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VOLUME VIII.
CHURCH DIRECTORY
METHODlST—Douglasvii l e—Fi rs t
third and fifth Sundays.
Sam Springs—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. W. R. Foote, Pastor.
BAPTIST-—Douglas Ville—First aud
fourth Sundays. Rev. A. B. Vaughn,
um tor.
MASONIC.
* s H&ouglasville Lodge, No. 289, F. A.
M., m'eets cn Saturday night before the
first and third Sundays- in each month.
J. R. Carter, W. M., W. J. Camp, Sec
retary.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—H. T. Cooper.
;; -t’ierk—S. N. Dorwtt.
Sheriff—Henry Ward,
kjbeputy Sheriff— G. M. Souter.
Wax Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Wax Collector—W. A. Sayer.
Samuel Shannon,
purveyor—John M. Huey.
BBoroner —F. M. Mitchell.
'J SUPERIOR court.
■Meets qh third Mondays in January and
1 July and holds two weeks,
gjudge—Hon Samson W. Harris,
ggol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
; Jblerk—S. N. Dorsett.
I Sheriff— Henry Ward.
U COUNTY COURT.
; Meets in quarterly session on fourth
. in February, May, August and
g»ovember and holds until all the cases
gj>u the docket are called. In monthly
Session it meets on the fourth Monday’*
jin each month.
Wudge—Hon. R. A. Massey.
801, Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
|B ailiff—D. W. Johns.
ordinary’s court.
: J Meets for ordinary purpose# on first
Woaday, and for county purposes on first
ft’uesday in each month.
? Sudg<*—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
II justices’ courts.
|| 780th Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
gn each month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W’.
• W. CWh, N.-P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Blunt, L. C’s.
I 780th Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
Bay. A. R. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold.
-fL P., 8. C. Yeager, L. C.
’L G. M. meets fourth Saturday
yranklm Carver, J. P., C. B. Baggett,
HN. P., J. C. James and M. 8. Gore, L.
i 1259th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
llay. T. M. Hamilton, J. P., M. L.
lyates, N. P., 8. W. Biggers, L. C., 8.
B. Jourdan, L. 0.
| 1260th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur-
W > S ’ # ud ’
It
feia7Bd Dist. G. M. meets third Friday,
ffhomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N.
gp. W. J. Harbin, L. C.
I Professional Cards.
fiGStRT A. MASSEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in from room, Dorsett's Building- r
Will practice anywhere except hi ths County
Court of Douginas county,
w. a. James,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in all ths courts, Slate au
Federal. Office on Conn House Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
W». I ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All legs
nusinesa will receive prompt attention. Officv
in Conn House.
0.0 CAMP,
ATTORNBY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA
Will practice in all the courts. AU business
Mtrusted to him will receive omtnpt-
B. G. GRIGGS?
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOU3LASVILLK, GA.
Will praetlos in all tbs courts, Stats and
Federal.
JOHN M, EDGE, * |
ATTORNEY AT LAW,’
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice tn all the courts, and promptly *
oUstid to all busmens entrusted to iris Tare. I
Fs. J ARR ES,
ATTORNEY at LAW, I
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
IWI praeUae hi the courts of DonrlM*. i
rsuipbeh. Carrol’, Paulding, Cobh, Fulton and |
adfoiulng eounlie*. Prompt au«nlk>n civsb
to all buaiiMwa.
j. h. McLarty,
attorney AT LAW.
IX»V<iLA»VnAK. OA.
Will practice in all ths charts, toih Stale and I
Rsds HA ttslicrtiuM a spema ty.
JtHN V ECGE.
attorney at law.
BOCeLASVILLS. GA.
JOB PRINTING
KEAH.Y OOHE ,
AT THE "STAR” OFFKJB-
£ O s '--’
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THE WEEKLY STAR
j THE NEWS IN GENERAL
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM AU. POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
William Reed, Treasurer of the South
Boston Horse-Car Company, has been ar
rested for misappropriating $104,000, which
he confesses has been sunk in private specu
lation.
About 100 persons—one-half of them
women—were a> rested at Amsterdam, N.Y.,
for acting as “pickets” in the great strike
against knit goods manufacturers.
H. M. Hoxie, First Vice-President and
General Manager of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, died a few days ago in New York.
; He attained national prominence in the re
cent great railroad strike in the Southwest
Gilbert F. Robbins (Rep.) has been
elected Mayor of Providence by 262 majority
over the Democratic and Prohibition candi
dates.
Erastus Bnooks, for many years promi
nent in New York journalistic an 1 political
life, is dead in his seventy-second year.
A tug-boat’s boiler burst at New York a
few days since and all on board—four or five
men—were killed.
There were 1,530 labor strikes in New
York State and City the past year, as against
80J in 1085.
Baker & Clark, wholesale New York
grocers, failed for $300,000.
Governor Currier has appointed ex-
Governor Cheney United States Senator,
from New Hampshire, to fill the vacancy oc
casioned by the death of Austin F. Pike.
