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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXV.
tohname 11 are said to lie landing a
Lftafl Mexico. Thence they make
,
L r »*y into Texas.
La Italian engineer named canal Bocca pro the
t0 construct a across
w the Adriatic
^om of Italy, connecting
Tyrrhenian Seas. He estimates the
t0 ; ( he work at *125,000,000.
rtf health of Lord Tennyson is now
Lplttclv restored. The* aged English
L m av'almost daily be seen frequent
Lthe beautiful drives in the neighbor
jod of his home while it is not unusual
[see him walking.
Ijn order to replace the field laborers
L have emigrated to Mexico and
uth America a company has been
L eii j„ Havana to make contracts
fh L a number of workmen in Spain and
them to Cuba with their families.
■Statistics prepared by the railroad
bimissioners of Iowa show that in that
a i one w itb 8000 miles of railroads,
.
I brakemen were killed or injured in
B8 because of the use of the ordinary
L a nd-pin coupling and the hand
ike on freight cars.
[The Director of the Mint says that the
Lrtation timer of $70,000,000 in gold last
represents the money spent by
Lricsns in visiting the Paris Exposi
L. He cites, in proof, the fact that
l Bank of France has gained $63,000,.
D during the same period.
H movement is ou foot in St. Peters
tg Li for observing Sunday as it is under
in the United States anil Great
itain. It is said that 1200 St. Peters
L merchants have already declared
ImselTfs willing to keep their places
ljusiaessdosed on the first day cf the
ek.
the new dock at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
■ subsidized by the city of Halifax,
■ the Canadian and British Govern
lits. to the merry tune of $600,000.
lost a million, and being 601 feet in
|gth, can dock the longest steamship
bat. It bolds 8,500,000 gallons of
br aud can be emptied in three aud a
p hours. The greater part of the
pk was blasted out of the solid rock.
l Russian officer is sentenced to ten
its in Siberia and is put to lvork in the
pes. His sweetheart, a young woman
wealth, follows aud finds him—
|sts and ankles chained to his waist.
I marries him in that state, takes a
■dul larewell and returns to Russia.
■ New York Sun thinks it difficult to
Vc up one's mind what moral this
■petting points to.
Tile first practical attempt to light
pdon with electricity has recently been
Be in that city, which up to this time,
far behind in this respect nearly every
Irth-rate town in the United States.
iree great companies have been formed,
r a “ Wegate capital of $12,000,000,
r ‘‘attracts have been secured by them
I lighting many of the principal
iroughfares of the great city. The
Nmnm charge for electric lights has
L fired at sixteen cents au hour for
pay lamps of sixteen-candle power.
Kilthe ncw cruisers are receiving
Ipriate christening ap
priiose ll0 gifts from the cities
»or they are named, Boston
psented her namesake with a set of
pis, Chicago hers with a service oi
Per plate, and Philadelphia is getting
a library. Baltimore’s gift is not
announced, but it will unquestionably
something novel and good, as the
ivknd city never does such things by
veg - Come to think of it,
, ’ he Wa8 hington though,
tto ... keeps Star, if this sort
g on aud the navy grows
what room for originality of choice
11 ‘here be by th6 time
the list gets
Spokane Falls and Kalamazoo?
pdison is preparing to unveil new
“krs in the "orUl of invention.
* hi intervi He
an ew: “I think it possi
t!l at men who
aphony are talking through
may see each other as well as
["*«h fissions other's voices. They may see
of countenances, see the
ftaoce. laugh over a good joke, for
11 Will be as though
ns f ace i you saw a
n 8 mirror. It can lie done
short dist ances, say within
bk. 0 f a city and its suburbs.
I
tatter mqUUe Sure il ca nbe done as
f 01 f scientific
tether accomplishment, but
kcticabl. Uve V!r ■ a " l>1 ther ' made commercial lv
" bat 1 shall ‘““S' 1 d " ”"t
' try find
to out."
‘ nha hitants ~o f Yuleano, a little
erranean just north of
«; h “
never return,
de 2 “ volcano, which of the little mis¬
than a h< >le in the ts
Water a loaner ground forming
Dl «no has of mile deep. This
le Place, b66 u the onl y curiosity
and ‘° «f
“3 ' *th emitt- n? ^ U coutented
*** liable didt eessantly, SVaPOrS it and steam,
volcano. But was quite •, '
11 h* 8 been for twel ve months
°v et the island, scattering l ava and ashes
l0re than heap which is B °w little
a of
‘oo sbo Ws T S ' Md the vo1
bitten* ao silrn Lp -
, Pernicious mtentioa to
“0 bare been Th ° peo ),c
J voleari driven l
* aD, of e ^ aU
0 he unless warranted
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE 1CCIDEXT3, STRIKES.
IIRES, AND HAPPENING! Of IXTEUBT.
„ ileetings . of the Salvation . Army have
been forbidden in Switzerland.
The total number of women killed in
the Glassbow factory by the fall of a
wall, was thirty.
The fued of the Hatfields and McCoys
in Lincoln county. West Virginia, is re
ported to be in bloody progress.
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w nU C Urer *
P i. n , 1 • 8 rt * mee , ing, a , -
vanced n- f i’h the price •’ of . wtudow . , g.ass 15 per
t '
The vote of Wyoming, on Wednesday.
on the adoption of the constitution, will
aggregate 10,000, with less than 1,000
against.
The new census of India gives the
population in March, 1888, as 269 477,-
728, of which 60,684,378 belong to the
na'ive States.
M. Selig & Co., notion jobbers, at
Philadelphia, Pa., assigned Tueadsy,
with liabilities likely to reach $100,000.
Assets about one-third.
