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SATURDAY. FEB. 9th, 1889.
Skulksrs must take back seats.
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No doubt of it—Blaine succeeds
Bayard.
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Scratch a self-styled Decent Re
publican and your find a skulker.
Hayti may breathe freer while
Germany engages the attention of
the Grett Republic.
Decent (?) Republicans, they are
the elect, we euppose, chosen before
the foundation of the world !
The proposed new election law is
laid before our readers in another
column Any law would be an im
provement over the one in opera'
tion.
The amendment to the Huntsville
Charter restoring the right to elect
the mayor to the people has passed
both branches of the legislature un
animously
The Turn Pike Bill is now pen'
diug in the legislature. It was un
animously adopted by the meeting of
citizens at the court house last Sat
urday. Its enactment into law and
its execution will mark a new and
progressive era for Madison county.
Gen. Clayton’s assassination in
Arkansas was without doubt for a
political end. The best way to pun
ish such crimes is for all parties to
unite to preveut the accomplishment
of the«evident aim of the assassin or
as.-assius, as well »s to hunt down the
villians and bring them to justice.
We do not believe that the good
people there or any where else in the
South endorse such murders.
Jack Daw gets at the true in
wardness of the presumptious self
styled decent? Republicans in the
fell .wing truthful remark. “There
are a lot of decent? Republicans who
have been too decent to have any*
thing to do with the Republican par
ty until they see a possible chance
to gefoffice, Now they wantjto die.
tate and control affairs ’ They are
skulkers, brave at the srnjll of the
trough, but cowar Is during the
smoke and danger of battle.
NEWS and SENTIMENT.
(From Colored Exchange.)
John M. Langston will deliver the
address of welcome to the Colored
Press Convention to meet in Wash
ington March 5th.
Ex-Senator B K. Bruce is lectur
ing in Kansas ou the “Race Prob»
lem.”
Colored Firemen of Georgia will
hold a tournament at Americus next
July.
A c mmi^tee of colored Americans
of Louisville, Ky-, visited the Pres^
ident-elect last week.
Mr. Randolph YV. Rose has sus
tained a cred table examination for
the bar at Richmond, Va.
The Hon. Erastus Hussey, who
was a pioneer abolitionist, died at
his home at Battle Creek last week.
Miss Adelaide G. Smith, the
charmiug singer tf Boston, was
married to Mr. Lewis Ferry, Febru
ary 6th.
Queen Victoria has just knighted
the Chief Justice of Barbadoes who
is now “Sir'^William Conrad Reeves.
John Boyle O'Reilly has given to
the printing office connected with
Atlanta University, a large amount
of t; pe.
Hon John M. Langston will head
a delegation to visit Gen. Harrison
early this month.
Mrs. Lizzie Pugh-Dugan the fa
mous Indianapolis prima-donna is
booked foi an early appea ance in
Chicago.
Ex-Cadet YVhittaker, whose YVest
Point experiences made his name a
household word, is now a ’awyer in
South Carolina.
There are twenty'•five colored
Catholic churches in the cotmtfy and
eighty five schools, also eight orphan
asylums aud three reformatories.
Mr. H. J. Lewis, wood engraver,
and formerly connected with the
“Hornet” of Pine Bluff, will here.,
after be found with the Indianapolis
Freeman.
Charleston. 8. C., has the largest
body of Colored troops of any city in
the Union. There are two regiments
of infantry and five cavalry troops.
The Kennesaw, Ga, educational
fund will be enriched $800 by the
concert given at Chickering Hall
by Afro American talent of New
York.
Senator Martin of New Jersey,has
introduced a bill into the legislature
authorizing the organizing of a col
ored regiment in the State National
Guard.
Dr. I. F. Tuppins, colored, mayor
of Pendville, Ohio, died last week.
He was a graduate from the Medical
College of Columbus. He is believ
ed to be the second colored mayor in
the United 8tates.-Ex.
