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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
VOL XXXV.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— U. 5 . Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRES8.
PROCEEDINGS OF THF. HOUSE AND SENATE
RRIFKED— DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT-
1 MU OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUB
COMMON COUNTRY. NOTES.
1'he Breokinridgo election ease, from
Arkan* , was taken in the house
Tuesday and discus rFhzrti. Tho
rase went over until Wednesday, and rela¬ Mr.
Can non took the floor in a statement
tive to the appropriations made by this
session of congress. Mr. Sayers, n mem¬
ber of the appropriations committee, re¬
viewed the financial situation from a
democratic standpoint. Tho speaker an¬
nounced tho appointment of Mr. Flick,
of Iowa, n.s n member of the Ratlin inves¬
tigating committee, in place of Mr.
Hmyser, of Ohio, resigned. '1 he house
then, at 5:45, adjourned.
In tlx 1 senate, on Tuesday, Mr. Evarts
presented a resolution of the Buffalo
merchants exchange favoring reciprocity
not only with nations south of us, but
also with that on the north. The house
bill in relation postoftice to lotteries was reported placed
from the committee, and
on the eah ndar with notification by Saw¬
yer that he would ask for its considera¬
tion as soon as the tariff Dill passed. Mr.
Quay gave notice that he would ask the
senate Saturday, the 13 h, to consider
I lie resolutions relative to the dcurii of
Samuel .1. Randall. The tariff bill was
then taken up and the sugar schedule con¬
sidered. Mr. Carlisle gave notice that he
relative would move to strike bounties. < ut all paragraphs of¬
to sugar Mr. Hu e
fered tiie reciprocity amendment, of
which he lmd given notice on the 19th of
.lime and addressed the senate upon it.
The senate at half past nine o’clock, took
n recess until 8 o'clock.
In the house, on Wednesday, during
the absence of Speaker Reed, on motion
of Mr, Cannon, of Illinois, Mr. Burrows,
of .Michigan, was elected speaker pro
tern. On motion of Mr. Hlonnt. of
Georgia, a bill was bridge passed authorizing the
construction of a across the Sa¬
vannah river bv the Middle Georgia A
Atlantic Rudnmd Company, The house
Ihon proceeded to the further considera¬
tion of the Clayton Breckinridge case.
Among the speakers w s Mr. Kennedy, of
Ohio, who drew from the details of the
Clayton Breckinridge ease the conclusion
that a federal election law should be en¬
acted. lie made a fiery attack upon the
senators who have been opposed to the
Lodge tiie Dill. His spe eh was the sensation
if day. and The the Breckinridge house adjourned. case theu
went over,
In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Call
offered a resolution, which was referred
to the committee on foreign relations, Bnr
declaring that the murder of General
rundia, on the steamer Acapulco, by the
authorit ies of Guatemala while under the
protection of the flag of the United
States, United was an insuit and demanded to the people prompt of the
States, ac¬
tion by the government of the I’nited
Stales for redress of that injury and for
security against a recurrence of such cases.
The tariff bill w as then taken up, the sugar
!■- hedttle being under consideration. Mr.
Edmunds addressed the senate. Coming
to the question of reciprocity, Mr. Ed¬
munds recalled the history and practical
imi JT ration Canadian (injurious reciprocity to the United States)
the treaty of
ISM Mr. Morgan addressed the senate
in support of the amendment heretofore
proposed by him as a substitute for Mr.
Aldrich's reuiprocitV amendment. It pro¬
vides for a duty of 3 per cent ad valorem
on corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, liny,
s ro,w, potatoes, cotton, live domestic
A al-, and on asses, mules and horses,
nWi that when «nv of such article - are
exported a premium of per cent shall
be paid oa their value to the
ow ner. Mr. Evarts was the next speaker,
lie had several good and words for the policy
of fostering postal steamship subsidy
bills, and then went on to speak of ihe
various reciprocity amendments, and to
criticise them as being objectionable, un
dtr the “favored nation" clause of inter¬
national treaties. At the c’.os! »f Mr.
Evarts' speech a message from the presi¬
dent in regard to international arbitra¬
tion was presented, r ad and referred
to to the committee on foreigu relations.
Mr. Gray consumed the remainder of the
time of the session iu a peeqh, upon the
it c lend subject of the taritf. .Mr. Gray
sed his remarks at 5:30 o'clock, and a
recess was theu taken till 8 o'clock p. m.
