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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VII.
THE HANGING OF WOOLFOLK.
THE LAST CHAPTER IN THE
GREAT TRAGEDY.
A BRIEF RESUMF. OF THE SCENE OF BLOODY
CARNIVAL—THE MURDERER AT LAST
PAYS THE PENALTY.
Perry, Ga., October 29.—Tom Wool
folk was strangled to death this after
noon by Sheriff Cooper, of Houston
county. No execution in Georgia ever
presented the scene of the one today. A
drop murderer’s of seven feet failed to break the
neck, and for forty minutes
his body swung at the end of the rope,
with sijror seven thousand people gazing had
upon it. But he d.ed just as he
lived, and those who predicted that he
would break down at the last
minute He did and confess, were disappointed. his
not confess; on the contrary
last statement to the public was a declar
tion of innocence, and with that state
ment yet fresh upon his lips, Woolfolk
met his death as calmly and unconcern
edly as he discussed its approach, His
last hours were just as he said they would
be, cool, calm aud deliberate.
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woolfolk’s STATEMENT.
Woolfolk’s statement, which was in
writing, was read from the scaffold, aud
was as follows; “I, Thomas G. Wool
folk, realizing the existence of an infi
nite, wise and holy God, so as to meet
Him, knowing all that I have ever done,
and fully understanding that I must
stand before the judgement bar of God,
and that to-day, in a few hours, I shall
be called into His presence, do solemnly
declare my innocence, and I leave as my
last declaration that 1 did not take the
life of my father, or any member of his
family, or have any knowledge of the
person or persons who did the murderous
deed. Thomas G. Woolfolk.”
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CRIME.
The bloodiest, blackest chapter in
Georgia criminal history is the story of
the heartless, heinous crime for which
Woolfolk was hung. It. is a story told
aud retold until every detail is known to
the world.
Four years ago one of the happiest,
pleasantest homes in Georgia w as tixe
home of the Woolfolk family in Hazard
district, Bibb county. There for years
and years Captain Richard H. Wooifolk
had lived, and there Tom Woolfolk was
born; and there his father, his father’s
wife, and his sisters and brothers were
massacred one night by him alone, The
hoirible crime was committed on the
night of August 7, 1887. 1 he next morn
jug the nine dead bodies were found in
the house, and that day the murderer was
placed in jail. three
Since then Woolfolk has had
trials, three convictions and three sent
ences of death. On the evening of the
murder Captain Woolfolk, his wife, and
children and Mrs. lempe West were at
the Woolfolk mansion. That night about
2 or 3 o’clock, negroes living upon the
Woolfolk plantation were aroused by a
commotion of some sort at the mansion.
Some of these heard screams and cries,
but in a few seconds silence was restored
and no investigation was made. Aa hour
or two later Tom Woolfolk awoke several
of these negroes, saying: “Come over to
the house as quick as you can; some one
broke in and everybody has been mur
dered.” Woolfolk then turned around,
and walked back to the mansion. The
negroes hastened away to awaken the
Woolfolk neighborhood, and in a short
time neighbors arrived and then the
partv entered the house. A ghastly,
sickening sight was there to greet them
in the gray dawn.
The party entered Captain Woolfolk’s
room first. On the bed lay Captain and
Wi olfolk, next the wall, his features
limbs naturally composed, but with the
whole corner of his head burst in and
the brains scattered on the bed, floor and
walls. He had been struck just over the
left ear with the eye of an ax, in the left
eve with the same part of the ax, and on
the forehead in the same manner. He
looked as if he never moved, even in the
wild agony of the death struggle. Ou
the same bed, with her form doubled up
on that of her dead husband, lay Mrs.
