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The Georgia Enterprise, *m.
VOLUME XXIV.
L present estimated population #f
United States is 64,000,000,
kHum has driven out British firms in
v ire fencing business in South Amer
he New York Tribune sarcastically
rests the “Elixir of Life” as a substi
for capital punishment.
hris is following the example of Lon
[ ami is about to build an under¬
bid railway line. The railway will
even miles long, although only four
L of it will be completely under
hud; the rest will go through cuttings
I by viaducts.
be ocean freight of this country fox
last fiscal year amounted to $200,
ROO. and foreign ships carried all but
1000,000 of it. The latter, carried
lliips of our own, was mostly the coasting Cin
“Fine thing!” remarks
Lati Enquirer.
It is stated that one of the Chicago
feted trains recently attained a speed of
L six miles an hour and maintained it
| a long distance. A writer in The
Vstij Age predicts that the present
Load time of twenty-four hours he¬
lm Chicago and New York will'be ro¬
ped to ten hours.
in England armorial bearings have
U been taxed, and now M. Borie, a
Inch Boulangist deputy, has introduced
fill for taxing not only coats-or-arms
l titles of nobility likewise. His no¬
li is to apply the money thus obtained
Kiroviffing pensions foraged and infirm
tkailtural laborers.
professor of the University of Cali
asserts that he has discovered a
of tanning leather which will
i. almost iudestructible. As the
of the United States expend $300,
yearly on shoe leather, this is
interesting news; but it is doubt
if boot and shoe men will rejoice to
that the product of their factories
he made to wear indefinitely.
friie hotel men of New York city
.i i tlair a—o' iiHion in 1887, largely
theniM-Ivi ■ lo an sneak thieves
“dead beat guests." President W.
itarrisun. of tin- assm-intio.i, tays that
year hefoie it was funned tin- pro
of the Aster House had to pay
fourteen gold watches stolen
pm guests, But since the or
piiation bt suffered oi the hotel men they have
any raids from sneak thieves
pi I Mr. Garrison last year did not have
Jiay fo a single gold watch.
The great problem in Egypt for a score
years has been to meet the financial
of tho Government. The
York Independent appears to think
“the problem at last seems capable of
Annual deficits no longer ap
Under the close scrutiny and di
of English officials, the Govern
is paying its way and redeeming it
ots. Another effect of English con
0 ', at the same time one of the
of present prosperity, is the im
of the irrigation system. To
tr avc'!er this is especially noticeable.
it he sees the wheat fields ever
and the desert ever receding.
peace on the borders and plenty
( 1 . S the Nile, Egypt is bound to recover
r credit.”
r Qe °f the members of tbe Finance
piraitiee of the World’s Fair and a man
■"■eminence in New York business eir
P said: “Although I have been ac
dj- interested iu business her* for a
many years, I never saw Jay Gould
y We until the other day. I was sur-
1- ‘ u tbe fi rst place, to sec that he
b"ay both in heard and hair; and,
he second place, that his health
Dld d °Ueate to a pronounced degree,
".ut surprised me more than any
fe else was the vary small part that
P' a yed in the operations of
Loanee Committee. It was not only
l" did aot act in any capacity at all,
F was not consulted in the least, and
Um ' " as n °t so much mentioned
li¬ as
nu-a who took tho management of
waacesof the fair in charge.”
e “.eign elements in the population
! ‘ v bn ”End cities and towns are
su rapidly that the native class
! Jsiu " bs preponderance, and, in
1,1 ’ inces is even being
, i over
(d - An article in the Forum
^ 10a s »me striking The fig Ures of this foreign ele
’ French-Canadian
18 noticeably large, and
ts one peculiar pre
t it problem in the fact
< >nUS ’ thU Frentb ban
I M and tenaciously t ffRagc with
hl "! adheres to it in tiie
r schools. A recent school re-
80 itwol > n Manchester, N H., states that
Wn q red and fifty-eight French
tldrcu l simplest^ e
8d «* est Enghsh r I'" words. Cent ' could The
tench C C ol "": ^
"tonumber island are
Manchester half a million souls.
0Wel l, and Nasb «", N. H., and
1 the Mass., the y constitute one-third
ave Population. In Fall River they
‘Creased in thirty years from
toil f to 20,000 one
- persons.
Vforeignnati^iv^ This is the
Um ° nS ^ lead
‘
Italian,
Esi milati. ' M S and upon the
W comm educati m g powers of the
onwealth.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS IEOH EYLRYWHEUS—ACCIDENTS, STBIKKl,
FIRES, AND HAI’i'ESINOS OF INTEREST.
iu Ex-Surgeon Philadelphia General Joseph Beale died
Tuesday.
An extensive strike of dock laborers
has begun at Rotterdam, Ilollaud.
Landore steel works, at Swansea, Eng¬
land, have been destroyed by tire.
The Temple of lleaven, at Pekin, con¬
taining the dragou thioue, has been de¬
stroyed by tire.
Wilkie Collins, novelist, who has been
seriously ill for some time, died at Lon¬
don, England, on Monday.
The man-of-war, Ossipec, sailed from
Boston, Monday, for ilayti with Fred¬
erick Douglass, the new minister.
The Baltimore Sugar Refining compa¬
ny has been incorporated. Capital stock
$1,000,000—10,000 shares at $100 each.
The reports from the rhino wine grow¬
this ing districts year’s vintage of Germany, will be the indicate best of that the
century.
A boiler explosion occurred at a s tw
inill in Berlin, Pa., Wednesday, and
John Pritz, Edward Pritz, Oliver Boss,
David Boss and David Baker were
killed.
The New York Daily Graphic, which
has for some time past maintained a
fluttering existence under financial diffi¬
culties, has ceased to exist, Tbe last
number was issued Tuesday.
r Jhe state inspector of New Jersey, on
Monday, killed fifteen head of cattle at
Fleischmunn’s distillery, at Millstone,
Somerset county, and twelve head on
adjoining farm?, that were afflicted with
pleuro-pneumooia.
