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Newspaper Page TextBaralson County Banae, sy PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK . e JR Y s THOS. W. GRIFFITH. e — AT BUCHANAN, - - GEORGIA e e S ———————————————— NEWS OF THE SOUTH. BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER ESTING NATURE. PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TRH EOUTHERN SBTATES THAT WILL ENTER TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC. The Virginia State Firemen’s ‘associa tion met in Alexandria Wednesday and elected officers. The Alabama Republican State conven tion, at Montgomery, adjourned on Thursday after aﬁopting a platform. Rear Admiral Gherehardi and twenty eight officers of the North Atlantic squad ron wére entertained in Charleston 8. C., on Friday by the city council. Frank Mcllvaine, cashier of the Sul phur Deposit bank, at Sulphur, Ky., ten miles east of Louisville, has left for parts unknown, and it is believed he is shortin his accounts. A car load of watermelons, bound for northern markets passed through Macon Ga., on Thursday. The melons were raised at Cullum station, on the Savan nah, Florida and Western railroad. The Congregational Union, of England and Wales, has called an international council of Congregationalists, to meet in London in July, 1891. The denomina tion in the United States is invited to send 100 members, A big movement has started in Middles borough, Ky., to erect colossal statues of Grant and Lee on Pinnacle mountain, Cumberland Gap. Ex-confederate sol diers and grand-army of the republic men are pushing the enterprise. The posts and wires of the Postal tele graph have been erected from Birming- ‘ ham, Ala., as far as Bessemer. The line is to be built on through to New Orleans, and four wires will be stretched between Birmingham and the Crescent City. | Five thousand people participated in the confederate memorial services at Win chester, Va., Friday. The address was made by Colonel H. Kyd, of Hagers town, Md.. and the decorations of the _ graves and monuments were elaborate. A dispatch of Wednesday from Union, 8. C., says: The crop prospects are bet - ter than for a good many ycars; cotton | has a start seldom equaled. The oat crop is excellent, the Spring rains making them. The wheat crop is not so good A Battlefield, Miss., dispatch says: A monstrous snake was captured near here Thursday. The huge reptile had forty seven rattles and was over nineteen feet long. Its skin, after being stripped from its body, held six pecks of bran. A Greenville, Miss., special says: The first cotton bloom was received here Thursday from George C. Bronson’s Lake Washington place. This is the earliest bloom received in the last twenty years. Crops throughout the country are doing splendidly. The body of a well-dressed man with @ bullet-hole in his head was on Thurs day found near Jacksonville, Fla. A scrap of paper in his vest pocket had on it the name, ‘‘J. House, Piqua, 0.” The coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of sui cide. A dispatch from Linden, Texas, says: Three negroes, Tom Mills, Fletcher Hol den and Henry Holden, were hanged here Baturday for the murder of James Mec- Greior, a white man, at Atlanta, Texas, on the 7th of last December. All con fessed. A dispatch of Saturday from Laredo, Cal.,, says: A stage running between Laredo and Guererro, Mexico, which left this city with Mexican mail and two pas sengers, was held up by Mexican bandits twenty miles down the Rio Grande. One passenger was robbed of S7OO. A Hiawassee, Ga., dispatchsays: There were twelve hundred an(f eighty acres of wild lands of Towns county sold at sheriff’s sale here on Saturday. The land sold for an average of eleven cents per acres. The timber on the land is worth more than the land brought at auction. A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says: The articles of incorporation for the Ala bama, Georgia and Florida Railroad Co. were on Thursday filed in the office of the secretary of state. 'The proposed road is to run from Birmingham, Ala., to Colum bus, Ga., and its capital stock is fixed at three million dollars. At Suffolk, Va., Friday morning, fire entirely consumed H. W. Bradshaw’s planing mill, dry kilns, and a lot of lum ber, together with all the tools and ma chinery. The loss is about $40,000; in surance $11,500. Bix cars of the Nor folk and Western Railroad company were also destroyed. A disgatch from Water Valley, Miss., says: Three freight trains on the Illinois Central railroad were badly wrecked Saturday at Springdale, causing great damage to the road, but no loss of life. The accident was caused by conductor Ruffin, of the rear north-bound train, misreading his order. s AN eminent animal painter in New York déchmn%f;*« 5!‘_9“;;&‘; ssciatio stidlpcial - the tiger is the most interesting animal in ;dhe tlemln the Toout e R THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. WORK OF THE FIFTY=FIRST ’ CONGRESS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR COMMON COUNTRY.