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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1889)
Horalson County Danae, f s ] - PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK PRI The Buchanan Publishing Company, e AP BUCHANAN, . - GEOPGIA t:ladstone attributes his long life ana wonderful health in a great messure to wosoite rest on ths‘bb_‘fllo ; e e e The old ship Tonawanda, onc of the fumous old. clipper liners and a very popular boat ia Philadelphia, has fallen a victim to a storm, but in her o!d days she had become a coal barge, and passes away ‘‘unwept, unhonored and un sung.” : The Ningara is to be bridged again, The Canadian Pacific Railway has de cided to buill the bridge and thus to secure advantageous connection with six leading Ameiican ralroads—as well as a good deal of the business now done exclusively by American roads. The life-saving crews at Lewes, Del., did g and worl in rescuing shipwrecked persons during the recent storm. No less than two hundred lives were saved by their e¢fforts from the hungry Sea. The United Stales Life-Saving -Service is a nobly useful institution, : A geographical expert has figured out that by the Nicaragua canal the distance frem N:w York to Honolulu will bs shortened from 14, 230 to 6388 miles, while the voyage from Liverpool to the Hawaiian ‘capital will De cut down from 14 080 to 9136 miles. It is nothing now for Roman Catho lics in different parts of Europe to as semble together for ths discussion of large guestions in a congress, but the first mecting of this kind among the Roman Castholics of North America will be held in Baltimore early in No vember. A London statistician figures that 80, - 000 Americans landed in England the past suminer, the expenses across averag ing more than $10) dollars cach, and that upon the lowest calculation they circulated §21,000,000 in FEurope on railways and at hotels, without count ing the mouney spent in purchases, The author of the Spanish authorities of a prize of S6OOO for the best literary work, written in any of the principal European languages, in celebration of the fourth ceantenary of the discovery of America is a stimu'us to literary effort such as is rarely offered for internation al competition. Some American ought to take this priz». A condemned criminal in England must be ailowed to see three Sundays between his sentence and his execution. Of course he can thus be Hung in a lit tle over two weeks, but the three Sun days must pass over his head befors the gallows claims him. The customis a relic of medimval times, when a crim inal was allowed that much of a respite to prepare for death. Archdeacon Farrar's fervid plea for the establishinent of an order of mendi cant monks in the Episcopal church in England and ths United States meets with a very chilling response f{rom the church organs. After mercilessly ridi culing the whole idea, the Churchman says ,that' even if such an order were desirable, it could not be founded by a well-paid, well-fed archdeacon. The designers employed by the Prit ish Admira ty are striving to buld a new type of warship which will com bine the maximum qualities of speed, strength, stability and fighting power. The R:2nown, u barbette ship carrying an armament of 69-ton guns, will be, it is expected, the closest approximation to that ideal which has ye: been made. Probably there will have to be a long series of improved and remodelled Re- : nowns before the problem can be satis factorily worked out. But the aim is one which can be commenled to Ameri can designers employed upoa the new pavy. The New York I»dune consid - ers that sufficient progress has been made to justify the department in set ting its best talent at work in designs A T ok ’zzm%fi‘ Sagtog Tdgha R SRR e e L B e WASHINGTON, D, ch MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADVISERS. l APPOINTMI NTS, DECISIONS, AND OTKER MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. l Secrctary Tracy, Friday, formally ac cepted the eruiser Charleston. Secreta:y Tracy Wednesday afternoon awarded tne contract for building two of the 2,000-ton cruisers, the proposals for which were opened on las!, Saturday, to the Columbiuo Iron Works and Dry Dock company, of Baltimore, for the sum of $1,225,000. The contract for the third one will be awarded to either Har rison Loring, of Boston, or N. F. Pal mer & Co., of New York, each of whom bid $674,000. The collector of customs at Norfolk, Va., has asked the treasury department for instructions in regard to the practice of Liverpool cotton merchants of send ing men under contract from that city to Norfolk for the purpose of buying and grading cotton lor the English trade. I'he immugrant inspector for the state of Virginia reported the.matter to the col lector as a violation of alien contract la bor, &nd the collector wants to know what he can do about it. Treasury offi cials are divided in