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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1889)
Baralson Gouoty Daguen, A T ey PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK wensanis P Y s The Buchanan Publishing Company, e AT BUCHANAN, - - GEORGIA e r———r The Utah Supreme Court has decided that SBand wich Islanders cannot become American citizens. ‘ e Sttt et s e e Since 1872 France and Germany have been making inroads into England’s Bpanish- American trade. s osblinbokibint The New Orleans Times- Demoorat says that there is a great deal of unoccupied land in the United States, and immi grants of a good class are welcome, The New York Herald wants the vio let adopted as our national flower, be cause it stands for modesty and is, therefore, a true representative of Amer ica. There appears every reason to believe that the present year will prove the most flourishing ever known in the com mercial history of the United King dom. The newest idea in christening ships is to scatter roses over the bow, instead of breaking a bottle of wine. The in novation is certainly poetical, »comments the New Orleans Picayune, and a bottle of wine is saved for those who can ap preciate it. 5 The Constitution of the Cherokee Na tion absolutely forbids any alienation of the tribal lands, and the authorities of the nation could not sell the Cherokee strip even if they wished to. It can be taken by the United States by force, but there will be no opportunity to disguise it through a so-called negotia tion. The state railroads of Prussia make special concessipas' to invalids of the lower classes who are obliged to travel for the sake of their health. The blind, deaf, insaue or diseased of any kind are transportel with their attendants for the exceedingly low rate of one-sixth of a cent a mile. Poor children sent to the country on summer vacations and the officers of all benevolent institutions of whatever nature are also given the same Pprivilege. l Doorkeeper Loefler of the White House, has a wonderful memory. He was with Stanton at the time of Lin eoln’s assassination, and during the trials of 1869 was ordered to the White House for the duties he is still perform. ing, His recollection of faces is re markable. ‘‘You called on Mr. Gar field,”” or ¢‘l remember you during the Hayes regime,” he will sometimes say to @ man whom he has never seen but once, and that years ago. He can tell a ¢crank” on sight and he saves the President a great deal of annoyance by his acuteftess. The men at We .t Guthrie, Ok'ahoma, are rough, remarks the Chicago Herald, but tender. Not iafrequently they will take a drink or a ¢‘chew,” and over a disputed piece of land they will fight like tigers. But they are extremely gallant in their treatment of the fair sex. They held an election for mayor out there the other day, and not only allowed the 35 women of the place to vote, but procured carriages and drove them to the polls where they were treated with every mark of courtesy. Cultured Boston, in the recent election in which women participated, showed them less polite attention than the rough pioneers at Guthrie.” The objection of electricians to the new method of execution by electricity is said to be purely one of sentiment. They do not wish to see the science de graded. As well, they say, put a man to death by music or poetry as by elec tricity. ¢‘All of which is true,” ad mits the New York Commercial Adver tiser, ‘‘but these practical poets, the electricians, must remember that the _protests of the civilized world itself has mot been able to blot out that instru ment of torture, the hand orzan. Doubtless the spinners of hemp were once much scandalized by the ignoble e to whih ter handiwork was pul, * There is certainly something perpet ual about the perpetual motion delusion. The Washington Patent Office, in the course of the last year has been favored with not less than twenty-eight new projects for the construction of the il lusive contrivance. L ] Robert P. Porter, chief of the census bureau assures the public that the re turns of population will be made out be fore Christmas of next year, or within six months from the time the count is begun. If this is done the Fifty-first Congress can make the figures the basis of representation in Congress for ten years, beginning in 1892. ¢ Chicago will probably have one of the finest libraries in the world in the course of a few years. Mr. W. L. New berry, one of the earliest residents, left the sum of $250,000 for the purpose, and a temporary