-—NOTES. In the house, on Wednesday, Mr. Os borne, of Pennsylvania, presented the con ference report on the .army appropriation bill. The report was agreed to. Mr Morrill reported the disagreement of the conference committee on the senate de pendent pension bill. The house insisted on its amendment, providing a service gengion, and a further conference was or ered. The house then procceded to the further consideration of t{’)e Alabama con tested election case of McDuffiie against Turpin. 7The first vote was taken on the minority resolution declaring Turpin elected, and it was reported —yeas 114, nays 180. The majority resolution scat ing McDuffiie was agreed to—yeas 130; nays 118, and Mr. McDufliie appeared at the bar of the house and took the oath of office. Mr. McKinley presented a concur rent resolution directing the enrolling clerk to enroll in the customs admimstra tive bill what is known as senate amend ment 91, in regard to the abandonment of goods to underwriters and salvors. The resolution was agreed to—yeas 127, nays 5. The house then, at 4:05, adjourned. The resolution for an inquiry into the management of the fish commissioner’s office was taken up by the senate on Wednesday, and agreed to. The presiding ofticer, Ingalls, announc ed as select committee on the bill for the establishment of the university of the United States: Messrs. Edmunds, Sherman, Ingalls, Blair, Dolph, Harris, Butler, Gibson and Barbour. The forti fication bill was taken up, the pending question being on striking out two items for the Watervleit, N. Y., arsenal $248,- 743, for the erection of a south wing, and $780,000 for machinery for twelve-inch guns, and inserting, in lieu of them, the following for boring and turning laths, rifling machine, and eighty-ton traveling crane fully equipped for the manufacture of twelve-inch guns, at Watervleit Arsenal, N. Y., $235,000. A long debate followed. Finally the amendment to strike out the two items described and insert the sub stitute was agreed to—3B7to 18. Amend ments were adopted providing for the purchase and test of a new infantry gun and two new cannons. All other amend ments were agreed to and all were passed. The senate then adjourned. In the house, on Thursday, Mr. McKin ley, from the committee on rules, re gorted a resolution providing that the ouse shall proceed immediately to the consideration of house bill 5,331 (the sil ver bill,) and that consideration be con tinued until Saturday, at 8 p. m. Mr. McKinley said that the resoluticn was in tended to give the house of repre sentatives an opportunity to pass some silver legislation and give the coun try a silver bill, which would be in perfect response to the general senti ment of the country. It was to give the house an opportunity to pass the bill, which would take all the silver bullion of the United States and utilize it for mon etary purposes. It was to give the peo ple not $2,000,000 a month, but $4,500,- 000. The resolution making the silver bill a special order was adopted—yeas 120, nays 117. Messrs. Williams, of Lli nois, and Lanham, of Texas, spoke in op position to the bill, and Taylor, of Illi nois, favored it. Pending debate, the house adjourned until 11 A. ». Friday. Among the bills reported in the senate Thursday from the committee and placed on the calendar, was the house bill to es tablish a national military park at the battlefield of Chickamauga. The silver bill was taken up, and Mr. Hiscock ad dressed the senate in opposition to the free coinage of silver. After a long dis cussion by Messrs. Sherman, Teller,Stew art and Aldrich, the bill went over. Several private pension and bridge bills were taken from the calendar and passed, Mr. Blair introduced a bill to prohibit the exportation of alcoholic liquors to Africa and islands of the Pacific ocean. Referred. The senate adjourned. The silver debate was resumed by the house Friday morning, Mr. Lind, of Min nesota, being the first speaker. A long running debate followed, then the house at 5 o’clock, took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be for general de bate on the silver bill. Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, acted as speaker pro tem. at the evening session. The house, at 11 o’clock, adjourned until 11 o’clock Saturday. In the senate on Friday,Mr. Platt present ed a petition from the tobacco growers and dealers of the Housatonic Valley, Conn., in favor of a specific duty of not less than $2 per pound on imported wrappers. Referred to the finance committee. A new conference was ordercd on the dependent pension bill and Messrs, Davis, Sawyer and Blodgett were appointed conferees on the part of the senate. The gilver bill was taken up’and Mr. Plumb addressed the senate. Pending debate the bill was laid aside. .A message from the president is relation to the landing of an armed force from the revenue cut ter, McLane, at Cedar Keys, Flcrida, was presented, read and referred to the judiciary committee. After acting upon ' some local bills, and a’ brief executive session, the senate adjourned. | The house Saturday afternoon passed the republican caucus silver bill. In the free coinage amendment there were dis ‘senting votes from the republican side. However, al the southera e, ¢xcept free eﬁ%ﬁ ’i endment. The bill was 43 " 1] ‘:"“‘: :i ‘tfj‘;" "%; "”"“‘"] e ﬁi’f\;{ }@ﬂ";?'