Ex-Aldermaw McQuade’s trial for brib
ery in Neiv York resulted in a disagreement
ot the jmy, nine being for acquittal and
three for conv.ction. The iury were out
over thirty-eight hours. The result cre
ated great surprise, as it was genera ly be
lieved that the confession of ex-Aidermen
Ful gra f and Du fy would result in convic
tion. The mistrial wa; attributed in a great
degree to the Judge’s charge, which was quite
favorable to the prisoner. The Judge or
dered a new trial for the 29th.
WASHINGTON.
M. E. Bell, Supervising Architect of the
Treasury, in his annual report says that ac
tive operations w re prosecuted during the
year cn eighty-one buildintrs in various parts
of the country, varying in cost of coustruc
ton irom >5 ),<>uu to $2,5 kj.oOO. The t >tal
e ipenditure during the year noon new build
ings aggregated $2,U»2.U», and the expense
of repairs on old buildings, e c., was $319,-
192. making a total expenditure of $2,40.‘,2:U.
The Appropriations Committee of the
House of Kepre-entatives met in Washing
ton on the k2d pur uaut to the call of
< ha rman Kandall, and assi ned the appro
priation b Ils to the same sub-committees re
spe tively wh.ch had them in charge last
tession.
The total number of apprentices in the
naval service at the dose of the fiscal year
was 1,195; total number of men and appren
tices in the service, 5.123.
The President has appointed Bishop
Gordon, of Minnesota, to be receiver of
public moneys at Redwood Falls, Minn.
The annual report of United States
Quartern aster-General
transportation
sHMBKkt bri
Jm l Tffßwliunl report to the Secretary of
War, General Me Feely, Commissary-General
of Subsistence, savs th it his bureau expended
11,174,650 during the last fiscal year.
Five large firms have handed in bids for
the construction of the new government
cruisers and gunboats to be built un ler di- ;
rection of the Navy Department.
The trial of Washington police officials
charged with inaugurating a spying system
upon the p ivate doings and habits of Con- '
gressmen has ended in the aecentanoe of |
Chief Walker’s resignation, the dismissal of !
Lieutenant Arnold and Private Edelin and i
the disciplining of two other officers.
FOREIGN.
Eviction processes are being served on 800
tenants on the Castlebar estates of Lord Dil
lon in Ireland.
Russia has intrusted France with the pro
tection of Russian subjects in Bulgaria.
Princess E’atrice, wife of Prince Henry
of Battenberg, end youngest daughter of
Queen Victoria has civen birth to a son.
KEWSY GLEAKIMGS.
The Austrian Government has issued an
order proh.b ting poker playing.
Thk emigration into Kansas this yea.
equals the population of Baltimore.
A large number of counterfeit silver dcr
iarsare being circulated in Minne ot*.
C. A. Davis, of Nevada, Ma. sneezed so
Violently the other day that he broke one of i
his riba
The fire losses of this year are evidently
going to exceed by a great deal the usual av
e:age of SIOO,<Kki,OOJ.
T jerk are 9tt,tD > women on the United
States i e iaion rolls m widows, dependents or
relatives of deceased soldiers.
In New York < ity there are between 3,0'0
anti S,(MU Chinamen, nearly all of the lower
clas . yet ‘berj are less than twenty-five
Japanese res.dents.
Petroleum has been discovered in Linlith- !
gnwahire, Scotland, in workable quantities,
m its natural rate—the first “find” of the ;
sort in Great Britain.
Fifty thousand tons of eoot are taken from
i I tendon chimneys in a year. It is estimated
i to be worth >2O , Oo and is used as a teruli
aer, half a ton to au acre.
rhe cotton crop will be a little less than
i ft,suu,(XX} bale*, which b not quite so large as
I tb.«v of 18<’, but am io for the demand with
out a decided adva-ice in the price.
The tota number of blast furnaces in this
country, in blast November 1. was 112, w.th
a weedy <a acity of 134,#41 tons of pig,
with 273 furua-e\ with a weekly capacity
Os U1.4U9 tons out of blast
AN INTEKE9TING DECISION.
The Halted States Circuit court has
' decided a case against the Western Union
j telegraph company of interest to the pub
! lie. A creditor at Memphis telegraphed
I to his lawyer us follows: “A. B. owes
, me |1,000.’ If grounds, attach.”
j This dispatch was not delivered. Sub
sequently a similar dispatch was sent by
another creditor to the same lawyer. An
attachment was laid on the money, but
i only enough to pay the second creditor.
J The first creditor sued the Western
I Union, ami Hie court held the company
! liable for the debt. Judge Jackson, in
I delivering hi# opinion, mid that the dis
” patch disclosed on the face of it its im
| portance.
FISH TO BE EXAMINED.
I ■
The Department of Justice has direct
ed the pnstm surgeon at the Auburn
Pvn-.teutiary to make an examinatiou of
the condition <rf cx-Banker Fish, «i the
dejwtment dew not wish to be guided in
he by the prejudiced report
.»f Fish» family physician. There will
» be no action taken at ths departnamt
t until thi* report further iLformaiiou
1 fimiß the Dmrm Artersey s is
F-A.WIVIINO TO NONE CHARITY TO ALL.
