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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1889)
TR LT PR PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK 8 eBY s The Buchauan Publishing Company, ! srvens AP BUCHANAN, - - GRORGIA W e S e —————t Silver coinage is going on at the rate of $2,000,000 a month. The young German Emperer is play. ing sad havoc among the generals. He shunted in 1888 eight corps commanders, twenty-one commanders of divisions, twelve brigadiers of cavalry and forty brigadiers of infantry. Age has no claim to consideration in the young monarch's eyes. Soldiers, he maintains, should be young and vigorous. The proposal to saddle the Lord- Lieutenancy of Ireland upon a member of the Royal family is grotesque thinks the New York Zrdune. Forty years ago the island might have been pleased with the compliment, but it is too late now to dignify the office when it goes begging among the mnobility. The proper course of action involves legisla tive abolition of the office. The American sugar beet is sweeter by about 33 per cent. than any other beet on the globe, asserts the New York Herald. We don't say thisin a boast ng spirit, but with modest pride. The average extract of sugar from German, French or English beets is 12 per cent. But out in Nebraska the beet has got itself down to business, and insists on extracting 17 per cent. of “sweetnin’” out of the “sile.” Says the St. Louis Star-Sayings: A monopoly, the most arrogant and grasp ing in this country, which is seldom scored by the press, is the National As sociation of Bill Posters. It is com posed of the one man in each city of the Union who owns the largest amount of boards and fence privileges. Anyshow man who should come to this city and ‘ patronize any one but the association bill poster, would be immediately listed, and nowhere in the eountry could he get his paper on the walls, or at least the walls controlled by the association, and that is about all the desirable space to be found.” A beautiful damsel was recently per suaded by her admirer to elope, and the ardent pair fled n a sailboat from the wrath of pursuing parents. The lover grew sick with the washing of the waves, and at last succumbed, much to the disgust of the bride, who ordered the captain to turn the boat’s head and let her land. If more couples would try a sea voyage before marriage, instead of a trip to Europe afterwards, there might be fewer unhappy marriages; for men or women look their worst when the horiible sickness of the sea is upon them. The gallant British tar, who has been the theme of so much laudation in poem and prose, seems, remarks the San Fran cisco Chronicle, to have fallen on de generate days—that is if credence is to be given to what English shipmasters say. Itis alleged that they favor Nor wegians, Swedes or Germans—anything in fact but their own fellow-country men. While the English sailor still possesses his old-time ability, if he cares to exercise it, nevertheless he is so given to drink that he is insubordinate and quarrelsome to a degree—characteristics which are lacking in sailors of other na tionalities. The morphine habit, which is causing such an amount of talk in France, is re ceiving attention from English reviewers and medical men. It would appear, ac. cording to some of the commendations on the vices of dissipated folk, as re ¢orded by the Chicago Herald, that all gorts of ghastly dissipations have been adopted by women who have nerves and other idiosyncrasies. On this side of .the water tea cigarettes have been super geded by cigarettes filled with various herbs, including opium, which are smoked by women of London who run to that sort of thing, while the number of ingenious drugs which have been in troduced among the women of Paris is too long to enumerate. There is little gerious doubt about the extent to which this particular form of dissipation has taken in Paris, but most of the talk in London apparently emanates from pro fessional alarmists, who are forever writing to the editors of the daily press. eT e L il e e ? ’%m» Ry BWy ol oxpvssrion or umrous, YIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. Leaders of the striking miners who took part in the riot at Dortemunde, Germany, May 10th, last, have been sen tenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from two to five years. A waterspout broke over the cimf Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, doing great - age. ‘therain came down in terrents, overflowing the streets and bursting BEWETS, ang causing widespread damage. ¢" At Puiladelphin, Thursday, Dennis Donovan, tweuty-five years old, %acci dentally shot his brother, Thomas, four years younger. Dennis was 80 overcome with remorse that he fled from the room and cut his throat with a razor. A special from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says the grand stand from which 1,000 people were witnessing an _exhibition of fireworks at Oklahoma City, Thureday evening, collapsed, and several persons were