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BLACKSHEAR TIMES. ♦ VOL. VI. AT THE CAPITAL. WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON— MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. In the house, on Saturday morning, ihe regular order being demanded, Air. Hooker, of Mississippi, proceeded to ad dress the house upon the world’s fair bill. He spoke in favor of Washington. Mr. Mills, of Texas, in a short address also favored Washington as the site for the fair. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, an nounced his opposition for one reason. that the proposed exhibition, werever held, would involve a loss to the treasury of the United States of several million dollars. Air. Bianchard, of Louisiana, in reply to Air. Mills’ re marks said the discovery by Colunbus argued that the south had more benefits to expect from the fair than any other sec tion. The fair would call the attention of capitalists of the world to the fields and forests of the south. Air. O’Ferrall, of Virginia, said that the city of his choice was 'Washington, where beauty and grand cur and maguilicience filled the eye. Air. Gibson, of Alarylaud, was in favor of one spot which commended itself as a place and where national progress in wealth grandeur could be best seeu—A\ ashington. world’s Mr. Houk, of Tennessee, wanted a fair at which our wonderful wealth, skill and energy could be exhibited. To have it anywhere except at the national capital would take from it much of its impor tance. Air. Wilson, of AVest \ ir ginia, favored the national capital. Mr. Vandero, of California, argued wished in fa vor of St. Louis. Air. Carlisle to restate and emphasize the consideration that would influence his vote. Each of the four cities was worthy of the fair. The exposition was to give the people ol the old world not an insight into oui great manufactories and industries only, but to show them our held great country. The exposition should he at the cen ter of the country. St. Louis was the nearest and Chicago next. He would vote first for St. Louis and next for Chi cago. Alessrs. Kin-tv and Wilson, of Alissouri, and O’Neill, of Indiana, spoke of for St. Louis, so also did Mr. Forman, Illinois (whose district lies opposite Louis), and St. Louis and includes East St. Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, and Air. Outh waite, of Ohio, advocated the claims of Chicago. Air. Mason, of Illinois, was in favor "of Chicago. General Kerr, of Iowa, Owen of Indiana, and Springer, of Illinois, spoke for Chicago. Messrs. Fitch, Flower, Dunphy, Lansing, Spinola, Wallace, Raines, Turney, McCarty and Farquhar, all of New York, again pressed the claims of the empire city. Faquhar concluded by offering in behalf of New Yerk $15, 000,000 and a cosmopolitan people that know how to care for visitors. Air. Can dler, of Massachusetts, closed the debate in words, saying the country conid safely trust the house to discharge its full duty, and he hoped for a favorable conclusion upon the question. The house, at the evening session passed adjourned. forty private pen sion bills, and at 10.25 In the house, on Monday, when the speaker’s gavel fell, the galleries crowds were packed with spectators and ob structed the corridors. All of these peo ple had gathered to witness the deciding struggle between the adherents of the cities of New York, Chigago, St. Louis, and Washington, upon the result of which depended the location of the world’s fair to be held in 1802. Representative O’Neil, of Pennsylvania, opened the proceedings by presenting John E. Rcyburn, successor of the late Representative Kelly, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Reyburn took his place before the bar and was sworn in by the speaker. the The clerk read the special order of house prescribing the method of voting upon the site for the fair, requiring some one place to have a majority of the votes cast Mr. Blount, of Georgia, wished to know if there would be an opportunity afforded to pass upon the question as to whether there shall be a fair before selecting a site. The speaker replied that, under the spe cial order, this opportunity could not he had, and immediately directed the clerk to call the roll. The vote resulted: Chicago, 115; New York, 72; St. Louis, 61; Washington, 56; scattering 1. The speaker announced that the total number of votes cast was 305, and 153 was a ma jority. The contest finally narrowed down between New York and Chicago. On the seventh ballot the result was 311 votes, divided as follows: Chicago, 154: New York. 112; St. Louis. 