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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 296
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1886.
TRICE FIVE CENTO
ALL AW ATLANTA.
General Philips Denounces Bisamer as a
Perjurer.
• flea. Gordon's Pardons on Yesterday—Some Ugly
fact* About the Treatment of Convicts-Hon
They Whip the Poor Follows—The Drummers
fixing for “A Sight of It.”
Atlanta, Ga., December 11.—The ses
sion of the legislature to-day was the
longest yet held, despite the fact that it
was Saturday, the house adjourning i«t 130
and the senate at 2:05 p. m. The entire
session of the house was consumed in a
continuation of the debate on the general
tax bill, the section,being the rate of taxa
tion. Messrs. Berner, Arnheim, Harrison
and Gordon were the leaders in the dis
cussion, and when the vote Anally came
Mr. Gordon carried the day by getting
through his rate of 2 <30-100 mills for 1887
and 1888.
The message of Gov. Gordon, in refer
ence to the convict lease was, on motion of
Mr. Gordon, of Chatham, referred to the
penitentiary committee.
Tli© -Senate.
Atlanta, December 11.—In the senate,
after the preliminary exercises, Mr. Smith
moved tc reconsider the bill providing for
teaching physiology and hygiene in the
public schools. The motion prevailed.
The committees on education, railroads,
special judiciary, banks and penitentiary
made reports, recommending the passage
of certain bills. The report of the peni
tentiary committee was from the joint
visiting committee to the convict camps
and was an interesting document. It made
certain recommendations as to the treat
ment oj convicts; recommended executive
clemeney for same and advised the dis
charging of the whipping boss, Kilpatrick,
at the Dade coal mines. It also recom
mended that the governor examine into
the charges against the whipping boss at
Rising Fawn furnace, whore it was alleged
that he had whipped convicts with a heavy
leather strap with shoe pegs driven in it,
the points of which were above the
surface of the leather, and penetrated the
skin of the convict when whipped.
The report stated that the committee had
had only time to visit two camps, and em
bodied a resolution providing for sub-com
mittees, not exceeding five In number, to
visit all the camps during the recess and
report to the summer session. This called
forth a spirited debate, but was finally
adopted with the amendment that the
committees should not be allowed pc-
diem pay for sueli service.
A resolution raising a joint committee to
visit the lunatic asylum during the recess
was adopted.
‘-.’5 The following bills werelpassed.
To incorporate the Buena Vista and Ella-
ville railroad.
To repeal the act regulating registration
in Elbert county.
To amend the charter of the Macon street
railroad.
To authorize the wills of uon-residonts of
Georgia to be admitted to probate in this
state under certain circumstances.
To regulate registration in Decatur
county.
A-nnmbsv of b-illa were read for the first
and second time. The bill to make the
comptroller-general insurance commis
sioner and regulate the business of insur
ance in the state, was made the special or
der for Monday.
The senate then adjourned.
Tin 1 limsth-iitlm; Committee.
Atlanta, December 11.—The sub-com
mittee from the joint investigating com •
mittee examined Gen. Phillips to-day in
Marietta at his home. He denounced
Bisaner and denied the truth of his affi
davit. He had never paid a dollar to Fain
or Rankin, and had never seen Fain but
once during the session. He had met
Rankin frequently as a member of the
sub-committee, but never gave or oifered
him either present or fee.
He was employed ’ os the counsel
of Mr. Harrison, to urge a change of build
ing material in the capital, but bad never
used any but legitimate arguments ad
dressed to the judgment. His employment
and service had been entirely proper and
legitimate.
An enthusiastic meeting of the drum
mers was held to-night, at which the com
mittee reported that all the necessary
funds had been raised, and everything was
in readiness for a successful convention on
the 16th, and a splendid banquet.
Tan NefirottK l'lii-tloneil.
Atlanta, Ga., December 11.—Gov. Gor
don signed two pardons to-day, one of a
negro named Judge Oliver, who was sen
tenced to two years in tne penitentiary
from Elbert county. His term would ex
pire in January, but the evidence before
the governor shows that he is weak-mind
ed and that the woman whom he is charged
with kidnapping testified that her own
husband induced the negro to commit the
offense. The other was a negro, Thomas
Moses Groover, convicted of burglary from
Liberty county, and was sentenced for
twelve years in 1878. The pardon is based
on the fact that the evidence was circum
stantial and the law prescribing the pen
alty for burglary has been changed so as to
reduce the minimum since his incarcera
tion.
witnr«« h ,L r ght cross examl,le various
Witnesses from whom the government had
nrntinnii th ? l i fflda y its "pun which the
prosecution is largely relying for its tosti-
T o e A 1 ® 3 ® was adjourned to give
oFfhese n w f tnesses 8e0Uring the nttenda,lte
England.