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DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER?. 18S6-
STONE MUST GO.
THE PRESIDENT RE FUSES TO
REINSTATE HIM.
Cleveland’# Reason# for Hi# Actions la
Removing the Attorney-General.
President Cleveland has made public the
following coi’respondence:
I.
Pittsburg, Nov. 18, 188 b.
The Hon. A. H. Garland, Attorney-Gen
eral:
Sir—l have read the correspondence be
twee. i the President and the Hou. M. E. Ben
ton, Uni ed States Attorney, connected with
his restoration to office, in whi h it appears
that ho was suspended from office for his ap
parent neglect of official duties in maxing
campaign spee hes. Presumably my sus
pension was ordered for the same reason. I
desire, therefore, to state the facts in my
case. I maJe but two speeches prior to the
receipt of the order of suspension; one at
Butl r in an adjoining county on the evening
-of October 1, and one at Kittanning, a town
j... near to Pittsbu g, on the evening of October
2. I did not leave Pittsburg or Butler until
nearly 4 o’cJock O. tober 1, and returned on
the morning of the kd of October a out 9
o’<lo k. I left Pitt-barg for Kittan-
I ning Saturday, October 2, about-5 o’clock p.
M., an J returned tie same night. Upon
bo h of the above dates the United States
Courts here were not in session, except a
short time in the mornin rof each day foror
i dinary motions. I was in attendance upon
' the courts during their sittings and did not
j leave the city upon either occasion until long
j after the court had ad .ourned. On October
; Ibth the United States District Court be
gan its session at Pitt burg for the trial
of jury causes, a petit and Grand Jury
be ng in attendan e. From O tober 2 until
October 18 I was engaged in the preparation
of United Sta e i causes for trial, and from
O to er 18 to October 27, the date of the re
ceipt of the order of sustieusion, I was en
g ged in rhe trial of these causes. Neither
during this period from October 2 to O tober
27, nor at any other time, did I in any i ar
ticular neglect the duties of my offi a
! Th se statements may be verified by in-
■ quiry of any offi er of our courts.
I feel it my duty, after rea ling
the correspondence between the President
and Mr. Beuton, to state these facts in us
ti e to myself, and res ectfu.ly request that
| this communication be referred t > the Presi*
i dent. I may also arid that I did not think
■ that making an ocean mal campaign speech
j to my neighbors, while not negle tin; the
’ duties of my office, would be a violation of
j the President’s order of July 10. 1856. Very
■ respectfully, your obedient servant,
. William A. Stone.
11.
Executive Mansion, Nov. 23,1583.
I To Hon. .4. H Garland. Atty-General:
Dear Sir: I have read the letter of the
! 13th test., written to you by William A.
i Stone, lately suspended from office as District
j Attorney for the Western District of Penn-
■ sylvania, and the subject matter to whi h it
refers has receive 1 my careful consideration.
! I shall not impute to the writer any misch ev
ous motive in his plainly erroneous assump
tion that his case and that of M. E. Benton,
re ently suspended and reinstated, rest upon
the same state of 1 a ts, but prefer to regard
his let er as containing the best statement
possible upon the question of his reistate
ment.
J „ remember, of course, that soon after
i held by Treason of
i exp lanations of bis friends. These* ex
cuses and explanatons induced me tG.,qbe
lieve that'Mr. Stone’s retention would insure
| a faithful performance of official duty, and
that whatever otle sh e partizauship he had
' dee ■ e I justi iable in other circumstances he
j would, during hi-, continuance in office at hi#
I request, under an Admi istration opposed to
l him in political creed and policy, content
i himself with a quiet and unobtrusive en
i joyment of his political privileges. I
. certainly supposed that his sense of
propriety would cause him to re
! train irom pursuing such a > artisaa course
j as would wantonly offend and irr tate the
friewis of the Administration, who insisted
that he should not be retained in pffice, either
because of his personal merit or in adher
ence to the methods which for a long time
ha 1 prevailed in the distribution of Federal
offices.
In the light of a better system, and without
considering his political affiliations, Mr. Stone
when j ermitted to remain in office became a
part or the business organization of the pres
ent administration, hound by every obliga
tion of honor to assist w thin nis sphere in its
successful operation. This obligation in
volved not only the proper performan e of
official duty, but a certain good faith and
fidelity, which, while not exacting the least
sacrifice of political mnciple, forbade active
participation in purely partisan demonstra
tions of a pronounced type, unde taren tor
the purpose of advancing partisan interests
and condu ted upon the avowed theory that
the Administration of the Government was
not entitle Ito the con fid nee and res ecto* ths
i people. There isnodnpute whateverconcern
j mg the fact that Mr. Stone did join others
j who we e campaigning the Mate <Y Benn
i sylvania in opixwit on to the Administration,
i It a pears, too, tha? he was active and protni
• nent with noisy enthiis am, in attendance
upon at least two large nu dicmeetings; that
i thes ee hesatsu h meetings were la tely
devoted to abuse and mis e res .mtation of
the A iminist &ti n; that he approved
all th.s. and actually addressed the meet ng
himself in some -hat the same strain; that
he attended such meetings away from his
hme for the purpose of making such ad
’ dresses, and that he was advertised as one of
: the speakers at each of aid meetings.
