vs A A mm BY JAMES ARMSTRONG. TIIE OLDEST PAPER IN JACKSON COUNTY. Terms: Per Annum, In Advance. VOL. XIII.
SCOTTSBOltO, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1890. 7' SOUTHERN GLEANINGS, THE CRONIN CASE. Liberty, was the scene of a NEWS OF 1 THE WEEK. CURRENT COMMENT. Blackbxjiin has been re-elected Senator by the Kentucky Legislature.
NORTH ALABAMA ibr an! 7. J. KILPATRICE, Manager. '1 1 THE CITIZEN. e.
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Announcing cundldutea for ollice, Strictly In advance. All adverting accounts due and payabll after the first insertion. I'ersonal communications, when admlbSible will be charged double advertising rales. County Directory. Chanckllob Thomas Cobbs.
Circuit Judqk John B. Tally. Juduii ok Probate John H. Norwood Clerk of tiik Circuit CourtL. Willi Registkb in ChanceryJ.
A. Kyle. Sheriff L. Gentry. Tax Collector J.
P. Barclay, Tax Assessor M. E. Looney. Treasurer Dr.
J. M. Dicus. Superintendent of Education C. Brown.
Coroner Ben Hanco*ck. Commissioners N. B. Burch, A. A.
Gay, J. C. Btouer and D. T. Rousseau.
County Surveyors T. Boyd Toilet and Charles T. Wood. Counti IIealtu Officer Dr. Andy Boyd.
Town Directory. Mayor J. D. Snodgrass. Aldermen J.
P. Stuart, J. C. Garland, J. W.
Baruett and K. C. Miller. Court Calendar. Circuit Court Meets the second Monday after the fourth Mondays in January aud July, and coutinues three weeks.
Chancery Court Meets the fifth Monday after the fourth Monday in February and August, and continues three days. County Court Meets the first Monday in each mouth. Commissioners' Court Regular termn the second Mondays in February and August aud first Mondays in April and November. W. L.
MARTIN. VIRGIL BOULDIN. Martin ttorneysss at Law SCOTTSBORO, ALJC i. B. GREGORY, Bcottaboro.
J. H. VAUQHT, Stevenson, Ala Gregory at Law G. D. CAMPBELL, at La SCOTTSBORO, ALA.
Special attention given to business is ue rrobate Court. J. b. brown, W. W.
KIRK. BROWN KIRK, at Law SCOTTSBORO ALA. Will practice in the Court of. Hortfc Alabama. R.
C. HUKT W. CLOPTOS. HUNT CLOPTON, Attorneys at aw 2 SCOTTSBORO, ALA. Practice in State and Federal Courts.
B. ASHLEY, Attorney at Law SCOTTSBORO, ALA Will practice in the Courts of Jackson eoiinty and the Supreme Court of tin btate. i.jis i W. SPEAKE, Attorney at Law SCOTTSBORO, ALA' DR. J.
vt. ANDY BOYD. ROREX BOYD, Physicians and Surgeons, SCOTTSBORO," ALA. Office north.side Public Square. PliOTQeOAPHIG.
b. tJgregort, I Tormerlv of Shelhyville, has lo cated at Scottsboro, and bnilt A FIRST-CLASS GALLERY With all modern improvements. He is prepared to make all kinds pic tures, from a Tin Type to a large-size Portrait ia Crayon Pasteles or Oil. Mr. Gregory is very successful with chu dren, so bring the dear little ones aad get hem photographed.
1' COPYING KI)'ELARGI'G Don't waitfir day! bat come ny time. Pictures node as well Fred Kldd Hanged. Fred Kldd was hanged at Grove Hill, Clark County, recently, lie was of the four negroes charged with murder ot Sam Walker on the 83d December, 1888. The other three, sentenced for life. Fred refused until the last to acknowledge any thing about the murder.
Geronlmo'a Band. The removal of Geronimo 'and his Apache Indians from Alabama to West North Carolina is again a topic of talk. A Vlelons Youth. Edward Church, seventeen years old, living with his father near Huntington, is charged with poisoning the family by putting "Rough on Rats" in their bread. One little girl aeaa ana four others of the family were believed be dying.
