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YOLUME IX.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY (5, 1887.
TOMBED
CHURCH DIRECTORY,
METHODIST—DousLAgynxE^Firsl-
*' third and fifth Sundays.
Sam SritixGS—Second Sunday and
Saturday before.
Midway—Fourth Sunday and Satur
day before. Geo. E. Bonner, Pastor,
aw BAPTISE—DocoLAsvn.r.E—First and
fourth Sundays. W. J. Spears, Pastor.
f MASONIC.
Douglasville 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,
Secretary, Winston; Ga.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Ordinary—II. T. Cooper.
©erk—S. N.' Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
- 'Deputy Sheriff— G. M, Souter.
Tax Beoeiver—E. H. Camp.
Tax Collector—W. A. gayer.
Treasurer—Samuel Shannon.
Surveyor^—John M. Huey.
Cororer—F. M. •Mitchell.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Meets on third Mondays in January and
July and holds two weeks.
Judge—Hon. Samson W. Harris.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. Harry M. Reid.
Clerk—S. In. Dorsett.
Sheriff—Henry Ward.
COUNTY COURT.
Meets in. quarterly session on fourth
Mondays in February, May, August and
■ November and holds until all the cases
on the docket are called. In monthly
session it meets on the fourth Mondays
in each month.
Judge-—Hon. R. A. Massey.
Sol. Genl.—Hon. W. T« Roberts.
Bailiff-D. W. Johns.
. ordinary’s COURT.
Meets for ordinary purposes on first
Monday, and for county; purposes on first
Tuesday in each month. ■ *
Judge—Hon. H. T. Cooper.
. , JUSTICES’ COURTS.
780 tli Dist. G. M. meets first Thursday
in each month. J. £ Feely, J. P., W
H. Cash,. N. P., D. W. Johns and W. K
Hur t, L. C’s.
736th Dist. G. M, mefits second Satur
day. A.R. Bomar, J. P B.A. Arnold
N. P., S, C. Yeager, L. C.
784 Dist, G. M. meets fourth Saturda 1
Franklin Carver, J. I’., C. B. Baggett,
N. P., J. C. James andM.'S. Gore, L.
C’s.
1269th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur,
day. T. M. Hamilton, J. P., M, I,.
Yates, N. P., S. W. Riggers, L. C., S.
J. Jourdan, L. C.
1260th Dist. G. M. meets third Satur
day.: N. W. Camp, J. P., W. S. Hud-
- son, ML P., J. A. Hill., L. V. •
1271st Dist. G. M. meets first Satur
day. C. 0. Clinton, J.- P., Alberrv
Hembree, N. P., , L. C,
; 1272d Dist. G. M. meets fourth Fri
day. George W. Smith, J. P., C. J.
Robinson, N. P., , L. C.
1273d Dist, G, M. meets third Friday.
Thomas White, J. P., A. J. Bowen, N.
P. W. J, Harbin, L. 0.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
Professional Cards,
J. H. McLARTY,
ATTORNEY ATEAW.
DOUGLASVILLE •' ga.
Will privotico in ali tli:© c< urts, both State anti
Fetltral. ('ti^ecUons a Bpccia (y.
ROBERT A. MASSI'y”"
ATTOBNBY AT L & W
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
(Office in front room, Dorsett’s BmMing.,
Will practice anywhero^xcept .iii tlu: Count}
Court of Doiiglass connty.
ATTORn lY * ’k*T LAW,
Will practice in alj the courts, State
Federal.- Office on Court Mouse Square,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
WM. T. ROBERTS,
ATTORNEY AT i AW,
DQUGLASYILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the Courts. All HMl
business will receive prompt attention. Office
in Court Honse.
C. D CAMP.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts. All bnsiness
•ntrusted to him will receive prompt attention.
B. G. GRIGGS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, State and
Federal.
JOHN i, EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all the courts, and promptly
attend to all business entrusted to his care.
J. S. JAiES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DOUGLASVILLE, GA.
Will practice in tne courts of Douglass,
Campbell, Carroll, Paulding, Cobb, Fulton and
aiUShing counties. Prompt attention given
; ■ ■:
JIHN V. EDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
B3&3LAS VILLI, GA.