?:gé%‘"ai’?g'i'y f r:p;?;,;‘r‘*ﬁﬁ ‘h R f,”!* 500,000 of silver certificates monthly on the deposit of silver bullion. ‘ ! : NOTES. The senate committee on commerce is busy with the river and harbor bill. Indications are that the tariff bill will be ready to report to the senate on Mon day of next week. The scnate and house conference held another meeting Saturday, but no con clusion was arrived at. The marine hospital bureau has been informed of a case of ycllew fever on Chandleur island, which arrived on a vessel from Brazil. ; A delegation of about o-e hundred importers from New York city appeared on Wednesday before the senate commit tce on finance, to protest against the passage of the MeKinley tariff bill. Republican refresentatives went into caucus immediately uson the adjourn ment of the house Wednesday afternoon, to consider the silver question, No defi nite action was agreed upon. : The president, on Friday, nominated James A. Pine to be collector of customs at Fernandina, Fla.; William A. White, at St. Mary’s, Ga. ; William L. McMillan, surveyor of customs at New Orleans. There is & movement on foot in the senate to have congress take a recess from the first of July to the first of October. The reason the men who have proposed this assign is that the senate finance committee will take at least three months to prepare a tariff bill, to report to the senate as a substitue for the house bill, and that while this committee is at work thero will be no business for the houses to trarsact outside of that which they finish by the first of July. It is understood at Washington that ¢ movement is on foot among southern men, who were ex-confederates, some of whom now reside in New York and otßers in the south, to raise a subscrip tion for the Grant monument, as it seems New York will never raise the fund for the monument to Grant at River side park. It is now proposed that the men who fought on the other side come forward and subscribe the additional money needed. THE FLEECY STAPLE. REPORT OF THE NEW ORLEANS EXCHANGH REGARDING THE CROP. The New Orleans cotton exchange is sued a statement Tucsday, embracing thirty-nine weeks of the season, from September Ist to May 80th inclusive, this ~and last year, showiug that 7,078,915 bales of 1889-1800 have come iuto sight at the ports, overland - points of crossing and leading southern interior centers, including the takings by southern mil's. Up to this time last season the amount brought into sight was 6,805,112 bales, or say 98.08 per cent of the entirte crop. The statement shows there were brought into sight after May 30, last season 33,178 bales. It indicates that of the supply this sesson 2,117,502 bales have been taken by American and Canadian mills, including 429,587 south of the Potomae, and 4,725,047 have been exported to foreign ports. It also shows that northern mill takings and Canada over land is 32,960 bales ahead of the cor res({)oqding thirty-nine weeks of last year, and that excess in foreign exports for the season is 220,6387. Between the Ist ard 18th of May, inclusive, this season’s stocks at American ports and twenty-nine lead ing southern interior markets have de creased 17,910 bales, against a decrease during the same period last year of 122,- 884, and are now 141,278 bales less than they were at this time last year. . DEATH ON THE RAIL. A PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED AND FIVE MEN KILLED. A dispatch from Rockford, 111., says: The Northwestern passenger train from Freeport, which reaches Chicago at 2 o'clock, jumped the track two miles west of here at 11 o’clock Friday morning, on account of a broken wheel. A gang of gection. men were working about two hundred feet from the point where the engine left the rails, and before they could get away the train had run them down and toppled,over them, The entire train was wreckedhand the engineerand four of the scctiop@men killed outright. The fireman, two station men and some of the passengers were injured. A PHOSPHATE SYNDICATE ORGANIZED IN' BARTOW, FLORIDA, WITH OVER A MILLION CAPITAL, A dispatch of Monday from Bartow, Fla,, reports: One of the largest phos phate syndicates in Floridyg was formed very quietly in Bartow. It is calied the American Mining and Improvement Com }fany with a capital stock of $1,200,000. hey own 4,720 acres of the noted phos phate bed on the Alafia river. This com pany is now preparing to mine and have a contract to deliver 10,000 tons of phos phate in a certain length of time, begine ning July Ist. WICKED STUDENTS RESORT TO VANDALISM IN CELEBARATION OF THEIR VICTORIES. A dispatch from Boston, says: The | Harvard boys held high carnival Satur day night over their victories in the Yale basehall games. During “the night the Solloge buéldings were defaced with vari | ous mottocs, including