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VOL. X.
CUNNINGHAM’S TRIAL
THE DYNAMITER GUARDED BY POLICE
AND HISSED BY THE PEOPLE.
IVhat the Prosecation Hopes to Prove —
Another Hattie Brewing on the Nile —
The Times on Chamberlain—
Sorrow for Lord O*Hagan.
London, Feb. A—Jas Gilbert Cunning
ham, alias Dalton, alias Gilbert, the dynamite
■uspect, was rearraigned in tl»e Bow street
police court which was thronged with specta
tors, none of whom were admitted without
a pass. Among thoee present were many of
the nobility and members of the house of
common*. The prisoner looked a trifle pale,
and seemed nervous and apprehensive. He
was accompanied on either side by a consta
ble, while a strong guard of police preceded
him, and another brought up the rear. The
building was surroun i t by an excited crowd
whotA hisses, yells and menacing atti
tudes left little doul ' <»f the feeling* that
are still entertained co o u*ning tbe prisoner.
They were only kept back uy a large l<*rce of
police and military, who closely guarded all
approaches to the court room. Cunning
ham's counsellor, Quillaim, came into court
early, and sat near the prisoner. The gov
ernment was represented by Mr. Poland, so
licitor of the treasury, who opened the pro
ceedings by briefly outlining the history of
the case. He stated that the government
proposed to show that Cunningham was one
of the principals in the recent dynamite out
rage, or at least knew of the conspiracy. He
traced the prisoner’s movements, both in
Liverpool and London, with great exactness,
minutely detailing his movements, and nam
ing the places at which he lodged.
The mysterious box, which Cunning
ham was known to have poss<ss/*d,
could n d .»• found which v. ..•< incunsis nt
with the prisoner’s claim of entire innocence.
Mr. Poland went on to state that Cunning
ham had been noticed in the vicinity of the
tower previous to the explosion, and all the
facts in the possession of the police tend to
connect him with the crime. The prose
cuting attorney, continuing, stated that the
investigations of the politic and the examina
tions of experts went to show that the exploit
ive used was similar to that used in the previ
ous explosions at London bridge and Charity;
Cross. “The material used was undoubtedly
dynamite" said Mr. Poland, “mid its explo
sion was ingeniously arranged." Counsel
went en to describe the machinery use I aod
how the detonating cap caused the iguit«on.
Mr Poland claimed it was r» ls-evident from
the testimony, that the prisoner was, it least
liable under the explosives act, and he hoped
to produce evidence warranting the prisoner
being charged with high treason
At the conclusion of Mr. Poland's remarks
several witnesses for the presecution were
put forward, wh<>se testimony tended to con
firm hw statements.
The most important of these was Dr. Du
pree, the government chemist, who gave
Important evidence in the McDermott
case with reference to the Glasgow ex
plosion, in December, IVS 3. He testified
that he bail examined the detonator found
m Cunningham's luggage and that it con
tained a small copper tube charged with
eleven 1 f grains of a mixture of chloride
potassium, and fulminate of mercury Dr.
Dupree r.ted that a dose examination of the
tube showed that the fuse had been attached
thereto. At the conclusion of his testimony,
the examination was adjourned until Monday
next
On the Eve of Another Battle.
London, Feb. 3.-—Lord Wolseley has tele
graphed the war office from Kort! that Gen.
Earles troops have arrived at a point within
seven miles of Birti, having had a difficult
passage up the river. Gen. Earle's troojjs
will be concentrated, and attack the rebels at
Birti on Tups-lay.
A message has been received at Korti stat
ing that on January 26 a number of the sur
vivors of the fights against Gen. Stewarc, at
Abu Klea and Gabut, chiefly Greeks aud
Syrians, arrived at Berber.
Cairo, Feb. 3.—A telegram from Suakim
states that a reconnuissanee was made by
Admiral Freemantle, whu sb ell td the enemy’s
camp.
Chamberland Denounced.
London, Feb. 3 —The Times this morning
denounces what it calls Mr. Chamberlain's
communism, considering such utterances
coming from a cabinet minister scandalous
and disgraceful. It is, it says, the impera
tive duty of the cabinet to disavow responsi
bility for, or sympathy with them.
Sorrow for U’Hagan.
London, Feb. 8 —The morning papers all
eon tain articles highly eulogistic of Lord
O'Hagan. The Times says he was one of
Ireland's most gifted sons, the news of whose
death will cause sorrow among all parties,
classes and sects in Ireland and England and
on the Continent
Anti-Social lat Uw Wanted.
Berlin, Feb. 3 —ln tue Reichstag Herr
Von Boetticher. minister of the Interior, de
clared that the necessity for an anti-socialist
law was shown by the attitude of the social
ist press in commending the murder of
Rumpff and lauding his murderers.
The Forte Protests.
Constantinople, Feb. 3.—The porte has
addressed a note to the powers protesting
against the occup tion of the Red sea ports
without the cod'lent of the Turkish govern
ment.
New paper Boycotters.
Vienna, Fel. 3 —The boycotting of the
Reichrath by the newspapers continues, de
spite the apology of the presiding officer of
that body.
Earthquake Shock.
Algiers Feb. 3—The town of Mesila, In
Algeria, was visited by a shock of earthquake
Bunday. Eight houses were destroyed, but
no one was injured.
Haines Not Yet Satisfied.