JOB PRINTINI
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
FLORIDA.
Miss Rose E. Cleveland, sister of the
president, is expected in Orlando some
time time this winter, to visit a Mrs.
Duncan residing there;
A resident of .Orlando has a Mexican
chocho on exhibition. _ It is similar to an
egg plant, and it- -is his intention to ex
periment with the seeds on Florida soil.
The Methodist college north will be lo
cated at Orange City. Twenty-two thou
sand dollars have been raised. The
prospects are bright for a prosperous in
stitution.
John Wiley, a notorious negro, jumped
out of a railroad Car window in Alachua
county recently, while under arrest.
There was a rope about his neck. An
end caught'in the car and he was choked
to death.
Figures from the tax books of Florida
show the total value of all kinds of prop-
ertp to be $76,610,042. The railroad
companies pay taxes bn $12,752,331
worth of property, The total state tax
is $328,038, and the county tax is $666,-
879. •
I. S. Giddeons & Co. will commence
work on their brick building at Tampa
next week. It is to be a handsome two-
story building.' - General J, B. Wall says
that he will have the handsomest front on
his new hriclc building in the city. Work
is progressing nicely.
The wife of O. L. LeBarbn, of Pensa
cola, while looking oyer some letters was
surprised to find a valuable document
musty with age, which her father-in-law
had given her in 1849, It was a certifi
cate for $500 worth of valuable stock.
The estate not yet having been settled
up, she will come into the possession of
the sum called for by the certificate. She
had forgotten the gift until after nearly
forty years had, elapsed. She was re
minded of it by the document falling
from a bundle of chocolate colored let
ters.
Considerable indignation exists among
the bar pilots at Pensacola over the fact
that the barkentine Cushing slipped into
port Wednesday without pilotage. This
is said to be only the second instance of
the kind for the past two years, known
to the pilot’s association, and steps are'
likely to be taken to compel the Cushing
to pay the pilotage she avoided, and if it
is not attempted it will be because of the
«pquenqy ,0f, her visits, to that port, as
sue goes there three or four times annu
ally. The Gushing will be remembered
as the vessel in which Brown, the Swed
ish suicide, arrived about two weeks ago.
The South Florida exposition will be
held at Orlando, beginning, on Tuesday,
February 15. The grounds) which have
been tendered by the citizens of that en
terprising city, will comprise a race
course, including a lake, and also ample
accommodation for the display of varied
exhibits of the growth and products of
Florida, especially those of the counties
of Orange, Volusia, Sumter, Polk, Hills
boro, Hernando, Brevard, Wade, Mana
tee and Monroe; -The exhibits will also
embrace mineral, mechanical and such
other articles or productions as may lend
interest or value to the exhibition.
Dr. King Wylly, of Sanford, has an
orange which he has just received from
Messina, Sicily, which came from the fa
mous orange tree planted by Pope Hon-
orius IH. in the St. Sabina convent gar
den 665 years ago. It is firmly believed
by the monks of the Dominican order to
flourish or fail with the fortunes of the
order, so that it has lately been greatly
the worse for the suppression of the con
vent in Northern Italy, though the resi
dence of Pere LaCordaire within the con
vent proved exceedingly beneficial to it,
and bis visit, has even caused new
suckers to sprout. The trunk of the tree
is about twelve inches in diameter, and
about twenty feet high The orange
was sent to Dr. Wylly by Wallace S.
Jones, of Monticello.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Quite a lengthy petition of Winston
tobacconists has been forwarded to con-,
gress asking for a repeal of the-internal
revenue tax.
Mr. Frank Hege, of Twin City, has
two foxes. One of them is so ,trained
that by calling to him and telling it to
kiss him it will jump up and put her
mouth to his cheek.
—Tuesday morning of last week the wife
of Mr. Julius Fox of Lexington, N. C.,
attempted to kindle a fire by the aid of
keroseUe^ifThe can explodeed, her cloth
ing ignited and before assistance could be
rendered, she was so cadly burned that
death resulted the same day. The de
ceased had just passed her eighteenth year
and leaves a child only three months of
age.