Mrs. Maria Rivers, an aged color*
ed woman of Macon, Ga., whose chil
dren were stolen away from her 23
years ago, has recently found both
of them and is nearly crazed with
joy.
The first prize in the Swan orator
ical contest at Lombard University,
Ga’esburg, 111., was taken by Bert
Wilson, a colored student whose
oration is spoken of as a marvel of
eloquence.
Gen. W. S. Lee, of Charleston, S.
C., the only colored brigadier in the
United States, will take a picked
company of State militia to Wash
ington on the occasion of the inaugu
ration of President Harrison.
James H Jones, colored, of Ral
eigh, N. C., who was Mr. Jefferson
Davis’ body servant while the latter
was president of the Southern Con
federacy, wrote him a letter some
weeks ago expressive of his high re
gard. Mr. Jones is now an alderman
of Raleigh.
Mr. J. W. W. Wormley, for ma*
ny years a county justice of the
peace of Alexandia county, Va., hss
been appointed U. S. Commissioner
for the eastern district of Virginia.
Dr. A. P. Holly, of Hayci, lectur
ed last week in Boston on the “Hay
tien Negro.” The Doctor is a thor
oughly educated gentleman, having
graduated with distinction from the
University of Cambridge, Eng.
The world moves. The only news
paper published in the town of
Hearne, Texas, is conducted and
owned by a colored man. The white
population predominates, but a black
man furnishes them their weekly
stipend of news.
J. H. Bradner. superintendent of
the Police Commissioners of Cleve
land, has been instrumental in hav
ing Messrs. George Gregory and
An lerson appo’nted on the police
force of that city, and John F. Chaf
fin janitor of the central police sta
tion.
Daniel Johnson of Kansas City,
has secured a patent on his rotary
dining table which is especially adap
ted to dining halls, parks and pleas
ure resorts. He has also invented a
grass receiver attachment to a lawn
mower by which the lawn is mowed
and raked at the same time.
Charles Nelsen, a colored Dem >*«
crat of Springfield, 111., was defeated
in his aspirations to take care of the
coats and hats of the Democrats of
the Senate, by Republicans who re
jected him oa the charge of slander
against leading Republicans of the
state.
The ghost of a murdered eoljred
American of Lawrence county. Geor
gia, has so persistently returned to
the scene of bis sudden taking off,
that his neighbors have abeut con
cluded to leave it in absolute posses
sion and are rapidly exodusting to
places less accessible to disembodied
spirits.
B. W. Smith, a farmer of Brocks
county, Georgia, who ten years age
smarted with nothing hasaccumulated
$9,000. His record for the past year
is 550 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of
oats, 500 bushels of potatoes, 587
gallons of syrup, 2 barrels of sugar,
18 bales of cotton weighing 599
pounds each, and 3,500 pounds of
pork.
The race queswou has again caused
i trouble at West Point. A cadet cap
tain in assigning places in the mess
| hall, gave a colored student a place
at the table of honor, to wh ch his
scholarship entitled him. This made
trouble, some of the cadets thinking
the distinction too great for a colored
student, and he was changed to a lew
er table. This made still more
trouble. Evidently snobbery has a
deep growth at West Point.—
Freeman.
What the iNegro wants is not bay
onets, not new laws, but the enforce
ment of existing law, and to have
this there must be at the center of
power, in close relationship to the
Presidont, a man of Southern birth
in close sympatny with the struggle
of the race and with firm convict
ions of its future elevation and de
vil'pment drawu from actual obser
vation of his past and present con
dition —Chattanooga Justice.
BALLOT REFORM.
Text of the New Election Bill Now
Before the Legislature
A bill entitled an act to regulate the
ballot and the manner of voting in elect
ions in this state.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the gener
al assembly of Alabama, that in all
elections by the people in this state the
ballot must be a plain peice of white
paper, without any figures, marks rul
ings, characters, or embellishments,
thereon, not less than two and one half
inches, nor more than three in width,
and not less than five inches in length,
on which must be written or printed,
or partly written and partly printed the
names of all persons to be voted for, and
must designate the office for which said
person or persons so named is intend
ed to be chosen.
