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PIKE COUNTY,
euBiicutPriON, $1.00 per annum.
FALL WINTER
18 89 1889,
EDGAR . ROGERS.
On this day will 1 begin my reign of
terror to high trade priced competition of and
will give to my a schedule pri
ces that will talk for themselves.
I have bought more goods in all lines
this season than was ever brought to this
market before. My cash to buy with has
been all-powerful iu my heavy putchas
es, and to sell goods cheaper than any
house in Georgia, will he my chief aim.
I keen everything and it would be fool
ish to.try to attempt to enumerate even
in part, my grand array of bargains that
1 have in store for the peop le.
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CLOTHING.
1 still bold the trade on all grades of
clothing. Besides a full line of men’s
youth’s and children's suits in cheaper
and medium prices, I hav> tlie exclusive
control of the celebrated Vobrheis, Mil
clothing. ler – Ruple, and Strouse – Bros, fine
Geode!
This season has produced some rare
and pretty styles in dress goods and
trimmings, and I have made this branch
of my business a speeial study. 1 chal- of
lenge the state to produce a fuller line
novelties than 1 have. .My stocK of frin
ges’ braids, etc., are the products of the
best specialty factory iu the country.
BOOT3 AND SHOES
A whole car load of boots aud shoo®
just received places me in the lead. Givo
me a trial and I will guarantee you a net
saving of 25 per cent, on yo.tr purchases
and make a lasting customer of you.
I can say without exageratiou that I have more of these goods than an; three
houses in this section, aud prices will not be in tho way of their sale,
mt, AH domestics will lie sold at strictly factory prices. Remember this.
iFor flannels, jeans, cassimeres, tickings, table linens, towels, calicos, trunks, va
lises, notions, etc,, give me a look and lie convinced.
I will sell all goods on a very close margin to strictly cash customers on Sept. 15
Come to see me. lam the only self. merchant here Truly, occupying two immense store
rooms and have the goods to Yours
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga., Sept. I 188!*
N. 15. Messrs. J. F. Howard, L. A. Collier and Edgar Cook are with me aud in
ite Rll theif friends to gee them._______
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
Osborn – Wol'cot •
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Manufacturers of
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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER
Repairing done neatly, substantially and with dispatch. Honse-made wagons wan
ranted. A car load of
Tennessee Waps Just Received.
Best hand made harness always on hand. Wo can suit you. Don’t lose your
money by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made Bamess. Dealers in
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Kvery kind of House Material constantly on band, and cent make anything you
want. Manufacturers, also, of
ENGINES AND BOILERS,
SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS FARM
MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS
Carry afnll line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine Fixtures, Can make or
repair anything from a Baby’s Cradie to a Locomotive
Su mm ers Stefl© J t
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Carriages. Buggies aai
to* W-A-G-O-N-S - *>*♦
5 OOO PLOW-EOES AT BOTTOM PRICES!
Barnesville, Ga.
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VOL. 1.
ZEBU LON, NOVEMBER 5, 1889.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS . KOM EYF.RYW11KBE—ACCIDENTS, SXBIKE!I,
nBES, AND HAWENINOS OF INTEREST.
lion. Alexander Morris, ex-lieutenant
governor of Manitoba, ia dead.
At least one thousand families in-South
Dakota arc said to be in a state of des
titution.
Hester – Erbcn, wool dealer', Phila
delphia, $- have failed. Liabilities about
100 , 000 .
J he London II orld says that the queen
will opeu the connug session of parlia
ment in petson.
The cotton crop in Faysotu district,
Egypt, half thi- year, will not he more than
that of 1888.
The first euow of the season btgnn
telling at it Denver,Tuesday morning, deep. aud
at noon was seven inches
A dispatch from Fergus Falls, Minn., with
says that the ground was covered
suow Monday morning at that place.
A large number of vessels arrived at
London Tuesday with additional evi
dence of tlie severity of the recent
storm.