In the senate, on i'l ureday, imrae
diately after the reading of the journal,
the tariff bill was taken up under the
agreement limiting the discussion on each
subject to five minutes for each senator,
\m- '\j i some ' j!-.! discussion, the presiding efli
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,. r i anuiumc d that the gen
l ’'‘ I ' I v 1'• '* t-”«n ’ ' the tariff bill had cYmI
t j on 0 f t ] ie resi nation of
~ C tie 'V. final vote is to be taken j
~ I " 7 'qq .'-M< ,g • l11t .
‘ ‘
;•*: I ' “.‘7 u ” r nr -cliedule w - hid
i•'>G 1 schedule 1 “Got
ton '! 'ri'ti*ii taken n \p
aim ndmeuts iu this schedule were re
jected. Schedule ^ J. ’ manufactur relating ° to flax, ’
hemp, jute and their was
taken up. and an amendment redneb'g the
rate c flux not hackled or di 1 from
J* cents per pound agreed to $20
>er ton. was to.
The next amendment was t reduce th<
duty ou hackled flax from cents pe
pound to $40 per ton. Agreed to. The
committee's amendment to paragraph 349
relating to bagging for cotton, reducing
the duties ot 1 6*19 cents and 1 8-10
cents per yard to l 3Y0 o aid 1 5-10 « ts
was ngrged to. No other amend a ts
to tho schedule, except conuui tee
amendments, were successful. The end
of the dutiable) schedule was reached
without a break iu tho program® The
Ibgitf itchodul* and levtim ouur para*
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER <J, 1800 -
graphs remain which for action. were passed After over brief informally
a execu¬
tive session, the senate adjourned.
In the house, on Thursday, Mr. Cum¬
mings, of New York, rising to a question
of privilege, protested in a lengthy and
sarcastic speech against his ‘ blacklist¬
ing” by the famous Cannon resolution.
Mr. rupted Cummings by was frequently inter¬
Mr. Kerr,of Iowa, and Mr. Don¬
nell, of Minnesota. At the conclusion of
Cummings’ called the speech, Clayton-Breckinridgc Mr. Lacy, of Iqwa.
up elec¬
tion esse. Mr. O’Ffcrrcll, of Virginia,
argued in favor of the conte-ice, and
paid a high eulogy upon the character of
the sitting member. Mr. McCarthy, of
New York, revived the testimony in sup¬
port of his view that Mr. Brock in ridge
was duly elee'ed. lie criticised the ac¬
tion of the subcommittee which had
been sent to Arkansas, declaring that a
majority of the members had gone to that
state with the sole purpose of unseating
the sitting member. Mr. Tracy, of Now
York, also spoke in favor of Mr Bre k
inridge, and was followed by Mr,
McRae, of Arkansas,who made an earnest
attack upon Powell Clayton. After a
speech in favor by of Mr. the minority Maish, of report, Pennsylvania, th" j
case
went over. The house then adjourned.
NOTES.
The president,on Wed nes lay. transmit¬
ted to congress the recommendations of
tiie international American conference,
touching international arbitration, to
gather with the letter of transmittal from
Secretary Rhi ne.
< h'ders were issued by the navy de¬
partment Wednesday for the United
States steamship Kemsage, now at New
York, to proceed at once to Aspinwall. It
is supposed that this action grows out of
the reports of the railroad strike at that
place.
The president, on Wednesday, nomi¬
nated John W. Ross to be commissioner
of tho District of Columbia, to succeed
Mr. Hines, resigned. Mr. Ross is at
present postmaster at Washington, cooninissionciship and
his acceptance of the
will create a vacancy in that office.
With the addition of the new memb r,
Mr. Flick, of Iowa, to replace Smyser,
resigned, the special house committee iu
vestignting the charges against Commis¬ Wednes¬
sioner Rnum, resumed its labors
day afternoon. The sessiou lasted two
hours, and was devoted to a discussion
of questions of procedure. No testimony
was taken.
Acting Secretary, Wharton on \Ved
nesdny,sent the following Barruhdia telegram totlie
widow of General in reply to
her message to the pr< sident Monday
evening. “The president desires me to
say he lias received your telegram an¬
nouncing the death of jour husband,
General Bammdia. While deeply sympa¬
thizing with you in your affliction, he
awaits the official details ot the occur¬
rence necessary to determine bis siction
in regard thereto. the matter, you may
be assured, will receive the rrv st careful
attention.”