C ... holers , is . Mill .... .... the valleys ,, of ,
raging in
tue Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months there have been 7^000
deaths from the disease.
Notices have been posted in all fur
naces in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, grant
ing ull employes an unsolicited increase
in wages of ten per cent.
Four deaths from diptheria were re
ported in Fuirliuven, Conn., Tuesday,
und tome anxiety is caused by the news.
Thc victims are all children.
The report of Ihe auditor of Arkansas
shows an increase in the value of real and
personal property In that state, during
the past year, of about $12,000,000.
An exposition in a dynamite dynamite factory factory
near the town of Bilboa, in Spam, ou
Thursday imt srtay demolished demolished the tin. l building, .ildinrr
I our of the employes were killed and a
large ge number utnotr in injured jured
Jhe poorer people of Johnstown, Pa,,
charge that in the distribution of the
relief fund for the sufferers there, most
of it was given to the wealthier people,
..a....j...■>»«a.
i.s.nss?
from Hiogo to New York, has been lost
off the northern coast of Japan. Nine
teen of her crew were drowned.
•The & freight conductors and brakemen 3
Trwr'i Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of it the New York v l
World, is about starting from Paris upou
a tour around the wotld, accompanied
by invited guests. He goes by way of
the Suez . anal, India and Jupan.
The Austrian bark Joseph II, sailed ^
from Providence, R. I., for Rotterdam on
Thursday with $100,000 worth of cotton
teed oil. This is the first direct foreign
cargo that has left this port for the last
half century.
It is reported at Zanzibar, Africa, that
Ihe Masais or Somalis have massacred
Dr. Peters, the German explorer and his
whole party, except one European and
ane Samalia, who were wouuded and
who are now at Ugao.
The emigration commissioners at New
York, on Friday, notified all steamship
:ompanics that a head tax of fifty cents
each will be collected ftom them for
svery alien that they will bring here,
Tl.is will include children.
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A remarkable revival has begun in the
penitentiary at Kingston, Ontario. hundred
Between eighty and one
of the leading cracksmen, lorgers
pickpockets, and men of that ilk,
l.ave been converted. Hunter and Cross
ley, Canadian evangel.sts, ate conduct
ing the meetings.
The Punce of Wales sailed on the
royal yacht Osborne, from Alexandria,
Egypt, for Pitacus Tuesday. Upon his
arrival at Alexandria fern Cairo, he re
coved au ovation. The streets were
decorated with garlands and flags, and
triumphal arches were erected along the
roule taken by the prince.
The exports of specie from the port of
New York last week amounted to $421.-
284, of which $63,050 was in gold and
$358,234 in silver. All the silver went
to Europe, and all the gold to South
America. The imports of specie fer the
week amounted to $351,272, of which
$301,895 was in gold and $49,377 was in
silver.
By the breaking out of molten iron in
the stack of Colbrook furnace No. 1, at
Lebanon, Pa., Monday afternoon, five
men were killed, and three severely
burned. The men, all of wln.m werela
boreis, were overwhelmed by the rush of
molten metal while at work, and some of
them were burned almost beyond recog¬
nition.
te The attention *• of t tn.™ George w 4V. Chiids,
the editor of the Philadelphia Ledger,
has been called to statements pub
hshed in several papers that he had e.x_ ,
pressed the opinion that tlm body of
Genera! Grant wiil be removed from New
lork Mr Childs dentes the report and
says that he has never expressed such an
opmron or said in any form that General
Grant’s body would be so removed.
Dr. Mary Weeks Barnett of Chicago,
m > Drought suit for $50,000 damages in
tbe circuit court on Wednesday, president against
Frances E. Willard, of the
National Women’s Christian Temperance
uuion, Caroline E. Buell tnd Esther,
Pugh, for circulating false aud defame- j
tory statements against the complainant,
concerning her management of the Na
tional Woman’s Temperance hospital in
Chicago.
M. Mackeuon organizer of the London
expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, has
received the following dispatch ftom
Zanzibar; Letters have been received
from Stanley, dated Victoria, August
29th. With him were Emin Bey, CVsati
llassan, a Tunisian apothecary j— Stars
Ne.son Jephson Parke and Bonny.
Eight hundred peop.e accompany him
toward Mpwapwa. All were will. Stan
by reports Waddell in the hands of the
Aluhatrists.
It seems to be a settled fact that a large
body tract of colored colonists will be given a
of Umd by the Mexican Government.
u MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER EE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY I "— Jefferson
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER U. 188R.
COTTON OIL MEN
HAVE A MEETING AND FAVOR CHANGING
THE TRC9T INTO A CORPORATION.
The committee appointed at the last
meeting of the certificate holders of the
C )ttOn Oil tlUSt tO CXamint! IlltO its S,'
fairs and suggest a method for changing
the trust into a corporate concern, met
llt New York Wednesday. The report,
presented discussion, and adopted after considers
hie was on the basis of chang
ing the present certificates into stock,
which would be assured by the deposit
of all securities owned by the trust with
I the Centr.d Trust company. The new
stock will consist of $27,000,000 com
mon and $15,000,000 six per cent now
cumulating preferred stock. The
mittee reported that through errors of
j udgmeut a Uss of $277,110 had been
sustained and had been charged off
tUe boots 0 f the company. Mr. Flagler,
p (j rte i(leut, contributed $150,000 and J.
>i orse , treasurer, $100,000 toward
making up the dtfictency. The company
will be re-organized committee. on the plan rccom
mended by the
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W -LOllllNATI A Sll I I) U. U
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MOVEMENTS OF TI1E PRESIDENT
AND A , v ,. HIS AD\ 1SERS.
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appointments, df^isionb, and othbb matters
of interest from the national capital.