Burned to Death. A house in Summit, S. the uppei rooms of which were occupied R. L. Taylor and family, was destroyed by fire few nights since.
Taylor's daughter discovered the fire, only in time, however, to save her own and mother's life jumping out of an upper door, layior suffocated and burned to death. Mrs. Taylor in lumping broke her leg was badly burned. The family were from Iowa, but until recently uvea in Buncombe County, N. C.
Carved by the Doctors. A few nights sinoe Rufe Ferguson, a was' found in a dying condition alongside a dummy line.in the sub urbs of Knoxville, Tenn. tie aiea in few hours, and the other day his body was found in the Tennessee Medical College dissecting room. Drs. Cates, Cawood, Bower and DraKe were arrearea.
The wildesfcexcitement prevailed among the friends of the young man. I ergu- son was said to be a member of a des perate suburban gang" that has defied man and law. The Case of Minnie Hose. The Supreme Court of Alabama has reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Minnie Moses. Min nie Moses is colored, and was convioted highway robbery and sentenced to hang, the laws of Alabama making that crime punishable by death.
robbed and brutally assaulted an old Egyptian woman who was peddling jewelry and trinkets about Montgomery. The fixing the penalty in the case of a woman when so many murdererd are escaping the gallows, caused a change in publio sentiment in favor of the prisoner, and there was general satisfaction expressed that her case had been reversed. Crushed Ills Skull. Jesse Ot-wevv playing cards leii out about Eh fr Grant picked up the iron cranfi tn grindstone and crushed in jvioreianas skull, killing him instantly. An Interesting Kello.
At the sale of the estate of H. C. Daf den, at Atlanta, among the articles put up was a or execution, whioh was issued by a justice of the peace over forty years ago, for a slave, over which there had been a sjiit. The case remaiEed in the courts, and the dis puted property became his own master, and could no longer be held as chattel. The "ft.
fia." remained among Mr. den's papers, and so fell into the hands of the administrator. It was bought for seventy-five cents, the purchaser reserving it as a relic, and thinking it worth seventy-five cents to be able to say tna he had the oldest "fl. fa." in the State A Singular Accident. A singular accident occurred on a steam dredge at work near Wilmington, N.
C. Two of the hands in the boat were doing some woik on an immense iron dredge used to lift mud from the bottom of the river and dump it into a scow alongside. The men were stand ing on top of the dredge when the latter suddenly opened and the two halves as suddenly closed in upon them and nearly crushed them to death before they could be extricated. Both men were seriously injured by reason ol broken bones, cuts and bruises. A Bad Man, C.
N. MoLemore has eloped from Columbia, with Miss Nellie Ger-rick. He also ruined the firm of H. A. Lemore by carrying off the firm's funds.
Granted a Respite. Governor Seay of Alabama has issued an order granting a respite to Samuel Bell, a negro convicted of murder in Calhoun County, and sentenced to death by hanging. The respite gives the loomed man a lease on life until Febru-'- 9iy7. KUled in a Duel. In a desperate-ytreet duel at Heflin, between City Marshal Senton and Dock Bell, a prominent the letter was shot three tirr-is and killed instant! jr, and he marshal was badly wounded.
Fatal Diphtheria. A diphtheria epidemic is raging along Cheat river, W. thirty deaths hav ing occurred in two weeks. Four Men to be Hanged. Four men under sentence of death in North Carolina, two for murder and two for burglary, will ba hanged on Febru ary 27.
Fourteen Hen Drowned. By the flooding of a caisson at Louis-ille, fourteen men lost their lives. Willie Wallace Liberated. Willie Wallace, the noted outlaw of Harris County, was rescued from jail in Hamilton a few mornings ago, by a large number of masked men, Wallace was the head of the band which terrorized the negroes last summer. Of one murder he is known to be personally guilty, while many others are ascribed to him.