27; Washing ton, 17. A majority would be 156. and Chicago had 154, just two votes short. So another roll call was necessary. It was the eighth and last, for Chicago achieved her victorv, and out of a total of 307 votes, received 157, three more than a majoritv. New York had 10i, St. Louis 25 and Washington 18. greeted The announce- with ment of the result was tre mendous applause by the Chicago adher ent.s. Thev shouted and cheered whilf Mr. Lamler waved his handkerchief around his head and shook hands with everybody within reach. The house ad journed at 6 oclock in the wildest of uproars. In the senate on Alonday a number Oi bills were reported from the committees and placed on the calendar. Among them was one to authorize the purchase of gold and silver bullion and the issue of treasury notes in payment therefor. Ihe bill directs the purchase of silver bullion to the amount of four and a haif millions a month, of such gold bullion as may be offered, and the issue therefor of treasury notes. It repeals the law directing the toinage of two million silver dollars pier month. In the house. on Tuesday, a bill discontinuing the coinage of one BLACKSHEAR. GA. THURSDAY. MARCH 6, 1890. dollar and three dollar gold pieces and three cent nickel pieces was passed. Also a bill was passed authorizing the score tarv of state to appoint two suitable pi r sons to represent tlie United States at the international conference in reference to protection of industrial property to be held at Madrid, Spain, April 1, 1890. The house then in committee of the whole resumed consideration of the Oklahoma bill. In the senate, on Wednesday, presented Air. Chandler, of New Hampshire, a petition from Union county, Arkansas, representing that at the state election there in Seutember. 1888. a systematic reign of terror prevailed; that armed and reckless mobs paraded the county, night and day. terrorizing the whites and shoot ing and whipping the colored voters; that schools and churches had been de moralized, and ballot boxes carried off, and asking for the protection guaranteed by the constitution. This petition (with several others ironi Arkansas on the same subiect) was referred to the committee an privilegei and elect ons... .Mr. Call, Of Florida, offered a resolution, in rela tion to lands claimed by the Florida Cen tral and Peninsula Railroad company, be tween Waldo and Tampa, directing the ittorney-gencral to institute proceedings to prevent any lurtner sales oi -uen muu until action be taken by congress.... Busi ness on calendar was then taken up and twenty-six pension and private hills passed. The Biair educational bill was then taken up as unfinished business. After a brief executive session,the senate, it 4 :45, adjourned. Immediately after the reading of the journal in the house, on Wednesday, contested Air. Rowell, of Illinois, called up the election case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton from the first district of 4V est Virginia. The case of the contestant was champ ioned by Air. Rowell, and Air. Pendleton’s claims were maintained by Mr. O’Ferrall, of Virginia. Air. Rowell was seconded by Mr. Lacey, of Iowa, and Mr. O’Ferrall by Air. Wilson, of Missouri. analysis All the of speeches were confined to an the evidence, and were dry .and uninter esting. Pending this debate the house adjourned. NOTE8. The Alarylaud congressional re-district ing bill, which makes five of the six dis tricts solidly Democratic, passed the leg islature Tuesday. The President, on Tuesday, nominated Richard G. Banks collector of customs for the district of Norfolk and Ports mouth, Va.; Edward W. Alatteson, Sur veyor of customs at Chattanooga, Tenn., and Harold M. Sewall, of Maine, consul general of the United States at Apia. A brief executive session of the senate was held Monday afternoon, at which the matter of the publication of proceedings dis of the executive session was under cussion. It was decided to make an in quiry into the method hy which news papers secure their information concern ing proceedings in executive session. Though Chicago has been voted ns tho site the bill to hold a fair has, however, not yet been passed. The southern men will vote almost solidly against it. Some fears are entertained that it will not pass, but the Chicago men seem determined to rush it through. The New Yorkers are, kill however, quietly working to the bill. Speaker Reed voted on every ballot for New York, It is the first