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EGYPT AND GEORGIA.
gHB EXPENSE OF BAISIJiG COTTON
IXT£B£STIH6LV COMPABED.
“It Coats More Per Acre There, But Here The
Expense is Great.r-513.85 Against
925.05 There—Hi* Fertilizer*.
ASHA MAHER, of Egypt,
and Colonel James M. Smith,
of Georgia, sitting on the
| piazza of tho latter’s Oglc
ithorpe county home figuring
’the cost of growing cotton
in their respective countries
was a picture worth going
a long way' to see.
U(ii the recent occasion
of Osman Pasha Maher s
IC
risit to Georgia he spent two days wit i
Colonel Smith, Georgia’s largest planter,
and he and the other two guests veto
most hospitably entertained.
The cost of making cotton in this state
ami in the khedive’s domain came up nat
urally and the two big planters sat down
to calculate it. Item by item the expenses
were noted down and it was with no little
interest that the result was awaited. Each
of these big growers of the staple knew
about what it cost in his own country, but
this was probably the first time the coinpai-
Ison had been made by such proininent plan
ters representing the two lands, one the
oldest almost in history, and the other one
of the youngest. And the agriculturist
from the oldest country recognized that
his had been far outstripped by the junior
in tile production of the article on which
they were figuring. Pasha Maher re
marked that it was not until the civil war
that his country had gone into growing
cotton on an extensive scale. .
It brought a high price during and just
after the close of the war ’’‘'tween th6
states, and the Egyptians thought that they
had at last struck something in which they
could make fortunes out ot the soil Liu
just as they were getting ahead right well |
the murrain attacked their cattle and swept
off nearlv all their oxen with which they
cultivated the crop. The farmers had to
spend all the money they had accumulated
to buy new stock.
Egvpt grows a cotton of longer staple .
than the upland of the states and it u mg's .
from 4 to <’> cents more per pound, fcaih- i
land was tried in Egypt, hut it was not a
success, the yield per acre being too small |
to justify the farmers raising it to the ex ■
elusion of the shor’er staple.
Colonel Smith figured on the average cost
of making cotton in this state on tno av
erage farm bv the average farmer, and the
pasha took the average cost m his country
And this result was obtained: In Egypt i
the cost per acre is greater, but as more
cotton is raised mi an aero the cost per
pound is less than in Georgia.
The Egyptian farmer is at an jnrriiM
pxnensp of $25.05 per acre and the (o’Orgia
farmer’s expense is Sl3.!>>. '1 In’ Egyptian
g.-ts -I<h» pounds of lint from an aero amt
the average in Georgia, according to the |
last census is 175 pounds to the acre, or
less than one-half as much.
The <’<»M Per Pound.
It costs the Egyptian .0626 cents a pound
to raise his col ton and it costs the Georgian
within a small fraction of 8 cents a pound.
So the Egyptian has an advantage ot
J 3-4 cents a pound, according io the pa
sha's figures, and he gels an average ot a
cents a pound more than the Georgian
does in the market. \ ery likeiy, it tbe ex
penses of the Egyptian coin-1 be cab-mated
with a little m ae accuracy, the <’•»<. ‘d
production would be increased, tor the
pasha sta.ed that if cotton gels down to b>
cents his country will nave to slop raising
it. lie said that la-fore the caieiiiai ions
were made, lie does? not count the mteiest j
on the investment, because the Moham- <
Uied.un does not take interest for his money,. I
Sometimes he has to pay it, but that is
when he borrows from a Christian. In tin.
calculations given below the interest was i
counted in, but other items were omit oxi
because it was hard to get at them. One ",
itoiu iw ib‘» P Vk ‘ i»- * •**' '* ** » ‘
warehousing the cotton when it reacnes ,
Alexandria. The reason this shou.d go in
is became the large planters are tiieir own
merchants and have their warehouses at
the port. They ship their crop down there,
fitore it in their own buiblings and thon
noil it themselves. They have to pay not
only the transport from the plantation, but
the cost of transferring it to the ware
house, sampling, insurance, if there is any,
interest on the building, and hire ot clerks
to look after it. All of these tire legiti
mate items for they must be paid out ot j
''two 'things which will be observed at a
glance are that laud is very high in Egypt
ami so is the tax. While labor is cheap
there it takes a great deal more to do the
same work. Here the land is plowed tor
$1 an acre, in Egypt five plowings are re
quired to get the land in order, and the ex
pense of breaking the ground is really the
same in both countries. One thing evens
up .-mother. Land in Egyp is valued at
from ssl) to $350 an acre. Here in Georgia
it is valued at $lO an acre on an average,
tit'd instead ot a state ami county tax of
Jess than 1 per cent, the Egyptian pays
31-2 per cent. As Colonel Smith ex
p’ained, a Georgian has to own about four I
a.-res of land to get one for eotton miltiva- I
tion. That is. the average Georgia farm
,s made up to a great extent of wooded and. 1
pastme. road-, gullies, fem-.- rows and un
tillable ground. So he calculated interest
and tax on about four acres.