Washington, Feb. 3.—lnformation receiv
ed here from Springfield, ILL, by friends of
Senator Logan is of a character not calcula
ted to inspire them with much hope that he
•will succeed in securing enough votes to make
his re-election to the U, 8. Senate certain. A
letter received here from Springfield, 111.,
says that Haines, the speaker of the demo
cratic house of representatives, is so well
satisfied with his upward career that he is re
solved to continue,and now coolly proposes to
the democrats that they elect him to the sen
ate. He says he will not give his vote to any
other nominee of the democratic caucus save
himself. He expects to be as successful in
forcing this election as he was his elevation to
the speakership.
Scared to Death.
Preston, Ga., Feb. B.—Two weeks ago,
during the absence of Sheriff Davis, his wife
■went into the jail to feed the prisoners. One
of them knocked her down and four escaped.
Last night she was awakened by an alarm oi
fire, and thinking it was a plot of the prison
ers to murder the family, she fell into spasmi
emd died before morning.
Win » 1 Sinus.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
Mr. Sawyer’s Catton Gin Patent Upheld
by the Court.
Macon, Ga., Feb. 3.—A decision has been
rendered in the United States circuit court,
of the southern district of Georgia, that in
volves the sum of $700,000, and nearly every
cotton gin manufacturing company in Amer
ica. It was the celebrated case of P C. Saw
yer, the inventor and patentee of the Sawyer
cotton gin. The Inventor is sixty-two years
of age. He was an agent for Orvin W. Mas
sey, aud traveled for the popular Massey gin,
or what was better known as the
old design Griswold gin, manufactured
three miles fast of Macou. During the
twelve years of his connection with this firm
he became conversant with the construction
of gins of various manufactures. In 1870 he
left the firm and did a repair business, lu
187! he established a small gin manufactory.
During the year he had drawings designed
for a j>atent on gins He made one of the
machines, and exhibited it at the Middle
Georgia agricultural fair, in Augusta. Mas
sey had one of his gins also on exhibition
during the week. Massey got all the points
of Sawyer’s gin and made a copy of it and
afterward manufactured several thousand.
Sawyer made a model and exhibited it at
various places, and his gins were decided to
be the best in the market. On March 26,
1573, an application for a patent was granted.
The various firms throughout the country lie
gan to use the gins and infringe on his
patent He failed in 1874 on this account.
In 1881 the first suit, a bill of com
plaint was entered against parties. It was
heard by Judge Pardee, of the United States
court, in New Orleans. The decree was made
negative in character. On October 23, 1888,8.
A Dornell. United States district attorney,
was retained as counsel, and he has fought
the matter closely since On October 21, ’.884,
a bill of injunction was filed by Peter C.
Ehwyer against parties, praying au in
junct ion against them for the use
of a patent for cotton gins. This was
claimed by Sawyer as having belonged to
him as his exclusive property, and that he
was the original inventor of it. The pur|x>se
of his bill is to establish his claim and rights
in i h<» patente 1 invention. The defendants
ha ing made no answer, Sawyer’s solicitor
moved for a final hearing, which was
allowed and signed by the chancellor,
Judge Settle, in which decree it was or
dered and adjudged that the letters patent
No. 6.189, granted Decembers, 1884, are good
and valid in law, and Sawyer was the first
and original inventor of the gin. ami that he
was the exclusive owner of the patent An
order of perpe ual injunction was issued
against the deten lants from selling, manu
facturing, or using the gin with the Sawyer
patent. The effect was to ostab ish the valid
ity and priority of Mr. Sawyer’s patent, ab ut
winch much litigation has been had. The
solicitor, imm iiately on the signing of the
decree, filed another bill of injunction against
other parties from using or manufacturing
the rotton gin known as the Mas**y Excelsioi
with the Sawyer patent attached, which in
junction was allowr<i by the chancellor and
subpoena tosh iw cause ordered.
Ohio Guhernatoiial Forecast*.
Columßes, Feb. 3. —The ()hio State Journal
has ha ! returns from sixty-two counties of
the state, giving gubernatorial preferences
and expressions as to the platform for the
next campaign. In its introduction the
Journal says:
“It is difficult to make a summary of the
‘preferences,’ for the reason that in some
counties the reports read, 'Foraker, Kennedy
or any other go-xl republican will do,’ oi
come in some other irvhdhnte form. Then
are nine of the repors giving no special favor
ite, but a resume of fir. t choices -shows Fora
ker 23, Kenn- iy 15, Beatty 6, Nash 4, Sher
man and McKinley 3 each, Foster an 1 Tayloi
2 each, Lawrence, Delano, Crouse and Per
kins 1 each.
Alm< st without exception the writers tu
the State Journal desire that the republicans
should let the Democratic legislature have a
monopoly of wrestling with temperance this
time.
One of the correspondrnts writes: “Repub
lican feeling is much divided Columbus has
two candidates for governor, Judge Nash and
Gen. Beatty. Judge Nash is what is might
tv called a “neutral’’ candidate. He tells every
body that he is not seeking the office, and
Judge Nash is a man to l>e believe! Bui
should the nomination point his way, he will
not turn his back upon it. Gen. Beatty has
no ‘bureau,’ but is openly a candidate all the
game. My judgment is that th? nominee will
Le either Foraker or Nash or Beatty, with tht
chances in the order of names But Gen.
Kennedy has a large and enthusiastic follow
Ing, particularly among the G. A. R Dur
ing the [»ast week I have &en several items
floating in the country j>aj>ers that Congress
man Taylor, of Cambridge, is not a candidate
as reported.”