ac tion the house has taken this congress that he did not support. Representative AIcComas, of Alarylaud, is preparing a new bill to cover unprotected. the points that the Wickham bill left It has been discussed by the leading re publicans in the house, and will have the undivided support of the majority. It provides that no rcdistricting shall occur in tin: United States until after the census is taken, when the various state legisla tures shall make congressional apportion ments, to remain in effect for ten years. It also provides that the regular state canvassing board shall certify to the elec tion of representatives. Tli ere is a great scramble being made by various companies all over the country to secure the control of the seal fur fishe ries in the Behring sea. The government has opened the bids for the control of these fisheries for the next twenty years. It allows 00,000 seals to be killed annu ally. The Alaska Seal Fur company has Controlled it for twenty years past. They are among the score of bidders this time, Their profits for twenty years have been 909 per cent annually, consequently the great scramble and large number of bidders. The direct land tax bill, which recent ly passed the senate, was on Tuesday re ported favorably to the house by the ju riiciary committee. However, Colonel Oates, of Alabama, in the name of the democrats of the committee, is preparing a minoritv report, which will hold that if the direct tax is refunded, the cotton tax should he likewise refunded- The direct tax carries with it seventeen million dollars, while the cotton tax carries sev ?ntv million dollars. The majority of the •efund of the direct tax bill, ho wever, roes north, while the cotton tax money roes to the cotton growing states. The direct tax hill will certainly pass, but here seems no chance for the cotton tax imendment going through. Georgia will get $108,000 from the direct tax bill. It s the money that she paid to the during govern- and nent as a tax on her lands after the war. A young man may have the worst memory on record, but hewiilnot forget to remove the price mark from the pres ent he buys for his b girl—if the arti tie cost loss tban $1 d. On the other hand, he may have the best memory in the world, but if the present costs $25 the price mark is inadvertently overlooked. —Numutown Herald. ALLIANCE NOTES. WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS ARE DOING. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TnF, FARMER, GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTION* OF THE COUNTRY. There is talk of building an Alliance cigarette factory at Oxford, N. C. * * of The Alliance Tribune is the name a new publication which has appeared at Topeka, Kan. The Fort Gaines, Ga., Alliance is con templating the establishment of a guano factory and oil mill at that place. *** Ex The South Carolina Alliance change was opened at Greenville by tlie State Business Agent on the 0th ol January. *** A joint stock company has been or gatiized at Fairplay, 8. C., to — manufac- --------- tore the “Grady Alliance plowstock,’ invented byJ. O. L. King. * * i|c * South The Executive Committee of Dakota Alliance, have bought the Du kota Ruralist published at Aberdeen, and it will be conducted as the state or gan. ± * The Alliance in Hillsborough county, Fla., have raised neatly $2,000, with prospects of $3,000 more, for the estab lishment of an Alliance Business Ex change at Tampa. * . 5$c Alli A Minnesota misrepresented paper jumped it the bitterly. ance and most The object was to keep the farmers from joining. An Alliance was organized the next week with 52 members. *** The Alliancemen of Franklin, Georgia, Rowan and Habersham counties, of have organized a joint stock company with a capital of $15,000 to sell the pro duct raised by their members. * >1; The appointment, of Mr. A. 1). Chase, the eminent Alliance champion, as rail road commissioner, is farming a very appropriate element in recognition of the the state of Dakota, and gives great sat isfaction. * * -Jf. feel The Alliancemen of Brooks county sure that they will succeed in establish ing a bank at Quitman, Ga., this spring. 'I’lie committee report about $10,000 al ready subscribed to the capital stock, with eight sub-Alliances yet to hear from on the third Wednesday of March. The Farmers’ Alliance **.