Affairs in Guatemala tiro in a bad state.
A revolution on a large scale is immi
nent, said to be backed by a New York
syndicate.
Five thousand coal miners nre on a
strike in tho Boringe distvict.of Belgium,
and it is fenred that thu move will con
tinue to spread.
Cholera is still raging in the valleys ol
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months there have been 7,000
deaths from the disease.
Advices from Brisbone, state that the
natives of Southwest New Guinea, have
massacred llev, Mr. Savage, who was
sent out by tho London Missionary so
ciety.
Tho National Carbon works at Cleve
land, O., were damaged by tire Sunday
to an extent between $30,000 and $41),
000; fully insured. This is the largest
carbon plant in the world.
In nccotdance with the convention be
tween Russia and the Vatican, the bishop
cf Vilns will be pensioned and wilt re
side iu Rome, and the present vicar-gen
eral of Yilna will become a bishop.
Levin IS. Hall and his sister, promi
nent society people of Princess, Aid.,
were convicted Tuesday of warehouse incendiarism
in burning Coxe – Mills’ at
Fairmount, a month ago.
Mrs. Annie Price, for years past known
as the “only original fat woman,” has of
just died at her home in the New heart York, and
fatty degeneration Brice of Weighed
obesity. Mrs. 550
pounds.
The big Wnshburne and Pillshury
has mills, parsed among tbe the largest of iu the syndicate. world,
into hands a
The option of the Pillshury system of
mills a nd elevators, it is auid, calls for
$5,200,0(0.
The Chippewacomminnors, atBulutlq Grand
Bortage MibU., arrived Saturday wiier'e from they the receive !
tiiaie reservation;
eVOrV adulllndian’s signature to
Uie agreement for thu taking up land in
severulty, and selling what remained.
A fire at Port Clinton, O., and on Friday,
destroyed the planing milt lumber
yard of August Spies A. Cm, au elevator
filled with grain, and a (foal warehouse
Owned by L. Couch <t Co.; together docks, with
two Boss dwellings, $l«n, 0 railroad Catet etc.
u d
Tnc Paris Figaro snys that ,the mar
riage which had been artnngiL between
Prince Mn.rrdt. and Miss Gwendoline
Call;well, lias been abandoned. Prince
Murrat, the paper Bays, left Paris Tues
day, and Mi-a Caldwell will embark for
New York Saturday,
Great enthusiasm prevailed at, the pe
troleum exchange at Pittsburg, Pa., on
Saturday. On tint -lay Oil reached the
highest price since July 10,1885. Tlie
highest reached was $1.07f; the lowest ft
this year wns on January 27, when
was 7Ij. so the range tjf tlie year Was
a tHib fcban’co fed
Additional reports ltsve been received
at Minneapolis, Minn., confirming the
distressing condition of things in Dakota,
ami it is said that at least one thousand
families in South Dakota are in a state of
destitution. A movement is on foot to
have large towns engage in co operative
wotk for tlie relief of the destitute.
A fast freight train on the Pennsyl
vania road jumped the track at ltatiway,
N. J., Tuesday night, Several persons
who were waiting in the street for the
train to past were injured by flying de
bris, three of them mortally. One Car
ran down the street and into a residence;
tearing its way through the parlor. Fif
teen loaded cats were wrecked.
The guns and carriag s of the United
States men of war, Trenton " itd Vandalla,
which vessels were wrecked in the great
storm at. Samoa in March last, Were
landed at San Francisco Tuesday by the
United States steamship Monongahcla.
She also brought the remains of Captain
Schoomaker, of the Vandaiia, who was
drowned during tlie same storm.
The squaw men on the reservation
have fettled on ali the lands for miles
about Fort Pierre, S. D., and intending
settlers are greatly excited, claiming that the
the government bus decided that
squaw men are no better than other
whites. Serious trouble is feared, as the
white settlers are organizing and threat
en to go upon the reservation and eject,
the squaw men.