s>l3 95 mi Arce
Here is his estimate of the average cost
of making one acre of cotton in Geotgia.
’lax Hour mres).. .. ••••,;. $ ;!,!
Interest ami renewal of buildings pel :
idtehiiig ami keeping up farm 50 i
Breaking ground lor crop 1 I
200 iM.imds er iliz.er •• 200 I
Beddiii- (making rows ami putting m
fertilizer) 1
Two bushels seed ..
Planting J"
DpenJiit: amt covering .- 11
Plowing first time (two furrows to
row) --h
Hoeing first linn- and rephinting
Plowing second linn- •; 11
Hoeing second time tio
Flowing third time (three furrows to
row) o”
Hoeing third, time oO ,
Plowing fourth time (three furrows to
row)
Chopping 15
Picking 525 pounds seed cotton 2 (12
Ginning 30 cents per 100, lint 52
Hauling to market 15
Commission merchant 20
Superintendence 25
Interest on investment in land 2 50
Total sls 45
Deduct for 10 bushels of seed 1 50
Net cost for 175 pounds on one aero..sl3 95
Net cost per pound lint cotton. S cents.
Colom 1 Smith reduces the price- of his
fertilizer, the cost of working slightly and
does his own ginning, and thinks that he
made his crop last year for 7 cents per
pound. He sold it for au average of 1)
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATIJLNTA. GA- TUESDAY.. AUGUST 29, 1893.
cents. He has made it as low as 6 cents
per pound, but it takes an exceptionally
good season to reduce it that low. He
raises 255 pounds to the acre, whereas the
average for Georgia which produces 1,000,-
000 bales annually is 175 pounds per acre.
The Irrigation System.
The Egyptian farmer has to use the
irrigation system because he gets no ram
in the delta, which is the tract lying be
tween the forks of the Nile below Cairo and
the sea. Canals run off from the river lor
fifty’ miles into the interior. Every farmer
must have his pump to raise the water
from the canal to the ditches running
through his farm. Pasha Maher and large
planters will have a great steam pumping
station. Before the British occupation, the
farmers generally’ had small pumps which
the.v moved about from place to place. This
was expensive and was hard on the ma
chinery’. so those who can afford it have
put in larger pumps and will make one sta
tion supply tho water for 1.000 acres. 1 hey’
allow to begin at the upper side of the
plantation and water square by square,
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FIVE PIATEIt PIECE.
going down to the end of the farm. The
Dump is of a capacity- to Hood whatever
acreage the farmer has in cotton, once
every ten days during the watering sea
son. The water is pumped into the smaller
canals and the ditches are hik'd about a
foot and a half deep. Tin- earth quickly
absorbs the water and in fifteen minutes
there may not be a drop to be seen. It
should be understood that the water is lot
into the furrows between the rows of cot
ton and stands a foot and a half deep in
these furrows, so that it goes right to the
roots of the plant, and the growth of the
Egyptian cotton is luxuriant, so dense in
fact being the foliage that if the climate
wore not perfectly dry, tho leaves would
shade the fruit to such an extent that it
would rot off.
#25.05 per Feddan.
Here are tho items of expense per acre
as Pasha Maher gave them with the inter
est added:
Tax 140
Interest on land W
Renewal of buildings • • 20
Flowing (5 times) 100
Leveling -• 1-2
Making (furrows.. -
Hoeing and watering.. •>
Man to regulate waler 1-J
Seed f>
Planting •*
Six waterings I’JO
Five boelngs » j'J’
Ficking 22
Ginning
Transport of cotton 21)
Interest on pumping plant IS
Total cost per acre - 559
Deduct net price of seed 58
Net co<-t per acre 501
A piaster is equivalent to tive cents in
Agponeirti mom y, mid the Egyptian farmer s
expense per feddan or acre reckoned in our
currency would be $25.05.
