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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN w. —OF— PIKE COUNTY, SUBSCRIPTION’, $1.00 PEE ANNUM. 1889 EDGAR L. ROGERS 1889 NEW QUARTERS, NEW GOODS! 0-0 Contemplating a more, I made it n point last fall to run my stock down. J did this and can now- to my .vmt.mtm that m „,y STOCK OK GOODS WORTH $35,000 th*. i. jot. WJ »£ Double the capacity of any other Store in our city—Now ocupying two Urge store*— find am gratified eveiy day to he-r he expulsions oir Tony :*: AZ V Xor the cash RB'I get all the inside fiijruros, and take all the discounts allowed rx<» ami proclaim 40 the vvorM that I can sell goods in must instances as cheap a 3 other nierchuat* can buy them, l cunt afford to waste tnv time ami tax the people’s patience by trying to enumwiE even in part • *—3- • • ^.^UvAAAO -.-xvxA -vlxo Spring ^ So', just let that in a few things I havo Season. tho mo »ay -iS–UJE TRACK YARDS WINDSORS PUTS 5 – (i CITS All uiher merchant have to pay C#e. to start these goods from any market. Of ' ©member that I will save you 1 or 2 cents per yard on Calicoes. —00 @OOI) kf H OLOVKXNCk C*>« I have secured the exclusive control of Stransc A Bros, and VoortMses, ut-Ker – Hupei's tine clothing. Ttie*». with my other advantages m tho clothing market., enable me to offer to the trade I.XTILAOKIliNAItV INDUCEMENTS. (VO O-- DRESSC- GOODS. --O My trade ill »\\ kinds of fine drew —m well ns cheaper-good* is a living #vMcnee of my power to do and to dare! ASK THE LADIES who c arries all the Novelties in Drsa* Goods and Trim mings and I will be content to abide their decision, 1 carry everything, besides goods mentioned Hats Shoes, Trunks, Notions, Domestics, Umbrellas, Parasols, Et Csetera. — 0-0 Give me a chance to show my goods. Tell THE MB TIDINGS OF Iff PRICES! and 1 * ill male the small fish awim close to the shore. YOURS TRULY, EDGAR L. ROGERS, BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA. jt, _Messrs. Lewis A. Collier and John F. I low an.’ are with me and are ever ou the lookout for all their friends. HOME INDUSTRY! Qsftorn k Wolcott GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Manufacturer* of m i i fi * i . > m to. \ A ‘CiZiZ p V ■ CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS. FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER. Repairing done neatly, substantially and with dispatch. Homs-made wagons waj ranted. A car load of Tennessee Wagons Just Received. Best hand made harness always on band. We can suit yon. Don’t lose your money by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made harness. Dealers in Rough and Dressed Lumber, Every kind of House Material constantly on hand, and can make anything you want. Manufacturers, also, of ENGINES AND BOILERS, SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS FARM MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS Carry a full line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine Fixtures, Can make or repair anything from a Baby’s Cradle to a Locomotive. Smarateffi «;• – -> Murpliey l HEADQUARTEKS FOR Uarifisiges, Brngglti ami 6 OOO PLOW-HOES AT BOTTOM PRICES! Barnesville, Ga. like Cotmta OttttMl 1 TgS£\ YOU. I ZEBULON, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1889. SOUTHERN ITEMS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. AN rriMtZKD ACCOUNT OX WUAT IS OOINO ON Ot IMTOBTANCK IN THE BOUTREBN STATES. A ^ Qn Mond destroyed the build – '*“**■ As m MsL and MM. £« c j lLUrc j ]l | u Orleans, *»lm. F. bo*, a well-known lawyer. of Gloucester O. H., V ft., who was on bull uncle, wtlit iog Hughes, ft secoud trial himself. for killing his Ueo. shot tliey*8o *not"*come J ofteiTto "Tennessee^ make a decided impression when they do come. Every bush and tree is laden with the pests around Sewanec. A great sensation was created on tho exchange in St. Louis, Mo., growing out of the suspension of a dozen of the younger members of the board of trade for blowing toy whistles on the floor during trading hours. A negro who had committed burglary near Columbia, La., was captured ou Sunday. While the sheriff was return ing to Columbia with the prisoner, a party met them, and, taking the the negro from the sheriff, hung him to nearest tree. A freight train on the Chicago Bur lington A Quincy Railroad was derailed two miles west of Macon, Mo. Five oil tanks heavily exploded loaded and burned sixteen freight cars. Iirakenian Joe Klotz jumped nnd received fatal injuries. .Monday was observed ns a public holi day at various points in North Carolina. It was the anniversary of the Mecklen burg declaration of independence. All the business at public buildings was it suspended, anil flic banks closed, as is one of the principal holidays of the year. Dr. A. B. Ashworth, a young dead physi- in cian of Atlanta, Ga., was found his office, and a coroner’s jury on Mon day decided that hie death was caused by an overdose of morphine. 