* has saved the farmers of America $5,000,000 in twine, $2,500,000 on bagging, and it is claimed that through the operations of t he Alli anee Exchange discounts have been se cured that will make the amount saved by farmers $10,000,000 annually. The Alliancemen in Iowa, Kansas, Da kota and other western states are sending in petitions to their representatives in congress asking them to enact laws to suppress gambling on the board ot trade by selling or buying products which the owner docs not own nor expects to own. The Alliancemen ***. in Bowie county, Texas, have association,” organized the an shares “Alliance of which con mercial are $5 each, and hour 10 per cent, inter est from date. On the funds raised in this way the farmers are easily carried through the year in their buying and sell ing operations. News comes from every county in Geor gia that the Alliance is growing practical strong er. Alliancemen are and learning co-operation: lessons of economy had" those who have the courage and pa tience to stand by the principles of the Alliance are beginning to reap the bene fits of the order. A number of Farmers’ Alliancemen are borowing money at eight i. >er cent, giving their joint security notes, and buying claim guano and supplies for cash. They managing, that at the present way of they can, with good crops, soon pay out of debt and get on their feet financially once more. The Johnson County Alliance in North Carolina, deserves a gold medal. It won the ton of guano offered last veal by the State Agricultural society foi largest and best lot of cotton at fltat* fair, and with a noble spirit of donated patriot ism it has sold the guano and the money to the Soldiers’ Home. The Ocala, Fla., Alliance calls upon the sub-Alliances of Marion county tc discuss the phosphate “craze.” As the Alliancemen are large owners of the new ly discovered phosphate lands it is deemed wise to meet and consider the real value of these lands, some of which are being sold to speculators at too low a figure. % * The Clarksville, Ga., Sentinel says: “H the Farmers’ Alliance continues to in crease for a year or two more at the rate at which it has been gaining during th* Last twelve months, it will soon be the largest organization ever known in this oi anv other country; and if it sticks together it and properly exercises its great power will be easily able legislation to accomplish the such a revolution in the of conn breaking up the trusts and the combine* which now robs him of much of his cam ings, will also place the fanner again in position to become a legislator in the in terests of his country and his claims.” Hall county, Ga., Alliance has adopted the following resolutions: Whereas, the present plan of raising funds for the State Alliance Exchange is inequitable, unjust and oppressive; there fore be it Resolved, That our representatives oi county trustee stockholders be instructed to insist on and work for the adoption ol the following plan, which will equalize th< amount to be paid and by each make member in good hereafter standing initiated now, member of every tli oE.v on< a change, thereby putting into practice out motto, “Equal rights to all, and special privileges First Abolish to none:” the plan requiring sub Allianceato take stock in the Exchange. Second—Collect trom every member and from each one initiated hereafter,fifty cents, to be paid to the trustee stock holders and ten cents a quarter for the term of five years from the date of or ganization oi’ each Alliance; allowing those who have paid their installments credit for the amount paid by each mem ber. _ DISASTROUS STORMS. GREAT DAMAGE DONE IN TENNESSEE, OHIO, KENTUCKY AND THE WEST a aonnsonviue, ienn., uisparon destructive says. One of the fiercest and most storms that has ever swept over our town occurred about one o’clock Tuesday, ae Cl llll panied by lightning, thunder and heavy rains. Two spans of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad bridge across t lie Tennessee river, were entirely demolished. Several buildings were blown down, but no loss of life is yet reported. All t elegraph communication west of John sonville is cut off,as the wires arc bridge.... tangled in the debris below the The news from Hopkinsville, and destructive Kv., says: One of the most violent storms ever known in southern Kentucky passed over this section Tuesday morning, doing destroying several houses and great injury to property. In the city of Bellevue, a village south of that city, six tobacco barns, with all tlicir contents, were destroyed, and a dozen houses were unroofed and blown down. The wind blew a perfect cyclone over the city. . . . From Dayton, Ohio.