Alabama Bonds. Alabama bonds to the amount of were recently marketed in New York at 110 1-10. They are fours, ar.d thu funds realized will be used to re.U'w sensational killing on the evening of the 7th, a stranger named Luyton being killed by the attorney, James L. Sheetz, No cause was known for the affair. Stockmen met at Topeka, on the 8th and passed resolutions denouncing the alleged Big Four dressed beef combine.
The Western Union building at St Louis was destroyed by fire recently. The cause was said to be crossed electric light wires. Five miners were entombed by cave in at the Victory coal mines, Trinidad, on the 8th, with but small hopes of their recovery alive. Acting upon hints received from Germany, the Czar has instituted in quiry to the end of ascertaining the truth In regard to the recent shooting of exiles in Siberia. He has just learned the details of the affair and ordered the culprits tried immediately.
Soldiers were on duty in Berne, Switzerland, to prevent the riot threatened by the striking printers of that city. An engine and tender were thrown from the track at Finchtown, the other night and a clerk was killed while three or four other men were injured. The lead trust certificate holders have been called to meet in New York February 5. It is said that no dividends will be declared. The roof of one of the rooms in the Boyd coal mine at Knob Noster, caved in and caught three men, Jeff Allen, Roan Blum and Charles Izen hart, crushing them severely, though their wounds are not necessarily ratal Influenza has demoralized the Missouri penitentiary.
The Patoka river at Jasper, has been on a rampage. In a street duel at Heflin, Dr. Bell, a prominent citizen, was killed and City Marshal Senton dangerously wounded. The steamer Iowa, from Boston to Liverpool, lost 919 out of 625 head of cattle owing to stormy weather. It is announced as a positive fact that tho American Association has de cided to play a club in Brooklyn, and that it does not care whether the move causes a further disruption in the baseball world or not President HuGniTT.of the Chicago Northwestern railroad, has issued a public notice, claiming on behalf of his company the "mile square on the Sioux reservation at Pierre, S.
over which there has been so much trouble lately. Dr. S. T. leading physician of Union City, committed sui cide by shooting himself through the head.
He had been sunermg irom in fluenza. Wind recently blew down the walls of the new Presbyterian Church on Throon avenue, Brooklyn. N. x. A small house adjoining was crushed, two of the inmates being killed and quite a number wounded.
Fourteen laborers lost ineir lives at Louisville, on the evening of the 9th by the river flooding a caisson which was being sunk for the Jener- son vine bridge. The grand jury has returned four teen bills of indictment against Davis P. Hadden, president of the taxing dis trict of Memphis, and C. Chullen. secretary, charging them the with embezzlement and larceny of $10,770 of the fines and forfeitures collected in the police court from Jan uary, 1886, to October, 1889.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. The trial of A. H. Livingston for killing Henry Summers at WestPlalns, April 25 last, resulted in an ac quittal on the ground of self defense, Special dispatches report inatmany farms in Southern Illinois are almost submerged with water, the result of a long-continued rainfall, inousands ol bushels of corn in that part of the State remain ungathered. By the explosion of a boiler the brass foundry at Cuero, two men were killed and another seriously wounded.
A boiler exploded in the basem*nt of the Morris Printing Company, Chicago, recently. The front of the build ing was blown out and many of the em ployes were injured, but no one was killed. The damage was So.ow. Hobbs, Glidden building materials, Boston, have assigned with $150,000 liabilities and large assets. Thorston Nordenfeldt, civil en-cineer of London, manager of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Gun Company, has failed with $250,000 liabilities.
It is semi-ofBcially stated that Lord Salisbury regards the reply of Senhor Gomes to the last British note, relative to the Anglo-Portuguese dispute con cerning territory in East Africa, as affording the basis for an amicable set tlement of the trouble. Judge Shepard, of the Chicago Superior Court has made perpetual the injunction prohibiting the West Side Cable Company from using State street in that city. Jane Speers, an old woman of Toronto, Ont, who lived alone, was killed bv thieves recently. Twenty-niAe Germans at Walt-ham, were recently suffering from tnchnosis, caused by eating raw pork. A boy has died.
