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WEEKLY
FAWNING TO NONE—CHARITY TO ALL.
VOLUME IX.
DOUGLASVILLE. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1887-
NUMBER 1.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
METHODIST—Douglasvii le—First
third and fifth, Sunday^.
Salt Springs—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
Midway—Fourth' Sunday and Satur
day before. Geo. E. Bonner, Pastor.
BAPTISE—Douslasville—First and
fourth Sundays. J W. J. Spears, Pastor.
MASONIC.
Douglasyille Lodge No. 289 F. & A.
M. Meets on Saturday at 4 P. M. before
the first and third Sundays in each month.
J. .0. .Wright, W. M./ J. 'L. Perkins r
SfOiattary, Winston, Ga.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—11. ,T. Cooper.
Clerk—S. JT v Dorsctt.
ShcrifL—He'nry Ward.
Deputy Sheriff—G. M. Souter.
Tax Receiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax CoJjJjgctor—W. A. Sayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor—John M. Huey.
Coro&r-F. M . Mitchell.
; srriyuoit cotJitT.
' Meetobn third Mondays in January
' July sfidhoWs two weeks.
Judg«-jHonYSamson W. Harris.
Sol. C|enl.—- Hon. Harry M, Reid.
Clerk—-T3. N. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
■*' '-t.G . county court.
and
Meets-inr quarterly session on fourth
Mondays insFebruary,' May, August and
No somber and holds until all the cases
on the docket are called. In monthly
session it meets on the fourth Mondays
in each, month.
•TuS^e—Hon. R. A. Massey.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T. Roberts.
Bailiff—D. W. Johns.
ordinary's court., ,
Meets*fbr ordinary purposes on first
Monday, and foV county purposes on first
Tuesday in each -month.
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
justices’ courts.
730th Dist. G
in each month. J. I. Feely, J. P., W.
H. Cash, N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K.
Hunt, L. C’s,.
736th Dist. G. M, meets second Satur
day. A. R. Bomar, J. P., B.A. Arnold.
'NTP:; S, C. Yeager, L. C.‘
784, Dist. G. M. meets fourth Saturday
Franklin Carver, J. P., C. B. Baggett,
N. P., J’. C. James and M. S. Gore, L.
C’s.
1259th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur-
dav. T. M. Hamilton, J. P., M. L.
Yates, N. P ^ W. Diggers, L. C., S,
J. Jour-dan, L. C.' •
1260th Dist, G. M. meets third Satur
day. N. W. Camp, J. P., W. S. Hud
son, N. P., J. A. Hill., L. C.
*. ‘1271st Dist. G. M. meets first Satur
day. C. ‘ C. Clinton, 'J.' P., Alberry
Hembree, N. P., —, L. C.
. 1272d Dist. Q* M. meets fourth ; Fri
day.-'George W. Smith, J. P., 0. J.
Robinson, N. P., , L. C.
"1273d Disk G. M. meets third Friday.
Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen,-N.
P. W. J. Harbin, L. C. ■
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES QATHERED
FROM VARIOU8 SECTIONS.
GEORGIA.
There has been received at Milledge*
ville 111,000 bales of cotton this season,
which exceeds last year’s receipts by fifty
bales,
Treasurer James M. Sapp has had
placed to the credit of Dodge county in
the Exchange bank of Macon the snug
Sum of $2,316.28.
Some of Polk county’s best citizens
have ordered pecan trees with a view to
frying the experiment of their growth in
that county.
The canal cut by Mr. Sweeney and
others around the drift in the Oconee
river is washing out handsomely,
although there have been no freshets in
the river since the canal was cut.
Mr. Tol Lester, of Clarke county, last
week killed sixty blackbirds at two shots
besides wounding others. ’ He also fired
at a covey of partridges in a patch of
broomsedge, and killed ten at a.single
fire,
Wednesday while Allen Holt, a colored
man of Americus, was working in a cut
on the A., P. and L., about two miles
beyond Lumpkin, the' side of the em
bankment caved in and covered him up.
He was terribly crushed before he could
be extricated, and his life is in danger.
A man living in Haralson county went
.tome one night about ten o’clock, while
about three sheets in the wind, and feast
ed upon a buzzard, which his good wife
had cooked for the oil that was in the
fowl. It is said that the man ate all of
this bird, thinking it was a chicken, and
when he was told of what he feasted up
on, he then and there “swore off” and
went to preaching.