From this acre the Egyptian has ob
tained 4(X) pounds of lint cotton ami the
average cost to him per pound is .0626
cents or six cents ami a quarter approxi
mately.
This is not counting in the cost of the
warehousing and interest on tin- investment
at Alexandria or of the cost of selling.
After all the Egyptian has not much the
advantage m-r pound. < leoi-gi-a fm-m.-rs n>-<>
increasing their yield per acre, and as they’
get it higher they reduce the cost per
pound. When they get to making an aver
age crop of 400 pounds of lint to thi> acre
they will be away ahead of the Egyptian
farmer in the profit on the crop, for 400
pounds on an acre would bring the cost
(iown to less than 4 cents a pound.
A 16,000 Acre Plantation.
Colonel Smith owns 16,000 acres lying
in one tract in Oglethorpe ami Madison and
lias 4,000 acres in other parts of Georgia.
Os the 16,000 acres he cultivates about
one-half ami the rest is in pasture and
woods, some original forest, ami tin* rest
second growth pines. His home is situated
about the middle of the tract: which, how
ever, is not sijuare, but has irregular boun
daries. in some places it is fifteen miles
across ami in others only one or two. The
soil is a light red clay of good natural qual
ity ami susceptible of improvement. It is
splendidly’ adapted to the cultivation of cot
ton, while corn, wheat, oats. rye. clover
mid fruits, melons ami vegetables of many
varieties flourish there.
Colonel Smith has four systems of farm
ing-
lie cultivates 3.090 acres by hired fre<-
la-hor, 3,000 m-res by convicts leased from the
state' 2.000 acres by’ tenants who pay him
one fourth of their crops, 2.0(h) acres by
“croppers,” who pay him one half of their
crons.
Tne acreage of each crop and average
yield for the whole body’ of iand by all tho
svstcnis combined are about as follows:
Crop. Acres. yield.
Colton 4.000 1,800 bales
Corn 2.(MH).. ..30.0'10 bushels.
Wheat'' ' ....1.000 10,000 bushels.
Oats.. SOO Jti.ono bushels.
Itve. . .. - 2(H) 1,400 bushels.
X'am's. 100 5.000 bushels.
Ruta I’.aga Turnips lih) 30.(Mi0 bushels.
Irisii Potatoes 20 1,000 bushels.
Colonel Smith owns 2(H) mules, twelve
horses, SOD cows, oxen and calves, mid
44)0 hogs. His mules are fine and cost him
from $l5O to S2OO apiece. His herd of
cows contains many Holstein, .Jersey ami
Ayreshire cattle. Some of these cattle
are thoroughbred ami are registered. He
milks about seventy cows and makes sixty
pounds of fine butter per day, selling it
for 25 cents per pound.
He cultivates about 3,000 acres around
his home place where he lives with free
hired labor, all tin- laborers being negroes
lie also keeps constantly employed a num
ber of carpenters, brick lay ers and black
smiths. Some of these mechanics are
white and others are black. Be pays the
best class of labor on this farm $l5O per
annum, tin- laborers feeding themselves.
jl<- pays the second class $125 per year and
the boys from $75 to sllO a year. Ho
hires some negro women for five days in
the week in certain seasons and pays them
on an average of 40 cents per day. The
woim-n do not work on Saturdays, evotding
that day to domestic duties. Colonel Smith
furnishes all his laborers good houses, and
gardens for vegetables. Tie supplies ids
wage hands with firewood. He works
about 100 hands on his wages farm. Two
white men arc employed to boss the la
borers and they are assisted by colored sub
foremen .
Tli« Convict System.
'The convb-t farm is entirely distinct from
the other farm so far as cultivation is
concerned, being cultivated as a separate
plantation. 'lbis farm enmr.-ices 3.000
acres, on which, an average of scveiity
fiv<> convicts are employed. Now there are
130. All are men. ’T'm-y are serving
terms of from two years to life sentences.
Colonel Smith pays the state $1 per month
for each convict and clothes am! feeds
him. The lessee has to pay the transpor
tation of the convict from the place where
be is convicted to the farm and must pay
his fare back pud supply him with clothes
when the prisoner's sentence expires. For
every eseiipc who is not recaptured, he
must pay- the state S2OO. There is one white
man to superintend the convicts and til
teen white guards, who are paid by the
lessee. Colonel Smith says that the cost
of the convict labor is fully as much m-r
capita as the cost of the free labor. The
convicts do not. do any more work than
the free workmen.
