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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1889)
Haralson ounly Baanan, A ey PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK ' ——B Y —— The Buchanan Publishing Company, e AP BUCHANAN, - - GEFORGIA 4 Y A The total number of theatres known to have been actually destroyed by fire during the past thirteen years i 3 141 The killed reached the total of 2 215. Two curious facts have recently been brought out in reference to state taxa. tion. Nevada with no pullic debt at all has the highest rate of taxation—9o cents per SIOO. Massachuscits which, except Virginia, has the largest debt, $31,000,000, has the lowest rate of tax ation, 11 1.2 cents on SIOO. The private detectives of a railroad oompany must be constantly shifted so that their faces may not become famil. far to the employes and arouse suspicion. The cost of secret service to a railroad s often very large observes tha Commer sial Advertiser, but can never comparn with the proportions of adroit and suc- Bessful freight robbing. A murder trial of more than usual Jensational interest has just been brought to a conclusion in Paris. A man by the name of Hoyos has been condemned to death for killing a cer tain Baron, who bore a faint resemblance to him, and who was to be substituted in his stead in order that a considerable sum might be collected from different life insurance companies. ' Btatisticians estimate the wealth of the United States to be mnearly fifty bil lion dollars, or fifty thousand million (850,000,000,000). It is believed by some that at the end of the present century it will foot up $70,000, 000,000. ‘ The wealth of the nation is compound. W B G eeerelly W ing rapidy, while the people €omplain ‘ of hard times continually. Machinery, 1 railroads, steam, éTectricity, skilled la. 1 bor, millions of immigrants and many ‘ other things have helped to swell the . wealth of the nation. Labor is the source of national wealth, and machin- | ery labor is a producer the same as hand 1 labor, or the labor of domestic ani mals, »It is noteworthy that in England “there are indications thas it is thought | ?nezz'ssary to be prepared for an emer- 1 gency in the fact that the manufactories of firearms at gijr_x}lin'gham are employ ing additional hands to meet a presum able demand for their products. One firm is engaged in erecting a hydraulic forge capable of producing 10,000 steel shells of various sizes weekly, and there is also greatly increased activity in the manufacture of revolvers, torpe does and new patterns of rifles, while vast quantities of ammunition are being turned out by the firms with whom the government has coatracts for such sup plies. The American arm is now reaching Into Chili, where American contractors are accepting a $15,000,000 railroad contract. It is felt in Peru, where the building of 600 miles of railroad con tracted for with that government for $22,000,000 is just beginning. It is present in Porto Rico, where Brooklyn, capitalists have purchased immense cof fee and banana plantations. It i 3 work ing in Venzucla, where a New York company owns the only railroad. It has pushed raiiroads into Mexico; is work ing there the ancient mines of silver and the lateiy-operated mountains of iron, and has secured the privilege of supplying Mexican cities with water and lights for a period of 20 years. The Nineteenth Century magazine con tainsan appeal against female suffrage signed by the wives of some of the most distinguished statesmen and literary men of England. They base their op position on the ground that modern government rosts on force, and say that for that reason it requires members of the sex who, in the last resort, are phy jically qualified to carry out forcible measures. If this view of the case is to prevail, then the only hope for the woman puffragists is to bring about a state of At i A e consianf pepes; GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACOIDENTS, STRIKES, FIRES, AND MAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. Aty e e Eighteen persons were injured by a wreck on tfi: Burlington & Missouri Railroad near Lincoln, Neb., Sunday morning. The ship John A, Brills, Rio Janeiro to Philadelphia, 1s detained at quaran tine at Lewes, Del., on account of bav ing had yellow fever on board during Passage. _ William Kelly, a porter at Minneapo liz, Minn., dropped a trunk, and a re volver in it' was in some manner dis charged. The bullet passed through the trunk, entering Kelly’s head, killing him instantly. The Brazilian steamer Alliauce, with the three ccmmissioners who were sent as delegates to represent Brazil at the international