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GEORGIA NEWS NOTES,
Ileasoi MM Interest Wei 0
Ail 0?er t&G State.
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Montgomery county will have a pub¬
lic hanging on Sept. 29. Five negroes
will pay the penalty for murder.
The Brush Electric Light company
of Savannah with $250,000 capital, h M
gobbled up the Peoples’ Electric Light
commnv and the Electric Railwav ^
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eompany.
John McGarrity, eighty-six years of
age, died in Carroll county recently,
leaving eleven children, one hundred
grand-children and thirty-six great
grand-children.
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Orders have been issued to the con¬
tractors to hire more hands and push
the work on the South Bound for all
it is worth. There are lively times
just now all along the line of that road.
Lucy Cobb Institute opened with
the largest attendance ever known in
its history. The increasing populari
of the institute is a high tribute to
the ability of Miss Mildred Ruther¬
ford the principal.
The Middle Georgia Military and
Agricultural College has added a bus
iness department to its curriculum,
and shorthand, typewriting and book
keeping are taught all the college
classes without extra charge. Thede
pertinent has become very popular
with tho students who are taking ad
vantage of tho opportunity offered
them in that lino.
A request on tho part of the author¬
ities of Brunswick for permission to
use the arms and ammunition of the
state, gave rise to some sensational ru¬
mors. There was no occasion for
anxiety. The telegram which was re¬
ceived at the executive department
simply asked permission to equip, with
the guns in the possession of tho
Brunswick military companies, the
guards thrown around the city by tho
health authorities. Tho permission
was promptly granted.
The old cannon which has lain about
Courthouse square since the Indian war
of ’89 until recently, has disappeared,
and will soon lose its identity if not
seen after. The traditions of a county
should be preserved. This old cannon
has been associated with DeKalb for
so long that it is well worth tho atten¬
tion nosessary to put it again in the
park at the courthouse. We learn that
the cannon was carried to Stone Moun¬
tain to celebrate for Cleveland. Lot
it be brought back.— Decatur Record.
Savannah is rapidly becoming a
manufacturing city. A few years ago
there was hardly a manufactory of any
k^ud there. Now its manufactured
products are all important items in its
year’s business. The introduction of
manufacturing industries brings busi¬
ness, makes a market for material,
gives employment to skilled labor and
adds to the worth of the city. Savan¬
nah’s manufactures for the last year
approximated $7,000,000. Within the
next decade and the introduction of
manufacturing industries at the rate
they are now springing up, it will
more than treble that amount.
Tho Tyboo railroad may be equipped
with electricity when it is rebuilt. It
is known that the Central railroad
officials considered the idea of equip
ping tho road with electricity once bo
fore, and made investigations as to Ihe
cost of equipment and operation. The
cost of electric railway supplies was
much greater then than it is now, and
the idea was abandoned. It is said
that the Central officiuls are now con¬
sidering the idea of engagiug with one
of tho street railway companies of the
city to equip and operate the Tybee
line. Doubtless they would prefer to
make a complete sale of the road, but
this is not likely.
SumterTOUutyhasa g, . . , amalldephant nil,*
on her hands just now in the persons
of a number of prisoners convicted at
the last tom of the county court, and
sentenced to terms in the ehaingang.
For the past several years the oouuty j
has leased her eonviets to the Denial
mot addition.1 labor uni oouKqueut- !
ly the prisoners are allowed to remain
in Amerieus in jail, a burden ami ex
pense to tho county. There are several
strong, able-bodied men among the
number, who are under sentences of
from one to two years, and the county
would be glad to entertain a proposi
tion from ant - reliable concern looking
to the lease of these convicts.
a n onrhbound isram ur.