The Tenants.
About 2,(MM) acres are cultivated by
tenants who rent the land, furnish the la
bor and the stock and are at all the ex
pense except for one-fourth of the fertil
izers and one-fourth of the cost of ginning
the eotton. They pay’ to Colonel Smith
one-fourth of all the crops made, for the
use of the lands.
The Cropper*
About 2.000 acres are cultivated ou
shares, the owner of the land furnishing
the mules and implements, feed for the
mules, houses for the croppers, and he gets
one-half of the crop, paying fur one-half
of the fertilizers.
One-fourth of the tenants are white- As
a. rule the whites are the most industrious
and intelligent and make the best crops
among the tenants. A number, of the
negro tenants farm with judgment
ami clear some money every’ year. Several
white tenants of former years have saved
money and are now land owners themselves,
having bought from Colonel Smith on long
time and at an easy- rate of interest.
On this tract of land; are three colored
chiirc-hes, three school houses for the use
of the colored children, three schools, for
whites and two churches for whites. Some
of the churches are for Methodists and
others belong to the Baptist denomination.
White teachers are employed for the white
schools and colored teachers for the negroes.
Plenty ol’ Provender.
Colonel Smith has on. hand now 6.001)
bushels of old corn which he has kejit in
the shuck and 2,(J00 bushels of outs from
the crop of 1892. He has a large amount
of forage and believes that he could make
his crop next year without having to use
any of this year’s crop for his stock. He
sows wheat for the double purpose of get
ting some grain ami to improve the worn
out. lands which have been planted in cot
ton for a number of years in succession.
Wheat gives the land a rest and replaces
in it some vegetable matter. His wheat
is generally planted on the poorest lands.
Hence the yield is lighter than it would bo
otherwise. Rye ami cow pens and clover
are all planted to rest the land, and these
crops do improve it. His best land would
make from fifteen Io I wenty-five bushels
of wheat and from twelve to twenty bush
els of rye per acre. Wheat is sown from
November Ist to tho middle of .December;
oats from the middle of August to the
Ist of March. Ollier things being equal,
the earlier the crop is planted the better
the yield.
lie makes all his fertilizers himself, using
cotton seed meal and mixing it with dis
solved bone, muriate of potash and ktt’inil.
ile owns a tiiree-pi-ess cotton seed oil mill
and prcssi's annually ,-ibout 2.000 tons of
cotton seed. Tho oil is refined in his own
refinery and soil. The meal is used for
feed for the cattle and for fertilizers. The
hulls are fed to tln> cattle. The money'
obtained from tho sale of the oil pays for
the dissolved bone and other ingredients
of the fertilizers. FRANK WEI-DON.
The well-known strengthening properties of
iron combined with other tonics and a most
perfect nervine, are found in Carter’s Iron
rills, which stromztbon (lie nerves and body,
and improve the blood and complexion.
WILL SI.AY NO MORE.
Tliey Murdered Simply for Sport—Outraged
Citizens l urm <1 on the Becheanis.
Mobile, Ala., August 21.- (Special.)—The
latest, news from the Meachamite war, in
Clarke county, Alabama, is to tin- eifeei,
that for the present, at least, till trouble is
over. Tile gang lias been either extermi
nated or driven from the country.
The opinion prevails among the cooler
headed eitiz.ens that Babe Burke, Mack
Burke, Dave Burke and Jim Jordan, the
outlaws, whom the pos.se lias beoti searching
tin- swamps for, have escaped to safer
quarters and will not be captured, at least
lor the present.
These Meaehamites are a most peculiar
people. Unlike their neighbors, the white
caps of Nlississippi and Louisiana, tliey
have not ignorance to plead their cause.
They are all men of more or less education.
They have not grinding poverty- to incite
them to cry out against oppression, for
every one of them owns his own farm and
has left line growing crops to go in the
night and murder ami pillage for the mere
love of the thing. Since the gang, Wjhidi
is known by th-- suggestive mine- ot UiiJiil
at tiie Breech, lirst eommeneed to hold
midnight meetings at Dead Level church,
no man, woman or child in the neighborhood
has drawn an easy breath.
M (irdecei! for Fun.