congress of American nations, arrived at New York Saturday. John Lees & Son, cotton spinners, who operate the Dover Mills at 1,717 Bodine street, Philadelphia, Pa., made an assignment Tuesdey. The firm’s lia bilities amount to about $86,000, and assets §25,000. There was no baseball game at Cincin nati on last Sunday, as has been usual heretofore, as the authorities threatened on Saturday that if one was played they would break it up by arresting the presi dent and all the players. A cyclone.passed over Winthrop, Mo., Tuesday afternoon. The rain fell in tor rents, and the wind blew a gale, accom panied by a heavy thunder. Corn and other crops were seriously injuried. Anmvestigation of the accounts of W. E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone vile, Ind., who is charged with embez zlement in his office, shows that the shortage amounts to $6,000, and may reach more. Denny has not yet been ap prehended. Chicago parties have bought out the Toledo, Ohio, street railroad system, and are negotiating for the purchase of the street car lines in Findlay, with a view of consolidating them under one man agement, and to run them all by electric motor. ‘ Dirt was broken Saturday,with impo® ing demonstrations, at Huntsville, Ala., for the line of the Cincinnati, Alabama and Atlantic Railroad, which is to run from Cincionat due south to Huntsville, and then deflect either to Birmingham or Bavannah, Ga. Tuesday evening & bomb, ten ceniime ters in diameter, was thrown from the rear of the chamber of deputies into the Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the progress of a concert. The bomb ex ploded, wounding seriously six gen darmes and a child. Mrs. Maybrick, under sentence of death at London, England, is sinking. Her appearance is so changed that her mother scarcely recognized her. The delay in granting the expected reprieve has cansed the friends of the prisoner almost to give up hope. Twenty Arabs, of both sexes, who came on the steamer La Normandie, are detained at Castle Garden, in New York, until the Turkish consul can be con sulted. It is said there are 70,000 Arabs waiting to come to this country provided the twenty are passed through, ~ An independent German ¢ompany has been formed at London, England, with a capital of 300,000,000 fra%fis to com lete the Simplon tulinel. e company gas acquired two Swiss railroads from Lucerne. Italy will give 15,000,000 francs to possess one end of the tunnel. United States Attorney Carey, at San Francisco, received a telegram Friday from the department of justice, at Wash ington, instructing him to assume, on be%mlf of the United States Government, the defence of Deputy United States Marshal David Nagle, who shot Judge Terry on Wednesday. - A cablegram from Paris, received at Pittsburg, Pa., announces the death there of Wm. Shaw, vice-president of the Penn sylvania Railroad Company, and one of the most prominent railroad men in the country. He was reported to be worth at least $30,000,000. He was 61 years of age. : A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., says: Great excitement exists among the cotton farmers of five or more count ies in this state over the appearance, in the last few days, of cotton worms. They have appeared in the cotton lands of Pulaski, Jefferson, Clark and two other counties, as far as heard from. Tt is reported from St, Louis that the fast mail train which arrived in that city Saturday night over the Vandalia Road, was robbed at Terre Haute, Indiana, while the mail clerks and train hands were at supper. It is said that one pouch, containing registered letters, was taken. The pouch was supposed to contain about SIO,OOO. . A gasoline engine at the oil refinery of A. D. Miller, in Alleghany, Pa., ex ploded early Wednesday morning. The plant took fire immediately and was rapidly destroyed. The engineer is missing, and the watchman was blown many geet and badly burned and bruised. Loss at least $225,000. : - The great strike of dock laborers in London, England, is spreading, One ,{“é“;“fi*u’rr\'%"”‘@ *5;*?;“‘%»’“@;“ sk R :e" ”n”,ew s o "‘ A lieutenant with a small detail of soldiers from Sully, Dak., has just com pleted a tripalong the edge of the Sioux reservation and reports everything quiet, with nota ‘“‘boomer” in sight. The good cffect of the assured open?ng of 11,000,- 000 acres to settlement can ulready be felt, and a wonderful increase in all classes of business is plainly noticeable. The company which is arranging to pipe natural gas to Columbus, Ind., from the Greenfield field, has just closed a contract with the Shelbyville Natural Gas company to pipe the cheap fuel to that city from the same