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The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
CONDENSED TELEGRAM S.

A CONVENTION of colored men from
Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana
met at Greenville, Miss, on the 9th
for the purpose of memorializing Con-
gress to aid in building and maintaining
the levees.
THE Clayton -Breckinridge Investigat-
ing Committee, during their twelve
days labor in Little Rock, Ark, ex-
amined 200 witnesses, three-fourths of
whom were negroes, and paid out about
$4,000.
SENATOR BUTLER on the 9th presented
the petition of the heads of nine fami-
lies, aggregating seventy-two persons,
that Congress appropriate 500 per capita
to enable them to emigrate to Liberia
and maintain themselves there for a
period of six months.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the week
ending on the 9th, number 200 as COM
pared with 211 last week. For the cor
responding week of last year the figures
were 2F.
W. Ii. IOIEs bnO SOAtCA Va
the Louisville National Bank, and a
travelling companion, were captured on
the 9th at Two Harbors, MINI.
RUBE SMITH, now serving ten years
sentence in the Mississippi penitentiary
for train robbery, has been indicted by
the Federal Grand Jury for robbing the
mails.
THE fourth legal hanging in Jefferson
county since February 1st, took place
at Birmingham, Ala, on the 9th. Sandy
Jones, a young yellow negro, was
hanged for the murder of Policeman
Manning at Bessemer, Ala, in April OF
last year.
THE Postal Telegraph Cable Company
has increased its capital stock from
s., 900, 900 to 5000, 900.
THE Georgia Temperance Association
met at Atlanta on the 9th, and passed
a resolution condemning the recent
decision of the United States Supreme
Court, overthrowing the prohibitory
liquor statute of Georgia, upon the
ground that 1t came in conflict with
interstate commerce.
THE Bessemer Rolling Mill Company
of Birmingham, Ala, on the 9th, made
a contract with the Henderson Steel
Company of the same city for thirty
tons of steel per day for twelve months.
OF 5000 carpenters and joiners work.
ing in New York City only twenty
failed to secure the acquiescence oi
their employers in tho eight-hour day
scheme.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
Items from TillatOba.

TILLAToBA, May THE cool weather
No frosts have been reported, but the
young cotton looks ''sick" enough to
have been nipped slightly, and the pros
pect tonight is as bad as it could well be
without an actual white frost. The
worst of it is the scarcity of cotton seed.
1t would be difficult to get enough to re.
plant.
Planting has been resumed, and the
corn, though small, looks we'll. Gar
dens are doing fairly we'll, and new po-
tatoes, lettuce, onions and mustard
green's, and a few strawberries, are
served flesh from the beds.
There is little or no stock raising
around here, and corresponding abb
sence of any effort to raise grasses and
small grain or to rehabilitate the
lands. The old process of wearing it
out with cotton, cotton, cotton" goes
on. One field is worn out and another
cleared, fence timber cut off, old rails
utilized, forest and farm deteriorating
and washes increasing and multiplying
all tending toward the Inevitable
change of owners and methods which
alone can redeem the land and revive
prosperity. Nothing but a change of
crops and more economical methods will
develop the wealth of this soil and eli
mate, but this generation does not
realize it.
Fences cost thousands upon thousands
Of dollars in almost every county; the
Mississippi law on the subject being
that each county shall decide for itself
whether owners shall keep up their
fences or not Such counties as have
availed themselves of this wise pro-
vision are freed from the burden of
fencing their fields, and live stock are
fenced in; not fenced out. Loose stock
are trespassers, and at once taken up
and confined.
Any farmer who will take his pencil
and cipher up the cost of fencing on the
1,5OO or 1900 acre farm in any large
county can see what relief it must be
to shut up the stray cattle and hogs, and
abolish this enormous tax on the bone
and sinew of the land.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
Rohber Rube ArraIgned.

JACKSON, May e.-Rube Smith, sert
up from Wayne County ten years for
train robbery, was last week by arrange
ments with the State Board of Peniten-
tiary Control, taken from the prison
walls, produced in Federal Court, and
arraigned for mail robbery. lie plead
not guilty, and his trial was set for the
fourth Wednesday of this month. Smith
is about % years old, weighs l40 pounds,
close shaven, hair extends almost to his
eyebrows, small head runs to a point
like sugar loaf. Smith was not repre-
sented by counsel. Judge Hill stated to
Smith that he had receied letter from
his father asking when he was to be tried
as he desired to be present, but that he
had lost the letter and had forgotten the
initials and postoffice. Smith said the
postoffice was Crews, Ala.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
DUN'S REVIEW.
Signs Of n Considerable Boom in Trade
Spring wheat Seedlings Effects.