killed and seventy-five seriously injured. The miners employed in the Bennett vein of the Woodward shaft, at Wilkes barre, Pa., operated by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western company, struck Tuesday. They claim that they are being unjustly docked for ‘‘boney” coal mined. The official vote of the recent election in Harrisburg, Pa., as received and com puted at the state department is as fol lows: For the prohibition amendment, 286,617; against, 484,644; majority against, 188,027. For the suffrage amend ment abolishing poll tax qualification, 188,871; against, 420,324; majority against, 236,952, Eauclare, Wis., held: its first election for a board of education, Monday. It brought out a heavy woman’s vote, prominent society ladies spendirg the whole day with their carriages taking women to the polls. The anti-Catholic question was made very prominent in several wards, but the candidates al leged to represent the Catholic side were elected. The big brewery ot Falk, Jung & Bar chert, in Wauwatesa, just beyond the city limits of Milwaukee, Wis., was to tally destroyed by fire Thursday after noon. The loss is $1,000,000, aud there is an insurance of but $300,000. Two bundred men were thrown out of em ployment until the firm ean rebuild. The firm had just completed a SIOO,OOO addition, and put on a §550,000 ice ma chine. A large cave near Hermosa mining camp, sixty miles from Las Cruces, N. M., has been opened up, and its interior is lined with veins of almost pure silver. It had for years escaped the eyes of old prospectors because there was nothing about the cave to indicate mineral. It is now thought the cave will exceed inrich ness the famous Bridul Chamber cave at Snake Valley, N. M., from which over $500,000 in silver was taken. Jack Snyder, of Danville, 111., died of hydrophobia, Monday, on the public highway near i?kmt: city., He and hie family set out in a covered wagon from Lebigh county, Pa., for Missouri. Shortly afterwards, Snyder was bitten by a stray dog. At Danville, his condi tion was so serious, that the family came to a halt. They were in a destitute con dition, and the body was buried in the potters field. “‘Red Nosed Mike,”” who murdered pay master McClure and the stable boss, Hugh Flannagan, in October last, was hanged Tuesday morning at Wilkesboro, Pa. He gave to one of the clergymen who attended him a confession of his crime, coverin%J fifty-two pages Italian manuscript. The confession has not yet been fully translated, but he admits hav ing killed both McClure and Flannagan, though he asserts that he acted under compulsion, The World’s Sunday-School Conven tion opened its session in London, Eng land, Tuesday. There were 900 foreign delegates present, including over 800 from the United States. Lord Kinniard delivered an address of welcome, and Count Bernstoff, of Berlin, and Rev. Mr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, respondedin behalf of the delegates from the European and American continents. The convention is sitting in Dr. Parker’s ‘‘temple,” Memo rial hall having been found too small to accommodate the delegates. Judge Cummins, who has charge of the cash relief fund, arrived ut Johns town, Pa., Tuesday. He says all suffer ers will not get a share of money, only needy ones receiving funds. It is prob able money will be given out on the per centage plan, but the age of person, how many children he has dependent upon him, and the amount of property he still possesses, will all be taken into consid eration. Each applicant for cash relief will have to make affidavit as to his loss, and will have to have witnesses to the same. The jury in the Mungenmaier murder case, at Charleston, 8. C.,on Wednesday, returned a verdict of ‘‘not guilty.” The case excited a good deal of interest at the time of the tragedy (March 9th), but was entirely swallowed ug by the McDow rrial, which preceded it. Bix of the McDow jurymen were on the jury. Public opinion waa directed to tiose men who had acquitted a confessed murderer, and were to sit in judgment on a man who at least had a. good plea of self de fenge. The jury was out about two hours and then returned a verdict of acquittal. The grain firm of L. F. Webb & Co., of Dalton Oity, 111., have brought suit for damages in the United Btates district L T L eS e e S “court at Sp Ta‘gflela against the Peoria, Decatut li%t vansville railroad e‘um{w ny for SIO,OOO, for alleged discrimination in freight rates. The plaintiffs allege that E. P. Hellman, vice-president of the company, is interested in the milling bus. iness, and that the firm gets a rate of six cents, while Webb & Co. have to pay eight cents. It is the first case brought in court under the inter-state commerce bill, and will doubtless be taken to the United States supreme court. It is to be a test case. WONDERFUL MONSTROSITY. A CHILD WITH TWO HEADS—ALIVE WITH NO INDICATIONS OF DYING. The parents of this curious freak of nature are Mr, and Mrs. Jones, who live about five miles morth of Kempton, in Tipton