The season for woods fires has arrived,
and the woods are being ‘‘burned off”
throughout the piney woods, or wire
M, meets first Thursdayifeerass region. The open pine woods are
~ ’ j burned off annually for the benefit of the
sheep and cattle that have to subsist up
on what they gather from nature’s plant
ing. After the wire grass, which gets
hard with half a year’s growth, has been
burned off to the surface a new and ten
der growth springs up from the roots and
stubble, making the best of grazing for
sheep and cattle. A good portion of the
woods on the cast-side of Flint river has
already been burned.
Professional Cards.
H. McLARTY,
ATTORNEY AT L41V,
DOUGLASVII,L E5, GA.
'Will practice iii al! the courts, both State and
Federal. Collections a specia ty.
ROBERT A. MASSEY,
attorney at law
DUbGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dorsett’s Building./
Wifi practice anywhere except in the Count)
Court of Douglass county.
w. a. James;
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Will practice in all the courts, State an
Federal. Office on Court House Square,
DOUGLASYILLE, GA.
m. T. RQJBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT L AW
DOUGLASYILLE, GA.
Will practice }u .all tlje Courts. All legs
business will receive" prompt attention. Office
in Court House.
d. r> camp,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASYILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts.- All business
tntrusted to him .will receive prompt atten tion.
CANADA GAINS COURAGE.
England Promises to Send Men-of-War to
Keep Oil* American Vessels.
It is officially stated that the govern
ment of Canada, in response to an appeal
to the mother country, has just received
from the imperial authorities that men-of-
war will be dispatched to the maritime
provinces in the spring for the purpose of
co-operating with Canadian cruisers in
the enforcement of the fishery protective
service. The promise, of the English
government creates great satisfaction in
official circles, and indicates that Ameri
can Vessels will be more rigidly exclu
ded from Canada waters during the
next season than in the past. A cabinet
minister, speaking on the subject, ex
pressed himself .as follows. “I have come
to the conclusion that the American leg
islators having'gone so far, will never
yield their consent to the appointment of
a commission. Gloucester fishermen will
not venture into out waters again in force,
and next April will witness the first start
ling falling off in their trade. Two years
hence the splendid Yankee fishing fleet
will be a thing of the past. Let them
resort to retaliation if they will, and the
rfesult will be that that game will work
both ways. Portland, now the winter
port of Canada, will decline, while Hali
fax, under the new order of things, will
flourish. -'. Civil wax between the Eastern
and Western States would follow the
adoption of the retaliatory hill.
A QUEER SIORY.
RBSURRBv TlOX OF
rOVJfG.
BRIGHAM
LABOR LEADERS ARRESTED.
B. G. GRIGGS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASYILLE, GA.
’ Will praotice in all the courts, State and
.Federal.
mf.
JOHN M, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASYILLE, GA.
the courts, and promptly
afi business entrusted to his care.
Will jjracfioe in ah'
attend
J. S. JAMES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
. DOUGLASYILLE, GA
M Will^bractice in the courts of Douglass,
Ebmfffifill, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
nftwUBg counties. Prompt attention given
Opposite the McAfee house, and just
in front of Charlie Hill’s barber shop, in
Smithville, in the road where vehicles
pass, a mysterious and well rounded well
can he seen as the result of the sudden
and unexpected caving in of the earth
which has hitherto kept its, locality a se
cret. The ground gave way as a heavy
loaded wagon passed over it the other
day, and a well With 10 feet of water and
20 feet in depth from the top to the bot :
tom can now' be seen there. 'Various
speculations as to the origin of the well
were hazarded by the crowd which
quickly collected around it, but nothing
definite is known about it, though it is
supposed to be a well made by the rail
road .men when the Central was being
built.
The legal tender silver mine, in Mur
ray, which so much excitement was made
about some years ago, is being operated
upon again, and a better quality of ore is
now being gotten out than ever before.
Considerable excitement is growing out
of the new find. The mine is in Oohutta
mountain, about* six miles from Spring
Place. Mr. McHan, who owns a tract
of land near the mine, has had an option
taken on his land for $4,000. There is
millions of wealth in Old Cohutta which
only needs operating on to bring it to the
eyes of the capitalists. Captain W. C.
Tilton’s fine talc mine, four miles from
Spring Place, is shipping tons of talc
daily. There is not a day passing hut
what wagons unload the talc m the crude
state at the Dalton depot for eastern
markets. There are the finest talc mines
in Murray county that are now known in
the United States.
FLORIDA.