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from one to three pills, and a bottle will
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Price, 2 25 cents. Sold and warranted by
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B. D. Smith. Druggist.
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
BUSINESS HOUSES IN HIAWATHA. KANSAS,
AND A JUTE FACTORY IN NEW YORK.
A dispatch from Hiawatha, Kan., says:
The worst fire ever known in the city
broke out at 1 o'clock Wednesday morn¬
ing in William Harrier's livery stable and
in less than three hours it had destroyed
two and a halt’ blocks iu the business cen¬
ter of the citv. causing a loss of at least
$150,000. The greatest loss was the
First National bank building, owned by
Congressman Morrill, The vault, con*
tabling $50,000 iu currency and many
valuable backs and papers gave way under
the intense heat, and its contents were
entirely destroyed.
A JUTE FACTORY DESTROYED.
Fire hr ke out in the jute bagging
fartorv of Peter Young, at Brooklyn, N
, V, Wednesday at The f factory was
noon.
entirely destroyed. T he hre then spread
j 'bo kindling-wood factory otnenu tick
j Pielctke, wholesale grocery immediately story of adjoining. Dlahn Brothers,
on l * le of ber side of the jute bagging
factory then caught tire. Dlahn Brothers
i ! carried a stock of groceries valued at
^ which, with the building,
"u* 8 totally destroyed. The total loss by
j the fire will be about $200,000, partly in-
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TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFATRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE PAMN DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
The strike of miners at Brussels, Bel¬
gium, ended Wednesday.
It was reported Thursday that there
nre cases of Cholera in Madrid and
Barcelona.
A ban quet was given Thursday night,
it Munich in honor of Dr. Peters, the
African traveler.
Henry George addressed ten delegates
to the one-tax convention in New York
Tuesday night.
Coal miners in Belleville, Ill., district
have g ne on a strike for 2 cents a bushel
for digging coal.
It is now reported that the liabilities of
Potter, Lovell & Co., of Boston, will
aggregate $5,000,000.
Memorial exercises of John Boyle
O’Reilly were held in Fremont temple,
Boston, Tuesday night.
The Panama strikers have returned to
work, the company agreeing to pay them
the former rate of wages.
The trades-union congress in session at
Liverpool, Thursday, voted in favor of
an eiglif-hour working day.
New York city will ask for a re-count
of the census, claiming that the enumera¬
tion fell short by about 200,000.
Ex-Gov. E. T. Noyes dropped dead in
the court house at Cincinnati Thursday
morning. Apoplexy was the cause,
T’lio sloop Petrel capsized outside of
the harbor of San Diego, California,
Tuesday and six persons were drowned.
The state board of arbitration of New r
York,on Tuesday, began its investigation
into the causes of the New York Central
strike.
Suit is about to be brought against the
New’ York restauranteur, Delmonico, for
violation of the game laws, in having
partridges for sale out of season.
Since Tuesday last there have been
forty-eight fresh cases of cholera at Eltor,
Egypt. Advices from Mecca are to the
effect that the city is free irorn cholera.
A dispatch from Prague, Germany,
says: A bridge in this city over the Mol
daux, on which there were a number of
persons watching the flood in that stream
collapsed Thursday, Thirty persons
w ere drowned.
The slate treasurer of Connecticutt has
formally notified the selectmen of towns
of that state that the tax usually levied
by the state on towns will not be called
for this year, owing to the flourishing
condition of the state’s finances.
By tho explosion of a coal oil lamp,
early Wednesday morning, a house in
Philadelphia was set on fire and Mrs.
Sarah McIntyre, sixty years old; Mamie
McIntyre, ten years old, and Annie Logue,
seventeen years old, were burned to death.
A Chicago dispatch says: The great
strike of the journeymen carpenters,
w hich opened Tuesday morning, is an
uncertain quantity. At neither the head¬
quarters of the journeymen nor bosses
was it known to what extent the order to
quit work had been obeyed.
andre A Paris Chatrain, dispatch the of Thursday well-known says: French Alex¬
novelist, who wrote in elaboration with
M. Emile Erckmann,over the nom dead. deplume
of • ‘Erckmami-Chutrain,” is Their
most famous work, “Le Conscrit,” is a
classic in every language.
Sawyer, Wallace & Co., exporters of
breadstuff's and cotton, and dealers in
leaf tobacco, at 18 Broadway, New Y’ork,
made a general assignment Thursday. It is
estimated that the sum total of the nomi¬
nal assets will reach $1,700,000, and that
their chief losses may reach $1,500,00 '.