Old man Bedsole, the father and dictator
of the gang, lias made a full confession, de
tailing in ad of its horror the story of the
cranes of I lie devils in human guise. The
gang was bound by the most appalling of
oaths. Tiie members swore to obey blindly
tiie dictates of tiie ruling council and pil
lage, for tin- pure love of pillage was the
object of tiie order. Murder was merely an
incidental precautionary measure. Tiie
Meaehamites believed in the old adage that
the dead tell no tales and the.v butchered
tiieir victims without tiie slightest display
of conscience. They are not cowards. No
man will deny the courage of any member
of the gang. They* ambushed their victims
because it was safer to destroy them in
-that way than tn a fair, standup tight.
That, such a gang could operate in a civil
ized state is a crying disgrace to Alabama.
Beyond a feeble effort to induce terrorized
witness’s to testily before grand juries,
upon which many- sympathizers of tiie gang
served, the laws of the state have done
nothing to rid tiie slate <>f this band of
criminals. The citizens who weia- for law
'and jorder stood this thing until it was
clearly demonstrated that the administra
tion of tiie laws had degenerated into a
mere farce. Then they took tin- matter into
their own hands and wiped the outlaws off
the face of the earth or drove them from
the country.
The Meaehamites are .an oflsboot ol the
Sinimites, who did business in Choctaw and
adjoining counties.
A (.iM »i tiie Victims.
Below follows a complete list of the kill
ed since tiie beginning of the Siinmite and
Aleachamite troubles;
Bailey Sims, James Suns, Con Savage,
Robert Savage, Robert Sims, Thad Savage,
Tyre Savage, William Savage. John Sims,
Henry Hinton and Thomas I'ox., All of
these'were mobbed except, Bailey Sims who
was shot.
Tiie Meaehamites who were killed are:
Levi James, Ixirt Janies, Toocli BeiLole
and William Bedsole. It is definitely'
known that three others bit the dust iu'an
engagement with a citizens posse last week,
but no definite information can be obtained
about it.
The citizens who have been killed are;
James Johnson, Thomas E. Jackson. Rich
ard McMillan, wife and three children,
all of whom were cremated after death in
the (lames which consumed their home.
One of these chil Iren was thrown into the
flames while alive and burned to death.
Miss Eliza McKinney, John Kmim-dy, L.
McKoy, William Chambliss, E. McCor
quodale, William House, Lem House, and
John Hare were also among their victims.
Death to the Last One.
The Constitution’s special correspondent
has just returned from the neighborhood of
Cession swamp where the remainin/ 'out
laws are .suppose,! to lie hiding. The posse
of outraged citizens have been dilignet in
1 heir search for two weeks. They have gone
to their homes to await fur
ther developments. Tiie people are
just a» alert, just. as waieh
ful now as they have been at any period
since the beginning of the atrocious mur
ders already’ recorded. If either of the out
laws should ever again make his appear
ance in that section his trial will be speedy
ami swift. Extermination will be only- a
matter of a few hours. When the grave
lias claimed tile fiends then, perhaps,
tliis, tiie fairest farming section of Ala
bama. will again prosper. Every avenue of
commerce iias been blocked up by the depre
dations of these outlaws for two years.
Hundreds of families, fearing the safe y of
their lives, have movej away. Peace
once more restore 1 would be hailed by- ihe
remaining residents with inexpressible joy,
but they- realize, with all tiie terror of
tho lesson taught by the past, that peace
will only come with tho death of the
last, of the .Meachamite gang._
fvi Best < .High Syrup. Ta. tes Good. Use g-J
M in t ime. Sold by druggis’a. gffl
decl.l—dly top or hot col ny tn
A TEXAS TRAGEDY.
ED. JtAT.T. WAYLAID HIS BWEET
IIEABT AXD HEB ZOYEIi.
First, he Killed Her Companion Then Pur
sued the Young Lady and Murdered Her
and Thon Suicided—Other Crime*.
Waco, Tex., August 22.—(Special.)—A
special to The Evening News from I alo
Pinto, Texas, an obscure part of the state,
says:
“The most horrible and bloody crime ex er
perpetrated in this county occurred last
night about 10 o'clock near Pleasant Val
ley, six miles to the southeast of this place.
Miss Ida Beatty and James Bly were re
turning home from church together from
Pleasant Valley when they were suddenly
confronted by Ed Nall.Winchester in hand.
Without warning, Nail shot young Bly'
through tiie heart, killing him instantly.
At the firing of the first fatal shot, Miss
Beatty’s horse became frightened and made
a break for the woods, followed by Nail.
After, running about four hundred yards,
Nall succeeded in overtaking her, and with
one blow of his gun knocked her from her
horse, crushing her head. He then placed
the muzzle of the gun to her forehead and
tired, shooting a part of the skull off and
si-atioring her brains all over (lie ground.