His V\ if*i for Businets Only.
New York, Feb. 3 —Andrew Jackson
Davis, the apostle of spiritualism, brought an
action in the supreme court for the annul
ment of his marriage, in 185\ with Mary F.
Love, a spir t laiist lecturer. The case was
referred U) W ( Holbrook, who has re|x>rted
in favor of granting the decree. It appeared
from the testimony before the referee that
about a year after the marriage Samuel G.
Love obtained a decree of absolute divorce in
Buffalo from Mary F. Love, and on the mat
ter b ing called to Mr. Davis’ attention be
ceased to cohabit with her, but continued to
maintain a brotherly and fraternal relation
and to hold her out as his wife, because of
their business relations, which made it neces
sary sometimes for her to travel with him on
bis lecturing tours. Since the recent decision
of the court of appeals that a person prohib
ited from marrying again commits bigamy
by violating the prohibition, it was thought
advisable to have the marriage annulled.
Earthquake on the Hudson.
White Plains, N. Y., Feb. 3.—-Low rum
bling sounds like distent thunder, followed by
a very perceptible trembling of the earth,
startled residents of Corti and t, Yorktown
and other northern towns of Westchestei
county on Saturday night. Crockery and
other ware was thrown from shelves and th#
shock was altogether too great to Rave been
cause-1 by anything except a genuine earth
quake. The frequent recurrence of thew
earthquakes in Westchosier county are very
alarming to the superstitious.
Thrown From the Track.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 3—The east
bound expiess train on the Memphis &
Charleston railroad was wrecked neai
Brownsboro Sunday night The train wai
running forty miies an hour when it wai
thrown from the tra<-k. The engineer and
fireman narrowly escaped being killed. Bag
gage master Kessler and express messengei
Schmidt were dangerously injured. Th<
baggage car and smoker were demolished.
No passengers were injured.
The Authorities Foster Athletics.
Toronto, Feb. 3.—John F. Scholes, cbam
pion boxer of Canada, has been matched U
spar with Charles Mitchell, for SI,UOO a side
with soft gio vex The fight will come off or
February 10, and will be under the patronagf
of Lieut. Gov. Robinson, of Ontario, and
Mayor Mining. Scholes la training here.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4. 18S5.
DYNAMITE IN NEW YORK.
ATTEMPT OF STRIKERS TO BLOW UP
A DRY GOODS STORE.
Two Buildings Damaged, but No One ln<
J med -Dr. Wilson Creates Some Excite
ment in Masonic Circles—Sixty-three
Degrees Added to the Order.
Nbw York, Feb. 3—The first criminal use
of dynamite in this city greatly excited the
people here on Sunday The explosion took
place at a very late hour and one or two
morning papers made second editions giving,
the news. The explosion was at Garry
Brothers’ dry goods store, Grant and Allen
streets. At the time a number of person!
were passing the spot, but none of them were
injured. Captain Allaire and a squad of of
ficers guarded the premises of Garry Broth
ers, and of Ridley Brothers, the window’s of
whose establishment were also shattered by
the explosion.
Shortly after the explosion four men were
found in the shadow of the Rivingston street
station of the elevated road, one of them,
Charles Henry, a laborer, who said he lived
at Williamsburg with severely cut head and
face. The others, Wm. Britton, a waiter;
Jas. Daily, a clejk, aud Jos. Lamb, a painter,
were binding Henry’s wounds.
All were arrested and remanded. A lad
was arrested, charged with experimenting in
dynamite, at the corner of Grand and Essex
streets, where he succeeded in dislodging a
portion of the horse oar track. It could not
be connected with the other explosion.
The bomb or cartridge used in last night’s
explosion must have been placed immedi
ately underneath the framework of the win
dow of Garry Brothers’ store, the window
casing and sash being entirely demolished.
The shock was felt several hundred feet A
lamp on a shelf in the Eldridge street house,
three hundred feet away, was thrown to the
floor. Dishes in tenement houses in the
neighborhood rattled, and the iron stancions
of the elevated railroad, near the store,
looked as though they had received violent
bio ws.
There is no evidence that the cartridge was
applied to Ridley’s store. Had it not been for
the heavy elevated railroad structure which
runs up Alien street lietween the two stores,
however, the probability is a good part of the
west side of Ridley’s building would have
suffered. Many of Ridley’s employes came
to the sjiot to guard the premises.
The damage to both buildings is $2,500.
The jsilioe are satisfied that the explosion was
the outcome of the strike of Garry Brothen?
amployea.
Masonic Circles Excited.
New York, Feb. 3.—Masonic circles in
New York City have been stirred to the
depths by the antics <>f Dr. Darius Wilson,
who desires to run up the degrees of Masonry
from the time honored thirty-third to the im
posing ninety-sixth.
Old Masons have died happy in the thirty
third degree, and many brethren are now
living on that eminence which, according to
Dr. Darius Wilson, is down in the valley,
compared to Royal Masonry's perch above the
clouds.
Dr. Darius Wilson, K. T., thirty three de
grees, ninety degrees, ninety-six degrees, as
bis title reads, is a Boston man. The rest of
his title is Most Illustrious Grand Master
General of the Sovereign Sanctuary, U. 8. A.
In forming the order be took upon himself
the burden of the highest office in the gift of
himself.
