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The Georgia Enterprise. >*. £ -
VOLUME xxv.
Australia is a g"* 1 rountrT ' Two
newspaper men are chief justices ou*
there.
Gladstone attributes his long life and
wonderful health in a great measure to
ai« r.lrtte rest on the Sabbath.
jiftof *2000 to
i;r i ions bit of co mposition, and greatly
pleased the French.
rtion.
| it .observed that the ladiion in colors
[for nar siii|>3 isr hangiug. lu the Brook
Byn rani at present the Chicago and the
'Bostonsre Iroth white, instead of the
time honored black. Thc war ships seem.
to have followed the yachts m this mat
ter.
Owing to the wonderful growth during
the last decade of the electrical industry,
the Superintendent of Census has decided
L have a special investigation of thesub
Lft for the report of the census of 189(1.
fliie inquiry will be intrusted to A. IS.
iFoote, of Cincinnati.
bbSrts A writer in the New York Ecnngelist
to mustaches in the pulpit. 1 He
mustache spoils elocution, . and
t-iys that a
haulers a s|(eaker‘s words unintelligible
hi the back part of the church. A roan's
mice, savs the critic, should not paxs
through a thick lock of hair before it
reaches the audience.
Ludwig Pietsch, the celebrated Gcr
Sitm critic and author, has written long
nticlcs to the periodicals of his native
ud in praise of the exhibition of Ameri
fan artists in thc Paris Exposition. Herr
Bietseh is surprised at the general ex¬
cellence of the paintings and considers
■lffli equal to any in the Exhibition.
! A Christian tribe, surrounded by
lawn*, has just been discovered in the
eurt of Africa. They laid never before
ii u a white man. While their religious
Seas are crude, still they have a priest
pod, hiristianity. the cross, and other emblems of
They are believed to have
pen exiled from Abyssinia about eight
kindred years ago.
1 wo German athletes have arrived iu
ji'w [' York city, whose feats of strength,
s sal< li *ifl be a revelation to the
rong men of this country. One can
It 545 pounds with his middle finger,
Id can pass a weight of 200 pounds
low !v over his head with one hand The
| 11 lllc “ aaii with his bare hand through
pwo-inch plank.
The Agricultural Department has re
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1‘0‘ky Mountains at a height of j
■ 500 feet. The specimen will be planted
Ci:::”'* grasses 1 thc depart- ■ i,h
lent is iio^- experimenting with, with
|e view of obtaining some grass that
“ be successfully grown in the arid
re
°ns for fodder.
AUhough people talk gibly about a
11011 Pushes of wheat, but few of
very
'■Hi, i S<1 }$ Irony realize what vast
a
nouut that represents. If million
shels «i
were loaded on American freight
In 500 bushels to it would fill
a car, a
11cr fifteen miles long; if transported
' "' a " oa forty-four bushels
‘ l>er wagon,
n,&ke , a Hoe of teams 142 miles
1.2. If made into bread, reckoning
18he l to a
sixty pounds of flour, it would
ve each : man, woman and
aitecl States child in thc
a two-pound loaf of bread.
Some tim e Si “ Ce L rd SHlisbury, the
Hi °
sh p letaier . issued circular
me Pjvutatives i a to tlie
of her Majesty’s Govern
“ ,:i!> principal
gfor cities of Europe
r force (“formation as to what laws
F ln as to the
I Private carrying of firearms
persons in populous centers.
' ’'Pwts received
etwc go to show that of
«y-fo u r States comprised in the
otinent Europe there
ws S “7 the are stringent
I a S carrying of weapons
ontenegroT’ Uciiy 0 f !, m save D Denmark, the
x* " Chy ° f C ° burg ’
«1 Swede’ s “ e -Netherlands, Norway
.
ltrk ’ trvia an d Switzerland. In
tv ('gelations
u ,he on the subject exist,
_ e selq Provisions are very elastic and
0 m “'“fried out,
The writer of
Point that ,t Chicago makes
* S " ou *d be conducted
Drin “
principle ■ of furuishj ng money
'eonfl laP SSibletobo as
° “rowers,
“inducted and not
“stors. as a source of profit
He points to in
h:, out that in Philadel
lished ioas bv rat'!f^? ti° mUCh nCy has f beea necom
‘the ° these in stit«
and the ‘“ terest kas always been
t P mp f
* borrow lon to M»e subscrib
,
ef ° rebeeagr -ter
l u '“ec r ' it r and as
a „ j - - a eonse
[ tr * naight, ir us “ of People
t thea tb , ta n ° tbeenflidetl
lr -ociatio as .’ 0
r money. Th squandered
‘“ancisco light hew. ’chronicle ” a ™ sound t0 the Sau
<!<1 one and
‘ a 're " " lth Profit in that city
Wv. opposite
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
sews aaoa KvtarwaEBii-AcciDst.Ts, steicss
Ease. and - -----1
ifestcr & Kibeo wool deader- Phils- j
I wtH open ti., com ng session ol j arlia
ment in peisoa.
The cotton i» T.’ 1
. run . .
2 * 23
dence of the severity of the recent
j Ths . ral ,d total o' receipts, up to
Thursday night, of New York’s guaran
$L t< e^frind of $.5,000,000, amounted lo
j 1
I Fiva thousand coal miner: ere on a
i strike in the Gi ringe district of Belgium,
| ! tinue and it to is spread. feared that the move will eou
l he r.‘ports of de Glutton in North
Dakota tire said to be grei tly exaggera
ted. Tuere is noflii tg in the situation
to justify th“ reports that a famine ex
i-ts in Dakota.