Winston Republican: From an adjoin
ing county comes an instance of two
things—the power of money and the dis
regard of some men for the truth. A cer
tain person paid another individual $2 to
tell a lie. In a settlement between the
two upon some matter, before a magis
trate, the $2 was included in an itemized
bill, v.z: “To telling a lie, $2,” and the
justice, of the peace granted judgment
upon the same.
The Wilmington Light Infantry com
pany are making arrangements for an en
campment of the Second regiment North
Carolina state guard, which it is proposed
to hold in Wilmington on the 19th, 20th
and 21st of May next. The visiting com
panies of the regiment, the Fayetteville
Independent Light Infantry, the Shoe
Heel Rifles, the Sampson Light Infantry
and the Smithville Guard, will be the
guests of our home company.
If SAM
DOME
TH “ITU 1
LULA HURST MARRIED-
Miss Lula Hurst, the electric girl of
Georgia, was married on Wednesday
night last at Cedartown, Ga, to Mr.
Paul Atkinson, of Chattanooga, Tenn.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Taylor Warren, colored, is in jail at
Yorkville awaiting trial for breaking into
the store of Herndon Bros., at Yorkville;;
He has confessed his guilt.
Incendiaries attempted to destroy the
cornhouse of T. L. Cave, of Hampton
county. The fire was discovered and ex
tinguished before any great damage was
done.
.Black, Carpenter & Davies, at Black’s
in York county, have made an assign
ment, Dr. John G. Black being the as
signee. The assets of the firm are stated
at $7,200, with liabilities amounting to
$6,500.
An attempt was made to burn the corn
house of Mr. W. S. Gocley, Snider’s
cross roads, in Colleton county. The fire
was discovered in time to be extin
guished before any great damage could
be done.
Colonel Rice; state superintendent of
j education, does not aim to stay in Col-
I umbia only when it is necessary to attend
to official duties. He will spend most of
his time visiting different counties and
inspecting the schools.
It was rumored on the streets of
Greenville that a negro was in town who
had just been brought down from the
mountains, and who did not know until
he was told that, the negroes had been
freed from slavery. A correspondent
traced the rumor and succeeded in inter
rogating the alleged reclaimed slave.
He found a negro, black, shabbily
dressed and with a dull, senseless look,
below that of the ordinary darkey. The
story he tells is that since, the war he has
been working for a man named Holly,
away back in one of the narrow valleys
around “Hog Back” mountain; that he
was hot allowed to comeback to his king-
people, and that he was flogged by his
master, who never paid him any money
and gave him but little clothes. His
name is Calvin Garmany. His brother
lives near this city. He says that after
the war Calvin strayed off to the moun
tains, and was not heard of by his family
until last Christmas, when he heard
(hat he was being kept as a slave by a
man in that section. He went after him
and claims that he found him treated,
whipped and confined just as in slavery
times”?,-. His story created some exciter
ment atftqng the negroes, who firmly
believe the fean-bas been kept these long
years in the'solitary mountain fastnesses
in ignorance of his race’s freedom else- ,
where.
MISSISSIPPI.
Work on the street railway in Green
ville has commenced.
The last beer license has expired in
Durant, and the town is as dry as a
-bone. • - ■ j v~
The military company organized by
the ypuug ladies of Crystal Springs will
be called “the Mikado.”
-Eight thousand bales of Cotton are
held in the warehouse at Aberdeen,
waiting for a rise before putting it on
the market.
Two negroes swapped wives in Cal
houn cbiifitj recently. : Articles Of agree
ment were drawn up to clinch the bar
gain.
At the recent term of the circuit
court in Pike county the grand jury in
dicted the Illinois Central railroad for
workingits men in the shops atMcComb
City on Sunday. -
The books of the Louisville, New Or
leans and Texas railroad show that over
500,600 bales of cotton have been
shipped over that road in the past four
months. p
Friday evening last, Mr. Wm. Pibus,
living near Chewalls, started home on
Eis mule. It was intensely dark and
the rain poured in torrents. His mule
came home without the rider, when,
upon search being made, he was found
speechless from cold and exposure. He
died shortly after being discovered.
