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PIKE COUNTY,
BUBSt HIF-riOX, *100 PER ANNUM.
FALL WINTER
18 89 1889 ,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
terror On this to day high will priced I begin competition my reign and of
will give to my trade a schedule of pri
ces tbat will talk for themselves.
1 have bought more goods ill all linos
this season than was ever brought to this
market before. My cash to buy witlr has
been all-powerful in my heavy purohas*
es, and to sell goods cheaper Ilian any
house in Georgia, will bo my chief aim.
I keep everything and it would be fool
ish to try to attempt to enumerate even
in part, my grand array of bargains that
I have ins to re for the peo ple.
CLOTHING.
I still hold tbe trade on all grades of
clothing. Besides a full line of men’s
and youth's aud children’s suits in cheaper
medium prices, I bav r the exclusive
control of the celebrated Voorbeis, Mil
ler – Ruple, and Strouse A Bros, line
clothing.
This season has produced some rare
and pretty styles in dress goods and
trimmings, and I have made this branch
of my business a special study. I chal
lenge the state to produce a fuller lino of
novelties than I have. My stocK of frin
ges' braids, etc., aro the products of the
host specialty factory in the country.
BOOT3 AND SHOES
A w hole car load of boots and shoo*
just received piacos me in the lead. Give
me a trial and I will guar antee you a net
saving of 25 per cent, on your purchases
and make a lasting customer of you.
t e»n say without exageration that I have more'of these goods than any three
houses in this section, aud prices will not be in the way of their sale.
All domestics will be sold at strictly factory prices. Remember this.
For flannels, jeans, eassimeres, tickings, table linens, towels, calioos, 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. 16
Come to sec me. lam the only self. merchant here occupying two immense store
rooms and have the goods to Yours Truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga., Sept, l 1880
N. B, Messrs. -J F. Howard, L. A, Collier and EdgarCook aro with mo and in
vite all tlieir frie mja to £(•£ them.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER.
Repairing done neatly, substantially and with dispatch. Home-made wagons war
ranted. A car load of
Tennessee Wagons Just Received,
Best hand made harness always on hand. Wo can suit you. Don’t lose your
money try investing in worthless vehicles and machine made harness. Dealers in
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Every kin..'of House Material constantly on hand, and o»» make anything you
want. Manufacturers, also, of
ENGINES AND BOILERS,
SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS FARM
MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTING3
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 .
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HEADQUARTERS FOR
Baggit® aai
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5 000 PLOTW-HOES AT BOTTOM PRICES !
Barnesville, Ga.
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VOL. 1.
ZEBU LON, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 3889.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONJDENSA T/ON OF CURIO US,
AMD EXCITING EVENTS.
NXW8 FROM EVERY WHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!)
FIRES, AND UAFFKNINGS OF INTEREST.
The new lord mayor of Loudon, Bit
Henry Aaron Isaacs, was installed in
office Saturday.
The report of the murder ot the mis
sionary, Savage, in New Quines, is de
clared to be untrue.
The Standard Oil company has ab
sorbed the Globe refinery at Pittsburg,
Pa., and also the Freedom, Pa., refinery.
The schoouer Southwest, iron laden, is
missing, is and, with her crew of nine J.ake men,
Erie. supposed to have gone down in
Master Workman Powderiy says tho
Knights of Labor are in better shape
titan a year ago, the future brighter than
ever beiore.
A convention of the American Associ
ation of Agricultural colleges and ex
periment stations began its session at
Washington, D. C., Tuesday.
The Volcano of Colina, Mexico, is re
ported to he in a state of active eruption.
Many houses have been destroyed, and
the woods for many miles around aro orr
tiro.
News comes from Talequuh, that tlie
Cherokee council will employ attorneys
to contest tho government’s claim to ju
risdiction over their lands known as tbe
Cherokee strip.
Tho New York Herald savs that it is
understood that the oil producers associ
ation is to lay a pipe line from Pittsburg
to the seaboard, in opposition to the
Standard Oil company.
Fire on the river in Bedford, just be
yond the city limits of Manchester, N.H.,
of Saturday, Samuel destroyed N. Dunbar. the farm Two buildings children
were burned to death.
A live wire full on the roof of a Third
avenue car, in New York city the other
day, and stopped its progress, it is be
lieved that it would have killed any one
who have been touched by it.