Cholera is still raging in the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
ligit time mon hs lic-rC have been 7,000
deaths from the disease.
Advices from Brisbone, state that the
natives of Southwest New Guinea, have
B,a f” ed IteT - -' !r 3*vsge, who was
sent out I by the London Missionary' so
ciely.
In uceoidanee with the convention be¬
tween Russia and the Vatican, the bishop
of Viln-i will be pensioned and will re¬
side iu Rome, and the present vicar-gen¬
eral of Viinu will become a bishop.
Levin B. Hall and his sister, pronti
nent society piopte of Princess, Md.,
were convicted Tuesday of incendiarism
iu burning C’oxe A Mills’ watchouse at
Fairmouut, a month ago.
Mrs. Annie Price, for years past known
as the “only original fat woman,” lias
just died at her home in New York, of
obesity. fatty degeui ration of the heart und
Mrs. Price weighed 550
pounds.
The big Washburne and Pillsbury
mills, among the largest in the wor d,
has parsed into the hands of a synd caie.
The option of the Pil sbury system of
ntiils and elevators, it is said, calls for
$5,200,010.
The emigration comm ssioucrs at New
York, on Friday, notified all steamship
companies that a head tax of fifty cents
each will be collected from them for
every alien that they will bring heie.
This will include children.
A company of manufacturers and
bankers, of Lynn, Mass., has purchased
2,000 acres of land near Chattanooga, for
$750,000. Two shoe factories, a tan¬
nery, two fur^ces, tool works and oth ct
plants, will at once be erected.
This Paris Figaro says that the mar¬
riage which had been arranged between
Prince Murrat aud Miss Gwendoline
Caldwell, has been abandoned. Prince
2&PK
New York Saturday,
A fast freight train on the Pennsyl¬
vania road jumped the track at Rahway,
K J '> Tut ‘ s,lll -V "ight. Several persons
^"prisfSjuSi’irijS &
bris, three of them mortally. One car
rau down the street aud into a residence,
ttassf"
Thc guns and earring 9 of the United
States men of war, Trenton and Vandaiia,
which vessels were wrecked in the great
storm at Samoa in March last, were
landed at Sin F’raticisco Tuesday by tlia
United States steamship Monongahela.
She alsu brought the remains of Captain
Sehoomakcr, of the Vandaiia, who was
drowned during the same storm.
Members of the cotton exchange, of
New York-city, met and passed a resolu¬
tion calling on the board of managers to
submit a law, to be vottd on by the ex¬
change, which would repeal the system
of inspecting and classing cotton, aud re¬
enact the former system with such
amendments and modifications as expe¬
rience has shown to be dtsiralile.
The gable wall of a building that was
being erected alongside of Scotland, Templeton’s
carpet factory at Glasgow, was
blown down Friday. tile An immense the ma s
of debris fell on roof of weav¬
ing department of the factory, crashing
it in, and burying fifty girls and women
employed in the weaving rooms. It is
probable that forty of those buried are
dead.
A dispatch from Cape Henry says:
“Passed in at nine o’clock Thursday
morning, brig Alice, Captain Bowling,
from Navassa, for Baltimore, with sixty
four of thc rioteis in the massacre at
Nava sa, October 14. The brig also lias
the crew, except tho male, who wss lost
overboard, of the schooner Tmn Wil¬
liams, from Fcrnandina for New York,
which was wrecked duriug the late
storm. The crew was four days in open
boats without food.”
Mrs. Greening, of New Windsor, N.
Y'., presented herself at an Episcopal lhe
church and partook of communion,
rector being told that she wns a Mcth
odist, but partook of communion at an
Episcopal church, owing to thc distance
of i_er home from the Methodist church,
informed her that by church rales she
could not have communion there again.
This so worked upon her nervous system
that it resulted in a paralytic stroke.
She is now iu-a helpless condition.
A dispatch from Denver, Col., says
that one of the most important meetings
of labor organizations held in this coun
try for some time, was held in that city
Wednesday. Nearly one hundred and thir¬
ty delegates of thc International Brother¬
hood of Locomotive Firemen, represent
ing every section of the United States,
met in secret session to consider the
question of the proposed the Brotheihood federation oi of
labor now agitating
Locomotive Engiueers.
At Otisville, N.Y., on Wednesday, thir
ty-five ears broke away from a switching
engine and ran back down grade speed to a
point a mile cist of OtisvTe, at a
of forty miles au hour. Crashing into a
west bound freight train, they wrecked
thc engine completely and twenty-four and
cars. Samuel J. Sloalt, flagman,
Levi Breird, were killed. Engineer J.