Bradentown is trying to erect a school-
house on the joint stock plan.
Parties have been prospecting for the
past few days with a view to establish
ing a sanitarium at Cedar Key.
The Fernandina Building and Loan
association has completed its organiza
tion, and is now receiving subscriptions
to its stock,
Thomas A. Edison, who has been very
ill in New York, is recovering, and will
soon be able to return to his winter home
at Fort Myers.
There is shipping from Governor
Drew’s mill at Columbus City, and John
W. Dowling <fc Co., at Lake Ogden, from
125 to 150 cars of lumber, per month.
Columbus county exported $750,000
worth of her own products in 1885, and
the acreage in tobacco this year will run
up the value of her exports to $200,000
more if the tobacco is sent out in its man
ufactured state. If it were, however,
made into cigars the value of her exports
would be much higher.
Cedar Key has been considerably ex
cited for the last two weeks over the
mysterious disappearance of T. YY. Gore,
a young grocery merchant doing business
at the Bradshaw old stand. Mr. Gore
A Sait Instituted Against Them tor Dam
age by a Steamship Company.
James E. Quinn, of the executive
board of the Longshoremen’s Union, was
arrested at noon Saturday by Deputy
United States Marshal George Holmes,
for conspiracy to injure the business of
the Old Dominion Steamship Company,
in an action brought in the United States
Circuit Court to recover $20,000 damages.
He was released on $5,000 bail.
The suit is brought not only against
Quinn, hut also against J. J. McKenna,
T. B. Putnam, Patrick McGarland and
Thos. McGrath, who with Quinn consti
tute the executive board of the Ocean As
sociation. Counsel for Quinn said that
none of the accused would run away and
that as soon as bail could be procured for
them they would be' delivered to the
marshal. After Quinn’s bondsmen had
been accepted it was concluded that no
more arrests would be made. Their
cpunsel promised to deliver the other
members of the executive board to the
United States marshal.
BREAKING A MONOPOLY.
a Cotton flood
Planters of Xsonlolana Start
, Oil Mill.
, A serious at-t-ack has been organized on
the AtnericanUotton Seed Oil. Trust by
the purchase^bf- the Maginnis mills, for
three months. , The Trust has been in
control of the , cotton seed oil mills of
New Orleans;'Tia., having a complete
monopoly of t^lsffeld. t ^wo Memphis
capitalists, tol'fMrfy*icrth§ oil business,
have organized a company and perfected
plans for new mills to be run on a co-op
erative plan that will assure it a constant
supply of seed. Nearly all the leading
planters bn the lower Mississippi have
been given stock in the new mill, and
have pledged themselves to furnish so
many tons of cotton seed annually, thus
assuring the mill 50,000 tons per year, as
much as any of the mills of the Trust
company here receive. The site for the
new mill has been selected, and necessary
barges and steamers contracted for. It
is a direct attack on the Oil Trust, in
which planters take a prominent part.
A MOB POSTPONES A MAEE1AGE.
Michael McCoy, a grocer of Louisville,
Ky, made a narrow ,„eseape from a mob.
McCoy is fifty years old and a man of
family. A year agt? he began to visit a
Miss Long and to neglect his wife, where
upon Mrs.McCoy sued-for a divorce and
the restoration of her maiden, name. Her
petition was granted, and McCoy’s atten
tions to Miss Long, before secret, became
open, and Saturday it* was ^ learned that
the couple were to be married, As the
ceremony was about to take place at Miss
Long’s house a mob gathered and made
threatening demonstrations. Miss Long
fled with a ymi friend, and . the mob
pursued but did not catch her. McCoy
in the meantime slipped out and after a
search found his intended and they were
married by a magistrate.
A BIG HAUL.
A Queer Story Toijd by the Housekeeper of a
Wealthy Enansh Mormon—Much Ex
citement Among the Mormons.
Two miles south of Lincoln, Nebraska,
stands a palatial residence owned by an
English gentleman long identified with
the Mormon church. The residence has
been unattended for the last two years,
save by au old servant named White, who
was connected with the Jezrels, of Lon
don, a sect similar to the Mormons.
White claims that he was defrauded by
them out of his property, and latterly be
came converted to the Mormon faith.
He was considered a trustworthy man,
and was, therefore, partially through ne
cessity, taken into the confidence of the
leaders ': of the Mormon church of Zion,
which, accordingto his statement; is
about to perpetrate a fraud to which he
is unwilling to become a party.