^ The president Wednesday appointed
on
A S. Greeu postmaster of Echols, Miss.;
V. Hyde, at Hemp; F. M. Kimbalet,
J .neshoro; Malinda S. Cornelson, at
Rooter, and Benjamin Pirkee, at Silver
President Harrison, on Tuesday, ap
pointed Wurr.n G. Sayre, of Wabash,
In d ’ v a member of the- Cherokee com
. succeed J. F. Hartranft, de
mission, to
° ea 5 ed - ‘ Ml - &Ljre was speaker of the
Indiana legislature in 1837.
A new steward has been secured by
^ ^resident president lor for the tue white wtntt house nouse. This inis
time the choice has fallen upon a Scotch
jfj 1 1 “'nan Philin rump Me .xieivira. Kim For nlHD manv J
y car8 McK,rn was steward at the Metro
politan Club, of Washington.
T , ! ,e ,,, ' v u8llln , . K ton Start ,,, taysthi>"^® ... . s , ‘
. °f thei charges of
=. “ opium sm g
g^g >dBan Francisco has revealed the
eom ,“,.TZT C“si.drf «i
xt, £ siTJSsg: ’ n t ' 8 '
,1Klafe , t report , from the Cherokee „ ,
‘ j
. Indian to the effect that the
nail in are
re ^ eat “ rd e r a ? d commumcation of Sec
wsz . l
sasrt
favored the state of the outlet before,
are now obstinate. They ray the gov
erument has adopted bulldoziug tactics.
and they will not yield an inch.
Nothing has developed at the State de
partment respecting the case of Ex-State
Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana, although
it was reported that Burke was on his
way to Honduras. It was further stated
that if this was true, it would only be
the most natural thing in the world, for
two reasons: First, some Louisiana peo
pie, Burke among them, probably have iu
secured very valuable concessions
mining and otherwise iu Honduras, and
it would be to his interest to go there
and work them; second, there is no ex
tradi,ion treat J with n ° miuras '
Quartermaster-General S. B. Holabtrd,
of the army, in his annual report to the
secretary of war, rccommt-nds the enlist
ment of men for the quartermaster-gen
eral’s department, the establishment of
drill halls for winter exercise of troops,
and stales that repairs are needed to
roads leading to the national cemeteries
at Chalmette, La.. Natchez, Miss,
i Kuoxviile, Tenn., Richmond, Va., Vicks
burg, Miss., and others. He also ree-
1 ommeuds that permanent means of ap
proach be established to the national
cemeteries at Alexandria, Arlington, Va.,
Culpepper, Va., Fredericksburg, Va.,
Fayetteville, Ark., Poplar Grove, York- Va.,
Staunton, Va.. Seven Pines, Va.,
tow n, Va., and Athens.
rnnn oo ou ¥p wt wi wa.
„ HAT A prominent cotton firm sax.
of the outlook. ’
_
The following f from an autograph cir
cular Qf Mess g Lat l ; am, Alexander A
r ; the well known bankets and com
mls ion merchants of New York, will b«
of intere8t tothose interested in cottoni
“Planters," sav the firm, “in many sec
tions, are sending their cotton to market
i n a deliberate manner. A systematic
and abrupt holding back of the crop il
not commendable, and such a course of
action has not been adepted in the 8outh.
Planters have, howevir, resolved not t 0
rush their cotton to market, and it
gratifying to know that they are In a
position to adopt their present policy
without being dilatory in meeting the.r
obligations. The fact is, they have made
their crops with much lighter
advances from factors and ne -
chants than in any previous y® ar -
Tbey have used less of commercial fer
tilizers than formerly. The majority sell of
them are, therefore, in a position to It ia
their cotton when they please. approach
gratifying to see planters permanent now financial
iug ^ a cou diiion of
in ependeuce “The demand is so great
.
tliat a higher plane of value for co*ton
tban in some Jears past, seems likely for
thi , |eagf;n >.
THE P. PFHfi PER8 MISSING MISSING.
docimentsneededtocombat
claim s disap pear.
“ n red at Chicago Fridav m\»i
; ni that important papers office,upon were
^g fro m the state’s attorney’s depended
jch !lj0 couaty bad largely claims,
CO mbat the old “boodle" ag
K „ re£rat j n „ $250 8 000. They are needed
e, ’ f Contractor
. , dlt ,j ie 0
Kellogg ex-Warden Varnell, ex-Com
missione'r Frav j>' and the American Stont It is
, B • k re8er v m g company.
- d thgt unlesg t he missing documents
are recovered it may result in the b-ss of
manv thousand dollars to tbe cout#v.
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A MEXICAN BUZZARD.
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One of the , severes »»' m » * “
1 ^* S315 VSp In JS"»>* •■"
«£»^ g are CO ming * of great damage to
k 0Q th northern ranges. A
, f coW nd*it bovs and sheep-herders have
. , , 03t a is feared they
t er j s hed All trains are from five to
! [ , welve hours late, operation and snow-ploughs the Raton are
kept ia con stant on
i ' anu S rjinrictttt t. lor mountains.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Bills Passed by lie Senate and House
•f Bepresen laid rea of Georgia,
A resolution for the relief of J. M.
