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V OLUME XXXI.
There are twenty-seven States with
over one million population each. At
the previous census there were nineteen.
The distance traveled by Stanley in
the interior of Africa is estimated by him
at 5400 miles,of which all but 1000 were
on foot. The expedition occupied three
years, anil rescued 300 persons, at a cost
cf less than £'M, 000.
It appears that there arc people in
Italy who derive n dismal satisfaction
from being admitted to watch the pro
cess of cremation at a charge of $1 a
head, and that it. is the revenue from this
source that defrays the eost of cremating
the poor folk of that place.
The* Belgians are fretting under the
burden of oppressive taxation, and it is
all the popular leaders can do, states the
Courier-Journal, to prevent them break
ing into open rebellion. The Govern
ment will make efforts to stay the crisis,
but sooner or later Belgium will follow
the example set by the American
colonies in 1770 and assume a republican
form of government.
Fortune has coquetted with Ton:
Cruse, of Montana. Three times she
made him a millionaire, and three times
reduced him to poverty, where she
originally found him. Cruse did not
despair, however, and is now worth
§5,000,000, with good prospects of his
retaining his wealth as long us ho will
require it, as he is now an old man. He
made his money iu gold and silvet
mines.
There are now under consideration two
projects, which if carried out, predicts
the Commercial Adoertiser, will have an
immense effect ou the trade of France.
The first is the project of making Pans
into a port by canalizing the Sciue, so
that sea-going vessels can make the pas
sage from Havre to Paris. The second
proposal is for the construction of a canal
to connect the Mediterranean with the
Bay of Biscay, with the intention of in
tercepting a great part of the shipping
which at present passes through the
Straits of Gibraltar.
Os novel applications of electricity
there is no end, exclaims the New York
Times. Bakers are now using the elec
tric motor as a bread mixer, and are thus
enabled to do iu four or five minutes an
amount of work that would otherwise
require hours of hard labor. A writer in
a medical paper says lie has frequently
obtained much relief from facial neural
gia by applying an incandescent light to
the part effected, lie suggests that the
lamp could also be used in practicing
advantageously. It could be laid ovei
a flaxseed.or other form of poultice, and
constant heat could be thus secured.
Professor Asaph Hall, who has used
the big telescope at the United States
Observatory in Washington for measure
ments of Saturn during the. last fourteen
years, finds the time of rotation of the
planet to be about ten hours, fourteen
minutes, twenty-four seconds. This is
nearlv fifteen minutes less than the period
stated in most of the astronomical text
books published in the latter half of the
present century, hut is remarkable as
being only 1.00 seconds less than the pe
riod assigned to it by Sir W illiam
Herschei. That astronomer of a century
ago obtained his results in this particular
by the aid of an instrument far inferior
to muuv of the so-called smaller tele
scopes of to-day, and the fact is testi
mony to the wonderful ability of the man
whose name was for years given to the
planet he discovered, now generally
called Uranus.
In regard to the bill which passed Con
gress creating a national park, to be
known as Sequoia Park, the San Fran
cisco Call remarks: “The land to be
inclosed in the park will cover 50,000
acres. It embraces nearly the whole of
the tract which is well known to the peo
ple of Tulare as the region of the Big
Trees; is situated forty-five miles west of
Visalia, at an elevation of from 6000 to
7000 feet, and spreads almost without a
break from Kings River to Kahweah
River. In Mariposa, Calaveras and Hum
boldt the giant sequoias occur in clumps
in the midst of forests of other growths.
In Tulare they are almost continuous;
the traveler can journey all day on horse
back without ever losing sight of them.
They are nearly, if not quite, the most
gigantic of the sequoias; trees have beer
seen which measured 100 feet and ovei
in circumference at the base and over 300
feet in height.
SUCCESS TO ALL WHO PAY THEIR HONEST DEBTS—“BE SURE YOU ARE RIGHT—THEN GO AHEAD.”