General Car Accountant reported Ewings, of the
New York Central road, Thurs¬
day, that the blockake which had existed
iu the vicinity of Albany, on account of
the strike, was effectually raised, and that
everything was now running smoothly on
the Mohawk and Hudson River divisions.
The widow and children of the late
General Bammdia, who was assaulted on
an American steamer by the Guatemal¬
ans, has sent a dispatch to President Har¬
rison, protesting against “the outrage of
which they aretheunconsolablc victims.”
The president has referred the matter to
Secretary Blaine.
A Vienna Moldau dispatch of Wednesday
says: The river has flooded a
portion of Prague, and has done much
damage to the country between the
Boehmerwald and the confluence of the
Moldau and Elbe. Many villages in the
Danube valley arc partially submerged.
The authorities are taking special pre¬
cautions.
The strike of the employes at tht
Wcstinghouse works at Pittsburg, Pa.,
was terminated Wednesday by the men
returning to the shops and requesting
their old places This action is the resnh
of a meeting of the strikers, where it was
decided that, inasmuch as they could not
hold out any longer, they had better go
( back to work. The strike affected about
j 1.200 men.
j \ Pittsburg telegram announces that a
combination of window g!a-s manufac
j j turers has been formed, w hich will con
trol all the factories in the western and
j northern districts imme iately, and all
the factories iu the United States ulti
i mutely. The pending tariff biii increases
j the duties on window glass, aud by pre
venting importation will give the combi
. 1 Uci r '' * 'P a „ ^‘ , lWeen
1 390 y and 400 ' men cf the striking carpen¬
ters returned to work Thursday, and the
strike is practically mooted, at ; n end. Yar.ous
questions are however, it is amo hinted e
the strikers. In some quarters,
| that joiu the the non-union union in men order will lie persuaded bettei
to to get
wages, aud that the tiglu will tie resumeo
within ten davs.
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FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WIIAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
TIIE GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA¬
TION, NOTES, ETC.
Six of the Congressmen from Georgia
will be elected by Alliancemen.
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There are 60,000 colored Alliancemen
in the United States.
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$50,000 has been put into a state ex¬
change in Georgia of colored Alliance
men.
***
So far twenty-five per cent of the mem
bers elected to the next Georgia legisla¬
ture are Allliaucemcn.
.**
William J. Rogers was on Wednesday
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Second North Carolina District.
He is the Farmers’ Alliance candidate.
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.
The New Mexico Alliance, No. 116, has
passed harbor of a fellowship resolution that they who will does not
any person
willfully refuse to pay or satisfy * all just
demands against them.
The story is going the newspaper rounds
that the Missouri State Alliance refused
to endorse the sub-treasury plan. It is
untrue. before The the sub-treasury for plan did not
come body consideration at
all.
* *
The next meeting of the National Far¬
mer^ Alliance aud Industrial Union will
he held at Ocala, Florida, in December
next, and it is confidently expected that
34 states will be represented at the meet¬
ing. «
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The latest census report gives the New
England States a population of 4,425,900
and 20 representatives to congress; and
to the states of Georgia, South Carolina
and Alabama 4.737,160 imd 25 represen¬
tatives.
***
The outlook for tho success'of the Alli¬
ance day, notwithstanding movement is growing the brighter opposition every of
the papers that draw their support from
the members of the Alliance.— Independ¬
ent Advocate.
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A colored Farmers’ Alliance has been
organized iu Houston president, county, Ga., with
E. L. Stockling and J. T.
Noble secretary. The most prosperous
negro farmers of that section have joined
the order.
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The day is just approching jwhen the
southern cotton grower can say to the
moDied manufacturer, “If you want my
cotton, pay me what it is worth: if not,
you don’t get it.” Thanks to the great
Fanners’ Alliance.
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Of the leading propositions which the
State Alliance had under consideration
was the establishment of ap Alliance
warehouse iu Lynchburg. Capital stock
$100,000, and a State Exchange with
$200,000 capital. !
The ***
State Farmers’ Alliance met at the
delegates Agricultural aud Mechanical college. 140
sub-Alliances. were present, representing 1,510
The report of the execu¬
tive committee shows a rapid growth in
the Alliance during the past Aeur .—Tima
Democrat , (Stockville, Miss.)