A telegram has been received from
Zanzibar staling that the report of the
massacre of Emin Bey. relief exposition,
under command of Captain Peters, had
not been confirmed up to Saturday.
The Lager Beer Brower’s association
of Now Yolk, voted $446,000 to the
world’s fair guarantee fund. Total re
ceived Wednesday was $522,000, ruak
ing the grand total now $3,554,116.
Advices from tire Pan Handle coun
A special to tlie ‘j ribunc from Albany,
N.Y. says that the firm of B. Lodge – Go.,
knit goods jobbers, of that cuty, has been
forced „i iuto busiheis, an assignment with $'?00o0 by liabilities. » tUpi'es
oa ; n
The official gazette at tlie city of
Mejticd publishes a contract entered into
be! ween that government aud Francisco
Alfaro for the construction by Ihe latter
of a railroad from the ltio Grande to the
Pacific coast.
The supreme court of Indiana has de
cided that natural gas is ft commercial
commodity, and, consequently, the legis
lative act of last winter prohibiting the
tutional, piping of gas out of the state Unconsti
T he w'obl glowers of AV'cs'ern Texas
havb coirclnded to send a delegate to
Washington to look after and protect the
interest of committee the wool growers and generally
before the of ways means
of the coming Congress.
Daniel V. Carmichael, one of the beat
known business men of Amsterdam, N.
Y., was arrested Tuesday night by De
tective Sweeney, of Albany, on the
charge of forgery. Thu forgeries extend
over a period of two years.
Tho proposition to remove the remains
of General Grant from Riverside Hark,
New York, to Arlington, near Washing
ton city, seems to b > meeting favorable
consideration. It is indorsed by two or
three posts of the G, A, ft.
be Mrs. important Mandia Morgan, witness for who the is said to
an prosecu
tion in tlie Cronin case, was sandbagged
in Chicago, ill., Saturday night, by ah
unknown person, and as a result of the
Mow i« now in a dangerous condition.
The new state of North Dakota begins
business with a bonded indebtedne * of
$50u,000 and a floating indebtedness of
about $60,000. With the strictest econ
omy there will be a further defficiency
during the first year of at least $30,000.
A call has been issued by the temper
ance societies of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa,
North arid South Dakota, for a conven
tion to be held in Omaha on tho 18lh of
December, for the purpose of organizing
the states named in a central prohibition
organization.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York for week ending Saturday,
November 9, amounted to $342,641, of
which $10,426 was in gold and 332,035
in amounted silver. Imports $279. of specie Jast week
to ICG, of which $177,331
was in gold, and $101,838 in silver.
The Middlesborouch, excited. England, iron
market is No. 3 Cleveland pig
syndicate is quoted at has 66s. bought It is reported that tbe
up all Cleveland
warrants, thus cornering the market.
Middles borough No. 8 warrants arc
quoted at 68s cash.
1i. Vanbosen, a prominent church
member and cashier of the Toledo, O.,
National bank, has been arrested,
charged with embezzling M, about $60,000
of tbe bank’s funds. J. Keller, tel
ler of the bank, is also under arrest ae
an accomplice.
The United States grand jury in ses
sion at Baltimore on Saturday, indicted
eighteen of the one hundred aud twenty
four Navassa rioters for murder and be
fore the fact, the penalty for which is
death. Seven are charged as principals
and eleven as having aided and abetted
the murderers.
has Bishop issued O’Dwycr, at L’.merick, Ireland,
a pastor-i letter forbidding'
tbe clergy of tho diocese to grant abso
iution to any person guilty of boycotting
or pursuing the plan of campaign. Tb/i
bishop retains to himself alone the rig.nt
to absolve such persons.
In keeping with the rise in tho iron
rnaiket, the wages of employes of blast
furnaces of the Brooks Iron eorujaiy,
at Biishorn, Pa., have been advanced ten
percent. The Warfick Iron company,
of Pottstown, la, wiilincreise its fur
nace Monday. employes’ wage! tin per cent, next
appointe<! Mayor Oreiger, committee of Chicago, leading on Tues citi- 'ey
a of
zens to confer with tac ex-Confedcrntc
Soldiers Association., relative to the re
ception don, to Gtorgis.dui'isg he tendered to Governor Gor
of his visit Novem
ber 80th. The occasion promises to be
a notable i ne.