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING PONE IN . THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THE GREAT ORGANIZATION. LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
The Alliance Exchange, Henrietta,
Texas, is giving satisfaction.
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The Farmers’ Alliance will build a
huge flouring mill at Graham, Texas.
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The Alliance is educating the masses,
which makes the politicians tremble with
fear.— Jmsso.
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West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylva
nia, Michigan and New Mexico arc the
latest Alliance States.
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The Citizens' Alliance of Kansas, now
has more than 16,000 members, and is
rapidly increasing. It is now proposed
to make it a national order.
The sub-alliances of Floyd county,
Ga., have a movement on foot lookingto
the building of co-operative stores.
They have the money on hand for the
purpose.
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The Gibbon (Neb.) Iteporter says: The
“hayseeds” are number less in Nebraska •
this year. The independent movement
might rightly be called an uprising of the
common people against their arch enemy
—trusts and corporations— which has
been robbing them of the fruits of their
labor for the past twenty-five years.
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The Farmers’ Alliance of Kansas,
which now numbers over 145.000 mem
bers. has organized a mercantile depart
ment, and propose to handle their
own grain and live stock. They
have appointed agents who will handle
their shipments iu the markets of Kansas
City, Chicago and St. Louis, by which
transaction the farmer wiil save the com
mission which he usuallypays the middle
man.;—Texas Labor Union.
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The Rationed Alliance (Houston, Tex.)
says: “The Louisiana Farmers’ Alliance
expelled nine members, who were also
members of the legislature, because they
had voted in favor of the lottery bill.
The Farmers’ Alliance means business, if
it isn’t politicd, and the future law
makers may as well take notice and not
injure the people unless they want to
be retired from public service. The col
ored Alliances are working in perfect
harmony with the white Alliances, and
are helping to settle the race question by
uuited effort along lines where all can
agree.
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Among other things the Labor Journal
CKx.) says: “The sub-treasury bill may
be faulty, but it embodies our plan of
relief, and every true member of the Or
der from Maine to Texas, from'Florida to
Washington, should contend for its en
actment into law. If the individual
member, if any State, county or sub
union is allowed to antagonize it, the
national measure of relief formulated,
endorsed and sent forth by the National
Union, admitting it impracticable, even
absurd, as some say, how cari we expco’,
should we hit upon a plan that is practi
cable and free from absurdities, to secure
that unity of action so necessary to the
attainments of our aims and purposes.”
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Farmers, now is the time to use your
influence where it will benefit you.
There never was a time when the people
had the leverage they now posses. The
balance of power is in your hands, and if
you use it you are sure to win. A third
party, if successful could not do more
for you than you can do for yourselves
by holding the balance of power which
is now in your possession. The Times is
in favor of any movement* that gives
promise of success, and therefore it fav
ors the plan of selecting for the offices
(he men who are the best fitted, rather
than by organization of a people's party
before the farmers are strong enough to
make it a success. Let us make no mis
takes in the beginning.— The Alliance
Times (Ind.)
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A Topeka, Kan., dispatch of Wednes
day says: On the arrival of the train
bearing Polk, Livingston, Wilson and
Stone, delegates to the Topeka State Alli
ance, there was drawn up in line • a com
pany of old veterans to welcome and
escort them to the hall. On the entrance
to the hall 500 delegates rose to greet
them, and three cheers were given for
Georgia, her representatives and
Colonel Polk. Colonel Polk was
first introduced, and made a
ringing, captivating speech of fifteen
minutes. Before taking his seat he in
troduced Colonel Livingston as the irre
pressible Alliance leader of Georgia.
Livingston caught the crowd, and for
twenty minutes held them. Livingston
then introduced Wilson and Dr. Stone.
Both gentlemen made some happy hits
and were greeted with applause. These
representative men huve, indeed, had a
royal welcome.
