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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF MONROE COUNTY.
BY MrGINTY <f CABANIS3.
The gale has l>ecn consummated of
Lookout mountain, celebrated as the
scene of the battle among the clouds. A
company lias been organized to build a
broad gunge railroad by July 1, and erect
a large hotel on the historic spot.
The value of the cotton plant, great a
it is acknowledged by all to be, seems to
have the possibility of being increased,
since it has lately been discovered that
the bark of the root contains what prom
ises to be an available coloring matter.
merchant at Lyons, France, wanted
to be “original" in advertising. He
therefore advertised: “A stock of $30,-
000 worth of goods at cost.” lie had only
$7,000 worth, and the government ar
rested him for a swindler and fined him
S3OO.
The coyote is the enemy of the jack
rabbit, and used to keep his numbers
down. But some years ago a bounty was
put on the coyote in California, and he
has since decreased and the jack rabbit
increased, until now the latter does great
damage to vineyards and orchards. It
is, therefore, proposed to take the bounty
off of the coyote and put it on the jack
rabbit.
The development of the bituminous
coal lands in Virginia during the last
four years has becu so rapid as to excite
the wonder of coal producers throughout
the country. Up to the beginning of the
time mentioned the coal production of
Virginia was comparatively inconsider
able, but in two years rough estimates
place the production all the way from
three million to five million dollars.
An accident that was reported recently
from Junction City, in the vicinity of
Fort Keogh, Montana, in which a
white woman shot at a dog running along
the river bank, just as an Indian lifted
his head above the bank, and killed the In
dian, ought to teach the red men a needed
lesson. That lesson is never to allow even
so little of themselves as their heads to
remain out of shelter, when a white wo
man is shooting at something else.
Vivisection is not an issue in this coun
try ns in England. Our people take it
for granted that scientific men would not
torture an animal unnecessarily and un
justifiably. But in England there is a
society composed of influential persons
whose work is to prevent the torturing of
animals by scientific investigators. Lead
ing journals are antagonizing the estab
lishment of an addition to the College of
Surgeons lest it be used for experiments
in vivisection.
The head of one of the great New York
dry goods firms was asked the other day
if he could give any idea of the yearly
aggregates of the bills of his heaviest
customers. Twenty-five thousand dol
lars, he said, one woman had spent with
him within a twelvemonth, and several
others had grown poorer to the extent of
$20,000 or $15,000. Thirty thousand
dollars is not unheard of as the price of
the dress and toilet equipments of an ex
travagant city’s extravagant dames.
Now and then is published a story of a
mouse, a dog, a horse, or some other ani
mal with “a remarkable ear for music.”
The latest comes from Yreka, Cal. A
young man riding a gentle, though
spirited horse, becoming musically in
clined, tied the reins around his wrist
and began playing on a mouth organ. It
is not stated how well or how ill was the
playing, or what was the tune. Anyhow,
the horse had an ear for music. He be
came excited, began to dance and to
“buck,” threw the young man to the
ground and dragged him to death. This
may or may not prove a sufficient warn
ing to prevent the reckless playing of
mouth organs in the presence of horses.
The new censuses of France and Ger
many show a marked falling off in the
rate of increase. In the case of France
the rate of increase was low enough be
fore; now it threatens to stop altogether,
and in many departments there has been
a considerable decrease. The addition to
the population in five years lias only been
218,857. bringing the total up to 37,885,-
805. This is equal to the annual rate of
only 1 per cent, per annum. Germany is
not quite so bad, but the rate of increase
between 1870 and 1880 was abnormally
high. Tin* population by the latest re
turns is 46.844.026. as compared with
45,284.061 five years before, giving an
annual rate of increase of .71 percent,
per annum in 1880-85 as compared with
t. 14 per cent, per annum in the previous
five years.
So interesting figures are given bv
the St. Louis Glebe-Democrat, showing
the comparative production of pig iron
in this country and the United Kingdom.
The fixtures in tons of 2.000 pounds each
United Uuited
States. Kingdom.
1870 1,8115,000 6,679,173
1875 2,266.581 7,129,317
1880 4.295.414 8.679,141
1885 4.529.869 5.3G5.52c
1886 6,366,688 7,800,000
The growth of the production in this
country has l>eeu rapidly advancing for
sixteen years, while in the United King
dom the advance lias been slow, and last
year the production was less than the for
mer year by about 750.000 tons. The
United States will lead ihe world in the
production of pig iron in a few years, if
this rapid increase continues. This
country is also second in the production
of coal.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSY T TH. GA., TUESDAY. APRIL 12, 1887.—EIGHT PAGES.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH.
Manufacturing and Other Business liiter
eata Boomin*-N>w Railroads, Etr.
Knox county Texas will build a $lO,-
000 jail.
A brick yard will be started at Monte I
zuma, Ga.
A hotel will be built at Athens, Ga.. to
cost about SIOO,OOO.
A large roller flour mill is to be erected
at Greenville Texas.