Cronin’s It. is reported front, found Chicago that Evans- Dr,
clothes were on
ton avenue, about ou< hundred feet from
the catch basin in wi.ich the body
found, Saturday book nftertgjflu. oaiainlng In them Cronin's was
an account i
name. identified Mrs. Conklin, with whom he
lived, them ns his.
cially The Mate geologist, o' Ohio r says offi
that the natural gas supply in the
now f mous field in the northwestern
part of that statu will not, last for ten
years. In the eastern part of the state the
supply has been s 0 " nearly exhausted
that tire manufactories! have been com
pelled to return to tire use of coal.
Fire broke out Saturday night in the
Hour mill of the St. Paul Roller mill, nt
St. Paul, Minn. Clpse by is a big elova
tortor of the same company, which abo
caught fire. A loss’, if $150,000, with
insurance of $100,0‘® is involved in the
mill and contents, t'ho fire is thought
to have been caused W the explosion of
i lamp in the shipping room.
'1 he first sod of the Nicaraugua canal
was tober officially amid and the formally ijeorning turned of on Oc-
22, cannon
aud the cheers of thousands of specta
tors. Work was fejily begun misunderstand- Juno 8,
but. owing to some slight aud Costa lilea
ing between Nicaraugua
(which has since opening been amicably arran
ged)) the formal was postponed.
The attention of George W. Childs,
the editor of the Philadelphia Ledger,
has been railed to statements pub
lished in seVers! papers that he hud’ ex
pressed the opinion .''‘that the body of
General Grant will W> removed from New
Vork.” Mr. Childs denies the report and
says that he lias never expressed such an
opinion or said in any form that Genera!
Grant’s body would he so removed.
THE CRONIN TRIAL
HAD BLOOD BET WEEK COll.NRXL —A V.
MAN’S STARTLIXG TESTIMONY.
There is much bad blood between
counsel for the prosecution and tb< *-•
for tho defeme in (he Cronin case, which
is not fonfi ied to tU%,principal Counsel,
but is shared also by fii<- luniorS, There
„ ,to ,» Wronel* m adjournment, eight u,«
<-i( rk’s office after in which
District Forrest Attorney ekBhaugrd Longenecker the and lie and At
torney nearly blow-. Tub dispute
Clime to was
about the custody of exhibits which have
been placed in evidence, Counsel for
the defense wishes them taken from the
prosecuting attorney and placed in the
hands of the clerk.' This wrangle broke
out afresh in the court Wednesday
in ruing without nay appaieat reason,
except that Attorneys Forte6 and Hynes
wisiitd to (tnphasize tho distrust aiid
dislike of Prosecutor Longenecker.
lire matter testimony was finally proceeded dropped, Witi!.
au I the
The most important testimony, so far,
outside of the identification of Burke as
the man who rented the Carlson cottage,
where tl e murder was committed, is that
of a washer worn n named Paulino I ioer
lei. She tusiifl-.'il that she passed the
Carlson cottage between 8 arid 9 orr tlm
night of the murder. She saw a white
horse, drawing a buggy in whioh the thflre
were two men, driven up to cottage.
The larger man, of who the appeared like taking a gen
ilcman, got out buggy and
-i satchel or box out bf the baggy Went
up the Steps and entered the cottage.
Tho driver of the white lirirsc at Hobo
turned around and drove batik toward
Chicago. The man knocked and was at
once admitted into tire cottage. As tjuiek
as tho door was closed Mis. Hottrtel
heard ftoHhds as of blows and the fall
of a heavy body And what “Oh; sounded to her in
liko some one of calling, slit: God.” heard
tho confusion Sounds also
the Word “Jesus.” Then in a very short
time everything became still. She raid
then “it. was as sottlebody if somebody fell.” wan Witness fighting said and
ns if
this occurred suon after eight o’clock at
night. “The man who went into tho
cottage,” she continued) “went into the
house if unhesitatingly, the door and opened it seemed to
me as was or as if
s’-monu opened it for him as he came
up the steps. When i turned from Ash
land avenue and started cast I saw a man
standing between tire Carlson house and
the cotingu. lie was inside in the fence.
There was a light in front of tlie cottage
and Ihe night was bright starlight.”
THE TERRIBLE BLIZZARD.
FUATBRR PAKTtCULAlIS OF TIIE DISAS
TROUS STORM IN THK SOUTHWEST.
