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BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1891. >
N UMBER 41
There ate eleven American cities
that spread over more territory than
-Paris, while Berlin is exceeded in
area by seventeen of oar cities.
Baris is the deeper in debt of all the
larger oities. Every inhabitant would
have to oontribnte $151 to liqaidato
the city’s debt. New York’s rate is
$45 and Chicago’s $9.
According to the report of tho North
Carolina Railroad Commission, the
taxable railroad property in that
State now amounts to $24,726,000, an
increase of $500,000 over the assess
ment of last year.
General Wolseley seems to have a
poor opinion of his most famous pre
decessor as Commander of the British
army. In his recently published ar
ticle on the “Decline and Fall of Na
poleon,’’ he says that neither Welling
ton nor Bluoher deserves the credit of
winning the battle of Waterloo, but
General Gneisenau.
Thisremarkable^irediction was made
by the Chicago Record: “It isn’t tax
on street electric .railways that is go
ing to ruin the electric street railway
business. A speedier death than that
by' taxation awaits the wholu system
of electrical appliance ns operated at
present. We have information which
leads us to believe that within twelve
months a new machine capable ot use
for providing transportation, light
and heat will be pat before the public;
that this machine will controvert the
“prinoiples of electricity” which now
obtain; will revolutionize all railway
and other transportation systems; will
do away with fuel, gas and smoke;
will, in short, giro humanity uu-
dreamod-of advantages at a very
moderate price. Yes, within the next
twelvemonth we are going to see some
very wonderful happenings.”
Consul Sheridan Bead, at Tien Tsin,
China, reports to tho State Depart
ment at Washington that he has re
ceived information from a trustworthy
Bourco that tho easterns official of that
port, representing the big cotton milis
now being erected at Shanghai and
elsewhere in Central Chino, has placed
orders with a European firm in Tien
Tsm for machinery amounting to
nearly $1,000,000. It is said that these
orders will be principally executed in
England. The Consul desires to call
the attention of American manufac
turers of such machinery to the fact
that mnnv_mills are now being built in
|f China, and they are
lied with machinery,
[that certain kinds of
manufactured in
[tier results, nnd are as
■per than similar mn-
xher in England or on
Where such superior-
i^existsTobserves tho New York Tri
bune, American manufacturers should
be able to obtain a fair share of the
Chinese orders soon to be placed.
' So marvelous have been the triumphs
of the hnman intellect in the post,
that the Rochester Post-Express be
lieves that he would he a rash man
who should undertake to prescribe
boundaries to its discoveries in the
future. For it may be scarcely a de
cade beforo the very achievements de
clared to be impossible, will be ac
complished fact. Fifty years ago Aur
gnste Comte, the famons founder in
France of the Positivist school of phil
osophy, of which Frederic Harrison, in
England, is one of tho foremost ex
pounders, declared that there was
one field of knowledge that woald for
ever remain beyond the reach of the
human mind. This was the constitu
tion of tho fixed stars and the ele
ments of which they are composed.
The nearest of these stars being many
thousand of millions of miles from ns,
Comic affirmed that the substances'
constituting them must ever remain
locked in the secrecy of fathomless
space. So pgobably they wonld had
man been able to arm himself with no
more potent apparatus of disoovery
than was known in Comte’s day, or
than would then have been believed
possible. For to tho' most powerful
telescopes these far away orbs reveal
themselves as little moro than shining
dots, betraying none of tho seorets of,
their structure. But Comte had
scarcely launched his prediction, be
fore astronomers began to hit upon
and perfect the discovery of the now .
far-famed spectrum analysis, which
wrenchoB evon from stars deep in the
recesses of illimitable space the nature
and number of the elements of which
they are composed. Many of these
elements ore the same ae those known
to us on onr earth and in our sun;
but some are strangers to onr chemis
try. Comte as a positivist waB not
' given to modesty—indeed was noted
for''dogmatism—but eveu he under
rated the possible achievements of the
human intellect In view of his nulli
fied prophecy, it need not be counted
rash to say that before another half,
century has flown, the oft-asked ques
tions, “can we edmmunioato with
Mars?” and “can we, know whether it
has inhabitants?” inky receive an af
firmative answer. For who can tell
eclipsing any
dreamed of
khaye armed
Bill Goes MO
1. ClnM-fieM to Mb
ike Measure.
HE WHITES A LETTER TO
GENERAL CATCHINGS
Giving His Reasons for Witholding
Kis Signature.
The new tariff became a law Mon
day night. Its term at the white house
expired at midnight. Mr. Cleveland
failed to sign it. Under the constitu
tion, it having been adopted by both
houses of congress and having remain
ed in the hands of the president for
ten days, it became a law at midnight.
Thongh Mr. Cleveland intimated in
his lotter to Chairman Wilson that he
would veto the bill, ho failed to do so.
He likewise failed to sign it, but throws
the responsibility of the law on con
gress. In doing so Mr. Cleveland
writes a letter explaining his position.
This letter is addressed to Mr. Catch-
ings instead of to Chairman Wilson.
He does that for the purpose of getting
his views before the people. Why he
did not address it to Mr. Wilson is
nnknown. He abuses the bill, but
says it is better than tho McKinley
bill and is a step .in the right direc
tion. He w=ll not interpose a veto.
Sir. Cleveland’s letter.
