The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21


day, followed ia ibc Ohio valley aud
Tennessee, and the lower AXE region
and Middle Atlantic -.aios by clear
ne weather to-mc rro,s.
NASHVILLE, a IT, The jury
in the case of the Foo brothers,
whose threatened lynch created so
much excitement ut Winchester re-
Gently, rendered n verdict tonight
ofmurder in the first degree.
CINCINNATI, April 1S.-Hon. Will
liam Means, the newly installed
mayor, issued a proclamation yester-
day that he would enforce tile laws
forbidding Sunday theatrical per-
formances. lie also sent personal
notices, with a copy of the law, 10
all the managers of the theaters,
stating he would enforce the law.
Yesterday the usual Sunday thcaters
gave their performances over the
Rhine, and no arrests were made,
Mayor Means having ordered that
to be done to-day.
CARBONATE, Pa, April 1S.-Je-
rome Wilson, OF this city, left here
suddenly fourteen years ago, and
has never been heard from since I'M
til to-day, when, after having been
long given up for dead, he suddenly
returned. He has accumulated q
fortune in wilds of Texas. .
ST. LOUIS, April ia dispatch
to the Republican from Houston.
Texas, says: There was recorded
there yesterday the mortgage made
by the III. 81 Il. G. II. X. Co, to the
Farmers Loan 81 Trust Co. of New
York to secure 1,850,000 bonds of
$1,000 each. This mortgage covers
the entire road and all its branches
and franchizes, dated April 1, 1881,
payable April /, 1921, and the pro-
ceeds derived from these new bonds
are TO be used in retiring the old
bonds amounting to over 100000.
WILMINGTON, N. c., April 1S.-At
Whitesville, Columbus county, i'm
this state. yesterday, w. j. Stanley,
prominent lawyer of that place,
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head. No cause is
assigned for the act. He leaves
wife and-six children.
Boston, April 19.-The Advertiser
publishes n lengthy letter from
Charles Heath. now residing at
Maiden, in this state, who is the per-
son referred TO by Senator Dawes in
recent Senate debate as having his
property in the South destroyed by
incendiary fire. Heath's plantation
is about 1000 acres in extent, and is
in Caldwell parish, Louisiana, on
Ouichita river, ten miles below Co
lumbia, Louisiana. Heath states
that he, with his brother, who is a
New Orleans merchant, bought the
place thirteen or fourteen years ago,
and had established upon il GIN
house, gristmill and repair shop
filed with improved machinery. For
several years they run the place un-
der q white overseer and were not
seriously interferred with by their
neighbors. The first difficulty that
| occurred, Mr.. Heath states, was In
1877 or 1873, and was on account of
| our decision that we would not en-
ploy white men as overseers from
that time. AS the statement inti-
mates Heath's troubles began andhis
neighbors and others accused him
of willingness to divide his land
with negroes and avowed their de-
| termination to prevent various trou
bles, in which the negroes on his
place were maltreated in many ways,
and are recounted in the statement
Heath states he got along very well
until last Christmas. Upon the night
of Christmas, the whole place was
burned up. He says the place, with
4 Inn, lon 10
They burned up my tools, wagons,
gristmill, BLACKSMITH shop and
everything. / got abont $500 or
$500 of goods in about ten minutes;
| we had gone in and we came
| within an ace Of being burned up
alive, aud the only thing that saved
us. was, that the wind blew the
flames away from the building in
which was sleeping.
Heatb's statement alleges that
series of outrages were perpetrated
upon the negroes in the parish where
he was located. He said he was as
sured by his friends (some of whom
are strong Democrats) that he had
got into the worst part of The state.
He says he shall go back to New Or
leans, where he has real estate, this
fall. The negroes who are on his
place, pay him for his land and the
mules employed by them. His
brother went to New Orleans in
1848, and has been for long time
merchant there, and was appointed
mayor of that city by Gen. Sheridan.
Heath says the firing of his place
was not alluded to by the papers
and he made no secret in New Or
leans of his intention TO investigate
the outrage.
4 ANNA, Ills, April ia fire broke
I cut in the bath room of the fourth
floor of the north wing Of the ILL
nois Southern Hospital for the in
sane at this place, at 1880 o'clock
last night. After getting the pa
| tients out, an effort was made to
check the flames, but as the building
had mansard roof, it was not, until
the Central building was reached,
| that the fire was mastered.
Three patients were discovered
| in a room OF the second story of the
1 north wing and entirely surround
ed by flames. The throng on the
ground witnessed their frantic eff
forts to burst through the grated
windows with breathless excite
ment. Finally 2 ladder was pro-
cured and placed near the window,
although the flames ainged the lad
der three times. Men started up
but were forced, by the heat, to re-
turn. One gallant fellow, named
Grace, ran up the ladder, thrust an
axe in the window, and commanded
a colored patient named Nelson to
cut his way out. The latter sim
ply pushed the axe away, and
again it was given him and
the crowd below, as with one
voice, yelled to him to cut the graf
ing loose. This time he did il and
escaped. Grace again showed his
courage by ascending the ladder and
going into the room, now ablaze all
over, and the walls tumbling in in
every direction, and, after
hand to hand struggle with
q patient named McClelland.
who was nearly dead from the heat,
but desperately determined to stay
in his room, Grace forced him
headlong through a window and
other parties caught him. Grace
inhaled the heat and suffered inter-
nally afterwards but he is not
in any danger. A patient from
Monroe county, N. Ferkle, was
burned to death, These patients
were all taken from the hall, but in
some way wandered back. The fire
companies from Cairo arrived at