When he had destroyed beyond all doubts,
the life of the girl, lie then placed the gun
to his own head and sent ills own soul into
eternity. The top of his head was blown
off.
The Father Heard the Shots.
At the lime the first shot was fired,
Captain J. M. Bly, father of young Bly,
was a few hundred yards in the advance
of the couple. On hearing the report of
Hie gun, hejurned back and soon found his
son lying in the road dead. But Miss Beatty
had disappeared. Assistance was imme
diately summoned. Tin 1 neighborhood was
aroused and a messenger dispatched to
I'alo Pinto for medical aid •ml cthceis.
Sheriff Maddox and Dr. Warren repaired
to the scene ami found the whole commun
ity thoroughly aroused. Search was made
for the unfortunate girl, and both Nall
ami his victim were found within a few
feet of each ol her, about four hundred yards
from where young Bly was murdered.
Nall Was Jealous.
Jealousy was the cause of tiie horrible
deed. Nall and Miss Beatty were to be
married about three weeks ago, but it ,eems
jealousy caused her to break the engage
ment. Yesrerday young Bly was m her
company the greater part of the day and
accompanied her to church last n'K.it. . .ill
was angered at seeing her in the company
of another and this is supposed to have
prompted him to tiie murder. Janies Bly
was the son of J. M. Bly. an old and re
spected citizen of this county, end was a
voting matt of more than ordinary r.l :lity,
and well liked by all who knew hinr He
was vice president, of the Young Mei; s
Christian Association at A\ otherfor 1. Mus
Be-ittv was lite daughter of Jam-s Beatty
and was universally liked and ..’Spf.cted.
Nall was a resident of Santo in tins tounty,
ami stood well in tho community.
THEY TORE I.’l’ THE TRACKS.
A Riot in Gilberton, I’a . In Which Two
Men Wore Killed.
Gilberton I’a. August 22.-A riot today
urew Out of a dispute between the borough
trials ami the Sehuy.kill iaV
pauy ov. r the right of the iattit to <ij
its tracks through the town. Ihe tztm>
. ~e Hl> tho irauKs already laid and tin lad
road emupauy sent a party ot' armed men to
the spot m charge of one of its special olh
cpi-h. While negotiations were progiesbing
for a settlement, a wordy quarrel arose bt
tween the citizens and the railroad company s
Vrn'e'l pen. One of the latter, named John
Brio's, shot ami instantly killed a eUizyn
mimed Richard I’aihit. A general batt e fol
"w.ed which lasted an hour. In addition to
i’aitiiit William Hughes, an onlooker, ot
t mei-tbn. ,vn» kt.i.-t.
.-i-Ll oliieer mimed Amour, was shot twice,
, .ip.,! ionight. Richard ( onnors. Evan
Divid ami James Iliililian. citizens of Gil
bert n wer’ fatally shot ami hurt with
st.lnes Briggs, who' started the riot, was
slightly hurt but escaped for the lime. Hi.
was Anight later, and is now in uni on a
(•urge of murder, ihe weapons with which
h" railroad men were armed were borrowed
from the Girardville militia and some of the
..dl'itia were also borrowed by the railroad.
There still remains considerable excitement
over tiie affair « ...
WANT TO LYNCH HIM.
John Price, who Assaulted Dora Bishop, is
Luder oiliest.
Fayetteville, Ga., August 23—(Special.)-
Johu Price, who, with Waiter Reeves, as
saulted Miss Dora Bishop near Here two
weeks ago, has been arrested m Gullman
county, Alabama.
Sheriff Hewed, ot 1' ayette county, has
gone to Alabama for Price. The people
of this community are indignant and the
chances are tnat Price will be Ijnctied. it
he is brought here.
The relatives and friends of the girl are
very mad over the release of liceves, who
was arrested and tried before Magistrate
Carson and discharged. '1 hey threaten to
Ivnch Price as soon as lie is brought here,
•ind lie has friends who deciare that he
shall not be lynched. There is imminent
danger of a collision between tiie two fac
tions when the prisoner arrives, if not be
fore. Two hundred men are engaged on
one side or tbe other. Fiery speeches have
been made. Fayette’s best citizens are
ranged on either side.