It is rumored that a silk factory will
be built at "VValdesboio, N. C.
A. B. Lovejoy will build a SIO,OOO
hotel, at Alexexander City, Ala.
There is talk of a cotton factory being
ecrected and Slate Springs, Miss.
A large brick-yard has been started
lately at at Mount Pleasant Texas.
A company has been formed to build a
hotel, 5 xIOO feet at Benton, Tenn.
There are prospects of a large hotel
being erected at Morristown, Tenn.
Elias Hurley has established a shuttle
block factory at Swift Island, N. C.
A 200-barrel flour mill will, it is said,
soon be built at Santa Anna, Texas.
A large 3-story building will be erect
ed at Lynchburg, Va., by George Mur
rell.
Works will be built to manufacture
steam engines extensively at Anniston,
Ala.
Arrangements are being made for the
erection of a canning factory at Raleigh,
N. C.
S. Rosenbaum & Cos., and others will
build a furniture factory at Columbus,
Miss.
A company will be organized soon to
erect an electric light plant at Winston,
N. C.
A canning factory will be started at
Blue Ridge Springs, Va., by T. F.Weeks
& Son.
A stock company has been formed at
Goldsboro, N. C., to start a furniture
factory.
Bishop & Son contemplate erecting a
new wagon and carriage factory at Rice
ville, Tenn.
Macon. Ga., w ill decide by vote April
23rd whether or uot to build a $20,000
market house.
Mr. Cook has purchased 13 acres of
land and will start large brick works, at
Portland, Ky.
The Louisville-Kentucky Woolen Mills
Cos. will build a brick factory, two stor
ies, 65x75 feet.
A. Potts, of Danyille, is organizing a
stock company to build a roller flour mill
at Somerset, Ky.
Parties from Iron ton, 0., will erect a
wheelbarrow and wood-working factory
at Decatur, Ala.
sls ,000 have been raised for building
a glass factory at Blackwater, Fla. A site
has been secured.
A. S. Emerson is erecting a corrugated
iron building for his steam laundry at
Charleston S. C.
A company is being organized at Mor
ristown, Tenn., to build a-sash, blind
and door factory.
An SBO,OOO stock company is being
formed at Pine Bluff, Ark., to erect
a cotton Compress.
A company has been organized at
Mansfield, Ky., to build a cotton seed oil
mill and ice factory.
The Newport Tanning Cos., has been
chartered at Newport, Ark., and will
build works shortly.
Efforts are being made to organize a
company to build a large cotton factory
at Mooresville, N. C.
It is reported that G. W. Owens, of
1 Dalton, Ga., is organizing a company to
develop a marble quarry.
Greensboro N. C., has decided by a
popular vote to issue SIOO,OOO on bonds
tor public improvements.
E. P. Moulton has sold his lead mines
! at White Pine, Tenn., to a company who
| will develon them at once.
The Wilmore Town Cos., has been or
] ganized at El Paso Texas to build anew
town in the Rio Grande Valley.
T. J. Mitchell has purchased the Sadler
I mill at Sadlersville, Tenn., and will put
I in machinery for a woolen mill.
1 P. Schillinger has purchased a 25-ton
i ice machine for his brewery, at Birming
ham. Ala., at a cost of $13,000.
The Woodward Iron Cos., at Wheeling,
j Ala., are opening anew mine, and
j will build some new coke ovens.
A company has been formed to build
I au ice factory at Van Buren, Ark., and
| will purchase machinery at once.
A stock company has been organized
to build a cotton compress at Thomaston,
Ga., and will begin work at once.
W. M. Nixon and others have leased
and will develop the Half-Moon Island
ore mines near Chattanooga. Tenn.
D. J. Chandler has contracted to erect
a bank building at South Pittsburg. Ten
nessee, to cost not less than SIO,OOO.
A company has been organized to erect
a large sash, door and blind factory, at
Athens, Ga . and have purchased a site.
The p id in capital stock is $15,000.
The Church of the Advent, at Louis
ville, Ky., will erect anew edifice to cost
about $20,000. It will be of brick, 60x
104 feet.
A canning company, with a capital
stock of SIOO,OOO, has been chartered at
Fort Smith. Ark., with R. E. Doyle as
president.
The Columbia A Greenville Railroad
Cos. (office, Columbia, 8. C.) will at once
extend the Blue Ridge Railroad to Wal
halla 8. C.
The Florence Compress. Packet and
Ferry Cos., with a capital stock of $50,-
0 i0 has been organized at Florence. Ala.,
for a compress.
Surveys are being made for the propos
ed St. Johns Riven Lake Weir & Gulf
Railroad, to run from Norwalk to Anclote,
* la., 120 miles.
The cotton mills of the West Point
Manufacturing Cos., at West Point, Ga.,
" rebuilt at once. The loss is re
ported to be $250,000.
It is reported that plans are being pre
pared for the erection of a large ice fac
tory aud refrigerating and bottlin®
works at Paris Texas. *
Ihe Standard Gas Machine Cos., cap
itai stock SIOO,OOO, has been organized
at Chattanooga. Tenn., with John C.