In an address Monday before the Boys’
and Girls’ National Home association, ia
session at Washington, D. C., Alexander
Hoot-land, president of the association,
stated that there were $00,000 boy
tramps in the United States, He advo
cated the establishment of a registration
sysiem and by which hired hoy. tramps might be
found to farmers willing to
employ them.
it is reported that Herr Krnpp, of Es
sen, Germany, is negotiating for an. enor
mous river frontage for gun works on thfe
Jl mongalieha river, above Pittsbtirg. Pit.
Negotiatiors are pmdiug The" to purchasi
five miles of rivrr front. ground
desired is near Monongaheia City. Kruj^p
wants a location in a country not likwfy
he will locate here.
A dispatch on Svirday from Fari
bault, Minn., says: Reports from nil
over this country of a terrible drought
aro pouring before in, wintejii and unless plenty of ruin
comes will be terrible, sets in, tbo effect
A great many wells aro
now dry. Many fawners in this vicinity
have to haul water six miles for wati ting
cattle ami for household use. There is
fear that the Faribault, waterworks wells
will give out, which, will leavo tho city
in a helpless condition,
A second dispatch from,-Fargo, N. D., says:
“A attempt to rob tho post
office was made Friday morning, the re
suit of which is. that Harry Melton, night
clerk, has a bullet ip Ids right arm. Met
ton says lie was awakened at midnight
by the growling of# a disr, and found a
robber at the in the office,/- he Ho escaping fired four through shots
man as was
tho window, and wns himself shot in the
arm. Melton s story is generally drs
At Irwin, Pa., Thomas and James
Thompson, Hemming Robert Robinson, Samuel
and Ben urn in Stubbs were
sitting under a car the" ujajriag cards Sunday
evening, when shifter pushed the
cars buck on (he silling, moving the ear
they were under, and instantly killing
Robinson, Hemming and Thomas
Thompson. hack broken aud James-I'hompsoo dual while being had Ids
re
moved to his home. Stubbs escaped
with slight injuries. *
Mrs. Greening, oL/KYw Windsor, N.
Y., presented hersm if at an Episcopal
church and partook communion. The
rector being told thst she was a Meth
odist, hut partook of communion at an
Episcopal church, owing to the distance
of informed her home from the Methodist church church,
her that by lules she
could not have coinrAmdon there again.
This so worked upoa her nervous system
that it resulted in a paralytic stroke.
She is now iu a helpjess condition.
that A dispatch frouDDcnvcr, Col., says
one of tho most iirportant meetings
of Inlior ntgnnizatiuBS held in this coun
try for some time, Wns held in that city
Wednesday. delegates NearlyJfie International bundled mid Brother- thir
ty of the
hood of Locomotive Firemen, represent
ing every section of the United States,
met in secret session to consider the
question of the proposed federation of
labor now agitating the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.
At Otisvillo, N. Y.jOn Wednesday, thir
ty-five cars broke away from a switching
point engine and mile van back of jOlisvilte, down grade to ti
of forty a miles east hour Crushing at a speed
an into a
tho west bound completely freight (min, they wrecked
engine Samuel J. Sloalt, and twenty-four and
cars. Levi Braird, nagtitan, Engineer
were killed. J.
D. Fosdick was badly scalded, and Fire
man John C. Brierly and Brnkeman Leo
Uurrctt were burned and bruised.
THE DEADLY AX.
aw old man ItiYTfcij', 'Pip mo a»b d si ra
It NOCKED LA CONSCIOUS.