He Says:: “Two months ago there ar
rived at the mansMi an old gentleman,
beaiing letters from my master -in Lon
don, the purport <d which was to obey
his every wish, and?to keep hiS'presence
a secret to all except those to whom he
saw fi t to reveal himself. Within a week
person s began to arrive at the house in
twos and threes. fThey were from Salt
Lake City, and hjeld long, whispered
consultations with my mysterious guest.
At first I did not tare who or what he
was. Little by liltle I gathered from
stray remarks that 1 he was a person of :
note, and soon after the truth burst upon
me that he was none other than Brigham
Young, the great prophet of our church,
who is apparently to be resurrected from
the dead, and preach to the people of
Zion as one having returned from the
grave to tell what lies beyond. That his
death and burial were a deception will
soon be seen by the whole world, While
thousands of his' ignorant believers how
at his feet, and be dictate to them their
ways of life.
My guests, the visitors, are men of
high standing, as their appearance indi
cates, and it was in conversation with
one of them, who supposed from the way
I talked that I knew all, that my sus
picions were verified. My informant
said that Brigham Young had risen from
his grave in Salt Lake City, and was in
structing his disciples here, in order to
prepare help for the great event of his
coming. My only reason for telling
these facts is that I am an old man with
but little to gain in this world, and do
not want to see the people deluded as I
have been. The Jezrels absorbed my'
competence and now the Mormons have
broken my faith.”
IDENTIFIED AS BRIGHAM YOUNG.
The old man told the story with sin
cerity that warranted further investiga
tion, and a merchant who formerly did
business in Salt Lake City drove out to
the mansion, and rapped at the door.
Receiving no response he started around
the house to apply at the' rear, when
through the long window he saw the
form and features of the old man, Who
was sitting inside. As he was unaware
of his presenoe, the merchant approached
to within a few feet of the window,
scanning the old man’s face closely, and
stepped back immediately, pronounced
the man to he Brigham YoUng, whose,
marked features he had often studied in
Salt Lake City, and which once seen, he
says, can never be forgotten. For a few
moments the man sat silently, and then
raised his hand to his brow, revealing the
scar about the wrist that still further es
tablished his identity.
l(j is a well known fact that the elders
of the Mormon church throughout Utah
have of late been preaching the return of
Ihe prophet. This, together with the
fact that it was claimed by a St- Louis
man some months ago, that Young was
seen and recognized in London, that a
number of prominent Mormons from Salt
Lake City have lately been upon -the
streets of Lincoln; that important legis
lation is about to he enacted to the detri
ment of the Mormon church, and the veil
of mystery with which the prophet’s
death has always been shrouded, makes
it almost certain that the Mormon ban
ners throughout Utah will soon be un
furled, announcing that ‘ ‘he is risen. ”
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Six New War Vessels to be Constructed—The
Postofflce Appropriation Bill.
As a result of the consideration of the
various hills looking to the construction
of new naval vessels, the sub-committee
of the house committee on naval affairs
has drafted a hill which was laid before
the full committee, providing for the
construction or two steel cruisers of 40,-,
000 tons burden of the Newark type;
cost, exclusive of armament, of not more
than $1,300,000 each; to be equipped
with the best type of modern engines, :
boilers and machinery; four steel gun
boats of 1,700 tons displacement. All of
the vessels are to be built as far as may
be in compliance with-the terms of the
act of August 3, 1886. The Pill appro
priates $2,400,000 to begin the work.
The postoffice appropriation bill was
reported by the senate committee oh ap
propriations. The committee made but
two amendments. The first was Mr.
Frye’s proposition for the foreign mail
service so changed as to appropriate
$500,000 for -the carriage of mails to
Brazil, Argentine Republic, Uraguay and
Paraguay. The contracts for this service
are made subject to the approval of con
gress. The other amendment gives au
thority to. put letter boxes in buildings
which are freely opened to the public
during business heurs, modifying to that
extent the house piovision limiting the
authority of the department in this re
spect.
The president has accepted the resigna
tion of Gen. P. M. B. Young, of Georgia,
consul-general at St. Petersburg, but has
not yet selected his successor.
.ACROSS THE WATERS.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
A Cincinnati Jnds-e Called to III* Doer
and ia Fired Upon.
A bold attempt was made Wednesday
night to Assassinate Judge James W.
Fitzgerald, of the Cincinnati police
court, at his residence on Findlay street. I
About 9 o’clock in the evening the side
bell of the judge’s residence rang, and
he answered it in person. He had no
more than opened the door when a man,
whose face was blackened, but whose
hands were white, fired a revolver.