county, Indiana. They are young marricd folks, probably about 30 years of age, and this is the mother’s second con finement, the first. child being two years old and nothing abnormal about its de velopment. The menstrosity,for such it is, and a wonderful oue, too, consists of o single, continuous bo«iy, on each end of which is a well formed head. It is provided with four arms and four legs, which are also well formed and about the normal size and shape. The arms are located at the proper place and on natu ral shoulders, one pair at each end of the long body, but the lower limbs protrude outward each side at the middle of the elongated being, The two heads face the same way, and the legs are so attach ed a 8 {o extend at right angles from the middle of the sides of the body. There is but one umbilicus, that being on the anterior surface and middle of the bady, showing that the entire form has been nourished through one and the same cord during the entire period of embryonic life. There is a dupligity in so far as there are two heads, two pair of limbs, two sets of genital organs and that the voluntary movements of the two portions are not in conformity. On the other hand, there was but one umbilical cord, and tie junction of the two halves presents no line ot original separation to prove that the being has been joined together from the start. One’half of the creature may be sleeping while ghe other isawake, and at such times it is noticed that one leg on each gide conforms to the other vol untary movements of the end of the body nearest to thews, or, in other words, the two legs on the same side of the body are not controlled by one half. The entire length of the body from head to head is about two feet, and the weizht of the creature is twelve pounds, figures which show ample size and weight for two healthy children. Up to the pres ent writing the babe or babos is or are enjoying good health, and the mother, a small sized woman, is doing very well. NUMEROUS HUSBANDS. A NORTH CAROLINA: WOMAN HAS FIVE LIV ING HUSBANDS. On Wednesdpy, Samuel Nickson ap peared before Register Cobb,at Charlotte, N. C., and requested a marriage license for himself to Isabella Davis, The li cense was promptly issued, but before it had been used it was discovered that the woman was already married, and her husband was yet living. Further inves tigation revealed the fact that she was a bigamist, and consequently a warrant for her arrest was put in the hands of an officer. Bhe was arraigned before a jus tice of the peace. Theevidence accumu lated against her, and it soon was proven that she has now living five husbands. The woman is only fi)out thirty-two years old. Her son, a lad about sixteen years old, testified: against her in court, She married the first time at fifteen, and has lived with no one husband more than eighteen months. ‘She married first in 1872 to Amos Johnson, and separated the following year. In 1875 she married A. B. McCowe, and lived with him till Christmas of 1876. Again, 1n 1878,she married Red Abram McElmore, and left him in 1879. In 1885 she married Faul R. Holton, and left" him the same year. She married William R. Ferguson last year, but only lived with him a few weeks. All are now living. All parties have been bound e@ver to the ciiminal court. e L st A MADMAN’S FREAK, Persone passing along State street, in front of the Palmer house, Chicago, 111., Tuesday afternoon, were horrified at see ing & man, clad only in a sheet, climb out of a window and deliberately walk along a projecting cormice. Suddenly, with a shriek, he %ell, to a projection be low. A ladder was procured and an at tempt was made to rescue him, when, with a scream, he threw himself to the pavemeut below, fracturing his skull and receiving other injuries, which will prob ably cause his death. He was evidently insane, and proved to be George W, Howe, a prominent young civil engineer, of Leadville. He was on his way home froms Washington, where he had been in attendance as o delegate to the conven tion of Patriotic Sons ot America. A RUINED CITY. A special from Durango, Col., says: Monday afternoon a fire broke out in the southern part of the city, and in an in credible short time the flames, assisted by a strong wind, spread in every direc tion, leaping from building to building, until hal‘f) of the town was in ashes, The fire was extinguished after the total de struction of eight business blocks, which includes all the principal business houses and churches, and a portion of the resi dent portion of the town was also de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $300,- 000, with light issurance. The origin of the fire is supposed to be incendiary. | QUULHERN DNEWD. i IW“&*; INTHERES \g ROA 3’2’4’%‘ - RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. | A COXDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. ' A new Xoatoflioe has been established at South Atlanta, Fulton ‘county, Ga., with Luther 8. Price as postmaster. The third annual convention of the Georgia Weekiy