re¬
marking tices that the widows of chief jus¬
should be placed on the same foot¬
ing as to pen-ions as the widows ot pres¬
idents of the United States. Referred to
the committee on pensions. The Dakota
bill came up, and Mr. Spooner took the
floor in support of it. He spoke of
Dakota as the “wonderland of the con i
nent,” and of opposition t# the bid as
“unjust partisanship.” The bill appro¬
priating light, $25,000 for the establishment of
igation a or lights, and other Charlotte aids to nav¬
Florida, to guide into harbor,
was pas-ed Under the call
of states the following bills and resolu¬
tions were introduced in the House and
referred: By Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, to
protect the rights of Indians. By Mr.
declaring Breckenridge, of Kentucky, a resolution
it the sense of the House that
the Secretary of the Treasury has power
to use the surplus at any time in the
treasury the for the purchase of .he bunds of
United States, and that so much of
the surplus as may, from time to time,
accumulate in the treasury ought to be
so used. By Mr. Phelan, of Tennessee, a
resolution call.ng on the heads of de¬
partments for a list of Confederate docu¬
ments in their respective departments.
The call of states having been com¬
pleted, the speaker stated the unfinished
business to be the motion to suspend the
rules and pass the bill extending for one
year the time for the completion of the
give bridge across Staten Island sound (to
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad di¬
rect connection with New York harbor).
Alter a long speech in opposition to the
bill by Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, and a
short one in favor of it by Mr. Crisp, the
motion to suspend the rules and pass the
bill was agreed to—116 to 31.
Iu the Senate, Mr. Kenna, from the
committee on commerce, reported the
bill changing the boundaries of the fourth
‘ collection district of Virginia; passed.
Among the bills reported calendar from commit¬
tees following: and placed on the for the were relief the
House bill of
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Alabama. Among the bills introduced
and referred were the following: By Mr.
Call, to locate the Indians in Florida on
lands in severalty. By Mr. Butler, to
divide into six classes the employes of
the railway mail service and to fix the
salaries of each chiss. Mr. Call offered a
resolution (which was adopted) instruct¬
ing the committee on public lands to in¬
quire into the titles of actual settlers on
public lands in Florida, heretofore im¬
properly patented.... The House has not
transacted any business since the dead¬
lock was broken.
G °signed
The President Mr. Clement’s
giato tria to Joel™ Joe! J. Go'sf Goss. ^ “ Gt '°"
The President nominated Thomas T.
T. Tunstall, of Mobile, Ala., to be Um
ted States Consul at San Salvador.
Senator Brown introduced a memorial
from the Atlanta board of trade asking
the passage of Judge Stewart’s bill pro
viding for an extra appropriation for the
Atlanta barracks.
The house which was purchased in
Washington for the widow of Gen. Han
cock was presented to her by the chair
man of the committee, Stilson Hutchins,
It is a four-story brown stone structure,
The colored people of Washington cel
ebrated the twenty-sixth anniversary of
the emancipation of slaves. There were
two factions known as street paradersand
anti-street paraders. The former were
reviewed by President Cleveland, and the
latter addressed by Frederick Douglass,
The The fourth-class fourth class nostmasters postmasters through- tnrou n
out the country are petitioning Congress
for an increase of compensation. Repre
sentative Tilman recently presented the a pe
tition of this character from citizens
of Merrill’s Bridge, 8. C. It was re.cried
to the committee on postoffices and post
roads along with several thousand docu
ments of a similar nature.
The crop bulletin issued by the signal _
officesays: “The weather for the week
has been favorable for the giowiug crops
in all districts. Reports from the bouth
era states show that the week was favor
able for cotton and cane, and that small
grain crops had been affectedfavorably.
The season is probably ten days latem
the middle Atlantic states, and from nf
teen to twenty days late_ m the north
west, where seeding is progressing
slowly.”
Senator Hampton, of South Carolina, ^
while out riding horseback, was thrown
from his horse and narrowlv was," escaped, se
rious iniury As it his arm and
wrist were badly sprained, and he has
since been confined to his room from the
iniury It will be remembered that Sen
ator Hampton lost a leg by being thi own
from a mule in 1878, and that about a
vear and a half ago he was
thrown from a horse in Mississippi, discharged, at
wffich time his gun was
which killed the horse and very nearly
placed the senator’s life in danger.