The bullet passed through the Judge’s
coat on the right side, but not entering
the flesh. The judge hastily slammed
the door. The would-be assassin made
good his escape. The police have not
the slightest clue to the identity of the
miscreant, but his motive was undoubt
edly revenge for a judicial act. Judge
Fitzgerald is the judge before whom one
hundred and fifty men, arrested for cock
fighting, were examined Monday, when
f orty of them pleaded guilty and contri-,
buted $25 each to the city treasury, and
the remainder were notified that the men
who stood trial and were convicted
should receive the full measure of the
law.
Another attempt to kill Fitzgerald
was made recently by throwing bricks al
him as he was going home after dark.
Excitement in the Don don Stock Exchange-
Panic in London and Paris*
There was intense excitement on the
stock exchange all Thursday afternoon,
and at the close of the market a panicky
feeling prevailed-. The unfavorable state
of the market was due chiefly to reports
of heavy failures on the Paris bourse and
to a rumor that a large banking institu
tion in Berlin had collapsed.
Panic on the stock exchange set-in
with the greatest force in, the afternoon.
Earlier in the day English buying met
the continental rush to sell, but later
alarm seized English operators, and the
torrent of sellers became so great that
dealers refused to make prices. The
wildest rumors were credited,; and the
best home and foreign securieties were
largely- sold. Business .continued active
in the street until “petite bourse” quota
tions Were received, which showed the
panic was intensifying on the continent
and caused depression and anxiety.. At
the close the reckless selling of railroad
securities was partially checked by New
York buying, besides England, Berlin
and Paris threw large masses of stock on
the market.
AT PARIS.
At Paris three per cent rentes declined
and were quoted at 76. francs, a fall of 2
francs and 45 centimes from the closing
quotations of the day previous, -
Bourse opened depressed. Besides po
litical rumors and general financial mis
trust, the suspension of all credit made
the transaction of business almost an iaf-
possibility. An opinion prevails that un
less the banks and great capitalists come
to the relief of the market, disastrous
failures are inevitable.
IRISH ITEMS.
Limerick municipal council has
SOUTHERN TELEGRAPH SALE.
The Property Purchased In the Interest of
the Western Union.
The Southern- Telegraph, Company,
which was sold under foreclosure pro
ceedings at Richmond, Va,, Tuesday, was
bought in the interest of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, which has
owned a majority of the bonds for nearly
a year. The price at which the property
was sold was $460,000, but the price
would have been carried considerably
higher, it is said, if the United Lines
Company, whose last bid was $450,000,
had continued the contest. The acquisi-
! tion of the actual control does not effect
the relations of the companies, because a.
contract was made between them even
! before the Western Union bought a ma
jority of the bonds. Since that time the
! contract has been altered to meet - the
wishes of the Western Union Company,
which was known to be the actual owner
of the property. The sale nojv gives the
company legal ownership.
The
refused to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee,
on the ground that the Queen has visited
Ireland only twice and has never assisted
Irish charities.
Micheal Davitt and his wife arrived, at
Dublin Thursday, and were enthusiastic
ally greeted. They were escorted to then
hotel by a torch-light procession aijq
bands of music.
OFF FOR CANADA.
A Clerk of tbe First National Bank of Balti
more Visits the Province.
John D. Liste, discount clerk in the
First National bank of Baltimore, failed
to put in appearance on Saturday last
while an investigation of the accounts of
the bank was proceeding by the direc
tors. It is now said that he is a default
er to the amount of about eighty thou-
sand'dollars, though the investigation is
not complete. The amount of cash
which disappeared with him was $3,509,
and he is said to have deceived the na
tional bank examiner by substituting
forged notes which he destroyed as soon
as the examination was completed: Liste
left hjs home, about twenty miles from
the city, Saturday morning, since which
time he has hot been seen by his family,
nor by the detectives who are looking for
him.
OUR MINISTER TO GERMANY.
HER DIAMONDS.
Decamps
Jewels*
With
JOHN V. EEGE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
’ ©OUGLAS VILLE, GA.
JOB PRIHTIN6
NEATiLY DONE
TEE "SHI" Iff Fid
One Hundred and Fifry Men Arraigned in n
Criminal Court.