They do things vigorously in Minneso¬
ta. Recently a subordinate Alliance ol
the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial
Union was organized in Pipestone, the
first in the State. Since then a membei
has bought out a newspaper, christened
it The Farmer« Leader , enlarged it in
size, and gone to work to furnish a local
literature.
***
1 he State Alliance meetings for the
year are nearly all adjourned; and en¬
couraging reports come from all over the
field. Each of these grand divisions of
the army of reform has piade progress,
and it is apparent that a more perfect
consolidation will be effected at the
Ocala meeting of the national council
next December .—yational Economist.
***
The Southern. Alliance Farmer , (At¬
lanta, Ga..) says: “Hold your cotton.
1 he price is tumbling because the speeu
lators have retired the money from circu¬
lation. Don't market your cotton at sc
low a price. You can hold your cotton ;
as long as they can hold their money.
They have sold cotton short and have
contracts to fill at good prices. Hold
the cotton and you will get its value.”
***
The Cobb county. Ga., Alliance has re
endorsed the resolutions again t the us«
of jute bagging passed by the gihners ol
that county last year. They agree not tc
use or buy for their tenants or customers
to use any jute bag ing. And they alsc
agree not to patronize auy merchant wlic
ouys and puts on sale this season jute
bagging to c lefeat the farmers' movement
against its use.
The Climax Adr cate (Climax Springs,
Mo.) says: “S< me .of our Democratic
Coustitutional-howling congressmen don't
like the manner in which the Farmers
Alliance is sitting down on them, lienee
buncombe resolutions are being frcyly of¬
fered in Congress declaring that the in¬
tegrity of the hs ISC demands that the
truth or falsity of certain charges pre¬
ferred against them by Alliance newspa¬
pers be inquired into.
Die Farmers’ Alliance That organization of is
(ot sell prqt«*!ioa, qu-«p* protec•
tiou to all who produce, and consumers,
which will cause prosperity and happi¬
ness grand throughout the entire country. This
organization proposes to leave 01
freeze none out except the millionaire,
the politician, oppressed and such as has left the
poor farmer and the toiling
passes out to ravishes of monopolies
tnd d'shonorable political combines,
which has brought all honest labor to
ruin and beggary. ---Union.
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The Jacksboro, Texas, Sentinel says:
“The farmers’ movement in the South has
assumed such proportions that it li *s now
become necessary for newspaper corre¬
spondents to open their campaign of
lying. specials The Washington the New fakirs who cook
up for York dailies are
loaded to the muzzle with charges against
the ‘demagogues who work upon tin 1
cupidity of the Southern farmers, It
does not require much thought to dis¬
cover how these fellows know so much
about the daily happenings hundreds of
miles away. The office-holder is getting
very uneasy.”
*%
Tho Alliance Union (Eureka, Ktvn.)says :
“The fact is well known within the Al¬
liance, and the politicians of both parties
are beginning to realize it, that the A1H
a»ce nas accompusnea wnat me sworu,
(he press and pulpit failed to which do.
Mason and Dixon line, on the
bloody shirt has been hung every four
years, has at last been obliterated. The
stock in trade of the politician has been to
wave the bloody shirt and keep up sec
tioual strife and hatred to keep the peo
pie divided, but the cotton planters of
South and the farmeis of the North
and West have bid the old parties good
bye and united for them mutua interests,
1 he blood)-shut gang now seek to create
dissension and strife within the industrial
organizations by defaming the character leaders.”
and reputation of the Alliance
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At the annual meeting of the Virginia
State Alliance, held recently- at Lynch¬
burg, the following adopted: resolutions were
umyiimously
“Whereas, Alliances arc shaking hands
across the Potomac, across the Missis
Rockies, sippi. across and, the grander rugged still, peaks of the the
far across
“bloody chasm,” and across Mason and
Dixon’s line; whereas conscienceless
politicians in our national Congress have
advocated measures and expressed senti¬
ments gendered to arouse by the old sectional Therefore feeling be it en¬
war:
Uesoked, That we, the State Farmers’
Alliance of Virginia, do intend to grasp
with tighter Alliance grip the hands of
our Alliance brothers in the North, deter¬
mined to hold together with locked
shields, prejudice in spite of all efforts to arouse
between us, until the financial
emancipation of laborer and producer is
accomplished. ”
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The State Convention of the Farmers’
Alliance of Texas wrestled with the sub¬
treasury scheme for several days. The
Dallas NeU)$ of the 28th reports the fol¬
lowing as the resolution offered :
D Whereas, The finances of our gov¬
ernment are so adjusted that money can¬
not be obtained by the agricultural and
laboring people upon which to transact
their business without paying it such is enor¬
mous rates of interest, that sure to
bankrupt the farmers and destroy laboring the people
of America, and thereby re¬
public, aud
Whereas, Relief from this impending
ruin must be speedily had; and
Whereas, The Fanners’ Alliance and
Industrial Union, at its December meet¬
ing, 1889, held at St. Louis, Mo., did
demand:
1. The unlimited coinage of silver.
2. The passage of what is known as the
principles and tho purposes of the wub
treasurv system.
Therefore, be it resolved by tho Farm¬
ers' State Alliance of Texas, that we en¬
dorse these demands.”
The resolution was adopted by a large
majority.
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SUPPOSED TO BE RUBE.
A TRAIN ON TnE L. * X. HELD UP AND
ROBBED NEAR FLOMATON, ALA.
A Montgomery dispatch says: The
north-bound paisenger train on the Mo¬
bile and Montgomery division of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, was
boarded at Flomaton about 10 o'clock
Tuesday night by a train robber, who
held up ihe train on the trestle over the
Escambia river, just north of Flomaton.
At the point o; a pistol, he compelled door the
engineer to go back and break in the
of the express car. After this was done,
he commanded the express Mess¬
enger to lay down his pistol, open ihe
express safe and deposit its couteuis in a
sack which he furnished for the purpose
of containing the plunder. During all
thb time tiie robber kept up a fusilade
with pistols, firing, it is estimated, at
least fifteen allots. The robber got away
with the contents of the safe which, it is
stated, did not amount to a great deal,
though the bum stolen is unknown. The
irork is credited to Burrowi,
NEWS OF THE SOUTH,
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM AIX TOINTS IN TTIK
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The town of Cocoa, Fla., on the Indian
river, day. was nearly destroyed by fire Tues¬
Captain A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C., says: the
Thomas Clancy Evans, one of
died most widely-known Reidsville Tuesday editors morning. in the state,
at
Sales of leaf tobacco at Danville, Va.,
in August were 1,118,820 pounds, or about
half the sales of August Inst year. Sales
for eleven months of the tobacco year
were, 28,927,000 pounds, a decrease as
compared with the same period last year
of 3,246,000 pounds.
Veterans’ day will be one of the great¬
est days of the Piedmont exposition. An
attractive programme has been prepared.
It will be on Thursday, October 23d. All
the great living Confederate generals will
be invited, and a large number of them
will be present.
For the cotton year ending August 31,
Montgomery’s bales, cotton receipts \wre in 144, -
045 the largest of any year its
history. The nearest to it was in 1885
when receipts were 143,544. Stock on
baud is 955 bales. Receipts of new cot¬
ton in August were 7,026, also the largest
for that month.
The scaffolding in a building in New
Orleans gave way Tuesday afternoon pre¬
cipitating five men to the ground. killed; Har¬
vey, a carpenter, was instantly
William Ray and Henry Albricht, paint¬
ers, fatally injured, while Leroy Smith
and Tom Peterson, also painters, wore
painfully injured.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., says:
The injury to cotton by the rain is be
coming great and a reduction of the crop
wili result. The rains of August hurt
the crop which was forming during the
earlier part of the month, and that rust,
which attacked the crop earlier than
usual, has badly affected the top crop.
A dispatch * of Wednesday from Nash
viUo Tc nn regarding the judicial elec
tion, says: All the counties lmvc now
b e(11 beard from on the official vote foi
supreme court judge. The total than vote
polled was 202,317. This is more
100,000 less than usual. The vote was
divided as follows: Lea, 132,294; Smith,
69,974; East, prohibitionist, 49 votes:
Lea’s nvvjority, 62,271.
A Pensacola, Fla., special, of Thursday
says the Flomaton train robbery has pro¬
duced intense, excitement there. Rube
Burrow was reported to have been seen at
Milton, twenty miles east of that city,
and at 2 o’clock a special train, with Su¬
perintendent Fisher, Route detectives, Agent Arnold,
several express company aiul
a have possee of in deputy pursuit. sheriffs from Alabama,
gone
A special Thursday from Mannington, W. Va.,
says: Early morning a freight
train ran into the pickup on the Balti¬
more and Ohio, terrible just east of Engineer Mannington,
causing a wreck. Cor¬
dell and an unknown man were killed
and sixteen cars piled on top of each
other. The wreck took fire and the cars
and contents wire almost totally de¬
stroyed.