At the latest meetings of the various coin
manderiea in the Masonic temple in this city
many eminent sir knights were surprised to
»ee their names signed to the following circu
lar:
No. 14 East Fourteenth Street, I
New York, Jan. 5, ÜBS. f
Dr. Darious Wilson:
Sir: A large number of Masonic brethren of
this city and vicinity desire to hear your explana
tion of the ti >wly-named “Royal Masonic Rite,’’
of which they have heard in a report of a con
vention held in Boston in December last, and
hereby invite you to address them in the lecture
room of the Grand opera-house, corner Twenty
third street and Eighth avenue, on Friday even
ing, January 80, next.
Os the thirty-three name* signed to this let
ter many of the owners indignantly deny
having authorised their use, and they were
willing to vouch for the denials of the ma
jority of the remainder. Some of them de
nounced the Bostonian in very lively
language. Among the names used on the
letter were those of the Rev. Dr. Deems, the
Rev Stephen H. Tyng, J. W. Bouton, J. J.
Little, Theophilus Pratt and Jerome Buck.
Dr. Wilson hastened to oblige the distin
guished New Yorkers, and named Saturday
evening as the date of the expwition, free to
all Master Masona He added that he had
planned to be in Montreal to attend the
carnival and to participate in the sessions of
the Grand Ixxige of Quebe*; and the Sovereign
Sanctuary, thirty-third, ninetieth and ninety
sixth degrees of Royal and Oriental Free
masonry for Canada. But a request from his
native state and Masonic home, cumingas it
did from so many eminent Masons, could not
be refuse 1.
Mr. Rawson, of the Methodist Book
Concern, who is a son-in-law of
Laura Keene, introducti Dr. Wilson.
The lecturer then proceeded to give the
origin and history of high degree Masonry
and the proof that there was separate work
aud labor for every one of the ninety-six de
grees which were claimed L>r the Egyptian
Rite of Memphis, and that the only legiti
mate source of authority to confer these rites
must come through either a king or priest.
He must give the dates when certain kings,
and particularily Jesuit priests, conferred
twenty-five degrees of Masonry, and wound
up an interesting and well memorized lecture,
full of dates, by exhibiting a number of char
ters and patent* from various Grand Lodges in
Europ? granting authority to confer these
high degrees in America, among which was
one from the Grand Orient of France, with
the signature of Louis Napoleon.
Mr. Wilson then informed those present
that a lodge would be opened in the Grand
opera house building, when any master mason
could receive a degree in the ancient rite
without any charge whatever, and extended
the invitation for all master masous to be
present
One of the solid masous whose name was
signed to Dr. Wilson’s letter without hl»
knowledge said that it was an open secret
that some of the influential members loaned
their names to the Wilson invitation ta
bestow upon the fraternity a little amuse
ment of the Count Johannes order. Still it
is believed that other masons stand behind
Darius Wilson with a well-conceived conspir
acy toward a mastery of the governing bod
ies of the ancient Yoik rite or the formation
of rival grand bodies.
Frozen at Sea.
Halfax, Feb. 3.—The bark Lady of thi
Lake, Captain Masher, has just arrived from
Liverpool. The captain and crew of eleven
are all frost-bitten, three dangerously. They
tell a terrible tale of suffering, and the crew
complain of inhuman treatment ■ j the cap
tain. Three of the men will probably lorn
their feet and hands. Capt. Masher says b»
Las had no sleep for eight days, and bi
hands ace tadlx fxosaa.
PROCEEDINGS IN* CONGRESS.
Appropriations for Public Buildings—lßs
cussing the Railroad and Other Bills.
"Washington, Feb. 3—The credentials of
Mr. Vest (Mo.) were read and ordered filed.
Communications from the president were
laid before the senate as follows: A request
from the government of Corea for a detail
of United Slates military officers as instruct- ■
ora; and one recommending that the Arctic
vessel, Alert, bo returned to her majesty's
government with appropriate acknowledge- I
ments.
Mr. Harris reported favorably from the 1
committee on the District of Columbia bill
appropriatin '56,000 to enable the commis
sioners maintain public order during inaugu
ration. Passed.
Mr. Bayard thought the coinage bill re
ported from the committee on finances was
of more importance than the measure under
discussion.
Mr. McPherson did not think the managers
of these railroads could expect much at the
hands of congress, ami was not in favor of
allowing them to run both their railroad and
the government any longer. The railroad
bill, on motion of Mr. Hoar, was postponed
until Wednesday. The senate then preceded
to consider the senate substitute for the house
bill, repealing all laws tor the pre-emption of
public lands, and laws allowing entries for
timber culture. The bill was discussed,
without final action, when the chair laid be
fore the senate, as unfinished business, the
inter-state commerce bill.
House.
Washington, Feb 3 —Speaker Carlisle
has returned from Albany, but remains at
his hotel, in consequence of indisposition.
Mr. Blackburn, speaker pro tem, was be
sieged by members who desired recognition
for motions to suspend the rules, this being
the day assigned for individual motions, and
it having been understood that he would ig
nore the list arranged by Speaker Carlisle.
During the ten minutes occupied in reading
the journal, there were upwards of twenty
members around the desk seeking his ear for
the same purpose.
Mr. Roseerans ((’ala.) introduced a bill to
create a commission to devise additional ac
commodations at the capital.
Mr. Belmont, (N. Y.) introduced a resolu
tion calling upon the president for copies of
all communications with representatives of
the British government in relation to the
dynamite explosions; also for the correspond
ence relating to the Congo.