It is settled that Secretary Bayard is to
marry Mrs. Folsom, the mother in-law of
president Cleveland. The wedding will
come off June 2d, the anniversary of
president Cleveland’s marriage to Miss
Frances Folsom. Of course there is much
rejoicing over this prospective marriage
among the aristocratic members of Mr.
Bayard’s historic family. The Bayards
of Delaware are a proud race of Ameri¬
cans, and are never satisfied with any¬
thing except “the best.” They have al
wa ys moved in the cream of society, and
the nobles of Europe are not more exclu¬
sive than they.
“NEW ITALY’* DOTS.
All the Sunday trains on the Florida
Southern Railroad will be discontinued.
.Palatka will have two new hotels in
...
time for next season's business... .The
tobacco crops about Tallahassee are do¬
ing finely.... An immense cabbage crop
is being shipped from Florida, and hun¬
dreds ot thousands of dollars are being
realized therefrom... .The new manage¬
ment of the Florida Midland have ac¬
quired Wi.at was known as the Alabama,
Florida & Atlantic Road... .Cypress
blocks are being used in paving St. Au¬
gustine. Many of the people would
prefer asphalt. The difference in cost is
considerably in favor of the cypress
pavement and it will probably be more
generally used than any other....As
many as 1,177 carioads of lumber have
been transposed to Fernandina by the
Florida Railway and Navigation Com¬
pany in one month—an average of about
forty-three carloads per day....A very
large force of hands are now at work on
ihe La Camelia tobacco plantation rapidly. near
Quincy, and work is progressing been cleared.
Over 200 acres of land has
....D. A. Miller, of Ocala, bad ten
orange trees in his yard on Magnolia
street insured for $5 ) apiece, which were
destroyed by the late fire, and for which
the insurance company promptly paid.
.... The orange tie s throughout Pasco
county are in the most vigorous condi¬
tion, and the promise for an unusually
heavy crop is encouraging....
Coloied people own a great deal of
property in DeLand; some of it right they iu
the business centre. The property
nwn in the corporate limits covers at
least thirty-five acres, and is valued at
about $25,0u0... R. F. Kreig-man, of
Eusiis, has a curiosity in his garden in
the shape of a combination tree. Itcon
sists of a lemon, peach, and pear, grape ad
fruit, bloom___.Dr. persimmon, J. orange F. Appell, guava, of Like
in
City, is prib.iblv the largest ama eur
florist in the state. His grouuds em¬
brace ubout eight acres. He cubivates
in their highest pellet tion 250 varieties
of roses of the ‘choicest species, aud
many other rare flowers and fruits ...
During the mouth of February the books
at the United States land office at Gaines¬
ville show that there weie entered 102
homesteads, embracing 13,096.64 acresof
land, 152 cash entries, embracing 26,064.
04 acres, and 41 pre-emptions tiled. The
cash receipts of the office were $31,000.
... .It is rumored that one of the largest
corporations in this country, worth $50,
000,000, has negotiated for the purchase
of that large and magnificent tract of
land south uf the barracks at St. Augus¬
tine, commanding a beautiful view of the
bay and fronting thereon, owned by B.
Dunham and others, and will build on it
a concrete Moorish, hotel to accommodate
1,000 guests.
BREWERS STRIKE.
All union masters and brewers in
uSas been"mining for some time,
and has its origin in a circular issued by
th(j bre proprietors, which in sub
staace announced their determination to
refuge recognition of any brewers and
malsters unions. The immediate cause
0 f the strike was one non-union man em
ployed in Ernst Brothers’brewery. Tlie
tinion men employed there demanded the
discharge of the intruder. This was re
fused, and a strike of Ernst’s men fol
lowed. A meeting of the brewers’ union
resolved to back up Ernst’s men. Nego
tiations were fruitless, and 300 brewers
quit work, stopping every brewery,
except that of Ernst Brothers, and
throwing out of employment proba
bly 1,500 to 2,000 men. Ernst Bros, es
establishment is working because the
proprietors some days ago secured a fo:ce
of non-union men. Another cause ot ir
ritation is the determma ion o. the em
P lo >' ln S brewers “ ot *° reaew contracts
and not.to ,
with the men recognize unions
. q dea]ing with w „rkuien. A stand has
been taken |, y ' , the Milwaukee employing
, jrew aad the circu i ar before referred
’ tribute-;! there. The
^ has beerl di
cb - 6 Q brewerg j ia ve a good many social
in it anc] furn phed the bulk of mon
’ defense of the llaymarket
en ded in
rioters. The union was organized by
one Haymarket m in who is now serv
■ a fifteen years’ sentence iu the peni
fe ntiary for bis share in that affiir ...