Sec. ?. Be it further enacted. That it
shall be the duty <-f 'he judge of probate
of each county t .v nly days prior to any
general election to print, or cause to be
printed the tickets to be voted at the
ensuing election, and in specil elections
the tickets must be prmted ten days
prior to said election.
Sec, 3. Be it fur! her enacted, That
any person who desires to be voted for
at any general election, he or his repre
sentative, or the chairman of a commit
tee or any party must notify the judge
of probate in writing the names of the
person or persona and the office for
which said person or persons desire to
be chosen, thirty days prior to said elect
tion and in special elections the judge of
probate must be notified ten days prior
to said election.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, Tint
when two or more persons for the same
office are printed upon the ticket the
names of said persons shall be alternat
ed upon the tickets during the printing
of the same.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That
the judge of probate shall deliver the
tickets to the sheriff'of the couuty ten
days prior to any special election.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That
each voting precinct shall he furnished
tickets for more than double ttie number
of registered voters in s-iid precinct.
Sec. 8. Be it furthei enacted, That
when the polls are opened the inspectors
shall open the box containing the tick
ets, and when an elector presents him
self to vote, one of the inspectors shall
give him a ticket and said elector with
out any instruction, information, inter
ference, direction or sign whatever from
the inspectors or any one else, shall
erase with pen ana ink the names 01 an
except the names of the. personlor whom
he intends to vote, and the elector shall
then give his ballot to one of the ins
pectors as provided in section three
hundred and seventy of the code.
Sec. 9 Be it further enacted, That
if any elector desires to vote f^r any
person other than those printed upon
the ticket, he may write the name of
Baid person upon his ballot and desig
nated the office for which said person so
named is intended to be chosen.
Sec. 10 Be it further enacted, That
if any elector votes for more persons for
the same office than lie is entitled, his
vot- for that office shall not be counted.
Sec. 11. B ■ it further enac'ed, That
if any elector attempts to leave the polls
with the tickets given him by the ins
pectors, he shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and the inspector shall
order the deputy sheriff to arrest him,
and on conviction shall be fined not less
than twenty nor more than fifty dollais.
Sec.'12. Be it further enacted. That if
any person attempts to vote any ticket
other than that furnished him by the in
spectors, and provided for in this act, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and on conviction shall he fined uot less
than twenty, nor more than one hundred
dollars.
Sec. 13 Be it further enacted. That if
any person attempts to influence the
elector or instruct him in the preparation
of his ballot, he shall be deemed guilty
of a misdeanor, and the inspectors shall
order the arrest of the party offending,
and on conviction shall be fined not less
than twenty nor more than one hun
dred dollars.
Sec. 14. Be it further enacted. That
the cost of printing the the tickets shall
be paid for by the eouQty as other claims
against the county are paid, as now pro
vided for by law.
Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That any
ballot other than that provided -for in
this act is illegal and must he rejected.
Sec. 16 Be it further enacted, That
sections three hundred and sixty-nine
and three hundred and seventy of the
code be and the same are hereby re
pealed.
Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That
this act shall apply to muncipa! elections
in this s'ate, and the mayor or intendent
of the city or town is charged with its
execution, and the cost of the same to be
paid for by the city or town as claims
against the city or town are paid as now
provided by law.
The Madison county Turnpike Bill
pawed the Senate yesterday by a unani
mous vote. It will pass the House to
day without a dissenting vote.
A NEW REVELATION.
Did Dick Hawes Commit Still
Another Murder?
THE BODY IDENTIFIED as his
WIFE’S PARAMOUR.
A Startling; Theory as to the Motive of
the Wholesale Murder at Birmingham
— I)K k Thompson Slain and Thrown into
a Ravine—The Body has been Exhumed
from I’otter’s Field.