United Statue deputy marshal* hare
brought to light a peculiar oathbound
union of illicit distillers with head
quarters in Murray county. It has a
membership of nearly 2,100. The ob
jects of the association are to protect j
the members from the government
and to encourage the manufacture and j
sale of moonshine whisky. Whenever
a member of the union is arrested it
is the duty of the other members ?
to that he is released. I !
lf the marshals get one witness
to swear that he saw the man making j !
whisky, the*union three or four of the members
of would come into court and
swear to haxing seen the i prisoner at !
another place at the tim re he was al
leged to have beeu at the still. Each
member was bound by au iron-clad
oath, signed in blood, not to give any
information that would lead to the ar¬
rest of a brother member. And he
,
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| hoped to protect each other from the
rpvpnnt> mpn Rnf fh^ir u^nrM lnnlr^H
from the influence of the muon.
Nperiai Report on Cotton.
The season has now reached a point
whore an estimate of the yield of cot¬
ton can be made with some accuracy.
! ftll cro P reporters were requested to
j ™ bnut u estimates of the condition of
he / ro P “ thei f respective sections
for tbe P a8t week’s , weather bulletin,
and a summary of the results follows:
It will be remembered that the seaa
on opened with a considerable increase
in cotton acreage, not far from 10
per cent. The spring was late and
cold, giving the crop a poor start.
More favorable weather followed in
May, but a severe drought set in the
hitter part of June and the early part
of July, which did much injury. Again
in August there was a period of defi¬
cient rainfall.
The unfavorable features of the
weather seemed to be most marked in
the northwest section of the state and
here, as a result, we find the crop in
lowest condition. Reports from this
section give in every case a shortage
of the crop, varying from one-third
to over one-half, with an average value
of 48 per cent.
In the eastern section the conditions
were farily good until the hurricane
j of ruins August which 27th followed. and 28th These and the so heavy dam
aged cotton as to bring it at present
to nearly as poor a stato as in the
northwest, the average shortage being
: 41 per cent.
i The south and southeast sections
! make the best showings, with sbort
ages of 24 and 22 per cent, respect¬
ively. Other sections of the state re¬
port shortages ranging from 27 to 30
per cent.
For the entire state there is found
an average condition of 30 per cent
below full crop condition. This is
some 5 per cent in advance of last
year, and, taking the entire acreage
into account, would indicate a crop of
some 100,000 bales more than that of
last year in Georgia. offered
While this, of course, is not
as au accurate statement of the final
returns, it is likely to prove rather
less than more than the final figures,
unless we have abnormally early frosts.
Taxes of ■!■« Mmro.
The net decrease in the taxable
property for the state as a whole is
$11,064,745. This is the first decrease
in fifteen years and a study of the dif¬
ferent items will, for the reason, be of
special interest. shows
Tho item of improved lands a
decrease of nearly five million—to ho
exact, $4,930,622. Wild land also shows
a decrease, amounting to $1,049,851.
City aud town property, on the other
hand, show an increase of $857,474.
Among the other items are:
Bank shares, an increase of $647,876.
Surplus in bunks, decrease of $1,-
817,962.
Gas and electric light companies,de¬
crease $818,862.
Building anil loan associations, in¬
crease, $240,256.
Money and solvent debts, a decrease
for tho state of $2,946,299.
Merchandise, decrease, $320,125.
Shipping and tonnage, inoreasojj
$11,501.
Stocks and bonds, decrease, $1,401,
097.
Cotton manufactories, an increase
of $1,036,989.
Iron works, etc., decrease, $3,519.
Capital in mining, decrease,$27,093.
Household and kitchen furniture,
, vn increase of $34,314.
Watches and jewelry, decrease,
$<o 993
Horses and mules, decrease, $75,894.
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crease of f $99,4o, Mi'u ,"
Ihe change in the law of which . the
boards of equalization are done away
with was more largely responsible for
the decrease than any other one fac
tor. Tho general hard times had, of
course, something to do with the de
crease, but the fact that the greatest
slump is in real property with no very
great decrease in tho items of person
zstesz a
~ ith it. Another intero.tin* Intnrc
m this connection. The state has lost
of and in the past year ;
There is returned less improved land
by 313,128 acres, and less wild land
than by 241,500 than last year, lhi*
is quite a big item in itself, as the av
crage value is about $4.25 per acre,
Bnt the question is, where has thi
land gone?