At a concert given by Professor Er-
rington at Brier Hill, Rankin county,
Mr. Willie: Manning, one of the per
former^, about twenty-two years of age;
was shot by another performer while
both were on the stage, and seriously
wounded. The revolver used was thought
to have been properly loaded for the occa
sion,but it contained a heavy charge of
powder'tightly wadded with tallow. It
took effect in the shoulder, inflicting a
painful wou.nl which may prove fatal.
LOUISIANA.
Over $400 has been subscribed for the
building of the Young Men’s Christian
association at Minden.
The St. Gabriel levee is now completed
It measures seventy feet base and twelve
feet high and contains about 85,000 cubic
yards of dirt.
Alexander Young and Nathan Surgon,
alias Mickens, escaped from the. Terre
bonne parish jail last thursday. night by
breaking one of the iron bars in the lin
tel or transom over the outer door.
Last Thursday, at William’s mill, east
of Tangipahoa river, Mr- Alfred Hughes
was killed in a fight with two men named
Parks and Carpenter. Hughes had ac
cused the others of hog stealing, and the
matter was brought up when the parties
met at the mill and led to a fight. While
Hughes was engaged with one opponent,
the other came up and beat him. on the
head'with a wagon spoke, breaking hit
skull. He died that night... The two
men were arrested and lodged in jail.
The Amite City regulators have no!
disbanded it seems, though they have
been quiet of late, The Gazette says:
“At about 9:30 o’clock Wednesday nighl
while there were yet a number of persons
out of their beds, an equestrian masquer
ading party was observed parading the
streets of our town. A dance was in
progress at a residence, and as the party
rode by one of them called out “balance
all!’’ This attracted the attention of the
dancers, and some of the young men
went out to get a look at the strangers.
It is said that they numbered thirty-two
and were all in uniform, the horses being
draped in white. Their presence created
no little excitement,”
There Is a man in Venice who can
speak ninety three languages. How in
valuable he would have been to superin
tend the construction of the Tower of
Babel,
A SHOCKING AFFAIR.
Tie County Seat of Gilmer County; Ga., Has
aSiiocking) Sensation. :■
A big sensation has been developed in
Sllijay, Ga. On Sunday night the fam
ily of John E. Newberry was reposing in
sleep, and the first intimation he had-of
I the impending danger was the unlooked-
for appearance of three burly men, dis
guised, with a lamp, a double-barrel
shotgun, and a thirty-eight Smith &
Wesson.pistol. He jumped out of bed
and they proceeded to beat him with a
large hickory stick about four feet long,
twisted at; one end, the other end . being
about as large as a man’s wrist. During
the melee which ensued- Newberry’s wife
tore away the masksof two of them, and
saw who they were, f He told them if
they would let him go he would not tell
w’ho they were, whereupon they replied
with ari oath that they would kill him.
His wife seized the gun -and wrenched it.
from the man who held it, when, he
grabbed her by the Siair of the head and
jerked her down. They then 'Seized
Newberry by the hair of his head and
dragged him some twenty steps from the*
house and knocked 1 him down with a
maul, and, thinking him dead, skipped
out. Newberry and his wife fought des
perately for their, lives, -and when (bey
dragged, him out of the house her
Screams brought Mr. David Fow ler, a
brother-in-law of Newberry. lie found
Newbepry in an unconscious condition,
his shoulders, the back of his neck terri
bly beaten and bruised. His body Mon-:
day morning was bloodshot and black
looking, and his neck swollen larger than
a man’s double fist.
Newberry was accused of" reporting
men in that community to the revenue
department, and this!affair is supposed
to be the outgrowth of malice towards
him from some parties: whb'Suspected his
reporting.' A brother of Newberry stated
to an attorney .that some other party had
been reporting and gave his brother’s
name as a witness, and when required to
he swore what he knew as a truthful
EVICTING TENANTS.
A Bloody Battle Takes Flaoe In Texas In
Which Four Men are Killed.