A cablegram from Zanzibar an nounces that Bwanaheri has captured Major Wissmann's principal and two other officers. Details were lacKing, but it was feared the Germans had met with another serious reverse in Africa. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended January 9 num bered 373. Last year they numbered 381. Dr.
Doellinger, the head of the "Old Catholic" movement in Southern Germany and one of the famous oppo nents of Papal infallibuitycis. dead He was taken wita influenza. Tub annual reunion of the Brown University Club was held at New York the 10th. in Attorneys rile Motion For New Trtal-A Loos List of Error Al leged. Chicago.
Jan. 11. Late yesterday afternoon Attorneys Wing, Donahoe and Forrest Wed a petition for a new trial In the cases of Coughlin, Martin Burke, P. O'Sullivan aud John Kunze, convicted of the murder of Dr. Cronin, accordance with the order of Judge McConnell, before whom the arguments will be made Monday.
The petition assigns thirty-nine cases of error in the rulings of Judge McConnell during the case. They embrace every point contested by the attorneys for the- defense and range from an objection to the court's overruling the motion to quash the indictments up to the assertion that the defense has, since the trial, discovered new evidence which entitles them to a new trial. The first error alleged is that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment made in behalf of each of the defendants. The denial of Coughlin's motion for a separate trial is made the basis of four of the alleged errors, there being a separate count for each of the defendants. The refusal of the court to permit the defense to show that Messrs.
Mills, Ingram and limes of the prosecution were engaged by private parties who were actuated by personal motives and the court's al lowing these three lawyers to assist in the prosecution are said to be errors, Mr. Hines is made a subject of a spe cial count, he being said to have been moved by a spirit of hostility toward the defendants and not fit to act as prosecuting attorney. The overruling of the challenge for cause preferred by defendants to a long list of veniremen, whose names are given in the motion, is alleged to be an error, bide re marks made by the State's attorney while examining jurors are charged to have been improper. Judge Longe- necker's opening statement to the jury is cited as an error and characterized as improper remarks of counsel for the State, which excited the passions and prejudices of the jurors against the defendants. It is charged as an error that the prosecution was permitted to introduce as evidence and exhibit to the jury the clothing, instruments and hair of Dr.
Cronin, the false teeth, th trunk and all the material evidence the case. The introduction of Dr. Cronin's knives after the State had closed its case is said to have been ac error. Objection is made to a numbei of the instructions given to the jury bj the court The verdict is pronounced as contrary to law and justified by evidenatnd finaWs4M4jr-'" eTreferidunffaiid eacii of tneiu have discoveredevidence which entitles them to a new tnial." THE BAsem*nT BOILER. It Blows Oat a Shop Front aud Injures Hany Persons.
Chicago, Jan. 11. Shortly aftei four o'clock yesterday afternoon the boiler in the basem*nt of the John Morris Stationery Pi inting Company, 118. to 120 Monroe street, exploded, causing $20,000 damage but no loss of life, though several of the small army of employes were seriously and many slightly hurt, ine entire front of the building, as pertains to glass and doorways, was blown into the street and great pier es of heavy plate glass were strewn for half a block around, be great was the force of the explosion that pieces of glassware stuck into the woodwork of buildings across the street. A part of three floors in the rear of the Morris building were torn up and splin tered.
The cause of the explosion is not definitely known. Thi following is a list of the most seriously injured: Charles Wilson, engineer, badly cut about face and head, hands badly scalded; Miss Harrall, cut about face and head; W. J. Hartman, Herman Swanson and J. H.
Smith, badly cut by flying ass; George Burgess, team ster, blown across the street into an open, doorway, receiving a bad wound on the head. Senator Gillette. Topeka, Jan. 11. Not satis fied with denying that he received money from the Topeka Insur ance Company or that any ne son was authorized to receive it on his account benator kriiiette nas procured of F.