some agmfm | r.ferences to Yale. The statute of John T e e - TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. "WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE | BUSY WORLD. | , : A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON ‘ DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT . THE CABLE BRINGS. . The New York supreme court, on Fri- Jay, affirmed the conviction and sentence of ex-sheriff Flack. While firing a salute from a Ht:lytiax': corvette, at Philadelphia, on Saturday, a premature explosion occurred and several men were wounded. Steamers arriving at Baltimore, New York and Boston continue to regort many icebergs, and some of them of large di mensons, on their passage. A dispatch from London says: Cholera has crossed the Caucasus, and appeared in the southern provinces of Russia, making its way westward. President Carnot, of France has par doned seventy-two workingmen who were “convicted and sent to prison for offenses in connection with the recent strikes. Richard L. Edwards, of Cincinnati, was drowned three weeks ago. When found his hair had turned white, it 1s supposed from fright while drowning. Mrs, J. C. Ayer, widow of the noted Eatent medicine millionaire, is to erect a ospital in New York city for consumpt ive patients, at a cost, it is said, of $3.000,000. The prosecution of the striking car penters of Chicago by their old bosses is being continued. The strikers’ pickets are arrested as fast as one shows himself near a non-union job. An Egyptian claims to have discovered the sarcophagus of Cleopatra, and has written to the directors of the World's Fair, at Chicago, offering to sell it, with the skeleton of the queen, for $50,000. Henry Hoffman, a discharged employe of the LaClede flour mill, St. Louis, has been arrested, and has confessed that, out of revenge, he set fire to the mill, by which it was destroyed. The loss is about $75,000. The cracker pool recently formed at Minneapolis, having proved unsatisfac tory, a cracker trust, with a capital of $10,000,000, has been formed. It is to include and conduct the entire cracker business of the country. Councilman Maloney, from the joint standing committee of ways and means } of the Baltimore council, Wednesday l night, reported an ordinance authorizing thesale of the city’s 32,5600 shares of - Baltimore and Ohio common stock. ~ The London Times declares that the order to dispatch the American cruisers to Behring sea smacks too much of the - methods of the first Napoleon in dealing with weak statesmen, and that if the or { der is executed British men of war must follow. l An explosion occurred Thursday after ' noon on the German junk steamer, Hans, on the Deleware river. Thirteen men were caught in the flames, and several were badly burned; onc has since died. The loss on vessel and oil is about.slso,- - 000. Burglars blew open the safe in Brow n’s - bank, Chatsworth, 111.. at 2 o’clock Sun day morning. The building caught fire - and seventeen store buildings, compris ing the main block, were burned. The j bank contained $15,000. The Home Market club, of Boston, Mass., had for its special guests Saturday evening, Secretary of War Proctor, Speaker Reed, Congressman Dingley and Greenhalge, while among the 250 gentle men present were many who were prom inent in national and state affairs. Tt has come to the knowledge of the police of St. Petersburg, Russia, that the nihilists in France are en%aged in a fresh conspiracy against the life of the czar. The french police were made cognizant of the conspiracy by the authorities there and placed on track of the conspirators. A Joliet, 111., dispatch says: Bernard Dealey, a life convict, whoreceived word a few days ago that his sentence had been commuted and that he would be free next October, dropped dead Wed nesday while telling his good fortune. ' His excessive joy undoubtedly produced heart disease. : A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch says: Meagre reports received from Bradshaw, a hamlet of some four or five hundred in habitants, about fifty miles west of Lin coln, state that the town was swept away late Wedesday night by a cyclone. Six persons are reported killed and twenty five or more injured. The negro conference opened at Mo hawk Lake, N. Y., Wednesday. A number of distinguished men from all parts of the country were present. The conference is called to consider the ques tion of Christ'anizing and educating the colored people. Among the speakers were ex-President Hayes and Albion Tourgee: ‘ The laboring classes of the City of ‘Mexico are up in arms because the goy ernment has decided that hereafter all wecrking men on both public and private works must wear pantaloons instead of the usual cotton garment. The authori ties determined, however, to enforee the order. - ; The county attorney at Topeka, Kan sas, caused the arrest of six men selling liquor there in original packages, and a state judge sent them to jail. But judge Poster, of the federal court, has released them on writs of habeas corpus. The county officials say they