i I shall aci-ept as true the statement of Mr. !
j Stone that ths t me spent by him in thui
demonstrating hie willingness to hold a profit
able office at the hands of an Administration
which fee en savored to dis-redit w.th the
people, and which had kindly over! oked his
previous o Tenses, aid not result in the
neglect of ordinary official duty. But his
conduct has brou gbt to light such an un
friendliness toward the Administration
which he pretends io serve, and of
whith he is nominally a fart, and such
a con equent lacs of loyal m erest in its sue
{ cess, that the safest and surest gua an'ee of
his faithful service is in my opinion entirely
; wanting. His course, in its?!? such as should
not have been entered uon while ma nta n
i in g official relations to the A iministradon,
also renews and revives witu unmistakable
interpretation of their character and intent
the charges of offensive part sanship h.-reto
tore made and up to this time held in abey-
| anre.
Mr. Stone and others of like disporltion
are not to supp. se ihat party lines are so far
| obliterated that the administration of the
government is to be traded in places high or
I low t« those who aggressively and constantly
endeavor unfairly to destroy the confidence
of the people in the j arty responsible for
5 ca b aimiui-tratioa While vicious par
j Usan meth ds should not be allowed
' for partisan purposes to degrade or in
| jure the public service, it is my be
1 net that nothing te ds so much to dis* redit
our efforts in the interest of su h service to
treat fairly and gnerously toe official in
cumben 'v of pobti al opponents as conduct
such as is here ! » lceed. The peo{de of this
co ntry certainly do not require the best re
sults of adrainis rative endeavor to be
rea hed with sn< h agencies as these.
Upon a fall consideiation of all I bare be
fore me, I am co’istraiiied to decline the ap
plication of Mr Stone for his reinstatement.
I inclose his letter with thra, and desire you
to a quaint him with my decision Your#
I truly, Grover Clevelaso.
1 ni.
D tPAKTMKXT OF J USTICE, 1
Washivgtos, D. G. Nov. Jt, im I
THw Hon. Wiliam A. Pa.:
Sir: lam directed by th® PrwadMDt to say
. to you that, after consideration of your M
tie'of the Tto mhto.. he M
riisnge Ui- order
POSTOFFICE EEPORTS.
The Annual Summary a# Presented by Poat-
I maaier-General Vila#.
The reportof Postmaster-General Vilas so:
the past fiscal year has just been published
1 lu introducing it Mr. Vilas points out
that the mileage of mail transportation ex
ceeded by more than 125,000,000 the service
rendered to any other Government, and the
letters mailed were 100,000,000 more than in
Great Britain, long the leading letter writing
nation. During the year 22,747 postmasters
were appointed, of which 9,536 were upon re
movals. Sixteen postmasters were arrested
for fraud, and >OO or 4UO are undergoing in
vestigation. By vigilan eon the part of in
spectors, $78,575.60 has been reclaimed by
the government as wrongfully taken.
The tree-delivery system has been ex
tended to Aurora, HL; Duuth, Minn., and
Newport, Ky. Os carriers there was au in
crease of 483, making the total 4,841. The
cost was $4,312,.,03. <O. an increase of $3.23,-
3.54.15, or 8.15 per ce .t, The number of
pieces of mail matter handled was
1,949,520,599, an increase of 204,9.-3,-
iBO. The amount of pos.ageon 10-al matter
was $5pt0J,212.97, an e -cess over the < ost of
the service of $1,526.9 >6.37. Mg. Vilas re
peats his recommendation that the service
be extended to p aces of l n ,o(JOmhabltants, or
$10,( 0J gross annual revenue.
Tha Money order Sjsten has been ex
tended to 301 additional offices, and during
the year there were i55ued.7,940,302 domestic
oiders for nearly $114,000,000 ; 5,999,428 pos
tal notes, for $11,718,000, and 493,4:3 inter
national orders, lor *7,178,786.2L TlSetotal
netrev<ftueiuto the Treasury was $350,551.87.
The Special Delivery Service, Mr. Vilas
says, has been hampered by its limitations,
but $84,7>4.82 has been spent for it, a gross
profit of about $27,000.
Tue financial condition of the service has
improved. Mr. Vilas Bays, beyond expecta
tion. For instance, the total excese of cost
over revenue was $5,254,151.53. In 1885 tha
total excess was $8,321,6 >5.70.
The estimate of the revenue for the coming
year is $47,312,710. -3. The appropriations
f >r the year exclusive of the cost of the
special delivery service exceed this sum by
$.J153,15 -.42.
The estimated revenue for 1838 is $50,612,-
593.46, and probable disbursements, $55,343,-
150.15, ’
The report speaks in favorable terms of
ths letter h-et envelopes. The deal letter
office handled 5,023,74? pieces during the
year.