1). Fosdick was badly scalded, and Fire
man Garrett John C. Briefly*and and bruised. Brakeman Lee
were burned
“MY COUNTRY: MAY SIIK EVER MR RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY CO UN TR Y !"■—J kffkroon.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER t. mx
•tory brick dwelling which thev were
lmii<iin « on Monroe street. Pas-aic City,
X. J. Every one employed about the
p'acc was niord or less injured. Hun
dreda of volunteers were speedily at
'P >rk digging away the debris to effect
as it was a “Buddenseiek” affair, and
seemed i.rI Js to have been constructed constructed for lor an ap
nnlv
n(ltional thanksgiving was issued by
rssjjTs. . B
mindful of theirdepeudeneeou thebouti
ty of Divine Providence, should sock
fitting occasion to testify gratitude and
ascribe praise to Him who is the
of tinir many blessings It behoove, us,
then, to look back with thankful hearts
ovnr lie past year am bless God for
lcliuite meicy in vouchsafing to our land
enduring peace; to our people freedom
from pestilence and famine; to
£s«a 1 resident of the t-Jttr united States of Amen
i’ d 1 ! ’ t l y Trrr d 1 huri *
d V the !n tw Sh h i' J h,! • PreS '
nh r»im- Z t ia'i \ " it tha " ks o 8et S ,vm .*P d ar an “'® '*
Jl i J; ,0 ,1 l ' ,1L ‘ C ° Un
v' .-. S r r IU 1<J cu K ' 8 an<1 Libors
tw’ir ti.l Ulu VV r i | i*’ ", , , aKst ; nible "!
n
.vn,b,:ws' 1 ' ''I 0 *. worshl P au ‘
us on our wav rSnaele r 0 !^r mlhTthe
liaths of peace ir« Leeching liim to
l. »vto it* m i 'ihanks^VvirfgTor d f t ,rc o
making truly ontMjf
each reunited home Se. circ’c tulel as well wh“r,o
the nation at In
1 have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be. «f
fixed. Done at the city of Washington,
this first day of November, in the yen
of our 1 ortl eighteen hundred and eighty
nine, and of the independence hindred of the
United States the one and four
teeuth. ”
STOCKS TUMBLE.
TIIE COTTON SEED OIL COMBINE
CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE.
Calamity see ned lo ranch its climax
Thursday, for the bulls in the
stocks, ou the stock exchange at New
York. The grief was concentrated in
cotton oil crowd. Everybody was pre¬
dicting an immediate advance of
points in cotton oil certificates, based
the rosy programme of converting
trust into a corporation, aud reducing
capital from $42,00(1,000 to §30,000,000.
doubt of the success. But alas for
frailty of promises and prospects in Wall
street, the popular expectation failed
sadly of renlizition. Immediately < n
opening of the market there was on over¬
whelming pie sure to sell. The Hot sale
was 41$, and from that
a decline instantly set itt,
which had no check until the
price was hammered down to 30$. This
tumble of five full points meant a
shrinkage of over $2,000,000 in the mar¬
ket value of the total capital
of tho trust. The scene on the
stock exchange baffles description.
The real reason for the most of the de¬
cline was probably because of the serious
disappointment which some prominent
insiders felt at tho annual report. The
showing of earnings for the last year is
by no means flattering. For the first six
mouths the net profits were entirely sat¬
isfactory, but the last sij months were
bad. The total net earnings for the
year amount to a little over $1,000,000
which is at least $1,000,1800 less than
officially predicted, Several of the mills
btlongirg to tho trust have been shut
down ou account of said proving several
piofitable, and it is that
moie will probably have to be closed for
the same reason. The corporation will into be
which the trust is to be resolved
known as the Cotton Oil Company of
New Jersey.
THIRTY MEN ARRESTED
FOn COMPLICITY IN THE LYNCHING OF
YOUNG BERItlEU, lil NORTH CAROLINA.
A special from Lexington, N. C., on
Monday, says: This section has just
been thrown into intense excitement on
account of the arrest of thirty men
c.mrged with being implicated in the re¬
cent lyuchiug of young Robert Berrier,
white, who so brutally "murdered his
mother-in-law near here. Following the
special instructions of Governor P’owlc,
Sheriff R. I). Leonatd, with a posse of
thirty men, stlrted out with warrants for
the arrest of many men, charging them
with being in thc lynching party. Up to
Monday night the following had been
arrested: John Wood, John Craven, D.
R. Myers, J. A. Myers, J. N. Myers, W.
A. Liviugood, C. F. Switegood, J. M.
Farabee, John Farabee, B. U. Gibble, W.
B. Hunt, W. W. Myers, A. C. Hood,
C. A. Hams. J L. Wilson, II. C. Fritts,
Henderson Shoaff, Ham Sink, Plunk
Daniels, David Mack, Alfred Green, Jos
eph Sowers, Robert Juiien Nifong,Uoy.il
Shoaff, Jefferson Craver, Henry Michael,
Jr. All these men were guarded at the
c urtliouse by twelve special officers, the
jail being unable to accommodate such a
uumber. It is thought that the entire
week will be consumed in the exaratna
tion of the'prisoners, as a great number
of witne ses will be introduced on both
sides. Thc greatest interest is manifested
in the investigation, and public sent!- the
ment is strongly in favor of allowing
lynchers to go unpunished.___
the bank closed
m CONSEQUENCE OK ITS DEFAULTING
CASHIER.
0n tbe door of the Tradesmen’s Na
, . k 0 f Conshcckcn, ra., ~~ on
rjk urg( j av wa9 posted thc following This ^ no
" it
txes ‘‘To whom may concern:
bank 'j clo e d in consequence of the
g cashier. 1 lie deposit
defalcate of the
suffer no loss.” The cooler
feired to is William Henry Cresaon,
re of his defalcation is uo
an( j t ^ e amount and exceed
i ess than $50.000, lived may m Cons k c ta
Oesson !»»■> him
>ix 9 V en years, and had made
or o ainent in the phroe, enl
sp!f j,j quite b nl pro become identified wi i
g nl>me enterpnats.
jj* leading
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| WASHINGTON, 7 D. C.
,
! MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
| AND HIM ADVISERS.