1J is life was insured for step-iAother. nearly $10,000 which will goto his Grand River, near Chillicotbc, Mo., is greatly swollen, and bottoms are flooded. Great damage and some loss of life is reported. lodged Three teams tho and wagons around were found in driftwood the bridge at Jimtowu, three utiles southeast of the city. Warren Fench, of Newark, N. J., died while bathing in the surf at Pablo Fla. lie was anvil to throw Up his arms and sink while in water up to his neck, lie was subject to fninting fits, and it is supposed death was duo to heart disease. The nineteenth annual session of the Colored Alissionary Jicld Baptist in Atlanta, Convention Ga. of Georgia was associations, 1,500 There were 52 churches and 167,000 colored Baptists represented. There were about 400 del egates present. A large fire broke out on Wednesday wharf in the large warehouse on the of the Cape Fear and the Peoples’ Steam boat Co., at Fayetteville, N. C. The fire made rapid headway, the warehouse be ing stored with spirits of turpentine. The fire was incendiary. In the criminal court colored, at Birmingham, Ala., Minnie Moses, was sen tenced to hang June 27th for highway robbery. Not a muscle of the woman’s face moved as she heard the sentence pronounced, and she returned to her seal as unmoved as if nothing had occurred. E. J. Wilmoth, living in Atlanta, Ga., committed suicide on Wednesday, laudanum, by taking two ounces of lie was a baggage master on the Richmond – Danville Railroad. He affection was despond- his ent on account of an of throat, which prevented his taking food. O. S. Barnes and Milow Parker, two prominent citizens of Hamilton, Ga., had a difficulty about a business trans action on Tuesday, Barnes called Par ker a liar, and tho latter struck him. Barnes pulled out a knife and stabbed Purkcr in the side, inflicting a serious wound. All tho passenger conductors on tie Decatur division of the Louisville – Nashville Railroad filled havo been by freight discharged, and tho vacancies con ductors. No reason for the changes can be learned, but It is understood that similar changes are being modo on every division of tf,o«y.*o>a. The passenger steamer Johns Hopkins, belougingto the Merchants and Miners Transportation Co., caught fire while lying at Locust Point, Baltimore, Md., and was burned to the_ water’s edge. She had just Lad arrived from Boston, Monday, and taken aboard her cargo for the return trip. The East Tennessee farmers’ conven tion met at Chattanooga, Tenn., on Tuesday. About two hundred delegates were present, and the session promises to be one of great interest aud importance to ail farmers. Papers were read on for estry, raising blooded stock, improved of terming and other subjects. A memorial has been presented in tho legislature, who assuming independence, to come Cubans, want to pay Spain $20,000,000 for The Florida legislature is asked initiate action in the United States in of the movement. A United States is asked pending tho pay of tho money. The Richmond – Danville Railroad has just concluded a lease, which the Georgia Pacific division of that a through line from Atlanta,Ga.,to City, Ark., an important the Rich- west connection. This gives – Danville system an unbroken from the seaboard into Arkansas, connection with Gould’s Missouri Pa system. Two negro youths, Albert Bartlett and Higdcn, engaged in an altercation Amcricus, Ga., which resulted in the of the latter. They fell out a nickel, which one claimed the owed him, and a fight ensued, which Bartlett picked up a four pound rock, and with it dealt his antag onist a terrible blow on the back of his SAMOAN AFFAIRS. SHIPWRECKED SAIROR8 COMING HOME— WHY SUAW ARROW WAS ANNEXED. The shipwrecked ofiice.rs and crows of the United States mcu of-war—Trenton and Yftudalia—leave Apia, Samoa, on the steamer Roekton for Marc Island navy yard. Tho Roekton arrived there from Sydney, and when she was Trenton first sighted and outside of the harbor, the Va tidal ia sailors, who havo been living in tho barrackston shore since the storm, greeted her with loud cheering. All