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The following are some of the resolu
tions adopted at the last session of the
State Alliance of Georgia:
Resolved, That this, the Georgia State
Alliance, now assembled, do reaffirm our
allegiance to our National Alliance plat
form. and do most earnestly and unqual
ifiedly demand that all members of our
order* who may become members of the
Georgia legislature do not vote for any
Iman as United States senator unless he
or they subscribe to the Georgia State
Alliance to-wit:
BLAKELY. GA., FRIDAY- OCTOBER 24.181)0.
“To a reduction of state and na
tional taxes.
“That our representatives iu the
national legislature shall advocate the
passage of such laws as will prevent spec
ulation and combines, that seek to inter
fere with prices of prme necessities and
productions.
“To an abolition of the national
banking system, and the substitution of
legal treasury notes iu lieu of the national
bank notes, and iu sufficient volume, in
conjunction with gold and silver, to do
the business of the country on a cash
basis.
“That the sub-treasury bill of the Na
tional Alliance, now pending iu congress,
or some better system for the relief of
the struggling masses, be passed,”
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The following are among the resolu
tions and demands reported by the Mich
igan State Alliance, recently organized at
Lansing:
Resolved, We demaud the abolition of
national banks and the substitution of
legal tender treasury notes in lieu of na
tional bank notes, issued in sufficient
volume to do the business ou a pash sys
tem, regulating the amount needed on a
per capita basis, as the business interests
of the country expand, and that all
money issued by the government shall be
a legal tender for ail debts, public and
private.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
We demand governmental control of
all railroads, telegraph and telephone
lines in the interest of the public, in the
same manner as the postal service is now
manipulated.
We demand that eight hours shall con
stitute a legal day’s work in all factories,
mines and shops.
We demand a graduated income tax,
by placing tiie burden ol' taxation or.
those most able to bear it.
We demand a government loan to the
people on real estate security.
We demand a strictly secret ballot
known as the Australian ballot system.
We demand the election of President
and Vice-President and United States
Senators by a direct vote of the people.
Whereas, We believe that an inflexible
volume of currency depresses prices when
the farmers’ produce is placed or. the
market, and inflates prices after the prod
uct is in the hands of the speculator,
therefore,
Resolved, That we demand a law sim
ilar to the sub-treasury bill, socalled,
that will secure a flexible volume of
money commensurate with the needs of
of the people.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
nrxx & co., report great improve
ment IN AM. DIRECTIONS.
The weekly review of R. G. Dunn &
Co., says: In all directions the busness
outlook improves, and the recent enor
mous increase of circulation, notwith
standing the money markets, arc growing
stringent. Exports have become re
markably large, and domestic trade is
such that the exchanges outside of New
York exceeded last week’s by 155 per
cent. Trade is strong everywhere. The
output of cotton is increasing. The
shoe trade is brisk. The supply of
leather equals consumption. Almost all
trade is good in Philadelphia. Through
out the west trade is fair to good. At
Ht. Louis trade is strong. At Savannah
trade is brisk.
The increase in the output of pig iron
in September, according to The Iron
Aye's report, was 44 per cent, and the I
weekly output, 179,203 tons, was 13.fi
per cent, larger than a year ago. Yet
four more Virginia furnaces are to begin
work within a few weeks, with a capaci
ty of 3.500 tons weekly. Os tiie textile
industries the increasing demand for cot
ton and wool bears witness, though the
production of print cloths at prices is
held unprofitable.
The number of hogs packed at the
west from .March Ist to October Ist was
7.005 000, aga nst, 5,920,000 last year, an
increase of nearly 35 per cent.
Speculation m wheat lias made further
progress this week, the price rising 1),
cents on small sales. But exports are
practically stopped: in September only
595,259 bushels, against 2,223.104 last
year, went from Atlantic ports. Corn also
goes abroad but little, having advanced .
during the week only 1-8 cents, while
oats have risen 1J cents. But the export
movement of cotton is extraordinarily
large in September, 207,000,000 pounds,
against 176,000,000 pounds last year, and
iu October thus far there is a large in
crease, helped by a yielding in price of
1-10 cent this week. Exports of provis
ions are also very heavy in September,
$11,918 416. in value, against $8,707,645
last year, and this also continues, prices
being steady.