Mr. Cox (N. Y.) offered a joint resolution
abolishing the census bureau.
Mr Cox (N. C.) offered a joint resolution
providing for the accoipmodatiou of the pub
lic during the dedication of the Washington
monument, and proposing to sukstitute the
new {tension office fur the hall of the house
for the dedication ceremonies.
Mr Springer (Ill.) moved to suspend the
rules and pass the bill to provide additional
ground for a public building at Springfield,
Illinois.
Mr. Bayne (Pa.) insisted on his motion to
suspeiul the rules and pass the bill to increase
to $1,500,01)0 the appropriation for a public
building nt Pittsburg.
The bill was discussed for thirty niinutes
and then passed—yeas 163, nays 18.
A JERSEY LOCH INVAR.
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How Schoolmaster Hargraves Won a Rich
Farmer's Daughter for his Bride.
Camdkn, N. J., Feb. 3.—Ralph R. Har
graves, a handsome blonde school tcacher of
twenty three, in Camden county, Pa., had a
beautiful sixteen-year-old pupil, yvho is
the daughter of Pemberton L. Sickles, a
wealthy farmer. While the result was
not doubtful to others, the farmer was
long to discern. AV hen h« discerned
that a tender attachment exist
ted between his daughter and the peda
gogue, he threatened the daughter with con
finement in au asylum and locked her up in
the house, information of which was some
how conveyed to the lover with bu assurance
that she desired to desert her home for him.
She was permitted to attend church Sun
day, but after dinner she was missed by her
father, who commenuxi a search, armed
with a navy revolver, and acconqianied by
two neighbors. The girl, whose name was
Fannie Sickles, had met her lover and
four of his friends at the school house,
a mile distant, and here the pursuing party
found her with them, discussing the next
iteps to be taken. The farmer kicked the
school house door open, and demanded bis
daughter, but the sch'>ol master coolly In
formed him that he could not have her, and
reclosed the door in the wrathful old gentle
man’s face, whereupon he and one of his
neighbors hastened to Camden to secure a
warrant, leaving the other neighbor and the
navy revolver on guard; but while they were
absei * Hargrave’s younger brother and a
companion went after ami secured a spring
wagon, drawn by two horses. The latter
having arrived, the lovers passed out of
the door, but neighbor Brown s>dd to the
scoolmaster: “If you try to take that gal
away, 1’1! blow your brains out.” Then there
was a pause—also tears, bu f Hargrave's
friends disarmed Brown. The party drove
furiously to Camden, but at tl i city limits
met farmer Sickles and party, including a
justice who had been ad de 1, and the latter
called out as the wagon dashed by: “Ralph
Hargraves, I arrest you.” The runnaways
only laughed at this, and laughed the more
when the ’squire fired a pistol in the air,
and continued into Camden, <’rossed on
the ferry, and hastened to the Gir
ard house, Philade.phia, fallowed soon
by the father, who stormed as he en
tered the hotel. While the enraged old man
was explaining to the clerk of the hotel his
boisterous conduct, the lovers and ;>arty em
erged, entered a carriage, and were driven to
the broad street railroad station, in time to
board the Boston express, while Father Sick
les hastened to a telegraph oflire and notified
the police of Jersey City Here the story
ends, as no news from the fugitives had been
received up to midnight, but they are sup
posed to have left the train at Mentor or
Newark, to be marrieri.
Disastrous Fire in Marquette.
Marquette, Mich., Feb. 3 —The Frst na
tional bank building caugut fire shortly after
midnight. The building was the finest in the
city ami is a total loss, with all its contents.
Owing to the extreme cold weather, the ther
mometer registering sixteen degrees below
zero, ths firemen worked to a great disad
vantage. The bank building is valued at
over $150,000. The origin of the fire is not
known. The losses are as follows: Building,
$150,000; I. Newberger, $40,000 ; 8. Kauf
mann & Sons, $30,000; Rothschil I & Bend
ing, $20,000; First national bank. $10,000;
the Champion Iron Company, J. E. Dalliba,
Dr. H. W. Banks, M. H. Maynard, W P.
Healey, the United States signal service offles
and W. W. Manning lose all their t >oks and
office fixtures. Three valuable law ibraries
are destroyed. The total loss will reach over
$300,000.
A Defaulting Railroad.
Nkw York, Feb. 8. —The Green Bay, Win
ona and St. Paul Railroad Company has de
faulted uoon its coupons due upou the find
mortgage bonds. This interest has hereto
been paid by Uxe City liank of this city.
VIRGINIA’S GOLGOTHA.
A REMINISCENCE OF THE STORMY
DAYS OF SIXTY-ONE.
Confessing to tins AssHssination of Six Per*
sous -Their Bleached Bones Found at
the Bate of a Haunted Crag—
Arrest of the Fiend.
Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 3.—ln the late
summer of ISfil, when this state was a part of
Virginia, and when unionists and secession
ists were engaged in constant brawls among
these mountains, Elijah Wease, then about
fifty years old, and living near Petersburg,
Grant county, killed Hiram Ault, a neighbor,
in the presence of Ann Gunn and a young
man who was subsequently killed in the
union army. Weaze was arrested for the
murder ami incarcerated in Harrisonburg
jail. He was a union man, and the unionists
of the neighborhood claimed that his arrest
was the result of secessionist spite. One dark
night, therefore, a few days before that set
for his trial, a band of union soldiers went to
the jail and released him. Not long after he
wandered of! to Virginia and was not heard
from again till two years ago, when he re
turned to the neigh lx>rhood of hfa crime.