A dispatch from Marion, Ind., says
that the prevalence of dipththeria there
has caused such alarm that the public
schools were ordered to be closed Tues¬
deaths day for one week, About a dozen
have occurred.
A cable dispatch from London says:
The stevedores employed ou the East In¬
dia dock have again gone ou strike.
They claim that the companies arc not
engaging the old hands as they agreed to
do when the strike was settled.
The police commissioners of Kansas
City have ordered tbe chief of police
to suppress the Salvation Army in that
city. Tne order was issued on account
of the numerous cases of peace disturb¬
ance at the army’s headquarters.
Fire at Buckley & Douglass’ mill at
Manitee, Mich., Wednesday afternoon,
destroyed over a million feet of lumber
and three hundred feet of docks and
tramways. The loss is estimated at
$125,000.
Ou Thursday morning flames broke
out in Emery’s big soap factory, at Ivey
Dale, Ohio, aud soon got beyond the
contiol of the department. The large
buildings were completely gutted, and
it is estimated that the loss will be in
the neighborhood of $125,000.
The mammoth publishing house of
Belford, Clark & Co., of Chicago, which
has the largest establishment in the city
and branches in New York and San
Francisco, went to the wall Monday, The and
Was taken in charge by the sherifi.
assets of the firm are supposed to be
about $400,000. $350,000, aud liabilities about
Early Thursday morning, La 11 in &
Rand’s powder mills, at Crcsson, three
miles below Fottsville, Pa., blew up.
The explosion was terrifiic in force.
Three workmen were killed and a num¬
ber of other workmen injured. Nearly
all the window glass in Cresson was
shattered, and the concussion was sensi¬
bly felt in Pottsville.
In tlic case of Henry F. Barber, selling of St.
Paul, Minn., arrested for meat
from ca'.tle not inspected on hoof, Judge
Nelson, on Monday, rendered a decision
that the law is unconstitutional, as it in¬
terferes with commerce between the
stales. The prisoner was ordered dis¬
charged. Notice of appeal to the su¬
preme court was given.
Lewis Bros. & Co., dry goods com¬
mission merchants of 88 Worth street,
Now York, whose failure wasaunounced
•ome time ago, have just made their
formal offer to their creditors to com¬
promise at 57 i cents on the dollar.
Creditors to whom the settlement has
been cresentcd have all expressed a will¬
ingness to accept the terms and have the
firm resume business.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that there remains in
the treasury but $837,821 standard silver
dollars that are not represented of by silver total
certificates in circulation out a
coinage of standard silver dollars to date
of $339,298,650. This balance is about
$10,000,000 less than it was a month ago,
and about 485,000,000 less than it was
July 1st, 1880.
At a meeting of tbe directors of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad com¬
pany at New York on Monday, it was
resolved to issue thirteen million dollars
of new stock, the proceeds to be used to
retire $9,402,000 collateral trust six per
cent, bonds at 110. A special meeting
of stockholders will be held in Louisville
to ratify the action of tbe directors ou
October 1st.
A story reached London from St. Pe¬
tersburg, Russia, which recounts tlpit
just previously to the czar’s departure for
Copenhagen, a chest of dynamite station ex¬
ploded at Pnterhof station. The
was badly wrecked and a railway signal
man killed. It is fully believed it w as
the intention to have the explosion take
place when the czar passed through the
station on his way to the train, but
through some miscalculation, it occurred
before the time of his majesty's de¬
parture.
The official report of the trial board of
the new ciuiser Charleston, was received
at the navy department from San Fran¬
cisco on Monday. Reports show tho
maximum horse power developed to he
6,816, while the average deficiency power was under con¬
siderably the less, making a calling for
about contract requirement In other
$20,000 penalty. the required re¬
spects, the vessel was up to
standard. No action has as yJt vessel been
taken upon the report, but tbe
will undoubtedly be accepted.
At the Carnegie and Edgar Thomson
steel works at Braddock, l’a,, Thursday
night, Captain W. P. Jones,general and man¬
ager of the immense steel works, a
number of workmen, were horribly and
perhaps fatally burned. One of the blast
furnaces gave way at tbe bottom, and
tons of molten metal, like water, escaped Captain
from a reservoir and ran out.
Jones, the with a number of men, were the break neat
base of the furnaco when
occurred.
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER EE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /” —Jrefers.«.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1880.
A FATAL WRECK.
AS ENGINE CRASHES INTO A PASSENGER
COACH—FIVE PEOPLE KILLED.
A frightful disaster to a suburban pas
senger train occurred Tuesday night iu
the southern cutskir.s of Chicago, Ill.
The Chicago, Ruck Island & Pacific
train, I-land, which left the main depot for Hue
was crashed into by a fiei.bt
train at the Lake Shore a-al Pan Handle
crossings Englewood. near Eighty-seventh street,
The passenger tram was at
a standstill, one coach projecting over
the crossing. Into this coach, contain¬
ing about sixty persons, plunged tbe
freight train. The wreck of the passen¬
ger coach was instant and complete.
When a thorough st arch through the
debris bad been made, it was found that
three women and two mtn had been
killed outright, aud a third man was iu
a dying condition. injured. Three The other five persons dead
were seriously
were conveyed to Englewood morgue.
TheJistofthe killed is: AIis. Kelly,
J. McKinzic, Fred Hucbner, Mrs. Brown
and an unknown woman, all of Washing¬
ton Heights. Those most seriously in¬
jured are: Gus Mulcany, fatally hurt:
•Miss A. K. Steele. Anton Shubcrg aud
Parker Il.trdeu. The wreck appears tc
be entirely uue to the almost criminal
carelessness of the engineer of the height
train, who disregarded signals, aud is
supposed to have been drunk, at the time.
WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED.
A SCHEME FOR THE RESTORATION OF ARID
LANDS IN THE WEST.
logical Major J. W. Powell, chief of the geo¬
survey, arrived in Chicago
I hursday on his way to Washington.
Major Powell saUl: “We visited North
and South Dakota, Montana, Washing¬
ton vada, Territory, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Ne¬
Texas, California, Arizona, Aew Mexico,
Indian Territory, Kansas, Colo¬
rado, Wyoming and Nebraska, or every
state and territory in which there are
arid lands. We held eighty meetings
and heard over two I undred witnesses.