opinion in the mat ter, and it will probably be referred to | the solicitor for settlement. The following dispatch was sent from the excecutive mansion, on Saturday af ternoon, to Governors Melletta and Miller, of North and South Dakota, Bismark, North Dakota: ‘‘The last act in the admission of the two Dakotas as states in the union was concluded this after noon at the executive mansion by the president signing at that moment the proclamation required by law for the ad niission of the states. The article on prohibition, submitted separately in each state, was adopted in both, This is the first instance in the history of the nation al government that two states North and South Dakota, entered the union at the same moment.” The government directors of the Union Pacific railroad have reported to the sec retary of the interior that in their judg ment the interests of the United States demand carly action by congress to se cure payment by the company of its in debtedness to the government. The gen eral plan of settlement first suggested by the commissioners of railroads, they as- | sert, has never been successfully attacked They express their firm conviction that the interests of the United States de mand the passage of a bill substantially like that pending when the last congress adjourned. The report is signed by George E. Leighton, John T. Plummer, Jesse Spalding, Ruofus B. Bullock and James W. BSavage. The Washington Star Wednesday says that the civil service commission have degided to ask the district attoraey to prosecute all persons concerned in the preparation and distribution of the polit icul assessment circular recently sent by the old dominion republiean league to Virginians in the government service. Those persons not employes of the gov ernment will be prosecuted under section 12 of the service, which provides that no person shall in any government building solicit or receive contributions for any political ~ purpose. The commission holds that a person not connccted with the government may ask for and reccive money from government employes for a political purpose anywhere except ina government building, but that where the occurence takes place on government property, or where letters aresent to a government building, those concerned are liable to prosecution. The order of Postmaster-General Wanamaker, dited Wednesday, waa promulgated Thursday, fixing the rates for the government telegraphic service during the current fiscal year. The basis tor day service is ten cents for ten words, and u half cent for each addi tional word for distances wunder 400 miles, with a sliding scale of increase for distances greater than 400 miles. Forl night messages not exceeding twenty words, tifteen cents for all distances, and one-half cent for each additional word. The date, address and signature are ex cluded from count both day and night. Signal service cypher messages are to be charged at two and a half cents per word. With reference to the above or der, President Green, of the Western Union telegraph, says: “‘The rate fixed by the postmaster-general is undoubtedly below cost, but I am not prepared to say what the attitude of the company will be till after the matter has had the consid eration of the executive committee. The reduction averages about thirty-three per cent, from the old rate, which was not a remunarative one.” The director of the mint has submit ted to the secretary of the treasury his annual report. He says the value of gold deposited was $48,900.71% of which $31,440,778 consisied of the product of mines of sue United States, a falling off 1 in gold product of about one million dollars, as compared with the previous fiscal year. Silver received aggregated $35,627,278 standard ounces {or coining value ot $41,457,190. Of silver received, $32,895,986 standard ounces of counting value of §8,278,964 was classified as of domestic production, Profit on the coinage of silver dollars during the year was $9,870,062 and on subsidary silver coins, $32,987; total chinage of silver dollars under the Bland “act to November, 1889, was $343,638,- 001, and totul &l‘;fit on sflw‘@%fi 50 ter deducting expenses for distribution B A iitwA o e AR tor recommends legislation looking to :f gw,;nf’g:;\'vxu 4, c o 2 ; ,v‘e.’nfl‘ J;;,,‘ s and §4 ?o?a. picces and the three-cent nickel piecis and withdrawal from circu lation of pieces of those denominations now outstanding. ! \ ' SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 18 GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE ng%ru SOUTHERN STATES, The Few society, at Oxford, Ga., cele brated its fiftieth anniversary Wednesday, The anniversarian was Mr. G. D. Doi ough, of Wetx)pkt. Ala. The Anniston, Ala., News says that “‘they huve orgunized a ‘Sand Trust’ in Birmingham. = The combine has raised the price of sand from 80 cents to $1.25 per yard.” j Fire broke out Sunday morning in the