The new tariff has caused an advance
iu prices of some kinds of goods wh'ch,
together with the rise resulting from the
partial failure of crops, has moved up
the general level of prices materially,
though less than 1 per cent on all com
modities since October 2.
Failures number 198 compared with
the corresponding week of last year of
182.
ENGINEERS MEET.
THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD AS
SEMBLE AT PITTSBURG.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The twen
ty-seventh annual convention (interna
tional) of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers was called to order at the
old city hall by Chief Engineer Arthur,
Wednesday morning. There was a large
attendance of delegates, every division of
452 in the organization being represented.
The entire day was devoted to calling the
roll, receiving credentials and perfecting
organization. The convention will be in
■ session at least two weeks.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCI.E SAM's DOM AIN AND WHAT
THE CABI.E BRINGS.
Mount Etna is in a stale of eruption.
The Lcland hotel, in Syracuse, N. Y.,
was totally destroyed by tire Wednesday
night.
The amount of silver offered for sale to
the treasury department, Wednesday, was
4:tG,000 ounces.
The funeral of Justice Miller, of the
United States supreme court, took place
in Keokuk, la., Saturday.
A resolution was offered in the Ohio
legislature, Wednesday, censuring Gover
nor Campbell for calling the extra ses
sion.
The new United States tar' IT law has
created a great boom in the shipment, of
potatoes from Nova Scotia to the West
Indies.
The Messrs. Merry, one of the largest
muslin and calico firms of Glasgow,
Scotland, have failed. Their liabilities
are enormous.
There is a rumor that a syndicate,
headed by the Rothchilds, has purchased
a majority of the stock of the National
Hank of Mexico.
Dispatches from South Dakota state
thnt the crops of Brown county, Mr three
years, have been failures, and the people
are absolutely without food.
A dispatch of Thursday from Syracuse,
N. Y., says that only four people were
killed iu the Leland Hotel disaster. The
lirst report placed the number at twenty
five.
The sultan of Zanzibar has surrendered
to Germany, for 4,000,000 marks,his sov
ereign rights over that portion of the
East African coast which is leased to the
German East African Company.
Dispatches from Paris say: The city
is horrified at what seems to he a suicide
epidemic. For some time past as many
as twelve to eighteen suicides have been
reported daily. On Sunday the total
was eleven.
It is announced that O’Brien and Dillon,
the fugitive Irish leaders, will make a
tour of the United States, and Thomas
P. Gill, M. P., who arrived in New
York last week from Liverpool, will ar
range for their movements.
Original package stoics reopened in all
parts of Kansas Saturday under the deci
sion of the United States court at Topeka
on Friday, that the old prohibition law
was inoperative against original pack
ages, notwithstanding the recent act of
congress.
A Washington dispatch says: The talk
about an extra session of Congress thick
ens and broadens. The extreme republi
cans wish one, and if President Harrison
can have his way he will yield to the
pressure and call congress back in No
vember.
Tlie Ohio house, on Saturday morning,
after a stormy session, refused to pass the
senate compromise hill, giving the go\
eminent power to remove members of the
Cincinnati hoard of improvements, and
providing for a new board, with an elec
tion next April.
The annual meeting of the Pullman
Palace Car Company was held in CTrcngo
| Thursday. Over $18,000,000 of the
capital stock was represented. The
I usual quarterly dividend of $2 per share
from the uct earnings was declared, pay
able November loth.
Secretary of State Blaine has received
a dispatch from Minister llyan, of the
City of Mexico, announcing that the
Mexican republic will adopt the recom
mendations of the International American
conference with regard to a uniform sys
tem of weights and ineiuisurcs.