An unusual scene was presented in the
police court of Cincinnati, O., Tuesday
morning, when 115 men were arraigned
for aiding and abetting a cock fight. Of
this number. forty entered a plea, of
guilty, and were, fined $25 each vith
costs, making an even $1,000 to go into
•the school fund. Judge Fitzgerald an
nounced his determination to .punish to
the full extent any who choose to exer
cise their legal rights to a trial and who
.gny be convicted. The cocking main
had progress in a regularly constructed
pit in a fourth-story room of a building
nearly opposite the court house on Main
street. •
A STRIKER’S FINE. ?
One of the drivers of a brewery wagon
in Philadelphia, Pa., who took a striker’s
place was brutally beaten by three strik
er’s, who were piaced on trial Wednesday.
■I jj t Only one was identified and convicted.
did not even take his clothes, but leaving In passing sentence, Judge Mitch ell said.
mjr William “This man was badly beaten, and I am sat
isfied it was done for the purpose of pre-
the store in charge of young
Moore, took his gun and boarded a
freight train, since when no news has
been had of him. It is believed now that,
realizing the fact that his business was
in such a shape^that it would be impossi
ble for him to pay out and continue, he
became discouraged and concluded to
save something from the wreck and seek
a new field. It is not known what imouift
of money he carried away. Attachments
have been levied on the stock remaining,
and those owing him have been garni-
sneed by the creditors.
MARRIED BY PROXY.
venting him from going to work. There
can be no more aggravated offense than
to beat a man who is going to his honest
toil* and I propose to stop it so far as is
in my power.” The prisoner was then
sentenced to eighteen months at labor
in the county prison.
Miss Van Zandt and August Spies, the
condemned anarchist, were married last
Tuesday by proxy, the groom being rep
resented by his brother. A justice of
the peace officiated.
GADSDEN’S FURNACES.
Work was begun Tuesday on two new
blast furnaces to be erected by the land
and improvement company at Gadsden,
Ala. They will be completed by Decern
her next. The real estate boom is more
favorable than ever before, and sales are
reported aggregating more than $250,-
000. There are a number of capitalists
in the city prospecting for sites for vuyi-
OU9 kinds of interest.
ROBBERS CAPTURED.
A Fatal Encounter in Which One Man I*
Killed.
Two detectives, accompanied by four
determined men, with bloodhounds,
started a short time ago in pursuit of a
gang of train robbers, who have been op
erating in the vicinity of Albuquerque,
N. M., for the past six months. The.
robbers were tracked into the halls of a
canyon near Belen station, 80 miles south
of here, and when they discovered that
they were- surrounded, they made a
bloody defense at close range. The rob
bers proved to be four in number, and
well armed. The detectives demanded
their surrender, but they answered the
demand with a volley of lead, and a reg
ular battle commenced. The' detectives
and their party were victors.
During the fight Hardy Foster, one of
the robbers, was fatally wounded but
lived long enough to make a confession
implicating the whole party! Two Others
were captured, but the fourth made his
escape. One of the captured men proved
to be Charlie Rose, who murdered Mar
shal McGuire, of Albuquerque, last No
vember, and subsequently broke jail. The
name of the other is Leslie Boise, and he
is a native of West Herford, Texas. Both
men are now lodged by a sheriff’s posse.
Lynching is favored, and it is feared that
it will be carried out.
A Memphis Hotel Clerk
Fanny Davenport's
Charles Talbot, aged nineteen, , em
ployed as night clerk of the Guyosa hotel,
Tuesday night, was on duty. After tho
performance of an opera, at the theater
Edwin H. Price, Fanny Davenport’s
husband, left with him a jewel basket;
which contained Miss Davenport’s dia
monds, consisting of brooch, rings, neck
lace, earrings, etc., valued at $35,000.
Price took a receipt. The basket was
not put in the safe, as it had been locked,
and Talbot did not know the combina
tion, but was plaqed in the cash drawer,,
together with several packages of money
which late guests had deposited and
which amounted to about $3,000. This
money, together with the jewels, is miss
ing. Talbot had duplicate keys of the
cash drawer at the cigar stand cf the ho
tel, and it was rifled of $10 in change.
He cannot be found.
He Arrives in Now York and Talks Abomt
Affairs Across The Water.
Hon. George H. Pendleton, minister to
Berlin, has arrived and will remain in this
country about a month. He intends to
go to Washington to report to the secre
tary of state. After that he will go to
his home in Cincinnati, where he will re
main for a brief period before his depar
ture for his post of duty. Being inter
viewed, he remarked:
“The situation when I left Berlin was
very much strained. The power of Eu
rope, from a general feeling of insecurity,
have been making immense preparations.