^ ni . re ; s a s , r ; !{e j n Mocriein’s brewery,
at Cincinnati, Ohio, which grew out if
the discharge the other day of a collar
n , an .About 36 of 150 men are already out,
an(] the dissatisfaction is spri ading.. /I he
jj astcr Brewers’ association in New York
p ub ii gbed an advertisement giving notice
^bat unless the boycott placed of that on them, city,
by the Central Libor union
j g removed, they will “reorganize their
wor king force” by weeding out all mal
contents, and they have opene 1 an office
for the registry of nintes of
for work. Workmen in the breweries
are very uneasy over this movement
The Master Brewers’ association of Mil
waukee and Chicago have sent telegrams iork
upholding the act of their New
brethren.
_
TALKED -p * , ^ Fn TOO TOO MUCH MUCH,
j n Ga barras county. N. C., some time
ago, the baru belonging to Dr. Rufus T.
Shimock was set on tire and burned. The
loss was heavy. Henry Glover, a white
man fifty years old, and his son were
talking with a man whom they thought
a bitter enemy of Dr. Shimock, and
among other things they said : “We
gave it to his old barn.” They are
bow in jail at Concord.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
Wliat Is Goln* on North, East and West
anil Across ti>* Water-Tlie Coming Eu
ropean 8torm.
Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, died
at Cannes, France.
General strikes of workingmen are be¬
ing arranged in Berlin, Germany.
Out of 579 applications for liquor li¬
cense iu Philadelphia only 184 were
granted. f
Twenty members of the board of trade
of Chicago were suspended for trading
after hours.
The Big Sioux river has overflowed its
banks aud done considerable damt^je in
vicinity of Sioux Falls, Dak.
The conference to settle the dispute
between the United States and Morocco
will miet in Madrid on May 1st.
One thousand locomotive engineers
have volunteered to leave England each. for
America if assured $1,000 a year
The American Exchange in London
has suspended. It will cause much in¬
convenience to tourists, who cannot get
their drafts honored.
The resolution providing for the sub¬
mission io the people of New York state
of a prohibition amendment to the consti¬
tution was adopted in the Assembly.
Editor O’Brien, M. P., was arrested on
arriving at Kingston, Ireland, meeting in conse
quence of his speech at the at
Loughrea. He was taken to Loughrca.
The E Igar Thompson steel works at
Braddocks, Pa., will remain closed fo
mii indefinite period, and all conferences
and nego iations with the men declared
0 ff.
The Norwegian bark Norma, from Sa¬
vannah, Ga., bound for Rotterdam, was
sunk in the British channel by a collision
w tii th ■ steamer Bremen. The Norma’s
crew were saved.
Sir Charles Tupper, in the Canadian
House of Commons moved the second
reading of the bill to ratify the fisheries
treaty, and made complimentary remarks
about Americans on the commission.
Matthew Arnold, the noted poet, schol¬
ar, critic and theologian, whose article
ou “Civilization of the United States”
attracted at'ention, died suddenly in
Liverpool, England, of heart disease.
In the department of Nora, France,
Gen Boulanger distanced all competitors majority of
for the Assembly, getting the American a mil¬
97,000 votes. Mackay, unlimited funds to
lionaire, is supplying
Boulanger. the Florida
An accident occurred on
Railway and Navigation Company’s rail¬
road near Baldwin, Fla., in which Engi¬
neer Bross was killed. The engine
jumped the track from no apparent cause.
Maj. John S. Rudd was found in his
room at the Montgomery hotel, Coal Val¬
ley. W. Va., suffering from an overdose
of chloroform, and died in twenty min¬
utes. He was a soldier in the Confeder
ate army, being a staff officer of Gen.