—A tcrritlic electric storm, with heavy rain, Hooded the rivers here Tuesday. The reprop and lervees were slashed out, and a ten inch natural gas main was tom away. The water of the creek shot into the ail like a geyser and a column ol gas, re sembling black smoke, assccnded two hundred feet, terrifying the people.... A special to the St. Louis Poet Din patch says a terrible hurricane swept over a" portion of northern Texas Tuesday morning. The Masonic, hall in Gainesville was torn to pieces and the court house unroofed, the Santa Fe rail road depot unroofed mid t wen ty buildings blown down. Sever al persons were injured. Tlir damage will aggregate $200,000..... At Lima, Ohio, there is heavy damage from the Hood. Many county bridges were swept tuvay, and also the railroad bridges of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad.....Considerable damage has been done to railroad property all over Indiana vicinity. by heavy rains in Indianapolis and ALL Timouon THE WEST. Dispatches of Wednesday say: At Wa tertown, Wis., the most vicious snow storm in two years raged Tuesday and Wednesday nights. The snow was ac companied with a fierce wind from tin north. The roads are drifted badly and the railroads are blocked to some extent. At Mason City, Iowa, a blizzard set in Wednesday, covering the entire northern portion of the state. The thermometer marks zero, and all trains cloudburst are delayed. At Cambridge, Ind., a on Monday night caused Martendale creek, near t hat place, to rise so quickly that a wo woman und three children weic drowned. They belonged to a party of gypsies encamped near the stream. At Darbondale, III., Monday night, the place was visited by the heaviest rainfall that has occurred for the last 15 years. It rained incessantly until noon Wednesday. A severe rain storm, accompanied began by thunder and lightning, at Anna, 111., Monday evening and lasted until noon Wednesday, The flooded. streams were swollen anil the lands It has been snowing and blowing at Ash nnd, Wis., ever since Saturday night. At Oshkosh, Wis., within less than hall in hour, three inches of snow had fallen, md it was with the greatest difficulty that street cars operated. the The storm effect ii hy far the worst of year. The will be keenly felt in the lumber camps, where the snow is already so deep that egging operations werc carried on with treat difficulty. TO CONTROL OKLAHOMA. THE COLORED I'P.Oi'I.E ORGANIZED TOTAKH POSSESSION. A special from Topeka, political Kan., reporti the existence of a secret society of colored people, called the “First Grand Independent Brotherhood.” Its object is to settle the negroes in Oklahoma as numerously as possible, so that the race will have control of Oklahoma when it becomes a state. White men will then lie compelled to recognize the negroes as equals or keep out of Oklahoma. It is said that a remarkably large number of colored people are already in the territo ry. BOSTONS LEGISLATURE. KICKING AGAINST THE enactment oi A PROHIBITORY LAW. A dispatch from Boston M-* -, .*4 The liquor committee of the lepaiaturere t enacting ported on a Thursday straight prohibitory unanunoi^ly law, agai ana also against reducing the high license fee of |1,500 to $500. The same com mitten reported it expedient to appoint workings a of c«n- the mission to investigate the license laws of other start* and countries. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE GRAPH AND CABLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. The German government proposes to intrduce new laws against socialism. American donations to the French land league received during the last fortnight, a sum of $50,500. The appointment of General Chincella to be governor-general of Cuba, is offi cially announced. The senate, on Tuesday, confirmed the nomination of Charles W. Childs, as postmaster at Marion, Ala. The French government has accepted the invitation of Germany to take part in the German labor conference at Berlin. The lower house of the Ohio legisla ture,on Wednesday,passed congressional a bill rcdistrict ing the State for purposes. The vote of the socialists in the recent election in Germany, election as compared in with the gain last of previous 5(1(1,405 1885, shows a votes. George Dowell, of Chillicothc, Mo., set a gun trap for a thief. Mrs, Dowell did not know the trap had been set and walked into it and was killed. Alfred Wolf, deputy commissioner ol internal revenue at Richmond, N il, com mitted suicide Monday by jumping in the river at Hiuithtield, Isle of Wight. His