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The New Orleans Picayune observes:
4 __ ‘Though much is . said about the de
cadence of New England during the last
to yenra tho population h» intotod
more than during any other decade in
all its history.”
Two hundred thousand dollars a year
are spent by the London (England)
School Board in enforcing the attendance
of children. They are advised, by thc
Boston Transcript, to try the French
plan of getting children to school by
good lunches.
“If you are going to kill a man,” says
an English surgeon of renown, “and
■want to do it quickly and without suffer¬
ing, hang him. If the hangman knows
his business, the victim does not fee 1 as
.
much pain as if shot through the heart
or brain. It’s all over in the tenth of a
second.”
The discovery of the full text of Aris
tottle’s “Treatise on the Constitution oi
Athens” among a lot of Egyptian papy¬
rus recently received by the British
Museum of London, hazards the San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle , will be of great interest
to all classical scholars. Perhaps the next
lucky find will be the lost books ot
Livy.
Great anxiety is felt in Switzerland
concerning the decadence of the watch
making industry, which, next to the tex¬
tile industry, is the mainstay of the in¬
habitants of the country. The profits
are dwindling down, as the United
States and England are every year be¬
coming more powerful rivals in this
field. The demand, too, for Swiss
watches is falling off considerably in cer¬
tain countries, notably in this country
and in France.
“The machinery now in use by the
life saving service is about as perfect,”
the Hail and Pirpras, —as anything
well can be. The crews of the various
stations often perform the seemingly im¬
possible in their brave and well directed
efforts. Without their assistance and
the means they have at their command
hundreds of lives would have been lost
on our coast during the latter part of
December. In view of the heroism shown
and the severe physical labor required of
them, our life savers are not sufficiently
paid. These men daily literally take
their lives in their hands, and we do not
sufficiently esteem their services. ”
Pennsylvania is taking an important
step in the direction of better roads; a
step that, in the opinion of the New
York Tribune, every State should take.
Railroad traveling has become so general
and so perfect that the common high¬
ways of the land arc largely overlooked.
Yet on them is the vast bulk of traveling
and transporting done, after all, and
upon their condition depend to an in¬
calculable extent the comfort and con¬
venience and prosperity of the vast bulk
of the people. The improvement of
county roads is a topic that should stand
well toward the head of the list in every
legislative assembly, until we have
brought ourselves at least to an equality
with the Romans of two thousand years
ago. _
If the discoveries made by the State
Dairy Commissioner of New Jersey afford
an example of the deleterious mixtures
we eat and drink in New York, there is
well-founded reason for alarm, con¬
fesses the New York N~ews. According
to his report, 2186 samples of food,
drugs and dairy products were examined
during . ue year 1890, and of that num¬
ber 468 samples were found to be adul¬
terated. Out of 196 samples of cream
of tartar, sixty were within thc rojuire
ments of the law. More than a tijflrd of
the lard was impure. Forty out of fifty
bags of coffee were bogus. Frauds were
found in canned French peas, jellies,
honey and olive oil. Iu ten lots of mus¬
tard, not one was pure; pepper was an
abomination,and of 110 Samples of drugs,
such as are used in every family, forty
four samples were adulterated. Figures
like the foregoing possess a lively interest
and if a similar condition of the things
exist on this side of the Hudson, the
public would like to know the fact, and
see the remedy promptly applied.
SHOT AND HANGED
FEARFUL FATE OF THE HEN¬
NESSEY MURDERERS.
T Enraged j Citizens Take , tne ,
Ine
Law into Their Own Hands.
In T the TJ Hennessey case, onFnday „ ., after
noon, the jury rendered the following
^ l t0 I Monastero,
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cardona, Matranga. As a ** to
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^? v [. t-fttuiday morning. midday and It wreaked rose in i s
might almost at a
terrible vengeance upou the feici urn as
|assms who relentlessly slew David C.
Hennessey, and eleven men are cold anc
ngid in death, {he work of blood was
accomplished without unnecessary dis
order, without rioting, without pillaging
and without inflicting suffering upon any
innocent man. t was not an unruj,
midnight mob—it was simply a sullen
determined body of citizens, who took
into their own ians wliat jus ice ia
ignomimously failed to do. The chief
o po ice wm s am on c o er , an
la very nig e l en e S an 0 accu
mulate, showing that his death had been
deliberately planned by a secret tribunal,
and earned out boldly and successfully
by th«r tools of the conspirators.
THE JURY WAS TAMPERED WITH.