Schofield building, adjoining Hollings worth block, on Poplar street, Macon, Ga, and destroyed nearly SIOO,OOO worth of property. A receiver was appointed, on Friday, for the firm of Klinck, Vickenburg & Co., for the last half century engaged in the grocery business in Charleston, 8. C. Liabilities are about $70,000, and assets nominally large. A Key West special to the Zimes- Un ion, of Jacksonville, Fla., says: Del Pino Brothers’' immense cigar factory, contain ing one million c¢igars, besides a large quantity of tobacco, was consumed by tire Sunday morning. It was reported Saturday that Mrs. Longstrect, wife of Gen. Jamés Long strect, was dying at Gainesville, Ga. The announcement will cast a gloom over the many ardent admirers, both north aud South; of her illustrious hus band. : ~ Billy Ryan, lessce und manager of the Casino variety theatre, at Birmingham, Aln,, left ‘the ecity Saturday night for parts unknoswn, leaving about §2,000 of unpaid debts. ‘Several members of his company are left-without a dollar and several week’s salary due them. The state association of confederate veterans of Alabama was perfected at Birmingham on Wednesaay. General E. W. Puttus, of Selma, was elected president, with a vice-president from cach congres sional district. One object of the asso ciation is to build a confederate home in Alabama. A. Hirsh & Co., the largest dry goods and milinery house in Birmingham, Ala., was closed on Saturday by the sheriff on attachments aggregating $43,000. About $20,000 of the attachments are in favor of clerks in the store and relatives of the firm. The Alabama National hank at tached $19,000. s A passenger train bound east and a freight train going west, on the Norfolk and Western railroad, collided Wednesday night between Liberty and Thaxtons, Va., and both trains were wrecked. Itis reported that the firemen and engineers of both trains werekilled. One passen ger was also killed and many hurt. Thomas G. Buchanan, a merchant of Huntsville, Ala., was closed Wednesday by attachment, as{ follows: Techheimer & Co., of Cincinnati, $2,500; Phil J. C. Cudder, of Shelbyville, Tenn., $8,054; Nashional Bank of! Shelbyville, $14,250, and Miss Jennie White, of Huntsville for $2,5600. It is said other attachments will foliow. News comes from Spartanburg, one of the best cotton-growing counties of North Carolina, of a new cotton plant, which, if it is as claimed, will make a wonderful revolution in the agricultural and cotton’ oil interests of the nation. T. Ferguson, an experienced cotton planter, claims to have a cotton plant which will produce nothing but cotton seed without the lint. The Soque Woolen mills at Clarksville, Ga., whichare in th¢ hands of a receiver, and which will eventually be sold, began operation Wednesdiy, to be run by one of the creditors,for one month, under a grant from the judge of the superior court. The object isto get the property cleaned up and the machinery clean, so that the bidders may see just what they have. , The superior cowt of Richmond county, Ga., has decided against a num ber of prominent citizens who, twenty years ago, subscribed o the capital stock of the National Expriss and Transporta tion company. A tes} case was made on Wednesdey in case of William H. Howard, a prominent and wealthy cotton factor, and a verdict rendeted against bim. This virtually carriesthe other cases with it. The verdict is regarded as a great hardship, although ir accordance with court decisions in thesg cases in all states from Maine to Texas. | BURNING WIRES, ‘ AN EXHIBITION OF Tfl\p POWER OF THE ELECTRIC CURRENT. T A frightful exhibitiod of the power of the electric current of the street railway circuit was given at Cixcinnati on Satur day along the line of the Mount Auburn Street railroad. Thiir guard wire, which hangs ato¥e the |conducting wire to protect other wires ‘from coming in contact with the electrit current, broke, and as it formed a cireiit’ when resting on the charged wire fith one end on the street the current pissed through it, The result was terrifying. The wire be came white with heat add sparkled and flamed with the blue ans wgite flashes of an overcharged condwtor. Confusion ‘reigned on the streetsi The burning wire consumed and fell in pieces. Men ran and women shrieked. Horses were frightened wnd rushed sway from the dreadful light, Wagondand strcet cars collided, but fortunatelyphe falling wire | Sia cumisivien followede abi i | HOW IT WAS DONE, —— A . A STORY DETAILING THE MANNER ' IN WHICH DR, CRONIN WAS KILLED, A specid dispateh from Wilinipeg, Canada, Saturday morning, says: *‘As sistant Staty’s Attorney Baker, of Chi cago, had a lon% interview with RBokt HefTer, and from him receive 1 a detailed account of the butchery of Cronin, Burke took a quiet fancy to Hefler, and was very communicative with him, tel.ing him many details about the crime. He told Heffer that Coughlin was the main