_
; SMODtutESTS, decisions, and other matter*
'
1 re-ldcnt •, . has , appointed . , John , .
! y ie i a 1Klttrt ,. atcr „t Philadelphia, me
as?*• **—
portion of the reward offered by
ssr* ,or "* '"“ r * oi
•" ■ »*■..,
notice fr’m upon cattlemen who have leased
lands India** within Cherokee
let that they must vacate these
with their property on or before the first
} of Dr. July It. next. P. Daniel, president of the
state board of health of Florida, tele
graphed that to the marine hospital service
the quarantine reatrictions imposed
on Key West on account of suspicious
«f the 2 onn. ton opened o.nlsira ti„. ,JL.|,
Ur ^■<* on last Saturday,
1,1 ,Ue Columbian Iron Works and Dry
Deck company, of lliltimore, for the
sum of $1,225,000. The contract f<«- the
third oae will be awarded to either liar
rison Loring, of Boston, or N. F. Pal
mcr & Co., of New York, each of whom
bid $674,000.
Tl e collector of customs at Norfolk,
Va -has asked the treasury department
for instructions in regard to the It practice
? f Li ;“'P~' “««» rnmhanta send
mg m*n under contract from that city to
Xor f :' lk fr>r ,h<! '""’T W** n | ld
ft’* 41 , !"* cot,m , > mr .he English trade.
' lle J m migisnt mspecior for the state of
Virginia reported the matter to the cob
cct ° r “ 9 a violation of alien contract la
^ ^, and h e can thc « , ° co about ‘ lcc or it. , wa " 1 ts reasury to kn olh- '^
“ ,U " r ? <l ’ vu If ln oprmon ,n the mat
IhJ S-iUSr . ttSn? rtftrre ’ 1 ,C
The government directors of the Union
Pacific railroad have reported to the
retary of the interior that in their
ment the interests of the United
demand early action by congress to
cure payment by the company of its
debtedness to the government. Tlic
eral plan of settlement railroads, first suggested by
the commissioners of they
sert, has never been successfully
They express their firm conviction that
the interests of t ie United States de¬
mand the passage of a bill substantially
like that pending when the last
adjourned. The report is signed
George E. Leighton, John T. Plummer,
Jesse Spalding, Rufus B. Bullock and
James W. Savage.
The Washington tytar Wednesday
that the civil service commission
decided to ask the district attorney
prosecute all persous concerned in the
ical preparation atrd distribution of the polit¬
assessment circular recently sent by
the old domiuion republican league to
Virginians in the government service.
Those persons not < mployrs of the gov¬
ernment will be prosecuted under section
12 of the service, which provides that
person shall in any government
solicit or receive contributions for any
political purpose. The commission
holds that a person not connected with
the government may ask for and reciive
money from government employes for
political purpose building, anywhete but that except in tlie
government where
occurence takes place on
property, or where letters me sent to a
government building, those concerned
aie liable to prosecution.
The order of Postmaotcr-Gencrd
Wananuker, d.ted Wednesday, war.
promulgated Thursday, fixing the r ites
for the government telegraphic service
during the day current fiscal year. The
basis lor service is ten cents for ten
words, and a half cent for each addi¬
tional woid for distances under 400
miles, with a sliding scale of increase for
distances greater thin 400 miles. For
night messages not exceeding all dis twenty
words, fifteen cents for ances, and
one-half cent for each additional w'ord.
The date, address and signature are ex¬
cluded from count both day and night.
Signal service cypher messages are to be
charged at two and a half cents per
word With reference to the above or
der, President Green, of the Western
Lmon telegraph, says: lhe rate fixed
by below the postmnster-generni but I piepared is undoubtedly
cost, am not to say
what the attitude of the company will be
till after the matter has had the consid¬
eration of the executive committee. Tho
reduction averages about thiriy-tlirce
per cent, from the old rate, which was
not a rcinuuarative one.”
: A GREAT NEWSPAPER.
the i-ioneer press, of st. i-aul, minn.,
celebrates its 40tu anniversary.
--
The Pioneer Press, of St. Paul, Minn.,
celebrates its fortieth anniversary by is
i ub) g Thursday, morning an edition of
thirty pages, from its new thirteen story
building. historical The edition is chiefly devoted
to a review of the extraordi
nary developme n t of the northwest for
the past forty years. The building, 110
; f ee t square, represents an outlay of
$780,000, and is pronounced the finest
daily newpaper building-in the world,
j n Thursday's is-ue will be
about 400 personal congratulations from
editors throughout the United States and
Canada.
SUEING A NEWSPAPER.
MRS. MACKAY, OF CALIFORNIA, SUES AN
ENGLISH PAPER FOR LIBEL.
The action for libel brought by Mrs.
T„l,„ W XI , ,1 \ r i „ -
in the court of queens bench, Thursday.
The libel complained of alleged that the
n washerwoman by Nevada miners when
Macksy was ttrrt* attracted toward her
and fell in love with her and married her.
The plaintiff contends that the words of
the article suggested that she was not ft
lady of birth or education, and that she
pe g po ,
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
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ITEitS . OF INTEREST FROM VA
\ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
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i * condensed account ok what is soiso os or
- The anniversarian was Mr. G. D. Dor
ou " , h ’ of , yv'etumnka Wetumpka, Ala. Ala
;».s. “ f, '“ -
o* cured in L...A 30 t0 |1 “ 3
s.-«, Hh-jj
s.>ubyiw,k. *
J, 0- ’ T ' ‘""ton ,—nnW '««*?’ *f ^ *
I j Liabilities arc about $.0,000, and assets
j nomm ally large.