Wilson, tax collector. Sanford bill, pro
Whiting lottery advertisements—house
amendment agrerd to. Convict hire bill
—house amendment agreed to. Coin
men icheol law—the senate insisted on
Amendments. A bill to provide for
ths erection of stock gaps; to amend the
certiorari law; to confirm the degree of
j C“urchss ‘“Penor courts I benevolent extending the charters of
, an societies; to au
thoriza the trustees of the lunatic asylum
clerks t0 appoint a marshal; to provide that the
of court taxe theplaccofthcor
dinary when he is disqualified; to amend
’B® code with reference t> the fees of
1 ordinaries by adding ertsin charges; to
j amend lo section *Be appointment 465 of the and code discharge in refer
eut ®
of constables; to amend the tax act by
' taxing traveling agents of insurance
companies fifty dollars; to incorporate
; Harter Mills; to repeal the net providing
assessors for Richmond county; to incor
p rate the Americas and Jacksonville
Railroad company; to require millers and
“ e * leH t0 ““mp the weight of flour or
“ ejl ou ‘ hj uo P®«° n Bable to
this except on full aicks; t to establish
public schools for Social Circle; to incor
poriltc th(J Southwest Exchange and
Ban kin" company; a resolution to
invite the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union to Atlanta next year; to iucorpor
ate the Southern Traveler! association;
to batik; incorporate the Atlanta Dime Savings
to provide bow jurors shall be
sworn; ville; to incorporate incorporate the bank of Smith
to the city of Demor
est iu Habersham; to authorize the gov
ernor to ieasc the Indian Spring reserve;
to change the name of the Winterville
and Stmthioma railroad; a .me m.lc pro
hibltion bill for Biss church in Bibb
A bill to incorporate the Covington and
Cedar Shoals railroad; to amend section
3732 of Ihe code; ’, to amend the charter
ot « th tue R itomo Sf street R ttitway => company, to .
mcorporate Bartow- the town of Emerson in
C?, ° ’ to to incorporate incorporate the the Gubiin Dublin and and
Blackshear Railroad company; to ineor
porate the Georgia Banking and Trust
company; to amend the act constituting
the exper ^ | menta i f arm; to change f the
time of olding the rior c0l rt of
!<£-;■ 2**» i
two readings of ordinances at one meet
ing, and to prescribe the number of real
ings of ordinances; to amend the charter
ot - Cedartown;to authorize the judges of
2 *sstvsis sura’=
bill tsxsszsstz to smend the r-h nf rsss Ttrnnawick
Athens irtor RaUwaycom-’
toiucormate the
pan y; House amendments to the Macon
and Birmingham charter bill agreed
to. A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor
within three miles of the M. E. church,
south, at Blue Ridge, in Fannin county;
to authorize the mayor and council of
Columbus to extend the city limits ftom
time to lime by resolution.' The exten
sion already granted by act of the
general assembly. The deficiency
bill with the amendments of
j the senate finance committee.
A bill to amend the prohibition bill for
New Hope church, iu Clarke; to estab
lish public schools in Marietta; to pto
hdjit tlj f sale li 2 uor in Monroe county
after submitting the question to the peo
pie Monroe ; to prohibit between the the sale of of seed cotton and
in 1st August
the 1st of February. A three-mile pro
hibniou bill for Macedonia Free Will
Baptirt church, in Miller county. To
prohibit the sale of seed cotton in Pu
laski between August 15th and Deccm
ber 24th; to amend the elruter of Guy
ton; to amend section 1855, with refer
ence to the commitment of lunatics to
the asylum; to incorporate the State Sav
lugs sud Banking company; to amend
the game law of Bibb county; to incor
porate the Albany, Florida and Northern
Railway company; to prohibit false
weighing by common carriers; to iucor
porate tbe E npire Building, Loan and
Trust company; to amend the charter of
the Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance
eoai l ,a T- 80 as to th «“ lh f
insure against cyclones, tomadoos and
hurricanes; to ameud the charter of Val
d^ta; to incorporate the Augusta Rail
the " a - v com.P a ®.v; to provide for refunding
P ubllc debt of Atlanta; to mcorpo
rate the Valdosta .“ nd VT”" ^ Kail ‘
road , company. A stock law forUmtta
’ ?. x fP‘ m the 1,107th and !
MOtfth districts of county:
^Uer prohibit bunting on the lands of an
in Wilcox, east of the river or on
Robert Bowen e lan l. Ownerof land to
P®»t; to authorize the mayor an coun
«l of any city in Georgia to receive be
forcemeteries; to amend thca
tachment law; toi amend the Cartersv.lle
Street railroad; to incorporate the Peo
P ^vtngs Btnk of Rome,
Governor Gordon, on Tuesday, signed
(he fol | ow i nK important, bilis and they
arc n0V v laws: An act to be entitled au
gc t to amend section live of an act en
titled au act to incorporate the Traders’
Bauk of Al i anUi 0ft An act
au t^ or j w th; governor to sell the city
lot and old capit ,ji bttilding in the city
ofAt i antli and aIl of its appurtenances,
locattd 0 u Marietta street, at public
fa , after advertising the same one
| mn dted days, and to make title of the
purchase An act to defiDe the right.
of landlords to declare the effect* of cer
tain contracts to make itpmal for any
cropper to sell or dispose of crops in cer
uin cases, and to make certain
o{ ^ landlord indictable.
^ ^ to amcnd 8ect - on 339 of the
code °f 1882 so that it shall read “no or
binary shall engage directly or indircct
ly, in the practice of law in his own or
the name of another as partner, open
or * il cnt or otherwise, in any case or
proceeding in bis own court or iu another
court of which his own court has or has
had or may have jurisdiction, or in any
court or any manuer whatever in behalf
of or against any executor, administra
tor, guardian or trustee, or other person
acting whose in a representative capacity,
duty it is to make returns to his
court, except to give such advice or in
slructions as his duty may require of
‘ l,m a8 .°[ d ‘ nar y hl8 owa cour ‘ and
for which he shall receive . only , such fee.
