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THE attncr -tfflessrtigrr. PUBLISHED EVERY TIIUBSDAY -by A, EDGAR NI 3 t. 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, K!%2ofMtob»i -u “beZ% sequel this in cardona, Matranga. As a ** to *r ‘Sr? —**■ * ^? 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.