A deadly battle was fought’ four miles
of Dekalb Texas Tuesday^ Four male
members of a family named White were
pitted against Colonel John E. Rosser,
his son Willie, aged fifteen years, and a
hired man named Mullens.' The affray
resulted in the killing of three of the
Whites and Colonel Kosser, and the
wounding of Rosser’s boy. The affray
occurred at the home of the Whites. Ros
ser, after being shqt through the neck
and having, as he supposed, seen all of
his enemies killed)?- mounted his horse
and rode half a mile to his house, flying
as he entered his own door. His son
Willie was left with the dead men at the
house of White. Rosser had sold to
White and,his sons a tract of land for
which they had not paid. A suit for
evictment was brought and decided in
Rosser’s favor. Rosser thought the writ
had not been enforced promptly enough,
and he started with his son and a hired
man to enforce it himself. Informally.
Rosser and the party were invited in when
they reached the house of White, and
after a few words, firing began, J. C.
White and his two sons, Walter and Law-
son, were killed. Young Rosser was
inside and his version of the affair is as
follows: The elder White shot him and
his father, and he shot old man White
once and then turned his Winchester on
the White boys to keep them from shoot
ing his father. About fifteen shots were
fired and with‘deadly effect. The hired
man, Mullens, has not yet been found,
and it is not known what part he took in
the awful tragedy.
A STEAMER ABLAZE.
The Steamship Cherokee, of the Clyde
Line, Slightly Damaged by Fire.
The steamship, Cherokee, of the Clyde
line, bound for New York, caught fire
after leaving the dock at Charleston.
Tuesday morning. The fire broke out
in the afterhold in cotton. The steamer
signalled tugs and was quickly redocked.
The fire department responded promptly
to the summons and the fire was soon
under control. There was no panic on
-board, although there were about forty
passengers, including a number of ladies.
The damage was slight. The fire was
completely extinguished, in a few hours.
It occurred in a watertight compartment
of the afterhold sand was confined to the
spot where it started. The cause of the
fire is unknown. The damage to the
ship and her cargo was trifling. WhilA
flooding the hol$l, James Warren, the
ship’s quartermaster from Norfolk, H|
was struck by a falling/box and seriously
injured. The passengers, with their
baggage, were sent north by rail.
BURNED TO DEATH.
William Farris, employed by the Dela
ware iron works;-Wilmington, Del, waft
made the.; victim of a practical joke
Thursday, by bis fellow workmen, which
cost his life. He was dozing at noon,
when one of his companions threw some
blazing cotton waste in his face. It set
his clothes on fire, and he was burned so
badly lie died in a couple of hours. He
refused to tell who was responsible for
his death, although he knew. *
A TRIPLE HANGING.
; A mob of masked men, about thirty-
five strong, entered the jail at Soguin,
Guadalupe county; Texas, Wednesday
morning, and after overpowering the
jailer took three negroes, Coiy Thomp
son, Andy Williams and Warren U ilson,
and hanged them to trees in full view of
the town. On each victim was'feacked
this notice:; “Killed for murder and
arson.” None of the mob lias been av
rested,-.
OUR «OLD EXPORTS.
The gold exports this year was ordered
Tuesday by Heidelbach, Ickelheimer &
Co., who have taxen $300,000 in. gold
bars from the assay office for shipment to
Europe; This was a decided surprise.
There is no apparent reason for such u.
shipment, and it is concluded it was-to
serve some special purpose,
ACROSS THE WATERS.
Excitement in the London 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 en 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 soli, 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, ahd 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 aUd general financial mis
trust, the suspension of all credit made
the transaction of business almost an im- .
possibility. An opinion pre vails that un
less the banks and great capitalists come
to the relief of the market, disastrous
failures are inevitable.
IRISH ITEMS.
The Limerick municipal council has
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 their
hotel by a torch-light procession and
bands of music.
A BIG FIRE IN MOBILE.
MUTINY AMONG CONVICTS.