Longstreet, and a graduate of Wist
Francis Murphy, the great temperance for
advocate, who has been lecturing a
week past before immense crowds in the
Moody tabernacle in Louisville, Ky.,
tackled the Louisville base ball club,
and, as a result, every member of the
nine signed the pledge. 3 lie club man
agers regard their nine sure winners now.
a train on the South Carolina Rail
way, which left Augusta, Ga.. ran over
j oc Ryan, at Graniteville, twelve miles
f r0 m Augusta, and killed him instantly,
Mr. Iiyan was employed as a switch
lamp-lighter on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Road, and was walking
down the track with his back to the
train.
Rev Dr. J. II. Campbell, one of the
foremost an d oldest Baptist preachers Columbus. in
Gcorgia> died at his home in
H# wa8 ovt . r eighty years old, and for a
numbcr of years has been engaged in
missionary work in that city. He was
. f atber of Rev. A. B. Campbell, of
and Rev. Charles Campbell, of
’
Augusta.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
The French Chamber of Deputies will
reopen soon, and it is expected In will re¬
main :' in session until May. policy expec-a
tion of the debate on the of th
cabinet, tin- President has postponed hit
i 0 ,irney to the south, and M. FJoqueth s
tour of the departments... .A crank fire
three shots from a revolver at the gates
0 f , be Dlysee palace, the President’s
residence. Upon being ariested he said,
j u explanation, that he wanted M. Carno
to att -nd to a grievance of which he wa
the victim . M. Lalande, a deputy o:
the department of Gironde, has writte
a letter to M. L r grande, miniate; o
commerce, in which he says that thi
proposed detrimental English to duty the on wine-growing bottled^ wine in
; g
dus try, and that wine merchants of Bor
deaux beat the government to protec;
their interests... .The Oneamsts wi.i
meet at the residence of the count oi
Paris, at Twickenham, England, to de
cile upon the ad vi-ability of supporting
or condemning the union of the sections
f the French co nse rvative party who
oie a0 V0C!lta: " 1 e cau8e 0 oulaDger.
A SEA SERPENT.
Passengers on the steamship Wiscon
fin, of tin: Guion line, on their arrival at
New York, reported that feet they saw He on the
trip a sea serpent 60 long. was
green in color aud had a head like a
horse.
MURDER WILL OUT
Confession of n Woman Who was Bull¬
dozed into Killing Two 1’eUJIi-rs.
The mystery of the disappearance of
two peddlers on the line of Ru-sell and
Pulaski counties, Kentucky, about four
weeks ago, has been solved by the con¬
fession of Mary Smith. She lived in the
house of John and Henry Hill, near Mc¬
Clendon's ridge. She claims that she
was forced to help the Hills commit the
deed, aud that after the murder they
watched her to prevent her from reveal¬
ing ihe crime. She eluded them at last,
however, ami went to the house of a
neighbor, R. D. Jones. The subject of
the two peddlers, who have been missing
for a long time, and about whom finding inquiiy
has been stimulated by the of
pieces of human lie li by the neighbors, The
was brought up iu her presence.
shocking circumstances "ere gone over
again by the family, and the woman be¬
came so agitated as to arouse their suspi¬
cions. At last Mr. Jones openly taxed
her with knowing somethiug about the
missing men At this the woman broke
clown and made the following confession:
“I was staying with Henry Hill when
the two peddlers came to the house and
wanted to stay allnight. After they had
been shown to their beds upstairs, John
Hill came over and he and H- nry began
to concoct a plan to murder them. They
told me to get a quilt and follow them
up stairs. We all went tiptoeing up the
steps and found the ped Hers asleep.
Henry Hill stood on one side of the lied
and Johu on the other. They told me
to throw the quilt oven the heads of the
two men. I did so, and they commenced
to smother them to death. they The peddlets the
struggled so hard that tore
quilt, and then Henry llill thrust a knife
into my hand and told mo to cut their
ihroats or they would kill me. 1 had to
take the knife and do the work. I cut
their throats, and then caught their blood
in a dishpan and threw it in the road.