Anderson as president.
Robert Houssels of Linden, has sold
mineral lands to Memphis parties, who
will develop them and build a furnace
on the Tennessee river.
The Charleston & Savannah Railroad
Cos. (office. Charleston) are building a
branch railroad from liavenel Station to
i oung's Island, miles.
The Chattanooga. Cleveland A Duck
town Railroad Cos., has been incorporated
at Nashville, Tenn.. by J. T. Wilder, of
Roan Mountain and others.
The Newport News A Mississippi Val
ley Railroad Cos., (office, Richmond,)
contemplate building a coal pier 275 feet
long at Newport News, Va.
C. C. Huckabee. owning a cotton seed
oil mill in Southern Alabama, has formed
a $30,000 stock company to move it to
Oxanna, Ala., and enlarge it.
The Forestville and Printup City
Street Railroad Cos. capital stock $25,-
000, has been formed at Rome, Ga., to
build a dummy street railroad.
The Newport, Jonesboro A St. Louis
Railway Cos., has been incorporated at
Newport Ark., to build a 40-mile railroad
to Jonesboro. The capital stock is $300.-
000.
The Dayton Oil A Gas Cos., capital
stock SIOO,OOO, has been organized at
Dayton, Tenn. The company are leasing
lands and will shortly begin developing
them.
The Newport News & Mississippi Val
ley Railroad Cos., (office Richmond, Va,,)
will enlarge their machine shop and
build anew paint shop, at Huntington.
W. Va.
A company has been organized at Selma
Ala., to manufacture stoves, also one to
establish chain works- The capital stock
af each is $25,0J0 and has been sub
scribed.
A meeting has lately been held at
Shreveport, La., for the purpose of or
ganizing a stock company to build a cot
ton factory to cost from $300,000 to
$400,000.
The Gerards’ Rectilinear Propellor A
Rotary Engine Cos. has been incorporated
t New Orleans to manufacture engines,
tc. The capital stock authorized is
$1,000,000.
A bill will be introduced in the legis
lature of Virginia to allow Danville to
appropriate SIOO,OOO of a certain fund
for new r gas works and for improving the
streets, etc.
A Brick Cos., has been incorporated at
Birmingham, Ala., by Mr. M. T. Sum
mer and others. The company will
build works to manufacture 100,000
bricks daily.
A $400,000 stock company will be or
ganized at Florence, Ala., to erect a
charcoal furnace and chemical plant with
W. B. Wood as president. The site has
been secured.
ihe Memphis. Arkansas and Texas
railroad company, capital stock $2,500,
000, has been chartered to build a rail
road from Memphis. Tenn., via Mariana
and Clarendon, Ark.
The Birmingham Street Car Factory
Cos., capital stock SIOO,OOO, has been or
ganized at Birmingham, Ala., to manu
facture street cars aad will s ion begin
building their works.
The consolidated Coal & Iron Cos., oi
Chattanooga, Tenn., have made a propo
sition to build the Cincinnati, Huntsville
A Birmingham Railroad from Huntsville
to the Tennessee river.
The Warren County Manufacturing
Cos., capital stock SIOO,OOO has been in
corporated to manufacture all kinds of
goods from cotton, and oil from cottou
seed at Vicksburg, Miss.
The St. Helen’s Land, Coal and Iron
Cos., capital stock $1,000,000, has been
incorporated at Frankfort, Ivy., to de
velop 12,000 acres of coal and timber
lands in Lee county, Ky.
The American Wire Hoop Cos., of Jack
son, Tenn., has been reorganized, and
the capital stock has been increased to
$600,000. The company will build tlieii
works at West Nashville.
The Southern Natural Gas & Oil Cos.,
of Wheeling, W. Va., have issued $5,-
000,000 of bonds for the purpose of de
veloping their mineral, oil and gas lands,
embracing nearly 200,000 acres.
F. Pence, of Romo, Ga., proposes tc
organize a $5,000 chair factory, $5,00C
trunk factory and $5,000 broom factory,
aud in connection w T ith J. W. ltounsa
ville, a $25,000 woodenware factory.
The Soddy Coal Cos., of Chatanoogs
have sold out their property to parties in
C incinnati, 0., who will organize anew
company, w r ith a capital stock of $600,-
OJO, to develop the property. The ne.r
company will build additional coke
ovens.
The Fort Smith aud Van Buren Street
Railway Cos., at. Fort Smith, Ark:, cap
i;: t stock $50,000, has been chartered tc
build a street railroad to Vau Buren. At
-ante place a Belt Railroad company has
been incorporated to build a street rail
roa I about 8 miles long.
A Philapelphia company, (represented
by Evans R. Dick, 147 Fourth street,'
owning 6,000 acres of iron lauds iu the
Cripple Creek region, in Virginia, and
40,000 acres of coal lauds, contemplate
mining coal and manufacturing iron and
coke on a large scale, but as yet have
formed no plans which they care to make
public.