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CASH FOR IRELAND,
At the fortnightly meeting of the Na
tional League at Dublin, Ireland, on
Wednesday, it was announced that con
tributious amounting to £8,000 had been
received from America since the last
meeting.
A DISASTROUS FIRE.
PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, HAS A *500,000
CONIT. AG RATION.
loss Petersburg, Va , sustained the heaviest
by tire on Thursday it has experi¬
enced since the war. Flames were dis¬
covered by policemen about three o’clock
n the morning, in the rear of the store
f A. K iteostock A Co., or George H.
Davis A Co. Owing to the density of
the smoke, the officer could not tell in
which it originated. Food flames burst
out of Hoseustoek's front door and spread
themselves with frightful rapidity. The
whole fire department responded, but
weic unable to make much headway. The
buildings in which the the started were
located in what is known as the “Iron
Front” block, and consisted of five stores,
each five stories high, and was the hand
somest in the city. The block was soon
a mass of flames which communicated to
buildings on each side and swept across
the street, consuming sixteen places of
business before they were stopped. The
stores burned on tlie east side of the
street are: S. Brudgers, J. H. Robert, furniture deal¬
er; 8. general commission
merchaut; A. Hosenstoek <fc Co., dry
goods and notions; Geo. H. Davis, whole¬
sale and retail dry goods and notions; M.
M. Davis & Co., w holesale and retail dry
goods and fancy goods; IV. T. Plummer A
Co., wholesale and retail hardware; T.
\V. Price, wholesale and retail groceries;
Epues Hargrave, grocer; G. W. Brooks,
stoves and tinware. On the west side of
the street the buildings burned are those
of P. II Steward & Co., carriage and
harness makers; Western Union tele¬
graph office; Odd Fellows’ hall; Young
Men’s Christian association hall; store of
A. J. Clements, boots and shoes and
leather dealer; law office of \V. L. & T.
G. Watkins and Mayor Charles F. Col¬
lier; auction house of P. I. Seabury and
office of Win. R. Nichols, coal dealer.
Total loss is estimated at $500,000 and
insurance is estimated at $350,000. An
unfortunate occurrence was the killing ol
Lieutenant George Crichton, of the po¬
lice force, by falling walls.
GEORGIA GOLD MINES
TO BF, PURCHASED AND OPERATED BY A
BOSTON SYNDICATE.
Mining circles are syndicate agitated over a ru¬
mor that a Boston is negotiat¬
ing for the purchase of the Dahlouega,
Ga., gold mining property. The rumor
states that the owner will dispose of all
the valuable water power, acqueducts
and mines for the sum of $1,500,000.
The Boston syndicate, it is btated, have
discovered that the gold of the Dahlouega
mines can be worked to advantage cheap¬
er than any other known property.
Low grade ores, which assay one dollar
to the ton, can lie milled for twenty-five
cents, leaving a handsome profit. aud In the
west ore which averages two three
dollars a ton, cannot be worked without
loss. The ore of the Dahlonega mines
is almast inexhaustible, and it is said the
Boston syndicate, if the purchase is
made, will work on the system that the
greater the output the greater the profit.
POLES COMING SOUTH.
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA INVITES
THEIll IMMIGRATION.
Colonel Julien Allen, of Statesville, N.
C., is making arrangements for a large
immigration of Poles into NorthCaroliim,
and says (he prospects are good. A Pol¬
ish priest will soon make a tour of tho
state, accompanied by Col. Allen, with
this special object iu view. It will be
the first movement of Poles to the South.
Col. Allen says they will make good
citizens, and are industrious and well
trained. He expects tint a large settle¬
ment of them will be made at High
Shoal, in Gaston county. There will be
a large arr.val of Poles at New York and
Baltimore in the next few months. Five
hundred families arrived at Baltimore
recently. Col. Allen, who was a noble¬
man in Poland, has great influence over
them.
BOUGHT A BRIDE.
AN OLD MAN GIVES $100,000 IN CASH
FOR A WIFE.
Jesse Fovell, seventy-nine years old,ol
Calhoun county, Ill., and Mamie Isdell,
twenty-three years old, of St. Louis,Mo.,
were married a few days ago. It is said
the old gentleman is worth about half 9
million dollars, and lives on a farm iu
Calhoun county, III. His nephew, Isaac
Fovel, lives in St. Louis, and Miss
Isdell, beautiful and accomplished,
but poor, has been a sort of
companion and nursery governess
in Isaac’s family. The uncle recently
visited his nephew, and became greatly
smitten with the young girl’s charms.
He paid court to her, and the affair, ac¬
cording to the story, culminated in a
cash offer of $100,000, which was ac¬
cepted.
WILL RESIST.
IHE CHEROKEE LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION
DON’T WANT TO “VACATE.”
The Chi rok.ea I.tve Stock association
h e ld a meeting in Kansas City, to con
sider Secretary Noble’s declaration that
they must vacate the “Grip” by the first
of January next. The meeting was not
public, but it has been learned that the
sense of the meeting was that the secre
r ‘ r J’ » order would be resisted, and it
was determined to take legal steps to
1 lat end - I he association, said one of
the members after the meeting, doe* not
propose »ircs hqld to renew its lease, but simply dc
to iU present lease until its
termination in 1894.
the average weight
OF COTTON BALES OF DIFFERENT STATES
BASED ON RECEIPTS TO DATE.
Ihe Aew Orleans cotton exchange has
published statements derived from other
exchanges as to the average weights of
cotton bales i 11 their respective Statis,
based on receipts so far. I he report, by
sectionsarc: Texas, 534 24-100 pounds;
Georgia, Louisiana, 498 80-100; Alabama, 500;
498 71-100; North Carolina,
aud Tennessee, etc., 501 47 100. Com
pared with the September weights, the 1
average of the cotton belt for themonths
together lighter. is 10 42-100 pounds per bale
!
