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The Ge( >rgia Enterprise.
XXV.
-T^nia farmer wants day, the when Gov
' Resale ., set apart a-sparrow made
onslaught maybe on
(feaniio 118 birds.
Hartford Ti.nt* reports a great
graphic feat: Mrs. Isabella B.
;«s. of Boston, wrote a verbatim
,tof a s P e< eh made in German by
fichurz, which she turned iiuo Kng
shile her pen was flying across the
in stenographic characters."
^-gacies to the amount of 19000, left
Benjamin Franklin aud John Scott tc
expended upon public improvements,
mounted by investment for nearly
..
to about #110,000. Of this.
atury devoted to the erection
n no!) will be
[ large public bath in Philadelphia,
tte remaining $10,000 will be laid
e for another hundred years.
L ;lie p 0 or inmates of insane asylums
L capable of gratitude, the New York
[ thinks they would undoubtedly Chase.
L the name of I)r. A. G.
[ humane practitioner has invented a
L of complex mirrors and shafts
ling to the attic or top story of the
Lm Lector of Norristown, Penn., by which
stationed there is enabled to
live minutely every act aud motion
Ihe patients and attendants in the
L 0 f the iii'-t and second floors, so
i prevent the abuse of patients. The
lees have adopted this sort of mute
ctives and expect from their use a
Dpt cessation of the brutalities which
l hitherto been practised with impu
in the asylum.
paper published in India tells about
ngenuitv of the thieves of that coun¬
in secreting stolen valuables. The
[ of the epiglottis is one of their
bus hiding places. A leaden bullet
*-<|tiarters of an inch in diameter,
kid to a string, is allowed to slip
B the throat to a certain depth,
lc it remains for half an hour or
f. This operation is repeated until
pit is formed in the throat in which
thieves secrets small articles of
fry, money, etc. Twenty prisoners
[Calcutta jail recently were found to
prided [stolen with this singular receptacle
goods. The detectives of
k must be uncommonly alert to have
loped a ruse of this kind.
f. lames M. Swank, in his ‘‘Report
be Mineral Resources of the United
j? for 1888, states that throughput
lovld there are mined every year more,
BO,000,000 tons of iron ore and more
[450,000,000 tons of coal. Of the
ore Great Britain contributes about
ry per cent., the United States
fy-four per cent, and Germany
ly-onc per cent., these three coun¬
thus famishing about seventy-four
ent. of the total amount produced.
Same three countries furnish together
rigkj-tvo per cent, of all the coal
1 Great Britain having produced
icarabout 169,000,000 tons, America
F '29,000,000 tons and Germany
f "0,000,000 tons.
Ming to a foreign publication,
f likel J 'hat we may witness
t«t the unusual though not unpre
bted spectacle of an export of pota
froin Europe, and even from the
Ed Klo S dom 'o America. The chief
,
:es of su PP'y for the United States
“e New England States, and in all
1 Maine the crop is undoubt
s failure. Even in Maine it is be
“ tilat the yield will be
!" gh tlM very poor,
aec °unts are not. yet quite
US1Te ' Tlle production of that StaU
Fever larger than that of any other
I ” 0D an( ^ if the adverse esti
’
MF Current should be confirmed, :
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be no doubt that imports from
f the Alaati c will be
required.”
J ': U ' '’ down ents have got the science
pretty fine it, Cali
' ■ ' dlmate ^' ?reat specialty l of Califor
L f sn( the healthfulness
L," ll'J * Sn or,Jer Francisco to advertise San
sents papers con¬
8 to of an undertaker who
sell out. He says that he has
fete °wat for undertaking a
.ineh* ' aa busi-
1 <i<w hear8e , ’ coffins of the ve, '-V
a C th,.' a * "°° hat d have ne and ™- b <*n
'f as ncw > alt the
m “ ^ ghastly announces paraphernalia his of the
i'diaTe i bel willingn i«
° WWh0leSale price3
of crt >'’ because really the
i if T
Vtw 0 is 80 frightfully
: ker. ^«'jtherct Bo eVerdlCSthCreaDd room for an un
!’ °gle > au English statistician,
c ®dmittin
th V uU al
Ensllw ‘ 1 and
tow-nd the towns
atteaded b vade -
^ d -
ld the ' Stricts - ^
di< W <W P°P ul ation in Eng
^thiu one per cent., a
th '! ° f adowaQ
The au 1, ce
*«!, the I?? ;;;r Stat . ionar y,audi
for me im i' r ° v(,
... ..... .
w »*; but the surplus
i °t th, continuous
? most ' igorous and
e toortaiitv maunfa riuri; g district,,
ra
GEKEHAL XE rrj
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AM) EXCITING EVENTS.
The rep- i t of the murder of the mis¬
sionary, tN.vagc, in New Guinea, is de¬
clared to lie untiue.
( ap tal Hotel, at Dallas, Texas, w s
destroyed by fi e Thursday. Loss $50,
000; insurance $30,000.
The Standard Oil company has ab¬
sorbed the Globe refinery at Pittsburg,
Pa., and alto the Freedom, Pa., refinery.
The schooner Southwest, iron laden, is
missing, is supposed nr d, with her ctew of nine men,
to have gone down in Lake
Erie.
Mnste.' Workman Powdcrly says the
Knights <f Labor arc in bette r slnpe
than a year ago, the future brighter than
evir belorc.
A convmti in of the American Associ¬
ation of Agricultural colleges and ex¬
periment stations began its session at
Washington, I). C., Tue-day.
The Volcano of Colina, Mexico, is re¬
ported to be in a state of active eruption.
Many houses have been destroyed, and
the woods for many miles around are on
fire.