The Young Men's Christian Association
will erect a building at Anniston, Ala.
The cost will not be less than SIO,OOO.
A. J. Twiggs, of Augusta, Ga., has
leased laud and water power and will
build a wood pulp mill at Aiken, S. C
A $250,000 company has been char
tered to build a canal to bring the waters
of the Guadalupe river to Cuero. Texas.
The Selma Land Cos. will build a large
packing-house and refrigerator at Selma,
Ala., for Armour A Cos., of Chicago, 111.
The Hope Manufacturing Cos., of
Mason City, W. Va., will at once re
build their large salt works, which were
burned.
STRIKING CARPENTERS,
Six y-five hundred carpenters employ
ed by the various contractors and shop
owners throughout Chicago and suburbs,
will cease work to-morrow morning, and
building operations in this county will
suspended indefinitely. The leader# of
the carpenters who, after a long struggle
last summer, failed to carry out their de
mands for eight hours and an increase of
wages, decided then to renew the con
test. and think that now. when building
enterprise is reviving and carpenters are
wanted, the time has arrived to make
the employers yield. The carpenters are
ail organized ; scarcely three hundred of
their trade ia the county are outside of
their ranks.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR
NA non A L CA PI TA L .
What is Brin* Done by the Head* of Our
Government—The Week’* Review.
THE NEW SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT.
The president signed the commissions
of Charles S. Fairchild as secretary of
the treasury, and Isaac 11. Maynard as
assistant secretary of the treasury Friday.
Mr. Fairchild at once entered upon the
discharge of his new duties. The officers
and many clerks of the department waded
on him early and extended their congrat
ulations. The crowd became so great
that he was compelled to abandon, for a
time, all ideas of attending to the cur
rent work claiming his attention. He
caused a temporary halt by announcing
that he would receive, his official friends
informally in the afternoon after he had
disposed of his mail. He received a
profusion of flowers and congratulatory
letters and telegrams from all parts of the
country. A majority of the telegrams
were from bankers and business men.
Judge Maynard in accepting his new
office will suffer a loss of $5,000 a year in
salary. He makes the change at the
personal solicitation of the president and
Secretary Fairchild, with the latter of
whom he enjeys the closest personal re
lations.
TILE DEBT STATEMENT
issued Friday shows the decrease of the
public deot during the mouth of March
to be $12,808,407,71. The decrease of
the debt since June 30, 1886, was $70,-
912,824,79; cash in the treasury, $453,-
117,086.04-, gold certificates out-stand
ing, $94,046,015; silver certificates out
standing, $131,930,489; certificates of
deposit outstanding, $7,135,000; legal
tenders outstanding, $346,681,016; frac
tional currency, not including amount
estimated as lost or destroyed, $6,948,-
497.37. Total interest bearing debt
$119,571,112. Total debt, including
matured bonds, accrued interest and
debt which bears no interest $1,708,207,-
513.04.
THE NEW DOCKS.
Secretary Whitney has approved the
report of the board appointed to select
sites for the two new dry docks author
ized by the last congress. The docks
will be located at the New York and
Norfolk navy yards, and will be built by
contract on the general plan of the Simp
son dry docks. They will be constructed
of timber, and the dimensions will be
about as follows: Length, 485 feet;
width, at top, 125 feet; and the width at
the bottom 60 feet. The amount of
money available for their construction is
$1,100,000. The New Y’ork dock will
cost more than the dock at Norfolk,
owing to the difficulty of obtaining a
good foundation. A good foundation of
the blue clay and gravel can be obtained
at Norfolk at a depth of 35 feet, while at
New York innumerable quick sands and
springs are found at a similar depth, ne
cessitating heavy piling to obtain a foun
dation capable of supporting a vessel of
6,000 to 10,000 tons in weight. The
exact location in the yards of the two
docks cannot be determined, but borings
will be made within a short time to as
certain the nature of the foundation.
THE COMMISSIONERS MEET.
On Thursday all of the interstate com
merce commissioners hid arrived in the
city. Mr. Bragg, the last cue to arrive,
came in on an early morning train.
They all met at the white house and
were introduced to each other by the
president. They were besieged during
the day by numerous correspondents, all
of whom utterly failed to get any ex
pressions from cither of them. At 3
o’clock they called on the secretary of the
interior, before whom they took the oath
of office and received their commissions.
From thence they repaired to rooms pre
pared for them on F street, where for
some time to come they are to perform
the duties of official railroad regulators.
Judge Cooley was made chairman of the
commission. Further organization will
be perfected at once, but nothing will be
done before April sth, at which time the
law goes into effect.
There are no five men in these United
States who are attracting the attention
of so many people. This little body of
men is to hold in its control thousands of
millions of property and the rights of
sixty million people.
NEW POSTAGE STAMPS.