of the survivors of the Vandalia, including 8 officers and 148 men, and 13 officers and 300 men from the Trenton, were and sent aboard. Betides the admiral his staff, ten office r* an d seventy-five men rima TlMiHTif’Si in at ^^Tllors relief, is greeted with a as Apia is not large enough to accormeodatc such a number of men without’ great confusion result ing, and it has been feared that sources of illness might break out in the (own owing to the crowded quarters of tho men. An Associated Press correspond- Mntaafa. ent. had a short interview with lie said his people published were greatly pleased admi with tho advice in tho ral’s proclamation, and felt, very grateful for the interest Which the Americans had taken in their ctuso. The present war was a great hardship to the country, and the people wantfd peace. They had no desire to fight, Twnnaese or the Germans, lie said ho would like to sec the Ameri , :lli go verpmentj declare a protectorate over tho Samoans, avoid lie thought that tho was the best way to trouble, fighting as na tives were continually consuls tho United among themselves, when of States, Germany and England had equal power. The, natives have succeeded in recovering the safe, containing German $15,000, gunboat from tho wreck of the Eber. Native divers arc still at work on the wreck of the Eber, making an effort to save the guns. The battery and other articles of value of the German cruiser Adler were taken asliore some time ago. The rudder for the Nipsic, which Admi ral Kimberly had made under his per sonal supervision, has been completed protable and plnced in position, nnd it is that the Nipsic will start for Auckland as soon as the Alert arrives. The British man-of-war Rapid, which left Apia ten days ago, returned. Her captain been re ported upon his return that he had to Suawarrow, a small island about 400 miles east of Samoa. He staled that the island w’as occupied several years ago by a resident of Auckland for Ihe purpose of raising cocoanuts, nnd that at the lat te. ’s request the Rapid had gone there jnd raised the .British flag and formally annexed the island as a part of the Brit ish posesseions. ELECTRIC EXPRE8S. AN INVENTION WItrcit I'BOPKT.S A CAII HI AGE TWO HCNDltEI) MILES AN HOUR. A new scheme of transportation is and t< be introduced between Now York Boston, whereby Surge packages of mail and even cars containing passengers, can bo whisked from one place to another, a distance of 200 miles, in loss than an hour. This would be equal to experiment a speed of four miles per minute. An with the new machine was held in Bos ton in the presence of many scientists, including Prof. A. E. Dolbear, of Tufts college, who announced .that he was thoroughly satisfied of the success of the system. The machine consists of a mag netic car hanging from a single rail, where it follows a streak of electricity. With one horse power it is said that one ton can be thus transported a distance of 1,440 miles a day at a cost of thirty cents. T his, in mail matter, would rep resent 2,880,000 letters, and by this sys tem packages of mail could he sent off every five minutes if necessary, thus pre venting large accumulations. Tho sin gle track is to be carried on tri pods some distance above tho ground, arid the car will pass through eoH* of in sulated wire nt intervals. Jn the experi ments the carriage exhibited was mount ed on a wooden track, on posts about three feet high, with an ascent of six inches in fifty feet, and it ran on one wheel at each end. The scientific prin ciple involved is said to he that by which a hollow coil of insulated wire will draw a magnet into itself, and in the aerial rail way the ear passing which through a coil cuts off the current, goes on to one ahead. BISMARCK WILL STRIKE. The “scene” in Ihe German Reichstas kt.c-.u 1'iini.u BlmiarCk and Herr Rich ter is the sole topic of conversation in political circles. In consequence of Prince Bismarck’s remarks, the liberals have resolved not to attend the fruin Bcboplien to he given by tho chancellor. When Herr Ilichter uttered the exclama tion which aroused tho wrath of the chancellor, the latter, turning angrily toward the liberal members, raid! and pointing his finger nt them, ••I do not know what he refers to, but I regard it ns an expression of hatred. You gentlemen have borne me for years. As a Christian, I can pocket it, but as chan cellor, as long as I stand here, I will trike astiiker and insult an irisulter.” WHISKEY’S EFFECTS. Barry Koehler,while crazy with drink, ran amuck through the streets of Joilet, III. In his course he shot and seriously wounded a young lady, Miss Della Hart. A crowd gathered and began search for him among some freight ears. Just then a freight train moved past aud at the open door of one ear a man was seen. be crowd called out that it was Koeh ler nnd an excited policeman fired at him, inflicting a fatal wound in the head. 