Mattie Woolfolk. his wife, with her
long hair all dabbled in blood, fche looked
ss though she had been stricken in the
act of rising, and just fell dead on the
body of the husband she sought to shield
from the murderous blow. She had been
stricken down with a single blow that
was delivered on the back of the head
with the eye of the axe. But the cruelest
sight of all were the bodies of a young
BLACKSHEAR GA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER (I, 1800.
lady aud a little babe lying dead by their
parents, who loved them so fondly. Miss
Pearl Woolfoik, a yortng girl of seven
teen, had apparently been thrown across
the bed after her poor young soul had
taken its flight. mutilated father and
By the si.te of its
almost in the cold embrace of its poor
dead mother lay little Mattie, a sweet lit
tle sucking babe of eighteen months, ap
parently sleeping sweetly. Just one wick
ed stroke with the blunt part of the ax
seamed to release its cherub soul from the
tender body Ou the floor near by lay
Richard F. Woolfolk, jr , a young man
just in the dawn of useful manhood, lib
face all cloven and distorted with the
murderous blow of the assassin. Close by
his side Jay little Charlie Woolfolk. five
years old, and to slay him the fiendish
murderer resorted to the wicked blade of
the terrible instrument, already soaking
with blood. His skull was eloveu deeply
from the top. Across the hallway, is
another room, in which slept Miss Pearl,
little Annie Rosebud and Mrs. Tempo
West. After the slaughter in the first
room, the murderer entered the north
west room, and there little An
nie, aged ten, had been awakened
by the noise and ran screaming
with fear as if she would have es
caped by the window. She was dealt a
ruffianly blow behind the left car, fol
lowed by others on the left temple and
on the left side of the neck. Her face
was horribly distorted, as though she was
in the act of screaming adjoining when Rosebud, stricken
down. On a bed lay
aged seven, as if she lmd never been
awakened bv the entrance of the fiend.
A slight stroke on the shoulder showed
where the fatal ax had the glanced, showed and a
terribl'i blow behind left ear
how well the weapon had done its work.
Not content with robbing the cradle,
the villian must needs rob the grave, and
by the side of the little girl lay Mrs.
Tempe West, eighty-four years old, with
ner withered features distorted by two
ugly wounds, one behind the left ear and
the other in the left temple. All these
were dealt with the poll of the ax and
the wounds were most horrid. From all
appearances, neither the old lad v nor the
little girl with her ever knew what struck
them. Words arc with inadequate W to paint
the picture as those Tom oolfolk,
the only living member of the family,
saw it that morning. And among them
all, Woolfolk was by far the coolest.
THURMANS ANNIVERSARY.
A GRAND BANQUET TO BE GIVEN THE OLD
ROMAN.
Advices of Tuesday from Columbus,
O., says: Several committees, having in
charge the preliminary arrangements for
the I hurman anniversary banquet, No
vember general 13th, are busily engaged, been but only
a programme lias yet pre
attendance pared. The preparations contemplate invitations an
of 1,000. The
have about all been sent out. Favorable
responses have been received from cx
President Cleveland, Senator Carlisle and
Governor Buckner, of Kentucky; Hon.
M. Dickinson, of Detroit, and Thomas
Ewing, of New York, The invitation
list includes senators, members of
congress, and prominent newspaper
men from all j arts of the
country. The committee has received
information that democratic clubs at In
dianapolis, Philadelphia, Cleveland Pittsburg.
Wheeling, Detroit, and other
points will send prominent representa
tives. The occasion will be national in
character, and Judge Thurman, who will
be seventy-seven years old on the anni
versary, has written a number of private
letters to prominent Democratic friends.
Mr. Cleveland will respond to the toast,
“Citizenship in America,” and the it is ex
pected to make all toasts on program
as Republicans nearly non-political as possible. tickets Many the
are purchasing to
banquet.
A TEST CASE.
A SUIT WHICH WILL DECIDE THE LEGAL
ITY OF SPEAKER REED’S RULING.
A New York dispatch says: Proceed
ings were begun Tuesday' in the United
States court which are calculated to call
forth from ihe bench a legal opinion of
the legalitv of Speaker Reed’s rulings on
he subject of quorums. '1 liev are brougrit
bv the importing firm of Ballio, Joseph
&Co., and involve the legality of the
imposition of duties at the rate of 35
cents a pound and 30 per cent ad valorem
on the consignment of cloths which ar
rived in this port on July 10th, by the
steamer City of Richmond. It is set forth
in the papers that the McKinley admin
istration act classifying worsted cloths as
woolens is of no force, as it was never
passed according to law, there being no
quorum in congress when it was said to
have been passed. Judge Lacombe
granted an order requiring the appraisers officials
of the port and other government
to file in court all documents upon which
they base their action in enforcing the
duties complained of by the petitioners.