President Cleveland has written the
following letter to Representative
Catchings, of Mississippi, in which he
sets forth his views of tho new tariff
law and gives his views for notapprov
ing the bill:
“Executive Mansion, Washington,
D. C., August 27, 1894.—Hon. T. C.
Catchings—My Dear Sir: Since the
conversation I had with you and Mr.
Clark, of Alabama, a few days'ago, in
regard to my action on the tariff bill,
now before me, I have given the sub
ject further and most serious consider
ation. Tae result is, I am more set
tled than ever in the determination to
allow the bill to become a law without
my signature.
“When the formation of the legisla
tion, which it was hoped would em
body democratic ideas of tariff reform,
was lately entered upon by the
congress, nothing was further
from my anticipation than a resnlt
which I could not promptly and en
thusiastically endorse. It is, there
fore, with a feeling of the utmost dis
appointment that I submit to a denial
of this privilege.
“I do not claim to be better tlian
the masses of my party, nor do I wish
to avoid any responsibility which, on
acoonnt of the passage of this law, I
ought to bear as a member of the dem
ocratic organization. Neithor will I
permit myself to be separated from
my party to such an extent as might
be implied by my veto of the tariff
legislation, whioh, though disappoint
ing, is still chorgeabio to democratic
effort. But there are passages in this
bill which are not in direct line of hon
est tariff reform and it contains incon
sistencies and crnelties which onght
not to appear in tariff laws or laws of
any kind. Besides there were, as you
and I well know, incidents accompa
nying the passage of the kill through
the congress which made every sincere
tariff reformer unhappy; while influ
ences surronnded it in its latter stages
and interfered with its full construc
tion whioh ought not to ho recognized
or tolerated in democratic reform
councils.
“And yet, notwithstanding all its
vicissitudes and all the bad treatment
it received at tho hands of pretended
friends, it presents a vast improvement
to existing conditions. It will cer
tainly lighten many a tariff burden
that now rests heavily npon the peo
ple. It is not only a barrier againBt
.the.return of mad protection, but it
furnishes a vantage ground from which
mnst be waged farther aggressive op
erations. against protected monopoly
and governmental favoritism.
“I take my place with tbe rank and
file of the democratic party who be
lieve in tariff reform, nnd who know
what it is; who refuse to accept the
resnlts embodied in this bill as the
close of. the war; who are not blinded
to the fact' that the livery of democ
racy has been stolen and worn in the
service Of republican protection, and
who have marked the deadly light of
treason that has blasted the_connoils
of the brave in their hour of night.
“The trusts and combinations—the
communion of pelf—whose machina
tions have prevented ns from reaching
the success we deserved, should not be
, forgotten or forgiven. We shall re
cover from our astonishment at their
exhibition of power, dud if then the
Question is forced upon us whether
they shall submit to the free legislative
■prill of the people’s representatives, or
shall dictate the laws which the peo
ple mnst obey, we will accept and set
tle that issue as one involving' the in
tegrity and. safety of American insti-
jtions.
■ “I loye r the principles of true de-
iocrnoy because they are founded in
itriotism and npon jnstice and fair-
388 toward all interests. I am proud
t my. party organization because it is
insertatively sturdy and persistentin
enforcement of principles,
therefore, I do not despair of the. ef-
iCt -** r '-nnde by the house of represen-
to supplement tbe bill already
mmk&srn
passed by .fnrther legislation, and to
have engrafted upon it suoh modifica
tions as will' more nearly, meet demo
cratic hopes and aspirations.
“I cannot be mistaken as to the ne
cessity of logical and sensible tariff
reform. The extent to which this is
recognized in the legislation already
secured is one of its onequraging and
redeeming features; but it is vexations
to recall that while free coal and iron
ore have been' denied ns, a recent let
ter of the seoretary of the treasury
discloses the. fact that both might have
been made free by the annual surren
der of only about $700,000 of unnec
essary revenue.
“I am sure that there is a common
habit of underestimating, the import
ance of free raw materials in tariff leg
islation, and of regarding them as only
related to concessions to be made to
onr manufacturers. The truth is, their
influence is so far-reaching that if dis
regarded a complete and beneficont
sohomo of tariff reform cannot be in-,
angarated. .
“When we give to onr manufactur
ers free raw materials we unshackle
American enterprise and ingenuity,
and these will open the doors of for
eign markets to tho reception of onr
wares and give opportunity for the
.continuous and remunerative employ
ment of American labor. With mate
rials cheapened by their freedom from
tariff charges the cost of their product
must be correspondingly cheapened.
Thereupon, jnstice nnd fairness to the
consumer wojald demand that the man
ufacturers he obliged to submit to suoh
a readjustment and modification of the
tariff upon their finished goods as
wonld secure to tho people the benefits
of the reduced cost of their manufact
ure, and shield the consumer against
the exactions of inordinate profite. It
will thus be seen that free raw materi
al and a just and fearless regulation
and reduction of tho tariff to meet the
ohanged conditions, would carry to
every humble borne in the land the
blessings of increased comfort and
cheaper living.
“The millions of onr countrymen
who have fought bravely and well for
tariff reform, .should be exhorted to
continue the strugglo, boldly challeng
ing to open warfare and constantly
guarding against treachery under half
heartedness in their camp.