More than twice as manv visitors
paid to see the Par s Exposition be- !
tween its ope,ring in May and October I 1
a8 were admitted to (he Expos period. tion of
1878 during the same Tho
exact figures ate: In 1878, 9,646,482;
in 1889, 19,331,580.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIO US POINTS IS THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOCXT Of WE.tT IS GOTNO ON Of
IMPOBTAKCE IX TEE SOt lUCIJ STATES.
* lr ? Droke out Sunday morning in the
Schofield , building, adjoining Rollings
Block, on Poplar street. Macon,
*- iUi, l liest.oyed nearly $100,000
wor th of property,
before According to the order of business
the Supreme Court of Alabama
the appealed cases of Dick lfawea Fan
uie Bryant and others from Birmingham
will not ba reached until some time in
Decemlier.
The 7 imer-De.uotrat quotes cotton seed
and its products in New Orleans as fol¬
lows : Seed, $14 per ton; cotton seed
meal, $19 to $20 per ton; oil cakes, $!0
per ton; cotton seed oil, etude, 25 to 28c
per gallon.
A Key Wo-t special to the Timer-Un¬
ion, of Jacksonville, Fla., says: Del Pino
Brothers' immense cigar factory, contain¬
ing ole million cigars, besides a larce
quantity of tobacco, was consumed by
tire Sunday morning.
Charleston’s great earthquake festival
opened Monday with cloudless skies and
charming weather. Public buddings,
private residences and commercial houses
were bedecked with flags and buntiug
from one end of the city to the other.
Billy Ryan, lessee and manager of the
Casino variety theatre, at Birmingham,
Ala., left the city Saturday night for
paits unpaid unknown, debts. leaving about $2,000 of
Several members of his
company are left, without a dollar and
several week's salary due them.
A A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says:
company with a capital of a million
and a half has been organized to reclaim
a hundred thousand acres of land near
that city. It will he done by straight¬
ening the channel of Trinity river. The
land will be worlh ten million dollars.
Mr. and Mrs. IV. L. Murfree, the pa¬
rents of Miss Mary N. Murfree, who lias
become so famous as “Charles Egbert
Craddock, "are now in Murfrcsboro,Tenn.,
renovating and refitting the old home, to
which they, with their distinguished
daughter, have returned to stay.
A. Hirsh & Co., the largest dry goods
and miiincry house in Birmingham, Ala.,
was closed on Saturday by the sheriff on
attachments aggregating $43,000. About
$20,000 of the attachments are in favor
of clerks in the stoie and relativta of the
firm. The Alabama National bank at¬
tached $19,00J.
Two men armed with Wineheatcr rifles
were seen iu the vicinity of Iroudalc,
Ala., eight miles fnm Birmingham, late
they Wednesday afternoon. Soon after dark
robbed two citizens half a mile from
the town. One of the men robbed re¬
ported description that one of tbe highwaymen filled
the of Rube Burrow, the
train robber.
News comes from Spartanburg, one of
the best cotton-growing counties of North
Carolina, of a new cotton plant, which,
if it is as claimed, will make a wonderful
revolution in the agricultural and cotton
oil interests of the nation. T. Ferguson,
tin experienced cotton planter, claims to
have a cotton plant which will produce
nothing but cottou seed without the 5iut.
Rube Burrow, the train robber, took a
ride on the nigbt express train on the
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham
ruilroad Tuesday night. He was seen
and recognized, but no one attempted
his capture, lie boarded the train, west
bound, at a smalt station iu the western
part of Alabama, and rode a few miles
across the line into Mississippi. He was
alone, but carried a large Winchester
rifle and two pistols.
Governor Richardson, of South Caro¬
lina, has received a communication from
Gen. Marcus J. Wright, at Washington,
requesting that maps and descriptions ol
his state and its resources be sent him to
forward to a new company organized in
London for the purpose of investing
capital in commerce. Tbe corporation
has sufficient capital paid main up to office begin
operations, and besides ti e in
London, has an agent at IVashington.
Treasure in the Transvaal.
Daily discoveries are being made all
over the Transvaal of new reefs and
mines containing gold in paying ardevea quanti¬
ties. The Transvaal mines at¬
tracting Cabinet Ministers from their fo¬
lios, as was instanced the other day when
the Colonial Secretary took the post of
Secretary to the Consolidated Investment
Company of Johannesburg, a company
that, with a capital of £175,000, is al¬
ready in the way of making by rent#
alone of properties purchased for £75
000 about £30,000 per annum, and
likely to carry on one of the largest bus'
nesses in South Africa. Its scrip is no
issued yet, but as much as seventy-fivo
per cent, premium has been offered foi
shares in the company. The gold ex¬
ported from the Cape last month
amounted to 24,000 ounces, valued at
£83,000, and the total value of gold ex¬
ported for the last eight months
amounted to £529,650. The output of
gold from the Itandt last month is esti
mated at 36,000 ounces, of which on*
company alone, the i.anglatigh, con
tributes 6500 ounces.
There is no doubt that this country
should attract the attention of Americans
in another way as a great outlet for their
trade in machinery and other tilings.
Much exjienses and loss are incurred by a
want of knowledge of mining and the
want of proper machinery. There is a
field for an enterprising firm. The
country of the Matabcle is about to be
opened up by a company to whom a
royal charter has been granted, and in all
directions arc signs of enterprise such as
is only known where mining is carried
on on a large scale .—New York Sun.