RUBE'S COU8IN
WILL BF. TRIED IN A MISSISSIPPI <X>URT
FOR TRAIN ROBBERY.
Rube Smith, a cousin and pal of Rube
Burrows, is to be tried by the govern
ment for robbing the mails at the Bucka
tunna, Miss., train robbery, on Septem
ber 18, 1888. Smith is now serving a
ten-year sentence in the Mississippi peni
tentiary for the train robbery, Thursday
subpoenas for ten witnesses who live in
Lamar county, Alabama, were placed in
the hands of a deputy United States mar
shal in Birmingham. Among the witness
ts are tbe father and brother// Rube Bur
rows. Smith will be tried at the next
term of the U’Dited State*- district court
the southern district of M:s*i-sippi-
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS 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.
Belgium lins proposed a renewal of the
Latin union for five years.
The original package houses in Tope
ka. Kansas, closed Saturday.
Thursday’s dispatches say thai a heavy
snow storm is prevailing in Northern
Wisconsin.
Since the accession of the present czar,
in 1881, over 270,000 Jews have been ex
pelled from Russia.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Stanley sailed
on the Teutonic, from Liverpool Wednes
day, for New York.
Gov. Hill lias written a letter to Secre
tary Noble asking for a re-enumcration ol
the ceusus of the city of New York.
Isaac L. Falk & Co., manufacturers of
clothing, 691 Broaiwav. New York,
failed Thursday, and were closed by the
sheriff.
The trouble between the Western
Union Telegraph Company and the opera
tors of St. Louis was amicably settled
Wednesday.
The sale of seats for Stanley’s lecture
at the Metropolitan opera house, New
York, occurred Saturday. They brought
over $10,000.
The corner stone of the woman’s tem
ple. which is being erected in Chicago
by the Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union, was laid Saturday.
Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, who
became insane during the recent army
maneuvers, is now completely paralizcd
and in a comatose condition.
The monument erected by naval offi
cers to their comrades of the Jeannette
exploring veiled Annapolis expedition, Thursday. in 1881 was un
at
Severing & Co., of Baltimore, coffee
importers, on Friday, received a dispatch
neiro from their the correspondent duty at had Rio de Ja
that export been re
duced from 11 to 4 per cent a pound.
A Berlin dispatch says: FJcven Ger
man life boatmen were drowned Friday
Avhile trying to rescue the crew of the
British vessel Erik Bercudscn, which was
wrecked off Slesvig. Only one of the
vessel’s crow was saved.
Edwards County bank, of Kinsey,
Kan., failed Wednesday. Its assets are
said to exceed liabilities by a large
amount ceive their and claims depositors in full. will No doubtless re
statements
of assets and liabilities have been pre
pared.
A big fire Sunday night in a five-story
brick building, Nos. 158 and 160 Duane
street. New York, occupied by Thurbcr,
Whyland & Co., as a storage bouse in for
diugs, butter, cheese, etc., resulted a
covered loss to by the building of $30,000; fully
iusurance.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin
eers is opposed to a general federation
with the brakemcn, firemen, conductors
and other railway employes. J. D. Col
lins, of Atlanta, Ga., was on Wednesday
elected third grand assistant engineer of
the brotherhood.
The Philadelphia Natural Thursday, Gas Com
pany nounced of Pittsburg, on increase in an- the
a 30 per cent,
price of natural gas as fuel. This is
supposed to be the result of the cutting
off of the gas supply from over 500 pud
dling furnaces recently.
In Philadelphia, Magistrate at a hearing O’Brien, Thursday in
afternoon before
ibe libel case of ex-Govcrnor Pattison
against Clayton McMicbael, North American. proprietor Air.
nnd editor of the
McMicbael waived a hearing, and was
held iri $1,500 bail to answer at court.
