The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, September 18, 1889, Image 1
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VOL. XLYI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1889. .. : ' NO. 8 :
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. The Superintendent of the Enilding
Department in New York city thinks that,
ki actual construction the first half year
f 1889 was the busiest that has ever
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oeen Known since tue uepartment was
reated.
There is a movement on foot to bring
tack the remains of Davy Crockett, the
, hero of the Alamo, to his birthplace in
Tennessee. He was born midway between
Greeaville and Jonesborough,
where the landma rk of his cabin home is
still to hff cftp.n
y Electricity Trill be used in a practical
jpt .way in the taking of the census. The
. census blanks will be the same as usual,'
but the information they contain will be
(recorded on a large sheet of paper by the
[punching of holes in it at certain internals.
An electrical circuit is formed
through these holes, and counters are
?dded electrically, recording on their
dials all-items of the same kind.
1 The New York Commercial Advertiser'
predicts that a revival of the old spirit of |
Arctic adventure will result from Dr.i
KToncon'c npvf: WAr for "which.
he has succeeded in securing subscrip-.
tions amounting to $100,000. The ship:
1 will be used to curry the party as far;
? Qorth as practicable, and -will then be
either sent home or abandoned. The
| I explorers will push on with boats and.
I i sledges, without depots of provisions and :
b" without a base for retreat, persevering in,
their northward course so long as there is'
i any chance of approaching the pole.
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r ( Ox course it will never be known exv
iaetly how many men, women and chiltdren
perished in the awful disaster at
w 'Johnstown, observes the New York Mail
\ and Express, but the Board of Inquiry at
\ Johnstown has made a careful estimate,
based on long and patient research, of
the number of persons drowned in the
flood, and this estimate is believed to be
m- approximately correct. It places the
entire loss of life at 6111. This is an
appalling total, but it is very far short of
fcha -wild estimates which were at one tim?
r^: v * made, and -which placed the total loss of
i v- life in the Conemaugh Yalley at from
)? 10,000 to 15,000.
L ' Says the Atlanta Constitution: "The
i ^ n German Emperor opened his eyes when
w* , he saw the British naval review at Ports-.
fmouth, England, the other day. He saw
! blood and muscle and iron enough to stir
his pulse. He saw 113 grim war vessels
manned by 23,000 British sailors. The
- iight impressed him. He must have felt.
that although he represented a great mil-1
itary power England had a war-like armament
on the sea surpassing anything of
aie kind in the world. Now, as always,
' England's strength is on the water, bhe
is still mistress of the seas. Her sturdy.
Fj. bailors are able to whip anything that
iails the briny deep."'
The gradaai-dtminution of the popu-:
% / lation in certain parts of New England
V by reason of emigration to the West is1
. having a curious sequel, remarks the New'
Fork Tribune. Steps are being taken in
Vermont to attract a good class of imzru-;
^ grants from abroad, and thus the. first
I, State to be admitted under the Federal
1 Constitution comes into competition with
flie young Commonwealths of the NorthI?
\ west in the bidding for settlers. The
iensus of 18S0 showed the population of
I v Vermont to be practically at a standstill,
there having been an increase of less
lhau 9000 in twenty years. Maine and
Sew Hamushire made even a poorer
ihowjng, though ia both cases there had j
; y eeen some increase since 1870. The re- 1
/ wit of the drift westward has been that
f . toany farms are abandoned and the prices
, >1 good farms, as we all know, have
/ Jallen to a singularly low figure.
f v ' The New York Sun says: "David S.
J Terry, of California, died with hio boots
>n, and David Colbreth Broderick, after
|) ' in interval of just thirty years, is at last
In some infinitesimal degree revenged by
> i deputy marshal's pistol. He may have
t been more revenged, however, for it will
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L' ^ &oz ao to overioc'h. uue uu? i?ij |
L jn&rried some years ago the notorious
L ' Sarah Althea Hill, the blackmailer of
M- Sharon and of Sharon?s estate, and a
I ^ ?"oman of almost as turbulent and fierce
K? i nature as Terry himself. Of all the
to fighting lawyers and Judges of California
ferry may be said to have -been the last,
although Stephen Johnson Field survives '
K apon the bench of the United States SuM9?
preme Court and reposes upon the well K
earned reputation of having in his time
k/mn Of Konrl-tr TT-ifVi 'Kic nietll <15 Qn V la\C
og jiouuj niku AUM ??v- ?- - fer
of distinction on the slope. Terry
kas had little other business of late than
feeking how best to shoot Judge Field,
??ho, among other things, had sent him
do jail for contempt of court during one of
the Sharon trials. It was a most necestary
vindication of judicial dignity, and
Judge Field did it with the full knowledge
that it would possibly co3t him his
dfe. Judge Field has always been one of
ffche last men to be afraid of any such conf
sequences, but he will doubtless rest none
the less easy now that his enemy is out of
the way. Terry was one of the most reekjess
and desperate survivals of the early
days of Californian development. His slaying
of Broderick embittered his life, exasperated
and deviated him at all points,
and made him lawless, irresponsible, and
? menace to society. He is well out of
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THROUGH DIXIE.
SUMMARY OF] SOUTHEEN NEWS
Happenings of Soecial Importance Prom
Virginia to the Lone Star State,
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nuxviin uja_D.ujjj.nii.
Poindexter W. Capehart, son of B. A.
Capehart, of Kittrell, has been appointed
by the Governor to succeed the late
Bryan Satterthwaite as his executive
clerk. Mr. Capehart is a young man, 18
years of age.
Maj. John Hughes, of New Berne,
died at Beaufort on Monday.
J. 31. Dye, dealer in groceries at Raleigh,
has-made" ail" assignment to Major
T*Un W Af ATnArn r?Aiinttr friiQ
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tee. Assets and liabilities not stated.