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. *° f fo r “ . p Ur " P 0f f F Fort> f
Thousand , Dollars. ,
A New , York dispatch of Sunday
says: The international prize fight be
tween “Jim Corbett and “Charley ’
Mitchell for the heavy-weight chain
pionship and a purse of $40,000 will
take place before the t oney Island
Athletic club, if there is no interfer
ence from the authorities of Kings
county. Mitchell signed articles Sat
urday in the Hoffman house, bind
ing himself to fight the Californian in
the arena by the sea in December. The
articles were sent to Corbett, who is
trailing at Lock Arbor, Asbury Park,
and he signed them there Monday.
A number of cowboys at Three
n Rivers, Mich., Wa have discarded dnorde d horses horses
for bicycles. This innovation x* ill
make the old stones of cowboys oh*a
lete, observes the New York Tribune.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS
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MB «f Her Progress ani Pros
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Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
The largest cotton dealers in North
Carolina say that upon a careful sum
mary of reports, they find that the
cotton crop of the state promises to
j be 9 per cent larger than last year.
j : Monday. Court convened In lus charge at Clinton, to the Tenn., grand
jurv, Judge Hicks paid special atten
tioa to the Drummond lynching. True
are expected to be returned
aga j n8 t the soldiers for the crime, and
the trials w j]i come up a t once. The
cases of the Coal Creek rioters in the
recent miners’war will also be tried,
At the Monday noon meeting of the
board of health of Brunswick five new
cases of yellow fever were report
ed: Mrs. Lorenston and child, 907
Oglethorpe street; Mrs. William John
SZ& WlfoSS “lleeX,
he
was buried Sunday. Five hours after
his death the case of his was said to
very serious.
The famous Four Seasons hotel, at
SfnZ itbt ..I D ’ bus .. bin -i in •, a
eeiver’s hands for four months in
which time they have spent $45,000 in
receiver’s certificats. Eighty persons
were thrown out of employment. Chief
Clerk Hess heat the hotel receivers by
paying himself off in full Saturday
afternoon and skipping to Kentucky.
Officers are after him.
The North Carolina state crop report
issued Monday evening says cotton
lias opened with remarkable rapidity
and the prospects is that the entire
crop will be gathered earlier than usual.
Cotton has improved greatly. Tobac¬
co curing is progressing, but the crop
is below the average. Cotton in the
western district will probably all be
open by the middle of October and
the picking is far advanced.
A Han Antonio special of Sunday
says: Cattle are being driven out of
Uvalde county by the thousands. The
range has at last succumbed to tho
long continued droughts. Stockmen
in the vicinity of Sabinal, who have
been ranching thero for forty years,
and never before had to move their
cattle on account of scarcity of grass
and water, are now compelled to take
them to places that have been favored
with rain.
A New Orleans dispatch says: The
leaders who had called a meeting for
the colored people to protest against
tho late lynching in Jefferson with
drew the call Saturday. This was
done at the suggestion of those whites
who are opposed to lynch law. They
took the position that a colored meet
ing to denounce the Jefferson outrages
would arouse race prejudice and that
all should unite, regardless of color, to
oppose lynch law and suppress vio
lenco.
A Memphis special of Monday says:
Colonel H. Clay King, murderer of
David H. Poston, now serving a life
sentence in the Tennessee penitentiary
as a punishment for the crime, has issued
an address to the public in which he
makes alleges sumo his sensational conviction charges. brought He |
xvas
about by a conspiracy between Judge
Julius J. Dubois, of the Shelby county
criminal court and the relatives of
Poston.