Americus B. Alissimer, of Pottstown,
Pa., conductor of the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad shifting crew, upon
whom the coroner’s jury fixed the re
sponsibility for the disaster to the Wil
liamsport express at that place last week,
in which two lives were lost, was arrested
Friday charged with criminal careless
ness .
The Mutual Fire Insurance company of
Chicago, made an assignment Wednes
day. The liabilities are said to be $57,-
600, and $25,000 of contested claims
against the company. The assets are set
down at $187,000. $150,000 of this
amount being in premium notes and (he
balance consisting of accounts receivable,
notes and mortgages.
A dispatch from Meadville. Pa., says:
Two strangers entered the office of the
Wells, Fargo Express Company and bound at that and
gagged place, Sunday Moore, night, who in the
C. P. was
office adjusting cash accounts. They
opened a large valued safe and appropriated $5,000
money packages at from
to $15,000 and then fled.
Another phase of the Chicago Gas
Trust litigation was decided by Judge
McConnell, of the circuit court in that
city, Thursday morning. It was on a
demurrer of the people to the pleas of the
gas trust. .Judge McConnell bolls, in
brief, that the gas trust has no right to
buy or hold the stocks of any of the gas
companies which joined to form it.
The Arhnrtnaie TrateUr, published in
Chicago and edited by Opie P. Reed,
humorist, has been taken possession of by
the sheriff ou an execution issued on
judgments aggregating nearly $1,560 and in
favor of the Eagle Paper Company
TV. A. Fowler. The reason alleged for of
financial trouble is that the circulation
the paper has fallen off and collections
are slow.
The committee of the express compa
nies appointed to revise the freight tarifL
" Z cli lias hern in session in Chicago,
finished its work Thursday, and ucircular
has been sent out notifying the shippers
of merchandise by express of the advance
in rates. The new schedule to take effect
on November 1st, and is based cm an ad
vance of 50 cents per 100 pounds between
Chicago and eastern cities.
The debt statement issued Saturday
shows a decrease i f the public debt dur
ing October of #0,008,012.78; total in
terest bearing debt outstanding, #082, -
288,300; total debt of all kinds, $1,548,
021,000.08, in which i« included certifi
cates and notes offset by cash iu the
treasury, amounting to #500,188.043; to
tal debt cash in all the available treasury, credits, #081,310,480.88; $867,305,
less
120.15.
Judge Hoyt 11. \\ heeler, of the United
States district court of Vermont, has just,
decided that the law prohibiting the
side mailing of calculated envolopcs having on the out
words to reflect injuriously
upon the character of any one is violated
hv senrliti" through the mails jotters
contained In em o'opcs bearing the printed words
“Excelsii r Collection Agency,” half of
in large letters across the upper
the envelopes.
A Baltimore dispatch of Thursday says,
in regard to “A Sensational Dispatch
from CT ciuhatP’ to a Chicago evi n ng
paper, that among the many rumors float
ing around is one to the effect thnt
the Brice-Thomas people arc making
strenuous efforts to secure enough of the
stock of the Baltimore and Ohio South
western Company to the give them thing a un- is
trolling interest, that whole a
“fake.”
F rc was discovered in the hold of the
new iron Mallory steamship Leona, while
she was in her pier in New \ork Satur
day night, In order to extinguish
the flames, the vessel was scuttled.
The officers state that it will be im
possible to estimate the damage until all
the cotton is taken out. There arc 5,500
bales on board, the injury to which is
yet unknown. The steamship is unin
jured except from the effects of smoke
and water on the paint and decorative
work.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
dun a co.’b report of trade for the
past week.
'Hie weekly review of trade of R. G.
Dun & Co., says: The approach of the
elections lias caused some slackening of
trade at many points, which is obviously
temporary. At a few cities, notably ttt.
Louis, there is observed a reaction from
the great activity which prevailed just
before the new tariff went into effect, the
demand for the ftmc having been satis
fied by dealings in anticipation of that
measure. But at nearly all cities trade
continues remarkably will large. Foreign
trade for the month certainly prove
much the largest known, and the great
industries are all unusually active.
At the south business is thriving.