NEW YORK, May 1O.-R. G.. Dun &
Co. s weekly review of trade says: Dur
ing the past week the business stua-
tion has changed but little. The out
ward manifestations vary somewhat,
but the leading facts are still the enor-
nous volume of traffic in progress, the
expectation of monetary exT ansion and
the absence of forces at present serious
ly disturbing even in details. Chief
and most potent of the present favoring
influences is still the prospect of in
creased monetary use of silver in some
form. Labor controversies cause less
interruption than has been anticipated.
1t has come to be recognized that in
jury to winter wheat may count for 50,-
600, 900 bushels at least, but spring seed
ing has covered an increased acreage
and a larger yield OF thatNkind would
naturally follow higher prices. Cotton
is shade weaker than week ago and
accounts of injury less impressive. Iron
shows no great change, the radical facts
in that branch being the transfer of part
of the production to Southern instead of
Northern fields. The increase in wool
supply this year can not be large, but
the expectations of higher prices so
generally entertained by growers tend
to embarrass the manufacturer. Boston
sales were large, with prices stiff.
The movement of meats continues
heavy-at Chicago 10000 900 pounds of
dressed beef against 945, 900 last year,
and for the year thus far 5O,000,O 900
against 100000 pounds last year.
Beef cattle have reached the highest
point for the year; lard receipts at Chi
cago are nearly double, and hogs grow
stronger at the West. In general, OPP
erations in products are remarkably
large, with advancing prices, but ma My
because of the expected loss in produc-
tion this year.
The dry goods business continues of
full volume-at Chicago larger than last
year-and the shoe trade is also larger.
The volume of all trade shown by ex-
changes outside of New York remains
about 10 per cent. above last years,
which in turn was the largest on record.
The reports from interior cities indicate
fairly maintained activity, with money
markets nowhere stringent, though at
Chicago and some other points closer
about May 1 than before on account of
settlements and preparation for assess
ments for taxation. The disburse-
ments to May 1 were larger than ever
before, approaching $50, 100000.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days number 209 as compared
with 211 fast week. For the correspond
ing week of last year the figures were
2O7
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
Miscellaneous.

THE Cotton Exchange of Vicksburg
has unanimously decided to recommend
the passage of the TORY bankruptcy
bill, and has adopted resolutions re-
questing the Mississippi delegation in
Congress to vote against the Butter.
worth bill.
THE reunion of the soldiers of both
armies will be held at Vicksburg from
May 25th to 3Oth. There will be sham
battles, excursions to neighboring bat
tlefields, competitive drills, camp fires
and barbecues, running and trotting
races, and pyrotechnic displays. Re-
duced rates on railroads will be given.
The report of the Natchez Cotton Ex-
change shows that during the present
year the total receipts of cotton have
been 4s,529 bales, against 41,2s1 bales
for the previous year. The shipments
this year were 4s, 329 bales, while those
of last season were 41.052. The con-
sumption of the mills this year
amounted to 4515 bales, while during
the year past 42s9 bales were con-
sumed.
SIX prisoners escaped from the Boil
var County Jail last week.
Ex-Gov. RoBT. LOWRY and Col. VIM.
H. McCardle, are engaged in the prepar-
alton of "a History of Mississippi, from
the Earliest Period OF its Settlement by
the French, to the Death of Jefferson
Davis" The volume will contain from
five to six hundred pages, and will be
ready for the press about the first OF
October.
THE citizens of Greenwood are prepar-
ing to rebuild their little city, which
was badly damaged by fire April 20.
THE ceremonies of laying the corner
stone of the new Masonic Temple and
Opera-house were held at Meridian on
the 18th. The building will cost $780,
900, and will replace the oldest Masonic
building in the State, which was erected
in 1897, by the Grand Lodge of Missis-
sippi.
The sixty-third annual Council Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Do
cese of Mississippi convened at Jackson
last week. The meeting was large one.
The disastrous effect of the late flood
is fast disappearing from the road bed
of the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
Railroad.
Gov. STONE continues of the opinion
that government aid is not needed in
the overfowed districts of Mississippi
to any great extent. Isolated cases oc
cur and are looked after. Planterl
generally are able and willing to care
for laborers, and will do so up to June L
when, If the land is not ready for crops
great want and suffering will be the re-
suit.
GEORGE and William Powell, Of Scot
County, charged was placing obstruc
tions across the Alabama & Vicksburs
Railroad track and thus obstructing the
United States mails, were acquitted in
the Federal Court at Jackson last week
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