The sensation of the day in Bruns
wick Saturday was tho enforcement of
martial law, and the punishment of
Sw ^fbanisLTtrom^'cUv
T1 “{ho oi» r/ h„ r 1
males, , <>00;colored males, 1,670;
females, 570; colored females,
2,428; total population, 5,628, im
niuues, 235, total sick from yellow
fever and other eases, 40. There are ;
about fifteen cases of malarial fever
under treatment.
A Birmingham, Ala., special of
M oiidav says: The organized state
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(lomocrntic oxecutive committee has
, called liv Chairman Smith to
- A M.mhmmcrv A on October l-'th
, f •„ i( r the Drouosition made
))y t - Jofto r 8 onian democratic cxeeti
candidates t ive committee which Xte is that the next
for officers shall bo
"S 1»fore rt,e“™ectfon d 5L tri
s i lal i participate. Kolb claims that if
guo]l ft propo 8 i t i on , 8 accepted the Jef
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f er 80 n i aM w iH fill the state offices next
term :
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the health U) board , and the relief f com
mitteo. It seems to become a case of
persetu ion >y 1 an ion us aiu n
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Reports coming in Monday from
eastern aud drought, central Texas of state the long- that j
the present one
est and most severe on record, has
been broken by good rains. The open
cotton will hardly be damaged, but
cisterns were drying up in many sta
tions and stock had to be driven seve¬
ral miles to water. It has not rained
at Houston since the 3d of August
last, while in some counties the pres
rain is the first rain since June,
^ ^ been cut down
^ 1.700.000 liales, against 3,200,000
last Year. i
Application was made in the United
of ^junction against Frank Scheur
man an< * others, striking Louisville
s“iLtSS je wV‘°^t
sent to Mobile to fill the strikers’
places. No new men have been se
cured by the railroad company on ac¬
count of this interference, the men
being shipped out of the town as soon
; as they arrive, the strikers giving
them a few dollars and sending them
back from whence they came.
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And Presented in Pointed and Reada¬
j j ble Paragraphs.
A special of Monday from Hamburg,
Germany, says: During the past twen
ty-four hours eight new cases and four
deaths from cholera have been re
por t e d
I Northern P.ciflc steamer whirl.
fought word of *; ?■ the °y burning of the
R "f laa “teaser Alphonse Zeevecke,
j Wlth a loss of Slx ty llves -
So i"“ on Sl , “ pso ^ l’ anker ,’ of
No. „ 50 Broadway Now York, made an
assignment Monday to William Keily.
He negotiated loans, bought paper and
1 P romoted various companies. In
; April he claimed to worth $300,000.
j The L. & C. Wise Company, jobbers
j in boots and shoes at No. 390 Broad¬
| ! having w,l y> New been York, unable suspended meet Monday, notes
to
which fell due today to the amount of
about $10,000 or to have them extend¬
ed. The liabilittes are $250,000.
Advices from Brussels state that a
mass meeting of the miners of the
Mons coal district, was held in Wasmes
province of Hainaut, Sunday, Reso¬
lutions in favor of an immediate strike
were passed almost without dissent.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says: Statistics compiled from official
data show that from January to Sep¬
tember this year 560 state and private
banks in the United States failed, and
that seventy-two have resumed busi¬
ness. In the same time 155 national
banks failed, and seventy of which
have resumed.
The arrest Saturday of fourteen an
archists at Vienna, Austria, and the
capture of sixty-eight members of a
secret society at Bruem, has revealed
the existence of a widespread anar¬
chist plot. Monday seven more mem
bers of the gang were taken into cus
tody, and the proof against all those
arrested is said to be overwhelming.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows concluded its annual session
at Milwaukee, Wis., Saturday, and
adjourned. The action of the grand
secretary in declining to furnish
Archbishop Kaiser a copy of the ritual
was confirmed on the ground that no
authority exists for revealing the se
erets of the order to any man except
by initiating him as a member.
