The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-07-06
WAY DOWN IN DIXIE.
Interesting Items of News and Common
Hmm Nur Slater Stnies.

! movements going on in the States of Mckee
bordering on the Rio Grande, and II seem
the utmost folly for the papers, howeve
. friendly to Mexico and the Daz administra
ton. 10 longer suppress the news. Th'
movement is not confined TO any one local.
~, but ii is undoubtedly widespread, as iai
as the border States are concerned. Con
stable Martinez. who went 10 saltillo. th'
capital OF the State Of Nuevo Leon, with ~
7 escaped Mexican convict arrested here
few days ago, returned to-day, and de
scriOcs threatening condition OF gov
ernmenial affairs observed all al0nl
his route from the Rio Grande To sastlio
lie says that nj nearly every station
ard side track along the Mexican National
railway. he saw crowds OF men congregat
ing and excitedly discussing the adyisa
bility Of joining in the rebellion against
their Federal government. When he left
Laredo this morning a courier had just ar.
rived. bearing information of a band Of fifty
men, we'll organized and armed, who had
crossed the Rio Grande from the Texas side
en- route 10 some point in the interior oI
Nueyo Leon, where the revolutionary forces
are massing in large numbers, 10 first
tht state, and r0ut the c0ntin-
gent Of President Daz's army sta
toned there TO suppress mutinies. All the
telegraph lines i'm Mexico are under rigid
control Of the Federal Government. and it is
practically impossible to get any direct in
formation pertaining 10 the uprising now in
progress in that state. The cause Of the
trouble il the strong centralizing tendencies
of the Diaz government, which are, il is
claimed, an evidence of Diaz's intentions
very shortly Ofdeclaring himself Dictator OF
Mexico. General Reyse, governor Of Nueyo
Leon, and heretofore not very strong sup
porter Of DiaZ. has been offered the port
folio Of the Minister Of War. which has had
the effect of quoting his discomfort and
Governor Cara Galan, Of COahuila, who
has always been an ayOwed enemy Of Pres
ident Diaz has been in the City Of Mexico
for the past several months, where 1t is
claimed that he is being restrained by force
almost amounting to Imprisonment.
A special from Tallahassee, Fla, SAYS
that on SUNDAY night four negroes, armed
with shotguns, surrounded the saw-mill Of
j. +. White, near that place, drove OIL the
employees, set fire to the mill, and stood
guard around until it was destroyed The
negroes made good their escape.
The big strike at Birmingham is on, and
5000 men in this district are idle. Two fur
! naces shut down on the lst, and others are
! banking their fires and VIII be out Of blast
| tefore the end of the week Every coal.
miner in the state, so far as heard from,
quit work to-day, and say they will stay
! out until their demands are granted. There
are reasons to believe that a settlement
will he reached between the Tennessee
| Coal. Iron and Railroad Company and
/ the Pratt Mines miners. Judge Bond,
general manager of the company, returned
! from New York last night and at once re-
quested the Pratt miners to appoint a COM
mittee to wait on him and confer with him
| with a view of arriving at a basis of rates
and settlement. This committee has been
! appointed and the conference will be held
/ 10 morrow. 1t Is believed that settlement
agreement will be reached between this
committee and General Manager Bond. If
"a basis Of settlement is agreed upon at
| Pratt mines the strike viii soon be settled
/ in the entire district.
! George Gallo. formerly a convict guard at
/ Pratt Mines, Ala, il legally dead and bu-
ricd i'm the pOtter's field. and died a MUIR
! darer and suicide. I'm reality, he is very much
alive. 4 week ago last sunday morning a
white man shot and killed a negro woman
/ in this city and then committed suicide. An
/ inquest was held, the body fully identified
/ - that of George Gallo, and then buried as
SUCH Since, il was proved beyond doubt
i that the dead man was Banks. White, the
\
county. All the clothing and every article
/ found on the dead man was positively den-
titled by a brother Of White, aud then Gallo
was found alive and well. The strangest
I part Of all is that Gallo has been here All the
/ lime, and has made no protest against
being declared by cOrOner's jury 10 be "a
uead murderer and suicide, He has made
no explanation Of his silence.
\. Belmont's stallion kinglisher -, 10y
! Lexington dam imp. Ethan Lass by King
ston, died Tuesday, at his farm, IN this
county. kiugiisher earned great donors on
the turf as a threU-year-Old. and was ratQd
as being the sire OF some flrst-class racers.
He cost y. Swigert $40 at the Woodburn
sale of warnings in 1865, and two years la
ter be sold him to Mr.. Belmont for $1,000.
He has also lost by death the mare Minus
by King Earnest dam Nina by Kentucky,
and a fiiy by imp. st. Blaise dam Carina.
The Fort Payne Rolling Mill Company, of
Port Payne, A Ia, which recently put in
five Gleason nail machines, has turned out
its first lot Of nails. The company owns the
the right TO operate four hundred machines
in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Ten
.essee. and when the successful operation
Of The machines is demonstrated proposes 10
erect ninety-fiye more. II is thought that
the nails can be probably deliycfed in Chi
cage at sl.50pGr keg.
The Macon projectors and friends Of o.
muigee navigation. and especially the en-
| terprising committee Of the Board OF Trade
I who have had the navigation matter in
| charge. are annoyed at the delay of the
/ railroads IN constructing draWhridges
across the river in conformity with the
order from the War Department 1t was
! calculated originally that boats would be
plving ne;geep Macon and llawkinsville
] Al. - fts 4 laA
mittee Of the Board of Trade expected to
! have had grand demonstration over tbs
event. but the probability is that transp0r-
tation boats on the Gcmulgec viii not be
one Of tie features and attractions Of the
/ fair. The railroads should hurry up with
| the draw bridges.
The GAINESVILLE. Ga, Tribune mOurnfully
! remarks; There is not finer missionary
! field on the globe than is found in Carnes
vile district. There are children ten years
old, within five miles of Gainesville. who
! never saw RiLle, never beard Il artist
or resurrection. There are miserable hO-
wells here where poverty. DEGRADATION, ana
suffering abide into which no CLEAN OF N
! tellectual sunshine or moral good has ever
| entered and yet we can talk about iOrelgh
missiOnsl
II seemed a few DAYS AGO erday ihal
2 vi
scored heavy point on the Macon and At
lantic Railroad, th0 ngw line that is being
built from Macon TO savannah, or 10 some
other point on the Atlantic coast, which
has not vet been decided, but the develop
ments of to-day would indicate that the
! Macon and Atlantic road was still master
of the situation. These developments were
! brought about 10y hurried visit of General
Manager JEFF Lane and Attorney
Joe Hall. Of the Macon and Atlantic
road 10 Eastman, to see Judge ID, NJ,
Roberts, who had granted 10 the Macon ana
Dublin Railroad Company an Injunction
against the Macon and Atlantic Railroad
Company, to prevent the latter company
from building within ten miles OF the Macon
( and Dublin line of railroad. The hearing on
| the restraining order will be held at East
man. before Judge Roberts, on the 18th OF
July. This restraining order suspended
operations on the Macon and Atlantic, ana
would have damaged the road and the con-
/ tractors at the rate OF 1900 per dey, as on
| immense force is at work, The Macon and
Atlantic Road, through its attornies, dus-
tin. Query a Hall, got the restralnlng
] II haf work has hopn