A dispatch from HawkinsVillc, Ga ,
saysi A hqrHblb tnftrdBr was culnttiitted
Sunday night eleven miles fromblare,just
across Houston county line. Mr. Wil
liam Miller, an aged farmer, was killed
and his wife was nearly killed. Mr. aud
Mrs. Miller lived alone. They wero sit
ting by the fire reading and each had a
small lamp. Mrs. Miller heard her hus
band say t "Don’t do that." Then she
felt herself struck, alid Wns knocked un
conscious. When Site tile regained ctln
i.cioiismli she Heard clock strike
twelve. She saw that Mr. Miller was
appnrljnt.ly,dead; find she wits aftftid to
call for help, fearing that her assailants
were still there. She lay there until four
o’clock, when her suffering Her were calls so great
that she called for help. were
soon answered My the cook, whose house
wi:» forty or fifty yards distant. On the
bed was ail rx wnich had slruok the
blows and tho nimble top of a bureau
which enable had boon removed from riffe its place
to the niiirdethrs to tbedraw
!-r — r in search of money, which Miller
was supposed to have in the house. It is
supposed that Mr. Miller suW thfc parties
as Ihfcy raise/ the ai, and naked them
not to strike. Mrs. Miller did not seo
them. Bhc wns nearest the door, aud
was struck first with the ax. She was
knocked senseless, and was supposed probably
thought to ho dead. Then it is
that air. Miller was attacked. He was
struck five blows with the ax, and his
skull was badly smashed. When found
ho was still sitting in hia arm chair, with
his head and arm hanging over tho side.
The blood hud run from his wounds and
made a pool on tho floor. His death
must have been instantauecusi Mr. Mil
ler was one of tile most riispeCted fclri
zens of Houston; a Well-to-do furmer,
Upwards of sixty years old. E L John
son and Ham Chunkey, murder, two negroes, they are
inspected Of the as have
from the neighborhood.
k BIG BLAZE.
PART OF AHMOUU’fi PACKING ESTABLISH
WENT BURNED AT KA-NHA8 CITY.
A fire, which fbfeatehed to destroy the
mammoth karieas tricking houses occuired of Armour Tuesday –
Co., in hJroie City, efforts of tho fire
morning. subdue The the flumes unavail
men to. were of
ing, and within the short space j
three-quarters of an hour after the fire .
was discovered the entire building destroyed. was
in ruins aud contents wholly btti d- \ j
The loss is $110,(100, $30,000 and on $20,000
ing, $60,000 on machinery covered by
on contents; the whole fully who
insurance. Robert Patton, a negro building,
slept in tho third story of the
is supposed to hare perished.
THE PAPERS MISSING.
DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO COMBAT ‘ 'BOODLE’’
CLAIMS DISAPPEAR.
It was announced at Chicago Frida;
evening that important papers were
ing from the.state’s attorney’s office,upon depended
which the county bad largely
to combat thn old “boodle” claims, ag
gregating $250,000, They are needed
chiefly to, %bt the bills of Contractor
Kellogg, ex-Warden Varneil, ex-Com
missioner Fray and the American Stone It is
said and Brick that unless Preserving the missing company. documents
are recovered it luay.rewjit in the tes»/CL
-iBany thousand! dollar"'W the county.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIO US POINTS IN THE SOU TU.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OP WBAT IS 001X0 ON OP
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Local capitalists at Pitbburg, Pa., are
organizing to build a $luu,UOO rolling
mill in Sheffield, Ala.
The Few society, at Oxford, Ga., cele
brated its fiftieth anniversary Wednesday,
Tho anniversarian wns Mr. G. I). Dor
ougli, of Wetumpka, Ala.
A deal was consummated by which all
the street railways of Nashville, Tenn.,
will bo consolidated under one nianage
ment, the capital stock being abbut
18 Tim’Anniston, 000 000
Ala., New, says that
« t hoy have organized a ‘Sami Trust’ in
Birmingham. The combine has raised
the price of sand from 80,, cents to $1.25
per yard."
At New Orleans a fire broke out Sun
day forward ujorning hatch in the cargo of cotton in
the of the British steamer
Tfiliac!ia, nacria binding for Havre. The Tri- She
had 2,200 belonged bales (o the aboard, Anchor The line. loss is ;
s -
$ 10 , 000 .