Three solid blocks of tbo business
houses of St. Joseph are in ruins aud
a million dollars worth of property has
been destroyed. About 10 o’clock
Monday morning fire broke out in the
eight-story apartment house of Town
send <ft Wyatt. The entire building
was soon in flames. A strong wind soon
carried the flames across the street to
the magnificent Commercial bank
structure, and it was soon destroyed,
The Central Savings bank went next
!) nd then followed the Cejter block,
The Begnier & Shoup Crockery Com
pany’s new house was next to sue
snrjs d^ppedfuto thcSlaT'^heCafbrey
Bfo.™ger & Co the Hong Kong
j’ Company ea Company, and ft dozen the smaller Spencer institu- Cigar
tions went up.______
TRAIN ROBBERS KILLED
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They Attempt ... . t to Hold Hold up im tlie the Wrens Wrong
Train—Met by Policemen.
The Kansas, St. Joe and Council
Bluff road foiled an attempt to rob
one of its passenger trains, killed two
of the bandits and captured three
others, at Francis, Mo., one and a half
miles from St. Joseph, Sundav night,
The officials of the road had been
notified that a robbery had been plan
j2s.se
mv train nm.lc »p «n,l tiitecn
police officers, under command of the
chief of police, were put aboard.
When the dummy reached a point
two miles north of St. Joseph, it was
stopped by six masked men. One
mounted the engine and presented a
revolver at the engineer’s head and an
other at the firemen and held them in
subjection while the other five men
hnrried to the express car. They or
dered the messenger to open the door,
which he did. Three of the bandits
^ l ea vingtwo ^ tokeep P £ guard.
^ ^ reted ln t e car or
dered the three men to surrender.
The robbers were taken by surprise,
but opened fire on the police. The
police returned the fire and a general
fvrsilatlo followed. Two of the robbers,
jjugo Engel and Fred Kohler, were
sllot in the head and billed, and three
othpr8j T ^ A Hurst, Charles Fred
erickg and William Garver, were des
perately wounded. The sixth man.
Henrr Gleitz. escaped, None of the
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polic were injured,
The Mayor Hill Return.
A Richmond, Ya., dispatch of Tues
day says : Mayor Trout states that he
will return to Roanoke Friday. He
thinks there will be no more trouble
in Roanoke, and is not surprised at
the action of the citizens’ eommittee,
calling everybody back who left the
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES
Tlie Happenings of a Day Chronicled in
Brie! aM Concise Paragraphs
And Containing tie Gist of the News
From All Parts of the World.
Whittenton mills at Taunton, Mass.,
started all departments on full time
Tuesday, giving employment to more
than 1,000 persons.
The large mercantile establishment
of Wolf & Goldman, at Newport,Ark.,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday about even¬
ing. Loss, $50,000; insurance
half.
By request of the Charleston health
authorities, Governor Tillman, on
Tuesday, established quarantine for
that city against Brunswick and all fe¬
ver infected points.
A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says:
Armed men will in the future accom¬
pany every train hauling express or
mail cars from Chicago to any point
east or south.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday from
London announces that Benjamin
Whitworth, the great manufacturer, of
Manchester, England, and a well
known philanthropist, is dead.
Three deaths from smallpox were re
ported , in „ New Y York . T luesday morning
from Riverside, North Brothers’
Island. Only one new case was re
ported at sanitary headquarters.
A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says:
The Louisville^ and Nashville switch¬
men struck Tuesday afternoon. There
were rumors that despite the recent
agreement, the trouble may extend and
tie up the whole system.
The American Wire Rail mills at An¬
derson, Ind., resumed operations
Monday with six hundred men on a
non-union basis. All but three of the
old Amalgamated association signed
the scale and went to work.
A Knoxville special of Tuesday says:
Affairs in the Drummond lynching case
assumed aftogether a different shape
Monday. The report conies from a re¬
liable source that not soldiers but citi¬
zens of Briceville are about to be con¬
victed of tlie lynching. Only a little
evidence is lacking and that is said to
be forthcoming.