Meantime all the Ault family had died ex
cept one sister of the murdered man. Miss
Gunn had also moved away, and the memory
of the murder had been effaced, the sister
being at the time of the murder too young to
know anything about it. A few days ago
Miss Ault met Aim Gunn, while on a visit,
and from her she learned the particulars of
Hiram’s murder, including the startling in
formation that his murderer was then living
in Miss Ault’s neighborhood. Upon her re
turn home she had Weaze arrested.
When taken to jail he was searched, and
on a woin and grimy sheet us paper was
r ound a list of twelve persons who had mys
teriously disappeared from the neighborhood
luring Weaze’s former residence there. It
was at once suspected that Weaze had a
guilty knowledge of their mode of disapjiear
inee, and he was closely questioned about the
matter. Finally he confessed that he himself
aad killed six of them.
He said that he had enticed them one by
one to a lonely crag, which for years has had
die name of being haunted, and which no
one in the neighborhood likes to visit. Catch
ng them unawares, he had pitched them
over, and they had been dnshe*! to pieces
on the broken rocks below. He had hid the
mangled bodies in a tangle of brush near by.
Among the list of persons thus killed by the
monster were his own son, Elijah Weaze, jr.,
tnd a near m-ighbor named Wm. Mclntosh.
The neighbors and the officers alter the
.'onfession visited the. haunted crag, and not
tar from its base they found the bleached
tones of five persons.
The Broken Mississippi l.evees.
New Oitia ns, Feb. 3. —Word is received
’rom Lake Providence, in East Carroll par
sh, that the break in the Devonia levee was
widened to about 1,200 feet, and an average
lepth of three feet of water was pouring
through from the Mississippi river upon the
planta:ions in the rear. Assistant State En
gineer Bolivar Thompson is on the ground,
lofng what he can to secure the ends of the
• vee, to prevent further caving Judge J.
W. Montgomery and Judge W. W. Wiley
ire the greatest sufferers, as their val
iable plantations are in close proximity to the
opening. If the presenL rise continues the re
mit will be most disastrous, and the Vicks
burg, Shn-veport aiid Texas railroad will soon
be under water and its business stopped for
the high water season. This ia one of the
works which an act of the last legis
lature required should tie given to the
ring of levee contractors who, receiving max
imum pay by law, are enabled to net a
iianlsome revenue by the use of convict
labor, whi< h is virtually donated by the state.
I'he sufferers by the overflow allege that
die coni Factors have frittered away valuable
time when the weather was such that they
tould, with the slightest exertion on their
part, have completed the main levee at that
point. They failed to do this, however, but
waited until the bad weather came upon
them, and attempted with scrapers to con
itruct a run around out of frozen ground.
The present condition of affairs is the result,
md Gov. McEuery has to shoulder most of
the blame as he favored the law in question,
Mid promptly signed anil promulgated it.
Murdered in Cold Blood.
Cincinnati, Feb. 3.—Three weeks ago
Herman Bu-srnan, employed in a cabinet
•hop here, made the acquaintance of one
Adolph Graffenstein, also a cabinet maker,
who induced Bussman to start for San Fran
elsco* At Vincennes, Ind., Graffenstein got
bis companion to stop off, on pretense of col
lecting $l5O from his uncle, and taking Buss
man into a retired place fired five shots into
him nt close range, robbed him of SSO, and
left him for dead. Bussman recovered suf
ficiently to get to a neighboring house and
may live. Graffenstein is sai l to have re
turned to Cincinnati and the city marshal and
two deputies arrived in this city from
Vincennes in search of the murderer. The
entire police force was furnished with an ac
curate description of Gaffenstein. The Vin
cennes <>(ficerssay five bullets entered Buss
man’s holy, and that while he was yet alive
when they left Vincennes, the attending
physician declares that the wounued man can
not survive much longer. The officers say
that Baseman made a statement to the effect
that for some time Gaffenstein had lieen coax
ing him to go west, and showed him a num
ber of letters, which he nuw brlieves were
bogiH, purporting to be from friends, giving
flati ring accounts of how easily fortunes
can be m ide. Altogether it was undoubtedly
a cold-blooded murder. It is hardly probable
i he can elude the officers much longer.
Schnyler Colfax’s Death.
South Bend, Ind., Feb. 3.—A letter was
received from ex-President Grant by Mr».
Colfax. After mentioning his health as im
proving from a disabling attack of sure throat,
Gen Grant says: “Mr Colfax and I were
personal friends from the day of our asso
ciation on the same ticket foi the
two highest offices in the gift of the
nation up to his untimely and unexpect
ed death. I was always his defender against
what I believed to be most unjust charges. ”
The letter abounds with expressions of th®
heartfelt sympathy of Mrs Grant and him
self with Mrs. Colfax aud her son iu their
su lden and great loss, and closes with addi
tional words of eulogy of the character of
Mr. Colfax.
President Arthur also sends a letter ex
pressing feelings of the deepest sorrow at the
death of Mr. Colfax.
No Race Distinction Allowed.
Baltimore, Feb. B—JudgeB—Judge Morris, in the
United States Court, in the suit of Martha
Stewart aud other colored people against the
bay steamer Sue, decided in favor of the
plaintiffs, holding that the steamboat com
pany had no right to refuse first-class accom
modations to colored people. The suit arose
out of the company’s refusal during an excur
sion to Norfolk last summer to give state
rooms to the complainants.