“Tariff reform will not be settled
until it is honestly and fairly settled in
the interest and to the benefit of a
patient and long-suffering people.
Yours very truly,
“Groveb Cleveland.”
THE QUEEN’S SPEECH.
Her Majesty Prorogues Parliament
for Six Weeks.
Queen Victoria prorogued parlia
ment Saturday. In her speech closing
tho session her majesty said among
other things:
“My Lords and Gentlomen: It af
fords me sensible gratification to be
able to dismiss you at the end of a
session which has been little less than
a prolongation of the previous one,
and it gives me pleasure to reflect that
yonr labors, if they have been exhaust
ing, have also been fruitful.
“My relations with foreign powers
continue to be friendly and peaceful.
It is, however, a matter of regret that
a variety of questions relating to Af-
rica between my government and that
of the French republic still remain un
settled. It is my wish that these be.
arranged without unnecessary dolay,
and 1 am engaged in friendly negotia
tions looking thereto.
“In ooncert with the president of
the United States I- have taken the
steps necessary to put into effect the
award of the tribunal of arbitration on
tho question of the seal fisheries in
Behring sea, and have assented to an
act of parliament for this purpose sim
ilar to the act which has been passed
by the congress of the United States.
The governments of the two conntries
are also in communication with the
principal foreign powerB with a view
to obtaining their adhesion to the reg
ulations prescribed by the award.
“I regret to state that war has
broken out botween tbo empires ol
China and Japan. After endeavoring,
in concert with Bnssia and other pow
ers, to prevent the outbreak of hostil
ities, I have taken steps to preserve a
striot neutrality between the contend
ing parties. I havo concluded a treaty
with the emperor of Japan in the
regulation of commercial intercourse
between that conntry and the United
Kingdom.”
At 2:40 o’clock the house of com
mons was summoned to the house of
lords. Lord Herschell, the lord chan
cellor, read the queen’s speech, after
whioh •parliament was formally pro
rogued for six weeks.
VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY.
Golma Lake Breaks Through Its Dam
With Disastrous Results.
Advices from Simla, British India,
state that Gohna lake, which for Borne
time past has threatened to break its
bounds and sweep down the valley at
the head of whioh it lies, has broken
the dam which controlled the waters.
Villages along the valley were swept
oat of existence an instant after the
roaring torrent struok them. Ample
warning had been given by the gov
ernment and the inhabitants of the
valley, with all their movable prop
erty, had been removed, so that no
life was lost.
Seoretary Carlisle and Attorney Gen
eral Olneywere closeted until 6 o’clock
Friday afternoon at the department of
justice, studying over the hard knots
in the tariff bill, with a view to Seore
tary Carlisle issuing a circular letter
of instructions to collectors of oustoms
explaining its doubtful schedule's and
the hidden meaning of the wrongly
pnnetnated paragraphs. Secretary Car
lisle is especially anxious to find some
law or construction by which he onn
admit goods whioh, under the-present
law ore dutiable (now in bond,) bat
which come, under the new tariff law,
into the United States free of duty,
without subjecting the owners to the
expense of exporting them and then
re-importing them. ,
A Levee Caves In.
Late Monday night, the levee at the
head-of Pinline street New Orleans,
caved into the river for a distance of
stood apparently firm and sound, and
was regarded by the levee board as one
of the most substantial that protected
the oity from inundation,
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting an Epltomo ot the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
At New Orleans Councilman Dou-
dassa was canght in the act of taking
a bribe from Charles Sherman. Tho
amount token was $100. He was
caught by Detective D. 0. O’Mally
and Sergeant D. C. Ancoin, and lodged
in the fourth precinct station.
Striking miners at the Wkitewell,
Team, mines cat the ropesin the main
shaft, necessitating a delay of a month
before the work can resume. The
mines have been idle for three months
nnd wero to havo resumed September
lBt. There is great excitement there.
A dispatch .from Bolivar county,
Mississippi, says the boll worm has
made its appearance in the delta
conntry and is badly damaging the
growing cotton crop. Planters agree
that if the pest cannot be extinguished
the entire orop in some sections will
be a total loss.
The New Orleans grand jury Tues
day evening returned a joint indict
ment against Councilman Thomas Ha
ley and Peter B. Caulfield, also an in
dictment againt Alderman Frank B.
Thriffiley. Tho indictments returned
are all in oonneotion with the Louis
ville and Nashville switch privileges.
Secretary Hoke Smith has detailed
Professor Frank W. Clarke, a chemist
in the geological survey, to represent
the interior department as a member
of the board of management of the
government 'exhibit at tho Cotton
States and International exposition,to
be held at Atlanta, Ga., next year.
Dr. Anderson O’M&ttey, a physician
of San Antonio, Tex., shot his three-
year-old child accidentally. The
father then pnt the pistol to the woun
ded child’s head and palled the trigger.
He said the wound was fatal and he
could not bear to see the little one suf
fer. He is under arsest, and almost,
if not quite insane.
In the foco of a general belief in
the magnificent condition of the
cotton crop, Tho Garland JYews pub
lished in the heart of the cotton
region of Dallas county, Texas, states
that in that section half of tho cotton
orop has been destroyed by boll worms,
and if the showers continue, the crop
is likely to be entirely destroyed.