At the stockade for convicts on the
Asheville and Spartanburg railrqad, at
Gash’s creek, four miles from Asheville,
N. O., a mutiny of the prisoners occurred
Monday flight. About forty of the hun
dred convicts stationed there refused to
retire for the night, and the officers who
went inside! to adjust matters were stoned
from a barrel of rocks they had for some
time been accumulating. Tuesday morn
ing when ordered out to work they re
fused to do so, aud defiantly cursed the
guard, composed of only ten men. Sixty
of the convicts Came’ out, the other forty
refusing. This placed the guards in a
dilemma. They fired over the heads of
the defiant convicts, but this only en
raged them: the more, and they swore
they were n °t afraid of blank cartridges.
Small shot was procured and the guards
fired into the mutinous crowd and
wounded a number of them in the legs.
This brought them to terms, and several
of them were taken to the hospital.
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 Massowab,
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, hot 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 Abyssin-
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.
LOOKOUT AT FHILADELPHIA.
Monday morning the Clothing Ex
change of Philadelphia, Pa., carried out
its threat and the Clothing; manufactur
ers composing that body closed the doors
to cutters who are Knights of Labor.
The latter are defiant, and are determined
to fight the employers to .the end. The
lockout throws 1,000 cutters out of em
ployment and fully ten times that num
ber of others who depend on them for
employment.
NO HORSBS TO BE EXPORTED.
The government of Russia has forbid
den the exportation of horses from that
country.
The Frenoh government has made
large purchases of Russian oats for the
use of the Frenoh cavalry and: has chart-:
creel a number of steamers to convey them
rom B altio ports to France.
LABOR STRIKERS.
Property Considerably Damaged—One Man
Killed and Others Missing.
A fire at Mobile, Ala., Monday morn-
ing destroyed the jyholesale; drug house
oA m. T. Sprague & Co., at No. 14 N.
Water street. The building snd stock
are ® total loss. The loss on the build
ing is $8 , OOOi insured for $5,000, and on
stock $20,000; insured for $12,.000. Ad
joining buildings were slightly damaged.
Aj Barnstein & Co’s stock of boots and
“shoes was" damaged* considerably by
water, aud is insured for $7,500. Dur
ing the progress of the fire, the rear wall
of the Sprague building fell upon the
two-story brick next east and broke in
the roof and walls, which fell upon a
number of men engaged in removing a
stock of liquor therefrom, belonging to
James McDonnell. The heavy barrels
and mass of brick which fell covered Mr.
McDonnell and killed him instantly.
Mr, McDonnell was head of the firm of
Wholesale grocers of that name doing a
large business for a number of years on
Commerce street. Frank McLarny, mem
ber of the same'firm, was seriously but
not fatally injured. Others are thought
to be under the mass of brick.
Boston, Massachusetts, Street Cars Tied
Up by Them.
The employes of the South Boston
horse railroad, at a meeting Monday
morning, voted unanimously to tie up the
roads, and in pursuance of the vote no
cars were taken out that morning. The
men are opposed to the present superin
tendent, and want ten hours’ work of a
twelve hour day; The difficulty seems to
be chiefly in making out tables. The
company claims that it is impossible to
arrange them so as to give ten hours in
side . of twelve and the proper time for
meals..
The track layers and car repairers of
the South Boston road have joined the
strikers.: After the determination to tie
up the road committees were at once ap
pointed to patrol the streets and notify
all patrons of the road that there were no
cats running that morning, and to watch
the stables and inf orm all of the employes
who appeared to go to work that their
brothers had decided upon a tie up.
Every man who voted to tie up also took
a pledge to abstain from all intoxicating
liquors while the tie up might last.
During the morning every stable was
.guarded by employes of the road to pre
vent morning cars being taken out. A
detachment of policemen was sent to the
stables to protect the property of the
road, and any men who might undertake
to run out a oar. Up to noon not a non
union man had appeared upon the scene
at either stable to take Out a car.
The directors of the company met and
decided to advertise for men. at once to
fill the places of strikers. The directors
expressed themselves as determined to
fight the matter to the last.
AT WORCESTER, MASS.