THE ANTI-RENT MOVEMENT. <
ijWi December 11.—It is asserted
that the Irish loyalist, league of land own-
:» number of counties are forming an
association to compel the anti-rent move-
merit They propose to put the leading
tenants who refus^ to pay judicial rents
into the bankruptcy court, and thus force
a disclosure of where their rents are de
posited.
Karthqunke In Turkey.
Constantinople, December 11.—An
earthquake to-day was felt in Smyrna and
throughout the island of Chios. The dis
turbance made fissures in the walls and in
the fronts of houses in all parts of the ter
ritory affected.
REMARKABLE STORY.
Strange Treatment of n New York (llrl liy a liana
ot‘ Young Mon.
New York, December U.-Ciara Ben
nett, an innocent-looking girl of 17 years
was sent to the Westchester county jail
yesterday for four months by Justice Con-
nolly, ot Rye, on a charge of vagrancy,
•‘‘me says that about a month ago she went,
with her father’s consent, to Port Chester
in charge of Capt. Samuel Davis, on an
oyster schooner. On last Saturday evening
a young man friend called and took her to
a meeting ot the salvation army. During
the evening a man, whose name she after
wards learned, but whom she did not
know, tapped her on the shoulder and told
her the friend who liad taken her to the
meeting wanted to see her outside. She
went out, but did not see her friend. Her
conductor took her around a corner, where
she noticed there were seven or eight
young men.
She then became alarmed, but a hand
kerchief was bound over her mouth and
she was dragged along the street to a
house, said to be the bachelor quarters of
a man too old to interfere with the will of
the young men of the village. When she
recovered consciousness, she says, she
found that she had been deprived of her-’
clothes and that nine young men were
holding an orgle around the bed on which
she lay. They tried to make her drink,
but she refused, because she laid never
tasted beef or liquor in her life. They
tried to force it down her throat,
but she would not swallow any.
She says that the handkerchief put
over her mouth in the street had some
thing strong on it, and she thinks she was
drugged. She says some of the men are
married, for she heard others joke them
about their wives. She was kept a prisoner
in the house three days. She gives the names
of several persons living in Port Chester as
those of her tormentors, but it is said that
some of them are known to be innocent,
and it is conjectured that the young rnen
called each other by false names in her
presence.
Tin- National Cotton Report.
New Orleans, December 11.—The No
vember report of the National cotton ex
change gives the gross cotton movement
of the United States for the three mouths
ending November 30, 1886, as compared
with the corresponding period in the year
1885-S6 as follows:
The Work of Congress on Yestorday.
Mr. I'hjkoii lines Into a I,anil Compim,’ IT It him I
Ills(llnves—Thr Pliolocmpli of a So-Called Kail-
Hoad—Thi' New Silver Certlfleiiten.
Bales.
———
1886-87.
1885-86.
1884-85.
Port receipts
2,583,242
2,541,776
2,5-43,718
Total overland ship
ments
396 562
382,791
287.069
Of which to mills
266,746
294.529
179,894
Of which to ports
58,889|
44,893
56,417
[)f which to Canada..
13,665
30,738
5,785
Transit overland
57,282 j
35,631
44,978
Total takings north
ern spinners
G17.887
655,126
479,947
To sea Between ports
36,840
45,362
35,907
Exports to Great
Britain
920,595
711,768
8:3-1,089
Exports to France
154,0261
135,965
135,403
Exports to continent
nnd channel
331,348
518,014
463,561
Tot il exports
1,408,969,
1,365.747
1,438,053
Stock at U. 8. ports..
95-1,970;
899,558
896,426
Spinners’ askings for
239,090
November
343,031
317,595
Overland shipments
for November
157.021
167.075
OVER THE WATERY WASTE.
The French Ministry and the Irish Troubles.
Paris, December 11.—Goblet has fin
ished the formation of the new ministry,
which is announced as follows: Goblet,
president of the council and minister ot^
the interior and adinterim minister oi
foreign affairs; Dauphin, finance; Bertbe-
lot, instruction; Surrieu, justice; General
Boulanger, war; Adiniial Aube, marine;
Granett, posts and telegraphs; Lockeroy,
commerce; Milland, public works; Devillc,
agriculture.
Goblet, in announcing the composition
of the new government in the chamber or
deputies, read a statement declaring
that he relied upon concord among the re
publicans in the chamber to enable him to
continue in the work of the government.
He said he would follow DeFreycmct s
foreign policy which the chamber had ap
proved and promised to submit early next
session bills for such internal reforms as
the chamber desired. He asked the depu
ties to vote his government provincial
budget and to adjourn discussion until
Tuesday.