building has been used for some time. It is now intended to erect a magnificent edifice, capable of holding 300,000 volumes. A Kentucky swain has just been wedded after a courtship that lasted fifty years. Just think of it! exclaims the New York Mercury. Half a century of moonlight walks, seaside strolls, picnic junketing, fireside hugging, ten der tones, Summer drives, Winter %eighrides, and whispers of devotion. That Kentuckian was certainly a phi losopher, and deserved the prolonged bliss which all the world must envy. The Churchman, speaking of the -death of Damien, the leper priest of the Sandwich Islands, says that outside of the walls of Jerusilem is a leper hospital tended by deaconesses from the German religious houses. “‘Year after year these heroic women, without pretentiousness, without any trumpeting of their work, almost unknown to the world, have waited upon lepers, while themselves literally dying by inches. Their courage has only come to light by the chance notice of travelers.” A work of engineering begun by the Romans under Nero, in the second cen tury, will be finished this year; that is, it has been in process of construction for over 1700 years. The work to which we refer is the cutting of a canal through the' Jsthmus of Corinth. The canal, when done, will be only four miles long, and will have a depth of eight meters, which will allow the passage of the largest vessels used in Greek traffic. It is not so great a matter from an interna tional view as the Suez and Nicaragua projects, but it will do much to further ‘ tho rapid progress made by modern Greece in the arts of civilization and commerce. | Says the New York 7ribune: ¢‘ltis nine years since a census wés taken, If l the best estimates are not in error, the population is now over 65,000,000, an increase of thirty per cent in nine years. In some things the industrial growth of the country has not kept pace with the growth of population, it is true. In number of sheep the increase has been but seventeen per cent, and in milch cows twenty-three per cent, and the in crease in swine last January seemed small. In acreage of wheat there has not been a proportionate increase. But in corn and oats the gain has been greater than in population, and the re turns of cotton acreage show an increase of forty per cent since 1880. The sup plies of beef are assured by an increase of forty-seven per cent in the number of cattle.” A Chicago medical student recently evolved a great scheme which has sel dom been surpassed for ingenuity and effrontery. Before he received his doc tor's degree he started a medical college, all on paper, of which he was president, with a fictitious faculty of twenty-two persons. Then he advertised that any one enclosing $25 he would receive a list of questions. When these were sat isfactorily answered the applicant would submit a thesis on some medical subject and when this thesis was approved he would receive a degree of M. D. or Ph. D. from the Chicago College of Science. As soon as he began to advertise the in. quisitive reporter camped on his trail and there was a sudden end of the Col lege of Science. His scheme would have poved a bonanza if he could have prdad againt epons o i, wf o Nl gt LT 49‘* m ~flm*";¢flufi a~ Wa,”g fy GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM xmtwml:momntu, STRIKES, FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST, The national bureau of engraving at Philadelphia is in fiancial distress. Texas fever is reported as playing sad havoc among cattle in Indian Territory. The shah of Persia arrived in Paris on Tuesday. He was welcomed by Presi dent Carnot,. Snow storms and rains prevail through out Bwitzerland, Mountain passes are partly blocked. A fire at Hastings, Neb,, destroyed the Gazette-Journal plant. Loss $25,000; insurance $15,000. The United States cruiser Rush has made several captures of British sealing schooners in Alaskan waters, _ Abraham Finkbone, a prisoner in Read ing, Pa., jail, committed suicide Thurs day by hanging himself in his cell. Bethlehem, Pa., iron company Thurs day issued a notice of an increase in wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80 per day. A company has been formed in Chi cago which has secured rights in Indi ana and will pipe patural gas into Chi cago. Twenty-seven storekeepers and gaugers were appointed Wednesday to take the places of democrats in Califorria and Kentucky. A machine gun exploded on board the training frigate Courens, at Hyeres, France, Wednesday. Eight persons