All members of the Knights of Labor
now working in boot and shoe shops at
Worcester, Mass,, the proprietors of
which refuse to treat with committees of
labor organizations and state that they
will make terms with employes only as
individuals, have been ordered to quit
work to-morrow by the joint executive
board of the Knights of Labor. The or
der is intended to get out workmen who
are now at work on* shoes filling orders.
If these orders are not filled on time con
siderable loss will be caused, and to pre
vent this the executive board expect the
manufacturers will come to terms. The
manufacturers will wait; however, to see
how strong the organization is before
.they call for a conference.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Six New WarVe»»ols to be U;:li,'7 riI0te, t''t't 10
Postofllce Appropriation' Bill.
As a result of the considerur l °n of the
Arious Mile, leaking to
<n new naval vessels, the guU^ om 34ttee
of the house committee on nafeflj-ilEnfs
has drafted a bill which was laid before
the full committee, providing fori 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 8, 1886. The bill appro •
priates $2,400,000 to begin the work.
The postoffice appropriation bill was
reported by the senate committee on 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, Uruguay 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 hours, modifying to that
extent the house piovisioD 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.
A NEW PUNISHMENT
A Lyons, Mich., Schoolmaster’s Oscillatory
performance.
A school t eacher of Lyons, Mich., named
Israel Guinn Rounds, has been having a
high time with his young lady pupils.
He prescribed a new punishment in his
school, and inflicted it on the girls for the
slightest infraction of the rules. It con
sisted in kissing them. Some of* the fair
pupils objected more than others, and
these Rounds encircled with his arms, by
way of extra punishment, and gave them
a harder kissing. Mr. Rounds’ fun has
now been stopped; The trustees of the
school (out of envy, Rounds says) have
preferred seven different charges against
the osculatory teacher; who will be re
moved. He admits tne kissing and says
it was all done for fun,
1 A BIG PAPER MILL FAILS.
The Dennison Paper Company, of Me
chanics’ Falls, Me., has suspended. It
is supposed that the liabilities amount to
$450,000. The assets are the plant, mills
and pulp mill at Canton. Two years ago
the Dennisons got an act through the
the Legislature allowing them to form a
stock company and issub bonds. , Since
then their condition hasbeen precautions,
but the thing which hastened suspension
was a strike in the pulp mill at Canton.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
A shock of earthquake about 4 o’clock
Sunday morning is* reported, from St.
Louis, Springfield, Terre Haute and else
where. It appears to have been very
generally felt throughout central and
Southern Illinois, and Indiana, Dis
patches from twenty different, points give
substantially the same account-as to hour
and duration of shocks. No damage
done at any place as far; as heard from.
IRON ORE NEAR NATCHEZ, MIGS.
Iron ore in paying quantities and evi
dently of splendid quality has been dis
covered near Natchez, Miss. Samples of
the ore are being assayed, and if it
proves as good as it looks to local ex
perts a company will be formed to de
velop the lead, which is many miles in
extent.
THE COTTON REPORT,
The Quality of the Staple is Reported Su
perior. The Price of Seed Is Low;
The final report of the cotton crop for
1886 shows the average date of closing
the picking season, the proportion of
the crop marketed on the 1st of Feb
ruary, the quality of the staple, price of
seed, and the estimated product com- :
pared with that of 1885,
The close of picking is reported the
same as last year in the Carolinas, and
Texas; one day earlier in Mississippi;
two days later in Georgia and Louisiana:
four in Tennessee and twenty-one in Ar
kansas. The dates are: North Crroliaa,
December 2d; South Carolina, Novem
ber 30th; Georgia, December 1st;
Florida, November 27th; Alabama, De
cember 2d; Mississippi, December 7th;
Louisiana, December 12th; Texas, De
cember 3d; Arkansas, December 15th.
The late maturing of the crop extended!
the season slightly in a few states. Only
in Arkansas was the season lengthened
by inability to pick the heavy harvest
earlier.
Up to February 1, 1885, about 5,500,-
000 bales had gone from the plantations.
This would indicate a crop of about 6,-
400,000 bales, a mere trifle above the
November indications of the rate of
yield.