There are tremendous military works and
armaments on every side. I heard Von
Moltke say that it was a condition ot af
fairs that must have a solution. It may
-have changed siuceu.then,’’;^ ■ _, . i
Mr. Pendleton said that' he could not
see that anyone in Germany desired War |
In fact, every effort was being made to
avoid it. Bismarck was not ready for
war now. He would not be ready uDtil
the military bill had been passed and the
army reorganized. ; > is
“In fact,’’ added the embassador, “it
seems to me that Bismarck would accord
heartily with any proposition for peace
with honor. Public opinion does not
count in Europe as it does here. In
America all questions are discussed freely
by the press, who in reality form public
opinion. In Germany public policy is
decidedly different. * Yon Moltke, Bis-
mark and two or three others settle such
matters. In France General Boulanger
leads. One peculiar thing would strike
Americans in Europe, that is how little
people influence the polidy of rulers, ”
UNION MEN TO BE DROPPED.
Kalakts of Eabor Assemblies Ordered to
Oust Trades-Unionists.
A sensation has been created among the
Knights cf Labor of Indianapolis Ind.,
by the receipt of an order, purporting.to
have come from the general executive
board, to the effect that all cigarmakers
belonging to the international union must
be dropped from membership in local
and district assemblies. This is thought
to be the first step toward carrying out
the programme adopted at Richmond by
the general assembly, which struck a blow
at all trades-unions. The typographers
moulders here are very indignant, and
feel the blow quite as severely as tne
cigarmakers.
WESTERN WEATHER.
The signal service reports extremely
cold weather in Northwestern Montana,
the mercury at Fort Assinaboine regis
tering 46 degrees below zero at 7 o’clock
Wednesday morning. Throughout Da
kota, Minnesota and. Wisconsin ij is con
siderably warmer, Northern Minnesota
points reporting zero weather, while at
St. Paul it is three degrees above zero,
LaOrosse, Wis., 11 degrees above, and
Chicago 20 degrees above. Snow is re
ported throughout the Northwest, and
in nearly all the states north of the Ohio
river, also heavy thunder storms at Knox
ville, Tenn., Louisville and Cincinnati,
and the telegraph service throughout the
southwest is very much impaired in con
sequence. '
* A DOUBLE SUICIDE.
A NEW PLAN ADOPTED.
It is stated that the next step to he
taken by the leaders of' the strike is to
put into operation the Irish plan of cam
paign—that is, orders will be issued to
all members of the Knights of Labor and
other organizations which can be con
trolled by district assembly 49, to refuse
to pay any rent to landlords, but to pay
rent money into a fund which will go to
the support of the strikers. This plan
has been discussed in seriousness by the
strikers, and it is asserted, positively, by
some that it will he put into operation
next Monday.
DR. MATT ALEXANDER SUICIDES.
TAKEN OUT AND HANGED.
Last Monday William Lud Cornish, of
Sharpsburg, Washington county, Ky, shot
Miss Lulu Green through the heart and
brain because she would not marry him.
He also tried to kill the girl’s mother
and sister, but failed on account of his
pistol getting out of order, The mother
received a severe wound in the head, and
was knocked down with the pistol. Corn
ish was captured and taken to Spiing-
field, the county seat. Saturday night
a mob, composed of seventy-five men,
entered the jail and secured the -prisoner.
He w.ii taken to a farm about two miles
north of town and hanged.
Dr. Matt Alexander, of Knoxville,
Tenn., committed suicide Tuesday after
noon by' taking five grains of morphine.
He was one of the leading physicians of
Knoxville, but had recently been dissi
pated. He left a note saying: “Idie
with malice toward none. I go to hell’.'
Tell my son to go to heaven.”
Dr. Alexander was a member of the
board of examining surgeons of the pen
sion department.
THE SITUATION AT MASSOWAH.
The Republique Francaise of Paris,
publishes a dispatch from the Suez, which
states that in the battles between the
Abyssinians and Italians, near Massowah,
January 25th and 26th, the Abyssinians
captured all the guns possessed by the
Italians. It also says that of 148 Italians
who were engaged in the fights, not more
than fifty escaped. The dispatch adds
that the Italians have evacuated all their
advanced positions, and that the Abyss-,
inians have already attacked and carried
the first line of Italian entrenchments
around Massowah The latter success, it
is stated, was achieved by the Abyssiu-
ians on the 27th of January, the day after
the destruction of the Italian forces in
the field, and the latest intelligence re
ceived indicated that it was doubtful
whether the Italians would be able to
hold out at Massowah until the arrival of
reinforcements.