The ousting of the Oklahoma boomers hta
cost the government a round half million.
THE CONDENSER.
Fresh, Pithy News Items Boiled Down for
the Hurried Reader.
Talmage’s jiews have sold higher than
ever.
Gen. Jas. Uhcutnut, ex-United States sena
tor from South Carolina, is dead.
Evangelist Moody is proving a great at*
I traction at New Brunswick, N. J.
Loudon authorities o|>eD every tenth bftr
-1 rel of Nova Scotia apples looking for dyna
mith.
Jas. Culbano was stabbed to death in a
Detroit saloon by Michael Harrigan, an ex
convict.
Porter (Bliss, journalist, and formerly in
the diplomatic service of the United States,
died in New York.
The Union Knife Company’s factory at
Union City, Conn., burned. Loss, S4U,OUU;
insurance, $21,000.
Haines, speaker of the Illinois house, pro
poses to be senatoi from Illinois. He refuses
i to vote for anybody but Haines.
i A prominent cattle man from Trego county,
Kan., says that the ground is covered with
snov several inches deep, and that range cat
tie are dying at a fearful rate.
A valuable silver eciivoy, en route between
Toluca and Cuerravaoa, Mexico, was attacked
and captured by organized bandits.
Si McGrath’s six-' ear-old daughter died
from a brutal whippi «g of her school teach
ler, near Reading, Pa He will prosecute.
The Lutheran church objects to the incor
poration at Philadelphia of the followers of
Anna Meister, a deceased female crank who
taught that she was the Holy Ghost.
Salvation army captains disaffected be
cause of an order from headquarter® that
only English born will be commissioned, have
organized at Akron, Ga., a gospel temperance
army. ,
The Tichborne claimant has now fallen so
low that he appears in a provincial variety
■ company, and lakes his turn between an acro
bat styled, “The Humau Serpent and the
Comical Mule.”
Immediately after finishing a waltz at a
ball Sunday morning, Lizzie Kaufman, a
servant girl of Cincinnoti, arose from her
chair, and walking a few steps forward, fell
on the floor dead.
The people of Thomson, Ga., and vicinity
are considerably excited on account of the
appearance in their midst of a disease which
the attending physician pronounced to ue a
virulent type of chicken pox.
Jack Hayes was sentenced to be hanged
March 20, 1885, at St. Louis. A motion for
a new trial and motion in arrest of judg
ment were both overruled and sentence im
posed. An appeal was then taken.
Wm. H Bender, deputy clerk of the St.
Louis probate court, who claimed to have
been robbed in the court house, has admitted
to the chief of police that he took the money
himself, and restored the whole amount.
Sentence of death has been passed upon
Frederick Ray, William Meadows, Wil
liam Phillips and Mason Holcomb, white men,
and William Nixon, negro, for murders com
mitted in Indian territory. The condemned
will bo execute 1 at Fort Smith on April 17.
The Pittsburg Explosion.
Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 3.—No deaths have
occurred from Saturday’s natural gas explo
sions. 'l’he twenty-one victims are r. sting
easily, with the oue exception of Mary
Smolder, the young woman who struck the
first match which caused the explosion. Her
condition is very serious, and it is feared
she inhaled some of the burning
gas. The others are believed to
to be out of danger. The scene of the diaster
is visited by thousands of people, and ropes
have been placed around the wrecked dis
trict, and extra police d-tailed to keep the
crowd back and prevent injury from falling
walls. The owners of property in wards fif
teen and seventeen will hold an indignation
meeting in the fifteenth ward school house
to-morrow night to denounce the present sys
tem of piping natural gas through the streets,
aud to insist upon the companies adopting
such measures as will prevent explosions in
the future.
Terrible Fall.
Cincinnati, Feb. 3. Joseph Schmitker,
about nineteen, fell from a third-story win
dow of A E. Burkhardt’s, 118 W. Fourth,
breaking his wrist and sustaining other severe
but uot fatal injuries. He was assisting in
the removal of a large sign frem in front of
the building, and lost his balance, striking
the pavement upon his left side. He was re
moved to the city hospital and the doctor*
say he will recover.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Latest Quotations of the Stock, Produce
and Cattle Markets.
Nkw York, Feb. 2.—Money, IJ4 per cent. Ex
change quiet; governments steady.
Alt. & Terre Haute. 19 Morris & Essex.... 11KW
Bur. & Quincy .... Missouri Pacific... 95 <<
Canada Pacific.... 81/4 N. Y. & Erie 12
Canada Southern . N. Y. Central
Central Pacific Northwestern .... 89>4
Chicago & Alton... 181 Pacific Mail 64
Q, C., C. & 1 82 Rock Island 108 4
Del. & Hudson,... 7(A4 St. Paul
Del., Lack. & W 89-- St. P&.B. C. ..85
Illinois Central do pref erred ... 8614
Jersuy Central.. 83: < Texas & Pacific.. .
Kansas & Texas.... 14//J U. Pacific ... 40J4
Lake Shore ttl/a West. Union... . 69‘/i
Louisville & Nash.. 23/< Nash. & (Hiatt . .. 85)4
GeneraL
Cincinnati, Feb. 2.—FLOUR—Fancy, $4.15(9
ASO; family, $3.9.
WHEAT—No. 2 red, 87c; No. 3,
CORN No. 2 mixed, 44c; No. 3,48 c; ear, 46c.