Professor I’krnow, cf Washington,
very strikingly said at Toronto: “While
onr Government is ready to go has to warm
order to protect its fisheries, it never
even known the value, as food supply,
of the game which has lieen killed in its
persistent inaction in regard to the forests
of the National domain. Whole races
of animals have been extirpated before
there was population enough and to require
the meat. While with one l we pay
exorbitant pries in land and wasted
energy to get the plains reforested, ana
that with poor success, with the other
hand we oftev a premium for forest de
st:notion in mountains by leaving them
without proper administration. And
now we propose to establish irrigation
systems, neg ectmgto prottde hist for
those conditions which assure a regulated
water serration.’ supply-uamely, by forest pre-
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Fall Feasts —A Catting Remark —
Where He Put His Faith—A
Flaw in the Law—That
Would Never Do. Etc.
In the full a fuller feeling
Makes the gorging gourmand sigh.
As his febrile, fickle fancy
Puddings, Lightly turns to thoughts of pie.
Grouse pastries, entree^ oysters.
and goose and other game;
And tho’ dizzy with dyspepsia.
Still he gorges just the same.
—New York Jem mat.
A CUTTING REMAKK.
Algernon—“You must not think, dear¬
est, that because you are rich and I am
poor I am trying to marry you on ac
count of your money."
Genevieve—“Whose are you after,
pa’s?”— Judge.
WHERE HE PUT HtS FAITH.
Long-suffering Wife—“How do you
expect a woman to provide vittals and
drink when you don’t bring home no
cash Saturday night?”
and Husband—“Why, M’rier, the grocer
butcher ain’t moved, has they?"
A FLAW IN THE LAW.
Client (in Chicago)—“I want a sepa
lion."
Lawyer—“On what grounds?
“My wife cannot make good coffee."
“I am sorry, but the law is not broad
enough for a man to get a decree on mere
coffee grounds.’’— Time.
THAT WOULD NEVER DO.
Male Visitor—“Miss Ethel, you play
divinely; I could listen to your music all
night. ’’
Ethel (alarmed)—“O, mamma does
not like my callers to remain later than
ten o’clock."— Epoch.
WHERE HE STAMPED.
“You seem at home here,” remarked s
man at the postoffice to the postmaster.
“Yes,” replied the latter, “tins is my
stamping ground." ’
NATURAL APTITUDE FOR THE PROFESSION.
ing Visitor—“Johnny, what are you go-!
to be when you grow up?" \
Johnny (aged four)—“I'm going to be |
a doctor—sec me kill a toad now.”
A FAMILY TRAIT.
Fond Mother—“See the darling !
drink!”
Visitor—“Yes, indeed, the little cun
ning! How much he resembles his pa!"
— Time.
MONEY AND BRAINS.
Tom—“Philsou and I are going into
business—one of us to furnish the brains,
and the other the money.”
Jack—“I see now what you intend to
do with that money your aunt willed to
you ."—Yanlee Slade.
A SETTLER.
Teacher—“If you had three oranges
and ate two, how many would be left?”
Scholar (positively)—“None"’
"
Teacher—“Yes. One would be left ”
Scholar (doggedly)—“No it wouldn’t
I’d eat that too V'-Onee-a- Week-.
“OF TWO EVILS, CHOOSE THF. I.ESSF.R.”
Mrs. Lumkins—“Joshua, I am going
to the dentist’s to have a tooth pulled
out. You mind the baby while I'm
gone."
Mr. L. (jumping for his hat)—“Say,
you mind the baby and I’ll go and get a
tooth pulled, you know ."—New Yorlc
Sun.
AFTER A CURTAIN LECTURE.
“Joe, your wife looks as fresh as a
morning-glory.”
“Bill, I wish she was a morning
glory.”
“Why so, Joe?"
“Because she'd shut up at night."—
Epoch.
QUITE A RELIEF.
Miss Jones—“How good of you, doc¬
tor, to come to talk with me!”
Doctor—“Oh, not at all. I have lis¬
tened to so much clever talk this even¬
ing that it will be quite a rest to listen to
you. Miss Jones. I assure yon."— Qlargmc
Citizen.
HE HAD SEEN ONE.
“Speaking of cowards,” said Cally to
Dally, “I never yet saw- a man wholly
with courage."
“I have.”
“Who was he?”
“The husband of the landlady of my
boarding-house. ”— Borton Courier. !
SHE AGREED WITH HIM.
“Don’t you think,” said a youth, after
working his vocal cords with intense
vigor beside the hotel piano, “that I
ought to go on the stage?"
“Yes,” replied Miss Peppcrtou, who
doesn't like him very well, anyhow, “I
certainly do. There is one that leaves
for the station just an hour and a half
from now.”— Washington Capital.
A GRITTY JOKE.
Customer—“I’ll have some more of
*
Grocer—“You like it, “Yes,
and so does the canary.”
“Why, the bird doesn’t cat sugar,
does he?”
“Oh, no; I use the sugar to spread in
the bottom of the cage. Beach sand is a
little too sharp, you kuow."— Time.
A SOCIETY MYSTERY.
Mrs. De Style—“Mv dear, your ward- i
robe is three months behind the fashion, j
Why don’t you have your husband buy
you some new dresses?”
Married Daughter—“He can't afford
it; he has no money.”
Mrs. De Style—“No money? Well,
Well! I can't imagine what on earth
you married him for ?”—New York Weekly.
THE THOUGHT OF HIS CREDITORS.
Lieutenant (ovei .
ca anr tars m
debt gazang dreamily at the hand of a
wealthy heiress)---Ah. how many per
sons this charming little hand is capable
0 f making happy!”
Lady—“Many? I should think only
one 1”
| Lieutenent—“Oh, if you bestow it on i
NUMBER (i.
me, I assure you a great many persona,
would be rendered happy 1”— Flienend*
Blaetter.