P. Fuller, ex-secretary of the company, an affidavit in which the ex-secretary takes back every thing he swore to in court concerning the Sen ator except that he did pay $550 to a man whom he supposed represented the Senator, but did not see the money paid to the Senator and has no personal knowl edge that any portion of the money ever reached him. Kansas Board of Agriculture. Topeka, Jan. 11.
The State Board of Agriculture adjourned last evening, xne louowmg ouicers were elected: President, lion. A. w. bmitn, McPherson, re-elected; vice-president, Hon. Edwin Snyder, of Oskaloosa; secretary, Hon.
Martin Mohler, of Topeka, re-elected; treasurer, Hon. Samuel T. Howe, of Topeka. Directors: John Kelley, of Sedgwick County; J. M.
Potter, of Marion County; Joshua Wheeler, of Atchison County; J. F. Findley, of Ford County, and O. E. Morse, of Linn County.
President Manvel on Oklahoma. Guthrie, Jan. 11. President Manvel and Vice-President Robinson, of the Santa Fe railway, stopped their special train at Guthrie yesterday and made a thorough examination of the city. In an interview with a reporter each expressed himself as surprised at the progress the city has made and President Man- vel said that there was no question of a good future for so good a'; country as this, while the large number of claim houses which were seen in all direc tions mBt a larse and pushing popu one the of were ern W.
to a by was and a of of Gleaned by Telegraph and Mail. CONGRESS. TiitnE was less that a quorum present when the Benatemet after the holiday recess, on the 8th. Many resolutions and several bills were presented, and a bill punned to Increase to $72 per month pension of certain soldiers and sailors who are totally helpless from Injuries received or disease contracted tlurlnir the war. Alter an executive session the Senate In the House a resolution was adopted authorizing; the Speaker to administer the oath of office to Mr.
Randall at his residence, and alsoauthorlzlng Messrs. Wllbor.of Now York, and Whltthorn, of Tennessee, to take the oath of ollice before the proper oncers. Then followed the introduction of a flood of bills, and Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, reported back the bill for townsite entries io Oklahoma and the Houso ndjourned. In the Senate on tho 7th Senator Voorhoes offered a resolution tH regard to reports that the United States Attorney at Indianapolis had Interfered In hi ofllciiil rapacity to prevent tho arrest of W.
W. Dudley on the charge of violating the election laws and calling upon the Attorney-General to report what Instructions had been Issued tote district attorney on the subject. The resolution went over. After an executive session tho Sennto After the transaction of routine business in the House the Speaker unnounced that In accordance with authority vested In him by resolution he had administered the oath of office to Hon. S.
J. Riindull. A motion that tho House resolve Itself into Committee of the Whole for consideration of the District ol Columbia bill was opposed by the Democrats on the ground that no rules had yet been adopted. A long debate followed, but the motion finally prevailed by a party vote and the House went into committed but soon adjourned. Tub Senate did no business on the 8th.
Senator Voorhees made a lung speech In sup port of bis resolution for an Inquiry as to why the United States district attorney at Indianapolis had refused to prosecute W. w. Dudley on tho charge of violating the laws of Indiana during the late election. Senator Edmunds replied to Sir. Voorhees and on his motion the resolution was amended and adopted.
after meeting the Houso went Into Committee of the Whole on tho District of Columbia bill, which finally passed. Several bills were introduced and the House ndlonrned until Fririav. When the Senate met on the tth a commu nication was received from the Attorney General, in answer to a resolution by the Senate, stating that no instructions whatever had been given to the district attorney at Indianapolis regarding the arrest of W. W. Dudley for violating the laws at the recent election.
Aftor disposing of routine work the Senate in executive session confirmed a great many nominations and then adjourned until Monday The House was not in session. The Senate was not in session on the 10th. and soon after the House met the death of Hon. W. D.