Ireland.
MR. DILLON’S CASE.
Dublin, December 11.—The case of the
government against John Dillon for agita
tion In favor of the Irish national league s
plan of campaign was brought up lor a
hearing to-day. Dillon was absent. Right
Hon. Hugh Holmes, attorney-general tor
Ireland, in presenting the case for the gov
ernment, declared that the so-called plan
of campaign was illegal, and too a
occasion to announce that l |e
had never, as reported,
otherwise. After a prolonged wrangi
with tiie court and lawyers for tn~ , nrove
crown, Mr. Healy, counsel for Dillon, se- | pioba > l
Secretary Parker makes the following
addenda: '“The above figures are exclu
sive of any receipts at Newport News.
The shipments over the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Southwestern railways from
Memphis up to November 26, were 67,117
bales, of which 9724 have been accounted
lor as crossing the Ohio at Louisville,
leaving -17,393 bales unaccounted for,
which have probably gone • to Newport
News. The shipments for the week end
ing December 3 over that route were
12,648 bales. The railroad authorities at
Newport News have declined thus far to
give any information. The matter is
being investigated with a view of speedy
correction.
KILLED HIS OWN CHILD.
A Father Shoots Ills Daughter far a llurslor.
Washington, December 11.—On motion
of Mr. Peters, of Kansas, the bill passed
extending the laws of the United States
over certain unorganized territory south
of the state of Kansas, known as the “pub
lic land strip” and providing that this land
shnll be subject to entry by actual settlers
under the homestead law.
Tiie speaker announced the appointment
of Messrs. Morrison, Harris and McKinley
as conferees on the fractional gallon bill,
and of Messrs. Cobb, Van Eaton and Pay-
son on the alien landlords bill.
Mr. Randall moved that the house pro
ceed to the consideration of tiie sundry
civil appropriation bill, butthe motion was
lost, yeas 119, nays 121.
In the morning hour Mr. Payson, of Illi
nois, on behalf of the committee on puhlic
lands called up the bill declaring the for
feiture of the Ontarngon and Brule river
land grant.
In detailing the circumstances of the
grant, Payson declared that from the or
ganization of the Ontanagon and Bride
river company no step had been taken by
it which did not indicate that the organiza
tion had been purely speculative, effected
for the purpose of getting land from the
general government. It had been an at
tempt at barefaced robbery from the com
mencement down to the present time. Re
ferring to the statement made by persons
interested in the road that had been
acccepted by the commissioners and
reported upon as having been built In
first-class style, lie asserted that miles of
the road bad no other ballast than tee or
snow, which melting in the spring left,
rails held in suspension eight inches above
the ground. In support of iiis assertions
he produced photographs oi various sec
tions of the road and commented upon
them much to the amusement of the house.
A bridge as depicted by a photograph he
declared to be “humped like a camel and
backed like a whale.” A situation of a
mile in length showed but ono railroad tie,
while 250 feet was shown as being filled
with li gs and brush. Tiie bill was passed
without division. It forfeits 384,600 acres.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the sundry civil appropri
ation hilt. In the course of the general
debate Mr. Lao ham, of Texas, made an ap
peal in favor of the redemption of the
trade dollar, and alluding to the standard
silver dollar, he declared that its coinage
would never be suspended, no matter who
might recommend to the contrary.
Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, said that while
the sundry civil bill appropriated less
than the bill of last year, the de
crease was attributed to the fact
that the committee on appropriations had
surrendered their juridisdiction over the
items for the navy yards and the new naval
observatory, maintaining that those items
could be provided for in the regular naval
appropriation bill. He contended, on the
contrary, that the appropriations for the
objects named, should be made in the sun
dry civil appropriation bill, which would
then, instead of showing a decrease, ex-F>
ceed in the amount of appropriations the
bill of last year.
Mr. Randall argued that a naval com
mittee had proper jurisdiction over the
subjects of the navy yard, but pointed out
that even were they provided for in the
ynrd, cutting a gash through tiie skull
eight inches long, and then going into the
house knocked the old woman insensible
with a stick of wood, threw a lighted lamp
in the bed with her and skipped, sup
posing she would bo burned up, but she
revived, threw the lamp into the fire-place,
put out the fire, and gave the alarm. Mub-
sel got away with but 820, and there Is a
clew to ids whereabouts that will pretty
certainly lead to his arrest, as lie lias a
crooked arm and a leg all twisted out of
shape with rheumatism to Identify him.
Mitry <'hiiitt‘k\ Trinl.