A Montgomery, Ala., special snyB:
The recent rainB have been very dis
astrous to Crops. Beports from this
agricultural region of the state aro to
the effect that cotton is cut off from 25
to 30 per cent, and that all growing-
crops in the fields have been damaged
materially. Tbe wet weather contin
ues and the damage will be greater
even than yet reported.
The adjourned meeting of tho citi
zens of Selma, Ala., to take action
about tho removal of Captain Bridges
and the division headquarters from
Selma met Tuesday afternoon. The
committee submitted the draft of the
petition which is to b6 presented to
the southern officials and it was ap
proved by the meeting. It will be
signed by all leading citizens and
business men.
The property of the Birmingham
(Ala.). Furnace and Manufacturing
Company, consisting of a 100 ton iron
furnace, coal mine and extensive tim
ber lands at and. around BushviHe,
Alabama, has been sold at anetion by
order of court, fox $350,000, Fuller
Doggett, of Pittsburg, and associates,
being the purchasers. The furnace
has been idle many months. It will
be repaired and pnt in operation at
once.
Meridian, Miss., is at present stirred
up over the trial ■ of the twenty-three
cases against the blind' tigers. The
police and law and order league are
determined to suppress the illicit sale
of whisky and beer. The secrot sa
loons ore being raided and the pro
prietors are being heavily fined. Frank
Hooks, an ex-oonvict from Louisiana,
is in jail with seven of these charges
hanging over him. When he is prose
cuted in all the courts his fines will
•prove enormous if he is convicted.
In February an international emi
gration society was formed in Bir
mingham, Ala., nnd it has jnst closed a
contract with a steamship line for the
transportation of 5,000 negroes prior
to November 1st. The steamer will
leave Philadelphia qnd touch upon the
Atlantia coast at all prominent ports
as for South as New Orleans.- Then it
will go to Liberia,- touching at Ha
vana. Tbe Liberian president has
promised each colonist twenty-five
acres of land and tools with which to
till the soil if they will-come to Libe
ria and settle.
P. J. Quigley, clerk of Shelby coun
ty, Tenn., and Joseph Thiers, license
inspector for Memphis, have been in
dicted by the grand jury for failure to
perform their official duties. The in
dictments cite over 300 cases of
failure to collect privilege tax
revenue, aggregating a loss to
tho publio of $80,000. During
the past month over 1,000 indictments
were brought against liquor dealers
and investigation disclosed the fact
that while there are in Memphis some
800 saloons, only about 100 have been
required to pay license fees, and dur
ing the past eight years of Clerk Qnig-.
ley’s administration the public treasu
ry has lost nearly $2,000,000 from this
source. -
FOR SOUTHERN ADVANCEMENT.
A Convention of Business Men of the
South at Washington.
Business men from the southern
states met in convention at Washing
ton, D. 0., Thursday morning to de
vise methods for the investigation and
development of-southern investments
and resources. One of their objeets
is to secure the establishment of a
permanent exhibit of sonthern re
sources in Washington, with-an auxil
iary bureau in whioh the various, in
vestments, likely to secure capital, may
be, recorded with all particulars and
thus establish a reliable medium be
tween northern
fields for develi
With a view of
TRADE TOPICS.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Business-for
the Post Weok.
B. G. Dun k Co.’s review of trade
for the past week say:
“Changes during the past week have
not been definite nor very important.
As the president’s final decision re
garding the new tariff is assumed, but
not yet certainly known, part of the
hesitation which appears may be at
tributed to the lingering uncertainty
which must terminate. Other con
ditions if not entirely favorable, have
at least not changed for the worst dar
ing the past week. The business so
long delayed by the tariff uncertainties
begins to come forward, so that trans
actions in many departments are lar
ger of late and on the whole larger
than at the time of especial stagnation
last year, but it is still too soon to de
termine how far the satisfaction of
postponed demands will set idle hands
at work, or raise the transactions to
ward tho normal volume. But it is a
healthy sign that thus far is gradual,
and not spasmodic or flighty in appear
ance. In all the great industries some
increase in demand for products has
appeared, and the boot and shoe trade
continues to lead the others in recov
ery, as shipments from tbe east not
only exceed last year’s largely, but
surpass those in August of previous
years. Economy appears here in pur
chases of cheaper qualities rather than
in purchases of fewer pairs of eases,
and the demand is largely for 6peedy
delivery, reflecting unusual reduction
of stocks.
The cotton manufacture, whioh has
been employing a larger proprotion of
its normal forco than most others and
accumulating goods greatly in advance
of current demands, has about 23,000
workers on a strike at Fall Biver and
New Bedford to resist a proposed re
duction of wages, and tbe mills have
been closed, with the apparent expect
ation that the difficulty will last some
weeks. A somewhat increased demand
for goods has appeared, but, perhaps,
not yet' as great as many have antici
pated.
“In the iron and steel manufactnre,
the demand for finished products in
creases, but is at present not as large
as the capacity of the works which
have endeavored to resume operations,
so that their competition resnlts in
prices nearly as low as have been reaeh-
ed at any time.