The arid land that can ha irrigated and
thus made pr< ductive, will include the
larger portion of each state visited, in
all over 100,000,000 acres. The work of
the committee will be the preparation of
a report upon the advisability of con¬
gressional appropriations for surveys in
the arid districts. There is not much
doubt that such appropriation will be
made. I do not believe Congress will
ever take in charge the construction of
the ditches aud reservoirs. Whoever
docs it, when it is done, it will revolu¬
tionize the Wss’.’’
THE STORM IN FLORIDA,
A DISASTROUS STORM VISITS THE LAND OF
FLOWERS—DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
Reports on Tuesday from various lo¬
calities in the state of Florida, indicate
that Monday's storm was Jacksonville, a disastrous one
to property. At West four
or live miles out in iho country from the
city of Jacksonville, three or four houses
were blown down and two churches
wretched from their foundations.
Through the outlying country for many
miles, fallen trees were encountered
everywhere, many of the monster moss
hung oaks, which had withstood the
storms of a hundred years, were pros¬
trated. At Switzerland, Panama, Park,
Scotland, Mayport, New Berlin and sev¬
eral small settlements on St. John’s
river, houses and trees were blown down.
At the Sandhills hospital, made memo¬
rable by the epidemic wrecked of and 1888, the the whole main
building was of ruin.
scene is one
FLOODS IN MEXICO.
A TOWN DESTROYED AND GREAT DAMAGE
DONE TO cnors, ETC.
Advices from different parts of Mexico,
say very heavy storms have been sweep¬
ing over that country since August 15th,
visiting different states at different times.
The latest prevailed along the Pacific
coast, ami reports from Mazutlan and
HanzaniUa, are that the steamers Por
tirio, Diaz and Alata have probably been
wrecked. After five dais’ steady rain in
the state of Vera Cruz, a cyclone p issed
over the town of Chicantepec, add causing
.lent destruction, and to to the ter
ror of the inhabitants, a great land-slide
occurred on the mountain back of the
town, part of which passed directly
through the town. There was no loss of
life, however, as the people had warning
ind sufficient time to escape, but the de¬
duction to crops and loss of cattle was
very gicat.
WANTED FOR A SIDE-SHOW.
A ST. LOUIS XIAN ASKS THE PRIVILEGE OF
EXHIBITING DICK HAWES.
Solicitor Hawkins, of Birmingham,
Ala on Friday, received a letter from
, of St. Louis, asking if
\V. B. Simpson, of exhibit¬
he could obtain the privilege who murdered his
ing Dick Hawes, winter, at the
wife and children last
state fair to be held in Birmingham
next month. Simpson wroto that he
would keep Hawes well guarded, and
return him to the county jail when th •
fair was over. He proposes to make
Ilawcs a side-show' at the fair, charging
admission to see him. He says: “I be
lieve there is money in it, and if you
will let me have the noted prisoner, I
will divide with you.” Solicitor Haw¬
kins declined tlic proposition.
fourteen cents.
A GOOD time FOR FARMERS TO HOLD
their cotton.
The London Tones ;oi respondent that at
Preston says: ‘ There is a prospect
American cotton may yet touch seven
pence a pound, and that a fortnight s
stoppage in October will be secured to
punish the Liverpool ring. Oae hundred
thousand spindles and many thousand
looms are stopped in North nnd Last
Lancashire, amt notices have been given
of more extensive stoppages.
DEARLY bought sport.
participants in a prize fight held FOB
murder in the second degree.
The principal iu the recent fatal prize
fight in Ahcarn’s saloon in St. Louis,
Mo in w hich young Jackson was ktlleu,
will have to pay dearly for their sport.
Charley Daly. Dan Daly, Joseph numbet A.
Murphy, a sporting editor, anda
of others are held as accessories to mur¬
der in the second degree, with which
aoTfessthan Abeam is charged. The punishment pemten- is
ten years in the
tlary for principals and accessories.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
UlOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WUAT IS GOING ON OF
IMI ORTASCB IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Ex-Confederate General D. II. Hill
died iu Charlotte, N. C., on Tuesday.
phis, Every gambling house in Mem¬
Tenn. f was closed Wednesday night
on warrants issued by the judge of the
crimiual court.
A party of gentlemen from Jackson
ville and St. Augusune, Fla., will make
a tour of inspeclioa through the Indian
river country, which rumor says may re
suit in railroad and canal enterprises.
Fifteen mile* of track have been laid
on the Columbus Southern railroad. The
work is being pushed with great rapid.
ty, and trains will be run into Cussetta,
At Harlan, Ky., court-house, Monday
ss-lssw mg it, eight prisoners, by means of a
m
Xxfi— *“ — -
The board of state institutions at Jack
sonville, Fla., on Monday, awarded the
contract for state printing in classes B
and C to the limes- Union] in class A, to
C. W. Dacosta. Since the state printing
has by law beep let out to the lowest
bidder the competition for it has been
very sharp.
One of the largest charters ever granted
grantld to any corporation by the superior in the south, Georgia. was
court of
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association of Atlanta Gn
was incorporated, (leor’da with authority to do
busincu in or anv other state
The 1 be authorized autuomea capital capital stoCK stock is is i->0 * 20 , 000 000 , f
An executive reward of two hundred i
dollars was offered by Governor Taylor,
of North Carolina, for the apprehension i
of J. N. Carter, alias Jim Canhy, wind
stuuds charged with the murder of Wul-j
ter Chatham, in Horiy county. A re¬
ward of one hundred dollars was offered
for John Cox, a negro, who is charged
with having committed murder in Jones
county.
The State Farmers’ alliance of Florida
met at Jacksonville ou Wednesday. The
principal object of the meeting was to
make Jacksonville a wholesale market
for Florida raised cotton, the building of
a cotton warehouse there, and the start¬
ing of fruit and vegetable and canning
factories. Incidental to these is the
building of a cotton factory by Jackson¬
ville capital, a company being already
organized with $10,000 subscribed.