field. The work of digging the trench and laying the pipe on the main line will begin as soon ~as the pipe can be secured and distrib uted. It is reported from Berlin, Germany, that the recentinterviews between Prince Bismarck and the Emperor Joseph and Count Kalnoky, resulted in a modifica tion of the Austro-German treaty where by a casus foeder is established whenever vital interests of either nation are threatened. Hitherto only open attack has constituted cause for joint action. The British bark Onaway, Captain Anderson, which sailed from Philadel phia June 5, for Bilboa, with a crew of fifteen men and 124,000 gallons of crude petroleum, valued at $8,956. is be lieved to have been lost, as nothing has been heard of her sinogshe patsed out Deleware capes. The captain’s wife and two children accompanied him. Governor Hill, at Albany, N. Y., on Wednesday, heard an appeaf by Lawyer Howe for executive clemency for Charles Gilbin, James Nolan and John Lewis, three of the five murderers, who are awaiting execution on Friday morning. The governor said he would grant Gilbin a respite until October 28d, and would deny Nolan’s and Lewis’ application. The Minister of Finance at St. Peters burg, Rfissia, intends to tax Protestant churches in the Baltic provinces, These ‘ churches have hitherto been exempt from taxation. This is one of a series of re- I forms, by which the government intends to thoroughly Russianize cld Baltic Ger man institutions and diminish the influ. ’ ence of the German Protestant clergy. A storm which prevailed in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday night, was one of the worst ever experienced there. Two | inches of water gell between the hours of ! 2 and 5 o'clock. -At Eau Clarve, Wis,, | lightning struck a large agricultural | building on the grounds of the north- | western fair association destroying the ’ building, together with several thousand | bushels of grain and a lot of machinery. ] The loss is $6,000. . ! A dispatch from Helena, Montana, | says: Heavy rains, general throughout | the Territory, fell all Sunday night, and | the forest fires which have been raging | for the last week are checked in most l places and put out in others. . The fires origingted from two causes, lightning and camp fires,,,&nd millions of feet of the most valuable lumber in the Terri tory has been destroyed as well as val uable ranges burnt over. | A sensation was created at Hastings, | Neb., on Wednesday, by the report of an autopsy over the late Congressman Laird, This examination brought out the surprising fact that Laird was a sound man physically. He was getting well, and it was only a question of time when he would have been restored to ! full vigor. His death is attributed di rectly to blood poisoning resulting from j an operation performed just a few days | before his demise. | CHINA’S BAD LUCK, | EARTHQUAKES, FLOODSB AND RIOTS— GREAT LOSSES ENTAILED. | From news brought by the steamer City of Sydney, which arrived at San Francisco Sunday from Hong Kong and Yokohama, China, it would seem that the loss by the earthquake at Kumamoto in July, was greatly exaggerated. The floods have subsided in Japan. Nine hundred and thirty houses were washed away or broken up, and forty-one per sons are known to have been Kkilled. The overland China mail learns, on July 6th, that rioteers in Fohein, in the province of China, had fled before the approaching troops. Before leaving,how ever, they burng£ their boats. The at tack on Chin Chu villages is confirmed. For the loss of four or five of their coun trymen last year, the rioters revenged themselves by slaughtering between four and five hundred inhabitants of the Chin Chu villages, including women and children. AN ANCIENT MURDER. THE SKELETON OF A WOMAN AND BABR UNEARTHED. J. M. Hart, a farmer living near Sioux City, lowa, while ploughing on his farm Saturday unearthed two human skele tons. From the relative positions of the skeletons it is certain that they are those of a woman and her unborn babe. The woman’s bones were doubled up, the body resting on the front of the skull and knees,as though she had hastily been pitched into a small and shallow excava tion and covered with earth. No one who has seen the skeletons is competent to judge of the length of time they have lni& in the ground. : ; e ——————————— o : HONORING EDISON. _ Bdison is expected,at Milan, Taly, in where in Europo are Mr. Edison’s genius L *“’i«e&a}rd% : u‘irv e i L SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT I 8 GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The cigarmakers «t Jacksonville, Fla., are on strike, - The first trip of the new electric cars in