A passenger train bound cast and a
***$* ‘™«> going west on tha Norfolk
, r »ilro«G,collided Wednesday
between Liberty and Thaxtons,
'
, ^ P
n
veterans »• -r of Alabama was - perfected rfr. ut
BirminghamonWednesday.Gcueral E.W.
| Puttus, vtce-prcsuW of Selma was elected president,
with a from each congres
! d )8 ‘ rlc : D“ e ob 3 ect of ,be
elation i» . to build . a confederate home In
Alabama.
L. M. Conner, a young merchant do
U™* ing business at Buck Creek, Ga., was
over the head and killed
Tuesday, by Thomas Beurd, a young
man living near the same place. Borne
cottea ‘XdTenn^rtfu^ing'tm banner ior using jute WgingIt' nagging at
inatfd’ “ ° troubieong
lruiU ' 1 -
Thomas G. Buelmnan, a merchant of
Huntsville, Ala., was closed Fechheimcr Wednesday
by attachment, as follows:
A Co., of Cincinnati, $2,500; Phil J. C.
('udder, of Shelbyville. Tenn., $8,054;
Nashionnl Bank of Shelbyville, $14,250,
and Miss Jennie While, of Huntsville f<-r
$S,500. It is said other attachments
will foliovv.
The Soque Woolen mills st Clarksville,
Ga., which are in thc hands of a receiver,
and which will eventually be sold, begat)
operation Wednesday, to be run by
one of the creditors,for one month, under
a grant from the judge of thc superior
court. The object is to get the property
cleaned up and the machinery clean, so
that the bidders may see just what they
have.
The superior court of Richmond
county, Ga., has decided against a num¬
ber of promincut citizens who, twonty
years ago, subscribed to the capital stock
of the National Expressnnil t*se Transporta¬
tion company. A test was made on
Wednesday in ease ofWilfiam H. Howard,
a piominent and wealthy cotton factor,
and a verdict rendered against him.
This virtually carries the other cases with
it. The verdict is regarded accordance as a greut with
hardship, although in
court decisions iu these cases in all states
from Maine to Texas.
One of the largest transactions in laud
ever consumated in the South, has re¬
cently been perfected at Jacksonville,
Fla., and made public Fri 'ay. AJ1 unsold
lands in Florida of the Plant system of
railroads aud steamships, of the Florida
Southern railroad, of the Jacksonville,
Tampa & Key West system, including
the Florida Southern railway, and
Florida Commercial company, have been
consolidated under thc name of the As
sociated Railway Land Department
Florida. Over six million acres of land
are consolidated under one management
by the formation of this syndicate.
COTTON IN TENNESSEE.
TH3 YIKI.D WILL NOT COME UP TO THE EX¬
PECTATIONS OF TENNESSEE PLANTERS.
The regular monthly crop report for
the Memphis, Tenn., district, savs: The
outlook is anything but encouraging.
While the weather has been most favor¬
able for gathering open cotton in the
field, the anticipated yield has fallen far
i-ho:t of what was cxpec ed. The terri¬
tory tributary to Memphis and included
in the report, includes an average of
1,400,000 bales of cotton, one fifth of tho
entire trop of the south. The damage
; 8ustaine d from worms, frosts, and other
causes uken (ogether witU the lateness
of the throughout thc distric', ,s
greater than at first reported. F’rom
every section of the district injury to the
crop becomes more apparent and the
prospective yield, a9 compared with last,
ye ir, will fall far short of what was re
polled i ne month ago.
A BIG KICK.
THE KOCK I8LAND,BURLINGTON & ST. PAOI
ROADS WITHDRAW FROM ASSOCIATION.
The Inter-State Commerce Railway
association, at Chicago, is practically
dead. The Rock Island, Burlington and
St. Paul roads take thc ground that the
agreement has been violated by the traf
fie arrangements of the Union Pacific aud
Northwestern, and that they will considei
the agreement annulled. No formal uo
tice is to be given of their intention to
withdraw, but they will no longer be
bound by the rules of the association. A
spccialmeetingofthewestcrnandnorth- Freight
w estern divisions of the Western
association was h Id Tuesday to consider
’ proposition for the restoration of rates
i between the seaboard and St. Paul. Au
! agreement could not be reached at i t.u:
j whole matter waq tabled for lurthcr con -
I sideration at the regular meeting iu No
' vember.
THE SUPREME COURT
OF new YORK SUSTAINS THE ELECTRIC
T Snpiwne e Court ,, . of . - New T .. York, , on
" ? amS le cl v in which it
ra the temporary injunctmus, . .- . with . .
; a
£**““ modifications, fhe dectsion until says the cases hit can the
! ™“? au v sh ' u ' d have reasonable opper
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i “J ‘°P ( ut lts w .' rea »»“ r ° ^nd.tion
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jj c workg as oi^truetions, or the matter
•hoqld be laid before the grand jury.
the deadly ax. I
M n ‘ . M AND HI8 AQED WIFB
snockku cncohsciocr.