Post-office department officials are hav
ing prepared a series of new designs of
embossed stamps for stamped envelopes
of one, tw’o, four and five cent denomi
nations. The head of Franklin has teen
selected for the one cent stamps, and
heads of Washington, Jackson and
Grant for the two, four and five cent de
nominations, respectively. The general
design of the new series is uniform. On
the upper side and following the oval
shape of the stamp is the legend. “United
States Postage,” instead of “U. S. Post
age,” as on the stamps now in use. This
new series will be ready for use about
May 1. The border of the one cent
adhesive stamp has been slightly modi
fied to conform to the design of the two
cent stamp.
THE NATIONAL DRILL.
The entries for the national drill to be
held the last week in May closed Satur
day night. A number of entries not yet
recorded are on their way, and will be
received, having been mailed before the
date of closing, 'ihe entries recorded are
distributed as follows among the differ
ent branches of the service: Regimental
drill 4, battalion 5, artillery 7, gatling
gun 2, infantry companies 65, school
cadet corps 7, zouave 5, individual drill,
about, 82, rifle practice, about, 98, mili
tary bands and drum corps, about, 22.
The Montgomery (Ala.) True Blues,the
Atlanta (Ga.) Rifles, the Mobile (Ala.)
Lomax Rifles, and one or two other com
panies from the south, who had previous
ly entered, have announced their un
willingness to enter the contest with ne
gro companies and have therefore with
drawn, This action the part of these
companies has caused considerable com
ment.
THE SNOW DRIFTS OF CANADA.
The snow blockade on the inter-Colon
ial railroad is unprecedented. One train
has been one hundred hours in covering
two miles and snow drifts where it now
stands completely cover the telegraph
poles. The outgoing English mail,
which left Friday, is still stuck between
Riviere de Loup and Remouski, while
the increasing English mail and an emi
grant special train are likely to remain
over tonight at St. Flave. Every effort
is being made to have the line cleared
and no expense will be spared. The
Canada Pacific railroad cancelled all out
going trains Monday and Tuesday. The
drifts on the road are very deep.
THE TEXAS DROUTH.
Much Damage to Crop* and Siiflerin* among
Lire Slock.
Special telegrams to the Galveston
Newß, Houston Post and Fort Worth
Gazette during the past week, from near
ly every county in Texas, indicate the
prevalence of a serious drouth through
out the state, affecting in a large measure
its agricultural as well as its live stock
interests. The drouth may be said to be
a continuation of last year's dry spell, as
no creneral rains have fallen throughout
the interior since last September, while
local showers have been few and inade
quate during the past six mouths. The
drouth now extends over the great cot
ton belt, jeopardizing the outlook for the
coming crop by retarding and preventing
planting, which is usually in full progress
at this season, but can scarcely be said to
have commenced, except in the coast
counties, owing to the extreme dryness
of the earth. Along the coast cotton i
up, and reports from several points speak
of some damage by the frosts of the past
few nights. Of the six great district
comprising the cotton belt the south
western, containing 23 counties, produc
ing 200,000 bales, is suffering worst, ac
cording to all accounts, and planting is
retarded nearly a month, with no present
indications of rain. This is the early
cotton district of Texas. Winter wheat
in central and north Texas is also suffer
ing from want of rain, showing poor
growth. Similar reports are received re
garding oats. White spring wheat is de
layed. Corn in the bottom lands along
the Brazos, Trinity and Colorado rivers
promises a fair average.
Complaints from Austin, San Antonio
and Waco, in central and southwestern
districts, are far more numerous than
from the Palestine distiict, and the rain
fall at these points January Ist. averages
less than two inches, while the mean
average rainfall for the same peiiod each
year has heretofore been 12.40. The
great grazing areas of the west, south
west and northwest Texas are suffering
even worse than the agricultural sections,
as the drouth is nearly a year old in many
of these districts.
BURNED TO DEATH.
The Frightful llentli of Two Itnllroid Men
In Tennessee.
A special to Atlanta Constitution says:
The details of a most terrible wreck on
the Memphis and Charleston railroad,
w-hich occurred late Fiiday night, has
just been learned. Tw-o freights came
in collision near Pocahontas, a station
near Corinth, owing to a misunderstand
ing of orders by Engineer Kohl, of the
east bound freight. His orders were to
pass the weit bound freight at Winne
soga, but not finding the train there he
concluded to make Pocahontas, and set
off at a wild speed to make that station.
He had not gone over one mile when he
encountered the Westbound freight, and
a frightful wreck was the consequence,
On Engineer Kohl’s train was a car
loaded with turpentine, and when the
cars came together the turpentine was
ignited, and the accident having occur
red in a remote spot from water, the en
tire train was consumed. After the fire
had burned out search was made for the
unfortunate Kohl and ids fireman, and
the charred remains of Kohl, almost en
tirely burned to ashes, were found in the
debris of the engine, and not a vestige of
the fireman could be found, his body
having been entirely consumed. No
other trainmen were hurt. The wreck
was dared and the trains went through
Sunday.
BUSINESS STATEMENTS.