It is reported from Savannah, Ga., that
spirits of turpentine has Buyers dropped oil in
the last few days. are a little
hopeful at the decline, but sellers s"■ ile
and talk of the matter at 50c. October
have sold at 44c and 46c. Just now
there is considerable stock on hand, 12,-
300 casks, 3,000 more than on the same
day last year. The receipts to date are
123,000, which is 17,f00 more than the
receipts during the corresponding period
last year.
M. Bateman, a member of the North
Carolina alliance, has made arrangements
to tie married on the first of October
at the state fair to be held at Raleigh,
dies.od in garments made of cotton bug¬
ging. He took that way of showing Ins
detestation of the jute bagging his trust.
His wedding in public in snow-white
garments will attract a great crowd, and
will be very novel. The governor will
be asked to perform the marriage cere¬
mony, assisted by the chaplain of the
state alliai ee.
At a meeting of the Memphis, Tenn.
Cotton Exchange, held on Tuesday, the
resolutions adopted by the of New twenty-four Orleans
convention fixing a tan*
pounds aud sixteen pounds on
bales covered with jute and
cotton bagging respectively, were
unanimously rejected. It was
recommended that factors in that
market tier in warehouses all cotton
covered bales separately that be from sold jute
covered bales, and it upon
its merits, separate and apart therefrom.
The managers of the Alabama state
fair, to be held near Birmingham, Inst
week sold the bar privileges for $2,300.
Since then an act has been found, passed
by the legislature a.-veral years ago, pro¬
hibiting the sale of liquor Jefferson within three
miles of a coal mine in county,
except in incorporated miles towns. from Birmingham The fair
grounds are three
and within one mile of a coal mine, and,
as the law has never been repealed, no
liquor can lie sold on tbe grounds.
- TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
HIE MACHINERY FAILS, AND AN ELECTRIC
CAR DASHES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN.
An accident occurred Friday morning
on the electric railroad running from
the foot to the top of Mission
Ridge at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The car had nearly reached the top of the
very steep track, when the machinery
failed, aud the car started down the
mountain at great speed. The motor
man tried to stop the car with the brakes,
but failing in this, the conductor shouted
to the passengers to jump from the car.
The car contained fifty people, all of
whom were visitors to the re-union of
the Army of the Cumberland, one half
the party being ladies. Then there was
a scene of wild excitement and the panic
seizing all on board, they began leaping
rapidly down the mountain side. Five
or six persons who remained on
the car were uninjured, as when
the load was partially removed from the
car it stopped before reaching tho foot
of the ridge. Mrs. Mary Adams, of
Casey, Illinois, in jumping from the died. car,
received injuries from which she
Wm. Minford, of Casey, Illinois, iu
jumping from the car, struck in a mass
of barbed wire and was badly cut. About
a dozen others were terribly injured,
and it is feared that some of them wit)
die.
A DRUNKEN DRIVER.
A WAGON CONTAINING A PARTY OF YOUNG
PEOPLE THROWN OVER A PRECIPICE.
A special from Eiic, Pa., says a part)
of thirty young people went out in the
country, on Monday, in a band wagon
for a picnic. under On the their influence return, the of driver, liquor,
being the horses,
drove over a bank, throwing
wagon and party over a precipice forty
feet in height. All were badly injured,
and Patrick Flaherty, of Springfield,and
James Neyland, of Erie, were so badly
crushed internally (hat they cannot live.
Others received painful cuts aud bruises.
The driver, James Lewis, is severely in¬
jured.
TRADE REVIEW.
REPORTED FOR WEEK ENDING SEFTRMBE1
2l8T, BY DUNS A CO., OF HEW YORK.
R. G. Dunn & Co,’a weekly review oi
;;S X ineM^*'encouraging 1111 Stocks
have not ami quite maintained the recent at
vauee, with have relapsed than into dull mss.
sales of less 90,000 shares for
the week, the chief cause Wing the
west, rn railroad wars. The bien sjacul .tion
in breadstuff* and cotton has slight
It lower than the range of prices, with
but moderate transactions. Oil specula
tion is a B h R de stronger, and provision
#te#d „ Reports from cities for the past
Wsideof wet . k correspond York, fairly which wiih clearings
New show au in
crease over last year of about four per
cent in Is the aggregate. and jobbing At Philadelphia, in
money active the dry
trade continues good; grocery
trade improves, “fy exceeding hut w year’s';
w». «*.
is active aud drugs ami chemicals
nent" * At Chicago th. re
large increase in provisions. 1 rade in
,
FT 8 , 8 a '! < * e .. ' , il ' n< ' ae 18
j T u Iie £ ua ’ ? v l, or ‘ , l J k \ a fc ’ t V u H ! , r . V1 / rn ' ? 1
‘ • “ ’
1 exceeds ast yew s. Milwaukee . . reports
constantly improving business with nc
i Hve money. Kansas ci > reports liusi
ness and collections fair, an average sea
£ " j 11 !'] i n Ko u" n* ore u!.Jr 'with' 1 lirosnect' ’a‘ 1 'lor
, .
wtions lection., and auei at ui SituLiug Hit t fe further iorthcr mi im
^1* 8tc ®'. in^coke cogcana 00(1°in'courwdh in coal witn resuirnpUori resumption
of glass works at 6* per cent, higher
wagcg . Southern reports also arc all en
couragmg as to crop propsccts and pres
ent trade. These specimens illustrate the
general tenor of the reports. Great in
dustries appear to be gradually improv
ing in condition. While improvement is
slow in wool manufacture, there is clearly
more active demand at Boston, and sales
of wool there during the week were 3,
■258,000 pounds, including some former
talcs just made public, but a larger
movement, mainly m fine wished fleece,
has been secured by concessions in prices.