Memorial services were' held in the
Centinary At. E, church at Charleston, R.
S. C., in hotter of tho late Mrs. B.
Hayes, wiio was prominent, in establish
ing the in Woman's tho south. mission The among missions Col CM*anvl of
women
all the other Si, E. churches joined in
the services.
A passenger train bound cast and a
freight train going west, on the Norfolk
and Western railroajl.collided Liberty and Wednesday Thhxtons,
night between -
Va., and both trains were wrecked. I t is
reported that the firemen and engineers
of both trains were killed.. One passen
ger was also killed and ‘many hurt.
The state association of confederate
Veterans of Alabama Was, perfected E.W. ,ut.
Birmingham ohWedhesday. elected General
Puttus, of Selma, was each president,
with a,vice-president from eongres
sionul district. One object of ,the asso
ciation is to build a confederate home in
Alabama. • ■. . .
L. Ml Conner, a yoiing merbhant do
ing business at 1 Buck- Creek, Ga.-, wns
struck over the- head and kiilAj
Tuesday, by Thomas'Board, a you% Some
man living near tlie same place. boy
time ago, the Jackson sub-alliance
cotted Conner for using jute bagging orig- at
his gin, and out of this the trouble
inated.
Thotnas O. Buchanan, a merchant of
HufatsVille, Ala., was closed Fechheimer 'Wednesday
by attachment, os follows:
– Co., of Cincinnati, $2,500; Phil J. (1.
(Judder, of Shclbyville, Tenn., $8,054;
Nashioual Blink of yhitlbyvilLo, $14,000,
and Miss Jennie White, of Huntsville for
$2,500. It i» said other attachments
will follow. i
A meeting of the directors ot‘the Ait
gusta, Ga., Exposition company was held,.
Monday to consider a proposition to buy
tbo property. It was decided to call a
mee ing of the stockholders and allow
them the opportunity to take the prop
erty by subscribing to preferred investment stock.
The property and represents lias an indebtedness
of $ 115 , 000 , an
against it of $80,000.
The Soque Woolen mills nt-Clarksville,
Ga., which are in the hand's of a receiver,
__d ■in which will eventually be sold, began
operation Wednesday, to be run by
one of the creditors,for one month, under
a grant from the judge of the superior
The Object the is to get the property
cleaned up and machinery clean, so
^at the bidders may sec just what th(fy
] iavCi
The, (U perior * couit of Richmond
. jP„ q ( |, a6 decided ugairmt who, a twenty num
, ro mi,ient citizens
K ur« ago, subscribed to the capital Transporta- stock
of the National Express and
tion company. A test case was made on
Wednesday in Case ofWilliato If. Howard,
a prominent and wealthy cotton factor,
ami u verdict rendered nguiust him,
'Phis virtually carries tho Other oases with
it The verdict is regarded -as a g teit
hardship, although in accordance with
court decisions in these eases in all states
from Maine to Texas.
FIGHTING OVER THE ROAD.
CITIZENS i OPPOSE TIIE CONSTRUCTION OF
CHATTANOOGA’S BELT HOAD. .
Of transportation lines, attempted to
buiid a line to Lookout htefintajn. iterest They Hill
had to cross a road leading association to
cemetery. The. Cemetery e»
joined them, and the county courts sub
seijiumtly granted the right of way across
t he foadV controvert lh. Wednesday, suburb of
the citizens of St. Elmo; « enjoin the
Chattanooga, filed a bill to
company t./avoid from building the road, and in
order the right of way gfafited char
by the county, the hill attacks the
ter under a late decision of the supreme
court, os other companies are endeavor
ing to occupy the territory now occupied
bv the Belt Railroad company. Great
excitement prevails in railroad circles,
and the outcome will be awaited with
great interest. A temporary wu
junction was granted upoa the WJJ.
A SINGULAR REQUEST.
a prisoner gets tired of confinement
AND BEOS TO BE POT TO WORK.