Milwaukee, Wis., December 11.—The
case of Mary Chadek, charged with tiie
murder of her husband, is still on trial in
the criminal court. Some seven or eight
witnesses were examined this forenoon.
One of them, a Bohemian, testified that, lie
called atChadogs store the evening before
the shooting, and found Chadek and the
defendant, his wife, quarreling. The de
fendant pulled but a revolver, aimed it at
her husband, and threatened to shoot
him. Chadek bared his breast for the
bullet and told her to shoot, but ft little
son climbed up on the counter, threw
his arm around his mother's neck, and pre
vented her from shooting. Chadek told
the witness at the time that be wished Ids
wife would shoot him. Ben Spencer, an
Anligo hotel keeper, testified that the de
fendant and Charles San fin d, her alleged
paramour, visited his hotel and secured
a room there on two or < liroe different oc
casions, claiming to bo man and wife
The two physicians who examined
Ohadek’s body immediately after Ids death
gave eviilonce which was unfavorable to
the dele use.
MISS WINNIE DAViS.
are in attendance. The technological do- | swallowed two ounces of mix vomica
obtained by him from a druggist to lie
taken in doses of ten drops for some tem
porary illness from which lie said he was
Buffering. Physicians were promptly enlied
in and an emetic was administered and
he was soon sufficiently well to stand the
brunt of examination in court. On the way
to prison, Garrett handed three letters to
the police, to be delivered after bis death
—one to Justice J. M. Patterson, one to the
public, and the third to Mrs. David Gar
rett, 40 Woodlawn avenue, Jersey City.
Garrett did not die and the officer refused
to deliver tiie letters. The justice also re
fused to open his letter. Garrett hud prob
ably learned that some very damaging
evidence against him had been secured.
Ilor I in p resslous (fiithereil
Her
lit Trip.
New York, December 10.—Mrs. Jeffer
son Duvis has just written a letter to a
friend in this city in reply to one thanking
her for the permission given to allow Miss
Winnie Davis to visit t e north. In it
Mrs. Davis Says that it was with great re
luctance that her parents consented to Miss
Winnie's visit, but that any snoriiice they
may h ivo made in having her away from
them for so loijg a time has been more
than repaid by their satisfaction at the
kind reception she has received in the
north. As proof of her daughter's pleasure
in the visit, Mrs. Davis quoted a paragraph
from a letter bob had just received from
Mi is Winnie:
In il Miss Davis spoke of her astonish
ment at the increase of enterprise, and ac
tivity ns she inmte her way north. The
contrast to Mississippi, where the nightly
rubber of whist was the most exciting
event of t he day, and where conversation
was largely devoted to the subject of
tramps, was iouml very marked, she was
especially astonished by the changes in
the capital of the southern confederacy.
Her impression* of Richmond had been
gained entirely of hearing her parents
speak of it, and she was hardly prepared
to find a place full of manufacturing insti
tutions.
New York, the objective point of tier
visit, amazed her still more. She was
pleased with the people, with the recep
tion, with the places of amusement, and,
above all, with tho way in which things
ure rushed.
lMporlout to KnlirhtN uT Lalior.
Chicago, December 11.—A movement of
considerable importance is going on within
the ranks of the knights of labor, which
will have great effect in lessening the
power and importance of district assem
blies. It is the formation of national
trade district assemblies, which are essen
tially after the plan of the various inter
national unions. Machinists’ assembly No.
6134 voted last, night to withdraw from the
district assembly, No. 57, to which it has
been attached since its organization, in or
der to join in the machinists’ trade district
assembly, recently organized at Cincin
nati, the recommendation of its delegate
to the convention being concurred in. To
make this change will require the consent
of district assembly No. 57, but this will
probably be granted.
This week tho clothing cutters of the
United States are endeavoring at Cincin
nati to form a clothing cutters national
trade district. The convention has three
delegates from the Chicago assembly in
that trade which will doubtless go into Ihe
movement thereby withdrawing from dis
trict No. 24. Tiie effect of this movement
will be to give concerted action to the
trades in all portions of the country, and
withdraw them from local matters.
Hi nt ll’s (
Poplar. Bluff. Mo., X)i
W. Stead, an alderman
supposed to have died last Sunday
ing. His body was laid out and nil arrange
ment* were made for tho funeral, which
was to have occurred to-day. Yesterday,
however, signs of resuscitation became ap-
I parent, the face assumed its natural color,
pending measure, the bill would still carry
less money than that of last year. Pend-
ing further discussion, the committee rose
and the house adjourned.
The New Silver Certificates.
Washington, December 12.—Limited
quantities of the $2 silver certificates have
been put in circulation. So far they have
been issued by the treasury only in re
demption of $1 and $2 United States notes.