News comes from Talequah, that the
Cherokee council w ill employ attorneys
to contest the government’s claim to ju¬
risdiction over their lands known as the
Cherokee strip.
The New York Herald says that it is
understood that the oil producers associ¬
ation is to lay a pipe line from Pittsburg
lo the seaboard, in opposition to the
Standard O.l company.
Fire on the river in Bedford, just be¬
yond the city limits of Manchester, N.H.,
of Saturday, destroyed the farm buildings
Samuel N. Dunbar. Two children
were burned to death.
Coal miners of four pool* in the Mo
norigahel.i Valley met at Monongahela
City, Thursday,and decided to strike for
in advance of one-half a cent perbusbc’
ior the price of mining.
The first regular shipment of the new
crop of California oranges passed through
the poit ot Nongales Thursday. The
quality this season is fine, and the crop is
an unusually large one.
A live wire fell on the roof of n Third
avenue car, in New York city the other
day, and stopped its progress. It is be¬
lieve i that it would have killed any one
who have been touched by it.
The Lager Beer Brewer’s association
of New Yotk, voted $410,000 to the
wot Id’s fair guarantee fund. Total re¬
ceived Wednesday was $522 000, mak¬
ing the grand total now $3,554,110.
Advices from the Pan Handle coun¬
try and regions further north says that
heavy snow now covtrs the earth aud
there is every indication that the begin¬
ning of a most severe winter is at hand.
A special to the Tribune from Albany,
N.Y. says that the firm of B. Lodge & Co.,
knit goods jobbers, of that city, has been
forced into an assignment by a depres¬
sion in business, with $70,000 liabilities.
The official gazette at the city of
Mexico publishes a contract entered into
between that government and Francisco
Alfaro for the construction by the latter
of a railroad from tho Rio Grande to the
Pacific coast.
The supreme court of Indiana has de¬
cided that natural gas is a commercial
commodity, and, consequently, the legis¬
lative act of last winter prohibiting the
piping of gas out of the state unconsti¬
tutional.
The woo! growers of Western Texas
have concluded to send a delegate to
Washington to look after and protect the
intere.-t of the wool growers generally
before the committee of ways and means
of the coming Congress.
Daniel V. Carmichael, one of the best
known business men of Amsterdam, N.
Y., was arrested Tuesday night by De¬
tective Sweeney, of Albany, on the
charge of forgery. The forgeries extend
over a period of two years.
Tire proposition to remove the remains
of General Grant from Riverside Park,
New York, to Arlington, near Washing¬
ton city, seems to bo meeting favorable
consideration. It is indorsed by two or
three- posts of the G. A. R.
1 lie new state of North Dakota begins
business with a bonded indebtedne.-s of
$509,000 and a floating indebtedness ol
about $80,000. With the strictest econ¬
omy there will he a further d.fficiencj
during the first j ear of at least $..0,000.
A call lias betn issued by the temper
anee societies of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa,
North and South Dakota, fora conven
tion to be held in Omaha on the 18'h of
December, for the purpose of organizing
the states named in a central prohibition
organization.
Exports of specie from the port ol
New York for week ending Saturday,
November 9, amounted to $342,841, of
which $10,420 was in gold and 332,035
in silver. Imports of specie last $177,331 week
nmounted to $279,180, of which
was in gold, and $101 830 in silver.
mi The M Middlosborough i., , ii-ii- .England, and iron
market is excited. No. 3 Cleve pig
is quoted at 60s. It is reported that the
syndicate has bought up all Cleveland
warrants, thus cornering the market.
Mtddlcsborough No. 3 warrants are
quoted at 68s cash.
E Vanhosen, a prominent church
number and cashier of the Toledo, O.,
National bank, has been arrested,
charged with embezzling about $80,000
of the bank’s funds. J. M. Keller, tel
ler of the bank, is also under arrest ns
an accomplice.
Bishop O’Dwyer, at Limerick, Ireland,
has issued a pastoral letter forbidding
the clergy of the diocese to grant abso¬
lution to any person guilty of boycotting
or pursuing the plan of campaign. The
bishop retains to himself alone the right
lo absolve such persons.
In keeping with the tise in the
matkef, the wattes of employes of
furnaces of the Brooks Iron company,
at Biisboro, Pa., have been advanced
percent. 'I he Warwick Iron company,
of Pottstown, Pa., will incrcise its
nace Mondiiy. employes’ wages ten per cent,
Mayor Creiger, of Chicago, on Tuesday
nppoin ed a committee of leading
wns to coafer with the
Soldiers Association relative to the
option don. to be tendered to Governor
of Georgia,during his visit
her 30th. The occasion promises to
1 notable one.
sa^Tf* a j- A , 0n . ° fr , £ hl m e u hwa Roscbar vm!lu i ^ h ® ?, ld reg0D U P
1 Con. Coos Bay U stage Thursday, - broke
“Mr COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER ME RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY !” —Jeffers* s.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER *21, 18811.
< iters and registered pcnncVs and rifl d
them i f their contents, then htnd; <1
I ‘hem hack to the driver, thanked him
j politely It is reported aud Lade from him “God Chicago speed." that Or.
Cronin’s clothes were found on Evans
! hin the catch avenue, about one hundred feet from
basic in which the body was
found, Saturday afternoon. In them was
on account book containing Cronin's
name. Sirs. Conklin, with whom he
lived, identified them as his.
. °h>gist ..... of Oh-.o, offi
S c says
ctally ■ ,, that the Garun! t-as supply in the
now famous field in the northwestern
part of that state will not last for ten
years. In the eastern part of the state the
supply has been so nearly exhausted
that the manufactories have been com¬
pelled to return to the use of coal.