They then took the bodies and
threw them in ihe cellar. The
Hills buried their bloody clothes in the
garden. They let the bodies lie two da\ s
in the ce lar and then took them away
one night. I do not know wlicr . The
men had about $2o0 on their persons in
jewelry and other things ” arrtstedand Tue woman
Smith and the Hills were
lodged in jail at Janies own. The house
in which the awful deed was committed
is a mile from any other n sidencc, and is
Dn a very lonely road where tiavel is in¬
frequent.
GRADUALLY SINKING.
The Death of Emperor Erederlck, of Ger¬
many Looked for In a Few Days.
A change for the worse in Emperoi
Frederick’s condition, combined with
alarming symptoms preceeding the in¬
sertion of a new canula, gave the people
around him a scare. The rapid swelling
around the old canula, and the sudden
contraction of the air passages, intensely
alarmed the physicians. Dr. Macken¬
zie was summoned to the Emperor's and as
distance. Dis. Bergmann, Krause
Hovell succeeded in reducing the swell¬
ing before placing the new canula in the
Emperor’s throat. This incident has
again attracted attention to the prccari- the
ous state of the Emperor. During lx
height of the alarm Dr. Krause, on
mg asked how the Emperor was getting
on, replied: “He has got over it well now,
but we dread every to-morrow.”
The report is confirmed that the emperor
is also suffering from inflammation of the
lungs. Dr. Mackenzie suggested an ab
cesj in the vicinity of the trachea as the
cause of the excessive fever, which lux
been so puzzling to the doctois. It is
undeniable that Dr. Mackenzie believes
that the emperor’s end is urgently rapidly ap¬
proaching. The empress sum
tnoiied members of the family Wil¬ 1c
hasten to the castle. Crown Prince
liam came from Berlin, and arrived first.
He was followed by Empress Augu-ta bed
and others. Bismarck was at the
side an hour after receiving the summon
1 here is a marked disch ive of bloody
mucus from the emperor’s throat, and ti e
swelling is processing downward. Bis¬
marck, accompanied by the minister <J
justice, had another interview with the
emperor, when the emperor signed an or
der appointing the crown prince to act as
his represen i a ive.
SUDDEN DEATH.
H<m. Z. W. Leitner,secretary of state of
South Carolina, d ed suddenly at his res
idence in Columbia. He leaves a wife
and five children with litile legacy $3,000 save
a house and lot in Camden and
i suranee. He was bon: in Fairfield
c< untv, near Winnsboio, on September
23. 1829. He entered the South Carolina
College in 1847, and was graduated ad¬ in
the class of 1849. Iu 1853 he was
mitted to the bar. lie entered the miii
tary service of South Cirolina in 'he
Camden Volunteers on April 8, 1861,
nd was present at the bombardment of
Fort. Sumter, After the tunei.cer of
he fort he went to Virginia, where he
was engaged in most of the tatties
fought by the army of Northern Virginia.
At Gettysburg his right leg was sl.a'tercd
below the knee by grape-shot and was
..mputated.
BOYCOTT ON BEERS.
The Central Labor Union at New
York declared a general boycott on all
pool beer. Every d> legate w as in favor
of war to the last against the bosses.
Among the firms boycotted are Peter
Daclger, Henry Elias Peter Buckel, John
Kres-, David Mayer, M. Groh’- Sons,
Reubsam & Hersman, William Peter, II.
B. Scharmann, S. Leiberman & Sons,
Frederick Bachmann, Ballautine Sons, G.
V. Ulmer and Frederick Munch.
NO. 8.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES INTERESTINGLY STATED.
Accident# on Land ami on Sea—Now Enter;
prisco—Suicides—Religious, Temperance
aud Social Matters.
Negotiations are pending Pa., and between citi- a
large firm of Pittsburg, for the a
of Athens, Ga., necessary glass
plant and buildings for extensive
works.
The Farmers’ Alliance entered North
Carolina about a year ago. It now has
686 sub-alliances in the state with 32,
000 members. The Knights of Labor are
losing strength and the new order is over¬
shadowing everything.
In Sumter county, S. C., a stroke of
lightning killed a negro boy, killed wfio was the
rising along a public road,
mule he was driving and shattered the
buggy. In the same county, about the
sumo lime, a stroke of lightniug killed a
mule, a cow and a pig. There are no
other casualties reported.