The proportion by states are as fol
lows: North Carolina, 87; South Caro
lina, 88; Georgia, 85; Florida, 83; Ala
bama, 87; Mississippi,; 84; Louisiana,'
88 ; Texas, 80; Arkansas, 81; Tennessee,
88. .....
The quality of the crop is superior.
Rarely, if ever, have the returns of
cleanness and color combined with the
length of staple, equaled these just re
ceived.
The price of seed ,is low. .. Complaint
is made of combinations of oil millers
to reduce the prices. Renters will sell
at any price, sometimes as low as five
or eight cents per bushel. The best
planters refuse to sell at ruling rates.
The average in Mississippi and Louis
iana is ten cents, eleven in Arkansas,
twelve in Texas and Tennessee, thirteen
in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama)
and sixteen in Florida. Feeders of cat-',
tie and sheep pay the highest rates.
The product is larger than last year in
Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and
Texas and smaller in other states. The
average result from a careful analysis of
the present returns, is an aggregate less
than two per cent lower than that of last
year.
’THE BOSTON STRIKE.
Tlie Committee of the Directors Refuee
jp Ke-iustate the Strikers.
A commit! eo of South Bof-ton
strikers met _directqr<Thurgfla^
but failed to reach "a'sett le-
ment, and a second cmmrenC'e wag.-'holA
that night with the same result. The
men made: the proposition that they
would return to work if they were taken
back in a body, but the directors refused
to bind themselves by any such agree
ment. They consented, however to take
back twenty-five more men than they
actually needed, but Ibis was unsatisfac
tory. It is generally Understood that the
company will attempt t» run cars either
tomorrow or Saturday, and the present
temper of the men indicates that trouble
will attend tbe attempt.
On the Cambridge road matters are
practically unchanged. One or two cases
of intimidation of new men by strikers
are reported, but there has been no seri
ous trouble. The company-has employed
about 150 new men, but no attempt has
yet been made to start a car, and itisnot
known when there will be.
WAS NOT HURT.
A Youth Nine Years of Age Walks off a Mov
ing Train.
On board the Panhandle fast train
Thursday were' Mrs.; T. Andrews, of
Newport, Ky., with four young children.
On reaching Zenia at: five. o’clock: she,
roused from a doze to find that her bby,
Charley, nine years old, .was missing.
The train was searched without finding
him. The mother was frantic with fear,
for it was Supposed he had fallen off. A
locomotive was procured rfnd the con—
ductor and a passenger- boarded it to
search for the boy. It was very dark,
but a strong light was placed on the en
gine, and, moving slowly, the searchers
looked carefully On both sides of file
track, expecting to find a mangled body.
But to their surprise, after going' about
eight miles, they found the child, with
out a scratch or bruise, crouched in a
fence corner, waiting for dav light. He
could give no explanation, and is sup
posed to have walked off the train in his
sleep. ; The mother broke down whep a
telegram told her he was found and un
hurt.
A FAMILY MURDERED.
Joseph Plews, a farm hand, was ar
rested Thursday for the murdet of the’en-
tire Dunham family; near Warsaw,.Ind.
He is in jail at Warsaw, and the, neigh
bors of the murdered family threaten; to;
lynch him. Dunham’s poeketbook and
$80 in money were found in Plew’s pock
ets. He was employed by Dunham, and
two weeks ago they quarreled and f?lew
was discharged. When he left he threat-.
ened to get even with Dunham. A part
of Dunham’s scalp was found trampled in
the mud, which disproves the theory of
suicide. Mrs. Dunham is growing strong
er, but is still unconscious. Durham
and his child were buried in one grave
today.
A NEW VOLCANO IN RUSSIA.
The inhabitants of Baku, the centre of
the great Russian petroleum wells, have
been much alarmed over a subterranean
explosion, which shook houses and caused
considerable damage. At the same time
a volcano burst out at Lokbatah, ten
miles distant from Baku. For two nights
the volcano threw a column of fire pad
mud 300 feet high, illuminating the
country for miles around; The mud
emitted during the eruption already lies
from seven to fourteen feet deep over a