When the fiscal year 1886 closed, the post
offices of the United States numbered 53,614,
besides 497 branch offices or stations.
IN ATLANTA
A Maa Shoot# HU Brother and Thon Him
self—Both Dead.
In Atlanta, on Friday, four or five pis
tol shots were heard iu a room at 424
Broad street. When an entrance
had been forced to the room, the
bodies of 0. C. Hill and Robert P. Hill
were found lying upon the floor, one
across the other. Everything was cov
ered with blood, and a large pistol lay
near the bodies. Tie five chambers
were empty. rs
it awful* Bub HiU
kWffigiushed lawyer, formerly of Atlsn
te midfffg oii fm farm a fdw miles “
from Dalton, Ga. Robert P. Hill was a
rising* young lawyer of this city, and the
younger of the brothers, being about 30
years old. He was bright, popular and
and generous. O. C. Hill was ab iut 35
years old. He was bill clerk for the
West Point railroad. Both were gradu
ates of the State University, both unmar
ried, both excellent and noble-hearted
men, except when drinking. They were
the only children of a devoted mother
and attached father.
CATTLE DISEASED AT CHICAGO.
About fi,ODO Head Under Quarantine—Tu>
Les# Very Lu rue.
A member of the Jive stock commis
sion is Authority for the report that there
are nearly 2,000 head of diseased cattle
si altered over the city, which will have
to be slaughtered by the State, in addi
tion to nearly 3,000 head under quaran
tine at the distillery sheds. The apprais
ed value of the entire lot will probably
reach $125,000, and it is doubtful wheth
er half tliat amount can be realized on the
sale of the meat of such character as will
pass inspection. The expenses of inspec
tion and of maintaining the quarantine,
which have been partly met by the
Federal government,' are’ sai to have
amounted to nearly $25,000 up to the
present date, while the financial losses
that have resulted to the State and
Chicago because of inability to immedi
ately suppress the disease cannot be esti
mated. _
THE NEW CRUISERS.
Bid# Accepted for tbe C#n«ructl#n of Three
of the New Vessel#.
The Secretary of the Navy has accept
ed the folio ung bids for the new cruisers
and gunboats: Cruiser No. 2 (in Charles
ton), to the Union Iron Works, of San
Francisco, at $1,017,500; cruiser No. 3
(in Baltimore), Cramp & Sons, of Phila
delphia, at $1,325,000; gunboat No. 2,
the Columbia Iron Works and Dry Dock
Coniqwmy, of Baltimore, at $246,000. In
the case of gunboat No. 1. no decision
has yet been reached.
GLADSTONE’S PROGR.4MME.
Mr- Gladstone declines every request to
speak until Parliament reassembles. lie
has sent letters to several < f his late col
leagues stating his programme for the
Doming session. He approves an immedi
ate challenge to the government to state
its Irish policy in debate on the address,
although he expects that the Unionists
will maintain their adhesion to the
government. Afterwards he will assist
in an effective settlement of the proced
ure question.
SAM JONES’ OMAHA CAMPAIGN.
Sam Jones closed his three weeks’ cam
paign in Omaha Monday. At his last
meeting he raised SIOO for a Y. M. C. A_
build mg. He has left for his home in
Georgia, to take a rest.
McNEO. A CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR.
Geo. E. McNeil has manifested his
' * of Boston. Seven thousand
. r *
A MINE EXPLOSION
IN WHICH MANY MEN ARE HOR.
RIBLY BURNED BY GAS.
The Accident Caused by a Gros# Violation
of Orders.
An explosion occurred a few days ago in
the Conyngham Colliery of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company in the
Ward of Wilkesbarre, Penn. Over
men and boys were burned, and of th»B
not less than ten or twelve were fatally fIH
juredjwhile many were badly cut and bruisod.
ed. The esplosion occured a few minutes after
7a. m., as the men were going to work. The
colliery employs 200 inenand boys and about
half of this number had descended the shaft.