When the supply is sufficient they will be
distributed among the sub-treasuries and
put in general circulation in the same man
ner as was adopted in the case of the one
dollar silver certificates. Work on tiie
new certificates has been very much de
layed. The five dollar certificates will not
be ready for some time yet.
JEEMS IN JOURNALISM.
An Item ns Ik nil Item, All tin- Way fro in (tin
PonthltlK of the Allcglii-nli'K-He Made It the
Find Whirl.
St. Louis Republican.
Inasmuch as the following dispatch got
here and has been charged up by the tele
graph company, we print it:
the item.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dee. 7.—Jos. a. Blaine,
Jr., took his initial stop in journalism to- , , - . _ .
day on tho Pittsburg times. Ilis first as- t '” temperature of the body becaino dis-
signment was to report the Ladies’ Homo.*- ^ Fugher, arid opened and
pathic Hospital fair. The assignment is se vcral tunes. He was spoken to,
considered mi important one for a b gin- ! but J? av - e «>»«>.heard or under
mu., ...li.ember 11.—W.
alderman of Iliisc.it
much space to it, owing to the prominence
of the Indies connected with toe affair, it
being tiie cream of Allegheny county socie
ty. City Editor Gramer informed the
embryo journalist that the value of
the item depended solely on the way
Pittsburg, December 11.—J. C. Hill, a
prominent resident of Edgewood, a subutb
of this city, mistook his daughter for a
burglar last night and shot her through
the neck, inflicting a dangerous, and it is
feared fatal wound.
Hill made collections yesterday ot about
*5000, which he took to his home to keep
over night. His daughter who had the
toothache, rose early this morning and ...
went down to the library to the fire to reading he felt justified in pronouncing the
warm herself Her father hearing a noise [ item a thing of beaifty and a joy forever,
thought burglars -were in the house and | and thinks, after the young man has had
takiiiT his revolver followed her down j time to recover from the exhaustion neces-
stuirs° When he readied the door of the sarilv resulting from such a herculean ef-
library he fired, the ball striking his j fort he will give him another assignment-
it was written, and expressed himself per
fectly satisfied with Mr. Blaine’s produc
tion. The report went to the composing
room without a word being changed. The
editor asserts that he showed no favoritism
to the talented youn^ man ; that he would
nm. n.u ...... have made changes in the copy if it had
this morning and been necessary, but after most careful
daughter in the back of the neck and pass
ing through to the front. Tiie young lady
is in a critical condition and her father
almost crazed with grief.
Fair Forgers.
Lafayette, Ind., December 11.—This
afternoon there came to light a series of
forgeries committed by a couple of dabh-
iug females of this city, Who worked a
number of stores on orders purporting to
tie signed by highly respectable people of
Lafuyette. The girls are Clara and Flora
Jones, sisters, and prepossessing blondes,
who have been conspicuous at all the
masquerade balls given hero by Company
C and who have been the talk of the
town. By order of Adjutant-General
Koontz the company was to-day disband
ed The girls succeeded in working their
scheme on a number of well-known boot
and shoe dealers, who will prosecute them
he brought back to life, although th:
forts of tho physicians to accomplish that
end have so far failed. In the meantime
the funeral has been postponed.
Kill imped Ills Child.
Milwaukee, Wis., December 11.—Au
gust Buetow has been separated from his
wife halfayear, and made repeated threats
that he would liuve his youngest child,
which remained in possession of the
mother. Tonight lie drove up in a wa
gon, ran into the house, snatched the baby
from its carriage and disappeared. The
grandmother of the child had followed
him, however, and jumped in front of the
horses when he started them up again.
With a wild outh he applied the whip, and
the wheels rolled over the desperate wo
man. Fortunately she suffered no severe
injuries. Nothing lias been heard from
the man since.
South Georgia Conference Proceedings
, of Y sterduy.
Iti'portK from Ctilli'Ui'K mill Schools—l>r. Illnton
Fleeted Prcnldont of the l.rgHl College- Konie
KeiuliilHccHccHaiiil ii l.llttc History of the Con
ference.
Special to Kncjuihkii-Sun.
Cuthbert, Ga., December 11.—The
business of the conference is rapidly pro
gressing. The body will likely adjourn
Monday at noon. Despito tiie rain, thero
is a large attendance. L ist night the an
niversary of the Church Extension society
was held. Rev. W. A. Candler made a
very entertaining address. Dr. Hopkins
this morning presented iiis report on
Emory college. A large number of students
purtment, which lias been in operation a
full year, lias a large increase of students.
A department of printing will bo establish
ed. Dr. D. C. Kelley, missionary lecturer,
delivered a masterly address. Dr. Jas. W.