were killed and seventeen injured. Andrew C, Drummm, who has full charge of the cattle commission business of A. A. Drumm & Co., of Kansas City, has disappeared and $15,000 with him. The Peter Schoenhafen Brewing com pany, of Chicago, has been incorporated with a capital of §3,ooo,ooo—one-half gaken in Chicago; the other half in Lon on. : Nine persons in Burlington, Wis., were poisoned by eating dried beef shipped to local dealers by a Chicago {irm. Four of the vietims are precarious y ill. 3 ' Eight thousand bunches of overripe bananas were seized by the New York board of health Thursday. The fruit was on the steamer Alps, of the Italy line, Eleven houses were burned at Fenn ville, Mich., Wednesday night, involving a loss of §85,000. A tramp caused the conflagration, and he was arrested and jailed. Y According to the'latest statistics care fully compiled by the board of injury, at Johnstown, Pa., Wednesday, the num ber of lives lost in 8¢ devastated district l was about. six thousand. The postoffice department has received the resignation of Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee, whose administration of of fice was recently severely criticised by the civil service commission. ‘ Three young ladies—Misses Flanagan, McCabe and Farrell, were drowned Tues day night while trying to cross Menomi nee river at Ishpening, Michigan. Their bodies have not been recovered. Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royee, late of the Willimantic Savings institute, was arrested Thursday in Willimantie, Conn., i on a new charge of embezzlement of $15,000 from the institute and makivg false entries. | 'W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers, doing business at 244 Purchase street, Boston, have failed. Liabilities $225,000. The cause of the failure is the general condition of the leather business for the past three years. John Hronek, one of the Chicago an archists confined at the prison, made a desperate attempt to commit suicide Wednesday. During working hours he severed the arteries in his arm with a° saddle knife. Acting Secretary Batchelor bas issued an order suspending payment on all bills against the Treasury Department for tel egraphing during the current fiscal year on account of the question of fixing rates not being settled. The New York Herald says the cotton crop of Texas is worth $84,000,000, and that reports of the corn, cotton and wheat crops have been underestimated. Such cotton was never seen, and wheat and oats are up to the average. Forest fires have been raging in the vicinity of Glennwood Springs, Cal., for several days, and covers an area of over ten square miles. Reports from Red Cliff, Leadville, Aspen and New Castle report the sun completely obscured by smoke. i A dispatch Tuesday, from Nagasaka, Japan, reports that a dreadful earthquake occurred in the western portion of the island of Kiou Siou. The town of Kum amoto was destroyed. A great number of people perished. A vast amount of property was also destroyed. The grand national monument, 1n honor of the pilgrims, was dedicated at Plymouth, Mass.,, on Thursday. The Sons and Daughters of Plymouth were there 1n great numbers, also visitors from far and near. The dedicatory exercises were carried out by the Masonic grand lodge, according to the ritual of their order, and were very interesting. A committee, consistii% of William Onahan, of Chicago, chairman, and Henry J. Spaanholst, of St. Louis, and Bexiel B e o oiminmgi,Wednes day issued a oall for @ gencral congress of the Catholic laity of the United States Bi e the Gy BN e 0. ‘vember Ilih anq letn, Loo¥, L 0 CEL "“{?6;‘1%:« ©. the centennial anniversary of the estab lishment of the Catholic hierarchy of the United States. - McKean & Appleton, shoe manufac turers at Salem, Mass., have assigned to J. Beebe, of Boston. The estimated lia bilities are from $65,000 to $75,000. Mc- Kean & Appleton did the largest shoe business in Salem, their yearly sales reaching nearly $400,000. The assets, as near as can be determined hastily, are about $40,000. The collipse was has tened by recent losses through failures, aggregating $7,000 to §B,OOO. The worsted mills of Scheppers Broth el’fi.. American _and Diamond _ streets, Philadelphia, Pa., were closed down ou Saturday, in consequence of the failure of Lewis Brothers & Co., who were the largest purchasers of their goods. They do not gesire to continue their manufac turing businese until Lewis Brothers & Co. make a statement to Cornelius N. Bliss, assignee, so that the