Various parties who spent ten days in
the snow blockade between Emory Gap
and Folsom, N. M., arrived in Trinidad,
Col., Tuesday. They report suffering to
man and animal fully as great as shown
in former reports. Patrick Casey, an
engineer, spent eleven days in making
the run. from Trinidad to Texline and
return. For two days and nights shovel- he was
without food. Seventy-five men
ling show at Mount Dora were cut off
from food for two days and nights. A
delayed passenger train was cut off from
eating stations three days. They drew
on the express cars for food supplies.
Reports says a sick man, traveling with
two children, lay on his back two days
helpless. He had only crackers for
nourishment. A sheep-grower, near Ute
creek, is reported flock to of have 8,000. lost An 5,000 engi
sheep from a
neer, running between Trinidad and
Texline, said that he saw more real des
titution during the ten days in this snow
blockade than in all his life before. The
road was opened with rotory snow plows,
hm remained open only a lew hours,
f ues day morning’s snow and wind block
e ,-j t ] i6 cut8 been' again. Altogether the bliz
zar d Las a terrible one. None of
,Le residents of that part of the country
erer heard of such a one in south Colo
ra( j 0 or jf ew Mexico.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A COmmNSVD ACCOUNT OV WHA T 19 (501X0 ox or
mrOBTANO* IN THE BOtTTBKBM STATES.
Miss Nellie P. Hunt, daughter of the
late Win, II. limit, of Louisiana, ex
minister to Husain and a member ot Gar
field’s cabinet, has been cltosen private
secretary to Sirs. Levi P. Morton.
The assessment of property for taxa
tion in Louisiana lure just I ecu com
pleted. The total amount is $223,394,-
756, which is im increase of about 9 per
cent, over tho assessment of 1388.
it is now said that the last reported
fight between tho Hatfields and McCoys and
West Virginia never occurred,
that tho accounts of previous conflicts
between these factions were much ex
aggerated.
Monday A dispatch from Sacramento, who Cal., on
says: Frank J. Lee, ac
companied this city Sam Jones, the revivalist, to
last winter as his private score
tary, is now locked up in the city prison
on n charge of burglary.
Hon. invitation Jefferson Davis, who had approach- accepted
nu to attend 1 lie
ing centennial at Fayetteville, N. C., Juts
written it letter to the committee of ar
rangements, in which ire states that hi.x
health will not permit him to be present.
Ten men have been arrested at Cleve
land, Tcnu., for passing counterfeit
money. The operations of the counter
feiters have been very extensive through
out that section for several months past,
silver dollars being the principal coins
made.
A special of Tuesday to the Courier
Jwtrrwl from Load on, Ky., Frcnch-Eversolo says: Reports
from the light of the
factions in Perry county continue to be
meager and conflicting, but, them is no
doubt that a desperate encounter com
menced at Hazard Thursday, and is yet
perhaps in progress.
The Kentucky court of appeals on Sat
urday affirmed the decision of the Pike
County court in the Hatfield-McCoy.case.
Valentine Hatfield, l’ylant Mahorn and
Dock Mahorn go to the penitentiary for
life for tho murder of Tolbert McCoy,
and Ellison Mounts will hang for the
murder of tire girl Alinf McCoy, the sis
ter of the muiuered mtm.
News of a horrible double murder
comes from Johnston county, N. C. An
■iged and respectable lady named Mrs.
, lia Brown resided in the country,
!IL( rut four miles from Selma, with her
little grandson eight years of age. Sat
in-,lay morning both were found mur
,!cii-J. They had been killed with a
(tin. No clew ha* been obtained to fi»
miif.i deter and no v it vSti be tie
Hgne« eit.
The well /- iowii case of Charles K.
Cross and Samuel cashieE C. White, defaulting
president and respectively, Raleigh, N, of
the State National hank of
C., was finally disposed of Monday by
au opinion rendered liy Justice Harlan in
lire United States supreme court. The
effect of tlie decision will be to compel
Chore and White to serve out tlie term
for which they were sentenced.
The royal chapter of King’s Daughters,
which Is Composed of delegates from the
various circles in tbe state, met at
Charleston, S. O., Sunday, and was very
sijtnly at tended. The slim attendance
was attributed tti the publication in a
newspaper of a card, which was supposed
to have been written by which a prb'minenl writer
King’s Daughter and in the
urged the King’s Daughters to get pardon up a
petition to Queen Victoria for the
of Mrs, Maybrick.