IlintoU was elected president of the legal
conference in the place of Dr. J 8. Key, a
high and deserved compliment to one of
the purest and ablest men i:i Georgia. Tiie
Columbus preachers are unable to leave
before Monday.
The south Georgia conference is a fine
body oi men,composed ol all traveling and
snperanuatea ministers with four represen
tatives of laymen in the sovoy districts,
which arc embraced in the couterouoo.
a little history.
At the session of tiie Georgia conference
held in Americus in 1860 tho state was
divided into two conferences, the lino run
ning east and west, making the north and
south Georgia conferences of to-day. Tho
southern conference was organized in the
Sunday school room of Trinity church, Sa
vannah, on December 11, 1.367, with the
late Bishop G. F. Pierce in the chair and
the late Rev. J. Blakely Smith as secretary.
It consisted of 102 ministers and twenty-
eight lay members.
The machinery of the new conference
was put into operation successfully, and
the ’'•embers went fort Ii to their appoint
ments wilh consecrated hearts and hope
ful minds, determined to succeed. One of
the peculiar features of that session was
the appointment of a number of colored
preachers to take charge of tiie colored
people belonging still to the Southern
Methodist church. There were eighteen
charges under their supervision. Since
then the Methodist Episcopal church
south set up these colored people into ail
organization of their own, with bishops of
t heir own color, under tho name of the
Colored Methodist Episcopal church in
America.
MARKED improvement.
There has been a marked improvement
all along tiie line since that day. The
number of members reported at. the first
session was 17,026. Last year there were
reported 39,293. At the conference, 1867,
the collections for domestic missionary
purposes were as follows:
Savannah district $ 64(1 IS
Macon district 63 V,
Columbus district 6.17 :(i
Lumpkin district 108 So
Americus district 7sa to
Itaiubiidge district 7A #5
Brunswick distiiet 145 00
Total $2,330 23
111 1885 the whole amount collected for.
home missions was $4,453.22. In Savannah
district, $1,1X1.35; Macon district, $1,103.70,
where tiie greatest gains were made.
There has been greater advancement in
foreign missionary sentiment than in any
other particular field.
In 1807
Savannah district $ 20 50
Macon district 12 oo
Columbus district 3» no
Amc-ricusdistrict 174 83
And in nil of the other districts only $103.15,
making tho total for tiie entire conference
$310 00.
Ill 1885 tho total collections for foreign
missions amounted to $7,221.28, tiie Savan
nah district contributing ol this amount
$1,880.05, against $20.50 in 1888.
TWELVE DIFFERENT BISHOPS.
At these twenty sessions thero have been
twelve different bishops in the chair, but
only three different secretaries. There
have died during that time iorty-tliree
members, almost one-half of the original
number composing the conference. Only
one died during tile past year, Rev. It. M.
Lockwood, well known in Savannah. He
was compelled twoyears ago to retire from
active work because of failing health. He
was a true man am) a faithful minister.
Memorial services will be held by the con
ference during iliu session.
Bishop Hendrix comes as a new man to
Georgia, but is well known in the went for
Iiis scholarly attainments and devoted
piety. He was elected bishop at the late
session of the general conference at Rich
mond last May. lie lias been cordially re
ceived, and will no doubt win I lie affec
tions of all before the close of the session.
Bishop Hendrix has iiis family with him.
They are charmed with the appearance of
southwest Georgia, and especially Cutti-
liert. They will go from here to Florida,
where they will spend Some time.
Many visitors are in the city. The hos
pitality of the city is unbounded, yet it is
taxed to its utmost to entertain all who
come to attend the session.
On Sunday all the pulpits will be filled
by distinguished ministers, and it is
thought that each church will be packed
to overflowing.
CRASHING AND FLAMES.
inter. Several of the inen|received slight
injuries in the way of bruises and cuts, lint
ot those who have reported none are seri
ously hurt. Tho firm dealt largely In
sporting goods, pistols and small ammu
nit,ion, arid during the fire there was a very
aet.ivo fusilado by exploding cartridges,
which created some alarm in the crowd
present, but nobody is known to have been
hurt by stray bullets. The house carried a
heavy stock, valued at the present time at
about $500,000. What part of this, if any,
can be saved is not known, but tho proba
bilities are that it Is all ruined. The insu
rance amounts to $.300,000, divided among
100 companies—chiefly eastern nnd foreign
—tho sums ranging from $25,000 to $5000.
A lawyer Attempts] Suicide.