'Then it was discovered that the wound ed man was not Koehler, but William Hansen, of Chicago, on his way to Oklahoma, and Koehler .was captured the next morning. another earthquake. Dispatches from what is termed Middle California, report an earthquake at about 3.15.Sunday morning. At some points, the especially in the San Joaquin and valley, few shocks were quite severe, in a cases, the tops of chimneys were thrown down. The shock was city sufficiently heavy in San Francisco to awaken GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS MOM EVEBXWHEBE—ACCIDENTS, STH1KES, VIBES, ANlJ HXPBENINQS OX IKTXKIBT. Tho yellow fever In Vera Cruz, Mexico, is very bad. Prince Georgo, of Greece, has joined the French navy. Forty-five persons lost their lives through tho floods in Bohemia. In tho Illinois House, tho bill to pro hibit the manufacture or sale of liquors was defeated. The coal miners of tho Dortmund (Uermnny)regiou general strike. have again entered upon a King Emperor William, of Germany, treated view Humbert, of Italy, to a military re on Wednesday. The Agawam Woolen Company’s mills, situated in Agawam, Mass., were entirely destroyed by fire. Internal Rovenue Collector Webster, pf increased Iowa, slates tho sale that of tho liquor prohibitory in law Iowa. A number of towns in Central and Southern Minnesota rcpor.s had frost Wednesday, etation. doing some damage to veg A nowspaper of Munich has been con fiscated and tho editor arrested for pub lishing a scandalous obituary article on Quecu Maria, of Bavaria. Tho Lutheran Norwegian College, at Decorah, Iowa, was burned Monday night. The coilego was built by contri; buttons, and was dedicated in 1860. The Canadian government has received a cablegram from tho imperial authori ties, stating that work on the Pnciflc coast defenses will be tao +i.:„ u..,„ inn. Tho Parisians express great dissatisfac tion over the fact that the American sec tion of tho Exhibition,and also a portion of tho British sections, arc closed on Sundays. Mrs. Folsom, the mother of Mrs. Cleve land, was married in Jackson, Mich., Monday, to Mr. Perrin, a Buffalo mer chant. Mrs. Cleveland was present. There was much secrecy about tlru affair. Mrs. Gladstone was on Wednesday Fed presented by the Woman’s Liberal eration, of London, England, with a diamond brooch containing a miniature of Gladstone, copied front Miller’s por trait. A terrific wind and win storm, which afterwards turned into a cycioac, swept through the Lackawanna (Pa.) vaiusy Monday. Many houses -were wrecked, fences blown down, bants demolished and whole orchards ruined. Capt. James Chester, of the fid artil lery, United States army, stationed on Governor’s Island, N. Y., became vio lently insane on the street. He was taken into custody and was turned over to the military authorities. Archbishop Fcelian, in tho presence of 40,000 people, laid tho corner-stone of l)o La Salle institute, at institution Chicago, Ill., in the first Roman Catholic the West designated for exclusive use an a high school. The building will cost $200,000. Tho steamships Cynthia aud Polyne sian, collided Wednesday, near Long Point, a few miles from Montreal, Cana da. Eight lives are reported to have been lost! Tho Cynthia, Capt. Donald son, was a freight steamer and was bound inward from Glasgow. Tho Polynesian W i bound outward with freight nnd • passengers for Liverpool. The British steamer, German Emperor, the from London to Billion, ran into British steamer, Bcresford, from Hartle pool for Bombay, •while the latter was lying at anchor on Goodwin Sands. Boats Wi r« launched from flic Bcresford and succeeded in rescuing three persons from the German Emperor. Six men belonging to the German Emperor are missing. All the rest were saved. The elegant Caldwell Ala., hotel, just com pleted at Birmingham, at a cost of $300,000, is the to ho stockholders sold at auction. held A meeting Monday of and it was found afternoon, $50,000 was addi that tho company owed in tion to the bonded indebtedness of $150, 000. 