The directors of the North Carolina
Steel and Iron Company was completely
reorganized at Greensboro, Wednesday-,
and new arrangements have beeu made
and new plans formed. Contracts for
furnaces will be let and the work of
erecting them begun at once. New life
is to be enthused into the company, and
the announcement of the organization
and the early commencement of work
will revive the boom at Greensboro.
A dispatch of Tuesday says: The col¬
ored citizens of Chattanooga are making
up a party of seventy-five of their race to
emigrate to Liberia, about November
15th. Meetings in the interest of the
movement have been held to work up the
scheme. Thomas Peek, agent of the col¬
onization society-, who‘resides in Wash¬
ington, D. C., arrived in Chattanooga
Tuesday. The society expects to secure
at least 1,000 negroes for the African
emigration expedition from Chattanooga
and vicinity.
CATARRH CURED, health and sweet
breath secured, by Shiloh's Catarrh Rem¬
edy. Price 50 cents. Nasal InjecUor
free
IT WAS A FAILURE.
THE STRIKING CARPENTERS OF CHICAGO
ARE AT OUTS.
A Chicago dispatch says: The caipen
ters’ strike died in its homing, and on
Wednesday there w-ere less than 700 car¬
penters who refused to go to work on
Tuesday morning still out. President
James O’Connell, of the carpenters coun
oil, has been forced by the discontent of
members of the union to resign. The ac¬
tion of the strike committee in authoriz¬
ing carpenters who are receiving 3i£
cents an hour to Teturn to work has been
severely criticised. A committee i^as ap¬
pointed to visit the carpenters’ council
and vigorously protest against any of the
me n being allowed to return to work un¬
til all the men receive assurance from
their employers that the union scale
of figures would be paid. There is con¬
fusion and chaos in the rank and file and
consternation among the leaders. Thi
employers assert that they have all the
men they want.
THAT HACKING COUGII can be so
quickly cured by Shiloh’s cure. 4Ve
guarantee it.
B. D. Smith, Druggist.
TROUBLE IN PANAMA
IN CONSEQUENCE OF A GREAT RAILROAD
STRIKE IN PROGRESS THERE.
A cablegram of tYednesday says: The
strike on the Panama railroad continues.
The strikers will not allow work to be
done by outsiders. The telegraph win s
were cut jseveral times, and attempts we.* »
made to tear up the rails. Troops have
been sent to Colon to maintain order.
Steamers will probably be detained « u
both deles of the Isthmus iu ^ousequeuce
of the tirfce.
NUMBER 35 .
A RAILROAD DEAL.
THE CENTUM, AND EAST TENNESSEE GOB¬
BLE IT* THREE ROADS.
The Central of Georgia ami the East
Tennessee have bought up three railways.
The Central, it is understood, after con¬
siderable negotiation, secured the Chatta¬
nooga, Rome and Columbus railway and
the Chattanooga and Macon. This makes
two Point more Terminal. Georgia The roads for important the West
most
deal, however, is the one by which the
East Tennessee, also a part of the West
Point Terminal, secured the Monon route,
or the Louisville, New Albany and Chi¬
cago. It gives the Terminal a line into
Louisville over the most popular toad
running into that city, enabling it to light
its great rival, the Louisville and Nash¬
ville, on its own ground; and a line from into
Chicago, making Savannah a triangular system and
Norfolk to and Brunswick,
from these Georgia ports to Chicago am/
Lake Michigan.
TT.L TGI SUFFER with dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint? Shiloh’s Vitalize!
u guaranteed to cure you.
B. D. Smith, Druggist.
asleep seven days.
TnE STRANGE RESULT OF DIETING ON
BROWN FABER.
A dispatch from Moncton, New Bruns¬
wick, says: Etta Simpson, 6lecp week aged seven¬
teen years, went to a ago Sun¬
day and has not yet awakened or taken
any nourishment’ Miss Simpson hfis for
some months had a mania for eating
brown paper, and would consume a largo
bag, such as used in has grocery stores, at a
single meal. She is eaten supposed scores this of
brown paper bags, and it
mania hns something to do with her ill¬
ness. About a year ago she slept for bled five
days, but was awakened while being
by her medical attendants.