he gambled away personally at the gam
ing table and by broker on the Stock
Exchange. But the State lost none Of
it. Did not Senator Cameron through
Wayne MacVeagh adjust the whole
matter without loss to the State and
without public scandal? And did not
Pennsylvania condone the whole matter
by subsequently choosing Quay for State
Treasurer? 1t is true that electors
knew nothing about the temporary
deficit, so adroitly had Cameron
covered it up, but their electio n
of Quay to the responsible post
of Treasurer is triumphantly cited as
sufficient vindication of the much ma
ligned gentleman. Having the funds
in his own hands Quay diverted s4OO, 600
to a little speculation which, proving
profitable to himself, left him under no
temptation to default. Quay himself
is not the man to regard these perform
ances as calling for censure. He has no
sympathy with the squeamishness that
reprobates them, and will not respond
TO any sentiment in his party calling
for his abdication on any trifling matter
of the kind.
Ouay's manner of conducting the
campaign of 1888 is not questioned by
the man in the White House nor by any
of a body OF rank partisans Quay gave
them success, and they are not going
behind that fact to inquire into meth
DDS Quay was savior, and they do
not propose to cruelty him. They
need Just such a man for coming con-
fiicts, and having him will be encour-
aged to shout the louder that they
alone form the party of moral ideas.
The patron of Wanamaker and OF
Dudley, of the cash-gatherer and the
cash-disburser, the Napoleon of the
Harrison campaign, will not retire be-
cause some timid party men talk about
honesty and scruple. He is not the
man to be affrighted by demand for
conscience in political management.
His associates in party control are of his
kidney.-Chicago Times.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
LOT JUN PING.
Characteristic Lot-Jumping Scene at Okla
hOma City, Ok.

homa City, Ok.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok, May 10.-Con-
siderable excitement was occasioned
here over an attempt at lot jumping.
In the morning about ten o'clock a
wagon loaded with lumber was stopped
in front of vacant lot on Robinson
street, between Grand avenue and Main
street, and simultaneously trio of col
ored individuals appeared, armed with
carpenters tools, quietly unloaded the
wagon and began to construct the
foundation of small house. AS If by
magic dozen men appeared upon the
scene and without word began tearing
up the foundation and carrying the
boards and scantlings to pond near by,
where they were dumped
Within two minutes the dozen men
were joined by others, who had been in
formed of the attempt at jump ng, until
the streets were filled with excited
men, vieing with each other to secure a
board that they might help in the de-
struction of the proposed edifice. The
lot in question is held under a city GER
tificate by S. C. Woodruff The would
be jumper was J. d. Willy, colored,
formerly a Topeka, Kan, barber.
Willy and his two aids disappeared and
the crowd dispersed as quietly as they
came, but with the understanding that
watch would be kept on Willy, this
being his second attempt at lot jump
inr
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

By the burning of C. f. Clay's livery
stable in Middlesborough, N. Y, the
other morning twenty-six saddle horses
were lost.
In an encounter between police and
strikers at Lille, France, two strikers
were wounded and arrested.
FIRE broke out in the Abram colliery
at Leigh, England, recently, but the
$50 miners entombed were all rescued
uninjured.
BY collision at crossing in Allen
town, Pa, two passenger coaches and an
engine were wrecked, young lady killed
and five other passengers slightly in
jured.
JUDGE CREIGHTON, of the circuit court
of Sangamon County, ILL.,, has decided
that tobacco bill can not be collected
from a minor by law, as tobacco was not
a necessity of law.
THE arrival of the first car load of
pigs allowed to enter Saxony through
the special permission of Chancellor
Caprivi was made quite fete by the
pork hungry citizens at Dresden.
COLUMBIA, Tex, was flooded recently.
FIVE more bodies were found atJohns
town, Pa, on the Sth, victims OF the
flood.
The sister and her children of the late
Thomas w. Pierce, Of Boston, who left
an estate valued at Sc, 200. have
asked the court to remove the executors
for neglecting their business
The faculty of Cornell University has
- hn 0l oCcf fvaf f0str
nalism after the present college year.
w. L. BRIcE, q brother of United
States Senator Brice, of Ohio, died at
Denver, COL, recently Of consumption.
THREE hundred plumbers of Pitts
burgh, Pa, have struck for an advance
in wages.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
A Textile orgaa,s view.

