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1 ) EATIjCLj OSJE D! SEC® PMIEII SIDE! fiIiVEBXOR KttSWEU FARSIAS, OF VERMONT, AT THE HEAD (' . ... _ ■(tf’THK MORRISON ROM?AX Y. NEW ENGLAND CITY, GA. IS THE NAME OF THE TOWN TO BE BUILT CAPITAL STOCK FIVE MILLION WOKlv TO COMMENCE SOON. STRONG BOARD ELECTED. TWO HAIL ROADS ALREADY CHARTERED TO BE BAII'-TTOTHE NEWTOWN The great Morrison deal was finally closed to-day, (Saturday ) One hundred thousand dollars was paid and the company was organized. J udge Milner came here yesterday, Friday,) and granted the charter, a» it appeared in The Times several months ago. The combined wealth of the com pany is about ten million dollars and the company is capitalized at $5,000,- <>oo, with one third paid in. The comp iny now owns one of the finest, mineral belts in the South. It embraces 10,000 acres of iron land and 0 000 acres of co.tl lands and 1.200 acres of town site. They have one of the finest sites fora town to be found. It has good drainage and enough fine water for a city of 50,000 inhabi tants if the town staonld reach that number. It is located 3 miles north of this place and fifteen miles south of Ohat* tanooga, the gate way of the South. A. charter has already been graated by the Legislature for a railroad to b» built from Stevenson, Ala., and also one from the N. C. St. L* It. R. It is only ten miles from navigable water, the Tennessee river and with the road to be built to it will give it finer shipping facilities than any new town in the entire South. Their coal and iron veins will aver age five feet in thickness. The clearing up and laying of a town site will probably be com menced next week. Seventeen of the ccmpany a TRENTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1889. here and Thursday and Friday was spent in looking over their properly. Following officers were elected: President, Hon. Roswell F,mi ham, ex Governor of Vermont. Directors:—Hon. Boswell Farn ham, ex-Goveinor of V».; Geo. 11. Eaton, of Lancaster, N. IF; Henrv O. L.T.iiv-. v.i. ■'tiiioti, N. Ji.; Al'Tiat F. Pike, of Haverhill,, N. H.;*Geo. M. Glazier, of Boston; B. F. Dutton, of Boston; Isaac J. Brown, of Bos ton; Herbert L. Perry, of Boston; F. B. Pratt, of Boston; T. J. Lumpkin, of Trenton, G.; G. J. Hal!, of Stev enson, AD ; John Fm,Jr.,of Lit tleton, N. H ; Frank D. t urrier, c.f Ouann, N. H. Come, come, you delinquents and settle up vour accounts to this establishment. Fr*o/.ii«g Out Cattit-men. WashlNn ton, D. C., Oct. 29) Secretary Noble, under date of Oct. 2fi, has written a long letter j to Gen. Fairchild, chairman of the ! Cherokee commission, in which he j virtually serves notice <en the. cat-1 tit.men who have leased from the j ludiuns lands within what is! known as the Cherokee outlet that they must vacate these lands with their property, on or before June j next, this date being fixed in order j that they may escape without in jury or suffering to their cattle. The gentlemen referred to are organized into wb.Rt is called the Cherokee Live Stock Association. Every man, woman and in the county should read T&k Times. Sir Francis de Winton, late gov ernor of the Congo State, save that in spite y* the scores of explores who haVs*b p en traversing Africa in all directions since Livingstone began hie - travels, the larger part of tHc many millions of natives have neve 1, yet seen a white man. ■ % i Hjw Parties owing for legal ads are requested-to settle up at once. According to reports to the Bir minghaml Age-Herald, no one was killed or hurt, on Sunday, in the encounter with Rube Burrows, but the pursuing party exchanged soots with him and his companion, Jackson, and the outlaws killed a dog put on their trail. Riley A, Brick, a vrell known New York merchant, is dead. The of Bricksburg, now Lake wood, N. J., was founded by and named for him. Pay us what you owe so we can pay what we owe.. AX OUTLAW’S DEFIANCE. ROBBER BURROWS KILLS ONE MORE DEPUTY- SHERIFF; ITe Has Killed and Wounded Seven or Eight Wieu hi a Week —Gov. Seay Orders Fresh forces to the of Battle. ¥ I Bibjungii .m, Ala., Oct. 28. — Rube Furrows, the outlaw and train robber, has killed another officer. Tk- pursuing posso of citizen's