Scheppers may know how they stand. : The debt statement issued at Wash: ington, D. C., Thursday, shows an in crease of debt during the month of July to be $1,017,811.51; total interest bear ing debt $895,391,886.96; total debt of all kinds $1,646,777,809.91; total debt, less available credit, $1,077,663,93%.96; legal tender notes outstanding $346,- 681,016 ; certificates of deposit outstand ing $17,5675,000; gold certificates out standing $118,541,409; silver certificates $29,557.125; fractional currency $6,916,- 690.47; total cash in treasury $634,723,- 023.44. . The American Iron and Steel associa tion, at Philadelphia, Pa., has ascertain ed from reports from manufacturers that the total production of Bessemer steel in gots in the Urfited States in the first half of 1889, amounted to 1,268,496 gross tons of 2,240 pounds, against 1,275,189 gross tons in the last half of 1888. The association also reports that the quan tity of kinds and sizes of Bessemer steel rails, rolled by the Bessemer Steel Pro ducing works of this countryin the first half of 1889 wus 652,475 gross tons, against 673,724 tons in the last half of 1888,and 692,197 tons in the first half of 1888. THE CITIZENS ARE MAD, BRUNSWICK INDIGNANT OVER THE FALSE REPORT OF A YELLOW FEVER CASE. The Advertiser and Times of Brunswick, Ga., both . appeared Thursday containing strongly worded editorials condemning Savannah’s action in Tregard to quarantine ing Brunswick on aecount of the fever rumors. Further investigation proved that false rumors were started by a wild drummer who left here some days ago, and without any regard to truth circula ted the report that a man named Night ingale had died of yellow fever. A dispatch from Waghington states that owing to the prevalence of rumors of suspicious cases of fever at Brunswick, Ga., the marine hospital bureau ordered Senitary Inspector Posey to proceed to that place and make an investigation. The following telegram from Dr. Posey, dated at Brunswick, Ga., was received at the marine hospital bureau Thursday: The cause of the death of B. Nightingale, which occurred July 24th, was hemor rhagic malarial fever, confirmed by an autopsy held by Drs. Dunwoody, Bur ford and Hazlehurst. No cases of fever here of a suspicious.character. ANOTHER ASSIGNMENT. A BOSTON BOOT AND SHOE HOUSE If FORCED TO SBUCCUMB. E. &A. H. Batchelor & Co., among the largest boot and shoe houses in Boston, Mass., doing business at 106 Summer street, have assigned. Mr. Batchelor, one of the firm, states that the liabilities, as near as can now be ascer tained, will reach $1,250,000 with nomi nal assets about the same figure. The as signees are Thos. E. Procter, of Boston and R. Batchelor, of North Brookfield. The larger amount of indebtedness is said to be on paper held by parties who are at pre sent unknown to the firm. The firm is one of good standing, and was rated by Bradstreets ‘‘G. A.” The failure creates great surprise. The business was estab lished in North Brookfield, and the fac tory there is one of the largest and best equipped in the county, and gives em ployment to 1,100 hands, calliug for a weekly pay-roll of over SIOO,OOO. The immediate causes of failure are large loans made by A. H. Batchelor outside of business, and the fact of the recent large failures in leather trade, followed by Lewis Brothers & Co.’s failure. THE BAGGING QUESTION, FARMERS DETERMINED NOT TO USE BAG GING MADE BY THE TRUST. Col. Polk, of Raleigh, N. C., state gsecretary of the farmers’ alliance, on Tuesday, received a telegram from the business agent of the Louisiana Farm ers’ Union, which stated that the New Orleans mills made the first shipment of Odenheimer cotton bag%ing. This is made of cotton, and is forty-four inches wide. The mills will run day and night to meet the pressing de mands. A dispatch receiveg from Texas, by Col. Polk, states that the farmers of one of the largest counties in the state held a mass meeting, and decided that m would on no account use bagging ‘made b}‘% rust, but would pen their SOUTHERN NEWS: ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 18 GOING OX OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed postmaster at Atlanta, Ga., took charge of the office Thursday. W. H. Heyward, one of the richest and most prominent rice planters of the olden times, died at Charleston, 8, C., Tues day, aged seventy-two years. gl In Sampson county, N. C., the heavi est rain ever known in that section fell for fifteen hours Saturday. Hundreds of barrels of turpentine were swept