A moderate gain in transactions -is
seen at Philadelphia, though finished
products there are weaker, and at Now
York, no improvement yet appears,
while at Pittsburg and Cleveland there
is more buying, but at Chicago con
siderable less than of late. Several
more furnaces have gone into opera
tion, imtwithstanding the scarcity of
water supply at Connellsville, and con
sequently of coke, and prices of pig
iron aro not further depressed.. A
moderate increase is seen in tho woolen
mills in operation, and agents who have
offered spring goods, generally at a
reduction of about 12} per cent from
lost year’s prices, have taken orders
for considerable quantities, bnt there
is still a great uncertainty about the
extent and effect of foreign competi
tion in many important classes, partic
ularly of the better grade of goods, and
as this must continue for jnonths, the
adjustment to new conditions must bo
gradual.
“Tho money market continues to
reflect a legitimate increase of com
mercial demand which comeB mainly
from dry goods commission houses,
bnt it is noted that, although the last
week of AugnstisjtAdj^j^require*
ments fronufS^pt=r—sua^touth for
crop moving purposes are by no means
of ordinary magnitude.
“The liabilities of firms failing for
the second week of August amounted
to only $1,163,076, and for the last-
three weeks to only $7,262,076, of
which $2,663,200 were of manufactur
ing, and $3,787,320 of trading con
cerns.
“The failnres this week haye been
234 in the United States, against 410
last year, and 29 in Canada, against 20
last year.”
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
. HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
A Brief.Summary of Daily Happen
ings Throughout the World.
■ Georgia republicans held tbieir state
convention at Atlanta and decided not
to pnt ont a state ticket, and not to
enter or coallesce with fhe third party.
The convention endorsed the Cotton
States and International Exposition.
A Washington speoial says: Indian
apolis will bo the plaoe selected for the
biennial encampment of Knights of
Pythias in 1896. This has been prac
tically decided on, throng]! tbo with
drawal of tho other contestants for the
honor,
The social sensation of the .year has
been sprung at New York by the
World, which prints a special cable
dispatch from Paris, announcing the
pendency of proceedings for a separa
tion between William K. Vanderbilt
and his. wife.
The glass blowers employed in the
McCoy Window Glass works at Kane,
Pa., .have accepted a 20 per cent, re
duction in wages, and the works will
start np on September 1st In the
neighborhood of 500 men aro employ
ed at the works.
Tho Alabama Press Association will
meet in Montgomery on Sept. 12th.
It is expected that the meeting will be
largely attended and tho people of the
capital city are prepared to accord to
tho editors a cordial and hospitable
reception.
Chattanooga has been officially se
lected as the place of meeting of tbe
biennial international conference of
the Epworth League. The meeting,
will he held in June, 1895, nnd it is
expected that over 10,000 Epworth
Leaguers from all parts of the world
will be in attendance.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says:
The Vanderbilt furnaces which have
been lying idle for sometime, aie to re
sume. At Mary Lee coal mine a re
daction in wages from 40 cents to 32}
cents per ton has been made. The
miners struck, and in a few hours a
compromise of 35 cents was made.
Congressman John C. Kyle was re
nominated by the second Mississippi
district democratic congressional con
vention in session at New Albany. A
resolution was adopted endorsing his
course in opposing the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act,
and demanding the free coinage of
silver.
Inquiry at Peoria, 111., confirms the
report that the whiskey trust will con
test tho increase in tax on spirits in
bond, on the ground of illegatity.
The argument is advanced that when
the spirits were putin bond at 90 cents
per gallon there was an implied con
tract that the tax would not be in
creased on these goods while they were
in bond.
Smoko from forest fires has settled
over Seattle, Wash., like s pall. It is
impossible to see clearly more than a
block. Navigation on tho sound is
dangerous nnd steamers have to feel
their way, blowing whistles continual
ly to avoid collisions. Forest fires are
still raging all over the sound coun
try, and unless rain soon sets in the
damage to standing timber will be
enormous.
It was stated by a well known mill
mao of New Bedford, Mass., Thursday
afternoon that not a mill in New Bed-
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation os Reported
for the Past Week.
The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn., in i's
report on tho industrial condition of tho smith
for tho past week says: The condition of mer
cantile business throughout the Southern States
is very satisfactory. Sales, aro largoly and
steadily increasing, collections are fair, and the
condition of the crop encourages tho h-lief that
fail and winter trade will be unusually good.
Money is plenty with bnt light dohiau'l. The
general disposition on the part of lnmber pro
ducers to reduce their slocks is a favorable
symptom, anil will bring needed rolief to an
important industry. Tne output of coal nnd
iron grows larger each, week and textile milis
are running on fall time. Thera is a general
feeling of increased confidence that promises
well for the future.
Thirty-three new industries were incorpor
ated or established daring the week, among
which aro the Palmetto Phosphate company, of
Bartow, Fla, capital $100,000; the American
Can and stamping Co, and tho B. J. Mont
gomery Furniture Co, of Non’ Orleans, La,
each with $50,000 eapital, a largo engur refin
ery at Franklin, La, and tho.Baruosville Un
derwear Co, of Bamesvilie, Ga., capital $15,-
000.