Eight desperate prisoners escaped
from the branch prison at Big Mount¬
ain, Tenn., Monday. Their escape
was effected by way of an old aban¬
doned airshaft. It is thought that
they were assisted in their escape
either by trusties or civilians, other¬
wise escape would have been impossi¬
ble.
j n the chancery court at Richmond,
y ft , Tuesday, at the request of the
Citizens’ bank of Richmond, B. R.
Welford was appointed receiver of the
Vulcan Iron Works. The receiver is
ordered to take immediate possession
of the property and make such dis¬
posal of it as may please the creditors,
Mr. Welford qualified by giving bond
in the sum of $40,000. The Vulcan
Iron Company is one of the best
known from manufacturing establish¬
ments in the city.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: The Morgan line steamship
Algiers which was ioaned to Health
Officer Jenkins by C. P. Huntington
to carry food supplies to the yellow
fever sufferers at Brunswick, Ga.,
now' lying in Erie basin in Brooklyn,
is being rapidly fitted up for her er
rand of mercy. Dr. Bell, the editor
of The Sanitarian and former quaran
tine commissioner, has volunteered
his services to Health Officer Jen
kins. He will accompany the expe
dition as the medical officer in charge.
The 8™*™} “bly of democratic
hk 2 stskislms
„ AUento.n, Tneod.j morning.
F or l ia lf an hour before the time the
Academy of Music rang with cheers
for the democratic leaders and a tre
mendous ovation greeted Vice Presi
dent Stevenson when he entered the
kal1 - Two thousand people filled the
hall at tho 01)Cmn immediately , r oftheeonvention
President Black deliv
ere d a u admirable address which was
punctua * ted with thundering A’ applause “
Representatives of conductors, en
gmeers, firemen switchmen, etc.,
employed on the Louisville and Nash
ville, Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Lotus and Western and Atlantic rail
“ d * h “
heads of tlm orders in accepting the
recent reductions, especially that of
the Louisvilie and Nashville vabun
der discussion. Ao definite action,
however, was taken, but another meet
ing will be held at an early day.
A special of Tuesday from Guthrie,
O. T.,says: The Cherokee strip has
been settied a week and things are
getting down to a basis. Of the 200,
000 who entered the land on the 16 th,
over half have left. The population
of the new town is about as follows:
Pawnee, 1,000: Kirk. 3,000; Kildare
1,000; Ponca. 1,000; Enid, 1,000;
Pond Creek, 1,000; Alva, 1,000;
Woo ward, 1,000; Perry, 12,000. Perry
is destined to be the leading town of
the strip, and the governor has issued
his proclamation declaring it to be a
citv of the first-class,
k Newspaper Assigns.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche
made an assignment Friday for the
benefit of preferred creditors. Robert
J. Morgan and Andrew Gwynne were
named as assignees. A deed of trust
filed placing the franchise in the
bands of Messrs. Morgan and Gwynne,
who are authorized to sell the newspa
P« and its franchise to satisfy pro
-erred creditors m .he sum of $81,000. ,
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Advertise now, it will pay yon. ■
TRADE TOPICS.
Report of Business for Past Week, by
Dun & Co.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: There is no longer only a
miscroscopic or sentimental improve¬
ment that cannot he measured. Some
increase is seen both in production and
in the distribution of products. True,
it is small as yet, but after the worst
financial blizzard for twenty years it
is not to be expected that all roads
can be cleared in a day. But all con
ditions, except at Washington, favor
a gradual recovery. Business goes on
in unquestioning confidence that
the general desire of the people will in
some way prevail. Money has become
abundant and easy at 3 per cent at
New York on call and stagnant specu¬
lation fortunately favors greater free¬
dom in commercial loans.