Dora Bishop lives at Brooks e station,
six mill's from here and probably fifteen
milt's from Gritlin. On Sunday night. Au
gust 6th, John Price, a young man of her
acqnaiiitfiiicc, cnlh*'! to her t<H*churvh,
she having an engagement with him. He
went in a buggy. She started off with him
for church. After going some distance
she says that Price stopped his horse in a
elump of woods. Walter Reeves came out
of the shadow and the two young men to
gether took her forcibly from the buggy,
carried her into tiie woods ami both as
saulted her. Price had a pistol which he
flourished at her ami threatened to kill her
if she told. He then took her back home.
Tiie next day she was ill and crying all day.
Her mother finally learned from her the
store of the outrage. Warrants were sworn
out for Reeves ami Price. The latter lied.
Reeves was caught and on Wednesday
after the crime was given a hearing before
Justice Carson, who is a cousin of Price.
Miss Bishop testified as to the assault.
Reeves said nothing at all. Carson dis
ci) urged Reeves, saying that if the girl had
been so treated as she stated she would
have told her parents when she got home.
The action of the magistrate incensed the
community and a lew days later a card
signed by the representative men of the
section was sent to Tiie Constitution pro
testing against the magistrate’s decision.
It was declared in the card that (’arson
either had made up his mind in advance or
was ignorant.
Reeves left the community soon after
beimx acquitted, for there was talk of
Jvnehing, although lie had been released
from custody. The feeling against Price
was even stronger than against Reeves,
for lie had taken the leading part in dis
gracing the girl whose family, though poor,
stands well. She has tin* reputation of
being a good, virtuous young woman and
was tiie victim of a dastardly plot.
Wag Once a Preacher.
Tuscaloosa. Ala., August 22.—(Special.)—
W. (J. Harris, a prominent inerehaut at
Cottondale, eight miles from here, was
killed today in a cutting affray about a
lewd woman- The woman and Harris
spent the night together and this morning
vent to a spring in the woods. A man by
the name of Dan Webster approached and
a conversation began. Hot words passed.
The men clinched and Webster slabbed
Harris five times in the side and heart,
causing instant death. The slayer fled.
The woman claims not to know M ebster.
Harris was once a preacher ami leaves a
wife and children. The sheriff is pursuing
AVebster.
Hu* Keen Cmißibt.
Tuscaloosa. Ala.. August 23. (Special.)—
Dan Webster, accused of killing M . O.
Harris, xvqs arrested last night jn the
town where the crime occurred.
Mrs. Courtney, the only witness to the
killing, was also arrested. She recognized
the man man as Webster and says he is
the man. Both are in jail.
Mrs. Courtney was the woman with
Harris.
ARMSTRONG’S ANSWER
To the Barone** Von iioqne'* Charge* of
Fraud Aitninst Him.
Richmond, Va., August 23.—A few weeks
ago the Baroness von Boques, the mother of
the now etlcbrated Mrs. .Maybrick, filed a
bill in the chancery court of this city against
D. W. Armstrong, a lawyer, formerly ot
Louisville, K.v., but now of New York city,
and others, charging fraud ami iinpro]»'r con
duct generally on the part of Armstrong in
teferenee to certain lands in the states of
West Virginia, ami Kentucky which the bar
oness claimed an interest in through h<i
father, the late Darius B. Holbrook. To this
suit Messrs. J. Taylor Elly son, W. J. John
ston, W. Hodgnian ami W. R. Kenny, repre
senting a syndicate who had purchased a
portion of these lands were made paries,
though the bill stated that the bona tides el
said sale to them was not questioned, ana
tiie complainant txpressed her willingness that
so much of the said lands as was embraced
in the deed to Ellyson and others should
be conveyed to them by a commissioner of
said court. , . .
Yesterday Armstrong, through Ins counsel.
Mr W. R. Kenny, <>f Petersburg. \ a., not
contenting himself with a general denial,
till'd a very full and exhaustive answer, cov
ering fifty-three pages of typewrit ten niatt'i.
in which the various allegations of the bin
are answered. He gives a 1 •ircunistant i.u a< -
count of all of Hie dealings of Armstrong
as to tho lands, whether with tbe Baroness
von Roques herself, in ’person, or by lettei,
or whether with tho counsel nnd advisers of
the baroness and sets forth sundry letters,
both from the baroness ns well as from her
counsel and advisers, that Armstrong had
noted with good faith, and that until a
short time before the institution of this smt ho
had every reason to believe that nil that he
had done was heartily approved and fully
appreciated, not only by the baroness herselt,
but by her counsel nnd advisers.