'lhc hotel is yet unfurnished. Tho Hotel is the finest in the South, but has cost so much money in proportion to its size, it is doubtful if it ever pays interest on the investment. The counsel for Dr. W. T. Hodge, of Wake county, N. C., entered complaint in the office of the cleric of the superior court, in Raleigh, against ail the rail road companies in the state, forty in number, for failure to report their busi ness, as required by law. The code re quires every railroad corporation in the state to make an annual report to the governor of their operations, which re port is required to be verified by the oaths of the officers, nnd to be filed in tho office of the secretary of the state. A storm of cyclonic character swept across northern Texas Saturday. The dwellinghouse of J. Atcrhtiry, south of Bonham, was demolished, and bis wifo seriously injured. At Forest City, in Montague county, a school house was de stroyed. Two children were killed and many seriously hurt and three are miss ing. Another school house at Stcphens ville was blown down a few minutes af ter school had been dismissed and two children somewhat injured. Great de struction to crops occurred. Tho executive committee and the in vestigation commissioner of the Colored Emigration Association of North Caro lina,met at Goldsboro Wednesday. Tho objects of the meeting were to commit- arrange tees for sending Arkansas, investigating Slississippi, Kan to sas and California, to ascertain tho actual situation of affairs there, and to sec what inducements or advantages those sections offer negroes who desire to become residents. Intelligent colored men will be sent to the states named, and will interview tho governors and other prominent men, and see what can he. dime. A contemporary IaUgh ooeftsfon to re* mark that “next March a Chief Justice from Chicago will ad minister the oath of office to a; President who was nomi* NUMBER 27. SOUTHERN POLICY TUB FARMERS ARB UNANIMOUS IN THB OHOIOB OF COTTON FOR WRAPPING. A correspondent had a special inter view withX. X. Polk, vice-president ol tho National Farmers' Allisuce, who re turned to of Raleigh, the N. C., and from Wheel the con ference Alliance the at Birmingham, Ala. Col. Polk says that there was some things done at the confe rence, which have not until now been made public, The remit of the conference was that the Alliance has for mally declared that it would use only bagging made of cotton to cover cotton bales. It was also decided to give spe cial notice to all members of tho Alii* ancs to sell no cotton seed, of tho pre fpnt crop, for less than twenty cents per bushel, and not to make any contracts for tho sale of any Cutton seed of tho coming crop until advised to do so. This is directed at the cotton oil trust. The third matter which was arranged was for tho supplying of all Alliances with school books ana stationery at spe cial prices. It was discovered that there is a trust composed of hook publishers and dealers, and this action was an at tack upon this particular combination, which, it was found, was putting a big profit upon its goods. Col. Polk says it has been stated that the vote on use of cotton as a covering for cotton was not unanimous. He says this is false. Upon a call of tho states, oach delegate voted for it, and afterwards, to make the de cision more emphatic, the convention, as a whole, voted for it unanimously in a rising vote, amid much enthusiasm. This is not an act of resentment, prompted by a feeling of anger on the part of the Al liance, hut it is Ihe laying of a founda tion of a system of manufactures which will utilize Southern textiles, Southern capital and energy, and Southern mills, operated ul tUC I by Southern men. The action . ... ’eyei . oVi'iffl the Alliance has opened There the will be Southern burners. an am plo supply of bagging for the use of tho million members of the Alliance, and whatever affects that great order affects all the other farmers. All theso matters were thoroughly discussed, and it was found, after tho most careful investiga tion, that it will pay to use cotton ns a covering. It is the greatest movement ever inaugurated will in the South, and no trust baggage bo sold or even handled. The cotton is the cheapest textile, and the conference did not arrive at, its definite conclusion until it was satisfied that it was ihe true pol icy to utilize it for this specific purpose. THE PRESBYTERIANS JN COUNCIL ,lV N. V. MAKE IMi'OHTANT JtErOMjfENJ'AftoSS A I’T THE NEQItO. In the Presbyterian general asembly on Monday at New York, Dr. G. S. McGill, chairman of