Brisk works are to be established at Smith-
field, Texas, a canning factoiy at Alvin, Texas,
cotton oil mills at Jonesboro, Ark, and Hazle-
hnrst, Miss, an ice factory at Graham, .Va.,
and a distillery at Ozark, Ark. Floor and
grist mills aro reported at Huntsville; Ala.,
Long View, Ga., MiddlesbOrougb. Ky, New
Orleans, La.,' Sandersville, Miss, Yancey and
Portsmouth, Va, and an electrical plant at
Gatesville, Texas. Textile plauts include a
knitting mill af Dnnneilon, Fla, a woolen mill
at Spenyvillo, Va, and a cotton rope factory at
Uniontown, Ala. Paper mil s aro to he built
at Marietta, Ga, and Huntington, W. Va, a
tobacco faotory at Winston, N. C, a sugar re
finery at Atlanta, Ga, and woodworking plants
at HnntBvillo, Ala., Ellzey. Fla, Bumsey, Ky,
Sandersville, Miss., Oana/N. C, and Kgoxville,
Tenn.
The organization is also reported of a water,
works company with $50,000 capital at Decatur,
-Ala-, and an increase of $600,000 in the capital
of the water works company at Honston, Texas.
Enlargements for tbe week include machine
works at Owensboro, Ky, a tannery at. Bristol,
Tenn., cotton mills at Henrietta, N- C, and
Welford, S. O, and an oil mill at Comanche,
Texas. Among the twenty-five new buildings
reported for tho week area $20,000 ohnrch at
Lonisvilio, Ky, and one at Raleigh,' N. C.;a
court house at Morganfon, Ga.; hotels at Fine
Bluff. Ark,, Jacksonville, Fla., Atlanta. Ga,
and Franklin, N. C.; a 50,000 school baiiding-at
Amite City, La, and others atGiiarteiton.S.
C, and liberty, Texas.
Tho President at Gray Gables.
President Cleveland arrived at Gray
Gables,.Buzzard's Bay, Mass., at 10:30
o’clock Thursday, morning. He. will
remain from four to six weeks.
an Wilson Renominated,
from Martinburg, W. Va.,.
irrnan Wilson, of the ways
committee, line been ro-
1 for
FEARFUL STORM IN RUSSIA.
Whole Villages Destroyed and Over a
Thousand People Killed.
Farther particulars of the great oy-
clone which swept across the sea of
Azoff have been received from St. Pe
tersburg, Bnssia. It ■ was a veritable
wind of death. No other name oan
describe the cyclone. It will be im
possible for days yet to compute the
damage done, but it ie almost certain
that at least 1,000 people, have per
ished, some by drowning, others by
being crushed under falling houses and
trees.
The excitement is great among the
American colony in St. Petersburg,
for it is feared that at least two par
ties of American tourists were on the
sea of Azoff at the time the wind did
its deadly work.
At Marianople over 200 people were
killed and nine-tenths of the houses
were destroyed.
At a fishing -tillage named Nogaisk
all the men were out at sea. The town
was destroyed and none of the boats
returned to shore.
At the honr of the latest report not
one of the steamers that touch at the
port of Berdaiusk had arrived. Fears
are expressed that every craft in the
sea has gone to the bottom and that
every passenger is drowned.
When the wind swept over the
northern end of the Azoff it took a new
course, going southerly along the coast
of the land of the Black Cossacks. In
turn Figh and Achuey were ravaged,
each town being almost totally de
stroyed.
Tolegraphic communication with
this district is suspended, and it is
impossible to learn the extent of the
destrnction^bnt at least 1,000 persons
must have i died on the two shores.
The storm as nearly as can now bo
learned, eeeined to suddenly lose its
force near Enfrink and passed off with
comparative quiet, southerly, over the
Black sea.
TO BUILD FACTORIES.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
THE A.P.A. IS AFTER HIM WITH
A SHARP STICK.
All On Account of Some Remarks
that William Made.
Northern republican newspapers that are now
running a side show called tbe A. F. As
continue to afflict me with their spleen became
I made a few remarks they do not like. They
■end me a sample copy with the spleen marked
all round so that I may not fail to seo it and
read it, and then feel sorry for myself. The
last comes from Boston, “The American Citi
zen,” and says: “Bill Arp has made an attaok
on the A. F. A That is his business. He
write! jnst what frill pay him best. Give him
£10 and he will write on ihe other side. Within a
year ttie politicians of Georgia will he at the
feet of the A. P. A. begging for votes and The
Atlanta Constitution will jump the fence,” etc.
Well, I don’t caro anything abont this, for I am
too far off for that editor to know my price, bnt
the same paper Bays that “Joe Howard will
write jnst what be is paid for, irrespective of
Ills own convictions.” This is hard on Joe, for
ho lives in Boston.
But it is a waste of time to make anymore
war upon the A. P. As—the dog is dead.
Tbonsabda who were drawn in are drawing ont
all over the north and within a year yon will
hardly find a man who ever belonged to it.
Republican schemers havo got hold of the cider
erciywhere and its trnc character has cropped
ont early. It won't last as long as the alliance
and onght not, for tho alliance had good in
tentions in its infancy and bnt for its going in
to politics would have done a great deal of good.
It was smothered by demagogues. And now
comes the one-third party with Ocala and Omaha
platforms that demand the railway and tele
graph and a snbtreasmy that will bnild a
pumpkin bam in every naborhood. It is not
oven a sideshow to any party, but is a wood’s
colt—a mnle colt at that—with no pride of an
cestry- Bnt. it can bo rid and goes along right
gently until backing timo comes. A fanner
who joins the ono-third party, expeoting to get
something; is like Judge Aldridge’s man who
was driving a now and her young calf home,
and they got mixed np with some other cattle
in the road and the calf mistook an old steer
for its mother and ran off with him. The feller
ran himself nearly to death trying to asperate
thorn, bnt he couldent. So ho stopped anil used
bail langnago and wound np with “Go it you
darned little foot—go it—bat you'll find out
what's what when sucking time comes.”