News comes from Raleigh, N. C., that
tlie reports of very valuable finds of gold
in Montgomery county are true, and that
there is already much excitement in that
section, which may develop into a rush
if the discoveries Continue, 'ihe char
acter of gold found shows Hint it has
been beftleh from veins. The find will
ghatly stimulate ihe richest mining in the in state that in county, alfrif
which is
crolls deposits.
TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT
While in the act ot» in.Afcixo A dan
gerous OBSTRUCTION ON TUli TRACK.
The t'fentral paSsofiger train which left
Atlahla, Gn., bound for Macon, Wednes
day evening, narrowly escaped a reached fearful
wreck. By tho time ilic train
Weitvrew; near McPherson barracks, the
engine was under good headway. The
watchman who looks afier the tracks
near Oakland was walking tlie tinck
when suddenly he discovered ahead a man of
bending over stepped the track just andaski-dthc
him. He for-wai d
man what he was recognized doing, when him the luttcr Dick
raised up and he as
Latham, a negro well known in Atlanta.
Glancing at of the, railroad track, iron, the watchman curiously
saw beat, n piece the rail. The headlight
lying on flirsbe full it, and he
Of the train I upon
saw that it had been tied to the track
with wire, and lie tugged away at it,
getting it clear of tho nil just as the
wheels of the locomotive passed over the
wires that he did not have time to dis-n
tangle. By that time the negro had es
caped, but wai captured l iter in the tied
night. Tiie, spot where the Iron was
to the track is within fifty yards of the
pl.ee where tire fame train was wrecked
by a cross-tie when placed three on railroad tlie track some fast
w'ceks ago, men
their lives.
THROUGH THE SHOALS.
A MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMBOAT RANDS
at Chattanooga's wharf.
The steamboat, A. C. Conn, a Missis
sippi river craft, passed through Muscle
Shoals cunal and arrived at the wharf in
Chattanooga, Term., Thursday morning.
This is the first vessel which lias passed about
through the great canals now
completed. The construction of canals
to overcome obstructions in the Tennes
see river at Muscle Shoals was com
mence by the government :n 1873, and
nearly four million dollars have thus far
been expended on the work. The open
ing of the canals, which will formally
take place in a few weeks, will give wa
ter transportation nine months in the
year from Chattanooga to the Mississippi
liver.
NUMBER 52.
TERRIBLE BLIZZARDS.
COWBOYS AND TlIKIll HERDS FKOZI'N TO
DEATH.
A special on Saturday to tho Denver,
Col., Republican from Dayton, N. M.,
says: “Unless the snow storm, which
has been raging for eight days, will show comes the to
an end soon, next summer
country covered with the dead bodies of
animals as thickly ns was the old Santa
Fo trail in the sixties. The depth twenty-six of tho
snow is now not less than
inches on a level, and in many places it
has drifted teven hot high. When the
storm struck this section, seven large
herds of cattle, numbering from 400 to
2,000, were being held near this place
awaiting shipment to eastern markets.
Tho rain of a week ago was followed last
Thursday morning by blizzards of snow
and sleet which sent the herds in a
southerly direction. In vain did the al
ready half frozen cowboys try to check
tire march of the herds, but on they
went through the increasing storm until,
finding it utterly impossible to hold the
cattle, the cowboys rode aside and let
them pass, and when nearly dead rode
the exhausted horses into canyons, or
partially sheltered places, where they
passed many hours of misery without
food or fire. Five cowmen are known to
bo frozen to death. Two Mexican sheep
herders have been found frozen to death.
Two men coming in report drifts in some
places seven and eight feet high, in which
there are hundreds of dead stock, many
with horns and heads above the snow,
in one drift thirteen were counted; in
another, ten. Some of these were alive,
but unable to move from their frigid
prison. Herds of sheep are and completely
wiped out of existence, range for
thirty miles from town is covered with
dead carcasses. It is estimated that 20,
Oi 0 sheep ha ru perlshetl Texlino, la mat miles part be- or
the territory. At ten
low Clayton, two passenger trains have
been snowbound for the week. Provi
sions aro running out and passengers are
compelled to venture out in the storm
and kill the cnttle, quarters of which are
taken into the cars and roasted for food.
The storm is by far the worst ever known
in New Mexico, and the exact loss of life
and property cannot at present be esti
muied.