tlie stauding com mittee on Ihe board of missious for freedmen, made his report. He said there were 277 missionaries working un der the hoard, of whom 202 were colored; also, contributions to the work last year amounted to $134,450, an increase of $2,707 on the previous year. Thefroed men, themselves, gnvo $31,002 for vari ous parts of the work. Dr. McGill said that although there was a diversity of opinion among Presbyterians administration in in regard to the matter of the missions for freedmen, they wete all agreed that the work must be pushed. Iicv. Dr. Allen, secretary for (he fund for missions among (lie freedmen, spoke on tho neeessily colored for evangelical "fit the South,” work among tlio race, he said, “there arc 1,840,558 colored children of school age, and of this num ber oniy 805,585 attend school. There illiteracy is on the increuse. It can be seen in the rapidly growing numbers of tire illiterate voters, of whom unscrupu lous politicians take undue advantage. It is tho duty of America to care for the negro. I have heard it suggested that they should be shipped of them to Africa, in the United but ns there are 8,000,000 States, and ns they are born at the rate of 000 a day, it would be impossible to build ships enough for that purpose. The negro has come to ftay with us, and wo must give him an education that will fit him for his duty to God and man. His past has been a dark one.” Much in terest was added to Dr. Allen’s address when it was known that his grsndfather, his father, nnd himself were recommending all slavo owners. A resolution the adoption of tho report and recom mendations of tiie standing committee of the board of missions for freedmen was carried. BISMARCK WILL 6TRIKE. The “scene” in (ho German Reichsfng between Prince Bismarck and Herr Rich ter is the sole topic of conversation in political circles. In consequence of prince Bismarck’s remarks, tho liberals havo resolved not to attend the fruin schophen to bo given by tho chancellor. When Herr Richter uttered the exclama tion which aroused the wrath of the chancellor, the latter, turning angrily and toward the liberal motnbers, pointing his finger at them, said f •T do not know what he refers to, but I regard it as on expression of hatred. You gentlemen have borne me for years. As a Christian, I can pocket it, but as chan cellor, US long as I stand here, I will trike astiiker and insult an insulter.” COTTON. Tho New York Suit's cotton review says: “Futures opened higher for this crop in response to a stronger report from Liverpool, that npeculating soon relapsed into dullness which continued to close without incident, except a slight twist on May contracts, in which there was said to be still considerable short in terest. The close was dull, and tone somewhat unsettled. Cotton on spot in good demand for home consumption, at firm prices.” WARM WELCOME, Upon the arrival of the steamer City of Paris in the Mersey on Wednesday, a special tender decorated with flags, put out to the vessel for the pnpose of con veying Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, the now American minister, ashore. Tho mayor of Liverpool, England, and members of the corporation met Mr. Lincoln at the landing stage and welcomed him to the :it PRINTED EVERY TUESDAY -AT— ZEBULON, - - GEORGIA, —BY PARRY L.EE2. A SPLENDID ADVERTISING AGENT. WASHINGTON, D. C. MO VEMRNTS OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADVISERS. APrOIXTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OIBEB MATniltS OF 1NTK11KST VBOM THE NATIONAX. CAWTAD. A daily exchango of registered Omaha pouches and has been ordered between Kansas City. ■< j Information has been received that the United Stales steamer, Alert, sailed from Honolulu for Samoa, to take the pfftce*’oT one of the wrecked vesaols. The Comptroller of the Currency has organized 111., tho First First National Bank Bank oi Pana, and the National of Burlingame, Kan., with respective capitals of $50,000 and $75,000. Prof. YVm. C. Winlock, of tho United States Naval Observatory, has been ap pointed curator of the Bureau of Inter nal Exchanges in the Smithsonian Insti tute, vice J. C.. Kidder, deceased. Two new post-offices have been estab lished in Missouri—one at Saginaw, New ton County, with Jas. W. Kcinmillor as postmaster, and another at Whitcomb, .lackson county, with Francis D. Atkins as postmaster. There seems to ho no doubt that Con gress wlil bo called together in Octo ber instead of waiting until December. This would be necessary