The committee appointed at the meet¬
ing of the govomors of the tint teen orig¬
inal states, held in Philadelphia in April,
1888, and of which Governor Green, o(
New Jersey, was chairman, his issued an
invitation to the governors of all the
states »i:d territories to meet in person,
or by representation., < n the second Tues¬
day in December, 1889, at the Ebbilt
house, Washington, D. O.
A COURT ROOM FIGHT
15 WHICH TnnEE PERSONS ARE KILLEE
AND SEVERAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
A dispatch from Lexington, Va., says-.
“Reports received here fr< m Browns
burg, a small -village of about 300 peo
pie, in Rockbridge couniy, fotiite n
mi es noith of Lexington, state that that
village is in a high state of excitement
over leading a terrible and bloody fight between
men of the vicinity. Three
persons are dead or fatally wounded,
while a number of ethers are severely
injured. It seems that Dr. P. J.
W aiker, one of the most prominent phy¬
sicians and surgeons of the state, hud
threatened the tife of Henry Miller, a
prominent and wealthy citizen of Rock¬
bridge county, for an rtisuit offered the
former’s wife. Miller had Walker ar¬
rested to keep the peace. Friday even
ing the case came up in a rn gistrate’s
court, and the trouble soon started,
which ended in both sides drawing their
weapons. Miller was kidtd, Dr.
Walker fat dly wounded ar d Mrs. Walk¬
er, who was in court ns a witness, was
killed. Dan and William Miller, sons of
the accused, were shot and dangerously
wounded. Sitnuel Beaver and others
whose names are unknown, are also in¬
jured.” Walker, A later dispatch ssys: “Dr.
P. J. who was wounded in the
Brownburg Lexington, affair Fr.day evening, neat
Va., has died from his
wounds. Dave Miller is mortaily
wounded, and his brothers George,
Janus and William implicated in iho
shooting of Dr. Walker and lrs wife, are
in jail. Lyncning is feared."
THE TERRIBLE BLIZZARD.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF TIIE DISAS¬
TROUS STORM IN Tllli SOUTHWEST.
Various parties who spent ten days in
the snosv blockade between Emory Gap
iml Folsom, N. M., arrived it) Trinidad,
Col., Tutsday. They report suffering to
nan and animal fully as great as shown
in former reports. Patrick Casey, an
ngiueer, spent eleven days in making
the run from Trinidad to Texline anti
return. food. For two days and nights he was
viihout Seventy five men shovel¬
ling from show for at Mount D ra and were cut off
food two days nights. A
delayed passenger train was cut off from
ating stations three days. They drew
on the express cirs for food supplies.
Reports says a sick man, traveling with
two children, lay on his hack two days
ti lplers. lie had o ly crackers foi
nourishment. A sheep grower, near Ute
reck, is reported to bare lost 5,000
beep from a flock of 8,000. An engi¬
neer, running between Trinidad and
I'exline, said that he saw more real des
itutiou duiiug the ten days in this snow
ulockade than in all bis life before. The
r ad was opened with rotory enow r plows,
but remained open only a tew hours.
Tuesday morning’s snow and wind block¬
ed the tuts agam. Altogether the bliz¬
zard has been a terrible one. None of
the residents of that part of the country
ever heard of such a one in south Colo¬
rado or New Mexico.
TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT
WHILE IN TIIE ACT OF PLACING A DAN¬
GEROUS OBSTRUCTION ON THE TRACK.
The c , J, f r train which , cft
Atlantlli Ga . ; b und or M,. K . on , W ednes
day evening, narrowly escaped a feirfut
wreck. By the time the train reached
Wcstvicw, near McPherson bniracks, the
engine was under good headway. The
watchman who looks after the tracks
near Oakland was walking the track
when suddenly he discovered a man
bending over the tiack just ahead of
him. He s'epptd forwaid and a-ked the
man what he was doing, when the latter
raised up and he recognized him as Dick
Latham, a negro well known in Atlanta,
Glancing at the track the watchman
f»w a piece of railroad iron, curiously
bent, ’ lying on the rail. The headlight
cf th e train flashe 1 full upon it. and be
that it had been tied to the track
- h wJ ’ and be tugged away at it,
_. ettiu „ u clear of ,be rail just as the
the locomotive passed over the
wires t]ia t he did not have time to die n
tangle. By that time the negr . had es
^ped, but was captured later in the
niglit! The spot is within where fifty the yards iron was of lied Un¬
to the track wrecked
pf ,ce where the fame train was
a cro ss-tie placed on the track some
m , e p 9 lives’ a „ 0> w hen three railroad men lost
t heir
CRERARS WILL.
HIS LIBERAL EEQTF8T8 TO CHURCKE* AND
LITERARY societies.
John (.rernr, ot ,
The will of the late
Chicago, was admi.ted to mo ate iurs
day in the rounty cour, Eohedu i i
poses of persorul 11- C(
and , .
at $3,500,000, na c “ ^
$50,000. Cn'.u w i- a >
the last member •• ^ ‘
family in the ma.e rce num .
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SAaailWwSSXw benues's of
the flrst , aecond and third
. , ,i,p r -nms are eiven to
1,'t- charities, historical,
fie, ra? ,1 tarv societbs arid to
8 " whole aggregating
f’Xn ca ds V the Tho
'‘ s d a arter dollars. ,c
]c(ft ’ ,. 0 rotate, estimated to be
°ith R abou • A" "50 000, is set apart for
w wtamtensnce ~ of 0 f ,, p DU ij. b
’ the erection and
lie library in th- city of Chic OT, l
“John Crerar Library. t)
known as the
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MO CEMENTS OF THE PRES WEN I
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OP INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The statement is out that congress will
j investigate and the civil service commission,
preparations for the investigation
j htc now being made,
j The secret iry of the treasury has ap¬
j pointed L. G. Jeffers superintendent ol
j constroctii n ef the federal buildings at
j Birmingham, moved. Ala., vice Shepherd, re¬
I)r. Gricn, president of the Western
Union Telegraph company, is preparing
a reply to Postmaster-General Wana
maker’s schedule of rates in accordance
with the directions of the executive com¬
mittee.