A peculiar correspondence between
Governor Fowle, of North Carolina, 'and
a negro man named James Glover, in
Edgecomb county j .il, has just ended.
Glover was sentenced to two years’, im
; risonment for assault with deadly
weapons. He is restless and ot a nervous
temperament, and confinement has al
most crazed him. He wrote to the gov
eraor, stating his ca6e . an '^ booking re *
lief in some way. The governor wrote
that be would change the sentence to
hard labor If Glover so desired. Glover
wrote and prayed for a ehango, and the
governor, on Wednesday, granted the acom
mutation, providing work Glover that th eouirms- e pub lic
Monor may on
4t-U douefoarhfs p(tfce!t>nal
Application.
NUMBER 50.
TRADE TOPICS.
AN KNCODKA8INO REPORT FROM DON'S
COMMERCIAL AGENCY.
Tho following is U. G. Dun – Co.’s
weekly review of trade for the week
ending Saturday, October 20th: The
money market has become more easy,
with prospects that serious disturbance
this season is no longer to he appre
hended. ltfst week The $270,000, Bunk of England Bank gained of
and the
France $280,000 in gold. All needs. report
Collections supplies' adequate for legitimate at
are unusually satisi'actoiy
almost tardiness all points, because though some hold places back
note fanners
products for better prices. The volume
of trade, fair for the season, at all points,
is greater than a year ago, though tht
aggregate of hunk clearings outside of
New York exceed hist year’s hut two pet
cent. Trade iu food and groceries is
good. The wool trade has been and the
largest at New York for a long time,
more acfi'Ve til Boston, where salts were
8,100,000 pounds, but full at Phila hi
phia. vanced Iron iu price grows $1. stronger, -A demand having from ad
Canada ami from Mexico is felt, foreign
prices being high. Bur iron is film,
blooms and billets feverish, and rails are
$81.00 to $82, oiders already booked for
18000 amounting to 75,00.0 t.oiis or more.
Copper is steady. Tin is a shade lower,
and lead depressed to $3,75, by , expecta
trade tion of is large dull this Mexican supply! and hss The coal
plished nothing week, accom-
1IU011
8,000,000 toqs.as thc,output for Novem
ber; sales generally at $3.00. Liquida
tion in wheat continues with prices three
cents lower than a week ago, and sales
of 05,000,000 bushels here. Polk is
weak, and in hogs the decline has been
sixty cents per 100 pounds. Oil has risen
three cents. Coffeo is unchanged and
sugar is again lower. Cotton continues
down, week receipts exceeding by forty those thousand of tho
same last year
bales, and exports thirty’thousand bales,
and while there has been a touch of snow
in Virginia'the dreaded frost in the cot
ton states is still deferred. The treasury
has done little to help or hinder, but has
increased its cafl^ holdings $900,000 for
tho week. On* the whole, speculative
are not promising, and judi
ciously lot alone by the pu0$ic, legitimate hut the
outlook for all departments of
business ia more encouraging than it has
befiti for a long . time. Business failures
during last week number lor the United
Suites 188, and for Canada 37. For the
corresponding failures week iu lu-t thy year, United the figures State
were 222
and 82 in the Dominion of Canada.
THIRTY MEN ARRESTED
FOR COMPLICITY IN TltE LYNCH I NO OF
YOUNG litSBHIEH, IN NORTH CAROLINA.
A special from Lcftinglon, N. C., oti
Monday, says: This seclion has just
been thrown into intense excitement on
jnic'innt of - the arrest 0 thh’ty turn
fthargCd with being brijdn r< I in tlui r»
cent-lynching of young Robert Berrier,
white,' wlio so brutally murdered his
mother-in-law near here. Following the
special instructions of Governor howio.
Sheriff R. D. Leonard, with a posse of
thirty men, stlrted out with warrants for
file arrest of mitfly men, charging them
with being in the lynching party. Upte
Monday night the following had been
arrested: John Wood, John Craven, D.