Birmingham, Ala.. Feb. 7.—The Even
ing News ti s published a s'ar ling new
development in the great Hawes trage
dy. it has been discovered that the
mysteriously murdered stranger who,
Sunday last, was found in Deer's 1 a vine,
on Shade morn tain, is none other than
one Dick Thompson, a former car inspec
tor and detective for the Georgia Paci !c
railway, and who was known to have
carried on a laison of se eral months
with Mrs. Hawes previous to her mur
der. Thompson has been misdng since
the Hawes tr agedies, and the description
of the man tallies most wonderfully
with that of the badly d composed
and unr c gni able sti anger ionnd on
the mountain. Hawes, in an in
terview this morning, admits that
he knew Th mpson, and that he u ed to
frequent his house m his ab ent e. He
further stated that he on e w arued
Thompson that if he ever caught him
the e ! e wou'd kill him, but, of cour. e.
den es having done so. 7 he theory, and
b a 1 odds the most plausible yet ad
vanced n the famous murder case .is
that Hawt a had detected this illicit love
of his wife, like that of Mike Cain in At
lanta two .'ears ag >. and having decided
to Marry Miss Story, of Columbus,seized
upon this opportunity to put his wife out
of the way. arguing that even if his
killing her when found with Thompson,
was ever dis ovt-red. men would be in
clined to acquit him accordingly.
He went ;o the house rnd found
7 hum sou. and then a desperate tight
endued. He killed Thommon and his
wife, and in the ruel. e 1 ttle Irene, and
the secreting of the bo lies and murder
of May vs as a t after thoug.it. Thomp
son's body was exhumed from the Pot
ter’s field.
SB THE HAWES TRAGEDY.
The Wyly Hrotlier* Indicted—Bob .Polin
sou's Rambling: Story.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 8.—Jolm and
J;:l3 Wyley, of Atlanta, who have been
in jail here for several weeks, were yes
terda indicted for murder in the first
degree, as accomplices in toe murder of
M;s. Finn a Hawes and Irene Hawes.
Kole. t Johnso i. colored, a brother of
the negro caught in Tennessee by special
detectives, lias ree 1 arrested. The broth
er were brought face to face, and the
one caught in Tenne.-see admitted that
he Mas the witness of the Halves mur
ders. and n t his brother, as he stated.
He tells a very rambling store, how
ever. and claims ihat he cannot iden ify
any of the ; arties he saw removirg the
bodies from the Hawes cottage to the
lake. H • sa .’s he did not ee the i r me
commt ted. but heard the sounds of a
struggle in the house, and sa-.v tr,e bodies
removed.
THE TESTIMONY CONTINUED.
The raniell Commission Listeiis to the Tes
timony of I)e Caron.
London, Feb. 8.—De Caron continued
l is testimony to da be.ore the Parnell
cominis ion. During a oontroveisy re
gar ing t' e admissinn of certain evi
den e Attor ey General Webster re
in rked t at he was never pre, ared to
suggest t at Mr. 1 arnell or other n:iti n
aiist mtmi.ers of parliament w ere per
sonally ( onnected wit i mi r erous o.it
ra es committed in Ireland.
His contenti n was teat they a ere al
lied to people who they kne.v, or who
they might liave kno n if t* ey had
proper y inquire i, had be n for man.
<earspromi ently (xnnected v. ith umr
dero .s outra es.
Cowliiikd by His Jealous Wifi*.
Orange, N. J.. Feb. P.—Elwo )d Wil
liams, an electrician.foreman for Edison
at his works in this citv, was cowhided
b his jealous wife i 1 ihe presence of a
large crowd of fact ry people. Willi ms
had made love to a girl, representing
him elt a single man and his wife in
the fit learned of his < onduct. He was
se erci. punished by the infu iated wo
man
A 1’ickantnny Boasted.