The proposed tariff bill shuts out
camels hair, etc, and unless cotton is
included the Peruvian crop win proba-
bly, be increased to fill the gap. Certain
ly enough shoddy machinery will be
added to that now running to supply
two or three pounds for every pound
of wool, ETC., cut off by the advance
in duty. How can this help the wool
grower? As rule he will rebel as
stoutly as any one against paying an
increase in price for his garments, to
compensate for higher price for his
wool. Consequentlyhe will not get the
higher price. Our mills are already
paying every cent or fraction thereof
they can afford for the woods they now
buy. II cotton is king shoddy Is at
least queen; the two are likely to rulo
if the people will have it so.-Wats's
Fiber and Fabric.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
THE PAUPER HOLOCAUST.
The Loss of Life Supposed to BE Far Greater
Than as First Reported.


Than as First Reported.
UTICA, N. Y, May 10-The number
of bodies found in the runs of the poor
house in Preston, Chenango County,
is already thirteen and the i'm
preston is growing that the loss
of life far exceeds the first estimate.
The building burned very rapidly, as if
pitched and tarred, and with great
fierceness. The fire was intensely hot
the belief exists that some of the
bodies were so completely inciner-
ated that no trace of them
can be found. The following are
known to have been burned besides
those mentioned in previous dispatches:
Mary Vosburg of Otselie, Estella NAL
lory of Norwich and Julia Hunt of Nor
w;ch. One insane woman was captured
near Plymouth, several miles away, last
n ght. She was half clad and bewailed
the loss of her home. One of the
imbeciles was scared into her senses by
the fire and escaping from the burn ng
room by window reached the roof and
crawled along the ridge board and
reused the keepers wife from slumber.
thus saving her life.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
To Clear the Right OF Way.

VINITA, 1. T., May 1o.-Indian Police
man Thomas r. knight is in receipt of
a telegram from Indian Agent Bennett
directing him to clear the Frisco rail-
road right of way at this place of all
houses, fences and other Instructions.
As very nearly one-fourth of the busi-
ness portion of Vinita is located upon
lands belonging to the railroad lively
times are looked for when the work of
removing the buildings commences.
The railroad people say they have toll
Grated as much intrusion as they will
stand and warn tho Cherokees to desist
in their efforts to hold the lands by
building houses upon the right 0! way.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

THE correspondent of the London
Chronicle at Berlin says that Germany
is isdisposed to relax the hitherto strict
pohibitory regulations regarding the
Importation of American pork, provided
that the United States Government will
agree to make concessions favorably af
iecting German imports.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

DO you think Harrison will get
second term?n ''On the contrary |
think the people would be willing to
commute his first N. Y. Sun.
On the basis of the vote at the re-
cent election the Democrats will carry
both Rhode Island Congressional dis
tricts in November.-Albany On. "
Argus.
The ninety-eight per cent. pro-
tected starch manufacturers having
formed trust, they coolly tell Uncle
Samuel to keep his shirt on. louis
vile Courier-Journal.
The Montana Democrats continue
to win victories out in Montana, but
when they come before the United
States Senate the Republicans are too
many for them.-Boston Herald.
Three thousand carpet looms and
80, 900 artisans will cease work if the
Mckinley bill becomes a law. Protec-
tion is a great thing-if only you are
on the ground hoor.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Not long ago some of Mr.. Ran
dall's old Philadelphia friends raised
fund of $50, 900, which they offered him
as a mark of their respect for him. But
he respectfully declined to accept it.
He could not receive a money reward
for doing his public duty.-Buffalo Cou-
rier.
-Governor Campbell says the
steady Republican losses in Ohio are
due to the young men, who are almost
solidly on the Democratic side there.
1t is very much so everywhere. The
young voters are not declining to look
at the new moon out of reverence for
that ancient institution, the old one.-
Boston Herald.
County convent ton after county
convention in Illinois instructs its dele
gates to vote to make the nomination
of John NJ. Palmer for United States
Senator in open convention. There is
no longer any doubt that the Gladstone
of Illinois will be so nominated, and
when so nominated he will carry the
State against Farwell or any other mill.
ionaire the Republicans can induce to
open his barrel st. Louis Republic.
Some carpet manufacturers of
Philadelphia told the House committee
on ways and means that the proposed
increase of the duty on carpet wools
would make the raw material for in
grain carpets cost more than the carpets
now sold for in the open market These
manufacturers have yet to be inducted
into the philosophy of this style of leg
islation, that 1.-The higher the duty the
lower will be the price to consumers
Boston Transcript
For Sale Everywhere. - Quay's
Soap. Quay's Soap. For Sale by all
Druggists! 81 used your soap with
great effect in the last campaign."-
BENJAMIN Harrison. II know just how
your soap is made and heartily recon-
mend it."-John Wanamaker. "lf had
more of your soap should not now be
in the SOUP. b. Foraker. Quays
Soap. Best in the World for Political
Complexions.-N. Y. Commercial Ad
vertiser.
Mr.. Isaac Clements, a stout and
able-bodied Republican politician, has
been appointed pension agent in Chica-
go in the place of the widow of brave
Colonel Mulligan, the famous command
er of the Mulligan Guards, who was
killed in battle. Our soldier President
was not ashamed to make this change,
and ex-Congressmen Clements was not
man enough to refuse the place. But
such a transaction ought to open the
ewes of the veterans. us.-ROck Islander
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