A COURT ROOM FIGHT
IN WHICH TURKU PERSONS ARK KILLED
AND SISVEilAt, SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
A dispatch from Lexington, Va., says:
“Reports received here from Br own
burg, a small village of about -800 peo
ple, in Rockbridge county, fourteen
miles north of Lexington, state that that
village is in a high state of excitement
over a terrible and bloodv tight between
ieatmtg <m.„ dead < •. .»..... dr fatally “von,.,..., wounded,
persona are number of others severely
while a are
injured. It seems that Dr. F. J.
Walker, one of the most prominent phy
sicians and surgeons of tho state, had
threatened tho life of Henry Miller, a
prominent and wealthy citizen of Rock
bridge county, for an insult offered tiro
former’s wife. Miller had Wulkcr ar
rested to keep tlie peace. Friday even
ing the case came up in a magistrate’s
court, and the trouble soon started,
which ended in both sides drawing tbeir
weapons. Miller was killed, Dr.
Walker fatally wounded aud Mrs. Walk
er. who was in court as a witness, was
killed. Dan and William Miller, sons of
lire accused, were shot and dangerously
wounded. Samtiel Beaver and others
whose names are unknown, aro also in
jured.” A later dispatch ssys:_ “Dr.
p. J. Walker, who was wounded in the
Brownburg affair Friday evening, near
Lexington, Va., has (lied from iris
wounds. Dave Miller is mortally
wounded, and his brothers George,
Janus and William Implicated in ihe
shooting of Dr. Walker and his wife, are
in jail. Lyucnlng is feared.”
TRIED FIVE TIMES,
AN EDGfCFIUD, S. O., MUttDKKKU ESCAPES
THE GALLOWS FOR THE FIFTH TIME.
Nows comes frortl Charleston, 8. (*.,
that tire fifth trial of it. T. Jones, the
model Edgefield flrttrdefer.is now in pro
gress at the Edgefield coUrtliou-e. Borne
five Or six years ago Jones, who married
a Miss Pressley, got mad witlr iris wife’s
relatives, took his shot gab and three or
iditf bdtcller knives, and went out into
field where his father-in-law, aged sev
enty years, and three brothers-in-law,
were at wo;k. Jones established a hii
Ihiui (Abattoir, lie murdered his aged
faiher-in-law aiid butchered his three
brothers-in-law. He then went in the
courthouse village and surrendered him
self. The murder occurred during the
siesion of Ore court at which the Cul
breath lynchers were being tried for the
murder of an innocent man. Jones 1ms
been a hero ever since. Five times he
has been brought to trial, and each time
lie has escaped by a mistrial.
A BOLD ROBBERY
BY TWO MEN, SUPPOSED TO RE RUBE
burrow and nrs rAL.
A sp cia’t to the Birmingham Aye-Her
ald. from Sulligent, Ala., the nearest
telegraph office to Vernon, the county
seat of Lamar counly, tells of a bold
robbery early Wednesday night Two
hi-nvilv armed men rode up to the resi
dence "of Mr. Summers, a merchant in
Vernon, and asked him to go to bis store
and let them have some burial material
for a person who had just died out in the
country. Summers went and let them
into the store, struck a light., and
w .s surprised to find himself looking
down the barrel of a big revolver .11
obedience to instructions he opened hundred his
► afe and gave the robbers four
dollars, ali he had. The robbers are sup
posed to be Ruhr. Burrow and his part
ner. Burrow’s home it only seven miles
from Vernon.
COTTON OIL TRUST.
VUB PRESIDENT AND TREASURER SEND IN
THEIR RESIGNATIONS.
At a meeting.of ihe board of trustees
nf the American cotton oil trust held at
New York on Monday the resignations Jay
of J. H. Fldgier, as president, and
Moss, as treasurer of the board, were
tead and accepted.
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Tiro secretary of tho treasury has ap.
pointed L. G. Jeffers superintendent of
construction > f the federal buildings at
moved. Birmingham, Ala., vice Shepherd, re
Dr. Green, president of tho Western
Union Telegraph company, is preptring
« reply to PoaliuasteNGencral tv'.-ma
£ kcr’s scbedule of rates ! ln accoicUnce
w itlr tire directions of the executive com-'
1011 tee.
The president on Tuesday appointed
the following fourth-class postmasters:
Miss Laura A. Cobb, Blairsville; James
K. Goethe, Dale’s Mill; A. P. Howell,
Lax, Gu., and James K. Ozincnt, Battle
Ground, N. C.