CROUP, WHOOPING COUGH and
Bronchitis immediately relieved by Shi¬
loh’s cure.
B. D. Smith, Druggist.
HE LOVED THE WIDOW
HUT THE WHITECAPS VIGOROUSLY OB¬
JECTED.
A dispatch of Thursday from Kansas
City, says; Whitecapsso (Smith, brutally beat anil
maltreated J. Z. a preacher, who
lived in a lonely piece of woods at Reno,
Kansas, Smith is about that sixty-five his life is despaired of.
years old, and ’
the only objection him which he the had Whitecaps
had to was that proposed
marriage to a widow of forty-five years,
who lives in the neighborhood.
THE STRIKE ENDED.
SWITCHMEN AT THE CHICAGO STOCK t'AHDS
RETURN TO WORK.
railroad At noon Friday the collapse of every
strike in Chicago had occurred
and work on the stockyards was begun in
earnest at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. The
Chicago and Alton switchmen have recog¬
nized their mistake and have gone back
to w-ork as a result of the conference
between General Manager Chappell,
Grand Master Sweeney, Vice Grand Mas
tor Downey and a committee of strikers.
PROMINENT PE0M.E.
Emil Zola, the French novelist, has ma le
1500,000 from his boVs.
The estate of the late John Boyle O’R,silly
will amount to $150,000.
Edwin Arnold, according to rumor, is
going to take a Japanese bride and settle in
Japau.
William Walter Phelps, United Btvtes
Minister to Germany, no longer wears hia
hair banged.
How. W. L. Scott has declined the Demo¬
cratic nomination for Congress from his old
district in Pennsylvania.
George W. Childs, the said Philadelphia spend edi¬ l
tor and philanthropist, is to an
give away $250,000 a year.
General Kzeta, who has led Ban Salva¬
dor’s forces so successfully against Guate¬
mala, is only twenty-seven years old.
Senator George, of Mississippi, has a
head of long, flowing hair that wave*
picturesquely about when he is excited.
Young John Jacob Astor is stoop-shoul¬
dered, probably in anticipation of the great! later
responsibility he will have to carry in
years.
Prince Alexander ot Batten-burg hai
adopted the children of Pauitza, who wai
shot for conspiring against the existing Bul¬
garian regime.
The Duke of Edinburgh is a clever violin¬
. also enthusiastic postage stamp
ist and an of the
gatherer, his collection being one mostJ
complete in the world.
Commissioner of Pensions Raum is a
short man of medium weight, keen-loo'iin :
aud bald on the top of hie head. His chin
covered with whiskers.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvani i
Railroad, started life as a track hand thirt r
years ago. The combined salaries bereceivoj
now amount to $100,000 a year.
Robert P. Porter, the Superintendent of
the Census, has the physique of an athlete.
He is an active, elean-sna\*en man, dar c
complexioned, with black eyes and bia< i
hair.
The Marquis of Salisbury, the Premier of
Great Britain, owns 20,000 acres lies of within land i
E ngland. As much of it t.u
corporate limits of London, he is eaormou .
ly rich.
Justice Bradley, of the United Stat -s
Supreme Court, is Sn expert mat.he.-naticia i.
He has been known to make almanacs cad
calendars just to keep his mind in good wor >
ing order.
The Queen of Italy has maintains 1 l. T
reputation for pluc: and endurance by ciim >
ing tho Mountain of Monza, 10,00) feet hi • i,
during a rainstorm, which turned into sn v
before the top was readied
Dr. N'oryin Green, the head of the 45'- t
ern Union Telegraph Company, is a K u
tuchian of giant frame, nearly sevjnty-t.n -a
years of age. He was a practising physic! .a
in the eariy days of his career
John M. Steadman, of Brockport, N.
who has accepted Agricultural an appointment as 5W-h- b'.o'o
gist in the Department at
ington, graduated from only Cornell Univer.-ity
two years ago, and is twenty-four ye .rs
old.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, h-. %
very lucrative law practice, and is continu¬
ally obliged to decline businnss tait -s
brought to him. It is alleged that the S m i
tor is not so old as he looks, and that he >n iy
be good tor a decade more of rienato LJ
life.
Probablv th?. smallest millionaire in :h<»
country is Jacob Beligman, of New Y r c
city, who is hardly more than four feet b, ;ta.
Hecamefrom Germany when a boy a i l
went to Michigan twenty years ago with jg
a dollar. Hia fortune is now estimated a?
fW,000,909,