The trial lasted twenty-five days
zLSzx & c»™ e r, xz $
with having been tampered with, night
failed to convict. Friday
a body of cool-headed men—law¬
yers, doctors, merchants and political
leaders—all persons of influence and so¬
cial standing, quietly met and decided
that some action must be taken and the
people’s justice, swift and sure, visited
upon those whom the jury had neglected
to punish.
THE CALL FOR THE MEETING.
Saturday morning a call for a mass
meeting at the Clay monument, on Canal
street, appeared in papers which edito¬
rially deprecated violence, and was as
follows: ‘“All good citizens are invited
to attend a mass meeting on Saturday,
March 14th, at 10 o’clock a. m. at the
Clay statue to take steps to remedy the
failure of Justice in the Hennessey ease.
Come prepared in large for action.” Bienville and
Down a room on
Royal streets, there was an arsenal which
had been provided answered by a by body the of populace. citizens.
The call was
At 10 o’clock there was a crowd of
several thousand anxious people congre¬
gated around the Clay statue. They
hardly knew seemed what was going to happen,
but they ready to of go to any
length, and while there were, course,
many of the lo wer element in the crowd,
a large proportion There were leading three peo¬ ad¬
ple of the town. were
dresses, short and not pithy and business¬
like, and the assemblage, unwillingly,
was soon keyed to a high pitch, demon¬
strative in its denunciation of the assas¬
sins. Each of the speakers said there
had been a great had mass meeting montns dis¬
before, which met quietly and
persed peacefully, so that the law might
take its course. The law had failed.
The time to act had come.
WHO THE LEADERS WERE.
W. S. Parkesson, the leader, is a prom¬
inent lawyer, president of the South¬
ern Athletic Club, and the man who led
the vigorous city reform movement three
years ago. Walter D. Denegre, another
of the speakers, is one of the leaders of
the New Orleans bar. John C. Wickliffe
is also a prominent attorney, and James
D. Houston one of the foremost men of
the state. After supposed denouncing Detective
O’Malley, who is to have tamp¬
ered with the jury, the speakers announced
that they would lead the way to the
parish prison—Wickliffe, concluding with
these words: “Shall the execrable Mafia
be allowed to flourish in this city? Shall
the Mafia be allowed to cut down our
citizens on the public streets by the foul
means of assassination ? Shall the Mafia
be allowed to bribe jurors, to let mur¬
derers go scot free?”
THE MARCH TO THE JAIL.
By this time the crowd had swelled to
3,000, and, before any one could realize
what had happened, the great throng,
gaining down recruits at every step, the was prison, tramp
ing the streets towa-d
stopping only once, and that was at the
arsenal, where double-barrelled shotguns,
Winchester rifles and pistols were handed
out to responsible and respectable citizens
in the party. The starting of the crowd
had an electric effect on the city. Soon
the streets were alive with people, run
ning from body, all which directions _ moved and sullenly joining down the
main
Rampart street to the jail, near Congo
square. When the main crowd from
Canal street reached the prison there had
already collected there a dense throng, all
eager to take a hand in whatever might
happen when the vanguard of armed cit
|zens reached the prison, which is many
squares from Canal street. That grim
old building was surrounded on all sides.
TOO MUCH FOR THE folice.
Superintendent detail officers Gaster had ordered an
extra of to be sent to the
jail and a small crowd kept the sidewalks
around the old build in rr clear until the
around the door and crowded the little
band of bluecoats away. Meantime the
prisoners were stricken with terror, for
they could hear distinctly the demanding shouts of
the people without, madly
their blood. Some of the braver among
the representatives of the Mafia wanted
to die fitting for their lives, and they
pleaded for weapons with which to de
fend themselves, and when they could
not find these they sought hiding places.
RIDING T1IE SICILIANS.
The deputies, thinking red to the deceive nineteen the
crowd by a ruse, transfer
men to the female depHrtmcnt. and there
the miserable Sicilians trembled in terror
until the moment when the doors would
yield to the angry throng outside. Cap
tain Davis refused the request to open
the prison, and the crowd began the
woik of battering the doors. This did
not prove a difficult task to the deter
mined throng. Soon there was a crash;
tbe door gave way, and in an instant
a rmed citizens were pouring through the
small opening, while a mighty shout went
Z SttoctoSto»?'“ " 1 1 ’
ttsgzHrtsrSrjz -
w6 re driven away under a fire of mud’and
* inside
stone8> When the leaders got
p £ 0 g gess j on 0 f the keys the inside gate was
nlocked . The avengers pressed into
tbe Vflr( j 0 f the white prisoners. The
door of thc firgt cell wn8 cpen> and B
g V oup of trembling prisoners stood in-idc.
| hey were not the men who were wanted,
Rud (j. <c cro wd very quietly, though witti
remarkable coolness, burst into the yard,
Tbc inma)es of the jail f wcre readv to di .
rect the ^ wh< re the Italians were,
<.(j 0 to the fema'e department,” some one
yelled, and Litlicr the men with their
Winchesters tan. An entrance was forced
mid the leader called for some one who
knew thc li f ht m ’ and a volnntc er re
^ ded ;u (he do or W8S thl0wn open .