A storm had raised the water in the mine so
that it was not thought probable that there
would Le any work for the men em
ployed in the lower lift Instead of
going to work, therefore, these men,
to the number of sixty, waited at the foot
of the shaft for orders from the fire bosses,
who were in their office near the loot of th®
shaft in consultation The men were scat
tered around in groups, their flaming lights
il’u uinating the dark passages and gang
wavs. Without the slightest warning a
1 sheet of fame Hashed from an abandoned
passage leading from the main gangway
close by the loot of tha shaft. The unfor
tunate men, surrounded and wrap ed in fire,
we e hurled hither and thither hy the ex
plosion. The smoke, flame and dust rushed
up the shaft and -hot into the air, ove' hang
iu < the workings Ike a b ack palL The in
side suoerinteu lent, Daniel McDonald, who
was on the surface, hastened to get together
a fores of e tplorers, and unmindful
of the deadly black damp, at once
went down the shaft. The fee
ble glimmer of their safety lamps
brought to light a fearful scene. All around
the foot of the shaft in the a I oining pas
sage •; and gangways lay the blackene 1 bodies
of the in ured men, half buried in dirt and
wre kage. A few of those least injure I were
huddled together near the foot of the shaft
awai’ing succor aud the groans of the
in ured men were awful to hear. The
shock of the explosion was felt in the most
distant part of the mine, th >ugh no damage
was done e cept around the shaft. The work
of getting the in ured persons to the surf a -e
was begun at once. Outside foreman John
Bowers took charge of the sud'erers as they
came to the surface and hod them carried
into the engine room, the floor of which was
soon covered with hu man forms, so black
ened, scorched and mutilated as to be un
recogni abb Mr. Bowers and his assistants,
with blankets soaked in oil, wrapped up the
writhing forms, and as fast as ambulances
and wagons could be obtained sent some to
the hospital and oihei s to their homes. Th > en
gine-room, wh le this work was in pr >gre<s,
presented a sight to sicken the stoutest heart.
The groans and shrieks of the suffering men
were terrible. They cried aloud for water,
but none could be given them. Oil was poured
down th -ir parched throats and the Blankets
n whic.i they ware wrapped ke pt saturated
with t he same.
Outside the engine room there was a fran
tic crowd of women and children. Nearly
all the men employed in the mine live in the
neighborhood, aud when it was known that
the'colliery had blown up, the population
living around flocked to the works. The
and mothers of the injured
to the engine room, but
I*
onto? toe pit, wrapped in oil and' taken
awav. and the o-taule of the colliery re
su” e 1 its wonte l uiet appearance.
The cause of the ac i lent was a flagrant
violati uof orders. Tue passageway in which
the explosion took place was an aba doned
gangway known as the West Wo king.
Whenever the water rose in the mine this
gangway became filled with gas. This
was well known, and the place
was guarded with heavy doors, and
across them was a board with the word “gas”
in large letters. Notwithstanding this,
Tho ias O'Brien deliberately entered the
passage with a naked light Hardly had he
passed the door when the gas ignited. He
was terribly burned.
PERSONAL MEKTOK.
Queen Victoria will go to Cannes,
France, to pass a portion of the winter.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons advised her husband,
the condemned Chicago Anarchist, not.to
sue for mer y.
Gforge W. Baxter, the new Governor
of Wyoming Territory, is a very young man,
not over thirty.
M. Munkacsy. the Hungarian paintei,
expresses enthusiastic admiration for the
beauty of New York women.
Prince who has been traveling
In this oountrv, has gone to Englaad to con
fer the Japanese “Order of ihe Chrysanthe
mum” on the Prince of Wales.
Although Mr. Bartlett, the husband of
Baroness Burde t-C< utts, is of plain New
England ancestry, he now riles in a carriage
etnbla oned with two c» ate of arms.
The “Patriarch of Jera-ale n” is described
as a most kingly man, meeting with one's
con *Tt ons of King David # aopearan e in
middle liie. He is about fifty-five years old.
The Crown Prince of Germany is said to
be a very reserved and silent man, and bit
terly opposed to the se timents and policy
of Prince Bismark, a fact which is a source
of great annoyance to the old Emperor.
Reports from Washington fay that Mrs.
Cleveland Is now spending a good deal of
time lo king over samples of carpet and
furniture for the equi meut of her new home
at Cak View, in the suburbs of the Capital.
After dining in the evening Prince Bis
marck spends an hour with his family and
then retires to his study, where he works
frequently till one o’clock at night. During
these studies his inse arable com panions are
a Ion? smoking pipe and a bum ver filled with
beer, which be drinks copiously.
Michael Davitt. the Irsh Home Rule
leader, is thus described by a Cincinnati re
porter: “He is a man of massive frame, and
a grand head towers above the broad
1 shou ders. The foreh ad. broad and full,
evertop# a pair of searching, & al-bla k eyes,
while the Io we- portion of the face is covered
by a closely trimmed black beard.”
—■ i ——
, THE NATIONAL BANKS.
Flfarea and Faet# Complied from tbe Report
•f the Cuiuptreiier of the Currency.
Currency, s-ays in bis annual report that in
: ( all 3,8 0 national banks have been organized,
of which 2,858 a - e now in operation. Os these
l 174 have been organized during tbe past year,
5 with a capital of S2IJX>O,WO, bonds $4,700,-'
; IXI9, and circulation »2JKX),'XX). Twenty-four
banks went into -voluntary liquidation
during the year, one ceased to exist by expi
ration of charter, and eight failed. The fade*!
banks have an aggregate capital of ’,noo,
surplus and undivided profits $204,<J09. and
liabilities SI.3tM,OJO. The creditors of two
of these banks have been paid in full, prin
, cipa! and interest.
Since the beginning of the system in 18©J
• only 112 national banks have failed. Os
j these 36 haw# paid tbe r creditors in full, and
have paid interest besidee, fifteen in full
and 5 in i art.
The total number of shares of national
bank sto E is over 7.000,000; total sbarehold-
. er-.