A diapatcb A^h Vrll fr L? m H.-v “‘® km,Tiile <n Ga
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Sunda? nioht eiever^muL'f* 8 co “ ral . “ e< ‘
T.*,' ting v by . the fire , reading * ?? e ' and They each were had sit
lamp. Mrs. a 1
Miller heard h-r htra
ssris.fvs;i
™tSKya- sj'ssS’jatysJrfi were
blows and been“Jmoved the mrable ton Lm of i hnr/m nlZ
which had [ to^Z theofe its
(0 h e umrde ers
ers in Opposed search tohavTLIhe of monev w hich Miller
^ house ' X 8
; , u ‘ ‘ that Mr Mi|ler flavf the tie s
M t M ^ ; d Mk
n()t to ttlikc Mrs M ller ai .j I10t Ece
them. She was nearest the door, and
was struck first with them. She was
Hu was
.truck fin.. i,i„« l ~;n, , h „ _ . , ..
, kuU wai batUv mMhed> wiien found
| he his was head still and sitting hanging in hi. arm chair, with
arm over the s.dc
Tho blood had run from rris wounds and<
made a pool ou lhe fljor Hiadea.h
must have been instantariecus. Mr.Mil
ler was one of the most respected ci i
ze n. of Houslon; a well-to-do farmer,
upwards of sixty year. old. EJ. John
son aud Sam Chunkey, two negroes, are
,-uspected of the murder, as they have
—^ J from neighborhood,
A PHILANTHROPIST.
THE WILL OK HENRY STEERS, AND THE
ItEqt KSTS IT CONTAINS.
The will of Henry J. Stecre, one ol
the wealthiest men in Providence, It. I.,
who died recently gives away directly and
in trust the sum total of $1,139,000. Mr.
Steere his was a siuglc gentleman, and was
a 1 life distinguished fer philsnthrop
ical impulses, lie gives $054,500 to in¬
dividuals directly, iu sums ranging from
$100,000 to $1,000. The amount given
to charitable organizations etc., is $340,
000. The home for the freedmen of Prov¬
idence received $150,000; Home for Aged
Women, of Providence, $25,000; Benefi¬
cent Congregational church end St.
Stephen’s Episcopal church, Providence,
get $50,000 and $5,000 respectively;
the Charitable Fuel society, of Provi
idenoe, $5,000, sod to tho Rhode Island
Historical soewty is bequeathed $10,
000; The Tabor college, in Iowa, fc
given 50,000, and the Roanoke The college,
at Salem, Va., $25,000. executor
of the vast property is Alfred Metcalf, of
Providence, who is only required to give
uersonni bond to pay the le;; ( ids, etc.
A POWERFUL ORDER.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO
HAVE THINGS T11P.1R OWN WAY.
A dispatch from PSrt Huron, Mich.,
says that not less than 75.000 Michigan
farmers have joined the and Patrons the of number Hus¬
bandry since last May,
is increasing every week. They threaten
to become a controlling power iu the
politics of the state, and then to spread
over tho entire country. The patrocs
claim to have been forced into being by
monopolies and trusts, and they propose
to organize a combination that will
strike terror to the hearts of their ene¬
mies. At present the patrons are devo
ting themselves exclusively to merchants,
and in every town where they have a
foothold they enter into an iron clad
contract with one dealer in each line of
trade to purchase only from him, exact
ing a pledge that they shall not be
charged to exceed twelvb per cent ad¬
vance on wholesale prices. 1 he patrons
have lodges in forty seven counties, with
a membership of more than 5,000.
• • •
A REPORTED BATTLE
IN KENTUCKY IN WHICH SIX MEN ARE
KILLED.
A special to the Louisville Courier
Journal. from Pincville, Ky., says: News
reached here that Judge Lewis came up
with Howard and his gang I hursduy on
Martin’s Fork and killed six of the How
ard gang without losing ft man. three
of the men killed were named Ha!l, one
named Whitlock, the other two names
not learned. Friends of thc judge say
that he is determined, and will never
quit his chase until Howard and his gang
are all killed or driven from the country.
Both parties are being reinforced daily,
und more bloodshed is expected. l?__ \ ir- ls
thought that Howard hti9 gone to
graia, but is expected to return. Thc
best citizens of Harlan county, Ky., are
joining Judge Lewis, and with sttglt a
determined leader there is no doubt but
that the law and order party will come
out victorious, and break up tho gang
that has been a terror to all eastern Ken¬
tucky for the last twenty-five years.
MUST BE PAID
The Indiana legislature last winter
passed a law raising the maximum li*
cense which lhe city of Indianapolis may
impose for the sale of liquor from $100
to $250. The supreme court Wednesday
affirmed the constitutionality of the law.
In another case it dr dared that ft license
is not a contract. Indianapolis raised who the
license to $250. Liquor sellers had
taken out license at $100 ptevious should to the
increase, contend that they not
be compelled to pay the increase of $153
until the expiration of the $100 license.
The court says their position additional is wrong,
and they must pay the $150.
THE P. PERS MISSING.
DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO COMBAT BOODLE
CLAIMS DISAPPEAR.
it was announced at Chicago Friday
jVentu 1 ' that important attorney’s papers office,upon were miss
gig from thc state’s depended
which the county had largely claims,
to combat the old "boodle” ag¬
gregatin'’ $250,000. They are needed
chiefly to tight the bills of Contractoi
Kellogg, et-Warden Yarnell, ox-Corn
aiissioner Fray and the American btope
aud Brick Preserving company. It is
said that unless the missing documents
are recovered it may result iu the 1< >ss of
many thousand dollar* to the coue#m.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKKTCHKS FROM
VARIOUS SOUUCKS.
With Aunt Mari's Consent—And
Generally Incurable—Another
Room—A Double-Jointed
Rule, Ktc., JBtc.