„ was dewrte d, but an old
woman, speaking ‘ * as fast as she could,
j d th imstaire 1 '
cended a p“ rtr -«** staircase, and they **** reached -
the as
(he landing the assa sins fled down at
the other end. It was time for action.
The assassins darted toward the Orleans
street side of the gallery and crouched
down beside the cells. Their faces
blanched, and being unarmed, they were
absolutely defenseless. In fear and trem¬
bling they screamed for mercy, but the
avengers were merciless.
THE RLOODY WORK.
Bang! bang! bang! rang out the re¬
ports to the murderous weapons, and a
deadly rain of bullets poured into the
crouching Geraei, Romero, figures. Monastero and James
Caruso fell under the fire of half dozen
guns, the leaden bullets entering their
bodies and heads and the blood gushing
from the wounds.
The bloody executioners did their work
well, and beneath the continuing fire
Comitz and Traina, two of the men who
had not been tried, but who were charged
jointly with the others accused, fell to¬
gether. Their bodies were literally rid¬
dled with buckshot, and they were stone
dead almost before the lusilade was over.
When the group of assassins was discov¬
ered on the gallery, Macheca, Scaffcdi
and old man Marchesi separated stairs. from Thither the
other six and ran up the
half a dozen men followed them, and as
the terror-stricken assassins ran into the
cells they were slain.
DANGLING TO TREES.
Politz, the crazy man, was locked up
in a cell upstairs. The doors were flung
open and one of the avengers, taking
aim, shot him through the body. He
was not killed outright, and in order to
satisfy the people on the outside, who
V’ere crazy to know what was going on
within, he was dragged down stairs and
through the doorway by which the crowd
bad entered. Half carried, half dragged,
he was taken to the corner. A rope was
provided and tied around his neck, and
the people pulled him up to the cross¬
bars. Not satisfied that he was dead, a
score of men poured a volley of shot into
his body, and for several hours the
body was left dangling in the air. Bag
netto was caught in the first rush pierced upstairs, his
and the first volley of bullets
brain. He was pulled out by a number
of stalwart men through the main en¬
trance to the prison, and from the limb of a
ree his body was suspended, although
life was already gone. Just as soon as
the bloody work was done, Mr. Perker
son addressed the crowd and asked them
to disperse. This they consented to do
with a ringing shout, but first they made
a rush for Mr. Perkerson, and lifting
him, bodily supported him on their
shoulders, while they marched up the
street. The avengers came back in a
body to the Clay statue and then de¬
parted.
the press approve it.
The press of the city was unanimous
Sunday morning, in approving commercial the action
of the mob. All the ex
changes, the cotton exchange, sugar ex
change, stock exchange, lumbermen, me
chanics and dealers exchange and the
boardof trade all unanimously approved an<1
thc actloa ol the mob as l 110 P er ue °
essai y*
TI1 - E ^ juried.
The fu neidls °‘ the “h.
show or demonstration. . ( No one claiming
^ obodle * of Marchesi, Monastery and
^ we f f'™, 1 ' 1 a A h ®
, ,
P. u ! s e an 1 e ’ ‘
"f, . . belD . . ,
religious ' 01 ' ceiemomes rC “ 1Ve . held. ,f, l f t No one S but
™ lfe attended Politz s funeral At
^ich^Jred t< JStar^ theyUving S
e ath .°tbei, there was a large attendance
°f flle n ( Is. as bothof the menwere wdl
connected by marriage. Nearly all the
meu leave Luge families
Wa W®, ® t }V lgtpn membereof clt A are tUe ver Italian Y ™ uch legation U .‘ C f n ^ in d
- which the
ov ci“ tbc summary manner in v
P e0 P'c 0lleans avenged the mur
de f °. f Chlef H<mnessy. Indeed the case
jfircles ™ Cl f S ; S 1^0^Fav^thf ^ take \ affment imhTn rninis 0
' e fu f ea V makc a a statemen t ->. hwt ust
, . StmeTve ZS .
with authorities of his home government,
an wltbout a heavy indemnity
.,. . 10 demunded, if any or all of the
Italians killed are unnaturalized.
INDIGNATION MEETINGS.