from Johnson’s mill. Two other parties lost large quantities, The loss will anigg’l‘lt to $3,000, e } hirty-five editors of North Carolina, ~while at the press convention recently, were interviewed on the insane asylum matter. Twenty-eight of them favored the removal of Superintendent Grissom, while four opposed his removsland three were non-committal, The largest gathering of farmers seen in Charlotte, N. C., in many years, greeted Harry Tracy, the alliance lectur er Wednesday. Mr. Tracy spoke at the fair grounds, and it is estimated that at least 2,500 farmers heard him. Much enthusiasm was manifested. W. F. Lecroix, seventy-five years of age, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was mar ried Tuesday night by a justice of the peace to Miss Lou Black, of Rising Fawn, Ga., aged sixteen. The bride was very pretty, and the groom the opposite, The young lady, it is understood, ran away from home to marry her aged lover. This is the fourth time that the groom has led ablushing bride to the altar. The case of John P. Hunter, justice of the peace, who was clubbed and hand cuffed on the streets of Charlotte, N. C., some days ago, was called in the magis trate’s court Tuesday morning. The de fendants, Police Sergeant Joe Boyle and Policeman G. J. Morris, waived exami nation, and were each bound over to the criminal court. The case is attracting widespread attention, and is being watched with peculiar interest. A storm broke over Richmond, Va., on Thursday night, during which the city railway stables, located just without the city limits in West End, were struck by hghtning. The building took fire, the flames spread rupidly, and before aid ar rived the entire structure was consumed and sixty mules and horses were burned up. Seven street cars were also de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $24,- 000; insurance $46,500, all in foreign companies, Two new industrial enterprises were organized at Charleston, 8. C., Tues day—the Imperial Box and Envelope Manufacturing Company, capital stock SIO,OOO, and the Tropical Refrigerating Company, capital $25,000. Books of subscription will be open in a few days for the Mount Pleasant butter and cheese factory, the Charleston Mattress Manufacturing Company,and the Charles ton Three-Dollar Pants Company most of the stock of which has already been subscribed. Martha York, an old woman, was on Tuesday. placed in jail in Randolph county, N. C., charged with murdering her grandchild, a boy eleven years old. While delirious the child said repeatedly that his grandma had beaten him to death. The child’s mother testified that its grand ma was the murderer. There had been a quarrel in the family, and it is said the old woman whipped the boy with hick ory switches until she fainted from ex haustion. The affair is creating excite ment among the citizens. A dispatch from Tusealoosa, Ala., re ports the mysterious death at noon Mon day of Arthur Fitts, superintendent of the Tuscaloosa eotton mills, and son of J. Fitts, a prominent banker. He was seen last walking back and forth on the grounds of the mills, and finally disap peared under an old building. A pistol shot was heard, and an employe found Fitts lying on the ground with an ugly wound behind his right ear, and the pis tol with one chamber empty at his feet. There is nothing to determine whether it is a case of suicide or murder, Rube Burrows, a train robber, mur derer and hunted outlaw, is crealing a reign of terror in Lamar county, Ala. He is strongly fortified in a mountain cave, almost within sight of the court ‘house and jail of the county, and sur rounded by an unknown number of des peradoes, defies the civil and military authorities to capture him. The sheriff of the county, who has a posse of seventy-five men and twenty detectiveg working with him, has applied to Gov. Beay for troops to aid him in the capture of the gang. SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS. A WONDERFUL PLENTY—PEACHES ¥IF. TEEN CENTS A CRATE, ETC, The abundance of fruit this year seems to be general throughout the whole state of South Carolina. In Columbia fruit is actually a ‘‘glut’” on the market, Farmers bring into that city wagon loads of melons for which they are un. able to find a market at any price. Gfifi. ; taloupes of the finest quality sell for a song; the nutmeg variety is sold at fif teen or twenty cents a dozen, One of the fruit commission merchauts bad a a number of crates of peaches ia front of ‘his store marked ‘fifteen cents Uy sTt o 7 3&%3; S AT R