‘o Ln. just home from Rmiday-sebool,
guardian Aunt Man'.
She scanned and slowly turned a page;
Yes, “May I skip, auntie, please?'’
‘ dear.” A flash, a vacant chair,
Loae woman—only thes* |
And blank surprise, for skipped had Lu
Among the birds and bees. |
—Lippi ncott. |
ASD GEXBRALLY 1XCURABLE.
“There goes a man whom I should say v
labors under some peculiar trouble. ”
“You are right, my bov. He is a man
whose wife is better known than him
self.”— Purl.
I
ANOTHER BOOM. I
Eastern Man-“How is Cosmopolo 7 I
City, the ‘Occidental AVqpder of he j |
Western World,’ and -Reiie of the
Plains,’ prospering?’’
Western Man—“Finely! y . ,
We’ve got two stores and a blacksmith
Shop in full blast now ."-New York '
Weekly.
a not ble jointed RI LE. i
Laura “1 tell you, Emily, I will .
ttever marry a man who doesn t love !
me ;
Emily “And l will _ never love a man j
nho doesn t marry me. — Pick-Me-Up.
ALL IN VSK. i
“Waiter, Customer bring (in cheap restaurant)—j
me a napkin, please.” 1
Waiter—“All in use at present, Cap;
but that chap with thff heavy mustache I
eating Roup over there w ill be through
with his soon.”— Hotel Mail.
NOT PEKIOI S.
Physician—“You must have made
some big blunder in cleaning my watch.
It won’t run at all now. - ’
Watchmaker (taking the watch)—“I
will put it in good order. A jeweler's
blundets nre easily repaired.”— Puck.
IT FRIGHTENED HBlt.
Society . Rosebud “ I hen think _
you
that Jack cares for me?
Old Stager “1 m sure of it. His eves
followed your every movement last
night.”
think (Alarmed)—“Gracious! he all I Do you really
saw ate at the supper?”—
Time.
SIMI’LY BRUTAL.
Mabel—“So you refused him. What
diil the poor fellow say ?”
Laura—“He said he knew a girl who
would marry him and be glad to.”
Mabel—“I wonder whom he meant?”
Laura—“I wondered, too, so I asked
him.”
Mabel—“Who was it?”
1 .aura—‘ ‘ You.”— Life.
ONE MORE Horn.
He—“You are the only daughter?”
She—“Yes.”
He—“I should think your father
would be willing to set the fellow who
marries you up in business!”
She—“Well, I don't know. Pa has
maite that offer six times now, and noth
ing ever came of it any time; but, George,
if you want me, it might do to see the
oid man about it.”— Epoch.
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A GASTRONOMICAL CRITICISM.
“Here's a pointer for ye, Bill," Said a
tramp to one of his companions. “Don't
never go to that house on the hill yon¬
der.”
“Why not?”
“ ’Cause whenever they've got pie they
haven , . t any cheese , and , when , they , ve got
cheese the, haven t any pie. I wouldn’t
cat at no such place as that. -Merchant
FOOD IN HARMONY with dress.
“Waiter,” she inquired at the restau
rant, “have you any ble :k bread?’’
“Yes, miss.’’
“Well, you may bring me some with a
little black coffee. ’
“Why,” exclaimed her astonished es
cort, “is that all you are going to eat?”
“You must remember,’’ she replied,
“that I am ip mourning now.”— Waihing
ton Capital.
THE BEST FLAN.
Ycllowly--“You say your life is made
A burden by bill collectors?”
Browulv--“It is.”
“Why don't you nuopt my plan of get
ting rid of ’em?
(Eagerly)---‘‘Ha! What is your pi/JP?”
“My plan works to a charm. After
putting it in operation they never trouble
me again. - ’
“Good, my boy. What is your plan?”
“I pay ’em .’—Ronton Courier.
HE TOOK IUS OWN MEDICINE.
Durnley—“What’s the matter, Top
knot? You look bad.’’
Topknot—“Y'es; all doubled up with
rheumatism again. ”
Dumley—“Have you ever tried Dr.
Wragley?”
Topknot—“No. Is he familiar with
rheumatism?”
Dumley—“He ought, to bo by this
time. He has had it himself for over
forty years .”—London Rare Bit*.
SHE REMEMBERED mM.
He—“So you remember me?”
She—“I knew you as soon as I saw
you.” that
“It is very flattering to me you
should recognize me when you have not
seen me since we met at the seashore
three years ago. Would you mind tcll
ing me what it is that lias kept my image
fresh in your memory all this time?”
“Why, you have got on thc same
shabby coat and old-fashioned stovepipe
hat you wore three years ngo.”— Sifting*.
why it was there.
“Can you tell me, my friend,” said
j the elderly gentleman to the keeper of
the camel, “what tho hump on that au
final's back is for !"
“What's it fori”
NUMBER 5.
“Yes; of what value is it!”
“Well, it’s lots of value. De camel
be no good widotA it.”
“Why not?”
“Why not? Yer don tsuppose people
'ud pay twenty-five cents to see a came
widout any hump on him, <*> yer!”—
ir.7»/r inrjton Capitol.
AS NEAR ALIKE AS DAT AKD SIGHT.
Young Man (somewhat agitated)—“1
have railed, Mr. Means, to ask permis¬
sion to pay my addresses to your daugh¬
Miss Ruth.”
Banker Means—My daughter Ruth,
Mr. Peduncle! Why, she is engaged
to Mr. Swackhammer.”