In the iron business confusion increases,
because Southern coke number one foun
dry end is offered at $16. .0 for delivery to
of January, v bile anthracite number
one sells at $17 to *18 and higher for
special brands, but consumption is enor
mous and seems about cejuul to the large
production. Large contracts for struc
tural iron in Chicago and St. Louis ele
vated roads have been taken in Eastern
Pennsylvania, and the orders for rails on
the books September 1, were 1,135,000
tons. Copper bus remained dull, and
though 500 tons tin are reported *21 on the
way, spot is still quoted at 37. The
partial failure of potato aud fruit crops,
aud injury to both by recent storms,
cause an advance in prices, and the gen¬
eral averag . u r eommo litie-us now about
one per ce rt. higher than Sept. 1. fresh The
movement of cattle and
beef to England attracts much attention,
exports having been made over 00,000
head of cattle and 40,000,000 pounds of
fresh beef within three months, ending
with August, besides 34,000,000 pounds
cured or canned beef. With the National
Steamship line engaged in transporting this
cattle rather than pa-sengers, move¬
ment seems likely to increase largely.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the past week: Num¬
ber for the United States 177; Canada 31;
total 108, against 193 last week.
A HUGE JOB.
THE PRINTING OP THE TESTIMONY IN COJf
TESTED ELECTION CASES.
The government printing office, at
Washington, D. C,, has just completed
the immense work of printing testimony
in contested election cases, which wii
come up for settlement before tbe fifty
first congreB*. The following are the
titles of cases: Chalmers vs. Morgan,
Mississippi; Langston vs. Venoble, Vir¬
ginia; Waddell vs. Wise, Virginia; Po¬
sey vs. Parrott, Indiana; Miller vs. El¬
iott, 8outh Carolina; Bowen vs. Buchan¬
an, Virginia; Kernaghun vs. Hooker,
Mississippi; Tlireet vs. Clark, Alabama;
Atkinson vs. Pendleton, West Virginia;
McDuffie vs. Turpin, Alabama; Hill vs.
Catch>ngs, Florida; Mississippi; Goodrich vs.
Bullock, Eaton vs. Phelan,
Tennessee: Mudd vs. Coynston, Mary
laud; Featherstone vs. Cate, Arkansas;
McGinnis vs. Anderson, West Virginia;
Smith vs. Jackson, West Virginia. The
total number of pages in tho entire work
is 15,554, which, at 3, Out) tins to the
page (solid brevier), amounts to 46,002,
UOU ems.
A DARING ROBBERY.
A BANK SAFE OPENED BY BURGLARS, WHO
MAKE WAY WI’IU $59,875.
One of the most daring and successful
robberies ever committed in the state, is
reported from Hurley, Wis. $59,895
was taken from a vault in the Iron Ex¬
change bank, of that city, Saturday
night, which was left at the bunk for
safe keeping over night by the United
States i xpress coin piny. The cashier
put the money inside of the iron vault
aud left shortly after 9 o’clock. A light
was left burning in the office, and a few
minutes after 9 o’clock a man was seen
working at the safe, but he bad on the
cashier’s office coat, and nothing was
thought of it by those who* passed the
bank. The cashier returned shortly after
11 o’clock, when he discovered that the
money was missing. No trace of the rob¬
bers lias yet been found. The express
company had n > receipt for the mouey
from the bank officials.
ST. LOUIS IN THE RING,
EFFORTS MADE TO HAVE TIIE WORLDS
FAIR IN THE METROPOLIS OF MISSOURI.
A well attended meeting of prominent
officials of roads centering at St. Louis,
Mo., revealed the fact that great interest
is being taken by them iu the World's
Fair and that active efforts will be made
by them to have it held in that city.
An assessment of $1,000,000 on the rail¬
roads will be promptly subscribed and in
all likelihood that sum will be exceeded
by them. A meeting of newspaper pro¬
prietors also brought out subscriptions
largely in excess of the sum assessed
upon them. The individual subscriptions
of the daily papers are: Globe-Democrat,
$20,000; Republic, $20,000; Post-DU
patch. $15,000; Star, $5,000; Chronicle,
$ 2 , 000 .
THE LEGISLATURE.
MLL8 PASSED RY TiIF. SENATE AND HO USB
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
,
* ^ t0 «- Dabloncg.
I con .'l“ u .y ■_ l u !
| fedgevilTe nur^ toiZe Tf f’°° of bo,lds iot . i
the ImendoTSiarter v'"* ,0
fw“„ ceedVoOffiii t he . LouJ ! * a not " J *° ‘° ttU cx ‘ I
‘ i
suo.-.i," f 'ho purpose of con
,,r ai„ t *!?’ meorporate the town
s „jX ’ o" Urr ! LI1 wlu «?“■“»! ?, h tlt ! eath “> '‘ u pre- ] !
n ,1 ch,m cdlor ln ; ‘ 99 '>ca
Hon.toe,,; ; cultln i ^ f turpeutiw
boxes * s„ in,,;X a - tb r *. bbn
l‘cnri. m, t t L « aB
thi TV,™ 1 tf lc; “
li TUe ' °f*/ Ia P eVI e !°
amei the charur t *
nmCdefr AlanUrso as to
t, '
r.axn ssn i
charter of the Atlantic and N.-rthw. at
<r “™ ilr ° ud company; to incorporate the
scsEntsev: ousiuess, and by publication in public 3
a
gazette, at the places of its residence or
at th<? capitol oi the state, and to fur
i:B h written notice to the railroad com
nnssioners. (This act to apply only t»
the sale or lease of the franchise of the
corporation); to amend section 4269 in
regard to tiling a p .uper affidavit in car-
11 8U I Mrued, ' ls t<> the supreme court;
to meorporate the Chaltanooga and Na
£ ‘° a 1 ' ^ 1 to inc ,r
P° rat0 tbe Georgi i Coininercial Insiiranc -
company; to increase the rights and
l ’?" er 8 of jhe Mirietta and Noith Gcor
; i i railroal. , A resolution lo purchase
- >ou copics of Vun K Index Digest.