Tbe eontrartion in national bank circala
tion during toe ytar exiaeeds s36,oW. ftf W. The
" aggregate <ie:«»sits in the bancs have >a
e creased fr<Kn *>522.1 in January, IS-6,
1 to *l.l .“2,09\0U0 in O tober. 1886, white Uau,
n anddisounta have rj#e» from $.5 :
at tbe former dale to *!.443,050,GX> at the
latter data
! THE SOUTHERN STATES,
j NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.
Milledgeville is to have a foundry and
.... a machine shop.
hv swamps a few
1e s <> f i■■. >ll <> a 11 as
this fall.
Judge Willis A. Hawkins died at his
home in Americus Monday afternoon at 2
o’clock. All the business houses in town
were closed from 2 to 5 o’clock.
Information to the effect that a syndi
cate, with one million dollars, has been
formed in New’ York for the purpose of
establishing an iron furnace somewhere
on the line of the Rome and Decatur
road, has been received.
The North Georgia conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church south met in
Augusta on Wednesday and will contiu
in session one week. The meetings are
held in St. John’s church, with Bishop
McTyeire presiding. It is the regular
annual conference for the purpose of sta
tioning preachers and attending to other
business of the church. Tnere are 400
delegates who are entertained by the dif
ferent families. At St. John’s church,
the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw appointed the fol
lowing gentlemen as a reception commit
tee: Messrs. W. M. Dunbar, L. B. Evans,
J. B. Davenport, W. J. Hollingsworth,
W. C. Cleckley, George Patrick and L.
F Fuller.
Albany’s cotton receipts this season
footed up to over 30,000 bales. That
number was reached last week, and cot
ton continues to come in quite lively.
The magnificent dwelling of Hon. R.
0. Humber, on the Baldwin and Putnam
county line, was destroyed by fire Wed
nesday. .. The. loss is about $5,000, with
no family barely escaped
with
The turjyentMje distillery of D. I. Har
den & ‘Gibson, has been des
troyed by fire = material lying around
was likewifieMjstfcbyed. A large number
of men haie been-jhrown out of employ
ment owners will start
again. .
S:b i(j! with tramps.
E.iilj the pc lice made,
a raid outskirts ofj
the city
were arrangi?l before tha
sentenced to- various
gang.
Mr. Q. S. Pric<-, g( ••
? Vft. .. v W
USU-. ■
I' !i!) l '-'-
Cl) .
were g >m
was afterwffrus Found dead, having been
murdered. His four companions have
beqg, under arrest charged with the
crime, but as nothing could be proven
against them, they have been acquitted.
A meeting of the citizens of Hancock
was held recently in the courthouse for
tbe purpose of organizing a county fair
association. A senes of resolutions was
adopted consisting of rules and regula
tions for lhe management of the business
of. this organization, and the whole af
fair was then turned over to a “financial
board,” whose duty it is to select the fair
grounds, erect the buildings, lay off and
grade the track, and ih general Tannage
the entile business of the organization.
A very destructive fire occurred at
Graham, a railroad station ten miles
north of Baxley. The fire made its ap
pearance in the railroad warehouse. A
lot of rosin, consisting of two thousand
barrels, stacked from their distillery
to a point beside the railroad, near the
warehouse,quickly caught from the burn
ing house and then their distillery in
turn took fire, both of which were de
stroyed. The express and mail offices
were kept in the warehouse and their
contents, with the exception of the money
packages, which were deposited in a safe
and found intact, were also destroyed.
LOUSIANA.
A special from Bayou Sara, La., says
the Red River au i coast line steamboat
Richard was burned at Concordene,
about forty miles above the mouth of
Red river. The boat and her cargo of
387 bales of cotton are a total loss. Fire
man George Clark and Watchman Chas.
Robinson, both colored, were drowned.
Dick Hickman, the cook, was badly
burned.
A special from Lake Providence, La.,
says: 8. Wilowski, representative from
West Carroll parish, arrived at New
Orleans Tuesday evening and reported
that he had been waylaid in his parish
by a gang of outlaws numbering about
ten persons. He was accompanied by
two friends. He expressed himself as
fortunate in escaping by taking to the
woods. He further reported that about
ten o’clock the night before, his book
keeper, Major John McKay, a justice of
the peace, was shot and killed at his
home, about four miles from Caledonia,
together with his cook. His dwelling
was set on fire and both bodies were con
sumed. Wilowski has large business in
terests in West Carroll parish, where he
has lived a great many years and brought
up his family, and whom he was com
pelled to leave behind in order that he
might escape.
MISSISSIPPI.
A fire at Bay St. Louis, Miss., Tuesday
destroyed the projierties of Bojarin
Breath, Higgins & Delery, a residence
and drug store and the Stockton Hotel
and outbuildings. The residences of
Mrs. Villars and Misses Wagoner were
badly damaged. The loss is estimated at
$25,000. paniaHy covered by insurance.
BIG COTTON FIHB.