actor in the tragedy and had engaged both him and Cooney to participate in the crime. He told Heffer that sand bags were used by two of the assassins while the third wielded a common base ball bat; that he was under the impres sion that Cronin was being "decoyed to the cottage under the pretext that he was going to attend a sick woman, who was represented to be at the point of death. Four men were waiting in the cottage for him, They listened for the sound of wheels. At last the carriage drove up, and an instant later the doctor hurried up the steps and knocked loudly and hastily as itP he realized that his presence was urgently required. Two of the as sassins stood behind the door ready to strike, while one of the others from the inner room called out in a loud voice, ‘‘come in.”” The door was quickly opened and the doctor strode in. The instant he was in one of the assassins slammed the door, while the other struck the physician a terrible blow with a sand bag. The doctor fell heavily to the floor.” Burke always declined to say who struck the first blow, and this fact, Baker thinks, makes it quite clear that it was Burke himself, else he would have mentioned the name. He always spoke about the four taking part in the crime and pounding the doctor at the same time. @ The moment the doctor was down,; the whole four rushed c¢n him, and with sand bags and clubs pounded the life out of him. The poor man struggled, and moaned awfully. Blood poured from his mouth, nose and eyes. Nearly twenty minutes elapsed before he ceased to gasp. Then the fiends stripped the blood-stained clothing off of him and one of them pounded his face so as to make it impossible torecognize the body. Coughlin then hauled the trunk overand the body was crammed into it. Onec of the quartette went out and brought an express wagon which had been left in a convenient place. When they went to carry the trunk out blood was dripping from it and ran on the floor, and the trunk was set down and these leaks stopped with cotton batting, which was found in the doctor’s insirument case. The trunk and its contents were then taken to the lake, Coughlin driving the horse. There was a <boat at the point expected, and they tried to shove the trunk out into the water, but it would not work., Anxious to get rid of the body some way, Burke suggested that it be thrown-into the citch-basin. The suggestion was adopted. NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. PRESIDENT HARRISON ISSUES HIS THANKS GIVING PROCLAMATION. The following proclamation setting apart Thursday, November 28th asa day ot national thanksgiving was issued by Presiident Harrison on Friday. By the president of the United States.—A proclamation. A highly favored people, mindful of their dependenceon the boun ty of Divine Providence, should seek a fisting occasion to testify gratitude and ascribe praise to Him who is the author of their many blessings. It behooves us, then, to look back with thankful hearts over the past year and bless God for his infinite mercy in vouchsafing to our land enduring peace; to our people freedom from pestilence and famine; to our husbandmen sbundans harvests, and to them that labor recompense of their toil. Now, therefore, I, Benjumin Harrison, President of the United States of Ameri ca, do earncstly recommend that Thurs day, the twenty-eighth day of this pres ent month of November, be set apart as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and that the people of our coun try, ceasing from the cares and labors of their working day, shall assemble in their respective places of worship and give thanks to God, who has prospered us on our way.and made our paths the paths of peace, beseching him to bless the day to our present and future good, making it truly one of thanksgiving for each reunited home circle as well as for the nation at large. In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States tobe af fixed. Done at the city of Washingtgn, this first day of November, in the year of our i.ord eighteen hundred and eighty nine, and of the independence of - the United States the one hundred and four teenth, BENJAMIN HARRISON.” A BIG KICK. THE ROCK ISLAND, BURLINGTON & ST. PAUL ROADS WITHDRAW FROM ASSOCIATION. The Inter-State Commerce Railway ascociation, at Chicago, is practically dead. The Rock Island, Burlington and St. Paul roads take the ground that the agreement has been violated by the traf fic arrangements of the Union Pacific and Northwestern,and that they will consider the agreement annulled.. No formal no tice is to be given of their intention to withdraw, but they will no longer be bound by the rules of the association. A special meeting of the western and north western divisions of the Western Freight association was held Tuesday to consider propositions for the restoration of rates Between the seaboard and 8. Paul. An agreement could not be reached ard tic R