Large representative meetings of Ital
ians were held at Chicago, Kansas City,
Pittsburg which and other places Sunday, at
excited speeches were made du
manding reparation,
the minister instructed.
A cablegram Italian from Rome, Italy, instructed says:
The government has
Baron Fava, the Italian minister at Wash
ton, to present a vehement protest to the
United States government against the
action of the mob in New Orleans, and
the Unfced State government has promised
to make an investigation.
COMMENTS OF FOREIGN PAPERS.
A London cablegram says: The News,
srs? diguation sfijc whole Wt civilized
is shared by the
world. In nearly all sack cases in
America the disease of corruption is at
the root of the evil. The Americans are
at once the most patient and most irnpa
tient people in the world. When they
have grown tired of any grievance, they
move to their revenge with the swiftness
of a hawk. The people of New Orleans
could have soon discovered which of the
j urvme „ in the Italian trial had fingered
the murderers’ gold, and it would be
better to keep the jail intact for them”
The Post says that Saturday’s occur
rence in New' Orleans will form a de
plorable page in American history, *
COMMISSIONER NESBITT
Issues and Address to The Far¬
mers of Georgia.
Comnvssoner of Agriculture Nesbitt
has issued the following communication
to Georgia farmers: Ga., March 13, 1891. To the
Atlanta.
Farmers of Georgia: In view of the al¬
most unprecedented agricultural condi¬
tions, resulting from the long-continued
and heavy rains, the large cotton low price crop, of
the present and prospective
the staple, also the short crop and ad¬
vancing price of grain, I would offer the
following suggestions, which I think will
be of some use in enabling demanding us to meet a
serious emergency our
thoughtful attention:
1. The corn planting season is upon
us, and in the greater portion of the state
it has been impossible to even prepare the
lands. The oat crop, usually so largely
sown and grown at this season, has not,
except in a few instances, been put in the
ground. It is now too late to put in
anything like the usual area, therefore
let me urge upon the farmers iu “pitch¬
ing” their crops to put iu as large a corn
crop as possible, supplementing it with
the usual food crops.
2. As the time for preparation is so
short, concentrate by preparing deeply
and thoroughly a smaller intended area, putting for
on this the fertilizers a
greater number of acres. Diffuse the
fertilizers through the soil, as far as pos¬
sible, so that the crops may be better able
to withstand the drought, which we may
reasonably look for during the growing
season. Then give rapid and shallow
cultivation.
3. In planting, remember that the
great mistake made by many farmers is
the crowding of both corn and cotton.
Give the plants plenty of room. This
also will prove a great safeguard against
the effects of drought. Of course, the
distance must be regulated by the char¬
acter of the soil, the amount of fertilizers
used, and thc variety of the corn and
cotton used, that of compact growth and
short limbs requiring less space than the
larger limbed variety. Remember, too,
that to depend on the floating labor is to
take a great risk. There are so many
other industries throughout the state
drawing on this supply, that the farmer’s
safest plan is to plant only what he is
sure he can manage well.
To sum up, plant an abundance of food
crops for home c< nsumption ; prepare the
land deeply and thoroughly; apply
fertilizers abundantly, diffusing it so
that the plants may send out roots in all
directions; give plenty of distance. In
the event of drought this plan will in¬
sure better results than if the plants are
crowded, and the roots, in seeking The the
fertilizers, tend all in one direction.
Alliance and agricultural clubs through¬
out the state will do good by taking hold
of this subject, discussing it thoroughly
and deciding on prompt action.
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
THE BANK BREAKS
And Causes a Great Flurry
Among 1 Its Depositors,
On Friday W. L. High, a prominent
banker of Madison, Ga., went to the
wa ll. The failure created a big sensa
tion in Madison when the news hud
spread over the county and the people
f r0 m the rural districts began to realize
the fact. There was a great feeling of
consternat ; on mau jf e sted on the part
of hig depositors all day Saiurday.
Men, white and colored, poured into the
city, looking after the various amounts
due them as creditors, and taking such
gt ag tl b wdl securc tbe
‘
pHyment of their money . The story
reada like a noveL Tbree da y s
nine out of every ten men one would
meet . Q Mor coun ty if asked the
que8 ^ tion, ’ would reply that they consid
redMr w L High worth at least
$100,000 in clean cash. The people all
And he has been conducting a large
bank ; ng business, maiuly through the
bokJ b bad UDon the love, ’ resnect, ' ’ esteem
and conMence of the , e f t hat
ti° a - The liabilities are more than double
his assets - and a conservative estimate
puts ‘ his ability L to meet his debts at less
baa 50 cents the dollar,
-
All merchants who want to build up
^beir business should advertise in this
Bai)er a8 it W)11 pay them to do so.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
A. < rjvassc occurred Monday in Bayou
Lafourche, on the Mississippi. The break
is sixty feet deep.