AT the spring meeting of the New
Ork and Brooklyn Association of Con-
gFegatlonal Churches, DIR. Lyman Abbot
"a d. u am thorough believer in the
eght-hour movement Under the pres
@system man becomes bit of ma
cAnery Eight hours is as long as any
man should be drudge. Any system
which makes man work twelve hours a
uay is dishonest, because it is grinding
mans body for his labor"
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

Asw1NpLEE who claimed to be an agent
ola New York life insurance company
recently visited Hornellsville, n. Y, and
vicinity and appointed each of thirty
five doctors medical examiner for the
company and each of $50 other men agent
for the neighborhood. Each Of the vic.
tins paid him a fee of SIS.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

THE defeat of Emile Zola for men,
bership in the French Academy has
gwen a refined satisfaction to ma
iOrity of the onlookers. M. Zola bears
up we'll under his rejection by the I'm
mortals and the ridicule of the envious
world lie says he is not discouraged
and will try again.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

MARY GARDNER, bright and pretty
Ou' hayward girl, was brought to SYRIA
vase n. Y, from Clyde at the instance
VI VI ner mother. In the police court she
s% sentenced to the house of refuge
A. .I women at Hudson. On her way to
Wv 'ue court house from the police station
.u' jumped into the canal in an attempt
DcOmmit suicide, but was seized as she
va, was ABOUT to sink by a big Newfound-
Ta4 ,anu uos' whose master plunged into the
water and rescued her.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

TIFFANY & Co., of New York, have
been commissioned by the delegates
from South and Central America and
Mexico to the recent Pan-American con-
ference to make solid silver glowing
cup Of artistic design for presentation
to Secretary Blaine, showing the per-
@nal esteem of the donors.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15
QUAY WILL STICK.
The Charges Preferred Against Him Do
Not Worry the Boss.


The Republican National Committee
is about to convene with reference to
organization for the Congressional cam
paign. Some conscientious, high-mind-
ed Republicans have supposed that
Matt Quay would receive hint that his
services as chairman will be no longer
in demand. Others have fancied that
Quay would feel it incumbent on him.
self to retire.
These worthy but mistaken souls do
not understand either the chairman or
the organization over which he pre-
sides. Quay is a managing politician of
great self-confidence and no scruple.
What does he stand charged with?
Nothing serious as he and his friends
view it When he was Secretary for
Pennsylvania he induced the Treasurer
and his cashier TO let him have sums
aggregating ss5o,OOO and more. These
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

THE Court of Appeals at Albany, N.
Y. has handed down decision in the
ease of Dilworth Choate, the New York
reporter, affirming the Judgment of the
courts below sentencing him to impris-
onment for contempt of COURT in connec-
tion with the Flack case.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

THE Railway Age says that over 1, 100
miles of railway have already been
added to the track mileage of the United
etateS in 1890. There have been many
new roads incorporated since the first of
January last The paper predicts that
tne construction will exceed that of 1889,
when $500 miles we're built.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-15

THE school committee at Providence,
p /. has decided TO Danish the Bible
and all devotional exercises from the
cty schools and to restrict the applica-
tion Of corporal punishment to cases in
which the. parents consent is obtained.