e Sk L . THE DEADLY AX. \ AN OLD MAN KILLED, AND HIB AGED WIKR KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS. o A dispatch from Hawkinsville, Ga. says: A horrible murder was committed sunday night eleven miles from here, just across Houston county line. Mr. Wil iiam Miller, an aged farmer, was killed and his wife was nearly killed. Mr. and Mrs. Miller lived alone. They were sit ting by the fire reading and each had a small lamp, Mrs. Miller heard her hus band say: ‘Don’t do that.” Then she felt herself struck, and was knocked an conscious, When she regained con sciousness she heard the clock strike twelve. She saw that Mr. Miller was apparently dead, and she was afraid to call for help, fearing that her assailants were still there. Sbhe lay there until four o’clock, when her suffering were so great that she called for help. Her calls were soon answered by the cook, whose house was forty or fifty yards distant. On the bed was an ax which had struck the blows and the mrable top of a bureau which had been removed from its place to enable the murderers to rifle the draw ers in search of money, which Miller was suppused to have in the house. It is supposed that Mr. Miller saw the parties a 8 they raised the ax, and asked them not to stiike. Mrs. Miller did not see them. She was nearest the door, and was struck first with the ax. She was knocked senseless, and was probably thought to be dead. Then it is supposed that Mr. Miller was attacked. He was struck five blows with the ax, and his skull was badly smashed. When found he was still sitting in his arm chair, with his head and arm haoging over the side. The blood had run from nis wounds and made a pool on the floor. lisdeath must have been instantavecus. Mr. Mil ler was one of the most respected citi zens of Houston; a well-to-do farmer, upwards of sixty years old. El. John son and Sam Chunkey, two negroes, are suspected of the murder, as they have disuppeared from the neighborhood. A PHILANTHROPIST. THE WILL OF HENRY STEERE, AND THE BEQUESTS IT CONTAINS, The will of Henry J. Steere, one of the wealthiest men in Providence, R. I, who died recently gives away directly and in trust the sum total of $1,139,000. Mr. Steere was a single gentleman, and was a'l his life distinguished fer philanthrop ical impulses. He gives $654,500 to in dividuals directly, in sums ranging from SIOO,OOO to SI,OOO. The amount given to charitable organizations ete., is $340,- 000. The home for the freedmen of Prov idence received $150,000 ; Home for Aged Women, of Providence, $25,000; Benefi cent Congregational church and Bt. Stephen’s Episcopal church, Providence, get $50,000 and $5,000 respectively; the Charitable’ Fuel society, of Provi idence, $5,000, and to the Rhode Island Historical socicty is bequeathed $lO,- 000; The Tabor college, in lowa, is given 50,000, and the Roanoke college, at Sulem, Va., $25,000. The executor of the vast property is Alfred Metcalf, of Providence, who is only required to give personal bond to pay the leg cies, ete. COTTON IN TENNESSEE, THE YIELD WILL NOT COME UP TO THE EX PECTATIONS OF TENNESSEE PLANTERS, The regular monthly crop report for the Memphis, Tenn., district, says: The outlook is anything but encouraging. While the weather has been most favor able for gathering open cotton in the field, the anticipated yield has fallen far short of what was expec.ed. The terri tory tributary to Memphis and included in the report, includes an average of 1,400,000 bales of cotton, one-fifth of the entire crop of the south. The damage sustained from worms, frosts, and other causes taken together with the lateness of the crop throughout the district, is greater than at first reported. From every section of the district injury to the crop becomes more apparent and the prospective yield, as compared with last ye.r, will fall far short of what was re porved one month aco. THE BANK CLOSED IN CONSEQUENCE OF ITS DEFAULTING OASHIER, On the door of the Tradesmen’s Na tional bank of Conshocken, Pa., on Thursday, was posted the following no tices: “‘To whom it may concern: This bank is cloced in consequence of the defalcatior of the cashier. The deposit ors will suffer no loss.” The cashier | referred to is William Henry Cresson, and the amount of his defalcation is net less than $50,000, and may exceed $75,- 000. Cresson has lived in Conshocken gix or seven years, and had made him gelf quite prominent in the place, and Ais nrnme had become identificd with save “ma) % I 8 leading enterprises. i " THE P. PERS MISSING, DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO COMBAT “‘BOODLE" CLAIMS DISAPPEAR. %:Mi 1t was announced at Chicago Fridi % s7ening that important papers were miss ) 3 el .g from the state's attorney’s office,upon which the county had largely depended . to combat the old “‘boodle” claims, ag ‘gregating $250,000. T &’9 oy are needely Kelloog. ex-Warden Varnell e a : d S the