The Ohio legislature has adopted a res
olution providing a committee to investi
gate the alleged corruption in certain
boards at Cincinnati and various depart
ments of the city government, and another
to consider and make suggestions upon a
plan of government for that city.
The removal of the Canadian export
duty on logs is showing its effect.
Already there are numerous shipments to
the United States. The United States
treasury department has instructed col
lectors to enter Canadian lumber at the
rates fixed in the McKinley act.
The census office issued the following
figures Wednesday: Gdvcston, Tex.,
20,118; increase, 6,870; percent, 30.88.
Houston, Tex., 27.411 ; increase. 10,898;
per cent, 66. Bowling Green, Ky.,
7,790; increase, 2,676; per cent, 52.33.
Montgomery, Ala., 21,700; increase,
5,077; percent, 30.38. Pensacola, Fla,
11,751; increase, 4,906: per cent, 71.67.
State of Alabama, 1,508,073; increase,
24.7,568; per cent, 19.45.
ON FRENCH SOIL.
MESSRS. O'BRIEN AND Dli I.ON AT I,AST
HEARD FROM.
A cablegram from Tipperary, Ireland,
says: During the proceedings in court
here Wednesday, A.r, llealy, one of the
counsel for the defendants in the con
spiracy case was handed a telegram. Tur
ing the envelope open hefound it contained
u dispatch from Messrs. Dillon and O Brieu
announcing their safe arrival at Cher
bourg, France. The utmost reticence was
maintained among the nationalists as tr
the manner in which Dillon and O’Brien
eluded the vigilance of the police and
effected their escape from this country.
It is the intention of the government to
endeavor to learn who aided them to
escape, and if their accomplices are dis
covered they will be' criminally prose
cuted.
VENDETTA IN NEW ORLEANS !
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE lIKNNESSY AS- j
SASSINATION —A PRISONER SHOT.
While the body of 111? late chief of j
police, David Ilennessy, an account of j
whose assassination was mentioned in |
Thursday’s dispatches, lay in state at the j
city hall ill New Orleans, Antonio!
Scatfidn, identified as one of Ins assassins,
was shot and mortally wounded, in the
parish prison, by i'homas ( . Duffy.
Dully informed Deputy Sheriff Andry
that lie called for the purpose of seeing
one of the “Dngoe's” arrrested for the
assassination of Chief Ilennessy, as he
believed that he was able to identify him.
Scaflida came down, accompanied by the
Deputy Sheriff, and put his face within
a few inches of the gate to recognize who
it was that wanted to see him. Duffy,
who was standing about a foot from the
gate, with lightning-like motion, drew a
revolver from his hip-pocket, and, lull
ing it within a few inches of ScnfiidaV
face, pulled the trigger and the Italian,
with a groan, fell luck in the corridor,
the blood spurting from the .wound in
the left side of his neck. Dully said
that if the Italian (lied he was willing tc
hang. lie said: “I only wish there were
about seventy-live more men like me."
Duffy was locked up.
When the wounded man reached Char
ity hospital, Judge Bringlcr was sent for.
and, with his assistant, Jude Hollander,
arrived in a few minutes. Scaflida was
asked if he had anything to say before he
died, and lie replied in the affirmative,
lie began Iris statement by saying: “We
knew that Chief Ilennessy and the Pro
venzanos were good people. We were
good friends of Metraugas. I am going
to die, and 1 die innocent. My idea is
that Metraugas did that to keep tiie Pro
venzanos in jail. Oh, my God! 1 am
going to die,” and Scaflida closed his
eyes and remained silent.
More than fifty arrests have been made
of parties believed to be implicated in
the assassination of Ilennessy.
THE MAYOR NEXT.