Tuesday afternoon a fire broke out
among cotton on the city cotton platform
at Raleigh, N. C., started, it is suppos
ed, by a spark from a soldering furnace,
used by tinners who were roofing a
lately erected compress on tbe platform.
About 1,000 bales were destroyed The
loss is about $40,000.
NUMBER 44.
WESTEBN CATTLE MEN
Demand Protection from Plenro-Pneense
nla and Railroad Extortion.
The following letter has been address
ed to President Cleveland:
“Office of the International
Range Association, Denver, Col.--
His Excellency Grover Cleveland, Presi
dent of the United States: The time
hits come when that branch of the com
mercial interests of our country repre
sented by the live stock industry feels it
should no longer plead for, but demand
justice. lam empowered by tha Live
Stock men of the plains, who have more
than six hundred millions of dollars in
vested in cattle alone, to respectfully
vite the attention of your ExcellencyfSHaj
the imminent danger threatened
herds by the existence of contagious
vine diseases, which, if once introduceu *
to the open ranges of the West will sweep
our entire interests from the earth. I
feel that lam justified in asking that in
your forthcoming message to Congress
some suggestion may be made in the in
terest of legislation looking to the ex
termination of the contagious cattie dis
ease known as pleuro-pn ummia, and
such sanitary regulations as will protect
the cattle interest of the United States
against the importation of cattle from
known diseased centers in other coun
tries.
“I would further respectfully submit
that under the pooling system entered
into by the transportation companies ol
the United States and favoriteism on the
rebate system, grievous wrongs are per
petrated on the producer of beef, and
the consumer as well. That same com
bination which compels the millions
who toil to pay an exorbitant price foi
the prime necessities of life, compels the
producer to accept for his products a
price which has pressed cattle growers to
the verge of ruin. The bill now pend
ing before Congress for the regulatian of
inter State commerce, known as the
Reagan bill, is in the interest of justice
and equality, and the cattle industiy
bespeaks for it such attention in your
message as may meet your commen
dation. Respectfully,
[Signed] “R. G. Head.
“President International Range Asso
ciation.”
THEFEDEHAL CAPITAL.
French Spoliation Chtimti—Tbe
Meeting—-Debt Statement.
Arguments of counsel in
| for damages ciaitneih’
J message agMu Jbrmed psdy.
The public’ll
decrease in Hi
vemberol a little
small amount of
due to the U. t that nearly JU.
were paid out during the
sions alone. ’ '. ..
Receipts during the month<aS ~
$27,000,000, and
$24,000,000. Tu
the receipts were about
expenditures about $23,
was an increase of about jH
the debt in November, 1
CLUVERIUB’ LAST
The Appease
As the day flOtfrdl
prnwcWrrtte eyetlt'ff/g o! 1.
for the murder ofJ
son, at Richmond/va?/ fraUnc fnfcreM '
in the case increases. According to ap
pointment the prisoner’s counsel had ar
ranged to call on Governor Lee to present
to him petitions bnth for the pardon of
Cluverius and for the commutation of the
• sentence to imprisonment for life, which
had been freely circulated through the
state and received numerous signatures.
There is much speculation as to the ac
tion of tha governor, but he has given
expression to nothing that would indicate
what he will do. It is generally beli ved,
however, that even if he refuses to inter
fere with the execution of the sentence
on the prisoner, he will at least respite
him for a time. Rumors are in circula
tion that Cluverius has made a statement
giving an account of his whereabouts on
tte night of the 13th of March, 1884, the
night of the murder of Miss Madison,
but they cannot be traced to any reliable
sources. He will doubtless do so, but it
is not expected that it will be made pub
lic before it goes into the hands of the
governor.
SHAKING BY THE QUAKE,
Half a Mile es Railread Track Washed
Away.
The new dam which has just been fin
ished at the Lanytry cotton mills, on the
line of the Charlotte, Columbia and Au
gusta railroad, gave way Monday after
noon, and it is again almost a complete
wreck. The water rushed through in a
resistless flood from the pond, and swept
away half a mile of the track of the
Chariotte, Columbia and Augusta rail
way, and baaly damaged the track of the
South Carolina railway. All the new
and expensive work recently completed
on the former road is totally ruined, and
it will be at least a week before th© dam
age can be repaired. The passenger,
mail and express train from Augusta,due
in Columbia at 10:35, was cut off by
the flood and could not reach that city.
The accident is ascribed to a violent
shock of earthquake, which is reported,
to have been felt in that locality. It is
believed that this shock was sufficiently
strong to shake away the foundations
and cause the structure to break loose.
The waters are inundating all the adja
cent country.
fire at'aiken. b C. : i
There was a serious fire at Aikin, 8. C.
Tuesday morning. Eight buildings were
destroyed, as follows: Hahn A Co, dry
goods and groceries, loss $14,000; Schro
der & Thorpe, loss S3,WO; W. J. Pratt
& Co., loss $2,700; M. Loeb & Sohultz,
ioes $1,500. Other losses $2,000 The
total losses are estimated at $24,900. and
the insunmec at $22,000.