The president on Tuesday appointed
the following fmirth-class postmasters:
Miss Laura A. Cobb, Blairsville; Jamei
K. Goethe, Dale’s Mill; P. Howell,
Lax, Ga., and James 11. Ozinent, Battle
Ground, N. C.
The new Catholic University of Amer¬
ica was on Wednesday formally opened
with impres-ive ceremonies in file pres¬
ence f a large number of prelates of the
church and distinguished laymen from
11,1 ‘ ,:irts of ,he C0U,lt T'
A letter received at Washington from
Caracas, dated November 5‘.h, states
< n October 26tb, the ttatties of
Blanco ’ in that city, were pulled
ttn<i dragged through the streets
I 'ccts. Similar statues in other
luct a like fate,
Monday afternoon the president
his proclamation declaring that the
ditions imposed by congress on the
of Washington to entitle that state
admission to the Union have been
fil'd and accepted, aud that the admis
sion of snid state into the Union is
complete.
Fourth Auditor Lynch, in his
report to the secretary of the treasury,
says that there is a deficiency of
in the appropriation for the pony of
navy and marine corps for the last
year, caused partly by the payment
of the fund of claims for longevity,
lor service on board receiving ships
the recent decisions of the
Court. Tho Auditor makes an
tec unmendation for an increase in
cleric el force of his office.
November cotton returns of the
partment of agriculture show a
abie variation in the condition in
ent localities. In North Carolina
Virginia ihe season has been very
aud excessively wot, and the crop
ously injured by long continued rains
the season of blossoming. T nru
rep wiather, its injury lack to the crop l>v
of tuliivation, aiv» ...Uj
frosts during the past month. In
states the crop is much worse than
of last year. Elsewhere the crop
comparatively Car Aina Alabama, late, especially with from
to a large
of weed. In tho lowlands early frosts
have injured crops cast of Mississippi,
while the uplands in the southern belt
still green. West of Mississippi, in
large been portion of thecottonarea,
no frost. The weather for
has been remarkably favorable,
the gathering without waste of all that
opened in excellent condition.
tions of the yield per acre, by county
respondents, are about three
higher than last year. So much still
pends on future killing frosts and
weather f<«- opening and gathering
the result cannot be known very closely
until after Christmas. There has
been severe general loss by
and bollworm, localities has though the damage in
some been serious.
A Jackson, Miss., special says: A spe
cial train o:i the Illinois Central branch
from Aberdeen, Mi-s., collided north
Canton with a switch engine Thursday,
resulting in the death of Patrick
mond, engineer of the switch
Tom Loftin, fireman of the switch
cine. Jim Smith, D. Halsey and V.
Thomas, and several other persons
injured.
The royal chapter of King’s Daughters,
wbieh is composed of deli gates lrom
various circles in the state, met
Charleston, S. 0., Sunday, and was very
slin.lv a:tended. The slim
was attributed to the publication in a
newspaper of a card, which waa supposed
to lave been written by a prominent
King’s Daughter and inwhic' the w
urged the Ivtngs Daughters to get up a
petdionto Queen Victoria for the pardon
cf Mrs. May brick.
News comes from Raleigh, N. C., that
the reports of very valuable finds of gold
in Montgomery county are true, and that
there is already much excitement in that
section, which may develop iuto a rush
if the discoveries contiuuo. Ihe char¬
acter of gold found shows that it has
been beaten from veins. The find will
grtally stimulate mining in that county,
which*is ihe richest in the state in aurif¬
erous deposits.
OUT OF PRISON.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN WILL EXPOSE
THE WICKEDNESS OF BOSTON.
George Francis Train was brought be
fore Judge McKim in the probate court
at Boston, Mass., on Monday morning,
where testimony was given by several
witnesses as to his mental condition,
After hearing the evidence and argu
ments of counsel, Judge McKim gave his
decision that Train was not insane enough
to be confined in an asylum, but evidently
of unbalanced mind, and therefore not
properly held in durance for debt,
He was therefore discharged. Mr.
Train says he wilt not go back to
i New York until he has laid hare the
wickedness of Boston.
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EXCITEMENT AT PIERRE.
SETTLERS AND SQUAW MEN PREPARING
FOR A REGULAR FIG n r.
A s peek'd from Pierre, S. D, says:
The Fort Pierre Ilcrabl containsastart
I 'ing ••*««•'.....tU but earnest appeal for help. Itsavs:
condition, soil
to state that a company of
soldiers, with bayonets m hand to¬
gethcr wd with a number of squaw men
a buid of redskms are on
tae « ro un d ; Frouble has been expected
at the f fort , for some weeks, ow.ng to the
conflicting cl«m* of intending settlers
and squaw men for lands, and the people
of Pierre are now awaiting, with intense
excitement and f<nxiet news from the
. other gi , lc
A GENERAL FIGHT- r
SEVERAL MEN KILLED IS HIE FRENCH
EVERSOLE FEED IN KENTUCKY.
A Courier-Journal special from Hazard.