A new steward has been secured by
the president for tire white house. This
tint: i he choice lias fallen upon a Scotch
histimun. Philijr McKim. For many
years McKim was steward at the Metro
prolitan Club, of Washington.
The uow Catholic University of Amer
ica was on Wednesday formally opened
with impressive number ceremonies of prelates in the of pres- the
ence i f a large
church and distinguished laymen tremi
all parts of the country.
Monday afternoon the president issued
his proclamation declaring that the con
ditions imposed by congress on the state
of Washington to entitle that state to
admission to the Union have been rati
fied and accepted, and that the admis
sion of snid state into the Union is uow
complete.
Fourth Auditor Lynch, in his annual
report to tho secretary of the treasury,
says that there is a deficiency of $233,464
in the appropriation for the pay of the
navy and marine corps for the last fiscal
year, caused partly by the payment out
of the fund of claims for longevity, ships under and
tor service on board receiving
the recent decisions of the Supreme
Court. The Auditor makes au earnesl
recommendation for an increase in the
cleric d force of his office.
In the casp of Goode Simonds vs. the
Piedmont Air-Line company, in which
discrimination in the payment of rebates
on commutation tickets is charged, the
interstate commerce commission has
granted leave to the complainant granted, to
amend his pietition, which was
lay substituting the Richmond and Dan
villc ltuilroud company in place of the
Piedmont Air-Line as defendant. The
ease will be postponed to allow defend
t time to,answer. . Ill the case of the
iil/iiy . •omprt*#-jiiimmiriiJ
.‘-■{iTjugs t Uityp
hiring company vs. the Kansas
Memphis and Birmingham radrosd com
pany, relating complaint to rates on cotton, Saturday an
amended was on
filed and the hearing of the case, 14th, previ
ously set for hearing November has
been postponed to allow defendant the
usual time for answering.
November cotton returns of the de
partment of agriculture show a remark
able variation in the condition in differ
ent localities. In North Carolina and
Virginia the season has been very short
and excessively wet, and the crop seri
ously injured by long continued rains in
the season of blossoming. Tennessee by
reports injury to the crop wet
weather, lack of cultivation, and early
frosts duriug the past month. In these
states the crop is much worse than that
of last year. Elsewhere the crop is
comparatively late, especially from South
Carolina to Alabama, with a large growth
of weed. In the lowlands early frosts
have injured crops cost of Mississippi,
-while the uplands in the southern belt are
still green. West of Mississippi, liierehas' in a
large portion of the cotton urea,
been no frost. The weather for picking
lias been remarkably favorable, assuring
the gathering without waste of all that is
opened in excellent condition. Indica
tions of the yield per about acre, three by county cent cor- I
higher respondents, last are So much per still de-1
than year.
pends on future killing frosts and sunny
weather for opening and gathering that
the result cannot be known very closely
until after Christmas. There has not
general loss by caterpillar ........
been severe
and boll worm, though the damage in
some localities has been serious.
A POWERFUL ORDER.
THE PATRONS OP HUSBANDRY GOINS Tl
HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAY.
A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich.,
lays that not less than 75,000 Patrons Michigan] of Hus
(nrmcra h*ve joined May, the and the munbei
bandry since last threaten
is increasing ^'ery week. They
to become of the a controlling state, and then power to spread m thj
politics entire country. The paironj
over tbe forced, into being by
ciaim to have been propotd
monopolies and trusts, and they
to orgauize a combination that will
stiike terror present to the the hearts patrons of their are devol eriej
miss. At merchants
ting themselves exclusively to
and in every town where they have I
foothold they enter into an iron-clal
contract witlr one dealer in each line <1
trade to purchase only from him, exacl
ing a pledge that they shall not 1J
charged to exceed twelve per cent ad
vauce on wholesale prices, the patron
have lodges in forty- seven counties, wit
ti ruembfcrship of more than 6,000, I
OUT OF PRISON,
QKOUQK FRANCIS TRAIN WILL EXP
THE WICKEDNESS OF BOSTON.
George Francis Train was brought
tore Judge McKim in the probate co
at Boston, Mass., on Monday by moron
where testimony was mental given conditf seve
witnesses as to his
After hearing the evidence and ar,
ments of counsel, Judge McKim gave
decision that Train was not insane enoi
to be confined in an asylum, but evidei
of unbalanced mind, and therefore*!
properly held in durance for d
He was therefore discharged. back
Train rays he — will not go
New York until ha has laid bate
wickedness of Boston,