Winfield S. Chadwick, of Beaufort,
was elected president of the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railway, i.ycceeding
Washington Bryan.
At Williamston, Wednesday, after deliberation
of about three hours, the jury
in the case of the wife murderer Council
found a verdict of not guilty, the
cause being that he was insane. He
was ordered by Judge McRae to be held
till arrangements could be made to get
him in the Insane Asylum.
It is reported that the Nag's Head
! Hotel, off Roanoke Island, was blown
down during the storm and a number
of persons killed.
SOUTH OAEOLDTA.
Mr. David Bonnetheau, aged about
75 years, died at the city hospital at
Charleston. He was severely burnt on
Friday night at his home, and from
these injuries died. Bonnetheau is the
last of an old Huguenot family of that
name, and for many years has kept a
junk shop, ana was a jeweler Dy traae.
He lived all along and in a hovel, but
is said to have left a snug sum of money,
the stinted savings of years. When his
house was found burning he was in the
fire anjl refused to be moved. He was
taken out by force, but fought to stay
with his property. His brother, who
died several years ago, was a painter of
decided merit and some reputation.
The Alliance is coming to the front
with its business institutions. Ware
houses and oil mills seem to engage their
attention at present. Within the next
month it is expected that at least fifteen
Alliance ware houses will start in business
in this State. There have
been thus far only five Alliance
ware houses chartered, but a
number of others are being planned.
The Co-operative Alliance store of Anderson,
with a capital of $50,000, is the
largest of the Alliance enterprises.
Lynchburg, in Sumter county, has an
Alliance store with a capital of $3,000.
The Farmers' Alliance cotton seed oil
mill has been started by the Alliance
men of Oconee. Gaffney City has asked
for a charter for her Alliance ware house.
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iv. store Jias ueen upeuuu uj mc ?t wuruff
Alliance upon a charter recently issued.
State Treasurer Melver received by
express from the American Bank Note
Company State bond? representing about
half a milliou dollars. These bonds he
has obtained to exchange for stock that
may be held, and for which State bonds,
may be desired. The former bonds were
signed by the late Treasurer Bamberg,
and the present supply are the first
signed by Col. E. R. Mclver as treasurer.
The denominations of the bonds are $1,000
4? per cent. South Carolina blue
bondsand $500 and $1,000 brown conThe
next State Fair, which is to be"
the twenty-first given by the State Ag
ricultuml and Mechanical Society of
South Carolina, begins on November 11
and continues until the ICth. From
every indication it promises to even excel
ail previous fairs
. TEKJfESSEE.
Joe Moron and family were poisoned
at Nashville by eating mushrooms which
they had gathered. They grew very ill
and only the prompt arrival of a physician
saved their lives.
William Braill, of Hopkinsville, Ky.,
who was a passenger on the Earlington
accommodation train, shot' and killed
Conductor James Lemon near Baker's
station, Tenn. "When Lemon asked
"Uwiii Vn'o tirl-pf near Raker's station
he found that he had not purchased one
at Nashville. Braill refused to pay the
extra fare asked, and had some words
with Lemon. The latter was about to
put Braill off the train, when Braill shot
him- in the right side, the ball causing
death one hour afterward. Braill jumped
from the train and has not been seen
since. Lemon died on the train, and his
remains were brought to Nashville,
where he resided. Lemon leaves a wife
and child. He was 36 years old.
GEOEGIA.
Dr. H. H. Tucker, an eminent Baptist
rh'prl at Atlanta Monday moraine
from injuries sustained in falling from a [
second story window of his residence.
He had been Chancellor of the University
of Georgia and President of Mercer
University.
The total business of Savannah for
the year foots up $109,000,000, about
$3,300,000 increase over 1SS8. The naj
val stores trade was $3,000,000, an in|
crease of $1,000,000 over last year. The
grocery trade was $10,750,000, and the
liquor and tobacco and provisions trade
$8,750,000. The dry goods trade was
$3,500,000. A million and half dollars
in building improvements are in pro
gress.
It was rcpo i ted that six negro preachers,
en-route to Ciacinnatti, were taken
from the ladies coach on the north bound
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia tram,
at Baxley, Ga., and badly beatp-^^r
having refused to go into a sc011^ c^ass
coach, when asked to do soPLOSIDi.
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At Fernandina fire desf1*0^^ t^ie Clty
jail and one negro prisonername<^ Henry
{ Baker, perished in the flai^0'5- The ofi"
?*~ A-f* ? /-? ie unl'nr\rt*T\ \ t)llt> It IS SU3~ j
iTiil Ul LUC lilt- iO uunuv/nu,;. . pectcd
that the prisoner Ba?er acci"^utally
set himself and beddjE# ?" .
while lighting his pipe. c'JJp
water-works were in operation e
tirst time, and a stream from a hy<^K|
helped to save the county jail, whichsMfc
joiued the city jail. ^
Seven butchers doing business in the
old city market at Jacksonville were arrested
for violating an ordinance which
compels all market men to secure permits
for private markets. The city has just
had a new market building constructed,
and the market men refused to vacate the
present stand and move into ifc. Twice
, before they have been arrested, released.
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on bail and then their cases dismissed.
However this time Judge Baker, of the
Circuit Court, issued an injunction re|
straining the city authorities from molesting
stall men in the old market.
The cigar factory of Lorenzo Pendas
& Co., jn Jacksonville, was damOTT
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VIRGINIA,
Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, the Southern
poetess, is very ill at her home in Lexington.
T. L. "Waller, a well-known merchant
of Norfolk eoufrty, engaged in business
at SeveH's Point, six miles from Norfolk,
was murdered Sunday morning.
The motive for the murder was robbery,
and six negroes are now in jail for the
crime.
In the Danville City Council an order
was made for an election on October
15th on a corporate subscription of ?50,000
to aid the Atlantic and Danville
Railroad in extending its line from Danville
to the coal fields of Southern Virginia.