Tbe leader of these secrot, oath-bound politi
cal otganizations are after office or money, and
some few of them get it. They ride in on the
•mnle and then take tbe bridle off and torn him
eat to make his own living. Bishop Hay good, *
.A Plausible Scheme ot the North
_ . v . .ou om W HHUkB m» uwu UTiuiCo J*«auji uaj8' MU t
Carolina Alliance. - aA 1 whom the sontfi honors for his spotless integri-
Sortit ty dliharacter and his fearless publication of
At tbo annual meeting of the North
Carolina Farmers’ Alliance, held at
Greensborongh O. F. Simmons, of
Halifax county, proposed a novel
scheme for building a number of cot
ton factories in the state. His plan is
to open subscription books in each
congressional district, under tho man
agement of a special committee for
subscriptions, to be held monthly,
ranging from $1 per month np. - When
tho total amount of* subscriptions is
sufficient to warrant steps being
taken for the erection of a
factory, the committee will in-
invito propositions from the differ
ent towns and communities for its lo
cation, and the place which offers the
best inducements, in the opinion of
the committee, will secure the factory.
It is proposed that every subscriber
shall be a stockholder, and he entitled
to a vote according to tho. amount of
his stock, and that the matter shall bo
entirely free from all party and politi
cal influence, a purely progrossivo
manufacturing movement, to bo open’
to farmers, business men and capital
ists anke. Tho plan is meeting with
much favor.
DISPENSARY GORE.
A Duel to the Death at Blackvllle,
South Carolina. .
At Blaokville, Barnwell county, S.
C., Solomon Brown, aged 22, son of
one of the most prominent citizens of
the town,' and John Gribben, a state
constable, were killedin a • row result-,
ing from dispensary troubles;-
ford would st&ftnp next week,' as hae^*?'^
’---- ^ ” He said;that ^ngned tp Brown unto, pretense of
been currently reported,
he considered it doubtful if, the mills
started up inside of a month and
thought it definitely, settled that no
mofe in the direction of opening the
mills wonld be made inside of two or
4hree weeks at the most.
A riot occurred at tho United Coke
works nt Greensburg, Pa., Thursday.
A number of families of new workmen
were moving into the company’s
•houses. The striking Hungarians and
Slavs, who have recently been evicted
from the 'same houses, attacked the
new-comers. Much of their furniture
wab destroyed and six or seven, persons
wore quite serionsly injured. The ar
rival of Sheriff McCann put a stop to
the battle.
The first official reports of the In
dian cotton crops have just baen is
sues. The yield, as. represented, is
generally satisfactory, especially in
the province of Pnndanbj and Ondli.
In the northwestern nnd central pro
vinces rain has in some cases impeded
the developement ot the bolJ, bat a
good average crop ie expeoted, except
in the Bombay and Madras presi
dencies, where the season has been
unfavorable:
It is stated that steps are being tak
en at Now York lookiiig to a close
traffic alliance between the Big Four,
Chesapeake and Ohio and the South
ern Bailway company. Drexel, Mor
gan & Co. are understood to have the
matter in hand. It is also said that
arrangements are being perfected
"whereby the Sonthern railway and
Chesapeake and Ohio intend to stop
rate cutting and to reduce expense at
common points.
A dispatch from Shanghai to The
morning. Fireman Timothy Collins
first started up the ladder. He had
not dimed more than ten feet when
the horrified crowd saw a boy
leap out from the fifth floor.
The boy landed bn Collins’ head
and the boy and the fireman w'ent.
to the ground together. The' boy
was killed almost instantly. Collins
was serionsly injured and his recovery
ie doubtful. When the flames were
extinguished the firemen found on the
fifth floor the bodies of the watchman
named Herman and a boy. Both were
Herman’s sons. -
CYCLONE IN RUSSIA.
A Thousand Lives Lost—Whol^. VII-
lages Demolished.
A-cable dispatch from St. Peters-
bnrg,:Bnssia,'."says: A -terribly'disas
trous oyoloiie swept along the shores
of the sea of Azoff Saturday,' doing
it into t
sunk or
and it i
seorohing for contraband whiskey.
This had occurred several times before
and had already .created bitter feeling
betweep Gribben and the Brown fam
ily, one. of the most influential in the
sothern-part of the state.
Tuesday afternoon Solomon Brown,
his brothers Isadore and Herman, and
his father, Simon, met the constable.
A row ensued-in which pistols were
drawn and six or shven shots fired.
Gribben was fatally shot, dying in ten
minutes, and Solomon Brown was kill
ed instantly, Simon, Isadora and
Herman Brown are under .arrest ee ac
cessories to the killing of ■ Gribben.
H. P. Dyches, the Tillmanite coroner,
who tried to hold an inquest, was sir-
rested on the charge of having fired
the shot that killed Solomon Brown.
The has caused great excitement
in Blackville and feeing is running
high. ■- \..
TO MORTGAGE THE SOUTHERN.
A General Stockholders’ Meeting
Called for That Purpose. .