Andrew Marlow, mail carrier on the
Blue Spring and Crystal River route, in
Marion County, Florida, evas arrested by
Postoffice Inspector Boykin on the charge and
of robbing mail sacks of made registeied full
other valuable letters. He con¬
fession, and much of the stolen property
was recovered.
There were 8,000 visitors at Bessemer’s,
(Ala ,) first anniversary. Speeches Birming¬ were
made by Messrs. Talliaferro, of
ham; Colver, of the Nashville American ;
Hudson, of Louisiana, and Burke, of the
7 imes-Vemocrat. All spoke in favor of
protection for Alabama's greut iron and
steel indu tries.
While a construction train on the Kan-
8 8 City, Mpmp is & Birmingham Rail¬
road was luuning backward at a rate of
twenty miles an hour, near Amory, Miss.,
it struck a cow and the entire train was
thrown from ihe track and badly
wrecked. Four negro laborers wero
killed outright and eight others injured,
some of them fatally.
The jury iu in the case of David
Walker, chief of the Bald Knobbers,
wh i have been or tiial at Ozark, Mo.,Re¬
turned a verdict of murder in the first
degree. James Mathews, Wilbam St n
ley, Amos Jones and C. C. Simmons.
were then sentenced by the court, three
of them haviug phad guilty to muider
iu the second degree. Stanleyand penitentiary, Jones
go twenty-five years in the
Sm mo us fifteen years, and Muthews was
released on $1,000.
THE CLOSING SCENE.
New York’s Grout .Statesman lias Bat a
short Time to Live.
Ex Senator Conkling sleeps but little,
and is much affected by a racking cough
that disturbs him every few minutes. He
is much prostrated by it; is weak and
nervous. It has been found necessary to
engage an assistant nurse for him. Dr.
Barker said that there were no symptoms
for the worse in his patient’s developed. condition, Mr.
except a little bronchitis
Conkling’s pulse was 1)0 and his temper¬
ature 98£. Notwithstanding hopeful
views, the following telegram was sent
by Gen. Harlow: “'To Hon. J. I 1 . Jones,
Utica, N. Y.: Much weaker, chances
diminisliin". Very little hopes. S. L.
M. Barlow." One of theattendantssaid:
“Conkling is no better. He seems in a
coma. lie is taking all the nourishment
that we give him. He does not recog¬
nize any one. lie talks incoherently in
his sleep in a disjointed sort of way.”
As time wore on Conkling’s nervousness
and twitching of the muscles became
more pronounced. A state of partial
coma was the next development, and then
he lost power to rerist the doctors’ efforts
to feed him and dress his wounds. Not
for a single moment was hi; rational.
And Inter on his mind seemed filled with
recollections of great lawsuits and the
polirieal campaigns iu which he has been
the leading figure. Edward Stokes, pro¬
prietor of the Huffman house, said:
“Conkling is failing rapidly. There is
no chance for his reeoveiy. I think tho
cud is not far distant.”
AN AMERICAN DUKE.
Robert Mills, one of the most remark¬
able of the Texas pioneers, died in Gal¬
veston, Texas recently, aged 79 years. the
Prior >o the War he was. perhaps, His
wealthiest planter in the Soutn.
slaves and plantations were value 1 at $8,
000 000. He was known thr ughout the
South as the “Duke of Brazoria.” Pres¬
ident Lincoln’s pioclamation emancipated Mills
1,000 selected -lavis belonging ruin, to from
aud resulted in his financial
which he never recovered.
revolution.
The peasant rising, in Bucharest, is ex¬
tendin''. Several village mayors have
been Til ed. Large binds are of attacking assemo
lin" with th • avo -ed object have been
Bucharest. Teleg aph wires
c «t at several railway sta ions. Men of
the territorial army, who were hastily
called out, proved untrustworthy and
have been replaced by troops ot the line.
The Instantaneous Process.
Dnmley (to photographer)—“Do the instantaneous pro¬ you
take pictures by hurry.”
cess? I'ni in a
Photographer—“Yes, sir.”
Dumley—“Y-ftu ma y t a k® mine; •
dozen cabinets.” right, yus^sit . .
Photographer—“All and wait turn, please.” s r;
down your will I have to
Dumley— “How long
wait ?” few hours;
Photographer—“Only baby ahead of you.”—JSJpe-A. a
there’s a