Hopkinsville, Ky.. Feb. 8.—A col
ored oui in named Kemie Black, living
i : i on gomery co mty.Tenn., left home
ye lerdav. locking her ihree-year-old
ch Id up in her cabin. Later in the day
th cat in was discovered in flames. The
child’s fa e and 1 mis were horribly
Van ne 1. It died in great ag. nv.
Earthquake in South Carolina.
Beaufort, Feb. 8.—A slight earth
quake shock was felt here ; nd on St.
He cm Island last evening about seven
o'clock. The usual rumbling s und pre
cede! the tremor. The shock on the is
land was se ere enough to stop a clock.
Died from a Cat’s Bite.
Social Circle, Ga , Feb. 7.—Henr.
Wo mack, 1 ving ne r this place, was
bitten by a rabid cat about a tuon h ago.
He died yesterday, aft- r undergoing all
the iior o s incident to hyd ophobia. Mr.
Woimack . as a ttrict teeto aier.
Big Brewery Burned.
Niagara Falls. Ont., Feb. 8.—The
iarge brewery of theNiaga a Falls Brew
ing company, at Niagara I alls, w as
des.ro ed b i re at 1 o clock this morn
ing. t getlier with its contents. Loss
$50,bOO.
Another M. P. Sentenced.
Dublin, Feb. 8.—Thomas J, Condon,
M. P. from East Tipperary, has been sen
tenced to two mont.is imprisonment on
the charge of inciting to boycotting. An
appeal was taken, mad Condon released
oabMl. __
WASHINGTON.
“Millions For Defence.”
Bills for the Fortifl ::at'ons and Na
val Appropriations Submitted
to the Senate.
Washington, Feb 8 —The fortification
anti naval appropriation bills were sub
mitted to the full senate committee on
appropriations to->day by the committet
| charged with their examination. Ap
propriations in the fortifications bill
were increased as follows:
Torpedoes for harbor defense, $200,
000; machine guns of American manu
facture, $20,000; caissons and battery wa
gons for 3 2 10-inch guns, $43,574; foi
conducting the annual heavy aitillery
practice, $20,000.
A provision was inserted that all
moneys shall hi disbursed by the board
of ordinance and fortifications created
last year, and it is made imperative on
the boarde to buy only American made
materials. Steel forging and gun carriage
appropriations amount to nearly $300,000.
Heavy additions were made to the
naval bill. The construction of two
steel gunboats or cruisers is provided
ed for, to he of from 800 to 1,200 tom
displacement, and to cost not more than
$70C,00''; aiso one steel cruiser of 2,000
tons displacement, to cost $700,000. Ap
propriation is also made for one rain for
harbor defense in accordance with tin
plans prepared by the naval advisort
board of 1881. In order that these ves- I
sels may be speedily built the appropria
tion for steel machinery is increased b\ I
$1,500,000, and that for armament b.\ j
$1,400,000. All new' vessels are to he
lighted by electricity, and $60,000 is ap
propriated for that purpose.
A REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
Senators in Washington Discuss
the Election Investigation
Resolutions.
Washington, February S — A full
caucus of republican senators was held
this morning at which was discussed the
election investigation resolutions andtht
admission of territories. As to the for^
mer it was decided that the committee
on privileges and elections should ex
amine into the several propositions now
penuing and determine which of them,
if any, shall be adopted.
The report of Senator Evarts on the
Texas outrages, recently reported to the
senate, will be discussed as opportunity
offers,
L Don the territorial question it was
decided to sustaiu the senatorial confer
ees in tlielr disagreement upon the om
nibus bill, which proposes to admit the
two Dakotas, Montanatmd New Mexico.
HtOTTSBORO
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J. D. Snodgrass was elected Mayor
over John \V. Hail by 95 against 21,
We predict that Jim will make a good
mayor, and discharge his duties to the
dot. The new board of Aldermen elect
ed were James P. Stuart, K. C. Miller,
John W. Barnett and and John Garland.
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