will continue makine arrests under the | itate law and i o D w“’”{;&”:, *’ e the decision of Judge Underwood,of Au burn, in the Kemmler habeas corpus cases, was affirmed. This allows the case to go - at once to the court of appeals. The only question at issue is whe her Kemmler can be legal'y executed by the narden of Auburn prison. The free coinage convention of the state of Nevada, met at Carson a few days ago and adopted resolutions re questing senators and representatives In congress from the state of Nevada to fa vor the measure for the oPening of mints of the United States for free and unlim ited coinage of standard silver dollars, and to support no other bill. The court of claims at Washington, D. C., has dismissed the claim of A. B. Mul let for $150,000 compensation as architect of the building now occupied by the state, war and pavy departments. His claim was for architect’s commis sion on the total cost of the building. al though it was not completed till 1888, thirteen years after he ceased to have anye thing to do with it. ; BUSINESS REVIEW. AN ENCOURAGING REPORT SENT OUT BY DUNN & CO. ’ A R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for week ended Saturday, June 7, says: Al indications regarding legitimate business continue c¢ncouraging. At the same time there is a renewal of speculative excite ment, based on the prospect that the sil ver bill will speedily pass both houses, and insuch a form that executive ap proval can be expected. There is no room to doubt that conditions are improving for the productive industries, and for legiti mate trade. Crop prospects have bright. ened wonderfully. The general average of prices has not been aﬂgected much ag yet, but has turned upward, and manu factured products, with breadstuffs, show a general tendency to advance. The great industries show clearly a general tendens cy toward improvement. In iron weak ness appears nowhere, while an advance in many quotations is reported, and the marking down of anthracite No. 1 to $lB by the Thomas company is but a formal recognition of prices for the time current. Large sales of steel rails are reported, amounting to 30,000 tons, with $30.50 quoted here as the minimum. Consuming works continue so fully employed, and stocks of pig-iron are believed to be so light, that fear of a further decline dur ing the hot months, in which many furnaces close for repairs, has abated. Cotton manufactures continue fairly ac ‘tive, and the decline in raw cotton dur ing the week has helped a little. The speculative markets are generally stronger though cotton has fallen over §, with sales at 840,000 bales, The money mar ket has been variable, the treasury hav ing taken in about $1,000,000 more than it paid out. Exports from New York in May show an increase of 103 per cent ~over last year, and though the increase in imports was about 9 per cent, there | has been only moderate realizing. For eign exchange has advanced only a quar ter of a cent. In short, the monetary prospect in all parts of the countryis favorable to business activity. Business failures last week number, for the United States, 179; Canada, 26. For the corre sponding week last year the figures were 200 failures in the United States and 25 in Canada. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. 4 BOLT STRIKES FOUR MEN, KILLING TWO OF THEM. A Detroit Hree Pressspecial from Cairo, Mich., says: At 7 o'clock Wednesday cvening four farmers were struck by lightning, four miles west of here—T. N. Taggett, Edward Goodchild, William Holmes and Matt Ringle. They were engaged in performing an operation on a young horse. A thunder storm came up suddenly and a bolt of lightning struck in the midst of the men. Goodechild and Holmes were dead when assistance ar rived, although no marks or traces of the current could be found upon their per sons. Ringle and Taggett are recovering, ENGLISH CAPITAL AGAIN BROUGHT INTO REQUISITION IN WEST VIRGINIA. A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va., says: The negotiations which have been going on for the past two months between the Atna and Standard rolling mills and representatives of an English syndicate for the sale of the mills, came to an agreement Thursday so far as the tna “is concerned. The price paid is $750,000 and a forfeit of $15,000 has been de posited. The negotiations for the Stand ard mill will probably be completed within a few days. ALL CREMATED. AN ATTEMPT TO LIGHT A FIRE WITH KERO SENE RESULTS DISASTROUSLY. ' A Durango, Col., special of Monday says: Mrs. Robert Morrow, on Sunday, attempted to light a fire with kerosene, An explosion occurred, which get fire tc the clothes of the woman, her tgour-year-f‘ vld son and baby. They were 2l three cremated in the nouse, which was burned before assistance could be rendered. b SN THE WILL BROKEN, THE TILDEN RESIDUARY ESTATE TO BE DI VIDED AMONG THE HEIRS. ~__Judge Beach, of the supreme court of ow York, how decled.in saver of Ools Georgo H. Tilden, the contestant of the T Gaidl A, pEcnoAmestaße e e Fonilon ﬂ:,:ag s m,»;r‘-»ﬁf}i‘»;_:s T g