Dispatches of Saturday say that the
vendetta has spotted Mayor Shakspeure us
their next victim. Joseph Maeheci, anel
other leading Italians, against whom af
fidavits were made Friday, after the
shooting, and partial confession of Scaffi
(li, were arrested charged "with being ac
cessories to the murder of Chief Hen
nessey. At a special meeting of the
council at m on, Mayor Shakespeare’s
message was read, denouncing the mur
der of Hennessey by the Sicilians,
through hired assassins; declaring that
terrible secret orders exist in New Or.cans,
and that in this instance the chief of po
lice was assassinated for doing his duty
in enforcing American law. A commit
tee meeting of fifty was held Saturday
night, which announced that it would
pursue the investigation to the end, and
bring the murderers of the chief to jus
tice and break up Italian assassination
leagues iu the city. A thousand dollais
was raised on the spot and the committee
expects to have $50,090 to assist in the
work.
WILL IT BE PAID?
THE REWARDS FOR BURROWS’ CAPTURE
MAY NOT MATERIALIZE,
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
The impression has been that the reward
of SIOO hv Gov. Seay was for the deliv
ery of Burrows, if captured, to any
sheriff in the state. But such is not the
case. It is for the delivery of the pris
oner to the sheriff of Jefferson county, in
the Birmingham jail. This fact became
known Thursday evening by r the publica
tion of the original proclamation by the
governor, which is dated September 29,
1889, just a year ago. As is well known,
the outlaw was killed bef"re he was
turned over to the custody of any lawful
officer. A rumor is current that the post
master general will aiso refuse to pay the
government reward. As neither the state
nor the federal government can be sued,
the captors may yet be deprived of their
reward, or at least a portion of it, for
Burrows. Gov. Seay refuses to say whether
he will avail himself of the technicality
to avoid paying tiie reward, but the
opinion prevails that he will not do so.
JUMPED TO DEATH.
A SIX-STORY HOTEL BURNS, CAUSING
FEARFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
What proved to be the most disastrous
fire that has visit'd Syracuse, N. Y., for
many years, was discovered in the belaud
hotel, at 12.30 o’clock Thursday morn
ing. An eye-witness of the lire says it is
positive that at least twenty
live persons have lost their lives,
and many more have been more or
less injured. A majority of the victims
w ere killed in jumping from the windows.
So great is the confusion and excitement
that the identity of those killed and in
jured is wholly unknown. The building
will be a total loss. It was built two
yen's ago at a cost of $150,000. It is six
stories high and contained 400 rooms. It
is impossible to learn how many guests
were in the hotel at the time the tire
broke out. The total loss will not fall
short of $500,000, and the building is
partially covered by insurance.
DR. KELLEY SUSPENDED
BECAUSE HE LEFT HIS CnCKCH TO RUN
FOR GOVERNOR.
A Nashville dispatch of Wednesday
says: The Tennessee Methodist- confer- ]
ence committee, appointed to try Dr. |
C. Kelley for deserting his charge and
running for governor, reported sustain
ing the charges and suspending him from
all ministerial connection for s x months.
Over 250,000 bottles of champagne, vulue.t
at $400,000, were sent to New York by ,
French speculators to forestall the operations 1
of the ntw tariff law.
NUMBER 17
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM AI.E POINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WIT,I, ENTER
TAIN THE HEADER —ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The Mississipi i convention on Friday
adopted the entire judiciary report.
The foreign irou masters passed through
Louisville, Ky., Wednesday on their way
t<> Birmingham, Ala.
A portion of the shops of the Cincin
nati Southern railway, at Ludlow, Ky.,
burned Thursday night. Loss, $40,000.
The Lowe Metallic Paint company, of
Chattanooga, has assigned. Its schedule
of indebtedness foots up to $17,524;
assets, not. yet known. •
The colored people of Richmond, Va.,
Wednesday, celebrated the twenty-sev
enth anniversary of the signing of the
< manci pat ion proclamation.
Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, on Tues
day, appointed Hon. Claude Pintard, of
Natchez, chancellor, of the fourth dis
trict, to succeed the lion. L. McLuurin,
resigned.
The census returns of Louisiana ami
Mississippi have been officially announced.
Louisiana—l,ll6,B2B; gain, 18.82 per
cent. Mississippi—l,2B4,Bß7; gain,
13.55 per cent.