to prevont a long session during the next Summer, as there was more work for the first session of the 51st Congress than could he dis posed of in an ordinary session. Tho President on Tuesday appointed about forty postmasters, among them the following: Charles W. Whitmire, Mrs. at Newberry Courthouse, 8. C., vice E. 8. Herbert, commission expired; Howurd G. Howard, at DeLand, Fla., vice II. H. Tanner, removed; James Sheldon, reifffiW8. :,1 “ *'» vice C. F. During the past week, tho Treasury Deparlment has disbursed $11,380,000 on account of pensions, thereby exhaust ing the appropriation for the $1,750,000. current fiscal year, amounting to been An officer of the Treasury who had looking over the figures, said it looked as if the Pension Office would spend about $105,000,000 before tho close of the fiscal year. The War Department officials confirm the report that part of the 4th artillery at Boston, Muss., has been ordered to exchange places with the 2d artillery, in the South. They say, however, that the troops will not be exposed to yellow fe ver, as Atlanta, Ga., is in a high apoint belt, and has been successfully used as of refuge for troops in exposed fjoutnefSI stations during the fever outbreaks. IJe adjutant annotlBtnggLfbe general ias received a telegram capture of Cy clone Bill, who was arrested at Clifton nnd was brought into tho post lay Lieut. Clark and United States Slarsbal Breck enridge; and that Commanding Officer Thomas caused tho arrest on the evening of tho 16th of M. E. Cunningham, ol Fort Thomas; that both have been iden tified by some of the paymaster’s escort and the woman, Frankie Stratton, i-s be ing two of tho robbers. The arrested parties arc charged with the robbery of Paymaster Wham, at Rocky Gorge, Arizona. OFFICIALS KILLED. AN EDUCATIONAL ROW IN ARKANSAS RK BULTS IN SEVERAL DEATHS. For several days excitement has been high over the proposed and A. school M. Neely election and al Forest City, Ark., colored, been G. IV. Ingram, both have making speeches, advocating the ousting school of the whites from tho control of affairs. Neely has been a controlling clement in tho politics of that county for some time, having almost absolute con trol of the colored people. Att election for school commissioner broke up in a row that resulted in tho death of three citizens—Sheriff II. M. Wilson, Parham Deputy nnd County Court Clerk Tom Town Marshal Frank Folbre. The last one killed was A. M. Neely, the negro who started the whole trouble. Neely, his father aTttl brother, took refuge in the Advocate building, where the killing of I). M. Wilson, Thomas Parham and Frank Folbre occurred the day before. Every effort was made to get at the Neebs, but they proved unsuccessful, as the negroes were well barricaded. Sev eral shots were fired into the building, without avail, in the hope of scaring Sheriff the negroes to surrender. persuaded old Acting Neely Vnn Belzard man Ids other son to come out, and promising tyair a safe conduct to jail a trial. A. M. Neely did not appear. sheriff's posse was not more than a hundred yards distant with tho two pris oners, when a number of other members ol the posse raided the Advocate build ing, and A. M. Neely was discovered se utidor the floor, arid was riddled with bullets, nt least ten shots being fired into liim. It was thought that others of Neely crowd were concealed under tho floor. The posso made an extended search, but found no more. This last killing created a great deal of excite and the people were afraid of a raid on the town by negroes. The act ■ ing sheriff wired Governor Eaglo the and asked for help. The governor that he thought the civil author ities could preserve the peace, aud ha not want to order out the militia unless other menus failed. Tho feeling was so high against Neely that his death was looked for every moment from the beginning of flic riot, and now that hs has been killed, it i» thought (hat tbS feeling will subside. M MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR. The negroes of Clarendon, Williams burg and Sumter counties, North Caro lina, have, for somo weeks past, been in a state of great alarm. They claim that there is a white man, a doctor, who can make himself invisible, and who, having done so, approaches somo unsuspecting and throws negro, generally in the a victim’s woman, face. Next chloroform ho proceeds to take from the insenslbl* victim a bucket of heart blood where with to compound his medicines. The dead body is then hidden away *o thal