The hotel at Bon Air, a summer resort
near Richmond, burned to the
ground "Wednesday.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman, wife and
grandchildren who have been summering
at Hot Springs left for his home at Columbus,
0. Judge Thurman is much
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mipiuvcu, <uiu ottvo mo iiicuuiaciouu jo
very much better.
The President appointed Richard C.
Kerr, of Mississippi, to be Register of
the Land Office at Jackson, Miss., and
Thos. Gordon to be postmaster at Newport
News, Ya.
The Dawson National Bank, of Dawson,
Ga., capital $50,000, was authorized
to commence business.
OTHER STATES,
The State reunion of ex-Confederate
soldiers began at Fort Worth,
Tex., "Wednesday. Thousands of people
were present. There was good feeling
all around. The reunion continued
three days.
Since July 4 there have been six ini
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cenaiary nres in itosiynuaie, .suss n.
J. Dulfee, aged 21 years, of West Rex
bury, and Benjamin Davidson, were ar
rested in the act of setting fire to an unoccupied
house. Monday morning' they
were held in $1,000 bail each for the
Grand Jury. The losses by the fires attributed
to them aggregate $G,000.
A special from CofEersville, Miss., reports
seven negroes killed there within
forty-eight hours. George Allen, who
burned Benjamin Jamison's store, in Laflore
county, was carried to Grenado and
hanged. The total number killed is now
ocfirmif/arl 1 HO
The' white population in Texas increases
more rapidly than the black. In
1870 the white population of the State
was 1,197,237; colored, 394,512. In 1887
the figures were: White, 1,619,459;
colored, 395,576; showing a vast increase
of the whites, with a trilling increase of
the blacks in seven years.
Maj. Chas. F. Hard, a former Charles
tonian, was re-elected mayor of Bessemer,
Ala.
Henry Perry, a negro laborer living at
Avondale, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala.,
beat his wife's head to a jelly with a
briek. .Tpfllnnsv was tVip raiiss nf the
murder. About a week ago Perry attempted
to kill his wife by shootiDg her,
but inflicted only a slight wound. After
she had retired Sunday night he beat
her io death with a brick.
LONDON QUAEUTG AGAIN".
Another Mutilated Human Body Pound
j in Wiritechapel
A cablegram ?fom"Aft?don says: A policeman
found the body of a' RfeUea^woman
lying at the corner of the railway?
arch on Cabl6 street, Whitechapel. An
examination of the remains showed that
the head and arras had been cut off and
carried away and the stomach ripped
open, the intestines lying on the ground.
A cordon of police instantly surrounded
the snot, and nolicemen nass the SDOt ev
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ery fifteen minutes. Those on duty the
previous night say they saw nothing suspicious.
Physicians who examined the
body state that in their opinion the murder
and mutilation occupied nearly an
hour. It is surmised that the perpetrator
carried off the head and arms in a
bag. The murder is the worst of the
whole series of Whitechapel muaders.
The manner in which the limbs had been
severed from the body shows tnat the j
murderer was possessed of some surgical
skill. The woman was about thirty years
old. Her clothing was shabby and she
was evidently a spirit drinker. The remains
have not been identified. The
most intense excitement again prevails in
Whitechapel. Crowds surround the
mortuary in which the body lies.
Later details concerning the find|n<r^
the body show that there was ncf olood
on the ground where the bo^J was
found, neither was there any bl?)0d on
the body. From this, it is evident that
+Vio mnrdnp irae onmmittod in ?r?wne Oth
er place and that the body was5 subsequently
deposited under the/ railway
arch. The trunk was nude. A- reQt and
bloody chemise was found^/i^g near the
body. The arms were rptact, .but the
legs were missing. It isv. believed that
the woman has been der-^ for two days.
Three sailors who w ere sleeping under
an arch next toj&Q one under whicE":the
body was fo\*rfu;were taken into custody
by the poliq^- They convinced the authorities,
hPweTer, that they had seen
nothiog Qp'a suspicious nature and were
dischar^ftd. ^
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yforth Carolina insane asylum met at
Raleigh and elected Dr. William ft.
Wood, of Halifax, superintendent, and
A)r. Pearsall, of Fayetteville, second assistant
physician*
l)r. Wood has for years been President
of the State Board of Examiners, and
was, during the war, an army surgeon,
and is one of the ablest physicians in the
State. There -were thirteen candidates
for the position.
The Hew Alabama Midland BailroacL
Messrs. 'James M. Brow & Co.; of
New York, who are building the main
line of this road from Cambridge, Ga.,
to Montgomery, Ala., have been given
the contract of constructing the extension
from Montgomery northvrest through
|AIaplesviIle to Tuscaloosa, Ala , a distance
of about 110 miles,
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\A New Sachem for Tammany,
^^aham B. TappeD, of the 24th AssemblyNJistrict?
York City, was
Wednes^HB^emoon elected Grand
Sachem. flfl^^Bfcfcj^ySociety, in
place
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OVER THE WIRIiS.
IMPOETAST HEWS FIOM ALL POINTS,
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Style for the Public.
The six days celebration of the anniversary
of the defense of Baltimore in
the war of 1S12 continued from Monday
until Saturday, inclusive. President
Harrison reviewed the parade ou the
opening day, together with Secretaries
Windom and Tracy.
A Chinese divorce case is the latest
ai"1 ~ tion to the marital misiit bureau of.
the Chicago courts. The complainant
is Mrs. Blanche Loy, wife of Ching Loy,
a Chinese laundryman, whom she married
in New York, September 10, '80.
She alleges cruelty and desertion.
Valentine Hatfield, leader of the faction
bearing his name in the IlatfieldMcCoy
feud, on the Kentucky-West
Virginia borders, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for life for the part he
took in the murder of the theee McCoy
boys. Alex. Messer, another of the
gang, gets a similar punishment.