Ky.. savs: The circuit court convened
| here last judge, Monday. I Judge Li!by, I
! the regu'ar not icing present, the
i bai elected Captain W. L. Iluelst, of
Wolf eountv, to preside. Everything (
i started off serenely with apparently
i no
to town Monday evening Indore j
Ire, v™ \ ,10th ' n \ wa *
thought of f ir it. Th The Evcr.oie party kept ,
increasing m numbers un tl it reached
thut, well-armed men. There were only
a few of the French party in town. It
soon became apparent, that there would
be trouble. French was aware of the
war-like preparations and placed himsc'f
with a strong force in easy r. ach of the
town so as to be able to relieve bis
frimds in the event of trouble. Tliurs
da;, evening Wesley Whittaker, of the
Eversole faction, fired upon Henry Dav
ids a, one of the Fiench party. Wliit
take. Jiad barricaded himself in a small
log in-use on the opposite side of the
street. Davidson was soon joined by
others. Whittaker, in the meantime, had
also Y„-n joined fight by several place of Ids friends,
ami r lively took between
torn men of the French party and the
Ev",-soles. The court which was in ses¬
sion, (.impeded. The fight lasted about
I fifteminutes. When the smoke
cle > 1 away, it was found that Cam p •
beii, of the Eversole party, had been
kill* d. This fight took place
about lour o’clock in the aftcr
noon. TUe parties rested on their
arms till daik, when the fight was re¬
new. d with increased fierceness. The
Fre h party had been reinforced by the
i Da' 'dson boys. Jessie Morgan, brother
of : . O. Morgan, who was killed by the
Evi rsoles, ami others. B. F. French
hin -elf came into town about 12 o’clock
wit,i reinforcements to the relief rf his
bcl- iguercd friends. At daybreak the
figh raged with new fury. The Ever
«oi jiarty was stationed in the courl
ho -e and J. C. Eversole’s old fort.
Tl 1 battle lasted about an hour and when
tin Eversole party retreated, leaving their
de 1, Ed Campbell and John Mc-Knight,
kit -d. Several were wounded on the
E, rsolo side. The court broke up with
oi ceremony, the judge leaving for
h ne as quickly as possible.
10VEMENT8 OF COTTON.
1
*v oRT or new Orleans cotton ex
tes us CHANGE FOR FAST WEEK.
*P er ew Orleans Cotton Exchange
| {own. jt OMo n ’ a ' tc and * 'he Miasusippi cotton and movement
- Poto
mac rivers to Northern American and
Canadian mills, for the week ending No
vember 9th, 48,837 bales, against 48,779
last year, and the total, since September
1st, 1,188,070, against 239,741 last
year; the total American mill takings,
North and South, for the first ten weeks
of the season, 517,883, against 674,852.
of winch by Northern, 431,486, agains’
587.152; the amount of the American
cotton crop in sight, 2,670,580. The
statement shows a partial halt in heavy
foreign exports, and the excess, which
last week was 410,575 bales, is now 869,-
573 over the total to this time last year,
It also indicates that the Northern mills
are still pursuing ahand-to-tnouth policy,
the deficiency in their takings for tne
ten weeks compared with last year hav
ing been increased to 125,716 bales,
The stocks af the seaports and leading
interior towns have increased 189,874
bales during the week, reducing the de
ficitncy, compared with the clcse of the
corresponding bales. week last year, to SO ,542
:
TRIED FIVE TIMES.
AN EDGEFIED, S. C., MURDERER ESCAPES
THE GALLOWS FOR THE FIFTH TIME.
! News comes from Charleston, S. C.,
that the fifth trial of R. T. Jones, the
J model nt Edgefield ,lie Edgefield murderer,is courthou now in Some pro
? n 8S e.
. Jones, who married
u ^.. or t! x Nears ago
I 8 “ J ? s Pr f sb '?t K ot “ ad w],h bw wife’s
relatives, took his shot gun and three or
•
butcher knives, and went out into
l0 ! d where li,s father-in-law, aged sex¬
! and ,brce brothers-m-law.
" ere at v '°' 1 5- J T '; ma established a hu
.
falher . in . law and butchered his three
broth) rs-in-law. lie then went in the
courthouse village and surrendered him
s,]f. The murder occurred during the
sission of the court nt which the Cul
breath lynchers were being tried for the
murder of au innocent man. Jones has
; been a hero ever since, Five times he
has been brought to trial, and cueh time
he has escaped by a mistrial.
A BOLD ROBBERY
BY TWO MEN, SUPPOSED TO BE RUBE
BURROW AND I1IS PAL.
A special to the Birmingham Age-IIer
ald, from Sulligent, Ala., the the nearest
telegraph office to Vernon, tells of county
seat of Lamar couuty, a bold
j heavily robbety cariy Wednesday night. Two resi
armed men rode up to the
dence of Mr. Summers, a merchant in
Vernon, and asked him to go to his store
and let them have some burial material
: for a person who had just died out in the
country. Summers went and let them
into the store, struck a light, nnd
was surprised to find himself looking
j down the barrel of a big revolver, In
obedience to instructions he opened his
safe aud gave the robbers four hundred
dollars, ail he had. The robbers are sup
posed to be Rufie Burrow and his part
ner. Burrow’s home is only seven miles
from Vernon.
POISONED HASH.
OVER A HUNDRED WEST TOINT CADETS
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.
A rcp.ort reached Newburg, N. Y.,
Thursday, that half tho corps of cadets
at West Point, upwards of 150, had re
ported at hospital ill from poisoning. It
turns out that the illness occurred a few
days ago; that it was not poisoning, but
trouble of tho bowels, and the attack
was general with all connected with the
mi sc hall—drivers, gardeners, waiters,
etc., these faring as badly as the cadets. Eveu
who had not ta-ted food at the
mess were as badly afflicted as the others,
The surgeon had his hands full of bu-i
ness for a time, but all recovered. The
superintendent sion has appointed a commis
to investigate the cause.