Press association began its session at Cartersville, Ga., on Wedndsday., There was a fax‘ge attea dance. Frank Smith, of Smith Station, Ga., was struck by lightning Tuesday while standing in his gtore door and instantly killed. He leaves a wife and several children. The county courtron Tuegday, awarded a contract for building & steel bridge \ across the Tennesseec river at Chatta | nooga, ta cost about $225,000. Work will be begun immediately. On Wednesday morning a serious ao ' cident happened three miles west of Ge meva, Ga. The Central passenger train, due at Macon at 7:30, jumped the track - while rounding a curve, tproing the ~coaches over and painfully but not fatally | injuringlseveral persons. ~ The false Christ, who has been a source of so much disturbance among the ~colored people of Hinesville, Ga., for several weeks, was tried for lunacy and convicted, It is now hoped he will ~have apartments where he can do less - barm, Reports from Charlotte, N. C., say that the recent heavy rains has done no small domage. Bridges over creeks and rivers are gohe and lew lands crops are greatly damaged. The rain is said to have been the heaviest known in western North Carolina in some years. | Ralph Graves, professor of mathemat ics at the state university, attempted to commit tuicide at Raleigh, N. C., on Sunday, by cutting his throat with a pen-knife. He had been in bad health for months, and at times showed symptoms of derangement. Hercsigned his work at the university last February. Parson Dunean, residing near Newton, Ala., eloped Saturday with a daughter of his neighbor, a Miss Baldree. Dun can’s wife was buried Thursday, and he is known to have bought both stryechnine and morphine. The eloping couple de parted on foot towards Florida, and offi cers are in pursuit. Mrs. Duncan’s body will b¢ exhumed and an examination made. The first bale of new eotton was re ceived at Augusta, Ga., on Wednesday, from Primus Jones, being two days earlier than the first bale last year. It was car ried to the warehouse of &. R. Wiston & Son. Tt classed middling, weighed 380 pounds, and was auctioned off and bought by George W.Swindell for 12 1-2 cents, It will be expressed to New York. The vestibule train, eastbound, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, was wrecked by a slide in the chute near Ona, W. Va., Thursday morning. There had been a very severe rain, which caused the slide. George W. Walsh, the oldest engineer on the road, and his fireman, whose name cannot be learned, were killed. It was an unavoidable accident. No passengers were injured. A disastrous fire occurred at Savannah, Ga., Monday night, invoiving a loss of over SIOO,OOO. When the fire was rag ing firemen had ascended on ladders, l when a wall of a building fell suddenly, | killing John Weir outright and injuring H. P. Goodson seriously and Richard Hart perhaps fatally. Ed Pacettl, Messrs. Lipinski, Davis, McEvoy and Strobhar and Maurice Butler, were badly wounded. Naturai gas was struck Monday near Cordova, Walker county, about thirty miles west of Birmingham, Ala. It has a pressure of sixty-five pounds to the m}uare inch, and was struck at a depth of 700 feet. It was discovered on the property of the Cordova Coal and Coke Company, and the experts in charge of the work say there is no doubt of the gas existing in paying qualities. On last Tuesday, a-new born colored infant was found abandoned in James City, a suburb of Newberne," N. C,. ‘When found, it had only some strips of clothes wrapped around it. In the bas ket with it was $l5O, and a can of con densed milk. Investigation led to the arrest of Rev. C. H. Smith, colored, pastor of St. Peter's A. M. E. Zion Church, on the charge of abandonment. He was judged guilty, and fined SSO and costs. J. B. Dickens, formerly a praminent lawyer and politician at Manning, 8. C., charged with forgery and burglary, was arrested a few days ago at Fort Worth, Tex., and brought back for trial. Dick ens stood high in his profession in South Carolina, and, several months ago, when warrants charging him with forgery and house breaking were sworn, his friends at first refused to believe the charges, but Dickens fled before he could be ar rested. A big reward was offered for his capture, and he was finally located and arrested at Fort Worth, Texas. Tar Young Men’s Christian Associa tion has grown to vast proportions. There are 1,248 associationsin America, 1,392 in Germany, and even in Japan there are 200. It is an interesting fact that there is an organization in Naza reth, where Christlived, and at Jerusa lem, where He wasg crucified. THE number of old ns in Tokio, Ja who recelved a g‘ffi? mo?g from the E‘:i»ror in celebration of the devlaration of the constitution was 5560—5839 persons above eighty years of age, 218 above ninety years and tiree above 1%0 years. : | A FRIGHTFUL PLUNGE. PG LSRR B AR RP R G O R g . meanih waasy brcenn, Ghueres: o ig4oo g, S G g m,%, Lkosient Ty kot s Weke tumber o m&. lost, and a large tumber of people injured, occurred. o