A gas well drilled in at upper Sandusky,
0., Saturday night is conccded
to be the largest in the world, showing
a capacity of over 50,000,000 cubic feet
daily. Forty-five thousand people visited
the well.in one day.
In York county, W. Ya., W. B. Boyd,
a white man, shot his wife and then
killed himself. Mrs. Boyd lived about
an hour. Boyd moved to Arkansas
with his wife some years ago and returned
without her, claiming to have
been divorced. The fate of the second
wife suggests that he may have murdered
his first wife.
Two widow ladies of St. Louis, Mo.,
who were prominent in social circles,
have entered convents in that city. They
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Rogers.
Dick Fisher, alias Dick Rhodes, a
negro, -was lynched in Bonaphin county,
Kan., Monday for the usual crime.
Tailor'? bustle manufactory at Bridgeport,
Conn., where about COO girls have
been employed, shut down Saturday
night because the bustle has gone out of
fashion.
Fire destroyed the steamer Theodore
Wcems lying at Pier No. 9 at Baltimore.
The following additional candidates
have been admitted as cadets at the
United States Naval Academy at Annapolis:
C. E. Fitch, of Illinois; A. A.
Pratt, Illinois; L. F. James, South Carolina;
W. T. Crosby, Connecticut; S. G.
Talter, Tennessee; Graham Sloan, Penntylvania;
Edgar Richmond, California;
John L. Stich, New York;E. G. Asbury,
Louisiana; J. C. Hooker, Tenncssoc; II.
L. Darling, Texas, and J. S, Morris,
Missouri.
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John O'Brien, the once famous showman,
died at his home iu Frankfort,
| near Philadelphia:
As Lyman Quinn was passing through
a dark covered bridge at Gonverneur,
St. Lawrence couDty, N. Y., he was
fatally stabbed in the abdomen by some
unknown person whom he and his companions
met. 7 The assassin escaped.
Four arrests were made of the rioters
at Newcastle, Del., and wan-ants for
eight more have been issued.
A boiler explosion at Carbondale, III.,
on the farm of John Yv. Snider, killed
five men. Snider was usin# a steam |
thresher and a leak in the boiler caused
the accident.
. THE GBOWING COTTON.
the Crop Com- (
paratively Late. >
The cotton report of the Statistician
of the Department of Agriculture at
Washington for September, represents i
the crops as comparatively late. Too 4
abudnant moisture is generally reported "*
producing aj-ank weed, and retard
the development of the bolls. Ilust |
appeared quite generally on san*r?y~ uplands.
The grey soilS of Atlantic coast
show the most rust;'red land*and heavy'
soils have been less aflected/ or are entirely
exempt. y
Drought has not been^eported, except
in the light pine landrfs of Mississippi,
similar soils in Louisiana, and in a considerable
part of yfexas. In these districts
there was abundant moisture till
June and July/
{.There hasb^en considerable dropping of
r/Mir?rr in flm
1U11U3 CliiU. J WViW JU VA^V, M4V??V
most affeo^ed by the extremes of moisture
an<3*temperature. The plants are
still gi&'wing and blooming in -most locations,
though in light soils the bolls
are small, and not developing rapidly.
The general condition is $0.8 against
89.3 last month, and 83.8 in September,
of last year. The State averages are as
follows: Virginia, 62, North Carolina,
i 70, South Carolina, S7, Georgia, 90,
Florida, 94, Alabama, 91, Mississippi,
SS, Louisiana, 91, Texas, 81, Arkansas,"
90, Tennessee, 84.
The presence of the caterpillar and
boll-worm is reported in all the Gulf
States, and in Arkansas the first brood
of the former has webbed up, and preparations
are generally made for the vigorous
use of Paris Green and Loudon
Purple, which have been very effective
with the first generation. The damage
has been slight east of the Mississippi,
and not generally serious farther west,
with a few exceptions. Correspondents
recognize the value in the present crop
of the factors 01 good Autumn weather
and late killing frosts in determining
the aggregate of production.
Convicted for Killing an Editor.
R x "Rt? a tcpTsrn. (.'al. -^Dr. T,1 ewel 1 vn i
A. Powell was convicted of manslaughter |
Saturday night for killing Ralph
Smith at Redwood City, Cal., two
years ago. Smith, who was editor of a
paper at Redwood City, published an
article to which Powell took exception,
and when the men met a quarrel ensued
in 'which Smith was killed. Powell was
tried twice in Rodaood City, but the
jury disagreed both times. A change of
venue was tuen ouiaiuea ro mis cnv.
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Subset Cox Dead. . ,
Hon. Samuel Sullivnn Cox, the well
known New York Congressman, died
at his home in the metropolis at S-:2T
Tuesday evening. In the morning his
condition suddculy changed for the
worse, and Dr. Lockwood, the attend
ing physician, immediately sr^it for the
other dbctors who have been m consultation
with him sincc Mr. Cox wa? taken
ill. 3fany telegrams of sympathy were
received from "promine'nt'pcpple-till, over
the country.
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MONTANA'S GREATEST HEE.
A Forest Eire That Swent Awav a Mil
*, lion Dollars.
A dispatch from Helena, Mont., says:
Information is just received here for one
of the fie rcest tires yet reported in Montana.
The fire occurred Sunday night in
the St. Regis District, Missoula county,
and the Cokely. ranch was made a barren
waste in less than three minutes. Cokeley
and the hostess of the ranch mounted
horses and barely escaped with their
lives to the river. less than a quartor of
a mile away, and reached the water after
having their clothes nearly all burned
from their bodies. They remained
in r> rr-ofnr- r\yr>r Ti/yittq - on/} nrron
xu tilv n utv,i vmv,i mu uwiu^ wnv* v> vu
there heat and smoke were almost suffocating.