A TRIPLE HANGING.
AN EX-SLAVE’S PENSION.
The first colored woman to receive a
pension from the government is Mrs.
Ilezekiah Gibson, wife of the pastor of
the Union church of Christ Jamestown,
N. Y. The pension was granted on ac
count of the death of a son who was in
the service on the union side during the
late war. Wnen this son joined the fed
eral forces his mother was a slave. The
buck pay amounted to about $500, and
hereafter Mrs. Gibson will draw $12 per
month,
KILLED BY BURGLARS.
A mob of masked men, about thirty-
five strong, entered ■ the jail at Seguin,
Guadalupe county, Texas, Wednesday
morning, and after overpowering the
jailer took three negroes, Coly Thomp
son Andy Williams and Warren Wilson,
and hanged them to trees in full view of
the town. On each victim was tacked
this notice: “Killed for murder, and
arson.” None of the mob has been ar
rested.
At a farm house near East Hanover,
Lebanon county, Pa. Monday, Rebecca
Buck, aged 35 years, was found hanging
in an attic dead. The young woman had
been quite melancholy of late, hut the
cause for her taking her life is not known.
The deed prayed on the mind ot her
mother, Sarah Buck, aged 72 years, to-
such an extent that a few hours later she
hanged herself in exactly the same place
where her daughter’s body had been found.
The double tragedy has paused great ex
citement in-the neighborhood.
THE PROSPERITY OF CHATTANOOGA.
The registered real estate transfers at
Chattanooga, Tenn., in the month of
January amounted to $2,618,385. It i*
stated that there will shortly be estab
lished a horse shoe factory, a • stove
foundry, a woolen and cotton mill and an
edge tool factory. Work will begin v_
March and April on buildings which are
to cost more than $1,000,000.
STRIKERS WIN IN PENSACOLA.
The difficulty between the Stevedores r
Association and the firm of Lear & Gon
zalez, at Pensacola, Fla., has been ad
justed, the firm paying the association
$500 to compensate the men for loss of
time, and agreeing to hereafter conform
to the rules and requirements of the labor
organization.
Butter and ( herse.
BURNED TO DEATH.
William Gallaway and a clerk named
McLease in his employ, were shpt and
fatally wounded Monday night at the
former’s general merchandise store in
Galloway, Ark. Galloway and his clerk
went late in the evening to hij store and
found a gang of burglars going through
the premises. Galloway opened fire upon
the intruders, who fired back and mor
tally wounded both Galloway and his
clerk, The burglars escaped unhurt,
William Farris, employed by the Dela
ware iron, works, Wilmington, Del, was
made the victim of $ practical joke
Thursday, by his fellow workmen, which
cost his life. He was dozing at noon,
when one of his companions threw some
blazing cotton waste in his fac?. It_ set
his clothes on fire, and he was burned so
badly he died in a couple of hours. He
refused to tell who was responsible for
his death, although he knew.
NO HORSES TO BE EXPORTED.
The government of Russia has forbid
den the exportation of horses from that
country.
The French government has made
large purchases of Russian oats for the
use of the French cavalry and has chart
ered a number of steamers to convey them
rom B attic ports to France.
From a report of the New York Mer
cantile Exchange it appears that during
the last year the receipts of butter have
been 1,648,220 packages, being 8,620
packages less than for -last year, while
cheese has fallen off 178,927 boxes, In
exports butter is 58,476 packages and
cheese 83,434 boxes less than last year.
The prices of Western creamery butter
have increased from 2 7-16 and 24 cents:
to 25 1-8 -and 26 3-4 cents. The price of
cheese and eggs also advanced. For
December there was a large falling off
in the quantity of butter, cheese, and
eggs received in this market. Fiv*
thousand and six packages of oleomar
garine were leported as having been re
ceived during the mOnth, and the oleo
margarine and -oijs exported during tha
month show air Increase of 6,603 pack
ages over the same time last year.
Last year eight peaks of the Alps, hitherto-
inaccessible, were ascended by adventurous
parties, but eleven persons lost their lives in
climbing, ten being killed and one froze to
death.
Trie increase m tne value or property in
Alabama in the last fouV amounts to
the respectable sum of $3 V*10,OPO. Much of
it is due to the iron industry.