New Orleans reports good large receipts though of
sugar and rice and prices,
the baling of cotton is hindered by the
weather, but at Galveston trade improves
with better weather and orders arc free,
and ut Savannah receipt arc 55,757 rosin bales and
of cotton, 15,070 casks of
8,488 of turpentine. At Jacksonville
trade is rather dull, but in the northern
Atlantic su “ decidedly active. The
greet industries arc doing more on the
whole than at any time in the past.
While iron production Philadelphia is at its max is mum,
and the market at “very
mixed,” iron seems stronger and steel
weaker.
Cotton is a quarter lower, with goods
unchanged and in active demand, and
takings by northern general spinners fully up to in
Inst year’s. The average
prices, because of the advance in bread
stuffs, potatoes and dairy products, and is a
fraction higher than a week ago, 8.(1
per cent higher than a year ago. Ex
ports from this port for four weeks have
been #10,900,000 larger in value than
last year, when October exports for the
whole country were nearly #98,000,000,
which indicates for the month much the
largest movement on record. Imports
here also show nn increase over last year
of $15,000,000, so that the aggregate for
the month may reach $80,000,000.
Failures for the week in the United
States are 190, compared with 227 lor the
corresponding week last year.
A BIG FAILURE.
ONE OF TIIK OLDEST CLOTHING FIRMS IN
CHICAGO GO TO THE WALL.
A Chicago dispatch says: The cloth
ing trade was thrown into a spa«m Fri
day morning by the failure of Leopold
Brothers A Co., manufacturers of and
dealers in wholesale clothing at the
corner of Quincy and Franklin streets.
Twenty-six confessions of judgment
were entered up against the firm in the
superior court, aggregating #149,000.
The failure was foreseen only by mem
bers of the firm, and the collapse came
like a thundc rbolt to the trade. The
house is one of the oldest, if not the very
oldest, in the city, having been estab
lished thirty years ago. The senior
member of the firm is Henry Leopold, million
who has been rated as a
aire. The close money market prevented policy
any furrher continuance of this
and necessitated an acknowledgement of
their true condition, which preeir utated
the failure. There is no hank : ind ebted
ness, and none of the creditors are Chica
go people. Many of those to whom the
firm is indebted are comparatively small
tradesmen in other cities, and all these
have been provided lor. The
firm's solictor estimates the stock
on hand at al>out # 200 / 881 . No a‘sig t -
meat will be made. The firm employed
250 men. A member of the firm estimates
the liabiities at #325.000 fully covered by
uset*.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FItOM ALL POINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE REAPER ACCIDENTS, fires,
FLOODS, ETC.
There w .s a heavy full >f snow in
Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday.
Fire Sunday morning partially de
stroyed the freight depot of the Florida
Southern, in Gainesville, Fin.
Tin: Spanish consul al Key West, Fla.,
has closed his office, as ho says, owing to
the excited condition of refugies.
At a meeting of the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis railroad stockhold
solved ers Thursday, increase in Chattanooga, it was re
to their capital stock 10
[ter cent.
tiou The adjourned Mississippi constitutional conven
the eighty-second Saturday day of night, the ii session. being
The constitution was adopted with only
seven dissenting votes.
The. Oxford Land and Improvement
Company plan at. Raleigh, N. C., lias set on
foot a for a cotton factory at that
place to rost $100,000. The company
has been fully organized.
The Mississippi convention, on
Wednesday, refused to reconsider section
five, of the franchise report, which re
quires a voter to be able to read the cou
ttitutiou or understand the same when
read to him.
At the convention of the Georgia Saw
mill Association, held in Macon, Ga.. a
few days ago, it. was decided to have intro
duced at the next session of the legisla
ture a bill which will be read with great
interest by lumbermen and many others.
The first annual meeting of the Confed
erate Veteran’s Association of Alabama,
constitution was held at Birmingham, Thursday. A
incorporation, was adopted, also an net. of
which will lie presented to
the next legislature. The attendance was
large.
Postmaster Ritchie, at Leaven wort li,
Kau., Thursday morning, excluded from
the mails the entire mail edition of the
Leavenworth Time*, because it contained
a list of artiebs won at. a rathe at a Cath
olic church fair during the early part of
the week.