Atlanta, Ga., took place ’l?hursday. A large foundry will be erected in Athens, ga., in a few weeks, The industry will be a large one, and will be a great addition to the city. Prof. Perry, the aeronaut, whose ter rible fall from a balloon at Mount Holly, N. C., was reported several days ago, died at Charlotte, Tuesday. The Empire Lumber Company is ne gotiating for a 50,000 acre tract in Cam den county, Ga. If secured, they will erect sawmills and build roads through it. On August 30th, the Eighth Georgia battalion will hold a reunion at Adairs ville, Ga. Prominent speakers will be on hand and great preparations are being made for the success of the reunion. Col. Adolph Brandt, 8 prominent at torney of Atlanta, Ga., and a distin guisbed member of the Independent Or er of Odd Fellows, and grand chancel lor of the Knights of Georgia, died sud denly of apoplexy at Rome, Ga., on Wednesday. Mrs, Jehn P. Richardson, of Chatta nooga, Tenn., arrived at New York a few days ago, and, upon opening her bag gage, found she had been robbed of $5,000 worth of jewelry, probably on the railroad. There is no clue to the robber. The Keating Railroad Comgnny, of Reading, Pa., closed a contract Saturday with the Staunton and West Augusta Rail road Company at Staunton, Va., to build twenty-five miles of railroad from Staun ton to the anthracite coal fields. The work is to commence in thirty days. The Farmers’ Alliance exchange of Florida,on Wednesday,took the first step toward making Jacksonville a home market for Florida-raised cotton. ¥or many years Florida’s product has been sent to Savannah, Brunswick and other points, but Jacksonville will now handle the crop. A report from Raleigh, N. C., says that Dr. Bugene Criscom will tender his resignation as superintendent of the North Carolina insane agylum. The res ignation of Dr. Griscom will end one of the greatest sensations in the state. Nine-tenths of the. people and newspa pers have clamored for it for weeks. A special from Charleston, W. Va., says: Frank Morris, John Heil, James O’Brien and Brodie Morris, miners, were caught beneath a fall of slate in the mines of the Cannelton Coal Company, in Fayette county, W. Va., Wednesday night and instantly killed. Several others were wounded and others had DArrow escapes. There will be a grand reunion of na- | tive North Carolinians, now residents in other states, at the state capitol, Raleigh, October 14-19th, at the Southern Indus trial Display and Annual State Fair. The lowest possible rates have been far nished by the railways, and there will be no obstacle in the way of those who wish to revisit the old scenes and renew the tender associations of past years. At a meeting of district assembly 105, Knights of Ltfi)or, held in Atlanta, Ga., on Wednesday, it was resolved ‘‘that the Knights of Labor express to our representatives in the State Legislature the earnest desirg of the Knights of La bor that the bill known as the Childs la bor bill and the arbitration bill, and the bill known as the ten hour bill, all da pass, and to that end request our repre. sentatives to support, vote for and doall in their power to have the bills passed.” | The board of directors of the cotton | exchange of New Orleans, has sent to all exchanges and boards of trade an invita tion to a convention of the cotton inter est, to take place in that city on Sep- ! tember 11th, to agree on a uniform method in adjustment of difference in J tare between cotton and jute bagging. The proposition is that from a certain date all cotton shall be sold by net weight, allowing 5 per cent. of gross weight for jute and 3} per cent, for cot ton bagging. In answer to certain inquiries made by the collector at Charleston, 8. C., rela tive to drawback on the jute bagging im ported as covering of cotton in bales, the Treasury Department holds: First, that the official supervision of lading should be as careful #nd thorough as possible. Becond, whenever it is found impracti cable for the exporter to give in prelimi nary entries, the numbers of the various brands of bales in each lot, it will be sufficient if the numbers are stated in the inspectors’ return. Third, sworn state ment of exporter required by the regu lailons should be made by an active shipper who has knowledge of the fact. Fourth, agents or attorneys should not be alloweg to sign the final entry and oath of exportation when the exporter himself is present at the pori of ship ment. ' A HOLOCAUST. ' A FIRE IN NEW YORK IN WHICH NINE S RS AT OB ~ Early Monday mornin; fi?