Failures in the Country During the I.net
Three Alonllii.
Mercantile failures fo three months
ending with Thursday, as reported by
R. G. Dunn & Cos., are 3,007 in number,
against 3,203 for the same quarter of
1886. Liabilities for the first quarter of
the present year are $32,161,000, against
$29,681,000 for the corresponding quar
ter of 1886. The geographical distribu
tion of failures is somewhat unusual, the
liabilities in the middle states amounting
to $12,000,000, showing an increase of
$6,000,000 as compared with 188 C, and
in New York city the liabilities for the
first three months of 1887 were $5,000,-
000 as compared with $2,900,000 in the
corresponding quarter of last year. Iu
all other sections of the country, except
the middle states, the failures are much
less in number and amount than the
average for the first quarter, and the to
tal result is much less than previous
years. In Canada the failures for the
first quarter of 1887 are 393 in number as
against 389 for the corresponding quar
ter of last year. Liabilities for the quar
ter just closed are $3,602,000 as com
pared with $3,442,000 for the same period
in 1886.
CORRUPTION IN OFFICE.
The grand jury ot Chicago investigated
a job Tuesday connected with the Luild
ug of a sewer from one of the public
-ehools and it is said has as good as de
cided to indict the two contractors and
county commissioner on account of their
share in the transaction. The story goes
that the commission will be charged with
bribery, a penitentiary offense, and pur
isbable with greater severity than any of
the other charges against the boodlers.
Conspiracy will be charged against the
contractors and the evidence is repre
sented to be conclusive. A common
rumor has all along stated there was $5,-
000 involved in the artesian well job at
Ravenwood, and that this money was di
vided among the commissioners and one
warden. The jury gave up part of their
time to-day to fiud out the truth of this
story. Witnesses are said to have per
sonal knowledge of the transaction.
RESULT OF A FEUD-
A most shocking tragedy took place at
Coushitta, La , Sunday, resulting in the
death of J. Henry Scheen and A. C.
Brown. Mr. Brown had been incensed
against M. A. Cockerham, son-in-law of
of Scheen, on abcount of some business
troubles, and had been seen on the streets
inquiring for Cockerham. Finding him
at Scheen’s store, pistol were drawn and
they began firing upon each other.
Scheen received a shot in the mouth,
which passed through and broke his
neck, causing instant death. Brown re
ceived a shot in each arm, and after pro
miscuous tiring on both sid's, left the
store. Young John H. Scheen, seeing
his father shot down, seized a double
barrelled shotgun, loaded with duck or
turkey shot, and fired upon the retreat
ing form of Brown, who ran to the store,
about 160 yards distant, and expired.
scalded to death.
Meagre details have been received of a
wreck on the Southern Pacific, 300 miles
west of San Antonio, Texas, at Dryden
station, in the second division. A west
bound engine and caboose smashed full
tilt into a freight train coining east. The
train men had no time to jump, and the
breakage was severe. Engineer McCom
less was pinned and scalded to death.
AN EX-GOVERNOR SUICIDES.
Fx.floTerMr Reynold*, of Mlooourl, Jump*
Down >■ Elevator Siafl.
lion. Thomas C. Reynolds committed
suicide" at the custom house in Bt. Louis
Wednesday afternoon by plunging down
an elevator shaft from the third floor.
He fell the distance of eighty feet and
crushed in his skull. The cause of the
act was mental derangement superin
duced by hallucinations that he was
about to become insane. In his pocket
book was found a letter to his wife, stat
ing that two years ago he contracted
malaria at Aspinwall and had failed to
recover, the disease settling in his spine.
Recently he had been troubled with
insomnia ' and frequent nervousness.
Visions invited him to join his dead
friends, and fearing lest he should be a
burden to his wife by becoming a luna
tic—having twice before been troubled
with dementia, and his estate of $25,000
being in order, unimpaired and product
ive, Tie determined to end his life.
Governor Reynolds was born in Char
leston, 8. C. He studied in the university
of Viiginia, and continued his studies in
Germany, graduating at Heidelberg in
1842. lie spent one year in the university
of Paris; and was admitted to the bar in
Virginia in 1844. He was secretary oi
the United States legation to Spain in
1846 and 1848. In 1859 I e located at St.
Louis. In 1860 he was elected lieutenant
governor of Missouri on the same ticket
with Governor Caleb Jackson, and in the
. ivil war sided with the confederacy. At
lie close of the war he went to Mexico.
In 1868 he returned to St. Louis, lie
,vas a member of the commission scut to
South America abcut two years ago in
he interest of commerce with the United
Mates. In 1854 he fought adu 1 w ith
5. Gratz Brown, with rifles at thirty
jaces, on the islands opposite St. Louis,
ver a political discussion. Mr. Brown
vas hit in the kuee, but Governoi Rey
nolds was not touched. It is believed
that Governor Reynolds only intended to
maim Mr. Brown.
A HORRIBLE MURDER.