To amend section 4057 of the code; to
, m ,. na the act licensing stationary en
gineers in Fulton county; to incorporate
the Enterprise Street Railway company;
t0 repe al an act approved October Uth
l883f f or two weeks’ session of the go
^rior court of Marion county; to amend
, tcm 12 of section 020 of the code- to
RJpoal t!i! . ] aw prohibiting the sale of li
quorg j n S m ithville, Lee county: to
umcn d section 3604 of the code of 1882
regulating the foes of ordinaries; to
smem } section 083 of the code
A bill to prohibit the carrying and
handling of seed cotton in the county of
Meriwether “between sunset in the
evening and sunrise in the morning;”
to prohibit the sale of seed cotton in Mus
cogee county between August 1st and
December 20th; to donate Madison street,
of Dublin, to the Dublin and Empire
roads; association; to incorporate the Southern Trav
elers’ Jo authorize the council
of Lincolnton to issue bonds to raise
funds for building an academy; to regu
ate tbe sale of liyuor iu Wilkes couutv.
A bill to amend the charter of the
tV ay cross Air bine railroad company.
House amendments concurred in: to in¬
corporate the Bank of Dawsonviile; to
prevent stock from running at largo iu
the 531st district oi Clay county; to
amend railroads the act providing for the taxation
of so as to include street rail¬
roads, dummy lines and electric rail¬
roads, among those whose returns are to
be made to the comptroller-general. the To
amend section 534 of code relating
to maimed confederate soldiers.
to provide f»r the calling of cases in
the superior court of 1 [all county;
to prohibit hunting and flailing on the
lands of another in the county of Tel¬
fair ; to require all railroads to deliver
freight transported cn through bills and of
lading; to perfecting provide service for the by time publica¬
mode of
tion; to incorporate the Atlanta and
Alabama Coal ami Iron Railway compa¬
ny; to prohibit putting obstructions iu
the streams in Randolph county; to in
corporate tho Oostauaula and Coosnwnt ie
Railway company; to incorporate the
South-western and Georgia railway; to
change the corporate limits of Warea
boro, in Ware county; to amend the
charter of the city of Augusta; to amend
the act reducing the compensation ol
county officersof Butts county; to amend
the act creating a city court for Floyd
county so as to increase the salary of the
judgeand extend jurisdiction the charter of the
court; to continue in force
of tho Augusta and Summerville railroad
company; to declare all escapes from the
penitentiary negligent, unle;s otherwise
shown; to incorporate the Brunswick,
Athens and North eastern railroad; to
amend an act establishing a board of
county commissioners for Bibb county.
A bill to amend the charier of West
End; to allow the mayor and council ol
the city of Miiledgeville the right tc
elect three assessors; to submit a consti¬
tutional amendment providing caption of that all bills on
first reading only the
shall be read, unless such bill shall be
ordered engrossed; to tax railroads for
county purposes.
A bill to prescribe the process of in¬
dictments aud special make presentments
against corporations; to it penal
for persons in weighing incorporate cotton to use
untested weights; to the
bank of Blakely; to prohibit the sale of
liquor within two miles of Braswell acad¬
emy, the* in Morgan county; and to Mary’s incorporate
Ocean Pond St, Short
Line Railway company; to prohibit the
destruction of game in Colquitt county;
to incorporate Thomasville; to incorpo¬
rate the citizen’s bank, of Eastman; to
incorporate the town of Adel!, in Berrien
county; to belter protect the lands iu
the 785th district, known as the “tick
skillett,” in Schley county, so as to pre¬
vent stock running at large; to make the
10th day of January, Lees birthday, a
public holiday; 10 amend s: etion 5..4 of
the code; to provide effect when liens third and
transfers shall take as against
parties; to amend the charter of the I ra
ders hank, of Atlanta; to change the
Eatonton and Maehcu railroad to the Mid
die Georgia and Atlantic railroad; toes
tablish the office of state bank examiner;
to incorporate the Toccoa banking com
puny, with a capital charter of $ >0,000 to $100,
000; to amend tiie of Colquitt:
to amend the act recently jiassed reduc
in» the number of trustees of the State
university and fixing their compensation
at $4 a day and mileage, so as to cut out
the compensation and leave only actual
expenses to be paid of by Richland, the state; in to Stew- in
corporate the town
art county; to incorporate the Georgia
Investment and Banking company; the board tc
amend the law constituting o!
pharmacy; to prohibit within tho four sale or miles manu- ol
facture of liquer church, iu Wilkes county:
Independence prohibit the sale or manufacture ol
to miles of Pope’s thap
liquor within four
el, in Wilkes; to prohibit wilhin the sale and oi
manufacture of liquor two
two-third miles of Moore’s Grove Baptist
church, in Clarke county.
DARING ROBBERIES.
TRAINS “HELD UP” BY HIGHWAYMEN AT
THE MUZZLE OF REVOLVERS.
«mgc‘ .. ,
fain ^ trai "Md’up Wedne^la,
'" 0,ni,1 S “ robbera at Buckatunna
* .Tv “! ,C * h ? l
' ol,1,e - Jast before the tram le f ? “ uck '
f , T" mou Qted , behlnd u th °
^, ® tral “’ and . ?T blD S <"».
T-' eX ^ ,, engineer and firemen with
their revolvers, and ordered them to pull
out, and to slop at a bridge two milts
hdow Buckatunna, and to price the
l [ ‘ u \ PO t h»t tho express and mail car
should be on the further side of the
^idge brld f^ ^ung from a the trestle rest over of the a deep train, creek. the
V? 16 cn roj f| J >e neer a Wante(J but . ,bo lf .‘ BUnwbcru When they
' -
.cached the place, a third robber ap
^ * hree ra * t,e the
sssrissx made dour and £LZ? dump was -
to open the the
contents of the safe into a canvass sack,
sarn.“s5-"j? 2KtJ^fac tm
a sK;
12,700. Ail this money belonged to the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad company,
Alongside the express car door was a pile
of $70,000 government money en route to
Florida which the robbera failed to no
tico. Alter securing their booty the
train was ordered to pull out at ouce,
which it did, and the robbers disap.
peared. The Mobile & Ohio road oilers
*1.000 reward for the arrest aud convic
turn of the robbers.
STILL ANOTHER.