Monetary conditions favor a revival
of trade and industry. While renewals
are as large as ever, commercial loans
are no longer unknown. The maturi¬
ty of large western obligations has
brought hither unusual sums of money
from that section, but the banks while
retiring part of the circulation recent¬
ly taken out and some certificates have
not retired a large proportion, keep¬
ing a weak eye on the body of com¬
mercial indebtedness to mature in
October and November.
Foreign trade grows more favorable.
Cotton has fluctuated much and it is a
shade stronger, though nothing ap¬
pears to warrant and estimate which
would reduce the world’s supply of
American, including the quantity
carried over, within 500,000 bales of
the largest consumption ever known.
The industries are giving strong
proof that the consumption of goods
was not as much arrested as many
feared when the collapse of trade and
manufactures came. While manufac¬
turers show extreme caution and de¬
cline to start work without orders,
piling on goods at their own risk, the
improved financial conditions enable
them to accept many orders which
would have been or were refused weeks
ago, and actual orders are rendered
frequent by the exhaustion of retail
supplies in many directions, The
number of works resuming this week
has been at least fifty-eight wholly and
twenty-four in part, against only fifteen
concerns mentioned as having closed,
and eight reducing force. The gain has
been greatest in cotton, where some
goods touch the lowest prices ever
known. The industry which shows
the least actual gain is the manufac¬
ture of iron and steel, where the only
changes in price are downward, and
in spite of the great decrease in pro¬
duction, the consumption seems to
have shrunk even more. But even in
that branch a distinct increase is seen
in the demand for a few products.
Failures for the week number 319
in the United States, against 188 last
year, and in Canada'40, against 23 last
year. Only five failures were for over
$100,000 each. The liabilities in fail¬
ures for the second week in Septem¬
ber were but $3,042,129, against $5,-
319,098 the first week.
WORK OF WHITECAPS.
They are Burning Gin Houses In Parts
of Mississippi.
A special of Tuesday from Brook
haven, Miss., says that Frederick Grif¬
fith, a colored farmer living fourteen
miles southwest of that town in Frank¬
lin county, had his cotton house and
contents burned by xvhitecaps a few
nights ago. The mill and cotton gin
and contents owned by Dan Sasser, in
the southern portion of Lincoln coun¬
ty, was burned to the ground. Con¬
siderable excitement prevails and more
trouble is expected.__
Conquest Over Floods,
The Dutch Government is about to
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great sea inlet known as the Zuyder Zee
from the German Ocean, and while re
serving for the oentral part connection
by ship channel will be with the ocean, into the
greater part converted cul
livable land, although its surface will
be far below the sea on the outside of
the dikes. The sea is to be shut out
from the entire area - but only certain
closed targe tracts along the margin of the in
are to be reclaimed. In the cen
t re will be left a large tract of sandy
bottom, and he depression will be filled
with fresh water. It will be known as
the Ysel Lake, and wide, navigable
channels will radiate from it to impor
rrabatesttss
Tottom d a?z“der £“ 1^!
ered wit h fertile eiav"has been marked
out for reclamation/while the uncultiv
able stretches of sand are left at the bot
tom of the future Ysel Lake. The dike
t ]j a t w -iH cu t the basin off from the
ocean will be eighteen miles long, but
there are already 165 miles of dikes
which have heretofore protected the
coast The along this body of water.
commission says it will take
eightyearetobuildtheproposedcut- off dike. It will
take at least twenty
four years or more to build the four
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Hound Robin.
It has happened before, and will hap
pen again, that people sometimes suffer
great injustice, but do not care to com
plain of it directly for fear of dismissal
lrom their situation or of other unpleas
ant consequence of their action. They
therefore adopt what is called a * ‘round
robin ’ that is, they sign their names to
Petition f ° r “ U 18 or ^possible letter in for a circle, in
detect the that first any one
name was written
dowIJ) which of course would ^ the
narae of the leader of the ;^ agitation, or
as V0 sav jn thig conneol ( the T }<
leader. The phrase is merely a transla
tion of the French rond (round) and ru»
ban (ribbon or robin).