Kelley, of Pennsylvania (the lather of the House), was announced and appropriate resolutions adopted. A committee of nine members was appointed to attend tho luneral, and the House adjourned. PERSONAL and political. It was reported at Lisbon on the 6th that Lord Salisbury had sent a sharp note to demanding satisfac tion for Major Serpa Pinto's attack on African tribes under British protection. The municipal election at Jackson, at which troubles were expected, passed off quietly.
Judge Brewer was sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court at Washington on the 6th. Governor Brackett's message to the Legislature of Massachusettsspeaks in the highest terms of the workings of the Australian system of voting. Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, was reported quite sick at Scranton, on the 7th, and not fit to stand arrest at Callaghan's instigation. Empress Augusta, the aged widow )f Emperor William I. of Germany, died onthe7th.
She had been attacked with the prevailing iufluonza. A dispatch from Canandaigua, N. states that Hon. Elbridge Gerry Lapham, ex-United States Senator, die I at his home on the 8th. He 3erved in tho United States Senate with Roscoe Conkling.
An official decree promulgated in Brazil proclaims the separation of Church and State; guarantees religious liberty and equality and continues the life stipends granted under the monarchy. New- York Democrats celebrated Jackson's day at the Hoffman House on the 8th- Letters of regret were read from ex-President Cleveland, Governor Hill and others. The Senate committee has decided to favorably recommend the nomina tion of Indian Commissioner Morgan, notwithstanding the charges brought by Father Stephan. Governor Stone was inaugurated at Jackson, on the 9th. Both branches of the Legislature were organized.
January 22 was fixed for joint memorial services in memory of the late Jefferson Davis. Judge William D. Kelley, the well known Congressman aud father of the House of Representatives, died at Washington on the 9th. He was born in Philadelphia April 12, 1814. The Ohio Democratic caucus chose Calvin S.
Brice as its nominee for the United States Senate. The infant King Alfonso of Spain was dangerously sick on the 9th. MISCELLANEOUS. A rear end collision in the suburbs of Poplar Bluffs, cattsed the wreck tng of an engine, a caboose and seven loaded cars. Two persons were injured.
Three men were crushed to death by the sudden collapse of the north wall of an old railroad machine shop at Long Island City, N. recently. The city building of Lewiston, was destroyed by fire recently. The loss was $300,000. The property destroyed included a valuable library.
Officials in the hydrographic office at Washington place no credence in the report that the Gulf stream has changed its course. The Lick observatory expedition to South America obtained some good views of the recent eclipse of the sun. General Schofield has fixed the hours for meals in the army. Twenty minutes each are given for breakfast and supper and thirty for dinner. Joseph Williams and.
William Rosas, at recently cleaned a phosphate tank and were killed byj Mlatkm of sulphuric acid fumes. Governor Bajal, of Southern Senegal, Africa, has been made a prisoner by the King of Dahomey. The Lake Carriers' Association at its annual meeting in Buffalo declared against the proposed bridging of the Detroit river. The mine owners of the Charlerol district of Belgium have declined to acc pt the compromise offered by the striking miners. It is reported that the Czar's doctors have observed in him symptoms of cutaneous poisoning after wearing his German uniforms.
There is a direct conflict between the Province of Quebec and the Dominion of Canada as to the right to lease the salmon fisheries. The Frenca Government is preparing-to negotiate a loan of 100,000,000 francs for the purpose of constructing railroads in the provinces. The burning of the Exchange building at Brussels, following so soon after the destruction of the palace at Laeken, has been credited to Anarchists. The New York World through a communication has started an attempt to have the New York Life Insurance Company's methods looked into. The citizens of El Paso, have prepared a petition to Congress provide by treaty for the abolition of the free zone between the United State? and Mexico.
Miss Elizabeth Drexel, eldest daughter of the late Francis A. Drexel, has been married to Walter G. Smith, a lawyer of Philadelphia. Her sister Kate lately entered a convent. General Louis Ladtjc, once aide de camp to limperor lxmis JNapoleon and French Ambassador to Africa, died near Chenoa, 111., the other day, on a farm he bought after the Franco Prussian war.