Lines interested in Florida travel held
a meeting of passenger agents at Cincin
nati Wednesday and came to an agree
ment to fix tourists’ and Florida rates at
I cents a mile for round-trip tickets.
•The remains of General A. P. Hill are
to he removed from Hollywood cemetery,
in Richmond, Va., to the lot donated by
Louis Ginter, not fat from the Lee, monu
ment, in the western suburbs of Rich
mond.
The American Gaslight Association of
Savannah, Ga , began its eighteenth an
nual session Wednesday morning with
nearly 200 members present. The dele
gates were received by the mayor and
aldermen.
The case of Dr. .b ines Woodrow, de
posed for teaching “evolution,” came up
agdn a few days ago in the Charleston
Presbytery on the doctor’s application
for membership. The application was.
denied by a vote of 6 to 17.
Fire broke out Friday in the oil rooms
of the Cherry Manufacturing Company,
situated within the walls of the Tennes
see penitentiary, in Nashville, and the en
tire plant of the company was destroyed.
No convicts were in this portion of tlit
building.
Chief of Police Hcnncsy, of New Or
leans, was shot and killed from ambush
ns he was entering his house, Thursday
night. Four of his assassins were ar
rested and identified as Antonio Scaflidi,
Antonio Baguetti, Tebastiano Incardonu
and Petro Mastero, all Italians.
A special from Maxton, N. 0., says
that, a fearful cyclone passed just west
of Maxton about 4 o’clock Thursday
afternoon. At llaly several houses were
blown down, anil one person killed and
several injured. At Cloral College tin
storm was very severe, blowing down thr
belfry of the Presbyterian church, demol
ishing one house and many trees.
The directors of the Mobile and Spring
Hill railroad, on Wednesday, filed notice
in the office of the secretary of state at
Montgomery, Ala., that they had author
ized the issue of $190,000 in 6 per cent
bonds to pay off a mortgage debt of -.aid
company. Notice was filed in compli
ance with the laws of Alabama regulating
rai I road corporal ions.
The census office, on Thursday, made
public the following figures: Jackson,
Tenn,, 10,022; increase, 4,645; percent,
86.39. Memphis, Tenn., 64,586; in
crease, 30,994: per cent, 92.27. State
of Texas, 2.232,220; increase, 640,471;
per cent, 40.24. State of Tennessee,
1,765,723: increase, 221,304; per cent,
14.35.
'1 lie Mississippi constitutional conven
tion adopted an ordinance Saturday- ex
tending the terms of the present state
officers where installed in January last,
and whose terms would have expired in
January, 1894, to January, 1896. This
was done in order to allow the terms of
the county and district officers to be
elected January, 1892, to expire with the
state officers, so that hereafter they will
all be elected for four years and at the
s itue time.
LUMBERMEN FAIL.
AN ASSIGNMENT WITH LIABILITIES AT TWO
MILLION DOLLARS.
R. G. Peters & Co., of Manistee,
Micli., went, to the wall on Thursday.
The liabilities will not exceed $2,000,-
000, and the assets, though largely- scat
tered, will exceed that amount. The
failure is attributed to overexpansion
and the close money market. Their in
dividual liabilities are probably $2,500.-
000, and the nominal assets are consider
ably larger. Peters, besides vast quanti
ties of timber land in Michigan and
Wisconsin and a silver mine in Canada,
lias a latge plant at Brewtou, Ala., and
another at Cyprus, N. C. Attachment
proceedings have been begun by several
corporations against the property of the
company. It is sail that at. least 200
concerns, large or small, mostly in Mich
igan and Wisconsin, are affected by th«
failure.
JUST LIKE ms IMPERTINENCE.
Old woman pre ents herself at the
booking office, and asks for a third-class
ticket.
“Where fori” inquired the clerk.
“That’s my business!'’ was the reply.
—lDietionnairc Univcrsel.