mind was affected. In executive session on Monday the sen ate decided to make an inquiry into Hit methods by which newspapers secure their executive information session. concerning proceedings in The schedule committee of the Aineri [•1111 association met at Philadelphia schedule which on Monday, and arranged a will be submitted to (he association at their meeting at Syracuse, March 10th. The order granted enjoining the Cotton Oil trust from disposing the American of property Cotton by transferring it to vacated Oil company of New Jersey, was on Monday by Judge Wallace, of the United States court in New York. Two masked men entered the store of W. C. Henderson, at Berwyn, Indian Territory Tuesday night. One of them covered the clerk with a revolver, while the other dumped into sacks a large amount of jewelry and money, and moiin ted their horses witli their booty and es caped. At New York, on Wednesday, Broker Pell, under $20,000 bail on the charge of grand larceny, in connection with the re cent wrecking of Lenox Mill bank, was surrendered by one of his bondsmen, and was again taken into custody, pending bis endeavor to secure other security. A A 'eto'n Paris correspondent says that Dom Pedro is unwilling lo dismiss his imperial suite. He has, therefore, rcsol ved lo endeavor to come to terms with the Brazilian government, to renounce the crown and to return to Brazil and live as a private person. A Providence, prohibitionists It. L, dispatch Wednesday says: The state on put in nomination the following ticket: Governor, ltev. John Larry; lieutenant governor, Joshua C. Brown; secretary of state, John W. Mooney; attorney gcnerul, John T. Blodgett; general treasurer John John P. Hazard. A dispatch of Tuesday,from Baltimore, Md., says: A. Brehnic Towles & Co., & importers, German street; II. P. Co., fur nishing goods, Baltimore street; and 8. A. Welsh, notions, Lexington street; tiled deeds of trust for the benefit of their creditors. The bonds filed are respect ively $24,000, $40,000 and $1,000. A dispatch from Kansas City says: C II. Epplcsheimcr, manager of the Pink erton detective agency in that city, to which was entrusted the task of captur ing Frederick A. Walton, the absconding agent of the Pacific Lx press company at Dallas, Texas, received a dispatch on Sunday from St. Johns, N. B., stating hat Walton had been arrested. Walton Hole $35,000 of the company’s money. Duly $7,000 was found on his person. His offense is not extraditable. AN ANCIENT LANDMARK IN HUNTSVILLE DESTROYED BY FIRE-AN ANTE-BELLUM RELIC. A dispatch from Huntsville, Ala., says: The old Malsay carriage shop, at the corner of Green and Meridian streets was destroyed bo fire Sunday. This an cient building has stood for half a cen tury, and was a landmark of ante-bellum days. Here was built before the war hundreds of fine carriages ana buggies and for the wealthy planters of this ad joining states. The fire engine kept the flames confined so injured. that the adjoining residences were not The entire building and a lot of work manufactured by the Montezuma Rustic company and its tools were destroyed. CL08ED sT LAST. AFTER REPEATED EFFORTS TO SETTLE DIFFERENCE THE MILLS SHUT DOWN. A dispatch from Nashua, N. H., says. The operatives of Nashua company’* milis manifested their determination tc hold out against the reduction on wage* in the most decisive manner on Tuesday. Undei Treasurer Armory’ recently posted ultimatum, the help were to lit given a final opportunity If this to return disre- to work on that day. tie dosed. was The garded the mills were to employes failed brief to wait respond the mills to the shut bell and after a were down indefinitely. The operatives are leaving town in large numbers by every train. NO 22 THE HANGING OF H AWE.8. THE NOTED MURDERER RAYS THE PENALTY OF HIS (’RIME. Dick Huwes tested the strength of a five-eights sea wired rope at Birmingham, hang A la., Friday at 12:58 o’clock. and The interest ing was the most sensational and will ing ever known in Alabama, chapters make one of the most thrilling By in the criminal history of the state. nine o’clock a crowd of a thousand peo ple had congregated about the jail, and an army of policemen was oh duty to keep them at a safe distance. No one was allowed to pass that line of officers except those who had passes. By 12 the crowd numbered near 0,000. At 11 o’clock, Deputy Lockhart en tered the jail and interrupted the devo tional exercises long enough to read the death warrant. When the deputy in formed Hawes of