The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-09-24
DAY DISPATCHES

LOUISVILLE, n.y., Scpu. GS.-1Au dS-
signmenJ was placed on record to-day
from the great whisky corporation Of
the NeWcomb Buchanan company,
the largest of the kind in the south,
and one of the largest in the union.
Other assignments, also for the bene-
fit of creditors, were filed by George
&. Buchanan and Andrew Buchanan,
members Of the firm. The deeds of
assignment are al. very general in
their terms, merely setting out that
their liabilities are more than their
assets, and that finding themselves
unable to meet the just demands upon
them, they convey all their property,
real and personal, for the benefit OF
their general creditors. They except
such property as is exempt under the
statutes. Geo. w. Morris is made as
signee of the company, and Of Geo.
C. ami Andrew Buchanan. 1t will
be remembered that the Newcomb.
Buchanan Co. failed about two years
ago, bit finally succeeded in obtain
ing an extension from their creditors.
Their liabilities were then about ST.
10000, while their nominal assets
were S2,OOO,OOO. Since then they have
paid off many of their old debts by
contracting new ones, and reducing
the bulk of their assets. Rumors on
the street say that Geo. G. and An
drew Buchanan have skipped town.
A son of one of them says his father
has not been seen since Sunday, and
says he does not know where he has
gone. Andrew Buchanan is also
missing and cannot be found. Moth
ing is known as to the condition of
the firms affairs, further thaa is
stated in the assignment. The absence
of the members of the firm from the
city has aroused a suspicion OF some
thing wrong, but nothing is known
to confirm it. MI. Morris, the as
signee, says the firm has simply as
signed, as they should have done a
year ago.
ATLANTA, Ga. Sept. 22.-On Satur-
day the citizens of Conyers learned
that the cemetery had been laid
observation-disclosures overturned, and
flowers and shrubbery pulled up. and
the graves otherwise d~esecrated.
Every effort was made to discOverthe
perpetratOr of the sacrilege, but no
clue could be found. Saturday night
the people were aroused from their
beds by the cry of fire and found the
Methodist church in flames. it
burned to the ground. Last night the
tiend renewed his work and set fire to
a number of dwellings. Owing to
the close watch over the town these
fires we're discovered and extinguished
before any great damage Was done.
At 9 o'clock a person was discovered
applying a lighted torch to a fence.
A posse of men started for him, when
he ran. A volley was fired at him
which brought him to the ground:
He O Immediately and fired
twice saying: Il will kill the first
man who comes near me-" The men
rushed upon him and captured him
before he succeeded in doing any
harm. He was then discovered to be
Thomas Marston, a member of Il
of the most respectable families in
the town. He had always borne an
excellent character and was quiet and
inoffensive. 1t was found that sew
eral of the bullets had struck him,
one entering his stomach, which will
probably prove fatal. 1t was noted
that at the burning of the church,
which he now admits to have fired.
he was present, and was n of the
most active in the efforts to put out
the fire. It is thought he is crazy, as
his actions indicate and his parents
claim. He asserts at times that God
is working through him. Since his
capture he is reported as saying: Il
am the only man in Georgia smart
enough to raise hell, and I am going
to do it."
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-Ex-Governor J.
H. Gear, of Iowa, said to-day at the
Grand Pacific hotel that democratic
statements Notwithstanding, the re-
publicans would carry Iowa by from
5000 to 10000 majority.
lis that not a decrease from the re-
publican majorities heretofore given
in Iowa?' Gov. Gear was asked.
y es" he replied, "Iowa has given
as much as $1,000 to 10000 majority
in times past, and four years ago it
gave Garfield a fraction less than 3d.