SOUTHERN SEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN TllE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT Of WHYI IS OOINOt ON OS
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A Confederate monument was unveiled
in Suffolk, Va., Thursday.
chief Justjcc w -
»
P - 1Iuat daughter of the
.
s, ( ‘ eLry Jh »'*■ •-*" , Ti' ?*• reT" M- rton. P " ¥
The assessm; at of property for tnxa
tom m bmimca has just lieeo com
P' e,cd - The ' »tal amount is $223,304,-
758, which is an men aso of about 9 per
cent, over the assessment of 1883.
It is now said that the last reported
fight between the Hatfields and McCovs
in West Virginia never occurred ail'd
that the accounts of previous conflicts
between these factious were much l x
aggerated.
Sanfor Joseph Plummer, aged 88. died near
he I, Ky., Thurso iy. Two months
ago had a stroke of paralysis, and it
is said went without food for forty days,
his weight declining from 285 to 125
pounds.
A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., on
Monday says: Frank J. Leo, who ac¬
companied this Sam Jones, the revivalist, to
city last winter as his private stcre
tary, is now locked up in the city prison
on a charge of burglary.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, who had accepted
an invitation to attend the approach¬
ing centennial at Fayetteville, N. C\, has
w ritten a letter to the committee of ar¬
rangements, in which lie- states that his
health will not permit him to be present.
Ten men have been arrested at Cleve¬
land, Tcun., for passing counterfeit
money. The operations of the counter¬
feiters have been very extensive through¬
out that sec'ion for several months past,
silver dollars being the principal coins
made.
A special of Tuesday t> the Courier
Journal from Loudon,Ky., says: Reports
freirn the fight of tlm French.Eversole
factious in Perry county contineic to be
meager and conflicting, but there is no
doubt that n desperate encounter com*
mcnced at Hazard Thursday, and is yet
perhaps in progress.
Among the cases of importance which
w ill I e tried at Sylvania, Ga.. next week
will be that of Thomas Beard, chnrgcel
with killing L. M. Conner a short time
ago. The .Alliance-men are taking an
active part in the proceedings, owing to
Ihe faet that Beard belonged to the or¬
der, and intense interest is manifested in
the case.
Dispatches of Thursday from Vernon,
Alu., say that Summers, tho merchant
who was robbed there Tuesday night,
declares that the robber was not Burrow,
Summers has known Rube all bis life,
aud although the men wore masks, he
could tell his visitors were not the fa
rnous outlaw and his pal.
At ,. a meeting in hew .. Orleans, „ , of . the ,
chamber of commerce am industry of
Louisiana, llutrsday night, t.icrc was of a
spirited contest over the question
preference as between New York and
Chicago for the site of the world’s expo
ntton of 1802. A resolution was finally
adopted favoring Chicago.
News was received from Rcidsville, N.
C., Thursday, that the grand jury had
returned a true bill against Mrs. Cora
May Harris, for the murder of her bus
band, a merchant of that place, by poi
soiling him. The woman is of one of
the best families in the state, a relative
of ex-Governor 8 ales, and thr case
promises to be a celebrated one.
News of a horrible double murder
comes from Johnston county, N. C. An
aged and respectable lady named Mrs.
Celia Brown resided in the country,
about four miles from Selma, with her
little grands,n eight years of age. Sat
urday morning both were found mur
dered. They had been killed with a
cun. No clew lias been obtained to the
murderer and no cause for it can he as
sit;ned ”,
The well ,, , known case of , Charles „, , E. c
Cross and Samuel (. White .defaulting
president and cashier, r ^ s F c 1V< y»
the State National bank of Raleigh, N.
C., was finally disposed of Monday by
an opinion rendered by Justice Harlan in
the United States supreme court Inc
effect of the decision will be to compel
Cross and White to serve out the term
for which the; were sentenced.
The thiid biennial session of the Uni¬
ted Syodof the Evangelist Lutheran
church, South, convened in Wilmington,
N. C., Thuisday. This body embraces
eight district synods, and has a commu¬
nicant membciship of about forty thou
sand. One of the important matters to
be considered by tie synod is the estab¬
lishment of a Southern theological sem¬
inary.
fatal EXPLOSION.
BIX MEN KILLED AND TWO -'TIIE HS
BLINDED IIY OUST POWDER.
A Pioneer Press sjk cial on Thursday
1 ^ '
occur red on t h e cw strut: on branch of
the Northern Pacific, fifteen miles west
of here, in Jefferson county, un Tuesday
night. The men were at work in a cut
blasting IO ck. A blast of giant powder
was fired but failed to have the desired
tffict. Whereupon, it being close to
quitting time, aud the men being anx¬
ious to complete the blast before they
quit, they pourcl a quantity of black
powder into the drill hole. Some sparks
from the giant powder blast must have
remained in the hole, for instantly an ex¬
plosion followed, before the men could
retire to a place of safety, bix men
were killed and tvo others had their
eves blown out.
A GENEROUS GIFT.
A BALTIMORE LADY OIVE8 J””-'’ HOPKINS
university a CHECK FOR $100,000.
jj r9 Caroline Donovan, of Baltimore,
the widow . of a Ke' T Yo f k Merchant,
on Saturday presented to the John Hop
kins university a check for $100,000.
Mr 9 Donovan expresses the preference Eng
that . it be used to found a chair of
dsb literature, though if the trustees fee
6t , 0 „ iake other use of the money, they
may act according to their best judg
mi nt. Mrs. Donovan made this money
beiaelf l)v fortunate investments. She
hud a i rc a*dy provided for all of her blood
relative) and thu 1 made her generoui
gift without causing family jealousies.
! THE CRONIN TRIAL
BAD BLOOD BETWEEN COUNSEL —A WO¬
MAN’S STARTLING TESTIMONY.