The answer also contends that tho baroness
is not entitled to any accounting from Arm
strong: that ho has paid to the baroness or
her duly authorized attorneys every dollar
which she was entitled to receive.
DEATH AT THE WEDDING.
A Young Man Dies Eight Hours After He
A¥a« Married.
Staunton, Va., August 24. —James W.
Jackson, a young man of Greebrier county’,
West Virginia, was married at 1 o clock
today to Miss Bettie S. Eeliard, daughter
of Silas C. Echard. Just after the wed
ding feast, the groom became ill, and in
a few moments lost consciousness. He re
mained in this stupor for eight hours, re
covering consciousness lor a few moments
only before death. In less than ten hours,
the bride was maid, wife and widow.
bliot hv a PexpiTHd >.
Wheeling, W. Va., August 24.—Tiie re
port from Welch. McDowell county, in this
state, of the shooting of Deputy Sheriff L .
A. Cunningham by tiie desperado Eugene
Robinson is confirmed. Di'pnty ( unning
ham was known throughout Y\ est \ irginia,
Virgiidia, Kentucky, Tennessee and the
Carolinas, having been until recently a
revenue oliieer and having figured in many
of the moonshine raids. He was consid
ered one of the bravest officers in the ser
vice. Robinson was charged with tiie mur
der of a colored man ami it is supposed he
shot Cunningham to be rid of an important
witness.
Charged with Murder.
Cannlen, Ark., August 22. —J. K. Norman
and Will Kramer, partners in business and
prominent citizens in Bearden, were arrested
today on charging them with the
assassination of Millman Justice, last Friday
Justice made an ante-mortem statement, in
which he said tliey were the men who murder
ed him. Tliey denied and say they will prove
an alibi. Tliey are under guard and will
have a preliminary hearing in an examining
court, tomorrow. Justice was prominent and
the case is attracting universal attention.
A cabin occupied by a colored family at
Bearden was uplifted by a dynamite explo
sion last night aril the bead of the family
and several of his children injured. The
husband's tegs were torn from tils body.
There is no clue to the perpetrators, but it
is thought tiie dynamite was ignited and the
distinction attempted by some concerned in
Justice’s assassination at the. place last Fri
day night, who thought the negro knew too
much.
Got Him Again.
Nashville. Tenn-, August 24.—Rev. Dr.
Howard, who was arrested in Chicago on
August 4th, on the charge of using Hie
mails for fraudulent purposes and immedi
ately afterwards escaped from an officer, is
again in custody. A dispatch from Jackson,
Tenn., says that Dr. Howard returned
to Jackson via tbe Illinois Central railroad
at 6 o’clock this morning and was arrested
at Hie residence of Mrs. Hughes, bls
mother-in-law. He appeared before United
States Commissioner R. I. Chester and
asked for bail, waiving examination. His
bond was fixed at SIO,OOO, which lie in
sisted was excessive. Tiie doctor thinks
lie can readily give tiie bond. He talked
freely of bis arrest ami escape in Chicago
and says he iiad proposed to come home
voluntarily and after starting he feared ar
rest and. therefore, went east and sought
tiie present opportunity to return. He says
lie is confident of his acquittal before the
court which convenes in October.
Arrexting Catiie Thieves.
San Autonio, Tex., August 24. —A dis
patch from Fort McKavett slates the
numerous cattle thieves and smugglers who
infest that section of the upper Rio Grande
border, are being rounded up and that there
is much excitement over the arrests which
have already been made. Sheriff's from
Valverde and tiie surrounding counties
have been out night ami day for the last
week; in all, about fifty men. The hunt
is not over yet, ami more arrests are ex
pected to follow in a few days. All who
have been arrested so far are prominent
citizens and their arrest created great, sur
prise in the community. This stealing has
been going on for some time, but detectives
have been working on the case and were
only waiting until they, could get up a good
case before doing anything decisive.
Shot Hi* Bosom Friend.
Selma, Ala., August 22.-(Special.)—Early
this morning three young men of Selma—
ITeston Bennett, Frank Scott uid Garner
Scott—the latter a son of Mr. E. A. Scott,
of Selma, were out Imn'ing four miles from
the city. The gun of Frank Scott somehow,
nobody' knows exactly, accidentally lived and
lodged a load of shot in the right breast of
Garner Scott. Assistance was at once sum
moned from Selma, but before the physician
arrived young Garner Scott died. While of
the same name, the, young men were not re
lated, but were bosom companions.
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