WISDOM IN SILENCB.
Yellowly—“We were speaking of
Whitely the other day and I said I
thought him to be a very intelligent
man.'’
Brownly—“You spoke in fua, of
course."
Y.—“Certainly not; I was in dead
earnest.’’ '
B.—“Why, man, he’s dumb as an
oyster in company. You never heard
him talk. Where does he show his in¬
telligence?"
Y.—“He shows it by keeping his
mouth shut.” —Barton Courier.
TANGLE’S RETRACTION.
Gazley (presenting his card)—“I re¬
present my friend, Mr. Dollejr. You
grossly insulted him last night, and he
demands an apology or satisfaction,
sir."
Tangle—“I don't remember insulting
anybody."
Gazley—“You told him to go to
Jericho, sir.’’
Tangle—“Oh, yes, I believe I did. So
Dolley feels bad about it, does he?”
Gazley—“Yes, sir. He demands an
apology.”
Tangle—“Well, I don’t want any ill
feeling between us. You may tell him
he needn’t go."
SHOCLD DO BUSINESS BY MAIL.
Man—“I believe you profess to tell
from a person’s bandwriting what his
character is?"
Professor—> ‘Certainly.”
Man—“Now, read these lines and give
an opinion.”
Professor—“Hm—hut. The man who
wrote this is about thirty years of age,
somewhat corpulent, writes very seldom,
dealer in cattle or lumber—hm—has a
very passionate, irrascible nature, and—”
Man (interrupting)—“And—and—”
Professor—“And is a very rough, rude,
coarse person."
Man—“You liar (failing upon and
kicking aud locating him)! Just clear out
°? here, or I’ll break every bone in your
miserable body !”—San Franeitco Wat//.
-
HOW HIS BOYS TURNED OCT.
Visitor (looking at the photograph
album)—“You have a fine-looking family
of boys, Mr. Bilkerson. And they all
866111 to have turned out remarkably well,
This is Hiram, isn’t it?”
Mr. Bilkerson (proudly)—“Yea, that's
Hiram. He's in the theatrical line. Gets
S150 a week for merely doing a little
specialty business and aiuging what they
call a topical song. Hiram’s a good deal
of a genius. That next one is Christo¬
pher. He's the Vice-President and man¬
ager of a baseball club. Made $4600 out
of it last year, and didn’t turn his hand
over. The one on the next page is
Oliver. He ow ns the fastest pacer in any
fourteen counties around here. Built a
to® brick house out of what he made
wlt l 1 tbe animal last year and the
year before. Yes, my boys are doing
pretty well. Come out with me to the
barn. I-”
Visitor—“But von have another son.
, ,la '' 6n ,. 1 y® 11
■
Mr Bilkerson (reluctantly)—“Ye-e-s.
His namc s Gabriel - He ' s a professor of
Greck ’ or theolo CT- or something of that
sort 10 a col >ege. Gabe is a good enough
fellow in his way, but he doesn't seem
to get ahead. Come out to the barn,
Mr. Swackhammer, I want to show you
my new spun of grays. ”— Chicago Tribune.
TKe Horrors of Cayenne.
Captain J. A. Hooper, a well-known
sea captain, while sitting in the Astor
House rotunda yesterday, gave an inter¬
esting account of Cayenne, from which
place he had just returned. In talking
about that far away spot, Captain Hooper
said:
“Cayenne is in five degrees north lati¬
tude, aud close to the equator, and is a
very unhealthy place. It is known as the
Botany Bay for France, which many a
Frenchman has discovered to his sorrow.
To speak of Cayenne to a French crimi¬
nal will strike terror to his heart, for onee
sent there he can never return to this
country again, as the sentence in all eases
is for life. Tnere are three thousand
prisoners there, while ou the island of
Salut, off Cayenne, there are ten thou¬
sand aud more.
“After a period of good behavior,
prisoners get a sort of ticket-of-leave.
Among these ticket-of-eave men are some
of the wealthiest men of Cayenne, who,
when the prison bell tolls at night, are
obliged to walk to their cells.
“The harbor is a very fine one,although
it is so shallow in many places that very
few large vessels can sail into it.
“There is hardly ever an escape from
the prison at Cayenne, as the country is
mountainous and rugged to such a degree
that it would be dangerous to make the
attempt. Throughout the mountain passes
are to be found wild beasts and ana¬
condas, the knowledge of which alone
prevents the prisoners from attempting to
escape. For miles around, there are
rich gold mines, which are visited only
by those possessing the courage to brave
the dangers and deathly fevers and mala¬
ria lurking near. The Cayenne colored
men are often seen trudging along, their
big, brawny backs bending under a
heavy load of golden nuggets and other
valuables, gathered here and there along
the mountain side. The road to the
mines presents a ghastly sight, as here
and there along the way are to be seen the
skeletons of white men, who, inspired by
the stories of the golden-veined country,
sacrificed their lives in the chase for
wealth. Should a company be organized
to prospect and mine the Mountains of
Cayenne, the California days of ’59 would
be nothing in comparison to the stam¬
pede that would be made for the gold
fields of Cayenne .”—New Yorl Star.
French Politicians.
According to a French arithmetician,
178 members of the last French chamber
were thin, while only 97 were fat, and
the remainder were betwixt and between;
184 deputies were tall, 121 small and the
rest of middle size. As to hair and
whiskers, 131 wore beards, while 85 were
shaven; 173 sported the manly musioxhe,
while 68 favored - -n. tton chop” whiskers
a la M. Jules Ferry. Finally, 438 were
smokers, and 139 abstained from the use
of tobacco.
Birmingham, England, employes 1009
umbrella-makers.