A Fiend .Murders mill lliru Burns His Wife
near Ada, Ala.
The particulars of the most horrible
crime in the criminal records of Alabama
have just come to light. Last Tuesday
morning Tarleton Steele, colored, mur
dered and then burned his wife, near Ada,
in Montgomery county. About two
o’clock in the morning they had a quarrel
and hot words led to blow’s. Tarleton
struck his wife on the head with an axe
handle, killing her almost instantly. He
then took the body and carried it off to
a lonely place in the woods, a mile from
home, threw it in a gully, piled trash and
straw on it, then poured kerosene oil on
the heap and stuck fire to it. He then
returned home and left the body to be
cremated. The gentleman on whose
place he was living missed the woman,
but said nothing about it, and the mur
derer remained on the place a day and
night after the crime was committed.
Thursday morning he went back to the
woods and found that the body had not
been entirely burned up. lie put trash
on the remains, but having no match to
start the fire again he fled.
Suspicion had been aroused, and the
neighbors searched the woods and found
the remaining portions of the body. The
murderer was captured ten miles distant
and brought to Montgomery to jail. lie
made a full confession of the terrible
deed, and says he burned the body to
conceal the crime. The murderer is a
small black negro about twenty-five years
old.
EVIDENTLY A CRANK.
V .Man Creates a Sensation in Chattanooga,
Tenn.
A genuine sensation was created in
Chattanooga Friday by the arrest of a
man who gave his name as Doyle. Doyle
took supper at a Restaurant in the city
Thursday night, and refused to pay the
proprietor, and was in consequence arres
ted. In submitting to the arrest he took
occasion to lavish epithets ou the propri
etor of tlie restaurant, and another war
rant for profanity was secured, lie was
taxen before a city magistrate and com
mitted to the county jail in default of
SSOO, and remained in cell all night. Fii
day morning, on his agreement,
to pay the cost of the arrest
and the restaurant man the warrant was
withdrawn. After this was done, he
having in the meantime taken on a good
supply of whiskey, showed to the as
tounded officers and bystanders roils of
greenbacks that were bestowed in various
parts of his person, amounting in all to
$19,000. 1 his at once excited surprise,
and it was at once set down by the offi
cials that Doyle was one of the notorious
express robbers about which so much lias
recently been said. Deputy United Stales
Marshal Hill telegraphed the man’s de
scription at once to various places in
hopes of identifying the man but received
no answer - Doyie, as soon as he gift free,
left on the first train for parts unknown.
He was evidently “off” in some way, and
the officials think they have caught it
rich if they can oniy find out who he is.
TO BE TURNED OUT.
A singular difficulty has arisen in Chat
tanooga Tenn., as a result of the real
estate boom which has been prevailing
for three months. Some time since a
syndicate of capitalists purchased a large
tract of land almost in the center of the
city, called Stone Fort, which, on ac
count of its rocks and uneven condition,
has been allowed to become occupied by
negro tenants, at least two hundred small
houses having been put up for their oc
cupancy. Over two hundred families
occupied these houses, A few days since,
the new purchasers notified their tenants
to vacate this property at once, and they
will have to leave. There is not a va
cant house in the city that they can get.
and what to do with 200 families who
are turned out of house and home is a
problem to be solved. The purchasers
propose to improve the property, level it
off and make it available for business and
residences. In several other parts of the
city where property has heretofore been
occupied by the poor classes, and which
property has passed into new hands, the
tenants have been ordered off to make
room for improvements.
RAILROADS AND NEWSPAPERS.
Cincinnati newspapers appeared Friday
without the customary column giving the
time of airival and departure of trains.
This is in accordance with the proposition
made by the newspapers, jointly, in view
of the stoppage of passes to stop the free
publication of matter for the benefit of
the railroad but but to accept tickets in
payment for all advertising. The railroads
replied, accepting the proposition for ad
vertisements which they should aider,
and intimating that the daily publication
of time tables should not be regarded as
an advertisement.
HE SOLD THE RACE.
The Captain of the Defeated Yacht, Dnnat
less Telle a Tale.
A special from London dated Wednes
day, says: Yachtmen were astounded
to-day to learn that Captain Samuels,
captain of the Dauntless had severed all
relations with Caldwell H. Colt, the
owner of the defeated yacht, and after
denouncing ali on board had left the
vessel. Soon a dozen or more prominent
yachtmen boarded the Dauntless to get
further particulars. But little informa
tion was volunteered to them by Mr.
Colt, who looked upon the sudden de
parture of the famous skipper as an out
rage. He declined to make a statement
beyond the assertion that Captain Samu
els' and five of the crew’ had deserted the
vessel without satisfactory cause. Cap
tain Samuels is particularly bitter against
his former employer, and says in a most
positive way, that Mr. Colt is responsible
far the failure of the Dauntless in the
race. He charges that shortly after the
yacht lost sight of Fire Island' light, Mr.