New York, December 11.—D. Garrett,
the lawyer who is held in $10,000 bail on a
chnrgeoi'having fraudulently appropriated
$12,000 while acting .is legal adviser of
Mrs. Carpenter, of Now York, just be
fore leaving Jefferson Market prison this
morning in custody to attend tiie examina
tion in the ease at tile Essex Market court,
ON ’CHANGE.
Till) .Mnrket In Possession (if till) Ileum.
New York, December 11.—The stock
market to-day was la possession of the
bears from beginning to end, although
(Innl figures are somewhat better than
the lowest of yesterday. Thero was noth
ing new in the way of advices to cause the
break but tiie bears used tile material al
ready at hand—the tight money market,
tho interstate commerce bill, and late in
tho day tiie unfavorable bank statement.
The most was made out of these and the
afternoon saw prices materially lower,
though purchases for foreign account pre
vented the decline from assuming large
proportions. But later in the day heavy
sales ol long stock induced
by frightening off’weak holders, produced
another decided slump. Support was ac
corded tho market by the leading bulls in
the Inst hour, and a better feeling then
prevailed. There was no stock which es
caped attack and declines differ only a do- .
greu, though some of the securities snowed
very wide fluctuations ami small business.
Missouri Pacific was conspicuous among
tiie active lists for its weakness which
started with advices from the west that
there would be another issue of stock and
bonds. Tiie opening was weak,
the first prices being down from Jfqi3i per
cent, generally, though Louisville and
Nashville was up #. The course of prices
was downward iu early trading, and after
a slight rally was resumed before noon.
After that time the demand was accele
rated, and was not cheeked until the last
hour, when a material recovery took place
and the ma ket closed active and firm.
Tiie sales were 559,000 shares. Almost
everything is lower, including Chattanoo
ga, Reading, East Tennessee, Lake Shore
and Kansas and Texas.
home by his father after three days’
Coasting Tmraril Heath.
Staunton, Va., December 11. 11 arry
something real hard. Meantime young
Blaine bears his honors with becoming
m0de3t y-: — | lllrmers on a BoyeotL
Heath of Signor Operti. j Philadelphia, Pa., December 11.— 1 The
Leadvii.le, Col., December 11.—Signor ' executive board of tee green gins, blowers
Operti, the groat composer, impreseario, j district assembly No. 149 were, iu sc.-sion
and leader of the Clio orchestra, died here here yesterday discussing the situation in |
last night of congestion of the lungs. De- j the New Jersey factories, as reported by
ceased composed the music of the “Black District Master Workman Coffy. Steps I
Crook,” was the leader of tho orchestra at i were taken to array the whole force of the !
the Centennial exposition, the author of entire order against Ihe six factories ioca- 1
several French operas, and prior to com- ! ted at Mellville, Clayton, Glassborough, |
ing to America was pianist to Victor ; Williamstown, Salem and Woodbury 1
Emanuel, king of Italy. His remains will ! which arc not working under the regula-
be shipped to New York. Signor Operti ; tions of the knights of labor,
was also at one time leader of the orohes- j At the suggestion of the general execu-
tra in the Boston museum. tive board, a trade mark is being prepared
■ ■ 1 to be used in the molds in ull union fae-
A Horrid Murder. j tories to designate the goods made by the
Richmond, Ind., December 11.—A most | blowers working under the knights’ reg-
revolting murder was committed about j ulations.
A .lust IleoiHlon.
iOUIsville, December 11.—Tho court of
fflrmod the circuit court’s decis-
and decided that lawyer John
viously worked on a farm in Preble county, i J. Uorneflson, who oowhided Judge Iti i d,
Ohio, about iifteen miles from this city. j of the superior court, at Mi. Sterling, Ky.,
Christman was 76 years old, and was alone for making an adverse decision against
with his wife. He being a very extensive Cornelison, would have to go to jail fo:
An Immense Building Itri-itkK imd Then Hums.
St. Louis, December 11.—About half-
past 2 o’clock tli is afternoon the upper
floor of the A. F. Sbapleigii & Cantwell
hardware company’s extensive establish
ment, occupying tiie stores numbering
from 414 to 422, Nortli Main street, fell
with a great crash. This floor was covered
with heavy agricultural machinery and its
fall carried down the third floor, stocked
with shelf goods, and the second floor,
A Future City.
Nashville, December 11 —The Tennes
see conference between the Louisville and
Nashville authorities and the Sheffield
Land and Iron and Coal Co., of Alabama,
lias concluded its work ana a basis of an
agreement 1ms been arrived at by which
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co.
will at an early day extend its line of road
from St. Joseph, in Lawrence county,
Tennessee into Sheffield as its southern
terminus and establish at Sheffield general
slioiis for line of road running from Co
lumbia, Tennessee, tq Sheffield, This line
will he about eighty-five miles long and
will be known as the Nashville, Florence
and Sheffield railway.