the object of his mis sion, he said : “Stand up, Dick.” Hawes arose, and placing his hands behind him, looked the officer in the face. Then Lockhart read the death warrant. Hawes heard it through without a tremor or without moving a muscle. At a quarter after twelve Ed Griffin went upon the scaffold, and adjusted tin; rope to the beam. It was made tight by an iron staple. Griffin is the man who built the scaffold. (Jrillin was a member of the jury that convicted Hawes. Griffin is now one of Sheriff Smith's deputies, and helped to hang the man, whom he, us a juror, said should die. Hawes went upon the scaffold, accompanied by the sheriff, a deputy, and the two ministers, lie walked with a firm step. There was less trepidation about him than about any of the one hundred men in the in closure, and it was apparent to all. His nerve was remarkable, and those who saw him could not keep from admiring it. TIIK l'KKI.IMINARY ARRANGEMENT*. As h" stepped to the front of the side gal lows, he moved his head to one to avoid the rope. Then as In; stood at the front of the gallows, Sheriff Smith, standing beside him, said : “Dick, have you anything to say?” Hawes raised his right hand to his mouth, and gave his moustache a twist. There was not a trem or in the movement. Never in his life did he twist that beard with a quieter crowd nerve. Then looking over the camly lie said: “1 only want to suy to the congregation that I have written out a full statement, of this whole thing, and it is a true one. I don’t want any man in the world to think that died with a lie on my lips. =2 I, is all I have to say.” Hawes walked to the front of the scaf fold, and Sheriff Smith adjusted the rope. The prisoner was calm. There was no ex citement about him. As the sheriff raised the cap, Hawes said '1 want you all to shun whisky and vile women, I wish 1 had.” The cap was adjusted, and Hawes’s vision ot those before him was shut out. forever, .lust as the sheriff was stepping back to give the signal to the man in the basement, to pull the string, Hawes called out : “Joe, let me stand here a minute please.” His voice was still and steady, but it was muffled by the black cap. The sheriff waited a minute and then began, “One—two— three.” As the word three was uttered the string pulled, the traji dropped and Hawes’s body went up an inch or two,and then settled again at the end of the, rope. It was 12:58 when the drop fell, and in fourteen minutes the doctors said he was dead The boily was turned over to Mr. Frank Hillmrn, of Atlanta, and taken home for burial. Till'. W BITTEN MTATKM F.T. The written statement Hawes has madt is supposed to be in the hands of the printers. It. was written by Hawes, and was given to Col. Taliaferro, his attor ney, by whom it was, on Fri day, surrendered by Hawes’s directions, to some one to be printed in book form. his The proceeds of the sales are to go to boy. It, consists of forty pages of his life and sixteen pages of the crime. Colonel Taliaferro has read it, and say* that, it is the same story he told on the stand on February 18th last, the only dif ference being in reference to May. Of her he says lie brought her to town and turned her over to the party named ift the statement, and that that party carried her to the lake and put her out of the way, The statement asserts that all were put ti death by drowning. A FATEH HAY. Saturday, the last day of the week, has figured conspicuously in the life of Dick Hawes, lb- was born on Saturday, •VII- married to Emma I’ettison Saturday. He discovered evidence of his wife's in fidelity on Saturday, murdered Mrs. Hawes and Irene on Saturday. Their lashes were found on Saturday. The jail riot occured on hanged Saturday, Saturday. He was sentenced to be on The opinion of the supreme court affirm ing the decision in the caw: was written on Saturday, and on Saturday his body was buried. A8TORS WILL. THE HEAT) MILLIONAIRE MADE LIBERAl CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. At New York, on Wednesday, Wil liam Warldorf Astor and Lawyer South mayd entered the surrogate’s office with John Jacob Astor’s will, and filed a pe tition for its probate. The will cover* only two and a half sheets of parchment. receive* By the will, St. Luke’s hospital of Art, $100,000; Metropolitan Museum $50,000; New York Cancer hospital, $100,000; Astor library. $350,000; Alex ander Hamilton, $30,000. and Jame* Simmons Armstrong, $30,000. All the rest, the residue and remainder of his es tate, goes to his son. William Waldorf Astor.