A conscience (ontribution of $5 lias
been received at the United States treas¬
ury in an envelope marked “Mt. Vernon,
Ga.”
While Officer James E. Penn was at¬
tempting to arrest two negroes in a dance
house, at Houston, Tex., Monday night,
he was shot and instantly killed.
There will be a meeting of the Yellow
Pine Lumber Associa ion of Alabama,.
Florida and Mississ ppi at the Exchange
hotel, in Montgomery, on March 26th.
A large saw mill belonging to the Car
abelle, Tallahassee and Georgia railway,
at Carabelle, has been destroyed by fire.
Iwo million feet of first-class lumber were
also dost oyed.
The party of congressmen, military
men and newspaper correspondents who
have been visiting Chattanooga and its
old battlefield environs, on their return
to Washington, expressed thunsfives as
delighted with their trip.
A disasterous wreck occurred at Led¬
better trestle, on the Carolina Central
railway, at 8 o’clock Saturday night. The
through freight from Norfolk to Char¬
lotte was wrecked at that point. There
were' twenty cars iu the train, and all ex¬
cept seven went down.
Henry Stanton, a young man wanted
in Greenville, Miss., was arrested at Bir¬
mingham. Ala., Monday night. At the
time of his arrest he had in his possession which he
a forged check on a local bank,
tried to destroy. The authorities at
Greenville were notified of his arrest.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Thurs¬
day says: Senator Waltham’s emphatic
refusal to stand for re-election is a great
disappointment to the democracy of the
state. His term expires in 1895, but his
successor must be chosen in 1892, and
the canvass for legislators is now open.
The National Civil Engineers’ Associa¬
tion will meet in Chattanooga, June 30th.
The organization is a representative body
of professional men. Tliev are leaders in
their line of business, and represents it
iu the highest branches. Those attending
will be principally from thc large cities.
A dispatch of Monday from 31t. Sterl¬
ing, Ky., says: A mob went to the house
of Mrs. Wiggington. whose husband and
sons are charged hanged with poisoning and Ferguson
and "Watts, and her, are now
searching for Wigginton, who has fled.
Two of the Wigginton boys are in. jail,
which is strongly guarded.
The entire property of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Street Railway Company, and the
Atlanta and Edgewood Electric line has
been sold and formally transferred to a
syndicate, lately capitalists. composed The of northern the
and eastern first of
three payments bemg made Saturday.
The price paid.for the two systems will
be between $750,000 and $800,000.
The claims of the attaching creditors
against the United States Rolling Stock
Company at Anniston, Ala., amounting
to more than $100,000, were paid by the
company Thursday. The plant is now
free from debt, and the force of workmen
is being increased daily. This is the
largest its industry in Anniston, and upon
business operation depends a good deal of the
of the city.
BUSINESS REVIEW
For Past Week Compiled by R.
G. Dun & Co.
shade Reports from the entire south are a
brighter because cotton has recov
ered slightly in prices. Baltimore re¬
ports trade ahead of last year. New Or¬
leans finds cotton receipts more, sugar
dull and rice firm, and Savannah deems
the prospect very bright, and at Atlanta
better price in cottou helps, hut at Mem¬
phis depression trade continues, and at Louis¬
ville is slow. At the south little is
said of collections, but throughout the
west complaints of slow collectidns grow
more though frequent, and money markets,
nowhere positively stringent,
are generally firm with a more active de¬
mand.
ffhe volume of business continues
larger than a year ago, but the range of
prices—farm products included—is over
10 per cent during higher, and has advanced 1^
per cent the past week! Wheat
rose 4 or 5 cents, but, reacted about 1
cent, sales for the week being 56,050,000
bushels. Considering that western re¬
ceipts steadily exceeded last year’s,
while reports of foreign scarcity are not
sustained by exports, which still fall far
behind last year’s, speculation is ven
turesome. Corn has advanced 4^ cents,
and oats 2^ cents for the week on rather
larger sales ihan usual, and cotton has
risen i on sales of 6,000 bales, but all
speculative markets have to recede with
the possibility of scarce money before
long, as the drain from the city to the
interior continues.
In the stock markets foreigr alarms
came when holders were wearied by the
absence of public support, which was
expected after concrtss adjourned, and
by a continuance of controversies which
it was hoped were settled weeks ago.
But the decline has only pulled back
prices to about the level of January 1,
and while the market is very dull, it
shows no symptoms of alarm or special
weakness.
Failures for the week number 239; foi
the corresponding week of last year the
figure was 217.