Colt became abusive. His language was
ungentlemanly, and it was only when,
Captain Samuels alleges, he was accused
of trying to allow the Coronet to obtain
an irrecoverable lead, that he refused to
listen further to his employer's utter
ances. During the passage across, the
progress of the yacht was handicapped
by her owner. When Captain Samuels
saw that Mr. Colt’s ill-advised instruc
tions were acting to the detriment of the
vessel’s speed, lie determined to fill the
place for which he was engaged, or re
linquish all responsibility. But Mr. Colt
di-regarded his protests entirely and con
tinued to give orders to the various men
at the wheel, notwithstanding Captain
Samuels ordered otherwise. Finally,
Captain Samuels says, the control of the
vessel devolved upon Mr. Colt, and he,
the captain, had only an outside voice.
He therefore, attributed the defeat of
the vessel to the mismanagement of her
owner, and his interference with the
standing and well regulated rules of sea.
THEY WANT THE OFFICE.
Quo-Warranto Suit* Brought in n North
Carolina Court.
A case of quo wairauto, involving the
right to the office of register of deeds of
A divide, N. C.,the lees of which amount
to about three thousand dollars per an
num, has for several months awakened a
deep public interest at that place. A
democrat, J. R. Patterson, is the present
incumbent, and the relator is Robert
Cole, a republican, elected at the late
election and failed to file a bond on the
dav directed by the statute. A learned
argument was made by Major W. 11.
Malone for the relator, and by Captain
M. E. Carter for the defendant. His
honor, Judge Graves, decided in favor of
the defendant and the relator appealed.
A decision w r as also rendered in the
similar coupon case of H. A. Carper,
jailer of Pulaski county, Va., against
Richard L. Fitzgerald. Appeal from the
United States circuit court for the east
ern district of Virginia. Fitzgerald, the
appellee in this case, is a traveling sales
man for the firm of Austin, Field & Cos.,
of Philadelphia. He was arrested in
Pulaski county, Va., for doing business
without license, after he had made an of
fer of tax-receivable coupon in payment
for such license. Upon a writ of habeas
corpus he was discharged from custody
by Judge Bond, of the United States
circuit court for the eastern district of
Virginia, sitting as circuit judpe, in
chambers at Baltimore. The state of
Virginia, through its jailer, appealed
from Judge Bond’s decision to the court
at Asheville. This court holds that the
act of March 3, 1885, allows appeals iu
habeas corpus cases only from a decision
of the circuit court, and that the decision
of the circuit judge sitting in chambers
is not a decision of the court, even al
though 6uch judge may order the papers
filed, and his order recorded in the cir
cuit court. The appeal is, therefore,
dismissed. Opinion by Chief Justice
Waite.
THE LONGSHOREMEN SUIT.
The Caae Against the Longshoremen Stri
kers In Court.
Louis F. Post filed Monday, with the
clerk of the United States ciicuit court
of New York, answers to James T.
Quinn, Timothy B. Putnam, Patrick Mc-
Gartland, John J. McKenna and James
McGrath, Knights of Labor, against
whom the Old Dominion Steamship com
pany brought suit for $20,000 damages,
aud who were held in bail for trial. The
case grew out of the boycott of freight
handled by the company. In their an
swers Quinn, Putnam and McGarlland
deny all other allegations and claim that
the longshoremen were “locked out” by
the company because they refused to ac
cept a reduction of wages; that employes
were paid by the hour ODly, and wer#
under no contract for any term of servic#
whatever; that the longshoremen met ia
a peaceable and orderly manner for the
purpose of maintaining the rate of wages
of their craft, and that they, the defend
ants, only acted as mediators to settle
the dispute. McKenna and McGrath
admit being officers of the Ocean associ
ation of longshoremen, and claim that
they were justified in their actions, being
under no contract to the Old Dominion
company. The defendants ask for judg
ment dismissing the case, with costs.
FOUR MEN DROWNED.
They go Under While Rafting Timber Down
the Oconee River.
J. M. Smith, of Dublin Ga., started,
last Thursday, a large raft of timlier
down the Oconee river to Darien, with a
crew of four men. He ordered the crew
to run night and day.
On Friday night, while turning abend
in the river, the raft broke to pieces and
all of the crew except the pilot were
drowned. He saved himself by clinging
to the floating timbers until he could
reach the bank. It is said that the raft
contained eighty-six pieces, which would
average 1,000 feet each.
The raft, it is said, was poorly put to
gether, and one crew refused to go on it,
when Smith employed another. Smith
was warned by old river men not to at
tempt the running of such a raft, as it
would be wrecked, but paid no attention
to the warning. His timber is a com
plete loss.
BLOWING CP A CANAL.
A few nights ago Cecil aqueduct on
the canal at Defiance 0., was blown open.
Next night armed men drove away the
guards who were watching the reservoir
and blew out the banks in two places
aud finally dynamite was used to destroy
t e locks. It will take half the summer
to repair the damage already done. The
governor has been asked for instructions.
I here was a strong effort made recently
to have the legislature vacate the canal at
this point.