A Chattanooga dispatch, of Friday,
says: The police commission tins taken
steps to take n police census of the city.
In a resolution the committo ixpreeses
a belief that the population of the city is
considerably more than the government
census allows.
J. S. Newman, a prominent received real estate
broker of Sun Antonio, 1ms in
formation from Germany that a noted
will contest in thill country lias finally
been settled, and that, lie is one of the
thirty heirs to $51,000,000 left by a dis
taut relative.
A schema for the building of a new
hotel on a first-class scale in Raleigh, X.
C., is being most favorably considered,
and its early consummation is looked for.
The site most talked of is in the imme
diate vicinity of the canltol. The esti
mated cost is placed at #150,000.
A dispatch of Sunday from Liucville,
X. says; The Uinville Improvement
Company has just finished the location of
a road between Uinville and Blowing
Reek, Ark, ulong the southern face of
Grandfather mountain. It is thought
that this road upon completion, will wh eh
is expected by June, 1891, be the
finest m iintnin drive in the eastern states,
the length being sixteen miles through
most beautiful scenery.
SIXTY DROWNED.
VESSELS COLLIDE AND MANY PASHF.NOKHR
FIND A WATKIIY GRAVE.
A New York dispatch of Friday says:
Tlie captain of tho steamer Humboldt,
from South American ports, which ar
rived here today, reports that at <1 o’clock
this morning, six miles east of Burnegat,
he sighted a wreck, and bore down
to it. The wrecked vessel proved to
be the steamer Vizcaya, which
sailed hence yesterday for Havana. and He
saw several persons in the rigging,
sent a boat to their reene. The chief
officer, second officer, surgeon, one en
gineer and eight of the crew, were taken
off and breought here. The persons
recued state that on the evening of the
30th instant, at 8 o’clock, the summer was
run into by a four-masted coal laden
schooner supposed to be bound nort hward.
Both vessels sank within five minutes.
Captain Cunill, of the Vizcaya, was
drowned, as were also a part of her crew,
in all about sixty-one persons, sixteen of
whom were passengers.
A dispatch of Sunday Rays: Seven of
the crew of the wrecked steamer Vizcaya
arrived here returned last night. A the wrecking of
steamer lins from scene
the disaster. On account of the rough
weather she was unable to send divers to
examine the cabins in search of bodies.
WANT8 RECIPROCITY.
CUBA PETITIONS FOR PIUVILEO* OP TRAD
ING WITH UNCLE SAM.
A Washington dispatch of Thursday
says: Thcdejiartmeut of state has received
a copy of a petition forwarded by the
Tobacco Growers' and Cigar Manufuot’
urers’ Union of Cuba to the Spanish gov
ernment, urging the negotiation island of a rc- of
ciprocity treaty between the
Cuba and the United States. The peti
tioners assert that they are confronted
with a simple problem : “On one side
ruin, stagnation, misery and vague hopes;
on the other side an abundance of wealth
and a promising future.”
NO 25.
COTTON MOVEMENT.
OCTOBER STATEMENT SHOWS THE LARG
EST BUSINESS KNOWN FOR ONE MONTH.
The October crop statement issued
Saturday by Secretary Hester, of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, shows the
largest movement of cotton during any
single month in the history of the trade,
the total number of bales brought into
reached sight during the thirty-one days having
1,731,803, against 1,031,819 in
October, 1889, an increase of 100,484.
Statistics of the trade, prior to the current
year, show that on only there occasions
have the monthly movements reached as
high as 1,000,000. These were in Octo
ber and November, 1889. and in Decem
ber, 1887.
The movement from the 1st of Septem
ber to October 31st includes the total
receipts at a 1 United States delivery
ports of 2,084,003, against 1,884,053
last year, aud 1,458,284 in 1888. The
net overland movement by railways across
the 104,013, Mississippi, Ohio ami I’otomac rivers
is against 127,890 last year, and
172,077 the year before last. The south
ern mill takings, exclusive of the quantity
consumed at. southern outports, is 99,840,
against before, 100,590 last year, and 00,084 the
year and interior towns’stock in
in excess of those held at the commence
ment of the season 234,071, against 108,-
109 last year, and 217,002 year before last.