A $vedish prospector, named
Anderson, tied his horse in a gulch
about half a mile from the Cokeley ranch,
and went up the hillside to his claim.
Both horse and man perished ir the
flames. -
J. C. Yeeder, who has returned from
the St. Regis co?ntry, says lie feels certain
that several men perished in the
flames higher up the mountains. The
destruction of property will aggregate
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The Ootton Oil Season.
Following is a review of the cotton
oil industry by Col. Jos. H. Duggin. of
New Orleans;
The cotton seed crushers have lately
closed one of the most profitable and
successful seasons known in the business
for many years. The former contentions
and squabbles seem to have died
out, or at least subsided, and from all
sides we get reports of good results
from all mills that have been properly
worked. Prices of cotton seed products
have ,1>een unusually high, considering
the competition they have had
to meet witl^ competing products, and
the entire crash has been marketed to
advantage?particularly the cake and
meal outputs Owing to unusually h gh
export freights it wsis thought that the
foreign shipments would be considerably
curtailed, but, strange to say, this
has not been the case, and the products
have commanded prices above their parity,
which is indian corn.
The growing demand for cotton seed
meal as a straightout fertilizer has greatly
increased and stimulated the mills to
seek and encourage this home demand.
And, again, the great increase in cattle
feeding.in the South ados another valuable
.outlet to cotton-seed meal. The
total crush of seed the past season is estimated
roughly at about 800,000 tons,
or say 25 per cent, of the probable seed
c.rmi Owinf to unfavorable weather 1
-x-- - o
during the latter part of the cotton
picking season a considerable quantity
of cottonseed was injured by healing,
but as there are demands for all grades
of cottonseed products, the crushers
have been abi* to place their off products
without loss. All things considered,
the . cottonsee4 crushing business
is in a prosperous condition and steadily
on the increase. As\the products become
better known the demand in/->T%vrso/.o
on/1 XT nOW millfl ATP
VI V?4WCCj UUU WUMVVjUvUb'AJ UV?( - - -
being erected every year' as new centers
open where crushing can be done to advantage.
The South in Ten Years.
The sixth annual review of the progress
of trade, manufacturers, agriculture
and education in the "Southern
States, published by the New Orleans
Timen-lJemocrot. is an invaluable contri
bution to the literature of the day. The
following table is given showing the assessed
value of property in the States of
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
JK11? iMujcy, Louisiana, Missjssjjjni^q^
Darolin^ Carolina, Tennessee,
rexas^^^FVirginia:
' Assessment,
J&W. . . ?2,104,792,795
r lSjgO, . . . 2,377,564,34X
r 1^81, . . . 2.473,020,423
,4882, . . . 2,505,903,787
1883, . . . 2,782,115,803
' 1884, . . . 2,887,834,801
1885, . . . 2,900,514,535
1S80, . . . 3,154 208,813
1887, . . . 3,407,037,091
1S88, . T . 3,522,597,307
18S9, . . . 3,759,053,307 i
TJie mcrcase in the assessed value of
the property in the twelve States named
during the past decade was 73.9 per
cent., and this vast improvement in the
material condition of the South is attri
uuieu "co an advance in every uuc ui
industry, manufactures, mining, agriculture."
During the past year the farmers of
the South realized $SG8,979,523 on their
agricultural products, an increase of 42
per cent, on their income duringt lie year
18S0, itself an unusually goad crop year.
Bare Postage Stamps.
A discovery was made recently at
Galena, 111., that will be of great interest.
It consisted of three Government postage
stamps, issued according to law by the
Postmaster at St. Louis, for the State oi
Missouri, in 1S45, the denominations
being two of the ten-cent and one of the
twenty-cent series. These stamps were
issued in five, ten and twenty cent denominations,
and are among the rarest
and most valuable to stamp collectors ol
all those issued by authority of the Gov
eminent for use as postage. a. vvymerwas
Postmaster of St. Louis in 1845,
and gave the order for the plates to J.
31. Kershaw, a local engraver. The fiv?
and ten cent stamps are found on two
varieties of paper. The twenty-cent were
printed from an altered plate of the fiver
cent, and are perhaps the rarest
stamps known. The stamps bear the
arms of Missouri, with uSt. Louis" above
and "Post Office" below, are rectangulai
in shape, and printed in black on blue
paper.?5Chicago Herald.
Japanese Windows.
Japanese rooms are lighted, not by
glass -windows, but by a kind of wooden
gratings, over" which a white paper is
pasted on the outside. This paper
diffuses the- sunlight about the room
very pleasantly,but it is not proof against
rain; in rainy weather, therefore, the
shutters have to be put up which are used
to close the veranda and house in the
night time, and which are the only doors
in a Japanese house that is thought
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necessary to iurmsu wim a uou. xsj> wc
putting up and taking down of these
shutters is a matter demanding some
time, it is usual to have a small door
made in them, which is called "the
earthquake door," to provide means of
quick,, escape in case of emergency.?
decorator and Furnisher, - ""
| STORM ECHOES.
JEOM THE AK6ET ATLANTIC,
Details of the Great Storm Off The Jersey
And New York Coasts.
For a long time it will be referred to
in the meteorological annals as the great
cyclone of September, '89. It generated
in the "West Indies. The storm traveled
along the Gulf Stream for a week and
reached the height of its fury along the
Jersey coast. Sea Island City was cut"
off from the mainland. The sea wall
there was destroyed and fifteen hotises
washed away. At Atlantic. City, the
damage was very, gj^at and .wreckage,
was strewn over the-iuSswA.
Lewes, Del.?The tide was the highest
since 1879 and telegraphic communication
with the Breakwater was destroyed.
The schooners Allen, Covert, Henry
M. Clarke, J. F. Becker, Byron M.,
Maud Seward, Norena, Gertrude Summers
Jinrl nine unknown snhnnnprs went i
ashore. Both wooden piers have been
destroyed. The schooner J. L. Bryan
sank up the bay and her mate and one
colored seaman are the only survivors.