There is mush bad blood between
counsel for the i rosecution and those
for the defen. e in the Cronin case, which
is not ronfi icd to the principal counsel,
but is shared also by the juniors. There
was a wrangle 'luesdav night in the
| cl, rk's office after adjournment, in which
ispxzrJssrs.’s:& thJ-Tust’odjTf ^xhTbtolS^Yc
a“u£
prosecuting attorney and placed in the
Lands of the clerk. This wrangle broke
out afresh in the court Wedm sd rv
m ruing without any apparent reason, Hynci
except that Attorneys Forrcit and
wished to nnphasize the distrust and
dislike of Prosecutor Longeneckt-T.
The matter was finally dropped,
an I the testimony proceeded with.
The most important testimony, so far,
outside of the identification of Burke ns
the man who rented the Carlson cottage,
where tl e murder was committed, is that
of a washerwom -u named Pauline Hocr
tel. She testified that she pawed the
Carlson cottage between 8 and 9 on the
night of the murder. She saw a white
norse, drawing driven a buggy in which there
were two men, up to the cottage.
The larger man, who appeared like a gen¬
tleman, got out of the buggy and taking
a satchel or box out of the buggy went
up the steps and entered the cottage.
Tho driver of the white horse at onre
turned around and drove back toward
Chicago. The man knocked and was at
once admitted iuto the cottage. As quick
as the door was closed Mrs. Hoertel
heard sounds as of blows and the fall
"f a heavy body and what sounded to her
like some one calling, “Ob, God.” In
the confusion of sounds she also heard
the word “Jesus.” Then in a very short
time everything became still. She said:
“It was as if somebody was fighting and
then as if somebody fell.” Witness said
this occurred soon after eight o'clock at
night. “The man who went into the
!’■ t ttage,” she continued, “went into the
house if unhesitatingly, tho door and it seemed to
ms ns it was him opened or ns if
some one opened for as he came
up the steps. When I turned from Ash¬
land avenue and started east I saw a man
standing between the Carlson house and
the cottage. Ho was inside in the fence.
There was a light in front of the cottage
and the night was bright starlight.”
A POWERFUL ORDER,
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO
HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAT.
A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich.,
says that not less than 75,000 Michigan
Daadry f" rn ! er8 since ljavu i last oi “ ed May, the asd Patrons the number of IIus
increasing ^ery week. 1 hey threaten
to jecomo a controlling power in ilia
of ,he 8late . 8t ‘ d tlu "> to ( T> rt ' ad
°. T< : r t ie entlr f c °9 ntr y- The patrons
clmm to , h “ ye ^ 8n forced ln ‘° bem «
monopolies ,. and trusts, and they propose
to organize a combination that will
, trjke terror to the hearts of their ene
mio ,_ At prcgent , h(j patronf ar6 deT0 .
ting themselves exclusively to merchants,
snd in every town where they have a
foothold they '' enter int0 on lron . c l ad
contract wlth one dcak . r in cacll Une o{
trade to purchase only from him, exact
ing a pledge that they shall not be
charged to exceed twelve per cent ad
vance on wholesale prices. The patrons
have lodges in forty seven counties, with
| , membership of more than 5,000.
—--
IN HOT WATER.
THE SOUTn CAROLINA RAILROAD SWAMPED
WITH LITIGATION.
Another suit for foreclosure was filed
Thursday in the United States court at
Charleston against the South Carolina
railroad. The complainants in this suit
» ro H ; P. Walker and other holders of
original first mortgage bonds of the
<,ld ro “ d . '" ljosc securities were not con
v erted m the ! reorganization. There arc
11 three suits for foreclosure pending
nt the couits against the road. The first
being the suit of the first morlg.ige con
H . lidatcd bou ,, g knr , wn as the Bound
Mlit) and UBder which ex . G oveiuor
Chamberlain was appointe d receiver, and
t ] lc second m bt half of the second inert
(new) bendholdcrs, and the third
Jn bchllU l)f ^e first mortgage (o’d>
bondholders,
THROUGH THE SHOALS.
A MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMBOAT LAND8
at Chattanooga's wharf.
The steamboat, A. C. Ci nu, a Missis
tippi river craft, passed through Muscle
Shoals canal and arrived at the wharf in
Chattanooga, Tcnn., Thursday morning.
This is the first vessel which ha’ passed
through the great canals now about
completed. The construction in the of Tennes¬ canals
to overcome obstructions
see river at Muscle Shoals was com
mene d by the government in 1873, and
nearly four million dollars have thus far
been expended on the work. The open¬
ing of the canals, which will formally
take place in a few weeks, will give wa¬
ter transportation nine months in the
j jear river. from Chattanooga to the Mississippi
( CAGED AT LAST.
AFTER A YEAR’S FREEDOM NINETEEN
MURDERERS ARRESTED.
John Jackson was ai rested in Wichita,
Kansa«, Wednesday morning, on a charge
of murder, aud. brought to Topeka. He
was one of twenty-nine who, in July,
1888, murdered Sheriff Cross and posse
of Stevens county in the neutral strip.
The murderers were not arrested at the
i time because of a legal technicality, no
court, it was claimed, having jurisdiction
over the neutral strin. Advices from
Wichita Thursday night were that eigh¬
teen others were placed under arrest.
SWINDLED THE EMIGRANTS
GALICIAN PEASANTS INDUCED TO COME TO
AMERICA UNDER FALSE STATEMENTS.