unri detectives, ted by bloodhound ;, came in sight of the two outlaws this*-morning -€4f[ht*<?n miles north of Oueorrta . Dovnt oounty, and - about fire miles fTt-m the scene o;*r riday’s battle. A number of shots were fired, nind James Dela .o, a citizen who was with the posse, was killed. . The bloodhounds were all shot dead Yiy the outlaws, v.ho again e»ei»]}ed without a ©cratch. Early this morning BurrOVs : hd his companion turned the tables on the pursuing party and became the hunters instead of the hunt-id. Several members J>( the pursuing party,l6d Robbins-of the Southern Express Comheny’n force, camped last nij(ht ia> * catfe in the mountains. The ontß»ws,dt seems.were clcye by, and this com ing, when the detectiyes awoke, they found the two outlaws in possession of the ©m!y exit from the cave. Every time a detective showsd his head from behind s -a projecting rock he Was'shot at. This state of things lasted se^eiia! ours, when the Remainder of the officers came up and opened fire on the outlaws. In this fight. Delano was killed, and the two outlaws agahi retired to cover in the woods and the imprisoned ‘detectives crawled out of the cave. Earlythis morning. Sheriff Smith and Chief of Police Pickard re ceived telegrams from Gov. Seay ordering th jm to- cooperate and send twenty-five heavily armed men to the seat of war. In response to these telegrams Sheriff Smith and Chief Pickard selected- m-posee of twenty-five of the coolest aad bravest inpn that ever handled a Winchester, and had every mau fitted out with a new Winchester and a belt of cartridges. The Governor instructed them to get a special train.which was done, and about 11 o'clock this morning an engine drawing one coach, laden with the armed posse, pulled out of the l T nion Depot. The party is iu charge of Capt. James Sharp, and among them are a number of mfcn who ha’’<*made thesase-W'es famove 1 by the judicious use of a Winches ter. This party goes for the State ' and at the Slate’s expense. Th other detectives who have gone up there have been sent by the South ; ern Express Company, in command of Detective J. B. Robbins. General Superintendent H. ( Fisher of Ihe Southern Express Company is at (Jneonta, the near esr railroad station to the seat of war, and Superintendent Agee of the same company is with the de tectives at.the front. Gov. Sway is in New York, but he is kept posted by wire. He first ordered out y military company, -but later wired the Sheriff to send deputy sheriffs instead of the troops. Superin tendent Fisher telegraphed from Oneonta late this afternoon tha the war would probably be endecs one way or the other to-night or early to-morrow morning. The officers from this city arrived tlicr at 1 o’clock, and left at once for the front. The outlaws are in hiding eigh - teen miles north of Oneonta. which is the nearest telegraph office. While later news is awaited hero with great anxiety, it is doubtful if any reliable information can be ob tained before to-morrow morning The cotton crop of Texas, ao-- cording to a dispatch from Galves ton, is now estimated at 1,750,000 bales. The wharves and ware houses there are full of rotton, and there a»"e now nineteen steamship* l loading for foreign poris. There are four steamers a week to New York with a capacity of between 4,500 andt6,ooo bales each. All the cotton-screw i nen and long shoremen of the port are at work and the season thus far has bee ! - ? the busiest for many years. Trouble is reported between ilif settlers iitd the Scotch cattle syn dicate in “No Man’s Land.” S, F. Fereno'in, who arrived at Wichita on Sunday, reported that last week the seller.- set fire to the syndi cate's range, descrying every ves tige of food for the cattle. Mr. Ferenom says that the cattle have already begun to die of starvation, ar.d he anticipates an enormous loss. Governor Lee, of Virginia i!a- • received a canle dispatch from iVI, Mercie, the French scplntor, say ing that information about the Lee statue had just been mailed. Tffie governor had hoped to be able "to unveil the monument in De’yr'b'. ber. but it now seems that AforGiG s.* figure w ill not reach Richmond' •*>- time. The unveiling will■-c-u.fce ula-c ?.*» May.