The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-10

hree 0lergYmon, In which Nc cohioSSN
.epentance and the hope ofpardon. He
net his fate with firmness. A novel
,eature of the occasion was that the
tickets of admission to the jail issued
Dy the Sheriff were eagerly sought for'
Deing peddled around at from 90 cents
20 So apiece, The crime for which ne
was indicted was committed last au-
tumn.
The private banking firm OF Moses
Bros, at Montgomery, Ala, closed their
doors, last Monday. The failure Is due
to stringenoy of money market; they
saw their assets will amount to more
than their liabilities; the liabilities are
said to be about half million dollars. |
They did a savings bank business ana
have many scores of depositors among
the poorer people, The firm stands
high for integrity, and have given up
all their property, of every Description
The distressing feature OF the failure
was the loss OF the savings Ofthe poor.
Nearly every laboring man, CLERK anu
.aewinp woman in Montgomery VINO
was trying to save money had deposlts
in the suspended bank. Among the
depositors are hundreds of negroes
who have deposits from $5 or $40 to
81 800 or s., 900 each. Among those who
atood gazing wIstfully at the closed
doors was negro washwoman' WIN
in the walls of the splendid building
was 500 of her earnings, which she hau
been years in accommodating, ana teaFS
eoursed down her dark cheeks az sue
hesought every white man she Knew
who passed, for assistance IN securing
her money from the bank. The nrhl
Maid deDositors per cent. interest, and
hundreds of widows had deposited the
insurance money collected on thelr
husbands death. One woman, recent
ly bereaved, hal ( ,llecLoJ Sl,OOO lie III
surance money within the past ten
days, and, putting with it two or three
thousand she had saved besides, she
deposited the entiro sum with Moses
Bros. She was among tho anxious
crowd this morning. In the streets
stood a poor old negro woman, who
runs huckster stand in the City Mar
ket, crying like child, She heId III
her hand a pass-book, showing her de-
| posits. She said she had been saving
up her money to keep her in OLD age
and had accumulated 500, which went
| in the crash. One of the ludicrous In
cidents was negro woman who ran
I'D to the crowd, and when she found
| for sure that the bank had failed she
threw herself down on a dry goods box
and cried out, "Give me back my
money; fore God, had dollar in that
| bank" The shouting and yelling was
kept up until a gentleman stepped up,
handed the woman a dollar and asked
her to shut up. An Intelligent ana
observant Northern man, who was III
the city, said 81 am surprised at the
quietness of the people who have de-
posits in the bank. If similar failure
had taken place in the North, with the
same class of depositors, the crowd
would haye tried to tear the building
down."
John Bardsley, ex-City Treasurer OF
Philadelphia, was sentenced this Weeh
to fifteen years hard work and solitary
confinement in the penitentiary, fol
misrepresentation of public funds
When the sentenced was pronounced
of the thousands he had called friends
but one man was by his side.
William Henry Gladstone, tho eldos
son of the Right Hon. VIM e. Gladstone
died in London on the 4th, aged 81 years
, Tx Vice President of the Unite'
States, Hannibal Hamlin died very sud
denly on the evening OF the fourth
+ Bangor, Maine, in the rooms of tn
, Tarrotine Club. He was elected Vic
President on the ticket with MI
Lincoln.
At Dubuque, Iowa, a man opened
saloon at Elkadar, the county seat
Claytown County, Ia. Realta E. Price
who has been prominent in enforcin
: the prohibition law there, and his Sol
commanded the man to close his saloor
? On his refusing, Price secured the Cit
I Marshal's aid and closed the saloon
= AS Price and his SON were going HON
across the bridge after dark mob al
tackled and cut them badly. They wer
forced to fly into an adjoining buiidin
? and barricaded the doors to keep tn
n mob from executing their threat {
lynching them. The latest reports froI
p Elkadar are that Price and his son ar
/ in a critical condition.
: A cyclone struck the little city {
Baton Rouge, La, last Monday, unroo
= ing fifty houses and the penitentiar.
: and killing ten convicts and injurin
thirty-fve others.
A son of Rev. Josiah Carneal, nea
II Trenton, KY, got in front of the move
y while the team was resting and til
u workmen saving hay, and when tn
u machine was again started he was ru
@ over and one foot was so badly cut tina
amputation became necessary. I'll
a also had three fingers cut from on
j. hand. The boy is about IL years of ag'
Stonewall Jackson Bivouac of e.
Confederate soldiers will hold re
union at Mckenzie July 81. Every 81
Confederate soldier is invited and
IS general invitation is extended to OIL
81 ers. Prominent speakers will delivt
appropriate addresses. Ex-Confede
d ate songs will be sung by thrice
IL young ladies representing the States {
the Confederacy. There will be a
It abundance for every one to eat:
o 1t develops that Robert Knight, Pre-
Z ident of the National Loan and Inves
u ment Company, of Middlesborougi
= KY, with $: 100000 capital, Is an e.
convict. He has disappeared, and Gil
cinnati, Chicago and New York banl
suffered through him, as did also mar
Middlesborough people. A reward
Z offered for his capture.
8 1t is reported that tho East Tenne
u , see, Virginia aud Georgia Company ha
purchased the Birmingham, Sheflie
and Tennessee River railroad for Il
I. West Point Terminal Company, viii
e another report says the Louisville
ts Nashville wants the road and will GU
10 bid the East Tennessee's offers.
- st. Louis Is anxious to have the ne:
! Democratic National Convention, an
IT the Mercantile Exchanges are makir
W arrangements to push that city
J. claims.
:, The second trial Of ex-State Treasur
- holland, OF Missouri, for embezzllI
n about SIS. 600 OF the slate's funds, Is
progress OF Jefferson CITY.