R. Myers, J. A. Myers, J..N. Myers, W.
A. Livingood, C. F. Swicegood, J. M.
Farabee, John Furabee, B. C. Gibble, W.
B. Hunt, W. W. Myers, A. C. Wood,
C. A. Hanes, J. L. Wilson, II. 0. Fntts,
Henderson Shoaff, Ham Sink, Plunk
Daniels, David Mack, Alfred Green, Jos
eph Sowers, Robert Julien Henry Nifpng,Royal Michael,
Shoaff, Jefferson Graver, guarded at the
Jr. All these men were epeciu.1 officers, the
e .urthuuse by twelve
jail being unable to accommodate such a
number. It is thought that the entire
week will he consumed in the examina
tion of the prisoners, as a great number
of witnesses will be introduced on both
Alice. Tho greatest interest is manifested
in tlie investigation, anti public senti- the
ment is strongly in favor of allowing
lynchers to go unpunished.
an UNPRECEDENTED case.
THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE
STARTS a new order of things.
The supreme cO'uf!,^at Knoxville,
j.ffin, Elisha and Clinton Bernard
fi, ey we re all closely related to each
other, and a family feud had long been
rag (^ Barnards between wefe them arrested and and the Buttons, tried on
Tlie convicted end sen
the same indictment, app.nl
ttoloed to ho hanged. An tourt, and that was
t ukcU to tho supreme
body confirmed the sentence of the lower
They will bo hanged on in Decern- several
per 28. It Is a remarkable case
particular., and the first on record where
j W(J were tried for murder At on the the
indictment, and convicted.
Bamo term of the lower court six men
wor e.senfenced to be hanged, and several
eent to the penitentiary for long terms
; or homicide. The first sentence to hang
ever given in the county, was given at
that term. Hancock county, which ad
joins Kentucky, has been long known tor
bloody feuds and fatal shooting affrays,
but the decision, on Saturday, it is
thought, will start a new order of things
in the mountains.
AN OLD CLAIM ,
•
AF 1 EE TWENTY TEARS RETURNS to TOB
ment the people of AUGUSTA.
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The superior court, in session at Au- *
gusta, Ga , was engaged Monday with
the cases brought by John Glenn, trustee
of the National Express and Transporta
tion company against the Augusta sub
scrihers to the stock of that company.
Some twenty-five years ago the company
went to the wall, and row, twenty years
ifte'rwarda, the subscribers arc being
forced to pay up by a third party, who
nought up the affairs of the company for
isong, and who, it is sa.d, has already
collected a quarter of a million dollars,
A(j6!It $76,000 Wbrth of cltems «t.e held
.
in Augusta.
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MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHKB MATTEBS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Tlie president has appointed John
Field postmaster at resigned. Philadelphia, vies
William F. Hurrity,
The president, Tuesday, appointed Fermmdi
Oliver 8. Oakes postmaster at
na, Fla., and A. M. Allen, postmaster at
Culpepper, Va.
Secretary Windom, on Saturday, ac
cepted the resignation of Charles B.
Morton, commissioner of nnvigntion, November. to
take affect on the 10th of
A treasury warrant for $293 was on
Tuesday issued Wisconsin, in favor due of Honore hint Loy- his
eruier, of as
portion of tho reward offered by the gov
ernment for the capture of ex-President
DutKl
The following postal changes in
South Carolina, were announced on
Saturday: J. T. Crane appointed Laurens
postmaster at Bewerton, Pick
county, and If. H. Lynch at Hock,
ens county.
Secretary Noble, in a letter, serves
notice upon cattlemen who have leased
lands from Indians within Cherokee out
let that they must vacate these lands
with their property on or before the first
of July next.
Hr. it p. Daniel, president of the
state board of hetiYtH of Florida, tele
graphed to the marine hospital imposed service
that the quarantine restrictions
on Key West on account of suspicious
cases of fever there, have been removed.