At a late hour Wednesday 2 . t, r.l
the north bound Santa Fe train * pull
ing out of Crowley, ten miles south of
Fort Worth, Texas, three men boarded
flic train aud two others jumped on tho
locomotive. The two on the engine
placed pistols to tho heads of the engin¬
eer und fireman and told them to stop.
One of the men then got into the express
car and ordered the messenger to show
them the money. He pointed to three
bags of Mexicau silver. Oae of tbe men
ripped open a sack and shoveled the sil¬
ver out of tho door, while the other one
threw out the other sacks. They took
each, two packages said to contain $5,000
but overlooked three or four pack¬
ages for Fort Worth. The engineer was
thou madojp rnoyo on.
AN OKLAHOMA RIOT.
AN ATTEMPT TO HOLD AN ELECTION
SQUELCHED BY UNITED STATES TROOPS.
A special from Oklahoma to tho Kansas
City Times says: “Saturday was one of
the most exciting days in the history of
the city. About six weeks ago a faction
of citizeqs, after failiug to induce the
council to call for a convention for tlic
purpose of framing an amended charter,
funned one themselves and called an
election for the people to vote on it. As
it provided for the immediate ousting of
iho present city government, United
States troops, under authority of General
Merritt, prevented tho election. Jhe
original charter faction called an election
on tlicir charter for Saturday, again
without the consent of the mayor nnd
council. General Merritt again sent or¬
ders to Colonel Snyder to proveLi the
election, aud Captain Stiles, in command
of the troops, carried out these orders at
the point of the bayonet. Tho polls
weie opened, and a large crowd assem¬
bled. A number of persons endeavored
to vote, when Captain Stiles threw his
company across the street and guve the
command to charge. The company en¬
countered no opposition to their prog¬
ress. The leaders of the Charter faction
then rushed to another place and declared
iho polls opened again. Captain Stiles
repeated his charge, and again cleared
tho street. This operation was repeated
ut other wards where the faction at¬
tempted to vote, but were routed each
time by the troops. The leaders of the
charter faction, after consulting with
Captain Stiles, then advised the crowd
to disperse. The advice was followed
and the excitement subsided. Nino of
the leaders were afterwards arrested on
the charge of conspiracy against the au¬
thority of tho United States and city
eovernments.
TOO FAST.
HALF-BREEDS WARNED TUAT THE CHERO
KEES MAT NOT ADMIT THEM.
Tiie attention of tbe acting commis¬
sioner of Indian affairs, at Washington,
wn , on Friday, called to the press re¬
ports that a largo number of half-breed
Cherokee Indians, in the state of Geor¬
gia, are making preparations to emigrate
to the Cherokee nation in the Indian
territory. The acting commissioner
makes the following statement decision in regard
thereto: “Under the of the
United States supreme court in the case
of the eastern hand of Cherokee Indians
against the United Stutes and the Chero¬
kee nation, commonly called the ‘Cher¬
okee Nation West,’ the authorities ot
the Cherokee nation alone have the
right to admit or rc-admit persons ol
Cherokee blood to citizenship in that
nation. Parties claiming rights of citi¬
zenship in the Cherokee nation by blood,
would be warned against incurring the
Expense of removing to said nation be¬
fore their claims are allowed by the
uroper Cherokee authorities.”
WILL TEST IT.
THE ACT RESTRICTING TIIE COINAGE OF
SILVER TO BE INVESTIGATED.
-p] ic Colorado Mining exchange, al
Denver, adopted a resolution on Monday
tu j uves ti<gate the constitutionality of tin
act restricting the coinage of silver, and
appointing *to a committee of thiee, xvi th
authority employ the necessary legal
counsel. The committee propose to visit
t; ie m jnt at Philadelphia with a hundred
ounces of silver and demand that it be
co j m .j i, lt o dollars. This being refused,
they will bring suit against the directoi
0 f t j le n iint for damages, thus bringing
the subject to the atention of the United
spates supreme court.
CHICAGO WANTS IT.
--
TUE crrY making strenuous efforts to
secure the world's faib.
-
Chicago wants the world’s fair in 1802,
an ,l wants it bidly, and she is doing
more than New Y r ork and all other cities
coll ,biued to get the fair. The city has
gecured subscripiioas to the original
amolul t she proposed to raise, say
000 00 o ; but her people have decided
t ,,’ lm ike the subscription $10,000,000.
j t is published that Sir. Field, the dry
p „ oJs pr j UC o of Chicago, has added
qoo to the subscription in tbe past
few j n y 8> nn d pr ior to this the Pullmans
bad subscribed tlQQ.OCQ.
X UMBER 50.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
f.vn R SAT ION A Tj LESSON FOR
CCTOmER V.
Lesson Text: “ The Tribes United
Under David. 15 Ham. v., 1-13
—Golden Text: Ps. cxxxiii,l
—Commentary.
1. “Then came all the tribes of Israel to
David unto Hebron,” After the death of
Saul and his sons, as recorded in the last les¬
son, the way seemed open for David to take
the throne to which he had beeen anointed
years before, and for which he had so pa¬
tiently waited; not taking matters into his
ow n hands and ridding himself of his enemy
as he might have done oil several occasions,
but calmly waiting God’s own time and way;
and now that the time for his accession to the
throne has come, he will not even go up into
any of the cities of Judah without inquiring;
of the Lord, so careful is he in this matter to
follow and not run before Him who hath
chosen him. Tho Lord having told him to
go up to Hebron, he went thither with his
men and all their families, and there the men
of Judah anointed David Kingover the house
of Judah (chap. ii.. 1-4), and he W’as content
to Ihj King only of Judah for seven years and
six months, one of Saul's sons reigning for
two years over the rest of Israel (chap, u.,10,
1J); so there was long war between the house
of Haul and the house of David; but David
waxed stronger and stronger,and the house of
Saul waxed weaker and weaker (chap, iii., 1).
Now. at length the Lord’s time has come for
David to be King of all Israel, so all the tribes
come to him to Hebron, saying: “Behold, we
are thv bone and thy flesh.”