the Norfolk and Western railroad. &% 2:80 oclock Tuesday mornirg, thinty~ one miles above Lynchburg, a%'q. - BhY tain has been falling almost continuous ly, and at times very heavily, fo:%aw lwenty-four hours. Several trains. bad passed over the road during th:sn:}ghft" «hid it was thought that the line w‘u;nf; { for traffic, notwithstanding the rains,and thut no danger need be apprehended. At the place of the accident, however, | the water had undermined the read-bed, snd caused a washout about eighty feet long and fifty feet wide. The water at that point was eight to ten feet decig Into this watery gulch the engine ma a frightfu] leap, carrying with it the ten der and eight cars. As the engine struck the bottom the boiler exploded. This fact greatly augmented the eatastrophe. Debris was thrown in every direction by the force of the explosion, injuring some of those on the train by flying fragments and scattering fire-brands, which ignited the wood work of the coaches. The flames spread and destroyed a large amount of mail and express matter, besides causing a panic smong the already terror-stricken passengers. The most reliable estimate places the number of persons killed between twen ty-five and thirty. = The number of wounded will be far in excess of the number killed. Thirty of the wounded have been taken to Roanoke, thirteen to Buferdsville, and fifty to Liberty. Major J. C. Cassell, superintendent of ‘the Lynchburg division of Norfolk and Western, was on the train and was se riously injured, as were also Bagfage master Ford and Captain Rewland Johnston, who was in charge of the train. ' A relief train was made up at Lynchburg late in the afternoon to go to the scene of the wreck, and a number of physicians went down on it to do what they could to aid the wounded. The Norfolk and Western people absolutely refused to al low any newspaper men aboard the train, and several who got on,despite of orders to the contrary, were put off. The rail road men also refused to give out any in formation in regard to the wreck. The following are known to be kilf®: Pat Donovan, engineer; U. E. Bruce, fire man, A.M. James, road foreman of engines; M. S. Bruce, mail agent; 8. W. Lipsey, train dispatcher, Roanoke; Will Hopkins, express messenger, Passengers: Dennis Mellon, of Roanoke; Wm. A. Stevenson, of Cleveland, Tenn ; C. W. Steed, Cleveland, Tenn.; Will F. Mar shall, of Cleveland, Tenn.; John M. Hardwick, of Cleveland, Tenn. The last named three were bound for the Paris exposition. Nathan Cohen, of Roanoke, bound for Germany; James F. Rose, of Abingdon, Va.; Pattie Carring ten, of Texas, aged nine years; John Kirkpatrick, of Lynchburg, Va. There were about thirty people who es caped with only slight injuries, and ten who are seriously injured. The list of the dead will be increased as the friends of missing people come for ward in search of them. There is no way at present to ascertain the exact number of the dead owing to the fact that the entire train was destroyed by fire. The superintendent of the railway mail serviee received information from Postal Clerk Summers that the postal car was burned and all mail matter, in cluding three registered pouches, was destroyed. : DAMAGING STORM. FIVE FEET OF WATER IN THE STREETS OF A PENNSYLVANIA TOWN. A heavyPrain-storm passed over Holli daysburg, Pa., Wednesday night, causing a great flood. The Juniata river rose rap idly, and by midnight the watet stood fifteen feet above low water mark, and only two feet lower than the flood of May 31st. The lower streets of the town were covered with from three to five feet of water, and many people had to leave their houses. Stores, iron mill and houses on the river bank were all flpoded, snd truck gardens and farms in the sur rounding country badly damaged. Sev eral mew country bridges and much fene ing were carried away. The temporary bridge over the Juniata,at Williamsburg, was destroyed. The mills of the Portage iron works, at Duncanville, were flooded and the firee put out. The water was higher at Duncanville than in the flood of May 81st last, and u river five feet deep rushed through and destroyed the main street of the town. A MOCK MARRIAGE FOUND TO BE GENUINE—-CONSEQUENI TROUBLE OF THE PARTIES. : Mr. J. Fletcher Marcum, of Outtles burg, and Miss Laura Duke Smith, of Lexington, attended a social gathering in Ashland, Ky., and a young minister and the county clerk were among the guests. After awhile some one suggestel a mock marriage, and Mr. Marcum and Miss Smith volunteered to be the bride and bridegroom, The county clerk was )ppealed to and made out the license, snd the minister performed the aerme 7. Nothing more was tuougnt of the affair until it was mentioned to a lawyer, who declared that the marriage was a legal one. This view is accepted a 8 correct, and the make-believe bride and bridegroom are infensely distressed. To add to the complication, Mr. Marcum was engaged to an estimable young lady of Ashland. The courts will have to by appealed to for relief. :