The superintendent of the free deliv
ery service lias given further considera
tion to Postmaster Mowry’s facilities proposition Charles
t. increase the postal establishment' at onratr
ton, S. C., by the
stntions throughout the city. A poat
oflice inspector connected with the de
livery branch of the service is now in the
South, and he will probably bo directed
to visit Charleston before returning to
Washington.
Secretary Tracy Wednesday afternoon
awarded the contract for building two
of tlie 2,000-ton cruisers, the proposals
.for which were opened on lust Saturday,
to the Columbian Iron Works and Dry
Dock company, of Baltimore, for the
sum of $1,225,000. The contractfor the
third one will he awarded to either Har
rison Loring, of Boston, or N. F. Pal
mer * Co., of New York, each of whom
bid $674,000.
Now that the sinking fund require
ments for the fiscal year have been fully
met by the purchase of bonds to date,
the sole purpose of fulitre bond pur
chase will be to prevent, so far as possi
l.l~, „..y iimiim increase in tlie treasury
surplus. Recent offerings of bonds have
been unusually heavy, and acceptances
during the past few days amount to
about- $8,000,000. The continued ex
of receipt- ,.*« •» ZESEF/ftL^.
ever, prevented surplus. any According to the trees
of the Saturday, this
urer’s statement, issued Receipts
now amounts to $40,845,000. $27,
so far this month aggregate nearly
000,000, and expenditures nearly $17,
000,000. making a net gain of $10,000,
000 for the month.
The Washington Star Wednesday says
that the civil service commission have
decided to ask the district attorney to
prosecute all persons concerned in the
preparation aud distribution of the polit
icil assessment circular recently sent by
the old dominion government republican league service. to
Virginians in the
Those persons not employes of tho gov
ernment will be prosecuted under section
12 of the service, which provides that no
person shall iu any government building
-obeit or receive contributions for any
political purpose. The commission
holds that a person not connected with
tlie government may ask for and receive
money from government employes for r. u
political purpose anywhere except in u
government building, hut that where
occurence takes place on government
property, or where letters are sent to a
government building,- rims* concerned
are liable to prosecution.
A POWERFUL ORDER.
THE patrons OF HUSBANDRY OOINtt T<
HAVE THINGS TUEIH OWN WAV.
to become a controlling and W» [ 1 'JJ*
politics of the state, t V
over the entire country. I be tar.
claim to have been forced
monopolies and trusts, an -I P 1
organize a combination ua* ,
strike terror to the heart* of ‘^enj
mtes. At present the pi« .1
exchwvUy to inure . J
ting | themselves where thty ^
an i„ every town
foothold contract with they one dealer , in eaUi eao iThno no I
trade to purchase ojaly from h », ex R t|
ing a pledge that *“ ,
charged to exceed twelve per cent
vance on wholesale prices, r I
have lodges m forty-seven counties, w
a memhersliip of more than o.uin/, |
A BIG KICK.
THE ROCK ISLAND,BURLINGTON – ST. P,
ROADS WITHDRAW FROM A860CIATI0.
Inter-State Commerce Rail
P_________ astedation, at Chicago, Js praefe
dead <]ea d. The Rock Island, Burlington
^ Raul roads take the ground that
re ement has been violated by the ;
a „ of the Union Pacific,
fic arrangements and that they will con^
j^ or ^, wef .tern, annulled. No forma
, o a „ reemen t lntentiol
j g t0 be given of their
witll draw, but they of will the associattotj no Jongd
, jn d t b e rules and nj
a neciai meeting of the western
/ est ,., a divisions of the Western Fr!
| % luildTuesday to cor!
lls30C j at ; 0I1 was of I
riroT |. ,^ , os it;ous for the restoration Paul.i
c een the seaboard and St.
cmcnt; cou id not be reached an.
w ” ho ; e ma tter was tabled for Jnrthe,
^deration at the regular meeting •
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