These make the total amount of the cot
ton crop brought into sight during
September and October 2,688, 27, against
3,300,307 last year, nnd 1,989,037 year
before last, an excess daring this year of
283,120 bales over the eorresp <ruling two
months of 1889, and 843,889 ahead ol
the same period in 1888.
A ROYAL RECEPTION.
GIVEN O'BRIEN AND DILLON ON THBIlt AR
RIVAL IN NEW YORK.
William O’Brien, John Dillon, Timothy arrived
Harrington York and Sunday T. 1). Sullivan
at New morning by the
steamer La Champagne. by They were met
down at the bay a large delegation of
Irishmen on board the tugboat John K.
Moore, chartered by the bish societies
of New Yoik. General O’Bierne, of the
barge office, was iu charge of the recep
tion arrangements. The La Champagne
w as sighted early arrived in the morning off Fire
island, und at quarantine shortly
after 7 o’clock. There was about 100 on
board the John K. Moore. These repre
sented twenty-two Irish societies. Among
them were Patrick Gleason, president of
the Irish Municipal Council of the
National League; John Gorman,treasurer;
ex-judge Browne, delegates from the An
eient Order of Hibernians, Ancient Or
der of Foresters and the Irish Home Rule
Club. The flag presented by Arehibish
op Croke to the Irish emigrant fair, and
which was given by Kdwurd L. Cary, of
the Anti-Poverty society, floated from
the prow of the John K. Moore. At the
stem two lines of Streamers representing
the (lags of all nations were displayed.
AN ADDRESS AND A RKCKRTION.
An address was read, signed by Gov
ernor Hill, Mayor Grant, President Pat
rick Gleason, of municipal round), of
national league; Kugene Kelly, chairman
parliamen*'iry fund association, and chief
officers of the Irish societies.
A reception was given Messrs. Dilion
und O’Brien at the Hoffman house H i
duy night. Messrs. Barrington, Sullivan
and Gill wi re also present.
WILL BE TESTED.
A KANSAS I’AI'KH THROWN OITT OF THE
MAILS AND SI RS FOB DAMAGES.
Following A Leaven his worth, proceedings Kan., dispatch of Thursday, says:
Postmaster Ritchie twain threw tho mail
edition of the Isnrchworth Time* out of
the mail Friday morning. The paper was
uninuilaMe tho Catholic because fair it rallies reprinted in giving the list
of an
account of the postnmter’s actions. Post
master General Wanaraaker sustain’s
Postmaster Ritchie, and in reply to liis
telegram mailable.” of inquiry simply wired, filed “un
Huit was at once by the
Timm in the district court against Post
master Ritchie for $10,000 damages. Tho
claim is made that the law cannot forbid
an American newspaper to print news.
WE ARE GREAT.
fllXTT’TWO Mil LIONS OF FEOPL* IN OUR
GLORIOUS REPUBLIC.
The twelfth Ctns u Bulletin, issued
Saturday, says: The population of the
United States on January 1, 1890, at
shown in the first count of persons and
families, exclusiveof which persons in the
Indian Territory, Indians on the reserva
tion and Alaska, was 62.480,640. These
figures may tie slightly changed by later
and more exact compilations, but surely
changes will not be material. In 1880
the population was 50,224.783. The ab
solute increase of population in the ten
years intervening was 12,224,757. and
the percentage of increase was 24.57. In
1870 the population was stated as 38,-
558,871. According to there figures the
absolute increase in the decade between
1870 and 1880, was 11,397.412, and tho
percentage of increase was 30.08.
A DENIAL
OK THE REPORT THAT MEXICO IIAA PLACEE
A DUTY ON AMERICAS CATTLE.
A dispatch of Sunday from San Antonia
says: John H. Truitt, a prominent Mex
ican stock dealer, who has his headquar
ters at Eagle Pass, Tei., states that there
is no truth in the report that Mexico ha*
placed a duty of $300 a car on American
cattle. There is, however, a likelihood
of the Mexicans' taking some retaliatory
action on account of the ruinous effect*
on the trade between the two countries,
brought about by the McKinley bill.