Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
three elergy repentance and the hope of pardon. He met his fate with firmness. A novel feature of the occasion was that tickets of admission to the jall issued the by the Sheriff were eagerly sought for, being peddled around at from 50 cents to & apiece, The crime for which he tumn. was indicted was committed last auThe private banking firm of Moses Bros., at Montgomery, Ala., closed their doors last Monday. The failure is due to stringency of money market; they say their assets will amount to more than their liabilities; the liabilities said to be about a half million dollars. are They did a savings bank business and have the many scores of depositors among poorer people, The firm stands high all for integrity, and have given their property, of every description. up The distressing feature of the failure was the loss of the savings of the poor. Nearly every laboring man, clerk and sewing woman in Montgomery who was trying tosave money had deposits in the suspended bank. Among the deposit are hundreds of negroes, who have deposits from $5 or $10 to $1,500 or $2,000 each. Among those who stood gasing wistfully at the closed doors was a negro washwoman. Within the walls of the splendid building was $200 of her earnings, which she had been years in accumulating, and tears coursed down her dark cheeks as she besought every white man she knew, who passed, for assistance in securing her money from the bank. The firm paid depositors 6 per cent. interest, and hundreds of widows had deposited the Insurance money collected on their husbands' death. One woman, recently bereaved, had flected $4,000 life insurance money within the past ten days, and, putting with it two or three thousand she had saved bosides, she deposited the entire sum with Moses Bros. She was among the anxious growd this morning. In the streets stood a poor old negro woman, who runs a huckster stand in the City Market, crying like a child, She held in her hand pass- book, showing her deposits. She said she had been saving up her money to keep her in old age, and had accumulated $700, which went in the crash. One of the ludicrous in cidents was a negro woman who ran up to the crowd, and when she found for sure that the bank had failed she threw herself down on dry goods box and cried out, "Give me back my money; fore God, I had a 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 and observant Northern man, who was in the city, said "I am surprised at the quietness of the people who have deposits in the bank. If a similar failure had taken place in the North, with the same class of depositors, the crowd down." would have tried to tear the building John Bardsley, ex-City Treasuer Philadelphia, was sentenced this week of to fifteen years hard work and solitary continement in the penitentiary, for misappropriation 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, the eldest son of the Right Hon. Wm E. Gladstone, died in London on the 4th, aged 51 years. Ex Vice President of the United States, Hannibal Hamlin died very sud denly on the evening of the fourth at Bangor, Maine, in the rooms of the Tarrotine Club. He was elected Vice President Lincoln. on the ticket with Mr. At Dubuque, Iowa., a man opened n saloon at Elkadar, the county seat Claytown County, Ia. Realta E. Price of the who has been prominent in enforcing of prohibition law there, and his is commanded the man to close his saloon son at On his refusing, Price secured the As Marshal's aid and closed the saloon City Price and his son were going home across the bridge after dark a mob or forced tacked and out them badly. They were at ip to fly into an adjoining building on and barricaded the doors to keep the he nob from executing their threat o ip lynching them. The latest reports from in Elkadar are that Price and his son are a critical condition. d et A cyclone struck the little city O y Baton Rouge, La., last Monday, unroof ing fifty houses and the penitentiary m and killing ten convicts and injuring thirty-five others. of A son of Rev. Josiah Carneal, y Trenton, while Ky., got in front of the mowe near in the team was resting and th st workmen saving hay, and when the 10 machine was again started he was a amputation over and one foot became was SO badly cut tha rur hand. also had three fingers necessary. cut from He to The boy is about 11 years of age one hStonewall Jackson Bivouac of Ex Confederate soldiers will hold a en union at McKenzie July 21. Every ex re as Confederate soldier is invited and st general invitation is extended to oth a ers. Prominent speakers will delive ad appropriate addresses. Ex-Confeder nt ate songs will be sung by thirteen young ladies representing the States st the Confederacy. There will be an o abundance for every one to eat. co de It develops that Robert Knight, Pres d ident of the National Loan and Invest vo ment Company, of Middlesborough CO Ky., with :,000,000 capital, IS an conviet. He has disappeared, and Cin ex cinnati, Chicago and New York bank suffered through him, as did also man Middlesborough people. A reward offered for his capturo. It is reported that the East Tennes ik see, Virginia and Georgia Company has en purchased the Birmingham, Sheflield and West Tennessee River railroad for th Point Terminal Company, while another report says the Louisville ts bid Nashville wants the road and, will out it. the East Tennessee's offers. es St. Louis is anxious to have the nex Democratic the National Convention, nt Mercantile Exchanges are makin an arrangements claims. to push that city The second trial of ex-State I Noland, of Missouri, for embezziln Treasure in about $88,000 of the State's funds, is progress at Jefferson City,