At New York City vessels at anchor
along the South street piers had the appearance
of haviDg passed through a
veritable cyclone. The rigging of many
of the crafts was torn into shreds and
spars and masts were dismantled, while
waves beat with great fury against the
vessel's sides, even as they lay at their
piers." The Custom. House quarters at
the end of the immigration dock was
completely filled with water.
Manhattan Beach grounds are ruined.
The great bathing pavilion is a total
wreck. On the beach between Manhattan
Beach and Brighton Beach Hotel, the
only strip of beach left there was a regular
line of wreckage. To the west of
Brighton Beach Hotel there is an expanse
of wreckage and debris 100 yards long
and 50 feet wide.
loss o? life.
Lewis, Del.,?The crew of the Kate
E. Morse were rescued and conveyed to
a place of safety. Shortly after the
Morse went on the shoal the schooner
Walter F. Parker also grounded within
thirty yards of the Morse. She soon
wpn t rlnwn n.nd thosft on the Morse saw
her crew drown one by one. The Morse
is a total loss. News comes of the
ivreck of the schooner "W. O. Snow, of
Philadelphia, coal laden, with the loss
of all on board?nine persons. This
again raises the total loss of life to SI.
The wreck of the Snow was found by the
tug Luckcnbach between Brandywine
and Brown shoals.
EXPERIENCE OF THE ENGLAND.
The National line steamer England,
from Liverpool to New York got to her*
dock Thursday after experiencing one
ol tne rougnest voyages ntr commander
had encountered to a service of sixteen
years at sea. At midnight of Tuesday
one of the firemen was washed overboard
and drowned. The England was
struck by the storm on Tuesday evening.
The wind and sea were something terrible.
Capt. Healey says that the steamer
was almost turned over by the combined
force of the wind and sea. She careened
until the tips of lier yards dipped
into the water.
THE WORK OF KESCDE.
tt i ~ "u "u "u j.-;. ^
JLlUgllbYilJLC, it SUUUIU UCIW^U LUC
town of Lewis, Del., and the beach, was
submerged and its two hundred inhabitants
fled for life, leaving all their possessions
behind. The first boat came
ashore and then came another and another.
The life-saving crew, reinforced
by the Henlopen and Rheboth crews,
went to work and labored unceasingly.
The crew of_ every vjsseltiiat was
men, and not a life was lost among the
scores of men they handled.
Remy Fegel, who keeps the Fe<?el
Thoroughfare Hotel,at Atlantic City,tells
of a daring rescue on Tuesday afternoon.
It was found necessary to move out,
owing to the rising waters. The current
was too strong to row a boat, so Mr.
Fegel and six strong men took a party
of thirty people from the Thoroughfare
Hotel to Atlantic City. The ladies
were led several hundred yards through
the water, which was up to their necks.
There were twelve small children in the
party, several of whom helonjjed to Mr.
Van Horn Costomer, of Philadelphia,
and this gentlemen was one of thr>
party.
A Priest Must Pay $1,720.
The jury in the case of Dr. Louise
Morasse, a practicing physician of Southbridge,
Mass.,against the Rev. Father G.
Ely Brochu, priest of the Notre Dame
Church, brought in a verdict in the Superior
Civil Court giving damages for
plaintiff of $1,500 with interest, or a total
of $1,720. Dr. Morasse was a parishioner
of Father Brochu. He was di
vuiucu iiuiu iixa jitsl wne auu was married
a secono time by a Justice of the
Peace. For this he was denounced from
the pulpit by Father Brochu, and this
caused Dr. Morasse to bring suit against
the priest.
Snmmer "Sccne? From a Snowy Peat.
The Signal Service officer on Pike's
Peak, Col., said to a correspondent the '
other day: "Sometimes I stand at the
window with my telescope. I can see
the houses of Colorado Springs, twenty
miles away, tne men siinng m tneir
shirt sleeves, sipping iced drinks to keep
cool, the ladies walking about in white
summer robes. I lower the glass. The
summer scene is gone. Green trees,
animal' life, men and women fade away
like creatures in a dream, and I am the
only living thing in a world of eternal
snow and ice and silence-"
A fortune in Ochre.
Michael J. Leonard, a contractor of
Mayfield, Ky,, recently discovered
seventy-five acres of land near Ripley,
Tenn., iroon -which were rich deposits of
yellow ochre. He told his friend, L. H.
Bell, publisher of the Louisville (Ky.)
Catholic Advocate. Bell bought the place
at the ordinary value of land in that
region, and will give up his business to
bring the ochre to market. It is. supnnsAfl
tn hfn crrp&t fnrfmiA fnr Tiini TVinrr
r *
are only eight other beds of ochre in this
country. .
Want to Break Up the Cottw#fig.
Liverpool, England.?A joint committee
of the Blackburn cotton masters
and mill operatives have been appointed
to consider means by which Lhe ring
controlling the prices of cotton maj be
broken, .. A
I
A LOUISIANA OUTEA&E.
An Incredible Grime* In' the Creole
State Reported From Here.
A special from' Lafayette, La , says:
"A brutal murder was committed*six
miles from this place, on the Abbeville'
road, on Monday nisht. Near the^coad.-.
J. J. n A JTLZs.
siue sum us u smau uuai, OULU J*L -JW,
the mutilated bodies of Rosmond Cormier,
colored, and his daughter, Rosalie,
were found. The following particulars
were elicted at the coroner's inquest.
"Rosmond, who was over 40 jears oi
age, was whipped and ordered.,to. leave,
some months ago"by a band of Regula-*
tors, and? faiHUg-to ^obSy, incf 'an' untimely
end ca-Monday tfigbtr.lt appears
"that about.10 o'clock .a party of. masked
men rode up to his house and demanded
admittance, and on being refused broke
fl/vcm +>ip r?nr>r TVia nld man firpd hoth
barrels of his shotgun into the crowd,
killing a white man named John Judas.