News comes from Vienna that at Wu
dotce, Ihursday, the trial opened of
j sixty-five persons who are charged with
swindling inducing large number of Galician
pc isants by them to emigrate to
America by la’se statements, and then
obtaining Among commission the on their implicated passage
money. persons
are a commissary of p lice, comptroller
of customs, Hungarian judge and a num
her of customs guards, beveral Austrian
j and Piu-stan gens-de of arm swindle. were bribed to
; assist organizers the
NUMBER 7
FROM THE CAR WINDOW, f
Like a great serpent our train sped along
O'er hill and through sweet smelling glen.
Through the deep tangled thicket and foreeC
of pine.
By low hanging orchard and rich clustering
vine,
Through many a flowery fen.
With meteor swiftness we trundled away,
O'er ec hoing trestle and bridge,
’Neath where rippling waters in tumult is
stirred,
Whose sparkle is seen but whose song is am
heard.
As we hurl through a hole in the ridge.
In mail eager haste we scampered along.
Through picturesque village and town,
Past bright, golden fields, with the grain
waving high,
And rich verdant meadows with broek run*
ningby,
Aud cows lying lazily down.
With arrow like speed we darted along,
Where visions of green beauty gleam,
Past children in doorways all eager to see,
With tiny hands waving and faces aglee—
By farmer boy guiding his team.
We gamboled along this frolicsome way,
Past vine covered farm house and cot.
By mansions of splendor in foliaged grounds,
Where fountains and flowers and velvety
mounds.
Embellished a fairy like spot.
ENVOY.
While rattling along in this rollicking way,
From thatched <*overed cabin to dome,
I thought myself as these views glided by.
And quick, shifting contrasts came oft to my
eye,
That each one was somebody's home.
— Eduard A. Oldham . 4n Boston CHoht.
PITH AND POINT.
A rising man—Tfcc balloonist.
IVlien a horse begins to rear, let him
make his will. He is on his last legs.
When a man “gives himself away” he
naturally loses his self-possession.— Lift.
It Tooks very much as if the fruit of
murder in New York would be electric
current.
The time that waiters dislike most
isn’t meal time. It’s a ouarter to four.
— Time.
Many who teach the young idea how
to shoot, appmrently don't know that it’s
loaded.— Fuel.
Irate papa to wasteful sou—“Do you
ever think of anybody except yourself?”
Wasteful Son—“Yes, sir, l very often
think of my creditors.”
Turn about is fair play. Mail bags in
a Texan coach wore recently rifled by
road agents. The next day the road
agents were rifled by deputy sheriffs.
V’li'l many a man
IV .--I lit batching cannon face.
Wbo’dgive Any a hornet
amount of space.
—Vansville H cent.
The average bachelor likes to think ha
is better off than the fellow who gets
married, but he does not really believe
what he likes to think. —Baltimore Amer¬
ican .
“You're not working,” said the coach¬
man to the cook. “What's the matter;
were you discharged?” “Yes; I went
from the frying pan to the tire.”— Wath
inqton. Capital.
Now across the back yard gate
Hound the old domestic yell,
As Ophelia calls to Kate:
“Can't you make your jelly jell!''’
—Springfield Homestead.
A woman out west was badly injured
by the bite of a bat. Bats are danger¬
ous. We know of another instance in
which an umpire was terribly mutilated
by a bat. The crowd didn't think the
player was really out.
THE BRAVE DRUMMER BOY.
His bag went down on the foundered ship,
But the drummer still was bold.
“What though,’’ he cried, “I’ve lost my
I . , haven’t erip;
lost my hold.”
—Bazar,
A Boiling Oil Ordeal.
According to the London Times, the
District Judge at Kalutara, Ceylon, re
cently liad before him three persons, in¬
cluding a village headman, charged with
causing grievous hurt to four others by
requiring them to plunge their right
hands into a caldron of boiling oil. The
medical evidence described thp hands a*
being in a “sodden, suppurating condi¬
tion,” the fingers being in some cases de¬
formed. In all cases the injured persons
were unable to follow their ordinary avo¬
cations for about a month. The facts of
the ease, ns stated in the judgment, were
these:
A woman in the village had some plum¬
bago and rice stolen from her; a head¬
man made inquiry, and, failing to obtain
a clue to the theft, announced that it
would be necessary on the third day to
hold an ordeal by boiling oil. This ap¬
pears to be a not uncommon custom in
remote parts of the country, and the for¬
malities arc as follows: Some oil from
newly-gathered king-cccoanuts is manu¬
factured by one of the friends of the
complainant; this is poured into a cal¬
dron and heated to boiling point. Each
of the suspected parties is supposed to
dip his hand into the vessel of boiling
oil, and is at liberty to sprinkle as much
of the hot oil as he brings up with his
fingers on the person of the complainant,
who stands close at hand. Any excla¬
mation of pain on the part of the sus¬
pected person is construed into au ad¬
mission of guilt. If no such exclamation
is made the innocence of the party is
supposed to be established.
In the present case the evidence es¬
tablished that the pressure on the accused
was not merely moral; they were forced
to dip their hands into the burning oil.
No force appears to have been used in
bringing them to the scene of the ordeal;
they collected there in response to the
orders of the headman, who, seated on a
platform opposite the vessel of oil, ap.
pears to have acted as the presiding
judge. Each of the complainants de¬
posed to the fact that they were reluctant
to submit to the ordeal, butwere forcibly
dragged up to the caldron by the other
two accused and their hands plunged into
the boiling oil. They had sufficient self
control to abstain from calling out, ex¬
cept a boy of seventeen, who cried out
lustily, and was thereupon pronounced
the guilty one. The judge took the fact
that it was a custom into account, hut re¬
fused to dismiss the prisoners with a warn¬
ing as suggested by their counsel. He
fined them 100 rupees each, with the al¬
ternative of rigorous imprisonment tot
ten month*.