*&*“‘ n 8 big five-story tenement at 305 Sev sixtv-odd oceupants of ‘the house lost’ i A GHASTLY SPE CTACLE. OHILDREN IN THE STREETS OF PHILA DELPHIA USING HUMAN BONES FOR TOYS, Property owners and residents in the vicinity of Twelfth and Carpenter streets, Philadelphia, are indignant at the careless manner in which human bones are being handled by laborers in the new three foot sewer down Carpenter street, which is the site of the olcf pot ter’s field, where the victims of the yel low fever of 1832 and the cholera of 1845 were buried. The laborers broke ground on Thursday, and late on that afternoon the first coffin was struck. I was carelessly thrown on top of the dirt pile, and in the fall the partially rotten boards feil apart, and the skeleton rolled upon the airt. 'When the excava tion was enlarged and extended, the la borers found that they were cutting a sluice through ground literally packed with corpses. Coffins that lay parallel with the trench were torn out and thrown upon the embankment, and others that lay crosswise were torn out by a stalwart laborer, who, with an ax, quickly cut through the coffin and inclosed body un til the width of the trench was secured. The parts were then picked up on a shovel and thrown upon the embank ment, to be thrown into barrels. Bones were scattered on all sides. The scenes at the trench were horrible in the ex treme, and the odor was nauseating. About fifty bodies, or portions of bodies, had been taken out. Children living néar the scene were running over the embankment handling the remains of the epidemic victims and many of them were carrying away the smaller bones. Rib and breast bones were scattered all over the sidewalks, and some of the children were ‘‘building houses” by pil ing up the bones. At one point thirteen coffins lying in a heap had been cut through, and half the remains were still sticking in the ground. At another point six coffins were cut through, and along the sides of the trench the dis gusting spectacle of partially destroyed coffins and bodies was discovered. HEAVY FAILURE, A COTTON GOODS COMPANY OF RHODE ISLAND SUSPENDS, The Wauregan cotton goods company, of Providence, R. L., on Wednesday, de cided to suspend pavment and allow their goods to go to protest. The com pany has two wills at present in opera tion—one at Wauregan, near Plainfield, Conn., capitalized at $600,000, with 1,- 400 looms, employing 1,000 hands; the other, the Nottingham mills, in Provi dence, capitalized at $300,000, with 28,- 000 spindles, 556 looms, and employs 600 hands. Treasurer Taft is also secre tary and treasurer of Ponemah mills, in Connecticut, that has a capital of $1,500,- 000. Thecompany’s liabilities are placed at one million. Assets, according to the company’s figures, are two million. The failure is directly due to that of Lewis Bros. The Nottingham mill will also suspend. The Thornton worsted mills went under Wednesday. Their trouble is caused by the failure of Brown, Steese & Clark, wool dealers, of Dedham, Mass. INDIGNANT AMERICANS CLAIM THAT THEY WERE CRUELLY TREATED BY GERMANS, E. C. Hill, widely known among flor ists, and president of the national floral association, has just returned to Rich mond, Ind., his home, from a trip to Europe, and reports that while en route from Belfort to Basle, in company with Robert George, of Painesville, the train was stopped at the neutral line between France and Alsace-Lorraine, and he and his companion were arrested as spies. . They and their bag gage was searched, their passports dis regarded and they were not permitted to cross the line. Mr. Hill says the Ger man officers were obstinate and brutal in their treatment. They were denied the privilege of continuing their journey although there was nothing whatever to support the suspicion against them, and they were compelled to hire a French peasant 1o take them back to Belfort. Their treatment will be reported to the state department, : AGAINST COTTON BAGGING The president of the Charleston, 8. C., cotton exchange has received a letter from Peter Brown, president of the Liverpool cotton association limited, in which that official says: ‘I have been instructed to intimate to the American exchange that this association condemns the use of cotton bagging, and does not see its way to make any legislation deal ing with cotton so covered.” As the farmers’ alliances in the state have al ready made arrangements for cotton covering for the coming crop, the situa tion looks alarming. It looks very much like there will be trouble as soon as the cotton movement begins, S CROCKETT'S BIRTHDAY. CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAY OF THE HERO OF THE ALAMO. o bkt The one hundred and third anniversa ry of the birth of Dfiwwmm celebrated Saturdggthfi AP#O Strong’s Springs, .in Greene County,