A notice has been given to the
stockholders of tho Sonthern Railway
Company that a general meeting- will
be held in Richmond, Va., on Ootobei
26th, at whiph there will be submitted
for their approval the proposed* mort
gage to the-tlentrbl Trust Company,
trustee of $120,000,000 of- bonds,
1894, with interest at five per cent
payable in gold. ' '
At meeting authorization will
also be asked of the stockholders to
exeoute a mortgage on the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia- for $4,-
500,000; due 1983, with interest at 5
per cent, payable in gold. These bonds
are to be issued in lien of the equip
ment and income bonds npon which
the mortgage has been foreclosed.
TO REVENUE COLLECTORS.
Secretary Carlisle Sends Instructions
About Withdrawing Goods.- _
Seoretary Carlisle baa decided that
goods now in bond wilbbe entitled .to
the privileges of' tile free list of the
tariff act The following telegram has
been sent ont in order to afford facili
ties for immediate bonding and with
drawing of goods jnst arrived: .•
“To the Collector of Customs, New
York—Vessels with cargo, , not dis
charged nor entered for consumption,
may be made'vessel warehouses tem
porarily for such goods as shall "be. en
tered today. “John G. Cabuisee.”
The same-telegram was sent to the
collectors of customs at Boston, Phila
delphia, Baltimore, Portland, Me.,
San Francisco, Portland, Newport
News, Norfolk, New Orledns and Chi-
at 8:20
; hja hpiuu
tho truth as ho sees it, says “Liberty dies bj
tho organization of oath-bonnd societies. Suoh
oath-bound leagues not only make man slaves
bnt they make them children—wards without
right to think—-slaves without right to choose.
A man is forced oftentimes to do what ha docs
not Irish to do and is frozen out if he refuses
obedience.”
There is corruption enough and some to share
in tho old parties, but there is no secrecy—no
gags, no grips nor oaths. Wc know just what
tlioy are doing and can kick and sbuso and
even denonnee if we want to, and tho forco of
pnbiio opinion soon hag its effect. Wo have
been abusing the national democracy awfully of
late, bnt after all, tbero is no other party that a
sonthern man can go to. If we really advocate
tariff reform, a tariff for revenue only, a tariff
that will cheapen the necessaries of life, we era.
obliged to be democrats. The issne is made at
last. It is now protection or no protection.
'J ho infant industries aro all grown. .Lot tho
take care of themsolv. s. There aro too mai
people demanding help from the gi
Bishop Haygood says: “Too mnch_£„
is nearly as bad as no gOTernmepf and is one of /
the worst hindrances to thh^fiodthy develop-/
incut and happy existence o{ human society.
Those who know hnman nalm-, m its strength
and deepness look with deop' anxiety at the ten
dency of °ur times to paternalism in govern
ment. Government begins to toil its what wo
may eat and drink. Government i£spcots onr
milk and kerosine oil and our fertilizi/rj. Govern
ment ldokB after onr drainage and s&iitary con
dition. We are vaooinatod when"guvemment
says so. Doctors are now talking of kaepshg '
contnmptives in a pestnoose, and it may come
to pass tint government will take ns in bend
when we havo a bad cold. -It ia not treason to
our idolized public school system to admit that
our theory and praollce in education footer pa
ternalism. In many aobopls, so far as preserv
ing and developing a child’s individuality is
concerned, it ia abont as well to number ae to
namd, him. In some schools the pnpils are
numbered ins!> as convicts are.**
It is tins paternalism that burdens ns
with taxes, both state and national. Them
is no bntincss economy at Washington,
bnild a poetof.
A™ al ®®48X toi^o cost $75,000, when
ho canaitfiMlawWa^nJjv i?G00 a year?
Who wiM
■ when he\_
It is the k|
nation. ?
for yours i
the money.^
much 1
planned aheany to prey uponoors
and more pension bills will be introduced and
more educational facilities asked for. And all
that we poor taxpayers can do is to abase onr
rulers and hold down tho brakes as bard as pos
sible. That is onr right. It was the right of
the privates daring the war to complain at their
officers, bnt they wonldn't let any ontaidero do
it; so we don’t want any advice from tho one-
third party ortho republicans ur the American
Protective Association abont democratic fail
nres or democratic corruption. It is tho only
parly that the sonth can trust and if we can’t
inform it from tho inside it can’t be done from
l he ont. Secession don’t pay. Old Fatbor
Tima is a good doctor. I feel moro hnpoful of
onr party than I did a month ago. All that a
man has- to do to keep him a democrat is to'
look at the. leaders of the other parties and
read their papers. But tho great republican
party that feeds and fattens on pensions and
protection and patronage and paternalism and
all the other ps is the party to bo fonght.
Tho others are side-showa and we have to take
them like taking the measles. They aro a sort
of vaccination that keeps us from catohing the
smallpox and so they dosomo good in that way.
It is all well enough to stir the boys up occa
sionally— to ciy*bear and seethe boys load np
their guns—to ring tbe fire bell in the dead of
night as a training to the firemen. Bnt wo
have had this one-third party abont long
enough. The novelty has warn off and
we will have a funeral before long and bury it
and drop a tear to ita memory. So mote It be.
—Box Asp in Atlanta CanBtitntion. ■
Love your enemies, for often you may
profit by the tayth they tell about yon.
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