OATS No. 2 mixed, No. 2 white, 36a
RYE No. 2,71 c.
BARLEY Spring, 60®76c: fall, 75@78c.
PORK - Family, sl2@ 12.25; regular, $12.60.
BACON - Shoulders, short clear aides
7%(57 . 2 c. Lard—
CHEESE—Prime to choice Oliio, 10@llc; New
York, 12 2 («,13c; Northwestern, B@9c.
POULTRY-Fair chickens, $2.25(02.75; prime,
$3.25(g#.t0; ducks, $8.25; geese, per
doz.; live turkeys, dressed, 12^i2 2 c.
! HAY—No. 1 timothy, $1150(013.00; No. 2, lI.M
@12.00; mixed, wheat and rye straw,
|6.oo(<s7.o'>; oats straw,
I Nxw York, Feb, 2.—WHEAT—No. 1 white, 94c;
; No. 3 red, Feb.,
CORN Mixed western, futures,
2 c. Oats—Western, BtXg>4oc
New Orleans, Feb. 2.—SUGAR-Refining, com
mon, 4 b (<t4>4c; inferior, 8(a)3, _c; choice white,
sc; off white, choice yellow, 5' 4 (toJ4c.
MOLASSES—Good fair, 25(®32c: prime,
choice, lie; centrifugal prime, 25@83c; fair, 20c.
Detroit, Feb. 2.—WHEAT —No. 1 white, 86c;
No. 3 red, 77c; Michigan soft red, 87J4c.
I Toledo. Feb. 2.—WHEAT—No. 2,78 c; Na 1
soft,
Live Stock.
! Cincinnati, Feb.. 2.—CATTIJE—Good to choice
butchers’, fair, common, $2
stockers and feeders, $3 75(g;4 50; yearlings
and calves. $2
HOGS—Sele< ted butchers, $4.70@4.90; fair to
good packing, fair to good light. $4.25
common, $3.75(54.25; culls,
SHEEP -Common to fair, good to
choice, $3. weathers, $4.5(X&5. Lambs,
common, $3(M.75; good
Chicago, Feb. 2.—HOGS—Fair to good, $4.25(5
4.60; mixei packing, choice heavy,
$4
CATTLE—Exports, $5.90(96.25; good to choice
shipping, $5.2) u.'».90; common to fair,
i ftockan a*ud feedeKS,
NO. 242
CELEBRATED ** V
STOMACH ipf
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By th* ur* ®f Howt*’ t r’s Mtom *ch Bitters th®
beggared upe- ejoe oi tbe countenance and
Milo n* •o' d sp«-ptf« a-e supp'an»®c* by a
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tb«b<d acqn res nvibic»rre, Aipttt* is ra
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n»vc nen<te s umi er, th*omr b* pa* o' thte
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nffer flve minutee ntter ib-lnv Wiliisro’e
h dinn PH- Oln'n ent. D über-rhe tumors,
•illnys Itching, note poultice, gives in
stant reller. Prepared only for I'llee.
■ iichiiig of the private piirtß, nothing lee,
; l-ion. J. M. C>ffenbury, Ol» velnnd, Pftye;
• I have ueed secree oi Pile quree, and it
afforde me pF*aeurc to ary that 1 have
never found anything which irivee such
immedlste and pertn*»ner t reDet ae Dj*.
Widiarn’B Indian Pile Olntmcpt.” Sold by
firurtfiate and mailed o» receipt of price,
sl. For pale by Brann’n A Carson, R.
Carter. John P. Turner and Geo. A. Brad
ford, ColumbUH, Ga.
Dr. Frasier's It not Bitter
Fr«zler't- Boot Bittern hip not n dram
wtinp hPVPrHiie, but are ptrlctly medicinal
tn every eenee. They act etrcn«ly upon
thf Liver and Kidneve, keep tbe boweja
open and rcßUlar, make tbe weak stronjf.
heal the lunize. build up tbe nervee, and
• l< anse the blond end system nt every im
purity. Sold bv drvtfplpfe. Jl.oo.
For sale by Brannon A Oareon and J no.
1. Turner, Oolumbun, Ga.
Dr Frailer’, Mmlr Olntme.t
A sure cure tor Litt te Grot's tn the Skin,
Konirh Bkm, etc. It will retuove that
ronehneas from the bf ds and , lace and
make y"U bcautitul. Price BOc. Sent by
mall. For sale bv Brannon A Carncn und
John P. 1 urner, Columbus, Ga.
(lb»e. E Glover. Hermnrselio, V x'ro.
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nr eight name. It Is wordn til.
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Accordlrg to g»nd . Bn«rd noyr more
Titnn SS. Per Month.
MUSIC PUR MONTH,
LOIAUON HIAI.TH' VI.
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lacl vjt.pm’wß Prirctpsl.
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Bardolph Street.
Residence wllb H. L. WOODECFF,
Crawford, between Trcup and Forsyth Hreet
MllGjin
11. E. I.BIGGS,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE:
T. H. EVANb & (O. K Drug Store.
Residence, Jackson Br.. East Court House .
Janß-]y
W. A.TICNER. Jr.
Attorney At I aw.
OFFICE IN GAKBABD IVII LING
CQIUMBUq. - - • GEOB GIA
Great Bargains
At Phillips’New Shue Store, 46 Broad et.
Oolumbue, Ga. Stuck all n w, fine and
heap. deJ.Awtf
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Bv analysis of tbe Stale Gecloglst thia
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