Woolen Mills lliirned.
Clinton, Mich., December 11. — The
Clinton woolen mills were burned this
morning. Th ions is $180,000, insurance
$10,000. The building was lighted by gas
made from gasoline. A pipe laid bursted
and tilled the ore room with gas, which
I exploded when a boy entered at 6 o’clock
with a lantern. Only two persons were in
the building, they having entered it to
light up and prepare for work. They
! were both badly hurt, but will survive.
I A11 hour later 10!)' people would have been
t in the building, and great loss of life would
have resulted. _____
A Mi'xvj Failure.
Cincinnati, December 11.—The business
public was startle d to-day by the announce
ment of the failure of John and W, F.
Jlowe & Co., manufacturers of blankets,
flannels and commission merchants, at 130
West Pearl street. They made an assign
ment to J. Chandler Harper. They esti
mate their liabilities at $125,000 and their
assets at nearly the same, claiming that
they shall be able to pay 100 per cent.
They are owners of the Carrolton woolen
mills at Carrolton, Ky., nnd the Madison
woolen mills at Madison, Ind.
A Strito In I'i'iiiinjJranlit.
Shamokin, Pa., December 11.—A Htrike
of the miners employed at the Bear Valley
shaft, owned arid operated by the Phila
delphia and Reading coal and iron corapar
ny, wies inaugurated this’morning in con
sequence of the reduction of 10 per cent, in
the wages of the millers working certain
veins. The local assembly of tho knights
of labor ordered the miners to continue
work pending an arbitration, but the men
refused to obey the order. As a result 01
the strike 000 men and boys are idle.
A Fatul ).xillusion.
East Cambridge, Mass., Dccemberll.—
An explosion occurred in the fuse room 01
the large factory owned by J. A. Wood-
and shoe dealers, “ . aensa tj on i 9:30 o’clock last night by a fellow named j
One of the girls c fc oj. p h j] a . I William Mussel, who had just returned!
last summer a , ' ‘ ( , r who ^ent crazy | after a long absence in the pineries of the j Lo
delphia, leather i finallv being taken northwest to the home of the victim, appeals afl
and took in tlm town, finally being christman) for wholn he had pre : ! j( * n - to-day
filled with sample goods. In a moment or bury and occupied by several wood work-
two the debris caught fire and with start- ! ing firms for whom Woodbury furnished
ling rapidity the Humes shot up through [ power fuel. The room was a large room
the broken timbers to the roof. There I with brick walls and full of shavings. A
were tire wails between the different store , spark is supposed to have got among the
rooms, but ull had openings in them, and shavings and smouldered until the door
in a very short time the entire building ! opened and let in a rush of air, which
was a mass of flames, and every window ! caused an explosion which tore down the
and door was belching iorth greut clouds I walls, wrecked the engine and badly in-
k smoke. Shortly after this 1 jured eight persons—one fatally.
R” n*Grandson of Prof. Hintz, whilst farmer, who had just sold hiB hogs, Mussid I three years in addition to paying a fine. It
said ; Htntz, J f-r a heavily loaded ! supposed he had a large sum of money that \ will lie remembered that Cornelison ,; vic-
gle : coas ing lo-a y, injuries which will he could obtain by kilflng the couple. He 1 tim, Judge Reed, was so mortified at the
tho : team, aim [ brained the old man with an ax out in the ! cowhiding that he committed suicide.
of heavy lilac
tiie roof over No. 422 arid the north wall
on Vine street fell. Then a part of tiie
front or Main street wall toppled down,
tho interior fl mrs of the whole building
following in rapid succession, and by 4 p. m.
nothing was left but the broken walls
and a great mass of burnt and ruined
goods and twisted and destroyed machine
ry. Tiie Ure was confined to the Shapleigli
building and tiie surrounding property,
which was, before the walls fell in, in im
minent danger, but was only slightly dam
aged. At the time of th ‘ '
employes were scattered through the
niKgustnl Immigrants.
Pittsburg, December 11.—Fully ono
hundred foreigners were at the Union sta
tion yesterday on their return from tho
west to their former home3 in Europe.
The majority of them were Germans,
though a few were Irishmen. Said ono or
them: “These people are nearly all from
St. Paul, Minneapolis and other points in
Minnesota. Some of us have been in this
country two and a half years, but we did
b some fifty : net get along well. Too many people
irnugh tiie ] without capital have been emigrated to
building, but so far as can now be learned the west. The majority of us have barely
all but two of them are accounted for, and enough money to get back to the old eouu-
it is thought tiiat these two will turn up try, where we will remain.”