Iiosmond then fled, pursued by the nowenraged
party, who flred repeatedly at
the fugitive. They overtook him about
two hundred yards from his house and
blew the entire back part of his head off
and then crushed in the frontal bone
Kit KIauto nrifK fVioii* rriino TIlO lwW Af
k/iv U O ni.bU bUVU WVV.J w.
Rosalie lay stretched in front of the
cabin next morning, with her throat cut
from ear to ear. The little cabin was
riddled with bullets from "Winchester
rifles and smaller arms, about two hundred
balls having been fired into it. As
the cabin was an isolated one the coroner's
jury could find no evidence incriminating
any one. The body of masked
men who murdered Rosmond and. his
daughter number about thirty.
'The Regulators, before reaching Cormier's
house, severely whiDced two ne
groes, Lucien Montgomery and Joseph,
alias Toby Cobb. The victims were
fearfully lacerated on their backs and
received ugly wounds on the head -and
face, inflicted with an instrument made
by attaching a piece of buggy trace
about two feet long to a handle made*>f
wood of about the same length. Cobb
says the crowd came to his house and
with an oath demanded admittance. Being
refused they broke down the door
and took himself and Lucien down the
road quite a distance and there beat them
unmercifully for nearly half an hour. He
UlU UUl lCV,UgUI45 ""V.
masked, one being dressed in woman's
clothing. lie could not give any explanation
as to why he was flogged, but did
not ascribe it to politics. He heard the
men say something to Lucien about voting
for Miner, but could not remember
what it was.
''It is learned that about two months
ago Cobb had a negro school teacher
living with him, and this man was ordered
to leave. Not doing so, the party j
went to Cobb's house one night and de-1
manded that the teacher be given up,
whereupon Cobb grew angry and fired
into the crowd, wounding two of- them.
Since that time veEgeance has been vowed
upon him, and it >ras wreaked on
Monday night. Cobb, when seen, was
in bed and will remain there for several
months before he recovers from the severe
whipping administered to him. It
is the opinion of the sheriff that other
norties were wounded in the affair List
night, but so far nothing definite has
beeu ascertained in this respect."?
Charleston Hem & Courier.
OOTTOIT COTOTOIL AT NEW OELEANS.
'The Southern Cotton Exchanges Adopt a
Discriminating Tare.
New Orleans, Lav; Special.?A Convention
of Cotton Exchauges and the
I cotton trade in general to consider the
; difference of tare in cotton bale covering
met here Wednesday afternoon. Delegat.es
were present from Baton Rouge,
' TTtt Meridian, Yicksburjj,
New Yo^St!^S#?i^i?2^w^fillj
Greenville, Miss., Memphis, i\ashvnl^
Mobile, Savannah, Jackson, Miss., and j
many other cities. In addition to the j
regular delegates, commissioners of agri- j
culture from seven Southern states and
representatives of the Farmer's Alliance
were admitted to seats on the floor.
At the Convention's request President
Thomas, of the New Orleans Exchange,
gave his views on the subject as express
ed in his report at the time of the call.
In order to bring the matter before the
meeting he moved that all cotton in
I American markets be sold at net weight,
' allowing 5 per cent off for the tare on
! on/1 T?or P/inf fr\v
; juiv V/*/t V/i vu uaiV/O auu uj vv/uw iv/i
cotton-covered bales. Mr. Copeland
seconded the motion, which was discussed
and amended. One of the interesti
ing features of the meeting was the
speech of President Livingston, of the
Farmers' Alliance of Georgia. He made
a strong appeal in behalf of the resolution
as a measure of justice to farmers,
and he said that the Alliances were getting
stronger and would soon cease to
beg, and would take what was undeniably
theirs. Encouraging cotton bagging
manufacture would leave several
millions in the South annually. England
would object to it at first but would soon
accept the situation.
fTM. T ? ' I rt -1.J A a! - a.
me jLivurpoui v^uxiun Associiiuoii seut
a letter against cotton bagging. The
Bremen Exchange wrote that it had no
objection to cotton bagging if it was
heavy enough, to protect the cotton. The
following resolution was passed:
"That on and after the first day of October,
1889, all cotton shall be sold at
net weight, allowing t wenty four pounds
off the gross weight for tare on jate-covered
bales, and, sixteen pounds off for
tare on cotton-covered bale3, cotton covering
to be of standard weight, threequarters
of a pound to the yard."
The resolution was unanimously
adopted. The Farmers' Alliance people
said that tin resolution would be ratified,
and they would only send cotton to
points where the tare was in operation.
Bird Dog, Watch JDog and Nurse.
Joe, a pointer dog belonging to the
family of the Rev. Mr. Flanders-, of
Ellaville, Ga., is a faithful servant, and
comes as near earning his victuals and
. ? ? C clothes
as any servant in town. Besides
being a first-rate bird dog, ever rcady
for field sport, and a good night watchman,
he performs the services of nursery
maid and market boy with apparent enjoymeat.
lie rolls the baby out in its
carriage for airing morning and afternoon,
hauls up the packages from the
stores and market, minds the chickens
and pigs, and pulls the garden plow.?
Strtf'.nnah 2feics.
A "nAWArtroflA "Plotilr
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.
From the platform of tlie New Jersey
Democrats, adopted at the Trenton Convention
: y
' The tendency of our advancjfoc^^^i
ilization is to inqreas^^M^^^
ageofJ^jU^Hj
THE &MENBACKEBS.
I
Their Convention Opened in Cincinnati 'tjM
Thursday by George 0. Jones. .