The Irish National League of Now York recently considered the suit by Captain O'SheaagainstParnell. Members of the league were unanimous in denouncing the action as a scheme to injure Parnell. Secretary "Windom has requested all collectors of customs and custodians of public buildings to report what portion of the files and papers in their charge can be disposed of or destroyed without detriment to the public inter ests. Regarding the receiver's report on the condition of the New York Star which was widely circulated, it is only just to state that it rererred entirely to the paper under the late William Dor-sheimer's management. The Star at present is managed by experienced and capable men, pays its bills and is in good shape every way.
Mr. Phelps, the United States Min ister, made an address before the Anglo-American Society at Berlin, in which he praised the patient pursuit of duty that characterized the German race in every rank from Prince to peasant, aud dwelt upon this trait as revealed by the Empress Augusta in the last audience he had with her. John M. Thurston, president of the Republican League of the United States, has issued a call to the Republican State Leagues of the United States and delegates of the National convention, directing that the third annual convention of the Republican League of the United States convene in the city of Nashville, on March 4, 1890.. The Spanish papers generally comment on the arguments of Senator Call with reference to Cuba in exhibiting the absurd ness of his resolution and accompanying remarks.
The debt of Cuba, they assert, is not mainly in the hands of Germans, as Mr. Call asserts, but is chiefly held by Spaniards and Frenchmen. Spain is not and can not be influenced by utilitarianism and will never sell Cuba. Steps towards forming the naval militia of Massachusetts were taken at Boston recently, 100 members being enrolled The body will act as a naval reserve, and ia formed under the authority of the Legislature. Four companies will be located at Boston, and frequent drills witti heavy and light arms will be held oh land and sea.
The matter is pushed by the Dorchester Yacht Club, and many of the most prominent men in Boston are interested. Secretary Proctor has laid before the President all the information he las been able to seenre relative to the condition of Geronimo and his band of Apache Indians now confined in Mt. Vernon barracks, Ala. The general text of his information is that the Indians are in a bad state of health and are dying off fast, owing to confinement; also that some of them do not deserve punishment, as they were always friendly with the whites, and a number of them were faithful scouts for General Crook in the Indian companies. It is expected that the President will submit a message to Congress on the subject and suggest that the Indians be liberated and allowed to try civilization in come more healthy climate.
The Senate Committee on Public Buildings has decided to report a bill for -of uf ground in Washington and the erection of a Supreme Court building; also a bill for a statue of Columbus. BRIDGEPORT, ALABAMA. Wantsp Sow loys and lumber of ml kinds delvered either on M. 0. Rail, road or banks of the Tennessee river.
W. A. COFFEY. E. C.
BOSS, Cashl.f President. JACKSON COUNTY Transacts a general banking business. Loans money 00 personal securitit*. Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Bank open 0 to 12 a.m., 1:00 to i p.m.
City Drug Store, DR. J. It. KOSSON, Prop. Paints, Oils, Tarnishes, Stationery, Books, Novels and Druggists' Sundries.
North Side Public Square, SCOTTSBORO, ALABAMA A. ROSSOH, UNDERTAKES SCOTTSBORO, ALABAMA. PLAIN COFFINS Fine Burial Caskets, Trimmings. 1 Always on Hand. Orders from a distance will recelvi prompt attention.
Place, North Side Public Square. N.W. VAUGHT, -DEALER IN- COFFINS STEVENSON, ALA. I hereby announce to the public that I wit continue tne uoitin uusiuess as neretotore. Haiti and l)hnUom ial Cases.
Trim mings, lite, kept ou Orders from a distance will receive prompt attention. 2ST. AV. VAUGHT THE SHORT THROUGH CAR LIKE EAST AND WEST IS THE With four dally through trains. rourPulV nan Sleepers, making all important connec tions.
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teave Scott sboi-o. irrive Norfolk irrive 7:20 p.m D.m 112:0 8:15 a. tn Connections for Atlanta and Florida points the I'niea Depot. Chttano '-a- w'tti jtrougn Meepere, louicanooga anu jacason-fill. (Vest Bound via Memphis.
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