Y'oung Man < still agitated, but reflect¬
ing *Hal all is not yet loaf)—“Did you
think I said Miss Ruth, Mr. Means! 1
said Miss Gwendolen. The—er—simi
larity of the names probably caused you
to misunderstand me.”— Chicago Tribune.
SCDDEN CHANGE OE SUBJECT.
Mr. Smallpurse (who h«# carefully fig
ured "P thc <ost of two theatre tickets
and the 8treet oar fare)—“Do you enjoy
the drama, Miss Gehall?”
Miss Gehall—“Oh, very much; but I
become entirely worn out every time I
f fore Ju" half past ten, !> and ‘^ then it takes Ver fp , ‘if ly
«« hour to get supper at‘Del s, and after
that comes thc long ndc home, Hnd the
harkmen do poke so. you know.”
Vr. 1hnaRpursc-^“Um-er-What do
h,nk of Browning! -New York
Weekly. ,
The Indian Ghost Feast.
g CV eral hundred Blackfeet Sioux ar
rived at Lincoln, Dakota, recently, and
R t night held a grand ghost feast. Among
the curious ceremonies of the Sioux tho
ghost feast is held in great reverence. It
will soon be abolished by order of the
Indian agent, and, like the sun dance,
will be buried with the traditions of the
past. The feast is given by the relatives
of those who have died or been killed in
battle. At the feast held at Lincoln
there were six ghosts, represented by
six stakes about four feet in length,set up
in thc ground within the medicine lodge.
A piece of buckskin was sewed over the
top of the stakes, upon which eyes, nose,
mouth, etc., were marked to represent
the head.
Fifteen Iudians, with the big medi¬
cine man of the village, were seated in a
teepee smoking, but rarely speaking to
each other. Some live coals were brought
and placed before the medicine man,
who threw upon them wild sage brush,
and holding some pemmiean in the smoke
chanted a song. Little children were
brought in, and received this meat to eat,
an( j somc had their ears pierced. The
pemmiean was also given te the otlsrrs
iu the lodge, and somc was placed at the
feet of the ghost.
Outside the lodge hundreds of Indians
were gathered, forming groups of a doz¬
en or so, bucks, squaws und children in
their respective places. All were feasted
with a menu known Dniy to Indians,
Around the outside of the medicine lodge
horizontal poles were placed, and to
these thc presents which the ghosts were
to distribute were suspended, consisting
of blankets, leggings, beaded moccasins,
tobacco bags, eagle feathers, etc. After
remaining for somc time in view, they
were removed and placed about the
ghosts in the lodge. The relatives now
entered the lodge to commune with the
departed spirits, and the presents were
1 distributed to the favored ones,
The squaws sang and cried and made
great exhibition of their grief. They,
cut their flesh with knives, suffering ex
j cruciating the wrath pains of without the evil a murmur spirits, so to that ap
; pease
i their loved ones may be joyful in the
happy hunting grounds. Upon the con¬
! elusion of the feast the lodge? was taken
down ami the ghosts Were left standing.
An Albanian Blood Fend.
Being iu confidential mood, my host
tells me about his family and his chil
, dren, and that he has a blood feud with
one of the most powerful families of the
neighboring * Hotti tribe, and so never
j * out of thc villa c alone for fear he
houM be sUot for thc bIood he owe8 hia
enen)ies Hig siater , he elplains , mar .
ried a man of Hotti, and it was consid
: cred a splendid match, as that tribe is the
, most powerfui in the great mountains,
an ,i takes the post of honor in time of
1 war. About a year after the marriage,
the husband repudiated his bride, aud
sent her home, giving no reason for the
outrage, but merely saying he was not
going to keep the woman any longer,
! g uc h an insult was not to be tolerated; so
my host and his brother, seeing that
there was no chance of obtaining for
their sister the restitution of her rights,
■ looked out for an opportunity of killing
their brother-in-law. “He was very
j cunning,” said my host reflectively,
j playing with his pistol; “but I waited
for him every day, and at last I caught
him alone, and then I shot him for the
slight he had dared to put on our fam¬
ily.” “And so you owe them blood!”
lie-grins, and arranges his pistols in 1(h)
leather tila. “His fatherffand brothers, ’
he replies, “often come into our country,
to loots for me, and wait for me outside
the bazaar or on the roa<l to Scodra, but
I never go into the city without my
brother and my relations, so they cannot
exact the penalty without fighting a bat¬
tle.” “But surely that must be a great
nuisance for you?” He shrugs his
shoulders: “Some day they will catch
me alone, as I caught him, and then they
will shoot me if they can.” “And your
sister?” “She is in the city.” “Has
she married again?” “Married? Oh
no! She begs; she has her child.” Then
seeing my look of astonishment he adds:
‘ ‘ What is she to do ? We cannot support
her; she does not belong to us now, and
the Hotti will not keep her. But I have
avenged the insult; I have shot her hus¬
band.”— ChamberJournal.
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Horseshoes That Fell From Heav.ni.
Frank Morris, of Worthington, Wood
County, W. Va., is the owner of a horse
whose shoes literally dropped from the
heavens. Some years ago a meteoric
stone fell on the banks of Jenny’s Creek,
in Wayne County, and was divided up
among the people of the neighborhood as
soon as it was discovered. The aerolite
contained a laxgc percentage of iron, ami
some of the fragments were procured by
.Morris, who had a blacksmith friend
work them up into a set of ho.seshoes.
The iron is very hard, and the shoes have
already outlasted two or three ordinary
sets.