The Greenbacker's Convention was
opened at Cincinnati Thursdayby George
0.. Jones, of Xew York, who read an ad- ~
cfress in which the keynotes of the party <fl|
were^touched on,- and from which were
gatnef-oct-'the fact that the 'Greenback
^astyjteelifivea in the payment of the pub- ?" ^1
Jie.debts, according to "the original con- '
tracts' under which they were contracted; Jjjji
carrying on needed public improvements ;
encouraging an American merchant" ma- f
riT.e; aiding the manu&cture. of Ameri*. _<|9H
can cotton; limiting the debts of railroad,
telegraph and other public corpo- -.
rations; the owning of all land by Amer^ftp^B H
ican citizens, or by those who declare H
their intention to become such; private
land ownership to a sufficient amount
only for the convenient operations of its ^ilfl
property; restoring a true spirit of fra-^^
ternitv and nationality among the wfiole~^M||^^H
American people through a currency,
that would make all alike loyal to the w
government by being alike interested in fHH
it, and in keeping its volume at such an -JM
amount as "would always secure goodpric 4H
es for its products ard uniform buSi
ness prosperity.
FOBEKffl SEWS. ' r Jfl
' |
Ti. Z~ L - J ' '
it, is report?u cuut me new (jerman
Army bilL will involve the expenditure JH
of 2000,000,000 marks. fl
A dispatch from Vienna says confirmatory
advices, have been received there
concerning the reported massing of large fl
forces of Russian troops in Armenia on fl
the Russo-Turkish frontier.
The deficit of the Turkish income will this
year exceed $10,000,000. An H
The move togive"a Sunday holiday to the
French railway employees has begun
on the Paris-Lvons road. It will prob- MA
i-? -3 -n"
uuiy awnu 311 over j? ranee.
Ia consequence of the succeis of tlie
smokeless powder, the Italian Governmeat
lias suspended the manufacture of
all other kinds of gunpowder.
Queen Victoria's recent visit to Wales
brings out the statistics that during her
reign of over half a century twelve days
only have been spent in Ireland. ?"J|
The first section of the railway from. V|
Pekin to CLin-kiang has progressed as- aH
far as havinc tenders made for its issir
struetion. The sum estimated-Jor rails fl
and plant on this line is $7Q,000,068T
* WASHINGTON 'ST0T5S. M
Secretary Tracy has appointed a board - JSSfl
consisting of Captain P. M. Bruce, Na- a
vai Constructor E. W.-Steele and Civil II
Engineer T. O. Maxton to meet at Nor- IB
folk, Va., j>n September 17th and in- 9
specl and test the new Simpson dry^
dock, to be opened on that date.
Secretary Windom selected what is
known as the Bowling Green site for "1M
the erection of a.oiir?tnm "h^uc^ ?nr? orv.
praiser's store in New York city. Congross
appropriated $1,000,000 for the
purchase of the site.' ;
Henry Cr. Warmoth, of Louisiana, has
been appointed collector of customs for :
the district of New Orleans, La.
Seat on N. Jones, of Columbia, S. C.,
has been appointed a cadet at the
Point Military Academy.
Corporal Tanner, of the Pension Bareau
Thursday sent his resignation to V
President Harrison who accepted ; aB
TVori of Eleefcricitj^^^ V
There are how in use inj? rm'}^
States more than 5650 .
stations for light and 1
SlO.OM^lights^^^j^ |
-were, fifty-nice Jj
*?lSWftSfflft?rays m operation in March - Jj
last, and eigMy-six reads in' process of
construction. The increase of capital in
electrical investments during 18SS was
nearly .$*70,000,000. These are very- ?
significant figures, and they point unmistakably
to the course of future inventions
and discoveries.?Scientific AmeriDied
From a Mad Wolfs Bite.
A Mexican boy who was bitten by a ' H
mad wolf in the San Bias Mountains of fl
New Mexico, has died in great agony. -fl
He acted like a -wolf, and, though, small,
it took several men to hold him down.
He and his elder brother were plavin^s^fl
few yards from the house when thew'oI^M
attacked them, lacerating their faces and
hands, the younger brother, however,
receiving the deepest wounds. A Slexi- fl
cjin herder lassoed the wolf, tightened jQ
the rope, and strangled it to death.? V
Nac York Sun.
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A mtY Mtuviat awiiv*
A new kind of artificial stone has been
patented and is known as the McMurtrie
stone. It consists essentia] iy of Portland
cement and sand or gravel, compacted
by tamping, into the pores of "" fl
which are poured compounds of alumina fl
of the fatty acids by the double composi- I
tion of alum and a potash soap. Its _
special advantage is its resistance to the " '1
absorption of water. All morters aryd-- 1
artificial-stones absorb water and^dHrt^^X
integrate rapidlv under the action or^
frost.?San Francisco Chronicle* . .
Loading a Phonograph With Knsie.
At the Edison laboratory, in "West ~
Orange, Is". J., a local brass band was re
cently kept at work every afternoon for two
weeks playing into a funnel of the
phonograph. A large number of duplicate
cylinders are being made. These,as .
fast as completed, are shipped to Mr. .:
Edison at the Paris Exwsition. The .
process of cylinder -manufacture will be ? .J0
continued as long as the Exposition re-. J^k
mains open.?Ntu: York Tribune. ,-^M
Canning' Jack Hat>J)its?
The Lakeview (Cal.)
Eill Lamb is coming to the front
unique enterprise. He is canning the
hams of jack rabbits and shipping them
TTocf "Ho ic -ronrlnnrr in -fV>z> Koof >u
the country,-the sagebrush plains of Tick
Ridge. Four thousand have been salted
down up to^jlate. Geese areJalso beina
slain by the ^hundreds and the featheit
saved up for shipment'East.
OatUwiug the Squirrel.
The squirrel must go.. The Board of *" M
Supervisors of Alameda and Contra Cos^ta
Counties, California, have passed an
ordinance declaring squirrels: anui^^j^B
Apparently thesQmr|^|gMd|