“When Saul w as King over us, thou
wast lie that leddest out and brougbtest in
Israel.” They remembered how David, and
not Haul, slew Goliath and delivered them
from the Philistines, and how David after¬
ward h it forth so successfully the armies of
Israel <1 Sam. xvili); but the wonder is that
they they did not think David of this King sooner. Why did
not crown of all Israel as
soon as Haul was dead? Vf rhy allow seven
years aud six months to pass unimproved
when they knew that these things concerning
David were undisputed?
“And the Lord said to thee, thou shalt
feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a
captain over Israel.” Why, then, not car¬
ry out the Lord’s wishes long ere this? Let
the questions come home.
3. “They anointed David King over Is¬
rael.” Ho the Lord had decreed, and so it
finally o. mo to pass, for every purpose of the
Lord shall be performed.
4. “David was thirty years old when he
Then began to reign, and ho reigned forty years.”
all his rejection, humiliation and suf¬
ferings came t«» him as a young man; so it
w as also w ith Jesus our Saviour and coming
King. Young men and women are apt to
think it hard to have to suffer and be humil¬
iated; let them remember David and Jesus,
and that it is written: “It is good for a man
that he “Take bear My the yoke yoke in his youth;” and
again: meek and upon lowly you and heart.” learn
or Me, for 1 am in
(Lam. iii., 27; Matt, xi., 39.)
5. ‘In Hebron * * * seven years ana six
month: ; and in Jerusalem * * * thirty-three
years.” It is places very with profitable in Bible study
to associate the events which
occurred there. Hebron, a city of Judah,
some twenty miles'south of Jerusalem, will
ever be a delightful because place of to David’s the Bible
student, not only two
anointiugs and iiis seven years’ reign, but
also because of its earlier associations with
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joshua and
Caleb; there lies, still sacredly guarded, the
dust Machpelah . f the patriarchs, shall and from the cave
of yet come forth their
glorified bodies. Jerusalem, of all cities that
have ever been or ever will be, stands first;
there our Lord was crucified, there Hi*
precious blood flowed forth, in Pilate’s hall,
in Gethsemane and on He Calvary, there He
was buried and there rose from the dead;
from thence He ascended to the right hand
of God, ami thither He shall return in
power and glory to rebuild Zion, make
Jerusalem His throne, and consequently the
capital of the whole earth. (Ps. cii., 16; Jer.
iii., 17,18.)
ft. “And the King Jebusites.” and his men went tc
Jerusalem with the The old
name of Jerusalem was Jebus; it was a great
stronghold, Judah and we read Benjamin that could neither the
children of nor drive
out tbu inhabitants, but they were allowed
to dwell there with Judges Israel (I Chron. xt, 4, 5;
Josh, xv., 63; i., 21.) ' This was a
standing tlisgrace to Israel during alf their
history since Joshua led them into the land
up to this time; and now, when David de¬
termines to wipe out this disgrace, he is told
by these defiers of God and His people that
the blind and the lame are able to hold the
fort against him.
7-9. “Nevertheless, David took the strong¬
hold of Zion; * * * so David dwelt in the
fort who and in the called it of the the City God of ot David.” He
name Israel slew
Goliath went forth in the same great name
against these enemies of God and proved
the faithfulness of Him who said: “There
shall no man be able to stand before Thee.”
(Deut. vii., 24.)
10. “And David went on and grew great.
and the Lord God of Hosts was with Him.”
Thus shall our daily life be a going and grow¬
ing; but wo shall never get to it till. , like
David, we realize that “The Lord God of
Hosts is with us,” and firmly believing this,
seek with the whole heart a more intimate
acquaintance with Him, and thus cultivate a
more implicit reliauce_upon Him.
11. “And Hiram, King of Tyre, sent mes¬
sengers to David, and cedar trees, and car¬
penters, and masons; and they built David
an house.” Here is a Gentile King and his
people, coming cheerfully to the King of
Israel to do him honor; thus shall it be, as
the prophets everywhere tell us, when the
kingdom shall have been restored to Israel.
12. “David perceived King that Israel, the Lord had
established him over and that
He had exalted His kingdom for His people
Israel’s sake.” Notice in this verse two
things: First, that the Lord had done it all;
it was not David’s patience or wisdom or
might, but the Lord alone that did it sa;
and, second that it was done for His people
Israel’s sake. When we tell Christians of to¬
day of the great things that God is going to
do for Israel's sake, we are apt to be consid¬
ered decidedly Jewish in our for views; but Jew¬
ish wo will be. nevertheless, our Saviour
is a Jew and King of the Jews, and Scripture
does not authorize us to expect the so called
am version of this world until Jesus comes to
His long promised Throne of David.— Lesson
Helper.
Operations of Lightning.
All these who suffer should from fright regard dur¬
ing thunder storm the
lot of an English peculiarly woman living iu a
large town as enviable, for,
according to Mr. Marriott, tho Secre¬
tary of the Royal Meteorological Society,
these are the brings who of all are most
exempt from the danger of being struck
by lightning. Mr. Marriott tells us
that on an average 'ess than one person
in a million is annually killed by light¬
ning in England, while in France nearly
two, m Prussia nearly fonr aud in
ltusAa and Switzer and more than five
out of every million also perish show thus an- _
madly. The returns that of
those who die in this manner iu Eng
land 81 per cent, are males and on’y 19
1 e cent, females, the striking dirt'er
enee, no doubt, being attributed to the
grea'er number of males engaged in
outdoor occupations. Deaths from
lightning a:o a so much raier iu towns
than in the country. Tiie many light¬
ning diffuse rods the and electricity. high buildings The serve Eiffel to
Tower is sai 1 of itself to form a perfect
electrical c inductor, and iu the ease of
one very b!a k thunder cloud which
passed over Paris and was observed to
emit constant 1'aslies, tho lightning
stopped as soon ns it e.ime within the
influence of tlic tower, and recommenced
when it had passed beyond.— [New York
Star.
Boulanger is so superstitious tho that lie
will not get out of bed at left side.
If a black cat or a red-haired woman
crosses his path in tiie morning, he
will do nothing of importance that day.